He's used it since Version 4.2. “Goodwill has the oldest one now,” says Paul, but he runs version 6.1 on a notebook, and version 8.0 and WP2000 on the many machines he has at home and at his tax service office.

Paul told me about his new machine — and of course it come equipped with WP — at the WordPerfect Evening SIG, which meets at Cynthia Thompson’s home the fourth Wednesday of each month. A long-time volunteer here, Paul shares the problem solving and new features demonstrations with Frances Pape. The night I attended, knowledgeable Paul and Frances and an equally congenial group with diverse skill levels compared version 8.0 with the newest release; the interaction was terrific, the hospitality was top-notch, and the coffee flowed freely — three reasons to make this SIG a recurring event on my calendar! As Cynthia laughingly pointed out, the SIG is soon to celebrate it's 10^th anniversary, surviving three major remodelings of her home and a robbery.

Paul's volunteering days go way back. With Alamo PC, his first job was to maintain the software library. “That was back when BBSs were big,” recalls Paul, who got a log of his computer related questions answered through the BBSs. “Shareware was the thing, too,” says Paul, who copied and distributed shareware disks for the organization on the truly floppy medium of the day: 5¼ inch diskettes which held only 360K of data.

Another big part of Paul's volunteering is newsletter publishing. He is proud of his nine years of publishing the State newsletter for La Societe’ Des Quarante Hommes Et Huit Chevaux, (The Forty and Eight), a veteran's group organized in 1920 that supports several humanitarian and patriotic programs.

Most intriguing, though, is Paul's nationally distributed Newsletter on Newsletters — a compendium of publishing tips. You'll have to wait a bit to inquire further; he should be in Las Vegas about now, attending an IRS seminar. Great pairing of site and subject, yes?