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By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

And Now For Something Competely Different… IWeek

September 13, 2026

If you’ve ever wondered what the editors of InformationWeek were doing on April 5, 1991: IW Staffer Proposes Friday Fun. What did the 1985 conversion of Information Systems News into InformationWEEK look like from ground zero? The late Larry “Not That Larry King” King described 1984 Manhasset as well as his first-hand experience of the conversion, in his Report from Confusion Central.

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