I enjoyed looking through the PUG archive, too. The earliest entry of mine I could find was February 2005.
I bought my first Pentax (a Super Program) when our daughter was a year old, in 1989. I found the PDML shortly after, and participated via my CompuServe email. Then there was a hiatus of several years. Mark!'s partner Lisa and I know each other through work for the Children's Oncology Group, and after a meeting (in Hilton Head? Atlanta? Someplace southern) she introduced me to Mark!. He gave me the current PDML info, and I rejoined; I think that was in the late 1990s. I was younger then, too. Happy holidays, one and all. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@mac.com> wrote: > The earliest PUG entry I find is my March, 2000 pic of a Hawaiian waterfall, > clumsily composed. I had recently joined the PDML to learn more about the M42 > cameras and my beloved Spotmatics. I thought I had an earlier entry -- a shot > of a woman on Canal Street called "Plastic Land," but I can't find it. > > Paul via phone > >> On Dec 23, 2016, at 8:38 PM, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016, at 10:52 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: >>> On 24/12/16, Brian Walters, discombobulated, unleashed: >>> >>>> If anyone wants to spend a bit of ideal time during the holidays, you >>>> can spend an hour or so perusing the old galleries, You'll find the >>>> complete PUG here, all the way back to April 1997: >>>> >>>> http://pug.komkon.org/general/pastgalleries.html >>> >>> Cool - thanks for posting - had a look at the first few years. My first >>> pic was in February of 2001 but pretty sure I found the list and started >>> lurking late 1998. I was looking for info on re-celling a Pentax LX >>> motor drive and dear Rob Studdert pointed me to one of his web pages >>> detailing just such info. >>> >> >> >> That, of course, should have been 'idle time' in my post.... >> >> As near as I can tell my first PUG submission was a pretty poor effort >> for 'Opposites' in November 2007. >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Brian >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Brian Walters >> Western Sydney Australia >> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ >> >> >> -- >> -- >> >> -- >> http://www.fastmail.com - The way an email service should be >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.