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From the notes of John Shortt

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2023 1:04 am
by LeoBinkowski
I found a notebook in my things that belongs to my former boss, John Shortt. It has some great historical context information, like the "NABU on a shoestring" era I talked about, with a hand drawn org chart:
nabuOrgChart1984.jpg

Re: From the notes of John Shortt

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2023 1:11 am
by LeoBinkowski
Manager's Baseball was a BIG GAME. 34 segments listed here for uploading, and clearly more not listed:
mbsegs.jpg

Re: From the notes of John Shortt

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:37 pm
by superbenk
Are there things in there you wouldn't want public? It'd be fun to have them all scanned to be able to poke through. Obviously there will be a lot of context missing since they're just notes, but stuff like that is fun to look through to get an idea about how things were thought through.

Re: From the notes of John Shortt

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 3:45 pm
by LeoBinkowski
superbenk wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:37 pm Are there things in there you wouldn't want public? It'd be fun to have them all scanned to be able to poke through. Obviously there will be a lot of context missing since they're just notes, but stuff like that is fun to look through to get an idea about how things were thought through.
Well, those are John's, I'll ask him. I'm okay with showing my own, though, but not all is interesting. Here is one from when I just started Miner 2049er:
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Re: From the notes of John Shortt

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 2:11 pm
by LeoBinkowski
Had lunch with John Shortt, the former Games Dept. Manager, then Director of Content Development at NABU between 1982 and 1985.:

Re: From the notes of John Shortt

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 7:55 pm
by masto
I forum feature from Discourse that I really miss here is the ability to favorite a post. This is me favoriting yours: :star:

Re: From the notes of John Shortt

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 7:57 pm
by DJ Sures
That’s awesome! Bet you had some great conversations. Would have enjoyed being a fly on the wall!

Re: From the notes of John Shortt

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 10:29 pm
by LeoBinkowski
Well, we do plan on having another shot with Les Perley, who was Director of Content Development and Operations Manager at NABU.

John would very much like to recover Manager's Baseball. It was a great game.

We're thinking of a reunion in Summer, maybe invite anyone interested for a conference, too.

Re: From the notes of John Shortt

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 10:44 pm
by LeoBinkowski
For instance, here is an interesting page, but I doubt it is everything. Just maybe the stuff we were preparing at the time (from The Shortt Book of NABU, page 21):
johnshorttb1p21.jpg

Re: From the notes of John Shortt

Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 10:49 pm
by LeoBinkowski
Page 1 of the Shortt Book of NABU, the Manager's Baseball TODO list:
ShorttBookOfNABUp1.jpg