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Ilene's Machine includes useful Macintosh support information, my article reprints, soccer photography, nature pages, and of course, the infamous Hess Memorial Macworld Events List. Requests made by users have been incorporated into many of the Mac OS pages.


Ilene started the Hess Memorial Macworld Events Page in August, 1996. It is a tribute to Robert Hess, who compiled an events list each show which was mailed out to a private list. When Robert passed away, a public list on the web was created. Each Macworld Expo the list is compiled from email received, plus a lot of leg-work contacting companies.

When MacPublishing dropped the sponsorship of the party known as "The Knife," Ilene's Machine stepped in to prevent the loss of that mythical event. The Not the Knife party pictures live on in infamy.

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Ilene - 1/1/02, 10/23/02
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