Redd was active in L.A. fandom from around 1964 - 1966. He participated in APA L, and occasionally ran off my APA-L zine, facilitated by the efforts of Tom Gilbert as a stencil courier. (Tom Gilbert was a prominent participant in the early days of APA L who disappeared after 1970.) I used to hang with Dave Rike a lot in the late 1980s - early '90s.
Dave was an instrumental part of my fannish life in those years. We would go to computer swapmeets together in the days before Microsoft Windows became the standard PC operating platform. He was obsessed with collecting classic CP/M and MS-DOS software, particularly word processing programs. I remember his glee in finding a vintage copy of "Electric Pencil" and Dan Bricklin's "Visicalc". Dave didn't actually have a working MS-DOS computer, having gone the same route as Redd Boggs and Art Widner in transferring his fanac to dedicated portable word processors instead of computers. But that didn't stop his zeal for collecting legacy word processing and spreadsheet software.. Dave also encouraged me to pub my ish, helping me to run off issue #3 of Whistlestar at his house on one of his many Gestetners.
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Dave was an instrumental part of my fannish life in those years. We would go to computer swapmeets together in the days before Microsoft Windows became the standard PC operating platform. He was obsessed with collecting classic CP/M and MS-DOS software, particularly word processing programs. I remember his glee in finding a vintage copy of "Electric Pencil" and Dan Bricklin's "Visicalc". Dave didn't actually have a working MS-DOS computer, having gone the same route as Redd Boggs and Art Widner in transferring his fanac to dedicated portable word processors instead of computers. But that didn't stop his zeal for collecting legacy word processing and spreadsheet software.. Dave also encouraged me to pub my ish, helping me to run off issue #3 of Whistlestar at his house on one of his many Gestetners.