Old Business Cards  ## Metadata - Author: [[September 13]] - Full Title: Old Business Cards - Category: #articles - Summary: I recently came across a few old business cards I designed back in 1999. The first ones were for my services as a saxophone player: A few notes: I went mostly by “Matthew” then. At some point I dec… - URL: https://ma.tt/2025/09/old-business-cards/ I recently came across a few old business cards I designed back in 1999. The first ones were for my services as a saxophone player:  A few notes: * I went mostly by “Matthew” then. * At some point I decided to remove the home address and say that I was available to play not just alto saxophone but baritone, tenor, and soprano as well. * The number was the home shared house number, not a cell phone. * The email was an email address the entire family shared, under my dad’s name. * [HAL-PC](https://www.hal-pc.org/) was an amazing non-profit local to Houston that stood for the “Houston Area League of PC users.” There was a pretty reasonable annual membership fee, and they hosted a monthly general meeting which had hundreds of attendees, always with a presentation or two and a raffle giveaway at the end. They were a dial-up ISP and BBS/newsgroup host. I volunteered for them by going in on Saturdays where they had a room people could bring their broken computers to and get free tech support, and by hosting a SIG, or special-interest group, around PalmOS called [HPUG](https://hpug.org/), the Houston Palm Users Group. This was a big part of the inspiration for WordCamps. This was for my “design” business:  I would also design business cards for friends, here’s one for my friend who was a percussionist and vibraphonist, Chase Jordan: , Old Business Cards, September 13, 01k54j28m11avg2trsj4erqz6t.