Dan Shaughnessy is a sports columnist and associate editor at the Boston Globe. He was born in Groton, Massachusetts, graduated from Holy Cross, and worked part-time at the Boston Globe from 1973-77.

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...