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Frank James (Jim) Butterfield (14 February 1936 – 29 June 2007) was a Toronto-based author and computer programmer famous for his work with Commodore microcomputers, and a longtime contributor to periodicals such as The Transactor and TPUG. One of Jim's major works was the book Learning Machine Code Programming on the Commodore 64 (and other Commodore computers), one of the leading references on programming the 6502 derived 6510 microprocessor.

In addition to the Qlink forums, I met the guy at a couple of the Computer shows around Toronto, he was always an excellence resource for Commodore hints and tips and he was often to be seen on community television.

I finally disposed of a box full of the Transactor and TPUG magazines in 2007, they had been festering in the house for all those years along with Compute and Byte magazines, it was a sad day.

Oh, and at one point in 1990 I was the proud owner of a Commodore Pet obtained from a Ham Fest (Ham radio yard sale), memories of the stress analysis beam program from Gullick Dobson back in 1980 and an excellent timewasting program called simply Rhino.