Re: Vintage Computer Society

[Charles <spammeister12345@aol.com>]

In article <THcOc.21823$984.4967@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com>, 
a2fan@hotmail.com says...
> > Now is the time to develop a national user group for these older systems
> so we can get
> > together and discuss these great, old computers (kind of like antique
> > car clubs) and the fun that we HAD and ARE HAVING using them.
> 
> What? Like VCF?
> 
>  http://www.vintage.org/
> 
> > The thing that makes these old computers so much fun, is that like
> > antique cars, you don't need a EE degree to work on them and keep them
> > going.
> 
> Today's computers and components are disposable commodities - drop and swap.
> The computers I used "back in the day..." were far more complicated,
> expensive and harder to use, hence their charm. They only seem easier
> because we have 20 some years experience playing with them. My Altair came
> as a kit, and I could've used an EE to help me build it back then... the
> average clone today can be assembled in 30 minutes, with a screwdriver. No
> soldering, wrapping or customizing required.
> 
> 
> 

I'll let the hardware guys respond to that.  However, on the VCF quoted 
above.  I was thinking MUCH more locally oriented, like our old Apple2 
user groups with things to do every month.  The kind of user groups 
where the participants could become friends and have fun together.

Charles