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From: tech@auvax.UUCP (Richard Loken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Need Information
Message-ID: <569@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 17:28:33 GMT
References: <805@nuchat.UUCP>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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From article <805@nuchat.UUCP>, by phillip@nuchat.UUCP (Phillip Keen):
> 
> Well, for your best bet is to call you local F.O.G. AMO and they can give you
> the information you need probably.  For any new comers to CP/M, you might
> consider joining FOG (First Osborne Group).  They're a nation wide CP/M User
> Group with AMOs all over the nation.  Phillip
> -- 
> Thanks,          Snail Address:  Phillip Keen
> Phillip Keen                     2705 Martin
>                                  Pasadena, TX  77502

Ah this brings up something I was wondering about.

What CP/M clubs still exist?  Magazines that remember CP/M?  How about user
groups?

I can only read pre 1986 issues of DDJ for so long.

While I'm going on like this can you still buy new S-100 cards anywhere or
unconfigured versions of CP/M from DRI or anybody else?  It idly occured
to me that I have a 64K 8085 S-100 machine buried somewhere in the basement
that I could put a floppy controller into and run CP/M on.

Oh one more thing Philip, I don't think I'll turf my 8" drives - new drives
and floppies cost money which I would rather spend elsewhere and reliability
is unimportant at my house.  Besides, I'm a luddite, I don't like 5-1/4
drives.

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