| Subject: [GTALUG] Any PET collectors? | | Not quite Linux, but I found a pair of old informational booklets “The | PET Personal Computer for Beginners”, both book 1 and 2, while I was | tidying up. They were released in Northern Ireland in 1979 by Petfolio, | and they assume that you already know BASIC. | | I think they deserve a better home, with someone who appreciates them. Thanks for not just pitching these artifacts. I suggest contacting Toronto Pet Users Group. They are a remarkably long-lived group. They are having a meeting tonight! I see that Stewart Russell is on their Management Committee this year. Where have I heard that name before?

On 2019-03-21 6:38 a.m., Seneca Cunningham via talk wrote:

Not quite Linux, but I found a pair of old informational booklets “The PET Personal Computer for Beginners”, both book 1 and 2, while I was tidying up. They were released in Northern Ireland in 1979 by Petfolio, and they assume that you already know BASIC.

I think they deserve a better home, with someone who appreciates them.

Thanks for digging these out, Seneca! I'll take 'em, please. I'll scan them and put them on Archive.org, as there's precious little representation of European digital nerdery. Yes, TPUG is still running. We're in our 40th year, and are one of the oldest micro user groups still around. While I can't make it out to tonight's meeting (WindShare AGM instead), there's usually 20 people or so who attend every month. Tonight's a fix-it night, I think. TPUG used to have paid staff who fulfilled library disk and newsletter orders. Our membership's nowhere near where it was, but is around 120 and is growing. Many folks use "The C64 Mini", which is a single-core ARM board in a faux-C64 case running Linux with a pretty gaming front end. Others have gone full-on FPGA. And yes, there are *still* Amiga users who claim that their computers are ultra-high-performance and used in contemporary production graphics ... yep, still stuck in 1990. cheers, Stewart