Next FCUG meeting - Sunday, February 12, 2023

[Robert Bernardo]

Happy Super Bowl (or Superb Owl), C= and Ami aficionados! ;)

The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 2:00+ p.m., Sunday, Feb. 12, at

Panera Bread Restaurant
3590 W Shaw Ave. (corner of W. Shaw Ave. and Marty Ave.)
Fresno, CA 93711
[phone]
http://www.dickestel.com/meet_loc.htm

Note that the FCUG meeting has been changed from the third Sunday to the second Sunday this month.

For discussion, we will talk about the April 1 LA Maker Faire 2023 and preparations for the April 15-16 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2023. We’ll have a slideshow of my October visit to the Netherlands Commodore Show in Maarssen.

For our hardware presentation, we have the... (drum roll) ...Mega65! The Mega65 is the modern-day replica of the Commodore 65, the computer that was cancelled by Commodore Business Machines in the late 1980’s. The Mega65 is not only a replica but is also an enhanced version of the C65 in that it offers improved and new features, improved like a more stable operating system, new like dual SD card slots, multi-core support, and more! For this meeting, we’ll explore the software that came for computer’s C65 side; at next month’s meeting, we’ll explore the Mega65’s C64 side.

GO 64,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group -
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

[Mark Reed]

Sorry to step in this way but I'd like to speak with Robert. He may remember me as the former Amiga librarian for the ACUG #0447 many years ago. Can I get a way to privately talk to you? I am looking for something that you may have on some of the old ACUG's cover disks and I think I'm about to get a Sol-20 from a YouTuber's giveaway. I want to work with it a bit but if I cannot keep it, I need to find it a good home with people who would appreciate it.

[Mark Reed]

I have received confirmation that I have won the Sol-20. It is this specific machine from this YouTuber:

I do not want this to just sit around gathering dust. I'll likely play with it for a bit but IIRC--you guys are working with, know someone who was a part of or run a vintage computer museum? This looks like an important bit of computer history that should be preserved and shared.

Again, sorry for the thread hijack...

[Mark Reed]

Dang it, this suddenly stunk. I got told that I'd have to be paid shipping directly to the shipper--UPS. And now I'm being shown some different ways to pay that are setting off alarm bells. It's looking like a clever scam to me now. Dammit, can I just be allowed to wing something and do good with it?

I still like to talk to Robert about finding an old program of mine.