20 Apr
2001
20 Apr
'01
12:20 a.m.
The HP hand held calculator club, PPC, have been meeting since the days
of the HP 65 (1976?). This was a world wide group so meetings were seldom
held but several areas had enough members to have regular meetings. The
London chapter (HPCC), the Philadelpia chapter (name?) and the Chicago
chapter (CHIP chapter) STILL have meetings every month and there is an
international meeting at least one a year. PPC went through a hostile
takeover about 12 years ago and no longer formally exist but the members
have not let the spirit of the club die. Several of the people on this list
are ex-PPC members.
Joe
At 03:37 PM 4/19/01 -0600, you wrote:
Last night, I attended the 175th monthly meeting of the
Amiga Users of
Calgary. That didn't seem like much until I did the math; that's 14.5 years
of meetings (!), and probably more given that for the past few years
they've taken two of the summer months off. It got me wondering which users
group holds the record for longest continuous operation, where members
actually attend meetings at a regular interval. I know that the Toronto PET
Users Group, which is still active, has been running since 1978.
Interestingly, their Website (http://www.icomm.ca/tpug/) says they're the
_second_ oldest Commodore club.
I thought this might make a fun thread. So who's older? Are there any older
clubs still active? And isn't it sad that Wintel computers are so generic
and boring that people don't form user's groups anymore?
Cheers,
Mark G.