Commodore B-128, etc...

Message text written by INTERNET:classiccmp@u.washington.edu Chicago B-128 Users Group by Commodore (wow, that's a change, eh?) a few years back, I have no idea what had ever happened to the group or where the B-128 info now resides.< Yes, that was quite a deal. The Chicago group seems to have showed up on Commodore's doorstep just as Commodore was getting ready to trash all the B series stuff, and the user group ended up with it all. I wasn't aware it was a "loan", but I guess at this point, nobody is going to show up on their doorstep and ask for it back. If only the rest of the Commodore user group community had showed such drive; we might not KNOW where the rights to the 8-bit stuff ended up, but also we might collectively have owned them! I don't know what happened to the group either. In 1990, before I got a B-128, I wrote and got info, and directed to them everyone I ran across that had a B-series question. Then I wrote in early 1993 to check in on the progress of the group for a newsletter article, and got nothing-- no returned letter, no response. I wrote a second letter a few months later (in case the Chicago post office had lost the first) and still got nothing. I tried again after I got my B-128, and again, nothing. I think basically the "group" was one guy in Chicago and a number of out of town members, domestically and internationally. I suspect as interest in the B series waned, the guy got tired of it and just quit. Still, upon receiving inquiries he might at least have sent out thanks-for-your-letter-but-the-group-doesn't-exist-any-more responses. Postage couldn't have been THAT much. Course, he may have gotten hit by a beer truck, for all I know. (Address was 4102 N. Odell, Norridge, IL. 60635; I probably have the head guy's name somewhere.) Gil Parrish 107765.1161(a)compuserve.com