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Title: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: glitch on April 26, 2005, 01:25:53 AM
Hi Everyone,

     This is just a quick post to start a discussion about the potential interest in starting a user group or Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in South-Western Ontario.  Do we have enough active users to make a go of it?  We could meet every other month... Anyway just throwing this one out there...

     I was over at HammerD's place earlier this evening and had a peek at his uA1C system and his Pegasos system and saw the newest Beta of OS4.0b - SWEEEET!  He would like to demo these systems at the proposed meeting, so let's talk!

-G
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: HammerD on April 26, 2005, 01:53:56 AM
I'm in.  I'd be happy to show OS4 Beta if there is some interest out there...

:)

Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: AmigaPete on April 26, 2005, 02:27:20 AM
I'm in Brantford and would be keen on seeing some of the new "stuff".

Pete
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: ackcontrols on April 26, 2005, 03:45:10 AM
I'm not far away....in the Niagara Peninsula.  I'm sure I can make it out that way for a meeting/demo.

ACK
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: HammerD on April 26, 2005, 04:29:17 AM
Maybe we could put together a mini show/demo.  I think Geoff can arrange a venue and I can work on local advertising - at the University and also local computer stores - I can distribute flyers about it...

Something like a saturday afternoon from 11 to 5.  We could show OS4, - and perhaps ack could bring some goodies to show off :)  

Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: glitch on April 26, 2005, 12:17:01 PM
BUBBLES!

Perhaps we can get x56h34 and JJ there as well.  Let us know guys!

-G
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: x56h34 on April 26, 2005, 02:28:52 PM
I'd be interested, yes. :-)

I could probably bring with me one of these (http://www.x56h34.com/amiga/specs.html). ;-)
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: amiwalker on April 26, 2005, 02:34:54 PM
Nova Scotia. Close, but not close enough!
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: glitch on April 26, 2005, 03:16:56 PM
Hi,

     

      C'mon, that's right next to Toranna isn't it?

     


     Actually I can show E-UAE on my G5 or the Mac Mini while I'm there too if anyone would like to see that as well.

-G
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: x56h34 on April 26, 2005, 03:20:56 PM
How many people would need to show up in order to make the whole event worthwhile?
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: glitch on April 26, 2005, 03:21:45 PM
Hi,

    As long as there's beer - who cares?

-G
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: cecilia on April 26, 2005, 03:49:57 PM
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x56h34 wrote:
How many people would need to show up in order to make the whole event worthwhile?
don't they say, 'three's a crowd'???

sounds about right to me!

hey, I love it when people get together to check out stuff. have fun!
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: adonay on April 26, 2005, 03:52:40 PM
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I could probably bring with me one of these.  


Man you got an impressive collection there wish i could se it

hope you guys have fun there :-D

adonay :-D
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: HammerD on April 26, 2005, 04:45:28 PM
Well I think if we did as well as the Ottawa Amiga show it would be a success.  I would really hope that ACK Controls could come and show off some of their products.  

I would do alot of local advertising so I am pretty sure we could get anywhere from 25 to 50 people show up.  This would be a meeting/demo and perhaps a display of ACK Control's products...

At this point any exposure would help.  We haven't had any Amiga events in this region for several years.  Maybe some people from Michigan/upstate NY. could come as well, since it's not that far away.

Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: glitch on April 26, 2005, 05:04:31 PM
Perhaps if you mentioned what ack is working on we might get people to drive a VERY long way to see it!

-G
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: DreamDealr on April 26, 2005, 07:13:19 PM
Count me in as interested!  The last Amiga event of any sort that I attended was the last WOA in Toronto, whenever that was!  :-o
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: redfox on April 26, 2005, 07:43:38 PM
Sounds like a great idea.  Too far away for me though.  There are a couple of user groups out here in Alberta.

---
redfox
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: glitch on April 27, 2005, 12:18:53 AM
Hi,

     We've got JJ interested too, we have to arrive at a time/place though...

-G
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: bloodline on April 27, 2005, 01:29:15 PM
I tend to go to Canada in the summer months keep me posted and I might turn up :-)
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: x56h34 on April 27, 2005, 01:56:30 PM
@bloodline:

We don't take kindly to strangers around here. ;-)
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: glitch on April 27, 2005, 03:19:37 PM
Hi,

     Actually there was another customer / friend of mine (a long time ago) that was staying in Newcastle - for school I think and he often came back over here for the summers as well.  Perhaps we could get a cross-Atlantic charter going...  Just kidding!

-G
Title: Re: Any interest in an Amiga "Enthusiasts" group in London, ON Canada area?
Post by: bloodline on April 27, 2005, 04:01:21 PM
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x56h34 wrote:
@bloodline:

We don't take kindly to strangers around here. ;-)



Ooooo... It's a LOCAL club for LOCAL people ;-)