Years ago, when I was a card carrying member of the DOS group I belonged to KIPKUG, membership around 500. The most difficult problem for the group was finding a place large enough to hold the horde.
What you found in this group was a Q & A session where the questions were written out prior to the meeting, read from the podium and the group tried to answer. Then there was a presenter, of every topic imaginable. Finally, the part that everyone wanted, the door prizes, and for some reason I did win several. Once introduced to the MAC, I never wanted to go back, and I eventually sold the last of the Intel equipment (286) and have never owed a Windoze machine since. One evening I saw a program that I wanted, and wondered if it was written for the MAC. While standing in line to get to the presenter a man in front of me, that I had known to be one of the kingpins of the group and he worked for one of the major Windows/Intel firms in town as a salesperson, ask the presenter if there was a version for the MAC, so I had my answer and I jumped from the line to ask this guy why in the world he would ask such a question since he wasn't a MAC guy. His reply was that he had become a MAC user and if the group would just switch to a MAC we could disband the entire KIPKUG. He is right in a sense, for most all the questions were just about how to get something to work on their platform that was a given on the MAC. So, all this to say that one reason the group is small is because of the ability to have people that know nothing about a computer be up and running in NO TIME. I have given away many many MAC's to several different families. It takes me about a week or two of answering questions and I never hear form them again, and these are folks that have never used a computer in their lives. We could do better I am sure, we could give door prizes that would draw a much larger crowd, but the bottom line is the fact that our system works so well we don't have the massive group needing to attend just to survive the initial boot. John Robinson -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2107 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20040807/20d7ee01/attachment.bin
