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Formerly
the NZ Microcomputer Club Inc.
Aim: To
exchange and disseminate information concerning the Computing Arts and
Sciences.
Meetings
Drop-In Center: Each Wednesday from
9.30am to 2.30pm.
No set program. Bring your Computer if
you wish. Interest groups include Photography, Flight Simulators, Astrnomy,
Computer repair and care.
Workshops: 2nd Saturday of each
month. 9.30am to 4.00pm.
Software evaluations. Hardware investigations.
Interest groups. Bring your Computer if you wish.
Presentation Evenings: 3rd
Thursday of each month 7.30pm.
Unless otherwise indicated, club functions
take place on the ground floor of the Community Centre at the Epsom Presbyterian
Church. 10 Gardner Road, Epsom.
Visitors and prospective members welcome.
Newsletter
The Club Newsletter is now only available to financial
members of the NZ Computer Club Inc.
To join the Club and receive the Newsletter please
complete the Membership Application form and post to the NZ Computer Club
P.O.Box 26-173, Epsom, Auckland 1030, New Zealand.
Membership Application
Form
A brief history of the club.
The club was formed in the April of 1977 by a
group of technically oriented enthusiasts who were interested in pooling
their knowledge of the recently arrived microprocessor chips. At that stage,
the only way to get a computer was to design it and build it yourself.
With the arrival a year or so later, of the first "off the shelf" microcomputers
the club began to gain members who were "users" and not just "builders"
of computers.
Since 1987, the club has been active in promoting
electronic communications. At that time "modems" had just become available
but were very expensive, so the activity of the day was to design and organise
their construction. A variety of Bulletin Board Systems were used in those
first few years, we operated a very powerful "BBS" with connections
that spanned the world and provided members with Internet connectivity as well.This has now been phased out and replaced with our current web sites
Commencing in 1980 the club organised the annual
"one day" Microcomputer Exhibitions. This originally started in a school
hall, but in a short period of years it developed into an event which needed
to be held at the local Epsom Show Grounds with the yearly event attracting
over 10,000 visitors and because of this expansion it is now being run
by commercial enterprises. Nowadays, we regularly attend other organisers
shows, which have grown out of those early activities of the club.
E-Mail Address
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