›              o=o=o=o=o=››         Spectrum ERIE CD-ROM:›    OHAUG's Place In Atari History?››            By Alan Sharkis›› Last   month  I  received  an  e-mail› request from ROBERT BUMAN.  Bob was a› frequent  contributor and, I believe,› editor  of  the  S.A.G.E.  Scroll,  a› newsletter produced by  the  Spectrum› group of Erie, PA.  Bob wanted all of› the OHAUG disk newsletters to put  on› a  CD-ROM  that  he   was   producing› because    he   believed   that   our› newsletter  was  a  good  example  of› Atari 8-bit  newsletters of the  era.› He  had  many of our issues, starting› in 1991 and going up to 1996 or 1997,› and wanted the rest.  I discussed the› request  at  the  May  meeting.   The› members   present   at  that  meeting› agreed to send Bob a full set of  our› newsletters  for his CD-ROM  project.› Between HAROLD PEGLER, JACK  GEDALIUS› and myself, we were able to duplicate› all of the disks and get them to  Bob› before his deadline.›› During  the  discussion, I raised the› question of whether there  were  ever› single-sided  OHAUG newsletter disks,› since I remembered that  there  might› have  been  such  disks.  Many of the› members   felt  that  my  memory  was› faulty.  As it turns out, there  were› three  such  issues,  all produced in› 1990.  Before  1990,  however,  OHAUG› produced  its  newsletters in  print.› ALEX PIGNATO and CARLOS HURTADO  were› responsible  for  putting those print› newsletters together.  I know that  I› have some of them.  ALLEN ATKINS says› that he has all of them.  Now that  I› know  that  a CD-ROM will be produced› with  all  of  our  newsletter  disks› preserved on it, and I also know that› copies  of  all  of our print  issues› have  survived, I'm very happy.›› Oh, yes!  Bob Buman wrote to me again› and told me that the  disks  we  sent› him would be returned (they were) and› promised that OHAUG would  receive  a› copy  of   his   CD-ROM   when   it's› finished.›› I  can't wait to see that CD-ROM.  If› it reflects the history of Atari user› groups,  I  know that we will all see› familiar  names,  products,  stories,› and controversies  of  the  day.   It› will  be  quite  a nostalgia trip for› all of us!›› Bob also asked  me,  as  he  said  he› asked  many in our community, to give› my  thoughts  on  leaving  the  Atari› community.  It will be interesting to› see  what   those   others,   perhaps› including  luminaries  of  the  8-bit› world,  have  to  say.   I  feel very› proud that I, and  OHAUG,  have  been› included  in  this  little  piece  of› Atari history.››              o=o=o=o=o=›››