ASA was formed by Phil Stephens, Mike Legg and Mike O'Hara in a time when the then main Hampshire usergroup - PAUG, the Portsmouth Amiga Usergroup - was floundering. Although PAUG's founder/chairman had some good ideas, and lots of enthusiasm, it was clear to these three wise men, that he was totally incapable of running a usergroup. Pretty soon after ASA started lots of PAUG members started to realise this too, and so they all stood by the three of us under the ASA banner.

That was about a year ago, since then PAUG has disbanded and it's ruler left for supposedly greener pastures of the Wintel World because everyone lost faith in his abilities. ASA's organising group expanded to include Paul Harding and Paul Qureshi. Since then Paul Harding has grown a beard. Paul Qureshi has worked tirelessly on his MP3 software/hardware combo. Mike finsihed college, twice. Mike Legg became a daddy and found fame online with his Commodore 16 Plus/4 website.

While this was happening, a new user group formed from the remnants of PAUG, going under the PAG (Portsmouth Amiga Group) name, they proved a lot of people wrong by holding out as long as they did. But the group hit hard times early 2000 and with only a handful of non-ASA users, Lee Scott thought it wiser to call it day.



Which brings us right up to date. Paul Harding recieved and email from Phil, saying he couldn't be arsed to run ASA no more and was going to hand the group over to him, he would still stay on the mailing list but didn't want to be involved in the running of the group any more. Paul showed me the email and we thought we could do a pretty good job of it. The first thing Paul and I did was to phone Mike Legg and Paul Qureshi and discuss things further.

Paul H questioned wether he had any right to run the usergroup. The rest of us told him to shut up and get on with the job. :) To which we were told he'd only do it if we, and others, got in on the act. After more discussion, me and Paul Q rejoined ASA's mailing list. Unfortunately, Phil and another user, decided they couldn't commit to the group anymore and decided to leave.



Still reading? :) Good. Once again there are some fanatical Amiga users at the helm of the local user group and we've got some plans of our own to spring the unsuspecting members! ;)

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We thought you might like to know a little about us. Here's a brief history of usergroups in Portsmouth, please don't ask us to explain everything on here as we would like to look forward to an exciting, productive future, instead of reminiscing about the way things could have been.


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