History
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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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The Past
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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.
The Present (June 2000)
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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.
The Past
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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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