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- Questions about Commodore Computer
- club U.K.
-
- Robert Bernardo: What is the mailing
- address?
-
- Commodore Computer Club (UK): As in
- email? You may contact either:
- contact@CommodoreComputerClub.co.uk
- <Shaun Bebbington>, or:
- shop@CommodoreComputerClub.co.uk
- <Nigel Parker> - Nigel Parker (the
- club treasurer) has a snail-mail
- address, which may be obtained by
- contacting him first.
-
- RB: What is the website?
-
- CCC (UK): The website is still under
- construction, and can be accessed by
- pointing your web-browsing software to
- either:
- http://www.CommodoreComputerClub.co.uk
- or: http://www.SuperCPU.co.uk.
-
- RB: Who is your official contact
- person?
-
- CCC (UK): I'm [Shaun Bebbington]
- listed as the club secretary, Nigel is
- the treasurer and Allan Bairstow is
- listed as the club chair person,
- however real life means that things
- are taking a little longer than we had
- hoped.
-
- RB: Who are your officers?
-
- CCC (UK): As above.
-
- RB: How often do you meet?
-
- CCC (UK): Club rules state that we
- must meet at least once a year. We
- will also be attending events, such as:
- http://www.byte-back.info
-
- which will be held in March 2009.
-
- RB: Is there a newsletter?
-
- CCC (UK): At the moment, all news is
- delivered via private members areas of
- the club forums, and through our own
- (again private) Google group.
- Commodore Free is being phased in as
- the club newsletter, and will soon be
- released to members first and everyone
- else second.
-
- RB: What are the membership fees?
-
- CCC (UK): Membership fees start from \3
- for six months, and up to \30 for life
- membership. Most people prefer the
- latter option, as they want to be
- involved long term.
-
- RB: What support do you have for the
- members?
-
- CCC (UK): We can provide spares [when
- 'in stock'] such as chip or keyboard
- replacements and so forth, as well as
- easy fixes and maintenance - these
- will usually be free to members, but
- always charged for non-members. We
- would like to organise workshops, such
- as using GEOS or Wheels, or using
- Slang, or even just general 6502
- coding. Club members will get first
- refusal on anything that is in our
- club shop (still to be set up), and
- any items listed will be cheaper to
- members than non-members. For
- instance, the shop will soon be
- acquiring some 1541 disk drives; these
- will be 10% cheaper to members.
-
- RB: What are the other advantages of
- your club?
-
- CCC (UK): One practical example is
- when Conrad had a dodgy 1541 MK-II
- drive, so he brought it along with
- him. It was a simple head alignment
- problem, so we fixed it, there and
- then. It would have been pointless to
- send him a D64 image or the alignment
- software on disk because how would he
- have loaded it in the first place? So,
- we're pooling resources, not just in
- terms of money, but also knowledge.
- The main point is that we want to keep
- our Commodore computers useful for as
- long as possible, but we recognise
- that for the typical nostalgia hunter,
- who would typically emulate a
- Commodore, joining a forum like
- Lemon64 [for gaming], or subscribing
- to comp.sys.cbm would probably ideal
- for them. The latter is a better
- example as we don't just support the
- C64, nor are we just interested in
- gaming, but we aim to support all
- Commodore 8-bits, as well as the DTV.
-
- Regards,
-
- Shaun Bebbington,
- Club secretary,
- Commodore Computer Club (UK).
-
-
- COMMODORE FREE.
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