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- From: ac803@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael W. Kelley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Commodore 8-bit Article Sources
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 11:37:48 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: ac803@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael W. Kelley)
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- In a previous article, cobra@coyote.datalog.com (Ken Thompson) says:
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- >
- > Greetings Commodore-Interested News-Readers!
- >
- > I am the editor of a Commodore and Amiga computer Users Group at my
- >place of business (no, not the one that I have this account on, un-
- >fortunately...), and I have been searching for quite some time for
- >Commodore 64 & Commodore 128 articles that could be reprinted in our
- >newsletter. Since I only have news privleges on this account, I can't
- >FTP anything, either, so I'm kinda between a rock and a hard spot.
- >
- > If you know where I might be able to pick up on some news (if there IS
- >any...) and information (there should be *something*) on Commodore
- >64 and C=128 systems, it'd be greatly appreciated.
- >
- > I do have an account on GEnie, but much of what gets put on-line there
- >is in the form of compressed files that my humble Amiga can't deal with.
- >The decompressed versions I have looked over, and have picked through
- >what was of interest. The last time I did this was back in September.
- >I went through about a year's worth of material, and only came up with a
- >handful of articles...argh!
- >
- > Any additional sources of material would be appreciated...I think some
- >of my readers (we have about a 50-50 ratio of Amiga users and 8-bit
- >users) are getting tired of newsletters that are highly Amiga-biased.
- >
- >Thanks Mucho!
- Our user group participates in exchanges of newsletters with other
- user groups, 34 of them at last count. Send us your newsletter,
- and we will send you ours. Attn: Newsletter Editor.
- Basic Bits Commodore Group
- P.O. Box 447
- No. Ridgeville, OH 44039-0193
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- QuantumLink. 1-800-827-8444, voice.
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