At the April meeting, brief autobiographies were submitted by 36 of the 40 plus attendees, which had been requested to help plan meeting agendas and the thrust of the News Letter. The results were interesting and helpful to the editor and the officers of your club.
Twenty five had strong technical backgrounds from PhD in physics to TV repair, and included several electrical engineers. Nine were in some nontechnical business and two were students.
Fourteen have had experience with mainframes or minis, some going back over twenty years. Sixteen indicated some knowledge of high level languages other than BASIC: Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, IBM assembly language and five show Machine Code training. Eleven show graduate degrees or engineering. Seven have Bachelor degrees in nontechnical subjects. Eight are retired. Eight work in government. Five are self-employed.
Twenty eight have one or more T/S1000’s; twenty seven have the T/S2068 (most have both).
The equipment list is not so clear but only two show modems, three have Commodore 64’s and three have 64K memories (I am sure there are more).
The comments indicate strong interest in hardware projects and Tom Bent has expressed interest in heading up such activity, perhaps doing machine modifications (2068 ROM switch installation?)
It also seems possible that resignations over the years have been heavily representative of business or nontechnical interests, since most users groups are more heavily weighted toward those activities than we seem to be, if the April attendees are a fair sample of our total membership. At any rate your officers, editor and the new administration will make an effort at meetings and in the News Letter to better meet the needs of, and at a level of approach somewhat more in tune with, beginners and business people.