Looking back and thinking about the years of enjoyment with the T/S 2068 I fondly remember the first T/S Fest which was in Indianapolis in May of 1987. That was my first time to see all the goodies that were available for the T/S enthusiast. I was like a kid in a candy store for the first time with some money. I met a lot of people that before that were just names in the magazines and newsletters. 1987 was a year of a lot of changes for me. In December of that year I retired from 35 years of work at Collins Radio Company.
1988 was a year of three T/S Fests but since a trip was planned to go to Japan to see my in-laws I was unable to attend any of those Fests on my return from Japan I ordered the LarKen disk system from Larry Kenny and that began a new adventure.
1989 was the year of the GATS Fest and I attended and flew in from Ft. Wayne to attend. I again saw a lot of T/S folks and met a lot of new ones.
1990 was the year of the SMUG Fest. again I attended by then I was acquainted with many more people It was the year we moved from Cedar Rapid, IA to Auburn, IN which put me into driving range of ISTUG and Frank Davis and Paul Holmgren. I attended all the meetings of ISTUG that I could and learned a lot.
When the T/S groups joined up to attend the Dayton Computerfest in the last of August I did my best to attend all the T/S gatherings there. When attendance dropped off the decision was made for the T/S groups not to go to the Dayton Computerfest. By then the memberships of the usergroups had dropped tremendously.
Part of our move from Auburn r IN to Forsyth, IL was having to part with almost all my T/S computer stuff which went to Jack Boatwright. after the move I bought a Compaq Presario 5715 computer to be able to be on line and continue with my computer experiences. I have since added a CD RW drive to the computer.
I a still interested in the T/S computers although the only one in the family that I have is the Z88. My attempts to successfully move files from the Z88 to the Compaq Presario that I have have failed since I still haven’t mastered the PC enough to be able to do that. I have learned some but not enough to do that.
However, I do en joy reading about the activities of the T/S enthusiasts and while I am in the role of a passive mater hope to break the barrier to enable me to successfully transfer files to and from the Z88 to and from my PC.
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Playing with and using a computer is not my sole activity. I still have the honey-do projects and daily activities to do. since I am a senior citizen I find that it takes longer to do things than it used to. it takes more energy to do the same things that I used to do speedily. Let’ s face it I never expected to live this long and be this active if I did. Every time I get caught up on the honey do projects my wife finds yet another thing to do. 0/0