The CATS Meow

One of the souvenirs I brought back from the WINTERFEST was a copy of the CATS library of public domain programs. In case you don’t know, CATS is the Capital area (Washington DC) users’ group. The library now consists of 11 volumes, on 5 cassettes. The list is growing.

Inquiries should be sent to

John Riley
[address omitted]
Carrollton, GA

The Georgia address must make CATS about the most spread-out users’ group in existence, in terms of geography. The “home office” is

P.O. Box 467
Farifax Station, VA 22039

I haven’t begun to try all of the programs, but here is a fast run-down on the catalog.

• Vol. one–games
• Vol. two–educational programs and utilities
• Vol. three–more utilities
• Vol. four–SPECTRUM programs
• Vol. five–more 2068 utilities
• Vol. six–a mixed bag. (I notice that one of their games is called GHOTI, which should endear them to disciples of George Bernard Shaw.)
• Vol. seven–more SPECTRUM software
• Vol. eight–more utilities
• Vol. nine–graphics
• Vol. ten–education and demos
• Vol. eleven–graphics and character sets

As I say, I’ve just begun to scratch the surface. However, here are a few samples of my favorite text, printed from programs in Volume 11: