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2026-08-31 00:00 UTC
🏛️ Before the Internet, computer clubs brought people together to learn, trade software, share ideas & explore the rapidly changing world of personal computing. 💾
A surviving binder of 50 Atari newsletters from August 1987 offers a remarkable time capsule of that world. These newsletters & many more for Atari, Apple II, Texas Instruments computers & other platforms are available in Internet Archive collections. 📚
More on. our blog: https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a-computer-history-time-capsule/
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@katalogeur@mastodon.social 2026-08-31 08:29
@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org Fun times those. I was part of a C64 club in the mid-80s in a mid-sized city. We had regular meetings, a couple-dozen members of all ages. We shared help, new warez, and discussed the latest software, our own BBS. There was a lot of excitement when the GEOS was released even though It was s.l.o.w ... but at 1/20th the cost of a Mac. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system) Having a club BBS was a LOT more fun than dialing up AOL.