Memphis Amiga Group (MAG) and
Memphis Commodore Users Club (MCUC) History

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Welcome

This is a collection of scanned and transcribed newsletters and disk magazines from the Memphis Amiga Group, as well as newsletters from its predecessor, the Memphis Commodore Users Club.

The Memphis Commodore Users Club (or Users Group, MCUG) started in the early 80s and lasted until the early to mid 90s. It spawned the Memphis Amiga Group (MAG) as a SIG in the late 80s. MAG operated from the late 80s to the late 90s. Commodore's demise in 1994 took the wind out of the group, and after a few more years it faded out of existence.

Meetings were held monthly, and most were preceeded by a board meeting the week before. MCUC presidents over the years included Ken Akins, Dwight Campbell, Jim Fox, Bob Nunn (of Operator Headgap BBS), and Pete Norton. MAG presidents included Alan Schwartz, Broadus Weatherall, Todd Rooks, Brian Akey, Bob Nunn, and Scott Pitts (who ran Amiga Pitts, MAG's official BBS). The only surviving near-relative of the group is AppleCore of Memphis, a Memphis-area Apple computer users group.

If you have newsletters, diskmags, or anything else at all pertaining to the Memphis Amiga Group, the Memphis Commodore Users Club, or even the Memphis PC Users Group, please contact me. I would like to add what you have to this site.

Contents

These newsletters and diskmags hold bits and pieces of history pertaining not just to MCUC and MAG, but to personal computing (particularly with regard to Commodore computers) in general. Some parts, such as these hardware prices from 1989, are particularly amusing. There are several chat transcripts (some from pre-Internet online services such as People Link and Genie) that indicate the state of Mac emulation in 1989, multimedia in 1991, and computer graphics in 1992. There are also old hardware hack instructions, such as upgrading the Amiga 1000 to the 68010 processor (1986.)

Some of the highlights of Commodore's rise and fall can also be traced:

Interesting Texts

The following is a random selection of a few of the "interesting" texts found throughout the disks in the DiskMAGs section.

Name Description
Ed Commands Description for using the basic command-line AmigaDOS text editor "ed" written in 1985.
CommodoreNews Press release from Commodore announcing Amiga price cuts and a 24-hour customer service program from March 1991. The MSRP for the 25mhz Amiga 3000 with 100MB hard drive was reduced from $4,699 to $4,999.
DPaintIV.txt A press release about DeluxePaint 4.0's new features, from 1991.
5min4-19 The StarShip 5-MINUTE Weekend Newscast from April 16th, 1993. Includes announcements for CSA's TwelveGuage, a 50mhz 68030 accelerator for the Amiga 1200, and the Retina graphics board. Both retailed for $699.
5min5-18 The StarShip 5-MINUTE Weekend Newscast from May 14th, 1993. Includes news from The Gathering 1993 demo party (which "Desert Dream" won) and the announcement of OctaMED 4.
5min3-21 Cyberspace Report Weekly from March 18th, 1994.
StockHolderMeeting An update from the Commodore Shareholders' Movement from March 2nd, 1994. Includes news from the Commodore shareholders meeting in the Bahamas. Commodore lost $356 million in 1993.
5min6-10 Cyberspace Report Weekly from June 10th, 1994. Includes information about CSA's accelerator trade-up program and a note that CSA accelerators are used on Babylon 5 and Sea Quest.
AR222.guide Amiga Report Magazine 2.22 from July 15th, 1994.
ar405.guide Amiga Report Magazine 4.05 from March 31st, 1996.