W8SDZ@simtel20.arpa (Keith Petersen) (10/20/85)
If you own or plan to buy or build the SB180 super 8-bit computer designed by Steve Ciarcia of BYTE magazine and manufactured by Micromint you may wish to look into becoming a member of N.A.O.G. It has been formed on Steve's suggestion and with the cooperation, but NOT ownership, of Micromint. The N.A.O.G. newsletter will be delivered via first-class mail each month, starting in January. It will be edited by User's Guide "Advanced User" columnist Bruce Morgen, former Computer Editor of Electronic Products magazine. Each newsletter will contain news of the latest SB180-compatible hardware and software, including Z-System hints and tutorials, news of the latest program revisions and hardware upgrades from Micromint and from the N.A.O.G. membership. Starting with the second newsletter, disks will be available to members for a little over the cost of media and mailing, each with about 300K of software as described in the preceding newsletters. The North American One-Eighty Group will be officially announced in the December BYTE, the issue that will include Steve's new Turn-Key Bulletin Board System (TKBBS), based on the SB180, the new COMM180 modem/SCSI board, Rick Conn's TERM3 and Tim Gary's Z-Msg software. An introductory one-year N.A.O.G. membership is $12 per year, including twelve issues of the newsletter as well as user disk privileges and access to the members-only sections of the N.A.O.G. TKBBS remote system. The address is: North American One-Eighty Group P.O. Box #2781 Warminster, PA 18974 voice phone: 215-443-9031 TKBBS phone: to be announced in first newsletter and BYTE --Keith