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FCUG is the Fairfield County Computer User Group. We are an independent non-profit club working to enhance knowledge and enjoyment in the use of IBM-type (non-Mac) personal computers. We're a diverse group ranging from high school students to retirees, from novices to experts, from part-time amateurs to full-time professionals.
Aside from our obvious interest in PCs, one of our more important common interests is helping each other and further educating PC users at all levels. Thus, whether at our monthly meetings or on the phone or through our Internet forum, you'll see that no question is too trivial nor too difficult for one or more of us to answer......or at least give it our very best.
Software reviews, a first-class Internet forum, SIGs (special interest groups), question & answer sessions, access to people using the same software packages you are, a terrific monthly newletter, occasional free give-aways and guest speakers from major companies.......if things like this are of interest, then by all means please attend one of our meetings.
Our meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM at New Canaan Historical Center near downtown New Canaan, Connecticut.
Membership fee is $30/yr prorated. It's a great value. Call Membership Chairperson Dick Booth (203)847-8047
Or Email him.
OUR HISTORY
In April 1980 (yes, we've been around for 2 decades) twenty or so computer neophytes gathered at the Computer Works store in Westport, Connecticut and formed the Fairfield County TRS-80 Users Group. Most of them were new owners or soon-to-be owners of the TRS-80 Model 1. The TRS-80 at that time cost more than an advanced level Pentium does today and had 4K of memory and a processor speed of 1.77 MHz. Compare that to today's computers average 512MB of memory and 3 Gigaherz processor speeds! But even with that limited hardware, sporting home-grown programs that we typed in by hand (either self-written, copied from some friend or magazine) in BASIC, that was all that was needed to get us totally and irreversibly hooked on home desk-top computing.
In 1983 the IBM PC and compatibles took over the personal computer market
and the Fairfield County TRS-80 Users Group left our trusty TRS-80's behind
with a tear, switched to IBM compatibles (along with the occasional curse),
and we became the Fairfield County Computer Users Group. Our monthly newsletter,
formerly The Voice of the 80, became The Voice of FCUG.
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