Randy;

I would like to make a comparison between the Fox Community and The S-100 Computer community that I was once a member of.

I joined the S-100 Computer Users Group (we met monthly) in Silicon Valley in 1980. The members had great passion for the S-100, even after the PC and MAC’s were introduced. My job required using and maintaining the S-100, PC’s and MAC’s. Around 1986 I dropped out of the S-100 users group. In 1993 we were moving to another state so I decided to get rid of my S-100, in which I had over $6000 investment.

I saw in the San Jose Mercury News that the S-100 Users Group still met, so I went to a meeting just before we moved. People met faithfully each month I was told. One lady was knitting. Others reading magazines. No one was interested in my offer of a free S-100. The lady knitting said, “We get together because of our community. We stopped using the S-100 years ago”! :)

Tom