Our presenter for this month is Ready! (https://ready100.com/) From their bio:
READY! Computer is a Canadian based computer manufacturer established in 2020. We ran a successful kickstarter in 2021 and raised $250,000 Canadian doing everything the wrong way. We’re committed to modular, repairable technology using established standards, and open source. READY! has just returned from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where we exhibited production samples of our flagship product, the READY! MODEL 100 portable computer kit. Coming in 6 anodized aluminum colours, it features cutting edge technologies and can be customized, and configured to meet your specific, demanding technical needs, and assembled with just a simple screwdriver!
You can join us via Zoom with the details below:
Topic: TPUG Montly Online Meeting For February 2022
Time: Feb 17, 2022 07:00 PM America/Toronto
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TPUG Monthly Online Meeting for January 2022, with Steve Punter!
Hi everyone,
our guest for this month’s on-line meeting is Steve Punter! 🙂 You’ll remember him from the Punter Protocol and lots of software. Please join! Details below:
Topic: TPUG January Zoom Meeting
Time: Jan 20, 2022 07:00 PM America/Toronto
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December 2021 Virtual Meeting and Annual Party
Join us this Thursday evening for our December virtual meeting and annual holiday party.
Topic: TPUG 2021 December Virtual Meeting / Holiday Party
Time: Dec 16, 2021 07:00 PM America/Toronto
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November 2021 TPUG Online Meeting
TPUG is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: TPUG Monthly Meeting. Our guess this week: George Bachir from Computer Fest
Time: Nov 18, 2021 07:00 PM America/Toronto
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World Of Commodore Is A GO This Year!!!
World of Commodore is a GO for this year!
We are intending to run a hybrid event, with an in-person component at the Admiral Inn Mississauga, and a virtual, online component through Zoom.
The date is December 4th, 2021 with the option to extend to December 5th given sufficient interest.
Masks and Proof of COVID-19 vaccination will be required to attend the in-person event.
Want to present? Want to volunteer? Want to exhibit or have a vendor table? Please fill out this brief form here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6C6XUotr8UyI3xF8fbfzrV72cZd3nKISFEIYMt1H1UZyoOw/viewform
Note that government public health Covid-19 protocols are in effect and may change. For details, especially visitors to Canada, see https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid and https://covid-19.ontario.ca/public-health-measures
For more information please visit https://tpug.ca/woc.
TPUG Monthly Meeting For October 21, 2021
Come join us on October 21 at 7PM ET for our monthly meeting, currently over Zoom for due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
This month’s TPUG special guest is Joe Casale, founder and president of comspec. In the height of commodore’s time, comspec was one of the first to develop hardware accessories for commodore computers and was instrumental in getting Commodore computers into schools. Comspec also ran several retail stores in Toronto.
From Joe Casale:
After having used the Intel 4004, and 8008, for real world data collection, my first commodore computer was the Kim-1 . I used it primarily to learn 6502 machine language. It was cheaper and more convenient to use because it had a hex keypad and a tape recorder interface. Also it made interfacing with the outside world easy because of it already had a user port for the outside world connections.
My second Commodore machine was the original Commodore Pet (personal electronic transactor). It was better than anything around for my purposes because it came with, a full qwerty chicklet keypad, a real CRT monitor, a built is tape recorder and and ieee 488 bus And it also had a user port for outside world connections.
The main use for these machines were custom automation and data collection projects.
Commodore eventually produced the Pet with a full size keyboard , needing an external tape recorder.
When Commodore produced the first disk drive, the 4040 I was asked by the Toronto Institute of Medical Technology if I could help them out. They had heard of the work I was doing with some of the labs in Ontario and wanted to know if I could build them something that would allow them to share a printer and a disk drive because they wanted to set up a lab of Pet computers and they did not have enough budget to provide a printer and disk drive for each computer. Of course I said yes and that became the first of many labs of Pet computers that I sold.
Things progressed from that, as my company Comspec went on to build a similar system for the commodore 64, and 128. When the Commodore acquired the Amiga computer, we went on to build the first memory expansion board for the Amiga 1000, Amiga 500 and all the Amigas that followed. We also built the first internal and external SCSI hard drive systems for all of the Amiga computers. This was before Commodore had their own hard drive electronics. The commodore peripherals built by Compspec were able to operate on every amiga computer right to the end.
During the Comodore years, Comspec ran a few business, Comspec Systems for business, Comspec retail, Electronics 2001, and Computer Variables and we were very active at all World of Commodore shows.
Our thanks to Ben Kayfetz for arranging out guest for the evening! 🙂
Topic: TPUG Monthly Meeting For October 2021: Joe Casale
Time: Oct 21, 2021 07:00 PM America/Toronto
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September 2021 Virtual Meeting with Bil Herd and Margaret Morabito
Bil Herd and Margaret Morabito, who wrote Back Into The Storm on Bil’s years at Commodore, will be joining us for our monthly TPUG meeting on September 16, starting at 7PM EDT. Everyone is welcome so please join us!
Note we hope to live stream on YouTube that evening.
Topic: September TPUG Meeting With Bil Herd and Margaret Morabito
Time: Sep 16, 2021 07:00 PM America/Toronto
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August Virtual TPUG Meeting
Come Join us starting at 7PM EDT for TPUG’s August meeting, held over Zoom due to Covid-19.
Ennio Cellucci is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: August Online TPUG Meeting
Time: Aug 19, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Monthly Meeting for July
Join us this Thursday, July 15th at 7PM EDT for our monthly TPUG meeting.
Our topic will be a The Minimig https://www.minimig.ca/index.php.
TPUG is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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Monthly TPUG (Virtual) Meeting
Come join us for our monthly TPUG Meeting, currently virtual-only during the Covid-19 Pandemic. All retro-computing enthusiasts welcome!
Topic: TPUG Monthly Meeting, June 2021
Time: Jun 17, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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