According to the legends passed on by the old timers, when I joined the group, there wasnt any name and it was just a bunch of fellows meeting regularly over their PET computers starting in 1978ce. The earliest documented listing we have found is in a 1983ce Computes Gazette listing the group as the Astoria Commodore User Group. Speeding up time a few years... I joined in 1993ce. At that time the group had finally become more than a copy party, officially meeting as an authorised CBM user group. Our number is 0447, as stated on the impression stamp. Not to sound egotistical, only that they wanted new blood. I soon became the editor and the Commodore 128 librarian. Dont get impressed. The newsletter at that time was one single sheet of paper, and it didnt even have a name. I was the only 128 user in the group. Honestly, I conned to get the 128 librarian job, just to have the files. Around that time there was the great fear that Escom, who had recently bought CBM, was going to do all sorts of things that would negatively influence the group, as in the use and name of the group. At a meeting, ideas where thrown about. I suggested Amiga & Commodore User Group. OK, it was more of a joke at the time, trying to keep the initials the same. Anyway, from that time till June of 2006ce, that was the name of the group. At the yearly biz meeting of the group in July of 2006ce, we changed the name for many reasons, creating a new name of Anything Commodore User Group. Though there are dark reasons for this, we also wanted to present the fact that members are interested in anything Commodore.

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