UPCHUG is the University Place Commodore Home Users Group in Tacoma, WA, USA. We are an Amiga and Commodore Home Computer club. About me: I was a Commodore 64 user for quite a long time. Really only had two programs, an advanced Basic with compiler, and a spreadsheet that I also used like a DTP program. Anything I needed my C64 to do, I wrote a program with that Basic compiler. Somewhere out there, is a program to use your C64 as a test pattern generator for testing TVs. It just so happens that the 16 colors of C64 video are perfect for color bars. The C64 modulator is not accurate enough, so Id modified a TI 994a modulator, which is highly accurate. So if you have something like that somewhere, using the F keys to change from color bars to a variety of dot and line patterns, and several frequencies and loudnesses of sound I think 300Hz, 1KHz, and 3KHz, then that may be my program. When I moved to Tacoma, I discovered UPCHUG and started attending the Commodore 64 SIG irregularly. Later I got a 386 and a 486 with MS DOS and MS Windows 3.1. It was a screaming system for the time, 20 Megs of RAM and a 470Meg hard drive. Met my wife, she had an Amiga 500. There was no going back for me. Shes going to think I married her for her Amiga if she sees this. I started attending the Amiga SIG of UPCHUG on a regular basis. I kept upgrading my wifes A500 against her will. ; She used it with Wordperfect and ran a few thinking games. I wanted to use it for graphics, so I kept looking for the next faster Amiga. Despite professing a resistance to change, she got excited about computer graphics, too. So after some horsetrading I ended up with an Amiga 3000 with an OpalVision card, bought a few programs most notably ImageFX, and we started Polymorph Digital Photography. That Amiga 3000 had only 8 Megs of RAM and 2 Megs Chip Ram, and at only 25MHz it ran circles around the Pentium 60 with 16 Megs of RAM that I had traded to get it. Later I added a Phase 5 Cyberstorm Mk2 68060 at 50MHz accelerator with 128Megs of RAM, and a Cybervision64 graphics card with 4Megs. That system screamed We took it on the road to local Science Fiction conventions, and right here in Microsofts backyard I had their own employees looking longingly at my Amiga, spontaneously saying things like Bill Gates ruined software Ive done a lot of demos for the club, dragging my 3000 or an Amiga 1200, or my laptop running Amiga Forever WinUAE emulator. I hosted several special SIGs at my home, including Hardware and Programming SIGs. I was Vice Pres for a couple of years, in charge of arranging demos for Amiga meetings.

Address: 3501 Sixth Ave Tacoma, WA 984065403
Telephone: 2533182473
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