Longest running user group in history?

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Fri Apr 20 23:44:30 2001

Mark Gregory skrev:

>Last night, I attended the 175th monthly meeting of the Amiga Users of
>Calgary. That didn't seem like much until I did the math; that's 14.5 years
>of meetings (!), and probably more given that for the past few years
>they've taken two of the summer months off. It got me wondering which users
>group holds the record for longest continuous operation, where members
>actually attend meetings at a regular interval. I know that the Toronto PET
>Users Group, which is still active, has been running since 1978.
>Interestingly, their Website (http://www.icomm.ca/tpug/) says they're the
>_second_ oldest Commodore club.

>I thought this might make a fun thread. So who's older? Are there any older
>clubs still active? And isn't it sad that Wintel computers are so generic
>and boring that people don't form user's groups anymore?

S.U.G.A. has been active since 1986 and is now Sweden's oldest Amiga user
group (before AUGS folded, one was never certain), and we're still having
meetings every week.

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