[muglo] LMUG / MUGLO

This finally clears up some of the confusion for me over MUGLO's origins, Joan. 
It never occurred to me that this wasn't the original Mac group in London, 
having merely changed its name from the initial London Macintosh Users Group 
just as it later changed it from Macintosh Users Group of London Ontario to 
Macintosh Users Group of London Online. It appears from your account that MUGLO 
arose independently after LMUG lapsed.

I was at the first LMUG meeting in November of '84, convened up at UWO by the 
young salesman from whom I'd bought my 128K Mac the previous month, and his 
techie sidekick. As Karl remembers, they were then selling them out of a 
dedicated little niche on the third floor of the old Simpsons building at 
Dundas and Richmond streets. I can't remember who else was at the meeting; 
after several years of working with suitcase-sized line-command-based 
'portables' I had become an instant Mac zealot, and think I was focussed pretty 
exclusively on the two Mac reps and what they were telling us about the 
machine. Can't remember the name of either of them, although I can still 
picture them in my mind. (Actually, I think I remember Ilbert Walker being 
there, now that I cast back what passes for my mind.)

I soon got to the end of MacWrite and was never much interested in MacPaint, 
and since I was mostly working nights at the time anyway, I didn't remain a 
regular member of the group for long. Once MacDraw and Microsoft Word arrived, 
and then a trickle of other worthwhile programs, it got interesting again, and 
I made an effort to get out to the occasional meeting that coincided with one 
of my rare nights off. LMUG may already have given way to MUGLO by then; it was 
all the same to me. There were meetings up at Masonville, and later several at 
a private home on Wortley Road. I was an interested but pretty infrequent 
contributor.

There was briefly a separate Mac group on the UWO campus, but I got to only one 
or two meetings with them. Night work eventually became the general rule with 
me, and club activity of any kind was out of the question for a decade or more, 
until I retired and reconnected with the Mac mob. I encountered a few familiar 
names and just took it for granted that I was rejoining the current incarnation 
of the one I'd seen begun in '84.  


--- On Sat, 3/28/09, Ralph and Joan Winfield <jrwinfield@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> . . . "MUGLO was preceded by the now defunct London 
> Macintosh Users Group, LMUG . . . "
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