SCOUG OS/2 For You - August 1997

1997 SCOUG Open House a Huge Success!

SCOUG's first ever Open House went off without a hitch. As promised, there was plenty of food, fun, and a good time had by all.

Terry Warren, Steve Schiffman, Dave Watson, Paul Wirtz, Gene Osten, and Virginia Hetrick all gave excellent presentations. They were well attended, but if you missed one of the presentations you wanted to attend, don't fret. The presentation handouts will be available on the SCOUG Web site by time you read this. Also, we will have the audio portion of each presentation on the Web site soon. And some of the videos we took of the presentations may show up at future meetings.

Dave Watson, Chris Burke, Tony Butka, Mike Rakijas, Vic Wagner, Ron Lamb, Terry Warren, and John Hobgood made the general room with the tables a hit. We had everything from a voice information system to the latest in Java development.

Terry Warren organized and put together the great OS/2 history museum. He had help from many people both in assembling the museum as well as members providing artifacts. Besides the mounds of OS/2 applications and gobs of OS/2 "stuff," there were appropriate vintage machines running OS/2 1.0, 1.1 EE, 1.3, 1.3 EE, 2.0, 3.0, 3.0 PowerPC edition, and 4.0 - all with correspondingly appropriate vintage applications.

We were also lucky enough to have four local OS/2 vendors present to demonstrate their products. MSR Development, Orange Hill Software, Sundial Systems, and Touch Voice helped round out the general room.

Over the course of 7 hours, more than 130 people participated in this first SCOUG Open House. About 25% of them were guests. We drank 177 cans of soda and more cups of coffee than we could count, ate 148 sandwiches, 29 pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables, 36 mustard packets, and devoured two giant birthday cakes provided by IBM and another made by Suzanne George. We bought 65 of the colorful new SCOUG t-shirts. 228 assorted freebies (like Warp 3 upgrades and swirly printed Warp shopping bags) were scarfed up. And, we won 4 dart contest prizes, 32 trivia prizes, and 19 raffle prizes.

Clearly, the SCOUG Open House was one for the memory books.

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