Date: June 12,1999 
From: groink@macgeek.org
To: cturley2@aol.com

Aloha, Tom!!!

A little about me... I've been using Apple computers since 1979. This 
year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Hawaii Macintosh & Apple 
Users' Society (HMAUS http://www.hmaus.com/). We used to be the 
Honolulu Apple Users' Society until 1993 when we merged with a 
neighboring Macintosh group.

To celebrate our 20th Anniversary, I am creating Hawaii's first Apple 
Museum. It'll consist of Apple II and Macintosh computers. I've been 
rubbling through my old 5.25" diskettes (that's how I found the ROMs) 
and I've been finding a lot of great stuff. I've also been 
aggressively obtaining equipment for the Apple II portion. What I'm 
currently missing are the Apple II, Laser 128 EX/2, Apple IIc+, and 
the Bell & Howell Apple II+. I'll be displaying these models as they 
were originally used (Apple II+ will be running DOS 3.3, Apple II 
will run DOS 3.2, Apple IIe will run ProDOS, etc.).

The purpose behind the museum is to support my ongoing studies in 
computer psychology. The main emphasis is to educate "newbies", such 
as new iMac users, about their roots. I believe the attitudes and 
approaches to technology today are because of the lack of knowledge 
and experience of the past (i.e. what it was like 15+ years ago). I 
think I personally am a better computer scientist and user because of 
my experiences with concepts like command-line operating systems, 
very low capacity floppy disks, cassette tapes, etc. That experience 
give me a better understanding about the progression of technology, 
which then sets my expectations for the future. It also improves your 
engineering skills, where you can come up with more creative 
solutions to problems.

Enough of my rambling! If you think you and your group could help out 
in anyway, please let me know!

Mahalo!