Berkeley Macintosh Users Group
- Berkeley Macintosh Users Group
Berkeley Macintosh Users Group (BMUG) is a users' group, founded in 1984 by U.C. Berkeley students to share knowledge on graphical computing, primarily the Apple Macintosh.
The group had more than 13,000 members at its peak in 1993, with BBSs in Boston, and Tokyo, and was the largest users' group at the time.Fact|date=February 2007
It was famous for great MacWorld Expo get-togethers, CD and book publishing, and a giant newsletter akin to the Whole Earth Catalog, and one of the largest shareware collections for Macintosh Public Domain software.
It hosted a thursday night meeting with questions and answers, and software demonstrations by vendors. Followed at the end by a raffle.
The a few of the group met after the meetings at a Chinese restaurant in Berkeley, where they still meet on Thursdays to this day. Fact|date=October 2007
BMUG declared bankruptcy in 2000. A group of its committed members formed PlanetMUG, and purchased Its online presence, the Planet BMUG BBS.
BMUG Boston, split off and formed the BostonBBS.
The Refurbishing project, was reformed into Access2Technology, and incorporated into a non-profit.
External links
* [http://www.planetmug.org/ PlanetMUG web site ... BMUG successor]
* [http://www.bostonbbs.org/ The BostonBBS, BMUG's Boston BBS]
* [http://www.a2t.org/ Access 2 Technology, BMUG's Refurbishing project]
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