Date   : Sun, 20 Oct 1985 00:07:00 MDT
From   : Keith Petersen <W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
Subject: SB180 users group formed

If you own or plan to buy or build the SB180 super 8-bit computer
designed by Steve Ciarcia of BYTE magazine and manufactured by
Micromint you may wish to look into becoming a member of N.A.O.G.  It
has been formed on Steve's suggestion and with the cooperation, but
NOT ownership, of Micromint.

The N.A.O.G. newsletter will be delivered via first-class mail each
month, starting in January.  It will be edited by User's Guide
"Advanced User" columnist Bruce Morgen, former Computer Editor of
Electronic Products magazine.  Each newsletter will contain news of
the latest SB180-compatible hardware and software, including Z-System
hints and tutorials, news of the latest program revisions and hardware
upgrades from Micromint and from the N.A.O.G. membership.

Starting with the second newsletter, disks will be available to
members for a little over the cost of media and mailing, each with
about 300K of software as described in the preceding newsletters.

The North American One-Eighty Group will be officially announced in
the December BYTE, the issue that will include Steve's new Turn-Key
Bulletin Board System (TKBBS), based on the SB180, the new COMM180
modem/SCSI board, Rick Conn's TERM3 and Tim Gary's Z-Msg software.

An introductory one-year N.A.O.G. membership is $12 per year,
including twelve issues of the newsletter as well as user disk
privileges and access to the members-only sections of the N.A.O.G.
TKBBS remote system.

The address is:

       North American One-Eighty Group
       P.O. Box #2781
       Warminster, PA  18974
       voice phone: 215-443-9031
       TKBBS phone: to be announced in first newsletter and BYTE

--Keith