Hi, everyone

Many of you who read MM regularly will know that in recent weeks I've been "advertising" a get-together in the much-underused MM chatroom. This is taking place tomorrow, 8th April (Thursday), between 7:30pm and 8:30pm. I'll be there, hoping to swap tales of computer woe and other nonsense, so please pop in and say hello. I'm gonna look a proper fool if I'm the only one who shows up!

All the best

Jason (quixote2002)

Classic PCs
Original IBM PC (4.77MHz 8088, 256KB RAM, monochrome) · Original IBM PC XT (4.77MHz 8088, 512KB, 10MB HDD, monochrome) · Original Compaq Deskpro (7.14MHz 8086, 640KB, 20MB HDD, CGA graphics)

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Consoles
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Would the website cope ok

AFC

Do I need any special software to join in!

I don't kmow much about this new fangle chat business.

P.S, Using SuSE 9.0 - Mozilla & Kopete installed

Well thanx for the info!

I entered the room tried to talk, but the page didn't display properly with my Mozilla Browser, and therefore didn't work.

At least I could see the other 8 or so talking to each other, and it continued beyond the 8:30 expected finish time

Well done Jason!

G'day, Captain

Yes, we saw you log into the room, but you never said anything -- I guess we now know why! Sorry I couldn't provide you with any info. beforehand -- I didn't know one way or the other whether your setup would work. I guess your experiences are useful to us all now, though -- we know your setup DIDN'T work!

Judging by the number of people I've seen in the room before (1 or 2), I'd say the meeting was a success (the thing actually crashed at my end -- overload?). I certainly plan to try it again. Does anyone have a preferred day or time?

Thanx

Jason

Classic PCs
Original IBM PC (4.77MHz 8088, 256KB RAM, monochrome) · Original IBM PC XT (4.77MHz 8088, 512KB, 10MB HDD, monochrome) · Original Compaq Deskpro (7.14MHz 8086, 640KB, 20MB HDD, CGA graphics)

Home Computers
Commodore VIC-20 · C64 original · C64 Terminator edition · C16 · Amiga 500 · Amiga 600 · Amiga 600 HD · Amiga 1200  Acorn Electron · A3010 (Archimedes) · A4000 (Archimedes)  Others Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K · Dragon 32

Consoles
Nintendo Wii · GameCube purple (x 2) · GameCube black · N64 black (x 2) · N64 clear blue · SNES (x 2) · NES (x 2) · DS silver (x 3) · GBA SP silver · GBA purple · GBA clear · Game Boy Color clear · Game Boy  Sega Dreamcast x 3 · Saturn · Mega Drive II · Mega Drive · Master System  Atari 10-in-1 · Jaguar (x 2) · 7800 · 2600 wood-grain  Microsoft Xbox 360 · Xbox  Others Mattel Intellivision · MB Vectrex · GoldStar 3DO · Sony PlayStation (original)

No specific time suits, although while the missus is watching Eastenders /Coronation Street is good for me.

Have you thought about trying to go for a theme, maybe something along the lines of a particular forum group perhaps. Networking, Windows, Technical etc. You may get away with advertising the evenings event in the respective forum to get more interest from those which tend to only read a few forum groups only!

You could look at once a week have a 'Webcast'.
Like the BBC have a 'SixFourm' when the news is on.

AFC

Hi Jason
Missed the chatroom experience, but it is a brilliant idea!
If you could get a forum section for 'Forthcoming Chats'
and make announcements of the next one there, you might get more than 8 people in there.
You could almost run them as MM readers surgeries, do not know if Simon could swing the money side to get you writers on line giving advice or what have you, for the odd 2 hours, but the idea is brilliant.
Again sorry I missed it.

Mad Malc

Hi Jason (quixote2002),

I'm a regular reader of Micro Mart. Having read in issue 793 of MM about your planned get-together in the chat room on the 8th April, I was eagerly awaiting for the time to come (ask a few questions). Unfortunately, I was unable to attend. So can you tell me if this is going to be a regular thing ? or was it a one off ?

Many-Thanks
Jason

Jason

 

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