Giving Away BMUG & Apple Paraphernalia

TidBITS Talk
1

The Berkeley Mac User Group was a prolific publisher of magazines and CDs/DVDs containing news, reviews and software.
I need to make some room and three Banker’s boxes of BMUG and Apple/Mac paraphernalia need to go. Books, magazines, discs, games, etc.
Not easily (or cheaply) shipped!
I can post a list or send you an email.
David Lipsky
Berkeley, CA

2

Sounds a great haul you have here. I think the main historically significant things you have are most likely the editions of the “BMUG Newsletter” and associated magazines/printed matter.

AFAICT, there are only a few editions on Archive.org, and some of the CD’s:

https://archive.org/search?query="BMUG+newsletter"

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A"Berkeley+Macintosh+User's+Group"

https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A"BMUG"

And a Google found this guy from Sep 2020 scanning donated copies:

Failing that they sell on Ebay:

I’m in the UK so not really a likely option, but it’d be a shame to trash them.

3

At one time, BMUG appeared to be the premier user group in the country…weren’t their magazines like an inch and a half thick? Ah, the good old days…

And I don’t know why, but these postings caused me to remember my old kilobuck ImageWriter LQ, a dot matrix printer that was so good, it came within hailing distance of multi-kilobuck LaserWriters, plus would print on the old school ultra wide format…

Shoulda bought Apple stock instead of ImageWriters and Newtons etc. I’d be a wealthy man now.

4

6 posts were split to a new topic: If only you’d bought Apple stock when

5

While I have never visited the Vintage Computer Federation (VCF Museum), I have watched some of the Vintage Computing Festival talks on YouTube and thought it might be a good home for these items - for your consideration.

https://vcfed.org/artifact-donations/

1 Like