Siouxland Metro Amiga User's Group

To join SMAUG or learn more about it, send an Email here.

Congatulations KMOS, on your purchase of the Amiga.

Amiga Survivor

Click here to read a great article about the Amiga, past and future, writen by Mike Bouma.

SMAUG salutes Gateway
for their devotionBob Anim to the Amiga!
Below are some great Amiga related links.

Surf to Amiga, Inc. Inc. here.

Surf to the Amiga User's Group Network here.
UGN

Amiga Org

Surf to the NEW AMIGANS

Amibench - It's here!

Search the net

Aminet Click here to list or search for Aminet files.Aminet

Click this link to read about Burn-out prevention (A little Anti-Micro$oft humor)

The Purposes of SMAUG

by
Bob Akerberg

The Siouxland Metro Amiga User's Group (SMAUG) was created by three Siouxland residents to promote the Amiga series of personal computers in the Sioux City area.

With an overwhelming number of IBM PCs and clones in the marketplace, the poorly promoted Amiga, although vastly superior, has been overshadowed to the point that almost no one has even heard of it! Realizing the superiority of the Amiga, Darreck Lisle, Aaron Wendel, and Bob Akerberg decided to start SMAUG in an effort to support any existing Amiga users in the area, and to get information about the Amiga out to the general public. Our newest members are Shawn Huff who joined SMAUG in May 2002, and David Raines who joined in March 2003.

Darreck used to work for Amiga, Inc. as their P/R Events Coordinator. To see a picture of him hard at work out at the Amiga, Inc. office, click here.


Amiga

Firsts

First personal computer to ship standard with a preemptive multitasking operating system. (Windows 3.1 and Mac System 7.0 still support less-efficient, cooperative multitasking.)
First personal computer to ship with a 32 bit operating system.
First personal computer to support more than 16-color output as a standard feature.
First personal computer with an inexpensive genlock option.
First personal computer to ship standard with a double-sided 3.5" disk drive.
First personal computer to include a two-button mouse as standard.
First personal computer to offer a choice of command-line and graphical user interfaces.
First personal computer to include four-channel, digital sound on the motherboard.
First personal computer to ship standard with speech synthesis.
First personal computer to include plug-and-play (AutoConfig) expansion cards.
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