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Some user groups have changed their emphasis since the announcement. Papagolos reports making more long-distance calls, trying to gather information, along with relying on more third party vendors for hardware and software.
Bathman says that little haschanged for his group. "We were always out there tryingto find the best deals,'' " he says. ''Tl"TI'sprices were relatively high comparedto things you can get in thethird party market.''" His conclusion is that "the onlypeople who really got hurt are TI'' " asa result of the decision to stop manufactureof the home computer. Donlan says the Hoosier club ispurchasing hardware to provide abackup for members faced with atemporary loss of their system and isworking toward developing an electronicbulletin board. Currently, theclub is using one for all computerusers in Indianapolis. ==User Groups Grow== Mills says his group is going into "alot more back-to-basics." In hiscapacity as editor of the group newsletter,he is rewriting a lot of articles,he says, because the group isgrowing by "leaps and bounds" andhe estimates that 75 percent of the
new members don't know the basics.
