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Atari 815 Disk DrivesAtari 815 dual, dbl density floppy drive, Nov 3, 2015 mtg. Very Rare, Bob W.
3 Atari Computers 3 Atari computers brought to Dec. 1, 2015 mtg, two Atari 800, 1 Atari 130XE

Who We Are

We are the San Leandro Computer Club. Started in 1983 as an Atari 800 Computer User Group. We are one of the older, continuing computer user groups in the Bay Area. We meet at the San Leandro Public Library, 300 Estudillo Ave, San Leandro, California, on the first Tuesday of the month, at 7pm.

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Atari 800 and Joystick
Atari 800 brought to the Dec. 6, 2011 Mtg.

Group Selphie Sep 2015
Atari 1200, brought to the May 6, 2014 Mtg.
Atari 800
Selfie from the
Sept. 1, 2015 Mtg

 

 

 

 

Next Meeting

Our next Zoom meeting will be on the next non-first Tuesday,  7pm, West Coast, U.S. time.  Members receive invitations each week. If a guest would like to attend a meeting please contact Robbie Bridges.

Our next live, hybrid meeting, at the San Leandro library, and on Zoom, will be held on the first Tuesday of the month, from 6:45pm-7:45pm, West Coast, U.S. time. at the San Leandro Public Library, 300 Estudillo Ave., San Leandro, CA 94577. Contact Robbie Bridges to confirm you're coming.

The "Shelter in Place" order made necessary by the Covid-19 outbreak, has caused our meetings to be weekly, using Zoom virtual meeting software (free) starting in May, 2020. As of Aug. 2021, we began hybrid meetings, on the 1st Tues. of each month. The other weeks are Zoom only,.

News

Our collection of Disks of the month from 1983 to 1995 have been made available on the Internet Archive. When you arrive at the site, where it says, DOWNLOAD OPTIONS", click "SHOW ALL" to see links to zipped .ATR files for each group of SLCC Disks Of The Month. Many thanks to Kevin Lund who uploaded all these files as well as our past SLCC Journal newsletter archive.

Claim to fame: We won the 1st Place Award at Computer Festival West 2018, for the best booth. This is the 2nd year in a row we've won it. Details and photos in our Facebook post and just-uploaded (Oct 24, 2021) photo gallery.

We upgraded our photo albums producing a 2017 and 2021 record of our attendance at the Vintage Computer Festival West

Meeting Notes

November 26, 2024 - Zoom - In attendance Kevin, Robbie, Michael, Scott, Bob, Richard, Bill and Garrett. Discussed Garret uploading 3D scan data of Atari 1400XL case to AtariAge when ready, investigate audio distortion issue in Atari 1400XL, Kevin preparing a display of the Atari XL line of computers for next year's Vintage Computer Festival. See detailed meeting notes.

November 19, 2024 - Zoom - In attendance Kevin, Robbie, Bill, Don, Bob, Ron. Discussed new Atari Keyboard project, ordering an Atari 7800 plus which is also compatible with 2600 games, a Kickstarter campaign for an Atari 800XL clear case and a future Atari 800 mini project. See detailed meeting notes.

November 12, 2024 - Zoom - In attendance Kevin, Robbie, Don, Robb, Scott and Garrett. They discussed 3D scanning a 1450 case, an Atari test harness, 1400 XL VOIP dialing and a 10 line programming contest using a 1400xl board. See detailed meeting notes or listen to this one-time audio discussion of the notes

November 6, 2024 - Hybrid - Discussed Congo Bongo cartridge for the Atari 1200xl, games that run on an SD Drive but not FujiNet, upgraded 1200 that runs multiple OS but owner only uses 800 and XL/XE modes and much, much, more. See detailed meeting notes.

Recent Meeting Note URLs

As of July 30, 2024 we began summarizing our Zoom Sessions and listing them on this web site 

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Updated November 28, 2024