N.D.U.G. HISTORY
Paul Grade and the National Dragon Users Group are synonymous. Paul formed the group almost by accident! When the 'Official'Dragon Data group folded following the collapse of Dragon Data the producers of the Dragon, Paul wrote to DRAGON USER and suggested that 'someone ought to start a National User Group' . . .
He received about fifty letters the following week asking for application forms and details of subscription charges . . . so he decided he ought to do something about it. Membership peeked at somewhere between two and three thousand! The group ran stands at all the big London Shows (7,000 through the doors in 2 hours!)and finally gave up Shows after the last Hove Show, when someone ran off with all the takings! UPDATE was published soon after the group was formed, as with membership spread all over Europe and
as far away as Australia, it was quickly realised that a newsletter was required to keep members in touch
with current events. That was in September 1984 . . . and UPDATE was produced without a break until April 2000.
DRAGON SUPPORT
Although the National Dragon Users Group has now folded, support and programs
are still available for the Dragon, including back copies of the newsletter UPDATE,
and UP-2-DATE the Dragon disk magazine, a serial MOUSE plug, adaptor and drivers,
Second user Dragon 32s and 64s are still around, as are games, utilities and bits
and pieces of hardware.
THE INTERNATIONAL DRAGON USERS GROUP (IDUG)
The International Dragon Users Group (IDUG) was started at the end of 1999 when it became known that NDUG (The National Dragon Users Group) would be closing in April, 2000. IDUG is based on the "dragonuser" group on Yahoo. Anybody with an interest in the now defunct, but still very much alive, Dragon micros is welcome to join by sending an E-mail containing E-mail address, name, and if desired, an indication of Dragon interests to the group administrator Bob Smith at:
robert.smith@mitransport.noThe group's web site is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dragonuser/
where members can post information, advertisements, pictures, etc.
The group comprises, at the moment, more than 55 members worldwide including most
of the leading experts on matters pertaining to the Dragon, and quite a few experts
on the PC's on which E-mail is dependent. If you are not already a member you are
urged to join.
PAUL GRADE, (is still the most knowledgeable man on all Dragon matters)
6 Navarino Road,
WORTHING, Sussex, UK
BN11-2NF
Telephone 01903 207585
You can E-mail him at paul@grade1.freeserve.co.uk
ALAN GREENWOOD has back copies of UPDATE available (which are invaluable for infoand reference purposes) - contact him at alan.greenwood@sgcs.co.uk for details.
Click below to read an old copy of a newsletter here, or you can read a sample page
taken at random from the 120 issues of Update.
SAMPLE PAGEtaken from Update, December 1998
SAMPLE COPYof Update, January 1986
KEITH NASH looks after the Dragon PD Library amd although lists of stock can be
obtained through snail mail for a stamped addressed envelope, lists may now also
be available online - contact Keith at - k.j.nash@usa.net
STEWART ORCHARD (author of the Dragon disk emulation), has a serial port MOUSE
plug adaptor and software drivers for the Dragon (using PC serial mice), available from
Stewart Orchard, 4 Eastern Close, Caister-on-Sea, GT YARMOUTH, Norfolk NR30 5HT
TIM LEES acquired all the software and periferals from PSE COMPUTERS of Bolton,
send your enquiries to Tim Lees, 83 Harwood Vale, Harwood, BOLTON, Lancs
PAUL BURGIN is the author of the Dragon Emulator and he has lots of Dragon info
on his web pages which are at http://www.burgins.com/dragon/.
SIMON HARDY is in the process of completing a major project. He is compiling
'The Dragon Archive' - a web site which aims to collate and archive everything Dragon
related in the same manner as Planet Sinclair does for the Sinclair range.
Visit the site at http://www.dragon-archive.co.uk.
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