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| Terry Simons (194? - 2000) was founder of Mid-Iowa & Country CoCo Club (known as MI&CC), a Color Computer club based in Des Moines, Iowa. The club came into being sometime in 1990 and boasted a national membership (hence the addition of "& Country" to the club name, as Terry would explain).
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| During its existence, MI&CC provided members with a unique "disk newsletter" that came in the mail on 5.25" diskette. One could run the disk newsletter on a CoCo 3 and read various articles contributed by MI&CC members.
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| In 1993, Terry Simons and MI&CC hosted the "1993 Mid-Iowa Fest" at The INN in Des Moines Iowa. This two day CoCo fest was the only one of its kind, and brought vendors and participants from around the country.
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| collected a rather large library of CoCo software and offered its members access to the programs in this library for a modest copying and shipping fee. This library became a source of contention between Terry and a number of CoCo software authors who discovered that copyrighted software was being offered through the library without permission of the original authors.
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| On May 18, 2000 Terry passed away from complicatoins of throat cancer. He is buried at the Des Moines Masonic Cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Latest revision as of 04:36, 29 November 2013