Thank you Thomas for taking the initiative to make a site which re-establishes an identity for mid-atlantic hobbyists. The format being retro itself is very creative. Especially the banner. We now have a web place to rally around locally. I like it. Good work. The newsletters have been awesome too. Though I'd like to see them done in C64 newsroom :) -- Douglas Crawford VCF Mid-Atlantic Museum Mgr InfoAge Science & History Museums 2201 Marconi Road Wall, NJ 07719 On 2/22/2025 9:42 PM, Thomas G via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hello all,
As part of our re-establishment of MARCH, the creation of a new, MARCH-specific website became a priority. In keeping with our shared hobby, I felt the new website needed to be something that even the most paleolithic web browser could reasonably handle - so I used the most paleolithic web authoring suite I could scrounge up - none other than WebMagic from SIliconGraphics (later rebranded as Cosmo Create), which was the first WYSIWYG html editor to be sold, circa January 1995. It's roughly styled after the original MARCH site, though the font and colors are a bit different! I have tested this site to be functional with Lynx, Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, and even the accursed Internet Explorer. It's currently served over plain http, though https will come along in time to stop modern browsers from whining about security.
Without any further ado: http://midatlanticretro.com/
Some of you may notice the different TLD - the original MARCH website was a .org. Unfortunately, that domain is currently registered by someone else - last I checked it was redirecting to some Japanese company. But no matter - the .com TLD granted me the ability to do some very stupid wordplay...
Of course, the new website is nowhere near a finished, set-in-stone work. Wording, content, layout, etc. is bound to change in time - this is just what I've thrown together thus far!
Let me know if you see anything factually incorrect or confusing so I can correct it!
Thanks, -Thomas G. Chairman of the MARCH Committee