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   From: rbernardo@iglou.com   
      
   My big thanks to Joe Fenn and Myron Daniels of the former Commodore Hawaii   
   Users Group!  When I visited Oahu, Hawaii for 7 days, they were very, very   
   hospitable, giving me plenty of advice on what to do and where to go.   
      
   Joe now has his 1571's running well with the upgrade ROMs he got from me, and   
   we spent plenty of time talking about Commodore in general.  His daughter,   
   Denise, drove us to Pearl Harbor to see the Arizona Memorial and the   
   displays outside the submarine Bowfin (though we ran out of time to see   
   the battleship Missouri).  Then I got to see Joe's "lair" in which he does   
   all his Commodore computing and ham radioing.  How organized, compared to   
   the ramshackle arrangements I have!  Joe then gave me an Indus GT disk   
   drive (well, he wanted to give me two, but I had no room in the   
   suitcase!).  Flabbergasted at his generosity, I promised I would send him   
   a 64K VDC-upgraded, flat C128.  That Indus will go into my CommodoreOne   
   box.   
      
   Myron and his wife took me on a tour of Punchbowl Cemetery, built into an   
   extinct volcano crater and at the peak a spectacular view of Honolulu.   
   Then it was a look around downtown Honolulu with its Iolani Palace (hey,   
   McGarrett from Hawaii Five-O is supposed to be there), Chinatown (how very   
   old-fashioned for a Chinatown), the boat harbor, and Ala Moana beach.   
   Myron gave me a big box to bring to the mainland, the box being filled   
   with two flat C128's and four 1571 disk drives.  I promised Myron that   
   they would go for free in the CommVEx raffle.   
      
   All in all, a wonderful time had, many sights seen, plenty of video and   
   photos taken, great friends met, and a feeling that I have to return   
   another time.   
      
    			"Mahalo, cousins!"   
    			Robert Bernardo   
    			Fresno Commodore User Group   
    			CommVEx info at http://www.commodore.ca/forum   
    			and click on ComVEX   
      
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