 Join PMUG with our online membership form.Take a look at our many benefits in this handy brochure (416K Acrobat .pdf file).
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What is a Computer Users Group? You just bought a Macintosh and need more help. Using your Macintosh can be a fun and satisfying experience, but it can also be frustrating. It should be comforting to know that there is a network across the country of many thousands of people who use Macintosh computers, the Macintosh User Groups or MUGs. MUGs include people at all levels of expertise who at one time were just like you, a new user. Their sole purpose is to help each other. We are the Princeton Macintosh User Group (PMUG), and have many members who can share your interests, and advise on hardware and software problems. Maybe you are a Mac pro. Knowledge is a two-way street and we offer the opportunity to continue learning and to share your experience with others. Through PMUG, you can get a better understanding of how the Macintosh works, learn how your interests can be enhanced by using the Mac, and explore it's potential to maximize your own. You can also make contacts with other Mac users both new and expert and share your interests, talents, and skills so that others may benefit. PMUG is flexible enough to be valuable to both beginner and intermediate Macintosh users. With our meetings, membership, and resources, PMUG expands your horizons. Our membership is large, mostly non-university, and includes many Macintosh experts and program developers with training, experience and contacts both similar and dissimilar to your own. Advanced users are very welcome and a necessary part of our mission. We are big enough to draw high-tech multi-media professionals from the private sector for presentations and to be sought out by top software vendors. The Princeton Macintosh Users' Group (PMUG) is a club for Macintosh computer enthusiasts. Through our group, members both new and expert share their interests, talents, and skills in the Macintosh environment so that others may benefit. There are many benefits to being a PMUG member including great meetings, a monthly newsletter, access to other members, and access to paper and electronic resources.
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PMUG was founded by Philip Thompson, S. H. Lam, David Dougherty, and Dania Stager Snow in 1984. As told by Philip Thompson (PMUG's second president) in Letter from a PMUG Founder in Far Away Vermont, there was great enthusiasm when the Macintosh became available on the Princeton University campus. PMUG formed out of an Apple II computer users' group to support University students, faculty, and staff who used the new Macintosh. During those early days, a LaserWriter printer made available to PMUG members became popular, as were MacFest computer fairs sponsored by the group. In time, membership expanded to the point of the group becoming mostly attended by those not affiliated with the University.
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