"The Twin Cities Osborne Group [was] organized to provide a forum for communicating ideas, resolving problems and increasing the effectiveness of users of microcomputers and their related software and peripherals; to educate the public concerning advantages and disadvantages of microcomputers; and to encourage the creation, modification, maintenance, duplication, and distribution of public domain software." ("Statement of Purpose," Twin Cities Osborne Group Newsletter, February 1983, p. 3)
Twin Cities Osborne Group (TCOG) began its newsletter in 1981 and its membership peaked at nearly 500 in 1984. Before 1991, TCOG and the KayPro Users of Minnesota began issuing the cooperative KAY-OS Newsletter .
TCOG was a member affiliate of First Osborne Group (FOG), which was the largest computer user group in the 1980s.
From the guide to the Twin Cities Osborne Group records, 1980-1989, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute. [cbi])
