›               o=o=o=o=o=›› MINUTES  OF  JUNE   1997  ATARI  CLUB›                MEETING›› Club  President  Jack Gedalius opened› the meeting with an apology in behalf› of the club members to Pat Mulvey and› LIAUG  for  being  unable  to  attend› their   joint   meeting  for  various› reasons.›› TREASURY REPORT:›› We are in the black.›› ACK GEDALIUS received a  letter  from› Arthur  J.  Katz,  a  new member from› Raleigh, NC and we'll get back to him› with  answers to his questions.  He's› a   very   interesting   fellow.   an› electronic  engineer  and is involved› with many different ideas.›› AL PEGLER, Club Librarian reports  no› changes.›› PAT  gave  a  brief  report including› mention of the sale of  JIM  HARRIS's› home.  ›› CORRESPONDENCE:›› RON  FETZER showed letters from LARRY› TISHBEIN and a letter  from  COMPUTER› MAVEN  who does free IBM lectures and› demos.  RON also has a  telefax  from› ROBERT DE LETTER in Belgium who faxed› material  about  a  European  support› program including an original  letter› from  ARTHUR  KATZ.   Another  letter› from  LARRY  TISHBEIN  looking  for a› simple database program and Ron  sent› him  a  GT base which is as simple as› you can get.  Also  showed  a  letter› from  PAUL EHRHART with his permisson› to   use   all  his  disks.   Also  2› postcards   from  JOSEPH  HICSWA  who› needs more channels (you can open  up› to  7  channels).   THOMAS  WRAY   of› Texarkana  wrote to ask if $39.95 per› month for Internet is good?  (No!!)›› JACK led a  short  discussion  about › various computers and disk drives and› how they work.›› DEMONSTRATIONS:›› RON FETZER demod a  disk  catalog  of› all library files (over 17,000 files)› and   all   its   features  including› alphabetizing   them.     It's    not› complete  for  the  library  yet  but› RON's working on it.›› ALAN  SHARKIS  demod  disks  from SAN› LEANDRO COMPUTER CLUB (SLCC), on  one› disk  the menu includes games such as› Marblemania. Then we tried disk #1506› dated  June   1977   which   includes› PrintStar  2.05 and Amphibian, a game› called Shane and others. These  disks› are  numbered  Library SLCC #1505 May› 1997 #687, and SLCC #1506 June  1997 › #688.›› JACK  GEDALIUS  had  a  demo calendar› that goes to the  year  2010  and  we› checked  out  a  few  future dates of› interest, Leap Year falls in the year› 2000.    Dicussion   followed   about› changing  all  accounts  in  December› 1999 over to January 2000 and how and› why  companies  are  planning  to  do› this.›› The  next meeting (joint meeting with› LIAUG) will be on July  12th  at  the› usual  place  in the library and then› August 9th.›› No door prizes  were  given  at  this› meeting.››               o=o=o=o=o=›››