o-o-o-o-o¢ ¢ MINUTES OF THE OHAUG MEETING¢ DECEMBER 21, 1996¢¢ GENERAL MEETING:¢ JACK GEDALIUS reminded club members¢ to bring their dues up-to-date. ¢ ¢ REPORTS:¢¢ RON FETZER gave the Treasurer's¢ report and said we're in the black¢ and the annual dues are due in¢ January. All those who haven't paid¢ by February will be dropped from¢ membership.¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS reports that the¢ newsletter is in good shape and¢ another issue will be out next month¢ as the Jan/Feb 1997 issue and he has¢ more than enough news to report.¢¢ CORRESPONDENCE: ¢¢ RON read correspondence from JOE¢ HICSWA and told of a program he sent¢ whereby you can extract square roots,¢ etc. There was also a letter from¢ LARRY TISCHBEIN and one from JOHN¢ JOHNSON to wish a Merry Xmas; ROBERT¢ DeLETTER from Belgium with his dues¢ and condolences; also from an ex-¢ member NORMAN WILLIAMSON; JIM CUTLER¢ sent info to go on the disk he sent¢ us at the previous meeting; we¢ received Xmas cards from DIANE NELSON¢ (ALEX's daughter) thanking us for all¢ the things we did for her father, and¢ from MARIE thanking us also; a Xmas¢ card from TOM ANDREWS; a note from¢ CHARLES COLE; a couple of Print Shop¢ Xmas cards from LARRY TISCHBEIN; ¢ from JOE HICSWA a message to say you¢ can get a programming command that¢ gets a variable in TurboBasic without¢ DIM'ing it, only works on TurboBasic;¢ and a Xmas card from JEAN BROKAW in¢ Largo, FL; and NORMAN WILLIAMSON¢ also about ALEX.¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS informed us that NWPAC¢ is now just PAC.¢¢ JACK welcomed secretary, BARBARA¢ KELLER and guest, GEORGE GABLE who¢ posed a question whether the club¢ only focuses on Atari. JACK stated¢ we only focus on Atari 8-bit¢ machines. BARBARA KELLER asked when¢ the annual party will be and JACK¢ said it will be around Feb.14, 1997¢ at Lambrou's and he will let us know¢ more about it by the next meeting. ¢ Then RON introduced a member and¢ guest who had just arrived from¢ Connecticut named DAVID OLDFIELD who¢ came to pick up 80 disks he asked our¢ librarian to make up from the library¢ and we offer our thanks and¢ appreciation to HAROLD PEGLER, our¢ librarian for all his hard work¢ making up these disks for him.¢¢ Our member PAT MULVEY, who's also the¢ president of LIAUG, suggested we have¢ a joint meeting with LIAUG four times¢ a year, twice a year in Suffolk¢ (LIAUG's location) and twice a year¢ in Nassau (OHAUG's location.) The¢ purpose being that more heads¢ generate more thoughts. A vote was¢ taken and the decision was to have¢ two joint meetings a year in Suff
