¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ MINUTES OF OHAUG MEETING 11/28/98¢¢ President JACK GEDALIUS announced¢ thqt the next meeting will be held¢ December 12, 1998 at 12:45 PM in the¢ library. Questions were raised about¢ the election and a short discussion¢ followed.¢¢ TREASURERS REPORT:¢ We are in the black.¢¢ POTPOURRI:¢ JACK got an email from CHRIS DAVIS¢ which he read to the members raising¢ questions about using a SCSI ZIP¢ drive with a Black Box. A discussion¢ followed.¢¢ LIBRARY:¢ HAROLD PEGLER is working on the new¢ library directory disk.¢¢ DEMONSTRATIONS:¢ FRANK WALTERS, our member from Panama¢ City, FLA came to our meeting. Frank¢ is a pilot and he flew his own plane¢ up to New York. Frank demoed a¢ spread sheet from Analog magazine¢ called BCALC. This is one of the¢ easiest spread sheets around. Frank¢ uses this spread sheet in conjunction¢ with his BBS. The spread sheet has¢ 64 cells across and 64 cells down for¢ a total of 4096 cells. In order to¢ make an entry into the spread sheet¢ easier Frank uses a keypad. Frank¢ wrote a keypad driver that enables¢ him to redefine any key on the keypad¢ to whatever he wants it to be. The¢ keypad driver checks the key pad evey¢ 1/60 second during the vertical blank¢ interrupt for a key press. For¢ instance he redefined 4 keys to be¢ cursor keys to move up or down or¢ left or right. The nice part of the¢ driver is that you can very easily do¢ this to your own key pad yourself. ¢ You can incorporate commands that you¢ frequently need on the keypad. The¢ keypad driver resides in page 6 of¢ the memory and thus does not disturb¢ the program. Frank said you can¢ customize the keypad to any program¢ that you wish provided it does not¢ use the unused area of page 6 (very¢ few programs do!) Frank showed how¢ he uses BCALC and the keypad with¢ football scores and how he calculates¢ football standings. He prints them¢ out on his BBS. He showed us how he¢ uses BCALC for logging his flying¢ time and how he calculates various¢ other parameters that are needed when¢ flying. It was quite an elaborate¢ display and yet it is all done by the¢ spread sheet. Finally, Frank showed¢ us how this could be used with credit¢ cards. He had several fictional¢ credit accounts and he showed us how¢ you could keep track of your balance¢ and payments on each account. This¢ program is also great for tracking¢ your investments of stocks and bonds¢ and the interest payments of various¢ accounts.¢¢ RON FETZER demod ABBUC disk #54 from¢ Germany. The introduction screen on¢ this disk is an unbelievable great¢ graphic and sound demo by JIRI¢ BERNARSEK. On this disk the ABBUC¢ Club now writes most information in¢ German and also in English. This is¢ a very good idea because many users¢ do not read German.¢¢ We saw a driver for the XP80 column¢ display. Another demo was a ML¢ reader that gives you the beginning¢ and end addresses and other info on¢ ML programs. Very useful when¢ writing assembly language. We also¢ saw the BBK file copier that copies¢ any number of designated files one¢ after the other. This comes from¢ Analog. The copier does not copy¢ DUP.SYS or DOS.SYS. Another program¢ showed how to use your computer to¢ become a DVM (Digital Volt meter).¢ The author, it seems, had always had¢ trouble by getting his Christmas¢ light bulbs stolen. He built this¢ DVM and this senses when a bulb is¢ removed and sounds an alarm. The¢ diagram for this project is in the¢ ABBUC Magazine #54. We also heard a¢ very nice music selection that was¢ not produced with midi.¢¢ The Floppydoc in ABBUC reports that¢ he is producing a new template to¢ create a new R-TIME-8 chip that will¢ not have the 2YK problem. It will be¢ ready in 1999 and they estimate it¢ will sell for about 30DM. The¢ original R-TIME-8 chip is out of¢ production.¢¢ We also saw a shoot-up game. It¢ looked vey interesting.¢¢ There were no door prizes.¢¢ The next meeting is December 12, 1998¢ at 12:45 PM in the Library.¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢¢
