¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ MINUTES OF THE FEBRUARY 1997 MEETING¢¢ GENERAL MEETING¢ President JACK GEDALIUS discussed our¢ annual Christmas in February party,¢ which will take place this year on¢ Valentine's Day at Lambrau's in¢ Island Park. (A new member, JOHN¢ CESIRO joined the club at the party,¢ and CURT VENDEL rejoined the¢ following day at the meeting.) Jack¢ also mentioned a letter from JOHN¢ POWELL who wants to continue¢ receiving the newsletter, so he sent¢ us still another new address. John¢ tells that he's very happily married¢ and also asked about the CSS Black¢ Box. Since none of our members owns¢ a Black Box, we could offer no¢ advice. ALAN Sharkis then brought up¢ that the next meeting, March 1 will¢ be a joint meeting with LIAUG and we¢ should take a lunch break during the¢ meeting. It was decided to order 5¢ or 6 pizzas from across the street¢ and eat in. The April 19th meeting¢ will have to be held somewhere else ¢ since the library will not be¢ available. This issue will be¢ discussed further at the March 1¢ meeting.¢¢ TREASURER'S REPORT:¢ In the black.¢¢ CORRESPONDENCE:¢ RON FETZER received a letter from JIM¢ CUTLER from England writes that he is¢ dropping out because his machine is¢ kaput. We will miss him.¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS has a Newsletter¢ returned to us from S.P.A.C.E. and¢ returned it to them at their new¢ address. Next he received the back¢ cover of The PACEsetter from Florida¢ and sent it back requesting the rest.¢ He also heard from DANE STEGMAN who¢ has a list of stuff from GORDON¢ HOOPER of Garden City ACE; a list of¢ old Antic magazines. Dane wants to¢ know if we're interested in them. ¢ David Oldfield, expressing some¢ interest, took the list. JACK says¢ we're interested in the first year of¢ that issue. ALAN says it starts in¢ May of '93. ALAN called SAM CORY. ¢ Sam hasn't been sending us the¢ J.A.C.G. Newsletter and he said he¢ would send one. ALAN will call again¢ if we don't get one in the next week¢ or so.¢¢ LIBRARIAN REPORT:¢ HAROLD PEGLER reported that he has¢ completed Disk #4 and it will go out¢ to the out-of-town membership in the¢ newsletter mailing next month. It¢ has been distributed to all local¢ members today.¢¢ POTPOURRI:¢ ALAN passed around a list of "How You¢ Know If You're Addicted to AOL" and¢ read a little from it for the¢ members. He also discussed AT&T¢ monthly charges and how you can use¢ AT&T or another provider to get to¢ AOL.¢¢ There were visiting members from as¢ far away as 3 hours (Connecticut) at¢ our meeting this month.¢¢ DEMONSTRATIONS:¢ ALAN demonstrated a Font Maker and¢ downloader program for the members¢ called STARFONT. The program was¢ modified by our own TOM ANDREWS to¢ include the STAR NX1000 series of¢ printers. Fonts included were all¢ draft quality, and TOM will produce¢ NLQ fonts if anyone is interested. ¢ On the other side is a game called¢ "Decode" written by FRANK WALTERS¢ back in 1983 (Library #673 two sides)¢ which we tried. ALAN says he only¢ beat it once and it took 6 guesses.¢¢ ALAN then demoed a DOM by the SAN¢ LEANDRO computer club #1502 Feb 97; a¢ two sided disk with a text adventure¢ game (Library #674).¢¢ ALAN mentioned a newsletter from the¢ TYNE AND WEAR Atari User Group ( Issue #25 Jan/Feb '97); he referred to a¢ number of interesting articles in¢ this magazine and then demoed a¢ disk on both sides DOS with scrolls¢ which had nice demo programs and a¢ game. It is John Boskett's demo.¢¢ JOHN HARDIE brought a prototype¢ portable 65XE system with him. It¢ had previously belonged to BOB PUFF¢ of CSS. The machine consisted of a¢ detachable keyboard and a console¢ that had an ST-type floppy disk drive¢ and a small monochrome monitor. The¢ power supply was an external¢ switching type, and the entire¢ machine could be locked together as¢ one unit with a carrying handle, not¢ unlike the early Compaq portables but¢ a good deal smaller and lighter.¢¢ CURT VENDEL brought down a collection¢ of spare parts, mostly for the 800¢ series of computers, which he was¢ giving to anyone who would take¢ them.¢¢ DOORPRIZES:¢ The door prizes were awarded as¢ follows:¢¢ David Oldfield - picture program¢ winner¢ John Cesiro - Crosswords winner¢ Al Sharkis - Musical Atari book¢ Ron Fetzer - Master Type program¢¢ (At this point, our audio tape became¢ too noisy and we couldn't properly¢ associate names with prizes. ¢ Actually, everyone who was at the¢ meeting received a door prize and all¢ the prizes were so special it was¢ hard for everyone to decide what to¢ choose -- ed.)¢¢ FUTURE DATES:¢¢ Final reminder that the next meeting¢ is on March 1 (the first Saturday in¢ March at our site) and is a joint¢ meeting with LIAUG and anyone else¢ who would like to attend. We will¢ all enjoy a lunch treat of pizza at¢ this meeting.¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢
