¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE¢ by Jack Gedalius¢¢ January--February¢¢ At the January meeting AL SHARKIS¢ demoed the new Atari CD-ROM disk that¢ he received from The SCHREURS¢ BROTHERS in Holland. It is the Pool¢ Disk II which had many of the Bellcom¢ programs, many of the Atari¢ schematics and advertisements.¢¢ This week in Poland there is an Atari¢ fest. I wonder how many of our loyal¢ members will attend! The country is¢ the farthest ahead in Atari¢ advancement. It boasts of over 4700¢ members.¢¢ We had our annual Valentine's Day¢ dinner at Lambrou's restaurant in¢ Island Park, New York. It was a¢ joyous occasion for all. Members¢ and their wives attended, totaling¢ eighteen. The dinner was delicious.¢ Door prizes were awarded. STAN¢ SCHENFELD and his wife, JUDY, won two¢ free meals. MRS. MARIA PIGNATO, wife¢ of our late president, ALEX, again¢ won a box of Valentine's Day candy. ¢ We were honored by the presence of¢ their two daughters, DIANNE and¢ GAYLE.¢¢ At the February meeting we went into¢ the procedure of teaching our¢ secretary, BARBARA KELLER, how to¢ upload from the Atari to the PC¢ located at the home of Al Sharkis.¢ This is so that she can send the¢ transcription of the minutes of each¢ meeting to him so that he may be able¢ to put it on our newsletter bi-¢ monthly disk that much faster. To¢ accomplish this we used the SX212¢ modem which is a 1200 baud unit. We¢ used the program SX Express for this¢ upload. Later, we tried contacting¢ NassauNet (a free, though limited¢ internet service for Nassau County¢ residents) using ICE-T which all¢ proved to be successful.¢¢ TOM ANDREWS sent us some surplus¢ equipment and software from his home¢ and from that of VERNON SMITH. Tom¢ and Vernon were both active members¢ of ACE of Syracuse before it folded.¢ ANN RAWLINSON, our former member from¢ Cold Spring Harbor, brought in a big¢ setup of Atari equipment for the club¢ to sell. We had a very informative¢ meeting. ¢¢¢ BY FOR NOW,¢ JACK GEDALIUS¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢
