¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ MINUTES OF THE 4/19/97 OHAUG MEETING¢¢ GENERAL MEETING:¢¢ Meeting was held at the home of our¢ president, Jack Gedalius because the¢ library was closed.¢¢ The meeting began with AL SHARKIS¢ testing a BOB TERM disk for a mistake¢ that was on it.¢¢ TREASURER'S REPORT:¢¢ We are in the black and doing okay.¢¢ POTPOURRI:¢¢ Newsletter should be out May 10th.¢¢ AL SHARKIS passed around a printout¢ of a WEB page which provides listings¢ of user groups and BBSs. We're on it!¢¢ AL SHARKIS has a second letter from¢ THOMAS WRAY; he also has a letter¢ from BEN POEHLAND, the letter says he¢ gave up ATARI for IBM and isn't happy¢ with it; he also has mail from a¢ number of other people. The¢ discussion went on to a new member,¢ SYSOP TXG, whose rather extensive¢ equipment list will appear in the¢ next newsletter. We are still¢ exchanging mail with a number of¢ clubs and AL has a disk containing¢ columns and news articles written by¢ SAM COREY of JACG over the last¢ several years. Sam had a stroke in¢ January 1997 and sent all his¢ articles to us to use as much as we¢ want. If JACG is still putting out a¢ newsletter, we're not receiving it.¢¢ DEMONSTRATIONS:¢¢ AL SHARKIS showed the latest Tyne &¢ Wear disk around because of the nice¢ label; it was thier disk #26 and went¢ into our library as #678. The disk¢ was accompanied by a newsletter in¢ booklet form and the programs on the¢ disk included some of everything --¢ machine language programming¢ examples included.¢¢ The San Leandro Computer club sent us¢ two disks (March and April) and a¢ very short print newsletter without¢ much info. SLCC disk #1503, March '97¢ (Library #679) had a Karate program¢ on side one, and text adventure games¢ on side 2. Next we saw their April¢ '97 effort, (their number 1504, our¢ library number #680) which includes¢ games such as "Fresh Start",¢ "Jeopardy", "A Maze Chase", "Launch",¢ "Meet the Alien Invaders" and others.¢ It includes a program with which you¢ can set up a HELP key for your own¢ programs. Side two includes sound¢ programs, and we demonstrated, "Woof¢ Woof."¢¢ Then AL demod two disks from CLUB¢ CENACLE in France. Club Cenacle's¢ print newsletters are all in French¢ (translated by MARY GEDALIUS with¢ apologies). Their December 1996¢ newsletter was short, but the¢ February 1997 issue, which¢ accompanied the disks, was an¢ extensive booklet. Side One of the¢ first disk contains the UNARC program¢ and a large number of files in ARC'd¢ form. They are very useful utility¢ programs. The archves are password¢ protected (if you order these disks,¢ you will have to remember to set the¢ program for "encripted" and use the¢ password "HS22021997" when asked. On¢ side two of disk one we demoed "Space¢ Ball" game and a few others. The¢ second disk has the Bitter Reality¢ Demo on side one and a very fine¢ assembly language tutorial on side 2¢ (Library #681, #682.)¢¢ RON FETZER demonstrated the ABBUC¢ Magazin Number 48 disk. He¢ translated some of the German in the¢ text portions of the disk, which will¢ go into our library as #683. Then¢ Ron showed a program that he had¢ taken from their disk. It was a¢ calendar program that does NOT have¢ the infamous "Year 2000" problem! ¢ That led to a discussion of the¢ probem and its implications for all¢ of us. What Ron did with the program¢ was to package it with an English¢ translation of its documentation, the¢ Turbo Basic program that it needs to¢ run, and other essentials onto one¢ disk that will go into our library as¢ # 684.¢ DOOR PRIZES:¢¢ AL ATKINS, PAT MULVEY, JACK GEDALIUS¢ and HAROLD PEGLER each won a door¢ prize.¢¢ Next month the meeting will be a¢ joint meeting in Suffolk County, May¢ 3.¢¢ May 10th is the regular meeting at¢ the Plainview Library at 12 noon.¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢¢
