¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ MINUTES OF JUNE 1997 ATARI CLUB¢ MEETING¢¢ Club President Jack Gedalius opened¢ the meeting with an apology in behalf¢ of the club members to Pat Mulvey and¢ LIAUG for being unable to attend¢ their joint meeting for various¢ reasons.¢¢ TREASURY REPORT:¢¢ We are in the black.¢¢ ACK GEDALIUS received a letter from¢ Arthur J. Katz, a new member from¢ Raleigh, NC and we'll get back to him¢ with answers to his questions. He's¢ a very interesting fellow. an¢ electronic engineer and is involved¢ with many different ideas.¢¢ AL PEGLER, Club Librarian reports no¢ changes.¢¢ PAT gave a brief report including¢ mention of the sale of JIM HARRIS's¢ home. ¢¢ CORRESPONDENCE:¢¢ RON FETZER showed letters from LARRY¢ TISHBEIN and a letter from COMPUTER¢ MAVEN who does free IBM lectures and¢ demos. RON also has a telefax from¢ ROBERT DE LETTER in Belgium who faxed¢ material about a European support¢ program including an original letter¢ from ARTHUR KATZ. Another letter¢ from LARRY TISHBEIN looking for a¢ simple database program and Ron sent¢ him a GT base which is as simple as¢ you can get. Also showed a letter¢ from PAUL EHRHART with his permisson¢ to use all his disks. Also 2¢ postcards from JOSEPH HICSWA who¢ needs more channels (you can open up¢ to 7 channels). THOMAS WRAY of¢ Texarkana wrote to ask if $39.95 per¢ month for Internet is good? (No!!)¢¢ JACK led a short discussion about ¢ various computers and disk drives and¢ how they work.¢¢ DEMONSTRATIONS:¢¢ RON FETZER demod a disk catalog of¢ all library files (over 17,000 files)¢ and all its features including¢ alphabetizing them. It's not¢ complete for the library yet but¢ RON's working on it.¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS demod disks from SAN¢ LEANDRO COMPUTER CLUB (SLCC), on one¢ disk the menu includes games such as¢ Marblemania. Then we tried disk #1506¢ dated June 1977 which includes¢ PrintStar 2.05 and Amphibian, a game¢ called Shane and others. These disks¢ are numbered Library SLCC #1505 May¢ 1997 #687, and SLCC #1506 June 1997 ¢ #688.¢¢ JACK GEDALIUS had a demo calendar¢ that goes to the year 2010 and we¢ checked out a few future dates of¢ interest, Leap Year falls in the year¢ 2000. Dicussion followed about¢ changing all accounts in December¢ 1999 over to January 2000 and how and¢ why companies are planning to do¢ this.¢¢ The next meeting (joint meeting with¢ LIAUG) will be on July 12th at the¢ usual place in the library and then¢ August 9th.¢¢ No door prizes were given at this¢ meeting.¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢
