¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ MEETING OF OHAUG JANUARY 17, 1998¢¢ JACK GEDALIUS opened by wishing¢ everyone a happy New Year.¢¢ TREASURER'S REPORT:¢ The treasury is in the black. We¢ have 17 members who were members last¢ year who haven't paid yet who will¢ get a second notice in the middle of¢ February. Altogether we have 48¢ members.¢¢ Discussion then went to the annual¢ dinner on Friday, February 13th at¢ Lambrou's. JACK invited a few¢ guests.¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS then spoke about that he¢ almost feels like Alex at this point.¢ He has a few letters wishing Happy¢ New Year including a letter from¢ STUART MURRAY. Stuart is going to¢ stop editing Futura because he's too¢ busy. Also, about ROBERT DeLETTER¢ who sent us a database program which¢ ALAN will demo. ALAN read the letter¢ to members. Then ALAN informed¢ members he was at East Meadow library¢ and asked about the Internet. They¢ said to check back with them next¢ month. HARRY TUTHILL says he signed¢ up preliminarily with Freeport¢ Library. ALAN says they have 16¢ modems for a couple of million¢ people. A member stated he knows¢ they won't go above 28 Modems. FRANK¢ KUZLOWSKI has had experience with¢ Suffolk County's system. Frank¢ states that there are odd hours, such¢ as at night and early mornings on¢ weekdays when it's a good time to use¢ the Internet through that service,¢ and he thinks that Nassau's¢ experience will be similar. The¢ libraries will give you software good¢ for IBMs.¢¢ RON FETZER will have a new membership¢ list in February.¢¢ HAROLD PEGLER is starting a new¢ library disk. He now has 705 regular¢ disks.¢¢ DEMONSTRATIONS:¢ ALAN demo'd a Stuart Murray disk from¢ Scotland, SANBRO June 30, 1991, in¢ Polish, called Sound Tracker Player,¢ a digital music disk. On Side Two is¢ a Serpent game, written in BASIC.¢¢ ALAN's next demo was a disk with a¢ program called SID, written by ROBERT¢ DeLETTER, with which you can create¢ catalogs of all your disks. It is¢ the same on both sides.¢¢ ALAN then demo'd this month's¢ Newsletter disk. He pointed out a few¢ of the situations he has to work with¢ to put this Newsletter together. He¢ tries very hard to include everything¢ he can if he gets things in time. He¢ then ran some of The Oregon Trail¢ program, a text adventure. After¢ that he ran part of the GTIA Sketch¢ Pad program on side one. Then side¢ two, Smokey, another text adventure. ¢ He then ran a program called "Repair¢ Card???" with music. Then a more¢ practical program with a repair¢ station and he gave a sample of how¢ it works.¢¢ RON then demoed an ABBUC #51 disk¢ wishing all a merry Xmas with music¢ 1997 but the disk was no good. Also¢ there was a Lotto program and Cross¢ Words(in English) a nice program but¢ pretty old. Then a game called¢ Yatsee, a game called Polka.¢¢ Then RON demoed a Czekoslovakian disk¢ with music, a Xmas demo from JUDY, a¢ BBC self-demo with music or text and¢ you can change the language by going¢ to the windows. ALAN says this is a¢ very famous demo (Library #708). ¢¢ Then RON demoed a disk from OMEGA¢ with a Cargo Ship game on one side. ¢ On side two there is a Search Two¢ System by PAUL ERHART we tried a¢ search.¢ DOOR PRIZES:¢ 1st prize went to HARRY TUTHILL.¢ 2nd prize to MEL LEVINE¢ 3rd prize to JOE LEBER¢ 4TH PRIZE TO AL ATKINS¢ 5th prize to AL SHARKIS¢¢ DINNER IS FEB 13, 1998 AND NEXT¢ MEETING IS FEB 21, 1998.¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢¢
