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- CCP/M Meeting Notes, July-August 1988
-
- The summer is at its mid-point and it's time to
- think about our organization...
-
- I'll be reserving the Newington Public Library for
- the second Tuesday of August, August 9th, from
- 6:00 to 9:00 PM. If you want to be part of this
- general planning meeting, put this date on your
- calendar.
-
- With summer comes a traditionally lower profile
- for computer clubs. CCP/M skipped a meeting in
- July. It was a needed break, giving us a chance
- to enjoy the summer and think about things other
- than computers.
-
- I've been working on a few things these last few
- weeks. I've read a book called "CHAOS" and have
- made the first move toward forming a consulting
- business (two hopefully unrelated activities...)
- "CHAOS", by James Gleick, is about "fractals" and
- "self-similar" phenomena and is a fascinating and
- readable book. Weather, economic systems,
- coastlines and countless other things are shown to
- be governed by common rules. The business is
- still in a formative stage but will involve
- consulting and training materials (video,
- floppies, manuals, courseware etc.) for small
- computer users (8 bit of course).
-
- Richard Steadman has the CCP/M PD software library
- disks. He'll be copying them to Royal formatted
- floppies. Or will be trying to anyway. The
- Kaypro he's got is failing regularly despite two
- visits to Warren Labs. Very frustrating indeed.
- Richard's got a couple of ideas on how to track
- down what's wrong. Will be asking Jeff Moore to
- take a look at it in a week or so if Richard has
- no luck. We've got MEX running on the Royal. New
- CCP/M member Dr. Charles Battista of Buffalo, NY
- called me and wanted to know what CCP/M was all
- about. I sent him a "starter kit" and he sent us
- MEX. This is Ron Fowler's Modem EXective program
- and is preferred by many over IMP. The overlay
- used was adapted from M7DA-1.ASM, a MODEM7 overlay
- and as such needs "MEX"ifying. YOU President
- Daryl Gehlbach will be looking at this.
-
- Daryl visited me recently and we tried to install
- WordStar 4 on the Royal. We did not succeed but I
- learned quite a few things about WordStar 4 in the
- process. An ongoing effort will be conducted on
- line on the bulletin board to solve this problem.
- As soon as I get a chance I'll put up the file we
- created called SETTINGS which contains all the
- settings we currently have installed and based on
- them, the PATCH.LST file etc. etc. we'll lick this
- one yet. As Daryl suggests, a FOG article on this
- would be real nice. (The Mouse House is limping
- along on a Kaypro II with 2 191k floppies now;
- still adequate for messaging and small file
- transfer, but nothing like the hard disk Z system
- which is down for repairs (that's two computers I
- own that don't boot...))
-
- Daryl and I discussed the Newsletter as well. He
- indicated to me that Walt will not be co-editing
- in 88-89 by choice. This leaves the CCP/M YOU
- Newsletter editor(s) position open. This will be
- one of the many jobs that will need to be filled
- in the near future by our organizations. Daryl
- and Jim Taylor have both indicated to me that they
- have some interest in helping out in this capacity
- but we need to firm this up. Daryl mentioned the
- need for a consistent newsletter, one with monthly
- columns you can count on. As contrasted with
- recent issues which, though interesting perhaps,
- were somewhat unpredictable in content (for which
- you may thank/blame me in part!) Timely and
- focused and brief. I believe that what's needed.
-
- Rick Swenton has offered to speak at a future
- CCP/M meeting on a topic of our chosing. As has
- Glen Gross. Let's talk about elected officers,
- the future/demise of CCP/M etc. etc. in August and
- then move on/over after that.
-
- I have indicated I will not run for President in
- 88-89. This is not to say I won't work for the
- group and be quite active. I would however like
- to take a more supportive role for the coming year
- and see others take the leadership position. It's
- really not that much work. Give yourself a chance
- to edit a newsletter, call a meeting, etc. See
- you at 6:00 August 9th at the planning meeting.
-
- PS. Royal Product Support has made available to
- CCP/M 3 drives. They continue to promise 3 to 5
- complete systems for a low price. They also do
- not return my phone calls. New members (or soon
- to be) Ruth Gorneault and Evelyn Straub have
- expressed an interest in owning the second drive.
- I will arrange that they get same in the coming
- week. Richard Steadman did the conversion and
- cable work on these drives and for this CCP/M is
- very grateful.
-
- Lee Bradley, President, CCP/M
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