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- Tonight's meeting started promptly at 7:00 PM. Stephen Griswold
- read off last meeting's notes. Looks to me to have been a pretty
- heavy duty meeting that I missed (moan).
-
- Tom Mannion has started the Jim Taylor fund, to collect funds to
- later present his son, Jonathan, with a gift certificate. We
- will all miss Jim. Take a moment in silence to acknowledge Jim's
- recent death before reading on.
-
- Treasurer's Report
-
- Tom Mannion tells us that the treasury was last confirmed at
- $553.88, but after new deposits that will be made soon, it will
- be brought up to around $600. Tom says we need to keep a balance
- of at least $500, or we, the group, will be hit with extranious
- charges by the bank he has our account in (sorry Tom, didn't
- quite catch the name of that banking firm).
-
- End of Treasurer's report
-
- Breaking developments in the Yasbec project given by Stephen
- Griswold and Lee Bradley. Steve tried to contact Cam Cotrill to
- get the official Yasbec Starter Kit. Steve needs to get a new
- boot-strap ROM. A deal has also been worked out between Lee and
- Paul Chidley involving EB&C etc.
-
- - "Remember, the Yasbec is a high performance, but unfinished
- computer..." - Al Hathway. Support this project in your own way,
- contact Lee at his independantly run BBS, The Mouse House at
- 203-665-1100.
-
- Al gave us the rundown on PC Pursuit. PCP is a long distance
- modem-lover's dream. It can save the average user mondo (I like
- the word) deniros. There is a $30 flat fee per month, for this
- service you get 30 hours of connect time + [didn't get the
- additional $$$/hour over the 30 hours Lee, could you put that
- in?].
-
- You call one of your local dial-in numbers, and can reach many
- major metropolitan as well as some good non-industrialized towns
- in the U.S. But as always they restrict your time to call to
- between non-peak hours of 6:00 PM till 7:00 AM, unless you want
- to pay an additional charge.
-
- StarLink, PCP's major competetor, had gone outof business
- recently, affecting many people, so I take it that many of their
- customers had to go to PCP.
-
- You can get info for PCP by calling the 800 directory
- (1-800-555-1212), ask the operator for PC Pursuit.
-
- Lee got a call from a woman who intends to write an article on
- our group. From what Lee read off at the meeting, there may well
- be free publicity after all. I hope his letter gets through.
-
- Gary Stagliano told us some things we may not already know about
- Z80MU for the PC. Z80MU is a CPM 2.2 emulator program, that has
- been released into the Shareware market to help get mainstreamed
- as much as possible. Typical performance is calculated at about
- .5 MHZ Kaypro on an 8 MHZ IM XT. On my own Tandy 1000 286-10MHZ
- it reported a 1.5 MHZ speed. And I have tested it on Central's
- Zenith computers, and there is a significant speed increase, on
- the order of 3 times. The faster the host PC, the faster the
- overall emulation.
-
- Many things can be changed in its built in AUTOEXEC.Z80 file,
- such as terminal emulation (many of the most popular are
- supported), processor emulation (z80 for the most compatible
- set-up, but if you have an NEC v20 or v30 you can run 8088 mode
- and have almost no software slow-down, very nice).
-
- Stuart Holden brought up the age old topic of changing the
- meeting date to something other than Tuesday nights, as this
- conflicts with his schedule. But seeing such a large group, it's
- hard to get everyone's schedule modified for any one particular
- night. Steve Dresser brought up the suggestion of starting SIGs
- (Special Interest Groups.) Many thought it was a good idea and we
- tossed ideas around awhile. Nothing was voted on.
-
- Well, it looks like our sister group, TCC, doesn't have much more
- life in them from what I hear from Stephen Griswold.
-
- Tom Veile is soliciting articles. If you write something you
- might find of interest to the other member's, please submit your
- article, manuscript, or book online to Lee's BBS (# given
- earlier).
-
- Al motioned that we bring the meeting to a close. Gary S.
- seconded it, Eric Palm thirded.
-
- Those in attendance tonight were:
-
- Eric Palm, Bob Bates, Lee Bradley, Stephen Veile, Tom Veile,
- Stephen Griswold, Carolyn Wyman, Gary Stagliano, Ray Brown,
- Sigurd Kimpel, Steve Dresser, Stuart Holden, Tom Mannion, Al
- Hathway, Reno Franconi, and CCP/M's newest paid member Mike
- Dalene.
-
- (Well I'm still taking notes so nyaaaaa)
-
- Steve Dresser showed us Packet Radio, which looks like a nice,
- but expensive-to-start-up hobby, that I myself would like to
- someday get into, when my expenses should die down, and my
- studies won't be so strenuous to handle it.
-
- It looked like ol' Murphy and his Lawbook were at work tonight,
- because Steve couldn't get things working for us. He DID have it
- working at first, but something I did had messed things up for
- him. He did come to his feet with another radio provided by
- Sigurd Kimpel. They contacted the computer in the parking lot,
- but for God knows what reason couldn't get a signal beyond the
- parking lot. Probably something to do with the local of our
- meetings why Packet radio can't get out. Excellent job Steve. I
- liked your demo nonetheless. Thanks for sharing it with us. And
- that's one hell of a braille terminal you have there, wish I knew
- more about its operation; sorry for making you upset at the
- meeting.
-
- Mike Dalene tells us a little about OS/9 and gave the number to
- his BBS at 738-3064.
-
- Well that's it for tonight's notes. We were kicked out of the
- Librbary post-haste as usual where members who wished to continue
- their conversations later reformed at George's Pizza for drinks
- and talk.
-
- Eric Palm
- Treasurer for the moment
-
- cursory edit by Lee Bradley on 1/23/92
-