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- CP/M Users' Group Meeting
- June 6, 1992
-
- Twelve stalwart members and others attended the meeting, which
- started based on Al Hathway's agenda.
-
- The Secretary's report being in the last newsletter, its reading
- was omitted and it was accepted without corretions.
-
- The Treasurer's report showed a present balance of $649.33. This
- too was gladly accepted. (Of course $1649.33 too would have been
- gladly accepted.)
-
- In the matter of donated software the club has received from various
- donors, Tom Mannion has sent letters of acknowledgement to the
- donors.
-
- The call for donations has been heard and has elicited a generous
- response:
-
- a Kaypro-2 ('84) by Ray Brown,
-
- a H-89 by Tom Veile,
-
- a Kaypro II and two Hazetine terminals by Arlene Jones
-
- an Osborne II with printer by C. Osborne
-
- a Kaypro IV with printer by Adr. Marks
-
- an Osborne II with various software (on loan) by Randy .
-
- Also, Tom Mannion is offering for sale an Eagle 2 computer.
-
- Steve Dresser asked for offers of presentations for the coming
- months. Again, Al Hathway stepped into the breach and offerred
- to talk about the BDS-Z compiler, about ZMAC, and the DSD
- debugger. Lee Bradley also offerred to talk about some topic.
-
- Gabor Szikla related his concern about safe power. He had a new
- computer go belly up for unknown reasons one of which might have
- been a power surge. He has heard that some of the protection
- devices, MOVs, e.g., have consumable protection caapability after
- which they no longer protect. Ray Brown told of an article in
- T(he) C(omputer) J(ournal) which is a primer on surge protectors.
-
- The business portion of the meeting was adjourned at 8:06 to hear
- Steve Dresser's presentation on the M-Disk he installed.
-
- Program: Steve (Dresser) and Steve (Griswold) installed the M-
- Disk (RAM disk) extension in Steve's (Dresser) AMPRO. This
- entailed the installation of the M-Disk board with extensive
- hardware change instructions. They "shortcircuited" part of the
- installation process with success and cut down on the work.
-
- Next Steve handed out the listing of the NZSTART alias file. He
- explained the instruction lines and showed the development of the
- file. He demonstrated the benefits of the RAM drive by running a
- linking task both with the RAM drive and the hard disk. The RAM
- drive showed a 25% speed-up. - It was a well organized and
- effective demonstration; thanks, Steve.