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- CCP/M Meeting Notes Jan 12, 1993
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- BY THE WAY, IF YOU SEE YOUR NAME ON THIS LIST, AND YOU FIND YOUR
- DUES OVERDUE, PLEASE SEND TREASURER TOM MANNION $15 TO RENEW!
- TOM'S ADDRESS IS:
- TOM MANNION, TREAS., PO BOX 102, WINSTED, CT 06098.
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- Members in attendance:
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- # Name: Renewal Status
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- 092 Bob Bates 09/93 Present
- 140 J. Berg-Johnsen 06/93 Not Present
- 061 Chip Bradley 12/93 Harvard
- 001 Lee Bradley 01/93 Present
- 122 Raymond Brown 11/92 Lost Wages, Nevada
- 137 Mike-Michele Dalene 01/93 Present
- 101 Steve Dresser 12/92 Present
- 119 Rodney Drymon 11/93 Not Present
- 125 Randy Edgett 02/93 Not Present
- 017 Reno Franconi 09/92 Not Present
- 030 Howard Goldstein 11/92 Not Present
- 072 Stephen Griswold 12/93 Present at Pizza meeting
- 021 Alan Hathway (Pres) 09/93 Present
- 121 Alfred E. Hawley 05/93 Los Angeles
- 100 Stuart Holden 12/92 Not Present
- 131 Sigurd Kimpel 01/93 Not Present
- 139 Collie Lowe 04/93 Los Angeles
- 099 Tom Mannion (Treasurer) 04/93 Present
- 138 Dana Peterson 03/93 Not Present
- 134 Joe Pollard 02/93 Not Present
- 114 Fredrick Pratt 12/93 Not Present
- 129 Jay Sage 12/92 Newton Centre
- 085 Gary J. Stagliano (Sec) 11/92 Present
- 123 Diane Thome 11/92 Not Present
- 136 Kirk Thompson 01/93 Iowa
- 003 Thomas Veile (News) 09/92 Not Present
- 112 Carolyn Wyman 10/92 Not Present
- Alan Church Visitor
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- The weather was between storms and the road conditions were clear.
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- PBBS is back running on the Xerox with a replacement hard drive and 2400
- baud. Hurray!. 203-665-1100 24 hours.
-
- How do you pronounce "GIF?" With a hard "G" or a soft "G?" Compuserve
- recommends soft "G", like a "J." But since it stands for Graphic
- Interchange Format, shouldn't it be pronounced with a hard "G" as in
- Graphic?
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- Sec. Report: Accepted as read.
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- Treas. Report: Fair, holding our own at $641.83 not including two mailings.
- Sold an H88 for $10.00 to M. Delaney.
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- Old Business:
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- Steve Goldsmith has just released some more CP/M software for the C128.
- The programs are written in Turbo Pascal 3.0. (BLUE.LBR, BLUEINTR.LBR and
- ZBKIT20.ARC). They are available on the Mouse House in the Pascal section.
- BLUE is an arcade game with 640x200 resolution and 16 colors. It features
- digitized sound and joystick support. BLUEINTR.LBR is the same game for
- owners of the 64K VDC. It supports 640x400 16 color graphics (that's VGA
- standard, folks) and is fun to play! ZBKIT records, plays and converts 1, 4
- and 8 bit digital sound files. Hardware limitations of the Commodore SID
- (Sound Interface Device) limit play to 4 bit sound. Four bit sound is a
- good compromise for CP/M with its 64K memory limit. These programs are a
- first for CP/M. It just shows you that CP/M can do most of what MSDOS can
- do, including sound and graphics.
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- New Business:
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- MYZ80 version 1.04 has been released to registered owners. All persons with
- 286 or higher machines can run real CP/M and for the first time CP/M Plus
- on their IBM equipment. This program is a must for all MS-DOS users!
- Spread the word. MYZ80 gives a 62K TPA running CP/M Plus. This leaves
- plenty of room for application space and, yes, even Z-System!
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- Most of the meeting was spent giving visitor Alan Church ideas on how to
- form a computer group. Alan is a member of a new computer group in
- Farmington Woods. It was an interesting discussion, hopefully for Alan and
- definitely for us. Having a good newsletter, an active bulletin board and a
- unique theme were among the key recommendatons. Alan was sent a copy of our
- Bylaws and a 3 1/2" "stiffy" with Z80MU5 and FLIFE12. His group has mostly
- MSDOS users and is less technically inclined than ours. Alan uses Prodigy a
- lot and indicated he might be able to give us a demo at some future
- meeting.
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- Gary Stagliano
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