Meeting was called to order at 7:30 PM by Al Hathway.
Attending:
Lee Bradley Ray Brown
Steve Dresser Stephen Griswold
Al Hathway Sigurd Kimpel
Tom Mannion Gary Stagliano
Diane Thome Tom Veile
Subjects covered:
Item 1. Lee mentioned about EB&C dedication to Jim Taylor. Although he
had not mailed it out yet, Subscribers at the meeting could pick-up
their copy there.. Non-Subscribers were allowed to review, but were
asked to return copies.
Item 2. a short discussion for a possible fund to be collected as a
'Jim Taylor memorial' to be collected by Tom Mannion. Purchase of a
Savings bond for Jonathan maybe.. Make checks payable to CCP/M, with
Note of 'Jim Taylor Fund'.
Item 3, Tom Veile has offer to take-up the SIB editor position.
Copies of SIB were available at the meeting. Lee will be adding a new
directory for SIB articles for Tom to download. projected a 2 to
3-page letter, with a 1-page 'Mailer' cover.
Al Hathway noted that we will be giving Tom All the support we have to
all our past newsletter editors. (Oh-Boy! Are You In trouble Tom!)
Item 4, Steve Dresser gave a run-down of the presentations & topics to
be done at future meetings. Al Hathway, & Steve Dresser, will be
giving a brief overview of the Heathkit 'OctoPort'. device. So-far, we
have planned presentations till April, '92.
Al:"I Love it when a plan comes together." (Sorry Al, it's been done
before. Can't think of where though..)
Steve Noted If anyone has Ideas for future meetings, leave him a
message on the BBS.
Item 5 . YASBEC Updates, Stephen Griswold described the Trials &
Tribulations of trying to build the YASBEC. Will be contacting Cam
Cottrill further to obtain the Monitor ROM. So-far, the computer is
complete as far as the motherboard, Minus the Monitor ROM. Designing &
Layout of the case are in the process. Lee noted that someone had
submitted an article to David McGlone's 'Z-Letter' essentially drawing
a bad picture of the YASBEC.
Item 6. Tom Mannion gave a brief Treasurer's report. He discussed the
problems he has been having with trying to obtain a club Checking
account. So-far, 3 checks have been collected. Discussion on what the
checking account will require for minimum. Tom is planning a joint
account. It was discussed NOT to make this a joint account, to buffer
the account to above the $500. Minimum with Tom's own money, rather we
should attempt to create a membership drive to beef-up the funding.
Tom Veile mentioned about the previous bank which had gone under
(bought by Fleet) which required $250 just to start account.
Possibility of making an amendment to our by-laws to extend the
Treasurer's position.
Tom Veile mentioned he had finally 'Burned out' after 5 years.. Tom
Mannion retorted 'I've had My Imsai since 1978. I can handle it.'
Tom V. will give Tom M. a check for $300 to transfer funds w/o quite
killing the account. Tom V. also transferred the necessary IRS Tax and
Non-profit Forms.
Item 7, Secretary's report made by Ray Brown at the last Month's
meetings were read from the SIB Tom V. had provided at the meeting. No
Errors or Omissions to the previous meeting notes.
Item 8. TCC, formerly the ConnHUG User Group, ceased operations last
Wednesday. Al Hathway: the club basicly died of apathy. It has
officially disbanded. It was asked what will become of the TCC BBS
Rick Swenton Sysops, as this is a PBBS beta-test site, and a secondary
contact point for other members..
Item 9. Gary Stagliano, AKA Mr. Infocom, mentioned that Activision
went Chapter-11, after it bought Infocom, but has not yet released
'Lost treasures of Infocom' (Various Infocom Text Adventure games..)
He also gave a short listing of pricing for the various games that
they are 'Supposed' to release. Also of some of the programs that are
able to be converted over from the IBM format. Railroad Salvage still
has a small supply of Infocom Games, and Peach Software available..
But, Not that big a supply.
Business meeting was adjourned at 8:30 PM
At 8:30 PM, Tom Mannion gave a presentation of various
Compression/De-compression formats for CP/M . (I.E. Squeeze, Crunch,
ARK, .ZIP, etc.)
Several flurried jokes of wit followed about files which had
extensions which already had the used .-?- format. COWS. was used as
an example, such as crunch would create COWS.ZZZ, which brought out
the pun of 'Sleeping Cows' which was followed by 'Letting "ZZZ"'ing
Cows "YYY".' Available from Lee's BBS, CRLZH20.LBR contains the most
recent LZH Compression, utility, and the Un-Crunch utility which will
cover Squeezed, All versions of Crunch, and the last versions of
LZH-Crunch. Howard Goldstein's LBREXT will also extract/Un-crunch up
to the latest LZH 2.0. No, CRLZH20.LBR will Not be Crunched!
download: 90K. LBREXT is less than 80K, and may or may not be a better
choice. But is available for either Z-system or CP/M 2.2. Steve
Dresser noted that versions 2.3, and 2.5 to 2.8 to handled date
stamping, which 2.4 did not. MS-DOS .ZIP files can be extracted with
UNZIP 1.5, and can be directory viewed with ZIPDIR 1.2. There is an
older version of UNZIP, UNZIP099, which required external overlay
files, on the disk to received the file. .ARC & .ARK files can be
extracted and viewed by UNARC 1.6, which comes in UNARC16.ARK, which
can be downloaded, renamed to UNARC16.COM, Run, and it will
self-extract into the Doc's, an 8080 and a Z80 version.
The Meeting adjourned at 8:55PM, and Informal meeting reconvened at
George's Pizza. (It's CHOW-TIME!)
Respectfully (although I may lose Plenty after this.) submitted,
Stephen Griswold, Acting Secretary. (Give me a break, It's my 1st time
as a Secretary!)
