Steve Dresser convened the meeting. Lee Bradley read the secre-
tary's notes from the October meeting as printed in "Smaller is
Better". The notes were accepted as read without corrections.
Tom Mannion gave the treasurer's report, as best he could. He
and Tom Veile have not been able to get together for the changing
of the checkbook ceremony. Therefore, Tom M.'s best estimate was
"around $310, give or take, with 2 or 3 checks" that he can't
deposi�becaus�o�th�lac� o� �checkbook�� (Note to members:
If you like to get float on your checks then now is the time to
renew!) I�th�Tom�' joint defense, it seems that there is more
to this than just handing over the pen and checkbook from one to
the other. Other complications are that there needs to be a new
account and a new tax number.
Lee stated that he had been contacted by Tom Veile and Jim Taylor
prior to the meeting and that both could not attend the meeting.
Tom could not clear-up a scheduling conflict. Jim was under the
weather.
NEW BUSINESS
A question was raised about availability of a membership list.
Lee replied that he would put the list on the board under the
file CCPM.TXT. The procedure for viewing the file is:
ZMD SP CCPM.TEXT
The file will be in user area C15.
Zed-Fest brought together 16 ardent Z'ers. A working Yasbec
computer made it's debut. Stephen Griswold and Lee Bradley
represented CCP/M. Amoung the rest: Jay Sage and Ian Cottrell.
Photos are rumoured for the next "Eight Bits & Change".
Stephen Griswold also brought the Connecticut Yasbec to the
meeting for inspection. It is amazing that something smaller
than a shoe box top can outperform a venerable Kaypro, et al.
The main question surrounds the whereabouts of Yasbec software.
Glen Gross has donated his CP/M library to the club. Lee
brought in 2 large boxes of books, which were reconoitered
by those in attendance with vigor. There is a lot of great
stuff here for novice to expert. Lee has the Dbase II manuals
plus those not needed by meeting participants. (This surprise
impromptu bookfare demonstrates the benefits to attending our
�meetings in person.)
Reno Franconi brought up the subject of future meeting topics
with his request for a Genie training session. (Any expert
Genie users who want to do this?) Tom stated that he would
like to do a meeting presentation on "The Best of Utilities".
Steve D. assigned him the topic for the December meeting, and
gave the upcoming schedule for the first quarter of 1992:
January - Packet Radio, by Sigurd Kimpel and Steve Dresser
February - Octiport (?), by Al Hathaway
March - Open, but could be the Genie Seminar, or,
"The Best of Utilities, II"
April - Gambling & Computers, by Ray Brown
MEETING PRESENTATION
"The Mandelbrot Set"
or
"How to Print Strange Pictures on Epson Printers"
At first, it seemed that Lee had finally found that patch of
magic mushrooms that is depicted on the back of his jacket.
He distributed Rorbasch-looking graphic printouts and rifled
through a flipchart of what appeared to be a five page
equation of imaginary numbers. Stunning was a good word.
But, little by little, you could see the lights coming back on
as Lee demonstrated that random subsets of this equation
produced pictures of ferns and animals and ... well, LIFE!
If you missed it, or want to further study these phenomena,
Lee's presentation was drawn from the book:
"CHAOS"
by James Gleick
The meeting adjourned, as usual, for the friendly confines of
George's Family Restaurant and pizza. And, for those of you
that may not know and are asking, there were mushrooms on the
pizzas.
In attendance at the meeting: Steve Dresser, Tom Manion,
Lee Bradley, Stephen Griswald, Diane Thome, Sigurd Kimpel,
Reno Franconi, Bob Bates and Ray Brown.
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Jim: Can you check w/Lee on the following points:
1-There was a new guy at the meeting but I didn't catch
his name, can you add him to the list?
2-Was it Lee and Steve Griswold or Dresser at Zed-Fest?
thanks, ray
ts of this equation
produced pictures of ferns and animals and ... well, LIFE!
If you missed it, or want to further study these phenomena,
Lee's presentation was drawn from the book:
"CHAOS"
by James Gleick
The meeting adjourned, as usual, for the friendly confines of
George's Family Restaurant and pizza. And, for those of you
that may not know and are asking, there were mushrooms on the
pizzas.
