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.
