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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:
# Name: Renewal Status
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
The weather was between storms and the road conditions were clear.
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?
Sec. Report: Accepted as read.
Treas. Report: Fair, holding our own at $641.83 not including two mailings.
Sold an H88 for $10.00 to M. Delaney.
Old Business:
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.
New Business:
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!
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.
