Smaller Is Better
The News Bulletin Of CCP/M
September 28, 1990
Regular Meeting, September 11, 1990
Reno called before the meeting and asked me (Lee Bradley is
writing this) to write up these notes. He also took the time to vote
in absentia as permitted by the Bylaws.
Outgoing President Gabor Szikla opened this annual business
meeting. After a brief but mildly heated discussion we voted in the
new slate. Jim Taylor is the new President, Tom Veile beat out the
competition (Lee Bradley and Gary Stagliano) for Treasurer and Al
Hathway, newly returned from his transcontinental bike trip, was
reelected as Program Coordinator. He has already suggested the topic
for the October meeting - ZDB, Joe Mortensen's great Z-Database, which
uses the new TCAP character graphics and datestamping if you have the
new ZS/ZDDOS. Reno Franconi was reelected Group Secretary.
Congratulations, all!
Diane Thome will be our new n/l editor. She plans a monthly SIB
with the help of Reno, Lee and the Z-Node. I offered to handle the
mailing. She will be looking for and contributing articles for SIB.
New member Gwen Robinson introduced herself and told us about how
she runs a small Day Care center (The Little Flock) in New Haven,
makes T-Shirts and does various business projects on her Royal. She
was looking for a program which will print sideways on her printer and
for banner and clip art programs. I grabbed SIDEWAYS.LBR from a RAS
and will be giving her a quote on a CP/M version of PrintMaster
(similar to Print Shop.) Jim Taylor has put together and sent her a
floppy with Bradford (the letter quality program for dot matrix
printers.) [Note: This issue of SIB was prepared with Bradford. End of
Note.]
Z Festival '90 is nearing. We need name tags, a registration
table etc. Complimentary issue of EB&C is ready for mailing and
contains Z Festival '90 flier etc. Z Node contact continues. User
Group, media and library mailings in coming weeks. Directions being
prepared for speaker Ian Cottrell and others. Visit to Hartford
Graduate Center (RPI) (Z Festival '90 site) some time next week. Phone
calls to as many people as I can think of in coming weeks. Please talk
it up, everybody!
The Group decided there was a need for an Executive Board meeting
to plan CCP/M's 1990-91 direction. Lee Bradley and Gary Stagliano
volunteered to join Treasurer Tom Veile and President Jim Taylor at
this meeting. Tom later made the idea a reality by calling Jim and
suggesting a date/place. The date/place finally settled down to be
Monday September 17th at Lee and Linda's.
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A Message from Jim Taylor, President, CCP/M
Executive Board Meeting, September 17, 1990
Members Present: James F. Taylor - President, CCP/M, Thomas S.
Veile - Treasurer, CCP/M, Lee R. Bradley - Former Newsletter Editor,
Member, Gary Stagliano - Member
The following was discussed. It will be voted on at the next
regular meeting.
1. Membership Dues Policy Changes
It has been proposed that the membership year should be changed
from the current September to September calendar year to a 12 month
rotating basis beginning and ending during the month first joined.
Therefore, dues will be the same no matter when you join and will
expire one year from the date the member joins.
It has been proposed that two separate ratings instead of our
current singular rating of membership be established at different
prices to reflect changes in our group structure:
Membership dues will be assessed as per the following schedule.
Regular Membership --------- $10.00
Includes membership in CCP/M, full voting privileges (either in
person at the meetings or by written proxy) and a subscription to the
club newsletter Smaller is Better!
Deluxe Membership ---------- $20.00
Includes all the same rights and privileges as the regular
membership plus a subscription to the bimonthly Eight Bits & Change,
published by Lee Bradley. In the event that Eight Bits & Change ceases
publication, the group will substitute another comparable publication
or if one is not available, refund the difference between the deluxe
and regular memberships
2. Members Who Have Already Renewed
Deluxe Memberships in CCP/M will be given to any member who joins
or renews his/her membership prior to December 1, 1990 for the old
membership rate of $15.00.
3. Club Officers To Be Exempt From Dues
In an effort to encourage greater club participation, officers of
CCP/M will not have to pay yearly dues. The consensus was that they
should be "paid" for the work they do (by not having to pay the $20.)
The Bylaws must be amended to address the above. As President, I
will coordinate this task.
4. New Member Packet
Each new member will receive a new (currently in development)
first class Membership Packet which will contain a membership card,
Bylaws, lists of CP/M vendors (flyers) and information on the latest
club projects, such as the Z-Festival. All current members will
receive this packet when it becomes available.
Vendors will be allowed to submit preprinted fliers for their
products and services to our screening committee (details to be
decided on) and if they are acceptable to be included in the new
member packet at the rate of $0.10 cents per standard weight page to
reimburse the club for postage and handling. CCP/M will attempt to
provide some verification of validity of all advertising.
5. Group Direction
There was a general feeling that we are now at a crossroads. That
we should go national and provide new services. This will be done by
furnishing members with technical support for their hardware and
software needs. To do this we will solicit members from the entire
United States and the world. We will support those businesses and
publications that are still catering to the CP/M world.
CCP/M - The Hub Of CP/M
CCP/M will support beginners, networking, modem freaks,
publishers, clubs, comrades, new users, software, programmers, a
newsletter, help with hardware problems, serve a need, and at the same
time make money for the club to do further support.
The core group of dedicated folks should co-ordinate this
national emphasis. Those that are really interested in CP/M and Z-
System and in providing related services should express themselves and
go for it!
And that's about the size of it. Let me know what you think. If
there isn't any discussion this will all become law.
On a personal note, I'd like to thank Tom, Lee and Gary for a
lively Executive Meeting and the best of these ideas. If you like what
has been said so far, give them the well deserved credit. If you don't,
send me the heat because, as another president once said, "The buck
stops here."
Jim Taylor, President
Connecticut CP/M Users' Group
September 26, 1990
Smaller is Better!
