May meeting- The single slate of candidates had all wondering if there would be any last minute challenges, alas there were none. In a desperate last minute manauver to avoid making ballots for the run off for Trustee position, as FOUR were running for three positions, this secretary made a motion to expand the number of positions of Trustee to FOUR, seconded, and passed with no further ado. Soon we will define the duties of the position of Trustee! It was noted that Bill Tilley is recovering from his illness and we all hope to see him soon.
Officers for the year 1988-1989 are:
President-Clyde Tackley Vice President-Dave Schoenwetter
Treasurer-George Penney Secretary-Paul Hill
Trustees (4)
Carl Morris, William Tilley, Scott Eddy and Don Lamen
June Meet-On a very HOT evening in June, we met at the almost air-conditioned Vestal Libaray. The “portable” Oliger/2068 system debuted. I may check in with a hernia after portable (ing) it back and forth. A motion to repair the donated 2068 was made, but after discussion several attempts to pinpoint the problem will be made and reported at the July meet. The donated 2068 works but the video output begins to blur and the letters have a long smear to the right. Shortly after the meet began the new president Clyde Tackley arrived and took charge. Gary Ennis, former SINCUS president and SINCUS News editor dropped in rejoined SINCUS and dicussed the OFA BBS and cures for the hacker problems they have been having. Note all users will have to re-sign on, as all users files have been taken. USE a different password on each and every BBS! John Colonna brought all up to date on whats new on Compu-serve and his expiriences on getting on the Timex BBS in Chicago. A short demo of Jack Dohany’s Mscript V5.3, Font Manager and Label printer/sorter was made.
Hello and welcome to NEW members; Charles Byler, Ft. Riley KA; Daniel Isaacson, Brick, NJ; Robert Stoop, Manteca CA; Jess Wyder, Fishkill, NY; James Cramer, LaPuenta, CA; Roy Wisti, Voluntown, CT and to RENEWing members Richard Hurd, Warrenton, OR and Gary Ennis, Owego, NY. Welcome and thanks for the subscription, but dont stop now, write an article and soon you be know all over the place.
Head for a Timex Sinclair Computer Fest this summer- one in Ohio and another in Oregon. Attend and have fun!
BACK issues – we have been publishing a newsletter since SINCUS was formed back in 1982, our newsletters with interesting articles on the 2068 go back to 1983/84. Much, but not all was saved to tape, and lately I have been transferring from taped Tasword files to disc files in MScript. One problem with the files, often listings or artwork supported the article. I have been trying to put reproductions of the art on screens and save to disc- but the screen can hold only small amounts of the orginial artwork. When the project is complete a listing of articles, artwork, and listings will then be available at cost plus postage.
The wonderful but whacky US Postal service is driving me to imbibe. Last issue weighted in over 1 ounce, therefore cost an extra .20 to mail, on some mailings, and others just cost the .25 stamps to mail. I can only figure the humidty added .1 or .2 ounce per newsletter. We cannot survive long at .45 per mailing, so I am going to limit the issue to five sheets.