August meet, we had a small turn out, normal for summertimes, but I’ve also noticed that some of the most interesting meets occur in the July-August period. More demos and talks. Dave Shoenwetter gave a talk on printer interfacing and how to generate graphics on an Epson type dot matrix printer. The pending release of the Computus Interrupts Series in print and disc, and how to generate more attendance at meetings was also discussed. My Zenith monitor gave up the green a couple of weeks ago, John Colonna was kind enough to loan me his spare monitor. At the meet, the society purchased from Hal Sohn, a used green Zenith monitor as part of the group owned system. The Oliger disc IF SAFE ROM chip was upgraded to the last in the series, a V2.52. I asked for and those present voted to have the society purchase a Larken DOS cartridge. Given Bill Jones’ report of using LKDOS along side the Oliger DOS, along with increasing our disc swapping abilites with the many Larken users, it seemed like a worthwhile investment in our disc system. Dave Shoenwetter also donated a TS 2068 power supply to the society disc system.
Our current system includes, a TS2068 (from Carl Morris), a 2068 power supply, two disc drives (from Dave) and a society purchased Oliger disc interface, (LKDOS cartridge), disc power supply and cabient and Zenith green monitor. The “portable” system is held together with a steel base, power strip, and brackets donated, bent and screwed together by yours truly. Much time and talent was donated by all to get us to this point, but the results of the sale of CLONE by Wes Brzozowski enabled us to make this purchase.
Rest of the 1988 schudule-below; Vestal Library, 7p on Wednesdays. For 1989, it will be the 3rd Wednesday of each month, same time and place.
Our local BBS, TCCS is down and gone for good. Scott Wiltsey, the SYSOP is going to college and taking his computer with him. For four years Scott ran TCCS, and I have had the privilege of using it for the past two. SINCUS enjoyed its own conference on TCCS for the past year and a half. All good things must end, and so to Scott we say Thank you and best of luck in school.