Meeting Notes – March

The meeting was the joint meeting of the Fort Worth and Dallas Timex/Sinclair groups. The Fort Worth contingency made it to the Dallas Infomart at approximately 1030 A.M., the starting time of the Dallas meeting. There was a confusion of time elements for the joint meeting. We (Chuck Dawson, Frank Bouldin, and myself, David Baulch) came early, by one month, according to Glynn Harris, chairman of the Dallas group. We were on time according to my time schedule. Either way, we had a meeting, but there were few members that showed up on either side. (There were at least three phone calls to my house after I was already on the road to Dallas and a few after got back about where and when the meeting was.) Glynn, for the most part, declared the meeting starting and ending at the same time since so few appeared. (About ten people showed up altogether before it was all over.) We decided to stay and talk about computers and computing in general.

Glynn did have his PC8300 clone on display (his third one). Having never seen a ‘live’ 1000 clone, we all took turns looking at it – Chuck even typed on the keyboard some. We all agreed on one thing, an ‘ivory’ case with ‘forest green’ keys is not the most attractive color scheme that could have been chosen for the computer. Still, it was very interesting to see it in action. I may break down and purchase one of them myself, just to have something else to ‘play’ with. We did discuss that American Design, the ones that sold the machine originally, were also selling some new 1500s that were found somewhere. I also remembered that they were selling some new 2040 printers. Since mine is on the blink, I may go ahead an purchase a new one. (I may not get to use it, however, as my older daughter has my portable unit set up in her room and uses it for her book reports and such for the third grade.)