DECEMBER 18, 1985- 7pm 14 members attended our monthly meeting at the Vestal Public Library. John Sims and Dave Schoenwetter opened the meet with a talk on Hi-soft ‘C’, the up and coming language! It is designed for multi-tasking and for ease of transfer between different computers, the Amiga to the Atari for instance. If interested in learning more about C, see John at the January meet. John is interested in forming a small C interest group, he got a primer on C and if you are interested there is a SAMS book on the language available.
DAVE talked on the 2050 modem, and its sell out price of $25-see ad info below. Dave picked this up on the modem, via compuserve and one of the local BBSs. Apparently, all one needs is a 9 volt power supply and a cabient if desired. Software can be purchased from most TS dealers.
CLONE is finally in the market place. We advertised CLONE in a seperate letter attached to the Nov/Dec issue of SINCUS NEWS which was mailed to businesses and other User Groups. We will begin the sale of CLONE to local and corresponding members by the middle of January 1986. See the CLONE ad inside this issue. We will not sell to anyone the national rights, as local site rites have been purchased. If not a member of SINCUS, get your group to buy site rights, write care of this newsletter for details.
MACHINE Code Tutor-well,…I am not yet into MC. The tutor really doesn’t make anything any clearer. I hope with the aide of some of our members who use MC, and this tutor program, we can make a monthly half hour session on MC enjoyable for all or at least a learning expirience. The documentation with the program is sadly lacking.
NOTICE—–February and March meets are the SECOND, that’s right
the 2nd Wednesday of the month, we go back to the third
Wednesday in April.
Set your watches now—Feb 12 and Mar 12—-got that??
GARY Ennis, President, has been out with pnemonia, and over the holidays managed to smoke another machine-this time by putting a cartridge in with machine on. A NO-NO! Well one of these meets he will be demoing the disc drive which is apparently not for sale any more.
Hope all had a safe and happy holiday season. Another year to look forward to, another year to see what happens! Keep on POKEing and PEEKing for a BRIGHT NEW year!
JANUARY 15, 1986- 7pm, Vestal Public Library, 10 hardy souls braved the sub-zero weather. Clyde Tackley demoed MASTERFILE from Ramex Intl. Cost about $18. An impressive file program if there ever was one. Clyde is a connoisseur of data bases and if one is on the market chances are he has it! MASTERFILE has all the bells and whistles, boxes and color, and total and average. 51 column printouts, 2040 printer or full sized. Make up your own styles, boxes, layout. A versatile filing, mini- word processor and adding machine in one program.
I put on MACHINE CODE TUTOR, and ran thru the first nine lessons, but the lack of a prepared demo or lessons kept the program from truly being a learning tool. I hope that in the spring, a couple of lessons can be tackled.
CLONE sales are underway. Triangle User group was the first to purchase local site rights. Their specially modified cover screen was mailed early this month. Local members who purchased CLONE can now get documentation. From all who have so far used the documentation, the feeling is, perhaps a final paragraph, on a step by step walkthru is necessary.
Again-check your calendar for the February 12 and March 12 meets-dont show up on the third Wednesday.
Trenton Computer Fair-any takers for the trip down? A possible get together with other UGs on the East Coast-if ANY body wants to go LET me know AS SOON AS POSSIBLE-a few plans to make, may be we could sell a few CLONEs while there!!-April 26,27
A suggestion to donate $25 to the library was made, to help pay for the lights, heat, etc. No opposition, motion will be made and acted on at next meet.
No motion has been made or discussion supported to change our meeting time, day or location.
February starts the nomination process for our annual elections and the President shall appoint four members to a Nomination committee. As the nomination time draws near, think of what you would like to see happen, and who you would like to see run the society, then nominate and/or accept a nomination to office. As a society President cannot succeed himself more than once, Gary is not eligible to run this year.