SPACE Newsletter - November 1992

November 1992

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Newz From th e ~- ez November 1992

Thanks Larry 1

It is November, and, i ronically enough, our elections will be fa l ling arounct the same time as our nation's, At the very least, you will be all warmed up come November 13th when you vote at the meeting , As far as I know, nobody has expressed any interest in running for any office, Unless, there is a nomination at the next meeting, the ballot will basically be staying the same with one excep tion, We will be needing a new secretary, so 1f you are interested in applying for the position, please come to the next meeting, We will also be passing around a sign-up s neet for our annual Christmas meeti ng, Look for it in the newslet t er and plan on what you will be bringing, Hopefully everyone wil l bring food and adct to our festive celebration, There will be a raffle as always and I will be writing up so more trivia questions, I am hoping we have a large turnout for our Christmas meeting, Please plan to be there if you can possibly make it, That 1s about it for this month, Be sure to make the next two meetings, they wil l both be exciting ones, Yo ur ?resident , Nathan Block

Well it was back in July '91 issue of the Space newsletter I talked about Larry Serflaten taking over the duties of Sysop, When I look back on tim e, I look at when I first got on the Space BBS, It was kind of confusing for me to understand how to get around on it, My first help came from Ken Modeen, which I appreciated very much, Then Ken steppea down and Larry took over as Sysop for our BBS, There were many days at Larry's place and on the BBS that Larry educated me on the usage of the BBS, Now Larry is stepping down and Mike Fitzpa trick is taking over. Well being a sysop is a special responsibility. A lot of hard work, no pay, lots of dedication. Tha t is why our club has been so lucky to have had past Sysops like we have had and Mike Fitzpatrick to take over. Thanks Ken and Larry for a great job, And congratulations Mike, for taking over as our new Sysop, Mike Weist

There are no minutes this month due to the failure of the Secretary to submit them by press time,

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Hamfest '92 Well Hamfest '92 was held at the St, Paul Civic Cent er on October 31, 1992, Mike Schmidt, Sherm Eric kson, and I manned the Space Booth, There were a lot of people that attended the show, Next Year the show will be held on October 25, 1993, It is sure nice to get together with other Space members and have a chance to tal k Atari while manning a booth, I · was treated by Sherm Erickson to a tall glass of Co~e and a giant Hot DogThanks Sherm ' Mi ke Schmidt brought along one of his big computer systems and let me fool around with his Word Perfect 5,1 program, wRich was very interesting, I typed up a letter for my sister in Alaska, saved it to Hard drive, Mike is going to send me a copy of

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This event brought a lot of people to our booth asking questions, Some talked about their old Atari systems in storage gather in g dust and then finding out there are Atari groups likes ours still out there, People with Atari equi pment for sale and being told to attend the next meeting to sell there equipment, Maybe they will change their minds when they come to our meeting and start using their Atari equipment again, We maybe als o be seeing a few new Space members to our club because of the exposure at Hamtest, There were bargains to be had at Hamfest. I g.ot a few bar-gains I I think I might be the owner of a 2400 baud modem soon, While at the show I foun d a 2400 baud modem, but I have to ca ll the owner to see if he has accepted what I offered for it , I think he will accept my b id of Last of all I would like to thank a l l the Sp ace members that made it to the show and stopped at our Space booth, I am sure that a lot of them came across bargains at the show , Next show coming up will be Mid Winter Madness lat er this Winter, See you ther·e 1

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•••••••••••••••• The Editor's Piec e One of the things I've noticed in t h is and other Newsletter Pub lic ati ons the Club receives , 1s the lack of Member submitted Articles (wi th the e xcep tion of Nathan Bloc k and Mike Weist)! The Editor 's job is to assemble OTHER people 's writin gs , edit it for grammar, insu re its suitability for publication 1n the Newsletter, make arrangement s for it's publication, folding, stapling, labeling, and licking all those stamps! Oh, he or she may write an article giv i ng his opinion about this or that but that's secondary to his or her main job of getting the Newsletter "out to the Membership", So you see without your cooperation, there will be NO Newsletter to put out ea ch month ■ There will be space available in each and eve ry Newsletter for your Article ■ It could be a couple of lines or several pag es, It makes no difference to me if you write in prose or poetry, if you wr ite in long hand or type(preferably on your computer and saved to disk in ASCII format), if it's amusin g or dull, if it 's a masterpiece or a ctuct , All that matters is that you write about something that INTERESTS YOU, We'll worry about whether it interests th e group later or not at al l, Your interests may indeed be somethin g that interests all of us. But if it doesn't, who cares? You will have served the Club well and made the Editor ' s job a lot easier! Now it is not my desire to begin 1n a contemptuous manner but if we are to continu e to grow or, at l east continue to exist , we will all have to work at it ■ So sharpen up your penci ls, dust off you typewriters, or better yet, boot up your favorite wordprocessors and get those arti c les flowing , Michael

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ELECTIONS!

Come to the November meeting to help elect the officers for the ne >:t year. ! ! ! !Christmas

Party!

Also at the November meeting, the annual Christmas Party will be planned and a sign-up sheet for things to bring will be passed around for what you would like to b r ing.

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OFFICERS

DISCLAI1fER President: I/ice President: Secretary: DOM Librari!lll: Paper Librarien: Software Librarian: Membership Chairman: SPACE!\MAST Treasurer: SPACE Newsletter Editor:

Nathan Block

922-8012 ' 434-5254

Sherm Erickson

Mike Cable Joe Danko Jim Schieb Earline Fitzpatrick Glen Kirschenman Allan Frink Michael Schmidt

777-9500 721-4185

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Saint Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts (SPACE)

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