May 1996
NEWSLETTER May 1996 President's Corner
By Mike Fitzpatrick
Greetings, Don't forget our member Auction ofunused and unwanted computer and related items. Please try to be a bit early at the May meeting. As you all know, SPACE has a web home page. If you have internet access, it can be found at:
http://www.library.carleton.edu/1pace If anyone has a color printer and could download a picture of
what SPACE's home page looks like, that would be greatly appreciated. April was a super meeting and it was nice to see fonner SPACE president Nathan Block. July is just around the comer and it is time to start planning for our annual SPACE birthday party. Our ever faithful secretary will be starting a sign-up list. See you at the May meeting.
BBS News Well the extent ofthe power company induced damage is: l) One blown S volt power supply for t~e 1-meg 800XL.
2) One non-functioning Adaptec 4000A (Hard Disk Interface). J) Data corrupted on the main and backup hard disk.
4) One shaky 14.4 external modem.
What this has done is to force me to rethink the wi:.dom and choice of having 2 BBS's integrated into one system. At best it was always a bit unstable. What is planned currently is: 1) Restart the BBS (done). 2) Rework how the user accesses the message bases and files based upon the internal security levels. Tbts is in the process of being completed. 3) Incorporate Sparta DOS 3.3B designed exclusively for BBS Exprt:ss PRO. 4) Best news is that the floppy backup of the sig_files is fine. Any former user who has not logged back in, please be patient and re-log on again and you'll be validated.
Minutes Of Space Meeting April 12, 1996 Meeting started at 7:35 PM. Mike Fitzpatrick, club president, welcomed everyone to the Space meeting. Mike said he would like to make meeting short. He also said that a club member has a disk demo. Mike asked if everyone received a newsletter. Asked it there were any amendment~ to last month's minutes. Being that there were none, he proceeded to the treasurer's report. Treasurer ReportGreg said that the club took in $100 last month. Spent $50. The treasurer balance is :Mt,i. f'<oom rem 1s aue 1n me ruture. Tnts 1s a :,,oo.
Old BusinessMike Fitzpatrick said bring donations for the club auction nex. month. Mike Fitzpatrick asked club soaetary to make up a potluck list to circulate among the membership for potluck items for the Space Birthday party in July '96. The secretary said he would do this and bring in potluck li.,t next month. New BusinessMike Fitzpatrick said use prudence when uploading articles for next month's newsletter. A member suggested having the pictures of the President and Vice president on front page of the Space newsletter. Mike Fitzpatrick said a Web Page has been created for our Space Club on the Internet by Mike Current, one of our members. Mike Fitzpatrick thanked Anoka County for causing the BBS to go down. Mike said the BBS will probably be up again next week. Nathan Block , past club prasirent, s•cpped in to the meeting to see ev"ryone. He said is was ~ure nice to be back again. Nr:ithan said he misst1d everyone. Meeting adjourned at 7:48 PM. Michael Wei•t Club Secretary
Treasurer's Report by Greg Leitner Last month's Club meeting came at a good time for me. I was starting to bum out what with all the adversity health-wise my in-laws have gone through the last few week~ My family hl'sn't had much time to spend together lately, and our leisure time has been non-existent. So I really welcomed the chance to make it to the meeting in April, and seeing and visiting wrth all the members in attendance really gave me the break I needed Don't forget the May Atari Club Auction ne.tt month. Nathan Block made a surprise appearance last meeting and sold off a lot of his extra hardware and software. It was good to see him again and he said he would try to make more of the meetings in the future. The Auction should give members another good chance of picking up some great bargains, so be there. We had a slower month in software sales in April even though our attendance was great. We did have two memberships paid which helped and we even had someone contribute a dollar for coffee. Our total receipts for April was $S8.00 and our o'lly expense paid out was for the BBS phone bill. Keep in mind we haven't gotten the first q~er room rental bill dlld we haven't paid for the April newsletter as Mike Schmidt couldn't make it to the last meeting. Our bal:-ncc now stands at $S 11.20 which is as high as n has been since last November. It would be nice to take in some extra cash from the Auction next month to help pay for the room rental coming up. Well, the fifteen minutes I took to write this column is all the leisure time I can muster for now Back to the grind, and I hope to see you all for the Auction next month on May 10, 1996.
CLUB OFFICIALS DISCLAIMER President: vice President: ..,,.cretary: DOM Librarian: Paper Librarian: Software Librarian: Membership Chllirman: SPACE Treasurer SPACE Newsletter Editor:
Mike Fitzpatrick Terry Streeter Mike Wiest (Temp) Terry Streeter Vacant Earline Fitzpatrick Glen Kirschenmann Greg Leilnt-r Michael Schmidt
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Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of SPACE, the club orficers.
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