Thank you one and all for another fantastic meeting! Many new and interesting topics were brought up and the club was able to purchase some ATARI equipment for a very reasonable price from our Newsletter Editor, Mike Schmidt. I would like to publicly thank him for all the effort he has put into the club. Not only has he saved the club literally hundreds of dollars in newsletter printing costs, he has now given the club some ATARI equipment I'm sure we can make use of for minimal price. Thanks Mike for everything you have done for us!
I hope you all will attend the July meeting. I personally will not be able to make it due to vacational purposes, but I will be back in time for the giant SPACE birthday bash! I'm telling you all right now YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS THE AUGUST MEETING! There will be some goodies, like refreshments, a large raffle, special DOM's, game festivals and much more! PLEASE make it a point to come to the August meeting. On SPACE's birthday, it would be nice to have all members of the club come Together on this special occasion. There will be enough excitement to go around! Hope to see you there!
That is really about all for this month! Two special recommendations that I have are:
1. Buy AUTODUEL from ATARI,GREAT GAME!
2. Go see TOTAL RECALL! Best film of
all time!
Take care everyone and I hope to see everyone at the future meetings!
Nathan Block
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The nice thing about teamwork is that
you always have others on your side
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BUDGET COMPUTERS have some remaining stock for the ATARI 8-bit line of computers. The BUDGET location on Lyndale in Bloomington has Ribbons for the ATARI 825 and 820 printers for only .99 cents. It also has a very minimal selection of software, mostly flippy C64 disks. The BUDGET location in Fridley however has a decent size selection of ATARI 8-bit software. Titles range from DANA cartridges such as CLOUDBURST and ALIEN AMBUSH to educational disks made by AMERICAN EDUCATION COMPUTERS, which was a decent software company in the early 80s. They also have a very small selection of ATARI hardware, the last time I was there they had two 400s and 800s and an ATARI XM801 printer.
TOYS R US now has the ATARI LYNX but no games for this machine seemed to be available yet. The manager said this would change quickly. They also had several XEGS cartridges, titles such as JOUST, Ms. PACMAN and BLUEMAX were in abundance. Someone on the SPACE BBS reported that a SEARS in the Maplewood area had XEGS cartridges just lying around in a large bin in the clearance section.
However, the best place to buy quality software is SPACE which now not only sells quality DOM'S, but now has a qualified ATARI dealer coming to the meetings selling ATARI software at very low prices. Be sure to come and see what he has, at the last meeting he had a six page list of software he could backorder.
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All of us must become better informed.
It is necessary for us to learn from
others' mistakes. You will not live
long enough to make them all yourself.
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Today's best labor saving device?
Tomorrow!
1. The meeting was called to order by President Nathan Block at 7:37 P.M.
2. The next SPACE meeting will be July 13th. It was voted unanimously to move the SPACE Birthday meeting to the August meeting, due to some of the members conflicts with the Olympic festival.
3. An ATARI software dealer, Lance Rinquist, was at the meeting. He Plans on attending each of the future meetings and will bring a selection of software titles he has in stock to the meetings for sale. He will also be taking orders for software.
4. Vice President/Sysop Ken Modeen reported that the BBS should he working ok; occasionally shows no new messages, but when you login again you may get messages missed. The Co-Sysop, Larry Serflatten, was introduced.
5. Check on your access to the BBS; new members should be validated a couple of days after the meeting.
6. Nathan Block reminded members that
6. Nathan reminded members that they should keep up on their dues and buy the Disk Of the Month(DOM). He still has the offer for any member who brings in a new member will get a DOM or other disk free.
7. Sears Outlet stores have some Atari equipment on sale; its going fast though.
8. Nathan Block reported of a person in St. Paul Park who posted a note on the BBS. The message indicated that the person has ATARI hardware and software for sale; the person was taking offers.
9. One member reported he was having problems running BOBTERM with his MPP 1000E; looking for anyone with knowledge on making this work; some members reported that they'd heard that BOBTERM doesn't work with some MPP modems.
10. Joe Danko said that the Wholesale Club has a 2400 buad modem (black and silver) for $90.
11. Another member reported problems using the XEP80 with a his word processing program; the feeling was that something was not set-up correctly.
12. Joe Danko suggested having a club system owned by the club at the meetings permanently, so that the members do not need to bring their own systems to demo DOMs, etc. Mike Schmidt offered an 800XL and 1050 Disk Drive for $50; he got this system at a garage sale. The membership voted 18-0 to accept the offer and purchase the system.
13. It was suggested to provide an information packet to new members, indicating what is available for resources, help, purchases, etc. An information packet/sheet will be put together.
14. The newsletter editor, M. Schmidt, asked the members to provide good newsletter articles for inclusion in the newsletter. Lets see some articles! (None Yet!!!! Editor)
15. The Meeting closed at 8:20 P.M. with DOM demos.
End of the minutes for June 8-90
The library will be offering software on sale as usual, at the meeting or via the US Mall. All disks are $3 each If you can't make the meeting, call Joe Danko at 777-9500 after 6 PM or mail your request to:
JOE DANKO
2766 Chisholm Av. N.
N. St. Paul MN 55109
Mailed software will cost an extra $1 for each multiple of 3 disks or so. Blank disks will be for sale at 30 cents ($0.30) each.
Disk of the Month - JULY
Due to Joe not getting DOM info by press time, there's no info on this months DOM.
EDITOR
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