Well, summer is here and hopefully it won't be another hot one, because our computers will suffer more than we do! All the more reason to come to SPACE this month, the building is air conditioned!
Coming up next month will be the SPACE Birthday Meeting. I said it last year and I will say it again this year, you WILL NOT WANT TO MISS THE JULY MEETING! Last year was the biggest turnout of a meeting I had ever seen and we had a great dinner and a really great time. At the last meeting, we had discussed the food situation and many thought that the entire membership should get involved and bring food. Soooo, we will be dividing up the next meeting into "menu sections". One section will bring chips, pop, meat etc. PLEASE come so that we can have enough help with the banquet preparations. The officers did a great job last year, but with the size of the membership, we could easily do it again. If we have abundant participation, you won't even have to eat dinner before the July meeting. We will also be planning game festivals and other activities.
News is scarce in the ATARI world, so I still don't have very much. I still am getting catalogs from the few faithful mail order houses out there that support ATARI and I will continue to bring those to the meetings.
For the summer months, we are pomp to kick back a little and really enjoy ourselves! It also was suggested that we have the July meeting outdoors. PLEASE come and help us plan the bash and support SPACE during the summer.
Happy computing!
Nathan Block
1. The meeting was called to order by President Nathan Block at 7:43 P.M.
2. The liquidation computer sale at the State Fair grounds had some Atari software at reasonable prices. Keypunch software has created some new games for the Atari. Budget Computer has no new software for the Atari and is getting ready to liquidate the Atari software it has in its warehouse. Nathan will keep us informed.
3. Lance from Video 61 has many games available; he's on the official list of Atari dealers; Lance talked to the Atari representative and there are no new games for the 8-bit, though new games have been released for the Atari 2600. One game Lance has available is Lords of Conquest, which will allow up to 4 players to play.
4. Larry Serflaten reported that the Bulletin Board System (BBS) is up, though nothing new is on the BBS.
5. Mike Schmidt reported that we received some other newsletters from around the country and Mike has made extra copies; one article is on connecting 1.2MB 5-1/4 disks to the Atari 8-bit system.
6. Joe Danko reported that he created a D.O.M. with the compression and arc program files; to use the menu, rename the files with '.COM' extenders. Also, the D.O.M. for this month is the last of the Twin Cities Atari Interest Group (TAIG) which we did not have in our library; Joe has gotten a disk subscription to Sagamore Software which is going to be supplying software for the Atari.
7. Joe Danko gave a description of how to hook an Atari up to a modem and which modems will connect which way to an Atari system. The three ways to attach a modem are:
8. Joe Danko reported that the telephone company is again trying to charge phone users who have modems on their lines. Also, the list of local BBS are in the Twin Cities Computer User magazine.
9. A question was asked on what power supply does an Atari 1027 printer take; the best guess from the members was a 9.5 volt power supply. Any one know for sure?
10. Mike Schmidt has uploaded 120 Print Shop graphics to the BBS. He also has many more to upload.
11. Joe Danko added that the back of this month's D.O.M. is an adventure game which uses all 64 files allowed by the Atari system.
12. Mike Weiss would like to have the party committee meet after the meeting to discuss the July birthday bash.
13. The meeting adjourned at 8:20 P.M.
Minutes respectfully submitted by Pat Krenn, Secretary.
There will be know DOM info this month, it will be in next months newsletter. Joe did not submit the info before this newsletter went to press.
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There will not be any BBS messages for this month. The board has been pretty quiet this past month.
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Post Office Box:
The post office has given us a new post office box number. The new number is 120016 .
No report was submitted by the time this newsletter went to press.
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