By Mike Fitzpatrick
Greetings,
Don't forget our member Auction of unused 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/space/
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 former SPACE president Nathan Block.
July is just around the corner 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.
Well the extent of the power company induced damage is:
What this has done is to force me to rethink the wisdom and choice of having 2 BBS's integrated into one system. At best it was always a bit unstable. What is planned currently is:
Any former user who has not logged back in, please be patient and re-log on again and you'll be validated.
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 if there were any amendments to last month's minutes. Being that there were none, he proceeded to the treasurer's report.
Greg said that the club took in $100 last month. Spent $50. The treasurer balance is $481. Room rent is due in the future. This is a $100.
Mike Fitzpatrick said bring donations for the club auction next month.
Mike Fitzpatrick asked club secretary 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 list next month.
Mike 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 Michael 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 president, stopped in to the meeting to see everyone. He said is was sure nice to be back again. Nathan said he missed everyone.
Meeting adjourned at 7:48 PM.
Michael Weist Club Secretary
Last month's Club meeting came at a good time for me. I was starting to burn out what with all the adversity health-wise my in-laws have gone through the last few weeks. My family hasn'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 with all the members in attendance really gave me the break I needed.
Don't forget the May Atari Club Auction next 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 $58.00 and our only expense paid out was for the BBS phone bill. Keep in mind we haven't gotten the first quarter room rental bill and we haven't paid for the April newsletter as Mike Schmidt couldn't make it to the last meeting. Our balance now stands at $511.20 which is as high as it 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.
Published by the Saint Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts (SPACE), an independent organization with no business affiliation with ATARI Corporation. Permission is granted to any similar organization with which SPACE exchanges newsletters to reprint material from this newsletter. We do however ask that credit be given to the authors and to SPACE. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of SPACE, the club officers, club members or ATARI Corporation.