CCP/M MINUTES FOR December, 1991

Meeting was called to order at 7:30 PM by Al Hathway. 

Attending:

Lee Bradley             Ray Brown
Steve Dresser           Stephen Griswold
Al Hathway              Sigurd Kimpel
Tom Mannion             Gary Stagliano
Diane Thome             Tom Veile

Subjects covered:

Item 1. Lee mentioned about EB&C dedication to Jim Taylor. Although he 
had not mailed it out yet, Subscribers at the meeting could pick-up 
their copy there.. Non-Subscribers were allowed to review, but were 
asked to return copies.

Item 2. a short discussion for a possible fund to be collected as a 
'Jim Taylor memorial' to be collected by Tom Mannion. Purchase of a 
Savings bond for Jonathan maybe.. Make checks payable to CCP/M, with 
Note of 'Jim Taylor Fund'.

Item 3, Tom Veile has offer to take-up the SIB editor position.  
Copies of SIB were available at the meeting. Lee will be adding a new 
directory for SIB articles for Tom to download. projected a 2 to 
3-page letter, with a 1-page 'Mailer' cover.

Al Hathway noted that we will be giving Tom All the support we have to 
all our past newsletter editors. (Oh-Boy! Are You In trouble Tom!)

Item 4, Steve Dresser gave a run-down of the presentations & topics to 
be done at future meetings. Al Hathway, & Steve Dresser, will be 
giving a brief overview of the Heathkit 'OctoPort'. device. So-far, we 
have planned presentations till April, '92.

Al:"I Love it when a plan comes together." (Sorry Al, it's been done 
before. Can't think of where though..)

Steve Noted If anyone has Ideas for future meetings, leave him a 
message on the BBS.

Item 5 . YASBEC Updates, Stephen Griswold described the Trials & 
Tribulations of trying to build the YASBEC. Will be contacting Cam 
Cottrill further to obtain the Monitor ROM. So-far, the computer is 
complete as far as the motherboard, Minus the Monitor ROM. Designing & 
Layout of the case are in the process. Lee noted that someone had 
submitted an article to David McGlone's 'Z-Letter' essentially drawing 
a bad picture of the YASBEC.

Item 6. Tom Mannion gave a brief Treasurer's report. He discussed the 
problems he has been having with trying to obtain a club Checking 
account. So-far, 3 checks have been collected. Discussion on what the 
checking account will require for minimum.  Tom is planning a joint 
account. It was discussed NOT to make this a joint account, to buffer 
the account to above the $500. Minimum with Tom's own money, rather we 
should attempt to create a membership drive to beef-up the funding.  
Tom Veile mentioned about the previous bank which had gone under 
(bought by Fleet) which required $250 just to start account.  
Possibility of making an amendment to our by-laws to extend the 
Treasurer's position.

Tom Veile mentioned he had finally 'Burned out' after 5 years..  Tom 
Mannion retorted 'I've had My Imsai since 1978. I can handle it.'

Tom V. will give Tom M. a check for $300 to transfer funds w/o quite 
killing the account. Tom V. also transferred the necessary IRS Tax and 
Non-profit Forms.

Item 7, Secretary's report made by Ray Brown at the last Month's 
meetings were read from the SIB Tom V. had provided at the meeting. No 
Errors or Omissions to the previous meeting notes.

Item 8. TCC, formerly the ConnHUG User Group, ceased operations last 
Wednesday. Al Hathway: the club basicly died of apathy.  It has 
officially disbanded. It was asked what will become of the TCC BBS 
Rick Swenton Sysops, as this is a PBBS beta-test site, and a secondary 
contact point for other members..

Item 9. Gary Stagliano, AKA Mr. Infocom, mentioned that Activision 
went Chapter-11, after it bought Infocom, but has not yet released 
'Lost treasures of Infocom'  (Various Infocom Text Adventure games..)  
He also gave a short listing of pricing for the various games that 
they are 'Supposed' to release. Also of some of the programs that are 
able to be converted over from the IBM format. Railroad Salvage still 
has a small supply of Infocom Games, and Peach Software available.. 
But, Not that big a supply.

Business meeting was adjourned at 8:30 PM

At 8:30 PM, Tom Mannion gave a presentation of various 
Compression/De-compression formats for CP/M . (I.E. Squeeze, Crunch, 
.ARK, .ZIP, etc.)

Several flurried jokes of wit followed about files which had 
extensions which already had the used .-?- format. COWS. was used as 
an example, such as crunch would create COWS.ZZZ, which brought out 
the pun of 'Sleeping Cows' which was followed by 'Letting "ZZZ"'ing 
Cows "YYY".'  Available from Lee's BBS, CRLZH20.LBR contains the most 
recent LZH Compression, utility, and the Un-Crunch utility which will 
cover Squeezed, All versions of Crunch, and the last versions of 
LZH-Crunch. Howard Goldstein's LBREXT will also extract/Un-crunch up 
to the latest LZH 2.0.  No, CRLZH20.LBR will Not be Crunched! 
download: 90K. LBREXT is less than 80K, and may or may not be a better 
choice. But is available for either Z-system or CP/M 2.2. Steve 
Dresser noted that versions 2.3, and 2.5 to 2.8 to handled date 
stamping, which 2.4 did not. MS-DOS .ZIP files can be extracted with 
UNZIP 1.5, and can be directory viewed with ZIPDIR 1.2. There is an 
older version of UNZIP,  UNZIP099, which required external overlay 
files, on the disk to received the file. .ARC & .ARK files can be 
extracted and viewed by UNARC 1.6, which comes in UNARC16.ARK, which 
can be downloaded, renamed to UNARC16.COM, Run, and it will 
self-extract into the Doc's, an 8080 and a Z80 version.

The Meeting adjourned at 8:55PM, and Informal meeting reconvened at 
George's Pizza. (It's CHOW-TIME!)

Respectfully (although I may lose Plenty after this.) submitted, 
Stephen Griswold, Acting Secretary. (Give me a break, It's my 1st time 
as a Secretary!)