Meeting notes for CCP/M meeting May 11, 1993 Members Attending: Member Name Renewal Status 092 Bob Bates 09/93 Present 140 J. Berg-Johnsen 06/93 Not Present 061 Chip Bradley 12/93 Not Present 001 Lee Bradley 01/93 Present (without hat) 122 Raymond Brown 11/92 In Nevada 137 Michele Dalene 01/94 Present 101 Steve Dresser (Prog) 12/93 Present 119 Rodney Drymon 11/93 Not Present 125 Randy Edgett 02/93 Not Present 017 Reno Franconi 09/92 Not Present 030 Howard Goldstein 11/92 Not Present 072 Steven Griswold 12/93 Present 021 Alan Hathway (Pres) 09/93 Present 121 Alfred E. Hawley 05/93 Not Present 100 Stuart Holden 12/92 Not Present 131 Sigurd Kimpel 01/93 Present 139 Collie Lowe 04/93 Los Angeles 099 Tom Mannion (Treasurer) 04/93 Present 138 Dana Peterson 03/94 Present 134 Joe Pollard 02/93 Not Present 114 Fredrick Pratt 11/92 Not Present 085 Gary J. Stagliano (Sec) 11/93 Present 123 Diane Thome 11/93 Present 136 Kirk Thompson 01/93 Iowa 003 Thomas Veile (News) 09/93 Present 112 Carolyn Wyman 10/92 Not Present 117 Eric Palm 04/93 Present (Sans Moustache) Secretary's Report: The minutes of the last meeting were accepted as published. Treasurer's Report: We now have $795.93 in the treasury with all the previous bills paid including the Treasurer's dues ... Trenton Computer Fest: A number of us attended along with the usual collection of Z-system gurus. The Hartford area is known as a hotbed of CP/M activity. Small substitute for a losing hockey team. Howard Goldstien was the recipient of the floating CP/M award. Banked bios for the newer CP/M (Ampro, YASBEC etc.) computers has been released (six systems in all). The bios resides in the second bank, increasing the TPA. It is similar to CP/M plus and compatable in many ways but is still based on CP/M 2.2. The weather was fantastic. The Party was good. Jay beat Lee in the Pizza eating contest. Prices for Z-system products have been reduced to about $20.00 each in Kaypro and MS-DOS format only. Check out the next TCJ! Stephen Griswold brought a Xerox 820 II computer with dual 8" disk drives to the meeting along with the entire SIG/M collection on 8" flippies. CD ROMs with CP/M software: Streaming Tape Back-up unit was provided to Lee to provide the software: Bob Dean, Jay Sage, Bruce Morgen will participate. The Royal Oaks collection should be included. Simtel 20 computer has much of its software on CD-ROMs. Z-SUS should also be included. MYZ80: Tom Mannion received the latest version of MyZ80 (1.11) with a very nice letter. As a registered user you are entitled to one free upgrade. Tom is amazed that he received any upgrades. MyZ80 handles virtual disk files of up to 8 MB each. How do give those virtual disks to others? After you build the file (eg. A.DSK) (up to 5 megs) one way is to Zip the file with PKZip 2.04G then use SLICE to break the files into smaller parts. SLICE makes a SPLICE program that allows you to reconstruct the file. Don't use the DOS utility BACKUP because the versions of BACKUP are not compatable with each other. CMD Tour: On June 14th, 7:00pm a guided Tour of CMD will be sponsored by the Capital Region Commodore Computing club. CMD markets SCSI hard drives for CP/M commodore and IBM/MacIntosh computers. There will be Free grab bags of software and hardware. More information and directions will be available at our June meeting. Contact Raymond Cruz on Z-node 12 or call 749-6002 for more information. If was moved to make Hal Bower (author of z-dos and banked bios) an honorary member and give him a Kaypro II from the club's inventory for shipping and handling. Club members are entitled to use the various club hardware donations upon request subject to approval at the next general meeting. Add David McGlown (Z-Letter publisher/editor) to our list of Honorary members. Honorary members are sent to issues of SIB for the remainder of their natural lives. Today is Tom Mannion's birthday. At the Georges Pizza meeting Tom was presented with a flaming cake recognizing his 42 years on this planet. Steve Dresser was almost set afire before Tom was able to extinguish the flames. He must have gotten his wish as all MS-DOS machines ceased functioning.