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Meeting Date: December 12, 2000 Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Alan Mildwurm's house
Bank Account: $1,700 (approximately)
Despite the best attempts of Alan and my fellow Board members to keep me away from the pizza, I made it to the meeting, which was moved to Tuesday this month. I was late, but I made it and there was still pizza left.
New Business:
Next Speakers: The next few meetings should be pretty interesting (but then, aren't they all?). January brings The Steve and Allan Show and MGI. Steve and Alan were to have been at the January meeting, but were held over in Las Vegas or something and had to postpone. MGI, as always, will offer tremendous discounts on products that will appear as surprises in cereal boxes the following day. February, if I read Ron's notes correctly, will bring PowerQuest, and March MP3 music. You may want to tell your kids about the March meeting: MP3 is really popular with the younger crowd. My kids listen to their records all the time.
Elections: And then, in April, our elections. Hopefully the results won't take a month to be known. (Someone pointed out that as we got down to business at the November Board meeting the polls had just closed and Bush had been declared the winner in Florida. As we sat down at the December meeting, the Supreme Court was in the process of de facto declaring Bush the winner and the Court's prestige the loser.) When I started programming, in the late 60's, we had to deal with hanging, dimpled etc. chad on our punch cards. Only we didn't call it "chad" back then. It's taken us over thirty years to learn it's name. If I remember correctly, the technical term we used was "paper hole crap", especially when it got in your desk drawer and your lunch.
Web Site: Ron reported we are running out of room on our we site. To free up space he has deleted the PDF versions of Diablo Blue editions older than three months. Ron also reported on a little know URL where you can download Widows 98 SE for free. This is a legitimate deal. Look for the details elsewhere in this newsletter.
Video Projector: Ron reported having seen one that weighs only five pounds and has all the (Continued on page
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