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Minutes of Meetings
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December 15, 2003 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:08 pm. Attendance: 4, 7 later on. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the November meeting. Discussion
Dale Roethig mentioned the upcoming Wright Brothers centennial.
A guest, Donald Bean, introduced himself.
Kevin Cook demonstrated the Urban Terror mod to Quake.The meeting was adjourned at 8:58 pm. |
November 17, 2003
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President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:08 pm. Attendance: 5, 7 later on. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the October meeting. Discussion
There was a discussion of video cards.
Kevin Cook showed up wearing an interesting mask in keeping with the football season.
Phil Moughmer updated us about the print cable. Turns out that the reservoir was dry and the printer was sending back a false signal. The cable was just fine.
Discussion turned to typing classes. Gary Köhler told about taking such a class in summer school at a time when very few boys took such classes and how handy it was because that summer he was exposed to computers and keypunching.
Dennis Drewek described a server farm shown on TechTV.
Kevin Cook brought in a 128Mb USB pen drive, demonstrated Zone Alarm.
There was much "ooh-ing" and "ahh-ing" over John Schwarzmeier's new digital video camera, a Samsung SCD230.
There were some updates about patents and the new broadcast flag for HDTV.
At the next meeting, we will attempt to use John Schwarzmeier's camera to convert videotape to digital format.The meeting was adjourned at 8:52 pm. |
October 20, 2003 |
Secretary Gary Köhler called the meeting to order at 7:04 pm and read the minutes of the September meeting. President Dale Roethig showed up. Attendance: 5, 8 later on. A member, Ron Fontaine, introduced himself as this was the first regular meeting he had attended. Discussion
Phil Moughmer asked where he could get a printer cable for an old Macintosh.
Dale Roethig demonstrated his new "shoebox" computer.
Phil Moughmer asked how to get data from a System 7 era Macintosh over to a PC.
Dennis Drewek showed off an incredible picture printed on his new printer. It was indistinguishable from a postcard!
Discussion turned to money, such as the new $20 bills.DemonstrationDale Roethig demonstrated the latest version of Microsoft's flight simulator program, Flight Simulator 2004. We got to crash lots of emulations of classic planes!The meeting was adjourned at 9:08 pm. |
September 15, 2003 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:04 pm. Attendance: 5. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the August meeting. Discussion
There was much ooh-ing and ahh-ing over John Schwarzmeier's new laptop computer.
Dennis Drewek showed us the new memory chip used by his new digital camera, a Fuji 3800.
Dennis Drewek related his experiences with Tivo.
There was a general discussion of televisions.The meeting was adjourned at 8:52 pm. |
August 18, 2003 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:12 pm. Attendance: 6. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the July meeting. Discussion
Gary Köhler described problems his father had been having with AOL 8.0 again.
Dale Roethig reported on GameFest. We grossed $341 for a net of $285 from 90 customers. In all GameFest had 1200 people in attendance, not bad for a first occurrence and one week after GenCon in Indianapolis. Now we are looking ahead to RockCon.
John Schwarzmeier had information about the SwapFest at Grayslake September 20-1.
Phil Moughmer showed us some of his pictures from GameFest, including a few that he had been able to touch up.
Kevin Cook shared his pictures from GameFest.The meeting was adjourned at 8:43 pm. |
July 21, 2003 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:21 pm. Attendance: 5. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the June meeting. Discussion
Gary Köhler described problems his father had been having with AOL 8.0.
The Game Cube was demonstrated.
Gary Köhler mentioned the recent lawsuit brought by SCO against IBM and its implications for Linux.
The new movie Pirates of the Caribbean was discussed.
There was discussion of the upcoming Gamefest.
Phil Moughmer had a question about the address book in Outlook.
There was a discussion of cutting and pasting.
Gary Köhler asked about a frequent file in use problem in Windows XP.
There was further planning for Gamefest.The meeting was adjourned at 9:05 pm. |