Regular member attendees were:
Roy, Dain, Ed, Bill & Bryce

Roy is looking to thin his Apple II collection now that he has a handle on his storage limitations. Heads Up!

Wow, you should see Roy's reworked computer room. His shrine to computerdom stretches from the steps, all the way around the pool table along the wall, spanning the two rooms and around two corners. Several Apple computers are out there so as Roy puts it "we can spread out if we want". Not to mention his main room where the AppleLinc server, a IIgs, a IIe, Mac Power PC and an Windows computer all live in harmony and will soon be networked together. Pretty cool.

We found out that the Mac is not hooked into the net yet. (No high speed internet downloads, so far.) Roy is supposed to be working on the room/computers for Saturday's meeting. Once in place we should be able to DL and make disks at will.

The AppleLinc server is due for an upgrade soon too. A high capacity drive is to be put online for storage so we can archive everything. And we may have room to mirror some sites and maybe more.

Bill Demo'd the ProFix program. I witnessed four Dos33 volumes on the HD. Bill thinks the limit to the number of Dos33 volumes that ProFix supports is 63. (Hmm, 63 * 400k = 25M) Wow, 25 Megs of DOS33 stuff in one place. It's too bad so many older programs use disk sector level and direct hardware access instead of the Dos MLI for files, it'd be really nice to have everything I own on one (63) HD. The prospect of PrintShop and all the graphics in one place sounds mighty tempting. (I remember patching PrintShop to read the catalog instead of the track 11 sectors, I wonder if it would work on a ProFix drive.)

Bill forgot the eprom eraser.

Bryce came by and showed off his VT100 terminal emulator CDA. Works very well. He logged into Inebraska and browsed the web with Linx and/or Links, text based web browsers for Unix. E-bay is very cool in text, I've never seen that done well before. It was stunning to behold.

While online, Roy had Bryce pull up IRC. Roy feels A2Central is pay only while IRC is free, so why not have chats there where everyone can afford to join in. Meanwhile Dain grabbed the Windows computer and joined Bryce in chat. Pretty cool.

Bill has been collecting information on how to do an IRC client for the Apple II. I encouraged him to proceed and utilize Marinetti so it would be compatible with the IIgs standard for today. I informed Bill that the Marinetti source had finally been released, I saw a download for it.

Then Dain and Bryce got off into what they can do through their Unix shells. It was like dueling banjos or a tennis match going back and forth. With this server I can do this... Well mine can do that too, only better. Very neat to see the IIgs display things and compare it to how the Windows machine looked, through a Unix shell.

Bryce's computer is very cool. He has a graphic on his desktop of the Windows logo (waving flag) with a circle and line through it on his desktop. He also has some neat sounds and the like.

Club Update from Roy:

I think it fair to say that a good time was had by all at last night's (April 25) AppleLinc meeting - we meet again this Saturday morning. Audio Animator was demoed, as was using a IIgs (though a //e or //c would have worked just as well) to engage in IRC. Efnet channel #appleiigs was used with me on my Windoze box, and Bryce on the IIgs. Some discussion was on the need to see an IRC client created for the IIgs.

There is a possibility that on Saturday Bill will be able to help me install the system and suite software on my latest "toy": a Lisa 2/10.

Work on cataloging the magazines, journals and books owned by the club and/or club members has slowed to a crawl, but hopefully will pick up again this month. We need to expand storage on the machine that hosts our website, as we wish to put the club software library on an ftp site; more than 15 years of DoMs accessible to download.