Regular member attendees were:
Roy, Ed, Bill, and Greg

We had the meeting in Roy's basement across the street from the church. He has again started to move his Apple II collection. This time to a room with dedicated prupose.

Bill was kind enough to bring doughnuts for us to enjoy. Thankx Bill!

Bill brought in a 3.5" CD-R he placed Apple II disk images onto. Bill reports the media holds about 180Megs of information. It was burned in a Mac using the HFS file system so is readable on a Mac or IIgs with CD and HFS capabilities.

There was some discussion of how to replace a Rom1 IIgs battery. We learned two ways of replaceing the soldered in battery.

Bill brought in a AAA battery holder and told us we could solder it in place of a regular IIgs battery. It is alot less expensive and you do not have to mess with those hard to find batteries. Bill stated that the AAA batteries would last a very long time. Roy was concerned about the voltage difference between a 3.6 volt lithium battery and the 3 volts one would get from this method of replcaement. Ed stated that the CMOS memory technology specifications will easily allow for 3 volts to sustain the memory.

Roy cracked open a IIgs and showed us what he learned a few years back at one of the original Applelink meetings. You take a standard 'tadarian' PC lithium battery and attach it to the leads of the old IIgs battery. Cut off the old battery as close to the battery as feasible and bend the leads toward each other. Take the two pin connectors for the tadarian and slide one on each lead and stick the velcro to the bottom of the case.

Greg set up his IIgs to do a demonstration. The IIgs in question had once again "been working fine" before he brought it here. Ed did some basic troubleshooting but it failed all tests across the board, it would not even reset properly. Maybe next month, eh Greg?

There was some discussion of space missions and why they tend to use 'older' technology. The older technology is less suceptable to radiation and random electrons being displaced.

Roy showed off his Windows XP box and we watched MPEGs he downloaded from the internet.
Roy: A little popcorn would have been nice. :)

After the meeting, Greg and Ed got together to look over his now broken IIgs. There was actually a flagrant issue with the accelerator. It had a broken pin in the CPU socket connector. They went over to Radio Shack and attempted to find a replacement connector or pin. Finding none, Greg bought an inexpensive component and borrowed it's leg. We soldered the new leg on to the stub of the old one, cut and filed it a proper size and shape and it seems to be working well enough now.