In attendance were: John Berry, Charlie Boas, Don Kassebaum, Herman Nelson, Keith Sterzing, George Wyche and Bo Zimmerman.

George related that he went over to Keith Sterzing's house to help with installation of the A3000 battery and further assessing his printer problems.

The key was having an nice, old printer that directly accepted ASCII input. It showed clearly that one of the 8520 chip's pins was not delivering its signal. The aggravating thing was to discover that this A3000 was entirely missing its clock battery and that whoever removed it cut it off flush with the motherboard. That required us to completely disassemble the computer to get at both sides to desolder the lead holes. I didn't get back home until after midnight! We had fixed 4 of his 5 problems. Only YAM troubles remain.

OK. For tonight's meeting we had Charlie's A2000 which stopping running about a year ago and whose #1 floppy drive was kaput. He had a parts A2000 to canabalize. You can see in that 2nd picture that we came prepared. Those are Bo's car fixing tools... but, they worked! That and the nice folks at the library's front desk.

You see in the last picture the empty Large Savage pizza plate that Charlie and I made short work of. We talked in some detail about Bo's Coffee Mud, a text based, multiuser, dungeon that he owns and programs.