Great meeting! Attending were Alex Bartonek, Juan Gutierrez, John Herron, Don Kassebaum, Keith Sterzing, Sergei Sterzing, and George Wyche.
George brought his A1. You can just see Sergei's head in front of the monitor. Most of the time Alex was checking it out.
Keith brought his A3000 and after everyone got a decent amount of pizza we collaborated on getting the A3000 to breathe again. Showed Keith the "hold down two buttons" trick to avoiding running the Startup-sequence.
Whoa! There's no C: on this hard disk. Keith had some 2.04 boot disks, but the software complained bitterly about the mismatched (newer!) ROM. John suggested we ignore that and forge ahead anyway.
Alex suggested we modify the Startup-sequence to have the floppy's C: in the command path. That really got us going. The A3000 began to rise through the phlegm toward the surface.
I looked around the hard disk and found (using
the 2.04 search and 2.04 list commands) a *recent* bunch of files under Miami in a
c subdirectory. We renamed it to c:. Wah lah! Success.
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Not enough. Keith forged ahead. How come YAM2.4 update hangs the mail program, but the older version comes up right away?
The short answer is, Keith was impatient. The longer one entails use of snoopdos and 2 cents by just about all of us. While we were theorizing the program finally ran long enough to rebuild all the tables for its somehow corrupted (running old YAM?) database of emails. We carefully closed the app and the next time it ran, it popped right up.
Well, we knew our cue and called it an evening, riding the wave of success all around.
Don showed us some memorabilia: He picked up the "Joy Board" for a couple $ and a copy of a very eary Amiga game - Marble Madness. Don vowed to bring a Amiga capable of showing their operation.
Hey! Maybe that could be the next meeting program.
