There was some qood discussion on our classes and what classes will be held. There will not be a basic Basic class unless more of you are interested. There will be Advanced Basic and Intro to Machine Code. Special class will be the Modem Class. The first two classes will be taught by Lloyd Dreger and the Modem class will be taught by Dave Franson. If interested See Dick Cultice for sianup sheets.
There was more discussion dealing with the COMFUTERFEST in May and what was happening there. SMUG will be givina two seminars. The first will be Dave Franson with a Graphics presentation. The second will be Dick Cultice. Dave, again, and myself (Bill Heberlein). This presentation will be on printers and their use.
President Neal Schultz asked if both seminars could be presented at the next meeting. Because of the length, 50 min., it was decided to present shortened versions. This should be a very informative meeting. If you can’t make it watch for future serials of both in this newsletter.
The final bit of business was the creation of a digitizer for the TS2068. Gordon Kraemer, Hardware Hacker, will look into what is required to build one. What this means is that the TS2068 can take a picture from a TV screen and copy it to the computer. The only requirement would be that the picture must be still while the computer “reads” the screen. So I think it will require a video recorder. IF THIS WORKS just think of the pictures that can be stored in the memory of the computer. You can store family, homes or anything you have on your VCR.