thad@cup.portal.com (09/12/88)
SEPTEMBER 1988 BADGE MEETING The September 1988 BADGE (Bay Area Amiga Developers' GroupE) meeting will be held Thursday, September 15, 1988, in the Turing Auditorium of the Jordan Quad on the Stanford University campus. The agenda features Jay Miner on "Amiga Hardware". Also speaking be Dave Needle (subject unknown). October will be the BADGE Killer Demo Contest, and November will feature Dale Luck on "Amiga X-Windows". BADGE meetings begin at 8:15 PM though the room may be available by 7:45 PM. For those arriving early, please hold your discussions away from the room to avoid disturbing classes in session. If you have a machine that you can bring to BADGE, please do so; the facilities include a large video projection system and comfortable seating. Following the meeting (~11PM) will be the traditional post-meeting meeting at the Oasis in Menlo Park (the local "watering-hole", 19th tee, etc. :-) To get to BADGE, take the Bayshore Freeway (Route 101) to the University Ave exit. Proceed west on University past El Camino Real onto the Stanford campus. Proceed straight until Campus drive and turn right. Follow Campus Drive until Panama Street, and take a left. Park in the first parking lot on your left (about a block down.) Detailed maps available on request. The Bay Area Amiga Developers' GroupE (BADGE) is an organization of serious hardware and software developers for the Amiga computer. The charter is to promote and facilitate the development of new Amiga products by providing a forum for communication between developers. BADGE meets the third Thursday every month at Turing Auditorium in the Jordan Quad at Stanford University. For more information, contact Thad Floryan, at: UUCP: ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad (OR) thad@cup.portal.com BBS: BBS-JC 415/961-7250 as "Thad Floryan" or "SYSOP" BBS: BBS-HT 408/737-0900 as "Thad Floryan" or "SYSOP" BBS: FAUG-BBS 415/595-2479 as "Thad Floryan"
ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) (09/14/88)
[-: Commodore uses their profits to push back the frontiers of computing.
Apple uses their profits to push back the frontiers of frivolous litigation. :-]
Slight correction in the BADGE meeting announcement (though it may
come too late).
Jay Miner will be speaking on the hardware. However, Dave Needle
will not be able to attend; he's too busy working on The Secret Project at
Epyx with -=RJ=-.
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"Work FOR? I don't work FOR anybody! I'm just having fun." -- The Doctorthad@cup.portal.com (09/20/88)
Thanks to the efforts of several cretins posting garbage from PORTAL
(e.g. J-J ("Help me PUH-L-E-E-E-Z-E"), Rob Noha (aka J-J), and Nanook of
the South ("Send a dead kid a postcard")), uucp and Usenet traffic in and
out of PORTAL appears to be being "filtered" at several sites, resulting in
a LOT of bounced e-mail and other oddities and weirdness.
I've replied to all BADGE- and Amiga-related mail sent me; if it "bounces"
there's nothing I can do 'cept refer the matter to PORTAL's SysAdmin. Sorry.
In any event ....
The September 15 BADGE meeting WAS videotaped. This was the meeting featuring
Jay Miner. Recording was done under the auspices of Winner's Circle Computer
Systems (Berkeley, CA) and as soon as I receive information from them I'll
post information for those who may wish to get a copy of the tape for their
developers' and users' group.
BADGE is a very loosely structured (if at all! :-) organization permitted
to hold meetings at Stanford University because a numbers of its "members"
are affiliated with Stanford in one way or another; all the other "members"
are "freeloaders" (to use one person's definition) in that their interests
lie with the Amiga and not with Stanford. Such is life! :-)
BADGE has no dues and no newsletter. If one attends a meeting, one is a
"member." Informal attempts will be made to see that meetings ARE
videotaped, but this is a voluntary effort by those who happen to have the
equipment and are present at a meeting.
By popular acclaim (he was "volunteered" by the members!), Leo Schwab is
the present chairperson. That is, he is the first one to speak at each
meeting and to introduce the other guests.
Tom Rokicki is the Stanford "sponsor"; he arranges for the room to be
available for the BADGE meetings.
Randy Spencer is the coordinator for the BADGE Killer Demo Contests.
Dave Comstock, Gary Starkweather, and I comprise the Speakers' Committee; we
beg, plead, entice and cajole people to discuss their current projects and
other interesting goings-on about the Amiga.
A sizeable percentage of active developers whose products ARE on the dealers'
shelves comprise the "membership", along with other interested parties.
If YOU would like to speak at BADGE, please send me e-mail. Gary isn't on
Usenet, and Dave Comstock is changing uucp addresses.
Marco Papa (from Felsina Software) has expressed an interest to present
his project(s) at any of the Dec 88 or Jan 89 meetings.
Speak at BADGE (or be square :-)
Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]