lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) (01/05/90)
It's all set! Sonya (of the USENIX Association) and I spoke today, and there doesn't appear to be anything stopping the birds-of-a-feather meeting scheduled now for: Wednesday, January, 24, 1990 from 8PM to 10PM From what I'm told this is directly following the USENIX Reception. What's going to go on? Well for starters, it's going to be software and hardware discussions about a poor little machine, known to us by many names (3B1, PC7300, S/50, and UNIX PC), that is no longer being sold or supported (fully) by _AT&T_. The following topics, plus more can be discussed (if the demand warrants it) ... The ICUS plans to install two hard drives, bigger hard drives, P5.1, WD2010s, seek time performance, Voice Power boards, Tape drives, networking, sockets library, Botton's VIDPAL upgrade and uses, the Fix Disk 2.0 (will it ever be released from AT&T), X windows port, replacing software written by AT&T on your machine with public domain based software, porting other operating system versions (is it possible and/or feasible?), removing a 3B1 from it's "custom" case and making another "custom" one, AT&T hotline support, possibility of a UNIX pc Newsletter, etc... Other topics are almost guaranteed to come up in the informal discussions... Demonstrations (hardware and software wise)... Gil and I are bringing hardware down with us. Yes, I've decided to brave the 5 hour drive from New York to Washington DC (assuming the weather stays on our side). Most likely we'll have two 3B1's there, my other development machine (icusdvlp), and Gil's other (pretzel). Other hardware that will be installed is Voice Power boards and if time is on our side, the ICUS 2nd hard drive expansion board. Also installed for demonstration purposes is Brian Botton's VIDPAL board. We can open up my machine to give those who don't know, a quick lesson, as well as showing off Brian's work. There will be some voice power demonstrations, and graphics demonstrations, but at this time I'm not at liberty to go into detail [sort of a non-disclosure agreement between friends :-)] as well as other good to come! One machine will be there for the customary public domain software swapping. BTW: If you are coming, please let me know I'd like to get an informal count on who might attend. If you are coming, and have stuff to contribute either vocally or visually, please contact me ASAP. -Lenny -- | Lenny Tropiano ICUS Software Systems lenny@icus.islp.ny.us | | {ames,pacbell,decuac,hombre,sbcs,attctc}!icus!lenny attmail!icus!lenny | +------- ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752 -------+