[Glastonbury] next meeting

[Sean Miller]

Martin Wheeler wrote:

> I have a *PRESSING* need to be able to read 5-1/4" disks under Linux 
> -- I'm sifting through all my old software dating back to 1979 [8" 
> disks !!!] and I'm not sure that I'm not going to have to build a new 
> Linux box with a 5-1/4" drive incorporated to do it.  (I have a full 
> bookcase of such disks, plus almost 1000 3-1/2" disks which need their 
> contents transferred.) I also need to pull off some of my early [1984] 
> C programs from these disks, and I don't know *how* I'm going to go 
> about it -- I'd prefer a USB outboard drive, but I doubt such beasts 
> exist.)

I think somewhere (unless I've thrown it out - but I don't think so) I 
have a 5.25 drive... but it's not USB (far from it)... not sure what 
type of controller it'd require either.

But I shall look it out if you want.

> And can we have a *short* discussion on the possibility of changing 
> the nights we meet?  There seems to be some sort of agreement that 
> Wednesdays are not suitable; also that first Wednesdays of the month 
> don't really suit the school -- how's about second Thursday of the month?
> [Steve, does that create problems for the school?]

Thursdays or Tuesdays would be best for me.  Third Thursday is not good 
as that is the night of another regular meeting.

I would also like to discuss contingency for school holidays too, as 
these seem to now drift all over the place... what, for example, is the 
group's approach to August? Shall we make it part of the "statute" that 
there is never an August meeting, or shall we agree that we have such a 
thing at a different venue?

I'd like to see folks being able to just intuitively say "hey, it's the 
..nd .... of the month - must be LUGOG time!"

Sean