Howdy Fellow Commodore Users!

Don't forget this month is our annual election of officers for the 2002 thru 2003 year. If you can't make it to this month's meeting, and wish to be nominated for an office, please let myself or one of the other officers know of your interest. We'll gladly add you to the nomination list.

Since the last expo in Chicago, I've been wanting to do a hobby project like what was demonstrated by Nicholas Coplin and his 64HDD project. But I wanted to do it a little differently than how Nicholas tackled it. You can see his projects at: http://www.64hdd.com/

Lucky for me, I work at a computer store, and obsolete equipment that is owned by the store as fixed assets (for those accountants out there reading), gets put up for sale on a regular basis. One of which happened to be a 486DX2 that held the position of server for holding the restore images for units that needed software reloaded back onto their hard drives. I was there when that unit was christened to it's new position, and I was there when it was decommisioned. Since it ran 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for nearly 5 years without anything needing replaced, I deemed it a great machine for my upcoming project I had running in the back of my mind. Since we were selling new machines 40 times faster, I got the machine, with all it's added goodies for a song. If anything goes wrong with it, I won't cry much, since not much was originally sunk into it monetarily by myself.

I intend to create a full fledged article in a future issue, along with a demo when I get everything running smoothly. In the meantime, look over the website I mentioned above, it has a lot of interesting ideas listed there for anyone wanting to tinker around with one of the most wonderful hobby machines out there, the Commodore Computer!

Keep on Commodoring! See you on May 19th!