July – August 1999 — Vol 21 No 4
Source
Open PDF • Jul–Aug 1999 • Vol 21 No 4 • 96 pages
Overview
Another Order of Steak, Please (Lorin Evans, 5). BOD April + May Meeting Notes (7). April + May General Meeting Reports (Don Essick, 8, 10). Contents, Pi Fillings—The CD (11). NMS: New Millennium Syndrome ("Fred" Charters, 13) — Y2K satire ("Fred" Charters likely Lawrence under pseudonym). The 1999 Computer Camp at WAP (14). Election Results (26). Ask the Webmaster (30). The Art of Seeing: History, Culture and Digital Photography (George Covington, 36). Best of the TCS (John Ludwigson compiler, 65). 1998 Index of Journal Articles (Bonnie Ashbaugh compiler, 69).
Macintosh: Mac OS 8.6—Overview (22). Digital Edge: WWDC Wrap Up for Non Programmers (Dan Parks Sydow, 27). Review of Consultant—A Personal Information Manager (Dick Tripp, 38). SETI@home (David L. Harris, 41) — distributed-computing alien search. Acrobat 4.0—New Tricks are in Short Supply (Dennis Dimick, 44). Configuring Date and Time Using Mac OS 8.5 (Washington Apple Pi Labs, 52). Rayovac and Resource 800 to the Rescue (continued).
SIGs/Slices: Delmarva Slice Users Group Established (19) — new regional Slice on Delmarva Peninsula! Graphic Arts SIG (Apr + May, 19); Women's SIG May (21); Genealogy SIG Apr + May (16-17).
Highlights
Delmarva Slice Established
New regional Slice — Delmarva Peninsula (DE/MD/VA Eastern Shore). Pi expanding geographically.
SETI@home — David L. Harris
SETI@home (launched May 17, 1999) — distributed computing for SETI. Pi members joining.
1998 Journal Index — Bonnie Ashbaugh
Annual index continues — Ashbaugh takes over from Harvey Kaye's earlier indexing.
Mac OS 8.6
Mac OS 8.6 (May 1999) — last 68k-compatible release.
1999 Computer Camp
Pi summer computer camp for members.
WAP Election Results 1999
Results posted — Lorin Evans presumably re-elected (still President in subsequent issues).
Entities
People: Lorin Evans, Don Essick, "Fred" Charters, George Covington, John Ludwigson, Bonnie Ashbaugh, Dan Parks Sydow, Dick Tripp, David L. Harris, Dennis Dimick, Washington Apple Pi Labs Topics: Delmarva Slice, Y2K Satire, SETI@home, Mac OS 8.6, Pi Election 1999 Results, Pi Computer Camp 1999 References: Mac OS 8.6, SETI@home, Acrobat 4.0, Consultant PIM
Connections to other issues
- Delmarva Slice = new regional Slice — joins Annapolis, Frederick, Columbia
- Pi Election 1999 Results continues Lorin Evans presidency
- SETI@home = pivotal distributed-computing moment