[Amateur-SIG] HAM SIG Meeting September 5

[Todd Collins]

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 5
7:00 at Valley Street

TOPIC:  Windows Vista OS

Shawna Collins has been experimenting and learning about Vista for months as 
part of her job at University of Dayton (UDit).    She now has a copy of 
Vista Ultimate --  the last beta before Mr. Gates launches this to the 
masses.

She will show you what is different, and what is the same, and how it will 
change your computing world.  Will your amateur radio apps still work? 
Research into that is being done.  Is it better than XP or should I just 
roll back to 98?  That is for you to decide ...

She will also demo the new Office ... too many changes to diagram here, just 
be prepared to be surprised!

This is an important meeting, because the Vista world is coming soon and in 
true Microsoft fashion it will become the ubiquitous OS soon enough.

I will be giving an update on my lengthy (but coming along!) Winlink project 
and recruiting help for the final push to a working system.  Testers and 
beta testers are the rule of the day as I determine how well it can handle 
messages and how far my signal gets out.  I will help you get started and if 
there is enough interest we can have a configuration/testing/play sesssion.
Perhaps DMA Ham SIG can be the lead agency in getting the Miami Valley 
equipped for packet and Winlink.  Someday we are going to have our disaster 
and I want to be ready!

See you there

Todd

N2TUN

DMA Ham SIG Co-Leader
toddc at woh.rr.com
937-545-7015