September 2026 Meeting

Thursday, 01 October 2026 06:17

Dave Brown

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Prior to the meeting being called to order, an appeal was made for the paying of annual dues to the Treasurer, considering that the election of Officers was to be held at this meeting.

The meeting was called to order at 2:30pm by President Earl Baugh. There were 46 people in attendance.

A further review of the recent Vintage Computer Festival Southeast was discussed:

• A financial update was given for the show. The vast majority of the consignments has been made.
• All of the 2026 t-shirts were sold, very little of the previous years stock is still on hand.
• Southern Fried Gaming Expo has us listed for attendance next year.

A recap of the recent Vintage Computer Festival Midwest was covered:

• A surprising number of local members attended.
• Highlights of acquisitions and pickups was discussed.
• Several of us went to the Galloping Ghost Arcade
• Two members passed the HAM Technician exam that was given at VCFMW.

New Members

Robert, had 3D printed some AHCS logo keytags for giveaway. Bryan, gave a presentation on his Field Station 42, a “TV Guide” style TV server called Baz TV running on a 26TB hard drive with several hundred hours of programming and 3000 commercials included.

Presentations

Jon gave a briefing on a newly designed Final Grom cartridge for the TI-99/4A that is running Dragons Lair game and 30 minutes of Looney Tunes cartoons. He has also greatly improved the TI-99/4A Diagnostic cartridge into an awesome menu driven upgrade of the existing cartridges abilities. He has also ported the diagnostics to the Tomy Tutor using a “shim” that runs from ROM.

Logg reminded the membership that there is an up to $2000 bounty on older Runescape games found on old hard drives, depending on the version discovered.

Andre discussed a project related to PCI sound integration.

A Presentation is scheduled by Logg for the November meeting. He will be selecting from a mere 3000 photos taken at VCFMW.

Announcements

Items announced for consideration at the next meeting include:

• Raising the membership dues from $20 to $25?
• Raising the VCFSE Table price from $20 to a yet to be discussed price?
• Do Exhibitors at VCFSE need to be Members?
• Do Exhibitors at VCFSE need to be Exhibitors or can they be Vendors? The leadership of SFGE makes a distinction, should we?
• Should we spend funds to buy a microphone for meetings and presentations?
• Should we buy another IPad for a second checkout at VCFSE?

Election of Officers for the new Membership and Fiscal year

An appeal was made by the Secretary for any Members that wanted to be nominated for a position on the Board of Directors. There were no volunteers. Following a request for a Motion, A motion was made, seconded and approved unanimously to reelect the current Officers for another term to maintain the Status Quo. Re-elected were Earl Baugh – President, Jon Guidry – Vice President, Dave Brown – Treasurer, Kyle Richardson – Social Media Coordinator and Bill Blackburn – Secretary.

The meeting was concluded at 4:20pm and 12 members adjourned to Sonny’s BBQ for offtopic discussions.

Bill Blackburn

AHCS Secretarty