Endacott Society – Computer Study Group - October 18, 2006 – Jerry Niebaum

A few weeks ago I committed to bring a microcomputer chip for you to look at. I have one here today. It is an old chip from the 1970’s. They haven’t changed much in size today, but have changed immensely in complexity. The chip I’m passing around is an MOS Technology 6502, which was the heart of the Apple II and the Commodore Pet computers of the late 1970’s.

Following the Ten O’Clock Scholars coffee on Nov. 15 in this room we will have a session on Medicare Plan D – Prescription Drugs and how to use government Web systems to help you decide on a plan that’s right for you.

Next week I will not be here. Tomorrow Judy and I head for my 49^th high school reunion in Caldwell, Kansas. In anticipation of my 50^th next year I’ve created a class Web site:

Caldwell High School. Our speaker next week is a friend of mine, Bill Klein, who works in Networking and Telecommunications at KU. He will share some of his ideas about networking computers.

For current information about programs don’t forget to check our Web site at:

www.wizardofkansas.com/OLDKU to review our planned programs.

I would like to share with you today some of the fun stuff I’ve been doing with computers. I really like working with computers and developing Web pages like those I’ve shown to you in the past. The following link is to the current version of the

Proposed Endacott Web site This site is not quite ready for prime viewing, but we expect to announce it to the larger group and move the files to the KU server along with publication of the November newsletter.

Now let me tell you about my yesterday, but you won’t be able to access this information until sometime later. The Endacott Society has a wonderful collection of scrapbooks in our library that date back to 1984 and the creation of the Endacott Society. How many of you have actually looked through any of them? Part of the problem is that few members are aware of them and we want to use technology to help that a bit. Last week Max Lucas and I met in the library to talk about how we might do this and yesterday I spent a few hours following up on that. With an easel, tripod, laptop computer, and digital camera I photographed more than half of the first volume of our scrapbooks. Here is what I was able to do. DEMO