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<DIV>Eric mentioned that this weekends DPRG meeting is being held at the Garland
Warehouse (Club House) location. Great. Lets bring some food in.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have another tasty spiral cut Ham that I will unfurl. </DIV>
<DIV>Maybe someone will post if they can bring some sides.</DIV>
<DIV>Bring your favorite beverage -- soda pop beer whatever.</DIV>
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<DIV>Bring your favorite project. </DIV>
<DIV>We have been having a great time working on projects and sharing
information.</DIV>
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<DIV>Mark brought in a really cool HP programmable calculator from the 1960's
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<DIV>Like about 300 transistors and the thing can execute stored programs, do
like 16 digit arithmetic using a 1 bit ALU, transcendental functions...
CRT display.. nifty.</DIV>
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<DIV>Scott's big red car was running.</DIV>
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<DIV>And, yes, Slinky Bot was up and running. </DIV>
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<DIV>Ron</DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Start the year off right. <A title="http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489" href="http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489" target="_blank">Easy ways to stay in shape</A> in the new year. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>