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Thanks! Much appreciated. See you at CTI Friday. Steve

I will be driving down to Chicago (from Canada) on the Thursday and was wondering about the Friday event. I am willing to contribute for the conference room (on the PayPal pool) but I am not clear on which hotel it will be held in. Can someone please state clearly the Hotel name and address, plus the conference room name and the times the get together will take place. I won't be staying at the hotel but as I will have my car with me, I'll be able to get there with little inconvenience. I do want to attend the pre-Faire pub meal on Friday evening and hope this meal will be taken into account for the Friday event. I do not have anything to contribute to the proceedings but am always interesting in learning something new...

Sure... not sure where we would meet but I am open to suggestions. I go to a small PC group gathering in Scarborough often but it is held in a closed location... not open to the general public. I also belong to another PC Users Group in Barrie, although because I play softball in the summer months, for me Barrie is a Sept to April thing. Maybe we can meet at a large coffee shop or MacDonalds? Or a meeting room in a library? I use to be the paper librarian for the Toronto 9T9 User Group and still have many binders of old User Group newsletters from Canada, the States, England and more. My plan for the future is to start learning to program in assembly language on the 99/4A. I also am interested in exploring Forth with Lee Stewart's fbForth. I picked up his Forth Cartridge at the last Chicago Faire. Steve PS I can probably send an email to the fellow in Woodbridge that has a TI-99, that I met at the World Of Commodore earlier this year.

I remember fondly the Ottawa TI Faires in Merivale High School. I met Terri Masters there, very friendly woman from LeHigh TI group in the U.S. (I think). I met a TI owner at the last "World Of Commodore" show (Mar 2017?) here in Toronto. He lives in Woodbridge. I have relatives in the Ottawa area (Winchester / Chesterville) and get out there once or twice a year.

So as a casual visitor, when is the best time to drop in? I was planning to go on the Saturday morning but I could switch that to Sunday morning if it were a better choice. Steve PS. I recently purchased an ADAM floppy drive on ebay... still have to verify if my ADAM system is running. I do not have a lot of software for the ADAM but there definitely is some curiousity there on my part. A fellow PC club member in my area has a copy of the system ROM disassembly document, which I have scanned to go through at a late date. Unfortunately some of the pages were copied incorrectly and half of the content of those pages are missing (perhaps 10-20 pages).

I've booked my room already at Motel 6 about 10 miles away from the library (I'm a cheap miser). This will be my 3rd time... last year and once in the 80s with 6 or more other 9T9er (Toronto Users Group) members. We rented a Winnebago and used it for our accommodations too. I'm hoping that "arcadeshopper" will be there so I can come away with the FlashROM99. Lasted year I arrived late Friday night, so this year I'm driving down on Thursday. Have to make a pitstop at Walmart to pick up my 6 month supply of dark chocolate peanut M & Ms. Can't get them in Canada! Need to find out where the bar is for the Friday night get together... Steve

Looking at the registration form for the convention, I'm guessing that one of the conference rooms in the Hampton Inn is the venue for the convention. Just want someone to confirm for me. Thanks for your help. Steve

A dumb question... as a Canadian, I was wondering can I just show up and pay admission at the door? I am primarily a TI 99 user but I do have an Adam sitting in the basement unused for a number of years. I'm just curious enough to want to go and checkout the community and see what the 9918 VDP chip is capable of. ...Steve

I just saw a modification in the Vol 2 No 4 Shift 838 Newsletter that shows how to pass the 5V power line from the console through the Speech Synthesizer so that the NanoPEB and the C7+ can be powered. No need for an external power supply. Pretty neat!

Combat Commando... I am interested in one of the TI pins. Not sure how to contact you as Atariage is new to me. As a Canadian, not sure of the UPS charges. Please let me know. Thanks!