Anyone here in lower Wisconsin?

[Tom Peters]

Here I am in Milwaukee metro area. (Menomonee Falls). Heard of the 
Wisconsin Computer Society? Al's home turf.

At 04:59 PM 6/2/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>I've just started back to work for the University of Wisconsin,
>putting me in Madison for the summer before I set out in October for
>_another_ year at the Pole.  In the meantime, I was curious how many
>listmembers were in Wisconsin.  ISTR someone here is up in Appleton,
>but I can't remember who that is.  Not sure if anyone else is in the
>area or not, so I thought I'd just  give a shout.
>
>I hauled along my 1802 kits (among other junque) in anticipation of
>getting things ready for VCF-Midwest next month.  One fun thing I
>picked up right before I left town was a short stack of Elf
>frontpanels, custom milled for me out of 3/16" ABS... a friend of the
>families owns a business that happens to have a CNC machine, and they
>happen to mill plastic stock.  I approached him for some scrap stock,
>and he gets interested enough to machine out a dozen switch holes
>_with_ locator notches (the holes look kinda like a silhouette of the
>Commodore chicken-head logo, but that's fine - the notches work
>*great* at keeping the switches from turning in the holes).  I look
>forward to mounting one on my Spare Time Gizmos Elf 2000.  Now I just
>need to sit down and make a final list of parts I _don't_ have on hand
>and finish assembly.
>
>So if anyone is within striking distance of Madison, give me a shout
>offline and maybe we can get together while I'm in the area.
>
>-ethan


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