[ Submitted to Datafile, but I don't have a record of whether it wasever published. ]      Notes on the CHIP MeetingThe 1994 CHIP "all night special" got underway around 8:00 pm onFriday, 24 June 1994.  It was held in the same location as last year'smeeting: the Red Cross conference room in Ron Johnson's building.The meeting more-or-less began with a telephone call presentation fromEric Vogel.  He discussed the Omnibook history and the new features inthe 530 model.  (There were copies of a paper written by him aboutthis topic and a 530 brochure for reference.)  He graciouslyvolunteered his time for the call, but it was cut short by his twochildren who understandably wanted their ice cream.  Ah, well, theywill understand someday!  Preferring ice cream over calculators,indeed!Brian Walsh then spoke about his refrigerant database that he wasdeveloping for the 48*X line.  It should be avaliable on a ROM cardsoon.He also gave a summary of his trip to the UK in general and London inparticular.  This led quite naturally into...Jake Schwartz then spoke about his trip to Amsterdam.  As is now knownto all, the Amsterdam conference did not happen.  However, Jake didattend the morning "where are we and where are we going" meeting thatwas held in its stead.  He would like to thank the hosts who held thisdiscussion in English instead of Dutch.  He made an audio recording ofthis meeting.  This then led into...Craig Finseth then spoke about his ideas for a 1995 conference.Overall sentiment at the meeting was that yes, indeed, there should bea 1995 conference in Minnesota, early August was probably a fine time,yes, people from Chicago would attend, and that it was important topreserve the "informal" spirit of such conferences.  Craig has takenthis advice to heart and that, along with the offer or to to help thathe has received, makes it apparent that he will run some sort ofconference.Craig Finseth also briefly described his new program, Loki, for theHP95/100LX.  It is an RPN calcualator that tries to make good use ofthe screen and keyboard.  It also offers bin/oct/hex math, units(halfway between simple conversions and the full glory of the HP48*line), and fraction display mode.Kenneth E. Bourque then described his triangle solutions work for theHP48* line.  A paper was avaiable.Paul Kettler then described his work on "A Generalized Table-DrivenDecompiler for Keystroke-Programmable Calculators."  This is a set oftable-driven programs that runs on the HP48* line that acceptskeycodes (from the -11C and -67A in particular) and converts them backinto key-lable form.  A paper was avaiable.Richard Nelson then spoke about the contest and two writeups that hehad made on byte savings in the 48 line and how to manage equationsand variables.  I won't go into the conference any more, other than tonote the prize winners:Brian Walsh won first prize, a HP48G.Ram Naresh Gudavalli won second prize, a HP21S, an HP-16C, andsome sort of carry case (I didn't get a good look at it)Jim Lawson won third prize, which consisted of two -41C programpacs, a -41C printer, an infrared printer, and a could of "rubberduck" keyboard overlays for the -71BPaul Hubbard finished by talking about Ray-o-Vac Renewal batteries.He thought that they were a good thing.The meeting finished about 1:30 am on Saturday.  Jake Schwartz videotaped the session.