<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>I went to several meetings of T.R.A.C.E.</span></div><div><br>They had a lot of money in their bank account, but had to disband for a strange reason: </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">no one in the entire club was willing to volunteer to DO anything, or to take on responsibilities associated with any title.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">No one was willing to be president.</div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">No one was willing to be vice president.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">No one was willing to be secretary.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times
new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">No one was willing to DO anything whatsoever.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">Everybody wanted to benefit from club membership, but the club cannot exist without a few people doing something.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">I may still have, in many
gigabytes of data, the names of various members of that club.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">I think that one member was named something like Victor Pieroban, and that he had something to do with electronic cash registers.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">People travelled for long distances to attend - Newmarket, etc.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">The abbreviation T.R.A.C.E. was more recently used for an unrelated group. I forget what.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">James E. McIntosh</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><a
href="mailto:JamesEMcIntosh-Iimme/3Z544AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">JamesEMcIntosh-Iimme/3Z544AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></font><br>> | BTW, anyone here remember TRACE (Toronto Region Association of Computer<br>> | Enthusiasts)?<br>> <br>> I never went to a meeting, but I saw a few traces of them (eg.<br>> newsletters).<br><br>The used to meet at Humber College, but, IIRC, they also had some
meetings in the Ontario Science Centre.<br><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>