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Exec address: 31746964
File contents
Well here is EUG21. I was thinking what could I do to mark the 21 
figure. To be honest I didn't really want to do anything but I needn't
have worried because EUG members have come up trumps and there is an extra
large EUG this time which people will be talking about for years to come,
'Remenber the summer of 95 long hot sun, and EUG21?'

Apologies to our members on and south of the equator. I realise that it's
winter there.

Recently my wife and I needed to go to Paris for a couple of days. We
decided to take the opportunity to have a go on the Channel Tunnel. Now I
was one of those people living in Britian who thought the tunnel was about
the best idea since the paperclip. I won't argue the point here but for
the benefit of non-UK residents most people here were either in favour or
against.

We managed to book seats on a coach going to Paris when we needed to go.
We were all quite excited by the prospect and the 5 hour journey to the
tunnel wasn't really a problem. But when were there we had to queue for
about 45 minutes while an electronic sign showed the 'Next Train Will
Depart at...' and the time was displayed except it was repeatedly put
forward by five minutes every five minutes. No explainations, no
apologies.  Eventually we started moving towards the train, we had to go
over a bridge which had two lanes. There was another bus stopped on one of
the lanes. We thought someone had broken down but as we passed it we saw
that it was a Channel Tunnel maintenance bus and the maintenance crew were
inside having their cup of tea! Getting on board the train was slow and
the smell of exhust fumes unpleasent. Once underway the journey was very
smooth and the air clean if a little over hot. Just about everybody had to
get out of their vehicles because the slight movement of the train on the
vehicles suspension made them uncomfortable. There was no-where to sit,
nothing to do and we just had to wait for the half hour for the journey to
end. At the other end disembarking was very quick.

Now most of us thought that this might have been a little bit of teething
trouble, and it was the British side after all. On the return journey
things were exactly the same except this time we had to wait 2 hours. 

Now I think everyone should try the Channel tunnel at least once if only
to be able to say you did when it has finally closed down. But we won't
be using it again, the ferry may take longer, but it's comfortable, we
can walk around, relax, get refreshments and it's a lot cheeper. 
I can't confirn this but it has been suggested that the delays are caused
by the company themselves, they apparently wait untill they have enough
passengers before loading the train. Since passengers have already paid
their tickets deciding to switch to a ferry at that late time is out of
the question. The Tunnel Company have got you. If this is true and some
news reports I have read seem to corroborate it then it is a disgraceful
practice and possably illegal.

It seems that the engineering achevement of the centuary can't solve the
problem of simple bad management.

I hoped to have a big equipment review for this EUG. Unfortunately not
many review submissions came. I did have a couple sent earluer on this
year but to be honest I haven't had the time to look for them. Sorry to
those members, I will try to put them in for EUG22. I did also intend to
write a few myself on some of my equipment. They however haven't got past
the stage of being written in my head. 

The reason who EUG21 is so late is because I have been helping to build a
new cafe beside a major supermarket. It was a pleasure to do it, all of
the equipment was top quality. I was working in excess of 15 hours a day 7
days a week but the final result is good. It will be nice to go there and
reflect that I had a hand in building it. It does make a difference. 

With the huge number of files in EUG21 I have tried my best to check it
carefully but repeated rechecking and rechecking does take a lot of time.
If there are any problems please do get in touch. Everything works and any
problems will probably be my fault and not the programming skills of the
members. I must confess to having a little smirk at Richard's boob in
EUG20, it's nice to see that I'm not the only one to make mistakes.

I have picked up a Master so that I can test EUG progams for members using
Beebs and Masters. I have a Beeb but for some reason it will only work
in Mode 7 so it's not much use. I have to confess that while the Master
has a number of nice features I still like my Elk. Has anyone noticed the
price of Elks on the second hand market recently? 

Remember submissions for EUG22.

EUG, 25 Bertie Road, Southsea, Hampshire. PO4 8JX  01705 781168

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