Midlands IBM Retirees Club - November 2023 Newsletter

Events

The following events are currently planned for 2024:

E2401LON: 26-27 JanuaryLondon City Break; See October newsletter.
E2402ETH: FebruaryLunch at Lebanese restaurant
E2403THE: MarchTheatre Trip – Spa Centre or Loft Theatre
E2404MIL: Wednesday 17 AprilCharlecote Mill Guided Tour then Spring lunch at Hampton Lucy pub
E2405PPL: Thursday 30 MayPete’s Place with rides on model railway and lake steamer
E2406CHE: Tuesday 18 JuneChedhams Yard Guided Tour then Pub Lunch in Wellesbourne;
with personal guide lasting around 1.5 hours – cost £9.50 per person and will include a coffee and cake.
E2407LLA: 13-15 JulyJohnsons 2 day break – Llandudno & Snowdonia
E2408AGM: AugustAGM
E2409IRO: SeptemberIronbridge (9 different attractions)
E2410GLA: OctoberRed House Glass Cone Heritage Centre
E2411JLR: NovemberLand Rover factory tour, Solihull
E2412XML: Wednesday 11 December (provisional)Christmas Lunch

Photographs from Past Events.

Click on one of the links below to view a selection of photographs from past events.

Sub-Groups of Retirees Club and Employee Club

Rambling

It is hoped to organise occasional rambles with options so that participants can choose a length of walk to suit them.

Please contact Terry King, terryaking@hotmail.com for more information.

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IBM Retirees Technology Group

The IBM Tech Club meets using the Zoom video conferencing platform at 11.00 on the third Friday of each month. The club is a place where you can talk to IBM folk about matters technical. For example, help or advice on buying or using computers, smart phones,touch pads; engineering, electronics, wifi, bluetooth, cryptography, bitcoin, using computers to making movies, songs or musical works, best software, streaming, the internet, photography, diy, and anything else about the modern world you would like to understand better.

Apart from the technical discussion we try to have a talk by a club member at each meeting. This depends very much on members volunteering to prepare and show something they are interested in.

Friday 15 December: Diagnosing modern car electrics - **CAN bus and its friends. Paul Gover.

As a car DIYer who learnt in the days of contact breaker points and capacitors, when my 2008 Jag broke, trying to work out what might be wrong was a whole new learning experience. This is not a deep analysis of car bus networks, more a Bluffer’s Guide, but hopefully covering some of the areas between theory and practice.

** A Controller Area Network (CAN bus) is a vehicle bus standard designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other’s applications without a host computer.

At 11 o’clock on the day of the meeting click on the link below. It should take you straight into the meeting.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88338135221?pwd=eFYyUTdKZjRUSlR4V0RqZmFYMmlCQT09

Meeting ID: 843 2044 7852
Passcode: 735347

If you need help with Zoom contact John Rickman (rickman@argonet.co.uk) in good time before the meeting.