 The magazine of the Melbourne PC User Group Prez Said Ron Lyth |
This special pre-election edition of PC Update comes to you early so that those of you who are unable to attend the AGM are able to submit your proxies in time for that special event. Please do the right thing by yourselves and the club and take the time either to be at the meeting or to submit your proxy so that your vote is counted. The club will be the better for your interest and support.
Assuming that we finish the AGM early enough, we will be entertained by a selection of some of the latest additions to our Public Domain library. C programmers take note; we now have the complete C User Group library, in excess of 100 disks, and which contains a wealth of C code. The PD SIG is continuing the process of rationalising our library. In particular, it should be noted that many of the latest PC-SIG disks have very little code on them. We are amalgamating 2 and even 3 PC-SIG disks onto one Melb PC disk, but you still pay for only the number of diskettes you buy. Excellent value whichever way you look at it.
The first PC Update for 1988 is planned to be a special bumper edition which will include the complete PD catalogue. If you have friends who have yet to join, let them know about this because it will be worth the cost of membership to have this catalogue. Our thanks to Leon Cohen, John Beck, Fred Mitchell and John Wilkins for their efforts so far in preparing it. There are so many quiet achievers in this club that it is too easy to overlook the significant work they do on our behalf.
We expect that we will soon be setting up a permanent office for the group and will be hiring an administrative officer to handle the day to day office work associated with managing a club with nearly 2000 members. (We should pass the 2000 milestone some time in mid December) We hope that this step will lead to an improved service to members and will, in itself, assist in attracting new members. Your committee will be recommending to the new committee that we should be aggressive in seeking new members, and that we should not confine our activities to the IBM family and clones.
Indeed, I am informed that the Desktop Publishing SIG comprises about 50% IBM users, with the remainder from the ranks of Macintosh, Amiga and Atari users! The increasing trend to port significant software to different operating environments will result in a de-emphasis of the hardware used, so we must be prepared to cater to this trend.
The topic for the December meeting, which will be held on the second
Wednesday, (ie December 9) is "Desert Island Diskettes", and I have invited several leading lights of the
club to give us an insight into what they consider are the essential softwares and programs without which
they could not face life. We hope that this will be an entertaining and informative evening, so make sure you
come along.
Reprinted from the November 1987 issue of PC Update, the
magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia
