 The magazine of the Melbourne PC User Group Editorial David Jitts |
This month we bring a little culture to our members in the form of Malcolm Cameron's article on how to use Lotus 123 to produce the most wonderful graphic shapes. Malcolm has submitted another couple of articles covering the same subject and we will be publishing these at some future time.
In the meantime, I would like to issue a challenge to the aficionados ("ardent devotee" - Maquarie dictionary) of other languages to produce the same, or better, curves in their particular mother tongue.
Ian Burridge has made good progress with the indexing of past copies of PC Update. He has switched to Instant Recall to handle the data base and reports that it works very well. (So there, Ray Watson!). By the time you are reading this, he should have the finished product covering back issues from April, 1986 onwards. You will be able to order a disk containing a copy of his database and complete with an evaluation copy of Instant Recall from the Public Domain Software Librarian. Cost is the usual $10. Ian tells me that he also intends to revise and upload his database each month to the Melb PC Bulletin Board. Obviously, the disk will be updated less frequently - probably each six months.
Desktop publishing was the "Wonder of the World" in 1987. It must have been a short lived mar-vel, because the Desktop Publishing SIG has died due to lack of interest. Probably people have found out that DTP is only really relevant if one has a deep enough purse to buy fairly expensive gear and software. The co-ordinators, John Wilkins and Roger DeSalis have become too busy to carry on and no one else has been willing to take on the task. Thanks, John and Roger, for your past efforts.
Perhaps the impending release of PageMaker Ver. 3.0 will rekindle some interest in DTP. I, for one, am certainly looking forward to the Infomagic Special Meeting of this Group. (Which will be history by the time you read this.)
We have an offer from Jennifer Baum to run a WP SIG. See page 29 for more details. At least you don't need to be Rockerfeller to indulge in WP, so give Jennifer a call if you have an interest.
My comments in last month's editorial about a permanent home for Melb PC caused our esteemed Secretary, David Owen, to put it on the Agenda for the following Committee meeting. But the blighters opened and closed the subject just as I sneezed, causing me to miss my opportunity to launch a diatribe. Oh well, I'll try not to sneeze, blink or be otherwise momentarily distracted next time.
Reprinted from the April 1988 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia
