 The magazine of the Melbourne PC User Group Editorial David Jitts |
We have had a few complaints about the late delivery of PC Update.
In a funny sort of perverse way, I got quite a kick out of them because they went to show how people look forward to receiving their copy. But to those that missed out on PC Update at the usual time, please accept our apologies. We will try harder.
The advertisement for an Assistant Editor brought the most gratifying results. I was almost killed in the rush. Ash Nallawalla has taken on the job but the other volunteers have formed themselves into a support group for PC Update. The inaugural meeting of this group took place on 18th. May. As this group learns to work together, it should greatly reduce the Editor's workload and make the publication of PC Update less vulnerable to long holidays, someone being run over by a tram or other unforseen circumstances. If you would like to be included in this group, give Ash or myself a ring.
Once again PC88 is upon us and hopefully will bring a new influx of members into the Group. To those new members, we extend a warm welcome and trust that you will find your membership interesting, rewarding and a wonderful opportunity to participate in the giving and the taking that is the raison d'etre of a computer user group. If you want to know more about the Group, come along to some of the meetings or ring a member of the Committee whose number appears in the inside front cover.
In this month's edition we are including a public domain software catalogue supplement. Hope you enjoy it. It cost a packet to print so buy up big on PD software if you would like to see "more of the same" in future issues.
In a similar vein, there have been murmurings from the ranks about the increase of advertisements in PC Update. Personally I like advertisements in magazines because they keep me up-to-date on what is available in the market place. However, the advertisements are a commercial reality of life since they bring in revenue which goes some way towards keeping down your subscriptions to Melb PC.
Also promised to let you know the final outcome of the Wyse 386 saga. It is now working fine. Only had to replace the main Processor board, both memory extension boards, the graphics adaptor (it was an Eva EGA card and proved incompatible) and the brain damaged version of Wyse DOS 3.21. Obviously the bus and the power supply were great! Because of the multiplicity of problems, it took us about a week to identify and correct them all. Throughout all the this drama, the support we got from Adrian Montagnani, of MicroHelp, was most helpful; in fact, it was the only thing that prevented me from chucking the computer out of the window.
On the Committee front, we have to report with regret that, due to a conflict of interest situation, Ron Lyth has submitted his resignation. He remains involved, however, in running the Turbo Pascal SIG and in helping with the training program. Presumably the Committee will move to appoint some-one else to fill his seat. Thanks for past services, Ron.
Reprinted from the June 1988 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia
