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Missing Magazines
Wow! My faith in human nature, which gets a fair old battering in this industry, is restored. Not 24 hours after last month's PC Update hit the readers, they were phoning about, or delivering copies of, back issues. The Group now has almost one complete set, another set up to the 75% mark, as well as numerous spares (particularly for the last 3-4 years). The main issues we are still short of are in the 1984/85 era, up to volume 2.5. If you have copies this old and do not wish to part with them (a feeling I fully appreciate), I will arrange to make good quality photocopies for the Club archives. Special thanks go to (in no particular order) Morris Tobias, Greg Eden, Russell Cooper, Les Bannon, Ken Blair, Joseph Krygger, Leigh Wardle and Peter Manins plus many others who did not leave names (or had handwriting we could not decode!), or who have rung with offers of copies we have plenty of. This degree of support from the "silent majority" is the sort of feedback that encourages the editorial team, committee and myself. Many Thanks!
MS DOS 5.0
Last month we announced preliminary details of this release. The Developer's Forum will be held at the Regent of Melbourne, 25 Collins St on Friday 7th June, from 8.30 am to 2.30 pm. Cost is $150.
Contents are: Concepts and Functions; Working in a Development Environment under MS DOS 5.0; What's New?; How does MS DOS 5.0 improve development?; APIs (Dos Shell and Task Switcher): New and Extinct Calls for interrupts (including multi-purpose 21h); Programming in MS DOS 5,0 for Windows; Programmers safeguards (including undocumented features); Support issues (hardware, software, networks) - How to upgrade those "not co compatible" configurations; Question and Answer sessions.
BBS Workshop
In this issue are the notes prepared by Doug Brooke for the BBS/Communications workshop held on 15th
May 1991.
Reprinted from the June 1991 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia
