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Full Colour!
I'm sure you noticed last month's multi-coloured cover. For this we owe thanks to Borland Australia, who have made a long term commitment to colour advertising in
PC Update. Our sincere thanks to them and to Stephen Davey, who produces the cover at about zero notice, once the magazine content is finalised. You might have noticed a small error in the last cover (not, I hasten to add, Stephen's fault). A degree of confusion between various associate editors and myself - in a jet-lagged state - caused us to miss out Nadish Naoriji's Arts & Letters Apprentice review.
Next Month
The backlog of articles is alive and well! The good news on this front is twofold - I'm slowly working through the older ones and there is a lot of great material waiting to be published.
Special General Meeting
At the last monthly meeting, members requested more details on the proposals moved, before considering a vote. Look for the insert in this issue of
PC Update. It contains details of the arguments for and against the proposals to invest in a building and to formalise the Member's Buying Service, together with the
necessary voting and proxy forms. Despite delaying production of PC Update for a week, it was not possible to complete these arguments in time to have them included as part of the standard production process.
Phillipe Kahn
Borland's chairman, president and CEO, Phillips Kahn is visiting Australia in August, to meet major clients and make the keynote address at the PC Windows 92 trade show. Borlands products are well-known to Melb PC members (particularly those at the last monthly meeting, who went home with a free copy of dBASE
IV). Not so well known are Phillips Kahn's other accomplishments: he studied under Niklaus Wirth - the creator of the Pascal language; was named PC Magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1991; he is a
sailor, pilot and musician, with several recordings to his credit. He is also much sought-after as a speaker - we are attempting to get him along to address one of our monthly meetings.
SIGs
Several new SIGs are underway, the New Users - Central SIG and the Computer Music SIG appear in the list
for the first time this month. Just a little behind them is a Q & A SIG. This is being formed, but no details are to hand at press-time.
Windows 3.1
Yes, it's really available! Ash, who has been a Beta-tester for some time, gives us his first impressions in an update. The upgrade cost is only $70 to
Communique members, $100 to others. As Communique only costs $25 to join and members receive a $30 discount on every Microsoft upgrade, I can see no reason not to join.
(There's an advertisement in this issue, so you have no excuses!)
Reprinted from the May 1992 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia
