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• 1997 Meeting Schedule
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The PC User Group of the ACGNJ meets the third Friday of every month at 8:00 PM at the Scotch Plains Rescue Squad Building in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

The group was chaired by Jo-Anne Head from January 1995 through June 2000. She then stepped down to do other things. We would like to thank Jo-Anne for her dedication, and hope that we can continue the same level of enthusiasm that she has shown. The group now has no permanent chair, but continues to meet.

Our focus is on any topic that touches on personal computers. Some of our meetings are fairly technical and some are oriented to total newbies. Our members reflect this mix. Come out to a meeting and get to know us, we're friendly. We especially want women to attend, since more men than women attend meetings. I know you're out there, ladies. Come on!

Directions to the Scotch Plains Rescue Squad.

2001 Meeting Schedule

• May 18: Marty Fries will speak on MP3s. Please see below for details.
• April 20: Comcast@Home presents to the ACGNJ. Come tonight and get your first month of Comcast@Home cable modem service free! Get the details.
• March 16: Napster Alternatives Now that the courts have shut down Napster, where do you go to download free music? Come to the meeting and find out!!
• February 16: Marty Fries, co-author of The MP3 and Internet Audio Handbook, had to cancel at the very last minute (6:30 PM same day) because the rain in Baltimore delayed his train. He would have arrived no sooner than 9 PM. We will try to reschedule him for March. Meanwhile, Steve Rodriguez will help people who had problems with MP3 conversions, and he will bring along his CD burner. Since the club now has a network installed, there will be hands-on audience participation.
• January 19: The PC User Group (combined with Multimedia and Mobile Computing group) meets to discuss MGI's new PhotoSuite Deluxe. Steve Rodriguez will introduce this new software, and demonstrate it to the group.
  This demo will initiate a several-month series in the serious use of the software. Steve plans to show everyone how to use it. The software apparently has a lot of features, and one night will not be enough.
  Come out at 8 PM and learn all about MGI PhotoSuite Deluxe.

2000 Meeting Schedule

• December 15: The December topic is PowerQuest DriveImage. Jo-Anne Head will demonstrate the software and then we will raffle off a copy to a lucky attendee. Update: The lucky winner was Tony DiPalma.
  We will have our annual Christmas Party which means we will provide submarine sandwiches and soda. Please bring a dessert such as cake, cookies or brownies.
  We will also have a Grab Bag exchange. Bring a wrapped computer gift and take one home. We only require that you take it off the premises when you leave!
• November 17: The meeting, hosted by Steve Rodriguez, demonstrated the creation of MP3s.
• October 20: MP3 Fest. Hosted by Steve Rodriguez. Making MP3s, getting them, downloading them, converting them, distributing them. Bring your own MP3.
• June 16: Microsoft is sending us a speaker, John Gilham (MCSE+I, MCNE, CCNA, MASE), to discuss WindowsNT/Windows2000, "Managing File Permissions and Security Permissions." This will be a fairly technical talk. As more and more people are moving over to WinNT/Win2K from Win9X, this will be very relevant for many of us.
• May 19: J.D. Abolins is speaking on Computer Security and Privacy. With all the security holes in popular software, this is a very timely topic. See J.D. Abolins' bio or check out his website for more information on security and privacy.
• May 19 Multimedia and Mobile Computing: Due to a death in the family, Steve had to cancel his 7 PM meeting tonight.
• April 21: Victor Laurie speaks on "Have It Your Way: Configuring Windows 95/98 to Suit Your Own Personal Needs and Preferences." Download it here. Mr. Laurie is an excellent speaker and very knowledgeable about Windows. You are sure to learn a lot, even if you think you are a Windows expert.
• April 21 Multimedia and Mobile Computing: Steve's topic is MP3: the ins and outs of MP3, how to make an MP3, how to get an MP3, how to burn an MP3, what software to use, what is available. It's an MP3-go-rama.
• March 17: Follow-on to Main Meeting topic, "Home Automation." Now that you've bought that X-10 switch and set it up at home and you've got questions, bring them to this meeting and we'll get you answers.
• February 18: Follow-on to Main Meeting topic "Home Networking." Now that you've tried it at home and screwed it up, come to this meeting and get your problems fixed and questions answered.
• January 21: MEETING CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER AND ROAD CONDITIONS. How Was Your Y2K?
  Come and tell us how Y2K affected you! Let's swap stories.

1999 Meeting Schedule

• December 17: We will hold our annual SIG election. If you think you can run this SIG better than I do, you are welcome to come out and run against me.
  We are also having a Christmas party with sandwiches/cold cuts, and a computer-oriented Grab Bag. To participate in the Grab Bag, pngtwrap a computer item and bring it to the meeting. There will be an exchange for those who bring a grab bag item. The only Rule is that you have to take home the grab bag item you get.
  For our meeting topic, if you came to the November Main Meeting, you heard Bill Machrone speak to us about AtGuard, a firewall that can be used on the PC. I have purchased and downloaded AtGuard, and for the December meeting I plan to install it on the club computer and configure it live for the SIG meeting and discuss the use of the firewall. Come, learn, contribute (I'm not an expert at this yet).
  Note: The Multimedia and Mobile Computing Group meets at 7 PM. Steve Rodriguez will demo the Sony VAIO Picturebook PCG-C1 series wide screen, digicam-equipped subnotebook.
• November 19: Microsoft presents the Windows2000 PreLaunch Road Tour. We will meet at Hill Center, Room 114, Rutgers-Busch Campus in Piscataway. Directions to Rutgers. There will be giveaways galore. Meeting Update: Here is a list of the software raffle winners:
  • Joy Martin won Encarta2000
  • Ryan Sproul won Encarta2000
  • Yupeng Fan won Encarta 2000
  • Dan Burstiner won a Compaq Aero handheld device
  • Norman Briskman won Office2000
  Get the Details Here. Compaq is a co-sponsor with Microsoft. See you at Rutgers!!!
• October 15: Victor Laurie on Win95/Win98 Tips and Tricks, especially relating to system maintenance and performance optimization. Download his Windows95 tips (PDF).
• September 17: Steve Schlesinger speaks on Troubleshooting Windows95/Windows98. Steve works for a corporation that fixes computers for government agencies such as NASA, DOD, INS, and SBA. He comes highly recommended as a speaker. Bring all your questions and problems.
• August 20: Meeting Canceled due to Summer!!
• Multimedia and Mobile Computing is canceled for July 16.
• July 16: SUMMER PARTY
  We will provide ice cream, cake, and soda. Please feel free to bring brownies, cookies, or whatever.
  Topic: Home Automation
  Now that you've got a home network, what's it good for? Well, how about hooking up your lights and appliances and controlling them from your PC? Come to this meeting and learn how our President, Frank Warren, did it.
  Frank recommends this newsgroup for more information: comp.home.automation
• June 18: Mark Middleton from Adobe Systems will discuss Acrobat 4 and will also show us the latest products from Adobe. There will be giveaways and raffles for MEMBERS ONLY.
  Mark told us a couple of good URLs relating to PDF in response to a question on how do you convert PDF to Word. (Answer: there's no easy way.) These URLs constitute a rich reference for PDF-related topics. Try http://www.pdfzone.com and http://www.purepdf.com.
  Raffle Winners:
  • John Raff won Adobe PhotoDeluxe 3.0.
  • Andy Meyer won Page Mill 3.0.
  • Joy Martin won Acrobat 4!!!
• May 21: John deGood will talk about "Preparing for the year 2000." Things are changing rapidly as year-end approaches. Find out what's different--protect yourself!
  
  Will Y2K computer problems cause the year 2000 to begin with a whimper or a bang? This presentation will review Y2K issues and remediation with an emphasis on the personal computer. The potential implications of Y2K computer failures on society and some of the ways you are likely to be affected will be discussed. Come learn what you should (and should not!) do to prepare for January 1, 2000.

  Read a transcript of his talk here.

  John DeGood is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton where he develops embedded, network, and systems software. Prior to joining Sarnoff in 1995, John spent 19 years developing analytical instruments at Hewlett-Packard. John is Chair of the Princeton chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and has been a computer hobbyist for more than 30 years.
  

• April 16: The presentation at the MultiMedia and Mobile Computing Group will continue at our meeting, for a total of 3 hours.
  Jo-Anne raffled off one TCF ticket. The lucky winner was Jim Wong.
  Note: The MultiMedia and Mobile Computing SIG meets at 7 PM. Steve Rodriguez hosts Dale Hardman, who will speak/demonstrate on Audible (www.audible.com) digital audio programs available for the desktop PC and as portable, mobile software for use with the: MobilePlayer; Windows CE players, and MP3 players such as RIO. They also play through your car/home/office stereo. This presentation will include a demonstration of PC/laptop audio demo from a web site; our player with headphones (hands-on usage); playback through a tuner (FM transmission/cassette adapter demo); floppy playback of user created audio files; Windows CE audio demo; MP3 audio demo with Audible programs. Following the demonstration, all members of the ACGNJ will have access to special discounts from 50% off MobilePlayer to a 35% discount on all Audible audio programs (program discounts not available on our web site but through Dale Hardman by email/telephone). This offer is extended to ACGNJ members unable to attend the meeting, through the ACGNJ newsletter. Call Dale Hardman at 888-890-4070 x235 or email: dhardman@audible.com.
• March 19: We will demonstrate and discuss Winfax Pro version 9.0. Also we will raffle off two full copies of Winfax Pro to MEMBERS ONLY. Update: The lucky winners of Winfax Pro Software were: Art Williams and Chip Vincent.
  I will also be handing out special Symantec coupons giving user group members a special price break (expires 4/29/99) on all their software.
  This version of Winfax lets you send and receive faxes using Windows98, Windows95 or WindowsNT, and it lets you use one copy of the program to share faxing capabilities across a network.
• February 19: This is a follow-up meeting to the February 5, 1999 Main Meeting topic, "Building the Home Network, Part II: Practice," by Frank Warren. Frank will string a network in real-time during the Main Meeting at the club location. We expect that after you try this at home, you will have a lot of questions, so this month's PC User Group meeting is devoted to answering those questions. A home network can cost less than $50 ($20 for the network card, $10 for the cable). You can do it.
• January 15: This was going to be a follow-up meeting to the January 8, 1999 Main Meeting topic, "Building the Home Network, Part I: Theory," by Frank Warren, but since the Main Meeting was canceled due to the nasty storm on February 8, Frank will give his talk tonight. Frank will explain the theory behind building your own home network. Then at next month's Main Meeting he will build a network, live, during the meeting. It is not all that easy to network your home computers if you've never done it before, so come out and learn how to do it!!

1998 Meeting Schedule

• December 18: Alex Goldfinger will discuss "Y2K and What You Can Do About It." This promises to be a very interesting topic, don't miss it!! We are also having a Christmas party with cake, ice cream, cookies, soda and maybe some sammiches.

  We raffled off some software. The lucky winners were:

  Program	Winner
  Powerquest Partition Magic	Ron Winter
  Quarterdeck Extra Strength Disk Clone	John Sheets
  Powerquest Drive Image	Frank Warren
  Powerquest Drive Image	Roger Richardson

  
  Note: The Multimedia and Mobile Computing SIG meets at 7 PM. Steve Rodriguez will be presenting on LearnKey Products and showing highlights from their FrontPage Designer video. He will also discuss their NT WorkStation CD ROM and Master's Exam. Visit the LearnKey Products site at http://www.learnkey.com or call their 800 number at 1-800-865-0165 and ask for Jon Otten.

• November 20: How Do You Put a BBS on the Internet? Hal Steiner, President of 21st Century Training Corp., will explain how he put his BBS on the Internet. This will be a how-to, technically oriented presentation. You can contact Hal at partyman@partyman.com.
• October 16: Adobe Systems will present on ImageReady, a great new graphics program for getting your images ready to put on the Web. There will be a software raffle at the end of the presentation. We will raffle off one copy each of the following software:
  • Adobe PageMill 3.0
  • Adobe PhotoDeluxe 3.0 Home Edition
  • Adobe Acrobat 3.0
  
  More information about ImageReady.
• September 18: Pete Fillingham showed us how to use Norton Utilities 3.0. We then raffled off a copy of Norton Utilities 3.0. Mark Braxton was the lucky winner. Everyone else got a Symantec pen.
  Symantec has provided us with a special User Group price for various Symantec products. See me for the form. It expires 11/17/98. If you are interesting in buying Norton Anti-Virus 5.0, Norton Utilities 3.0, PCAnywhere32, Winfax Pro 9.0, and a number of other Symantec products, this is worth your while. The forms will be available at the October PC User Group meeting and at any other ACGNJ meetings I happen to attend (such as Main Meetings).
  Note: The Multimedia and Mobile Computing Activity meets at 7 PM. Tonight's topic is Webtricity.
• August 21: Summer PC UG Party!! Come and enjoy ice cream, cake and soda.

  Tonight's speaker is J.D. Abolins. Read his bio.
  J.D. Abolins is speaking on Security and Privacy on the Internet. Cookies? Spam? Online snooping? Shopping via the Web? Electronic stalking? Workplace computer privacy?

  These are among the common online security and privacy concerns. Technological and social changes are making many of us wonder how safe and private are we.

  We'll take a look at these and other subjects, separating fact from hype. The emphasis will be on a wise "consumer" approach to staying safe online. This approach helps people decide what measures are right for their needs and concerns.

  Note: The MultiMedia and Mobile Computing Activity meets on August 21 at 7 PM. Steve Rodriguez will do an overview of all the Webticity2 applications from Micrographx. Another month he will go in depth on the Webticity2 applications.

• July 17: Meeting canceled because I will be away on a cruise.
• June 19: We had a topic but my speaker, Steven Rodriguez, got sick and had to cancel.
  
  We had a prolonged Random Access-style session. Many questions were asked and answered by the membership. We discussed Windows98 upgrade issues, chip upgrades, hard drive upgrades, and graphic file format conversion problems. A number of members' problems got solved.

  There was a raffle at the end of the meeting of Adobe PageMill 3.0 and the 200 mHz MMX chip from IDT. This raffle was open to Paid Up ACGNJ Members Only, and all future raffles at PC User Group meetings will be open to paid up members only. The rest of you can watch and wish. Or join the club.

  The lucky winners were:

  • Evan Williams, Adobe PageMill 3.0
  • Chip Vincent, 200 mHz WinChip (yes, Chip won the chip).

  The 200 mHz chip (comparable to a Pentium) is manufactured by IDT (Integrated Device Technology) and they call it the Winchip. If your motherboard is 1997 or newer, you should be able to use this chip. If your motherboard is an Award BIOS, the chip is a drop-in replacement. Everyone else has to set a jumper or something. Included with the chip is an installation guide.

  Both PageMill and the 200 mHz chip are items I got at InterGalactic.
  Note:The MultiMedia and Mobile Computing Activity which meets on June 19 at 7 PM, is canceled. Steve Rodriguez is not well today.

• May 15: Steve Rodriguez discussed the latest Pioneer CD ROM drives and their use. He went over the pros and cons between slot load and tray eject.
  • One of the Pioneer CD ROM drives is the DR-504S 32X Atapi CDROM drive. The "S" stands for Slot Load which means there is no tray.
  • Its counterpart is the DR-50 6S, which is the 32X SCSI-2 version slot load CDROM drive.
  These two models demonstrate the technology between Atapi IDE and SCSI, how far they have advanced, that there is now no difference between the SCSI and Atapi in speed, cache and data flow. The data buffer is 128 KB for each drive. The minimum 2.1 MB/s is 14X and the maximum is 4.8 MB/s which is 32X. It's "bursty".

  Disk formats both drives can handle: CD, DA, CD-ROM Mode 1, CD-ROM XA Mode 2 (form 1 and 2), Photo CD Multisession. The only difference between the two drives is whether you use SCSI or Atapi.

• April 17: Meeting canceled due to TCF. See you at Trenton Computer Festival ("TCF") at Mercer County Community College that weekend! I am running the PC Users Forum at TCF on Sunday morning. Stop by with a PC question.
• March 20: Rick Elbanna shared with us his experiences with a program he bought recently, WinBloze by Microshoft. It's actually a Win95 utility that makes Win95 work better. Also, we expect to have an update from Steve Rodriguez on the Hauppauge board that was offered to members at the January meeting: click here.
• Multimedia Activity: Steve demonstrated the Shark 250 megabyte parallel drive. It's portable and can plug into your laptop or desktop and is half the size of a zip drive and it's lighter. If there's time, Steve will also demonstrate LivePix Deluxe 2.0, which he was going to demonstrate last month but didn't due to miscellaneous hardware problems.
• February 20: Steven Rodriguez will demonstrate Deluxe LivePix 2.0, the new version. It's a photo editing and manipulation tool. It does greeting cards, invitations, calendars, t-shirts, stickers, brochures, web pages, business cards, stationery and certificates and more. It can do GOO-like things. (photo special effects). We are going to take several pictures using Steve's new Panasonic digital camera, the CoolShot, then we will import them into LivePix and edit them and manipulate them by using special effects. We will then use the pictures in multiple formats to demonstrate the power and capabilities of the program. Website: livepix.com. There are more capabilities and Steven will tell you about them.
• NOTE: The MultiMedia and Mobile Computing Activity meets at 7 PM the same night and will introduce the topic being discussed at PC UG. In the future, Steve plans presentations on the Shark 250 megabyte portable drive, Phillips Velo Version 1 hand PC, Adaptec SCSI world, Wacom touch tablets, Ricoh CD-ROM burning, CD-R's and CD-RW's.
• January 16: Steven Rodriguez discussed and demonstrated the Hauppauge board. This discussion started at 7 PM (see below).
• NOTE: The new MultiMedia and Mobile Computing SIG met on January 16 at 7 PM at the Scotch Plains Rescue Squad and the topic was Video Capture Boards from Hauppauge. Steven Rodriguez demonstrated the Hauppauge WinTV board. This board is cable-ready, has AM/FM receiver and Intercast, which is the dual frequency that is sent out on cable and lets you surf the Web like MSNBC, ESPN, and others. Signals are sent through your cable TV and you see Web pages. It is also a video capture board. Also it is a small PCI board.
  Steve uses a Cyber21 Model 10MX laptop for his MultiMedia SIG presentations. This laptop has a Pentium 166 MMX chip and a 13.3" display.

1997 Meeting Schedule

• December 19: Jo-Anne Head was unanimously re-elected as leader of the PC User Group and will serve throughout 1998. We had a Christmas grab bag. Participants brought a computer-oriented pngt for the grab bag. Several members brought munchies for everyone to enjoy. Steve Rodriguez demonstrated Internet Phone 5.0 with Video. We raffled off several Internet Phone 5.0 license codes, one of which was won by Arnold Milstein. The codes unlock the demo you can download from the Web to get a fully licensed, fully functioning copy of Internet Phone 5.0. We also raffled off three t-shirts and some other software.
• NOTE: The new MultiMedia and Mobile Computing SIG met on December 19 at 7 PM and the topic was Intro to Internet Phone 5.0.
• November 21: Pete Fillingham discussed LINUX on the PC. We raffled off two copies of Adobe PageMill 2.0, still in the shrinkwrap. The lucky winners were Briggs Longbotham and Bill Welford, both fairly new to the PC User Group.
• NOTE: The new MultiMedia and Mobile Computing SIG met on November 21 at 7 PM and the topic was ICQ. Steve Rodriguez hosted the meeting. Steve used a Nimantics Model 10MX laptop for his MultiMedia SIG presentations. This laptop has a Pentium 166 MMX chip and a 13.3" display.
• October 17: Steve Rodriguez spoke on Kai's Photo Soap and demonstrated it. This is a standalone graphics program for photographic import, export and manipulation. Kai has made many plug-ins to PhotoShop and since the plug-ins were so successful, Kai developed Soap into a standalone program.
• September 19: Partition Magic presented to the group. They are represented by Linda Barlow.
• August 15: Frank Warren, the head of the ACGNJ Genealogy SIG, spoke to us on CGI scripting, and showed us how CGI scripts work. The meeting ran 30 minutes overtime because we were so interested in the topic. CGI is important if you are writing HTML and want to use a form on your web page. The form is easy to create if you use a program like WebEdit, but you have to link the form's Submit button to a CGI script so that when the user fills out the form and clicks Submit, the information goes somewhere. The CGI script collects the information on the form and sends it to the Webmaster or whoever else wants the form's data. CGI has lots of other uses, but this particular one interests me a lot!
• July 18: The storm caused a blackout that basically canceled the meeting. The speaker has been rescheduled to the August meeting.
• June 20: Rick Elbanna, the President of the Online Marketing Network, spoke on Marketing on the Internet. We raffled off a 33.6 modem as a door prize (thanks Rick!) The meeting was catered and doubled as our annual Summer Party.
• May 16: Michael Pathe from US Robotics spoke to us about their new Sportster 56K modem with x2^TM technology. x2 lets users download graphics, audio and video from the Internet at speeds nearly twice as fast as 28.8 Kbps modems.
  There were special prices for ACGNJ members on a selection of U.S. Robotics products (I bought a 56K modem), available at the meeting only.
  For more information about x2 Technology, U.S. Robotics products or other User Group programs around the country, visit the U.S. Robotics web site at www.usr.com or call 1-800 DIAL USR.
  *Note: All x2 products are capable of 56 Kbps downloads; however, due to FCC rules which restrict power output, current download speeds are limited to 53 Kbps.
  If you use WorldNet pay attention! WorldNet told me on 5/2/97 that they are going to use US Robotics 56K modems. There are incompatible 56K modems out there...so if you want to get on WorldNet at 56K you will need a US Robotics 56K modem.
• April 18: Toby Riley spoke to the group about Quicken by Intuit and showed us how to use it.
• March 21: Neil Manheimer, the General Manager of ComCast Online Communications, spoke on cable modems. With the Comcast cable modem you can have a 500K to 2 megabytes bps connection to the Internet. Compare that with a traditional modem top speed of 33.6K or the new 56K modems. We're talking about a modem speed 10 times faster than the fast new 56K technology that isn't quite available yet. If you live in Woodbridge, you can get connected to the Internet for free until April 2, 1997. Call Comcast at 908-851-6605 to request to participate in the beta trial.
  The question came up during Neil's presentation, does ComCast Online censor newsgroups/Usenet. The short answer is, No. There is no censorship. If you want to prevent certain types of Internet information from access by your children, there are software programs you can install at home to filter the information, such as NetNanny or CyberPatrol.
• February 21: Stephanie Fleming, who is a Reseller Marketing Representative for Microsoft, spoke on FrontPage97. Free copies of FrontPage97 were raffled off to attendees. Check out the Microsoft web site for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
• January 17: Steve Rodriguez spoke on Multimedia Design Tips and Tricks. He covered the basics starting from audio, creating and using .wav files; moving into graphics and .avi files, creating your own .avi movies; and putting it all together for desktop and web design. Steve filmed the PC User Group audience during his presentation.

1996 Meeting Schedule

• December 20: Bob Todd spoke on My Christmas PC. We also had a Christmas Party, complete with egg nog, cookies, soda, macaroni salad, cole slaw and cold cuts/sandwiches, and a Gift Exchange. Those who participated brought a computer-oriented pngt for the grab bag. This was something you have at home in your collection of flea-market finds, etc. Wrap was optional. Everyone had to remove the pngt they got from the premises. Some of the items given away included Microsoft Office for Windows95, OS/2 Warp, and a Seventh Level Software game on CD (all 3 items were still in shrinkwrap). Two door prizes were raffled off, they were a one year unlimited account on America On-Line, and a one year unlimited account on castle.net. The members enjoyed the grab bag and we are thinking of doing it again soon, maybe this summer.
  We held elections for head of the PC User Group for 1997. Jo-Anne Head was re-elected.
• November 15: Neil Sanford discussed and demonstrated a global satellite positioning system. This is good for when you are driving in your car and are lost, or maybe you are out hiking and find a beautiful spot and you want to bookmark it so you can find it again.
• October 18: 7th Level sent Julie Bernard who discussed their educational and game software. There was a raffle of their games and educational software.
• September 20: Chris Hallberg of Microsoft discussed the merits of Internet Explorer as opposed to Netscape Navigator. Internet Explorer runs on all versions of Windows. We had a Microsoft software raffle.
  Get Internet Explorer.
• August 16: Sun Microsystems sent Ralph Severini who discussed Java as it relates to PCs and the Internet. Following their presentation we had an ice cream and pizza party.
• July 19: Dennis Ritchie of Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs spoke on Inferno as it relates to PCs and the Internet. Inferno software is now available on the Web. You can get the Inferno operating system, the Limbo programming language, a developer's toolkit, documentation and sample applications, including a Web browser and email.
• June 21: Bryan Garnham discussed Novell networks. He is a Novell Certified Netware Engineer (CNE) with experience in Netware 3.1X and 4.1, local and wide area networking, and PC-to-mainframe connectivity.
  Topics covered included:
  • physical connections
  • hardware required
  • software required on both the workstation and server
  • communications protocols
  • basic network design
  • security issues
• May 17: Frank Warren spoke on perl and perl programming. Frank heads the Genealogy SIG of the ACGNJ.
• April 19: No meeting due to TCF. See you at the festival.
• March 15: Bob Berto spoke on Shareware Gems and downloading shareware from bulletin boards. Bob runs the club's BBS.
• February's meeting was canceled due to the snow.

If you would like to speak at a PC User Group meeting, let me know.