How does she do it, Gloria that is, in picking nice days
for a picnic. Anyway, this mornings gathering of twenty or so
started off with apologies, Jim Hume may be out of action for a
year, Neville Anderson was a crook and Geoff Mierish was still
recovering. Valerie Sturessteps was also unable to make it.

        Gloria advised she would organise a Lakeside Meeting, so
it's a matter of "Watch this space". We also discussed purchasing
a Modem, a back-up unit, or making some other contribution to the
PCUG. Don Nicol thought we should create a wish list, and we
think he will do this for the next meeting.

        Don also said he was looking for a series of "one liners"
to give to Sixteen Bits, like:
        If your clock is getting out of kilter, maybe it's time
        to check your battery.
        Never loan your original disks.
        Disconnect your modem during electrical storms.
So if anyone would like to contribute, you can do so here.

        Kryn Versteeg who has been trying to get on the Internet
for months has finally done so with the help of Emil Joseph and
Karl Auer. Password was the problem, and he thanked those who
assisted him. Emil then gave a run down on the Internet Project,
and after some discussion, led mainly by Darrell Burkey, it was
thought that a "test line" could be set aside to allow testing of
a user's system.

        This was a result of trying out a plug and play modem
that didn't want to play, it seems that Rockwell V34 and V FAST
chips will talk to each other at 28.8k, but if you have a
Motorola chip, you are going to be limited to 14.4K. Buyers of
cheap and nasty modems should be aware of this.

        Stemming from Valerie's problem of a speeding clock,
Darrell Burkey advised he used a program called ACCUSET, log in
to Telstra's time, and it resets your clock precisely, but more
importantly, if you log on say a month later, it will calculate
the error rate to permit continuous correction of the time.

        Valerie was also looking for a Tapestry program, advice
is that such things exist as with knitting and quilting. It was
just a matter of finding them. It was advised that Harvey Norman
have a program that would do the trick, and Gloria would look at
it on behalf of Valerie.

        Greg O'Regan was having problems with converting Word 5
documents to Word2. Gordon Urquart, I think said he would check
the documents against Word6 to see if that could convert them.

        Back to Darrell Burkey, who gave a run down on a new
program, IN-QUE (not sure of spelling). This program is voice
recognition software, and although he got it as a bit of a joke,
found that within 30 minutes, it was so good, he sent off
registration and now uses it for operating his computer. He
speaks into a microphone;
   Connect Internet, and away it goes and connects.
   Check Mail, and it opens Eudora and checks his mail.
   Bold, in his WP package, and the text turns bold.
It all seemed too good to be true, but at Gloria's request,
Darrell said he would demonstrate it at the next meeting or as
soon as convenient.

        Peter Hodge advised that SoftRam does nothing and is a
bit of con job. The Software Shop refunded his money, and he
recommends lurking on News Groups about software, for there he
found the futility of SoftRam.

        And with that the meeting ended, so I hope you all had a
nice BBQ. Next meeting is presume ably 24 Oct 1995.



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