The 20th of Jun had to be one of the better winter days
we have had so far, absolutely beautiful, and again, there were
about twenty of us turned up for the C&C meeting.

        First up Jim Hume gave a run down on his experiences with
WIN 95. A summary of his report is as follows:

        His $50 beta version turns out not to be the latest,
        apparantly there is a Gold CD ROM available with the
        latest beta version...a bit dissappointing.

        The three books that came with the CD ROM were not very
        helpul in installation, it appears the books are directed
        towards installation from disks.

        However once he found "Win 95 applications", installation
        was a breeze.

        It is different to Windows 3.xx, but not to difficult to
        master.

        PCUG users would probably find the MSN is not worth it,
        firstly the charges are $5 per hour and $20 per month.
        When you consider that the maximum speed is 9600 baud,
        this can be a bit of a problem. He also stated that the
        MSN Canberra number did not work, but see Kieth Owen's
        comments below.

        The Help facilities are excellent, better than anything
        he had seen ever before. The Help was intuitive and very
        functional.

        The Uninstaller program was excellent.

        Paintbrush has been replaced with Norton Paint which only
        provides .BMP format. This was thought a backward step.

Kieth owen also had installed Win 95 and stated that he had
absolutely no problems, works brilliantly, no crashes, no
nothing. A satisfied user.

        It ran DOS programmes better than DOS

        Better to install without 3.1 on your disk

        As far as MSN is concerned, you must register properly
        and it will work OK.

        Defrag after you have installed to optimise performance.

        It takes about 55Mbs of disk space, and 30-60 minutes to
        install, depending on whether you are installing from CD
        ROM or disks.



LIBRARIES.

        Geoff Mierish advised that the ACT Library service may
well be on line "in a few months time".

        Also the number for the National Library of Australia
"Bulliten board" is   2621681.

GENERAL.

        One member described his problems with getting the
"free" fonts for his HP Laser 4L. Apparantley it is so old hat
that there is a search in HP Archives for them!
        The same member described his HP desk top scanner as
fantastic and would undertake to bring some demo printouts to
the next meeting.

        Darrell Burkley brought along an Atari Portfolio that he
had acquired, and gave a run down on the machine. It was more
advanced than his old CPM machine, over half a million had been
sold, there was a bit of a cult following with this machine
because of its versatility and he was very pleased with his
acquisition.

        On member had a "parity checking" error and wondered what
it meant. Michael Philips, who happened to be fixing the BBS at
the time, gave a run down on the problem, it would appear to
be a hardware problem, and under no circumstances should
"Parity Checking" be turned off.

        Wolf was thanked for building the shelves, and it was
noticed that the Hot water machine was working real well. Lots of
Coffee drunk.

        Gloria apparantly returns shortly and she may be back
next time.

        Which is the 4 July, Bastille Day I believe.




 Cheers         Owen

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