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Credits Editor: Peter Pegg (away) Assistant Editor: Graham Hannam (doing it!) Chairman: Peter Newland Published by Apple-Q, the Brisbane Users Group P.O. Box 721 South Brisbane, Qld 4101 Australia Registered by Austral Post — Publication No. OBG 2485, LG the newsletter of apple-q the Brisbane Users group Word processing: MacWrite Page Layout: PageMaker Copy Printing: LaserWriter Printing & distributing: Hooper Centre May 86 Apple], //e, /ic & Mac — the reason for it all! (and Apple /// & Lisa!) Editorial Peter Newland As you can no doubt see we have once again had to resort toa ‘minimum’ magazine. Due to the pressure of work Peter Pegg has not been able to spend as much time as he may have liked - and over the years he has spent an inordinate amount of time preparing the issues of our magazine - in Club pursuits. Until the situation improves Graham Hannam and | will attempt to put out at least a reasonable facsimile of our past glories - however we do need help. We cannot write the full contents of the magazine, nor do we intend to try. To ensure success we need a large amount of written contributions from the membership as a whole. as ye write so shall ye read! What's when Sunday 18 May 1986 Open day at the Hooper Centre Monday 19 May 1986 Committee meeting Sunday 15 June 1986 Open day at the Hooper Centre Monday 16 June 1986 Committee meeting apple-bug May 86 apple-bug May 86 NOTES: Graham Hannam | The other day | received a phone call from a representive of a large book company in Brisbane who is interested in offering discounts to members for purchases of Apple related books Having seen their stock | am of the opinion that they would have the biggest range of computer related books in Queensland. At this point in time | am unable to give exact details of how much the discount could be, however | will be having a further meeting with him after | return from my holidays and further information will be published in our next newsletter. By the way this is one of the advantages of having your membership card. The cards are being issued as you renew your membership during 1986. If you need one sooner contact Graham Black at the Trading Table. From time to time interesting snippits appear in our Post Box outlining new products and accessories for the Apple. One, from a firm called Jaylong Agencies Pty Ltd C/- P.O. 288 Norwood S.A. 5067., who are interested in contacting GOOD software writers who may be interested in having their programms published on an International World Wide Market. They, quote:- “Full protection is offered by an estabilished well known international company togeather with renumerations by way of lump sum royalties in advance plus ongoing royalties for the life of the program." Any one interested in obtaining more information should contact Leon Forgan (Director) at the above address. | also have a notice for the release of a new 1 Meg. RAM card called the "Cirteck FLIPPER card", current recommended retail price $799.00 with a discount of 5% for a limited time. Features listed are, no upgrades or add-ons with the facility to add up to 6 megabytes by simply plugging in additional boards. No patching, fully compatable with all products including AppleWorks, DOS 3.3 and Pascal 1.3 software. It is claimed to be designed to meet with Apple's demanding specifcations for large memory cards and guaranteed compatible with future software releases. It has a Flip-Flop Program Manager allowing you to zoom between programs or data in various sections of the RAM disk, even if they are under different operating systems. It is claimed to be very fast and fits any standard slot in the Apple //e or Il+. In built self test ensures optimum reliability and free support to ensure compatibility with earlier versions of CP/M and Pascall. Further information may be obtained by writing to Thinking Systems Pty. Ltd., 180 Parramatta Road, Stanmore N.S.W. 2048. We also have an offer for colour ribbons from Swift forms for most types of printers. The colours include, Purple, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Brown. For further inquiries contact David Busby, 40 _ Creek St., Brisbane. Ph (07)229 8527. The above product lines are some of the interesting and/or useful items that people tell us about, however neither | nor the Management Committee in any way endorse or recommend these products. If members purchase any of the products we would very much appreciate a review which may then benefit other members. Thats all for this month. G. Hannam (Acting Secretary) apple-bug May 86 apple-bug May 86 (Trading hours: 11.90 am = 3.30 pa.) r _ TL Monitor Monitor) fee 11100 Printer Ed = ( APPLE 4/698 : Yom] All sorts of Goodies Even more Goodies It looks as if the price of 5.25in floppy disks is to go up by a large amount, however we still have some stock at the old price - but when they have been sold the new prices will apply. Don't miss out -- beat the price rise -- BUY NOW! In order to clear some stock of computer books we are offering them at cost price together with some other very cheap goodies. For Sale.. SuperClock IT .. $1202 ono + timing from milliseconds to 99 years + 12/24 hour format plus day of the week « does not use C8000-CFFF address space + automatic dating of files stored on disk + upto four software controlled interupts + full battery operation for up to 10 years This unit is manufactured by West Side Electronics and is in excellent condition with original packing, software disk and manual. Contact Graham Hannam Phone - Business hours (07) 229 6577 after7:30pm (07) 398 9405