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San Jose PC CI ub Newsletter Document Number SJPCN03 May 4, 1982 Edited by Bonnie Lamb F98/142 San Jose 8 + 276-3653 VM(SJEVMl/LAMB) IBM PC Club IBM PC Club CONTENTS IBM SAN JOSE PC NEWSLETTER 1 Errata 1 April Meeting . . . . 2 Special Interest Groups (SIG) 3 Survey Results ... . 3 San Jose PC Club Profile 5 Tips and Techniques 6 Programming notes 8 Electrohome 1302 Color Monitor with the PC 11 VOLKSWRITER Comparison to EASYWRITER 12 PC Puzzler 14 I nstall Notes 16 PC Club Program Library Directory 17 PC Add-Ons ... 19 SORT Comparisons 20 Help Wanted/Help Offered 21 Classified 22 PC Newsletter Articles 23 ii SJPCN03 05/04/82 IBM PC Club IBM SAN JOSE PC NEWSLETTER This month's newsletter has some survey results, sort performance information, a crossword puzzle (don't peek at the answers), and other good stuff. Time is short, we should have gone to press yesterday, so I'll close with next month's activity schedule: DATE DAY TIME LOCATION EVENT May 11 Tue. 5 p.m. STL Cafeteria PC Club Meeting May 12 Wed. 7:30p.m. DYSAN Santa Clara SVCC May 18 Tue. 5 p.m. STL K210 Phototypsetting SIG May 25 Tue. 5 p.m. STL K210 Visiclub (SIG) Meeting June 1 Tue. 5 p.m. STL K210 Advisory Meeting ERRATA The Silicon Valley Computer Club (SVCC) has found a bug in the BIOS modification that was printed in SJPCNOI to allow double-sided floppies. Details of symptoms and a possible fix are in the works. Look in next month's newsletter for this in- formation. SJPCN03 05/04/82 1 IB-M PC -Club APRIL MEETING The April meeting was hosted by Gene Barlow from STL. Stan Rosenfeld, the PC Club President, had escaped to a week-long vacation cruise, and Hal Hanesworth, the Vice President, had transferred to Boca Raton. Thanks Gene, for pulling a fine program together with such short notice. Current magazine information (summarized by Lu Spriggs): BYTE has devoted this month's issue to human factors, including a good objective look at the PC. PC Magazine and Personal Computer Age continue to have informative a