Diablo Valley PC User's Group

February, 1999

February 4, 1999 Meeting Announcement
Paradise Innovations

At our February, 1999 meeting we'll have the opportunity to see some innovative modems from Paradise Innovations. They manufacture the WaveCom line of internal, external, and PC Card 56K modems. Their modems all meet the V.90 ITU/56Kflex standard, which means they will provide the fastest performance. One unique feature is that all Paradise products are covered by a lifetime warranty, for the original purchaser. Paradise also manufactures video cards and sound cards. They are located in Fremont, and were Established in the early 1980's as a leading provider of high quality performance video graphics adapters. They have now branched out into the sound card and modem business.
DVPC meetings are held in the lobby conference room in Building B at the Bank of America Technology Center office complex in Concord, located near the northeast corner of Clayton Road at Galindo (see the Map to Monthly Meetings). Please use the main entrance of the building, which is in the center of the front of the building that faces Clayton road.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the main meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. From 6:30 to 7:00 we'll have the New User's SIG meeting; the Real Estate SIG will be manning a table to tell you all about this unique SIG and their very interesting meetings; you can visit the Networking Table if you have something to sell or trade, need technical help, or just want to exchange views; and, as usual, we'll have library disks and those great DVPC mugs (version 2) for sale. The main meeting will include SIG news, random access, our program, and some of our usual great door prizes. See you in January!

President's Corner
By Alan Mildwurm, DVPC

Usually I feel I have a pretty good idea of our upcoming events and presentations. This month, I must admit, I have some uncertainty. Our February speake(s) have not confirmed. I am hopeful Paradise will be out to demo some of their new modems. I am using one now and it works beautifully. We currently have Corel scheduled in March, along with the swap meet. However, we are thinking of postponing Corel until the release of Draw 9 (around early summer) in order to see their latest products. We are also thinking of postponing the swap meet to give everyone more time to search his or her closets for surplus excellent gear. Symantec is on deck to present to us but we haven't nailed down the date. April has Microsoft and Imation set, and the early summer will bring us APC, otherwise known as American Power Conver

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