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Wednesday, April 8th:  North Florida NeXT User Group  APRIL MEETING
                       Chicago NeXT Users Group Meeting
                       Madison NeXT User Group Meeting
 
Thursday, April 9th:   NUHU - NeXT Users of Harvard University - Present:
                         A NeXT Demonstration for Expert and Newcomer Alike

Sunday, April 12th:    The Taiwan Next User Group (TwNUG) monthly meeting

Wednesday, April 15th: University of Oregon NeXT User Group Meeting

Thursday, April 16th:  Southern California NeXTstep Users' Group (SCaN) Meeting
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      *******     North Florida NeXT User Group     *******
      *******            APRIL MEETING              *******

DATE:  Wednesday, April 8, 1992

TIME:  6:30 pm

PLACE  234 New Union Building, F.S.U. (near the Golden Key)

EVENTS: (1)     Mr. J. Swain of WordPerfect Corporation will give an
                introduction to WordPerfect for NeXT.

        (2)     IMPROV raffle.  $10 per ticket.  Need not be present
                to win.  Proceeds will go towards future NF-NUG
                events.

        (3)     Free prizes will be given to lucky attendees,
                including a NeXTWORLD Expo T-shirt, a Mathematica
                poster from Wolfram Research, rare NeXT crystal
                mugs, etc.  You must be present to win. 

Call me for more information or if you need directions to the site.  
Hope to see you there!

Justin Morgan
North Florida NeXT User Group
904-644-6901
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The April Chicago NeXT Users Group meeting will be held on Wednesday,
April 8 at 7:00 pm in room A310 of the Technological Institute of
Northwestern University, Evanston Campus.

This month we have several demos of new products.  We have a
demonstration of Concurrence, presentation software from Lighthouse
Design, Ltd.  We have a demo of Engage!, an application launch
utility from Atherton Software Works. We also have a demo of
SpeedDex, a multimedia information management program from the local
company Information Technology Solutions, Inc.

The Technological Institute is located directly east of the corner of
Noyes and Sheridan Road in Evanston.  For further information call
Chuk Craig at (708) 491-7862.
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             Madison NeXT User Group Meeting

There will be a meeting of the Madison NeXT User Group on April 8 at 7:00
p.m. in Room 5280 Chamberlin Hall, 1150 University Ave. This is the
Pharmacy/Physics building.

Agenda:

Simon Says       --> Need i say more?
Concurrence      --> Slide and overhead presentation tool.
Wireframe        --> WireFrame.
Mind over Mail   --> Address book finally?
ScrapFinder      --> Very handy scratch pad.
Ac_Chen          --> Should be a Surgeon General warning on this game.
SAS              --> Not sure if this will happen, so don't hold your breath.
News             --> NeXT has a new president, rumours of a NeXT portable...
On the Archives  --> Emacs-2.1, SciPlot, pbmplus, AudioChallenger, Areacode,
                     AdobeExamples, EngageDemo,
                     Prime_number_announce.ps, ispell3.0-NeXT...


Bring your diskettes if you want a particular piece of software. If you want a
particular piece of software, let me know and I'll see what i can do for you.


Invite your friends, and as usual Armadillos welcome.
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NUHU - NeXT Users of Harvard University - Present:

A Full-Blown NeXT Demonstration for Expert and Newcomer Alike

DATE:           Thursday, April 9th
TIME:           10am to 3pm

PLACE:          Ticknor Lounge  
                Boylston Hall
                Harvard University, Cambridge
                (For directions, please contact someone from the list below)

PURPOSE:        To demonstrate a tremendous variety of system and third-party
                applications for the NeXT, including custom university curri-
                culum software, software development applications, 
                Mathematica and much, much more
                
                To let visitors experiment with several platform configura-
                tions, such as a NeXTstation Color and Turbo Color, as well
                as hardware like NeXT's Laser Printer, a scanner and the new
                NeXT CD-ROM drive

                To improve awareness of NeXT computers and the NeXT users com-
                munity on campus

INCENTIVE:      If you're an experienced user, this is your big chance to have
                a look at all the software you've heard about but never tried

                If you're new to NeXT, you'll have an opportunity to meet with
                experienced NeXT users, discuss the system and find out what 
                everyone is so excited about - it's amazing

FREE TIP:       Don't miss it.
                Bring your friends.

CONTACT:        David Joerg
                President, NUHU
                joerg1@husc.harvard.edu
                
                Jon McAuliffe
                jmcaulif@husc.harvard.edu
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Event: The Taiwan Next User Group (TwNUG) monthly meeting.
Date: April 12, 1992
Time: 9:00 AM
Place: Computer Music Stutio of Applied Art Center, 
National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan.

There will be a demostration of SimonDays... and Concurrence! 
A NeXTDimension may be arranged.

Tony
President of Taiwan NeXT User Group
tony@blumen.nctu.edu.tw
(NeXTmail available)
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An organizational meeting of the UO NeXT Users Group will be held in
322 Fenton at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15.  Anyone who has a NeXT
or is interested in NeXT is encouraged to attend.  We will be showing a
NeXT v. Sun video tape and talking about what services our user group
should provide.

Please direct inquiries to David Casti: dise@vector.uoregon.edu
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Southern California NeXTstep Users' Group (SCaN) Meeting

Thursday 16 April 1992 6:30 p.m.
California State University, Long Beach
Engineering and Computer Science Building
ECS-210

The planned events are as follows:

1.  Demonstration of Parabase by an IP Design representative
     Parabase is relational, client-server database software.

2.  Demonstration of OnDuty, a multiuser office productivity tool.

3.  Auction of OnDuty

4.  Auction of BANG diskette library (games, utilities, documentation,
      programming, system administration - set of 5 floppy disks)

5.  Distribution of March 1992 issue of SCaNeWS


There will be a social at 6:30 and meeting at 7:30.

Directions & Parking:
     Take the San Diego (405) freeway to Long Beach and get
        off at Palo Verde.
     Go toward the beach on Palo Verde past two lights.
     Free parking is available on Palo Verde, else park for
        $1.50 in Lot C.

Dues:  $2.00 (everybody is welcome)


For further information, contact:

Mike Mahoney, SCaN President and CSULB Professor
   (310) 985-1550,  e-mail:  mahoney@csulb.edu

Bob Desharnais, SCaN Vice-President and CSULA Professor
   (213) 343-2056,  e-mail:  bob@biol1next.calstatela.edu
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