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       Greater Cleveland Personal Computer Users Group 
                    Meeting Announcement
                       January 6, 1996


The next meeting of the Greater Cleveland PC Users Group will Saturday,
January 6th from 9:30 a.m. till Noon. We will be meeting in the auditorium
of the Main Classroom Building at Cleveland State University.  The Main
Classroom building is at 22nd Street and stretches from Euclid to Chester.
The meeting room is near the end of the building closer to Chester, but it
is easy to get there from either side.  There is parking available in the
underground parking areas (watch for signs).  There are elevators and easy
access to the auditorium from ground level or the parking garage.


Topics for This Meeting

Adding Memory To & Backing Up Your System

Champion Computer Technologies

There are many issues to consider when you want add memory to your system.
SIMMs or DIMMs? 2, 4, or 8 MB memory modules? How much does it cost? End
Memory or L2 Cache? It can be a confusing process that can even trip up
the experts. Unfortunately, you can never have enough memory for all these
hungry new programs that you want to use. If the memory questions weren't
hard enough, what really is PCMCIA and what's inside those little credit
cards? Why are there so many different types and sizes?

Champion Computer Technologies is a local company which makes a wide range
of memory products and PCMCIA products. Their products are used in
desktops and notebooks for a wide range of applications covering
communications, networking and extended storage solutions. Charles
Weinberger, President of Champion and one of it's founders will speak to
us and try and clear the air about memory and PCMCIA cards.

Arcada's Tape Backup Software

As our hard drives get bigger and bigger with more data and inter-linked
programs, it becomes more important to have recent and accurate backups.
In the old days, you could buy a few boxes of diskettes and use a program
like Fastback to back up your system in 30 to 40 minutes. That was when
hard drives were 20 MB in size. Today's hard drives are 800 to 1,200 MB in
size, backing up to diskettes could be an all day process. Fortunately,
tape drives which can hold hundreds of megabytes in storage and used to be
 very expensive and hard to install have dropped to under $200 in price
and can be installed like an extra disk drive. The drives with tape backup
software can backup today's large drives in an hour or so with a little
help from you.

Arcada Software, Inc. is one of the leaders in the tape backup field. They
were formed in 1994 by the merger of the software operations of Conner
Peripherals and Quest Development. They have products which back up Novell
and Windows NT networks, OS/2, Windows, Windows 95, and yes even DOS. The
software supplied with many of the tape drives is usually written by
Arcada. Norton Backup and Central Point Backup were both written by
Arcada. Today, they are one of a few companies which produce 32-bit tape
backup software for Windows 95.

Richard Berger, marketing representative, for Arcada will demonstrating
the new Windows 95 software for us. He will also about the hows and whys
of backing up, verifying and restoring your data. There will also be a
discussion of the different tape formats available today and the merits of
each. A review of the software appears elsewhere in the newsletter.

Like all our meetings, this meeting is free and open to the public. 
However, seating may be limited and will be on a first-come, first-served
basis. There will also be time for questions and answers and our other
regular features. See you there! Bring a friend, neighbor or co-worker and
introduce them to the GCPCUG.


Upcoming Meetings

On February 3rd, we will have Symantec, the leader in utility software
market and makers of such products as PCAnywhere, ACT!, and now Winfax
Pro. We are expecting Hart Macklin, the wild and crazy Canadian, will show
us a wide range of products from Norton Utilities to Winfax Pro 7.0 to
Dilbert Screen Saver. Hart before working as a user group representative
for Delrina and Symantec, was the president of a group in western Canada.
He loves coming to users groups.

For March 2nd, we have Lexmark, maker of inkjet and laser printers scheduled.

The remaining dates for 1996 are:

Apr. 6th
May 4th
Jun. 1st
Jul. 13th
Aug. 3rd
Sep. 7th
Oct. 5th
Nov. 2nd
Dec. 7th

All meetings are held in the Auditorium of the CSU Main Classroom. Meeting
topic information can be found on the club's Web Home Page at
http://www.gcpcug.org

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Posted by Gail M. Hall    <aa571@cleveland.freenet.edu>
From Cleveland Free-Net   12/29/95