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Started by Howard Shubs
Sun, 23 Aug 1992 01:43
September 1992 Calendar, 5 of 5
Author: Howard Shubs
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 01:43
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 01:43
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Get Your Hands On a Mac (part 2 of 3)
Tuesday, September 8
6:30 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Access: Fee MBTA Reservations
Attendance is limited. Hands-on instruction on the Macintosh operating
system and using click and drag techniques.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
*Requirements: Reservations required. Call the Mac Office at
(617) 864-1700. Parts 1, 2, and 3 must be taken as a package:
$112 for members, $240 for non-members. A textbook and disks
are included. Limited to 8.
========================================================================
Macintosh
Get Your Hands on a Mac (part 3 of 3)
Tuesday, September 15
6:30 p.m.
*Level: Intermediate
*Access: Fee MBTA Reservations
Explore the Clipboard, Scrapbook, and MultiFinder. Learn how to
exchange information between applications.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
*Requirements: Reservations required. Call the Mac Office at
(617) 864-1700. Parts 1, 2, and 3 must be taken as a package:
$112 for members, $240 for non-members. A textbook and disks
are included. Limited to 8.
========================================================================
Macintosh
Mac Goes to Press
Wednesday, September 9
6:30 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Access: Fee MBTA Reservations
Learn how a printer's services are different from a service bureau.
Printed samples are used to illustrate the procedures necessary to go
from pre-press to actual product.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
*Requirements: $25 for members, $50 for non-members.
Reservations required, call the Mac office at (617) 864-1700.
========================================================================
Macintosh
Networking
Wednesday, September 30
6:30 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Access: Fee MBTA Reservations
Tom Elwertowski shows how to connect Macs together to form a network.
Learn how to share files and manage System 7's file sharing features.
Learn whether users can use System 6 at the same time.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
*Requirements: $25 for members, $50 for non-members.
Reservations required. Call the Mac Office at (617) 864-1700.
========================================================================
Macintosh
PageMaker
Wednesday, September 23
6:30 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Access: Fee MBTA Reservations
Learn newsletter design, master pages, automatic page numbering,
columns, guides, text flow, image control, and how to create and use
style sheets.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
*Requirements: $25 for members, $50 for non-members.
Reservations requiredĂcall the Mac office, (617) 864-1700.
========================================================================
Macintosh
Persuasion
Tuesday, September 22
6:30 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Access: Fee MBTA Reservations
Visuals enhance a speaker's impact. Persuasion is a powerful
presentation program for producing visuals integrated with your text
and audience hand-outs. Learn outliner, autotemplates, and how to
import your own graphics.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
*Requirements: $25 for members, $50 for non-members.
Reservations required. Call the Mac Office at (617) 864-1700.
========================================================================
Macintosh
Quark XPress
Thursday, September 3
6:30 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Access: Fee MBTA Reservations
Get an introduction to this program with basic page layout techniques
and program extensions. Some experience with page layout preferred.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
*Requirements: $25 for members, $50 for non-members.
Reservations requiredĂcall the Mac office, (617) 864-1700.
========================================================================
Macintosh
Quark XPress in Two Classes
Tuesday, September 22
6:30 p.m.
*Level: Intermediate
*Access: Fee MBTA Reservations
Bill Tupper introduces the features of this desktop publishing program
featuring basic page layout techniques and program extensions. Be
familiar with basic page layout. Part 2 explaining color modules and
other advanced concepts, including trapping, kerning, and ligatures, on
September 29.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
*Requirements: Two classes at $75 for members, $150 for
non-members. Reservations required. Call the Mac Office at
(617) 864-1700.
========================================================================
Macintosh
Telecommunications
Wednesday, September 16
6:30 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Access: Fee MBTA Reservations
The class covers basic hardware and software and how to navigate
through electronic bulletin boards.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
*Requirements: $25 for members, $50 for non-members.
Reservations requiredĂcall the Mac office, (617) 864-1700.
========================================================================
Macintosh
Word
Tuesday, September 29
6:30 p.m.
*Level: Intermediate
*Access: Fee MBTA Reservations
P.A.M. Borys covers advanced uses in this word processing program
including styles, columns, commands, glossary entries, tables of
content, indexing, and more. Lean how to manage long documents.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
*Requirements: $25 for members, $50 for non-members for both
classes. Reservations requiredĂcall the Mac office, (617)
864-1700.
========================================================================
Macintosh
Word in Two Parts
Monday, September 14
6:30 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Access: Fee MBTA Reservations
Joe Kelley leads a tour of this popular word processor for Macintosh
computers. Get a hands-on look at the basic functions and some of the
more powerful capabilities. Learn to format text and paragraphs, use
the ruler, and some helpful shortcuts. Basic familiarity with Macintosh
required. Second class on September 21.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
*Requirements: $75 for members, $125 for non-members for both
classes. Reservations requiredĂcall the Mac office, (617)
864-1700.
========================================================================
North ShoreĂEndicott College All about North Shore Workshops
7:00 p.m.
*Level: All levels
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->803
*Access: Fee Parking Reservations
We have a new education director for these classes. If you would like a
specific course, call Dave Nuccio at (617) 245-3145, education director
for the North Shore Workshops. Also call if you would like to be an
instructor or assist in any hands-on labs.
*More information: Contact Dave Nuccio at (617) 245-3145.
*Location: Endicott College, Route 127 (Hale Street), Academic
Center, Beverly.
*Directions: From the South take 128 north to Exit 22E in
Beverly (this is Route 62). Take Route 62 east about one mile
through Beverly to Route 127. Take 127 north (Hale Street)
2Ă3 miles. You pass Endicott College on the left. Continue
to the main entrance. Go onto campus and follow signs to
the Academic Center building. Follow the foot path (the
Art building is on your right), the Academic Center is
straight ahead.
*Requirements: Reservations required for all workshopsĂcall
(508) 887-3590. Fees are $10 for members, $15 for non-members
for lecture style classes. $15 for members, $20 for
non-members for hands-on. Unemploed persons may attend
workshops on a space available basis at no charge.
========================================================================
North ShoreĂEndicott College
C Programming
Wednesday, September 9
7:00 p.m.
*Level: Intermediate
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->803
*Access: Fee Parking Reservations
Paul Vinson does six weeks of lectures on C programming. Students
expected to write programs each week and have some experience with
BASIC, Assembler, Pascal, or other C compiler. Classes on September 16,
23, 30, and in October.
========================================================================
North ShoreĂEndicott College
DOS
Wednesday, September 16
7:00 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->803
*Access: Fee Parking Reservations
Mike Baanofsky covers file handling, accessing hard disks, floppy
drives, and other basic tasks using DOS.
========================================================================
North ShoreĂEndicott College
DOS II
Wednesday, September 23
7:00 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->803
*Access: Fee Parking Reservations
Mike Baranofsky goes beyond DOS I to show how to create directories and
subdirectories, copy and append files, and what it means to config.sys
or autoexec.bat.
========================================================================
North ShoreĂEndicott College
DOS III
Wednesday, September 30
7:00 p.m.
*Level: Intermediate
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->803
*Access: Fee Parking Reservations
Mike Baranofsky lectures on using pipes, filters, redirection, and
other advanced DOS commands.
========================================================================
North ShoreĂEndicott College
Lotus 1-2-3
Wednesday, September 30
7:00 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->803
*Access: Fee Parking Reservations
Mark Wantman gives the first of three hands-on labs on the basics of
spreadsheets. Learn how to create and edit spreadsheets, enter data,
text, and equations, and more.
========================================================================
North ShoreĂEndicott College
Networks
Wednesday, September 9
7:00 p.m.
*Level: Beginners
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->803
*Access: Fee Parking Reservations
Don Orifice teaches about local area networks in two weeks of lectures.
Learn about software and hardware, wiring, servers, hubs, bridges, and
more. Second class is September 16.
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Apple II
Activist Meeting
Tuesday, September 1
7:00 p.m.
*Level: All levels
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->102
*Access: MBTA Wheelchair
Plan group activities. Open to all!
*More information: Call the group hotline at (617) 232-2202, or
call their bulletin board at (617) 232-2244 (1200-N-8-1 Full)
via modem. To volunteer to help the group, contact Albert
Willis at (617) 288-2959 (e).
*Location: The BCS Center, Building 1400, One Kendall Square,
Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: See "Resource Center."
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IBM Boston Workshops
Tuesday, September 8
6:00 p.m.
*Level: All levels
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->102
*Access: MBTA Parking Wheelchair
Workshop instructors wanted. Come to this meeting to find out more.
*More information: Call Margaret Lourie (617) 868-7982 (e).
*Location: The BCS Center, Building 1400, One Kendall Square,
Cambridge, MA.
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IBM PC Users Group
BCS IBM PC Users Group Executive Board Meeting
Tuesday, September 22
7:00 p.m.
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->102
Plan the services from our group at this monthly meeting of the group's
directors. Open to all BCS members.
*More information: Call the IBM PC Group Office at (617)
964-2547.
*Location: The IBM Group Offices, 188 Needham Street, Suite
230, Newton, MA.
========================================================================
Macintosh
Saturday, September 12
2:00Ă4:00 p.m.
*Level: All levels
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->102
*Access: MBTA
Project CD/ROM team meetings. Come and learn how you can help ambitious
plans for a new public-domain CD/ROM library. Another meeting set for
September 26.
*More information: Call the BCS„Mac office at (617) 864-1700.
*Location: BCS„Mac, 1972 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Take "Alewife" Red Line to Porter Square {\T}
Station, three blocks north on Massachusetts Avenue, on the
left (the glass-faced building across from the Beech Street
intersection).
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Member Services Committee
Monday, September 28
6:30 p.m.
*Level: All levels
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->102
*Access: MBTA Wheelchair
*More information: Contact Dick Arscott at (617) 326-4390.
*Location: The BCS Center, Building 1400, One Kendall Square,
Cambridge, MA.
========================================================================
Non Profit Assistance Program
Make a Difference
Monday, September 21
6:00 p.m. new members 6:30 p.m. general meeting
*Level: All levels
*Access: MBTA Parking Wheelchair
Join the team of BCS volunteers reaching out to help the non-profit
community with their information struggles. Also, a visit from Lisa
Breit from Technical Development Corporation.
*More information: Call Coralee Whitcombat (617) 252-0600
orJeff Behrens at (617) 332-7177.
*Location: The BCS Center, Building 1400, One Kendall Square,
Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: The BCS Center is at the back (north) of One
Kendall Square, bounded by Hampshire Street, Cardinal Medeiros
Avenue, and Binney Street. The nearest {\T} station is
Kendall Square on the Red Line.
========================================================================
Online Services Committee
Monday, September 21
7:15 p.m.
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->102
*Access: MBTA Wheelchair
The Online Services Committe is dedicated to promoting the growth of
online services within the BCS.
*More information: Contact Margaret Menzies at (617) 666-1980
(e).
*Location: The BCS Center, Building 1400, One Kendall Square,
Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: The BCS Center is at the back (north) of One
Kendall Square, bounded by Hampshire Street, Cardinal Medeiros
Avenue, and Binney Street. The nearest {\T} station is
Kendall Square on the Red Line.
========================================================================
Public Service Committee
Monday, September 14
5:30 p.m.
*Level: All levels
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->102
*Access: MBTA Wheelchair
Discuss the Non-Profit Assistance Program, Impact, MASTAC, Compufest,
Computers and Social Change Conference, and a future hardware donations
program. Join us with your ideas for community outreach.
*More information: Contact Coralee Whitcomb at (617) 252-0600
or Dan DiBartolomeo at (617) 737-8360.
*Location: The BCS Center, Building 1400, One Kendall Square,
Cambridge, MA.
========================================================================
BCS Employment Service Special Program
Write a Better Resume Need a Job? New BCS Employment Service
Saturday, October 3
9:30Ă11:30 a.m.
*Level: All levels
Present your talents and experience clearly. Bring your best current
resume and receive help from the BCS Employment Service. Learn more
about a BCS employment service offered by Corico Corporation.
*More information: Contact Max Steiner at (800) 332-9199.
*Location: The BCS Center, Building 1400, One Kendall Square,
Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: The BCS Center is at the back (north) of One
Kendall Square, bounded by Hampshire Street, Cardinal Medeiros
Avenue, and Binney Street. The nearest {\T} station is
Kendall Square on the Red Line.
========================================================================
For Your Information Trade Shows & Conferences
From the editor's mailbox . . .
*Level: All levels
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->105
*Access: Fee Reservations
September 13Ă18 in Boston, MA, Software Development '92 Fall Showcase.
Call (415) 905-2741 and see advertisement in this issue of BCS Update
for your free show pass. September 16Ă17 in New York, The 1992
Information Highways Conference. Call (800) 821-1329. September 21Ă24
in Las Vegas, NV, CompuExpo. Call (800) 822-1229. September 23Ă24 in
San Jose, CA, DiskCon. Call (408) 720-9352. September 29ĂOctober 2 in
Boston, MA, CD-ROM Expo. Call (800) 945-3313 or (617) 361-0817. October
1Ă2 in Boston, MA, Harvard Medical School's Clinical Computing. Call
(617) 432-1525. October 2Ă4 in Boston, MA, Apple Expo East. Call (800)
955-6630 or (617) 784-4531.
*Directions:
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--
Howard S Shubs hshubs@eff.org I don't represent the EFF,
The Denim Adept hshubs@BIX.com but I do agree with them.
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