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Feature Presentation for the May general meeting
General Information
A word of thanks to guest speakers
News Letter Information
Meeting Schedule for the year
The introduction topics will be Bill Marchant on an item of interest on Windows and Rob MacCara who
will look after the Q&A secession.
Feature Presentation; The Navy's Computer Assisted Instruction Network with some background, The Evolution of the CAI
computer network, by Rob MacCara, and where it is headed into the new Millennium.
This system is in the classroom we use at the Naval Engineering School. and as setup in the building where we
hold our regular meetings.
The HAPCC general meeting is on 4th Sunday of each month. The next general meeting will be May 30th meeting time
7:00 - 9:00pm. For this month we have official approval to use the classroom facilities at CFB Halifax (Stad) for
our regular meetings. New Place! Building S-37 room B18.
Go in the main gates of Stad on Gottigen street and either stop
and ask the fellow in the gate house for directions or: Proceed
straight through the gates and down the little hill and keep going
straight till you come to a stop sign. Go past the stop sign and down
the little hill and turn right at the bottom of the hill. The long
building facing the soccer field is Numbered S-37 and the sign out
front says that it is the home of the Naval Engineering School.
You've reached the right place. Find a parking spot and go in the far
set of doors (South doors) - Go Straight in the building and down the
stairs to the next level and turn right. The classroom we'll be using
is B18 and it's right next to the stairwell. The new facilities
boasts a room with 25 computers as well as a projection system that
we can use. See you all there at the next meeting!
In this issue
Chairperson David Potter
Vice-Chair Bill Marchant
Treasurer Rob MacCara
Web Librarian Thayne MacLean
Newsletter Editor Diane Smith
Membership Promotion Pat Conen
and the following members who assist in planning our monthly
meetings: Norman DeForest, Henry Hill, Ken Gilmour,and Colin Stuart.
The HAPCC has two kinds of
meetings. Firstly the regular Sunday night meeting which most
members attend regularly, secondly the monthly (approximately)
planning meeting which organizes the business of the Club,
including what happens on the Sundays. The planning meeting is
held on Monday, a week after the regular meeting in which all
members of the Club are urged to attend. At the planning meeting,
we discuss feature speakers for regular meetings, finances,
membership, training, and other computer related subjects.
....Bill Marchant
A word of thanks to guest speakers and the their web suites.
Our guest speaker at the March meeting was
Mr. David Baxter, Product Specialist at MT&T for the
MpoweredPc service. His multi-media presentation showed us how
far the service has come, and in which direction it is heading.
MpoweredPc was being officially launched on April 7, 1998 and it
promises to be a serious contender in the high-speed
internet/software on demand arena. More info can be found here:
Mpowered.
Once again, thank you to MT&T and David Baxter.
Our guest speaker in February, 1998 was Sgt. Bill
Cowper, Internet Communications Officer of the Halifax Regional
Municipality Police Department. He gave a history of how and when
the police department started using the Internet. They were the
first police department in Canada to be on the Internet. Sgt.
Cowper is continually receiving calls from all over the world
looking for assistance. The presentation showed how well the
department and the officers in the patrol cars are versed on
getting the criminals off the streets. If you would like to
check-out their web site the address is:
Halifax
Regional Police Service gives an
idea of what an "Internet Cybercop" is all about.
In this issue
Newsletter Articles.... We are almost
always in need of good articles. If anyone has something that
they feel would make a good article, an interesting story to
tell, or even a good meeting topic, please don't hesitate to pass
it on. Articles can be submitted in almost any format, ASCII
text, AMI Pro, MS Word, Windows Write, WordStar and of course
WordPerfect.
The news letter is mailed to all
paid up members and to anyone who has attended a meeting within
the past three months. Yearly membership dues are $15.00.
Club Mailing Address -
P.O. Box 29008, Halifax N.S., B3L 4T8.
In this issue
We decide the meeting dates for the
upcoming year at the last planning meeting of the season. The
dates for these are listed below. As in previous years, the
December meeting is moved to the early part of January due to
Christmas Eve being near the fourth Sunday of the month.
The planning meetings are normally held on the second Monday (8
days) after the general meeting. They are currently held at a
members home and the address is announced at the meeting prior to
the planning meeting. Anyone is welcome to assist in the planning
of future meetings or events.
Meeting dates for the 1999 season:
May-30 June-27
Any changes to the scheduled dates will be announced where possible at the regular monthly meetings and/or in this newsletter.
