         The Newsletter of the Tampa Bay OS/2 Users' Group (TBOUG) 
                               November 1997

                             TABLE OF CONTENTS

             I.  MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                 A.  NOVEMBER 5TH MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                 B.  MEETING REGISTRATION (FORM)

                 C.  OS/2 HERE & THERE (INCLUDING TECHNO-HUMOR)

            II.  WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

                 A.  MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION (FORM)

           III.  CALENDAR OF EVENTS

            IV.  PROS/2 TITLE & TBOUG OFFICERS

                 A.  PROS/2 DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS

                 B.  TBOUG BOARD OF DIRECTORS




MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT:

                 PQ's DRIVE COPY, PARTITION MAGIC, AND DRIVE IMAGE
                       FEATURED AT NOVEMBER 5TH MEETING

The next meeting of the Tampa Bay OS/2 Users' Group will be held Wednesday
evening, November 5th at IBM's LakePointe offices in Tampa.

MAIN MEETING (7:30 - 9:00)

"PowerQuest"

Added a gigabyte hard drive to your system lately?  Finding that it won't 
hold all the files you thought?  You may be losing up to 40% of your 
disk space from large clusters and don't even know it!  Do you want to 
upgrade to a new operating system without risking your existing setup?  
Upgrading to a new high-capacity hard drive has never been more affordable, 
and Drive Image makes the process a breeze.  Find out more about hard-disk 
partitioning and duplicating your hard drive by attending our November 5th
meeting.  Our guest presenter will be Dick Kellerman, representing PowerQuest 
Corporation.  Dick will cover all the benefits of hard-disk partitioning 
using the award winning product, PartitionMagic and he will also introduce 
us to new Drive Image, the ultimate solution for duplicating your hard 
drive.

PartitionMagic is one of the most exciting products on the market today.
PartitionMagic (patents pending) is the winner of numerous awards, including
the 1995 Best of Fall Comdex for utilities.  Organizing the partitions on your
hard drive is so easy anyone can do it in minutes, a fraction of the time it
used to take.  You'll wonder how we got along without this product for all
these years.

Want to upgrade to a new hard drive?  Now there's DriveCopy, the safest,
easiest, and most affordable way to copy everything from your old hard drive
to your new hard drive.  Dick will spend a few minutes telling about this
utility that supports every major operating system.

The newest product just announced from PowerQuest is Drive Image, the 
ultimate solution for duplicating your hard drive.  Using Drive Image, you 
can easily create and store a compressible backup file of your entire hard 
drive, or just the partitions you specify, to the medium of your choice.  The 
image file can then be downloaded from the source to completely restore your 
operating systems, applications, and data, or just to make upgrading to a 
larger hard drive fast and incredibly easy.

Dick Kellerman has worked with user groups for over 14 years.  In the early
80's, Dick was the president of an IBM internal user group in Tampa, Florida
and later the President of the Pinellas IBM PC user group (later renamed The
Tampa Bay Computer Society).  Dick is no newcomer to user groups and loves
working with them.
 
Dick is an informative and entertaining presenter.  You will come away from
this meeting with a much better understanding of your hard drive and how to
tune it for best performance.  He also has the knack to keep his audience
interested and alert.  Dick promised to bring informative handouts for all,
door prizes, and a special user group price for those wishing to purchase this
exciting product at the meeting.  It should be a super event.  Don't miss it!

Dick Kellerman may be contacted at:
randscom@concentric.net
813/525-0989 

AGENDA

Pre-Meeting (none planned this month)

Dinner (7:00 - 7:30)

Main Meeting (7:30 - 9:00)

- Announcements
- IBM Updates
- Featured Speaker:  Dick Kellerman - PowerQuest

The registration fee for dinner is $7 for members who pre-register;
$8 for pre-registered guests.  Please make your reservations early (no
later than October 31st).  The registration fee for those who do not
pre-register is $8 for members and $9 for guests.  NOTE:  If you have
a "standing" reservation for monthly meetings it is not necessary to confirm
reservations (except to cancel).  For cancellations, please call no later
than two days prior to the meeting.  See the meeting registration form to
make reservations.

LOCATION

IBM Tampa Services Center
4th Floor, LakePointe One Building
3109 West Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd.
Tampa

For directions, contact IBM at Tel:  813/872-2277 or 
John Stuart at 813/872-2341 or E-Mail:  jstuart@vnet.ibm.com


           MEETING REGISTRATION - NOVEMBER 5TH MEETING

Please make reservations for the following individuals to attend the
November 5th meeting of the Tampa Bay OS/2 Users' Group.  Please make
reservations no later than October 31st!  NOTE:  If you have a "standing"
reservation for monthly meetings it is not necessary to confirm
reservations (except to cancel).  For cancellations, please call no later
than two days prior to the meeting.

                Person               Title               Telephone

         _____________________  ____________________  ___________________

         _____________________  ____________________  ___________________

Company  ________________________________________________________________

Address  ________________________________________________________________

City     _____________________  State ____________ Zip  _________________

Fax:     _________________________________________

E-Mail:  _________________________________________

Either Phone or Mail your registration to:                             

        Albert F. (Fritz) Foster
        Crystal Investment Enterprises       
        P.O. Box 47444                       
        St. Petersburg, FL  33743-7444       
        Tel:  813/341-1444 (answering machine)
              813/384-3900 (voice)           
        E-Mail:  fosterf@gte.net

        _____  CHECK HERE IF YOU WILL BE ATTENDING THE "PRE-MEETING" AT 6PM

        _____  CHECK HERE IF YOU WILL NOT HAVE DINNER




                           OS/2 HERE & THERE

LOOKING FOR OS/2 WARP 4

Zygmunt Zubkow of Palm Harbor is looking to obtain a copy of Warp 4
locally.  If you have an extra copy you wish to sell, please contact:

Zygmunt Zubkow
805 Riviere Road
Palm Habor, FL  34683
Home:  781-3671
Work:  539-4315
E-Mail:  zzubkow@space.honeywell.com



                              TECHNO-HUMOR:

COMPUTER VIRUSES

JOHN BOBBIT VIRUS
Removes a vital part of your hard disk then re-attaches it. (But that
part will never work again.

OPRAH WINFREY VIRUS
Your 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 80MB, and then slowly expands
back to 200MB.

PAUL REVERE VIRUS
This revolutionary virus does not horse around. It warns you of impending
hard disk attack -- once if by LAN, twice if by C/:

POLITICALLY CORRECT VIRUS
Never calls itself a "virus," but instead refers to itself as an
"electronic microorganism."

RIGHT TO LIFE VIRUS
Won't allow you to delete a file, regardless of how old it is. If you
attempt to erase a file, it requires you to first see a counselor about 
possible alternatives.

ROSS PEROT VIRUS
Activates every component in your system, just before the whole damn
thing quits.

CONGRESSIONAL VIRUS #1
The computer locks up, screens splits erratically with a message
appearing on each half blaming the other side for the problem.

CONGRESSIONAL VIRUS #2
Runs every program on the hard drive simultaneously but doesn't allow the
user to accomplish anything.

AIRLINE VIRUS
You're in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore.

AT&T VIRUS
Every three minutes it tells you what great service you are getting.

MCI VIRUS
Every three minutes it reminds you that you're paying too much for the
AT&T virus.

MARIO CUOMO VIRUS
It would be a great virus, but it refuses to run.

TED TURNER VIRUS
Colorizes your monochrome monitor.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER VIRUS 
Terminates and stays resident.  It'll be back.

GOVERNMENT ECONOMIST VIRUS
Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine.

NEW WORLD ORDER VIRUS
Probably harmless, but it makes a lot of people really mad just thinking
about it.

FEDERAL BUREAUCRAT VIRUS
Divides your hard disk into hundreds of little units, each of which does
practically nothing, but all of which claim to be the most important part
of your computer.

GALLUP VIRUS
Sixty percent of the PCs infected will lose 38 percent of their data 14
percent of the time (plus or minus a 3.5 percent margin or error).

TEXAS VIRUS
Makes sure that it's bigger than any other file.

FREUDIAN VIRUS
Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard.

PBS VIRUS
Your computer stops every few minutes to ask for money.

ELVIS VIRUS
Your computer gets fat, slow and lazy, then self-destructs -- only to
resurface at shopping malls and service stations across rural America.

OLLIE NORTH VIRUS
Causes your printer to become a paper shredder.

SEARS VIRUS
Your data won't appear unless you buy new cables, power supply and a set
of shocks.

JIMMY HOFFA VIRUS
Your programs can never be found again.

KEVORKIAN VIRUS
Helps your computer shut down as an act of mercy.

IMELDA MARCOS VIRUS
Sings you a song (slightly off key) on boot-up, then subtracts money from
your Quicken account and spends it all on expensive shoes it purchases 
through Prodigy.

STAR TREK VIRUS
Invades your system in places where no virus has gone before.

HEALTH CARE VIRUS
Tests your system for a day, finds nothing wrong and sends you a bill for
$4,500.

NEW YORK JETS VIRUS
Makes your 486/50 machine perform like a 286/AT.

LAPD VIRUS
It claims it feels threatened by the other files on your PC and erases
them in "self-defense."

CHICAGO CUBS VIRUS
Your PC makes frequent mistakes and comes in last in the reviews, but 
you still love it.

ORAL ROBERTS VIRUS
Claims that if you don't send it a million dollars, its programmer will
take it back.

O.J. VIRUS
It claims that it did not, could not and would not delete two of your
files and vows to find the virus that did it.

(courtesy of A.S. in Dunedin)


TOP 10 SIGNS THE NEW MIR COMPUTER IS RUNNING WINDOWS 95
 
10.  The computer keeps asking you to "Insert Setup Disk #3 to continue." 
 
 9.  There is no space left on the hard drive to store mission data. 
 
 8.  The computer refuses to interact with the Mir's "Mr. Java" coffee maker.
 
 7.  Millions of dollars are traced to phone calls to a Redmond, WA 900#. 
 
 6.  Mir astronauts are caught stealing RAM from other satellite's computers 
     to keep their system running. 
 
 5.  The Space Shuttle can no longer dock with Mir since "the proper driver 
     cannot be found." 
 
 4.  The system locks up whenever the astronauts try to run life support, 
     the solar panels and thrusters at the same time. 
 
 3.  The astronauts spend three days looking for cyrillic version of the 
     CTRL-ALT-DEL keys. 
 
 2.  Alien ships secretly observing Mir flee in terror. 
 
And the number one sign the new Mir computer is running Windows 95.... 
 
 1.  You start receiving welcoming e-mail from the Borg 
 
- Mike Popovic (carpediem@locnet.com)


A GREAT NEW SOFTWARE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

This memo is to announce the development of a new software system.  We 
are currently building a data center that will contain all firm data 
that is Year 2000 compliant.  The program is referred to as the 
"Millennia Year Application Software System" (MYASS).  Next Monday at 
9:00 there will be a meeting in which I will show MYASS to everyone.  We 
will continue to hold demonstrations throughout the month so that all 
employees will have an opportunity to get a good look at MYASS.  As for 
the status of the implementation of the program, I have not addressed 
the networking aspects so currently only one person at a time can use 
MYASS.  This restriction will be removed after MYASS expands.  Several 
people are using the program already and have come to depend on it.  Just 
this morning I walked into a subordinate's office and was not surprised 
to find that he had his nose buried in MYASS.  I've noticed that some of 
the less technical personnel are somewhat afraid of MYASS.  Just last 
week, when asked to enter some information into the program, I had a 
secretary say to me "I'm a little nervous, I've never put anything in 
MYASS before."  I volunteered to help her through her first time and 
when we were through she admitted that it was relatively painless and 
she was actually looking forward to doing it again.  She went so far as 
to say that after using SAP and Oracle, she was ready to kiss MYASS.

I know there are concerns over the virus that was found in MYASS upon
initial installation, but I am pleased to say the virus has been
eliminated and we were able to save MYASS.  In the future, however,
protection will be required prior to entering MYASS.  We planned this
database to encompass all information associated with the business. So
as you begin using the program, feel free to put anything you want into
MYASS.  As MYASS grows larger, we envision a time when it will be
commonplace to walk by an office and see a manager hand a paper to an
employee and say "Here, stick this in MYASS".  This program has already
demonstrated great benefit to the company during recent OSHA and EPA
audits.  After requesting certain historical data the agency
representatives were amazed at how quickly we provided the information.

When asked how the numbers could be retrieved so rapidly our
Environmental Manager proudly stated "Simple, I just pulled them out of
MYASS".

Thank You For Your Time,

(courtesy of A.K. in Minneapolis)



                          WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!


     COME JOIN OS/2 PROFESSIONALS FROM AROUND THE TAMPA BAY AREA!

Bradenton, Brandon, Brooksville, Clearwater, Gulfport, Kissimmee,
Lakeland, Land O'Lakes, Lutz, Madeira Beach, Odessa, Orlando, 
Palm Harbor, Pinellas Park, Plant City, Redington Beach, Riverview,
Sarasota, St. Petersburg, South Pasadena, Spring Hill, Tampa, 
Tarpon Springs, Temple Terrace, Valrico, Wesley Chapel, Zephyrhills



            A USER GROUP IS JUDGED BY THE COMPANY IT KEEPS!

The following is a partial list of member companies in TBOUG:

AMERICAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 
CATALINA MARKETING CORPORATION 
CITY OF PINELLAS PARK 
CRYSTAL INVESTMENT ENTERPRISES, INC. 
DIGITAL LIGHTWAVE
E-SYSTEMS 
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 
FLORIDA, STATE OF 
GTE DATA SERVICES 
HEALTH PLAN SERVICES, INC. 
IBM 
M. BRYCE &amp. ASSOCIATES, INC.
MET LIFE 
MORTON PLANT HOSPITAL 
PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS NORTH AMERICA 
SOUTH WEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT (SWFWMD) 
ST. PETERSBURG-CLEARWATER INT'L AIRPORT 
TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL 
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA 
U.S. MARINE CORPS 
VA HOSPITAL 
WATKINS MOTOR LINES, INC. 

For a membership application ...


                        TAMPA BAY OS/2 USERS' GROUP

                          MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

The Tampa Bay OS/2 Users' Group (TBOUG) is a not-for-profit, vendor-independent
association dedicated to the effective use of IBM's OS/2 operating system.
Members of TBOUG are OS/2 licensees from around the Tampa Bay area of
Florida.  There are two types of membership in the user group:

CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP allows a company to sponsor many employees to attend
user group functions.  There is one (1) vote associated with a corporate
membership and the company must appoint an official voting delegate.  The
price for an annual corporate membership is $200.*

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP allows an individual to join the user group and
entitles him/her to the same rights and privileges as the corporate
member, except the individual has a one-tenth (1/10) membership vote.
The price for an individual membership is $20.*

*  Membership fees are prorated on a quarterly basis (operating year
   is January to December).  

The association is governed by a set of bylaws and an Executive Board.
Members can attend meeting functions (monthly meetings and committee
meetings) at discounted rates, and are provided free access to the user
group's Bulletin Board Service (BBS).  Membership applications should
be forwarded to TBOUG at:  Accounting Office, 5932 Seabird Drive South,
St. Petersburg, FL  33707-3936.  Make checks payable to:  Tampa Bay OS/2 
Users' Group

                        TAMPA BAY OS/2 USERS' GROUP
                          MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

MEMBERSHIP TYPE:        _____   CORPORATE               _____   INDIVIDUAL

IF CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP, WILL YOU BE THE VOTING DELEGATE?  ________

"I HEREBY CONFIRM THAT I AM OR MY COMPANY IS A LICENSEE OF IBM'S OS/2
OPERATING SYSTEM AND, AS A MEMBER, WILL ABIDE THE BYLAWS OF THE
TAMPA BAY OS/2 USERS' GROUP."

NAME       ____________________________________________________________

TITLE      ____________________________________________________________

COMPANY    ____________________________________________________________

ADDRESS    ____________________________________________________________

CITY       _________________________ STATE   _____   ZIP ______________

TELEPHONE  ____________________________________________________________

FAX        ____________________________________________________________

E-MAIL     ____________________________________________________________

CHECK HERE TO ESTABLISH A "STANDING" DINNER RESERVATION FOR ALL MONTHLY
MEETINGS (YOU WILL ONLY NEED TO CALL TO CANCEL RESERVATIONS):           _____

RECEIVED BY (TBOUG):  ______________________________  DATE: ________________




                           CALENDAR OF EVENTS

The following is a list of events of interest to OS/2 users in the
Tampa Bay area:

November 5, 1997 - Tampa Bay OS/2 Users' Group meeting;
Tel:  813/341-1444; E-Mail:  fosterf@gte.net

November 17-21, 1997 - COMDEX/Fall; Las Vegas, Nevada;
Tel:  617/433-1600; WWW:  http://www.comdex.com

December 3, 1997 - Tampa Bay OS/2 Users' Group meeting;
Tel:  813/341-1444; E-Mail:  fosterf@gte.net

January 7, 1998 - Tampa Bay OS/2 Users' Group meeting;
Tel:  813/341-1444; E-Mail:  fosterf@gte.net

ALSO LOOK FOR TBOUG MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS IN THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, ST.
PETERSBURG TIMES, AMERICA ONLINE, COMPUSERVE, THE TBOUG BBS (813/786-4864), 
AND TBOUG'S WEB PAGE (http://www.os2ss.com/connect/tboug/welcome.htm)



                                  PROS/2

                               November 1997

PROS/2 is the official newsletter of the Tampa Bay OS/2 Users' Group
(TBOUG), a not-for-profit, vendor-independent users' group dedicated to
the effective use of IBM's OS/2 operating system.  Letters and
manuscripts are welcomed and reviewed for possible publication.
Please supply narrative in ASCII text format.  Copyright (C)
TBOUG 1997.  All rights reserved.  IBM and OS/2 are the registered
trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation.
TBOUG logo designed by Albert Tatenborn.

Any OS/2 licensee within the Tampa Bay area of Florida is eligible to
become a member of TBOUG.  Annual Corporate membership is $200;
individual membership is $20; membership fees are prorated on a
quarterly basis.  TBOUG was founded in December 1993 and its
Federal Tax Id is 59-3212323.

ADDRESS

Tampa Bay OS/2 Users' Group
c/o M. Bryce & Associates, Inc.
777 Alderman Road
Palm Harbor, FL  34683
Tel:  813/786-4567
Fax:  813/786-4765
BBS:  813/786-4864
WWW:  http://www.os2ss.com/connect/tboug/welcome.htm

1997 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS

President
John C. Tardy, CCP - SWFWMD
Tel:  813/985-7481
Fax:  813/987-6748
E-Mail:  Jupiler@aol.com

Vice President
Robert Gonnella - E-Systems
Tel:  813/381-2000 X 3353
Fax:  813/344-7415
E-Mail:  rnga@eci-esyst.com

Secretary
Bruce W. Albritton - SWFWMD
Tel:  813/985-7481 X 2363
Fax:  813/987-6748
E-Mail:  103263.71@compuserve.com 

Treasurer
Albert F. (Fritz) Foster - Crystal Investment Enterprises, Inc.
Tel:  813/341-1444 (answer machine)
      813/384-3900 (voice)
E-Mail:  fosterf@gte.net

BOARD MEMBERS

Colin Greseth - Festa Facilitators
Tel:  813/882-4988
Fax:  813/884-1051
E-Mail:  colin@festafacil.com

Brian A. Lowe - Technically Speaking
Tel:  941/745-2315
Fax:  (same)
E-Mail:  tfxbl@worldnet.att.net

Joe May - State of Florida
Tel:  813/744-6100 X 342
Fax:  813/744-8198
E-Mail:  may_j@tpa1.dep.state.fl.us

Steven E. Speairs - Automation Research Systems Ltd.
Tel:  813/221-0733 X 147
Fax:  813/226-2303
E-Mail:  sspeairs@arstpa.com

Past-President
Dr. Scott M. Baker
Tel:  813/538-2273
Fax:  813/870-2912
E-Mail:  DrSbaker@citicom.com

IBM Vendor Liaison
John R. Stuart - IBM
Tel:  813/872-2341
E-Mail:  jstuart@vnet.ibm.com


TBOUG HTML Writer (not on the Board)
Tim Bryce - M. Bryce & Associates, Inc.
Tel:  813/786-4567
BBS:  813/786-4864
E-Mail:  TimB1557@aol.com
CompuServe:  76235,2364


PAST PRESIDENTS

1996 - Dr. Scott M. Baker - The Center for Chiropractic Care
1995 - Dave Hancock - Publix Supermarkets
1994 - Tim Bryce - M. Bryce & Associates, Inc. (MBA)



               PROS/2 DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS

The PROS/2 files (in ASCII text (TXT) and INF formats) are distributed to
the major computer networks and bulletin boards.  This specifically includes:

Commercial Networks:

     America Online - In the OS/2 Forum (Ctrl+K, "os2"), under "Newsletters"

     CompuServe - In the "IBM OS/2 Users+" Forum (GO OS2USER),
       go to the Library & Browse the "OS/2 User Groups" section.

On the Internet:

     TBOUG's web site:  http://www.os2ss.com/connect/tboug/welcome.htm

     FTP site:  hobbes.nmsu.edu   (/pub/incoming) or (/pub/os2/info/newsltr/)

     FTP site:  ftp-os2.cdrom.com   (/pub/os2/incoming) or (/pub/os2/newsltr)

Bulletin Boards:

     TBOUG's BBS/MBA's The "PRIDE" Network (Palm Harbor, FL)  813/786-4864

     OS/2 Shareware; Pete Norloff's BBS (Fairfax, VA)  703/242-4482

NOTE:  With the exception of TBOUG's own BBS, the publisher does not 
maintain a formal business relationship with any of the above listed 
carriers, other than purely as a distribution channel for the newsletter.

The PROS/2 files may be copied and distributed free of charge.  The
name of the file is PROSmmyy.ZIP (where "mm" represents the month and 
"yy" represents the year; for example:  PROS1197.ZIP represents the
November 1997 issue).


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