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By Jerry Finkelstein

This Newsletter is taking a summer break. I hope we served you well this past year, we’re hoping to serve you even better come the Fall. Over the summer you can let us know the kinds of workshops you'd like us to consider. Wireless networking? Working with graphics and Paint Shop Pro? At our last Tuesday meeting Helen expressed renewed interest in Word. Anyone else interested in word processing? Are you getting Bob’s emails on word processing tips? If not, get in touch with Bob Schaffer so that he can add you to his email list. Let us know too the kind of articles you'd like to see in this Newsletter. Anyone interested in our own reviews of software? In the past we did a lot of evaluations of products. Your active involvement with the club matters. With your input we can only get better. Good enough to take our Newsletter to the stands.

In other parts of this Newsletter Donna advises you about cleaning out your computer, about keeping it in tip top shape. I am wondering, however, if you will be taking Gene’s advice (Gene Barlow, last Tuesday’s speaker) and not clean it out but throw it out altogether, if it is over two/three years old. Well, he didn't say exactly throw it out, your old PC is not all that useless. But he did talk about updating your computer vs the advantages of purchasing a new one.
He did mention how much good stuff you can get nowadays with computers costing just a fraction of what we paid in the good old days of DOS, Win95, and Win 98.

Of course if you want the really good stuff, not just the bells and whistles, but also the horns and the whole brass band of DVD burners, whopping hard drives and memory for your music and video and movies, you've got to pay the buck. You don't get to be Steven Spielberg with just the basics. Well, I guess you have to start someplace. And move up. Have you seen the new monitors? Notice, many of the (new) low cost computers do not include monitors. If you are looking at getting one of the beauties, they don't come cheap. Altogether, I don't think we’re talking $400 anymore. Like Gene said, if you plan on getting the most out of your software, if you plan in the near future to be using software at all, you are going to need a new computer.

So while you take Donna’s tips to heart and take care of the PC you now own you might use this summer thinking about your new computer, getting yourself all set for the purchase of your dream machine. Why not? You'll be investing in yourself as well as helping out the economy. Come to think of it, it’s a very patriotic thing to do.

JF

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