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                          The OPTIKS Conference is now open!

             The OPTIKS conference on PC-Rockland is now open, up and
      running. It is available to all existing paid users of the private
      version of OPTIKS. The OPTIKS conference has the most recent
      official private version of OPTIKS available for downloading as well
      as thousands of files of BBS graphics and Clip Art. It has
      scanned clip art which will be available nowhere else. It has
      an occasional minor revision version of OPTIKS (eg. OKP209B.ARC) for
      when I add a new feature and need immediate testing.

             Now that the Conference is open there are two ways to get
      OPTIKS. The easiest is to log on to PC-Rockland using your modem and
      fill out the script questionnaire for OPTIKS registration. Have you
      Visa or Master Card ready. The cost for a 1 year on line registration
      is $79.95 and New York residents must pay local tax. The PC-Rockland
      Sysop will validate the registration within 24 hours and register you
      with the conference. The next time you log on to PC-Rockland use the
      J(oin) command to join conference 4. You will then have access to the
      conference message base and all 4 conference file directories. You
      will be given an hour a day access to the BBS for one year. Renewal
      after the first year will be at $39.95 to receive the latest upgrade
      to OPTIKS for the next 12 months.

             If you can't use the BBS and still need OPTIKS private
      version for graphics file conversion, you can send $79.95 plus $10 to
      cover the cost of mailing and diskettes to:

      Keith P. Graham                             PC ROCKLAND
      PO Box 101F              or the bbs         32 Smith ave
      West Nyack, NY 10994                        South Nyack, NY 10960

      All purchase's thru PC Rockland should include a first name,last
      name,password to be used on the PC Rockland system. So we can
      register you on the system as a valid OPTIKS user.

      This will be for a one time delivery. There will be no new OPTIKS
      upgrade disks. If you get the one time delivery and then want to use
      the BBS service you can log on and leave a message and I will get you
      registered.

             If you are already a paid OPTIKS subscriber just log on to
      PC-Rockland and leave a message and I will register you in the
      conference, but conference users will not receive the automatic
      mailings of the new versions of OPTIKS.

             If you already are a Paid PC Rockland user, the registration
      fee will allow you to download OPTIKS and you will have a total
      BBS time of 1 hour per day for 1 year, with the current OPTIKS
      version on line for you to download.

             You can call voice for order information (not technical support)
      or information about PC Rockland at [phone]. This is a real
      voice line during normal east coast working hours and an answering
      machine on evenings, weekends and holidays.

                     How to logon to PC-Rockland:

             PC-Rockland currently has 9 nodes up and running. Once or
      twice a month the system will be down on Sunday afternoons for
      backups and other housekeeping chores. The private line number is
      [phone]. There is a free line which is always busy. Call
      the private line first to get information and register.
             The system has a three 386 servers and 9 AT nodes and
      is running under a 3COM Ethernet system. The system has an additional
      386 up on the network for systems maintenance. New nodes and more
      telephone lines will be added soon. 9600 baud will be added.
      There is temorarily a Hayes V series on one of the nodes.
      There are well over 20,000 files on line filling up most of over
      a gigabyte of disk space.

             If you have never used PC-Rockland, set you communications
      program for 1200,n,8,1 or 2400,n,8,1 and dial into [phone].
      When you logon, the PC-Board program will ask you for information
      about yourself and you can browse around. You will have 15 minutes,
      but you will not be able to download files. Use the S command to fill
      out a script questionnaire and choose script 2 for OPTIKS. The script
      will ask you a little information about yourself which is, of course,
      kept in complete confidence. (BBS's are very private places which
      enrages meddling bureaucrats.) The PC-Rockland Sysop will validate
      the charge card information and enroll you in the conference. You may
      send a check if you don't want to use you charge, but this will take
      a little longer.

             If you are already a free user, and would like to join
      OPTIKS there will be a conflict because you cannot be both a free
      board user and an OPTIKS user. You will have to keep your current
      name as a free board user and use an alias or nickname to use the
      private line and get into the OPTIKS conference.

             The OPTIKS conference will, hopefully, attract a lot of the
      heavy users in the field of graphics and desktop publishing. It will
      be a forum for the exchange of ideas and a source of help for the new
      user. I will try and log on at least twice a day to answer mail and
      check the files. I will also be available for node to node chat if
      you catch me on line. PC-Rockland is growing and will offer other
      service besides OPTIKS and we are sure that it will be a focal point
      for the exciting areas of graphics and desktop publishing.

             OPTIKS is fairly stable now, but I keep adding new features.
      I am working on a VGA 256 color version as well as a On-Line
      graphics viewing. I am also fooling with Hypertext. Keep tuned
      in.

                         Keith P. Graham