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- From: scan@beach.csulb.edu (So. Cal. NeXT Users Group)
- Subject: NeXTSTEP 486 at Caltech: Thursday 11/12
- Message-ID: <BxKtKJ.DG@beach.csulb.edu>
- Keywords: NeXTSTEP 486, User Group Meeting
- Sender: news@beach.csulb.edu (News Administration/Rumor Bureau)
- Organization: Cal State Long Beach
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:05:06 GMT
- Lines: 107
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- It's for sure, NeXTSTEP 486 will be demonstrated on a DELL 486 Thursday
- 11/12 at Caltech. You can come to the SCaN meeting at 6:30 or the Product
- Fair from 10-2. The details follow:
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- Southern California NeXTSTEP Users' Group (SCaN) Meeting
- with the Caltech and JPL User's of NeXT (CaJUN)
-
- Thursday 12 November 1992 6:30 p.m.
- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Beckman Institute #134
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- Planned Events:
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- Demonstration of NeXTSTEP 486.
- Demonstration and auction of Simson Garfinkel's SBook.
- Demonstration of the Emerald Image Tool (Image Processing).
- Demonstration of the new NeXT color printer
- Demonstration of the new NeXT keyboard and mouse (Apple Desktop Bus).
- Special CD-ROMs from NeXT and SIGGRAPH, if time allows.
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- There will be a social at 6:30 with a meeting at 7:30.
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- Dues: $2.00
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- Directions: see below
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- For futher information, contact:
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- Mike Mahoney, SCaN President and CSULB Professor
- (310) 985-1550, e-mail: mahoney@csulb.edu
-
- Ernie Prabhakar, H: (818) 568-9168, W: (818) 356-8379
- ernest@cco.caltech.edu
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- Rohit Khare, CaJUN Vice-President, Caltech Computer Science Dept.
- (818) 792-9114, e-mail: khare@cco.caltech.edu
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- Directions to Caltech Meeting
-
- 1) If you are taking the 210 (Foothill) Freeway West,
- or the 134 (Ventura) Freeway East:
- Take the Lake Avenue exit South.
- (Left if you're going West, Right if you're going East)
- Keep going for several lights in quick succession, for about a mile, until
- you get to Del Mar Ave. Turn Left. Go past Mentor and Catalina. The
- first light is Wilson, at which point you will be at Caltech. Turn Right
- (south).
-
- 2) If you are taking the 110 (Pasadena) Freeway North:
- Keep going all the way until the freeway ends. Keep going straight ahead;
- you are now on Arroyo Parkway. The second major street is California.
- Turn Right. After a dozen or so blocks, you will get to Lake Ave. Go
- past Mentor and Catalina. The next light after that is Wilson, at which
- point you will be at Caltech. Turn Left (North). Go past the Stop Sign on
- San Pasqual.
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- Once you are on Wilson, going North or South:
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- Park in the lot just south of Lura, to the East of Wilson. Beckman
- Institute is the large, classical building fronted by a huge expanse of
- rolling lawns. It has a large internal courtyard surrounding a fountain.
- It is opposite the Parking Structure.
- We are in
- Beckman Institute #134
- which is the North Wing. Refreshments will be served in the courtyard.
- [Note that this building is Beckman Institute, not to be confused with a
- half-dozen other buildings also named Beckman.]
- Any questions, call Ernie Prabhakar, H: (818) 568-9168, W: (818) 356-8379
- ernest@cco.caltech.edu
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- CaJUN and NeXT Computer, Inc will be holding a "NeXTSTEP" product fair,
- featuring NeXTSTEP 3.0 *and* NeXTSTEP '486 (which runs on Intel boxes!).
-
- It will take place on Thursday, November 12, from 10 AM to 2:30 PM in
- Winnett.
- There will also be a User Group meeting that evening in Beckman Institute
- #134 at 7:30 (6:30 for social hour).
-
- NeXTSTEP 3.0 features many advanced development and connectivity features,
- including:
- - RenderMan support (PhotoRealistic and on-screen QuickRenderMan)
- - AppleTalk (EtherTalk) and Novell Netware support
- - Apple and IBM disk support
- - PostScript Level II (plus mono and color printers)
- - DBkit for seamless database connections to a large array of servers
- - Distributed Objects, ObjectLinks, and HyperText help.
- as well as the industry-leading Object-Oriented development environment.
-
- See the future of computer - today!
-
- For more information, contact:
- Ernie Prabhakar, ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu, x8379 or
- Rohit Khare, khare@cco.caltech.edu, 792-9114
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