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- March 22, 1990
-
- TRENTON COMPUTER FESTIVAL
- =========================
-
- Saturday, April 21 -- Sunday, April 22, 1990
- Mercer County College and Trenton State College
-
- On Saturday, April 21, 1990, at Mercer County College, there will be an
- all-day 8-Bit (CP/M and Z-System) workshop featuring as speakers the authors
- of the most exciting new program offerings of the past two years. Door
- prizes will be given out to those who register. If there is enough
- interest, we may hold an additional session Sunday morning.
-
- In the evening, at Trenton State College, there will be the annual
- banquet, featuring industry luminaries (past speakers have been Bill Gates
- of MicroSoft and Seymour Rubenstein of WordStar). The 8-bit community will
- also be making a short presentation and giving out additional door prizes at
- the banquet (official approval pending).
-
- The following is the tentative program. This bulletin will be rereleased
- from time to time as the program is finalized and more information is
- available (such as exact locations, a map, and registration information).
-
- 10:00 Session Opens, general business and socializing
- 10:30 Bridger Mitchell: Tools for CP/M -- DosDisk, JetFind,
- PluPerfect Writer, and the new ZMATE editor
- 11:45 SIG/M: Future of Public Domain Software
- 1:00 Jay Sage: Introduction to Z-System
- 2:15 Hal Bower, Cam Cotrill: The Future of 8-Bit
- Operating Systems
- 3:30 Jay Sage: Computing Automation Using ARUNZ Scripts
- 4:20 Al Hawley: Assembly Language Programming and
- the New ZMAC Assembler
- 4:45 Bridger Mitchell: Multitasking with BackGrounder ii
- 6:00 Free Time
- 7:00 Trenton Computer Festival Banquet
-
- The following people are expected to be at the TCF workshop (please let
- me know of any additions or corrections):
-
- Hal Bower One of authors of ZSDOS/ZDDOS, the
- date stamping disk operating systems
- Cam Cotrill Another of the ZSDOS/ZDDOS authors
- Bob Dean Sysop, Drexel Hill Z-Node
- Howard Goldstein Premier software sleuth, bug finder, and fixer
- Al Hawley Author of REVAS, ZMAC; sysop of Ladera Z-Node
- Bridger Mitchell Principal of Plu*Perfect Systems, author of
- DateStamper, BGii, Z3PLUS, DosDisk, and more
- Chris McEwen Principal behind the Z-System Software Update
- Service; sysop of the Socrates Z-Node
- Bruce Morgen Z-System programmer; founder of NAOG
- (North American One-Eighty Group for SB180)
- Dick Roberts Author of DRBS BBS program; sysop of Holly
- Park Z-Node
- Jay Sage Author of ZCPR34, ARUNZ; an architect of
- the NZCOM and Z3PLUS autoinstall Z-Systems