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If you read the Danbury News-Times, you may have wondered what happened to the DACS Computer Solutions column in the Wednesday edition. Perhaps everyone who had a computer question was already having it answered in Random Access. Or maybe they thought their problems were too basic for the eggheads at DACS to bother with (we have to remind them that DACS is made up of all savvy levels). Anyway, the DACS column will continue, with a mixture of content from dacs.doc, along with answers to computer questions, when they come up. The first scheduled feature for August 25 was Robert Preston’s piece on how to get your degree on the Internet from last November’s dacs.doc. We are excited about this link with the News-Times, because it gives DACS exposure to 38,000 readers in western Connecticut. Writers for our newsletter should be especially pleased to have their articles placed along with their photograph in the News-Times, and perhaps circulated on line on the paper’s Web site. Those would-be writers waiting in the wings, please take note! DACS joins recycling effort The Housatonic Resource Recovery Authority (HRRA) has asked DACS to cosponsor its annual recycling event on Sunday, October 17th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Danbury Green. This will be a great opportunity for you to take that old 286 or 386 out from under the bed, dust it off and bring it down to the recycle fair and have it appraised. Better yet, stick around and help out in the appraisals. You may think that old motherboard should have a decent burial, but it might still be of use to a student who can’t afford a PC to do their homework assignments and begin to learn the fundamentals of computing. Otherwise, if unsuitable for any task, your PC will get dressed down and have that proper burial—outside our bulging landfills. Find out more about HRRA and what you can do to help in resource recovery at their Web site: www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/hrra/. DACS is in good company A number of companies have provided generous support for DACS through donations of cash, software, services and advertising. We try to acknowledge these in our masthead, or in this or other columns in the newsletter, but I would like to take this opportunity to give special thanks. Here’s a list of companies that have been of special assistance to our ongoing programs and activities:
We don’t have space in this column to list all the companies that have donated employee time and expense to come to our General Meetings and provide our membership with timely presentations and free software. That space we will reserve in our hearts and in our newsletter archive at www.dacs.org. --Allan Ostergren |
