ADAMCON 01 
Monday, October 9, 1989 
 
The morning session concerned how to start and maintain a User Group.  On the panel:
     1. Howard Pines - ECAUG
     2. Terry Cairns - MTAG
     3. Jim Notini - NIAD
     4. David Colby - VISA 
This was one of the livelyest sessions.  The information presented will be in a seperate write-up. 
 
The workshops this morning presented more great information. 
 
PowerPAINT - Pat Herrington + Tony Patterson 
Many tips and tricks were presented.  To erase more quickly use the INSERT option and space over the areas you wish to erase.  If you want to change the color of a large area, MOVE/COPY will allow you to set the frame around an area.  Then use CTR-D or CTR-U to move this frame to to next lower (D) or higher (U) frame, change the color, then move it back.  A good way to see exactly what your picture will look like printed is to change the background to grey and foreground to black.  Reedy software is about to release a new package called POWERTOOLS.  It will work with POWERPaint and add many features. 
 
ADVANCED CP/M - Ron Collins + John Villilo 
Ron demonstrated the terrific capabilities of CP/M in printing signs.  The sign cannot be viewed on-screen, but the resolution in printing is fantastic.  They mentioned a word processing program in the public domain, VDE266.  
 
UTILITIES - Jim + Bruce Walters 
The Walters used their SMARTDSK in showing how to easily purge a disk of deleted files.  Loading the entire disk into ram (assuming your ram is large enough) they purged the ram.  Since there are no moving parts, this was done very quickly.  Then the entire ram was transferred back to the disk.  They also discussed RAMBOOT and FORMATTER II 
 
Wrapping up the day Monte encouraged everyone to wear their ADAM T-shirts to Church Street Station Tuesday night.
 
 
With the afternoon off, many people took advantage of the attractions in the area, Disney World, Kennedy Space Center, or the water park accross the street from the hotel, Wet 'n Wild.


          Dean Roades
          463 ADAM 
OWER
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