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FIFTH PROGRAM 1980 March 14, 15, 16, Friday Saturday Sunday 9am-6pm 9am-6pm Noon-5pm (415)851-7075 COMPUTER FAIRE 333 Swett Road, Woodside CA 94062 CALL FOR PAPERS, TALKS, DEMONSTRATIONS, & EXHIBITS for the SIXTH WEST COAST COMPUTER FAIRE San Francisco's Gvic Auditorium & Brooks Hall April 3 - 5, 1981 Everyone interested in participating in the 6th West Coast Computer Faire should contact Computer Faire 333 Swett Road, Woodside CA 94062; (415) 851-7075. Those wishing to propose a talk or demonstration, or wishing to organize a Conference Section, should immediately request Speaker's Kits. DEADLINE for completion of Conference Program organization, talks, & papers: Dec. 1st, 1980. CONFERENCE PROGRAM of the 5TH WEST COAST COMPUTER FAIRE L.„. FRIDAY, MARCH 1 4T I SATURDAY, MARCH 15 T H SUNDAY, MARCH 1 6T H 9 am POLK 1 POLK 2 LARKIN 1 LARKIN 2 POLK 1 POLK 2 LARKIN 1 LARKIN 2 9am - 6pm: RTTY Repeater Group, 9 am - 6 pm: RTTY Repeater Group, (open seminar); ROOM 302 9am - 6pm: RTTY Repeater Group, (open seminar) 9 am - 6 pm: Apple Core Meetings; ROOMS 406 - 410 (open seminar) ROOM 302 1 pm - 4 pm: Personal Computer/Telecommunications, ROOM 302 (open seminar); ROOM 204 10 am Teaching Personal Computer Pascal, & Digital Group About Communications Music Pascal Machines Users Computers & & (open meeting) Programming Microcomputers 11 am Noon Computer Business & • Retailers Low-Cost (open meeting) Computing Osborne's 3rd 1 pm Annual Award How to Hold a Low-Cost Tutorials for Potpourri Significant Medical Seminar for Computing for the Novice Software for Computing your Small- Education Inexpensive Business- Micro-Hardware Machines Machines' staff & Interfacing 2 pm Legal Aspects of Software Protection Computer Assistance for the 3 pm Physically Impaired Informational Graphics: Show Business & Forth Micro-Software Know Business 4 pm Interest Group Engineering (open meeting) Association of Unusual Computer Tutorial: Software Microcomputer Games, & Programming Producers & Applications Computers in Data Files Publishers Education in Basic (open meeting) Artificial Intelligence & 5 pm Micros 6 pm Microcomputer Industry Trade Association (open meeting) 7 pm / ' J - 5 th West Coast Computer Faire Computer-Chess Players Never Turn in Their Chips — They Just Pawn Their Software, Hoping for a Good Knight CONFERENCE PROGRAM The 1980 Computer Faire Micro-Chess Tournament will be under way with at least six micros competing for the title. At the 1978 FRIDAY, March 14,1980 Tournament, Sargon made the news and enlightened the computer hobbyist on what could be achieved with a micro. The success story How to Hold a Seminar for Your Friday l-2pm Polk 1 continues for the Spracklens with their newer version of Sargon 2: Small Business Machines Staff 2.5, and the Sargon 3. This year's tournament is still open to all who Tom Bun, Melinda Smith Compumax feel they have a quality chess program, and want to find out how it 505 Hamilton Avenue does against such programs as Sargon 3, Mychess 2, Voice Challenger, and the Atari Chess. Palo Alto, CA 94301 (415)321-2881 For details on entering, contact: John Urwin, 1537 Argyle Ct, San Jose CA 95132; (408)923-5662. Legal Aspects of Software Protection Friday 2-4pm Polk 1 chair: Joseph R. Igelmund Writing and Negotiating the Vendor's Software License Contract: Let's Make a Deal Joseph R. Igelmund, Attorney at Law 605 Market Street, Suite 1425 WARNING: San Francisco, CA 94105 (415)392-2811 Adventures are The Software Jungle: Legal Pitfalls Disruptingly addictive, Raymond Karch, Attorney at Law Virtually thrusting Opamp Building, Suite A 1033 N. Sycamore Avenue Egos into Hollywood, CA 90038 Narcosis — Beware (213)464-4358 Time itself Micro Hardware & Interfacing Friday l:30-4pm Polk 2 Unravels while chair: Tom Pittman Risking these Home Bus Standards Association, What is It and What does It Mean? Robert J. Richardson, Director Enchantments by Consumer Electronics Department Scott Adams. SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave. Yes there are adventures, but is there really ADVENTURE INTERNATIONAL Menlo Park, CA 94025 a Scott Adams? Stop at the Adventure In­ Box 3435 Longwood, Fla 32750 (415)362-6200 Ext. 5448 your answer. ternational booth for (305) 862- 6917 Microbotics: Enter the Table-Top Robot Arm John W. Hill, Ph.D. 1259 El Camino Real, Suite 200 Menlo Park, CA 94025 (415)326-6997 A Linear Scrolling CRT with Standard Parts John P. Cater, Manager Business Accounting Software Intelligent Systems Engineering for Southwest Research Institute 6220 Culebra North Star Computers -v r San Antonio,TX 78284 includes: An Overview of Serial Communications in Microprocessor Systems General Ledger . , Frank L. Toth, Manager Accounts Receivable Accounts Payable Microprocessor Marketing Payroll Inventory American Microsystems Inc. All software is written with extensive input data verification features. 3800 Homestead Road Santa Clara, CA 95051 Some of these features include checks for valid date, valid account numbers, <408)246-0330 and numerical data entry fields. Specialized features for each package are: General Ledger Unusual Microcomputer Applications Friday 4-6pm Polk 2 Includes departmental accounting and complete six digit user assigna­ chair: Jack Park ble ledger accounts — true double bookkeeping entry system. Energy Management for the Home with the Helion Micromanager Accounts Receivable Jack Park, President Has 30, 60, and 90-day aging and selective interest charging on past due Helion, Inc. Box 445 accounts. Customer account number is assigned by the program to avoid dup­ Brownsville, CA 95919 lication of account numbers. (916)675-2478 Accounts Payable Microcomputer-Assisted Amateur Astronomy Invoice oriented data base with individual date due, partial payment of Sidney Levin, M. D. invoices and time payment capability. Vendor account numbers assigned by Astronomical Society of the Pacific the program to avoid duplication of account numbers. 700 25th Ave. Payroll San Francisco, CA 94121 Includes all eight Circular E tax tables and current, quarterly and year- Radio Wave Imaging System by Microcomputer to-date earnings summaries by employee as well as cost accounting reports. Yoshinao Aoki, Prof. Inventory EE Dept. Includes cost and retail cost of items stored, YTD receipts, withdrawals Hokkaido University and adjustments, and four different cost accounting reports. Sapporo, Japan Disbur se ments/C heck ing Association of Software Producers & Publishers Includes expense account breakdown of all accounts payable entries, I open meetingl Friday 4 6Pm Polk 1 payroll and individually printed checks. Other features are: 1) printing of chair: Jules Gilder, President, ASPP accounts payable and payroll checks, and 2) bank reconciliation capablity. Box 153 Rochelle Park, NJ 07662 THE BUSINESS ACCOUNTING SYSTEM comes with a manual, (201)843-0550x335 1,000 statements, 1,000 checks, two system software diskettes, a plastic, dis­ kette case and 500 envelopes. Microcomputer Industry Trade Association I open General Meetingl Friday 6-7pm Polk 1 COMPLETE BUSINESS SERVICES CORPORATION chair: Dennis Barnhart, President, MITA 70 West Center Street c!o Marketing Logan, Utah 84321 Commodore Business Machines Telephone: (801) 752-5713 3330 Scott Blvd. See Us at the West Coast Computer Faire, Booth 1026 Santa Clara, CA 95050 <408)727 1130 SATURDAY, March 15,1980 Teaching About Computers Computer Music Saturday lOam-noon Polk 1 Saturday lOam-noon Larkin 1 chair: Hal Chamberlin & Programming chair: William J. Wagner The Digital-to-Analog Converter Method of Real-Time Computer Music Synthesis Programming for Everyone: A Rationale and Some Teaching Strategies Hal Chamberlin 29 Mead Street William J. Wagner, Ph.D. Mountain View High School Manchester, NH 03104 Mountain View, CA 94041 The Performing Musician and the Personal Computer R. J. Higgins, R. K. Goodall, R. Vedanayagam Individualized Instruction in Computer Programming Carl Grame, Dan O'Donnell, Instructors Physics Department University of Oregon De Anza College 21250 Stevens Creek Boulevard Eugene, OR 97403 Cupertino, CA 95014 You'd Like to Teach the World to What? A Guide to Writing Micro-Computer Courseware Silas S. Warner Muse 331 N. Charles Baltimore, MD 21201 introdata Personal Communications & Microcomputers Saturday lOam-noon Larkin 2 chair: Ron Jacobson Telecommuting Via the Personal Computer m DATA ENTRY Jack M. Nilles, Director In terdisciplinary Programs University of Southern California • ENTRY OPERATOR TRAINING PROGRAMS Los Angeles, CA 90007 "Information w/Cheese Please." The Emerging Personal Computer National Information Utility Network • SMALL BUSINESS DATA PROCESSING Ron Jacobson Broadcast Communication Arts Department San Francisco State University 990 Bay St. Mountain View. CA 94040 45 Westwood Drive San Francisco, CA 94112 (415) 969-2845 The Electronic Sandbox Mark Cummings, Georjean Frank Broadcast Communication Arts San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132 <415)469-1787 Put Your Knowledge Pascal & Pascal Machines Saturday 10am-12:30 Polk 2 chair: James Gagne, M. D. A User Looks at the Western Digital Pascal Microengine of Personal Tom Pitt man Box 6539 San Jose, CA 95150 An Introduction to the Wonders of Pascal Computers to Work! James Gagne, M. D. , President Da tamed Research BYTE magazine and onComputing magazine are 1433 Roscomare Road looking for qualified editors. 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