About the Capital PC User Group (CPCUG)

About the Capital PC User Group

The Capital PC User Group, Inc. is the third largest PC-based user group in the United States, with more than 5,500 members. Our headquarters is located in Rockville, Maryland. There are 27 special interest groups, including the AutoCad SIG, Beginners SIG, Delphi SIG, Electronic Publishing SIG, Internet SIG, Investment SIG, Multimedia SIG, OS/2 SIG, Paradox SIG, Reston SIG, Shareware SIG, Statistics SIG, Visual Basic SIG, Windows SIG, WordPerfect SIG, and more. Please view our 12-week calendar for the locations and times of our meetings. (You need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to read and print this.)

We publish a monthly magazine, the Monitor. The July '96 issue of the Monitor is now available online in Adobe Acrobat format or viewing a page at a time (you also need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader v3.0 to read and print this.).

We operate a public, multinode bulletin board, the Members Information Exchange (MIX), on 301-738-9060. The MIX has about 80 local conferences and communicates through Hayes Optima 288 28,800 bps modems that were kindly donated by Hayes.
Our monthly main meeting is held on the second Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in Masur Auditorium, which is in building 10 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland. All of our meetings are free and open to the public.
We have our own domain on the Internet, cpcug.org. For information about obtaining Unix accounts (either SLIP/PPP, Unix shell with TIA, or dynamic PPP) at really reasonable rates, call Millkern Communications, Inc., at 301-738-0097. Here's an up-to-date list of dialup numbers for phone access; same list in html 3.0 tables format.

The Internet Adapter (TIA) is here

If you want to run Windows GUI Internet clients (like Netscape) on your local computer, you have two options. First is a SLIP/PPP account, the more expensive of the two. We now have The Internet Adapter (TIA) available for you to use on our server, so if you have a cpcug.org Unix shell account, you can use the same Windows clients with this account at no extra charge. Don't sign up for a SLIP/PPP account unless you absolutely need your own IP address. You can download a starter collection of Windows clients that we have prepared to get you up and running in Windows. You need slipkit2.zip (2,505,127 bytes), which contains an installation file. The slipkit contains documentation (56,987 bytes) in Windows Write format on setting the applications up to work with Peter Tattam's Trumpet Winsock, which is included. Dynamite, and easy.
You can get more information about the CPCUG, including a membership application, from our gopher site.

These are some of the bookmarks that we use on our teaching and demonstration computer at our Rockville headquarters. The list is exported from my Netscape bookmark list. We teach Internet classes for all levels of users, from those who don't know which end of the power cord to put into the wall to quasiexperts. We can teach you how to install and configure the Windows Internet clients contained in slipkit2.zip. For more information about our classes, see our training schedule. Of special interest to folks new to the web is Navigating the WWW with Netscape class.

If you want to learn about lots of Internet resources , check out this page by Neil Enns. The page was designed primarily for trainers, and it contains many links to important Internet facts and sources. Finally, if you want to find out more about the hypertext markup language (HTML), you can read the beginner's guide to HTML right here.

Some favorite destinations

Computer Magazines

Information Week
InfoWorld Electric Page One
PC Magazine on the Web
Welcome to PC Week
Windows Sources
WinMag on the Internet
Ziff-Davis Mags

Good gophers and ftp sites

The Mother gopher at UMinn

Microsoft ftp server

Great Windows shareware

Archie searches

CPCUG gopher

CPCUG ftp server

Other User Groups on the Web (send Ash Nallawalla yours....)
Other members of the Association of PC User Groups (APCUG) have recently been linking their home pages together. Here's a link to the user group page, started by Ash Nallawalla. Ash is cool.

Ash Nallawalla's master user group list (now hosted by APCUG)

D. C. area groups

Finding stuff out there...

Find almost anything at www.search.com
Search through 60,000,000 files out there at filez. Beats Archie all hollow.
Need Unix command help? Try the CPCUG Manpage.
William Cross' All-in-One search page
CommerceNet's CUSI search collection
The University of Twente search collection
The Virtual Shareware Library
The Open Text Web Index
What time is it?
Search Usenet groups
Looking for names, addresses, and telephone numbers? Try here.
Looking for PEOPLE on the Net?

Enter the Name of the Person you are looking for:
(REQUIRED)
Enter any information you have about the Organization that provides an e-mail account for this person. For example, the organization name and location (city, state or country).
(OPTIONAL)

Some fun stuff

The NCSA what's new page. Newest hotlist.
Luke's nerd page. Czech it out.
The latest Netsurfer Digest
Zippy the pinhead
Doctor fun
Telnet to the CD Connection
The Awesome Page
The World Wide Web Worm (search for pages)
The YAHOO page (Good starting place for more web searches.)
The Webaholics Page

U.S. Government

Federal Government list. Most of the usual stuff here.
NASA home page
DOC and NOAA home page
The White House home page. Listen to socks meow.
The CIA.Good world factbook

The Intergalactic User Group's Officers Conference hosted by the NYPC Users Group was held on June 17, 1995. One of the activities was announcing the winners of the Intergalactic World Wide Web contest.

WWW Home Pages

Best Large Site - The Capital PC User Group (Larry McGoldrick)
Large Site Runner Up - UK PC User Group (Alan Jay)
Best Small Site - The Napa Valley PC Users Group (Steve Schillinger)
Best Use of Hypertext - Big Blue and Cousins: The Greater Victoria Personal Computer Users' Association (Les Benson)
Special Mention for Most Visually Compelling - Long Island PC User's Group (Alan Linker)

Large Newsletters

Presentation and Layout: Monitor, Capital PC User Group, Rockville MD, Eldon Sarte, Editor.
Feature Articles and Reviews: PC Update, Melbourne PC User Group, Ash Nallawalla, Editor.
Coverage of Group Events: Hard Copy, Chicago Computer Society, Sharon Whitney, Editor.
Columnist or Columns: Ron Wilby, Tony Stevenson - PC Update, Melbourne PC User Group, Australia.
Best Publication: Monitor, Capital PC User Group, Rockville MD, Eldon Sarte, Editor.

We create really detailed daily statistics that are updated every hour of every day.
We use AccessWatch v1.32, a WWW utility written by Dave Maher

Comments and suggestions are always welcome. If you find a link that doesn't work, let me know and I'll fix it. Mail them to me right from here.

Larry McGoldrick
URL: http://www.cpcug.org/more.html

© 1996, The Capital PC User Group, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA