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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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- June 8 -- LaserBoard™, the 1000-member Macintosh user group of New York
- City, is pleased to announce its expansion into the Pennsylvania, Ohio,
- and West Virginia tri-state region. Since early 1986, LaserBoard has been
- based in Manhattan and has grown from a one-line bulletin board system
- into one of the largest Macintosh user groups in the country.
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- The well known LaserBoard Bulletin Board System, with 140MB of shareware
- and freeware file storage capability and 9600 bps access via a USR
- Courier HST, has been duplicated and will be run simultaneously in New
- York and Pittsburgh. The new access number in New York is 212-397-0729,
- and will be available starting June 10. The new access number in
- Pittsburgh is 412-521-8646, and will be available starting June 14. Both
- services are running the newest version of Scott Watson's Red Ryder Host
- and offer message threading, 1K Block XMODEM file transfers, 9600 baud
- access, and thirty minutes of free access per day.
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- LaserBoard will continue to have $18 annual dues, a low cost obtained
- through the use of completely electronic methods of information
- distribution. "LaserBoard is one of the only Mac user groups in the
- country without a printed newsletter," said chairman Stuart Gitlow, MD.
- "Not only can we provide information to our members more rapidly by
- electronic means, but the mailing and printing costs that we save have
- enabled us to keep dues to a minimum," he added.
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- LaserBoard, a member of the Apple User Group connection, offers its
- members discounts on AppleCare via local dealers, system software
- upgrades via both electronic and disk-based methods, a powerful disk
- library available to members at $4 for each 800K disk, free shipping from
- MacConnection, and discounts on major Macintosh magazines. LaserBoard
- also provides a folder for the use of its members on the Connect network,
- accessible via MacNET software.
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- Further information regarding LaserBoard is available from either of the
- two bulletin boards listed above, or at 5621 Melvin Street, Pittsburgh,
- Penn. 15217
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