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Joan Vesper of the Marketing Department at the University of Washington sends us this note from a student submitting a late paper:
"The night before my term paper was due I was ready for the final dump on paper when the system died. What apparently happened was, this was my scratch disk and it had other work on other sectors, and so it appears that when I downloaded it, the computer stored it in a bad sector and I kept getting an error sign. And that was 2 a.m. in the morning, I certainly wasn't going to go back and flower it up with page numbers and so forth because I was afraid that if I pushed DELETE I'd lose everything."
Richard Elias, Department of English, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio 43015 asks "who is experimenting with DEC computers, specifically the VAX (running VMS or UNIX)? It would be useful to trade ideas."
The Central New Hampshire Conference for Computer Professionals presents Writing for the Computer Industry, Saturday, June 16, 1984. This practical working conference will meet the writing needs of:
"Computers and the Humanities": A Conference on Computer-Assisted Instruction in the Humanities, Thursday and Friday, June 28-29,1984. West Chester University invites all teachers interested in understanding more about computer-assisted instruction in the schools. The aim of the conference is to enhance humanities instruction at all educational levels. The keynote address will be given by the international computing consultant, Dr. Joseph Raben, editor of Computers and Humanities and SCOPE (newsletter).
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will present six one-week School Staff Development Seminars for teachers, administrators, and curriculum coordinators beginning June 25. July 9-13 will focus on language arts and microcomputers. As part of that week's activities, the University is sponsoring a conference titled "Language Arts and the Microcomputer," July 12, 1984. For more information:
NCTE SUMMER WORKSHOP, 1984, August 13-16 "On Computers in the Classroom." Contact NCTE, 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801
The Center for Liberal Studies, Clarkson, presents a conference to explore "Microcomputers and the Learning Process," October 11-13, 1984. Contact: