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Postings

A look at what's hapopening around the bay area

By Times Staff Writer
Published November 7, 2005


CompUSA will give a presentation on holiday offerings at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Greater Tampa Bay PC User Group meeting at Brandon High School, 1101 Victoria St., Room 129. For information, call Al Miller at (813) 685-6622 or visit gtbpcug.org.

The Suncoast Linux Users Group will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Room 426, Technology Building, Hillsborough Community College's Dale Mabry Campus, 4001 Tampa Bay Blvd., and at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Dunedin Public Library, 223 Douglas Ave. For information, visit www.suncoastlug.org/

A computer group that offers free classes meets every Tuesday at Central Christian Church, 1200 Keene Road, Clearwater. The beginner class starts at 10 a.m., the intermediate class at 1 p.m. For information, e-mail pcclass@ij.net

The West Pasco Macintosh User Group will meet at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the First Christian Church, 6219 River Road, New Port Richey. For information, call 727 849-5227 or visit www.hometown.aol.com/wespasmug/myhomepage/club.html

D.J. Elliott, author of the Understanding the IBM Compatible series, will present "A Fractured History of the IBM PC" at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Tampa PC Users Group meeting at the Pepin Distributor plant training room, 4121 N 50th St., Tampa. For information, e-mail dmullis@tampabay.rr.com

Cheryl Smeed will discuss selling and buying on eBay at the BayArea Mac Users' Group meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Largo Cultural Center, 105 Central Park Drive. For information, call Virginia Chilcote at 727 796-2929 or e-mail mousebytes@earthlink.net

The Roundtable Computer Group will meet at 2 p.m. Nov. 14 at the South Holiday Branch Library, 4649 Mile Stretch Road, Holiday. For information, call (727) 847-6814.

Presentations on digital imaging, building a computer and Pinnacle Studio Plus are planned at 7 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Hernando Computer Club, 13400 Montour St., Brooksville. For information, visit www.hcc.org or call 352 592-0070.

Computer clubs and other organizations are welcome to submit items for the Postings column. Events should be free or have only nominal charges such as to cover the cost of a meal and must be open to the public. The deadline for submissions is today for publication next week. Items can be sent to personaltech@sptimes.com

[Last modified November 4, 2005, 12:23:05]


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