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A New Version of the Shareware Disk of the Month
Fox Valley PC Association, Illinois
Region 6

In March the FVPCA debuted their new Drive of the Quarter program. They have obtained a 250 GB external USB drive and fifteen 1 GB USB thumb drives and the cost will be $15 for the 1 GB thumb drive, and $25 for the yearly membership. Next year the cost will be reduced to $20. (The extra five dollars is to cover the cost of the external USB drive.) There were 10 members at the February meeting who expressed interest in the program. A list of the programs included on the first Drive of the Quarter was available at their March meeting to entice other subscribers.

The thumb drives were preloaded with software for the first Drive of the Quarter and subscribers picked them up at the March meeting. Depending on how many members enroll in the program, they will likely have several extra drives that can be preloaded and ready for a simple exchange in June. If they need to, they will be able to download a fresh batch of software to the subscribing member’s thumb drive. It will be important for the members to have moved the software off the drive to make room for the second quarter's downloads. They suggest moving the folder onto the subscriber’s hard drive, or possibly burning it to a CD (if it will fit!)

If members have a special freeware program that they think will benefit other members, they are encouraged to submit their suggestion at the meeting or to one of the members of the executive committee.

From the Fox Tales, Official Publication of the Fox Valley PC Association, March 2007; Jon Jackman, President.