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The Battalion
Wednesday, December 7,1988
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Word Processing 101.
There is a grim reality of college
life that you may or may not be ac
quainted with: Typing.
No, make that hours of typing.
Precisely why you should consider a
Macintosh computer.
With a program like Microsoft
Word, you can compose, edit, move
paragraphs, and change type sizes and
styles with one finger. Which can
come in very handy. (Especially if
that's the way you type.)
And that's just one example of how
Macintosh helps students work
smarter, quicker, and more creatively.
The good news is, with Macintosh
you don't have to know anything about
computers to use one.
The better news is, right now Apple
Computer and the Micro Computer
Center are making it very easy for you
to own a Macintosh and Microsoft
Word.
Introducing Apple's Student
Loan-to-Own Program
For every college student who's short on
cash but long on academic ambition, Apple
presents the Student Loan-to-Own Program.
It's a low-interest loan plan unlike any
other. In fact, you can take advantage of it
based on little more than your parents' good credit history. Even if you are already
receiving financial aid.
There is no collateral required, no application fee, no interview, and no need to
prove financial hardship. No kidding.
You can pickup the details about the Student Loan-to-Own Program by
visiting the Micro Computer Center inside the Texas A&M Bookstore, or by calling
1-800-831-LOAN.
Introducing the Micro Computer
Centers Holiday Special
To make sure you're ready to go when you get your Macintosh, the Micro
Computer Center is offering you a special deal. From December 5, while supplies
last, Macintosh Plus and SE computers are being bundled with Microsoft Word and
a Macintosh carrying case at the following prices.
Computer w/MS Word & carrying case Price
Macintosh Plus, 1 floppy disk drive $1,242.00
Macintosh SE, 2 floppy disk drives 2,103.00
Macintosh SE, 1 floppy disk drive, 20MB HD 2,625.00
M icroCompt jterCenter
Computer Sales and Supplies
Located at the MSC inside the Texas A&M Bookstore
Monday thru Friday 7:45AM - 6:00PM
Saturday 9:00AM - 5:00PM
(409) 845-4081
Officials: State
refused to take
county inmates
What's Up
HOUSTON (AP) — Harris
County officials accused the state of
“hindering” the county’s compliance
with a federal court order concern
ing jail overcrowding, but still man
aged to avoid a confrontation.
Harris County Sheriff Johnny
Klevenhagen said county officials
will file a motion this week asking a
federal judge to take action against
state prison officials for blocking the
county’s compliance with a federal
court order requiring the transfer of
more prisoners than state officials
would accept.
Klevenhagen had been ordered to
begin delivering 290 prisoners a
week to the Texas Department of
Corrections instead of the 182 it has
been averaging to avoid problems
experienced because of the high
number of prisoners in the county
jail.
Klevenhagen said 49 prisoners
were delivered to TDC Monday
morning, which he said was the
highest number TDC officials said
they could handle. Klevenhagen had
notified the state he would send 60
prisoners Monday and a similar
number every day of the week to
meet terms of the federal order
handed down by U.S. District Judge
James DeAnda on Nov. 8.
Wednesday
STUDENT Y: FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Bill Kibler, associate director of Studem
Affairs, will speak about “The art of cramming for finals" at 7 p.m. at Red Lot*
Sign up in 211 Pavilion.
AGGIE ALLIANCE: will have a Christmas Party at 7 p.m. in 167 Read.
OFF CAMPUS CENTER/OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: will have a roommateses
sion at 5 p.m. at the Off Campus Center.
AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will present the ninth annual Aggit |
Christmas mass at 7 p.m. at St. Mary's Church.
PHI BETA LAMBDA: Ned Moore from Shell Oil will speak at 7:30 p.m. in 164
Blocker.
MEXICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 225 MSC.
Thursday
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY/JUNGIAN SOCIETY OF BRAZOS VAL
LEY: will present "Death of the Inner Witch and Birth of the Creative Self al |
7:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the Center for Drug Prevention and Eta
tion at 845-0280 for details on today's meeting.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: call the C.P.D.E. at 845-0280 for detailsonl*
day’s meeting.
SWAP: will answer questions from “The Book of Questions" at 7 p.m, in402
Rudder.
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLKDANGERS: will teach and demonstrate |
folkdancing from 8-10 p.m. in 231 MSC.
TAMU MACINTOSH USERS GROUP: will meet at 7 p.m. in 206 MSC.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 fleet
McDonald, no later than three business days before the desired run dale, Wt
only publish the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so
What's Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Sub
missions are run on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee s r |
entry will run. If you have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
Sematech announces details
of $75 million ‘clean room’
AUSTIN (AP) — For the first
time, the Sematech research consor
tium has unveiled details of its $75
million state-of-the-art computer
“clean room,” carrying out a pledge
to provide the information to the
project’s 14 member companies.
In confidential briefings, Sema
tech officials explained to member
companies the first details of the
300,000 square-foot facility, built in
a record 32 weeks and designed to
make computer chips smaller and
packed with more information than
any ever produced in the United
States.
The information was not released
publicly. Member companies are
prohibited from sharing it.
Sematech is a consortium of U.S.
semi-conductor manufacturers that
is conducting research aimed at as
suring leadership in semi-conductor
technology. Its emphasis is on man
ufacturing capability, not device de
sign, and information it develops is
to be transferred to member compa
nies.
Sematech officials said approxi
mately 100 computer company offi
cials attended the briefings.
Sematech’s member companies
now have access to all the design
plans of the clean room’s utility sys
tems, its blueprints and schematics,
and a computer-aided design (CAD)
program used by the consortium’s
engineers during construction, said
Larry Novak, the Sematech manager
who oversees the transfer of technol-
Hei
ogy between the consortium
member companies.
“We provided literally every
ment that was used in the con:
tion of the site,” Novak said
said Sematech will hold a f
construction briefing next sutnmi
Officials of Seniatech's mt
companies said they hope the
ings will give them an edge
non-member companies.
in addition to the technicalbt
ings, Sematech has com
1989 operating plan and submit
it to the U.S. Department of
fense.
The defense agency has withl
$75 million of Sematech’s $100
lion in federal funding until the
is approved.
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