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It was "Dear Abby" -- high-tech style. Members of the IBM Personal Computer club of New York stood up, one after another, to relate their latest tribulation with the desktop machine. Other club members, many with years in the computer field, offered advice and solace.
"I tried running dBase III, and it killed my hard disk," lamented one novice user. "What should I do?"
"I get 'ITC' whenever I sign on to Compuserve," said another member. "I think this means illegal terminal code, but I'm not sure."
A bookish young man, who had been devouring an ice cream cone, looked up from a Spiderman comic book to respond: "Try checking your log-on macro."
Another club member asked: "I've got a small business, and my shoebox is filling up. Does anybody know the name of an easy-to-learn accounting software package?" A chorus of suggestions followed.
And so went the conversation at the most recent meeting of the New York club, an improbable band of teen-aged computer hackers, pin-striped corporate users, professional data-processing managers and elderly hobbyists. While their backgrounds differ, club members have one thing in common: They all own an IBM Personal Computer, or compatible machine. Thus, about 400 of the club's 2,000 members piled into a stuffy auditorium at New York University recently to swap tips, discuss new products, meet other users and cash in on club discounts, which can be 40 percent off manufacturers' suggested prices on such items as monitors, programs and disk drives. The club meets monthly at different spots.
"Basically, we're a forum for the exchange of information that people need to work on their own machines in their own homes," said Jean-Pierre Baccarat, president of the club, known formally as New York Personal Computer Inc. "If people knew more about us, we'd have 10,000 members."
That, of course, is probably exaggerated. Even the Boston Computer Society, the nation's largest computer club, with 17,000 members, has fewer than 10,000 IBM users, as does the second-ranked Capital PC User Group, an organization of IBM users in Washington.
But there is little doubt that, since its founding in April 1982, the New York club has become one of the largest personal computer users' groups in America. Its rapid growth -- membership has more than doubled in the last two years -- reflects the rise of the IBM Personal Computer itself. Future Computing Inc., a Richardson, Tex., research firm, estimates that the International Business Machines Corp. sold 14,000 PC's in 1981, 185,000 in 1982, 390,000 in 1983 and 559,000 units last year.
"The more units out there, the stronger users' cumulative desire to get together to exchange ideas or share free software," said Ronnie Ward, an executive vice president at Future Computing.
"User groups provide an important support function," said Alfred K. Glossbrenner, who has written extensively on personal computing.
Indeed, it is largely because of the support they provide personal computer owners -- in solving technical problems, offering tips to make life with the computer easier and arranging classes on such topics as graphics -- that user groups are flourishing. Corporate manuals, both for hardware and software, are often poorly written, and many computer salespeople are unequipped to give customers the detailed help they need after leaving the store.
No one knows how many groups there are, but most experts place the figure in the thousands. IBM says its users alone have formed 600 groups. Apple Computer Inc. says its users have formed 425 groups; Commodore International Ltd., 600.
Nowhere is the idea of computer users' helping other users more visible than at the New York club. Talk runs from the mundane to the arcane -- from simple inquiries on beginning computing to incomprehensible discussions of programming and hardware.
Recently, for example, club members discussed a word-processing program for Hebrew characters, the intricacies of memory on the PCjr machine, and how to avoid error messages that pop up on the PC screen.
The group also is influential, including among its members purchasing officers for such giants as Chemical Bank, Citibank, and Dun & Bradstreet.
Sensing the clout, computer industry manufacturers attend meeting to promote their products. Not long ago, for example, the Lotus Development Corp. showed members its new Symphony program. Ashton-Tate Inc. followed with a demonstration of its Framework program. And this spring members will see Enable, a new program from the Software Group.
"They are key influencers in the industry, not only for individuals but for whole corporations," Karen K. Orton, director of marketing at Ashton- Tate, said. "They give us critical feedback on our products and those of our competitors."
IBM agrees. The computer company has established an office that does nothing but help user groups. It also dispatches executives to speak to larger groups, including the New York club.
Saying it was too expensive to consider, city commissioners rejected an offer to buy a beachfront restaurant for $1.1 million.
The owner of the Ranch House restaurant, 324 N. Ocean Blvd., had offered to sell the property to the city before completing an agreement with another party.
Mayor Jean Robb said on Tuesday that the owner said he would sell the restaurant for $800,000 if the city would lease it to another operator for $1 a year for 10 years.
Commissioner Joseph Tractenberg said, "I think it's something we should not even consider, because of the loss to our tax rolls and on interest on the $800,000. Buying it for $1.1 million is even worse."
Commissioners and city staff members had said they were interested in the property because it is the last beachfront lot.
City Manager J. Eldon Mariott said in a memo that an informal check with an appraiser indicated the property's value probably was only 60 percent of the owner's asking price.
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