The New England Sinclair QL Users Group (NESQLUG)
Hosts
The Fourth North American QL Show
Saturday, May 18th
From 9 AM until 5 PM
In Bedford, Massachusetts, just 15 miles NW of Boston. Bedford, and the two bordering towns of Lexington and Concord, contain many historical sites and museums, including the sites of the first battles of the American Revolution, Minuteman National Park, the Louisa May Alcott house, Walden Pond, the Henry Thoreau house, and many more.
The QL Show will be held at the:
Bedford Ramada Inn, 340 Great Road, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730
Tel: In US (800) 228-2828 or (617) 275-6700
Fax: (617) 275-3011
A block of 25 rooms has been reserved for Friday and Saturday the 17th & 18th of May, 1996, for those attending the show, at a reduced price of just $49 per night – 1 or 2 persons, and $10 more for an additional person. This price also includes an all-you-can-eat, American buffet breakfast. Please mention the ‘QL Show’ in order to get this special price.
Additional nights are $59 per night for 1 or 2 people. Rooms must be reserved not later than April 27th, three weeks prior to the meeting.
If you reserve a room at the Ramada by April 27th, you may pay the $5 entry fee at the show. If you are not planning to stay at the Ramada, please send a check for $5, by April 27th, made out to:
Gary Norton, 43 Richardson St., Billerica, MA 01821 USA.
Late entry fee at the show is $7. Notify Gary also, if you would like a packet with maps and tourist information. E-mail: [e-mail address omitted], tel: 508 667-2048, or mail as above.
THE AGENDA
Friday, 17 May (Optional)
Meet in the Ramada Lounge at 7PM, and share rides to the Willow Pond Restaurant in Concord, an informal pub that offers meals under $5 and twin lobster dinners for $14.95.
Saturday, 18 May
8:00 AM Doors to meeting room on 3rd floor of Ramada opened to vendors. 9:00 - Noon General meeting - Coffee and tea will be provided. Noon - 1:00 Meeting room closed for lunch break. (*) 1:00 - 4:30 General meeting. 4:30 - 5:00 Vendors remove equipment from room.
Numerous valuable QL hardware/software doorprizes will given away all day !
(*) Note: Only sandwiches are available for Lunch at the Ramada Inn, but there is a variety of eating places within 500 yards of the meeting location.
Saturday night QL Banquet
Cost is $19.95. IMPORTANT: Contact Gary Norton to reserve your seat not later than April 27th. If you reserve a room at the Ramada, you may defer payment until you arrive. Otherwise please send a check made out to Gary Norton. NOTE: Banquet is limited to first 60 QLers.
6:00 - 6:30 Reception - 2nd floor Banquet Room, cash bar (open all evening) 6:30 - 7:45 QL Banquet
BANQUET MENU
Fruit cup, Garden salad.
Choice of: Broiled Boston Scrod (a tasty white meat fish)
or Baked Chicken with Supreme Sauce.
Roasted Potatoes, Green Beans Almondine,
New England Shortcake with Strawberries,
7:45 - 7:50 Awards Presentation
7:50 - 8:00: A QL Quorum - a panel of knowledgeable volunteers
will answer questions from the floor and offer opinions
Evening ends with a folk song sing along, general discussions, and elbow bending until they throw the stragglers out at midnight.
Sunday, 19 May
9:00 AM QLunch at the Boehms, 33 Selfridge Rd., Bedford
Several QLs and QXLs will be set up in separate rooms for demos and discussions. Coffee, tea, and donuts in the morning, cold cut, sandwich buffet for lunch. Leave when you have to.
The following vendors and QL notables have indicated they are planning to come:
Stuart Honeyball …. Miracle Systems
Jochen Merz ……… Jochen Merz Software
Urs Konig ……….. COWO Electronica (Switzerland)
Frank & Carol Davis.. Mechanical Affinity and UPDATE Magazine
Bill Cable ………. Wood and Wind Computing
Roy Wood ………… Q BRANCH
Tim Swenson ……… QL Hacker’s Journal.
Others that are trying to make arrangements to come include: Tony Firshman and Lou Reeves, John and Val Taylor – from QUANTA, Bill Richardson – from W. N. Richardson & Co., and Albin Hessler – from Albin Hessler Software.
Bill Cable; RR3, Box 92, Cornish NH 03745 USA; Email: [e-mail address omitted]; tel: 603 675-2218; is vendor point-of-contact. Vendor prices for tables is $25.00 per table. The tables are 3 foot by 8 foot in size.