News from Sustaining Members
Vector 1:1, page 23
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The category of "Sustaining Membership" has been introduced and is being offered to companies trading in APL products; this is seen as a method of promoting the growth of APL interest and activity. As well as receiving public acknowledgement for their sponsorship, sustaining members receive bulk copies of VECTOR and are offered news listings in this section of the journal, together with opportunities to inform APL users of their products via seminars and articles.
The Committee of the British APL Association would like to acknowledge the generous financial support of the following organisations that have become Association Sustaining Members. In many cases these organisations also provide manpower and administrative assistance to the Association at no cost.
| APL*Plus Ltd. | Aston Science Park, Love Lane, Birmingham B7 4BJ. Tel. 021-359 5096 |
| Cocking & Drury Ltd. | 16 Berkeley Street, London W1X 5AE. Tel. 01-493 6172 |
| Dyadic Systems Ltd. | 30 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hants. Te. 0252 547222 |
| Inner Product Ltd. | Eagle House, 73 Clapham Common Southside, London SW4 9DG. Tel. 01-673 3354 |
| MicroAPL Limited | Unit 1F, Nine Elms Industrial Estate, 87 Kirtling Street, London SW8 5BP. Tel. 01-622 0395 |
| I.P. Sharp Associates | 132 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9SA. Tel. 01-730 4567 |
Despite being offered free publicity in this section of VECTOR, only two of these companies provided us with news in time for the print deadline! We're not sure whether the reason was modesty or inefficiency but no doubt we shall be inundated with copy for the next issue.
APL*PLUS Limited¶
"APL*PLUS's parent company STSC Inc. has won two I.P.C. awards, recently presented in a joint ceremony in London and Dallas."
"APL*PLUS/PC won a 'Million-in-One' award for achieving $1,000,000 of business worldwide in its first year, and "APL*PLUS 1000 won a 'Million-Dollar-Club' award for reaching sales of $1,000,000 since its introduction."
"Since the New Year, "APL*PLUS has announced three new products."
"A range of Information Centre tools provides full-screen data entry, display and analysis capabilities, and interfaces to other proprietary Information Centre products."
"Release 3.0 of "APL*PLUS/PC now offers a colour graphics system in addition to their extended APL for the IBM PC and compatibles."
"Finally, a financial and statistical package has been released containing more than 200 programs for the IBM PC."
MicroAPL Limited¶
"MicroAPL has extended its product range in both larger and smaller systems."
"The SPECTRUM supermicro now offers up to 10 Mb of main memory and supports 144 Mb hard discs. Customers with larger systems can now use the Tektronix 4105 colour graphics terminal to which MicroAPL has added an APL character set. They are currently testing software to emulate IBM's GDDM colour graphics processor."
"At the smaller end of the product range, MicroPLOT, which offers business graphics to drive the IBM PC's colour monitor and Hewlett-Packard plotters, is now available under "APL*PLUS/PC, and the MicroSPAN self-teaching package will soon follow."
"On the personnel front there are three new faces at MicroAPL. Emma Saunders has joined as personal assistant to three of the directors; Karen Salt has become personal assistant to the Managing Director, Richard Nabavi; and Alastair Kinloch, well-known in the Scottish APL community, has joined the team of applications consultants."