Our launch party was a huge success, and we can now announce the winners of the three door prizes! The first person to enter our Real Time Conference was Lyle Syverson, who will be receiving an A2Central.com mousepad. Second in was Allen Moore, who will receive an A2Central.com T-shirt, and third was Sean Fahey, who will find a ComputerEyes GS card on his doorstep in the next week or so. Thanks to everyone that attended our launch party! .

Our free public beta test (which lasts through December 31) begins tonight at 9:00 PM Pacific Standard Time (midnight EST). Hop online and join us for our launch party!.

Worth.com has an interesting article about Joe Gleason, who founded Quality Computers then eventually sold it to Scantron for $7 million. He’s now living in Maui running an Internet start-up. .

Members can now connect to our online service using their telnet client, following the instructions they have received previously in email. If you want to join but haven’t yet, click the Join link above and get started!.

Door prizes will be offered to the first three members to visit our Real Time Conference room 1 at our launch party tomorrow night. Read for details. .

Which of these was the single biggest advance in Apple II operating systems since DOS 3.3?.

A2Central.com will open its doors for its public beta test at midnight Eastern Standard Time Friday, December 8 (9:00 PM Pacific Standard Time Thursday)..

The Aurora Area Apple Core of Aurora, Illinois will hold its annual Holiday party and swap meet on December 14 at 7:00 PM at Mayberry’s Restaurant in Aurora. For more information and directions, email a2.howard@a2central.com..

The ABUG user group of Kansas City has scheduled its holiday party for the evening of Tuesday, December 12. Click here for details. .

a2central.com now has a mailing list to which newsletter publishers and user groups can subscribe to receive press releases from a2central.com. It is an announcement-only list and will be very low-traffic; it’s provided strictly as a convenience for newsletter publishers. To join, email majordomo@a2central.com with the words “subscribe announce-list” in the body of the message. .