The NEW Technological Advancement Party (TAP)                    March 11, 1989
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By Aristotle and the TAP Magazine Staff


How TAP Will Be Printed

TAP will be created, edited, and printed on various machines that the staff
either owns or has full access to.  The computers range from personal computers
to mainframes.

The printing devices range from dot-matrix printers to industrial laser
printers.  Again, the staff has full access to all of these devices.  In order
to upgrade the quality of print and to take some of the load off of the staff,
the staff is looking into getting TAP printed by a professional printer.


Funding Of TAP

Hopefully TAP will be funded majorly by the subscribers.  Unlike TAP in it's
early years, we cannot afford to just give TAP away.  Except for issue 92, we
will not GIVE TAP away for free.  We feel the policy of the old TAP towards
this issue was the major cause of their cronic shortage of money.  As far as
startup costs, the staff can support all costs except for Printing, Paper, and
Postage.  For 1.00 an issue, we feel we should be able to sufficiently support
TAP from the subscribers fees.  All money received will be put into an account
that will be used for TAP purposes ONLY.  There will be no distributing of
wealth between the staff.  The three expenses above will be the major areas of
spending with an occasional expense of advertising and such.


How TAP Will Be Getting Articles

As of right now, the staff has enough articles ready to be printed to support
TAP for at least 4 issues.  We hope TAP will become dependant on articles
submitted by subscribers.  If people do not submit articles to TAP, we will be
forced to fill up space with lesser articles (thus lessening the quality of
TAP.)  We figure that at the worst, TAP can sustain itself for one year with NO
submitted articles.  That way we will not be ripping anyone off and we can fade
away in peace. (Hopefully we won't have to do that!)


Who is involved with TAP

As of 03/07/89, the TAP staff consists of five people.  These 'staffers' are:
Aristotle, Olorin The White, Predat0r, and two others that wish to remain
anonymous.  The last two have elected to remain anonymous for various reasons,
one being to maintain their freedom.  The staff does not feel that we need to
list names in TAP (yet) to give the newsletter a good reputation.  We feel that
readers should subscribe to TAP because of the quality of the newsletter and
not because of the staff members.  Of course, if you submit an article, you
will be given credit where it is due.  Credit to the author of any article we
print will be given unless the author expresses wishes that he/she does not
want to be recognized.  Of course if TAP cannot find the name of the author of
a specific article, we cannot print the credits.


Why We Decided To Print A Newsletter

After gathering information from bulletin boards and other sources, various
members of the staff decided that they would like to print hard to obtain
information in hardcopy form and an easy to understand format.  We feel that
certain information cannot be successfully represented and distributed with
computers only.  One excellent example is a schematic of any device.  We all
know how bad ASCII schematics suck.  And with practically everyone in the
community owning a different computer, how can we communicate efficiently?
Well, printed material (on paper) is our answer.

In addition to the advantage print has over text files, there are various other
reasons for our wanting to print a newsletter.  Due to the lack of experts
wanting to teach newcomers to the community (excluding certain individuals), we
have decided to do something about it.  TAP will attempt to explain information
so that EVERYONE can understand it.  We will not hesitate to help any
beginners, nor hesitate to give information to the more experienced members of
the community.  All members of the community will be supported by TAP.  TAP is
an equal opportunity informer.


Why We Decided To Print TAP

When we first received our collection of TAP issues (along with some 2600's),
we were astounded.  After learning from bbs's and voice calls, the value of TAP
and 2600 were obvious.  We liked 2600 a lot, but we LOVED TAP.  TAP fit our
personalities perfectly.  It has something for everyone.  Around that time, we
promptly looked into subscribing to the two magazines.  As you know, TAP died
in 1984 and 2600 is still in print.  Well, we subscribed to 2600 and kept on
studying our old TAP issues.  When the suggestion came to put out a magazine,
the first idea that was suggested was TAP.  It was decided after a LONG
discussion that TAP would be perfect for our newsletter.  Since we are
interested in hacking, phreaking, AND other topics, we felt TAP better
expressed our opinions and ideas than any other newsletter idea.  Hell, we just
straight up loved that old TAP and we cannot pass up the opportunity to bring
it back into existence and (hopefully) it's original glory.


Where To Find TAP

If you have any other questions regarding TAP, you can contact the staff via
snail mail (US postal service) or via staff accounts on the bulletin boards
listed below.

US Mailing Address:                   TAP
                                P.O. Box 20264
                             Louisville, KY 40220

Beehive BBS - 703-823-6591
Hackers Den - 718-358-9209
Ripco       - 312-528-5020


Thank you,    Tap Staff