Ho said that the ad sales for the fall issueshould have netted the HCS $16,000, enough to turna small profit.

A previous business staffer failed to collecton ads he sold for the issue, Ho said.

"The person who sold those ads never collectedthe revenue from the advertisers and the problemsstagnated until I took over as business manager,"he said.

Ho said he is trying to collect the balancesfrom the ads previously sold.

"In the past four weeks, I have been in contactwith all of our advertisers and I have beenpushing them to remit the balances on theirinvoices and we have begun to see checks come infrom those advertisers," he said.

As of yesterday morning, the HCS' debt totaled$11,000, Ho said, but he expects to have thenumber down to approximately $3,000 within 60days.

Ho will also begin the advertising campaign forthe 1994 Computers at Harvard issue withinthe next two weeks.

"I am expecting to raise enough revenue withour next issue to completely eliminate our debtwith our publishers and bring the Harvard ComputerSociety back into the black," he said.

But the future of the fall issue is still inquestion despite improving finances because muchof it was lost through a computer disk error.

Bhan, who was still editor-in-chief whenpreparations for the issue began, said that a lotof the issue was lost.

"After I found out that the HCS would not beable to publish it anytime soon, I copied theissue to floppy disk but one of the disks failedand I was unable to restore the entire issue," hesaid.

Kim acknowledged that part of the issue waslost, but he said that even though some of thearticles were outdated, they were going to try tosalvage as much as possible for fortunepublications