Report on the computer software contest at 38th Congress of the Japan Society of Anesthesiology.

We held a computer software contest at 38th Congress of the JSA, held in March, 1991. The aim is to encourage the members of the Society to write softwares and to help distribute them, especially as Freewares. We received 25 entries for the contest; two-thirds of these are for computers of NEC PC9801 series and a third are for Macintosh. We received donations 3 million yen worth of instruments and goods for prizes plus some cash, which as prizes were distributed to those who made entries for the contest. Most of these programs have been registered as freewares at various computer networks, including our Ether-Net, one of the common computer network SIGBBS's among Japanese anesthesiologists.