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Despite enjoying the festivities at a wedding until the wee hours,
   today we bring you another TidBITS issue, complete with a rumor
   of the flexible TidalWave computer from Power Computing,
   highlights from Developer Central at Macworld Expo, an
   announcement of the latest Solitaire Till Dawn, more on the new
   PowerPC PowerBooks, Adam's latest Web-page discovery, and some
   thoughts on upgrading to System 7.5.

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Copyright 1990-1995 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
   Information: <[e-mail]> Comments: <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/04-Sep-95
    Open Mouth, Insert PowerBook, Go to Sleep, Drool
    Exploring Developer Central at Macworld Boston
    Rating The List
    Update Madness
    Reviews/04-Sep-95

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MailBITS/04-Sep-95
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  Today is Labor Day, a U.S. national holiday, but we self-employed
  types ended up spending the day, well, working. Along with putting
  together this issue of TidBITS, we completely moved all of our
  Internet servers from our venerable SE/30 to a shiny new Apple
  Internet Server 6150, which means that performance should be a
  good bit better. Lest you feel sorry for us for working hard on a
  holiday, just remember that I'm talking about a Macintosh. It
  might have taken me all of an hour to move email, email auto-
  replies, FTP, Gopher, and Web access over to the new machine and
  to install updates to all the software, including Apple Internet
  Mail Server 1.0, Peter Lewis's FTPd 3.0.0, and StarNine's WebSTAR
  1.2.1. Most of that time was being careful about synchronizing the
  old and the new Macs. Running Internet servers on a Mac seems
  almost _too_ easy sometimes. [ACE]


**A Tsunami By Any Other Name?** Dyed-in-the-wool Apple fans may
  remember Apple's code name for the new Power Mac 8500 was Tsunami.
  Rumors are now circulating about a machine called TidalWave from
  - you guessed it - Power Computing. Reportedly, TidalWave is a
  PowerPC 604-based Mac compatible that may be available as early as
  October of this year, based on the Apple Power Mac 9500. TidalWave
  reportedly unbundles the PCI slots from the main motherboard,
  making it possible for the machine to carry PCI slots, NuBus
  slots, or _both_. Customers would be able to choose how many of
  each type of slot they want their units to have, and there may be
  a less-expensive slot-less version as well. As with existing Power
  Computing machines, communications and video are added through
  daughter boards; the CPU chip itself is on a replaceable card,
  with the possibility of multi-processor machines and/or upgrades
  in the future. [Pythaeus]


**Benjamin Turner** <[e-mail]> writes:
  While exploring the new Power Mac 7200, I eventually noticed that
  a number of the new control panels ran more or less like
  applications and had their own menus. It took me a long while to
  notice, since I don't generally expect control panels to have any
  effect on the Finder's menus (although, since the release of
  System 7, the Users & Groups control panel has confused
  innumerable people by modifying the File menu). If it's a control
  "panel," it would seem to me that everything should appear on that
  "panel." Anyone who has one of the new breed of machines should
  investigate new control panels for features hidden in the menus,
  like the auto-save features of the Energy Saver control panel.


**A good night's sleep** can always be sabotaged through judicious
  use of the latest computer game, and Rick Holzgrafe knows it. He's
  just released version 2.1 of his $20 shareware game Solitaire Till
  Dawn (see TidBITS-246_), offering sound effects, clever new
  display features, and a wonderful "magnetic mouse" option to move
  cards without clicking, which should reduce aggravation of
  repetitive stress injuries. Solitaire Till Dawn works fine on any
  Mac in color or black and white, and the program also includes two
  new games (I'm addicted to Bisley) for a total of 26. Look at your
  favorite software archive for Solitaire Till Dawn 2.1 and Rick's
  other nifty utilities and games. [MHA]

http://www.opendoor.com/rick/semicolon.html
ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/game/crd/solitaire-till-dawn-21.hqx


Open Mouth, Insert PowerBook, Go to Sleep, Drool
------------------------------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  My article about the new PowerPC-based PowerBooks in TidBITS-292_
  had a few omissions and errors. First, I forgot to include
  information about upgrades from the 500-series. The daughtercard
  upgrade provides a 100 MHz PowerPC 603e chip and comes with 8 MB
  of RAM on the card. You don't get the expansion bay or the
  infrared networking, but you can keep any additional RAM that
  you've added, and the price will range between $700 and $750.
  Upgrades should be available in mid-October.

  Second, I'd like to note that my earlier article was not a review.
  I haven't played with these machines at all, and Apple certainly
  never sends them to us before they're released (or after, for that
  matter). All of those details come from Apple propaganda or from
  folks who have managed to try the machines. The main thing we
  couldn't have known, because of this, is that the 68K emulation
  for the new PowerBooks is pretty lousy, according to tests run on
  pre-release units by MacWEEK and other sources. Performance of
  native applications ranged from good to excellent, whereas
  MacWEEK's tests in MacBench placed the new PowerBooks around the
  speed of the IIci and IIfx when running emulated applications. The
  upshot of this is that you might wish to test your favorite 68K
  applications on one of these PowerBooks before buying, especially
  if those programs aren't available in PowerPC versions.

  Third, it turns out that the built-in infrared networking runs at
  the speed of LocalTalk, or 230.4 Kbps. This is good news, since I
  expected the performance to be a good bit slower.

  Fourth and finally, I blew it by mentioning my pet peeve with
  desktop Macs not being able to sleep like PowerBooks. It turns out
  (and I'm astonished that I didn't hear about this until I opened
  my mouth in TidBITS) that the new PCI-based Power Macs (the 9500,
  7200, 7500, and 8500) can all enter some sort of sleep mode. Since
  we don't have any of these machines and they're difficult to find
  in stock anywhere, it's hard to test for sure, but it seems that
  the feature set may differ between the 9500 and the slightly more
  recent Power Macs (and the 9500 cannot use the newer Energy Saver
  2.0 control panel). It's clear that all of these Power Macs can
  spin down the hard drive, and, if connected to an Energy Star
  monitor, can put the monitor to sleep.

  Reports vary on whether or not the fan shuts off as well, as would
  be ideal given the fan's additional noise (although at least one
  person commented that his 7200 fan is very quiet). One reason not
  to shut off the fan would be because you can't know how many
  heat-generating PCI cards might be installed. Apparently the
  machines remain aware enough that sleeping Power Macs can still
  appear on the network as file servers, and connecting to a
  sleeping machine wakes it up. The same is apparently true if you
  call one of these Macs that's using its GeoPort to act as an
  answering machine - no word on if that would work for just any
  attached modem.

  The sleep feature works as you'd expect, with separate idle time
  settings for the monitor and the disk in the Energy Saver control
  panel, and the capability to wake up at a certain time. When
  asleep, the 7200 apparently draws less than 30 watts of power,
  with the other models drawing a little bit more.

  All I can say is that I want one. Congratulations, Apple, for
  adding this much needed feature, and I hope it appears in all new
  desktop Macs from now on. I'd like to see Apple make a bigger deal
  out of this capability as well; the fact that I hadn't heard of it
  indicates that it's certainly not being trumpeted as a major
  reason to buy one of these machines. I've been happy with my
  660AV, but frankly, this sleep capability will induce me to
  upgrade much sooner than I would have otherwise.


Exploring Developer Central at Macworld Boston
----------------------------------------------
  by Eric Gundrum <[e-mail]>

  Once again Apple and MacTech Magazine teamed up to sponsor the
  Developer Central booth at Boston's Macworld Expo. Developer
  Central is nearly 7,000 square feet of the show dedicated to over
  thirty vendors of Macintosh developer tools.

  Not only is Developer Central the place to get the latest news
  about programmers tools, but it is also the best place to meet the
  people who get down and dirty with the Mac. As I crossed the line
  into the Developer Central area, the atmosphere changed. The
  people here don't just use a Mac, they live and breathe Macintosh.


**Apple** had a strong presence, and they showed off many Apple
  technologies such as QuickTime VR, OpenDoc, and Apple Media
  Toolkit. Unfortunately, Dell Computer was absent this time around;
  last January they had barricaded their booth with sand bags to
  protect themselves from what they thought would be an onslaught of
  Macintosh developers. Apple brought up the slack by inviting
  Windows developers to join the Macintosh evolution with a "Starter
  Kit for Windows Developers" providing information about the many
  opportunities and resources available to Macintosh developers.
  Much of the same information is available on the Web.

http://www.info.apple.com/dev/

  Apple also offered a first look at the Pippin running as a TV
  set-top box. It was configured to receive hundreds of MPEG
  compressed video channels as well as video on demand and online
  games, all with simple mouse clicks. Due out later this year for
  only a few hundred dollars, Pippin might prove to be yet another
  platform opportunity for Macintosh developers.

  One of the better goodies for programmers to come away with was
  Apple's OpenDoc DR3 CD-ROM. In exchange for turning in a completed
  questionnaire, Apple gave all comers a CD packed with the latest
  versions of OpenDoc, OpenDoc Development Framework (1.0d9), 30 MB
  of sample source code, and 53 MB of third-party part editors. With
  the OpenDoc development tools so readily available, plenty of
  OpenDoc part editors should appear in the next few months.


**Pictorious**, makers of the visual programming environment
  Prograph CPX, exhibited an almost-finished version of Peregrine.
  Peregrine takes visual programming to a higher level than Prograph
  CPX, providing point and click support for building client/server
  applications. Without writing a single line of code, a programmer
  can build an application to access popular SQL database servers
  over a network. Peregrine should be available later this year.

http://192.219.29.95/home.html


**Allegiant Technologies** was showing SuperCard 2.5. This version
  includes support for Windows runtime, QuickTime VR, and 24-bit
  video. It offers a new plug-in architecture for card transitions,
  providing more than the original wipe and dissolve we all had so
  much fun with when we first met HyperCard. Allegiant was also
  talking about enhancing SuperCard with tools for scripting the
  main Internet protocols, which could prove interesting.

http://www.allegiant.com/


**Symantec and Metrowerks** were both present in force. Symantec
  is pushing ahead with their plug-in architecture for new compilers
  in Symantec Developer Advantage 4, planned for release in October.
  Metrowerks is hot on their heels with the next CodeWarrior release
  due in September. Unfortunately we won't see the expected
  CodeWarrior 2.0 in this release, but maybe by January.

http://www.symantec.com/
http://www.metrowerks.com/


**Digitool** jumped on the Internet bandwagon with Mac CL-HTTP, a
  Web server based on their Macintosh Common Lisp 3.0 product. I
  think you would have be a hard-core Lisp aficionado to run a Web
  server this way, but it should offer great flexibility for
  customizing your Internet service.

http://www.digitool.com/


**Dev Deals** -- Typically I find that Expo prices are not as good
  as mail order prices, but the developer tools are an exception.
  Many of the products shown were available for purchase at
  considerable discount from the MacTech Mail Order Store and from
  APDA as show specials. I plan to save my change for the next Expo.

http://www.mactech.com/mos.html


**And As for the Rest** -- Many other development tool vendors
  were showing the current versions of their products, but they're
  too numerous to list. Apple and MacTech Magazine did us all a
  service by compiling the Virtual Dev Central CD-ROM included in
  the bag of information handed to everyone exploring Developer
  Central. This CD contains a list of all the participants, sample
  applications, and Web pages for the better-connected tool vendors.
  The CD even includes the CodeWarrior Lite development environment
  to help fledgling programmers get started. MacTech's Web server
  contains detailed information about each participant.

http://www.mactech.com/devcentral.html

  If you are a programmer, or just like hanging out with
  programmers, stop by Developer Central at the next Macworld Expo.
  I'll be there.


Rating The List
---------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  I just ran into an interesting service on the Web that I thought
  was worth some discussion. The List, provided by a company called
  Colossus, is a large list of Internet access providers around the
  world. At over 1,100 providers listed, it's one of the larger
  lists I've seen (for another excellent list that also has links to
  many others, check out Celestin Company's Providers of Commercial
  Internet Access list at the second URL below), but that's not
  what's interesting about it. Nor is it particularly unusual that
  they accept submissions from users, which undoubtedly helps
  increase the number of providers listed.

http://thelist.com/
http://www2.celestin.com/pocia/index.html

  What struck me about The List was that as you scan through the
  listings of providers (which are sorted by country and by area
  code in the U.S.), you see a Rating field along with all the usual
  ones for contact information and services offered. The Rating
  field is derived from information and comments that users are
  encouraged to add. These comments consist of your real name, your
  email address, a numeric rating between 1 and 10 (actually, I
  assume that's the range - I did see someone give a provider a 12
  and there weren't any instructions forbidding higher ratings) and
  a free-form text field for comments.

  The Rating field, when it has data to work with, averages the
  numeric ratings and also reports how many people have rated that
  provider so you can get a sense of how large the sample size is at
  that point in time. Needless to say, if only one person has rated
  a site, the rating doesn't necessarily mean much. However, if you
  see that a fair number of users have added ratings and comments,
  it's more likely that the numeric rating reflects some sort of
  reality. I'm waffling in my statements about the utility of these
  numbers because I firmly believe statistics can be used to prove
  anything you want. Even the providers that have racked up 50 or 60
  comments may have thousands of customers, so the 50 or 60 who have
  made comments to The List are unlikely to be truly representative.

  However, I especially like the addition of the textual comments.
  Knowing that someone gave a provider a rating of 2 doesn't
  inherently mean much, but if you can read that person's reasons
  for the low rating, you may learn something valuable. Perhaps all
  the complaints are about a certain technical issue you don't care
  about, or perhaps the provider has multiple points of presence and
  all the complaints are about one you don't use - no matter what
  the specifics, if you can read the complaints and the kudos, you
  can get an idea of the reality.

  A somewhat more subtle part of the text comment feature is that
  you can often get a sense from the person's writing style if you
  might or might not agree with that person. As a writer and editor,
  I'm more likely to respond well to a note that's well written
  (with proper grammar, capitalization, and spelling) than I am a
  badly written one-line comment with misspellings. I'll understand
  both comments perfectly well - and I'm fully aware that not
  everyone has English as their first language or is capable of
  writing well - but that's just my impression when I see written
  text. The reverse may be true of you, but either way, as long as
  you can identify with or against some of the people making
  comments, you have more information with which to differentiate
  among providers.

  I commend The List for adding this feature, and I'd like to see
  more lists adopt it. As long as users realize that such ratings
  and comments are merely data points and not to be taken as gospel,
  I think they're tremendously useful in aiding people who are
  trying to separate the electronic wheat from the digital chaff. I
  would like to see The List and similar services add the capability
  to sort list entries based on rating, and (in a list like an
  Internet service provider list) it would be ideal to be able to
  sort on some other fields as well, such as price. Even still, The
  List is a step in the right direction.


Update Madness
--------------
  by Wagner Luiz Truppel <[e-mail]>

  Most computer consultants will tell you that doing computer
  consulting for a living will expose you to some astonishingly
  weird problems. First, let me say that my first Macintosh was an
  SE (an old one, with an 800K drive) running System 6.0.5. I then
  jumped to a PowerBook 145 and then to a Centris 650. I have worked
  as a Mac consultant at the Cornell Information Technologies (CIT)
  help desk, and during that time I had the opportunity to use - and
  sometimes abuse - almost every Mac up to (but not including) a
  Power Mac.

  It's my experience that most problems are not related to bugs in
  the System software or the hardware, at least in the Mac arena.
  They are, in fact, the result of users not understanding how their
  computers work. People aren't born knowing how to use computers,
  and many have no intuition at all about them. That's _normal_. I
  have no intuition for cars, for example; I can drive a car and I
  can change a flat tire, but that's it. On the other hand, some
  people have an incredible intuition for cars. They can listen to
  your automobile make a funny noise and tell you what's wrong with
  it at once.

  Let me give you an example. A student once came to the CIT help
  desk and complained that every time he took his floppy disks home,
  exactly one wouldn't work the next day and would have to be re-
  initialized (not the same one every time). We asked him all sorts
  of questions about his computer and what programs he used. After
  almost burning our heads into oblivion, a fellow consultant
  offhandedly asked him what exactly he did with his floppies when
  he got home. It turned out that, in order not to forget to bring
  them to school the next day, he would use a strong magnet to make
  one of his floppies stick to his refrigerator door.

  All right, I admit it: we all thought this was pretty funny. But
  the student didn't! As naive or irresponsible as that action may
  have seemed to our trained minds, it was something we should have
  accepted as normal. People may not understand how or why certain
  things work and therefore they may make mistakes. Then, if nobody
  tells them what they did wrong and why, they often blame it on the
  equipment or, worse yet, on themselves.

  That said, I'd like to humbly step up on the soapbox and add my
  two cents worth of opinion about Systems 7.5 and 7.5.1. I've
  recently read many messages to Info-Mac, criticizing System 7.5
  and its update, 7.5.1, many stating that people have tried them
  but switched back to 7.1 because 7.5 is such a drag, very
  unstable, full of incompatibilities, and so on. As I recall,
  people used to say the very same things about System 7.1. When 7.1
  was the new kid in the block, a lot of people criticized it. Now,
  people criticize 7.5 because it's the new kid. Has 7.1 suddenly
  become better? Certainly not.

  So, what's going on? My answer to that will be in the form of some
  advice. I hope it will serve you as well as it has served me.


**Do a Clean Installation** -- Although not every problem may be
  solved this way, it always helps to do a clean install. I
  remember, from my CIT days, many cases in which people would
  install parts of a system from one machine into another simply by
  copying the relevant file onto a floppy disk and then to the other
  machine. Often, they would mix components from different system
  versions - a sure way to computer users' hell.

  Sometimes users would install one System on top of another.
  Although the Apple Installer often knows it should remove older
  stuff, I don't trust it. In fact, a recent message to Info-Mac
  talks about how someone requested a custom installation without
  some items and the installer put them in anyway. [This can happen
  when different custom installation options rely on one another -
  Apple should show in the interface when something must be
  installed due to other selections. -Adam]

  So, when I install a new version of the System software, I first
  back up the old System Folder and compress it - this saves space
  and avoids the installer thinking that the backup System Folder is
  the active one. (No, you don't really need to compress your System
  Folder; you can just copy it to another location on your hard
  drive, then change the name of the copy and move its Finder to
  another folder. But compressing it is generally safer and less
  confusing.) Then I boot from the Disk Tools disk [or you may be
  able to boot from your System CD, if you have one -Tonya], delete
  the previously active System Folder, and proceed with the
  installation.

  I never choose the Easy Install option, because I know what I want
  installed and I know what I should choose to accomplish that. If
  you know what you need and what you don't, do a custom
  installation. Otherwise, go for the Easy Install. After installing
  and restarting, I open and check all the Apple control panels.
  Most of them don't require any knowledge of what's going on inside
  the Mac, but some do. If you don't know how to set up a particular
  control panel, leave it the way it is and hope that Apple set the
  defaults correctly.


**Add Third-Party Software Slowly** -- Add any additional
  extensions and control panels one by one. Test-run the system for
  a few days, under _your_ real-world conditions, before you add the
  next extension or control panel. This will help pinpoint
  incompatibilities. Also, use only what you really need. Having 97
  icons filling up multiple rows of your 21-inch screen at startup
  sure is fun to watch, but that's not what your computer was
  designed for! Besides, you can make a Quadra 950 run like my old
  SE that way. [A good rule of thumb is if you don't use a
  particular system extension at least once a week, consider
  removing it. -Geoff]


**The Benefits of Experience** -- Now that you have the picture, I
  must say that what I've described is not really what I do. It's
  what I _used_ to do when I was learning how to live peacefully
  with my computer. And that behavior brought me to where I am now:
  I have a 16 MB (32 MB with RAM Doubler) Centris 650 running 7.5.1,
  with several extensions and control panels, and with lots of minor
  alterations that I made to the System and the Finder themselves.
  Yet, I rarely experience a system error. Am I a Mac guru? No. I'm
  just careful. I've proceeded slowly and one step at a time, until
  I understood enough of the computer to experiment with it. And I
  kept myself informed.

  My final advice is for people not to be afraid of System 7.5, but
  to exercise common sense, to be careful, and to ask for help if
  you need it. Also, much of this advice applies to application
  programs as well. Sometimes the help you need cannot come from the
  online world, but good places to look for help online include:

* The Info-Mac mailing list: You can subscribe to the list by
  sending an email message to the machine that runs the list. Send
  the message to <[e-mail]> with "subscribe info-
  mac your-full-name" (sans quotes) in the body of the message. Make
  sure to include your real name in the place of "your-full-name."

* One of many Macintosh newsgroups: Try posting to a newsgroup,
  such as <comp.sys.mac.misc>.

* Check out Ric Ford's MacInTouch Home Page, which lists a
  collection of bugs and solutions. In particular try following the
  link to the MacInTouch Tips page.

http://www.ultranet.com/~ricford/


**Disclaimers** -- In the interests of full disclosure, there are
  a few disclaimers I should make:

* I don't work for Apple, and never did. I think they make great
  computers, though.

* Yes, System 7.5 has its problems too.

* Yes, I _do_ experience system errors sometimes. So does my
  computer.


Reviews/04-Sep-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 28-Aug-95, Vol. 9, #34
    Speed Doubler 1.0 -- pg. 1
    Ready,Set,Go GX 7.0.3 -- pg. 27
    FWB PCI SCSI JackHammer -- pg. 30
    ScreenReady 1.0 -- pg. 32
    Meeting Maker XP 3.0 -- pg. 34

* Macworld -- Sep-95
    MediaPaint 1.0 -- pg. 56
    SmartSketch 1.0 -- pg. 58
    SledgeHammer8000FT -- pg. 59
    Power Secretary Power Edition -- pg. 60
    Live Picture 2.0 -- pg. 62
    StyleWriter 1200 -- pg. 65
    Helix Express 3.03 -- pg. 65
    DayStar PowerPC accelerators -- pg. 67
      PowerPro 601
      Turbo 601
    Conflict Catcher 3.0 -- pg. 69
    InTouch 2.5 -- pg. 69
    Paint Alchemy -- pg. 70
    Intellihance 1.0 -- pg. 71
    ASAP 1.5 -- pg. 72
    The Daedalus Encounter -- pg. 73
    Apple Mobile Message System -- pg. 74
    Skyline/Satellite 1.1 -- pg. 74
    OneWorld Combo -- pg. 78
    PhotoFix 2.8.8 -- pg. 81
    ultraSecure 3.524 -- pg. 81
    Nikon CoolPrint -- pg. 83
    ChoiceStick 1.0.2 -- pg. 85
    FloorPlan Plus 1.1 -- pg. 85
    InstantReplay 1.0 -- pg. 89
    The Fuzzy Logic Toolbox 1.0 -- pg. 89
    Trackball Pro ADB -- pg. 91
    Gear 2.5 -- pg. 91
    On Cue II Utilities 3.0 -- pg. 93
    In Control for Workgroups 3.5 -- pg. 93
    Jetstick for Macintosh -- pg. 95
    Menu Master Mac 2.5.0.7 -- pg. 95
    Digital Cameras  -- pg. 98
      (too many to list)
    Windows on a Mac -- pg. 108
      (too many to list)
    Scientific Analysis Packages -- pg. 114
      (too many to list)
    Color Printers -- pg. 122
      (too many to list)
    Page Layout Plug-Ins and XTensions -- pg. 132
      (too many to list)

* MacUser -- Oct-95
    Color Inkjet Printers -- pg. 49
      Apple Color StyleWriter 2200
      Apple Color StyleWriter 2400
      Hewlett-Packard DeskWriter 660C
    Microsoft Project 4.0 -- pg. 52
    Live Picture 2.0 -- pg. 57
    PhotoFix -- pg. 60
    netOctopus -- pg. 65
    PowerCADD 2.0 -- pg. 66
    Microtech Blue -- pg. 67
    MATLAB -- pg. 68
    Conflict Catcher 3.0 -- pg. 69
    Sculpt 3D 4.0 -- pg. 70
    SPSS 6.1 for Macintosh -- pg. 72
    Bansai MFX-1 -- pg. 72
    Strata MediaPaint -- pg. 76
    MacAdministrator -- pg. 77
    Visual Arranger -- pg. 78
    InTouch 2.5 -- pg. 81
    Zonkers! -- pg. 83
    Org Plus 2.0 -- pg. 83
    Second-generation Power Macs -- pg. 84
      Power Macintosh 8500, 7500, 7200/90, 7200/75
    Low-Cost Color Scanners -- pg. 94
      (too many to list)
    Top 50 New CD-ROMs
      (too many to list)


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