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This week we bring you news on PSI's purchase of Mac developers
   InterCon and Software Ventures, and follow-ups to previous
   articles on the PowerTalk Key Chain and AOL's recent purchases.
   We also have news of Netscape integrating Macromedia Director
   playback technology, plus news on StyleWriter drivers and
   cartridges, and, finally, the first part of a three-part essay
   by Luciano Floridi on the Internet's potential impact on how
   we think about knowledge.

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Copyright 1990-1995 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
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Topics:
    MailBITS/12-Jun-95
    The Big Gulp Continues
    AOL Acquisitions & Web Follow-up
    Key Chain for the Web Follow-up
    The Internet & the Future of Organized Knowledge: Part I of III
    Reviews/12-Jun-95

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MailBITS/12-Jun-95
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**IBM's Been Taking Notes** -- Lotus Development Corporation
  announced Sunday that it will let itself be acquired by IBM at a
  price of $64 a share, with the total deal working out to about
  $3.5 billion (see TidBITS-280_). Acquisition of Lotus is expected
  to put IBM in a better position to compete with Microsoft in the
  areas of desktop applications and groupware products. There's no
  word yet on the future of Lotus's Macintosh products, although
  long-time Macintosh advocates might find it ironic that IBM could
  be peddling Mac software in the near future. [GD]


**Brent Bossom** <[e-mail]> writes:
  Apple Japan has announced the latest (and perhaps last) in the 68K
  PowerBook 500 series; however this one will only be available in
  Japan. On the outside, apart from a new graphite-black case, the
  new PowerBook 550c looks like the 540c. Inside, however, there are
  significant differences: a 10.4-inch TFT color display (640 x 480
  at 256 colors or 640 x 400 at 16-bit color), a 33 MHz 68040 CPU
  _with_ FPU, 12 MB of RAM, and a 750 MB SCSI hard drive are
  standard equipment. (There's no modem-equipped model.) To
  accommodate the larger screen size, the 550c's stereo speakers are
  slightly smaller than those on the 540c, and the
  contrast/brightness buttons have been lined up vertically rather
  than horizontally. The 550c is expected to be available at the end
  of June and sold at an "open price" (no list). It will ship with
  two Type-II batteries and built-in Ethernet. All this, and the
  550c weighs 200 grams less than the 540c at 3.1 kg.


**Netscape Finds Director** -- Netscape Communications Corp.
  announced last week that it plans to integrate Shockwave into
  future versions its Netscape Navigator Web client. Shockwave is
  playback technology for Macromedia's Director, a popular
  multimedia authoring package. The idea is that as bandwidth to
  homes and offices increases, you'll be able to transparently play
  back multimedia projects developed in Director live over the
  Internet, regardless of the platform of the host computer. Well,
  hey, it can't be much slower than Director from your hard disk,
  right? [GD]

http://www.macromedia.com/Industry/Macro/Hot.news/netscape.macro.html


**Eric Garneau** <[e-mail]> recently directed our
  attention to Everything Macintosh, an excellent Web page that
  brings together a huge number of links to Macintosh-related
  resources. Along with the Well-Connected Mac site (which has a lot
  of real content as well as links to other sites), Everything
  Macintosh looks as though it will be an excellent resource for Mac
  Internet users if it's regularly maintained. [ACE]

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~xray/mac.html
http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/Macintosh.html


**Cartridge Confusion?** In April, Apple replaced its previous
  StyleWriter and StyleWriter II ink cartridge (M8041G/B) with a new
  StyleWriter Ink Cartridge (M8041G/C). The cartridge itself is
  actually unchanged; it supports not only the original StyleWriter
  and StyleWriter II, but also the company's new entry-level
  StyleWriter 1200 printer. [MHA]


**New StyleWriter 1200 Drivers** -- Owners of the StyleWriter 1200
  as well as the original StyleWriter and StyleWriter II might be
  interested in version 2.0 of the StyleWriter 1200 printer driver.
  The new driver adds the ability to print multiple thumbnail pages
  on a sheet, choose between halftoning methods or greyscale
  printing, share the printer over an AppleTalk network, and print
  watermarks. This update requires System 7.1 or higher and a
  Macintosh with a 68020 processor or better. [GD]

ftp://ftp.info.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/
US/Macintosh/Printing.Software/Other.Printing.Software/
StyleWriter_1200v2.0.sea.hqx


The Big Gulp Continues
----------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  After last week's move by AOL to purchase GNN and WebCrawler,
  Internet access provider PSI decided to show its hand and purchase
  Mac developers Software Ventures and InterCon. InterCon is
  probably the largest commercial developer of Macintosh Internet
  software with its TCP/Connect II integrated Internet package, and
  Software Ventures is best known for its MicroPhone terminal
  emulator and, more recently, its Snatcher FTP client.

http://www.psi.com/press/interconsvc.html

  As with AOL's purchases, PSI is trading stock for both InterCon
  and Software Ventures, 1.42 million shares for InterCon and
  830,000 shares for Software Ventures. At PSI's current price of
  about $13.75 per share, that works out to about $20 million for
  InterCon and $11 million for Software Ventures.

  When I researched these purchases on PSI's Web site where all the
  press releases reside, it became clear that PSI has been thinking
  about this for some time. Back in December of 1994, PSI announced,
  with InterCon and Software Ventures, TCP/Connect II for Instant
  InterRamp and MicroPhone LT for Instant InterRamp. PSI's InterRamp
  is basically a personal Internet access service (via modem or
  ISDN); those versions of TCP/Connect II and MicroPhone LT were
  customized to offer online registration and automatic
  configuration with InterRamp. Then, in late May of 1995, PSI and
  Software Ventures announced Internet Valet, which offers TCP
  access to PSI's InterRamp service via a bundle of programs
  including MacTCP, MacPPP, Enhanced Mosaic, Eudora, and MicroPhone
  Telnet (which I presume is a version of MicroPhone with the MP
  Telnet tool included).

http://www.psi.com/press/

  Now, although this seems to make sense on the face of it, Internet
  Valet and TCP/Connect II do very much the same thing, and, to add
  to the confusion, PSI also recently purchased for about $11
  million The Pipeline Network, a New York City-based Internet
  provider with a proprietary graphical package (in other words, it
  doesn't require MacTCP and prevents you from using MacTCP
  applications). So it now seems as though PSI has three companies
  that all provide more or less the same thing. It's possible that
  PSI sees their products in sufficiently different lights, but at
  the base level, each of the three acquired companies provides
  software for easy and graphical access to the Internet. I suppose
  there might be a certain sense of buying all the competing
  products to prevent someone else from getting them, since it's
  entirely likely that other small Internet-related companies will
  now find themselves hunted by the larger fish.

  One final thought: It seems that InterCon might have sold out for
  too little considering the $30 million that AOL paid last year for
  BookLink (which makes InternetWorks, an integrated Internet
  program that wasn't even shipping when the company was purchased,
  (in contrast to InterCon's long-standing TCP/Connect II for the
  Mac and for Windows), and the $100 million that CompuServe paid
  back in April for Spry, a more established company with a shipping
  product line, albeit one primarily based on a version of Mosaic.
  InterCon doesn't seem that much different, although it's possible
  there were other financial considerations that lowered the price.


AOL Acquisitions & Web Follow-up
--------------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  A few people with more financial knowledge than I have set me
  straight on the fact that when one company acquires another by
  paying in stock, it doesn't hurt the purchasing company
  particularly at all, especially if the companies being bought have
  no liabilities. (See TidBITS-280_ for the article about AOL's
  acquisitions.)


**Charlie Mingo** <[e-mail]> explained:
  As you noted in the article, AOL paid for all these purchases with
  AOL stock (except for $2 million of the $11 million for GNN). When
  you pay for a new asset with stock, we call it a "pooling of
  interests," and there are usually no negative financial
  consequences at all.

  If you pay out too much stock per share of stock acquired, then
  you may suffer "dilution," which means your earnings per share
  goes down. But this is only of significance to your original
  (pre-merger) shareholders; the company itself isn't affected.

  In contrast, IBM's offer to buy Lotus with cash will definitely
  have an adverse affect on IBM's finances. They try to minimize
  this by saying they will finance the purchase out of ready cash
  (pocket money, so to speak), but I presume they were forced to
  offer cash because they couldn't hope to do a hostile takeover
  while offering IBM stock.


**Wesley Felter** <[e-mail]> added:
  I think you missed one large thing in the AOL Buys Everyone story:
  MegaWeb. I'm not sure whether MegaWeb was originally being run by
  BookLink or ANS, but now it's part of AOL and it provides free
  Internet access to my two Windows machines.

http://www.megaweb.com/


**Still Weak?** Nonetheless, Marketing Computers reported in its
  Jun-95 issue that America Online lost $2.8 million (on revenues of
  $106.4 million) for the three months ending 31-Mar-95. And, for
  the first nine months of the current fiscal year, AOL is down
  $40.5 million. AOL claims that the loss is due to the acquisition
  of ANS, BookLink, and NaviSoft last year, although one might
  wonder how much it costs to mail floppy disks to a large portion
  of the Earth's mammalian population.


**Mike Hutchinson** <[e-mail]>, AOL Services Webmaster,
  wrote to say that AOL is definitely working on getting a Web site
  up and running. He added that in the interim, you can check out:

http://webcrawler.com/AOL/

  Brian Pinkerton, the author of WebCrawler, has a substantial
  amount of information about AOL online, including all of AOL's
  recent press releases.


Key Chain for the Web Follow-up
-------------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  A number of people wrote in about my editorial in TidBITS-278_
  that proposed that Web browsers support the PowerTalk Key Chain
  (or at least something akin to it) to deal with the many
  authenticated Web sites springing up.


**Andrew Anker** <[e-mail]>, president of HotWired Ventures
  wrote to defend HotWired's use of authentication:
  We actually offer a number of sophisticated features that result
  from our use of authentication. Most uniquely, we can generate a
  custom "What's New" page for each HotWired subscriber that reports
  only what you haven't seen. It looks up in the database (which can
  track your usage because of authentication) when you last saw each
  section and when they have changed and only tells you what you
  want to see.

  There's another higher level where you can set up a profile of
  what you want to see and what you don't want to see. It stores
  your user profile (again, available only because you have to
  authenticate) and gives you a "your view" page, highly tailored to
  you as an individual.

  I agree that authentication is kind of a pain and by itself is a
  silly thing to add. But we're all about adding features that give
  our subscribers a much better time while in HotWired and that's
  why we need authentication.

  As to your proposed solution, I'm all for anything that simplifies
  the authentication process. I suggested a similar system to the
  folks at Netscape a short time ago, but I don't know if they are
  doing anything with it.


**Privacy** -- I also commented in email that authentication could
  on occasion seem like an invasion of privacy, assuming I didn't
  want to jeopardize my future political career by getting caught
  nosing around a dubious Web site. Andrew responded, "Don't forget
  though, that you are vaguely anonymous even with authentication.
  If you asked me to find out your ID on HotWired, I can only do
  that if you've registered as Adam Engst and/or used the email
  address <[e-mail]>. If you used one of your more obscure
  email addresses (and we all have plenty of those) and didn't use
  your real name, I'd have absolutely no way of finding out who you
  are or what you've done on HotWired. So if I register on some
  dubious site using the name John Q Public and create a special AOL
  email account (like John5342) for anonymity, they would have no
  idea that Mr. Public was actually me."


**Reginald Braithwaite-Lee** <[e-mail]> commented that
  adding this sort of authentication is possible via AOCE. When I
  expressed surprise, since I'd been told that Apple hasn't yet
  published the relevant information (although it may appear in the
  near future), Reginald wrote:

  It is true that the templates for the Key Chain and AppleTalk
  Addresses are not published, however Chapter 9 of
  _New_Inside_Macintosh_ (AOCE Application Interfaces) details the
  Authentication manager, which supports the features you describe.
  Although it is mostly about authenticated communications using a
  PowerShare server, it has plenty of support for using the
  PowerTalk local identity to "unlock" various services.

  In the interests of encouraging this kind of work, you might
  direct your readers to the AOCE mailing list. I have received a
  number of excellent replies to the questions I have posted there.
  The address is <[e-mail]>. It is moderated by
  Gavin Eadie <[e-mail]>, who wrote several AOCE samples,
  which I have been converting to CodeWarrior. Also, Joshua Baer
  <[e-mail]> maintains a useful AOCE home page at:

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/jbbt/aoce/aoce.html

  Another approach, admittedly more of a kludge, would be to create
  a CSAM (Catalog Service Access Module) with templates for the
  various identities you possess as you register with Web servers.
  The nice thing about this approach would be the possibility of
  accessing them through the desktop Catalogs icon. A button in the
  template could launch your Web browser and go to the page in
  question. Since this would be a CSAM, it would automatically be
  inaccessible without opening your Key Chain. This approach may or
  may not be as secure as using the Authentication Manager. A
  similar template from Martin Simoneau (without the authentication
  feature) has been available for some time.

http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/simoneau/aoce/


**Brian Korver** <[e-mail]> comments that work is
  being done on the problem of automatic authentication as part of
  the Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It wasn't inherently
  obvious to me, but perhaps I simply didn't read the specification
  closely enough.

http://www.eit.com/projects/s-http/
http://www.commerce.net/information/examples/examples.html


The Internet & the Future of Organized Knowledge: Part I of III
---------------------------------------------------------------
  by Luciano Floridi <[e-mail]>

  [Note: we thank Professor Floridi for kind permission to reprint
  this material, which is a shortened version of a paper he gave at
  a UNESCO Conference in Paris, March 14-17, 1995.]

Part One: Understanding The Internet

  The Internet: a population of several million people, interacting
  by means of a global network. It is the most educated intellectual
  community ever, a global academy constantly thinking.

  Yet the Internet is also a completely new, hitherto unknown
  phenomenon. What is the Internet exactly? What can it be used for?
  And what will be the effects of such a radical revolution in the
  way we handle the world of information? These are the three
  fundamental questions that will determine the future of organized
  knowledge.


**What The Internet Is** -- By the word "Internet" we refer to the
  international system of digital communication, emerging from the
  agglomerate of thousands of networks that interact through a
  number of common protocols worldwide. It cannot be physically
  perceived, or meaningfully located in space and time, over and
  above the set of interacting networks that constitute it. It is a
  collaborative initiative of services and resources, each network
  being accountable only for its own proper functioning.

  Thus, nobody is ultimately responsible for it as a single
  enterprise, nobody is earning money from the service _as_a_whole_,
  nobody is running the system, and nobody will be able to control
  it in the future.


**What The Internet Can Be Used For** -- This is not easy to
  determine. It isn't that we don't know how to _use_ the system,
  but that the _variety_ of things that one can do via Internet
  increases literally every single day. However, we can distinguish
  four rough categories of communication: email, discussion groups,
  remote control, and file transfer.

  Thus, we can exchange private messages with a friend, publish an
  electronic journal, set up a "slow reading group" on Voltaire's
  _Candide_, and access data in all possible forms: software,
  bibliographic records, electronic texts, images of paintings,
  statistical graphs, musical sounds, whole data banks on an
  enormous variety of subjects. Any exchange and manipulation of
  symbols, images and sounds is already possible on Internet, or
  soon will be. In the future even television will probably be
  remembered as just another episode of the computer age.


**How The Internet Will Affect Organized Knowledge** -- This
  question is almost impossible to answer precisely. It is hard to
  give even an initial shape to our ignorance, since there may be
  much more we do not know than we could guess. After all, the
  Internet is already transforming some of our most fundamental
  conceptions and habits.

  The Internet is fostering the growth of knowledge, yet at the same
  time it is generating unprecedented forms of ignorance. As always
  in the history of technology, whenever a radical change occurs,
  some individuals are left behind while the new technology makes
  those who do master it suddenly aware of other domains still to be
  explored.

  The new model of "spineless textuality" represented by hypertext,
  the virtual ubiquity of documents, the appearance of online
  services and electronic sources that need to be catalogued, have
  radically changed the discipline of librarianship. Even the
  library itself may disappear: no longer a building, a storehouse
  of knowledge physically recorded on paper, the new "consulting"
  library will be a node in the virtual space of the digital
  encyclopedia, providing access to electronic information on the
  network. Instead of an object-oriented culture, producing multiple
  copies of physical books for each user, we will become a time-and-
  information culture, providing services charged per period of use.

  Concepts of citizenship and privacy are changing too. In the new
  electronic marketplace of the global village, publicity has
  assumed an international scale, while privacy means electronic
  privacy in our email conversations. Our good manners are evaluated
  on the basis of a social "netiquette." Civil rights concern the
  way in which information about ourselves can be created and stored
  in databases, and then accessed and used through the network.
  Crimes range from electronic pornography to viruses, from the
  illegal reproduction of software to illicit intrusion into
  electronic systems, from infringement of copyright to electronic
  plagiarism.

  Even the way we think may be affected. Relational and associative
  reasoning is nowadays becoming as important as linear and
  inferential analysis, while visual thinking is at least as vital
  as symbolic processing. And as the skill of remembering vast
  amounts of facts is gradually replaced by the capacity for
  retrieving information and discerning logical patterns in masses
  of data, the Renaissance conception of erudition is merging with
  the modern methods of information management.

  Entire sectors of activity like communicating, writing, publishing
  and editing, advertising and selling, shopping and banking,
  teaching and learning are all being deeply affected. Such
  transformations are of the greatest importance, as they will
  determine our life-style in the coming decades.

  We are now ready to explore what such an epochal change in our
  culture will mean in one special field: the future of the Human
  Encyclopedia.


**What The Human Encyclopedia Is** -- The Human Encyclopedia is
  the store of human knowledge. It is constantly increasing,
  although at different rates in different ages and cultures. The
  rate of increase depends on two things: the quantity of
  information stored up until that time and the current degree of
  accessibility of the "memory" of the system.

  The invention of printing has usually been considered a turning
  point in this increase, but its importance should not be
  misunderstood. The printed book represented a powerful new medium
  whereby a text could be reproduced more quickly, cheaply, and
  accurately, and hence be more safely stored and more widely
  diffused. It tremendously accelerated the recovery, conservation,
  and dissemination of knowledge among an increasingly large number
  of people. But this did very little to improve the degree to which
  an individual could take full advantage of the entire
  Encyclopedia, since the process of information _retrieval_
  remained largely unaffected by the printing of books.

  Quite soon after Gutenberg, there were attempts to do for the
  processing of information what the printing press had done for the
  reproduction of knowledge (see _Gulliver's_Travels_). But they all
  failed, because such an enterprise required something much more
  radical than a merely mechanical solution. Only the passage from
  printed paper to digital data made possible a thoroughly new way
  of managing information, and much more efficient control over the
  system of knowledge. This explains why Information Technology, as
  the long awaited response to the invention of printing, has been
  much more pervasive than any previous technology. The press
  (mechanically) enlarged our intellectual space; only the computer
  has made it (electronically) manageable.


**Three Steps to The Internet** -- Thus began in the 1950's a
  process of converting the entire domain of organized knowledge
  into a new, digital macrocosm. This conversion has engendered
  three fundamental changes in how we access information: extension,
  visualization, and integration.

* Extension. There has been constant growth in the _kinds_ of
  information that could be digitized - not only numbers and text,
  but also sounds, images, and animation. The growing extent of this
  "binary domain" has soon required forms of access far more
  congenial to the mind than the merely digital, leading to...

* Visualization. The invention and improvement of visual display
  units, together with the development of graphic interfaces and
  WIMP applications (Window, Icon, Mouse, Pop-up menu), have made
  possible a spectacular return of the _analogical_ as the
  fundamental threshold between the binary macrocosm and the mind.
  Finally...

* Integration. The translation of different kinds of information
  into a _single_ language of bytes has increasingly brought
  together the various domains of knowledge into an ever-wider and
  more complex encyclopedia. This integration has subsequently grown
  qualitatively by the incorporation of multimedia and virtual
  reality. It has also grown quantitatively, as local domains have
  joined into an ever-wider environment of networks, tending towards
  a global, multimedial, and unique macrocosm of digitized
  knowledge. Obviously, this brings us back to...


**The Internet Again** -- We can now see that the Internet is just
  the most recent form adopted by the organization of the system of
  knowledge, a mere stage in the endless self-regulating process
  through which the Human Encyclopedia constantly strives to respond
  to its own growth. Through the combination of the three processes
  of extension, integration, and visualization, the Internet has
  made possible management of knowledge that is faster, wider in
  scope, and easier to exercise than ever before.

  As a stage in the life cycle of the Encyclopedia, the network has
  already given rise to unprecedented innovations and to new
  fundamental problems, some of which are especially relevant to the
  future of scholarship and organized knowledge. These will be
  explored in detail in the next parts of this article.


Reviews/12-Jun-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 05-Jun-95, Vol. 9, #23
    Fractal Poser 1.0 -- pg. 31
    Snap Mail 2.0.1 -- pg. 31
    FreeMail 4.0 -- pg. 34

* InfoWorld -- 05-Jun-95, Vol. 17, #23
    QMS magicolor LX Color Laser Printer -- pg. 77
    FileMaker Pro Server 2.1 -- pg. 92
    Adobe ScreenReady 1.0 -- pg. 92
    Fractal Design Poser 1.0 -- pg. 93

* Macworld -- Jul-95
    Vision 3d 4.0 -- pg. 56
    Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 5MP -- pg. 58
    Iomega Zip Drive -- pg. 59
    xRes 1.11 -- pg. 60
    Picture 310 color printer -- pg. 61
    Symantec C++ 8.0 -- pg. 62
    Fujitsu ScanPartner Jr. -- pg. 63
    FileWave 2.1.2 -- pg. 63
    CD-Q 2.0 -- pg. 65
    Vista-S8 color scanner -- pg. 67
    PhotoFlash 2.0 -- pg. 67
    CreativePartner -- pg. 69
    Multimedia Utilities 1.1 -- pg. 71
    ProTerm Mac 1.0 -- pg. 71
    CD Directory 1.0; RapidCD 1.04 -- pg. 73
    OptiMem RAM Charger 2.0.1 -- pg. 75
    MacAlly ADB mouse-- pg. 75
    GlidePoint input device -- pg. 77
    FolderBolt Pro 1.0.3 -- pg. 77
    FullPixelSearch 1.5 -- pg. 79
    Yamaha YST-SS1010 speaker system -- pg. 79
    Alien Skin Textureshop 1.0 -- pg. 81
    Select 1.6 -- pg. 81
    SCSI-2 Fast/Wide drives -- pg. 106
      (too many to list)

* MacUser -- Jun-95
    VivaPress Professional -- pg. 33
    Tektronix Phaser 340 -- pg. 39
    EA Research EAsycolor 24/1360 & Radius Thunder IV GX*1360
    PhonePro 1.5
    AppleSearch -- pg. 46
    mPower -- pg. 47
    Kodak XLS 8600PS -- pg. 48
    Strata StudioPro 1.5 -- pg. 49
    Lexmark Optra Lxi -- pg. 50
    Day-to-Day -- pg. 52
    Light Source Colortron -- pg. 53
    Phyla -- pg. 54
    Comfort Keyboard System -- pg. 57
    Intellihance Pro Collection 1.2.10 -- pg. 57
    DragStrip -- pg. 59
    A.D.A.M. The Inside Story -- pg. 59
    Three by Five -- pg. 61
    MediaFactory -- pg. 62
    ErgoKnowledge -- pg. 63
    Gigabyte Hard Drives -- pg. 74
      (too many to list)
    28.8 Kbps Modems -- pg. 84
      (to many to list)

* MacUser -- Jul-95
    QMS magicolor LX laser printer -- pg. 33
    PowerPC Upgrade Cards -- pg. 39
      DayStar Turbo 60
      Apple Macintosh Processor Upgrade
      DayStar PowerCard 601
    Iomega Zip Drive -- pg. 40
    Graphics & Drawing Tablets -- pg. 46
      DrawingSlate II
      MultiPad
      PenMouse
      XGT 6" x 8"
      ArtPad
    UMAX Vista-S8
    FastTrack Schedule 3.0 -- pg. 48
    Theorist 2.0 -- pg. 49
    HP LaserJet 5MP -- pg. 50
    LCD Projectors -- pg. 52
      NEC MultiSync MT Multimedia Theatre
      Proxima 8400 Multimedia LCD Projector
    KPT Convolver -- pg. 55
    ALPS GlidePoint; MicroQue QuePoint -- pg. 55
    Instant Replay -- pg. 55
    Route 66 -- pg. 57
    TypeTamer -- pg. 57
    SuperCard -- pg. 59
    Alien Skin Textureshop & TextureMaker -- pg. 60
    Insta Software -- pg. 61
    Online Services -- pg. 70
      (too many to list)


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