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- TidBITS#175/03-May-93
- =====================
-
- This week starts with Apple's announcement of the Japanese
- Language Kit, a programmer's After Dark module contest,
- PowerBooks on the space shuttle, and a warning about using two
- TelePort modems at once. Most importantly, we review the
- excellent Toner Tuner, which saves toner on each printout,
- look at how to be more environmentally gentle in your computer
- use, and investigate a strange problem affecting Quadra 800
- users with 16 MB SIMMs.
-
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- Topics:
- MailBITS/03-May-93
- E-Machines Bundle Extended
- Japanese Language Kit Ships
- VAMP After Dark Contest
- TelePort Caveat
- PowerBooks In Space
- Toner Tuna
- Are You Computer "Green?"
- Quadra 800 RAM Quirk
- Reviews/03-May-93
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-175.etx; 29K]
-
-
- MailBITS/03-May-93
- ------------------
-
- **ClarisWorks for Windows** -- This week Claris announced the
- release of ClarisWorks for Windows, the company's second
- internally-developed Windows application. ClarisWorks for Windows
- can transparently share files with the Macintosh version of
- ClarisWorks, which quickly knocked Microsoft Works out of the lead
- in the integrated product market. Claris -- 408/727-8227
-
-
- **FirstClass Client for Windows** -- SoftArc announced the Windows
- client for its graphical BBS FirstClass this week, promising
- features nearly identical to those in the Macintosh client,
- including asynchronous multiple file transfers, electronic mail,
- and conferencing. FirstClass boards will requires a $295 plug-in
- option for Windows clients, and the Windows client requires a 386
- PC with at least 4 MB of RAM under Windows 3.1. SoftArc --
- 416/299-4723 -- 416/754-1856 (fax) -- 416/609-2250 (BBS) --
- dallas@softarc.com
-
-
- E-Machines Bundle Extended
- --------------------------
- by Mark H. Anbinder, Contributing Editor -- mha@baka.ithaca.ny.us
- Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers
-
- Several months ago, Apple introduced a special bundle consisting
- of its 16" color monitor and an E-Machines DoubleColor SX graphics
- card. Apple has extended this offer from the original expiration
- date of 19-Apr-93 to 19-Jul-93.
-
- Apple introduced this bundle partly to offer a less-expensive
- alternative to their own 8*24 graphics card for Macintosh IIci and
- IIvx owners who need large-screen color displays. The IIci and
- IIvx don't support color monitors larger than Apple's 640 x 480
- 14" Color Display, although price lists released last October
- incorrectly claimed that the IIvx supported Apple's 16" and 21"
- color monitors. The built-in video in the Centris 610 and 650
- offers eight-bit color on the 16" display, and four-bit color on
- the 21" display, which is just as well, since the DoubleColor SX
- is longer than seven inches, the limit for NuBus cards in the
- Centris 610.
-
- The DoubleColor SX card provides eight-bit color (256 colors or
- shades of gray) on Apple's 16" display. The bundle, which carries
- a suggested retail price of $1,799, is available through Apple
- resellers as item B5102LL/A.
-
- Information from:
- Apple propaganda
-
-
- Japanese Language Kit Ships
- ---------------------------
- by Mark H. Anbinder, Contributing Editor -- mha@baka.ithaca.ny.us
- Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers
-
- As we reported in TidBITS #173_, at last month's Seybold
- conference Apple introduced the Japanese Language Kit, the first
- product to take advantage of the company's WorldScript technology.
- The kit allows Macintosh users to use Japanese characters on
- non-Japanese systems, and provides all the software components
- necessary to add Japanese text-handling capability to System 7.1.
- This means that if your software supports the appropriate
- WorldScript technology, you can use Japanese characters in your
- documents.
-
- Rather than force people to use a fully-localized Japanese version
- of the Macintosh operating system, this new software allows System
- 7.1 users around the world to input, edit, and display Japanese
- characters regardless of what language they use to interact with
- their Macs. The Japanese Language Kit is intended for those who
- need to create Japanese documents and presentations, including
- (according to Apple) people in multinational businesses,
- publishers, government workers, students, teachers, and Japanese-
- speaking people.
-
- The kit includes the necessary system software extension, the
- Kotoeri Japanese character input method, two Japanese TrueType
- fonts (HonMincho and MaruGothic), and the Osaka screen font, as
- well as documentation on using the Kotoeri input method. The
- Macintosh involved must have at least 4 MB of RAM, System 7.1, and
- at least 20 MB of available disk storage space.
-
- The Japanese Language Kit retails for $249 and is available in the
- United States from Apple resellers and some other software
- resellers.
-
- Information from:
- Apple propaganda
-
-
- VAMP After Dark Contest
- -----------------------
- VAMP (Vereniging Actieve Mac Programmeurs - Association for Active
- Mac Programmers), a Dutch non-profit association, is organizing a
- programming competition for After Dark module programers.
-
- Unlike similar contests sponsored by After Dark developer Berkeley
- Systems, VAMP will choose a winner based solely on programming
- creativity and skill, rather than visual aesthetics. Perhaps the
- best comparison would be with the annual MacHack contest for best
- hack.
-
- Entries must consist of a completed After Dark module accompanied
- with full source code that runs with After Dark 2.0w or later, on
- a Macintosh using System 6.0.7 or later.
-
- VAMP must receive entries before 31-Dec-93, and judging should be
- complete by April of 1994. Prizes consist of $500 for the overall
- winner and $250 for the runner-up, along with the "Symantec
- Special Prize" (the winner's choice of a Symantec Macintosh
- Development Environment). Entries will also be submitted to
- Berkeley Systems for publication, which may result in additional
- prize money.
-
- For more information via automatic reply, please send email to:
-
- info@fourc.nl
-
- Information from:
- John W. Sinteur -- sinteur@fourc.nl
-
-
- TelePort Caveat
- ---------------
- by Mark H. Anbinder, Contributing Editor -- mha@baka.ithaca.ny.us
- Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers
-
- Readers who have an ADB model of the TelePort modem from Global
- Village Communication and are about to install one of Global
- Village's newer serial modems (the TelePort/Silver or
- TelePort/Gold) should be aware of problems with using both modems
- with one Macintosh.
-
- The first problem occurs when you install the TelePort serial
- software - the installer erases the TelePort ADB software during
- installation. (This caused extra confusion because I had received
- my latest software update electronically and didn't have a copy on
- disk!) The second problem appears when you boot the Macintosh and
- find that the ADB and Serial Control Panels each refuse to load if
- the other is present.
-
- A Global Village representative quickly responded to an email
- query about the issue (a good indication of their highly-
- responsive level of support), and said a fix is being prepared for
- a future software release. In the meantime, if you need to use
- both modems from the same Mac, you should use the ADB TelePort's
- software normally, and use the serial TelePort as a standard modem
- with no software. This means you'll be able to send and receive
- faxes only from the ADB modem.
-
- Global Village Communication -- 800/736-4821 -- 415/390-8300
- globalvill@aol.com
- globalvillag@applelink.apple.com
- 75300.3473@compuserve.com
-
-
- PowerBooks In Space
- -------------------
- by Mark Gavini -- gavini@apple.com
-
- I recently attended an interesting talk about PowerBooks in space.
- It was given by Bill Shepard, a NASA astronaut and shuttle crew
- member, who took a PowerBook 170 up with him on his flight last
- year. The PowerBook ran a custom position tracking program called
- MacSPOC that pinpointed the shuttle's location on a map and showed
- both the flight path and which window gave the best view for that
- particular moment. It also ran a custom Aperture database that
- provided graphical information on the shuttle's storage locations
- and the contents of each area - this program was painfully slow on
- the screen redraw.
-
- Bill's 170 was modified slightly with a positive connect power
- coupling for the AC adapter, a thermal cutout (?) for the battery
- system to prevent it from going into thermal overload, and a
- modified trackball retainer ring that kept the trackball firmly
- seated against the rollers in zero-g. Bill also designed the
- mission patch in FreeHand on the PowerBook.
-
- Someone asked when the next PowerBook was scheduled to go up and
- Bill replied that he wasn't sure when the next PowerBook would go,
- but a Macintosh Portable will go up [when it's weightless, who
- cares? -Adam] sometime this summer with a European Space Agency
- mission designated D-2. He also stated that although he was sold
- on the Macintosh interface, NASA already has Grid PC-compatible
- laptops for use aboard the shuttle and that it's difficult to get
- Macs included due to budget constraints and testing requirements.
-
- Bill showed a video of the mission that included footage of the
- 170 firing a floppy disk across the crew compartment and hitting
- another crew member in the head - some eject mechanism, eh? The
- rest of the video included Earth shots and the standard "let's
- play with food in zero-g" antics. All in all, an interesting talk.
-
-
- Toner Tuna
- ----------
- OK, so I'm being facetious. The real name of Working Software's
- new extension is Toner Tuner, and there is nothing fishy about it.
- In fact, it's one of the easiest-to-understand utilities I've seen
- in a long time. Toner Tuner puts a slider bar in your Print dialog
- box that lets you set the darkness of your printouts, so you don't
- have to waste toner printing drafts. How's that for simple?
-
- Toner Tuner provides two controls (along with an About button) in
- your standard Print dialog box. The first control, the slider bar,
- goes from 0% to 100% in slightly odd increments. The second
- control is a checkbox that determines if that particular print job
- will use Toner Tuner or not. The checkbox defaults off each time
- you print, so you have to manually tell Toner Tuner you want to
- print a draft each time, although if you click the Print button
- with the option key held down, Toner Tuner turns the checkbox on
- for you. Toner Tuner also automatically checks the box for you if
- you change the slider setting. Toner Tuner remembers the darkness
- setting of the slider bar between prints.
-
- Toner Tuner allows me to reduce the amount of needless waste from
- my printer when I print drafts that don't have to look good. You
- wouldn't use Toner Tuner when doing those last layout drafts where
- every hairline counts; you would use it when printing the 30 page
- draft of your scintillating memo collection. Toner Tuner's
- settings correspond to the amount of toner used, so if you print
- all your drafts at 50%, you'll save a good deal of toner over the
- life of your cartridge.
-
- Toner Tuner seems to be utterly moron-proof. I can't imagine how
- anyone who could figure out how to buy Toner Tuner could screw up
- using it. [Adam often installs new software on "our" Mac, and
- sometimes it throws me for a loop; other times I can figure it out
- fairly quickly. Toner Tuner didn't slow me down for a second.
- -Tonya] Even the 16-page manual (only 13 pages are used) can only
- find enough material to talk about using Toner Tuner for three
- pages. The rest of the pages cover installation, table of
- contents, glossary, index, "please don't pirate" statement, and
- other filler.
-
- The only thing I don't like about Toner Tuner is that its slider
- bar isn't proportional. 25% sits smack dab in the middle because
- percentages below 10% have another decimal place. Whee, I can
- print at 3.8% darkness! The reason for this is that high-
- resolution printers can print reasonable graphics at those low
- darkness settings. Text at 10% looks like a dot matrix printout
- that used an old ribbon and then sat in the sun for several
- weeks - barely readable. 25% and 33% darkness are both ugly for
- text, but readable in good light. 50% is still pretty ugly, and
- 67% still looks like dot matrix printing, but I can handle 67%
- perfectly well, and 75% and 90% are lovely, so to speak. Graphics
- are probably better at lower percentages if you're testing for
- position since you don't have to read them.
-
- Working Software can give you ResEdit instructions on how to make
- a Toner Tuner setting the rule rather than the exception. I asked
- about this initially because there are plenty of sites that print
- almost nothing for real, and there's no reason to waste toner
- unnecessarily. Tech support therapists often do a lot of test
- printouts, and university public computer rooms often have a
- specific draft printer. In both of those cases, the organization
- could save a fair amount of money by forcing most everything to
- print at even 50% darkness. Figure out how much you spend on new
- toner cartridges or refills, halve that number, and then decide if
- Toner Tuner can save you money after taking its cost into
- consideration.
-
- Toner Tuner theoretically works with all printers, although the
- ReadMe said that Working Software was working (well, I would hope
- so!) on making it compatible with the HP LaserJet 4M. I imagine
- there are other printers that Toner Tuner doesn't work with, but
- Working Software says that if Toner Tuner doesn't work as
- advertised in the manual, they will either fix the problem or
- return your money. Can't beat that, and besides Working Software
- does tech support online, something we at TidBITS approve of
- highly. On CompuServe they are in MACBVEN, and on America Online
- use the keyword "Working" to find their support forum. Toner Tuner
- retails for $49.95 (it's also available via mail order); Working
- Software also has six- and twelve-copy packages available at
- reduced prices for small offices, and big sites can spring for the
- 100-copy pack for $1,000. If you go through toner cartridges like
- chocolate chip cookies, you need Toner Tuner.
-
-
- Working Watermarker
- My conversation with Working Software also revealed that they have
- a somewhat similar product in the works. Called Working
- Watermarker, the $49.95 extension will appear in your Print dialog
- just like Toner Tuner, but will let you print a EPS or PICT
- graphic over each page in the print job, even in applications that
- don't support graphics. The obvious use is printing "TOP SECRET"
- in light gray letters across the text of every page you print,
- especially your love letters, but you could also use it to print a
- fancy letterhead in a word processor that doesn't support fancy
- graphics, or perhaps a company logo on invoices from an accounting
- program that doesn't let you customize your forms. The first page
- can have different graphics at different intensities than other
- pages, which is ideal for the uses I just mentioned. Working
- Watermarker should be available by June, so contact Working
- Software in a bit for more information.
-
- Working Software
- 408/423-5696
- 76004.2072@compuserve.com
- workingsw@aol.com
- d0140@applelink.apple.com
-
- Information from:
- Working Software propaganda
- Toner Tuner manual
-
-
- Are You Computer "Green?"
- -------------------------
- by Don Rittner -- afldonr@aol.com
- Copyright 1992 Don Rittner, MUG NEWS SERVICE
-
- More than 75 million Americans own a personal computer, and this
- number is rapidly climbing as computers become more affordable.
- Many more use computers in their workplace (more than 40 million
- Intel-based PCs and seven million laser printers use 18.2 billion
- kilowatt/hours of electricity per year).
-
- Most people think of computers as relatively pollution-free, but
- the _act_ of computing is not. Here are a few tips to help make
- your computing a bit more environmentally gentle.
-
-
- The Computer
- If you work in an office where there are many terminals with
- monitors turned on, turn down (or even off) your heat in the room
- during winter months. Enough heat comes from the monitors to keep
- the room warm. If you work at home or with one computer at a time,
- turn off the monitor if you can when not using it, which will save
- a fair amount of power. This is also a good idea for servers and
- other machines which stay on all the time.
-
-
- Electronic Mail
- If your office does not have your computers networked together, do
- it! The use of electronic mail for inter-office correspondence can
- save a tremendous amount of paper. American offices last year
- generated more than 775 billion pages of paper - that equals 14
- million tons of paper a year, or 238 million trees.
-
-
- Computer Magazines
- Don't throw away old computer magazines. You can recycle them by
- donating them to your local public library, user groups, doctor's
- office, health clubs, or even laundromats. Think of it as
- educating the masses.
-
-
- Floppy disks
- Do you have 3.5" floppies that just don't hold data any more?
- Well, don't throw them away. They make great coasters for your
- morning coffee! [Several years ago the staff at American
- Demographics Magazine in Ithaca, New York had a permanent exhibit
- of fancifully decorated floppy disks whose days as data carriers
- were long over. -Adam]
-
-
- Disk Storage
- Don't buy disk storage boxes. If you or a friend has a newborn
- child (or know someone who has), the rectangular "baby wipes"
- boxes make great disk storage containers. You can fit about 50
- disks in a box. Soak off the labels, and you can write on the box
- using a magic marker.
-
-
- Printers
- If you use a dot matrix or laser printer there are a few things
- you can do. Be sure to use recycled paper (and envelopes and
- labels) in both types of printers, and remember to use the blank
- back side of sheets that you print as drafts. There is nothing
- wrong with using the second side of the sheet, and this can cut
- your consumption of paper by as much as half. Proofread your work
- before you print! Most wasted paper is from stupid typographical
- errors.
-
- If you use cloth ribbons in your dot matrix printer, you can
- usually re-ink those ribbons. In fact, you can get up to 15-20
- re-inks per ribbon and the quality of the print is usually darker
- than newer ribbons. This also reduces the cost per ribbon. Many
- computer user groups have re-inkers and charge about $1 to re-ink
- (versus $5-$15 per new ribbon). Many people have had luck
- refilling ink cartridges for ink-jet printers, but the
- manufacturers of those printers don't generally recommend that you
- do that.
-
- For laser printer users, many toner cartridge manufacturers now
- recycle used cartridges and donate money to environmental
- organizations. Some even pay you, and most pay for the UPS
- shipping as well. Also, there are companies that will recharge
- your toner cartridge for considerably less than the cost of a new
- one ($40 compared to $90). Considering that more than 98% of the
- 15 million cartridges sold in 1991 ended up in landfills, and only
- a fraction recycled, you can see how important it is to recycle
- those toner cartridges. [Also consider using Toner Tuner,
- discussed above, to extend the life of your toner cartridges.
- -Adam]
-
-
- Toner Cartridge Recycling
-
- [This is probably not an exhaustive list, but it's a good start.]
-
- Apple Clean Earth Campaign -- 800/776-2333
- Donates $0.50 to National Wildlife Federation and Nature
- Conservancy per cartridge. Call them and they send you a prepaid
- UPS shipping label.
-
- Canon Clean Earth Campaign -- 800/962-2708
- Canon has the same deal as Apple.
-
- Dataproducts Imaging Supplies Division -- 800/423-5095
- Dataproducts will pay you $10 for each Canon SX cartridge plus the
- shipping if you send 28 or more cartridges at a time.
-
- Lexmark Operation Resource -- 800/848-9894
- Recycles cartridges for the six IBM Laser Printer models in its
- 4019 and 4029 series. Lexmark will send you a postage paid
- container. They give the returned cartridges to a workshop for the
- handicapped which makes money by selling the parts to recycling
- companies.
-
- Qume Corp. -- 800/421-4326
- Large organizations can designate an employee fund or charity to
- receive the money from their recycling effort.
-
- Recycleneur Institute -- 305/539-0701
- For every used cartridge collected from local organization, they
- donate $2 to a scholarship fund to help entrepreneurs break into
- the recycling business. The institute will mail you a list of
- cartridge recycling companies in your area.
-
- Don Rittner is the author of "EcoLinking - Everyone's Guide to
- Online Environmental Information," published by Peachpit Press.
-
-
- Quadra 800 RAM Quirk
- --------------------
- Some early adopters of Apple's most powerful Macintosh, the Quadra
- 800, have run into a bit of a problem with RAM. The 800 can
- address up 136 MB of RAM if you pop four 32 MB SIMMs in alongside
- the 8 MB soldered on, although 16 MB SIMMs are a bit more common.
- The Quadra 800 is optimized for speed, and thus cares a great deal
- about what type of SIMMs it uses, but it's unclear quite where the
- problems lie. First, some background.
-
- Since it's still prohibitively expensive to produce the 16 megabit
- DRAM chips needed for non-composite 16 MB SIMMs, most 16 MB SIMMs
- use 32 of the more common 4 megabit chips along with additional
- circuitry to fool the Mac appropriately. This method of using
- multiple smaller DRAM chips to create a large SIMM results in
- composite SIMMs, in contrast to non-composite SIMMs that use the
- same size DRAM chips (4 megabit DRAM chips making up a 4 MB SIMM
- gives you a non-composite SIMM; 4 megabit DRAM chips making up a
- 16 MB SIMM gives you a composite SIMM). Interestingly, the new
- 72-pin 8 MB SIMMs are non-composite - the 72-pin SIMMs have two
- banks, so the 8 MB SIMM is essentially two non-composite 4 MB
- SIMMs. So what's the problem? We're getting there.
-
- The Quadra 800 requires 60 nanosecond RAM, and the composite SIMMs
- are indeed clocked at 60 nanoseconds, but remember that additional
- circuitry I mentioned? It appears to add a slight amount of
- overhead, which has the effect of slowing the SIMMs slightly,
- which is not good, since that means in essence that the Quadra 800
- expects information from RAM at a certain speed, but receives it
- slower. That's when all hell breaks loose.
-
- In addition, and sources at RAM vendor Technology Works wouldn't
- discuss this further other than to say they were working on it
- with Apple, there is a power problem. I don't understand this
- fully, not being a hardware guru, but I gather the Quadra 800
- isn't designed to power 32 chips per SIMM, so there's some sort of
- power problem that occurs when you put two or more 16 MB composite
- SIMMs in the Quadra 800. Other vendors claim to be working on a
- solution as well, so I don't expect this to last for too long, but
- beware if you're buying these 16 MB SIMMs right now.
-
- Errors range from an immediate sad Mac on startup to weird system
- enabler errors during startup to bus errors when launching or
- using applications. Sources have said that the errors vary with
- different SIMMs, different arrangements of SIMMs, and different
- SIMM vendors. Needless to say, this sort of problem makes the
- Quadra 800 owner unhappy. Sometimes the errors even go away
- entirely for a session, only to return after a cold boot.
-
- Dale Adams, one of the designers of the Quadra 800 at Apple, has
- said that Apple has never claimed that the Quadra 800, or any Mac,
- would work with composite SIMMs. David Limp, Apple's Quadra
- Product Manager said that Apple has a tech note about not using
- composite SIMMs on Quadras, although I was unable to find it on
- the March Developer's CD or ftp.apple.com. David did say that
- Apple would reissue that note again soon, presumably with updated
- information. The matter is exacerbated by the fact that most, if
- not all, memory vendors sell only composite 16 MB SIMMs; non-
- composite 16 MB SIMMs with 16 megabit chips are uncommon, and when
- you can find them, expensive. Try $1,200 for a true 16 MB SIMM,
- versus $680 for a composite 16 MB SIMM. A true 32 MB SIMM is
- proportionally cheaper, at $2,000 per SIMM, not that it's much
- comfort. I've heard of even higher prices, and since few vendors
- have the 32 MB SIMMs yet, non-composite SIMMs are not financially
- feasible at this time.
-
- So buying new SIMMs isn't really a reasonable financial solution.
- The 4 MB SIMMs all work fine, but if you need to use 16 MB SIMMs,
- what are you to do? We've heard of a strange solution that is by
- no means guaranteed to work (but tell us if it does). There's this
- desk accessory from 1987 called RAM-Zero, and when you run it, it
- clears memory and restarts the Mac. We have no idea why it was
- originally developed, but it appears to be freely distributable,
- and one person said that after he ran RAM-Zero, his Quadra 800
- with 16 MB composite SIMMs worked fine until the next cold boot.
- Who am I to argue with success? RAM-Zero is available at <sumex-
- aim.stanford.edu> for anonymous FTP as:
-
- /info-mac/da/ram-zero-20.hqx
-
- Despite RAM-Zero, I can't currently recommend that you buy a
- Quadra 800 with the intention of immediately filling it with RAM.
- The price will come down on the true 16 MB SIMMs eventually; it
- always does, and as David Limp said, "Composite SIMMs (of any
- density) are not supported on ANY Macintosh computer." It's not a
- popular statement, and it's one you might want to keep in mind if
- memory vendors talk about their composite SIMMs being approved by
- Apple. There's no telling what's what in this case.
-
- We haven't had any reports of problems with the Centris 650, which
- uses the same interleaved memory scheme as the Quadra 800 (the 610
- doesn't do interleaved memory, according to Apple's Developer's
- Notes). Nor have we heard of the problem cropping up on the Quadra
- 700, 900, and 950, despite David Limp's warning. However, the
- Centris 650 can take 80 nanosecond SIMMs, so that might reduce any
- timing problems, and the earlier Quadras don't use the 72-pin
- SIMMs, which might make a difference. There's just something about
- the Quadra 800 and 16 MB composite SIMMs, and I suspect the same
- thing will apply to the Apple Workgroup Server 80, which is
- essentially the same machine.
-
- As an aside, David Limp also mentioned that many of the composite
- SIMMs are made in form factors that are too tall to fit properly
- into the Quadras. This affects all Quadras, and judging from
- several reports from users, installing these tall SIMMs can be a
- major pain, if possible at all. Check that before buying.
-
- Information from:
- Pythaeus
- Dale Adams -- adams9@applelink.apple.com
- David Limp -- limp@applelink.apple.com
-
-
- Reviews/03-May-93
- -----------------
-
- * MacWEEK -- 26-Apr-93, Vol. 7, #17
- MacWrite Pro -- pg. 55
- DayMaker 2.0 -- pg. 55
- addDepth 1.0.1 -- pg. 58
- artWorks 1.0 -- pg. 60
- On the Road 1.0 -- pg. 61
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