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Shekhar Govind follows up the voting change in Williamson County,
   Mark Anbinder looks at the ultimate solitaire game from Delta
   Tao, we review Mangia, a truly great cooking program, and
   finally, we present gift suggestions from our backlog and from
   readers. We also announce a two-week layoff, so see you in 1994.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/13-Dec-93
    Williamson County, Part II
    Ultimate Responsibility
    Gift Suggestions
    Mangia!
    Reviews/13-Dec-93

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MailBITS/13-Dec-93
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  This is it - the last issue of 1993. I'm taking a few weeks off
  from TidBITS and email, so please don't expect quick responses.
  The next issue will appear on 03-Jan-94 and may break my self-
  imposed 30K barrier as I clean out articles for which I haven't
  found room recently. See you in 1994, and may all of your wishes
  come true.


**Macworld Signing** -- I don't know the details, but I will be
  happy to sign copies of my book at Hayden's Macworld booth. Stop
  by the booth to check the times and dates.


**The Quicken 4 Updater** to Release 6 is now at
  <mac.archive.umich.edu> as:

    /mac/misc/update/quicken4r6updater.sit.hqx


**Connectix** has announced RAM Doubler, an extension that
  provides twice as much RAM for opening applications on any Mac II
  or greater Mac with at least 4 MB of RAM. Connectix says "RAM
  Doubler combines Connectix's award-winning memory management
  technology developed for MODE32 and Maxima with a new set of
  memory protocols that can typically triple the amount of
  information stored in a megabyte of RAM. The exact details of the
  technology are covered under pending patents." Not being one to
  let such claims go, I asked Connectix president Roy McDonald for
  clarification. Here's his tongue-in-cheek response:

    We've programed a set of External Logical Value
    Enhancing Subroutines into a System Accessible Nanyte
    Task Accumulator. This works on a sub-system level to
    increase the storage capacity of each memory address.

    In layman's terms, SANTA's ELVES run around inside RAM
    finding room for more info than normally can fit inside.
    Of course, SANTA keeps a list of which memory sectors are
    good and which are bad and fills the bytes accordingly...

    More details in the coming New Year. -Roy.


Williamson County, Part II
--------------------------
  by Shekhar Govind -- [e-mail]

  After counting the trailing zeros in the estimates of the economic
  loss to the county if Apple pulled out, one Williamson County
  commissioner changed his vote. Last week, the commissioners
  reversed their earlier decision and by a 3-2 vote granted Apple a
  tax break similar to the one Dell just hammered out with the
  county. The deal is now a tax reimbursement to Apple over a seven
  year period, provided that Apple improves a public road near the
  site. Also possibly related was a poll by a local newspaper of 401
  randomly selected households showing that, by a 50 percent to 37
  percent margin, Williamson County residents favored granting Apple
  the tax rebate. This soap-opera played out in real life proves
  once again that whatever the race, creed, or sexual orientation
  involved, the color of money still reign supreme. In this case,
  the $750,000 tax rebate paled against an estimated $300,000,000
  from increased employment, construction, and consumer spending.

  Ironically, Williamson County is named after Robert Williamson, an
  individual who cherished his liberties deeply enough to be labeled
  "the Patrick Henry of the Texas Revolution." His impassioned
  newspaper editorials so moved the Mexican government that they
  instituted a prize for his head, properly detached from the rest
  of his body of course.

  A small portion of the city of Austin falls within Williamson
  County. Austin recently become the only city in Texas to offer
  city employees a benefits package for domestic partners similar to
  Apple's. Apple already operates facilities in Austin and a number
  of Apple employees reside - where else but - in Williamson County.

  The Bureau of the Census designates almost all urban areas of
  Williamson county within the Austin MSA. (MSA stands for
  Metropolitan Statistical Area, a large population nucleus together
  with adjacent communities that have a high degree of social and
  economic integration with the nucleus.) The county population has
  mushroomed from a modest 37,305 in 1970, to 78,521 in 1980, to
  139,551 in 1990. The largest segment of this demographic shift is
  from the Midwest. About half the urban work force in the county
  commutes to work in Austin. Hmm...


Ultimate Responsibility
-----------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- [e-mail]
     Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers

  Even if the clever folks at Delta Tao Software didn't create such
  wonderful software, we'd could cheer the ecological responsibility
  they display by selling their software not only without styrofoam
  filler, but also without a box. But they DO create wonderful
  software, such as Spaceward Ho!, Color MacCheese, and the latest
  example - Eric's Ultimate Solitaire, a collection of seventeen
  popular solitaire games and variations.

  Why seventeen? "Because that's how many fit in the menu on a Mac
  Plus without scrolling," says the documentation. Fair enough!

  As always, we're impressed with the elegant simplicity of Delta
  Tao's software and the wit strewn through the documentation.
  Ultimate (Delta Tao's shorthand name for the product) is easy to
  use. We suspect that, like Othello, although each takes a minute
  to learn, some variations take a lifetime to master.

  Although it's neat that each game has its own playing card
  artwork, we must note that we're more taken by the basic card
  design of Solitaire Till Dawn, the multi-game solitaire program by
  Rick Holzgrafe of Semicolon Software (also famous for Scarab of
  Ra, Applicon, and SignatureQuote). STD's cards also look better on
  black and white or grayscale displays.

  One nice touch is that Ultimate saves users precious mouse
  movements by allowing a casual "toss" to move a card instead of
  requiring a laborious effort to move the card to its final
  destination. Ultimate's "Intellitaire" feature alleviates
  frustration by suggesting strategies, making obvious moves for the
  user, and creating "always winnable" games on demand. Happily,
  this feature may be turned off for those who prefer the challenge.

  Eric Snider, Ultimate's author, is the younger brother of David
  Snider, the author of such popular Apple II software as David's
  Midnight Magic and Serpentine. Obviously David's talent has rubbed
  off on his little brother!

  Eric's Ultimate Solitaire retails for $59, and is available from
  dealers and from mail-order houses other than MacWarehouse, for
  about $40. It is available directly from Delta Tao as well.

    Delta Tao Software -- 800/827-9316 -- 408/730-9336
      408/730-9337 (fax) -- [e-mail]

  Solitaire Till Dawn is $25 in the U.S., $30 for Canada and Mexico,
  and $35 overseas. (Add sales tax in California.) You can FTP a
  demo version from <mac.archive.umich.edu> (in /mac/game/demo at
  last check). Or, simply place your order by sending Semicolon
  Software a check or money order in U.S. funds, with your name and
  mailing address, and a note requesting Solitaire Till Dawn.

    Semicolon Software
    P. O. Box 371
    Cupertino, CA 95015-0371 USA

  Information from:
    Delta Tao propaganda
    Joe Williams, Delta Tao Software -- [e-mail]
    Rick Holzgrafe, Semicolon Software -- [e-mail]


Gift Suggestions
----------------
  Mac-related gifts are appropriate any time, but we figure that
  this is the best time for those benumbed by the consumer feeding
  frenzy. I won't include contact information for each item, but
  computer stores, mail order vendors, and bookstores should carry
  the items listed below.


**Games** -- Randy J. Rightmire recommends a game called Oxyd,
  where you control a marble in order to solve puzzles. There's no
  time limit, and it combines thinking with some coordination. You
  can download the game from online services and play the first 10
  levels; to unlock the next 90 levels you must buy the $40 code
  book.

  A small company called Callisto has three games, the first an
  enhanced Minesweeper called Super Mines, the second, called Super
  Maze Wars, a Spectre-like game that pits you against up to eight
  human (via a network) or robot tanks in a number of different
  mazes, and a third, called Spin Doctor. I'm lousy at fast tank
  games but Super Maze Wars seems like a excellent contender in that
  arena. The graphics were solid 3-D, and although the game requires
  strategy, the speed is plenty fast. Definitely worth checking out.

  The neatest of Callisto's games, though, is Spin Doctor. Think of
  Spin Doctor as an abstractionist view of early primate jungle
  life. You control a rod that spins around dots, and you can swing
  or flip among the dots, collecting bonus points and avoiding
  various dangers such as other rods, acid droplets, and sparks. My
  metaphor may fail, since Spin Doctor is a deucedly difficult game
  to describe. Luckily, it's fun, and definitely my favorite
  thinking game of the year. It requires some coordination, but
  doesn't force you into a fast pace. Highly recommended.
  Callisto -- 508/655-0707 -- [e-mail]

  Inline Design's Cogito is solely a thinking game with a timed
  element but no worry about finishing quickly. You see a grid that
  holds a scrambled pattern and must recreate the pattern by sliding
  rows or columns in the pattern. Unfortunately, after the first few
  levels, clicking to move a row may move it backwards, may move a
  column, or may move a row and a column. Since rows and columns
  intersect, you can imagine the consternation (I never completed
  level eight). If you relish a challenge and are good at spatial
  relationships, try Cogito.


**CD-ROM** -- Donald Glockzin placed an AppleCD 300 CD-ROM player
  on the top of his list, and adds the CD game Myst, since you'll
  need something to play. Also consider The Journeyman Project from
  Presto Studios, which is slow, but the stunning graphics make the
  journey worth the wait. I'm fond of its non-violent approach to
  gaming - violence works but isn't rewarded as you travel through
  time, solving puzzles and closing rifts in history that threaten
  your future.

  Those who require more interactive speed would do well to check
  out Iron Helix on CD from Spectrum HoloByte. Although its graphics
  aren't as impressive as those in The Journeyman Project, they're
  good, and the game play moves faster. You control a scientific
  probe that must find DNA samples of the dead crew of a deadly
  spaceship run amok, and with the DNA samples discover clues that
  will help you destroy the Defender robot and stop the ship from
  delivering its deadly payload. Despite the threat of failure, this
  is purely a non-violent adventure.

  Joe Dulak suggests that HyperCard enthusiasts might enjoy the
  MACnificent 7.1 Games and Education CD-ROM from the National Home
  & School Macintosh User Group and Digital Diversions Software. It
  contains over 7,000 files, including 1,000 games, 280 MB of
  HyperCard stacks, 650 educational files, 70 commercial demos, and
  over 2,500 game support files. It retails for $59 from
  MacWarehouse.


**PowerBook Goodies** -- Larry Wink points us at the PowerBook DOS
  Companion from Apple for about $240 because it's still,
  unfortunately, a PC world. The package includes Macintosh PC
  Exchange, MacLinkPlus/PC, PowerPrint, a MacVGA cable, and the
  MacLinkPlus/PC cable. Apple's bundle price is lower than the
  combined street prices of the individual pieces. Larry is also
  looking at On the Road from Connectix (see TidBITS #203_).

  Rich Wolfson and Sharon Aker's PowerBook Companion (ISBN 0-201-
  62621-7) ranks on my list for PowerBook owners because it answers
  all the common questions. PowerBook owners who don't like being
  forced to take a break by Apple's two-hour batteries might want a
  VST ThinPack, an 1.5 pound, .25 inch thick external battery that,
  in conjunction with the internal battery, provides five to nine
  hours of battery life. VST -- 508/287-4600 -- 508/287-4068 (fax)
  Technoggin offers the PowerPlate batteries that can provide more
  battery life, but at a greater weight (2.5 and 4.0 pounds for the
  PowerPlate 3x and 5x, which provide three and five times normal
  battery life). Technoggin -- 800/305-7936 -- 513/321-1777 --
  513/321-2348 -- [e-mail]

  Also, check out the APS PowerBalls, colorful replacement balls for
  your PowerBook trackball. They're about $10 for one, or $20 for a
  set of all four colors and are available for all PowerBooks.


**Books and Publications** -- <[e-mail]> recommends a
  subscription to WIRED for $39.95 per 12-issue year. Call 800/SO-
  WIRED or email credit card info to <[e-mail]>.

  Steven Nygard recommends Defying Gravity, a photo-heavy book that
  details the efforts of bringing the Newton to market and the
  trials faced along the way. You can order the book for $19.95 (add
  $7 for overnight shipping, otherwise expect it in three weeks) via
  email to <[e-mail]>. In one message, ask for the
  book and include a Visa number. Then, in a second message, include
  the expiration date, name, and shipping address.

  Christopher Bohling and several others noted that my book, the
  Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh (ISBN 1-56830-064-6), is high
  on their lists. Thank you all.

  If you're looking for a great general Macintosh tome, check out
  David Pogue's and Joseph Schorr's massive 1,020 page Macworld
  Macintosh Secrets (ISBN 1-56884-025-X). Normally I'm dubious about
  all-in-one books, but David and Joseph did wonders, ferreting out
  an incredible amount of hitherto obscured information. Tonya was
  impressed with the section on Microsoft Word, and she's picky
  about that sort of thing. The book comes with three high-density
  disks packed with commercial and shareware applications.

  Game players will enjoy MacArcade (ISBN 1-56604-038-8), the top 40
  shareware and freeware games according to MUG News Service founder
  Don Rittner. Don provides all the details about each game,
  including such useful bits of information as where you can find
  the game online, download time at 2,400 bps, compatibility
  information, a description of each game, a profile of the
  programmer, and tips on playing. Perhaps the best part of this
  book for the impatient reader is the two disk set that contains
  the top 10 games, including such favorites as Diamonds, Solarian
  II, Continuum, and Spacestation Pheta.

  Robin Williams has once again graced the computer world with a
  wonderful book, a dictionary called Jargon (ISBN 1-938151-84-3).
  Unlike your typical stuffy dictionary, Jargon provides hefty
  definitions that actually tell you something along with
  pronunciations and etymologies of words. Jargon sports a massive
  index with cross-references to over 7,000 terms, making it easier
  to find something when you don't quite know what the word is.

  Peachpit Press has two new books for hardware fiends. The
  Underground Guide to Laser Printers (ISBN 1-56609-045-8) collects
  the best articles from four years of Flash Magazine, a periodical
  issued by Black Lightning, a toner cartridge remanufacturer in
  Vermont. Larry Pina's Macintosh Classic and SE Repair and Upgrade
  Secrets (ISBN 1-56609-022-9) is essential for anyone who's handy
  with hardware and who wants to keep an aging Classic, Classic II,
  SE, or SE/30 alive and well.

  Eastgate Systems, publisher of Storyspace, the preeminent
  hypertext editor on the Mac, also sells a line of hypertexts, some
  written in Storyspace, some in HyperCard. Michael Joyce's
  Afternoon, A Story is the seminal hypertext, and John McDaid's
  multiple (and I mean multiple) media work Uncle Buddy's Phantom
  Funhouse is a quest for meaning while searching through the
  literary remains (embodied in email, screenplays, galley proofs,
  and audio tapes) of the late Buddy Newkirk. Anyone who enjoys
  exploring the very experience of reading should encounter
  Eastgate's hyperfictions. Eastgate -- 800/562-1638 -- 617/924-9044
  -- [e-mail]


**Utilities** -- Mike McLane recommends StuffIt SpaceSaver if you
  can't afford new hard disks for people on your list. Mike was sold
  on SpaceSaver because of the ability of Norton Utilities to
  recover all the files SpaceSaver compressed, as tested for an
  article in the Jan-94 MacUser. [Although frankly, I don't
  understand why different sorts of file compression should make any
  difference. -Adam]

  I'm a word person, and I've come across an online dictionary that
  I like. The $99 Random House Webster's Electronic Dictionary and
  Thesaurus takes about 8 MB on disk for its 180,000 definition
  dictionary and 275,000 synonym thesaurus. An included extension
  enables you to highlight a word in any program and hit a hotkey to
  look up definitions or synonyms. It offers a definition search,
  wildcard search, anagram search, and a history of words you've
  looked up that session, making for an enjoyable word browsing
  environment. I'm also fond of the pronunciation and etymology
  details. The interface isn't perfect, but it's decent, and I like
  being able to happen across great words like deuteragonist, one
  that I'm going to work into an issue some day.

  Desktop pattern fiends who prefer applications to extensions will
  like Screenscapes from Kiwi Software. It offers square and
  rectangular patterns in sizes up 256 x 256 pixels, includes gobs
  of patterns, and can read pattern formats from Wallpaper,
  Chameleon, and ppat resources. My favorite feature is the Catalog
  Folder feature, which opens a window displaying thumbnails of
  patterns in that folder. Although you can't delete patterns from
  that window, it's easy to leave the window open and trim your
  collection manually in the Finder. Screenscapes includes an Auto-
  Changer application which installs a random pattern at startup,
  but it can't randomize within a session. I won't say that a
  pattern changing application is essential, but Screenscapes is
  solid and well-implemented utility that makes the Mac more fun.


**Other** -- Lars Bertelsen writes: "I have a friend who is
  becoming disenchanted with his SE running System 6.0.5. He thinks
  it is slow and lacks "OOMPF". I plan to dig up an old 80286, equip
  it with Windows and give it to him. That should make him happy
  with his beast." [Talk about an electronic lump of coal... -Adam]

  Chuck Kuske writes: "I plan on giving the Newt Boot, a handy
  green, burgundy, or black cordura case to hold Newton essentials:
  the MessagePad, modem, AC adapter, RJ-11 cord, extra batteries,
  PCMCIA cards, and extra pens. It features a handle, a shoulder
  strap, and quick access to the MessagePad for $49 plus $4.50
  shipping. To order email to [e-mail] or fax to
  307/739-1716."


Mangia!
-------
  One of the greatest lies foisted on the unsuspecting computer
  shopper of ten years ago was "You can use it to keep your
  recipes." Yeah, sure. Essentially no one ever kept their recipes
  in a database file because it's not a simple task. I'm pleased to
  report that the days of avoiding the computer for recipe keeping
  are over, thanks to Upstill Software's Mangia.

  Mangia is essentially a muscular relational database dedicated to
  making it easy to enter, find, and display recipes. The problem
  with keeping recipes on the computer was not the database engines,
  but the interface. I saw an alpha version of Mangia about a year
  and a half ago, and thought it was awful. Then, when I ran into
  Steve Upstill's booth at Macworld Boston, I was stunned - the ugly
  duckling had turned into a swan! Steve cleaned up the interface,
  simplified the controls, added color judiciously, and polished
  Mangia almost beyond recognition.

  I cook, I cook a fair amount, and people tell me I cook pretty
  well. Nonetheless, I don't like spending time looking for recipes.
  Over the years, Tonya and I have found a system that ensures we
  make dinner even when we are too tired think of anything to cook.
  Every weekend, we make a weekly menu - just a list of days and the
  meals we want to eat. Then we make a shopping list and buy
  everything we need for the next week. The beauty of this system,
  aside from avoiding grilled cheese every night, is that we can
  look back through old menus for inspiration.

  Mangia arrived and I dove in, gasping with delight at the nice
  touches, including the manual, which takes the unique approach of
  "two-minute lessons" that occupy a single page each. This
  technique works well in that most tasks are covered in a two-
  minute lesson, and the manual has an engagingly informal tone that
  keeps you reading once you start. The only drawback is that when
  something isn't covered in the manual or online help, you're on
  your own.

  When you launch Mangia, it presents you with a Recipe Browser
  window that shows the recipes in open cookbooks (of which Mangia
  ships with two, Mangia Miscellany and Cooks Redux, a collection of
  recipes from the late Cooks Magazine). A file to Mangia is a
  cookbook, and you can have a number of them. Within the Recipe
  Browser the recipes are sorted alphabetically, but you can specify
  dividers to differentiate by type of dish, main ingredient,
  season, and so on.

  If you want to find a specific type of recipe, or recipes with
  specific ingredients, Mangia includes several powerful methods of
  doing just that. Once you've found one, double-clicking on the
  name displays the recipe (nicely formatted, and you can pick from
  multiple formats or design your own), so you can see if you want
  to make it, and dragging it to (or clicking on) a Recipe Clipboard
  button adds it to the Recipe Clipboard. You use the Recipe
  Clipboard as a temporary corral for recipes until you print a
  shopping list. You can also define what Mangia calls "meals" in
  the Recipe Clipboard - calling them "menus" would have been too
  confusing. Because of our system, I define a meal for each day of
  the week.

  Once you have selected a number of recipes and added them to meals
  if you wish, you can select some or all and ask Mangia to print a
  shopping list. The time-honored problem with shopping lists is
  that the Mac has no way of determining what's already on your
  shelves. Mangia isn't omniscient, but it uses an clever method of
  limiting the problem. When you generate a shopping list, the
  ingredients are listed for each recipe, and an asterisk appears
  next to those in your pantry. You then scan down the list and mark
  each item as to whether or not you actually have it. Needless to
  say, once you mark something as existing in your pantry, it's
  still there the next time you use Mangia. Once you've identified
  all the items you need to buy, you can select the pantry items and
  delete them from the list before printing the list with items
  optionally sorted by section of the store (you can modify this for
  your store) and with the recipe name and quantity needed next to
  each item.

  This works wonderfully if you can limit yourself to the recipes
  Mangia provides, but we all have some favorites that won't be in
  Mangia's repertoire. Although Upstill Software is working on
  releasing more cookbooks (actually turning paper cookbooks into
  Mangia files) for the moment, there aren't many out there. I've
  typed in about 30 of our main recipes, and someone posted a set of
  10 recipes of Irish Mist Desserts to the Internet. If you wish to
  enter recipes, it's easy - just a matter of filling in various
  data entry screens. The tricky part is that to ensure the
  capability to track the Pantry and to scale recipes, Mangia
  requires that you use (or add) specific terms in its dictionary.
  That means if you come up with an ingredient that isn't in Mangia,
  you must add it manually. However, because Mangia knows how all of
  its ingredients are spelled, it has a clever feature that tells
  you graphically when it knows the ingredient you're trying to type
  and can finish it for you. If you want to use a menu instead,
  Mangia shows the ingredients hierarchically, which would be clumsy
  without Mangia's sticky menus option to simulates a click-lock.

  Mangia isn't perfect. It's a bit slow, and there are a few
  interface lapses here and there in the program, such as the Enter
  key not selecting the default button in a dialog. The program is
  not the most stable I've used, but it's generally OK and since it
  saves everything all the time, it's hard to lose data (still, back
  up personal cookbooks, just in case). There are a few drawbacks to
  the philosophy as well - for instance, most people don't just buy
  food at the grocery store, but Mangia can't tell you when you're
  out of tissues, for instance, unless you do like we did and make a
  recipe called Regular Shopping Items that contains ingredients for
  the non-food miscellany that we buy frequently. We've come up with
  a few other workarounds such as empty recipes called Dining Out
  and Leftovers, since we want place holders for meals we don't cook
  but don't want anything appearing in the shopping list.

  It's not perfection that I ask for these days, but responsiveness,
  which Steve Upstill has provided in spades. One of the first
  things I did was try to print a list of my meals on a single page,
  and I couldn't. I sent Steve email asking about it, and he
  responded by sending a new version within a few days - it seems
  that the necessary button had somehow moved offscreen in the Print
  dialog. That's what I call customer service, and Steve has been
  open to suggestions and comments along the way.

  Right now, Mangia suffers mainly from a lack of cookbooks. There's
  a solution out there. It's called the Usenet Cookbook, and
  consists of a large number of recipes submitted by Usenet readers
  over the years. I have no idea of the details surrounding it, but
  I noticed that you can search it via WAIS and that all the recipes
  have a rigid format. It would take programming work, but Steve
  said he's willing to help out with a conversion program if anyone
  wants to figure out how to convert these text files into a Mangia
  cookbook.

  In any event, Mangia is by far the best cooking program I've seen.
  If you're looking for the perfect present for a Mac chef, I highly
  recommend Mangia. You can find a demo that I uploaded a while back
  on <sumex-aim.stanford.edu> as:

    /info-mac/app/mangia-demo.hqx

  Mangia sells for the idiosyncratic price of $49.93 (plus $3
  shipping and sales tax in California if you order direct from
  Upstill Software).

    Upstill Software -- 800/JOT-DOWN -- 510/486-0761
      [e-mail]


Reviews/13-Dec-93
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 06-Dec-93, Vol. 7, #47
    Spectre Supreme -- pg. 45
    ZOA -- pg. 45
    Super Maze Wars -- pg. 45
    Out of This World -- pg. 46
    Star Trek -- pg. 46
    Crystal Crazy -- pg. 46
    Bridge -- pg. 48
    Spin Doctor -- pg. 48
    SimCity 2000 -- pg. 48
    ChessMaster 3000 -- pg. 48
    Hell Cab -- pg. 50
    Iron Helix -- pg. 50
    Myst -- pg. 50
    The Journeyman Project -- pg. 50

* InfoWorld -- 06-Dec-93, Vol. 15, #49
    Quadra 660AV and 840AV -- pg. 96
    WordPerfect 3.0 -- pg. 101
    MacDraft 3.01 -- pg. 116
    MacAccess -- pg. 117


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