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This issue features our picks for the most interesting products
   and events at the recent San Francisco Macworld Expo, complete
   with Adam's take on Internet software at the show, Tonya's
   report on the state of QuickDraw GX fonts and applications,
   and our traditional Macworld Expo superlatives. The usual
   complement of MailBITS commenting on previous articles round
   out the issue.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/09-Jan-95
    Macworld Expo - Internet Wannabes Galore
    QuickDraw GX at the Expo
    Macworld SF Superlatives
    Reviews/09-Jan-95

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MailBITS/09-Jan-95
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  We're all back from Macworld San Francisco, where we had a good
  time despite gusty wind and rain and a somewhat ho-hum show. Our
  personal high points came when playing country mice riding up the
  multiple floors of semi-circular escalators at the Nordstrom store
  on Market Street and riding up the 32-floor-high external glass
  elevators at the Westin St. Francis hotel. Close behind was the
  night when Tonya didn't want a serious sit down dinner, but "just
  a hamburger or something." We ended up at a diner called The
  Original Perfect Hamburger, appropriately enough, but behind that
  oh-so-American moniker hid the fact that the Oriental proprietors
  also served Chinese food. This made for some fun combinations,
  such as my meal of eggrolls and onion rings. On the Sunday after
  Macworld, I gave a keynote to a wonderful group the MacSciTech
  conference, and then we found time for a cable car ride, with the
  trip back made more exciting walking the last nine blocks due to a
  pair of cable cars put out of commission. [ACE]


**Hayden Sponsoring **-- We'd like to welcome our latest sponsor,
  Hayden Books, the company that publishes Tonya's and my books,
  along with many other titles. Ever since Internet Starter Kit for
  Macintosh took off, Hayden has looked at getting on the Internet
  in a serious way, but the process was complicated by the fact that
  Hayden is an imprint of Macmillan Computer Publishing. Thus, the
  Web site that recently appeared had to take into account not just
  Hayden, but all of the Macmillan Computer Publishing imprints. The
  site has large amounts of information about the various titles
  including tables of contents and sample chapters from many books.
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  download software that's bundled with some of the books. You can
  buy books online if you wish, and all are discounted 20 percent.
  And, of course, each of the imprints has its own home page. So if
  you're a computer book fan, check it out. [ACE]

http://www.mcp.com


**PowerCity Notes** -- PowerCity, which started sponsoring TidBITS
  last week, was briefly overwhelmed by the unexpectedly
  enthusiastic response. Unfortunately, their response time
  increased significantly during the peak load times. The PowerCity
  folks are working to improve their response times, and ask that if
  you merely want more information about PowerCity that you put the
  words "Ordering Information" in the subject of your message. You
  should definitely read this information before making a quote
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  request, put "Price Quote" in the subject of your message, or,
  although it shouldn't normally be necessary for a fast response,
  put "Price Quote - URGENT" in the subject line if you need the
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  ordering information separately from quote requests. [ACE]


**Charles Wheeler** <[e-mail]> writes:
  Your end of the year report in TidBITS-257_ neglected to mention
  that 1994 was finally the year CD-ROM gained mass acceptance after
  years of trying. (Even I, the self proclaimed archenemy of CD-ROM
  technology, bought a drive last year.) What changed in 1994 was
  not the technology or people's perceptions of it, but prices and,
  most important, content. Led by Myst and assisted by the Microsoft
  Home series, there now exist CD-ROMs worth owning. My personal
  favorites include Simon & Schuster's Star Trek: The Next
  Generation Interactive Technical Manual (introducing QuickTime VR)
  [see TidBITS-250_], Now What Software's Real World Picture Atlas
  and The Cities Below, Microsoft's Cinemania '95, and the excellent
  interactive version of David Macaulay's best selling book The Way
  Things Work. These products, along with other high quality, high
  content offerings, make putting up with the speed limitations of
  the technology worthwhile. (I was told at Macworld San Francisco
  that someone was showing a 15x drive with 40 millisecond access
  times, so maybe that liability will soon be gone.)


**David M. Palmer** <[e-mail]> writes:
  On the subject of DOS compatibility, Metrowerks, which in the past
  year has become THE Macintosh development system company, has
  announced CodeWarrior Platinum, which is the Metrowerks developer
  environment (Pascal, C, C++, etc.) that can compile for the 68x00,
  the PowerPC, and the Intel 80x86. With this development, a Power
  Mac with a DOS card may become the standard system for cross-
  platform development, and may even become the standard system for
  Wintel development.


**No OS/2 for DOS in Mac, Maybe Power Mac** -- For those who
  asked, the DOS card from Reply cannot currently run IBM's OS/2
  operating system. Apparently it looks for something in firmware
  which exist on the card. Reply said they could work around the
  problem in doesn't software but don't have definite plans at the
  moment. However, IBM has reportedly shipped the first beta of OS/2
  for the PowerPC, which could eventually result in a version of
  OS/2 that runs on Power Macs. [ACE]


Macworld Expo - Internet Wannabes Galore
----------------------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Every year, like all members of the press, we try to figure out
  the unofficial theme of the show. This year, the annual Netters'
  Dinner stood in traditional relief against this unofficial theme:
  Internet products by those who don't quite get it (and a few who
  do). This was the first year that vendors seemed relatively email
  savvy, and Tonya and Geoff commented on the fact that saying they
  were from TidBITS resulted in a fair amount of recognition this
  year (although still far more from developers than marketing
  people, not surprisingly). Richard Huff created an unofficial
  Macworld Expo home page, complete with some photos from his
  QuickTake.

http://www.pacificrim.net/macworld.html

  Here are some of the more noticeable Internet attempts and
  successes of the show.


**Global Village** introduced the OneWorld Internet, a $2,000 box
  that connects an Ethernet network to the Internet via a 28,800 bps
  modem (no doubt a PowerPort Mercury). An ISDN version is also in
  the works, but both versions suffer from ludicrously expensive
  charges. Since the connection is through an 800 number (and thus
  U.S.-only, I presume), the cost is $8.95 per hour plus a monthly
  fee based on the number of users at your site. When I calculated
  this out for the minimum number of users connecting for only four
  hours per day, it was not only twice as slow, but also roughly
  twice as expensive as my dedicated 56K frame relay connection. The
  box seems only to work with QuickMail for email, which limits it
  to sites that have QuickMail installed. Although the OneWorld
  Internet box sports some technically impressive features, and
  Global Village provides some Internet amenities such as custom
  domain names, the usage prices make the product easy to ignore.
  Global Village -- <[e-mail]> -- 408/523-1000 --
  408/523-2407 (fax)


**InterCon Systems** showed version 2.1 of TCP/Connect II, their
  integrated Internet access package, which primarily adds support
  for the SOCKS standard for navigating firewalls and a fast Web
  browser that is not licensed from some other vendor. Also new from
  InterCon was the $195 ($89 at the show) TCP/Connect II Remote
  software package, which does everything the complete version of
  TCP/Connect II does, but uses its own implementation of TCP and
  SLIP or PPP. In other words, via TCP/Connect II Remote, you can
  use most of the popular services on the Internet, such as email,
  news (including offline reading), FTP, Gopher, and the Web, but
  you cannot use MacTCP programs such as Eudora, NewsWatcher,
  Anarchie, and MacWeb. InterCon Systems -- <[e-mail]> --
  703/709-5500 -- 703/709-5555 (fax)


**Synergy Software** wasn't showing anything new, but was
  celebrating VersaTerm's tenth birthday. It's nice to see a small
  company like Synergy continue to produce high-quality
  communications software like VersaTerm and VersaTerm-Link (an
  integrated Internet access program with which TCP/Connect II
  Remote will compete) for all these years. Synergy Software --
  <[e-mail]> -- 610/779-0522 -- 610/370-0548 (fax)


**StarNine** was showing a pre-release version of EMail-On-Demand,
  a mailing list manager program for the Macintosh that works with
  any SMTP server like MailShare or StarNine Mail*Link gateways, any
  POP3/SMTP mail system like Eudora, and with the LAN email packages
  QuickMail and Microsoft Mail. EMail-On-Demand (eMOD) supports
  LISTSERV-like mailing lists, auto-reply capabilities for returning
  information based on the address or subject of a message, and
  direct mailing lists for distributing mail to a number of people
  all at once. eMOD does all of this with a collection of user-
  created rules, where each rule is comprised of a trigger and an
  action. eMOD is slated for a first quarter release. StarNine --
  <[e-mail]> (put "subscribe" in the subject of the message
  to subscribe to the eMOD mailing list) -- 510/649-4949 -- 510/548-
  0393 (fax)

http://www.starnine.com


**Open Door Networks** announced that it now offers Internet
  access in a rather unique way, through Apple Remote Access (ARA).
  With MacTCP installed and configured properly (Open Door Networks
  will sell you MacTCP if you don't have it), you can use ARA
  (assuming you own it as well) to connect and access AppleTalk
  services on the host servers, all at the same time as you run
  MacTCP-based applications to access the rest of the Internet. The
  prices are currently high, but the concept is an interesting one.
  Open Door Networks -- <[e-mail]>

http://www.opendoor.com


**Software Ventures** moved beyond MicroPhone's terminal emulation
  with Snatcher, a graphical FTP client that makes heavy use of drag
  & drop, and thus requires System 7.5 or System 7.1 with Finder
  7.1.3, AppleScript 1.1, Drag and Drop 1.1, and of course, MacTCP.
  Although Snatcher doesn't do anything particularly wrong (other
  than closing windows when the FTP connection goes away), neither
  does it particularly distinguish itself from Peter Lewis's
  shareware Anarchie, other than by more closely resembling the
  Finder. Perhaps the main audience for this version of Snatcher
  will be a company that wants to use FTP as the primary method for
  distributing files instead of AppleShare, since Snatcher can
  display proper icons for files on FTP sites based on filename
  extensions (only an internal site would use extensions for file
  types other than the few basic Internet types). Software Ventures
  -- <[e-mail]> -- 510/644-3232 -- 510/848-0885 (fax)


**OpenSoft** also weighed in with a graphical FTP client,
  differentiating itself by relying on Catalogs and other features
  present only via Apple's PowerTalk technology. PowerFTP will face
  an uphill battle given the low adoption rate of PowerTalk,
  although it's good to see something finally using that technology
  in an interesting way. OpenSoft plans other PowerTalk-based
  Internet clients, including an email client that, if well-enough
  done, might even make PowerTalk mail usable for those of us who
  receive a lot of email. OpenSoft -- <[e-mail]> --
  800/996-OPEN -- 714/650-3696 (fax)


**Outland** showed off their extremely cool game network, and the
  best part (aside from the fact that it makes graphical interactive
  gaming available over the Internet) is that the rates are now
  $9.95 per month, flat-rate. Outland has a free five hour trial as
  well, so it's easy to see if you like playing Spaceward Ho!, Go,
  Backgammon, Reversi, Chess, Hearts, Galley, and Backstab against
  other players from all over the Internet. You can get Outland's
  software (for use with a MacTCP-based Internet connection) from:

ftp://ftp.outland.com/pub/

  For more information on Outland, send them email at
  <[e-mail]> or check out their Web site at:

http://www.outland.com


**Guy Kawasaki's current project**, Emailer, was somewhat hidden
  at the Bit Jugglers booth. Emailer attempts to bring all your
  email, whether it be from CompuServe, AOL, eWorld, or the
  Internet, into a single place. You can have a single set of
  nicknames and can schedule connections to the different services.
  Although Emailer doesn't offer all the features one might want in
  an "email client that does everything," it may be a compelling
  product for people who must maintain (and constantly check) email
  on a variety of services. Emailer isn't yet available, but we'll
  be sure to mention it here when it is.


**The World-Wide Web** was the hot topic, as one might expect.
  MacHTTP developer Chuck Shotton's sessions overflowed their
  spaces, the Intermediate Internet talk that I, Richard Ford, and
  Kee Nethery gave didn't even have standing room, and some folks
  from Netscape took QuarkXPress files of Apple's Digital Daily
  newspaper and turned them into HTML files. Perhaps the strangest
  Web browser around was one from AllPen <[e-mail]>
  that I never managed to find, but it runs on a Newton. With a
  larger screen and maybe some color, I could see a Newton being a
  pretty cool hand-held Web browser.


QuickDraw GX at the Expo
------------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  After writing about QuickDraw GX in TidBITS-243_ , I settled in to
  wait for Macworld Expo, where I hoped to see the wonders of GX
  fonts in action. GX has gobs of practical problems, but I thought
  (and still think) that the fonts are compelling enough to make
  some abandon practicality and to make others improve the
  practicality.

  Mainstream vendors of the feature-laden monstrosities we consider
  "popular" programs appear to be taking a wait-and-see approach to
  supporting GX fonts (though support for the GX printing
  architecture is more common). This leaves room for lesser-known
  companies to support GX fonts with a higher risk and with higher
  potential returns. Programs supporting GX fonts offer an interface
  for accessing font options, so you can see how changes you make to
  type look within the context of the current document.


**Linotype-Hell** -- GX fonts do exist, and Linotype-Hell had a
  demo going in the Apple area. The demo showed off some of Linotype
  Hell's GX fonts, and show-goers could see how easy GX makes it to
  use special dingbats, ligatures, fractions, small caps, drop caps,
  and so on that can be built into a GX font. GX fonts can also
  include Multiple Master-like features, so you can (for example)
  lighten, darken, contract, or expand text in a font.


**LightningDraw GX** -- Lightning Draw GX, a soon-to-be-shipping
  graphics program from Lari Software, works fine with GX fonts and
  uses GX graphics capabilities in a number of features. The program
  combines painting and drawing in sometimes unexpected ways. For
  example, you can paint with tools such as Charcoal or Paint, and
  the program then merges your efforts into a single object.

  The Reshaper tool lets you change the shape of an object by
  pushing and pulling any point on the object's edge (you can set
  the amount of force with which the object thinks you are pushing
  or pulling). You can join and subtract objects; for example, you
  might draw a large square, draw a smaller circle within the
  square, subtract the circle out of the square, and end up with a
  square having a round hole in its middle. Objects placed on top of
  one another can also overlap and you can set the level of
  transparency that the top object has, thus determining the color
  of the area where the objects overlap.

  When LightningDraw GX ships, it should import Photoshop and PICT
  images, and place EPS images. It should be able to save as PICT.
  Other features, such as bezier curves, Multigon and Star tools,
  extensive zoom, unlimited layers, WorldScript, and ColorSync add
  up to make for an interesting product that takes up 2 MB or your
  hard disk and requires a minimum of 2.5 MB RAM. It will run on any
  68020 or later, and (of course) requires that you also run
  QuickDraw GX.


**UniQorn** -- One surprise at Macworld this year was from
  SoftPress Systems Limited in England. They're putting together a
  product called UniQorn, a fully-featured professional design and
  layout program built on top of QuickDraw GX. UniQorn exploits all
  of QuickDraw GX's new functionality, allowing extensive
  typographic and display features not available in non-GX-savvy
  applications. (Quark has indicated it won't support GX in
  QuarkXPress because GX isn't cross-platform; Adobe is at present
  an unknown with PageMaker.)

  In addition to all the functionality provided by QuickDraw GX,
  UniQorn is scriptable, WorldScript-savvy, implements Drag and
  Drop, and comes with Apple Guide assistance. SoftPress has
  indicated that they fully intend to support OpenDoc when it
  becomes available. UniQorn is targeted at designers, naturally,
  but SoftPress's tactics seem more directed at "multiple media
  publishing," meaning the preparation of data for a wide variety of
  formats. UniQorn can transform a portrait, U.S. letter document
  into a landscape, A4 document using a set of customizable rules
  about how graphics, columns, and the like should shift. One
  particularly interesting application is that UniQorn automatically
  generates tagged versions of its documents: with the right style
  sheet, these can look remarkably like HTML. UniQorn will be
  available for Macs and Power Macs and, although pricing isn't set,
  is expected to be between $700 and $900. We'll have more news on
  UniQorn as its shipping date nears.

  Besides newcomers Lari and SoftPress, the only other GX-savvy
  software I saw at the Expo was Pixar's Typestry 2, a type
  rendering and animation program. I didn't get a chance to see a
  personal demo of Typestry 2, and the group demo didn't mention the
  fonts.

    Lari Software -- 800/933-7303 -- 919/968-0701
      919/968-0801 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>
    Linotype-Hell -- 800/842-9721 -- 516/434-2706 (fax)
    Pixar -- 510/236-4000
    SoftPress Systems -- 44-993-882588 -- 44-993-883970 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


Macworld SF Superlatives
------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]> and TidBITS Staff

  Mark Anbinder started our tradition of an article awarding some
  tongue-in-cheek awards (and some serious ones) to various
  companies, products, and events at the show. Mark wasn't able to
  make it to San Francisco, so we tried to pick up the slack.


**Most Connected T-shirt** -- Outland gets this award for their
  t-shirt, which, aside from having a nice design, had a URL
  emblazoned on it. Next thing you know, URLs will be on cereal
  boxes.


**Classic Microsoft** -- Microsoft gave "Windows 95 for Macintosh
  Developers" seminars and passed out t-shirts with the witty
  slogan, "Windows 95 Sucks Less." Unfortunately, someone forgot to
  tell them that Apple had "System 7.5 Sucks Less" t-shirts at
  Macworld Boston this past August, so once again, Microsoft had to
  settle for copying Apple after the fact. Plus, the t-shirts made
  one wonder if Microsoft was saying Windows 95 sucked less than the
  Mac, a distinctly unpopular sentiment at a Mac trade show.


**Neatest Utility** -- Natural Intelligence enthusiastically
  demonstrated a utility, called DragStrip, that enables you to
  create sets of launcher tiles, much like the freeware Malph, but
  with numerous enhancements, such as the ability to attach recently
  used documents to an application launcher tile, and hotspots that
  bring your strips to the foreground. DragStrip takes the genre to
  its peak for the moment, and supports its own DragStrip Additions
  (for changing monitor depth, sound volume, and so on) and Control
  Strip modules, which were previously only accessible on a desktop
  Mac with Desktop Strip. DragStrip also comes with a separate
  Control Panel called Bail, (also released separately by
  Christopher Evans <[e-mail]>) that lets you cancel the
  launch of an application, a useful capability if you keep both
  Word 5 and Word 6 on your hard disk. Check out the DragStrip demo
  if you're interested. Natural Intelligence -- <[e-mail]>
  -- 617/876-4876 -- 617/492-7425 (fax)

ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/gui/malph-23.hqx
ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/gui/desktop-strip-102.hqx
ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/gui/bail-202.hqx
ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info-mac/gui/drag-strip-10-demo.hqx


**Fishiest Product** -- This award easily goes to Aquazone, an
  aquarium simulator that even had one of its developers stumped
  when we walked by (he couldn't figure out why all of his fish were
  dying suddenly). Aquazone isn't a game: you add, remove, and name
  your fish, feed them, take care of them, control the water
  temperature, clean the filter, and even tap on the glass. What's
  more, you can watch your fish grow, lay eggs, and give birth to
  new fish. Of course, your fish can get sick (and Aquazone comes
  with a lot of information on piscine diseases!) or even die. You
  can control the rate at which time passes (typical is 50x normal
  time) to make things happen faster. Aquazone gives you digital
  pets, and wins kudos from aquarium owners and fish enthusiasts. In
  future versions, they plan to add environments and creatures, plus
  use artificial life techniques to give your ecosystems emergent
  behaviors and interactions. Tecsys Computers -- 714/955-4968 --
  714/955-4963 (fax)


**Best Booth Display** -- DriveSavers, a company that specializes
  in data recovery, had the most interesting booth display, titled
  "Museum of Bizarre Disk-asters." Museum-style glass cases
  displayed several seriously messed up Macs (from which they had
  recovered hard disk data) in simulations of the original
  accidents, which included a PowerBook 100 that spent two days in
  the Amazon river, a PowerBook 140 run over by a Boston Macworld
  shuttle bus, and a Macintosh that the booth representatives had
  trouble identifying, but which looked well-scorched. Drive Savers
  -- 415/883-4232 -- 415/883-0780 (fax)


**Best Deal** -- Deneba Software was offering a steep discount on
  a good bundle: Canvas 3.5, Pixar Typestry 2.0 and DeltaGraph Pro
  for $159. If you believed the signs on the booth, this was a $900
  value, but in terms of street prices it still added up to about 50
  percent off. Considering that the upgrade price for Canvas 3.5
  alone was over $100, the deal amounted to quite a steal. Deneba
  Software -- <[e-mail]> -- 305/596-5644.


**Most Frequent Buys** -- The two products that everyone rushed
  around trying to buy were Marathon, from Bungie Software, and
  Route 66, from Geographic Information Systems. We'll look more
  closely at Route 66 in a future issue, but it looks like a
  promising application for people who need road maps and also want
  specific driving directions, complete with PowerPC native code,
  Apple Guide, and AppleScript abilities. Geographic Information
  Systems has some U.S. maps available, but they are a Dutch
  company, so they also have a number of European maps for sale.
  Bungie Software -- <[e-mail]> -- 312/563-6200 -- 312/563-
  0545 (fax) -- Geographic Information Systems -- 415/957-0666 --
  415/957-1644 (fax)


**Best Tongue-in-Cheek Booth** -- Dell Computer, one of the main
  PC clone vendors, had a booth in the Developer Central section of
  the show floor. I never saw what they were demonstrating, but they
  had prepared for the worst by piling sandbags around their booth
  for protection. We're not that mean of a crowd, are we?


**Interesting Retreat** -- A few months ago, Mitch Hall Associates
  sent out a press release announcing they had banned all vendors of
  erotic software from future shows. I was surprised, then, to run
  into Penthouse Interactive and a couple of similar companies.
  Rumor had it that after that press release, Penthouse used the
  "speak softly and wave a big lawyer" technique, and Mitch Hall
  Associates rescinded the ban rather than fight it in court.


**Coolest Gimmick** -- Touch-It Paper unveiled Living Paper, a
  line of heat-sensitive paper products, which come in six different
  colors in a paint wash look. The trick is that as they heat, they
  change from their original color to white, and then, relatively
  quickly, right back again as they cool off. You can print on the
  paper with a laser printer, and Touch-It's president claimed the
  paper's color-change capability was more or less permanent. Sure,
  it's a gimmick, but it's fun, and the world needs more fun. Touch-
  It Paper -- 801/786-1000 -- 801/786-1400 (fax)


**Neatest Emulator** -- Digital Eclipse gets this award for their
  emulation software that enables them to license and run the code
  from original classic arcade games, including Defender, Joust, and
  Robotron, on a Power Mac. Their booth had the original game
  cabinets with the guts ripped out and replaced with Macs. As they
  say, the only thing missing is the sticky buttons. Digital Eclipse
  -- 510/450-1740 -- 800/289-3374


**Best New Hardware** -- Iomega and Visioneer share this award
  since we couldn't decide whether Iomega's purple Zip drives were
  neater than Visioneer's PaperPort personal scanner. The Mac and
  DOS/Windows-compatible Zip drive costs about $200 and stores 100
  MB on a single $20 Zip disk (it doesn't read or write normal 1.4
  MB floppies). The under-$400 PaperPort has OCR software, turns on
  when you insert a page (and off when it's done), and can scan a
  page in about six seconds. In fact, we don't have to decide which
  is best, since Iomega and Visioneer collaborated to create The
  Electronic Filing Cabinet, which includes a Zip drive and a
  PaperMax personal scanner (which, as far as I can tell is the same
  as the PaperPort). Iomega -- 800/777-6654 -- 801/778-1000 --
  801/778-3748 (fax) -- Visioneer -- 800/787-7007 -- 415/812-6400 --
  415/855-9750 (fax)


**Best Bumper Sticker** -- Pentium Happens.


Reviews/09-Jan-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 02-Jan-95, Vol. 9, #1
    Now Up-to-Date 3.0 -- pg. 67
    Now Contact 3.0 -- pg. 67
    WordPerfect 3.1 -- pg. 72
    DayStar Digital Turbo 601 -- pg. 74


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 To search back issues with WAIS, wait until we find a replacement
 for the Connection Machine server, which has been taken down.
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