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 Three reviews this week, one of an upgrade to the excellent Easy
   View browser for TidBITS and other text files, one of Aldus's
   powerful new IntelliDraw package, and one of Craig O'Donnell's
   bodacious book, Cool Mac Sounds. Short notes on Apple's massive
   order backlog, the missing Omega SANE, QuickTime 1.5, a
   potential problem with the Duos, and a conflict between XPress
   3.0 and the HP DeskWriter 550C round out the issue. Look for
   game reviews next week!


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Topics:
    MailBITS/07-Dec-92
    Eternal Optimism
    Quick QuickTime Comments
    Omega SANE Apparently Gone
    Easy View 2.22
    IntelliDraw Review
    Sounding Off
    Reviews/07-Dec-92

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MailBITS/07-Dec-92
------------------
  Please note that this is the last week Nisus Software is
  sponsoring TidBITS. If you want Nisus's files from our fileserver,
  snag them before 14-Dec-92. Once again, to get an index of
  individual files, send email to <[e-mail]> and to
  receive all the files in one chunk, send email to
  <[e-mail]>. I hope you find the information
  useful - I certainly did.


Duo Warning
  Murph Sewall passes on a tale of caution. "I recently heard of a
  Duo user whose daughter threw "something" (apparently the System
  Enabler extension) away. Oops! The Duo no longer will start up.
  Since there are no Duo Docks and no floppy adapters available, the
  only way to fix it at the moment is to mail the Duo back to
  Apple." [The moral of the story is to make frequent backups via
  File Sharing and be careful with things that might corrupt the
  System file until you have a Duo Dock, MiniDock, or floppy
  adapter. -Adam]

  Information from:
    Murph Sewall -- [e-mail]


QuarkXPress and DeskWriter 550C
  Mark H Anbinder writes. "Those of you who are thinking about
  buying yourselves a gift of a Hewlett-Packard DeskWriter 550C this
  holiday season should first check your software arsenal. HP has
  recently discovered, with our help, an incompatibility between the
  DeskWriter 550C driver and QuarkXPress 3.0. Quark confirmed the
  problem and said testing showed the current version, XPress 3.1,
  is fully compatible."

  Information from:
    Mark H. Anbinder, Contributing Editor


Eternal Optimism
----------------
  People drooling over new Macintosh models, or even some of the
  older Macs, may be frothing with frustration right now. Apple has
  massive backorders on a large number of models. The lack of supply
  has a number of reasons, including unexpected demand and downright
  poor planning on Apple's part. In Apple's defense, some backlog
  stems from inability to get parts, such as those low-yield,
  active-matrix screens.

  Luckily for Apple, they have no competition - if you want a Mac
  you'll wait. You're unlikely to buy a Windows machine, whereas
  PC-clone buyers would quickly jump ship to a competitor. If Apple
  plans to pump new models out every six months, they have to make
  the machines available. Otherwise customers see another form of
  vaporware, call it trickleware, because only a few lucky (or
  unlucky, depending on early quirks) souls manage to buy these
  machines.

  We've received a list of Macintoshes that Apple expects to be in
  good supply through the end of the year. If something is NOT on
  this list, then figure that your chances of buying one within the
  next month are slim. The PowerBooks and Duos in particular will be
  in limited supply. The optimism in providing a list of available
  products is interesting (or perhaps merely desperation mixed with
  frustration, since Apple loses big bucks by not having products
  available during December). More interesting for those who want a
  machine in stock is that you may get a special deal on these
  models since Apple wants to sell in-stock machines rather than
  take orders for trickleware.

    Macintosh LC II 4/floppy w/256K VRAM
    Macintosh LC II 4/40 w/keyboard
    Macintosh LC II 4/40 w/keyboard (System 6)
    Macintosh LC II 4/80 w/VRAM but no keyboard
    Macintosh LC II 4/160 w/VRAM but no keyboard
    Macintosh IIsi 3/40
    Macintosh IIsi 5/80
    Macintosh IIsi 5/160
    Macintosh IIci 5/SuperDrive (w/cache)
    Macintosh IIci 5/80 (w/cache)
    Macintosh IIci 5/230 (w/cache)
    Macintosh IIvx 4/230
    Macintosh Quadra 700 4/SuperDrive
    Macintosh Quadra 700 4/80
    Macintosh Quadra 700 4/230
    Macintosh Quadra 700 4/400
    LaserWriter NTR
    LaserWriter IIf
    LaserWriter IIg

  Information from:
    Pythaeus

  Related articles:
    MacWEEK -- 07-Dec-92, Vol. 6, #43, pg. 1


Quick QuickTime Comments
------------------------
  by John Baxter -- [e-mail]

  According to Gary Woodcock and Casey King writing in "develop"
  issue 12, the Component Manager has migrated from QuickTime to
  System 7.1, although it's still present in QuickTime 1.5 so that
  QuickTime can use it on older Systems. Components can be used
  independently of QuickTime starting with System 7.1. This provides
  a new way to do plug-in code and will be faster than Apple events.

  The QuickTime-aware scrapbook which comes with QuickTime 1.5 still
  leaves stranded 'alis' (alias) records in the Scrapbook file when
  you paste a movie (or movie segment) into the scrapbook and later
  delete it. The buggy QuickTime-aware beta Scrapbook which came
  with QuickTime 1.0 did the same thing. I'm surprised it wasn't
  fixed. This isn't a major problem, since 'alis' objects are fairly
  small, and you only notice them in ResEdit, but it's annoying.

  Users should also avoid copying a piece of a movie from a movie
  file on a removable volume and pasting it into the QuickTime-aware
  Scrapbook. If you do this, and the Scrapbook wishes to display the
  "frame" containing the movie, it will harass you to mount the
  needed volume. That's particularly annoying if you close the
  scrapbook with a movie as the current scrapbook frame, dismount
  the movie's volume, then later reopen the Scrapbook. That sequence
  led to the first time I've had my Mac eject a CD-ROM and ask for a
  different one. If you must copy movie snippets into the scrapbook
  from removable volumes, I suggest that you put them towards the
  end of the scrapbook and remember to select some other scrapbook
  frame before closing the scrapbook. The movies then won't trip you
  up as often. However, it is good, not bad, that the Scrapbook
  pastes movies by reference rather than by copying the whole
  thing... a few movies would quickly eat up the whole startup disk.

  Apple says that movie playback performance from CD-ROM is much
  better in QuickTime 1.5 than in 1.0. They are NOT kidding... the
  difference is dramatic. On my IIci, I no longer feel the need to
  copy the movie from CD to hard disk before playing it. And that's
  with old movies, not ones compressed with QuickTime 1.5 's better
  compressor. Admittedly, some movies from the QuickTime 1.0 CD that
  recommend playing from a hard disk don't play correctly under
  QuickTime 1.5, although that may also be related to my old Apple
  CD drive.


Omega SANE Apparently Gone
--------------------------
  Those of you who want every last drop of performance may be
  interested to know that System 7.1 may run slower than 7.0.1 on
  certain Macs - notably the IIci and later machines that have an
  FPU (floating point unit, also known as a math coprocessor). This
  stems from the removal in System 7.1 of the Omega SANE (Standard
  Apple Numeric Environment), a "scary hack" included only in System
  7.0.1 that increases speed by bypassing certain routines.
  Apparently, Apple removed the Omega SANE routines from System 7.1
  to improve future compatibility with the RISC-based PowerPC
  platform that will differ significantly from the 680x0-based
  Macintosh platform.


BYTE results
  by Tom Thompson, BYTE Senior Tech Editor at Large

  To confirm rumors that Apple removed Omega SANE from System 7.1,
  the BYTE Lab ran its low-level benchmark tests on a Mac IIci
  configured to run either version of the Mac OS. You'll recall that
  Omega SANE does some scary patching that lets Mac applications
  bypass most of the Trap Dispatcher when making calls to the SANE
  library. By eliminating the Trap Dispatcher's overhead, floating-
  point performance improves dramatically on Macs equipped with
  FPUs. With Omega SANE removed, expect the floating-point
  performance on these Macs to drop.

  The IIci had System 7.0.1 with Tune-Up 1.1.1 loaded on an internal
  drive, and System 7.1 from the October Developer's CD loaded on an
  external drive. Either OS could be run by changing the Startup
  Disk Control Panel setting. The Shift key was held down at boot
  time to prevent Extension and Control Panel INIT code from
  loading. These results come from a beta version of a new set of
  Mac low-level benchmarks being written at BYTE. The FPU tests use
  SANE calls exclusively to do computations.

  The CPU benchmark times are included as a "sanity check" on the
  computer and the OS. The Matrix and Sort times are higher, because
  they also use math functions. Interestingly, the Move Byte test
  posts a slower time, even though the test simply moves data
  strings about in memory. (No, I don't have an explanation for
  that.)

  As you can see from the results in the table, floating-point
  performance is definitely lower under System 7.1. We can conclude
  that Omega SANE is absent.


                    System 7.0.1*      System 7.1
    CPU tests
      Matrix            11.15             11.86
      Move Byte         51.57             52.55
      Move Word         26.94             26.93
      Move Longword     14.65             14.65
      Sieve              5.16              5.17
      Sort               6.17              6.25

    FPU tests
      Math              32.39             81.78
      Sin(x)             9.68             40.54
      e^x                9.95             54.48


  System: Mac IIci with 8 MB RAM, 80 MB hard disk, and equipped with
  SuperMac Thunder/24 display board and monitor. Times are in
  seconds. AppleTalk was off, and Extensions/Control Panels were not
  loaded.

  Information from:
    Tom Thompson -- [e-mail]


Other machines
  [back to me again... -Adam]

  In an independent look into the performance differences between
  System 7.0.1 and System 7.1, Mel Martinez collected Speedometer
  reports from various Mac models - the LC, the IIci, the PowerBook
  170, and the Quadra 700. Here are Math results from Mel's report,
  which he posted in full on <sumex-aim.stanford.edu> as:

    info-mac/report/sys71_vs_70_speed.txt


                        System 7.0.1*      System 7.1
    Machine
      Macintosh LC          4.115               4.125
      Macintosh IIci       19.848              10.153
      PowerBook 170        22.456              22.162
      Quadra 700          100.918             102.203

  A Macintosh Classic is 1.0, so each number shows how that machine
  compares to a Classic. Note that the LC has no FPU at all.

  Interestingly, although the IIci's numbers bear out Tom's results,
  neither the Quadra 700 nor the PowerBook 170 were affected. Tom
  confirmed that the Quadra line has Omega SANE in its ROMs, but we
  hadn't previously heard about the 170. I wonder if the IIfx falls
  in the same category as the IIci?

  Although the IIci benchmarks seem alarming, keep in mind that in
  normal use you probably won't notice much difference. The FPU
  comes into play only with math-intensive applications such as
  spreadsheet work, math packages like Mathematica and DataDesk, and
  engineering applications such as simulations and CAD. Adobe
  Photoshop also uses the FPU, at least when you start manipulating
  images, especially with filters. Most common applications probably
  won't use the sort of mathematical functions internally that hit
  the FPU.

  Information from:
    Dieder Bylsma -- [e-mail]
    Mel Martinez -- [e-mail]


Easy View 2.22
--------------
  Akif Eyler recently released Easy View 2.22, a nice upgrade from
  version 2.1. Easy View 2.22 is a free program that indexes text
  files located in the same folder as the index document, and then
  allows you to browse and search through the set of files. Since
  Easy View supports the setext format we use for TidBITS, it is
  ideal for browsing through back issues. Easy View's unusual method
  of indexing the files (rather than creating its own data file
  containing all the text) means you get quick access to the files,
  a small index document, and no chance of being able to damage or
  modify one of the original files.

  Foremost among Easy View's new features is the ability to deal
  with more types of structured text files, most notably CompuServe
  Navigator archives, basic Internet email (Easy View works well
  with mailboxes created by ICE Engineering's uAccess UUCP mail
  program), and even RICEMAIL NOTEBOOKs for those of you still using
  CMS machines.

  If you want to index a file type not included with Easy View, you
  can define your own, although it's not a trivial process, and you
  may have to ask Akif for help. Still, the capability is there.

  Another functional addition to the program is simple printing,
  although I must admit to not having used this yet. I seldom print
  and prefer to keep things online - that's why I like Easy View in
  the first place! Akif also added a "Set Bookmark" command to the
  Navigation menu to make it easy to flip to another place.

  Although Easy View hasn't changed its look much, Akif improved its
  interface and appearance. First, you can now resize the panes that
  hold the issue names, article names, and article text fields with
  the mouse, as you would expect in a Macintosh application. Second,
  you can modify the font and size of the text via new Font and Size
  menus.

  Easy View 2.22 may not appear to be a tremendous upgrade, but the
  ability to deal with more file formats makes it a must-have
  upgrade for everyone who used Easy View 2.1. And, at $0.00, the
  price is right. Once again, thanks to Akif for a job well done!

  Last week, I distributed the file to the Internet (at sumex in the
  /apps directory), CompuServe (in MACAPP) ZiffNet/Mac (in
  ZMC:DOWNTECH), and America Online (in the Macintosh Hardware Forum
  file libraries [MHW]). Please feel free to redistribute to other
  sites so everyone can upgrade.

  Information from:
    Akif Eyler -- [e-mail]


IntelliDraw Review
------------------
  by Richard Lim, Bristol University, UK -- [e-mail]

  The world is full of symmetry, so all students of elementary
  mathematics are rightly told. It is also full of connections, as
  anyone can discover (if they didn't know already) by doing a few
  perspective drawings and changing the viewing point - connected
  objects clearly must remain so .

  The folks at Silicon "SuperPaint" Beach Software took these two
  facts  to heart in designing the centerpiece tools of Aldus's
  much-touted new drawing package, IntelliDraw ($200 discounted).
  It's an indication of Aldus's esteem for the Symmetrigon and
  Connectigon tools that they've gone to the trouble of trademarking
  them. The Symmetrigon allows fast creation of objects with
  specified mirror or radial symmetries - it easily draws seven-
  pointed stars or fancy pinwheels and lets you spin them around!
  The Connectigon, used in conjunction with a variety of line
  connector elements, enables you to draw one face of a three-
  dimensional object and attach the other faces to the edges of the
  first. You can stretch or slant the resulting drawing to your
  heart's content - what started out as a cube might become the
  Empire State Building, but all faces remain correctly connected.

  IntelliDraw would be worth it for these ground-breaking tools
  alone; in fact I reckon it will soon be hard to imagine how older
  drawing packages felt complete without them. Not content with this
  achievement, Silicon Beach threw in not only the standard plethora
  of full-featured drawing tools but also a great deal of
  convenience and intuition as well. For instance, arcs created with
  the arc tool flip between detached curves and pie wedges at a
  double-click. A double-click on most other objects toggles between
  the so-called reshape and resize modes, so you can adjust the
  contours of an object one minute and rescale it the next. Keyboard
  modifiers also enable you to switch actions effortlessly. Holding
  Command down when clicking with one of the polygon tools produces
  a curve rather than a corner, while holding Shift down in the
  Object menu allows you to move objects by one layer rather than
  right to the front or back.

  The program looks and feels like a typical Aldus product, much
  like PageMaker or FreeHand - it initially presents you with a
  scalable page view and a set of floating palettes. If you like 3-D
  buttons, look elsewhere, but IntelliDraw's tool palette has at
  least been colored, making the tools look more inviting than the
  weedy ones in Canvas 3. Silicon Beach, conscious of the fact that
  IntelliDraw's new tools and features require some explanation,
  thoughtfully provided an Info palette, a movable window that
  automatically displays the excellent and comprehensive balloon
  help messages provided. The Fills palette is impressively easy to
  edit - if you liked the rainbow gradients in MacDraw Pro, rest
  assured you can do all those things here. The Lines palette allows
  the creation of lines with varying thicknesses, continuities
  (unbroken, dotted, dotted and dashed, you name it) and endpoints
  (arrows and assorted lumpy terminations are child's play).

  While these and other palettes make life considerably easier for
  the budding and experienced artist alike, one of IntelliDraw's
  most convenient features has to be its automatic alignment
  capabilities. With Auto Align on, guidelines magically pop into
  view when the centers or edges of objects are properly lined up,
  so you can plop everything neatly into place alongside or centered
  on one another. Having achieved the arrangement you want, you can
  keep everything that way using another feature called,
  unsurprisingly, Keep Aligned. It all works very well, and the
  manual provides well-thought-out exercises designed to help you
  master the basics of the program quickly.

  IntelliDraw's talent for symmetry, connectivity, and alignment
  means it will be especially useful to technical or scientific
  illustrators. To underline this point, Silicon Beach included a
  feature with which you create libraries of frequently-used symbols
  and objects - electronic circuitry quickly springs to mind as a
  potential application.

  If this gives the impression that IntelliDraw is the easiest and
  most powerful drawing package ever, well, it isn't quite that.
  While anyone with basic Macintosh competence will be up and
  running with IntelliDraw in no time, its sheer wealth of features
  (I haven't even touched on slide shows, charting, and simple
  animation) mean that you often have more than one way of doing
  things, and it's not always clear which is the most efficient. To
  put it another way, power and complexity often go hand-in-hand,
  and mastering as opposed to just coping with IntelliDraw requires
  effort. Neither are IntelliDraw's capabilities limitless. For
  example, I found it impossible to do a convincing solid cylinder
  using the Connectigon. It was the curved surface of the cylinder
  that caused me grief - if the cylinder is upright then this
  surface takes the form of two vertical lines for the sides and two
  half-oval curves at the top and bottom. Since the Connectigon is
  essentially a connected polygon tool (hence the name), and since
  ovals are effectively infinitely-many-sided polygons, you have no
  choice but to approximate the curved top and bottom edges of the
  cylinder using bezier curves. While you can make a reasonable stab
  at this, the result will not stretch accurately.

  This isn't to gainsay IntelliDraw's power. It's sufficiently
  capable that although IntelliDraw does not attempt to supplant
  FreeHand's PostScript capabilities, it will prove to be more than
  just a smart sidekick.

  IntelliDraw requires at least a 68020 processor and 2.3 MB of
  memory. It imports and exports PICT and EPS files and imports TIFF
  and text files. However the current version of IntelliDraw behaves
  in an unorthodox way when saving PICT files. If you import a PICT
  that contains a bitmapped image as opposed to objects, and save
  this as another PICT, you will most likely see a huge increase in
  file size. For example, a 100K screen dump turned into a 1 MB PICT
  file when saved from IntelliDraw, with no changes made! A source
  who has had contact with Aldus says this behavior arises because
  IntelliDraw also saves its own representation of the bitmap. This
  "feature" will become an option in a future upgrade. Polyglot
  artists (there must be some!) should also be warned that
  IntelliDraw does not appear to fully support the System 7.0 Script
  Manager; I have no idea how it would cope with WorldScript. While
  we're on the subject, IntelliDraw does not support QuickTime.

  IntelliDraw does support 24-bit color in RGB, CMYK, and HSB color
  systems and offers complete file interchange with its Windows
  counterpart, for whatever that's worth. It ships with a whopping
  5.7 MB worth of well-constructed sample art and templates. Initial
  copies also include an instructional video and a colorful but
  fragile reference card.

  Others have expressed concern with IntelliDraw's speed, but it
  runs fine on my humble LC. Overall it seems somewhat faster than
  the more-expensive MacDraw Slow, sorry, Pro and offers much more
  functionality. Part of the concern may stem from the fact that
  IntelliDraw does things that no other graphics programs attempt,
  such as Auto Align, and indiscriminate use of certain features can
  significantly degrade performance, which is true in many powerful
  programs.

  Whether you're trying to discover latent artistic talent, or
  you're a professional who needs to refine and streamline drawing
  tasks, IntelliDraw is for you. Perhaps the best endorsement that I
  can make is that if you can only have one draw package on your
  Mac, IntelliDraw is a serious contender.

  [Richard Lim welcomes comments on this review, as well as on any
  Mac-related matters, at <[e-mail]>.]

    Aldus Consumer Division
    9770 Carroll Center Rd., Suite J
    San Diego, CA  92126-4551
    619/695-6956 ext. 5302
    619/695-7902 (fax)
    [e-mail]


Sounding Off
------------
  by Tonya Engst, TidBITS Editor

  It's too bad more Macintosh users don't know how to play with
  sounds, because manipulating sounds using the Macintosh, while it
  may not help your company rake in the profits, can provide hours
  of entertainment, not to mention the occasional practical joke.
  Back in the old days I shared a student office with five other
  Cornellians and one Mac Plus. Two colleagues were named Dave, so
  we had fun rigging the Mac to beep, "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I
  can't do that." Later we set up the Mac to say, "Stop smoking,
  Patti," but that's a different story. At any rate, Craig
  O'Donnell's Cool Mac Sounds ($19.95, Hayden Books, ISBN 0-672-
  48253-0) offers a welcome introduction to Macintosh sounds.

  Craig lives in the world of sounds, and his book has an informal
  yet knowledgeable tone to it, as though he sat down one rainy
  Sunday afternoon and knocked off most of the rough draft. He has a
  fun way of succinctly expressing complicated topics: "In Resource
  City, resources are urbanites. Sound resources congregate inside
  structures - applications, stacks, and files. They're a busy
  bunch: When the System calls, resources respond, shoveling data
  bytes to the speaker to create a... sound."

  Cool Mac Sounds comes with a high-density floppy disk that
  contains sounds and software to get you started. Some of the
  software lets you work directly with the sounds; other programs
  use the sounds in various ways (like an alarm program). Craig
  explains how to use all of the software on the disk and how to use
  some software not included on the disk.

  The book starts with the basics: installing Arrgh - which makes
  random screaming noises, and MacPuke - the Mac makes retching
  noises when ejecting disks, though this didn't work with my
  PowerBook 100 floppy drive. Once you pass this juvenile stuff (a
  necessary phase, perhaps) Craig moves on to extensions that use
  sounds in some way, and continues on until he fulfils the early
  promise that the reader will "know enough to work creatively with
  sounds in HyperCard and to prepare sound clips to use in Apple's
  new QuickTime." (If you were wondering, Craig assumes you use
  System 6.0.7, 6.0.8, 7.0, or 7.0.1.)

  Craig explains the basic technical details about sound - wave
  forms, the difference between digital and analog, what you need to
  know about sampling, voltage, kilohertz, and the like. Craig tells
  it like it is with easily understood explanations and advice like,
  "Only dweebs call it digitized sound. Graphics are digitized -
  sounds are sampled. Got it? Good."

  Cool Mac Sounds has a chapter packed with information about what
  kinds of sounds the different Macintosh models put out, whether
  their internal speakers do mono or stereo sound, and how to attach
  each and every Macintosh (before Oct-92 Macs) to an external
  speaker and to headphones, complete with Radio Shack part numbers.
  Craig also briefly reviews several speakers that might be useful
  with the Macintosh. This  information is hard to find, so those
  who need it will be glad for it.

  After providing sound tips and talking about more sophisticated
  software, Cool Mac Sounds winds down with "Cool Solutions to
  Uncool Problems." This chapter offers solutions to problems such
  as being unable to play System 7 sounds when double-clicking them;
  getting error -230 when opening the Sound CDEV; the Plus, SE, and
  Classic buzzing "like a bandsaw" when playing long sounds; and why
  the PowerBook makes a snapping sound. If you want to know the
  answers, you'll have to buy the book.

  Cool Mac Sounds is mandatory reading for any Macintosh user who
  always knew the Mac was supposed to be more fun than "other"
  computers, but never quite figured out why. It's also mandatory
  reading for anyone working the floor of an Apple dealership since
  sounds are one of the coolest parts of the Mac. For those of us
  who have figured out why the Macintosh is fun but never figured
  out the basic subtleties of using sounds, the book is definitely
  recommended. Cool Mac Sounds could also be used as a terrific
  textbook. Although some chapters aren't appropriate, I see a class
  of sixth graders having a blast with much of the software and
  ideas in the book.

    Hayden Books -- 800/428-5331 (orders) -- 317/573-2500
      317/573-2583 (fax)

  Information from:
    Craig O'Donnell -- [e-mail]


Reviews/07-Dec-92
-----------------

* MacUser -- Jan-93
    Microsoft Works 3.0 -- pg. 50
    cc:Mail 2.0 -- pg. 52
    Morph 1.0 -- pg. 54
    LetterPerfect 2.1 -- pg. 55
    MacroMind Director 3.1 -- pg. 56
    MacDraw Pro 1.5 -- pg. 58
    Canon CJ10 -- pg. 61
    CA-Cricket Graph III 4.0 -- pg. 72
    Special Delivery 1.0 -- pg. 76
    Numeric Keypad -- pg. 83
    NoteBook KeyPad -- pg. 83
    PowerPad -- pg. 83
    FastTrack Schedule -- pg. 83
    Headline Harry and the Great Paper Race -- pg. 85
    Shiva LanRover/L -- pg. 85
    Sixteen Inch Color Monitors -- pg. 104
      (too many to list)
    Network Rendering Programs -- pg. 130
      BackBurner
      RenderPro
      DreamNet
    OCR Software -- pg. 152
      (too many to list)
    600-dpi Printers -- pg. 186
      LexMark IBM LaserPrinter 10A
      NewGen TurboPS/660
      Xante Accel-a-Writer 8000


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