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 New Macs? Yup, but the Apple Workgroup Servers may not knock
   your socks off. David Blatner's essential "Desktop Publisher's
   Survival Kit" from Peachpit Press stands a better chance. We
   also have two reports from user group land, including a new
   Internet SIG of the Boston Computer Society, and a sad story
   of online unpleasantness. Digital sex crops up again, and if
   you think that's exciting, check out the new Apple Internet
   Router upgrade. Whee!

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Topics:
    MailBITS/29-Mar-93
    TwoBITS/29-Mar-93
    Apple Internet Router Upgrade
    Nisus Terminology
    Virtual Sex?
    Apple Workgroup Servers
    BCS Internet SIG
    A Tale of Two Cities
    Crash DTP Survival Course
    Reviews/29-Mar-93

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MailBITS/29-Mar-93
------------------
  I'm trying something new. Since I receive a ton of information
  that doesn't warrant detailed exploration in TidBITS, I'm starting
  a new section called TwoBITS that will address deserving
  announcements but will do so in only two sentences (and contact
  info). Let me know how you like it after you've seen a few.


TwoBITS/29-Mar-93
-----------------
  Practical Peripherals announced significant price cuts on various
  modem models. Perhaps the most interesting reduction is the
  PM14400FXMT, a v.everything external data/fax modem whose list
  price dropped from $399 to $299.

    Practical Peripherals -- 805/497-4774 -- 805/374-7272 (fax)


After Dark Module Contest '93
  Entries are now available from Berkeley Systems for their 1993
  contest for best After Dark module in each of three categories:
  Macintosh, Windows, and Computer Artist. Prizes for the contest,
  which ends 15-Jul-93, range from the $10,000 Grand Prize to
  various pieces of hardware for runners-up.

    Berkeley Systems -- 510/540-5535 x 600 -- 510/540-5115 (fax)


Apple Internet Router Upgrade
-----------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, Contributing Editor -- [e-mail]
     Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers

  Users of Apple's Internet Router 2.0 package can now purchase the
  Internet Router Basic Connectivity Package upgrade kit through the
  mail. You must mail your original Internet Router 2.0 disk (part
  number 690-5327-A); your name, company name, shipping address (no
  P.O. boxes), and telephone number; proof of purchase showing the
  date on which you bought Internet Router 2.0; and appropriate
  payment.

  The price is $49 plus local sales tax if you bought Internet
  Router 2.0 after 01-Nov-92, or $149 plus local sales tax if you
  bought it earlier. Accepted payment forms are a check payable to
  Apple Computer, Inc., or credit card information including card
  number, expiration date, the name on the card, and the card's
  billing address. Apple accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express,
  and the Apple Credit Card.

  Mail all that to:
    Apple Computer, Inc.
    Attn: Apple Internet Router Upgrade Program
    P.O. Box 7043
    Dover, DE  19903

  Apple says users should allow three to seven days for delivery.

  Information from:
    Apple propaganda


Nisus Terminology
-----------------
  Jim Bates from Nisus Technical Support wrote to tell us that they
  prefer to use the term "hardware enabling" when talking about the
  ADB-based hardware copy protection device, colloquially called a
  "dongle." Jim also mentioned that he had read somewhere that
  "dongle" stems from the name of the man who invented it, Don Gill.
  No idea as to the truth of that bit.

  The Nisus dongle is actually called the PETlock, in part because
  it's a cool name and in part because it is based on "Paragon
  Enabling Technology." One reason Nisus prefers the more
  politically correct term "hardware enabler" is that Nisus doesn't
  cease to work without the dongle. Instead, Nisus acts like the
  demo version, with saving disabled and "Nisus Demo" plastered over
  all printed pages. I appreciate that because I think most people
  could do basic word processing for a short time in that mode in
  case of a dongle failure, pasting new text into a TeachText
  document for saving, for instance. Nonetheless, I hope that Nisus
  would ship a new dongle as fast as FedEx would allow to anyone
  whose dongle failed. I'd go nuts if I lost the use of Nisus for a
  few days, and I even have other word processors to use.

  Despite the "enabling" that goes on, I think Nisus should use the
  more-obnoxious term "copy protection" instead, if only to bring
  attention to the fact that the point of this device is to reduce
  piracy. Nisus has stated publicly that they don't like using the
  dongle any more than anyone else, so it's in everyone's best
  interests to raise awareness of the piracy problem in various
  parts of the world. Only when people know about the problems
  piracy causes will they stand up for elimination of both piracy
  and obnoxious copy protection.

  Failing that, how about if Nisus got together with Global Village
  and put the guts of a TelePort ADB modem into the dongle? At least
  then you'd have something useful hanging off your ADB port.

  As an aside, I now have Nisus 3.4L, and although I like it a lot,
  I immediately hit a bug that Nisus knows about and is fixing. If
  you spell check a word longer than 32 characters (such as a Unix
  directory path), the checker helpfully reports a "Spelling checker
  error." Until Nisus has a fix ready, if you receive the error
  message, simply move the cursor below the too-long word (command-
  click in the main document to do this without sending the Check
  Spelling window to the back - a slick touch), and start the check
  again. It will fail again at the long word, but you'll know that
  everything in between was checked. Using the Ignore Spelling style
  doesn't work, sorry. Nisus said they'd send me an updated version
  as soon as they had it fixed, but you do have to call if you want
  the fix since it's not something that most people will ever
  notice.


Nisus Writer Upgrade

Mel Martinez writes:
  You should also point out that despite the nominal charges for
  upgrading to  Nisus 3.4L ($20) or 3.4C ($120), those Nisus users
  who ordered the Nisus XS upgrade before 09-Jun-92 are entitled to
  receive that upgrade free when it ships, hopefully in a few
  months. Also, Nisus XS has been renamed Nisus Writer. This, I
  guess, brings the name in sync with the popular Japanese version
  of Nisus which is called SoloWriter.

  I am glad to see Nisus continue to remember their early supporters
  by offering the next major upgrade to them free. However, I would
  be even happier to see it ship.

  [I think the name change may also have been a marketing move to
  improve Nisus's name recognition. If you don't know that Nisus is
  a word processor, the name "Nisus" won't clue you in. "Nisus
  Writer" implies that the program is a word processor. I approve of
  this move a great deal - in part because Tonya and I came up with
  the same name independently when talking about reasons why Nisus
  had name recognition troubles. Naming is important, and it
  certainly hasn't helped the almost-unknown word processor Taste,
  which could be a recipe database for all you can tell from the
  name. -Adam]

  Information from:
    Jim Bates, Nisus Tech Support -- [e-mail]
    Mel Martinez -- [e-mail]


Virtual Sex?
------------
  by Keith Bourgoin -- [e-mail]

  Although Tonya Engst's book review of "Silicon Mirage" wasn't
  specifically intended to cover the topic of "virtual sex," some
  points need to be clarified. Even though I am NOT an expert in
  virtual reality (VR), I participated in a network conference on
  that subject a year ago as an interested party and would like to
  mention some of the finer details and conclusions we agreed on in
  the conference.

  Tonya says, "It turns out that virtual reality has little to do
  with sex." I am sorry to say that as a quickly evolving technology
  and because it has always been the case, exploitative people will
  surely use VR as another sex-oriented product in an already huge
  industry. This is where the real problem arises.

  Right now, VR is in its infancy and we are still far from publicly
  available computer-generated animations that are credible as
  reality. But as is often the case, the creation of a niche market
  for virtual sex will finance technological advances, leading to a
  finer quality of consumer VR within years. This forces us to take
  a stand on the matter very quickly.

  With the advent of consumer VR, we will be flooded with a mass of
  VR peripherals that will cover the broad spectrum of sensations
  that a person can experience in real life, including sex. It is
  difficult NOT to imagine such peripherals considering the huge
  number of sex-oriented mechanical devices in sex shops. With the
  coming of peripherals capable of simulating the stimulus of sex in
  a fantasy reality, we are giving people the means to reinforce
  this pretend reality, a reality in which sex could conceivably be
  exaggerated beyond reality into imagination. In fact, we are
  creating the perfect device to transform people into sex-obsessed
  schizophrenics, people who can't distinguish reality from fiction.
  These devices could cause serious mental and sociological
  problems. [Of course, this applies to many different topics within
  a broad-based virtual environment, and is equally as harmful in
  those cases as well. -Adam]

  The conclusion we drew in the VR conference was that even though
  VR is an interesting and promising technology, it must be closely
  supervised to achieve its true potential; without this
  supervision, VR could become another dangerous technology that
  could cost millions in medical care, social rehabilitation, and
  perhaps even lives. It is high time we address the possible abuses
  and deal with them while we still hold the reins.

  [For those interested in the arguments that always swirl around
  when sex is mentioned, check out the cover story in NewMedia
  magazine's April issue, entitled "Digital Sex: Technology, Law, &
  Censorship." Suzanne Stefanac provides an excellent and thoughtful
  overview of many of the issues we raised in TidBITS#159 and #160,
  and she touches briefly on the issues Keith mentions above. -Adam]

    NewMedia Magazine -- [e-mail]


Apple Workgroup Servers
-----------------------
  by Tonya Engst, TidBITS Editor

  Last week Apple introduced three new flavors of Macintosh, the
  Apple Workgroup Servers 60, 80, and 95. They closely resemble
  their cousins, the existing Centris 610, Quadra 800, and Quadra
  950, much as the Performa 200, 400, and 600 closely resemble the
  Classic II, LC II, and IIvx.


Old Macs telling a new story
  The Apple Workgroup Servers (AWS) 60 and 80 represent the low- and
  medium-end of what you can buy. The AWS 60 comes standard with
  onboard Ethernet, unlike its Centris 610 cousin, which offers
  onboard Ethernet only optionally. Both the AWS 60 and 80 ship
  standard with large hard drive configurations and a faster version
  of AppleShare, AppleShare 4.0, which only works on 68040 Macs.
  AppleShare will come pre-installed, hopefully making life easier
  for busy network administrators. Apple plans to ship these
  configurations in July, and since the hardware should be ready,
  the delay probably comes from finishing up AppleShare 4.0.


Hardware in a hurry
  The AWS 95 offers more interesting changes than the others. It
  resembles the Quadra 950 but includes a built-in PDS accelerator
  card that speeds operations with a 128K or 256K static RAM (SRAM)
  cache and two SCSI direct memory access (DMA) ports. Other
  uncommon hardware includes parity RAM, which ensures that memory
  reads and writes are completely accurate. This doesn't much matter
  except in utterly critical tasks, but I gather that certain U.S.
  government contracts require this level of computing safety.

  Software on the AWS 95 supports the speed offered by the hardware.
  Network administrators buying an AWS 95 need a rudimentary
  knowledge of A/UX, because this machine ships with AppleShare Pro
  running under A/UX, which allows the hardware to work to spec and
  provides multi-threading and multi-tasking, making it possible for
  a crowd of people to simultaneously read and write from the
  server. The AWS 95 also ships with a four-user pack (for the
  server and three clients, and you can buy more user packs from
  Dantz) of Retrospect Remote 2.0 A/UX. Dantz's new release can
  backup both Unix and Macintosh file formats. The machine comes
  with A/UX and AppleShare Pro pre-installed and should ship
  shortly.

  The AWS 95 will provide a true SCSI challenge for those
  interested. In addition to the two SCSI DMA ports, the computer
  sports two regular SCSI ports. At seven devices per port, you
  could theoretically attach 28 devices [In your dreams! -Adam].
  Various magazines suggest that 20 to 25 devices will be more
  realistic, with a combination of internal and external devices.
  Perhaps a hardware company could sponsor an annual contest where
  SCSI configuration experts could gather and compete to see how
  many devices they could successfully attach to an AWS 95 with
  bonus points going to the person with the longest SCSI chain
  length.


Software
  Aside from Retrospect Remote 2.0 A/UX, other software for the new
  servers will include a special version of the Oracle7 database
  from Oracle, a version of 4D Server from ACIUS, and possibly some
  deals with Sybase and Informix, companies that are big in the
  large-scale database market. Later this year, Apple will also
  release AppleSearch, a full text search application, complete with
  relevance ordering and XTND capabilities.


Overall
  The AWS 60 and 80 will only succeed if Apple can separate them
  sufficiently from the Centris 610 or Quadra 800 in terms of
  features and pricing. Otherwise people will simply purchase a
  comparable Centris or Quadra and configure it with network
  software and third-party hard drives. Without competitive pricing,
  these Macs will only sell to people who wish to blithely purchase
  a Macintosh server, without taking the time to do more research
  than scan a colorful Apple brochure. Since pricing will range from
  $3000 for the cheapest AWS 60 to $13,000 for the snazziest AWS 95
  (upgrades from the Quadra 900 and 950 will be available), cost
  will be a major issue.

  The AWS 95 is the most interesting of the lot, and you would be
  hard pressed to match its functionality. Also, Dantz doesn't
  currently plan to market Retrospect Remote A/UX 2.0 separately.
  For those who need the fastest server possible now, the AWS 95
  should fit the bill. For those who can wait, Cyclones and PowerPCs
  may soon provide even more alluring speeds.

    Dantz Development -- 510/849-0293 -- 510/849-1708 (fax)

  Information from:
    Pythaeus
    Apple and Dantz propaganda

  Related articles:
    MacWEEK -- 08-Mar-93, Vol 7, #10, pg. 1
    MacWEEK -- 22-Mar-93, Vol. 7, #12, pg. 1
    Macworld -- May-93, pg. 64


BCS Internet SIG
----------------
  The Boston Computer Society, the world's largest computer user
  group, has created an Internet Special Interest Group (ISIG) in
  response to increased interest in the Internet, without doubt the
  coolest thing happening in communication today. You have to be a
  BCS member or an MIT person to join the ISIG, but anyone can
  attend the meetings or join the ISIG's Internet mailing list.

  ISIG provides an opportunity for members to explore two common
  questions about the Internet. Ever wondered what the Internet is
  good for, or how you could access and use it? Then the ISIG can
  help. Like standard user group SIGs, the ISIG will have local
  monthly meetings and will offer other user group services to
  people in Boston, such as free and low-cost classes, but members
  outside of Boston receive a monthly newsletter and free support
  via phone or electronic mail.

  "This is a big step for the BCS," said ISIG Director Michael
  Barrow, a computer systems consultant at MIT. "Until now, there
  was no place for people outside the universities and the computer
  industry to learn about the net."

  For more information contact:
    Michael Barrow, Boston Computer Society
    617/252-0600 -- 617/491-4580 -- 617/577-9365 (fax)
    [e-mail]
    FTP to: isig.mit.edu

  Information from:
    BCS propaganda


A Tale of Two Cities
--------------------
  by Roz Ault -- [e-mail]

  The world's largest Macintosh user group, Berkeley-based BMUG,
  recently set up a second bulletin board system across the country
  in Boston. Boston, of course, is home to the other big Mac user
  group, the Macintosh arm of the Boston Computer Society (BCS).
  BMUG's Boston BBS arose because of internal political problems
  within BCS that caused the resignation of the volunteer sysops on
  the BCS Mac BBS. We thought a brief look at this story might shed
  light on problems that can affect volunteer user groups and
  suggest ways of avoiding similar problems.

  The Boston sysop team left BCS because of frustrations over BCS
  internal politics and lack of BCS support for online services. The
  BCS team had cooperated with BMUG on joint promotions that
  directly benefited the BCS Mac BBS to the tune of several thousand
  dollars. Nevertheless, the Mac group as a whole was running a
  serious deficit. The recently-appointed BCS president, Robert
  Grenoble, wasn't pleased and labeled the sysops' activities an
  "embarrassment" to the BCS. It's unclear whether he felt the
  relaxed style of BMUG was unbefitting the BCS image, or whether
  his objection was to some violation of administrative protocol
  within the BCS hierarchy.

  At any rate, the sysops' resignations set off a chain of events
  that raised a furor in the Boston online community. The BCS
  employee sent to take over management of the DOS-based Mac
  bulletin board soon began deleting messages critical of the BCS,
  including private email messages. He reduced the access of many
  remaining Mac activists, then when some of those volunteers
  resigned in protest, he deleted their resignation messages, which
  set off yet another round of resignations.

  BCS President Grenoble, when questioned by a local newspaper on
  this issue, was quoted as saying there was no censorship, just
  deletion of  "disruptive" and deliberately inflammatory messages
  by people using the system for personal, and juvenile, grudges.
  However, since Grenoble himself doesn't use bulletin boards or
  email, he probably failed to understand what a passionate response
  the message deletions would evoke (or how quickly the whole issue
  would probably have blown over, had the so-called inflammatory
  messages simply been ignored).

  As computers become more a business tool and less a homebrew
  hobby, many user groups are having a hard time defining roles and
  rules. Can one group meet the increasingly diverse demands of the
  corporate user, the home user, the novice user, the power user?
  How do you attract and keep volunteers, while keeping them under
  some semblance of organization? How do online services fit into
  the over-all user group mission? What is this mission anyway? User
  groups need to come up with good answers to convince people
  they're worth the price of a membership.

  People interested in comparing the online answers from BCS and
  BMUG can call (via modem):

    BCS Mac BBS -- 617/864-0712
    BMUG Boston BBS --  617/721-5840
    Planet BMUG BBS (Berkeley) -- 510/849-2684

  BCS Mac is a DOS-based TBBS board. The BMUG systems run on
  FirstClass. Although you can call BMUG in command-line mode with a
  regular communications program, the FirstClass client software is
  free from most online services, or from various Internet sites,
  including sumex-aim.stanford.edu (archived as info-mac/comm/first-
  class-user-207.hqx).

  [As a quick disclaimer, Roz was involved in the unpleasantness on
  the BCS Mac BBS, and is currently working with the BMUG Boston
  BBS. -Adam]


Crash DTP Survival Course
-------------------------
  by Bill Dickson -- [e-mail]

  Before, I couldn't even kern "Desktop Publisher." Now I are one.

  So there I was, in a mild state of panic, babbling semi-coherently
  at Adam over the phone. The manager of the Kinko's at which I work
  had decided to make the desktop publishing position official,
  which meant I could apply for it and try to escape boredom, bad
  hours, and poverty in a single stroke. Sadly, the extent of my
  desktop publishing ability was a general competency with the Mac
  combined with a working knowledge of Microsoft Word 4.0. Not
  exactly the foundation of an empire.

  "So what's the problem?" Adam asked me. I explained that I had to
  learn PageMaker, FreeHand, and The Rules in approximately four
  days. "Don't worry about it," he said. "Come over tomorrow night
  and I'll help you out."

  What sort of help could he give me, I wondered? A crash course
  without pause for sleep? Self-hypnosis tapes? Incriminating
  photographs of the interviewers? I arrived, curious, and he handed
  me... a book.

  "This'll tell you everything you have to know," he told me. I
  looked skeptical. It was quite small, and a fairly sickly shade of
  green to boot. "Not everything you'll ever want to know to be a
  desktop publisher," he explained, noticing my expression.
  "Everything you absolutely must know if you plan to be one. No
  more, no less."

  Damned if he wasn't right.

  David Blatner, author of the "Desktop Publisher's Survival Kit,"
  (Peachpit Press, ISBN# 0-938151-76-2, $22.95) has successfully
  compacted a wealth of vital information into a short, quick-
  reading volume. Despite the density of information, it is easy,
  often entertaining, to read, and David explains the concepts
  clearly and simply. The book is well-organized, covering a single
  major topic in each chapter and breaking down concepts within each
  topic into easily digestible chunks. One could say that David is
  the intestinal enzyme of choice for the novice desktop publisher,
  except that he might take it the wrong way. Major topics include:

* Graphic files - different types, how they work, what they're
  good for
* Fonts - similar issues
* Word Processing - concepts, do's and don'ts, how-to's, and copy
  editing concepts
* Typography - how to make it look good, and why you should make
  it look good
* Styles and Codes - how to make your life a whole lot easier
* Scans and Halftones - how they work, how to work with them
* Color - different kinds, how it displays, how it prints
* Printing - different output devices, setting up, dealing with
  service bureaus, and much, much more
* When Things Go Wrong - what can go wrong, why it might, how to
  try to fix it, and The Strangest Bug He's Ever Seen (which you
  must see to believe)
* Software - the book also comes with a disk full of handy
  utilities, and David explains what they are and why they're useful
  to you.

  Note that the book does not give you instruction in any particular
  software package. It's not meant as a software tutorial or a
  manual. It explains the concepts that apply to the entire field,
  regardless of what software you use.

  As far as I'm concerned, the Typography and Styles & Codes
  chapters are sufficient reason for you to buy David a lot of beer
  if you run across him. They were all I needed for my immediate
  concerns. I found a wealth of useful information in the other
  chapters of the book as well, with the exceptions of the Scans &
  Halftones and Color chapters, which I didn't read past their first
  pages. To me, at least, those subjects are far more complex than
  the others, and even David was unable to simplify them to the
  point where a total novice could understand them.

  On the other hand, after three months on the job, I'm ready to go
  back and read those chapters. Not only will I now understand what
  they're talking about, but it's getting to the point where I need
  to understand that information. Yes, that's right; I got the job,
  and I can honestly say that I don't think it would have happened
  if not for the "Desktop Publisher's Survival Kit." Before, I was a
  measly weekend shift supervisor with no night life, no money, an
  old Apple IIgs, vast debt, and a cupboard full of Mission Macaroni
  and Cheese dinners. Now, I'm a desktop publisher with a Duo 210,
  lots of friends, a good social life, and enough money to brew a
  little beer on the side. I think I may be losing weight and
  gaining a deeper understanding of the cosmic truths as well.

  Will the "Desktop Publisher's Survival Kit" do all this for you,
  too? There's only one way to find out.

    Peachpit Press -- 800/283-9444 -- 510/548-4393
      510/548-5991 (fax)


Reviews/29-Mar-93
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 22-Mar-93, Vol. 7, #12
    Photoshop 2.5 -- pg. 45
    LaserWriter Pro 600 & 630 -- pg. 45
    Wacom ArtZ -- pg. 50

* MacUser -- Apr-93
    HP PaintJet XL300 -- pg. 56
    Lexmark IBM Color Jetprinter PS 4079 -- pg. 56
    VideoFusion -- pg. 59
    Microsoft Word -- pg. 66
    Lotus 1-2-3 -- pg. 67
    Infini-D -- pg. 68
    Publish It! Easy -- pg. 69
    ACT! & Shortlist -- pg. 71
    Helix Express -- pg. 79
    MacProject Pro -- pg. 87
    SAM -- pg. 91
    Conflict Catcher and Other Innovative Utilities -- pg. 91
    Star Trek: The Screen Saver -- pg. 91
    Songworks -- pg. 95
    RightWriter -- pg. 97
    Color Classic & LC III -- pg. 100
    Centris 610, Centris 650 & Quadra 800 -- pg. 106
    PowerBook 165c -- pg. 114
    Accelerators -- pg. 118
      (too many to list)
    3.5" Magneto-optical drives -- pg. 162
      (too many to list)
    Photography CD-ROMs -- pg. 183
      (too many to list)
    COPSTalk for Windows 1.01 -- pg. 215
    Edutainment CD-ROMs -- pg. 221
      (too many to list)

* BYTE -- Apr-93
    Photoshop 2.5 -- pg. 49
    PowerBook Peripherals -- pg. 173
      (too many to list)
    Aldus Fetch -- pg. 183
    Timbuktu for Windows -- pg. 185

* Macworld -- May-93
    Color Ink-jet Printers -- pg. 94
      (too many to list)
    Color Thermal Wax Printers -- pg. 100
      (too many to list)
    Color Dye-sublimation Printers -- pg. 106
      (too many to list)
    Monochrome Monitors -- pg. 112
      (too many to list)
    Kai's Power Tools Volume 1, 1.0 -- pg. 128
    WriteMove II -- pg. 129
    RapidTrak 1.0.1 -- pg. 130
    FastCache Quadra -- pg. 132
    Lightning Effects & Thunderstorm -- pg. 132
    Comet CG 1.0.3 -- pg. 136
    Andrew Tobias' TaxCut for Macintosh -- pg. 139
    MacInTax -- pg. 139
    MacProject Pro -- pg. 140
    SuperATM -- pg. 142
    SpreadBase 1.0.1 -- pg. 144
    WealthBuilder 2.0 -- pg. 146
    TimesTwo 1.0.1 -- pg. 146
    AccuZip6 1.5.2 -- pg. 148
    MacPhase 1.2 -- pg. 150
    EISToolkit 2.0 -- pg. 150
    The UnMouse -- pg. 152
    DEClaser 1152 -- pg. 152
    TimeVision 1.0 -- pg. 154
    Comprehensive Review in Biology -- pg. 154
    Theorist 1.5 -- pg. 156
    DiskFit Direct 1.0 -- pg. 156
    DayMaker 2.0 -- pg. 158
    RightWriter for the Mac 5.0 -- pg. 158
    Tree -- pg. 160
    ithink 2.2.1 -- pg. 160
    CPM Graphic Tutor 1 & 2 -- pg. 162
    Expert Home Design -- pg. 162
    Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge -- pg. 164
    Star Trek: The Screen Saver -- pg. 164
    Data Desk 4.0 -- pg. 166
    Algebra -- pg. 166
    LapTrack for the Mac 1.0b -- pg. 168
    L-TV -- pg. 168
    Who Killed Sam Rupert -- pg. 174
    Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective, Volume II -- pg. 174


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