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Date  : December 15, 1995 |CompuNotes is a weekly publication available
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This Week's Contents:

My Notes:
1) Notes on the mailing list, introduction of new editors, correction of
trivia articles and happy holidays!

News:
1) Smith Micro Stock is Falling . . .
2) ADAM Human CDROM is Here . . .

Reviews:
1) Norton Navigator, Reviewed by Doug Reed ([e-mail])
2) Activision Adventure CDROM, Reviewed by Mike Gallo
   ([e-mail])
3) Sidekick 95, Dennis MacPhereson ([e-mail])

Web Sites:
1) Mutual Fund on the Web!
2) Lawyer's Oasis!

FTP File:
1) SWAPIRQ for when you run out of IRQ Settings!

Interview:
1) A Short Biography of our New Editors!

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                             Patrick's News
         Being The Publisher and Managing Editor Has Its Perks!
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MAILING LIST|
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    Ugh! We are still having trouble with our new mailing list software.
You will notice that this issue is in two pieces due to a size
limitation at the mail server. In addition, I don't seem to be getting
the proper confirmations when people subscribe or unsubscribe to the
list, so I don't know if it worked or not. Bear with us . . .

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NEW EDITORS|
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    Please take a moment and read the interview section to learn more
about our new editors. These folks are truly professionals! Feel free to
drop them a mail note and welcome them to CompuNotes!

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TRIVIA CORRECTIONS|
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    Who thought computer trivia was that big? We were sent a few
corrections to our article on Computer Trivia. Look at the end of this
section for the skivvy.

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Happy Holidays!|
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    Just a minute to wish all of you a happy time during this holiday
season. I know that sometimes we forget the reason for the season,
but try to remember that there is much more. I'm not talking just about
religious beliefs, but family and loved ones companionship as well!
    Happy Holidays everyone!

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COMPUTER TRIVIA CNTND . . .|
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    Here are some notes on the Computer Trivia we ran last month:

From: [e-mail]
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Issue #27 2nd Part . . .

Patrick:

Was told many years ago that:

Control G rang the Gong (bell);

Control Z was EOF because it was the end of the alphabet; and,

Control M was carriage return because it is the midpoint in the alphabet
and returning to the left margin at that point printed the alphabet in
two lines of the same length (of some unknown importance to teletype users).

Never heard anything about Control H.

Bill Purdy
Alexandria VA

Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 23:51:25 +0900
To: [e-mail]
From: Peter Eckersley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Issue #27 2nd Part . . .

COMPUNOTES wrote:
>
>5. Apple didn't stop making the Apple computer after the Apple //C's and
>   //E's and //GS's.  They also made an Apple 3 and had plans for an Apple
>   4, which was possibly made.  However, the introduction of the Macintosh
>   put these to rest.  Incidentaly, the C stands for Color, the E stands
>   for Enhanced, and the GS stands for Graphics System(?).  The //E was
>   released before the //C(?).
>

As I remember it...
The Apple //C was the Compact portable. (All the Apple computers had color.)
The Apple 3 was made before the Apple //GS, and was replaced by the Lisa,
which was replaced by the Macintosh.

Peter

Date: 13 Dec 95 08:57:00 -0500
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Trivial Trivia details
Message-Id: <M2758813.003.j2wv3.1.951213140032Z.CC-MAIL*/O=HQ/PRMD=USDOE/ADMD=A
TTMAIL/C=US/@MHS>

<<5 1/4 inch floppies didn't always store 360kb or 1.2Mb of data.
The first 3 1/2's held 160kb.  This was then raised to 180kb,
then 320kb, then 360kb, then 1.2Mb.  3 1/2's only hold 720kb,
1.44Mb, or 2.88Mb.>>

Beyond the obvious of where you say 3 1/2 in the second line, and
really meant 5 1/4, 5 1/4 disks didn't start at 160k. A standard
Heath/Zenith Z-89 computer back around 1979 or so (an Z-80
processor chip, if I remember correctly, or maybe dual processor,
with z-80 and 8080) included a single sided hard sector 5 1/4
disk drive. This held 100k. You could recognize a hard sector
diskette by rotating the disk within the sleeve. Soft sector
disks have only one little hole near the ring in the center,
while hard sector disks had one every centimeter or so. Other
interesting Z-89 trivia: There was a little documented command
that loaded all the OS (HDOS or Heath DOS) into memory, so that
you could run with no disk in the drive. When you ran this
command, HDOS warned you "It is dark here. If you proceed, you
may fall into a pit."

Rusty Perrin

From: Thomas Lee <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Issue #27 2nd Part . . .
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0

In message <[e-mail]>, COMPUNOTES
<[e-mail]> writes
>8. 5 1/4 inch floppies didn't always store 360kb or 1.2Mb of data.  The
>   first 3 1/2's held 160kb.  This was then raised to 180kb, then 320kb,
>   then 360kb, then 1.2Mb.  3 1/2's only hold 720kb, 1.44Mb, or 2.88Mb.

I think you mean that the first 5 1/4's held 160 kb.  I remember them
well.

Thomas Lee

--
Thomas Lee  ([e-mail])
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Certified Trainer
PS Partnership - A Microsoft Solution Provider
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   NEWS OF THE WEEK| This section is dedicated to verified news . . .
       All News (C)opyright  Respective Owner - Will Only Reprint
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Smith Micro Stock Falling . . . |
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    ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Shares of Smith Micro
(Nasdaq: SMSI) are down sharply today following a significant decline
earlier in the week.  In a comment this morning, Charles M. Spear, Chief
Financial Officer, said, "there is nothing in our business or our
customer relationships to account for this weakness.  We are preparing
to release our Windows 95 retail software in the next few weeks, which
is within the schedule we set prior to our public offering.  All of our
customer relations hips are intact.  We expect that our quarter will
compare very favorably with the same quarter in 1994 and we expect that
our revenues may set a company record although we cannot predict with
certainty how the quarter will conclude."
    Earlier in the week, Randall Yuen, a securities analyst with
Oppenheimer & Co., reduced his forecast of Smith Micro fourth quarter
earning from $.10 per share to $.09 per share.  The company earned $.01
in the same quarter last year.

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ADAM CDROM IS Here . . . |
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    ATLANTA, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- For home computer enthusiasts,
A.D.A.M. offers the "A.D.A.M. at Home Series."  Its award winning
"A.D.A.M., The Inside Story" takes the entire family on an interactive
adventure into the human body.  With over four hours of fun animation,
sound and video, "A.D.A.M., The Inside Story" lets you explore all the
systems of the body.  But for a more specific adventure into the
beginnings of life, A.D.A.M. offers "Nine Month Miracle."
    This extraordinary multimedia journey features fascinating medical
animation, dramatic photography inside the mother's body from world-
renowned photographer Lennart Nilsson ("A Child is Born"), and video
from real life.  In the Family Album section, modern-day Adam and Eve
join our medical experts on an incredible month-by-month voyage into the
body as a new life develops.  Touching, real-life drama from the
acclaimed "Nine Months" video documentary which shares the multimedia
experience of a lifetime with five families -- from conception to birth.
Children ages 3-9 will enjoy seeing the baby through the eyes of 7-year-
old Emily in a special "Nine Month Miracle" bonus chapter, "Emily's New
Sister."
    A.D.A.M.'s newest release, "Life's Greatest Mysteries" provides
answers to many of life's most intriguing questions.  Dozens of exciting
animations, interactive games and fascinating factoids about the human
mind and body will entertain and educate the whole family for hours.
Discover the secrets of dreaming, see what makes the heart beat and much
more.  All guided by delightfully eccentric Bob Winkle.  Through an
interactive "question and answer" format with over four hours of sound,
video and animation, " Life's Greatest Mysteries" is divided into four
categories providing the user with a multimedia exploration of the
"Mind, Body, Sickness and Curiosities."
    All three products in the "A.D.A.M. At Home Series" are available in
both Windows and Macintosh formats in most computer software stores for
$39.95 each.
    A.D.A.M. Software, Inc. (Animated Dissection of Anatomy for
Medicine) is the leading developer of multimedia software featuring the
human body. The company was officially incorporated in March 1990, but
A.D.A.M.'s team of medical illustrators, graphic designers and
multimedia programmers behind A.D.A.M.'s products have been working on
these complex and accurate products for the past decade.  The company's
flagship product, "A.D.A.M. Comprehensive," is used by medical schools
and universities worldwide.
    A.D.A.M. Software, Inc. creates, publishes and markets educational
multimedia software products that provide anatomical, medical,
scientific, and health-related information for both the academic and
consumer markets.  A.D.A.M. products incorporate internally-developed,
original medical illustrations with text, audio, photography, animation
and video in easy-to-use interactive software applications.

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REVIEWS OF THE WEEK | Interesting software/hardware you may need . . .
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Product:        Norton Navigator for Windows95                       |
Reviewed By:    Doug Reed ([e-mail])                     |
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    Norton Navigator is an essential utility for all of those wanting to
get the most out of Windows 95.  Norton has released a real gem of a
program, which includes it's own file manager, multiple enhancements to
the Taskbar, long file name support for Windows 3.1 applications, and
SmartFolders, a new and dynamic way of creating and maintaining links to
related files.  Navigator installs easily and configures itself to your
system; you cannot choose what applications you want to install on your
hard disk but you can choose which ones are active and how they are
configured.  However, I think you will find that all of them are useful.
I found Navigator to be truly useful and indispensible utility.
    Navigator is centered around the Norton File Manager. Separate from
Explorer, Microsofts file management program for Windows 95, this
maintains a more 'classic' appearance similar to what most Windows 3.1
users are familiar with. It also contains SmartTabs, which enable you to
configure the display of your files and folders. Opening multiple
folders and displaying them side by side is as simple as it was with the
PC Tools for Windows 3.1 File Manager (not surprising, considering that
Central Point and Norton are both owned by Symantec). One very
interesting new ability is the ability to add FTP sites to the folder
lists. Once set up, accessing a remote FTP site is as easy as opening a
folder.  Norton File Manager also allows for easy compression or
expansion of files in either PKZip 2.04, SEA ARC, or LHA 2.1x formats.
Renaming a compressed file with the extension .EXE automatically
converts the file into a self-extracting program. Files can be encrypted
for protection or decrypted if protection is no longer necessary. Files
that are to be sent over the Internet can be uuencoded (or decoded once
received). Very handy for posting those .WAV files to a USENET server!
In addition to accessing those features in the Norton File Manager, most
of these features are added to the right mouse button.20
    Navigator also adds a number of enhancements to the Taskbar. If you
like to create separate desktops for separate projects, you can create
them with Navigator and find that accessing the different desktops is as
simple as clicking on them in the taskbar. Navigator also adds
QuickLaunch buttons to the Taskbar. One mouse click and your most
commonly used programs are up and running. I use this feature for some
of my favorite games, so that I can quickly boot up and play something
while I'm printing a long file.  Quicklaunch buttons are automatically
provided for Norton File Manager and for the Norton Navigator Control
Center (where you can configure Navigator). QuickMenus are added to the
Start button, allowing you to easily see lists of recently run commands,
recently opened documents (which can be grouped by type), and Control
Panel applets. In addition, Navigator adds a feature called
SmartFolders. SmartFolders enables you to save all of your files
associated with a particular application in one place, while creating
dynamic links so that files that are part of one project can be easily
found and opened. For example, a SmartFolder for a grant proposal might
contain word processing documents and graphics documents, which are
found not only together in the SmartFolder but also separately in their
application folders.
    Navigator also includes a number of other useful features. As
mentioned above, it adds long file name support for Windows 3.1
applications so that you can enjoy one of the advantages of Windows 95
without having to upgrade to Windows 95 applications. Navigator also
includes a number of useful search tools, in particular allowing you to
set up indexes for faster searches of text strings. The Norton File
Archive Wizard identifies files and programs that haven't been used in
awhile, allowing you to either back them up or delete them altogether,
saving on precious hard drive space.
    The bottom line is that if you have upgraded to Windows 95 then you
need Norton Navigator. Not that Windows 95 isn't a vastly improved OS
over Windows 3.1! But Navigator takes it to another level, making it by
far the most user-friendly and flexible of the operating systems out
there. Listen up, Apple: I think the combination of Windows 95 and
Navigator could be lethal!

                                Symantec
                           10201 Torre Avenue
                          Cupertino, CA 95014
                             [phone]
                        http://www.symantec.com
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Product:        Activision Adventure Collection CD                  |
Reviewed By:    Mike Gallo ([e-mail])       |
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    Ever wonder what it was like to play adventure games before the era
of 200 MIP processors, gigabyte hard drives, 3D sound, and super VGA
graphics?  Then, look no further than the Infocom's collection of
interactive adventure games by Activision.
    The Adventure Collection features seven classic interactive games:
Border Zone, Cutthroats, Infidel, Plundered Hearts, Trinity, Planetfall,
and Zork III.
    All seven games are 100 percent text based interactive games. Unlike
the mouse based point and click interfaces of today's games, these
require semi-complete sentences as input.  There are no sounds or
graphics!  The computer tells you what you see and you fill in the rest
with your imagination(not unlike reading a good fiction novel.)  Infocom
includes a book with all the original game materials along with some
maps and other extras.  Game play is the similar in all of the games.  A
brief description each game's plot follows.
    Border Zone - This is a three chapter game in which you play one of
three different characters (an American businessman, a Western Spy, and
then an Eastern spy) depending on which chapter you are in. (You don't
have to go through them in order.)  Time does not stand still in Border
Zone so beware.  Slow fingers could do you in!
    Cutthroats - You are a diver trying to salvage sunken treasure from
one of four shipwrecks.  Although there are four ships, only one
treasure will be found in any one game.
    Infidel - You are an explorer who as just been abandoned by your
men.  You awaken to find yourself alone in the desert search for a
ancient Egyptian pyramid.
    Plundered Hearts - This game casts the player in the role of an
Englishwoman!  The game start on a ship that is attacked by pirates.
Just before a ruffian decides to tarnish your reputation a dashing young
captain comes to your rescue with news from your father.  Your objective
is to find your way back to your father and maybe find some romance as
well.
    Trinity - This game has what I thought was one of the more
interesting story lines.  As you're enjoying your vacation in London, WW
III breaks out and the ensuing nuclear holocaust send London up in a
puff of smoke.  You end up in a strange world where strange things may
happen.  The object of the game it to make it back to New Mexico to the
site of the first atomic bomb test which was code named--TRINITY.  The
materials included an impressive bibliography to enable the player to
learn more about the development of the world's first atom bomb(the
Manhattan project) and the infamous Trinity test.
    Zork III - The Dungeon Master.  Dungeons, treasures, traps,
monsters, magic, you get the idea.
    Planetfall - Continuing a long family tradition you serve in the
Stellar Patrol roaming the galaxy, hoping to do more than mop the floor.
    Computer resource requirements are minimal(no problem for 286 or 386
machines).  The CD includes a Windows based install program, which will
install the files and create a program manager group for you.  Windows
is not required to run these games and you do not actually need Windows
to install the games.  The files can be copied straight to your hard
drive in DOS.  Less than 1.2 megabytes of disk space are required to
install all seven games to the hard drive.  If you're really stingy for
space, you can just run the games straight off the CD.  If you're a
collector of classic PC games or you like using your imagination instead
of relying on 3D rendered graphics, then I suggest you give the
Adventure Collection CD a try.

                               Activision
                             P.O. Box 67713
                         Los Angeles, CA 90067
                             [phone]
                       CompuServe: GO ACTIVISION
                    URL: http://www.activision.com/
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Product:        Sidekick95                                           |
Reviewed By:    Dennis MacPhereson  ([e-mail])                  |
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    Sidekick95 is one of the first personal information managers (PIM)
for the new Windows95 and it is slick. It has everything a good PIM
should have plus it's fast, easy to use, and costs around forty bucks.
    It has all the usual PIM-type features: calendars (daily, weekly,
monthly, yearly); cardfiles (as many as you want); expense reports
(pre formatted and automated); a phone dialer; appointment book; to-do
list, and reminders; plus a contact manager, word processor (with fonts,
search/replace, spell checking, merging, and more), a world clock, and
total customization.
    Everything in Sidekick runs like lightning. The six main views,
Calendar, Earth Time, CardFile, Write, Expense, and Reminder, are
accessed by clicking on the appropriate icon. I use the Calendar view as
my "home view" because it shows four of the most useful screens all in
one window. In the upper left quadrant of the Calendar view, today's
date is highlighted on a calendar of the month. You can view any other
day, month, or year with a click of the mouse. Below this small calendar
is the To-Do list; below the To-Do list is an area where you list the
calls you need to make (by dragging the person's name from the
cardfile). To the right of the calendar, to-do list, and calls list is
the appointments list. It is the largest area and shows the time of day
on the left side in 30-minute increments. If you've got to be somewhere
at 1:00pm, the appointment is clearly displayed in the font and color of
your choice. Pressing the right mouse button over any list or
appointment brings up a menu with all the necessary options at that
point.
    Selecting the Earth Time icon displays a map of the world and the
current time in eight separate locations: Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, San
Francisco, London, Paris, Chicago, and the city nearest you. Handy
feature if you're an international traveler.
    Click on the CardFile icon and the screen is filled with your
address book, CD collection, list of great wines, or what ever cardfile
you wish to show. All lists are easily searchable and can be sorted any
way you choose.
    The Write icon takes you to Sidekick's word processor. Once there you
can create and edit Write files, folders, and documents; use Write
templates provided with Sidekick 95; send email or faxes using Microsoft
Exchange (Windows95's post office); and do quick mail merges on letters
or labels using information from your cardfile of names and addresses.
    The Expense view opens up a handy expense form you can fill out on
the spot. Anything entered on this form is saved in an expense file for
creating detailed expense reports later.
    The Reminder icon takes you to a full-screen view of all the things
you're supposed to remember to do. It shows the date, the activity
(meeting, phone call, trip, etc.), a description of the activity, and
full details. It's a clever summary of your responsibilities for the
day, week, or month.
    All information can be easily dragged and dropped or cut and pasted
between and among all six views. Operation is intuitive enough for the
new user to be quickly up and running right after installation. For
example, I was zipping through the program in no time because of
Sidekick's excellent import feature. I simply went to my old PIM, saved
my list of clients as a comma-delimited text file (.csv), and imported
it directly into Sidekick. Faster than you can say Starfish Software
(the makers of Sidekick95), I had my contacts in a Sidekick95 cardfile
ready to use. It also imports .dbf, .db, .txt, and .crd files (Windows
3.1's cardfile format).
    In summary, if you've got Windows95 and you're still using that
awkward old Windows3.1 PIM, get Starfish Software's Sidekick95 you'll
love the way it works.

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WEBSITES OF THE WEEK! | This section is devoted to cool WebSites . . .
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Mutual Fund on the Web . . . |
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    ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Investors with GIT
Investment Funds, a family of thirteen no-load mutual funds based in
Arlington, Virginia, will soon be able to monitor daily portfolio
changes on its Internet site.  Access to GIT's "home page,"
(http://www.gitfunds.com) which also provides prospectuses and account
applications, does not require membership with any particular on-line
service.
    "The securities held by a fund belong to each and every
shareholder," notes GIT Executive Vice President, Charles Tennes.  "With
the ability to watch their holdings change, our investors will have the
maximum possible disclosure of the work of their investment managers. We
think this will help them make better investment decisions.  New
technology makes it possible."
    Standard practice in the mutual fund industry is to disclose
portfolio holdings in quarterly or semi-annual reports.  Daily
disclosure carries the additional benefits of making portfolio managers
immediately accountable for their trades and allowing the public to
clarify any confusion resulting from the timing of the fund's public
communications.
    Visitors to GIT's Internet site, located at http://www.gitfunds.com,
can also review a calendar of financial events, or read GIT's popular,
"Nine Tax Tips for Mutual Fund Investors." These and other materials can
be downloaded or printed to be read off-line, and requests for
additional information can be immediately transmitted to GIT at the
fund's offices.
    GIT offers equity, bond and money market funds.  For more complete
information on any GIT fund, including charges and expenses, request a
prospectus by calling 800-336-3063 or by downloading a copy from the
on-line investment center at http://www.gitfunds.com. Read it carefully
before investing.

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Lawyer's Oasis . . . |
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    PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Legal Communications, Ltd.
(LCL), Pennsylvania's leading legal information provider, announces a
new resource for legal professionals who use the Internet.
    The Legal Communications Web Page -- http://www.legalcom.com --
provides the latest headlines from The Legal Intelligencer, the oldest
law journal in the United States, and the Pennsylvania Law Weekly, the
state's only statewide legal newspaper.
    In addition, a synopsis of the most important recent court cases in
Pennsylvania is available, as well as the full text of all "Court
Notices" published daily in The Legal Intelligencer.
    Other information provided on the World Wide Web site includes a
summary of upcoming events in the legal community, links to other legal
information sources on the Internet, and leisure time information
including recent restaurant profiles published in The Legal
Intelligencer.
    Visitors to the site will also be given the opportunity to learn
about any of the products published by Legal Communications, and can
conveniently order the publications through an on-line ordering service.
    "This is just the first in a long series of electronic information
projects LCL will be offering to Pennsylvania legal professionals," said
Jane Seagrave, president of LCL.
    "Current subscribers to our products can get a jump on their
competitors by getting an advance rundown of what is in the newspapers,
while others will gain insight into the latest trends in Pennsylvania
law by visiting our site," Seagrave added.
    The establishment of the Web site follows the debut of legal.online,
a national newsletter published by LCL that guides lawyers along the
information superhighway.  Lawyers can get a free introductory disk for
accessing the Internet by becoming a charter subscriber to legal.online.
    According to Seagrave, the Web site will be constantly changing, as
new information, such as court rule updates and product indexes, will be
added.  Visitors to the Web site can also e-mail their impressions to
LCL, and ask questions or provide suggestions for improvements to the
site.
    "For more than 150 years, The Legal Intelligencer has provided
reliable, up-to-date information to legal professionals.  The launch of
the LCL Web Page continues that tradition," Seagrave said.
    Legal Communications, Ltd. is Pennsylvania's premier legal
publisher. Its publications include The Legal Intelligencer,
Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Court Rules, Pennsylvania District & County
Reports, The Philadelphia County Reporter, Pennsylvania Tax Handbook and
Dorland's Medical Directory.  In addition, Legal Communications is the
official publisher for The Philadelphia Bar Association, responsible for
publishing The Legal Directory, The Philadelphia Lawyer and Philadelphia
Bar Reporter, and for the Pennsylvania   Trial Lawyers Association,
responsible for publishing PaTLA's Pennsylvania Personal Injury
Reporter, PaTLA's Membership Directory, The Barrister and PaTLA News.
LCL recently introduced legal.online, the first national newsletter
designed to help lawyers navigate the Internet.
    For more information on the LCL Web Page or any LCL products, call
1-800-722-7670.

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COOL FTP FILE OF THE WEEK | You may need this file . . .
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    CTS SwapIRQ v1.0: Redirect IRQs for DOS. SwapIRQ is a tiny DOS TSR
that lets DOS software use any IRQ by redirecting the interrupts (IRQs)
from your modem, sound card or any other device.

    SwapIRQ can be used with some games that require a specific IRQ for
the sound card, and with communications software that does not support
non-standard IRQs. Dos 2.1+, any display. <ASP>

      You can find this as SWAPIRQ.ZIP on the following FTP site:

               ftp.crl.com/users/su/supportu/swapirq.zip

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INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK | Interesting people you should know about . . .
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Games Editor,                   |
Doug Reed, [e-mail] |
---------------------------------
    "I was born in February of 1966 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the last
of four children.  I was an army brat, moving from place to place,
living in Fort Hood, Texas and Heidelberg, Germany.  In 1975 my father
retired from active service and we moved back to Oklahoma to stay.
After high school I attended Oklahoma State University, where I received
a bachelors and masters of science in microbiology.  From there I moved
to Dallas, where I attended the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center at Dallas, and received my Ph.D. in Immunology a scant 6 months
ago.  It was in Dallas that I met my wife and that my daughter, Allison,
was born in February of this year.  In June we moved to Connecticut,
where I am now working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of
Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut."
    "I grew up on the original Atari games and in the early 1980s
received my very first personal computer, the VIC-20.  I was hooked.  It
wasn't long until I committed my first upgrade, selling the old VIC-20
to get the all-new, super-cool Commodore 64.  Laugh if you will, but
that C-64 was a great computer.  I learned how to do word processing on
it, and the games that were made for it were light years ahead of
anything produced for the IBM-PC until the end of the 1980s.  Classics
like Impossible Mission, Project Stealth Fighter, Gunship, and MULE,
made me a computer gaming fanatic for life.  Unlike most people, I like
a variety of games, including both strategy, wargames, and action games.
About a year and a half ago I met Patrick through my brother-in-law
Roger Klein, who co-founded the original Cybernews with Patrick and
signed me on as a reviewer.  When Patrick converted Cybernews to
Compunotes, I stayed on as a reviewer although my reviews have not
always covered games.  I hope you enjoy our efforts, and I heartily
thank you for reading Compunotes!"

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Paul Ferrill, Languages Editor|
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    "Paul Ferrill holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Florida and works for Sverdrup Technology at Eglin Air
Force Base.  He writes regular reviews for InfoWorld covering networking
hardware and software in addition to other odds and ends.  He's also
written for PC Magazine, PC/Computing, Home Office Computing, Federal
Computer Week and several other small publications.  He has six
computers running various operating systems including Windows 95,
Windows for Workgroups, Novell NetWare 3.12 and 4.1, Windows NT 3.51,
Linux, and plain old DOS (POD). He's fluent in C, FORTRAN, Ada, BASIC,
Pascal and various Assembly languages. Current interests include HTML
and WWW-oriented things, JAVA, TCL/TK, and object-oriented databases.

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Judy Litt, Graphics Editor|
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    "Judy Litt is the owner of QuaLitty Design, a graphic design company
that specializes in making small companies look good. QuaLitty Design
specializes in logo, advertising, and web page design. Judy has been
writing software and book reviews for CompuNotes since its beginning, as
well as for other publications such as The INK Spot and The Electronic
Bookshelf. She's thrilled to be the webmaster and graphics editor for
CompuNotes, since this will help her stay on the bleeding edge of
technology. Reach Judy at [e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail], or [e-mail]."

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Dennis MacPhereson, Utilities Editor|
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    "My name is Dennis MacPherson and I am a consultant/trainer with a
company I helped get started called the PC Training Corporation."
    I have an MSA in Operations Research from George Washington
University ('81) and a BS in Mathematics from the University of
Massachusetts ('72). I built my first computer in 1978. It was a kit
from Heath/Zenith. Since then, I've used PCs as a Systems Analyst for
the Government, taught hundreds of computer classes for local community
colleges and universities, and written scores of applications in
Fortran, Pascal, and Basic; now I'm building Web pages for our clients
on the Internet.
    As the Utilities Editor, I'll have the opportunity to find and
evaluate new and useful tools for the benefit of CompuNotes' readers.
Computer users everywhere (business, industry, government, and at home)
have always sought those handy little programs that make doing things on
a PC just that much easier or faster. Programs like PKZIP, Sidekick, and
Stacker will always have a place on our hard drives. It will be my job
to sort through the hundreds of new shareware, freeware, and commercial
programs being developed by smart young programmers from around the
world. I'll look for the best utilities in terms of their usefulness,
ease of use, and cost. Then I'll pass on the news to you.
    I also hope to interview some interesting people along the way. I'll
find out who's doing what and where we can expect the next great
applications to come from. I'll be doing this because I love the
business. With my experience in computers, I'll be able to sift through
the fluff and uncover the real gems. I know what its like to try and
write some of these "simple" utilities, so I know what to look for.
    I hope my reviews attract lots of attention so that people on the
Internet make it a habit to read CompuNotes."

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