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MS-02: Books, Poems, Articles on Disk
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3139 Misc. Books/Articles Small Programs Disk
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Comedy Generator 3.1 (COMEDY)
Napier, Jeff and Another Company
$10
takes an ordinary sentence and makes it funny. It is not quite funny at
first, but as you learn to work with this program, it gets funnier.
Comment 3.06 (COMM-SW)
Wenzel, Scott
$6-$15
is another random quote generating program, but with a twist. The quotes in this
database are a little on the odd side, coming from the likes of Monty Python,
Steven Wright, and "Famous Car Whines". Keyword searching is available.
Warning: also contains random annoying shareware reminder screens.
EverGlade 2.3 (EVRGLAD)
Willmot, Rod
$5-$10
is a poem in Hypertext by a widely published poet. The poetry is highly
varied, with segments on love, marriage, children, and other matters, along
with segments on computing and how it changes our lives. You can erase all or
any bookmarks whenever you wish. Title, Help, and other screens are
attractive and readable, both in color and monochrome. The author also
employs artistic design in the form of the layout of the words and characters
on the screen.
Field Guide For Entrepreneurs (FGUIDE)
Oman, Paul
$0
are text file extracts from the book: "Field Guide For Entrepreneurs". We found
this to be interesting reading.
Fund Raising Seminar (FUNDSEM)
Marketing Services Corp. of America
$25
is a tutorial on basic fund raising techniques for charitable institutions and
organizations. The material was prepared by one of the country's leading
fund-raisers, Howard, M. Schwartz.
Haiku 2.1
Charles Frankle
$0
produces randomly generated Haiku, an ancient form of Japanese poetry.
Hello
Merritt, Russ
$0
gives the date and time, and a randomly selected quote from an included
database. You can edit the quote database to add more quotes.
Inventor's Guide 2.0 (INVNTOR)
Jincks, Dan
$10
is a text file giving an overview of what is required to develop and promote
an invention. It contains detailed information about misunderstood subjects
(patents, prototypes, and marketing) aimed at maximizing your success and
minimizing costs and mistakes. This was written by a professional product
engineer who has developed many successful products.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3139
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4533 Misc. Books/Articles #2 Small Programs Disk
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Buzzword (BUZZWOR)
is a list of funny data processing definitions.
Comic 1.0 (COMIC) 09-93 CD
Owen, John
$7
displays a different funny remark each day. Put it in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
to start each morning with a grin.
Debt Realization Program 1.1 (DEBT)
Moyer, Steven
$25
displays the current Federal debt, your portion of it and the portion owed by a
family of four. An on-screen calendar lets you see what the debt (and your
portion) will be at any date in the future at the current rate of increase. As
you sit pondering the display, the amount is continually updated (at an
alarming rate!).
LoveBase 1.6 (LOVEBAS)
Solway, Kevin
$10
is a collection of over 280 poems about love. You can select a category - love's
beauty, fantastic love, erotic love, the contradictions of love, love's lies,
humour of love, and more - or scroll through all the poems.
Lowdown On Doctors (DOCTORS)
Micro Computer Resources
$0
contains 60 quotes, quips, sayings and jokes about doctors, physicians, surgeons
and psychiatrists.
Lowdown on Lawyers and Politicians (POLLAW)
Micro Computer Resources
$0
is a pithy collection of quotes, quips, sayings and jokes about politicians
and lawyers. The authors, dates and sources are given if known. Example: "
"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not
punished." Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Material is divided into eight sections: Essence, Opposites, Insight,
Positive, Negative, Advice, Poetry and Prose, and Jokes and Humor.
Rime 1.0
Siwash Software
$4
is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", in
hypertext.
Romania
Elgner, Roy
$10-$15
is a hypertext fact sheet relating the experiences of a couple adopting two
Romanian children. It includes important phone numbers and address of
officials and bureaucrats involved in these international adoptions. Also
included are many tips and facts about the region.
Say1776
uses the speaker of your PC to "say" the first couple of paragraphs of the
Declaration of Independence, using Andy McGuire's SPEECH.COM and SAY.COM. The
file SAY2.BAT is called by SAY-1776.BAT. Neither SPEECH, SAY nor SAY2 should
be run by themselves. They are all called by typing SAY-1776. The quality of
the speech depends on your system, which needs to be running at close to
standard PC speed for the speech to be understood at all.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #4533
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12085 Misc. Books/Articles #3 Small Programs Disk
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Dead Meat (DEADMT)
Christian, Dani
$0
is a homicide police procedural novel on disk with sounds and graphics.
Murphy's Law (MURPHY)
Lyall, Charles J.C.
$0
displays one of Murphy's laws or some other clever quote each time you boot
up.
Travel Free (TRVLFRE)
Starchild, Adam
$?
tells you ways to travel free or at low cost. It tells you how to become
a shipboard host or importer, how to make money from a travel club, buy
a new car in Europe, get discounts on airfare and more.
Uncle Rhino's Shorts 1.02 (U-RHINO)
The Rabid Rhino
$6 each
is a collection of over 18 entertaining short stories.
Your Trip Abroad 1.1 (YRTRIP)
Boger, Allen D.
$8
helps prepare you for a trip overseas. It provides advice on obtaining
passports and visas, health and accident insurance, driving overseas,
emergency aid, money, what to expect on your return, how to get help
from our embassies and more.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12085
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Almanac 1991
Napier, Jeff and Another Company
$10
#3103
is a collection of facts, inside stories, and farfetched yet true events. This
is presented in the form of chapters whose pages can be scrolled and read on
screen.
Amazing New Truths About Your Emotions
Henderson, Doyle P.
$0
#27811/4563 [4 disks]
tells you how to rid yourself of emotional problems. The text of a 450-page
book has been converted to a format for reading on disk and is compressed onto
this four-disk set.
It describes how to get rid of fears, anxiety, anger, depression, grief,
guilt, shame, compulsion, and more. The author claims alcoholics and drug
abusers can be weaned from addiction and sexual problems can be resolved.
Explanations, case histories, and a tutorial are included. This is a major,
serious work. The text is clearly, logically and intelligently written
(whether you agree with everything that's said or not).
Green Consumer's Source Disk & Almanac
ID/P Systems
$7
#27366/2537
contains a wide variety of information for those concerned about our
environment. It includes the names of cleaning products that don't contribute to
pollution; ideas to help you reduce, reuse, and recycle your garbage; ways to
keep your lawn greener without chemicals; methods to improve your home's energy
efficiency and liveability; a symptom-to-cause database that links a person's
symptoms to possible toxic-based causes; information on how the deadliest
substances have found their way into your breakfast table; and a battle-plan for
fighting Lyme disease, mosquitoes, fleas, dandelions, etc., with natural
formulas. Requires 640K and a disk with one megfree.
Save the Planet 1993
Cox, Roger & Kathy ASP
$25
#27366/2538
blends environmental education with pol