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This week we bring you news of updates to Apple's Japanese and
   Chinese Language Kits, highlights from the Macworld Tokyo
   exposition, Adam's comments on the nature of physical resources
   in the increasingly virtual world of the Internet, follow-ups
   on cleaning your DeskWriter's paper rollers, a look at a slick
   Internet LAN solution, and finally the conclusion of Nigel
   Perry's three part Nisus Writer review.

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Copyright 1990-1995 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
   Information: <[e-mail]> Comments: <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/27-Feb-95
    Language Kits Upgraded
    Cleaning Up Your DeskWriter Rollers
    Compatible Offers Internet Bundle
    Divided We Fall: Internet Redundancy
    Nisus Writer 4.0.6, Part 3: Multimedia
    Reviews/27-Feb-95

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MailBITS/27-Feb-95
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**Our earthquake coverage** wouldn't be complete without sending
  out a "Bravo!" to Optima Technology, makers of storage peripherals
  for Macs and other computer systems, for expanding their warranty
  coverage for victims of the recent Kobe quake. Although the
  warranty specifically does not cover repairs to equipment that has
  been physically damaged, Optima has announced that they will offer
  full warranty repair services for any Optima products that were
  damaged in the Kobe quake and are still in warranty. Customers in
  the Kobe area with damaged equipment may contact Optima's
  distributors MIC at (81) 03-5642-7120 or HSS at (81) 03-3818-7913,
  or contact Optima in the U.S. at 714/476-0515, fax [phone]. A
  company spokesperson acknowledged that the "significant business"
  Optima has enjoyed from the Japanese market was largely behind the
  decision. [MHA]


**Info-Mac Mirror Down** -- Due to hard drive problems, the Info-
  Mac mirror at <mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> will down until some time in
  early March, at which time they'll be upgrading the server and
  expanding their services. In the meantime, you can use this
  opportunity to try out AOL's new Info-Mac mirror site at: [GD]

ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/


**Brent Bossom** <[e-mail]> writes this week from
  Macworld Tokyo:

  Pioneer displayed two Mac clones with the title "Multimedia
  Personal Computers," the MPC-GX1 Power PC 601/66 MHz model with
  built-in stereo speakers, internal CD-ROM drive, and the MPC-LX100
  (68LC040/33 MHz) (see TidBITS-264_). The Power Mac machine was
  connected to a Pioneer laserdisc player (CLD-PC10) and displayed
  some very sharp images.

  Apple displayed the recently-announced DTP Power Mac 8115/110 (110
  MHz PowerPC 601 chip), featuring an FPU, 32K cache memory, 256K
  secondary cache memory, and 8 MB RAM (expandable to 264 MB). It
  comes with a 2 GB hard drive as standard equipment, as well as an
  AppleCD 300i Plus CD-ROM drive. The Japanese model on display will
  ship with the KanjiTalk 7.5 operating system.

  The Sony MDH-10 portable MiniDisc data drive is smaller than
  Sony's original MiniDisc player, but it has an RS-232 port for
  connecting to computers along with a headphone jack for audio.
  Disks can store up to 140 MB; the list price for the drive is
  about $640 US, and disks are $25. Also available are SCSI cables
  for both Macintosh and PCs, as well as a PCMCIA interface kit
  (type II/III) for DOS/Windows machines. The unit weighs just 340
  grams (12 ounces) and will run for two hours on a fully charged
  ion-lithium rechargeable battery."


**Render Unto Thee: QuickDraw 3D** -- Apple has been quietly
  promoting a set of 3D modeling and rendering libraries, code-named
  Escher, amongst developers for at least the last few months. But
  the cat finally seems to be out of the bag: the product will be
  called QuickDraw 3D and be available as a shared library only for
  the Power Macintosh. Anticipated to be of great benefit to
  developers of games and consumer-oriented titles as well as high-
  end applications, QuickDraw 3D makes three-dimensional information
  an integrated Macintosh data type, doing much the same thing for
  models and 3D information that QuickTime did for video and images.
  Using QuickDraw 3D, renderings could be dropped into a "two-
  dimensional" application - such as a text editor or layout program
  - and still retain editable three-dimensional data. QuickDraw 3D
  supports OpenGL (part of SGI's graphics technology) which should
  make development and integration with high-end rendering programs
  comparatively straightforward. Apple anticipates QuickDraw 3D to
  be available in mid-1995 (to coincide with the first PCI Power
  Macs), with a Windows version to follow in early 1996. [GD]


Language Kits Upgraded
----------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>
     Director of Technical Services, Baka Industries Inc.

  Earlier this month, Apple announced that free updates are
  available for users of the Japanese Language Kit and Chinese
  Language Kit who wish to use System 7.5. The updates, which are
  not useful unless you use System 7.5, also allow users of these
  language kits to install and use QuickDraw GX.

  New system extensions for Japanese Language Kit versions 1.0 or
  1.1 will make these versions compatible with System 7.5 and
  QuickDraw GX. The JLK Updater (available as shown below) should be
  used until Japanese Language Kit 1.2 is released later this year.

  Meanwhile, the Chinese Language Kit Updater will upgrade versions
  1.0 or 1.1 to CLK version 1.1.1, which is also available as a
  retail product. Version 1.1.1 is System 7.5 and GX compatible.
  Apple recommends that CLK 1.0 owners purchase a $29 upgrade to
  version 1.1.1 that includes a set of improved fonts. (CLK 1.1
  already includes these new fonts.) CLK users in the U.S. may call
  800/769-2775 extension 5902 to obtain an upgrade coupon with
  details of the required proof of purchase. Users outside the U.S.
  may call Apple's fulfillment center at 716/871-6555. In China,
  call the Guangzhou office at (86) 20-6661002, or in Hong Kong call
  852/851-1750. (Our thanks to Apple; they've gotten much better at
  making international phone numbers available.)

  You can find updaters on AppleLink and eWorld in the Apple
  Software Updates areas, and on the Internet in:

ftp://ftp.support.apple.com/pub/apple_sw_updates/US/mac/system_sw/other_sys_sw/

  Information from:
    Apple propaganda


Cleaning Up Your DeskWriter Rollers
-----------------------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  Back in TidBITS-261_, we ran a short article about Hewlett-
  Packard's Paper Feed Cleaning Kit, which solves a possible paper-
  feed problem for DeskWriters and DeskJets in a specific serial
  number range. Not all TidBITS readers have DeskWriters or DeskJets
  within that serial number range, and several people wrote in to
  share tips about cleaning rollers and fixing paper-feed problems.
  Dirty rollers can cause various problems - including dirty paper
  and paper not feeding at all.


**Clean Your Rollers** -- **Charlie Mingo** <[e-mail]>
  wrote to say that cleaning his rollers made for a "dramatic
  improvement" in his DeskWriter's functioning. He also wrote, "HP
  says that regular (non-defective) rollers should be cleaned with a
  soft cloth and warm water. I managed to use paper towels and
  Windex quite well. Just remove the paper tray from your
  DeskWriter, then power-cycle the printer with the cloth or towel
  held against the rubber roller. Repeat twice for each of the three
  rollers."

  I called HP Technical Support to find out what HP currently
  suggests, and spoke with Randy, an extremely personable
  technician. Randy sounded rather down on the paper towel concept;
  instead, he suggested using a lint-free cloth, moistened with
  water, or - if you don't have any clean water - moistened with
  alcohol (of the rubbing persuasion). According to Randy, the
  lint-free cloth and either water or rubbing alcohol represent the
  only official "HP-supported" cleaning techniques. Also, water is
  better than alcohol; if you clean your rollers repeatedly with
  alcohol (once a month for three years, say), the alcohol
  eventually deteriorates the roller rubber.

  In regard to using water, **Milton Diamond**
  <[e-mail]> found that using "HOT HOT" water
  cleaned his rollers so that they could pick up paper again.


**Renew Your Rollers** -- If cleaning doesn't help your rollers,
  and you enjoy "do not try this at home" type experiments,
  (meaning, don't complain to _me_ if you have problems) you might
  try a product called Rubber Renue. **Derek Fong**
  <[e-mail]> had great success fixing the paper pickup
  on his "vanilla DeskWriter (no AppleTalk, vintage 1989-90)" with
  Rubber Renue. Derek's story begins:

  "About a year ago, my DeskWriter began having paper feeding
  problems. I posted a query about my problem on
  <comp.sys.mac.hardware>, and Alvin Croll made a helpful
  suggestion. He told me about a product made by M.G. Chemicals
  called Rubber Renue. By painting this chemical on the DeskWriter
  rollers, he found that the hardened and slick rollers regained
  their ability to grab a sheet of paper.

  "Alvin bought his bottle of Rubber Renue from a company in Canada
  called Active Components. I gave them a call, and found to my
  dismay that they could not legally ship the chemical across the
  border to me in the United States. I eventually tracked down one
  of Active Components' sister stores here in the states to place
  an order, and - after $20 in phone calls, $6.45 for Rubber Renue,
  and $5.00 shipping - I received a  bottle of Rubber Renue.
  (Unfortunately, they only sell Rubber Renue in 250 ml bottles,
  which is enough for a lifetime.)

  "I painted some of the chemical onto my DeskWriter rollers using a
  few cotton swabs and the Prime button (to keep the rollers
  spinning), let it dry for a minute, and presto, I have not had a
  mis-fed page in the past four months, and my DeskWriter works as
  good as new. I, of course, don't guarantee this will solve the
  problem for all people, but it certainly was a well spent $31.45
  for me."


**Switch to a New Paper Type** -- If a regular cleaning doesn't
  solve a paper-feed problem and painting chemicals on your rollers
  isn't quite up your alley, consider changing your paper type.
  **J. Quinn** <[e-mail]>, who did need the HP
  Paper Feed Cleaning Kit,  suggested, "A hint for DeskWriter users
  - try duplicator paper (more absorbent), which is better than bond
  (photocopy or laser) paper for these machines. Even with the
  acknowledged fault with the rollers, I got fairly consistent feeds
  with the duplicator paper, but the bond paper fouled up!"

    Active Electronics  -- 617/932-0050 (U.S.) -- 204/786-3075 (Canada)
    Hewlett-Packard Technical Support -- 208/323-2551


Compatible Offers Internet Bundle
---------------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>

  While many vendors are scrambling to jump on the Internet
  bandwagon, Compatible Systems has carefully assembled a bundle of
  hardware, software, and service that will make it easy for small
  networks to connect to the Internet. The company's WorldWire
  package, released for both Macintosh and Windows this month,
  combines a router, Internet client software, and credit towards
  UUNET's LAN Plus Internet connection service.

  Included with WorldWire is Compatible's MicroRouter 900i, with
  auto-switching 10Base-T thin, and thick Ethernet ports, plus an
  RS-232C port used for the WAN (wide area network) connection to
  route TCP/IP via PPP. The WAN port can handle asynchronous or
  synchronous connections using anything from an ordinary modem on
  an ordinary phone line, to leased or switched 56 Kbps line, to
  ISDN. Connections up to 128 Kbps are supported, and both Mac and
  Windows management utilities are provided.

  WorldWire also includes either a five-user license for InterCon's
  TCP/Connect II client software for Macintosh, or Spry's Air Series
  for Windows users. The TCP/Connect II package provides email,
  Usenet news, FTP, Gopher, Telnet, and Web client functionality, as
  well as a license for MacTCP. (Apple's MacTCP software is also
  included with System 7.5.) Naturally, other commercial TCP/IP
  client software such as Eudora and Netscape, as well as the wide
  variety of Macintosh freeware and shareware, will work fine on
  computers connected to a WorldWired LAN.

  The bundle, which will ship in March with a suggested list price
  of $1,995, includes $499 credit towards AlterNet LAN Plus offered
  by UUNET Technologies, which provides 14.4 Kbps or 28.8 Kbps modem
  dialup service. The credit can instead be applied towards the cost
  of higher-bandwidth leased line or frame relay access. (A one year
  service commitment is required to take advantage of the credit.)

  For those who already have all the software they need, or prefer
  another Internet service provider, the Compatible Systems
  MicroRouter 900i is available separately for $995. The MicroRouter
  1000R, with a retail price of $1,695, routes IPX, AppleTalk, and
  DECnet protocols as well as TCP/IP.

  Companies with in-house TCP/IP experts or wide area networking
  experts might still be able to find a less expensive "roll-your-
  own" solution, but Compatible's WorldWire product offers a good
  starting point for those who prefer a complete package. For about
  the same amount of money as Global Village's OneWorld Internet
  router (see TidBITS-258_), WorldWire provides a much more flexible
  approach to Internet connectivity.

    Compatible Systems -- 800/356-0283 -- 303/444-9532
      303/444-9595 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>


Divided We Fall: Internet Redundancy
------------------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Bob Jacobsen <[e-mail]> made an interesting comment in
  reference to our pointers in TidBITS-262_ to earthquake
  information servers that combine information from several
  different sources. Bob wrote, "The combination of different
  services also points up a weakness of the net - all of these
  servers rely on the Xerox PARC Map Server. This is particularly
  interesting with respect to earthquakes, since PARC is very near
  one of the remaining "dark spots" in the San Andreas fault, in an
  area with a high probability of a major quake in the next 30
  years." Bob went on to wonder how many other "high utility"
  services live in only a single Internet location, much like the
  Connection Machine WAIS server that Thinking Machines took down at
  the end of last year. WAIS, Inc. is working to bring back most of
  the sources that lived on the Connection Machine; TidBITS is back,
  but searches currently return an entire issue rather than a
  specific article.

http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/macintosh-tidbits.html

  Bob suggested that perhaps this was an area in which "service
  oriented" people could work to replicate some of the less
  glamorous parts of the Internet information infrastructure, and in
  fact that's exactly how the Info-Mac and Umich FTP mirror networks
  have sprung up. The mother sites at <sumex-aim.stanford.edu> and
  <mac.archive.umich.edu> are too busy these days for many
  individuals to get through, but they serve numerous mirror sites
  that spread the load, and in some respects, the risk. If the
  machine at <sumex-aim.stanford.edu> went down, say because of an
  earthquake or a malevolent hacker (see TidBITS-216_), service to
  that machine would be interrupted but the mirror sites would
  remain active. In a pinch, one of them might even volunteer to
  become the host site that the others would connect to each day.
  Aside from moving administrative tools over, the process of
  switching to a different host site wouldn't be too bad - certainly
  easier than setting up a new machine from scratch in a different
  location.

  Unfortunately, not too many other Internet resources follow this
  philosophy of mirroring resources. Some useful Web pages, such as
  the CUI page of Web Search Engines at

http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html

  expressly encourage others to copy the page and support it at
  their sites. However, although this page is a useful service in
  its own right, it primarily points at other unique search engines
  around the Web, and thus is as vulnerable as the earthquake
  information systems that rely on the Xerox PARC Map Server.

  In some cases, I'm sure that the specialized servers require a
  certain operating system or even certain hardware, which makes
  creating redundant sites more difficult. This is perhaps the case
  with Yahoo, the popular and well-organized Web subject catalog,
  since it requires a custom Unix database that isn't available to
  the public. In other situations, the question may be a matter of
  sufficient volunteer labor and an organization willing to host a
  popular server. Yahoo serves hundreds of thousands (if not
  millions) files each day to judge from their statistics, and there
  aren't many sites that wish to handle that network and hardware
  load.

http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/

  But the issue may not always be that simple. For instance, many
  people have talked about the next wave of Internet service being
  commercial services that collect and organize resources, charging
  a tiny fee for each search. That's the theory behind the
  commercial InfoSeek; more on them in a bit. The reason I mention
  commercial searching is that popular, well-organized, well-run
  sites might conceivably "go commercial." After all, David Filo and
  Jerry Yang, the guys who maintain Yahoo, might at some point be
  lured into the high-stakes and stale-lunch world of big business.
  If they're even considering such a move in the future, they might
  not want to let other sites mirror Yahoo so they can retain
  control.

  Commercial sites like InfoSeek and HotWired float in a slightly
  different boat. They obviously aren't going to let just anyone
  mirror their sites, especially InfoSeek, which uses authentication
  heavily and charges for searches in commercial databases. But at
  the same time, since the companies running these sites have a
  vested interest in making sure users aren't turned away or left
  bobbing on the waves, there's less to worry about. If InfoSeek
  wishes to stay in business, they have to ensure that their
  customers will be able to get through, perhaps even in the event
  of a natural disaster. That's the cost of doing business.

http://www.infoseek.com/
http://www.hotwired.com/

  O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator site, although very much
  linked to O'Reilly's books and decidedly commercially oriented,
  takes a different approach and has signed up 12 mirror sites
  around the world. Currently, according to John Labovitz, Technical
  Services Manager at GNN, the mirror sites have all volunteered to
  carry GNN, mostly to provide content to more local users without
  requiring users to go out to the Internet. However, John says,
  "Due to the growth of GNN (not only in popularity, but in content
  and technology), we're working on more clearly defining our
  mirroring requirements, and will probably incorporate more
  specific terms and conditions than we do now." Even still, it
  sounds like GNN has little worry in terms of redundancy.

http://gnn.com/

  To be honest, we've thought about this issue with respect to
  TidBITS as well, and it's one of the reasons we've agreed to most
  any nonprofit, non-commercial redistribution that people have
  proposed (but please ask anyway so we get a sense of where the
  issues go). By ensuring that TidBITS is mirrored and stored
  throughout the world, there's little fear that a catastrophe here
  could wipe out the archives of TidBITS (and believe me, the early
  issues make for some pretty humorous reading!). Although both we
  and Geoff live near Seattle, should a natural disaster destroy our
  machines or connections (or give us more serious problems to worry
  about), Mark Anbinder, our indefatigable News Editor, might even
  be able to take over the task of publishing the issues for a few
  weeks, as he did when we moved out west and were without a net
  connection for a while. [Hey, Mark: clear off some disk space! Mt.
  Rainier is looking more ominous all the time. -Geoff]

  Perhaps the thought to consider in the end is that although the
  Internet breaks up geographic barriers and scatters them to the
  winds, Internet resources are no less vulnerable than any other
  physical object. Machines can be stolen (a temporary Web page we
  saw recently bemoaned the theft of the main server), damaged, or
  otherwise put out of commission. However, even though specific
  machines are as insecure as anything else, the Internet itself,
  through mirroring and similar techniques, can serve to raise the
  data above the vulnerability of a single location. And of course,
  the underlying sentiment throughout this article is that perhaps
  you, whoever you are, can help to protect a unique Internet
  resource from the vagaries of fate. Consider the possibility.


Nisus Writer 4.0.6, Part 3: Multimedia
--------------------------------------
  by Nigel Perry <[e-mail]>

  [This article began in TidBITS-263_, continued in TidBITS-264_,
  and finishes here. -Tonya]


**Sound and Speech** -- Nisus Writer can speak, and not just using
  Apple's PlainTalk either - it comes with its own English, French,
  German, Italian, and Spanish. Nisus does _not_ do translation; but
  it can use different accents and pronunciation rules. So if you
  want to hear how your document would sound spoken with a French
  accent, or if your document is in French, Nisus can oblige.
  However these voices take up rather a lot of disk space, almost
  1.5 MB, so you might want to rely on PlainTalk, which Nisus
  happily uses.

  Nisus Writer also allows you to annotate parts of your document
  with sounds and to record sounds for your text by word, sentence,
  and so on. Sound annotations are shown by an icon, but - curiously
  - if you record a sentence there is no indication that you have
  done so. Nisus Writer offers a catalog of sounds (which are stored
  in a folder, not your document), and you can play them all back -
  so though you can't see which parts of your document might have
  attached sounds, you can find them.

  Looking at the sound features prompts the question "Why?". Having
  the Mac read back your text using "Good News" (a MacinTalk 3
  voice) is great fun for my seven-year-old son - but he uses
  SimpleText for this, not Nisus Writer. Nisus is not a presentation
  package and does not come with a "player" application, so it is
  not the best program to use for a multimedia presentation.

  Tonya tells me that people with a variety of disabilities find
  Text to Speech features enormously helpful. When she took calls at
  Microsoft, the two most common types of people requesting Text to
  Speech features were people with vision problems or dyslexia who
  wanted to "proof read" documents by listening to them. Nisus
  Software might have had this in mind, but this still leaves me
  questioning the decision to include comprehensive sound recording
  abilities.


**Movies** -- Nisus Writer has jumped on the QuickTime bandwagon.
  Unfortunately, this part of Nisus Writer is poorly implemented. A
  movie appears in a document just like any other graphic and can be
  inserted into a document as a character graphic or on the graphics
  layer. However, for movies inserted on the graphics layer, there
  is **no** indication that the picture is a movie, not even
  QuickTime's standard film strip icon. To run a movie you must
  first double-click the picture - if its not a movie, you end up in
  the graphics editor; if it is a movie, a new window opens over the
  top of the picture and this one has the file strip icon on it.
  Click the icon and the movie controller comes up and you're away.
  Why a new window, why not inline? Nisus Software says it's so you
  can scroll your document and not lose the movie, but this could be
  made an option for those who wanted it. And of course the window
  title can obscure part of your text, so you have to move the thing
  - assuming you have anywhere to move it.

  Don't get me wrong, I like QuickTime, I even write programs which
  use it, but Nisus Writer isn't for QuickTime aficionados. [And
  frankly, essentially no one ever uses QuickTime in a serious word
  processing document - it's a red herring feature flopping around
  on the word processor beach. -Adam]

  So, Nisus Writer leaves me with but one question about multimedia:
  Why?


**Overall Conclusion** -- Though Nisus Writer suffers from a
  number of quirks and annoyances - in particular in the word and
  document processing areas - its **text** processing is
  unparalleled. It does have bugs - some of which are still left
  over from Nisus - but I can also put Microsoft Word into a
  tailspin.

  An enormous opportunity was lost when Nisus Software chose to add
  new features, some of questionable value, rather than concentrate
  on finishing the job they started with Nisus. I don't understand
  what market they are aiming at with some of the additions. Had
  Nisus Software chosen to make the styles work more flexibly, Nisus
  Writer would be hard to beat for many different types of document
  creation, though for documents requiring high-end layout features,
  you'd still need to look elsewhere.

  Nisus Writer currently runs in 68K mode only and requires System 7
  or later. It works on any 68000-based Macintosh or newer, with the
  exception of the Macintosh Plus. Nisus Software plans to include
  support for the Plus in the Nisus Writer 4.0.7 update, which
  should be ready (with a free updater available online) in a few
  weeks. A Power Mac native version of Nisus Writer is in the works,
  but the program is relatively speedy even now. To use all of Nisus
  Writer's features, you'll need to allocate 3 MB to the program,
  but to do basic word processing in shorter documents without
  tables, equations, and sounds, you can run reasonably in 1,700K of
  memory. The full installation, which includes examples and
  tutorial documents, consumes 7 MB of disk space.

  If you have been using Nisus for the last four years and it has
  met your needs - which it probably has as well as any rival or you
  would have switched already - then the upgrade is worth it.

    Nisus Software -- 800/890-3030 -- 619/481-1477
      619/481-6154 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>

  [For more opinions and resources related to Nisus, check out the
  Nisus Writer page on World of Words. -Tonya]

http://king.tidbits.com/tonya/WOW/NW/NWMain.html


Reviews/27-Feb-95
-----------------

* MacUser -- Feb-95
    Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS; QMS 1660;
      Xante Accel-a-Writer 8200 -- p. 37
    Fractal Design Painter 3.0 -- p. 40
    FileMaker Pro Server 2.0v1 -- p. 42
    GraphiSoft ArchiCAD 4.5  -- p. 46
    Fargo Primera Pro Color Printer -- p. 47
    InfoDepot 2.0 -- p. 48
    MacDraft 4.0 -- p. 53
    Being There Pro 1.0 -- p. 54
    Apple Power Macintosh Upgrade Card;
      DayStar 80 MHz PowerPro 601 -- p. 56
    VideoShop 3.0 -- p. 58
    Seiko Professional ColorPoint 2 PSF Model 14 -- p. 60
    Coda Vivace Personal Accompanist -- p. 64
    PLANMaker 1.1 -- p. 65
    Scenery Animator 1.1.2 -- p. 66
    PowerAGENT 1.1 -- p. 66
    Virex Administrator 1.0 -- p. 67
    Troubled Souls -- p. 68
    Menu Master Mac Lite 2.1 -- p. 68
    FileWave 2.0 -- p. 73
    Removable Media Drives -- p. 94
      (too many to list)


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