Welcome!

Welcome to the world history of the personal computing industry!  
This CD-ROM contains the complete archives of Newsbytes News 
Network from its beginnings in May 1983 to June 1992.


About Newsbytes:

NEWSBYTES is the largest independent computer industry news 
service in the world, published continuously since May, 1983.
NEWSBYTES has 4 U.S. and 7 international bureaus in London, Brussels,
Toronto, Tokyo, Singapore, Malaysia, and Sydney, Australia, devoted
to gathering the week's most significant microcomputer and consumer
technology news.  NEWSBYTES news stories are republished by some 52
magazines, newspapers, news sources, and online systems worldwide.
NEWSBYTES was honored to receive the "Best Online Publication" award
from the Computer Press Association.

New issues appear online daily on GEnie, and Wednesdays and 
Fridays on America Online. All press releases and inquiries should be 
directed to the editor in chief, Wendy Woods, or the appropriate 
bureaus listed below.
Copyright 1991,1992 Newsbytes News Network & MUG News Service
All Newsbytes reports are copyrighted. No portion may be reproduced
without the permission of the Newsbytes News Service.


About Textware:

Textware is a search and retrieval engine for DOS or Macintosh PC's.  
Textware  uses the index database on the CD-ROM to allow for rapid 
search and retrieval of the data.  To get help press F1 (on DOS) or use 
"Help" under the "Apple" Menu (on Macintosh.)  The articles from 
Newsbytes are organized in reverse chronological order on this CD-
ROM (so that more recent, hence more important, articles are first.)  
Each article is referred to as a "Card" and may contain one or more 
pages of text.   Each "Card"s is an article straight from Newsbytes.
You can search the entire database using keywords and will find 
articles covering telecommunications, computing trends, general 
computing news, Government, and special articles on UNIX, IBM, and 
Apple.  Also included are reviews of software and hardware, 
editorials, stock reports, and more,  collected from the archives of 
Newbytes News Network.

Searches can be made for one or more words.  When doing a search a 
"Hit List" is generated and can be viewed.  This list contains 
summaries of "Card"s with an occurrence or occurrences of what was 
searched for.  When viewing a "Card" in the "Hit List" the searched 
for words will appear highlighted.


About the Producer of this CD-ROM - MUG News Service

MUG News Service (MNS) is a UPI-like news service that reaches 
more than 350,000 Apple Computer users that belong to Apple user 
groups. Each month MNS produces a monthly news disk that is 
sponsored by a third party developer and mailed to more than 1200 
user group editors in the United States, Canada, and 14 other 
countries.  MNS was founded by Don Rittner, a long time Mac user 
and former columnist for Macazine and Macintosh Horizons.  He also 
has written for MacUser and MacWeek. Rittner is founder of one of 
the oldest Mac user groups in the U.S. - MECCA.  Rittner is the author 
of EcoLinking, a directory of online resources for the worldwide 
environmental community, to be published by PeachPit Press.  He is 
also the Forum Leader for America Online's User Group Forum and 
the Environmental forum.


Search Ideas:
Search for "Steve Jobs"; or "Apple"; or "IBM".
Search for smaller companies such as "Mirror Technologies".
Search for people, companies, products, or issues!
Search for dates by entering: "05/09/92", searches for May 5th 1991
Not every date has entries!

The file "TableCon.TXT" is a table of contents and gives locations of  
the first article of each year (each month of 1991 and 1992.)