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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3372" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3372">Some people would prefer that title to be "Apple/IBM: It's Oh-fish-al," since they think they detect a tell-tale smell. However, the Apple/IBM deal appears to be real and was consummated last week in the press releases, where all good industry relationships eventually end up</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Oct 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3373" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3373">After Murph and I were somewhat unkind in last week's TidBITS about the UG-TV presentation, I think it is only fair to print Rye Livingston's (a User Group Connection honcho of sorts) reply to all the comments that he'd received</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Oct 1991</div></div>
<a href="/article/3374"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3374', 'show')">The French Connection</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3374" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3374">by Jean-Philippe Nicaise with help from Vincent Florin, Benoit Widemann and Thierry Delettre[Jean-Philippe, by the way, is instrumental in distributing TidBITS in France</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Oct 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3376" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3376">A quick recommendation. If you are interested in the future of the computer industry and electronic technology, read the September 1991 issue of Scientific American</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 30 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3378" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3378">I watched the User Group TV broadcast on September 25th with a couple of media center professionals who were REALLY impressed with Apple's broadcasts last year for educators and developers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> and <a href="/author/Murph%20Sewall">Murph Sewall</a> | 30 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3379" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3379">Simon Tortike just announced on Usenet that he is transforming his DigiGraf digitizing application from shareware to freeware. Simon said that he no longer has the time to support the program to the extent that he feels he must to justify its existence as shareware</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 30 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3385" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3385">In the first part of July TidBITS had a full review of Retrospect 1.3 that was quite complimentary - heck, it's a good program. Since then we've heard more about Retrospect and its developers, Dantz Development, that might interest you.For a while now SuperMac has wanted focus on its graphics hardware and to divest itself of its software group</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 23 Sep 1991</div></div>
<a href="/article/3386"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3386', 'show')">Claris & Microsoft</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3386" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3386">I'm still getting used to the wealth of computer events in the Seattle area. Seattle's dBUG had Claris in to show off ClarisWorks and MacDraw Pro a few weeks ago and last Thursday we went to a talk by Mr</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 23 Sep 1991</div></div>
<a href="/article/3387"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3387', 'show')">DataClub for Free</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3387" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3387">Just before we left Ithaca, International Business Software started a great deal on a DataClub whereby for some low price (around $75, if I remember correctly) you could get a three-user pack of DataClub along with WriteNow, Panorama, and MacCalc, I think</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 23 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3395" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3395">Apple recently informed dealers that the Macintosh Portable backlit display upgrade will no longer be available. This upgrade combined a replacement screen with a new ROM and a controller card that could provide original Portable owners with the backlit display of the "new" Portable (no relation to the new PowerBooks that we've heard so much about lately)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3396" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3396">The estimated 400,000 worldwide QuickMail users will be pleased to hear that CE Software, Inc. is now shipping the long-awaited version 2.5, a major upgrade to QuickMail that offers improved server architecture, many new features, System 7 compatibility, a vastly-improved QM Remote, and an integrated packaging scheme that puts all versions in one box</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3397" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3397">I'm a utility fiend. I admit it freely. I like nothing better than using Norton or MacTools or something similar to recover damaged files or a whole hard disk (preferably not mine, however)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Sep 1991</div></div>
<a href="/article/3398"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3398', 'show')">Classic II vs SE/30</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3398" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3398">I'm fairly proud of the fact that I am currently working with the oldest of Apple's current Mac models, the SE/30. I bought it not because it was the obvious computer to buy at the time (it wasn't even available), but because all I could afford at first was an SE, and then the upgrade to an SE/30 was irresistible a year or so later</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3399" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3399">The latest in cool hardware comes from Micron, which has been working on a couple of video cards for the SE/30 (and this right after I get through talking about how there aren't very many PDS cards for the SE/30)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3401" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3401">My mail link still isn't completely solid, and it's certainly not as quick as I was used to when I connected to the Internet via Cornell, but at least most mail is getting through now</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3402" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3402">If we had presses, we'd have to stop them for this story. Apple has dealt with the dirty ROM problem by making a deal with Connectix to distribute MODE32 free of charge (yes, you read that right) to all users</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3403" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3403">[Editor's Note: Even though I wrote a bit on the DeskWriter C last week based on my impressions at the dBUG meeting, I felt that this piece was more complete and accurate, coming from a knowledgeable person inside HP who has used the printer extensively</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3404" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3404">[Editor's Note: This is the first in what will hopefully be a long string of columns from John C. Fuller probing the edges and the futures of computing</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3406" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3406">Well, I'm back, more or less. I won't completely take over until I get my network connections to the rest of the civilized (read: electronic) world up and running (note that the address below may not work, and I should have a better one soon), and it's taking a long time for even the snail mail to return to normal</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 Sep 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3407" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3407">Recently, I went to the local Macintosh Users' Group meeting here in Seattle. dBUG (for downtown Business Users' Group) as it's called, is ever so slightly different from MUGWUMP (Macintosh Users' Group for Writers and Users of Macintosh Programs, or something similar), the users' group in Ithaca</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 Sep 1991</div></div>
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