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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3433" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3433">Since the May introduction of System 7, Apple has been shipping all computers with a coupon that users can mail to Apple, good for a free copy of System 7</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> | 29 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3434" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3434">Novell is supposed to buy DRI (Digital Research Inc, makers of C/PM in the past and DR DOS in the present). This will give Novell a network OS and a desktop OS, which competes with Microsoft's inclusion of networking hooks in DOS and Windows</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> | 29 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3436" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3436">One of the more interesting modem spin-offs recently is the DoveFax+. I'm personally not all that impressed with fax technology, but I think sticking fax capabilities in a modem is a good way to avoid killing more trees</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> | 29 Jul 1991</div></div>
<a href="/article/3437"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3437', 'show')">AppleLink in Space</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3437" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3437">The upcoming flight of the space shuttle Atlantis, which has been delayed a couple of times this month, will be a first for the information age. NASA's astronauts will be carrying aboard a Macintosh Portable that has been outfitted with an off-the-shelf modem and a customized version of the AppleLink software, and they'll be connecting to AppleLink and sending electronic mail from space.While this isn't the first time e-mail has been sent or received from space (earlier missions have included packet radio BBS experimenting), it will certainly be the first use of Apple's online service from space (assuming everything works as planned)</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> | 29 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3439" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3439">This is it, my last issue for a few weeks. Remember, send all TidBITS related mail to Mark H. Anbinder (mha@memory.uucp or mha@baka.ithaca.ny.us). My mail will be collected and forwarded eventually, but there's no telling what could go wrong</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> | 22 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3440" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3440">There's been a lot of grumbling among my academic friends about how hard it is to protect a Macintosh in a public lab. Apparently the best solution so far is to use Suitcase II to load DAs into the Apple Menu and to make the entire System Folder invisible</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> | 22 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3441" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3441">By now, I'm sure that you've all heard about QuickTime, Apple's multimedia extension to the Mac's system software. I personally have had trouble internalizing what QuickTime will mean to the normal Macintosh user</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> | 22 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3443" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3443">It seems that I can never catch up with everything I want to write about, and since we're moving in a week or so, I just thought I'd mention the items that will be lost in the shuffle</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> | 22 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3444" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3444">Ben Schaffe was kind enough to forward this message to me, posted for Naoto Horii on GEnie by Bruce Tomlin of SoundMaster fame. Ben also mentioned that MaxAppleZoom 1.4 was out, and when I looked on America Online, I saw version 1.43</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> | 22 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3446" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3446">In late breaking news (I just heard this morning from Mark H. Anbinder and others) it appears that Borland, one of the main PC developers, has purchased Ashton-Tate, makers of dBASE IV, FullWrite, and Full Impact</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> | 15 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3447" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3447">I just heard from Roy McDonald (president of Connectix) that they have a newer and snazzier version of MAXIMA. I haven't received the copy that he said they sent me, but I'll write more about it 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> | 15 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3448" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3448">No company is perfect, so good companies are known by their willingness to admit defeat and recall and replace poor products. Apple has a rather checkered past in this regard in the past (remember the sticky hard drives fiasco?) but has issued a couple of product recalls recently that indicate honesty may be on the upswing.People always complain about the various versions of the Apple mouse, but a certain version has a problem that may be more serious than a bad feel or wimpy ball</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> | 15 Jul 1991</div></div>
<a href="/article/3449"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3449', 'show')">For Little Macs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3449" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3449">Not to be mean or anything, but the Plus, SE, and Classic have two main problems. First, they're slow, and depending on what you want to use (like PageMaker 4.0 over LocalTalk from another Plus) comparisons to molasses in January aren't even fair</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> | 15 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3450" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3450">Anything that allows the user to leave the desk interests me. I'm always frustrated by not having my complete electronic environment with me when I'm working away from my Mac</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> | 15 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3452" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3452">For those of you struggling with MaxAppleZoom's recent demise, yet more hope exists. Bob Boonstra came up with a patch that he's found to work with both version 1.3 and 1.3.1 of MaxAppleZoom</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> | 08 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3453" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3453">A few weeks ago I talked briefly about Chris Derossi's Hierarchical Apple Menu (HAM) and some of its competitors-to-be. In the meantime I've heard some more information</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> | 08 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3454" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3454">For some time after I coordinated the NewROMs petition there was no response at all. Henry Norr of MacWEEK said that he thought the issue was dead until Apple issued a statement, and the only other mention that our letter received came from Bob Cringely of InfoWorld</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> | 08 Jul 1991</div></div>
<a href="/article/3455"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3455', 'show')">Mac to Unix Backup</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3455" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3455">In this day of limited resources, I especially enjoy hacking together strange combinations of equipment to cover for an expensive solution. Back when I worked for Cornell as a student supervisor, we had a real problem with backups</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> | 08 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3457" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3457"> Retrospect 1.3 Dantz Development 1400 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 1 Berkeley, CA 94709 415/849-0293 415/849-0372 (tech support)Rating: 9 Penguins out of a possible 10Summary: -- Retrospect is possibly the most powerful backup and archiving program available for the Mac</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> | 01 Jul 1991</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3458" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3458">One word on Retrospect 1.3 - powerful. My impression of Retrospect after using it for a while is that it can handle anything you throw at it terms of backup conditions</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> | 01 Jul 1991</div></div>
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