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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2905" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2905">I enjoy seeing Hewlett-Packard enhance its popular DeskWriter printers, and last year's introduction of the DeskWriter C color printer did not disappoint me</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> | 05 Oct 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2908" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2908">Bill Leue writes, "Your article on the StyleWriter backlog problem mentions the HP DeskWriter as a suitable substitute. You should also note that HP has recently extended the warranty on the DeskWriter to three years, making it even more attractive</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> | 28 Sep 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2909" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2909">Apple Support -- A friend writes in response to Tonya's query about how Apple would restrict toll-free support to people who buy through the new Apple Catalog: "I used to work on the System 7 upgrade answer line so I may be able to answer your question</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> | 28 Sep 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/2910"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2910', 'show')">About those mailing lists...</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2910" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2910">About those mailing lists... -- In response to our comment of last week about Apple never having used the mailing list they keep from returned registration cards, Edward Reid writes:They use it now - to make money by selling it to third-party vendors</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> | 28 Sep 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2911" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2911">We incorrectly reported a problem in replying to Internet email from CompuServe in TidBITS-142. The problem is that Internet mail coming in has the initial ">" character stripped from the address</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> | 28 Sep 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2912" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2912">I'm not going to publish a chart of Macintosh prices this week, but I might do one next week when the retail channel gets a look at the new suggested retail prices that Apple USA just announced</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> | 28 Sep 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/2913"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2913', 'show')">Sumex Fund Drive</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2913" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2913">It's one step above a bake sale, but a grass-roots movement is underway among Internet users to raise money toward a few gigabytes of disk space for the popular FTP site at sumex-aim.stanford.edu</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> | 28 Sep 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/2915"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2915', 'show')">Lighter Color on the Horizon</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2915" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2915">Along with the new monitors Apple introduced with the Performas, look for a new 13" color monitor to replace the aging Apple 13" color monitor on October 19th</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> | 28 Sep 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2916" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2916">As the popularity of the Macintosh PowerBooks increases (Apple claims to have sold more than 300,000 PowerBooks in less than a year), more and more PowerBook-specific products arrive at the industry doorstep (if not ours :-))</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> | 28 Sep 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/2917"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2917', 'show')">Duo Date Approaching</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2917" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2917">A few weeks back in TidBITS-138 I wrote briefly about the upcoming Macintosh PowerBook Duo 210 and 230, mostly focussing on basic specs. More information has come in since then, both good and bad, but in terms of overall design, I think that Apple has a winner with the Duos</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> | 28 Sep 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2919" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2919">Oops. A couple of people wrote in to correct our mistake about the type of tape backup cartridge available for the Apple Tape Backup 40SC. Mark accidentally wrote that it takes DC600 tapes, when in fact it uses the DC2000 size instead</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> | 21 Sep 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2920" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2920">Last week we threw in a table of suggested retail prices for a number of Macintosh models mostly because we had it on hand and thought it might be interesting to read and to refer to in the future</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> | 21 Sep 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/2921"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2921', 'show')">SuperMac and Manager7</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2921" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2921">A friend writes to tell us that SuperMac has arranged with Casa Blanca Works to release a special subset of their Drive7 software which only works on SuperMac hard drives, including the LaserFrame rewritable optical drive</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> | 21 Sep 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/2923"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2923', 'show')">Portable Batteries Live On</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2923" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2923">Ed Mechem writes, "Good news for Mac Portable users. There is a third party battery replacement available from Shadow Technologies, and it provides twice the life of the original battery</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> | 21 Sep 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/2924"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2924', 'show')">As Does the StyleWriter</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2924" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2924">A nasty rumor has surfaced recently on the nets, claiming that Apple has either discontinued the StyleWriter entirely or has made it exclusively available to the consumer electronics channel</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/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 21 Sep 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/2925"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2925', 'show')">8*24 GC Video Card Refund Program</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2925" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2925">My apologies for losing this in my article database. On 15-May-92, Apple announced that they had identified a software bug in the 7.0 version of the GC Control Panel that ships with the 8*24 GC Video Card</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> | 21 Sep 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/2927"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2927', 'show')">System 7.1 & the Golden Eggs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2927" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2927">Given the lead time necessary for mastering disks, it's not too surprising that System 7.1 has recently gone golden master. We talked about some of the features it will make available to users in TidBITS-137 and #138, although not all of them will make it into the initial release on October 19th with the new machines that require System 7.1</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> | 21 Sep 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2928" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2928">Well, it's happened. Apple has started selling products directly to customers via mail order in The Apple Catalog. The catalog will contain Apple products, accessories, supplies, peripherals, and selected third-party products</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> | 21 Sep 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2929" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2929">I came across these postings on Info-Mac a while ago and thought you might enjoy reading about how one finds a deeply buried Easter Egg.Francois Grieu: I have discovered an obscure Easter Egg in the System 7 implementation of HFS.When the Macintosh requests a disk because it's off-line, there are provisions for displaying a hidden message.Try it!! Rename a disk exactly to: KMEG JJ KS (this is 8 uppercase letters and 2 spaces)Eject the disk with command-E so that you have a gray icon of it on the desktop</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> | 21 Sep 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2931" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2931">Ramon M. Felciano, Associate Director of Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies, writes in regard to Rob Managan's suggestion in TidBITS-139 for using Morph to animate scientific simulations, "Our research lab develops and does research on academic courseware in medicine</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> | 14 Sep 1992</div></div>
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