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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3724" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3724">Literary Machines, book by Ted Nelson describing the Xanadu concept & methodology, latest edition 90.1, new edition coming shortly, postpaid US$ 25 US (US$ 40 foreign) from Mindful Press, 3020 Bridgeway #295, Sausalito CA 94965Literary Machines, the 87.1 Macintosh hypertext edition on disk, available from OWL International Inc., 14218 NE 21st Street, Bellevue WA 98007Computer Lib/Dream Machines, by Ted Nelson, a '1987 revised & updated' reprint of the original 1974 edition, Tempus Books/Microsoft PressFor information on the forthcoming Xanadu software from AutoDesk contact Xanadu Operating Company, Palo Alto CA, tel</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> | 12 Nov 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3725" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3725">Long ago I read a spoof that poked fun at spelling checkers. It was disguised as a letter from an editor to Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll</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> | 12 Nov 1990</div></div>
<a href="/article/3726"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3726', 'show')">DiskDoubler Makes Good</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3726" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3726">Here's an interesting phenomenon. Remember the hullabaloo about keeping public archives in public formats? Most people were talking about how wonderful Compactor and StuffIt Deluxe were, with an occasional mention of Diamond as well</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> | 12 Nov 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3727" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3727">SimCity from Maxis was the hit game of last year. Not too surprising really, if you think about all the human vices that the game satisfied. Greed, violence, cruelty</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> | 12 Nov 1990</div></div>
<a href="/article/3728"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3728', 'show')">No New Viruses</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3728" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3728">It's a fine week when I don't have to write about the latest and slimiest virus on the block. However, there is a small piece of news that everyone should be aware of</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> | 12 Nov 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3730" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3730">Earlier this year the Lotus/Novell merger received headline attention, and the merger would have made Lotus the largest microcomputer software company (even larger than Microsoft!)</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 Nov 1990</div></div>
<a href="/article/3731"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3731', 'show')">HyperCard Bits & Pieces</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3731" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3731">Apple's decision to transfer HyperCard to Claris may or may not have been the best choice, but it has fostered confusion about who gets what where why and how</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 Nov 1990</div></div>
<a href="/article/3732"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3732', 'show')">Night of the Living Clones</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3732" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3732">It's starting to sound like one of those horror movies where it turns out that everyone you know has been taken over by pods from outer space. I think that's the case a lot of the time - it explains many of the people I know quite well</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 Nov 1990</div></div>
<a href="/article/3734"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3734', 'show')">2.3 and Counting</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3734" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3734">Well, it happened again. A new virus showed up and Disinfectant was promptly updated by its erstwhile author, John Norstad (who at this point might well be elected King if the Macintosh community was voting)</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 Oct 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3735" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3735">If someone asked you to name some computer languages, any computer languages, chances are good that Pascal would be among them. It's a popular, powerful language (most of the Macintosh Toolbox is written in Pascal) and it's been around for a while</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 Oct 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3736" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3736">We've run a couple of articles in the past about various neat new methods of interfacing with the computer (in this case a legitimate use of the pseudo-verb "to interface" - unlike the usage "Wanna go interface with 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> | 29 Oct 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3737" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3737">Desktop publishing is a wonderful thing for those who need to create paper publications (and some of our best friends are desktop publishers :-)). However, desktop publishing has had major troubles with color, partly because color is complicated and there are a number of ways of representing it</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 Oct 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3739" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3739">They aren't fast, they aren't pretty, and they seldom connect to your stereo as nicely as you would like, but CD-ROMs are here to stay. They have found a niche in the market despite their many limitations because they provide an excellent way to disseminate lots of information cheaply</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 Oct 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3740" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3740">Yes, folks, it's passed into the trend phase. Wireless networks are all the rage these days, though none have made their way to my door yet. I heard the latest news from the strangest source, the evening news on the radio</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 Oct 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3741" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3741">We've long lamented the wastefulness of stand-alone fax machines when most of the components of them could be used with a computer to further increase productivity</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 Oct 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3742" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3742">[Editor's note: We're including this notice on the hypertext conference not because it is big news, but because we believe that the future of information dissemination lies in electronic systems</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 Oct 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3743" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3743">We've already talked about the latest networking technologies from Motorola and possibly Apple, but other truly neat technologies have recently shown up.Storage-wise, we haven't heard anything more about Canon's optical card, but Intel should be shipping new Flash Memory Cards in a month or so</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 Oct 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3745" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3745">As with the paper in the children's game, Scissors, Paper, Rock, Farallon hopes to cover all the formats with its new DiskPaper product. Basically, DiskPaper is an intelligent "print to disk" utility</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 Oct 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3746" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3746">You can be singing the Beatles' Apple Corp. song to Apple Computer with their new toll-free helpline. However, you can't call them to complain that your Mac insists that your favorite floppy disk is damaged when it looks fine to you</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 Oct 1990</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3747" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3747">Windows 3.0 is nice if you use a PC-clone, but it is a tad hardware hungry. Reports indicate that a nice Windows platform is a 25 MHz 80386 machine with color VGA and 4 meg of memory</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 Oct 1990</div></div>
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