NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/sys/acorn/9547

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From: [e-mail] (Simon Burrows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: The Acorn Product Guides
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Date: 12 Nov 92 17:06:55 GMT
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Last night I sat down with a copy of the Acorn Product Guide (fun bedtime
reading!), and several points occurred to me:

1) The Acorn Consumer & Education Product Guides are excellent publications,
   well worth getting hold of.

2) A huge diversity of software and hardware exists which most of us never
   hear about - our image of the Acorn market is coloured by those developers
   and companies which advertise in the Acorn magazines, but at all times
   a huge number of people must be beavering away developing products which
   get very little publicity except through these product guides.

3) Wouldn't the sort of information included in these guides be ideal for
   inclusion on a CD-ROM? Screenshots and sample output could be included,
   as well as demonstration versions of software.

I'd thoroughly recommend that everyone gets hold of a recent Acorn product
guide. (I've also got a very old Archimedes product guide, which lists a
large number of products which were either vapourware or vanished into
obscurity - including a desktop publishing package from Computer Concepts
(as yet without a name), which runs from ROM).

Simon
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