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- TOM'S COMPUTER NOTES FOR JUNE 1991
-
- Public Domain
-
- TRIED THE NEW "Online America" service. The interface is nice,
- what CIM should have been. It has its own "runtime" version of
- GEOS. Went into FILES first and checked out the keyword VGA.
- Found over 800 matches. Then to the keyword "sort" and only 14
- matches there. I was looking for a directory sort program.
-
- DEAR BILL: OK, you finally did it. You got my money. All those
- ads, the direct mail campaign, the "Mr. Nice Guy' offensive to
- persuade me to do it your way. It paid off. Persistence... That
- is how you made your first $billion$ and the second can't be far
- off. Yes, it's true, I just got tired of all of WORD PERFECT's
- quirks -- The CAN'T FIND WP.FIL messages, the locked up speller,
- all the bug fix disks, the patches. So, I gave up on it. And, I
- sure had a lot of time and money tied up in it, too. Well I hope
- you are happy now 'cause I'm finally over in your camp, the
- Microsoft WORD camp....s/ Your Pal, TOM P.S. I'll wait
- for WINDOWS Ver. 4 ar maybe Ver. 5 before I get involved with
- that.
-
- FREE OFFER - FoxPro Ver. 2.0 demo. call 1-800-837-FOX2 and
- mention offer code PCM-507.
-
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-
- FLASH!!! "Dear Gottfried" returns via the magic of MCI Mail. Mr.
- Lopez is in the government's witness protection program and is
- 'way out of touch with the world (where is Lake of the Woods?)
- but he will drop in from time to time electronically....
-
- Dear Gottfried: My GEOS programs won't work with DOS 5.0 and I
- have to boot from a floppy with DOS 3 or 4 to run GEOS. Anything
- I can do? s/Fred in Fresno. Dear Fred: Read in your DOS manual
- the dope on the SETVER.EXE program. The version table in MSDOS.SYS
- has various programs setup as 3.3 to 4.1 tasks. Try setting ver.
- 4.01 (via SETVER) for your GEOS applications and you will be up
- and running even though you have DOS 5.0 installed. s/Gottfried.
-
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-
- WILL THE 2.88 meg drive be the new standard? I suppose it will if
- IBM supplies it with their new line of PC's. At least one company
- (Micro Sense) says that their 2.88 drive will format 1.44 meg
- disks at the new "super HD" capacity. That's a lot better than
- paying $8 to $12 each for the 2.88 meg disks.
-
- TRYING AMI PRO... It's slow. Must be the WINDOWS overhead that
- slows it down.
-
- AMI PRO Ver. 2.0 beta is floating around now. It has a new "Icon
- Bar" (same as 1-2-3 For WINDOWS) that works nicely, just like the
- one that has been a part of QUATTRO PRO for over a year. The 1-2-
- 3 bar differs from the EXCEL 3.0 for WINDOWS bar in that it is
- entirely customizable (like QUATTRO PRO).
-
- 1-2-3 Ver 2.3 boosts 2.2's features a little for you non-WINDOWS
- people. .... An upgrade to Ver. 3.1 is due shortly.
-
- DOS Ver. 5.0 finally arrives, on June 11th. A few things beyond
- the Beta version (there were 7,000 "official" sets of that
- issued). Be sure and try MEM/C in Ver. 5.0.
-
- PC TOOLS Ver 7.0 has another "all new" GUI with cascading menus.
- Three WINDOWS applications are bundled with it. There is a remote
- computing function something like CARBON COPY, too. Price goes
- from $150 to $180. Upgrades are $50.
-
- NEXT VERSION OF WORD PERFECT will feature more import/export
- capability. Such as: Transferring files between PC's and MAC's.
-
- THE 486 CHIP FROM INTEL has popularized the speed and integration
- concept of the on-board cache. INTEL will soon make available to
- OEM's a 386 chip with the same feature, called the "386 Smart
- Cache"... It will also be available in an SX version.
-
- FREE STUFF: An APPLAUSE II demo disk from Ashton-Tate. Call 1-
- 800-437-4329, ext. 1311... Upgrades from Ver. 1.5 cost $50.
-
- ALDUS recently ran large ads offering free demo disks for
- PERSUASION Ver 2.0 but the telephone number was almost invisible.
- I finally found it on the second day of looking. It's 1-800-333-
- 2538, Dept. 36N.
-
- THE END
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