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- IBM OFFERS CURRENT AT SPECIAL PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIME
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- WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 14 . . . IBM today announced that
- Current Version 1.2, a powerful personal information management
- (PIM) software package, will be offered at the special price of
- 129.00, when ordered directly from IBM. IBM Desktop Software
- (IDS) will offer this limited time promotion through August 31,
- 1991. The list price of Current is 395.00.
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- Customers may order Current directly from IBM, with a
- credit card, by calling the Product Information Center at
- 1-800-426-7699. The Product Information Center can also refer
- callers to their nearest authorized dealer. Current is also
- available from IBM remarketers and software retailers, who may
- have their own special terms and conditions during this
- promotion period.
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- Current, introduced October 31, 1989, by IDS, runs in the
- Microsoft Windows 3.0 environment of the Disk Operating System
- (DOS) and is designed to help business users organize, relate
- and retrieve text and graphical data quickly and efficiently.
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- Current's powerful design allows users to customize the
- program for specific applications. A predefined set of
- categories -- people, appointments, expenses, projects, etc.,
- is included with the product.
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- Current's graphical user interface allows users to display
- data in a variety of familiar formats such as a color-coded
- calendar, an address book, and color-coded Gantt (time line)
- charts that display quick overviews of projects and tasks. In
- addition, users can search for selected information from their
- data as well as view and print the information in a variety of
- formats.
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- Current 1.2 requires an IBM Personal Computer, Personal
- System/2 or tested-compatible with a 286 or faster micro
- processor, a 20 megabyte (MB) hard disk and 1MB of random
- access memory (RAM).
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- IBM Desktop Software, based in Milford Connecticut, is a
- unit of the IBM Applications Solutions Division. Its mission
- is to acquire, develop and bring to market leading application
- software for the personal computer.
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