               TOM'S COMPUTER NOTES FOR JUNE 1991

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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.

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