winkler@harvard.UUCP (Dan Winkler) (01/30/86)
Last fall, at the Dartmouth Mac conference, I met one of the Vice Presidents of True Basic Inc., Stewart Chapin. I explained to him that most of us Arpanet/Usenet users are highly respected authorities who give lots of advice about which Mac and IBM PC products are hot and which are not. It followed, I explained, that if he wanted people to know about his product, he should give a free demo to us experts. So True Basic Inc. is offering a free Mac or IBM PC demo disk to Arpanet/Usenet users and to anyone else they mention this to. That would be a good offer even if it were for just a blank disk, but instead you get a demo version of the True Basic interpreter and a variety of True Basic programs. The disk comes with documentation and price lists describing educational discounts so you can try out the demo interpreter and determine whether you want to buy the real thing. The Mac demo interpreter is complete except: program size is limited to 100 lines, programs cannot be saved or printed, file output is disabled, chaining and uncompiled libraries are disabled, and the do command is disabled. I don't have the IBM PC demo interpreter, but I assume it has the same limitations. To get your free disk, send a card with your return address and a note mentioning where you heard about this to: True Basic, Inc. 39 South Main Street Hanover NH 03755 or give them a call at (603) 643-3882. Make sure you tell them whether you want the Mac or IBM PC version. I don't have any connection with True Basic Inc. and have not received anything from them except my free disk. Dan.
sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) (02/03/86)
Is this True Basic the one being published by Addison Wesley? If so,
any prospective clients might read Pournelle's review in the Sep (i think)
1985 Byte Anniversary Issue.
Sean
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