dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) (12/13/85)
I hope I'm not duplicating an earlier posting, but...
An IBMer recently told me that if you order Personal Editor or Word
Proof through "normal channels" you will get older, inferior versions of
those products (!). To get the latest, order by calling (800) IBM-PCSW,
which is IBM's "personally developed software" center. Bonus: The
price of the improved software is ABOUT HALF that of the older stuff!
The only disadvantage is that the documentation is on the diskette
rather than in a preprinted manual.
Amazing.
--
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706
(919) 684-3695
USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgaryfarren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren) (12/16/85)
In article <911@ecsvax.UUCP>, dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes: > I hope I'm not duplicating an earlier posting, but... > > An IBMer recently told me that if you order Personal Editor or Word > Proof through "normal channels" you will get older, inferior versions of > those products (!). To get the latest, order by calling (800) IBM-PCSW, > which is IBM's "personally developed software" center. Bonus: The > price of the improved software is ABOUT HALF that of the older stuff! > The only disadvantage is that the documentation is on the diskette > rather than in a preprinted manual. It's true. Anyone who uses PE should call this number IMMEDIATELY, as the newer version is vastly improved, and only available there. They've also got one of the neater PC utilities available, PC-WATCH, which monitors and reports the activity of all the interrupts as they occur. Watch DOS do funny things! -- Mike Farren uucp: {dual, hplabs}!well!farren Fido: Sci-Fido, Fidonode 125/84, (415)655-0667 USnail: 390 Alcatraz Ave., Oakland, CA 94618
johnl@ima.UUCP (12/18/85)
/* Written 11:49 am Dec 13, 1985 by dgary@ecsvax in ima:net.micro.pc */ >An IBMer recently told me that if you order Personal Editor or Word >Proof through "normal channels" you will get older, inferior versions of >those products (!). To get the latest, order by calling (800) IBM-PCSW, >which is IBM's "personally developed software" center. Bonus: The >price of the improved software is ABOUT HALF that of the older stuff! This is the IBM "personally developed software" catalog order department. It sells stuff written by individuals but marketed by IBM. They have a cute little catalog with pictures of all of the authors and descriptions of the programs, all of which are very cheap, usually about $20. Some of it is good stuff -- one of my favorites is "Print buffer online" which is a program that lets you use part of your computer's memory as a print buffer and has the advantage over the "print" command that it automatically buffers everything sent to the printer. There are also games, debuggers, programming utilities, and other stuff. Call and ask for the catalog. John Levine, ima!johnl PS: Oh, yes, the best program is a $19.95 gem called file facility which gives you something like the PATH command for your data and overlay files, allowing you to structure your hard disk with reasonable directories even though you have silly old software that knows nothing about them.