jm@tekig.UUCP (Jeff Mizener) (03/20/84)
I have a young friend who seems to be well on his way to becoming
a first rate programmer. He has been offering this service for
a couple of months now to members of his local (Eugene, OR) Atari
Users Group, and I thought You-Out-There might be interested.
Here goes:
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From: Tim Ebling
To: All Atari Users
Subject: Magazine Disk
If you've ever tried to type out a program listed in a
magazine, you know just how many hours are required to
type a program that usually is filled with bugs.
Now there's a better way: The Magazine Disk. It contains
all the listed programs from the month's top three
Atari magazines, Compute!, Antic, and ANALOG. All the
programs are in a neat, menu-driven format, and completely
error-free [Note: I assume he means no typing mistakes].
This disk is double-sided and both sides are filled to the limit.
To Order, send $5.00 (or $3.00 if you send a blank disk) to:
Tim Ebling
1501 River Loop #1
Eugene, OR
97404
(503) 688-6872
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I don't own an Atari anything, so I haven't ever tried one of his disks.
However, I can vouch for him. I thought someone might find this
useful/interesting/worthwhile.
From the Rainforest,
Jeff Mizener
Tektronix Inc., IG/ADG
Beaverton, OR
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ARPA: tekig!jm.tek@udel-relay CSnet: tekig!jm@tekee161agt@sdccs5.UUCP (03/21/84)
[] I don't want to rain on this guy's parade, but there are copyright laws which prohibit this practice. Analog recently had a survey of its reader on the subject of piracy, and they said that you must buy the magazine if you are going to get a copy of any program in it from a friend. I know the rules are somewhat blurred on this point, but I don't think it's worth a possible law-suit. If this guy keeps a low profile, he might be safe, but if he makes any money at it, the lawyers will be at his door. Paul van de Graaf U. C. San Diego
kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes) (03/21/84)
NOTE: Buyers (and sellers) beware! A couple of months we got a similar offer from a company calling itself U.S. Computype out of Bountiful, Utah. They wanted to charge $90 a year or $12 a month for essentially the same thing. I sent a check for one month to see if it was for real. You had to sign a statement that you actually owned the issues you were going to get on disk (I assume this was an attempt to get around legal problems since it is legal for someone else to do the typing as long a you own the magazine according to Compute! magazine). Anyway, a couple of weeks later, I got a letter with my check back saying that they were having problems and would let me know as soon as they could take orders. I can only assume one of the magazines brought some kind of suit against them. I haven't heard from them again as yet. Moral: It may be possible to get away with this sort of thing on a local level but if this person tries to go national (and even international over netnews) he could be in for some legal problems. Kit Kimes AT&T Consumer Products Montgomery Works Aurora, Il. 60507 ..!ihnp4!we13!mgweed!kek
wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) (03/21/84)
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Three cheers for Home Computer Magazine (the old 99er for TI)
They offer tapes or disks of everything in their magazine for
a quit reasonable price (3.95) for all the pcs they cover.
At least that is what their latest offer is. They also have
all the stuff from back issuses available. Plus, they put
out one of those THE BEST OF books which is also available
on tape or disk. They now cover IBM PC, Commodore, Apple IIe,
and TI if your interested.
T. C. Wheeler