twleung@burdvax.UUCP (Theodore W. Leung) (07/14/86)
I just picked up the July 1986 issue of MacUser magazine, and there inside the front cover is ad for Living VideoText's long awaited successor to Thinktank. More is a "grown up" Thinktank, which allows you to have up to 6 documents open in standard Macintosh windows. Living Videotext has decided to go back to using the Macintosh User Interface Guidelines for doing windows! The program does a few other nifty things like allow you to make "bulleted" documents and graphically displayed tree graphs from an outline. There is also a rolodex type function that will hold phone numbers and dial them for you automatically if you like. The program looks pretty nice, and is billed as being compatible with Mac 512's and Pluses. The only thing I didn't like was the price: $295.00 *** FLAME ON!!! *** This seems a little outrageous to me, since Acta is going for somewhere around $65 (I think). The most irking feature of this new product is the upgrade policy. Living Videotext has always had a barely tolerable upgrade policy, but their upgrad policy for going from Thinktank to More is truly criminal. I called the 800 number at the bottom of the ad, and spoke to the woman at Living Videotext, only to be told that there will be no upgrade path, rather ther will be a piddling $50 rebate, leaving the cost of More at roughly $245. Living Videotext sure knows how to promote customer loyalty... Perhaps a lively telephone campaign by angry Thinktank owners is in order.... *** FLAME OFF *** The Mac is the Computer for The Rest of Us.... as long as The Rest of Us have money. Ted Leung SDC/PRC UUCP:sdcrdcf!burdvax!twleung INTERNET: twleung@ATHENA.MIT.EDU