a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) (10/20/90)
> oury@techbook.com writes: > > 2) A ram resident popup notepad, maybe with hypertext > abilities. IMHO, the most useful program you could ever buy for a laptop is MemoryMate, from Broderbund Software. This handy utility can be run standalone or memory-resident. It will use up about 80K of memory resident, or 30K and 64K of EMS. It's basically a notepad that has up to 32,000 and a few "pages" that are 80 cols by 120 lines long. It indexes every word in the entries. If you search for "John Smith" it will tell you his address, that you have an appointment with him on Friday (which it would have automatically brought up when you invoked the program on that day) and that he owes you $50. You can use the traditional 'and' and 'or' in the search, and you can narrow a search with further qualifications once you've come up with an initial result. I toss all sorts of information into it and it all comes out again. I find it truly amazing. One of my friends described it as "like having post-it notes all over the inside of your monitor." I cannot recommend this program enough. If you want more information on it feel free to email me; I'll send off an extensive review of it that I wrote recently. I paid about $65 Cdn. for it. It would be cheaper in the U.S., of course. cjs -- Curt_Sampson@mindlink.UUCP (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) {uunet|ubc-cs}!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Curt_Sampson Data: (604) 687-6736 Curt_Sampson@p0.f740.n153.z1.fidonet.org Voice: (604) 687-3227
oury@techbook.com (David Oury) (10/21/90)
Greetings,
This is a request for two utilities ...
1) A program which could be run on a laptop (t1200xe)
which would stress the machine (devices, cpu, etc) in
order find its faults ASAP.
2) A ram resident popup notepad, maybe with hypertext
abilities.
I'd like to know about PD/SW/inexpensive stuff.
Thanks in advance. david oury
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> portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com writes: > > >>>>> On 20 Oct 90 06:58:14 GMT, a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) said: > > >> oury@techbook.com writes: > >> > >> 2) A ram resident popup notepad, maybe with hypertext > >> abilities. > > > IMHO, the most useful program you could ever buy for a laptop is > MemoryMate, > > from Broderbund Software. > > There is a similar program called Info Select which is available from > a company called Micro Logic. I should mention that the September 1990 issue of *BYTE* magazine contains a brief overview of a bunch of PIM-type programs, and it includes overviews of both MemoryMate and InfoSelect. cjs -- Curt_Sampson@mindlink.UUCP (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) {uunet|ubc-cs}!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Curt_Sampson Data: (604) 687-6736 Curt_Sampson@p0.f740.n153.z1.fidonet.org Voice: (604) 687-3227
portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) (10/22/90)
>>>>> On 20 Oct 90 06:58:14 GMT, a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) said: >> oury@techbook.com writes: >> >> 2) A ram resident popup notepad, maybe with hypertext >> abilities. > IMHO, the most useful program you could ever buy for a laptop is MemoryMate, > from Broderbund Software. > This handy utility can be run standalone or memory-resident. It will use up > about 80K of memory resident, or 30K and 64K of EMS. > It's basically a notepad that has up to 32,000 and a few "pages" that are 80 > cols by 120 lines long. It indexes every word in the entries. If you search > for "John Smith" it will tell you his address, that you have an appointment > with him on Friday (which it would have automatically brought up when you > invoked the program on that day) and that he owes you $50. You can use the > traditional 'and' and 'or' in the search, and you can narrow a search with > further qualifications once you've come up with an initial result. There is a similar program called Info Select which is available from a company called Micro Logic. From what I've read above, Info Select is comparable to MemoryMate; it has all the features listed above. I run it stand-alone under DESQview on my T1000XE, though it also runs memory-resident as well. It offers hypertext-like abilities (you can place a link in one note which leads to another), and it has a date-lookup feature which is good enough to use the package as a replacement for your appointment book. It can sum columns, handle character-line graphics in notes, and lets you define templates for fill-in-the-blank forms. Its search function is very fast; it searches as you type, narrowing out notes that don't match in real-time. You may want to compare both these programs closely before you buy one or the other. > One of my friends described it as "like having post-it notes all over the > inside of your monitor." This is exactly how I describe Info Select, too! --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com Integration, not segregation or assimilation.