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Article #13569Icon Review Winter Catalog / Can you say Vaporware?
From: Jeff Meyer
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1986 06:22
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1986 06:22
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Got the latest issue of the Icon Review Mail Order catalog, and once again,
the word which sums it up would seem to be "premature". I have a few
friends who bought Multi-Write from IR's previous issue -- which was
advertised as if it were available at the time of printing. They're still
waiting; and what should appear in this issue but something called
"MindWrite" which looks *startingly* like MultiWrite. God only knows if
this puppy suffers from vaporware lock or not, but with Microsoft Word 3.0
coming out in a month, it's got nothing I want. Other rather raw
advertisements include CricketDraw, which I know for a fact is only in Beta
versions; and a hardware buffer for a LaserWriter called MacBufferLW which
runs about $2,200. These people really make me appreciate MacConnection...
PS. For those of you who've gotten the Borland pamphlets in the mail:
is it just me, or does John Sculley look like he expects Phillip Kahn to
bite him?
"We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us
off, and we'll bomb your cities."
-- Robin Williams
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