Programs in Magazines now available in a disk!

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3 total messages Started by Jeff Mizener Mon, 19 Mar 1984 21:55

#270

Author: Jeff Mizener
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1984 21:55

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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
______________

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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Re: Programs in Magazines now available in a disk!

#272

Author: ee161agt
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 1984 00:52

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	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

Re: Programs in Magazines now available in a disk!

#273

Author: Kit Kimes
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 1984 13:32

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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

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