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From: farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: 800 IBM-PCSW
Message-ID: <350@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 14:43:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 14:43:11 1985
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In article <911@ecsvax.UUCP>, dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes:
> I hope I'm not duplicating an earlier posting, but...
> 
> An IBMer recently told me that if you order Personal Editor or Word
> Proof through "normal channels" you will get older, inferior versions of
> those products (!).  To get the latest, order by calling (800) IBM-PCSW,
> which is IBM's "personally developed software" center.  Bonus:  The
> price of the improved software is ABOUT HALF that of the older stuff!
> The only disadvantage is that the documentation is on the diskette
> rather than in a preprinted manual.

   It's true.  Anyone who uses PE should call this number IMMEDIATELY,
as the newer version is vastly improved, and only available there. They've
also got one of the neater PC utilities available, PC-WATCH, which monitors
and reports the activity of all the interrupts as they occur.  Watch DOS
do funny things!

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           Mike Farren
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