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From: matt@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: CAUTION, WARNING, DANGER ThinkTank 512 and 128K ROMS
Message-ID: <14209@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 25-May-86 01:24:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.14209
Posted: Sun May 25 01:24:10 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 28-May-86 04:34:26 EDT
References: <314@mentor.mentor.UUCP>
Organization: UCLA CS Department
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Keywords: ThinkTank 512 death

A new outline processor *DA* called 'Acta' will be out within a month.
I've had a pre-release (I paid for it :-) for about a month, and have
built 50+ kbyte outlines with NOT A SINGLE CRASH.  The user interface
conforms with Mac standards, and the DA is robust as any program I've
seen (on the Mac).  It runs fine on both old and new ROMs (although most 
of the stuff I've done is on a Mac+).

Acta lets you save outlines in Text, Acta, or MacWrite format (with
section numbering of different flavors), or you can clip a short outline
into MacWrite (or Word or ...) via clipboard.

The only shortcoming is the inability to print an outline without
saving/clipping into a wordprocessor.

I recommend Acta without reservation.  TT-512 isn't worth the powder to 
blow it to Poughkeepsie.

			    - Matt


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(first part of original poster's article included below)

In article <314@mentor.mentor.UUCP>, robb@mentor.UUCP (Rob Bartel) writes:

> After losing several days worth of work on a ThinkTank 512 outline I called 
> Living Videotext and found out that their current version of software
> (1.2) has a SERIOUS memory management bug in it that causes random crashes
> and screwy characters to show up in the outline.  In addition, it is a creeping
> death sort of problem, and you can go through several saves accumulating these
> garbage characters until it gets so bad that the tool crashes.  The problem is 
> worse on long outlines (I havent seen it on outlines less than 10K in size) 
> and occurs *ONLY ON* macs with the 128K ROM.  I have not seen problems on my
> (work) machine with the 64K ROM.  It occurs with either the old or new System 
> and Finder combinations.