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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Icon Review Winter Catalog / Can you say Vaporware?
Message-ID: <93@colossus.tc.fluke.COM>
Date: Fri, 21-Nov-86 01:22:10 EST
Article-I.D.: colossus.93
Posted: Fri Nov 21 01:22:10 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Nov-86 20:38:04 EST
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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Keywords: Promise them anything

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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