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From: derek@uwvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mac software query
Message-ID: <3364@rsch.WISC.EDU>
Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 18:02:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 23 18:02:35 1987
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Hi!  My mother is going to purchase a Macintosh SE and has charged me with
telling her what software to buy for it.  Unfortunately, I know nothing
about Mac software, so any recommendations would be most appreciated!

Her requirements (ideally):
1) A good word processing package.  It should be able to do anything from
  letters to books, as her husband is a college professor.
2) A package to do entry and statistical analysis of experimental
  data, and produce graphs and charts.
3) A powerful and easy-to-use WYSIWYG or desktop publishing thing that can
  output to a LaserWriter (which she is going to purchase).  This should be
  able to import text from 1) above, pictures from MacPaint, and charts or
  their data from 2) above, and maybe other things as well.
4) A database system that can do mailings and keep track of a fairly large
  number of data items.  Ideally, this would be able to interact with 1) or
  3) above to personalize letters and whatnot automatically in fairly large
  numbers.
5) A financial management system to help them manage a small business.

She and her husband are both mostly computer illiterate but fairly intelligent.

Thank You!

derek

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