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From: esf00@amdahl.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Mac Owner-type Needs Help
Message-ID: <12367@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 19:50:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.12367
Posted: Mon Aug 17 19:50:00 1987
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Reply-To: esf00@amdahl.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank)
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In article <3656@ihlpg.ATT.COM> rre@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Velveteen Rabbit Corps) writes:
>
>His needs are: 1. a word processor
>               2. a paint program
>
>The word processor is the most important aspect to him.

Spend the money and get Microsoft Word 3.01 and SuperPaint.

Word is not perfect (:-)) but has everything that he'll need to write
papers over his college career (except the ideas).  It includes a spelling
checker that will catch most mispellings of longer common words.
There are also enough users of Word that he can readily find sympathy,
answers to his "how do I ..." questions, and books written for a third
grade (or MBA) mentality on everthing that humans can do with Word.

SuperPaint costs $59 at most discount outlets and is worth the $$.
-- 

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