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From: darryl@ism780c.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Mac Owner-type Needs Help
Message-ID: <7152@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 10:32:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: ism780c.7152
Posted: Tue Aug 18 10:32:26 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Aug-87 01:36:52 EDT
References: <3656@ihlpg.ATT.COM> <25690@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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Keywords: Not me, a friend

In article <25690@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
<>A friend of mine is buying a Mac Plus soon, and he wants me to help him
<>plot what software he should buy (he knows nothing about computers, I'm the
<>CS major). 
<>
<>His needs are: 1. a word processor
<>               2. a paint program
<> 
<>
<>The word processor is the most important aspect to him. Programs Plus sells
<>MacWrite for $99, and there wasn't anything cheaper I could recognize.
<
<>On the paint program, FullPaint lists in the catalog for less than MacPaint.
<
<Fullpaint is a good, solid product.  I also find I've never bothered to use
<it since I bought Superpaint, which is the same price and blows it away in
<functionality and toys.  Buy superpaint. 

Or GraphicWorks 1.1.  It is an excellent program and no one has been able
to show me a feature in SuperPaint that GraphicWorks doesn't have.  This
month's MacLoser rates them at about a dead heat, with features to GW and
manual to SP.

	    --Darryl Richman, INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.
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