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From: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga & Mindset
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Date: 8 Aug 88 21:40:30 GMT
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Back in '84 a lovely little magazine called "Whole Earth Software Review"
was published by POINT in Sausalito, CA.  It was a quarterly and I don't
think it even made it through a whole year's worth of issues before it
folded as a separate entity and then merged with "CoEvolution Quarterly"
to become a computer section in a larger-format mag called "Whole Earth
Review."  (Yes, all of these were published by Stewart Brand and company
who previously put out the highly memorable "Whole Earth Catalog"
series.  If you've a decent public library nearby you might check the
periodicals section for back issues of Whole Earth Software Review as
they waxed ecstatic about the Mindset computer and a couple of their covers
were produced with the "Lumena" software from Time Arts.

An author friend of mine has a 128K Mindset languising under his sofa,
collecting dust.  It was a review-sample-loaner from them and when they
went belly-up he was never asked to send it back.  He tells me it's
"sort of" MS Dos compatible, won't run a lot of "normal" PC software and
with only 128K it's rather useless anyway, but it is beautifully
designed, a piece of modern engineering "sculpture" if you will and 
rather stealth looking since it's all black.

Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone.  Plink: CBM*HARV
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