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Whole Earth Software Review No.1, Spring 1984

“This magazine is a book-in-progress. The book is the Whole Earth Software Catalog, first edition to appear late in 1984, published by Doubleday. Its subject is everything having to do with personal computers. Its function is to evaluate the best of what’s available for personal computers.”

Sections:
  1. Writing
  2. Mcmicro
  3. Inside
  4. Telecommunicating
  5. Programming
  6. Learning | Playing
  7. Business
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Whole Earth Software Review No.1, Spring 1984
      1. A Software Taxonomy—Stewart Brand
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      2. The Software Dating Game—Richard Dalton
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  2. WRITING
      1. Writing Tools: Whole Earth recommends: WordStar; WordPerfect; Volkswriter Deluxe; Wordvision; Microsoft Word; Newword; Apple Writer Ile; Word Juggler; HomeWord; Quick Brown Fox; Radio Shack Model 100; The WORD Plus; Punctuation + Style.—Stewart Brand
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      2. The Transparent Onion—Peter McWilliams, Arthur Naiman, Steven Levy, Charles Spezzano, Woody Liswood, Barbara Elman, Fred Davis, Robert Purser, Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes, Louis Jaffe, Robert Cowan, Darrell Icenogle, Anthony Weston, Richard Dalton and Art Kleiner. Edited by Stewart Brand
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      3. Fifteen Word Processing Commandments—Charles Spezzano
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      4. Word Processing Computers as Remedial Writing Tools—Richard Wanderman
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      5. And Now, Something Completely Different Microwriter’s Keyboard Alternative.—Richard Dalton
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      6. Of Mice and Cheese
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      7. REVIEWS: PC Mouse, VisuALL and Microsoft’s mouse.—Matthew McClure
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      8. FEATURED PROGRAM: OFFIX Something for Everyone—Charles Spezzano
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  3. McMICRO
      1. Why The IBM PC is a Lousy Standard for the Industry—Richard Dalton
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      2. Playing Hardball—Charles Spezzano
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      3. Bringing the IBM PC Up to Snuff Enhancing the bare-bones PC.—Frederic E. Davis
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      4. Keyboards for the PC Key Tronic and Colby keyboards as options to IBM’s.—Matthew McClure
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      5. The Lookalike/Actalike/Workalike Club: Price, performance and staying power need to be considered with IBM’s competitors.—Richard Dalton
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      6. My Daily Affairs with a Compaq—Dave Smith
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  4. INSIDE
      1. INSIDE: Trends, rumors, gossip and guesswork.
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      2. Corona Data Systems PC—Ken Milburn
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      3. Columbia MPC—Ken Milburn
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      4. The Seequa Chameleon—Richard Dalton
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      5. HP 150: the Magic Touch—Barbara Robertson
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  5. TELECOMMUNICATING
      1. The Next Phone Company A new national computer communications system —what it can mean to you.—Art Kleiner
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      2. RAM: Thoughts often have a life of their own in Random Access Memory.
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      3. Mr. Download: An Interview with Bill von Meister The wizard behind The Source and other information services births a new video game concept — with uncertain future impacts.—Matthew McClure
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  6. PROGRAMMING
      1. Starting FORTH The useful FORTH language for neophytes.—Louis Buscaglia-Zeppa
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  7. LEARNING | PLAYING
      1. Introduction—Barbara Robertson
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      2. Games and Learning for Children—Ann McCormick Piestrup, Ph.D
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      3. REVIEWS: Hey Diddle Diddle; Rocky’s Boots.
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      4. The New Space Invaders —is Computer-Video Technology Pushing the Family out of the Home?—Edna Mitchell, Ph.D
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      5. REVIEWS: Pinball Construction Set; Ms. Pac-Man; M.U.L.E.
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      6. Entertainment in Educational Software—Doug Carlston
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      7. REVIEW: Flight Simulator.
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      8. Computer Games Make Reading Fun—Timothy R. Hornberger and Ellen V. Whitford
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      9. REVIEWS: Magic Spells; Planetfall.
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      10. Mail-Order Buying Primer How to find unusual products and values. What to avoid.—James Stockford
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      11. REVIEWS: Caverly’s Guide to Direct Mail Advertisers; Wilson’s Computer Business; Conroy La Point; Guenther Computer Products; 800-Software; Inmac; Total Access.
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      12. Public Domain Software for CP/M and IBM PC Systems: A world of “‘free’’ software...some of it’s excellent.—Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes
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      13. Bush Computer Furniture A do-it-yourself approach to organizing computers.—Jack Powers
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  8. BUSINESS
      1. Why and How this Magazine is Non-Profit Historic and current reasons for this unusual approach; our financial statement.—Stewart Brand
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      2. What We Use Ourselves
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      3. REVIEWS: Champion; Word Challenge.
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      4. Computer Literacy: How to access computer books.
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