Word: disks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Printing papers that are created on your home word processor is fairly simple, provided you plan in advance. Translated, that means finding an appropriate systems disk for a Macintosh or a suitable word processing package on your IBM PC (or compatible...
...file can then be printed on the laserwriter via the MacBridge program (the MacBridge disk is kept next to OIT's IBM PCs). Once the MacBridge program is run, it will ask for the name and type of the file to be sent to the laserwriter. Type refers to whether the file is Postcript or straight text (ASCII) format...
...they meet in prison. Planning their escape or simply getting to tolerate each other, they are three shaggy humans looking for a way out, and they communicate their anxiety through a kind of existential slapstick: Godot meets the Three Stooges. If you can get into the rhythms of Waits' disk-jockey patter, Benigni's fractured English and Lurie's sullen explosions, you may find Down by Law mildly ingratiating. Otherwise you will sympathize with the jailbirds as they mark off the days in their cell. The markings, of course, are gorgeous: Chinese calligraphy, bayou-style...
Super Sunday Football from Avalon Hill ($39.95) comes with 20 past Superbowl teams on disk. Of course, the user can add teams and even switch them around. It allows someone to do an incredibly thorough job of what-ifs (what if the Patriots had William Perry, what if the Colts knew how to play, etc.) Super Sunday Football allows players to play against another player or against the computer. It's even possible to set the computer on auto-play; just sit back with a beer and some potato chips, and watch your computer play ball...
...thinking about adding a hard drive, the SCSI is a must because other hard drive interfaces follow different standards, and thus might be incompatible with some software. You must have 512k and the new ROMs/800k disk drive before upgrading an old Mac with the new logic board. Additionally, the SCSI port changes the connectors on your printer and modem ports, requiring additional adapter cables (about...