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...computers simpler for novices to use. Software Publishing, which sells the popular PFS series of list-keeping programs, unveiled Access, a product that enables computer owners to bypass the complicated log-on procedures needed to use information-retrieval services like those run by Dow Jones, CompuServe and The Source. Lotus Development, maker of the business package 1-2-3, last year's bestselling program, showed off its latest product, Symphony, which permits the easy transfer of information among five diverse computer programs...
Jobs claims that 100 software companies are developing products for Mac, but only five programs will be available this week at its introduction. Versions of the industry's current bestsellers, like Lotus' 1-2-3, will not be ready until summer...
...having been alone before." Thus it was in 1973, after divorcing her second husband, that Deirdre Blomfield-Brown decided to change her name and her life by beginning a novitiate in the 2,500-year-old tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Today Ane Pema Cho-dron, 47, whose name means "lotus dharma torch," is executive director of a meditation center in Boulder, Colo., and probably the only American woman to have been fully ordained as a Buddhist nun. The mother of two children and a former elementary school teacher in California and New Mexico, Chodron followed the path of enlightenment...
Mitchell Kapor, 33, founder of Lotus Development, a computer software company. A Brooklyn-born math whiz, Kapor graduated from Yale at 20, then dabbled as a disc jockey, an instructor in Transcendental Meditation and a mental-hospital counselor. Little commanded his attention until he impulsively traded in his stereo system for an Apple II computer. Within a few months, he wrote two computer programs that create charts and graphs for businesses and sold them to a software distributor for $1.2 million. With royalties from the programs and backing from venture capitalists, he founded Lotus Development...
Within a year the company's 1-2-3 program, which combines popular business functions like spread-sheet analysis and graphics into one package, became the industry's bestseller at a price of $495. Sales through September: 110,000. Lotus is now the second largest