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...updating of export guidelines, the U.S., Japan and their NATO allies have agreed to block the shipment of sophisticated or rugged microcomputers like the IBM PC-XT that could stand up to battlefield conditions. Because of pressure from U.S. allies, the new limitations, however, do not attempt an unrealistic embargo of the Apple II and other more fragile or less powerful machines. Said one Pentagon official: "We know that the Soviet plan includes acquisition of microcomputers from the West. Now we can slow them down...
...owners where to find the freebies. The Computer Phone Book, by Mike Cane (New American Library; $9.95), lists the phone numbers of more than 400 bulletin boards and networks carrying programs for many brands of personal computers, including Apple, IBM, Tandy, Commodore and Atari. Free Software for the IBM PC, by Bertram Gader and Manuel Nodar (Warner Books; $8.95), shows readers how to track down more than 600 programs...
Other programmers are not so altruistic. Andrew Fluegelman, editor in chief of PC World magazine, made more than $100,000 by giving away his software and asking satisfied users for contributions. John MacEvoy, a part-time programmer from Germantown, Md., seeks no payment for the personal-finance program he wrote, but he does make one request of those who use it. Instead of paying him, MacEvoy says, they should leave the computer keyboard for a while and take their long-suffering spouses out to dinner...
Lord also uses an IBM PC to put texts on disk, where he hopes to publish more from the collection and search for key words...
...Clearly there are too many magazines," says David Bunnell, publisher of PC World and Mac World, magazines specializing in the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh computers. "I expect 50 more to fold before the year is over." Bunnell is a veteran of this treacherous terrain. One morning in 1982 he walked into his San Francisco offices only to discover that his company had been bought out over the weekend by publishing giant Ziff-Davis...