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...intriguing title is not a joke, nor is it an attempt to reach the Garfield market. It represents a searching effort to determine why a band of Parisian printers bludgeoned to death a lot of cats, notably including the master printer's wife's pet, then subjected several of the animals to a mock trial and hanged them. More important, why did these printers of the 1730s think the butchery was so comic that they guffawed as they re-enacted it in pantomime more than 20 times? Was it sadism? Mass hysteria? Demonic ritual...
Last September the Core program made available 2000 copies of the booklet at $5, but sold only 600, said Becky Zaikia-Wilson, Wilcox's staff assistant. She explained that overhead was high because the syllabi were delivered late and had to be photocopied rather than sent to a printer...
...hoopla notwithstanding, some experts who claim familiarity with the PCjr are unimpressed. They point out that the IBM machine has a relatively high price, in comparison with competitive products already on the market. The Coleco Adam, which was first shipped last month, includes a printer along with the computer and is available for less than $600. Commodore's hugely successful Commodore 64 has a base price of just $200. The Seybold Report on Professional Computing, a respected industry newsletter, describes the PCjr as "a surprisingly modest machine, embodying relatively little innovation...
...equipment necessary to play the game can cost less than $300 or more than $5,000 for a deluxe system that combines computer, modem, printer and disc drives. Once the machinery is installed and the modem plugged in, there are hundreds of computer networks accessible by phone, from bulletin boards geared to specific machines to on-line dating services that anyone can join. The most popular pay-for-connect-time utilities, like The Source (40,000 subscribers) and Compu Serve (70,000), advertise in newspapers and computer magazines. These commercial operations offer their subscribers news, horoscopes, games and travel tips...
Matters might have got out of hand, except for the civilian and military police, who were deployed in force. "One way or another, we're going to get the freaks out," threatened Wayne Morrison, a printer from Romulus (pop. 2,600). Contended Millie Todd, who runs a beauty parlor in Romulus: "They're lesbians. They don't salute the flag. They have set back what women have fought for, for a good 50 to 100 years." Said Tom Selling, a local carpenter sympathetic to the protest's cause: "You come here and act like...