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Subject: Whole Earth Software Catalog
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 02:16:00 EST
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From:  harvard!wjh12!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!ima!inmet!rgh%seismo.uucp@BRL-TGR

"The Whole Earth Software Catalog", Stewart Brand, Editor-in-Chief,
Quantum Press/Doubleday, 1984, soft cover, $17.50.
Enthusiastic review follows:

The Whole Earth Software Catalog is the best single book I've seen on
personal computers.  It provides reviews and recommendations for
programs in 11 "domains":  Playing, Writing, Analyzing, Organizing,
Accounting, Managing, Drawing, Telecommunicating, Programming, 
Learning, and Etc.  (e.g. online cookbooks and music synthesis
programs).  The reviews are less detailed but more comparative
than typical magazine reviews.

It also contains useful sections on hardware and buying, the latter
offering not only general tips but specific recommendations for
mail-order houses.  Books and magazines, databases and telecommunications
services, modems, printers, and monitors  are all reviewed and
recommended.  Information is pretty up-to-date:  the editorial closing
date was mid-June.  It is extensively illustrated with photos of
screens, many of them in full color.  In addition to a general index,
there are indices of products for specific computers. 

    Randy Hudson
    {ihnp4,harpo,ima}!inmet!rgh