Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!ima!inmet!rgh From: rgh@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Whole Earth Software Catalog Message-ID: <1762@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sat, 27-Oct-84 03:50:23 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1762 Posted: Sat Oct 27 03:50:23 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Oct-84 07:13:14 EST Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #N:inmet:5800064:000:1154 Nf-From: inmet!rgh Oct 25 23:02:00 1984 "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