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From: vernonw@pro-carolina.UUCP (Vernon Williams)
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Subject: Re: Homebrew HD, Pro-line, A2-Central...
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Date: 18 Aug 89 05:51:19 GMT
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Network Comment: to #4755 by obsolete!dlyons%apple.com
I must agree with Dave Lyons on the issue of A2-Central. I subscribed to it
after being dessatisfied with inCider's coverage of anything other than
AppleWorks or AWGS. I feel that their magazine is good for beginners or people
who heavily use AW or AWGS but I am neither. Tom Pierce complained about the
timeliness of the AppleWorks 3.0 article and the apropriateness of calling
SHRINKIT "new". Yet the AW article date WAS the official announcement date of
the software, and I got my copy on that date (if not a little before). I must
admit I had been using SHRINKIT for a while before I saw the article in
A2-Central, but I have yet to see an article in any other Apple II magazine
about it at all. In fact I find other magazines' coverage of
telecommunications terrible at best.
Don't get me wrong, I do not knock inCider, or any other Apple II mag for that
matter. I just wanted to say that they serve different audiences. I personally
prefer A2-Central because it gives me informative, from-the-hip articles along
with many of the benefits of belonging to a User Group, well worth the
subscription price (though at first I too thought it was too much -- it's
already saved me about $100 on a certain Claris program, so maybe I owe them
$72!:))
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