St. Louis Computing: 1991  ~  WORD is Microsoft’s WORD processing package available on the IBM PC/PS (compatibles) and Apple’s Macintosh. It was designed as a low-end desktop publisher to take full advantage of Apple’s LaserWriter and Hewlett-Packard’s laser series printers. Laser printers (using copier technology) allow you to print characters in a variety of sizes [...]

St. Louis Computing: December 1990  ~  The Three Kings of Word-Proc Are: The three kings of word-proc are Challenging features from a-far The field is Mul-ti, Word and Perrr-fect Following comes Word-star. . . . more [Why the extra click? To hinder web 'scrapers' from extracting copyrighted content.] – k

St. Louis Computing: November 1990   ~  Analogy: If you will, imagine for a moment that your kitchen is your personal computer system. A lot of food processing happens in your kitchen.It has a stove (for cooking); cabinets (for storage of food for future use); countertops (to temporarily hold ingredients or spices while you are cooking); [...]

St. Louis Computing: October 1993  ~  Some computers have an 8-bit bus, others 16-bit. The MacInosh rules with a 32-bit bus.  What exactly is a “bus?” Information moves around inside your computer system on a bus—from keyboard to memory to monitor to disk to printer. . . . more [Why the extra click? To hinder [...]

St. Louis Computing: August 1990  ~  “Which version of MultiMate do you have? Is it 2 or II?  Did II come after 3.6?”  Phone conversations get a little confusing when discussing the new version of MultiMate Advantage II. Confusing, too, is that Advantage II does not appear to be too advantageous (to existing 3.6 users [...]

St. Louis Computing: August 1990  ~  “We need a Lazy Susan for the consultants’ computer… a spiral staircase, free-standing podium for several training computers… my desktop needs to be black formica that curves around from the credenza (lots of room for project files). And, the desktop needs to expand into a hexagon shaped conference table…” [...]