MMOUG July 1995 Newsletter
July 1995
Volume 3 Number 7

The views expressed in this newsletter are not necessarily the views held by
the MMOUG or it's members. Don't agree with something you've read here?     
Write and tell us about it!  If you have any contributions, please upload them to area
18 of the WoodMeister or send them to me via Internet at USDSSKZS@IBMMAIL.COM.  If
you work for the State of Missouri and have access to DISOSS, you can send them to
POOLMWV at DSSHOST.      

MMOUG June Minutes
Mid Missouri OS/2 User's Group
June 21, 1995
Columbia Photo and Video

Attendees:  Ben Hoffman, Gary Pool, David Keisker, Dayton Shepherd,
Penny Shepherd, Mike Martin, Blake Lewis, Jim Casstevens, Steve Petzel,
Randy Wright

Guests:  Charles Steinhaus, Andy Steere, Chad Montplaisir

Gary Pool called the meeting to order.  Ben Hoffman passed around
several announcements from IBM including:  OS/2 Warp Connect for the
PowerPC, IAK enhancements and other IBM Internet Product announcements.

Dave Keisker suggested making posters to help recruit new members.  He
had several samples to show the club.  He will investigate reproducing
these in color for distribution.  As a side note he ask if anyone had
any experience with Logictech sound cards.  Gary Pool said he had an INF
file called Good, Bad and Ugly with reviews of various adapters.  Ben
Hoffman said he would upload the latest OS/2 Compatibility INF file to
the JC node and Gary said he would do his file.

The Woodmeister system has been replaced and is now available.  The trap
problems with the old system are gone and we are up.

Next month in Jeff City Ben Hoffman 'volunteered' to do an IBM Works
presentation.  Maybe in August we will take Greg Lane up on his offer
to present VX-Rexx and Gary Pool said he could have something ready for
the September meeting on NDM/2.  These are all subject to change
depending on how are VP does recruiting guest speakers.

Internet sites were discussed as well as other OS/2 misc. topics.  The
meeting was adjourned.  Blake presented Partition Magic and did a
product demo.

The drawing for prizes:  Partition Magic, Dayton Shepherd;  OS/2 Luggage
tags:  Randy Wright, Steve Petzel, Penny Shepherd.

Information Officer Input/Output

OK, OK!  I know the newsletter is late this month!  We were closed for the
Fourth of July -- yeah, that's it!  But what a Fourth of July it was!  Besides
having an enjoyable few days at the Lake of the Ozarks, I went to Hannibal,
MO for Tom Sawyer days.  In 1956, Hannibal began choosing an annual "Tom
Sawyer" and "Becky Thatcher" from local 13 year-olds.  These kids then
became "ambassadors" for Hannibal, traveling around the country (and
sometimes out of the country) making people aware of Hannibal.  They are
chosen after several thorough tests, consisting of information about Hannibal,
Mark Twain, his writings, and interpersonal skills.  In case you haven't
guessed where this is going -- guess whose niece was chosen as Becky
Thatcher this year?  Obviously, she obtained her stage presence from the
early influence of her uncle!  The trips I know that she'll make so far are
to Calaveras County, CA, for the jumping frog contest; Elmira, NY to Mark
Twain's "other" home, South Carolina (I'm not sure why), and Cincinatti, OH
for some sort of "Tall Ships" pageant.  There are 4 other "Toms" and
"Beckys" that assist in other appearances.  Last year, the five couples put
in over 420 appearances, including Hannibal's "Porkarama".  I just hope
David Letterman never finds out about that one!

OK, so it doesn't have much to do with OS/2, but I couldn't resist!

Enough of this.  To tell the truth, I'm not sure what's in this Newsletter!
Usually I collect information throughout the month up until I'm ready to
publish.  Because this is late, the material has sat around for a while and
I've forgotten what I got -- but I'm sure it's good!

Humor

Top 10 things to do while waiting for Windows 95

10.   Try to fix all the other Windows stuff that ain't working.
9.    Buy stock in the company that'll be making all those (96) stickers.
8.    Tease Microsoft for not having a bitchin' code name like OS/2 does.
7.    Move to Seattle to save money on support calls and hear Frasier
      every morning.
6.    Think up some more "they'll have a version for it soon" excuses.
5.    E-mail technet@microsoft.com every day asking, "Is it done yet?"
4.    Lobby to get name changed to "Bob - Professional Edition".
3.    Corner local Prozac and Mountain Dew markets, ransom to Microsoft
      development staff.
2.    Consider renaming all in-house applications to something 95 to avoid
      deadlines.
1.    Quit job, become sanitation engineer with decent pay and all-you-can-eat
      benefits.

From PC Week (6/5/95) letters to the editor (by Joel Mathias, Columbus State
Community College in Ohio).

OS/2 Tips 'N' Techniques

Here is a frequent interchange one might find on a bulletin board:

   "My launchpad is broken"
   "Did you erase C:\NOWHERE?"
   "Yes, I didn't know what it was good for."
   "Well, that's what broke the launchpad."

The moral of the story, Don't remove the NOWHERE directory!

Here's a tip to improve Web Explorer performance:

As you all know, the WebExplorer is using multiple threads to get
text and pictures over the net. At the bottom of your screen it shows
the four threads that is uses by default. 

You can increase the number of threads to 8 by putting the option '-t 8'
as parameter to WE.EXE.

For more WebExplorer parameters, search on the keyword 'parameters' in the WebExplorer's online help.

Threads....

Warp vs. Win95

This is an interesting post from the OS2BBS that I thought I would pass along.

OS2MISC CFORUM appended at 08:59:16 on 95/06/12 GMT (by IL78711 at HONE80)
Subject: KILLOS2 - OS/2 has problems also?
Ref: Append at 23:40:06 on 95/06/11 GMT (by IL78711 at HONE80)

I>OS2KILL was inspired by the amazing Andrew Schulman, Nick Petreley,
>Canopus Forum members and paranoid Team OS/2 folks from IBM PSP, who have
>gone out of their way to attempt to demonstrate flaws in Windows 95
>architecture.

Well, somebody has to.  The point of the Infoworld articles was not so
much that Win95 can be crashed, but rather that MS hasn't exactly
told the truth about how Win95 works.  A secondary point was that the
architecture appears to be a mass of hacks and compromises.  This is
nothing new.  Schulman wrote a whole book on the subject.

>The purpose of the following source and executable is to demonstrate
>to 32 bit operating system followers and observes, that WARP or OS/2
shares, essentially, the same basic architecture as Windows 95.

The program does crash Warp.  But it certainly does not prove that
Warp "shares the same basic architecture" with Win95.  It only
proves that both use some shared writeable pages.  Saying that Win95
and OS/2 have the same architecture based on this program is like
saying a space heater and a 747 are basically the same because they
both burn kerosene.

BTW, while it was nice of you to include the executable file, being
the paranoid that I am, I recopiled it with GCC before trying it out.

>Under OS/2, all Ring 3 system data is visible and writable by
>any 32-bit application. This was done under OS/2, like Windows 95,
>for performance and a variety of compatibility reasons.

Well, I played around with this little program for a while.  What it
does is search the entire process memory space for shared writeable
pages and then starts overwriting them.

I modified things a little so that instead of overwriting the pages,
it prints some summary info about what it found.  It turns out that
about 3.5% of an application's address space is shared & writeable.
All of it in the upper portion of memory, where shared memory is
supposed to live according to "The Design of OS/2".  This is in
contrast to Win95, where some of the lower 1 MB is shared, including
by DOS boxes.  Not the same architecture at all.

I got to wondering about why they load PMWIN up at the top of main().
I mean, this is not a PM program.  Well, the reason is that if PMWIN
is not loaded, the number of shared writeable pages goes down to about
0.11% of the address space.  So, what this tells us is that PM uses a
lot of shared memory, NOT the OS itself.

The output of my modified program was:

No PM Loaded:
Searched: 536870912 bytes,  Found: 593920
Percent: 0.110626

PM Loaded:
Searched: 536870912 bytes,  Found: 18796544
Percent: 3.501129

As a sanity check, I looked up Schulman's Infoworld article of
April 24, where he lists some ways to crash Win95.  His figure
for writeable system pages on OS/2 was 0.14% using a different
technique.  So I think my numbers are ok.

A couple of points can be made:

1.  OS/2 is not completely bulletproof.  I think most of us
    knew that.

2.  PM and the WPS are a weak point WRT memory protection.  I
    think we knew that too.

3.  The "killos2" program is not a DOS program.  The methods
    Schulman outlines to kill Win95 from a DOS program don't
    work on Warp AFAIK.

4.  Schulman's comparisons were done using character-mode programs
    only ("console apps").  He did not try graphical programs.  The
    "killos2" program is a console program, but it deliberately loads
    PM so that it can find some shared memory to write on.  I wonder
    how Win95 GUI apps compare to OS/2 GUI apps in terms of memory
    protection.

It might also be an interesting exercise to try this with
PROTECTONLY=YES in config.sys.  I might take a whack at that
if I get some time.  Another thing to try would be to use
his DOS-box code to confirm whether or not it can crash Warp.

---
 Bob Hauck                              Wasatch Communcations Group
 bobh@wasatch.com                       Data (24 hrs): 801-272-3792

=======================

That's true.  There are compromises in OS/2, as in any OS.  Someone
once said that the art of OS design consists mainly of making the
right compromises.  Perhaps MS has made the right compromises for
their intended market.  We will all presumably find out in a few
months when it finally ships.

>
>No but it shows that OS/2 is not as crash proof as IBM and the OS/2ites here
>try to imply.

Well, the fact remains that I reboot the OS/2 box I use for programming
every couple of weeks or so.  Win31 got rebooted several times per
day under the same usage pattern.  OS/2 is more stable than Win31 for
me, and I think it's going to remain more stable than Win95.  Just an
opinion with little to back it up of course.

I also have some Linux machines, and they are more reliable than
OS/2, but can't run Windows or OS/2 programs.  Those pesky
compromises again.

FWIW, I looked at a couple of additional items.  First, having
PROTECTONLY=YES made no difference in the number of shared writable
pages.  Second, the number of DOS boxes running made no difference
either.  I tried it with none, 1, and 6.  This is significant
because Schulman's results show that Win95 uses more shared memory
when more DOS boxes are open, and is therefore more vulnerable
to memory overwrites when more DOS stuff is running.  Just about
the opposite of the ideal situation.

Here's a clip from the Infoworld article that summarizes his tests
of attempted random memory overwrites.  Used without permission.

Operating system; apps        % of errors

Win95; 32 bit; 1 DOS box       .50
Win95; 32 bit; 6 DOS boxes    1.07
Win95; 16 bit                  .26
OS/2                           .14
Phar Lap TNT                   .01
Windows NT                     .005

My figure for OS/2 is 0.11% regardless of the number of DOS boxes
running.  In other words, it appears that DOS boxes in OS/2 do not
share memory with 32-bit native programs as they do in Win95.

---
 Bob Hauck                              Wasatch Communcations Group
 bobh@wasatch.com                       Data (24 hrs): 801-272-3792

Who Uses OS/2?
Subject: Who uses OS/2?
Ref: Append at 20:47:01 on 95/06/18 GMT (by 409244 at OS2USER1)
From:  "Chris White" <71075.2673@CompuServe.com>
To: Don Childs/CA 102216,1214

 > It is nice, when scoffers predict that IBM is dropping support for
 > OS/2, to ponder, "gee, I wonder what the State of Texas, the
 > Wisconsin Dept of Transportation, FedEx, Bank of x , Sears &
 > Allstate, ...etc., will do if IBM deserts them?"

How about this ...

 * Nearly every ATM in America uses OS/2.
 * Most IBM and NCR point-of-sales systems use OS/2.
 * Most airline ticketing systems use OS/2.
 * The entire railroad transportation system is converting to a joint OpenDoc
    application on OS/2.
 * Half of the prisions in the United States are run by OS/2.
 * The federal judicial system in many states is run on OS/2.
 * Nearly every computer in police cars across America run OS/2.
 * The Olympics, Indianapolis 500, and other major sporting events are run on
    OS/2 and LAN Server.
 * OS/2 runs more multimedia kiosks than any other OS.
 * Blockbuster Video is using OS/2 for their video-on-demand system.

If IBM were to drop OS/2, we couldn't get money, Kentucky Fried Chicken or Big
Macs, couldn't buy an airplane ticket or book freight on a train. The criminal
system would bog down and police would be less responsive. Sports records
would be harder to track, keep, and break. Companies who've invested millions
in kiosks would have to start over again and Blockbuster would end up years
behind the competition.

IBM is *not* going to drop OS/2.

Thanks, Gary...btw ...I clipped this out of comment by Lois Dimpfel...
remember her? She used to be the Director of the Boca lab site.

We use OS/2 in a lot of systems delivered from IBM becuase of the 32-bit
operating system requirement. A lot of people are familiar with applications,
things like ATM machines (the money kind), but OS/2 is also inside of the
System Mangement console used to manage our 390 Sysplexes (it used to be
called the 'service processor'), and OS/2 is inside of the 2217 (a
multi-protocol router).  There is probably a hundred other IBM deliverables
where OS/2 is inside.
    --Lois Dimpfel

Bob St. John

OS/2 Update Problems

Subject: Is Advantis trying to kill OS/2 Warp?

Yesterday, I noticed that on my two Internet providers, one local and
the other CompuServe, "updates.gopher.ibm.com" no longer exists.

I opened a NOTIFY with Advantis, and received a response that I should
change my RETRIEVE SOFTWARE UPDATES icon to point to
"ftp01.ny.us.ibm.net".

While this does work, my question to IBM is:  Is Advantis trying to
kill OS/2 Warp?

IBM has sold multiple millions of copies of Warp - all of which have a
RETRIEVE SOFTWARE UPDATES icon pointing to "updates.gopher.ibm.com".

Advantis has apparently unilaterally decided that they didn't like
this name, and that "ftp01.ny.us.ibm.net" makes more sense.  However,
they have failed to consider that there are millions of copies of OS/2
Warp out there that all point to "updates.gopher.ibm.com".

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

Brian Peterson    usspc2pc@ibmmail.com

Subject: Is Advantis trying to kill OS/2 Warp?
Ref:     Append at 13:39:25 on 95/06/07 GMT (by TSBPETE at HONE81)

Advantis is not trying to kill Warp.  There are MX propagation
problems with the update addresses causing __some__ machines in __some__
parts of the net to be unable to resolve those addresses.  This is by no
means universal.  It is being aggressively looked into..

Chris Lawrence

Program Commander/2

Subject: Program Commander/2
Submitted by:   Roman Stangl (rstangl@vnet.ibm.com)
Source:         Roman Stangl (rstangl@vnet.ibm.com)
Date received:  1995 May 28
Date posted:    1995 May 29
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                 Announcing

                  PC/2 - Program Commander/2 Version 1.90 for
                     IBM OS/2 2.x, 3.x Presentation Manager
                     Copyright (C) by Roman Stangl May, 1995

                                Version 1.90

If you are familiar with the LaunchPad for OS/2 Warp, then imagine PC/2 as a
similar program for OS/2 Presentation Manager, with many powerful features,
but not necessarily needing the Workplace Shell (WPS).

****************************************************************************
*  Actually, PC/2 was available more than 2 years ago, and so has quite a  *
*    lead on the LaunchPad.  Plus, the price is right... It's freeware    *
****************************************************************************

When running PC/2 as a replacement shell, PC/2 offers considerable RAM
savings and increased response time for those who may not own the latest
power user platform, or have oodles of RAM to run all of their applications
repsponsively.

****************************************************************************
*   In RAM and CPU speed constrained machines, PC/2 offers definite speed  *
*        and memory improvements over the standard WPS configuration.      *
****************************************************************************

Indeed, when optionally running PC/2 as the replacement for the standard
Workplace Shell, you can save up to 4 megs over the memory consuming WPS,
enabling faster response, use of BonusPak applications and even Multimedia
operation in RAM starved machines.

PC/2 can be used either as an addon or graphical replacement for the Work
Place Shell, and adds a feature OS/2 is missing - popup menus.

After PC/2 is loaded, you may click mouse button 1 anywhere on the Desktop
to display a user-configurable Popup Menu, and select an application to
start.

Alternatively, you may define a Hotkey for an application.  Once the Hotkey
is pressed, PC/2 switches to the application if it is already running, or
launches the application if it isn't running.

This greatly simplifies starting any application.  You don't have to click
on folders/folder levels/icons anymore to launch applications - no more
messed up Desktop full of folders/icons, and the attendant video redraws
of same.

****************************************************************************
*         Plus, PC/2 allows you to expand your Desktop 81-fold.            *
****************************************************************************

Just move the mouse pointer over the surrounding rows and/or columns of your
screen, and you will be able to scroll your Desktop up to 1 screen-width and
1 screen-height in all directions.  Just imagine the virtual Desktop as a
further screen - available left, left and below your physical display.

Of course, when depressing the Hotkey for an application, PC/2 switches to
the Virtual Desktop the hotkeyed application is running in, or has xy
coordinates defined for.  You may also switch to any Desktop by mouse button
1 doubleclicking on the PC/2 Overview window.

PC/2 also allows you to switch into a sliding focus mode, similar to
X-Windows.  Drag the mouse over an active task, and the task will be
automatically selected.  You also have sliding Desktops, by merely dragging
the mouse pointer to a screen edge, and you automatically jump to the
adjacent Desktop.

PC/2 has also seamless WIN-OS2 support, even without the WPS running.

PC/2 also provides a Spooler Control Window which lets you manipulate your
printer queues and/or print jobs.  When running PC/2 as a WPS replacement,
the Spooler Control Window provides the interface to the OS/2 spooler.

Running PC/2 on a 4 MB machine as the WPS replacement gives you much more of
a performance boost than running OS/2 Warp WPS (due to the much smaller
memory requirements compared with the WPS).

The WPS can be started when required, just by typing START PMSHELL in a OS/2
command window, or by creating a corresponding entry in the PC/2 Popup Menu.

****************************************************************************
*  Running PC/2 as the WPS in a 4 MB machine gives you decent performance  *
*     even when running Multimedia or applications from the Bonus Pack     *
****************************************************************************

For every application you start, the PC/2 configuration file contains:

    *) Program Data: Title, Path and Filename, working directory and
            parameters.  For DOS programs, you can enter the required DOS
            Settings in an entryfield or just use the standard OS/2 DOS
           settings dialog.  You may also configure PC/2 to request
            commandline parameters before an application is started.
            You can also add WPS Program or Folder Objects to be started.
            You may add a program by dragging a program or folder from your
            Drives object or favorite file manager onto the specially
            provided migration icon.

    *) Program Style: Default, Maximized, Minimized, Invisible, no Autoclose,
            background execution and Autostart (which works like the OS/2
            startup folder).

    *) Program Size & Position: User selectable size and position.  You may
            even start an application on any virtual Desktop, if the
            application doesn't overwrite your xy startup coordinates.

    *) Program Type: WPS default, OS/2 and DOS Window or FullScreen,
            Presentation Manager, WPS Object and Seamless WIN-OS2.
            Seamless WIN-OS2 sessions may be common or separate sessions.

    *) Hotkey: You may define a Hotkey to quickly start or switch to any
            application.

    *) Program Priority: You may adjust the priority of programs.  Warning:
            changing the default priority may induce serious performance
            problems, because you easily can give a program 100 percent of
            the CPU.

    *) Environment: You may replace the session's default environment.
            For OS/2 3.00 WARP and above, one can also specify
            BEGINLIBPATH and ENDLIBPATH, even if both are not part of the
            session's environment (these both settings must appear at the
            beginning of the environment).

Full help is implemented, so I would strongly urge you to read the help
panels to get a good idea how you can customize PC/2 to your needs.

You may contact me via email, if you have problems/suggestions/questions:

    *) Internet: rstangl@vnet.ibm.com
    *)           Roman_Stangl@ibm.co.at
    *) FidoNet: Roman Stangl  LA BAMBA BBS 2:310/14
                Tel.: (Int. Code +43 +1 +6156811)
    *) BBS: Roman Stangl IBM Austria National Support BBS
            Tel.: (Int. Code +43 +1 +21145-6600)
    *) IBM VNET: 61821799 at VIEVMA
    *) Snail Mail: Roman Stangl
                   Strebersdorferstr. 46
                   A-2103 Langenzersdorf, Austria (Europe)

** Please read the help panels and enjoy ** - Roman

If you like Program Commander, please upload it to your favorite BBS or
FTP site - it's time everyone had the pleasure of running OS/2, and save
4 megs of real memory doing it

PC/2 is initially available from the following sites as pc2v190.zip:

    *) ftp.cdrom.com /pub/os2/incoming/ (or /pub/os2/wpsutil/)

    *) ftp-os2.nmsu.edu /incoming/ (or /wpsutil/)

    *) America Online -  OS/2 Top Picks area

    *) OS/2 Shareware BBS   (USA East Coast)

            The world's largest collection
             of freeware and shareware OS2
                files and information.

            P.O. Box 3451
            Fairfax, Virginia  22038-3451
            USA

            Operating 24 hours
            7 days/wek, 22 Phone Lines

            17 lines with USR Sportster V.34
             5 lines with Microcom V.FC

             Open Access:        703-385-4325
             Subscriber Access:  703-385-8450
             Telnet or vmodem:   bbs.os2bbs.com
             WWW:    http://www.os2bbs.com

    *) OS/2 Connect BBS    (USA West Coast)

            SysOp:    Craig Swanson
            FidoNet:  1:202/354

          Public Line                Contributor Lines 2 & 3

Microsoft Fraud?

I just saw this on the internet.  I like to bash Msft and Windows as much
as any OS/2 user, but this is getting a little bit ridiculous!
======================================================================

 COMMITTEE WILL FILE CONSUMER FRAUD CHARGES AGAINST MICROSOFT CORPORATION IN
 ALL FIFTY STATES

                   Ban Sought on Sale of Windows 95

   The following announcement was issued by adjunct law professor Anthony
 Martin:

   A Washington, DC-based consumer lobby will hold a news conference to
 announce that it is filing consumer fraud charges against Microsoft Corp.
 in all fifty states.  What is certain to become one of the most ferocious
 public interest law battles in history is being triggered by the imminent
 sale of "Windows 95" by Microsoft Corp. to tens of millions of potential
 customers.

   The Committe to Fight Microsoft will seek a ban on the sale of Windows 95,
  an action with far-reaching consequences for the computer software
  industry.

   NEWS CONFERENCE:  WHEN:  3:00 P.M.

   WHERE:  12th Floor, 1100 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

   DATE:  Wednesday, June 7, 1995

   Due to space limitations, only working press with identification will be
  admitted.

   The Executive Director of the Committee, Anthony R. "Andy" Martin, will
 state at the news conference: "Today we have mailed consumer fraud charges
 against Microsoft Corporation to all fifty (50) state attorney generals.
 We believe that 'Windows 95' could become the greatest consumer fraud in
 history if it is not stopped by regulatory authorities.

   "Microsoft plans to intentionally sell a product that cannot work as
 advertised or represented under normal working conditions for most
 computers which are currently in service, and expects to inveigle tens of
 millions of consumers into paying billions of dollars for this functionally
 defective product.  The bottom line is this: Microsoft claims that Windows
 95 will work with 4 meg of RAM memory.  It does not. In our complaint to
 the Attorney Generals of all fifty states we cite as illustrative a recent
 article in the Wall Street Journal, mainly because it is written in
 non-technical language.

   "But the technological reality is that Microsoft is selling Windows 95 to
 people whose computers simply cannot use the product.  AS Walter Mossberg
 made clear in the WSJ, Windows 95 'won't hunt' with 4 meg, Indeed, it
 barely runs existing apps, and will be unable to run future apps.

   "The financial reality is that Microsoft has convinced Wall Street that
 it is going to sell tens of millions of copies of this product to existing
 consumers. They obviously can't sell tens of millions of copies right away
 only to buyers of new machines.  Thus, Microsoft's duplicity reflects
 financial fraud as well as technological fraud.

   "Which consumers are targeted by Microsoft to buy this product? How many
 computers in use today are equipped with more than 4 meg of RAM? Very few.
 That means Microsoft will be targeting helpless home users, and trying to
 sell them an 'upgrade' that simply won't work on their existing machines.

   "This type of conduct is a classic consumer fraud.  Frankly, Microsoft is
 not the only company which has gotten away with 'software murder' in the
 past.  But because it is the biggest and most powerful software house, and
 holds a virtual monopoly on operating systems for PC-compatible machines,
 it is an obvious target of consumer fraud enforcement efforts.

   "I challenge Bill Gates to come out and tell the American people that
 Windows 95 will work acceptably on 4 meg.  Obviously, he cannot truthfully
 do so. Consider a comparison: what would a car buyer's reaction be if they
 bought a car, and then were told the engine could not run on all 8
 cylinders, or was unable to go more than 15 miles an hour, or that the car
 needed new equipment at substantial cost to run properly? A car buyer would
 be irate.  That is exactly what Bill Gates is proposing with Windows 95.

   "But because Microsoft's asportation involves small amounts of money from
 millions of people, instead of burgling large sums of cash from a handful
 of victims, it has gotten away with these tactics in the past and is trying
 to repeat the legerdemain with Windows 95.

   "Today is D-Day for computer software buyers. We say no more consumer
 fraud, no more misrepresentations.  No more bloated representations on
 packages, no more misleading hype and claims in computer magazines, which
 have basically ignored the technical reality to hype Windows 95 to existing
 users.  It is false and deceptive to label software as operable with 4 meg
 when in reality it will not run properly with 4 meg.  It is false and
 deceptive to sell a product that cannot work on a customer's computer
 unless they buy new equipment, costly new equipment.

   "We are asking that every state attorney general seek a ban on the sale
 of Windows 95 unless and until the product which is shipped is labelled
 accurately and truthfully as to its system requirements and actual
 operating potential.  We demand that manuals be rewritten to tell the
 public the truth: you need upwards of 8 meg to run Windows 95 properly, as
 Mr. Mossberg states in his column.

   "For Microsoft to tell tens of millions of buyers they can benefit from
 buying Windows 95 to run on 4 meg is a blatant consumer fraud and must be
 stopped. Windows 95 will become the greatest consumer fraud in history
 unless it is enjoined.

   "Our affiliate, Computer Consumers of America, is lobbying on Capitol
 Hill for enactment of the 'Computer Competitiveness and Consumer Protection
 Act of 1995' to ensure nationwide uniformity in the sale of software and
 hardware.  But until a federal law is enacted to protect the American
 public, the burden of blocking Gates and his eyberhustlers must fall on
 America's state attorney generals.  I should underscore that most state
 consumer fraud laws do not require fraudulent intent as an element of a
 violation; merely being capable of deceiving consumers is sufficient for a
 state to seek injunctive relief.

   "Bill Gates is in the fight of his life.  Up to now he has only had to
 face the toothless tigers at the Department of Justice.  He must now
 confront the potential that tens of millions of Americans will be
 ripped-off.  They will not be happy," states Martin.  "Today we launch the
 first battle to block Windows 95. 1 assure the American people it will not
 be the last attack."

   CONTACT:  Anthony R. Martin, J.D., Professor of Law (Adj.), Tuesday, June
 6, call (203) (sic) 347-2065; Wednesday call (202) (sic) 496-1428 after
 2:00 P.M. 04:05 EDT

Rick Suntag
AT&T Business Multimedia Groupware Services
email: rsuntag@els004.attmail.com

Missouri Media Internet Addresses

Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 00:22:59 CDT
From: Robert Becnel <becnel@crl.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <state_gov-l@more.net>
Subject: MO Media Email List 6/17/95 NEW! EXPANDED

                       MO MEDIA EMAIL DIRECTORY WEB PAGE
 
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   NEW! EXPANDED POST-DISPATCH LISTINGS
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   Last Update: 6/17/95
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   Introduction And Ground Rules

     * This list represents a compilation of available media outlets
       (i.e. Print, TV, Radio, Internet, etc.) that are accessible
       through internet email throughout the State of Missouri only.
     * This list adheres stricly to the First Amendment.
     * This list is periodically mailed to all entries on this to ensure
       accuracy of the addresses.
     * Proper "netiquette" and good manners are urged when communicating
       with these people. NO FLAMING!
     * Comments, corrections, or additions to Robert Becnel
       becnel@crl.com , please include "MO Media" in subject line.
     * Please feel free to add this to your Personal Page directing your
       URL to http://www.crl.com/~becnel/momedia.html.
 
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   Branson

   Branson Country Review Magazine
     * Home Page http://www.digimark.net/branson/bview.html

   Branson Music Network
     * General Information branson.music@branson.com
     * Home Page http://branson.com/branson/coast/coast.htm

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   Cape Girardeau

   Southeast Missourian
     * R. Joe Sullivan, Editor SEMOpaper@aol.com

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   Columbia

   Columbia Daily Tribune
     * Jim Robertson, Managing Editor cdteditr@mail.coin.missouri.edu

   Columbia Missourian, The
     * George Kennedy, Managing Editor jourgk@muccmail.missouri.edu

   Digital Missourian, The
     * Home Page http://www.missouri.edu/~jschool/digmo/index.html
     * Karen Pautz, Production Manager jourkap@showme.missouri.edu
       KBIA FM-91.3 "University of MO-Columbia"
     * General Info jourwew@showme.missouri.edu

   KCOU FM-88.1
     * General Info kcou@cclabs.missouri.edu

   KFRU AM-1430
     * Web Page http://www.interstate.net/~transvox/kfruhist.html

   KMIZ-TV, ABC
     * General Info KMIZTV@AOL.COM

   KOMU-TV, NBC
     * Home Page http://www.missouri.edu/~joursww
     * Stacey Woelfel, News Director swoelfel@bigcat.missouri.edu ,
       EBWE29A@prodigy.com , joursww@showme.missouri.edu ,
       swoelfel@mail.coin.missouri.edu

   Stir Magazine
     * General Info c551932@showme.missouri.edu

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   Jefferson City

   KJMO FM-100
     * General Info fm100kjmo@aol.com
     * Scott O'Brien, Music Director KJMOSOB@aol.com

   Learfield Communications (Missourinet, Brownfield Network, Learfield
   Data)
     * Steve Mays smays@netins.net , 70233.3313@compuserve.com

   Missouri News
     * Phill Brooks, Bureau Chief jourprb@mizzou1.missouri.edu ,
       74602.365@compuserve.com
     * Roger Gafke jourrag@mizzou1.missouri.edu ,
       jourrag@muccmail.missouri.edu
     * Home Page http://www.missouri.edu/~jschool/xgr/INDEX.HTML
     * Mike McKean jourmike@mizzou1.missouri.edu ,
       jourmlm@showme.missouri.edu , jourmlm@muccmail.missouri.edu ,
       71052.2402@compuserve.com

   Rural Missouri
     * Bob McEowen mceowen@aol.com

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   Joplin

   KSNF TV, NBC
     * Dave Faneuf, Assignment Editor ksnftv@aol.com
     * Steve Russell, News Director ksnftv@aol.com

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   Kansas City

   AIRWAVES MEDIA Services "Internet Media Publishing"
     * Mark Roberts, Kansas City Reporter transvox@interstate.net
     * Mark Roberts's Mid-America Radio Page
       http://www.interstate.net/~transvox/marp.html#dial

    KCMO AM-810
     * John Dixon, Technical Prod rdoguy@solar.sky.net

   KCMO FM-95
     * Dick Wilson, Morning Show dwilson@sky.net

   KCUR FM-89.3
     * Program Schedule Web Page
       http://www.interstate.net/~transvox/kcursked.html

   KCXL AM-1140
     * Gil Wilson, Production Director kcxl1140am@aol.com

   KFKF FM-94.1
     * John Dixon, Chief's Producer rdoguy@solar.sky.net

   KMBC TV
     * Brian Bracco, News Director kmbc9news@aol.com

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   Neosho

   Christian Crusade Newspaper
     * Keith Wilkerson, Editor Christcrew@aol.com , NOWARKEDD@aol.com

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   Pacific

   Pacific Current
     * Andy Kravetz akravetz@aol.com , akravetz@mo.net

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   Rolla

   KMNR FM-89.7 "University of MO-Rolla"
     * General Info starling@umr.edu
     * Fred Goss, Faculty Advisor kmnr@umr.edu
     * Home Page http://www.umr.edu/~kmnr

   KUMR FM-88.5 "University of MO-Rolla"
     * Home Page http://www.umr.edu/~kumr
     * Janet Turkovic, General Manager kumr@umr.edu

   Missouri Miner "University of MO-Rolla"
     * General Info miner@umr.edu
     * Chad Slaughter, Copy Manager slaught@umr.edu
     * Laura Tweedy, Assistant Copy Manager tweedy@umr.edu

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   St. Charles

   St.Charles Countian
     * Terry Dean, Editor tld40@aol.com

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   St. Louis
   CyberNews
     * Patrick Grote patrick.grote@supportu.com
 
   News Telegraph
     * Editor newstele@aol.com

   KDHX FM-88.1
     * Ted Hindes thindes@icon-stl.net
     * Home Page http://www.st-louis.mo.us/kdhx/kdhx.html
     * Chuck Lavazzi thedoge@crl.com

   KDNL TV-30
     * General Info NEWS30@aol.com
     * DJKramer DJKramer@aol.com
     * Jim Wicks, Main Anchor JimWicks@aol.com

   KETC TV-9, PBS
     * Tom Jackson ketc9@aol.com
     * Terry McGhee, Research Analyst cucko@pipeline.com ,
       terrym@aix.cait.wustl.edu

   KMJM FM-108 "Magic"
     * Tony Scott & The Breakfast Crew BCrew108@aol.com

   KMOX AM-1120, CBS
     * Kevin Horrigan and Charles Brennen, "Morning Meeting" (NO PRESS
       RELEASES, PLEASE!) mornmtg@aol.com
     * Doug McElvein and Barbara Whitesides, Afternoon Drive (NO PRESS
       RELEASES, PLEASE!) Totalpm@aol.com
     * Charles Jaco, Jim White, Dianna Proffitt (Other Talk Shows) (NO
       PRESS RELEASES, PLEASE!) KMOXTalk@aol.com
     * Tom Langmyer, Program Director (Other Management) (NO PRESS
       RELEASES, PLEASE!) KMOXRadio@aol.com
     * Bill Wilkerson and Wendy Wiese, Morning Show (NO PRESS RELEASES,
       PLEASE!) Totalam@aol.com
     * Jim "Big Bumper" White, Talk Show Host XPEL99A@prodigy.com

   KNJZ FM-100.3
     * Marketing Director KNJZ100@AOL.COM

   KPNT FM-105
     * General Info kpnt@aol.com

   KSD FM-93.7
     * General Information ksdfm@icon-stl.net
     * Home Page http://www.icon-stl.net/ksdfm
     * "Radio" Rich Dalton ksdrich@aol.com

   KSDK TV-5, NBC
     * General Info ksdk5@aol.com
     * John Pertzborn JohnPertz@aol.com

   KSHE FM-94.7
     * General Info kshe95@theden.com

   KWMU FM-91 "University of MO-St. Louis"
     * General Info kwmu@umslvma.umsl.edu
     * Home Page gopher://umslvma.umsl.edu/11/CAMPUS/KWMU
     * Lester Graham, News Director sllgrah@umslvma.umsl.edu
     * Bill Raack swraac@umslvma.umsl.edu

   KYKY FM-98 "Y98"
     * General Info y98fm@icon-stl.net
     * Home Page http://www.icon-stl.net/y98fm

   Personal Computer Journal, The (PCJ)
     * David Eppestine, Editor deppy@aol.com
     * General Info pcjournl@icon-stl.net
     * Scott Heisler, Webmaster sheisler@icon-stl.net
     * Home Page http://www.icon-stl.net/~pcjournl/
 
   Post-Dispatch

   City Desk
     * Bross, Tim, City editor tbross@pd.stlnet.com
     * Curley, John, Assistant city editor jcurley@pd.stlnet.com
     * Dine, Phil, Assistant city editor pdine@pd.stlnet.com
     * Domjan, Laszlo, Metro editor ldomjan@pd.stlnet.com
     * Freivogel, William, Reporter/legal affairs
       wfreivogel@pd.stlnet.com
     * Hick, Virginia, Reporter vhick@pd.stlnet.com
     * Kohn, Ed, Night city editor ekohn@pd.stlnet.com , ehkohn@aol.com
     * Little, Joan, Reporter jlittle@pd.stlnet.com
     * Miller, Nancy, Assistant city editor nmiller@pd.stlnet.com
     * Paul, Jan, Deputy metro editor jpaul@pd.stlnet.com
     * Rice, Patricia, Reporter price@pd.stlnet.com
     * Rose, Louis, Reporter lrose@pd.stlnet.com
     * Schucart, Lewis, News aide lschucart@pd.stlnet.com
     * Sorkin, Michael, Reporter msorkin@pd.stlnet.com
     * Targovnik, Diane, Reporter dtargovnik@pd.stlnet.com
     * Thomson, Susan, Reporter sthomson@pd.stlnet.com
     * Tighe, Theresa, Reporter ttighe@pd.stlnet.com
     * Tuft, Carolyn, Reporter ctuft@pd.stlnet.com
     * Yaqub, Reshma, Reporter ryaqub@pd.stlnet.com 

   Editorial
     * Kay, Sandy, Office manager skay@pd.stlnet.com
     * Singer, Dale, Assistant editor of editorial page
       dsinger@pd.stlnet.com
 
   Features
     * Allen, William, Reporter wallen@pd.stlnet.com ,
       72263.3236@compuserve.com
     * Clotfelter, Susan, Copy editor sclotfelter@pd.stlnet.com
     * Deer, Karen, Newsroom aide kdeer@pd.stlnet.com
     * Duffy, Robert, Arts editor rduffy@pd.stlnet.com
     * Homan, Becky, Fashion editor bhoman@pd.stlnet.com
     * Richmond, Dick, Reporter drichmond@pd.stlnet.com
     * Weiss, Richard, Features editor rweiss@pd.stlnet.com
 
   Financial News
     * Amos, Denise, Reporter damos@pd.stlnet.com
     * Faust, Fred, Reporter ffaust@pd.stlnet.com
     * Flannery, William, Reporter wflannery@pd.stlnet.com
     * Goodman, Adam, Reporter agoodman@pd.stlnet.com ,
       agoodman@inlink.com
     * Manor, Robert, Reporter rmanor@pd.stlnet.com
     * Morgan, Babette, Reporter bmorgan@pd.stlnet.com
     * Nicklaus, David, Financial editor dnicklaus@pd.stlnet.com
     * Steyer, Robert, Reporter rsteyer@pd.stlnet.com
     * Stroud, Jerri, Reporter jstroud@pd.stlnet.com , jstroud@inlink.com
     * Waters, Oscar, Newsroom aide owaters@pd.stlnet.com
 
   Get Out
     * Futterman, Ellen, Entertainment editor efutterman@pd.stlnet.com
     * Hampel, Paul, Reporter phampel@pd.stlnet.com
     * Rose, Bob, Reporter brose@pd.stlnet.com
 
   Illinois News
     * Eardley, Linda, Assistant Illinois editor leardley@pd.stlnet.com
     * Gillerman, Margaret, Reporter mgillerman@pd.stlnet.com
     * Peterson, Mark, Illinois editor mpeterson@pd.stlnet.com
 
   National News
     * Freivogel, Margaret, National editor mfreivogel@pd.stlnet.com
 
   News Art
     * Borgman, Tom, Artist tborgman@pd.stlnet.com
     * Cook, Jim, Artist jcook@pd.stlnet.com , jcook@inlink.com
     * Lazorko, Tony, Art director tlazorko@pd.stlnet.com
     * Martin, Dan, Artist dmartin@pd.stlnet.com
 
   Newsroom
     * Brophy, John, Newsroom administrator jbrophy@pd.stlnet.com
     * Davis, Foster, Managing editor fdavis@pd.stlnet.com
     * Freeman, Greg, Columnist, "The Urban View" gfreeman@pd.stlnet.com
       , gfree@inlink.com
     * Goedelman, Jeff, Computer systems aide jgoedelman@pd.stlnet.com
     * Kelley, Steve, News editor skelley@pd.stlnet.com
     * Kingcade, Carolyn, Assistant managing editor/news
       ckingcade@pd.stlnet.com
     * Kuhl, Lois, Office manager lkuhl@pd.stlnet.com
     * Landau, George, Manager of information technology
       glandau@pd.stlnet.com , 71031.3445@compuserve.com
     * McDonald, Julie, Computer systems aide jmcdonald@pd.stlnet.com
     * Mosley, Jim, Reporter/investigative computer analysis
       jmosley@pd.stlnet.com
     * Swyers, Vicki, News editor vswyers@pd.stlnet.com
     * Tipton, Virgil, Editor of on-line publications
       vtipton@pd.stlnet.com
     * Willnow, Ron, Deputy managing editor rwillnow@pd.stlnet.com
     * Woo, William, Editor wwoo@pd.stlnet.com
 
   Photo
     * Bohn, Gary, Photo assignment editor gbohn@pd.stlnet.com ,
       gbohn@inlink.com

   Production
     * Kesler, William, Image production director wkesler@pd.stlnet.com
 
   Reader's Advocate
     * Fiquette, Larry, Reader's advocate lfiquette@pd.stlnet.com

   Research Library
     * Bolhafner, Steve, Librarian sbolhafner@pd.stlnet.com
     * Brown, Gerald, Library director gbrown@pd.stlnet.com
     * Crowley, Michael, Librarian mcrowley@pd.stlnet.com
     * Luberda, Susan, Librarian sluberda@pd.stlnet.com
 
   Sports
     * Luecking, Dave, Reporter dluecking@pd.stlnet.com
     * Renken, Tim, Reporter trenken@pd.stlnet.com
 
   Washington Bureau
     * Sawyer, Jon, Reporter 73364.3717@compuserve.com
   Miscellaneous
     * Bertelson, Christine, Columnist cbert@inlink.com
     * Gallagher, Jim jgall@inlink.com , bizplus@aol.com
     * Home Page http://www.stlnet.com/
     * Orchard, Connie connieo@delphi.com
 
   Right Press
     * William T. Hennessy, "The Hennessy Report" RITEPRESS@aol.com ,
       76726.2175@compuserve.com
 
   Riverfront Times
     * Joe Bonwich, Restaurant Writer joe@dra.com
     * Editor rft@plink.geis.com
     * C.D. Stelzer, Contributing Writer cdstelzer@aol.com

   Sporting News, The
     * Fred Barnes, Graphics Director BARNES1@aol.com
     * Dennis Dillon, Managing Editor TSNDED@aol.com
     * General Information tsnmail@aol.com
     * Steve Gietschier, Archivist tsnspg@aol.com
     * Bob Hille, Assistant Managing Editor TSNRMH@aol.com
     * Bill Marx, Senior Editor TSNMARX@aol.com
     * Steve Meyerhoff, Executive Editor TSNSJM@aol.com
     * John Rawlings, Editor jdrtsn@aol.com

   St. Louis Chapter Society of Professional Journalists
     * Catherine Behan, Secretary P72245CB@wuvmd.wustl.edu
     * Lorrie Faith Cranor lorracks@cs.wustl.edu
     * General Info stlspj@aol.com
     * Home Page http://dworkin.wustl.edu/spj/
     * Staci D. Kramer, Immediate Past-President/Membership
       75530.2223@compuserve.com , sdkk@aol.com
     * Stacy Lonati, Newsletter Editor akwl@aol.com
     * Don Marsh, Officer DLIMBO@aol.com

   St. Louis Computing
     * Carol Ellerman, Editor C_ELLERMAN@delphi.com
 
   St. Louis Life Magazine
     * Home Page ftp://www.neosoft.com/pub/users/l/lmrazek/stlife.html
     * Ellen Mrazek, Editor & Publisher 72774.2600@compuserve.com
     * Larry Mrazek, Columnist 72010.2330@compuserve.com , lmrazek@mo.net
 
   St. Louis Life News
     * Home Page http://uptown.turnpike.net/S/sllife/index.html
     * Home Page http://www.freenet.ufl.edu/~slli/
     * Nick Kasoff, Publisher nkasoff@wins0.win.org
 
   St. Louis Sports Online
     * Mark Bausch StLSports@aol.com
 
   University News, The "St. Louis University"
     * General Info unews@sluvca.slu.edu
 
   West Countian
     * Terry Dean, Editor tld40@aol.com
 
   WRVR FM-101.1 "The River"
     * Vic and Tom Brown, Morning Show getoffit@aol.com
 
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   Springfield
 
   AIRWAVES MEDIA Services "Internet Media Publishing"
     * Information requests and List Information info@airwaves.com
     * William Pfeiffer, Owner/Editor wdp@airwaves.com
     * Home Page http://radio.aiss.uiuc.edu/~rrb
 
   KOLR TV-10, CBS
     * All correspondences KOLR99A@Prodigy.com
     * Dean Wasson, Prog & Prom Mgr fwasson@ozarks.sgcl.lib.mo.us
 
   KSMU FM-91.1 "Southwest Missouri State University"
     * Arlen Diamond, Manager AED852F@VMA.SMSU.EDU
 
   KYTV
     * Editorial comments kytvnews@ozarks.sgcl.lib.mo.us
     * News releases kytvcom@ozarks.sgcl.lib.mo.us
 
   News-Leader
     * Letters to editor nleditor@ozarks.sgcl.lib.mo.us
     * Press releases nlnews@ozarks.sgcl.lib.mo.us
 
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Robert G. Becnel   Email becnel@crl.com   WWW http://www.crl.com/~becnel
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Object Desktop

Stardock Systems
Object Desktop
Early Experience Version
(v0.90)

What is Object Desktop?

Object Desktop could be described as a super charger for OS/2.  
For years, users have made countless suggestions on how OS/2 
could be made a better operating system.  Unfortunately, for 
whatever reason, many of those suggestions never made it into 
the base operating system.  However, there was someone else 
reading those suggestions and the result after two years of 
development is Object Desktop.

Some of its features include a workplace shell cache, a 
control center, hyper drives (speeds up drive objects), 
Object Archives (.ZIP, .LZH, .ZOO files behave like folders), 
plus dozens of other features.  After installing Object Desktop, 
it makes your system feel like you are running a newer and better 
version of OS/2.  As a side note, it also visually improves the 
way OS/2 looks.  No one will ever say Win95 is more appealing 
looking than OS/2 again.

Who should join the early experience program?
Power users and IS managers for starters.  Object Desktop 
is a product that has been designed to be deployed throughout 
the enterprise and on stand alone power user desktops.  It 
cannot be emphasized more that every serious OS/2 user should 
8adopt Object Desktop on their OS/2 systems.  For the early 
experience program, however, it is best that those in a position 
to evaluate it for large scale adoption become involved in the 
early experience program.  Moreover, those who are looking to 
justify OS/2 over Windows95 as a desktop OS might want to become 
involved as well since Object Desktop brings a visually impressive 
improvement to the look and feel of OS/2.  Finally, distributors and 
resellers who want to be among the first to stock Object Desktop 
are encouraged to become involved.  Significant discounts are available 
to resellers who put in orders before its release.

How to join the early experience program.
Before you join, be aware that Stardock will only officially 
support discussion of Object Desktop concerns in three forums.  
On CompuServe: GO Stardock.  On the IBM Internal Network (TalkLink)
the Stardock CFORUM.  Finally, the Stardock BBS which will be going 
up in the first part of June.   You will be able to send email to 
wardell@ibm.net to report problems and suggestions as well.  Voice 
support for Object Desktop will not begin until the final version 
is released.

The early experience version of Object Desktop is $49.95 and allows 
you the opportunity to obtain the final version when it becomes 
available in late August.  You can join the early experience program 
of Object Desktop until June 30.  The suggested retail price of the 
final version will be $99.95.

There are snapshots of Object Desktop on ftp.cdrom.com in the 
/os2/incoming directory as well as on hobbes.nmsu.edu in the /os2/incoming.  
The file is object_desktop.zip

Order Information: Must be sent by June 30, 1995.
Orders will begin shipping June 9, 1995
Final version will ship in late August.

Object Desktop EE version.  $49.95
Requires OS/2 2.1 or later.
8 megs of system ram.
10 megs hard drive space.

Stardock Systems (SDS), Inc.
13405 Addison
Gibraltar MI 48173 USA

OR

faxed to: (313)/453-1480

OR

phoned to: (313)/453-0328

OR

emailed to: wardell@ibm.net  subject: BETA

How Howard Stern got Warped

 The Story of How Howard Stern Became Warped

  November 16, 1993 * Howard Stern was discussing his PC on the
radio and how he would like to upgrade. Howard says he was
looking at Apple and IBM but was leaning towards IBM and if any
IBMers were listening, please  call in. Jeffrey Schick, a Senior
Systems Engineer from the Northeast  Advanced Technology
Solution Center, called in from his car phone.  He was
immediately put on the air where he discussed IBM  technology
with Howard. Jeff discussed multimedia, video conferencing,  and
speech. Off the air, Howard's personal assistant, Baba Booey,
took  Jeff's number at IBM. Howard threatened to fire Baba if he
lost Jeff's  number. Later that day, Jeff was contacted and he
tried to set up a demo for after Thanksgiving. Howard, on the
other hand, insisted on seeing the demo before Thanksgiving.

  November 16-18, 1993 * IBM investigated Howard's requirements
and discovered that his needs are far greater than a PC that
does word  processing. Howard needed a system that scans
documents and  stores them as images with a informational data
record attached. He  would also like a system with which he can
edit video to pursue  television projects.

  November 19, 1993 * Howard Stern visited the IBM marketing
offices at 590  Madison Avenue in New York City. Outside the
building, waiting to chronicle the event were ABC, NBC and
Entertainment Tonight.  IBM gave Howard a demonstration of a
wide range of applications  including:    Person-to-Person for
collaborative computing,   ImagePlus to do image processing   
MMPM/2 for creating, editing and playing multimedia files,  and 
IBM Personal Dictation System to enter information by speaking
to the computer.

Howard loved everything he saw at the demo and he wanted to have
it all in his home by November 23rd for a loaner.

  November 23, 1993 * IBM delivered two systems to Howard's home
complete with  scanners, printers, speakers, Read/Write Optical
drives and all the software that was demoed to him.

  November 23, 1993 - January 1, 1994 * IBM trained, educated
and supported Howard in his efforts to evaluate these solutions.
During this time, Howard  discussed IBM on a daily basis on the
air. These discussions were absolutely positive.  Howard talked
about how he can receive a fax at the same time he is playing on
the Internet and scanning in an  image.

The Wall Street Journal called Howard's office to ask if IBM is
paying  him to say all those good things. Howard stated he just
likes IBM.

  January 3, 1994 * Howard announced to 15 cities and 16 million
listeners he was going with IBM. Howard placed an order for ALL
hardware and software he had demoed.

  January 20, 1994 * IBM gave Howard Stern a 750 C Thinkpad for
his  birthday. The gift was presented to him on his birthday
show at Tavern on the Green. Jeff Schick was on the air right
after Joan Rivers.

  April 11, 1995 * Howard Stern was still raving about OS/2. He
told his 30 million listeners all the wonderful things he can do
with OS/2 Warp. Obviously, Howard is still happy with his choice
in systems.

Next MMOUG Meeting

Next month's MMOUG meeting will be held in on Wednesday, July 19, 1995,
4 pm at:

Department of Social Services
1621 E. Elm
Jefferson City, MO 65101
314-741-4198

From Columbia:

Highway 63 South to Highway 54 West (across the bridge) to
(be careful, this is still a dangerous intersection) Highway 50 East.
Go through lights at MO. Blvd, Broadway, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe

Take the CLARK AVENUE exit off of Highway 50.
Turn right onto Clark Ave, THEN
make an almost immediate left onto ELM Street.
Take Elm Street to IBM. IBM will be on the left.

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  Eastland         Highway
 /                 Patrol         Elm Street
McDonalds________    HQ       ________________
|             DSS\___________/                |
|______________________________________________\_______
                 Highway 50                     Clark Ave Exit

MMOUG Registration Form

Name:_____________________________________  Nickname:_____________________
         Last Name,                First                         Initial

Company Name:_____________________________

Address:___________________________________  Work Phone:___________________

         ___________________________________  Home Phone:__________________

City:_________________________  State:_______  Zip Code:_____________________

Questionnaire

Your Operating System:

   ___ DOS  ___ OS/2 ___ WINDOWS ___ UNIX ___ OTHER __________________

Your Interest in Computers Include (Check all that apply):

   ___ Education  ___ Business   ___ Entertainment ___ OTHER  ________________

_______________________________________________________________________________
Annual membership fee for the Mid Missouri OS/2 Users Group is $30.00 US.  
Purchase Orders are accepted.  Please make your check payable to MMOUG and mail to:
MMOUG, P.O. Box 30654, Columbia, MO.  65205-0645
Thank you for your support.
_______________________________________________________________________________

The Mid-Missouri OS/2 Users Group is a non-profit corporation who's dedicated purpose is to aid and
facilitate the education and communication between individual computer users, different computer 
groups, and the general public.

The Woodmeister BBS is the official Bulletin Board of the MMOUG.  A copy of the Bylaws is
available for downloading from the Woodmeister BBS (314-446-0016).

For assistance with OS/2, call our Voice Mail at 314-636-0805.
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