A new-age mailbox on your desk

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People from all walks of life are increasingly using public electronic mail (E-mail) services offered by such online information service providers as Compuserve, Genie and America Online to exchange personal communications, much as people used to carry on a personal correspondence through letters. Some online services also provide E-mail gateways to the Internet, allowing customers to exchange messages with about 12 million people throughout the world. MCI Mail is another widely used public E-mail service. Oregon author Alice E. McLerran, for example, chats daily via E-mail with her world-wide extended 'family,' some members of which are in fact, and not merely in fiction, related to her. Northwestern Univ emeritus Prof Nat Raskin prefers E-mail over all other forms of correspondence for the way it lends itself to serial exchanges and deliberate composition. Homebound senior citizens also find it exciting to get out and about via E-mail. Some users delight in disguising their true identities in their messages, while others manage to delude themselves concerning the personal attributes of their correspondents, resulting in unpleasant surprises when they meet in person.

Telegraph & other communications, Computer networks, Services, Column, Electronic mail systems, E-mail, Email, Online information services, Communications, Information services industry, Networks, Communication, Trends, Online Information Service, Attitude, Computing as a Hobby, Families, Internet, DELPHI (Online information service), MCI Mail, GEnie (Online information service)

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Putting America at your fingertips

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America Online is an affordable on-line service that offers easy installation, usage and eight information service departments. Users can choose to browse through Computing and Software; News and Finance; Learning and Reference; Travel and Shopping; What's New and Online Support; People Connection; Lifestyles and Interests; and Games and Entertainment. The system runs on MS-DOS, Apple Macintosh or Apple II systems. Users can meet new people through an electronic mail system or attend forums on various subjects. The service costs $7.95 a month including two free hours, plus ten cents a minute thereafter. The McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms are electronic books on CD-ROM that contain encyclopedias of information that are easily accessible through search commands. The reference set version 2.0 costs $495 and runs on an 80286 IBM PC or better, with one Mbyte of expanded memory, a hard disk with 2mbytes of available space and a CD-ROM drive.

Information retrieval services, Product information, Computer peripherals industry, CD-ROM disks, Online searching, Connectivity, Electronic Publishing Industry, Information Services, CD-ROM, Encyclopedia, McGraw-Hill Science and Technical Reference Set (Data base)

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Of Windows, words and cornflakes

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SWFTE International introduces The New York Times Crossword Puzzle, a computer version of the popular crossword puzzle that runs on the Microsoft Windows platform and costs $69.95. The program includes 200 daily and 50 Sunday puzzles, with varying levels of difficulty. Users can select any of the puzzles by choosing the day of the week that puzzle was printed or users can specify that they want to set a level at novice, intermediate or expert. A special Peek feature allows users to select a clue and then see the correct answer. There is no manual, but on-screen help is available. The package also comes with a Dell Crossword Dictionary. New operating systems and upgrades of these systems can create a new market for book publishers. Random House Electronic Publishing's 'DOS 5' by Alfred Glossbrenner is a $50 868-page book on the subject of DOS operating systems. Dvorak Osborne McGraw-Hill's 'Inside Track to the Mac' by John C. Dvorak is a $39.95 book on the Apple Macintosh operating system.

Product introduction, Product Announcement, Computer games, Puzzles, Computer Game, Reference Book, SWFTE International Ltd., The New York Times Crossword Puzzle (Computer game)

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