Year: 1997

For Immediate Release

Contacts:

James Shieh
The Mac Channel
ninja@macchannel.com
(512)451-5932

Susan Whitney
MacTech Magazine
marketing@www.mactech.com
805-494-9797

The Mac Channel and MacTech Announce a Partnership
to Deliver Macintosh Development News in Real-Time

AUSTIN, TX and WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA– October 16, 1997 — Xplain
Corporation, publisher of MacTech(r) Magazine, and The Mac Channel, the
internet broadcast network, announced today it has entered into an
agreement to provide development news and information to net-connected
Macintosh users around the world.

For Immediate Release

*-) Digital Alchemy upgrades Mercutio MDEF to support MacOS 8 (-*

Contact:
Digital Alchemy
P.O.Box 9632
Stanford, CA 94309
(650) 851-0723
http://www.digitalalchemy.com

Palo Alto, CA — 15 OCT 1997: Digital Alchemy is pleased to announce the
release of the Mercutio MDEF version 1.3.4. The Mercutio MDEF is a Menu
DEFinition resource that allow developers to easily and elegantly extend
the power of their application menus. Mercutio allow menu items to have
multiple-modifier key-equivalents (e.g.

Apple Reports Fourth Fiscal Quarter Results

Quarterly sales to U.S. education customers top $500 million Company
progresses with cost-cutting initiatives Quarterly loss before special
charges half that of prior quarter

CUPERTINO, California–Oct. 15, 1997–Apple Computer, Inc. today announced
results of its fourth fiscal quarter ended Sept. 26, 1997. For the quarter,
Apple’s revenues were $1.6 billion, a decrease of 30 percent from the
fourth quarter a year ago, and a sequential decrease of 7 percent from the
quarter ended June 27, 1997.

Sun and Microsoft have agreed to make their agreement and other text
public.

STAGECAST TO BRING APPLE’S COCOA
TECHNOLOGY TO MARKET

Startup Licenses Proven Authoring Technology for Kids

Palo Alto, Calif., October 13, 1997 — Stagecast Software, Inc., a K-12
software company, announced today that it will develop commercial products
based on Apple Computer Inc.’s Cocoa technology.