Year: 1997

[MD1] DevDepot’s Holiday Sale

DevDepot’s Holiday Sale
December 22, 1997 – January 1, 1998

Celebrate the holidays with DevDepot.

We are definitely in the holiday spirit by knocking an extra 10% off of our
already low prices.

Whether you’re a last minute shopper or if you want a jump on the new year.
The Depot is the place to be.

And you know you can always count on the Depot to have the season’s hottest
products at the prices you want.

To qualify for the 10% off is easy. You only need to order via e-mail, fax,
or on our convenient web site.

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[MD1] Russia as source for programming

HOT PROGRAMMERS MARKET:
RUSSIA AS A SOURCE OF CONTRACT PROGRAMMING EXPERTISE

There are thousands of ads in newspapers and on the Internet: Software
developers wanted! The demand by far exceeds the supply. Many U.S.
companies have to look abroad in search of talented programmers.

Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus are certainly among the most promising
sources. There is still a large supply of highly educated underemployed
programmers, many of them coming from organizations and research institutes
that used to belong to the Soviet mi

Auriga, a U.S.

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[MD1] FY1997 Mac Installed Base and User Statistics

This is a resend which corrects a slight error we made in the previous
version — a slip of the mouse which edited out one digit in one of the
tables. Sorry for the confusion.

MacDev-1

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A recent analysis of the worldwide Macintosh installed base and the
Macintosh user base for fiscal year 1997 (ending September 30), revealed a
number of interesting highlights, including the following:

* 27.6 million Macintosh computers have been shipped worldwide since 1984.

* 79 percent of all Macintosh computers shipped are still in use.

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[MD1] Configuration Changer Scripts

Software by Tim Kelly and Friends (www.madison-web.com/tkelly)
Announces Configuration Changer Scripts (CC Scripts)

CC Scripts is a Scripting Addition/OSAX that enables changing the active
configuration for all four Open Transport control panels from an
AppleScript. CC Scripts works on both 68k and PowerMac architectures. CC
Scripts also accepts remote events, so the active configuration can be
retrieved and set on both local and remote Macs.

Notable is the ease of use of CC Scripts.

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