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From: Sameer Samat <ssamat@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:15:48 -0700
Subject: Re: Stationary
At 03:10 AM 8/21/96 +0000, you wrote: >Dear Magic, >Aren't we all awaiting prestomail. > > > >are presto mail and prestolink the only applications for magic cap that allow users to use general email / internet access?...
From: Kevin Fries <kfries@ECENTRAL.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:50:56 -0600
Subject: Re: Magic Cap for Windows
Dear Magic, Mike Lombrozo writes: > Scott Doniger wrote: > > > > Dear Magic, > > I cant beleive the are doing MCW ONLY for 95. 95 has been such a flop in corp > > america... Now NT poss..... Corp america refuses to go to 95.. Just > > another nail in the coffin of GM... > > > > Schramm or Scam..... From the desk of Scott Doniger... > Scott > FYI, Corporate america is very interested in > Win95. I work for a > Fortune 500 company and network with other > corporate ITs. The holdup on > moving to Win95 is based on driver support from > 3rd party vendors, not > Win95 itself. Novell's 32 bit drivers are still > in beta and > WordPerfect, the standard in many companies, just > came out with their > Win95 version in June. We also have some > mainframe apps and specialized > printers that still don't have Win95 drivers. > Most corporations are going to move to Win95 > because of better memory > management and a more reliable OS. Note that > this is based on our > internal tests, not marketing or media hype. > While it's not perfect by > a long shot, it's good enough for business as > evidenced by the number of > workers that want to use it. We're also planning > on moving to NT and > realize that Win95 is an interim step that will > get users used to the NT > interface. Since it's an interim step, we're not > writing many custom > drivers and are waiting for vendors to supply the > upgrades under their > maintenance contracts. > I think GM is very smart to concentrate their > resources on Win95. They > won't be hurt by the few whiners like you that > are out of the mainstream > and can't see the big picture. I would love to hear where you get your information from. ComputerWorld as recently as a month ago showed Win 3.x on 48% of desktops and Win 95 and Win NT combined at 9%. These numbers were reported as part of an article regarding Java (which to date does not run in 16 bit windows due to its inability to multi-thread). These developers are starting to go broke and ticked that so few people can run their apps! As a contract programmer, I have several clients that have all out banned Win 95 from their systems. Since I write client/server, tcp/ip and enterprise wide applications, these clients are not small. One of the clients that have flat banned Win 95 is Colorado Division of Wildlife. Related divisions are looking at NT, but 95 has been banned there too. So please check facts. Kevin Fries
From: Luke Derossi <lderossi@COMCAT.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 04:19:33 -0400
Subject: Re: Stationary
Sameer Samat wrote: > > At 03:10 AM 8/21/96 +0000, you wrote: > >Dear Magic, > >Aren't we all awaiting prestomail. > > > > > > > >are presto mail and prestolink the only applications for magic cap that > allow users to use general email / internet access?... Sameer, Nope, there are several alternatives. Primarily, in addition to Presto!Mail 1.5/Links and its ability to utilize nearly any PPP dialup internet provider for Email and graphical web browsing, you also have the choice to use America Online, CompuServe, QuickLink for QuickMail access, various LAN email formats like Notes Mail, cc:Mail and Microsoft Mail thanks to Mail on the Run!, Presto!Mail 1.0 for mail via shell account, VT100 terminal emulators Magic Connection and CujoTERM, and for the Envoy wireless communicator there is also Radiomail. I've probably forgotten some too. Each of the packages mentioned above offer various degrees of funcionality of course; some are just mail, others have additional services. Hope this answers your question! :) Regards, Luke Derossi for General Magic, Inc.
From: Robert Kantor <r.kantor@POSTOFFICE.WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 11:51:02 +0000
Subject: Summary development
Could someone be kind enough to develop a mail summary similar to that which we had with Plink for America on Line mail retreival. It would certainly be a most appreciative program and one that should not be too difficult to creat. Please give same some consideration and respond at your leisure.
From: Bruce Tong <zztong@mail.ev.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:18:19 -0400
Subject: Re: Magic Cap for Windows
> ComputerWorld as recently as a month ago showed Win 3.x on 48% of > desktops and Win 95 and Win NT combined at 9%. I remember this article, and it seems to be correct based on my perspective of the market: The majority of the developers at my company develop apps for Windows. (Which seems weird since half of the machines in this place are Macs; go figure.) Our customer base is just about finished moving from DOS to Win 3.1. While our Windows developers use Win95 and I'm fairly certain they would like our customers to upgrade, its just not happening very quickly. -- Bruce Tong Systems Programmer Electronic Vision / Fitne Work: Phone : (614) 592-2511 Fax : (614) 592-2650 mailto:zztong@evi.ev.net http://www.ev.net/fitne Play: mailto:zztong@eurekanet.com mailto:zztong@aol.com http://www.eurekanet.com/~zztong
From: Martin Simoneau <simoneau.martin@UQAM.CA>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:43:37 -0400
Subject: Re: MAGICCAP Digest - 19 Aug 1996 to 20 Aug 1996
>Where is the best (read: least expensive) place to get MagicXchange and >a Magic Link cable? > I found it at MacZone for $55.00 3 months ago. Martin _____________________________________ Martin Simoneau Simoneau.Martin@uqam.ca http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/simoneau _____________________________________
From: MCW Online <mcwonline@genmagic.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:45:32 -0700
Subject: Re: Magic Cap for Windows
Subject: RE>>Magic Cap for Windows 2.0 beta 1 We are delivering Magic Cap on Windows 95 first because Windows 95 itself provides vastly improved environment support via MAPI and TAPI. These solve major customer complaints in the area of connectivity to standard mail systems, internet service providers, support for most modems, and connectivity to Microsoft Exchange. These features are specifically requested by our target market, which is the Small Office and Home Office market. We are considering a Windows 3.1 version, but it will be less powerful because Microsoft does not provide as rich an environment. Magic Cap for Macintosh and Magic Cap for Windows 3.1 are on hold pending the completion and market acceptance of this first product. If it is received well, we will pursue other versions. On another front, I saw some recent comments about our PIC<->MCW synchronization package on which we're also working and plan to deliver this year. This is different from IntelliLink and is designed to be a quick synchronization of the Name Cards (a.k.a. Rolodex(tm)) and Date Book. These are the two items customers told us were most important to synchronize in the first version, and we wanted to keep the synch simple and as fast as possible. IntelliLink's product will still provide a more comprehensive version of PIC<->MCW connectivity. Steve Schramm VP & GM, General Magic ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Joel Connors / Magic Cap For Windows Support Email at: mcwonline@genmagic.com Phone at: (408) 774-4041 Fax at: 800-774-3311 Support hours are 9am to 5pm (PST) Monday through Friday, excluding holidays
From: Tom Yates MailLists <madlists@MATHWORKS.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:02:51 -0400
Subject: pic-2000 styli
to make a long story short, i've ended up with seven PIC-2000 styli from sony where i only wanted two. if anyone out there wants a spare PIC-2000 stylus, send me a cheque for $3 with your name and address etc. etc. i'll stick it in an envelope *with some internal protection* (a regular envelope doesn't hold these very well, that's how i ended up with so many) and mail it to you. please send email to "madhatta@mathworks.com" (DON'T reply to the whole list, or to the originating address [madlists is my mailing list address, i don't check it more than once every day or two]) to let me know you're sending money, i'll reply to confirm there's a stylus waiting for you. don't just send the money, ok? tom yates unix chap stylus czar
From: Bob Arsenault/US/3Com <Bob_Arsenault@3MAIL.3COM.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 11:19:29 EDT
Subject: Re: Magic Cap for Windows
Mr. Schramm, Thank you for personally addressing this group. It is important for me to see the personal involvement in such topics by General Magic, thereby underscoring your committment to the end-user install base. We all sometimes get a little nervous about things not happening, or actually happening for some "unknown reason", because of not hearing from an official source. Please make this a regular forum from the powers that be within your organization, this will calm the choppy waters out here on the leading edge...... Thanks again, /BobA ----- Previous Message ---------------------------------------------------- To: MAGICCAP @ BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU @ UGATE cc: From: mcwonline @ GENMAGIC.COM (MCW Online) @ UGATE Date: Wednesday August 21, 1996 10:45 AM Subject: Re: Magic Cap for Windows ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE>>Magic Cap for Windows 2.0 beta 1 We are delivering Magic Cap on Windows 95 first because Windows 95 itself provides vastly improved environment support via MAPI and TAPI. These solve major customer complaints in the area of connectivity to standard mail systems, internet service providers, support for most modems, and connectivity to Microsoft Exchange. These features are specifically requested by our target market, which is the Small Office and Home Office market. We are considering a Windows 3.1 version, but it will be less powerful because Microsoft does not provide as rich an environment. Magic Cap for Macintosh and Magic Cap for Windows 3.1 are on hold pending the completion and market acceptance of this first product. If it is received well, we will pursue other versions. On another front, I saw some recent comments about our PIC<->MCW synchronization package on which we're also working and plan to deliver this year. This is different from IntelliLink and is designed to be a quick synchronization of the Name Cards (a.k.a. Rolodex(tm)) and Date Book. These are the two items customers told us were most important to synchronize in the first version, and we wanted to keep the synch simple and as fast as possible. IntelliLink's product will still provide a more comprehensive version of PIC<->MCW connectivity. Steve Schramm VP & GM, General Magic ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Joel Connors / Magic Cap For Windows Support Email at: mcwonline@genmagic.com Phone at: (408) 774-4041 Fax at: 800-774-3311 Support hours are 9am to 5pm (PST) Monday through Friday, excluding holidays
From: Paul Czarnecki <pZ@CUSTOMLINE.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:41:13 -0400
Subject: NP530 Battery
Does anybody have a good (cheap) mailorder source for the NP530 batteries? pZ -- Paul Czarnecki What are the sections sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving
From: Sinan Karahan <sinan@ISI.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:14:09 -0700
Subject: Re: NP530 Battery
Paul Czarnecki wrote: > > Does anybody have a good (cheap) mailorder source for the NP530 batteries? > > pZ > -- > Paul Czarnecki > What are the sections sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving Paul, The best one I have found is $61, at http://www.sparco.com/new/5436.html Considering the NP530 sells at $69 at the local Good Guys electronics store, I'm not sure if its worth mail-ordering. Has anyone seen a better price elsewhere? Sinan Karahan
From: George Hernandez <GRHB%RnD%RnD@GO50.COMP.PGE.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 13:16:10 PDT
Subject: Re: Magic Cap for Windows
