Abstract of INFO-MAC archived Text file 'per/tb/tidbits-293.etx' Uploaded 09/05/1995 29895 bytes TidBITS#293/04-Sep-95 ===================== Despite enjoying the festivities at a wedding until the wee hours, today we bring you another TidBITS issue, complete with a rumor of the flexible TidalWave computer from Power Computing, highlights from Developer Central at Macworld Expo, an announcement of the latest Solitaire Till Dawn, more on the new PowerPC PowerBooks, Adam's latest Web-page discovery, and some thoughts on upgrading to System 7.5. This issue of TidBITS sponsored in part by: * APS Technologies -- 800/443-4199 -- Makers of hard drives, tape drives, and neat SCSI accessories. For APS price lists, email: * Northwest Nexus -- 206/455-3505 -- http://www.halcyon.com/ Providing access to the global Internet. * Hayden Books, an imprint of Macmillan Computer Publishing Free shipping on orders via the Web -- http://www.mcp.com/ Mac Tip of the Day & free books! -- http://www.mcp.com/hayden/ * Power Computing -- 800/375-7693 -- Now shipping... The Award-Winning First MacOS Compatible! See what the press says! http://www.powercc.com/News/quotes.html Copyright 1990-1995 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue. Information: Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: MailBITS/04-Sep-95 Open Mouth, Insert PowerBook, Go to Sleep, Drool Exploring Developer Central at Macworld Boston Rating The List Update Madness Reviews/04-Sep-95 ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1995/TidBITS#293_04-Sep-95.etx MailBITS/04-Sep-95 ------------------ Today is Labor Day, a U.S. national holiday, but we self-employed types ended up spending the day, well, working. Along with putting together this issue of TidBITS, we completely moved all of our Internet servers from our venerable SE/30 to a shiny new Apple Internet Server 6150, which means that performance should be a good bit better. Lest you feel sorry for us for working hard on a holiday, just remember that I'm talking about a Macintosh. It might have taken me all of an hour to move email, email auto- replies, FTP, Gopher, and Web access over to the new machine and to install updates to all the software, including Apple Internet