Month: January 1987

By Cecil Fretwell Telecommunications is not a new subject. A way of defining telecommunications would be “communicating over long distances.” The Indians in a sense telecommunicated information using smoke signals, while their jungle counterparts used drums to relay their messages. Those of us who work with personal computers have become the modern day natives and need to have the ability to communicate between computers. This article will concentrate on the software aspect of the telecommunications process by reviewing several packages….

The Catalog Our new catalog should be sent to you around the first of this year. It will contain our latest products for the Apple II, Macintosh, Amigo and MSDOS compatible computers. We also want to remind you of the questionnaire that will be included with the catalog. The purpose of the questionnaire is to determine whether or not we should publish a catalog of products for all the computer systems we support or should we publish separate catalogs for…

in the lead: Communication has changed through the years. The Greeks were known for their runners, who hand delivered important messages. Our native Indians used smoke signals, Africans used drums, and then … Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Today we use computers and telecommunication packages to send words and graphics across the wires. Although this subject has been covered in Call-A.P.P.L.E. before, things have changed considerably with the passage of time. Cecil Fretwell’s Telecommunications Software Review examines five products:…