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My PowerComputing PowerBase 180 needed a motherboard, two CD ROM drives and a hard drive during the warranty period, all taken care of quickly. Then my AdTran Express XRT ISDN terminal (~modem) and SyQuest SyJet 1.5 quit on me during the past month. The AdTran lasted a couple of weeks and the SyJet lasted a couple of days. Both were replaced overnight by AdTran and MacZone. Eldee Stephen's thessaSOURCE has a guest editorial, Caveat Emptor, about a problem requiring more effort that is worth reading.

Mike Breeden reviewed NewerTECH's MAXpowr G3 275/275, the latest CPU upgrade card from Newer, on Accelerate Your Mac!.

From Marty Pfeiffer, "Well I've finally finished with Nu Serif. This font family is based on Apple's very legible Espy Serif bitmap font, which is used in the Apple Guide. My Nu Serif font looks good on the printed page and on-screen."

Connectix announced yesterday that Virtual PC v2.0 will be released in late February. It is reported to be faster than v1.01 by some 25-40%. Upgrades for v1.0-1.01 owners will be less than $50--here we go again.

In response to an earlier query to Macs Only!, reader Aaron Stampa wrote that Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 runs very slowly on Virtual PC-Win95 on his 8600/200, "...about 1 fps and barely playable." I've not used it much, but I think that Flight Simulator is very marginal on Virtual PC even on the PowerForce G3 250 card.

MacFixIt first reported Thursday that AT&T World net will be dropping "live" Mac support for its internet customers. There are rumors that AT&T may establish web page support for Macs instead. I was thinking about switching to AT&T World net for when I travel as the service worked very well during the free trial period. I may not now depending on what dropping live Mac support turns out to really mean.

MicroMat will be releasing TechTool Pro v2.0. Macs Only! reviewed TechTool Pro v1.05. [Thanks MacFixIt]

From Abbott Systems, "We've just upgraded Can opener to v4.0, our popular universal file opener now celebrating its 9nth. year on the Mac!!! Can opener 4.0 is a universal file opener that lets you read any file, and copy anything you find, including text and pictures. It allows you to browse all types of files, including foreign files and files your Mac can't open, and can be used to recover text from damaged files."