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No, my subscription hasn't run out. It's the last issue that anyone will receive. Apple Assemble Line is no more. It's income has fallen to the point where Bob Sander­ Mark Batchelor 24 Cederlof can't continue to publish. He is going to work for Applied Engineering. John Bishop.......... 23 I'm sorry to see AAL go, but I understand about the drop in income. We've been hit just as hard. With us, it's an especially funny joke. (Black humor.) I've talked on the phone and answered Ken Burnell 8 letters from people who are non-subscribers. I've asked them why they haven't subscribed. The usual answer is that they haven't gotten around to it. (Huh!) I've also been told, by numerous Eric Delbridge...... 8 people, of wholesale copying of COMPUTIST by clubs or other groups. So here's the joke; if Paul P. Dillon 35 COMPUTIST goes the same way as AAL due to lack ofincome caused by non-subscribing readers and excessive zerox copies. Well, maybe it's not funny to you but the software companies would Ron Dippold 2 I split a gut. Doodlebug . 7 • For Toddlers Andrew Grogan.......... 7 Kathleen Herrman (Computing for 1-3 year olds, COMPUTIST #58) wrote to let us know that the program she refers to in her article is available for $10 from; Peter Vasilev, 370 Calle Dan Halfwit 36 La Montana, Moraga, CA 94556. Those of you with toddlers who have outgrown the "carpet commando/sticky-fmgered curtain climber" phase may want to give this some serious consideration. Brian Hatch.......... .. 8 Rosalie Beals Huntley 8 • Rumors I'm interested in starting a rumors & propaganda page. I know that the RDEX open format Jeff Hurlburt......... 27 allows you to write anything you want but I thought it would be neat to sift out the rumors and such and put them all in one place. With all the people who read COMPUTIST (including those Bill Jetzer 10 who don't subscribe), we should be able to come up with some interesting tid-bits. It should make The Pirate King 26 good reading and may even generate some controversy. So, ifyou hear something or read something or even know something, send us a postcard with all the details. You don't have to sign the postcard Ryan Lanctot......... 3 I but do send it. Stephen Lau 9.17 • Ultima Vand Bard's Tale III Mike Maginnis......... 7 We've gotten a lot more input on these two adventures. I'm going to have to bend a rule that already has a number ofkinks in it. I try to limit my editorial meddling in RDEX to some occasional M.M. McFadden 14 help with spelling or grammar. But with the number of near indenticalletters that I've recently received, I'm going to have to get out my razor and do some hacking and chopping.