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Public Domain Software $4.00 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY/MARCH 1986 THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE FOR USERS OF MORROW COMPUTERS P.O. BOX 5487, BERKELEY, CA 94705 (415) 644-2638 PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE Best of PO Software Problems Using PO Software Copyright and the Public Domain Tax Programs for CP/M New Column on Personal Pearl AndMore ... MORROW OWNERS' REVIEW P.O. BOX 5487 BERKELEY, CA 94705 Forwarding Postage Guaranteed Return Postage Guaranteed HEY, IT'S A GOOD DEAL TO RENEW EARLY! Renew before March 15, 1986, and get 7 issues for the price of 6. See Subscription Order Forms in the back. j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j J j l j I j j j j j j j CONTENTS P.O. Box 5487, Berkeley, CA 94705 MCIMail:MREVIEW(ID217-1566) EDITORIAL EXCHANGE (415) 644-2638 Editor and Publisher Subscription Coordinator Editorial ••••••• 2 Sypko Andreae Margo DeMello Letters to the Editor. 3 Managing Editor Advertising and Layout Shoshana Tembeck Dana Gaskin COLUMNS Administrative Assistant Art Direction Dana Gaskin Shoshana Tembeck From The Mailbox 26 Graphics Bill Steele Augusta Lucas-Andreae Getting Personal with Pearl 32 Editorial Council Bruce Gowens Andy Adler, Michael Conroy, Tim Evans, Bruce Gowens, Ken Grymala, Clarence Heier, Bill Lamp'l, Brian Leyton, Ted Silveira, PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE Bill Steele, Marilyn Umehara, Lenore Weiss, Erik Westgard ----------- MORROW OWNERS' REVIEW is pUblished bi-monthly for $18 per More on Public Domain Software 4 year by Morrow Owners' Review, P.O. Box 5487, Berkeley, CA 94705. Sypko Andreae Application to mail at second-class postage rates is pending at Public Domain: Where Dogs Run Free ••••••• 5 Berkeley, CA. 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Published manuscripts of at List of Advertisers ••• ••••••• 48 least a 1000 words entitle the author to a single, non-cumulative Subscription Forms rear insert one-year's subscription to MOR for each year, Back Issue Information rear insert MORROW OWNERS' REVIEW page 1 Vol. 3, #1, Feb/Mar 1986 news of any quality was just too good to pass up, as EDITORIAL long as it came from the right people. last December I had an opportunity to travel to Holland, where I grew up, to visit family and friends Then there was this whole business of the tribal and find out how myoId country had changed over the aspectofthe wartime news network. Before sharing any years. Browsing through bookstores on my recent trip I of our precious underground information, we had to noticed many new Dutch books thatrelated in one way or determine whether people were trustworthy enough to another to the trauma of the World War II experience. receive it; that is, whether they were in the right It seems that every twenty years there is an upsurge of tribe. Any person who sympathized in the slightest way soul-searching on that topic. As I traveled around the with the occupiers--and quite a few did, especially in country on the excellent Dutch trains--in between thebeginning of the war-became a danger to the news­ family visits and birthday Parties--I had a chance to relayers and an outcast from our ''right'' tribe. read some of those books and to re-live that time when I was a kid and there was a war on. The idea of being part of the tribe fired the imagination of kids like me no end. My older sisters The German Army, which occupied Holland during had boyfriends who became more and more deeply involved much of tbe war, controlled the official news media and with theDutch resistance movement. On rare occasions mixed what little news they let through with heavy I would catch a glimpse of these heroes and think: doses of propaganda. As a result, we citizens grew ''When I grow up I wanna be...." extremely hungry for real news. Meantime, my friends and I would form little-boy This hunger and the ingenuity and excitement it raiding gangs to perform tribal feats of our own. bred bears a remarkable resemblance to the craving for When British warplanes dropped leaflets bearing news information we find today in the personal computer from the free world, we would search backyards and community, and the clever ways we've developed to climb trees to pluck the last of these from the satisfy that. The underground news networks that branches. The Germans threatened arrest or worse for spread through Holland remind me in some ways of the anyone touching the leaflets, but we figured those Public domain phenomenon today. The big difference is threats applied mainly to the adults whose war it that the Public Domain activity oPerates above ground really was. After collecting these illicit news­ and is spurred purely by the desire to solve problems, sheets, we distributed them to the members of our rather than fear and loathing of an anned enemy. tribe, the people on the right side who could be trust.ed not to turn us in. We kids loved to be the In the war, we Dutch people listened illegally to bearers of news to the information-hungry crowd. we the BBC. In response, the Germans jammed the BBC were good at it, never got caught and it was darned frequencies. When they found this not effective exciting to boot. enough, they ordered us to turn over all our radio receivers to them. Although many still listened to BBC Today, I sense that a similar thrill in sharing broadcasts on hidden radios, most people had to get information drives the Public Domain scene within our their news second-hand.
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