BUSINESS Directors Continuing Area Residents Learn World Waits Review of Town Budget Ways to Battle 1-84 for Oscars Computer Software Competition Is Fierce
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2U - MANCHESTER HERALD, Saturday, April 7, 1984 BUSINESS Directors continuing Area residents learn World waits review of town budget ways to battle 1-84 for Oscars Computer software competition is fierce ... page 3 ... page 9 page 2 work with almost any type of written material and by Our love affair with the home computer actually is bund Software of San Rafael, Calif.: and DesignWare so doing, build up writing and computer skills. only a few years old. Yet more than 10 million of San Francisco. DesignWare has two new products for the school personal computers by Apple, Atari, IBM and other The No. 1 educational program in the United States market as well as for home use — Spellicopter and manufacturers already have been bought for family Y o u r for more than a year has been Scarbortugh’s Trap-A-Zoid, which teach spelling and gram m ar and use. MasterType, an ingenious space-age typing and fundamentals of geometry in an entertaining way. Millions more of these microcomputers (defined as Money'9 keyboard instruction program that teaches computer These are expensive products! Shop with care. Manchester, Conn. machines for under $10,000) will be sold as fierce literacy at home or school and is also used by Cloudy and cool Insist on quality, and in educational software look for competition among hardware manufacturers forces W orth busineses to test typists and to train new computer something that truly teaches and is not merely a tonight, Tuesday Monday, April 9, 1984 some prices to $100 and below — thereby puttingthem Sylvia Porter operators. within.reach of most families. Scarborough also has introduced this year a unique disguised video game. — See page 2 Single copy: 25C Study the package, read a review, ask for a Also booming are sales of software, the packaged arcade-action business game. Run for the Money. demonstration to show the educational game is fun instructions that enable you to command the While your spaceship tries to be first to escape from a machine, perform niariy tasks and learn important strange planet (which is only'possible if you run a and easy to use and that it can be replayed. Stick to the best-selling programs to avoid marginal skills. A towering 1,700 percent growth in this field in freehand drawing, songwriting. business operations. business at a p rofit), you’re also secretly using an the next five years alone is predicted by Talmis Inc. of And this list just suggests the range. economic simulation model and acquiring manage products and to make sure your expensive computer Oak Park, 111., with sales surging to $4,6 billion by the More software and hardware are on the way. Some rial skills. and programs don't end up gathering dust instead of start of 1989. /• 400 exhibitors participated in the Consumer Electron Spinnaker has introduce an outstanding adventure knowledge in your closet.' MUT. Educational software is estimated to show the ics Show with advanced versions of their products, game, too. It teaches children such valuable fastest growth in this period, with sales on average held in Las Vegas at the start of 1984. educational skills as note-taking, geography and Income tax guide available NRC blames deductive reasoning. Spinnaker has come up with a ay, ^ doubling every year to $1 billion. For every $1,000 you and I spend on hardware, we “Sylvia Porter's 1984 Income Tax Book," her new adult education and exercise program called fftiit: If you own a personal computer or plan to buy one. buy roughly $370 of software. No wonder the interest comprehensive guide to income taxes, Is now you also must learn about software. This is not easy. at the consumer show. Among those displaying their Aerobics. available through her column. Send $4.95 plus $1 for W Broderbund is in the competition with its Bank I? 5- There are 40,000 software programs on the market; products were such leading publishers as Reader’s mailing and handling to "Sylvia Porter’s 1984 Income they range over almost every use: follow the stock Digest. Xerox, CBS and Prentice-Hall. Among the Street Writer, another best seller that combines plant woes Tax Book,” in care of the Manchester Herald, 4400 education and the ability to prepare printed market: turn out hundreds of individual letters: fast-growing independents in the competition were Johnson Drive, Fairway, Kan. 66205. Make checks documents of many kinds. As a word processor, this ' 1 prepare lists: obtain information (for a fee) from Scarborough Systems of Tarrytown, N.Y..; Spin payable to Universal Press Syndicate. ■•i*: giant data banks: teach math, foreign languages. naker Software Corp. of Cambridge. Mass.; Broder- program enables children of all ages to display and Jik bn industry Growth said to shift Business rv„ By Robert Sangeorge ■1 United Press International In Brief WASHINGTON — Massive construction and design 9 Stabilization predicted problems plaguing some alomie reactor projects are cau.sed by utility company mismanagement. Nuclear HMO increases members Regulatory Commission experts conclude in a W ETHERSFIELD — The newest of Connecti in N.H. ‘triangle’ area long-awaited report. cut's nine health maintenance organizations has . V- The report — the product of a 15-month NRC staff enrolled more than 5,000 members in three investigation ordered by Congress — also blames the months, surpassing its enrollment goal for the DURHAM, N.H. (UPI) — Growth in Monroe, and Haverhill, Lebanon and commission itself for inadequately examining the year. New Hampshire's "Golden Triangle " that whole region are just ripe for "management capability " of electric utilities before Among the 31 companies in Hartford and will slow in the next few years, while growth of certain types.” Luloff said. m granting them con.struction permits to build enor Tolland counties offering the plan, an average of seacoast and lake regions and the Hanover, for example, "is nice, it has mously complex nuclear power plants. 20 percent of eligible employees have chosen to upper Connecticut River area will pretty good cultural amenities and it is The 500-page report follows an unprecedented join Constitution Health'Network, a spokesman < prosper, a University of New Hamp close to a m ajor interstate. series of cancellations and threatened abandonments said. shire researcher predicts. "Cheshire County and Sullivan of multibillion-dollar commercial reactor projects by The plan, affiliated with Blue Cross-Blue Shield High land and home prices will slow County are going to continue to grow, financially pressed utilities. of Connecticut, anticipates enrolling an addi rapid growth in the triangle, -an but they are not going to be leaders," he The study was submitted by the NRC staff to the tional 10,000 members by the end of the year. industrial hotbed of activity in sou said. "P eop le want rural life, but they A ' A* V-- agency’s five cotnmissioners on March '20. It was to be Health maintenance. organizations provide theastern New Hampshire bordered by also want access to ‘hnajor urban sent to Congre.ss last Wednesday, but the commission comprehensive health coverage for a fixed Intei'state 93 and Route 3, according to areas.” ers have not yet given the document final approval. monthly fee. Albert Luloff. He is an associate Factors that work in favor of growth They are tentatively slated to discuss and vote on it professor of rural sociology and in countiek like Strafford are lacking in Friday. Heating oil prices drop community development at UNH. the North Country, where Luloff A formal "review group " of nine outside experts The average price of a single-family foresees very slow gro\^th, except for submitted critiques to the NRC,’ that generally prai.sed HARTFORD — State energy officials have / home in some sections of the Golden ski areas. ’ •V. 'WvA:'. the study. But several reviewers argued it places too reported a drop of nearly 4 cents a gallon in retail Triangle now exceeds $80,000, he said. Luloff also said: much blame on utilities and not enough on the NRC. N Heraia pnotoa Dy Tarquinio heating oil prices between March 1 and April 2. Based on census reports and other • People are still abandoning cities Typical were the comments of John Hansel, an R etail’prices Were down 3.6 cents to $1.16 per data, Luloff believes Strafford County, for more rural areas, but at a slower Tryouts independent consultant who formerly served as a top gallon. Wholesale prices dropped 3.5 cents to 88.4 the Lakes Region, ski areas and the rate. quality control official on the Apollo and Space Shuttle cents per gallon and prices and inventories have Lebanon-Hanover area and north will • The most common move in north Youngsters, above, line up while waiting to demonstrate programs of the National Aeronautics and Space stabilized. be ^lew Hampshire’s growth leaders. Administration. ern New England is from a rural area their athletic prowess Saturday at tryouts for the A The energy division of the state's Office of "Stralford County is a logical place to a rural area. In southern New "A better balance is required between tht; NRC and Policy Management, said the statewide inven for growth. It has the best of both England, it is from a city to a city. American League of the Manchester Little League held at utilities," said Hansel. “ Both are to blame fur past tory of home heating oil was 51.4 million gallons, worlds, being near the ocean and the • New Hampshire should top the 1 Waddell School. At left below, Brian Maloon, 11, fields a problems, but both have taken a lot of positive steps to mountains," Luloff said Friday.