From: dennis.gleeson@woodybbs.com (Dennis Gleeson)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 95 10:27:00 -0500

Reproduced with permissions from the Chicago Tribune
                                     Sunday, December 4, 1994

BINARY BEAT
"Digital stuffers for those Christmas stockings" By James Coates

Even Bill Gates agrees that Microsoft Windows, the operating environment 
on 50 million personal computers worldwide, is pretty confusing 
territory. 

So Microsoft has invested several hundred million dollars on an upgrade 
called Windows 95 that the company says will be available the first half 
of next year. 

Meanwhile, Chicago entrepreneur Ted Yeager has taken a pretty big step 
in making current editions of Windows understandable to just about 
anybody even as the world waits for Windows 95. 

Yeager's idea is "Windows Now," as opposed to Windows 95, a $19.99 
stocking-stuffer book that should hit the spot for the millions of 
families adding IBM-compatible machines to this year's holiday gift 
lists. 

The book is a fine way to start a column about some of the niftier lower-
cost computer-oriented gifts available this whopper of a season when 
personal computer sales are booming as never before. 

Yeager's partner, a computer professional named Robert Medved, wrote the 
book but frankly, in this rare case the writing has very little to do 
with the book's power. 

"Windows Now" is bound in an easel like the books they use to use in 
high school typing classes. 

You stand it up alongside your keyboard, and the vertical pages show 
pictures of the Windows screens that will appear on your computer as you 
make each move with mouse and keyboard. The flat page tells you what to 
do with each screen. 

It walks you through every move you need to make to get Windows working, 
including the basics, like how to double-click a mouse button, all the 
way through opening, closing, saving and executing files. There also are 
instructions for the small programs like the calendar and calculator 
included with WIndows. 

I've never seen a better way to show a newcomer the Windows
basics.

The book is available for $19.99 by calling 1-800-917-8400 Ext. 21


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