To those of you who are considering acquiring a new computer, an anecdote.

Eric Greenwood's file on Creston Valley came through to me as a text file.
I double-clicked on it, and my Macintosh asked me if I wanted to open it in
Word. I clicked yes, and it quickly translated the MS-DOS WordPerfect
document into Word, quite readable, formatted, in Courier font (not my
default font; was it written in Courier, Eric?) and without a single =20 at
the end of a line. And *much* quicker than it took me to type this.

And I don't own any Apple stock.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416