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   1 h;"MICROGNOME";''"   Press 2 or 3 for pages or"'" Hold S for 
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   1 "vailable at power-up. It is veryeasy to use, with facilities forsaving and printing Prestel pag-es, downloading software, and   preparing mailbox messages off- line, and all menu driven. It   makes the Spectrum one of the   cheapest and simplest ways to"
   1 "non-subcribers can use to get into the free software on Micronet(the 'nets routing management   being somewhat flaky at best).    Viewfax, and to a lesser ex-  tent Micronet, give more space  to Acorn computers than the sizeof their user base can justify.":
   1 "access Prestel, and it won't be long before Micronet's 7000 odd members are overwhelmed by, say,1% of a million Spectrum users.":
   1 "This is because the Beeb's comp-uter got it's modem first. This imbalance is rapidly being put  right as the Spectrum users taketheir rightful place at the top.  Early Beeb modems were acous- tically coupled and hence prone to interference. The Spectrum's Prism modem is direct coupled   with the software in ROM and a-"
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   1 "  The Gnome is Viewfax's colum- nist, specializing in Acorn newsof the unofficial kind. We are  reproducing one of his more in- nocent screens as Acorn are sucha litigious bunch. The Gnome hasalso revealed page numbers which"
   1 "  Micronet is not the only area of Prestel to be devoted to the micro. Viewfax is a similar sortof thing (eek! flying brickbats)but open to all, whereas Micro- net costs `8 a quarter on top ofPrestel's `5 subscription."
   1  unofficial kind. We are  reproducing one of his more in- nocent
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