Software Reviews : Political Campaign Software for Micros Reviewed by J. Theodore Anagnoson, California State University, Los Angeles Publisher: Below, Tobe and Associates, Inc., Culver City (Los Angeles), CA and Falls Church, VA Year of Publication: Latest version is 1986 (Version reviewed is 1984) Materials: Program disk, data disk (requires dBASE II, III or III+ to run). Price: $1,000.00 Machine Specificity: IBM PC and compatibles. a CP/M version is available (ask publisher for details) System Requirements: Requires 192K RAM (dBASE II and dBASE III versions) or 384K (dBASE III+ version) and two double sided drives, a parallel printer port, printer (dBASE II version will not start up without printer turned on), modem (optional). Ms- or PC-DOS 1.1 or higher, dBASE II, v. 2.4 or dBASE III or III+ required. WORDSTARlMAIL- MERGE or a word processing program with a mail merge function required to print form letters. Files larger than 500 to 1,000 cases are much more effectively handled with a hard disk, larger system memory and a printer-spooler. Will run on a local area network with dBASE III+ if one is available. Operator Requirements: Requires a person who is familiar with MS- or PC-DOS and microcomputers generally. Below-Tobe state that the best operator is a person "who wants to get a particular job done and is incidentally using a computer to do it." Some knowledge of your word processor and its mail merge function is required to produce form letters. Effectiveness: Excellent User-Friendliness: Good Documentation: Good to excellent

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