[I need my wide-open space, and have found it](http://www.sjmercury.com:80/living/daveplot/docs/dp080397.htm)

Unbelievable! Microsoft will be paying Apple an undisclosed amount of money
for
[Patent Licenses](http://www.webintosh.com/features/macworld/articles/patent1.shtml)
on **top of the $150,000,000** already being invested!
What will Steve Jobs pull out of the hat next??

[Webintosh: Macworld Boston ’97](http://www.webintosh.com/features/macworld/index.shtml)
coverage

Here’s some info about Steve Jobs
[keynote address](http://www.maccentral.com/news/aug06.shtml#keynote)
at MacWorld Boston

Go check out
[Boston.com](http://www.boston.com/)
for all things Boston!

[The Motley Fool](http://fool.yahoo.com/fool/97/08/06/lna_970806.htm)
has a bit to say about the Microsoft/Apple deal.

The
[PGA Tour – Buick Open](http://www.golfweb.com/ga97/pga/0801/p.html)
page. Watch this for details on how things are going!

Steve Jobs said:
“As far as I’m concerned the era of setting things up as a competition between Apple and Microsoft is

over,” Jobs said. “We have to let go of a few things, such as the notion that for Apple to win,

Microsoft has to lose. Apple plus Microsoft equals 100% of the desktop market. Whatever we do

together will become a standard.” Well it’s about time! Maybe by working together a

Microsoft monopoly can be averted.

And with that: [Microsoft to invest $150 million in Apple](http://www.boston.com/globe/business/packages/microsoft_apple/)

From the LA Times:
[Apple May Be Ready to Cease Cloning About](http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/CUTTING/t000068982.html)

Why would Apple even consider an
The [end to licensing](http://www.macworld.com/daily/daily.1497.html)
of the MacOS?

[Macworld Expo Boston 1997](http://www8.zdnet.com/macweek/boston97/)

Here’s the
[1997-98 SEASON SCHEDULE](http://www.sj-sharks.com/sharks/news/970730.html)
for the “San Jose Sharks”

What’s
[the biggest problem in golf today](http://services.golfweb.com/cgi-bin/gwpoll/index.html?)

I went to the
[Bank of Boston Senior Classic](http://www.golfweb.com/ga97/spga/0705/f.html)
on Sunday and watched Hale Irwin win for the 6th time this year!

Phil Mickelson sets a record at the
[Sprint International](http://www.golfweb.com/ga97/pga/0705/f.html)

I’ve recently switched to Claris Emailer 2.0 for handling my email,
and I finally have 99% of what I want in an email program. If you haven’t
tried it yet, YOU SHOULD! Here’s the
[Webintosh: Claris Emailer 2.0 Review](http://www.webintosh.com/reviews/emailer2.shtml.)

[A History of Apple Computers](http://www.apple-history.pair.com/)
IMNSHO, The beginning of the end was when Steve Jobs got pushed out the first time.

Here’s a very balanced analysis of
[Why the MacOS is better than Windows NT](http://www.MacKiDo.com/Reference/MacOrNT.html,)
with references mainly to **PC** biased sources!

[How the Macintosh really got disigned](http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/projects/grouplab/481/apple.html)
by Guy Kawasaki

The history of the
[APPLE II](http://www.hypermall.com/History/AHindex.html)
computer, the first computer I ever played with