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Subject: Re: Roots III
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 11:39:42 CST


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In article <> (Theodore John Swift) writes:
>
>>Is Roots III avaliable for the Mac?
>>If so is there a phone # and address for the place?
>
>I would like it to be, since I have and use a Mac, but as far as I've heard
>there is no Mac version of Roots III. But the company is just down the
>road from here in Mountain View, so I'll call and get back to y'all with
>the results.

From what I hear, Roots III (for IBM PC-compatibles) is the premiere
program for genealogical publishing. It can generate fully indexed,
numbered, and annotated genealogies in all the formats accepted by
major genealogical journals. It is published by:

CommSoft
2275 Old Middlefield Road
Mountain View, CA 94039
(415) 967-1900

I haven't called them for a few months, but I tried last August and last
December, and they were being very close-mouthed. They wouldn't say they
were working on a Mac version, and they wouldn't say they weren't. If I
had the nerve, I would call their personnel office instead of their
customer support, and pretend to be looking for work as a Macintosh
programmer. (I am a Macintosh programmer, but I'm quite happy here
at Adobe, and I can't lie with a straight face for the life of me.)

Ted, by saying "the company is just down the road from here in
Mountain View", do you mean that you yourself are located in Mtn View
and not in Sausalito as your Organization line would indicate,
or are you speaking figuratively of Mountain View as being "just
down the road" from Sausalito? (CommSoft headquarters is literally
less than a mile from my office. I sometimes pass by on my way to lunch.
But short of industrial espionage, I have no idea how to find out when
we'll see Roots for the Macintosh.)

Teri Pettit
Adobe Systems
1585 Charleston Road
Mountain View, CA 94039

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