Published by
SPRY, Inc.
July 1995
ISBN 10: UPC 799364 01200 |
ISBN 13: 799364 012001
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Book descriptionInternet In A Box (TM) is the first shrink-wrapped package to provide a total solution for PC users to get on the Internet. Internet In A Box provides instant connectivity, a multimedia Windows interface, and a full suite of applications. New features in the second edition include: access to the CompuServe Network; Spry Mosaic, Mail, and News; Secure HTTP; and a Network File Manager.
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- With Spry Mosaic, browsing the Internet has never been easier. Spry Mosaic offers Progressive Image Rendering, so waiting for graphics and other images to download is minimized. You simply drag and drop URLs into SPRY Mail, which means that it's fast and convenient to include information you find on the Net in mail.
- New features in SPRY Mail give you greater flexibility. SPRY Mail provides MIME support and a built-in spell checker. Mail and News are now available within the Mosaic Toolbar so you won't have to exit Mosaic to access either service.
- You'll enjoy safe and secure shopping online with Secure HTTP.
- SPRY News offers offline support for viewing and sending individual articles.
- A Network File Manager means there's an improved interface for dealing with various Internet hosts.
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COMPUTER CONVENIENCE: INTERNET IN A BOX
By Paul Andrews, Seattle Times staff columnist, September, 1994
"Physically, 'Internet In A Box' lives up to its name. The new software package from Seattle-based Spry Inc., comes in a plain brown, lunchbox-sized container of recycled cardboard - a wry departure from the pro forma blue-green-yellow designer boxes lining store shelves.
"Packaging was not Spry's challenge. Can you really purchase a $100 (street price; retail $149) box of software, install it on your PC and be up and running on the Internet within 15 minutes?
"Having endured more than a dozen glitch-ridden, teeth-gnashing Internet installations, I would have bet against it. Spry has made me glad I'm not a betting man.
"Simply put, 'Internet In A Box' is the software required for the masses to use the global network, loosely estimated to have 15 million to 30 million 'users.'
"It's been a long time in personal computing since a product solved as many problems as 'Internet In A Box.' Any user with a passing knowledge of Windows can get up and running on the Internet. To obtain something similar to 'IBox's' functionality, a PC user previously had to know how to configure a modem, log on to a service provider, install TCP/IP and WinSock software, know what http, ftp, telnet and gopher meant, and try to figure out a maze of destinations, addresses and newsgroups.
"The genius of 'Internet In A Box' is not just that it protects the user from such complexities, but that it allows 'newbies' to log on, wander and experiment - to surf, in the argot - thereby learning the Internet at their own pace, painlessly.
"For experienced users, there's no more typing 'gopher gopher://justice2.usdoj.gov/1/crt.' Just click on an icon and you're in the Department of Justice's new gopher site.
"'I-Box' requires a 386 computer with four megabytes of RAM, Windows and a modem running at 9600 bits per seconds or faster. It will be happier with a 486 chip and more RAM. On two systems, a temperamental high-performance 486-66 with 1024 X 768 video and 16MB of RAM, and a generic 486 office clone, 'IBox' installed without a hitch.
"'IBox' searches your system during configuration for the available COM port - a nice touch for beginners who don't know what a COM port is. Although it lists more than 450 modems, its suggests a Hayes-compatible configuration that should work fine if your modem isn't listed....
"A favorite [feature] is Network File Manager. If you ftp (lingo for log on) to a remote computer, Network File Manager not only shows you file names and system information about each one, it lets you open them with a click of the mouse. Copying a file to your C: drive is simply a matter of clicking, dragging and dropping.
"Long-suffering Net users who have slogged through the 10 to 20 steps normally required to accomplish the above will feel as if they'd just had braces removed.
"Another nice touch: If you're disconnected from a session, 'IBox' puts you right back in the newsgroup, gopher site or wherever you were when things went black.
"'IBox' lets you set up your own hotlist of frequently visited newsgroups. Subscribing is a matter of clicking on a button.
"In the same way the Macintosh and Windows made computers easier to use, and America Online made on-line services easier, 'Internet In A Box' has eased the fear and loathing of global computing. It's a significant piece of software...."
User Friendly appears Sundays in the Personal Technology section of The Seattle Times. Paul Andrews can be reached by email at: pand-new@seatimes.com.
