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As students and collectors of the Mac Community File Archive we became
interested in determining the size and compostion of the Mac Archive.

We analysed all the major online archives and most of the CD collections
that have been released during 1996. Our analysis with graphs of the age
size and composition of most of the archive is available at
http://ianandstuart.simplenet.com.

We estimate the public online Mac Community Archive is 30,000 compressed
files for 10GBytes expanding to 150,000 files. The complete online
Archive is 45,000 compressed files for 15GBytes expanding to 250,000
files. The complete Mac Archive is 150,000 files for 30GBytes that should
expand to 650,000 files. We estimate that total online Mac file space is
less than 500GBytes with the complete computing Archive less than 10
Terabytes.

This Acrobat document features all the pages and images from our web
site. Visit our web site if you want to use our Search page or Site links.

ianandstuart -- http://ianandstuart.simplenet.com





Over the past few weeks I have received numerous requests for
information regarding human factors experiments which were conducted
in order to develop the Macintosh computer. This was in response
to the question I had posted several weeks before. I am sending
all of the e-mail I received related to this issue.

I did find on my own some fairly good information, but it seems
as though much of the Mac development was first of all based on
the Xerox Star, and secondly not very emperically, but rather
based on common sense. One good information source containing some
early Star experiments is "Readings in Human-Computer Interaction
A Multidisciplinary Approach" by Ronald M. Baecker and William
A.S. Buxton. This book contains, "Human Factors Testing in the
Design of Xerox's 8010 Star Office Workstation" by William
L. Bewley, Teresa L Roberts, David Schroit and William L. Verplank
also "Designing the Star User Interface" by David Canfield Smith,



I haven't seen this appear in imdigest, yet, and thought some folks might
find it interesting.

[Gordon---I have two more related press releases. Should I submit them,
too, or not? Please let me know 'fore I delete them. Thanks. --T.]

J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis

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