Software Reviews : 1-2-3 Forecast! Staff review Publisher: Bruce L. Gates,PO Box 12582,Salem,OR 97309 (telephone : [phone]) Year of Publication: 1985 (Version 2) Materials: Template diskette;52-page spiral-bound manual. Price: $75;educational discount rate for 1-9 copies ($56.25),10-99 copies ($37.50),over 100 copies ($30.00);lab package of one disk and five manuals for educational institutions only,$85.00. Machine Specificity: IBM Pc and MS-DOS machines. System Requirements: Requires Lotus 1-2-3;192k memory,two double-sided 320/360k disk drives,color adapter for graphs. Effectiveness: Excellent User-Friendliness: Excellent Documentation: Good

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Summary: 1-2-3 Forecast! provides a highly user-friendly template for the popular Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet which can be used by economists and other social scientists interested in projection (or post- diction) models. Excellent graphics and an extensive tutorial top off the package, which should make an outstanding teaching as well as research tool.