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Specialist In is also providingclasses in BASIC, Extended BASIC,assembly language, Microsoft Multiplan,TI-Writer, Forth and printers. Printers are "very difficult" withcommands for such items as boldfacing,for instance, DeMars says. Hesays Specialist In markets 50 differentmodels of printers and has had a programwritten for each. He says they evaluate the softwarethey sell "to be sure it is qualitysoftware." Specialist In sells to customers allover the world, he says. "We don't advertise a lot," he says."People find out by word of mouth." Ficklin says he hasn't seen muchthird-party software so far. "I hear a lot but haven't seen muchso far," he says. "Frisco (Frisco Electronics,a high-volume electronicschain) has Atarisoft. That's games.Games get old real fast." He notes that Computer Shows is adealer for Scott Foresman, which hasdiscontinued its TI line. "Initially, I though a lot of peoplewould write stuff," he says. '' "I'mbeginning to have my doubts now,which is too bad." "As far as what's available forpeopple people who already have TlTI's, there'sa lot of new stuff coming out," MccutcheonMcCutcheon says. "The limit on computers isgoing to limit what's available,because there's no new computerscoming out." He notes that "TI tried their best torestrict stuff'' " so that they would bethe software source. "We're finding a lot of new stuff outthere.·· " he says. "We've always had problems gettingwhat people want at the time,"Burger says. "It's still a problem."