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$3.50 Volume 1 1]7 Sept. 1, 1987 bales Dek Spreading the word The future of Apple evangelists Page 10 Window On Outliners, word processors Page 14 Reviews NetModem, QuickDEX Page 19 “Aside from the business BSN hings Ido with my Mec, I'm always using it for my music.” Bass lines and bottom lines AU 7. rane A HyperCard’s roots yield key to its future BY RUSTY WESTON MacWEEK Staff CUPERTINO, Calif. — Just as Bill Atkin- son says humans link thoughts in scatter- brained ways, his software child, Hyper- Card, has a scattered past. Its future is in becoming the standard interface for Mac users who want to customize links between heretofore segre- gated media; text, sound, graphics, anima- tion and storage disks. Nevertheless, it’s the roots of Hyper- Card that provide insight into Apple’s quest to empower users and expand microcom- puting possibilities. In the zoological sense, HyperCard is not strictly a new beast. Its ancestry runs as far back as the dawning of the computer age, and its contemporary relatives include Atkinson's Rolodex program, Xerox's Notecards, Owl International's Guide and Quickview Systems’ Zoomracks. Unlike those applications, however, HyperCard came out of the think tank ready to swim, walk and drive. And fly. Thanks to Apple bundling HyperCard with new Macs, the product will likely set See HYPERCARD, Page 21 Apple scanner to show at Seybold BY ABIGAIL CHRISTOPHER MacWEEK Staff CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple will roll out a low-cost 300-dpi scanner at the Seybold Desk- top Publishing Seminar and Conference next week, plugging a gap in the company’s desk- top-publishing offerings, according to several sources close to the company. The flatbed scanner is driven by the Canon CS-220 engine, supports 16 levels of gray (4 bits per pixel) and is expected to be priced at approximately $1,500 ($2,000 with software). Filling a growing publishing need, the scan- ner imports gray scale, TIFF (Tag Image File Format) and MacPaint images into page-layout and presentation-graphics programs, said the sources. ‘The scanner will compete with the simi- larly equipped Hewlett-Packard ScanJet for the Macintosh, announced Aug. 3, that is priced at $1,495 stand-alone and $595 addi- tional for the Apple Macintosh interface kit, including scanner software. But Apple is expected to provide scanner software that will exploit the 4-bits-per-pixel See SCANNER, Page 21 ‘Swift’ 68020 LaserWriter set for ’88 BY ABIGAIL CHRISTOPHER MacWEEK Staff CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple is developing a high-speed 68020-based 300-dpi Laser- Writer for release in the first quarter of 1988, according to several sources close to the company. ‘The new 32-bit LaserWriter will run at 16 MHz and print approximately 12 pages per minute, depending on image complexity. The printer will be configured around a new, as yet unannounced Canon engine. ‘The price of the printer has not been deter- mined, but a $6,000 to $7,000 range is being discussed by Apple’s marketing staff, accord- ing to the sources. The new printer, code-named Swift, is one of anew crop of fast PostScript laser printers that will appear in 1988, say observers. Many will be configured around a 68020- based printer controller board from Adobe Sys- tems Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., code-named Atlas. The 68020 printer will not be the only option for users who want to speed up their LaserWriter output. PostScript accelerator boards for the LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plus are available for approximately $2,000 from companies such as Olduvai Software of Coral Gables, Fla. “The new LaserWriter will be well-received in the production environment and in the work group. This kind of printer speed will do well in corporations,” said Ed Wong, a research analyst in electronic-publishing services for Dataquest of San Jose, Calif. “But relative to the LaserWriter and Laser- Writer Plus, that [$6,000 - $7,000 estimated cost] sounds pricey. It depends on what mar- kets Apple is going after with this,” he said. David Rosenthal and other musicians use Macs both for business and art Page 8 ZOOM IN 50% ‘Source hly 1087 Create SuatejocMacWEEK ‘Apple plans new ‘spinouts,’ says Sculley’s book BY RUSTY WESTON MacWEEK Staff CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple plans to spin off more companies that will join Claris Corp. in a “federation” of Apple satellites, President John Sculley says in his new book. The strategy will allow Apple to diversify without becoming a massive bureaucracy. The new companies, called “spinouts,” are likened by Sculley to specialized planets orbit- ing around “mothership” Apple. Sculley’s “Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple” will be published Oct. 15 by Harper & Row and serialized in a September issue of Fortune magazine. Co-authored by John A. Byme, the book is expected to become a best-seller, with an initial hardcover printing of 100,000. See SCULLEY, Page 21 NEEDS IS A PHOTOGRAPHI TAKE A PICTURE. ANY PICTURE. It can be a photograph, art- work, a technical drawing. Feed it into the Microtek Intelligent Image Scanner, and it’s on your computer screen almost instantly. Then you can edit, paint, and cut and paste it, and reproduce the sharpest image your laser printer can handle. MACINTOSH OR IBM COMPATIBLE. The Microtek Scanner can be used with either system. And naturally, it works with the most popular publishing software for both. INCOMPARABLE VALUE. For ascanner this sophisticated, you'd expect to make a heavy investment. But the Microtek Image Scanner is less than the cost of a laser printer and can pay for itself in no time in saved labor and production costs. 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See us at MACWORLD Expo - August 11-13 - Booth 500 We are showing MS-300A, MSF-300C, MS-300C, SCSI Interface MacWEEK NEWS Sept. 1, 1987 CONTENTS NEWS New printing routines needed to tap ImageWriter LQ’s full potential 05 Rugged Mac challenges harsh working environments 06 Computers contribute to the bass line and the bottom line 08 Business WatcH Evangelists will continue to spread Apple gospel 10 Hard-disk drive market hits summer doldrums 10 Winpow On Outlining programs: Software jacks-of-all-trades 14 Word processing: Gaining respect in the business world 17 REVIEWS Shiva offers a sensible solution for the problems of modem access 19 QuickDEX is a handy way for storing often-needed information 19 Market WEEK on word processing 16 Opinion Letters to the Editor 11 John Edwards: Communicating ll Mac the Knife n LATE NEws Red Ryder upgrade available only by mail order BEAVER FALLS, Pa. — Red Ryder 10.0, a long-awaited upgrade to The FreeSoft Co.’s popular telecommunications program, is set to ship this week. Unlike previous versions, which were distributed as shareware, the new release will be avail- able only by mail order from the developer for $80. To upgrade, registered owners must send a check for $20 and their Red Ryder master disk with the exact name under which they registered. “10.0 Update Request” should be written in the lower-left corner of the envelope and circled. The FreeSoft Co. is located at 150 Hickory Drive, Beaver Falls, Pa. 15010; (412) 846-2700. Insignia develops DOS emulation program for Mac II SAN FRANCISCO — There’s more than one way to emulate an operating system. Insignia Solutions has developed a DOS emulation software program for the Mac II called Soft PC for the Mac. The $595 program will only run under A/UX, Apple’s UNIX for the Mac II, and not under the standard Mac operating system. The shipping date for Soft PC is tied to the ship- ment of A/UX, which will not ship until the beginning of next year. Soft PC will allow Mac II users to run UNIX programs concurrently with DOS applications. The system will require an external 5.25-inch disk drive to run DOS applications. A Motorola 68020-based computer, such as the Mac II, provides IBM PC XT performance, and a 68020 running at 25 MHz offers PC AT performance, according to tests conducted by Motorola and Insignia. Insignia is located at 1225 Post St., Suite 625, San Francisco, Calif. 94109; (415) 771-7001. Program converts PostScript to Compugraphic commands WILMINGTON, Mass. — Compugraphic Corp. jumped into the PostScript typesetting market last week with the announcement of a hardware/software package that converts PostScript files from a Macintosh or IBM into Compugraphic typesetting commands. CG Script supports hundreds of PostScript application packages, including PageMaker, Word and Adobe Illustrator, for output on Compugraphic machines. The package, including software and a unit to be plugged into the Mac’s modem port, is set to ship in January and will cost $9,995 for use with MCS 8000/8400 photo units and $12,995 for CG 9600/9700 Imagesetters. Compugraphic Corp. is at 200 Ballardvale St., Wilmington, Mass. 01887; (617) 658-5600. Sharp to color the peripherals market BY CLIFF LEHMAN MacWEEK Staff MAHWAH, N.J.— Following the path blazed by its recently announced color scanner, Sharp Electronics Corp. will introduce two color printers and an erasable optical disk in the first three months of 1988, according to Mark Albanese, product manager for Sharp. The JX-550 Thermal Printer, a 300-dpi color-thermal transfer printer, is tentatively priced at $8,995. Mac compatible, the JX-550 is intended for color proofing and color separations on company magazines and newsletters, as well as for design and engineering applications, Albanese said. The machine will offer yellow, magenta, cyan and black color ribbons that combine for The JX-450 Color Scanner precedes two new printers. the seven printing colors of black, magenta, yellow, cyan, red, green and blue. The machine will come with 4 Mbytes of memory — | Mbyte for each of the four basic colors. Quark Inc. of Denver has promised to sup- port the printer, and Sharp is working on sign- See SHARP, Page 4 Apple purchases a piece of Sybase BY RUSTY WESTON MacWEEK Staff BERKELEY, Calif. — Although it will take a year until a custom-tailored Mac version of Sybase Inc.’s relational database management system for on-line transactions hits the market, Sybase has found a strategic new partner in Apple. Apple’s Strategic Investment Group, along with a few investment banks, has purchased a minority equity-investment in the 3-year-old Berkeley, Calif., software company. Apple rep- resentatives would not say how much of the $3.3 million venture Apple purchased or what percentage of the company is owned by Apple. “From Apple’s viewpoint, this is very important to our customers in large, multiven- dor environments,” Marianne Lettieri, Apple’s corporate public relations manager, said. “Sybase provides a software engine for dis- tributed database applications in a multi-user environment.” “Our database technology [combined] with the Macintosh architecture can become a key to meeting the needs of tomorrow’s networked environments,” said Mark Hoffman, Sybase president. “We believe our technologies are complementary and our companies share a vision of micro-to-mainframe connectivity.” See SYBASE, Page 4 Target aims high with Scoop BY ELINOR CRAIG MacWEEK Staff MIAMI — Target Software Inc. is aiming its new page-layout program at the high end of the market even though $495 is a mid-range price for a desktop-publishing program. “Scoop achieves tasks that traditionally were done only by typesetting workstations,” said Sal Patalano, CEO of Target Software. But developers and analysts are questioning why the first upgrade is scheduled only one month after the company’s delayed release of the product. “If all that Target promises works, it sounds like a good product,” said Julie Desrosiers, an analyst with CAP International in Marshfield, Mass. “Target has a long road ahead of it,” said Mike Solomon, vice president of sales and marketing at Aldus Corp. in Seattle. “There are many good products on the market.” Scoop’s best attributes are quick processing and ease of editing, said Tom Weinkle, a graphic designer in Miami. “Scoop runs in RAM so it processes very fast,” he said. “Edit- ing can be done without going to another appli- cation or document. When I open Scoop, I don’t have to bother with anything else.” Rotating text and graphics can be done with increments of one degree. And type can be stretched from 12 percent to 800 percent with an automatic slanting of margins. ‘The program is easy to use and will be PostScript compatible, including clones, according to Dawn Wetterling, marketing director at Target Software. Although Scoop was well received at the Mac Expo in Boston last month, Target Soft- ware had few copies of the program to sell, according to David Schechter, an industry ana- lyst with Homans McGraw in Boston. “Their credibility is at stake,” said CAP’s Desrosiers. “They told us their upgrade was coming in eight to 10 weeks, which means they wanted to get something out by the expo. It will be interesting to see how long it takes them to get their upgrade together.” The key features scheduled to be added in the new version are TIFF compatibility, batch spell checking, search and replace (now in a limited version), and color viewing capability for the Mac II, said Wetterling. “They just had to get something immediate- ly out as a new contender in a challenging mar- ketplace,” said Craig Cline, associate editor of the Seybold Desktop Publishing Report. MacWEEK Sept..1.21987 NEWS SHARP. Continued from Page 3 ing up more software support in the Mac envi- ronment, Albanese said. The JX-550 currently has no provisions for a page-description lan- guage, but, Albanese said, Sharp “is always looking at that area.” The JX-550 prints at three quality levels: Fast, Fine I and Fine II. Using all four basic colors, the machine will take 60 seconds to print a page at the Fast quality level; 90 and 150 seconds to print a page at the Fine I and Fine II levels, respectively. ‘The JX-450 Color Scanner, to be intro- duced this month, according to Albanese, scans at 300 dpi and is list priced at $5,995. With a Mac interface board from National Instrument of Austin, Texas, that costs between $495 and $550, the scanner is compatible with the Mac Plus, SE and II. ‘The scanner can be set to scan 24 bits per pixel for 16 million colors; 8 bits per pixel of gray for 256 gray levels or 1 bit per pixel for line art. It also uses an edge detection function to enhance the sharpness of line art. The third product, the JX-725 Ink Jet Print- er, uses the same four basic colors as the JX- 550 and mixes them to produce red, green and purple. ‘The 180-dpi printer is priced at $1,395 and takes four minutes to deliver a full-color image over an 8.5-by-8.5-inch area. The JX-725 will print at 23 cps in magenta, yellow and cyan and 46 cps in black. Sharp also plans in the first three months of 1988 to introduce an optical disk that can be erased and rewritten repeatedly, said Albanese. The 380-Mbyte Magneto-Optical Disk is priced at $6,500 and will include cables and software for either the Mac or IBM environ- ment, Albanese said. Albanese said Sharp sees the Magneto- Optical Disk as a very large archival device for image databasing and storage for graphic artists, desktop publishers and others. “The Magneto-Optical Disk can be written on the same exact spot | million times,” Albanese said. Sharp Electronics can be contacted at P.O. Box 650, Sharp Plaza, Mahwah, N.J. 07430; (201) 592-9500. SYBASE Continued from Page 3 The Sybase system’s structured query lan- guage also will pave the way for Macs to talk to IBM mainframes — something corporate and government users have been pining for. Dan Eilers, director of Apple’s Strategic Investment Group, said, “We don’t pick suc- cessful companies, we develop them.” Sybase is the group’s fourth investment this year, joining Forethought Inc., maker of PowerPoint desktop-presentation soft- ware; OSI software vendor Touch Communi- cations; and Chromaline, a start-up in Los Altos, Calif., which has chosen to keep its technology proprietary. Eilers said the Apple group plans to invest in four or five such ventures each year. Previously, Apple had said it would post- pone purchasing horizontal applications soft- ware until its software spinoff, Claris Corp., becomes independent. But the company and Sybase say that DataServer and DataToolset are system, rather than application, software. “There should not be a conflict with Claris because Claris is fundamentally doing applica- tions software,” Eilers said. “Tt is a tool for horizontal applications,” said Richard Scheffer, Sybase’s manager of marketing communications. “We sell it to value-added remarketers who develop applica- tions for specific vertical market segments and who market those applications within those market segments.” According to Esther Dyson, editor and pub- lisher of the industry newsletter Release 1.0, Apple will benefit from the Sybase deal. “Sybase is the most interesting thing to come along in relational databases,” Dyson said. Sybase features Trigger, which allows the user to monitor important data changes in any application. For example, when a $25,000 sale is made, an electronic message may be auto- matically sent to a sales manager. “We see people using Sybase in a network of Macs or [with] a Mac tied into large com- puters,” said Scheffer. He said the company’s products, DataServ- er and DataToolset, are currently available on Digital Equipment Corp.'s VAX computers and Sun Microsystems Inc.’s workstations. Scheffer predicts the market for Sybase will grow to $100 million in a few years. “They are a hot little relational database company,” said Michael Orsak, an Apple ana- lyst with Robertson, Colman & Stephens in San Francisco. Sybase is located at 2910 Seventh St., Berkeley, Calif. 94710; (415) 548-4500. 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Current- ly, each page is sent over one at a time. The LQ reads this as a series of first pages. NEWS MacWEEK Sept. 1, 1987 075 to access the multiple-paper-bin option, according to Omar Khalifa, LQ project manag- er at Apple. But, he said, Apple informed developers well in advance. WordPerfect, scheduled to be released in October, will have the correct print routine — but not because Apple wamed the developer. “We stumbled across the problem because we use the LQ here,” said Nolan Larsen, man- ager of Macintosh development for WordPer- fect Inc. in Orem, Utah. “Otherwise we would but some developers said they were not Applications will need a new print routine —_not have known about it.” Ann Arbor Softworks, developer of Full- Write Professional, which is due out mid- September, also found and addressed the prob- lem on its own, according to Phil Lipetz, presi- dent of the Newbury Park, Calif. company. Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., was warmed by Apple and will be addressing the problem, according to a spokeswoman. But she would not say when the upgrade is due out. Neither T/Maker Co. of Mountain View, Calif., nor MindWork of Carmel, Calif., were told about programming needs for the Image- Writer LQ, said company representatives. Companies... co E.|. du Pont de Nemours Ghevron Chrysler Philip Morris Amoco RJR idental Petroleum Atlantic Richfield Tenneco USX McDonnell Douglas Westinghouse Electric Goodyear Tire & Rubber Lockheed Phillips a Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Sara Lee ITT Union Carbide 2ackard Honeywell Johnson & Johnson Monsanto W.R. 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Sharp, a major player in the low-end Japanese workstation market with its $3,150 X-68000 computer, is now considering bring- ing this Mac II competitor to the United States, adding yet more pressure to an increasingly confusing and competitive market. The icon- and command-driven X-68000 computer, based on the Motorola 68000 micro- processor, runs at 10 MHz and includes 16 bit planes of color and 5.25-inch disk drives. The 16-bit frame buffer provides simultaneous dis- play of 65,536 colors and resides on the Sharp computer’s motherboard as a standard feature. By comparison, the 68020-based Mac II runs at 15.6 MHz and includes up to 8 bit planes of color. Apple’s 8-bit frame buffer for the Mac II provides simultaneous display of 256 colors. The Sharp computer offers more memory than the Mac II (1 to 12 Mbytes) but less room to grow (two expansion slots). The wrinkle in Sharp's plan is that the X- 68000 runs its own proprietary operating sys- tem, making it difficult for programmers to write code for it. Basic and assembler compil- ers are available for it now, and more are under development. The Sharp computer supports Genlock stan- dard on the motherboard for television standard NTSC and PAL video output. Apple third parties such as Computer Friends of Beaverton, Ore., and Matrox of Quebec, Canada, are developing Genlock and image-processing hardware for the Mac II. Sharp’s standard monitor is 15 inches and pro- vides resolution of 1,000- by- 1,000 pixels. The virtual-color monitor offers multiple display modes: 768 by 512; 512 by 512; 256 by 512; and 256 by 256. The Sharp monitor doubles as acable-ready television. The Sharp interface is Mac-like; it “is icon- as well as command-driven and supports over- lapping windows, a control panel and pop-up menus,” said Mark Alabanese, Sharp market- ing and sales manager for peripherals. The interface includes icons such as a trash can for deleting files, a copier for copying files and a printer for printing files. MacWEEK Sept. 1, 1987 N E W 5 Rugged Mac challenges harsh working environments BY JIRI WEISS Mac WEEK Staff BILLERICA, Mass.— The Mac of steel is here, taking the Macintosh II out of the office and into the harsh factory and lab environ- ments until now dominated by minicomputers, industrial PCs and controller boards. The rugged model of the Mac II, Automatix Inc.'s AI 90, is designed for analyzing data, controlling laboratory instruments and running a computer vision system to control an assem- bly line. Automatix, an Apple value-added reseller (VAR), has rearranged and made the insides of the Mac II modular to make it easier to service and small enough to fit in a steel box about 20 percent larger than a standard Mac II. The steel enclosure protects the AI 90 from electromagnetic and radio wave interference. The computer is rated for 10- to 50-degree Cel- sius temperatures and can be mounted flat against a wall or on a standard 19-inch rack used for electronic equipment. “The Macintosh will win out in the factory for the same reasons it is winning in the office: ease of use,” said Joseph Campbell, director of Automatix’s industrial control division. The cost of training in factories is higher than in offices, and it’s harder for a product to gain acceptance, Campbell said. “People who traditionally have been unwilling to interact with personal computers can now do so with- out having to learn a cryptic set of commands.” The AI 90 CPU sells for $7,900 with 1 Mbyte of RAM and a floppy drive. Options include a $142 standard Apple keyboard, a $2,800 20-Mbyte hard disk and a $989 monochrome monitor and video card. Automatix plans to release an industrial monitor within the next few weeks with a fil- tered fan system and the same shielding and grounding as the AI 90, Campbell said. The AI 90 constantly monitors its own internal temperature and power supply so the machine can be shut down without losing data. After a power outage, the machine comes on line automatically. A power amplifier lets users plug in an external speaker. “You can have a voice annunciator telling the user on the factory floor what’s wrong,” Campbell said. While the AI 90 can be used to run all Mac II software, Automatix said it expects the AI 90 will be used on the factory floor, primarily as a dedicated machine. “The extra bonus will COURTESY AUTOMATIX INC. ‘The AI 90 is an industrial-strength Mac II designed to withstand the rigors of factory and lab environments, Columbia, Md. “The AI 90 is a good first step. But there’s still a lot more work to be done,” Ferris said. Controller boards are specialized computers that control robot arms, turn on valves, check sensors and sometimes control hundreds of processes in parallel, he said. Robert Flisik, general manager of Multicon Inc. of Cincinnati, said he hopes the AI 90 will become a general platform that will replace these boards. “You'll see standard boards that will plug into the AI 90, which will give it a number of functions,” Flisik said. Automatix Inc. is located at 1000 Tech Park Drive, Billerica, Mass. 01821; (617) 667-7900. i be that the data captured by AI 90 can be used in other applications, such as spreadsheets and graphics programs,” Campbell said. The AI 90 runs a number of existing appli- cations, such as National Instruments’ Lab- View, an instrument-simulation program that makes the Mac act like an oscilloscope, for example, or statistical process control from Applied Statistics Inc. of St. Paul, Minn., used for sampling products coming off an assembly line, Campbell said. But industrial automation applications await development of an add-in, pro- grammable controller board, said David Ferris, a manager of systems engineering for the automation division of Westinghouse in Jasmine cuts hard drive prices SAN FRANCISCO — In the face of a barrage of storage products hitting the market, Jasmine Technologies Inc. reduced the price of its Direct Drive 160 external hard-disk drive by $600. The 19 percent cut puts the price of the drive at $2,899, down from $3,499, Jasmine also has expanded its line with the introduction of the BackPac 40-Mbyte drive, priced at $1,299, and a 5.25-inch, 10-Mbyte removable-cartridge system that sells for $999. Jasmine is located at 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, Calif. 94107; (415) 621-4339. Deneba files suit against former marketing partner Target to repay Deneba for purchases of Target trade. “Additionally, Deneba has incurred special damages as a consequence of Target’s breach ofits publishing contract due to delays incurred and interruption of marketing of its product before it could resume the sale of its product line.” Target began selling its Scoop desktop-pub- lishing software at Mac Expo in August. Target and Deneba would not comment on the legal action. i MIAMI — One month after terminating its marketing agreement with Target Software, Deneba Systems has filed suit in Dade County, Fla., against its former partner. 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FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL THE COMPATIBLE PRODUCTS GROUP AT 800-345-4006 OUTSIDE OF CALIFORNIA CALL 800-538-8510 National Semiconductor MacWEEK Sept. 1, 1987 NEWS Play it again, Mac Computers contribute to the bass line and the bottom line BY STEVE CUMMINGS Special to MacWEEK One of his Excel spreadsheets keeps track of an inventory of high-tech business machines, instantly reporting changes in their value for tax and insurance accounting. Another logs his professional time and calculates his accounts receivable. He prepares his business correspon- dence with MacWrite, bills his clients on forms drawn up in SuperPaint and records his, appointments with SideKick. Like many businessmen, David Rosenthal has discovered the Mac. But he is no lawyer or import/export entrepreneur. He is Cyndi Lau- per’s keyboard player, a musician who per- formed on her recent world tour and whose work will be heard on her next album. And as is typical for many contemporary electronic musicians, the Mac is not only managing his professional life, it is an integral part of his music-making. “Aside from all the business things I do with the Mac, I’m always using it for my music,” Rosenthal said. Those in more conventional careers will likely find some of the hardware and software tools of today’s computer-equipped musician unfamiliar. Traditional musical instruments have been largely replaced by synthesizers, which create new sounds from scratch; digital samplers, which can record everyday sounds and play them back from a keyboard; and drum machines, which are laptop-size full-percus- sion sections. Their sounds can be uncannily lifelike, but these instruments are computers in their own right. Relying on microprocessors to create and control its sound, a synthesizer can be a sweet string ensemble at one moment, a distorted electric guitar the next and then a completely new instrument. Connectivity came to the music industry in 1983, when instrument manufacturers agreed on a simple serial communications protocol called the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, better known as MIDI. In the simplest use of MIDI, one instrument tells another which notes or drum beats to play and what expressive nuances of volume and vibrato each note should have. But in more sophisticated applications, a musician can control an entire electronic orchestra from a single keyboard (or computer), choosing the sounds each instrument makes, adding special effects and keeping complex rhythmic patterns in perfect timing. MIDI is the platform from which the widespread computerization of music has been launched, Once equipped with a MIDI inter- face, an external device that converts the modem or printer socket to a five-pin MIDI port, the Macintosh can send and receive MIDI data just as if it was a synthesizer, given the proper software. Sequencers are to serious music software what spreadsheets are to general business com- puting. They allow the musician to record, store and replay a performance much as a tape recorder would but with a key difference: The recording, or “sequence,” is digital MIDI data rather than the music itself. In the form of this data, the pitch and timing of each note can be independently and precisely altered, a feat that is impossible with a tape recording. Each time the sequence is played back, the computer functions like an electronic player piano mechanism, actually playing the instru- ments again via MIDI. This means that the musician can play the piece with different sounds or even different instruments until the arrangement is right, without ever having to rerecord the sequence. Other staples of the electronic musician’s software arsenal are voice editors and librari- ans, used to create, alter and file collections of synthesizer and digital sampler sounds. To shape new sounds on most synthesizers, tens of parameters must be adjusted with a handful of buttons and knobs and a tiny display. But with the Mac and a full-screen voice editing pro- gram, the process is much simpler. Once the sounds are created, the librarian software lets the musician group, for example, imitation woodwinds or Latin instruments and then store them on a disk for ready access. Although some musicians use prerecorded sequences during live performances, most assign the Mac to the more modest role of sound librarian while on the road. Chick Corea, a major figure in contemporary jazz, tours with a Mac that is used to load new sounds into his Kurzweil keyboard during concerts, according to his keyboard technician, Mick Thompson. It’s in the recording studio, however, where the Mac sees its heaviest musical use. Rosen- thal often records with the MidiMac sequencer from OpCode Systems of Palo Alto, Calif, and relies heavily on OpCode voice editing and librarian software in the studio. Another OpCode user, Brian Bell, a recording engineer and consulting technician, routinely employs the Macintosh in sessions with artists like Neil Young and Carlos Santana. And the Macintosh figured prominently in the production of Corea’s latest album, “Light Years,” at press time in sixth place on the jazz charts. The Macintosh gets perhaps its most demanding recording studio workout in the production of motion picture and video sound- tracks for feature films and television commer- cials. Often working under last-minute dead- lines, the composer has to create music and special effects that perfectly reinforce the mood of the visual images they will accompa- ny. He also is responsible for precisely syn- chronizing the sounds with the events on the screen. With professional sequencing pro- grams and a newer genre of software specifi- cally intended for synchronizing the audio and visual media, the Mac is taking on a piv- otal role for many film and video composers. Working in his home studio in Glendale, in the Los Angeles area, Alan Howarth used syn- DEBRA SCHULKE thesizers to create the sound effects for a host of popular films, including “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and the four “Star Trek” pictures, and the musical scores for John Carpenter films from “Escape from New York” to “Big Trouble in Little China.” Of late, the Mac has become an integral part of his recording technique. “J start with video tapes of pieces of the film. When I’m ready to record, I synchronize my 24 track [tape deck] with the video, start Performer (a sequencer program from Mark of the Unicom in Cambridge, Mass.) and record simultaneously into the 24 track and into Per- former,” Howarth said. “Tf the first take is right, it’s right, and Per- former is just a backup,” he said. “But if there’s something that I’m not satisfied with, I can modify it in Performer until it’s perfect. At that point we roll the same portion of the movie and record onto tape again, only this time the computer is playing the music.” Howarth is also using a prerelease copy of Cue Sheet, software for music/video synchro- nizing from Digidesign of Menlo Park, Calif. “If I’m making a gunshot sound, all [have to do is go to the frame where you can see the first little spark coming out of the barrel,” he said. “When we record the sound track, the software automatically fires the gun perfectly — bam!” If the performing musician needs a large sound collection, the specialist in sound effects needs a truly huge library. Frank Serafine, another Los Angeles “sound designer” and composer with major films and commercials to his credit, catalogs more than 15,000 sound effects with Microsoft Works. “I might have 20 different dog barks recorded in different places in my library,” said Serafine, “but all I have to do is type in the word ‘dog’ and Works will list all of them. The amount of time I save is amazing.” Like other Macintosh musicians, Serafine often composes with sequencers such as Midi- Paint from Southworth Music Systems of Har- vard, Mass., but he has also integrated the Mac into the recording process itself. Using MegaMix, a hardware/software package from Intelligent Musical Devices in McCormick, N.Y., Serafine can automate the control of the studio mixing boards that funnel the music to the recording tape. Musicians may have plenty of strictly musi- cal tasks for their Macs, but Rosenthal isn’t alone in demanding business duty from the machine as well. Keyboard technician Thomp- son uses MacDraft to plan the way an 11,500- pound keyboard arsenal will be set up on stage. “The band equipment we have takes up a lot of room,” said Thompson. “If someone wants to book us, we get the hall’s stage dimensions and use MacDraft to see if we can squeeze everything onto the stage. We keep files of the venues that we play so we'll know how to set things up the next time.” In addition to his recording studio activities, Brian Bell is a systems integrator for the music industry. He said his Portland, Ore.-based com- pany, Synthbank, provides clients with a Mac package that “handles spreadsheet projections of tour financials and recording budgets, work orders in the studio, distribution of royalties, everything related to the music business.” Bell said sales to major names in the industry have been strong, and the company will soon be expanding to six offices nationwide. Music is both an art form and a multibillion dollar industry. There are contradictions in that combination, but many professional musicians are finding that the Macintosh is equally valu- able for its contributions to the bass line as well as the bottom line. i SNAPSHOTS First accelerator board for portable Dynamac ORMOND BEACH, Fla. — The first accelerator board for the portable Dynamac will be shipped this month by Novy Systems Inc. Based on a Motorola 68020 microprocessor, the 16-MHz add-on board was unveiled at Mac Expo by Dynamac of Golden, Colo. The accelerator board comes with the choice of no memory, | Mbyte or 4 Mbytes of memory, said Richard Smith, Novy product manager. The 68020 chip and zero memory model has a sug- gested list price of $1,095. A complete system that includes a 68881 math coprocessor and 1 Mbyte of memory sells for $2,895. With 4 Mbytes of memory, the price rises to $2,895, he said, Apple has a value-added reseller agreement with Dynamac, selling the company the entire logic board, keyboard, mouse and internal floppy drive. Novy Systems Inc. is located at 69 Ravenwood Court, Ormond Beach, Fla. 32074; (904) 427- 2358. MicroMaps offers Mac users the world LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. — Macintosh users now have the work of a professional cartographer available in software form through the use of MacAtlas from MicroMaps. Priced at $199, MacAtlas includes clip art of more than 60 maps, including maps of all 50 states by county, the United States by state and the continents by country, including major cities. ‘The maps are designed in PICT format so that they can be imported into any program that accepts PICT documents, such as PageMaker, MacDraw, Cricket Draw, MacDraft and Ready,Set,Go! Since the maps are not copy-pro- tected, they can then be resized and otherwise modified. MicroMaps is at P.O. Box 757, Lambertville, N.J. 08530; (609) 397-1611. TSI accelerator card features a variety of options EUGENE, Ore. — Total Systems Integration has introduced a 68020-based accelerator card with a variety of options, including memory upgrades, a math chip and different clock speeds. With the TSI-020 family of coprocessor cards, a Mac 512KE or 512K with a 128-Kbyte ROM upgrade can function at Mac II speeds with the Motorola 68020 chip, said Robert Bauer, TSI tech- nical services coordinator. ‘TSI-020 includes 12- and 16-MHz versions of the CPU, with 20- and 24-MHz processors available in the future. The Mac II operates at 12 MHz; typical Mac 512K and Plus configurations are close to 8 MHz. A 12-MHz model of TSI-020 without memory costs $595. TSI offers up to 4 Mbytes of mem- ory. The clip-on connector to the 68000 chip takes less than 15 minutes to install ifthe user reads the directions properly, Bauer said. “The board is upgradable in the field, using just a chip puller.” TSI-bundled software includes patches for MacWrite, digitized sound, AppleTalk and Apple’s serial HD-20 hard disk all on one floppy. The same disk includes automatic diagnostics, which automatically tests the chips for response and tells the user if there is a problem. TSI offers patch- es for Microsoft and MDS’ Fortran and Basic compilers, which allow access to the math chip. The user need only click the program switch to select either 68000 or 68020 modes, giving users the option of operating Mac II-compatible software. Total Systems Integration can be reached at P.O. Box 1607, Eugene, Ore. 97440; (503) 345- 7395. AEC upgrades Information Manager BOSTON — AEC Management Systems Inc. announced an upgrade to its AEC Information Man- ager, a project-oriented database product, here at the recent Mac Expo. AEC Information Manager is a program designed for project managers that reportedly com- bines project scheduling tasks with database and spreadsheet functions. The product can cus- tomize reports and make multiple time, date and statistical calculations. It has an alarm system that can be set up to ring at certain times during a project’s duration and has a number of special- ized fields and data-entry aids. The program, priced at $495, is intended to be used to complement project-management soft- ware, such as Claris’ MacProject and Micro Planning Software's MicroPlanner, said Dennis Bilowus, AEC vice president of marketing. Version 1.2 of the AEC Information Manager is scheduled to ship this month. Current users will be able to get the upgrade free, a company spokesman said. AEC Management Systems Inc. is located at 20524 Amethyst Lane, Germantown, Md. 20874; (301) 428-3694. ‘COURTESY MICROMAPS MacWEEK NEWS Sept.-1, 1987 Storage devices square off BY RIC FORD. MacWEEK Staff BOSTON — SCSI hard disks, both internal and external, were the favored method of mass storage at the recent Mac Expo, although opti- cal storage devices played a strong cameo role. Meanwhile, tape storage was still in a state of flux as third-party vendors struggle with development and try to get the specifications Apple will use for its long-overdue tape drive. Micro Dynamics Ltd. of Silver Spring, Md., showed an impressive optical storage and retrieval system called MARS (Multi-user Archival and Retrieval System). MARS is a $15,000 software product that supports a vari- ety of WORM (write once, read many times) drives and scanners. The software integrates these devices with Macintoshes and hard disks on an AppleTalk network, producing a modu- lar system of storage and retrieval “servers.” MARS replaces microfiche for many appli- cations and offers quick access to gigabytes of stored documents through an indexing scheme. A security module can be added for $3,000. At the opposite end of the price scale, Per- sonal Computer Peripherals Corp. of Tampa, Fla., announced the HD-20 WSI. WSI is an upgrade for serial-port Apple HD-20 owners who want to convert to SCSI disks for better performance or Macintosh II compatibility. The upgrade costs $295 and comes with a one- year warranty. It’s bundled with a comprehen- sive set of utility programs, including HFS Backup, Eureka (a file finder), and ImageWrit- er and Laser Writer print spoolers. Jasmine Technologies Inc. of San Francisco showed an extensive set of hard disks, includ- ing its MegaDrive 10-Mbyte cartridge drive. A custom-built SCSI unit nicknamed “Mac Rushmore” can be configured with up to 1,200-Mbytes of hard-disk storage or up to 600 Micro Dynamics Ltd. showed its impressive optical storage and retrieval system, called MARS, at Mac Expo. Mbytes of hard-disk storage plus a 240-Mbyte streaming tape unit. The company also is developing a 2,048-Mbyte tape backup device that uses 8mm videotape cartridges. If released, it will be in the $4,000 range. Peripheral Land of Fremont, Calif., also introduced a 10-Mbyte cartridge drive, listed at $1,095, named the Infinity I. Another unit, named Infinity, is a 10-Mbyte floppy-cisk drive that can read 360-Kbyte and 1.2-Mbyte MS-DOS floppy disks, the company said. FWB Software Inc. of San Francisco intro- duced the new Hammer line of hard disks at the Boston show. Hammer drives are available in a 91-Mbyte internal configuration for the Macintosh II and in 155- and 300-Mbyte exter- nal configurations. FWB claims double the average life span for the drives, along with significantly better performance than any other disks on the mar- ket. Flexible backup software from NuData is bundled with the drives, and FWB said unique hard-partitioning abilities will enable A/UX and MS/DOS data to coexist with Macintosh data on the disk under future Macintosh IT operating systems. FWB also has a monster 600-Mbyte hard disk in the wings, using two of the same new CDC drives Jasmine had. However, different software drivers should provide better perfor- mance, according to the company. Two more vendors, Racet of Brea, Calif, and CMS of Tustin, Calif., showed SCSI hard- disk drives that incorporate caching for higher performance. After a long absence caused by financial problems, Micah hard disks were back, sold and supported by a new company, Micah Stor- age Systems, based in Newark, Del. ‘The company’s line includes internal drives for Macintoshes and external SCSI drives. i id ithe srl ‘COURTESY MICRO DYNAMICS FOR THE RECORD Steve Rosenthal wrote in his last column Aug. 11, that HyperCard “can’t make use of Apple’s new Juggler multitasking environment.” This statement has been erroneously interpreted by some as meaning that HyperCard will not run in the MultiFinder environment. MacWEEK regrets any confusion caused by this statement. Rosenthal will expand on this topic in next week’s column. In the July 6 article, “Mac CAD products build a following at A/E/C show,” Erez Anzel Software’s construction-specific packages were mistakenly identified as Chius Software’s. Also, it was incorrectly reported that Apple exhibited construction-specific soft- ware of its own. MacWEEK 1} 0 Sept. 1; 1987 BUSINESS WATCH Big-screen monitors becoming cheaper? BY CLIFF LEHMAN MacWEEK Staff The big-buck, big-screen Mac monitor market may be headed for price reductions, according to some in the industry. “Inevitably there’s going to be price com- petition because of the number of vendors moving into the Mac monitor market,” said Julie Desrosiers, a computer market analyst with CAP International in Marshfield, Mass. “We are beginning to see prices come down and will probably continue to see that trend.” MegaGraphics (formerly MicroGraphics) of Canoga Park, Calif., recently reduced prices on its MegaScreen series of monitors for the Mac- intosh by $200 per unit. “We lowered our Prices because of competition and because we sold lots and lots of screens,” said Diane Scott, MegaGraphics’ vice president of communica- tions. “But the entire market is becoming more competitive, so prices will drop.” MegaGraphics’ MegaScreen prices range from $1,995 for the 19.5-inch MegaScreen 2001 for the Mac II to $1,795 for a series of MegaScreen SE configurations for the SE. One new player in the market, 4SITE of Santa Cruz, Calif., is now shipping a color monitor for the Macintosh priced less than $1,000. 4SITE introduced the Machroma Color Monitor/Model C2 at last month’s Mac Expo. ‘The 640-by-480-pixel monitor by itself is priced at $895. With the board and cable to adapt it to the Mac SE, the system costs $1,400, according to Howard Pearlmutter of 4SITE. New Image Technology Inc. of Seabrook, Md., will ship its new one-page, 15-inch moni- tor for $999 beginning in October, according to Joe Castricone, vice president. ProAPP of Muirlands, Calif,, is now ship- ping a 512-by-342-pixel monitor for the Mac Plus and SE called the EyeSaver. At $395 retail, the 14-inch EyeSaver is the lowest priced monitor in the Macintosh market. More PostScript fonts slated HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — Linotype Co. and Adobe Systems Inc. joined forces recently to beef up the size and variety of PostScript type- faces offered by the two companies. Under the terms of the licensing agreement, Linotype will immediately begin developing, manufacturing and distributing PostScript ver- sions of its Mergenthaler Type Library of more than 1,700 typefaces, according to Frank Canonica of Linotype. He said there will be more than 145 type- faces available for release by Sept. 30. The companies plan to add new typefaces at a rate of one per day when production gets up to speed, he said. ‘The companies will share the PostScript fonts but market the library separately to dif- ferent markets, he said. Adobe will market in the desktop-publishing arena and Linotype in the high-resolution professional arena. i Evangelists will continue to spread Apple gospel BY JIRI WEISS MacWEEK Staff CUPERTINO, Calif. — Jim and Tammy Bakker have given evangelism a bad name. So when John Sculley, Apple’s president and CEO, said that as part of strengthening its third-party developer ties, Apple is expanding its evangelism group into Developer Services, is that a signal that one of Apple’s prominent vestiges of the old counterculture is on the wane? Not so, said Randy Battat, who heads the newly renamed unit. He said Developer Ser- vices is just the new name for Software Prod- uct Management, a division that was restruc- tured following the breakoff of Claris, the Apple software company spinoff. Evangelism is one of the four groups under its wing, Battat said. Before the renaming, Developer Services was the name of a group under Software Product Management. Now that group is called Developer Programs. Apple nomenclature is confusing some. “Over the last few years, Apple has changed names of parts of its organization so many times you need a HyperCard stack to keep track,” said Steve Nelson, director of market- ing at Kinetics Inc. of Walnut Creek, Calif. In a recent briefing to developers, given at Apple’s Communications and Networking Conference in Boston, Sculley said Apple’s commitment to third-party developers is being expanded in personnel and funding. There will be “more people, more projects in 1988 than ever in the history of the company,” he said. LAURA SIKES Randy Battat, head of Apple's Developer Services. Evangelism, it seems, is slated to grow as well. “There will be a lot more people with the title ‘evangelist’ on their business cards,” Bat- tat said. Battat declined to say how many evange- lists there are or how many are being added, but Apple’s May 1 organizational chart lists 15. Recently the company added two more: an evangelist for desktop presentations and one for HyperCard stackware. But there are important differences. Many of the original evangelists — Michael D. Boich, the first evangelist; Guy Kawasaki; Alain Rossman; and Kathy Schlein — were strong personalities preaching the Mac gospel to the unconverted masses. They have since left Apple. Schlein, who said she had no com- puter experience when she got the job right out of college, said evangelism today lacks the kind of camaraderie created by a small close- knit group that did everything from stuffing envelopes to running trade shows. “It’s lost it because Apple has grown. It can’t help now but cater to people who move the most Macin- toshes. ... The bigger the company the harder it is to keep the close ties,” she said, ‘The word evangelism was first used for the software crusade in 1982 by former Apple Marketing Manager Mike Murray, now presi- dent of Dataline of Wilton, Conn. Now evangelists are becoming more admin- istration-oriented and specialized, said Heidi Roizen, president of T/Maker Co., a Mountain View, Calif., software-publishing firm. “In the early days, evangelists were helping companies to get enthusiastic; now they are channeling them into a particular area,” said Roizen, who knows all the original evangelists personally. ‘The strategy seems to be paying off. “The staff has grown tremendously in both quantity and quality,” said Gary Lord, director of soft- ware development at Blyth Software of San Mateo, Calif. “They now have a lot more expertise in the vertical market area.” Sculley’s promise to expand third-party developer services and make Apple another “center of gravity” in the world of personal computers is not just lip service, said Jan Lewis, an industry analyst based in Sunnyvale, Calif. “Since {former Apple Chairman Steve] Jobs left, there has been a major shift. ... In the past the machine was closed and so were their minds,” Lewis said. Hard-disk drive market hits summer doldrums BY CLAIR WHITMER MacWEEK Staff After a wave of major product introductions and a summer of heated competition, two man- ufacturers of hard-disk drives are struggling against a financial lull. Priam Corp. of San Jose, Calif., a third- party supplier in the IBM world that recently entered the Macintosh market, suffered a loss of $2.8 million, or 12 cents per share, on rev- enues of $35.1 million for its fourth quarter, which ended in June. In last year’s fourth quar- ter, Priam suffered a loss of $4.5 million, or 19 cents per share. Analysts expect a less substan- tial loss for the quarter ending in September. In addition, Priam laid off 143 employees in August, a result of moving the manufactur- ing of the company’s 50- and 80-Mbyte 5.25- inch drives to Taiwan. An unspecified number of additional layoffs are expected before the move is completed by the end of this year, according to Nate Kawaye, Priam’s vice presi- dent and chief financial officer. Rodime Systems, headquartered in Glen- rothes, Scotland, is best known in the Macin- tosh world as the original supplier of the 3.5- inch SE drives to Apple. Rodime reported a loss of $17.2 million, or $2.18 per share, for the third quarter ending June 30, compared with a loss of $442,000, or 5.6 cents per share, in last year’s third quarter. Revenues, however, rose 21 percent to $29.9 million from last year’s $24.8 million. Tim Mahoney, Rodime’s vice president and general manager, attributed the company’s troubles to the opening of a new factory in Singapore, the introduction of three disk-drive engines and a “tremendous amount of money” being spent on repositioning the company. But the most significant factor, said Mahoney, was this year’s gradual strengthen- ing of the pound against the dollar, since Rodime is a British company that does most of its business in the United States. Overall sales have increased 18 percent over last year, he said. The problems of these two companies are partially symptomatic of a difficult transition period for the industry as a whole, said analyst David Claridge of Hambrecht & Quist in San Francisco. Such an adjustment phase is to be expected in any year that sees major product announcements, such as the IBM PS/2 and the Macintosh SE and Il, he said. Hard-disk drive industry stock prices began dropping about eight weeks ago with an overall decline of 35 percent to 40 percent. The big sell-offs were motivated by a general insecurity about the industry as a whole, according to Claridge. The industry average has since recovered 10 percent to 15 percent. However, Hambrecht & Quist analysts are predicting that 1988 will be a big year, based on the assumption that the products introduced this year will start shipping in volume next year. According to Claridge, Priam’s problems have been exacerbated by an inability to design products and get them to market in time to be a viable competitor. Also, the company waited too long to move production offshore, a step most hard-disk drive manufacturers took two to three years ago, said Claridge. Nevertheless, he said Priam has “a reasonable chance” to exe- cute a tumaround. Priam’s Kawaye said the company has two main thrusts to that turnaround strategy: a more competitive cost structure and several upcom- ing product offerings. Meanwhile, Rodime has taken a combative stance toward its competitors. In March, the company filed patent infringement suits against MiniScribe Corp. and Conner Peripherals Inc. and a countersuit against IBM after Big Blue charged that Rodime’s patent on 3.5-inch Winchester drives was invalid. Rodime said it alone has the patent rights to manufacture those drives, which it claims to have intro- duced in 1983. Although he would not make a prediction about the results of Rodime’s next quarter, Mahoney said it was a calculated decision to lump all the bad news into one quarter. COMMUNICATING They call me the wanderer, yeah, the wanderer. I wander around and around and around air- ports, hotels and courtesy bus stops. Somehow, I don’t think earlier generations had it quite as rough as we do. I don’t remem- ber my parents attending business meetings in 12 cities in 10 days. But then, they didn’t live in the '80s. Lucky them. Things could be worse, of course. At least now we have personal computers and on-line information services to help us coordinate our hectic travel plans. These miracles of tech- nology may not vanquish jet lag, but they do allow us more time to sleep. Today, whenever I travel, a Macintosh is my co-pilot. I use my Mac to arrange flights, book hotel rooms, find restaurants and check on local customs and regulations (both foreign and domestic). The most useful on-line travel resource is the Official Airline Guide Electronic Edition. Available on CompuServe, The Source, Dow Jones News/Retrieval Service and Dialog, the service provides current flight schedules and fares for more than 750 airlines worldwide. Although outrageously priced (a surcharge of $32 per hour in prime time, $21 per hour in non-prime time over CompuServe’s usual rates), OAG EE is convenient and can save its users money in the long run. For instance, by ‘comparing air fares among carriers, it’s possi- ble to pocket up to several hundred dollars in just a few minutes. OAG EE also is useful for confirming prices quoted by airline representa- tives, travel agents and travel consultants, Competing with OAG EE on CompuServe is TWA’s Travelshopper service, which offers users access to the airline’s PARS reservation system. Travelshopper’s primary advantage over OAG EE is that users can book flights on- line. Tickets can then be picked up at a nearby travel agency or airport. However, Travelshop- per’s database is not quite as comprehensive as DEPARTING FLIGHTS OAG’s, so it’s possible to miss out on a conve- nient flight or bargain. On the other hand, Travelshopper doesn’t impose a surcharge, so it’s much cheaper to use. On GEnie, as well as CompuServe, Ameri- can Airlines offers EAASY SABRE. This sys- tem carries more than 650 airlines and allows users to book flights, establish a travel itinerary and even consult a weather forecast for their destination city. Like Travelshopper, EAASY SABRE carries no surcharge. The Source, in addition to OAG, provides First World Travel Club. Although this service doesn’t feature a user-searchable database, club representatives will make hotel and travel reservations for members and confirm their bookings via SourceMail. Tickets are either mailed to members or made available for pick- up at a nearby airport. On-line services also boast several hotel/motel databases. OAG offers detailed lodging information for virtually any destina- tion in North America, Europe or the Pacific. EAASY SABRE lets you access information or make reservations for more than 13,000 hotels and 25 car-rental companies. The ABC Worldwide Hotel Guide on CompuServe (A to Z Hotel Directory on The Source) provides a database of more than 30,000 lodging establishments that users can search by city, hotel name, rates and other cri- teria. The Source also features The Mobil Hotel Guide, another user-searchable lodging database. American Express Advance, on the Dow Jones News/Retrieval Service and Compu-Serve, markets hotel/motel accommo- dations, travel packages and other offerings. Travel information is another expanding on-line resource. For instance, on Compu- Serve’s Travel Forum, nomads can swap sad tales and exchange travel tips. An extensive data library includes material on U.S. and international destinations. On NewsNet, The Business Traveler's Newsletter includes up-to- date information on travel companies, rates, bonus programs and other subjects. Its publish- er promises the newsletter will “help business travelers smooth out their domestic trips.” And “smoothness” is what all of us all look forward to in our journeys. But despite a dili- gent on-line search, I have yet to uncover a ser- vice that will tell a user why an airline decided to send his socks to a destination 3,000 miles away from his feet. MacWEEK 114 Sept. 1, 1987 Q) PINION LOUIS DUNN To Tre Eprror Practice what you preach Your most recent article about the Apple Business Forums was correct regarding the excellent attendance. Even in Denver's slow economy, I would estimate 1,300 people attended. Yes, the wait to register initially, the wait to register for the hands-on sessions and the wait to register to win the Mac II was incredible. Why? Because Apple doesn’t use its own technology! It was absurd to have all these people using pens and pencils to fill out three forms, creating an extreme amount of duplication. No database, no network. Quite a few remarks were overheard from people concerning the lack of organization in the registration area — specifically there was not one Mac to be seen. Apple is telling these major companies to implement the Mac for increased productivity, while they neglect to use it them- selves. Michael D. White, owner Softek, Denver Getting the green out In Bill Steinberg’s “Tips for using Sony, NEC monitors with the Macintosh II,” (July 27) the pin configuration given for the NEC is not totally accurate. I currently have an NEC connected to my Mac II and initially it was connected as he describes in his article. However, I was very disap- pointed by the overall green hue of the picture as well as a general lack of sharpness. Upon contacting NEC technical support staff, they said that more pins needed to be connected, specifically the separate sync pulse must be hooked up to prevent the overall green cast. There is no solution for the lack of sharpness. The only thing you can do is wait for Apple’s own monitor (which is what I recommend). I know that Apple Link’s information regarding the connection is the same as your article. The more complete connection is as follows: NEC) 1 2, 3 4 5 6 a 8 9 MacIl 2 5) 9 3 not 1,4 6,11 13 14 connected Regarding your “Window on Databases” (August 3), I must take issue with your use of John David’s comments about Double Helix II. Having created and maintained a multi-user Helix sys- tem for 18 months, I have never found it to be “very slow.” It is only moderately slow when all 10 users are trying to retrieve information simultaneously from the host. Thave heard of two kinds of speed-related problems with Helix: + Having an index in an entry form and then trying to do a quick query on another field that is not the primary field of that index. Solution: Use indices only on reports. * Subtotaling was definitely slow if you were doing calculations in large volumes of data. In Double Helix II, calculated data can now be ported as the record data is entered. The posted calcu- lation is available immediately. Gary L. Ziebold, vice president of production Video Pool Inc., Chicago Faster printers needed While mentioning lower cost, higher resolution and color printing among the “rising expectations” for laser printers (Aug. 11), you neglected the need for higher speed PostScript laser printers to facilitate true “electronic printing.” PrintRight/LazerQuick operates more than 30 quick printing centers. In addition to using tradi- tional quick printing/copying equipment, we equip our centers with Macintoshes, Apple Laser- Writer Pluses and modems so we can provide a variety of desktop-publishing services for our clientele. Customers transfer “electronic copy” to us in a variety of ways. Regardless of how the data gets to us, customers generally use the LaserWriter to produce master pages for duplication by high-speed copier or offset press. This extra step creates a production bottleneck and dilutes the quality of the final product. Discussions of quality focus on higher resolution, but electronic print- ing offers another path to quality. When every copy of a document is an “original,” you have improved your publication quality without increasing the dots per inch. Electronic printing will be the next major revolution in the quick printing industry, but it awaits the introduction of PostScript laser printers fast enough to run multiple copies, of docu- ments in a commercial environment. Stephan Kahn, director of LazerQuick development Graphic Information Systems Inc., Wilsonville, Ore. Send letters to MacWEEK, 525 Brannan St., San Francisco, Calif., 94107; or MCI MacWEEK. Please include your name, title, company, address and telephone number. Hardware and software for the business Mac. SOFTWARE NCP denotes not copy-protected. CP denotes copy-protected. Aegis Development ... 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Originally designed as a tool to help writ- ers, speakers and others organize their thoughts and ideas, outliner programs have become widely used for a myriad of other purposes. But it was not until the appearance of Think- Tank, MORE, and Desk Accessory outliners such as Acta, Voila! and Outlook for the Mac- intosh that the additional utility of outliners became evident. What is an outliner? Basically, an outlining program allows the user to create headlines or topics and to place subheads below those head- lines. To view the structure from a certain level, headlines and text in those headlines can be “collapsed” to hide them from view. A headline can be “promoted” (moved to a higher level), or “demoted” (moved to a lower level, to become subordinate to another headline) as the structure of the document changes. All items below a specific headline are moved when the headline is moved. In addition to one-line topics or headlines, most outliners allow the user to create paragraphs, which also can be collapsed or expanded. The implications for the writer are clear. Given its larger size, a book can be outlined almost as easily as a speech or an article. Any document can be restructured easily as new ideas are added or existing ones change in importance. The structure of a document can be edited as easily as its component words or phrases. According to Scott Schwartz, president of Symmetry Software of Mesa, Ariz., publisher of the Desk Accessory outliner Acta, a “user” trend is to use outliners for many other purpos- es beyond outlining, such as organizing data. At the Berkeley (Calif.) Macintosh Users Group meetings, BMUG official Raines Cohen quickly and easily keeps the minutes of the meeting. With a Macintosh hooked to a large- screen projector, all in attendance can watch as he uses Acta to enter the topics and content of the meetings. As the discussion proceeds, Cohen deftly expands, collapses and adds to the minutes. The discussion moves from topic to topic, sometimes returning to the same one several times during the course of the meeting. When a new topic comes up, he adds a new “daughter” or subhead to include it. Using a standard template, the minutes of all BMUG meetings have the same structure — insofar as the minutes of such an unstructured affair as a BMUG meeting can have a structure. “Only with an outlining tool could taking the minutes of the meeting be so quick and easy,” said one BMUG regular. For some, outliners are almost the only pro- grams they use, and they use them for a wide variety of purposes. The owner of a wood products manufacturing company in Sacramen- to, Calif., uses MORE in a variety of ways. “Tt’s virtually the only program I use,” he said. He uses it to detail the itineraries for his many sales trips to the Northeast — making a headline for each day of the trip. Under that LAX JANSEN headline, he has others that show where he will be staying and how he will be traveling. He also includes notes for the meetings he will be having. “It’s easy to take those meeting notes and tum them into an agenda that I can hand out at the meeting,” he said. He also has used MORE to create a slide show that, thanks to that program’s bullet chart and animation options, he can leave running on a Macintosh in his company’s booth at trade shows. “It catches the attention of people walking through the trade show — computers aren’t very widespread in my business — and keeps them busy while I am talking to others. They don’t get bored looking at the presentation, and if I have to be talking to someone else, they don’t walk out of the booth before I or one of my sales people can get to them,” he said. What else would he like from an outline processor? “Real word processing. It would be nice to have true word processing with more control over such things as page formatting, but we can work around it. My secretary uses an IBM PC, but we’re hooked together over a network. Since MORE can save its files in the format of Ready (an outline processor for the PC, also from Living Videotext), I just save notes for my letters in that format. We’ve hooked the two machines up with TOPS, so I can just save it to her hard disk, and she can then easily tum the outline into a letter or memo.” The word processing connection Complete integration of word-processing and outlining features is still on the horizon. Many users want it. Currently, turning an outline into “Shareware programs have extended the utility of outliners too, sometimes taking them where no program has gone before.” a document requires much cutting and pasting. And you lose the ability to go back and forth, from outline view to word-processing view. It sometimes makes writing from an outline a dif- ficult process. Many of the newer word-processing pro- grams — such as Word 3.0 from Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., and MindWrite from MindWork Software of Carmel, Calif. — support integrated outlining with varying degrees of success. The outlining in Word is a limited implementation: Headlines or topics can only be moved up or down one level at a time. “Microsoft just doesn’t understand outlin- ing,” said one commentator on word process- ing. “The implementation of outlining in Word is just too limited to be of much help. “MindWrite was originally marketed as a word processor with powerful outlining,” he said. “It didn’t go far, and now the publisher is retargeting it as a high-end outliner. But it has the opposite problem from Word. In its original release, anyway, it lacked a lot of word-pro- cessing features. And since MindWrite’s ability to save in formats understood by other programs — such as those for desktop publish- ing — was limited, it hasn’t made much of a dent in the word-processing market. Perhaps they'll succeed calling the program a great outliner.” In its double-page ads for FullWrite Profes- sional, Ann Arbor Softworks of Newbury Park, Calif., has been promising integrated word pro- cessing and outlining, According to Mark Mar- low, executive vice president of Ann Arbor Softworks, outlining is well-integrated into word processing in FullWrite. “Essentially, our goal in designing the outlining in FullWrite was to create a very user-transparent method integrating outlining with word processing, so that the user can toggle back and forth between the two views instantly. Outlining is an integral part of the word processing and is always there,” Marlow said. FullWrite also will offer styles for printing outlines, including automatic numbering and indenting. According to Marlow, FullWrite will include several base styles of outline num- bering, including the Harvard and Chicago styles, in addition to standard legal and numer- ic styles. Custom styles allow the user to create his own numbering and formatting styles for the outlining. At the time of this writing, FullWrite Pro- fessional was not yet available, so it remains to be seen how users will take to the new word processing kid on the block and its integrated outlining. Information publishing Another trend in outlining products is using outline structures for information publishing. With the release of MORE 1.1, Living Video- text included The National Directory, a product of General Information in Seattle. The National Directory is a set of files listing addresses and telephone numbers of businesses, colleges and government orga- nizations nationwide. Different types of organizations are broken into separate files: travel companies, for example, or colleges and universities. Open one of these files, and you see an alphabetical list of the organi- zations. Double-click on one of the organi- zations, and MORE presents you with the organization’s mailing address and phone number. If you have the right hardware con- nected to your computer, such as a modem, you can select the phone number and have MORE dial it for you. Symmetry’s Schwartz said his company has considered bundling a useful directory with Acta, Aimed at the college student market, it would include a nationwide listing of the addresses and phone numbers of all the Domi- no’s Pizza parlors nationwide. “Macintosh outliners can usually store graphics as well as text, so creating a presentation ot report can be quite easy. Detailing all the uses of outlining products could take a book — or a disk full of tem- plates. Outliners are used to store such things as appointment books (by creating headlines for weeks or months, with more detailed infor- mation undemeath them) and name and address files (by starting with the names in alphabetical order, and as the list grows, group- ing them by letter of the alphabet or groups of letters). Since most outlining programs can sort topics under a headline, managing ‘data such as this is fairly easy. “There’s a user trend with these programs,” said Schwartz, of using outliners for such a wide variety of things. Since outliners can usu- ally do a wide range of formatting — such as bulleted or numbered paragraphs — generating Teports or lists can be easier with outliners than with databases or word processors. And, of course, Macintosh outliners can usually store graphics as well as text, so creating a presenta- tion or a report can be quite easy. For many, the outliner can replace the database. Instead of keeping, say, names and addresses in a database, outliners — especially those that are available as Desk Accessories — can be handier, providing many traditional database functions. These include sorting and keeping track of the last time a prospect was contacted. For those whose Apple menus are pushing the 15-Desk Accessory limit, a Desk Accesso- ty outliner such as Acta, Voila! or Outlook can ease the burden. Apple’s Scrapbook is painful- ly slow, and there is no practical way to move from one item to the next without stopping to look at every other item along the way. Instead of the Scrapbook, many users paste pictures, often-used text and the like into an outliner. Most outliners are much faster than the Scrap- book and offer the added benefit of giving you a table of contents — if you place a descriptive headline at the level above the graphic or text item. Other Desk Accessory-type applications that can be performed by an outliner include calendars, “to do” lists, note takers and more. They also are good to use as places to put notes for spreadsheets or databases. Public domain or shareware programs have extended the utility of outliners too, some- times taking them where no other program has gone before. For example, “Dir-Acta-ry” — created by David Dunham, author of Acta — scans a Macintosh disk and creates an Acta outline of the files on the disk, which can include the file name, kind, size and the last date it was modified. The disk directory then becomes an Acta document: folders become outline headlines, and files become items under those headlines. Using a file produced by this program, you can do something that doesn’t seem possible with any other Macintosh program: print a listing of all the contents of a hard disk. It’s easy to scan through the outline to find out in which folders you have put files and perhaps discover some that you’ ve fo