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(emmnenneeee ieebven eiabres arcoiecesx ‘ Ge eR laa tied f i create professional-looking a Graphics without the a ef 5 drafting tools. hoe hd Se: oe Bo Sie a i itd meegonneeee \ Beusceeunee + Seep ee eee The end is near! For homeless printers. Dangling disk drives. Misplaced manuals, And run- ‘away mice, Because on November 19, we will introduce a Macintosh accessory unlike any other, One that will organize you. Conserve precious dlesk space. And protect your valuable investment in hardware and software. While making you wonder how you ever used a Macintosh without it. It’s the perfect Christmas gift for your favorite Mac owner, Which might very well be you! By the way, 8 for last; You can take one home for just $95*! ¢ saved the best news After November 19th, that is. Until then, we're keeping our newest ‘ory under wrips. But if you'd like to reserve a copy of our free brochure, just call. 1-800-547-3000, Dept. 201 (In Oregon or outside USA: Call 1-503-684-3000, Dept. 201) hoy “This is our suggested retail price. 2000 dealers nationwide set th ing price. Macintosh and Mac are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc Tecmar Sweetens Macintosh with Hard Disk Power Mac Drive Tecmar’s Mac Drive gives you a 10 megabyte With Tecmar’s Mac Drive... fixed hard disk or a 5 megabyte removable hard disk. You can add a 5 megabyte e Your Macintosh runs much removable hard disk to either of the above. faster than with the built-in floppy. * Mac Drive will provide up to 38 times more storage than floppies. © You can minimize the use of floppies. e You can access files and save time by loading programs from Mac Drive. ° You can take your removable Mac Drive cartridge with you for added security. TEM ARS Tecmar Sweetens Apples™ ; Tecmar Inc. 6225 Cochran Road Solon (Cleveland), Ohio 44139-3377 Phone:(216)349-0600 Telex: 466692 Circle 14 on reader service card MACWORLD 32 42 September/October 1984 Getting Started The Mac’s Special Keys Daniel Farber A look at the keyboard options that help you perform unusual operations and bypass the mouse for choosing commands. Get Info Lon Poole Macworld's tutor answers questions from readers about the Mac. 50 60 68 76 The Macintosh"Magazine Review The Electronic Drafting Set Danny Goodman A thorough examination of MacDraw, the new program that adapts the Mac's graphics capabilities to structured drawing. Three Faces of the Mac Bill Grout Three new products compete for the right to handle your business information and communications. Macware News Edited by Erfert Nielson Announcements of the latest developments in Macintosh software, hardware, and accessories, What does this Yan- baru Tenaga Kogane have to do with the Mac? Find out in “Macworld View” on page 24. State of the Art The Imagewriter and Beyond. Edited by Daniel Farber and Adrian Mello An interview with Owen Densmore, who helped design the Mac’s first printer and is working on the further evolution of Mac printing. 88 101 106 114 120 131 Hands On Making a Case with Multiplan and Chart Steve Lambert Spreadsheet and charting programs team up to prevent a costly court battle. The Mouse Will Play Mitchell Waite Presenting an action game, created on the Mac in Microsoft BASIC, that you can type in and play yourself. Panda Kong Agonistes Mick Wiggins A legendary monster rises from the MacPaint palette; here’s how to bring him into your world. Open Window Edited by Daniel Farber An exchange of Macintosh discoveries. Community The Wizards Behind the Screen Shay Addams A preview of some of the many games soon to run on the Mac, with comments from their designers and programmers. Macworld Gallery Edited by Erfert Nielson An exhibition of Macintosh graphics. 14 17 24 136 Columns The Key to Great Mac Software David Bunnell Note Pad Michael McGrath Getting Down to Business Letters Macworld View Edited by Janet McCandless News and notes for the Macintosh community. Index Advertisers Index Photo/illustration credits David Bishop, 60-61; Ed Kashi, cover (inset), 34, 42, 76-77, 121-127; George Steinmetz, 9, 14; Fred Stimson, 26, 32-33, 88-89; Mick Wiggins, 24-25, 27, 107. 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The Mac Daisywheel Connection supports MacWrite and Multiplanr and other Macintosh software products, The Mac Daisywheel Connection is as easy to use as your Macintosh mouse. Just point and print! The MAC: DAISYWHEEL* CONNECTION is now available through your local Apple Computer Dealer. List price $99. Or call toll-free; 1-800-MAC-5464 In California, toll-free: 1-800-421-0243 In Canada, direct-dial: 619-243-7993 Other quality products available from Assimilation Process ¢ Ten-Pack of blank 32” diskettes for your Macintosh $55 344" diskette hanging file holder $6.50. mim Assimilation Process... Apple Computer and MacWrte are trademarks of Apple Gy ic. Macintosh i. trademark icensed!to Apple Computer* Multiplan isa trademark of Micro Soft+ Mac Daisy whee! Connection isa trademark of Assimilation Pracess Circle 68 on reader service card Apple’‘new baby has Its called Macintosh’ And it has a lot of our personality Were called Microsoft? And our part of Macintosh is five new programs that are bright, intuitive, outgoing, understanding and Be born to perform. Microsoft BASIC Our pride, your joy. on Apple’s new Macintosh Taking advantage of Macintosh’s mouse and rich graphics, weve designed software that works like you, even thinks like you. All our programs share [aks the same plain English Microsoft Multiplan Microsoft Chart commands. So what once took days to learn, now takes hours or minutes to learn with Macintosh. Meet the family. Our financial whiz is MULTIPLAN’ an electronic spreadsheet that actually remembers how you work. Even offers suggestions on spreadsheet set-up. When it comes to writing, nothing will travel faster than 1 trademarks nf Microsoft Corporation. Apple is a registered trademark and Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc li our best features. our WORD, available this Fall. Using the mouse, it will let you select commands faster than you can say “cheese? Our most artistic child will be CHART: Available late this Summer. It gives you 42 presentation-quality chart and graphic styles to choose from. Later this year, welll offer our most manageable child, FILE, an advanced personal MICRSSSOFT. record management program. The High Performance Software And BASIC, the language spoken by nine out of ten microcomputers world- wide, is the granddaddy : of them all. i J =Now enhanced to take Microsoft Word Microsoft File fy advantage of the Macintosh mouse, windows and graphics. So call 800-426-9400 (in Washington State, Alaska and Hawaii call 206-828-8088) for the name of your nearest Microsoft dealer. Make Your Macintosh the Master of Ceremonies TRIVIA FOR THE MACINTOSH” Entertainment Software from Mirage Concepts Over 5000 TRIVIA questions and answers are packed into this dynamic new application of the worlds most popular parlor game. With TRIVIA by Mirage Concepts, your Macintosh becomes quiz master, score keeper and final authority...the perfect master of ceremonies for your next party. Available Now...at Apple Dealers and Software Stores Nationwide for Just $49.95 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS © Over 5,000 Questions and Answers © 5 Categories — 3 Difficulty Levels For Information © Special “Genius” Section (800) 641-1441 ° Sa Length Game In California, Call; * Use of Macintosh “Mouse” for Ease of Operation (800) 641-1442 * Screen Clock to Time Answers * Store Incomplete Games for Future Play Le i Ne V2 Mirage Concepts, Inc. ‘TM: Macintosh is.a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 70 on reader service card David Bunnell The Key to Great Mac Software A landmark book on software design suggests that you go to the movies The wave of software that will establish the Macintosh as the next personal computer stan- dard is building up on the hori- zon. The element of suspense depends not on when it arrives but on the force and content of this concentrated introduction of application programs. A sig- nificant number of program- mers and software publishers is preparing software for the Mac, but a common complaint is that it is more complicated to write software forthe Mac than for first-generation personal com- puters such as the Apple I, CP/M machines, and IBM stan- dard personal computers. While much of the problem lies in the technical aspects of dealing with the 68000 micro- processor's idiosyncracies, the Macintosh ROM, and the lack of development software (such as aC compiler), the Mac’s new kind of user interface poses a creative problem as well, Its icons, pull-down menus, win- dows, and mouse represent a departure from the way most computers interact with people. When the IBM PC was introduced, much of the CP/M- based software could easily be transported to run on the PC. With the Mac interface, recod- ing existing software is not so straightforward. Obviously, the technical problems are not insignificant, but the real challenge facing software authors is the deeper understanding of the software audience that the Mac demands from programmers. Just as the Mac brings out the artist in people who use it, the com- puter requires people who pro- gram it to be artists first, and technical wizards second. I recently read a book which should become the bible of Macintosh software authors. Disregarding bits and bytes, The Elements of Friendly Soft- ware Design makes many won- derful suggestions about how to transfer the techniques of es- tablished communication arts, such as film and writing, to the new communication art of soft- ware design. The book's author is Paul Heckel, who first be- came famous for developing the handheld Craig Language Translator. It is the first comput- ing book I've ever read non- stop from cover to cover. The main reason I endorse The Elements of Friendly Soft- ware Design so enthusiast cally is that it's one of the few books I've read on any topic that actually delivers what it promises: in this case, the se- crets of writing successful soft- ware. “Writing easy-to-use soft- ware is a communication craft,” Heckel says. “The successful software developer will learn the techniques and thought processes of writers, film- makers, salesmen, teachers, Macworld = 9 David Bunnell journalists, and other profes- sional communicators. He will change from practicing an en- gineering craft to practicing an artistic one. ... The general reader need not be afraid that this book is too technical for him. Indeed, he has a distinct advantage over computer ex- perts. He has less to unlearn.’ In his first chapter, Heckel identifies the problem facing most personal computer soft- ware authors. Although they are experts at communicating with computers, this is an “abil- ity substantially different from communicating with people.” He then turns his attention to filmmaking, which he sees as the most appropriate commu- nication art for software au- thors to learn from, because it began as an engineering d pline and gradually converted to an artistic one. Heckel points out that Thomas Edison, who virtually controlled filmmaking in its early days, “stubbornly fought” people like Edwin S. Porter, who wanted to make narrative films. As engineers lost control, movies flourished. Porter fi- nally got his way in 1903 when he created The Great Train Robbery, the first film to tella complete story. In Birth of a Nation (1914), the pioneer D. W Griffith became the first to use many of the basic tech- niques of filmmaking as we know it today—technique: as the close-up, the moving shot, the fade, the cutaway, and the dissolve. Heckel goes on to compare this filmmaking evolution to. the processes used in VisiCalc, the first breakthrough software program. By creating a pro- gram in which the results of an action are instantly flashed on the screen, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston will someday be seen as the D. W. Griffiths of software. ch 10 September/October 1984 Instant recalculation isn’t the only virtue of VisiCalc, just as filmmaking isn’t the only com- munication art from which to develop a programming style. VisiCalc’s visual effects indicate that its manufacturer Software Arts was aware that good sales- people and writers constantly use a variety of visual commu- nicators such as photographs, drawings, and charts. Faced with visual communication that describes rather than judges, people become less defensive and gain a greater sense of con- trol. People don't want to be penalized for making mistakes, and they don’t want to feel helpless. Software is the key to giving power to the people— not to the computer, The Mac gives software au- thors a tool for creating pro- grams that are not only much more visual than those of the past but also much more inter- active, Paul Heckel’s book is “must” reading for Mac soft- ware authors, particularly those who aspire to write “the next VisiCalc.” For my money, it is probably more beneficial than attending Apple Computer's MacCollege-though it wouldn't hurt to do both. As Heckel re- ports, it was Albert Einstein who said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge” 0 The Elements of Friendly Software Design Paul Heckel Warner Books New York, 1984 205 pages; $8.95 A Springboard For Your Imagination... Practical. . inventive. . .and loads of fun... MacWork/MacPlay is a gallery of ideas for home and business use on your Apple Macintosh. Lon Poole, author of the best-selling Apple i User's Guide and a leading authority on Apple technology, provides you with an inspired assortment of applications for today’s popular Mac software: MacWrite, MacPaint and Microsoft Multiplan MacWork/MacPlay gives flight to your imagination with this collection of over 20 original ideas. Included are projects for your 9 to 5 day: sales commission schedule, travel and enter- tainment ledger, report writing and net worth statement. Plus more for after 5: greeting card and letterhead design, landscaping diagram and mortgage prepayment plan. MacWork/MacPlay. . serious fun and amusing labor! $18.95 at book and computer stores everywhere. Microsoft Press 10700 Northup Way Bellevue, Washington 98004 \ Its time to get The reviews are in and everyone agrees. There's never been a personal computer that's easier or more fun to use than the Macintosh” Especially with terrific programs like MacWrite™ and MacPaint™ to get you started. But if you really want to take full advantage of your Mac's tremendous abilities, you'll need to go a step further than just writing letters and painting pic- tures. You'll need some serious business tools to make you more productive. And the first one to purchase is Habadex. Desktop management has arrived. Habadex is pioneering an entirely new category Habades isa iedlemark of Haba Syriems Inc. in computer software— desktop management. It's the only program that lets you do on your Mac what you now do on your desk. So you can put your ad- dress and phone directory, appointment calendar, things-to-do list—and any other paperwork that clutters your desk and your mind —right into your Mac. And because Habadex was designed specifically for the Macintosh, it incor- porates all of the same graphic capabilities that have made Apple's new computer so incredible. And incomparable. A data base based on your own needs. Habadex lets you create and sort hundreds of 18154 Sing Soot Vans Nuys, Caliomi 91405-1025, (818) 901-8828, Macintoah ina trademark licensed lo Apple Computer Inc. ©1984 Habe Systems Inc records. You can arrange the large number of fields however you choose. By first name, last name, com- pany, category, zip code, etc. You can even rename fields, and rearrange or change information easily for complete flexibility. You've found your calling. Habadex lets you create and arrange an entire phone directory within your data base. It dials direct and long-distance calls, automatically insert- ing your O.CC. like Sprint or MCL. It has a quick- dial feature for storing commonly-called personal or emergency numbers. And it works with the in- expensive HabaDialer or your current modem. OK Mac. down to business. It gets you through the check items off. Plus mailing labels and custom day. Every day. complete area code and lists in any format and size Habadex is also one of zip code directories with of your choosing. It mail the most complete calen- ranges for all cities in the merges form letter text with dars you'll ever your data base need, It pro- - and prints them vides monthly for any or all overviews and of your records day-at-a-glance —in virtually scheduling, any order, through De- arrangement cember 1985. or quantity. Lets you keep And in your track of all your choice of fonts. appointments Are you and automati- ready to get cally updates more from your them through- Mac than just out each day. words and Even leaves room pictures? Then for valuable travel you're ready and expense information. United States and Canada. —_ for Habadex. It's the It also features a things- serious business tool that to-do list which is automati- Print it your way. still lets you have some cally updated when you Habadex also prints serious fun. OQ habadex Making Apples more tempting than ever.™ Cirelv 22 on eader service card 14 Note Pad: Michael McGrath Getting Down to Business Concerning the Mac’s entry into the business community More people than ever before are asking me about comput- tance finds out that my job in- volves personal computers, our conversation turns to the mer- its of various combinations of software and hardware. In the past, I didn’t really endorse any of my suggestions. Although my advice flowed freely and caused intelligent people to part with thousands of hard-earned dol- lars, I never imagined spending my own money on a computer. Deep down, I despised the ma- chines. I resented having to read volumes of obscure techno-babble and meme arcane keystroke combinations. That was before the Macin- tosh. As soon as I saw the new marvel, | knew it was for me. Here was a computer that could inspire me to spend several thousand dollars on a piece of machinery. September/October 1984 The Mac also had a profound impact on the kind of advice | gave. In fact, my enthusiasm for the Mac was so great that I spoke of little else. | became blind to many practical consid- erations. When someone pressed me about the availabil- y of software or more mem- ory, I just assured them that it would be well worth the wait, and I was sure that there would be plenty of software by this summer, Then one day I got a phone call from my father. Dad was stuck with his Apple HI and hoped I could lead him to the promised land of user-friendli- fier all this time of giving advice I had to get se- rious. Here was the guy who knew the answer to every ques- tion I'd ever asked him, and now he was soliciting my ad- ‘as as if one of my En- glish professors had asked me what book to read. I suppose | had finally arrived—my father was looking up to me and my “computer litera: Dad has always been a cor- porate man. Blue suits and IBM are as natural to him as black coffee and the Wall Street Jour- nal. He bought his Apple HL in the pre-IBM PC dat probably regretted it ever since. His friends talk about PC-DOS and the XT. They give him blank stares when he mentions SOs. Despite his regrets, he has a lot of respect for Apple Com- puter. He didn’t quite get the gist of the “1984” TV ad, but he still thinks they know their stuff, digitally speaking. That's why I wasn't surprised when he asked, “What about this new Macintosh, Michael? You seem to talk about nothing else these days. Should I buy one’ Well, Dad, what are you going to do with it?” Lasked. “Oh, you know,” he respond- ed, “the usual. I want a data base manager for my customer records and a spreadsheet for my budgets. A decent word pro- cesser and some sort of graph- ics program for sales presenta- tions. Your brother wants to play games, and who knows, I might even buy several Macs to network together and share a letter quality printer. Now that I think of it, I'm really going to teach myself to program this: year, maybe in Pascal. And don’t forget, | need a hard disk and I'll probably be running 1-2-3.” I didn’t want to ask the next question, but I had to. “When do you want to start using this new machine?” “In a week or two,” he replied. 1 began to sift through his re- quirements for the new system. Obviously, this was a job fora mature computer that has proven itself in the marketplace and has had time for third- party software and hardware options to be developed. As much as I wanted to put dear old Dad on the cutting edge of technology, I just couldn't rec- ommend the Mac. Not if he wanted all this computing, power next week. I tried to explain that the Mac in an embryonic stage and that you pay the price for ad- vanced technology for the rest of the world to catch up. Unfortunately, this consideration does not mesh very well with the realities of the business world. Business people need tools that they can put to work immediately. An afi- cionado like me can wait for the tools, while rem: fectly content to play cover new ground, My analysis left my father pondering new questions about the computer business. “How do they expect to sell computer that lacks the soft- ware and peripherals that busi- nessmen like me need? Can't they just write the programs, put them in the box, and sell them? “Of course not,” I said. “Pro- gramming is one of the most complex jobs in the world. It makes the New York Times crossword puzzle look like child's play. MacPaint took years of testing, revising, more testing, and refining. Finally, after those thousands of hours and hundreds of days, Bill Atkinson achieved a very artful an elegance, Now you and I just boot up and start to draw, You don’t realize what a major effort it takes to make an ap- plication program seem to be no big deal for us I think Dad grasped this but it led to more questions. “How can you get so excited about a computer that I can't even use? You've never been particularly patient, so why are you so willing to wait for Mac- intosh software?” “Well,” | answered, “when you've waited for the best com- puter on the market, it just makes sense to wait for the best software ‘The fact of the matter is that quality, not to mention great- ness, is not created overnight. It’s that way with just about ev- erything—fine furniture, great literature, classic cars—you name it. Unfortunately, most business people can’t afford to wait. But the lucky ones who do will be richly rewarded. As software companie: to release Mac software, I'm sure that some will rush their products to market, just as many publishers try to capital- ize on tends by rushing books to the bookstores. Some of these products will be good, and some will have bugs that drive you nuts. And a very few will be great. The great ones ct, ac} will have been tested thor- oughly, revised and refined be- fore being presented to the public, It is a time-consuming process, but it usually pays off in the long run. Frederick Brooks makes an analogy between programming projects and cooking in his book Mythical Man Month (Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1975). , “An omelet, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choi wail Or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.” My advice is to wait patiently, and keep the egg off your face. 0 Michael McGrath is the Editor of The Macintosh Library from Hayden Publishing Company. Macworld = 15 You've bought a Macintosh, what do you buy next? Maccessories! Maccessories Aslim lazy susan that attaches underneath your Macintosh™ It goes everywhere Swivel your Macintosh goes, even inside the carrying case. $35 i Replacement power cord for the Macintosh and Lisa™ with powerful UL Listed surge accessories suppression and noise filtering built in. It's light, compact and fits into the Macintosh Surge Suppressor carving case $49.95 Maccessories For Macintosh and Apple Ic. Supplied with interface cables for both. The perfect travel modem; small, battery powered, weighs less than 1 lb, even has its own Portable Modem carving case, Operates at 300 bps with any comminications software $140 i Provides safe storage for 36 Macintosh disks. Contains a packet of spare disk labels. laccessories Disk Case $30 Maccessories An anti-static cover to protect your Macintosh and keyboard from the elements. Dust Cover $13.75 Maccessories Sted to tt eee ae external eee disk drive vies fingertip control over the whole system. There's a Master switch to power the whole system on and Control Center off, and separate switches for a Printer, Modem and one Auxiliary device. Also protects entire system from power surges, line noise, and static. Maccessories eee as haa a jail buffer aa an A-B-C switch, Aaiabs Een from to Jsers can choose between several outputs (2 serial, 1 parallel) Printer Buffer and also have the choice of sending data through without buffering. Maccessories Perfect for the Imagewriter” printer. The Maccessories Printer Stand is Precision Printer Stand engineered and sturdy when assembled. It’s also the first printer stand that travels. It knocks down and fits into a very small box. Available at Apple dealers everywhere. 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And you can always go back and change things later if you feel like it - Odesta Helix will automatically give you an example of how it will look. ‘Thisis an abacus icon, You open ittodefineacalculation, Thi and then use it as many times as you want within your forms (or other calculations), Make them up (no limit), save them, and drag them around to really make things happen Posi Olett OCenter ns Gisplay Search Number Format Number of footer digits after the decimat point: | E1Commes Oscientinic a form icon, It automatically identifies a form that is already made up (including a “free-form” like a document or letter), There are no limits to the number of forms that you can use, or on the number of form icons that can relate to a set of information, age — scm Odesta Helix & Macintosh A Personal Decision Support System Tiles act as arithmetic, text, Boolean and date operators, func- tions and values. 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Cut, copy, paste, search and replace within or between any of your forms and reports, Or com- bine information with a letter and do a “mail merge” No special commands to learn in order to search through your “ocean” of information. Simply ask a question by pointing to a spot on a form, or by filling in spaces with your own questions — Odesta Helix will search and sort at the click ofa mous $13.00, and that are about World War I and are illustrated.” Imagine the possibilities, ind all books published before 1940, that are first editions costing more than Odesta Helix & Macintosh" So That You Can Find Your Own Way With Odesta Helix, you can now manage information according to your own requirements, your own style, and your own imagination. Begin using Odesta Helix immediately, without having to set “field parameters” or learn a programming language. You can type in a free- form report or complicated calculations within your own easily created forms. 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For instance, after you customize the book, record, tape and disk catalog- ing forms for your own use, you will be ready to put together your own powerful applications — without having to earn a purple heart learning rules, restrictions and commands, ODES/A™ ile Edit tcons Display Order Form == SS invoice MirBerm Nac tmrnal 239 Getaway Drive Suite 2743 Bill to: Ms. F. Godmother 23 Park Lane Room 502 Dallas, Texas 73402 Northbrook IL 60062 Invoice #: 12703 Customer Order *: 430 Set up your own forms (or customize provided forms) and then input information only once. Here is} order, and generate an invoice, adju can be easily modified, redefined, and interrelated, There are no bar st inventory, update customer or Automatically generated. Available for use in any other reports or forms. just one example: Enter an and keep track of receivables, Everything you enter ers placed between you and the way you want to do dic ee em ear Met Ot aoe | de Hi i Odesta Helix is an internetive information manayement system designed (o take special advantage of the Macintosh windows, icons, pull-down window: he program makes possible a flexible, "give and take” interaction with the Macintosh for info and knowledge-based activities such as free-form data base management, text processing, stitistical analysis, and a wide range of form-based inpul, query and repartiny Odesta Helix is a disk-based system, and will take advantage of double-sided drives, external drives and hard disks that conform to the Apple standard. Odesta Helix will also take advantage of the additional memory of a 612K Macintosh or a 1M Lisa (Under MacWorks), Retail price: $395.00 Additional resource models under preparation include; Accounting, Statistics, Archival Storage and Retrieval, and Data Capture Odesta Heliy is available at your local Apple or Apple dealer, Discussion regarding OEM, VAR, and single-site licensing ements may he initiated hy contacting Odesta at: 3186 Doolittle Drive, Northbrook, 11, 60062 (USA) HAS In Hingis, (12) 498-5615 1, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Ine 11984 ODESTA (B00) Apple, bi Circle 13 on reader service card Letters Upgrade Rumors 1 find Macworld both en- lightening and enjoyable. I hope you can shed some light on an issue that | am sure con- cerns many Macintosh owner: Rumors are circulating that Ap- ple Computer will soon up- grade the Mac's RAM from its present 128K to 512K and re- place the single-sided 400K disk drive with an 800K double- sided one. The obvious ques- tions are: How long is “soon”? Will these enhancements in- crease the price of the system? Will people who purchase a Mac now be able to upgrade both memory and the disk drive; if so, at what cost? Or is it better to wait until the Mac is sold that way? Robert Reimann Berkeley, California A number of anxious readers have inquired about the same questions. We also are inter- ested in upgrades for the Mac [see David Bunnell’s column, July‘August], Barbara Koalkin, Apple 32 pr oat marketing manager, S “We're collecting 256K chips as fast as we can, and we're still on schedule [to upgrade the Mac’s RAM) for early 1985." Apple plans to sell both 128K and 512K Macs. Owners who want to upgrade from 128K can do so through their dealers. Prices have not been set for the 512K Mac or for up- grading the 128K version. Jobn Rizzo, the Mac’s prod- uct manager, reports, “We bave no plans at present for double-sided drives because the technology isn’t yet able to produce quantities sufficient to meet anticipated customer demand.’—Ed. Torn Between Two Loves Thanks for Charles Spezzano's piece [Note Pad,” May/June]- as another IBM PC lover who. has complex emotional and fi- nancial ties with his PC, I felt like a traitor when | decided to give in to my feelings (which are apparently those of many people) on first seeing and using a Mac. 1 often introduce people to computers. Usually they say, “That's great”; with the Mac, they say, “Great—let me wr that.” Observers of the Mac are rarely passive. They see how to do things and want to take a hand in doing them, Eventually a Mac owner comes back to earth, It takes a long time to read and write all the “friendly” graphics to and from disks. And the limited disk space with one drive is frustrating. For everything the an quickly Mac does that the PC doesn't, there is an equal trade-off. The important question finally is what you do with either of them. Richard Wanderman Eugene, Oregon Typing Error You quoted Apple representa- tive Alain Rossman [“The Inter- national Macintosh," May/June] aying that using the Mac though this statement is good PR for Apple, it isn’t true. The Japanese have been typing for years and even developed early ons of a mouse like the c uses. However, handwriting re- mains the standard for most communications because typ- ig, in Japanese isn't easy. The Japanese typewriter chooses from over 2000 characters using a pre-electronic age nouse.” The typist positions: the mouse on the correct char- acter with one hand and types it with the other. Few people could type 50 words per min- ute with this arrangement. Several major Japanese elec- tronics manufacturers make word processors (“wah puro” in Japanese) capable of making sophisticated editorial choices. From a phonetic input (Jap- anese needs only 50 basic sy bles to represent any word in the language), the software examines the context and chooses the most likely charac- ter for the pronunciation and linguistic situation. The screen also displays other possible characters that have the same pronunciation so the user can select another in case the most likely character is not the cor- rect one. Howard Stern Cambridge, Massachusetts Both Alain Rossman, interna- tional product manager for the Mac, and Macworld regret the exaggerations of Japanese iypewriting capabilities and of Apple’s role in Japanese computing that appeared in our article. Rossman wishes to assure people that the Mac team is not nearly so naive as the mistaken statements make it seem. Apple is well aware of the state of word processing in Japan and is working closely with Japanese technicians and programmers in its California headquarters and through its subsidiary, Apple Computer Japan Inc. See “Macworld View” in this issue for further information about Japanese Apples.—Ed. Macworld 17 Letters French Connection Tam a vice-president of a par governmental agency that pro- motes industrial res help in our work, the agency ordered three Macintoshes in March; to date, only one h been received. I was surpr ised lin your magazine International Macintosh,” M June] that a French- Haniaier keyboard and software seem to be so easy to get in France. Here in Quebec, we are still waiting; our dealer says the Prench versions are not available. As you know, the official lan- guage of Quebec is French. We also use the metric measure for form letters, We are so much closer to California than France is. Why are we unable to get the French kevboard? Robert P. Morin Agence Quebecoise de Valorisation Industrielle Montreal, Quebec According to Joanna Hoff- man, international mar manager for the Mac, the French Canadian “QWERTY” keyboard will be available this fall. Its layout di “AZERTY” Mac keyboard sold in France.—Ed. Hype Gripe David Bunnell [“The Making of a Personal Computer Mile- stone,” July/August] expresses the opinion of readers like me who are less impressed by the marketing achievements of companies like Apple and IBM than we are interested in the development of software prod- ucts that make our computers more useful. The fact is that most of us are tired of the fan- fare and self-congratulation with which the industry bom- bards us. Companies expect consumers to them in endless product pro- motions by believing that we receive more than a computer when we spend thousands of dollars; we also participate in the “computing phenomenon.” One of the lessons of the Mac, its publi iy, is that computers can and should be oriented toward people and not the other way around. We are told that the Mac is a kind of computing messiah that will end an age in which the com- mon folk have been deprived of the advantages personal computing brings. Supposedly, in the pre-Mac period, an elite group jealously guarded its privileges by making it neces- sary to learn arcane computer ills. Of course, it’s a good idea to open up access to tech- nology, but let's not pretend that selling computers is more important than using them. I don't look forward to the time when personal computers will be marketed like cars and con- sumers urged to buy a new one every year, Roy Burns Rutherford, New Jersey Apple the Innovator The Macintosh is the first per- sonal computer in recent years to excite me about my career in computers. Apple should be commended for its innovative concepts and not criticized for breaking away from the large programming base that drives so many companies. Many products are touted largely for their compatibility with an ex- isting customer base. Although ssarily bad, it sti- fles innovation. It is boring to see the same computers intro- duced over and over, differing s only in the name- plate. Thanks, Apple, for the breath of fresh air. Larry Eikenberry Beaverton, Oregon 18 September/October 1984 MacWrite Flunks Test I like the Mac’s looks and I've scen some students use it effec- tively for papers and other as- signments. But [ don’t plan to buy one now because it doesn’t adequately perform the func- tion I need: extensive word processing. [ am writing a Ph.D. dissertation that ultimately will be between 200 and 300 pages long, MacWrite's dinky storage capacity (which is only some- what increased by making workdisks) is simply no match for a document of this length. I have neither the time nor the patience to open and format a new file every 7 to 10 pages, not to mention the inconvenience of moving to a new disk every 80 pages or so. I won't waste time paying attention to the computer's needs, when it should be meeting mine. As a programmer friend said to me, computers help you do work, but sometimes they make more work for you to do.” Bruce FE Lucas Palo Alto, California It’s true that MacWrite is not suited to long documents; the program wasn't designed to be. Perhaps you should look into Microsoft Word [see “The Word from Microsoft,” puly/ August].—Ed. Dying for Color I know I’m not the only Macin- tosh artist who is dying to have color capability. Mac- a whiz of a program, but its high resolution and fine patterns aren’t shown off well enough in only black and white. I've read explanations for why there is no color on the Mac (too expensive ), but they still don't alleviate the need for color, Sheila Floyd Cleveland, Obio A limited means for color printing is now available, in the form of colored ribbons for the lmagewriter. See “Mac- world View” in this issue. Artist's Snoreing List Asa graph hic artist, I've put to- gether a list of enhancements I'd like to see for the Mac. of all, I'd like to have an alterna- tive mouse that is shaped more like a pencil and allows a more natural drawing motion. I could really use a digitizer too (pref erably priced under $2000), in order to transfer a preexisti image directly into the M without having to redraw the image. Next, how about larger patterns? MacPaint’s patterns currently are all 8 dots by 8 dots; if they were 16 by 16 dots or 32 by 32 dots, more complex patterns that don’t repeat them- selves so often could be developed. It would certainly be helpful to have software that enables you to rotate a drawing in incre ments other than 90 degrees (to which MacPaint is re- stricted). Finally, I'll bet arti would benefit from the ability to create custom MacPaint brush shapes to put into the brush menu. I know these are but [ thought Ud. let you know what one artist is dreaming about as he works on his Mac—which, by the way, is d terrific drawing tool as it i now. Curtis Phegley Little Rock, Arkansas Letters should be mailed ta Letters, Macworld, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to CompuServe 74055,415 or Source STE9O8. 0 Imagine. Mac products youve been dreaming of, at prices youd never dream of. On your Mac, get set, go! A lot of manufacturers are working hard to create exciting enhancements for the Mac. And we’ve keen talking with them from the beginning—to make sure that you get their products SOFTWARE Living Videotext ThinkTank Syanane eras ° 4G aos . $97 Microsoft Multiplan oc... cceccsercreeveee ree eenen cee 129, Microsoft Basic. . « vine A 99. Megahaus Megamerge (Mailmerge for Macwrite) 86. T/Maker ClickArt. feRER e : exes GAMES Blue Chip Millionaire. . % red é 39. Infocom (Difficulty levels shown in oat Zork | (standard) ' dere Bi. 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One that cost less than seven bucks. And goes best with my famous pasta dish. “All in the click of a mouse.” Circle 54 on reader service card The problem is Introducing Filevision for Macintosh: The fine art of filing by pictures. Now you can file things the way you see them. Because Filevision lets you store any kind of information visually. Within pictures you easily create yourself. Even if you can’t type or draw. Filevision. The first software that combines a practical filing system with a simple-to-use, object-oriented drawing system. Which lets you quickly visualize your data. Instead of sorting through tedious line-by-line listings. In the click of a mouse, you can retrieve the data stored behind each object in your picture. 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Filevsion sn trademark of Telos Software Products, trademark of Telos Corporation Risse Os ale err enced Arle Oomepiterts Circle 54 on reader service card Macworld View News and notes for the Macintosh community Edited by Janet McCandless Macworld View reports on new products and develop- ments in Macintosh technol- ogy. We will cover items of interest to Mac users and comment on industry trends. We welcome contributions from readers and pay up to $50 for the items we use. Please include your name, address, and phone number with your contributions; send them to Macworld View, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107. Tie a Colored Ribbon Have you complained about the lack of color on your Macin- tosh? Then you'll be interested to learn that colored ribbons for the Imagewriter are now available. The ones we have in the Macworld office cost about a dollar more than the standard black and come in red, green, blue, purple, brown, and yellow. The color quality is very good, especially in MacWrite's High Resolution and Mac- Paint's Final printing modes. Colored ribbons are man- ufactured by American Ink of San Francisco and are dis- tributed in San Francisco by Ex- press Computer Supplies, which accepts telephone orders and will usually ship an order by UPS the same day to any lo- cation in the United States. Rib- bons in colors are also pro- duced by Sharp Color of Columbus, Ohio (see “Macware News” for address information), If you really want to print in color, you now have the ca- pability. Printing in multiple colors, however, is still no easy task; you must transfer ribbon cartridges in and out of your printer. With a number of rib- bons at your disposal, you can create multicolored prints with the Imagewriter. While you probably won't turn out sophis- ticated work at first, you can come up with some interesting effects by experimenting. Use different shades and patterns from the MacPaint palette, since colors vary depending upon the density of the dot pattern. Insert a ribbon and print the first layer of a drawing. Go back to your drawing and erase or cut what's on the screen, Then draw the second layer of your “print,” change the ribbon, in- sert the same sheet of paper, and print again. You can blend colors by overlapping them to produce a variety of shades. Re- peat these steps for as many colors as you wish to use. You might also try pasting several copies of a drawing to the Scrapbook, then erasing all but the portions you need for each color. 24° September/October 1984 This MacPaint drawing was printed using si: cluding black). Bring up each portion of your drawing individually on the screen, replace the ribbon cartridge each time, and reinsert the page to add a section in a new color. different colored ribbons (in- University Potpourri Reports on Apple's University Consortium Program tell of Macs in dormitories, libraries, and scholastic departments linked by networks to provide access to mainframe computers and other university resources. Computer centers, such as the Information Resource Center at Reed College, are being orga- nized and equipped with Macs, printers, disk drives, and pe- ripherals. Systems like Reed’s GriffinTerminal are being intro- duced to give students com- plete graphics and text soft- ware for terminal connection to mainframes. Atthe University of Michigan, software and hardware are being developed to connect the networking systems Apple- Bus and Ethernet to the univer- sity’s network UMnet. Terminal emulators will be written to ac- cess the university's main- frame, and software will be de- veloped that enables students to extract information from data bases and produce hard copy with a high-speed laser printer. Rice University's OWLnet will offer students electronic mail, file transfer be- tween their personal comput- ers and the school’s mainframe, and bulletin boards that de- scribe courses and announce campus activities. At Dart- mouth University, dorm rooms will be equipped with Apple- Bus to connect Macs to the uni- versity computer network. Some professors plan to sup- plement textbooks with course- ware. Chemistry 101 students at the University of Notre Dame will see computer simulations of chemistry experiments. Lin- guists at Notre Dame will have access to foreign language fonts in the Greek, Hebrew, and Cyrillic alphabets. At Dartmouth, history students will consult Mac-based atlases, and courseware will enable ge- ology students to simulate geo- logic changes and study the earth's interior by seismic-wave analysis. Computer science stu- dents will work on a 68000 as- sembler/debugger, a program- ming language called Smalltalk-80 that runs with UNIX, and animation based on algorithms. Michigan will con- duct seminars on the Mac's Toolbox, and programmers there will work on software to extract color information from the QuickDraw data structure and transmit it to. a medium- resolution color display. Itis still too soon to predict the Mac’s impact on university computer systems or to evalu- ate the effect of educators’ soft- ware and hardware on the market. But it is clear that the universities’ contribution to the use of the Mac is already significant. Lisa 2 Miscellany Sales for the Lisa 2 product line are outstripping Apple’s pro- duction capacity by a margin of two to one, with the Lisa 2/10 commanding two-thirds of the sales, Lisa product manager Randy Battat says, “We can’t build them fast enough.” Apple expects to be able to meet the demand by the third quarter of 1984. Many retailers are touting the Lisa as a big Mac, an assertion that will have more validity when Apple provides access to the Lisa 2/10's hard disk with MacWorks. Software devel- opers are adjusting the distor- tions produced by the differ- ence in the Mac and Lisa screen sizes; Microsoft Chart automat- Macworld = 25 Macworld View ically compensates so that a pie chart looks round (not oval) on the Lisa screen. Running Mac software on the Lisa gives you access to more memory than on a Mac. In a MacWrite document writ- ten on the Lisa, you can store eight times as many pages per document as with the Mac, The Lisa screen size allows Multi- plan users to see 50 percent more information. Although the Lisa’s full screen is not used by MacPaint, with MacDraw the Lisa displays four times as many objects as the Mac does. Apple is preparing enhance- ments to Lisa software. You will be able to cut and paste graph- ics into LisaWrite documents, cut and paste between LisaList and other applications, and be- tween LisaTerminal and other applications. LisaWrite now includes a spelling checker, LisaProject has a job-cost pro- gram, and LisaDraw supports color output for the Canon ink- jet printer and reduced fit (the ability to scale the size of a de- sign on the screen). International Forecast Like a chameleon, the Mac adapts to new environments. The descriptive label Apple currently applies to this conver- sion process is “localizing.” which means customizing the Mac’s hardware and software for the language, culture, and customs of the country it's de- signed for. With localized ver- sions already in use in the United Kingdom, France, Ger- many, Italy, and Japan, Apple plans to introduce Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, and French Canadian models this fall and an Arabic Mac soon after. The American form of the Mac is being shipped throughout the world, primarily to markets in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Far East. Through its subsidiary, Apple Japan Inc., and its distributor, Canon Sales, Apple will intro- duce a keyboard that types the Japanese katakana characters. A full Japanese version that in- corporates kanji, katakana, and biragana characters is scheduled to follow. At press time, Apple is considering lim- ited distribution in this country of the international Macs. Ask your dealer for order information. Software developed by American companies such as Microsoft is being translated for the European market. Accord- ing to Joanna Hoffman, the Mac's international marketing manager, Apple also believes that as much as 20 to 30 per- cent of software developed in E 26 September/October 1984 Apple's, B46, NYY Oe TY IACALET The OBEN MIAH Eose APL saUIB EY, €LiaF 2702 ~ CREME NRT hoes tN AEN F2/02~4UEI TU ROAAETACOLIYE LURE). 7 eRER IEMA IBRORTAYDY, abhi Macintosh = WPF AITAM, BURIANE, EH A 841.246, te ORS Be 7 other countries will be trans- lated for the American market. (The first two such programs include a French data base and a German calendar. ) Hoffman expects that after a few years we will see an even greater crossover of software. She bases this assumption on the attractiveness of an interna- tional market to developers and the low overhead cost of trans- lating software, due to the Mac’s Resource Manager, Tool- box, and user interface. It will be interesting to see what the cross-pollination of ideas and forms produces worldwide in the use of personal computers by the late 1980s. As this Japanese advertisement shows, marketing efforts are going ahead as Apple readies interna- tional versions of the Mac. Personal computers are costly investments, so it’s no surprise that a large insurance company has come up with a compre- hensive policy for Apple com- puters, including the Mac. Emett & Chandler, a southern California insurance brokerage, offers coverage for an entire Apple system—hardware, soft- ware, and accessories (includ- ing printers, modems, disk drives, and other peripherals). Underwritten by the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, the policy guarantees full (not depreciated) replacement cost for all or part of your system. Coverage remains in force regardless of how the computer is used (including business) or where (including travel). Cali- fornia residents will be espe- cially relieved to hear that the policy covers earthquakes as well as theft and fire (though not war or freezing). All this security costs the anxious Mac owner only $29 per year and carries a $100 de- ductible. The program is spon- sored, but not subsidized, by Apple Computer. Get an ap- plication form from your Apple dealer, or contact: Insure Your Apple, Emett & Chandler Insur- ance Services, 62 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105, 818/796-4571. The Mac for Multiusers Mac owners who require multi- user systems (which enable several people to share a com- puter’s software, hardware, and data) can connect their Macs to a Lisa 2/10 running the UNIX operating system. Barry Smith of the Apple 32 team predicts that three-fourths of the clients interested in multiuser systems will use accounting and data base applications. A segment of the university and data process- ing markets is likely to accept the Mac/Lisa connection as a viable solution for their multi- user requirements in both price and performance. The Mac's unique power as a terminal with UNIX originates in the Mac’s user interface. In- formation retrieved from UNIX can be stored in the Clipboard to be cut and pasted into Mac applications. A manager prepar- ing a weekly report could ob- tain up-to-date information from a data base shared by other managers in the com- pany. Information could be cut and pasted into MacWrite doc- uments and illustrated with Mi- crosoft Chart in accompanying graphs and tables. ‘To configure the Mac to serve as a UNIX terminal, an of fice needs a Lisa 2/10 to run UNIX, and cables to connect the Mac(s) to the Lisa's two RS-232C serial ports. A board with four serial ports manufac- tured by Tecmar can be in- stalled in the Lisa to connect up to four additional Macs. Com- munications software such as MacTerminal will enable the Mac to interact with programs running on UNIX, The Lisa 2/10’s hard disk is sufficient for most multiuser packages running on UNIX. If additional memory is required, Unipress offers a 20M Corvus hard disk and Sunol hard disks that hold as much as 92M. Two UNIX-based systems for the Lisa 2/10 are now offered: Xenix by Santa Cruz Opera- tions and UniPlus by UniPress. An accounting package by Open Systems and a data base called Informax by Santa Cruz Operations provide multiuser software. A relational data base management system that oper- ates with UNIX is available from Unify Corporation. RM Cobol and RM Fortran are avail- able from Ryan-McFarland. R Systems is working on the doc- umentation for their office au- tomation software that runs on Xenix. BACS (Business Account- ing Control System) is an inte- grated accounting system de- veloped by American Business Systems and is available on Macworld — 27 Xenix. Several other companies have announced product devel- opment for UNIX on the Lisa 2. Although Apple is complet- ing AppleBus, the networking product that will connect Apple computers with peripheral de- vices, the software is not yet finished. AppleBus may present Mac owners with a solution to the problem of shared re- sources and information, but at present UNIX on the Lisa 2/10 addresses users’ requirements for multiuser software. American Business Systems 3 Littleton Rd. Westford, MA 01886 R Systems 11450 Page Mill Rd, Dallas, TX 75243 Ryan-McFarland Corp. 609 Deep Valley Dr. Rolling Hills Estate, CA 90274 Santa Cruz Operations 500 Chestnut St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Unify Corporation 4000 Kruse Way Place, Bldg. #2 Lake Oswego, OR 97034 UniPress Software 1164 Raritan Ave. Highland Park, NJ 08904 Macworld View User Groups Spring Up If you're looking for other Mac owners to share news and skills with, you're in luck. Mac user groups are organizing in com- munities, universities, and ele- mentary and secondary schools. We've listed some of the clubs below. User groups offer a variety of services: guest speakers, prod- uct demonstrations by manu- facturers, public domain soft- ware, special interest or study groups, public bulletin boards and newsletters, and group dis- counts on hardware, software, and publications. ‘Two agencies that assist Mac owners in finding or forming clubs are the International Ap- ple Core and Apple Computer Clubs. If you send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to ei- ther agency, you will receive in- formation on Mac clubs in your community. The International Apple Core is a non-profit or- ganization of Apple users and user groups. Apple Computer Clubs supports clubs in the ele- mentary and secondary schools and, with Apple Computer, co- sponsors competitions for students. If your group is not listed be- low, please notify us. We'll re- port from time to time on user group activities and bulletin board services. 28 September/October 1984 @ MacintoshiLisa User Groups” California Conejo Valley Mac Users 3637 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Suite Mac Westlake Village, CA 91362 805/496-8090 Los Angeles Macintosh Group 12021 Wilshire Blvd. #405 West Los Angeles, CA 90025 213/392-5697 Macintosh Users Group 2040 Polk St. #340 San Francisco, CA 94109 415/441-8648 San Diego Macintosh User's Group PO. Box 12561 La Jolla, CA 92037 619/566-3939 Colorado Club Mac 735 Walnut Boulder, CO 80302 303/449-5533 Maryland Capitol Mac Users Group 9431 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910 301/585-4262 Washington Apple Pi, Ltd. 8227 Woodmont Ave. #201 Bethesda, MD 20814 301/654-8060 Massachusetts Boston Computer Society Macintosh Users Group 1 Center Plaza Boston, MA 02108 617/367-8080 New York New York Mactsers'Group — - PO. Box 6686 Yorkville Station New York, NY 10128 212/535-1943 North Carolina Carolina Apple Core PO. Box 31424 Raleigh, NC 27603 Washington APPLE, 21246 68th Ave. S. Kent, WA 98032 206/872-2245 For more information on Mac user groups in your area, contact: International Apple Core 908 George St. Santa Clara, CA 95050 408/727-7652 For elementary and secondary schools, contact: Apple Computer Clubs P.O. Box 948 Lowell, MA 01853 617/452-9979 Oo ENTER MAC LION With the click of your mouse, Mac Lion roars onto the screen to give your MAC all the power you will ever need, and then some. Because Mac Lion unleashes the kind of performance normally associated with a main frame, it grows with you, no matter how large your business expands. BRAINS & BRAWN Time, as we all know, is synon- ymous with dollars. Demonstrating a fine appreciation for the truism, Mac Lion goes about its business of helping your business in record time. With Mac Lion’s relational data base you can often solve problems ten times faster than other programs. So fast we could easily have named it Mac Panther. 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The FILER’s beauty i: 1Se handling, maneuverability, ai pendability. It’s menu-driven, : Let the Main Street Filer and Mac- intosh put you on the fast track! [ CEA | MAINSTREET Available for Macintosh, registered trade- mark of Apple Computer, Ine, Also available “for CP/M 2.x, registered trademarks Digital ch, Inc.; PC DOS, registered trade- Corp.; MS DOS, registered soft, Corp. easy to learn, If you need help, each screen shows the page number of the manual on which that screen is ex- plained, Once in operation, the FILER allows you to move quickly from one application to the next. Its index sys- tem eliminates sorting, giving you in- stant access to any data i r files, Il Getting Started: Keyboard « The Mac’s Special Keys aniel Farber The Macintosh keyboard is similar to any standard The Macintosh‘ typewriter keyboard. However, the Mac has addi- tional keys that give you an effective alternative to using the mouse to choose commands from the putl- down menus. Many personal computers have elaborate keyboards that hold more than 80 keys, including several rows of programmable “function keys” and special keys la- beled with names or abbreviations like Alt, Control, and Esc. Function keys are often configured to per- form common actions that otherwise require a s quence of two or three keystrokes, and special key are frequently used in combination with other keys to execute commands. Most personal computers also have cursor keys that help you move from place to place in a document. 32. September/October 1984 keyboard design is as lean and compact as the design of the Mac itself, The keyboard sports a standard “QWERTY” layout (named for the se- quence of letters in the first row of alphabetic keys) and 58 keys (59 on the international version), about the same as on a standard typewriter. The Mac key- board has no function keys; you must use the mouse to issue commands, select text or objects, scroll win- dows, move the cursor, or mark insertion points. The Mac keyboard doesn't provide cursor keys ei- ther. Moving around a document with a mouse instead of cursor keys seems like a limitation to some users. Buta mobile mouse cursor that travels quickly through a document is faster and more flexible than traditional cursors that move character by character or line by line Instead of the Mouse For keyboard-intensive applications such as word processing, you'll want to keep your fingers on the keyboard as much as possible. If you are a touch typist or accustomed to a traditional word processing pro- gram, you'll probably want to minimize mouse activity during the editing process. If you have less typing or computer experience, you may be more comfortable relying on the mouse to help edit and revise your text, Keyboard artists will appreciate the Mac’s special keys— 88 , Option, and Enter—that can activate com- mands, especially those commands used for editing. You can combine these special keys with other keys to give commands or to choose the default responses in dialog and alert boxes. Many of these key combina- tions are mouse-selectable choices. MacWrite, for ex- ample, provides keyboard alternatives for commands Keyboard Shortcuts Tear Out and Save This C Desktop Duplicate 38D MacPaint Get Info #1 Eject SE Undo Desktop File Menu Cut a6H Copy #C Paste Trace Edges MacPaint Edit Ments Undo Cut Copy Paste Select All Plain Desktop Edit Menu Bold 38B ftatic 1 Underline 38U Outline 380 Shadow Align Left Align Middle Align Right MacPaint Style Menu MacWrite Undo Typing Cut Copy Paste MacWrite Edit Menu Plain Text Bold 3B fiatic 1 Underline seu Outline 0 Shadow Superscript Subscript \cWrite Style Menu Multiple Copies £2}] Select Window Patterned Lines & Borders | Show Page = [Gption) (F Scroit FatBits couple | [2b | Brush Shape Enter or leave FatBits Click | | | retwits = Change Font Size @| Erase window () Suet] E] chenge rent (EEIP ecit Pattern [Unao}(_]| soon (Clear) cri eee MacPaint Short Cuts Menu Key Caps Reference Table Tear Out and Save This Card ato DT Cd a x[c[u[e[n|m]<[> e[* [|S q ela Tels] fe]: [¥]"[-[e [alsje]sefofsfol-| Je}-lelv[s[-[o]<]2 a[wie[a[t[y[u[ifojelt als]o[F[e[afu|K]e z[x[c[u[e[N[m| ,]. [7] Key Caps using the Caps Lock key Key Caps using the Shift and Option ke} MACWORLD The Macintosh™ Magazine 555 De Haro St. San Francisco, CA 94107 415/861-3861 seeemeesees Ifyou prefer to keep your hands on the key- board while working with the Mac, these tips will help you speed up ail phases of word processing. in the Edit menu (Undo, Cut, Copy, and Paste) and in the Style menu (Plain, Bold, Italic, Underline, Outline, Shadow, Superscript, and Subscript). The Mac’s special keys are also used with other keys and the mouse to carry out “shortcuts” in MacPaint, such as %-> and %-<, which enlarge or reduce text. The reference table ehtitled “Keyboard Shortcuts” lists the key combinations that can be used in the der, MacWrite, and MacPaint. Tear out the table along the perforated edge and put it where you can see it easily. You'll probably memorize the various key combinations in a short time. As you add application programs to your library, you can create your own ref erence sheets. Display the appropriate pull-down menu; use Shift- 8-3, which takes “snapshots” of the screen contents and turns them into MacPaint docu- ments; erase the extraneous parts of the desktop or application document in MacPaint; cut and paste the menus so they fit onto one document; and print them out on the Imagewriter, Command Key The Mac’s Command key (38) does nothing by it- self; you must press it along with another key. In Mac- Write, for example, press 38-b to change the type style to boldface or $-x to implement a Cut command. Hold- ing down the 8 key and typing a period aborts a Print command, If you want to move a window on the desk- top without making it active, hold down the # key be- fore you drag the window. The 8 key combinations in the Edit menu are an important part of the Macintosh user interface. The Finder, MacPascal, and application programs such as MacWrite, Microsoft Word, Chart, and Multiplan use the z, x, c, and v keys with the 3 key so that you need only one hand to choose an Edit command from the keyboard. For word processing, most people will find it more efficient to use their right hand to select text with the mouse and their left to initiate editing com- mands from the keyboard. The Undo command (88-z), which undoes the pre- vious action (or the previous Undo), is conveniently ar- ranged so that the two keys line up with each other; perhaps the software designers at Apple considered Undo the most valuable editing tool to have at your fin- gertips. Other 8 key combinations are defined by the first letter of the command, such as $-d for Duplicate in the Finder or 8-p for Plain text and 38-s for Shadow text in the MacWrite and MacPaint Style menus. This mne- monic way of identifying keyboard commands makes it easy to remember key assignments. The # key as- (continues on page 36) Macworld = 33 @ Getting Started 34 HBHEREHREBEEHEHEHEHEEBEHE EB Inside The Keyboard Dan Kottke Have you ever wondered how the Macin- tosh keyboard knows which keys you press? The keyboard has its own 8-bit mi- croprocessor, the 8021, which constantly monitors the keyboard for changes, with the help of a short ROM program on the same chip. When you switch on the Mac, the ROM program checks to see that the keyboard is working properly and whether the numeric keypad accessory is attached. Pressing any key sets in action a chain of events that lets you send characters and commands to the Mac. Almost every key lies at the intersec- tion of a row and a column on an electrical grid called the keyswitch matrix. When you press a key, an electrical connection is made at an intersection unique to that key. The Caps Lock key, the Option keys, the Shift keys, and the 8 key are not part of the matrix but each makes a direct connection to the 8021 chip. These keys have separate circuits to handle the added information when they are pressed simultaneously with other keys. The keyboard's microprocessor continual ns the keyswitch matrix to see if any changes have occurred. onceeoooeee Dan Kottke is thor- oughly familiar with the insides of the Mac keyboard. He explains its basic engineering bere. September/October 1984 The 8021 scans the keyboard so quickly that, even if you're an incredibly fast typist, you can’t possibly fool it. To the 8021, keystrokes seem few and far be- tween. The world speed record for typing is about 180 words per minute, which is about 15 characters per second or one character every 66 thousandths of a sec- ond. The 8021 scans the keyboard every 3 thousandths of a second, making for many uneventful scans, As the scan progresses, the micro- processor recognizes a change by compar- ing the up or down state of each key in the matrix with a key map it keeps in a small portion of memory. The 8021 has 64K of RAM built into the chip, 8K of which are used for the key map. The key map re- serves one bit for the status of each key and remembers which keys are up and which down. When the microprocessor detects a change, it waits 5 thousandths of a second and then double-checks by scanning the key matrix a second time. All mechanical switches, such as those used in the Mac keyboard, must be rechecked because they may take 1 or 2 thousandths of a second to establish an electrical connection. Apple chose mechanical switches, even though they con't last as long as capacitive switches or rubber conductive switches, because they feel and sound better to most typists, Once a key change is verified, the 8021 takes the row and column numbers of the key intersection and transforms those numbers into a key code. One bit of the key code also indicates whether the key is in up or down position. The entire one- byte key code is sent to a chip in the Mac. For example, pressing the D key acti- vates the processes cliscussed so far. When you press D, a switch connects at the inter- section of column 0 and row 2 of the key- switch matrix. The 8021 discovers this con- nection and checks it against the key map to see if there has been any change. The 8021 doublechecks and confirms the change. The 8021 then converts the new key position into the key code 10001010, which it sends to the shift register in the 6522 chip in the Mac. When the key code number fills up the register, it signals an interrupt to part of the ROM operating system software called the interrupt handler. The interrupt han- dler detects that the interrupt came from the keyboard and calls another part of the operating system called the keyboard de- vice driver. The keyboard device driver compares the key code it has just received with an ASCII lookup table that you un- knowingly loaded into RAM from an ap- plication disk when you put the disk into the Mac. The table shows the ASCII equiv- alent of the key code sent to the device driver. In our example, the key code 10001010 would be indexed to the ASCIL code 01100100, which represents a lower- case d. After the ASCII conversion is made, the keyboard device driver calls the event manager (another part of the operating system in ROM) to notify it that a change has occurred. The event manager holds the key change information until the ap- plication program then running is ready to receive it. The application, according to its own rules, then acts on the key change in- formation. For example, MacWrite might take the letter d and display it on screen after the last letter you typed. The keyboard connects to the Macin- tosh via a modular coil cord that is similar to those used on telephones. The Mac's cord has heavier gauge wire to prevent drops in voltage that don’t stop you from understanding phone conversations but can interfere with the accuracy of the digi- tal signals the Mac uses. If you replace the Mac’s cord with a telephone handset cord, it doesn’t damage the keyboard's micro- processor, but it won't work. Although at first it might sound clever to put your keyboard on a 25-foot tele- phone handset extension cord, it makes lit- ue practical sense; most people can't com- fortably read text on the screen from much further than six feet away. The modular coil cords, however, provide a convenient way to attach other types of input devices such as bar code readers, voice or optical character recognition devices, or piano keyboards. Some day you may see all these unusual devices in place of the Mac’s key- board. Until then, the 8021 will be hard at work, seueeeenene Dan Kottke, a digi- tal engineer at Apple Computer, co-de- signed the Macintosh keyboard with Ed Riddles. He describes himself as the Mac team’s ‘digital handyman” and has worked on various support projects for the Mac. Macworld 35 i Getting Started (continued from page 33) signments may vary among application programs; in Microsoft Chart, %-s implements the Show Page com- mand, and in Microsoft Word, the Save command. The 9 key is also used in MacPaint to create spe- cial effects: holding down the % key and dragging an object selected using the marquee stretches a selec- tion. When you are using the pencil, holding down the % key and clicking the mouse button enables you to enter and exit FatBits. The Short Cuts option in the Goodies menu lists the other MacPaint key modifiers. Other application programs can use the # key in different ways, In Multiplan, for example, holding down the % key and clicking a cell within a selection makes that cell the current cell. %-Shift One unique feature on the Mac is the 38-Shift key combination. As mentioned before, you can turn the current contents of any screen into a MacPaint docu- ment by holding down the 8 and Shift keys and typing 3. This “snapshot” technique is especially useful for customizing documents because it allows you to apply the full range of MacPaint tools to the snapshot. The Mac also has a “quick print” feature that prints the contents of the screen. To print an active window only (including the title bar and and scroll bars), hold down the %# and Shift keys and type 4. You can print the contents of the entire screen by engaging Caps Lock, holding down % and Shift, and typing 4. Once you press either combination of keys, the image is immediately sent to the printer. These options pro- duce a quick printout of a graphic image or a short document such as a page of the Note Pad. The 8-Shift-1 key combination ejects the disk from the Mac’s internal drive, and #-Shift-2 ejects the disk from the external drive. However, don't use the %- Shift command sequence as a standard procedure; there are a few cases in which using this technique can damage your disk and lose information. Microsoft Word uses the %-Shift combination to provide a full range of keyboard-driven editing and formatting commands. For example, $-Shift-r specifies right justification, and %-Shift-< reduces the font size of selected text. 36 September/October 1984 Enter Key The Enter key confirms a command or acknowl- edges an alert box. It has the same function as clicking a button in a dialog box to confirm a command such as Yes, OK, or Go Ahead. If a button in a dialog box is sur- rounded by a boldfaced border, such as the Yes button in the MacWrite “Save changes before closing?” dialog box, pressing Enter puts that command into effect. In some cases pressing Enter confirms a command in a dialog box that doesn't have a button outlined in bold. In those situations the Enter key activates the most log- ical choice. For example, when you close a document in MacWrite and choose Open from the File menu to open another document, a dialog box appears with a list of the documents created in that application and two buttons, Open and Cancel. After selecting one of the displayed file names with the mouse, you can press Enter or click the Open button to open a document file. The way the Enter key works varies from program to program. In Mudtiplan, for example, the Enter key has the normal function of confirming commands in dialog and alert boxes. The key also enters the con- tents of a formula bar into a cell, makes the next cell within a selection the current cell, and moves the se- lection from one unprotected cell to the next within a partially protected worksheet. If you work in the fast lane, the Enter key can help satisfy your need for speed. For instance, if you leave an application by choosing Quit, wait for the beep, and immediately press Enter, you can save your text with. out having to wait for the dialog box to appear com- pletely on the screen. Option Key The Option key is used to give a key an alternative interpretation such as accented characters or the spe- cial symbols required in scientific writing. Key Caps in the Apple menu lists the characters associated with each key. You can see the alternate characters by hold- ing down the Option key while the Key Caps window is active. Option-g gives you the copyright sign (©), and Option-u pressed before a character produces an umlaut (~) above the character (ii). “Key Caps Refer- ence Table” (on the reverse side of the “Keyboard Shortcuts” table) lists the alternatives available using Shift, Caps Lock, and Option. In the same way that the 8 key is not rigidly de- fined, application programs can configure the Option key to provide shortcuts that allow for more flexibility and complexity within a program. In MacPaint, for ex- ample, you can copy an object by holding down the Option key and dragging the selected object. Holding down both Option and 8 and dragging an object se- lected using the lasso produces multiple copies. Return and Tab In word processing programs, the Return key works like a typewriter carriage return key; it moves the insertion point to the next line. Like the Enter key, Return can be used to confirm a text entry (such as a document name) or a dialog box command. The func- tion of the Return key varies from one application pro- gram to another; in Multiplan, Return performs the same functions as Enter and moves the current cell down one cell. The Tab key carries out different operations, de- pending on the situation. In a dialog box, pressing Tab moves the insertion point to the next field, or the next box in which you can type information. In word pro- cessing, Tab moves the insertion point to the next tab marker, which you set in the ruler in MacWrite. Shift and Caps Lock The Mac's Shift key acts like a typewriter shift key. When you hold down Shift and press a key, a charac- ter's uppercase version (or the uppermost character on the key) appears. The Shift key is also used with BBB