MacWorld 8411 November 1984

MACWORLD November 1984 $4.00 The Macintosh"Magazine Canada $4.75 IN The end is near! For homeless printers. Dangling disk drives. Misplaced manuals. And run- away mice, Because on November 19, we will introduce & Macintosh accessory unlike any other. One that will organize you. Conserve precious desk space. And protect your valuable investment in hardware and software. While making you wonder how you ever used a Macintosh without it Its the perfect Christmas gift for your favorite Mac owner. Which might very well be you! By the way, we've saved the best news for last: You can take one home for just $95"! After November 19th, that is. Until then, we're keeping our newest accessory under wraps. 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TEQUAR’ Tecmar Sweetens Apples™ Tecmar Inc. 6225 Cochran Road Solon (Cleveland), Ohio 44139-3377 Phonex(216)349-0600 Telex: 466692 Circle 14 on reader service card MACWORLD 34 47 November 1984 The Macintosh"Magazine Getting Started State of the Art Double-Disk Strategies 56 The Macintosh Deluxe r. Daniel Farber Danny Goodman f "s The Mac’s external disk drive Announcing the 512K “Fat” Mac, the A H increases your disk space, eliminates eagerly anticipated expansion of the i . t disk juggling, and offers variety in Macintosh into a more powerful H organizing applications and computer, aouenuaces documents. Get Info ee Lon Poole Macworld’s tutor answers questions Review from readers about the Mac. 68 The MacFORTH Dimension ones i. Richard Sprague - ‘The inside story on the first programming language that enables you to use the Mac as a stand-alone system for developing marketable applications. The Living-Room Casino Jeffrey Bartlett and Keith Richard Cook ‘Two gambling games that come alive with the ringing of a slot machine and the shuffling of cards. Macware News Edited by Erfert Nielson Announcements of the latest developments in Macintosh software, hardware, and accessories. 2) November 1984 How can you use Jour Macintosh to write musical scores without purchasing an expensive application program? See this month's Open Window on page 124. 100 110 124 134 146 Hands On Murder at the Vermilion Hotel Jeremy Joan Hewes It’s not easy for a writer to keep the many details of a mystery story consistent; try using storyboards created in MacPaint. Letter Quality Arrives Janette Martin Three printer driver programs that end the wait for letter quality printing on the Mac, Open Window Edited by Kearney Rietmann An exchange of Macintosh discoveries, Community The Macintosh Family Tree Ted Nace Tracing the forty-year ancestry of the Mac through many permutations and pioneering ideas. Macworld Gallery Edited by Erfert Nielson An exhibition of Macintosh graphics, Photo/illustration credits David Bishop, cover, 35, 56-57; Jobn Hersey, 81; Ed Kashi, cover (inset), 137, 139-140; Jeffery Newbury, 100-101; Roy Shigley, 20; George Steinmetz, 9, 15, 47; Fred Stimson, 111; Mick Wiggins, 27, 29. 15 19 26 160 160 Columns Travels in the Personal Computer Time Machine David Bunnell Note Pad Amanda Hixson The Serious Side of Creativity Letters Macworld View Edited by Janet McCandless News and notes for the Macintosh community. Indexes Advertisers Products eeeveoe Find out why com- puter science re- searcher Douglas En- gelbart (below) tested the length of time it took people to write a sentence using a pen- cil tied to a brick (above). See “The Mac- intosh Family Tree” on page 134. How to get your Macintosh. to print witha daisywheel, letter quality printer. From the team who wrote MacWrite:s comes a powerful application program that allows you to print your text with any popular daisywheel, letter quality printer, Mac-Daisywheel-Connection comes with the interface cable you'll need, the software program, and a quick start-up guide, ‘The application program is straightforward and maintains the visual fidelity of your file even when you mix text and graphics. The Mac-Daisywheel- Connection supports MacWrite and Multiplanrs and other Macintosh software products, ‘The Mac-DaisywheelConnection is now available through your local Apple Computer Dealer. List price $99. Other quality products available from Assimilation Process: + Mac’Spell Right spelling checker * Mac’Turbo “Touch, Available next month * Ten-Pack of blank 314" diskettes ij UE Assimilation Process .. Passeianon Proce 186 21 alae i sypeconpac i Susefenesoe i enna cl Ae Circle 68 on reader service card 4 November 1984 MACWORLD Editorial Editor-in-Chief: Andrew Fluegelman Editor: Kearney Rietmann Associate Editor: Daniel Farber Assistant Editor: Adrian Mello Editorial Memager: janet McCandless Editorial Assistant: Eefect Nielson Copy Editors: Jeffrey Bactleu, Frances Grimble Assistant to the Editors: Heidi Mitchell Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, Lon Poole, Jeffrey 5. 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From the team who wrote MacWrite comes Mac ‘Spell Rights, a power- ful new application program that automatically checks and corrects your spelling. And, it gives you alternate word choices as well. Mac:SpellRight puts the power of Webster's Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus into every MacWrite document you create. Drastically reduce the time you spend checking and editing your docu- ments. Mac’Spell Right works directly within MacWrite, andruns transparently while you work. You don’t have to be bothered switching back and forth between disks and programs, Mac:Spell Right adds ‘‘Spell,~” to the MacWrite menu. Just click “Spell-~” from the MacWrite menu bar to check a specific word or the entire document. Improve your productivity on Macintosh. Put Mac ‘Spell Right to work for you. Mac:Spell-Right is available now through your local Apple Computer dealer. List price $89. Or, call toll-free: 1:800:MAC:5464. In California, toll free: 1 800-421-0243, Ordial direct: 408 446 -0797. 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CC) RC) CO | Main Steet Filer, database management, Helix, ete tai ostons to fo o} fou zo] £ FL tok Peachtree’s Back to Basics, accounting package. Every business day, a new software program is being developed for the Macintosh” Personal Computer. Software for word pro- cessing, Spreadsheets. Business graphics. Project management, Database management. And data communications. As well as software that enables Macintosh to do things that have never been done on a computer before. Which means the worlds easiest-to-use business computer is well on its way to becoming the worlds most useful busi- ness computer. Any authorized Apple dealer will gladly demonstrate that fact. Just ask to see the com- puter that’ software compatible. With human beings, Ud The Macintosh Mouse and Icon have ushered in a new standard in personal computing. Because Icons are integral to the Macintosh operation, good isibility is absolutely essential for optimum User performance and comfort. 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Box 1701 Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA (800) 328-9839 or (612) 72 mnufactures the World's Fin [ Monitors and Portable Computers, Ergotron licensed to Apple Computer, Inc le 83 on reader service card David Bunnell Travels in the Personal Computer Time Machine The personal computer has come a long way in the past decade, but we haven't seen anything yet When you work in the personal computer business, time takes on an elusive quality. As one of the few ten-year veterans of personal computing (which be- gan with the introduction of the Altair in December 1974), I am definitely an old guy. Al- though in the real world Iam just 37, in personal computer years I must be well over 100, This is nota complaint, I don't feel like a centenarian, but | probably have had 100 years’ worth of experiences. In 1974 I was one of 15 people trying to hang on to MITS, an electronics company that had been all but wiped out by what were then known as the “calculator wars.” Our prob- Jem was that kit calculators we sold for $110 suddenly became available already assembled for under $50. Our salvation lay ina kit computer, the Altair, which we hoped to have featured on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine. The question was whether we could keep the company afloat while we waited to see if the magazine article would have enough im- pact to keep us in business. As I helped Ed Roberts, the com- pany president, draft this arti- cle, little did I know that it would set off a frenzy that would become the starting point of the personal computer revolution. Expecting to sell 500 Altair computers in 1975, we received about 5000 paid orders for the kits within three months of the article’s publication. Soon thereafter, many people who bought Altairs were busy set- ting up their own businesses, which included the first com- puter retail stores, the first per- sonal computer software com- panies, and the first personal computer hardware peripheral companies. Before the end of the year there were even two personal computer magazines: Byte and Creative Computing. Recently, the Altair days and other personal computer devel- opments, including the found- ing of Apple Computer, have been extensively reported on and in some ways romanticized by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine in their book Fire in the Valley. Many readers are amazed to learn of the humble roots of personal computing. For one thing, even though much of the necessary technol- ogy for the personal com- puter’s existence was dlevel- oped in northern California's Silicon Valley, the Altair itself was created in Albuquerque, New Mexico. By 1977 MITS was recog- nized as the dominant personal computer manufacturer, and for a brief moment (it seemed like years to me) that southwestern city was the center of the per- sonal computer universe. Mi- crosoft (which grew out of MITS) was also in Albuquer- que, as well as Personal Com- puting magazine (started by yours truly) and the United States Robotics Society. Since then, there have been many spec tacular successes and equally grandiose failures as entrepreneurs reached for the gold, launching a multitude of businesses related to per- sonal computers. Some of the most spectacular successes grew out of early failures. For instance, both ComputerLand and MicroPro germinated from the bankruptcy of IMSAI, a computer company that made an Altair lookalike. And sadly, other promising startups turned into enormous collapses. Macworld = 9 David Bunnell Although with my hundred years of experience I confess to being very biased, it seems to me that the personal computer story contains important les- sons for everyone. Even if you're not interested in author- ing the next VisiCalc or design- ing a new lap-sized or (Heaven forbid) watch-sized computer, the dramatic changes and gyra- tions that have influenced this business are in many ways pre- cursors of events to come in businesses and institutions worldwide. This spillover will be created because adopting the personal computer on a mass scale will alter the way we work and the we access and distribute in- formation. The personal com- puter, like the automobile, the television, and a few select in- ventions that preceded it, is what I call a watershed inven- tion. That is, it is an invention that will fundamentally change the structure of our society. There are many theories about why the personal com- puter has such a strong and lasting hold on those who us it. Chuck Peddle, a computer pi- oneer par excellence who de- signed the original Com- modore computer and more recently the Victor Technology computer (which many people consider superior to the IBM PC), recently said that “once you learn computer literacy, computing is like sex—you can’t live without it.” He believes that many people were captivated by the Altair computer because they had had a taste of computing in universities, where they used Dartmouth BASIC on main- frame computers. Thus, the poor deprived fools didn't care that it could take weeks to as- semble an Altair with a solder- ing iron and what were admit- tedly not the friendliest instructions. They cared not that once it w ssembled, you had a system with 256 byt (not kilobytes) of memory that initially could be programmed only by toggling a series of switches on the Altair's front panel. Of course, what reall made the Altair sing was Altair BASIC, written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen of Micro- soft-that and workable 4K memory boards from a Berke- ley, California, company called Processor Technology. Personally, I'm not sure that I agree with the comparison of computing to sex. However, | do think that humanity is devel- oping a symbiotic relationship with the personal computer that could last for centuries. | think of the computer as an ex- tension of human memory, and 10 November 1984 J foresee a day when this addi- tional memory will be with us for life. Imagine what it would be like if from birth every time you went to a doctor or a den- tist, your personal computer went with you. As well as main- taining office records, the phi in could update your medi cal data base so that you alwar had your own complete medi- cal history, Whenever you changed doctors or visited a re- mote location, your medical history would travel with you. Periodically, when you got a new or additional computer, this data base could readily be transferred to the new system. If this seems farfetched, con- sider how far personal comput- ing has come in barely ten years: from the Altair, which only a hardware expert could put together, to the Macintosh, with its friendly user interface and exciting graphics, We can look forward to the evolution of personal computer stan- dards, of which the Mac is the latest. Because computers have the ability to remember accurately an infinite amount of data, they have the potential to become like electronic genies that be- stow gifts on the human brain. It is no wonder that once you start using a personal com- puter, you quickly reach the stage at which to live without a computer would be undesir- able or even agonizing. The main conclusion I draw from my involvement in this in- dustry is that, as dynamic as it is, we haven't seen nothing yet. For the participants in the in- dustry, the last decade may seem like a century, but in rela- tion to the impact it will have on society, the personal com- puting business is still in its infancy. Oo Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine Osborne/McGraw-Hill Berkeley, 1984 288 pages; $9.95 Cai LETTER QUALITY PRINTING . FOR YOUR MACINTOSH™ with ProPrint™ CDI's ProPrint is the MOST COMPREHENSIVE letter quality program for the MAC on the market today! You can prepare professional letters, reports and documents from your MacWrite™ files on all popular letter quality (serial) printers: Abati Brother Diablo Qume TeleVideo Amdek C. Itoh Dynax Silver-Reed Transtar Apple Comrex duki Star Powertype Xerox Blue Chip Daisywriter NEC Smith Corona HP. 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ProPrint fs a trademark of Creighton Development, Inc. MacWaite is o trademark of Avple Computer, ne: Circle 64 on reader service card Applesnew 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 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 [bbs 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 Microsoft and Multiplan are regstered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation, Apple is a registered trademark and Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Corapute, Ine 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, well offer our most manageable child, FILE, an advanced personal \YICRESSOFT, record management program. The High Performance Software And BASIC, the language spoken by nine out of ten =——— microcomputers world- |_| wide, is the granddaddy 1 of them all. | J Now enhanced to take Microsoft Word Microsoft File full advantage of the Macintosh mouse, windows and graphics. 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Recently, after a long absence from my office, I returned to a particularly im- posing stack of mail. As I sorted through it, I realized something interesting: I was setting aside letters relating to the Macintosh. I call mail of this nature Mac Mail. The contents of a pile of Mac Mail are often important to me because some of the letters contain potential book and software projects submitted for publication. This is not to say that | ignore proposals about other computers, but as I stood there looking at my Mac Mail, I realized that I had isolated those items simply because they looked different from the other mail Mac Mail appears unusual because, more than any other personal computer available to- day, the Mac entices you to be imaginative. With its graphics and visual orientation, the Mac opens the door to individual creativity in a way unmatched by its current competitors. Working with the Mac is so easy that creative results are ap- parent in almost everything as sociated with it, even mail. Mac Mail is the product of combin- ing the graphics orientation of the computer with the creative impulses most of us have. I spend much time on the job reading proposals from po- tential book and software au- thors. Before the introduction of the Mac, most of these pro- posals were produced with standard word processors run- ning on other computers; some were even written on typewrit- ers. Frankly, all the scenarios looked the same. With the emergence of Mac documents, the look of proposals has changed. Now I not only spend my time reading, but [am also. entertained by pictures and other graphics that accompany Mac-related submissions. Proposals created on the Mac often contain interesting, well- placed graphics that help illus- trate the points writers attempt to make. For example, a project idea I received recently in- cluded a delightful structural map that could be used to learn the relationships among the components of a software pro- gram the author wanted to write about. This visual repre- sentation supported the pro- sal’s main premise and mized my need to read ad- ditional explanatory text. An- other submission contained almost all graphics, which backed up the author’s claim of using visual images instead of text. Such creativit because it adds ity to our and the work we do, The Mac has made it pos- sible to be imaginative in daily work; to me, allowing our cre- ative impulses to run free is es- sential to enjoying what we do, There is a potential danger here, however-it is possible to let enthusiasm for the Ma fonts, text sizes, and graphics defeat the purpose of the docu- ments we produc For example, a friend told me a humorous story about an au- thor who submitted to a maga- zine an article that had pages liberally embellished with little important a special qual- simply replied, “I couldn't help myself Macworld 15, Real Estate and Financial Analysis on The Macintosh™ Four Packages of Advanced Multiplan Models: Package #1, for Income-Producing Real Estate: In- cludes detailed cash flow/sensitivity analysis, annual property operating schedule, and more. 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If u include drawings, make sure they add meaning to the document. Don't put in graph- ics that you can justify only be- cause they look good. Don’t obscure an issue with strange fonts or unusual font sizes. If altering a heading or a font makes sense, by all means do it. But don't make changes if you are only avoiding monot- ony or trying out new Ma features The Mac ultimately may im- pose new standards on the way we prepare documents, | think this is a wonderful idea, but be- fore those standards evolve, we must use the Mac to create bet- ter, more understandable docu- ments, rather than documents padded with little real value. The Macintosh has changed my perceptions of what a com- puter can do. I own three per- sonal computers and have ac- cess to others, but for the first time in a long while, | am ex- cited about playing with one. I can spend hours on the Mac without accomplishing any- thing more than having a good time. I encourage other people to play with the Mac too. 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First in the Maccessories family of enhancement products is the Swivel. A slim swivel base that attaches underneath the Macintosh, Mm making it easier to reposition the computer. It goes everywhere the Macintosh goes, even inside the carrying case. The Surge Suppressor is a replacement power cord, providing UL listed surge sup- pression and line noise ==" as filtering for the Macin- | tosh. It fits easily into the carrying case, so your Macintosh is pro- |) tected no matter where you take it. static Dust Covers in the family. One protects your Mac- intosh and keyboard. The other takes care " of your Imagewriter. Leave your delicate, intelligent modem at home. The Portable Modem is the perfect traveling companion for the Macintosh. It’s small, sturdy, battery powered, ~.. weighs less Cy even has its i = we own ig case. The Portable Modem operates at 300 baud with any communications software. pound and K® KENSINGTON™ 44 MICROWARE ‘Trademarks: Maccessories/Kensington Microware Fonte, Mactoah Inagewtr/ Apple Compute ic Fonts by Xiphias © 1984 Kensington Microware Circle 11 on reader service card ‘There are two anti- The Control Center, styled to fit underneath the external disk drive, provides fingertip control over your whole system. There’s a master switch to power the whole system on and off, and separate switches for a printer, modem and one auxiliary device. It also protects your whole system from power surges, line noise and static shocks. The Universal Printer Stand, for the Apple® Imagewriter; also fits most other dot matrix printers. It raises your printer 1%" from the I 4 desk at the front and Y a 4p" at : the back, an angle that allows you to monitor , your printer's performance more easily. By raising your 1 printer a few inches fm the desk, the Universal Printer Stand solves the problem of where to store your paper. Several hundred sheets are accommodated neatly underneath. The Disk Case provides safe storage for 36 Macintosh disks. And it comes with a handy packet of ys spare disk labels. o There is more to Maccessories than hardware. Maccessories Graphic Accents for Business is a collection of busi- ness icons. Use them to illustrate reports, design letterheads, spice up memos, or create invitations. Maccessories Type Fonts is a series of type fonts in sizes of 15 point type and larger. Perfect for headlines, bulletins, anywhere you need a larger typeface. Each disk includes three fonts in various sizes and a selection of business icons. Maccessories Quick Cursor is a Utility Program that allows you to designate any four keys or combina- tion of keys on your Macintosh as cursor controls. You no longer have to take your hands off the keyboard while typing and fumble for the mouse just to move the cursor. Available at Apple dealers everywhere. For more information contact Kensington Microware, Ltd., 251 Park Avenue South, NY, NY 10010, 212-475-5200, Tlx: 467383 KML NY. Letters (P)review Perplexity 1 read with interest and antic. ipation the review of Microsoft Word in your July/August issue. I thought, here's a review of the kind of program that I boughta Mac in order to use, The review was detailed and favorable, and confirmed that Word would suit my needs, But when I phoned Microsoft to check on availabil- ity, | was surprised to hear that Word would not be able until “December at the ear- liest.” | called my dealer, who had told me, “the end of June at the latest.” All she had was a prerelease copy full of bugs. I assume that your reviewer used the same prerelease version. If it was a “review,” why no men- tion of the bugs? The question I want to raise concerns the editorial policy of your reviews. Granted that the Mac has experienced hard times in software development, that a bimonthly magazine suf fers from time lag even more than a monthly does, and that you need to publish something about Mac software. But why term what you published on. Word a “review”? Wouldn't it be more honest to call it a “pre- view” and to state clearly that the program was in prerelease form and still had bugs? Thomas A. Davis Nashville, Tennessee Our goal is to review bard- ware and software in final form only and to publish the reviews in Macworld at the same time as the products are released to the public, How- ever, because manufacturers make last-minute changes to their products which affect re- lease dates, an article cover- ing a product may appear in Macworld before the product makes its way to the market. To avoid confusion, we will try as fully as possible to indi- cate whether we are reviewing a released product in final form or previewing an earlier version. In the case of pre- views, we will publish an esti- mated release date.—Ed. A Happy Reader 1 admit that I was a little wor- ried after reading your first is sues. There didn’t seem to be enough information available on the Mac and related prod- ucts to fill an entire magazine— especially one with your large format. You had quite a bit of empty white space and your multitudinous editorials ran a little too long. However, your July/August is- sue is fantastic! Nothing makes me happier than to see the large Macware News section. Yours is the only magazine that Tread and still wish for more advertisements. To be specific: this issue’s Open Window, Get Info, and Maeware News de- partments were particularly pleasing. “Stepping Into the Paint Bucket” and “The Mac- Write Sleuth” were very useful articles. I treat the issue as if it were part of the documentation that I should have received (but didn’t) for software such as Mi- crosoft BASIC and MacPaint. In closing, let me congratu- late you on your entrance at last into the world of “real” maga zines! Keep up the good work! Bring us more news on new products, more special tips, and perhaps a little less filler. Dan J. Samuel Mountain View, California The Hacker Lobby Speaks Td like to commend you on a superlative job. Both the look and content of your Premier is- sue were excellent. It was full of useful information. In fact, I've read my copy so many times it's getting a bit ragged. If 1 could make any improvement, I would add a monthly column about the more advanced uses of the Mac. As the chief programmer for a start-up Mac software com- pany and a Certified Macintosh Developer, I'd like to see Mac- world support both serious and casual Mac hackers. While I realize that your magazine is not aimed at a technically ori- ented audience, I do believe the Mac will attract many such people, as well as others who have no intention of program- ming but simply “fall into it” Also, the languages MBASIC, MacPascal, and Modula 2 are coming soon for the Mac. I'm sure that even many of your non-technical readers will be interested in reading about them-—if not in your pages, in someone else Erik D. Barnes Santa Rosa, California Software Worries I looked at computers for sev- eral months before deciding to buy a Macintosh. I could not make an absolute decision, so | plunged in. I was influenced by a friend whose company has the Lisa in their offices and who assured me that the Mac’s format is the thing of the future. Tam nota business person, and I use my machine at home with some applications for my work. I teach high school Biol- ogy and do my grades on our school computers as well as sta- tistics for my basketball team. | would like to do personal ac- counting and record keeping, as well as have something that my children could benefit from-—that is, educational soft- Macworld = 19 Get that Big Promotion. In half an hour, your boss is due to finalize a merger with a company you have doubts about. His career rides on this deal. How can you change his mind before it’s too late? Now there’s smart software” for the Macintosh™ computer. With Straight Talk, the smart software from Dow Jones, you can get the lowdown on a company without ever leaving your office. You might even discover a | fact that saves your bo: and earns you a new Play it Smart. Play the Information Game" and get $60 off Dow Jones Straight Talk” and Apple” Modem Play the Information Game at your authorized Apple® dealer. Answer five questions on the Macintosh™ computer using Straight Talk. Show us how smart you are. Play the Information Game and buy Straight Talk and we'll give you $10 off Straight Talk and $50 off Apple Modem* It’s a deal smart peop) can appreciate. One that will make you a winner — what- ever your information For the name of the participating authorized Apple dealer nearest you, call 800-257-5114 _ New Jersey, Alaska, Hawaii, and Can: Circle 69 on reader service card 20 November 1984 Letters ware for math tutoring, enhanc- ing English skills, and the like. I've just about word processed myself out and really need other kinds of software. Like most Mac users, | like my machine but am very dis- couraged by the lack of soft- ware. I wonder if | made an ex- pensive mistake in purchasing the Mac. Most of the articles that I read lean toward using the Mac for bus vith little or no mention of packages for home use. I hope that Apple does not leave us non-business users stranded with a nice ma- chine and nothing to use it for. At present I am disenchanted Henry Felix El Paso, Texas Barbara Koatkin, Apple 32 product marketing manager, reminds us that the Mac is intended to be primarily a business machine, not a home computer like the Apple I. Therefore, software devel- opers have been encouraged in that direction. Educational programs in particular will be few in number and slow to ar- rive; some courseware being developed by members of the University Consortium may reach the high-school level. However, this doesn’t mean that home users like you will be out in the cold. Although there are no personal finan- cial programs in the stores as Of this writing, several have been announced for release this year; among them are Per- sonal Tax Planner (Aardvark/ McGraw-Hill), Back to Ba Accounting System (Peachtree Software), Home “Mac” Ac- countant (Arrays/Continental Software), Dollars and Sense (Monogram), and the Personal Financial Planning series (Ap- ropos Software; used with Multiplan ). Stay tuned to “Macware News” for an- nouncements of upcoming product releases.—Ed. More Internationalism [read your article “The Inter- national Macintosh” [May/June] and am interested in the French keyboard and the French Mac- Write program. I have already spoken with people at Apple Computer, who told me that 1 could not buy them because they are not sold in the United States. lam a freshman in col- lege this fall; 1 plan to take French for the first time and think that the French materials would help me tremendous! will appreciate any information you can give me about how to purchase them. Katherine Cowden Houston, Texas Joanna Hoffman, interna- tional marketing manager for the Mac, says that Apple is still considering whether to sell in- ternational machines and software in the United States. Ifa large demand develops, they will try to accommodate it, Apple is keeping in close touch with members of the University Consortium to monitor needs on campus for foreign-language Mac prod- ucts. Hoffman suggests that for now you use the optional characters shown in Key Caps in the Apple menu. That way you can type in French with- out the French keyboard.—Ed. Credit to the Team As a member of the Macintosh development team, I was inter- viewed for your Premier (‘The Making of the Ma tosh”). | was quoted as saying, “L essentially did all the draw- ings for the Macintosh, from the layout to original models to final production drawings.” This statement is flattering but, alas, inaccurate. As the man- ager of product design, I was responsible for the output of my group. 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With Straight Talk, the smart software fron Dow Jones, you can u: Circle 69 on reader service card Macworld = 21 Anewand unique graphic input device Paint™ software. (like the apple above) directly in front of the Macin- tosh monitor for tracing with the mouse/cursor. II- lustrations can now be rendered more easily with the right proportions and perspectives for super looking graphics. Assembles and attaches easily. Just $39.95. Macintosh and MacPaint are Trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc MAIL TO: Hoglund Tri-Ordinate Corp. P.O. 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Dave Roots executed the de- sign of the keyboard and the many different options for Key Caps required by the interna- tional nature of our product. He also did the product design for the keypad and the external disk-drive housing. Ben Pang was in charge of updating the group's drawing and material lists. He worked on speaker mounting and de- signed the analog board shield. His greatest contribution was taking on the responsibility of mechanical design and docu- mentation for all internal foam packing and cardboard boxes. Laszlo Zsidek contributed his expertise in the early stages of tool procurement. Steve Balog continued where Laszlo left off and made significant contribu- tions to tool design. Steve's rec- ords could always be counted upon for quickly determining the status of the many Mac tools. Bill Bull conducted many nights of tedious temperature experiments to arrive ata reli- able thermal management plan for the Mac. He specialized in picking up loose ends, includ- ing liaison with the cable vendors. The mechanical product de- sign of the Macintosh should be remembered as a team effort in the truest sens Jerrold C. Manock Palo Alto, California Multiplan and Cairo Revisions Macworld is beautifully de- signed, gives accurate reports, and in general is a joy to read, But I'd like to offer a few cor- rections. In your Letters for both the May/June and July/Au- gust issues, you referred to the updated version of Multiplan as 1.01. Shouldn't it be 1.02? That's the update I received. Concerning Andrew Koran’s letter [“One Man's Boycott” in “Letters,” July/August] about his discontentment with Mudti- plan's copy-protection: Micro- soft now offers a backup clisk for $10 to cover duplicating and handling expenses. I have found that it is not necessary to reinsert the master disk to start the copy; it functions as if it were the original. Lastly, the Cairo font you showed [Macworld View,” July/ August] does not correspond to the version I got from my dealer, Can there be two Cairos? John Yeh Honolulu, Hawaii You're right that the latest ver- sion of Multiplan is 1.02. How- ever, the backup disk you re- ceived from Microsoft is in effect a second master disk; if you copy this disk, the Mac will still prompt you to insert your backup master to open a file. The key correspondences in your Cairo font are accurate; the ones we showed were ina prerelease version that has been changed. —Ed. Letters should be mailed to Letters, Macworld, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to CompuServe 74055,412 or Source STE9O8. 0 AZTEC C68K-P . sonal $61 AZTEC C68K TOOLS . 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Visual building blocks let you set up even the most complicated statement or calculation and.use it whenever you want to, You “flow” the information from one block into another —just by pointing, Bach “diagram” shrinks down to become an icon that can be used in any form or even embedded in another “tile”. This lets you shape conditions and relationships naturally — without having to use a programming language. The magic of the tiles and arrows has to be seen to be believed — ask your dealer for a demonstration, esta Helix use: icons to re ont every piece of your information. Make Write a letter, ent memo, or log in your January 22, 1984 | ee nT Find New! Find Preui Find First them appear a within Odesta you wish, and re- 5 iia Helix. You don’t arrange them nanvace ——<——|__ need another pro- within or betw Define and them if you wish, for data checking and curity. But most, of the Lime, just let them stay hidden “behind” the form gram to work your discove scovere ante Cut, copy, s relating to Helete replace within or between any of your forms and reports, Or com- bine informe with No special commands to learn in order to search through your “o inting to a spot on a form, or by filling in spaces with your own questions sti x will aan ara sort at Example: “Find all books published before 1940, that are fi itions costi than bout World War I and are illustrated.” Imagine the possibili Circle 13 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 witb your contributions; send them to Macworld View, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107. Correspondent Roy Shigley of San Francisco reports that with $1.25 million worth of com- puter technology at its finger- tips, the Democratic National Convention put the Macintosh to work on several critical ‘asks, Tim Sammons, a com- puter systems consultant for the convention, claims that the Mac performed better than the IBM PC at facility management, project management, and main- taining the electronic calendar. Specific organizing tasks for the Mac included equipment in- ventories, transportation sched- Above, computer system consultant Tim Sammons carries a Macintosh into the Democratic convention. Below, two posters designed and executed on the Mac that were exhibited in San Francisco during the convention. The posters display political statements made by famous Americans; they are part of a series by Michael Mallery ules, and revisions of floor strategic locations. Sammons plans. Copy printed in the large __ calls the gathering of Demo- font sizes was shown on tele- crats “the first truly electronic prompters used on the podi- convention, | believe we have um, and directional signs set a new standard for large printed on the Mac were used media event gatherings. Now in the maze of walkways in San everybody knows the prac- Francisco's Moscone Center. tical value of the personal The Mac was patched into a computer’ larger network at the conven- tion that handled the flow of in- formation among the conven- tion hall, hotels, and other 26 November 1984 The Macs Multiply Apple has announced that it will double production of Mac- intoshes from 40,000 to 80,000 units per month at its factory i Fremont, California, by Dec ber 1984. The factory's max- imum production capacity approximately 100,000 units month. To achieve this doubled vol- ume, Apple is enhancing its current manufacturing sys rather than doubling floor space, equipment, and person- nel, The automatic component insertion (ACI) area will be ex- panded by four additional in- sertion machines that install chips on the digital boards. Robotics will be introduced in the manual ACI line and work- stations will be monitored by individual operators. An addi- tional final assembly line will be installed for putting to- gether bulk parts. Although the factory is only a year old and is the third most automated factory in the na- tion, technology has advanced so much that the additional as- sembly lines and the new burn- in towers will occupy only two- thirds of the space taken up by the same number of existing assembly and burn-in lines. By streamlining the factory, Apple estimates that it will have to hire 200 additional people for the two shifts, which will bring the total number of fac- tory employees to 540 from 340. Apple has involved its em- ployees in the expansion through factory expansion teams and retraining. Employ- ees also participate in project assistance teams that analyze a process in a specific area such as the ACI area, and failure analysis teams that focus on a particular problem. They suc- ceeded recently in reducing the failure rate of the digital boards from 10 percent to 7 percent. Apple also plans to lease two additional buildings that production manager John Otterstedt says will accommo- date ongoing research and development, disk duplication administrative offices, and the manufacture of an as-yet-unan- nounced product. ” hi A Closet Discovery Without realizing it, you may be the owner of a sturdy carrying case for your Imagewriter printer. One of our staff mem- bers discovered, before leaving for the airport, an old Sam- sonite overnight suitcase that she'd left in the trunk of her car. She held her breath and tried to fit the printer into the suitcase. To her amazement, the Imagewriter fit snugly. She sent the printer through as lug- gage and used it at the meeting. Itarrived back home intact. a il Macworld — 27 Macworld View The MacColby case repackages the Macintosh and its accessories. It is de- signed to increase the ease of transporting the Mac, and can be us d by businesspeople and other Mac users who transport their computers frequently. Dense Pack Mac Portable computer manufac- turer Charles Colby has in- vented a product for Macintosh owners who must transport their computers daily, or who work in an environment where heat and dust can cau: errors. The MacColby case is designed for industrial and mil- itary markets, as well as busi- nesses in which sales personnel or managers transport their Macs to outside meetings. Colby Computer strips the Mac, its keyboard, its modem, and its disk drive from their plastic casings and encloses them in an aluminum box with a hard plastic exterior (similar to the plastic used in professional football helmets). The mouse kept in its original housing and is stored inside the unit. The keyboard is encased in die-cas magnesium and snaps onto the front of the unit. A built-in fan provides pres- surized, filtered air that circu- lates from the back of the dis drive and out the front. An anti- glare filter improves screen contrast. The only external ca- ble or connection is the power cord. The unit has a handle that functions and and locks in six positions for tilting the screen. The company offers several additional options including purchase and installation of a second disk drive ($399), a video output board ($199) that gives you the capability of con- necting the Mac to a standard monitor, and a DC converter ($199) that enables you to plug the Mac into a 12-volt outlet. Colby told us that Colby Com- puter’s own 512K upgrade will be available for the Mac, as well as the option to install a hard disk. The repackaged Mac weighs approximately 14 pounds less than the equivalent Mac com- ponents. An optional carrying case ($139) is foam lined and ant, and des: airplane seats. Accord- ing to Colby, one of the fi prototypes will go to John Scul- ley, president of Apple Com- puter. The conversion kit can be purchased directly from Colby Computer or through Ap- ple dealers (list price $599, in- troductory price $499). For fur- ther information, contact Colby Computer, 849 Independence Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043. 28 November 1984 Font Fabrications In response to the public’s de- mand for more fonts and larger font sizes, three software com- panies have developed font disks. A Florida-based software company, Dreams of the Phoe- nix, offers a Macintosh fonts disk that contains new sizes for Chicago (18 and 24), Venice (36), London (36), and New York (72). Christopher Allen, president of Dreams, com- ments that, due to the square shape of each dot that appears on the screen, some fonts that look attractive when typeset do not work as well in comput- erized versions. (A look at the text characters in MacPaint re- veals the square dots that make up each character.) Font de- signers must also take into ac- count the amount of memory required to use a font. For ex- ample, New York 72 can be use- ful for posters, but you may run. out of disk space if you load two or three other fonts of its size into memory. Dreams plans to introduce Greek and Hebrew language fonts and is also at work on a Cyrillic alphabet. Linguist Software of Mt. Hermon, Cali- fornia, has developed three al- phabets: Greek, Hebrew, and Japanese (including all hiragana and katakana char- acters and a selection of com- mon kanji characters). A clip- art manufacturer, Miles Com- puting, plans a ‘Tokyo font that will include Japanese callig- raphy. Miles Computing has com- bined clip art and fonts ina two-volume set called Mac the Knife. The first volume includes three fonts (Manhattan, Holly- wood, and Mos Eisley) and the second volume approximately 25 fonts. Most of the fonts come in at least three sizes and offer additional graphics and “hid- den goodies.” All the fonts in- clude foreign characters and a set of fractions. The font im- ages vary from brushstrokes to ils (see “Macware New: in this issue for further information). Voice of the Future As fast as you can press the Re- turn key, the Mac can now turn your typewritten words into spoken words. Written Byte of Long Beach, California, Smoothtalker is a software program available in two ver- sions, one licensed to devel- opers and the other sold in re- tail stores. Smoothtalker currently generates an adult male voice; additional voices will be added to future ver- sions. The program requires no additional hardware and use: approximately 32K, which lets you copy the program onto ap- plication disks. The program interprets common English symbols and abbreviations such as $, Dr, and Ms. and pro- vides a dictionary that lets you customize vocabulary and pro- nunciation. The dictionary al- lows you to type acronyms or code letters or words that the Mac will interpret and speak as complete words. Smoothtalker can read any MacWrite file or ASCII file. Programmers can call Smoothtatker as a routine and insert it into their BASIC or Pascal programs. David Fradin, president of First Byte, anticipates appl tions for Smoothtalker in edu- cation, training programs, and games. As les tool, a talking Mac could tirelessly demon- strate new products to poten- tial customers. Audio disks could be packaged with other products, such as a hard disk, to guide new owners through installation procedures. Speech offers a third dimension to the Mac that is as yet unexplored (see “Macware News” in this is sue for address information). Software Across the Sea Apple is exporting interna- tional Macs equipped with key- boards and manuals lo od for the French, German, Italian, British, Spanish, French Cana- dian, Dutch, Swedish, and Jap- anese markets. Apple is taking on the role of “matchmaker” to bring certified developers to- gether with managers and overseas distributors. As the in- ternational software market opens up, this role will be taken over by companies such as International Solutions of Saratoga, California, which han- dles translation and production , packaging, duplica- . mail orders, finan- 's of credit, import and export arrangements, and mar- keting and distribution chan- nels. Currently, International Solutions is translating Habadex (Haba Systems) and Mac Daisywheel Connection (Assimilation Process) for the French and German markets. Mark Kvamme, chief execu- tive officer of International So- lutions, considers the Mac the “first truly international com- puter because of the icons and other features in its user inter- face.” The Mac’s resource files allow software companies to separate text from program code, so text used in menus, windows, and dialog boxes can be translated without having to recompile a program, Kvamme considers the market for Amer- ican products overseas to be stronger than the market here for overseas software. What Lies Beneath the Label? You may be surprised to find out that the Imagewriter printer you bought to go with your Macintosh is actually man- ufactured by Tokyo Electric, which based its design on the C. Itoh Prowriter. And the Hot Dot, a dot matrix printer from Leading Edge, is another ver- sion of the Prowriter. But the C. Itoh Starwriter is manufactured by Tokyo Electric, as is the Ap- ple Scribe printer. On the other hand, the Apple Daisy Wheel printer is manufactured by Qume, but Qume’s LetterPro daisy wheel printer is manufac- tured by Ricoh. According to Lauryn Jones, president of Assimilation Pro- cess, the reason for this seem- ingly confusing story of man- ufacturing and marketing is economics. It is often more economical for companies to buy a printer and customize it than to assume the manufactur- ing costs of a printer that will broaden a product line but ma not command significant sales on its own. In Japan the practice of dis- tributing a product under vari- ous labels is widely accepted because companies specialize in different phases of produc- tion and marketing. C. Itoh is the trading company for many Japanese manufacturers. Tokyo Electric manufactures printers in large volume but doesn't have access to as many distribu- tion outlets as C. Itoh, nor does it provide as extensive retail support. In the United States, manu- facturers such as U. S. Data Products, Diablo, Qume, and Centronics supply printers for mini and mainframe systems but not for the personal com- puter market. Personal com- puter peripherals have lower profit margins for the hardware manufacturers. By purchasing printers made overseas, hard- ware distributors such as Qume can satisfy their customers’ de- mand for a wide selection of printers. This method of cus- tomizing and repackaging printers is cheaper for distribu- tors than setting up their own production facilities. Manufacturing information can be useful to end users. example, Silver Reed letter quality printers use the Diablo command set, which means that you can use a Silver Reed printer with software that sup- ports a Diablo printer. Mac owners who purchase a Dynax or Comrex letter quality printer will be able to use software that runs with Brother printers, be- cause both printers have the same mechanism used by the Brother HR series. For informa- tion on hooking up your Mac to a leuer quality printer, see “Let- ter Quality Arrives” in this issue. O Macworld 29 ; Jue 21, Lets you make Macintosh* slide shows with movie-type special effects! Now, for business meetings . . . sales presentations . . . in-store and store window demonstrations . for classroom use for home fun! Anything you can put on a Mac screen can be used with the Slide Show Magician... from § Muluplan® spreadsheets and MacWrite** copy to pictures, graphs, words and charts. 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For many Mac owners, the 400K storage capacity of a sin- gle-drive Mac is a serious limitation. When I started using the Mac to write articles and to create MacPaint documents for the Premier issue of Macworld, the dreaded “disk full” mes- sage and the drudgery of disk juggling became the bane of my existence. Added together, many hours of my time passed in shuffling disks in and out of the disk drive to make backup copies of documents and to transfer information between documents residing on different disks. What I needed to save me from the time-consuming task of disk juggling was an ex- ternal disk drive to give me another 400K of disk space. 34 November 1984 i Getting Started Last February | would have traded my car for an external drive. I finally got one (without sacrificing my car), and it has proved to be this Mac owner's best friend. I still look forward to upgrading my Mac from 128K to 512K of memory (see “The Macintosh Deluxe” in this issue). But for now the external drive satisfies my needs for increased disk space, different strategies for organizing applications and documents, and an ef- ficient way to back up my documents (see “Protecting Your Information”). The Outside Drive Atthe moment, only Apple is manufacturing Mac external drives. John Rizzo, Macintosh product man- ager, reports that 50 to 60 percent of Mac owners are buying external disk drives. This figure indicates that, despite the $495 price, many Mac owners are investing in anti-disk-juggling devices. The purpose of any disk drive is to provide a way to store information, so that when the computer is turned off the information is not lost. The drive changes the electronic information held in the com- puter’s memory into the magnetic form held on the surface of a floppy disk. When you want to resume working on the information, the drive changes it back into electronic form and sends it to the computer's memory. By shuttling information into and out of memory, a disk drive also serves as a temporary hold- ing area to compensate for the fact that the Mac's memory cannot contain all the information stored ona disk at once. The Mac’s external drive is identical to the Sony- built drive inside the Mac, except for being housed in its own cabinet. The drive is about the same size and weight as a quality paperback edition of War and Peace. Its physical characteristics reflect the design principles of the Mac. The drive is easy to attach, takes up little room, and can go wherever your Mac goes. You attach the external drive to the Mac simply by plugging the drive cable into the serial port marked with the icon of an external disk dr If you bought the Mac for its diminutive size and hesitate to give up desk space to another piece of hard- ware, you can turn the drive on its side. Apple hard- ware engineer Dan Kottke assures me that rotating the drive sideways won't damage either your disks or the drive itself, The external drive also fits on top of the Mac, but place it on the right side of the computer to avoid the heat generated on the left side of the system unit by the analog board. 36 November 1984 Each additional piece of hardware you add to the Mac enhances its performance but may also interfere with one of the Mac’s chief virtues—transportability. Other than the addition of a few pounds, the external drive is no obstacle to transportability because it fits into the Mac’s carrying case. (I have tested only Ap- ple’s carrying case; if you plan to purchase another Mac carrying case, test it to make sure it has enough room for the drive.) An antistatic shielding bag comes with the exter- nal drive. Placing this bag over the disk drive’s connec- tor protects the drive from potential electrostatic damage when it is not connected to the Mac. If you pick up some static and inadvertently touch the con- nector pins, you may damage the drive's integrated cir- cuit, Use a rubber band or tape to secure the bag over the head of the connector cable. You may wonder how, once the external drive is attached, the Mac knows that two devices are storing information instead of one. Whenever you turn the Mac on, the Finder (the set of programs that keeps track of all applications and documents on your disks) automatically looks to see if an external drive is being used, If so, the Finder updates its desktop files to in- clude information about the second disk. Whether you have a disk in the external drive or not, the Finder checks for the directory of any disk in that drive. When you aren't using the external drive, you can make your Mac run a little faster by unplugging the drive to save the Finder the trouble of looking for nonexistent files. Book Cover Wine Ad /v.1 Wine Ad /v.2 ie PAINT/DF Figure This dialog box, also known as the Mini-Finder, lists the names of documents created with the current application. In this e: ample, the Mini-Finder lists the names of the documents on the MacPaint disk in the internal drive. Clicking on the Drive but- ton automatically lists the names of the documents on the disk in the external drive. With the Mini-Finder, you don't have to quit the application or juggle disks to open a document lo- cated on the disk in the second drive, as tong as the document was created using the same application as the startup application From One Disk to Another Adding a second disk drive not only doubles the amount of information you have on hand at one time, it virtually eliminates the inconvenience of disk juggling and often increases the speed of information transfer. drive improves the efficiency of three operations: copying entire disks, copying and documents from one disk to another, and cutting and pasting between documents on sep: rate disks. ingly, an external disk drive doesn’t save time when you copy entire disks, but the process is s tiring. Using one drive to copy a Write/Paint disk h the Disk Copy utility takes about two minutes Copying the same disk with a two-drive Mac is no faster, but it is automatic. To copy a disk using an exter- nal drive, you drag the icon of the disk to copy onto the icon of the destination disk, and the Mac carries out the procedure for you. You won't see any “please insert the disk” messages unless you have been work- ing with more than two disks and the disk you want to copy from or to is not in one of the drives (such a disk icon appears dimmed on the desktop). Compared to a single-drive Mac, an external drive reduces the time for copying files from one disk to an- other by more than half, Copying time depends on the number and the size of files. Copying a 15K MacWrite document with a two-drive Mac, for example, takes about 25 seconds. Copying a folder with three docu- ments totaling 33K takes about 35 seconds. Copying files with a second disk drive isn’t lightning fast, but after you have juggled disks for a few months it’s a relief. Cutting and pasting information between disks or documents with an external drive is less time consum- ing than with a single-drive Mac. Suppose you are de- signing an advertisement with MacPaint and want to include a logo you created earlier. In this case, the disk in the internal drive contains the MacPaint program and some MacPaint documents (as well as the Finder and the System file that the Mac uses to launch and run the application). The disk containing the document that has the logo is in the external drive. You can use either the Clipboard or the Scrapbook to copy the logo into the MacPaint document you are working on. Either the Clipboard or the Scrapbook copy proce- dure can be used from within MacPaint as follo ® Close the MacPaint document you are working on (by clicking on the close box or choosing Close from the File menu). ® Choose Open from the File menu. In the scroll window, the Mini-Finder lists the names of the Mac- Paint documents on the MacPaint disk in the internal drive (see Figure 1). Or, if the document you are work- ing on is on the disk in the external drive, the names of the MacPaint documents on this in the Mini-Finder scroll window. @ On the right side of the Mini-Finder, click on the Drive button, and the MacPaint documents on the disk holding the logo document appear in the scroll window (see Figure 2). ® Double-click on the file labeled “Logo, document appears on the screen. © Cut or copy the logo you want to the Clipboard or the Scrapbook ® Close the document window and follow the procedure again to get back to your original document on the MacPaint disk. When you return to the docu- ment, the logo will be in the Clipboard or the Scrap- book, ready to be pasted. hile the Clipboard is sufficient for transferring single items, you can use the Scrapbook to save time when you transfer several items at once. If you need to place several illustrations, charts, tables, or portions of text stored on one disk into a document on another isk, for instance, you can copy the information into the Scrapbook file of the application disk in the inter- nal drive. Because documents are bound to the System file of the startup application disk, the text or graphics you put in the Scrapbook are stored automatically on the same disk as the System file used by the appli- cation. and the (continued on page 40) Bagel ad Borders #1 Borders #2 Paint/Data 2 Display types Game ad if Logo Figure 2 Double-clicking on an item (or selecting an item and clicking on the Open button) opens a document. If you have a long list of MacPaint or MacWrite documents, for example, you can also use the “auto-scrolling” technique. Type the first letter of the name of the document you want to open, and the Mini- Finder automatically scrolls to the first document that begins with that letter. Macworld — 37 BB Getting Started Backing up your documents on data disks is essential if you want to protect your in- formation. Because a computer is a ma- chine, it sometimes has mechanical failures that can send your documents irretrievably into the ozone. A two-drive Mac makes it easier to back up documents than does a one-drive system Asimple way to back up documents with a two-drive system is to use your ap- plication disk as a temporary transfer area. You can move the documents you want to back up from the data disk to the applica- tion disk and then transfer the documents toa backup data disk. This technique is practical if you need to back up only a few documents that you have recently created or modified. It is impractical if your ap- plication disk (such as a Write/Paint disk with a fully loaded System file) doesn’t have sufficient disk space to hold your doc- uments temporarily. Here's a step-by-step description of the temporary transfer technique: ® Copy the documents you want to back up from the data disk onto the ap- plication disk. @ Eject the data disk and insert a backup data disk in the external drive. © Copy the documents from the ap- plication disk to the backup data disk. © Finally, drag the copies of the docu- ments on your application disk into the Trash to clean up your application disk and reinsert the original data disk to continue your work. Backing up files is easy when your documents are stored on the startup disk. You insert a data disk in the vacant drive, select the documents you want to back up, and drag them into the data disk window: Backing up entire data di require: a little disk juggling. Because data disks can't start up the Mac, you must have a disk that contains the Finder and the System file in one of the drives. To back up an entire data disk, use the following procedure: 38 November 1984 Protecting Your Information Font Mover in System file *Chicago-12 *Geneva- 9 *Geneva-12 Geneva-24 *Monaco- 9 in Fonts file Help BI Jit Total space: 0 bytes * required for system use Write Fonts The Font Mover allows you to create more disk space for documents by removing fonts from the System file. The fonts in the System file tn this fig- ure take up about 17K. The only non-System Sont, Geneva-24, is included because the Font ‘Manager scales down 2 printing in high resolution. You can remove 24- point Geneva (7K) if you don't print in high reso- ution. The System fonts, which are used to create the text in dialog boxes and menus, are quite readable on the screen as well as on paper " & File_Edit_view Speciot wsrite/DF Stems 161K in disk 250K available Kid ‘System cecurer Stem decent ‘Sst cesar ‘yee courant Last Mosified Fes. fg 3, 1904 ed, Hay 2,194 Tue, oils, 1988 Fri. 03t 5, 1904 1 Serapboek Fite OF Clipboard Fite ill Write 238 By removing unneeded fonts and desk acces ries, you can free up a substantial amount of disk space. This ‘stripped’ System setup is pecially convenient for using an external drive Jor backup purposes or for working on a single- drive Mac. You can also remove the Imagewriter Jile (17K) if you don’t print in standard or high- resolution mode, This strategy isn't practical for all application programs; most programs take up more disk space than MacWrite and require more fully featured System files. ® Insert your application disk or any startup disk that has the Finder and System file into the internal drive and insert the data disk you want to back up into the ex- ternal drive. Eject the startup disk in the internal drive and replace it with the data disk you want to use for backing up your docu- ments in the internal drive. © Drag the icon of the data disk onto the icon of the backup data disk. ® Click on OK when the Mac asks if you want to replace the contents of the disk in the internal drive with the contents of the disk in the external drive. The Mac reads the information on your data disk and writes it onto the backup data disk, © Insert the startup disk that was orig- inally in the internal drive, after the Mac has completed the copy procedure and ejected the backup data disk. Then the Mac updates the Finder about the locations and names of your applications and docu- ments. Quick Backup Disks Backing up documents usually re- quires some disk juggling, even with a s ond disk drive. If backing up your docu- ments is the key concern, there is a way to set up your disks so that you can use the second drive for backup purposes only. This strategy, however, may not be practi- cal for some applications because of the amount of disk space taken up by the ap- plication and the System Folder. You can use the second drive for backup, but you won't have much space to create docu- ments. A MacPaint system disk, for exam- ple, has about 137K available for docu- ments—enough space for only a few com- plex drawings. You can create a MacWrite system disk, on the other hand, that has 238K of document space. Using the Font Mover, you can remove fonts you don't need. My Mac- Write workdisks have only Geneva-12 and -24 and the System fonts (which you cannot remove) in the System file (see the figure labeled “Write Fonts”). You need the Ge- neva fonts because the Mac’s Font Manager uses those sizes for printing. It scales down the larger size by 50 percent to enhance the characters’ image on paper. The desk accessories are especially useful because they are accessible from the desktop or from within an application. However, I find that I rarely use them when I’m writing. I used the Desk Accessory Mover (avail- able from CE Software, 801 73rd St., Des Moines, 1A 50312) to remove the unneeded sk accessories from my MacWrite disk’s tem file. This utility allows you to delete or add desk accessories and to save them in a file that you can store on a separate disk. As new desk accessories become available, such as a Rolodex-type appoint- ment calendar, you can use the Desk Ac- cessory Mover to move them into the Sys- tem file so you can select them from the Apple menu. With a few other tweaks such as emp- tying the Scrapbook, you can obtain 238K of disk space for creating and storing docu- ments. If you can get by with printing in draft mode only, you can pick up an addi- tional 17K by removing the Imagewriter file (see the figure labeled “Write 238"). Every time you return to the desktop, you can replace the older versions of your documents on the data disk or transfer copies of newly created documents to the data disk. You can also create backup cop- ies of documents from within an applica- tion by using the following technique: e the document on the applica- tion disk by choosing Save from the File menu and clicking on the Yes button in the dialog box. ® Choose Save As from the File menu and click on the Drive button before click- ing on the Save button. You can even re- name the document to reflect its backup status. To transfer a document from another disk or a different application to your Mac- Write disk, you eject the data disk and in- sert the disk you need to use. After you finish the file transfer or the cut-and-paste operation, eject the disk in the external drive and replace it with a data disk. Then transfer copies of the modified or new documents to the data disk to keep your backup files up to date. Maeworld 39 IB Getting Started (continued from page 37) You can also replace the Scrapbook file on one disk with the Scrapbook file from another d ample, you may have 15 documents on a Microsoft Chart disk that you want to insert in a MacWrite bus ness report. You can copy the Chart documents to the program's Scrapbook file. Then you can replace the rapbook file on the MacWrite disk with Chart’s Scrapbook file (see Figure 3). To exchange Sc books, follow this procedure: @ Insert MacWrite in the internal drive and Chart in the external drive. @ Open the System Folder on the MacWrite disk If the MacWrite Scrapbook file contains items you want to preserve, rename the file (the Mac has a rule that every object must have a unique name). If the contents of the Scrapbook file are expendable, drag it @ Drag the Scrapbook file from the Chart disk window into the MacWrite disk window. You can use the Clipboard and the Scrapbook to transfer information between any appl. grams, whether you have one or two disk drives. That transfer process is somewhat time consuming because you must always quit the current application and re- turn to the desktop before starting up another applica- tion. Each time you quit or open an application, the Finder looks through the directory of each disk to up- date its Desktop file, This survey ounts for most of @ file Edit View Special Reports Chart Master G items 542K in dick SOK availabie|| 7 items 35BK in disk 41K availa = = = Reports Hickrite October Report Report Forms rojeetions Chart System FoWler sates Format | _p.char! Master: November Reports System Folie Chart System Folder == System Folder Gitems 163K in folder 41K avail & items 209K in fold