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CWORIL March 1985 $3.95 The a Canada $4.75 Let the Mac Figure Your Taxes Microsoft’s Programming Contest Move Into MacStation'! It's ewo walls and a roof where every Macintosh should live. With plenty of storage space for a printer, disk drive, modem and manuals. Anda place your pet mouse can hide! It's MacStation. An integrated workstation that’s at home in offices, dorm rooms or dens. And a terrific way to save valuable desk-top real estate, Adjustable shelves let you rearrange the rooms the way you like, The roof doubles as a handy printer stand. With attic space to store continuous form paper. Plus MacStation is ventilated. To keep Macintosh cool. And with the large front door, you can easily take Mac out for a walk. You don't have to mortgage your house to buy one, either. Because you can get MacStation for only $95* at your favorite Apple store. Give your Macintosh a good home! 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Circle 14 on reader service card Tecmar THE POWER BEHIND THE PC MACWORLD March 1985 The Macintosh"Magazine Getting Started Review 44 Decking Out the Mac’s Desktop 72 The Invisible Disk Gordon McComb Danny Goodman Conveniently accessible from within The Mac Memory Disk makes any application, Macintosh desk applications run faster by tricking the accessories make your computing 512K Macintosh into treating part of its environment less cluttered and make memory as a disk. you more productive. 84 Througha Glass Lightly 59 Get Info 4 Erfert Nielson Inspired by the Lewis Carroll classic, the first Macintosh game from Apple has enough features to challenge the eye, the mouse, and the imagination. Macware News Edited by Erfert Nielson Announcements of the latest developments in Macintosh software, hardware, and accessories. Lon Poole Hands On The Tax Man Cometh Vahé Guzelimian This Form 1040 Multiplan template may not reduce your taxes, but it'll reduce the time you take to figure them. Open Window Edited by Jim Heid An exchange of Macintosh discoveries. 2 March 1985 130 s4b4ddbdhdaa Apple introduces its first game for the Mac- 34 intosb. Aside from of: fering several varia- tions on itself, Through the Looking Glass al- lows you to design your own playing pieces. Find out how starting on page 84. Community The Mac Goes to the Movies Anthony Reveaux In the production of feature films, documentaries, and television commercials, the Mac gets a nomination for the best performance by a computer in a supporting role. Macworld Gallery Edited by Erfert Nielson An exhibition of Macintosh graphics. Columns Does the Mac Mean Business? David Bunnell Note Pad Neale McGoldrick An educator makes a case for planting a few Macintoshes in the schools’ Apple II orchards. Letters Macworld View Edited by Janet McCandless Microsoft sponsors a programming contest to introduce its upgraded BASIC, plus other news and notes for the Macintosh community. 155 156 Indexes Products Advertisers Photo/illustration credits David Bishop, cover (background), 130-131 (background); jobn Hersey, 34, 36-37, 72-73; Ed Kashi, 131-133; Jeffery Newbury, 106-107; George Steinmetz, 9, 35, 59; Fred Stimson, cover (inset), 44-45. Macworld = 3 MACWORLD Editorial Editor-in-Chief: Andrew Fluegelman Editor: Kearney Rietmann Associate Editor: Daniel Farber Assistant Editor: Adrian Mello Editorial Manager: Janet McCandless Editorial Assistant: Erfert Nielson Senior Copy Editor: Kathleen Christensen Copy Editor: J. E. Arcellana Assistant to the Editors: Heidi Mitchell Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, Gordon McComb, Lon Poole, Jeffrey S. 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Maclerminal, data communications PPS: File. database management Helix, relational database. Journals & Reports Heist paiance ‘Dotatled Oenarai Leger Gm Peachirees Back to Baste 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 world’s most useful busi- ness computer. Any authorized Apple dealer will gladly demonstrate that fact. Just ask to see the com- puter that’s software compatible. With human beings. é. Put it on your list. You didn't buy a Macintosh to play Zork In fact, OverVUE is the only database You bought it for clout. For the right facts, manager on the Mac that waits for you in the right order, at the right time. instead of you waiting for it.) Which is exactly what you get with the So, if your time is valuable, look into OverVUE™ information manager. OverVUE at your authorized Apple dealer, OverVUE sorts, analyzes, categorizes, Don't wait forever. extracts, even calculates. All at a rate of There's enough of that going on in data- about 10 single-spaced pages per second. base management already. Qyep\VU EY” ProVUE Development Corporation, 222 22nd Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 + (714) 969-2431 oiairer Dems iri. Bri leat Ree Canis Maken ose ecm lo pe Cape a: ProVUE an Overt UB are odenurla ol PVE Lepore Crt, Circle 77 on reader service card David Bunnell Does the Mac Mean Business? Though there’s little room at the top, the business market is big enough for both IBM and Apple For the average consumer, close to $3000 is a high price to pay for a computer system, so if Apple Computer intends to sell millions of Macintoshes, the Mac will have to make signifi- cant inroads into the business market. Apple is aware of the importance of the white-collar crowd and has begun to court the corporate realm with sales teams and slick adve ng campaigns. Chances are slim that the Mac will become the personal computer of choice on Fortune 1000 desks; how- ever, it has the ability to be- come a major competitor in the remaining business market Despite the IBM Personal Computer's apparent domi- nance in the corporate world, Apple still has the opportunity to present the Macintosh as a viable alternative to the PC. Al- though the Fortune 1000 com- nies, whicl first-name basis with Big Blue as they buy thousands of PCs i a single order, make the hea lines, these companies repr sent only the tip of the business s Steve Jobs report- How many Fortune 1000 companies are there?” IBM doesn’t have a monopoly in the business market yet, but it does have a strong software base, which gives it the edge. Apple sent the Macintosh into IBM's traditional territory armed with some impressive ammunition, The Mac’s unique user interface lends a new ap- peal to application software. Its st programs are often more flexible and easier to learn than ndards. With this so- lidifying software base and the promise of even more out- standing software, such as Jazz from Lotus, the Mac could start to enchant the business market away from Big Blue. Most of the Mac’s hardware advantages are obvious, Unlike the PC, it has a smal] footprint and is truly portable. It doesn’t require special furniture or ad- ditional space to adapt to an of- fice environment, With its an- nouncement of the Macintosh Office, Apple is putting all the pieces together—business soft- 12K Mac, a laser and a network ca- pability—to give the Mac the corporate clout it needs to be taken seriously as a business machine. Apple's advantages could be short-lived, however, as IBM maintains its long-standing rep- utation and upgrades its PC: While Apple split its family tree with the Mac, IBM has kept its PC family together and com- patible. IBM also has the advan- tage of an immense array of software, hardware accessories, networks, and links between mainframe and personal com- puters. Most IBM accessories have been around for a while; their developers have already paid the price of pioneering. What people give up in creativity and originality when they opt for IBM, they make up for in stability. Since the Macintosh is ham- pered by both its inchoate in- troduction and the IBM PC's three-year head start, Apple has several battles to wage in the corporate market for both sym- bolic and strictly business rea- sons. While vying for the exec- utive hand, some of Apple’s marketing tactics seem less than honorable. In the long run, har: is not the way to win friends and influence people. Apple may want to foster anti- aia ie ae de- raneuse in thes corporate world. They are already com- mitted to IBM and are very sat- isfied with the PC. The ads showing frustrated users smashing IBM PCs because of repeated syntax errors were tasteless and surprisingly vin- dictive. The Macintosh has enough style; Apple shouldn't have to stoop to petty name- calling. Even so, Apple doesn't have enough security to protect itself from retaliation. Many people probably have similar frustrations with the Macin- Macworld 9 AZTEC C68K-C ... leveloy AZTEC CEBK-P 0 00... 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The keys lie in the devel- opment of better Macintoshes and more application software The Mac is an amazing com- puter; with a few changes it could be excellent For instance, the Mac's hard disk configuration moves data through a serial, instead of par- allel, port, which slows down data transfer considerably, Since speed is a primary advan- tage of a hard disk, the Mac doesn't rate well in this regard. The recent jump to 512K from 128K was important but took too long. Annual upgrades in memory are not going to be sufficient in this industry. The Mac also needs to be able to run several applications con currently, Finally, the machine needs its first great program to give it the notoriety that Visi- Calc gave the Apple II and 1-2-3 gave the IBM PC. Devel- oping these attributes would give the Mac far more charm than a derogatory advertising campaign. In many ways Apple is simply recasting the with the Mac, giving a good idea and a good machine a second chance. And if the company can continue to romance the market, the Mac will survive. Although the Mac- intosh is not fated for the Fo: tune 1000, it will be popular among smaller businesses, pro- fessionals, and students. All in all, that’s not a bad following. 0 Oh my gosh, look what's | Run for the 7 Run for the Money™ by Tom Snyder. Learn to pur- sue profits in the real world as you escape from an alien planet. Based on economic models prepared by an MIT economist, teenagers learn and experiment with this fast-paced game that en- courages sound business MasterType™ by Bruce Zweig. At last, Mac owners can join the other 250,000 computer owners who have access to the fastest, most entertaining way ever of learning to type and improv- ing speed and accuracy. The best selling educational program in America gives you arcade game action thinking. With graphics that with exciting Mac graphics. look great on the Mac, lots Give ita try! Before you of acti dac Uli now it, you'll be a master typist on your Mac too. is a game to be enjoyed again and again by young- sters or the whole family. scenario, Run for the Money your Macintosh! An | | : i i Make Millions™ by Tom Snyder. The adult business simulation game that tests entrepreneurial skills and strategies through “boom and bust”. Make Millions gives aspiring capitalists all of today’s management tools: stock quotations, mar- ket research, spread sheets, data base and consulting is And, to create vari- ou can “’mouse your VO es wee into di erent environ- ments while you wheel and deal. Play Make Millions. See if you have what it takes to be a tycoon and make millions. Tha € cou AFKAII calle Chk ey FEE SUC VI VU wy SIGH He © Scarborough Systems, Inc., 25 N. Broadway, Tarrytown, New York 10591 Circle 133 on reader service card Announcing the If youve got talent at the key- », board, heres a chance to perform in public. And get rewarded for your prowess. Just write something brilliant in Microsoft® BASIC for Macintosh" } The Grand Prize is an 11MB _ OmniDrive™ hard disk from Corvus Systems worth $2,495. And there's more where that came from. Oar BASIC gives you a lot to work with. Because Microsoft BASIC is Mac’ first language, the one that makes the most of its unique abilities, you'll have ample opportunity to exercise your imagination. Creativity is what we're looking for first. And style. Not just elegant programming. So even a non-whiz can win. First prize winners in each of four categories will take home 512K RAM upgrades. Second place winners can choose an external drive, a printer, or a modem. And third place finishers get a Mac carrying case. Plus all winners will receive the entire Microsoft family of Macintosh a ee Macworld will judge the winners in four categories: Productivity, Recreation, Education, and Utilities. So dont keep it to yourself. Pop a disk into your Macintosh and put your mind to it. You could hack your way to a hard disk. nost BASIC contest. BASIC Rules 1) The eligible categories for this contest are: A. PRODUCTIVITY/BUSINESS: Applications that enhance productivity in the home or office. B. ENTERTAINMENT: Applications that entertain. This category will include video games and simulations. C. EDUCATION: Applications that teach. This category will include educational software aimed at all ages. D. UTILITIES: Applications that make it easier to develop or maintain systems. 2) Your program must be written in Microscft BASIC for the Macintosh. You may IC -3SO use any version of Microsoft BASIC you wish. M R&S FT. 3) All programs submitted must be the original work of the author(s), and must The High Performance Software” be placed in the public domain. Neither the author nor Microsoft will claim copyright or any other rights. 4) Programs may not have been previously published anywhere. Macworld magazine will publish the winning programs. Authors may submit programs to other publi- cations after the conclusion of the contest. 5) All entries must be submitted on disk. Entries must include documentation (when necessary) and must indicate which contest category you are entering (education, recreation, productivity or utility). 6) Your entry must include the following materials: 1) Disk containing the program you wish to enter, 2) Your name, address, and phone number, - - - 3) The documentation for the program (if needed), Pcepi anc ype home this 4) An indication of which category you wish to enter. Please include this both on the outside of your envelope and inside with your name and address. Send these materials to: MICROSOFT BASIC PROGRAMMING CONTEST, PO. Box 82243, St. Paul, MN 55182. Entries must be postmarked no later than June 30, 1985 and received no later than July 7, 1985. 7) Entries will be judged by an independent group of judges selected by Macworld and Microsoft. Entries will be judged on the following criteria: 70 percent for creativity, i.e. definition originality, implementation originality and use of Mac features. 30 percent for implementation, i.e. programming elegance and bug free. Limit one prize per person or household per category. All prizes will be awarded. 8) There will be a First, Second and Third prize awarded in each category, along with a Grand Prize for the best overall program submitted. The prizes for each category are: Firse—512K RAM upgrade and 4 Microsoft packages, Second — Your choice of one of the following: external disk drive or a printer or a modem and 4 Microsoft packages. Third—Mac carrying case and 4 Microsoft packages. The Grand Prize is—Corvus IIMB hard disk drive. 9) A list of the major prize winners is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: MICROSOFT BASIC PROGRAMMING CONTEST WINNERS LIST, PO. Box 82217, St. Paul, MN 55182 Requests must be received by July 7, 1985. Do not send entries to this address. 10) All entries become the property of Microsoft and none will be returned. Winners will be notified by mail on or about August 30, 1985. There will be no substitution of prizes. Any taxes on prizes shall be the sole responsibility of the winners. Microsoft reserves the right to secure a certificate of eligibility from winning entrants. 11) Miscellaneous: No special form needed to enter. Enter as often as you wish, but each entry must be mailed separately. Disks will not be returned. Decision of the judges is final. Contest open to all residents of the USA except employees and their families of Microsoft and Macworld, their affiliated companies and agencies and Carlson Marketing Group. Contest void wherever prohibited or restricted by law. Microsoft is a registered trademark and The High Performance Software is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computers, Inc. OmniDriv trademark of Corvus Systems. facintosh Mouse and Icon have ushered in a new standard in personal computing, Because Icons are integral to the Maci Operation, good absolutely essential ar performance and een is no longer just a display, but a tool as essential to the User as the Keyboard or Mouse, The new MacTilt is designed to elevate the Macintosh and allow screen ad- justment to a viewing angle which is just perfect for you. As smooth as silk, the MacTilt can be easily adjusted with the touch ofa finger to reduce glare and provide the optimum in sereen/icon visibility. For alow $99.95, MacTilt will convert your Macintosh into a professional ergonomic workstation which will allow you and your Staff to realize the full potential of this revolutio new Computer. The Mac unique design tilts 30° and rotates 360°. In addition, your Macintosh lifts easily on and off when used as a portable. To obtain your new MacTilt, v pple Computer Dealer or call or write: See ROM. polis, MN 55417, US. (800) 328-9839 or (612) Ergotron Manufactures the Worl for a full Range of CRT Monitors and Portable Computers. lt isa trademark of Ergotron, Inc. Macintosh is K.ligensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 83 on reader service card The other day I was sitting ina computer store amusing myself with some of the long-awaited Mac software when a woman walked in with her daughter and announced she was inter- ested in buying a first computer for her family. For the next few moments the salesclerk sized up the family (and the family pocketbook) and asked a few critical questions in order to lead the family to one or an- other of the computer carrels in the store. Was this to be an IBM or an Apple II family? Or would the family be more likely to settle on an Atari or a Commodore? The clerk began with some obvious questions. “Do you have any particular computer in mind? Do your children have computers at schoc The an- swers to both questions were negative, but the mother added. with some conviction that she would like to look at the Macin- tosh because she had heard it was the newest thing. “Well, it does have new tech- nology,” replied the clerk, “but it's really a business computer. If you want a computer for kids, then the Mac is out. I think you might be interested in the Ap- ple He or perhaps the IIc.” The mother looked a little disap- pointed but dutifully followed Note Pad: Neale McGoldrick _Macs Are for Kids Too Why should Macintosh computing be one of life’s deferred pleasures? the clerk over to the Apple Ie, where a colorful game was run- ning ad infinitum. “This com- puter,” the salesman announced proudly, “will meet all your family needs. It runs lots of ed- ucational software as well as games, and you can program it, too. Besides, it has color and costs much less than the Macintosh, “The Mac is newer,” he con- ceded, “but Apple has commit- ted itself to maintaining the IT series as the computer of choice for schools. After all, there are already thousands of programs for the Apple II” Pity, [ thought to myselfas I opened MacPaint to take a look at a new clip art disk. I had yet to meet a child who didn't fall in love with the Macintosh, and this family was not going to be given a chance. I considered inviting the child over to play with MacPaint while the mother looked at the He but decided I wanted to preserve my welcome in the store. Even- tually mother and daughter left, promising to come back on Saturday with Dad for the final decision. I wondered whether they would have gotten to see the Mac if Dad had been along on this trip. After all, the clerk might have thought that the fa- ther would have an appropriate business use for it. No, I de- cided, in that case they would have been steered to the IBM PC. I didn’t feel I could really blame the clerk for his advice that the Macintosh is primarily a business computer; it's been promoted that way all along. You don't find the likes of Char- lie Chaplin cavorting in Macin- tosh ads. Ironically the Mac is being recommended for busi- ness because it's easy to use but not for school or home, where a computer's ease of use would be appreciated as much as in business if not more so. Isn't the whole idea behind the mouse and the pull-down menus to make the Mac more accessible to beginners than a computer with lists of commit- to-memory commands? Why indeed should adults and col- lege students get to celebrate the virtues of the “fun” com- puter and leave kids with the “kid stuff”? It seems as if Apple is care- fully ignoring the potential of the Macintosh for education, and more the pity. Some adults may not mind that a machine as exciting and easy to use as the Macintosh is not being made available to kids. After all, there are supposed to be deferred pleasures in life, such as staying up late or not having to do homework. As a teacher, how- ever, I'm disturbed that such a marvelous tool is being kept out of the classroom. A few computer experts ar- gue that good reasons exist for keeping Macs out of schools. They contend that the Mac is too expensive compared to the competition, that the computer has a capability that goes be- yond what children need, and that kids fail to appreciate it in the absence of color and fancy games, Some store owners and Ap- ple marketing personnel argue that so far they have been un- able to meet the adult demand for the Macintosh and are wait- ing for the interest in it to “trickle down” from the heavily subsidized college market. A third group insists that the Mac is too easy and that children who play with the Mac fail to appreciate how a computer works because so much of the computing process is sealed from view. Are these the same people who still argue for learning to drive a stick shift or beating egg whites by hand? There is certainly some truth to all of these arguments, though I think they miss the point. A black-and-white screen may be a drawback for particu- lar applications, but it is largely offset by the high resolution of Macintosh graphics. The wait- ing list for Macs, a reality last spring, is no longer problem as the automated plant churns out more and more ma- chines by the hour. Macworld = 15 TaxWizard STOPS the competition! COMPARE! 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As he reminisced about the “golden days of the 1970s” when a personal com- puter could only be assembled from a kit, | was reminded of the admonitions [ heard in my childhood against using 4 s| tow instead of climbing the hill to get the exercise. For naught I tried to explain how to many people (myself in- cluded) getting inside a com- puter seems even less attractive than overhauling a car engine and that children would better appreciate taking a computer (ora caf) apart after they have had the fun of being in the driver's seat. As an educator | want to see the best possible equipment in schools. I want to support kids. way while they learn, not so they can be lazy but so they can learn more and feel greater success as they go along. I believe that the Mac has tremendous potential in the teaching and learning pro- cess as a way to build confi- dence and enhance creativity. It would be absurd for schools to dump perfectly good Apple II equipment in an attempt to keep up with the ever-evolving state of the ar As long as the Apple II and its programs serve educational , they should be val- ined in the schools. But the fact that a school has already invested in an Apple Il orchard is no rea son to ignore the possibility of planting some Macintoshes as well. While I don’t usually sub- scribe to the conspiratorial view of history, I believe that Apple has been purposefully recalcitrant about promoting the educational value of the Mac for young students. The company’s marketing strategy may stem from the fear that the Mac might get a reputation as a kid’s computer because it is so embat ingly easy to use. Of greater concern to Apple must be the dilemma of competing against itself in a market that it '§ dominated for the last five years. The Apple II series is by far the dominant computer in ny suggestion that the Apple II is not forever might water down ing school districts into ques- tioning computer purchases or delaying deci: But with or without Apple’s blessing, |am convinced that the marvelous qualities of the Mac-the mouse, the menus, the large type sizes, the magnif- icent graphi abil make ita natural for young stu- dents. In time, either Macin- toshes or the inevitable Mac compatibles are going to find their rightful in school Neale McGoldrick is the au- thor of Applecations for Mac- Paint, forthcoming from Addison-Wesley. 0 VOLUMES NOW AVAILABLE! VOLUME ONE: lo A CLIP—ART __& CAMELOT & TREASURY | —_-ewan-— : ® COPENHAGEN fis A Treasury of clip-art for the Macintosh™ with MacPaint™. Mac the Knife Volume Gng is a 399K Cupertino’& disk, chock full of over 500 useful illustrations, a borders, business graphics, icons, maps and (x1 DALLAS Be textures... all in convenient MacPaint files. 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Letters Greek Roots I read “The Macintosh Family Tree” [Macworld, November 1984] with great interest. It ap- pears to me that Ted Nace did not go back far enough in trac- ing the ancestry of the Mac's user interface. The Mac's gene- alogy does not begin with PARC, ARPA, or even the idea of a “memex.” Icons, overlapping windows, and the desktop met- aphor as ways of intuitively or- ganizing information are not just 20 years old but in some re- spects more than 20 centuries old. We've been wrestling with the best way to deal with small computers, both natural (the brain) and now artificial (the personal computer), since we began to think. ‘To take one example, mem- ory was in the past considered an art to be learned much as one learns computer literacy today. Cicero reported that Si- monides “inferred that persons. desiring to train (memory) must select places and form mental images of the things they wish to remember and store those images in the places, so that the order of the places will preserve the order of the things, and the images of the things will denote the things themselves, and we shall employ the places and images respectively as a wax tablet and the letters written on it” Simonides’ technique for a ser interface” between mem- ory and intelligence was used through classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. It died out only when the printed book re- duced the need for mnemonic athleticism. How ironic that the Mac's advanced form of mem- ory manipulation, which has been rightfully hailed as open- ing the doors of computing to the average person, is really nothing more than an updated version of an ancient rhetorical device. Leland Gallup Panama City, Panama Reward to Those Who Didn't Wait How far we've come ina few short months. The Macintosh is an unqualified success. You can even buy software. Who made the Mac a suc- cess? There is the brilliant team in Cupertino. I trust Apple has rewarded it. Then there are the advertising and marketing people who, of course, are al- ways taken care of. But there’s another, very important group that Apple has ignored: those of us who. bought the first Macs. We took a big chance paying full price for this funny-looking machine with no software available. We took it home and showed it to our friends. I can claim per- sonal responsibility for selling eight Macs. Don't get me wrong. I’m glad I bought the Mac when I did. But I had to wince when I con- vinced my employer to buy a Mac for the office six months after | bought mine for $1000 more, Now comes the long- awaited Fat Mac. Ina few months it'll be selling for as much as we paid for the first Macs. Had I waited, | would have been well rewarded. Had everyone waited, however, the Mac would have been a big flop. Here’s my idea: In recogni- tion of our contribution to the Mac ccess, Apple Computer should offer a free or gener- ously discounted 512K upgrade to those who bought a Macin- tosh before, say, March 20, 1984, Apple took a big risk with the Mac and won. We took a big risk, too, but as things stand, we would have been smarter to wait. How about it, Apple? Kurt Wanfried Newville, Pennsylvania What Price Upgrade? In “The Macintosh Deluxe” (Macworld, November 1984], Danny Goodman states cate- gorically that there is no price difference between the up- graded and the 512K Mac that comes from the factory. Not so. A dealer upgrade involves re- placing the original 128K logic board with a 512K model. The dealer receives a $300 core re- bate for each 128K logic board returned to Apple. Why is this not reflected in the $1000 swap at the consumer level? Techni- cian time to change boards and run a diagnostic is certainly not worth $300. Actual dealer cost for the 512K board from Apple is probably in the area of $500. Is the real “Two-Model Strat- egy” to rip off current Macin- tosh owners? G. Norton Walnut, California Randy Battat, Macintosh product manager at Apple Computer, tells us that the amount given to dealers for each 128K board they return is not a rebate but rather the dealer's profit margin on the 512K board it purchased for the upgrade. The amount is withbeld, in effect, to encour- age the return of the used board. Apple wants the 128K boards back to use as service spares.—Ed. Macworld — 23 ‘“Ahh...Safe at Last!” . .. MacCopy is here to protect your expensive Macintosh™ software, by allowing you to make a back-up copy ! Tesseract (ji Software ... nothing could be simpler! Tesseract Distributing Inc. P.O. Box 937 St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2R 624 Call (416) 685-4854 Tesseract Software is a Division of Tesseract Distributing Inc. MacCopy is a registered trademark of Tesseract Distributing Inc. Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc, Circle 217 on reader service card 24 ~~ March 1985 Letters Mac Attack I read David Bunnell’s column [‘The Macintosh Is Here to Stay,” Macworld, December 1984] and feel that you have swept a number of important issues under the rug concern- ing the Macintosh. Let's cut the fat and get down to the beef. Apple Computer has always stated that it developed the Macintosh as a business ma- chine, One wonders how Apple ever expected the Mac to be a omputer, given some in limitations. A business computer must have a hard disk capability, period. Big Blue found this out the hard way and had to rewrite its DOS hard disk. As the Mac is, any hard disk has to move data through a serial port. In order to maximize data transfer rates, a parallel port is required. No matter how fa a parallel one is Macintosh hardware ware do not support hard disks efficiently, The sad fact is that Apple has designed the Mac with planned obsolescence. After reading the reviews of the Tecmar, Davong, and Cor- vus hard disks, I have decided not to buy a hard disk. I would prefer a 256K Mae with a hard disk that is user-friendly to the 512K Fat Mac that isn’t. 1 shouldn't need to boot my hard disk with a floppy; the system should boot directly from the hard disk. Apple has failed to give Mac- intosh owners any sort of docu- mentation on the machine. Where does the ROM lie in the memory map? What routines are in it? Where does the Mac store its system variables? What is in the System folder? How do you program the beast? I don’t want to hear any rebuttal about how it’s nota hacker's machine. If that is really the case, the Macintosh should for the computer, nats have to pay $150 for a photo- copy of its memory map or pay $500 to become a “certified de- yeloper”? The machine is mine, not Apple’s. [ want to be able to control it. I don't like having to pay $200 to get a language for the machine, yet Macworld has yet to drag Apple publicly over the coals on this point. | can pro- gram my $49 Timex Sinclair 1000 as is, a feat that my Macin- tosh cannot match. If Apple can give us MacWrite and Mac- Paint, why can’t it give us BASIC? ‘The Macintosh is slow, When you print a MacWrite docu- ment, the Macintosh saves the document to disk first. Why can't it simply start dumping the print data to the printer from the memory? If you use the draft mode, the printer flies, but the output looks like junk, not a draft. Please don’t think that lam anti-Macintosh. I bought one in June 1984, I love my Mac and have no regrets about buying it. but [also recognize its limita- tions. Apple needs to get off its high horse and listen to its cus- tomers, or it will not survive the next 15 years. Anthony J. Oresteen Fort Knox, Kentucky Rev-Pack Carrying Case Why pay more for aMa rying case than you have to? 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Box 1540 Fairfield, 1A 52556 515 472-7256 ‘Macinioth i a trademark Yeenze to Apple Compute Ine ‘MacLabeleris a trademark o Iceatarm Inc. Circle 208 on reader service card 26 = March 1985 Letters Second Thoughts on Second Drives I've been reading your maga- zine since its first issue, and un- til recently I've been very pleased. The article about Ap- ple’s external disk drive [“Dou- ble-Disk Strategies,” Macworld, November 1984] was very annoying. Daniel Farber states, “If you're tired of juggling disks, adding an external disk drive is a practical, economical way to manage your information.” I take issue with this remark on several counts. First, there is nothing economical about a $500 disk drive that stores only 400K of information. At work we use IBM PCs extensively, and we have no difficulty buy- ing a disk drive that holds nearly as much information for about $200. Second, the disks are as over- priced as the drives. They do not hold much more than 5/4- inch floppy disks yet cost al- most twice as much. Third, Mac owners are pay- ing for new technology. This would not be objectionable if premium prices bought pre- mium performance. Do Macin- tosh disk drives deliver such performance? Mr. Farber reports that be- tween 50 and 60 percent of Mac owners are buying the external disk drive. He takes those fig- ures as an indication that con- sumers regard the disk drive as worth its cost. But those figures might as well imply that the in- ternal disk drive is not suffi- cient to run Mac software. Aren't consumers, then, co- erced into buying an Apple ex- ternal disk drive? (There are no third-party vendors. ) Apple leaves us with three choices: suffer through eight disk swaps when we start up applications lacking the operat- ing system, buy an Apple exter- nal disk drive, or throw away the Mac altogether. Robert P. Goldman New Haven, Connecticut Ready for Takeoff Is anyone working on a version of Microsoft's Flight Simulator for the Macintosh? It seems that the Mac's screen would pro- duce a great simulator, though 1 can see how the lack of color would discourage software companies. Daryl P. Friedman Santa Cruz, California At press time Marty Taucher, public relations manager at Microsoft, said that there were no plans to introduce a Mac- intosh version of Flight Simu- lator, Microsoft's best-selling game, in the near future.—Ed. Font Utility Overdue The versatility of the Mac in font adaption is well estab- lished. It is disappointing, how- ever, that the promised utility to design one’s own fonts for use with the Font Mover (as op- posed to the unfriendly re- programmability feature of the Imagewriter) has not been made available. As evidenced by the proliferation of font soft- ware, there seems to be some sort of conspiracy between Ap- ple and these software outfits to withhold this capability from the rest of us. This forces us to buy expensive font packages that include fonts we may not need or to negotiate for costly custom fonts. What is the pros- pect of Apple releasing a friendly font generation utility for the Mac in the near future? We read your magazine from cover to cover and find most of the information quite useful. Nissan Grabam-Mayk Eatontown, New Jersey According to Randy Battat, Macintosh product manager at Apple Computer, a font util- ity that allows you to design your own fonts is already available from Apple as part of a Macintosh software sup- plement. The supplement con- sists of various programs and accompanying manuals and is not restricted to certified software developers. To re- ceive the supplement, send $100 (plus sales tax in Califor- nia) to Apple Computer, Mac- intosh Software Supplement, 467 Saratoga Ave. #621, San Jose, CA 95129, Mr. Battat also says that another font utility, easier to use than the one in- cluded in the supplement, is under development and scheduled for release late this year—Ed. Master-Slave Relationship I found Daniel Farber's “Dou- ble-Disk Strategies” (Macworld, November 1984] informative and well written. I have had my external drive for abouta month now, and I am extremely happy with my purchase. I have changed my entire operating method to maximize the effi- ciency in working with two drives. Mr. Farber has given me additional insights into other methods | intend to try. One statement in his article is misleading. He indicates that, when using copies of copy- protected applications, you have to insert the master disk only once during a work ses- sion unless you turn off the computer, I recently explored a demonstration copy of File- vision and found a dramatic difference between its copy- protection scheme and Multiplan’s. When I use a copy of Mutti- plan, Linsert the master once when starting up the applica- tion. Iam then free to switch back and forth between that application and the copies of MacWrite and MacPaint that 1 have included on the same disk. I never have to insert the master again unless I turn off the computer, On the other hand, when I quit Filevision, I had to insert the master each time I tried to restart it, even if I had not turned off the computer. In fact, I wasn't even offered the choice of canceling. This turned out to be a critical defi- ciency, coupled with the fact that Filevision has no Save As option, Each time I created a Correction In “Mac on the Audit Trail” (Macworld, February 1985), Brad Boaz and Debra Frank of Peat Marwick’s Tampa, Florida, office were incorrectly identi- fied as supervising manager and managing auditor, respec- tively. Actually, Mr. Boaz is a su- pervising senior, and Ms. Frank is a senior accountant. Our new document, I was required to save it to the same disk. Since Filevision consumes 159K of disk space, I had to quit and move the new document to a data disk to allow room for new documents. Of course, I had to insert the master each and every time I went through this tiresome process. With the exception of those difficulties, Filevision was easier to use than I ever dreamed. I look forward to pur- chasing a copy once those sig- nificant bugs are worked out. Mitch Cooper Topeka, Kansas apologies for any confusion that may have resulted. 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DeskTop Sofiware” Corporation 228 Alexander St. (CN-5287) Princeton, New Jersey 08540. 609-924-7111 Now With Powerful New Features Circle 81 on reader service card Macworld View News and notes for the Macintosh co Edited by Janet McCandless Macworld View reports on new products and develop- ments in Macintosh tech- nology. 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. Calling All Programmers Microsoft has announced a pro- gramming contest as a way to kick off the release of its new BASIC for the Macintosh. Grand prize will be a 10-megabyte hard disk from Corvus Systems. Winners in each of the four software categories (productiv- ity, entertainment, education, and utilities) will receive a 512K upgrade, and the four second- place winners will get their choice of an external drive, a printer, or a modem. Microsoft wants to use the contest as a way to show off the capabilities of its Macintosh BASIC to programmers, All submissions will go into the public domain, and many of the programs that the contest brings in will be sent to user groups and published on bul- letin boards or in Macworld. Of course, Microsoft is also. hoping that the contest pro- grams will lay the foundations 34 March 1985 munity for a library that will help the company’s BASIC for the Mac circumvent the Catch-22 that faces all new languages: devel- opers are reluctant to write ap- plications in a language that no one uses, but no one uses the language because no applica- tions are written in it Because the submissions will go into the public domain, it’s unlikely that professional pro- grammers will compete. How- ever, Rob Dickerson, Macintosh product manager for lan- guages, says he expects the chance for publicity and prizes to attract a wide variety of se- rious Macintosh program- mers—“everyone from 14-year- old kids to some very good hackers.” Dickerson notes that “a lot more people are creative than are programming wizards, and we're trying to get creative people to enter this contest.” In line with this goal, the judges, who will include Mac- world editors as well as Micro- soft representatives, will em- phasize originality (70 percent) over implementation (30 per- cent). They will consider more how creatively the programmer has used the Mac’s special ca- pabilities than how bug-free or efficient the code is. Look for Microsoft's announcement in this issue.—/oe Matazzoni Sleight of Hand Until now art directors prepar- ing multimedia presentations for their companies had no. to determine at an early pro- duction stage whether the pre- sentations would achieve artis- tic and corporate goals. Dudley Ackerman, consultant to Auto- motion, an animation produc- tion company located in San Francisco, and its founder Andy Fahrenwald have invented an interesting solution. They have designed electronics and soft- r Macintosh that will tors a clear idea of give art dil what their final product will look like. Automotion's simula- ystem includes a camera that dig images onto a Mac disk. An art director uses a three-axis joystick to manipu- late the digitized images and simulate camera movements. Once the information is stored on disk, the performance can be repeated and edited easily, When the art director has finished the multimedia show simulation, the disk is sent to Automotion along with the original artwork and sound track. The information on disk is relayed via microprocessors to came! quence of camera movements over the artwork. Ackerman believes that a portable robotic animation sy s that replicate the se- ickerman, Automotion’s chief programmer (fore- ground), and com- pany cofounder Andy Fabrenwald use their simulation system to create animation effects for an audio- visual production. tem will significantly alter cur- rent film and video production methods. Fahrenwald says, “What we're doing is breaking the mold. We're filmmakers and electronics people. When we're done, scripting, producing, and editing an audiovisual produc- tion in any medium will be done in one sitting” For the Mac owner who wants to create a slide show that does not require high pro- duction quality, Slide Show Ma- gician, released by Magnum Software, i able. Special effects options can be used on any text or graphics that you can display on the Mac screen. The visual effects include barn- door, checkerboard, window shade, venetian blind, iris, and arrowhead wipes. Text can be superimposed and displayed as a block or word by word. The designer can set the timing of each frame, interrupt a frame, or jump to another frame. The introduction of both these products and services further strengthens the Mac's position as a tool in the produc- tion of computer-generated au- diovisual presentations. Macworld 35 Macworld View A Contest ofa Different Color _ While the Microsoft contest Hot List Macintosh products have hit the charts. Softsel Computer Products, a software distributor in Inglewood, California, com- piles a Hot List from its sales to approximately 9000 retail out- lets located in the United States and abroad. Over a sample period of three weeks, the company tracks the sales and reorders on the software it dis- tributes. Softsel categorizes each program under headings such as business, recreation, and education. The program's position on the chart relative to other programs is determined from its total sales for all per- sonal computers on which it runs. Programs that are slip- ping from the charts, such as Murder by the Dozen, often bounce back onto the Hot Lis when Mac versions are re- leased. Bob Leff, president of Softsel, states that at first Mac software was so scarce that al- most any Mac product could be expected to sell well, but the phenomenal sales figures will not continue through 1985. He does expect that software such as Peachtree's General Ledger package and Lotus's Jazz for the Mac will bring more busi- ness customers into retail stores. With the release of the 512K Mac, it is likely that more soft- ware developers will design in- tegrated programs. Many prod- ucts that run on other personal computers and were converted for the Mac in 1984 will be modified to take better advan- tage of the Mac’s user interface and hardware such as the laser printer. We should see more specialized programs, such as music and sound-generating programs, and vertical applica- tions for professionals. Applica- tions that integrate the Mac’s sound, graphics, and network- ing capabilities may require Softsel to invent new categories for the Hot List. 36 = March 1985 favors people with creativity and practical computer skills, another contest, sponsored by MacConnection, a Macintosh product mail-order house, is being aimed at what is probably a much larger constituency within the Mac community: people who are creative but who lack practical computer skill. The MacConnection contest was spawned by an experience that usually inspires only frus- tration—a telephone company screw-up. MacConnection placed an ad for themselves list- ing a phone number that wasn’t hooked up by the time the ad ran. According to partner David Hall, the complaints that came in weren't what the company expected. “We started getting letters asking, ‘Hey, where are you guys?’ The letters didn’t sound mad; they were interest- ing. They were written on the Macintosh, had graphics, and showed a lot of wit.” The com- pany’s managers decided that Mac owners are a different breed of computerist-odder than the owners of other com- puters, according to advertising coordinator Kate McVey—and the managers dreamed up th contest to test that theory, The contest announcement begins with the headline “We'd like to think you're a little strange” and goes on to offer $500 worth of hardware and software for strange-but-true Mac stories, These tales of Mac magic or misadventure will be used ina series of “Real People”-style ads that Mac- Connection is planning. The stories can be on any sub- ject—“Has your Mac ever saved your life? Did you canoe solo down the Amazon with only a Mac for company?”—as long as they're unusual and interesting. Don't worry if you're nota writer; just tell your tale, and a copywriter will take care of the style. At press time Hall said that the contest field was still wide open. “We've had a few letters, but nothing really bizarre— that’s what we're looking for” So if you think you might have the stuff and don't mind admit- ting it, look for contest details in MacConnection’s advertise- ment in Macworld. The worst you could do is find out you're not as strange as you think. —Joe Matazzoni Libraries and Computer Literacy What better place for adults to ance to com- puters than a library? After all, not everyone has a 13 computer expert ava teach them all about personal computers. Now that computer literacy is as important as the three Rs, many adults can go to their local library and get ac- quainted with computers in a familiar setting. Library programs for famil- iarizing adults with computers are coordinated in California by the Adult Computer Literacy Program, funded by the Califor- nia State Library. A variety of personal computers is already in use throughout the state. One library where the Macin- tosh will be used is the Pinole Branch Library of the Contra Costa County Library. Only adults will be able to reserve the computer and the several available programs, some of which were donated by Macin- tosh software developers. The library will also be collecting public domain software. One of the branch librarians, Steve Cisler, will be on hand to help people get started. Nationwide, the Microcom- puter User's Database, a project of the Public Library Associa- tion of the American Library Association, has 300 members. The project is intended to help people form or join personal computer user groups. Its main effort is to identify the areas of expertise of each member so that members can exchange skills. The group has nation- wide meetings and communi- cates updates to its datab: No membership fee is re- quired, but send a stamped, sel-addressed envelope when. asking for information and an application. Write to Carol Liu, Queens Borough Public Li- brary, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Ja- maica, NY 11432. Students at Drexel University in Philadelphia can reach the li- brary by modem. They receive training from the university li- brarian and have access to pub- lic databases. In a Livermore, California, library the Macin- tosh is being used by the public for information and referral ser- vices. Perhaps in the future all personal computer owners will use library information and re- ferral services from home. They will go to the library only for books and, of course, com- puter training. An interesting sidelight to Macintoshes and adult com- puter literacy was reported by David Swain, a computer con- sultant and trainer in Alameda, California. He is frequently called on to train workers who have no computer experience. These people use IBM PCs and other types of personal com- puters at work, and when they have problems, they are trained by David on a Macintosh. He re- ports that Macintoshes are less threatening, easier to use, and more fun to play with than other computers. The Mac helps people feel comfortable with computers in general. After learning applications on the Macintosh, people can then move on to try other machines. The question is, will they want to?—Heidi Mitchell Softcasting Radio Free Software? Well, not quite. For $70 you should now be able to buy a device called a shuttle communicator (it was in beta test at press time) that attaches to an FM or AM radio receiver and lets you download software to the Macintosh and other personal computers. The communicator was designed by Microperipheral Corporation to accommodate a radio show the company is producing. Ten- tatively titled “Download,” the weekly, halFhour show will broadcast public domain com- puter programs along with computer news and infor- mation. Microperipheral will be the first company to tak ofa recent FCC ruling allowing the use of normal AM and FM airwaves for computer commu- nications. Previously, banks and other institutions that used ra- dio for computer communica- tions transmitted over FM sub- carrier channels that can't be picked up by ordinary radios. Other software distribution schemes in the works, such as that of Electronic Publishing stems of Sunnyvale, Califor- nia, will also use subcarrier channels. These software dis- tribution systems are similar to public television in that they will be supported by bscrib- “s. ers, who in this case will be charged a fee. “Download,” on the other hand, will be paid for by the show's sponsors. The shuttle communicator works like a modem, translat- ing analog radio signals into the digital form required by the computer. Because it receives information at a rapid 4800 bps (bits per second), radio stations can transmit a program ina burst lasting only seconds, Ac- cording to Don Stoner, Micro- peripheral’s vice president of engineering, the error rate on FM channels is comparable to phone line communications at 300 bps; AM error rates have been less satisfactory. Of course, since communication is in one direction only, there's no opportunity to retransmit garbled data. However, each program uses a checksum sys- tem (in which the computer compares the number of bytes CULE A Whitititititittitiiil a program is supposed to have with the number actually re- ceived), so you can at least get some idea of whether the pro- gram was received intact be- fore you run it. According to Stoner, the show's producers intend to in- clude the Macintosh audience. Microperipheral has already experimented with download- ing Mac graphics, and ina move resembling videotex ap- plications, the company is look- ing at the possibility of using the Mac's high-resolution screen to display such things as weather maps that Mac owners could study while listening to the weather report. For more information, contact the Micro- peripheral Corporation at 265 152nd Ave. NE, Redmond, WA 98052, 206/881-7544.—joe Matazzoni O cat POLO HILO LG8 100 fare eaynyy) PUY Macworld = 37 An Interactive Information System For Individuals With A Need To Know With Odesta Helix, you can model worlds of ideas, things, and relationships, and watch them live and interact upon your desktop. Odesta Helix is a new program —not an old program made to work on a new machine. It takes a new approach ~ letting you define and control the shape and form of information according to your own needs and style, Odesta Helix gives youa rich and powerful set of visual tools that lets you begin working immediately, without having to learn a programming language or battle with the restrictions of “spreadsheet” type thinking. Relation icon ‘ons Bispleay Abacus icon for to set up different fl Home Data setting up calculations “data bases” and relationships Field icon represents represe Form-view ieon pulls types of information everything together Template icon for constructing and changing forms Query icon lets you do interactive searches Index icon lets you get at things in whatever order you want Odesta Helix uses icons (visual symbols) to represent ideas, relationships and functions as objects that you can easily manipu- late, Create them by clicking on the icon-wells on the left, and dragging them to your desktop. 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