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April 1985 $3.95 = ma .” Macintosh"Magazine Canada $4.75 — c ‘ ” ae Me Take Sek with Your Mac ~ Aclose loc A % at four low-cost digitizers “ys Computer’Chess Comes of Age oo ‘Learn to Program in Mac Pascal ae > Se Se ¥ New Modem for the Mac %& Move Into MacStation! It’s two walls and a roof where every Adjustable shelves let you rearrange Macintosh should live. the rooms the way you like. With plenty of storage space fora ‘The roof doubles as a handy printer printer, disk drive, modem and manuals. stand. With attic space to store Anda place your pet mouse can hide! continuous form paper. Its MacStation, An integrated Plus MacStation is ventilated. To keep workstation that’s at home in offices, Macintosh cool. And with the large front dorm rooms or dens. And a terrific way to door, you can easily take Mac out fora save valuable desk-top real estate. walk. You don't have to mortgage your house to buy one, either, MacStation is only $95* at stores nationwide. Check page 66 of this month's MACWORLD for your nearest dealer or call: 1-800-547-4000, Dept. 421 (In Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii or outside the USA call 1-503-684-3000, Dept. 421). a é é ™ Nacreleam * This is our suggested retail price, MicroRain’s dealers set the ‘actual selling price Apple is a registered trademark and Macintosh trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Ine. Tecmar Sweetens Macintosh with Hard Disk Power Mac Drive Tecmar’s Mac Drive gives you a 10 megabyte With Tecmar’s Mac Drive... fixed hard disk or a 5 megabyte removable hard disk. You can add a 5 megabyte e Your Macintosh runs much removable hard disk to either of the above. faster than with the built-in floppy. ¢ Mac Drive will provide up to 38 times more storage than floppies. e You can minimize the use of floppies. e You can access files and save time by loading programs from Mac Drive. ¢ You can take your removable Mac Drive cartridge with you for added security. TEQUIAR’ Tecmar Sweetens Apples™ Tecmar Inc. 6225 Cochran Road Solon (Cleveland), Ohio 44139-3377 Phone:{216)349-0600 Telex: 466692 Circle 14 on reader service card MACWORLD April 1985 The Macintosh"Magazine Getting Started Review 46 Become a Disk Librarian 68 Pictures to Pixels Gordon McComb Gordon McComb The time you save using the Macintosh A hard look at four digitizers for the could easily be lost while you look for Mac: Koala’s MacVision, New Image’s that missing document on a Magic, Servidyne’s Micro-Imager, and mislabeled disk. Make the first place Thunderware's ThunderScan. you look the last by organizing your 84 Computer Chess Comes of Age disks into a library. Nicholas Lavroff 59 Get Info Hayden Software's state-of-the-art Lon Poole chess program challenges and. Tey Macworld’s wutor answers questions instructs beginner and chess master from readers about the Mac. alike. 94 Communicating on Autopilot Jim Heid Microcom's modem with accompanying software enables the Macintosh to work when phone rates are lower, even in your absence. 105 Macware News an Tad y bene voll got Edited by Erfert Nielson gone four points i Announcements of the latest Word Fun, a game i developments in Macintosh software, Ae eet hardware, and accessories. Key in the program ‘yourself and discover bow MacPascal makes looking for bugs easy starting on page 122. Roeeeeeeese Work on your Macin- tosh can really fly if you take the time to organize that menag- erie of 32-inch micro- floppies into a disk li- brary. Beginning on page 46, learn how setting up a system and a few routines around your com- puter can save you time and trouble. 2 April 1985 122 137 146 155 Hands On Step by Step with Mac Pascal Tim Field and Jim Heid Learn how to program in Pascal by typing in a Macintosh version of a popular word game. Open Window Edited by Daniel Farber An exchange of Macintosh discoveries, Community Washington's Capitol Improvement Rex Hammock Technology and the traditions of government meet on Capitol Hill, where the Macintosh is introducing more and more congresspeople to the joys of computing. Macworld Gallery Edited by Erfert Nielson An exhibition of Macintosh graphics. Photo/illustration credits Crown Publishers, Inc. (The Mansell Collection), 85; Dana Gluckstein, cover, 68-69; Jobn Hersey, 34-36; Ed Kashi, 146-149; Jeffery Newbury, 71-77; George Steinmetz, 9, 17, 59; Fred Stimson, 94-95; Mick Wiggins, 46-47. 17 25 163 164 Columns Apple Wins It! David Bunnell The Inconvenience of Convenience Adrian Mello Letters Macworld View Edited by Janet McCandless News and notes for the Macintosh community. Indexes Products Advertisers Ny Eg af. AAAAAAAAAG Mechanical chess has come a long way since the days of the Turk, a machine that some- bow concealed a cramped chess player within its gears and pinions, More than the latest version of a computer chess game, Sargon III for the Mac- intosh is a highly qualified chess part- ner. Read about it be- ginning on page 84. MACWORLD Editorial Editor: Kearney Riemann Associate Editor: Daniel Farber Assistant Editors: Adrian Mello, Erfert Nielson Editorial Manager: Janet McCandless Senior Copy Editor: Kathleen Christensen Copy Editor: J. E. Arcellana Editorial Secretary: Heidi Mitchell Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, Gordon MeComb, Lon Poole, Jeffrey S. Young Art Associate Publisher: Jacqueline Poitier Designer: Marjorie Spiegelman Art Director: Bruce Charonnat Associate Designer: Dennis McLeod Design Associates: Leslie Barton, Holly Douglas, Molly Windsor-McLeod Assistant: Nan Cass: Production Director: Herbert Linden Senior Managers: Frances Mann, Lee R. Trevino Editorial Production Manager: Ellyn L. Hament Production Editor: James Felis Ad Traffic: Jayne Boyer Telecommunicators: Mark L. Duran, Susan M. Ford, Len W: Shirts Assistant: Otto Waldorf Publishing Publisher: David Bunnell Special Projects: Jelfrey S. Glines International: Karen Dowell Assistant: Randi Glaser 4 April 1985 Marketing and Advertising Sales Associate Publisher/Directo} James E. Martin National and Western Manager: Penny Rigby Northwest/Midwest: Patricia Navone Northeast: Lisa Kunin Southeast: Judy Sutter Advertising Services: Ray Petsche Communications Noreen A. 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Electronic Mail A Reality ProModem 1200M gives you something that's not available on any other modem in this price range. Our $99 Communications Buffer and Alphanumeric Display options provide you with a sophisticated electronic mail network. COMPUTER TURNED OFF COMPUTER BUSY Amazing but true, your ProModem 1200M answers the phone, collects messages up to 50 pages long, sends out electronic mail, and displays all messages sent or received even though you are gone and MAC is busy or turned off. Thanks to ProModem 1200M, expensive hard-to-use communications software is not needed. The communications is in the modem, and electronic mail becomes a background function, where it belongs. Communications Software Our ProCom-M communications software is designed specifically for Macintosh. It’s simple to use, and maintains all Macintosh user interfaces such as icons, pull down menus, full windowing, dialog boxes and mouse control of all commands. You can initiate complex dialing sequences with two clicks of the mouse. ProCom-M includes X-modem protocol for error-free communications with any personal computer. This powerful software does a lot, but is so —[ simple that most users will hardly have to — fk refer to the manual The Hotline. PROMETHEUS PRODUCTS INCORPORATED 4545 Cushing Pkwy. * Fremont CA 94538 Circle 239 on reader service card Introducin Allyou Yous can also acd other printers besides Laser\Wrler to The Macintash Office. Including our stand-alone ‘ImageWhiter printer you see bere, as well as letter. quality daisywheel printers you dont see bere, The Laser\iter printer basis own built-in pel ends adc be rad y ereryome in The Macintad Office Right now, IBM PCS can use our new Laser Writer printer Later this year we'll be introdacing the Apple card that _fils into an IBM PC, allowing it fo trade fnformation with Mactutash ancl access e servers As well ax ser as a gale) ‘between the IBM PC network and our Appleladh network ‘The AppleLine protocol conterer lets yo talk direcily to your mainframe ‘via 3270 emulation, | |e ur entry level workstation in The Macintosh Offices, naturally exh, tbe Macintosh 1288, * Manufacturer's sugeested retail price © 1985 Apple Computer, Ine. Apple, the Aeple logo, Apple and ImageNtriter are trademarks: of Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh isa traddeman licensed to Apple Conipuder, Ine. Microsoft ts a regestered trademarks of Micrnsofl Corporation, ThinkTank ts a trademark of Living Videolexd Inc. Jazz and Lotus are trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. For an auuborized Apple dealer nearest you call (800) 538-9696. ‘In Canada, call (800) 268-7796 or (800) 268-7637. acd is people Meant XL, yp toa fl megabyte of RAM and ‘ratte 10.MB bard disk _— ‘y The Appleialh Personal Network kets you connect nie 1yp 10.32 members of The Maciniash Ofce for an extremely lou cost The cornerstone of The Macintash Office is our 512K Macintosh, guppy. evra sk drive cond ruumeric hey pad. No, not computer systems people to help you design it. Or computer experts to show you how to use it But the kind of people who already make up most of your ofe, Managers and professionals, People who spend most of their time selling prod- ucts, services or, most importantly, ideas. Because, unlike traditional office computer solutions, we didn't design The~ Macintosh” Office around a mai We designed it around an idea. ‘The idea that people, not main- frames, are the most important informa- tion centers in an office. And that most things in business are really accomplished by teams of 5 to 25 people who need to share information with each other. What we call the workgroup. That's why we put Macintosh at the heart of The Macintosh Office. Its powerful, 32-bit technology reduces the time it takes to become productive with a computer from well over a work week, to just under a lunch hour. For the first time, the people who could really use a computer — managers and professionals — had a computer they could really use. In their choice of sizes: Macintosh 128K, Macintosh 512K and Macintosh XL. ‘Then we designed a network solution for workgroups of 5 to 25. Instead of build- ings of 500 to 2,500. We call it the Appléflk™ Personal Network, Its as easy to hook together as an extension cord. And almost as cheap. Less than $50*a desk, versus up to $1,200 for a typical network system. Since the number one product of business is still paper, we found a way to make every sheet count. A breakthrough in printed communications called the LaserWriter printer. It produces publication- quality text and graphics, Making your presentations, reports and overheads more persuasive. Weve even found.a way for The Macintosh Office to share offices with IBM? An Appléfalk card that slips into an IBM PC, allowing it to trade information with Macintosh and access file servers. ‘Third party developers are also work- ing on The Macintosh Office. Next month, Our Lasertriter produces prabticaion: quality text and graphics: they'll be offering shared storage devices that let your workgroup share information. And theyre writing a whole new genera- tion of business software to go along with the 350 programs Macintosh already runs. Including Microsoft® Word, Thinkfank” 512 and the new Jazz” from Lotus” Now, theres only one more thing wed like to add to this ad: call 800-446-3000. Well tell you how to get everything you need to turn your office into a Macintosh Office. People not included, “ Get ready. Better buckle yourself up for an eye-opening demonstration drive of the fastest, most innovative program yet introduced for the Mac. It's OverVUE,” the revolutionary information manager that simply outruns the competition in handling ease, flexibility and speed. Just how fast is it? OverVUE can sort, select or categorize 1000 records in—hold on—just two seconds flat In fact, OverVUE can do so much, so fast, so easily, there's no way we can cover it all here. So get on down to your authorized Apple® dealer and tell him you want to take OverVUE out for a test drive. For just $4.95, he'll provide you with a demo disc and Test Drive Manual, so you can experience, first hand, the high performance your Macintosh” can deliver. But youll have to take care of the seat belt and driving gloves yourself. DEALERS: If you have not received your Test Drive Kit, @ please give usa call and we'll ship it to you immediately. David Bunnell Apple Wins It! Notes on Apple's entertainment event of the year—its stockholders meeting I recently attended two events in the same week at which Pres- ident Ronald Reagan appeared ona giant video screen during the opening ceremony. The first was the Super Bowl at Stanford Stacium, and the sec: ond was the 1985 Apple stock- holders meeting. Since approximately 90 per- cent of you saw the first event on television (if you weren't lucky enough to be at the sta- dium), I'll focus on the second, which in some w urpassed the first. Reagan told the stock- holders, “When I was a boy, 1 thought an apple was some- thing you brought to the teacher. Today you learn on an Apple or a Macintosh.” Unlike at the football game, where the president spoke live, at the Apple meeting he was a mere clip of film—part of a mul- timedia presentation designed. to make the world enthusiastic about Apple Computer. None- theless, it gave me goose bumps to think that in only ten years the personal computer industry has left the garage and driven all the way to the White House. Dressed in a stylish double- breasted suit and sporting a bow tie, Steve Jobs came bouncing onto the stage. The resulting thrill that rippled through the audience of several thousand and the confidence that Steve exudes reminded me of Joe Montana abandoning the pocket and taking off on yet an- other successful dead run. Steve is like a great quarterback who can take matters into his own hands when the defense breaks down and turn immi- ster into a 15-yard gain-if not a touchdown. Early Retirement In 1984 Apple's revenues reached nearly $2 billion, enough to make Steve Jobs se- cure enough to declare that $1 billion companies can’t make it in personal computing, But he is known for outlandi: ments, such as the rem; his Playboy interview that creativity stops at age 40. I wonder if they tell people at Apple to plan on early retire- ment. That gives Steve ten years to go. Ten years can go fast, Steve. The Apple stockholders meeting has traditionally set the stage for major product an- nouncements. In 1982 the Ap- ple II was released; 1983 marked the introduction of the Apple He and the Lisa; the Lisa 2 and the Macintosh were both unveiled during the 1984 meet- ing, at which Macworld was first offered to the public eye. Naturally, Apple planned some- thing exciting for 1985. But its first disclosure was more amus- ing than electrifying. When Steve announced that stock cer- tificates were redesigned to re- flect the 1985 corporate look, Macworld Contributing Editor Danny Goodman remarked, “I wonder what their upgrade policy will be” Jobs proceeded to introduce another member of the Apple family as “my boss and my friend,” John Sculley. Recapping accesses in 1984, Scul- ley declared that Apple is the “unquestionable challenger” to IBM. He proudly noted that Ap- ple has more brand-name rec- ognition than his former com- pany, Pepsi, and that Apple’s net sales per employee has risen from $260,000 to $300,000-the highest in the industry, Sculley defended Apple's event marketing. By “using me- dia in bold ways,” he claimed, the company raises issues that must be brought up. For Jobs and Sculley the main issue is clearly IBM. @ Is there an alternative to the IBM PC standard in the office? ® Are we all going to be un- der one giant umbrella? © Or are we going to be un- der two giant umbrellas? Macworld = 9 Announcing the If you've got talent at the key- board, here's 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. Our BASIC, gives you a lot to work with. Because Microsoft BASIC is Macs first language, the one that makes the most of its unique abilities, youll 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 Te alam your BASIC thinking. 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 Microsoft BASIC for the Macintosh. You may MICRESSOFT. use any version of Microsoft BASIC you wish. i a La 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. ay 3 the author nor Microsoft will claim copyright or any other rights. 4) Programs may not have been previously pub! lished 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), 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 cee Limit one prize per person or household per category. All prizes ei 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: First—512K RAM operate 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 LIMB 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, RO. 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 nested 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 y law. ‘The Grand Prize winner will take home this ‘Corvus Systems IIMB OmniDrive hard disk. Microsoft isa registered trademark and The High Performance Software is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computers, Inc. OmniDrive is a trademark of Corvus Systems. The Prodigy Comes Of Age! ExperLogo for the Macintosh’ is a powerful extension of the Logo computer language. ExperLogo excels as the patient tutor for those being introduced to computers for the first time, while at the same time it serves as a powerful development tool for the skilled programmer. ExperLogo’s innovative features include: 2-D, 3-D and Spherical Graphics Compiled Speed Powerful Data File Input/Output Capability Ability to Process Data Using Arrays Expanded Set of List Processing Primitives Friendly Mac-like User Interface Easy Access to the Macintosh Toolbox Speed, combined with other advanced features that eliminate memory constraints and provide for sophisticated data file manipulation, are some of the reasons ExperLogo is now ready to assume the additional role as a serious program development language. vVvvvVvVvyVY ExperLogo embodies power and versatility while retaining Logo’s original virtues of being easy and fun to use. ExperLogo is available at your local computer dealer. Ask for a demonstration and see for yourself the amazing speed and capabilities. Have an ExperLogo experience! ExperTelligence” 559 San Ysidro Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (805) 969-7874 Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 56 on reader service card 12 April 1985 David Bunnell Jobs rejects the notion of more than two umbrellas. I don’t like his idea much be- cause in a world with only two computers, there can be only two computer magazines. Ho hum. It’s the United States versus the Russians, the 49ers versus the Dolphins, and Apple versus IBM. But now that it’s 1985, Ap- ple is trying to be less like the 49ers and more like the United States by talking of peaceful coexistence. Flash. On the big screen ap- pears a mock issue of the Wall Street journal featuring the headline “Apple and IBM De- tente!” Below the headline is a photo of a grinning Steve Jobs alongside a glum IBM chairman John Opel. What a Performance! After all the pomp and circum- stance, the serious announce- ment of the Macintosh Office, including AppleTalk and the new laser printer, seemed des- tined to be overshadowed. However, Jobs and Sculley man- aged to maintain the level of in- terest and excitement by dem- onstrating the Macintosh Office on two giant video screens. Working on two Macs con- nected by a bright, fluorescent green cable, they created a joint letter to the stockholders, then printed it out on the laser printer. The audience loved it. Unlike the Super Bowl, which got boring in the fourth quarter, Apple's stockholders meeting managed to keep its fans on edge until the final whistle. No one left early. Although its technology and. upgrade policies may some- times be questionable, Apple Computer—under the guidance of Jobs and Sculley-is undoubt- edly the entertainment leader in personal computing and possibly the entire business world. The final score: Apple 38, Super Bowl 16. G Amazing what goes into Macintosh these days. IBM PC software, for instance. Macintosh and IBM PC software. utilities such as the clipboard and the now allows Macintosh to perform Compatible at last, thanks to calculator. virtually any networking an IBM PC MacCharlie, a rather innovative In addition, MacCharlie allows IBM can perform. Even to the extent of coprocessing system. PC and Macintosh data files to be tying in with IBM mainframes. And imagine the consequences. exchanged. Talk about flexibility. In other words, your networking Nearly 10,000 IBM PC software But the good news gets better. capability goes beyond the Apple programs designed for general business You see, MacCharlie delivers family and specific applications in real estate, hardware compatibility, as insurance, law, medicine, banking, well, For example, IBM etcetera, can now join forces with letter-quality printers Macintosh’s own popular programs. can be easily used And, the myriad of IBM PC- with Macintosh. compatible software adopts Macintosh’s Furthermore, many beloved features, including MacCharlie desktop ‘The Macintosh keyboard slides Macintosh sets snugly Once you plug in MacCharlie's right into MacCharlie's keyboard. beside MacCharlie, on power and keyboard cords, About as easy as slipping a letter ‘austom-ft pedestal you're ready to enjoy a very in an envelope. happy marriage. How does it happen? As easily as slipping on penny loafers. In mere moments, MacCharlie combines the best features of the world’s premier personal computers. And despite the fact that it turns one computer into two, MacCharlie adds but a handful of square inches to Macintosh’s physique. In short, one of life’s most perplexing decisions—whether to buy a Macintosh or an IBM PC—can now be made with the greatest of ease. Ask for MacCharlie at your local computer store. Or, for more information call toll-free, 1-800-531-0600 (In Utah, call 801-531-0600). MacCharle offers 256K RAM, with optional uprae o 640K RAM: 360KB dik dive. and optional second ds driv. » MecCharlie ‘THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS. MacCharlie is a product of Dayna Communications, 50'S, Main, Salt Lake City, Utah 4144 Apple isa trademark of Apple Computer, Inc Macintes is trademark: licensed to Apple Compate. Ine 18M Is a registered trademark of intemational Business Machines Conporation. Circle 232 on reader service card THE EF, MOS) ATTACHMENT SINCE T rR EVOLUTIONARY TO THE MACINTOSH HE MOUSE. The Bernoulli Box,” the cartridge disk subsystem that revolutionized mass storage ‘The Bernoulli Box. When placed beside Apple’ “computer for the rest of us" the for the IBM PC, XT, most compatibles, and the T! Professional, now proudly adds best box you can buy. For the dealer nearest you, call 1-800-556-1234, Apple's Macintosh to the list. ext, 215, In California call 1-800-441-2345 ext. 215. ‘The Bernoulli Box and its 5-megabyte removable cartridges together deliver 4 re unparalleled data base dynamics, And that, more and more, is what your business [ ° MEGA needs today. Not centralized, monolithic banks of information, but data bases OMEGA CORPORATION defined by job function and software application. Data bases that give people the 1821 West 4000 South versatility to work more productively. But there is more, More performance and reliability. Transfer rates and access times faster than most Winchesters. No head crashes ever. And cost per megabyte that Winchesters cannot touch, The Bernoulli Box’s cartridge capacity, portability and absolute interchangeability give your business more options, You can easily build primary data bases. You can packa : individualized data bases, software and all—for payroll, accounting, marketing, computer graphics —in convenient, dedicated cartridges. And you can pack all of the data into a briefcase, an interoffice envelope, or even a file drawer. Roy, Utah 84067 Adrian Mello The Inconvenience of Convenience The Mac’s easy-to-use design can be its biggest drawback Since the introduction of the Macintosh, people have enthu- siastically discussed how easy it is to use. The Mac has been described as intuitive, natural, friendly, and “the most per- sonal of personal computers.” A consensus has developed that the Macintosh is the first com- puter to bring the power of computing to those who have no interest in computers. For the most part these ob- servations are accurate. In prac- tical terms the Macintosh can be described as convenient, in the way that a telephone is con- venient. The more a computer’s design simplifies complicated tasks, the more convenient it becomes. The Mac is convenient be- cause it minimizes the amount of new information you need in order to operate the computer. Icons and other graphic ele- ments take advantage of pic- torial symbols that are readily undefood, such as symbols of file folders. Pull-down menus eliminate the need to re- member cryptic commands. The mouse lets you point to ob- jects on screen just as you would real objects. And be- cause software developers are encouraged to design pro- grams that share the Mac's user interface, you can use diverse application programs without learning new commands and procedures for common tasks, such as saving files or copying portions of a document to an- other document. Technically, the reason the Mac is so convenient is the de- sign of its system software. The very same system software, however, is the Mac’s biggest drawback. When you're a be- ginner, using a single applica- tion like MacWrite or Mac- Paint with a few documents allows the Mac's design defi- ciencies to go unnoticed, But when you begin to puta Mac to more demanding work, its sys- tem software, combined with some inescapable hardware re- strictions, creates difficulty, If you've ever tried to manage a large number of files, change application programs, or take full advantage of a hard disk or a RAM disk, then you've en- countered the Mac’s alter ego—inconvenience. Carrying Extra Baggage The Mac's system software is like the entourage of a celebrity or political figure. The opulent provisions and complicated planning required to make the passenger as comfortable and secure as possible often turn a simple trip into a major expedi- tion. Similarly, when you use an application program, the Mac carries around a lot of baggage, such as fonts, desk accessories, icons, and windows, that make the Mac so convenient to use. When you work on aterm paper or a business report, you may not need ten fonts or a puzzle on your startup disk. A fully loaded System Folder can easily weigh in at 200K, which doesn’t leave much room for application programs and doc- uments on disk. To get your work done, you'll have to suffer the inconvenience of juggling disks. One way to increase disk space is to invest in a second disk drive, which doubles avail- able disk space (see “Double- Disk Strategies,” Macworld, November 1984). However, you'll still be carrying around some excess baggage on your disks. Itis ironic that, for the time being, making the Mac an effi- cient computing tool means eliminating portions of the sys- tem that add convenience and appeal. To get extra storage space on your disk, you need to learn how to use specialized utilities such as the Font Mover and the Desk Accessory Mover (see “The Compleat Disk Jug- gler,” Macworld, May/June 1984 and “Decking Out the Mac's Desktop,” Macworld, March 1985). In effect, when you begin to demand that the Mac pull its own weight as a powerful per- sonal computer, you have to de- yelop a new level of computer expertise. Using utilities like Macworld = 17 You have wanted to do something, but the door has been closed... Search fant Style € file Edit Icons Sispiey T $12,779.22 [W2 | |$10,253.89 $20,145.50 $15,175.90 $9,765.98 $13,020.19 || $13,706.33 $22,998.00 || $14,995.43 ($9.00) 4, $6,778.05 $43,332.00 || $25,790.00 D 10/197 10. 10/177 10/177 tov2/ 1o/10/ 0 10/10/ $49,956.66 $94,526.09 $64,337.64 Helix isadat you can use it for anything — reports, lists, analyses, mail merge printouts, or even relational look-ups to other data-bases within Helix Hequires: an external drive or hard disk Huns on 512K Macintosh » Lisa with MacWor Supports: Hard disks » Keypad °15" Imagewriter includes Helix Program disk * Helix Guided Tour disk » Helix Resource/Work disk » User Manual » 18-ring project binder » Reference pad for custom documentation » Registration card for support & updates vrs Modeless input, interactive query, editing, & report gen- t management * Mail merge « Clipboard & ASCII file sfer » Special Template tools for form design » User defined, automatically updated Indexes» Unrestricted length & number of fields » Complete printing options » Vertical and horizontal autoscroll » Visual building blocks for arithmetic, date, text & Boolean operators, functions, & values, © 1985 Odesta Corp, The full functionality of Helix lies within its basicicons. Youcan “learn by doing” with Helix, since it does not get in your way with imposed structure or restrictions, You don’t have to worry about parameters, command codes, ov “modes”, € File Edit Icons Ton Style stews] comme ‘ama phon [phon ecm ake All open windows are updated automatically. Used here to simultaneously enter project notes, see synopses, get phone numbers, and display important “global” statistics, Odesta Helix isa trademark of Odesta Corporation Odesta Helix opens the door. -& File Edit Icons isplay srorch fant Style shipping lem ® inventory Now, you don’t have to learn a programming language or worry about “relational algebra”. Except for the three numbe! see, no typing was used to create these calculations: “If invoice amount is equal to or greater than 00, then don't charge for shipping, otherwise charge 2.5% of the invoice amount” ‘Look up the price for the item in the inventory data-base” Multiply the item’s price by how many were shipped” € File Edit Icons Display Search Font Style Relation Template Helix combines powerful functions with a design that give direct control, Apple, Lisa, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Ine, € file CaN teons _Wisploy Seare font aE SELECTION Bi x Bear Joanne, Thank you for respanding to our questionn As a fiber-dye specialist working with natural calor techniques, your perspective on the needs and interests of the members of BeMused is particularly welcome. soid that they would be interested in a co-op buying service ‘95 much as $30/year to help defray administrative expenses. Built-in text formatting lets you combine infor- mation in a new way for mail merge letters. memo’s, reports or free-form comments Helix provides a unique place to work because it takes a different approach It is based on the idea that we discover the important questions, relationships, connections between things by working with them (So we need to be able to work with wore numbers in many different forms) That our own experience, perception, and understanding are the basis of true “knowledge work”. And that this proce: in be both productive and playful, intently serious and intensely enjoyable. (So we need a technology that is flexible, accommodating, and directly responsive to our actions and style of dialogue). ODESIA™ A Data-Based Information Management & Decision Support System Adrian Mello the Font Mover requires that you look underneath the Mac's friendly interface and deal with the complexities of its system software. Waiting for the Finder One of the greatest Macintosh inconveniences is the time the computer takes to perform sim- ple operations such as opening and quitting an application from the desktop. Anyone who has used the Mac a while has spent a fair amount of time looking at the wristwatch icon. The reason for the wait is that the computer needs time to construct the conveni graphics interface. The Mac’s desktop, for instance, requires extra resources and a special application program—the Finder, Every time you quit a document or application, the Mac must open the Finder and create the desktop using re- sources for icons, windows, roll bars, and other graphic and text elements. You can bypass the Finder with the Set Startup command on the Special menu. It auto- matically opens a selected ap- plication at startup without the intermediate step of building the desktop. But this feature isn’t helpful when you change application programs. The in- convenience of waiting for a program to open or quit is ag- gravated when your work re- quires that you switch among several application programs. The Mac’s scheme for chang- ing applications is good for beginners, who have to re- member only to double-click on an icon. Long after you be- come familiar with the com- puter’s operation, however, you must still perform certain tasks as a beginner does because the system software can't accom- modate your improved ability. Before long your patience wears thin, and you begin to wonder why you can’t switch directly from one application to another without returning to the desktop each time, Having to return to the desktop be- tween programs is grossly inef- ficient—like having to drive home from the produce store before going to the deli- catessen, when the store and the deli are next door to each other. A true mini-Finder, like the one used to switch be- tween documents within an application, but which allows you to change applications, without forcing a return to the desktop each time, would make better sense. Besides opening and quitting programs, the Mac takes extra time to shuttle its luxurious re- sources between disk and memory. Because the resources cannot all be available at once in the 128K Mac’s memory, they must be installed and removed as needed. The 512K Macintosh has enough memory to contain the resources, but you still need to wait the first time they are transferred from disk to memory. Short on Memory Additional memory could solve most of the Mac’s sluggishness. The extra memory could be used wii isk program, which simulates a disk drive in memory, to avoid waiting for mechanical disk drives to store or retrieve information. ARAM disk could greatly accelerate opening and quitting applica- tion programs and loading all system resources at once (see “The Invisible Disk,” Mac- world, March 1985). You can get a RAM disk for the 512K Mac, but once again, the size of the system software inhibits a RAM disk’s effective- ness. To receive a RAM disk’s speed benefits, the System Folder must be loaded into the RAM disk, leaving room for only a moderately sized pro- gram, such as MacPaint. Ifthe Mac had more than 512K of memory, the RAM disk could be large enough to elimi- nate this problem. Another so- lution to the speed and storage 20 April 1985 problems would be to place the Finder and system resources in ROM-the logical way for Apple to revise the Mac's system. Missing Conveniences If the bulk of the Mac’s system software often interferes with efficient operation, it also seems to be responsible for the lack of some conveniences that speed up operations on other computers. In this regard the Macintosh is like a gourmet who has such a predilection for fine cheeses that the refrigera- ittle room for other The Macintosh system, for all its ease of use, lacks a conven- ience enjoyed by more com- mon operating systems like Mi- crosoft's MS-DOS (disk operating system), which, in various forms, runs on many computers including the IBM Personal Computer and the Tandy 2000. Other operating systems allow you to set up batch files so that you can avoid repetitive work. A batch file contains one or more com- mands that the operating sys- tem executes one at a time. You create a batch file once to auto- matically execute a series of commands that open a specific document or application, give specialized commands to ex- ternal hardware, or automate any other operation performed outside of application programs. Hard Disks Hardly Supported People who work with large amounts of information de- mand the storage capacity and speed of a hard disk drive. Un- fortunately, the Finder prevents you from storing large numbers of documents on a hard disk because the file directory’s size is limited by the Mac's available memory (see “Shifting into Overdrive,” Macworld, De- cember 1984). As a result of this limitation, the directory can track only 90 to 150 files, de- pending on the number of folders used. The 512K Macintosh has enough memory to track hun- dreds of files, but the Finder can’t efficiently manage large numbers of files anyway. It takes around 20 seconds to search and load a file from among 200 files in a directory because the Finder must look for another file that holds folder information. Further- more, the present mini-Finder doesn’t show the hierarchical file structures that desktop folders suggest; any time you want to change documents with the mini-Finder, it is in- convenient to scroll through large numbers of documents to find the one document you're looking for. Until a more effi- cient Finder arrives, a hard disk drive isn't likely to be the an- swer to the Mac's storage problems. During the last year manu- facturers have released prod- ucts in an attempt to solve some of the Mac's limitations. But the Mac's problems can't be solved with add-on software and hardware products, which are only Band-Aid fixes to sys- temic problems. Some of the Mac's inconvenience can't be overcome until it gains more than 512K of memory so that it can keep in memory both the System Folder and a RAM disk with several large programs, The Finder and the system should be built into ROM to re- duce the burden on disk spac and memory. Apple should also redesign the Finder and the system to handle large num- bers of files and to allow extra levels of control and conve- nience so that the Mac can grow with people's abilities. Most people will agree that the Macintosh has created a new standard of convenience by which other personal com- puters are certain to be mea- sured. But the machine's suc- cess may wane in the coming year if it can’t meet the growing requirements of the people that it has so adeptly drawn to itself, 0 ClickOn Worksheet goes where no spreadsheet has gone before... auch fi Foi % File Edit Search formot Font Sinie Worksheet E } ClickOn™ Worksheet +4140 200 09 +462 485 03} $55,157 52] Ie 2 aa F wary Freer Prep A Ty eS Crepher fet OnaOd free “Sanwary Feburary March tert May a Integrate spreadsheets and graphics into MacWrite" (or any other application) Let’s say you're in MacWrite. Without leaving it, you click on a spreadsheet for some quick calculations. Then click on a bar, pie or line chart, made directly from your spreadsheet. Now paste them both into your MacWrite document. Done. All without leaving MacWrite, and without changing programs or disks. And even on your 128k Mac. 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I've just finished reading the December issue of Macworld cover to cover and can't wait until the next issue arrives. I don’t own a Macintosh yet, but your maga zine has made me more anx- ious to get one. Besides being informative, Macworld is fun to read. Whether to buy a Mac wa difficult decision because I us several other computers at work. My colleagues were a lit- tle concerned about the Mac not being a Big Blue compati- ble, but the graphics on the Mac sold me. One colleague, who works mostly with spread- sheets, needed only one issue of Macworld to convince him that the Mac is the right com- puter for him. [have a request for informa- tion. Is there anything new on a double-sided disk drive? Phil Feinberg San Diego, California Sony, which makes the 400K single-sided disk drive for tbe Macintosh, already makes an 800K double-sided disk drive. Macintosh product manager Randy Battat of Apple Com- puter says that while Apple would like to use the new drive as soon as possible, Sony's production levels are not yet high enough to war- rant doing so and won't be for the rest of the year. —Ed. Teacher's Pet Tama high school teacher with Apple II+ and He computers at my disposal. When I finally saved up enough money to buy my first personal computer, I decided to purchase a Macin- tosh, even though I knew that software would not be compati- ble between the Apple Il and the Mac. Based on my experiences with the Macintosh, | would like to share some of the things Thave learned with other teachers. I hope that other edu- cators will write to you, and a regular exchange of ideas could begin. Multiplan makes an excel- lent electronic grade book. The tedium associated with adding up the grades of 140 students with up to 40 grades each ina semester made calculating quarter and semester grades nightmare. By setting up the program to keep track of grades for the quarter and the semester, | have saved myself many hours of work. I also make updated printouts avail- able to students on a weekly basis so they always know where they stand. Handwritten overhead trans- parencies are a thing of the past. I produce transparencies on the Mac. Graphics and the numerous font styles have made my overheads a joy to take notes from. After getting a aster print from the Mac, | ake the transparency with a Thermofax machine. My stu- dents never know what I'll come up with next. 1 of my lab sheets, work sheets, and data sheets are now typed in different fonts and include graphics from clip art packages like McPic!, ClickArt, and Mac the Knife. Teaching school is a difficult job, with enormous pressures from the administration, par- ents, and students. ‘Teachers are always looking for ways to im- prove education, and I see the Macintosh as a terrific tool in this regard. R, S. Doren Denver, Colorado The Score on Jazz I read a description of Jazz, the integrated program from Lotus Development Corporation, in February's Macware News. I've been waiting to read a review of the program. When are you planning to cover it? Michael Lynch Marshfield, Wisconsin We bave seen a demonstra- tion of Jazz, and we think it will be an important program for the Macintosh. However, Lotus has not provided us Macworld with a review copy, and we be- lieve it would be unfair to our readers to report on the pro- gram before we've made a full evaluation. We will publish a review as soon as possible. —Ed., Thanks and No Thanks I would like to compliment you on an outstanding publication. I have read many computer pub- lications. What separates Mac- world from the rest of them is that your publication, besides being highly informative, udes class. It is apparent that a lot of love and pride goes into the making of this magazine. You mentioned that Apple was giving away MacDraw and MacProject to Mac owners who got the 512K upgrade. Being the proud owner of a Mac, I'd like to know if Apple is doing anything special for those who purchased the 512K Mac outright. Mario Santiago Chicago, Illinois Macintosh product manager Randy Battat of Apple Com- puter tells us that only Macin- tosh owners who purchased their 128K Macs before Sep- tember 10, 1984 (when the 512K Mac was introduced), are given MacDraw and Mac- Project when they have their Macs upgraded.—Ed. tw a Now that you've test driven a Mac Floor it with MacLion If MacLion cai’t tame your database, we'll give you your money back. “We found a problem MacLion’s programming language couldn't handle?’ Glenn Slocum Davis, Santo, and Associates Out there in the great database jungle, only MacLion has the power to generate business programs to your specifications, on your Mac. MacLion. It alone has the power to deliver what it promises. 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While it is a great ad- vantage to me to have the I miss being able to type in many other European lan- guages that use the Latin alpha- bet, such as Latin itself (for which horizontal lines should be available to mark long vowels), Czech, Hungarian, Pol- ish, and Latvian. Each of these languages uses ritical marks—marks that go above or below certain letters—that the current Mac either does not have or does not allow users to put in the right place. It is good to have a small cir- cle available (°), but if I can’t put it over an uppercase or a lowercase u, then I must add the symbol by hand in Czech documents. The cedilla is found on the Mac under the up- percase and lowercase c, but in Latvian it is needed under many other consonants. Even for the more common Euro- pean languages there is a prob- Jem: the three standard accents (acute, grave, and circumflex) are too small relative to the let- ters over which they occur. Moreover, for some unfathoma- ble reason, the Mac will not place the accents over most up- percase vowels, It should be relatively easy to make all the diacritical marks dead keys so that you could place them above or below any letter, uppercase or lowercase. Or perhaps an overstrike fe; ture could be introduced. I re alize that software designers may be thinking of these things now as they create font editors, but it is still unfortunate that the Mac went so far with di- acritical signs but no farther. Paul Rapoport Hamilton, Ontario Canada In Search of Cyrillic For some time now I have been examining a variety of comput- ers with a view to selecting one for my work as a translator of scientific texts from the Rus- sian, the Polish, and the French. Unfortunately I have been un- able to find the ne ry soft- ware. An attempt at word pro- cessing on the Macintosh has certainly swayed me, but I still have the problem of finding software for handling my files of Russian-English and Polish- English terminology. The Polish alphabet has Latin letters with a few accents and hence post no great problem. The Cyrillic alphabet is another matter. In “Font Fabrications” [Macworld, November 1984], you mention that Dreams of the Phoenix, a Florida software company, is developing Cyrillic fonts. Could you please provide the address so I could write to the company? I shall continue to read your excellently produced journal for all the features other read- ers have already praised. How- ever, I should like to add an ac- colade for your avoidance of the trendy jargon I have seen in other computer magazines. Ej dently, contributors to those magazines forget that we lowly humans are programmed for a natural language—English in thi a Eugene Lepa Drummondville, Quebec Canada You can write to Dreams of the Phoenix, P.O. Box 10273, Jacksonville, FL 32247.—Ed. $199. AZTEC C68K-P .. . AZTEC C6B8K TOOLS ........ $249 MAC CROSS COMPILER HOSTS & TARGETS TO ORDER OR FOR INFORMATION CALL OR WRITE: CAL! 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And I enjoy the image of the left hand pop- ping back and forth over the right. But Chopin was not a hand crosser. There are no crossings in any of the 24 études or in any of the 24 pre- ludes. I can think of a couple of instances in the mazurkas, but only where the right hand s over the left—and usu- ally it doesn’t pop back but lin- gers down there playing a mel- The luckless lefty at the isa would, however, be cross ing hands as often as a pi: performing a Scarlatti sonata. Leonard Gillman Austin, Texas Computer-Aided Empowerment I'm in my early forties and cerebral palsy, which affects my speech and causes some mild coordination problems; other- wise, | am normal 95 percent of the time. I never dreamed that I could use a computer until about three years ago, when I started reading computer magazines. I bought an Apple He but was disappointed because runni WordStar was a little too much to cope with. So back to the store it went. When I saw the Macintosh, I knew right away that it was for me. When I brought it home, I was quickly overwhelmed by ease of use. The mouse soon, me a friend. be Being disabled led me to be- lieve that everything was im- possible, unreachable. I'd re- gretted life because every time Thad an idea, I couldn't get it down on paper no matter how hard I tried. Drawing a circle with a compass or a straight line with a rufer was unreal in its difficulty. My ideas ended in total frustration. With the Macintosh, life is a whole new ball game because every time | get an idea, | rush over to the computer and ex- press my idea right away. I find the Mac very easy to use, es- pecially with the mouse, which is an interesting device. With it some disabled people could overcome the problem of eye- hand coordination. There's no room for frustration because if you don’t like what you see, you can undo the last command un- til you get it right. With the pull-down menus, you don’t have to be a com- puter scientist to use the Mac. With MacWrite, word proce ing becomes as easy as run- ning your fingers through the yellow pages. There are no complex key combinations to remember or heavy manuals to read. MacPaint makes the im- possible become possible and frees your ability to create with- out becoming frustrated. The nuals are easy to read and understand. For some bled people, the computer is the only way to express themselves. The Mac on better by making it easier. Larry C. Yarmo Willowdale, Ontario Canada Letters should be mailed to Leuers, Macworld, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to CompuServe 74055,412 or The Source STE9O8. O Turbo-Charge Your Macintosh. 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Please include your name, address, and phone number with your contributions; send them to Macworld View, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107. Mac Video You may not realize that you can record Macintosh images on your VCR. Connect the Mac to your television by running a communications cable from the serial port; attach the cable at the television end with an RGB. connector, which is available at most electronics stores. You can tape a sequence of drawings in MacPaint, for example, on a videocassette and add a sound track to create your own musi video. The introduction of digi- tizers and animation software has so expanded the Mac’s graphics capabilities that artists and would-be artists should be busy for a while just eyeing the possibilities (see “Pictures to Pixels” in this issue). 34 April 1985 Stagehand One of the most tedious jobs for a director of a play or a mu- sical is blocking—working out where the actors move on stage. The actors, the stage manager, and lesser mortals come to the first rehearsal each armed with a copy of the play, a sharp pencil, and an eraser. Grinding through the play, the director spells out where each actor has to be from one dra- matic moment to the next. By the third rehearsal the female lead doesn't remember whether she sits down before John goes to the fireplace or af terward, and the male lead wonders whether he enters on the line “For god's sake, Joan, your father will be here any minute” or on the line before. The seasoned director al- ways comes to rehearsal with an extra copy of the script that has been torn apart and glued into a large book. Even with this preparation, the director has to outline the actors’ move- ments and spend hours as cast members make notes of the movements on their copies of the script. With a Macintosh, blocking becomes an easy task that lets the actors get on with the real business of rehearsal. Using MacDraw or MacPaint, the di- rector lays outa clearly labeled diagram of the set. The actors’ relative positions and their movements in each scene can be outlined on screen. When the time arrives to determine the lighting or to decide where to place additional props, the director uses the set diagrams to show where the lights or the props should be. Mac owner John Weygandt, assistant pro- fessor of drama at Earlham Col- lege in Indiana, uses Filevision to record more complex infor- mation about each light, such as circuit number, focus area, and wattage. Directors at community the- aters and college drama depart- ments now have a tool in the Macintosh that solves many knotty problems other than blocking. The Mac can be used to prepare budgets, revise di- alog at the last minute, issue memos to the cast and crew, write musical scores, design posters, and print tickets. —Anthony Betts Put Ona Friendly Face Many computer owners believe that Apple has redefined user Jriendly with the Macintosh. While Apple didn’t invent the use of icons, windows, and. menus, the Mac set a standard. for user interface that other companies have followed. A re- cent example is a user interface program from Digital Research called Graphics Environment Manager (GEM), which installs a Mac-like desktop in IBM, ‘Tandy 2000, and other personal computers that use operating systems based on MS-DOS (Mi- crosoft’s disk operating sys- tem). The desktop features pull-down menus, icons, and overlapping windows. Icons represent disk drives and are used within windows to show folders for document files or application programs. A mouse- controlled pointer selects files and menu choices from the pull-down menus. GEM resides between the operating system and an ap- plication program. This ar- rangement means that the ap- plication does not appear with GEM’s menus, windows, and icons unless it has been rewrit- ten to take advantage of GEM's features. How many software publishers will rewrite their programs for the new user in- terface remains to be seen. Software . s Publishing MacLibrary, Microsoft's new software publishing division, plans to select several pro- grams developed by smaller companies for the Macintosh and take on the job of manufac- turing, packaging, advertising, and distributing the programs. Alan Boyd, publisher of Mac- Library, intends to encourage product development in the fol- lowing areas: business produc- tivity software, educational and self-improvement software, rec- reational software, program- ming tools, software for the home, and a catch-all category for novel developments that don’t fall under the other areas. The first three products to be shipped this year include a tutorial on Microsoft’s Multi- plan and Chart, Logo from Logo Computer Systems, and a business simulator called En- trepreneur (see this issue’s Macware News for further in- formation on Entrepreneur). Microsoft is already working with universities to market products developed by faculty members and researchers, pri- marily software development tools. For more information contact MacLibrary, Microsoft, 10700 Northup Way, Box 97200, Bellevue, WA 98004. Developer Training Persistent requests for as- sistance from programmers in- terested in developing software for the Macintosh have encour- aged Apple to seek backup sup- port. Perennial Software Ser- vices Group, a computer consulting firm in Santa Clara, California, has undertaken the task of helping train developers and answer their questions. Pe- rennial is offering two pro- grams: a beginning class for programmers and a subscrip- tion technical support service. The class is conducted twice a month, once at Apple in nearby Cupertino and a second time in another region of the country. The training program is de- signed to take developers through the initial stages of producing software, with em- phasis on the Mac's user interface. Subscribers to the support service have access to Peren- nial’s database and develop- ment tools for the Mac. The programs are not restricted to certified developers. For fur- ther information contact Peren- nial Software Services Group, 3130 De La Cruz Blvd., Clara, CA 95054, 408/727-2755. Macworld 35 Macworld View The Mac Show The fast-growing New York Macintosh Users Group (NYMUG) is nearing comple- tion of one of its most ambi- tious projects—“The Mac Show,” a kind of user group meeting to be shown on cable television. Taping began in December on the series of three half-hour shows. To get the airing times of the program, contact NYMUG, PO. Box 6686, York- ville Station, New York, NY 10128. The shows are devoted to special interest groups (SIGs), whose members demonstrate software and hardware relating to specific, usually advanced applications for the Mac. For in- ince, the first show will deal with such topi how to pull programs out of damaged disks, how to use a digitizer and enhance a digitized picture with MacPaint, and how to evaluate software for letter quality printers. Produced by NYMUG mem- ber Bruce Spector, who has his own video studio, the show will get its message across with photos, screen setups, and group interaction, in which the camera follows members as they call out questions and comments to demonstrate the uses of featured products. NYMUG copresident Steve Doochin asserts that “The show almost has a ‘Hill Street Blues’ look to it,” referring to the documentary-style opening sequence of the popular televi- sion series.—Kobert Buderi Mac’s Up Down Under In Sydney, Australia, cover type is being applied to the first is sue of Australian Macworld. According to editor Neville An- gove, the bimonthly magazine will be the first Macintosh- specific publication outside the United States. While the first few issues will feature stories familiar to Macworld readers, future issues will cover Macin- tosh products and topics more closely related to Australian Macworld’s market, which in- cludes Japan, Hong Kong, New Guinea, Singapore, the Philip- pines, and New Zealand. The magazine is published by Com- puterworld Australia, which also publishes Computerworld Australia, Australian Micro Computerworld, and Aus- tralian PC World. 36 April 1985, Meanwhile, in Italy In 1984 the ‘intosh was fea- tured in the international exhi- bition of office products that is held in Milan, Italy, each year. Introduced throughout Europe in May, the Mac drew large crowds each day of the six-day show. In.addition to showcas- ing such familiar Macintosh software as MacPaint and Mi- crosoft Multiplan, Apple Italia introduced a few products de- veloped by Italian companies, including a list manager called CFS Schedario, which is sim- ilar to pfs file. While CFS Schedario is in Italian, most other Macintosh programs are imported from the United States and available only in En- glish. Even so, Italian Mac owners say that the machine lends itself to international use because of the iconographic format of the screen. Luciano de Crescienzo, a prominent writer and filmmaker, uses the Mac to develop storyboards. Using MacPaint, Crescienzo splits each screen in half ver- tically. He outlines dialog on one side and sketches corre- sponding shots on the other, Although some Macintosh documentation has been trans- lated into Italian, Apple Italia has had to supplement its dealer training materials with English documentation, includ- ing copies of Macworld. Pub- lications on the Mac are begin- ning to appear in Italian bookstores. Gruppo Editoriale Jackson, a publishing company in Milan, has published a book by Jaetano Marano entitled Macintosh: 120 idee per it nuovo computer Apple (120 Ideas for the New Apple Com- puter). Marano’s ideas include the development of application programs for furniture and fashion design. Considering the Italian facility for design, we can hope to see some inno- vative software crossing the At- lantic.—Janette Martin O bi Compared to Modula-2, Whatever pro- gramming method you're now using is like doing your arithmetic in Roman Numerals. It would take much more space than this ad to prove Modula-2 is the best available competitive tool forthe serious computer entrepreneur. “Such matters,” according to Frank Herbert (DUNE), ‘can only be tested in the crucible of survival, not in the play of symbols.’ Nevertheless, consider the merits of Modula-2. 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