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Jue LOSS $3.95, Canada $4.95 Itzhak Perlman on the Art of High-Tech Music Linking up to Dow Jones JA ZENG. Complication vs. Integration. ™ Is your computer space about to be condemned? Do you spend hours each day looking for your program Let's face it. Mac mess is no fun. It's frus- trating and a terrific time waster, ‘There's got to be a way to organize the computer complication. And integrate your Mac and peripherals into the efficient and productive tools they were intended to be. Meet MacStation. The strang and durable home for your Macintosh that helps you maxi- mize your computer environment. It significantly reduces the space necessary to accommodate your printer, disk drive, modem, mouse, manuals and disks. ‘That means you'll work efficiently and effectively. And enjoy your computer more. MacStation is constructed of high- impact plastic to match your Mac's color and texture, It's well ventilated to stay cool and comlortable. But the best news js MacStation won't cost an arm and a leg like some other peripherals. It's only $95" at your favorite dealer. Isn't it time you got organized? ‘To order direct or for the dealer nearest you call toll free: 1-800-546-4000, Dept. 432. Residents in Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, or outside the US.A. call: 1-503-684-3000, Dept. 432. In Canada call: 604-879-4185. if fi ra ™ * This is our suygested retail price, MicroRain’s dealers set the actual selling price. Apple isa registered trademark andl Macintosh a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Ine. “First of the second generation hard disk drives for Macintosh. You need a Macbottom™ hard disk drive to enhance the power and speed of your Macintosh. Macbottom with ten plus megabytes of storage is the fastest disk you can attach to your Macintosh. And more data storage no longer means sacrificing desk space. Macbottom is the only high capacity hard disk drive system that’s two inches high and fits perfectly under your Macintosh. Since it weighs less than five pounds you can take it everywhere you take Mac. Macbottom and your Macintosh are a perfect match. Macbottom. . . designed by Mac Users. . . for Mac Users! © Built-in power fail detection protects valuable disk data. @ Automatic turnon feature requires no extra switches. ® Connects to either modem or printer port. ® Variable size volume allocation utilizes all available space efficiently. @ Backup program makes backup foolproof and fast! @ Printer spooler frees the Macintosh” for more work. @ Works with 128k or 512k Macintosh. © Warranteed for six months— parts and labor. 6204 Benjamin Road Tampa, FL 33614 1-800-MACBUTT (813) 884-3092 Circle 223 on reader service card “As seen at the Macworld Exposition in San Francisco. ‘Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc MACWORLD June 1985 EE They won't make a Mozart out of you, but two music programs make it easy to write eine kleine Macmusik. Read about them be- ginning on page 72. 52 61 Getting Started SuperMac to the Rescue Danny Goodman Some super advice on how to keep windows clean, files in order, and “disk almost full” alert boxes out of sight. Get Info Lon Poole Macworld’s tutor answers questions from readers about the Mac, 72 84 106 119 The Macintosh"Magazine Review Roll Over Mozart Nicholas Lavroff Between two music programs for the Macintosh, would Wolfgang Amadeus have preferred MusicWorks or ConcertWare-or would he still have relied on paper and quill pen? Direct Line to Dow Jones Saul D. Feldman The communications program Straight Talk simplifies using the Dow Jones database but limits the amount of information you can retrieve ata time. Windows in Motion Erfert Nielson Don’t expect to rival Disney, but with Animation Toolkit No. 1 you can include moving pictures in your programming or simply have some fun. Making Sense of Your Dollars Keith Thompson Featuring graphs, reports, and double- entry bookkeeping, Monogram’s money management program, Dollars and Sense, helps keep your nest egg unscrambled. Macware News Edited by Erfert Nielson Announcements of the latest developments in Macintosh software, hardware, and accessories, 138 149 160 171 Hands On Shopping the Electronic Software Shelves Neil Shapiro Files in the data libraries of the MicroNet Apple User's Group range from digitized diversions to useful application programs, but you have to know how to check them out for your own use. This article shows you how. Open Window Edited by Jim Heid An exchange of Macintosh discoveries. Community Peerless Itzhak Perlman Edited by Jeffrey S. Young The internationally acclaimed violinist shares his thoughts on how computer technology affects the production and recording of mi and why, whatever re The next best thing to having a robot with an expense account do your software shop- the state of the art, the song remains ping is having access the same. to data libraries via Macworld Gallery modem. Startmg on page 138, get the lowdown on down- loading: it’s cheap, but itain't free. Edited by Erfert Nielson An exhibition of Macintosh graphics. Photo/illustration credits David Bishop, 138-139; John Hersey, 41, 42, 45; The Image Bank, 84-85; Chris Jones, 43; Ed Kashi, 160-161; Jay Kinney, 45; Steve Lyons, 44; George Steinmetz, Fred Stimson, cov 106-107; Richare (inset); Mick Wiggins, 52-5: 21 29 41 180 181 185 Columns Can the Mac Save Apple? David Bunnell The Machine in the Garden Daniel Farber Letters Macworld View Edited by Janet McCandless How to build your own Mac work table and other news and notes for the Macintosh community. Indexes Products Advertisers Macworld Directory Macworld 3 MACWORLD Editorial Editor: Kearney Rieunann Associate Editor: Daniel Farber ‘Technical Editor: David Ushijima stat Editors: Adrian Mello, fert Nielson sditorial Manager. Janet McCandless Senior Copy Editor: Kathleen Christensen Copy Editor: ). B. Arcellana Editorial Secretary: Heidi Mitchell Contributing Editors Danny Goodman, Jim Heid, Jeremy Joan Hewes, Nicholas Lavroff, Gordon McComb, Lon Poole. Jeffrey. Young Art Associate Publisher. Jacqueline Poitier Designer: Marjorie Spiegelman. Art Director: Bruce Charonnat Associate Designer: Dennis Mcleod Associate Art Director: Christopher Burg Design Associates: Leslie Barton, Holly Hudson Production Director; Herbert Linden senior Production Manager frances Mann, Lee R. 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And of course, it does all the tricky little things automatically... like indexing every word, number and date for speed searches. Because you design your out- put right on the screen, you can see exactly what you (and your custom- ers) are going to get. And you can create any number of forms for your information to take. So what might have been a dreary order acknowledgement can now be a clear, friendly letter. Or it can be a meaningful comparison of inventory by vendor. Or parts lists, receiving verifications, purchase orders, labels, name badges, rosters and hit lists. With FileMaker, you can pick up from other programs, like Mac- Write MacPaint;* MicroSoft Plan‘ Jazz; and share the appli- cations you’ve created with other members of your team. You get all the tools you need to easily consolidate group efforts into one database. 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And OverVUE has eamed high marks among data- bases forits mind boggling REPORT CARD OVERVUE speed, its incredible range of features and its amazing ® power. Now we could aan ! = elaborate on these things Doomeniaion oO © ourselves. But we figure | eee youd rather hearit straight es SES from the experts who make out the grades: gece Reported INFOWORLD, April 1, 1985; “OverVUEis rich in features that rank it with the more sophisticated databases available for the Macintosh...the more we worked with it, the more we came to respect OverVUEs power and capabilities, not to mention its speed” According to MACWORLD January, 1985; “OverVUE isa fascinating program. A cross between a data base manager and an elec- " tronic spreadsheet... Its ability to | share data with Multiplan makes it a must for serious financial work" At, February, 1985 said: “OverVUE is Macintosh software the way it was meant to be. ...Speed Demon....geared especially for lightning fast performance. .. Extremely easy to master’ PERSONAL COMPUTING, February, 1985 wrote: "OverVUE can execute yy, “Good grades: almost all of its commands in the blink ofan eye, or two blinks at the most. ...Its speed and math capabilities go well beyond what most personal computer data base programs have achieved ...it definitely can make the Mac youalready have a much more useful tool’ Apple placed OverVUE on its demanding “MUST BUY” List, November, 1984: “Does more with less effort than anything we've ever seen. ...A Gem" Stated CLUB MAC, September, 1984: ‘I know of no other data base that can touch it. ...Lots of power here. No doubt about it, this is a sweet system. ...It sets a behavioral standard for programs in its class” Praised MACAZINE, December, 1984: ‘It may be the best money you've ever spent... The amount of pure data analysis one can do with their files is mind boggling. ...This is the Macintosh at its best. Well, there you have it. We could have filled up pages with quotes like these, but we think you get the picture. Obviously, we're not the only ones who think OverVUEis terrific. An enormous number of r knowledgeable experts feel pretty much the same way. So, dont you think it's high time you tested OverVUE yourself? Call or write for more information: ) OverVUE’ | OverVUE Overll ProVUE™ Development Corporation 222 22nd Street ¢ Huntington Beach, CA 92648 « (714) 969-2431 Circle 77 on reader service card David Bunnell Can the Mac Save Apple? A hard disk and 512K make the Mac a first-rate office computer, with or without a network Anyone interested in the per- sonal computer industry has frequently heard that Apple Computer's future rides on the Macintosh’s success in the of- fice. The Apple II's dominance in the educational and high- end home market (Com- modore 64s aside) is dismissed by industry watchers. Common computer sense says that the Apple I] will shortly be made obsolete by more advanced computers in the same price range. The early arrivals among these high-powered, low- priced machines, the Com- modore Amiga and the Atari ST, should be out about the time this column is—in time to make a significant impact on fourth- quarter computer sales, which are usually the highest of any quarter's, pel eee ge eI | Many PC gurus are impressed by the new machines’ fast pro- cessing speeds, large memo- ries, and high-quality color graphics. They assume that third-party software publishers will create the software neces- sary to knock down the Apple II's gigantic software haystack. These gurus underestimate the importance of a software base. A solid software base gives a computer clout and of- fers the user lots of choices. Next time you're in a book- store, pick up an Apple II soft- ware directory and thumb through it. You'll be amazed at the mind-boggling number of programs available for the ma- chine. The Apple II has too sta- ble a foundation to drift into oblivion. Even the Apple people can't seem to under- mine it. What if they opted to come out with a 32-bit Apple II- compatible computer? Or an in- expensive, color Macintosh? Or what if the Apple II keeps on selling like it has for the past seven years? On the other side of the disk, even though the personal com- puter business market was launched by the Apple II and VisiCalc, it really blasted to the ionosphere with the IBM PC and Lotus 7-2-3. The Apple II is strongest in the home and educational mar- kets, but both niches are unpre- dictable and full of bugs. So, the reasoning goes, it’s all up to the Mac to save Apple. If Apple plans to recapture its glory days, its first step is to sell the Macintosh to the Fortune 1000, which will set the exam- ple for smal] businesses. Many people think that Ap- pleTalk, the Macintosh Office is the key to selling to large businesses. Corporate personal computers need to talk to each other and their larger counterparts—main- frames and minis, But this con- cept doesn’t take into account the IBM PC's success as a stand- alone device. PC networks do exist; even IBM introduced one. But network software develop- ment has been extremely slow, and the road to a decent local area network perilous, The sad reality is that PC networks are still largely an MIS fantas af ti oh ee 1 know of four common justi- fications for personal computer networks: ®@ You save money by sharing peripherals, such as hard disks and printers. © You eliminate paper by using electronic mail. @ You access corporate databases and gain more power through mainframe-micro links. ® You share and update data. Networks don’t really save you money. Network hardware and software is as expensive as hard disks, printers, and per- sonal computers, which con- tinue to come down in price. Soon each user will be able to have a complete workstation— including a hard disk anda printer—for less than the cost of installing a network. Macworld $11 Which is the better way Any growing business needs to organize, analyze and use data. Customer orders. Shipping records. Inventory. Billing. Prospect lists. Now, depending on your Macin- tosh software, you can manage data ‘one of two ways. The simple, stufFeverything-into-one-file theory ofdata management. That's how ordinary filers and information managers work. You jam data into a single file that With an ordinary data manager, you have to re-enter existing information every time you enter new infor: mation. Pratty inefficient The problem? Well, if you have a sales order entry file, every time you enter new data about a customer's order, you also have to re-enter all the existing data about your customer. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Worse, if you ever want to move the data from your sales order entry file to develop a new file, without having to rework it all over again, there's one small problem. You can't. Okay. Let’ get serious. MacLion™, on the other hand, includes every piece of information With Maclion, eeu Ree eke the = data is a true relational database lat has changed. Not only that, you can design you might ever want to know. your Own dalaeniy screens, Now which is the most management system. efficient way to manage your business data? MacLion. Serious database power for serious So instead of trying to jam all your business data into one massive file, you can set up several smaller, more manageable “relations.” (Picture them asa series of neat file folders.) The advantage? Inasales order entry system, one relation contains biographical data about your customers that doesn’t change. Another has their order data that does. There's no duplication. So when it's time to update customer orders, you only have to enter in new data. Not re-enter what already exists. And you can develop Macintosh users. Circle 66 on reader service card entirely new applications for your existing database just by adding new relations That's the most efficient way to manage your data. For a MacLion demonstration, see your dealer. Or, send for our “Serious Buyer's Guide to Database Management Systems," which includes a demonstration disk Simple vs. serious. And MacLion gives you some other remarkable features, too You can design and generate your own custom data entry screens and reports. Just by clicking your mouse through Macintosh pull-down menus—without programming. Or, if you're a programmer at heart, you can also use MacLion's built-in procedural language and add even more specialized functions. That's serious database power, only possible with MacLion, Im serious about managing my data. plus complete information on what a database management system can do for your business. Get serious—with MacLion. (Diion. 1904 Wright Circle, Anaheim, CA 92806 Macintosh is a Irademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. ‘MacLion is a trademark of Computer Software Designs, Inc. OPlease send me your free “How to Buy a Database Management System” brochure. CiPiease send me “A Serious Buyer's Guide to Database Management Systems.” I've enclosed $9.95. CCheck or money order enclosed. CPlease charge my: __ VISA __MasterCard Number Expiration Date Signature Relational database ‘management sims. Why you nealone cations Howe io bald one genes eat can help your business, 3 Serious Netdon datbase VISA and MasterCard orders can be placed by phone. Call (800) 252-LION or (714) 634-9012 Calif. residents please add 6% tax. Send to: Database Guide COMPUTER SOFTWARE DESIGNS INC. 4904 Wright Circle Anaheim, California 92806 Name Address City__State _Zip David Bunnell Electronic mail may be the best reason for installing a net- work, not because it saves trees but because it provides instant communications capabilities to personal computers as close as. the next cubicle or as far away as Japan. Unlike standard mail, electronic mail lets you monitor when your message was received and read—or at least looked at. But you don't need file serv- ers and shared hard disks to use electronic mail. Personal computers need only modems and a phone line, or a direct ca- ble connection, and the right communications software to start communicating electronically. As for ing corporate mainframes, only a small per- centage of business users really need this luxury. Memory should reside on your desktop, not in some distant, giant com- puter. irge computers are nec- essary in certain corporate de- partments, such as accounting, but surely the vast majority can survive without a mainframe. Asa final blow to the office network concept, I don't even think that sharing data is such a great idea. In fact, most people don’t want to share their data until it is committed to paper. Personally, I can’t imagine self sitting ata terminal con- nected to five fellow staffers doing budgets. I'll take a reli- able stand-alone office com- puter over a network any day. I recently turned my Ma tosh into a super office com- puter by expanding it to 512K and adding a Tecmar MacDrive hard disk. It was a relatively simple operation; I connected the hard disk without the ad- vice or aid of our technical ge- niuses here at the magazine, who are usually required fora similar IBM upgrade. | merely plugged in the hard disk and booted my Mac with the ac- companying system disk, It was fairly simple to create volumes to store clifferent types of soft- ware on the hard disk. The only drawback was that many programs, such as Micro- soft Word, are copy protected. While you can load them on the hard disk, you can't start them without first inserting the master disk. This limitation is largely overcome by Copy #/, a pro- gram that lets you copy Micro- soft’s programs onto a hard So I put MacPaint, Mac- Write, Word, File, Chart, and Multiplan ina volume called Programs—along with the database manager OverVUE, an intriguing program called TimeBase, and a folder each of games and utilities. My attempt to load ThinkTank 512 proved a bit of a problem due to its copy-protection scheme, which one of our techies describes as “tied to the disk.” I could load it on the hard disk but couldn't open it without the floppy. ad ed) ld The results of adding a Tecmar hard disk are beautiful. Instead of using both the Macintosh and the PC in my office, I've been using the Mac alone. I still ExperTelligence™ has the “tools” to transform your Macintosh™ into a powerful Artificial Intel- ligence workstation. ExperLisp™ is the first com- plete implementation of LISP on a microcomputer. Developed on a Symbolics 3600™, the compiler gener- ates efficient MC68000 code providing speed and function ideal for the development and delivery of sophisticated AI applications. ExperOPS5.™ by Sci- ence Applications International Corporation, is a com- plete implementation of the well-known OPS5 expert systems building tool. 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At the core of THE DESK ORGANIZER Is a free-form filing system that files anything you want, just by typing it. Notes. Letters. Reports. Phone numbers. Names and addresses. And you can retrieve or update at any time. __ Surrounding this system are easy-to-use tools that add anew dimension to your Mac: THE DESK ORGANIZER's extensive correspondence facility replaces Mac's limited notepad. Its calculator adds an electronic paper tape—and a powerful formula calculator (the Mac has neither). And THE DESK ORGANIZER offers unlimited alarms that chime gently to remind you of meetings. Plus a telephone dialer that automatically searches files, locates the proper number and connects you. What's more, THE DESK ORGANIZER increases the filing capacity of the Mac—by storing hundreds of Mac notes and letters on a single diskette. Born to run.on the Mac, THE DESK ORGANIZER can co-reside with other Mac programs —to keep you completely organized no matter what you're working on. 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RIGHT NOW. Have you seen the RGS WRIGHT + WORD PROCESSOR for your Macintosh...check with your dealer today. 221 Nolana, McAllen, Texas 78504 512-631-1177 800-527-1121 ext. 2785 (in TX) 800-292-1031 ext. 2785 Circle 26 on reader service card Microsoft and Microsoft BASIC are registered trademarks of Microsolt Corporation. SOFTMAKER I and FIGS| are trademarks of Rio Grande Software, Inc. Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. 16 June 1985 David Bunnell use a Compag Plus at home, but only because my domestic Mac is a 128K machine without a hard disk. With the exception of the system disk and Think- Tank, all my floppies at work can be stored in the desk drawer, Not having to deal with disks is wonderful. Organizing files has become incredib| easy, and disk space, finally, is no longer a problem. When I open 4 file, the machine finds the appropriate application and loads both into memory. The Mac is a smart little guy. One particularly pleasant surprise was that my hard disk software includes a printer buffer, so I can start new tasks while my last thought is still being printed out. A 512K Mac with a hard disk is definitely a top-notch office computer. es Fe In October we will publish a special edition of Macworld called The Case for the Macin- tosh Office, Although I believe the battle has already been won, there are many skep- tical—if not downright hostile— PC stragglers who doubt the Mac's chances. The Case for the Macintosh Office will be mailed to all our subscribers and to over 50,000 corporate personal computer who handle hardware or software acquisition for their companies. We think this issue will tell the tale and help turn the tide in Apple's favor. 0 NOW! NEW, SUPER SOFTWARE ‘OR THE MACINTOSH! Lok! It's bird! I's apline! No at's four bper new programs from Meguhaus Corp kach ane compliment the other ty bake your Macintosh into a Super machine 4y lurmning # powerful, integrated systern! MegaMerge is THE mail merge program lor MacWrite! With MegaMerge. you can use MacWrite ty create form leuers. print mauling labels and more! You can even overcome MacWrite’s limited document we by “chaining” several documents Logether and printing therm as one, long JocuTAen MegaFiler Ifyou do any filing a all in your home or uthice, you NEED Mepabile Irs the file management systern for the Macintosh that lets you file and reuieve inlarmation with BASE! You Can store manes, addresses or other information using MegaFilers library of ready made files for © Muling Lists » Customer Orders and Invoices WITH MEGAHAUS, YOU CAN TURN YOUR MACINTOSH INTO Home Management Business Invernory Customer Files And MUCH more! You can aly design your own files using MeguFinders funto-use design file! You can also print lists, tables, mailing labels and MeguMerge mailing lists. You can even incorporate them into MacWrite and other Macintosh applications! Here's what else Megailer can dy, Son information on any field Find forms based on any criteria you choose For example, find all the people who live in California whose names begin with "S” and own « Macintosh and pnt them in ap code order You can manage several files at one time You can cut information from one Bile and “paste” it into another MeguFiler is truly the file management system you've been waiting for Discover how super it really is! MegiForm is an easy-to-use forms and repons generator, You can use Megatorm lo create actual-size forms and reports such Ey Invoice Forms Order Forms Purchase Orders Expense Reports And MUCH more! With Megakorm you can draw forms and reports exactly the way you want them to appear It will also help you fill out the form you just created using MegaFiler With MepaForm you can also draw, file, calculate and even sequentially number your forms! MegaDesk Megaldesk is something almost all of ul can use With MegaDesk you get thre desktop accessories...in other words, a pri gram that you can run at the same time a other programs With MegaDesk you'll get: * A Deskto “Appointment Book” which tsa calendar thd shows you month, day and date Every dal hiss it's own page on which you can jo down information, © A “Quicklook” acce sory which gives you a bricf look into an| Megafiler file on your desk. * A Referend Card accessory which allows you to flip up| ‘window’ containing any information yo choose. We supply a complete library ¢ reference cards and you can also add you awn! The Megahaus funily of software pri ducts truly does make your computer wor harder and easier. They can also turn mild-mannered Macintosh into "Supd Mac”.faster than a speeding bullet The Megahaus family of Software will turn your Macintosh into a MegaDesk Megahaus Corp, 5703 Oberlin Dr, San Diego, CA 92121 Call (619) 450-1230 Circle 88 on reader service cor Enjoy the graphics and sound capabilities of your Macintosh ™ with Airborne! The action packed game. ACTION They're coming! Hordes of them! Enemy helicopters, transports, paratroopers and tanks. Your anti- aircraft gun chatters, shooting mouse-guided shells. Let too many of those paratroopers get on the ground and their banzai attack will overrun your position. Quick, to the mortar, take out those ground troops! Look out, the transport plane just air-dropped a tank. Back to the anti- aircraft gun. A tank that makes it down to the ground shoots with deadly accuracy, And then... the Jets come screaming in like banshees. Their air-to-ground missiles don't miss! HOW LONG CAN YOU HOLD THEM OFF? REAL SOUND This game has the most realistic sound generation available ona Macintosh. Helicopter rotor wash, the drone of transport planes, the shriek of an attack jet, tank fire, explosions ...actual recorded sounds were used in the making of this game. You won't believe your ears, Is this a Macintosh or|s it a cassette tape player?l? A COLLECTOR'S ITEM Besides all the fun you'll have playing tt, you'll want to own this game so you can show off the graphics and sound capabilities of your Mac fo all your friends, Every Macintosh owner will want to have Airborne In their collection. See your local dealer or you can send $34.95 to Silicon Beach Software, Inc. 11212 Dalby PI., Suite 201 San Diego, CA 92126 or Call us at: (619) 695-6956 Visa or Mastercard accepted Dealer Inquiries invited Copyright © 1984 Silicon Beach Software, Inc., 11212 Dalby PI. Suite 201, San Diego, CA 92126 Airborne! is a trademark of Silicon Beach Software, Inc. « Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 268 on reader service card Feed your Mac. Introducing ThunderScan” Now you can turn any printed image into a detailed, bigh- resolution Macintosh graphic. Presto! Abigh-resolution MacPaint document, Just roll your original trto your dmagewriter ThunderScan scans and digitizes the imas No doubt about it, Macintosh is one great graphics machine. But until now, Mac graphics have been limited to what you can draw with a mouse and what someone else has put on a disk. Consequently, taking full advantage of Mac’s graphics capabilities has been tough. But now there's ThunderScan, The new optical scanning device that lets you feed your Mac a steady diet of graphics that are useful to you. ‘ThunderScan turns Mac’ Imagewriter printer into an image reader. So you can digitize any printed image and turn it into a detailed, high-resolution MacPaint document. Anything, including forms, half-tones, photos, mechanical drawings, maps, floorplans, logos, signatures and more. From black and white and color originals. ThunderScan reproduces them at over 200 dots per inch and in 32 shades of gray. ThunderScan’ application software, written by Mac-team-member, Andy Hertzfeld, makes it an extremely versatile and useful tool. You can gen- Tides Bun erate full-page images or selected parts of them, Enlarge and reduce them. Manipulate them. Control the contrast and brightness, Create your own personal image disk. “Cut” and “paste” images together, creating new docu- ments. And print them out on your Imagewriter. Or send them by modem to another Mac. The possibilities are nearly endless, No lights, no camera, just action. What you see here is the complete ThunderScan system. You don’t have to buy an expensive video cam- era. Just pop out your Imagewriter's ribbon cartridge, snap in ThunderScan and you're set. Tt can even work in the dark (maybe you can think of an application for that). If you bought a Mac at least partly for its graphics, only to find you couldn't take full advantage of them, now you can. With ThunderScan. Atan introductory price of just $229, its a small priceto ~~ pay for a whole new graphics capabili ‘ For more information or a ThunderScan’™ of your own, see your dealer or call us today. (415) 254-6581 ‘Thunderware Inc., 19 G Orinda Way, Orinda, CA 94563 Inc, /‘ThunderSean is a trademark of Thunderware Inc. are trademarks of Apple Compu Ine. / Macintosh isa trademark Licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. /Ice cream courtesy of Farrell's Restaurant & [ee Cream Parlour, Inc. Circle 167 on reader service card Daniel Farber The Machine in the Garden Is the universe looking more and more like a great machine rather than a great thought? Imagine you're listening to this conversation: “Tthink my buffers are full- I can't pack any more bits.” Maybe you need to re- program yourself—log on to the beach or the mountains.” “Yes, I need a good debug- ging, My CPU's been working too hard” Now consider that th versation could have taken place between overworked computer scientists, account executives at a prestigious ad- vertising agency, or a psychia- trist and a patient. You know the computer culture has come of age when computerese be- comes accepted slang among business executives and the lit- erati and begins to seep into the officious pages of Webster's. Like other significant tech- nological innovations, such as the wheel, the telephone, the automobile, and the television, the computer is having a pro- found impact on the way we work, as well as on our psyche: There is one important dif ference between the computer and its precu as it crosses the technological horizon, how- ever, Unlike television, which is a passive medium for commu- nicating information, the com- puter is an interactive medium, introducing a new level of inti- macy into the human-machine relationship. Many people re- mark that using a computer is like communicating with a kind of intelligence-a mechanical mind that tells you when your program's syntax is wrong, checks your spelling and pune- tuation, informs you when your disk is almost full, outplays you ‘ss, calculates your income tax, and even gives you medical advice The growing presence of computers in our society and their effect on our minds and culture is the subject of Sherry ‘Turkle’s The Second Self: Com- puters and the Human Spirit (Simon & Schuster, 1984), A so- ciologist and pyschologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, Turkle spent six years studying the evolving computer culture. Her study focuses on how the computer affects the way we think and perceive our- selves. The question she seel to answer is “not what will the computer be like in the future, but instead, what will we be like?” Machines that use one zeros to simulate human. thought processes challenge our ideas about what it is to be human. According to Turkle, sand computers “stand on the line between mind and not-mind, between life and not-life, com- puters excite reflection about the nature of mind and the nature of life.” S| terizes the computer as a psy- chological machine-a second self that provokes us to reflect about who we are, As the com- puter becomes more com- monplace, sophisticated, and powerful, new metaphors in- spired by the machine will be invented to describe the self. Eventually, Turkle suggests, the model of the mind based on our emotional and logical nature may be replaced by a computational model. Or we may come to see ourselves as a hybrid, “built up out of the ma- terials of animal, mind, and ma- chine,” writes Turkle. “Before the computer, the animals, mortal though not sentient, seemed our nearest neighbors in the known universe. Com- puters, with their interactivity, their psychology, with what- ever fragments of intelligence they have, now bid for this place’ Macworld = 21 ap ae New Teachers MathFlash, WordPlay, and MacType MathFlash: The aun teacher that works WordPlay: The word teacher that plays flash cards are the method of.choice to learn arithmetic. Now MathFlash makes it easy and fun, * For parents. and teachers, MathFlash takes away the tedium of administrating rote drills. And for youngsters, MathFlash takes: away the pressure and fear of failure, MathFlash duplicates the flash eard experience with a 3- dimensional picture of a stack of cards that flip up, one at a he answer or points to a number on ‘the screen. Right answers send the card 16 a “correct” pile that the child can watch accumulate. And as the child progresses, MathFlas isplays other graphic rewards that recognize : accomplishment. — : like game-type computer drills where making ith the program are more fun than ewards accomplishment. And it ui without being boring, ords to measure a student's ual needs, ‘One copy of armily— or the whole MathFlash keeps detai progress and adapt drill: MathFlash is good for the Limber up your brain and beet up your vocabulary with WordPlay, the power tool for word puzzles. Use WordPlay to solve more than 50 puzzles that come with the program—or use itto help with the brain twisters in your daily newspaper. Word Play features crossword, diagramless, and other puzzles in a range of difficulties. WordPlay keeps all the fun intact, buteliminates the aggravation. No messy erasures, no getting stuck over one letter in the name of that pesky East Indian mulberry. Take a guess: it doesn’t work, try something | else. WordPlay lets you get help without actually cheating. Whether it's a single work, a section of the puzzle, or the whole thing. WordPlay can tell you (A) ifit's right or not, (B) where the mistake is; or (C) the correct answer, You pick the amount of help you want. Compete with your friends— —WordPlay Keays track of all yourscores. Save a puzzlein progressand pickitup later. Or print it out 10 work on when your Macintosh i isn’ "1 handy. With WordPlay, you've got someone who | plays your language. Retail price: $44. 95) ‘Ma Type: The typing teacher tha works novelty wears 0! ‘way to learn | MacType c F Based on the experie1 mer touch-typing instructor. MacType gets you comfortable with the keyboard in just a few 15-minute sessio: | your skill with MacType's training cycl test. And you ‘use realistic practice text of words and sentence fragments that” doesn’t intimidate you wi can see them when 5 you erratically, MagType t SSSR Meet The New Financiers... General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Inventory Control* The Palantir Financial Series -- the first true @Tracks stock by units and dollars: How many accounting system to run on a 128K single-disk dollars you have on order, The dollar value of Macintosh, Tf you have a small to moderate-sized your inventory, sale prices, and profit margins. ee find what you're looking for right @ Controls stock levels. Reorder Report shows erences) e a quantities below your specified minimums. @ Analyzes your inventory as wellas providing cost and sales histories and gross profit margins, Also, product status by type and locationis given. @ Keeps salespeople up-to-date. Price list shows quantity on hand, selling price, sales By ante @ Flexible chart of accounts. | lol to 9,999 different current average cost. ia accounts. Cash, expense, income, ete... in any © 1,000 products and 400 purchase orders on one combination. 400K disk. KE i, ee @ Full double entry system. bod cannot go out of Retail price: $145 : balance. @ Six financial statement formats to choose from. The new Financial Series from Palantir does more * than just help you run your business, It helps yor You'll find one suited just for your business. ! ‘ manage it, for growth and profitability. @ Up to 12 accounting periods, And eyen after you rollovertoa new period, you can still gobackand Nuatlable trom our nena post to the previous one, oe i @ Comparisons with budget and prior year per- Palantir Software, 12777 formance. By period and year-to-date. Jones Road, Suite 100, © Multiplan” transfer. Extract data for spreadsheet Houston, Texas 77070; Call (7 programs and other forecasting systems. O55: 8880, or (800) 831-3119 (T @ 400 accounts on one 400K disc. (800) 368-3797 (National), or (8 Retail price: $145 235-0025 (aun ). Girele 74 Accounts Receivable Keep track of who owes you what from how long ago. Print reports or display them on the sen Either way you've got solid control of your! n with features like these: @ Up to 9,999 customers. @ Full three-period aging, You defin @ Open-item or balance-forward acco Be both. Your choice, sie @ Sales analysis by customer, salesperson, } type of sale, product, or just about anythi you can think up. 999 ways to analyze your for the period and year-to-date. Pinpoint youn problems and your opportunities. @ Compatible output to the Financial Series General Ledger. Analyze profits as well as sales. @ 300 accounts on one 400K dis Retail price: $145 Inventory Control The perfect system for your retail or who! business. @ Handles all these transactions: purcha: receipts, transfers, adjustments, issues returns. @ Provides complete. audit trails. In the course of her field work, Turkle interviewed chil- dren, teenage video game fa- natics, computer hobbyists and hackers, and members of the elite corps of artificial intel- ligence (AI) researchers. She interprets the way each group interacts with computers from a humanistic point of view. For the hackers and the game fanat- ics, the computer is an all- consuming passion that serves as a medium for creative ex- pression or 2s the ultimate ce- rebral challenge. For AI re- searchers the computer may lead to breakthroughs such as a key that will unlock secrets of the mind. For most people, however, the complex technology and rapidly increasing sophistica- tion of computers are some- what intimidating, In the same way that the railroad was feared as an intrusion into the nine- teenth-century American “Gar- den of Eden,” the computer has become a cultural symbol for our fear of the unknown, the mechanical, the unforgivingly logical. Turkle describes a po- 24 June 1985 tentially mechanistic direction in which our newfound inti- macy with computers could take us: “... not only is the computer thought of in human mental terms. There is moye- ment in the other direction as well. People are thinking of themselves in computational terms. ... People are not just using computer jargon as a manner of speaking. Their lan- guage carries an implicit psy- chology that equates processes that take place in people to those that take place in ma- chines. It suggests that we are information systems whose thought is carried in ‘hardware, that we have a buffer, a mental terrain that must be cleared and crossed before we can in- teract with other people, that for every problem there is a preprogrammed solution on which we can fall back ‘by de- fault,’ and that emotional prob- lems are errors that we can extirpate.” In the process of becoming more intimate with computers, some people will adopt the brain-as-microprocessor men- tality, seeing themselves and the world in rigidly mechanistic terms. Others will anthropo- morphize the machine, invest- ing the computer with human- like feelings and personality. But most people will try to, bridge the gap between those two approaches and come to terms with the increasing pres- ence of the machine in the gar- den. As Turkle notes, “we cede to the computer the power of reason, but at the same time, in defense, our sense of identity becomes increasingly focused on the soul and the spirit in the human machine.” The people using computers, not the computers themselves, will determine whether the machine takes over the garden or becomes a tool that allows us more time to use our minds for thinking creatively and ex- ploring further what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. Turkle quotes a 12- year-old programmer, who seems to have a good perspec- tive on the issue: “When there are computers who are just as smart as people, the computers will do a lot of jobs, but there will still be things for people to do. They will run the restau- rants, taste food, and be the ones who will love each other, have families...” 0 TWO NEW PRODUCTS FOR THE MAC FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU 4*"'BASE You are already familiar with the power, func- tionality and ease of use of 1 stBASE, the relational database for the Macintosh”. Now, DeskTop Software® proudly announces two new Macintosh products that will help you solve more of your information management necds. 1stPORT™ is a communication and data con- version package that allows your Macintosh to function as a terminal for communicating with other micros, mainframe computers and public databases. What makes 1stPORT unique, how- ever, is that data transferred to the Macintosh may’ be converted into several different data formats for easy use with a variely of Macintosh programs, including 1stBASE. istMERGE™ is a data-entry and mail merge package that allows for letters, memos and documents created in MacWrite® to be merged with your own dala. All of MacWrite's _ special type fonts and sizes are available. In addition, graphics including graphs and MacPaint® pic- tures may be pasted into MacWrite documents and merged, Other features include creating up to five across labels and printing directly onto envelopes. istPORT, 1stMERGE and 1sIBASE all run on both the’ 128k and 512k Macintosh and are available at your favorite computer store. Ee} Daviiak Le i sah MacWite, MacPaint are registered trademarks Apple Computer, Ine. 1STBASE, {STPORT, 1ST ERGE are lagemnnse ot OeskTon Golewave Corporalion DeskTop Software a roqalered Wadomark ol DeskTop Soliware Corporation, DeskTop Software’ Corporation 244 Wall St. Princeton, N.J. 609-924-7111 Circle 81 on reader service card Hehasa good head on his shoulders. —| Agood | listener. He’sa very pleasant | person. Good grasp of the basic issues. He has his feet firmly planted on the ground.. What do your reports reveal about you? He’s gotamind likea steel trap. Tremendous analytical abilities. He's dynamic. Afirst rate problem- solver. This guy is going places. Fast! Executive with report A Executive with report B done with Ensemble, Introducing Ensemble: The first integrated business software package for the Macintosh. Which report would you rather submit? Report B, submitted by the executive on the right was prepared with Ensemble. It inte- grates text, numbers and graphics, It's more interesting, I's more persuasive, And it’s more impressive. Be tool you need to generate impressive business reports is on a single Ensemble software disk. Ensemble is the first fully integrated business soft- ware package for the Macintosh™ Ensemble combines Word Processing, Database Management, Report & Form Design, Calculations and Graphics in one very powerful and productive program. It’s all here—everything you need to merge text, numbers and graphics in your reports. For example, with Ensemble you could draft an analysis of market trends; support your findings by inserting a spreadsheet, illustrate a critical compari- son witha bar graph; highlight your conclusions by creating a border of stars around them and drama- tize your recommendation with artwork you design especially for the report with MacPaint™ Ensemble's Report Creation capability is unique. Butit's not the only way that Ensemble can help improve your performance. You can also use Ensemble to manage data- Runs in. 128K or 512K bases, conduct decision support analyses, design bro- chures, implement direct mail programs and more. Best of all, Ensemble is as easy to use as your favor- ite personal computer. Ensemble was developed with you and your Macintosh in mind. It takes full advan- tage of the Macintosh User Interface, features a remarkably fluid operating style, and is compatible with MacWrite™ and MacPaint. You can design your own “customized” spreadsheet formats with Ensemble. And a variety of calcula- tion options are avail- able including: all arithmetic, logical and comparative functions. Now you can easily ‘SmLES Mm tsIN i Lost create handsome two_| L Pa tions tl esaertea and three-dimensional business graphics with a sweep anda click of your mouse. Ensemble provides bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, a time line graph and ascatter chart. Thousands of business reports are prepared every day. Most are submitted for approval, Some are read. A few are discussed. Only a handful are remembered. You can make a lasting impression with Ensemble. See your local software dealer today. Or call Hayden Software toll-free at 800-343-1218, HAYDEN SOFTWARE COMPANY, INC, 600 Suffolk Street, Lowell MA 01854 (617) 937-0200 Ensemble isa trademark of Hayden Software Company, Inc.; Macintosh isa trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Ine. ‘MacWrite and MacPaint are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. FOR _ SIMPLE SONGS OR SOFTWARE SYMPHONIES. WITH SoncPaINTER, ANYONE CAN MacPainr THEIR OWN SONGS IMMEDIATELY. With SoNGPAINTER’s unique, musical picture painting, you "ll be creating your own composition in no time. Or, you can listen and learn, by playing one of our 37 pre-recorded songs. Compo listen and learn, All done the « with SonNGPAINTER. asy Way, SONGPANTER is a trademark of Starcor, ePaint iy a registered trad Circle 155.0n reader service card sed to Apple Computer Ine. nark of Apple Computer Ine. IF YOU'RE A SERIOUS MUSICIAN, COMPOSE YOUR OWN ORIGINAL SOFTWARE SYMPHONIES. SONGPAINTER allows you to combine instruments, pitch, rhythm, chords, and even special effects to allow total flexibility. And, SONGPAINTER uses a single screen operation to keep you from breaking your continuity by going back and forth between screens. SONGPAINTER’s FEATURES MAKE IT THE EASIEST TO USE MUSIC MAKER ON THE MARKET. By turning your ‘osh into a 4-voi T, SONGPAINTE amazingly sophisticated, but at the same time, amazingly imple to operate. With 8 instruments, built in chords and es I building blocks, sp s for rhythm, adjustable tempo and volume control, and sing! operation, SONGPAINTER has it all. La Costa Centre 6300 La Calma Drive, Suite 100 Austin, Texas 78752 512 454-5004 Letters Hold the Mayo Why is it that the majority of computer magazines appar- ently think that their readers are idiots? As a Mac owner and charter subscriber to Mac- world, 'm replaying a familiar scenario: develop a new inter- est, subscribe to a magazine that covers it, read it with great interest during the first few months, start to notice that many articles don't say much or are on an elementary level, be- gin to lose interest, and drop the subscription come renewal time. You have a cosmetically nice magazine: good artwork and layout, great pictures, very pro- fessionally produced. But where's the beef? For example, in “Have You Hugged Your Mac Today?” (Macworld, December 1984), you devoted ten pages to how to clean my computer. The mind boggles. Joel Varney Mountain View, California Pick of the Litter I'ma charter subscriber to Macwortd. In fact, as an execu- tive of a PC software firm, I'ma subscriber to about 40 com- puter magazines, journals, and. newsletters. Of all the printed matter I receive each month, your magazine is the only one 1 look forward to reading, Cer- tainly I have a strong interest in the Mae, but I believe the source of my-satisfaction with Macworld is its fresh, simple layout and excellent editorial content. Your coverage of the LaserWriter was right on target, not tao technical but not wishy washy, Keep up the good work. Life Goes On I was a wee bit disappointed in the lack of information on Bill Atkinson's Life program |Mac- world View, Macworld, Janu- ary 1985], but the item was meant as an‘introduction for people who are not acquainted with the game, so | can forgive you. ‘The series of articles in Se entific American was written by Martin Gardner, not John. The articles are reprinted with updates in his book Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements (W. H. Freeman & Co., 1983]. For more advanced players the major limitation of Life pro- grams is their size of playing ‘a. It doesn’t take long for small patterns to encroach on the perimeter of the pl: surface. Since the game signed to be played on an in- finite board, patterns generated may differ from “reality.” It would be nice to have pro- grams with size capabilities much larger than the typical screen One of my hopes for the Macintosh is that it may provide such a program, | don’t know if Bill Atkinson's program is what I'm looking for, and I was hop- ing to get an address through which I could find out. Hans Havermann Weston, Oniario Canada Life is in the public domain, so try your local user group. Members of the MicroNet Ap- ple User's Group can find the game in MAUG's Data Librar 4 under LIFE.HCX, according to MAUG chief system oper- ator Neil Shapiro. See “Shop- ping the Electronic Software Shelves” in this issue.—Ed. But Can It Sell Popcorn? Having just read “The Mac Goes to the Movies” [Mac- world, March 1985], | have fi- nally been motivated to write. I am an art director and have used my Mac extensively on two film productions. On the movie for television A Summer to Remember, with James Farentino and Louise Fletcher, I did all my design work on the Mac. I was able to take drawings of large truck signs from the Imagewriter to a comm 1 sign painter, who reproduced them in color and art director on the feature film Ghost- writer, with Cloris Leachman and Dee Wallace. I was able to keep track of props, budget, and some set design with the help of my Macintosh. It even helped me send out thank-you letters when production wrapped up in December. 1 do think that Mac owners will get a kick out of knowing that their little machine can re- ally go when making movie: Steven Karatzas Sherwood, Oregon The Tax Man Was Here If you perform one of the culations shown in “The Tax Man Cometh” (Maeworld, March 1985), the tax man will come. 3 The formula table on page 109 tells us to type the formula = MAX(0,R85C7-R56C7) in cell R87C7. If you enter that for mula, you are subtracting zero (continues on page 36) Macworld — 29 Maccessories. 12 ways to improve the performance of your Macintosh. Maccessories from Kensington Microware—an entire family of products to enhance your Mac- intosh. Maccessories make your computer more convenient. They increase your system’s flexibility. And they protect your investment. Ina dozen different ways. Control Center Organizes all your power needs. Styled to fit underneath your sec- ond disk drive, it provides fingertip control over your whole system. There's a master switch to power the whole system on and off, and individual switches for a printer, modem and one auxiliary device. And Control Center protects your entire Macintosh system from dam- aging power surges, line noise and static shocks. [2] Surge Suppressor Portable protection for a travelling Macintosh. Surge Suppressor re- places your power cord, providing UL listed surge suppression and line noise filtering. It's light and fits easily into your carrying case. 7 [3] Universal Printer Stand Raises your Apple® Imagewriter® at a slight angle so you can monitor its performance more easily. It solves the problem of where to store paper—several hundred sheets are accommodated neatly underneath. (Also fits most other dot matrix printers.) If you want to take advantage of the AppleTalk™ network, a Laser- Writer™ printer or a hard disk in addition to your Imagewriter and modem, you'll have three pe- ripherals competing for the two se- rial ports on your Macintosh. The A-B Box gives you the extra serial port you need. Just plug two of your peripherals into the A-B Box and plug the Box into one of your Mac- intosh serial ports. Then simply di- vert your data output to the peripheral of your choice—press A to send to one, B to the other. Fits perfectly underneath your external disk drive. [5] Swivel A slim swivel base that attaches underneath the Macintosh, making it easier to reposition the com- puter. Fits inside the carrying case. The perfect travelling modem. It's small, sturdy, battery powered, weighs less than a pound and even has its own carrying case. Oper- ates at 300 baud with any com- munications software. Disk Case Provides safe storage for 36 Macin- tosh disks. Comes with a packet of spare disk labels. Also includes a handy Disk Pocket for safe transportation of up to 5 disks. Travelling Disk Case Astylish solution to disk transport- ation. Constructed of sturdy but lightweight plastic, it has room for 12 Macintosh disks. It’s small enough to fit in a briefcase. And it comes with 12 spare disk labels. [9] Dust Covers Protect your system from the ele- ments. Anti-static dust covers for your Macintosh, Imagewriter and Macintosh XL. Cleaning Kits Take care of your system. A Disk Drive Cleaning Kit helps you avoid disk read errors. And a Mouse Cleaning Kit keeps your mouse rolling at top speed. Professional Type Fonts Styled after the most popular type faces in the advertising and pub- lishing industries. In two volumes. Professional Type Fonts For Text contains 16 fonts in sizes 12 to 24 point. Professional Type Fonts For Headlines (for the 512K Mac) con- tains the same fonts in sizes 24 to 72 point. Beta Italic Phi Display Epsilon Rho Semi Eta Medium Sigma Kappa Bold Sigma Bold Lambda Nu Black Upsilon Omega zeta 301d Omicron 4vikeac¥ Circle 11 on reader service card [2] Graphic Accents A collection of over 250 profession- al illustrations, covering every- thing from business to holidays. Use them for reports, newsletters or greeting cards. Graphic Accents are stored in standard MacPaint™ files, for ease of use. AN Maccessories are available at Apple dealers everywhere. For more information, please contact Kensington Microware Ltd., 251 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010. (212) 475-5200. Telex: 467383 KML NY. KENSINGTON" MICROWARE Trademar Maccesscries/Kensington Microware Lté.; Apple, Macintosh, Imageuriter, ApoleT LaserMiriter, MacPaiat/Apple Computer, Inc; Fonts by XIPHIAS, © 1985 Kensington Microwar L RAM Disk Response Macworld has received numer: ous letters in response to Danny Goodman's review of imilation’s RAM disk pro- gram (see “The Invisible Disk,” Macworld, March 1985). Some of the lively discussion and useful information from the correspondence follows. Although the limitations Danny Goodman mentions on the use ofa RAM disk for the Mac do exist, I have still found ita very useful tool. In a few situations a RAM disk comes in handy. When you copy files between disks, placing the System and Finder files on the RAM disk eliminates all those calls to in- sert the startup disk. ARAM also speeds up printing in standard or high quality be- cause the image is saved to the RAM disk rather than a floppy. Finally, moving fonts in and out of several small font files is a breeze with the RAM disk but tedious on a floppy, which re- quires calling and quitting the Font Mover for each file. Of course, it would be nice to have the Lisa’s megabyte of RAM to play with, but until then I shall continue to enjoy the 316K RAM disk. Peter G. Hinman Ann Arbor, Michigan “The Invisible Disk” was right on target. Mac Memory Disk by Assimilation is an excellent and potentially useful piece of software, but the Macintosh System folder takes up so much room that the usefulness of the product is limited. June 1985 I suspect that many Macin- tosh owners, like me, want a fast method of mixing text and graphics, It would be ideal to have MacWrite and MacPaint on the same RAM disk. Switch- ing between MacWrite and MacPaint and using the Scrap- book and the Clipboard should be greatly speeded up. It is pos- sible to do this using the RAM disk, but barely so. You can strip the operating tem to 72K. To that add the Finder (45K), the desktop (7K), MacWrite (69K), MacPaint (60K), and a modest Scrapbook (20K), leaving about 40K free if you use the full 316K RAM disk option. With 40K free it is possible to generate, mix, and transfer Write and Paint documents rapidly, if the principal working document is saved to an actual disk. When free space falls below about 20K, as it will if documents are not saved to an actual disk regularly, the frus- trating “disk almost full” mes- sage appears. Nevertheless, with a little care and planning, it is possible to use a RAM disk to great advantage, Ideally, Assimilation will in- crease RAM disk size to about 360K by permitting some of the buffer to be used. Many of the problems described in Good- man’s review would be amelio- rated with a little more RAM. Joseph Casanova Los Angeles, California Goodman cautions against using the fastest configur: tion—one in which everything, including the document being edited, is on the RAM disk— warning that all will be lost if power is interrupted. However, there are times, such as when you view a document rather than modify it, when such cau- tion is not necessary. More im- portantly, other applications, such as MacTerminal, work nicely from the RAM disk with no risk of data loss. I have never lost any data on a RAM disk due to power failure, but beware the bomb. Goodman correctly points out that for optimum perfor- mance the RAM disk should be the startup disk. He states, mis- takenly, that the only way this is to run an application on the RAM disk after running the Mac Memory Disk program. Pressing the Option and & keys while double-clicking the RAM disk’s Finder icon establishes the RAM disk as the startup disk. Better still, use the “Create Temporary Disk auto- matically at startup” option in Mac Memory Disk, When a floppy disk is set up that way, the RAM disk becomes the startup disk and the floppy disk can immediately be rejected. ARAM disk makes a perfect place to experiment with funny software, especially applica- tions that modify the System file. Playing with experimental software (such as the Resource Editor) has more than once de- stroyed my System file. When this happens on a RAM disk, you haven't lost anything. lagree that Mac Memory Disk does not significantly in- crease work productivity. It helps a little, though. Carefully used, it can help a lot in specific circumstances. It’s certainly worth the 30 bucks. William Arnett San Jose, California Iwas pleased to see that Danny Goodman didn’t sugarcoat his opinions. After spending sev- eral days with the program, I reluctantly came to agree with the majority of his conclusions. However, one legitimate use for the RAM disk n sit pay for itself. If you don't have an external drive, putting an ap- plication program on the RAM disk will leave room for a data disk in the internal drive, which eliminates disk swapping. Robert Gelber Sebastopol, California One of the most delightful and often overlooked ancillary ben- efits of a RAM disk is the spirit of creative, even joyous cinating tool for exploring Mac intosh resources, but it spends a lot of time accessing the floppy disk. Using a RAM disk with ResEdit takes most of the pain out of waiting for things to happen, Of course you don’t have to be a programmer ora hacker to appreciate how increase in speed makes life that much more enjoyable. When you use the Font Mover to do a major update on the fonts in the System File, the “This may take as long as a minute” message flies by so quickly you can’t even read it. dit and other util- ities occasionally crash. If they're on a RAM disk when they do, you can start over by rebooting the original file ba on the RAM disk. Because it takes only 20 seconds to recon- Jer files among a number struct a file, a RAM disk encour- ages a healthy sense of free- dom and curiosity when you're exploring the Mac. Finally, I take strong issue with Goodman's concluding re- mark that you shouldn't expect a RAM disk to “substantially im- prove your productivity” Mine does exactly that. | am cur- rently working with an internal- drive 512K Mac and Apple's MDS assembly-language devel- opment system. All of the pro- grams used in this develop- ment system sit on the RAM disk with my and Imagewr iter files. Compi tions that used to take 5 min- utes now take less than 20 seconds. When I really want speed, the RAM disk has enough room left over for my source and data files as well, although 1 have to back them up frequently. On the negative side, programs un- der development tend to crash a lot. When that happens, I have to reboot and wait 30 sec- onds or so until I'm back where Iwas. Td like to add that / tion’s Mac Memor the only RAM disk program available. I use RAM Disk 1, $29.95 from Network Consult- ing, Discovery Park #110, 3700 Gilmore Way, Burnaby, British Columbia V5G 4M1 Canada. Howard Katz Burnaby, British Columbia Canada ssimila- No qitestion e. that a RAM disk adds versatility and speed in a number oj situations. Properly config- ured, a4 RAM disk helps trans- of Rs, disks without swapping di allows you to lest software that might have bugs without danger of permanently de- stroying it, and speeds up pro- gramming. ARAM disk can also expedite the transfer of small amounts of information between relatively small ap- plication programs. You can also keep a large System folder in memory rather than on disk so that you can store additional programs or data on disk during a work session. Undoubtedly, some people will discover other specialized chores that easily justify the price of a RAM disk. We en- courage experimentation and would like to bear about your discoveries so that we can share them with our read- ers. Bul many Mac owners are not likely to find a RAM disk to be much of a day-to- day productivity enbance- ment. Furthermore, people experienced with RAM disks on other personal computers, such as the IBM PC, are likely to be disappointed with a RAM disk program on the Mac. Keep in mind that a certain amount of time and effort is required to configure disks to take advantage of a RAM disk. And don't forget that a RAM disk may not leave enough room in memory 10 operate the growing number of pro- grams that require a 512K Macintosh, h these considerations in mind, we recommend a RAM disk for people who reg- ularly perform specialized tasks and enjoy experiment- ing with software. —Adrian Mello Macworld 33, Macintosh™ Bestspeller PUT PRODUCTIVITY Word Power Within Your Reach MacSpell+™ is a single program that enables you to check your spelling and correctly hyphenate words while increasing your word power, And because it’s totally interactive, you can accomplish all these functions without quitting your word processing pro- gram, We'resure you'll agree MacSpell+ isa real plus for Macin- tosh™ users at home / and in the office. +Spelling Checker: MacSpell+ enables you to proofimportantdocuments for spelling errors throughout the ongoing word processing program. 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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 SSS easily build primary data bases. You can package 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, The Bernoulli Box. When placed beside Apple's “computer for the rest of us,’ the best box you can buy. For the dealer nearest you, call 1-800-556-1234, ext. 215. In California, call 1-800-441-2345 ext, 215. n 1821 West 4000 South Roy, Utah 84067 SON Circle 171 on reader service card Macworld View News and notes for the Macintos! Edited by Janet McCandless Macworld View reports on new products and develop- ments in Macintosh tech- nology. We cover items of in- terest to Mac users and comment on industry trends. We welcome contributions from readers and pay up to $50 for each item 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. Dartmouth’s Wired Campus When Apple officially unveiled the AppleTalk networking scheme at its stockholders meeting in January, Dart- mouth’s beta-test version had already been operational for four months. By the end of 1984, 2600 location points had been wired and were running AppleTalk. The Macintoshes are connected via twisted pairs of cables to one of 80 minicom- puters that serve as commu- nications nodes. Curiously, the minicomputers are not de- signed for networking but are part of the Synclavier, a music synthesizer manufactured lo- cally by New England Digital Corporation. Dartmouth AppleTalk uses. Apple’s communications pro- tocols but provides a different type of service to students and faculty: Instead of sharing pe- ripherals and passing data, Ap- pleTalk is a bridge to outside networks, such as Telenet, and toa larger campuswide net- work that links over ten hosts and 1500 terminals. download generated software from a brary established on one of the college’s Honeywell main- frames. The programs are con- ceived by faculty but developed by professional programmers to ensure that Macintosh fea- tures are fully implemented. Among the programs clevel- oped at the college are Venn, a program that uses Venn dia- grams to solve syllogisms; Soc- stat, a program to compute so- ciological statistics; Appletones, a music-building program for introductory music classes: Mozart, a minuet writer; and Drill, a language tutorial for Spanish, Greek, German, and English.—Lee Michaelides Prepackaged Programming MACAPP, a program library currently in use at Apple, is de- signed to make it easier for software developers to write applications for the The program library is with object-oriented versi Pascal, C, LISP, and assembly language. An object-oriented language defines several lines of code as a discrete unit. Each unit of code, or object, handles a certain job common to all Macintosh applications, such as opening and saving files, print- ing documents, and creating windows. According to Dan Cochran, language and tool programming products man- ager of Apple Computer, IAC- APP is expected to shorten program development time and Maeworld 41 Macworld View Apple Computer's Dan Cochran to encourage programmers to adhere to Macintosh user inter- face standards. Other object- oriented languages include Ob ject Pascal to be released by Apple, Objective C by Produc- tivity Products, Neon (similar to FORTH) by Kriy: and ExperLisp from Expertelligence. MacExpress by ALSoft is. a program similar to MACAPP that uses standard rather than object-oriented versions of pro- gramming languages. The pro- gram assists developers in im- plementing a complete and consistent Mac user interface. The program library handles scrolling; manages the display and selection of menu bar items; and creates, subdivides, and resizes windows. The com- pany also offers a separate pro- gram module for printing. For more information contact ALSoft, P.O. Box 927, Spring, TX 77383-0927. MacTable Assembly Instructions Ifyou can drill a hole, drive a ind spare 20 minutes at home, then you can build a great MacTable for between $15 and $45, depending on the wood you select. The MacTable consists of two side panels, three shelves, and a sway brace. When you are seated at the table, the top and bottom shelves project away from you, and the middle shelf projects toward you. Your Macintosh, ex- 42 June 1985 r 4 inches, and 5 inches from the back edge of each side panel. On the second line mark drill holes ¥ inch, 3 inches, and 5% inches from the front edge, since the middle shelf projects forward. On the third line mark drill holes 4% inch, 2% inches, and 4% inches from the back edge. From the bottom end draw a 16-inch line up the mid- dle of each panel. Mark drill holes 9, 12, and 15 inches from the bottom for