MacWorld 8508 August 1985

MACWORLD August 1985 $3.95 The Macintosh”"Magazine Canada $4.95 *First of the second generation hard disk drives for Macintosh. ™M 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. Cun aU = cipherals Come see Macbottom during the Boston 6204 Benjamin Road Tampa, FL 33614 MACWORLD Expo at booths 326 and 328. 1-800-MACBUTT (813) 884-3092 Gicla 223 on readertenice- cart! ‘Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc MACWORL The Macintosh”Magazine 80 94 August 1985 Getting Started Presentations with Punch Gordon McComb Get visual in your presentations with the Mac's graphics and programs that embellish text, generate charts, simulate slide shows, and even animate images. State of the Art Illuminating Objects Richard Sprague Derived from FORTH and inspired by Smalltalk, Neon is a new-age language designed for Macintosh programming. Review Data That Means Business Jim Heid Keystroke, MacLion, and Omnis 2 represent a second, more powerful generation of Macintosh database management programs, with file security, relational capability, and other no-nonsense features. 108 116 124 In Search of a Better Mouse Gordon McComb When you're ready to put your money where your mouse is (or was), explore the alternatives offered by trackballs, joysticks, optical and bar-code readers, other mice, and even a headset. Hands On Three Bedrooms, Two Baths, One Mac Jim Heid With its picture field and flexible form design, Microsoft File is open to specialized applications, such as a real estate clatabase with digitized photos of properties on sale. Snowflakes and Dragons Matthew Zeidenberg Short programs in Macintosh Pascal generate fractals, approximating the infinite detail in natural objects. The Mac finds a voice in SmoothTalker, one of five products re- viewed in Macware Re- views, a department that debuts this month on page 143. 134 13 25 41 55 Community A Physicist, a Mac, and a Death Star Robert The puzzle of periodic mass extinctions might be solved if physicist Richard Muller meets his Nemesi hypothetical companion st: sun whose orbit has been simulated on Buderi the Mac. Columns Mutiny on the Bounty David Bunnell Letters Macworld View Edited by Herschel Schmedick Hard disk times and other news and notes for the Macintosh community. Get Info Lon Poole Macworld’s tutor answers questions to the about Pascal, printers, and numeric keypads. Photo/illustration credits David Bishop, cover, 80-81, 88-89; Jobn Hersey, 44, 94-95; Robert Holmgren, 42, 45; Ed 135; Jeffery Newbury, Kas 116-1, Wheeler Pictures, 137; George Steinmetz, 13, 5) Stimson, VanderLans, 41, 43; Mick Wiggins, Koger Ressmeye' 108-115; Rudy (43, 145, 155. 143, 167 187 204 205 201 Departments Macware Reviews Edited by Erfert Nielson Short but straight-shooting assessments of Electric Checkbook, Home Accountant, Lode Runner, Millionaire, and Smooth Talker. Open Window Edited by Jim Heid An exchange of Macintosh discoveries, including the results of a BASIC battle. Macworld Gallery Edited by Erfert Nielson An exhibition of Macintosh graphics including works by children under five years old. Indexes Advertisers Products Macworld Directory Macworld = 3, MACWORLD Editorial Editor; Kearney Rietmann Associate Editor: Daniel Farber Technical Editor: David Ushijima Assistant Editors: Adrian Mello, Erfert Nielson Editorial Manager Janet McCandless Sentor Copy Editor. Kathleen Christensen Copy Editor:}, E. Arcellana Editorial ¢ fant: Heidi Mitchell Contributing Editor Danny Goodman, Jim Heid, Jeremy Joan Hewes, Nicholas Lavroff, Gordon McComb, Lon Poole, Jeffrey 8. Young Art Associate Publisher: Jacqueline Poitier Designer: Marjorie Spiegelman Art Director: Brace Charonnat Associate Designer: Dennis Mcleod Associate Art Director: Christopher Burg Design Associates: Leslie Barton, Holly Hudson Assistant: Nan Cassady Production Director: Herbert Linden Senior Production Managers: Frances Mann, Lee R. Trevino Editorial Production Manager: Ellyn L. Hament Production Editor: James Felici Ad Traffic: Jayne Boyer Telecommunicators: Mark L. Duran, Susan M. Ford Display Advertising Supervisor: Cathy Miller stant: Otto Waldorf As: Research Director: Cheryl Woodard Manager: Gary Rocchio Publishing Publisher: David Bunnell Special Projects: Jeffrey S. 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Make it ENToRy into something you can 31, 9x5 use. Easily. FileMaker™ lets you ita not only store and organize Seat your business information, F nee but manipulate it in limitless Ree ways, to create literally any = kind of form or report you want. aay First of all, FileMaker lets ie you change direction, any time, Se without redoing everything. It logy even lets you start out without a e direction. And in addition to doing all the meat-and-potatoes things a database is supposed to do—calcu- lations, summary reports, sorting of all kinds— FileMaker does every- thing you bought your Macintosh™ for. Text editing. Graphics. Pull- down menus. Keyboard commands. Windows. Different fonts, styles and graphic design tools. Your information not only makes more sense, it makes an impression. Any kind you want. With FileMaker, you can even design your own data entry forms, so you can put information in any way you want, without arbitrary limita- tions. 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Use any available font, Calculated fields appear right on the screen, Up to 32,000 characters allowed in each formula, Over 25 mathematical functions to use in your calculations. Concatenate text from several fields, For information or the neared dealer cantact Not just another pea in the Create listing areas within records. Control printing of every piece of text and every field. Create reports without running a special reporting program! Create form letters within MacBase, Automatically retrieve data from other forms, Find and update groups of records, Merge files with common data, Change existing forms without losing data, Import/Export data to and from other Macintosh applications. Nest forms within forms up to 200 deep. There's no need to learn a special database language. And here's the best part. it's competitively priced. * a Eqtron Corphration M - _ Telephone 1-800-MacBase “Suggested list price of $195.00. Macintosh is @ trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 5 on reader service card * pod! MacWrite and MacPaint are trademarks of Apple Computer, Ine. MacBase ts.a trademark of Eqiron Conpovation. co ct pe eel A A a ea Meet The New Financiers... ventory Control” The Palantir Financial Series -- the fi 4 KS. and dollars: How many ania system to run on a 8 ype Z ve on order, The dollar value of prices, and profit margins, . Reorder Report shows quantities below your specified minimums. _ ® Analyzes yourinyentory as well as providing cost and sales histories and gross profit margins, sroduct status by type and location is given. > salespeople Be Price list shows it oHen @ Flexible chart of account : accounts. Cash, expense combination; rent average cost, 000 | products and: 400, purohase orders on one post to the p: @ Comparisons @ Multiplan” programs a @ 400 accounts on ¢ : gy PAIANTIR with features like thes ® Up to 9,999 custome) © Open-item orb: Your choice. @ Sales analysis by cusi type of sale, produe you can think up. 9 for the period and y problems and your oy ® Compatible output to General Ledger, Analy Retail price: $14! David Bunnell Mutiny on the Bounty Apple jettisons its captain and sets sail on a course without wind I was flabbergasted when I learned that Steve Jobs had been removed as leader of the Macintosh group inside Apple. Steve is the most important person in personal computing, and his involvement was abso- lutely key to the Mac’s success. Without Steve no one would have been able to challenge the monolithic IBM Personal Com- puter standard and create a rad- ically more advanced computer. No question, the beauty of Macintosh is the result of the collective love and sweat of many driven, creative people: Jef Raskin, who conceived the Mae; Burrell Smith, who de- signed its electronics; Andy Hertzfeld, who wrote much of its software; Mike Murray and his staff, who got the mess out; and many others But Steve played the role of genius innovator, cheerleader, and facilitator. He instilled a sense of grand im- portance and inspired down- right fanaticism in the Mac team. Like many geniuses, Steve has his dark side. I rcastic tongue can be as sharp as a scalpel or as destructive as a hand grenade, Stories of Steve's tirades and his brutally honest comments abound in Silicon Valley. But funny stories about Steve abound too, and he is undoubt- edly a public figure whose per- sonal life is subject to the pub- lic’s watchful eye. Everyone who has ever said “Hi” to him likes to think that he’s a friend. Steve's major flaw is that he demands too much of himself. He has an intense knowledge of topics outside computers, such as art and architecture. And he is just as opinionated about those subjects as he is about computers. Understandably, as a highly motivated person with strong opinions, he sometimes over- looks other points of view. In the early days of the Mac- intosh project, Steve told the Mac group that they were cor- porate pirates; they even hoisted above the Mac building ablack flag with white skull and crossbones If they were the pirates, then the rest of Apple was the Navy. And guess what? The Navy won. The Navy (Apple II division) was feeling pretty downtrod- den and ignored. Here they were contributing 80 percent of Apple's revenue, and they were forced to watch the stock- holders meeting on closed- circuit TV while the Mac team got front-row seats. Now the Navy is back on top and cari get its revenge. Thope the Navy, having hung Jobs and Macintosh marketing director Mike Murray from the mast, will sober up and show some restraint. Otherwise Ap- ple will be the Coleco of 1985. Mike Murray once asked me what I thought Apple should do about the Apple II. I recited the high-tech adage: If you don’t make your own product ob- solete, someone else will do it for you. Let's be honest; the Apple II is a dog. I hated it back in 1979 when I had a job that required I use it. It was slow and had lim- ited RAM and disk storage space and terrible screen reso- lution. At least 20 other per- sonal computers on the market at that time were significantly better. The early Apple IT required a costly additional circuit board just so it could display lower- case characters. I have often thought that if Steve Wozniak is such a genius, how come he didn’t realize that word pro- cessing would be one of the leading applications for per- sonal computers? Or did he think we'd all become tech- noids and convert to writing everything in ALL CAPS? (continued from page 16) Macworld 13 Which is the better way to 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. Thesimple, stuf-everything-into-one-file theory ofdata management. That's how ordinary filers and information managers work. You jam data into a single file that includes every piece of information you might ever want to know. With an ordinary data manager, you have to re-enter existing information every time you enter new infor- mation. Pretty inefficient. With Mact ion, you only have to enter the new data that has changed. Not only that, you can design your own data entry screens. Now, efficient way to manage your business data? is the most 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, repeal, 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, is a true relational database management system. 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 as a 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. plus complete information on what a database management system can do for your business. Get serious—with MacLion. @iion. 1904 Wright Circle, Anaheim, CA 92806 Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Ine MacLion is a trademark of Computer Software Designs, Inc. Tmserious about managing my data. OPlease send me "A Serious Buyer's Guide to Database Management Systems.” I've enclosed $9.95. a J 1 H 1 C1Please send me your free "How to Buy a Database Management System” brochure. 7 1 1 1 1 1 Ccheck or money order enclosed. O Please charge my: __ VISA MasterCard Number. Expiration Date Signature tational database management systems ‘Why you need one cations Haw iobuildone pL that can help =| yourbusiness, 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. 1904 Wright Circle Anaheim, California 92806 Name. Address City__State__Zip David Bunnell Ina recent interview, the GREAT WOZ declared personal computers boring and useless Comparing them to model trains, he said they were mostly for hobbyists and that all the hobbyists who wanted one al- is what Woz really thinks, then he's turned into the Billy Carter of high tech. Perhaps now they've gotten Jobs out of the way, the Navy can bring its mascot back. ‘The new Atari 512K ST Mac- alike, with its great color graph- ics, will be out this Christmas and will sell for about the price of the Apple IT. It will have at least as much software as the Mac had when it was intro- duced, and it will have the ad- vantage of an optional compact disk (CD) interface. This ma- chine and a similar one from Commodore will knock Apple out of the home market unless the Navy gets smart and pro- intosh hine itself. oft color g graphics m, Because of its ma ware base, the Apple II will sur- vive another year or two in the educational market. Mean- while, the Mac, probably in spite of the Navy. will capture the small busines pendent professional markets, as well as specialized niches in large corporations. Lotus’s Jazz, which could eclipse Lotus 7. as the great- est piece of personal computer software yet, will fuel the Mac’s growth. Millions of people who do not yet use computers will flock to the Mac rather than go to night school to learn the IBM standard. Other great software, includ- ing Microsoft's Excel, wii the demand for the } anything Steve Jobs ever imagined. The personal computer mar- ket will likely be divided into four camps: the Atari ST or the Commodore Amiga in the home computer market, the Apple II and its successors in education, the Mac in small business and specialized mar- kets, and the IBM PC and its clones in large corporations. The only question is whether Apple will get stuck with a huge inventory of immovable com- puters, as did Texas Instru- ments with the TI/99, as did IBM with the PCjr, as did Col- eco with Adam. So the moral of the story is that the story tover. The man from Pepsi has no ex- cuses—no Steve to blame for his problems. The Apple II will die and the Mac will soar. Steve Jobs, like Adam Osborne and many other entrepreneurs, has more than one life to give to his com- pany-or to another company if that's the way it has to be. Steve will be back—just wait a while. 0 MACPLOTBY MICROSP@T 3” PLOT YOUR PROGRAM FROM MACINTOSH IN COLOR. $1000 Ep MICROSOFT CHART Mar IACPROJECT| MACDRAW “ae scaling, rotation, support for 30 pens, two types of text, dashed lines, output port selection, variable pen speed, support under Macworks. Plotters supported now: Apple, Calcomp 81, Epson HI80, Graphtec MP 1000-01 & FP 5301, Hewlett Packard HP 7470A, HP 7475A, HP7220 & HP 7221A, Penman, more coming soon. Cut or copy your graphics to the clipboard. Use Macplot to assign pen colors and fill patterns. No extra hardware required. $130.00 CONTACT YOUR APPLE DEALER TODAY! Microspot, 9 High Street, Lenham, Maidstone, Kent, England. Telephone (0622) 858753 Circle 275 on reader service card 16 August 1985 JUST ARRIVED! The first complete desk management program for the Mac. It's here! A powerful software program featuring dynamic storage/retrieval capabilities for your Mac. It's called THE DESK ORGANIZER". Andit’s ready to help you organize yourself, your work, you name it. 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 ca/culator 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. \ To get this infallible electronic secretary for only $99, : \ see your Mac software dealer. OR CALL WARNER SOFTWARE (212) 484-3070. 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Begin by entering your first ideas into headings. More ideas will follow. Tuck new thoughts under the main headings. Open windows and let bursts of insight pour out in paragraphs, Or use the Macintosh scrapbook to bring pictures, charts and graphs into your ThinkTank outline. Reorganize with the stroke of a mouse. Blocks of written and visual information move to any portion of your outline with remarkable ease. ThinkTank is the ultimate personal productivity tool for all decision makers. One toll free call to 1-800-822-3700 (in California, 1-800-443-4310) will guide you to the nearest dealer. You provide the inspiration. ThinkTank provides the rest. ThinkTank 512 suggested retail price is $245, A printer and second disk drive are recommended, but not required, Also available ThinkTank 128 ($145), If you upgrade your Mac to 512K, your 128K software is easily upgradeable for $100, “Tank 512/" and “The First Idea Processor” are all trademarks of Living Videotext, is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. © 1985 Living Videotext, Inc., 2432 Charleston Road, Mountain View, CA 94043. (415) 964-6300, Circle 50 on reader service card Faster ligures “The MacTurbo-Touch is another way to enhance your Macintosh’s performance. This high speed input device is designed to respond as quickly as you do. The slightest touch of the gyroscopic ball posi- tions the pointer quickly and accurately on the screen. The result is software that works even better, faster and more precisely. Now you can cut your data input time in half! With the Numeric-Turbo.” a new high-speed input device combining the fast response of the Mac-Turbo-Touch™ with a full-scale numeric keypad. The Numeric-Turbo includes cursor keys and direct function keys, so you no longer have to use the Control or Shift key on the Mac keyboard for function entry. Figures flow directly from your fingertips to your Macintosh, making data entry with Numeric-Turbo 50% faster than with a conventional mouse and Apple keypad. Because there's nothing to get between you and your software. Numeric-Turbo is ideal for use with Jazz™ Multiplan” Ensemble™ Quartet™ Dollars and Sense™" and any other Macintosh software where you want your figures faster. If you already own a Mac-Turbo-Touch"and want to upgrade to a Numeric-Turbo, just ask your Apple Dealer for details. We've provided Dealers with upgrade kits that are easy to install and priced to please. And, we think you'll be more than pleased with how little it takes to accomplish a lot with Numeric-Turbo. List Price $149 jj ow Assimilation. 1 (800) MAC-5464 - In California 1 (800) 421-0243 Macintosh is @ trademark licensed to Apple Computer, The NumericTurho and Mac Turbo'Touch are trademarks of Assimilation, inc. © Assimilation, Inc. 1985. Circle 265 on reader service card Enjoy the graphics and sound capabilities of your Macintosh ™ 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 alt-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 on a 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?!? A COLLECTOR'S ITEM Besides all the fun you'll have playing It, you'll want to own this game so you can show off the graphics and sound capabilities of your Mac to all your friends. Every Macintosh owner will want to have Airbome in their collection. with Airborne! The action packed game. See your local dealer or you can send $34.95 to Silicon Beach Software, Inc. 41212 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 Port Power Introducing the MacPort-Adaptor™ Your Macintosh™ connection to the world of IBM-compatible peripherals. Designed to expand the capabilities of your Macintosh, the Mac-Port-Adaptor allows you to team your Mac with top-of-the-line parallel peripherals. And keep your standard Macintosh serial port. Simply plug the Mac-Port-Adaptor into Mac's printer or modem port. You keep your original port while adding an IBM-type parallel connector. So, you get more out of your Macintosh, for very little. List price $79. MacrPort-Adaptor includes a five-foot-long parallel cable with a 36-pin Centronics connecior. Assimilation. 1 (800) MAC-5464 + In California 1 (800) 421-0243 Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer. MacsPort-Adaptor isa trademark of Assimilation, Inc. © Assimilation, Inc, 1985. Circle 265 on reader service card Introducing QUICKWORD' nZO? party of the first...,"orSincerely yours)” can be as easy as typing an A,BorC. Quickword lets you create multiple abbreviations tables for phrases of up to 50 characters. Whether speed typed or thoughtfully entered, Quickword will translate your abbreviations “on the Fly” into their full meaning within your documents. if you're interested in cutting your typing your authorized Apple Computer dealer today. You'll wonder how you ever got along without it. Requires a 128K,512K orXL Macintosh Price: $59.95 Introducing QUIGKPAINT’ imply use Quickpaint’s™ Fonte? feature to locate any of the drawings that come with Quickpaint or to find drawings from any other popular clip art product. Then blow it up for full screen viewing and editing, You can cut, paste, edit and erase selected parts or copy the entire picture into other drawings or documents. And Quickpaint™ do from whatever application yc To see how Quickp: in help enhance the state of your art, stop by your authorized Apple Computer dealer today. You'll wonder how you ever got along without it. Requires a 128K, 512K or XL Macintosh Price: $49.95, For the name of your nearest Quickword” or Quickpaint™ dealer call (800) 556-2283. For more information call (415) 543-7644 Circle 218 on reader service card 410 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Letters Vintage Whine OK, I will renew my subscrip- tion. However, may I make a suggestion, since | pay part of the bills around here? I don’t know how all your readers fee! buta large number of subscrib- ers with whom I have talked are tired of the anti-Mac bias in your editorials. For example, the Inconvenience of Conve- nience” [Macworld, April 1985] is just about the last straw. If] want to read about how terrible the Macintosh is, I can easily find other journals that de- scribe how infinitely superior other equipment is. [ wish to be the “reade! publication for Mackers, knock off the Macintosh criticisms, Anyone who uses a Macin- tosh for more than a few days realizes that it's not perfect. I choose to use the machine be- cause even with its shortcom- ings it is still the best computer for my purposes. So stop whin- ing about things that may have no relevance to inyone besides yourself. It's OK to dislike facets of the machine. It’s quite an- other thing to write an editorial in an effort to convince others that the machine is fatally flawed. I read Macworld because i offers me information that is hard to gain elsewhere and in- forms me about new products. then for the Mac. I do not read it in order to hear the nth version of why the Macintosh should be redesigned. The bottom line: your magazine is good. It pro- vides a valuable service to me. The negative Macintosh propa- ganda has no place in a Macin- tosh magazine. Bryan Jobnson Sam Jose, California Slow Disk at Work In “The Inconvenience of Con- venience,” |Macworld, April 1985] Adrian Mello correctly identifies the painfully slow re- sponse of the Macintosh to common operations (like quit- ting and returning to the Finder) as a major problem, But the Mac’s lethargy has little to do with the complexity of its desktop interface. The reason is much simpler—the disk drives are miserably slow. Run any application on a Mac with a HyperDrive or a RAM disk, and the problems sud- denly vanish. It is unfortunate that complicated software fixes will be devised to get around a simple problem that plagues all Apple computers—inadequate disk access speed. Apple should worry less about the el- egance of its operating systems and more about getting the basic hardware and low-level software right. Mark S. Jennings Durham, North Carolina While the Mac’s floppy disk drives are partly responsible for its unburried pace, ver- sion 1.19 of the Finder makes too many trips to disk when building the desktop. This disk access has been minimized in Finder version 4.1. Compar- ing the new Finder's perfor- mance with that of the earlier version would be more valid than comparing disk drive speeds because floppy disk drives are inberently slower than bard disk drives or RAM disks.—Adrian Mello Child's Play My name is Amy. [am 12 years old. Several months ago you published a progran, named Mouse-Ball (“The Mouse Will Play,” Macworld, September/ October 1984]. My father put that program on our game disk. On March 8, a Friday, | maneu- vered the ball to hit the apples in a certain pattern so it would just hit the apples, row after row. The game played on for an estimated 7 hours. The final score W ,767 points—as high as it would go, Amy Kuniyoshi San Francisco, California Short Flight Being an owner of a 128K Mac, 1 can assure David Bunnell most wholeheartedly that a 512K M: is nota requirement for enjoy- ing Airborne! (“A Mac Awaken- ing,” Macworld, May 1985]. 1 play Airborne! constantly on my Mac. In fact, the only differ- ence that I have been able to discern—mention is made of this on Airbornel’s help menu-is that the opening song plays for a shorter time ona 128K Mac than on a 512K Mac (8 seconds instead of 20), Laurie Rich Redwood City, California Problem Solver Although “The Larger Equa- tion” [Macworld, May 1985] did TKiSolver, it failed to address the major deficiency of thi software, that is, its inability to electronically transfer tabular data to other programs such as Chart and BASIC. The program allows only plot figures to be selected and copied to the Clip- board. Obviously, the data listed in the table is more important. The program should have the capability to select all or part of thi: ‘a for transfer to other programs. As itis, if 1 Macworld = 25 -Maccessories. 16, ways toi 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. {2] 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. 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. [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] Tilt/Swivel Gives you the flexibility to tilt and swivel your Macintosh to the view- ing angle most convenient for you. The solution to a glaring problem. Made exclusively for Kensington by Polaroid? it protects your eyes by reducing reflected screen glare by up to 99%. Also improves screen con- trast. Easy to install. Disk Case & Disk Pocket Provides safe storage for 36 Macin- tosh disks. Comes with a packet of spare disk labels. Also includes a handy Disk Pocket for safe transpor- tation of up to 5 disks. Dust Covers Protect your system from the ele- ments. Anti-static dust covers for Macintosh, Macintosh XL, Image - Writer and External Disk Drive. [9] Mouse Pocket A safe, clean place to keep your Mouse when not in use. Attaches to the side of your Macintosh. Fits under the Maccessories Dust Cover. [10] Mouse Cleaning Kit A full year's nt of the cleaning materials you'll need to keep your mouse rolling at top speed. Also in- cludes the Mouse Pocket. [11] Disk Drive Cleaning Kit A full year's ary of the cleaning materials you'll need to keep your drives running smoothly. {12} 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. Circle 11 on reader service card [13] Professional Type Fonts Styled after the most popular type faces in the publishing industry. Type Fonts for Text contains 16 fonts in sizes 12 to 24 point. Type Fonts For Headlines (for the 512K Mac) contains the same fonts in sizes 24 to 72 point. Including ver- sions of Times Roman, Helvetica, Optima, Futura, and a dozen others. Also available: [14] Swivel fs] Portable Modem Travelling Disk Case For more information, contact Kensington Microware, 251 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010. (212) 475-5200. Tix: 467383 KML NY. Re wicroware ‘Trademarks: Maccessories/ Kensington Microware Ltd., Apple, Macintosh, Inagewrter, AppleTalk, Laser Waite MacPaint? Apple Computer, Inc: Pal laroid/Polaroid Corp.; Fonts by HIAS. (© 1985 Kensington Microware Ltd, Letters want to produce high-quality graphs, | must print the and type each entry into Chart also question why table is sa table. Once 5 what good is it? You cannot ma: fe it without the pro- and therefore it h; little s should delete this - pability and substitute the abil- ity to copy tabular data to the Clipboard. Overall, [am very pleased with the equation-solving ca- pability of 7K/Solver: With the improvement in data selection, this tool would be highly ommended for bi demic, and scientific applications. Ronald J. Basso Seminole, Florida The Last Pioneer To those who ran out and bought the latest in technology and didn't ponder the age-old aw of supply and demand, I are the people ae ma possible for people like me to get better prices on the same technology. Had you demon- strated a modicum of patience, you might feel bette: your Mac than you do. Before you get out the rope and come after m offer you perturbed “pione some consolation. What if you had purchased the IBM PC when it first came out? How would you like to have paid premium buckolas for ten-year-old tech- good sense to purche of-the-art personal computer that is far and away the best that ¢ can buy bay Crooks St. Paul, Minnesota Mac Is a Camera I very much enjoyed “Pictures Macworld, April 1985]. I recently purchased a ThunderScan digitizer and re- a The article was y helpful and made me even more satisfied with the digi- tizer I bought. Bobby Triutelove Lewisburg, Tennessee Lost in the Alps I bought a Macintosh here in Switzerland some we and must tel I'm in MacDesert. I don’t know of any other Mac user, and I have not been able to get hold of Mac publications other than official Apple literature in Ge: man, some manuals with data I already know, a couple of pho- tocopied price lists, and of course Macworld, which makes a big difference. Reading it confirmed that I made the right decision in buying the Mae, but it also made clear that 1 get only 20 percent out of my Mac here in MacDesert, since I'm unable to exchange infor- mation and encouragement with others. I want to encourage any ic user who wants to this desert into Mac- aradise to contact me. 1am no computer freak, but I like my Mac and would like to meet others who feel the same way. Christoph Pfluger Worb, Switzerland Minute Waltz lam sick of reading about how busy people sit around and h the wristwatch icon on their Mac screen. If their work load is so light that they can’t find something to do for 60 sec- onds, then the last thing they need is a computer. Bob Deeds Villa Park, Illinois AN ERGONOMIC WORKSTATION FOR MACINTOSH’ THAT MEANS BUSINESS convenience and savings in desk spac Ergotron” elevates the Macintosh Trey 4M a provides 30° tilt/360° rotation for only $99.95. If you would like information on this exciting new proc juct visit your Apple Computer Dealer or contact Ergotron at (800) 328-9839, BO. Box 17013 © Minn the touch ofa finger | p Ergotron is a registered Trea 1 Et Inc, Noes a trademark: hero Tne. | arb Macintosh isa tradentark licensed to Apple Computer Ine Circle 83 on reader service card 28 August 1985 Amazing what goes Into Macintosh these days. IBM PC software, for instance. Macintosh and IBM PC software. Compatible at last, thanks to MacCharlie, a rather innovative coprocessing system. And imagine the consequences. Nearly 10,000 IBM PC software programs designed for general business and specific applications in real estate, insurance, law, medicine, banking, etcetera, can now join forces with Macintosh's own popular programs. And, the myriad of IBM PC- compatible software adopts Macintosh’s many beloved features, including desktop ‘The Macintosh keyboard slides right into MacCharli About as easy as slipping. a letter in an envelope. utilities such as the clipboard and the calculator. In addition, MacCharlie allows [BM PC and Macintosh data files to be exchanged. Talk about flexibility. But the good news gets better. You see, MacCharlie delivers hardware compatibility, as well. For example, IBM letter-quality printers can be easily used with Macintosh. Furthermore, MacCharlie Macintosh sets snugly beside MacCharlie, on a custom-fit pedestal. keyhoard Once you plug in MacCharlie's power and keyboard cords, you're ready to enjoy a very happy marriage. now allows Macintosh to perform virtually any networking an IBM PC can perform. Even to the extent of tying in with IBM mainframes. In other words, your networking capability goes beyond the Apple family. How does it happen? As easily as square inches to Macintosh's computer store, Suggested retail price slipping on penny loafers. physique. for the 256K single disk drive model In mere moments, MacCharlie In short, one of life's most is only $1195, and just $1895 for the combines the best features of the perplexing decisions—whether to 640K dual disk drive version. world’s premier personal computers. buy a Macintosh or an IBM PC— For more information, call And despite the fact that it can now be made with the greatest Operator 15 toll-free, turns one computer into two, of ease. 1-800-531-0600. (In Utah, MacCharlie adds but a handful of Ask for MacCharlie at your local “call 801-531-0600.) MacCharie offers 256K RAM. with optional upgrade 10 G4OK RAM. 360KI} disk drive, and optional second disk drive ‘THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS. MacCharlie is a product of Dayna Communications, 50S. Main, Salt Lake City, Utah 84144 Apple sa trademark of Apple Computer, Ine Macintosh is trademark license to Apple Computer Ine TBM ‘8a reqjstered trademark of tnteratlonal Business Machines Corporation. Circle 232 on reader service card Letters if They Only Knew I read with amusement the let- ters from early Mac owners ex- pressing their resentment about the high price they paid for their beloved computers. As an Apple II + pioneer I pur- chased my 48K system in the late 1970s for a little under $3000, If | had waited four years, I could have saved $2000 for a much better Ie with 128K RAM. I never wanted another com- puter until the Macintosh came along. When we can afford it, my family will buy a Mac for the going price, and I will be en- vious that the early Mac owners have had a year's head start. Unlike automobiles, comput- ers are going to get cheaper and faster. Five years from now they will be cheaper and faster still. You can’t wait forever. The Mac pioneers should be proud of the fact that they had the foresight and vision to recog- nize a real winner early on. Chuck Marler Riverside, California No Place Like ROM Being a proud owner of a Mac- intosh, I use it every day and brag to my friends about it. But one thing I don't like is that Ap- ple brags about its ROM rou- tines. Big deal. ‘To be able to use them fully, I have to buy /reside Macintosh for—get this—$150. What a rip-off. One of my friends owns an Apple II + , and with his manual he received ROM routines and addresses, pin information, and schemat- sue of Macworld is the closest I've come to seeing anything that vaguely re- sembles schematics. ‘Too bad Apple won't support Mac owners the way it does Apple II people. Perhaps the reason is that Steve Wozniak was not in- volved in the Mac, but I still would like a little more support than “Give us more money, and we'll give you what you want.” Come on, Apple- it’s our ma- chine, we bought it, give us break. Otherwise, I think it's a great machine. Timothy Jurik Huntington Station, New York The “phone book” edition of Inside Macintosh is available for $25.-Ed. Correction An item on HiwmanForms in Macware News (Macworld, April 1985) contained inaccu- rate price and address informa- tion. The program is available for $79.95 plus $3.50 for ship- ping and handling from The Reference Corporation, 1133 Broadway #611, New York, NY 10010, 212/645-1200. Our apolo- gies for any confusion that may have resulted. Mail your letters to Letters, Macworld, 555 De Haro St, San Francisco, CA 94107, or send them electronically to CompuServe 70370,702 or The Source BOW440. 0 Order From Easy to use... The first truly “Macish” office product With My Office™ you can create any file you need: clients, vendors, personnel or anything else. You can create office forms, stationery, memos, Then you can enter data on these forms, file them and/or print out. My Office lets you create and print form letters, sort and print labels, It also has a MacPaint™ like graphics designer. With one mouse-click you can move older files to or from the Archives disk for virtually “infinite” storage. My Office also will integrate with other DataPak office modules such as My Accountant” DataPak 14011 VENTURA BLVD. SUITE 401 SHERMAN OAKS, CALIFORNIA 91423 818-905-6419 or ask your dealer ©Copyright 1984 DataPak Software, Inc. "Macintosh ia trademark licensed fo Apple Computer, Ine 32 August 1985 Circle 159 on reader service card STHE OFFICE SYSTEM FOR THE MACINTOSH* One-thousand-one, One-thousand-two... i, 16 45 Y) Sa? Two seconds isn’t a very long time. You could start your car. Cut the cards. Return a serve. Pick a daisy. Slip off a shoe, Now, let us show you what we can do... What can you do in two ticks of a clock? Roll the dice. Putt for par. Flex a muscle. ex >) Lick a stamp. Sip a Chablis. Or bite an apple. e Than a Database. sequence of commands all by itself. Since a single Macro can contain hundreds of commands, the potential time savings are incredible. OverVUE's Macro feature makes you the quarterback. Diagram the moves to run the way you want and from then on all you have to do is call the play. Reports with Style. Since the totally electronic office hasn't quite arrived yet, creating reports on paper is an important job for any database user. With OverVUE you can visually design custom reports in seconds by dragging fields into position with the mouse. What you see is what you get- for a perfect report every time. After the fields are in position, you can type in extra information and titles. Use the headers and footers to include the date, time and page numbers. Crank out mailing labels one, two, three, even four up. And, unlike most other database programs, OverVUE can automatically print the city and state together so there's no unnecessary white space between them. OverVUE provides room for eight different custom report templates with each database. When you've finished designing one, it’s stored as an item in the Print Menu with its own name. So you have to design each report only once. After you've designed a report, it can be printed out on either the ImageWriter™ or the LaserWriter™ in your MacOffice. You can change the font size and on the LaserWriter™ the report will automatically print sideways ifit is too wide. Getting the facts on paper has never been easier We’re Clairvoyant. Nobody likes to type. OverVUE can't eliminate typing, but OverVUE's Clairvoyance feature is a big help. Clairvoyance is great for fields that have repetitive data, like the description column of a checkbook. Checks are often written to the same people over and over: When Clairvoyance is enabled, OverVUE will automatically finish enter- ing the name once you have typed in enough to positively identify it. For instance, you might have to enter only “Paci” for Clairvoyance to realize that you mean Pacific Telephone. Clairvoyance does more than just save keystrokes, it also helps insure that informa- tion gets entered the same way every time. So, US Widgets Inc. always gets entered pre- cisely that way and not as US Widgets, United States Widgets Inc., or US Widget Company. Of course Clairvoyance isn’t OverVUE' only trick to make typing easier. OverVUE's Input Pattern automatically enters the slashes in a date, or the parentheses and dashes in a phone number Or there's Value Bar when only a few entries are valid (such as True/False, or Red/Green/Blue). | OverVUE can’t quite make dataentry | fun. But it comes close. | One-thousand-one, One-thousand-two. You bought your Macintosh™ for clout. For the right facts, in the right order, at the right time. And that's exactly what you get with OverVUE. OverVUE sorts, analyzes, categorizes, calculates, even charts. All in less time than it takes to say one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two. In fact, Over'VUE is the only database available for the Macintosh™ that waits for you instead of making you wait for it. So if you've got sales to analyze, inventory levels to track, customer lists to update, phone charges to allocate, time report- ing to simplify, projects to schedule, bank state- ments to reconcile, employee records to maintain, accounts receivable to monitor, or a power lust to satisfy, rush over to an authorized Apple® dealer for your copy of OverVUE. You'll be amazed with what you can do with a Macintosh™ OverVUE and a few ticks of the clock. Suggested retail price is $295.00. Current owners —call for information concerning upgrades. 222 22nd Street « Huntington Beach, CA 9 ‘Analyze monthly sales figures. Tatal last year's expenses. designs for each database. You're busy enough without trying to wade through reams of numbers. With OverVUE's Charts and Graphs you'll see aclear picture in seconds. Meaningful Relationships. Unlike simple file managers, Over VUE can handle more than one database at a time. OverVUE' Relational Join com- mand acts like a bridge connecting one body of information to another For instance, OverVUE can calculate payroll by joining salary information in a person- nel file with data in a weekly time card file. Given two mailing list files, Over VUE Zoom in on ane record at a ume. can find all the duplicate names, or all the non-duplicates. Or you could join your invoice file with cash receipts to compute an accounts receivable trial balance. With OverVUES Relational Join you can combine data any way that works for you. OverVUE makes relational database management quick and simple. We know you can relate to that. Ship It In or Out. OverVUE doesn't live in an isolated world all its own. OverVUE puts you in the import/export business by allowing, you to exchange data with almost any other software package — including MacWrite™* MacPaint;* Multiplan? Maclerminal;™ Lotus 123° AppleWorks;" dBase II* and many more. /mport makes it easy to take advantage of OverVUES unique capabilities without having to rekey the data you may already have. In the interest of fair trade, you can also Export OverVUE data into other programs. For instance, you can use OverVUE reports and charts ina MacWrite™ document. Or, you can merge an OverVUE mailing list with a letter in Microsoft® Word to quickly and easily produce hundreds of custom form letters. With Import/Export you can combine the power of OverVUE with other soft- ware to create almost unlimited possibilities. We think OverVUE will give you a whole new slant on the import/export business. You’re the Quarterback. Computers are supposed to relieve drudgery. That's why OverVUE gives you Macros. Macro lets you compress an entire sequence of commands into a single pull- down menu item. You can create up to 20 separate macros for each of your data- bases. Give each Macro its own descrip- tive name, like “Balance Checkbook,” “Calculate Commissions,’ “Top 10 Chart; or “Monthly Summary.” You can even give your Macro a command key equiv alent so that it can be accessed with either the mouse or the keyboard. Every new Macro is automatically added to a special pull-down menu, the “DO” menu. To use a Macro, simply choose it from the DO menu and OverVUE will take off and run the ans eanimon eet Auvnweas The report cards are in. And OverVUE has earned high marks among databases for its mind boggling speed, its incredible range of features and its amazing power. Now we could elaborate on these things ourselves. But we figure you'd rather hear it straight from the experts who make out the grades; Reported JVFOWORLD, April 1, 1985: “OverVUE is 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 OverVUE's power and capabilities, not to mention its speed.” According to MACWORLD, January, 1985: “OverVUE is a fascinating program. A cross between a data base manager and an electronic 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.” Infoworld REPORT CARD OVERVUE Performance Documentation Ea Error Handing Support PVil ProVUE™ Development Corporation Circle 77 on reader service card “Good grades.” 222 22nd Street « Huntington Beach, CA 92648 « (714) 969-2431 PERSONAL COMPUTING, February, 1985 wrote: “OverVUE can execute almost all of its commands in the blink of an eye, or two blinks at the most. . . . Its speed and math capabilities go well beyond what most personal com- puter data base programs have achieved, ... it definitely can make the Mac you already have a much more useful tool,” Stated CLUB MAG, 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 OverVUE is terrific. An enormous number of knowledge: able experts feel pretty much the same way. So, don't you think it’s high time you tested OverVUE yourself? Call or write for more information: Macworld View The new Desk Accessory/Font Mover, Apple's 20-megabyte hard disk, making psychic discoveries with the Mac, Zen programming, and more Edited by Herschel Schmedick As the Macintosh community * expands, I suspect that many The Farmer s of you have had some strange Macintosh or enlightening encounters with the Mac. Or perhaps you've beard of someone e unique application. Your con- tributions are welcome, and Macworld pays up to $50 for each item published. Send your contributions to Mac- world View, 555 De Haro St, San Francisco, CA 94107. 1 look forward to bearing from you. Rural Pennsylvania, where horse-drawn buggies clip along past abandoned nuclear power plants, offers some striking per- spectives on technology and its limits. Now, in the midst ofan ever-deepening agricultural crisis, county agricultural ex- tension agents have whole- heartedly embraced the tech- nology of the silicon chip in order to provide technical and financial expertise to often- beleaguered farmers. ‘The program, backed by $19 million from the state legisla- ture and by university dis- counts, has sowed over 200 Macintoshes across Pennsylva- nia; the computers are linked in a statewide network to a uni- versity mainframe. Over 900 extension and univ members hé under the program, Ambitious? Consider that the project is also generating its own software— not just a few applications, but scores. And then there's the vow of the extension computer support service to respond to y call for help within 15 min- “Tf we don’t, we'll send you a free disk! What is farming like these days? You can get a revealing glimpse from the software un- der development, much of it in the form of Multiplan tem- plates. To name a sampling of what the Mac i: ing itself with in Pennsylvania: Dairy Barn Ventilation Sizing, Land Rent Calculator, Nutrient Grain Mix Calculator, Milk Market Comparisons, and let’s not ne- glect to mention Agronomic Custom Rate Generator. From the sound of things, running a farm is at least as technically challenging as handling any small business, though the ex tence of Manure Analysis W sheet provides comforting as- surance that farming is still farming. One thing is clear: season after season farmers are forced to live with more financial pre- cariousness than most business- people would care to see even once in their careers, For- tunately, at least in Pennsylva- nia, when the bankers drive up in their long black cars, the ex- tension agent has just the disk the farmer needs.—7ed Nace Know Thine Enemy In its all-out effort to establish the Macintosh Office in the business community, Apple has been briefing its sales force on the competition. For Apple that means educating its 500 field and sales representatives on the IBM PC and leading PC soft- ware such as Lotus's 2-2-3. Ferrin Corporation, a San Fran- cisco-based personal comput- ing services firm, is giving the Apple sales force in-depth train- ing on the IBM PC in business and insights into corporate per- sonal computing, The Apple sales force has to be able to show prospective customers and dealers the comparative advantages of the Mac over the IBM PC and to discuss how the Mac can interface with other IBM equipment, such as mainframes. New Font and Desk Accessory Mover David Ferris, chairman of Ferrin, says, “People in corpo- rations want you to understand the technology as it will have to fit into their environment. The corporations expect sales- people to get to know them and help them in their business.” In essence Apple is following an ancient adage: Know thine enemy as thyself.— Janet McCandless Fontastic _ Creating fonts on the Mac with Apple's Font Editor program is hazardous duty. A part of the Resource Editor utility, the Font Editor requires a great deal of trial and error. It can cause much suffering and anguish when the system crashes and you lose half an hour of tedious FatBitting. As a superior alter- native Altsys offers Fontastic ($39.95), a program that lets you customize an existing font or create your own special- purpose character font. The program includes eight new fonts and has a manual— something Apple's Font Editor sorely needs—that provides background information about fonts and a description of how to use the program's features. For further information contact Altsys at RO. Box 865410, Plano, TX 75086, 214/596-4970. One of the benefits of owning a lacintosh is the great variety of _ Font Mover and CE Software's hancers. Up to now Apple's Bert Sloane has created such a program —an integrated font 's and desk accessories Desk Accessory Mover have ble. Macintosh fonts exist. been the only tools for adding ly every language, and removing fonts and desk accessory) Mover, the utility Ention the picture fonts accessories from the System lets you copy fonts and desk ac- ind there are files of disks (see “Decking Out _cessories between disks or re- Mac's Desktop,” Macworld, move them from disks to create ch 1985). Both Programs more disk space. The FonDA Mover is being distributed on the new Macin- -tosh System disk that is avail and desk accessory mover. Known as the Fon/DA (for desk now that Ap le programiner 42 August 1985 4\ Divining with © the Mac How can researchers use the Macintosh to discover buried archeological sites, help police solve crimes, or find missing persons? The Mobius Society, a Los Angeles-based research foundation, uses people with psychic abilities to perform the aforementioned tasks, Randall DeMattei, the society's execu- tive director, is quick to point out that Mobius uses many forms of research, scientific and historical, in addition to its psy- chic methods. Mobius has en- listed the aid of psychics for-re- mote viewing projects, such as pinpointing places on a map to indicate the possible location of a buried treasure, in conjunc- tion with Omni magazine. The group has also found missing persons for various police de- partments and has worked on a number of archeological proj- ects in the United States, Egypt, and other countries. The society recently pur- chased several Macs to help with many aspects of its re- search. According to Stephan A, Schwartz, chairman and re- search director of Mobius, one of the society's new projects in- volves searching for a sunken ship. They use the Thunder- Scan image digitizer to copy a XOPEOXOPHOxXOPlhx Macworld = 43 map of the area where the ship is thought to have gone down and then paste the image into MacPaint. The psychics, or “respondents,” who are not so-called “professional” psy- chics but ordinary people who have psychic ability, look at the map on screen and mark the places they feel are likely to contain something. After all the respondents have gone over the map, a consensus map is created to show where the marks cluster. The respondents keep a run- ning commentary of what they “see,” which is later put into a MacWrite document. Mobius plans to use the mouse for this. “map dousing” to discover whether gifted psychics can enhance their talent with the mouse and a computer or whether the high-tech method inhibits their ability—Rob Swigart Zen and the Artof Macintosh Programming Programmers seeking to un- derstand the Mac might be well advised to put aside their tech- nical manuals and take a trip to the Orient. At least that’s the suggestion of author Keith Matthews. While writing his book Assembly Language Primer for the Apple Macin- tosh for New American Li brary’s Plume/Waite imprint, 44 August 1985 Matthews noticed a close paral- lel between the Mac's architec- ture and many sopt ated or- ganizational concepts of Japanese management. According to Matthews, com- puters such as the Apple I and the IBM PC are like the typical Western organization, struc- tured as a “pyramid of author- ity, with the boss at the top and ever expanding positions as the chart moves to its wider base of workers.” For informa- tion to flow between the top and the bottom, it has to pass through a number of layers of managers, a cumbersome, un- reliable method at best. “There is,” he w nother type of organization, infinitely more complex in its internal commu- nication and decision-making process, In Japan it is called the MAIC C cle, and Japanese cor- porate 1 ploited this method effectively to solve corporate problem: The distinguishing feature of the magic circle is direct com- munication among the various levels of authority, Just as members of a Jap- anese magic circle are drawn from throughout the company, inside the Mac the ROM rou- tines that constitute a particular manager, such as the Window Manager, are spread out over the entire ROM. The Window Manager, for instance, invokes facilities from several other managers—including Quick- Draw, the Control Manager, and the Event Manager—to manipu- late a window on the screen. Since the Mac's resources consist of nearly 30 managers, drivers, and handlers, as well as over 400 routines, this system can be confusing for program- mers of conventional computer systems. Matthews states, “The big question traditional pro- grammers have to get out of their psyches is, Where is the Window Manager? or any other manager for that matter. The answer is everywhere and no- where. You cannot point di- rectly to a manager, because a manager is made up of lots of workers [routines|.” But if the system of sharing common functions is confusing to programmers, according to Matthews it is the secret be- hind how Apple put “so much sophistication into so small a ROM. Don't let this confuse you,” he continues, “the rou- tines act like they are grouped together, and that is the impor- tant thing for you to know as you develop programs.” Is there a hub to the magic circle? Yes, it's called the Trap Dispatcher. But that’s another story, one about soul and heart. Read about it in Keith Matthews's book. Computer Science 1C Michael Tchao, a senior at Stan- ford University majoring in product design, is the orga- nizer of a unique computer sci- ence course at Stanford: CS 1C, “Using the Macintosh at Stan- ford” In January 1984 Tchao at- tended the annual Apple share- holders meeting, where the Macintosh was first unveiled, and heard what he calls “the gospel according to Steve Jobs.” The Mac so sparked Tehao’s in- terest that he talked to Stuart Reges, the assistant chairman for undergraduate education in the computer science depart- ment, about using Macs in in- troductory computer science courses. During the summer Tehao, Reges, and teaching assistant Bill Berner developed an intro- ductory course to teach stu- dents how to use applications rather than how to program. They tested a prototype of the course on freshman football players, who spend August practicing on campus. “The Macintosh seemed very small in the hands of Stanford’s largest freshmen,” Tehao said. But the enthusiasm was great, and the summer experiment proved a success. CS 1C was introduced as a one-credit course for fall quarter of 1984. The class con- sists of small sections that meet once a week, during which teaching assistants give tu- torials on specific application programs. Each student is re- quired to purchase a course binder of labs on the software covered in the course. Each Apple’s Hard. class begins with an overview of a product's capabilities, fol- lowed by a 1- to 1%-hour exer- cise designed to help students explore the program in depth. The cours so popular that about 200 students are en- rolled, in ten section: sections meet in classrooms, while others are taught in dor- mitories as part of a residential education program. Wherever the sections meet, the course is fired by the enthusiasm of the students. Tehao supervises ten undergraduate teaching as- sistants and is working with them and editors at Apple Com- puter to publish the course binder. He hopes that after he graduates, his disciples will go on with the class and continue to spread the Macintosh gospel on campus.—Clay Andres Disk There's no scarcity of hard disks for the Mae; I count at least a dozen available. One of the glaring problems in the Macintosh world, however, is the lack of a hard disk standard. Each hard disk has a different way of handling the software interface to the Mac, and none of the strategies works per- fectly. Another problem is that most hard disks connect to the Mac through the serial port rather than the disk drive port. The throughput of the disk Macworld 45 port—the speed at which data can be transferred to an exter- nal clevice—is two to three times faster than that of the se- rial port. Now that Apple has entered the Macintosh hard disk market with a 20-megabyte hard disk that plugs into the disk drive port, you would expect that the sales of non-Apple hard disks would suffer, with the possible exception of General Computer Company, which manufactures the HyperDrive internal hard disk. But Apple product mar- keting manager Peter Friedman has another analysis: “Apple's hard disk will legitimize the hard disk market for the Mac and thereby help to increase overall Macintosh sales. The enlarged market will create new opportunities for com- panies who offer differentiated products, such as hard disks with removable cartridges, and lower- or higher-capacity drives that provide good per- formance for the price” 0 Mail Center” Delivers! Electronic Mail for the Macintosh” Office. Need to send a memo to everyone in your department? Mail Center will deliver. Even if they are working furiously with other programs on their computer. Designed to be used with the AppleTalk Personal Network™, Mail Center offers every office an easy and efficient means of improving communications. Meeting notices, reports, memos, letters, spreadsheets, charts and graphics can all be sent quickly and easily to everyone who needs to know. In fact, practically any Macintosh document can be sent from one Macintosh to another in record time. Mail Center software for Macintosh. No wait delivery for the Macintosh office. Suggested Retail Prices Twin Pack $299 Six Pack $499 [Vielex) Mail Center is a trademark of Videx, Inc. AppleTalk Personal Network is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple 1105 N.E. CIRCLE BLVD., CORVALLIS, OR 97330 Computer, Inc. 503-758-0521 Circle 42 on reader service card eats E. 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Without mass storage thatevery a floppy could never do. With Omni- capability. Plus, you get Macintosh can access, your net- Drive and OmniTalk, your Macintosh three levels of protec- worked office won't haveaprayer. Office has fasteraccessto ==--—~~_ tion to keep your files safe. Because you'll stillhave to software and data,greater ~ And with the Corvus 126MB share data by swapping floppies. storage capacity,even hard disk,it all costs less per And just consider easier back-up megabyte than any other how fast a floppy system. You see, Corvus has disk fills up with an more experience net- entire workgroup working than anyone compiling data. To share information, else.No one offers # more, because no you have to get those one can. floppies neatly So take it from us. stacked, sorted and If you're going to add people cataloged. to your new Macintosh Something Office, add the mass storage your computer system that every - should do for you. & one can use. Which is OmniDrive why we've introduced ? from Corvus. OmniTalk software. It Then your lets you network your Mac- : Macintoshes intosh Office and LaserWriter can really printer with an Omni- hos — start talkin’ Drive hard disk.So you { 5 business. can store all yourfiles * ‘ } For more inoneplace.Andshare “= information, call information whenever you want, (800) 4-CORVUS. with whomever you want. Without turning your floppies into little frisbees. Several people can even access the same information at once—something Circle 206 on reader service card Get Info Macworld’s tutor answers questions about Pascal, printers, and numeric keypads Lon Poole Get Info answers questions about the Macintosh and how it works. Most inquiries deal with application programs, but no topic is too elementary or too advanced. Discussions range from setting up the Mac to programming in BASIC and Pascal. When you need advice about using the Mac, drop me a line. | cannot respond to in- dividual letters, but I will an- swer the most representative questions. This month I tackle the prob- lems of three writers: one needs to count the words ina document, another wants to type formulas that use multi- level subscripts and super- scripts, and a third wants to save notes on 3- by 5-inch cards but can’t find a program that prints them And what happens if you plug an extra-high-resolution dot matrix printer like the ‘Toshiba 1340 into your Mac? A Macintosh Pascal programmer suspects there must be some vay to put data files on separate disks, but the manual doesn't say how. If you're into assembly language, 1 have some informa- tion on 68000 assemblers that run on the Mac. Finally, one spreadsheet jockey asks about the numeric keypad, and another wants to know how to use the Clipboard to transfer data from Multiplan to MacWrite. Word Counting Q. Is there any way to use my Mac to count the number of words in a MacWrite document? Dolores Gwynn Salina, Kansas A. Almost any spelling: checker program displays a count of the number of words in a document. Assimilation’s Mac Spell Right works with MacWrite version 4.0 or later. Hayden:Speller from Hayden Software works with MacWrite and Microsoft Word. You can use the Get Info command to find out the number of bytes in a docu- ment, which approximately equals the number of charac- ters. You can also estimate the number of words in a Microsoft Word document based on the number of characters. Every time Word opens or saves a document, it displays the number of characters in the lower-left corner of the docu- ment window. Divide the char- acter count an average of five characters per word plus a space) for an estimate of the number of words. Subscripted Subscripts and Superscripted Superscripts Q lam writing a technical paper that requires double su- perscripts (superscripts of su- perscripts) and double sub- scripts. I have painstakingly been doing the equations in MacFPaint, then inserting them into MacWrite. Is there a way to obtain the desired results using only MacWrite or Microsoft Word? Michael J. Dunn Manbattan Beach, California A. Special superscript and subscript fonts contain letters and numerals that are raised above or below the standard position of characters on a line. When you use these fonts in MacWrite’s plain text style, you get ordinary superscripts and subscripts. When you use these fonts in Superscript or Sub- script style, you get double su- perscripts and subscripts. Dayton Fonts ($15 from Plugh, PO. Box 358, Dayton, OH 45459) includes superscripts and subscripts, ornamental Greek and English alphabets, a square root tool kit, fraction connectors, dots, integrals, sums, large brackets, and other symbols used in equation: SciFonts ($49.95 plus $2 ship- ping from Paragon Courseware, Macworld 55 Let's get right to the point: aif earacerwil the computet for the rest ofus . . can bring out the best in us. All it takes is your Mac, your imagination, and Macworld as your guide. And, of course, the tip of your finger. Experts have called the Macintosh the only “whole-brain” computer. ve i 1.0. use your entire cerebral cre- ativity with push-button ease. With more:than $20,000 be- ing awarded to winners of the Macworld Art Contest for your Macintosh graphics published in this magazine, you could profit considerably from your. subscription ‘to Macworld. Which brings us to the next point. Right now, unleash your fingertips and remove the post- paid card facing this page. Complete. Mail. 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