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CWOR November 1985 $3.95 The Macintosh"Magazine™ Canada $4.95 ; oa: ee Animated Pictures Charts, graphs, presentations Helix ; er Manage your 1 data with icons : iy First Mac Flip Book Business Letters Made Easy How to Travel with Your Mac Tips on Home Remodeling ~ MacCharlie gives Macintosh a whole new edge. Physically, and mentally. Because with the addition of MacCharlie, an attachable coprocessor, Macintosh becomes totally compatible with the myriad of IBM PC software. At the same time, MacCharlie allows those nearly 10,000 programs &._* to adopt the Macintosh’s many beloved features. Window sizing, the menu bar, clipboard, calculator and notepad. They're all there. MacCharlie also provides something else you may have longed for. The flexibility of file transfer between the Macintosh and the IBM PC. Consequently, in offices using both computers, double entry is a thing of the past. And linking Macintosh to IBM serial networks and mainframes becomes a thing of the present. But MacCharlie offers several other unexpected pleasures, as well. Like an 18-key numeric pad for your Macintosh Plus the ability to serve as a print buffer, which means you no longer have to play the waiting game. Your Macintosh remains transportable, too, because MacCharlie adds just inches to its footprint MacCharlie. Call it the best of both worlds. Or simply call it phenomenal. They both fit, because you're not losing any of Macintosh’s enduring characteristics. You're simply gaining IBM PC compatibility. And a valuable edge in the marketplace. MacCharlie. by Dayna Communications For more information, call toll-free, 1-800-531-0600. (In Utah, call 531-0600.) sommunications, 50 South Main, Salt Lake City, U h 84144 Circle 232 on reader service card *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 external 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. be OTA SUBEP ercrstich *As seen in San Francisco at the Macworld Exposition. 6204 Benjamin Road ‘Tampa, FL33614 1-800-MACBUTT (813) 884-3092 Macintosh isa trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Ine Circle 223 on reader service card November 1985 Getting Started Hands On 76 The Macintosh Passport 100 Remodel Your House with MacDraw Kenneth Ray Stubbs Neale McGoldrick The Macintosh makes a great Put MacDraw to work on your lightweight traveling companion, but renovation plans, then boast about the before you take off together, pack your house your mouse built. % bags and put your Mac's papers in 106 Recovering Damaged Disks q order, Jim Heid Before disaster strikes, investigate Fedit, MacTools, and MacZap, three disk editors that work like snakebite Review kits for damaged files. 82 A Moving Pixel Show Keith McCandless Make the Mac a desktop animation. studio with VideoWorks, a graphics Community animation program that comes The Software Rock'n’ Roll Band complete with sound effects. Nicholas Lavroff Files of Icons and Tiles Get up close and personal with the David L. Foster dynamic trio responsible for The Macintosh graphics environment MacroMind’s crowd pleas paved the way for Helix, a powerful er, MusicWorks, and and versatile database manager that \ : of business is contacts. ntials’ versatile form- Columns 11 __ Is the Macintosh for the Rest of Us? David Bunnell 23 Letters 43 Macworld View Edited by Herschel Schmedick et watching and campaigning with Mag, previewing the ImageWriter {other news and notes for the ie Mac for stereo sound, locuments, and other Vanderlans, 43, 45; Mick Wiggins, 94, 129, 133, 149. 129 183 184 185 Departments Macware Reviews Edited by Erfert Nielson ort but straight-shooting Indexes ~~ i Products Advertisers Macworld Directory EES Dispatch your bills, sales pitches, fund- raising appeals, and other personalized mailings using Essentials, @ practical and versatile form-letter generator. The review starts on page 94. Maeworld 3 MACWORLD David Bunnell Publisher J. Kelley Younger Executive Editor Kearney Rietmann Editor Editorial Associate Editors: Daniel Farber, Adrian Mello Technical Editor: David Ushijima Assistant Editors: J. E. Arcellana, Erfert Nielson Editorial Manager: Janet McCandless Senior Copy Editor: Kathleen Christensen Copy Editors; Nancy E. Dunn, Wendy Weinberg Editorial Assistant: Heidi Mitchell Editorial Secretary: Kileen Drapiza Research Assistant; David ‘Turin Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, Jim Heid, Jeremy Joan Hewes, Nichola Gordon McComb, Lon Poole, Jeffrey S. Young avroff, Art Associate Publisher. Jacqueline Poitier Designer: Marjorie Spiegelman Art Director: Bruce Charonnat Associate Designer: Dennis McLeod Associate Art Director: Christopher Burg Design Associate: Leslie Barton stant: Nan Cassady Production Director: Herbert Linden Senior Production Managers: Frances Mann, Lee R. Trevino Editorial Production Manager: Ellyn L. 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Usually, you can’t accomplish much in such a short amount of time. But, with OverVUE, two seconds is all the time you'll need to sort, total, chart, select, calculate, zoom, and much, much more, Of course, speed alone doesn’t mean much unless a program has the power to get your job done. And OverVUE can definitely get the job done. OverVUE 2.0 is loaded with new features like Relational Joins, Macros that let you compress an entire sequence of commands into a single pull-down menu item, spreadsheet-like math capabilities, Charts that can be displayed with just a few mouse clicks, Clairvoyance™ for painless data entry and /mport/Export for exchanging information with other database and spreadhseet programs. PVil ProVUE™Development Corporation 222 22nd Street « Huntington Beach, CA 92648 « (714) 969-2431 Circle 77 on reader service card Catch a ray. & ow Pet your puppy. Roll the dice. You'd be amazed. There's no question, OverVUE is one of the most powerful packages available for any microcomputer. But don’t be overwhelmed, because OverVUE is also one of the easiest databases to set up, modify and use. And if you don't believe us, just ask INFOWORLD. They rated OverVUE “excellent” for ease of use (April 1, 1985). OverVUE 2.0, It’s incredibly fast. It’s powerful. It’s easy to use. You won't find a more complete database program anywhere! So what are you waiting for? It will only take a few seconds to hop in your car, drive to the nearest software dealer and pick up your very own copy of OverVUE. OverVUE" OverVUE Overll ge David Bunnell Is the Macintosh for the Rest of Us? Most of us are still sitting on the fence, so it’s too soon to put the Mac out to pasture Some of my friends in the per- sonal computer industry are be- ginning to speak about the Macintosh in the past tens was a great idea,” they say bad it wasn’t an open system like the IBM PC” During its first year, more Macintoshes were sold than during the first year of any other personal computer. To date Apple has sold over 600,000 Macs, and as any Mac follower knows, the Mac soft- ware base is huge. So what is this past tense stuff? Look back to the prerelease buildup for the answer: exag- gerated expectations caused today’s premature death watch. In his cheerleading to garner support from software devel- opers and enthusiasm from personal computer gurus, Steve Jobs oversold the Macintosh. At one point he said that Apple would sell 600,000 Macs the first year and over a million the second. “tt st Sel In retrospect Steve Jobs's Mac fervor should have been taken with a grain of salt by the devel- opers and the gurus, who should know better. However, they too were swept away by the Mac and by the prospect of stopping the IBM juggernaut. You see, paranoia of IBM is strong among the counter- culture types who created the personal computer industry. Not completely without reason, they fear that the Big Blue Ele- phant will someday step on them. And they fear that in an IBM-dominated world, innova- tion would be stifled. The puny little Macintosh was expected to charge in and stand in the way of such a disaster. It was a naive hope. The idea of Apple standing in IBM’s path is laughable and was laughable then, too. pe ee ed fl fed) The success of the IBM Per- sonal Computer is due largely to its acceptance in the vast ma- jority of large corporations. Once those companies figured out how to increase the pro- ductivity of their executives and other employees with the IBM PC, they began ordering them thousands at a time, But the boys and girls in Cupertino weren't totally bum- bling. They realized that a new market for personal computers exists that IBM isn’t yet able to capture—namely, “the rest of us.” Independent professionals, mall-business man- agers, and many other non- Fortune 1000 types need per- sonal computers, too. So the marketing people at Apple called the Macintosh “the computer for the rest of us.” And they figured that the Mac’s ease of use would be just the thing to get us to buy mil- lions of Macintoshes. pes PS fo ed | i But the rest of us haven't been so fast to jump into personal computers. While sales to large corporations have slowed as that market approaches satura- tion, the huge new personal computer market hasn't been buying. IBM and some of the compatibles manufacturers have survived by selling more powerful PCs, including XTs and ATs, to the same big corpo- rations, but Apple has suffered. However, the story is hardly over. Just as many PC gurus might have been too quick to believe Steve Jobs's early Mac declarations, many are now too quick to bury both him and his machine. (continues on page 14) Macworld 11 Microsoft Excel. For those who You may speak more softly now. formidable spreadsheet ever to run on a For we are delivering into the hands of personal computer. business, a very big stick. A spreadsheet which is in turn linked Microsoft® Excel for the Macintosh"A _ withan extraordinary graphics program and financial analysis tool of unprecedented —_a highly capable data filing application, power. 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SuperCale Iga rademark of Soreim/1US wi Circle 49 on reader service card David Bunnell (continued from page 11) The truth is simply that the rest of us are waiting for a magic combination of more performance and better value to trigger us to start buying, personal computers. Apple, with its reputation in the marketplace and its head start in the technology, still has the best chance of striking the balance that makes us buy in numbers, There is nothing to stop Apple from both improv- ing the performance of the original Macintosh and at the same time developing a whole family of Mac machines, includ- ing ones with open architec- ture and color graphics. J Se The Macintosh interface, with its advanced ease of use, has enticed thousands of people into computing, but the price is too high to create a truly mass explosion. What if you could buy a basic 512K Macintosh for under $1000? What about $500? The Macintosh interface is so superior to the PC’s MS-DOS interface that it accounts for most of the 600,000 Macintosh sales—purchases made despite the computer's lack of expanda- bility and slow disk dri If it weren't for the innovative inter- face, fewer than 100,000 Macs might have been sold. All Apple has to do is make the Macintosh interface and software available in different packages at better prices. Rumor has it that Apple might even license the Macintosh in- well as Macintosh technology in general, to other computer companies. This would be great news to all Mac users because it would help en- sure continued Mac software development The Mac is not dead; it just hasn't yet become the com puter for the rest of us. 0 NEON: TURN ON THE FULL POWER OF YOUR MACINTOSH. Hidden within your Mac is the programming power, flexibility, and speed to match your imagination. Neon is your key to this object-oriented world. Based on the same design philosophy as the Mac itself, Neon lets you create and command objects — program modules that you build, perfect, and add to your personal collection of tools. In this Smalltalk-like environment, you wield the power to quickly assemble and test ideas, tuning as you go for maximum speed and efficiency. (1. Neon works in 128K or dynamically expands for the fattest Mac possible. It is easy to work with from the very beginning. Additional help is provided through the comprehensive manual by Danny Goodman. 0 Created by Kriya Systems, Inc, for the develop- ment of our Typing Tutor III™ program, Neon is your answer for professional software development. With Neon, there are no licensing fees. Ever. For the MacIntosh developer, Neon is the best choice. Systems, Inc., Six.Export Drive, Sterling, VA 22170. The price is $155, including shipping and handling. Nod and Typing Tao Ii are ademarks of Kaya Systems, Inc. Apple Macintosh isa trademark of Apple Computers, i: To order your copy of Neon, call 1-800-34KRIYA now with Visa or MasterCard, or send your check to Kriya E Circle 246 on reader service card ON re first scenario, 9, Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord ha: ” redesigned for the Macintosh. The new Mac Wizardry is ready to work its very special magi¢ on your imagination. _.Find out why hundreds of thousands of fans have made Wicelayy the most popular computer fantasy role-playing game of all time. We invite you and your family to enter this fascinating, immensely rewarding world. Discover for yourself if Wizardry is just a game. Or far more. © Available at all Fine Computer Stores. PRICE: $59.95 LOOK FOR THE DRAGON SYMBOL OF WIZARDRY. PROMISE OF EXCELLENCE. Circle 372 on reader service card MAXIMIZE YOUR MAC Inside every Macintosh™ beats the heart of a sabe machine, and the feats it can perform when given the room to maneuver will astound you. However, the sad fact is, most Mac's will never be allowed enough RAM to run the major integrated software packages wholly from memory - at lightning speed. Nor will they know the wonder of running eight applications essentially simultaneously in Switcher. Nor will they see giant. spread sheets or documents, But yours can. 512K 1MEG 2MEG 4MEG Micro Conversions, Inc. was a pioneer in 512K Upgrades ( We still offer them at the best prices around,), and we were the first to break the "512K Barrier" with our 1 Meg Upgrade. Now we offer two more sizes of RAM - all recognized by the Finder - all available to software without bank switching - and all at affordable prices. So, if you want to be impressed by your Macintosh, maximize it with a Meg or more. 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Either way, you get full text edit- ing features with the abili- ty to change font, style and size at any point. ReadySetGo supports all Mac fonts including real typefaces like Times™ and Helvetica™ and all sizes 1 thru 99. When you edit text or resize a block, the display instantly updates and text automatically refits the block. Use graphics blocks to make frames, solids or pictures. And bring in graphics from other Mac programs. Move and resize graphics blocks just like text blocks. Go ya Py Ta Ua [of aor tha 200 Kenttony Gyaiwr Prliniony ni gery Nearsightness |) Unsung ts mae es reds iru focusing, 8S sally Usagpews is fow to ows 4 thy corm bls, Bone you em ons abr Create a page of any standard size and use show page for a scaled view of the entire page. Show page updates continuously as your work progresses. Store pages on disk as full documents or as layouts which can be used for fu- ture projects. Print finished pages on the ImageWriter™ or on the Laser- Writer™ for superb publication quality output. At just $125 ReadySetGo is truly the first of its kind. Visit your local dealer or call us at 212-989-6442 for the store nearest you. cl pies so save i sar shaped tor ba The Ultimate Page Processor’ ReadySetGo requires a 512K Mae. ReadySetGo and “The Ultimate Page Processor” are trademarks of Manhattan Graphics Corporation. ImageWriter and LaserWriter are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Times and Helvetica are trademarks of Allied Corporation. ©1985 Manhattan Graphics Corporation, 163 Varick Street, New York, NY. 10013 212-924-2778, Circle 2 on reader service card » from 128K or 512K to a full 1.5 megabytes of config- _urable memory. Its RAM disk runs circles around even the fastest internal disk drives. “The Max lets you do more. “You can run_all your présent soft- =ware with The Max. Use data bases, Wword'processors and integrated programs li - to create more elaborate spreadsheets, work with larger documents, and file more data than ever “before: - é : With The Max and Apples. Switcher you can run “up to eight applications at Onee = all at RAM speed! If cfash, The Max forgives you. Unlike other The Max allows you to reset and recover “yout 102: 41 RAM disk intact. r ° ‘The Maxis fast, ~The Max doesn’t waste your time. Move in and out of ‘ applications almost 10 times faster than «floppy disk= and 2 to 3 times faster than an internal disk drive. “Boot MacPaint in 2: 6 seconds, or MacWrite in 13 > oftware included with The Max allows ur Mac to suit-your needs. Have tiguous application space with i select a 512K Macinto with. ~ We loved the Macintosh so much we gave it a daughter And it’s = everything a daughter should be. The Max™is a daughterboard » that combines with a Macintosh:motherboard and installs. » i minutes. The Max increases your computing power _The Max is available now. Se aes aS _ Contact your Ic ~ The Max, Kits ai The Max is designed for the ice Unlike memory expansions *- using older technology,’ The Max has been. deed to be fully Copealeblyle fel is pin coupe lls with the so0n-to-be-releas decoded for 4 mies S i memory, the maximum Se the Macintosh can address. sons also available. | 128K to The Max 2) MB- © 512K tothe Max 1.5 Mb. ‘see your local neale: fo Max, or-contact MacMemory field Road, Suite 28; Mc > al-dealer for more information about 3 Energize Your Mac! eee $Y. Get 8 of the most requested Macintosh accessories, all on one disk! 49 Suddenly, your Mac is faster, more efficient, more powerful! In 8 significant ways! 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AND IBM BUSINESS MACHINES INC Circle 380 on reader service card If you can point, you can produce Printed Circuit Boards faster and for less. With Quik Circuit™ from Bishop Graphics, the leading international supplier of printed circuit design products. Quik Circuit is a PCB CAD/CAM system that runs on the Apple 512K Macintosh. It’s so easy to learn and use that you can get your first computer-generated PCB check prints within hours of installing the system, and boards in just days, Instead of typing instructions, you use a mouse to sketch your layouts quickly and easily on the screen, And instead of memorizing dozens of new commands, you point at a menu and click a button to choose the function you want to perform. Circuit traces just snap into place. Pads, patterns and feed throughs are placed precisely with the click of a button. Custom patterns are created and saved in minutes. Changes, copies, deletions and moves are virtually instantaneous. And you can even do SMD’s and hybrids. You get a check print whenever you want it on the Apple Imagewriter™ printer, or in color or black and white on one of our optional pen plotters. When you're done, you've also got everything you need for precision photoplots and CNC drill input for fast, effective computer-aided manufacturing using your own local supplier or a member of our CAM network of PCB fabricators. For more information and a demonstrat: contact your nearest Authorized Bishop Graphics CAD Dealer. For his name, call 1-800-222-5808 (1-818-991-2600 in Alaska, California, Hawaii) today. He'll get you up and running with a Quik Circuit system faster and for a great deal less than anything else you've seen. TREH RE CUA Cs a Bishop Graphics, Inc. ‘@ 5388 Sterling Center Drive Westlake Village, CA 91359 Phone (818) 991-2600 Telex 66-2400 BISHOP WKVG PCB's PD.Q. (Pretty Darn Quick) Circle 378 on reader service card shop Graphics. foe 1985 wee I was incredibly thrilled. I knew it would blow people’s minds.”? “J spent over three years developing Macintosh’s operating system. I care a lot about Mac and wanted people to be able to use it to its full potential, But how do you get images into the machine? Most people can’t draw. That’s why I got involved with ThunderScan. To give especially non-technical users, low-cost way to get high-resolu- tion images into Macintosh, When I first saw how beautiful ThunderScanned images were, I was incredibly thrilled! I knew it would blow people’s minds” Fie ta se ’3 image processing tools let y enlarge, cut, paste, select, dra and erase, ag well as control contrast, and half-toning. “ os You get to make artistic decisions. To change and improve what you see.”? Hertzfeld on ThunderScan™ After three years on the Macintosh develop- ment team, Andy Hertzfeld began to work on the software for an easy-to-use, low-cost way to put images into Macintosh. The result: ThunderScan™ The high-resolution optical scanning device that turns the ImageWriter printer into an image reader. Recently, Andy shared some thoughts on the product he’s dubbed, “MacPaint for the rest of us” “Macintosh inspires creativity. ThunderScan is a vehicle for its expres- sion, It lets you put any printed image into Mac. But you're never stuck with the image as is. You get to make artistic decisions. To change and improve what you see, You can control the contrast, brightness and half-toning. Over all or “We now have an enhanced version (available as a software upgrade for current users) that has some neat new features. It supports AppleTalk, the wide-carriage ImageWriter and Laser- Writer, The output resolution of LaserWriter and ThunderScan’s input resolution are a perfect match. So with A scanned image is just the start. Now you have micro-control over 32 shades of gray to enhance all or part of the image as you please, just parts of the image, Even create reverse images and outlines. It’s really fun, But the great thing is, when the novelty wears off, you have a useful tool. “ThunderScan has a whole range of applications. Some people use it for inserting graphics into newsletters and. reports. I know a fine artist at Stanford who makes collages with it. I use ita lot, too. The way I write a program is an expression of who I am, so in my new “Switcher” program, I included a ThunderScanned image of myself” 66 * With LaserWriter you can create unbelievably exquisite images.? LaserWriter you can create unbeliey- ably exquisite images. “ThunderScan is a complete imaging system. You don’t have to buy anything else, You just snap out Image- Writer’s ribbon cartridge and snap in ThunderScan. It fits in any office or home environment, takes up no space and the lighting is always perfect. “Developing ThunderScan was a lot like developing Macintosh. We were doing something for the first time, Making an important tool. We think we did a good job.” ThunderScan requires 128K. But to take full advantage of all its features, you'll need a 512K Mac. Available now through com- puter retail stores or directly from Thunderware for just $229, To order or for more information, call today (41S) 254-6581. Thunderware?Inc., 21 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA 94563. ThunderSean Circle 167 on reader service card ryour M son’s? Don’ This Chris with Mace Letters Down from a Horse Horsefeathers! That is the only response I can make to David Bunnell’s “Mutiny on the Bounty” [Afacworld, August 1985]. Your comments regard- ing the palace coup at Apple miss the mark completely. The major problem with Apple has: been the influence of Steve Jobs on the day-to-day opera- tion of the company. You, of all people, should re- alize that the real strength of Steve Jobs is in being the vi- sionary, not in day-to-day man- agement. After all, John Sculley was hired to fill a management gap. Jobs may have led his pany to new breakthroughs in personal computing, but Scul- ley and the Apple II line will provide the backbone that makes it all possible. Robert 8. Morrison Charlotte, North Carolina All Roads Lead to Cupertino Let's get serious. Steven Jobs anice guy. He was a bright kid who worked hard and got lucky. But he is not personally responsible for the advance- ment of Western civi Rick Scherle Cypress, California com- All This and Apple II David Bunnell laments the job done on Jobs and suggests that the Apple H division will now be wagging the Macintosh. It is too early to tell, but the major mistake made in marketing the Mac was to target two diverse groups at the same time: the computer novitiate and the IBM-based corporate world. Left out were the more than 2 million nonneophyte fans of the Apple II series. AppleTalk is advertised as becoming IBM compatible soon. There is no. such push for Apple II com- patibility, which could be the impetus for painless data trans- fer and easy upgrades to a Mac environment. The chemistry department here at Brock University, where Iam a professor, cannot throw out two dozen Apple II+'s, Hle’s, and IIc’s along with all the data, databases, and text files in them. We cannot afford to re- place all the machines at once or to convert all the software at once, We would upgrade to Macs if Apple paid more atten- tion to Apple Ils talking to Macs than to Macs talking to [BM PCs. If the new regime at Apple addre: those concerns, Mac sales will expand far faster than under the old regime, which wouldn't recognize the exis- tence of the Apple IL. Jack M. Miller Saint Catharines, Ontario Canada More Jobs Steve Jobs didn’t just create Ap- ple or even the personal com- puting industry. His success and daring and the glamour be- stowed upon him by his erst- while friends in the press did something insanely great for the entire country. It sparked a wave of entrepreneurship that will benefit this country enor- mously, America already has enough managers, even good ones like John Sculley. We al- ready have enough boring computer companies. We're short on leaders and heroes. 1 hope that you're right and that we'll see a lot more of Steve Jobs. Kerry M. Glanas Brooklyn, New York As the Apple Turns David Bunnell completely mis- represents the situation at Ap- ple. He paints a picture of a group of Robin Hoodish pirates led by a pirate king (Steve Jobs) being overthrown by a group of sulking know-nothings (the Ap- ple LI division) led by a power- crazed outsider (John Sculley), whose mind has been dulled by excessive consumption of cola products. Let's look at the facts. The management changes at Apple Computer occurred at a board meeting, not a lynching party. At that meeting the board of di- rectors, which Jobs chairs, ap- proved Sculley’s plan as best for the company. Nobody should downplay the contributions that Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, or the Macintosh development team has made to personal comput- ing, Innovators, however, sel- dom make good managers. Jobs recognized this when he brought Sculley into Apple. Bunnell is correct on one point, though. The story is not over, It will be told by how Ap- ple Computer performs in the market. Don Lueder Long Beach, California Crazy about Hitchhiker In “Wake Up to Adventure” (Macworld, May 1985}, Sharon Zardetto Aker wrote very favor- ably of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. On the strength of her review, I bought the game and proceeded to go quietly berserk. Quite simply, no one alive can complete the game without considerable out- side help. The game is con- aze of blind alleys, dead ends, misleading state- ments, plain lies, and concealed (continues on page 26) Macworld = 23 ' > Paradise’s MAC 10; © the 10mb hard disk ' subsystem designed for the MAC. Your Macs been lonely toolong. You just found the right hard- disk subsystem for your MAC... Check out the Paradise MAC 10. Easy To Look At: Beauty isn’t everything but most hard disk MAC drives will scare your computer to death in the morn- ing! The MAC 10is artfully en- gineered to complement the aesthetics of the MAC. Nice To Have Around: Just 3.5” wide and no deeper than the MAC, the MAC 10 has asmaller footprint than any other exter- nal MAC hard drive subsystem. Nice to carry around too... Only 5 pounds. The Right Breeding: Para- dise Systems is known for inno- vative engineering. The MAC 10 is the latest in a line of ground breaking micro computer pe- ripheral products from Paradise. Accommodating: 10 MB of formatted data storage, there when you need it. Equal to 30 MAC floppy drives! Storage you'll want for Jazz and other popular business applications. Your MAC Can Relate To It: 5 times faster than the add-on MAC floppy. So Can You: Just plug in the MAC 10and you're ready to go «+. That’s it! No Surprises: The MAC 10 won't void your Apple warranty, or require you to modify your system. The user interface uses pull down menus, just like the one you're used to on the MAC. Long Term Commitment: The MAC 10 comes witha 1 year limited warranty*. (advertisement) Do Your MAC A Favor: Go see your Apple dealer and look at a MAC 10 or call us toll free at (800) 822-2020 (CA.) or (800) 527-7977 (outside CA.). It will be the beginning of a wonderful relationship. Specifications: CAPACITY: 12.75 mb unformatted 10mb formatted DISK DRIVE SEEK TIMES: Adjacent track ‘Average Maximum . ROTATIONAL SPEED: 3600 RPM POWER REQUIREMENTS: 110/220 Volts AC, 50/60hz, 50 watts max. DIMENSIONS: Height . Width . . Depth .. WEIGHT: ‘Approx. 5 Ibs. INTERFACE: Connects to your MAC via the modem or printer port. Printer connector and integral print spooler provided on MAC-10. “See retaiter for details. Trademarks. Paradise, MAC 10—Paradise Systems, Inc. Macintosh, MAC, Appte— Apple Compater, ne Jase (a imieman of Lotus Derelopment Corporation. Paradise Suistems, Ine, reserves the right to change specications ‘watt wotice Suggested Retail Price 1495 — PARADISE SYSTEMS,ING 18 ms 85 ms 180 ms 5.5 inches 3.5 inches 10.8 inches Letters (continued from page 23) objectives so bizarre that the unsuspecting player can reach no conclusion except a nervous breakdown. CompuServe Post Forma As Macintosh product manager at Megahaus, I am writing to update your readers about MegaForm and to clarify some of the problems encountered by Bill Grout in “The Mac Goes Pro Forma,” Macworld, July 1985, Grout found that MegaForm was slow in moving between cells of complex forms. The sample forms on the Mega- Form disk, however, do not fairly demonstrate the pro- grams speed. All the detailed forms on the samples disk are MacPaint pictures pasted into MegaForm. The samples dem- onstrate that forms can be drawn or digitized in MacPaint and used by MegaForm. Using MacPaint pictures, however, instead of forms created in MegaForm itself, consumes memory and slows the opera- tion of the program. Using even complex forms drawn in Mega- Form is quite fast. Those same factors account for the slow printing speed as well. MacPaint pictures, which are bit-mapped, take much longer to print on the Laser- Writer than MegaForm’s own forms. MegaForm version 2.0 has sample forms created en- tirely in MegaForm, and this speeds printing. Christopher Van Buren San Diego, California Checking the Checker I recently purchased Hayden: Speller based on glowing re- views and the implied endorse- ment by Microsoft, which pack- ages Word with an ad insert and order form for the spelling checker, But it is the first Macin- tosh program I have purchased that has been a genuine disap- pointment. Regardless of Jeremy Joan Hew words in support of Hayden.Speller [‘The Writer's Tool Chest, world, July 1985], the program suffers from some grave shortcomings. Hayden-Speller contains errors. For example, its main dictionary spells utterly as uttterly. Errors in the main dic- tionary cannot be corrected. And with Finder 4.1 installed, Hayden.Speller accesses a file but does not read it. Hayden appears to have involved the Finder in its copy-protection scheme, inst Apple's recom- mendation, and the scheme has backfired by also protecting the program from doing any work. Also, my Hayden:Speller does not read documents pro- duced in MacWrite 4.5 but works with the old Finder on documents produced in Mac- Write version 2.2 or earlier and in Microsoft Word 1.0. Hayden:Speller cannot cope with the full Macintosh stan- dard character set ‘n when words containing diacritical marks are loaded in the dic- tionary, they are not compared properly. To make matters worse, Hayden:Speller takes the words apart by treating each letter with a dia al mark asa punctuation mark, handling each part as an indi- vidual word. Sertora, for exam- ple, is read as Se and ora. The result is confusion, Similarly, Hayden.Speller treats each part of a hyphen- ated word as a separate word. Hayden:Speller is not able to catch the misspelling back-up as long as back and up are in the dictionary, A spelling checker shows its real worth when you work with long documents, but Hayden: Speller is limited to documents (continues on page 30) BUSINESS ¢ SCIENCE e Acomplete statistical package for only: STATFAST A Powerful Tool for Data Analysis and Forecasting EDUCATION ae Very easy to use, even for novices. No commands to memorize, Mac user inter- face Speed is a crucial issue in statistics: STATFAST is a professionally designed superfast stand-alone application (it com- pletes In seconds what takes BASIC or Pascal programs 20 minutes or more) Unlimited size of data files! Descriptive Statistics, t-tests (indep./dep. samples), Correlations, Cross-Tabulation, Frequency, 10 Nonparametric tests, Multi- factor Analysis of Variance/Covariance (4-way, Repeated Measures, Unbalanced Designs, Contrasts), Multiple Regression (up to 25 predictors, various statistics, plots of residuals), Significance Tests, and much more ° . User defined (multiple) conditional selec- tion of sub-sets of cases, various ways of treating missing data Two flexible Data Editors (command- and screen-oriented), easy entering/editin: ing”, pasting" of data, complex (conditional) transformations, sorting, and more Can also access files created by spread- sheets (e.g. Multiplan, Jazz), data bases, and from mainframes Superb graphics (Barcharts, Scatterplots), clear comprehensive output, can be “past- ed” into MacWrite documents Clear, comprehensive manual, with step by step examples Requires 128k or 512k Macintosh®, external disk drive or hard disk supported by not required To order send check or money order for $99 (includes shipping and handling) to: STATSOFPT 2231 East toth Street, Suite 3, Tulsa, OK 74104. (918) 583-4149 26 November 1985 Circle 225 on reader service card Microsoft” BASIC is the language than ever with the advanced spoken by nine out of ten microcom- trace command. puters worldwide. It's the language It's no wonder Microsoft is the most with the most programs written for it. logical choice for the Macintosh. So if you want to access the power of your Macintosh” only one language makes the most sense. Mac's first language, Microsoft BASIC. Not only is it the industry standard, it's the most advanced BASIC for Macintosh. It lets you add mouse commands. Graphics. Windows. Change type fonts and styles. Customize menus. Incorporate music and sound effects. Write your own dialog boxes. Basically, it lets you take advantage of everything that makes Mac ‘Mac: a It makes editing programs as easy MICRZSSOFT. Weve as cutting and pasting and pointing The High Performance Software’ Written more and clicking. Debugging is easier Macintosh programs than any other software company. Including Mac's spreadsheet, Multiplan? So if you want to get the most out of your Macintosh, call (800) 426-9400. In Washington State and Alaska, call (206) 828-8088. In anada, (416) 673-7638. GlickOn" Worksheet New Power for your Desktop ClickOn Worksheet is a desk accessory that adds a spread- sheet and grapher to any appli- cation. The 50 row x 20 column spreadsheet includes features such as variable col- umn widths, absolute/relative addressing, built-in financial calculations (like net present yalue, compounding, future value) and logical operators. Ready-made Solutions ‘To make your job even easier, we've included a dozen popu- lar applications templates. Requirements: 128k or 512k Macintosh™ ClickOn Worksheet Price: $79.95 ClickArt Effects Clickart Effects Picks Up Where MacPaint Left Off Now you can produce the special effects you've always wanted in MacPaint. Rotate your words or pictures a few degrees ata time. Or slant them. Or give them perspective through a vanishing point. Or even use a distortion box to create the perception of a twist. All with four new tools called ClickArt Effects, Works Right Within MacPaint Effects gives you four new tools—rotate, slant, distort and perspective—which work directly from within MacPaint. ClickArt Effects Price: $49.95 ClickArt Letters ClickArt Letters contains 24 high quality typefaces in large point sizes (24, 36, 48 and 72 point) that make your head- lines and overhead transparen- cies come alive. Fifteen of the typefaces are installable fonts, ‘Typefaces up to two inches high are included in MacPaint files. Oxford (futon Vegas Syciney NewHaven — Rig iment Basel Calgary Boston pallas [tiettve nes) XUN abcde ara GDEF ClickArt Letters Price: $49.95 ClickArt Publications ClickArt Publications is a col- lection of images specifically designed for creating news- letters, flyers and invitations. Tt includes two- and three- column layout guides with illustrated headlines (like “Letters to the Editor,” “On Vacation,” “Party,” “Thanks” and “Bon Voyage’’) sized to fit the layouts. It also contains cartoons, maps of the USA and Europe, illustrated alphabets, and much more. ClickArt Publications Price: $49.95 {lickArt and ClickOn are trademarks of Faker, Company Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, tc. MacPuiat, Mactrive and MacDraw are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. packages and get images free ClickArt Personal Graphics Personal Graphi a disk-full of contemporary images from small dingbats to full-screen portraits. Images include bottle, city skyline. They're great for adding a personal touch to invitations, stationery or announcements. ClickArt Personal Graphics Price: $49.95 For More Information! Stop by your dealer and check out all our Macintosh products —Or call or write to us to receive a free catalog showing all the images and describing each package. We have a present for you! From now until January 31, 1986, the purchase of three specially marked ClickArt or ClickOn packages entitles you to receive the ClickArt Holiday Images dis ‘WMaker Graphics, You'll get dozens of Christmas and Chanukah $ art for Thanks July, Easter, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father’s Day, Graduation and Halloween. Also included are a card-fold guide and some great cut-out-and-fold files to create 3-D scenes, Borders The Holiday Images disk is available only through this special offer. See VSS package for redemption details. SLATE Happy Holidays from T/Maker! Get dozens of Holiday images Create your own greeting cards with ‘ the guides provided Create 3-D scenes with cut-out-and- ‘YMaker Graphics « Holiday Offer fold files 2115 Landings Drive * Mountain View, CA 94043 « 415/962-0195 Circle 357 on reader service card Letters (continued from page 26) of less than ten pages. You can work around that serious lim- itation only by a lot of time- consuming work: subdividing the document into shorter spelling check files. I have been satisfied with other Hayden software | have purchased, and I hope Hz will soon repair Hayden: Speller’s fla Robert J. Little Torrance, California ‘ase Say it isn’t so. Tell us you st forgot to include Macware News in the July issue. That col- umn is the first thing [ turn to in each issue, We who bought the Mac when so few programs were ple want to see all the-new programs and prod- ucts that are coming out. Please don't drop this important part of your great magazine, Jobn Grisham Memphis, Tennessee We understand your con- cerns and your need for prod- uct information. The decision to discontinue Macware News was a difficult one. We feel, however, ibat our readers are better served by editorial ma- terial based on our own eval- uation of products rather than on information com- piled from manufacturers’ de- Scriptions.-—Ed. ReadySetGone PageMaker seems to be a fine product, but the price seems high at $495. I cannot under- stand, however, Danny Good- man’s preference for Mac- Publisher over ReadySetGo (“Publishing Turns an Elec- tronic Leaf,” Macworld, July 1985]. The samples show ReadySetGo m ype and does not cut off printed copy, whereas MacPublisher is lim- ited to one type style per text block, and it clips printed copy. I think the samples show that PageMaker and ReadySetGo have results that look almost the same. Your reviewer seems to have missed the point that only the final usable results count. Ihave used both Ready- SetGo and MacPublisher and find ReadySetGo to be my kind of print. L Ernest Blumel New York, New York There Ought to Be a Law T have had a 512K Macintosh for about four months, and in that time it has taken over all the word processing in my law of- fice, As we become more profi- cient, I trust the Mac will also ment and, ultimately, billing well. To date, 1 am not aware of any Macintosh software specifi- cally designed for lavw offices, T have found that such ige is unnecessary. We are using Microsoft Word to good effect and are investigat- ing various databases. In the year prior to purchas- ing the \ I was approached by computer salespeople and software merchandisers from every major brand of personal computer and dedicated word processor. At no time was I ever or anyone representing it. I had to discover for 1 Macintosh was somethin; would be useful for my offi Then I had to brave the adverse hen I first indicated to the Macintosh salespeople that I was an at- torney and asked whether any software was available for a law office, they told me the Mac (continues on page 34) an vie tivit sp al dis drive providing additional AN ERGONOMIC WORKSTATION FOR MACINTOSH ‘THAT MEANS BUSINESS ul 1 that pr nee oe )st in operator como a silky-smooth, one bracket is oe to 20) BO, Box 17013. Minneapolis, MN, USA 55417 Ergotron is a registered trademark of Ergotron, Ine, MacTilt is a trademark of Ergotron, Inc, ‘Macintosh isa trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Ine. OTTROM 30 November 1985 Circle 83 on read ler service card MacWrite and Si MacBase Not just another pea in the any databases promise power and ease of use. Only MacBase delivers both, Maclase is @ true relational database, powerful enough to allow you to crea wide range of applications. And MacBase works like a Macintosh!” database should, , .as easy to use as MacWrite™™ and MacPaint™”, Place text and data anywhere on the screen, Format fields with a simple point and click, Stretch fields with the mouse. 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, S uggs se $195.00. Macintosh is a trademark dicensed to Apple Computer, Inc. pai of. ‘Apple Computer, Inc. MacBase is a trademark of Eqiron Corporation. 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 Circle 5 on reader service card » pod! YOURE NO SMART ENOUGH TO CONQU THE WORLD TWO BILLION TIMES. ntroducing STRATEGIC CONQUEST, at last. This is the first wargame available for your Macintosh com- puter. And it’s about as intense and intricate a war- game as you can find to play x mputer. Consider for openers, STRATEGIC CONQUEST has more than two billion 15 levels of d y and eight types of tactical weapons that include sub- marines, battleships, bombers, destroyers, fighter jets and arm It isn’t unusual to sweat while plotting to take total control of the is it out of the ordinary to go six grueling hours before completing a single game. Or eight hours. Or ten. STRATEGIC CONQUEST isa mind buster. Primarily because you’re battling a program that borders on artificial intelligence. You may be smart and imaginative and perseverir enough to dominate the world once, ten times, a hundred, a thousand. But sooner or later, your inti will crack. It happens to all ofus. No shame, no blame. PBI Software ‘SUBSIDIARY OF ITA TNC 1111 Triton D; 2nd Flos Foster City, CA 94404 (415) 349-8" LER OR ORI TLY FROM US BY Circle 233 on reader service card ad play. It’s definitely not for Sunday fliers. A practice mission will J give you an idea of what we mean. Climb to 5000 feet. Now bring her toa heading, zero, zero, zero. Okay, ready? Enter a shallow dive. Easy, keep your wings level, pull the nose up through horizon, full throttle. Keep back pressure on the stick. Fine, you're inverted. Alright, relax pressure to round out the top of the loop. Not bad for a beginner. Try a Snap Roll. Great! Drop altitude. See if you can fly under this bridge up ahead. Hey, you're pretty damn good. But listen, don’t @ get cocky. One stupid, Wl fighter pilot ace, like the Devil? triplane, she may respond coer nae y Baron von Richthofen We seriously doubt you to you. But if she doesn’t, ou and boom vou'redead i i 2 : ; you, syou're dead. summed up the Fokker’s will ever pilot this superb bs t be oad fe your- uncanny ability to evade flying machine with the self. The Fokker Triplane is 7 enemy attacks when he said deftness of the Red Baron, _ the most sophisticated flight PBI SO, ftware the Fokker “climbs like a but who knows? 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Box 26731 Milwaukee, WI 53226 414/442-7503 Circle 35 on reader service card 34 November 1985 Letters (continued from page 30) was not appropriate for a law office until such software was developed. Based on my expe- rience, however, theirs was a completely fallacious assumption. David R. Clowers Milwaukee, Wisconsin Late and Unlamented In the United Kingdom, Apple states that if its product doesn’t work as specified, it will either rectify the problem or refund the purchase price. Apple U.K did the latter in my have much stricter consumer legislation here than in the United States mople, the minimum warranty is one year, not 90 day Since my Lisa crashed the same day it was delivered, Ap ple was subjected to 11 months of earache before I realized they had no idea of how to cure the problem, At that point [ went for the refund. The day before my Lisa went back to Apple, the internal hard disk caught fire. I hadn't planned a Viking funeral for it, but the laughter was loud and long. Stephen J. Prescott East Hagbourne, Oxfordshire United Kingdom One for the Guinness Istill have the thinnest possible Mac. I am paying a price, though. I probably hold the world record for disk swaps for one operation: 59. I wrote a two-page letter toa potential customer. I included 1 font changes on page 1 anda digitized photograph on pag to demonstrate the capabilities of the Mac. I saved the docu- ment on another disk and de cided to make a copy using the 50 percent reduction utility to get both pages on one sheet of paper. Mistake! 2 (continues on page 38) vy | ' Apple Mac 512" IBM PCAT™ Commodore Amiga» THERE’S ONLY ONE WORD FOR THESE PRICES: Introducing the Atari 520ST personal computer system. $799.95* complete. Go ahead. Compare those other machines with the new Atari 520ST."" They cost hundreds of dollars more, but you don’t get much in return. That's what we call a rip-off. 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Circle 370 on reader service card This message is for the several hundred thousand people who bought a Macintosh because of its user-friendli- ness—and then found it a bit slow in expressing its affections. For those who find themselves frequently feeding floppies. And waiting. And wishing the Macintosh’s capacity for work matched its appetite. For all those who ve learned to live with these and a variety of other limitations, were pleased to announce a richly rewarding un-learning experience. INTRODUCING HYPERDRIVE 20. TWENTY MILLION BYTES. NO WAITING. HyperDrive 20 is a new internal hard disk that, when installed in your Macintosh, makes it the World’s Fastest Macintosh. Up to 16 times faster than a conventional Mac that runs on floppies. In fact, as Personal Computing maga- zine put it, “Using a HyperDrive compared to a regular Macintosh is akin to cooking with a microwave oven instead of a gas range” This rather heady level of performance may be attributed to a simple principle of engi- neering: Macintoshes, like human beings, travel faster and better when unencumbered by excess luggage. Unlike all other hard disks, which are external, Hyper Drive connects directly to the Macintosh’s microprocessor. This gives it an insurmountable lead over external disks— which, since they have to slow down to talk through one of the Macintosh’s ports, will forever lag behina. A FAREWELL, OF SORTS, 10 FLOPPIES. The HyperDrive 20 hard disk holds as much as fifty. floppies (twenty megabytes). And if it holds them, you won't have to. But besides holding more information, HyperDrive manages it more intelligently. It recognizes, for example, that files are organic cre- ations, with a tendency to grow with their own special urgency to their own self-determined size. HyperDrive is engineered accordingly. It lets you divide your disk into 32 file drawers, each holding up to 512 files. These files automatically re-size, swelling or shrinking according to what you put in or take out. Which lets you use storage space according to your dictates, instead of your computer's. POWERFUL ENOUGH FOR POWERFUL SOFTWARE. HyperDrive 20 will run all Macintosh programs, pets Apples new Switch And it will run them faster. But HyperDrive 20 wuill also run programs that the regular Macintosh, for all its friendliness, lacks the sophistica- tion to handle effectively. Programs such as Lotus’ Jazz, for example. And Microsoft's Word. Powerful business software that can multiply a Macintosh’s performance and productivity. HyperDrive 20 also comes with its own software that elevates both the friendliness and the sophistication of your Macintosh. Such as a backup program, unsurprisingly named Backup, that lets you back up and restore information from the hard disk to and from your floppies. There's even a print spooler that lets you use your Macintosh for other jobs while your printer is busy churning out the one you just finished VAST VS. TWICE AS VAST. For all its emancipating qualities, there’s one item that HyperDrive won't liberate you from. The Apple warranty. Even though your Macintosh must be opened (by an Apple dealer) to install HyperDrive, your warranty remains intact. But Apple won't be the only one watching over you. HyperDrive is further backed by our own 90-day limited warranty and an optional HyperCare extended service contract. And service is readily available at participating Apple dealers nationwide. (See your nearest dealer for complete warranty.details) In fact, the only imaginable problem left unattended by HyperDrive is that of deciding which to buy—HyperDrive 10 or HyperDrive 20, That will depend largely on how much capacity you need: vast or twice as vast You can make that determination by visiting a parti- cipating Apple dealer and seeing HyperDrive in action. Or call us at (800) 422-0101 or (617) 492-5500. In Canada, call our distributor at (B00) 565-1267 >!” GENERAL The leading edge starts here. 1c. Macrtoe’ys a trade licensees to Apple Computar ne Jazz cle 143 on reader service card M.U.8. of Gorvallis Macintosh Users Group Of Corvallis P.0. Box 1912 Albany, Or. 97321 24 Hour Hotline (503) 928-1270 Mr. Chris Davis DataPak Software, Inc. 14011 Ventura Blud, Suite 402 Sherman Oaks, Co. 91423 07/03/85 Dear Chris; Congratulations! Your program “My Office” has been chosen as “Program Of The Year" by our product review committee. This group was formed carly in the year to review the many programs available to our members and recommend only the best buyls) in each catagory to them. When you consider that your competition for this award included Jazz by Lotus, Word ond File by Microsoft, and Helix by Odesta to name just a few, winning it becomes quite an accomplishment! The fact that "My Office” retails for only $129.00, some $466.00 less than the much touted Jazz, makes it a truly astounding accomplishment! The criteria for the catagory “Program Of The Year" while simple, was also the most difficult to meet. Simply stated the chosen program would have to be the most useful program for the greatest number of users whether their needs were for business, home, or recreational purposes, The program also had to be easy to use and have been released between July Ist of 1984 and June 30th of 1985, “My Office” met all requirements and passed all normal usage tests without o single error message. In addition every effort was made to destroy the integrity of the program by changing fonts and installing and removing desk accessories at random and more often than would normally be done by the average user. We then attempted to customize it (successfully | might add) with Resource Editor, Fontastic, and various other hackers tools, tt not only survived and retained it's integrity during all this, it performed flawlessly! Programmer Gary Crandall is to be commended for writing o truly bug free program. We feel that we can freely recommended "My Office” to everyone who owns a Mac whether they intended to use it for home or business. You may consider this our endorsement of your product and use this letter, in whole or in part, as you see fit. Yours Truly Jerry Koszut, Pres. FIND OUT WHY WE WERE CHOSEN “PROGRAM OF THE YEAR” CIRCLE THE BINGO “OFFICE NUMBER BELOW OR CALL (818) 905-6419 ere: sehr 7 meee po DATAPAK SOFTWAREINC. 14011 VENTURA BLVD., SUITE 402, SHERMAN OAKS, CA91423 38 November 1985 Letters (continued from page 34) It took 11 swaps to put the file on the MacWrite disk. Then it took another 40 to save the file before printing, 3 more to stop printing, and finally an- other 5 to close the file and open a new one. That's 59 in all. I may have missed a few, since I wasn't paying attention at the outset. David Kelsey Saint Albans, Hertfordshire United Kingdom Take a Number Although I love your magazine, 1 do have a complaint. I wish all the pages could be numbered. Most pages with full-page ads are not. I know that the produc- tion process must make it diffi- cult to number all the pages, but I was hoping that you could find a way. Thank you so much for doing such an excellent job on Macworld. Richard L. Fortner Unalaska, Alaska According to our production department, most advertising pages do not have page num- bers because doing so would restrict flexibility in ad place- ment and affect the design of the ads. Sorry, but you'll have to let your fingers do the counting. —Ed. Correction The fonts customization pro- gram Fontastic from Altsys was incorrectly priced at $39.95 in Macworld View, Macworld, August 1985. The correct price is $49.95. Our apologies for any confusion that may have resulted, Mail your rs to Letters, Macworld, De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or send them electronically to CompuServe 70370,702 or The Source BOW440. 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Mindscape 2 Software that challenges the ILmind. © Deja Vu, A Nightmare Come True is available for the Macintosh. 3444 Dundee Road, Northbrook, Illinois 60062 1-800-22 ved. Macintosh is a trademar ek Circle 389 on reader service card isa tra is a trademark of Mind se eee Stee ee ee esa eevee SSS tee eee eee SEES EEE AEE EEE C8 EEE EE EEE EEE RCE CE CRE EHS Macworld View Personal networks, plotting the course of Halley's comet, the Macintosh in the greenhouse, Mac paper airplanes, and more Edited by Herschel Schmedick J suspect that many of you reading this column have had strange or enlightening en- counters with the Macintosh, Or perbaps you've heard of someone else's unique ap- plication of the Mac. Your contributions are welcome. Maeworld pays up to $50for each item published. Send pour contributions to Mac- world View, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107. 1 look forward to hearing from you. Netweaving a a i ee a ie te a The philosopher Heracleitus of ancient Greece said, “Change alone is unchanging.” Some changes, like the passage of time, are inevitable, but becom- ing part of the age of electronic communications is a change I've tacitly resisted for years. Yes, a computer is far superior to a typewriter or a calculator, | reasoned, but telecommunica- tions is too technical and void of humanity. Lately, however, my attitude has changed. What inspired me to enter the realm of electronic commu- nications is Dean Gengle's The Netweaver's Sourcebo Guide to Micro Networking and Communications (Ad- dison-Wesley, 1984). The prem- ¢ underlying Gengle’s book ‘Our society has one foot in Macworld 43 the Information Age and the other in the fifteenth century: This creates collective symp- toms of what social critics, mys- tics, philosophers, novelists, fu- turists, and academics have been telling the human race for several years now: that our sci- entific and technological powers have far ou our moral and intui itual and ethical capacities. If the later do not develop, we have been warned over and over again, we will destroy our- selves with the former” Gengle states that to come to grips with the diversity of infor- mation made available by ad- vances in communications technology, people should create personal communica- tions networks based on goals and needs. His book provides the groundwork for construct- ing a personal network, with practical information on topics: such as hardware, software, lo- cal area networks, downlink satellites, microwaves, pro- tocols, and videodisks. Now, armed with a Macin- tosh, a modem, and a commu- nications program, I’m weaving my own network—downloading programs from C PEIDUSEING nancial inform: Dow Jones News/Retrieval ser- vice, and communicating elec- tronically with people all over the world. chairman Genisis Technology Steve Schorr stands up to bis ears in bis work—a basil crop grown aero- ponically, monitored by the Macintosh, 44 November 1985 The Garden of Macintoshes WW Nestled in the foothills of the <y Mountains near Boulder, Colorado, an experimental greenhouse shelters basil and other culinary herbs. The leaves of the plants almost reach the roof of the building. But unlike most greenhouses, this facility produces crops by aeroponic methods. The dense, sinewy roots of the plants dangle freely in the air, periodically sprayed by a fine liquid mist of chemical nutrients. In the midst of the lus greenery, Rick Stoner, president of Genisis Technology, Inc. (GTI), the company that devel- oped the high-tech green- house, types data into a Macin- tosh. He uses the Mac to keep track of changes in the nu- trients fed to the plants and to monitor the pH levels of water moving through the system. In- formation gathered on the Mac is then forwarded via modem to greenhouses using GTI's pat- ented aeroponic growing tem elsewhere in the United States and in Oman, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia. A business that stayed away from computers because they were too difficult to use, GTI has taken to the Macintosh. The company started with one Mac- intosh at the beginning of the ind now has four Macs serWriter. According to executive vice president Mike Krell, “We use the Mac in our offices to update our business projections and create project feasibility studies for prospec- tive clients. Other computers have similar capabilities, but the ease of use and the quality of the output make the Macin- tosh and the LaserWriter ideal for marketing presentation: We used to pay a graphic arti $25,000 a year for what we now do ourselves with the Mac.” GTIalso plans to use the Macintosh to automate its grow- ing system. “Normally, some- one must constantly monitor and control the greenhouse temperature, humidity, and lighting, as well as nutrient for- mulas and other factors. Now we can create a program using the Mac's graphics capabilities to handle those duties,” ex- plains GTI chairman of the board Steve Schorr. In addition, GTI plans to set up a network bulletin board system to provide information to its clients. A client in Saudi Arabia, for example, could send data to query a GTI computer, which would interpret the data and send an answer within minutes. Schorr voices a senti- ment felt by many companies using the Mac: “The Macintosh opened our eyes to the poten- tial of applying computer tech- nology to our business in way: we hadn't conceived of be- fore.’—Michelle Egger BELRLRRL ELLA REAR RRL LL BEARARRA AREA RLEREREL! VAT VV VV VV WATT VAT WUT VAT VAT VW Bika h bah) Wie TH wnt wt nw m nv q Mac Tech Training If you're looking for a guru to lead you through the difficult parts of developing a Macintosh. product, you might want to en- roll in one of Apple’s Macintosh Technical Training courses. The three-day workshops are given every two weeks at different Apple sales offices across the country and taught by mem- bers of Apple's elite technical support staff. The first day of the work- shop can be taken separately as a basic introduction to the Mac- intosh Development System, while the full three-day session presents the system in depth and includes lectures and hands-on practice with devel- opment tools. Participants de- bug and compile sample ap- plications and create a small application program. To find out about local schedules for the courses, contact Patti Blair at Apple Computer (408/973-6613 ).—janet McCandless Mac Astronomy In A.D. 1066, at the height of the Norman conquest, William the Conqueror and his troops stopped in their tracks, ter- rified by a portentous light that flashed through the night sky. The rank and file fled to their huts and prayed for salvation. One of the court artisans re- corded the occurrence of the light in a large tapestry. Medi- eval astronomers began to notice that this light reap- peared in the sky at least once every century. By 1910, knowl- edge had dispelled any fear of this celestial phenomenon, and Edmond Halley had charted the comet and named it after himself. Halley calculated that Maeworld = 45 the comet's orbit passes close to the Earth once every 76 years. Halley's comet will ap- proach the Earth during the lat- ter part of this year and the be- ginning of 1986. With a telescope, a Macin- tosh, and MacStronomy, you can invite this once-feared light into your hut for closer inspec- tion. MacStronomy (Alphabyte Software, 303/665-3444) clis- plays a celestial map with the stars, the moon, and the planets in their proper locations. The program can plot the location of Halley's comet or other ce- lestial bodies for any location, date, and time and shows the comet's orientation to the sun. and the planets on an alternate map. MacStronomy can also abase of celestial objects for a specific celestial body, display its coordinates, the sky map, and. cription of that body. Observing Halley's comet is a once-in-a-lifetime oppor- tunity. 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With the proper soft- ware and a color ribbon, the ImageWriter IT can print in up to seven colors. The Image- Writer IL also has greater print speed than the Imagewriter: 250 characters per second (cps) in draft quality, 180 cps in standard quality, and 25 eps in high quality. The original Imagewriter prints standard- quality text at about 120 cps. In high-quality mode the new printer's output borders on let- ter quality because Apple re- fined the pins on the print head and improved the dot place- ment. A sheet feeder, which al- lows rapid feeding of single sheets, is available as an ac- cessory. When the Apple‘lalk option is released for the ImageWriter II, the printer will be able to tie into the AppleTalk network and be shared by sev- eral people. The printer's de- sign is also improved: the unit tilts at a slight angle so you can see text more easily as it prints, and you can store continuous- feed paper underneath the cabinet. The new printer is also quieter than the original Imagewriter. The ImageWriter I works with the Apple II, the Apple IIL, the Lisa, and the Mac- intosh XL.—Nicholas Lavroff Maeworld 47 Campaigning with the Mac Peter Shapiro, age 33, is run- ning an uphill campaign for governor of New Jersey. As he sits at his desk talking on the phone with fund-raisers, he