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VNR! WORLD December 1985 $3.95 The Macintosh"Magazine Canada $4.95 Sere eee é nation’s finest restauran offer this ultimate collection of their favor- ite recipes, step by step—from shopping list to wine list! Ah! Dinner al Eight. A two-disk system offering instant access to the delectable recipes of the countrys finest restaurants, From New York City to San Francisco, master chefs reveal their secrets—with room for you to enter your own “house specials.” “Select your menu from ours. Dinner at Eight lists hundreds of dishes, complete with preparation times Select an entire menu and print a single shopping list of ingredients, automatically calculated for a single serving or any number of people. And may we suggest a companion wine with your meal? Dinner at Eight. Bon appetit! 6300 LA CALMA DRJSTE. 1O0/AUSTIN ‘TX 7875216 ‘A STARCOR PACKAGE ) 154-5004 *First of the second generation hard disk drives for Macintosh. Th 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. M BOTTOM [a ’ lon aunt e te CS scrccion *As seen in San Fi . 5 i ncisco at the Macworld Exposition. 6204 Benjamin Road ‘Tampa, FL 33614 1-800-MACBUTT (813) 884-3092 Macintos licensed to Apple Circle 223 on reader service card MACWORLD December 1985 The Macintosh"Magazine iH} i Getting Started 82 special Daery st Gordon McComi $s Papa ttecnon ut Videx’s Mail Center lets you send mail sei or memos anywhere on an AppleTalk Patt ental males Fit satis elated network with the click of a mouse. unique macros. Find out what macros 86 No Static At All are and what they can do for your im Heid sheets. Jim Hei pom Communication without aggravation! Four “communicative” programs— Smartcom Il, inTouch, Red Ryder, and Review Telescape—bring you simplicity and 74 Electronic Ledgers for the Macintosh pe Steve Mann M You may never again use books to do the books. An accountant at a Big Eight Hands On : ‘The Mac Font Shuffle Robert C. Eckhardt y Swap characters and symbols between fonts or redesign them altogether to get the font you want. It’s easy, with Altsys's FON Tastic font editor. Graphics by Phone Gordon McComb Why restrict your electronic mail to text only? A step-by-step tutorial describes how to send MacPaint and MacDraw pictures by modem. Hoto/illustration credits 5;.Jobr cane A 83; : Bob Sache Steinmetz, 11, 41, gins, 86-87, 116, ‘ = : © 198! owe 8 tucters are © 1985 mf oes . Henson Associates, sd by "By ote hat we permission. All rights reser Pe, ‘B, Wo, 2 December 1985 Community 106 The Muppets Meet the Macintosh Jeffrey S. Young At Henson Associates, birthplace of the Muppets, technology and creativity go hand in puppet. Naturally, the Muppeteers’ computer of choice is the Macintosh. Columns 11 Don’t Wear a Suit—Telecommute David Bunnell 23 Letters 39 Macworld View Edited by Herschel Schmedick The Macintosh in the lab, Apple II-to- Mac conversions, MacroMind’s CheapPaint, and other news and notes for the Macintosh community. 47 Get Info Lon Poole Macworld’s tutor answers questions about MacWrite versions, printing display-sized MacPaint pictures, MacPaint-to-MBASIC conversions, and other Macintosh matters. Siete ee, Sse. eee TEL 116 161 187 179 184 185 Departments Macware Reviews Edited by Erfert Nielson Short but straight-shooting assessments of FileMaker, Gato, QuickWord, ClickArt Effects, Ultima II, and MacEdge I. Open Window Edited by Jim Heid Speeding up jazz, MBASIC keyboard shortcuts, and more reader-discovered tips for fine-tuning the Mac. Macworld Gallery Edited by Erfert Nielson An exhibition of Macintosh graphics. Macworld Directory Indexes Advertisers Products Maeworld 3 QTE Forms proliferate in the modern office. They plague us with their number, but they streamline repetitive paperwork. Design forms to use on screen or on paper, without messy cutting and pasting, with File- Maker, a database manager reviewed in Maeware Reviews, starting on page 116. 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: }. 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: Bileen Drapiza Research Assistant: David Turin Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, Jim Heid, Jeremy Joan Hewes, Nicholas Lavroff, Gordon McComb, Lon Poole, Jeffrey S. Young Art Associate Publisher: Jacqueline Poitier Designer: Marjorie Spiegelman Art Director; Bruce Charonnat Associate Designer: Dennis McLeod Associate Art Director: Christopher Burg Design Associates: Leslie Barton, Victoria Floyd 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, Virginia Weir Display Advertising Supervisor: Cathy Miller Assistant: Otto Waldorf 4 December 1985 Research Associate Publisher!Director: Cheryl Woodard Manager: Gary L. Rocchio Assistant: Laura McCoy Corporate Development Special Projects: Jeffrey S. Glines International: Karen Dowell Assistant: Randi Glaser Secretary: Gloria C. Sundin Marketing and Advertising Sales Associate Publisher/Director: James E. 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Suggested List Price $99.95 ARTIGRABBER mn Art Grabber™ with Body Shop...an innovative desk accessory enables the direct transfer of MacPaint™ images. If you have ever tried to bring a MacPaint image into any other application, you have experienced long delays. Life is too short. Get Art Grabber and transfer MacPaint images fast. Use the art disk and desk accessory to spruce up letters, illustrate reports, create posters, or supply animation subjects. Suggested List Price $49.95 For the first time, a computer- aided instruction system, developed and tested in schools across the country, significantly enhances the learning process needed to improve scores. The Hayden System displays all material on the screen - no need for constant referrals to a manual or text. Simulated tests scored on the 800 scale indicate how you would have done on the actual exams. Review modules provide tutorials, drills and anaylsis for each area. 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Circle 372 on reader service card David Bunnell Don’t Wear a Suit— Telecommute For some of us, telecommunications could make car pools, mass transit, and paid vacations obsolete We have to break through the idea that an executive is a per- son who drives 33 miles a day toa central location where hundreds of thousands of people work in cubicles and unless you go there, nothing gets done. —Alvin Toffler A technological revolution is supposed to happen overnight, but it usually evolves at a snail's pace until it suddenly becomes a fait accompli. For instance, au- tomobiles, televisions, and even VCRs experienced slow starts; then, voila! they were everywhere, Telecommunications is no exception to this pattern. Mar- Kelly, president of Electronic Services Unlimited, a telecom- munications consulting group, estimates that over five million people now telecommunicate to work—at least part time. Over 100,000 are participating in formal telecommuting pro- grams in some 400 companies, including giants such as Pacific Bell, IBM, ComputerLand, and Hewlett-Packard. In 1973, when Jack Nilles of the University of Southern Cali- fornia's Center for New Futures Research coined the term fe/e- communications, a new chap- ter was added to Sir Thomas More's Utopia. Predictions abounded that soon we'd all be sitting out in the sun and fresh air, reading our office mail and doing our business plans via telephone links to the com- pany’s central computer. The dream is coming true, and people are telecommut- ing—but from cars, hotel room: and satellite offices. When implemented correctly, tele- communications cuts costs and incre: productivity, Employ- ees eliminate commuting time and expenses, and they work more efficiently without the countess interruptions that in- evitably occur in the office. Companies experimenting with telecommuting experience less turnover and find that their em- ployees are healthier. These corporations are also able to hire disabled or housebound people without having to ex- pand or customize office space. Despite all its virtues, tele- communications isn't for every- one. Some people just aren't self-starters and require the motivation of the office en- vironment to work, Others fear they might lose track of com- pany politics and thus oppor- tunities for advancement. To compensate for such alienation and isolation, Electronic Ser- vices Unlimited recommends that all employees go into the office once or twice a week The luxury of going to the office, however, isn't always possible. I recently had the op- portunity to put hard-core tele- commuting to the test when | went on an L-day business trip to Miami; Washington, D.C.; and New York. My staff in San Fran- cisco had received several test subscriptions to AppleLink, the on-line network that Apple Computer developed with Gen- eral Electric’s GEISCO for Ap- ple dealers, We were curious to could commu- cate without resorting to Federal Ex nee my Mac- intosh around than my Compaq Desk- pro, I packed up my Mac anda Hayes 1200B modem and hit the road. After arriving in Miami for an electronics conference, | en countered my first problem: the (continues on page 14) Maeworld 11 Miake Your Macintosh Now you can make your Macintosh 512 up to 1,000% faster for less than $100. TurboCharger™ software improves the performance of your Macintosh 512 dramatically. Common tasks such as searching a database or loading a program often happen 300% faster, with peak performance over 1,000% faster. Guaranteed.t TurboCharger is a “disk cache” system, it makes your Macintosh faster by speeding disk access. TurboCharger works automatically as you use your Macintosh, analyzing disk usage to increase performance. TurboCharger will make your Macintosh into a more effective tool. Now you can return to the desktop 300% faster, load programs 400% faster, fe-organize your database 1200% faster. In fact, TurboCharger works automatically with all of your Macintosh software. Guaranteed. Make your Macintosh faster now. Ask for TurboCharger™ at your local dealer, or call us at (212) 532-8720 + We Guarantee that TurboCharger will work as advertised. Try it. If you feel that it does not live up to our advertising, retum it fora complete refund. This offer is available through participating dealers only. +t Muttipion, Char, and Werd aie hoderrotks of Microsoft Comp pisfile and pleReport are traderrars of Sofware Pubishing Comp Jaz? isa trademark of lotus Develooment Corp Ensemble $ a liodemotk of Hayaien Software Omnis 2 isa trademtk ef Organizational Sofware Com. 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When 1 returned, the modular jack was in place. With the deliberation of a surgeon about to make the first cut, | assembled my tools. My Mac running, modem con- nected, and software loaded, I clicked the phone icon, The re- assuring sound of the Hz aling the local AppleLink number soothed my nerves. One ring, click, and static-the sound of two computers shak- ing hands. I was connected. There was mail in my in-basket. I was in telecommunicator’s heaven. The honeymoon lasted for the three days that I w: Miami. I had it all. The swim- ming pool, the sunshine, the golf course, and telecommut- ing. I could send mail to anyone in the home office, read mes- sages, and even transmit and re- ceive files. One of my contrac- tors sent a ThinkTank outline that I able to download and review. We even used a com- bination of the AppleLin! tem and our Tymshare network to convert a WordStar file to MacWrite. At one point, I com- municated with an associate also away on business, Neither of us knew where the other was, and had we been at home, we probably wouldn't have con- nected—but on line we made a great team, The bubble burst when I left Miami. I called the hotel in Washington, D.C., to verify that the rooms had modular j but when I checked in and set up my instant office, I couldn't connect with the AppleLink network. Every time I dialed the access number, the phone went dead after the connect signal I was devastated. The thought of having to rely once again on the telephone and Federal Expre: truly de- pressing. I never did manage to log on during my sojourn at the nation’s capital. In New York, my have a modular j hotel manager w: room didn’t and the s less helpful than the one in Miami. I finally managed to get a new jack in- stalled—only to find that the line went dead as it had in Washington. Desperate for one more hit of telecommunica- tions, I played my last card: I had the hotel install a dedi- cated line in my room—for a mere $125-on the chance that the switchboard was causing the problem. It didn't work. Back in San Francisco, I re- layed my tale of three cities to my colleagues. The consensus was that hotel telephone lines are too weak to sustain tele- communications. As the “dedi- cated line” in New York still went through the hotel switch- board, the theory made sense. But when I attempted to log on (continues on page 18) AN ERGONOMIC WORKSTATION FOR MACINTOSH THAT MEANS BUSINESS Ergotron’s new MacTilt™ is the professional ergonomic workstation that provides the utmost in operator flexibility and viewing comfort. With a silky-smooth, one hand motion, your Macintosh can be adjusted to relieve operator stress, ease neck, back and eye strain, and increase productivity, A special bracket is provided to mount your external disk drive providing additional convenience and savings in desk space. The MacTilt by Ergotron” elevates the Macintosh approximately 4”, and provides 30° tilt/360° rotation at the touch ofa finger for only $99.95, If you would like to receive more information on this exciting new product visit your Apple Computer Dealer or contact Ergotron at (800)328-9839. ERGOTTIROI 1 ine RO. Box 17013 ¢ Minneapolis, MN, USA 55417 Engotron is a registered trademark of Ergotron, Inc. MacTilt is a trademark of Ergotron, Inc, ‘Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 83 on reader service card 14 December 1985 v \Y) > What happens when you combine the desktop technology ofa Macintosh™ with software written specifically for chemical applications? You get MacChemistry: four hard working, easy- to-use programs designed to enhance your chemistry reports and experiments. MacChemistry includes: A Templates, a rich source of carefully delineated illustrations—everything from crystal lattices to quick-fit glass- ware—that will give your reports a polished, professional look \ / \ Jf Y ——, == eae b Chemis Now! Desktop Technology Converts to Lab Bench Capabilities. 4 ChemLab, a specialized lab set that provides acids and bases for multiple and complex “on-line” titration experiments 4 NEST, a Nifty Electronic Storage Tray that lets you create your own anno- tated indexing system A PLUS a quick-reference Periodic Table, with room for your notes Intrinsic to MacChemistry is an advanced Chem Font feature with a full array of chemical signs and symbols. If you're involved with chemistry at any level, Circle 377 on reader service card ™ MacChemistry is a powerful productivity tool you'll want to experiment with, The price for the complete four-part MacChemistry package i 4 age paid in the continental U.S.) California residents please add 7% sal 5 To order by phone, M.C. or VISA, call (818) 355-7114. To order by mail, credit card or check, write: Fortnum Software, 31 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, CA 91024, Q MaeChemistry isa trademark of Southern Software, Macintosh is a tradename of Apple Computer, Inc © 1984 Southern Software CeanupyourMac! | 4 If you're serious about graphics, it’s time you stopped mousing around.And you can./ With MacTablet ™, : the peripheral that turns ay “ey Oo your Macintosh™ into a graph- ics workstation. Like most “— people, you bought \) your Mac for its graphics capability. But you’ve probably found that, while a mouse is fine for pointing, drawing with one is like painting with a bar of soap. It has its limitations. a With HM, MacTablet ee D though, there are ~~ no limits, It’s a professional quality graphics tablet. Not just an overpriced mouse, like tablets that plug into the mouse port. MacTablet is as easy to use as putting pen to paper. Install it as a desk accessory (no & 7 need to unplug the mouse), and you're ready to go. Because MacTablet is compatible with all Macintosh software. What’s more, it’s the lowest priced tablet on the market. MacTablet’s stylus gives you fingertip control. Its electromagnetic technol- ogy means high resolution and absolute precision. So whether you're an artist, de- signer, engineer, architect Circle 244 on reader service card or you just want to perk up presentations, ‘MacTablet makes the art work better, easier, and faster, MacTablet from Summagraphics. The results will dazzle you. The price will PP astound you. —>_ To see it in action, visit a dealer near you. For infor- mation,call Summagraphics Corporation, (203) 384-1344. Summagiaphics ‘CORPORATION Draw on our experience" ‘MacTablet is a trademark of Summagraphics Corporation. Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computers, Inc. nee cox @Uasneenens| SR naeso ee Yes! It’s a super true to — life electronic train set! If you really want to let off steam with your Macintosh Computer, don’t miss the MacInooga Choo-Choo. This whole new kind of model railroad lets you build elaborate train systems right on your screen, then bring them to life with the click of a switch. Express Yourself. MacInooga Choo-Choo provides a dazzling depot of realistic icons you can quickly assemble in an infinite number of permutations. Layer tracks in complex curves, then send cars careening around corners. Cause hayoc- wrecking crashes. Or harrowing near- trees, All the bells and whistles are ‘2 Hee built-in, so unlike other model train sets, there are no expensive extras to buy. Working On Your Railroad Using the mouse, or keyboard, you simply pick up desired images, then place them ona grid. | TRACKS: Pieces can be | | flipped, rotated, added singly | | or ina series. LAYERED TRACK: Place Pi pieces on top of each other for double tracks or crossovers. i TERRAIN: Trees, buildings, all the authentic model train engines, cars and cabooses set extras. _, | ROLLING STOCK: String together any way you want. Circle 398 on reader service card 1 Sa H r] rc] 2 a 5 is this the -Choo.? — Timed For Holiday Arrivals At just $39.00, the MacInooga Choo-Choo makes a great gift for your favorite Macintosh Engineer, or give yourself a break! Ask for the MacInooga Choo-Choo at your local software dealer, or call us to order direct: 818-355-7114. To order by mail, credit card or check, write: Fortnum Software, 31 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, CA 91024. Postage paid in the continental U.S. California residents please add 7% sales tax. But make tracks now! Supplies of this special program are limited! MacInooga Choo-Choo is a trademark of ‘Software. Macintosh is a tradename of Oe SS0S0S0SERSSCneoeeor ees eee HH David Bunnell (continued from page 14) at home and finally read my mail, the phone again went dead. After fooling around with my equipment for a while, I dis- covered my disk was faulty. With a borrowed copy of Ap- pleLink software, I logged on at the first ring, and the system has been working ever since. I'll never know if the hotel lines in Washington and New York were too weak, or if some- thing happened to my disk on the plane from Miami. But I do know that telecommuting is great—when it works. I found myself sending long, philo- sophical messages to staffers I hardly impart ten words to un- e der normal circumstances. And the best way 3 ‘ S monitoring a project through to notate music ‘ ‘ " teleconferencing beats round- on a personal computer. te table discussions any day. % Yes, telecommunications is wonderful. 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MacNest is a Nifty Electronic Storage Tray that lets you pull or place informa- tion using a straightforward filing system, It features two editable screen windows-—one for graphics from MacPaint™ or MacDraw™ one for text from MacWrite™—as well as keys you can label any way you want, to cut your information storage and retrieval time in half. To locate an illustration with MacNest, just type in its given name. You can tap stored text from MacWrite just as easily. The documents you create with MacNest can be stored completely, or in part, and later amended or removed. You can use a single item Clipboard, the same as you would with MacPaint. Ora multiple item Clipboard, to hold both pictures and text. Find and pull information ina flash. The result is a fluid interchange between your source and output docu- Circle 408 on reader service card ments, with files that can easily be up- dated, partially or completely, to keep your data current, handy and modular. MacNestisrecommended foruse with Switcher™ and the 1024K Macintosh” and it’s available to enhance your applications now. The price is just $49 (postage paid in the continental U.S.) California residents please add 7% ‘sales tax. To order by , M.C. or VISA, call (818) 355-7114, To order by mail, credit card orcheck, write: Fortnum Software, 31 W, Sierra Madre Blyd., Sierra Madre, California 91024, MacNest isa trademark of Southern Software. MacPaint, MacDraw, MicWrite, Macintosh and Switcher are tradenames of Apple Computer, Ine. ©1985 Southern Software. ClickOn 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. 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You'll get dozens of Christmas. and Chanukah images, as well as art for Thanksgiving, Fourth of 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. The Holiday Images disk is available only through this special offer. See package for redemption details. Happy Holidays from /Maker! 3-D scenes with cut-out-and- fold files Circle 357 on reader service card Veh ate SS Get dozens of Holiday images Create your own greeting cards with the guides provided ‘Maker Graphics * Holiday Offer 2115 Landings Drive * Mountain View, CA 94043 » 415/962-0195 Letters Cutting the Hype A magazine, like a book, shouldn't be judged by its cover. Your September cover seemed to suggest that the is- sue would feature Jazz and Ex- cel as dueling spreadsheets, with the better one prevailing over the other in a monumental software struggle. Inside, in fact, the articles on Jazz, Excel, and a third spread- sheet program, Crznch; the ar- ticle comparing the three pro- grams; and even the interviews with Bill Gates and Mitch Kapor all arrived at the only possible conclusions: each of the spreadsheet programs is ad- dressed to a specific segment of the software market, and the choice of a spreadsheet pro- gram is an individual one, whether the “individual” is a person or a business. 1am glad that your articles helped clarify the seeming con- troversy, which is more market- ing hype than useful substance. Julie Weidenbach Highmore, South Dakota Everyman’s Spreadsheet As the chief purchasing officer of a Dallas investment firm, I was responsible for researching and selecting a spreadsheet for the company’s employees. In the article “The Spreadsheet Choice” |Macworld, Sep- tember 1985], the author does an excellent job of characteriz- ing the differences among Jazz, Excel, and Crunch and points out that each program is uniquely suited to certain ap- plications and purchasing con- siderations. However, the three spreadsheets become rivals when they are considered by an organization for a large-scale purchase. Organizations have good reason to use a single spread- sheet program. Using different spreadsheets requires extra training and means that data files must be converted every time co-workers want to share information. When an entire or- ganization uses the same pro- gram, an advice pool is formed. Each person can benefit from the experiences of others. When it comes time to choose one spreadsheet for a group of employees, the most versatile spreadsheet is the ob- vious choice. Although only a fraction of my company’s spreadsheet users need the ad- vanced capabilities of Excel, the fact that it provides those capabilities means everyone in the company should have it. Some of the employees I polled were anxious to take advantage of Jazz's flashy integration, es- pecially for reports, but the fact that Jazz can’t link spread- sheets took it out of the run- ning. The ability to link spread- sheets is essential to a large business like ours. While some people argue that advanced features make a program more confusing for beginners, a well-rounded pro- gram should have such features available for people who need them. As long as beginners are not forced to deal with them, advanced features should not cause confusion, Laura Whitworth Dallas, Texas I Love Lisa If Larry Tesler felt pangs when Lisa, a.k.a. Macintosh XL, pro- duction terminated, I and, I be- lieve, thousands of other Lisa users suffered heartbreak [Note Pad, Macworld, September 1985). My company, Group 4 Con- struction Project Services, and its affiliates own eight Lisa com- puters and five Macintoshes. We have well over 50,000 labor hours invested in those ma- chines, both in our construc- tion business and as a software developer, The power and ease of use of the Lisa continue to amaze me, even after two and a half years of continuous use, As great a machine as the Macintosh is, our training pe- riod for employees is much shorter and the productivity of our staff is far greater with the Lisa Office System. Tesler’s group developed the most significant operating sys- tem for the office since the in- troduction of personal comput- ers. He and his colleagues should be praised for brilliant work. For our applications, the Macintosh is a compromise on the issue of office productivity. We are optimistic, however, that Lisa's true legacy will be a Lisa- class computer within the Mac- intosh product line. Bert J. Warbington Nashville, Tennessee Gambled and Lost Larry Tesler's glowing super- latives about the Lisa certainly cannot be supported by our ex- perience here at the state insur- ance system. Theoretically and perhaps technically, the Lisa merits the kudos Tesler heaps upon both the computer and its development team. But in real- ity the machine is unreliable, and support for it is virtually nonexistent. The Lisa is a lemon and a sour one at that. Within the last six months we have had two major failures of the Lisa and at least a dozen minor ones. We are disgusted with Apple. We will not remain committed to the company or its products. We are obliged to the public we (continues on page 26) Macworld 23 It’s easy with Because Factfinder™ is a kind of elec- tronic “desk-drawer” where you can just toss information without worrying “leveraged buyout,’ whatever. Then, any of those words or part of those words will bring you a stack of notes you've made that include “Needle- man,’ or “leveraged buyouts,” “national rollouts” or miracle “bail-outs” Or you can request Factfinder to get you the Factsheet that contains “Needleman” and “bail-out” Or you can ask for anythin, that mentions “bail-out” or INeeslleman” Factfinder has all kinds about how it should be arranged or how you might want to use it. There are no fields to define, no formats to set up. en you need to find all the clients you have who hate olives or live in Denver; when you want to collect of features like zoom and your notes on pasta merchandising; automatic word wrap. when you need the name and number And because it’s not copy protected, it’s easier to use, easier to back up, and easier to configure for the Macintosh™ Office. All for just $150 (suggested retail). To geta $15 lemo version of Fact finder, call 1 800 MACWARE today. From Forethought, Inc. MACWARE How to find a Needleman ina haystack. of that guy who’ looking for leveraged buyouts, it’s yours ina few seconds, at your index fingertip. You ste your notes on. the Needleman Plan (or Needleman vs, Nardoff or the Needleman Noodles campaign) in any length you want, and click the mouse on a few er words—‘fallout,” “bail-out, “roll-out” © 1985 Forethought, Inc. MACWARE isa trademark Fact Finder Software, Ine, Macintosh is a teademack licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 114 on reader service card (206) 633-1469 Letters (continued from page 23) serve to limit our losses and prevent similar situations from happening again. Vance A. Hughey Carson City, Nevada With a Friend Like Amiga The Commodore Amiga has three desirable features that the Macintosh does not. First, the Amiga has color. Second, the Amiga is very fast because of several “dedicated” chips that bypass the 68000 for graphics, animation, and sound. And third, the Amiga has open ar- chitecture. The people at Apple may solve some of the Mac's problems in the future, but for now we must live with its minor flaws. The Amiga, however, will not be used in the same way as the Macintosh. Most people will be unable to justify the need for its special features. I think that, in- stead, the machine will be used mostly by game, video, and mu- sic enthusiasts. Darren J. Van Soye Irvine, California One from the Heartland In your August Macworld View you presented information, about Pennsylvania farmers running Macs [“The Farmer's Macintosh”), How about a number where we farmers who use the Macintosh in other states can contact those Penn- sylvania farmers? Don Bathe Arcadia, Missouri For more information call Pennsylvania State Univer- sity’s Cooperative Service, 814/803-3449. —Ed. Macworld Enquirer Rob Swigart’s note entitled “Di- vining with the Mac” [Mac- world View, Macworld, August 1985] displays a degree of gullibility that would be accept- able in a tabloid purchased at the supermarket checkout but seems out of place in a maga- zine devoted to technology- related issues. Swigart’s bland acceptance of the Mobius Soci- ety’s claims for the efficacy of psychic search techniques, in spite of the generally dismal record of psychic research, does not enhance the reputa- tion of your magazine. Daniel M. Dobkin Stanford, California AlmostThereWare 1 know you cannot be held re- sponsible for the claims of companies advertising in your magazine, but the least you can do for us software suckers is adopt some ethical standards for product reviews. Don’t you think you owe it to Macworld readers to review only pro- grams that exist? The situation is bad enough as it is given that many programs have to be bought sight unseen. Few retail outlets carry a decent range‘of products, A magazine such as yours should carry reliable and responsible coverage of prod- ucts. It is often the only source of information that gives some idea of what products are avail- able and whether they can do the job. William Bowles Brooklyn, New York Our policy is to publish re- views of new products only when manufacturers assure us that the products will be re- leased by the time of publica- (continues on page 31) THE EXPERIENCE CONTINUES $19.95 Available wherever books and software are sold. Microsoft Press 10700 Northup Way Bellevue, WA 98004 Circle 421 on reader service card 26 December 1985 THE APPLE MACINTOSH BOOK. It quickly became the most popular book on this revolutionary machine. Now. .. for current or pro- spective Macintosh owners, or those considering 512K upgrades... here is a timely and authoritative new edition. And, like the first, this edition is sure to dazzle, inform, and inspire. Cary Lu, the noted authority on microcomputers, gives you a comprehensive look at the Mac's pace-setting technology and philosophy, and the hardware that is now available: disk drives, !/O ports, printers, and modems, THE APPLE MACINTOSH BOOK sorts through today’s new Mac software to help you evaluate what’s right for you: integrated software, word processing, graphics, communications, spreadsheets, and programming languages. Plus an inside look at special Mac features: networking with AppleTalk, laser printing, typography, and, even future Mac products. THE APPLE MACINTOSH BOOK, second edition... the experience continues. MICROSOFT. POR € 5S See ee ee ea ee ee SERN EE EA RS ee ter oh ae ee ee oe ee ee ek ee oa LEANER EEE AM ES ee ep a eee eee eee CEES EEE ERASE SACLE SEES * . ¥ * ® Sas ESOS DINERS \ If you think youve played this game before, youre dead wrong, Your head is pounding with a bump that's bigger than a cue ball. 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All Rights Reserved, Macintosh is a trademar 800-221-988: n Illinois 1-800-9: Smmulatans. ine. Mir ‘00k, Illinois 60062 f Aople Computer Inc L Circle 389 on reader service card trademark Cee tea eee ee aero: t’s really a revolution. I dont see how anyone can overlook the Macintosh. And the new version of ReadySetGo is simply phenomenal. Anything we used to typeset we now do on the Macintosh with ReadySetGo. We used to pay someone $45 a page to typeset and paste-up our newsletter. Multiply that by 16 pages, seven times a year, and that’s how much we saved. It gives us the control we need for the whole publication.” ReadySetGo —Tom Engleman, Director, ss Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. Multipage. Design, produce and print documents up to Extreme ease of use, advanced Tas Pest can Ua of any epic ep HD columns or pictures per . ReadySetGo displays real professional features and real dollar ages af all ne and aloes til iseracive edtng of both layout and contents. Unique design allows very fast benefits combine to make ReadySetGo scrolling through the document by page or article. Integral Copy Editor, ReadySetGo has complete copy 4 j .diting features for producti ds, not ji _ unique. And, at just $125, everyone ee eee ee Men ove directly from any other Macintosh program if needed r in th rson: can affo d to Jo t e p eTsO al Text Reflow, Flow text between columns and pages through- out the document with automatic updating. Even ‘undo’ publishing revolution. the reflow operation if major changes are needed. Design Capability. ReadySetGo has a unique free form architecture which allows accurate placement of text and graphics without need for column guides found in other products. This feature makes the program an ideal design tool. Advanced Picture and Graphics Handling, Bring in pictures and graphics from any other Macintosh program. Pictures can be scrolled in position within ReadySetGo for cropping and can also be scaled to any size. 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Pls ig gt In the world of Helix' You extend your reach’ And flying happens? 1) The Computer Letter: *...Helix represents a very important advance in database design.” 2) Business Week: “With Helix, a manager with no technical skill can learn in just days how to custom design his own applications. Designing such an (application) from a traditional database program...can take months or even years to learn.” 3) Version 2.0 is shipping now. 1 Avenue, Northbrook, IL 60062 (USA) n Illinois, (312) 498-5615 trademark of Odesta Corp, Macintosh is licensed to Apple Computer, Inc, © 1985 ODESTA Circle 13 on reader service card Letters (continued from page 26) tion. But because of eleventh- hour revisions that delay scheduled release dates, a re- view of a product may be pub- lished before the product reaches computer store shelves.—Ed. Stock Exchange Itoo was flabbergasted by the news of Steve Jobs’s removal as head of Apple Computer [see “Mutiny on the.Bounty,” Mac- world, August 1985]. | love my Macintosh, and I like to think of the original Mac developers continuing to work on their dream. Maybe it will be several more years before Apple pays a stock dividend, but I have great faith in the Macintosh. | am sure it will mean much finan- cial success for Apple. My reaction to the news was to buy Apple stock. Perhaps the gesture is futile, but I wonder what would happen if every Macintosh owner bought a few shares of Apple. Can you imag- ine a user-controlled computer company? Edward L. Tripp Ignacio, Colorado Flabbergasted IL I too was flabbergasted, not by the ousting of Jobs but by David Bunnell’s column in the August Macworld. You're cer- tainly entitled to an opinion, and I would expect it to be biased toward the Macintosh, but please try to keep some perspective, The Mac was crippled by Jobs during its conception. The Mac’s tremendous abilities are a credit to Jobs and his team, but let's not forget that Jobs must also assume responsibility for the machine's limitations. I work with an Apple II, an IBM PC compatible, and a Mac- intosh, The Mac is fun, but when I need productivity, 1 turn to the other computers. I doubt the Mac will make it in the business world. It will eas- ily be outpaced by newer ma- chines before it can get a foothold. But it was your slur at Steve Wozniak and the Apple II that prompted this letter. Really! Criticizing the II for not being able to display lowercase char- acters—I suppose you disdain the Model T for its lack of air conditioning and power steering? Please, praise the Mac all you like. But lay off Woz and the II. Arthur H. Ude Stoddard, New Hampshire Beyond Flabbergasted David Bunnell’s inflammatory comments about the Apple II series of computers and Steve Wozniak were completely out of line. You must realize that with- out Wozniak and the Apple II, the Macintosh would never have existed. As someone who works with both the Apple II and the Mac- intosh, I can’t see why a devo- tee of Apple should criticize one machine simply because they believe in the other. Lewis A. Etheridge Columbia, South Carolina Putting In a Good Word As Microsoft's product manager for Word, I want to respond to two letters, which appeared in the September 1985 issue of Macworld, regarding Micro- soft Word for the Macintosh. (continues on page 33) DAI Packano ryaThink} toyour Mac. — With JETSTART. The completely compatible printer driver. Your Macintosh side by side with Hewlett-Packard’s 7-lb. portable, ThinkJet. Think of it. 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Ultrasonic signals transmitted from the VCS Control Unit track headset rotation. And a remarkable translation algorithm makes the ut S ve és ° conversion to precise cursor commands just like e Mouse that flies “r= Look Ma, Both Hands! the ves works with any 128K or really works Now you don’t have to take yourhand offthe 512K Mac. Plug it in and you're ready ii keyboard to reach for the Mouse. A unique to go. No hardware or software modifica- ¥ button pad clips on your keyboard just below tions are required. Product Review the space bar. One button Paster th TI A aS activates the headset so you r than a way but bow itwork? i can direct the cursor by | Speeding Mouse. | aman atund me wanboatnseren viewing. Use the second Since you can look much faster | seeding caged Had motions button for clicking and dragging. No more reach, grab, roll, click, return. Reclaim Your Desktop! ‘The VCS flies above the ordinary mouse, leaving more space on your desktop. 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University and corporate purchase orders accepted. Circle 85 on reader service card nature, My thumbs fell readily on the buttons below the space bar, and the cursor always seemed to be just where 1 was looking. Afier a week, you'll wonder how you managed without it. On the whole, the View Control System repre- sents a real advantage over the mouse for many Mac tasks, ICON - Magazine of The Association Of Apple 32 Users. Customer Letters I just received my VCS and am more than de- lighted with its performance. I couldn't believe that it would be able to work one pixel ata time butit does, and that with less than an hour’ use. Its the best thing yet that I have seen for con- trolling the Macintosh. My daughter and are certainly enjoying our “flying mouse." Not only is it terribly ingenious, it really works very smoothly and with fine sensitivity. Congratulations on an innovative advance, Jama university professor and Ido a substan- tial amount of writing. Ljustfinished a mono- graph of about 64 single-spaced pages. | used the VGS for the entire project and it performed beau- tifully: If there were a market for my mouse, 1 might sell it, Letters (continued from page 31) The letters detail several spe- cific points, including the screen display of running heads, slow printing, and the Macintosh screen display. Mi- crosoft has addressed several of those points in an upgrade to Word released in June—version 1.05. Other points require clari- fication of how Word operates. Word does use a different method than MacWrite for dis- playing running headers and footers but makes up for the difference with an increase in functionality. With version 1.05, underlined carriage returns are no longer printed. The pro- gram does not have a macro fa- cility, but it can search for spe- cial marks such as paragraph returns, tabs, and space marks. Using this facility is much quicker than deleting carriage returns by hand. Regarding slow printing and the 128K Macintosh, I can only assume that the document that took so long to print contained a number of fonts and styles. Because Word does not require a print file to be built and sent to disk prior to printing, the program allows you to print large documents without wor- rying about disk space. The program, however, must per- form printing calculations page by page. Word version 1.05 can recog- nize a 10-point font when the program returns from typing 10-point footnotes. It no longer defaults to 12-point type. Bill McGee Bellevue, Washington s on three levels: paragraph, and largins are a docu- feature. Paragraph a paragraph-level ing the two levels e some strange results. The pr describes Letters [" lem Peter Yudkin your September scouraging Word”} trying to set the the document by 2 right and left in- y paragraph in- stead of usit.. he Page Setup dialog box. The confusion on this issue stems from the differ- ences between Word and Mac- Write. 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The inventor at home: Glenn Weinreb, creator of the MacADIOS lab-moni- toring system, in his MIT dorm room. Macworld 39 Laboratory Mac In a crowded room in the di- lapidated dormitories of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology (MIT), a small box capa- ble of turning the Macintosh into an oscilloscope nicating with the M 500,000 bits per second. Presid- ing over this dormitory-based laboratory is MIT student Glenn Weinreb-president of GW Instruments and inventor of MacADIOS (Macintosh Ana- log-Digital Input-Output Sys- tem), a device that gives the Macintosh the ability to control and monitor laboratory experiments. Weinreb explains that Mac- ADIOS is designed to automate laboratory tasks. “Traditionally, a scientist who wanted to ana- lyze the effects of metal fatigue, for example, would have to turn knobs to adjust controls, read data displayed on dials, sit down with a calculator to as- sess the results, and then man- ually plot the data into graphic form, With MacADIOS, this pro- cess can be done in seconds.” Weinreb, along with his col- legiate associates, has also de- veloped software that coordi- nates many of the laboratory tasks performed by MacADIOS. MacADIOS Manager is a so- phisticated Mac program de- signed to help scientists gather, edit, analyze, display, store, and print data. In addition, Weinreb’s company has devel- oped a BASIC program that controls MacADIOS and per- forms high-level array manip- ulations to analyze data. Other BASIC routines can be used with MacADIOS to convert the Macintosh screen into a sono- gram or a spectrum analyzer, as well as an oscilloscope. As expected, developing and manufacturing the $2500 Mac- ADIOS system requires financ- ing. Weinreb and his colleagues have devised a clever way to raise capital, GW Instruments’ technicians have been trudging through blizzards to perform 512K Macintosh upgrades for Cambridge and Boston resi- dents. Weinreb says, “In the long run, we hope to be influ- ential in making the Macintosh an efficient tool for engineers and scientists. For the time being I don’t mind doing up- grades to finance MacADIOS. It keeps us in touch with the Cambridge Macintosh commu- nity, and that’s rather nice.” —David Turin Large waves are breaking on the shores of the CAD/CAM market. Riding the crest of these waves is MacSurf (Graphic Magic, PO. Box 185, Cottesloe, 6011 Western Aus- tralia), a Macintosh program developed to aid engineers in the design of yachts and sail- boards. The program dras- tically reduces the time and cost of designing a yacht. Within an hour you can com- plete a yacht design in MacSurf that would take four or five days and several erasers to draft by hand. MacSurf displays four win- dows that show different as- pects of a design: plan, profile, transverse sections, and per- spective. Each window can be resized and moved around the screen, and the contents of any window can be zoomed in on or moved. The perspective view can be animated to pro- vide smooth three-dimensional movement of the design. In ad- dition, you can cut and paste MacSurf drawings into Mac- Draw or vice versa and print designs on large plotters. 40 December 1985 In CAM terms, MacSurf is revolutionizing the production of foam-cored marine products, such as sailboards. MacSurf, linked to a styrofoam cutting device, is the first system that enables manufacturers to gen- erate a finished foam shape from a computerized design. The program is being used by some of the world’s top yacht designers. Ben Lexcen, who designed the 1983 Amer- ica’s Cup winner, Australia If, is now using the Macintosh and MacSurf to design his yachts. Of the future, Andrew Mason of Graphic Magic says, “Mac- Surf is intended for the design of marine hull shapes, but it can be used to design any bilat- erally symmetrical object, such as an automobile or even a space shuttle.” With its $1950. price tag, however, you proba- bly won't want to buy the pro- gram to design paper airplanes or skateboards. —David Turin \ Be Quiet, Sleep For ten summers, Dr. Mary Carskadon of the Stanford ‘ Sleep Center has been running . the Stanford Sleep Camp to study the effects of sleep depri- vation in young adults. This year Carskadon added a new * member to her staff-the ‘ Macintosh. Atthe Sleep Camp, the sleep- ing patterns of six volunteers are completely controlled in an attempt to duplicate the sleep- ing patterns of college stu- dents, who often go for weeks without an 8-hour night of sleep. Twenty summer interns shifts to keep the vol- unteers awake 19 hours a day, testing them every 2 hours for sleepiness and connecting them to polygraphs each night to record their brain waves dur- ing sleep. Each 5-hour night of sleep produces 600 pages of output that needs to be inter- preted by hand and then fed into a computer for analysis. In previous years, data stor- age and analysis were done with five cumbersome FOR- TRAN programs on a PDP-11 minicomputer. Now Alan Liu, a Stanford senior in electrical en- gineering and a premed stu- dent, has written a program using Consulair C that executes all five programs in one run. Liu’s program handles data en- try, summary, comparisons, and plotting. In addition its output is an improvement over that of the FORTRAN programs. “It's great,” says Carskadon. can fit 200 nights of sleep onto one floppy disk. We avoid 3 the data entry problems of the $s past, and the Macintosh is port- able and easy to use” With the Macintosh working, now at least the computer program- Z mer can get some sleep.—Clay a Andres ery MacroMind, the Chicago-based. software company that created MusicWorks, VideoWorks, and Art Grabber with Body Shop, has added another desk ac- cessory to its product line. CheapPaint, distributed by Hay- den Software, gives you an instant graphics pad for the creation of original artwork, without making you quit your current application. The pro- gram, which was originally de- signed as the VideoWorks drawing window, utilizes most of MacPaint’s tools, such as the pencil, the paintbrush, the paint bucket, FatBits, and a text mode. Although this desk ac- cessory has been enhanced by the addition of certain func- s, such as rotate, it is still “cheap” in the sense that it takes up only 15K on a disk. apPaint works with some ation ich as MacWrite, While volunteers at the Stanford Sleep Camp nod off, the Macintosh works on, analyzing and reporting their brain waves. Camp researchers study the effects of sleep deprivation on a 128K Macintosh, but for most applications you'll need a 512K Mac.—Nicholas Lavroff hen the Macintosh first came out, everyone looked at it and said, “Wow, wait till the gaming wizards get ahold of this baby...” And some of them did. But some of the “quick and dirty” products that have appeared have left some enter- tainment software for the Mac a little disappointing. Ilere at Miles Computing, software designers who simply will not put up with second best, or half-baked concepts, have delivered entertainment products of such intensity of effort and such depth that our designers say “Wow, wait ‘till people get ahold of this..° MacAttack! was the first, an amazing best- selling program- ming feat. It’s a 3-dimen- sional tank battle zone simulation where you defend a city in your ra- dar-equipped Sherman Tank. You must survive by out-manuevering conven- tional and heat-seeking missiles coming from your opponents who can only be eliminated by accurate shooting on your part. Deadly tanks and planes roam about in this unique game with three levels. Harrier Strike Mission is follow- up to MacAttack! in a tour-de- force of Assembly language utilizing sensational 3-D graph- ics. This flight combat simulator features the famous Harrier Jump Jet, a fighter air- craft which can maneuver like a heli- copter but has all the punch of the latest in modern jet armament. You are pitted against an enemy-occupied island firing heat-seekers, not to mention fighter air- craft in mid-air combat. You must take off from an aircraft carrier, take out the com- mand post and fuel depot on the island and return to your ship. With two skill lev- els and your choice of day or night mis- sion, mouse or joystick controls, it’s the ultimate 3-D flight combat simulator. Then there’s Fusillade. You're the last person stuck on Planet Fusill, and must defend a city from power-hungry kamakazee Miles Computing Entertainment Software. The Promise Fulfilled. looters in a fast-action shoot-out which escalates at dizzying speed as wave after wave attacks your position in over 30 knuckle-whitening levels. 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You can have multiple players on one computer, or link up to other com- puters, each player with its own strategy and per- sonality. You can use the ships that come with it, over a dozen, or design your own, and by zooming in and out over the Galaxy, set out for high adventure. Miles Computing Entertainment Soft- ware. The Promise Fulfilled. Miles Computing, Inc., 21018 Osborne Street, Building 5, Canoga Park, California Wars, Overlords, Miles registered trademarks logo an ch is a trademark of Apple Computes, Inc. insed to Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 37 on reader service card pg? S31 WwW We've taken FORTRAN to the Macs. Now your Macintosh” can run with the big guys. Microsoft's new FORTRAN compiler puts the power of mainframes within your reach. With- out complications, without restrictions. Because our compiler is the only full, ANSI standard FORTRAN ’77 for the Macintosh. Fortified to exceed all your daily requirements. Microsoft® FORTRAN unleashes all your Mac’s resources. Now your scien- tific and engineering programs can have access to Mac graphics. An IEEE math package. Plus huge virtual arrays for data. Boosted with the blazing speed of compiled code. Our compiler makes the pro- gramming faster as well. FORTRAN enhancements like DO...WHILE make structured programming easy. Dynamic overlays let you run main- frame-size programs. Even in 128K of RAM. And a powerful set of utilities gives you complete library management. Not to mention dynamic linking, a program editor and an interactive source code debugger. In other words, Microsoft FORTRAN gives you just what you'd expect for your Mac—the max. Mectosefi isa registered So get moving. Call (800) 426-9400 for more information and the name of your nearest Microsoft dealer. In Washington State and Alaska, call (206) 828-8088. In Canada, (416) 673-7638. 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Another programmer ‘wants to create graphics with an MBASIC program and print them directly on an Image- writer. And a Pascal program- mer wants to create a self- contained program that doesn’t require the Macintosh Pascal interpreter. MacWrite 4.5 Style and Font «luse MacWrite 45 ona 128K Macintosh, When I try to change the font or style of text, even in a small document, I get the obnoxious double beep and the message “Memory al- most full. This operation can't be undone.” Why does Mac- Write run out of memory? Is o make font and without this mes- style changes sage occurring? Gladys Fletcher Baton Rouge, Louisiana A Apparently there’s no way around the flaw you describe. It's ironic that an upgrade de- signed to make life better for people with 128K Macs actually makes life worse. I recommend that 128K Mac users stick with MacWrite 2.2 unless they abso- lutely must have 4.5’s ability to handle longer documents. Paragraph Too Long Q. When I convert docu- ments created with MacWrite 2.2 to MacWrite 4.5, the follow- ing message often appears: “This document contains a text paragraph that is too large to load. Shorten it, and try again” I was unable to shorten the of- fending paragraph, but since I had retained a copy of Mac- Write version 2.2, the problem ‘was not major. However, the update information provided with MacWrite 4.5 clearly im- plies that there is no reason to retain copies of earlier versions of MacWrite, and | imagine that some Macintosh owners would take Apple at its word on this. The moral is obvious. Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. Pinson, Tennessee Maeworld 47 A. It certainly does make sense to keep an old version of a program around until you've had a chance to thoroughly ex- ercise the new version. Inciden- tally, the “paragraph too large” message occurs if any para- graph is longer than 3000 char- acters, which is about one page of single-spaced 12-point text. A new paragraph starts after a re- turn character or a formatting ruler. MacWrite Version Differences Q I know there have been several versions of MacWrite. Could you explain the improve- ments or changes in the differ- ent versions? James R. Wilson Ormond Beach, Florida A ‘To date, Apple has re- leased three official versions of Vrite. Version 1.0 was the ‘sion shipped. It was supplanted by version 2.2 in May 1984. Version 2.2 featured Geneva 12 instead of New York 12 as the standard text font. A 10-point option was added to (continues on page 50) "10.7 SECONDS To print a Check with Orion Checkwriter! #1. Automatically alerts you to due accounts. Save time and increase the produc- tivity of your Mac with the new Orion Checkwriter. This is serious software that’s easy to use. I oflice—whether you write ten, fifty or a hundred checks each month. Costs Less, Does More With Checkwriter, you can track budgets by the month, the year and to date. 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