MacWorld 8602 February 1986

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A PRINT SPOOLER prints any text file while you run other programs. A VERSATILE CALENDAR ‘ets you view your appointments for a day, a week or an entire month. You can easily print out your schedule for quick reference, A CONVENIENT “THINGS-TO-DO” FILE reminds you of important tasks, SideKick, the Macintosh Office Manager. NOT COPY-PROTECTED $84.95 der ee : st you. 70 07980, 556-2283 10 the Soe CA Spo) 742-1133 ; THE CRITICS’ CHOICE Call (800! Bard cll (B00) at904.95e2 secre pyailable at bettet by Cr rected Quant 735 70 tex per copy) rs Ae pelea aS a user, When {ee dealers nation ; sidekick Not Copy-Pro! {CA res. SideKick, I know 1 want tt’ iy i it the Bes! 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A CREDIT CARD FILE keeps track of your credit card balances and credit limits, A REPORT GENERATOR prints-out your mailing list labels, phone directory and weekly calendar in convenient sizes. A CONVENIENT ANALOG CLOCK with a sweeping second-hand can be displayed anywhere on your screen. ON-LINE HELP \s available for all of the powerful SIDEKICK features. SIDEKICK, the software Macintosh owners have been waiting for. : ws? i ral drawn MACWORL February 1986 Getting Started 92 Musical Wares Jim Heid Music hardware and software that can be used with the Macintosh is entering the marketplace at an allegro tempo. This beginners guide to Mac music concepts and products can help you stay in tune with the times. State of the Art 100 Lighting a Path to the Future Ted Nace useaumeusene SORES Build a unique type- face with the help of ‘A Font of One's Own,” on page 126. The glow on today’s personal com- puter horizon is coming from laser optics. A look at the revolutionary new applications that this technology— which puts thousands of megabytes on a single disk—makes possible. 108 114 120 The Macintosh"Magazine Review They’re Playing Our Song Rob Swigart Give a listen to two new music programs, Professional Composer and Deluxe Music Construction Set. ‘They both set the tone for tools that handle complex compositions and produce high-quality scores, but one is priced for professionals, while the other sells for a song, Megabytes and Beyond David L. Foster and David Ushijima 1f512K cramps your style, a RAM upgrade of a megabyte—or two- should give you the memory you need. Reviews of five boards that let you break the Macintosh’s 512K barrier. Here's Charlie Nicholas Lavroff Introducing Dayna Communications’ MacCharlie, a Macintosh add-on that bridges the gap between the Mac and the IBM PC and raises the question of whether two computers are better than one. Photo/illustration credits David Bishop, 92; Walt Disney Productions © 1985, 102; Mark Hanauer, 55, 59 (left); Jobn Hersey, 127; Ed Kashi, 57, 61; The Media Laboratory, MIT, 104, 106; Mark Pierce, 115; Norman Seeff, 132-137; George Steinmetz, 13, 29, 67; Fred Stimson, cover, 59 (right), 101, 121-125; Rudy VanderLans, 63; Mick Wiggins, 37, 143, 153, 163. 126 132 13: 29 37 55 Hands On A Font of One's Own. Robert C. Eckhardt Use FON Tastic and a digitizer to personalize your word processing with a font that’s just your type. Community Tales of the Macintosh Jeffrey S. Young Aman, a plan, the Macintosh. The remarkable story behind the creation ofa remarkable machine. Departments The China Interface David Bunnell Experts on Disk Daniel Farber Letters Macworld View Edited by Herschel Schmedick Color Mac displays, new developments in electronic publishing, a newspaper network, and other news and notes for the Macintosh community. 67 Get Info Lon Poole Macwortd’s tutor answers questions about LaserWriter formatting, the effects of a 512K upgrade, how to. avoid Imagewriter print he: breakdown, and other \ concerns. 143 Macware Reviews Edited by Erfert Nielson Short but straight-shooting assess- ments of My Office, the DASCH external RAM drive, Sierra Championship Boxing, Speed Keader H, Quick and Dirty Utilities Vohime One, Exodus: Ultima I, Battery Pak, and Pinball Construction Set. 195 Open Window Edited by Jim Heid An exchange of Macintosh discover including tips on BASIC ThinkTank to Microsoft Word conversions, advice on how to handle tired mouse feet, and HyperDrive keyboard shortcuts, 187 Macworld Directory Indexes 192 Advertisers 193 Products Macworld seuss Plug into the computer music scene with an mtroduction to the concepts and products that make it possible to sound the right note on the Mac See “Musi- cal Wares,” starting on page 92 MACWORLD David Bunnell Publisher J. Kelley Younger Executive Editor Kearney Rietmann Editor Jacqueline Poitier Associate Publisher, Artand Design 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, Joe Matazzoni Editorial Assistant: Heidi Mitchell Editorial Secretary: Bileen Drapiza Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, Jim Heid, Jeremy Joan Hewes, Nicholas Lavroff, Gordon McComb, Lon Poole, Jeffrey S. Young Artand Design 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: Ouo Waldorf 4 February 1986 Research Associate Publisher/Director: Cheryl Woodard Manager: Gary L. Rocchio Corporate Development Manager: Karen Wickre Special Projects: Jeffrey S. Glines International: Karen Dowell Assistant: Randi Glaser Secretary: Gloria C. Sundin Marketing and Advertising Sales Associate Publisher/Director: James E. Martin Regional Advertising Manager! No. California (San Francisco), ‘Texas: Penny Rigby No. California (San Jose), Northwest: Patricia Navone Midwest: Jeff Edman East: Linda Holbrook Southeast: Judy Suner Southern CalifornialSouthwest: Michela O'Connor Directory!Ye-Page Ads; Niki Stranz, Advertising Services Manager: Ray Petsche Assistant to the Director: Loretta Giglione Circulation Director: Penny Ertelt Director Single-Copy Sales: George Clark Subscription Manager: Gail Egbert Single-Copy Sales: Bill Cox Promotions Manager: Laurie King Fulfillment Coordinator: Phil Semler Administration Director: Janet McGinnis Accounting: Pat Murphy, Ralph Ames Facilities: Joseph Wollenweber Personnel: Sarah Cox Assistant to the President: Christina W. Spence Corporate PC World Communications, Inc. David Bunnell Chairman Bartlett R. 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ImageWriter, LaserWriter, Macintosh are trad 1986 Manhattan Graphics Corp. Circle 2 on reader service card marks of Apple Computer, PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems I Dont Cell Gorbachev About OverVUE. Even though Russian propaganda makes him out to be a fairly nice comrade, in a high-stakes poker game like world affairs, you don't show the other guy your trump card, right? ‘That's why we ask that you be discreet about OverVUE. With its incredible power, we had better keep it a secret from, well, them. Of course, OverVUE is no easily kept secret. In the world of databases, OverVUE is a Superpower. OverVUE's combination of speed, ease of use and power make it a true force to be reckoned with. It can sort over 1,000 records in less than 2 seconds. OverVUE's Macro capability compresses an entire series of commands into a single pull-down menu item — just the kind of automation the “Party” so desperately needs. /mport/Export is our own version of détente, that allows a peaceful exchange of information between OverVUE and competing programs. And with Relational Join you get a stronger alliance between separate bodies of information than with any signed treaty. When you're through with gathering, sorting, and analyzing, OverVUE even delivers charts, graphs, and reports showing precisely where you stand on any issue. And that isn’t all. OverVUE has a top-secret feature (code named Clairvoyance™) that tracks your every move to reduce keystrokes on repetitive data. So, if you have lots of overt or covert intelligence to keep track of, OverVUE will handle it with ease. OverVUE. It will give you a strategic advantage in your part of the world. But we shudder to think what might happen if they got hold of it. So please, for all of us, don't tell Gorbachev about OverVUE. PV Bi provue" Development Corporation 222 22nd Street + Huntington Beach, CA 92648, 714/969-2431 Circle 77 on reader service card 6 February 1986 Macworld is a member of the CW Communications/Inc. group, the world’s largest publisher of com- puter-related information. The group publishes 57 computer pub- lications in 20 major countries. 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What To Do When Youre OnThe Ropes. Tie Up Your Resources. You know you have to tie your resources together. Share files, applications and printers. Make dissimilar systems interact. Even communicate outside your department or work group. But the local area network vs. multi user computer entanglement probably has you on a decision-maker’s tightrope. One line of thought says a network will bring everyone together. The other believes a shared logic multi-user system is the way to go. In fact, both are wrong. And both are right. The reality is it all depends. It depends on your needs. So it’s important to remember the company that’s perfectly positioned to give you an honest answer. A company whose only vested interest is in your success. A company with the experience, know-how and means to give you an inexpensive solution. Corvus. The days of pushing peripherals are over. New people, new programs and new products are here. For instance, the most cost-effective desktop network solution in the world— Omninet“is being expanded with new file, printer and communications services. Sup: porting the standards you live with, and turn- ing your network into a system solution. This added value approach is carried through our multi-user systems, too. A product line based on UNIX System V compatibility. With uncanny cost-effectiveness. So before you get to the end of your rope, talk toa company that has both technol. ogies under one roof.The one company that can tie up your resources without strangling your budget. Corvus. Think AlongThe Same Lines. The battle rages. Networks vs. multi- user systems. Today, conflict reigns. But tomorrow, networks and multi-user machines will coexist. Peacefully. Under the same roof. Communicating with each other. In the not too distant future, LAN and multi-user technologies will converge. The lines of communication will be transparent to the users. Because the solution will be system-wide. That's not just our opinion. It’s our technological mandate. Because we're the only company so well-versed in the design, manu facture and installation of both local area net works and multi-user systems. Solutions that won't empty your bank account. That's the Corvus solution. You won't have to trash your current computer investment. And you won't have to get involved with the kind of massive invest- ment program the computer giants want you to swallow. You can add the storage, communi cations and computing power you need incrementally. At the department, cluster or small work group level. You'll never have to re-invent the wheel just to get rolling. Empty promises? Hardly. We've got the organization in place to accomplish the task. And our dual technol ogies are already coming together. But the important ingredient is you. If you want to slug it out with the rest of the one-way thinkers, we wish you well. But if you're ready to get everyone in your company working up to their fullest potential— sharing information interactively—you should consider thinking along the same lines we do. Don't Be Bound loA Single Solution. If you've been around computers of any kind for the last few years, you've learned that walking the straight and narrow path is the easiest way to get lost. Or burned. Incompatibility. Dead ends. Expensive twists and turns along a too narrow growth path. These are the facts of computing life that have caused more than a few gray hairs. And one or two casualties. That's why we've evolved from a technology company to a solutions company. To look at the most common problems at the department and work group levels. And to come up with efficient, inexpensive solutions, Don't be bound to a single technology. Either local area networks or multi-user sys- tems. Instead, work with a company that understands and has the strengths of both. Call Corvus today. Toll-free it's (800) 4-CORVUS. Let us look at your computing problem from a multiple technology perspect- ive, We think you'll agree that our solution is the most sensible, most cost-effective way to free yourself from technologies that bind. Corporate Headquarters: 2100 Corvus Drive, San Jose, CA 95124. (408) 559-7000, Telex: 278976. European Offices: Corvus (U.K.), Ltd., #7 Fairmile, Henley-on-‘Thame: Oxfordshire, England RG9 2JR. Phone: 0491 571100. Telex: 847282, Corvus Systems,$.A.,47A, Rue de Lausanne, CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland. Phone: 327289, Telex: 27699, Cormu UNIX isa Circle 206 on reader service card David Bunnell The China Interface The People’s Republic of China joins the information revolution China has a chance to leapfrog over the industrial age right into the informa- tion age. For a long time I've been an observer of the impact of personal computers on American culture. Recently, | had the op- portunity to visit China and see the effect of computer technology on a culture that is completely different from ours. China is about the same size as the United States, but its population is about 15 times our own. It’s a Third World culture that is still largely agrarian. The process of modernization began only recently— virtually leapfrogging over the industrial age right into the information age. Yet China holds a very prominent place in the history of technology. It’s a na- tion where not only gunpowder but also silk, paper, and movable type were first invented When I was in China, I found that the country is genuinely opening up to new ideas—and that it’s becoming a socialist state with capitalist tendencies. For the first time since the Communist revolution in 1949, private street vendors are selling their wares. I saw many other dramatic ex- amples of Chinese entrepreneurship—at a low level compared to Silicon Valley per- haps, but still very much in evidence. This new entrepreneurial initiative seems to be a factor even inside the Chi- nese government and in large organiza- tions where individuals are now encour- aged to develop new projects and take them to completion. The Chinese people I met were really interested in the concept of entrepreneur- ship. In fact, there’s even a magazine about entrepreneurs published by the same com- pany that produces the Chines Daily, the Wall Street Journal of China. It's called Chinese Entrepreneur. It was interesting to see that this old culture, which in so many ways is behind the technologically advanced culture I'm used to, has a chance to actually leap ahead of many industrialized countries. However, in examining the state of the computer industry in China, I found that the country needs to face many problems and challenges before this high-tech dream can come true. One of the biggest prob- lems, of course, is the general economic plight of the Chinese people. In China the average worker makes $500 to $600 a year. So most people are hardly in a position to buy an Atari home computer or to purchase video games for educating their children. They're lucky if they have electricity, and most likely they live in a house that’s not very well heated in the winter. All the buildings I went into in Beijing were cold, with temperatures ranging from about 45 to 50 degrees. The level of heating was minimal compared to what Americans are used to. I jokingly remarked to one of the Chi- nese people | met that there could be one computer on every bicycle. He thought for a moment, then suggested that it might be better to first put a generator on every bi- cycle to make it more like a motorcycle. As part of their modernization drive, the Chinese began buying microcomputers from the West in 1976. First they bought about 500 Cromenco $-100s. Since then they have acquired more than 150 models of microcomputers, including 60,000 to 70,000 IBM XTs and XT compatibles. (continues on page 16) Macworld = 13 it’s alive! he Human Touch comes to Macin- tosh? — It’s called the Three to One Touch Board," and in the ten minutes it takes your dealer to install it, the Three to One Touch Board will revolutionize your Apple Macintosh. Start with Speed. By increasing the Macin- tosh’s 8 Mhz. processing speed to 12.5 Mhz., the Three to One Touch Board more than doubles your processing speed. This means that you will now be able to load and operate up to eight programs using Apple’s Switcher" in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take. On to Memory. Through the addition of 1.5 megabytes of RAM, the Three to One Touch Board actually quadruples your Macintosh’s workload capability. The Three to One Touch Board works just as well with your 128 K or 512 K Macintosh. By making all data storage contiguous, your computer works a whole lot harder because it works a whole lot more of the time. Next, there’s expandability. The Three to One Touch Board makes an additional 384 K of ROM space available to you. Look for popular software packages, resident in ROM, available from Human Touch shortly." Also, the Three to One Touch Board contains expansion capabilities that allow access to the microprocessor bus. The card cage and case adaptor will be available from Human Touch soon. Don't forget ease of installation. The Three to One Touch Board opens the Macintosh architecture without the need to solder, wire, or alter the inside of your Macintosh in any way. Tell your dealer to give us a call for fur- ther information. Finally, there's action. This is the only part of the Three to One Touch Board program we've left up to you. Get on board . . . when it comes to your Macintosh, the Three to One Touch Board gives a whole new mean- ing to being alive. Three to One TOUCH” BOARD 4 ou Human Touch Computer Products Corporation * 3508 Market Steet * Suite 202 ¢ Philadelphia, PA 19104 * 215-387-5446 * Software Developer: Please contact Human ‘Touch Computer Products: if you would like to participate. trademark liesased! to Apple Computer Ine. her isa trademsrk of Apple Computer, Inc Circle 434 on reader service card 3%” SS DISKS 1.95 $1.89 $1.85 $1.64 $1.60 each each 3%" DS DISKS $3.09 $2.99 $2.95 Boxed in tens with Nashua’s limited lifetime warranty. 314" SS DISKS $1.75 $1.6 "5 each each RIBBONS = STORAGE 288 | ROLLTOP 3 FILES Epson MX-70/80 Epson MX-100 Epson LQ 1500. 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Constructed to protect China's northern border from invaders, the Great Wall stretches some 4000 miles, making it the longest structure ever built. (continued from page 13) Unfortunately, the Chinese were led to believe by unscrupulous dealers in Hong Kong and in other gray—unauthorized— markets around the world that the key to using computers in a modern society is simply to buy them. So the Chinese bought lots of computers without really thinking about what they should be used for, Consequently, many personal comput- ers are still locked up in storage for the simple reason that the Chinese have no idea what to do with them, However, I found that the Chinese are now learning how to cope with their prob- lems, gradually making the necessary changes within their system. When I visit- ed the Ministry of Electronics, I learned that they very much want to learn more about computer applications. The Chinese see that if they study how the personal computer is used in the West, they can learn how to use it in the East, even though there will no doubt be variations in its usage. They have a lot of interest in office au- tomation, in the use of the personal com- puter for graphic design and computer- aided design and manufacturing, as well as for managing projects and inventories. Talso discovered that IBM and Apple both have interesting problems in China. One of IBM's problems is that China bought many of its IBM PCs on the gray market, so IBM will not support them. When these PCs break down, there’s no- where for the Chinese to turn for repairs. And they’re not always able to fix the ma- chines themselves. This lack of support makes many people angry with IBM because they don’t really understand what it means when computers come from the gray market. As far as the Chinese are concerned, IBM is IBM. Chinese institutions also bought many IBM XT compatibles of various stripes, and when those machines break down, the purchasers tend to place the blame on IBM. Because, to the Chinese, there is no difference between an IBM ma- chine and an IBM look-alike. IBM has made some inroads convinc- ing people in the Chinese government and the Ministry of Electronics about the im- portance of watching where you purchase equipment and making sure that you've bought a proper application to make use of it. [BM has also arranged to get a bulk im- porter license from the U.S, Department of Commerce so China can import PCs almost at will, without having to license each ma- chine individually. These measures should help improve IBM's situation in China. However, Big Blue realizes that the Chinese are making their own IBM com- patibles—particularly the Great Wall 0520, an XT look-alike—and that the Chinese ulti- mately don’t care whether they buy com- puters from IBM or some other source. What they want is to understand the tech- nology and design so they can build their own machines. After all, in a cash-poor country, you want to make sure that you maximize the return on any import purchases—so you make as few as possible. (continues on page 18) In the Beijing Wire Communications Factory, home of the Great Wall 0520 personal computer, the Chinese explore today’s technological fron- Hers. The Chinese look to their new Great Wall to check the inroads of foreign computer com- panies into their home market. The Careand Feeding of the Dragon There are many reasons why Dragons are uncommon house-pets. Apart from being too big for most apartments, there is the expense of getting asbestos car- pets. However, if you are thinking of getting a Dragon (perhaps to reduce your heating bills) you should know that today’s Dragon is of a new breed. 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Lake Forest, IL 60045 Design Patent Pending. All the usual trademark regulations apply to the named products. Circle 440 on reader service card 18 February 1986 David Bunnell A little bit of home. In the offices of China Com- puterworld, Bunnell finds Macworld on a map of our sister publications around the globe. Al- though it bas only 60,000 paid subscribers, China Computerworld's pass-along rate of 18 people per copy gives it a readership of over a million. (continued from page 16) Apple Computer has had some suc- cess in China, too—particularly with its Ap- ple II, which numbers about 50,000 in China. Actually, I'm not certain how many of those machines are in fact Apples and how many are look-alikes. Most so-called look-alikes are very blatant rip-offs, pro- duced in Hong Kong, Singapore, or Taiwan, and clearly violate Apple’s copyright. One “Apple” I saw was green instead of cream-colored; otherwise, it looked just like the real thing, As for the Macintosh, 1000 Macs have been sold in China so far. One problem fac- ing the Mac is the lack of Chinese-char- acter software. However, I was told that software for the Mac using Chinese charac- ters would be available within the year. Chinese character generation is per- haps one of the biggest problems facing the Chinese personal computer user. There are about 500 different ways to input and output Chinese characters with a personal computer, Already there is a Chinese lan- guage WordStar, and soon there will be a Chinese Lotus 7-2-3. I even visited a fac- tory in Beijing where they were working on a Chinese version of the Wang operat- ing system. Over time, the Chinese will probably settle on a standard form of inputting and outputting Chinese characters, probably using laser printers because dot matrix printers cannot satisfactorily produce the intricate characters. 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Yet the Chinese don’t want to get a reputation for piracy like Hong Kong's or Taiwan's, so in many cases Chinese purchasers are willing to sign sep- arate agreements not to make illicit copies of software, Nonetheless, some American software companies are nervous about doing business with China Officials in the Ministry of Electroni and indeed members of the Chinese elec- tronics industry in general, understand the piracy problem and are working to have their government pass a software-protec- tion law. We'll soon see more Chinese software and more absorption of personal comput- ers into Chinese culture. 1985 was the year to figure out what to do with personal computers in China. 1986 will be the first year of really using them. And 1987 should be a boom year for the PC in the PRC; by then the Chinese will have established their own applications, which will rapidly be put to use in industries, schools, and many businesses and government agencies throughout the country. In an interview with the Chinese Eco- nomic Daily, | predicted that China and the United States would lead the world in personal computers by the year 2000, with Japan coming in third. This idea was re- ceived with a great deal of enthusiasm in China, and I suspect it will also be warmly received in the US, Lalso predicted that by the year 2000, every Chinese student will have a personal computer. The interviewers asked me why I thought this would happen. I told them that by then, affordable lap-size computers will be on the market. They will be so powerful and so cheap that it will make complete sense for students to have them. The Chinese found this idea very intrigu- ing. | am convinced it can be implemented. Aline from an old Chinese poem reads, “Ghosts wailed at night when the an- cients invented words.” That was before the dawn of early Chinese civilization. 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Developers are beginning to build “smarts” into pro- grams in the form of new capabilities based on artificial intelligence (ALD) research, In recent years Al research has dem- onstrated that some aspects of human in- telligence can be simulated by computers. Macintosh chess programs like Hayden’s Sargon IL or Chess, from Psion, are capa- ble of beating most human Sppanents. The programs pl complex calculations with exceptiona speed. But compared to genuine che: masters, whose experience and under- standing of the game AI researchers haven't been able to quantify, computer chess pro- grams are closer in intelligence to a Whether or not software ever be comes truly intelligent, Al programming concepts are leading to the next major ad- vance in applications software for personal computers. Expert systems, a branch of Al research, will make the initial impact. Ex- pert systems are basically programs that simulate a human’s expertise in a limited area of knowledge. The concept was devel- oped in the mid-sixties by Al researchers who wanted to use computers to simulate scientific expertise. They found that the ac- tivities most suitable for expert systems are those that can be reduced to ar igid set of rules. Currently, expert systems have been developed for use in many fields, including education, manufacturing, marketing, law, medicine, finance, and engineering. Until recently expert systems required massive amounts of memory and ran only on main- frames or minicomputers that cost up to $100,000. But as the processing power and memory capacity of personal computers dramatically, expert $s are becoming available for com- ¢ the Macintosh and the IBM PC. Basic Knowledge The foundation of an expert system is the knowledge base, a set of rules in the form of IF. .. THEN statements, One of the first expert systems, Mycin, was designed to diagnose a small class of brain infections and suggest therapies. The program was developed by Al research pioneer Edward. Feigenbaum in collaboration with Edward Schortliffe, a physician. To create Mycin, a knowledge of a specific class of infectious disease was reduced to a set of 475 rules. To formulate a diagnosis, Mycin first interviews the diagnosing physician to ob- tain relevant facts about the case. After those facts have been entered, Mycin asks specific questions, in plain English, about the patient's condition. Based on the facts derived from the interview, Mycin lists possible diagnose: Mycin reaches its diagnoses by a rea- soning technique called backward chair ing. The program starts with a hypothesis and then searches its knowledge base for applicable rules and available facts that support the premise, If no facts are found to support the hypothesis, the program searches for a rule that can be used to infer such a fact. Ina limited way, Mycin can ex- plain its line of reasoning, allowing human (continues on page 32) Macworld = 29 DATA INDEPENDENCE: F OF MACINTOS The Macintosh is a computer of great promise. Its enormous capabilities, compact size, and user friend- liness make it a standout among microcomputers. Yet the marvelous Mac has mass storage limitations, including the file serving capabilities necessary to make The Macintosh Office live up to its full potential. Until now. Because The Bernoulli Box’ a cartridge-based data storage system, now brings infinite storage capacity and unheard of data management versatility to the Macintosh. For the individual Mac user, there’s The Bernoulli Box Personal Server,’ featuring 5-Mb cartridges; and for The Macintosh Office, the new Bernoulli Box for AppleTalk,” using 10-Mb cartridges. In either form, The Bernoulli Box fulfills all the promise of this amazing computer. 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[-M=GA SEE US AT MACWORLD EXPO BOOTH #822 Daniel Farber (continued from page 29) experts to verify the programs logic and modify its knowledge base if necessary. Expert systems like Mycin don't elimi- nate the need for human experts. A com- puter can be an infallible reasoning ma- chine-unclouded by fatigue, distractions, or foul moods—burit doesn’t have the gut feelings that play such an important role in the decision-making process. Expert sys- tems are merely problem-solving tools that suggest solutions, augmenting human intel- ligence and letting human experts devote more intellectual energy to tasks beyond the computer's comprehension. Shells for Smarts Expert system applications like Mycin aren't yet running on the Macintosh, but software tools for developing expert sys- tems-called expert system shells—are be- coming available. Shells speed up expert system development by providing a frame- work that doesn’t require fluency in a pro- gramming language such as LISP or Prolog. One of the first expert system shells designed for the Macintosh is ExperOPS5, from ExperTelligence. The $325 shell is de- rived from OPS5, a widely used AI program developed at Carnegie-Mellon University, and must be run with ExperLisp. The pro- gram uses Macintosh-style menus and edit- ing features to help you formulate the set of rules that make up an expert system's knowledge base. OPS5 has been used for applications such as stock market analysis, natural language processing systems, and building materials selection. Another Macintosh expert system shell is MacKIT Level 1, from Knowledge System Environments. To create an expert system with MacK/7, you first write the set of IF... THEN rules in a word processor, such as MacWrite, and then transfer the rules to MacKIT. The $149 shell, written in MacFORTH, also takes advantage of the Macintosh user interface. Among its sam- ple applications is a program that helps you choose the family dog by suggesting a breed. By far the most sophisticated shell available on the Mac is Nexpert, a $5000 product from Neuron Data Corporation. Nexpert has the editing features of a $100,000 system and makes full use of the Macintosh user interface. The program lets you develop a knowledge base of up to 500 rules on a 512K Mac. Nexpert can graphi- cally represent the significance of a rule and the relationship between rules. Capturing expertise on disk, however, is more difficult than you might be led to believe by product advertisements, no mat- ter how hospitable the system shell. Devel- oping a set of rules for automotive trou- bleshooting or production scheduling is a difficult, time-consuming process. It’s not easy, even for an expert, to clearly articu- late the set of rules that constitute his or her expertise. In addition, an entire knowl- edge base can be invalidated if an expert or programmer enters an erroneous bit of information into the system. Applied Artificial Intelligence Insight, a Macintosh accounting pack- age, gives an inkling of how software de- velopers will incorporate expert system technology into application programs. The (continues on page 34) MacCAD @ Architectural & Engineering software templates. @ Compatible with either MacDraw or MacDraft. @ 12 separate library packages to choose from. ® Typically 3 or 4 disks per library package. 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Daniel Farber (continued from page 32) program includes an Expert Report feature that interprets data in areas such as cash flow management, break even analysis, fixed asset acquisition, and inventory man- agement. /7sight uses a rudimentary knowledge base consisting of standard fi- nancial management techniques and indus- try-specific data that enables it not only to. record transactions and do arithmetic but to give you financial advice. For example, the manager of a small manufacturing firm views a bar chart showing cash receipts versus cash dis- bursements. /nsight analyzes the ac- cumulation of capital to determine the ap- propriate level of interest income and com- pares that with reported interest. Then Insight recommends a course of action based on its findings. The program cannot explain its line of reasoning, however, nor can you change its rules, Ina few years today’s software will seem primitive. Of course, spreadsheets will still have columns and rows, and data- 34 February 1986 bases fields and records. The difference will be the expert system capabilities pro- grammed into tomorrow’s software. The mechanisms that underlie those “intel- ligent” features will be i ible to people using the programs. In plain English, a spreadsheet will be able to suggest ways to reduce your taxes, give advice on invest- ments, or figure out insurance needs. Or you will be able to ask an expert word pro- cessing program to determine the correct syntax in an important letter. With expert systems serving as strategic advisors, you'll have more time to deal with problems that only the human mind can fathom. 4t4444444444 Daniel Farber isan Associate Editor of Macworld. aad dddddd54 ExperOPS5 ExperTelligence 559 San Ysidro Ra. Santa Barbara, CA 93108 805/969-7874 List price: $325 | informatio day: (800) 231 fer, oF cal us tora (318) 442274 124, MacKIT Level 1 Knowledge System Environments 201 S. York Rd. Diliburg, PA 17019 717/766-4496 List price: $149 Nexpert Neuron Data Corp. 444 High St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 415/321-4488 List price: $5000, run-time only $1000 Insight Layered 85 Merrimac St. Boston, MA 02114 617/423-9041 List price: Accounts Receivable with Billing, Accounts Payable, General Ledger $595 each 0 CONQUEST, at last. Th 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 on any computer. Consider for openers, STRATEGIC CONQUEST has more than two billion ible world maps. ,000,000,000. It also has 15 levels of difficulty and eight types of tactical weapons that include sub- marines, battleships, bombers, destroyers, fighter jets and armies. It isn’t unusual to sweat while plotting to take total control of the world. Nor it out of the ordina go six grueling hours before completing a single game. Or eight hours. Or ten. STRATEGIC CONQUEST mind buster, Primari because you’re battling a program that borders on artificial intelligence. You may be smart and imaginative and persev Circle 233 on reader service card YOURE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO CONQUER THE WORLD TWO BILLION TIMES. ntroducing STRATEGIC enough to dominate the world once, ten times, a hundred, a thousand. But sooner or later, your intellect will crack. It happens to all of us. No shame, no b PBI Software 110 Triton Dri: Foster City Letters Macworld hears from an envious IBM user, an indignant registered owner, and others Envious in Ohio ‘Why is it that as an IBM PC user I feel like a peeping Tom when I read a copy of Mac- world? In a recent issue of your fine maga- zine I saw an ad for MacCharlie, and I was impressed, As a graphics designer I am envious of all the graphics programs and peripherals available for the Macintosh, such as Page- Maker, the LaserWriter, ThunderScan, and others. However, I cannot give up the IBM PC's speed, WordStar, and other programs available for the IBM PC. Does anyone pro- duce an add-on system that will allow an TBM PC to run Mac programs and periph- erals? If so, and if the price is right, I'll buy. Robert Creager Westerville, Obio We haven't heard of any reverse Mac- Charlie products. The Macintosh user in- terface requires much higher screen reso- lution than the IBM offers, so a direct translation of Mac software to the PC is unlikely.—Ed. Jazzmatazz Recently I left my Jazz manual on an air- plane, and the ensuing search through the airline lost and found was fruitless. 1am a registered user of the software, so I called Lotus to ask the replacement cost of the manual. I was told, “We don't sell manuals separately. Then all you would have to do is copy the program, and you could give it out to whomever you wanted.” These were the first words of the Lotus employee answer- ing their hot line. I was outraged. Is this the kind of support I'm to expect for a $600 piece of software from a company the size of Lotus? The company represen- tative's concern that I could so easily copy and distribute their program makes me wonder why they incorporated a copy- protection scheme that prevents me from using Jazz on my hard disk without first in- serting the master disk every time I use it. The industry's paranoia with software pi- racy is cutting its own throat. The only way companies like Lotus will prevent piracy is to make it worth- while to buy the product so people won't steal it. Copy protection will not do it; law- suits will not do it; and certainly, keeping the documentation from registered owners will not do it. Supporting the product is the only way to achieve this goal. Lawrence Terrill Grand Prairie, Texas . RAM and Reason Ihave been using a RAM disk and love the very fast performance that I gain from it. I find only one problem with the product- not enough RAM memory. Configuring the RAM disk for maximum memory, 316K, still does not allow me to maximize the use of Dollars and Sense, one of my most fre- quently used applications. Ideally, the RAM disk offers peak per- formance when you can place an applica- tion program, the System file, and data files into it, With Dollars and Sense, the only file | can place into the RAM disk is the Ac- count data file. This helps, but I am not sat- isfied. Ideally, I don’t want to hear the disk drives turn. Stephen V. Wilkerson Plumsteadville, Pennsylvania (continues on page 40) Macworld = 37 Maccessories. make your Macintosh.more accurate, more convenient, and more reliable. Maccessories from Kensington Microware—an entire family of products to enhance your Mac- intosh. Maccessories make your computer more convenient. They increase your system’s flexibility. And they protect your investment. {a} Control Center Organizes all your power needs. Styled to fit underneath your sec- ond disk drive, it provides fingertip control over your whole system. There’s a master switch to power the whole system on and off, and individual switches for a printer, modem and one auxiliary device. And Control Center protects your entire Macintosh system from dam- aging power surges, line noise and static shocks. [2] Surge Suppressor SS Portable protection for a travelling Macintosh. Surge Suppressor re- places your power cord, providing UL listed surge suppression and line noise filtering. It’s light and fits easily into your carrying case. [3] Universal Printer Stand Raises your Apple® Imagewriter® ata slight angle so you can monitor its performance more easily. It Solves the problem of where to store paper—several hundred sheets are accommodated neatly underneath. (Also fits most other dot matrix printers.) If you want to take advantage of the AppleTalk™ network, a Laser- writer™ printer or a hard disk in addition to your Imagewriter and modem, you'll have three pe- ripherals competing for the two se- nial ports on your Macintosh. The A-B Box gives you the extra serial portyou need. Just plug two of your peripherals into the A-B Box and plug the Box into one of your Mac- intosh serial ports. Then simply di- vert your data output to the peripheral of your choice—press A to send to one, B to the other. Fits perfectly underneath your external disk drive. [5] Tilt/Swivel Gives you the flexibility to tilt and swivel your Macintosh to the view- ing angle most convenient for you. KENSINGTON. <} [6] Polarizing Filter The solution to a glaring problem. Made exclusively for Kensington by Polaroid®, it protects your eyes by reducing reflected screen glare by up to 99%, Also improves screen con- trast. Easy to install. Disk Case & Disk Pocket Provides safe storage for 36 Macin- tosh disks. Comes with a packet of spare disk labels. Also includes a handy Disk Pocket for safe trans- portation of up to 5 disks. Dust Covers Protect your system from the ele- ments. Anti-static dust covers for your Macintosh, Macintosh XL, Imagewriter, Imagewriter II and External Disk Drive. Circle 11 on reader service card [9] Mouse Pocket A safe, clean place to keep your Mouse when notin use. Attaches to the side of your Macintosh. Fits un- der the Maccessories Dust Cover. {to} Mouse Cleaning Kit i A full year's supply of the cleaning materials you'll need to keep your mouse rolling at top speed. Also in- cludes the Mouse Pocket. fia] Mouseway A dirt and static-resistant work surface keeps your Mouse rolling smoothly. Protects your desk, too. Disk Drive Cleaning Kit materials you'll need to keep your drives running smoothly. 13] Graphic Accents A collection of over 250 profession- al illustrations, covering every- thing from business to holidays. Use them for reports, newsletters or greeting cards. Graphic Accents are stored in standard MacPaint™ files, for ease of use. Professional Type Fonts Styled after the most popular type faces in the publishing industry. Type Fonts for Text contains 16 fonts in sizes 12 to 24 point. Type Fonts For Headlines (for the 512K Mac) contains the same fonts in sizes 24 to 72 point. Including ver- sions of Times Roman, Helvetica, Optima, Futura, and a dozen others. Maccessories are available at Apple dealers everywhere. For more information write or call: Kensington MicrowareLtd., 251 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010. (212) 475-5200. Tix: 467383 KML NY. ‘Trademarks: Maccessories/Kensington Microware Ltd., Apple, Macintosh, Imagewriter, Apple ik, Laserwriter, MacPaint/ Apple Computer, Inc.; Polaroid/Polaroid Corp.; Fonts by SLBHIAS © 1985 Kensington Microware La Letters (continued from page 37) It’s About Time Even more interesting than the hard disks COEXISTENCE saree epee world, October 1985] was the time com- parison at the end of the article. The Mac- intosh has a reputation for having a slow disk system, and those numbers seem to point out that fact. The figures demonstrate pretty well that a hard disk can speed up | D the Mac. But I have an Apple II in addition to my Mac, and I did a little timing test that opened my eyes a bit. Using a modified version of DOS 3.3 called Diversi-DOS, I can BSAVE a 65,000-character binary file in about 15 seconds—nearly twice as fast as the HyperDrive. I grant you that the Mac's user interface is very different from DOS 3.3, but the apparent speed losses here are phenomenally large. If the Mac is going to compete in the real world, it had better not sacrifice much in the area of speed, or it will end up com- ing in last. The user interface is revolution- ary, and the graphics are superb, but the watchword of any competitive computer is speed, And it often turns out that the raw j speed of a computer is not as important as The NETWAY® 1000A Appletalk Gateway provides host thespeed af ite diskeystem, eapicialy fe system access for Macintosh” systems connected by Apple business applications. Computer's Applelalk.” Up to 31 Macintosh systems are Craig Peterson supported by the NETWAY 1000A to an IBM host system. Saree Gabor ee Assessing the Damage Emulating an IBM 3274 controller, the NETWAY 1000A This letter is in response to a review of our provides either BSC or SNA/SDLC protocol support. product MacZap in “Recovering Damaged Disks” in the November issue of Macworld. We question your reviewer’s judgment that MacZap is awkward and difficult to use in light of his other views on software recovery. Your reviewer praises Fedit for saving the day if the first two sectors of the disk-the boot blocks—are damaged, yet this kind of disk damage is very rare and does not stop the user from accessing any files if you use another disk as the system disk. Most problems with damaged disks occur in allocation blocks or directory blocks. An error in any of these blocks causes the Macintosh to eject the disk or ask you to initialize the disk. MacZap can TRI. DATA correct 80 to 90 percent of the problems in these blocks automatically. When you use 505 East Middlefield Road, Mountain View, CA 94043-4082 MacZap tools and click on volume infor- Telephone: (415) 969-3700 TELEX: 172282 TWX: 910 379 6978 mation, the error checking is done auto- matically. All you have to do is OK the fix. Clicking is “awkward”? JBM 9 registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. NETWAY {s a registered trademark of T-Data Appleflk is a radomark of Appie Computer, Inc Macintogh is trademark licensed 9 Apple Computer, Ine Circle 51 on reader service card Letters Fedit cannot rewrite tracks 0 and 1, which might be necessary to repair damage to allocation tables and directory blocks. Most of the problems with damaged fall into two main categories: deleted s, in which all directory information has been erased, and allocation problems, which come about due to many reasons when the allocation table is not accurate. MacZap can handle both these types of file problems if you supply the file number, though your reviewer complains about that technique. No recovery program to date can au- tomatically solve problems that occur due to power problems, memory glitches, or bugs in software that scramble the internal structure of a file, because the internal structures of files are usually secret. Les Herbst Austin, Texas Mr. Herbst is correct in pointing out that MacZap bas more advanced features than its competition; I stated that in my review. However, I maintain that MacZap is inferior to other disk editors because of its awkward design. The program's screen is littered with buttons that could be better organized into discrete dialog boxes. MacZap also has items on some of its menus that aren't commands but tech- nical reminders, You choose what ap- pears to be a command, but nothing happens. Mr. Herbst is also correct that prob- lems with a disk’s boot blocks are rare and that you can still access files on the disk by starting the Mac with a different disk and then inserting the damaged one. Still, Fedit’s ability to rewrite boot blocks is usefut if this one-time-in-a- million problem happens to you. It’s also true that Fedit 3.0 cannot automatically correct errors in a disk’s allocation table or directory blocks. In most cases, however, you can still recover a damaged file by copying its data toa new file. MacTools, on the other able to repair damaged directories. In conclusion, I stand by my origi- nal assessment of MacZap. It’s a powerful and potentially useful program 4 willing to wrestle with its unintuil sign and struggle through tts poorly or- ganized manual, People who aren't fa- (continues on page 48) of macros is very well done... 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The rest of us can also get a lot out of it.” —Steven Bobker - MacUser Oct. ’85 “For those of you who are heavily into programming on your Mac, a new utiliry, HeapShow . . . looks like a very useful development tool.” —Ebbe B. Ebbesen - The MACazine Sept. ’85 “I can recommend a friendlier debugging tool... HeapShow . . . “It follows Macintosh user interface conventions, and gives an information- packed display, so it is much easier to get started with...” —Eric Zocher - The MACazine Sept. '85 e Includes Built-in Screen Protection Feature. e Now Shipping Version 3.0 for: CO indser euatelede $79 Add $3 for Handling In Texas add $4 Sales Tax B/T Computing Corp. Linking Mind and Machine e Same Day Shipping on Prepaid Orders. P.O. Box 1465 Euless, TX 76039 Call Toll Free 1-800-THE MIND Texans call (817) 267-1415 — e Not Copy Protected === HeapShow is a wademark of B/T Computing Co Macintosh isa trademark licensed by Apple Com ss Circle 173 on reader service card Ine 48 February 1986 Letters (continued from page 45) miliar with the technicalities of disks, however, will find it more difficult to use than other disk editors. For them, Fedit and MacTools are the better choices.— Jim Heid Delimited Edition From time to time I run across a reference toa book entitled /nside Macintosh that contains information and documentation that could be helpful in developing one’s own programs. The book does not appear in the bookstores, and the local computer store is unable to find a copy. Can you tell me if it is out of print, out of date, or simply not avail- able to the average Macintosh user? Charles Alba Dayton, Obio Originally available directly from Apple Computer, Inside Macintosh is now pub- lished by Addison-Wesley. The hard-c edition—1600 pages—costs $79.95. paperback edition comes in three parts that you can purchase separately. Vol- umes 1 and 2 work in tandem and retail Jor $29.95 each. Volume 1 gives an over- view of the ROM software covered in the three books and includes the user inter- Jace guidelines and QuickDraw and Toolbox documentation. Volume 2 cov- ers the operating system, communica- tions, and input/output. Volume 3, $19.95, covers the Finder, hardware, and other areas and includes a glossary and a series of appendices for the set. If the books are not available in local book- stores, order directly from Addison- Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA 01867. Warp Speed Gordon McComb states in his article, “In Search of a Better Mouse” (Macworld, Au- gust 1985], that an entire 20-page typewrit- ten manuscript could be entered into a Macintosh in about 5 minutes with an Omni-Reader from Oberon International. | believe that pace to be unattainable. 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