MacWorld 8708 August 1987

The Mac Goes MS-DOS Three paths to connectivity 9 Tape Drives for ‘Hard Disk Backup _ Desk Accessories | ’ Boost Performance - On September 30, 1985 we announced the most powerful, most versatile spreadsheet ever. 66/f you're a spreadsheet user, Microsoft Excel is one of the best reasons to buy a Macintosh ... After being loyal and dedicated 1-2-3" users for several years, we've just recently converted all our 1-2-3 files over to Microsoft Excel. It’s that good.99 Don Crabb, info World, November 10,1986 6¢ Microsoft Excel is unquestionably the most powerful spreadsheet program available on any personal COMPUELEL.ID on voor rtacwond, September 1985 6¢/n terms of features and ease of use, Microsoft Excel makes 1-2-3 look rather pale. 99 ine Seybold Outlook On Professional Computing, October 20, 1986 -8088. In Canada, eall (416) 673-7638. idemark and Macintosh is a trademark of Apple 6¢Microsoft Excel is easy to learn, but better, it’s also easy to use. Best of all, you can easily get at Microsoft Excel’s powerful macro capability. 99 Jerry Pournelle, Byte, April 1986 66Microsoft Excel has implemented the most all-inclusive and powerful use of linking yet seen in micro spreadsheets... It offers what appears to be an almost unlimited range of appiontian possibilities.99 Will Tompkins, The MACazine, Vol. 2, No. 10 : bie PC-DOS programs in alls -F three areas.99 ‘2 William Zachmann, Computerworld, December 8, 1986 Itseems we underrated tt. Microsoft MACWORLD August 1987 Departments ‘ eek, biog m, 69 see this IBM on rs fy pnp cover, wait nec p 108. (P ash Bishop.) 11 Mac Bulletin Late-breaking news. 17 David Bunnell 25 Letters Comment: jerry Borrell 9 tt orice 53 Steven Levy \ Verbatim ‘mer Apple evangelist Gu awasaki looks back. lac software, ‘ SCSI cele rd processing in the tpi argins, longér trae? cables; “manta p, and mc pital (started wit o \ PRtacinto (Giaphies vf ea 's pencil to PostScript - __programming-graphics concepts L Pal ee ee lained. ie if a Pacer f —— “205 How To/Insights onMore —— Make your outlines More flexible, d it cy “ m 4 More efficient, and More appealing. 17 He 2 August 1987 — 2 if \ A 239 Ah Buy Information on products in this issue. ~e2AdenbestSel llers The Macintosh ™ Magazine 93 Macworld News = Real Estate Software Boom New tools for brokers, investors, and buyers. ® Teaching English with the Mac The iglish Consortium stretches students’ language skills. "Mac tl and 3-D The first color 3-D programs arrive. ® Robots and Beyond The Mac stars in a state-of-the-art traveling technology show. Plus reportsondesktop video, new Inside Macintosh volumes, favorite desk accessories, the Mac in Yemen, and more. Catch up with the galactic bitchbiker— p. 93. ~~~ that bridge the gap between Apple | and IBM. | m “Sag First Edition », " | i A A 2 < “_ Aprintshop prime: vithon “publication in print without putting Pers Fin hock. | il 120 ADA in the Life Better living throu: *\, if 151 lesk accessories. { aT 51 { 128 Safety Net for Storage , Walk away from disk crdshesiiine tape drives for easy backup. “== 138 = Top of the Charts The Mac's a hit in the music biz: sound advice from top pros. 154 156 157 158 159 160 162 In the pit with the New York City Ballet's Tom Moredock—p. 138. Don't let disk crashes bring you down Protect your data ith a tape drive e "Saif for iskTop Finder ahernative, f ‘i - Storage ress! Read All About It! ss clesktop publishing. 4 Spellswell, from Working spare. The Perils ot _ Patton vs Rommel war game. I sy Ways to Excel Excell ent Exchange templates fo rxcel applications. 4 yf “an 53 APro; amming Language on ‘SC’s APL Plus, Billing Your Clients Let Project Billing mind the meter. Made to Specifications MacSpec word processor for technical documents. Seize the Data Data Desk statistical analysis. Fast Relief for Security Headaches Hard Disk Partition organizes and protects hard disk files. Gender-Specific Leather and Lace Leather Goddesses of Phobos and Moonmist interactive fiction. High-Power Communications inTalk communications and terminal emulation. Making It Big Zoom in with inLarge. Macworld = 3 MACWORLD David Bunnell Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline Poitier Director/Art and Design J. Kelley Younger Editorial Director Karen Wickre Editorial Administrator Jerry Borrell Editor Christopher Burg Art Director Editorial Managing Editor: Charles Barrett Senior Associate Editor: Adrian Mello (Feature: Senior Technical Editor: David Ushijima sociale Editors: Nancy E. 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Turbo Mouse has two mouse buttons - one for right-handed users and another for lefties. And, since it’s only 4” x 6”, Turbo Mouse will fit neatly at the end of your keyboard. For Macintosh™, Mac Plus, Apple® Ile, or Ic, ask for model 62350. For Macintosh SE, Mac Il, or Apple IIGS, ask for model 62352. For more information, or a dealer near you, call (800) 535-4242. In NY (212) 475-5200. KENSINGTON. CJ Check your in-box. Now check ours. THINK Technologies proudly presents InBox,” winner of the MacUser Editors’ Choice Award for 1986 as the best new desktop communications package. The InBox family of products can be used on AppleTalk™ and NetBIOS LANs to transfer spreadsheet, word processing, database, graphics, publishing and other files from Mac to Mac, Mac to PC, PC to Mac and PC to PC. You can also create, send and receive memos and phone messages. All while running other applications. Plus, new Version 2.0 supports multiple message centers for larger ee and no longer requires a dedicated Mac. Now you can share information, communi- cate more and meetless. For more information or the name of the dealer nearest you, call 1-617-863-5595. Or write to us at the address below. waar INBOX fy ie f Pliga card into the SE and make quick connection with mainframesand networks. Adda5.25 disk drive, and (wit the right card, ‘301 can use information created on IBM or compatible PCs. Or ran MS-DOS programs. Floorit. In a Macintosh SE, a 68020 accelerator card gives you license to exceed the speed limit. Macintosh SE. The perfect place to start building-equipped with cabuiltin 20MByle hard dish (ora second internal floppy) and one internal expansion slot. PPHCALONS, | SPectal connectan St orallto lab instrianents The new AppleColoF High-Resolution RGB monitor can create brilliant hues and rue gray scaleon your Macintosh. Infinety-delailed 40x 480 pixel resolution. Also available:a 12" monochrome monitor. How tobuild your You've heard about them. You've read about them. By nov, you've probably even seen them. Our latest leaps in technology the new Macintosh’ SE and Macintosh II personal computers, have been getting their share of, ae ~ But to add to what you may already know, wed like to tell you ries et their most powerful feature: expandability Its something we made possible by adding expansion slots, So you can easily customize your Macintosh to meet the demands of any business. You can, for example, set up a sys- tem that’s perfect for major-league number crunching. Or add features to give you even greater power for Apple Desktop Publish- ing, like displays as tie as 21 inches. The SE sports one expansion slot. While the Macintosh II takes the idea of expansion to the extreme-with six 32-bit NuBus slots. Which have the good sense to configure themselves, and require you to do nothing more than plug in the options of your choice, Such as an 80286 co-processor card that lets you run programs written for MS-DOS computers. And a video card that produces near-photographic images resenting the Apple Extended Keyboarc Complete with 15 programmable function keys, as wellas separate cursor and rameric keypads ‘SEorMacintosh ll Wilh either the SE or the Ua targe-screen monitor (available from other marnsfacturers) can give Jou the big picture And show you up to two pages atonce ; He ’ : : Ifyou lose it yon ning one of the HS six Stree, Sapa , ae Se i cantuse it, The Hols you can tie into : “ : Apple Tape Backup ihe company } i 3 oo ls - 40SC safeguards iframe ora office * ‘ : : the work on your etwor like Ethernet : | 1 ‘| hard disk Pronto. The Macintosh I hasa lightning-fast 32-bit Motorola 68020 processor a C8881 coprocessor and six NuBus expansion slots ‘The Macintosh Il Video Card can generate colors 256 ala time, alup lo eight bits per pixel Using a palette ofover 16 million colors. roma palette of over 16 million colors. As for storage, there’ plenty. With way to build the Macintosh of your dreams. ‘The new Macintosh computers are _either computer, you get the option of an We've also arranged to make sure Wuilt to be customized in other ways, too, internal hard disk. Or an external one that —_you have the perfect workshop: an author- You can set up your SE with up can store up to 80 megabytes. ized Apple dealer* o four megabytes of memory, so it has You can also choose between two Where you can get some expert he power to run the most sophisticated keyboards. One of which has 15 function assistance choosing your options. _.@. rograms. And configure the II with up keys that come in handy when delving Soall you have to do is stop oeight megabytes a aed on the into special plat ‘ in. And get to work. we. nain board, or a walloping 1.5 gigabytes And as you might expect, we've is ising the expansion slots. done more than just give you a very good Thepowerto beyourbest: > Ape Contr peared ag are eee doar oA Ctr Machu pple are omar mec DONva raster dear o Mir Co iat radar der natoalBuses Machines Corp Mbloroa sa registered tademarhof fora. bermetisa repsteredtmudemarkoy Neras-Conp. Nubtestcetademarkef Wexaskastreanents* Foran auaorized Nope dealer near ya alt (800) 538: 0 Ext 30, THE NEW YORK TIMES: “MicroPhone is a breakthrough in communications software...” LOS ANGELES TIMES: “The program is more sophisticated and easier to use than any...on either the PC or the Mac” MACWORLD: “ -»brings together the best traits of every Mac communications program’ INFOWORLD: “MicroPhone is the easiest communications package we've seen.” With reviews like these who needs advertising? They say the best advertising is v of mouth, So we're reprinting some of the multi tude of words that have alrez een sa about MicroPhone communications for the Ma And what they're saying, universall that MicroPhone—created by Dennis Brothers as far outdistanced all its predecessors, That for the novice, MicroPhone is the sim- plest telecom softw: ihe expert, MicroPhone for the lazy. MicroPhone gives you the mi infinitely elaborate mi (automated) rou- tines with infinite simplicity. Its powerful script language is written in plain English, and it also features a recording mode that watches, saves, and repeats what you do, So no programming skills i ¥ jot is you time, y mating virtually’ every operation you now If you prefe to initiate this sequenc the disk. Or automatics time, day night. Or at regular intervals nything else you need to do, from coll ID number and password. ing stock quotes to sending and receiving fi through the is just as simple, for mail. Log off if there is none, And if there 7 is, MicroPhone will collect, print, and nm n messages to your disk. TI Ata single command from you, Phone will dial your y it out at home or office. an find out firsthand just what a . Without -yback guarantee, no question ed, Which is virtually unprecedented nce MicroPhone is not copy : protected, we obviously have vas ‘Mevts with ALL Macintosh confidence both in our program. models & Laser Writer = Mocks with aff async modems Whopes iactoded) ‘*dnctades Switcher & CompuServe subscription *Mnctodes text editor licensed ‘hora Dreams of the Phoenix tne. ++ Documentation by Neil Shapiro 5 VE 2907 Claremont Avenue Circle 768 on reader service card ity to the SE through clip-on MegaModules ($99 each). The first two modules are MMVideo, which offers user- definable video capabilities— including NTSC, PAL, and exter- nal Mac standard signals—and MegaModule Developer Kit, which allows access to the Mac SE's data bus through a 60-pin connector. More Fonts and Printers B Speaking of PostScript, two additional high-resolution plain-paper printers are com- ing on the market, From East Hanover, New Jersey, comes Varityper’s VI600 ($18,750), a 600-dots-per-inch laser printer that uses its 68020-based raster image processor to produce ten pages per minute, Compu- graphic of Wilmington, Massa- chusetts, is marketing the CG 400-PS ($29,995), which is Agfa- Gevaert’s 400-dpi laser printer with Adobe's Atlas raster image processor, a 20MB hard disk, and 73 fonts. Qume Corpora- tion of San Jose, California, in- troduced Script-Ten, a 300-dpi, ten-pages-per-minute laser printer that offers emulation of the HP Laserjet Plus. ScriptTen comes in a 2MB versi ($4795) and a 3MB v ($5295). New fonts due out from Post- Script originator Adobe Sys- tems include New Gothic; ‘Tiffany; Cooper Black; Carta (a cartographic font developed at Adohe); and two sets of Letraset display fonts—one set contail tencil, Hobo, and Brushscript; the other offers Aachen, Revue, University Ro- man, and Freestyle Script. ‘sion | The More DAs the Merrier A forthcoming utility; Sesit- case, will let you load up on fonts, F-keys, and desk accesso- ries to your heart's content— without resorting to the Font’ DA Mover shuffle, The small Init (which you install simply by dragging its icon into the System Folder) comes from Steve Brecher, who is also re- sponsible for the shareware Finder-substitute WayStation, Originated by another pro- grammer, Ron Risley, to break through the Mac’s restrictions on the number of desk accesso- ries, Brecher’s current beta ver- sion provides instant access to | practically unlimited quantities of fonts, F-keys, and desk ac- cessories, all without any Sys- tem installation, Savvy fol- lowers of utility programs may recognize Suitcase as the suc- cessor to. Da Thing and Da Mob. Suitcase requires 512K or more RAM and works with the recently introduced Mac SE and Mac II; the utility will not be copy protected. Ina departure from his past efforts, Brecher plans to com- mercially distribute the utility himself, this time posting only a demonstration version of Suttcase on information ser- vices like CompuServe. PC Network Files Chapter 11 PB PC Network, 4 Chicago mail order hardware and soft ware supplier, filed for protec- tion from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bank- ruptcy Code. The company, which grossed about $40 mil- lion last fiscal year, at press time owed about $5 million to cred- itors, including roughly $1 mil- lion to consumers, Most of that | Mail Order Channel,” Mac- #1 million is owed to customers whose purchases were on back order, according to company president Steve Dukker The company canceled all back orders in May (people who still want the goods must call in again), People who paid for unreceived goods with a credit card can make a charge- back claim to their credit card: company (tips for charge-backs were printed in “Navigating the world, March 1987). According to Dukker, the company is now operating prof itably but remains saddled with debt from a business slump a year ago, Dulsker predicts that the company will emerge from Chapter 11 this fall—as long as PC Network's reorganization plan is accepted by its cred- itors—with a little help from in- yestors who were waiting in the wings at press time. Desktop Publishing Network ® = The latest wrinkle in desk- top publishing: mueéfiuser page layout. Migent of Incline Vil- lage, Nevada, is introducing a page-makeup program that works on a network, soa group can compile a publication by committee, The $395 product, due out this summer, promises to be the Mac’s first multiuser: electronic publishing system. Tentatively named Light- house, the program provides all the standard features, such as kerning, adjustable leading, and positioning text and flow- ing it across pages, as well as advanced graphics capabilities a substantial word proces- sor with a thesaurus, a glossary, and a spelling checker Text files can be shared to the para- graph level and graphic objec to the single-object level (no two users can work simulta- neously on the same paragrap or object), Lighthouse, which runs on the Mac Plus, the SE, and the Mac Il, can also impor text and graphics from MS-DC files, providing yet another: dimension of networking functionality. Migent also publishes /- House Accountant and make a portable battery-operated modem that works with the Mac. More Graphics en Route B® Deneba Systems of Mian Florida, creator of Maclight- ning, Voila, and Memorandu (all published by Target Soft- ware), is preparing to launch Canvas, a $195 graphics pro- gram in the same vein as Sil- icon Beach's SuperPaint, The new program, due out this summer, integrates bitmap Braphic tools like those of Ma Paint and object-oriented too like those of MacDraw. The product, which allows design: ers to embed PostScript com- mands, comes with a desk ac- cessory version that will later be released separately, Add-on Ethernet An adapter board devel- oped jointly by Apple and 3Com will let the Macintosh 1 connect directly to a 10-mega: bits-per-second Ethernet net- work that enables Mac and IB PC users to share the same fil ona single server, The board, due out by the end of the year will be marketed by Apple as EtherTalk ($899); 3Com will market itas 3+-Mac (under $600). A version for the SE is also forthcoming. D Macworld u n Expert Assistant Enabling Technologies’ wwly introduced statistical ilysis program, tentatively ti- d SmartStat, not only sup- arts color (how about color ding for better window man- ement?) and accepts files in SCII, 7-2-3, and SPSS formats, iit comes with a unique cm of help. Rather than the pical window of text, nartStat’s desk accessory led the Assistant aids you in- ractively. The Assistant helps iu decide whether to choose ynlinear regression, crosstabs, “two-way ANOVA analysis by king you questions in simple glish and drawing upon a 1iltin knowledge base to offer iu alternatives. The Assistant could be paired ith knowledge bases on sub- cts other than statistics. In ct, Enabling Technologies ay Offer its intelligent help ‘stem to other developers to clude with their programs. ipgrades for SE nd Mac II » Rumors of incom- bilities between the new ac SE and Mac II and some “isting application programs ive been followed by a spate ‘announcements of forthcom- 18 software updates. Microsoft 4s announced version 1.04 of xcel, which is Mac I and ppleSbare compatible and ee to registered 1,03 users. est Corporation has upgraded version 1.1 the Publish Pac ftware that accompanies its 2 Scan Plus desktop scanner, ich works with the SE and ith Adobe Systems’ /i/zss- trator. Software Ventures’ MicroPhone was scheduled to, go into version 1.1, with SE and Mae I compatibility as well as improved YT100 emulation. Ex- pect many more upgrade an- nouncements this summer as application software evolves to keep up with the new hardware. Music Makers > Integrated Music Systems of San Carlos, California, has begun shipping the Dyaxis 16- bit audio-to-digital conversion system that “makes the M; sound like a compact disk,” ac- cording to company president Jerry Kearby. The SCSI device samples sounds at the profes- sional standard rates of 48 and: 44.1 kHz, but it also allows users to specify lower sampling. rates to conserve space on the accompanying disk drive. The Dyaxis software, designed by Adrian Freed, a programmer who helped design the sound environment at internationally renowned IRCAM in Paris, al- lows mouse-driven editing of the sound waveforms and mix- ing of digitized sounds to create new sounds altogether. Tntended for a professional audience, the Dyaxis conver- sion device costs $3000; the ac- companying hard disk drive adds $250 (80MB) to $9500 (80MB). Look for news about similar Mac II developments that will bring the price of the technology down to a point at which nonprofessionals can afford it. Micah Drives Again ID of Newark, Delaware, a company that included Micah drives in its packages of hard- ware and software for dental of fices, has taken over marketing the drives, which had been un- available since the West Coast hard drive maker declared bankruptcy last November, The new supplier, calling itself Micah Storage Systems, a quired the assets of the ailing company and the license to the technology and now plans to. reissue Micah's internal drives for the Mac 512K and the 512KE. The company also ex- pects to introduce an internal drive for the Mac SE, 30MB and 45MB external drives, and a: 45/45 drive/tape backup combination. Additionally, the company: will market video technology developed by IDT: the Micah Vision ($450) and Micah Dou- bleVision ($750) high-resolu- tion monochrome video boards for the SE, originally intended to display, manipulate, and en- hance X-ray images. The 32- bits-per-pixel monochrome video boards for the Mae U will debut at the Macworld Expo this month, Micah Storage Systems plans to perform repairs at cost for people who bought drives from the original maker and will of fer a program similar to a one- year warranty to those owners fora few hundred dollars. Aldus to Go Public ® Riding on the success of its PageMaker page-layout pro- gram, Seattle-based Aldus Cor- poration made a public offering Mac Bulletin Of 1.35 million shares of its stock, The stock was expected to open at $14 to $16 per share, which would raise up to $21.6 million, The desktop publishing field that PageMaker pioneered has become increasingly com- petitive, but Aldus has kept in step with a new Mac version as well as an IBM yersion of its program, which has been se- lected by IBM for distribution with its new hardware. More SE Options > Last month we reported on internal hard disk drives for the Mac SE from Rodime and CMS Enhancements, Mirror Technologies of Hugo, Min- nesota, is also offering 30MB ($1095) and 45MB ($1295) in- ternal drives, bundled with Think Technologies’ Laser- Speed laser printer spooler, Mirror's ImageWriter spooler, and Mirror's backup software. Micrographic Images of Can- oga Park, California, maker of the MegaScreen, is shipping: the first large-screen monitors for the Macintosh SE, The 19%2- inch MegaScreen SE and SE*M. monitors ($1995 each) come with a video interface board, a cable, and MegaTalk, an E-mail program that runs on the SE's internal monitor. The Mega- Screen SE can accept an op- tional math coprocessor ($349). The SE*M incorporates Micrographic Images’ modular expansion interface card that allows users to add functional- (continues) 12 August 1987 If you already have a Macintosh™ and Laser Writer!" congratulations. You're using desktop publishing’s two most productive tools. But if you really want to get serious, you need one more. The Radius Full Page Display.™ See the whole page. Since the FPD lets you see a full 8%" x 11” page, it virtually eliminates scrolling within individual pages. By seeing the entire page on the screen, you know exactly how it will appear on paper. 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David Bunnell Apple Computer's brand-new software company, which is headed by its former vice president of sales, Bill Campbell, may be as yet unnamed. But no matter what la- bel Apple decides to stick on that can of software, you can be sure of one thing. It's going to achieve instant recognition among Macintosh consumers. In fact, this new firm is already the fourth-largest software company in the market—ranking right behind Microsoft, Lotus, and Ashton-Tate—just by virtue of its less than humble origins. Of course, it helps to have a great cata- log of existing software. Just a glance at the Macworld Best-Sellers list on the last page of this magazine shows some of the com- pany’s powerful initial offerings—Mac- Draw, MacPaint, MacTerminal, Apple- Talk. Not too shabby for a start-up. The firm's immediate task is to get out the software products that it has in-house. Reportedly, there are some new versions of MacProject and MacDraw as well as some other programs in the pipeline. The charter of Apple’s new software company is to find products that will fit into areas that Apple has not yet pene- trated, Its mission, simply put, is to become the most profitable and most successful software company in the world. With Apple's funding, Bill Campbell's ace marketing skills, and a crack team of Apple alumni on board (including Camp- bell’s right-hand man, John Zeisler, and software evangelist Kyle Mishima), the company might just be able to pull it off. Having the inside track on Apple’s fu- ture product line will virtually guarantee the company’s success—especially when you consider that it takes a year or two to develop programs for the market. That's a big edge to have over the competition, Call it inside trading of ideas, or what- ever you like, Such synchronicity is felici- tous, and probably downright profitable. The question is, what's going on? Is Apple in the software business or not? You may recall Apple's decision to quit the software market, That was announced soon after its former software evangelist Guy Kawasaki left in a huff and a puff to start his own company, Acius, and market the fabled Silver Surfer database—which Apple had originally intended to bring out. That is, Apple was going to bring it out until a number of third-party software de- velopers, including Microsoft and Ashton- Tate, ganged up and threatened to do terri- ble things like cry and gnash their teeth and pull out of the Macintosh software market if Apple persisted in releasing this whopper of a database that would compete with their own products. As the saying goes, when faced with the Ayatollahs of software and their funda- mentalist wrath, Apple blinked. The entire sordid tale has yet to be told: all the machinations, gyrations, in- trigues. Not to mention the secret trips to Paris to visit the brilliant young French pro- grammer Laurent Ribardiére, who had cre- ated Le Silver Surfer under the watchful and shrewd eye of his software patron Maryléne Delbourg Delphis. It’s a tale of broken promises, tar- nished ideals, and business as usual. If John Le Carré wrote about software, he might have tackled that story. He could have called it The Software that Came in from the Cold. Suffice it to say, Apple had to decide then and there whether to remain in the software business or not. The decision was crystal clear. It was “yes and no.” Apple couldn't risk alienating third- party developers by releasing Silver Surfer. After sacrificing that program to the wolves (it’s now Acius’s 4th Dimension), Apple scrambled to reorganize itself so that such a lost opportunity would never haunt it again. Actually, it was a wise move for Apple to cut a wedge out of itself. As an indepen- dent unit, the new software firm will prob- ably be able to make decisions faster and make progress without all the political headaches and bureaucratic nightmares (continues) Macworld = 17 The MegaDrive’with 10mB MegaFloppy ‘disks is here. This small SCSI drive is creating a huge sensation. And little wonder. New MegaDrive from Jasmine gives you the power ofa hard disk drive with the freedom of a floppy. Even though it gives you the best of both worlds, MegaDrive is unlike any hard disk or floppy drive you've ever seen before. rive, the bess The drive is vir tually “crashless” and doesn’t require head clean- ing or maintenance. You can switch the 10 megabyte floppies between machines. %) Carry them in your pocket. Mail them. Throw them a drawer. Each one is encased in 54" hard The media itself is hard-sectored so you can feinitialize without losing data. MegaDrive and MegaFloppy are trademarks of jasmine Technologies. Macintosh isa trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Product prices and specifications subject to change. ices the reed Everyone wants it. Our music friends love MegaDrive because it only takes one MegaFloppy to hold a dozen floppies’ worth of electronic sampling. And MegaDrive performs many times faster than standard floppy drives, so you can experiment more easily with music and the Mac. But hear this: MegaDrive is so quiet even those with sensitive ears can barely hear it. Ifyou do desktop publishing you'll definitely want a MegaDrive. Like a hard drive, it gives you the capacity you need for digitized images, artwork and whole projects. Unlike a hard drive, it keeps on growing, and growing and growing. Economically And when it’s time to take that 300-page manual to the typesetter or printer, you don’t need a series of floppies. Just one MegaFloppy. GH pe : ee ir ae ie espn But let’s get down to business. Instead of mingling Smith with Jones ona hard drive, accountants can keep clients on separate MegaFloppy disks, Bankers can lock up the media at night without locking up drives. In departments that share a single drive, MegaDrive gives everyone their own 10MB domain. Your disk, and the information it contains, is yours alone. The same is now possible in schools, hospitals and libraries where one drive serves many With MegaDrive, to each his own. Full SCSI speed and compatibility. MegaDrive hooks up to the Macintosh Small Computer Interface (SCSI) port just like a hard drive or can be daisy chained to other SCSI devices such as a Jasmine Direct Drive hard disk. Macintosh 512 Enhanced owners can upgrade to SCSI with Jasmine’s JasPort adapter for $129 without internal modifications or soldering. power patna pions Price includes 30 day trial/ money back guarantee and full one year warranty. Before you buy MegaDrive, consider this. Others offer a much shorter standard warranty on drives and force you to pay extra for a one year war- ranty. At Jasmine we stand behind our drives. If for any reason you are not satisfied with the MegaDrive you may return it within 30 days for a fullmoney back refund. Jasmine: Quality you can afford To order call (415) 621-4339 MegaDrive © $999—Prepaid cash price O $1029—Visa/MasterCard price MegaFloppy Disks 2 $39.95 each—Prepaid cash price OD $41.15 each —Visa/MasterCard price MegaFloppy Three-Pack* D $109.95 for 3—Prepaid cash price O $113.25 for3 —Visa/ MasterCard price *“Three-packs include handy Storage Case mee Call for dealer and developer pricing. Air Fright $20.00 CA residents a 5% sales tx COD. ondersadd 5% + sping Same day rsh pment ava at cctracharge #9 Jasmine Technologies, Inc. 555 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 Circle 747 on reader service card NTHROCART” Mobile. . .a key reason why people like the AnthroCart, Share your hardware. Move it around, Take it room to room or floor to floor. AnthroCart. High-tech furniture for high-tech equipment, Space saver. Compact. Rugged. The AnthroCart is designed to move. Designed so your workspace is as slick as your hardware. Call us: 800-325-3841 David Bunnell common at Apple. It will be able one thing—developing But despite all the corporate camou- flage and declarations of independence, the new situation is still very confusing to most third-party developers. Is there or isn’t there a conflict of interest? First of all, remember that Apple has a group of evangelists whose job it is to work with third-party developers—to encourage them and to steer them in the right direc- tion. Apple also hi enture fund to pro- ide backing for outside product develop- ment. In this way, the company has backed Forethought, maker of the popular Power- Point presentation graphics program— reportedly to the tune of about $7 million. isted Touch Communications in bringing out its OSI (Open Systems In- terconnect) communications program, ex- panding the M: onnections with other computers. And Apple is looking at fund- ing another half-dozen firms by the fall. So what's the dilemma? Apple oftware spin-off is sup- posed to be treated just like any other inde- pendent company, without any special pri ileges. Along with the rest of the crowd, it’s expected to hustle and cajole Apple in order to obtain comarketing assistance and support. However, given the nature of its relationship to Apple, how can anyone be- lieve that it’s not enjoying a tremendous built-in advantage? This is bound to create bad feelin; among software developers. So, what is Apple really up to? I'm going to do some theorizing, with my crystal ball. Is the real conflict of interest here with third-party software developers? Is Apple setting itself up against itself? Or does it see something no one else sees yet? Take this future scenario. Apple's soft- ware company is a big hit. It spins off and goes public. Let’s say that people who own Apple shares will get ten for one, and the new shares can be bought and sold on the t like shares of Apple Computer. a firm that is inherently responsive to its mother company, if Apple’s software spin-off is only developing Macintosh- based software, won't it be limiting itself? (continues) Build color into your graphics with an H Whether you're building sales revenues or designing new kitchens, Hewlett-Packard's family of color plot- ters will make your overheads and CAD drawings more effective. How? With the powerful advantage of high- impact color. An HP graphics plotter will turn your Macintosh into a color graphics powerhouse. Build enthusiasm at your next. presentation with vivid, high-quality overhead transparencies. And high- light important management reports with crisp, professional-looking charts and graphs. All easily prepared by any of HP's business graphics color plotters. If you're designing parts or build- ing up the skyline, color-coded plotter. drawings in sizes A through E will make your designs easier to under- stand and execute. An HP DraftPro or DraftMaster plotter will quickly pro- duce sharp, precise drawings on paper, vellum, or polyester film. And all HP plotters integrate easily with your Macintosh and popu- lar graphics software such as Microsoft Excel, Cricketgraph and MacDratt. For a sample plot, a brochure and name of your nearest HP dealer, call 1-800-367-4772, extension 688A. ‘Microsoft Excel] is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation provided by Grayé Associates, Palo Alto, California 987 Hewie%t- Packard Ca. HEWLETT PACKARD LG Circle 730 on reader service card David Bunnell Shouldn't it be publishing software for any machine that’s viable, as long as money is being generated? After all, lots of products are devel- oped for the Mac that could be ported to other systems. Maybe that’s exactly what Apple's game plan is for the future. Maybe it is planning to develop, say, UNIX-based prod- ucts that can run on any platform. Maybe this is part of Apple's long-term strategy to take over the software world—and to knock Microsoft and the other big guys off their perch, Maybe it’s even indirectly eyeing the IBM PC market. Who knows? After all, it has expressed no strong objection to Forethought's developing a PC version of the Apple-funded PowerPoint program. Maybe Apple’s super Cray has been working late at night, churning out sce- narios for takeovers, buy-outs, and world conquest. In case you haven't noticed, there's a massive power play brewing in the soft- ware market. We're talking cybernetic World War III he: ata shot is going to be fired, either. The whole campaign will be fought with software armie: Apple's recent maneuver to set up its own software company is just a first step in this direction, I have to conclude that com- panies like Microsoft and Ashton-Tate are beginning to feel the heat, The competi- tion is suddenly going to become much stiffer for them. In the near future the software busi- ness could start resembling the airline in- dustry with its mergers and alliances. As the cost of software development con- tinues to skyrocket, it’s going to become increasingly difficult for smaller companies to stay in business on their own. Little software companies will be gob- bled up by big ones. Established MS-DOS companies will be looking for entry into the already crowded Macintosh market. The major houses themselves will not be sacrosanct. Who knows, the firms on the ay well include such giants as shton-Tate, Borland Interna- tional, Living Videotext—and, let's not be squeamish, even Apple itself. We'll see a new breed of software ven- ture capitalists emerging—the carpetbag- gers of software, if you will. They'll be hedging their bets by investing in compa- nies that they suspect—or (shades of Boesky) even know for certain—will be bought out. All that early plotting behind the scenes to wrest control of Silver Surfer away from Apple was just a mild taste of things to come. Fortunately, the end user will benefit from these Machiavellian contortions in the Macintosh marketplace. As the com- petition heats up, software prices will shoot down. In the meantime, it’s going to take sev- eral months for Apple’s new software com- pany to be up and solid under Bill Camp- bell’s able direction. But once it gets going, look out, because it could quickly become the largest Macintosh software provider outside of Microsoft. 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For those of you going places, here’ a little something that solves big storage problems in the time it takes to say “who has the Farnsworth financial files?” Introducing ‘Totem Arather revolutionary Bering 20 mb Bernoulli compact disk drive system for Macintosh computers. And, the first truly portable 514" system. One that lets you tote around 10000 pages of data on a sleek cartridge about the size of a piece of bread. ‘Translated, that’s 25 times the storage you get on one standard floppy. Yet unlike floppies, the Totem is no slouch for speed. It's just as fast as a hard disk. In fact, your com- puter will think its a hard disk. You can even share it with co-workers. And its advanced Bernoulli aero- dynamics make it resist head crashing. If you've ever used hard disks, you know what a pain that can be, But the real beauty of ‘Totem is that it fits per- fectly right under your Mac. No mess. No fuss. And no extra hardware to buy. To add storage, just pick up another Totem cartridge. Last, but certainly not least, there's a whole family of ‘Totem drives to choose from. They're all in the brochure. To get yours, write or call Bering Industries, Inc., 280 Technology Circle, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, Inside California, call 800 533-DISK. Call 800 BERING 1 outside California. Just say ‘“T'll take it? BERING a Circle 627 on reader service card a PREPARE TO ENTER HYPERTEXT. Guide uses the advanced features ofthe Macintosh® to allow you to view multiple documents at the Everything you've heard is true. Hypertext is no longer a vision waiting to happen... Guide? the first hypertext system for personal computersis available today. Now you can apply the most innovative prin- ciples of hypertext to your information management. Guide is the first true hypertext system that lets you create “electronic documents” to manage information. It provide with virtually limitless flexibility in creating, storing, retrieving and assembling text and graphics. Click the mouse on a “hot-spot” or button and Guide can open the document to show more detail, display your notes in a “pop-up” window or even take you to cross-referenced information in another document. ‘The Guide Hypertext Sytem isa registered trademark of OW. Intemational, In. same time. It frees you to structure your documents the way you like to work. To flow through information without the limits of rigid program formats, Guide is as flexible as you are. Use it to cross refer- ence related subjects li reports with client data. Manage your personal schedule by linking your appointments to background reports. Guide also a writing tool for the creation of electronic mail messages, product specifications, research reports, contracts, technical documents, training materials, online manuals and much more. Circle 547 on reader service card What the press is saying about Guide “Beyond word processing”—Byte “Guide offers such interesting opportunities that there is almost too much that can be done” —MacUser juide points the way to the future’—Macworld We invite you to experience Guide and disc how hypertext will eventually rey office, at home and in school. See Guide at your local computer store or call OWL International at (206) 747-3203 ...and prepare to enter hypertext. Guide for the Macintosh runs on a Macintosh 512K or greater. Suggested Retail Price—$134.95 Includes MiniGuide desk aceessory ‘Macintosh isa registered trademark of Apple Compute, Inc: Letters A forum for Macworld readers Moonlighting Detail May's Macworld News shows a picture of Maddie Hayes from ABC's “Moonlighting” with her Mac. While it’s nice to see the Mac dressing up the set, doesn’t the harried de- tective know that she risks magnetic inter- ference from the Mac's power supply and video circuitry? The external disk drive be- longs on the right side. Duncan J. McKenzie Niles, Illinois Right you are; data on the floppy disk can be damaged if you put the drive to the left of the Mac. Set designers and Mac users take note.—Ed. Corrections Stepping Out, mentioned in April’s Mac Bulletin, is available from Berkeley Sys- tem Design, 1708 Shattuck Ave., Berke- ley, CA 94709, 415/540-5536. AutoSave DA (April Mac Bulletin) is available for $24.95 from Magic Soft- ware, 121 W. Mission St., Bellevue, NE 68005, 402/291-0670 or 800/342-6243. The correct address for Working Software, publisher of Spellswell, men- tioned in May Updates, is 327 Alvarado St., Ste. H, Monterey, CA 94930, 408/375-2828. Data Tailor’s Trapeze (Where to Buy, May 1987) lists for $295. For infor- mation about the product, call 817/ 332-8944. MapMaker version 2.0 (Where to Buy, 1987) requires only 512K minimum memory. High Hopes for a Laptop Mac I believe there is a ttemendous market for a fairly simple, portable Mac in the $1000 to $1500 price range. It ought to include an 800K internal drive plus a small EPROM slot (or two 800K internal drives), IMB of mem- ory, and an internal 1200-baud modem —all fitting into my briefcase. It should also be able to drive a small portable printer, such as the HP ThinkJet. Is the baby Mac afoot or am I just dreaming? Jobn Eisner Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada You're not the only one dreaming of a small, affordable Mac portable, but so far nobody's made any product announce- ments, We'll be sure to let you know.—Ed. Look and Feel My compliments on David Bunnell’s May editorial on the Lotus “look and feel” suit. We cannot copyright fashions or jokes. That we continue to see new fashions and new jokes each year answers the people 2 8 2 3 3 who think that the failure to protect intel- lectual property will end innovation. An- other answer is provided by Lotus itself, which, while pursuing its legal strategy, is also pursuing a creative marketing strategy that includes launching HAL and other add-ons that work only with 7-2-3. Looks to me like the cloning of 7-2-3 has stimu- lated Lotus's creativity. Sheldon L. Richman Fairfax, Virginia Super Backups Jim Heid’s “Getting Started with Backups” in the February issue was well done. Here's my quick and simple system for backing up my SuperMac DataFrame 20XT. Using the SuperBackup utility that comes with the disk drive, I copy all my ap- plication and system files onto floppies: takes only about half a dozen floppy disks. I put those aside and hope I'll never need (continues) Macworld — 25 OUR OBJECTIVE INLIFE IS TO CONNECT EVERYTHING ‘TOPS, TORS forthe PC, TOPS for rhe Macintosh and TOPS for UND are registered trademarks of Centram Syatems Wey ln. Other products ar HOW MUCH WORK COULD A NETWORK DO IF A NET- WORK COULD DO WORK? WHILE YOU'VE BEEN STRUGGLING WITH NET- WORKING, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING IT. OUR MAJOR CONCLUSION IS THAT NETWORKS NEED TO TAKE THEIR CUES FROM PEOPLE. OUR THE- ORY IS THAT YOU CAN LEAD PEOPLE TO A NET- WORK, BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE THEM USE IT. WHAT MAKES THEM USE IT IS THAT IT LETS THEM BE THEMSELVES. LETS THEM WORK SPONTANEOUSLY- TREATS EVERYONE AS EQUALS- LETS THEM WORK ON THETR COMPUTER OF CHOTCE—PC TO MAC TO UNIX. LETS PEOPLE SERVE THEMSELVES~- PUBLISH THEIR OWN FILES. GO DIRECTLY TO THE SOURCE FOR WHAT THEY NEED. SOME GOOD IDEAS NEVER MAKE IT OUT OF THE LAB. THIS ONE DID. IT'S CALLED TOPS~- PC MAGA- ZINE PRODUCT OF THE YEAR FOR L44b- IT'S DESIGNED FOR A WORLD WHERE EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN IDEAS. CENTRAM, A DIVISION OF SUNMICROSYSTEMS, 2560 NINTH STREET. BERKELEY. CA 44?710- TOPS NETWORK: COME AS YOU ARE- TOEVERY THING, "' OUR OBJECTIVE IN LIFE IS TO CONNECT EVERYTHING TO EVERYTHING. THERE ARE A FEW INSTANCES WHERE UE ‘VE ACTUALLY DONE IT 1. GARY STROUD 5. HEWITT JACKSON. 12. 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Microsoft: 28 August 1987 Letters to see them again. I organize my docu- ments in folders of less than 800K, and I keep a floppy disk with the same name as each of my document folders. Whenever T've worked on something in a folder I drag a copy of the document, or even the whole folder, onto my backup floppy before I shut down. The system is so fast and easy that I actually use it. And after all, that's what any backup system is all about. Seth L. Haber, M.D. Palo Alto, California Life ofa Salesman Am I the only salesman in the country with a Macintosh Plus rather than an IBM-PC compatible? For Big Blue there are Pros- pector’s Helper, Salesman’s Helpers, Ex- Sell, Broker's Ally, and more. Does some- one provide a Mac equivalent for logging and tracking my sales leads? Ted R. Swanek Dubuque, lowa Breakthrough Productions puts out Mar- ket Master, 4 $295 application that tracks leads, prompts you to make calls and send letters at the right time, and handles the mail merge automatically. Judging only by how well the program managed Breakthrough’s persistent calls to us, Market Master could make your follow-up as systematic as clockwork, Contact the publisher at 10659 Caminito Cascara, San Diego, CA 92108, 619/281-6174. —Ed. Getting Started In the March 1987 Macworld there's a piece by Jim Heid, “Getting Started with Spooling,” that does not go far enough. Why not run a competitive spool-off and actually give your readers the lowdown? Hall Barwood San Anselmo, California Jim Heid’'s monthly Getting Started col- umn ts intended to provide background for readers who need basic information and to help them get up to speed. Look to the features or the Reviews section for evaluations of products, such as the June 1987 article, “Speaking of Spoolers.”—Ed. Fractal Fan I couldn't find the MacFractal program by Mark Zimmer that Robert C. Eckhardt wrote about in the March 1987 Macworld (continues) A Crash Course in Accelerator Boards. Listen carefully to the hype surrounding 68020 per- formance options available for Macintosh computers today. Faster this. Quicker that. Nice, simple, glittering generalities about how fast they run. Now, take a look at the fine print.“May not run properly with some programs” or “certain programs may have to be revised to function correctly .” In other words, many of the programs you work with everyday simply won't work with 68020 add-ons. They crash. There is, however, an alternative. One that’s 100% compatible with virtually every Macintosh program. TurboMax, a “clip-on” accelerator board for your Macintosh Plus or 512Ke. TurboMax is more than your typical accelerator board. It’s a multi-function hardware and software sys- tem designed to make you more productive—so you can finish your work sooner. 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Jobn Cartwright Alexandria, Virginia You can find Mackracwal on Educomp's disk number 3. Robert Eckhardt bas un- earthed another fractal program that's fast and fun: Robert P. Munafo's Super MandelZoom, available on Educomp’s disk number 335 or on Public Domain Exchange enumber 112, Public Do- main Exchange's disk number 118 also other fractal programs. For the es of both these organizations, which distribute shareware and public domain software, look in the introduc- tion of the Where to Buy section of Mac- world. For evaluations of more programs ilk, see Eckhardt’s 432-page book, Free (and Almost Free) Software for the Macintosh ($79.95), due out this month from Crown. Accounting for Taste Steve Mann’s review of the Great Plains Accounting Series (Reviews, Macworld, April 1987] was merely Mann's opinion of the Mac interface and the pricing of Great Plains’ after-sale service and support. The reason Mann never once got through to the support people is that he failed to register the software. Not only do we provide the standard support services for our custom- ers-three telephone support plans, up- dates, and a quarterly newsletter—we also offer other services, for example, on-site installation and customer training, chart-of- accounts proofing and setup services, workbooks of frequently asked questions, data conversion services for new versions of the software, and so on. Great Plains is the only M: count ing software offering a complete retail so- lution with point-of-sale invoicing, includ- ing the capability to use cash drawers and bar-code readers. Mann's review gave only lip service to the extensive accounting functionality of the software. Linda Bullert, Product Marketing Manager Great Plains Software Fargo, North Dakota Ashort review can't list every feature ofa complex series of programs like the Great Plains accounting software; in fact, the review specified that only four modules could be covered in the space allotted. (continues) The precision ofa DRAW program The fine detail ofa PAINT program Now combined in SuperPaint Graphics for the Macintosh will never be the same again. Before it was paint or draw. One or the other. Now, nothing less than both will do. With SuperPaint, you can edit dot by dot in the PAINT layer and you can create and manipulate objects in the DRAW layer. Until recently, paint programs only printed at 72 dpi. 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INTERNAL HARD DRIVES Circle 439 on reader service card Letters The review did misstate the reviewer's evaluation of support: a sentence deleted in editing indicated that the Great Plains support people called back one to six hours later to answer his questions. Mann says, “Great Plains does provide a lot of support services that many other accounting software vendors don’t, but you have to pay for all of them. The ser- vices may be useful for companies that can't rely on their CPAs, accounting per- sonnel, or competent third parties, but all the services cost premium prices, aver- aging $50 per how Ee BASIC Chart Update Though “BASIC Choices” in the May 1987 issue was well done and accurate, there are a couple of points covered by the com- parison chart that I'd like to clarify. ZBASIC does, in fact, support long integer variables and user-defined functions (both DEF FN and LONG FN/END EN for multiline func- tions). Michael A. Gariepy, Chairman Zedcor, Inc. 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Inc Circle 732 on reader service card Commentary/Jerry Borrell Whiat’s in a Face? The Mac's famous interface has sold the computer to users. What's next, now that the competition has been sold on the idea? Recently I heard an Apple spokesperson extolling the virtues of the Mac’s graphical interface. The speaker was well into con- vincing his audience of the advantages of the windowing metaphor when it struck me that there may be people out there who aren't looking beyond the technology pro- vided by Apple. Windowing in a graphics environment has been around much longer than Apple Computer, but Apple succeeded wildly in popularizing windows, menus, and the mouse. Certain of its operating charac- teristics are innovations unique to Apple. Recognizing what came before and Apple’s contribution to what has been since, we come to the present. In the aftermath of IBM's announce- ment of its System 2 computers and OS/2 software (which will support windows), a pertinent question comes to mind: “So who does7’t use a graphical interface?” Many universities and Digital Equipment Corporation have endorsed X-Windows; Sun supports News; Apple and IBM ... well, we know them. But let’s be fair. Micro- soft says it won't even be shipping develop- ment tools for OS/2 before the fall of 1987. Applications won't appear before 1988. So Apple has quite a lead time to continue with its own innovations to the windowing metaphor. Or does it? Close study of the OS/2 specifications shows that OS/2 is intended to be a real multitasking operating system. In particular it has three key features. OS/2 has the ability to schedule CPU tasks so that different applications can share the CPU (preemptive scheduling), it has com- munications protocols that allow back- ground tasks to intercede with other ap- plications (interprocess communications protocols), and finally OS/2 allocates spe- cific memory locations to different applica- tions and then DiS these locations OS/2 may sill be a glimmer in Bill Gates's eyes, but it is an acute glimmer. Ap- ple, on the other hand is merely taking steps toward these advances with its new System and Finder. In fact the new System, like Andy Hertzfeld’s original Switcher, may crash when applications “borrow” memory trom one another. However, Apple believes that a gradual move to a richer multit ng environment will allow time for third-party software developers to keep up with changes to the Apple System software. Well then, Apple has lots to do this year if it is to stay ahead of the Microsoft IBM team. But what about applications? Surely Apple leads there? Yes, but many Ap- ple stalwarts—Aldus, Adobe, and among them—have developed or will de- velop products for Widows. And they be- lieve that adjusting their programs to fit OS/2 will not be a daunting ta: » the ap- plications lead may dwindle rapidly, at least for the best-selling products. Jim Rafferty, president of Cricket Software, is the latest Mac devel- oper to announce bis intention to branch out into producing software for the new IBM machines. Then there’s the interface itself. Ear- lier this year I praised the little touch cleanup, “the Trash Can, the watch hands, ‘and so on-that changed with the SE and Mac II. But the interface is showing signs of age. There are those, including people within Apple, who believe that the inter- face, the company's most valuable asset, is being ignored. 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