MacWorld 8709 September 1987

Here at last The Personal Laser Printer Readers’ Choice— The 40 Best Macintosh Pioducts” : ——_ How to\Choose.a Desktop Publishing Program _. Supere E Your Macs 68020 Accele Mail Merged for Business ~ Correspondence’ On September 30, 1985 we announced the most powerful, most versatile spreadsheet ever. 66lf 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, InfoWorld, November 10, 1986 66 Microsoft Excel is unquestionably the most powerful spreadsheet program available on any personal comPUter.IY on rece, sacworia Sepemer 1985 6¢6/n terms of features and ease of use, Microsoft Excel makes 1-2-3 look rather pale. 9 r, The Seybold Outlook On Professional Computing, October 20, 1986 ¢¢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, Byle, April 1986 6¢ Microsoft 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 application possibilities.99 Will Tompkins, The MACazine, Vol. 2, No. 10 _66A powerful spreadsheet «) program with equally owerful data-base and harting (or graphics) cap- abilities, it offers substantial Fimprovements over compar- fable Pc-bDos programs in all f three areas.99 William Zachmann, Computerworld, December 8, 1986 Itseems we underrated tt. Microsoft MACWORLD September 1987 The Macintosh™ Magazine Departments 91 Macworld News 11 Mac Bulletin = Super Floppy Disks Jasmine Late-breaking news. introduces a 10-megabyte floppy. 17 David Bunnell = AP Broadcasts News Graphics to Macs Mac graphics via satellite. 31 -Letters 5 « The Mac Joins the OSI World New 2) “Commentary/Jerry Borrell software from Touch connects Macs with VAXs and IBMs. 60 “Contributors Notes « Reality Strikes Gray-scale image 65 Steven Levy processing from Letraset, Lasers for less. Gener- al Computer's new Plus, more bargain games, profile ofa Mac $2500 printer does it design pro, new programming tools, all—without PostScript. the Mac in the space program, and See for yourself on more. (p. 108. (llustration by Scott Baldwin.) Hoy*lo/Getting Started with Networking An introduction to communal computing. How ‘To/Insights on Microsoft Word 3.0 ‘Twenty tips that make Word work the ‘way you want. How To/Mac Communications Tools All about bulletin boards. Updates ‘The latest software upgrade news. Where to Buy Information on products in this issue. Best-Sellers 2 September 1987 | Features rs 08 The bee Solution I ich we answer the question, What did ¢ General Computer give up to all bringout: a : laser ae re. World as Maéintosh: « 7 The moment we've all beh «forthe results of our rez thé, best Mac nan éDesktop RE RAE A‘desktop publishing so pee you match 132 a Il—or faster— 140 Mastering Mail Merge ‘Tools and tips for easy mass mailings. 146 Desktop Design A hands-on trial of the first Mac II color design workstation-the Lightspeed Color Page Layout System. 150 152 153 154 155 157 158 160 161 162 Reviews The Original Gets Better Atlast, PageMaker 2.0. Easy E-Mail OfficeTalk Mac-style network. Statistically True Systat moves down from minis. Printing Potential Printworks printer drivers plus. MacEverything LaserPaint integrated graphics, text, and page-layout program. Dark in the Heart of Texas OmniLaser 2108 printer from TI. Film Scoring Simplified Cue and Clicktracks. Reading by Computer Portal interactive novel. For FORTH Programmers Mach 2 FORTH development system. Two Electronic Editors Doug Clapp’s Word Tools and Tools for Writers. Shareware DA Text Utilities Grep-We, miniWriter, Smart Quotes. Using the LaserWriter with the PC TOPSPrint, PSPrint, and LaserScript. A Pair of Deuces Plus-20, Magic20 SCSI hard disks. More Castle Hassles ShadowGate fantasy game. The coveted World Class Macintosh trophy-see who walks away with one, p. 114. « Macworld 3 MACWORLD David Bunnell Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline Poitier Director/Artand 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 (Features) Senior Technical Editor: David Ushijima Associate Editors: Gil Davis (News), Nancy E. 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If you've ever used hard disks, you know what a pain that can be. But the real beauty of Tbtem is that it fits per- fectly right under your Mac. No mess. No fuss. And no extra hardware to buy. Tb add storage, just pick up another Totem cartridge. Last, but certainly not least, there’ a whole family of Totem drives to choose from. They're all in the brochure, Tb 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 “I'll take it? BERING Circle 627 on reader service card Make mistakes faster. LightspeedC “is here. Spend your time creating. Not waiting. Compile at 15,000 lines per minute. Link the largest programs intwo seconds. Make editsas fast as you can type. LightspeedC brings a new level of speed and efficiency to the development of Macintosh applications. 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For years, textbooks (and an occasional Academic Courseware Exchange soft- how professors can qualify to preview one guest lecturer) were all that the faculty warehasbeen developed by facultymembers program at no charge-before deciding if it needed to implement their teaching plans. for faculty members-to help them teach should become part of their curriculum. Butnow thatthe com- } g m, their chosen subject better. Be it Rest assured, once you do decide to use puter age has reached college | = ») history, chemistry, business, elec- a particular program, your students don't age,an entirely new course | = trical engineering or hotel man- _ haveto go outof their way to get it. Academic has opened up for professors: agement. And each program is Courseware Exchange software is ordered ‘The Academic Courseware j } tested in real classrooms beforeits through Kinko’ Copies, at over 300 campus- is a has been de- P& ) ever offered to the faculty. close locations nationwide. Or, Kinkos will veloped by Kinkos Copies. | | Becoming part ofthe Course- be more than happy to have your software Itsaway for faculty mem- | | ware Exchange is incredibly sim- delivered right to your school. bers to incorporate educational | = ple. Better yet, its free. So calli your free catalog today. software for the Macintosh” : Just call Kinko’ at (800) If you believe in going strictly by the and Apple'll personal computers into their 235-6919" for a complimentary copy of the book, this is one ‘ classrooms. At a cost to students that'scom- Academic Courseware Exchange catalog, It book that could inko‘s parable to textbook prices, from $8 to $40. describes over 100 softwaretitles Andexplains change your mind. creat copies. creat people. © ee orp et ps arf ugh Cr. aC cn an err peta mea maf Aye Caen Mabe yh Ceca afr 292 Ge nS. 0 67 HE’S GOT THREE QUESTIONS. YOU'VE GOT TWO ANSWERS. YOU NEED MORE. Next time, get your act together. With Living Videotext’s MORE;‘you can organize your presentation, anticipate every objection. And win. So call 1-800-822-3700. In California, 1-800-443-4310. And before you know it, you'll be the one asking all the questions. Not copy protect ted retail price $295, MORE. is a trademark of Living: Videotoxt, 1 rset, Mountain View, CA 94043, © 1987, Livinge Videotext. System ‘Tricks > Had any trouble with Sys- tem Folders you've copied from a hard disk onto a fresh floppy? System versions after 3,2 don't include the Macin- tosh boot blocks on disks they initialize; the change was made to handle situations in. which network users must ac- cess an application on an alien computer's disk—say an IBM oran Apple lIGS. ‘To solve the problem, drag the file labelled System 4.1 Boot Blocks onto the floppy disk and double click on the file. If your System Tools disk doesn't include this file, con- tact your Apple dealer for a. copy. As a stop-gap measure, you could resort to Fedit’s Right Boot Blocks modifica- tion, but the simplest fix is to drag an application program onto the disk and start it up; the application assigns the right boot blocks when it opens. If that doesn’t work, first copy System 3.2 and Find- er 5.3 onto the disk, throw them away, and then drag on. the current System and Finder. Style on the Menu > If you've ever changed the font throughout a docu- ment, only to realize too late that you had meant Boston in- stead of Oxford, a new desk accessory called MeneFonts ($17 postpaid) may be for you. The DA from Tucson- based Beyond Utilities: (602/323-4547) shows each name on the Font menu in its own typeface rather than in the standard Chicago font. It works on Macs with 512K or more of memory but func- tions only with applications or other desk accessories that . use the standard Font menu, such as MacWrite, WriteNow, and MindWrite (not, for ex- ample, Microsoft Word, Mac- Author, Word Tools, Ragtime, or mintWriter). A pictorial font obscures the font above it on the menu, but you can still click on both, AppleShare 1.1 Apple recently released a free upgrade for its Apple- Share network server soft- ware, It’s faster and more re- sponsive than the original, according to Apple. Other new features include automat- ic optimization of the server's RAM cache, display of user passwords at the time they are defined, and multiple fore- ground processing to allow users tO. concurrently run pro- grams such as printer spool- ers and automatic server backup utilities. The new ver- sion runs on the Macintosh: Plus, the SE, and the Mac II, but it doesn’t prevent individ- ual network users from kid- napping public folders and hiding them away in pass- word-protected folders, a source of some grumbling by users (and competitors). Ap- ple representatives claim that’s not a bug, saying that network administrators must simply learn how to lock the root directory, AppleShare 1.1 is available through Apple dealers, Educational Exchange For the first time ever, developing courseware— educational programs created as instructional aids—has be- come a paying proposition because of royalty payments offered to authors by Kinko's. The chain of 320 copy shops has been distributing more than 100 programs on 22 cam- puses nationwide through its _ Academic Courseware Ex- change, helping fill the void of software for higher education. Through the Kinko's net- work, students at the Univer- sity of Utah and other parti- cipating schools can buy, for roughly the price ofa text- book, programs dreamed up for classes on other cam- puses, such as Drexel Univer- sity’s Molecular Editor for chemistry majors or Treaty of Versailles, which lets students make the international boundary decisions that faced the Allies after World War 1. A leading source of courseware, Philadelphia’s Drexel Univer- sity keeps 60 percent of the royalty and gives 40 percent to the individual student, staff person, or faculty member who authored the software. PC-to-Mac Made Easy * > Dayna Communications of Salt Lake City recently re- leased a new product that drastically improves upon its previous MacCharlie and FT100 IBM PC-to-Mac prod- uets, DaynaFile, a SCSI exter- nal disk drive for IBM floppy Mac Bulletin disks and accompanying translation software, makes, transferring files from the PC as easy as dragging an icon from one disk to another The IBM disk’s directory turns into a disk icon on the Mac desktop, its subdirectories ar- rive in the form of folders, and files take the shape of docu- ment icons. That means Mac users can copy, open, or edit files from IBM programs such as 1-2-3, WordPerfect, dBase HI, and PageMaker PC with- ‘out eyen once confronting the dreaded MS-DOS A> prompt. The package starts at $595 for a single 55-inch drive with 360K capacity. Buyers can choose a second IBM drive in 54-inch 1.2MB format or a 3¥2-inch drive formatted for either the PC Convertible or the PS/2. The latter option may lead to an ironic twist of fate: the Mac could end up as the tool of choice for compa- nies converting their IBM PC files to the new PS/2 system. Dynamac Plus > The Golden, Colorado- based company that produced the first laptop Mac by gutting a Mac Plus has announced the Dynamac GP, a portable Mac with a 512- by 342-pixel gas. plasma display. The $3995, 17- pound unit is similar to the original Dynamac EL ($4995), which comes with an electro- luminescent 640- by 400-pixel display. The ‘reen has a finer pitch and supports the E-Machines large screen with- out any internal adjustments, (continues) Macworld = 11 The Finder Evolves > Transforming the current Macintosh system into one that runs multiple applica- tions is no easy feat. This month Apple plans to ship MultiFinder (previously known as Juggler), the next major step in the evolution of Mae operating system software, With MultiFinder you can run multiple applications in separate windows on the desktop. Although many ap- plications are visible at once, only one program can be ac- tive ata time; you jump from one to another by selecting the desired window. While MultiFinder doesn't turn the Mac into a true multi- tasking operating system, specially written programs. can run in the background, leaving the Mac free to do other things, The first of these background programs to ap- pear is a laser printer spooler that comes with MultiFinder. Expect to see other such pro- grams, like terminal emula- tors that let you download files in the background. Multi- Finder is slated to ship as a four-disk set for between $50 and $75. Speeding Up Network Access Announced at the Mac- world Expo in August, the EtherTalk board from Apple Computer allows the Mac II to take advantage of the 10- megabit-per-second through- put speeds possible on Ethernet networks—about five times faster than AppleTalk, Essentially, EtherTalk is Apple- Talk running on Ethernet ca- bles and with Ethernet protocols, Users can choose AppleTalk or EtherTalk from the Control Panel. Because the network protocols differ, Apple has developed the AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol to translate between them. Apple is working close- ly with third-party developers such as Kinetics, maker of AppleTalk-to-Ethernet gate- ways for the Mac Plus and SE, to ensure product compatibility, VersaCAD Meets the Mac VersaCAD, one of the most popular computer- aided-design programs in the TBM PC world, is slated to come out in a Macintosh ver- sion by the end of the year. At the Boston Maeworld Expo, Yersacad Systems of Hunt- ington Beach, California, de- veloper of the program, demonstrated a prerelease edition, “This is not justa quick port to the Mae,” said spokesperson Scott Harlin. “We've reprogrammed it en- tirely, making use of the Mac- intosh interface.” HyperCard Thinks Like You > Now you have the best reason of all to own a Macin- tosh: it can “think” like you do, When you think, you use logical connections and spe- cific information peculiar to you, A new program by Mac- Paint designer Bill Atkinson lets you organize information any way that seems natural to you. Its called HyperCard, and it consists of four disks of pro- grams and ideas, Apple Com- puter introduced it at the Macworld Expo in Boston. HyperCard will be packaged with every Macintosh and will also be ayailable through Ap- ple dealers, user groups, and bulletin boards. Here's how HyperCard works. You write or paint your ideas on a card displayed on the secreen—maybe a few free- form notes about something you're reading. After a while, you have a “stack” of cards that you can instantly search: for just the material you want. In addition, cards can be link- ed to other cards. Since you create these logical links, your stack closely parallels the way you process information. Hy- perCard stacks could even become products that are li- censed, sold, or given away. In fact Atkinson figured he'd start the ball rolling at the Boston Expo by giving away 1000 disks that con- tained his personal stacks. A Power Supply Safety Net > Dove Computer, maker of Mac memory add-ons and other hardware, has intro- duced the Power Miser ($499), a 2MB memory ex- pansion product for the Mac Plus that uses a custom gate- array design to increase mem- ory while decreasing power consumption. The idea is to protect the Mac power sup- ply—a vulnerable part of the Mac design, according to re- ports from many Mac owners. The result: “No more smoking Maes,” according to Rick Greene, vice president of the Wilmington, North Carolina, company. Dove also released FastNet ($999 to $1499), a SCSI device and accompanying software that allows the Mac to be rec- ognized as an end node ina DECnet network. ANewImageWriter > Shoring up the middle ground in its line of printers, Apple is introducing a high- resolution dot matrix printer, the 15-inch ImageWriter LQ (under $1500), Faster and more versatile than the exist- ing ImageWriters, the LQ also produces better-looking type. Its 27-pin printhead produces roughly twice the resolution ‘of its predecessor's 9-pin printhead. To go along with type good enough for busi- ness correspondence, the LQ improves paper-handling to make it easier to print enve- lopes, labels, and forms, Mac SE Glitches? ® Online give-and-take among Mac users on Compu- Serve and elsewhere indicates that some new Macintosh SEs may have slight distortion of on-screen images. Noisy fans have also generated complaints from users. The reported distortion in- cludes images that don't quite line up squarely on the screen and images that look somewhat pinched—apparent especially when a Mac Plus and an SE sit side by side. At press time Apple had not commented on the reports. The Mac Learns Chinese > Pulling the latest interna- tional trick out of its hat, in June Apple introduced a Chi- nese-language operating sys- tem for the Mac, called Zhongwen Talk. 0 12 September 1987 uadr uple The Speed Of Your Macintosh. If you're doing graphic design or Desktop Publishing, the Accelerator™allows you to create and combine pictures and text at unprecedented speeds, For time-intensive processing tasks like spread- sheets, scientific computations or sorting through databases, the Accelerator will redefine your concept of personal productivi If you're using a Macintosh™as a file server, the Accelerator will earn smiles from everyone on your AppleTalk® network. The Accelerator quadruples the processing speed of every Macintosh application. The Accelerator is powered by the same 32-bit microprocessor that commands the Macintosh II. In addition, it has a high speed hardware cache. This technique, craftily borrowed from mainframe technology, automatically places fre- quently used information into high speed memory where it can be retrieved at the full speed of the MC68020. It reduces the cost, board space and power requirements of the system. Which is one of the reasons why the Radius™ Accelerator board is such an exceptional value. For those of you who think numbers speak louder than words, the A. tor is available with an optional 68881 coprocessor that blazes through floating point computations up to 100 times the speed of the Macintosh Plus. What do you have to give up for all this blinding speed? Nothing. An Authorized Radius Dealer can install an Accelerator board in your Macintosh Plus or SE computer in a matter of minutes. But wait. Did we really say wait? The Accelerator has another unique feature. The MagicBus"* The MagicBus allows you to fur- ther expand your Macintosh with yet another internal expansion board. So you can add future products from Radius or other developers. Of course, you could use the MagicBus imme- diately—to install the ultimate Desktop Publishing peripheral, The Radius Full Page Display™(FP! Like the Accelerator, the Full Page Display was designed by several key members of the original Macintosh team, Today these people are at Radius creating enhancements for the Macintosh that are setting standards for the industry If you really want to get the most out of your Macintosh, see a Radius dealer today. And save yourself a bundle of time. Circle 577 on reader service card radus For the name of the Radius dealer nearest you call 1-408-434-1010, (DIPAT Rais nc. Races, Ras Accelero, Rahs Fl Page Display and MapicBes re rademara of Radi, ec. Macca i adem and Ape Tl epic rademstkof Apple Computer, lc. Within the next ten minutes, your entire concept f word processing will be turned upside down. FullWrite Professional™ sets new standards for vord processing. It lets you handle words better, faster, more vowerfully, with more versatility than any other vord processing program. But competing in to- lay’s world requires even more. 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And in you. niet Communications Software for the Macintosh 2907 Claremont Avenue Suite 220 Berkeley,CA 94705 415-644-3232 Circle 768 on reader service card David Bunnell The Online Brain Drain TMI) The FCC bas proposed to double online costs by imposing a steep access fee. Good grief! Don’t just stand there—sit down and write your congressman. If it has its way, the Federal Communica- tions Commission will change the slogan of the Information Age from “Don’t com- mute, telecommute” to “Telecommute, pay tribute” Its recent proposal would have the effect of drastically increasing rates for computer owners who communicate via modem over long-distance phone lines. Don't let the FCC do this to us. The measure is aimed at private tele phone networks such as Tymnet and Tel net, as well as online information facilities like CompuServe, The Source, Dow Jones, and others. The FCC wants to charge these networks a special “access fee” of $4.50 to $5.40 an hour for long-distance service. But guess who's going to be stuck with that extra fee? The customer, of course. We'll end up paying about 50 percent more than we're paying now. As usual. If enacted, the proposal will go into effect January 1, 1988. Before that happens, however, the FCC is opening the matter up to public comment. So here goe: [think a little straight talk is in order. Some judicious arm-twisting of our sena- tors and representatives in the nation’s capital may not be a bad idea, either. But just for the record, I'm not entirely unsympathetic to the FCC’s concerns. This may surpri u. In fact, I had a very nice chat with an FCC attorney, Ruth Milkman, who explained why the FCC is doing th “The problem,” Milkman told me, “is that computer users are not paying any- thing right now for the use of the local ex- change, as they do when they make a regular long-distance call.” Cast your minds back to 1984 when Ma Bell’s giant telephone monopoly wa broken up into regional Baby Bells. Long- distance companies like AT&T, MCI, Sprint, and others began using those regional Bells to connect customers to long- nce lines. Subsequently, so-called “packet switchers” like Tymnet and Telenet ap- peared on the scene, offering long-distance services to people wishing to access online computer information. These services make highly efficient use of lines leased from the telephone companies, shooting “packets” of data bits through phone lines at the incredible rate of 56,000 bits per sec- ond. Users now pay only for the local call to connect to these networks. Thus they avoid paying regular long-distance fees. “So who's paying for all those long- ce calls?” I asked Milkman. ‘Somebody is,” she said. “It’s probably all the other long-distance customers. It then becomes a question of ‘Should Aunt Minnie subsidize Joe Computer User?’” Milkman explained that when the FCC first introduced the system of access charges in 1983, it was concerned about what effect a sudden increase of rates might have on a fledgling telecommunica- tions industry, “So we decided to give the enhanced-service providers a temporary exemption-to give them time to figure out how to deal with the situation,” she said. “Why now? Why make them pay now?” L asked. “It’s always been commission policy that anyone who uses the local exchange to provide interstate service should pay for the use of the local exchange,” she replied. “They've sort of had a freebie for a while, but now we're proposing to eliminate the exemption. Otherwise consumers will get the wrong signals about how expensive it is to use the telephone system—and about what the real costs are.” Now, there are wrong signals and there are inconsistent signals. I happen to think that the government, in proposing to charge fees for online access, is sending an signal to consumers. I share this view with Charles McCall, president of CompuServe, one of the ag- grieved parties in this telecom witch-hunt. “On one hand, you have the Justice Department telling [District of Columbia] dis (continues) Macworld 17 Decisions, | af Choose with confidence from Jasmine’s wide iY range of quality, innovative products at - affordable prices. From the pacesetting Direct Drive series, to the unique BackPac 40, you never compromise quality for price when you purchase a Jasmine product. Discover why MacWorld (July 1987) said “It’s easy to fall in love with the quiet Jasmine drive” MegaDrive" Hard drive power with the freedom ofa floppy. 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The fe: would kill that business—and if they didn’t, then they would cripple it and otherw render it sens puter networks is crucial to the develop- ment of our information culture and ven venture to say that The Source and CompuServe, which now ‘ge about $6 per hour at a 300-baud rate, are still probably priced too high to be broadly popular, Raising that fee to $9 or $10 would put those information services even further out of reach for most people. We're talking about a potential online brain drain, when people stop using infor- mation services or telecommunicating be- cause they can no longer afford to do so. I'm not so concerned about medium- and large-size businesses in this case. They absorb the increase, probab! A costs on to their cus No, I'm mainly worried about users. This money will have to come out of their p | pocketbooks. It's going to ha come from the same hard-earned dollars they use for going to the movies, buying milk, and otherwise staying alive. By keeping the doors open, by not charging an access fee, the FCC would be encouraging the development of the entire computer industry and of the whole mode of electronic communications. Just look at any of those online ser- rve the enormous amount of that’s going on, Putting a sur- charge on long-distance access to online bulletin boards and data services would tall this creative momentum. It would als ¢ ffect sales of modems and com- oftware. Not only would the established com- puter industry be damaged by the FCC’s proposal, but at least one fledgling infor- ion industry may bite the dust before even had a chance to spread its wings. I'm referring to the advent of videotex services in this country, modeled after France's hugely successful Minitel system. To date, the French phone company, PTT, has installed about 2.5 million of these mall, inexpensive videotex terminals in ench households at a cost of about $10 (continues) Build color into your graphics with an H P plotter. 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And, ooh- la-la, the array of services that are being gobbled up by French consumers! I was looking at a recent issue of the French computer magazine, Science & Vie Micro, which listed the “300 best services” Among them: dog club bulletin boards, electronic message services, plane and train reservations, local municipal infor- mation, tax services, weather and traffic information, various money management services, even horse-race betting. There's a phone jack in the back of the Minitel terminal, and within ten minutes of basic familiarization, you're on. These ma- chines don’t even look like computers, al- though it’s possible to run PC ap) on specially configured models. The American version of the Minitel even has a retractable keyboard to disguise the computerlike appearance of the machine. In other words, this could be the break- through item to captivate the next big wave of computer users—the Aunt Minnies of America, if you will. But now the FCC wants to roll us back to the baudless Middle Ages by imposing its horrendous access fees. I was sitting in the office of Nicolas El Baze, a young Frenchman who heads the San Francisco branch of Paris-based Soft- way, Inc. This international marketing and engineering firm represents French com- puter companies in America. On one cor- ner of his desk he had an original Minitel— the first one, in fact, to be made according to US, standards, a real collector's item, with serial number 000009. A couple of his clients have been on the verge of launch- ing their own Minitel services here, but now they’re faced with the FCC dilemma. El Baze was shaking his head discon- solately, “I think it's a shame,” he said, refer- ring to the proposed surcharge. “When you see how this works in France, how much people are getting out of it...I can’t imagine not having a similar system in the US. where people are even more ready to use these types of terminals and services than we are in France.” He gave a Gallic shrug. “The people (continues) Introducing MacDisk: High-performance hard disks from the driving force in the AT world. FE the serious Macintosh user, there’s cause to rejoice. Priam’s new MacDisk hard disk drives. A family of totally-integrated, high-performance external SCSI drives that allow you to tap the full power of your Macintosh = Plus, SE or II. And that offer you the ultimate in qual- ity and dependability. How can you be sure? Priam’s track record. Priam has been building premium drives for mainframes, minis, and micros for a decade. Drives distinguished by their exactitude and endurance. 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Swap it between any Mac II, Plus, or 512—with full Mac IT disk perforn ce. No other drive offers this interchangeability. No reason to wait! Equipped with a DataFrame, your 512, Plus, or SE will ou/perform Apple’s new, hard- SE. And your Mac II will perform to its fullest potential. Visit your SuperMac dealer, and see why over 25,000 DataFrame owners have moved into the lane with what MacWorld called the ‘Porsche among disk dri SuperMac Technology 295 N. Bernardo Mountain View, GA 94043 (415) 964-8884 SUPERIMIAC Tec HN OILTO S ¥ Letters A forum for Macworld readers The Challenge of Chinese Computing Despite the many different coding schemes used for Chinese characters [“The Polyglot Macintosh,” Macworld, May 1987], there is in fact an emerging standard. The USMARC character set, developed by the ICCI in Tai- wan, has been adopted by the United States Library of Congress and Department of De- fense and is endorsed by the governments of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), Japan, and Korea. Also, the number of known Chinese characters is more than 74,000, not 30,000 as mentioned in the article, and the num- ber of frequently used characters is not 3000, but 13,000. There are at least 9177 Chinese characters for last names alone, which must be part of any working system. One of the major hindrances to devel- oping a Chinese computer is inadequate hardware. The minimum acceptable reso- lution for a Chinese character is 24 by 24, soa Chinese computer would need a reso- lution of at least 2048 by 1536 pixels, com- pared to the Mac’s 512 by 346. In short, Chinese computing is much more complicated than you described in your otherwise excellent article. Timothy Huang International Information, Inc. Portland, Oregon Corrections The Hebrew word processor MouseWrite (The Polyglot Macintosh,” MacWorld, May 1987), also known as Achbar, is available from Davka Corp., 845 N. Michigan Ave. #843, Chicago, IL 60611, 312/944-4070, 800/621-8227. Mechanical Intelligence, maker of the MI-4 parallel-processing development system for the Mac (Macworld News, june 1987), can be reached at 619/436-1455. ae More Mac Language Skills In addition to French, Spanish, Italian, and German [“The Polyglot Macintosh," Mac- world, May 1987], the Mac also “speaks” Portuguese (the tilded 4 and 6, both upper- and lowercase, are not part of the IBM ex- tended ASCII character set but are and have always been standard on the Mac). Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish charac- ters also can be generated on the Mac. The Swedish 4 and the Danish-Norwegian 2 and @ are listed in the Keyboard Accents chart in the article, Finnish has no charac- ters that differ from those of the German alphabet, Gabe Bokor, President Accurapid Translation Services, Inc. Poughkeepsie, New York Price-War Patriotism In Verbatim [May 1987] Ash Jain, vice presi- dent of AST Research, stated, “Buying mar- ket share by lowering prices is a disservice to the consumer,” adding that companies that cut prices might not exist at the end of 1987. Mr Jain’s statement is contrary to the free enterprise system, the backbone of the United States. The one who wins ina price war is the consumer, Lower prices are a welcome change from the [rates charged sick wears by] corporate monsters that have enjoyed substantial profit margins since the intro- duction of the Macintosh. Market forces will eventually push the price of Macin- tosh-compatible hard disk drives down to where they will be affordable for every Macintosh owner. If AST’s prices don't come down, it might very well be one of those companies in trouble at the end of 1987. Jobn M. Altman Spokane, Washington Mac Programs for M.D.s Do you know of any medically related soft- ware that can be used on the Macintosh? Vincent. Vaccaro, M.D. Utica, New York A few user groups, such as the Los Angeles Macintosh Group, bave special-interest groups for medical professionals. To find out about user groups near you, call the Apple user-group hotline at 800/538-9696 ext. 500. One user group specifically for health professionals is Focus, the comput- er society for doctors. Among other ser- (continues) Macworld = 31 Not all reviews are created equal. S$. reviews are press releases. Some are oriented. Precisely the ones you want. synopses. 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Box 51666 Boulder, Colorado 80321-1666 Wallet bsctbtl tt betbdbbll NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED IN UNITED STATES NO POSTAGE ECESS: UNITED STATES The Barbecue Brothers would rather bake beans than count them. *. ne | ae It's only the best chili in the whole doggone state. But it might not be, if Larry Keenan and Curt Fischer had to spend more time balanc- ing their books and less time balancing their spices. That's why they bought In- House Accountant™ from Migent. With In-House Accountant, the boys spend very little time entering transactions. Or recon- ciling bank accounts. Instead, the program does it for them. Automatically, and in a very Macintosh” kind of way. That means all the information is right there on the desktop, so the guys can see ata glance things like their checking balance, or the amount they spent on hot peppers last month. For payables and receiv- ables, they simply zip among their accounts without ever having to change modules, or even close a window. 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The new Applecolor” | High-Resolution ROB monitor can create britliant bues cand | true grayscale on your Macintosh I. in finely-delailed 0480 pixel resolution Also available: a 12° monochrome monitor. ‘and make quick connection Adda 5.25" disk drive, andl (wilh the right cand ‘jou cen use information createdon IBM or compatible PCS. Or rum MS-DOS programs. How tobuild your You've heard about them. You've read about them. By now, you've probably even seen them. Our latest leaps in tending the new Macintosh’ SE and Macintosh II personal computers, have been getting their share of press. But to add to what you may already know, wei like to tell you more about 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 Bie as 21 inches. The SE sports one expansion slot. While the Macintosh Il 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 nsenling the Apple Extended Keyboard. Complete with 15 programmable function keys, as well.as separate cursor and numeric keypads. processor cand ‘neither he SEor Macintosh ving one of the Ils six” its, you can tie indo the company inframeoran office velwonk like Ethernet, Build yourself power tation. The Macintosh It asa lightning-fast 32-bit Motorola 68020 processor.a 8881 co-processor and: rom a palette of over 16 million colors. ‘The new Macintosh computers are yuilt to be customized in other ways, too. You can set up your SE with up o four megabytes of memory, so it has he power to run the most sophisticated wrograms, And configure the II with up o eight megabytes of memory on the nain board, or a walloping 1.5 gigabytes ising the expansion slots. (note ante Appl logo ave reste rademarof Wachiaes Corp Mitorla i. reistercl fademare of Meo uBus expansion slots, As for storage, there’ plenty. With either computer, you get the option ofan internal hard disk. Or an external one that can store up to 80 megabytes. You can also choose between two keyboards. One of which has 15 function keys that come in handy when delving into special applications, And as you might expect, we've done more than just give you a very good ‘or thell,a large-screen monitor (available from other manufacturers) can give jin the big picture And show you up lo two pages alonce Sfyou lose it, you cantuse it. The Apple Tape Backup 40SC safeguards Be work on your hard disk. Pronto, ‘The Macintosh I Video Card can genenate colors 256 ata time at up to eight bits per pixel. Using a palette ofover way to build the Macintosh of your dreams. We've also arranged to make sure you have the perfect workshop: an author- ized Apple dealer? Where you can get some expert assistance choosing your options. Soall you have to do is stop in. And get to work. > Thepowertobeyourbest: Apple cnpaerine: ais ant orare dears of pple npc ne. -DOS career inden ono Bs arp ear lad biberne sa registered adenark Nema Carp. abasic trademarcf Texas Instramerts* Foran audborizod Apple dealer nar yo cal (800) 538-9605 Ext 300 Letters vices, Focus offers medical software reports that evaluate Mac software (and software for other computers) based on polls of current users. Membership, which is open to any health professional, is $95 per year. For further information, con- tact Focus at International Technology Center, 50 Fremont St., 31st Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, 415/626-4600.—Ed Where to Share I'm a new Mac user and therefore naive about certain things. I have read several references to shareware and public domain software. They seem like good ideas, but how do I get them? Lowell Dietz Gainesville, Georgia Public domain software (distributed for free) and shareware (also free, but if you like the program, you're asked to contrib- ule a small fee to the programmer) are available through user groups and soft- ware distribution groups. See the intro- duction to Macworld’s Where to Buy section for addresses of some major sources.—Ed. BASIC Disagreement In Jim Heid's article “BASIC Choices” [Mac- world, May 1987), he wrote, “The debut of BASIC compilers is great news for pro- grammers who prefer BASIC’s versatility to the rigid confines of P: and C” I program in C most of the time, using Pascal on occasion, and I would not go back to BASIC for anything short of $50,000 a year. With Pascal and C you can create customized menus, customized dia- log controls, and many other things that are next to impossible in BASIC without pages of POKE statements. That is not what I would call “rigi Alan T. Goates Salt Lake City, Utab ‘Too Much Mouse Has anything been done to circumvent the use of the mouse with the Macintos! love the computer, but as am a very fast typist, it slows me down to remove my hands from the keyboard. | have used the Mac Plus keyboard with the directional keys on the right, but even that necessitates removing my fingers from the keyboard. Darshi Deane Roanoke, Virginia The trend in Macintosh word processing packages is toward more %8-key equiva- lents for menu commands, Some pro- grams, like Microsoft Word 3.0, designate keys for moving around in a document, though with most software it is still neces- sary to use the directional keys on the Mac Pius keyboard or the mouse.—Ed. Acta Underestimated l appreciated seeing my program Acta mentioned in your review of Voila [“Voila! Another Instant Outline,” Macworld, May 1987]. But if a perceptive reviewer could miss one of Acta’s features, some of your readers probably have, too. Here’s how to convert a MacWrite or Word document into an outline with Acta: Select the text in your application and copy it to the Clip- board. Bring the Acta window to the front, hold down the Option key, and select feature works with Clipboard text from any program, David Dunham Goleta, California (continues) Macinware SE™ $129.95 for the entire Macintosh SE™ System 36 September 1987 WO Design, Inc. + P.O, Box 156 * Exton, PA 19341"? Go Ahead, Take It ALL! Call 1-600-241-2122 216-524-7277 8" x 9" x 3" Paxiood Pocket lor Exarnal Disk Drive, Modem, or Accessorie, Padded Compartmant for Mouse and Cords. Padded Compartment fits ANY Apple Keyboard Facided Fp separates Hard Oisk trom Computer Ys" High Densty Foam for Maxum Protection Platinum Grey or Navy Blue Cordura Nylon Outer Shall Heavy Duty Metal Hardware Throughoat Stross Points Cross Stiched and Riveted for Adked Suppor Padded Hanole for Comion features Vetoro Enciosure (0, 27 Sut Nylon Webbing Maintans Shape, 11. 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[cba] Circle 439 on reader service card MAC SE INTERNAL HARD DRIVES True Stories in Typesetting “Linotype and Macintosh" gave us the edge in text and graphics.” Bert Monroy Weissberg Associates, in New York City, is a growing ad agency which specializes in retail advertising. Bert Monroy, technical consultant, tells how an in-house text and graphics system gives Weissberg a competitive edge. “In our business, time is of the essence.” “We specialize in retail advertising, where fast turnaround time is an absolute necessity. “You can have a sale or some kind of special event, it's Tuesday after- noon and you have to have finished material to the newspaper by that Friday so it can run on Sunday. That's a tremendous time constraint and if you use outside suppliers, you have to pay 100% overtime. Small agencies just can't afford to have those kind of costs. “We needed a faster, more economical way to service our clients.” “We decided to automate our production.” “Weissberg Associates wanted an in-house computer-text-and- graphics system to cut down on production costs and to enhance the quality of their output. | primarily started with Macintoshes because of their graphics capabilities. “Then | had to choose output devices that could produce extra- ordinary text and graphics, and were still completely compatible with the Macintoshes. | knew Linotype had the right equipment available but it had only recently been introduced. “We purchased the Series 100 equipment including the PostScript™ RIP. the ML-314 Processor and of course the Linotronic 300 laser image- setters, which can set both text and graphics.” “We got much more than we bargained for.” “Naturally we had high-quality output immediately. But with Linotype’s Series 100 system, our artists could cut down on time and materials, too. Before, the artist only prepared the layout, but now he can do his own mechanicals — on screen! He can see the type, play with it, rejustify it— even move it around a million ways if he wants to. “Our artists create images on the computer and do the work in one to two days at the most, with no outside cost. And if they want to make revisions, it's easy. Everything is internal so we have more control, and cost- and time-savings are phenomenal. And because we can offer lower costs to clients as a result, we have an edge on the competition. “With in-house output, our clients profit from savings in time, cost and materials, and we come out one step ahead of other agencies. Linotype has helped us bring our production in-house very economically, and that ‘one step’ has become the foothold for our future growth.” If you'd like to know more about the Linotronic 300, 100 or the Linotronic 500 wide-line (108-pica) laser imagesetters, contact: Linotype Company, 425 Oser Avenue, Hauppauge, NY 11788. Or call (516) 434-2016. In Canada, (416) 890-1809. And let our quality speak for itself. This ad was composed cn a Macintosh computer and cutput cn a Linotronic 300 laser imagesetter. Linotype Circle 691 on reader service card The next computer revolution. I; you can hold a pen, you can use makes interaction with your com- _—_ about tedious typing. Use the a computer. Forget about punch- puter a breeze. power of your own handwriting. ing keyboards or chasing a mouse. With the Personal Wilter system Whether your needs are in word Call us toll free today for more in- palliauide istarrite on ical a Saat processing, spreadsheets, data formation at (800) 322-4744 or y pap base management, or graphics, write us at Anatex Inc., 1801 Ave- your words appear typewritten on screen, instantly! the Personal Writer system works _ nue of the Stars, Suite 507, Los for you. Fully compatible with vir- | Angeles, CA 90067, (213) 556-1628. Whether you want to write text, tually any software on the Mac Dealer inquiries invited. input figures, or create graphics, market, Personal Writer's ease of you simply pick up your pen and use will follow you in all your write your computer. Add, delete applications. So don't worry and correct with the flick of your pen. It even comes with a built-in 100,000 word dictionary that cor- Use your own rects your spelling handwriting and ina flash. forget about the Personal Writer is the system : keyboard. that’s as natural as your sig- @ nature. And as easy to use. Its powerful character recog- nition software learns to read your handwriting and Personal Writer is comprised of a tablet and software Mac World Expo! We'll be at booth #459, g Yes! 1 want to know more about the next computer revolution. Please send more information on Personal Writer today. Name Address City, State, Zip Phone( Anatex Inc., 1801 Avenue of the Stars Suite 507, Los Angeles, CA 90067 Call us toll free at (800) 322-4744 PERSONAL WRITER Circle 760 on reader service card Letters Not Quite Ready for Review Thank you for reviewing SoftSync’s Ac- countant, Inc. |“Not-Quite-Ready ing,” Macworld, May 1987]. However, the reviewer's criticism of some aspects of the program comes a bit too late. He reviewed version 1.0, but our current release is ver- sion 1,9, Many of the suggestions he made were already made by customers and in- corporated in subsequent versions Registered users can order upgrades for only $9.50, Kenneth P. Currier sofisyne, Inc. New York At the time our review was written, ver- sion 1.0 was the latest release, but due to space limitations, the printing of the arti: cle was delayed. See Updates in this issue for more on the new features in Accoun- tant Inc.—Ed. Digitizing Debate In her review of clip-art packages [“Art to Go,” Macworld, December 1986], Erfert Nielson preferred the pretty and exotic over simpler, digitized clip art. Although the images available in the packages she Account- prefers are fine to look at, they are not practical for my everyday needs. Ms. Nielson suggests that instead of buying digitized clip art, people should purchase and use a digitizer. She obviously doesn’t realize how much time (not to mention talent) the digitizing and clean-up process takes Jim Gomez Denver, Colorado Programming Mainstay I was glad to see your review of ViP. by Mainstay (“A Very Important Program,” Macworld, May 1987). In your review, how- ever, you cite as a drawback the fact that no literature is available about the program except the manual. Mac Tutor, a Macintosh gramming jour has run at least two by Bill Luckie on programming with V/.P The first article, which appeared in November 1986, gave a short lesson in general programming with VIP, and the April 1987 issue carried an article on pro- gramming with C. Steven Falb San Jose, California Back issues of Mac Tutor are available for $4 from Mac Tutor, P.O. Box 400, Placen- 40 September 1987 tia, CA 92670, 714/630-3730. (Add $1.25 for first class postage.) )-Ed. Software Hotline Recently I have become interested in writ- ing COBOL programs for computer sys- tems other than the Macintosh, but I have had little success in locating COBOL soft- ware. Can you give me some idea as to the quality and price of the different compilers available and where I can buy them? James D. Belland Hershey, Pennsylvania We can't tell you about the pr gram 's quality, but Micro Focus (2465 Bayshore Rd. #400, Pato Alto, 415/856-4161) sells a COBOL called MacCOBOL for $495. A 94303, compiler d.0 Letters should be mailed to Letters, Mac- world, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to Compu- Serve 70370, 702 or The Source BOW440. Include a return address. We reserve the right to edit letters. 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(An almost diminutive 16’x162"«9") And having fewer parts, much less likely to need repairs. THE PROOF IS IN THE PRINTING. As you Can see, a case could easily be made for buying the PLP on economics alone. But that would be selling it short. Because the ultimate measure of any printer is how well it prints. Like vastly more expensive laser printers, the PLP allows you to print 4 Real Estate 4 8 Special Report — right one. “The broker you choose @ should have a philosophy — about investment that is as. 6 close as possible to your ‘own, Find out how he continued on page 5 resolution graphics created with soft- ware like MacDraw*and Microsoft's Excel, and otherwise juggle words and pictures until you have them ex- actly where you want them. But it also provides assistance even these vastly more expensive printers dont. Including a choice of Bitstream” fonts limited only by your hard disk’s Capacity to store them. (Fonts you can easily adjust to any point size, or fraction thereof) A preview feature that lets you review each page before you print it. And a draft mode that lets you scanned photos and illustrations, high- _ rapidly print out works-in-progress neg itired tademark o! Nicrocot Corp PageMaker a rgsterad trademark l Alive Corp Bteeamis aregstowd radematkct Basveam hc MacDran is a egsered vecomark ol Arpla Compute, Mie Macnish i a ademurk of Aggie Comoute Ie: Martack ery Circle 143 on reader service card for editing and revision by others. Then, once all the revisions are complete, the PLP quietly provides extraordinary finished output. __ Neartypeset quality presenta- tions, newsletters, memos and reports produced with software like Microsofts” Word and Aldus PageMaker.® All printed with a new generation of laser technology that turns out richer contrasts than ever before. AN INVITATION TO SKEPTICS. In other words, the PLP does for printed communications what the Macintosh did for per sonal computing. It provides a sophisticated, yet affordable tool for any- one who needs to manage large amounts of information—and wants to work smarter and more creatively in the process. So to answer the question we began with: the PLP printed the document that appears on the right. But you dorit have to take our word for it. We invite you to make your own comparisons through a PLP dem- onstration at any authorized General Computer dealer Where youll also be able to compare another pair of doc- uments that are far easier to tell apart: APersonal LaserPrinter price tag. And that of any other laser printer of equal quality. For the name of the dealer near est you, call (800) 634-9737* => — GENERAL == COMPUTER The hottest sport ona court — the hottest game a Macintosh" can handle. Even if you've never been on a racquetball court, you'll spark to the excitement of this challenging simulation. 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