MacWorld 8710 October 1987

MACWORLD ictober 1987 $3. oA The Macintosh" Magazine Meaicacda $4.95 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 1-2-8 files over to Microsoft Excel. its that good.99 Don Crabb, InfoWorld, November 10, 1986 66/Microsoft Excel is unquestionably the most powerful spreadsheet program available on any per: ‘sonal computer.99 Lon Poole, Macworld, September 1985 66/n terms of features and ease of use, Microsoft Excel makes 1-2-3 look rather pale99 The Seybold Outlook On Professional Computing, October 20, 1986 6¢6Microsoft 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 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 aaa possibilities.99 Will Tompkins, The MACazine, Vol. 2, No. 10 66A powerful spreadsheet | program with equally owerful data-base and charting (or graphics) cap- bilities, it offers substantial improvements over compar- ble Pc-bos programs in all three areas.99 jam Zachmann, Computerworld, December 8, 1986 Itseems we underrated tt. Microsoft dt oI ee oa windows on a small screen. 162 The Digital Audio Workstation Sound Designer and Softsynth, 164 Current Events CA.T. desktop management system. 165 Amazing Space Space Quest adventure game. 166 Financial Plans for Pros Optum-3 custom financial planning. Prete 167 Take a Note Comment attaches notes to windows, text blocks, or spreadsheet cells, 169 Hold Those Disks! Seven disk holders—plain to fancy, Macworld 3 MACWORLD October 1987 The Macintosh™ Magazine Departments 87 Macworld News 11 MacBulletin " ImageWriter LQ Apple launches a Late-breaking news. 17 David Bunnell new dot matrix printer into the business market. MACWORLD David Bunnell Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline Poitier Director/Art and Design 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. Dunn (Departments), Janet McCandless (Reviews), Brita Meng (East Coast Editor) Assistant Editors: Eileen Drapiza (New Products), Valerie L, Kuletz, Jane Lagas, Joe Matazzoni Senior Copy Editor: Julie Ericksen Copy Editors: Cathy E. 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In California, 1-800- 3 And before you know it, you'll be the one asking all the questions, iving Videotext. Gobble, Gobble Presentation graphics may be hot in business but they're even hotter when it comes to, business mergers, ae Take the examples of Livin; Videotext and Forethought, both recently acquired by larg- er firms. Forethought, publisher of a leading presentation graphics program called PowerPoint, was purchased by Microsoft, which said it intends to enter the desktop-presentations soft- ware market. Another developer of pre- sentation graphics programs, Living Videotext, known for More and ThinkTank, became a division of Symantec, pub- lisher of such MS-DOS pro- grams as OGA, SQZ, Note-It Plus, Time Line, and 4Word. As a result of the merger, Living Videotext hopes more of its Macintosh programs will be sold to businesses through: Symantec’s corporate-oriented sales force, Acquiring a corporate sales force was a prime motivation for another merger. Borland In- ternational, known for Side- Kick, Reflex and Turbo Pascal, said it was acquiring Ansa Soft- ware, which publishes the MS- DOS relational database pro- gram Paradox. Atheme running through the current merger trend was yoiced recently by Dave Winer, president of Living Videotext: “We found it was necessary to have more resources to stay competitive in this market, where there are more and more large players” Apple Goes for Four ® Apple has upgraded four of its most popular applica- tions. MacDraw 1.9.5, Mac- Write 4.6, MacProject 1.2, and MacTerminal 2.2 are now com- patible with the Mac II and SE and with Apple's file server, AppleShare. Until September 30, 1987, Apple customers can upgrade free of charge by taking the master copy of their program (the original disk with original label) to any authorized Apple dealer, WordPerfectMeets Stiff Competition B WordPerfect, a leading word processor in the MS-DOS world, is expected to offer a unique combination of features on the Macintosh, WordPerfect’s offerings in- clude up to 24 on-screen col- ums, a thesaurus, a 112,000- word spelling checker, anda number of automatic capa- bilities such as saving, outlin- ing, paragraph numbering, and hyphenation. The program can transfer WordPerfect files between the Macintosh and many other computers that run Word- Perfect, while retaining nearly all the file’s attributes and formatting. Fans of WordPerfect have been awaiting its Macintosh de- but for more than a year. Now the program will have to com- pete with Word 3.01 and Fudll- Write Professional. Version 1.0 of WordPerfect is expected to cost $395, For in- formation, call WordPerfect Corporation at 801/225-5000. Memory Runs Scarce > Even Apple is feeling the nonavailability of IMB memory chips and is apparently unable to meet the memory-expansion demand for its Mac II video card, However, Dove Computer is advertising it has plenty of IMB low-power CMOS memory chips available in 1- to 8MB configurations for the Plus, SE, and II. Dove's substantial memory supply is a result of its long- standing relationship with Toshiba. However, Toshiba's fu- ture ability to supply memory chips is in doubt because of pending Congressional action restricting its business activities. But as long as Dove has a supply of memory, it’s taking, advantage of the situation— earlier this year, Dove was rat- ed the third largest supplier of memory chips in the United States. Superconducting Macintosh? > Because of recent break- throughs in superconductivity, many Mac enthusiasts are won- dering, when can we expect a superconducting Macintosh? While a superconducting Mac operating at room tem- perature may be years away, its prospects seem increasingly bright. For example, look at what's happening with the Josephson. Junction, a switching device Mac Bulletin that can operate ten times fas- ter than our best conventional computer circuits when in a su- perconducting mode. Not only is speed way up, but there’s almost no heat loss with superconductors. As a result, these Josephson Junctions can greatly reduce the size of su- percomputers (such as the Cray) by packing many more transistors into a much smaller space and by possibly eliminat- ing bulky cooling equipment. Does that mean we can ex- pect a “Mac/Cray” on our desks ina few years? No, but ten years ago most of us probably didn't expect the power and ease of use of a Macintosh either, 68030 Spawns Cottage Industry ® Motorola’s MC68030 mi- croprocessor, which will be in production late this year, is ex- pected to prompt a cottage in- dustry that will produce adapter cards to upgrade Mac Ils to the newer and faster CPU. Although not simple to de- velop, these cards will essen- tially change the pin assign- ments on the 030 so it can plug into the socket normally occu- pied by a Mac II’s MC68020. A cable can come off the adapter board to connect the 030’s in- ternal MC68451 paged memory. management unit (PMMU) with the PMMU socket on the Mac Il’s system board. Motorola engineers expect the MC68030 to yield twice the performance of the 020. They also claim that the 030 is 100 percent upwardly software compatible with the entire (continues) Macworld = 11 | Mac Bulletin family of Motorola M68000 microprocessors. Also available with the 68030. will be a new MC68882 math coprocessor that is upwardly software compatible and pin compatible with the MC68881 now included on every Mac II system board, Like the 030, the 68882 offers about double the performance of the 68881, claims Motorola. Perhaps somewhere deep in Apple seyeral next-generation Macintosh protot 68030s and 68882s are beating away at speeds that rival pre- sent-day workstations. Love Them Bugs One of our regular con- tributors, Prasad Kaipa, wants to alert vou to the following bugs he’s found in both the LaserWriter and the Laser- Writer Plus: ® Ifyou printa document that empties the paper tray, a PostSeript error will occur intermittently. ® Print more than 15 copies ofa document while on an Ap- pleTalk network, and a time-out condition occurs that aborts the print job. Reason: Laserwri- ter turns AppleTalk off while printing, and AppleTalk discon- nects after 2 minutes, @ Printa document with more than 10 patterns plus a bit map, and you can expect Post- Script errors. Leave out the bit map and chances for errors are reduced. Reason: pattern imag- ing takes up almost all the La- serWriter's memory, leaving virtually no memory for bit- map imaging. = Try manual-feed printing on standard US, letterhead while you have a European (B5) letterhead tray in the La- serWriter, and you'll get a B5- formatted letter. To work around this, make sure the pa- price of $50 per tray in the printer matches what you've specified in the di- alog box, even if you're feeding the paper manually, Apple is aware of these bugs, butits unlikely that the next version of the LaserWriter’s ROM will remedy them. If you plan accordingly you can avoid the errors, or at least know swhat causes them, PageMaker and Word Upgraded ® Annoying problems found in. Microsoft Word 3.0 have ~ been corrected in version 3,01, claims Microsoft. Microsoft also upgraded Word to be compatible with the Macintosh I and to do better with file conversions, pagina- tion, and printing on non-Apple serial printers, = Updates have been sent free of charge to registered users of | version 3.0. Users of Word 1,05 who registered their copies be- fore October 1, 1986, may up- grade to version 3.01 for $99.4 special promotional upgrade ill available for those who registered Word 1.05 after October 1, 1986. Meanwhile, Aldus has shipped PageMaker 2.0a, which is com: | patible with Word 3.01 and includes an “export filter” for T/Maker's WriteNow. PageMaker customers who purchased version 2,0 after July Tmay receive 2.0a at no charge, providing they mail a copy of their sales receipt along with their registration card to Aldus, Aldus Extended Technical Sup- port subseribers will receive the product free. All other reg- istered users can purchase the enhanced version of Page-— Maker for $10. 12 October 1987 | The AppleFax Breakthrough — By early November vou Should be able to send and re- ¢eive Macintosh files and fac- simile documents worldwide, using Apple's recently an- nounced AppleFax modem and AppleFax Resource software. ‘YOu can create a fax docu- ment by word processing it on your Macintosh. Then you can print the file on any fax ma- chine in the world simply by selecting AppleFax Resource from the Chooser: You'll be prompted for the fax machine's phone number and the time you want the message sent. It can be transmitted immediately or sent later—possibly at night when telephone rates are lowest. Your AppleFax station, as Ap- ple calls the combination of AppleFax modem and software plus your Macintosh computer, can also be set to automatically receive fax documents, which can be printed on an ImageWei- ter or LaserWriter using special fonts optimized for fax reproduction. _AppleFax is fast—it operates at 9600 bps, But its one-way transmission mode means it can’t be used for interactive communications such as bulle- tin boards, or for information. services like Dialog, The modem and software will cost between $600 and $700, plus the cost of a serial port cable. Mac II Runs MS-DOS Programs > Anew program for the Mac Il, called SoftPC, runs MS- DOS programs just like an IBM PC or compatible computer, Thats the claim of SofiPG’s inventor, Rod MacGregor of In- signia Solutions in London, “Itmeans we've captured the golden egg and put iton the Mac ll,” he said, “People used to have to buy an IBM PC or compatible to run MS-DOS programs—now they can do it right on their Mac IIs.” SoftPC will list for $595 but its expected to be available in the fourth quarter of this year through Softsell. SoftPC also allows the user to transfer files between MS- DOS and Macintosh operating Systems. When a Mac 11 is run- ning Apple's planned UNIX- based operating system, A/UX, SoftPC will allow multiple win- dows. Each window will run any of the three operating sys- tems, Compatible files can he transferred between windows using regular file transfers and cut and paste. “We emulated the PC by sim- ulating every integrated circuit chip,” said MacGregor, “That ‘was the easy part. The hard part was getting the program to work at different operational speeds.” MacGregor claims that the Mac Il running So/tPC executes. programs at about the speed of aPC XT When SoftPC is run- ning on a Sun Microsystems workstation, the speed equals that of a PC AT. SoftPC now works on a Sun workstation in a UNIX environ- ment, Its success has raised in- terest among computer manu- facturers who see the potential for running other programs on their systems, MacGregor said. Asa result, Insignia is care- fully selecting among operat- ing systems and computers picks its next project. One po- tential emulation would allow the IBM's OS/2 to run on the Mace Il. 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A computer magazine reporter will- ingly sells his inside source down the river in order to get an even bigger story from the source's own computer company. “We're trying to stop leaks,” says the mar- keting executive at the company in ques- tion. “T'll give you even more information if you'll tell me which engineer spilled the beans” The reporter downloads the name of his source and the dirty deal is done. Six months after a magazine has re- viewed a computer system, the columnist who reviewed it has not returned the eval- uation equipment. The system is stacked with various boards, a hard disk, and a modem. When th em is finally (and grudgingly) returned, the manufacturer checks inside the computer and discovers that the machine has been stripped of many of its boards, “Often, we're billed for missing equip- ment,” admits the editor of the magazine when asked to provide an explanation for his writer's behavior. “But otherwise, com- panies hesitate to do anything for fear the columnist will strike out against them in the futur Asoftware marketer has become wary of calls from magazine advertising sales- people who represent themselves as mem- bers of the editorial department. “We have your press release, we're interested in your product, we think it meets our readers’ needs,” the sales rep declares, before pop- ping the loaded question at the end of the conversation: "By the way, have you ever considered advertising in our magazine?” “Then I get mad,” the software mar- keter says. “If they're in ad sales, I don't need to waste my time giving them a long technical talk about my product, Now I just ask them in the beginning, Are you in sales or editorial?” In another case, an advertising rep screams abuse over the phone ata compa- ny that hasn't bought advertising space in her magazine in some time. “I just want to let you and your boss know that the way you advertise in those other magazines and not in ours is really beginning to irk me!” Sighs the software firm's marketing executive, “Our company is private and not as big as Microsoft or Lotus or Ashton-Tate. So we have to be very particular about our advertising, We do advertise in that maga- zine, but not in every issue. They have no excuse for their rudeness and arm- twisting” The truth is that computer publica- tions are no different from any other me- dium when it comes to having ethical is crash, The insider trading case 2 a reporter from the Wall Street Journal's “Heard on the Street” column comes to mind, In television journalism too, some major networks are known to have faked battle scenes during their news coverage. One of the problems specific to com- puter journalism is that many of the older journals have always been trade publica- tions. Only with the advent of the personal computer in the early eighties did we wit- ness the emergence of computer publica- tions for the consumer. Consequently, many computer magazines and news papers are advertising-driven. Their pur- pose is to create an environment for ads. 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User installable. swan S129 €¥ Jasmine Technologies, Inc. 555 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 Circle 747 on reader service card David Bunnell For example, one major trade pub- lisher, Cahners Publishing, clearly states in its corporate philosophy that its publica- tions are primarily advertising vehicles. Naturally, you can't expect a great deal of al reporting to come from journals of suasion. Consumer-oriented computer publica- tions are a different breed altogether. Or at least they should be. I don’t think such journals can ever hope to remain succe: ful if they're not editorially driven. For one thing, they wouldn't be able to sell enough subscriptions to be truly viable. At some publishing companies, how- ever, it's not uncommon for the editor of a e to report to the publisher, who a main interest, ff, These pub- ire on editors: to avoid negative stories. They pressure ed- itors to cover products from potential ad- s. And they pressure editors to lishers frequently put pr to the advertiser: torial coverage, “We give you edi- hould advertise Such publications include reader-ser- vice numbers in their reviews, Readers may think it’s a reader service—but take it from me, thi nothing more than a ruse to sell ads. What happens is that after a product is reviewed or announced, the ad- vertiser rect sa couple hundred reader- service inquiries. This provides a great en- tree for the advertising sales rep to call the company. “Look at all the response you're getting just from this little review,” goes the common pitch. “Just think of what will hap- pen when you place an ad with us!” Areader-service number at the end of a review is a dead giveaway that you're reading an advertising-driven magazine. One major computer magazine fea- tures an “editor's day.” This is a traveling road show di signed to put potential adver- tisers in touch with editors and columnists. The idea is for the manufacturers to parade their products to a captive audience of the magazine's editors, who are required to make the trip. It's torture, but they have litle choice except to be there. Then the advertising squeeze is put on the companies to advertise in the magazine. ‘To my mind, and throughout the his- tory of journalism, really good editors are reader-oriented, not advertising-oriemted. 20 October 1987 Good editors and computer journalists have to put themselves into the shoes of their readers. They have to know the prob- lems and challenges of implementing and using technology. Reporters have to be ready to blow the whistle on products that don’t work. They have to tell readers when a product has a lot of features but is too complicated to use. They have to really find out if the package is bug-ridden or if it lives up to its promise. We all have to guard against being so enthusiastic about new technology that we overpromote it. The computer press has certainly been guilty of that. We shouldn't simply be pushing people to buy new hard- ware and software all the time. We must al- ys be showing our readers how to use ing resources better, IIMll ...c2 strict code of ethics in the field of computer journalism Macworld is dedicated to providing “power to the reader.” In fact, this is what sets us apart from other publications. We do not want to view technology as being good in and of itself, or to look favorably on new products just because they repre- sent new technology. At Macworld, we like to raise ques- tions that aren't usually asked, We want to know about the product's long-term bene- fit to the customer. How is that technology going to make our readers’ workplaces more productive? How will it qualitatively improve the work proce: s the product better than another similar product? Or would it perhaps be better not to buy any such product at all? We believe that whether you're a mul- tiple-unit buyer or a single-unit buyer— whether you're consuming one or a thou- nd—you have a basic right to a certain lev- el of quality and performance. We feel it is our journalistic respon- sibility to delve into issues like after-sales support, warranties, dealer service, and the capability to expand and upgrade. Our regular Updates column, for example, keeps you informed about the latest ver- sions of Macintosh software so that you can stay up to speed with upgrades. One of the major issues that is so cru- cial to our readers—and one that concerns isers and computer journalists ali is the question of how we review products. How do we choose the products we re- view? What is our methodology? What standards do we set for accuracy and sub- jectivity? How reliable is the critique’ Over the past few years, our review- ing process has become more and more sophisticated. In the early days of personal com- puter publishing, most reviews were writ- ten by somebody who would take a pack- age from a shelf, open it up, run itina machine for about an hour, glance at the manual, then write the review based on his or her impressions. ‘Today's sophisticated readers need to have products reviewed in context. Jack Dongarra, one of the most famous. benchmark creators in the field of electri- cal and electronics engineering, perhaps put it most succinctly in a recent issue of IEEE Spectrum when he stated that the best benchmark is a benchmark of real- world applications. That means when an accounting pack- age is evaluated, you need to know what it's like to use it. You want to know how it behaves when you're planning your bud- get. How it works inside your business~ not how it performs in a lab or on an editor's desk. At Macworld, we do a great deal of checking in the review process. For a soft- ware review, for instance, we have an edi- tor working closely with the author who is reviewing the product, They both have the software package—and they both put it through its paces. The editor verifies the author's findings by duplicating the pro- cedures on his or her machine. Then we have a technical editor who checks the technical aspects of the product to make sure that what the reviewer says about the program is accurate. Compounding the complexity of the review process is the fact that the products themselves have become increasingly com- plex. When the Macintosh first came out, the 128K Mac wa simple and e: use. Now we have a much more compli- cated machine with multitasking, lots of memory, and a wide variety of features and options. Using a soft the Mac is no longer the simple task it used to be. (continues) The hottest sport onacourt— the hottest game aMacintosh™ can handle. Even if you've never been on a racquetball court, you'll spark to the excitement of this challenging simulation. MacRacquetball turns your Macintosh screen into a full perspec- tive 3-D display of court, players and ball. With the mouse, you have com- plete control of player position, ball placement, ball speed and shots. Two people can play the same game over AppleTalk® or modem. Superb graphics give Mac- Racquetball completely convincing realism. There are more than 1000 frames of ultra high speed digitized animation. It’s one racquetball court that’s always open when you're ready to play. @ PCAT’ Enthusiastic players everywhere have made MacGolf the best selling Macintosh game ever. MacGolf puts you in the picture, a full perspective 3-D simulation of realistic golf action. You match your skills against fairways, roughs, bun- kers, water hazards, sand traps and trees. MacGolf gives youa player's eye view of the course, in any direc- tion, and an aerial overview of each hole. You have complete control of your position, ball placement, ball speed and direction, and selection of all 14 clubs. Digitized graphics and sounds add to the excitement. MacGolfis so close to the real thing it will improve your golf game. And by the time you've reached the eighteenth hole you'll know you've been ina real contest. (01987, PCAV/Practical Computer Applications, Incorporated 612/427-4789 Macintosh and Applelalk are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 211 on reader service card When you have the best selling Macintosh game in the world, what do you do for an encore? Here’s new turf for adventurous MacGolfers. These are courses to conquer for mouse wielding pros who have taken the measure of the original MacGolf courses. Tf you liked MacGolf, you'll love what MacCourses brings to the screen. Four new 18 hole, par 72 courses: Cedar Creek, Golden Sands, Thunder Ridge and PCAI International. The fairways, traps, hazards, and putting greens of MacCourses are in a whole new league. If you thought MacGolf was good training for the outdoor game, MacCourses should turn you into a pro. Get MacCourses now, use it when you're ready — younever know when you'll need the challenge. Were Helping De Capacity minrope Pa 5 nd aN fons, ints lan Vario) ong out of at EE i often Melt flies, itl a Peeinning ip hehe ‘halite Proc Re Oreinizaton Ito nore levels ata Inaba ee chang Chere the saree In the 8 techno eatin inthe: ston Sine rocegg. jt ny. The Oude antigua td Asi ‘els Duby Ost pre edlctve aid coat gt Ric shakeout sng bane i ‘Que “tthat ole, gues SA8tings on 4 lity 35 i open TAliORS in the Machine During the last ae fort i “ally a mon, “ae 2 Uniop. if ote - seal ca a he an, fi ts (06 ) atch ry Te hand pouyp o Molds, We 2 things here eB ae tiang € ye TS aga.” y ss ‘ SF o® Your ski bel 8°15 a renigg Packing jp hy eae nally, ang SODteol there re Make Tracks. 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To see a full demonstration of what PageMaker can do for you, order our 30- minute VHS tape for just $9.95. Or visit 9 your authorized Aldus dealer. aes es [2eelVaker ® 411 First Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104 (206)622-5500 (©1987 Aldus Corporation. PageMaker and Aldus are trademarks of Aldus Corporation. John Deere isa trademark of Deere & Compa Circle 306 on reader service card MiniCad" Let Others Speak for Us Computer Graphics: "MiniCad even beats AutoCAD,, it combines 2D and 3D features in one package., a sophisticated 2D and 3D drafting program that is clearly in- tended for the professional CAD user." CAD/CAM Journal: "A major contendor in the Macintosh CAD marketplace.... MiniCad offers enormous functions for the price.” Graphic Perspective: "MiniCad... is a wonderful example of one of those pieces of software that slips onto the scene unannounced, quietly surpassing all similar pro- grams that break in on the market with a huge splash." Personal Publishing: "MiniCad bridges the gap between everyday drawing applications and professional CAD programs, and it combines the best of both. "MiniCad achevies an ideal balance of simplicity and capability.. Don't let the name fool you,. there is nothing "mini" about MiniCad except the price." Priced at only $495.00 MiniCad™ is developed and produced by Diehl Graphsoft Inc. 8370 Court Ave. Suite 202 Ellicott City, Md. 21043 301-461-9488 Circle 634 on reader service card 24 October 1987 David Bunnell Therefore, our reviewing process has become much more sophisticated. For ex- ample, we have three certified electrical engineers on the Macworld staff, making sure that we're technically up to snuff. As Macworld has matured over the years, we've learned not to be deterred by flak about our reviews. We are accused of all kinds of things by advertisers. We might be accused of having a regional bias by an advertiser in Texas who feels we cover too many California products simply because our offices are here, Small companies say we cover too many products from big com- panies, and big companies complain that we cover too many insignificant products from small companies. Obviously, no one welcomes a bad re- view. But when we do print a negative re- port on a product, we sometimes get an incredible response from the manufac- turer. Interestingly, the most vociferous ob- jections come from smaller companies who chose to use what resources they had for promoting the new product instead of fine-tuning it. They will write letters to the publisher, to the president, to the chair- man, and to the editor. They'll also write letters to other advertisers about how they believe they've been injured and wounded, They'll insist that the reviewer wasn't ex- pert enough in the field, or that the re- viewer had a bias. They'll even claim that the reviewer was in cahoots with one of their competitors. None of these claims are true, of course, But we do have to deal with these accusations. We have to stand firm with ad- vertisers, and at the same time be con- scious of the economic reality of their situation, The fact is that a review in Macworld carries a great deal of weight. It can stimu- late sales in the case of a positive review, or it can suppress sales in the case of a nega- tive review, Sometimes when a product is given a negative critique, the manufacturer may lose some business. Distributors may not want to carry as many of its products. Or the company may lose an important OEM sale. We are extremely sensitive to the fact that a negative review can be damaging to a company. That’s why we put such a high priority on accuracy and fairness. Inasense, Macworld’s reputation it- self gives us a great deal of freedom. Ulti- mately, advertisers realize they're less interested in the editorial opinions of our writers than in knowing our readers. They ‘want to reach those 350,000 people, each of whom influences thousands of dollars in hardware and software purchases every year. In order for us to serve our readers optimally, we use as many ways as possible to keep tabs on their needs, We do this by conducting sophisticated surveys and fo- cus groups, by attending user-group meet- ings, by talking to people in corporations, by using bulletin boards and, most impor- tant, by being highly involved in the tech- nology ourselves. Because we have a close working relationship with Apple and the Macintosh developers’ community, we gen- erally hear about upcoming developments before anyone else does. We also firmly be- lieve in using and advancing the Macintosh technology to the limit. It's not enough to merely report on events and take a passive role. Our first annual Technology and Is- sues conference, held last June in San Fran- cisco, brought members of the Macintosh technical community together for two highly enlightening clays of sessions, dem- onstrations, and lively discussions. Most of the Macs we have in our edi- torial offices are SEs or Mac IIs. We're actively experimenting with networks. Macworld’s art and editorial departments are networked using AppleSbare, and we are connected through AppleLink to our outside contributors. All of the art that you see in this magazine has been created on the Mac. In fact, it would be fair to say that the journalism we practice at Macworld is ad- vocacy journalism. We are user advocates. Among other things, we advocate better products, innovation, better pricing, more customer support, and honesty in the marketplace. Finally, we advocate a strict code of ethics and proper comportment in the field of computer journalism. Ethics are ethics are ethics. 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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 Tbtem 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, theres 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 OUNTAIN COMPUTER. 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Because Apple owns the Mac's identity, its performance will never be matched. Alan Jobnson Denton, Texas Macintosh Archives I am interested in starting some genealogi- cal research on my family. Is there a pro- gram that keeps such records on the Mac? Cynthia Croucher Houston, Texas Correction Spelling Champion (Reviews, July 1987) automatically makes changes in word processing documents, but that has nothing to do with its transfer function. Spelling Champion's transfer utility auto- matically switches back to the word pro- cessor so you can print the corrected doc- ument or continue writing and editing. The photo of Odesta's Double Helix was left out of “World Class Macintosh” in the September issue. Our apologies. We haven't evaluated any of the geneal- ogy software, but bere's a list: Mac Gene from Applied Ideas, Box 3225, Manbat- tan Beach, CA 90266, 213/545-2996; Family Heritage File from StarCom Soft- ware Systems, Windsor Park East, 25 W. 1480 North, Orem, UT 84057, 801/ 225-1480, and Family Roots from Quin- cept, Box 216, Lexington, MA 02173, 617/641-2930.—Ed. Getting It on Your Chest How do I get a Mac logo T-shirt and other such goodies? Marx Tait Ypsilanti, Michigan For a catalog, call 800/345-2888 or write to the Apple Collection, P.O. Box T, Gilroy, CA 95021-2249.—Ed. Copy Protection Mischief It was nice to see molecular biology in- cluded in your article on the Mac in the sci- ences (“The Labtop Macintosh,” October 1986). However, you neglected to mention one “feature” of DNA Inspector I that makes it useless for me and many of my colleagues: an unfortunate form of copy protection by which, according to the au- thor, unauthorized copies of the program randomly and without warning insert er- rors into the output. What would the reac- tion be if Exce/ were protected by random changes in worksheet formulas? Thave never before heard of a re- searcher constructing a system designed. deliberately to sabotage colleagues’ work. (continues) Macworld 27 Sider FIRST CLAS rst Class ntroducing Our Latest Sider odel C46. Storage. 60 Megs ntegral Tape Backup. $1995.00 Total. 40 Megs Primary y First, The Problem. ~ Apple is telling the world these days that the power, versatility and compatibility of the new Macintoshes are going to end forever any doubts that these are first-class bus machines. But what kind of business you actually get down to has as much to do with the peripher: it does the com- it torage. 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Get DiskFit and stop singing the backup blues. @ DiskFit: $74.95 @ Network DiskFit: $395.00 Mountain View, CA 94043 (415) 964-9694 im requirements: Macintosh 512, or Macintosh IE with one or isa tralemark of Apple Computes, Inc © 1987 SuperMac Software, Letters Without copy protection, the program. could be a useful tool; as it stands, it is dan- gerous and unacceptable in the laboratory. D., Ph.D. New Haven, Connecticut DNA Inspector II's copy protection allows the owner to make two copies that can be verified by the master disk. The original disables unverified copies in such away that errors may result, but that’s not the goal of the copy-protection scheme, ac- cording to Gross. Textco bas replaced the program with an upgrade. DNA Inspector Il Plus, which is HFS compatible, allows making copies onto two hard disks but prevents the program from running on any other bard disk.—Ed. WYSIW YG Worries I want to add a caveat to your article “Font Facts” (February 1987). Installing just a sin- gl screen font for a font in the laser printer can result in discrepancies between what shows on the screen and what prints. In a document with several font sizes that aren't installed in screen versions, these differences affect on-screen formatting, and in some cases cause different word wraps and leading—even to the point of leaving some material outside the text block so it doesn’t print at all. T.S. Robinson Batavia, New York We Stand Corrected In your mention of Edudisc’s Mentor/Mac- Video system (Macworld News, May 1987), you reported that the system “is in place at several colleges and universities, including Boston College.” Actually, we have buta single user, who works with only the Mac- Author component. While Edudise has given presentations of its system to staff at this university, we have neither endorsed nor purchased MacAuthor or the Mentor/ MacVideo system. Paul R. 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Glue in the Works I have used Microsoft Works for five months (“Insights on Microsoft Wor! July 1987). The program provides a wide range of functions ata moderate price, it is easy to use, and the integration is smoothly executed overall, However, it also has seri- ous flaw Aside from some annoying glitches, it lacks strengths found in other Microsoft products. Perhaps to avoid competing with other Microsoft programs, the Works de- signers have been stingy with keyboard shortcuts, [ don’t expect the company to sell me Word, Excel, and File rolled into one and then discounted, but Works should at least be a subset of the corre- sponding full-featured programs. I hope Microsoft will demonstrate its commit- ment to excellence by correcting this in version 2. Thomas Auer Stanford, California Student Protest Recently Macworld is expending so much effort trying to push the Mac in the busi- ness world that you seem to forget where it got its start. 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With the software, users can partition the drives into several volumes, or combine several drives into one single volume. Volume sizes can be changed or new ones added at any time without losing data, Password protection, manual or automatic mounting, automatic head parking, backup utilities, and disk repair utilities are all standard. In addition, the software performs several diagnostic tests including the ability to map out bad sectors and program the drive’s interleave. In short, this is some of the most extensive and best written Software available for Mac hard drives Most of the Cirrus’ flexibility comes from their excellent software. However, the physical construction of the drives also contribute to their Superior flexibility Unlike other drives for the Mac, Cirrus drives can be placed vertically or stacked horizontally depending on your desktop requirements. Performance Cirrus drives were engineered to perform well in everyday situations. These drives arei¥ery fast when performing common operations such as going to the chooser or building the desktop. Reading and writing to and from files is also very fast. Using the Cirrus drives gave us an design (0 performance. For instance, fan noise can increase fatigue in office workers. A drive that is built to be quiet and easy to work with may not increase the data transfer rate, but it will help to get more product drives/are quiet and easy’to Work with which we consider to be a plus in their performance rating. Because the Cirrus software is so good, users may want to use it to initialize drives from different manufacturers. In our tests, this worked well, and allowed drives of differing origin to be linked together as one volume. Since many of the older SCSI drives came with poor software, this is a good argument for buying a Cirrus drive and chaining it with other drives after they have been initialized with the Cirrus software. Design and Construction ‘The Cirrus drives, though /Very'smalliand lightweightyi(about 4 Ibs.), are constructed of ‘quality materials:designed'to last) Their light weight is due to the small number of components each drive and to their plastic case. The Cirrus drive is both sturdy and durable; the internal power supply is encased in aluminum, and the drives are shock mounted on rubber bearings. The Cirrus drives have the|mostiexcitingy simple andielegantdesignwe'have seen in a hard drive for the Mi tosh. The modular construction of the drives means that any repair work will be quick and easy. Simply put; Cirrus'drives'are’a joy to work with. Recommendations Cirrus drives were designed for the the professional user. They were not engineered to be low cost products, or to be ‘just adequate performers;” they are built with prc ‘components. These are powerful driv powerful software. Cirrus drives are an excellent solution for users who demand a lot. Readers should also note that several new products are in the pipeline and that a 40MB tape backup and 30MB hard drive are currently available. We give the Cirrus 20, 40 and 60 drives an excellent rating (8 on a scale of 10) and recommend that other drive manufacturers follow the Cirrus example, and design drives that are simple, elegant and impressive performers. -Michae! Day ©BandF Publishing pOtTtS Is traeman, "ices quoted arg cach oF Cirrus De "Cir Development Prices. Mouse 2M Corporation, tary a Ot included. Excarpe OS i & tage Ty reprinted with Perms Apple Computers. p, ISSION Of Mac Jo eS ang te SD2ctications "5 SUD,ect to ch; 2 'aN8 without hoUt notice Your roving editor is tired. Remember the Madeline Kahn routine in Blazing Saddles when, dressed as Marlene Dietrich, she dances around and sings “Ach. I'm tire Like that. Perhap: y my second personal computer boom. The 1982/83 period was IBM's heyday, and it looks like the 1987/88 boom has Apple written all over it. So this is the exciting part, right? Well, almost. You see, I have this Mac II in my office that doesn't quite live up to its billing. My company bought it ata computer store—actually that's the good news: we could buy one-and it doesn’t have a hard disk. It only has one floppy drive. It doesn’t really have enough RAM to allow it to run the MultiFinder or even sev- eral of the new applications. I'd love to run color applications, but, uh, someone forgot to finish off the color monitor. So [ have to buy or borrow one from SuperMac, which is kind of short because it lias to supply all the Mac developers. Technical Editor David Ushijima and | tied mightily to drive a NEC monitor with the Apple video card, but the card we received had only 256K RAM and wouldn't work, | hear from dealers that most of the cards are being shipped only half populated—256K RAM instead of the full complement. I really like what I've seen so far; in fact, it's whetted my appetite, but I'm get- ting tired of waiting. And speaking of new product enthusiasm, August's Macworld Expo kindled some light anew. Commentary/erry Borrell Jerry Bob Says Check It Out Hot Expo products, Bill Atkinson's reappearance, and technogloom MICK WIGGINS Macworld Expo The biggest show ever—and more hot products than you can shake a stick at However, Expo organizers Mitch Hall and Associates might take a lesson from a group called AFIPS, whose National Com- puter Conference has died a slow death partly because of poor choice of venue— let's move the show to a place that will hold everyone. Please? Anyway, back to the good part of the s MacroMind’ anter finally gota big public showing of VideoWorks Ii, twas worth the wait. Cricket Software demon- strated Cricket Present, a color presenta- tion package that puts IBM software to shame. Comtrex showed a liquid: al Mac screen add-on for overhead projec- tors—wait till you see this thing. It makes presentations on the Mac practical; how- ever, at $1500, it's too steep for personal use. Remember the MacBottom from PCPI, the company in Tampa? Well, PCPI is the second firm in the competition with a vid- eo card for the Mac II, and it looks really nice. Jerry Bob says check it out. Apple had its share of hot product new dot matrix printer, the MultiFinder, HyperCard, the fax modem, and AppleTalk extended to Ethernet, I have to admit to being most pleased with MultiFinder—if I can just find enough RAM to upgrade my Mac Plus (attached to a MicroGraphic Im- ages large screen) to about 2MB, I'll be able to have all the applications I use—and the Finder-all open and available on the same screen. The way Switcher should have been. Great. Bill Atkinson Reappears While we're on the subject of remem- bering, remember Bill Atkinson, Mac- Paint’s originator? Where the devil has he been? Well, for the last two years he’s been developing a new product called Hyper- Card. Trouble is, it takes Bill demonstrating the product to make you appreciate its po- tential. Thousands of people turned out at the Macworld Expo for standing-room-only demonstrations of this user-programmable database manager. Pretty sexy stuff. Apple carefully explains that HyperCard does not perform the types of functions found in database software, but its interface is so (continues) Macworld 43 Other draw and paint programs also let you add captions. But none of them can put those captions next to the sharpest, cleanest lines and curves on the map. f y 7 = = With its powerful curve drawing capabilities, Adobe Illustrator makes GE a short work of the most technical drawings. And gives you camera ready f j output right at your desk. ZA yj a o, - \ * Chair are courtecy of Apple Comprter, In. Share your drawing with other users. And if anyone wants to change it—no problem—the \ Adobe Illustrator can give you another perfect original. Fast. Start with a blueprint or just a dream and the Adobe Illustrator can help you build out the rest. Straight and true. Tet For producing the finest details, all kinds of line weights, even typeset captions with precise control, Bones ofthe Let Hand-Paimar Surace no other program can touch it. Unlike other } raw and paint © programs, the Adobe ‘) Iustrator uses lines and curves to form an image, instead of dots. So there’ really no limit to the ideas you can hatch. Or cross-hatch. Change is the name of the game tn logo design. And the Adobe Illustrator can make changes in a. fraction of the time it would take by hand. And not a big fraction, either. NOW A WORK OF ART DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ALOT OF WORK. Introducing Adobe Illustrator” A new software program designed to produce high quality illustration with the smoothness of a french curve, the versatility of a pencil and the speed ofa computer. Here’s how it works. Unlike other programs, the Adobe Illustrator doesrt build an illustration dot by dot. It uses precise /ines and curves instead. Secondly, nothing has to be drawn from scratch. You and your Macintosh Plus} SE"or II}'can start with the scanned image of a photograph, logotype, blueprint, something from your scrap file, even a rough sketch. Once in the computer, this scanned image becomes your guide. You trace over it to construct the new image. Then, once you have the image you want, you can manipulate it in ways possible only with a computer—scale it, rotate it, even combine it with other Adobe Illustrator images. From an artistic point of view, then, the Adobe Illustrator is a powerful, new medium. But it’s also a powerful new production tool. One that automates the art production process. Imagine, if you will, getting camera ready art out ofa Macintosh. (We did. You’re looking at it.) Or being able to change that art radically—as easily as you’d edit a letter—and getting new art, literally, within minutes. Imagine keeping every image in small electronic “art files? and being able to recall, refine, combine or change images, at any time, in any way. Without any of the usual production headaches. And just picture what you can do when you combine the Adobe Illustrator with the most popular page layout systems. It also drives each and every PosTScRiPT!equipped printer, from the Apple® LaserWriter™ to Linotype’s* Linotronic”300 typesetter. So the problem of getting high resolution has finally been resolved. To see for yourself, call (800) 29- ADOBE, (800) 85-ADOBE in Cali- fornia, or (415) 852-0271 from Canada for the location of the nearest Adobe dealer. You'll get a demonstration that'll really draw your interest. ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR: Ade trina and POSTSCRIPT: rite radar of Ale Seen Ip = ‘eb L003 ran or prac nas ae tears o mere radon of ther rape ders VOR Adabe Systems Incorporated. 1870 Bouburvadero Ri, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Circle 678 on reader service card Commentary/erry Borrell appealing that many people are likely to shoehorn it even into serious business applications. Since HyperCard is going to be shipped in eve: uted like know Mg using it y new Mac box and distrib- MacWrite and MacPaint, if 1 users, soon everyone will be himsical sidelight: Bill managed to get a revision of MacPaint incorporated into the product as a tool. If Apple wasn’t going to improve it after three years, by God, Bill was. Danny Goodman, one of our contributing editors, has a book our from Bantam on the product. You'll want to look at it to getan idea of just what Hyper- Card can do. Accidental Millionaire Nor was Danny the only author in the Apple environment this summer. Leaving the Mac world for a needed respite, I car- ried along the latest book on the Apple community: Accidental Millionaire. The author, appropriately named Butcher, has produced a fine hatchet job on—yes—Steve Jobs. The book (Paragon House, 1987) does go far in recognizing the role Steve Wozniak played in the foundation of Apple but one wonders if anyone, particularly Woz, would have much interest in aggran- dizement at such a cost. The author's favorite descriptions include mercurial, arrogant, brooding, loner, unpopular, debilitating, insecure. Add your own bile and mix thoroughly with public relations to obtain a potential best-seller. Somebody still needs to write a good book on Apple. Michael Moritz’s The