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November 1987 $3.95 ” The Macintosh"Magazine
Canada $4.95
Apple CEO
John
Sculley
15-year strategy
for success
Nothing gets the jobs done
Some people never know where :
their next job’s coming from.That’s |
why there’s Microsoft® Works, the
winner of five major awards — eta
including Macworld’s 1987 one
and MacUser’s 1986 =
Integrated Product of the
Year awards.
Microsoft Works is a one-disk
software program that gracefully
integrates:
Word processing, for writing
memos, reports, presentations.
A database tool with reporting,
to keep track of clients, jobs,
vendors.
A spreadsheet
with charting, to
compute,analyze,
interpret,
and then
anything to
do with oe
finance or : g
numbers.
Finally, a reports across
communica- the country, right over
tions tool which the phone lines.
lets you get stock Microsoft Works is
quotes, make travel seamlessly melded together.
‘You can have all four tools on
screen at once. Jump instantly
reservations, do
research, and send
ike Microsoft Works.
from one to another. And later
combine work done in each part
of the program on a single
printed page.
This easy exchange of data
makes jobs go faster and much,
much easier. (Like form letters
where you need to combine
names from the database written in the word processor.)
with a memo Learning Microsoft Works is a
snap. It starts with a painless,
jg step-by-step, computer-based
j, training program. Before you
- know it, you know it.
- Allin all, Microsoft Works is a
- superb solution for day to day, get-
it-done problems—an inspiring
display of convenience, efficiency,
and utility,
And of course, it’s a product of
Microsoft, the preeminent devel-
oper of programs for the Macintosh™
If youre in a business that won’t
let you stick to one thing, check
out Microsoft Works—the program
that can change jobs as fast as
you do.
Microsoft Works.
Foreveryone.
For the name of the nearest Microsoft dealer, call (800) 426-9400. In Washington State
‘and Alaska, (206) 882-8088, In Canada, call (416) 675-7638.
“Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh is a trademark.
of Apple Computer, Inc.
November 1987 The Macintosh Magazine
On the Cover
Aman with plans;
Apple chairman John
Sculley dis his
vision of Apple in the
twenty-first century:
See p, 73 (Photo by
Qynthia Moore.)
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Departments
Mac Bulletin
Late-breaking news.
David Bunnell 93 Macworld News
Letters = 7uke It with You Colby’s new por-
table Mac,
Commentary/erry Borrell
® Color Printers Now Getting color
Contributors Notes from screen to paper.
Steven Levy * The Finder ina DA Finder func-
ada é tions under the Apple.
Apple CLO Tohn:Seulleys15:yeat g Plus, how HyperCard works with ani-
strates yfOF su by mations, a new color paint program,
magazine-quality photos, and more,
New Products
“A quick look at new Mac software,
hardware/andiaccessories.
How To/Quick Tips
Inside WriteNow’s dictionary, a
Cricket Graph hint, an Excel macro,
tiling in Word, and more.
How: To/Getting Started with Music
Séquencers, patches, MIDI, and other
Mac'musical mysteries explained
How To/Insights on Quark XPress
Desktop»publishing tips.
Mac System Tools
A buyer's guide to Mac cooling
devices.
Updates
The latest software upgrade news.
Where to Buy
Information on products in this issue:
Best-Sellers
November 1987
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Features
Just How Compatible is Compatible?
Which of your favorite programs will
crash a Mac I?
Benchmark: Mechanical CAD
Three Mac programs compared with
AutoCAD on the IBM PC. What's the
best design tool?
Excel Macro Treasury
Macros for the taking,
Beyond Black and White
Make high-quality four-color
separations on a monochrome Mac.
What's in a Window?
‘Today's workstation windowing
environments foretell the future of
the Mac operating system.
Business Buyer's Guide
One thousand products! A classified
compendium of Mac hardware and
software.
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Reviews
Four ofa Kind
HyperDrive FX/40, Jasmine Direct Drive 50,
MacBottom HD45, Rodime 45 Plus.
Gateway to the Future
Netway N1O00A Mac-to-mainframe communications,
High Performance
Radius Accelerator 68020/68881 board for the SE.
Money Worries?
MacMoney petsonal financialmanager,
Four-Wall Challenge
MacRaquetball sports simulation.
Solid State
Tl Modufae2 development environment.
Works Writing Etihancer
Microsoft's WorksPhrs Spell.
Behind the Scenes
Scriptwriter film and theatrical scripting.
A Little Byte Music
‘Stidio Session composition software.
Macro-Making forthe Mac
Save Steps With AtittoMacH
Baby Talk
First Shapes, MacRobots K-12
educational software.
It Only Hurts When I Stop Laughing
Aureaueracy misadventure at Happitec.
Mac-Mainframe Solution
pelinkg terminal emulator.
Move Over, Dollars and Sense
In-House Accountant financial
management and/accounting.
Shareware and Public Domain
Game Awards
The unofficial best.
On Time
Time Logger Mac stopwatch,
Mouseballs
Roundup of mouse accessories.
Macworld 3
MACWORLD
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You've heard about them. You've
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most powerful feature: expandability.
Its something we made possible
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the eras ofany business.
You can, for example, set up a sys-
tem that’ perfect for major-league number
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greater power for Apple Desktop Publish-
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The SE sports one expansion slot.
While the Macintosh II takes the idea of
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configure themselves, and require you to
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of your choice.
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It’s the Future,
and It’s Free
Ifyou launch the pro-
gram on the free Mac disk
from General Motors’ Buick
Division, you'll see a cre
section of a motor “run”
on your Mac's screen—at a
speed usually reserved for
movies.
This animated advertise-
ment, for which General Mo-
tors has received over 60,000
orders, also features a moving
suspension and a rotating su-
percharger, Other portions
of the interactive program,
which is called a Soft Ad, re-
spond to your choices by sug-
gesting which Buick model
will best meet your needs.
Soft Ads have been jointly
developed by SoftAd and
Beck-Tech, which also mar-
kets an animation program
called MacMovies that lets
Macintosh users create “moy-
ies” using MacDraw, Easy3D,
and MacPaint, (Images can.
also be created using a video
camera or VCR.) The frames
can be sequenced, rese-
quenced, played back, and
strung together to make long-
er movies.
Until recently, this “desktop
television” technology was
available only on systems
costing $100,000 or more. But
the Macintosh-especially the
Mac Il—will be used exten-
sively for such applications as
preparing video programs
and commercials.
Is there a future for Soft
Ads or desktop television? See
for yourself by ordering the
free Buick Dimension disk.
Call 800/87-BUICK between
8am. and 5 p.m., EST.
ight
Printer Magic
Orange Micro is offering
a $99 printer cable, called the
Grappler, that it says will con-
nect the Macintosh to almost
any parallel printer—without a
change in software. This
means many well-known
printers, such as Epson,
Okidata, and Panasonic, can
emulate an Apple ImageWriter
Il (including color printing on
many printer models).
The Grappler converts Mac
serial output into the parallel
input of ma:
printers, using circuitry con-
tained in an enlarged con-
nector head that plugs into
the printer. The cable also
works with the Apple IIc or
HGS, and it comes with a one-
year warranty,
Backup, the
Easy Way
Most of us tend to have
an unjustified faith in the in-
vincibility of electronic equip-
ment, despite the fact that just
about every Macintosh user
has experienced some kind of
hardware or software indiges-
tion. When the machine on
your desk fails and all those
files on your hard disk be-
come inaccessible, what's the
next step? Reliable tape drives
and automatic network back-
up utilities sound like just the
ticket. But though they're in
sight, they're probably not
going to be available for a
while. In the meantime? Why,
(groan) it’s back to backing
up on floppies.
Without the help of some
kind of utility, managing regu-
lar backup with measly 800K
floppy disks becomes a monu-
mental task when you're talk-
ing about 20- to 300MB hard
disks. Fortunately, there’s a
program called DiskFit 1.3
from SuperMac Software that
performs documents-only
and incremental backups.
Back up your System Folder
and applications using the
normal Mac copy function,
and then use DiskFif to back
up your documents on a daily
or weekly basis. It's a back-up
strategy that’s easy to manage.
DiskFit 13 is available from
SuperMac for $74.95; a net-
work version costs $395.
PC Experience
Pays Off
f Tecmar is taking advan-
tage of its expertise as a lead-
er in tape backup systems for
the MS-DOS world. It has re-
leased the O7-Mac40 40MB
tape backup, which relies on
the QIC-100 recording stan-
dard for high-level error
correction.
Tecmar’s new Apple Prod-
ucts Division has a series of
other products under devel-
opment, including an expan-
sion chassis for the SE and the
Mac IL This external box will
provide extra slots and thus
the ability to install additional
floppy drives, hard disks, and
tape backup systems. Tecmar
plans to supply graphics and
multifunction boards for the
new machines, as well as
boards dedicated to scientific
data acquisition and industrial
control and monitoring, Tec-
mar expects Mac Ils to be.
used in growing numbers in
the latter two areas.
Common Problems
> BMUG (Berkeley Macin-
tosh User Group) members
call the group's hotline sever-
al hundred times a week. Vol-
unteer consultants find that 80
to 90 percent of the calls
touch on the same 20 or so
questions.
Right now they're getting
calls from Macintosh SE own-
ers who find their computer
isn’t working correctly after
they've copied a number of
disks to their internal hard
drive. Many of those disks
contain uninstalled Systems
and Finders that can unex-
pectedly take over from the
Startup System, The solution
is to go into a disk that’s going
to be copied to the internal
hard disk and select only doc-
uments that don't contain a
System or Finder,
BMUG also urges its callers
to attempt to solve their file
problems with a shareware
program called FileFixer,
which corrects many HES dif-
ficulties. A copy of FileFixer
can be found on many bulle-
tin boards and in user group
libraries.
Protecting Your
Files
Over half the Macin-
toshes now sold are used in
situations where files are sen.
sitive or confidential. Protect-
ing Mac documents can be
difficult, since a file can often
be downloaded from a com-
puter or network in just
seconds.
To solve this problem, Su-
perMac’s Sentinel program
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Mac Bulletin
quickly encrypts files using an
algorithm that makes de-
ciphering very difficult, if not
impossible. Even if a docu-
ment does go astray, the
scrambling makes it virtually
useless.
Sentinel encrypts files indi-
vidually or in sets. One pass-
word locks or unlocks the
files. Locked files appear as
lacked icons on the desktop.
For more information, call Su-
perMac in Mountain View,
California, at 415/964-8884.
Goodbye,
Mac 512KE
> Apple has quietly ceased
manufacturing the Macintosh
512KE. Not even a press release
marked the passing of the
once-heralded enhanced yer-
sion of the 512K, which was in-
troduced in April 1986.
The decision was prompted
hy diminished demand, follow-
ing the introduction of the SE.
Many of the 512KE's features:
—such as a 124K operating sys-
tem, 800K internal drive, and
SCSI port—are still included in
the IMB Mac Plus, which now
hecomes Apple’s entry-level
Macintosh computer.
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The Big Apple
> Look for Macintosh com-
puters to act more and more
like minis and mainframes.
Their high-end capabilities
will come after Apple intro-
duces its UNIX-like operating
system, A/UX, and the up-
graded software that will
follow.
One of these potential
products is Sybase, a high-vol-
ume, high-performance rela-
tional database that now
works on networked worksta-
tions from DEC and Sun Mi-
crosystems, A Mac yersion of
Sybase would allow Macin-
tosh software clevelopers to
design databases that run on
the kind of extensive distrib-
uted networks typically found
in large corporations and gov-
ernment agencies.
The likelihood of such a
Mae database was recently
heightened by Apple’s minor-
ity investment in Sybase of
Berkeley, California:
Servant
Documentation
> Although Apple has final-
ly released MultiFinder, many
Macintosh enthusiasts may
still want to use its precursor,
After all, Servant requires less.
memory, allows you to switch
instantly from one application
to another, performs desktop
tasks faster and more conye-
niently—and it’s free through
user groups and bulletin
boards.
New documentation about
Servant’s 56 features is now
available from writer Scott
Kronick of Berkeley, Califor-
nia. The 92-page manual in-
cludes four tutorial chapters
and a reference chapter that
indexes features by screen
shots and by topic.
Interspersed throughout
are comments from Servant
author Andy Hertzfeld, who
talks about how the program
works and what makes it fun.
For instance, Hertzfeld wrote
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The Challenge of Hypermedia
Iililll Jeest as desktop
publishing opened
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the programming
demon in us?
The whole notion of hypermedia has been
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world Expo in Boston this past summer.
That's when Apple introduced HyperCard,
the new software created by Apple Fellow
Bill Atkinson and now included with every
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reactions.
HyperCard was greeted variously as
“the greatest thing since Mom and apple
pie and the Mac,” “the most important
development since the Macintosh was in-
vented,” and “the next step in personal
computing.” So I feel we owe it to our-
selves to give the whole concept of hyper-
media its semiannual checkup—a sort of
hyperexamination.
Several personal-computer wizards
have created different forms of hypermedia
over the years. The word hyperte
first coined by visionary Ted Nelson back in
1965, when he searching for a term to
describe nonsequential writing on screen.
Mouse inventor Doug Engelbart was also a
prophet of the hypertext idea.
A couple of years ago Alan Boyd, presi-
dent of OWL International in Bellevue,
Washington, actually developed a working
hypertext product called Guide. We used
Guide at PCW Communications to create
the world’s first hypertext magazine when
we did an issue of Macworld on disk early
this year.
Another hypertext product in this hy-
permedia family was created for the IBM
PC and the Atari ST around that time. It’s
called Zoomracks and was produced by
Paul Heckel's company, Quickview Systems,
in Palo Alto, California.
But none of these efforts seemed to
get very far.
Now Apple comes along hyping
HyperCard for every , and suddenly
it’s the greatest thing that ever happened
say it
As Ted Nelson likes to say, “The reac-
tion to any new idea is first, ‘It isn’t true’;
then ‘It isn’t new’; then ‘We knew it all
the time?
So what about HyperCard? In Apple
ident and CEO John Sculley’s words,
a “new way to organize information.”
's nota traditional database with a hier-
archical structure. Rather, it allows you to
organize text, pictures, and sound by asso-
ciation—by context. The same way we orga-
nize information in our minds.
When | first saw it, it seemed wonder-
ful. Just what I always wanted. So why was
Lalso nagged by the thought that Hyper-
Card was for the birds?
It took a conversation with an old
friend of mine, Nelson Winkles, to figure
it out. Nelson and I go back to Personal
Computing magazine, where I was the
publisher and he was the editor. He’s been
a brilliant and iconoclastic commentator
on technology for more than 20 years. He
pinpointed the fundamental problem with
HyperCard by telling me a story that illus-
trates it perfectly.
Back in 1963, he worked on a project
to create a navigating system for satellites.
NASA needed a series of landmarks that
would be easy for a crew to spot, such as
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know its characteris
They needed to find out, for example,
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the tides, what color the island was, and
whether the vegetation changed. Was
there a different spectral output in different
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seasons, and what was the weather like?
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They finally went to the Department
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a book called Birds of the
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So they rummaged through it and
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he crew had finally climbed onto the
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It turned out everything they needed
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The publisher thought it w<
‘The person who did the index thought it
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then thought to show it to them.
The moral of Nelson's story?
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I do think HyperCard is a good step
forward because it legitim the whole
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it's the be-all, end-all package—at least not
yet. It's only one manifestation of hyper-
media. I think, for example, that Guide
should be a tool within HyperCard. So
should Zoomracks. Both Guide and
Zoomracks can be easier to use when
you're working with a huge amount of data.
With HyperCard, you're restricted to the
ze of the screen, or “card,” so you have to
divide the information into different cards
Zoomracks has card-scrolling capab
that lengthens your view to 252 lines.
Furthermore, the reference marks, or
“buttons,” in Guide are related to the con-
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tion. So if you move a paragraph in Guide,
the button moves with the paragraph.
That's how it should be. But in HyperCard,
the buttons aren't linked to the text—
they're linked to a position on the screen.
If you attach a button to a particular word
and then go back and edit that line, the but-
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wrong. The button should be linked to a
concept.
On the other hand, HyperCard ex-
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my opinion, the most important aspect of
HyperCard is that it could be the link be-
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It could be the much-promised, long-
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Of course, there will be flak. Just as
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find our way. | am confident that one day,
for example, we will have compatible hy-
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the Macintosh or the Apple II or on any ma-
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for compatibility because it will make the
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lf you buy the Macintosh SE™for its of RAM memory and maybe easily up- find a logical reason not to add on.
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going to confront the next logical ques- It'S equipped with an expansion __ the judge of that. And you can make
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PERSONAL LASERPRINTER.
As the documents shown here
demonstrate, the General Computer
Personal LaserPrinter™ (PLP™) con-
cedes nothing in printing capability to
systems selling for twice its price.
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tree Bicrnuch morc com. THE PROOF ISIN THE PRINTING.
pact than other laser print- As you can see, a case could
ers, (An almost diminutive easily be made for buying the PLP
16’x16 "x 9") on economics alone. But that would
And having fewer _ be selling it short.
Parts, much less likely to. Because the ultimate measure
need repairs. of any printer is how well it prints.
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for you?
In times of economic or
political turmoil people turn
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what makes gold
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Ifyou happen to be
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with some solid recommen
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and has mush- Ask your lawyer, account
roomed in recent months {OF ant, or banker for the name
fresh fruit and produce. ofa stockbroker OF
What are the best plays in firm, tha
this trend for investors.
Dr. Vic Seallione, of the
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The Rising
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Humble Apple
different firms and let cach
handle @ part of your port
folio until you decide on the
continued on page 3
Avoiding Wall
Street's blind
alleys: A Prudent
Dos NYSE
Investor Special
Report. See p.9
right one.
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should have a philosophy
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own, Find out how he
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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 anyone 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 dont have to
take our word for it.
We invite you to make your
Own comparisons through a
PLPdemonstration at any author-
ized General Computer dealer
Where youll also be able to com-
AS5000 LASER PRINTER?
5 FOR $2600? seunceeen
Like vastly more expensive laser
printers, the PLP allows you to print
scanned photographs and illustrations,
high-resolution graphics created with
software like MacDraw*and Mlicro-
soft's® Excel, and otherwise juggle
words and pictures until you have
them exactly where you want them.
But the PLP
these vastly more
expensive printers dort.
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.
pare another pair of documents 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
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he fast-moving, fast-
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People in the know, know
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in audio, video and computer
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But selecting Sony also
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The way to do that is to
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Then you'll be in the very
best of company.
SON'Y.
THE ONE AND ONLY.
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A forum for Macworld readers
Noise Pollution
The Mac SE is too loud; Apple’s first at-
tempt at installing a fan in a Mac doesn't
make it. | ended up disconnecting my SE's
fan and drilling holes in the top of the case
where the vents on older Macs are. Now I
have SE power and quiet in my home,
without overheating problems. It would be
ashame if this superior machine's sales are
hurt because of a cheap, noisy fan.
Barry Smith
San Francisco, California
Because there ts ample evidence that heat
damages components enough to shorten
their lifespan, we don’t recommend re-
ducing the power of the SE fan, even
though it does sound like a ratiletrap ina
quiet home environment. Apple hasn't
commented for publication, but we un-
derstand the company is looking into
quieter cooling syst ad.
The Downfall of Upgrades
Last fall, after years of using an Apple Tle, I
bought a Mac Plus. Now, having had my
new Mac for only four months, I find it su-
perseded by the SE—with no upgrade path.
Is this planned obsolescence? If the people
at Apple can’t provide a reasonably priced
upgrade (for which there is ample histori-
Corrections
Steve Brecher's Finder substitute, Way-
Station (Mac Bulletin, August 1987), is not
ashareware product; it’s uncopyrighted
and available free from user groups and
online information services. Sorry, Steve,
we just can't seem to believe you're giving
itaway.
MICK WIGaINS
cal precedent with Apple machines), they
should be willing to redeem the Plus at its
original cost, to be put toward the pur-
chase of an SE or a Mac II.
Rev. Raymond B. Knudsen If
Westwood, New Jersey
Even if Apple doesn’t offer an upgrade
path to the SE, some dealers may. So far
we've heard of one dealer in Utah who of-
fers a trade-in. Anybody know of dealers
who do that?—Ed.
Laser Laments
We Mac users need the type of story you
published on third-party laser printers
[“Laser Wars,” June 1987]. Even Apple needs
such stories—as motivation to make better
products. But your article left holes where
information should have been.
In addition to reviewing “four repre-
sentative LaserWriter alternatives,” why not
list a// available PostScript printers? And
product reviews need support reviews too.
‘Tell us about these manufacturers and their
reputations. What does Apple have in
store—a LaserWriter based on a 16-MHz
68020 processor, or one that can print a full
8'/2- by 14-inch page?
PostScript printers are proliferating rap-
idly—at press time there were 21. Here's a
list of models announced since the June
article, with dots-per-inch for each in pa-
rentheses: three models (72 to 300) from
Apollo Computer, Compugraphic’s CG
400-PS (406), two models from DEC
(300), IBM’s Personal Pageprinter (300),
NEC's SilentWriter LC-890 (300), NBI's
Model 908 (300), OMS’s PS 2400 (300),
and Varityper’s VT-G00 (600). ht addi-
tion, Orange Micro has introduced a $99
cable adapter that lets you connect your
Mac to one of the lower-cost non-Post-
Script laser printers. Finally, we all bave
expectations about new Apple products,
but until the company firms up its plans
our speculations are just that—not
the stuff on which to base biting
decisions.—Ed.
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them in on what they have missed. And
that’s why we emphasize comparative re-
views and overview articles, You cant also
use the index we publish each year in the
January issue to compare a class of prod-
ucts that we've reviewed one by one,—Ed.
Getting Started with Satire
In March, I wrote a letter mocking your
ting Started column by pl:
ing it (I thought with wild
the “how-to-dust-the-key
of usefulness. Now, [ find t )
is the topic for July 1987! What's next—how
to plug your Mac into the wall?
Hal Barwood
San Anselmo, California
On the Other Hand
For those of us new to computers and to
the Mac in particular, it would be pele if
you would run a short glossary o
nyms commonly used in the industry; It is
hard to fully benefit from your m: gazine
when one comes across these names with-
out knowing what they mean.
Mark Spiegler
vent Nuys, California
We published “Getting Started with Mac
in January 1987. Watch fur
for an updated resource.
Dust to Dust
Lagree with Jim Heid [Getting Started
with Basic Maintenance,” July 1987] chat un-
necessary cleaning of disk-drive heads ci
be detrimental, but I've found that dust and
other particles can be effectively removed
using a portable vacuum cleaner like a
Dustbuster. You'd be amazed at how much
of the stuff comes out.
Bruce E. Wils
Lynnwood, Washington
Across the Blue Atlantic
Iwill be moving soon to Kéln, West Ger-
many, where I would like to buy a Mac II or
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Letters
me any information on
ability there?
a liami, Florida
Apple Computer says that both the Mac Ht
and the SE are available in Germany. For
dealer and price details, contact the Ap-
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Music for Pros
Asa professional music producer and Mac
MIDI consultant, I regret the lack of exper-
tise in your review of Sound Lab |“Sound
Choice,” July 1987], which laments that “it
requires a good deal of practice” to use.
Vell, who can master a CAD/CAM package
instantly? As for the reviewer's complaint
about price, when studio time costs $250
an hour, Sound Lab can pay for itself in
one afternoon. Finally, the music commu-
nity is firmly committed to the Mac, so for a
writer in a Macintosh magazine to recom-
mend using an Apple Ie or a Commodore
64 is unbelievable.
Jeremy Roberts
New York City
While the Mac bas certainly emerged as
the professional musician's computer of
choice, musicians on a budget will use
whatever they can afford—and many of
them are still using the Commodore 64.
You are right about the savings possible
once Sound Lab is mastered, but what
about the cost of studio time while you
Sigure out how to run it? Musicians are
like everyone else: they want tools that
make things easier. If we don't speak up
when we think a program could be sim
plified, how can we expect developers to
labor over their software design?—Ed.
Unnecessary Roughness
Our game NFL Challenge |“Monday Morn-
ing Quarterbacking,” July 1987] is not, as
stated, for the “novice or casual follower of
the game”; people choose it because of its
sophistication and realism. NFL Chal-
fenge’s coaching, ed on game
plans like those t lly use, is
more appropriate for a simulation than is
making up plays as you go along, We have
received calls from consumers who say
they are ordering the game in spite of Mac
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When you pair your Macwith the Bose RoomMate system,
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Choose the Special Edition Platinum
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Because looks are as important as sound, we
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Get a high quality music software package
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Ifyou buy a Macintosh I, Plus or SE and Bose
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ic Mouse offers a truly innovative, immedi-
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Music Mouse interprets how you move the mouse,
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We chose Music Mouse for you as an easy-to-
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Great Wave's ConcertWare™ +
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‘This greatly enhanced new version of the
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designed for fun, work and learning.
With Music Writer, you can enter original
or sheet music using the mouse or keyboard.
Arrange voices on up to eight different staves, with
chords of up to eight notes per voice. Use the Record
facility for real time entry to play a voice into the Mac
while other voices play along with you.
InstrumentMaker™ \ets you design your own incredibly
realistic instrumental sounds or modify those on the disk, And
with Music Player, you can play back your full length selec-
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For more information on Great Wave's music programs
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Letters
world’s review; we expect an occasional
bad review, but please try to be accurate.
Robert D. Kriz, Jr:
Chief Technical Officer
XOR Corporation
Minnetonka, Minnesota
We misstated the number of defensive
plays; it's 26, and the number of offensive
Plays is 49. Otherwise, we stand by the re-
view. NFL teams may bave predetermined
game plans, but because no one knows
beforeband exactly bow a game will un
fold, teams frequently need to rethink
strategies and change plays—often at the
line of scrimmage. And there's another
reason to allow users to devise their own
Plans: to hold their interest.—Ed.
NFL Fan
Having once played football, | find NAL
Challenge is most like the actual game and
best satisfies ving for the game. All
5 Move, not just the ball carrier; you
gainst the clock; and you can substi-
ers. Injuries and turnovers give the
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ball’s mouse-drawn play selection is remi-
niscent of sandlot football players scratch-
ing out plays in the ground.
Jobn k. Dillard
wnesville, North Carolina
tute play
game more realistic flavor. Mac Pro.
Another Penalty
Your review of Mae Pro Football Reviews,
July 1987] did not mention a significant pro-
gramming glitch: the home team always re-
covers its own onside kick. Furthermore.
the computer always coaches the home
team, and you can't tell it not to try an on-
side kick, What a home-field advantage!
John Abbott
Sacramento, California
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The drives come pre-formatted and ready to go,
‘The Cirrus has two DB 25 connecters on its case,
so its cables are easier to work with than the
“standard” SCSI cables that come with some
drives, The design of the Cirrus drives contributes
greatly to their ease"oP user
‘The software that comes with the Cirrus drives is
very flexible. It follows the Macintosh interface
closely, and is well done. 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,
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repair utilities are all standard. In addition, the
software performs several diagnostic tests
including the ability 10 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 are'veryifast
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
appreciation of the importance of ergonomic:
esigm'to performance. For instance, fan noise can
increase fatigue in office workers. A drive that
built 10 be quiet and easy to work with may not
increase the data transfer rate, but it will help to
get more productivity out of the user. Cirrus
drives are quietiand easyito;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,
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 b
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The Cirrus drives, thoughivery’smallyand
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quality materialsidesigned'tolasty Their light
weight is due to the small number of components
in 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 theymospexcitingysimple
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for the Macintosh. The modular construction of
the drives means that any repair work will be
quick and easy. Simply puty Cirrus drives area
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Cirrus drives were designed for the the
professional user. They were not engineered to be
low cost products, or to be
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solution for users who demand a lot. Readers
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