MacWorld 8803 March 1988

BS West & Associates How Visual Aids Improve Presentations } BB With Visual Aids Without Visual Aids 60 min. 50% ~t—- 43% more often Meeting Retention Proposal Length of Material Approval Presented Research shows that presenters who use visual aids: * conduct effective meetings in 28% less time * increase audience retention of presentation by 500% * win approval of their proposals 43% more often 5 2s = 2 CEE LLB % z CREW EES Making great presentations Thanks to Microsofts _Can be very rewarding. Pre- PowerPoint™ great presenta- jis tl Pating great presentations tions are now as easy to can.be difficult—and time _ pre i consuming. She Se ae Microsoft PowerPoint he complete desktop presentation program that gives you a medium for every message. From over- € Both pe charts and hovzontal bar charts are uted to show ‘comparisons ata porstin time, Pe. Chans ac Charts + show tems as a taeton + show items relative ofthe who. teach other + emphasize key toms by + omphasize koy items “oxploding’ a pe ec. swith shacing, Etctive Presentations 4 November 30, 1967 srrect order, Last minu e changes? ‘No sweat. V ith Microsoft ‘owerPointS unique slide Sorter lets jou preview pur Bes org and easily rearrange it. epare great look 1eads or 35mm. fou can make them: 5 j ting © ready to print, ophistica' é * PowerPoint will pro. sharts or illustrations from | duce. »ther Macintosh» pro-- srams like Microsoft Excel If your presentation is eady but not in ne right ~ Point's Slide Show feature BB west 4 associates Etfestive Presentations March 1988 On the Cover Apple’s new laser printers let you climb the upgrade path at your own pace: a new printer is just a board swap away. See p. 126. (Photograph by Fred Stinson.) 17 29 47 54 59 81 191 201 213, 223 Departments Mac Bulletin Late-breaking news. David Bunnell Letters Commentary/Jerry Borrell Contributors Notes Steven Levy Verbatim Radius president Mike Boich—-from Apple evangelist to hardware entrepreneur. New Products A quick look at new Mac software, hardware, and accessories. How To/Quick Tips A MacDraft scrapbox, cross-tabs in Excel, keyboard navigating, and more. How To/Getting Started with Mac-VAX Connections Bringing the power of DEC’s minicomputers to your Mac. How To/Insights on TOPS Achieve peaceful coe: TOPS network. How To/Mac Communications Tools Going online made easy: step up to MicroPhone. Updates The latest software upgrade news. Where to Buy Information on products in this issue. Best-Sellers Macworld News Ele jean ®" MacDraw II for the Mac This major = upgrade is faster on the draw—and it packs color, too. . = Mac WordStar MicroPro’s venerable word processor gears up forthe Mac. «| » A First for Apple's Claris Introduc- ing form-generation programs with q layout and pasteup tools. Plus, a new color game, dBase compat- ibility, CAD for the masses, cessing, and more. music pro- Macworld News, page 109 126 136 140 148 154 Features The LaserWriter Lines Up. From low end to high: a preview of Apple’s new expandable laser printers. Room to Grow RAM upgrades for the Mac II: are there any differences? The Invisible VAX The world of Mac-VAX data exchange: how the Mac and the mini talk to each other. 1987 Taxes: Prepare Yourself Let MacinTax guide you through those bewildering federal tax returns. Well-Connected. What to look for when shopping for a 2400-baud modem. 168 170 172 173 174 175 176 177 177 178 180 181 183 184 185 Macintosh Masters, page 147 Reviews Here's the Scoop Full-featured DTP with Scoop. dBase Power Made Easy dBase Mac development system. Plan for a Taxing Situation TaxView Planner minimizes future taxes. Learning to Relate Reflex Plus relational database. Desktop Painting DeskPaint DA paint program, A Stitch in Time Fastback, HFS Backup, and DiskFit compared, For Typists Only Nutmeg/Xerox full-page display. Stuffand Send Stuffit compresses and archives files. Sharing Expensive Peripherals ComServe network software spreads the wealth. Can We Talk, Big Blue? Maclrma IBM 3278/9 terminal emulator. From the Moon to the Mac MSC/pal stress-analysis program. Quality on the Cheap Personal LaserPrinter—high quality, low price. War of the Words Scrabble comes to the Mac. Keeping on Schedule Track appointments with Rendezvous. Projecting an Image Macnifier LCD projector. Maeworld 3: 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 Editor: David Ushijima Senior Associate Editor: Adrian Mello (Features) Associate Editors: Gil Davis (News), Nancy E. Dunn (Departments), Valerie L. 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Desktop Express extends the 5 o'clock “express” deadline, so working across time zones can be as efficient as working across the hall. And, it replaces those fuzzy facsimile figures and forecasts with high resolution graphic presentations. Send ideas back and forth in a matter of minutes and accomplish in an afternoon what would normally take several days of overnight courier exchange. Created by Dow Jones, Apple, and MCI, Desktop Express works with the Macintosh software programs you've come to rely on. Create a business plan complete with charts, graphs and spreadsheets. Send it to any of your associates who have Desktop Express. They can review the plan and even print it - all without the software program you used to create it. But if they do have the program, and Desktop Express, they can revise your document on the spot and return it to you. For your associates who don’t own a Macintosh, Desktop Express still delivers. Direct your documents electronically to an MCI Mail Print Center. There they will be printed on a laser printer and delivered via postal or overnight delivery. With Desktop Express, your big ideas will get looked over, not overlooked. So, for the Apple Dealer in your area call 1-800-538-9696 Ext. 350. Desktop Express. Now, great minds don’t have to think alike to get the picture. DowJones’ PO. Hox 300, Princeton, NJ 08543-0300. Desktop Express isa trademark of Dow Jones & Company, Inc, © 1987 Dow Jones & Company, Inc, All Rights Reserved, Circle 355 on reader service card ~ MACTO PC FLECTRONIC MAIL OUR WAY. Next to InBox,” the best way to send messages and files Evenif you're not at your desk or if your computer's off, between MACs and IBM PCsis to walk. Orrun, Orevenfly. messages, mail, and transferred files are waiting for you. . Because other electronic mail software is complicated, delivery is virtually guaranteed. 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Two problems with the PLP. have been its lack of Post- Script compatibility and its inability to connect toa LocalTalk network (LocalTalk is Apple's new name for the AppleTalk Personal Network). To correct these limitations, General Computer is about to oring out a PostScript version of the PLP, as well as PLP. Share, a $499 device that will let a small work group access che PLP through LocalTalk, The PostScript PLP will in- clude Adobe's PostScript, a 38000 processor, 2 megabytes of RAM (expandable to 3MB), and all the fonts that currently ship with Apple's LaserWriter Plus. List price of the upgrade is $1999. The price of the complete PostScript printer aasn't been set, but it won't exceed $3999. Hurry, Limited Offer b> Fora limited time, Spells- well by Working Software will de bundled with Microsoft's 2opular integrated program, Microsoft Works. Spellswell aormally lists for $74.95, but rom February through the 2nd of May the spelling checker comes free with the ourchase of Works, 8 Inside the Mac II > Anew 275-page seminar notebook entitled Program- ming the Macintosh II: Vol- ume | of the Source Code Series (Personal Concepts, 1987) includes software on a disk along with full source code for each program and extensive notes about how the programs function. Some of the MPW Pascal source code can be used to bring fea- tures to other programs. The notebook and the four simple applications that ac- company it were developed by Dave Wilson, who orga- nized Apple's Macintosh Pro- gramming Seminars. The applications include CPaint, one of the first Macintosh col- or paint programs, which is not intended to compete with commercial color paint pro- grams; Color, a program that creates segmented windows of colors; CText, a text editor that displays each character in its own font, style, size, and color; and Bench881, a bench- mark program for testing Mac Tl performance during inten- sive math calculations. The $79.97 book is available from Personal Concepts, 635 Wells- bury Way, Palo Alto, CA 94306. Clone Me Do you want to distribute large quantities of software— perhaps a series of new Excel templates, some public do- main software, or a full disk of new stacks? Or maybe you just want a stack of formatted disks. You can save your Mac’s disk drive, your arm, and your own time by using a new disk duplicator from Ventuno of March 1988 Fremont, California, called V3 Autoloader for the Mac. ‘V3 Autoloader is about the size of a Macintosh Plus and stores up to 50 disks. It simply feeds blank disks into its own drive mechanism and pro- duces either copied or for-— matted disks—rejected disks go into their own bin. Ventuno's $2795 duplicator won't copy protected soft- ware—V3 Autoloader uses the same copying algorithms as the Mac Plus, SE, or II to which it’s connected. Ventu- no's next model will be a stand-alone version much like the popular duplicator it of fers for MS-DOS 5!4-inch disks. Eight-Eyed Mac Upto eight video moni- tors can run off a single Mac IL video card using a Vopex vid- eo expander from Network Technology. Intended primar- ily for demonstrations and classroom use, this video port expander allows you to install monitors up to 50 feet froma demonstration computer. Yopex is completely trans- parent to the user. The device requires a 110-volt power sup- ply, as well as a distribution amplifier. It accepts mono- chrome, gray-scale, and color signals and supports all fre- quencies and resolutions cur- rently available for the Mac. Optional switches at each monitor allow students to al- ternate between the video signals of their individual computers and that of the demonstration computer. A two-channel Vopex lists for $279, the eight-channel model sells for $899. For fur- ther information, contact Net- work Technologies of Aurora, Ohio, at 800/742-8324. What Say You, Apple? > You've heard about 24-bit color and how its 16.7 million colors bring photographic quality to the Mac II’s screen, but you haven't heard about applications that produce 24- bit color images—because there aren't any. That's an im- portant omission for many engineers, publishers, and graphic artists who want to generate high-quality graph- ics on a personal computer, There's a good reason for this lack of applications: deep in the Mac’s latest System is a basic tool called Color Quick- Draw, which works with 8-bit color (256 different colors) but not 24-bit color. Apple’s reportedly working on an up- grade, but RasterOps of Cu- pertino, California, got tired of waiting and wrote its own color QuickDraw improve- ment, which it calls True- Color. RasterOps is offering TrueColor as a standard for application developers, hop- ing that the resulting pro- grams will help sell the RasterOps 24-bit video Color- Boards, which it’s been ship- ping to developers and major OEMs since September. Jas- mine, the hard disk systems manufacturer, is backing RasterOps by agreeing to sell its video cards. The danger for everyone involved with TrueColor is that Apple will standardize on a different 24-bit Color Quick- (continues) Borland’s new SideKick; Release 2.0, gives you MacPlan and new Outlook’ D elease 2.0 includes Ks Outlook: The Outliner, \.the “‘thinking"’ desk accessory with more power than a standalone outliner, and MacPlan: The Spreadsheet, that does formulas, straight numbers, and also integrates spreadsheets and graphs. Outlook and MacPlan work in perfect sync with each other and while you run other programs! A quick look at Outlook It’s a “thinking” tool that lets you organize, re-organize, and gather your thoughts while you write. It helps you structure what you want to say, add, delete, change the order, change your mind, whatever. Outlook lets you incorporate both text and graphics into your outlines and allows you to work on several different outlines at the same time. a whole A fast scan of MacPlan MacPlan is a highly visual spreadsheet that pictures your numbers without numbing you with numbers. You can do graphs like bar charts, stacked bar charts, pie charts and line graphs. MacPlan includes 12 free example templates and lets you paste graphics and data right into your Outlook documents for professional results. G& A treasure chest of useful DAs. Outlook alone, the outliner desk accessory, is worth the price of the package . . . MacPlan, the spreadsheet DA, is terrific, and it does charts. Doug Clapp, MacUser J b) With SideKick’s 11 desk accessories you can also: @ Log on to services like Dow Jones, MCI Mail, Compu- Serve, et al. @ Jot notes while you're on the phone @ Balance your checkbook @ Re-calculate the balance, hoping for bank mistakes in your favor @ Be reminded of important dates and meetings @ Edit your text files @ Write the Great American Novel with Outlook @ Do pie charts of your immi- nent wealth with MacPlan Only $99.95 10 different ways SideKick helps you make it through the day. Or night. [ Outlook: The Outliner NEW! (@ MacPlan: The oy Spreadsheet NEW! & Mini word processor Calendar ™ Auto-dialing and phone logging Analog clock ™ Alarm system & Calculator & Report generator & Tlecommunications including XModem file transfer protocol Upgrade Now! it you are one of the thousands of SideKick users, just send us your original master disk back with a check for $34.95, and we'll rush you a brand new SideKick, Release 2.0, complete with manual. Minimum system requirements: Any Macintosh with a least 512K Siekck and Rex ae ieee trademats nd Oulok as Macian at Vaden o Botan irrational. tbat tard and woouct anes ae rademurhs or rested traders other Taspectne riders Copygh ©1987 Bova erator 11384 AWAT TOWAL For the dealer nearest you or to order by phone Call (800) 543-7543 Circle 381 on reader service card Mac Bulletin Draw. But if TrueColor gains enough momentum, perhaps eyen Apple will go along. What say you, Apple? Optimization in Excel and Works p> Its relatively easy to con- duct “what if” analysis to see how a spreadsheet’s bottom line is affected—you simply modify the number in any cell and then order a recalcula- tion. But the tedium involved in changing the value of many cells may prevent spreadsheet users from taking the next step: optimization. Best Answer from Heizer Software of Pleasant Hill, Cali- fornia, makes linear optimiza- tion relatively easy—you plug in the desired number, like profits or total production, and the program recalculates all the new numbers neces- sary to achieve the desired re- sult. Best Answer reads and manipulates spreadsheets produced by Excel and Works, thus enhancing those programs’ abilities to help with decision making, Best Answer can run concurrently with Excel and Works using MultiFinder or Switcher. Calling All MUGs > Expect your Macintosh user group (MUG) to become more professional and busi- nesslike following the 1988 Na- tional Apple Users Group Conference, which begins April 8 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. During three days of semi- nars, your MUG officers will explore such key issues as. membership, banking, fi- nances, legal protection, mar- keting, and networking. Apple will sponsor the con- ference, with the help of a few other corporations, and it will be hosted by MacTechnics. MacTechnics, a 700-member MUG, more than doubled in size during the last year, ac- cording to Doug Hauseman, a MacTechnics officer and chair of the April conference. Hauseman said the rapid growth in MUG memberships is prompting many group offi- cers to become more professio- nal and knowledgeable about MUG operations, which often depend on the cooperation of Apple, third-party developers, and major corporations. The conference will be lim- ited to 300 attendees. For fur- ther information, write to Hauseman at NAUGC ’88, 1801 Independence #4, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, or on AppleLink at UG0137. Listen Up, Wang p> Thousands of offices with ‘Wang VS computer systems now also use the Mac, The question is, how to connect the two computer systems? One answer comes from DataViz of Norwalk, Connect- icut, with its MacLink Plus/ Wang VS, which provides a window into both computer systems, file transfer capa- bilities, and Wang emulation on the Macintosh. Mac users can choose from over 30 translators that pre- serve formatting between popular programs on Macin- tosh, Wang VS, and MS-DOS computers. Mac users can also connect to the Wang VS sys- tem and search for word pro- cessing documents by docu- ment number or name, author, Operator, or comments. A document can then be con- verted to MacWrite, edited, and sent back to the Wang VS system like any other Wang file. Other capabilities of the MacLink Plus/Wang VS allow the Wang to act as a file server for both Macintosh and MS- DOS computers. Macintosh users can also send and read Wang mail and use full Macin- tosh pull-down menus that emulate Wang menu items and function keys. Technology and Issues Conference > Third-party hardware and software developers are urged to register for Mac- world’s second annual Tech- nology and Issues Conference, which focuses on the future of the Macintosh. Session top- ics will include graphics, sound, color, QuickDraw, mul- tiuser operating systems, and hardware technology. To reg- ister for the June 13 confer- ence, write to: Technology and Issues Conference Jerry Borrell, Editor Macworld 501 Second St. San Francisco, CA 94107 Medium-Speed LAN > One of the world’s larg- est manufacturers of digital equipment, Northern Telecom of Nashville, Tennessee, has integrated the Mac II into its digital telephone system. The result is the Lanstar AppleTalk Network, on which up to 1334 users anywhere in the world can share files, electronic mail, and printers. Lanstar’s version of Apple- Talk is ten times faster than the AppleTalk Personal Net- work and uses low-cost tele- phone cabling rather than the coaxial cable normally used by the even faster Ethernet. To connect to Lanstar, each: Mac II requires a $295 inter- face card. Software for the central controller, Meridian Lanstar, costs $5400. Atkinson’s Army > Here’s a quick and fun way to see what's available on 20 disks that contain some 200 public domain Hyper- Card stacks. Just order the Hyper Catalog disk from the nonprofit Berkeley Macintosh User Group (BMUG). Open the catalog disk using HyperCard, and you'll find that each card contains a pic- ture of the first card of every other stack in the BMUG Hy- perCard library. In addition, your Hyper Catalog will auto- matically catalog any new Stack you wish to add. Hyper Catalog provides pop-up documentation fields and a Go To function (click on the picture to open a stack) that lets Hyper Catalog serve as a Home stack. Hyper Catalog is the cre- ation of Scott Kronick, a BMUG volunteer and the au- thor of MPW and Assembly Language Programming (Hayden Books, Howard W. Sams, 1987) and Macintosh Pascal Illustrated: The Fear. and Loathing Guide (Ad- dison-Wesley, 1985). In keeping with the spirit of his Hyper Catalog, Kronick has organized “Atkinson's Army,’ a collective of Hyper- Card designers who offer training and custom stack development. Their raison détre: “You can try asking for HyperCard support directly from Apple, but you'd have better luck getting through to someone at the Wailing Wall” To order Hyper Catalog, send a $3 check or money or- der to BMUG, 1442-A Walnut St, #62, Berkeley, CA 94709. You might ask for a listing of BMUG's continually updated public domain and shareware software that sells for $3 for an 800K disk. And if you're in- terested, ask for a brochure about Atkinson's Army, 0 10 March 1988 yew! Reflex Plus Turns Disorganized Data Into THE INFORMATION TREADMILL Dealing with data is an ines- capable reality of modern liv- ing—at home and on the job. Especially on the job. Most of it is pertinent. Much of it is valua- ble. And almost all of it would make our lives more produc- tive—if we could just figure out how to make it work for us with- out a staff of experts inputting, outputting and making all the right connections. Da-ta-base: “a collection of data organized specially for rapid search and retrieval. Useful Information } Some people are intimidated by the mere mention of the word “database.” Don’t fall into the trap. In today's computing world, power is measured by the ability to retrieve, manipu- late and evaluate information. A database manager gives you that power. THE FLAT FILE MODEL The most elementary form of database manager is the flat file database manager. It allows you to manage lists—like invento- ries, basic mailing lists, pay- ment records, prospect lists and ‘80 on, but its power is limited. HERE'S HOW IT WORKS (It's as simple as drawing a box.) select Enter the aie yaw hi (Hck on "“ereate, iw Database (2) ila! Your database fs onthe screen and Saing for you to enter ftds (9) Deas lines berveen the databases to establish the proper relationship Derween tem, And tbat’s 1th You're now ready to enter your daa THE RELATIONAL MODEL A relational database man- ager such as Reflex* Plus can manage flat file databases. But its real power comes from the “relational’’ aspect. It allows you to create multiple flat files, then link and cross-reference records within these files. Oftentimes, the “relationship” established through linking is more important to a user than the original files. Up to now, the most popular relational data- bases have proven to be cum- bersome, hard to learn and difficult to use. HAVE IT YOUR WAY Reflex Plus gives you amazing flexibility in creating databases, accessing data and producing reports. You can organize and sort your data any way you want—on as many fields as you want. You can display it any way you want. You can add graphics, change fonts, add calculated fields—all according to your own design. c= Sih 71h [t crunches numbers like spreadsheet—with 49 arith- metic, text and statistical func- tions built in. Which means that it's an especially effective produc- tivity tool on your Macintosh. Reflex Plus gives you the opportunity to make sense out of all that data. Reflex Plus turns disorganized data into useful information, resulting in percep- tive decisions. Best of all, Reflex Plus is only $279.00 and it comes from Borland. your original diskette and $9.00 Borland International lex Plus Updates s ley Drive Sent Valley. C4 95066 Far the deter nearest ow rt nde by phone: Call (800) 543-7543 dr pera nacre ih 0 Ces, el cai serie eat cet o/s fe: Orta pratt se ert INTERNATIONAL Buin Circle 199 on reader service card Se a Howtoturna Macintosh into Tia cos pecccinee aera With AppleShare” you can make Macintosht a dazzling conversationalist that can talk with as many as fifty other computers. Even if some of those computers can only speak MS-DOS. Completely integrated with the Macintosh Finder; our AppleShare file server works the way Macintosh works. So everyone on your AppleTalk’ network can have access to shared documents, programs and templates exactly as if they were stored on their own hard disks. In addition to sharing your information, AppleShare also lets you protect it. Every time you create a folder, AppleShare lets you decide how (rr if) its contents are to be shared. AppleShare access controls let you —, server Add AppleSbare PC ficcond cilgadh ule bono the ee grant rights to individuals, a group or every- one on the network at three privacy levels: see folder; read documents within a folder; make changes to the documents in the folder. Because AppleShare is the Apple standard for file sharing, any software with the label, ‘AppleShare Aware” will run smoothly and transparently right across your networ And you can expect to see some very pow- erful new ‘AppleShare Aware’ multi-user and multi-launch programs by software companies like Microsoft and Aldus. The AppleSharefile server alsooffers you a “waste not” upgrade path. Small workgroups can start on a Macintosh Plus or SE. When the network’ needs expand, transfer the server toa Macintosh I. And put the other Macintosh back to work as an individual workstation. Larger groups can even work with multiple servers on one network. Simply go to the Chooser to select the server you want, just as you would select a LaserWriter’ printer Find out more about how AppleShare can get all of your computers talking to each other. Call 800-446-3000, extension 600 for the name of an authorized Apple reseller. And start a dialogue that everyone can work with. &. The power tobe your best’ Hurry up an Whether it’s a two-page letter or a 100-page report, the whole point of writing is to get to the point. And nothing gets you there faster than Microsofte Word, youl YOu ‘quickly rearrange your words, too. That’s because Word is not your ordinary word processor. In fact, it’s not a word processor at all. Word is the Macintosh'’s first document processor. And it’s specifically designed to take you from outline to out- put, without getting you bogged down in details. That’s why you'll find a combi- nation of powerful features in Word you won't find anywhere else. Like an integrated outliner for organizing your thoughts. And for rearranging pages of paragraphs with a simple click of the mouse. Likewise, a simple mouse click is all you need to check and cor- rect your spelling, using Word's built-in, customizable 80,000- word dictionary. Plus you can preview and adjust page layouts before you print. 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Indeed, when MicroPhone was born, it was universally hailed as a break- through in communications software. A product so friendly, it turned novices into experts. So sophisticated, it became, in the words of MacUser, a power user’s delight. MicroPhone is a legend. One of those precious software creations that single out the Macintosh as a superior computing machine. With MicroPhone II, Software Ventures has set out to surpass itself: redefine power in telecommunications for years to come. MicroPhone II is so revolutionary that PC Magazine was moved to say: “MicroPhone II is arguably the best comm software ever written.” We won't have it any other way. Micro- Phone II. The freedom to be yourself. At the top. Critics’ Choice Stewart Alsop, P.C. 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Includes Glue, licensed from Solutions, Inc. MicroPhone is a trademark of Software Ventures Corporation. Copyright © 1988 Software Ventures Corporation, Circle 48 on reader service card David Bunnell Turnaround Is Fair Play i | The candidate Jor mayor was lagging behind. He needed a breakthrough—and found it, thanks to Macintosh. California state assemblyman Art Agnos was running for mayor of San Francisco, and he had some problems. Five months before the November 3, 1987, election, he was way behind in the polls, a local news- paper had reported on his failure to pay in- come tax on a questionable land deal, and it looked as if his leading opponent, San Francisco supervisor John Molinari, would win big. Agnos had to do something quickly to distance himself from the bad publicity and gain the confidence of voters. If he could communicate with them in a personal way about his views on various issues, he might be able to turn the tide. Even a week can be crucial in a cam- paign, and the clock didn’t stop ticking. Agnos needed a secret weapon to make a breakthrough. He found one in desktop publishing—with the Mac. Art Agnos wrote a book called Getting Things Done: Visions and Goals for San Francisco. It is 82 pages long. In it, he ad- dresses a wide range of topics, including AIDS, housing, homeless people, down- town development, senior citizens, even parking—all of which he would face as mayor. He captures the reader's interest right from the beginning with some compelling personal stories. He relates a horrifying in- cident in which he narrowly escaped be- coming the sixth murder victim of the infamous Zebra killers, who in 1973 shot strangers at random on the streets of San Francisco. He recalls his involvement in ar- ranging an emergency liver transplant for a dying 3-year-old boy. He describes his con- frontation with a Soviet border guard who discovered he was carrying the card of a prominent Jewish refusenik in his wallet. Getting Things Done isa political platform disguised as an easy read. The slim, 5-by-8-inch paperback, printed on newsprint, features the 10-point Times Roman font. It has a simple look and feel; you can easily browse without fear of brainwashing. A six-page photo layout shows the candidate in action, posing with such polit- ical figures as Ted Kennedy, Desmond Tutu, Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson. The back cov- er features a four-color photo of a smiling Agnos with his wife and two kids: just your typical middle-class family, posing outside Dad's campaign headquarters. Agnos printed nearly a quarter of a million copies of Getting Things Done in September 1987. His well-organized grass- roots supporters distributed the books to voters’ doorsteps all over town in just a few days. His principal form of advertising was a sign that appeared everywhere with the simple message, “Read My Book.” After the November election and a December runoff, Art Agnos was elected mayor of San Francisco. He racked up a whopping 70 percent of the vote to Molinari’s 30 percent—the biggest margin for a nonincumbent candidate in San Francisco in this century. Most political analysts agree that Agnos’s desktop-published book was a major factor in his big win. His method of reaching voters quickly and cheaply turned out to be a brilliant tactical move. Getting Things Done even appealed to those who didn’t agree with Agnos. They appreciated his taking the trouble to explain his views carefully and sincerely in the book. Here’s how Getting Things Done ac- tually got done. The idea was the brain- child of Agnos’s campaign manager Richie Ross, who heads Ross Communications, a political consulting firm in Sacramento, California. Ross inspired Agnos to start the book last spring, before the campaign be- gan to heat up. As he drove between politi- cal events in San Francisco and legislative business in Sacramento, Agnos began to dictate his ideas into a tape recorder, The amazing thing is that Ross had computerized his office only a few months earlier, Chuck Haines, owner of a Sacra- mento design service bureau called The Graphic Studio, had convinced Ross to get on the Macintosh-and-laser-printer bandwagon. (continues) Macworld 17 Beyond words. j Introducing The Big Bieture FQ™ Photographic Image Quality Grey Scale Monitor The Big Picture IQ shows your publication on the screen, with high-resolution images in place, ready for printing. Yet, The Big Picture IQ can still give you the words with all the crispness and contrast of a fine monochrome monitor, and ata price that’s thousands less than large screen color displays. Creative people have dreamed of this moment. Now it’s here. 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So he stocked up on nine 512K En- hanced Macs, two Mac Pluses, and a Mac SE. PageMaker 2.0a was his page-layout program of choice, Microsoft Word 3.0 was the word processing program. Ross hired Haines to do the page layout and design of the book using a Mac SE with a 20-mega- byte hard disk. The laser printing was jobbed out to a print shop called The Elec- tric Page. Haines himself had only had four or five months’ experience with personal computing, let alone desktop publishing. It was to be his first experience in designing abook. “Lwas a boob when it came to com- puters. I didn’t know a mouse from a don- key,” Haines said. “I just sat down and waded through the manuals for the Mac, PageMaker, and Microsoft Word. As far as a grid or a layout was concerned, I just went to several bookstores and looked at how things were done, but a lot didn’t really apply. I pretty much had to design it myself from scratch.” And did Art Agnos really write it? Campaign manager Ross, who needed access to his candidate at all hours, jokes, “I wish somebody else had written it” Agnos constantly consulted experts in different fields to ensure that his specific proposals were realistic ones. That involved a lot of rewriting. And Agnos took full advantage of the technology to do that. Ross Communications spokesman Marc Grossman, who was involved in de- veloping the project, said, “There were so many changes and revisions that if it had been done traditionally, by hand and by typewriter, we never would have gotten it out. As it was, we made it to the printer with the boards just four hours before the deadline” For any politician to care this much about the words and promises he or she makes is a decidedly mixed blessing. “There are some definite challenges asso- ciated with putting your plan in writing, (continues) fay UPTIME THE DISK MONTHLY Here’s an exam, an iple of a typic ec UPTIN amily is ready for entertai ment, eduicatio , Password Protect : ment programming, too! D> Version Reader DP Blackjack : : 3 1 : SAVE Disk Issues Disk Issues Disk Issues ‘Trial Issue as Pe Chie sont $89.45 ©) $89.95 1 $59.95 1 $39.95 O $i95 Be oe tee Cvs > Modem Meter DA oO Payment enclosed (Please make checks payable to UPTIME.) UPTIME Subscribers Say: Billmy: O visa ( Masrercarp — [) AMEX eng ee iene ares ACCOUNT NO. — Se EXE. DATE. T think it is a fantastic idea! 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What happened?” Tthink the book will have a lifetime that lasts far beyond the election campaign.” One of the most remarkable aspects of doing the book was its swift turnaround. “T remember coming in on the weekend and pretty much laying it out in two days,” Haines said. “It was really intense. I proba- bly did it in 12 or 14 hours. It was like a midterm on PageMaker for me” The book was printed using a laser printer instead of a Linotronic photo- typesetter because the inexpensive news- paper stock absorbs ink. “It would have fuzzed the edges of the words anyway,” Haines said. It was also more economical. Given Agnos's tight campaign budget and the 250,000-copy print run, laser printing was the most expedient method of typesetting. The book cost about $60,000 to produce. By comparison, a typical preelection tele- sion advertising blitz would have cost about $250,000. There's a really important lesson to be learned from Getting Things Done. The desktop book is a terrific example of how the technology can be used as a tool to change the political process. We already have such electioneering devices as mail- ing-list management programs, databases for merging and purging letters, and per- sonal computers, which are invaluable for organizing political campaigns. Now desktop publishing has added another dimension to the political process. The ability to turn out fliers, brochures, and booklets so quickly and economically is as significant a development for candi- dates as television. In fact, I would venture to say that desktop publishing is sparking a rebirth of the political pamphlet. It harks back to the days of Thomas Paine and his tract Com- mon Sense, when concerned citizens sometimes printed and distributed pamph- lets expressing their views. In an age when 15-second television s bombard the brain with sub- liminal “images” of a candidate, it’s refresh- ing to see content emphasized over pack- aging through the phenomenon of desktop publishing. I'm waiting to see a senator give this a shot and pass out 25 million books. And what if a presidential candidate distributed 100 million books that really explained his or her views and proposals? That tactic might just swing an election. I believe that Art Agnos’s book is a milestone of political desktop publishing. Not only did it help him win the election, but it proved that you don’t need a war chest the size of Fort Knox to run for office. Lest any politicians lust after laser printers and visions of easy success on the campaign trail, though, they should heed Chuck Haines's final bit of advice. asked him if he had any tips or insights that might help an aspiring candidate win an election using desktop publishing. “Yeah, sure,” Haines replied. “Write a good book” oO The Turbo Trackball is a versatile, reliable, easy to use and very accurate device for sophisticated desktop publishing, graphics, CADCAM, and many other applications. (For example, this entire ad, including the illustration was desktop published using the Asher Turbo Trackball). Only the Asher Trackball gives you precise fingertip control in a space saving, low profile, ergonomic package designed with a patented hi-tech encoder used in sophisticated aerospace instrumentation; like aircraft, missiles, torpedos, gyros and space shuttles. New Turbo Trackball from Asher! 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Is that a bug, or do the authors want to prevent anyone from breaking the manufactured high score? Jim Flores Oklaboma City, Oklaboma The games we included were chosen by those we feel are best qualified—people who've played them consistently enough to become fans. Honorable Mention does not mean the game is flawless—just popu- lar. Although the authors acknowledge the scoring bug, they can't be blamed for not wanting to put more time and effort into a game that's provided them no income. —Ed. Stick to Your Guns I'm a programmer who subscribes to Mac- world’s view that you should not give away copies of software. I recently had a nasty experience with my boss when I refused to make him a copy of Works, which Td bought for my own use. (He later gota copy from another employee.) While I still think I did the right thing, I worry that I may have some difficulty the next time L ask for a raise. And since there’s always someone else willing to bend the rules, is it really worth the trouble not to? Name and address withheld by request As more and more manufacturers aban- don copy protection, many companies (including ours) are adopting strict poli- cies that make software piracy among employees grounds for disciplinary action or dismissal. We applaud your in- tegrity—even if your boss doesn’t.—Ed. Playback Mac Do you know of any product that would al- low me to record music from my CD player to a Mac disk, and then to play it back from the Mac through my amplifier and stereo speakers? Wayne Blizzard Oceanside, California 34 = March 1988. Although there’s currently no way to play recorded music through a Mac, there are a couple of disk-drive-based peripherals that allow you to edit recordings on the Mac for playback through the peripheral— providing you've got at least a Mac Plus and money to burn. The Dyaxis 16-bit sampler for digital recording mix-down marketed by Julian Systems (415/686- 4400) will set you back at least $6500 ($19,000 at the high end). The DSP 1000 by Compusonics (415/494-1183) costs $6995 for the optical disk version, $6000 for the Bernoulli Box version—plus $495 for the MacSonics software. Within the next year, you may see a board for the Mac II’s NuBus that replaces the peripher- al, providing the Mac with playback capa- bility.—Ed. Keyboard Compatibility In the Input and Output section of “Busi- ness Buyer’s Guide” (November 1987), you say that the Mac-101 keyboard manufac- tured by DataDesk International is not available for the Mac Plus. According to DataDesk, the keyboard is Plus-compatible. Who is right? Walter Ware San Francisco, California DataDesk is right—the Mac-101 works with all the older Macs: 128K, 512K, and Plus (see Reviews, Macworld, October 1987). Sorry for the confusion.—Ed. Subterranean Mac I've frequently read that if you raise the Mac to eye level, it’s easier to see. Nothing could be further from the truth, especially for bifocals wearers. On the contrary, if you bury the Mac— at an angle—in your desk, you'll be able to see both the keyboard and screen without moving your head, and all those headaches and shoulder pains will disappear. Every- one who's seen my Mac barely protruding from my desk agrees it’s the only way to fly! Is there a furniture maker out there who needs an idea? James T. Humberd Rancho Mirage, California It’s already been done. With the MacTable, by ScanCoFurn of Redmond, Washington (800/722-6263), you can submerge or tilt your Mac at any angle.—Ed. Kudos to HyperCard In doing database development with Hy- perCard, I've found it to be the best micro- based database yet. Field size and attri- butes are limited only by your imagination. Record (pardon me, card) size and quan- tity go on forever. I have ten files (I mean stacks) operational in one application that are fully linked for listing, posting, merg- ing, and so on. I can also autodial any cli- ents in my cards by clicking on their phone numbers. Not too shabby, eh? Reports produce grouped or individ- ual cards, listings, or labels using a truly in- tuitive graphic menu. Searching through cards is incredibly fast, rivalling a RAM- based system. Let the truth be known: Publishers of the so-called uppercrust database manag- ers had best watch their backs, because now we have an information engine for $49. Do you suppose Apple's spin-off of Acius was really to salve irate third-party developers? I think not. Apple was separat- ing the chaff from the wheat. Mike Brewer Columbus, Obio HyperCard Déja Vu When I first saw HyperCard at the Mac- world Expo, I was reminded of my first ex- posure to MacPaint. Although initially excited by the prospects of computer illus- tration, I soon found it took programs with real muscle like GraphicWorks and Illus- trator to turn the Mac into a professional- level tool for graphic design and illustration. When I tried out HyperCard in our computer graphics studio, once again enthusiasm turned to disappointment. Among the other problems I discovered was that HyperCard paid only token notice to our Full Page Display and our Laser- Writer. Although the idea behind Hyper- Card is boundless, the implementation is just as limited as that of MacPaint. HyperCard has broken new ground, as Macbaint did, but I think it will be dwarfed by programs that take the “hyper” idea to its limits. Eventually “stackshops” will emerge that let users do what they want. Only then will HyperCard attain its (continues) TOPS “Alfsoftware reuired to transform 3 NOW OVER 100,000 NODES INSTALLED At sofeware reiredo rns IBS TOPS Network station. 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Now, The Creative Business Tool— Qume Soft Fonts 3000 years after the Phoenicians per- fected their alphabet, Qume,, is the only company with a complete offering of soft fonts. Available for most laser printers and major application software packages—all licensed from leading type designers like Compugraphic® International Typeface Corporation, and Linotype—Qume fonts are the originals! In business, writing correspondence and keeping records with a minimum of fuss has always been a top priority—even during the time of the Phoenicians. Those ancient traders and merchants developed the first written alphabet using symbols to represent sounds made during speech—the beginning of the perfect business tool. ‘Today, Qume’s full family of download- able soft fonts add creativity to the power of the alphabet. For PostScript® printers and typesetters, Qume Adobe PostScript Typefaces are available in both Macin- tosh™ and IBM® formats. 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First, he gave no indication of whether or not the testers were equivalent to one another in their CAD ability and experience. Second, the computers tested were definitely not equiv- alent-there’s no comparison in speed and performance between an unenhanced 512K with a HyperDrive and an SE with an internal hard disk. Third, the systems were not representative of what a CAD profes- sional might buy. | doubt that any would in- vest in anything less than an SE or a Mac II. How can Peltz call this a benchmark? Robert. Thorpe Sun Valley, California First, all those who participated in the testing were suggested by CAD manufac- turers as experts on thei ems, and all have years of CAD experience. Second, timing is more a function of software than of hardware, and processing speed is not the major component of perfor- mance in such tests. Third, when the arti- cle was being researched, no Mac II programs were available, providing no user base from which to recruit testers. Besides, our main purpose was to show people what to look for when making their own comparisons—to help them find the CAD systems that best meet their indi- vidual needs.—Ed. Full Speed Ahead I'd like to clear up several errors about our Prodigy SE accelerator card that I found in “Beefing Up the SE” (September 1987). Al- though the Prodigy does have IMB of RAM, it doesn’t double the Mac SE’s memory, since it operates from its own fast 32-bit memory rather than the memory on the SE's system board. And rather than recom- mend setting a IMB cache via the Control Panel to use the system-board RAM for the cache, we discourage using the RAM cache for most applications, since it uses up much of the 32-bit memory and decreases processing speed. Curt Jobnson Levco Corporation San Diego, California (continues) LEGAL BILLING Legal Billing is a time billing package cally forattorneys and accountants. Legal featured system, and yet it is ineredibly easy to use. 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With a few clicks of your mouse, you can quickly redesign and rearrange your files to look at your data in any number of ways. Without disrupting it. And without any programming. Also using the selection of fonts and MacDraw*like tools, you can design reports from the very simple to the very sophisticated. Right on the screen. So you'll know how it looks before you print it. Macintosh Plus, M JASE III PLUS, Ashtor *Hardwa dBASE Ul, dBASE Il, about programming. Were not talking about just text and graphics. With dBASE Mac, you can incorporate photos of people, parts and places into your database. You can even import data from Ashton-Tates dBASE IIT PLUS" dBASE III? or dBASE II*as well as ASCII files. All without programming. And all with the help of Macintosh’s on-screen prompts and pull-down menus. But if you want to go still deeper, the powerful dBASE Mac programming language will take you into a world of power and capability where no Macintosh has ever gone before. If you would like a demo disk* for $4.95," or the name of the dealer nearest you, call (800) 487-4829, extension 2400; You'll see how this Ashton-Tate relational database Will sss make your SNASHTON-TATE Macintosh dBASE Mac office work ue BEES the sophistication smarter. Whether you are a huge organization. Or a one- mouse shop. AN ASHTON TATE’ F, Macintosh I with at least IMB memory. ‘While supplies last, "In Colorado, call (303) 799-4900, Extension 2400, Trademarks owner: ABASE, jonTate Corp.; MacDraw/Macintosh/Apple Computer Inc. © 1988 Ashton-Tate Corp. All rights reserved. Circle 73 on reader service card Letters We found that using the RAM cache worked well in some situations, depend- ing on the configuration we used.—Ed. Waiting for the Sequel Your September issue’s cover promised an article on 68020 accelerators for the SE (‘Beefing Up the SE”). Then you reviewed two essentially identical products while hinting at two others for which you were unable to supply hard data. I finished the article in no better position to make any purchasing decisions. Presumably I'll have to wait for Part II, but I'd rather get the whole poop in a month or two than half a story now. Mark Maranta Roxboro, Quebec, Canada Neither of the two missing products—the Radius and the Orion—was available when the article was being researched. (The Radius bas since been reviewed in the November 1987 issue.) Because those products were not finished, we felt it would be unfair to compare them to the others. Such situations present a dilem- ma: should we penalize the products that are ready by waiting jor the ones that aren't?—Ed. Negative Positives Neither of the scanned images that were produced on the Mac II using The Litho- grapher (“Magazine Quality,” page 97, Macworld News, November 1987, and “Be- yond Black and White,” page 132, also in November) represent magazine-quality photos. In fact, the first one had a moiré pattern you could discern from five feet away. T have no quarrel with electronic pub- lishing-I produce my own publication al- most entirely on the Mac. What I find objectionable are marketing claims of state-of-the-art graphic quality from tech- nology that can barely manage scanned im- ages of marginal quality John E. Parsons American Demographics Magazine Ithaca, New York You're right—image processing on the Mac IT cannot compare to what a stat camera produces. However, the quality of the photo shown in Macworld News suf- fered because the scanned image was ac- cidentally shot as a halftone (in effect, it was screened twice), which accounts for the unintentional moiré pattern.—Ed. Calling the Kettle Black 1 enjoyed your interview with Borland’s Philippe Kahn (Verbatim, October 1987), and I found one of his comments most in- teresting: “IBM and Microsoft are the only two companies that can get away with vaporware.” Along with Commodore's complete ineptness in marketing and supporting the Amiga, vaporware from companies such as Borland drove me to sell my Amiga and consider a Mac SE. Although I'll miss what my Amiga could have been, I look forward to the Mac and Apple's vision for it. Frank Maddox Austin, Texas Letters should be mailed to Letters, Mac- world, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to CompuServe (70370,702), The Source (BCW440), or MCI Mail (addressed to Macworld). Include a return address. We reserve the right to edit ail letters. All pub- lished letters become the property of Maeworld. From Coral Software, the developer of the first full Common LISP for any microcomputer, three languages that bring symbolic programming to the rest of us: Allegro Common LISP, Coral LISP and Object Logo. LISP and Logo, two of the most advanced programming languages in existence, are now available on the Macintosh in inexpensive, high- quality implementations, Allegro CL is the first and only imple- mentation of the Common LISP standard for a microcomputer. It extends Common LISP standard from mainframes to the Macintosh. It’s an indispensible tool for Al research and application production. Coral LISP and Object Logo offer ideal environ- ments for education and for exploration into the field of Artificial Intelligence. They are already in use at the Apple Vivarium project. Each of Our Languages Offers: + object-oriented programming system with multiple inheritance “Object Logo is truly breakthrough software at a bargain price.” —MacWorld + advanced symbolic and list processing capabilities » advanced math package: bignums, ratios, complex numbers « debugging tools: source-code stepper and trace facility * multi-window integrated editor + interactive, low-level Macintosh Toolbox access + excellent documentation, with complete cross- referenced index and comprehensive examples Additional Features: Allegro CL « File compiler » Window-based inspector Integrated, + fast incremental native-code compiler with dynamic linking + high-level Macintosh interface tools ‘Apple a registered trademask of and Macitmosh i a wademar licensed to Apple Computer Inc. Object Logo, Corl LISP are wademarks of Coral Software Corp ‘CL isa wademark of Coal Software nd Fran. Ine Coral Software: Where Li 42 March 1988 Circle 58 on reader service card itations Are Left Behind programmable editor « Modest memory re- quirements: IMB RAM, 1.6MB disk storage Coral LISP + File compiler + Dialog objects + Full lexical closures * Dynamic variables Object Logo « Turtle graphics with multiple, object-oriented turtles + Macintalk objects * Apple Logo ibility « MIDI support available Object Logo can be yours for $79.95. Coral LISP is available for an introductory price of $99.95. And Allegro CL sells for an unbelievably low $599.95! Coral Software, P.O. Box 307, Cambridge, MA, 02142; (800) 521-1027, in MA, (617) 547-2662. Coral SS" SOFTWARE ‘TWO FAT PAGES. ONE THIN PRICE. 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It's two pages for the price of just one from that other more well-known big screen company. So what makes the NSI Big-Top better than those other thin screens? Let's start with installation. Our unique plug-in or clip- on connectors for the Mac™ make it an easy 10 minute fit. And our smooth-action dual- screen software allows you to drag desk accessories and palettes from one screen to the other, making your screen even more manageable. And it’s Multi-finder® compatible, to boot. MAC Il POWER The NSI Big-Top offers screen reso- lution of 80 dpi (with a 1024 x 980 display), making it one of the widest screens on the market. And density selection so you can choose your on-screen resolution. And any Mac will work with our wide screen, includ- ing the Mac Il. Also, for those of you who like to bump and grind across your desk, we have tilt and swivel positioning to make it even easier. 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You can also scale, rotate, add type, Siig combine one image with another, share images with other users, », Or paste images into i *the most popular page = make-up systems. Adobe Illustrator also automates art production. So you can get camera ready art at your desk. Make radical changes and get new art in minutes. And keep every image in small electronic’“art files’ you can recall, refine, combine or change at will. Adobe Illustrator is based on POSTSCRIPT;* the language of desktop publishing. Which means you can get output on any POSTSCRIPT-equipped printer from a 300-dpi laser printer to a 2500-dpi typesetter. Call us at (800) 29-ADOBE, (800) 85-ADOBE in California, or (415) 961-4400 from Canada. Well tell you where you can see, and buy, the Adobe Illustrator. 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For instance, the company finally has a world-cla les organization, put into place by Chuck Boesenburg in his first year as Apple's vice president for sales and mar- keting. Among other indicators of its matu- rity is Apple’s new-found recognition, under Bill Larsen, head of consumer mar- keting, of the “home office” market. The home market that wasn't supposed to exist During my first year at Macworld, Apple's public relations staff refused to allow me to speak with its consumer marketing staff because “the Macintosh does not sell into the home.” This despite my protestations that (at that time) over 80 percent of our readers had a Macintosh in the home. One area in need of improvement— and I hope already on Boesenburg’s agen- da—is Apple's dealers: how the company relates to its dealers; dealer policies for customers; and authori authorized dealers. Many of our readers are less than happy with their authorized Apple dealers—particularly with their pol- icies for repairs and service. Jean-Louis Gassée’s reign as product creator was reaffirmed by the success of the Mac II and the SE. After nearly two years of level sales, Apple revenues have leapt toward the $3 billion mark. The Mac IL continues to make progress both in terms of sales and, more important, with applications that take advantage of its color capability. And the SE is flourishing— selling as many as 40,000 units in a single month. The new fami of laser printers will surely enhance Gassée’s reputation as someone al ociated with innova- tive, successful products. At the same time, Commentary/erry Borrell All the Right Moves Apple Computer comes of age these printers make the Apple product en- vironment even more complicated for the consumer and more difficult for Apple mar- keters to manage. HyperCard has emerged as an impor- tant statement of direction for the future of the Mac interface. While admitting that HyperTalk is not suitable as a program- ming tool for the average user, developers like Reese Jones at Farallon Computing are using it to create an imaginative interface for their products. Incidentally, publishing books about HyperCard appears to be as fruitful an enterprise as developing the Many of our readers are less than happy with authorized Apple dealers—particularly with their policies for repairs and service. s s themselves. Danny Goodman's The Complete HyperCard Handbook (Bantam Books, 1987) has sold more than 160,000 copies, and Softpress of Foster City, California, published a handy reference manual last year for HyperTalk that makes a worthwhile supplement to Goodman's tome. John Sculley, peaking before a group and representatives of the press, declared that Apple will be rewriting the Mac operating system—a wel- come sign of the company’s recognition that t