MacWorld 8807 July 1988

ORLD July 1988933.95 fea Bae: : : The Macintosh® Magazine’ ; Canada $4.95 asec ee : ‘ eee Hands-on tests e i 140MB to 160MB drii CAD Software Compared Latest Mac “Music Software The fastest way to ¢ We have yet to meet the favorite format? Just word processor that’s perfect add them to your menus. for everyone right out of Want to take Monaco the box. Which is why we've built into Microsoft. Word off the frequent font list? Simply delete it. You can still use it whenever version 3 the unique ability you want to; it’s just not to be customized to fit the cluttering up your way you work. menu. From modifying And Word’s menus menus to filing away are so easy to cus- frequently used tomize, you formats to designing can make a your own dictionary, change in Word gives you - less time than it more ways to turn From the moment you turn it Sy read this sentence. on, Microsoft Word lets you know it’s : : . our word processor yours and yours alone. You might say they're your passport into your word processor. to easier writing. Don’t like what’s on the menu? Change it. Show Ruler Show Ruler eR Menus should list the fonts and formats al you use all the time. Not the ones you LT TAME: i ag ad hardly ever use. Paragraph... aragrapnh... iF ‘ — Section. Section So you'll appreciate how easy it is in Word to styles... Styles. *B Boston Bookman] dd the for- Define Styles...| Define Styles... 3T Chicago Symbol mats you Geneva “ want. And Plain Text Tenaee : 3 pon remove the J Double Underline a oo ; a ones you ftalic Strikethru i Pitpatte don't. Underline Hidden Wet a bares Want Outhine Superscript 2.5pt 9 Point 15 Point | quick access Shadow Side pussive Page Break Before 10 Point 1? 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More changes for the better. There are lots of other ways you can make Word yours and yours alone. Create your own custom styles—like that tricky boxed paragraph with the 13-point line spacing, tight letterspacing, and boldfaced, italicized text. And re-use itinstantly for consistency in one docu- ment or across several. You can also have your own glossary for storing text that you'd rather not retype every time you need it. Part 1(b) of the standard agreement, for instance. And, of course, you can even custom- ize Word’s 80,000-word dictionary by adding your own unique terms. Microsoft Word Make our Word you Ask your local Microsoft dealer to show you all of the ways Word is designed to fit you better than any other Macintosh word processor. Call (800) 541-1261, Dept. F 76 for the names of dealers near you. Inno time at all you'll be sailing through customs. Free writing help. 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MAC WORTD July 1988 The Macintosh® Magazine Departments 75 Macworld News 9 Mac Bulletin = The 68030s Are Here Plug-in cards Late-breaking news. that make the Mac IJ five times faster. 15 David Bunnell = CD ROM Goes HyperCard How AA HyperCard navigates huge stacks of MAGWORLD 23 Letters data on a CD ROM. 33 Commentary/Jerry Borrell * First Color Separations LaserPaint Color II brings low-cost four-color sep- 43 Steven Levy arations to the Mac. 57 Verbatim CEO Bill Campbell on Claris's role in software development. Plus, manufacturing with the Mac, Apple’s idea of future computing, get- ting a grasp on artificial intelligence, On the Cover and more. What can you expect 175 New Products aes from a mid-range A (Se look at new Maclaeh 7 hard disk? Speed, ca- software, hardware, and accessories. RAC) aA DEI: 189 How To/Quick Tips mance. Five of the top- selling 140- to 150MB drives go head-to-head ina close-up view on page 94. (Photo by 201 David Bishop.) Freezing titles in Excel, custom database applications, sharpening LaserWriter output, and more. How To/Getting Started with Spreadsheets An introduction to the number- crunching tool of business. 215 How To/Business Clinic Narrow the gap between you and DOS—learn how to handle PC documents on a Mac, 229 How To/Insights on QuicKeys Learn to automate routine t QuicKeys’ keyboard shortcuts s with Help is here when you need it with Desktop ~ Help, a context-sensi- 262 Updates The latest software upgrade news. 271 Where to Buy tive on-screen docu- Contact information for products in mentation system. (See this issue, page 152.) 274 Best-Sellers 2° july 1988 94 102 112 118 127 128 Second-generation nueste notation soft: ware reaches 4 cre scendo and sets a new standard with WYPIWYP—what you play is what you print (See page 102.) Features Five Mid-Range Hard Disks Speed and high capacity make the 140MB to 150MB disk a good buy. Music Processing: The Next Generation Professional music notation arrives. Forms of Intelligence mas 134 137 139 Design forms that can calculate, catch typos, and even fill themselves out. 2-CAD: A Landscape View New developments in the rapidly expanding CAD market. SuperStacks! AHyperCard stackware contest. Publishing with Word Microsoft Word may just be the desktop publishing tool for you. Five mid-range drives compared, page 94. 141 145 147 149 153 i557 157 161 163 165 167 169 | ef Reviews A Big Hand for FreeHand PostScript graphics program. Live Action Simul animates mathematical processes. A Tight Fit MacSqz file compressor for Excel. Sense-able Accounting Business Sense entry-level accounting. Bombs Away IstAid Kit HFS file and disk recovery. A Window Construction Kit Prototyper interface design tool. Quick on the Draw Apple’s IISC QuickDraw laser printer. Showdown with the Black Knight Beyond Dark Castle, arcade game. Making Points, Scientifically Passage scientific data plotting, Mystic Crystal Revelations Crystal Paint decorative patterns. Versatile VersaCAD 2-D CAD system for drafting. Billions of Bits CMS, Mass Micro, Priam 100MB drives. Attack of the Long Menus Fonv/DA Juggler Plus. Canned Graphics Extraordinaire SunShine Graphics library. IBM Emulation Novell’s 3270 emulation package for the Mac II. Help Is Here Desktop Help online help creator. Maeworld Defuse those system bombs with IstAid Kit HFS, a troubleshooting utility that recovers damaged files and disks. (See page 140.) 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 Editorial Manager: Jane Lagas nctate Editors: Gil Davis, Nancy E. Dunn, Valerie L. Kuletz, Joe Matazzoni, Cheryl Spencer East Coast Editor: Brita Meng sistant Editors: Cathy E. 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Rating information taken from Micro D Best Sellers List Circle 215 on reader service card IMES BOOK REVIEW 3 Walger esate told Stor oh “PAT NIXON: Pre on & Schuster 2 “Best Sellers _ Ss Iphin/ y Bill Cosby. (Do! ae QOD, PY Anecdotes and ruminal poi Sie star and father of fi tam, $21.95.) ey. (Ba tnauthorizes ry, by FORE the 37th ‘President ¥ ‘Andrew A. Rooney: i ORD FOR 314: ee Bit a ater ‘Dec. 25.) ) Anev ‘ournalist and on with Bob V MeMeho! f the Mewepiography. io} Bene $16.95.) epicago Bears. ise AVE eee 5. os) New HyperCard 1.2 > HyperCard version 1.2, the second update since the product's debut in August 1987, is expected to become available this summer through Apple dealers and user groups. Unlike the 1.1 up- date, which primarily fixed bugs, version 1.2 adds new features and performance enhancements particularly aimed at creators of Hyper- ‘Talk scripts. At the user level, version 1.2 adds a Find Whole option, which lets you search for ex- actly matching text anywhere in a stack; a Text Arrows op- tion, which allows the arrow keys to control the cursor. rather than the cards; anda Write-Protect feature that makes stacks read-only. The Write-Protect feature gives Hy- perCard the requisites for us with CD ROM and file servers. Atthe scripting level, ver- sion 1.2 adds new objects, commands, properties, func- tions, synonyms, speed im- provements, and keyboard shortcuts. The new users op- tions can be implemented via the scripting language. In ad- dition, a new picture object allows you to hide or show a card's picture and new func- tions permit improved text and card manipulation. Large Screen for Less > Nutmeg is offering a 19- inch monochrome monitor with a universal video card for only $1495. The Nutmeg 19’s 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 75 pixels per inch is about the same as that of a standard Mac screen. A separately avail- | able adapter enables you to. | configure the Nutmeg video card fora Plus, an SE, ora Mac II. Another new product, the Nutmeg 256, is a 1024-by-768 video card that makes avail- able 256 colors or 16 levels of gray. Combining the video card with monitors that can take advantage of its 80 Hz re- fresh rate should all but elimi- nate flicker. In addition, the Nutmeg 256 will speed up presentation of color images by connecting to a video ac- celerator board Nutmeg plans to bring out. List price is $1595. For more information, call Nutmeg at 203/966-3226, Most Powerful Development System > Tektronix has announced a Motorola 88000-based de- velopment board for the Mac Il. The TL88K-P, which con- tains a reduced instruction- Set computer (RISC) chip set and 8MB of memory, prom- ises to transform the Mac into the most powerful personal- computer-based development system to date. The three-chip. Set, consisting of an 88100 RISC CPU with a floating- point processor and two 88200 cache memory-man- agement chips, is capable of executing up to 17 million in- structions per second (MIPS). In comparison, the Mac II ex- ecutes roughly 1 MIPS. For further information, call Tek- tronix at 503/627-7111. Apple’s Suit Challenged ® The lawsuit Apple filed in March against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, alleging that the two companies are in- fringing on the “look and feel” of Apple’s software, has been challenged in a counter- claim filed by Microsoft. Microsoft claims Apple's legal action violates Microsoft's contract with Apple and dam- ages Microsoft's prospective business and contractural re- lationships. HP received a 60- day extension for filing its own response to Apple’s suit. Microsoft president Bill Gates said his company re- mains committed to the Mac- intosh and will produce new versions of all its major Macin- tosh software in 1988. For in- stance, Word 4.0 and Excel 1,5 have already been an- nounced. Excel's major up- grade, version 2.0, is expected by the end of the year. Both PowerPoint 2.0 and File 2.0 are shipping. Works 2.0 will be out by August, predicts Microsoft. TOPS with DataFrames > SuperMac is now includ- ing TOPS (which normally sells for $189), the largest- selling network software for the Macintosh, with each of the SuperMac large-capacity DataFrame hard drives rang- ing in size from 60 to 150. megabytes. This offer is effec- tive from June 15 to Septem- ber 30, 1988, through autho- rized SuperMac dealers. Mac Bulletin Hunting Viruses Apple's new freeware. program, Virus Rx, searches your disks for virus-damaged documents and applications, and then labels any damaged files with a “Dangerous” or “Fatal” designation. Virus Rx, along with two pages of in- structions, is free and avail- able on AppleLink and many other public bulletin boards. Minitel Comes to the U.S. Minitel, the French na- tionwide videotex system, is now available to United States residents through MinitelNet. Minitel has become the world’s largest commercial online service, with several million users receiving and sending electronic mail and taking advantage of some 1500 services. All menus and information are in French. Minitel services include the French news wire; informa- tion on exhibitions, trade shows, and fairs in France; French standards and specifi- Cations; French stock ex- change (Bourse) quotations; and information on export, legal, and tax matters. MinitelNet users must pay in advance for the service. ‘The $163.50 minimum initial payment is for six hours (ap- proximately $27 per hour). For more information on Min- itelNet, contact Computer Sci- ences in El Segundo, Califor- nia, or call 800/822-6638. (continues) Macworld 9 Mac Bulletin Competition for A/UX With the introduction of the Sun386i computer, Sun Microsystems becomes the first vendor to offer a fully de- veloped, icon-based user in- terface for the UNIX operat- ing system. In doing so, Sun beats Apple to the punch since Apple is still working on an icon-based interface for its Macintosh Il A/UX computer system, Sun developed its interface, called Open Look, for AT&T, which owns UNIX. Open Look will become AT&T's standard user interface for all UNIX System V computer sys- tems, replacing UNIX’s pres- ent, often criticized, text- based interface. Sun’s design is based on technology li- censed from Xerox, the com- pany that also developed much of the Mac user interface, Among the icons in Open Look are push-pins to “pin” important menus to the screen, and an elevator to move up or down in text. Clicking a mouse on labeled buttons prints and saves files. AT&T's announcement that it will standardize Open Look for all UNIX System V systems. could throw a wrench into Ap- ple’s plans for A/UX because all System V software—which A/UX is—must undergo test- ing to ensure compatibility with AT&T standards, dBase Mac Free Upgrade p> Ashton-Tate is offering a free dBase Mac upgrade to registered users. The upgrade allows you to run external programs from within the re- lational database using exter- nal commands and external functions, like those used ‘with HyperCard. For instance, a retail sales system written in dBase Mac might use external commands to receive data from a bar-code reader, open a cash drawer, print a receipt, and display the amount of a customer's change. To encourage developers to. write finished applications using dBase Mae, Ashton-Tate is also offering an execute- only version called dBase Mac Runtime. Registered dBase Mac owners can purchase the Runtime version for the list price of $300, Developers may include Runtime on unlimited copies of their applications. For further information, call Ashton-Tate at 213/329-8000. Finding It Fast With hard disks holding larger and larger amounts of information, finding the right file can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, A high- speed solution comes from Microlytic, which is bring- ing Gofer—a 1-megabyte- per-minute text-search-and- retrieval program for the PC —to the Macintosh. Gofer can search hundreds of text files for any word or combination of words, from within an application. And the program can search in the background, with or without MultiFinder, Gofer enables you to copy successive selec- tions of text to the Clipboard without losing previously cop- ied material. Users can also write text to any application. program, create a disk file of found text, or print text, Gofer, which lists for $79.95, searches files created by all leading word process- ing and utility programs, and it requires no indexing. For further information, call Microlytics at 716/377-0130. User Group News > The Boston Computer Society's monthly newsletter, The Active Window, reviews mouse cleaners, Ashton-Tate’s dBase Mac, Activision's Focal- Point, and MacroMind’s Vid- eoWorks II in the latest issue. Other Macintosh-relation in- formation includes lists of re- source people and reports from groups interested in Hy- perCard, databases, graphic design, and legal and medical applications. Subscription to The Active Window is includ- ed with a $35-per-year mem- bership. Write to BCS, Mac Of- fice, 48 Grove St., Somerville, MA 02144, A raft of tips appears in the monthly newsletter published by the Madison Macintosh Users Group. The Mad Mac News is available for $15 per year from Subscriptions, Mad- ison Macintosh Users Group, RO. Box 1522, Madison, W153701. Storage Capacity Takes Another Leap > Fora long time, users have been hearing about opti- cal disks that will combine hard disk capacities with flop- py remoyability—like a CD ROM or WORM (write-once, read-many) optical disk, only erasable. After all the talk, Maxtor has introduced two SCSI eras- able optical disk drives: the 5 %-inch Tahiti I, which pro- vides up to 1 gigabyte of stor- age on one double-sided opti- cal disk; and the 3%-inch Fiji I, which holds 160 megabytes of data on a single-sided disk. Maxtor expects to ship both drives by the end of this year. They'll be used both as components in storage sub- systems and as stand-alone peripherals. For example, the Tahiti I could act as a network file server; the Fiji I could re- place a tape drive as a backup device. Prices will probably start around $2500 for a stand- alone Fiji I, For further infor- mation, call Maxtor in San Jose, California, at 408/432-1700. Scoop without Target? Target Software, pub- lisher of Scoop, is apparently out of business. In late March the company stopped answer- ing its phones. According to Dave Games, president of the Gold Coast Macintosh User's | Group, ex-employees report that the doors are locked at Target’s headquarters. Jim Fitzsimmons, president of MacAmerica, who origi- nally licensed the U.S, market- ing and distribution rights for Scoop to Target, retained worldwide marketing and dis- tribution rights to the prod- uct, and he intends to contin- ue supporting international editions of Scoop. He can be reached at 714/779-2922. The Gold Coast Macintosh User's Group is also making its help line available to people seek- ing support for Scoop. The number is 305/447-7888. Fullwrite Ships Fullwrite Professional, which was purchased by Ash- ton-Tate from Ann Arbor Soft- works early this year, is finally shipping. The long-awaited, well-advertised software com- bines outlining, word process- ing, page layout, and drawing functions with an easy-to-use interface. It lists for $39’ further information, call Ash- ton-Tate at 213/329-8000. 0. 10 July 1988 EUREKA: The Solver: Solves your mathematical equations instantly he state-of-the-art answer to any of your scientific, engineering, financial, algebraic, trigonometric, or calculus equations = Eureka”: ‘The Solver. Eureka can solve most equa- tions that you're likely to meet. So you can take a mathematical sabbatical. For anyone who works routinely with equations: in calculus, trigonometry, statis- tics—any of the most complex mathematics. Solutions syn- thesized with power and speed. No other software even attempts what it can do, Eureka represents the thrill of discovery—on command. 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Soar to New Highs, Effortlessly When Software Ventures set out to create MicroPhone, it had a simple mission: to develop the most intuitive communications software ever written. 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 “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 The Big-Chilling Effect Creativity and innovation in our industry are being threatened by a rash of reckless lawsuits. Enough already. Most personal computer industry observers agree that Apple Computer's recent sur- prise lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation and Hewlett-Packard jeopardizes future software and even hardware development. Apple claims that Microsoft's Windows and HP's NewWave graphic user interfaces are illegal copies of Apple’s Macintosh system design. If Apple prevails in this suit, further development of a windows interface for the IBM PC may be seriously delayed, or even killed. There is yet another, but less-publi- cized, lawsuit on the horizon that may have a much greater effect on us than the Apple affair. ComputerLand Corporation founder William Millard has filed suit against Micro- Pro International Corporation as well as former MicroPro chairman Seymour Rubinstein and former MicroPro program- mer John Barnaby. Millard’s suit alleges that MicroPro’s wildly successful word processor, Word- Star, was first developed at one of his com- panies, IMSAI Manufacturing Corporation, over ten years ago. Both Rubinstein and Barnaby were working for IMSAI at the time, and Barnaby developed a text-editing program called NED. Rubinstein left IMSAI to start MicroPro and immediately hired Barnaby, who had left IMSAI two weeks earlier. Millard claims they used NED code to write MicroPro’s early text editor Word- Master, which evolved into the phenome- nal WordStar. Meanwhile, in 1979 IMSAI went bankrupt and disappeared from the scene. Until recently, that is. Terry Giles, Millard’s chief attorney, claims to have stumbled across the NED-WordMaster- WordStar connection while sifting through documents from an unrelated case. Giles maintains that the statute of limitations— three years from the time of his “discov- ery” in 1986—is still in effect. Furthermore, Giles and Millard claim that WordMaster’s patent information re- veals that 98 percent of its source code is “identical” to NED's. Millard is seeking pu- nitive damages and royalties from any and all programs derived from NED. This would include WordStar, which is estimated to have grossed $200 million to $300 million for MicroPro over the past ten years. According to Giles, Millard—who sold his controlling stake in ComputerLand last year and now lives on the South Pacific island of Saipan—is bringing this action against MicroPro and its two former offi- cials as “a matter of principle.’ Millard would use any punitive damages awarded to pay IMSAI’s remaining creditors, who are collectively owed about $1 million. If he is awarded damages in the form of roy- alties, however, tens of millions of dollars will be at stake. Millard says he would dis- tribute this money to various charities through a foundation administered by the Millard family. “T'm about as concerned about [Mill- ard’s] succeeding in this lawsuit as [I am about] an iceberg hitting the Golden Gate Bridge,” insists Leon Williams, MicroPro’s current CEO, “[In] 1979, there were an aw- ful lot of companies starting up, and a few of them were successful,” he recalls. “I think it’s a miracle there haven't been more lawsuits. Williams, who began his own career as a programmer, notes the difficulty facing software developers, whose craft is con- stantly evolving. “Whenever you work on a particular algorithm, and you change jobs, it’s impossible to unlearn all you've learned,” he says. “Programming is a cre- ative path. All artists are inspired by previ- ous artists. They take their techniques and visions, and they evolve them to a higher level of art.” Though he discusses the Millard suit in less lofty terms, Seymour Rubinstein is also convinced that it will be thrown out of court on a summary judgment, because the statute of limitations has already expired. “It’s clear that the program or programs that allegedly contained whatever [Millard] (continues) Macworld 15 20 mb SCSI 65 MS 8560” New! High performance 80 mb SCSI ee a Si | 40 mb SCSI 28 MS | ) 40 MS $770” $1249.00 60 mb SCSI 40 MS $8390 SS Seaga a. ail . 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Giles is prepared for a long haul, how- ever, “We will be involved in the technical aspects of the lawsuit for a couple of years at least,” he predicts. “It will probably get to trial—if we're really lucky—in 1989, or in the first part of 1990.” No matter what the outcome, and no matter who's right or who's wrong, one thing is certain: we'll all pay a price. A lot of software, as well as hardware, is based on existing products. Just as in the television industry, developers create new programs based on past hits. If developers and com- panies can no longer do that because they'll be sued, then new programs or even new versions will be slow to emerge. If consumers buy fewer products, less fre- quently, the industry will slump, and even- tually even our computing productivity will take a nosedive. Just think: Digital Research, the cre- ator of CP/M, could sue Microsoft for re- leasing MS-DOS, because much of its code is based on CP/M. The creator of VisiCalc could sue Lotus because 1-2-3 is basically an advanced form of VisiCalc. In fact, most database, spreadsheet, project-manage- ment, and word processing programs on the market today are based both on earlier versions and on other programs. The fact is that Millard’s company, IMSAI, went out of business years ago. Nothing was going to happen to that code at IN NED was dead. Rubinstein and Barnaby allegedly gave it new life at Micro- Pro. If that was the case, apparently no one else had the imagination to develop Word- Master into WordStar. “The success of the [WordStar] busi- ness came 150,000 instructions later,” Leon Williams explains. “That has much more to do [with its success] than with the code of the product called NED.” In fact, WordStar also benefited from very effective market- ing and promotion. 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Peripheral Systems Division, 29525 Chagrin Blvd., Pepper Pike, OH 44122, 2l¢ 414 Rodime PLC, Nasmyth Road, Southfield Industrial Estates, Glenrothes KY6 2D, Fife, Scotland Letters A forum for Macworld readers Mac on the Campaign Trail Thanks for David Bunnell’s column on the Mac's political impact and what it did for Art Agnos in the San Francisco mayoral race (“Turnaround Is Fair Play,” March 1988). It’s about time the Mac was recog- nized as a powerful campaign tool. We hope to use ours in several 1988 cam- paigns to challenge the position currently held by IBM PCs and clones in the political arena. Maggie Thompson Sacramento, California Mac as Political Hack While I'm the first to extol the virtues of Mac DTP, I find ita mixed blessing where politics is concerned (see “Turnaround Is Fair Play,” March 1988). If desktop publish- ing is proven to be that effective in getting Corrections The toll-free phone number of Micro- com (Where to Buy, March 1988) is 800/822-8224. Orbital Mech by Studio Zero (Reviews, April 1988) requires only 512K rather than IMB RAM. Studio Zero’s toll-free number is 1-800/752-9222, ext. 933. The color image in “Color Graphics in Bloom” (April 1988, page 172) was scanned from a 35mm color slide using the Barneyscan slide scanner. The phone number for ComGrafix, maker of MapGrafix (Quick Tips, May 1988), is 503/285-1748. JOUN HERSEY candidates elected, then we can expect to see increasing numbers of posturing hacks, all filling our mailboxes with 5-by-8- inch paperbacks in 10-point Times Roman. Thomas Andrew Olson San Francisco, California Cooling the SE Screen Jitters After reading yet another letter about a wa- vering SE screen (March 1988), I'm con- vinced it's a widespread problem. My screen wobble was traced to the SE’s infa- mous cooling fan, whose motor generates RF interference. Replacing it with Apple's new SE fan solved two problems—not only did it cure the jitters but it’s almost totally silent. Several third-party vendors are now making SE replacment fans priced lower than Apple’s that should also do the trick. Randall Schumann Boulder, Colorado You're right about the old fan causing a wobbly screen; our SE jitters were cured by a new third-party fan. Two alternate replacement fans are the SEaBreeze (ComputerWare, 800/235-1155, 800/323- 1133 in California) $49, and the SE Si- lencer (Mobius Products, 415/658-2939) $49.95. Suggested retail price for Apple's new fan (available through Apple deal- ers) is $90, including labor.—Ed. Mac Repair Shop In your feature on upgrading the Mac (“New Life for an Old Mac”) you men- tioned CJS Systems. Could you supply the address and phone number? Bruce K. Doman Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania CJS Systems, a service shop specializing in Macintosh repair (but not an Apple- authorized dealer), is located at 3051 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA 94703, 415/849-3730.—Ed. Upgrade/Downgrade Your February issue highlighting upgrades (“New Life for an Old Mac”) arrived as my 128K was “in the shop” for a long-awaited upgrade. I realized my Mac had been dis- playing the same symptoms you described as flyback-transformer burnout. When it came back from the shop and I switched it on, I got video garbage and a puff of smoke from the top. I'm disturbed that such an obvious, well-documented defect is allowed to go unchecked. What recourse do we have in such situations? Tammy Aramian Escondido, California (continues) Macworld — 23 I KNOW THAT REPORT IS IN HERE And GOfer is just the one to track it down. GOfer digs through files at blinding speeds to bring up text in seconds. A phrase, a fact, a note, a date. If you need it, GOfer finds it. 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The Bigger Picture We were disturbed by Bruce Webster's unsupported conclusion (“The Mac IL in Black and White,” May 1988) that he was unable to recommend our monitor, The Big Picture, because it “had the most vi defects” and was “very tiring on the eye: Earlier in the article he admitted that “ ally, The Big Picture is generally good but has some deficiencies” He also termed The Big Picture a 15-inch monitor (it’s actually a 17-inch) and claimed it has a 90-dots-per- inch display (it’s 85 dpi). Far from being unable to run simultaneously with four other monitors, our monitors can run six at atime ona Mac Il. Steve Vollum E-Machines Beaverton, Oregon ual isu- We apologize for the factual errors you mentioned, but they did not affect the fi- nal evaluation. Ultimately, each review represents the reviewer's personal expe- riences using the products. —Ed. Mail Order under Scrutiny I found Macworld’s December 1987 cover article “What's Wrong with Mail Order?” to be a balanced and frank discussion of the computer mail-order industry. After our agency received a rash of complaints involving Software to Go, Pro- gramming International, and other Dixon companies mentioned in your article, we filed suit against those companies and the Dixons. Subsequently, we decided to spon- sor a bill that would strengthen the existing California mail-order statute. The new stat- ute covers telephone orders by credit card or check and specifies that orders must be shipped within 30 days or within the time stated in the seller's ads. Educational articles such as yours help consumers make informed choices and re- duce the need for enforcement activities by government agencies. Michael A. Kelley California Department of Consumer Affairs Sacramento, California (continues) Registered users receive CANVAS 2.0. 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Despite some hardware errors and benchmark con- fusion, we still feel that the Mac Il and the Sun-3/60 offer similar perfor- mance.—Ed. Macworld Back Issues Macworld’s annual January index lists some tantalizing articles, but since I'm only a recent subscriber, I need back issues to satisfy my thirst for MacKnowledge. How do I get them? R. B. Naugle San Ramon, California Send your requests for specific issues, plus $6 per copy, to Macworld Back Is- sues, 144 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107.—Ed. 0 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. Due to the high volume of mail received, we regret we're unable to respond per- sonally to each letter. 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Excerpts reprinted with permission of Mac Journal Circle 145 on reader service card “Say what?” “2500 yen.” We stared at each other for a moment, the sushi chef and I, while I contemplated the cost of the snack and drink I had con- sumed. Before this revelation it had seemed the appropriate break in a day-long trek through Tokyo's electronics district. “That's $20 U.S.! Nearly twice what I'd pay for the same meal in San Francisco. And the fish is fresher at home.” Some things had obviously changed since the first time I visited Japan. Seven years ago I went there on assignment to produce a report on manufacturers in the field of computer graphics. My predictions for Japan Inc’s entry into the United States graphics markets were somewhat over- blown—Japanese manufacturers have, to be certain, taken market share from US. makers, but they do not dominate the in- dustry. Nor have any Pacific Rim countries made progress in U.S. markets with per- sonal computers of their own design, that is, non-clones. My task on this trip was easier: to as- sess the growth of Macintosh sales and use in Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. And the answer: the Mac is doing surprisingly well there. According to Apple Japan presi- dent Sandy Van Eyck, the Mac SE is becom- ing a success in Pacific Rim countries. As before, I found myself standing on a factory floor where personal computers are manufactured. High ceilings, surpris- Commentary/erry Borrell Selling Sushi to Yokohama (With apologies to Jean-Louis Gassée) ingly little noise, bright, airy; floors so clean you might not fear eating off them. This time, however, the factory was in Singapore, not Japan. All the young work- ers wore street clothes, not the uniforms common in Japanese firms. Nor did super- visors stand out by their special dress or by the deference paid them by their subordi- nates. The plant seemed rather collegial for a manufacturing concern. I was not prepared for this informality, nor for the importance of robotics. The plant is automated throughout; robot trans- port vehicles deliver pallets of parts to flex- ible manufacturing lines, where the com- ponents are assembled, tested, packaged, and shipped by other robots. Many of the robots had been custom built to assemble the computers. Unlike a PBS film’s specula- tion about the impact of robotics in the fu- ture, these robots actually picked, placed, nudged, tapped, and completed a small personal computer. More than 7500 roll off the lines every day. JIT (just-in-time) manu- facturing goes without saying. There is no inventory of parts or finished CPUs. This, I thought, is the future. Just as Japan earlier brought vast improvements to manufacturing processes, now the “four tigers”—Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong—are finding ways to keep manufacturing in their countries as their labor costs rise. Sound like an all-too-familiar story? With one exception: the plant is owned by Apple Computer. For me, Apple’s Singapore plant represents the ability of American manufacturers to compete with any other country’s in terms of labor, auto- mation, or innovation. Not only that, it also portends the ability of a young company— with plants in Singapore; Cork, Ireland; and Fremont, California—to participate in world commerce. Meanwhile on Hong Kong television a group of architects in a beer commercial quaff a brew after solving a problem with their Mac II. Not a problem that the Mac might actually solve, but never mind that, the point is that the Macintosh is the fash- ionable personal computer in a part of the world that’s dominated by IBM PCs and PC clones. Can the upstart from Cupertino be- come as important as AT&T, General Elec- tric, and IBM? Certainly the vision is there. John Sculley has taken to making speeches about the Knowledge Navigator, his idea of the compact personal computer for the year 2010. The videotapes bringing his idea to life were the talk of the January Mac- world Expo and the first Apple media hit to equal its 1984 Super Bowl TV commercial. ‘To realize the vision, Apple continues to invest in research and development— internationally. Recently (shades of IBM) Apple formed a research and development group in Paris. Will the day ever come when Apple scientists in a foreign country win a Nobel prize for their work, as did two IBM researchers in Switzerland? Apple's R&D investment may well pay off in the future, but at this stage can Apple compete with NEC? That company domi- nates Japanese personal computing, with (continues) Macworld 33 PILPUR}S JOJO) HA -8 JO[OJaNIL SdOJaysey 1g-FZ “You may also need a complete Mac Il System with optional printer and scanner. © 1988, RasterOps Corporation. 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Given that Apple is doing the right things for its near-term success around the globe, we have to hope that it is planning the steps toward the Knowledge Navigator as methodically as it is now restructuring its organization. This goes on while most of us are spending money to buy comput- ers and software that meet some of our daily needs. But when we make that deci- sion—choosing the Macintosh over Win- dows and the Presentation Manager on. PS/2 machines—aren't we really hoping for something more? Haven't we become fans of a company that treats personal comput- as if they are more than just a busines So now when I think about eating sushi, I notice that many Japanese people find our sushi cheaper, and perhaps—a have—better too. G I System Should Be 18-Bits & #250000. Let's face it; for a lot of people 8-bit color is just fine. 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The PLP is the only laser printer in its category that lets you print in any number of point sizes, even fractionals. The LaserWriter Il SC, by contrast, lets you print in any number of point sizes as long as the number is six. The PLP gives you unlimited free- ing documents (critical for applications such as Excel and PageMaker*). The LaserWriter Il SC doesnt. With the PLP italics I PLP uses true outline fonts. The LaserWriter Il SC doesnt. All this begs an obvious question: how can we offer so much functional- ity and still charge less for it? The answer is software—soft- ware that enables your Macintosh to use its own resources to do the pro- cessing that would otherwise require costly additional hardware. But theres another reason the PLP performs better: it has to. Ina market saturated with laser printers, there's no point in offering one thats less functional and more expen- sive. After all, our competition has that market all sewed up. For a PLP demonstration—or de- tails on our ImageWriter® trade-in pro- gram—see your authorized General Computer dealer For the dealer near- est you, call (617) 890-O880t ~'- GENERAL = COMPUTER *Basedon acomparison of manufacturers suggested rata pices. tn Canada, (600) 263-1408 @ 1988 General Computer Corp General Computer andthe Gener Computer go ar epstéed wademarks of are) General Computer Corp Personal LaserPrinter and PLP are trademarks of General Computer Corp. Macintosh isa trademark of Apple Computer, nc, LaserWniter and imageWriter * App Joviakar sa registered trademark ot Aus Corp. The document above was created val Papehfaker 30 and primi on a General Computer Personal asrPrniec fe Computer, Ine. Circle 177 on reader. service card fernarks of out ever having to open up your ac. In. fact, you'll never even ee © 1988 Jasmine Technologies, Inc, InverDrive sa trademark of Jasmine Technologies, Inc. Macintosh If nd Macintosh SE are trademarks licensed to Apple Computer, Inc, Circle 457 on reader service card +) Direct Tape isataderhatk of Jasmine Technologies fic Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarksand Multiinder isa trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc eae © 1988 Jasmine Tectmoogies, Ie. i Circle 102 on reader service card Steven Levy The Unbearable Heaviness of Being in the Computer Industry Not long ago I was conducting a telephone interview with Phil Lipetz, then the pres’ dent of Ann Arbor Software. We were dis- cussing the implications of the extreme tardiness of his firm's product, the word processor FullWrite Professional. Lipetz had been stung by a few personal attacks resulting from the product's failure to ap- pear in the marketplace when promised, and in his defense he explained why he decided to become a software executive, when he could have made more money as a venture capitalist. Lipetz explained that he wanted to do something for people. FullWrite was to be his contribution to the planet’s well-being. Great scenes of compassion and sacri- fice fast-forwarded in the VCR of my mind. Florence Nightingale, treating the Crimean War wounded. Mahatma Gandhi, challeng- ing the British with nonviolent protest. Al- bert Schweitzer, ministering to the African ill. Bob Geldof, organizing concerts to feed the Ethiopian starving. And now, Phil Lipetz, working day and night to deliver a word processor that performs some desk- top publishing functions and sells for $295. The reason I did not drop the tele- phone and double over—either in laugh- ter or gastric distress—was that I'd heard that pitch before. In fact, it is so common these days that I feel compelled to apolo- gize to Phil Lipetz; I am unfairly singling him out as the sole perpetrator of a widely committed transgression. (Especially since Steven Levy is a Macworld columnist and the au- thor of Hackers: Hetoes of the Computer Revolu- tion (Dell, 1985). MAX SEABALGH Ihave learned that he has taken his share of the booty earned by selling FullWrite to Ashton-Tate and used the money for a proj- ect to bring spreadsheets to the jungles of Ghana.) For a variety