MacWorld 8812 December 1988

70 NEW PRODUCTS-—PAGE 203 * 20 PRODUCT REVIEWS—PAGE 154 MACWORLD December 1988 $3.95 The Macintosh® Magazine Canada po 95 New Design Tools: CAD in Three Dimensions ae ; " Cricket Presents versus PowerPoint: How to Prepare a Slide Show Thirteen 20MB Drives Compared Best Games of 1988 Seven Ways to Go Online — Christmas Gifts—20 Ideas How doyou a Microsoft Works? Whether you run a small business or your knowledge about computers happens to be less than monumental, the new Microsoft® Works 2.0 has you covered. Microsoft Works 2.0 is actually five tools inone: word processing, spread sheet, database, Microsoft. Works drawing and commun- ications. But as far as youre concerned, its one integrated program— so itS easy to move be- tween the different tools and use them together. In fact, from the moment you take it out of the box, Microsoft Works 2.0 is easy to use. It comes with an animated training program written in HyperCard® format. As wellas on-line help and unlimited phone support to help an- swer any questions you may have. No matter how varied your projects are, Microsoft Works 2.0 can handle the job. Its new- est feature, the drawing module (with page layout), can enrich otherwise plain, fact-filled documents with compelling graphics. The word processor can create everything from a simple memotoa detailed report—and it even includes a spell-checker aimed at typos. grams in one— and incredible efficiency when you combine their talents. Of course, if your document needs to be supported with numbers, you can always jump over tothe spreadsheet to compute and analyze data. And then transform it all into easy-to-read, easy-to-understand charts. As for information that keeps your business going, the database is indispensable for keeping track of clients and orders. And you can count on the communications module to bring information to your desktop through a modem. If youd like to learn more about Microsoft Works 2.0, just call (800) 5411261, Dept. 176 for the name of your nearest dealer. No wonder Microsoft Works 2.0 is the best-sell- ing application in i i Thel started, we've included itsclass Aside from oases, being a great value, thera format Microsoft Works 2.0 is one program that can handle a myriad of business needs. Its that simple. Makingitall make sense™ Customers in Canada call 1 (416) 673-7638, outside North America, 1 (206) 882-8661. © 1988 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft and the Microsoft logo are registered trademarks and Making it all make sense isa trademark of Microsoft Corporation. HyperCard is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, bn the Greate Las weck mortgage interest aes reached 2 five-year alte low. Fist Morgage of fered 30-yext, 95 perent new hore foan at 8.5 percent with no points. 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Onthe Cover 63 This month’s cover art was accomplished N Departments. ‘ \e . Mac Bulletin Late-breaking news. David Bunnell Letters Commentary/erry Borrell ieee we Steven Levy How To/Insights on PageMaker 3.0 Tips from the pros for the Mac’s most popular desktop publishing package. through the combined ‘efforts of photographer 203 New Products~_ Mark Johann and A quick look at new Mcintosh t. Joe Sparks of Pava- software, hardware, and accessories. me comp, who rendered, ¥ '*) 5. the 3-D images of the’ _ 231 How-To/Quick Tips ee table and lamp using HyperCard shortcuts for viewing, Swivel 3D. * scripts, floppy disk shelf life, copying i) Adobe Illustrator art via the Clipboard, and-more. 255% How To/Getting Started with Mass’ ae Storage... t - A primer for choosing and using high- + capacity storage di S. _ 267 Updates . A abe 301 Where to Buy i 312 Best-Sellers” The latest software upgrade news. * Contact informationfor products in x this issue. x san be. Macintosh® Magazine sr 83 Maaworld News fe ~, i * 68030 at Last I's here and there". | are three ways to upgrade. Pe ® Video Snapshots Six new frame. , grabbers capture screen images. - Give Mac a Brain ‘Neural networks. ‘ Jearn by example. eet ie : Plus, new directions for HyperCard, Mac holograms, 4MB of memory for ot the II, Apple pushing A/UX toward UNIX standards, . ai ~~ ee ~. We experience life in three dirensions— see and now, with a score Of 3-D progranison * mm ee the horizon, the Mac can, too. (p. 108). Drafting professionals will want to check out ~ the new 2-D color CAD package from New spreadsheet Xmpetitor. - 156, Double Helix 112.0r4.9 o Claris(P.99). ane agement prograpr” P oe 160 HyperTools #1 and HyperTools #2 Solve lyperCard authogiag -<tilemmas. NSN SSE ag i 162 SoftQuad Author/Editor 1.1 2 Screen-oriénted editing software. 3-D in Perspective ah ig 3- D programs take shape—CAD, 164 Practica Musica 2.0 architectural, anid more Practica makes perfect. The Game Hall of Fanie ie SuperExpert 1.4 Afl games are not created equal— ae) Practteal a look at this year’s favorites. a to capture expertise. 2) 170 LCD Projection Pads Twenty Megabytes and Spinning Kodak and Ask projectors. efore you buy that 20MB hard disk, i> chéck out this overview of a dozen 172 Grappler LQ _ and one disks. divertace for dot matrix printers. Pr I a 136 Merry, Macintosh 474 Mathematica 1.03 K Silly'and sane stocking stuffers for the oO * Mathematical computation and Mac buffs on youd list. a + graphic display. a . __A40 Great Communicators os 178 «Tetris 1.0 Seven Mac produicts prove that the Arcade game with a twist. Pd lines of electroni¢¢ommunication oe are wide open." * 180 CompuServe Navigator 2.1 ate Mac interface for CompuSérye. — 148 __ Step-by-Step Slides Putting together a lively, informative } : Stuffing stockings with 182. LOT’sCD-ROM “|~ é ? 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Mac Presentation Products p> Early desktop presenta- tion systems used IBM PCs and compatibles; now the Mac I, with its si Mac Bulletin color, sound, and graphics capabilities, is becoming the plation of choice for pie ducing exciting, impressive presentations. General Parametrics, of Berkeley, California, has announced a new group of presentation products for the Mac Plus, SE, and II, planned for release in early 1989, The VideoShow presentation system, based on a portable unit operated with wireless remote control, comes in three models: VideoShow Professional and VideoShow Executive, for the Mac II, and VideoShow Companion, which works with the SE. VideoShow Professional can show up to 100,000 colors in a picture, with photographic and synthetic images dis- played in the same picture. VideoShow is compatible with all QuickDraw graphics products. The PhotoMetric Slide- Maker, which works with any Macintosh and with VideoShow, is a 4000-line desktop film recorder with sophisticated graphics and text capabilities. PrintMaker software produces full-color, high-resolution overheads and hardcopy to accompany presentations. For more information, call General Parametrics at 415/524-3950. Mac to IBM P& Things are starting to look up for Mac-to-IBM- mainframe connectivity. Avatar, one of the main producers of IBM 3278 (continues) Macworld 13 Mac Bulletin emulation boards for the Mac, has announced the de- velopment of an Application Programming Interface (API) for use with Avatar boards. In addition to providing a library that programmers can incorporate into their own applications, the package includes prewritten XFCNs for programmers interested. in utilizing HyperCard as a front end to an IBM main- frame. Avata through its MacMainFrame Programmers’ Tool addition to supporting ac- cess through the Avatar API and the HyperCard API, the Toolkit allows programmers to utilize a Transport Layer Protocol Module (TLPM) for use with Apple's MacWork- Station. The Avatar MacMain- Frame Programmers’ Toolkit will be available free to owners of any of Avz MacMainFrame 3278 terminal emulation devi ‘or further information, contact Avatar Technologies, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, 617/435-0872. Letraset’s P Letraset is now offering add-on special-effects mod- ules for its ImageStudio. controls for image rotation, scaling, transparency, drop shadows, and smoothing, AICWS bate Sercens so the user can set dot shapes and screen angles and can create digital mezzotints. ImageStudio lists for $495, and the special effects mod- ules are expected to list for under $100 eac For further information, contact Letraset, in Paramus, New Jersey, at 201/845-6100. Apple and MS-DOS Compatibility Disk P As part of its effort to convert corporate clients, Apple has produced a 5 '/,- inch floppy disk titled The Compatibility Guide for use on MS-DOS PCs, Designed with the help of the SoftAd Group of Sausalito, Califor- nia, the disk is an interactive guide to Macintosh-MS-DOS compatibility. Menu selec tions introduce compatibility issues and solicit your work profile: What kinds of com- puters do you use? How large is your workgroup? What kinds of software do you use? Is it customized or off-the-shelf? Ensuing product recommendations come complete with graphics and animated illustrations. You may not like the idea of an interactive sales pitch, but techni shopping can get boring—and this approach may make it more fun than wading through pages of specs. For further informa- puter, 408/990-1010, Color Tt Mac > mee ery software from Pre-Press Tech- nologies, enables graphic designers to use the Mac II to do color corrections and cepurations pensively and in a fraction of the time traditional methods would take. SpectreMatch/Print’s user interface emulates a so- phisticated laser drum scanner, with interactive dials and displays that modify range and gradation of high- light and shadow in 1 per- cent increments of yellow, magenta, and cyan. With the output module, you can create color separation files in a variety of formats, in- cluding PostScript, encapsu- lated PostScript, and ‘TIFF. Designers can also make color slides by outputting complete images to a film recorder, For information about SpectreMatch/Print, call Pre-Press Technologies in Encinitas, California, at 619/753-0194. 300 Fonts on a Hard Disk P Adobe is now shipping a hard disk containing the entire Adobe Type Library, which includes over 300 typefaces. The Adobe Font Folio is a 45MB, high-per- formance disk selling for $9600 (nearly a third less than the cost of purchasing the company’s library one package at a time). Adobe Font Folio requires the Plus, SE, or II, and the LaserWriter NTX, and plugs into the Apple SCSI port. For further information, contact Adobe Systems, in Mountain View, fornia, at 961-4400. MacMusic Fest 2.0 > core Plant affiliate, i ming up with Apple again for Mac- MusicFest 2.0. The festival will feature the latest in ‘sizers, and film and television products; and it will offer seminars in inte- grating MIDI in your studio, feel factoring, and graphics/ Multimedia, plus demonstra- tions of sequences and tems. Seminar hosts will include Apple Fellow Alan Kay; Mare Canter, president of Macro- Mind; Dominic Milano, editor of Keyboard magazine; and Craig Anderton, editor of Electronic Musician. The festival will be held December 3 to 4, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Record Plant's massive scoring stage and adjacent studios on the Para- mount Pictures movie lot at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Tickets are $25 in advance for both days, $30 on the day of the show. For further information, contact Filmsonix, at 213/653-0240. 3000 developers and report- ers on October 12. The com- puter's single board has a 68030 CPU and a math co- processor, both running at 25 MHz. A digital signal proces- sor provides CD-quality stereo sound and supports fax and modem functions. Eight megabytes of RAM and an Ethernet port are standard. The built-in erasable optical disk drive uses removable cartridges that store 256MB. \ $2000, 4100-dpi laser printer is optional. The NeXT 17- inch high-resolution monitor displays four shades of gray. The monitor houses a | speaker, stereo output jacks, and a microphone jack. The multitasking operating sys- tem, called Mach, is a version of UNIX. Display PostScript drives the graphical user interface. Proprietary software called NextStep furnishes the operating and development environment. The $6500 system will be available in lume in the second quarter of 1989; it will be sold only to students and workers at colleges and universities. 0 14 December 1988 PRESENTING THE WRITEMOVE PORTABLE PRINTER. Most printers are sentenced by theirown sheer bulk to lifelong con- finementon a desktop. Butnow GCCTechnologies“has created a printer for the Macintosh® with considerably more freedom than that. Its called WriteMove™: the “biggest’ printer ever to come in an incredibly small package. Butts the only ink jet printer of any size that gives you almost unlim- ited freedom to reduce and enlarge typeand documents. Becauseits the only one with outline fonts—imag- ing software that provides function- ality otherwise available only with laser printers. Asa result, you can use Write- Move to compose documents with word processing software like Micro- higher print quality than the Image- Writer*ll, for not much more money. Which could bring a whole new meaning tothe phrase'freedom of the press” To exercise that freedom, see your authorized GCC Technologies dealer fora WriteMove demon- stration. For the one nearest you, call (617) 890-0880* Siz WriteMove weighs a scant soft® Word, or desktop publishing three pounds. It measures just2”«642” programs like PageMaker.* And then x10%4’ (Any smaller and you couldnt _ silently print them outat!92-DPlreso- get the paper in) lution. In other words, you get much == TECHNOLOGIES 1988 GCC Technologies. Inc GCC Technolo 1eMove are wademarks and the GCC Technologies logo isareqistered trademark of GCC Technologies, Ine. Macmiosh and jemarks 6! Apple Computer Inc, Pageliake red radriarkol Aldus Corp. Microsoft is registered tracemarkal Miciosolt Corp Suggested marulaciurersreal price: 3093. 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Follow- ing corporate shakeups is like following grade-Z soap operas: much ado about very little, in terms of the rest of the world. The more I thought about it, though, I did be- gin to wonder what this new shuffle means for the big picture at Apple. Who's in charge of its vision—Sculley, Jean-Louis Gassée, someone new, or no one at all? Sculley certainly likes to play the role of visionary. He often shows a special- effects-filled video that touts the Knowl- edge Navigator—something between a product announcement and a sci-t to an odd mix of audiences around the globe. If you don't believe he’s a visior just look at the title of his book: Odyssey: AJourney of Adventure, Ideas and the Future. In terms of the reorganization, it looks like Gassée really fills the role of head phi- losopher. As president of Apple’s products division, he has control over everything from the advanced research stage through design and manufacturing to marketing. As much as anyone could be, Gassée is up to doing all of this, but I wonder how much time there is for him to walk on the beach and think about the future. Not that he himself doesn’t recognize the need for meditation. At the last Macworld Expo, he told me that every Apple employee should be required to take a short sabbati- cal each year. There are three other presidents now running divisions. Michael Spindler pre- sides over Apple Europe, which also in- cludes the rather stationary African and Middle Eastern markets. He used to run Apple International, so this could be viewed as either a better focus on—or a cutback of—his territory. ry, Del Yocam was formerly chief operat- ing officer of Apple’s entire operation. He ind educa- tion markets, which is certainly a cutback, although Yocam welcome one. ying he was getting too far afield from people, too deep into policies (and politics) to make life meaningful. The new player in these proceedings is Allan Loren, newly named president of Apple USA. Not only is he a newcomer to Apple, having been there only a year or so, but he had not managed sales or marketing efforts prior to his arrival. That doesn’t faze Loren, though. His forte is strategic plan- ning, and this may help in the big-picture department. He has his work cut out, since Apple still has some serious selling to do in order to catch up to IBM. Given this cast of players, and the number of reorganizations Apple has en- dured since Steve Jobs's ouster in 1985, I wonder if this latest high-level shuffle is going to be beneficial, or even matter, three years from now. We know that the E is in the works; that a “baby” Mac Il, with fewer slots and a lower price, is and that the long-overdue lap- ses tO appear next year. But these developments reflect a straight-ahead mar- keting plan, not breathtaking technological breakthroughs. Managers, not visionaries, are the ones to make these kinds of devel- opments real. I guess my question is this: Where's the next stunning departure for the user and the whole industry going to come from? Who's thinking about the next new Macint« Apple's incredible growth (it hired 3000 new employees this year) and subse- quent need to constantly reorganize have led to a higher than normal level of inter- nal confusion. Could the rises, falls, and lat- eral moves that consume so much staff time and energy keep Apple execs from scanning the whole horizon? I hope not, because the company’s success has been historic and dramatic. Don't get too corpo- rate on us, Apple—let’s keep the vision de- partment intact. 0 Maeworld 19 Conventional wisdom tells us that just like shoes, there’s no such thing as one-size-fits-all software. People have distinct workstyles, and varying levels of Macintosh® proficiency. 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A word Cc vOr PO © T CC t processor designed specifically for the Mac. iad etect Z Zi, for the Macintosh Circle 126 on reader service card WordPortoct sa renistered trademark of WoraPor Letters A forum for Macworld readers Look and Feel? Having been a zealous lieutenant in AILF (Anti-IBM Liberation Front) for over ten years, I felt Apple was justified in attempt- ing to protect its technology. Today 1 changed my mind. A coworker with two Compaq 386 clones commented on the relative power of his machines compared to my Mac SE and then stated proudly, “Plus, I've got the ‘look and feel” That's when it hit me. The Mz interface is more than just windor $ entire philosophy. All Windows will do is allow DOS developers to toss up a rectan- gle and chuck their application into it. So why is Apple suing? Why give the competition more credit than it deserves? Apple’s time would be better spent pro- moting the differences and advantages of the Macintosh interface over Windows. Marvin L. Price Pasadena, California Corrections The new address for Mira Imaging (Mac- world News, August 1988) is Mira Design Corp., 101 First St., #258, Los Altos, CA 94022; 415/961-6070. The phone number for Modern Graphics, maker of ChemStack (New Products, Au- gust 1988), is 317/253-4316. The Mac-101 Enbanced Keyboard (World- Class Macintosh, September 1988) is from DataDesk International, 818/780-1673, not Apple. The phone number of MLT Software, maker of Sun Clock (New Products, Sep- tember 1988), is 303/245-7093. The phone number for the MacMAD user group, Melbourne, FL (A Guide to Macin- tosh User Groups, September 1988), is 407/259-7221. Sony Warranties Ihave religiously purchased Sony disks for the past four years and have had only a few go bad—until this last week when four went bad. I called the Sony customer ser- vice line at 201/930-7669 to ask about the lifetime warranty and was told to mail the bad disks to Sony Corp. of America, 1 Sony Dr, Park Ridge, NY 07656, Mail Drop 3-1 I got my replacement disks in about three weeks. Bob Harris Inverness, California Don't throw those bad disks out. An infor- mal survey of the major disk manufac- turers confirmed that most disks have lifetime warranties. If you suspect a disk is defective, contact the customer service department of the manufacturer and ask where you should send the bad disk for replacement. PostScript Tips Recently, I have been trying to add flair to the title pages of the reports I generate by customizing the PostScript fonts in the LaserWriter, but I find this extremely diffi- cult. Is there a product that modifies Post- Script with shadowing, skewing, perspec- tive, and so forth? Kenneth S. Ralph Thorold, Ontario, Ganada Ilustrator 88 (Adobe, 415/961-4400), Freeland (Aldus, 206/622-5500), and Cricket Draw (Cricket, 215/251-9890) can all be used to enhance PostScript fonts. Some font-specific programs that can be used lo display special effects with type are Laser FX (Postcraft, 818/ 718-1598), LetraStudio (Letraset, 201/ 845-6100), LP Text (London Pride, 203/866-4806), and TypeStyler (Broder- bund, 415/492-3200). You can put exist- ing fonts into Fontographer (Altsys, (continues) Maeworld — 23 A 1 an architect, fine @ File Edit Text Object Layout Effects Macro hairlines like ours are SCSI pure poetry. Canvas:Bananas B suto-tracing built this banana from a scanned:in produce ad In split seconds. Oo Be S [=| © Stuttipoint bezier @ curves make drawing a es = ON: yy cs bunch easier. 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No Clones In “Where Are the Clones?” (August 1988), you wrote that “General Computer Corpo- ration offers a ‘PostScript brain transplant’ that adds a clone interpreter to its Quick- Draw Personal LaserPrinter and costs about $2000.” GCC feels there are only two possible printing solutions on the Macintosh, Adobe- brand PostScript and QuickDraw-based raster image processing. GCC offers the Personal LaserPrinter and PLP Plus for $1999 and $2199 as QuickDraw laser printers for individual use. PostScript fea- tures are available in the Business Laser- Printer, which has many of the advanced NTX options such as expandable memory and SCSI hard disk port for font expansion. It costs $4199. The upgrade board for the Personal LaserPrinter that you referred to in your article is actually an Adobe version 49 PostScript board shipped with the Busi- ness LaserPrinter. Douglas B. Macrae GCC Technologies Waltham, Massachusetts APDA Vitals In the July 1988 Macworld News, you men- tion the Apple Programmer's and Devel- oper's Association, but you don’t mention how to contact it. Scott A. Smith Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania APDA can be reached at 290 S.W. 43rd St., Renton, WA 98055; 206/251-6548.—Ed. So Long, Mac Plus? In both Mac Bulletin and Verbatim une 1988), you mentioned that the Macintosh Plus is on its way out. Will there be a dearth of articles on the Plus and related software? Whatever the answer, please give it to me straight. I'll find out the truth sooner or later. Jane Skorina New York, New York There are too many Mac Pluses out there Jor Macworld to abandon their owners. Please stay tuned.—Ed. (continues) ATT IN OUR PREDILECTIONS, WE FOR ry MAC MASQ t's quite simple, really. All we're saying is that the lim- ited scale spell checkers that come tacked onto today’s word processing packages are, ina word, underpowered. 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It might Nearly one month after the announce- ment of a 68030-based Macintosh and just at the time Steve Jobs's NeXT announced its new machine, two young men met some- where in the corridors of the product development and marketing buildings at Apple. One was from product marketing, the other from product development. Lost in thought, they were pacing in the same direction and almost bumped into one another. “Whoa. Where're you headed?” said the less absorbed of the two. “Any safe harbor in a storm.” “What's up?” “Another reorg.” “Again?” The last reorganization had taken place during the summer—when product marketing had left the sales and marketing group and shifted to the engineering/de- velopment side of the company. Business school had prepared the two men for these kinds of changes; both were MBAs. In fact there are so many MBAs at Apple these days that even the old-timers don’t take note of them. “Loren again?” "Yep" Allan Loren, the mercurial, driven president of Apple USA, had become the promise, and the bane, of many in the com- pany. He was already making a bid to re- capture product marketing from Jean-Louis Gassée. Commentary/erry Borrell Musings on the Twenty-first Century “Got a minute?” He gestured toward the Norman Bates conference room they were passing. “Sure.” They ducked in and sprawled out, feet up on the table. They had both worked at Apple for nearly five years, and with each other on a few occasions. They were friends, but these days they never had time for more than hallway conversations. It had been a long while since either had even at- tended a Friday beer bust. Did those still happen? “This is my fifth reorg.” “I stopped counting.” “Well at least we didn't have the sales meeting.” They nodded in agreement. There was no time to jet off for three days— especially to the exotic location of Or- lando, Florida. At one time the Apple sales meetings were an annual rite: looked for- ward to, like spring break in the fall, by Ap- ple staff around the world. Loren had can- celled the meeting for the first time in the company’s history. Had the company be- come too large for one all-company meet- ing? Were they losing another tradition be- cause of new management? Or had all the changes made the meeting premature? “Remember that time we trashed the hotel in Hawaii? That was a sales meeting.” “Yeah. Remember when they showed the 1984 tape.” “And Campbell's speech. Just great.” “Disneyland” “The intro of the IGS” “The Christmas parties.” “The bow tie Del wore to Star Trek.” They stared at each other vacantly, re- membering. Reorganizations had become the only ongoing activity that the company retained from the old days. Reorgs and space shortage “And meetings.” The Winds of Change “Loren is still chasing people out of his office.” “No way!” “Hear what he did to Thompson?” “Bad?” “Had him in front of a group of his people and cut him to pieces. It was awful.” “| hear Thompson was pretty easygoing.” “For that you destroy someone?” “You know the space problem doesn’t seem so bad anymore, does it?” The space situation was such that Apple managers could hire new people only if they had a place for them to sit. That is, they could hire, provided no one squawked about their lack of space. “Well, at least the products are on track. There’s not much we can do wrong there.’ “Not with a $200 million backlog.” “Battery’s fixed on the portable.” “Thear Mac I Jr. is slipping a bit.” “But we'll sell everything we produce on it too” “We could always raise the prices again: They stared at one another. The recent price hikes had been overwhelming across the board. The financial analysts loved it, the price of stock went up. The bottom line improved. The hike had knocked down de- mand a bit, taking the heat off production. However, many of the old-timers, and even the MBAs, had a lingering feeling that the company was taking a little too much out of the market. Some of the MIS people in corporations where Apple had finally made inroads were badly shaken—they (continues) Macworld a Ee _Lont_Layout_Aerange_Pen_Font_size style cs OC ocrOP -PUOLISHING Ghe Ulhiner Fee ‘A Publication of Wimper /Growel/Neal & Associates Anya | DESKTOP PUBLISHING! (LOS ANDELES)Prefessional widows, much Info| jojolal i>} ee lareken Westige ant decor. 5 fe Aven ox California (418) 962-8946, Ten-nornTTON L acDraw Il. 800-544-85 Nobody reads copy anyway. MacDraw'll. TEAR S| % > It’s the most you Can have without apair of drumsticks: ‘The lights dim, the crowd roars, and you're on stage. . .with dozens of different drums and percussion instruments at your fingertips. 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But no one seemed to have a clear idea of what lay between the progression of machines based on 030, 040, or RISC CPUs and the Knowledge Navigator. “Think they'll get the bugs fixed in 32- bit QuickDraw in time for the new system rele j “Think NTSC will work first time out of the box? “Sure. Or at least we'll be real close’ Everyone felt good about the technol- ogy. Sun was closing in with SPARC, and h the 386i. Jobs's machine was good, really good, but no competition for Apple in the foreseeable future. It was the com- pany itself, or how it felt, that was getting to people. “You know, I think that all of this is about the twenty-first-century stuff” John Sculley’s role had changed from technology guru to busines: He had distributed copies of his s “new wave” companies to senior man- agers. His announced agenda was to make Apple the first of the twenty-first-century companies. The two men felt that Sculley wanted more: that his ambition was for na- tional recognition of how he had led and shaped the company, Surely that boiled down to more than creating a competitive environment like the one within Pepsi. “Yep. You're right. I have the feeling that the next year will be more difficult than ever They stood up together and walked out to face gray industrial carpeting, fluo- rescent lighting, and a sea of gray blue cubicles. One of the video games from the old Mac building on Bandley Drive sat for- lornly to one side. The games were still around but no one seemed to play them anymore. It would feel strange standing there playing a game with everyone so busy. The baby grand that Jobs kept in the lobby there had been nice. Every so often someone would sit down and play. You had to wonder if anyone would do that again either. O Finally, the kind of scanner you've always wanted for your Macintosh. 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When it comes to selling software and peripherals, Apple dealers have been upstaged by independent, Mac-only stores One day I needed a SCSI terminator. Never mind what that is, or what it’s for—I needed it. The question was, where would I find it? To those not versed in the dynam- ics of the Apple world, the logical place to look for a piece of equipment for the Mac- intosh is an official dealer and service cen- ter certified by Apple Computer. In reality, this route leads to phone calls consisting of many rings, a few busy signals, intermin- able periods on hold, occasionally with an- noying selections from soft-rock radio sta- tions, and ultimately a conversation with an authorized salesperson who has no idea what SCSI means, let alone the concept of SCSI terminator. (Wasn't that a film with Ar- nold Schwarzenegger?) Perhaps this is not so in your community, but in mine, New York, New York, this is generally the pathet- ic case. Fortunately I had an alternative: a store devoted exclusively to Macintosh soft- ware, hardware, and support. I'd first read of the place late in 1986, in advertisements in the local user group's house organ. It was called Mac Emporium and though at the time the name was mis- leading (far from a deluxe emporium, the operation was being run out of the owner's apartment), within a few months the busi- ness found itself a location and became what I had hoped it would be—something of a Big Apple equivalent to the legendary ComputerWare. ComputerWare, Palo Alto’s main nerdo tourist attraction, is a store that services Mac owners like no other. Those who vis- ited its original location, a 400-square-foot cubbyhole in a yuppie mall-ette, often left in wonderment. If they left at all. “They ac- Steven Levy is a Macworld columnist and the au- thor of The Unicorn’s Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius, published this fall by Prentice-Hall. tually stock lots of Mac software,” people used to whisper in awed tones, astonished that someone had the daring and vision to actually sell a reasonable selection of Mac- intosh products in a store! Such was the vir- tual impoverishment of the world of Apple retailing, where the dealer has always held the high hand. But ComputerWare was only the first of a new wave of retailers serving Macintosh owners. Mac-only stores have emerged to fill a void in the marketplace. There is no umbrella organization of these Mac-only stores, just informal relationships between some of them. And their associa- tion with Apple Computer is remote or nonexistent. They seem to prefer relation- ships with customers. SCSI Business Case in point is my quest for the SCSI terminator. 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