MacWorld 8907 July 1989

Hard Disk - Iternatives The Future of Storage ee a CAPTURING COLOR: TEN SCANNERS COMPARED 9600-BAUD MODEMS: ARE THEY READY? ' 90 NUBUS CARDS SEVEN FILM RECORDERS: WHICH ONE TO BUY? wan | An ih 90% ot Macintosh spreadsheet users have been working on this progr 0. & File Edit Formula Lommel Data Options Macro Window Ea 126 i Selected Five - Year Financial Data (jin thousands exrepl employes and per share data) 1988 1987 1986 1985, 1984 Revenue and Costs ‘Net Revenues $432,805 | $318,663] $309,266] $239,656] $207,907 Cost of Revenues 79,809} 165,570) 58,344] 40,710} 40,215) Ran D 79,809) 92,361) 33,081] 21,420) 20,676] Sales/Marketing 87,680] 88,108) 62,490) 48,999} 26,409) Gen Admin 27,653] 18,537] 12,594) 7,306) 4,520) Income from Operations $157,855 | ($5,913)|$142,756 [$121,221 |$116,088 Non-op Income 7,804] 6,639! 3,715 2, 008| 1,387] Income Before Taxes 165,659} 726} 146,471] 123,229] 117,475 Provision for Taxes 67,092} 294 359,321 49,908| 47,577| Net Income $98,567 $432 | $87,150 | $73,321 | $69,898 Assets and Liabilities Current Assets 225,579] 112,622] 79,282] 44,256] 44,055) Net Property 75,463) 73,937| 41,209) 24,957| 19,374] Other Assets 5,643} 3,764) 3,673} 2,400! 1,899) Total Assets $304,690 |$190, 323 |$124, 164 | $71,615 | $65,327 Current Liabilities 34,423] 18,319 11,599] 5,077] 9,940] Long-term Liabilities 4,578] 4, 114| 3,602 3,293 3,146 Stockholder's Equity 265,689} 167,890] _ 108,964) 63,245] $2,242] Total Liabilities and Equity | $304,690 |$190, 323 |$124,164 | $71,615 | $65,327 ‘Toleam more, call forthe Microsoft Excel 22 brochure, (800) 541-1261, Dept. J72. Customers in Canada, call (416) 67-9811. Outside North America, call (206) 882-8661, © Copyright 1989 Microsoft Corporation. Allrightsreserved. Micrtsoft andthe Micmosoft logoane registered trademarked Making all mabe senselsa tridemarict Microsoft Corporation, Macintosh and Macare registered trademarks of Apple Computer, ine So have we. Introduci Microsoft Excel 2.2. In 1985, not long after the Macintosh’ was unveiled, Microsoft’ Excel became the most compelling reason to buy one. Within minutes, it became a standard onthe Macintosh. Before we knewit, afull9 out of 10 Macintosh spreadsheet users were swearing by it. Not sur- prisingly, they still are. But, of course, we werent satisfied to leave well enough alone—and enon Nowe with sou cn tay fll Sess in todays must ‘Powwrfid Macintoses Microsoft Excel version 2.2 has come to the small screen. Ina big way. Inmathematical terms, 2.2 is greater thanL5.Intechnical terms, your spreadsheets aren't limited to IMB of memory—version 2.2 makes the most of even 8meg machines. Which translates into spreadsheets of outrageous proportions. Equally outrageous: 40% faster calcula- tions—thanks to advanced intelligent recalc. As for presentation? Version 2.2 also lets youhighlight data in ways well worth high- lighting: You can pickupto256 different fonts per sheet, including up to six styles and eight colors. You can change row height. You can shade. And basically pack your documents with more visual punch —— than ever before. Microsoft Excel | version 2.2. Another im- } provement designed to make Mac’ enthusiasts even more enthusiastic. Something 90% of youare a to. And you other 10% easily can be. Making it all make sense: = $60,000 $50,000 40,000 $90,000 $20,000 $10,000 Nae pick from 256 fits. Change row height. Monthly Profit By Product Line A | A 165659 7092 Provision for Taxes 56,200 49,908 ELECTED -YEAR FINANCIAL DATA __ Tin housands, except employee ‘and per share dat) 1988 19871986 1985-1984 levenue and 3 ye Net Revenues $358,663 $309266 © $239,656 | $207,907 Cost of Revenues BBR 5ST SHB AOI. 40215 Rand D 7B 52361 33,081 21420-20675 Sales/Marketing, 87,680. 88,108 62,490 48,999 26408 Gen Admin 27658318537 __ 125947305, INGOME FROM OPERATIONS $157,855 $134,087 $142,756 $121,221 $116,088 Non-op Income 7804 66393715 20081389 Income Before Taxes 140,726 ‘M6 A7i 133,229 7A 47577 NET INCOME "$84,436 "$67,150 $73,321 $69,898 Current Assets Net Property Other Assels TOTAL ASSETS Current Liabilities Long-term Liabilities Stockholder's Equity TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 3190323 | 18319 44 167590 $71,615 507 3293 63245 1690 $190323 $124,164 $71,615 $65,A27 Average Shares Out Shares Qut/ Year-end Working Capital ‘1B9642 173,468 «127,766—119,489 72041 Number of Employees 3AS6 2727 1681 1390__1,086 Common Stock SAE eee Net Income per Share $164 sot $1.90 $259 Book Value per Share 3.56 $229 $146 078 Cash and Investments $083 $048 Return on Net Revenues Return on Total Assets Return on Stock Equity ade, Ade notes And get used ta the sod of applaese MACWORLD Hard Disk Alternat With so many options available in romovable storage medi, is ‘an erasable optical disk worth the price? To fiad out how to assess your data storage needs, see page 116. (Photo by David Bishop.) DEPARTMENTS How to Contact Macworld .... 10 Reprints, subscriptions, Hacrone tas nice form, editorial contacts. Commentary/Jerry Borrell... LAD Looking ahead to the new system software. Art Beat 39 By Deborab Branscum/An old fashioned char- acter enters the computer age. ‘The Iconoclast... By Steven Levy/A simple soul is many Macs. Conspicuous Consumer. By Deborah Branscum/How to protect your investment. State of the Mac... By Thom Hogan/Hiow to prolong! the your machine. 69 New Products. BT A quick look at new Macintosh hardware, soft- ware, and accessories. NEWS Mac Bulletin... Late-breaking news Macworld News..... 1 More Colorful Publishing PageMaker's add-on does color separations. m AnEngi The Macintosh’ Magazine July 1989 HOW TO/QUICK Tips ....ccensnnnisnnssnnne 195 By Lon Poole/Fast redrar in rator 88, RAM virus detection, check boxes in Hyper- Card, and more. HOW TO/Getting Started with Desktop Presentations... 209 ByJim Heid/Learn to create slick presentation is that get your message across. HOW TO/Insights on AppleShare okey) By Dave Kosiur/Making the most of Apples s versatile file server. Updates ..... ae 927 ‘The latest software upgrade news. Where to Buy... 231 Contact information for products in this issue. Best-Sellers....... Learning surgery with help from videodisk stacks, page 89. in Every Application HyperCard-like shop management. m Not Just the Fax, Ma’am Turn E-Mail into a fax. m A Sharply Accelerated Mac Il Faster processing, m A Litfle Learning Goes a Long Way OCR software reads handwriting, m Fractals, Anyone? All the news that's fit to split, m Texas School Network and CD ROM Connecting over cable TV wires. m Mac the Knife HyperCard as surgery tutor. m CL/1 Support Grows Mac-to-VAX links. m Your Best Stacks Japanese landscape design. = Reach Out, Reach Out and Crush Someone. . . A novel input device for games. m The Kindest Cut of All MultiClip improves on Clipboard, m Reader Survey: Apple's 90-Day Warranty Most pan Apple's guarantee. MACWORLD © JULY 1989 ‘Are you adequately insured against computer equipment loss? Don’t wait until your dog chows up your keyboard to find aot. See page 57. REVIEWS Macintosh Ix. of _ cameemasinccies Modular six-slot 68030/68882 Mac. Smariform Designer... ion and fill-out program. Forms LetraStudio 1.0....... es Display-type customization program. CalComp Drawing Board with MacMaster Templates 1.0... Digitizing tablet with templates. Just Enough Pascal 1.0 Interactive programming tutor. ComputerEyes 1.2.1 and MacVision 2.0... ‘Two inexpensive video digitiz S. Anatool 3.0...... CASE software. 145 148 152 15S 157 FEATURES From Screen to Slide 108 js making your own slides worth the trouble and expense? Find out By Cheryl England Spencer/ which of the seven film recorders reviewed here make the grade. Hard Disk Alternatives By Charles Seiter/Mf you're in the me 116 for mass storage, a hard disk may not be your best bet New Life for the NuBus By Brita Meng/ : ities 123 s to the NuBus, a host of add-in boards can enhance the Mac II's performance, ‘Communicating at Speed ..... 128 By Dave Kositt/ The pluses and pitfalls of high-speed communication. While 9600-bps modems are built for speed, you may get bogged down in a morass of communications protocols. Capturing Color .....ssssntn 134 By Steve Roth/The brave new world of color scanners: what they're good for (and what they're not), how they work, and what to look for when you buy. Communicating at 97600 bps—do high- spoed modoms really outdistance their sluggish competitors? Seo page 128. MetCom Modula-2 1.02 .......000 Application development environment. Colleague 1.1 and The HyperWorks Organizer 1.0 161 Business organization tools Milo 1.0..... Considering a 24-bit color scanner? Symbolic math program. belies advantages and the ArchiText 1.03 and Guide 2.0 166 Hypertext authoring and viewing software. pirflls, poge 134. Memorybank $S400/MAC761EA 168 Hard disk/tape backup. BigThesaurus 1.0 173 ‘Thesaurus DA Open It 1.0. 175 Scrapbook alterr Window Shopping : V7 Family Care, Casino Master, Mail Dex, and Directory MACWORLD © JULY 1989 3 Extend the power The ulti nate utility, How To Break The Font, DA, F-Key And Sound Barriers With Your Mac f you're a power user, there are a couple of indispensible utilities designed to quick- ‘en your pulse and take you further and faster than ever before. Both are from ALSoft, the leader in resource optimization software design. The first utility of its kind was Font/DA Juggler Plus. With it, you'll gain unlimited access to all your resources. Way heyond the ordinary font, desk Font/DA accessory Juggler" Plus (gic RESOURCE OPTIMIZER [UILMRUUI $59.95 harriers of your Mac. {i's 100% Multifinder compatible, too. Plus, these resources don't need to be physically installed in your System File. What's more, with Juggler Plus, all your downloadable PostScript™ font, screen font, DA, Fkey and sound files con now be accessed and shared by every member of your network. Just the resources you need are now available af the click of your mouse. To save an cayerage of 40% of your disk space, you can even compress memory intensive sounds and fonts. When you call for them, Juggler Plus will auto- matically decompress them on the fly. Resource Rosolver is another powerful feature which will effectively resolve both sound and font 1D num- bering conflicts, eliminating any potential confu- sion. But that's just for starters. MASTERJUGGLER DOES EVEN MORE. MasterJuggleris the new generation, super- charged sports model of resource optimization utilities. With all the powerful features of Juggler Plus and many more, enabling you to do much more, f00, Like opening multiple applications or docu- ih MasterJuggler™ MEIN RESOURCE OPTIMIZER within ERE ey any ap- plication. Switching between open applications from a convenient pop-up menu. Or hiding the current application’s windows before selecting another application. MasterJuggler gives you unprecedented power and flexibility. Now you can instantly see or print cny name or number onflids among the resources you are using, Plus, you can assign an interesting variety of sounds to 7 different Mac operations or you can build your own sound library by converting dig: itized sound files into Macintosh and HyperCard sound resources, Whetheryou'reinalarge network oryou're one person with a Mac and a mouse, Font/DA Juggler Plus and MasterJuggler will make a big difference. All fora very small price. Call now for orders or the Bonsu dealer nearest you, 713/ 353-4090. ALSoft, Inc. & P.O. Box 927 Spring, Texas 77383-0927 W 713/353-4090 Sof, Masituglr and Fnt/DA Jogle re remarks of ALS, ne, Al cer trderarks knowledge ©1989 ADS & PR Corporation cll ighs reserved Circle 202 onreader service card Editor-in-Chief Jerry Borrell EDITORIAL Executive Editor David Ushij Managing Editor Charles Barrett Senior Editor!Features Adrian Mello rditorial Manager Jane Lagos Associate Editor/ Departments Deborah Branscum Associale Editor/ Features Joe Matazzoni /tor/ News Tom Moran AS for New’s Don Littman Associate Editor/Reviews Carol Person Associate Editor! Features Cheryl Spencer Associate Editor! Features Suzanne Stefonac East Coast Editor! Features Brita Meng Senior Production Editor wis A. Camus Senior Copy Editor Ruth Henrich Assistant Editors Cathy €. Abes, Mark Hurlow, Mary Margaret Lewis, Liza Weiman Production Editor Annie Jenkel Copy Editors Marjorie Baer, Emily Bower, Felicity O'Meara, Katherine L. Ulrich Assistant Production Editor Barbara Tannenbaum iditoriat Assistant Pamela T. Creighton Editorial Administrative Assistants Joyce C. Ripp, Lyn Taylor Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief liso Borshay Editorial Intern Wendy Monroe Contributing Editors Nancy E. Dunn, Robert C. Eckhardt, Erfert Fenton, Danny Goodman, Rob Hahn, Jim Heid, Dave Kosiur, Steven Levy, Lon Poole, Charles Seiter, Franklin Tessler, Bruce F. Webster Associate ART ann DESIGN Designer Dennis Mcleod Associate Art Director Joanne Hoffman Assistant Art Director Nancy Paynter Senior Design Associates Leslie Barton, ‘Andrew Faulkner, Arne Hurty Design Associates Martha Katt, Hae Yuon Kim PRODUCTION Senior Production Manager Anne Foley Assistant Production Manager Claudia Dawn Smukler Advertising Billing Coordinator So Fong Yip Advertising Traffic Coordinator Annette Garcia President and Publisher Macworld Communications James E. Martin Assistant to the President Susan Miller Publisher's statement can be found on page 10. TOPS HashBox How to give Ethernet arun for the money. Some people may think the way to rev up a LocalTalk network is to rip the whole thing out, lay some heavy cable, and send your computers out for an Ethernet implant. Spending big Time to complete the infonetics Standard | bucks in the process. fies Ieszatie 08.5 &-node near. TOPS suggests a less traumatic alternative: FlashBox, the fast and easy LocalTalk upgrade. For just $189 per node, FlashBox delivers fully 80% of Ethernet performance for just 20% of the cost. How? By turning your LocalTalk network into a high-speed freeway moving data at FlashTalk rates of 770 Kbps. Installation won't slow you down either. FlashBox plugs right into the back of your Mac and runs over your existing twisted-pair wire. It's 100% compatible with your current applications, It communicates at FlashTalk rates with PCs using TOPS FlashCard. And, unlike Ethernet, it lets you continue printing to your LaserWriter® without buying a costly gateway. Best of all, FlashBox is available now. So stop by your nearest = TOPS dealer and find out how to rev up your network without over- ; hauling your budget. Or call the TOPS Division of Sun Microsystems at 1-800-445-TOPS, extension 107 (from outside the U.S. and When you need connections. Canada, call 1-415-769-8700, ext. 107). SS eg —— Acwalpertermance of your network may vary depending on the quality alent ol el work cable, network size and configuration, To achieve teslparormance, you should cannect a FiasnBox to each Macintosh Using Fashiox wth bridges, gateways, or other AppleTalk ony aevices nay iequienetwockreconigaraton othe ation of repeating devices. Cgynignt 1989 Sun Microsystems na AppleTalk 257 Sec. FlashTalk 205 Sec. EtherTalk 172 Sec. Time (seconds) ‘Source: Infonetics, inc. ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN. LightningScan. Thunderware’s hand-held scanner for the Mac. Now with gray scale conversion. Our new product roll-out is worth a little arm waving. That's because LightningScan lets you scan images up to four inches wide from books, mounted artwork, or anywhere else. You get switchable resolution up to 400 DPI. Software conversion to gray scale. A setting for text and line art. Plus three dither patterns that put limitless special effects right at your fingertips. LightningScan comes with the application that helped make ThunderScan famous. Along with desk accessory software that works in concert with any Macintosh program. And to end this ad on an upbeat note, LightningScan can be yours for just $549 suggested retail. So get rolling to your dealer and pick one up today. Gircla 176 on reader service card MACWORLD Associate Publisher Steven J. 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Other products are trademarks oftheir respective holders, © 1988 Symantec Corporation Circle 237 on reader service card Series! Premium Binoculars | Radius Full Page Display” Radius Teo Page Display” FOUR CLEAR I SGP elte BBE AG Tee ule ieec atm pe RADIUS ARTE which will dramatically increase your productivity with every use. Our display is perfectly suited Or, if you're putting photo- A Radius Display. for working with software like graphs into your Macintosh, our Radius offers displays forevery Microsoft Word and 4th Dimension. Radius Gray Scale Display"lets you type of Macintosh user and every If you're incorporating your create and manipulate life-like Macintosh software application. word processing into page layout images in 256 shades of gray across If you're involved primarily and design, we suggest that the the same expansive TPD. in intensive word processing and Radius Two Page Display"'is clearly Scan your photographs, then database management, we heartily _ the choice for you. do your own retouching using Ima¢ recommend our FPD. You have the same flicker-free Studio or Digital Darkroom. The Radius Full Page Display” —_ resolution of the FPD with a full When you're ready, just print shows you an entire 84"x 11" paper- two-page horizontal layout. Ideal for out ona LaserWriter or download to like page. With a refresh rate of 69 Hz, viewing a magazine spread. Essential a Linotronic. 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Whether you have an ImageWriter Il, ImageWriter LQ, or you're using any dot matrix printer with the Grappler C/Mac/GS, the new Grappler Spooler lets your Mac do two jobs at once. The Grappler Spooler loads into your Mac's control panel for easy access. You can queue up to as many print files as your disk will hold, and manage that queue with commands like Move To Top, Defer, Delete, Cancel and more. The Grappler Spooler even works in MultiFinder. Requires Mac Plus, SE, 1! or Ix with minimum 1MB of RAM. A hard disk is recommended. System 4.2 and Finder 6.0 or later is requirad. ‘Orange Micro, Inc., 1989 ——————————| Grappler Spooler PRINTING DOESN'T HAVE TO MEAN WAITING SS Cento! Fone [=] ‘* Grappler’ Spooler @ Dorvye Frere ne 196010 Suggested Retail: $79 DB Orange Micro nc. 1400 N. 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Copyright. 1989 1DG Communications, ne, All rights reserved Muctoridis a member of 1DG Comenecations te wor ubliser of ‘computer-related information, IDG Communications publishes over #0 com puter publications in morethnn 28majorcounsees Fourteen millon people read re IDG Ceemmanications putiieations each month “Two or three years from now, the typical laser printer will be a lot like the Business LaserPrinter™: small, light, with a SCSI connector for a hard disk, and inexpensive”” Thats how Publish! magazine characterized our Business LaserPrinter (BLP), a Postscript® printer for Mac- THE FUTURE OF : intoshes? IBMé? and IBM clones. Wed only add that the future has arrived ahead of schedule. 3 Simply stated, the BLPis a bet- LI ter way to translate the language called Postscript into the graphics, words and numbers people use to communicate in business. T WILL Better because the BLP lets you—oranyone else onyourApple- ‘Talk® network—produce superior TAKE IT THERE. text with the aid of 39 fonts (four more than our nearest competitor). Better because the BLP comes with expandable RAM (two megabytes expand- able to four), which lets you increase print speed. And Bele ithas a SCSI port, which lets desktop publishers extend the font storage capacity of the BLP via a hard disk. Finally, the BLP even takes better care of your bottom line. In fact, you can buy a BLP and a dedicated hard disk for less than the price of a LaserWriter® Il NT alone. Someday, if Publish! magazine is right, other printers ly wie a eee ft a ae ie iC a i visit your — — authorize echnologies dealer for a lemon- stration. For more information, or the name of a dealer near == TECHNOLOGIES you, phone (617)890-0880. Peripherals VVith Vision Circle 11 onreader service card w ntil now, there have been two kinds of personal What's more, DaynaNET offers. you a diract computer networks; Inexpensive ones that * path to other computer systems and: networks. It aren't quite’ teal: And real expensive ones. ¢ canbe upgraded to Novell's Advanced or SFT: But Dayna*® has: ahetter alternative. <, NetWare? And then our: tile SENOS can be bridged Namely, DaynaNe t=: The first real network ~-_fo theirs. atarealistic price::* <4 # BaynaNETis one af. the féwnetworks: that's ’ Here are the facts... ; 100% AFP-and PAP compliant. Which means that DaynaNET Is a high: performance: anetwork. it's ‘ it will work perfectly with everything Macintosh. ; / > file server-based, sohigh per= fi As-wellas everything else-madée tne formiariae doesn't become = [: ‘ according to Apple's" rules, low Pedormance as you add usersiAnd you get high per- =.” irmance withouta high prices. fag. 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It’s better” “Ever since the day they came out, I've been using PostScript” laser printers. I edited a magazine that was desktop-published from cover to cover, so I lived and died by laser printers daily. Over the last three years, T've had experience with at least 15 or 20 different models, And the Jasmine DirectPrint” is better than any of them. “T's the fastest, most capable, most reasonably-priced 300-dot printer I've ever seen, Textand graphics are clear, sharp, and vivid, and the black and gray tones are incredibly rich, And the amazing thing is, it’s not even a laser printer, but uses liquid crystal technology that requires fewer moving parts. So I expect to have fewer problems with it. “Tve been using this printer for proofing all of the drafts of my new book. I've thrown some pretty complex PostScript graphics.at it, using programs like FreeHand™ and Illustrator88;" and nothing I've created has slowed ©1999 Jasmine Rehwologes nc I Amy Steet Sas Faves Mostar a trademirkcof and Restcrpt isa vegistened trademark of, bbe it down in the least, There's no question in my mind that the DirectPrint is as fast or faster than even Apple’s* fastest laser printer, “Another thing J like about the DirectPrint is that it’s about half the size of any laser printer, and actually fits on my desk, And it’s only $3495, so it fits within this freelance writer's budget, too. In fact, if make any more flattering statements about the DirectPrint, people will think I'm taking up a second career as an.ad copywriter!” & Jasmine 1-800-347-3228 | cine trademark fJsmine Fechnologles ne portion Apple isa sere trademark of Apple Compu, Circle 189 on reader service card 7) MAC BULLET INDUSTRY NOTES fie s Profits Fall Less an Expected... Apple reported that its profits for the quarter ending March 31 were down from a year ago; however, the 29 percent drop was less than predicted. Sales for the quarter increased by 44 percent. The company is still blaming its reduced profits on miscalculations made during 1988 in its purchases of DRAM chips. And suey Hauls Down the Bucks Apple chairman John Sculley had the highest salary in the computer industry for the second year in a row, according fo an annual salary cand stock survey in Computer Reseller News. Sculley earned $2,479,000 in 1988, far out- distancing IBM chairman John Akers, who earned $1,525,500. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was the executive with the most valua- ble stock holdings, worth $1,023,807,451. TOPS: It’s Broke but We're Fixing It TOPS has confirmed reports of very large, multiuser databases being corrupted while running TOPS under version 2.1 in high-trans- action sitvations. The problem affects data- bases built in applications (such as Omnis and 4th Dimension) that use a procedural fan- guage. Version 2.2will be delayed while Blyth, ‘Acius, and other developers consult with TOPS to fix the problem. Users with data-integrity problems should call TOPS at 415/769-8711. AST Sells Mac Division to Orange Micro Orange Micro has purchased AST Research's entire Macintosh product line. AST cited its: desire to focus on is industry-stondard archi- tecture (ISA) line of products as the reason for the sale. Mac products changing hands include the NuView video board—featured in John Sculley’s speech at Macworld Expo in January—and two MS-DOS coprocessor boards, Mac86 and Mac286, { ) Paint, Crickei ran its true flag up the pole recently: when it shipped | called (of course) Cricket ColorPaint, Cricket ColorPaint lists for $295. For more information, con- | tact Cricket Software at 215/251-0678. Apple Takes Anticlone Measures Apple is trying to thwart the threat posed by Mac clones by incorporating a new clause in author ized Mac dealer contracls sent oul in April, The clause prohibits dealers from using Apple replace- ment parts for purposes other than servicing Apple products. In recent months, two companies, Pow- der Blue of Salt Loke City and Akkord Technology in Taiwan, have displayed Mac clones that employ Mac 128K ROM chips to emulate the Mac. Cricket Announces Illustration, Color Paint Packages Cricket Software announced a new PostScriptbased drawing package to be called Cricket DrawMaster. Early specifications suggest thot the application will compete with Deneba’s Canvas. Cricket DrawMaster will support 8-bit color and Apple’s 32-bit QuickDraw standard, The program will allow mixing the familiar Macintosh object-oriented drawing primitives with bezier curve- controlled objects, and converting object primitives into beziers. It will also incorporate a full-fea- lured text processor. Special features include the starburst, grate, and polygon tools found in the original Cricket Draw, and improved access to Cricket Draw's special PostScript features such as fountains and shading. Cricket DrawMaster is slated to ship by the end of June. It will list for $295, and Cricket Draw owners will be able to upgrade for $99.95. After surprising Mac fans last winter with the release of its bla k-and-white bitmapped Cricket color version of the program, | Ashton-Tate Upgrades for FullWrite and Full Impact Ship Version 1.1 of Ashion-Tate’s sophisticated word processor FullWrite Professional eliminates some pesky bugs that plagued the first release, and version 1.1 of the company’s Full Impact spreadsheet adds a powerful new macro feature. FullWrite Professional 1.1 is more robust and should be able to produce large documents without crashing, according to the company. The program no longer has a ceiling on the number of noles in a document, and Ashton-Tate is preparing foreign language dictionaries for FullWrite. Full Impact 1.1’s new XMacro feature lets you call routines that are written in standard program- ming environments from within the spreadsheet's FullTalk macro-scripting language. For information on upgrading, call Ashton-Tate at 213/329-9989, For other information, call Ashton-Tate’s Macin- tosh division at 408/268-2300 | Fujitsu Jumps into Mac Fray Fujitsu America has introduced its first products for the Macintosh—an 800K floppy drive and a Mac-compatible laser printer. Called the Fujitsu America 800K External Disk Drive, the 3//zinch external floppy drive lists for $265 and is compatible with both the Mac Plus and the SE. The RX7100PS laser printer comes with 2MB or 4MB of RAM and includes 35 resident fonts, dual paper trays, and built-in AppleTalk, RS-232, RS-422, and parallel ports. Prices for the printer stort a! $4495. For more information, contact Fujitsu at 800/626: 4686. Apple Drops High-End IIx Price Apple has lowered the price of its high-end IIx conf hard drive and 4MB of RAM—by $200 to $7669 (continues) i ation—which comes ss with an 80MB internal ple gave no reason for the price drop. In MACWORLD ® JULY 1989 rns HAC BULLET Neer INDUSTRY ls pe le and Banyan Become Partners Oracle Corporation and Banyan Systems ‘are joining forces to integrate the Oracle database-management system with Banyan's VINES network operating system. The Oracle Server for VINES, based on Oracle version 6.0, will support MS-DOS, Mac, and UNIX- based cliant applications. According to the two companies, it wll be available in May. Full Impact All Ashton-Tate’s A federal court ruling in favor of Ashion-Tale has settled a dispute with Bravo Technologies over ownership of Full Impact. Brava claimed that Ashton-Tate misappropriated trade se- els when an independent software develop- er, who had worked with Bravo on a similar project, was hired by Ashton-1 Tote to work cn Full Impact. MacPeak Systems Closes Down... ‘MacPeak Systems ceased operations in March, Atthe same time, former employees of MacPeak Systems formed a research and development company, MacPoak Research, ‘and granted worldwide marketing rights for its products to Irwin Magnetics Systems. Irwin currently sells several MacPeak- designed xceleraor boords under the Excelerator brand name. And Rodime Is in Trouble Affer sustaining an operating loss of $2.4 inillion last year, hard disk manufacturer Rodime PLC is looking for help—trom either ‘an outside financier or a willing buyer. The company also lost its chairman and manag: ing director in March. Rodime PLC is the par- ent company of Rodime, Inc., which has sup- plied hard disks to Apple enh Jasmine, and directly to users. Dest Goes Chapter 11 To protect itself from creditors, Dest Corpo- ration has filed under Chapter 11 of the US. Bankruptcy Code. The manufacturer of scanners and optical character recognition software claimed to have $18 million in assets and a burden of $16.8 millon in debt. Dest will continue operations while reorga- izing and looking for a possible buyer for its technology. | April, Apple clso announced price reductions for the Mac Plus, Mac SE, and Mac SE/HD20 to | schools participating in its Higher Education Purchasing Program. More Math for the Mac ; MaihSoft has introduced a MAac version of ils mathematical software MathCAD. MathCAD allows users to define variables and to input formulas and text; the program formats equations as they are typed, and calculates and displays resulis. Computations supported include integrals and deriva- tives, Fourier transforms, matrix arithmetic, linear and log plots, d three-dimensional surface plots. MathCAD costs $495 and runs on the Mac Plus, SE, or Il with IMB of RAM. For more information call MathSoft at 617/577-1017 or at 800/628- 4223 Film Recorders to Accept PostScript Images Agfa. | Matrix has inroduced a $]7,900 stanc-alone PostScript raster image processor (RIP) that makes Agfa Matrix film recorders the first to be able to ges from programs such as Aldus FreeHand, Adobe Illustrator, and desktop publi he RIP, which is scheduled to be available in September, works with the company’s entire line of film recorders for | both the Mac and IBM PCs. The company also announced MacHarmony ($1995), a device thal leis Mac users run the Agfa Matrix film recorders designed for IBM PCs. For details, contact Agfa Matrix at 914/365-0190. lomega Gets Bernoulli-Happy lomega Corporation has doubled the storage capacity of ifs Bernoulli Box removable disk drive with a new drive, the Bernoulli Box Il 44. The $1799 drive provides 44.5MB of formatter i capacity on each disk cartridge. At the same lime, lomega and Aldus Corporation signed an agreement thal gives lomega permission to sell PageMaker 3.0, additional fonts, clip art, and templates on its Bernoulli disk cartridge series. For more information, call lomega at | 801/778-1000. Generation X Announces SE/30 Monitor Boards Generation X Technologies has announced boards that drive Apple's monitors from the SE/30’s Direet Slot. The Publisher ‘030, a 78Hz board, is compatible with Apple's 15-inch and 21-inch monochrome monitors, as well as Generation X's HRM-19, a $1395 19-inch. monitor. The Publisher 030 lists for $525, and it and the HRM-19 are available now. The Vision ‘030A is an 8-bit, 640-by-480-pixel color board with 72 dpi resolution that is compatible with Apple's standard 13-inch RGB monitor. It lists for $995 and comes with special software for creating and managing a virtual desktop. Finally, the Vision ‘O30X is a 1024-by-768-pixel 8-bit color board that refreshes at 74Hz and comes with virual-desktop software. I! lists for $1795. The ‘O30A and the ‘030X should be available by the time you read this. For more information, contact Generation X at 408/739-4570. Buffer/Spooler Adds Memory Fifth Generation Systems has bumped up the aac in its Logical Connection print buffer/spooler fo 1MB from 512K. The logical Connection is a standalone device that enables Macs, PCs, and minicomputers to share peripherals without a local area network. The device has four serial and four parallel ports, and you can hook as many as 45 units together. New configuration software provides a desk accessory for switching between ports, The logical Connections list price is $1095. For more information, contact Fifth Generation Systems at 504/291-7221 or 800/873-4384 Adobe Updates Illustrator 88 Adobe Systems is sending registered users a free update of Adobe Illustrator 88 that fixes i incom: patibilities with 68030-based Macintoshes—the SE/30, IIx, and llex. Version 1.83. adds iwo new feotures. Split Path automatically examines and cuts the length of paths in illustrations, eliminating some errors with high-resolution printers; also included is the ability to show EPS files while in artwork mode, 1 MACWORLD © JULY 1989 : Now Your Network Can Go 2 iy Wherever You Can Go. No matter where in the world you go, now you can take your office an IBM-compatible laptop, you don’t even need a power outlet! iF Your office network will needa network with you. Because Dial-In Network Access™ from Shiva lets you access your office PhoneNet® or AppleTalk network from anyplace you happen to be. Dial in from home, a customer's office, a motel room or the middle of nowhere. Use Microsoft Mail," TOPS," AppleShare’” a LaserWriter,® or any other network resource justas if you were right there in front of your office Mac. All you need is a phone line, a Macintosh” or IBM-compatible PC and a modem. If you have NetModem™ or a TeleBridge™ with an ordinary modem. Dialing in is easy —just click on acontrol panel icon and select the remote network you want. It's just as simple on a PC. And you can list different names and communication settings for each network. Wherever you go, now you can take your network along — with Dial-In Network Access. Call 1-800-458-3550, or write Shiva, 155 Second Street, Cambridge, MA 02141. We’re Putting Networks To Work® ‘Trademarks NeModem, Tele rdge,Dil-n Network Aces ~Shiva Corporation; AppleTalk, MpplShare Apple Computer In; TOPS ~ Sun Niersjsters, I ‘Micros ail Mirosft Corporation Registered Trademarks: Macintosh, Laser nr ~App Compute Inc ; PhoneNet~Parallon Computing, nc. Circle 421 on reader service card “Cirrus Drives-the cream of the crop” La Cie products are the choice of professional critics and critical professionals. But don’t take our word for it, take Macworld’s, MacUser’s and La Cie customers. You will find that La Cie creates the standards for excellence. “Sure winners, the lightweight, silent and inexpensive Cirrus drives from La Cie come with Jirst-rate utility software.” Macworld, May 1989. | Cirrus drives are fast and quiet - most models boast a 1:1 interleave and 15 ms seek time. Cirrus drives are first in speed and silence in the Macworld tests. We achieve speed by pairing the finest 3-1/2” drive technology with the best software drivers available exclusively from | La Cie. Cirrus is silent because LaCie uses 1/2 speed fans—found only in Cirrus drives. “There's no benchmark test for hardware design, but the elegance and conven- ws ience of a drive— 1D 4 an external one in | Designers’ particular— should concern you,” “acu” Macworld, May 1989. Pony Prices shown are cash pric iid do not include shipping, Add 336 arks of La Cle Ltd, Macintosh isa trademark of Apple Computer, Prices and specifications show La Cie offers you mass storage solutions from 30 to 610 mega- bytes. Except for the 610, all drives weigh under 4-1/2 pounds and measure less than 3’x6"x9”, These compact units don’t clutter up your desk-top and fit into our shoulder- strapped Cordura carrying case or inside your briefcase for easy portability, Capacit Speed(ms) _ Price($) 32 40 599 42 15 699 70 25 799 84 15 999 lil 15 1,199 142 15 1,499 177 15 1,799 613, 15 3,199 “The best bard drive software available for the Macintosh.” Tom Santos, Maclser reviewer. All Cirrus drives include our Silverlining™ hard-disk- management and Silverserver™ hard-disk-sharing software. “Good software can make using a hard disk a joy. La Cie’s Cirrus drives include an outstanding set of utilities,” Macworld, May 1989, VISA, Masterca Circle 145 on reader service card |, 8 for American Express. Add 7% for rush handling, Cirrus, LaCie, are subject to change withou Silverlining performs hard-disk management tasks like formatting, partitioning, diagnostics, password protection, defragmentation and much much more ‘The best survival history of | any drive purchased.” Al Forster, Dow Chemical. | All Cirrus drives are burned in for 24 hours before shipping, include a 2 year warranty, money back guarantee and most drives offer you the reas- | surance of 50,000 hours of continuous use-that's 5.7 years! “Of all the drives tested, we recommend La Cie’s Cirrus drives,” Macter, March 1989, So compare. You'll find there's really no comparison at all—just lots of good reasons to order your Cirrus drive today. Call us now. 1-800-999-0143 UD. 16285 SW 85th, Bldg. 306, Tigard, OR 97224, (503) 684-0143. Silverlining and Silverserver Classic Mac Another vintage year for Macintosh products by Jerry Borrell From left to right, the Apple system software team: Gifford Calendo, Jim Davis, Charlie Oppenheimer, and Mike Potel. COMMENTARY n May Apple announced a host of fundamental changes to its operating system—ranging from software archi- tecture for printing, to changes in the interface. Significant as these changes are, by the time the new software is released through Apple dealers (this fall?), still more features will have been added. PRINTING STRATEGY The most ballyhooed change is in printing technology. Over the last several years Apple has made known its concern with Adobe Systems and PostScript: the high level of royalty payments to Adobe; Ap- ple’s lack of control over the destiny of its own printing technology; and user de- mands for more third-party suppliers of high-quality fonts. Although there con- tinue to be admirers of both Adobe and PostScript at Apple, Adobe’s push to have Apple adopt Display PostScript as a re- placement for QuickDraw seems to have been the final straw. Indeed, had Apple implemented Display PostScript, it would today find itself in close competition with Next and a soon-to-be-announced family of IBM workstations. I |, Apple has announced a new font strategy based upon QuickDraw and an “open” (that is, publicly available) font format. This strat- egy is predicated on the concerns mentioned above, as well as Adobe's long-standing (and understandable) reticence to share the font-encryp- tion techniques that enable raster imaging devices (namely PostScript printers) to pro- duce the best fonts available. So- called PostScript clones attempt to do this, but just how ef fective they can be in printing graphics , color, special effects, and text remains questionable. In fact, Adobe's success in licensing its RIP (raster image processing) technology so widely has, ironically, been an impetus for clones. MACWORLD © JULY 1989 Although the use of PostScript technology in many of today's printers prevented an IBM PC-like ca- cophony of com- peting standards, Adobe's small staff of 150 people became a bottleneck for many printer manufacturers who had to wait in line for an Adobe-licensed RIP. Similarly, URW, ITC, and other type vendors chafed at the need to produce PostScript fonts, particularly as Adobe was most firmly allied with Linotype (formerly Merganthaler). And with new PostScript typefaces coming into the market so slow- ly, users of type were also frustrated, (Adobe is addressing this issue by design- ing and selling systems that will allow others to produce PostScript typefaces.) Buyers of printers were frustrated as well— thanks to the relatively high price of PostScript printers as compared to DOS printers (due, in large part, to the cost of a PostScript RIP). By adopting an open method of raster- izing type on laser printers Apple believes it will bring a large number of printer and type manufacturers into the market. And that it, a company not known for consort- ing with the likes of Steve Jobs or IBM, will have control over the future of that mar- ket. Having said all of that, the next ques- tion to ask is: What about the installed base of PostScript printers and PostScript typefaces at publishing businesses? What of Apple's next generation of printers: will they be PostScript or QuickDraw, or a combination? And the inevitable questio Will Apple's QuickDraw printing be as good, and as fast (yes fast, PostScript and the LaserWriter driver have improved quite a bit over the last year), as today’s PostScript printers? Finally, what role will Adobe play? The answers: Today's PostScript print- ers will work with the new QuickDraw fonts and new applications, but some necessary PostScript interpretation will re- sult in PostScript working less efficiently. I believe that Apple has designed its last PostScript-only printer, but Apple will not (continues) abandon PostScript. Those of us with large investments in PostScript font librar- ies are safe for the time being. And the service bureaus with Linotronics should remain viable for quite a while. But, longer term, we will be tempted to move to QuickDraw printers and libraries of type based on the new format. There will also be many problems in application soft- ware until developers learn what will make the new fonts break. Perhaps most oddly, Apple will adopt a position that erodes a widely accepted standard—Post- Script—that it helped to promulgate. As for Adobe, it will continue to derive royalties from the sale and licensing of PostScript fonts and from licensing Post- Script RIP technology and font-encryption techniques (although Apple will no longer be one of the licensees). Adobe will de- sign and sell fonts in Apple’s new open font format. Adobe has the opportunity to be a strong Macintosh developer with a lineup that includes a new prepress appli- cation called PhotoShop, a forms-produc- tion package acquired from Spectrum Digi- tal, and, of course, Illustrator. But in spite of all this, Adobe's overall share of the Apple market will decline. While Apple QuickDraw printing and display technologies are not perfectly analogous to PostScript as a unified ap- proach to display and printing, Apple has effectively ended any speculation that it may consider PostScript as an alternative to QuickDraw. And few applications developers relish the thought of support- ing yet another programming environ- ment, let alone one that competes with Apple's own approach. The question of whether Apple will attempt to market Display PostScript for the Macintosh has been answered: it will not. INTERFACE CHANGES Next on the list are changes to the Finder. So often have I moaned about the need to evolve the interface that it would be hypo- critical of me not to recognize these pro- posed changes now. Apple is, in short, retaking the high ground in the fight for the best user interface. While there are changes to the interface itself, the most important changes have to do with the underlying functionality of the interface. 20 COMMENTARY The best example is what happened to the Font DA/Mover mechanism. Basically, it is gone. Ed Birss, vice president of engineer- ing at Apple, says that Apple’s goal is to si- multaneously simplify how users interact with the computer while increasing the power they have available. To install fonts, for example, you will merely drag them into the System Folder, No more dialog box routine or trying to remember how Font/DA Mover works since you only use it once every three months. APPLEMAIL Apple staffers have long mentioned that they see mail functions as being within the realm of system software, The prospects are tantalizing. When you boot-up your system, little “in” and “out” boxes appear. You open one to check your messages, you open the other to send messages. Will Apple spend the time to develop the kind of network dialog boxes and underlying services already provided by electronic mail developers? Apple's discussions about mail functions in its new system software bring an incredible array of reactions. Many in the developer community are again looking over their shoulder, trying to determine whether Apple might covet their turf, Apple makes a valid point in saying that the underlying functionality—that is, file formats and translations, the tech- niques through which data is passed be- tween machines; network functions; and the interaction of applications and system software—must be defined by Apple. Microsoft, CE Software, and TOPS (they own InBox, remember?) also rightfully ask whether Apple will content itself with providing underlying functionality—or does it intend to get into the electronic mail business? They want to know what portion of the market will be willing to purchase additional mail functions, be- yond those provided in system software. Certainly, third parties will always be able to provide a richer set of features. But will the number of users who demand some- thing beyond the basic messaging Apple provides be a sufficient economic base to encourage third parties to incur develop- ment costs? Closely related to messaging are issues MACWORLD © JULY 1989 also fundamental to multitasking. Inter- process communications (IPC), inter- process messaging (IPM), and interprocess applications communications (IAC) are the approaches that underlie multitasking. IPM is necessary if mail functions are to reside in system software—since comput- ers must be able to detect when target machines on the network are available to receive messages, or know tha machine becomes available messages can. be sent to it. Next, those of you who curse when Microsoft Mail crashes your application by interrupting with a “message arrived” dia- log box will appreciate the need for crash-free interaction with busy ma- chines on the network (IPC). By discuss- ing IAC and IPC functions with its devel- opers, Apple is laying the groundwork for the multitasking world. IAC, describing how communications can be exchanged between running applications (not merely from computer to computer), appears to be further away. Nevertheless, even it is being discussed. when a VIRTUAL MEMORY Another long-sought addition, virtual mem- ory, is crucial to Apple’s commitment to retain a low-cost CPU that will run with only IMB of main memory. With system software and applications both requiring more memory than ever before, the only way to accomplish this is by introducing virtual memory, which would allow the CPU to switch the operating system of applications in and out of system memory from the disk as needed—squeezing more out of the same amount of memory. Apple’s virtual memory scheme will be integrated into system software beginning with re- lease 7.0. It will allow all 68020- and 68030-based CPUs to take advantage of virtual memory, as long as they have a PMMU chip. While there are trade-offs to be made between disk-swapping of data and high-cost RAM, now we will have a choice. Unfortunately, models based on the 68000 chip (the SE and below) will not be able to take advantage of this feature. But if Apple’s preannounced “low-cost” Mac is, as predicted, based on a 68020, then future users will have access to virtual memory. EVERYONE PROMISES TO TAKE FULLADVANTAGE OF THE NEW MACINTOSH... 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You'll arrive totally prepared for your next meeting. With instant overheads, handsome handouts, even full color slides. 4 All easily created from the same MORE Il outline, MORE Ilis the fastest, easiest way to go from idea to presentation. So get MORE II and promote yourself. In seconds. SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER, (800) 228-4122 Ext. 748G SYMANTEC MORE and MORE I! are trademarks tec Corporation, 10201 Torre Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014, 408/253-9600. Corporation. © 1989 Symentee Corporation Circle 215 on reader service card A Forum for Macworld Readers Responsibility First D avid Bunnell’s recent edi- torial, “Safety Last?” (March 1989), left me with a very uneasy feeling. Despite Bun- nell’s contention that Robert Morris is not to be regarded as a folk hero (a la D. B. Cooper), his es pointedly aimed at painting that very picture. Bunnell claims that Morris “never in- tended his virus to cause mas- ‘apparently remorseful.” He has every rea- son to be. As to whether he intended hi ive havoc” and i: prodigious crea- tion to travel so far and wide, or to wreak the havoc it did, I really don't care. As Bunnell admits, Morris is an extremely bright fellow. The power to program that he possesses is far beyond what most computer users can understand. But power begets responsibility. Robert Morris knew exactly what he was writing, and he knew exactly what it could (and would) do. Morris is guilty of breaking and entering, and despite his massive intelli- gence, he must bear the res- ponsibility for the crimes he has committed. Rather than congratulate him for showing me how defenseless I really am, I say please protect me from common criminals like Robert Morris. Seth D. Madell Springfield, Pennsylvania ay seems quite » ® LETTERS More Than a Tweak | n his discussion of Robert Morris's worm, David Bun- nell made several errors. First, the correct term for Morris's program is indeed worm. A worm is a program that may replicate and appro- priate large amounts of mem- ory and CPU cycles. The key difference between a worm and a virus is that a worm will not infect other programs. + Second, Bunnell’s ass« ment that a virus “is intended to be more of a nose tweak than a punch to the solar plexus” is a naive appraisal of the depravity of some com- puter users. The Trojan horses (programs that appear to be one type of program when they are actually another, possibly harmful) that have been propagated over bulletin boards have been extremely destructive, and those unfortu- nate people who were “hit” certainly felt as if more than their noses were tweaked. Finally, there are many programmers with more than enough skill to create an even more subtle, sophisticated vi- hat would not necessarily have been found so readily. This problem will not go away but may indeed become worse, Computer users must take steps to protect themselves and their software. Dean J. Miller Canton, Massachusetis Virus Protection | n the November 1988 is sue of Macworld you listed a number of freeware pro- MACWORLD © JULY 1989 grams that protect your Mac from the virus threat (“Mad Macs"). How can I obtain these programs? N. Calvin Han Los Angeles, California Mos! major BBSs and user group libraries carry antiviral freeware ond shareware. For a disk containing several of these products along with information on viruses, send $6 plus $1.50 for shipping ond handling to The Shenandoah Macn- tosh Users’ Group, c/o Fred Showker, 15 South gate, Harrisonburg, VA 22801. For $2 pls $2 shipping and handling, o similar disk is available from MacPack/RR Software Resources, 1706 (continues) Corrections Computerized Classic Book- keeping by Absolute Solutions Inc. (Macworld News, May 1989) is available in three versions: Client WriteUp $695, Small and Medium-size Busi- ness Solution Package $995, and General Ledger, A/R, A/P, Inventory Control $1295. Out- side California, call 800/633- 7666; in California call 800/458-3399. Excel Full Impact Wingz These ore the correct times for opening, re- calculating, and saving files on a Mac SE as they should have appeared in the “Wingz Benchmarks” table (Reviews, June 1989). a Delaford, Carralltown, TX 75007. Two commercial products promise to offer updates as new viruses emerge. Virex by Robert Woodhead, the author of Interferon, is available from HIC Software, P.O. Box 51816, Durham, NC 27717 (599.95; updates $15 each). AntiToxin (599.95) is distributed by Mainstay, 5311-B Derry Ave, Agoura Hils, CA 91301.—Ed. SANE or Insane? | n response to Thom Hogan's “Pondering Performance” (State of the Mac, March 1989): numerical enthusiasts within Apple conceived of SANE, the Standard Apple Numerics Envi- ronment, almost ten years ago to ensure numerical compatibil- ity across Apple’s entire line of computers. Is this all not so sanely de- signed, as Hogan suggests? He claims that SANE “uses much higher precision than that spe- cified by the Institute of El trical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard used by most © a rrercmmas LETT ER § reese other personal compute: simply isn't true. There one binary floating-point stan- dard and SANE adheres to it scrupulously. Hogan say. always call the numeric co- processor to do the work, even when the 68881 chip is present and could handle the task." This is an apparent reference to elementary functions. We stuck with the original SANE algorithms so that an applica- tion making SANE package calls would produce identical results on all Macs. The faster but less accurate 68881 func- tions are available to develop- ers compiling directly to copro- cessor instructions. Hogan says that the 68881 numerical copro- cessor in the Mac II seems to give only a marginal (under 25 percent) improvement in sys- tem speed. His findings are nei- ther in conflict with Apple's nor surprising. Tasks that spend on- ly 50 percent of their time do- ing floating-point operations— not unreasonable for “typical” Mae applications—can be speeded up at most two times, while compute-intensive ta: will reflect whatever speedup is achieved for floating point. Hogan and others would like us to pursue raw perfor- mance at all costs, but this trade-off has failed too often in the past to be reasonable on personal computers. We'd pre- fer not to subject our users and developers to the caprices of ad hoe arithmetics designed for each short-term circumstance. S Jerome Coonen, Jim Thomas Apple Computer Cupertino, California Bad Timing D ue to disastrous timing, “The Big Match; Illustrator 88 vs. FreeHand" (February 1989) is essentially an irrele- vant comparison. By compar- ing Illustrator 88 to FreeHand 1.0 rather than 2.0, Macworld has done a disservice to those interested in finding out which is the best package available today. In addition, the article in- correctly states that Illustrator 88 has the ability to place TIFF images. In fact, it is possible to place TIFF images only if they are saved as EPS files, This is certainly different from placing them directly, and in any case, FreeHand 1.0 can do precisely the same thing. The article goes on to sa that “many people find Illu trator's single-pen tool easier to maste! id more intuitive to draw with than FreeHand’s four basic drawing tools.” Free- Hand's combination tool does everything Illustrators pen does (continues) Picture Permanent. 188 Mead Eectoncs Aare, ne ‘Mists is. rogistoret age earwacioed bade Apoa Goraur| {At a roger trademark el rina 38 Machines Corporation, sont arson tame ouch ava pacha ram comoary rane Sipertloc Sono Puen) Besos Teeny, Me (Paaeze) Comput Freres he Nan At q Color Output That Sizzles From Your Apple* Macintosh” II. If you're lodking for an esay-to-tise color printer that'd quality color output, with full Apple Macintosh II compatibil G330-70 from Mitsubishi Electronics. A built-in video interface enables the G330-70 to create a permanent copy on glossy paper or transparency film of any image viewed on your computer monitor, With 150 dots per inch resolution, the G330-70 is ideally suited for presen- tation graphics, paint-type graphic art and PC CAD, It operates smoothly in several PC environments, including the Apple Macintosh II, IBM® PC/XT/AT and compatibles, or IBM PS/2 The G330-70 can print the screen displays from popular graphics boards, including Mac Il, CGA, EGA and VGA. For fast, bold, brilliant color output directly from your monitor, specify the Mitsubishi® G330-70. At a suggested retail price of $5900, the G330-70 offers the most convenient method for high quality For product information or nearest authorized Mitsubishi Electronics sales representatives, please call 1-800-556-1234, ext, 54R. In California, call 1-800-441-2345, ext. 54R. Mitsubishi Electronics America, Inc., Computer Peripherals Division, 991 Knox Street, Torrance, CA 90502, (213) 217-5732. The G330-70 color thermal transfer printer produces a full-color 8% "x 11" page or transparency in about 80 seconds, Circle 65 on reader service card high y, look at the color output. MITSUBISHI ELECTRONICS Software Ventures presents the all new 1990 model: MicroPhone II version 3.0 A “Stunning” Achievement in Software Engineering The software that takes the hassle out of telecommunications. Like a finely crafted European touring sedan, MicroPhone II offers you unsurpassed power and allows you to communicate with style and agility. Here are seven reasons why, if you’re serious about telecommunications, you should consider owning MicroPhone II: Power train. MicroPhone II is charged by the most powerful scripting engine for telecommunications, offering variables, string and math functions, arrays and file manipulation. You develop scripts with either the program’s learn mode or its point-and-click script editor. Design. Surprisingly, with all its unparalleled power, MicroPhone II is simple to use. Menus, dialog boxes and on-screen controls are well organized and pleasant to look at. Its ‘‘outstanding’’ manual is easy to read, clearly laid out and contains a thorough index. Speed. Routinely clocked at 18,000 bits per second over ordinary telephone lines, MicroPhone II is the fastest telecom software around. Its file transfer protocols — XKMODEM, 1K XMODEM, YMODEM, YMODEM-G, Kermit and ZMODEM — are all optimized to make your files fly across the country or around the world. The intelligent ZMODEM negotiates the most treacherous channels of a packet-switched network and resumes broken transfers with no loss of data. Color options, MicroPhone II lets you assign color icons to your scripts, thus turning the icon bar, shown here, into your control panel. The icon bar can be scrolled, [a JL resized and placed vertically or horizontally anywhere on the screen, awaiting your next click. Choose icons from the large collection provided with the software, or create your own. Cruise control. Flexible scripting means that MicroPhone II can run on automatic while you’re taking care of other important business. Whether collecting your electronic mail in the background, or calling Paris at midnight to transmit the daily sales report in French, the program is always at your service, saving you time and money. Reliability. Because Software Ventures’ engineers value your time on-line, they spend countless hours applying the most rigorous testing procedures to ensure that the program is crash-resistant. In the words of The Macintosh Buyer’s Guide, MicroPhone IL is ‘‘the most reliable of all the telecom programs we tested.” Test drive. Software Ventures so firmly believes in its superior technology that it gives you an unprecedented chance to test drive MicroPhone II for 30 days risk free. If for any reason you wish to return the program, you may do so for a full refund of your purchase price directly from Software Ventures — no questions asked. But enough talk. Start using MicroPhone II today and find out for yourself why Jim Seymour and John Dvorak are the great communicators. After all, having invested all this money in the best hardware in the world, don’t you deserve the best software? Jim Seymour: “«.., arguably the best communications software ever written.’’ John C. Dvorak: “«,. stunning. Fast, slick; it does everything except slice bread.’ E MicroPhone is a trademark of Software Ventures Corporation. Copyright © 1989 Software Ventures Corporation. 2907 Claremont Avenue Berkeley California 94705 (415) 644-3232 Circle 48 on reader service card rem 6 Se and then some. Illustrator's blend tool and pattern mentioned, but FreeHand's and radial fills are not. duated This is unfortunate because any- one who needs to do a simple graduated or radial fill will dis- cover that it’s va! ly easier to do in FreeHand. The section on color strong- ly recommends Illustrator 88. To get the correct colors in Il- lustrator 88, David Smith con- sulted his Pantone color-sam- ple book, found matches for the original colors, and typed the numeric values into his document. For FreeHand, Simon Tuckett consulted his printer's color chart and keyed in the percentages of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. To me there isn’t a whole lot of difference between typing in Pantone numbers and typing in process colors. The article also fails to mention FreeHand's too volatile. by our competition. three color models (RGB, HLS, and CMY) versus Illustrator's one, or FreeHancl’s templates with colors predefined. Finally, the article’s most ary oversight was in ignoring ease of use. Every extraordi prior review has immediately mentioned how much easier FreeHand is to use than Illus- trator, and what an important advantage that is. Pete Mason Altsys Corporation Plano, Texas An Easy TKO for FreeHand aving just read your com- H parison of Illustrator and FreeHand, I felt compelled to write. A reader with the funds to purcha programs off with ‘As a professional designer I rarely use Illustrator ex for the stroking capabi ¢ only one of these would be far better ‘reeHand. working with letter-forms. Illus- trator uses gobs of memory— even with 2.5MB, I constantly get “out of memory” and “un- able to print” messages. I can’t preview anything but a s ple illustration in a second window. ate gradations Having to cr using the blend tool is. ridicu- lous. Furthermore, Illustrator users had better make sure they've created a sufficient num- ber of blend steps prior to send- ing their files to a typesetter or their output is going to have banding. Autotrace? You have to spend so much time cleaning up the result that you might as well do it by hand; that is, if you even have enough mem- ory to complete the trace in the first place. I could go on about Free- Hand's multiple layers, align- ment functions, clipping paths, At only $995 it's the most affordable tape system you can own. And we can back it up. Sooner or later you'll need the security of data back-up. So the question is, which method? Removable disk media is too expensive. Floppies are too slow. And some systems/media are That's why the Braemar SX40 Data Cartridge Sub-system makes sense. There's no faster, safer method of back-up than cartridge tape. And now, the Braemar SX40 makes it affordable. Braemar is a leading manufacturer of tape-based systems for the OEM marketplace. Infact, we make many of the drives sold So obviously we can back our claim. And build it for less. But the SX40 is available only from | y select dealers. So call the number below ey and text handling, And it does all this using far less memory. With FreeHand 2.0 this contest would have been a second- round knockout—T'll grant the superiority of Illustrator’s freehand drawing tool. As it is, FreeHand 1.0 still beats Illustrator 88 in an easy TKO. C. Thomas [yler Pacific Grove, California More on Word | t might be worth warning any of your readers who are considering buying More II that it is not compatible with Microsoft Word because More Il’s dictionary has the same name as Word's. James Long Sunnyvale, California According to Symantec product manager John Leddy, if you put the More Il main diclionary in (continues) and we'll tell you where you can buy it and Gs answer any questions you may have. Then 4 you can start saving money, time... and wf your data! (612) 890-5135 Fax (612) 890-0791 For the dealer nearest you call 1-800-328-271 9 jqgasted retail price, Spring 1889 The Sx40 uses the Micro Tape DC2000 Cartridge. 4 Dealers circle 41 on reader service card. End Users circle 217 on reader service card. for a Varityper PostScript®I “| made head-to-head comparisons between Linotype® and Varityper® PostScript imagesetters for the same jobs. What I found, more often than not, was that Linotype produced a | point miss or overlap at what looked like uniform intervals onthe page. I'm told this banding isa result of their start/stop scheme and that it will only get worse as the equipment gets older. Whatever it is, the results are unacceptable for my work, particularly my color work. On the other hand, Varityper produced flawless, high-quality output at speeds much faster than those other guys. And when.! found out that | could get the Varityper for substantially less money, there was no contest . . . / said, buy the Varityper!” “My advice to anyone looking for a high quality PostScript imageset- ter: Do yourself a favor. Consider Varityper and make your own comparisons.” Mr. Ralph Volk, President, Sun Graphics & Publications, Inc., Ypsilanti, Michigan, SG&P, Inc. includes threg service divisions each using a 4300P: SGAP Advertising—a ful service advertising, marketing and design agency. Sun Graphics and Publications—a design and production art studio employing professional electronic systems for high quality, 4-color brochures, catalogs and ad design. MacSunSet®—a desktop publishing and PostScript imagesetting service bureau for design professionals. Varityper a Tegra Comparry \Varityper isa registered trademark of Varityper, Inc. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. See for yourself, Just call and we will send you output samples from Varityper imagesetters. You'll see the quality difference for yourself! Give Varityper a Call Today 1-800-631-8134 (In New Jersey 201-887-8000 x-999) Circle 93 on reader service card The #1 Supplier of Imagesetters with Adobe's PostScript Interpreter MacSunSet is a registered trademark of Sun Graphics and Publications, Inc. Linotype is a registered trademark of Linotype Corporation. nmi Master your Mac, MACWORLI Inspiration. Monthly. Now just $24 a year. Almost 50% off the annual cover price! Macworld gives you the know-how to try new applications. The courage to take on power upgrades. The insight to make informed buying decisions. Macworld gives you more, so you can get more from your Macintosh. 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Karl Lautman Elmsford, New York Ss) The High Cost of Computing in Japan | n Japan, a Mac Plus with 2.5MB costs about $3000. in order to run Ka Japanese Mac operating sys- tem, 2.5MB and a hard disk are required.) An ImageWriter Il costs about $692. A full 4MB of RAM will cost me $1230, The 20MB hard disk I plan to buy costs $754. For that price, I could get a 60MB hard disk in the United States. Macs are expensive in the United States, but they’re dou- ble the price here. I'm a Mac- intosh fan, but at these prices “the rest of us” must mean those with no children, no. wife, no car, and no house- nothing except a computer and software. People in the United States should not com- plain. Or maybe they should complain louder to Apple- for its shoddy workmanship and high prices. Let’s get some decent machines for a decent price. Sidney K. Higa Kumamoto, Japan New, Improved Macworld few years ago, I received i phone call from your of- . 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I can imagine the sustained commitment and work required to produce a fine magazine is- sue after issue. Congratulations on the status you have achieved. I look forward to the next issue. Frederick A. Larson College Station, Texas (continues) ©1989, NuEquation. In. Tew registered (rademark of Apple Computer. Ine. — Circle 393 on rei program for the Macintosh* offers realistic Shadowing. NuPaint gives you features like Masking Tape, formerly found only in high-end CAD packages, and much more. All at an unbelievably low price Macintosh graphics will same, NuPaint is the “nu” Beginning paint users love NuPaint, because it’s quick to leam and easy to use. Power users love it because it has more power and depth than any other painting program. NuPaint pushes bitmapped graphics to new limits, and does things that object-oriented programs can't do— like Mixing, Fading and Smoothing to add special effects to an object. Order NuPaint now, and save $25 off the regular retail price of $139.95. Call 1- 800-423-6837 to order by credit card OR use the coupon below. Dealer and distributor inquiries welcome, | can't wait! RUSH me my copy of NuPaint NOW. Enclosed is full | payment of $114.95. | want to save $25 off the suggested retail price of | $139.95 during this special offer for the new standard in monochrome painting programs. Name. Title, Phone. Address. City State, Zip. O visa 0 MasterCard Card No. | | | Company. | | | in Date. OO Check or Money Order for $114.95 _Expirati ader service card The essential Macintosh word processor. Like its phenomenally successful predecessor MacWrite’ IT is uncomplicated, graphic and easy to understand. {© 1989 Claris Corporation. All rights reser. 440 Civde Averue, Mountain View: Calorie 9403; 415-962-8946. Claris is a trademark and MacWnie tsa regisered trademark of Claris Corporation. Macinosh and HyperCard are Now has all the essentials. B/t/PfEs DML TIO LENO ACTEM ‘MacWrite IT turns your writing into publishing MacWrite II gives you font control you Mail merge makes it simple to send one With up to ten colunins, adjustable line spacing and must see to believe (2 00 500 points), Plus foomotes ‘personal letter to a million close friends And create the ability to crop and scale graphics. ‘that number themselves. custom stationery templates to use over and over The only thing more Impressive Keep more than one document open. new HyperCard-style Claris Help feature is how Edit and preview your pages before you print them. seldom youl need to use it And import color graphics. Aad frequently used styles to your menus and tern them on and off with keyboard commands. An amazingly fast 100,000-word dictionary checks and corrects your spelling A good leader must be a good communicator So MacWrite II reads and writes ina flash. MacWrite IT includes a desk-accessory thesaurus, 100. directly to all these word processing formats. 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Tecmar, Inc., 6225 Cochran Road, Solon, Ohio 44139-3 ised Ci feiss ‘ le 321 on reader service card $n LETTERS False Advertising hose interested in using a frame grabber to acquire im- ages from a VCR in pause mode should be wary of ad- vertising claims. A colleague and I each bought Data Trans- lation’s QuickCapture board for the Mac II after being assured that it had no difficulty doing this, We found out otherwise, and Data Translation’s engi- neers have now admitted that it's a problem they are work- ing on. This misrepresentation is inexcusable, especially since the problem is not new. The same thing happened with PC Vision’s frame grabber, and it took a year for its engineers to redesign the board so that it had that capability. I have found that the prob- lem with QuickCapture can often be solved by using an expensive time-base corrector or an editing processor such as the Panasonic MX 10. I have also had good luck with Sony's $350 digital video adapter, the XV-D300. Geoffrey R. Coulter Rochester, New York Laser Printers Win Out | noticed in February's Mac- world News the results of a printer survey that I feel may need some qualification, You claimed that 66.3 percent of those queried used ImageWriters most often at home and 26.6 percent used them most often at work, while the remainder used various types of laser printers most often. I’m sure these figures are accurate, but I found the captions assigned to them misleading. You state: “Of those who responded to our survey, 66.3 percent favored the ImageWriter I or II for home use, ... and 26,6 per- cent favored the ImageWriter I or II for use at work.” Get real. Not many people would favor using an ImageWriter given the choice between a dot matrix and any brand of laser printer, Probably the ImageWriter is the only printer available to them, Jan Kiefbaber Cincinnati, Ohio Statistics Update R egarding your review of statistical analysis software (Reviews, February 1989): Mystat (the demo program in- cluded with Systat 3.2) handles up to 50 variables per analysis and as many cases as you can squeeze onto your disk; it now sells for $5. Systat now offers Fastat, which lets users work without switching modules, It offers summary statistics, tables, re- gression, nonparametric tests, forecasting, plotting, MacDraw- like tools, and online help. Lucy Saunders Sytstat Evanston, IMlinois News on LightningScan he suggested retail price of LightningScan (Mac- world News, March 1989) is now $549. Also, the scanner will capture a 4.1-inch rather than a 4.5-inch strip. Ann D. 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