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MACWORME . K The Macintosh Magazine November 1989 $3.95 Canada $495 PAGE 144 EXCEL 2:2 vs. FULL IMPACT ys. WINGZ S ACCOUNT ~ APPLELALK anp NETWORKING = All Yot)Need to Know = 300MB DRIVES ia Lab Report : 90%of Macintosh spreadsheet users have been working on this program. @ File Edit Formula Format, Data Options Macro Window 128 iss _Financiats—MS Excel 1.5 doc Selected Five - Year Financial Data iia thoussxth, extept employes and per share Gata) 1988 1987 1986 1985 Revenue and Costs Net Revenues $432,806] $318,663] $309,266] $239,656 Cost of Revenues 79,809] 165,570] 58,344] 40,710) Rani D 79,809] 52,361] 33,081] 21,420) Sales/Marketing 87,680] 88,108] 62,490] 48,999] Gen Admin 27,653|__18,537|__12.594|__7,306 Tacome from Operations | $157,855 | ($5,913)/$142,756 |$121,221 Non-op Income 7,804] 6,639] 3,715] 2,008 Income Before Taxes 165,659 726| 146,471| 123,229 Provision for Taxes 67,092 204| 59.321] __ 49.908] Net Income $98,567 | $432 | $87,150 | $73,321 Assos and Liabilities Current Assets 223,579] 112,622] 79,282] 44,256 Net Property 75,468] 73,937] 41,209) 24,957 Other Assets 5,643) 3.764|__—3.673|__—«2. 402 Total Assets $304,690 |$190,323 |$124, 164 | $71,615 Current Liabilities 34,423, 18,319] 11,599] 5,077) Long-term Liabilities 4578] 4,114] 3,602} (3,293 Stockholder's Equity_ 265,689| __167,290| _108,964| __ 63,245] Total Liabilities and Equity | $304,690 |$190, 323 |$124, 164 | $71,615 ‘To learn more, call for the Microsoft Excel 2.2 brochure, (800) 541-1261, Dept. J72. Customers in Canada, call (416) 673-9811. Outside North America, call (206) 882-8661. ©Copyright 1989 Microsoft Corporation, ANinightsnservel Mirsoft and the MicrsoftIngvare registered trademarksand Mang tal make sens sa trademarict Micrcst Corporation. Macintoshand Mac are ester trademarks Apple Computer So have we. Introducing Microsoft 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 on the Macintosh. Before we knew it,afull9 out of 10 Macintosh spreadsheet users were swearing by it. Not sur- prisingly, they still are. But, of course, we nei Bed2menuent werent satisfied to leave wane nbtaenae”™ well enough alone—and Microsoft Excel version 2.2 has come to the small screen. Ina big way. Inmathematical terms, 2.2 is greater than15.Intechnicalterms, your spreadsheets aren't limited to IMB of memory—version 2.2 makes the most of even 8meg machines. Which translates into spreadsheets of SORES LS Foe aus Equally outrageous: 40% faster calcula- tions—thanks to advanced intelligent recalc. As for presentation? Version 2.2 also lets you highlight data in ways well worth high- lighting: You can pickup to256 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 alrea to. And you other 10% easily can be. Making it all make sense: cel 2.2. $60,000 $350,000 $40,000 $30,000 $20,000 $10,000 $0 Jan §- Forecast [Monthly Profit By Product Line SELECTED FIVE-YEAR FINANCIAL DATA (in tousands, except employee ‘and per share data) 1988 1987 _1986 1985 __1984 Revenue and Costs Net Revenues $452806 SI55663 $909.26 $3966 $207 907 Cost of Revenues RB «SD BAA «40710 40215] Rand D PMO 52361 330812142020 676 Sales/Marketing 87680 8810862490 «48.999 26,40), Gen Admin 253 18,537 7306 INCOME FROMOPERATIONS | $157855 $134,087 $142,756 $121,221 $116,088 Non-op Income 7A 6693S 2008-1387 Income Before Taxes 165659 140726 T46ATL_— 1232291775) Provision for Taxes e702 56290 59am ——_49;908___47,577| NET INCOME $98,567 $84,436 $87,150 $73,321 $69,898. Assets and Liabilities Current Assets 223579 112622 79,282, 44256 44,055) Net Property BAB 73937 «41209 28.957 19,374 Other Assets 56A3. 3764 3673, 2402 1899) TOTAL ASSETS $304690 $190,323 $124,164 $71,615 $65,327 Current Liabilities HAB 18319 11,599 5077, 9,940 Long-term Liabilities 4578 414 362 3293 3,146] Stockholder's Equity 265689 167890 __ 108,964 63.245 52,242] TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY — $304,690 $190323 $124,164 $71,615 $65,327 Working Capital 189612 17346812776 «119489 7,04I] Number of Employees 3A56 277 1681 1390 1.086) Common Stock Data Net Income per Share $13 $1.64 SLM $1.90 $259 Book Value per Share 56 956 $229 $1.46 90.78 Cash and Investments $265 $1.60 ‘$0.83 $0.64 $0.48 Average Shares Out 87,535 83,258 44956 3864 26,984) Shares Out/Year-end £6,790, 51,305 26,589 15,905 9882 Key Ratios Return on Net Revenues 3% Be 23% 31% M%| Return on Total Assets 32% 44% 7% 102% 107% Return on Stock Equity 37%. 50% 80% 116% 1S%) Now pic from 256 fonts. Change row height Shade, Add notes. And get used to the sound of applause, DEPARTMENTS How to Contact Macworld ... Reprints, subscriptions, 12 Macworld in micro- form, editorial contacts. Commentary/Jerry Borrell 23 Apple’s Mac Portable: to buy or not to buy. Letters... 35 Art Beat By Deborah Branscin rhe tists and tech- Is Apple’s new portable the ultimate dream machine or only a niques behind selected step in the right direction? Turn to page 144 for a preview of The Iconoclast . a Apple's latest offering, (Photo by XN By Steven Levy/Apple's master plan to keep ‘Mark Johann.) 3 company secrets under wraps. Conspicuous Consumer n By Deborab Branscum/A user-group news service; Apple fixes some hardware problems; this month's events. State of the Mac .. By Thom Hogan/N tem 7.0 as painless as possible. Verbatim T ss 97 chnologies founder Kevin Curran on k trends, competition, and QuickDraw. NEWS Mac Bulletin aoe sa hesbeedieasaavbaLNeopabtestreet BO Late-breaking news, Macworld News............. efeemesy se) AS Apple Introduces the High-Performance Ici Big things come in small packages. ll Midrange DTP from Silicon Beach New features at an old-fashioned price. ml RetixMail Brings x.400 to the Mac Opening doors to the world. ml ModelShop: 3-D in the Fast Lane Playing what-if with architecture. ll Matching Colors on Printers and Monitors Tektronix’s new technology. ml CompuServe Refines Navigational Equipment Host- Micro Interface means smoother sailing. ll Micron Technology Enters Graphics Adapter Fray More color for the SE/30 and the Mac [1. ll Microsoft Mail: Almost Like Being There Tying your workgroup together. @ Not Gone with the Wind Saving Hollywood's greatest films. i Mac Il on Steroids 88000 on a NuBus. board. ll PostScript Clone on a Disk Talking PostScript to non-PostScript printers. ll Mitsubishi Introduces 37-Inch Monitor, 24-Bit Color Printers Color in, color out. ll We Now Return You to the Program Already in Progress When ALIN BE never sleeps. lf Reader Survey: Computer-Related Health Problems Readers’ complaints. ‘ % 2 * MACWORLD © NOVEMBER 1989 ORLD The Macintosh’ Magazine November 1989 New Products. # 261 A quick look at new ‘Macintosh | fates soft- ware, and accessories. HOW TO/Quick Tips.. By Lon Poole/Drop-shadow label: 287 in Ready- SetGo, WriteNow style sheets, spreadsheet tabs, and more. HOW TO/Getting Started with Digital Sound...... : ..299 By Jim Heid/Leam to record, edit, and play back sound on the Mac. HOW YO/Insights on MacWrite Il 1.1. 3 By Charles Seiter/ sion of the Mav hancing the newest ver- first program. Updates The lat 319 t software upgrade new: Where to Buy Contact information for products in thi Best-Sellers ......... Steven Levy explores Apple secorty—and its soft underbelly —on page’61. REVIEWS ColorBoard 264 o...scccssenseeesesrneree 196 24-bit color board. Studio/1 1.0 ... Paar 197 Paint and animation program. REO-650, Jasmine DirectOptical, Genesis 6000, Sumo Optical, Disk Drive RSSM 600B, and Cirrus 600 Magneto Optical Drive..........202 Five optical disk drives. Expressionist 2.0, Formulator, MathType 2.0....211 ‘Three equation editors. XTreeMac 1.0... Hecke iecmnerameranlty, 213 Cosmic Osmo 1.0 215 Interactive storybook. Atlas Explorer 1.0, Where in the USA Is Carmen Sandiego? 1.0, Global Trespass 1.0 ............0:-.217 Educational geography games. TableTools 1.01 oy 220 Tables fordesiang publishine, 4th & Inches 1.0..... Arcade-style sports game. 224 FEATURES The Macintosh Portable 144 By Bruce F, Webster/Vhis preview of Apple's long-awaited portable reveals the high cost of slimming down a Mac Network Connections By Dave Kositw .152 ik had mace preae stiles) in| the ne worn wed mmnproyinetiCe pple connectivity capabilities and inspiring a wide range of third-party products—but it still has some maturing to do. High-Capacity Hard Disks .......... 160 By Cheryl England Spencer/ln the market fora monster hard disk? Macworld Lz 300MB-plus drives. s tests twenty-three A Full Accounting........... 170 By Alan L. Slay/S write, general, or multiuser program? Our overview of accounting packages analyzes each one's strengths and weaknesses and points you in the right direction. Can Excel Be Beaten? ..... i sense BO By Charles Seiter/Wingz and Full Impact challenge Excel 2.2—can the flashy newcomers beat out the old workhorse? Find out in this head-to-head comparison. SuperStacks—The 1989 Winners 2.00.0. 187 By Liza Weiman/We've judged over 400 HyperCard s r's best. QuickMap, Electronic Map Cabinet ..226 Desktop map-making software. SimCity Satie 230 City-development simulation game Harmony Grid 1.02... 233 Scfiware for exploring Harmonie theory ¥ t4 Zé Hidden Agenda 1.0....... 1.235 “ Geopolitical simulation game. For the Record 1.0, Family Matters 1.0 249 Showcase F/X 1.0. .eonnnnnes|anmnnnnee 237 Personal record-keeping programs Title animation and slide presentation package Acta Advantage 1.0.0... 251 Bernoulli Box I 44... 7238. Gudinee Removable media drive StellaStack 1.0 0.0... x ieesrcciertre2o The Acient Art of War at $e0 1.0 wocc240 HyperCard front-end simulation. 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Secure data with two forms of DES encryption. No learning required. Easy user interface makes repair, recovery and hard disk tune-up a snap. Just tell SUM II what you want to do, and its new Disk Clinic automatically launches the utility you need. For its unparalleled data protection, SUM™ won MacUser’s 1989 Editor's Choice, Macworld’s 1989 Reader's World Class Award, and MacUser's Highest Rating, Five Mice. Backs up hard disk data fast, and allows New SUM Ilis even better. Inside, SUM II features an improved incremental backups, from one file to entire Shield, the automatic data protection and recovery utility that hard disks. Back up to floppies, other hard has won over critics and Fortune 500 users alike. disks, and tape drives. Outside, SUM II extends its data recovery power by adding SUM Backup, a complete Mac backup utility which backs up selected files or entire hard disk volumes to floppies in minutes. 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Jasmine continues to set the quality standard with the hard drives that swept the 1989 Macworld World Class Awards. Macworld readers selected Jasmine #1 in the “80MB or less” category, and in every single ranking (that's all 5) in the “above 80MB” category! Jasmine DirectDrives are also the value standard, Every drive is bundled with DriveWare;’ Jasmine’s exclusive formatting and partitioning software which insures your data by performing drive diagnostics and error corrections on the fly; SUM II by Symantec™ which lets you recover data from a mistakenly-initialized hard disk; DemoWare>’ a collection of demonstration versions of some of the most popular programs available; plus 5SMB of public domain and shareware software. All Jasmine DirectDrives Feature O 2 Switched, Surge Protected, AC Outlets O Precision Ball Bearing Fans O Removable Air Filters O External Push Button SCSI Switch Jasmania direct price Capacity Regular direct price (thru 12/31/89) O Dual Power On and Data Access LED Indicator 20MB $549 $599 O Hard Drive Encyclopedia 40MB $699 $599 O All Cables and Connectors 80MB $999 $849 O Easy Access Termination Panel A 100MB $1199 $1099 Winners eae ( Ce ee InA Row! 180MB $1599 $1499 DirectServe File Server. Now you can liberate your Macintosh from the mundane task of network file serving. DirectServe is a combination of hardware and software that’s designed specifically to be a high-performance, low-cost file server. DirectServe can support up to 255 workstations with Mac IIcx speed, for less than the cost of a Mac Plus and AppleShare software! DirectServe plugs right into your LocalTalk™ or twisted-pair network, is 100% AppleShare/AEP 2.0 compatible, and comes complete with Installer and Administrator software. Now you can purchase DirectServe bundled with our highly-reliable (70,000-hour MTBF) DirectDrive 130 or 180 at special Jasmania direct pricing. The DirectPrint Page Printer. Now everyone can afford the printer MacUser called the “Best New Output Device” in their 1989 Editors’ Choice Awards. DirectPrint’s crystal shutter technology is PostScript’-compatible and provides deep velvet blacks with super sharp 300 dpi output. 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And still champion. These new true color tools Work easily and : naturally, Mix colors on screen ike paint on a Canvas. ae MA Add transparent tints and shadows. And use real anti- = é SUPERI hy ue aliasing for smooth shapes and blends. To create y 485 Potrero AvenuesDept. 300 - Suny ale, CA 94086 408 20; ‘© 1989 SuperMac Technology! AUfighisResaved ‘Supese. PixelPaint, PixelPaint endesonal and Tok Tt av ‘{ademarks of SuperMac Technology. PANTONE is a registered trademark of Pantone, Ing Mabintosh ahd Mac are registered trademarks of Apple Computes tne: All other brid and product names are trademarks of ei respective holders, Circle 3090n reader service card U MAC BULLET INDUSTRY NOTES Du Pont Does PostScript Du Pont is planning to license Adobe's PosiScript for use in its 4cast Digital Color Imager, a Macintosh-based color printer that uses dye thermal sublimation transfer. Color Prices Cut QMS has knocked $4000 off the price of its ColorScript 100 Model 30 printer, bringing itdown to $15,995. The 300-dpi color PostScript thermal printer can print on 8)- by-11-inch and 11-by-17-inch paper. Racet, Jasmine at Odds Giting dissotisfaction with Jasmine’s ability to market Racet's tape and optical drives, Racet has decided to sell its Cosmos 600 Magneto Optical drive, its A1250 DAT drive, and other products directly to the Mac market. Previously, Jasmine had exclusive U.S. distribution rights for Racet's producis. QuickMail-AppleLink Gateway CE Software is making its QuickMail-to- Applelink gateway available free of charge. The gateway will be posted on Applelink and | available from user groups, or direct from CE Software for a $20 handling charge. Gateways for QuickMail and Microsoft Mail StarNine is developing gateways from Microsoft Mail and CE Software's QuickMail to a variety of mail platforms that implement SMTP, the standard UNIX mail protocol. Crosfield Images Mac Slides Crosfield, a developer of high-end pre- press systems, has announced an inter- face for imaging slides from Aldus Persuasion, More II, Microsoft PowerPoint, VBS #5, and PICT format files on Crosfield’s D148 or Coptivator film recorders. The interface links PICT to Crosfield’s DRAS ‘aster format. Microsoft-Apple Trade Cuts Adobe Out Recent agreements between Apple Computer and Microsoft Corporation will have a profound impact on font technology for both the Macintosh and OS/2’s Presentation Manager. Under the ‘agreements, Apple will license a PostScript clone from Microsoft, which it plans to use in future printers. In exchange, Microsoft will license Apple's QuickDraw-based oulline fonts for use in | OS/2, establishing a second font standard that will force users to choose or buy fonts in both for - mats. Apple is developing its outline fonts as part of System 7.0; its advantage is rue WYSIWYG display, In response, Adobe announced plans to publish the complete specifications for Adobe PostScript, including the proprietary curve:hinting strategy for Type | fonts. Adobe hopes opening up Adobe PostScript will ‘Block Boe and | Microsoft from creating fe} BESO wi graphic, ITC, Unoiype, and Monotype, have Giened dipperior Apple and Mics Alisys plans to add the ability to create fonts with the new format to its PostScript font d ment tool, Fontographer. A Storm for Any Port? Olduvai has been showing the German HyperCardtlike Plus running under OS/2. ‘Gldnver “says that Plus on the Mac can open HyperCard stacks without modification, “and the OS/2 version of Plus can open Plus files that were created on a Mac, in effect making it possible to run HyperCard applications on IBM Ps. Ii is possible that SNA (Systems Network Architecture} IBM's strategy for compatibility among mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers—would eventually permit Plus stacks to run on IBM mainframes. i Wingz Adds Support for CL/1 Informix is developing an add-in application for its graphic spreadsheet Wingz that allows users to communicate directly with large databases by using SQL from inside Wingz. The add-in supports a point-and-click interface for nonprogrammers and a programming interface for more sophisticated users, The application is written in Wingz’s native HyperScript programming language and uses Apple's CL/1 implementation of SQL. The module will not be available until Apple ships CL/1, which is expected by the end of the year. Wingz lists for $395; the SQL module will cost $9 end user and $999 for the coo administrator version. For more: information, contact In : WordPerfect at ie office WordPerfect Corporation is preparing a Mac implementation of WordPerfect Office. The. Moc version will communicate with and match the functionality of Office on WordPerfect’s other | plat forms. lt is a set of four desk accessories including E-mail, a calendar, a flat-file database, and a file- management utility. The E-mail DA can look at attachments from within o message, and h i | conference mode and internal support for X.400. The calendar DA provides builtin functions for searching and sorting dates and can write the results of a search out to the calendar. Pricing had not been set ai press time. For more information, call WordPerfect Corporation at 801/222-5800. Virex Blocks New Virus, Adds Full-Time Protection At press time, HJC Software had begun shipping version 2.1.1 of Virex, which detects and eradicates a new nVIR strain known as nFLU. Version 2.0 of the virus-detection and -eradication utility added some new features. VirexGuard is an INIT-level watchdog that can examine floppy (continues) MACWORLD © NOVEMBER 1989 U $$ MAC BL LET | Nm INDUSTRY NOTES Mac Software Sales Booming According fo figures gathered by Arthur Anderson & Company, during the second quarter of 1989 Macintosh software sales increased by 22.6 percent over the same quarter of 1988 to $105.1 million. Curiously, the sales of programming Janguages almost doubled, while integrated packages, desktop publishing software, and recreation software declined. Mac software cso increased its share of the market relative to DOS software, from 18.9 percent fo 21.1 percent. Apple Will Buy Its Own Stock Apple Computer says that it will buy back 2.5 tilfion of ts own shares “from time to time.” The company noted that the repurchase will mostly offset dilution caused by various: employee stock ownership plans. Apple Makes Huge Sale to Government Apple has won a contract from Honeywell Federal Systems to provide from 10,000 to 60,000 Mac I!-series computers fo the government's Worldwide Militory Command cand Control System (WWMCCS). The contract is expected to bring Apple $164 million aver five years. Vendor Changes Name The personal computer software and hardware distributor Microamerica recently changed the name of its Macintosh division from Bonsu to Macamerica. Kobe Steel Acquires Racet Kobe Steel, of Japan, has acquired a majority of the stock of mass storage vendor Racet Computes, of Brea, California. With the backing of Kobe, Racet plans to diversify into other electronics-related areas. NuVista Prices Fall Truevision, of Indianapolis, cut the prices on its NuVista series of video capture and display boards for the Mac Il series. A NuVista board with 4MB of RAM is now $6995, a drop in price of $1000. Smaller price cuts for NuVista boards with less RAM were also announced. disks for known viruses as you insert them. Virex 2.0 lists for $99.95. For more information, contact HIC at 919/490-1277. CE Software in the News CE Software has been showing version 4.0 of DiskTop, the venerable Swiss Army knife of Macin- losh utilities, as well as a new network application called In/Out. DiskTop 4.0 adds better search controls and batch operations on found files, a filelaunching utility thai can open more than one document at a time, and a pop-up menu showing all drives on line. |t will list for $99.95 and include a copy of version 2.0 of Microlytics’ Gofer. In/Out is a network equivalent of a magnet board for leaving messages. It does no! provide a calendar for scheduling. In/Out lists for $199.95 for five users and $299.95 for ten users. For more information, contact CE Software at 515/224-1995. Running UNIX on the Plus and SE An Australian company has developed an implementation of POSIX for would-be UNIX users who are not in the market for a Mac Il and. an 80MB hard disk. Macldris, from Whitesmiths, provides a multitasking executive, interprocess communication, and C and Pascal development tools, as well as other UNIX utilities. Macldris runs as an application under the Finder with 1MB of memory or under MultiFinder with 2MB, and it requires only SMB of disk space. Macldris runs on the Plus and all later Maes and costs $499. For more information, contact Jean Batty at 301/657-3775. Squeezing Typeset Quality from Laser Printers laserMax Systems’ first two products offer clese-to-typeset-quality output from ordinary laser printers. The LaserMax 1000 is a 1000-by-400-dpi plain-paper desktop printer selling for $7995. The MX6 series of high-speed controllers for all models of Apple’s laserWriter series generate 600- by-300 dpi output from the 300-dpi laser printers, The controllers come with 2MB, 4MB, or OMB of memory and install in a NuBus slot on the Mac. Both producis come with 35 resident Bitstream typefaces. For further information, call 612/944-9058. 14 MIPS in a Mac Du Pont Pixel Systems, a division of E. |. Du Pont de Nemours, has announced the fastest coproces- | sor board to date for the Mac. The MacbRISC, a NuBus board based on a SOMHz Intergraph Clipper C300 RISC chip, offers Mac users 14 MIPS of computing power and a transparent Mac | interface to the UNIX file system. The board was scheduled to ship early next year and the price | had not been finalized ai press time. For more information, call Du Poni Pixel Systems at 800/225-8418 SIMMs for Solid State Storage Newer Technology is preparing SCS! Dart, a Mac version of DartCard, its nonvolatile RAM disk drive for the PC. The SCSI Dart has 16 slots for memory, providing a maximum capacity of 64MB, and may be upgraded in increments of two 256K, 1MB, or 4MB SIMMs. At press time, very tentative pricing for the unit was $995 with no memory and $1495 with 4MB. For more informa- tion, call Newer Technology at 316/685-4904, Electronic Camera Replaces Film with Floppies Canon's $995 XapSho! camera records photos on a two-inch video floppy and can be hooked to | an inexpensive digitizer such as Digital Vision's color ComputerEyes. The images can then be treated like any digitized image. For more information, contact Canon at 516/933-6300. When a Dot Is Not a Pixel Canon has just introduced the first inkjet printer for the Macintosh that creates variable-size pixels, The $4995 Full Color Printer changes the size of pixels to produce different colors and shades. Half- tones are reproduced in the same way. The printer requires special paper and takes 81/2 minutes to produce one 8-by-6-inch image at a resolution of 160 dpi. For more information, contact Canon at 516/933-6300. M MACWORLD © NOVEMBER 1989 Users Won't Know The Difference. Ehman 45 MB According to a recent article in MacWorld Magazine, “there is very little to distinguish one hard drive from another, other than speed, software, and price.” We agree. In terms of speed, only a very few milli- seconds separate the Jasmine and the Ehman hard disk drives. Both come with excellent back-up and hard drive utility software pro- grams included free. Both come with two-year warrantiesanda 30-day money back guarantee. And since both companies have been around almost since the time Macintosh was first introduced, both enjoy a reputation for manu- facturing high-quality products. That brings us to price. As you can see, the Ehman 45 MB hard “Good only on Macintosh ll models: le. Utlty sofware not avalable on 20 MB. Allproduct names m drive is $200 less than the Jasmine 40 MB. That's a difference users may not notice, but buyers certainly will. The reasons for such a difference trace to our low Rocky Mountain overhead and a business philosophy centeredaround customer value and service. And now, for the first time, we're offering a 24-hour replacement program in the unlikely event that your Ehman drive should require repair. But don't take our word on it. MacWorld Magazine called the Ehman drive “a real bargain.” Call us today and see the difference for yourself. Overnight delivery via Federal Express. Visa, MasterCard, American Express welcome. tioned are tradematks of their respect HARD DRIVE PRICES SIZE (MB) INTERNAL. EXTERNAL 20 4 $329 » $399 30+. Bo oe $379 45 S449 60+ $499* 80+ $579°. : 103 : 99 $899 133 ‘ +o $899 $999 180 een ONS. . $1199 &e Ehman 1-800-257-1666 Quality Peripherals for Added Value Circle 452 on reader service card (GRAPHIC PROOF THAT WINGZ HAS MORE. he more you work with numbers, the more you'll like working with Wingz. Wingz is the fastest, easiest way to transform your raw data into eye-catching persuasive graphic presentations. What more can we say? Wingz simply has more. Which means every other spreadsheet has less. WINGZ HAS DRAWING TOOLS. The Wingz drawing tools give your work a finished look quickly and easily, without using another software ap- plication. Choose from line, arc, circle, rectangle or polygon tools. And after you've drawn the basic shapes, you can color, size, group and move them. WINGZ HAS3D GRAPHICS. 3D graphs make your data more understandable and more impressive. And Wingz is the only spreadsheet with built-in 3D graphic capabilities. Wingz featues 3D bar, 3D line, 3D layer, 3D step, 3D pie and 3D combination graphs. You can change the rotation, elevation and viewing distance of your 3D graphs. WINGZ HAS UNLIMITED COLOR AND FONT SELECTIONS. Color enhances the appear- ance of your data. And Wingz maximizes your use of color. In fact, the num- ber of color choices is limited only by your hardware. If you have a 24 bit color system, you'll have over 16 million color choices when you enter our custom color mixing dialog box. Sel Es Hawa lee iH) VP Bakes GR Die ae WINGZ HAS HYPERSCRIPT. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to do powerful, work-saving programming in Wingz' HyperScript. (Although a lot of rocket sci- entists are using Wingz.) HyperScript unleashes the full power of the Macintosh: HyperScript uses intuitive English language com- mands, not abstract jargon. For example, to hide the cell grid with Excel macros would require: =DISPLAY (false, false, true, true, 0) To perform the same action in HyperScript: HIDE CELL GRID It's that simple. WINGZ HAS HAPPY USERS. i 2 3 |Full Impact 4 |Other 5 6 MacCalc MultiPlan According to International Data Corporation (July, 1989) Wingz ranked number one in user satisfaction among Macintosh spreadsheet users. WINGZ HAS FUTURE USERS. > Unlive id Fonts © icUnlimited The same survey found Wingz an eye-popping two- to-one favorite when users were asked which spread- sheet they intend to buy in the next six months. Inlimited # 3n onts & Colors imited Fonts & ints & Cq WINGZ HAS BUTTONS. easier and faster than menus or typing in commands. (You can also put other Macintosh controls, including radio but- tons, check boxes and slide bars, directly onto the work- sheet.) Just as important, buttons unleash the power of HyperScript. So you can Buttons can make your attach lists of frequently used spreadsheet as easy and commands to buttons, and natural to use as the radio or —then execute them with the the dishwasher. They're click of a mouse. os a Assets “sos Ye WINGZ HAS | GREAT LOOKING | OUTPUT. In fact, all the graph- ics in this ad, were created with Wingz and QMS ColorScript 100 Printer. And when your reports and graphs look great, ‘so do you. OW IF WINGZ HAS ALL THIS, SHOULDN'T YOU HAVE WINGZ? ‘Te UTS SEC SADE WN, Just call toll-free 1-800-331-1763, Ext. 1000, to find the Wingz dealer nearest you. In Canada, call 416-566-7024. Circle 390 on reader service card ‘©Copyright, 1989 Informix Software, Inc. Informix and HyperScript are registered trademarks and Wingz is a trademark of Informix Software Inc; Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.; all other trademarks are used for information purposes. “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 first-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 Ia Cie uses 1/2 speed fans — found only in Cirrus drives. “There's no benchmark test for hardware design, but the elegance and conven- <= ience of a drive— an external one in particular — should concern you.” Macworld, May 1989. La Cie offers you mass storage solutions from 42 to 1038 megabytes. Except for the 613 and 1038, 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 do fit into our FREE shoulder-strapped Cordura™ carrying case or inside your brief- Macworld, May 1989 YEAR tov incoded now included.* case for easy portability. Capacity(Mb) _Speed(ms) Price($) 42 25 599 93 25 899 137 23 1,399 182 23 1,699 42 15 699 76 15 899 84 15 999 105, 15 1,099 138 15 1,499 172 15 1,799 613 15 3,399 1038 15 5,199 “La Cie products were my favorites.” ‘Macteorld, Seplember 1989. All Cirrus drives include our Silverlining™ hard-disk-manage- ment software, Silverserver™ hard- disk-sharing software and DS-Backup. “La Cie drives include the best software we tested.” Macworld, September 1989. 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 Girrus drives are burned in for 24 hours before shipping, include a 30 day money back guarantee, and most drives offer you the reassurance of 50,000 hours of continuous use — that’s 5.7 years! “Of all the drives tested, we recommend La Cie’s Cirrus drives.” Mactser, 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 lai: 16285 SW 85th, Bldg, 306, Tigard, OR 97224, (503) 684-0143 Prices shown are cash prices and do not include shipping. Add 3% for VISA, Mastercard, 5% for American Express, Add 10% for rush handling, Cierus, La Cie, Silverlining and Silverserver aare trademarks of Li Ci¢ Ltd. Macintosh isa trademark of Apple Computer, Prices and specifications shown are subject to change without notice. "5 year warranty on selected models only Circle 145 on reader service card Will You Buy This Portable? Inquiring minds want to know, os Apple unveils the long-awaited luggable by Jerry Borrell COMMENTARY veryone wants to know after all of these years of waiting: Should we buy this thing? Let's look at the downside. It’s expensive, it’s heavy, it doesn’t have color ROMs, (it can’t open a lot of color programs, and it can drive a color monitor only if you set monitors to black-and-white mode in the Control Panel). Like earlier machines, the Macintosh Portable will doubtless be superseded by another more power- ful model. The Portable is limited, for now, toa couple of megabytes of RAM (so MultiFinder will probably have only oc- casional use) and a 68000 processor for a CPU. There is IMB on the system board, and one slot for memory expan- sion. And Apple recommends that only static RAM be used. This is the most expensive variety of semiconductor memory, but it’s fast and requires less power. Apple will offer memory up- grades, but not at the time of announce- ment and shipment. In its carrying case, the machine looks like an old-fashioned Remington portable typewriter—big and bulky. (Speaking of bulky, Apple will be the only source for the battery.) In fact, given the Portable’s weight (about 16 pounds), I feel better calling the Mac Portable a luggable or a transportable. It has a trackball built in, but most of us won't want to do a lot of work with that. Jeez, can’t wait—can you? TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY So, do I want one? After some unhappi- ness about the computer's shortcomings hit me (and threatened my wallet) and I MACWORLD © NOVEMBER 1989 had time to cool off, the answer is yes. Now I’m going to spend the next several paragraphs telling you why I advocate plunking down about $6500 to buy a Macintosh Portable. First some background. As a journalist and an editor at five computer magazines I've been using and breaking portables for longer than I care to remember. (The first thing I did to the Mac Portable shown during the product introduction was to knock it off the table onto the floor. The computer was in its carrying case and, after the gasps died down, product man- ager Didier Diaz opened the case, took the machine out, readjusted some loose parts, and started the machine—no problem. Impressive.) T've used portables most people won't remember. Like the Hewlett-Packard lap- top. The DOT. (DOT was a great little machine. 8086, 600 by 400, built-in ther- mal printer, 32-inch drives.) The Chame- leon. The Panasonic hand-held computer in a briefcase that came complete with acoustic coupler. The Osborne. The first Compaq portable. The Kaypro. And the original IBM portable. I've lugged them all, I've broken a lot of them. I found them all less than useful. But that was the past. To be fair to readers and the market for portable com- puters, I needed to see what had hap- pened to portables in recent years on the DOS side. So I visited the Computer Attic store in Palo Alto, California. I wanted a store that carried both Toshiba and Com- paq portables. The first thing I said to Computer Attic salesman Camp Peavy was, “I want to buy one of your best portables.” Peavy quickly escorted me to the Compaq 386. It re- minded me of an incident I'd seen a week earlier at JFK airport. This guy balanced a Compaq 386 on the edge of a seat divider, held a keyboard on his lap, and tried to read the display sideways at the same time. The thing wouldn’t sit on his lap. He looked miserable. Typical DOS machine, I thought at the time. Nevertheless, I wanted to give it a chance. “What's it got?” says I to the salesman. “Well, a 40MB hard drive; IMB of RAM, expandable to 13MB; a 20MHz (continues) 23 XEROX Finally artificial intelligence complete line of scanners, Hewlett- comes to OCR. Packard’s ScanJet™and ScanJet Introducing Acctllext™document Plus,’ the Apple Scanner, scanning software by Datacopy.The and others. first Optical Character Recognition The best part is software that truly allows you to watch your p's & q's. Unlike other products, Datacopy’s Acculextis one of the first true applications of / artificial intelligence. It actually thinks and learns as it works. Scan thousands of typestyles and Acctilext will recognize them. 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Accu isa rademank of Ker Imaging ystems, ne. Alother product names are radomar of rege trademarks ofthel respective holders Circle 376 on reader service card Mac I 25MHZ Circle 361 on reader service card. 26 COMMENTARY 80386; a 5'/s-inch floppy drive; and a plas- ma display for $6060.” My immediate reaction was pretty good. The Mac Por- table is in for tough sledding. Then I stared at the screen. Could my eyes be deceiving me? The interface, with those abhorrent DOS directories, was the same as it was when I sold my IBM PC in 1986. It's still using the A> prompt. Good God, this is progress? What about all of that interface stuff I've been hearing lo these past two years about Windows and Pres- entation Manager? “How long is the battery life?” I asked. “Well, sir, with the plasma display it has to be plugged in to the wall.” Then we went to look at other por- tables—ones that could operate on batter- ies. Most had LCD displays. We started with the Toshiba 80386-based family. Same deal—it used a plasma display. Now that’s portable, 1 thought, spying the Toshiba 1200 on another table. “How about this one?” I asked. “Oh, the Toshiba 1200,” Peavy responded. “It’s got an 80268, IMB of RAM, 3'/2-inch floppy drive, 20MB hard disk. Only $2000.” My eyebrows went up—had I found the Macintosh Portable killer? Perhaps not. I looked at the screen. In polite terms, it garbage. Small, hard to read, little contrast, poor keyboard. “But if you really want a true portable with power,” Peavy went on, “you should look at the new Compaq SLT.” We moved back to the original table. “This machine has a 12MHz '286; 1MB of RAM, expand- able to 3MB; a 40MB hard disk; a battery life of three to four hours; a slot for a math coprocessor; VGA graphics; built-in 2400- baud modem. It weighs only 14 pounds and folds up into one small package.” And it did. I hefted it. Good design. Respected manufacturer. Nice. “It lists for $5125, but today I can offer it to you for $4595.” I sat it up again and started looking real hard. This is the Macintosh Portable competitor (especially for anyone with a cost dis- count on the Apple list price). But there were those DOS directories again. And the viewing angle on the LCD screen was poor; no, it was awful. The cursor smeared as I typed. And the keyboard is junk. (Hey, I live on a keyboard, I'm picky.) All things said, I'd rather be in Kansas with a Macintosh portable. In desperation MACWORLD © NOVEMBER 1989 I grabbed a copy of Byte off the store shelf. It had a cover article on DOS por- tables. Featured on the cover were the Agilis and the Zenith Minisport. The Agilis, with a chiclet keyboard and a configura- tion equivalent to the Macintosh Portable, would cost about $8000 (and include all the advantages of DOS). The Zenith, though cheaper, isn’t available in the same con- figuration as the Mac Portable. THE REAL REASON TO BUY First of all, the Portable is a no-compro- mise Macintosh. When Jean-Louis Gassée said that to me, I thought, it was more product PR. In retrospect, itactually meant something. Apple could have built a cheaper, lighter, less functional machine a year ago. Instead, the company opted to make the Macintosh Portable. And if you don’t understand the distinction, read the fine print about a machine like the new IBM portable. The small type informs you that due to design decisions, some programs will have problems. Okay— PixelPaint Professional and some color programs simply won't run on the Mac Portable, but it runs spreadsheets, word. processors, databases, communications, games, and virtually everything else with no compromises. (Pity the poor engineers at Apple who have to revise system soft- ware and ROM for every new machine so that every application out there runs as if the new machine were designed for that application. They're the unsung heroes of the Mac world.) If you still don’t get it, ‘then you also don’t mind DOS. The Portable’s screen is crisp—the best flat-panel display on a portable computer. Period. The screen is actually pleasant to use. It’s big, but it also fits conveniently on an airplane tray table. Or on your lap. It's stable. It has a great keyboard. (I don’t mind not being able to detach the keyboard to use it; in fact, I prefer it.) And I may not like the trackball, but if I'm on a plane, I don’t want to run a mouse on my pants leg. So the track- ball’s convenient. And when I'm ready to add a mouse, it connects easily via the ADB port in the back. The battery life is quoted at eight hours, due to power-saving techniques (continues) THE BEST 45MB REMOVABLE DUR BEST VALUE IN A HARD DRIVE. 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And until Apple provides hardware support on the system board for DMA, this will not change. In addi- tion, the NuBus specification does not provide for DMA hardware support. The second is that other bus masters are as fast as the Mac in transferring data across the NuBus. The Mac has a 4-to-1 speed advantage over other masters on the bus. It takes the Mac 50 nanoseconds to arbitrate for the NuBus, while other masters require 200 nanoseconds. Consequent- ly, the Mac is much faster at pulling SCSI data from a slave across the bus to the Mac’s memory than another master is at pushing data into it. All in all, DMA-ing SCSI data across the NuBus to Mac memory buys very little in performance. It’s unfortunate that a powerful technology, like DMA, gets hailed by some manufacturers as the ultimate solution to every performance problem regard- less of the specific situation. And unfortunately for the user, such behavior perpetu- ates the myth that any new technology offers a univer- sal cure to all performance shortcomings. Finally, FirePower, our 68020 Macintosh Applications Platform, was listed in the wrong category. It should be listed under coprocessors. Marsha Moraes Golden Triangle San Diego, California MACWORLD © NOVEMBER 1989 The phone number for Bantam Electronic Publishing (New Products, June 1989) is 800/223-6834, ext. 9479 (212/492-9479 in New York City) The correct phone number Jor the Boston Computer Society Macintosh User Group (‘User Group Directory,” September 1989) is 617/625-7080. The phone number for MacTwain (“User Group Di- rectory,” September 1989) is 209/533-1993. The correct phone number Jor the Chippewa Falls Mac- intosh Users Group (“User Group Directory,” September 1989) is 715/726-2100. ‘The bug in QuarkXPress that caused irregular spacing in justified italic text was fixed in version 2.1 (Letters, Sep- tember 1989). QuarkXPress 2.1 also has a graphics search- and-replace feature that allows you to update or relink graphics to a document. PLYs Disk Drives 5 everal things have changed at PLI since the article “Hard Disk Alterna- tives” [July 1989] was written. One statement was somewhat misleading as well. PLI has discontinued production of its 10MB floppy (continues) 35 disk, the Infinity 10, and has begun shipping the Turbo Floppy 1.4, an external 1.4MB floppy disk upgrade for the Mac Plus and greater. PLI is also introducing the Infinity Optical drive, a rewritable magneto-optical drive The section about 45MB removable hard drives states that “drive utilities from larger vendors (Jasmine, Mass Micro- systems, and Peripheral Land, for example) are often worth several hundred dollars on their own.” The problem with this statement is that Jasmine does not offer a 45MB remov- able, and Mass Microsystems ships only a partitioning pro- gram. On the other hand, Peripheral Land (or PLI, as it is now known) bundles its Turboware utilities—which would cost $436 purchased NORTH separately—with the Infinity 40 Turbo. Tad Shelby PLI Fremont, California Guarding Against Surges | "ve just read Thom Hogan’s column “Keep Your Mac Healthy” [State of the Mac, July 1989]. I've been installing and maintaining electrical and data lines for five years and have a few prescriptions for avoiding power-related problems. First, a hard-wired recep- tacle that replaces an existing wall outlet has a higher level of protection than a protected outlet strip or some other plug- in device. Also, the farther away you install surge arrest- ers from your breaker or fuse box, the better they work. Since surge protectors do e LETTERS = not protect against lightning, avoid using your computer during an electrical storm. If you must stay online, invest in a lightning arrester. You can expect to spend at least $450 for a unit that can handle an average residential service. Computers and peripher- als should be connected to grounded outlets. Don’t assume that equipment is grounded because you've used a receptacle with a third prong for grounding. Have an electrician check it or get an outlet tester. If you use an extension cord, make sure it’s a three-wire cord. Never use a three-prong to two-prong, adapter. If possible, install a dedi- cated circuit for your com- puter and avoid running this wire parallel to other wires. If you must use a nondedicated line, have an electrician check to make sure this circuit is not sharing its neutral (white) wire with another circuit. Static electricity can be as damaging as a surge. Use a static-reducing spray and in- stall a static mat under your chair. If you have a modem, in- vest in a surge arrester for communications equipment. Finally, when cabling a printer or LAN, avoid running the wires parallel to power lines. Thomas Ogryski Shinnston, West Virginia Healthy Skepticism eep Your Mac Healthy” was in the right spirit, but it was poorly executed and The MacMatrix interface comes complete with connecting cable ; and works with all Teshiba 24 pin SL and SX series dot matrix brinters and Macintosh Plus, SE and If PCs with hard disk drives. ‘Apple & Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Comper Inc. For more information call 1800-457 7772 full of misinformation. First, the article suggested that you should leave a hard disk on as much as possible to keep dust off the spinning platter. The hard disk media is in a sealed module through which no air flows. The idea of dust getting in is ludicrous and is certainly no reason to leave a hard disk on continuously (which means you've thrown away many hours of use- ful life). Then you overlook the actual reason smoke and dust are so dangerous to floppies. Ash and dust particles small enough to travel in the air are highly abrasive; your heads and media will be scratched into oblivion long before any mythical layer can build up thick enough to block the signal. And what's this about lightning jumping cables to get to a disconnected com- puter? Electricity follows the path of least resistance to ground. No ground, no path. Yet you leave the impression that there's nothing we can do, and even disconnected equipment is vulnerable to the whims of nature. One moment you're tell- ing us not to vacuum our equipment because we might damage something, and the next you're saying we should open the Mac and use a pen- cil eraser to clean the contacts on the SIMMs. Scratching through the gold plate on the contacts with an eraser guar- antees oxidation and future problems. Why not contact cleaner and a soft cloth? And what about di arg- ing the CRT first? It can keep a lethal charge for days. Ad- vising anyone who doesn’t know any better to poke around inside a Mac is fool- ish and demonstrates reckless disregard. Why no warning? Frank Jaubert Houston, Texas You shouldn't open a Mac Plus or an SE and meddle with its innards—unless you know how to discharge the CRT safely. See the Apple Service: Technical Procedures, Macintosh Family ‘manual for details. Disconnecing just the Mac from wall sockets may not be enough to guard against lightning, because spikes can come into a computer through other equipment (such as a ‘modem or printer) that i till connected. ‘hough coniact deaner may be pref erable for cleaning board edges, most engineers use erasers because they're handier. With rea- sonable care (gently lift off the dirt, don't abrade the contacts), it should work fine —Ed. Lasergrapbics Film Recorder F rom Screen to Slide” July 1989] deserves much credit for its fairness, but we must clarify and correct some information. The first involves the miss- ing lines from the Canvas sail- boat image you tested, which contained requests for unrea- listically thin lines. Since our MacRascol software was de- signed to grant all image requests, it tried to draw these lines, which were so thin as to be invisible. The other film recorders did not obey these image requests, and so did not actually image the boat literally. The new version of MacRascol (1.04) now pro- vides a minimum line-width check that converts such lines (continues) It used to be that when people wanted a printout from their Apple® computer, the first thing they thought of was an Apple printer. But things change. Because now your Macintosh® can give you letter-quality printouts onahigh-resolution 24-pin Toshiba printer—at a cost that’s not much more than a 9-pin Apple printer. Allit takes is our new, low-cost MacMatrix "diskette and connecting cable. In no time at all, MacMatrix can teach your Macintosh to give 5 you crisper, cleaner printouts. With @ features like scaleable outline fonts | and 360x360 DPT graphics. Sobasically what we've come up with is a new twist on an old idea. A teacher for the Apple. : Circle 480 on reader service card. In Touch with Tomorrow TOSHIBA ‘Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Computer Systems Division 7 Apowerlu ment or the Macintosh IIcx. NAssotare = AsHTON TATE PROFESSIONAL the power spreadsheet for the complete Macintosh writing environment presentations that mean business : ize Vi7Sis1=Tel One of the best arguments for owning the new generation of Macintosh’ personal computers is the new generation of Macintosh software. Presenting FullWrite Professional” and Full Impact” from Ashton-Tate? FullWrite Professional combines a full featured set of powerful writing and publishing tools with an interface that’s so easy-to-use, it could only have been written for the Macintosh. 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Blazing through spreadsheets. Or creating professional quality documents that look like they came from a publishing house. And the best way to do just that is to call Corporation. Appl, the Apple lo, Sacintoc and Macintosh 1X are reseed trademarks and The poe ob 0% res iva 1-800-538-9696 for the name of an authorized Apple” reseller who can give you a demonstration of the Macintosh IIcx with Ashton-Tate’s FullWrite Pro- fessional and Full Impact software. We're sure that one demonstration will resolve any arguments you may have been having about which computer you should have. @. The power to be your best” rademarieof Apple Computer uc © ss LETTERS ee to the minimum visible width. The Lasergraphics film recorder was incorrectly de- scribed as having a spot size of 1.7 millimeters, The spot size is actually 1.7 mils (a mil is ‘1000 inch), which is 0.043 millimeters. We now ship our film recorder with a 1.5-amp fuse to prevent the blown fuse caused by turning the record- er on and off too quickly Tracey Farr Hannel Lasergraphics Irvine, California Baud versus BPS | n the sidebar “Data Carri- ers” in your article “Com- municating at Speed” [July 1989], you correctly state that “baud is the same as bps (bits per second) only if each signal represents one bit.” However, you also say that in general, beyond 3000 baud, modems start to use more than 1 bit per baud. I was under the impre: that this occurs at 600 baud, meaning 1200-baud full- duplex modems use two 600- baud channels with each channel using 2 bits per baud, and 2400-baud modems use two 600-baud channels but with each running at 4 bits per baud (one baud be- ing a signal; 2 bits per baud means four distinct tones: one for 00, one for 01, one for 10, and one for 11). Four bits per baud implies 16 tones, currently accepted as the