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MACWORLD The Macintosh Magazine March 1991 $3.95 Canada $4.95 lll mS alin Hh OUR 1158 T0250 HARD ORUES: LAB TEST) MONEY NAGEVIEN » GREAT GRIPS -Nowthe person the presentation can e presentation. The old adage, “If you want something done right, do it yourself” couldn't be more Or, right now, more ible. Tn fact, all you will really need is Microsoft” Power- Point” software and an Apple’ Macintosh to run it. Its the easiest, most cost-efficient way to assemble a professional-look- Microsoft. PowerPoint. lI PowerPoint, the best-selling desktop i ing presentation ition prograt the : Macitosh takes the reset cit from conception to together presentations—even when 5 “Sou have lastminute changes,” COMpletion, and right from your own desktop. PowerPoint gives you the power to create your own picture-perfect overhead transpar- encies, flipcharts, 35mm color slides, speaker notes, and audience handouts. 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At any point along the way, the Slide Sorter feature lets you view slides one by one or scan your entire presentation at a glance, or simply rearrange the order with a point and click. Then, whenever youre ready, you can print out all your presentation materials - from attention-getting overheads to handy speaker notes -without ever leaving your desk. If 35mm slides are in order, simply send your presentation to the nearest Genigraphic$ center, the leading presentation graphics service bureau, and your slides will be on their way in 24 hours. Lastly, last-minute changes need no long- er cause traditional last-minute panic. Because a PowerPoint presentation is as easy to change as it is to create. Tf you'd like a live PowerPoint demonstra- tion, call (800) 541-1261, Dept. P54 for the location of your nearest Microsoft dealer. And remember, the best part of doing a presentation all by yourself comes afterward. When you get all the credit. Making it all make sense For more information, all (800) 541-1261, Dept. P54. In Canada, call (416) 673-7638 Outside the US. and Canada, call (206) $96 86. © 1991 Microsoft Corporation. Micros the Microsoft logo and lemark of Microsoft Corporation. Apple, Macintsh, and Mac are ie ae registered | and Making ital make sense a trade Genigraphcs| ogo and PowerPoint registered trademarks of Apple Computer, nc. Gemsraphis a restered trademark of ] file can view style ANEWTRADEROUTE A direct route should be possible by sailing westward ¢ Shorter, therefore faster and safer ° Hitherto unexploited by the English or Portuguese } New World Expeditions ————— March 14, 1491 = With artfully designed PowerPoint overheads, your presentation will be the center of attention. ‘Draw Color Window PowerPoint™2.0 WORT TRA ‘The PowerPoint Slide Sorter _ a lets you put your presentation in order You'll create 35mm slides in your choice wit ‘a simple point and click. decorator colors with a Mac® II. RRET SHARE 168 million — a The Slide Show featwere turns your ‘Macintosh into a projector—for quick rehearsals or slick on-screen presentations. —— a a rm at sume So s-— ee + Ronen o bow lo baba nd Ferdinand + Congr ham on hi racont viceny ‘oe he Moos + Agee with ts dacon fo stor the inguition + Remind hom hot @ rw word i wating With PowerPoint i’ easy to print out your speaker notes, or handouts with up to two, three, or six slides of your presentation on a page. Your audience will lip over charts like this, created entirely with PowerPoint. On the Cover Intuitive Mac versus inscrutable PC—as the battle continues, we tackle the big question: Which is the better tool for the real world? See page 120. (Photo by David Bishop.) In News These days the Mac Portable is sporting a brighter screen and a nicer price, page 97. 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However, the fu- ture of the company is in limbo as the creditor de- cides what to do. For more information, contact Aapps at 408/735-8550. A Standard Is Born? Over a series of Chinese dinners in San Francisco, executives from multimedia businesses have ham- mered out a rough standard for controlling multi- media devices like VCRs and laser disc players. Spearheaded by MacroMind president Marc Canter, the informal Chinatown Group wants Sony, JVC, and other big hardware companies to adopt the stan- dard, dubbed MacroMedia. Canter’s office refused to give details. Adobe Licenses Storm Technology's Compression Software Storm ‘Technology announced that Adobe has li- censed Storm’s PicturePress JPEG-compatible image- compression software. Adobe is expected to modify the compression technology from PicturePress and incorporate it into PostScript Level I, adding to JPEG’s status as a growing de facto standard. 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Paradigm Software is taking over Object Logo and adding new documentation, sup- port for the new Macs, 32-bit color, and hierarchical menus. Object Logo version 2.5 will list for $149. For more information, contact Paradigm at 617/542-4245. Big Storage Single-user document archiving and storage is here. For $495, Blueridge Technologies’ single-user Optix Desktop Imaging System provides the same features as Blueridge’s $100,000-plus multiuser turnkey sys- tems, Optix can scan batches of documents as large as E-size and save them in TIFF; later, you can index them using pop-up menus, radio buttons, and other standard Mac tools in a data entry window that you design. Optix has image-manipulation tools for ro- tating or unskewing documents and for comparing images, and security features to prevent alteration of scanned images. For more information, contact Blueridge Technologies at 703/675-3015. Data Delivery Three utilities take file-sharing between applications beyond the realm of text files and PICT images. DBMS/Copy Mac can translate files in either direc- tion between Microsoft Excel; Microsoft Works; FoxBase+/Mac; Oracle; seven statistical packages; and Macintosh-, DOS-, and UNIX-format text files. Type of variable, numeric accuracy, and null values are retained where appropriate. DBMS/Copy Mac lists for $95. DBMS/Copy Mac With PC Access Lite lists for $185 and adds bidirectional translation for Mac applications and 26 DOS spreadsheets and da- tabases. DBMS/Copy Mac With PC Access lists for $290 and adds support for DOS statistics, time se- ries, graphics, and other applications. For more in- formation, call Conceptual Software at 713/667-4222. Tax to the Future The millennium may be close at hand, but paying taxes is still a certainty. SoftView’s 1990 version of MacInTax “interviews” you to make sure you fill out the correct forms, and there are now 14 state sup- plements available. MacInTax lists for $99; 1989 users can renew for $50. For more information, call SoftView at 805/385-5000. Radius Adapts the Pivot for Built-In Video Radius has introduced a version of its Pivot tilting monitor that can work with the Macintosh Isi and Ici. Since both systems use Apple’s on-board 8-bit video chip, the Radius Pivot For Built-In Video does not require a display adapter board. The new Pivot has a suggested list price of $1295, which is $395 less than the existing Pivot including display adapter. Radius says that it changed the timing in the display and wrote a driver called Soft Pivot, which incorpo- rates a pixel-rotation engine. Soft Pivot intercepts QuickDraw calls and rotates the bitmap 90 degrees before it goes to the Pivot’s screen. For more infor- mation, contact Radius at 408/434-1010. Farallon Takes Over PC AppleTalk Farallon Computing and Apple Computer have signed a long-term licensing agreement that enables Farallon to develop and market current AppleTalk products for IBM PCs and compatibles. Included in the license are the Local Talk PC Card, Apple’s add- in LocalTalk board for PCs, and Apple's AppleShare client software for MS-DOS, AppleShare PC. Those products will be renamed, sold, and supported by Farallon. Farallon plans to use the licensed technol- ogy to develop AppleTalk products for MS-DOS and Windows 3.0. For more information, contact Farallon at 415/596-9100. Strata Paints the Town Strata is branching out from 3-D modeling for the Mac. StrataVision Paint is capable of 64-bit color, though the Mac does not support 64-bit color and Apple has not announced 64-bit-color plans. StrataVision Paint has a few 3-D primitives (objects are not compatible with StrataVision 3d); ink- and watercolor-like tools; and a Light Table for back- lighting and tracing or painting on translucent over- lays. The program can create shaders such as bump maps for use in StrataVision 3d, and it supports masking, several levels of antialiasing, and separa- tions. The program lists for $695. For more informa- tion, contact Strata at 801/628-5218. First Impressions With 24-bit color becoming standard (and 64-bit color a-threatening), file sizes are getting downright preposterous. Impressit is a software-only utility that compresses color images by as much as 95 percent. Radius claims that its JPEG-compatible Impressit can compress a 24-bit '640-by-480-pixel file in six seconds on a Mac Ilcx. Users can select from 25 quality levels, see the results in a preview window, and incorporate a decompression engine into a file (somewhat like AutoUnstuffit). Impressit should list for less than $200. For more informa- tion, contact Radius at 408/434-1010. Minding Your Ps Neon Software is developing network-analysis soft- ware for LocalTalk networks. Network managers can tell NetMinder LocalTalk to filter and record pack- ets based on source and destination address, packet protocol, and such triggers as network events. NetMinder LocalTalk also provides tools to search and analyze captured packets, It lists for $395. Ne- on also publishes NetMinder Ethernet for $495. For more information, contact Neon Software at 415/283-9771. MACWORLD + MARCH 1991 Even before the Macintosh Clas- sic® & its new companions came along to wow the reviewers with heroic price/performance ratios, UltraPaint was keeping them plenty busy. “As advertised, Deneba’s UltraPaint...really does set new Macintosh graphics stan- dards”, wrote Ernest Mau of CompuServe. “..Many more B&W paint features than SuperPaint, almost all of PixelPaint’s color tools, a superset of MacDraw II's object-oriented features, and the gray-scale prowess of Digital Darkroom. All this comes in a single program for less than half the price...”, wrote David Pogue in MacWorld. Perhaps Chris Prior of MacUser UK summed it up best when he wrote that “UltraPaint...could prove to be the ideal software package for those looking for a powerful, all- around draw and paint program.” And it’s true. UltraPaint really does offer you the same sophisticated graphics pro- cessing power of several leading programs combined — all in one inexpensive, easy-to-use package. Open it up on one of Apple’s new low-cost machines and we're talking a match made in heaven. Particularly if you've always pictured heaven as a place where you get big muscles without having to pay the price. WE'LL PAY YOU $25 FOR BEING SMART. Purchase UltraPaint and a Macintosh Classic, LC, or Ilsi between October 15, 1990 and May 31, 1991, and receive a $25.00 rebate direct from Deneba. Simply send a copy of your qualifying Mac registration card, your original Ultra- Paint registration card, and dated proof of purchase for both to our main address.We'll send a check for $25 US by return mail! See below for further details VLTRA LOW COST INTEGRATED GRAPHICS FROM Deneha s0vriwirt 3905 NORTHWEST 74TH AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA 33122. PH: (305) 594-6965. FAX: (205) 477-5794 Rebate offer valid in the USA and Canada only, and limited to one (1) qualifying CPU/UitraPaint combination, Rebate cannot be combined with any other offer and is not available with specially priced educational or promotional versions of UltraPaint. Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery. Offer expires May 31, 1991. ©1991 Deneba Systems, Inc. UltraPaint™ is a trademark of Deneba Systems, Inc. SuperPaint™ & Digital Darkroom™ are trademarks of Sili- con Beach Software. MacDraw@ is a registered trademark of Claris Corp. Pixel Paint™ is a trademark of SuperMac Technology. Macintosh® is a regis- tered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. ‘ , Circle 346 on reader service card Montgomery Smith Executive VP. Backstrom Senior V.P. Our new PostScript compatible color printers start at $4995, Where they go after that is up to you. Now you can let your imagination run wild. Ata —_mal-wax color as only Tektronix printers can. very conservative price. Because Tektronix For bigger businesses, we offer the new Phaser introduces the first color printer that is PostScript- _ II PX. This printer is hardware-based PostScript- compatible for less than $5000. compatible with HP-GL and is licensed by The Phaser II SX is great for individuals or small Pantone, Inc.* It also works with Macs, PCs, and groups. It works with Windows 3.0 or Macintosh UNIX workstations. All at once. QuickDraw and is software-based PostScript- Now, say you buy an SX, your business grows, compatible. It also delivers brilliant 300 dpi ther- and you end up wishing you'd gotten the PX. No check sundardmademast for clr eproducton and colar reproduction matenls epterd tadematk of Adche Systems, In. Phaser i trademark of Teron, nc Cepyighto 19 Tekooiy, ne Al ighs reer. need to worry because all Tektronix printers are can make a statement this bold. upgradable so you'll never outgrow them. Printout for printout, ad for ad, you won't find And in case you didn't notice, this entire ad was a better color printer. Call 1-800-835-6100, created by one of our printers. That includes Dept. 13C for more information. The the brilliant graphics you see above and j rest is up to you. the crisp type you're reading now. Because = we ae ines faith in our color printers, eh Tektron we let them do their own ads. No one else Circle 143 on reader service card ee The best and the brightest. “Connect with Paris as easily as Purchasing.” “QuickMail™ users have redefined workgroups to include c clients, partners and prospects, folks down the hall or up and down the coast. It’s collaborative computing with point and click simplicity. Send a message, a docu- ment, ora whole file to everyone you work h. Connect through commercial online » remote QuickMail networks 01 in the world with one stroke. Add gateways to your ma VAX?!" or NetWare MHS." TCP/IP, ily. No other ame, “Get the features that really make E-mail deliver.” “Features that make workgroup easy to ma your extended you the status of all your m who hasn’t. Sort mail and file it in personal P.O. Box 65st of CESof Get it together. “See workgroups differently with QuickMail 2.2.” “Go to a dealer and try it.” Versions for the Macintosh® and PC. Sug- gested retail price: Version 2.2, 10 user pak: $499,95. Free literature and where }-7638, Dept. CE34. mail folders so you can track conversations or projects. Retrieve messages oreven ‘unsend’ them.” “And features that make ite: The QuickMail Menu'is always there so you can send a quick message, attach your open document or up to 90 seconds of mail, set up an impromptu online conference, post a notice to your whole directory ora pre-set group, or send mail for delayed de- livery all without leaving your applica “No wonder it’s the world’s most popular.” “QuickMail is working for overa quarter million users in 60 countries. It got the highest E-mail rating for PC or Mac from InfoWorld, who states, ‘CE Software's Quick Aail reign: supre go. Mee sioner CESOFTWARE2 Connecting people and productivity. ‘oftheir respective compares Circle 338 on reader service card COMMENTARY == How Does Apple Deal with Success? In FiscaAL 1991 AppLE COMPUTER WILL SHIP OVER 1 MILLION MACINTOSHES BY JERRY BORRELL omewhere in the steamy heat of an Asian morning, a cargo plane sits on a corner of a vast, white concrete runway, its cargo doors propped open for the pallet-loads of Macintosh Classics being loaded into its belly. Q: Just how many Classics does it take to fill a 747? A: That's the wrong question. The right question is how long does it take for a cargo ship-borne container of Macs to reach Cupertino. The answer? Three months. Apple doesn’t have that kind of time on its hands. Initial projections for sales of the Mac Classic were about 450,000 for the 1991 fiscal year. By the end of the first fiscal quarter of 1991, Apple had already sold or taken orders for close to half that number, some- where around 220,000. The LC, with sales projected at similar numbers (over 400,000) for the fiscal year, may be the same kind of runaway hit—if Apple is able to begin shipping it in quantity as planned in February. Meanwhile, the SE/30 is strictly on back order at dealers in the United States, while sales of the ci and fx continue to fare well. Apple is seemingly on the way toward solving what critics say is one of its most severe problems: shrinking or flat growth in the person- al computer market. Naturally, Apple has received the kind of press attention about the en- tire state of affairs that makes employees question just how the company catches so many bad breaks. ‘A Wall Street Journal headline on one article screamed “Demand Turns New Macintosh into Rare Apple.” The theme of the article was that someone in product planning at Apple had screwed up again. It included lots of words and phrases like missing, widespread shortage, frustrated dealers, critical, long-term survival, dealers howling, spending huge sums on ads,...You get the picture. A San Jose Mercury News article headlined “Demand for Apple’s Mac Classic ex- ceeds supply” mentioned that “dealers are really mad.” Apple employees had to be won- dering why the headline didn’t read “At last, Mac is runaway succt but instead focused on the negative side of the wide acceptance for the com- pany’s latest product offerings. That happens to Apple a lot these days, bad press generated by even its most promising successes. What's Going On? The established product line—SE/30, ci, and fx—continue to sell well, but the demand for the new machines has wrought a new company (in terms of its sales) in just a few months. For its first quarter, Apple’s product mix (the type of CPUs that it sells) is 80 percent different from that of the previous quarter. Demand for the Classic and LC is also hot in Europe, and key- boards and mice are in short supply. Dealers there complain that they cannot sell the few machines they have because they are not complete sys- tems—a problem being alleviated by MACWORLD * MARCH 1991 increasing the number of contract suppliers to Apple. Then there is the issue of how the market decides what a particular machine is going to be used for. While Apple initially hoped to sell the Classic to businesses and tried to position the machine as a small-business computer, it is clear that the majority of Classic sales are to those of us who want a Mac at home but can’t afford to drop $4000 on a color machine. So Apple continues to sell to its traditional cus- tomer base—home users. I hope that in this go-around Apple realizes that home computing is an important part of its business, and that many, if not most, home users also use their ma- chines for business. How the Company Is Catching Up Needless to say, this success has the company in a furious pace of planning and activities. One answer to the overwhelming demand is a dramatic expansion of Apple's manufacturing capability, Over the past year Apple has doubled the physical space given over to its manufacturing processes. Both the Cork, Ireland, and the Sin- gapore manufacturing facilities have built huge additions to their already impressively large plants. Initially the Classic was to be pro- duced in Singapore, the LC in Cork, and the si in Fremont, California. Then demand picked up and three shifts (round-the-clock) in Singapore were planned to catch up on the demand for Classics. Then Apple realized that sea shipments would lag, so it intro- duced air freighting. Now the Classic is being produced both in Asia and in Europe, at Apple’s Cork facility. And (continues) “I ¥ this Our valued customers think so. The experts agree. Let them tell you why. 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The permutations of com- puters, peripherals, and configurations are already confusing. It’s clear that Apple will have to perform some sub- stantive overhaul of its dealer channel. And by that I don’t mean simply re- ducing the number of dealers (again) based upon how many Macs they sell (a policy that has reduced the number of dealers in the smaller or regional markets that Apple already serves so poorly). An indication of the confusion, or perhaps of the number of opportuni- ties that Apple has created, is the few add-on products that have been an- nounced for the Classic, LC, and s Only recently have manufacturers been able to create new add-on prod- ucts for the Classic and si. Growth May Hit 20 Percent Apple’s revenues could grow to nearly $7.5 billion this year, Significant growth that should be returned to product engineering and develop- ment. 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NOW THATS COMPATABILITYI DesignCAD offers fully integrated 3D geometry! Need 3D capability? Great! Look at how DesignCAD fully integrates its very powerful 3D mathematical foundation with excellent 2D drafting attributes, which are in a league all of their own, offering first-rate ease of learning and use. DesignCAD is easy to use! Tests prove that DesignCAD’s user-friendly interface allows you to quickly produce com- plicated drawings in a fraction of the time required from the competition. Flexibility and power found within DesignCAD means you save time and money! DesignCAD is truly the CAD system that ANYONE can use! The Power of Intelligence! only $699 Features Include: © Floating-Point precision © Math coprocessor support © Automatic & Associative © 256 Layers © Cubic Spline Geometry © Bi-Cubic Surface Geometry © Trimming © Related and/or Auto- Update Viewing © “ReatTime Rotation” © Automatic Hidden-Line Removal © Wireframe or Solids © Perspective or Ortho- Dealers Circle 336 on reader service card End Users Circle 337 on reader service card The list goes on and on! For a closer look, contact your local Apple Authorized Dealer or call us: 918/825-4848 FAX 918/825-6359 DesAgnCAD inc. 327 South Mill © Pryor, OK 74361 © 918/825-4848 WARD SCHUMAKER Curley, Larry, and Mac he three stooges are alive, and going by the names of Classic, LC, and Ilsi. In 1986 Apple had the. right machine at the wrong price, but now, four years and alittle cosmetic work on the Plus later, they give us the wrong machine at the right price. (After all, it does have a 7-year-old CPU.) The best thing the introduction of the LC will accomplish is to stimulate the market for used Mac IIs. (The wisdom of providing slots but re- quiring adapters to use them still escapes me.) Ac- tually the IIsi, being the easiest to fix, is not so bad. A simple spacer to expand the case back to full-height will solve most of its prob- lems. It offers value with the least compromise and few- est gimmicks. Best of all, it’s the only one of the three that’s not obsolete right out of the box. Paul Looney Los Angeles, California Unfounded ELF Scare? n your Commentary (December 1990) you have become an unwitting contributor to an un- founded fear of ELF elec- tromagnetic fields. At worst, this scare is equivalent to the “cold fusion” euphoria of two years ago, and at best it represents irrespon- sible science and journal- ism. My assessment is based on calculations of field C-) LETTERS strengths and currents using standard electromagnetic theory and known electri- cal properties of cells. I re- fer the technically trained reader to a convincing presentation of these cal- culations and results by Robert K. Adair in Physics and Society, volume 19, number 4, October 1990, published by the American Physical Society. Harmon W. Hubbard Los Angeles, California VDT Victim? may be one of the “early” victims of VDT radiation. I was a fanatical computer hacker in the 1980s, and all that I know or have done for the last 10 years is with computers. In 1986 I had a malignant cancer removed from my eyelid, near the tear duct. My doctor suggests it was caused by exposure to. the sun, but I am a fair- skinned redhead and take precautions in the sun. I suspect the cause could be linked with overexposure to VDT screens. Three cheers for your efforts to let others know of possible hazards. Carol Barnaly British Columbia, Canada Misfortune 500 | ncreasingly, Macworld seems to be talking to a different Mac world—either the very elite or those in big, business. As a home user, it concerns me that each issue appears to be catering less to the individual user’s needs and more to corpora- tions or multiuser setups. Not all of your readers have fx’s connected to multigiga- byte drives, newspaper-size color monitors, flatbed scan- ners, MIDI synchronizers, state-of-the-art video sys- tems, and a coffee machine. Do my SMB cx, ImageWriter LQ, 40MB drive and 2400- baud modem make me the sole candidate for the mis- fortune 500? Dale Mullen Nova Scotia, Canada MACWORLD + MARCH 1991 We make a concerted effort to meet the needs of home users too. “ls Your Mac Obsolete?” February 1990, which covered upgrade strategies, is only one example of features geared to- ward the more basic system. Our regular How To columns, Insights, Quick Tips, and Getting Started, also provide information useful for the beginner to ad- vanced user, and the New Products column covers prod- ucts in every price range—Ed. (continues) Corrections MacBulletin (December 1990) incorrectly stated that Ariel Corporation is the only digital signal pro- cessing board based on the Motorola DSP56001 chip, intended for use with the Mac Il. Digidesign also ships 56001-based DSP boards. In our September 1990 article, “Best Buys in Low- Capacity Drives,” the per- (Continues) 2 ‘taxes. “While all the tricks of anaccountant, itincorporates the care that only you can have for your hard- earned money. Tt guides you through preparing a tax return step by step. More than 60 commonly used forms, ‘your taxes. Or sit 1doing your taxes yourself, and end up wishing youd paid someone to Introducing the third and better hedules and worksheets are included. If you run into tough tax termi- nology, Turbolax will use a hypertext ‘Turbolax! The tax preparation software designed for your Macintosh; that’ like having someone to help you, and hold your hand while you format to translate it into easy English. 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When you spend about $89 for our program, youre part of a program, Because TurboTax is offered to you every year after at half price. by your software store, or call us at (800) 745-8829 Ask about the whole family of ChipSoft products, including our 10 interfaceable State Programs and an Electronic Filing Option. You'll find out why over 3 million returns were prepared with TurboTax last year alone. Or, for that matter, why more PC users use Turbolax than any other tax software. Circle 147 on reader service card ry our award- Now TurboTax has come to the " Winning tax preparation software, drop Macintosh. And, for even more people, thankfully, taxes will never be the same again. Chit formance figures for the GCC UltraDrive 45 (S) and the GCC UltraDrive 40 (Q) were transposed. The H-Server from Solana Electronics (“Net- working for the Novice,” December 1990) is $2195. The president of New Era (“The Year in Review,” January 1991) is Dean Meyers. Sal Patalano is the vice president. We incorrectly listed the makers of SimCity in Best Sellers, January 1991, The software is produced by Maxis. The price for Address Book Plus 2.0 from Power Up Software (Updates, Jan- uary 1991) is $99.95. The company’s phone number is 415/345-5900. Craig Hickman is no longer selling KidPix directly (Conspicuous Consumer, Cc) -_-e————emecmmmmmamms | ET TE RS mummnmmmesemseencmenensneeeenennmmen— January 1991). Starting in February, an expanded version will be available through Broderbund. Also mentioned was Easy Enve- lopes+ 2.02; it has no limit on the number of search- able addresses. Reality Check ] think our Mac vendors need a reality check. An 80286 NuBus board retails. for approximately $1400, yet you can purchase an 80286 PC clone with 1MB memory, 40MB hard disk, monitor, and keyboard for $1200. Who in their right mind would purchase the NuBus? Recently I read that one vendor was going to offer an 80386SX add-in board for $2300. Well, you can pur- chase a 16MHz 80386 PC clone with 2MB memory, a 40MB hard disk, monitor, and keyboard for $1800. 1 think there's a screw loose somewhere. No wonder the IBM/Microsoft/clonemaker combination is kicking our behinds. Trevor LeGall Bloomfield, New Jersey CPU Scoop | am really ticked with you guys. For months now, I have been waiting fora report on the three new Mac CPUs to help me choose my next purchase. I finally got the November issue in the mail and still saw nothing. ‘Then one day, I walked intoa local bookstore and saw a and copies only” edi- tion of the November issue. This version had a major ar- ticle describing the new Mac systems in full. Special newsstand only is- sue?! If anybody should get the special issues, it should be loyal subscribers, William Bruchert Chicago, Illinois We were able to publish a sneak preview only in our newsstand issues because of press embargo dates related to Apple's an- Nouncements—our subscribers receive their issues a week or more before newsstand readers. Sorry! We hope you liked the in-depth coverage in Decem- ber—Ed. Depreciating the SE have finally had it with Apple. I bought the Mac SEone yearorso ago and had itonly two months before the SE0 came out, immediately depreciating my SE by about $400. Now with its new line of (continues) Turn Your Network Into a Work of Ar DataClub How would you like a Macintosh” network that runs astonishingly fast, becomes more powerful as it grows, and never goes down? You can have all this and more with DataClub™ — the breakthrough in file server software. More users means more power. DataClub harnesses the combined processing and storage capacity of all the Macs in the network. 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Box 51666 Boulder, CO 80321-1666 card get away... jAepo} \yeus pue yoeieg ORT EAA Now youcan travel from here to there with twice the horsepower. Getting from your Macintosh to virtually any fax machine in the world is now a lot faster. Because the new 9600-bps Abaton InterFax"24/96 gets your message across twice as fast as before. And since the InterFax software compresses the file before sending it out, you spend even less time faxing than with any other 9600-bps fax/modem. But we didn't just double the raw output speed, we made it easier to use. We included direct scan support, so you can fax art and photos straight from the scanner with excellent resolu- tion. We also made the software easier to use— it’s as simple as printing to any printer. And we made the InterFax work in background (with or without Multifinder), so you can get back to work while your Mac faxes. You can even schedule when faxes are sent to take advantage of lower phone rates. Asan added plus, the new InterFax also works as a 2400-bps Hayes-compatible data modem with MNP 5 error correction. All these features together made MacUser name the InterFax 24/96 the best communication product of 1989. Ifyou want to get from here to wherever with twice the horsepower, call Abaton at 1-800-444-5321 (In Canada, \MacUser 1-800-663-5161) or fax a note and your business card to (415) 683-2956. The new InterFax 24/96 will make your ideas easier to publish. Anywhere. Abaton iteMake oro Pach WINNER Introducing the Interfax 24/96 CPUs Apple is going to turn the screw again. Apple does not care about loyalty and makes it impossible for the small business or the home computer user to keep up. with growing technology. Timm Gearbart Thomson, Georgia A Matter of Bits he 68020 is a full 32-bit data address device. Lon Poole refers to it as a 16-bit data device (“The Macintosh Family Evolves,” December 1990). Better re- tract this unless you know of a new variation of the 68020. Ray Houghion Portland, Oregon The 68020 CPU does process data 32 bits at a time once the data is in the CPU. However, the CPU must access memory twice for each 32 bits because the LC's C-) $$ rrr | ETT ERS rr 68020 has a 16-bit data path for moving data between the CPU and memory.—Ed. Privacy and Prodigy hank you for Steven Levy's Iconoclast col- umn in your January 1991 issue. It’s nice to see some- thing in print regarding Prodigy’s contempt for its subscribers’ privacy and free speech. The online commu- nity cannot allow the dan- gerous precedent that Prod- igy has set to stand. Dave Walker Ecorse, Michigan Wake Up and Smell the Carbide | n your News story (No- vember 1990) you printed a photo of a Union Carbide plant captioned “ ygy- using Union Carbide plant in Bound Brook, New Jersey. 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I live less than 2 miles away from this plant and I can tell you that sever- al months ago, Riverview Diner, located across from the chemical plant, was de- molished because Union Carbide “allegedly” used that land to illegally dump toxins (asbestos fibers, mostly) 1 don’t have any gripe about Syzygy, but the Union carbide plant mentioned has been an environmental eye- sore to the community since the day it went up. Steve Godun Piscataway, New Jersey Union Carbide declined to re- spond.—Ed. Spelling Checker Shenanigans 4 spelling check on a AL recent document I was working on questioned my se of the word childcare. The editors of Microsoft's dictionary, however, were able to offer only one alterna- tive: kidnapper. Dave Grupper Brooklyn, New York Letters should be mailed to Let- ters, Macworld, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to CompuServe (70370,702) or MCI Mail (284- 8078). Please include a return address. 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