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In News RasterOps brings slide scanning to the low end with its $999 Expresso. See page 149, DEPART How to Contact Macworld ......................006 12 URED TIGL epee te oaaeedeeadocnnadadespeuneoscor 1] Commentary/Jerry Borrell................c0seeeeaee 23 A guide to Boston’s best at the Macworld Expo. CLUCTR aN ne te aN MN diana kee a 37 Ati Beatiaay) cedi2t....cesva chiens noe aoe eer 55 By Cathy Abes Theslennarlaste.. sfc ccc cette eee eee 61 By Steven Levy Behind the hype for virtual reality. Conspicuous Consumer.................0..0eee eee nN By Deborah Branscum Protecting yourself when buying by mail order. News ft. .6s. 3. eer ee 149 By Dan Littman and Tom Moran (HTS <-> jhe ae 265 10 0G er 215 By Lon Poole ‘How To/Getting Started with Image Processing ....... 291 By Jim Heid Where to Buy......... ..gAteeeeaees. 9... 309 Best-Sellers... a we SW... 370 MACWORLD + NOVEMBER 1991 Macworld the Macintosh® Magazine November Multimedia Design Tools Need an authoring environment for a multimedia project? See page 194. OCR: Teaching Your Mac to Read................... 169 By Deke McClelland Optical character recognition sounds promising, but how does it look once you've scanned pages of text into your Mac? We evaluate eight packages to help you decide whether OCR delivers the performance you need. Fast-Forward Storage ...............0cceeeee eee es 116 By Tom Negrino Macworld Lab's annual tape-drive marathon of more than 50 models turns up a wide range of lower-priced, higher-capacity backups. Straightforward Accounting ......... By Stephen L. Nelson Wetally the pluses software so you can find the right package to run your business. Multimedia Design Tools ..... By Nick West .. 186 accounting il minuses of M . 194 Integrating sound, text, graphics, animation, and video into one amless environment can be a challenging task. We help you choose the appropriate authoring tool for your project. Building a Better Network .................. By Dave Kosiur You're rapidly outgrowing your network— we 202 d you've got the user complaints to prove it. Here’s how to resolve those networking nightmares and keep your system running smoothly. MACWORLD + NOVEMBER 1991 1991 Microsoft Project 1.1 ......210 Project-management software. DesignStudio 2.0 Page-layout software. EGAAT Option Module and SoftPC for the ClassiglC 2.0 224 IBM PC AT emulation. BIP Elite .. Laser printer. MacDraw Pro 1.0vl .. Draw program. Enhance 2.0 Gray-scale-scan editor. ReadingMaze 1.0 ......... 233 Preschool-to-clementary reading drills, The Geometer’s Sketchpad 1.01 Geometry-teaching program. Meeting Maker and Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0 .......... 239 Group schedulers. CodeCheck 3.01 . C programming tool. DS-3000 Color Scanner and Niscan Spectra .. Low:price color scanners. StatView Student 1.0 ...... 244 College-level statistics instruction. Read My lips 22 ......... 246 Sound-annotation software. At Your Service 1.0 ...... Animated talking utility. Tesserae 1.04 .... Tile game. MIBAC Music Lessons 1.01 . . .260 Music-theory drills. SimMac 3.1 ...... Mac-to-IBM mainframe com- munications. MousePenMac and MVP Mouse ............. 255 Alternative input devices. Beaker 20 etn esse 257 Organic chemistry expert systent. Electronic Workbench 1.5 . .259 Educational circuit-modeling program. The Desktop Critic ........ 261 Calendar 1.8; Calendar Creator 1.0; CalendarMaker 3.0.1; My- TimeManager 3.5.8; Alarming Events; Smart Alarms 3.0.7; Ren- dezvous-Plus 3.02; AgentDA 1.. CalenDAr 1.1.2; Remember Easy Alarms 1.0. At any price, Dynodex is the best address manager for the Macintosh. Now trade up for $49, Harry je sis Dynodex 2.0 is the easy-to-use address manager that offers more speed, power, and printing abilities than any other. It's for anyone who makes a phone call, mails a letter, or keeps an address list. Arrange your names to suit you. Dynodex manages your contacts better than any other address book manager. Search for that key supplier in Seattle. Select and print a list of all your friends on the West Coast. Keep pages of notes on each person. All at speeds that other programs can't touch. Locate people when your Mac is off. Not everyone has their computer on all day. And yet there are times when you need a phone number instantly. Dynodex comes to the rescue. Dynodex prints Rolodex® cards and double- ingi sided address books (for Day Runner®, Day- ae oii us a ee foontnniag Ti, Fla’, or any onpnizes.Dyodex ‘ everyone tries to onganize prints it all—even mailing labels and erwvelopes! addresses on the computer. Dynodexmakesit, umtsitall—even eS easy to import your existing list, whether — from HyperCard, FileMaker, orevenWond, \ 252— ey ‘Try Dynodex for 30 days risk-free. We're so sure you'll agree that Dynodex is the best address manager around that we welcome you to try it risk-free. Ifyou have your addresses. Dynodex 2.0 contains both an application and DA, ‘0 you're never very far from your contacts. \ | Seer a in any other program (even HyperCard), duiztivenooinm DPYNODEX After’30 days, ifyou don't agree with these og The Real Contacts Database™ “Ifyou have an organizer, you have to have industry leaders, return it for a full refund: “*,. .Dynodex is our clear choice. ..” —MacWeek Dynodex and DynoPage.” “Iwas never really organized until I got — Jean-Louis Gassée, Be Systems Dynodex. Whether on screen or paper, “,. has elegant written all over it.” Dynodex is with me daily.” — Steve Bobker, MacUser Magazine — David Schargel, President, Aladdin Systems Droudexsikctee O0O-SAY-DYNO s0v.r2035 PE e eee eee eee Had vat Dymves2.0for 848. pe AGS, Tminteesed Send me the 2X5) Also enclosed isthe ttle page M9295) free Dynodex2.0 demo disk. ¥ / from my old address manager. | | iv v6 YES! ot. 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And then I showed them the kinds of reports they could get, using data stored in Fox or dBASE IV/III+ files on the PC. You could have heard a pin drop. Then they were all over me with questions, so , 1 just handed them rie EACTANLEDETE THemDrA FragranP Tet” UNnAGU! the FoxBASE+/Mac Serr « ia manuals and smiled. Besides not being in MIS, I'm not a profes- sional programmer, so you can tell how easy FoxBASE+/Mac is. For the inventory system, I just used Corvette ZR=1 State-of-the-art road trasportation Good for fast starts and quick getaways, Fly to your nearest dealer to test drive this little beatity. Standard features include: wider tires, leather interior, CD player HUD Panel electronic alarm system and timed exhaust. New for this year: FullStealth system. BeSesE Full Review Specifications Performance Competitive Reports I brought in my own one’s S FoxBASE+/Mac to read the database files they had on the PC (it reads Fox and dBASE IV/III+ files directly ). I added a memo field into which I cut and pasted pictures that our DTP department had for our customer literature. Then I used the MacDraw-like screen painter to create a great color Mac output screen. The sales analysis was easy, too. I had to create new screens but FoxBASE+/Mac ran the rest of the dBASE III+ program Now. They're building Hypercard-like applica- tions I see people using all over the place. Accounting likes all of this because the single-user version lists for $495, and the unlimited Multi-User version is only $695. And even the PC programmers are happy. I hear them talking about things like the great trace and debugging facilities, adding XCMDs and XFCNs, the dBASE-like prog | language, System 7 compatibility, full file and just fine. (It typically runs as much as 95% of standard FoxBASE+/PC and dBASE Ill+ code with no changes.) And I built the reports I showed them from scratch. With no program- FoxBASE+ 4 Omnis § Double Helix Change data in Large non-indexed search & subtotal a 130 | Add Data an indexed field SE 1 230 505 0% 4 8 2 1 0 86 40 1 & 100 ming at all. If you're looking for a better way to manage your data, call Fox Software and ask for their free demo. It limits the number of records you can store, but is the full program, so you can check it all out for yourself on your applications. Around here, MIS has been pretty busy the last few weeks. They've hooked up Macs and PCs on an Ethernet network and our information and data processing systems are looking great. As MacUser said, with FoxBASE+/Mac “data handling is extremely fast.” record locking in the multi-user version, and how FoxBASE+/Mac is “so astound- ingly fast for a Mac.” Everyone seems to be laughing more now, too. Call 1-800-837-FOX2 or 419-874-0162 today for a free, full-featured demo. 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QMS said that it has elimi- nated the AppleTalk problem on currently shipping units and that users of an older PS 410 or PS 815 with the problem can request a corrected ROM from QMS technical support. The older units, unlike other Adobe PostScript printers, cannot print TrueType fonts, but that has also been corrected in shipping models and QMS is working on getting a ROM fix to customers, according to the company. In addition, the printers print some characters slightly differently because their controller uses the ATM font-scaler for better speed and improved quality, QMS said. A QMS representative character- ized the difficulties as the result of adding new fea- tures to the printers’ controller. QMS and Adobe representatives denied reports that the printers did not contain true Adobe PostScript. If you are expe- riencing these problems, contact QMS technical support at 205/633-4500. Apple Repairing Defective CD ROM Drives Dust accumulating on the laser’s lens can interfere with older AppleCD SC drives’ ability to read CD ROMs. Apple will repair drives exhibiting read problems if those drives were manufactured before December 1989 and have serial numbers beginning with F7, F8, or F9. The company is also reimburs- ing owners who paid to repair out-of-warranty ‘drives. For more information, contact your dealer or write AppleCD Repair Extension Program, RO. Box 78901, New Augusta, Indiana 46278. Glitches in NEC CDR-72 CD ROM Drives Some units of NEC’s CDR-72 CD ROM drive have problems that can cause the Mac to crash when trans- ferring files or programs that are larger than 250K to a hard drive, the company recently confirmed. The problems affect some, but not all, drives with serial numbers that begin with 0009 through 00Z, according to NEC. For more information, contact NEC CD ROM technical support at 800/632-4636. The Long Arm of the LAN MacVonk USA plans to publish NetOctopus, a net- work-management tool that permits a network ad- ministrator to copy and delete files on other people's Macs. The administrator can perform such routine tasks as synchronizing all the Mac’s clocks and in- stalling current printer drivers. NetOctopus can gather a wide range of information about how Macs are configured—for example, it can report on the kind of monitor, number and kind of SCSI devices, and System Folder contents—and present the infor- mation in tables that can be sorted by user, by data type, and so on. NetOctopus’s control-panel interface gives network users control over the administrator’s privileges, and it does not permit the administrator to read the contents of files. NetOctopus lists for $645 for the manager software and ten client in- stallations; additional clients are $275 for five. MacVonk is at 215/660-0606. The Future of Ashton-Tate As of late August Borland International’s acquisi- tion of Ashton-Tate had not been finalized, but the deal appears likely to go through. Ashton-Tate says it is upgrading its word processor FullWrite and spreadsheet Full Impact to run under System 7, but sources inside the company are pessimistic and expect Borland to kill the products. Borland would not comment about FullWrite and Full Impact but says it will probably maintain dBase on all plat- forms, including the Mac. Troubled Ehman Seeks Partner Macintosh peripheral manufacturer Ehman reports that it is working to overcome a recent cash-flow problem. A lost line of credit coupled with an inven- tory problem contributed to backlogs in ship- ping new products, while management problems delayed warranty repair, according to sources at the company. By publication time, the repair backlog should be resolved, company president Michael Ehman says. He also says that negotia- tions are under way with another manufacturer to help Ehman ease the backlog in orders for its products. For more information, contact Ehman at 307/789-3830 or 800/257-1666. Adobe Type 1 Back on Macs Apple has announced plans to release an upgrade to System 7 that will support both Apple’s own ‘TrueType font format and Adobe’s industry-standard ‘Type 1 format. The upgrade will allow Macs to dis- play Type 1 fonts on screen and print them without (continues) MACWORLD = NOVEMBER 1991 7 7 $m MAC BU LL ET | Nem Adobe Type Manager (ATM). Until the upgrade is ready, Apple plans to distribute a version of ATM. Apple intends to continue developing TrueType- based products. For Armchair Geographers MacGlobe, from PC Globe, combines world and re- gional maps with a lot of information that can be displayed on maps and studied. For example, you can bring up a map of Southeast Asia and color each country according to population density or how much rice it produces. MacGlobe provides maps of elevation and natural features as well as political maps. It can display information in bar charts, show the location of 1612 major cities, and display coun- tries’ flags and play their national anthems. MacGlobe’s database cannot be altered. MacGlobe lists for $79.95. PC Globe is at 602/730-9000. New Life for Old ROMs Apple is responding to recent criticism (see MacBulletin, August 1991) that 32-bit dirty ROMs in the Mac II, IIx, Icx, and SE/30 do not support Sys- tem 7’s large amounts of physical and virtual memory. Apple plans to develop a software patch for the ROMs; meanwhile, it is distributing Connectix’s ROM patch, Mode32, at no charge. People who purchased Mode32 before September 5 can get a refund from Apple by calling 800/776-2333 before December 31. Jasmine's Hard Times At press time, Jasmine Technologies was not accept- ing product orders or allowing customers to return products for repairs. The company is down to seven employees and faces a $6 million lawsuit from a former landlord. “We don’t have the money to fight it or settle it,” said Jasmine official Nathan Schulhof. More information about the company’s uncertain future was expected in late September. Apple is now shipping a series of NuBus board gateways into IBM’s Systems Network Architecture (SNA), which supports networking among machines running O$/2, VM, OS/400, and MVS. The SNA*ps gateways provide both control unit terminal and distributed function terminal 3270 emulation with advanced peer-to-peer networking and advanced program-to-program communications support. Pricing depends on the number of sessions sup- ported. Apple also has programming tools for cre- ating custom SNA network applications. New Memories ‘Active Memory is a desk accessory that combines a multiuser to-do list with a message system. Instead of displaying a calendar, Active Memory displays events in a spreadsheetlike list with eight columns for events, dates, and other information. Although the program lets you send events—such as re- minders—to other Active Memory users on the network, it does not store messages for later de- livery to a user whose Mac is turned off. Users can define categories for each column and search for items by the contents of several columns at a time. Active Memory requires an INIT to watch the Mac's clock, and like all INIT-based calendars Active Memory noticeably slows the Mac’s performance. Version 2.0 lists for $199 for one user, $499 for five users, and $899 for ten users. For more infor- mation, call ASD Software at 714/624-2594. Seiko Instruments USA has introduced the Color- Point PSX, a thermal-transfer printer that is designed to process one image while printing another. This 300-dots-per-inch printer has a high-speed RISC processor, releases the Macintosh quickly, and ac- cepts input from multiple sources simultane- ously, according to Seiko. The ColorPoint PSX list price is $9499 for the Model 4, which produces A- size output, and $12,999 for the Model 14, which prints on tabloid-size paper. For more information, contact Seiko Instruments USA at 408/922-5800. Paper Power Blueridge Technologies, which sells Unix-based turnkey document storage and retrieval systems, recently shipped a Mac software-only package, called Optix, with such advanced capabilities as rotating or unskewing improperly scanned files, comparing images, and preventing alteration of archived files. The new version of Optix, 3.0, adds support for sharing archives on AppleShare; is able to scan and archive only the contents of boxes containing information instead of an entire form; and can query an archive’s index like a database and export the result. Optix 3.0 will list for $695. Blueridge Technologies is at 703/675-3015. DataViz's file-translation utilities, MacLinkPlus/PC and MacLinkPlus/Translators, are being upgraded to version 6.0. The new products incorporate more than 100 new translators, including Ami Pro, FrameMaker’s MIF format, and AppleWorks’ word processor and spreadsheet formats. MacLinkPlus/ PC includes a Mac-to-PC cable and lists for $199; MacLinkPlus/Translators lists for $169. DataViz is at 203/268-0030. SuperMac Sells Off Software SuperMac has closed down its software division. Adobe bought the uncompleted ReelTime di video-editing software. Dantz Development, which developed SuperMac’s back-up utilities DiskFit and Network DiskFit, will market a replacement called DiskFit Professional. SuperMac says it will support PixelPaint while searching for a buyer. SuperMac is at 408/245-2202. Dantz is at 510/849-0293. 0 MACWORLD + NOVEMBER 1991 WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME A DRAWING PROGRAM IMADE YOUR PALMS SWEAT, YOUR PULSE RAGE, AND YOUR HEAD SPIN. UNLEASH THE AWESOME POWER OF CANVAS 8. soy: ss:s:ou get ready to take the incredible new Canvas 3.0 for a spin. Its exceptional performance and nimble handling make Canvas 3.0 the hottest precision drawing program on the market. And its formidable list of major enhancements puts it miles ahead of anything else on the road. CRUISE INTO THE FUTURE TODAY. Canvas 3.0 is System 7 Savvy with all of the features Apple® wants to see in System 7 graphics applications. Publish & Subscribe, Balloon Help™, AppleEvents™, and 32-bit memory are fully supported. What's more, Canvas 3.0's breakthrough Open Architecture technology lets you add new tools, effects and file translators with ease, at any time, IT WILL LEAVE YOU SPEECHLESS. Canvas 3.0 offers a wide range of professional text handling features. Fractional leading and kerning. Tab support within text blocks (left, right, center, decimal). Subscript and Superscript text. You can even bind text to any curve. Wrap text around or encrust it within irregular shaped objects. Fully justify and slant text margins. Apply character by character font scaling. And convert TrueType™ and PostScript® Type-1 fonts into their Bézier curve outlines. NOTHING HANDLES CURVES BETTER. While other drawing programs make you draw Bézier curves by “connecting the dots’, Canvas 3.0's freehand tool lets you create any curve by simply drawing it. And it gives you unparalleled Bézier curve editing power -- from multi-point selection and editing to automatic object conversions, combinations, and blends. You even get centerline auto | 5 tracing of scanned images. WHEREVER YOU WANT. With enhanced color capabilities, including a built-in process (CMYK) 2 color separator, PANTONE® v. color support, and automatic gradient fills and blends, Canvas 3.0 is blowing the doors off the compe- tition. But it doesn't top out there. You'll also find technical features like custom hatching, parallel TIRED OF YOUR OLD SEDATE SEDAN? lines and curves, and dashed lines, curves and Well, trade-in any used model of MacDraw®, borders. Automatic dimension lines. And a Smart MacDraft®, Illustrator® or Freehand™ for a brand new Mouse™ drawing aide for precise alignments. What's Canvas 3.0 dream machine for only $149.00. Mail your original more, there are new built-in file translators for important multi- program disk with payment to our main address below. platform formats like EPSF, TIFF, CGM, DFX™, IGES, and Illustrator®. Include your MC, VISA or Amex card number, account ‘TAKE THE CHECKERED FLAG. Why drive some sedate sedan when you can name and expiration date, or a check in US own the road with the new Canvas 3.0.? It's incredibly easy to use -- dollars drawn ona US bank. Add $10.00 and the list price of just $399 simply adds to the thrill. So, take adeep _ shipping. Offer valid in the United States and breath. Buckle up. Double click. And Canada. Expires on unleash the awesome power of Canvas 12/31/91. Please 3.0. You're in for the ride of your life. el allow four to six weeks for delivery. PRECISION DRAWING POWER FROM <Jeevne=Erca SOFTWARE Fer more information or the name of your nearest dealer call (305) 594-6965 or Fox: (305) 477-5794. Deneba Software, 2305 Northwest 74th Avenve, Mim, Florida 33122. ‘©1951 Denebo Stems, Canvas ed Sart Moe™ ae edema of Denes Sens, Inc, Macaw i regtredirodenark of eri Crpratn.uejpe™, Boon Hele end ope ore oder of ype Compu, ln PosSigt® cad Illustrator® ore registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. MacDratt® is a registered trodemark of Innovative Date Design, Inc, Freehand™ is @ trodemark of Aldus Corporation, PANTOME® is a registered troc of Pontone, In, DXF isc trademark of AutoDesk Inc. The F-40 illustration was created and color separated wsing Conves 3.0. We welcome environmentally sound ideas on what to do with tens af thousonds of pre-owned master disks. Circle 57 on reader service card Whats the business world coming to? Now, more Macintosh users can get their hands on some color. Without giving up great black and white. Hewlett-Packard makes it all possible with the new HP DeskWriter C printer. Impressive black and white. And thousands of colors. For just $1,095* The best features of HP’s DeskWriter haven't changed. You'll still get the crisp, clean, laser-sharp output. The 300 dot-per-inch resolution. And you'll still have all the built-in, scalable fonts and graphic capa- bilities that can make sucha difference in your documents and presentations. Take all that, add a nearly end- less choice of attention-getting colors, and Macintosh users have got one very valuable partner. One that’s a pleasure to work with. With the DeskWriter C, you just plug, play, and print. On plain paper or transparency. Of course, it’s Macintosh and System 7 compatible. With the DeskWriter C, Hewlett- Packard introduces a colorful new generation to its family of inkjet printers. A family that stands for affordable quality. Quality that’s backed by a three- year warranty. *Suggested US. list price. In Canada, call 1-800-387-9867, Ext. 2646. **Offer valid through January 31, 1992, No purchase necessary; void where prohibited. Affordable color. Introducing the HP DeskWriter C printer Only $1096. So when other Macintosh users ask you what's new, tell them to get ready for a splash of color. For more interesting graphs and charts. For impres- sive cover pages and for com- pelling overhead presentations. All for $1,095. If you'd like to see some samples of the DeskWriter C’s work, call 1-800-752-0900, Ext. 26467 Or visit your nearest authorized ©1901 Hewlett-Packard Company PEI217 HP dealer and sign up fora chance to win a Caribbean cruise for two?* Color is what the business world is coming to. HP Peripherals When it’s important to you. | QD HEWLETT PACKARD Circle 245 on reader service card This is not your OUSE.. Neon Meet MVP Mouse” from Curtis. One look tells you, MVP Mouse is not just another trackball. Its ergonomic 3-button design responds to your ev impulse as if it were an extension of your hand. Its 200 DPI resolution and automatic acceleration give you pin- point cursor control plus the ability to “jump” across the screen with just a short, quick movement of your fingers. COMMENTARY Sixth Annual Baedeker for Macworld Expo ON THE TRAIL OF NEW AND SHIPPING PRODUCTS BY JERRY BORRELL he August Macworld Expo was in many ways a celebration of QuickTime. For those with patience and insight, the Boston show heralded hardware and software that will bring video to millions of Macintosh computers this fall, after Apple delivers QuickTime extensions to sys- tem software. In some ways Apple’s announcement of QuickTime has slowed the growth of video technol- ogy on the Mac, because developers have been forced to rethink products well into development. But there are few complaints to be heard about such problems. Developers recognize that Apple, by providing underlying technology (compression, sound, and connection to system operations) and a standard (file formats, primarily), has created a near-term QuickTime market of more than two million Mac owners, which will be several million by 1992. Despite the alpha nature of QuickTime, implementations were shown everywhere on the show floor. Tt was remarkable to see presentations that incorporated real-time demos of QuickTime, and more remarkable to think that Apple has leapfrogged com- petitors in one fell swoop. It won't be long before the implications and im- mediate impact of QuickTime cause other companies—including Mi- crosoft and IBM—to realize that they are at a serious disadvantage. Video QuickTime raises the question of how we'll get video into the Mac. Super- Mac Technology has announced a new product line called the Video- Spigot—video boards that begin at $499 retail (about $350 for you and me) that will allow users to directly connect any camcorder to the Mac for QuickTime movies. It’s at an incred- ibly low price point compared to of- ferings from E-Machines and Raster- Ops, whose current QuickTime prod- ucts already allow us to make Quick- Time movies. SuperMac intends to include simple recording and editing software for the VideoSpigot at no extra cost. Other QuickTime editing software will be forthcoming from DiVA, Com- puterVideo, Light Source, and Macro- Mind. Simple-to-use yet remarkably robust software that will bring profes- sional editing functions (overlays, cuts, insertions, time-encoding) to the Macintosh at low cost. Just as prod- ucts such as Photoshop are replacing more expensive prepress products, so. too video products costing over $10,000 from Ampex, Chyron, and Quantel will be supplanted by Macin- tosh software costing under $1000— but not for a year or so. Even the most sacred and inacces- sible black-magic area of video—spe- cial effects—will be addressed. Intel- ligent Resources is finally shipping its Video Explorer, which will allow the MACWORLD + NOVEMBER 1991 M: cial effects. Computer Friends and Mass Microsystems have boards that allow the Mac to output video signals (synchronized and genlocked) accept- able for broadcast use, and RasterOps announced the addition of CD-qual- ity sound input/output to its 364 boards. Getting away from video and into computer displays, the benchmark price of $3000 for a 19-inch monitor with 24-bit color is becoming more common; 19-inch monitors with 8-bit boards are as low as $1000 (Relax Technology's NuBus board plus an Ikegami monitor). At the Expo, one 8-bit board for the SE/30 from Howard and Associates was promoted for $195 (monitor is separate). Product qual- ity does vary compared with top-of the-line monitors and the accelerated video boards many users want, but the rock-bottom pricing of the IBM PC market has definitely arrived on the Mac side. Also evident was a vari- (continues) c to create professional-quality spe- 23 SIX REASONS WHY LA CIE HARD DRIVES ARE THE BEST YOU CAN BUY. Quantum mechanisms are the best. That's why we use them in La Cie hard drives. on A Quantum Difference. Quantum drive mechanisms offer blazing-fast effective access time as low as 8 milliseconds.* No other drive mechanisms in their class (Mac- compatible) run faster, which is why they are in Tsunami ilvertining, La Cie and the La Cie Lid, logo are trademarks of La Cie Ld, a Plus Development Company. Allothertrade- La Cie drives.** marks are the property of their respective owners. All prices, specifications, terms, and descriptions of products and services herein are subject to change without notice or recourse. La Cie, Ltd. 19552 SW 90th Court, Tualatin, OR 97062. Phone (S03) 691-0771, * Typical application access time using 64KB DisCache? Fax (503) 692-8289. © LaCie, Ltd, 1991 All rights reserved. Printed in USA. agate drive mechanisms also available (capacities from 300MBo1.2G8). Software with a Silverlining. Every La Cie drive includes a FREE copy of Silverlining, the #1-rated hard drive management utilities program. Silverlining drivers can get 30% more speed from a drive than the competition. It works with any true SCSI drive, internal or external. So one program can manage it all. Plus, Silverlining opti- mizes your data so it’s consecu- tive on your drive, which makes your appli- cations run faster. And unlike traditional utilities programs, Silver- lining lets you create your own partitions. You can even re-size them to suite your needs, and you'll save time because there’s no need to re-initialize. Silverlining drivers are also intelligent. They test the drives’ functionality at start-up to ensure that everything is working properly. If it’s not, it protects you. Sold separately, Silverlining software costs $149. But it’s ABSOLUTELY FREE when you buy any La Cie drive. MacUser says, “Silverlining is one of the most power- ful and useful hard disk utilities you can find-~most Apple engineers prefer it to Apple's own” A Company You Can Count On. La Cie is a Plus Development Company (makers of the Hardcard XL), backed by $400 million in assets. That means you can trust La Cie to provide a constant source of high- quality mechanisms and components. And you can be certain that we'll be around to help you with service and support. For along, long time. The Most Unusual Warranty in the Business. La Cie features up to a 5-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY¢ on all its Quantum Mechanisms. 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In fact, we're happy to let critics and customers have the last word about La Cie drives. Because they tend to be words like these: ¥££44-MacUser .."The good Housekeeping Seal. I'm now taking the safer course of buying from corporate-owned companies such as Quantum-backed La Cie...” -MacWeek La Cie offers internal and external hard drives from 40MB to 1.2 Gigabytes. Choose from the award-winning Tsunami, Cirrus, ZFP family and Internal drives. Plus, La Cie now offers the Bacster, ahard drive that attaches directly to the back of a Macintosh Plus or SE. To order or for more information, call toll-free 800-999-0143. Volume discounts available. LACIE LIMITED APLUS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ety of competitively priced products that allow the Classic, SE/30, and LC to support color, gray-scale, and larger monitors; examples are Micron’s 24- bit board for the SE/30 and Lapis Technologies’ $669 board for the LC. 3-D Graphics The big bottleneck in this arena is the bovine performance of the Macintosh COMMENTARY in rendering 3-D geometry and shad- ing such images. Sadly, the addition of a 68040 accelerator improves per- formance by only a small percentage. The Mai rchitecture and aging QuickDraw graphics routines are go- ing to subject Apple to embarrassing comparisons with vendors such as Silicon Graphics and Compaq. (Ap- ple’s dismissal of its advanced graph- For more information, or the location of a dealer near you, call (203) 364-0063 Circle 111 on reader service card, 26 MACWORLD + NOVEMBER 1991 ics hardware group in the summer layoffs bodes ill for any quick fix for this alarming situation.) Despite this, Boston saw the release of several long-awaited 3-D products, including Byte by Byte’s Sculpt 4D and AT&T's Topas for the Mac. Topas and Sculpt 4D, at $7495 and $3500, respectively, seem out of reach for most, but they bring the highest-quality modeling, rendering, and animation to the Mac. Ray Dream's remarkable Ray Dream Designer makes high-quality ray- traced graphics practical on the Mac by allowing separate CPUs on a net- work to share processing tasks. There were also important new versions of other programs shown by Infini-D, Electric Image, StrataVision, and Specular International. Alias Research International, a company known for its software on high-performance workstations, has promised to bring its software to the Mac with Alias Sketch, while Pixar announced Show- place, which is intended to make RenderMan’s rendering capabilities more accessible to Mac us Integrated Products This product category (word proces- sor plus database, spreadsheet, and so on) is like the weather: everyone talks about it, but nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Rag- Time and Trapeze are two erstwhile competitors that failed in their efforts to topple Microsoft’s domination of the integrated-product category. In Boston, Claris demonstrated its to-be- shipped ClarisWorks. Symantec dem- onstrated its to-be-shipped Great- Works, Ditto Beagle Bros. with Beagle- Works. WordPerfect announced that it’s shipping WordPerfect Office— with mail, calendar, database, word processing, and form maker. It’s look- ing good. Stay tuned. Printers Ofall peripheral products for the Mac. intosh, only color printers rival stor- in the speed of , speed, and quality—are continually improving. In the thermal-printer arena, Seiko Instruments USA introduced a new RISC-based PostScript clone, The (continues) Just RIGHT T6-INCH E-MACHINES DISPLAY COMPANY NEWS Wiws Pao oun companie the WATION New E-Machines 16-inch color display system installed in rate offices 16-INCH COLOR PRICED JUST RIGHT FOR THE ENTIRE OFFICE Introducing ColorPage™ £16, now 16-inch color priced just right for the entire office. @& For big, bright, beautiful color plug the ColorPage E16 into your =. E-MACHINES Macintosh LC, IIsi or IIci built-in video; no additional hardware necessary. @& Need room for working with large spreadsheets, desktop publishing layouts or multimedia applications? a ene Add on E-Machines accelerated 8 or 24-bit color interface card and turn your ColorPage £16 For your nearest deler, call or write, 9305 SW Gemini Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005 into 0 high performance screamin’ fast display. @& Go ahead, experience what high Fox: 503-641-0946 performance color is really like, and how affordable 16-inch displays have become. 1-800-344-7 27 4 Circle 303 on reader service card Copyight © 1991 E-Mochines, ColoPoge sa nademuik of E-Machines. Apple, Macintosh oe ademas of Agple Compote. ColorPoint PSX ($9499 for A size; $12,999 for B size) promises to nip through network color-printing bottlenecks. I'd need to test it before recommending it, but the ColorPoint PSX appeared impressively fast. Hewlett-Packard showed a new color printer, the DeskWriterC (see Mac- world News, October 1991). There was a host of A- and B-size QuickDraw COMMENTARY printers. Calcomp’s ColorMaster Plus ranges in price from $6995 to $11,995. Prime Option’s ColorPage does A and A3 size at $5000. QMS listened to its customers and added full-bleed capa- bility to its model 30 si (a real boon to graphic artists and designers) and produced a new kanji version of its ColorScript 100. A printer using color-dye-sublima- Serious Tools for Serious Work AtFWB, we're serious about hard drive performance s why Hammer drives MacUser. We're also serious about delivering superior more than 48 hours of downtime with a Hammer drive. And our Herd Di Toolkit software gives you the power to configure your Hammer drive for unequalled functionality and control That's why Hammer has become the first choice among serious Macintosh profession 28 Circle 167 on reader service card. tion technology, the highest-quality (and most expensive) QuickDraw output technology, cost nearly $40,000 only two years ago. At the Expo, Mitsubishi Electronics America showed its $340 printer for only $13,995. The output quality is compa- rable to that of the original Kodak printer; again, I would like to test the product, but the output quality and cost decrease are truly notable. Prime Option showed another new Japanese dye-sublimation-based product, but it has no price or ship date. Shinko showed a dye-sublimation printer for $18,000, with a PostScript version at $23,500. Finally, Seiko announced a new sublimation-technology-based product. The quality of dye-sublima- tion technology is remarkable, but in truth I believe most of us want color and PostScript at reasonable quality (200 to 300 dpi) and as cheap as we can get it. Today the best price-qual- ity trade-off comes from thermal printers. Sharp Electronics’ new JX-730 ink-jet printer (B size, non-PostScript) for only $2195 is appealing, but I'd still choose a thermal printer. Laser Printers Not to be forgotten are black-and- white laser printers, constantly re- newing their hold on our hearts and businesses. GCC Technologies, the oldest innovator in the market, is shipping its BLP Elite. The 300-dpi PostScript laser printer has a list price of $1599 and probably sells for $1399. At 4 pages per minute the BLP is a little slow, but given the price, I wouldn't ever consider a clunker like Apple's QuickDraw StyleWriter—I'd choose the BLP every time. And this is only the start. This fall, prices for nonlaser PostScript printers will be under $1000. Eastman Kodak and QMS showed high-end PostScript office printers (16 ppm) with simultaneous/ multiple input (serial, AppleTalk, and Ethernet). Kodak’s EKta plus 7016 doubles as a copier and costs only $5795—truly remarkable. Texas In- struments’ $2249 RISC-based micro- Laser Turbo is speedy and low-cost. Color Film Printers In an interesting tack, film printers (also known as film recorders), 35mm. (continues) We Bring You A World Of Experience UNITED STATES All Peripheral Vision Storage Systems are sourced and assembled here—the largest computer market in the world. Our international distribution allows us to buy at volume pricing, and pass JAPAN When graphics professionals in Japan are looking for a fast, reliable the savings on to our valued place to store the 2600 cuclonale Kanji characters needed for their work, they turn to high capacity Peripheral Vision drives. 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Virex®@D @ Lunatic Fringe Space Game After Dark Updater More Fish! “The aster sei Us BERKELE Y S Circle 381 on reader service card. MACWORLD + NOVEMBER 1991 COMMENTARY particularly, are making a return through analog means because Post- Script film printers have continued to be slow and costly (Agfa Compu- graphic is the only manufacturer with an installed base). They've never be- come as popular for the Mac as for the PC environment. Presentation Technologies, the oldest maker of film printers for the Mac market, showed an analog RGB/NTSC input camera for 35mm or Polaroid prints. It looks good, and there’s a need, but these days the presentation market has evolved into slide- and display- based segments, making graphic arts the single largest likely target. Storage and Scanners Storage (hard drives, optical, CD ROM, and tape) is one of the ongo- ing successes of personal computing. Thanks to the SCSI interface, Mac owners in particular enjoy ease of use in addition to steady decreases in cost per megabyte and increases in perfor- mance. Hardware manufacturers suf fer, but you and I constantly benefit. Prices are down to $4 to $6 per mega- byte on a hard drive, differing with various size ranges. CD ROM drives have improved dramatically in perfor- mance if not price. Chinon America, Optical Access International (OAI), and Relax Technology offer 300ms access drives; Relax and OAI showed an auto-CD changer holding up to six CDs! Several companies, including MicroNet and PLI, are finally shipping 3¥-inch magneto-optical (erasable) drives. [love it—now, if only the pack- aging would shrink. Color scanners are also experienc- ing a meteoric rise in quality as prices drop. Two especially neat new scan- ners: a slide scanner for 35mm slides from RasterOps, called Expresso, for only $999, and a new Kodak 35mm scanner for slides at $8495. My per- sonal favorite is the 1850-dpi, 35mm, 24-bit scanner from Microtek that in- cludes Photoshop for only $2195. Computer Friends announced a 24-bit $1299 single-sheet-fed scanner; street price should be $999. (We haven’t tested it—it would be an in- credible bargain if its quality rivaled that of flatbeds, most of which are in the $2000 price range.) New color (continues) — Buy GreatWorks now and get a free copy of Norton Utilities for the Macintosh!+ — ONE SIMPLE DECISION, EIGHT GREAT APPLICATIONS. INTRODUCING combination chart types, support GREATWORKS“FOR THE Database for 256 colors, a 100,000-word “MACINTOSH, ae ere With just one decision, you Allof which means Great Works can get all nga ee is perfectly suited for a wide ware you ne et started. variety of jobs. 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One scanner oddity that looks useful, if it ships, is Houston Instru- ment’s LDS 4000, which can capture black-and-white scans up to E-size (24 inch-by-36-inch) for $13,995. Performance Every one of us running current ap- plications is beginning to talk about how slow the darn things perform. It may be the applications, sure, but it can’t be only the applications. So third parties are offering RAM upgrades, accelerators, and enhancements for the Mac to get us sufferers through our long, Mac-bound workdays. (1 used to think Newer Technology's 128MB RAM disk had no use—now we have to have it for Photoshop im- age processing.) Radius’s and Fusion Data Systems’ 040 accelerators are looking better by the day. FWB’s and Atto’s $999 and $995 SCSI NuBus boards, respectively, bring current SCSI performance to the Mac. The Connectix suite of utilities—Maxima, Mode 32, Handsoff, and Optima for kanji—are software enhancements that improve the Mac's operating sys- tem. And cache boards from a dozen vendors are there to help when the Mac bogs down. Ina related vein, Ethernet add-ons are improving to help with growing network slowdowns. Shiva, Cayman Systems, and Asanté Technologies of- fered outstanding examples. Network Tools My favorite area of esoteric develop- ment is that of network tools. Appli- cations that allow network adminis trators and, at long last, individual users to pinpoint what the heck is going on in all the communications magic we call AppleTalk. It’s an en- couraging area of development. ‘The Expo had product advances and an- nouncements from AG Group, Pharos Technologies, MacVonk (NetOctopus), CSG Technologies, Caravelle Net- works, and a few others. It’s fun watch- ing the development of products that allow both network nerds and more- basic users to investigate the prob- lems we're having. Gok Sate 49% Please send me a year (12 issues) of MACWORLD for only $24. 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I've watched as each person wages their own personal, private battle to master the computer and the most popular Macintosh programs. I've seen their frustration, have empa- thized with their confusion, and understood their computer fears. I've talked to workers who have had new computers and new programs simply dropped on their desk with the directive to, "learn this." I've listened to people who have struggled night after night trying to read and understand a computer manual. Can you imagine trying to under- stand and master 4th Dimension from the manual? You would be surprised at the number of people who have confided with me the fact that they've given up trying to learn some of the programs. They put the box on the shelf and write the expenditure off as a bad invest- ment. Hard Earned Money Wasted Can you imagine how much money has been wasted on programs and computers that are sitting abandoned? Right now think of the people working on Macs in your office. Do they really understand the com- puter? Do they know whatto do whenit goes down? How many programs are each of your people using? Have they really mas- tered the programs they're using? Do they know the short-cuts and valuable techniques that will save you time, money, and increase your professionalism? An Excellent, Low Cost Training Answer Four years ago I founded MacAcademy. My purpose was to create a training orga- nization that provided training similar in nature to the Macintosh itself - simple, easy to use, and effective. Now, four years later the concept has proven to be a great success. Right now people are benefiting from MacAcademy training in over 100 cities in the U.S., in Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and 22 additional countries throughout the world. MacAcademy training is successful for one reason - it works! The Video Answer Two years ago we introduced the MacA- cademy Video Training Library. This li- brary now includes over 45 different titles. Each video is 2 hours long and offers clear, concise, effective training for the Macintosh and over 20 popular programs. In many cases you can purchase up to 6 hours of training for one program. MacAcademy has resisted the temptation to follow competitive training programs who have recently implemented large price in- creases. Our videos started out at $49 each and are still only $49. The best training in the business for less than $50. This low cost training alternative has proven to be the Macintosh training choice of over 10,000 companies. Guaranteed Results The MacAcademy reputation is excellent. Our guarantee is simple: If you're not happy we'll give your money back. No hassles or problems. To Order Here is a current list of MacAcademy Video training tapes now available. To order, simply send check, credit card infor- mation, or purchase order to MacAcademy Videos Dept. MW1191 477 S. Nova Rd. Ormond Beach, FL 32174 or call the num- bers listed below. 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WingZ Part 2. WingZ Part 3. Works Integration 1 .. Works Word Processing 2 Works Database 3 Works Spreadsheet FileMaker Pro Part 1 FileMaker Pro Part 2 FileMaker Pro Part 3 Word 4.0 Part 1 Word 4.0 Part 2 ©1991 Florida Marketing International, Inc. The only thing missing from our new spreadsheet is the learning curve. File Edit Format Calculate Chart script view Income Statement 3 Application Ss aa Fa] a MaclWWrite II Last Update (Sales Sheed) 30-Aor 12.23 PM | Income Statement for Year Ending March 31, 1991 FileMaker Pro Claris Resolve MacDraw Pro MacPro ject II 00] PRESTON ERGESER Claris CAD SmartForm Series These numbers are HyperCard dependent on final } MacPaint cost reallocation. A Family of Applications. New Resolve joins the Claris fam- ily of System 7 software. Software that makes you more productive, because it shares a common inter- face, tools and commands. a0, 100) 10 So, You Want It All Now. 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For more information cal 1-800 ext. 30, In Canada, call 1-800-668-8948, ext 48. Claris, FileMaker, MacDravg MacPaint, MacProject, MacWrite and SmartForm are registered trademarks of Claris Corporation. Resolve and “Simply powerful software” are trademarks of Claris Corporation. HyperCard is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Ine, licensed to Claris Corpora tion. Apple logo, Mac and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, In THE ONLY 8M TAPE DRIVE THAT CAN MAKE CHANGE. # E: Fax Modem Playthings | am amazed at the ap- parent editorial enthusi- asm people are showing for fax modems [Fax Mo- dem Facts,” August 1991]. ‘As useful as they are, they are still toys. I find the software pro- vided with them unstable. There is no standard fax command set like the data modem AT command set. Consequently, you cannot mix and match software and modems. Fax modems do not connect to real fax machines as reliably as real fax machines do, Fax mo- dems are basically funny QuickDraw printers, not PostScript printers. Come on, you guys. A little less adoration for this barely adequate gadget is called for. Let's prod the purveyors of these devices into providing a truly use- ful device. Glen S. Miranker via AppleLink Fax Modem Questions he article “Fax Modem Facts” says these mo- dems are 9600-bps fax mo- dems and 2400-bps data modems. Why can’t the modems send data at 9600 bps? I've also heard there is a difference between baud and bps. Is this true? Mark Gerrior Phoenix, Arizona via CompuServe Most current fax modems (and all the ones we tested) trans- C) LETTERS mit digital data at 2400 bps, but they send and receive fax data at 9600 bps. The Group Ill fax- transmission standards pro- vide for the 9600-bps speed, with a fallback speed of 4800 bps in the event of bad tele- phone-line conditions. Although there is at least one 9600-bps data modem that is also a 9600-bps fax modem, most fax modems are 2400-bps data modems because they are less expensive. Baud is the rate per sec- ‘ond at which a modem sends signals bps (bits per second) is the amount of data that is be- ing transferred. The number of bits transferred per baud sometimes varies —Ed. Ambiguous Awards ooking over your World-Class Awards (“Fifth Annual World-Class Awards? August 1991], I was dismayed to see that in many of the categories, the “Other” manufacturer was several times larger than the winner. Having an “Other” percentage of 86 percent in the Most Prom- ising Newcomer—Software category is ridiculous. If the categories are so broad or so ambiguous that people cannot come to some kind of consensus, they should be changed so as to reflect some meaning- ful data. That way, maybe your awards will reflect the views of the majority, not a small plujority. James Crawford Watertown, Massachusetts via CompuServe A high percentage in the Other category means a greater num- ber of products received a lower percentage of the overall votes.—Ed. (continues) MACWORLD + NOVEMBER 1991 Corrections The correct phone number for Environmental Systems Research Institute (Mac- world News, September 1991) is 714/793-2853. RasterOps’ hours of technical support are 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT. The company’s BBS telephone number is 801/221-1129 (Conspicuous Consumer, September 1991). The correct telephone number for RasterOps (Where to Buy, September 1991) is 800/729-2656. The correct tele- phone number for Chi- non America (New Prod- ucts, September 1991) is 213/533-0274. The correct price for ShiftWorker (New Prod- ucts, September 1991) is $595. The trackball shown at the top of the first picture in Conspicuous Consumer (August 1991) is manufac- tured by MicroSpeed. The correct telephone numbers for JetFill (New Products, August 1991) are 512/479-8400 and 800/749-2993. The correct name for Koala Technologies’ Video Capture/Effects hardware is MacVision Video Digi- tizer (“Fifth Annual World- Class Awards,” August 1991). The correct name for Microtek’s cowinning col- (Continues) 37 rs LETTERS or scanner hardware is the MSF-300ZS (“Fifth An- nual World-Class Awards,” August 1991). The HP Paintjet printer should have been listed along with the HP PaintJet XL printer as cowinner of the Printer— Color hardware category (‘Fifth Annual World-Class Awards,” August 1991). Kingsley/ATF’s ATF Type Designer 1 (“Desktop Foundry,” August 1991) supports Illustrator 1.1 EPSF output format. MECC’s The Oregon Trail educational game (Reviews, October 1991) is not copy-protected. tkon Creative Services (‘The Prepress Edge,” Octo- ber 1991) is located in Culver City, California. The correct number for the Nanao Flexscan 9060S (Where to Buy, Au- gust 1991) is 213/325-5202. Popularity Contest n looking over your top 80, I have to cry foul over a few items. Why are there only 65 items/catego- ries? Second, in the laser printer competitionI do not see GCC. Did you only poll people with Apple equip- ment? GCC has a huge market share; how can it be absent from the list? Third, “Best Authoring Tool—Hy- perCard.” I have been Hy- perCarded to death. First it was considered a database, then system software, now an authoring tool. Fourth, Microsoft Word won again. C’mon. FullWrite’s feature set beats it out, Nisus’s text handling knocks it out, and Write- Now's ease blows right past it. Why does Word win? Because 10 gazillion busi- ness offices use it. The results of this sur- vey don’t tell me what people think is best... it only tells me what people own. James Lentini Brooklyn, New York via America Online The World-Class Awards recog- nized 81 products in 65 catego- ties. We surveyed 4000 ran- domly selected Macworld subscribers for the results. The contest reflects readers’ prefer- ences.—Ed. Craving Computer Control n his column “The New Frontier” [The Icono- clast, August 1991], Steven Levy laments the onset of the “Macintosh’s boring middle age” based on his impressions of Frontier, Dave Winer’s IAC-based scripting application. Mr. Levy seems to have confused making things easy with making things possible. The development of each of the dramatic ground-breaking applica- tions in personal computer history has resulted in user empowerment, not ease. The coordination of many simultaneous activities is one of the most difficult and complex tasks imagin- able. Yet this is precisely the power that Frontier at- tempts to provide. It is not fair to relegate Frontier to the realm of “wireheads” simply because it demands a learning investment from the user. The ease with which it can be done is less relevant than the fact that How to be social. Macintosh network to keep in touch. The mail screen shows you everything you need to compose and circulate messages to an individ- ual, to a group, or to the entire corporation. With Mail, not only can you send and receive messages, but you can also attach up to 100 files of any format. Beyond that, you Think how much more effective your people would be if they could communicate better. That's the idea behind WordPerfect Office"3.0 for the Macintosh. I's actually several programs in one. WordPerfect Office comes with a very versa- tile E-mail package (WordPerfect Office Mail’), that makes it easy for people on a a message to anyone logged onto your network, or send carbon and blind copies. Ever wish you could take back your words? Mail's unique status tracking capabilities let you know when a message has been delivered or opened. So if a message hasn't been read yet, you can retract and edit it. it can be done at all. Keith Mears Richmond, California Mac Standard in Science our article “Science and the Mac” [August 1991] starts out with “The Macin- tosh, you may be surprised to learn, is the computer of choice in a wide range of advanced scientific labora- tories.” No, I'm not sur- prised, although I can see why Macworld would be, since the articles in your magazine rarely mention the Mac in anything but desktop publishing. The “Science and Tech- nology” feature regularly shown on CNN mentions the Mac every week in an exciting application. Re- cently, Money magazine highly recommended the Mac for use in home busi- ness. The Mac has truly become the “second stan- dard” in corporate busi- ness. Users in these areas are desperate for informa- tion on how to advance their productivity. Consider eliminating some of those arcane ar- ticles on DTP and give space to subjects that hold the future of the Mac. Matthew Conti Groton, Connecticut Out-of-Date Developer here are two ways to view Steven Levy's ar- ticle on Working Software. (The Iconoclast, July 1991] Little, quality-guy Dave Johnson is dwarfed by the megabucks heartless corporations. But when every word- oriented product came out with built-in spelling check- ers years ago, maybe it should have dawned on someone that the contin- ued success of a stand- alone spelling checker might be limited. L. R. Olson Whittier, California Powerful Protection he letter on electrical power protection [Let- ters, July 1991] makes broad and unsupported de- rogatory claims about surge protectors based on metal-oxide varistors (MOVs). I would like to set the record straight. Properly designed AC surge protectors that use MOVs are long-lived and rugged. For 20mm diam- eter MOVs, a standard size for serious protectors, manufacturers’ ratings indi- cate a lifetime of more than 500 surges [of the IEEE Ampere test pulse}. To give an idea of what this means to a user, if you had a di- rect lightning-strike to your building’s power feed once per year, in 500 years you would be approaching the manufacturer's MOV life. We agree that surge protection on AC lines alone isn’t enough for com- puters that are intercon- nected by wire to other equipment. The best an- swer to this problem is to use additional signal-line protectors, connected to the ground reference for the AC power, at both ends of the interconnecting cables. Richard Coben Vice President, Engineering Panamax San Rafael, California (continues) How to geta date. well as make to-do lists, Notebook, and Calendar, Along with WordPerfect Scheduler and Want to know more about WordPerfect Calendar, WordPerfect Office includes other Office 3.0 for the Macintosh? That's easy, useful desktop utilities such as Notebook, a too. Just call us at (800) 526-2252. It could be flatfile database program; File Manager to _the start of a very productive relationship. help you organize your files; and Forms WordPerfect Maker to create custom forms for Mail, CORPORATION Ofcourse, open communication is only one of many ways to bring people together. That’s why WordPerfect Office 3.0 for the Macintosh also offers an integrated calendar and network scheduler to help you make appointments, coordinate meetings, schedule events and company resources as Wiese mut 30 LETTER Se Rendering Redefined etting Started with 3-D Graphics” [August 1991] incorrectly defines render- ing as the process of choos- ing and applying surface properties (color, transpar- ency, texture) to a geomet- ric model. Rendering is something quite different On model, includ- ing its surface properties, is built, that model can be automatically rendered (made visible) in a variety of ways. The three most common rendering tech- niques are: wire-frame rendering (lines describe object edges only); flat- shaded (object surfaces are rendered as solids made of planar facets, each of a single color); and smooth- shaded (the surfaces are shaded to reflect light as if they were rounded, so the Double the space on any Mac facets are not seen). After that, the more esoteric ren- dering techniques such as ray tracing and radiosity can give highly photo- realistic results. One of the main ben- efits of 3-D software went unmentioned: during the design phase, simple ren- dering techniques can be used, and the timi suming renderers used only during the final phases of working. Harold Hedelman San Francisco, California con- Whither the Tested? hat do you guys do with all the comput- ers, disk drives, scanners, software, and so on that you review once you're done testing them? Paul Kabn Kew Gardens, New York disk eum @ by shrinkir We automatically return hard- ware to the vendor who loaned us the product, and we return software upon request—Ed. Mail-Order Suspect have received mail-or- der catalogs that list the games I want at reduced prices. Is there anything wrong with the games be- their price is lower? Also, how safe is mail or- der, and which service do you recommend? Ben Wagman Westbury, New York cals The same software is sold through mail-order houses as through retail stores. See Con- spicuous Consumer in this issue for more on mail order—Ed. Bottom Line Deal n response to your July 1991 Letters column, | too have used the services of Bottom Line Distribu- tion. As a novice, I asked questions and got helpful, sincere counseling, I've or- dered software and gotten the best price and product in hand the next day. It’s almost like magic. If you had to answer my questions, you wouldn't want to do it on your own time, I guarantee you. 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