MacWorld Canada Winter 1986

Macintosh"Magazine CORVUS INTRODUCES SHARED STORAGE. FOR THEREST OF THE OFFICE. WVitout mass storage thatevery _ a floppy could never do. With Omni- capability. Plus, you get Macintosh can access, your net- Drive and OmniTalk, your Macintosh — three levels of protec- worked office won't haveaprayer. Office has fasteraccessto _-~"_ tion to keep your files safe. Because you'll still have to —_ software and data, greater And with the Corvus 126MB share data by swapping floppies. storage capacity, even hard disk,it all costs less per And just consider », easier back-up megabyte than any other how fast a floppy system. You see, Corvus has disk fills up with an more experience net- entire workgroup working than anyone compiling data. else. No one offers To share information, _ more, because no you have to get those one can. floppies neatly -** So take it from us. stacked, sorted and e Ifyou're going to add people cataloged. to your new Macintosh Something Office,add the mass storage your computer system that every- should do for you. Ss one can use. Which is OmniDrive why we've introduced OE from Corvus. OmniTalk software. It Then your lets you network your Mac- Macintoshes intosh Office and LaserWriter can really printer with an Omni- start talkin’ Drive hard disk.So you ( business. can store all your files For more in one place. And share information, call information whenever you want, (800) 4-CORVUS. with whomever you want. Without turning your floppies into little frisbees. Several people can even access the same information at once—something 'CORVUS Circle 206 on reader service card Mu Ini troducing: The Intelligent Choice Made Simple! .— it’s Confusing. You want to make the inielligent choice, but, whether you're in baseballs er ballistics, choosing the right accounting program for your business was a difficult task. Until Now. Meet MACCOUNTANT™ —The Intelligent Choice Made Simple, Like the Macintosh™ it was specifically designed for, MACCOUNTANT proves that simple doesn’t mean simple minded. It’s a ferocious number cruncher that’s been clvilized so MACCOUNTANT works for you, net against you. From its 5 journals and 14 reports tots full Windowing, Scrolling, Cheek Writing, Report Printing. Auto Correction and more; MACCOUNTANT Is perhaps the most feature packed program ava iilable. Plus. Accounts Payable and Recsivable are fully integrated at no additional cast. Consider all of these features integrated in a program that's fast, Intelligent, and intuitive. No complex operating commands fo master, MACCOUNTANT was designed to work the way you work; And, That's Smart. eee So join the thousands who have made ay the intelligent choice, I's Simple! Just call a dealer of intelligent software in your area or dial (243) 452-5636 and get MACCOUNTANT ‘on your staff — J Soe rclanogonrctderserviceentd *MACEOUNTANI clguested rete rise is 8279.00 Introductory scivinge Good Ihioug June 30.4985 COUNTANT™ © Winter 1986 Exfert Nielson David Bunnell 23 2 Special Edition, Winter 1986 '7 Farewell to the Forest Executives at Seafirst decided to usher the bank into the personal computer age by installing several thousand Macintoshes. 56 8 ous e Mac ite or on an executive's desk, e > Macintosh has a place finding oil and helping get it out of the ground. Art for Articles’ Sake USA Today made headlines when it first appeared because of its lavish use hics. Now the Macintosh 's art department. In the heart of Silicon Valley, an office of a Big Four accounting firm aims for the ultimate electronic audit. 74 xy Now a Word from Our Sponsor Janey Hiller Custom software designed by ad agency Foote, Cone & Belding turns the Mac into a machine that helps plan the use of media in an ad campaign. 80 r] All the Right Movies Nicholas Lavroff An entrepreneur in a small New York town carves out a lucrative niche in the videocassette rental business. 84 ‘w Cleared for Takeoff Lon Poole The Arizona Department of Transportation Aeronautics Division uses Filevision to add new meaning to the term aerial view. 90 96 101 120 120 3) Behind the Hollywood Scenes Jeffrey S. Young Movie-making ingenuity and the Macintosh are made for each oth judging by the experience of independent filmmaker and. distributor. Efficiency Insured Jeremy Joan Hewes Sequoia Insurance networks Macs to maintain a sophisticated database that processes claims quickly. Business Software Review Edited by Heidi Mitchell Nearly 400 programs for the Macintosh office, listed in over 40 categories. Product Index Advertiser Index Photo/illustration credits Ed Kashi, 23, 44, 5t, 53, 54, 57, 58 (bottom), 70, 72, 97, 98, 99; Bob Sacha, 26, 30, 34, 65, 66, 75, 76, 77, 81, 82; George Steinmetz, 9, 17, 36, 40, 58 (top), 60, 62, 85, 87, 91, 93; Fred Stimson, cover; Mick Wiggins, 18. Macworld PROVES OE This special edition on the Mac at work fea- tures case histories of businesses, big and small, that are using the Macintosh to lighten the work load and belp business take off, The stories should give you at least an idea or two that will work for you. MACWORLD David Bunnell Publisher J. Kelley Younger Executive Editor Kearney Rietmann Editor Editorial Associate Editors: Daniel Farber, Adrian Mello Technical Editor: David Ushijima Special Edition Coordinator: Erfert Nielson Assistant Editor: Editorial Manager: Arcellana Senior Copy Kathleen Christensen Copy Editors: Nancy E. Dunn, Wendy Weinberg Editorial Assistant: Heidi Mitchell Editorial Secretary: Kileen Drapiza Research Assistant: David Turin Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, Jim Heid, Jeremy Joan Hewes, Nicholas Lavroff, Gordon McComb, Lon Poole, Jeffrey 8, Young Art Associate Publisher: Jacqueline Poitier Designer: Marjorie Spiegelman Art Director: Bruce Charonnat Associate Designer: Dennis McLeod Associate Art Director: Christopher Burg Design Associates: Leslie Barton, Victoria Floyd Assistant: Nan Cassady Production Director: Herbert Linden Senior Production Managers: , Lee R. Trevino Editorial Production Manager: Ellyn L. Hament Production Editor: James Felici Ad Traffic: Jayne Boyer ‘Rlecommunicators: Mark L. Duran, Susan M. Ford, Virginia Weir Display Advertising Supervisor: Cathy Miller Assistant: Otto Waldorf Research Associate Publisher!Director: Cheryl Woodard Manager: Gary L. Rocchi Assistant: Laura McCoy Corporate Development Special Projects: Jeffrey S. Glines International: Karen Dowell Assistant: Randi Glaser Secretary: Gloria C, Sundin Marketing and Advertising Sales Associate Publisber/Director: James E. Martin Regional Advertising Manager (Northern California, Texas): Penny Rigby Northwest/Midwest: Patricia Navone East: Linda Holbrook Southeast: Judy Sutter Southern California/Southwest: Michela O'Connor Directory/¥s-Page Ads: Niki Stranz Advertising Services Manager: Ray Petsche Assistant to the Director: Loretta Giglione Circulation Director: Penny Ertelt Director Single-Copy Sales: George Clark Subscription Manager: Gail Egbert Single-Copy Sales: Bill Cox Promotions Manager: Laurie King Fulfillment Coordinator: Phil Semler Administration Director: Janet McGinnis Accounting: Pat Murphy, Ralph Ames Facilities: Joseph Wollenweber Personnel: Sarah Cox Assistant to the President: Christina W. Spence 4 Special Edition, Winter 1986 Corporate PC World Communications, Inc. David Bunnell Chairman Bartlett R. 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OverVUE 2.0 is loaded with new features like Relational Joins, Macros that let you compress an entire sequence of commands into a single pull-down menu item, spreadsheet-like math capabilities, Charts that can be displayed with just a few mouse clicks, Clairvayance™ for painless data entry and Import/Export for exchanging information with other database and spreadhseet programs. PVE ProVUE™Development Corporation 222 22nd Street e Huntington Beach, CA 92648 « (714) 969-2431 Circle 77 on reader service card Pet your puppy. Catch a ray. Roll the dice. You'd be amazed. There's no question, OverVUE is one of the most powerful packages available for any microcomputer. But don't be overwhelmed, because OverVUE is also one of the easiest databases to set up, modify and use. And if you don't believe us, just ask INFOWORLD. They rated OverVUE “excellent” for ease of use (April 1, 1985). OverVUE 2.0. It’s incredibly fast. It’s powerful. It’s easy to use, You won't find a more complete database program anywhere! So what are you waiting for? It will only take a few seconds to hop in your car, drive to the nearest software dealer and pick up your very own copy of OverVUE. OverVUE" OverVUE Overll > @® Erfert Nielson From Yuppie Toy to Office Tool The Macintosh is maturing into a serious business machine Why devote an entire issue to. the Macintosh office? Because if the Macintosh and its descen- dants are going to survive, the Mac is going to have to get its foot in the corporate door. The home computer market is dwindling because people find it hard to justify spending sev- eral thousand dollars for a ma- chine that lets them balance their checkbooks and write a few letters. Since the attractive Amiga will probably grab a share of the declining home market, it is certainly in Apple's interest to focus on the busi- ness market. The Mac has entered the workplace slowly for a number of reasons: a lack of business software, a dearth of memory, limited hardware options, and last but not least, an image problem. The Macintosh is seen by many people as a cute and frivolous computer, in part because of the standard Apple has set in easy-to-use software. How can a computer that dis- plays a little smiling face when you insert a disk be a serious business machine? Many's the time I've heard the scathing term yuppie toy applied to the Mac. But times are changing. The purpose of this special issue is to show, by means of several examples, that the Mac is up and running ina variety of business settings and that it can match—and surpass in some areas-the utility of estab- lished business computers, Some of the articles demon- strate how the Macintosh has achieved a state of peaceful co- existence with other personal computers; many companies are exchanging files between IBM PCs or PC compatibles and Macs. Other companies are re- placing existing systems with the Mac, citing affordability, easy-to-learn programs, por- a , and superb graphics as reasons for choosing the Mac over other brands. While this issue of Macworld does not de- tail how to connect a network or set up a database, the arti- cles should give you an idea of the Mac's potential in the workplace. When we started working on this special edition last spring, Apple's concept of the “Macin- tosh Office,” which consists of several Macs connected by AppleTalk to a file server and a LaserWriter, existed only in pro- motional brochures. As you will see in the following articles, while not all Macintosh offices fit Apple’s mold, the Mac is proving to be a viable business machine in settings that vary from a Texas oil field to a New York ad agency. Profiles in the “Business World View” section suggest that the Mac is the ideal computer for many small com- panies and individual busi- nesspeople: a fashion designer, a lawyer, a software publisher, and others. (continues on page 12) Maeworld 9 Microsoft Excel. For those whe You may speak more softly now. formidable spreadsheet ever to run on a For we are delivering into the hands of __ personal computer, business, a very big stick. A spreadsheet which is in turn linked Microsoft” Excel for the Macintosh"A _ with an extraordinary graphics program and financial analysis tool of unprecedented _a highly capable data filing application. power. These already consider- First and foremost, able powers are magnified Microsoft Excel geometrically by Macros. is the most Which give Microsoft Excel appreciate the uses of power. the capacity to learn your most complex stration of the powers of Microsoft Excel. routines. And activate them with a single In the right hands, a potent weapon, keystroke. indeed, in the cause of commerce. Yet for all its ability, Microsoft Excel is We trust you will use it responsibly. simple to learn, simple to use. No complex commands to memorize. No classes to take. The only thing complicated about y Microsoft Excel is the problems it can solve. Microsoft Excel See your Microsoft dealer for a demon- The rest are history. For the name of your nearest Microsoft dealer, call (800) 426-9400. In Washington State and Alaska, call (206) 828-8088. In Canada, (416) 673-7638. @& Erfert Nielson Many companies have balked at buying a Mac because of the lack of business software. The close to 400 business programs listed in this issue's “Business Software Review” section should illustrate that this com- plaint is no longer valid. The Macintosh is maturing, A year ago the Mac, with a puny 128K of memory and accom- panied by only a handful of programs, was less than attrac- tiv n office computer. But with memory upgrades, hard disks, the LaserWriter, and sev- eral hundred business applica- tions, the Mac becomes a for- midable business machine. While the Mac still suffers somewhat from an image prob- lem, more and more profes- re beginning to take acintosh seriously. Just spend an hour or two witha spreadsheet or a database, and The NETWAY® 1000A AppleTalk Gateway provides host I'm sure you'll agree with me system access for Macintosh” systems connected by Apple that the Macintosh has the po- Computer's Applélalk.” Up to 31 Macintosh systems are eee petunia all supported by the NETWAY 1000A to an IBM host system. Erfert Nielson is an Assistant Emulating an IBM 3274 controller, the NETWAY 1000A ee oh Macworld ad ’ provides either BSC or SNA/SDLC protocol support. eae Oj the special TRI-DATA 505 East Middlefield Road, Mountain View, CA 94043-4082 Telephone: (415) 969-3700 TELEX: 172282 TWX: 910 379 6978 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corzeration NETWAY fs a registored trademark of -Data, Applalak isa trademark o! Appio tine ‘Macintoch isa trademark icansod to Apple Computer, Ine Circle 51 on reader service card 12 Special Edition, Winter 1986 The Experts on Excel Now... from Microsoft Press... comes EXCEL IN BUSINESS. . . your complete source of detailed, inside information on Excel, Microsoft's pow- erful new integrated software product for the Apple Macintosh. You'll discover how to maximize Excel's potent spreadsheets, create rich graphics, turn your spreadsheet into a database manager, and switch on the number- crunching power of Excel's macros. Much more than a how-to, EXCEL IN BUSINESS gives you scores of authoritative tips and advanced tech- niques. The easily referenced infor- mation on Excel's library of functions, its versatile formatting and printing possibilities, and its practical window- ing capabilities will help you analyze all your business data with ease. No one is better equipped to explore and explain Excel than Douglas Cobb. ‘A master of both spreadsheets and Integrated software, Cobb is the author of the bestsellers Using 1-2-3 and Mastering Symphony. Don't just learn how Excel works... learn how it can work for you. $21.95 Available late Nov, wherever books and software are sold. Microsoft Press 10700 Northup Way Bellevue, WA 98004 ererunching pownron Numb { Circle 396 on reader service card This message is for the several hundred thousand people who bought a Macintosh because of its user-friendli- ness—and then found it a bit slow in expressing its affections, For those who find themselves frequently feeding floppies. And waiting. And wishing the Macintosh’s capacity for work matched its appetite. For all those who ve learned to live with these and a variety of other limitations, were pleased to announce a richly rewarding un-learning experience. INTRODUCING HYPERDRIVE 20. TWENTY MILLION BYTES. NO WAITING. HyperDrive 20 is a new internal hard disk that, when installed in your Macintosh, makes it the Work’s Fastest Macintosh. Up to 16 times faster than a conventional Mac that Tuns on floppies. In fact, as Personal Computing maga- aine put it, “Using a HyperDrive compared to a regular Macintosh is akin to cooking with a | microwave oven instead of a gas range” This rather heady level of performance may be attributed to a simple principle of engi- | neering: Macintoshes, like human beings, travel === faster and better when unencumbered by excess Gee Unlike all other hard disks, which are external, Hyper- Drive connects directly to the Macintosh’s microprocessor. This gives it an insurmountable lead over external disks— which, since they have to slow down to talk through one of the Macintosh’s ports, will forever lag behind. AFAREWELL,OF SORTS, TO FLOPPIES. The HyperDrive 20 hard disk holds as much as fifty floppies (twenty megabytes). And if it holds them, you won't have to. But besides holding more information, HyperDrive manages it more intelligently. It recognizes, for example, that files are organic cre- ations, with a tendency to grow with their own special urgency to their own self-determined size. HyperDrive is engineered accordingly. It lets you divide your disk into 32 file drawers, each holding up to 512 files. These files automatically re-size, swelling or shrinking according to what you put in or take out. Which lets you use storage space according to your dictates, instead of your computer's. POWERFUL ENOUGH FOR POWERFUL SOFTWARE. HyperDrive 20 will run all Macintosh programs, netdhy Apple's ne new Switcher And it will run them faster. But HyperDrive 20 will also run programs that the regular Macintosh, for alll its friendliness, lacks the sophistica- tion to handle effectively. Programs such as Lotus’ Jazz, for VAST DIFFERENCES IN PERFORMANCE. ATINY DIFFERENCE IN APPEARANCE. example. And Microsoft's Word. Powerful business software that can multiply a Macintosh's performance and productivity. HyperDrive 20 also comes with its own software that elevates both the friendliness and the sophistication of your Macintosh. Such as a backup program, unsurprisingly named Backup, that lets you back up and restore information from the hard disk to and from your floppies. There's even a print spooler that lets you use your Macintosh for other jobs while your printer is busy churning ut the one you just finished. VAST VS. TWICE AS VAST. For all its emancipating qualities, there’s one item that HyperDrive won't liberate you from. The Apple warranty. Even though your Macintosh must be opened (by an Apple dealer) to install HyperDrive, your warranty remains intact. But Apple won't be the only one watching over you, HyperDrive is further backed by our own 90-day limited warranty and an optional HyperCare extended service contract. And service is readily available at participating Apple dealers nationwide. (See your nearest dealer for complete warranty.details) In fact, the only imaginable problem left unattended by HyperDrive is that of deciding which to buy—HyperDrive 10 or HyperDrive 20. That will depend largely on how much capacity you need: vast or twice as vast. ‘ You can make that determination by visiting a parti- cipating Apple dealer and seeing HyperDrive in action. Or call us at (800) 422-0101 or (617) 492-5500. In Canada, call our distributor at (800) 565-1267 ~'” GENERAL = COMPUTER The leading edge starts here. puter Corp Hyper Divers a tradernarkof General Computer Corp. Apole, Lager\Wigor and Svaicher are trademarks of Apple Computer Ine: Macintosh sa tracemark ioersed io Apple Compute, Inc Jaz is ‘! Lotus Developmoal Corp Word a trademark of Microsoft Corpexaten. IBM and IBM XT are vadernarss ol intanahanal Business Machines Corp, Circle 143 on reader service card We ioved the Macintosh so much we gave it a daughter And it's *. everything a daughter should be. The Max™is a daughterboard » that combines with a Macintosh: motherboard and installs ~ in minutes. The Max increases your computing power from 128K or 512K to a full 1.5 megabytes of config- " urable memory. Its RAM disk runs circles around even the fastest internal disk drives. “You can run_all your present soft- © “ware with The Max, Use data bases, ‘word’ processors and integrated programs like Jazz to create more elaborate spreadsheets, work with _ larger documents, and file more data than ever The Max is os before. : ; : designed for the ait, ee With The Max and Apple's Switcher, you can run 3 “up to eight applications at once ~ all at RAM speed! Unlike memory expansions j If you crash, The Max forgives you. Unlike other using older technology, The Max has been designed “ RAM disks,‘The Max allows you to reset and récoyer to be fully expandable. It is pin compatible with ne “yout 1024K RAM disk intact. - soon-to-be-re 8 : Be ae : decoded for 4 megabytes of memory, the maximum The Max is fast. : = the Macintosh can address. : : The Max doesn’t waste your time. Move inand. out of The Max is available now. ‘ : © applications almost 10 times faster than a floppy disk— i “Sand 2 to 3 times faster than an internal disk drive. Contact your local-dealer for more informanon about Boot MacPaint in 2.6 seconds, or MacWrite in. 1:3 4." The Max, Kits are also ayailable. : : ne e : 5 seconds! 128K toThe Max 15Mb - $795: | §12K to'The Max1.5Mb.°.- - 8645) 5 The Max lets you confi igure. 1 P1280 512K ey he ‘MaxRAM* software included with The Maxallows VOUT to configure your Mac fo suit your needs, Have 024K of usable. “contiguous application space with ) Or select a 512K Macintosh with. ‘ : i The Max comes with a 90- days wars | ranty against defects in parts, materials and t aN SNHid MGs eA McGrane Hsces HHS and workmanship. An extended ser: ibl oe iif f a vice contract for your entire Macin- sible wit hout any. mod canons or patel hes to your Ss teh MaxCare™ is available through your dealer, - See aye local dealer for more information about The Max, or contact MacMemory Inc:, 473 Macara Avenue, Suite a Sunnyvale CA 94086, (408) Hoe ee @ David Bunnell Farewell to the Forest A wistful look at how computers are changing our lives—and possibly our environment Before there were computers in the office, many people be- lieved that the advent of per- sonal computers would lead to a paperless office. Many maga- zine articles and books toyed with the notion of a fully auto- mated business environment. Whole forests were probably decimated so people could ex- pound on the topic. Like a spoiled adolescent, the computer in the office isn’t be- having quite like its marketing parents had in mind. Its pres- ence has radically increased the use of paper. Thanks to word processing, even memos are expected to be letter perfect and aesthet- ically designed. All kinds of documents go through read after read and require draft after draft. In the days before the computer, even legal pa- pers occasionally had hand- written corrections or ad- denda. But those days are gone. Of course, it's not entirely the computer's fault. Many people haven't been on their best behavior either. They re- fuse to edit on screen because it’s “easier” to see it on paper, and they print out the same file countless times. Putting people together with computers probably wasn’t a hot idea. But since we're al- ready in the same room, we need to learn how to live together. The Macintosh office makes it much easier for computers and people to live together. Thanks to the Mac’s bit- mapped graphics, business pa- pers can be printed in a variety of fonts with an appropriate smattering of boldface and un- derlining throughout the text. Adding graphics, charts, spreadsheets, and drawings to documents gives them extra impact. Using a laser printer makes them first class. The Mac’s screen is easier to read—and easier on the eyes— than the standard personal computer monitor. That makes more people inclined to edit on screen, so there might be hope for the trees yet. On the other hand, the Mac- intosh is heralding a renais- sance of newsletters and pam- phlets. The Macintosh office gives people the power not only to comfortably draft and edit their ideas but to typeset, format, and design them. The Mac’s publishing poten- tial is a shocking, intriguing revelation. The inevitable addition of optical disk storage to the Mac- intosh will only make matters worse, The first such system will probably be CD ROM (compact disk read-only memory). That -m uses the same laser disks that store digital music played on compact disk players. CD ROM will radically expand the Mac's external memory, One disk will be able to hold the equivalent of 270,000 pages of text. One startup company, Activenture, of Pacific Grove, California, has already demon- strated a CD ROM version of the Grolier Encyclopedia for the Atari ST520. So Apple can't be far behind. In one way, the emerging laser disk technology will dras- tically reduce the use of paper. Complete files, records, and even libraries will be published on CD ROM. Eventually, Macintosh- compatible office equipment similar to optical character readers (OCRs) will let you scan paper documents to store on optical disk. The computer will also be able to receive elec- tronic images over networks and via the telephone. Itseems logical that by pub- lishing massive reference books on optical disks, we would reduce the use of paper. (continues on page 18) Macworld 17 im David Bunnell 18 Special Edition, Winter 1986 (continued from page 17) But by having access to the myriad databases covering all imaginable topics and by hav- ing the ability to download in- formation to your computer, you become prone to printing that information. The flood- gates of personal document production will open, and each of us will graduate from print- ing letters to publishing novels. And once again people will behave badly. Not only will memos and re- ports have to be beautiful, but they'll have to be substantiated, cross-referenced, and illus- trated with voluminous reports and addenda. Meanwhile, the increase in the amount of external mem- ory will be paralleled by growth in ROM. In spite of the Mac’s “closed” architecture, a company called Levco Enter- prises is producing a 2-mega- byte Mac upgrade called the MonsterMac. Several other companies are selling 1-mega- byte upgrades. Soon we will be able to pro- duce 500-page Lotus jazz documents. The faithful few who still be- lieve in the paperless office are probably waiting for portable, flat-screen, color Macintoshes. Such a computer, with super resolution and loads of mem- ory, would encourage everyone to read everything on screen. Time magazine will eventually come on a tiny laser disk to in- sert into the computer. People will read computers on the bus and won't have to worry about bumping the person in the next seat when turning pages. Well, there may be some- thing to the paperless office after all, but don't count on it. I still haven't figured out how to resolve the side effects of the people/computer combination. But unless somebody does, the world's forests are destined to be gobbled up. a atori Software SATORI Satori Software idlawn N. attle, WA 98103 (206) 633-1469 DATA INDEPENDENCE: F The Macintosh is a computer of great promise. Its enormous capabilities, compact size, and user friend- liness make it a standout among microcomputers. Yet the marvelous Mac has mass storage limitations, including the file serving capabilities necessary to make The Macintosh Office live up to its full potential. Until now. Because The Bernoulli Box;” a cartridge-based data storage system, now brings infinite storage capacity and unheard of data management versatility to the Macintosh. For the individual Mac user, there's The Bernoulli Box Personal Server,” featuring 5-Mb cartridges; and for The Macintosh Office, the new Bernoulli Box for AppleTalk,” using 10-Mb cartridges. In either form, The Bernoulli Box fulfills all the promise of this amazing computer. The promise of virtually infinite storage capacity in a reliable system that serves the needs of the individual and the many. The promise of easy use, of high performance, of data security. The promise fulfilled by The Bernoulli Box. PERFORMANCE. The amazing speed of The Bernoulli Box—with access times and transfer rates that rival and often surpass hard disk drives—translates into the best freedom of Besides all the amazing things The Bernoulli Box does for the all: the freedom of time. The freedom that comes from getting the job Macintosh, it does something pretty amazing for Macintosh users too. It done quickly and moving on to other things. gives them something we call data independence. And what's that? Well, mostly it’s freedom. Freedom from a whole lot of data-related constraints — and worries. It's freedom that can best be described in the following ways: RELIABILITY. Incredible resistance to shock and vibration combined with its rugged cartridge format frees you from concern about equipment failure, head crash, or data loss. BERN LFILLING THE PROMISE TE MACINTOSH OFFICE: UUTULUUSUNELAANOOOAAAAATL | | TRANSPORTABILITY. Bernoulli Box cartridges are completely interchange- able. 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There are also Bernoulli Boxes for the IBM PC/XT/AT and most compatibles. Altogether, it’s a pretty promising proposition. For the dealer nearest you, call 1-800-556-1234, ext. 215. In California, call 1-800-441-2345, ext. 215. ‘The Bernoulli Box is a registered trademark of IOMEGA Corporation. Data Independence and The Bernoulli Box Personal Server are trademarks of IOMEGA Corporation. Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. AppleTalk is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc, [-M=GA {OMEGA Corporation 1821 West 4000 South Roy, Utah 84067 Circle 171 on reader service card VY Xai Mac3D™ is a powerful three- dimensional graphics package now available exclusively for the Macintosh™. Use it to create technical or free form drawings and designs. Simply select from a palette of basic shapes and then stretch, flip, resize, reshape and/or rotate your drawing along any axis in three dimensions--much like you would shape a globule of clay and examine it in your hand. Features include: ¢ Advanced tool palette. Select Text, Freehand Drawing, or shapes like Rectangles, Ellipses (includes circles), Polygons, Pyramids, Polygonal Prisms, Polygonal Pyramids, Ellipsoids, Cones, Cubes, Cylinders, and Tori (doughnuts). © Edit_ Options SSN ODN Comores ea Orbit the camera to the... tert - Moveable Camera. Use our new Setup Camera option and observe a drawing from virtually any point of view--even from the inside looking out! Mac3D requires a 512K Apple® Macintosh™ and an external disk drive. For more information see your local computer dealer or contact: CHALLENGER SOFTWARE 18350 Kedzie Avenue Homewood, IIlionois 60430 Phone (312) 957-3475 ...4 new dimension in software file Edit Reshape Text Fill Line Pen Layout Arrange [SSS Ff KONLIOIN OAPI Bie) ¢ Reshaping capability. Move vertices, edges, or surfaces with the mouse and watch as the connected edges and surfaces follow. ¢ Standard and custom rulers. Use the rulers we provide, or create your own for greater precision. ¢ Enhanced Pattern Editor. Choose from among the many fill and pen patterns provided, or create and edit your own. ¢ 360 degree rotation. Use our new circular scroll bar and rotate your objects in one-degree increments to any orientation possible. Show selection Ge} Ged @Spin Oterft-Right OUp-Down Apple is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Mac3D and the Mac3D logo are trademarks of Challenger Software Corporation. ©1985 Challenger Software Corporation Circle 120 on reader service card Business World View The Mac makes it big in small businesses Edited by J. E. Arcellana Not all Macintosh offices include Apple- Talk networks, LaserWriters, and hard disks. Many small businesses and indi- vidual professionals have added the Mac- intosh to the tools of their trades. The fol- lowing profiles show bow six small concerns—a writer, a law firm, a fashion designer, a doctor, a construction en- gineer, and an architectural firm— have put the Macintosh to work, Manuscripts in MacPaint Bringing the writer closer to a book's Jinal look Creativity on the Macintosh results from its limitations as often as from its capabilities. Necessity, after all, is the mother of in- vention. For example, MacWrite’s inability to wrap text around a graphic image in- spired writer and software designer Ramon Zamora to use MacPaint to prepare hun- dred-page manuscripts for major publishers. “T have always wanted a writing tool,” hes “that works the way my mind works-—in pictures and in arrangements of words and pictures.” Zamora works with art director Clifford West in an enterprise called An- other Adventure, where the Macintosh has aided Zamora in the development of sev- eral projects, including an educational se- ries of books with accompanying disks for Addison-Wesley and a ThinkTank 512 Dis- covery Diskette for Living Videotext. The Discovery Diskette is a disk that runs with ThinkTank and demonstrates how you can use the program in unusual and imagina- tive ways. Zamora and West gained much of Ramon Zamora tries to bring children closer to their parents through activity books that give another meaning to the term interactive computing. He writes and itlus- trates bis books in MacPaint. their experience in developing educational materials when they were partners in ChildWare, a software development com- pany that produced 15 programs in 18 months for publishers such as Electronic Arts and Fisher-Price. Well-Executed Amalgams Zamora is the author of the Apple II and Commodore 64 versions of the Play Together, Learn Together book-and-disk sets put out by Grolier Electronic Publish- ing. Each set offers parents and young chil- dren activities organized around the re- spective computers, although some Macworld = 23 PALANTIR® Software for Macintosh Educational Series Mactype ® @ Full Dvo Training © Not a Game! 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He used MacPaint with T/Maker's ClickArt Effects and digitized graphics to prepare the man- uscripts for Grolier. “A lot of people were shocked that I would try to ‘word process’ in MacPaint,” he says. “But that’s easier than trying to move images into MacWrile, Beginner books like Play Together, Learn Together are not just words but carefully designed and executed amalgams of visual and ver- bal elements. MacPaint allows me to be nonlinear in presentation and to create a direct image of how [ want the pages to ap- pear in final form [see ‘Not-Too-Rough Draft'|.” Zamora did some experimenting be- fore starting the project. He set up man- uscript templates using MacPaint’s Grid feature to establish blocks for text and graphics. The grid also simplified making “Thad the editors and the artists re- view my page mock-ups, and | adjusted the template based on their feedback,” he re- lates. “I used a Thunderware ThunderScan digitizer to grab some preliminary images, made up a Scrapbook of those images with ations and modifications, and used the images in developing the manuscript.” Concrete Suggestions Zamora says that his manuscript could almost be published directly on the Laser- Writer. “In fact, when I first showed the Grolier people my manuscript,” he recalls, “one of the artists expressed some concern that I had already composed so much of each page. I told him that I had merely made a more concrete suggestion of how I (continues on page 26) Not-Too-Rough Draft This is a page layout | Jor a book on the Commodore 64 com- puter for parents with young children. Writer and designer Ramon Zamora prepared his manuscript entirely in MaePaint, webich be says allows bim to ‘create visual and ver. bal constructs” of how he wants the finished book to look, color symbols is finis! will be useful as you If it has been erased Program again. (see When the program pi Be Time to Make Patterns The rather long explanation about the C-64's colorful, exciting screen patterns. If itis still in your computer, RUN Tiny Program No. 4 try any of the following ‘messages’ hold dovn SHIFT and PATTERN MAKER TINY PROGRAM NO. 4 10 INPUT A$ 20 PRINT AS; hed, That information get the C-64 to make 30 GOTO 20 oe ciestzoyea) Lape tis Type the program then type’ program listing to right.) Patterns! Patterns! Patterns! rormpts for an INPUT, These “messages” make the patterns shown on the small sereens To make the balls, press the Q key. program by pr Type RUN When you want to change to a new pattern, stop the will appear, Enter a new message or pattern, ype ‘essing the RUN/STOP key. A BREAK message the READY message and the cursor. and the INPUT prompt will appear. -42- 24 — Special Edition, Winter 1986 How Adding Macros Gives You More Speed, Less Mousing Around Finally — the first true macros for the Macintosh! Fly through complex strings of commands! Integrate programs automatically! Make Jazz" sing, Word" dance, and Excel™ jump for joy! Add the Power of Macros to Your Macintosh What's a macro? A macro records any sequence of commands or keyboard entries once and then replays chem all quickly forever after, A single keystroke will recall the most complex series of commands. And you can create up to 450 Tempo macros in every application Go beyond simple record and playback. You get powerful features that will enhance neacly every Maciacosh program. Programs like Jazz™, Excel™, MacPublisher™, MacDraw™, Helix”, OverVUE™, File Vision™ and nearly every other ™ designed for the Macintosh, Automate lengthy commands, Just turn ‘Tempo on while you per form a series of commands or key- Strokes once, and wild! youve made a macto. Format spread- sheets, Add boiler- plate, Get creative! Build vertical market applications by inte- ‘giting unrelated programs with Tempo, You can creare @ single macro to automati- cally move dara between an unlimired number of Macin- tosh programs. Not just for the “power user, nif you only use Tempo for tasks like printing our a docu with one command instead of three, youll! save time in nearly every Macintosh application. Real-Time Replay. Play back av the same speed you recorded. You can create “self-running demos” for nearly any Macintosh software, Much, Much More! 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Box 600 Los Alamos, NM 87544 (505) 672-1998 Telex: 5101003099 Circle 97 on reader service card Business World View wanted the page to appear as opposed to the old method of drawing little bubbles with cryptic messages saying, ‘Put some art here!” Because a manuscript prepared on the Macintosh can be so close to the finished product, Zamora is looking into the self- publishing possibilities offered by the Mac- intosh and the LaserWriter printer. Instead of MacPaint, he plans to use MacDraw, which offers access to the LaserWriter fonts, for any manuscripts that Another Ad- venture might publish on its own. One such project that Zamora has in the works is a Macintosh workbook accompanied by a MacPaint data disk, along the lines of the Play Together, Learn Together sets, Cur- rently he uses a LaserWriter at a local type- setting house, “but when I get my own LaserWriter,” he s Common belief has been that comput- ers and electronic media would threaten the lence of printed information. But the Macintosh is proving the contrary. It clears the way for creative, interactive, and independent book production by enabling writers and designers to overcome some of the obstacles found in traditional publish- ing, Of course, distribution is another ma ter, but people lik mora will find ways to do that, too.— Michael Newman Before David Epstein ruled in favor of the Macintosh for bis law practice in 1984, be had never used a com- puter. Now he's ready to take it all the way to the Supreme Court. 26 Special Edition, Winter 1986 Friend of the Court A lawyer makes a case Jor less paperwork ional author Epstein is fa- As atrial lawyer and an oc of books and articles, Davi miliar with the woes sive paper production, He has witnessed the mount ing piles of yellow legal pads and the boxes of discarded drafts that are the refuse of the lawyer's trade. But since early 1984 yciates have been using ix Macintoshes, principally for word pro- cessing and organizing thoughts. The Macs in Epstein’s hington, D.C., office have helped streamline operations. “Using a computer gives us more time to think about the legal problems of our clients. It minimizes the time spent on de- tails such as retyping and proofing docu- ments,” Epstein. He claims that editing and correcting documents on screen has reduced the time required to produce a legal t 40 percent. ssociates recendy used the Macintosh to their advantage while preparing an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief for the Supreme Court. (continues on page 28) | MacChemistry. Now! Desktop Technology Converts to Lab What happens when you combine the desktop technology of a Macintosh™ with software written specifically for chemical applications? 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When he travels out of town to in- terview witnesses, he takes along a Macin- tosh and an Imagewriter, He takes notes the Mac and uses ThinkTank to organize, cross-reference, and analyze the material immediately after the depc Epstein used his \ while handling a Montana recently. “I loaded my Mae with case data, including depositions, wit- ness lists, and exhibits. | worked on the Mac in my motel room to prepare my opening and closing remarks, record data each night on that day’s court proceedings, add legal research notes on such things as the admi ity of evidence at issue, and outline points for the next day's arguments.” Epstein, who is 50, had never used a computer before he bought the Macintosh. “Lresisted buying other models due to their complexity or the arcane codes that had to be learned to operate them,” he ex- plains. Epstein says he ach New ass ciates how to use the Mac in 15 minutes. Visible Admissible Evidence Although Epstein uses his Macintosh primarily to produce legal documents, he occasionally prepares charts and graphs: with Microsoft Chart. “Once | went to Cali- fornia to negotiate a dispute between two companies,” he recalls, “I spent half a day with my client working up a series of charts based on information supplied by the opposing party. We had tables of fig- ures showing how a manufacturer had ma- nipulated sales figures over a period of years, making it impossible for my client to meet his sales quotas. Going over the ta- bles in court would have taken hours and made everyone go numb, but the charts immediately showed a trend. The charts turned the negotiations around in favor of my client.” Epstein employs a full-time staff of six, He says the Macintosh could easily satisfy the needs of a larger law firm. In addition to working with MacWrite, ThinkTank, (continues on page 30) Beet. aussauneee™ Yes! It’s a super true to life electronic train set! 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Because the Mac cuts down on the time required to prepare documents, Epstein says his firm has been able to take more difficult cases than before and to take cases on a contingency-fee basis more often. “In pre-Mac days we would have turned down some of the cases we have worked on recently,” he says. “They would have required too big an overhead.’—Eric Schwarz High-Tech Fashion For one designer, clothes make the Mac The next time you choose an outfit in a store, check the label because the clothing may have been designed on a Macintosh. New York fashion designer Jackie Shapiro uses MacPaint and MacDravw to design her GARB line of clothing. Shapiro, who. left a position with Fiorucci in Italy to work as a free-lance designer, started using the Mac in the spring of 1984. “The Macintosh was just right for my purposes,” she says. “I had never touched a computer before I bought my Mac. I find that it takes me slightly longer to produce a drawing on the Macintosh than it does by hand, but the lines are much cleaner, and therefore the clothes come out better’ Silhouettes on the Screen Although Shapiro uses both MacPaint and MacDraw in her work, she says Mac- Paint is the best program for her purposes. ‘To begin designing a piece of clothing, she selects a garment silhouette from one of the hundreds of files she has created, Next she chooses a body—available in front, rear, and side views—from another set of files. 30 Special Edition, Winter 1986 She then pastes the silhouette on top of the body and adds patterns, shading, and de- tails such as belts, pockets, and pleats. In addition to showing a view of a gar- ment on a model, Shapiro draws detailed front and back views of her creations to give to her dressmaker. “I access my part files, which contain various styles of cuffs, pockets, collars, buttons, and other clothing elements. I see how the parts look with the design I'm working on; if I don’t like the effect, I draw something new [see ‘Sum of the Parts’), That’s an advantage of computer-generated design: you tend to explore more options than you would with traditional methods. And the more you ex- plore, the better your designs get.” Prefab Patterns Shapiro doesn’t have to draw every- thing from scratch in her designs. Mac- Paint’s circle tool, for example, provides a quick way to add buttons. Areas can be filled with stripes, dots, checks, and other patterns using either MacPaint or Mac- (continues on page 34) Showing off one of her designs, Jackie Shapiro seems glad that she gave the Mac a whirl in the fasion world. Smooth Talker ThinkTank HabaDisk Multiplan Doltars and Sense le tf O nel Quart SI M : FACT. @ < ee es = 2 Sale ‘ND Concertw. » | fusicworks Invoice ExperLogo Ultimalll BizMac Mi fone = ProPrint = FactFii We'll eat. anany File Windoware $m. 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Another handy tool is T/Maker Graph- ics’ ClickArt Effects. This MacPaint desk accessory allows Shapiro to rotate shapes in small increments rather than the 90- degree rotations provided by MacPaint. The desk accessory also lets her stretch se- lected parts of a drawing. Shapiro claims that using the Macin- tosh helps keep her work organized be- To those who know that you don’t sprinkle FatBits on your salad, Shapiro's designs can be evocative of Paint—but creating patterns that move in color on a human fig- ure takes more than mousing around. 34 — Special Edition, Winter 1986 cause a large number of drawing files can be stored on disk rather than on paper. “When I design a line of clothes on the Mac, I can bring up a core drawing and edit it rather than starting a drawing from scratch. Drawing by hand gets messy. I get disorganized and I can’t find all the papers. The Macintosh has helped me organize my work, giving me time to design more inter- esting clothes.” According to Shapiro, few people in the fashion industry have paid much atten- tion to the possibilities of computers in fashion design. “I recently attended an art expo that had a computer graphics sec- tion,” she says, “but I was the only person using the Macintosh in conjunction with fashion.” She feels that computers will gradually become integrated into the fash- ion industry, however, “and by then I'll be way ahead of my time.’ —Sherri Gilman- Tompkins (continues on page 36) Power Tools QuickDisk™ The software that makes your Macintosh 10 times faster. Sometimes the world’s easiest to use computer isn’t as fast as it could be. But now there’s QuickDisk. The RAM disk software that gives you what you need most—a super fast electronic disk drive, not a slow mechanical one. 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Marcus Con- tardo, a pathologist at the Palomar Hospital in Escondido, California, counts a Macin- tosh computer among his most valuable instruments. Contardo was no stranger to personal computers when he bought his Macintosh in July 1984, He has owned an IBM PC since 1981 and still maintains a database of medi- cal articles on the PC. But the Mac’s graph- ics capabilities and icon-based interface quickly made Contardo a two-computer pa- thologist. He has upgraded his Macintosh to 512K, and his system includes a second disk drive and a Corvus 16-megabyte hard disk. 36 — Special Edition, Winter 1986 For pathologist and Macintosh owner Mar- cus Contardo, positive results mean good news for a change. Ease of use and bigh- resolution graphics are just what the doc- tor ordered for tap- ping on-line databases and preparing biopsy reports. Modem Medicine Contardo subscribes to Dialog Infor- mation Services, an on-line retrieval ser- vice that maintains more than a dozen medical and related databases in its elec- tronic library in Palo Alto, California. He connects with Dialog about once a week to read the most recent medical reports and scan the latest medical journals. He also turns to Dialog when he needs informa- tion on a particular subject, such as hepatitis. Contardo uses Maclerminal for his communications needs and finds the pro- gram easier to operate than the commu- nications software he runs on the IBM PC. Contardo, who doesn't like to type, prefers uing commands with a click of the mouse. MacTerminal saves him time—and with Dialog, time is money. The average database fee is $65 per hour, and some database fees run as high as $165 per hour. Biopsy Graphics Contardo has also found medical ap- plications for MacPaint, which he used to design a skin biopsy form, “The mapping of a skin biopsy lends itself to a visual re- port because a tumor grows in erratic he says. “A surgeon wants to remove ist amount of skin necessary for a successful operation.” When a Palomar Hospital surgeon re- moves a skin tumor, it is sent to the pa- thology lab. A pathologist determines if the (continues on page 38) You've heard of XL/Serye,” the first commercial AppleTilk software. It made the Macintosh Office a reality. Thousands depend on it, every day, to reliably share information and resources. They access common applications, data, and printers ona Mae XL, the original Macintosh Office workhorse. Introducing MacServe.” The second standard for AppleTalk networks, Now, your 512K Macs can share their disks and printers. 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Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. MacPaint arid MacWrite are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 142 on reader service card Business World View entire tumor has been removed by check- ing for clear margins, a border of normal skin cells surrounding the cancerous cells. Using Contardo’s form, a pathologist draws the tumor fre id and shows the surgeon where more skin, if any, needs to be re- moved. The form relates the tumor to the face of a clock. For example, a biopsy may fail to show a clear r nat one o'clock. Contardo also created an endoscopy form on his Macintosh with representa- tions of the stomach and the colon. An en- doscope is a medical instrument that uses fiber optics to visually scan the interior of a hollow organ. Through the endoscope, a doctor can extract tissue samples for test- ing. “Frequently a surgeon selects more than one sample for biop: 's Contardo. Surgeons use the endoscopy form to mark the site ach biopsy originated. The endoscopy form becomes part of the pa- tient’s record, to work like a map if more surgery is required. The visual format is more succinct than a written description, Contardo says. Hospitals often hire artists to design forms, according to Contardo, but the Mac let him do the job himself. “The endoscopy form went through four revisions before it was acceptable,” he remembers. “With each revision, the Macintosh let me salvage part of the form so that I didn’t have to start from scratch each time.” Although Contardo was one of the first doctors at the 350-bed Palomar Hospi- tal to use a computer on a regular basis, he says that doctors assisted by computers will soon be the rule rather than the ex- ins have begun to discover antages of computers. Companies sell hardware, medical software, and information services such as Dialog often display their wa at medical conventions and semir ‘do says the big changes are taking place in colleges and universities, where computers are becom- ing common fixtures in science depart- ments. Future doctors become computer- literate even before they send in their med- ical school applications.—Katie Seger (continues on page 40) Drives Your Mac Twice As Hard The Mirror Magnum” 800K Drive The Magnum™ Drive The Mirror Magnum™ doubles the capacity and power of your Mac, and it’s 50% faster than your standard Mac drive. Know what that means? You can finally use your Mac to its fullest potential. Twice the Power. 50% Faster. Run Jazz™, Excel™, Microsoft Word™ and File™. Use your most powerful software for all it’s worth. Of course, Magnum isn’t just brute force. It’s also incredibly intelligent. It will recognize your single and dual-sided disks, writing to and reading from them accordingly. 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California residents add sales tax 457 McGlincey Lane, #4 Campbell, CA 95008 (408) 559-9339 Circle 373 on reader service card Business World View Cornerstone Macintosh An engineer gets in on the ground floor Civil and structural engineer Joe Nagy thinks about problems visually. For several years Nagy was eager to integrate personal computers with his work but was put off by their cost and limited graphic ilities. Nagy made his move to computer-aided drawing with the purchase of a Macintosh in March 1984. Since then, drawing with a Mac has given him the ability to look at his projects in a new light. When he bought his Macintosh, Nagy the project engineer for a $300-million development project called Tabor Center in downtown Denver, Issuing progress re- ports to the project director was part of his job. Nagy began experimenting with Mac- Paint for drafting. “I made a drawing showing the outline of the buildings,” he says, “and then as each floor of a building was poured in concrete, I'd shade it in. 'd also type in scheduled and actual comple- tion dates for each floor” He updated the drawing regular! used it as a visual progress report for h: supervisors. “You could see what we did in a given month—how many floors we and 40 Special Edition, Winter 1986 Engineer Joe Nagy couldn't wait for a Macintosh drafting program, so be used MacPaint fo report the progress of a multi- million-dollar devel- opment project. With MacDraw’s release he no longer has to count pixels for accuracy. poured and whether they were on time,” he recalls. Of course, MacPaint wasn't designed as an architect's tool, so Nagy had to do some extra work to make the drawings ac- curate. “To make sure the drawings would be in proportion, I used FatBits to count the number of pixels between each floor,” he says. Making a Mint By the time drafting tools were out for the Macintosh, Nagy had used his Mac- Paint drawings to land a job with the US. Mint. He is the construction engineer on an addition to the Denver mint facility. “My computer background is one of the things that helped me get the job,” he says. “The people in Washington hadn't seen anybody who had done anything like my MacPaint progress reports.” When he started his new job, Nagy was testing a prerelease ion of Apple's and he quickly made use of its 5. “MacDraw made the difference—- especially th ity to draw something to scale,” he says. “I could draw the mint’s floor plan in MacPaint, but I'd spend a lot of time counting pixels to make the pro- portions accurate. MacDraw is a lot faster” As before, Nagy uses his MacDraw files as visual progress reports. (continues on page 42) Don't be trapped by MacProject. You're about to be trapped by your own critical path. 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Everybody said the arrangement I proposed was something they hadn’t thought about.” Flexible Future Nagy will be able to put his ideas on paper with even more flexibility in the fu- ture. He’s currently testing MacDraft from Innovative Data Designs. “The best thing about it is a zoom feature that lets you work with portions of a drawing at up to eight times magnification,” he say makes drawings look more professional.” Nagy is looking forward to adding more hardware and software to his reper- toire, including a General Computer Com- pany HyperDrive, Micro Planning Soft- MicroPlanner project management program, and a program that will allow him to connect his Macintosh to the mint’s plotter. An avid beta-tester who enjoys put- ting prerelease versions of software through their paces, Joe Nagy will no doubt continue to think of innovative ways to use his Macintosh at the U.S, Mint.—Charles Rubin (continues on page 44) SCHEME ONE FLOOR LOADING = 104 Pallets H 6 high = 624 ot = 12 days TWO FLOOR (Basement o Ist): 104 Pollets 10 high = 1040 = 20 anys Pallets on the Floor Construction en gineer Joe Nagy uses MacDraw and Mac Draft fo figure out the most efficient use of space in the US. Mint in Denver. 42 Special Edition, Winter 1986 y ‘ You'll master prevenng all Mastering Jazz™ and Excel™ has never been easier. Or faster. Because now you have Notes..." 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