MacWorld 8510 October 1985

MACWORLD October 1985 $3.95 The Macintosh"Magazine Canada $4.95 OverVUE asks: What can you do in two ticks of a clock? You could start your car Dunk a donut. Introducing OverVUE 2.0. Much more than a database. As you know, two seconds isn’t very long, Usually, you can’t accomplish much in such a short amount of time. But, with OverVUE, two seconds is all the time you'll need to sort, total, chart, select, calculate, zoom, and much, much more. Of course, speed alone doesn’t mean much unless a program has the power to get your job done. And OverVUE can definitely get the job done. OverVUE 2.0 is loaded with new features like Relational Joins, Macros that let you compress an entire sequence of commands into a single pulldown menu item, spreadsheet-like math capabilities, Charts that can be displayed with just a few mouse clicks, Clairvoyance™ for painless data entry and Import/Export for exchanging information with other database and spreadhseet programs. P Vi ProVUE™Development Corporation 222 22nd Street e Huntington Beach, CA 92648 « (714) 969-2431 Circle 77 on reader service card Catch a ray. & oe Pet your puppy. 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. , “First of the second generation hard disk drives for Macintosh. You need a Macbottom™ hard disk drive to enhance the power and speed of your Macintosh. Macbottom with ten plus megabytes of storage is the fastest disk you can attach to your Macintosh. And more data storage no longer means sacrificing desk space. Macbottom is the only high capacity hard disk drive system that’s two inches high and fits perfectly under your Macintosh. Since it weighs less than five pounds you can take it everywhere you take Mac. Macbottom and your Macintosh are a perfect match. Macbottom. . . designed by Mac Users. . . for Mac Users! © Built-in power fail detection protects valuable disk data. e Automatic turnon feature requires no extra switches. ® Connects to either modem or printer port. @ Variable size volume allocation utilizes all available space efficiently. @ Backup program makes backup foolproof and fast! @ Printer spooler frees the Macintosh™ for more work. @ Works with 128k or 512k Macintosh. @ Warranteed for six months— parts and labor. 6204 Benjamin Road Tampa, FL 33614 1-800-MACBUTT (813) 884-3092 Circle 223 on reader service card Macinto: MACWORL October 1985 Getting Started 74 Networks Considered Jeremy Joan Hewes No Mac is an island once it up on a network. This pri the capabilities and possibilities of networks. Review 80 The Megabyte Managers Jim Heid Four new mass-storage devices take advantage of the 4.1 Finder. Compare the QC10, the HyperDrive, the Bernoulli Box, and the MacDrive. 128K Mac Integration Danny Goodman If the big-name integrated programs are too rich for your blood, have a look at Quartet, which brings the convenience of integration withi reach of people who ha Do You Have an 2 October 1985 The Macintosh”"Magazine Hands On 100 The PC-Mac Transfer Lon Poole Hope exists for détente between mismatched personal computers. This introduction to file conversion tells how the Macintosh can coexist productively with the IBM PC. 106 The Mac’s Best Performance Jim Heid Make the most of the Macintosh with software that improves hardware performance: RAM disks, Turbocharger, and the Switcher. 112 Eye to Eye with the LaserWriter Neale McGoldrick With LaserWriters showing shops, you can use prepare fil 120 13 27 41 53 Jeffrey S. Community Wheels for the Mind Young As the University Consortium Program enters its sophomore year, Macworld takes a tour of the Dartmouth campus to see how the Mac is doing in school. Columns Tribute to a Great Friend David Bunnell Letters Macworld View Edited by Herschel Schmedick The making of a Mac commercial, leveraging the LaserWriter, and other news and notes for the Macintosh community. Get Info Lon Poole Macworld’s tutor answers questions about file conversion, the Dvorak keyboard, shorter waits for the printer, and other Mac matte: 129 167 195 187 192 193, Departments Macware Reviews Edited by Erfert Nielson Short but straight-shooting assessments of Mac Tracks, Think Fast, Icon Switcher, Make Millions, Word Challenge I, Webster's Revenge, and Mac Disk Catalog. Open Window Edited by Jim Heid Choosing fonts for microfilm reproduction, squeezing more storage space out of a system disk, driving an Epson printer from the Macintosh, and more tips for fine-tuning the Mac. Macworld Gallery Edited by Erfert Nielson An exhibition of Macintosh graphics. Macworld Directory Indexes Advertisers Products Photo/illustration credits David Bishop, 106-107; José Cruz, 41; Jonathan Goell, 121-125; Jobn Hersey, 42, 44, 93; Ed Kashi, 45, 120; Jeffery Newbury, 88-89; George Steinmetz, 13, 53; Fred Stimson, cover, 80-85, 100-101; Mick Wiggins, 74-75, 129, 140, 154. Macworld = 3 ———sSe Early Macintosh bard disk owners were often disappointed, ex- periencing slow per- formance, limited stor- age capacity, and cluttered desktops. Find out how the sit- uation has improved, starting on page 80. MACWORLD David Bunnell Publisher J. Kelley Younger Executive Editor Kearney Rietmann Editor Editorial Associate Editor: Daniel Farber Technical Editor: David Ushijima tant Editors: Adrian Mello, Erfert son Editorial Manager: Janet McCandless Senior Copy Editor: Kathleen Christensen 'ditors: |. E. Arcellana, Dunn, Wendy Weinberg istant: Heidi Mitchell leen Drapiz: Ei Editorial Secretary: Intern: David ‘Turin Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, Jim Heid, Jeremy Joan Hewes, Nicholas Lavroff, jordon McComb, Lon Poole, Jeffrey S. Young Art Associate Publisher: \queline Poitier Designer: Marjorie Spiegelman Art Director: Bruce Charonnat ‘ociate Designer: Dennis McLeod Associate Art Director: Christopher Burg ciates: Leslie Barton, Production Director: Werbert Linden Senior Production Manage Frances Mann, Lee R. Trevino Editorial Production Manager: Ellyn L. Hament Production Editor: James Felici Ad Traffic: Jayne Bover Telecommunicators: Mark L. Duran, Susan M. Ford, Virginia Weir Display Advertising Supervisor: Cathy Miller Assistant: Quo Waldor! 4 October 1985 Research Associate Publisher!Director: Cheryl Woodard Manager: Gary L. Rocchio Assistant: Laura McCoy Corporate Development Special Projects: Jeffrey S. Glines buernational: Karen Dowell Assistant: Randi Glaser Secretary: Gloria C. Sundin Marketing and Advertising Sales Associate Publisher/Director: James E. Martin Regional Advertising Manager (Northern California, Texas). Penny Rigby Northwest/Midwest: Patricia Navone East: Linda Holbrook Southeast: Judy Suter Southern California/Southwest. Michela O'Connor Directory/¥e-Page Ads: Niki Swanz Advertising Services Manager: Ray Petsche tant to the Director: Loretta Giglione Assi Circulation Director: Penny Ertelt Director Single-Copy Sales: George Clark Subscription Manager: Gail Egbert Single-Copy Sales: Bill Cox Dealer Sales: Mary Ruth Kristoff 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 Corporate PC World Communications, Inc. David Bunnell Chairman Bartlett R. 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Printed in the United States of Amenca Copyright ©1985 PC World Communications, Inc All rights reserved there’s this island off the coast some- where . . The Harrier Jump Jet, one of the world’s most sophisticated technological marvels, combines the ability to take off and land vertically like a helicopter launching heat seeking missiles. The good news is that you have 3 Side- winder missiles, two 30mm Aden cannon pods and the ability to maneuver like no other jet in history! with the speed and punch of the latest in modern jet armament. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to pilot your Harrier from the deck of an aircraft carrier, take out enemy aircraft, locate and destroy enemy headquarters & fuel depot, and safely land on the deck of your aircraft carrier. Simple isn’t it? Hardly! Facing you will be some of the world’s nastiest enemy fighter planes The bad news is you have only one plane between five enemy aircraft and your carrier. 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In fact it works much like MacPaint. It includes everything you need to connect an NEC Color Pinwriter or Pinwriter printer including a cable. And color is not the only bright thing about an NEC Color Pinwriter. So visit your dealer and ask him how you can make your Mac bloom. For more colorful informa- tion, call 1-800-343-4418 (in MA 617-264- 8635). Or write: NEC Information Systems, Dept. 1610, 1414 Massachusetts Ave., Boxborough, MA 01719. NEC PRINTERS. THEY ONLY STOP WHEN YOU WANT THEM TO. Gosia ie | . Peet eel oucinsatascesunacopaatn TS eaaiiey | NEC Information Systems, Inc. Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. MacPaint and MacWrite are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 142 on reader service card Mail Center’ Delivers! Electronic Mail for the Macintosh Office. Need to send a memo to everyone in your office? Mail Center will deliver. Even if they are working furiously with other programs on their computer. 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FOR THEREST OF THE OFFICE. WVitou: 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 faster access to tion to keep your files safe. Because you'll stillhaveto 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 N “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 If you'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. one can use. Which is OmniDrive why we've introduced OmniTalk software. It lets you network your Mac- intosh Office and LaserWriter printer with an Omni- Drive hard disk.So you can store all yourfiles : inoneplace.Andshare “2 information whenever you want, with whomever you want. Without turning your floppies into little frisbees. Several people can even access the same information at once—something from Corvus. Then your Macintoshes can really start talkin’ business. For more information, call (800) 4-CORVUS, r Circle 206 on reader service card Andrew Fluegelman, a man for all seasons David Bunnell Tribute to a Great Friend The computer industry has lost a powerful leader, but his influence and dedication live on Andrew Fluegelman is gone. The founding editor of both Macworld and PC World and cofounder of our company, An- drew died suddenly at age 41. Andrew was known far and wide in the personal computer industry. The day we were noti- fied of his death, | happened to receive an envelope from our publicity department stuffed s clippings containing tohim. Andrew created the notion of Freeware—a wonderful concept of sharing and marketing soft- ware-when he decided how to distribute his PC-7alk, the first easy-to-use yet powerful com- munications program for the IBM PC. The marketing tech- nique and the program are both milestones in personal computing history and will live on for many years. Nationally known for his soft- ware exploits, Andrew contrib- uted to the quality and succe: of our two magazines in way that can be understood and ap- preciated fully only by those of us who worked closely with him, While creating Macworld and PC World, we relied heav- ily on Andiew's writing and editing expertise, his wonder- ful insight and judgment, and his amazing computer skills. We trusted him implicitly. We couldn't have done it without you, Andrew, Literally 2 minutes atter PC World cofounder Cheryl Woodard and I shook hands with IDG chairman Pat McGovern to clinch the agree- ment to start PC World Commu- nications, I called Andrew and asked him to join us as one of the company's founders, That phone call turned out to be one of the wisest moves I've ever made. Andrew brought us a superb sense of style. He increased our understanding of the profound importance of maintaining high standards of integrity, appropri- ate discretion, and absolute ty. His brilliant reviews of lasy Writer and Lotus's Symphony were scathing, yet the people who knew him from those companies were among the friends most shocked and saddened by his death, Just last April I had the op- portunity to spend a week with Andrew in Japan. Perhaps be- cause it was just the two of us facing the mysteries of Japan's culture and its electronics in- dustry, I am able to bring back wonderful memories of An- drew that will always remain with me. Andrew took to Japan the way he did to computing-like a duck to water, Though we were able to study Japanese for only a few hours on the plane, by our third day in Tokyo, he was al- ready tossing off Japanese ex- pressions as though he had traveled extensively in Jay have no doubt that if we been able to stay for a few weeks, Andrew would spoken fluent) helped us form strong rela- tionships with several key people in Japan. And throughout the trip, An- drew maintained a delightful playfulness and good humor, the same characteristics that many of his friends remember fondly. (continues on page 16) Macworld = 13. of a lavish masquerade’ been brutally sts Fortunately, there’s Unfortunately, it’s you. “ Just slip SUSPECT," Infocom’slatest 4 interactive nase story, into your computer and suddenly youarea newspaper reporter covering the blue-blood society event of the year, Veronica Ashcroft’s annual alloween costume ball. And every decision you make will determine the story's sus- enseful outcome. ala ‘or instance, that while snooping about the mansion in your cowboy costume you decide to peek in the office. You alply type, in plain English: >OPEN THE DOOR THEN ENTER THE OFFICE Andthe story responds: | d YOU OPEN THE DOOR, SLUMPED BEHIND THE DESK 1S THE BODY OF VERONICA ASHCROFT, HER MASK HAS BEEN PULLED OFF, AROUND HER NECK 18 THE AGENT OF DEATH: A a ROPE, INFACT IT’S YOUR gf You've been framed. And you have LARIAT: WHICH i) ‘ ie mere hours to discover who the real killer YOU GOT TIRED was. Because if you don’t, you could be in OF CARRYING serious trouble: AROUND AND HUNG IN THE CLOSET WITH YOUR COAT. THE DETECTIVE GRABS ‘OU FIRMLY BY THE WRISTs AND WITH A PRACTICED TWIST: SLIPS THE CUFFS ON YOU, "YOU ‘RE UNDER ARREST FOR THE MURDER OF VERONICA ASHCROFT, " SERGEANT DUFFY APPEARS AS THOUGH OUTOF~ & NOWHERE AND ESCORTS YOU TO THE WAITING POLICE CAR, You communicate—and the story responds—in full sentences. Which means that at ever'y turn you have literally thousands of alternatives. So if you decide it might be worth- while, for example, to dance with Mrs. Asheroft’s corpse, you just say so: >DANCE WITH VERONICA ’S BODY - And the story responds: YOU ‘LL HAWE TO LEAD: YOU CAN BE SURE OF THAT: This masquerade ball is one bash where you'd better go easy at the bar. Because simply staying out of the slammer isa challenge that could send the soberest soul staggering. Other interactive mystery stories from Infocom include The WITNESS,” a1930's style whodunit thriller in which a case of blackmail turns into murder before your eyes. And DEADLINE” wich grees yo Be} just twelve hours to find the SJ murderer, before he finds you. You'll have to solve puzzle after puzzle as you build your case. You'll search for clues. Analyze evidence. Overhear conversations. You'll even question suspects: >COCHRANEs TELL ME ABOUT SAMUEL OSTMANN And the story responds: COCHRANE IS UNSTEADY AND SWALLOWS ALITTLE MORE OF HIS DRINK BEFORE ANSWERING. "THAT SLIME! HE ‘LL GET WHAT ‘S COMING TO HIM ONE OF THESE SUSPECT gives you clues even before you flip on your trusty computer. Your invitation. A eryptic note on the Decker business card. Anarticle torn froma magazine. A receipt for your rented costume. Even a guide to proper etiquette during a murder. DAYS, HE’S GOT AN IN WITH THE REAL ESTATE BOARD AND HE’S TIGHT WITH VERONICA, HE’S RUINING MY BUSINESS!" And ifyou're clever enough, then maybe, just maybe, you'll prove your own innocence. But you'll ~ haveto hurry. So polish up your party manners and rush down to your local software store to pick upa SUSPECT today. And remember, the costume ball lasts from 8 to 12. But if you don’tsolve the mystery, you'll soon be doing 18 to 20. With no parole. Still not convinced? Try our Sampler Disk which includes portions of four different types of stories for just $7.95. Ifit doesn’t get you hooked on the addictive pleasures of Infocom, return it fora full refund. Ifit does, you can apply the price toward your first Infocom story. You can’t lose! For more information call 1-800-262-6868. Or write to us at 125 CambridgePark Dr. , Cambridge, MA 02140. *1985 Infocom, Inc. SUSPECT, The WITNESS and DEADLINE are {trademarks of Infocom, Ine. Circle 43 on reader service card “ANNOUNCING THE ACCOUNTING PROGRAM THAT TALKS TO YOU!” Introducing a powerful, ®% complete or partial access yet easy-to-use, double- to work areas + Budgets for entry accounting system 74 all income and expense for business and profes- BUSINESS”, et numbers + Prints sional users. “Strictly Busi- 5 consolidated or ness” is designed for small, ACCOUNTING SYSTEM tividval reports for any medium, and large-size companies that are tired of the limitations of other programs. The Gen- eral Ledger includes the following features: +The number of entries is limited only by your disk space + Multiple Profit Centers — up to 99 per company * Up to 100 depart- ments per Profit Center + Up to 99 indi- vidualized Journals + Dollar amounts to $999,999,999.99 per Transaction + Allows 3, 4, or 5-digit Chart of Account Numbers + Provides a thorough audit trail + Allows prior-period adjustments at any time + Dis- plays multiple windows simultaneously + A flexible Password System that ONE: GENERAL LEDGER period of time « Prints reports comparing the cur- rent year with your budget or the previous year + Allows you to design your Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Reports + Can use AppleTalk™ for printing + Help Screens + Plus SmoothTalker™ for verbal alerts and column reading The General Ledger is the first of seven modules including: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Job Cost, Inventory Control, and Order Entry. For more information, just give us a call. We'll talk a you. ie Apple logo and AppleTalk are tra iw a trademark of First Byte. allows you to create users with FUTUREIIII) anaiks of hople Corboralion lez: Sapoclter DESIGN IIIT, Future Design Software, 13681 Williamette Drive, Westminster, CA 92683 - (714) 891-9796 Circle 169 on reader service card 16 October 1985 David Bunnell (continued from page 13) For instance, as we drove back to the train station after visiting the Yamaha factory in Hamamatsu, Andrew noticed a sporting goods store with Jap- anese baseball caps in the win- dow. Even though we were in danger of missing our train— and therefore our return flight to San Francisco—Andrew had the taxi driver pull over to the side of the busy road. Together with our guide, Yasuo Ohira, we dodged the traffic to run into the shop, After quickly try- ing on caps and buying some, we rushed back to the taxi. We ended up having to charge up several flights of stairs to catch the train. But it was worth it. Once on the train, Andrew, the baseball caps, and | received long stares from the locals, who thought we were gaijin, American baseball players who play on Japanese teams. Aman of many talents and in- terests, Andrew led an incredi- bly full life. He loved the Grate- ful Dead, sushi, football, and ‘ayaking on the San Francisco But baseball, in the form of the Sa ‘0 Giants, his consuming passion. Once he told me that if he were dis- abled and had to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, | should just roll him out to the ballpark, and he'd be happy. As a self-appointed historian of personal computers, | intend to ensure not only that An- drew's contributions are re- membered, but that they con- tinue to make an impact on the industry. For this reason I have asked some of Andrew’s friends and colleagues to help establish an annual Andrew Fluegelman Award. (continues on page 20) offer this ultimate collection of their favor- ite recipes, step by step—from shopping list to wine list! 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Accounts Receivable UY POOLE counts Recemable encompasses acti entry, editing and printing, customer account inquiry and montbly reconciliation Purchasing Purchasing puts a few services in perspective like OC receipts and receipt adjustments, vendor listing and analysis, and monthly transaction reports. Accounts ayable Accounts Payable includes vendor account iuguairy debit pniry and complete pre-closing monthly reconcili: ation among its many talents. meme air 8 Nae thas noe Fixed Assets shotes you depreciation calculation or fixed easel entry or asset retirement and transfer Definitely consprebensive, very complete Inventory Control Inventory Gimtrol performs physical inventory processing eyele count processing, stores account transfers and then realty gets down to business. Youire looking at business accounting software And specifically for the small to mid-size company. itten specifically for the Macintosh!” Introducing the very appropriately named Accountant's Choice™ Inside Accountant pice, you'll find general ledger, accounts payable and ules order processing, fixed assets, purchasing and inventory control With Accountant's Choice backing you up, your mou: fluidly and simultaneous bring up multiple accounting functions within different windows. You can, for example, bring up an accounts receivable function on one window and accounts payable on another, enter information in accounts receivable and immediately switch to accounts payable. And that’s just for starters. To see how to make a Macintosh the,ahem$ Apple of your accounting eye, simply call your local computer dealer or Sierra Information Systems, Inc. at (408) 725-3200. We'll show you just how accountable our software really is. * Really not necessary to read, a slight clearing of the throat will suffice rather nicely fs Sierra Information Systems, Inc. an 10201 Torre Avenue, Suite 210, Cupertino, CA 95014 as (408) 725-3200 1 rademarkof Siewa Informstion Sysiens, Ine Macintesh isa trademark of Motos Labwetry Ine and Compute, nc. with is express permission Circle 347 on reader service card “One picture isworth athousand words.” Now if you could only find that picture. Introducing Picture-Base” The new way to store, organize and retrieve pictures. Picture-Base works with your other applications to let you create a library of pictures. With Picture-Base, you can copy all or part of a drawing into the library and then with a simple click of the mouse, retrieve it. No longer do you have to play hide and seek with disks full of MacPaint™ or MacDraw™ documents. Instead, Picture-Base’s search feature makes finding a picture easy. In seconds, there it is, ready to paste into your work. And there’s even an Info feature which allows you to store text with each picture in the library. And best of all Picture-Base costs only $48.00. Also available: QuickDisk™ - the RAM disk software that makes your Macintosh™512K up to ten times faster. Only $34.00 See your dealer or call us toll-free to order. 1-800-624-2485 in Arizona (602) 224-5944 Svmmetry CORPORATION 3900 E. Camelback Rd. Suite 103-5 Phoenix, Arizona 85018 © 1985 Symmetry Corporation Picture Base and QuickDisk are trademarks of Symmetry Corporation MacPaint, MacDraw and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc Circle 303 on reader service card 20 October 1985 David Bunnell (continued from page 16) This award, which we hope will include a substantial cash prize, will be presented to the software author whose work best exemplifies outstanding programming and shows dedi- cation to furthering the per- sonal computer community. If you would like to make contri- butions or help participate in creating the Andrew Fluegelman Award, please write me in care of this magazine. The people who worked with Andrew, read his articles, or continue to use his commu- nications program gained a lot from him. And with a little help from his friends, Andrew Fluegelman and the example he set for all of us will live on among personal computer users, the industry, and per- haps even humanity. We're going to miss him. 0 his message is for the several hundred thou- sand people who bought a Macintosh because of its user-friendliness—and then found it a bit slow in expressing its affections. For those who find themselves frequently feed- ing floppies. And waiting.And wishing the Macintosh's capacity for work matched its appetite. For all those whove learned to live with these and other limitations, were pleased to announce a fichly 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 Worlds Fastest Macintosh. Up to 15 times faster than a conventional Macintosh that runs on floppies. And even faster than the previous title- holder, the original Hyper- Drive, whose speed has been accurately described as awesome by those not easily awed. (“Using a HyperDrive compared to a regular Macintosh,” wrote Personal Computing magazine, “is akin to cooking with a microwave oven instead of a gas range’) In fact, a Macintosh with HyperDrive 20 con- cedes nothing in performance to an IBM XT—and still retains all the user-friendliness that drove you to Macintosh in the first place. This rather heady level of performance may be attributed to a simple principle of engineering: Mac- intoshes, like human beings, travel faster and better when theyre unencumbered by excess luggage. Unlike all other hard disks, which are external, HyperDrive fits snugly inside your Macintosh and con- nects directly to its microprocessor. An arrangement that's not only tidy but ingenious. It leaves both ports free, making unnecessary any painful choices between peripherals (such as a IVE20 HYPERD) modem or printer) and a hard disk. It also gives Hyper- Drive 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. But speed (or the lack of it) is only one con- straint you'll no longer be constrained by. A FAREWELL, OF SORTS, TO FLOPPIES. The HyperDrive 20 disk holds as much as fifty floppies (twenty megabytes). And if it holds them, you wont have to. ‘To begin with, you dont even need a system disk to start your Mac, so you can start in about a quarter of the time you might be accustomed to. Nor will you find yourself constantly trading floppies with your Mac. HyperDrive 20s elephantine memory makes such exchanges vastly fewer and far- ther in between. And nowhere will that be more apparent than if you use (or would like to use) an Apple LaserWriter. With HyperDrive, a LaserWriter will let you use more fonts, change fonts more rapidly, create longer documents, print them more quickly—and do it all without requiring you to constantly nurse your Mac through the operation. But besides holding more information, Hyper- Drive manages it more intelligently. It recognizes, for example, that files are organic creations, 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 computers. POWERFUL ENOUGH FOR POWERFUL SOFTWARE. HyperDrive 20 will run all Macintosh programs, including Apple's new Switcher. And it will run them VAST DIFFERENCES IN PERFORMANCE. faster. (In fact, it will even load them faster, up to 5 times as quickly) But HyperDrive 20 will also run programs that the regular Macintosh, for all its friendliness, lacks the sophistication to handle effectively. Programs such as Lotus Jazz, for example. And Microsofts Word. Powerful business software that can multiply a Macintosh’s performance and productivity. HyperDrive 20 also comes with its own soft- ware that elevates both the friendliness and the sophistication of your Macintosh. A Security program protects your files by encrypting them so they'll be unintelligible to everyone who doesnt know your decrypting password A backup program, unsurprisingly named Backup, lets you back up and restore information from the hard disk to and from your floppies. Theres even a print spooler that lets you use your Mac for other jobs while your printer is churning out the one you just finished. A REASSURANCE AND A USER-FRIENDLY WARNING. For all its emancipating qualities, theres one item that HyperDrive wont liberate you from. The Apple warranty. ATINY DIFFERENCE IN APPEARANCE. HyperDrive is further backed by our own 90- day limited warranty and an optional HyperCare extended service contract. And service Is available at participating Apple dealers nationwide. (See your dealer for complete warranty details.) r In fact, the only imaginable problem left unat- tended 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. And thats an issue everyone will ultimately have to decide for himself. Fair warning, however, should be taken from the words of Personal Computing magazine: “HyperDrive spoiled us—utterly, completely. It now appears that theres no turning back...” Those still willing to risk disenchantment with every other Macintosh system are invited to a Hyper- Drive demonstration at a participating Apple dealer. Or call us at (800) 422-0101 or (617) 492-5500. In Can- ada, call our distributor at (800) 565-1267 \ly = — GENERAL Even though your Macintosh must be opened a (by an Apple dealer) to install HyperDrive, your war- ———— ranty remains intact. But Apple wont be the only one t watching over you The leading edge starts here. ey Hadad Geao el Carer Come PD Apple. LaserWhter and Suatcner are trad pple Computer Inc Mac a trademar< licensed to Apole Computer Inc Jazzis Circle 143 on reader service card 2 2 Aa & 5 D) Two-for-one special. Tired of the perplexing decision about which desk-top computer to buy? We don’t blame you. On the one hand, there is the sophistication, power and advanced technology of the Macintosh. On the other is the IBM PC and its library of almost 10,000 software programs. So which computer should you buy? MacCharlie from Dayna Communications offers an easy answer. Because with MacCharlie, your Macintosh now becomes compatible with IBM PC software. What's more, MacCharlie actually enhances IBM PC software. For instance, because your Macintosh menu bar and window sizing are still active with the mouse, you have use of options like the clipboard, calculator and notepad with IBM PC software. And through MacCharlie, you can link Macintosh to IBM serial networks and mainframes. Data files are also transferable from Macintosh to IBM and vice versa. So even if you've taken the plunge into IBM's world, you can now advance to Macintosh and still keep your software library intact. In short, you can have your Macintosh, and IBM PC software too. Thanks to MacCharlie, the best of both worlds. MacCharlie. by Dayna Communications For more information, call Operator 15 toll-free, 1-800-531-0600. (In Utah, call 801-531-0600.) jacCharlie is a product of Dayna Communications, 50 S. Main, Salt Lake City, Utah 84144 Apple i a trademark of Apple Computer, tne. Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. IBM isa registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation Circle 232 on reader service card Introducing Introducing QUICKWORD’ QUICKPAINT Letters Meager Marvel you review programs for teup and de- sign work [ “Publi an Electronic Lea! July 1985]. | bought my Macin- tosh for that reason. I wanted to spend time puzzling over the layout of my work, not puzzling out the mechanics of the computer. I bought MacPublisber more than a month ago. It was the only program of its type adver- tised as compatible with the 128K Mac. Since I received it, it often bombs with a lem er- ror. Whenever that happens, | must restart the Mac and lose whatever | was working on. If 1 assemble more than one or two pages of material, it will not print. When I called Boston Software for help, | was in- formed that system errors on a 128K Mac are not unusual. The suggested solution was to limit my documents to two pages, as had been doing MacPublisher is a marvelous program. It is one of the easiest programs of its type, and con- sidering its price, I couldn't ask for much more. | am disap- pointed, however, that Boston Software advertises its product for the 128K Mac when the company knows the product runs properly only on a 512K Mac. Martin Wixted Danbury, Connecticut Makeup Alternative Apparently you don't consider T/Maker Graphics’ ClickArt Publications a page-makeup program (“Publishing Turns an Electronic Leaf,’ Macworld, July 1985]. The program m; not be as convenient as a $500 cut-and-paste program, but at $49.95 ClickArt Publications a lot cheaper. Publications requires Mac- Paint, but if “Late-Night Layout” [in the same issue] is an exam- ple of what's aesthetically pos- sible with MacDraw, I'll stic! with MacPaint. | thought the comparison test among the page-makeup programs was in- teresting, but the nocturnal newsletter article was boring. Joe Farace Denver, Colorado ChipWits Makes the Grade Asa programmer and manager of programmers, I am vitally in- terested in the training of com- puter programmers. Sharon Zardetto Aker's review of Chip- Wits (“Mr. CW in ChipWit Caves,” Macworld, July 1985) leads one to conclude that the game is unsuitable for introduc- ing computer programming. In particular, Aker implies that the language used (IBOL) is so un- like conventional languages that it is useless for education. ‘Two issues are raised. First, IBOL uses stacks, which Aker says are “not consistent with methods of memory manage- ment used in the higher-level languages taught in schools.” Second, Aker considers it a drawback that IBOL programs tend to have a great deal of de- cision-making steps compared to the number of data manip- * ulation steps. Understanding the power of the stack is crucial to under- standing recursion, which is used in most widely used high- level languages, such as Pascal, C, FORTRAN-77, Ada, LISP, APL, and some versions of BASIC. Recursion requires a stack- based argumentreturn address pline. Recursive algorithm: imple, fast, and direct— perfect educational tools. Regarding the second issue, Aker implies that ChipWits pro- grams are too complex. I think Complex branching criteria are required to write programs with decisions and loops. Train- ing in the correct design of complex algorithms is far more beneficial than training in the design of simple computations. Despite Aker's reservations and based on her otherwise ex- cellent review, I may buy Chip- Wits to aid beginning program- mers. It seems a well-designed, nonthreatening introduction to scinating discipline. Steven F Lott racuse, New York Mr. CW’s Neighborhood As president of Brainpower, I'm writing in response to your re- view of our ChipWits program [“Mr. CW in ChipWit Caves,” Macworld, July 1985]. The pri- mary purpose of ChipWits i: the development of the analytic s used by a programmer in developing software. ChipWits addresses attributes of program development—such as instruc- tion sets, sequence of instruc- tions, and conditional testing— common to all computer languages. At the same time, entertaining. The reviewer indicates that the documentation has defi- Version 1.1 was re- pril and contair completely rewritten manual, some minor bug eradication in the magnetic media pa and new aging. The reviewer raises a sub- stantive philosophic issue but treats it as a self-evident conclu- sion when she writes, “While the game's philosophy may be to learn by doing, no one (continues on page 30) Maeworld 27 ~ Maccessories. 16 ways sto impr ove the performance of your'| Macintosh. Maccessories from Kensington Microware—an entire family of products to enhance your Mac- intosh. Maccessories make your computer more convenient. They increase your system’s flexibility. And they protect your investment. [1] Control Center Organizes all your power needs. Styled to fit underneath your sec- ond disk drive, it provides fingertip control over your whole system. There’s a master switch to power the whole system on and off, and individual switches for a printer, modem and one auxiliary device. And Control Center protects your entire Macintosh system from dam- aging power surges, line noise and static shocks. . [2] Surge diac Portable protection for a travelling Macintosh. Surge Suppressor re- places your power cord, providing UL listed surge suppression and line noise filtering. It's light and fits easily into your carrying case. [3] Universal Printer Stand Raises your Apple® Imagewriter® at a slight angle so you can monitor its performance more easily. It solves the problem of where to store paper—several hundred sheets are accommodated neatly underneath. (Also fits most other dot matrix printers.) If you want to take advantage of the AppleTalk™ network, a Laser- Writer™ printer or a hard disk in addition to your Imagewriter and modem, you'll have three pe- ripherals competing for the two se- rial ports on your Macintosh. The A-B Box gives you the extra serial port you need. Just plug two of your peripherals into the A-B Box and plug the Box into one of your Mac- intosh serial ports. Then simply di- vert your data output to the peripheral of your choice—press A to send to one, B to the other. Fits perfectly underneath your external disk drive. [5] Tilt/Swivel Gives you the flexibility to tilt and swivel your Macintosh to the view- ing angle most convenient for you. [6] Polarizing Filter The solution to a glaring problem. Made exclusively for Kensington by Polaroid? it protects your eyes by reducing reflected screen glare by up to 99%, Also improves screen con- trast. Easy to install. Disk Case & Disk Pocket ~~ Provides safe storage for 36 Macin- tosh disks. Comes with a packet of spare disk labels. Also includes a handy Disk Pocket for safe transpor- tation of up to 5 disks. Dust Covers Protect your system from the ele- ments. Anti-static dust covers for Macintosh, Macintosh XL, Image - Writer and External Disk Drive. [9] Mouse Pocket A safe, clean place to keep your Mouse when not in use. Attaches to the side of your Macintosh. Fits under the Maccessories Dust Cover. [10] Mouse Cleaning Kit — eth A full year’s supply of the cleaning materials you'll need to keep your mouse rolling at top speed. Also in- cludes the Mouse Pocket. [11] Disk Drive Cleaning Kit = | A full year’s supply of the cleaning materials you'll need to keep your drives running smoothly. [12] Graphic Accents A collection of over 250 profession- al illustrations, covering every- thing from business to holidays. Use them for reports, newsletters or greeting cards. Graphic Accents are stored in standard MacPaint™ files, for ease of use. [13| Professional Type Fonts Styled after the most popular type faces in the publishing industry. Type Fonts for Text contains 16 fonts in sizes 12 to 24 point. Type Fonts For Headlines (for the 512K Mac) contains the same fonts in sizes 24 to 72 point. Including ver- sions of Times Roman, Helvetica, Optima, Futura, and a dozen others. Also available: [14] Swivel {15] Portable Modem [t6] Travelling Disk Case For more information, contact Kensington Microware, 251 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010. (212) 475-5200. Tix: 467383 KML NY. Ke KENSINGTON“ “Ya MICROWARE ‘Trademarks: Maccessories/ Kensington Microware Ltd., Apple, Macintosh Imagewriter, AppleTalk, Laser iter, ‘MacPaint/ ‘Apple Computer, Inc.; Polaroid/Polaroid Corp.; Fonts by XIPHIAS. © 1985 Kensington Microware Ltd, Circle 11 on reader service card Circle 165 on reader service card 30 October 1985 Letters (continued from page 27) should have to play a game to figure out how it should be played.” If education is seen as filling addresses in wetware (the human brain) with data available for recall, the re- viewer is quite correct. If in- stead we see instruction as a means of developing new and divergent problem-solving tools, then the challenges Chip- Wits presents are consistent with that goal. In any event, the issues are complex and deserve more than a throwaway line. Sherwin A. Steffin Calabasas, California Sharon Zardetto Aker replies: [have no arguments with Mr Lott's comments about the use of stacks. However, for a be- ginner to bave no alternative to stack memory—no numeric variables, no control vari- is a less-than- ic introduction to programming. Regarding Mr. Lott’s second point, ChipWits prevents the player from making simple designs while in the learning stage, which I feel is a liability in a program positioned to serve as an introduction. In response to Mr. Steffin, 1 stand by my statement regard- ing ChipWits' learn-by-doing approach. I was not raising a philosophical issue but com- plaining about the poor docu- mentation. Despite the “edu- speak” at the end of his letter, Mr. Steffin notes that the man- ual bas been completely rewritten. Hey Britannia! Lon Poole had better inform the British Apple dealer pic- tured on page 160 of your July issue that external drives shouldn't be on top of Macin- toshes. According to Poole’s Get Info column in the same is- sue, stacking drives topside is nota healthy practice. Betty J. Dorsey Lawrence, Kansas Lividly Losing Lisa The clamor for a hard-disk Mac- intosh confuses me. I can un: derstand owner wanting “factory” hard disk, but the and the Macintosh XL ar hard-disk computers. Not once have I seen a mention of this fact in your magazine. Just in my novice period with the Lisa, I've come to love its hard disk. | can't imagine having a com- puter without one. For my small business, adding to a Macintosh to build a business system could be nightmarish. Don't mistake my feelings about either the Macintosh or Apple Computer. | ha hope (rather, no choice) to ex- pand my system with Macin- tosh units, married to the Lisa, of course. The “new” MacWorks soft ware for Lisa has been prom- ised for a long time but still hasn't arrived. The conversion chip to solve the screen distor. tion has never arrived either, As far as 1 know, no Macintosh software is compatible with Lisa's 7/7 business system. It's a shame that such a tremendous work horse is shunned by mag- azine and manufacturer alike. The child Lisa bore is its demise. Dave Holeman Montrose, California Buyers Be Aware My employer has provided an IBM PC or my use at work. | have a 512K Macintosh at home. Although thousands of pro- grams are available for the PC the several hundred for the Mac cover the bases and are far superior in implementation. It is a shame that corporate buyers continue to buy PCs for their employees who, in our case at least, don’t like the ma- chines. I suspect that indi- (continues on page 34) “ Gd I was incredibly thrilled. I knew it would blow people’s minds.?? “T spent over three ye Macintosh’s operating Most peopl involved with people, 5 st Way to get high-res alu into Macintosh. When I first autiful ThunderScanned images were, [ was incredibly thrilled! I knew it would blow people’s minds.” enlarge and erase, a and half-toning. “ hee You get to make artistic decisions. To change and improve what you see.?? Hertzfeld on ThunderScan’ After three years on the Macintosh develop- ment team, Andy Hertzfeld began to work on the software for an easy-to-use, low-cost way to put images into Macintosh. The result: ThunderScan™ The high-resolution optical scanning device that turns the ImageWriter printer into an image reader. Recently, Andy shared some thoughts on the product he’s dubbed, “MacPaint for the rest of us.” pres- you put any printed imag into Mac But you’re never stuck w ith You get to make ar ge and improve wl ha A scanned image is just the s all or part of the image as you pI Us eal thing i s, when the novelty wea! “Thund applications inserting gr reports. [ “know a fine artis who makes collages with it, iit lot, too. The way I write a program if on of who I am, so in my tcher” program, I included a Scanned image of myself” can has a whole Some people u “ r 4 eee With LaserWriter you can create unbelievably exquisite images. ?? “We now have a (available as a software upgr current users) that has some neat new It supports Appl. artiage Baa Tr “ThunderScan is a complete imaging system. You don’t have to buy anything else. You just snap out Image- Writer’s ribbon cart idge and snap in ‘ThunderScan. It fits in any off ice or home e Ke: lot like developing Macintosh. were doing something for the firs time. Making an important tool. We think we did a good job.” ThunderScan requir to take full advantage of all its features, you'll need a 512K Mac. Available now through com- puter retail stores or directly from ‘Thunderware for just $229. or for more information, call today (41S) 254-6581. Thunderware9Inc., 21 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA 94563. Thunder Sean Circle 167 on reader service card More Power To The Macintosh. Introducing Crunch: It has all the features that every spreadsheet user could use.On a computer that anybody can use. With Crunch, from Paladin; anybody can turn numbers into a bar, pie, area or line graph with only two clicks of the mouse. Anybody can sort, screen and summarize data in seconds. Anybody can use Crunch’s unique icons to streamline spreadsheet functions such as eZ IIE =8 graphing and printing, so working with numbers can be faster and easier than ever before. Anybody can take advantage of the easy 512K Macintosh yet still have the power to store and display substantially more data and recalculate faster than Lotus 1-2-3! Anybody can use Crunch's special macros to automate repetitive tasks such as updating and revising financial reports. And anybody who has Multiplan* and other program files can convert them to Crunch. If you can find all this in any other spreadsheet that retails for just $295; more power to you. See our local Paladin dealer for your in . free Crunch trial size disk. ie J Paladin “Sug actos capability contained in Crunch version 1.5. Crunch version 1.0 purchasers can obtain a free upgrade by sending in their registration card. ‘Software © 1985 Soll Inc. Crunch is a trademark of Crunch Software Corp. licensed to Paladin Software Corp. Lotus 1-2-3 is a registered trademark of Lotus Development Corp. ‘Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer Inc. Multiptan i a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Crunch runs on a 512K Macintosh. Circle 331 on reader service card ClickOn Worksheet A Spreadsheet and Graphics Desk Accessory Integrate spreadsheets and graphics into MacWrite" (or any other application) Let’s say you're in MacWrite. Without leaving it, you click on a spreadsheet for some quick calculations. Then click on a bar, pie or line chart, made directly from your spreadsheet. Now paste them both into your MacWrite document. Done. All without leaving MacWrite, and without changing programs or disks, And even on your 128k Mac. {_@ Fite Edit Search Format Font style _ i Le SYST PORT SPT SPT TORO TOUT WOT 1 Tals is an example of using ClickOn Worksheet in conjunction with MacWrite, Notice that both windows are visible and that you can move directly from MacWrite or other appiication|to the Worksheot. Clickon™ Worksheot Eapenaentnionsy fe MacWrite Memo and ClickOn Worksheet New Power for your Desktop ClickOn Worksheet is a desk accessory that adds a spreadsheet and grapher to any application. The 50 row x 20 column spreadsheet includes features such as variable column widths, absolute/relative addressing, built-in financial calculations (like net present value, compounding, future value) and logical operators. In addition, you can “fold” the spreadsheet to see and graph different parts of it at the same time, ‘dit Search Formot font style Worksheet ClickOn™ Worksheet Revenaentnitons) oy i Bd Hepa anil MacWrite Memo ‘This isan example of using ClickOn Worksheet in conjunction with MacWrite, Notice that both windows are visible and that you ean move <ireety from MacWrite or other application to the Worksheet. Cash Forecast 1st Quartor 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter Revenues(millions) Regular Salary $4.79 $10.52 $23.11 $50.77 Kick-backs $25.94 $56.08 $125.18 $275.03 Bribes(in) $18.75 $41.20 $9052 $198.87 Total Revenues $4948 $108.70 $298.51 $524.67 ied and pasted the spreadsheet into this MacWrite memo, ‘Once copied into MacWrie, i is possible to change the font or font style of the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet shows revenues and expenses by month with quarterly summaries, We used the "folding” ability ofthe Worksheet tocopy and graph only the quarterly results instead ofthe entire spreadsheet. Rovenuas(miiions) WW Pogular Sala 1 Kek-backs BH Brtbos4i) ‘stQuarior 2nd Quarter 31d Quarter 4th Quarter Bar graph created directly from spreadsheet (lickOn isa trademark of Faker Macintosh isa trailemark licensed to Apple Comput Mace is a irademark of Apple Compt Presentation-quality Charts in an Instant By simply selecting the data you want charted, the Worksheet creates pie charts, bar graphs (stacked or adjacent) or line charts, complete with automatic axes and legends, Any changes in the spreadsheet are immediately reflected in the graph. Ready-made Solutions ‘To make your job even easier, we've included a dozen popular applications templates, including income statemen/balance sheet with financial ratios, lease/purchase analysis, loan repayment schedule, stock portfolio, and depreciation schedules, Requirements: 128k or 512k Macintosh™ Price: $79.95 Click On Power from within ‘VMaker Graphics 2115 Landings Drive * Mountain View, CA 94043 415/962-0195 Circle 113 on reader service card Letters (continued from page 30) troublesome MacLemon, The Macintosh Tam happy to report that fol- viduals buying computers for ving severa s of “dis lowing several months of “dis- Office works themselves pick Macs over PCs cussions” with Apple, they pre- = every time. sented me with a new Steve Slesinger Macintosh a couple of we Melbourne, Florida ago. = : Fea Daniel Nign Il LS: Pasadena, California = ‘= Beginner's Pluck — ae In his letter [“Hold the Mayo,” ES Letters, Macworld, June 1985), | Another Way to Market - Joel Varney referred The quality of Apple’s market- like myself as ing seems inversely propor- have a thick buffe tional to the quality of its prod- such as yours has to reach the ucts. Why doesn’t Apple mail neophytes, too. I'd love to get quarterly bulletins of new. my hands on that so-called ho- _ products to Apple owners? hum ten-page article on how to Surely direct mail would be a clean my } ‘be Mr. much more effective way to Varn hould upgrade his. spend money than its advertis- memory capacity. Like every- ing campaigns. Does Apple re- one else, his disk once needed _ally sell the Mac through half Our new XL/Serve™ software makes your Macintosh to be initialized. * page advertisements in the Office work today, by letting you share a Macintosh XL’s Nban Kolbinger Sunday Times? | very much disk and printer with the rest of your Appl¢lalk network. Roseville, Minnesota doubt it. The best Apple sales- Available now, direct from us or from your dealer. people are those who use Ap- Infospher e ple’s computers. 4730 SW Macadam Aye, Portland, OR 97201 (503) 226-3620 A Patch over Both Eyes Brian F. Trent eves tad of sper Appl nd acento edema of Apple Compa: le field, England United Kingdom Circle 249 on reader service card 1985}. The problem with t Correction approach is that no pet an Advanced Engineering Solu- do any good unless there is tions has changed the name of some way to enforce the law. its series of computer-aided Enforcement is impossible packages for electrical en- without the cooperation of gineers (Macware News, Mac- people who use software. world, July 1985) from McCAD. People should report cases of to CADplus. CADptus is avail- pirs he reason people do able from Advanced Engineer- Not report piracy is that most of — ing Solutions, 3393 Iris Ave. them are involved in it. In my #109, Boulder, CO 80301. office alone, which has three McCAD is the name of a pro- Macintoshes, about eight people have pirated software, and Lam the only one who us the Mac who isn’t a pirate. Let's face facts. In general, people 2d for circuit board de- available from 3 Selma Ave., Los An- geles, CA 90028. Mail your letters to Leuers, Macworld, 555 De Haro St., Jobn G. Link San Francisco, CA 94107, or Clearwater, Florida send them electronically to CompuServe 70370,702 or The Source BCW440. All pub- Making Lemonade lished submissions become the 1 would like to add a positive property of Macworld. 5 postscript to my letter [ “Apples and Oranges,” Letters, Mac- world, July 1985] regarding my Circle 177 on reader service card 34 October 1985 “Mimigs UNIX .,. library handling is very flexible... documentation is excellent... 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Jazs sa uadematk of Lotus Development Corporation Circle 289 on reader service card Now you can cut and paste up to an entire MacPaint document! “At last, the tool | needed!”’ Do you need to paste a half page MacPaint™ picture into MacWrite™ or MacDraw™? Or maybe combine two large portions of two separate pictures? Now you can overcome the limitations of the MacPaint window size with Paint Cutter™, one of several useful tools on Accessory Pak 4™ Here are some of the features of ¢ Paint Cutter™ — The MacPaint file is displayed using the full screen. When * the selection rectangle is dragged to the edge of the screen, th picture scrolls, allowing larger-than-screen selections. Yo! 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Macworld pars up to $50 for each item published. Send our contributions to Mac- world View, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107. All published submissions be- come the property of Mac- world. / look forward to hear- ing from you, :, Tools for Thought Most of us have only a vague Thinker” chronicles mouse in- idea of how the computers on ventor Doug Engelbart’s efforts our desk tops evolved from in the last 35, to hasten mysterious devices designed what he believes is the biggest for complex mathematical cal- jump in cultural evolution since culations into new-age “tools the printing press-the com- for thought.” Howard puter revolution. This excerpt Rheingold’s latest book, Yoo/s describes Engelbart demon- for Thought: The People and strating his experimental com- Ideas behind the Next Com- puter system in 1968: . puter Revolution “Engelbart was the very im- Schuster, 1985). focuses on a age of a test pilot for a new kind few of the people who were in- of vehicle that doesn’t fly over strumental in the development — geographical territory but of computers, including vis through what was heretofore aries such as Alan Turing, John an abstraction that computer yon Neumann, Doug Engelbart, s call ‘information Alan Kay, and Ted Nelson. He not only looked the Rheingold’s accounts of the part but acted it: Chuck Yeager oddball geniuses, accidental of the computer cosmos, calmly encounters, and creative pro- putting the new system cesses that led to today’s com- through its pi and reporting puters add up to a lively, in- back to his astonished earth formed scientific and bound audience ina calm, intellectual history, quiet voice! The chapter entitled “The In the closing chapter, Loneliness of the Long-Distance — “Xanadu, Network Cultur Beyond,” Rheingold summa- rizes how new cultures and are developing from com- ed information net- rks and speculates about the future of computing. The com- puter revolution, the author ARAN AAT OPTS ARRAY ee concludes, hasn't happened DRRARAA Io resssrsnNoreg NINOS ONS SPROADN SU NINISISIIA SAA IIONINT yet. If his prediction is correct, [look forward to reading his impressions of the “real” com- Jeff Berner nel ARAN ate Anh SAIN SEAVER ARIAS puter revolution. LaserWriter Co-op Cooperatives have been around since people realized that two can defend themselves against the elements better than one. Cooperatives enable people to share resources, such as farm machinery or distribu- tion networks. Some San Fran- cisco Bay Area artists and en- trepreneurs, who individually can't afford a $7000 printer, formed a cooperative to pur- chase and maintain a Laser- Writer. The co-op is made up of TargetVideo/Alpha Editing, a video production and editing company; Another Room mag- 42 October 1985 Cartoonists and portrait paint- ers may seem to be at opposite ends of the artistic spectrum, but both are enthusiastically discovering the Macintosh. Jeff Danziger creates the syndicated comic strip “McGonigle of the Chronicle,” which concerns the trials and tribulations of a newspaper staff. Danziger’s characters are often posed reading newspapers, catalogs, or detective novels. To show his readers what the characters are looking at, Danziger uses the Mac to generate the type for the reading matter. Danziger draws the panels of the strip on transparency paper. After typ- ing the text in MacPaint, he holds the transparency up to the screen and uses the marquee to stretch or compress the type so that it fits within a specified area of the panel, He then prints out the type and pastes .it on the panel. William Newman is another artist who has found ways to use the Macintosh creatively. Newman's immense colored- pencil drawings have been ex- hibited nationwide for 15 years. Recently he began to draw un- usual portraits. Close up, the images appear to be black-and- white abstractions that look something like landscapes, but from an angle the portraits be- come recognizable as people. The trick is MacPaint. Newman first draws portraits in Mac- Paint and then stretches the images until they are no longer recognizable from a head-on perspective. Newman's next steps are to digitize photographs and video images and to manipulate the images on the Mac. A revolu- tion in the art world? Not ex- actly. Newman doesn’t intend to move away from the subject matter that has dominated his work for years—the rela- tionships between men and women.—Ted Nace azine, an arts and music maga- zine; LV. magazine, a video publication; Highline 3 Fine Arts, an art gallery; anda loosely affiliated collective con- sisting of the MoDM Gallery; Office of the Future, an audiovi- sual arts project; and Pink Noise, a computer-oriented graphics and audio project. All the members use the laser printer for both their creative work and mundane business. Members buy co-op shares that can be sold later if they de- cide to get out. To defray costs, the group plans to rent time on the machine to people outside the co-op. The LaserWriter stands in a central location, and one of the co-op members acts as a system manager, coordinat- ing usage and collecting fees. Michael Mallery, the pub- lisher of Another Room, notes, “The LaserWriter has the po- tential to do the same thing the Macintosh has already done; it's making a technology available to people who didn't have the means or the knowledge to use it before. In a few years maybe the cost will come down enough for everyone who wants a laser printer to have one. We just can’t wait that long!"—Tracy Tuprian SHS Sis Sis Sis Sis Lights, Focus, Action When Apple's ad agency, Chiat- Day, was ready to film the first commercials showing the Mac- intosh screen, they knew they couldn't just point the camera atthe screen and start rolling. Because the Macintosh draws the video image 60 times a sec- ond, the film shutter needs to open and close in syne with the video screen. Otherwise the camera photographs different portions of the screen image on each frame, resulting ina flickering effect when the film is projected. Chiat-Day learned that John Monsour, a cameraman with 15 years of experience and a flair for electronics, had successfully filmed the screens of the Xerox Altos and Star computers, which have a user interface similar to the Mac's. To solve the synchronization problem, Monsour removed the cover of Macworld 43 Jobn Monsour and 200 Macs the Mac to reach the connector that runs between the digital and analog boards. Monsour connected a “black box” to the camera and the computer to analyze the sync signals from the computer and tell the cam- era when to open the shutter. When it came to filming 200 Macs for the commercial, the problem became more com- plex. The 75 Macs in the front rows were dismantled and set up to run in sync, and program- mers worked night and day to get hundreds of Macintosh pro- grams cycling in unison on the machines. Separate equipment was designed to send a syn- chronized signal to the Macs. Despite the preparations, the system fell apart the day of filming. The crew had begun work early the morning of the final shoot. By 10 a.m. one Mac- intosh had stopped working. Monsour took the Mac apart to figure out what had happened. By 10:30, a Mac was quitting every 3 minutes. Monsour fig- ured that within 2 hours they'd all be out. But after eight had gone out, Monsour discovered that the digital board had over- heated and warped. As the board bent, it touched the metal casing and shorted out. He placed tape on the bottom of the board to prevent the wires from touching the metal casing. The Macs kept running, and the filming was success- fully completed. The rubber pad Apple now applies to the bottom of the Macintosh digital board is, in part, the result of Monsour's unusual field test. MLE Lisa On-Line Conference Lisa and Macintosh XL owners have taken to the networks to air their grievances and share information regarding Apple's discontinuation of the Lisa and Macintosh XL product line: Sponsored by The Networkers, a San Francisco consulting ser- vice, the LisaTalk TeleCon- ference brings together inde- pendent product developers, Apple representatives, mem- bers of the press, and Lisa and Macintosh XL owners through- out the world. Many of the ap- proximately 50,000 owners of the machines, some of whom have invested $10,000 to $20,000 in their systems, are concerned about receiving quality customer support and service from Apple and other developers. Owners are also concerned about Apple provid- ing the promised migration package that will allow Lisa users to transfer data from the Lisa Office System into the Mac- Works environment. During a teleconference last summer, Apple representati Stephanie Littel said that au- thorized Apple dealers will supply parts and support for five years (until 1990) for Lisa and Macintosh XL owners, Many of the Lisa owners on line, however, were less than enthusiastic about that arrange- ment. According to Louis Guice of The Networkers, “Only a few dealers are genuinely familiar with the Lisa or prepared to provide customer support. Ba- sically,” Guice adds, “there is no financial incentive to provide customer support for Lisa and Macintosh XL owners: Guice believes the solution is for Apple to contract with an outside agency for the service and support, rather than rely- ing on reluctant dealers. Cur- rently, The Networkers (3500 Market St. #103, San Francisco, CA 94131, 415/550-0929) pro- vides both telephone and on- site support to Lisa and Macin- tosh XL owners for a modest fee. Intersol (800/HELP-OUT), another independent consult- ing company, provides its sub- scribers with telephone support. iu, an Apple dealer in Taipei, Tai- wan, and a group of elementary school st: dents sing along with the Macintosh and MusicWorks. According to Liu, the Mac is pop- ular in Taiwan, but sales are low because the machine is signifi- cantly more expensive than in the United States, 44 October 1985 Manhattan Mac Users Itused to be that user groups were havens for computer hackers. Meetings were largely an opportunity to trade snip- pets of code and programming secrets. With the Macintosh, however, it appears that user groups are finally attracting the regular folks who use the com- puter. A good example of the change is the New York Mac Users’ Group (NYMUG). At first glance, NYMUG looks like a traditional user group, with monthly meetings, a Mac- generated newsletter, and spe- cial-interest groups. But NYMUG's members are mostly young Manhattan professionals who come to the meetings dressed for success. “We're a Yuppie group, for sure,” says Copresident Steve Doochin. NYMUG has been moving to- ward becoming a service orga- nization. For example, NYMUG made an arrangement with Western Union to offer mem- bers the EasyLink communica- tions service in a special sub- scription that waives the sign- up charge and the monthly minimum fee and includes $25 of usage credit. The New York group keeps a collection of equipment, including three im- age digitizers, that members can borrow and experiment with while making purchase decisions. Many computer stores in New York offer NYMUG members discounts on purchases, NYMUG has an elec- tronic bulletin board, operated by David Rose, that carries the latest group news, a library of public-domain software that is also available on disk by mail, and a message service for members. NYMUG plans a half-hour television show, to run on pub- cable television or buted on video- cassette. In addition, NYMUG is ng with a technical support service to provide members with a toll-free tele- phone help line. Ifyou live in the New York metropolitan area, you can get membership information by writing to NYMUG at P.O. Box 6686, Yorkville Station, New York, NY 10128.—Robert C. Eckhardt Macworld 45 Fonts in the Public Domain Collecting fonts is like collect- ing stamps: the hobby can turn into an addiction, and a poten- tially expensive one. Whether you're hooked or not, public- domain fonts are an inexpen- sive way to add fonts to your collection. For the cautious collector, the public domain offers new point sizes and revisions of many existing Apple fonts. Fonts in new point sizes, such as 36-point Cairo, designed by Mike Smith, provide better print quality on the Image- writer. Other fonts in new point sizes include R. W. Zehr’s Mo- naco-10, Chicago-9, New York-14, and New York-24 and Fritz Anderson's London-36, ice-24, and Venice-28. Revi- sions to existing fonts run the gamut from cleaning up minor design flaws to recasting an en- tire font. An acquisitive collector might want to try entirely new fonts. A few of these, such as Ron Nicholson’s Pica-10 and Jason Kanter's Vancouver, which comes in seven sizes text fonts. Most public-dom fonts, however, work bes! display fonts—for example, James Doherty's classy but nearly unreadable Dali-24 and Dennis Fraser's Black Shadow-48. For collectors of esoterica, special-purpose fonts are also available. Multilingual Macin- tosh owners may be able to use foreign language fonts such as Don Johnson's Arabic-24 or Scott Wilde's Russian font, Cyrillic-12. For scholars, the Greek alphabet and many mathematical symbols are available on D. E. Dougherty’s and S. H. Lam's impressive Princeton-12 and -24. Electri- cians might want to try Paul Dobbs's Schematic-24, and people who want to jazz up text with icons might like Icon-12. Readers familiar with J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world will en- joy Martin Bryant's well- executed Rivendell-14 and Isengard-18. Almost all public-domain fonts are available from Data Li- brary 7 of CompuServe's MAUG. To find them, use the font's name or the word font when asked for a keyword. But font addicts who download the entire collection are likely to run up quite a bill for connect time. A more cost-effective col- lecting method is to purchase font disks from user groups. The disks usually cost less than $10 and contain many of the most attractive fonts, including some that are not available over the phone lines.—Robert C. Eckhardt O REPETITIVE | OW YOUCA ONCE ANI iz lawyers, marketing and sales executives, real estate agents, and anybody else who repeatedly, repetitively prepares letters or documents that are in the same vein - yet never identical Oh, the drudgery of continually preparing documents that repeat themselves yet are never so alike that you can either duplicate them or reduce them to form letter proportions. All those words, all those figures, all those hours spent scribbling, patching, rearranging, It's all over. Glory be! Introducing the Document Modeler from ‘The Model Office Company. Although it is crystal clear just what our remarkable new productivity tool does, just how dramatic is its impact? Do we describe it as revolutionary? As «t radical advance? Or do we peg Its ancestry. “the Document Modeler might well be termed revolutionary; there's certainly nothing like it. However, “revolutionary” implies throwing over the traces completely and the Document Modeler cloes owe its origins to earlier marvels of the computer age. Such as word processing -although it goes way beyond word processing (see example). ‘The Document Modeler is also more than a spreadsheet. It can calculate, recalculate and © File Edit Document Maker File Cait Document Maker jmontn f the Imonth af invoicing. Number Heference EM ____| ped [Cnter the amount of the averdue account: fo] ‘number of days the account is the tast day of th month following the [month of invoicing EEL ear Fr Smith ur records indicate (rat your account of Dear ti Smith ‘Our recorgs tna\cate thet your account of 95,000 00 All kinds of documents, big or small are a breeze. All you need is a 512K Macintosh and a repetitive job. Collection letters, for ‘example. (No doubt you ll have diferent needs, bud the principle’ the same). Afer creating the model, the credit manager turns over the job to a worker bee. As the simple prompts, created by you (the credit manager), are answered (Screens #1 and # 2) theleiter is composed a block ata time. The reference section warns of potential pitfalls and gives expert advice along the wey. The built-in format numbers with the best of them. But it goes further- fluently molding and manipulating words, sentences and paragraphs as well. Producing impeccable documents with words and figures mixed - exactly how you want them mixed, Nothing else will do as much. The Document Modeler is also much like aan expert system. Except that it's “just plain folks’ -a professor going for a beer with the boys. More street smart and flexible than an expert system, it allows for the umpteen variables of the business world and doesn't demand fluency in a cryptic computer language. How it works. As an expert in your field, the Document Modeler makes it easy for you to write a script that allows for all the eventualities in a typical document. You don't need to know anything about programming: Learn a few simple procedures and you can create model documents-once and for all. For ever after, that particular family of documents can be delegated to somebody less senior, less experienced, less qualified-and less expensive. Basically, all they have to do is answer a series of prompts such as YES or NO, or make some multiple-choice selections, or just type in the particulars requested -all the while using guidelines and suggestions that appear on the screen just when they're most useful. All of them set out by you. Altematively, you can churn out meticulously specific documents yourself. With whatever mix of standard and unique clauses you need. Without the drudgery. And in a fraction of the time. Take a mortgage agreement, for example. With the model prepared by you, and set in motion by a few prompts, your Macintosh® will churn out the words, the sentences, the paragraphs, the entire document. Even the amortization tables. 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