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Llnder theApple lVtrenuA Brief lntroduction to Desk Accessones

Keith Toleman

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hen the time came tobuild a new computeroperating system. thefolks at Apple (and/orXe rox PARC. de -

pending on whose autobiography you'rereading) made some inspired decisions.

For fi le manipulation, they went fbrthe elegance and simphcity of the desktopmetaphor. replacing the PC's non-intui-t ive text strings and command line inputwith a graphic representation of the com-mon desktop.

For the complex hierarchical systemof directories and subdirectories. whatcould be more natural than the file fbldermetaphor'?

And. for the increasingly popular ram-resident ut i l i t ies (Sidekick is the model) .they chose the desk accessory. Look at itth is way - when you' re at your desk. thestapler. scotch tape, calculator and ad-dress book are always right at hand. nomatter what your current task.

(RAM-resident uti l i t ies are small ap-p l icat ions loaded intc l main memory(RAM) either at start-up or during a ses-sion. They capture a portion of availablememory and remain there for the entiresession without disturbing any of theapplication(s) used. They can be run atany time by pressing a unique keystrokesequence. In mostcases, the main applica-tion suspends processing while the uti l i tyis running.)

And. most importantly, Apple built ahome for these accessories within the op-erating system itself.

One of the advantages of the Macin-tosh s)'stem is the incorporation ofdevice

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drivers into the operating system. Devicedrivers are the programs that allow yourMac to work with a wide variety of pe-ripheral devices such as printers. diskdrives, modems. and monitors. Commonexamples include the LaserWriter andImageWriter driver f i les in your SystemFolder.

While MS-DOS requires each appli-cation to supply its own device driver(s),the Macintosh operating system offers 48

UU hen you're at yourdesk, the stapler, scotchtape, calculator andaddress book are alwaysright at hand, no matterwhat your current task.

"drawers" within the operating system tohold these drivers. By putting your driverin one of these drawers (putting yourLaserWriter driver in the System Folder)you give all your applications the samebasic laser printing capabil it ies, in thesame way that all your applications canCut and Paste. (Microsoft Corporationhas adopted this device-independent wayof l i fe with Windows and OS/2. )

Desk accessories are contained in theoperating system, are available fromwithin all applications, and work the samewith each application. Sound familiar?Yes. desk accessories are actually a vari-ation on the device driver.

Let's take another look at our 48 driver

slots. Twelve slots are allocated for non-SCSI peripherals, eight for SCSI devices,fifieen for the desk accessories under theApple menu, five forthe DA's installed inapplications (more about this later), andthe remaining eight slots are held in re-serve tornew peripherals. This is why youcan' t insta l l more than l5 DA's in yourSystem.

The first DAs came from Apple, andwere mostly Sidekick-l ike uti l i t ies suchas the Alarm Clock. Calculator. andNotepad. The Control Panel off'ered di-rect access to operatlng system parame-ters, and the Scrapbook was the perf'ectdemonstration of data portabil ity amongapplications.

As with all things, the Macintoshcommunity wasn't satisfied with thestatus quo.

Prof-essional and amateur developerstook Apple 's or ig inal v is ion as a star t in€ lpoint, and an amazing variety of new DAsbegan appearing on bulletin boars anduser groups. Today, you can find spread-sheets, word processors. terminal emula-tors, games, graphics tools, spell ingcheckers, help fi les. print spoolers andmany more full-featured applicationsunder the Apple menu.

The vast majority of these productiv-ity enhancers are available from yourlocal user group or information service(such as GEnie and Compuserve). Andsince most of them are shareware, thepr ices couldn ' t be bet ter .

Fifteen is Not EnoughAs mentioned earlier, your System

File holds no more than l5 at a time (andsome DA's take up more than one slot).However. there are several alternativesavai lable.

There are a variety ofdesk accessoriesavailable fbr using uninstalled DA's fromdisk. My favorite is "Double Apple" fiomStefan Bi laniuk. avai lable on mostBBS's. Simply group up to l0 DAs in asingle "suitcase" using Font/DA Mover,then open it using Double Apple. Younow have two DA menus to choose fiom !

Double Apple is also perf-ect fbr test-ing new DAs befbre install ing them inyour system.

And remember, up to 5 DA's can beinstalled into any application. Whenyou're in the Font/DA Mover. just holddown the Option key while you click the"Open" but ton. Al l your appl icat ions wi l loffer themselves as potential DA sites.just as if they were System Files (you cando the same thing with fonts). The DA you

install only comes up within that particu-lar application. and does not effect yourSystem File DA count.

And since the 5-DA limit only appliesto the loaded application. you can installup to 5 DAs in each one of your applica-tions! I 've fbund this to be particularlyuseful with the DA help fi les written forapplications l ike SuperPaint. MS Wordand Il lustrator.

And many of the t 'unct ions you arelooking for in desk accessories are avail-able in fkeys (function keys) and inits.

processing of an application when youswi tch to a new appl icat ion.

Multiprocessing, or background proc-essing, is identical to multitasking exceptthat lhe appl icat ion cont inues processingeven after you switch to a new one. Inother words, you'l l be able to downloadthe latest goodies from your favorite BBSand lay out your newsletter with Page-Maker at the same time. The backgroundprocess (in this case, the terminal emula-tor) is invisible while you use PageMaker.

The much-anticipated MultiFinder

Essential utilities, entertaining diversions:the best of both woilds.

Most Macintosh users have pressed Shift- sounds on startup (imagine the unmistak-Option-3 at one time or allother to dump able voice of HAL from 2001 singing

th-e current screen display to a MacPaint "Daisy"), reversing black and white on

fi le. This is an fkey iupplied by Apple your screen display, emulating a large

wi th your System Fl t . - At wi th DA's. screenmoni tor .andevenmakingretching

fkeys can be installed and removed, and sounds when you eject a disk (the infa-

you'l l f ind an amazing selection available mous MacPuke)'

i.n.n ynu, user group or BBS. Another variation on the init theme is

FKey Manager. a public domain pro- Suitcase fiom Software Supply (408-

gram fiom Carl,os Weber M.D.. tets you 719-931 1' $49.95). Since we're a l itt le

install fkeys just l ike the familiar Font/ behind on the East Coast, Suitcase is not

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can be used fiom within all your applica- ever. advance word says that this might be

tions. Fkeys are available ro let you use the perf'ect solution to all our DA (and

uninstalled DA's and fonts. blackout your font) l imitations (reviewed elsewhere in

screen to avoid CRT burn-in. tell the time, this issue).

and much more.In i ts ( in i t ia l izat ion resources) are MUlt iF indef? Bah, hUmbUg!

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your system Folder. ru.ry i irn. vou rrua multitasking and multiprocessing we'l l

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There are inits for playing digit ized into memory at the same time and switch----J-'-c - c between them. Multitaskins suspends

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gives us all the "hooks" for true multi-processing, but there wil l be a long waitwhile developers update their applica-tions to conform to its requirements. Untilthen, MultiFinder wil l simply remain aversion of Switcher (a multitasker) fbr theMac ll .

And even after these new applicationsbecome available, you'l l need a minimumof 2 megabytes RAM (since each entireapplication remains in memory), and youcan expect an across-the-board reductionin speed due to the memory managementoverhead.

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The HumanTouchThe World According to Jean-Louis Gassee

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What's To Like About Computers?f Steve Jobs personified Applecomputer in the late 70's. thenJean-Louis Gass6e may be theman for the machine in the latter

-I-part of this decade. Gass6e, hispublic appearance more polished, hispublic temperament more even thanJobs', has come into his own at Apple at atime when the company is maturing andmoving full-force into the corporatearena. It would seem like a natural pro-gression in both the area of product andproducer.

Gass6e is also instantly l ikeable - ifyou enjoy quick wit, a somewhat self-deprecating sense of humor, someonewho's as comfortable in leather jacketsand jeans as in three-piece suits, and acollege mathematics dropout. This lastmade me feel right at home, as a formerand unconsummated math major myself.

So how did the current Senior VicePresident for Research and Developmentget into this business in the first place?

"The first memories I have are when Iread an encyclopedia when I was age | 4,and I decided that, yes, I wanted to be incomputers," Gass6e says. This, obvi-ously, before he joined Apple France."They always fascinated me because younever know about computers . . . does themachine think or not? We know theydon't but they sti l l exhibit propertieswhich have always fascinated bipeds l ikeme."

Gass6e went from that interest to hisfirst computer job at Hewlett-Packard inI 968, helping introduce the first scientif icdesktop computer in France. A decadebefore Apple started making its mark,Gass6e's first personal computer was anH-P.

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subject a Wright-handed spin, pointing adventure.out that computers' technological matur- "This is sti l l a very young technology.ity is sti l l up in the air. There are many more things to discover

"I think we are at the first transatlantic that we can 't even think of. Also, contraryfl ight. I think we now can safely consider to maybe things people have said in thepersonal computing as a commercial, last few years, there is more technologylong-term business adventure. It's both available in the next five years than therebusiness and an adventure. It 's a business was in the last f ive years. So, technologybecausewehavetotakecareof ourcus- is accelerat ing, which is not usual , andtomers, and there's the regulating aspect which is a sign that this is a very youngof being overseen by our constituency, industry. This is the beginning of thethe marketplace. And also there's the beginning. If we took the computers we


fi,TtI hey always fascinated me because

had just shipped today for the computer, Ithink we would be in great danger ofmiss ing innovat ions to come."

Ah, but have Gassde's opin ionschanged over the years?

"I remember how I thought of comput-ers in 1968, and what I think about per-sonal computers in 1987, and I 'm open tochanging my mind in the next 19 yearstoo. I hope I wil l. This is going to make ourlives very interesting."

Apple ///'s and PS2'sGass6e's philosophical musings on the

state of Apple and the industry are wellknown, and widely published here andelsewhere. Not so well known, perhaps,are Gass6e's thoughts on a variety ofothercomputer-related topic - topics touchedon in a friendly and far-reaching conver-sation.

On the not-so-successful Apple /// andLisa-"Let's be positive. It shows we area patient company. So are our customers,

. ( lI f we took the com-

puters we had justshipped today for thecomputer, I think wewould be in greatdanger of missinginnovations to come."

by the way, sometimes. We tried thingsthat didn't work, we keep trying, and Ithink we hit a couple of good ones.

"In the Apple lll, we released the prod-uct too early, before all the bugs wereironed out. An initial bad reputation isvery hard to shake off. Then, we fixed theproduct, it worked very well, and it wasrecognized by lots of people as one of thebest personal computers in the business.But, in addition to that, we made it verydifficult for third-party developers towrite software for the Apple lll. That wasa serious mistake.

"I'm fond of the Apple lll. When Istarted with Apple to create AppleFrance, we were believers in the Apple ///. We sold a lot of them. And we were veryproud of them. Each time an Apple /// leftthe warehouse, we knew it was us, not thereputation of the product. that sold it."

On the Classic IBM-PC-"We all. notonly Apple but the industry in general,underestimated the effect it would have.because of the cloning effect. We docomputers that are very hard to clone. We

didn't read into the announcement thatthere would be a huge industry of clones,that would make our novel and worthycompetitor a minority player in that f ield.That has surprised us, but also it hasconvinced us that we should keep com-puters that are hard to clone."

On IBM's PS/2 l ine - "Even if I hada strong opinion, I would not discuss itpublicly. I buy a lot of equipment frommany. many brands. My wife Brigineused to say I have the largest computerstore in the area at home. Obviously, I 'minterested. because good ideas and badideas, all of that, is good information,good food for our thoughts on the evolu-tion of personal computing."

On talking about products in develop-ment - "No. I 'm not the VP in charge ofpre-announcements at Apple."

On Apple's tenth birthday - "What Ihope is that we are becoming an interest-ing adult. My definit ion of interestingadulthood is that on the one side, youoperate as a responsible person, youworry about and ponder the consequenceof what you do before taking a risk. On theother side, you are more in touch withyour childhood dreams."

Does this mean Apple has reached theage of majority at ten?

"Those might be something betweenhuman and dog years. so maybe we are 30years old."

On what the adult wants to do when itgrows up - "I 'd l ike to see us, someday,with the reputation as the Honda of thecomputer industry. since the role of Gen-eral Motors is taken by someone else."

On adult industries making computermagazines and radioflV shows obsolete- "Computers have to become moreimportant to people yet. You still noticethe presence of the computer, you don'tnotice the absence. When you go into anoffice, you don't see a telephone, you seea personal computer. In a house, you don'tsee a TV. you sti l l see a personal com-puter. There are shows about cars onradios ... so the transition in radio showswill be from the computer as an excep-tional thing to the computer as part of oureveryday l ives - I hope."

On those whose fondest hope is neverto have a computer in their everyday lives- "1 still have to explain to non-technicalpeople why these technical machines canbe useful for them. It's also healthy for meto be in touch with people who don't l ikeor are afraid ofcomputers. It keeps us a bithonest, because we like computers, there-fore we're not normal. It's good to be putback into the reality of people who don't


care, who want to get their job done, whothink computers are too difficult, tooobscure."

On toying with computer games: "I 'm

going to get in trouble, but I don't l ikecomputer games. To me, writ ing is a bet-ter game than p lay ing games. or us ing a

"My definit ion o{

interesting adulthood isthat on the one side, youoperate as a responsibleperson, you worry aboutand ponder the conse-quence of what you dobefore taking a risk. 0nthe other side, you aremore in touch with yourchildhood dreams,"

spreadsheet is a better game. But that'smy opinion. That's not the dogma, thetruth, I 'm stating here.

"But, I 've seen incredibly sophisti-cated games. I'm very grateful to thepeople who write games because theyshow sides of computing that need to beshown."

On having artif icial intell igence toywith you - "1'm interested in nice doorhandles, not huge gas refineries. I 'd l ikeartificial intelligence applied to wordprocessing, so I could type a few sen-tences, and the computer would do a verypolished business letter. I can turn down arequest in the most diplomatic fashion. Iwould tell the computer one very brutalphrase, and the computer...."

On throwing out a good idea becausethe timing was bad - "l don't think so,but maybe the future will demonstratethat we did. Right now, we have too manyideas. The diff icult, the painful process, isto decide what not to do."

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Yideovlbrks II:Where the Action Is

ne of the highlights of therecent Macworld Expowas the release of Vid-eoWorks II.

For the past few yearssoftware developers have dabbled withthe graphics capabil it ies of the Apple IIand the Macintosh to provide cute anima-tion programs with no particular uti l i ty.

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I remember spending hours enthusias-tically creating a donkey that walkedacross the screen and then issued a re-sounding 'Hee Haw.' Of course, when Ihad to review one of the programs, I hada difficult time finding a worthwhileapplication for this technology. Thereseemed to be more than one ass perform-ing on the computer that day.

Big Screens and Slotted MacsWith the introduction of large screen

displays and the 's lot ted ' Macintosh.animat ion sequences take on new impor-tance. It 's now possible fbr more than oneviewer to see a Macintosh driven monitoror a projection system connected via the

expansion slot on the SE or any of theNUBUS slots on the Macintosh II. Thus.real time presentation software is the lat-est niche in the software market. andVideoWorks II, along with Microsoft 'srecently acquired PowerPoint, may bepoised to dominate the field.

VideoWorks II is a major revamp ofVideoWorks. significantly expanding thepower. ease of use, and uti l i ty of theearlier software. Like the original pro-gram, VideoWorks II includes somepretty spectacular features. Recognizingthat the software market is littered withthe remains of companies that overem-


phasized features at the expense of acces-sibil i ty, MacroMind, Inc. appears to havespent a lot of effort to maintain consis-tency with the Macintosh user interface.ln addition. the software is logically di-vided into two parts: the OverView Win-dow fbr creating animated slide showpresentations and VideoWorks for creat-ing and editing animations. The divisionof these overlapping but separate proc-esses makes each one more accessible.

Overview of OverViewThe icon-based 'OverView Window'

allows the user to construct slide shows.

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combination slide/animation presenta-tions. and movies with relative ease.MacPaint, MacDraw, and Glue docu-ments can be added simply by dragging acorresponding icon from the icon tool barand choosing the required artwork fromthe file selection window.

Similarly, 'animation clips' can beselected from the animation l ibrary in-cluded with the software or from anima-tion sequences created by the user. Placingthe 'cl ip' beneath a graphics documentcauses the animation to appear with thedocument as background. Several anima-tion sequences can be run simultaneously.l imited only by memory and disk capacity.Slides can be individually t imed by em-ploying a clock icon and an impressiveselection of sounds can be linked to eachslide or animated clip. A transition iconpresents the user with a comprehensivechoice of animated transitions betweenslides. and an overview icon allows theuser to link several presentations together.

Other windows related to the Over-View section of the software include the'Panel' which is analogous to the controlsof a Video recorder and the 'Stage' whichblanks out all other windows for a cleanview of the animation or slide show. Likea Video recorder. the 'Panel' includesRewind. Stop, and Play buttons, but alsoallows the user to move forward or back-ward through the presentation one step ata time. Pressing the 'Loop' button causesthe show to continuously run unti l you

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An extensive range of sound clips are included in the l ibrarydisk. Each sound topic under the main menu has a corresponding

submenu whick 'pops up' if the user has installed the latestMacintosh Svstem and Finder.

press the 'Stop' button. It 's also possible toedi t the shou whi le i t 's running.

Adding simple animation clips helpsfocus the attention of the audience anddramatically enhances the impact of aslide show. Though the package includes alibrary of 'animation clips' ranging frommoving arrows to jumping frogs, much ofthe power of the software derives frominserting original animated sequencesadding a local but professional touch to thepresentation. To create your own anima-tion it 's necessary to leave 'OverView'

and go to 'VideoWorks.'

VideoWorksThe VideoWorks animation module is

a kind of superset of the OverView pro-gram with a number of special animationf'eatures added. It take some time to be-come f'amiliar with both the terminology,the function, and tl^^ interrelationship ofthese tools and windows. but then anima-tion is a fairly complex process. Vid-eoWorks makes a brave attempt to balanceease of use with power and flexibil i ty.

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The Panel(VideoWorks)The Panel in VideoWorks is similar to

that in OverView except it also includes aChannel Indicator and Selector. a FrameCounter, and a Speed Control. It alsocontrols sound (off or on), background(inverse), and frame by frame recording.

The CastThe 'Cast' is a kind of pictorial data-

base for storing artwork, text, and filmloops. Art work can be pasted into the'Cast' directly or can be touched up firstchoosing the 'Paint 'opt ion. past ing ontoan Easel, and using the standard painttools. Multiple easels can be selected andeach easel corresponds to a window in the'Cast. ' Thus, changes made on an easelare automatically reflected in the 'Cast. '

Artwork from the 'Cast' can be draggeddirectly onto the 'Stage' for backgroundor animation purposes.

The ScoreThe 'Score' is similar to an orchestral

score or a theatrical script in that it ties aseries of disparate functions together toproduce a work of art. Icons used in the'Score' identify a wealth of information

II t's tailor made for anybusiness user consideringreal time computer presen-tations to large groups, indi-vidualized training pro-grams, or even for market-ing displays in shop win-dows.

including artwork, motion, position, andinks. Up to 24 channels can be used forcast members with an additional channelreserved for sound, tempo, and transi-t ions.

Because motion progresses from leftto right as indicated by a moving 'play-

back head' it's relatively straightforwardto shift channels to control t iming. Theoverall length of the movie is determinedby the number of frames in the 'Score'

and this is l imited only by memory con-siderations.

In Between' In between' is a specialized tool for

smoothins animation in which the user

places an object at an initial point and thena final point and the program suppliesanimated sequences ' in between.' Thistool serves as an incredible time saver andhelps smooth motion in an animation.

ColorThe 'Color window' takes advantage

of any color graphics card inserted into aNUBUS slot of a Macintosh II. Mac-roMind, Inc. claims that the speed of theMacintosh II compensates for the extraprocessing required to generate coloranimation. VideoWorks supports the newcolor QuickDraw extensions that are resi-dent in the Macintosh II ROMS and,therefore. will work at both 4 bit or 8 bitcolor resolution automatically. Thus, theuser has the choice ofa palette of 256 or I 6colors. The color window is dimmedunless you are working with a colorMacintosh.

TextText can be typed directly into an

animation window and the user canchoose to employ the MacinTalk speechprogram to read it aloud. Though severalspeech channels are reserved for Macin-Talk, it 's only possible to have one voiceactive at a given time.

Documentation and SupportVideoWorks II is provided on three

800K unprotected diskettes, including

'Guided Tour,' 'Clip Animation, Art-work & Movies,' and 'System, Program& Tutorials.' The documentation consistsof a spiral bound, clearly written, 300page manual. Both the manual and disk-ettes are chock full of examples and tuto-rials that ease the user into the complexfield of computer animation. In addition,the program includes some limited on-line help, accessed from the Apple menu.MacroMind, Inc., will provide technicalsupport to registered users for a period of90 days.

ConclusionFor a product that pushes the technol-

ogy to the limit, VideoWorks II is amaz-ingly solid and reliable. It 's tailor madefor any business user considering realtime computer presentations to largegroups, individualized training pro-grams, or even for marketing displays inshop windows. The program's readyaccess to sound, speech, color, and ani-mation could help it dominate this newniche in the software market place.


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fyou sti l l have the Puzzle undertheApple Menu, and you aren't usingit, this article is for you.

If you move graphics from oneapplication to another and don'l

have Art Grabber, Art Roundup or asimilar desk accessory installed, this ar-ticle is for you.

If you are a Macintosh owner and don'tknow how to use the Font/DA Mover, thisarticle is definitely for you.

I am appalled by the number of Macowners who don't use the Font/DAMover. Further, I am surprised that mostowners f 'ear learning hou. to use it.

Why Learn?Why do you need to learn to use the

Font/DA Mover?If you haven't used Font/DA Mover

yet, when you open up an application(MacPaint, Word 3.01. PageMaker, etc.)the fbnts available to you are those whichApple installed in your System. If youhave several different systems, you maysee different fonts available when you goto the Font or Character menu. If there arefonts there which you do not use, why notreplace them with some otherfonts whichyou like the look of? Or don't replace -add some new ones if you have room.

For instance. New York and Veniceoften come installed in Systems from

Ttis istheheart of the logicof the Font/DAMover: twoboxes which al-low you to takefrom either sideand add to theother side.

the other hand, i f you have anImageWriter, you won't want Times orHelvetica - both are often in Apple in-stalled systems. You are operating at avery primitive level if you don't movefonts in and out of your system to make itconform to your particular use.

Under the Apple ( ) are Apple's

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choice of desk accessories. But there areliterally thousands ofdesk accessories outthere in the World of Mac -mostof thempublic domain or shareware. For instance,one called DiskTop from CE Softwarewill rename, delete, move and copy files.It will let you change creator and date,make a new folder, and will launch yourfavorite programs. It will also find thatlost document which you buried down 9layers in a folder.

Other desk accessories let you have a"little MacPaint" under the menu(CheapPaint), a tool to copy pieces of bitmapped art (Art Grabber+, Art Roundup,Artisto), or an improved Scrapbook(SmartScrap) which lets you take just partof a Scrapbook page, or switch betweenseveral Scrapbooks.

These arejust a few examples ofusefuldesk accessories which you probably arenot making use of - unless you haveleamed how to operate the Font/DAMover.

The Easy WayThis will be the ultimate easy lesson on

using FONT/DA MOVER.Click on the . See that l ist of items?

Those are the desk accessories which arecurrently available, because they havebeen installed in your operating systemwith the FONT/DA MOVER.

Open any graphics or word processing

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program. Find the Font or CharacterMenu. The list of fonts you see there arecurrently available because they havebeen INSTALLED in your operatingSYSTEM with the FONT/DA MOVER.

Now find a suitcase that looks l ike this:

Desk AccThat suitcase contains one or more

desk accessories. You cannot use deskaccessories in suitcases unti l you installthem with the Font/DA Mover.

Find a suitcase that looks l ike this:

FontEThat suitcase contains one or more

fonts. You cannot use fonts in sui tcasesuntil you install them with the Font/DAMover.

Finally. f ind a l itt le truck icon with anA on it, t i t led Font/DA Mover, l ike this:

Font /D A l" loverThis is the Font/DA Mover. It may

have a number after it, l ike 3.2, 3.4 or 3.5.Be sure you have 3.5 or any higher num-ber. If you don't have one, take a blankdisk to an Apple dealer. or ask anyone inyour MUG for a copy.

Now to use the Font/DA Mover. Whilelearning, please make a copy of yourSystem on a blank disk and play with thatuntil you are experienced.

It won't take long, believe me.

Stay Very BasicGet at least one or two of the suitcase

icons containing fonts and one or twocontaining desk accessories. Place themon the same disk or on a disk which youwill place in the external drive. Be surethat the Font/DA Mover is on the Systemdisk.

Our assumption is that the System youare playing with has desk accessories and/or fonts installed which you want to getrid of. and that the fonts and/or deskaccessories in suitcases which you have

placed on the disks are ones which youwould l ike to have in your System (FigureI and 2) .

Shall I repeat that. folks? This is theheart of the logic of the Font/DA Mover:two boxes which allow you to take fromeither side and add to the other side.

Since you opened the FontI)A Moveritself. i t looks for the operating Systemand places its fbnt contents in the left handbox. Now don't ever get upset if the fontcontents of the System are on the rightside. It does not matter. Either side wil ldo.

How Much Room Left?A legend under the box will tell you

what you are looking at and how muchroom is left on that disk.

At this point, the right side (remember,it doesn't matter if sides are reversed) isblank, and so is the legend space beneathi r .

First, let's take a font out of the Sys-tem. Lets call i t Duck 12. Do you haveanother copy of this font somewhere? Ifso. we can be cavalier and remove it. Ifyou are not sure, we want to save a copyof Duck 12 in a suitcase for future pos-

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sib le use.To remove Duck 12, without saving a

copy, highlight it. Notice that the centeroption box, Remove, is now activated.We want to Remove Duck 12. so clickRemove. Duck l2 disappears forever -

no warning "do you really want to dothis'1"

Only One Dangerous FeatureThis is Font/DA Mover's only danger-

ous f'eature. The rule?Don't use Remove unless you are sure

you have a copy of the item being re-moved somewhere else.

Everyth ing e lse is duck soup! Simple.You just removed Duck 12, and you knowyou have another copy of it somewhere.

Now let's take a font out of the System,but save a copy of it for future use. We willcall this font Beaver 14 for the purpose ofth is tutor ia l . Highl ight Beaver l4 s inceyou want it out of the System, but savedsomewhere. The Remove selection isactive. but that isn't what we want. TheCopy selection is sti l l grayed out.

Take a moment now to look at thebottom of the Font,/DA Mover screen(Figure 3). There is a sample of the high-lighted font. If you select two or morefonts and/or font sizes of a single font, youwon't see a sample, since only one fontand size can be displayed at a time.

Back to work. Under the blank boxthere is a button that says Open... Theellipsis indicates that you will get a dialogbox to select from if you click it. Do that.

Now you get a single dialog box cov-ering the original dialog box. On the rightside is a button that says New. Since we dowant to build a new suitcase to put Beaver14 into. click on New. Notice that thefamiliar disk icon and Eject and Drivebuttons wil l let you place this New suit-case on any disk and in any folder youwish to. Do that now.

Click New and you get a dialog box,Figure 4. with a window in it for a name.Name your New suitcase Beaver 14 (oranything else you wish). Click OK.

This returns you to the original Font/DA Mover screen. This time there is a tit lebeneath the blank side. It says Beaver 14,and tells you how much space is left on thedisk you selected to place that f i le onto.

Next you can highlight Beaver 14 onthe left side (in the System - check thedialog beneath the left hand box). Aha!>>Copy>> is now active (or<<Copy<< ifyou happen to have the System box on theright side).

lnto The Empty SuitcaseSince we do want to copy Beaver l4

into the suitcase we have prepared, click>>Copy>>. A copy of Beaver l4 movesinto the blank box with the legend Beaverl4 beneath i t .

Now you can click the Remove buttonsaf'ely to remove Beaver l4 from yourSystem (it 's safe because you just made acopy in its own suitcase).

You can Remove or Copy severalfbnts at once, highlighting them bysweeping over contiguous fonts, or shift-clicking non-contiguous fonts.

Now, with your System on the left sideof the Font/DA Mover, you can use theOpen... command on the blank side tobring up another System if you l ike. Thenyou can swap fonts between the two Sys-tems. Take fiom the one that has thedesired font and add it to the other System.Remove any font which you are sure youhave a duplicate of somewhere.

Let's add a font from its suilcase intoyour System.

Getting The System to Show UpIs your System on one side or the other

of Font/DA Mover? If not, use Open...and find the System (in the SystemFolder, on the startup disk). Click on it,

and it wil l present you with the fonts inthat System in whichever box youOpened.

Now, on the blank side, click theOpen... button. Use Drive and Eject unti lyou find the tbnt suitcase you placed onthe disk for tutorial purposes. Let's callthis Husky 12.11,18,24. Click on theHusky 12,11,18.24 icon. Shift cl ick acouple of sizes, or highlight the entire l ist.Click Open.

Moving a Copy ol Husky 12and24Select the Husky sizes you want. Now

the <<Copy<< button is active. Click onit. A copy of Husky 12 and 24 (or what-ever s izes you selected) move into yourSystem. The suitcase, Husky 12,14,18,24is left intact, in its original state. ClickQuit to retum to the desktop (Finder).

So now you can Remove a font you nolonger want. You can save a copy ofa fontin its own suitcase for later use. You canCopy a font from its suitcase into yourSystem. You can Copy a font from Sys-tem to System.

All of this is done by using the logic oftwo boxes which represent giving andreceiving areas, and the use of the familiarEject and Drive buttons in the Font/DAMover 's Open. . . d ia log box.

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Now for desk accessories. Doubleclick Font/DA Mover again. When thefonts show up in the left hand box (wedon't care if they are on the right, do we?)At the top of the screen there are buttonslabeled Fonts and Desk Accessories.(There is a secret method - hold downthe Option key while opening the Font/DA Mover and you go directly to DAs -

no passing Go, no collecting $200.)

Seeing Desk AccessoriesClick the Desk Accessory button and

you will see the same familiar two boxes,except that this time there will be a list ofthe System's desk accessories where thefonts were listed a moment before.

There are no further instructions formoving desk accessories in and out ofyour System. Why is that?

You do it exactly the same way youmoved the fonts.

Questions, class?

Other Font/DA Mover TricksThe FontlDA Mover normally lets you

move fonts and desk accessories into theirown suitcases or into a System - anySystem. You can also move a font or adesk accessory into an application ratherthan a System. This means that the chosenfont (or DA) wil l be available only whenyou are in that application.

Let's say you want Blockbuster 36 inMacPaint, but you don't need it in Excel,or Word, or any other program.

Here's how you do it. Double clickFont/DA Mover. Let's say you want toinstall Blockbuster 36 in the applicationMacPaint. Hold down the Option key andclick the Open... button under the blankbox. Instead of just seeing Systems andsuitcases displayed, any application onthe disk wil l also be displayed.

Use the Drive and Eject buttons to getto the disk with a copy of MacPaint (Youdidn't forget, did you? Use a copy, not theoriginal) on it. Click MacPaint to select it.Now click Open.

MacPaint will show up under the blankbox. Now look for Blockbuster 36 in theSystem. If it is there, highlight it and use>>Copy>> to move it into MacPaint. Bythe way, in MacPaint you will seeMacPaint's own font (which you neversee at any other time) Leave it alone.

Find lt Somewhere!If Blockbuster 36 is not in the System

on the left hand side. click Close beneath

the System box. Now click Open... whichwill appear in its place. Use Drive andEject buttons until you find Blockbuster36 's sui tcase (or the System conta in ingit). Open Blockbuster 36 (or the Systemcontaining it). Select Blockbuster 36 andcontinue as above - >>Copy>> it intoMacPaint.

Now Quit. If you start up MacWrite,look in the Font menu. No Blockbuster36. Now quit MacWrite and start upMacPaint.

Guess what? There is Blockbuster 36in your font menu.

The same trick works for desk acces-sories. For example, you might want adialer or a terminal emulator DA in yourcommunications application. But youwould never need them in any other appli-cat ion. So st ick them into your communi-cations application, using the techniqueabove.

How Many K Does lt Use?A couple of other notes. When you

highlight a font, or series of fonts (orDAs). look in the center of the screen.You wil l see how many kilobytes the fontor fonts (DA or DAs) you selected oc-cupy.

Also, above the Quit button there is aHelp button which gives you the basics ofthe use of the Font/DA Mover. Consider ita reminder or a refresher course.

That's about all there is to using theFont/DA Mover. The rest of the learningis just a matter of practice and of usingstandard Macintosh Open... dialog boxtechniques of highlighting, shift-click-ing, and use of the Drive and Eject but-tons.

You are now an expert with the Font/DA Mover, so go get that Puzzle out ofthere and put in DiskTop by CE Software.



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Andrcw Hirnes, Editorhe day carne fbr me as it didfbr all of us at one time oranother . I e ar ted mr f i rs tpersonal computer home.and unpacked the box wi th

l ov ing care . Nes t led ins ide was whatseemed to me a k ind o f mas ic ta l i sman -

an Apple I l+ wi th 48K of RAM in abeautiful beige case. Along with it I got agreen screen Apple monitor (matchingcolor) and an enormous 5 l/r1' f1opp1'drive. I soon added another l6K ofmemory so I could run my word processor.

Not much sottware. to begin with. TheDOS 3.3 System Master disk had enoughstrange l i t t le ut r l i t ies and games to keepme enthralled fbr hours. Litt le Brick Out.especially. had the tendency to tum meinto a computer zombie, with the patienceto sit fbr hours before the screen with my.ioystick struggling to break through awall of imaginary bricks. I had to tbrciblyremind myself that the only way I couldjustify the hole in my budget was by usingmy Apple to write.

64K, in those long ago days. seemedenorrnous to me. I couldn't imagine howanybody could really use that muchmemorv. I l-elt l ike I had an enorrnous.untapped resource sitt ing right at my fin-gertips. When I hooked a Hayes 300 baudmodem into one of the slots. I had at'eeling of being connected to the world inr wa) no human being in a prev ious eracould have been.

The Macintosh Disk LibrarianI realized anew. a few days ago. that the

rapid evolution of the personal computer

has expanded the horizons of my intbr-mation world tar beyond what I oncethought was poss ib le . We got a rev iewcopy in the mai l o f a new d isk l ib ra r l '

Wnr, matters abournew hardware andsoftware technology isnot that it is comolex orpowerful.What matters is that it isuseable,

ut i l i ty ca l led DiskQuick Vers ion 2. 10.fiom Ideafbrm, Inc. I used the program tocatalog my 20 meg. hard disk drive, andwas taken aback by the results.

The idea behind DiskQuick is to helpyou organize your disks. applications.and fi les so you can lay your hands on theright piece of infbrmation at the righttime. As the DiskQuick manual says, fhenormal Macintosh deskton is f ine for

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examining two or three d isks at a t ime, buta l i t t le c lumsy when you need to f ind as ingle f i le somewhere in a p i le of f loppies.With DiskQuick up and running, you canf'eed f1opp1' after f loppy into a drive. andthe program will read the disks and as-semble a catalog describing their contents.You can save the catalog fbr later use ors imply pr in t i t out .

The program reads tloppies automati-cally. but to catalog a hard disk you needto select Process all disks and HD's onthe Options menu. Two windows appearon your screen. The Disks window showsthe name o1'each disk as a heading in bold,and lists allthe basic infbrmation about thedisk's contents on a separate l ine: thename of a tblder to begin with. then infoabout each of the items in it, including thename. size. and the date and time it was lastmodified. The Documents window is acomplete cata log o l 'every i tem on everydisk. It includes the name of the item. itstype (e.9. . appl icat ion, document . or ut i l -ity). the date and time of its last modifica-t ion. and the d isk i t is on. F inal ly , i t te l ls thenesting order of all your folders as it l istsfolder contents.

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II realized anew iusthow far away we arefrom those days whenwe were imoressed withthe raw computationalextravaoance of a 48Kdesktop engine.

the t ime I insta l led them. but now I 'vemoved beyond such chi ld ish th ings asscreen destroyers. (Or have I?)

As a result. I have room tbr more appli-cat ions. DA's. and ut i l i t ies that I real lywi l l use. and which wi l l make me moreefficient than before if l use them well andinstall them with a measure of selectivityI haven't been f'amous for up to now.

If r- 'ou used Version 2.0 of this pro-gram. you'l l be pleasantly surprised by anumber of new features. including theabil ity to export catalog infbrmation as atext f i le or create data fbr input into adatabase program. the abil ity to interruptthe catalogue of a disk. and speedier proc-essing of a hard d isk.

A side benefit of using DiskQuick tocatalog my hard disk was that I realizedanew just how far away we are from thosedays when we were impressed with theraw computational extravagance of a'18Kdesktop engine. Only a few years later. Ihave the unmitigated gall to sit in front ofa Mac Plus with a meg of memory. twofloppy drives and a hard disk. and bedissatisfied with the system's speed, thesize of its RAM. and its storage capabil i-t ies.

I use a much larger number and varietyof applicatio word processors,spreadsheets, databases. graphics andpage layout programs. communicat ionspackages, and amultitude of DA's, fonts.and uti l i t ies - and I have the nerve tocrit icize some of them because they aretoo slow. or too diff icult to use, or becauseI actually have to read a manual once inawhile. A few years ago I would neverhave complained about an applicationhaving too much power, but now I do so inthe name of s impl ic i ty . e legance. ut i l i ty .and advocacy for the interests of users.

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A helpful feature is the ability to usethe Sort menu to change the order inwhich items appear in the window. Youcan sort items according to the alphabeti-cal order of their Get Info comments, bytheir size. by the most recent date theywere used, according to what applicationcreated them, and by type (text files orpaint f i les. for instance) .

Time to Clean HouseOne thing the program did was make

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A DA Bonanza in aSmall Package

Sidel(ickLee A. Webster

2.0ideKick is a collection ofeleven desk accessories andseven u t i l i t y / app l i ca t i ons .Release 2.0 has two majorDA's: MacPlan and Outlook.

Using the FontlDA Mover applicationyou install the desk accessories you wanton your application disk(s), being carefulthat you don't exceed the l imit on the totalnumber of accessories you can have in-stalled at once ( I 5) or overfi l l the applica-tion disk with code (for each of the I Iaccessories discussed below, I 've l istedthe fi le size). For some accessories. youalso need to add some data files to theSystem Folder.

SideKick ApplicationThe SideKick application combines

the normal activities associated with us-ing a phone book, phone log, and auto-matic dialing. The screen layout (ac-cessed by double-clicking on the Side-Kick icon - it 's not a desk accessory), isshown in Figure 1. At the upper left is thedialing status window, manual dialingpad (generates dial tones) and Dial/Clearbuttons. Below that are four buttons foraccessing the Calendar, working withNotes, and making a New Entry into thePhone Book. To the right of these buttonsis the area for displaying the phone notes.At the upper right the entries in the PhoneBook are shown. In the upper middle ofthe display are the name and phone num-ber of the party you are calling along withother control buttons.

The menu bar items for Goodies in thisapplication include options to log calls,sort by name, category, or company,change area code (default), change wait-

ing message, look up area codes, set dial-ing speed and method. conf igureMacTerm. examine Phone Log, andchange Phone Books. The Services menuitems include: standard. change long dis-tance service. and add long distance serv-l ce .

To set up your own Phone Book, youselect the New Entry button and fi l l in the

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pre-formatted "card" with the name,address, phone number, and category ofthe firm or person. You can also enterinformation about the telephone charges(cost/min for the first x minutes and cost/min thereafter) and about your consultingcharges (cost,hr). The program will thenkeep track of these costs (in the center ofthe main screen) in real t ime as you makethe call. Incoming calls can also be loggedin this way. A Phone Log can be examinedon screen or printed.

You also have access to a CalendarBook for managing your time schedule.Calendars are available for every monthfrom January 1905 until December 2030.Free-form note pages are available foreach month so you can enter notes, ap-pointments, etc. These notes are acces-sible from search commands too. There is


also a Week-at-a-Peek feature showinsseven days together.

Desk Accessories. Area Code Lookup (2638 bytes):When you enter the area code, the locality(state), region (section of the state), andtime zone are displayed. (lf you want tofind the area code of a particular city, youcan use the search feature in the Notepad+accessory. ). Calculator+ (5822 bytes): This is anexpanded calculator which has features(like trigonometric and financial func-tions) not found on the standard Applemenu calculator. The functions include:square root, natural log, e to a power,value to a power, sign change, pi, expo-nential notation, sin, cos, tan, arctan (allangles in radians), future value, presentvalue, annuity, and level payment. Thereis a scrollable adding-machine type tapedisplay (which can also be printed out).Data entry is by clicking the keyboardkeys or (for numerical and mathematicsymbols) using the numeric keypad.. Calendar Book (2412 bytes): Thisaccessory is the same as the Calendarfeature in the SideKick application.. MacClock (1009 bytes): This is ananalog clock with a sweep second hand -interesting!. MacDialer (2431 bytes): This short-ened version of the dialing part of theSideKick application can be used withoutquitting another application. These aresome limitations in terms of adding newnames and viewing the Phone Log, how-ever.. MacPlan (40025 bytes): The MacPlanspreadsheet is one of two major accesso-

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ries in this package. It has a 20 column. 50row limit with cursor movement either bymouse or cursor key. Cell value format-ting is l imited to label (by a somewhatawkward process called "forcing la-bels"). dollars and cents. dollars. percent.and numbers. Operators include the usual(addition, subtraction, etc.) along withlogical operators (less than, greater thanor equal to, etc.). Functions availableinclude compounded future value. dis-counted present value. future value ofannuity. net present value. mortgagepayment per period, present value of anannuity, compounded yield per period.double declining balance depreciation.straight-l ine depreciation, sum of yearsdigits depreciation, absolute value. aver-age. maximum. min imum. round. s tan-dard deviation. sum. IF. Lookup. DCate,and Today (number of days from ll l lI 904 to current date) - a rather extensivelist for an accessory spreadsheet.

This accessory also has l imited graph-

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ing capabil ity. You select a row or columnfrom the spreadsheet and select Graphfrom the MacPlan menu. A bar graph isautomatically created and overlaid in awindow on the spreadsheet (Figure 2).You can then select a pie, l ine, stackedbar, or a comparison bar chart (such asshown in this figure). By selecting theappropriate cell(s) on the spreadsheet.you can transfer text information as agraph titte, legend, or category (x-axislabel). Changes in the spreadsheet areautomatically reflected on the graph. TheMacPlan is similar to most spreadsheets

in operation and therefore easy to learn ifyou have any experience with otherspreadsheets.. MacTerm (13256 bytes) : This com-munications accessory has Hayes com-patibil i ty for 300. 1200. and 2400 baudmodems. and can transmit/receive whilerunning other applications. There is aConfigure utility to set up the necessarycommunication parameters. and you canhave a directory of frequently-callednumbers for automatic dialing. As I do nothave a modem (yet!) I was unable to


check the operation of this accessory.. Notepad+ (10781 bytes): This mini-word processor can create text files, up to28K in size, which are compatible withMacWrite and Microsoft Word. It ishandy to have available as an accessorywhile working in a database or spread-sheet if you want to make notes to your-self. etc. You can combine text from otherNotepad+ and text files. You have somesearching capability and standard editingprocedures. but no choice of font styles/s izes.. Out look (113110 bytes) : This is theother major accessory in the SideKickpackage, and provides an outline process-ing capabil ity. When you open a newdocument. a bullet (circle) indicates anew line (Figure 3). It is followed by afolded-page icon. and then you can type inyour text for that level of the outl ine. Sub-points can be indented (by TAB) andwhen you need to out-dent (shift-TAB)you can. When there are sub-points, thebullettums toablack dot. Editing oftypedtext is similar to MacWrite. You can cut/paste blocks (main point and all i ts sub-points) - selecting the block by clickingon the bullet. at which time the block is"boxed" in with a l ine (Figure 3).

Once an outl ine has been created, youcan "Hide Detail" to remove the subhead-ings under the selected bullet level tocompress the outl ine so you can see thebroader structure of your document. Toreverse this process, you "Completely

Expand."A very useful feature is the ability to

attach text or pictures to any line of the

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outline. You do this by double-clickingon the folded-page icon on the l ine yourwant, and you get a blank screen to typetext onto. By Copying from otherapplica-tions. you can Paste a picture or spread-sheet etc. from other Macintosh pro-grams. When there is something attachedto a l ine of the outl ine, the folded-pageicon changes, so for example in Figure 3."Finish budget report" has a text associ-ated, and "review sales projection" has agraph associated. You can get a printoutof the outline in several formats, specify-ing margin selection, headers/footers,page numbering, etc. Text and graphicsassociated with the outline appear on theprintout below the appropriate outlinel ine.. QuikSheets (2432 bytes): A set offoursheets, set up l ike a notepad. is includedwith this accessory, but you can custom-ize these or add new ones for a total of 2 Isuch Quik Sheets. Each sheet contains 15lines of data. The four given sheets are:

a. Alarms: for each event, "When,""What." and "Comments" columns areincluded. When the alarm time isreached, the computer beeps, the appleon the menu bar flashes, and you go tothe Alarms QuikSheet to check it out.You then have the choice of Reschedul-ing the a larm. or Removing i t .b. Things to do: for each event, youenter "When (date)," "What," and"Comments," There is also a small boxinto which you can place a check markto indicate completion. The Squeezecommand removes all "checked"

items.c. Credit card: keeps a record of thecompany, number, expiration date, lostreport phone number, credit limit, andbalance for up to l5 credit cards.d. Expenses: columns are included for"What," "Who," "Date," "Purpose,"

and "Amount."

. ReadiPrinter (6953 bytes); Printspooling for text f i les is offered with thisaccessory. You can move the mouse anduse the keyboard to open other accesso-ries while printing. There are a l imitednumber of printer options you can select,including: 10112117 chars/in, 6/8 l ines/in.8/14 in paper, headers, left/right margins,tabs, and number of copres.

Utilities. Print Manager: This uti l i ty gives youflexibil i ty in printing all or selected infor-mation from the Phone Book. CalendarBook, and QuikSheets files. You canpreview the output on the screen or go to

the pnnter.. Converter: This allows you to copyfrom Habadex. MacPhone. and text f i lesinto your Phone Book.. Quik Editor: This uti l i ty is for modify-ing the included QuikSheets (except fbrAlarms) and for creating your own cus-tom QuikSheets. You can have up to 15row. I to 7 columns (minimum columnwidth is 3), and a column of check boxesin your design.. Configure MacTerm: For settingcommunications parameters.. Copy Phone Book: Used to create newPhone Books by extracting selected en-tries from an existing Phone Book.. Outline application: Used for select-ing existing outl ines or opening a newone.

ManualA 7" x 9" paperback manual has about

220 pages (plus about 22pages ofads forBorland sofiware at the back!) with acomplete table of contents and index.There are tutorial sections for the Side-Kick application, MacPlan, and Outlook.MacPlan and Outlook have Referencesections too (although MacPlan's is anAppendix). There are brief but adequatedescriptions for the other desk accesso-ries and uti l i t ies. The manual is reasona-bly clear with ample use of sample screendisplays. One problem I noted was thatthe use of functions in MacPlan indicatednothing was needed preceding the func-tion name. I couldn't get them to workuntil the name was preceded by an equal


s ign , e .g . , =SUM( . . . ) .The disks contain 12 MacPlan ex-

ample fi les (where I learned of the - signmentioned) covering budgeting, loadanalysis, business applications, stockportfolio management, and others. Sevenexample Outlook fi les are also included.

ConclusionThere are full-blown applications cov-

ering many of the functions included asdesk accessories in SideKick, so youcan't expect SideKick's accessories tohave equal power. Nevertheless, theseaccessories are attractive because they areso easy to use. I think the best parts oftheset are the SideKick application (withPhone Book, Calendar, Phonel-og, etc.),along with the MacPlan (especially withthe abil ity to do simple graphs), and Out-look (outl ine with associated text or pic-ture screens). The Calculator+ and Alarm

QuikSheet may also be useful. An acces-sory like MacClock is merely "cute." Butthen, you can choose only the accessoriesyou want and install them on your disk(s).You'l l have to decide if any of these wil lbe adequate for occasional use or whetheryou'l l prefer to have the full-blown appli-cation instead.


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A centuries old game has come of ageon the Mac! Shanghai, based on theancient Chinese game mah-jongg, is agreat addition to your Mac library.Chinese characters drawn on tilesrequire a keen eye and good concen-tration.'Ihe tiles are randomly placedin a shape cal led a Dragon. The objectof the game is simple * clear off theti les in the Dragon. A counter is leftthat keeps you informed of the num-ber o f t i l es remain ing .

The rr-rles are simple, yet the game isnever boring! A new game board isgenerated each t ime you play, sothere is alwavs a new challenge. Anew board can be made at any time,i f you get stuck or don't think thereis much hope of defeating thedragon you are playing on. Shang-hai can be played as solitaire, as ateam taking turns to beat thedragon, or challenge, trying to beatthe other persons number of t i lesleft or making a move in a specifiedtime.

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I{ow many time have you been in yourword processor and just could not findthe right word? You have to get up andget the thesaurus look up the word,t h c n a n o t h e r . t h e n a n o t h e r . . .Wouldn't i t be nice to have a thesau-rus available in your Mac? Microll'ticshas provided just that! A desk acces-sorv that you highlight a word andthen cal l up the DA and i t copies theword into the look up feature and a listof s1'non1'rns is provided. See one youlike? Double click on the new wordar-rd it replaces the word in question.Worcl Finder has one of the mostextensive list of synonyrns in the

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Icon-it! 1.0Bill Kaye

con-it! is a uti l i ty that allows the Mac user to assign menuselect ions ( inc luding DA's and font menu i tems). menukeyboard equivalents. F-keys. and/or macro ke."-boardcombinations that launch a macro to clickable icons (seeFigure 1). So. for instance. instead of pull ing down the

File menu and dragging to Print... to get the print dialog box orpressing command-p to get the same result. you can use themouse to click on a picture of, say. a printer.

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folder, then restart your Mac with that disk. Icon-it! will then beaccessible as a DA. To create an icon bar, you select Icon-itlfrom the DA menu and up pops Figure 2. You then either use theopen command to get a predefined icon bar (there are.l Isupplied with the program) which you can use as is or modif l ' .

or you can begin building your own bar by setting the variablesat the left which define the size of the individual icons. thenumber of icons in the bar. and where the icon bar wil l appear onthe screen * hen i t open. .

When an individual icon has been selected by clicking on it,the center column of buttons becomes active. which allows youto edit that icon. Selecting the Edit Icon button or double clickingthe icon brings up the dialog box shown in Figure 3. Here youdraw or edit your icon using MacPaint-l ike Fatbits editing,turning pixels either off or on with a pencil tool. You also setwhat happens when you click the icon. Clicking "Menu byposition" selects that item in a menu even if the name changesas in the case of toggling menu items like "ShowAlide," Undo/Redo." etc. Selecting "Menu by name" selects that menu itemeven if the item has changed position in that menu as when youadd or delete DA's or fonts. Select Macro allows you to assignmacro keyboard combinations that launch a macro or commandkey equivalents. To select the menu items by name or position

1ou just pulldown the appropriate menu and select the item. Toselect the macro or command key equivalent, just type them.When you're done with an icon bar, you can either save it orinsta l l i t .

Once installed it is ready to use and wil l pop up automaticallywhen you open the application it was installed in. Click on anicon and the function you assigned to it happens: simple! If you

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support typing fonts and different font sizes; you can only drawin it.. Icon-it! doesn't work with MacDraw 1.9 and is not recom-mended for SuperPaint 1.0. It bombs MacTerminal 2.0 whenyou quit, although System 4.1 is supposed to solve this.MacPaint 1.5 can bomb when you print so you're supposed toclose the icon bar before you print. It does not work underSwitcher.

Generally I use command key strokes when I want to invokea command such as a menu item and the mouse when I need tolook at the screen, as when I'm selecting text. It 's more work forme to use the mouse to select an icon of a printer to bring up theprint dialog box than it is to type command-p. For this, Icon-it!has little value for me. However, if I owned a program such asMS Word 3.0 which has many procedures invoked only bymultiple key stroke commands not easily remembered, thenIcon-it! might be handy to set up the ones I use most often so thatthey would only be a click away.

In a world where the power users want more keyboardcombinations to keep their hands on the keyboard, Icon-it ! offersrelief for those having trouble remembering how to invoke thoseinfrequently used procedures.

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want to move the icon bar, press the command key and you candrag it l ike a window. If you want to work on something underthe icon bar, you can hold down the option key while manipulat-ing the mouse.

Problems and Annoyances:. Icon-it! does not automatically resize the window of anapplication to make room for the icon bar as the software jacket

says it wil l. It, therefore, wil l cover some part of a window unlessyou resize the window after you open the program.. You can copy icons and/or their functions from other tem-plates to the one you're building to save drawing the icon and/or setting up the function, but there is no index showing thedifferent icons and their functions and what templates they arein; you have to open each template to see the icons and checkeach icon's edit dialog box to find out its function.. I was able to set up icons for menu items (including DA's andfonts), command keys, and keyboard combinations for mymacro utility, Automac. However, the special FKey bar used toset up FKey icons didn't work with System 3.2-Finder 5.3. It didwork, though, with System 4. l-Finder 5,5.. When you use the option key to work on what's under theicon bar, the icon bar doesn't disappear or go behind an under-lying window; in other words, you can't see what you're doing.. Removing icon bars from an application and the programfrom the system are non-intuitive, 3 and 2 step operations.respectively. It ought to be easier.. Sometimes a word is easier to understand than a picture, as"save" is easier for me to understand than whatever picture onemight want to draw to indicate it. Yet the Edit window does not

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DA Switcher1.0

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A Switcher ( l8K in s ize) isa desk accessory that letsyou change the set of DA'sunder the Apple menuwithout leaving the pro-

gram you' re in l You bui ld sets of DA's(only the first 14 wil l show) with theApple Font,lDA Mover (to create a newDA File after opening Font/DA Mover,select Open, New, type a name for the fi le.and then click Create; then open thisempty fi le and copy your DA's into it).Then, after you've loaded DA Switcher

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into your system fi le with the Font/DAMover and invoked it f iom under theApple menu, another menu (Figure 1) isadded to the right of the original menus. Ifyou've put your DA sets in the systemfolder, they are listed at the bottom ofthismenu and any one can be selected toinstall under the Apple menu. Any otherDA set (a DA set can be just one DA) canbe installed by selecting Install AnotherDA . . . To get back to the original DA's inthe system fi le, select Revert or Close.Close also unselects DA Switcher. A uti l-ity is included to install DA Switcher as anFKey. DA Switcher does not currentlywork with OverVUE, Iazz,Trapeze 1.0e,and Think Tank 5 1 2.

That's all there is to this uti l i ty! Itworks and it 's quite useful. You can haveone System File and, say, a DA set for

each application you use. Open an appli-cation and select the set that's right forwhat vou're doing: change applicationsand change DA sets to match. You don't

Do switcher seemslike a cleaner answerfor the productivity-mad Mac DA user.

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Breaking the Scanning Barrier

AST TurboScan

John Laney

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he introduction of affordablenew scanners means theMacintosh. at last, is a pro-fessional graphics worksta-tlon.

Desktop publishers have been distin-guished from "real" publishers since thebeginning by a major deficiency. It hasn't

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C1n*rn, tf,o$N Rfi&A+ctt $Envlcs cARDbeen possible to incorporate true halftonephotographs in page layout on a Macin-tosh. When you've seen halftone materialin a Mac-created publication, it was mostlikely because a screened photo waspasted by hand into the camera-readymechanical.

The new scanners are about to changethat.

The two things that have done themost to expand the use of scanned mate-rial are the adoption of standard file for-mats and the decreasing cost and expand-ing storage capabilities of both extemaland internal memory.

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) andencapsulated PostScript make the inclu-sion of halftone material in a page layout

as easy as a placing a Paint or Pict f i le. TheTIFF format is a new industry standardthat ot-ters desktop publishers the ease andspeed of placing and scaling a PICT fi lewith the high-resolution output of half-tone scans. TIFF fi les are currently com-patible with PageMaker. ReadySetGo.Xpress and other page layout programs.They can be edited in SuperPaint. Graph-icWorks and Letraset's soon-to-arrlveImageStudio.

Cheap and large storage capabil it ies(more RAM. and hard drives with morecapacity) are necessary for storing andprinting scanned images which can bequite large. (When 256 gray levels areused the f i les can become immense - 4megabytes fora 3" x 5" photo is possible).

in software

Scanners were here before the MacPlus. but they could only captureMacPaint (72 dpi) bit maps. One of themost exciting things about the new scan-ners is that they are better mainly becauseoftheir software. and not because ofhard-ware improvements. It is easier to justify

buying an expensive peripheral rf youknow it won't be obsolete next year.Improvements in sofiware technologycould make the scanner you buy this yeara state-of-the-art peripheral for years tocome.

Scanner TypesThe scanners currently available for

the Mac can be d iv ided into two groups:those that use the serial port and those thatuse the faster SCSI port. The SCSI scan-ners. which also use an engine manufac-tured by Princeton Graphics. are the mostrecent arrivals. The serial port scanners,which share the Microtek engine and usea linear-array CCD sensor, have beenaround longer. The AST TurboScan, al-though a new contender for the scannermarket, uses this older technology.

The TurboScan is similar in size, priceand function to scanners made by Abatonand MicroTek. (ln fact, software may beinterchangeable; it is. at least, with theAbaton and the TurboScan.) lt weighseighteen pounds and has a relatively largefootprint of 15 inches wide by 17.5 inchesdeep and a height of4.5 inches. Becausedocuments feed through the top of themachine. it cannot be placed under thecomDuter.

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scanner you buythis year a state-of -the-artperipheral foryears to come.


The PackageTurboScan arrives complete and

ready to use with any Mac from the 512Kon up. The package contains a powercord, serial cable (with a 9-pin to 8-pinadapter) and a smoked plastic documentguide, an extra fluorescent bulb, Super-Scan software and a 144 page manual.(The Printer also has a parallel interfacefor use with PC's and compatibles - PCusers require a different support packagethat contains software, an interface/con-troller card and cable.)

Setting up the scanner is easy. Plug itin, attach the cables, tum it on and boot thesoftware. (The manufacturer suggeststuming on the scanner before booting theMac to a l low the Mac to recognize i t as aperipheral. Failure to do this sometimesresulls in an error the first t ime you try toscan.) I found that cancell ing and re-clicking SCAN usually solved the prob-lem and saved me the trouble of havins toShut Down and reboot.

ScanningChoosing New Scan opens the scan

setup screen. You must initially makesome choices about document sizes andscanning areas, halftone and line scans.resolution, etc. There are also settings forcontrast and brightness and a choice ofhalf-tone patterns ( 12, labelled A - L).

You can name and save frequentlyused set-ups and the last scanning win-dow is saved automatically as the defaultfor the next scanning session. Resolutionsettings range from 75 dpi to 300 dpi.Resolution determines the output size ofthe scanned image. Scanning at 300 dpiwill output at 1007o of the original whenprinted on the LaserWriter. The samescan displayed at MacPaint resolutionwill be 4 times larger than the original.

To create a bitmapped MacPaint im-age at l0oo/o, you move the scroll bar to 75dpi for the RESOLUTION setting andsave it as a MacPaint document. If yousave an image scannedat75 dpi in any ofthe other formats (TIFF, PostScript orscan format) and print, it will be Il4 thesize of the original.

All this can be a little confusing atfirst. Ifyou have been paying close atten-tion you wil l have discovered that it isimpossible to scan a bit map any smallerthan looo/o, or any other format largerthan 100o/c. Bit maps can range from100Vo to 4O0Vo and other formats from25o/o to l00o/a.lf most of your scanningwill be for desktop publishing, leave thedial set at 300 dpi and do any resizing in

your layout program.Despite these scaly ponderables it

only takes a few clicks in the Set UpWindow and you are ready to make a testscan of your first document (Figure 1).

Feeding DocumentsAnother area where scanners differ is

document feeding. The TurboScan uses acombination gravity and traction feed.The document (up to legal size) slidesfrom a ramped guide into a set of rollerswhich then pulls it past the scanning head.The rollers are spring loaded and locatedat the front of the machine. They provideeven traction for smooth feeding of docu-ments. If the paper should jamb (a rareoccurrence) a door on the front of themachine acts as a lever and will releasethe pressure on the rollers so the paper canbe easily removed.

The mechanism can handle very thinpages right on up to postcard weights(max imum recommended i s 0 .012inches). The smallest size paper the scan-ner can feed correctly is about 3" square.The TurboScan I tested fed most docu-ments without any trouble. The paperguide provides a straight edge whichkeeps the page on track. I found theTurboScan's paper feed superior to thoseof front feed scanners.

When scanning, the scanner makes avibrating noise which varies in pitch


depending on the scanning speed (fastestat 75 dpi and slowest at 300 dpi). There isa pause before the paper begins to feedand there is a slight delay after the mecha-nism stops before the scan appears on thescreen. The scanned image is initiallydisplayed in the Edit Window at the high-est magnification.

If the images are too dark or light, of ifyou didn't get the scanning windowplaced properly, you go back to the con-figuration window by choosing NEWSCAN, make adjustments, and re-scan.At the end of each scan you are in editmode and many familiar MacPaint toolsare available for editing the image. Eachnew scan creates a new file in memoryand if you don't do your housekeepingchores you can quickly run out of RAM(Figure 2).

Editing Scanned lmagesIn Edit Window, the selection rec-

tangle does double duty to select a portionof the image for saving, and for editing.Because most scanned images are muchlarger than ordinary MacPaint files, thetools do not work as fast as you might beused to. There are four levels of magnifi-cation - ll8, ll4, Screen Bits and Fat-Bits. You can zoom between magnifica-tions using the + and - signs in the toolboxor on the keyboard.

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here are the same ones avai lable under F i l l . S ince only one

ooint l ines are available it is not a very useful item.

The editing component of the soft-ware is. for the most part. barely adequate.For example. there needs to be a defaultselection rectangle fbr MacPaint docu-ments that can be positioned over an areafor saving. You can use the selection

rectangle for selecting areas to save, but ifthe area is too large (or if the aspect ratiois not correct) part of the image may belost (the lower right hand corner) and ifthe selected area is smaller than a normal8 x l0 MacPaint image, a large area ofblack wil l be saved with your document- a nuisance. and inefficient from a stor-age standpoint (Figure 3).

Most of the scanware I've seen couldbe improved from the user's point of viewby paying more attention to the Mac inter-face. Selection rectangles should act likeselect ion rectangles, for example 'SuperScan's scan-area selection rec-tangle on the scan setup page is a strangebeast that can only be approached fromthe sides and can not be be repositionedwithout individually readjusting eachside. Being able to move a pre-sized boxwould be very helpful when you are tryingto locate and scan a small area on a page.

The best piece of scanning software isThunderware. and when you are usingSuperScan you miss Andy Hertzfeld'sstraightforward and Mac-like way ofdoing things. Which is not to say thatSuperScan is bad software. I was able totest both the old and new versions. Morethan just incorporating new file formats,AST has tried to make some real improve-ments. The new version clears up someredundancies and a least one cul-de-sacthat forced you to start a scan before youcould cancel and make changes in thesettings. The configuration window con-tains most of the settings you wil l need toaccess and is well organized. A visualdisplay which lets you preview half-tonepattems is especially welcome.

SuperScan 1.20 can save fi les in itsown SuperScan format , as TIFF,MacPaint, and two types of Postscript.The software includes Adobe's SendPSprogram for printing PostScript files onthe LaserWriter.

The TurboScan seems quite flexible,and has remained current with technicaladvancements by keeping its software up-to-date. OCR (Optical Character Recog-nition) and other enhancements are l ikelyto be available in the future.

AST has made an obvious commit-ment to this product by continuing toupgrade software. They offer good tech-nical phone support and even have theirown Apple products BBS for feedbackand the latest software upgrades. (SeeFigure 3.)

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He says that the new operating systemfor IBM's is the 286. not the 386, so theMac is THERE NOW. Apple has a Year toa year and a half lead now, and the 68030will be available by then, extendingApple's lead into the foreseeable future.

He points out that as IBM moves to386 technology, they have to deal withdeveloper tools, languages and applica-tions. The time to develop these itemscannot be compressed, even bY theworld's largest companies - no matterwhat resources you have.

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The New York Times is using Macin-tosh in their art department to develop itsown graphics and to support a graphicswire service, furnishing Mac producedgraphics to newspapers across the U.S.

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In the new Macintosh Todav, Peter

Lisker notes that IBM's orientation ismainframes, Apple's is the workstation.The implication is that IBM sees themicro as adjacent to the host. The PC isalways going to be subservient in IBM'smind. Apple. on the other hand, sees har-nessing the power of the micro and de-signing whole computing systems aroundthem. IBM is an unwill ing player in themicro revolution.

He also says that the culture of IBM isnot suited to innovative solutions. Appleis. IBM must integrate any new ideas withan existing family of disparate machines.Apple does not have to. He likes Apple'svision of the computing future. All thisfrom a contributing editor to PC Week.

aThe average Fortune 500 comPanY

spent $72 mill ion last year in producingprinted materials. Think there is a marketfor the Mac and the LaserWriter there?

aMicrosoft bought PowerPoint. Now

we can expect them to make it non-Maclike and then make an advanced IBMversion. After that is done, they will portthe results back to an "improved" Mac

version with all of the clumsiness of MS-DOS coming back with it. Or don't youthink so. Word 3.0 users?

aThe Wall Street Journal says that

HyperCard will revolutionize the Mac inthe same way the Mac revolutionizedcomputing forever.

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Don't convert Pagemaker 1.2 docu-ments to 2.0 if you don't have to. They area lot of trouble to patch up. Keep 1.2around. Keep the old Aldus Prep on ahandy floppy and stick it in the drive whenasked. I often do this for clients whoseoriginal work was done in 1.2. Of courseI make their new documents in 2.0a.

aHere's your guide to vaporware:

Vaporware announced at the San Fran-cisco MacWorld Expo is promised inApr i l ; vaporware announced atMacWorld Expo Boston is promised forOctober. (Thanks, MUDSlinger, fromMacintosh Users of Delaware.)


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Hot news: Aldus and Cricket Softwareare in ajoint venture to produce their firstpiece of hardware forthe Mac. It 's a plug-in alarm which rings when your Laser-Writer is ready to print from Pagemakeror CricketDraw documents. They areunable to market a similar device for theLinotronic, since they haven't f igured outhow to integrate a calendar as well as a 24-hour clock. (From FatBits, Conejo-Ven-tura MUG, the world's f irst MUG.)

aMiscellaneous rumors:

. Apple is looking for a laser printer tohandle I 1xl7 printout.

. There will be a 100 Mb internal harddisk for the SEs and IIs by December.

. A laser printer and scanner in a singlemachine is coming soon.

. Motorola is pushing Apple to getgoing on a 68030 machine. Theybadly need volume production on thatchip.

. A faster clock speed for the Mac II isalmost sure to come soon. Appledoesn't want to lag behind the 386computers in any way at all.(These miscellaneous rumors from

Thunder Enlightening from ThunderBay, Ontario, Canada MUG.)

aDraw in MacDraw twice as large as

your desired figure. Print out at 50o/c onthe LaserWriter for excellent smooth-NCSS.

aTo rotate type in Pagemaker, type it in

MacDraw, rotate it there, save as PICTand import it into Pagemaker. Now youcan shrink, stretch or distort it in Page-maker"

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Want to know the secret of the Macin-tosh? At least one part of it is the con-stancy of the Edit Menu. It is on all prop-erly programmed Mac applications. Itpermits the Cut, Copy and Paste betweenapplications which can'tbe done on IBM-PCs and compatibles. It is the soul of theMac.

What is going on inside a hard driveanyway? There is a flying head racingover the surface of a spinning platter.Sounds simple? Well. translating the sizeof the head and the distance from thespinning platter into something you and Ican wrap our minds around, this equatesto a l4l f lying 1/8th inch above theground.

Whew! No room for pilot error here.See why hard disks are a l itt le fragile?

(FatBits, Conejo-Ventura MUG, firstMUG in the wor ld. )

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PC Week says that IBM needs Win-dows and Adobe far more than they needIBM. Interest ine.

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You can copy miniature Pagemakerpages into other Pagemaker pages byholding down the Option key while se-lecting Print. Now select Print Postscriptfor a fi le you can place on another Page-maker page.

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Ralph Begleiter writes in WashingtonApple Pi that a friend with an IBM-PCproudly bragged that after years of usingan IBM, he had found out how to print amultiple page document. Ho hol

Seems he had to review the manual tofind "the correct codes" to enter so hisprinter would continue printing after pageone. Does MacWrite ring a bell???

This same friend was overjoyed be-cause he hadjust found a program whichwould print wide spreadsheets by turningthem to landscape printout. Imagine ! Twomajor accomplishments for this old IBMhand!

If you started computing on a Macin-tosh, you probably don't appreciateenough how the Mac has changed com-puting forever!

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Here's a HyperCard hint. Do you justhate going to the menu to select theBrowse tool? Here comes the lifeguard tothe rescue. Command + Tab selects toBrowse tool. Thank you, thank you, thankyou, Danny Goodman! Of course thiskeyboard equivalent is "in the manual," ifMac owners are into reading manuals bynow.


Check this out: The installed base ofMacs with 1 meg or more of RAM islarger than the installed base of IBM-PCsand clones with I meg or better. The bestguess is 500,000 MS-DOS computerswith a meg or more out of 10 mill ion totalIBMs and clones, and 975,000 Macs witha meg or more. Anyone out there knowfirm statistics on this?

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Excel for MS-DOS is coming. Onesurprise item in the package is a diskbankl Huh? A disk bank?

Yep. You're going to need one, be-cause Excel on an IBM-PC takes ten ( 10)( that 's ten) d isks! Wow!

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construct complicated expressions andcopy/paste them into your word process-ing document.

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E nter MacEqn -a desk accessorywhich allows you toconstruct compli-cated expressionsand copy/pastethem into yourword processingdocument.

primarily for use with LaserWriter fontsHelvetica. Times, Courier, and Symbol.You can use other fonts but these four arereadily accessible through the MacEqnpull-down menu.

Equations can be built up with asmany as 255 characters in each, with 16nested levels. A level is any mathematicalconstruction that requires special format-ting, l ike the integral symbol which re-


quires lower and upper l imits.Figure 1 shows the window which

appears when you select MacEqn fromthe desk accessory menu (the Applemenu). Along the bottom, the type fontand type size are indicated. The "Stack"

and "Level" indicators help you followthrough in entering the information for anequation. For example, if you wanted toenter an integral symbol you would beginby selecting INTEGRAL from theMacEqn pull-down menu and the symbolwould be drawn on the screen. The"Status" indicator would show "lntegral"

and the "Level" indicator would show"Lower 2" indicating that you wouldenter the lower l imit for integration. Theaccessory automatically adjusts to asmaller font size for these limits.

After entering the desired values fromthe keyboard, you would press ENTERand the "Level" indicator would show"Upper 1". After entering this value, the"Level" indicator would be 0 and the"stack" indicator empty. It gets morecomplicated when you have nested levels.such as parentheses within fractionswithin roots, etc. In some ways, the proc-ess is similar to that of working with anRPN calculator (Hewlett-Packard, for ex-ample).

You Figure lt OutThe functions available with MacEqn

include: integral, summation, product(looks l ike a big pi symbol), centeredsuper/subscripts (centered horizontallyon the middle of the last character), frac-tions, roots, overbars, matrices (2-dimen-sional with up to 50 elements), and groups(with square brackets, curly braces, pa-rentheses or vertical bars). In addition tofont selection, you can use bold, italics,underline. or outline characters. You canalso have a grid (series of dots every 8points horizontally and vertically) to helplayout an expression.

Editing is easiest if you catch a mis-take when a backspace or delete key cancorrect it. If you are in the middle of astack, it gets more complicated, and Ifound it easiest just to backspace to thebeginning of that particular stack, thenredo. There are also limited insert/deleteand shift capabil it ies.

When the equation is f inished, you useCopy from the Edit menu of your applica-tion, activate the MacWrite window andPaste into the document. There is an auto-matic indent of 314" (which can be de-'feated). If you wanttext in the same line asthe equat ion in MacWri te. you must in-clude the text in the MacEqn window to

get a result (see Patch 1 ).The MacEqn manual contains about

32 8 I l2" x 11" pages wi th insta l la t ioninstructions, a brief tutorial, discussion ofthe menu commands (most have key-board Command Key equivalents), hints.a one-page reference sheet, keyboardmaps for the four laser fonts, and sampletechnical equations.

The Bottom LineI have used MacEqn for nearly a year

whenever I have equations or formulas tointegrate into a document. Although us-ing it does take some getting used to(when you learn the command keyequivalents it is a l itt le faster), I f ind itpreferable to writ ing the equations inMacPaint or MacDraw and pasting sincethe sizing of super/subscripts, root indi-ces, etc. are automatic as is the sizing ofbrackets and braces for grouped informa-tlon.

I wish, however, that it made betteruse of the Macintosh graphic environ-ment for data entry and editing. Some-times with complicated or multi- levelnested constructions. the screen displaygets cluttered by overwrit ing unti l a stackis complete (the Refresh commandhelped here). and editing can be cumber-some. As a "bonus." the disk I have camewith an "unreleased" MiniDraw deskaccessory with has a subset of familiarMacDraw features (l ines, rectangles,ovals. text . f i l l ) .


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Tips and Tricks

Bill KayeOption - Quit

If you hold down the option key while opening folders on thedesktop. leave the desktop, and then return. the new desktopwon't have those folders open as they would be if you hadn'tpressed the option key. I just discovered that if you hold downthe option key when you quit an application. all fblders wil l beclosed when you return to the desktop. leaving onlv the disk and/orvolume icons showing. This means the desktop wi l lbe redrawmore quickly. Also. if you hold down the option ke.v- and clickin the close box of ore windorr'. i t wil l close all windowscurrently open.

U.S. MapsThis is a MacDraw fi le I found in GEnie with a map of the

contiguous 48 United States. Each state is a polygon object. thatcan be pulled out from the other states and reshaped ifdesired by'

Picture Base in this category.

Charley Jackson and Silicon BeachCharley Jackson of Sil icon Beach Software visited

A.P.P.L.E. Coop's Users group in September, demoing threenew programs that wil l be released soon:. Apache Strike ($49.95). a game in which you fly a helicopterthrough the canyoned walls of a skyscraper fi l led city to destroya target. The 3-D animation and sound appeared very good,giving one the feeling. for instance, of real time banking to turndown a cross street.. In Beyond Dark Castle ($49.95). a sequel to Dark Castle,Prince Duncan must gather 5 magic orbs and then battle theBlack Knieht .

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ReadySetGoLetraSet has set up a customer support category on GEnie's

Macintosh Round Table (Category 6, Topic 3). You'l l also findsupport for 4th Dimension, Trapeze, MacMoney. Acta, and

. Super 3D ($295) and Super 3D Enhanced (for the Mac II,with color and 6888 I support, $495) are 3D drawing programs(not CAD/CAM) that allow you to draw 2 dimensional objectsand then create 3D objects from them. You can work with wireframe objects, solid objects and you can set l ight sources.Probably the most interesting aspect of the program for me wasthe animation capabil it ies. It appeared fairly easy to build fi les

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of objects and then have Super 3D play them back for you at auser defined speed. As a side note, an Apple color monitor wasused to demonstrate Super 3D Enhanced; this is the second timeI have seen it used; it sti l l gets a "wow" rating from me.Remember that these are not reviews of these programs. I didn'tget to run them; I just watched an expert demonstrate some oftheir features.

Charlie also said:. 2 meg is the minimum RAM for running color on a Mac II.. Sil icon Beach now has a patch for SuperPaint which allowsit to run on the Mac II. Also, Sil icon Beach is working on amajor enhancement of SuperPaint that wil l be out next vear.

HyperCard Notes. GEnie now has a category set aside on its Mac round table forHypercard. category 2 1.. This year's onslaught of interesting. powerful new Macproducts has had its down side for me. I haven't been able toafford them (At the top of my list is the Mac II). This may be oneof the most unsung aspects of HyperCard; it 's powerful, it 'sfascinating and it 's affordablel. Paul Snively. who wrore the review of HyperCard inAugust's MacA.P.P.L.E.. reports on GEnie's HyperCard roundtable category (Cat #21 ) that although HC needs 750K of RAMto work. it doesn't need any more. no matter how large the stackmav be.

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The Workstation WarsA lotof people are speculating about the competit ion the Mac

II may provide to workstation vendors l ike Apollo and Sun'It might seem that with identical 68020 microprocessors and

math co-processors, the Sun. Apollo. and Mac II machinesshould be at the same level of performance' so wh1' not just

choose the Mac?I would l ike nothing better than to see the Mac II be the

workstation of choice for an engineering environment. but I

think a lot has to happen to make this possible.Most Mac engineering or CAD software has developed from

more simple sources - drawing or i l lustration type applica-tions. These are very user-friendly but fall far short of thecapabil ity that is available with minicomputer or workstationsoftware.

On the other hand, the workstation software has been devel-

oped from a basis in mainframe or dedicated minicomputersottware. It includes: analysis. checking. American NationalStandards Institute (ANSI) documentation capabil ity' a database associated with components that allows extraction ofinformation (such as bil ls of materials. hole sizes and locations).and the abil ity to generate coordinate information. which allowsthe numerical control (NC) of machine operations l ike mill ing.

dr i l l ing, and cut t ing.There are programs that have been ported down to the

MSDOS world from mini systems like Computervision's Per-sonal Designer. These tend to be slow and not user-friendl,v.though they do include many of the features expected bydesigners.

There are also programs for the MSDOS and Macintoshworlds which are starting to include fuller functionality.OneMSDOS program, for example. is AutoCAD. which allows bil lof material extraction, and can be extended to include otherinformation. Another example is MGM Station. tbr the Macin-tosh, which provides NC machine control.

Two kinds of people are writ ing engineering software for theMacintosh. and they each have special problems'

The large, established engineering software vendors who arewriting workstation software really don't understand the world

of the Macintosh interface, and how to take full advantage of theavailabil ity of the Quickdraw toolbox.

On the other hand, people who have been writ ing other kindsof applications forthe Macintosh don't know the world of designdata bases and post-processing l inkages.

Given that s i tuat ion, who wi l l win? Wel l . an engineer ingorganization chooses the sofiware that wil l accomplish the taskat hand. So an engineer searching for software wil l almostalways choose the full-functioned workstation software - eventhough it takes months to learn. is far from intuit ive. and does not

oerlbrm as well as good Mac software should.' What wil l happEn? I believe there needs to be an all iance

between professional CAD vendors and Mac software systemdesigners so these two worlds can come together. Until thathappens, the Macll will have a hard time providing Sun andApol lo wi th much ser ious compet i t ion.

The Macintosh llI now have access to a Macintosh II to evaluate new CAD

software, and I am both thrilled and discouraged.To begin with, there is a lot of software which will not run

properly on the II, or makes it necessary to put the machine intointo monochrome (2 gray scale) mode in order to avoid seeingmultiple small images on the screen.

On the plus side, the Mac II 's screen size and responsivenessmake it a dream to work with, and the gray scale images are

TI he large, established engineering

software vendors who are writing work-station software really don't understandthe world of the Macintosh interface, andhow to take full advantage of the availa-bility of the Quickdraw toolbox.

0n the other hand, people who havebeen writing other kinds of applicationsfor the Macintosh don't know the worldof design data bases and post-process-ing linkages

superb. I don't have a color monitor yet but I have seen itperform, and it is absolutely great!

Back to the negative aspects - I have only one megabyte ofmemory and this animal really craves room to work in' Some ofthe demo software I have will not even bring up a blank screento work with.

A hardware note here: other people have said that when youincrease the number of bit planes (gray scale levels), you use upthe main RAM memory. This is a misleading statement, sincethe image memory for increasing gray scale levels is on the videocard (the optionai extended card memory).

However. there is an overhead of main RAM that is used asyou increase the number of gray scale levels you are using. Infact, if you try to run the tour disk on a one megabyte Mac II withthe gray scale set to 256, the dialog box will quickly tell you thatthere is not enough memory to operate. The tour softwareevidently switches to 256 gray scales since the images aredefinitely not 2 level images.

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TransLinkTransputer

Levco Comoration intro-duced Translink, a modular,parallel processing system thatputs the power of VAX 8600mainframe computer into aMacintosh SE or Macintosh IImlcrocomputer.

The Translink system con-sists of Translink boards for theMacintosh II or SE, a variety ofTransputer processor moduleswhich plug onto the Transl inkboards. and complete set ofsoftware development tools. Theproduct was jointly developedby Levco and MechanicalIntel l igence.

The heart of the Translinksystem is a high-speed, 32-bitparallel processor whichprovides ultra high-speedcommunication and synchro-nization. the key to effect iveparallel processing. With athroughput of l0 mil l ion in-struct ions per second (MIPS), asingle Transputer delivers theperformance of a mainframecomDuter.

Individual TransDuters aremounted upon credif card-sizedmodules which are then pluggedinto Translink cards. Thesecards then act as modularbuilding blocks, allowing theconstruction of large parallelprocessing systems. With 20-Mhz T-800 Transputers, forexamole. a Macintosh IIenhanced with Translink hasnearly the performance of asupercomputer with a through-put of 200-300 MIPS, comparedto 2.5 MIPS of the standardMacintosh II. For even greaterperformance. mult iple Macin-tosh II Transputer "hosts" maybe interconnected to form hugenetworks of thousands ofprocessors. Levco softwaredevelooment tools make trueparallel processing available,through the MacintoshProgrammer's Workshop(MWP), assembler and C lan-guages. In addition, Levco plansto supply the Occam languageby licensing a version of theInmos Development System.

Levco intends to aggres-sively pursue addit ional de-velopment environments, rn-cluding object-oriented full

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Common LISP. as well as oneor more Prologs. The companyis also interested in workingwith suppliers of Macintoshdevelopment environments andend user appl icat ions who wishto make their products compat-ible with the process model ofparal lel computing architecture.

A Translink starter kit forthe Macintosh II retai ls for$2.499.00 with the Transl inkstarter kit for the Macintosh SEat S l . t {99 .00 . The s taner k i tincludes a single Transputermodule ( 15 Mhz Transouterprocessor and 256K RAU), aTranslink card and the SoftwareToolkit . Individual Transputermodules are available from$ 1.299.00 to $3.,199.00.depending upon the module'sDrocessor clock soeed. on-boarditAM and option;l on-chipfloating point math co-processor.

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Viking 1: LargeScreen Monitor

The l0-inch Viking Imonitor features 1280 x 960-oixels with non-interlaced 66 Hziefresh rate for flicker-lreeviewing. Displaying over Imil l ion pixels. the Vikrng Icreates an image seven timeslarger than the standard Mac-intosh screen and displays areadable full page, or two facingpages.

The Viking I introducesseveral innovations in large-screen monitors for the Mac-intosh:. Three special desktop-pub-l ishing modes are avai lable. InExtend mode, the screen imageextend onto the Macintosh SE.allowing for a larger image to bedisplayed and to be vert ical lyscrol led on the Macintosh SE. InMagnify mode, the MacintoshSE provides two levels ofFatBits-style magnif icat ion otwhatever the cursor is pointrngto on the large screen, reducingthe need to change page sizeduring page layout. InWYSIWYG mode. the Mac-intosh SE displays the document

at exact orinted size. or canserve to display extra windows.. The Macintosh SE can bequickly disconnected and usedindependently without modif i-catlons.. A hardware screen-saverautomatical ly tums off theViking I screen after a se-lectable interval. This orotectsthe screen. avoids software

UPGRADES

MicroPhone 1.1Software Ventures Comora-

tion announces their first up-grade, MicroPhone l.l for thepopular telecommunicationsprogram for the Macintosh,

Version l . l - which is ful lycompatible with all Macintoshmodels including the new SEand Mac II - offers several keyimprovements. The programnow features substantialenhancements in VT100terminal emulation. includingsupport of stylistic attributes -bold. underline. blink. andreverse. These, together withMicroPhone's powerfulscripting capabilities, allow themost sophist icated communica-tions between the Macintoshand DEC computers.

Other key enhancements rn-cludes updates to the MacBi-nary standard dictated byApple's new system software,and increased screen soeed forwork with fast modems.

To address desktop pub-lishing needs. MicroPhone'spackage now includes Glue. theprogram from solutions, Inc.,GIue complements MicroPhoneby allowing users at differentsites to share and process textand graphics efficiently. Thebundle includes the ImageSaver,which lets users print files todisk. and the Viewer, which letsusers view and print fileswithout recourse to the originalprogram. As a special benefit,the bundle also includes theViewer desk accessory, a utilitynot commercially available.

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compatibi l i ty problems, andfrce s up the 2 l0K of memoryotherwise required to save thelarge-screen image.. The V ik ing I con t ro l le r i sdesigned to avoid processor waitstates. making screen updating207c faster than with thestandard Macintosh SE.

The Viking I fbr the Mac-intosh SE is priced at S1995.00,which includes plug-incontroller card. software,manual, and six-foot cable. NoMacintosh modifications arerequired. The monitor iscompatible with any SE-compatible system and Finder.Switcher (with animation andscreen-saving off), and theLevco Prodigy accelerator-boardseries. A Macintosh II card forthe Viking I wi l l be announcedin the near future.

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Giga CellMassMemorySubsystem

NuData. Inc.. introduces theGiga Cell Mass memory SCSIsubsystem for the MacintoshPlus, SE, and II . Avai lable tn250 Megabyte, 330 megabyte.and 660 Megabyte configura-t ions (a 1.2 Gigabyte model wi l lbe ava i lab le in la te '87) . theGiga Cell includes either a 40Megabyte 3M tape drive or a l0Megabyte Verbatim/Kodakremovable media drive.

The Giga Cell comes with afull complemcnt of memorvmanagement software, includingdefect mapping init ial izer.au tomal ic head park ing . p r in tc rspooler. part i t ioning. copyuti l i t ies. f i le organization. datacompression. and Omini backuPand restore liom any volume toany volume. comprehensivefolder and f i le trees. mult ipleselection cri teria. incrementalbackup, and t ime delayed autobackup.

The Giga Cell 's hardwarefeatures include a long lif-e DCfan, a thick aluminum scratchrcs is tan t heat s rnk ing case.

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Cricket DeviceDriver Collection

Cricket 's dcvice drivers al-low users to create both colorand black and white presentationgraphics on a wide varietv ofmed ia . o l fe r ing u \e rs c ( )mp lc lef lexibi l i t f in thc * 'av thev printtheir graphics.

These drir cr. and a hasir ' relof tbnts includcd r i i th them ri i l lo l ' fe r a l temr t i r es to Po. tSe r ip tp r rn t ing fo r users e lgcr to en jo rc le r r . a l t r re t i r e H i -Re: ou tpu tusing both color and black and*'hite der ices.

The tvpes of output devtcessupportcd includc:. Printers

Fi lm recordcrsFilm sen' ice bureauscrs

A wide variety of printerswil l be supported b1 Crickctsotiu'are. lnk Jet printers Bothco lo r and b lack and uh i tc ink je t

printers are supported by thenew drivers. Ink jet printers areexccl lent for producing crisPimages lbr making or"erhcadtransparencies. Among the inkjct printcrs to bc supportcd b1,Cricket are the He\r ' lett-PackardLaserJet I l . and OkiclataLaserl inc.

Thermal printers:Cr ie kc t d r i r c rs u i l l o l l i ' r

options for print ing on colortherrnal printcrs. an erccl lent* al ' for crcating transparcnclcsand overheads.

Fi lm recorders al lou l"ou tt ' rcrcate 3-5 nim. sl idcs fbrdramatic color presentations.Cr icke t d r ivers w i l l a l low vouaccess to sl ides rn vour \ \ 'onotf ice means that 1t 'ru can savemonet and mintnrizc tum-around t ime. The cvc le o fr ' rc l r l inu . p r in r i r rg . r tnd re r i r ings i l l n r t Iongcr be .1 dcr a . la l rnu .

Film service bureaus:For manl lears. orrning ancl

operating f i lm recordercqu ipmcnt i s incon len ien t o rimpossible. With arrangementsfrom companies l ike Autogra-

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A choice ol one Crickctc l r i vc r w i l l bc bund lcd w i th lu -ture Crickct product rclcases.Each user wil l be able to redeen.ta coupon in erchange for spccialf i rnts. cable. and driver. Anynumber of extra device driverscan bc purchascd latcr.

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1.2 of CricketGraph

Cricket Software announces:.rrt upgrld. ' to i l r adr lnect.graphing program fbr theN{acintosh. Cricket Graph. Thespeci l ic changes arc:

Largcr number of data i temssupported ( I 00 x 2700 cel l ilayout. sub.ject only tomcm0r) ' restnctl0ns.Abil i t l ' to insert and deleterows and co lumns.Support for data i tems up to3 I characters wide. good for

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long strings or f'loating pointnumbers.Columns can be widenedand narrowed.Go to command al lows easvaccess to any cel l .Data can be optional lyshif ted when blocks of cel lsare inserted.Co lumns arc g i ren spccr f iudata tbrmats: alphanumeric.numeric, decimal, scienti f iu.dol lars, percent.

. Numeric tbrmats specifynumber of decimals places.

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Release of 1.1Color Separations

Cricket Software announcesthat Version l . l of Cricket Drawwil l give users the abi l i ty tocreate color separations. Thisnew feature means that userswill be able to print separateimages from a Cricket Drawpicture, either for four-color(process) printing or lbr spotcolor print ing. This newcapabil i ty gives Cricket Drawusers the chance to createimages fbr separate overlays tbruse in creating. color plate..

Once users have assignedthe colors they want to objectsin the Cr ickc t Drau image. thc lcan create color scparations bvchoosing an option in the Printcommand. With Processseparations. the prrnter wi..make four pages for eachCricket Draw page, one each forblack, magenta, yel low. andcyan separations. For the Spotseparations option, a Page wil lbe printed fbr each colorspecif ied in the drawing(currently up to 8). With eachtype, registration marks will be

automatical l) ' insened. so thatthe color images can be properl l 'al igned.

lmporting EPSF FilesUsers wil l be able to import

f i les generated by i tself or otherprograms (such as AdobeIl lustrator) in the EPSF format.Having rmported an EPSFimage. users w i l l be ab le to.ca le . ro t l l c . t i l l . t ' r e ron r t . ju . tas the) can no$ do r i i th CricketDraw images.

Color SepsWith vers ion L l o f Cncket

Drau'. users can create eitherprocess or spot separations ofanv image. Lscrs do thrs b1 f irstassignin-e colors to an1 oblectsi n a C r i r k e t D r a u d r u * i n g .Thr ' r mur thcn pr in t the , 'h jcc t : .select ing either process t fourco lo r ) o r spo t lmu l t i -co lo r tseparations. Each colorseparation $ i l l pr int as aseparate page on thc laserprinter. u i th registrat ion marksinc ludcd to a l lo* a commerc ia lp r in te r to l l i gn thc rcpr l l s t i r rn r .

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the user to see the border ofthe printable area and thc^ , l a o n f t h p n r n p r

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Cricket PresentsCricket Sotiware introduced

Cricket Pre sents.. .a majorsotiware otfering in the Appledesktop presentation market.Cricket Presents... is dcsktoppresentation sofiw are thatpror ides Macintosh Computcrusers w,i th the abi l i t l to createh igh-que l i t r p re :en ta t ion : incolor and to reproducc them onr u ide r u r ie t r o l ou lpu l der i ce : .Crickct Presents... contbincs terthandling capabil i t ies and a set o1.dra* ing tools lbr use in thecre a t i0n o f hand-out matcna ls .reports. and presentationclocuments. Macintosh II usersu i l l be able to r icu documcntson-screen in ful l color. Al l usersri i l l benefi t f iom the u ide rangeot . tandard lnt l . frecial el ' lecttext formats. With CricketPresents . . . i t ' s eas) to cus tomlzc166f i ze . . l ) le . lnd co lo r fo rrndividual uords. The producta lso prov idcs jus t i f i ca t ion .tuhb ing . indenta t ton . marc . in . .and adranced tabl in-e capabil i -i l es .

Using an arrav ol MacDrawlikc tools. Cricket Pre-sents . . .users can eas i l l incor -porate rectangles. circles. l ines.gra tes (para l le l l i nes) . a r rows.and other useful shapes increation of graphs. charts. andtab les . A s imp le doub le c l i ck onan objects sets width. l ine st1' le.and color intensitr ' . Zoomrng.-erouping. and stacking optionsare also avai lable. Precisional ignment is made possible withthe ldd i t ion o f a lu l l .e t 01-rulers. grids. and guides.Scanned images and graph ic tcan be imponed from any'standard PICT format orgraphics program includingCricket Draw. Cricket Graph.Pict-O-Graph. MacPaint,MacDra*. and SuperPaint fbrcasy incorporation into CricketPresents...documents.

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Market Pro 2.0Pro Plus Soflware. Inc..

announce s the releasc of MarketPro 1.0 an enhanced version ofInvestment Management &Analvsis sotiware.Mar(et Pro allows the user tomanage their stock portfol lo.and perform both Technical andFundamental Analysis withinone Macintosh softwareprogram. Version 2.0 is ful lycompatible with the AppleMacintosh Systcms includingthe new Macintosh SE andMacintosh II computers. Productdescript ion:

The Market Pro PortfblioManager al lows the user to keepdetai led records of securit ies andl ran \ac t ion \ a : ue l l as o f l -e r ingten detai led portfol io reports.Accessing over 17,000 stocks,options. mutual funds and bondson the I.P. Sharp Data basemakes Market Pro a powerfulTcchnical Analysis Tool. l t canbe used to study securit ies on al lthe major L .S . and Canad ianExchanges. With thc Funda-mental Analysis port ion of theprogram. the user can accessover 100 f inancial facts on over12.(X)0 publicly ownedcompanics. The Prospcctorl'eature of the program allowsthe user to select investmentsthe same way mutual fund andprof'essional investmentmanagers make their select ions,i .e . . b1 'earch ing and screen ingsecurit ies based on specif ic rn-vestment cri terra. Featurcs ( l istFormat), Market Pro 2.0 hasthese Enhancements:. Dai ly - 2 years historical

(500 days) .. Weekly - 7l l2 years his-

torical (390 weeks).. M o n t h l v 7 l 1 2 y e a r s h i s -

torical (90 months).. S tochas t ie Trend s ludy .. Historical data and transac-

t ion f i les have variable dayal location.

. Allows addition of Facts andCompanies afier downloadin Fundamentals.

. New Categories added toPor t lb l io Manager : Mun ic -ipal. Govemment, MutualFunds, Money Funds, Checklog.

. Annual retum on investment(AROI) added to PortfblioManagcr reports.


. Pcrcentageofportf ir l iocolumn fbr securit ies, Plusmuch morc . . .

Price: 5495.00. Market Proproducts arc sold cxclusivcly'through Apple AuthorizedDealers.

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Data BaseManagementSystem

Nantucket CorporationMcMax is a relat ional data basemanagement systcm fbr thcApp le Mac in tosh 512E.Mac in tosh P lus . Mac in tosh XLand the ncw Macintosh SE andMacintosh II computers.

The packagc. which incluclcsa dBase-compatible program-ming language. uses the sameprogram and data f l lcs on boththe Mac and the PC. Fi les ma1be transfened using sirnplescrial connections and ct lmmunie l t i t rn : so f lu r rc . No reu r i t inuis ncccssary and rn fact. N{cMaxrunr dBASE rpp l i ca t ion . r r r i tten fbr the PC up to ten t imesf 'aster on thc Mac.

For users new to data basemanagcmcnl. McMax can beused in the Assist modc. Mac-intosh-specif ic f eaturesinc lud ing d ia log boxes . sc ro l lbars and pul l-down rlenus arepror i t le r l lo r euse o l -u re . L ' : in .cRcsourcc Ed i to r ( RES.EDIT) .users can create customized alertand f i lc boxcs. cursor icons anclcontext-scnsit i l 'c hclp screens. Abuil t- in debugger al lows users torun a program in onc windowwhile tracking commands rnanother. McMax also includes aful l- f 'eaturcd tcxt cditor to createprogram f i les up to the avai labledisk memorv.

Thc package includes Mc-Max Run. a runtime moduleu h r c h l r l l o \ s d \ c c u l i ( ) n ( ) fbusiness programs withouthaving to purchase mult iplecop ies o f McMax. As a rc ia -t ional data base managementsystem, McMax can crcate databases. rrranipulatc slructurcddata from mult iple l i les andproducc customized reports. Thcsvstem handles data base f i lesup to O3 megabytes and f i lesconfornr to thc structurc andtbrmat of dBASE f i les. Tenst:parate claia basc filcs can beopcn simultancously formerging of data from diff-erentf i les. In additron. report forrnsand labels created by McMaxare compatible with one another.

Each record is stored se-

quential ly with a f ixed recordlcngth. Rccords can be stored upto 32 ki lobytes and contain asmany as 2.000 f ields of up to255 alphanumeric characters or63 decimal numbers each.

McMax supports Microsoftsf irrmat. thus al lowing thctransf 'er of data to Microsol iWord. Microsoti Fi lc and Exccl.I t can also exchange data withother popular Macintoshapplicatrons through thc usc o1'local comnrands that supportseveral dif ferent ASCII f i let ) pcs .

The non copr'-protectedprograms hardw are require-rncnts includc a MacintoshI e m i l r r ' o m p u t e r u i t h r m i n i -mum of 512 k i lobv tes o f ran-dom access memorv and a hardd isk d r ive or dua l f loppr dnves .I t i s conrpat ib lc u r th App lcImugcWrr tc r l rnJ L r rc r \A ' r i le rp r in te rs . Cus tomer Techn ica lsupport lor \ ' lcMar includes .10d u r . o l ' l r c e . u n l r r r r i t e d t e l e -phonc support. after which usersmav purchase l l months o funi imited support for S99. Thccconomrcal support progranralso includes access tcl theNantuckc t Pr iva tc Nc tuork onthc source ancl a subscript ion tcrNantucket News. a quarterlytechnical new sletter.

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CacheCardLevco Corporation intro-

duces thc Cer 'hcCr rJ . r p lug- inaccelerator board for thcMac in tosh SE. r ih ich doub lesthe computers speed and per-lormance b1, ac'lding a tast 6,1KRAM cache. a l6-Mhz 68i100processor. an on-board crpan-sion port and an optional l6-Mhz 68881 math co-processor .

Whilc thc CachcCard canI t t r ihu te \ ( )me r ) l i1 . per lo r -mance simplr to the doublin_u of-the 6t i000 clock speed. asignif icant boost corres trom the6'1K hardware cache that storcsthe instruct ions and data mostl requcr r t l l uscd hr the cpu.Cachecl instruct ions and data canbe fed direct ly to theCachcCard's 6l i(XX) processor ata signif icantl l faster rate than i fthe Levco board had to accessthe standard. slower Mothcr-boarcl. Similar in design to theothcr accelerator boardsproduccd b1' Lcvct 'r . the cachebuil t in to the 68000 processorma1 he l r l cked l r ) n rc \e r \c i l \con tcn t r | t thc r th rn a l lou ing thcboard's control l ing sotiware toal hreate inl 'ormation rccesr.

ln addit ion. the CacheCardwas engineered with luturecompatibi l i ty in mind. I t f 'ea-tures an on-board expansion busthat reproduces the MacintoshSE erpan: ion $us in qon junet ionwi th Levco 's op t rona l BT (BusTranste r) card. This al lows theCacheCard to be used inconjunction with a varicty ofother Macintosh SE boards.including large screen videocards.

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G0 for theMacintosh

lnf ini t l ' Sofiware. Inc..announces the release of GO fbrthc l \{acintosh. the legendan'game ol strateg)' trom theOrre nt. I t plavs at the l8 k_v"ule r"el. lnvented in China somc-1000 r'ears ago. the rules of goarc surpnsinglv easr to leam.\el the strategic combinationson the board are almostun l im i ted . Bas ica l l y . the ob jec tof the game is to conquertcrr i tor l bl surroundin-t andcapturine stones.

GO fbr the Macintosh rs atuo-p laver game. des isned to le tusers plav matches against thecomputer as ue l l as o therplavers via modem or a direct lvconnected cable. Users canadjust the game's parameterslnd thcrchr e l rc r thc e ompulc r \personali t) 'and i ts response tcrdif i -crcnt board situations. Thereis an option to pla) \ \ ' i thhandicapped stones fbr eitherthc p la rc r o r thc (omputer ,

GO fbr the Macintosh also*orks beaut i fu l l l ' on a la rgc-screen Macintosh and of ' tersusers a board size that is - j by 3eame po in ts up to l9 bv l9points. Users can annotategames and save the moves alongwith thc datc and trmc appcndedtot he f i le name and can alsoreplav famous games from theJapanese master. The programt'eatures -lD stones and thedigit ized sound of stones beingplaced on the board.

GO tbr the Macintosh comeswith an interactive hypertexttutorial on disk. created withCIUIDE. an intcractivc graphicsand document system by OwlInternational. The on-l inetutorial offcrs problem scts andexamples. teaching the funda-mentals of GO fbr the Macrn-tosh to beginners throughintermediate players.

Go 1br the Macintosh runson a l l Macs . c i thc r w i th a s ing leU00K disk or two.l(X)K disks fbr

the Macintosh -5 l2K. Price:$39.95

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MacSQZS1 mantec Corporation in-

troduce. MacSQZl for Mi-crosoft Excel. MacSQZ!, aMacintosh version of thecompany's popular SQZ! datacompression program for LotusI - l - .1 . i : an add-on app l ica t ionfirr Microsoft Excel. MacSQZ!compressed Mrcrosoft Excelfiles up to 9-57r and offersnumerous ut i l i t ies and featuresthat increase the functional i ty ofthe Microsofi Excel program.

In addit ion to compressingMicrosoft Excel spreadsheets,MacSQZl enables users to as-sign a password to a worksheet.keep genealogical record ofchanges made to a worksheet.and easrly back up spreadsheetf i les. By, compressing data,MacSQZI reduces the amount ofdisk space requircd to save andstore spreadsheet f l les. Theprogram thereby provides afaster and less expensive way to\cnd da t i r o \ e r thc phone l ine :and reduces the need fbraddit ional f loppy disks. Thecompression and dccompressronprocess is transparent to the userand does not interf'ere with otherMacintosh accessories orprograms that reside in thecomputer's memory.

MacSQZl 's back up u t i l i t y i sdesigned to quickly and easi lyback up and restore MicrosoftExcel spreadsheets. I t al low,s theuser to compress or decompressmult iple f i les simultaneously.The program also contains acustomization f'eature whichallows users to preset programoptions and customize thedcfault sett ings so that they arepersonally configured when theuser runs the program.

MacSQZl genealogical fea-ture keeps an historical record ofspreadsheet changes, al lows theuser l() see the size of the f i les,and determines which files arel inked together.

MacSQZl requires a Macin-tosh -5 l2K. -5 l2K Enhanced.Mac P lu : , Mac SE, o r Muc in-tosh II . The progrrm occupies30K when resident and will runwith al l versions of MicrosoftExcel. The stanup disk mustcontain Systcm File 3.0 orabove. Price: $79.95.

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lnnerdrive 90/lllnternal Disk

The ncw Jasminc 90-rnegabyte lnner Drive 90,{1. isdesignecl lbr use with MacintoshIl computers. Pricc ol ' thelnnerDrive 90/l l is $ 1.,199.(X).

The h igh spccd lnncrDr i r c90 f l lboas ts a 16 mi l l i secondaccess t ime and includesmounting brackets. cables. ancjother hardware tbr easl'instal lat ion requir ing no specialIoo ls o r expcr t l sc . I t conres w i thnine megabytes of publ icdonrain softwarc.. sharcwareand backup soflwarc. one-vearful l warrann,and a 30-davmoney back guarantcc.

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DiskTop 3.0CE software announce)

DiskTop version 3.0.a. DiskTopis a dcsk accessor) that has beendescribed as a portable Finder.Disk fop 3.0 arr ived closel l onthe heels of versron 2.0 due tc'rthe degree and intensity of cus-tomcr-rcqucstcd f 'eaturcs. Highon the request l ist. the Findcornmand is now thc mostpoiverl 'ul on thc Macinlosh.Other new f 'eatures include ac-t ivat ing Disklbp with akeystroke. running al l f i les bydouble-cl icking. normal/tcchn ica l user leve ls , spcc ia l"Get intb" comments that aren'tlos t whcn the desk top is rcbu i l t .and morc command-keyequivalents. j

LaserSlatus and Wrdgets. thcbonus programs included in thepackage. have also beenimprovcd. Thc desk acccssorvLaserStatus monitors Laser-Wr i te r ac t i v i t y as we l l asrcsctt ing. downloading lonts orPos tScr ip t l i l e : rnd dr rp la r ingmiscc l lanc , . ru : LaserWr i l c rintbrmation. The applicationWidgets contains a potpourl ofu t i l i t i es tha t inc ludc the ab i l i t i 'to print thumbnail catalogs ofparnt f i lcs ( I 6 per page at 300dpi.) on a LaserWritcr. convertPICT f i les to paint f i les, convenfindcr commcnts to DrskTopcomments. and create customstarl-up screens and much more.

DiskTop 3.0 is compatiblcw i th Mac -5 l2K. P lus . SE. o rMac I I . Pr icc : $49.95 . l t i s no tcopy-protected. and is avai lablethrough dealers nationwide ord i rcc r ly l rom CE S( ) l ' t \ i l r c .Order L Ine (800) 523-768u.techn ica l suppor t number (515 )221- t99s .

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MacTellBi r : r ' l i r rc . lhc o r r l in r ' c r r -

tc r te inmcn l in l i r rm l l ron \c r \ i r ' c .announccs thc ava i lab i l i t r - s l 'MacTe l l . MacTe l l g ives usersaccess to more thirn 6.(X) Minitelscn ' rccs ava i lab le a round thcwor ld . as we l l as thc usua l LJ .S .,\SCll scrr iccs. N4acl 'cl l hasmin i tc l cnru la t ion ara i lab lc l i r rthe Un i ted Sta tes .

Well docurnentc-d and caslto use. N' lacTell is an al l purposecommunications packaue u,i thnumcrous ou ts tandrng tca turcs .It has a powerful script lanluagewi th a learn ing mode wh ichmakcs rt possiblc to autonratccornpl icated procedures rnorecas i l r than u i th rnos t o therL i l I l l l l l U n l L i . t l l O n : n l O : ' f i t l l l .

N'lacTel I also rncludescomplctc colr lnunicatrolrs sct-t ings capab i l i t ies . A l l thestandarc'l l'i Ic transl'cr prolocol sare a ' " a i l i i b le . MacTc l l ' s Min i tc le r n u l l t i o n r n t r d c o l l e r . , t n l i n egraphics.. The- l i lc- scn r-r.unique to MacTell . makes theuser's \ ' lacintosh accessible br 'al l kinds of conrputcrs andperr.nits users to \et up rnd run ar r in i bu l le t in board . Ca l le rs candownload or upload l ' i lcs. rcadmessages. send ntessages. andrcv icu o thers comrncnts .MacTe l l hos ts c labora te t i l cl r r n . t e r t e p e h t l r t r e s . N l a t h i r r l r ' 1 .X rnodcr.n and Y rnodcm. permitthe transf 'er of t ' i les individual lro r rn h lock . u i th c r ro r e hce k iq l l .Incorning tcxt can bc savcd tof i les in MacWrite. \ l icrosoftWord. or an1' othcr uscr-specif ied format.

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SuitcaseSoftwarc Supplv int rodut :cs

Sui tcase lbr the Macintosh atMacWorld F-rposi t ion inBos ton . Su i t case i s a u t i l i t v t ha tal lows desk accessor ies andt i rnts to bc alwal 's avar lablcwi thout requir ing that they beinstal led into the Systerrr f i le . I tu l r r ' . l i c . J \ \ l l \ \ \ i t l r t h e l i r r r i t , r nthe number of avai lable deskacccssoncs.

Sui lcasc runs on al l rnodclsof the Macintosh which have5 l2K o r mo rc o f RAM. Abou t.1K of Sr-r i tcase code is insta l ledinto RAM when the Macintoshstar ts up. Sui tcasc is compat ib lcw i t h t he new Mu l t i F i nde rsystem that Apple int roduccd atthc show. Thc prograrr rcta i lsfbr S-59.9-5: i t is not copy-pro-

Minicad Standard Fealures.9 decrma precsron (1 000000000). Center L/nes Dashed Ines. & more. Draw by Tools or Dala Entry Eores. Un rmi led Us€rDel ned S€l€s. Drsplay & Type Coord natss,. Un m led Zoom ng. Tota 2Dr3O Integratron. R€ad & Wnle P ci Fl les. 40 Coror & Acetale Laye6

N6w Foalures on 3.0, Advanced automatrc al€nme.1. Mult ip lo wrndow / Mult ip le documenl. Symbo odilor wnh search & 'e0 ace. Pr6s€t Archrtectural Scales. Texl rc lales al 90' incremenis. . + . D e t a c h t 6 x t t r o m d i m € n s o n n e s

H ' A d v a n c o d A u l o _ D m o n s o n n g w l hBtnass l ln€s

l- .66 Fi i l & Psn Patterns.32 edtab€

>€( .AuloSciol l. User 'Del ined Snap & V sua Grd. Degrees mrnul€s seconds rolato.. Doub e I ne too Pertecl ior Arch lec. L ne segmenl Tnm loo. And our exc us ve Po lygoq C l PPe l


beg inn ing in No ' ,ember l . 1987.RAMSnap is a combina t ionRAMdisk and d isk cachc u t i l i t vt le : i cned l ( ) in r f r r ) \ e p roce . i ingpowcr and rnaxinrizc pcrl irr-nrance. RAM start. publrcd ' ) m u i l l \ { ) l l u i t r e . u e r p r e r i -ously rncludcd r. i ' i th MacSnapproducts. A RAMSnap upgradepath lor curre nt RAMStartouners w i l l be ava i lab le th roughD O V E t o r \ 1 , ) . q 5 . I n r d d i t i o n .Dovc rnnour.rces a pricereduction on RAMSnap as astand alone product. Furmerltp r iccd a t 559.9-5 . RAMSnap w i l lnow retai l fbr 529.00.

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WorkPlusCommand

Lundccn & Associatcs rsintroducing WorksPlus Conr-mancl, a rlacro package 1'or uscwith Microsol ' t Works on theApple Macintosh. Commandwi l l a l low thc user t0 acco ln -p l i sh a n ru l t i tude o f tasks w i thgreat ease and ski l l . Like i tss is tc r p roduc t . WorksPlus Spc l l .Cor rmand ins ta l l s d i rec t l y on tothc Microsol ' t Works diskadcl ing menu i tcms and

e@

MiniCad

tectecl. End users unable to, rh te in thc p r t rdLr . t l ronr thc i r 'rctai lcr can order dircct l ' rom thcpub l isher a t (800) .1 -13-0 100. ex t ," + 5 1 .

Thc uscr ci ln dcsignale a setof suitcase l ' i les that wi l l bel ru t ( )mat i (a l l \ opcn\ ' J \ ' \ \ ' r \ l i l i l cthe Mac starts up. Suitcase alsoincludes i ts ovn'n DA. lr 'hich isuscd to opcn and/ or closesuitcase f i les any t ime afterstartup. cxccpt whcn Switche-r.Scrn' irnt. or Mult iFinder isrunn ing .

Thc DA inc ludcd w i th Su i t -cu \c i l l \ ( ) p ror ide : i rn a l le r t t i i l i r einlcr l 'er 'e l i rr trpan1"" ntnatDA's . " l t can bc t i resornc tochoose a DA that is at thebot tom o l 'an u l t ra - long 'App lc '

n renu. " Brecher exp la ins ."Suitcase lets the user open DAb1 ' us ing a l i s t w i th a sc ro l l bar .or by,- tl,ping the first t'eucharacters of i ts name andp r c . . i n g R c l u r t t . i r s u e l l r s i t tthe usuu l r . l u r o l thoor i r tg i tfronr the menu.

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RAMSnapDor c ( -ontpulcr ( -oTprrnt l ion

w i l l i n c l ude RAMSnap w i t h a l lMacSnap mern0r) products

Diehl Graphsoft Inc.8370 Court Ave, Sui te 202E l l i co t t C i t y , MD 21043 301 -461 -9488

The Only True CAOO systemdeveloped exclusively lor the Macintosh!


Welcome to the New MacA.P.P.L.E.!

lf you've followed MacA.P.P.L.E since our beginning inthe fall of 1984, you've seen some pretty major changes.In our first incarnation we were published by theA.P.P.L.E. Coop's Lisa/Macintosh SlG. Our name was"32 little apples." Our copy was printed out on anlmageWriter, and we had a black and white, 16 pagenewsletler with no ads.

By March of 1985 we had become MacA.P.P.L.E.magazine - a real leap forward, with glossy stock, full colorcover, and high quality production values supported by adsales.

You have in your hands the next step in the evolution ofMacA.P.P.L.E. A clean, elegant design. Professionaleditorial standards. Consistent and extensive use ofgraphics throughout..

We wil l continue to publish MacA.P.P.L.E. from thepoint of view of the individual user. We will carry tough,critical reviews. Helpful tutorials. Provocative commentar-ies and editorials. Interviews with major figures in theMacintosh world.

And we will never foroet where we came from

becoming part of the program.Command can be used with orw i thout Spc l l .

Corrmand adds many usefulteatures to Works. For example.i t w i l l p r in t mu l t i -co lumn labe lslorm r Drlu brse rnd automati-cal ly generate table of contentsand indexes for Word Process-ing documents. I t wi l l alsctperform global search andreplace in Data Basc andSpreadsheet documents. andmuch more . . .

For professionals. such aslau'vers. and doctors. Commandcan be used to help log dai lvtelephone cal ls and au-tomatical lv char-ue the appro-priatc clrent. No more won-dering where a telephone cal lshould be charged or how mucht rme to b i l l . Command w i l l: i m p l i l l h r l l i n g h r a l l o u i n g t h euser to creatc a macro to do thewhole job. In addit ion to ne*'Works lcaturcs and record/play'back. Command includes atul l programmin-e language forextending and customizingWorks. I t al lows ful l access toal l Works documents. andcomes with a dialog editor lbrder e lop ing pou er fu l u .e r in -terface. The programmin,u en-v i ronmcnt has over 100 bu i l t - inI 'unc t ions fo r :on ing . .e r rch ing .parsing. and manipulat ineinformation.

WorksPlus Command re-quires Microsoft Works and aMacintosh Plus. SE or Mac ILCommand i.rr l l bc avai lablethrough dealers or can be or-i - . - i i ; . - ^ r 1 . , + . ^ - .

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Data InterruptEliminators forModems

Data Spec Corporatron an-nounLc\ Data In tenupt E l im i -nators lor modems. The DataIn te r rup t E l im ina tor . a re der i cesthat prevent accidental loss ofdata in a situation when modemsand telephones are used on the: lme l ine . When the :e dev icesare in place. any extensionprcked up while the modcm (orphone) is in used is disable.

One el iminator is needed foreach telephone or modemsharing the same l ine. Operatingl ike a switch. thc Data intcrruptEl iminators send signals to theother El iminators to electronr-cal ly tum off any instrument onthe line. except the first one tobe used.

In addit ion to protecting

modem data from interruptions,these devices also have anotherleaturc. 1'hcy can bc uscd as aprivacy dcvicc. Whcn onctelephone extension is pickedup. al l other extensions arcdisabled. The data protectiondevices are avai lable in fourdif ferent confi gurations: ModelMP600 is a stand alone in-lineunit; Model MP620 is a standardsurface-mounted modular ver-sion: Model MP630 replaces thestandard telephone modularwallplatet and Model MP640 isused for a wall-mounted phone(such as a kitchen phone).Prices:

$9.9-5 Model MP600.$10.0-5 Mode lMP620.$ 13.9-5 Model MP630.$ I 1.9-5 Model MP640.

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PageMakerPortfolio

Aldus Corporation an-nounces the release of Page-Maker Portfol io: Designs forBusiness Communications, apackage of l [3 Templates de-si-encd to hclp PageMakcr usersproduce professional businessdocuments.

Designs for BusinessCommunications comes withpredesigned page formats forproposals, memos, overheadtransparencies. reports, hand-books. and business plans. Thedisks are accompanied by a 148-page instruct ion book explaininghow people can incorporate theirtext. charts, and other graphicsinto any one of the templates.PageMaker Portfol io: Designsfbr Business Communicatrons rsavai lable for the Macintosh andPC to run on r l l Postscript-compatible output devices. Avcrsion for PCL-compatibleprinters wil l avai lable in lateOctober. Pricc: $99.00

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