Washington Apple Pi Journal, May 1987
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$ 250 Wa/hington Apple Pi The Journal of Washington8 Apple Pi, Ltd. Volume.. 9 ma~ 1987 number 5 Hiahliahtl • Apple II News and Notes . • PCPI Z80 Card & WordStar Pro: A Review • (9 XFER. Help (leS Upload/Download) .~ AppleWorld '87-A Special Report: Part II ~ Tips and Graphics 9 1987 Spring Developers Conference (pgs 71 -72) u In This Issue... Music SIG News ....... .......................... Raymond Hobbs 35 '" Best of the Apple Items from TCS ............... Lou Pastura 36 XFERHelp .. ........................ ............... Leon H. Raesly 40 You Be the Judge ........ .............................. Harvey Kaye 44 Intellectual Property Rights ................. Joseph A. Hasson 45 Twilight Clone Group Purchase Offer ............................. 47 AppleWorld '87-A Special Report: Part II .. Tom Warrick 48 Tips & Graphics: Simple to Sublime ...... .......... Jay Rohr 52 Imagewriter Print-Fading Problem .......... .. Richard J. Byrd 56 Faster Printing with the Imagewriter II .. ...... John J. Boren 56 dPub SIG News ......................... .............. Steven Payne 57 A Power User Primer ............ ...................... Fred Seelig 58 MacNovice: "The Slow Boat" .... ......... Ralph J. Begleiter 60 Frederick Apple Core ................................................... 62 Macintosh Bits and Bytes ............ ........... Lynn R Trusal62 Intel Versus Motorola Microprocessor ... .... Lynn R Trusal65 You Be the Judge: The Decision .................................... 66 Excelling on Your Mac: Part 12 ......... David Morganstein 67 Review Corner ............ ......... .......... .... James M. Burger 69 View from the Hill ................ ................... Rich Norling 71 Developer's View ...... .... .................... ......... Jim Lanford 72 Musements ... .................... .................... .. ... Fred Seelig 73 Best of Mac Items from TCS ... ...... .. ... .. ..... Bill Baldridge 76 Book Reviews ....... ............................ ... Robert C. Platt 82 Mac Disketeria Notes ....... .. Marty Milrod & Dave Weikert 83 W AP Tutorials ......... .... ................ ........ Robert C. Platt 85 Tutorial Regis., Advertisers & Authors, Disketeria ...... 86, 87 TPI 861-T TEMPEST Certified IBM A TTM COInpatible • Runs all major IBM PC, XT, AT software Options include: • Multi-user XENIX™ • Multi-user UNIXTM • 3 MB expansion memory (total 4 MB) • 20 MB to 144 MB removable hard disk drive • RGB high resolution color monitor • 4 port I/O • 60 MB tape cartridge back-up • 220 V/50 Hz power ApM is a registered trademark of International Business Machine Corporation XENIXTM is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation UNIXTM is a registered trademark of AT&T Information Systems TP1861·T _ IIIIII11111111111111 I ~ Products Incorporated 105-8 Carpenter Drive Sterling, VA 22170 (703) 471-6960 Clinton Computar Clinton Computer Your #1 Apple Dealer! 8032 Leesburg Pike. Vienna. VA (703)442-3800 .. _ .. 6443 Old Alex. Feny Rd. Clinton. MIY(3O 1)856·2500 277 S. Washington St. Alexandria. VA (703)838·9700 .. _ .. 9636 Ft. Meade Rd. Laurel. MD (301)953·1110 or (30 1)792·0600 ~"._~i.p.. .. 12204HoclMllePike.RoclMlle.MD (301)881·2810" Clinton Computer - A Full-Service Dealership! Five Stores Cover Metro Area New Macintosh SE Clinton Opening Fifth Store - in Rockville Expandable and Flexible -- the brand new Clinton Computer. one of the Metro area's largest Apple® MacintoshTM SE! retail computer dealers. now has five stores -- in Clinton. RockvUle and Laurel. MD. and in Vienna and Alexandria. VA We are authorized dealers for Apple™ microcomputers at all five locations. .~-------' In addition. our Clinton and Alexandria stores are authorized IBMTM Personal Computer dealer i MaGintosh ships. We also sell printers. monitors. software. ,I """"SE'".~~: . supplies. and service for the products we sell. , Clinton Computer was founded in 1978 by co owners Art Lundquist and Chuck Perilli. It began as a two-man consulting firm on the fourth floor of an \......-Jrnce building and grew into a $20-mUlion-dollar retail businesswith over 100 employees. The first retail store was in CHnton. MD. behind a shoe store. Then the company moved to a shopping center fronting on Branch Avenue in Clinton in 1982. In 1984. Clinton Computer expanded by opening a retail Business Center in Old Town It comes fully-equipped with two internal disk Alexandria. drives. You get an 800K disk drive and either a The Laurel. MD. store opened in 1986 when we second internal 800K drive or an internal 20MB acquired the assets of the Comm Center. The Vienna Hard Disk. store was opened in November. 1986 in the highly Plus. a built-in expansion slot allows you to competitive Tyson's Comer area at 8032 Leesburg customize a system with a variety of cards to meet PIke (Rt. 7 West). ThIs is an "Apple Only" store. your needs. canying Apple products and third party products What's more, since the Macintosh SE is a that complement the Apple line. The Rockville Macintosh, it's easy to use and learn. Besides that, it store, located on Rockv1lle Pike. Just north of can run the large software library that has made the Montrose Road. is opening in early April. Macintosh a standard for business applications like The company also operates a huge 3600-square desktop publishing, gnlphics. desktop communI foot service and repair facility in Clinton. with cations, word processing, databases and spread satellite repair shops at the Laurel. Vienna. sheets. Rockville and Alexandria Stores. Come in for a hands-on demonstration! D1SCOU;\, POLICY FOR WASHI~GTO~ APPLE PI MEMBERS Free Seminars!! CLINTON COMPUTER offers Washington Apple PI members a 25% DISCOUNT OFF TilE LIST PRICE on all non·allocated Apl'le Free Desktop Publishing Seminars are oITered at brand peripherals (no CPU·s). software and ApplcCare. I'or our Alexandria and Laurel Stores. Call Alyce upgrades. the 25% discount applies to both the parts and normal Neukirk at 838-9700 to register for upcoming labor rate. Discount Is avaHable to persons who havc been Pi members for at least 3 months. Discount cannot be applif.:d seSSions. (!troacUvcly. PI members need to present their cards up·front. No '-tJhone or mall orders, please. Discount cannot tie used In This ad wa.~ produced on a Maclnlosh and La...erWliter, using combination with othcr promotions. Products on allocation from MacWlite and Aldus Page·Maker. Apple, the Apple logo, and Apple are excluded from this offer. Clinton Computer reserves the LaserWliter arc registered trademw'ks of Apple Computer, Inc. righ t to change this policy atany time. Maclnloslt is a trademark of Apple Computer,lnc. Washington Apple Pi - May 1987 Family Computer Center 6691 Backlick Road Springfield VA (703) 866-9122 11917L Fair Oaks Mall Faiifax VA (703) 385-2758 An Authorized Apple Dealer Microsoft Works It brings a powerful new idea Multi-Megabyte Storage to computers. Common Sense. for the Macintosh Plus & Microsoft Works is the complete business Apple IIGS package for your Macintosh. Works features Introduce your Macintosh or Apple IIGS several powerful data-crunching applications to the fastest mass storage devices including a spreadsheet for qUlck numerical available ... hard disk drives featuring analysis; a database for those instances when SCSI interfaces. These hard disk drives you want to see developing trends and emerging attach to the appropriate port on your markets; a word processor for jotting down Macintosh Plus or IIGS (except for the quick memos to fellow workers or even a multi Hyperdrive 20's & 2000's wnich work page report; and an easy-to-use communication WIth the Macintosh only.) pac~age that m.akes tying into information servIces even eaSIer. Hyperdrive FX-20 $1049 r-, And there's even another reason why Dataframe 20 HD $ 949 Microsoft Works is the software package for Hyperdrive 2000 $2490 your Macintosh. It's all integrated. Which Macbottom SCSI $ 990 means that you can move from any part of the program to another part. Play with some Hyperdrive 20 $1390 numbers on the spreadsheet, then transfer them instantly to the word processor. Or get some Apple HD 20SC In Stock facts from any information service using the built-in communication software and move them immediately to the database. WordPerfect for the Apple When was the last time a best seller Ilc & the Apple lie .............. made you money. Well, there's always a first. Microsoft Works. Now that you have an Apple, fill it up with premium software like WordPerfect. New version now includes a 50,000 word Retail List Price ........ $295 spell checker, mail-merge, macros, and WAP SpeciaL..........$235 footnotes. Suggested Retail Price $179.00 Mouse Pads .................... $4.95 WAP Special $139.00 Imagewriter IIII Ribbons ..... $4.99 by Oteckrnate Family Computer Center olTers a 10% discount off our r~gular price to all Pi members on software and supplies. Pi members must prescnt card to Get these special prices at our Springfield location only. qualify for discount. 1% additional charge for credit card or persoOllI Must present Pi membership card for special price. checks. 2 Washington Apple Pi - May 1987 IOFFICERS & STAFF .... Use the Hotline for Technical Questions Board of Directors ~Ie Disks contd. - John Gersic, John BeIl, Bob Platt President - Tom Warrick 301 656-6649 c Disk Copiers - Dave Weikert 8~ 926M61 Vice Pres.~ple - Bruce Field 301 340-7038 - Dave Benbennick, John e arco, Vice Pres- c - Jal, HeIler 301 948·7440 - G~ Elliott, Ben Frank, Andy Gallant, '-' Treasurer - E ward M~rson 703 759-5479 - John GertschRG~