Washington Apple Pi Journal, October 1987
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$ 250 Wa/hington Apple Pi The Journal of Washington8 Apple Pi, Ltd. Volume. 9 Ovtober 1987 numberlO Hiahliahtl • I Love Apple Music: Part 5 '* Apple II News and Notes '* Ramup: A Review I2J Reports from Boston MacWorld Expo [!g) Softviews: Passage Review (g Hard Disk Tips In TI1is Issue.. ".. Officers & Staff, Editorial ............. .......................... ..... 3 The Guild of Thieves (Mac): A Review ......... John Zerolis 40 "" President's Comer ..................................... Tom Warrick 4 The Guild of Thieves (Apple): A Review ... K. C. Mulcahy 41 Apple Teas................................................................. 6 Earth Orbit Stations: A Review ................... Ian Soboroff 41 Classifieds, Commercial Classifieds, Job Mart .................. 7 Lurking Horror & Stationfall: 2 Rev ...... Charles Don Hall 42 Minutes, Event Queue, General Information..................... 8 Questbusters Cartography Sys: A Review ..... Philip Greco 44 WAP Calendar, SIG News ...... ........ .......... ............ ........ 9 dPub SIG News ....................................... Steven Payne 45 WAP Hotline ............................................................. 10 Volunteer Profiles ................................. Robert C. Platt 45 Meeting Report - August 22 ...................... Steven Payne 12 Graphic Alerts ............................................... Jay Rohr 46 On the Trail of the Apple III ..................... David Ottalini 14 SIG for Arts and Video ................................................ 47 Q & A ........................ Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field 16 MacNovice: Beware the Trash .............. Ralph J. Begleiter 48 Apple IIOS SIG News .................................. David Todd 18 What's It Like at Boston MacExpo? ............. Chuck Sicard 50 Music SIG News ................................. Raymond Hobbs 18 The "Smell" of MacExpo ......................... Martin Milrod 52 Program Interface (PI SIG) News ............... Robert Golden 18 Excelling on Your Mac: Part 15 .......... David Morganstein 53 IIOS Stuff ................................................... Ted Meyer 19 FedSIG Comer ...................................... Steve Crawford 54 I Love Apple Music: Part 5 ....................... Gary Hayman 20 Softviews ....................................... David Morganstein 56 Apple II News and Notes ........................ Walt Mossberg 24 Macintosh Bits and Bytes ....................... Lynn R. Trusal 60 Plus Works + AppleWorks on the ][+: Pt 2 ... Boris Levine 27 Book Reviews ...................................... Robert C. Platt 62 Letter to the Editor .................................... Neal Bozarth 28 Hard Disk Tips ........................................... Fred Seelig 64 Create a Calendar: A Review .............. Steven A. Muchow 28 Musements ................................................ Fred Seelig 66 The Associate Producer: A Review ............... Bob Oringel 29 Letter to the Editor ........................... Corey Zimmerman 69 Apple Writer 2.0 Hacker's Patch ............. Chester H. Page 30 Best of the Mac Items from TCS ................ Bill Baldridge 70 Ramup: A Review ..................................... Chuck Ward 30 HyperCard SIG ..................................... Robert C. Platt 76 Frederick Apple Core ................................................... 31 Fall W AP Tutorials ............................... Robert C. Platt 77 Take the Plunge! .................................. Leon H. Raesly 32 Mac Disketeria News ......... Marty Milrod & Dave Weikert 78 Best of the Apple Items from TCS ........ Euclid Coukouma 34 Last Minute Alerts ......................................... Jay Rohr 81 WAP Acrostic .................................... Dana J. Schwartz 37 IIOS Disketeria News ................................... 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Teachers from various schools in the Wash ington metropolitan area will start the morning meeting with insight gained from computer operations at their respective schools. Topics will include diverse usages for both Apple II and Macintosh computers. in schools as well as at home. Following the speakers. there will be displays of educational software from a variety of vendors. including Mindscape and Bmderbund. This will be a hands-on time for partiCipants to ClintonComputer'sNew Storeat12204RockviUePike see for themselves the capabilities of the The company also operates a huge 3600-square-foot difTerent software programs. service and repair faclllty in Clinton. with satelllle repair shops at the Laurel. Vienna. Rockville and Alexandria stores. Clinton Computer was founded In 1978 by co-owners Art Lundquist and Chuck Perilll. 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