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September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 1 Table of Contents Volume 16 September 1994 Number 9
Club News Switching from Newton Connection Kit 1.0 to 2.0 ...... 29 WAP Hotline ...... 35, 38 LaserWriter Tips ...... 30 WAP Calendar ...... 36, 37 by Kel Humphreys Index to Advertisers ...... 24 Networks-Through Thick and TCS Help Sheet ...... 39 Thin (and lOBaseT) Classified Advertisements ...... 71 by John O'Reilly ...... 32 WAP Membership Form ...... 72 Oh No! You've Caught a Virus! . .40 SwampGas™ Visits The United States of America ...... 43 SIGs and Slices review by Fred Showker Stock SIG ...... 5 A Taste of Conference 8 ...... 45 by Morris Pelham by David Harris Women's SIG ...... 6 Avoiding Expensive PowerBook by Nancy Seferian Repairs ...... 54 by Kel Humphreys Macintosh Tutorials ...... 55 HyperStudio ...... 56 General Interest by Eric Arveson & Jim Skouge MacWorld Boston ...... 8 Computer Puzzle ...... 59 by Susan Kayser & Tom Witte Out to Munch-MECC's July General Meeting ...... 9 SuperMunchers ...... 59 by Lawrence Charters · review by Carla Rose Guides Across the Wilderness: Internet Travel Books ...... 14 by Lawrence Charters Apple II Articles Map to Meeting ...... 21 MacWorld and Moose ...... 33 Apple// Meeting ...... 66 by Lawrence Charters Apple II Press Release ...... 67 Doing Business on the Internet . 51 review by Phil Shapiro Apple Ill Articles On The Trail of the Apple /// .... 62 by David Ottalini Macintosh Articles We Get Questions ...... 64 Artists on Exhibit ...... 12 by David Ottalini by Blake Lange Plug-In Filters: A Visit to the Imaging Deli ...... 16 Disk Libraries by Dennis R. Dimick Macintosh Disk Library ...... 68 Good News & Bad About by Dave Weikert Glenda's System ...... •.... 22 Macintosh Disk Order Form ...... 70 by Nancy Seferian Making an Emergency Boot Disk28 by Murray Wheeler
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September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 3 President Lorin Evans (202) 543-1248 Head Reading Lib. Brian Mason Vice President-Apple Joan Jernigan (703) 822-5137 Dealer Relations Comm. John Alden (202) 686-1656 Vice President-MacLawrence Charters (410) 730-4658 Harvey Kaye (301) 299-8994 Treasurer Charles Froehlich (410) 889-9395 Legal Counsel Richard Wohltman Secretary Paula Shuck (410) 740-5255 Membership Jon Hardis Directors Ken De Vito (703) 960-0786 SlGs & Slices Coord. Bob Shaffer (301) 384-3724 Glenda Finley Journal Store Distribution Volunteer Needed Grace Gallager (703) 222-4570 Telecom SysOp Paul Schlosser (301) 831-9166 Jon Hardis (301) 330-1422 Volunteer Coordinat.or Tom Witte (703) 683-5871 Bob Shaffer (301) 384-3724 Dale Smith (301) 762-5158 Jon Thomason (301) 951-9631 David Weikert (301) 963-0063 Tom Witte (703) 683-5871 Annapolis Slice Bill Wydro (301) 299-5267 President Richard MacLean (410) 721-8157 V.President Phil Scheel (410) 761-4260 Secretary JeffStraight (410) 643-0868 Treasurer Mel Benson (410) 647-6873 Membership SethMU.e (410) 766-1154 Mac Programs Lloyd Olson (410) 544-1087 Sandy Bo?.ek (410) 849-5232 Applen Programs SethMU.e (410) 766-1154 Office. Staff AAS Membership InfoLine (410) 761-4260 (410) 766-1154 Office Manager Beth Medlin Disk Lib., Apple SethMU.e Disk Lib., Mac Bill Derouin (410) 647-0802 Office Staff Ambrose Liao CRABBS BBS (410) 315-8532 (Tuesday nights only) AppleWorks Gary Hayman (301) 345-3230 John Ruffatto (Saturday) AppleIIGS Gary Hayman (301) 345-3230 ArtSIG Joe Morey (703) 281-5385 Columbia Slice President Ellen Banisz.ewski (410) 730-4891 Co-V. President, Mac Ramesh Saniana (410) 992-9884 .·•·~~IP~'~.•.. :Vo,.Ul1~tt~ .. ~s Co-V. President, Mac Tim Helsing (410) 730-7272 Apple II Head LibrarianJohn Ruffatto (301) 735-4259 V. President, Apple Il Tom Cook (410) 995-0352 Apple IIGS Librarians John Ruffatto (301) 735-4259 Editor, Macint.osh Lawrence Charters (410) 730-4658 Chris Hutmire (301) 871-1203 Edit.or, Apple Il Andy Wakshul (410) 997-0156 Apple II Librarian Volunteer Needed Treasurer Tom Cowley (410) 730-2319 Apple III Librarian David Ottalini (301) 681-6136 BBS SysOp Henry Yee (410) 964-3706 Macintosh Librarian David Weikert (301) 963-0063 Disk Librarian, Apple Bill Campbell (410) 997-9317 Mac Library John DeMarco Ben Frank Disk Librarian, Mac Tim Childers (410) 997-9317 William Jones Fred Rodgers CAD SIG Pet.er Danko (301) 868-5550 Database SIG Eric Gutsche (703) 379-1265 Tony Salemo Joe Swick DisabledSIG Jay Thal (202) 244-3649 Desktop Publishing SIG Tom Piwowar Excel SIG Dick Byrd (703) 978-3440 Frederick Slice President Pet.er Alvest.ad (301) 371-4165 V.P./Newsletter Roger Musser (301) 898-7647 .W11Sbi~gtC)n Apple Pi,. Ltd. Sec./I'reas. J. Russell Robinson (301) 739-6030 The Cracker Barrel BBS (301) 662-3131 GameSIG Mike Dickman (703) 525-2410 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 910 ByperTalk David Mudd (703) 683-1746 Bethesda, MD 20814 Mac Programmers John Barnes (301) 652-0667 Business Office (301) 654-8060 Greg Bartolett (301) 762-1311 Telecommunications System (301) 986-8085 Music SIG Ed Moser (301) 924-1573 Newton SIG Andy Halls (301) 990-3725 NOVA Educat.ors SIG PatFauquet (703) 550-7423 Office hours: Monday-Saturday 10-2:30* PI-SIG Gerry Wright (301) 422-4286 Tuesday 7-9 p.m. Quick:Time SIG Ambrose Liao (301) 530-3255 St.ockSIG Morris PeJham contact on TCS Telecomm. SIG Allan levy (301) 340-7839 *.'!'he ()flice win op~n at 1 p.m. ()n ThreeSIG David Ottalini (301) 681-6136 the· day of the· General Meetirig Paul Campbell (313) 255-6497 UltraMacros SIG GaryHayman (301) 345-3230 Women's SIG Ann Aiken (301) 530-1990 ©COPYRIGHT 1994, by WAP, Washington Apple Pi, Ltd. User groups may reprint without prior permission any portion of the contents herein, provided proper author, title, and publication credits are given, except in cases where the author has reserved copyright permission. In these cases, the author should be contacted directly. Please send a copy of the article as printed to Washington Apple Pi; 7910 Woodmont Ave., Suite 910; Bethesda, MD 20814.
4 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 TC stockSIG even promised us parking right software, and ifhe continues to have outside the door! Thanks, Lorin! profits we will gradually raise our by Morris Pelham The stock market is also a little opinion of this software. uncertain as I write this. Our beating Speaking of new software, the the Dow strategy still is, but according Charles Schwab brokerage has just ELL NOW, the "powers that to Mark Pankin's figures our stocks introduced a Mac version of their Wbe" have told me that the July are down 0.7% and the Dow index is "StreetSmart" investment software. and August journals will be com down3.4%sofarthisyear. That'snot The promise is that it will trade bined and that the two columns I how we intend to beat the Dow, we online, track account balances, and wrote after our May and June meet really prefer profits! Our stocks were enter orders at a 10% discount from ings will both run in the one issue, down in March, up in May and down their regular commissions. I have which is supposed to be mailed some again at the end ofJune. ordered a copy and plan to try it out. time in July. It has not arrived yet Our Fidelity Select strategy also Finally at our July meeting I at my house. So I am writing this is having confused results just now. passed out copies of my long-term column on July 16, following our Mark passed around the results of 1994 version ofour beating the Dow July meeting, and hope it will run in three of his portfolios begun at strategy. Beginningwithpurchases the Septemberjournal which should different times, one is up 12.41%, of five stocks in December of 1993 arrive at your house before our Sep another is down 9.16%, and the third this strategy would have bought tember meeting, which may be held is up 3.04%. nine stocks so far and had one spin in our new office location ifwe have We talked about all the above at off. The total portfolio cost $52,425 one or may be held in our old office our July meeting, and then Bob so far, buying a minimum one round ifwe don't. Now you know as much Pallaron told us about his experience lot of each stock and more of the as I do, which isn't much. so far using the Personal Hotline cheap ones. Our 1990-1994 long The good news is that club software to trade one stock on term portfolio more than doubled in President Lorin Evans stopped by margin. After two months he has a price before it was sold, and this one the beginning of our July meeting fine profit. Marvin Hass also told us may do as well. Time will tell. and told us the status ofour possible his unhappy experience reviewing StockSIG meets the 2nd new office. He drew us a map, he that software for this journal. So we Thursday ofeach month at 7 :30 PM drew us a floor plan, he promised us have two views and one nice profit at the WAP office. The office may a handicap-accessible bathroom, he so far. Bob is continuing to use the move this fall. •
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by Nancy Seferian
T THE JULY Women's SIG A meeting we began, as usual, with a catered dinner (catered by Grace Gallager for us, for the small fee of $2.00 per person). Our dinner this time featured Harvest Burgers, the new vegetarian burger recently tried by President Clinton, with buns, fresh tomatoes from Grace's garden, coleslaw, tossed salad and a variety offat-free dressings, bean soup and blueberry and pineapple cheesecakes. During dinner we shared projects, caught up on re cent computer talk, and got reac quainted. After dinner Grace and Marilyn The next regularly scheduled and get ready to ride the Information Turner demonstrated the new meeting will be September 22nd. Highway. The new Guide to the TCS QuickTake 100 camera. The camera Lauri Rohn, one of the TCS (W AP is out and that will also be available. they brought was recently Telecommunications) Crew We'd love to have you come and purchased by their school district members and the woman who wrote join us. R.S.V.P to Grace Gallager for use with the children there. It the new Guide to the TCS, will talk (703) 222-4570 (Metro #, so don't needs no film or disk, has a flash to us about how to use the club's dial 1) ifyou can join us. And be sure built in, and will take eight high bulletin board system, how to to bring your recent projects and resolution or 30 low resolution download files, leave messages, send questions, and ideas for new pictures or a combination of high and receive E-mail, and all the meetings. If you want to be on the and low-res pictures. It was small wonders oftelecommunicating. The mailing list call our Chairperson, and very light-weight. We passed it presentation will also include an Ann Aiken (301) 530-1990. • around allowing everyone to take actual demo, so bring your questions pictures. Then it was plugged into the office computer and the pictures we took we "dumped" (transferred) directly to the computer and were saved as Picts. Although this was very easy to do, it might present a problem ifyou were out in the field or at a sports PROMPT & RELIABLE REPAIR event, for instance, and didn't have a PowerBook along to dump to. In • Authorized for Apple, HP, NEC, Radius, & more such a case you would lose the • CPUs I Monitors I LaserPrinters I PowerBooks pictures you had already taken. Next we printed out our pictures • On-site I Walk-in I AppleCare contracts using the office's new HP 1200 dpi • PowerMac Upgrades printer, a recent gift to WAP from Hewlett Packard. The picture here Special Discounts for W.A.Pi members Authorized is Lykara Charters and was taken 7' D! ~!MC~~ ~V~TC!!~ AASPPlus at the meeting. R\, :.:u.:::1::....:-..: .: : .: : :..:;:-..: Service Provider 10565 Lee Hwy., Fairfax, VA • (703) 385-2758
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O'!e9JCX111~~1"d(wdlcrl)'Olirt'~CRbti'll.l99t'°90•<' September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 7 rr -Pomo was off in a back room; the real thing on video and appears to. be a growing industry • lots of CDs, many Educational MacWorld Boston Expo 94 •NeatToys • PaperMax™ & MacMate™ a very small $495 desktop scanner ©1994 by Tom Witte & Susan Kayser and software that fills a functional gap in many small business offices. ERE IS A SHORT font characters (not whole It offers a Paperless office & lets you REPORT from the WAP families) embedded in use your fax modem as a real fax. H team from Mac World documents; better Font control; • Multiple video input devices from Boston Expo '94. PS & TT equal; Multiple Master desktop cameras like QuickCam support; Expanded characters b&w Eye ball by; to FlexCam color Energy of Show and options available (a camera on flexible post to Fujix FV- Excellent opening remarks by program can support ligatures, 7 a camcord without the table, but Stephen Hawking. (His new book is etc., automatically) with an adaptor to captures slides on history of time and the future.) Printing: Chooser is and photos. Overall the Mac is showing its optional; On the fly printer age. Quite a bit ofboring Mac things selection; PDD docs; Print queue Parties (upgrades, enhancements... ), but control. Only a small part of the some exciting stuff (see below). Macworld experience is on the show Notmuchinreal showbargains. Apple Guide -Neat. A floor. There are before- and after One of the results of low cost (low real help system. hour gatherings. These are nice in profit margins) is it is hard for part for the free food and drink, arid vendors to offer real show specials. System 7.5 will include lots of nice give-always [APS gave out $99 other misc. stufflike QT 2, MacTCP SCSI Sentries (and we have one to Neat Things PC Exchange with MacLink give away at the next meeting)] but • System 7.5-This upgrade translators included (for a while). mostly they are THE PLACE to smooths out the functionality of the No more Apple File Exchange. become informed on the technology Mac OS and prepares for new Effective platform independence. or product. You can get personal, functionality yet to come. It will Price will be about $99 for single real time with the technicians and take more RAM [8 megs min for 68k users (look for a 1/2 price User owners. Macs and 16 megs for PowerMacs Group Special) and rumor has it Here is a list of some: (buy RAM now prices will not be Multi-User Upgrade Kits will come Monday night: MacWeek & APS dropping)] but works faster. For now with an Installer that will work MVBdo it means lots oftweaks Finder(many over networks. Tuesday-Friday mornings: business found in 3rd party stuff); Easy Open; user breakfasts a better interfacing to printers and • Lots of affordable low end Tuesday night: Microsoft's Office to foreign software formats. New Multimedia stuff: rollout & party functionality include Drag and Drop; -SuperCard: Its developers Tuesday night: Ingram Micro @ QuickDraw GX printing, Apple really gung-ho; program is alive MIT's Science Center Guide and PowerTalk. again; multimedia for all. The Door Wednesday night: APS social hour to non-linear (i.e., hypertext) info and demos Finder Improvements age for the low-end developer is open Wednesday night: SciTech social improved Find File, faster file and expanding. Thursday Night: APS social hour copy, Apple Menu options; -Lots ofMorph products with more and demos Sticky Menu; Finder hiding; special effects and many now offer Thursday Night: Symantec's dance improved file management; a major step back-they can print party Windowshades; updated 'flipbooks'. Friday Morning: Apple User Group Notebooks and Scrapbook]. -Virtual reality (real world breakfast simulators-helmets, gun, multi Friday Night: APS social hour and QuickDraw GX • Fonts: monitor display (jet) demos 8 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 rr How you can Play Next Year Make hotel reservations by Feb (Suisse Chalet @$50 or Mass. College of Art dorm rooms@ $29). If July General Meeting you can't get off to go, you can help plan and set up whatever WAP will by Lawrence I. Charters be doing for the 'Show Special'. If you are there, stop by the booth and say hi and exchange information on parties neat show stuff. June General MeeHng July General MeeHng Many thanks to Charlie IRST, A FEW words about Global Village, the popular Froelich, Susan Kayser, Lawrence the June General Meeting: modem manufacturer, was Charters (and family) and Bob Fthere wasn't one. Washington scheduled for the July General Shaffer for help with the Pi's Booth. Apple Pi holds their semi-annual Meeting, along with Microsoft AlsomanythankstoAPS(1800 Computer Garage Sale in June and Home, the software giant's 677 3294) for a donation of a SCSI December, and no General Meeting consumer division. But Global sentry and some PowerBook is held those months. Village suffered a communications trackballs to give out at the next The Garage Sale was a hit. breakdown, an ironic problem for a general meeting and LIND Meeting in a large space, a former communications company. No one PowerBook Accessories (1 800 897 drug store, there was actually space seems to know why but, even after 8994) for reconditioning and to walk, space to breathe and, repeated contacts over several recharging our office's PowerBook's judging by the stuff people were months, they found themselves, a a battery. Give these vendors a call carting out, space to bargain. There week before the meeting, completely to say thanks and ask for their were the usual grumbles from catalogs. • people attempting to sell their 10-year old machines for list price (favorite quote: "I need to MAC REPAIR CENTER get $2500 from my Mac Plus so I can buy a Power Mac"), but on the whole everyone seemed happy. Dupont One surprise: the all-day ri question and answer session. I., ~~~puters This proved so popular that we O may have a variation in December: an annual computer 1761 S Street, NW checkup. Providing we can get Washington, DC a few more volunteers, it would 202-232-6363 work like this: you'd bring in your Mac, and one of the Pi's Computers • Monitors • Printers wizards would check out the hard disk, system folder, fonts MAC REPAIRS and general configuration to see if everything was working MAC UPGRADES as it should. Since this is a time-intensive task, there MAC PARTS& would probably be a fee (donated to the Pi) involved. If ACCESSORIES this sounds of interest (either On-Site and In-House Repairs as a potential wizard or a Service Contracts Available potential patient), contact me in person or by E-mail. Spedal Discounts for W .A.Pi Mtmben September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 9 rr unprepared to visit. They begged to living room back in Cupertino, encyclopedia; stock quotes; some come back at some future date. California. I wonder if his business exceptionally well done on-line While I won't claim to be susceptible card says Software Magician?] newspapers and news service to bribery, the Pi could really use While eWorld is clearly a work features-all attractively packaged one of the new Global Village fax in progress (the service opened for in an easy to learn, easy to use servers. And I'm very fond of Mrs. business just a couple weeks before format. Field's chocolate chip cookies (no the meeting), it also clearly has After the meeting, Ken nuts). promise. For those with no mentioned a few technical details, Apple Computer, eager to show background in telecommunications, one of which is particularly that it, too, is a communications it presents a nice, friendly, easy to impressive: eWorld is built using company, stepped in to show their use interface. The software comes fault-tolerant super-minicomputers new e World telecommunications on a single disk, and the "manual" is and workstations. Most on-line service. Ken Thom, Tools and APis services are based on mainframe Product Manager (remember when computers, and these tend to bog Apple used to call such people Washington Apple down as demand grows. But "software magicians" and the like?), eWorld employs a state of the art fired up his trusty PowerBook 180c Pi will be moving in distributed network, and in theory and took the audience on a tour. could accommodate virtually This tour was a bit rocky, thanks to September. If you unlimited growth with little or no a too-short telephone extension cord effect on response time. and telephone line noise brought on have a big truck, a To try out e World, open up by rain. It was interesting to see the almost any Mac-related magazine response: Ken was clearly strong back, and and send in the postage-paid frustrated, but the audience took it eWorld reply card, or call 1-800- all in stride. Compared to driving some packing boxes, 77 5-4556 and request a free disk. on the Capitol Beltway, even a rocky Naturally, you must have a Information Superhighway is no or any combination working Macintosh, a working strain... modem, and a working phone line Ken freely admitted thateWorld of these, we can for this to be worthwhile. uses technology purchased from Microsoft Home, the consumer America Online, yet convincingly save Big Bucks by software arm of Microsoft argued it was not a clone of AOL, Corporation, then demonstrated a but an alternative. He also stated moving ourselves. few of their new products. Reed that, for all practical purposes, it is Probst ([email protected]) a replacement for AppleLink, brought a CD-ROM equipped Apple's once-innovative but now a single poster-sized, illustrated Macintosh to demonstrate two new very creaky tele-communications sheet of paper. CD-ROM titles,Microsofi Bookshelf service used by dealers, developers, For those who want more than '94 and Microsofi Encarta, and also and many user groups. His proof of ease of use, eWorld is also demonstrated thefloppy-basedFine this point was quite simple: eWorld surprisingly quick-orders of Artist. software is pre-installed on all new magnitude faster than AppleLink Fine Artist is intended, Macintosh computers, and Apple and, because ofsome neat shortcuts, according to Microsoft's literature, employees are moving their arguably faster than most text for "kids ages 8 and up." It offers electronic mail accounts to e World based telecommunications services some very clever tools for making (Ken's address, for example, is and bulletin boards. It looks sparsely cartoons, banners, signs and [email protected]). populated compared to ordinary pictures, though the [At MacWorld Boston, which CompuServe, GEnie or AOL, but it "ordinary" pictures can also have began three days after the meeting, is growing rapidly, and offers all the sound. Everything (except the all the Apple employees I met had usual amenities: on-line sound) can then be printed on paper, e World accounts, too, except for one conversation, advice and gossip; in color if you have a color printer. wild-eyed mad scientist who had electronic mail; on-line banking and There are text-based instructions if set up his own Internet node in his shopping; a complete electronic you ask for them, but you probably 1 O Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 rr won't. Several levels of undo allow written, the event is in the future; Thanksgiving, the General Meeting aspiring artists to overcome errors, by the time you read it, everything will be a week early, on November or just change their mind, with no will be over, and you probably had a 19. Two vendors will do effort. great time. presentations, but the only one Microsoft Bookshelf '94 is a confirmed at this moment is Casady surprisingly COJllplete reference September 1994 & Greene, one of the oldest library, all on a single CD-ROM. Washington Apple Pi will be Macintosh software companies, Included are The American Heritage moving in September. Ifyou have a showing some of the newest games Dictionary, The Original Roget's big truck, a strong back, and some and utilities. Thesaurus, The Columbia packing boxes, or any combination Dictionary of Quotations, The of these, we can save Big Bucks by December 1994 Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, moving ourselves. We are moving to Date and location are unknown Hammond Intermediate World save money on rent, and every dime at this writing, but roughly a Atlas,, The People's Chronology and we spend on renovating our new thousand people will descend on the The World Almanac and Book of quarters and moving the office will winter edition of the Pi's Computer Facts 1994. A number of navigation help save even more money. Since Garage Sale, shopping for bargains, tools allow you to do random no computer expertise is required, gossip and information. See the first browsing or search for specific bits it would be Real Nice if we saw paragraph for details. of information using a number of something other than the usual band criteria, and the searches can be of volunteers. Drawing winners limited to a particular volume or One thing that is not moving is SCSI hat (vendor unknown): Jan span everything on the ''bookshelf." the Sept. 24 General Meeting which, Bailey In addition to text, the CD-ROM like the rest of the meetings for the Zyxel T-shirt (Zyxel): Robert J. also has 80,000 spoken year, will be at Northern Virginia Fetterolf pronunciations, 60 animations, 40 Community College in Annandale. MacWorld DC T-shirt: Mary Ellen audio clips, 160 national anthems, Provided they finish writing it in Jehn 230 flags and 160 maps. time, Microsoft will be on hand to BMUG CD-ROM (BMUG): Rob MicrosoftEncarta is a 29volume show off Microsoft Word 6.0, Excel Fetterolf encyclopedia on a single CD-ROM, 5.0 and PowerPoint 4.0. Power BMUG CD-ROM (BMUG): John with 26,000 articles knitted together Macintosh owners, in particular, are Barnes by 300,000 links between the articles. keeping their fingers crossed, but [Note: I forgot to give out an entire There are 7,000 photos and both these applications have been stack of drawing prizes. But they'll illustrations, 8 hours of sounds, 100 long, long anticipated. disappear at the next opportunity.] animations, 800 maps and 250 interactive charts, giving credence to October 1994 Credits Microsoft's claim that it is "The The General Meeting on October Apple Macintosh llci: donated by Complete Multimedia Encyclopedia." 22 should feature multiple vendors Falcon Microsystems For those interested in Fine demonstrating how you can design Bernoulli 150 drive: loan courtesy Artist, Microsoft Encarta or and print spectacular documents Iomega Corporation Microsoft Bookshelf, Reed donated using standard Macintosh office Proxima Ovation projection system: copies of all three to Washington applications and a little bit of loan courtesy Proxima Apple Pi. Come in to the office (if ingenuity. Unfortunately, not all the Corporation you can find it; see below) and give vendors have confirmed as of this Setup and worrying: Lorin Evans, them a try. moment; check the TCS Beth Medlin, Bill Wydro (Washington Apple Pi computer Novice Corner, Question & Answer August 1994 bulletin board) for late-breaking Help: Tom Witte The General Meeting on August details. I'd also recommend you 27 will be hosted by the Games SIG check the Pi office, but I don't know Send meeting comments to: (Special Interest Group). where the Pi office will be in [email protected]. So far, the Traditionally, this meeting is not October ... only comments I've received have limited to just Macs; expect to see been from non-Pi members, mostly Apple II, Ilgs, and maybe even MS November 1994 in other states and countries. • DOS/Windows games. As this is Not wishing to conflict with September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 11 -·-·xhibit~- by Blake Lange This column looks at the art and artists of the Washington Apple Pi and the techniques and tools used to create the art. Artist Info: Jeff Gates is an artist, computer consultant, and public speaker. He teaches computer graphics at the Maryland Institute, College of Arts in Baltimore. In 1988 he foundedArtFBI (Artists for a Better Image) which publishes Artfax ;, published by A Fomlot of lits lol....ttoa h• cp...,..110 tM MIHllootk c-..lty Artfll. New1 and ArtFAX, a newsletter prepared on information can be called into our office CALIFORNIA EDUCATION OFFICIALS REaND IAN ON the Macintosh and distributed by at (301) 949-G436, ALICE WALKER STORIES FROM STATE ENGLISH TEST FAX modem. faxed to u 1 at (30 I) 949·0438 or Walka.or, .. Am I BIUt!?'°, wM also Hnt by •·mail to \"docd from the stat.?wide lt'.'SI ~ igoNtOtmn,com, Let cause it was ..anti-meat eating... Tools: Macintosh Ilci, Kensington ters via "'1naU moil .. In addition,. Pulitzer Pritt winner (Ille post offko) con AnnieDilWdaOOhadashortstOJy Glare Screen, Syquest 44, APS 240 be addressed to: .. An Am~r iun Childhood'" N.nntd b«•wieofitsdepictionol 2000 Hermlto9e MB external drive, LaCie 240 MB a snowball fight u · 100 \iol~L.. Avenue, s;tvor Spring. After the! controvl'T'Sy broke. Call· MD 20902·2866. forni3 Assemblywoman internal drive, 20MB RAM, Wacom Delaine Eastin, n Artfll Artfa.w: 11 a ser· Dcmocr.11 running Artz tablet and SupraFax 14,400 vtce of Artfll and b for statesuptrinten· distributed free of baud modem. Software includes marvo ta tt.. Mory· iJ =Pc~:~:; ~ legisl.ath·e he.utng PageMaker, Word, and FAXstf. landcommunity . Sub lng-com- on the exdu scription• cwt1kM the imh<'n51on sions. Fn..oe state are $30 per skJlls. year. Thi1faxaalnelt sion ac· Jeff has made a study of the ste supported In port by California tiv lst l' a 9ront from the State t'duc•· Initi reotypes of artists as they are por Maryland State Art tionolfodooborighwlyannounnd ated a wa\"f' of proll"5l k-ttrn to Council and lolt· Fd>ru.ary 20th th.at they ~ tt Willi.Am DaW$0n. ActingSupenn· trayed in TY, film, and other me 1,,,.....•, Mayor's Ad moving ..R 08C'lilf'. a short ~tory tmdmt of Publk lrw.ruction. The about • ~USStSSippi wNding of a frtt Exp ression Nl'twork ron· dia. In forming ArtFBI he had two visory CommittM on mothc-r who quntions marriage dcmrlftl the board's actions and Art& Culture. and rellgK>n. aft("r p rotesl.s from wmtt' a letter lo D ioo 4rtF81 (Ar11sts Fot A Bell•r lm3JO•l 1440 E Ba 11morc Strool 2E Ba1t1moro. MO 21231 12 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 rect views. Part ofhis standard pre an art form originating with Ben The monthly newsletter has a sentation are video clips from tele jamin Franklin which is a riddle of rather bold design, suitable for the vision of artists being stereotyped. pictures which suggest the sounds FAX medium. Except for the logo He encourages artists to talk about of the words they represent.. the artwork is mostly black and themselves in the communities they In order to gather material about white line art which is appropriate inhabit. In this way they can start artists from across the nation he is for the low resolution (200 dpi). to bridge the gap in the community's a frequent visitor to various areas Small pieces of clip art and font perception of artists. of the Internet where there is a huge dingbats provide visual relief with The newsletter is distributed free community of artists. Both indi the text flowing around it. 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But in terms of the Travel Books nitty-grittyofhow to do useful things, it has a nice cook-book approach. © 1994 Lawrence I. Charters There are chapters on "Starting Off, If You're A DOS User" and ET'S FACE IT: the Internet line prompt. This isn't much of a another for UNIX users, but Macs is a fad. So much a fad that limitation, however; very little ofthe are lumped in with "everyone else." some have taken to calling it Internet has been paved with menu Yet most ofthe information is easily t"the Net," probably entirely driven access lanes. Generally transportable, and there is a short unaware that this slang term comes speaking, most of the paths are dirt section on Mac software for use on from science fiction, rather than lined tracks hidden in the foliage, the Internet. Like Krol, there is a the Internet itself. It probably and for these paths, Krol's book is list oflnternet service providers and doesn't make any difference in the superb. country codes. long run for, unlike most fads, the A large portion of the book is The best feature, however, may Internet isn't goinc to go away. devoted to "The Whole Internet well be the cartoons by Rich Eventually, like television, it will Catalog," an annotated listing of Tennant. His ''The 5th Wave" one be credited with virtually resources and services available on panel cartoons (regularly seen in everything, and also blamed for the Internet. There are also Federal Computer Week ) are virtually everything. A cynic's view appendices on Internet service brilliant; no other word will do. of"virtual reality," you might say. providers, an invaluable listing of Internet Starter Kit, by Adam C. Ironically, this electronic fad has country codes (nice if spawned a bumper crop of paper you can't figure out books. Four will be considered here, whether "mirage.nit.fl" one a two-year old book already is in Fiji or Finland), termed a "classic," one an excellent and a decent glossary. THE WHOLE book with an indefensibly offensive Another good book, title, one that badly needs an editor, with a horrible title, is and the least popular one (based on The Internet for INTERNET sales) may well turn out the best for Dummies. IDG Books your needs. should be roundly The two year old classic is Ed condemned for this Krol's excellent The Whole Internet, entire series; does the a refreshingly readable book by the world really need first publisher to have its own dummies on the Internet file server (ftp.ora.com). Internet, or running Krol has by far the best explanation MS-DOS computers, or of how the Internet works, and does involved in any of the an admirable job of making even topics covered by the the most arcane concepts Dummies series? Is it understandable. really necessary to Virtually nothing in the book is perpetuate the myth USER'S G UIDE & CATALOG Mac-specific; for the most part, Krol that most people are too assumes you are navigating the stupid to use Internet the "old fashioned way," computers? Should you typing commands at a command- spend a dime on such a 14 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 rr Engst, is probably the best-known Guide, is a disk packed with Dummies book with similar Macintosh-specific book on the essential Internet tools, or at least stupidities, and even the otherwise Internet. Engst, co-author of the as many tools as you can cram on a excellent Krol volume is marred with "TidBITS" electronic weekly disk. The crown jewel is Apple misplaced advertising at the end. newsletter, has great "name Computer's MacTCP 2.0, the TCP/ Readers of the world, unite! recognition" in the on-line IP driver that forms the foundation Demand that publishers move their community, and his self-promotion of virtually all Macintosh Internet advertising elsewhere (preferably in his newsletter hasn't hurt sales, capable tools. Also included is a out ofthe book entirely), and return either. For those who buy books by SLIP driver (for dial-up connection indices to their rightful place at the the pound, it is easily twice the heft to the Internet), E-mail and Usenet back, where they can be found easily! of any other two books covered. news tools, utilities for transferring And while they're at it, elevate the Which is one indication of why files-a great collection. All the tools index to a place ofhonor, and devote it is the weakest book of the lot. (except for MacTCP, eitherfreeware some time to it, rather than treat it Engst needs an editor. People buy or shareware) have at least brief as an afterthought. computer books to get authoritative descriptions in the ~ook, and, to use Recommendations? The Krol information. Engst, however, the salesman's favorite phrase, "are book is a masterpiece [and a new repeatedly subjects them to worth the price of the book alone." edition looks even better], and is passages like this: Capping it all is a two week trial highly recommended for someone subscription to a dial-up Internet who needs to use the Internet AB far as I can determine from service. professionally. Both the Engst and testing and from what I've been Michael Fraase includes a Fraase books include a compre told by more knowledgeable virtually identical collection oftools hensive collection of essential folks ... Although I can't prove on disk, including MacTCP 2.0, in software to get you started on the this assumption, I believe ... ! his The Mac Internet Tour Guide. Internet; my preference is for hope the same proves true for The big difference, however, is editing Fraase's work, but both publishers are you as well. and research. Fraase (and Ventana) feverishly working on new editions, obviously spent time crafting the so maybe Engst will find an editor. Engst can get away with guessing book; everything from the prose to The Dummy book? In all and passing on rumor and innuendo the layout shows much greater honesty, it is well done. In all in a weekly newsletter such as attention to detail. Fraase also doesn't honesty, there are undoubtedly TidBITS, but readers tend to expect engage in speculation; if he didn't millions of dummies already on the something more substantive from a know, he obviously found out before Internet. Butl'drathertheyweren't, book. This difficult process is known committing himself to paper. and I'd rather not spend money on a as "research," and precious little of Fraase includes the usual list of book that might encourage them. that appears ininternet Starter Kit. places to go spelunking on the Trivia, however, runneth over. Internet, plus glossaries and such. Adam C. Engst, Internet Starter Kit Not quite half the book is devoted But most of the volume is divided for Macintosh. Hayden, 1993. to lists of "Internet resources," topically into clearly defined xxiii, 641 pp. $29.95. ISBN 1- ranging from dial-up access subjects: background information on 56830-064-6. providers (Engst had no experience the Internet and how to get with a di:r:ect connection to the connected, and specific things to do Michael Fraase, The Mac Internet Internet when he wrote the book), such as electronic mail, newsgroups, Tour Guide: Cruising the glossaries and such to a list of file transfers, Gopher and Telnet. Internet the Easy Way. Ventana archives and other network If there is a weakness, it is the Press, 1993. xxii, 288 p. $27 .95. resources arranged according to index (which is brieO, and the ISBN 1-56604-062-0. subject. These subject matter entries publisher's irritating practice of are actually quite good, suffering putting promotional material at the Ed Krol, The Whole Internet: User's only from the fact that the listing back of the book (which makes Guide and Catalog. O'Reilly & was outdated the minute it appeared getting to the index more difficult). Associates, 1992. xxiv, 376 pp. in print. The latter practice, however, is not $24.95. ISBN 1-56592-025-2. One selling point for Internet limited to Ventana; Hayden clutters Internet address: ftp.ora.com Starter Kit, and the next book under the back ofEngst books with similar (for a current catalog) or (for review, The Mac Internet Tour junk, IDG litters the back of the orders) [email protected] September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 15 Note: since beginning the review, a second edition of Krol's book has been released. While I haven't purchased a copy, a quick skim Plug-In Filters: shows some significant changes, ranging from better coverage of the World Wide Web and particularly A Visit to the Imaging Deli Mo saic, to more coverage of the Macintosh, to more esoteric topics. ©Dennis R. Dimick The particulars: Ed Krol, The Whole Internet User's AI'S POWER TOOLS. Little overlap exists between Guide and Catalog, 2nd Ed. Paint Alchemy. Terrazzo. most ofthe various plug-in packages O'Reilly & Associates, 1994. 57 4 KGallery Effects. What do now available. The most popular pp. $24.95. ISBN: 1-56592-063- these have in common? They're may be Kai's Power Tools from HSC 5. "plug-in" filters, small graphics Software, Paint Alchemy from applications that work inside Adobe XAOS Tools, and Gallery Effects John R. Levine & Carol Baroudi, Photoshop and several other Mac from Aldus. The Internet For Dummies. IDG imaging or paint programs. XAOS Tools recentlyintroduced Books, 1993. xxiv, 355 pp. Plug-ins are among the most a patterning plug-in called Terrazzo, $19.95. ISBN 1-56884-024-1. • interesting aspects of Mac imaging and MicroFrontier has a set called these days, and if you work with Pattern Workshop. Andromeda graphics files, plug-in filters can Software has two plug-in packages, make your work look more one that creates photo effects akin interesting, unusual, individual, to special camera filters, and another or personal. Plug-in filters allow for mapping images on three you to achieve visual effects not dimensional objects. We service possible or easily achievable using Photoshop alone. Kai's Power Tools: c Macintosh Most plug-in filter packages cost Space Age Computers about $100 at street price, and These filters are great for 0 you don't need Photoshop to take creating images where none existed, advantage of what they can do. or making images that have no M Other programs besides bearing on what you see in the real p Photoshop that work with plug-in world. You can create gradients, filters include: Sketcher, Painter, textures, and fractals, and KPT u 24 Painter X2, and Dabbler from comes with a seemingly endless T HOURS Fractal Design, Color-It! from selection of built-in variations. E MicroFrontier, Canvas from Several filters offer on-screen real ON Deneba, Brushstrokes from Claris, time previews, and this saves time R Pixel Resources' Pixel Paint when you're experimenting with CALL Professional, and Aldus possible effects and combinations. I SuperPaint. The varied textures and s Plug-ins also work with some gradients via KPT are useful in Tm QuickTime editing, Three-D, and multimedia backgrounds and image compositing programs. graphics special effects. Software These Include Adobe Premiere, catalogs are filled with background Avid VideoShop, VideoFusion, and texture "clip-art" packages, but CoSa After Effects, Ray Dream it's hard to see much use for them as (703) 569-5584 Designer, and Specular Collage. long as Kai's Power Tools exists. The KPT interface is unusual, A COMPUTERIST, LTD DeBabelizer, a graphics file translation program, also supports not seen elsewhere. The space~ age plug-in filters. look is similar to video games, as 16 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 buttons (spheres) glow when you floating point, or full 68040 CPU.) special effects, KPT is an essential place the cursor over them, and color part of your toolbox. Don't go pickers are more akin to horizontal HSC Support Forum imaging without Kai. rainbows. The look is avant-garde, One of the best features of Kai's but once you (very quickly) get the Power Tools is the HSC Software XAOS Tools Offerings hang of it, the interface to KPT is support forum on America Online Paint Alchemy and Terrazzo functional, flexible, and fun. An (keyword: KPT or HSC.) Kai Krause come from XAOS Tools of San ample "Explorer's Guide" manual offers up observations and answers Francisco. XAOS Tools produces comes with KPT 2.0, a welcome to questions, and has written and Pandemonium, a special effects addition from the previous pamphlet posted 23 different illustrated animation progr am for Silicon that accompanied KPT 1.0. papers (so far) on h ow to use Graphics workstations. If you've Thirty-three filters come with Photoshop, with or without Kai's ever seen Pandemonium at work, KPT 2.0, and they fall into two Power Tools. (These papers also are you can only drool at the possibilities groups. The most dramatic generate available on various online services, if this program ever is released for textures, gradients, and fractals. and most are found on the TCS.) the Macintosh. (Now t h at Others operate on existing images. Kai's Power Tools 2.0 shipped PowerMacs are here, maybe that's These include, for example, glass at release with Color-It 2.3 from not too far-fetched a wish.) lens (which maps the image onto a MicroFrontier. Color-It!, an PaintAlchemy, thefirstofXAOS clear sphere,) fade contrast, diffuse inexpensive imaging program, will Tools' Mac plug-ins, derives its more, find edges: invert, charcoal or allow you to use KPT 2.0 and other talent from the brushing engine of soften, scatter horizontal, four Plug-ins ifyou don't own Photoshop. Pandemonium. Paint Alchemy variations on smudge darken/ Color-It! is a decent program, and creates brush styles based t he lighten, pixel: breeze, wind, and though it can't handle files as large content of your original artwork, storm, and sharpen intensity. The as Photoshop, it's pretty nifty. responding to color hue, saturation, intensity of many filters is variable. (MicroFrontier was giving this and brightness in part or all of an A new filter called seamless welder program away late last year for $8.37 image. You create effects based on allows you to take any square shipping costs. Version 3.0 was your image's personality, not just a selection and turn it into a seamless recently released this year.) predetermined computerized texture suitable for tiling. KPT Performance ofKPT 2.0's filters filtering formula. works in both RGB and CMYK is more snappy than the earlier PaintAlchemy comes with more modes and requires onboard math version, and I found these more than 36 brushes and 75 brushing chip support (68030 with 68882 stable. If you work with plug-in styles built in, but that's only a compatible programs, and starting point. You can use the built are attempting to create in styles to create, save, and share textures, gradients and your own brushing styles. An extra disk of 50 brushes, "Floppy Full of Brushes," is available and you can create new brushes from any 8-bit PICT image. Kai's Gradient Designer: The interface screen shows a diagonal linear blend. Originally in RGB color, this grayscale gradient provided the source for the design shown in the picture. ''A Combination Ef A Gradient Design: This diagonal linear blend was fort." Kai's Power Tools and all the other filter created by using the Gradient Designer filter in packages described are used by programs compat Kai's Power Tools. This blend provided source ible with the Adobe Photoshop plug-in standard. material for further filtering demonstrated here. September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 17 I Terrazzo Design: This design with hexagonal patterns resulted from applying the Monkey Wrench motifof Xa os Tools' Terrazzo to a linear gradient produced in Kai's Power Tools. <>p.clty:({---- 0 Continuous Provlew ~ brushstroke that appears as one 181 Sltow Feathor Boundary ~ ee width in a BASE PhotoCD image Terrazzo's Monkey Wrench: Working with agradient at rear produced in will appear one-quarter the width Kai's Power Tools' Gradient Designer, Terrazzo's Monkey Wrench motif in a BASE4 (twice as wide and tall) has been applied in Terrazzo to produce the pattern in the right halfof the PhotoCD image. It is possible to interface. Terrazzo provides 17 different patterning symmetries. manually change brushstroke width on Paint Alchemy's Size card. The Cards and Strokes for example, change brushstroke I love the effects Paint Alchemy of Paint Alchemy size based on hue, color or saturation creates. I've been using it on my Paint Alchemy's index card style in your image. Deep greens will get own photos scanned to PhotoCD interface offers more than 30 ways a stroke of one size, for example, files. On some large PICT files it to modify the personality of how a and light green can get another size takes several minutes to complete brush works. Five "Control Cards" brushstroke. Or, highlights get one the filtering process, but the results labeled Brush, Color, Size, Angle brush size, shadows another. are worth it . Combining Paint and Transparency guide you Angle and Transparency cards Alchemy's effects with textures or through the many brushing offer similar options as the Size card gradients produced in Kai's Power variables. tovarypersonalityofbrushes. Using Tools, for example, is a wonderful The Brush card, for example, options available on all cards offers way to create unique effects and affects stroke density (or number of nearly infinite possibilities for images not possible with either plug strokes in an area,) stroke position, customization ofa single brush style. in package alone. randomness ofstrokes and layering. The initial release 1.0 of Paint Layering allows you to layer strokes Alchemy was a bit slow and Terrazzo: Patterns Galore in random or ordered fashion, and sometimes suffered some out of XAOS Tools released a pattern the paint layering option can apply memory errors. XAOS Tools has generation plug-in called Terrazzo brush strokes based on image since released a patch to improve in May, 1994. Its purpose is more brightness. speed and reliability. The current focused than Paint Alchemy, and it Color card controls brushstroke shipping version (July, 1994) is achieves those goals well. Effects and background colors, and offers l.02F for Macs with floating-point created remind of elegant variations for brush hue, saturation, math chip, and 1.02 for Macs Appalachian patchwork quilts or and brightness. You also can pick without. peering through a kaleidoscope. brushstroke colors from the image Brush sizes are fixed, so it's not You choose between 1 7 or a color swatch. possible to create effects on a small "symmetries" that create tiled Size card affects brush sizes, image and automatically repeat the patterns for building images. These and you can make changes based on same effects on a larger-scale pattern "symmetries" are known in a brushstroke's location, or the color picture. This is most noticeable to the mathematics and design worlds personality of your image. You can me when using PhotoCD images. A as "planar," "ornamental," or 18 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 I "wallpaper" symmetry groups. You Gallery Effects' use part of your source PICT image interface is due for as a basis for patterns, and by sliding an upgrade. Where the symmetry "motif' selection tool KPT and Paint !!REPAIRS!! around the source image, you create Alchemy, e.g., patterns limited in diversity only by combine many or all Apple/Mac/l*M Motherboard Repairs your imagination. Terrazzo works filtering effects from $45.00 + S&H in grayscale, RGB and CMYK under one interface Apple/Mac/I*M Power Supply Repairs modes. card, Gallery Effects from $45.00 + S&H Apple/Mac/I*M Drive Repairs Terrazzo allows you to modify breaks up all effects from $45.00 + S&H patterns by using imaging into separately Apple/Mac/I*M Monitor Repairs parameters such as multiply, screen accessed, un from $60.00 + S&H effects, lighten, darken, hue, integrated filters. It Apple/Mac/l*M Keyboard Repairs ·saturation, luminosity and color. would be nice if from $12.50 + S&H You can also control opacity or Aldus designed a Apple/Mac/l*M Upgrades transparency of the pattern created more unified Available! so it integrates with the source approach to image as an overlay of controllable Used Apple/Mac/I*M CPUs, accessing and using Disk Drives, Monitors, intensity. It's also possible to export Gallery Effects Keyboards available for resale as PICT files the small tiles created within Photoshop, by the selection tool. These tiles are so you could Warranties to one year on most repairs! repeated to create patterns in combine an aspect Sarne day turnaround on most repairs! Terrazzo. of one filter with Arminius Terrazzo has a richly illustrated another and see a 8519 Orchard Avenue manual with color photographs, and preview before Merchantville NJ 08109 includes discussions of each of the applying. As it (609) 662-3420 17 different patterning motifs. stands, you preview Terrazzo's manual may be the only and run one filter, software user's guide with a apply another, and bibliography, in this case references hope the combined to books that discuss patterning and effect is what you like. It's akin to cost. (Why pay extra for a program symmetry in design. opening your yellow paint can and that works with only Aldus' filters, I've worked with beta and applying some strokes, closing that when you can get a program that release versions, and Terrazzo can, then opening the blue paint works with them all? For example, seems very robust and stable. and applying some of that. you can get Fractal Design's Depending on the size ofyour source Gallery Effects is overpriced, Dabbler, a full-featured Photoshop image and amount ofRAM installed, with three separate volumes of 16 plug-in compatible painting Terrazzo can work quite fast. filters selling at about $130 street program, for street price about $65.) price each. (Sorry, Aldus. I wanted I really do like several Gallery Aldus Gallery Effects: to get Volume 3, recently released, Effects filters, especially the Early Entrant but couldn't see spending that much Watercolor, Pastel, and Dry Brush Now with three volumes on the for 16 filters.) You can get Kai's effects. Maybe some other particular market, Aldus Gallery Effects was Power Tools and Paint Alchemy for effects are just what you need. But an early plug-in entry. Designed less than $200 combined and you'll it's hard to deal with the unwieldy originally by Silicon Beach Software have an infinitely versatile graphics filtering approach, and Gallery of San Diego, Gallery Effects is part toolbox for imaging. Effects' pricing is out of line for of the product offering from Aldus' One advantage Gallery Effects today's market. Consumer Division. (Who knows has on the others: it doesn't need what will be left after the Aldus Photoshop or Aldus SuperPaint to It's an Expanding Field Adobe merger is complete?) I have work. Gallery Effects comes with its The field of plug-ins is growing, the first two volumes, and like own stand-alone application to apply and several other packages are several of the Gallery Effects, but filter effects to images. Not a bad available. Andromeda Software filters often have a mechanical look. idea, but still not worth the extra offers two volumes of special effects September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 19 Soued Styles: ------, [ Pieulew J[Mem ... j Style: IBubbl es Opaque 1. ~ (saue As ... ) [Re moue ...) ( Cnntel ) ~ ------ Multifaceted Brushstrokes: Paint Alchemy's interface has a A Combination Effort: This image was created with a combi pop-up style list of 75 built-in options. Here, bubbles opaque nation of Kai's Power Tools Gradient Designer, Terrazzo's has been chosen and previewed. Brushing characteristics are Monkey Wrench motif, and Paint Alchemy's Bubbles Opaque controlled by the five tabbed control cards: Brush, Color, Size, options. It's easily possible to create dramatic images by Angle, and Transparency. Source image used here was created combining the talents ofdiff erent plug-in packages. as a gradient inKai'sPowerTools and patterned with Terrazzo's Monkey Wrench. plug-ins. Series I Photography Filters creates a look • Gallery Effects, Vols. 1-111 similar to special effects filters on a camera lens, and Aldus Corporation Series II Three-D Filter maps effects onto three Customer Relations dimensional objects. MicroFrontier Software (publisher 411 First Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104 ofColor-It! ) recently released a package called Pattern Telephone (206) 628-2320 Workshop, which operates from libraries of built-in AOL: Aldus patterns. Perhaps the best aspect of plug-ins is combining • Photography and Three-D Filters their talents to create effects. For example, create a Andromeda Software, Inc. texture with Kai's Power Tools, use it as a base for a 699 Hanpshire Road pinwheel pattern in Terrazzo. Place this pattern as a Westlake Village, CA 91361 background in another image, then lay on an Ice Tech Support: (805) 379 4109 Cubes or Impressionist brush with Paint Alchemy. Telephone Sales: (800) 547 0055 You get the idea. AOL: Steve Myers (Andromed) • Kai's Power Tools 2.1 • Color-It! and Pattern Workshop HSC Software MicroFrontier, Inc. 1661 Lincoln Blvd. 3401 lOlst Street, Suite E Suite 101 Des Moines, IA 50322 Santa Monica, CA 90404 Telephone Sales: (800) 388-8109. Telephone (310)-392-8441 AOL: MicroFrontier Internet: [email protected] AOL: KPTSupport Dennis Dimick moderates the QuickTime and Multimedia board on the WAPTCS. A QuickTime film • Paint Alchemy & Terrazzo he produced using his Photo CD images, "Peru: Voyage XAOSTools to a State of Mind," this year received a first place 600 Townsend Street documentary award at the Sumeria QuickTime Film Suite 270 East, San Francisco, CA 94103 Festival in San Francisco. Telephone: (415) 487-7000 Internet: [email protected] AOL: XaosTools 20 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 Washington Apple Pi General Meeting 4th Saturday, Sept. 24, 1994 • 9:00 a.m. Community & Cultural Center Northern VA Community College • 8333 Little River Turnpike Annandale, Virginia Oct. 22, 1994 Nov.19,1994 A multi-vendor Casady & Greene look at office graphics and printing • plus the tradHlonal '------~-"Vendor to be named later" From the Beltway CI-495) take Exit 6 west on VA 236 approx. 1 mile. Turn left into the campus of Northern Virginia Comm. College. C Loop around to the rear D ~ parking lots, and walk to 11111 the Community & Cultural - Center Building. ~ Northern Virginia Community College There is abundant free parking adjacent to the Community & Cultural Center. Note that you must be present to win one of the drawing prizes! No exceptions. September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 21 called the driver. Your driver was written by someone at Calculator Era who was not paid enough money. It really is not compatible Good News & Bad with System 7. That's the bad news. "Even worse: if you go out and About Glenda's System buy a compatible driver, such as FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit Personal An interview with Lawrence Charters in 2 parts Edition, you have to erase the hard drive to install it properly. This by Nancy Seferian isn't something you normally have to do with Hard Disk Toolkit, but the Calculator Era driver creates so LENDA FINLEY WAS ROM, complete with its own pro many problems that such a drastic having some trouble now gramming. The program comes in step is required. If you continue to and then with her com two parts. The part that is built into use the Calculator Era driver, G sooner or later you're going to lose puter. PageMaker wasn't working the drive is in the ROM. The other quite right. She couldn'timportany part of it is called the driver. The every single thing on your hard files into it, and generally her whole driver is stored on an invisible part drive with no hope ofrecovery. And system seemed kind of slow and of the hard drive called the boot we have someone right here who sluggish. She had read the font partition. will testify to that." As he finished article developed after an interview I had with Lawrence Charters when he helped me organize my fonts, and Glenda and I wondered if he would take a look at her whole system and talk about it with us sort of neaten up her system, ana lyze it, help organize it a little bet ter and explain things as he went along. He agreed, and Glenda and I met him at the Pi office one Satur day, with her computer in hand. The Bad News He began by doing a prelimi nary run through the system so he could get a general idea of it before we started talking about it. Among the things that he noticed was that she had a hard drive that she bought at Calculator Era [disguised name of computer vendor], and he began "When you turn the machine on, the bad news he pointed to me, and our session with some bad news. the Mac first checks its own ROM. he was right. That was exactly what "The drive itself might be won Then it does a check ofits RAM. The happened to me. derful, but the program they had more memory it has the longer it "So now what do I do?" she that formats the drive, the driver, takes to start up. Then it checks the asked. ahem, ahem, [expletive deleted] is floppy disk. Then it checks the hard "You need to buy a program like too modest a phrase to use. A Mac disk. The boot partition has a pro Hard Disk Toolkit or La Cie's hard drive is, itself, a full blown gram that immediately loads into Silverlining. I use Silverlining, but computer that you use for storage, RAM; it tells the computer how to Hard Disk Toolkit is equally good. and it has its own RAM, and its own use the hard drive. That part is In the meantime, you have to back 22 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 I up everything. There are two ways to do that. One way is to back up We can turn your graphic files into onto floppies. Ifyou do it that way it will take eight million floppies. The other way to do it is to find someone who has a large external drive that Color Posters they can hook up to your machine and just copy everything off. That's that demand attention. by far the best method. When you restore everything after reformat ting your hard drive, you're going to imP.!.~ll restore everything except your Sys ALEXANDRIA, VA 703-971-5295 tem Folder. You're going to have to •Busines.s Graphics •Backdrops •Courtroom Exhibits •Comps, Sro~ •E.xhibi~ ·~aps •Mu~ build a new System Folder from & Fine Art •Point ofI\m:ha<;c •Posters •Pre.scncacions •Product Photos •Rerail Displays •Scientific Graphics scratch. There will be parts of it •Signs & Logos •Trade Show Displays •Training Aid<> you'll keep such as your fonts, but you're just going to reinstall your Kit?" Checking out the system System. You don't want to restore "It's like $60-$70, something like "Now back to the main reason your old System because it has been that. And Silverliningis $149. Any for looking at your computer and corrupted. way, that has nothing to do with checking out and cleaning up your "This is not something to be a what we're supposed to be doing, hard disk. The first thing I looked little bit alarmed about. This is but that was the first thing I no for was what System you're run something to be greatly alarmed ticed," he said. ning, and you're running System 7. about," he added. Basically, in 1994, if anyone is us "But how can a consumer know ing a computer that is not running this when they go to buy?" Glenda System 7 they need to either con wondered. "Things are much vert over to System 7 immediately "If you buy an Apple computer better with System 7. or buy a newer Mac. System 7 has with an Apple disk inside it, format been out for four years. There's no ted with Apple's driver, it's compat Apple Menu Items, reason in this day and age, if you ible. But Calculator Age, probably have any version of an LC, any ver to save some money, stuck in their Control Panels, sion of a Mac II, any version of a own drive, and stuck in their own Power Book, any version of a driver, and the driver's not compat Extensions, and Quadra ... " ible with System 7. Preferences all have "SE?" "Most of the places that offered "I didn't mention that yet, but cut rate drives with really bad driv their own folders any computer that has a 68020 ers have gone bankrupt~ So there's processor or better. If you have an less danger of this happening now within the System SE/30, you should also be running than in the past." System 7. The one exception to that Thinking about the reformat Folder, and this rule is ifyou have a regular SE or a ting software she asked, "So which greatly decreases the Plus. At that point it really becomes one do you think I should get? a debate. However, you'd be much Silverlining or Hard Disk Tool Kit size of the System File. happier, and Apple would be much Personal Edition?" happier, if you just went out and "I personally prefer Silverlining, Perhaps even more bought an LC or a Performa or a but Hard Disk Tool Kit Personal Quadra or something that runs on Edition is cheaper, and many of the important, it greatly System 7. In terms of managing reasons why I prefer Silverlining decreases the clutter in your system, System 7 is much are irrelevant. You probably aren't easier than System 6. going to be doing any ofthose things the System Folder. "Here's an example: with anyway. System 6 you had little programs "How much is Hard Disk Tool September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 23 called FKeys. FKey is short for "For the ultimate in ease of the System File, so that you can function key. When you install an management you want to use have one set of fonts when you're FKey you install it in the System System 7.1, or the even newer doing newsletters for the church File, not just the System Folder, but System 7 Pro. These versions of the and another set offonts when you're the System File. And when you operating system add a Fonts folder, writing your SF 171 to get employed install a font, it is also installed in bringing even more order to the by the Federal Government. There the System File. When you install a System Folder." are other programs that would allow sound, you also install it in the you to do this, but Suitcase is by far System File. Everything goes into System File vs. System Folder the best utility. It's been around the System File, and I have seen "Another thing we should clarify forever. It's bullet proof and I own System 6 machines with just one is the difference between the System no stock in Fifth Generation. megabyte of memory where the File and the System Folder. If I do Anyway, check out Nancy's font System File was eight megabytes. a Get Info on your System File it's article for more info on that issue." When you turn on the computer, going to tell me that it's 1,044K. If! you might as well go out to lunch do a Get Info on your System Folder Check out the System Folder because it will take a long time to it tells me that it's 7.6 megabytes. "The next thing you should do is boot. There's a huge difference there. A just go through your System Folder. "Things are much better with lot of people think that when we're Select View in the menu bar and System 7. Apple Menu Items, talking about System Files we're then select By Name. Then, Control Panels, Extensions, and really talking about System Folders, beginning at the top of your System Preferences all have their own and they don't realize the difference. Folder go down through each file folders within the System Folder, In System 7 .1 you can have any size and folder and find out everything and this greatly decreases the size of System Folder. My computer at that's in there. Ifit is a file that you can of the System File. Perhaps even home has a System Folder that is double click on, it does not belong in more important, it greatly decreases about 75 megabytes. It's a fairly the system folder. I have seen people the clutter in the System Folder. hefty chunk of real estate, but it's stick all kinds of junk in the System got a whole bunch of fonts, Folder. Some people, for example, dictionaries and other things in put Font D/A Mover and Disk First Index to there. All neatly organized. Aid in there. Advertisers "Basically, if it's anything that Get Suitcase you as a human would ever use, it "Back to cleaning up your does not belong in the System Folder. A Computerist ...... 16 system. Your primary goal should There are two main reasons, the first Adobe ...... 1, 7 be to see that your System File is as one being thatitclutters up the folder. small as possible. Ifyou're running A more important reason: when your AllNet Service Center ...... 71 System 6, 7.0 or 7.0.1 you should Mac starts up, it scans everything get Suitcase. It allows you to store that's in your System Folder to find Arminius ...... 19 fonts outside of the System File. out whether or not it needs to pay Dupont Computers ...... 9 The smaller the System File the attention to it. If you have something better. The more stuff you have in that doesn't belong in there all it does FC Business Systems ...... 6 your System File, the greater the is make the machine slower." chance that one day you're going to Greencastle Graphics ...... 25 turn on your computer and see that Some things you don't need Impact Reprographics ...... 23 question mark that means the hard "Here's a typical example: if you disk is gone. When that happens own PageMaker or Freehand, look in Multicom 94 ...... C2 the hard disk isn't really gone, it the Aldus Utilities folder inside the means your System File is System Folder. The PageMaker and MacUpgrades ...... C4 corrupted. Freehand installers always put a copy Publishers Service Bureau .. C3 "So you want to get as much of of TeachText there. Throw it away; it that stuffout and the best way to do isn't a System 7 version ofTeachText. TCS ...... 5 that is with Suitcase. Suitcase will You probably already have at least store fonts and sets offonts outside eight million copies of TeachText. 24 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 "Aldus also puts the Aldus Illustrator folder. So we'll just Installer Utility there. It's a nice utility, throw that away. We just went useful for more than installing Aldus through your System looking for products. Among other things, it has TeachText and found 80k worth options that will allow you to check of duplicate copies of for damaged fonts, or fonts with TeachTexts. My record is one duplicate font IDs. If things aren't gu y who had 90 copies of printing right or you' re printing with TeachText. It was truly one font but anotherone shows up on amazing." your laser printer, this utility offers a great way for figuring out the The Apple Menu Folder, problem. What's in it? "But it doesn't belong in the "The next folder we'll check System Folder; stick the Aldus is the Apple Menu folder. It Installer Utility in your Utilities folder. also has things that you will And if you don' t have a Utilities not need. You have a Mac Ilsi folder, create one and place it and here is a battery desk ac Affordable somewhere other than in your System cessory, useful only on Desktop Publishing Folder." PowerBooks. Let's toss that. I Just then Glenda noticed that almost always throw away the & Graphic Design Promotional Brochures • Catalogs Lawrence had found her Utilities Alarm Clock. The reason is that Ad Layout & Design • 171's Folder almost immediately. She sooner or later some twit is Resumes • Newsletters Word Processing • Computer Illustrations asked, "What were you doing there? going to turn it on and it's go How did you find my Utilities folder ing to flash up in your Apple Greencastle Graphics so fast?" Menu and you won't have any Nancy Seferian "Rather than looking through all idea why your apple is flash- (202) 333-5244 the folders and files on your hard ing. It's flashing because the 1425 Foxhall Road, NW, Washington, DC 20007 alarm went off. My simple so drive, I just pressed U on the keyboard Call now fo r a free, no obligation, consultation or estimate. and your Mac went to the first thing lution to that is to always throw that had a U in its title." the Alarm Clock away. If you Lawrence created a new folder want to have a clock use Super which he placed on Glenda's desktop, Clock." and as he was looking through the Lawrence continued on down key and the Shift key at the same System Folder, he placed files that the list of items in the Apple Menu time, you see a different set of char didn' t belong in the System Folder in Folder. "Here's Calculator; you can acters. The font that we're looking this new folder. keep that. Chooser you need. Fast at is Chicago, and you can see that it "Here's another copy of Find is part ofNorton. These aliases has more choices available t han just TeachText. And that's an actual are something either you or some t he letters. If you select Zapf System ?version of TeachText. We'll one put here. As for Key Caps and Dingbats in Key Caps you will see throw that in your Utilities Folder Key Finder, you can probably get that Zapf Dingbats has all kinds of too. The reason for putting it there is rid of one or the other." funky characters. Without Key Caps that you never need it out on the "I never use either one of them." you'r e never going to discover all the desktop. All you have to do to open a "You don't?" kinds of characters your Mac can Read Me file is to click on it and it'll "No I don't really understand produce. You also have Key Finder open ifyou have TeachT ext anywhere what to do with them." and it is essentially the same thing. on your hard drive. ''They're neat. I'll show you." He Key Finder is part of Norton Utili "One of the easiest ways to see if doubled clicked to open Key Caps. ties." you have unneeded copies of Teach "These are all the keys in lower case He continued looking down the Text is to just look for the word that we're looking at. Now if you list in Apple Menu Folder. "Here is Teach. Type Command F and then hold down the Shift key you can see Norton Partition. I suggest you type Teach into the box. See, here's that all the keys are in upper case. throw this away. The whole idea of another copy of TeachText in your Then if you hold down the Option a partition is to divide your hard September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 25 I drive up into separate parts. The controlling the brightness on a Mac "Oh, it has nothing to do with a trouble with Norton Partition is that Classic, and you don't have a Mac network?" it really does not. divide the hard Classic, so it won't do you any good. '1t has a lot to do with a network. disk. Instead, it creates a password If you do a Get Info on the Cache Ifshe plugs her PowerBook into your protected file that can store other switch you'll see it says 040. Since Mac you've created a network. files. But like any other file, it can you don't have a 68040 in your Ilsi, "Here are the General Controls. be damaged, or infected by a virus. you don't need a Cache switch, so I'll just check that. It's always nice to So my recommendation is don't use you can throw it away. find out if your Mac actually knows Norton Partition. In fact, I wouldn't "Disk Light is part of Norton what month and year it is. You always recommend you use any part of Utilities, and I usually recommend want to make sure that ies set Norton Utilities, but instead some that people get rid of it because it properly. What time is it? Let's set thing like Public Utilities by Fifth causes problems. the exact time. Another feature of Generation. Norton Utilities is over ''Easy Access is a Control Panel General Controls is that it allows you due for an update." program for people who are to change how the desktop looks. So "But I don't really need to par you don't ever want to .throw away tition anything." General Controls. "Well, I'm notjust talking about "And you don't ever want to partitioning. Public Utilities is de "If you' re not on a throw away the Keyboard, which is signed to painlessly maintain your network, if you're not used to adjust how fast you keyboard hard drive. It works like this: when responds. I have my own key rate set ever your machine is idle because connected to another to fast and my delay rate set to short, you're not using it, for instance if because I'm a very fast typist. If a you go away to answer the tele machine, you want to slower typist uses my machine and phone, and you have an hour long tries to type, 1'm very happy,' they conversation with someone, Public be sure that File might end up with vvvvvvvvery, Utilities will scan your hard drive. Sharing is always because the key delay is set too short. When you come back there might Keyboard allows you to make be a message saying, 'Your disk is turned off. Turning adjustments. fragmented. You need to optimize "~. People usually don't it.' Normally the way that you find on File Sharing will know what this is for, but it's how out that you have a problem like you control the desktop menu item that is that your machine stops slow the speed of Labels. So you want to keep this here working correctly. Public Utilities your machine at least even if you never use it. monitors your hard drive con "Map. You'll probably want to stantly, so you can take corrective 30 percent." keep this. Most people don't know action in advance. It also has a what it's used for, but if you wanted backup program that's faster than to find out what the time is in London, Norton's, and has a better disk handicapped. What it does is to allow you just type London, and it'll tell optimizer. Generally speaking, it is you to use the keypad on the keyboard you what the time is in London and much more up to date, and painless with a mouth stick as if it's a mouse. how many miles away it is. Make to use. If you're not handicapped, there's sure you set it to your own location; "Look, here is a Puzzle, which really no particular reason to have note that Map knows where you don't use for anything. You also it." Washington is, but has never heard have Word Finder here. Word Finder "How about this File Sharing of Baltimore. Or Seattle. is a thesaurus which works with thing? I'm not on any network or "Memory. You will want to keep Microsoft Word 4.0. Since you are doing any file sharing. Shall I toss this. People usually don't have this using Word 5.0, throw it away." that?" set right. And yours is set right. "No, you probably will be doing There's a button here that says Use What are all those things in the file sharing. If at some point, for Default, and selecting that will set it Control Panel Folder? instance, somebody like Nancy brings to a default cache size for the amount "In the Control Panels Folder you over her PowerBook and you don't of memory that you have, but it also can usually find lots of things you have File Sharing on your computer, turns off 32 bit addressing." don't need. Brightness is for it would be hard to work together. "I don't have any idea what that 26 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 means." access. You don't want to just open "Startup Disk is useful if you "I'll show you. Your machine has up everything to the world. If there's ever want to connect another drive, 17 megabytes of RAM. If we turn off no password, someone can just grab so you want to make sure you have 32-bit addressing, your Mac can only anything at all off your machine that." use the first 8 megabytes; all the rest without restriction." ''You mean like when I connect is shown as being in use by your "Shall I put one in now?" the Bernoulli?" System. If you turn on 32-bit "I just typed in a nonsense one. "Right. And Users and Groups addressing, you can use all 17 But later on if you want to share files is basically used for networking. Even megabytes. withNancyyou cansetittosomething if you' re not networking you still want ''You also want to keep Monitors specific like Blue or Purple or anything to leave that here. because it controls whether your you want. The Macintosh name is "Views allows you to change the machineusesblackand whiteorcolor. just as important as the owner name. font you use for displaying what's on And the Mouse file controls how fast Again, it can be the same as the owner the screen. It's showing in Geneva 9 the mouse moves. name or it can be different. right now, but you can set it for any of "Date and Time is for setting the "If you're not on a network, if your fonts. Ifyou really want to amaze format for date and time. Your Mac you' re not connected to another people, set your display font to can actually display dates and times machine, you want to be sure that File Symbol, because that way everything the way the Europeans do, or the way Sharing is always turned off. Turning comes up in Greek and nobody can we do in the U.S. on File Sharing will slow the speed of read it. If I have somebody who's "Numbers does something your machine at least 30 percent. I've being a real pain, I like to set it to similar, setting the way numbers are known people who went out and Symbol. displayed. In the US we use decimals. bought a brand new Mac. They know "That's taking care of your Forinstance,38.3. Well, the Europeans it's supposed to be really powerful mischief side, right?" tend to use commas. And you can but it's working slower than expected. "Admit it; there are some people decide if you want the default symbol I checked and they had File Sharing who deserve it. Views is another way for our currency, or the English turned on. Their computer was to slow down your machine. You will pound, or a yen sign. working extra hard to share files with to slow down your machine a lot by "A lot of people don' tunderstand absolutely no one. turning on Calculate Folder Sizes and Sharing Setup. It gives your machine "Sharing Setup also has a to tum on all these buttons that give a name on a network. And it should Program Linking button; there are information about folders. Every time always, always, always contain really very few reasons why you you view a list of folders, the Calculate something other than a blank; type in would ever tum on Program Linking. Folder Sizes option forces you to wait your name, your cat's name, So you want to make sure those two as the Mac merrily figures out the something. If you have two machines options are turned off. sizes of all your folders. And if there on a network and they're both set to "Almost everyone who has a Mac are a lot of files in a folder, you will blank, other machines have real knowsaboutthefunmd control panel. wait quite awhile. If you had a trouble trying to figure how to copy a It's usually the very first thing they thousand files in the folder you could file from blank to blank. Which blank play with. It can also help you find write a small novel while the Mac is which? So you want to give your sounds in your system that people was busy calculating the folder sizes. machine a name." have added. With the Mac Ilsi or other So if you want to speed up your "Should this be the same name as models that come with microphones, machine make sure that's turned off. the hard drive?" sooner or later some kid will come "It doesn't matter. I also along and record something like the recommend you put in a password Gettysburg Address. It is recorded as Part 2 of this article will be in the even if it's nonsense; after all, you can a system beep sound. So your System October Journal change the password at any time. But grows because it's got this big sound you should have something there file in there. If you want to find out if because there are some clever things someone stuck sounds in there, just you can do with a Mac. For instance, click on the Sound control panel and you can actually share files over a it will list all the sounds in your modem. And if you're sharing files System. And allow you to remove over a modem (or network), you want them. to make sure you control who has September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 27 Making an Emergency Boot Disk by Murray Wheeler THIS ARTICLE EXPLAINS how to create a System 7.x boot disk (for emergencies) that you can run with an application. There is not enough room for the System, Finder and the application on the floppy. Norton Utilities and other third party vendors have emergency disks. Computers designed after October 1992 require system enablers; it is possible that the Norton emergency disk won't work. Follow these instructions to create a 7.x boot disk that works ony Macintosh model running System 7 .x: STEP ACTIGN 1 Run the system software installer for the type of Macintosh you have. It doesn't matter if your system came with system software on floppy (Install Me First disk) or on a CD-ROM. Ifyou are installing from a floppy, there is some disk swapping. 2 Install a "Minimum" System (for your specific Macintosh) on a 1.44 MB floppy. You can find this in the "Custom" options. This gives you the smallest possible System file, which should be under 750K for System 7.1. 3 Move the System file and enabler (if your Macintosh needs one) out of the System Folder to the root level of the disk (the same level as the System Folder itself). Throw the rest of the System Folder in the trash AND empty the trash. 4 Copy your application to the disk and change the application's name to Finder. There should be three things on the disk: System, Enabler (if needed), and Finder (which is really your application). NOTE: It is important that these items are at the root level of the disk and not within a System Folder or other folder, or on the desktop. 5 Restart your Macintosh with the startup disk you just created. Your Macintosh should start up into the application you placed on the floppy. • Our thanks to the folks at Apple Computer for providing the information on both pages 28 and 29 of this journal. (c) 1994, The Information Al,ley, Apple Computer, Inc. 28 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 3 Quit Newton Connection 1.0 and delete Switching from Newton or rename (see Note) the 1.0 synchroni Connection Kit 1.0 to 2.0 zation file. This ensures that Newton Connection 2.0 does not try to use the 1.0 file when synchronizing. From the Technical Information Library 4 Ifyou have not already done so, install SYNCHRONIZED FILES created with Newton Newton Connection 2.0 Connection Kit 1.0 are incompatible with Newton Con nection Kit 2.0 and vice versa This means you cannot use 5 LaunchNewtonConnection2.0andsyn 2.0 to Synchronize or restore from a 1.0 file. Therefore, chronize. This creates a new 2.0 syn before using Newt.on ConnectionKit2.0perfonn these steps. chronization file with the data currently in your Newton. Note: Once you are comfortable using the new version, Launch Newton Connection 1.0 we suggest you delete the old Newton Connection Kit 1.0. 2 Synchronize. This makes sure your continued page 31 Newton (and PCMCIA card if applicable) contains all the information you may have added to the 1.0 synchro nize file since the last synchronization. .Tips. an(::t Tidbits . WhY January 1,. 1904? . f11e ori~al Macin~sh dev~lopment ~am WAP thanks Information Alley. September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 29 Service Test Print Yes, you can run a quick check LaserWriter Tips ofyour LaserWriter II by pressing a hidden button. Here's how to find by Kel Humphreys that button, and print a test page consisting of vertical parallel lines, Squeaky LaserWriter II? very tightly spaced. Find the part of your printer cabinet that's on the F YOUR IASERWRITER II squeaks or chirps all the time right side (indicated by the dotted (contrasted with making noise only when printing), lift the lid and rectangle in the diagram). It starts I check ifthe noise is coming from the right rear ofthe printer. Ifso, you at the lowest edge of the printer, may have a noisy upper fan. To confirm this, look for the black rubber forming a basic L-shape where it circle set into the vertical metal chassis wall that runs front-to-back inside fits into the rest of the printer. You the printer, back in the direction of the power switch. This rubber circle may have to slide the printer so the (containing one of the fan shaft bearings) has a shiny silver center, which right side's bottom edge is accessible, is actually one end of the fan shaft. There are two types of bearings: one or tilt up the printer. You'll see the looks like a top hat, and the other is almost flush with the wall, but both rectangular cutout. Reach under the are treated the same. Take a pencil point and press lightly on the shaft bottom edge and pull out and up. end. Ifit's the upper fan motor causing the noise, your pressure changes Don't worry about breaking the shaft loading, and thus the pitch of the noise. anything-it snaps back into place To cure this, you really ought to replace the whole fan. (Apple does sell easily. Once you've got this section the bearings to dealers, but good luck trying to get one.) You may be able of "skin" removed, you'll be able to to solve the problem by putting a drop or two ofvery light oil onto the silver see the hole in the metal chassis shaft end. Ifyou feel adventurous, you can pry out the rubber bearing cup that the cover was hiding. (You with a small screwdriver, and really clean the gunk out of the porous Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II owners bronze bearing inside. The problem is that it treats only the accessible end are chortling now, because you never of the shaft. had anything covering your access If that squeaking noise occurs only when you're printing, try hole in the first place.) Ifyour printer changing your toner cartridge. Many of the world's ills can be solved by is on and idle, you can take a pencil replacing the toner cartridge-spots, streaks and smudges, squeaks, and poke the eraser down into the grinds and thumps can all arise in the toner cartridge. Try keeping an old hole and depress the rubber-covered toner cartridge on hand just for troubleshooting purposes. It helps to have button. This will start a test ofyour a cartridge whose flaws you know. print engine called a Service Test Print. Part way through the printing cycle the button will allow another test print. When would you need a test print? Whenever you need to check Power Swit.ch ""' if the basic printer is working, exclusive of its interfaces to the outside world. This is a print engine test. If you've any familiarity with printer models, it won't be any surprise to hear that Apple (and other manufacturers, too) take the same basic print engine, wrap different levels of printing and/or communicating smarts into it, and jJt Print Density Control sell them as different models. Thus, the LaserWriter II family all have the same basic print engine, which Apple LaserWriter II Top View Side View can be tested by pushing this button. 30 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 It's a valuable test for the technician engine is a real workhorse and at your site or on the bench. Ifyour doesn't need a lot of help reaching a test print is OK, then you know that good old age. Over two years ago our Switching from the problem is either in your I/O NTX at then-MacinOffice had Newton Connection board or your network cabling or 525,000 copies and was still going your Mac. The I/O board (Input/ strong. I expect this printer will Kit 1.0 to 2.0 Output) is the one board that makes continue to be with us for decades to it an SC, NT, NTX, For G. come. Beside all the Apple variants, continued from page 29 other vendors used the same engine Ozone Filter in their printers, most notably Ifyou do decide to keep any 1.0 files Some LaserWriters have a Hewlett Packard, who sold many around, please keep a copy of New fli'p-down door near the upper fan, more LaserJet !Is than Apple did ton Connection Kit 1.0 around. If as shown in the diagram. It offers LaserWriter !Is. There are a number you accidentally, restore a 1.0 file access to the pressed-carbon, of third-party suppliers who using Newton Connection Kit 2.0, honeycomb-like ozone filter that's specialize in this Canon LBP-SX you will see a -48025 error when accessible on earliest LaserWriters family of print engines-you'll be you try to synchronize. only by removing the whole fan able to get parts for years, and the shroud assembly. Do you need to do service technician's skill level can Perform the following steps to cor anything with this filter? Keep it be expected to stay higher than for rect this problem: clean, if you can get to it. You may most other printers. If you are think the upper fan was engineered interested in upgrading your "old" STEP ACTION into the printer to keep heat down LaserWriter II, look in the usual in the printer compartment. Not so. Mac magazines for some of these Quit Newton Connection 2.0 The fan is present only to move air suppliers. They can often sell you through the carbon ozone filter. the next-level-up (or two) I/O board 2 Launch Newton Connection Ozone is a byproduct of the high straight out, no swap, cheaper than 1.0 voltages used in these laser printers, you could get your current I/O board and ozone is not a good thing in repaired by a dealer. Another pretty 3 Using Newton Connection excess. When these printers were good deal ...Apple will swap out the 1.0 restore the 1.0 synchro introduced (including the original entire print engine pretty cheaply. nize file onto Newton. LaserWriter) there was concern that You keep your I/O board and power too much ozone in an office cord and toner cartridge, and the 4 Quit Newton Connection 1.0 environment wouldn't be healthy, Dealer moves a new print engine so steps were taken to keep it to a into place for around $500 or less. I 5 Delete the old 2.0 synchron minimum. Should you worry about haven't handled one yet, but I think ize files yours? Only once has a customer it's a well-kept secret. There have asked me to replace his ozone filter. been some extensive LaserWriter II 6 Launch Newton Connection Ifyou work in a cramped office with repairs where this replacement 2.0 poor air circulation, have frequent would have made more sense than headaches, or experience any other the repair. • 7 Synchronize using Newton odd symptoms that your diligent Connection 2.0. research shows could be caused by KelHumphreys is Senior Macintosh ozone excess, or ifyour rubber chair Technician at FC Business Systems. That'sit! Youarenowready wheels keep collapsing to dust, then He has used Macs in a corporate togo. • you might want to address the ozone environment, sold Macs, and headed problem. Most users don't bother. a Mac service operation. He Just keep the dust off yours so your continually ponders the inequities fan won't seize up and cause you a of Mac power node distribution in lot of aggravation. the DC area, wondering at the vacuum in Montgomery County. A Word Of Praise... The LaserWriter II print September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 31 I EtherWaves cost somewhat more than regular transceivers, but they offer wiring flexibility and save you Networks-Through Thick the cost of a hub if used in a small office setting. There are three common types and Thin (and lOBaseT) ofwiring used with EtherNet: thick, thin and lOBaseT. Thick and thin by John O'Reilly coaxial wiring is generally high qual ity, but is expensive, and quickly falling out offavor. lOBaseT, on the other hand, uses phone-quality wir COV times faster that, or 57,600 bps. AST ISSUE WE ing. It is not identical to LocalTalk the details of starting ERED The speed is limited by the sending wiring, however(see below). We will to share files on your and receiving machines, and the focus on lOBaseT for the balance of DMacintosh with other Macs on your nature of the wiring scheme. If this article, as it is an excellent and LocalTalk network. If you are al you're looking to run simple e-mail, affordable choice in today's market. ready comfortable with file sharing, transfer text files around, and print Most new Macs now come with or know you need to get your Macs to laser printers, a LocalTalk net an EtherNet port on the back of the networked, but you don't know what work should be adequate for your machine. This is disingenuous hardware and software you'll need, needs, up to about 8-10 users. you still need to buy an adapter, this primer may help. However, ifyou're moving larger calledatransceiver, touseit. Trans First, let's examine the termi files, sharing a database across the ceivers cost anywhere from $45 to nology. AppleTalk is a communica net, or using a server to store infor $75, andyoumustspecify"lOBaseT" tions protocol built into every mation needed by the whole office, and "AAUI"when ordering. "AAUI" Macintosh, Apple Printer (save the using anEtherNet wiring setup may is NOT to be confused with"AUi" original ImageWriter and some of work to your advantage. Simply "AUi" is the DOS/Windows world the cheesy "Personal" printers from put, EtherNet is much more expen standard, while "AAUI" is appro a couple of years ago), Newton, and sive to install and run, but the cost priate for Apple hardware (Macs with proper communications card, difference is much smaller now than and printers). The first A stands for even some PCs. AppleTalk divides it was only eighteen months ago, Apple. your outgoing data in packets, ad ·and with the increase in size of even Ifyou have a not-so-recent Mac, dresses it to another destination on basic documents for many applica there are lots of options for retrofit your network, and sends it out along tions, you will notice a difference. ting. Ifyou have a Mac with NuBus your wiring, whatever kind of wir The speed improvement is roughly slots in back (such as a Ilci, Ilcx, or ing you have. five times that of LocalTalk. How Ilx), you can get an EtherNet card The wiring found most com ever, we will also discuss cost and from several manufacturers which monly is called LocalTalk cabling. convenience factors that muddle the will combine the EtherNet protocol You can useApple-brandAppleTalk answer below. with the transceiver, all for under locking connectors, or the less ex First and foremost, EtherTalk $100. (The difference between get pensive phone wire version, called requires some sort of controller to ting a NuBus card and just a trans Local Talk or PhoneNet-a Farallon manage traffic. Small offices (un ceiver is only about $40 on average, trademark-connectors. The phone der eight nodes) have two choices demonstrating the tru:e value of the wire versions require inexpensive buy a small EtherNet hub, at a cost AAUI port on the Mac. On the other connector boxes that hang off your of $300-500, or use a product such hand, NuBus slots are limited and serial printer port (with the little as Farallon's EtherWave, which you may want to use it for some printer icon) and have two phone serves the same function as the thing else.) One caveat: smaller jack connectors (called RJ-11) on transceivers mentioned above, but cases, such as the Centris 610, re the other end. also permit a small hubless net quire a NuBus adapter card, which LocalTalk communications is work, enabled by daisy-chaining de adds another $75 or so! The adapter limited in speed, although it is sig vices. Regular hubs, in contrast, allows the NuBus card to fit hori nificantly faster than, say, a 14.4 implement a star network, each node zontally inside the smaller case, modem connection. It runs about 4 connected directly to the main hub. unlike the vertical orientation of 32 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 the other machines. ingly expensive, as they do not add retrofitting prohibitively expensive. Still other configurations are much speed to the printing process; Hope still exists! If you can spring possible. Compact Macs, such as they simply transfer the EtherNet for EtherNet for newer machines, the SE/30, can use a PDS card (the signals into the LocalTalk port of you can buy a Local-to-Ether bridge SE/30 has only one slot inside), but the printer, losing the speed advan such as a TribeStar. This gives you this card is significantly more ex tage in the process. two excellent advantages over a pensive than the NuBus card, to the Another solution is to use a soft standard LocalTalkdaisy-chain: you tune of $70 more. Classic Macs and ware bridge. Attach the printer to a have to star-connect the machines, PowerBooks can communicate on Mac on the EtherNet, drop the soft which provides for slightly more ef the network at EtherNet speed ware into the host Mac's extension ficient traffic of your packets, and through their SCSI port (usually folder, and the host Mac will per each machine has a direct route to used for external hard drive or CD form the chore of publishing the the EtherNetlanes ofyour own little ROM player). SCSI EtherNet boxes printer across the network and trans information highway. This made a are even more expensive-as a rule, lating it for the slower printer. This tremendous performance difference the older your machine design, the method is significantly cheaper($100 in my office. So you can hang all more costly the retrofit. SCSI boxes per node instead of $280 or more), your old Macs and printers off local run well over $200. but carries the drawback that the talk and still get a significant speed Printers are yet another ques host Mac must be on for anyone else boost. TribeStars are expensive tion, and potentially a key one. Only on the network to use the attached ($1200+) but can save you a barrel recently have manufacturers begun printer. I have used Sonic Systems' of money if you have a bunch of putting EtherNet ports in their la PowerBridge to hangfour printers off olderMacs. • ser printers, so odds are you11 have a 12-node Mac network with success. to use some sort ofspecial hardware Let's say, however, your office is box to get your printer on the net mixed, with enough older machines Next month: EtherNet nuts and work. These boxes are frustrat- and printers to make a complete bolts. bags, umbrellas and other freebies, and shopped for billions of dollars of merchandise. But there's more. For me, someone from the Other MacWorld and Moose Coast, a visit to MacWorld is an excuse to see parts ofthe country I'd © 1994 Lawrence I. Charters never seen before. Zipping up the immaculately maintained interstate highways, through the scenic Delaware, New Jersey, New York, ESKTOP PUBLISHING Instead, let's look at the Connecticut and Massachusetts might be blazing fast, but MacWorld Experience. Most Mac suburban wonderlands, enjoyingthe D it isn't fast enough for some users have never been to a alert, careful, courteous East Coast things. By the time this reaches MacWorld, which is a major shame. drivers - this is an experience not print, you will have heard all about MacWorld Expos have been going to be duplicated elsewhere. the wondrous goodies introduced at on for ten years now, dating back to And the tourist sites! Boston MacWorldBoston(Aug. 2-5). I could the original 128K Macintosh of Commons, the oldest public park in tell you what the "hot" products are 1984. Millions of people have America, cradle of liberty, training going to be, but then I'd look foolish walked tens of millions of miles of ground for British soldiers prior to when my predictions bombed MacWorld corridors, consumed the Revolution, and sometime cow between the time I wrote them and millions ofbaseball park-priced bad pasture. I never would have the time you read them. Since I can hotdogs at the exposition center imagined it to be surrounded by a look foolish without the effort of food stands, collected megatons of stout iron fence. The price of liberty making predictions, why bother? buttons, pens, pencils, T-shirts, is eternal vigilance, and ifthis means September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 33 locking up Boston Commons, it is a the question on the spot. what they said, but be honest: I'm small price to pay. "What are you doing?" never going to run System 7 .5 on my "I didn't bring any paper, so I'm Mac 512K." Windows does it all going to send myself an E-mail "How can you say they've Scene: Apple's pavilion outside message reminding me to look it abandoned you? Your Mac is 10 the World Trade Center. This huge up. Then I'll send you the answer years old, and you use it every day. tent was widely viewed as the place via E-mail." How many cars have you gone to see the hottest goodies, due in no "I understand that part, but it through in the past ten years? Did small part to temperatures in the looks like you are logging on to a General Motors provide better 90s, high humidity and rotten air remote machine." support and upgrades than Apple?" conditioning. "I am. This is in my living room "That's different." "But this must run under in Cupertino." Windows. Our ADP people told me ''You set up an Internet node in MacWorld Florida Windows can do anything a your living room?" Prior to this trip, there were Macintosh can do, only better," said "Why not. Hmmm, my wife has four states I'd never visited: Florida, the smartly clad executive. turned offher computer. I was going Vermont, New Hampshire and "No, System 7.5 is strictly for to leave her a message. (Sigh.) I Maine. On the way back, we made a the Macintosh," explained the suppose I could call her on the deliberate wrong turn and drove youthful, polo-shirted Apple telephone." through Maine, New Hampshire engineer. and Vermont. After a lobster dinner "Are you sure? Maybe you Things I didn't buy in Maine, we encountered a Moose should ask someone more Most interesting titles or Crossing sign a few miles into New experienced, young man." promotions at the show: Hampshire. This inspired my Desktop Life (for theAquazone daughter and I to compose the Bumbershoots desktop aquarium). following: Scene: outside the World Trade Leather Trimmed Computer Center. A quick, violent downpour Travelers (for leather PowerBook Ten Good Things About Moose has soaked a long line of and Newton carrying cases). by Lykara & Lawrence MacWorlders standing in line for Samurai Pervert Interactive the free shuttle buses between World (X-rated CD-ROM title from 10. Moose don't fly. Trade and the Bayside Exposition Japan). 9. Santa doesn't use them. Center. Rearrange Your Face 8. They don't wear neckties. "Look at me, I'm a mess. I told (promotion for Morph 2.5 special 7. They don't have guns. you to watch the WordPerfect demo effects software). 6. Damn. (See 7). and get a free umbrella, but no, you Most Expensive Monitor Stand 5. They're herbivores. didn't want to miss anything," said (sign taped to an inactive Pentium 4. Only one ugly mooslingpermoose one Significant Other to the other. computer being used as a monitor mating per year. "Use this to dry off a bit," said stand). 3. They don't eat lobster. the Other Significant Other, offering 2. They don't eat microwave popcorn. a hand towel given away by Asante, Next time, try Volvo 1. They don't jet ski. emblazoned with the slogan, The Scene: a restaurant near a Hitchhikers Guide to Networking. motel virtually taken over by Next stop: Florida. • "Even my socks are soaked. Was MacWorlders. A man in his fifties anyone giving away socks?" has been talking about all the cars he has owned since he retired from Watson, I need you the Army, 11 cars in 12 years. The Scene: the Apple pavilion. A subject inevitably returns to MacWorlder has asked an Apple computers. engineer a question about "I'm very disappointed at how telecommunications in System 7 .5. Apple is treating their original core The Apple engineer doesn't have of enthusiasts. They've abandoned the information he needs to answer all the old Mac owners. Yes, I heard 34 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 The Hotline service is only for members of the WAP. Please do not call after 9:30 pm or before 8:00 am. 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Write File to Temporary File .... Upload Mode Toggle TCS Help Sheet (No Reply Mode) ..... Public Library ..... Prompt Character .... Adjust Pointers .... Purge Temporary File September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 39 I When your computer begins to do things out of the ordinary, or when it stops being able to do things Oh Nol You've Caught it has always done in the past. The problem with this is that corrupted system files can lead to similar a Virus! symptoms even though a virus isn't involved. When problems occur, they From the Technical Information Library are much more likely to be the result of non-virus difficulties. When you have ruled out the standard problem areas, you should look into the What is a Virus? viruses for several years now. The possibility that your system has been A virus is a program with two most common method of attack is infected by a virus. distinct functions: through the COMMAND.COM file. • It spreads itself from machine The Macintosh community has been -What to Look For IfYou Think to machine (self-reproducing code). lucky to have gone so long without You Have A Virus This includes the actual infection of virus programming becoming the Look for invisible files in your other systems as well as the stashing thing to do. System folder that don't belong away ofcode into as many "carriers" there. Unless you specifically have as possible. Not all Viruses are Meant an application that creates invisible to be Damaging, But ... files in the System folder, every • It implements the "symptoms" Viruses are not all meant to be invisible file in the System folder planned by the perpetrator of the damaging. The programmer may virus. This could be any number of just want to prove he or she can do should be suspect. Also, a general things, up to and including erasing it and have the satisfaction of check of all the files in your System a disk on a specific date. reading about it in magazines and folder for resources that don't belong on the BBS network. Sometimes, in those files is well worth the effort. A Bit of History these viruses can cause problems Computer viruses have been anyway. -Files and Resources a Virus around for almost as long as For example, the virus that has Might Infect computers. John Van Neumann, the prompted this series of articles was • Any and all applications father of the modern computer, meant to be benign except in specific • HyperCard Stacks (the MacMag toyed with the idea of self cases. However, it takes up memory virus was spread viaHyperCard reproducing computer code as early and processing time and has caused stack) as 1948. In the late 1970s, there was random side effects such as printing • Files in the System folder, even a training ground for writing problems and system crashes. including of viruses. It was a program called •System Core Wars that implemented an Don't Panic; Don't Overreact • Finder artificial environment pitting two If you think that you have a • Note Pad file virus programs against each other. virus, it's important to not overreact. • Scrapbook file It is important to take a step back • Clipboard file Viruses are Not Unique and evaluate the situation calmly. • Easy Access to the Macintosh Once you know that you have a • Sound The Macintosh is not the only virus and what it has infected, it is •Mouse system to be plagued by viruses. a relatively easy thing to combat. • Startup Device Mainframe and minicomputers are This article contains enough • Monitors also targets for virus programmers. information for you to deal with • Color One of the most recent mainframe most viruses. • General incidents was the virus that invaded • Keyboard IBM's mail system and brought it to The Great Virus Hunt • LaserWriter its knees for a couple of days. IBM -When Do You Suspect you • ImageWriter PC users have been experiencing Might Have a Virus? • AppleTalk ImageWriter • ImageWriter LQ 40 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 In other words, all system files. advent of a variety of screens has -INITs in the System File led to different vertical retrace When a Macintosh boots, the -Files a Virus Might Damage periods. INITs in the System file in the Inadvertently VBL tasks can be installed in "blessed" folder are the first code to Any file on an infected volume the queue by any program. The be executed. These INITs should or system, including system files, program has to load a routine into a generally be Apple INITs only documents, applications, etc. section of memory and install the any non-Apple INITs should be routine into the VBL queue by considered suspect. -Public Domain Issues calling the Vinstall ROM routine. It Most viruses spread via public is the responsibility ofthe installing -The INIT 31 Mechanism bulletin board systems and are program to make sure the segment A special INIT in the System hidden in public domain programs. of memory containing the routine file, INIT 31, was created to allow Sexy Ladies, a program distributed remains available even after the forthe execution ofnon-Apple INITs atMacWorldExpoinSanFrancisco, program has exited. Each VBL task without having them installed in erased whatever hard disk or floppy has a specified time period it should the System file itself. When all of disk it was on when it was launched. be left "asleep" before it is called. the other INITs in the System file Every time the routine is executed, have been executed, INIT 31 walks -Network Issues a counter is decremented for that through the System folder looking The use of networks can easily routine. When that counter reaches for files of types INIT, Chooser, or enhance the spread of a virus. zero, the routine is deleted from the Control Panel, and executes any Different scenarios are possible, queue unless the routine itselfresets INIT resources it finds in these files. with the simplest being a public the counter. The files are loaded in domain folder on a server that Lengthy VBL tasks such as the alphabetical order. Needless to say, everyone gets the latest neat stuff one that might be used to replicate a simple way for hiding parts of a from. Also, shared applications a virus can interfere with the normal virus is to drop INITs into legitimate residing on a server could become operation of the Macintosh by files already existing in the System infected, which would then infect interrupting processes that folder with these file types. every machine that those shouldn't be interrupted. A perfect applications were run on. example of this is printing to a -Control Panels LaserWriter over an AppleTalk Control Panel files (file type How Viruses Propagate network. If a VBL task takes too cdev) indicates a file containing a Viruses can propagate by a long in its execution, the printing Control Panel device. When the variety of methods. The most process could terminate abnormally Control Panel is loaded, it walks common way for a Macintosh virus and leave the machine's connection through the directory ofthe System to replicate itselfis to have an INIT to the network in an unstable state. folder looking for any files of type (Extension) that installs a For the purposes of a virus, an cdev. When it finds a file of this background (VBL) task that checks INIT (also called an Extension) is type, it loads the Iconnumber(ICN#) for specific occurrences, such as a most likely to be the culprit of the file (assuming it has one) into disk insertion, and then copies itself responsible for installing a VBL the list of icons shown on the left somewhere to that disk. task. side of the Control Panel. When you click on the icon of the cdev in the -VBLTasks -INITs/Extensions Control Panel, the code in the cdev The Macintosh has always had INITs are routines that are run resource in the file of the type cdev a limited form of background when the Macintosh is booted. For is executed. A virus could easily use processing available to it through the most part, they have full access this mechanism as a way to infect a the use of the Vertical BLanking to all of the commands normally system, install a VBL task, etc. (VBL) queue. Every time the screen available to a standard Macintosh Many control Panel files have on a Macintosh (except for a program. The major difference is INITs in them with the cdev Macintosh II) is refreshed, any that the low memory global routines controlling the settings that the routines installed in the queue are have not been set up yet, so any Extension uses when it is installed. executed. The Macintosh II has a INIT needing access to structures A good example ofthis is the settings "dummy" VBL queue for normallystoredinlowmemorymust for a screen blanker. The Extension compatibility reasons since the create its own. actually installs the VBL task, but September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 41 I the Control Panel controls when -Applications that Allow system for any infections before dimming occurs. None of the External Procedures being copied to a hard disk based standard Apple system Control Viruses could take advantage of system. This also protects you Panel files have Extensions fin them, the external procedures that are from any "Trojan Horse" but there is nothing to prevent a allowed by some applications. The programs such as Sexy Ladies. virus from installing an Extension perfect example of this is in these files as a way of hiding its HyperCard, with its XCMDs and • Quarantine infected systems code. XFCN s. This is the MacMag virus If you identify a system as was transmitted. (Uploaded to being infected with a virus, -Drivers CompuServe in 1988, its sole immediately isolate Driver (DRVR) resources purpose was to display a "universal (quarantine) it from other typically can have one of two message ofpeace" on March 2, 1988.) systems. This means functions. They can be the code for: disconnectingfrom any network • A desk accessory Safeguarding Your System and not letting anyone take any • Drivers necessary for the -What Makes Our System files from the exposed system to system to perform some functions Susceptible to Viruses? another system. Once the such as printing The various mechanisms system has been "disinfected", Once again, the key word here described earlier in this article make you can let the files be copied or is "code". Whenever code is involved, our system easy to infiltrate by a moved. the potential arises for the virus. Remember that it is those perpetrator of a virus to take same mechanisms that add to the • Use a virus detector advantage of it. flexibility and "look and feel" of the Use a virus detector, such as Just as with Control Panels, Macintosh. For instance, the Disinfectant, public domain when a driver gets opened, either by Extension mechanism is used by software from Northwestern the choosing of a desk accessory or mail systems to load their code in. University; Vaccine, a public by the system, code is executed at AppleShare uses the Extension domain Extension written to that point. This is the stage at which mechanism to mount network block viruses, SAM (Symantec a virus might fulfill its purpose. volumes at boot time. Antivirus for Macintosh); or ResEdit, which is a good tool to -CODE Resources -Some Suggestions look for viruses on your disk. Each application has at least • Lock your master diskettes two CODE resources. The first of Always keep original Our thanks to the folks at Apple these CODE resources has an ID of "Master" disks locked. This Computer, Inc., Support 0 and contains what is known as the prevents a virus from spreading Information Services for providing jump table. to your original disks. Our disk this information to us. (c) 1994, The This table provides the basic locking mechanism is hardware lnformationAlley, Apple Computer, information necessary for various based-viruses can't infect Inc. parts of a program to call routines locked disks! in other CODE segments. The current rage in viruses is to modify • Protect your networks the CODE ID=O resource of an Network administrators application so that a CODE segment should not let just anyone put it installs in the application gets software on the server. called before the application is Applications on a network actually run. This CODE segment server should come only from could go out and check if the virus known good masters. has infected the current system, and if it hasn't, install itself. • Be wary of public domain All the perpetrator of a virus software has to do at this point is upload a Public domain software copy of an infected application to a should be checked quite BBS, andit spreads across the world. thoroughly on a floppy-based 42 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 with difficulty, mission length, and game level. Options also include the choice of questions about States, Capi tals, Cities or Landmarks. Up to four players may SwampGasTM participate and each player can choose the saucer they want to fly. The game also interrupts players progress with traps called "Close Encounters" where all sorts of Visits The United funny situations occur, requiring a correct answer to a question before the pilot is allowed to continue. (See States of America illustration) Players are also given a limited number of warps (a button on the control panel) which allow them review by Fred Showker to "warp" directly to another location on the map. This is a life saver if you have to get from Maine to Alaska in a hurry! You earn points for each location in the mission AVINGPLAYEDANDreviewedmany, that you visit before time runs out. Questions are mul ~any gam_es for the Mac, I_continually see tiple choice, and scores are maintained in a running H high quality products commg from Inline score card, accessed through the control panel. Design, of Sharon Connecticut. Such is the case with In the Alien Arcade pilots can choose from N erdoids, SwampGasTM . Quasar Klutzes, or Stink Snakes ofSaturn games. These Inline Design has implemented some good con are wonderful shoot' em up style games similar to the cepts into a seemingly simple game of travel. Keeping classic "Space Invaders" games. Quasar Klutzes gave us a game fun is one of the most difficult challenges the best round oflaughter with its robot dog which will facing game designers-SwampGas has several try to keep the floor clean by gobbling up the banana unique features that (according to our blue rib- peels (Klutzes love bananas, but they throw their peels bon test team) make the game exciting to play time and time again. Inline has candy-coated a learning experience with fun, and provided a real reward for successfully completing the mission: access to the Alien Arcade! Our biggest problem with SwampGas is pulling the test team away from the Mac at bedtime! But we are jumping ahead of ourselves. SwampGas TM gets its name from an early UFO sighting report. The US Air Force, in their SwampGasn• ~ Visits The United project to investigate these strange sightings S'Wvnp Gu.,. States of America • 91m• crHttd bV concluded that the unidentified flying objects RobH't Cn~ and ~ s... c.1w... were (among other things) "strange cloud forma U.S .A. H19 from tions" or "swamp gas." In the game, SwampGas is lnline Design S 'w'u t How\tlfn Ro.d a cartoon style alien from another world who goes Shlron, CT 06069 (203) U4- September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 43 I on the floor! ) and leaving Reviewed by Fred Showker behind fire crackers. The SwampGas™ -from I.tllline IDesign f or Home & School Mee sounds alone are a real treat! All three games are fun and do require a degree of skill - enough to encour age and challenge players. N erdoids try to capture your computer room, throwing calculators and pocket pro tectors at you. If you give them a comic book they go off to read it and leave you You must take your ship and qo to each af the alone! focations in your wMission • - the small map (below left) 'shows your 9eneral location. All in all, this team gives SwampGas a hearty 4.5-Mouse ratfug for edu cational merit and fun, play value. I can see all sorts of Missouri potential for further devel New York Wyoming opment from Inline. Plug in modules of other topics The SwampGas™ Play Screen ts a could really explode the map of America game into a legend. "Zoom" Options modules could be created Gome Leuel: Mission length: (are you listening, Inline) 0 Begjnner. @ 5 locations that would take SwampGas ®Inter.mediate O 1 o locotJons 0 Ad'uonced O 1 5 locations on State specific missions - O 25 locations SwampGas confirms correct answers with geographic or historic IZI Close encounters O 50 locations questions. ("SwampGas vis- SwampGasTM its Virginia", you get the Ask questions about the following: IZI s.totes Visits The United States of America picture.) D Capitols created by SwampGas is not a deep Robert Cavey and Sean Callahan lnline Design educational game, nor is it ( Cancel KNew Gome ] askillgamerequiringmanual 5 West Mountain Road Sharon, CT 06069 (203) 364-0063 dexterity. It's alight-hearted Players can confi9ure SwampGas"' dfficully and action at the game with a general geogra be9inning of the 9ame. phy lesson that all can en joy-and with its colorful graphics, The National Home & School which features articles, reviews and animation and fun sound effects, Macintosh User Group is a nonprofit interviews covering Macintosh enter SwampGas™ is really a winner. corporation and Apple(R) registered tainment and educational/children's user group with international mem issues. bership. The group promotes the en Fred Showker for National Home & School MUG Home & School Mac tertainment and educational quali P. 0. Box 640641 SwampGas™ Visits The United ties of the Apple Macintosh(R) by of Kenner, LA 70064 USA States of America fering support for game enthusiasts, (504) 838-0190 Inline Design educators, parents introducing their America Online: AFC MacFun 5 West Mountain Road kids to computers, and shareware au Internet: Sharon Connecticut 06069 thors seeking convenient distribution [email protected] (203) 364-0063 of their software worldwide. The annual subscription fee is Members ofthe National Home & $18 for N. American residents, $21 Information About the School MUG are mailed 6 issues ofthe All Other Countries. • National Home & School organization's bimonthly disk-based Macintosh User Group publication, Home & School Mac, 44 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 I TelecommunlcatloM A Taste of Conference 8 by David Harris HIS IS THE TCS USENET conference where boards "cover stuff we'd never imagined discussing on Tour own." Here is the list of its denizens: Boards Available * 1> . . alt.fandom . cons *16> . . rec.arts . movies .reviews * 2> .. alt . humor.best- of- usenet *17> .. rec . arts . sf . announce * 3> .. alt . restaurants *18> . . rec . arts.sf . reviews * 4> .. alt.sports ... wash- redskins *19> .. rec . arts . startrek. info * 5> . . alt . religion . kibology *20> . . rec.arts . startrek. reviews * 6> . . rec.models . railroad *21> .. rec . food . recipes * 7> .. rec.arts.comics.misc *22> . . rec . humor . funny * 8> . . rec . arts.sf . tv . babylon5 *23> .. alt.dear . whitehouse * 9> . . misc . answers *24> .. rec . audio *10> .. misc . consumers *25> .. rec . arts . drwho *11> .. misc.fitness *26> . . rec.arts . startrek. current *12> .. misc . handicap *27> .. alt . tv . babylon- 5 *13> .. misc.invest *28> .. alt . drwho . creative *14> .. misc.taxes *29> . . rec . music . makers.synth *15> .. rec . arts.animation *30> . . rec . audio . high-end Most of these titles are self-explanatory, or nearly so. I will only explore a few of them. Some of the boards here have been added by the TCS crew because they were requested by TCS users. At present there are no free spots here for new boards, although there are on Conference 5. If there is enough demand, new boards might be added there, or little-read ones replaced on this conference. ME EAT! Board 3, alt.restaurants, is not confined to D.C. area food. Here are some of its subjects: Subject : DC Restaurant help Subject : Re: restaurants in West Palm Beach, FL Subject : The Best Restaurant of this PLANET Subject : Reviewers and Readers Wanted Subject : · food Subject : Restaurant for sale in Vero Beach, FL Subject : Green Card Lottery- Final One? Subject : Good food, markets , in D. C. , Md ., N. Va.? Subject : Frog and The Redneck Subject: Peristyle in new orleans Subject : Best in Nova Scotia Subject : APPLE NEWTON IN RESTAURANTS Subject : veg restaurants in european cities Subject : GAY - LESBIAN- BISEXUAL Restaurant Employees Subject: Gyuhama Sushi Bar in Boston City ~ BoyCOTT ! ! ! ! ! September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 45 I By the way, the best restaurant of this planet is A K R 0 P 0 L I S Unterm Markt JENA - Thueringen - EAST GERMANY Kibology? I don't know what board 5, alt.religion.kibology, is about. Here are a few messages found there. I'll let you decide (remember that lines beginning with some form of> are usually quotes from earlier messages): Subject: Re: kibo in Canada There was an article in yesterday's Globe and Mail, "Computer souls search for digital deity" that ended with and eloquent sermon and prayer from kibo. Really. From: [email protected] (Gharlane of Eddore) Subject: Re: Cations and anions > And here I thought the opposite of a cation was a dogion. No, it's a nyion. > Does this mean Analog is the opposite of Catalog? No, Analog is the opposite of Fantasy & Science Fiction. > > At least I covered my Eddorian derriere by using the phrase, >>"These terms tend to vary slightly with usage .... " > >Yes. I think the Red Queen said something of the sort. It's > just a question of who's the boss, you or the word. >- No, that was Egg McMuffin, acting under his stage name, "Humpty Dumpty." Subject: Re: Gharlane bait ;-) >Says who? For that matter, due to the inherent redundancy of the un- >needed preposition, "of" is rarely necessary in the "because of" construction. >"To" *is* a requirement in the "due to" construction, of course. I nominate this for most appropriate crosspost in history. The only way to improve it would have been to include talk.abortion and misc.misc for rounding. Subject: Re: Gharlane's Secret! :) :) > > substitutes for real communications technology. There are, of course, > > still minor problems which will have to be addressed; Terran insistence > > on ASCII, while all the more advanced races in the rest of the universe > > use EBCDIC, is one example. > > ROTF! > 46 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 > I presume, then, that the only representatives we have seen of these > "more advanced races" are IBM salespeople? Just the other day I told > my freshman-level programming class about EBCDIC. I told them that > the usual term for such things is "brain damaged", but that I have a > brother whose brain was damaged at birth, and consider such use of > the term an insult to my brother. > > Due to the fact that I've already wasted too much BS bandwidth on this, > I tried to redirect followups to a no less inappropriate newsgroup, but > the newsreader wouldn't take it. Does alt.sex.beastiality no longer > exist? >- No, it's appropriate here, since even a superficial analysis of the design and implementation of IBM hardware and· software will bring you to the irrefutable conclusion that IBM exists solely to eliminate any chance of technological progress; it is *obvious* that the Shadow Men went back in time to the late 1800's, and founded IBM to assure that the human race would be insufficiently advanced to deal with them as equals. JMS has said that B-5 will only deal with time travel once, and since it's long been said that the ONLY explanation for IBM is malevolent time-travelling aliens, the conclusion is obvious. Just the FAQs, ma'am Board 9 is mostly documents answering Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Here are some subjects to be found on board 9, misc.answers (you do want to know the answers, right?): Subject: misc.writing FAQ Subject: the Internet Writer Resource Guide Subject: Unofficial Internet Book List (version 0.4) Subject: misc.books.technical FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Subject: Zines on the Internet Subject: Junk Mail FAQ Subject: Legal Research FAQ Subject: Law Related Resources on the Internet and Elsewhere Subject: Toastmasters International FAQ Subject: Libertarian FAQ: World's Smallest Political Quiz Subject: Misc.jobs.contract Subject: Welcome to Misc.kids/FAQ File Index Subject: Social Security Number FAQ Subject: misc.invest FAQ on general investment topics Subject: misc.consumers FAQ on credit Subject: misc.consumers.house FAQ Subject: Electrical Wiring FAQ Subject: rec.woodworking Electric Motors Frequently asked Questions Subject: misc.health.diabetes FAQ (general) Subject: Stretching and Flexibility FAQ Subject: Abdominal Training FAQ Subject: Macintosh for sale frequently asked questions (FAQ) For consumers Board 10, misc.consumers, is an active newsgroup, with questions and comments on consumer topics, what to buy, etc. It is also an area for loud complaints and even some flames. September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 47 Some messages have humor: Subject: Re: YOU'RE ALL COMMIES!!! >Last month it was popcorn ...... this month it's hot >dogs ...... what's going to kill me next month? Remernber,if we > don't like what we see on TV we can change the channel and if we >don't like what we eat ... we don't have to buy it ... I personally > like a hot dog from time to time and yes,even an occasional box of > coconut butter popcorn. Lighten up people,we all can make choices! > Sorry I can't write more,my fried chicken is getting cold. Hey, you unamerican pinko, cold chicken is an American tradition! -Alan Harder [email protected] The above commentary, which does not *even* represent the opinion of the American Mathematical Society, is sold by weight, not by volume. Some settling of the contents may have occurred during shipping. You may guess what kind of message this one responded to: Subject: Re: Found Sharp Vegetable Piece in Frozen Plastic While eating my frozen plastic for breakfast this morning I came across a piece of vegetable. Worse still, I didn't notice until it was in my mouth. Disgusting. Chris Just to prove that there are real consumer issues discussed here, some subjects on misc.consumers: Subject: Re: Fire Alarm - Bulb Socket Version Subject: Typical Family Budget: Food Subject: Re: Midas Botched My Brakes - Almost Cost Me 600 Bucks! Subject: Re: Best credit card available Subject: Re: Need some advice on "Jeep" buying .... Subject: Re: Please tell me about CUTCO Cutlery & Cookware Subject: Re: HELP : Getting rid of a gopher Subject: How about the Land Rover Defender Subject: Demographic Survey Subject: pricing of contact lenses Subject: Re: U.S.A. will soon be in the hand of dictator Subject: Re: MAKE $90 A DAY! Subject: Re: 20" TV recommendations request Subject: long distance to Mexico Subject: Re: Buying Tires Subject: ISSUE 7 NJ'S BEST AND WORST SERVICE PROVIDERS Subject: Re: kirby vacuum cleaner 48 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 I Handicapped issues Board 12 seems to be a serious board; here are some topics: Subject: Congressional Alert - Please Help Subject: MS Subject: Re: Post-polio information on the Internet? Subject: Need a Good Job!!! Subject: Re: Tourette documentary Subject: Speech recognition help needed Subject: Travel *woes* Subject: Re: BRAILLE OUTPUT DEVICES FOR PC COMPATIBLES Subject: Re: getting books on disk Subject: Disabled Para-sailing Subject: Hearing Impaired and 9-1-1 Services Subject: one finger typing Subject: Genitic Disease Subject: Discrimination?, You tell me ... Subject: Reading Machine for the Blind Subject: UK Jobs Wanted. Subject: Re: Talkative Menus Subject: ***BLATENT WEIGHT DESCRIMINATION!! ! **** Subject: Hardware/software solutions for visually impaired Subject: library access Subject: sound blaster blind proof manuals Subject: Freidreich's Ataxia Subject: InterNet and the disABLED Subject: DISABILITY DATING DILEMMAS Subject: Handicap parking ~excuses" wanted Subject: Re: Needed Information-Handicap services-Massachusetts Subject: Computer access for motion disabilities Subject: Rheumatoid Arthritis Info ? Subject: S.S.I./Medicaid Subject: Disabled persons: emergencies & earthquakes Subject: EMERGENCY - ADAPT CLASSIC RESCUE REQUESTED Subject: Brain Calisthenics!! Subject: Re: Blind News Digest # 1051 Dear Bill and Hillary Board 23, alt.dear.whitehouse ("When hints from Heloise aren't enough"), sometimes discusses serious topics: Subject: Haiti and the National Interest Haiti and the National Interest by Edward Rahn America's options for a Haitian policy can be resolved into three basic choices: 1) Do nothing - neither take effective action against the military government, nor accept immigrants from there. 2) Allow large numbers of refugees entrance into the U.S. 3) Military action. September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 49 I You may be saying to yourself ~But there is another option - economic sanctions." This I lump into Option #1 - do nothing. (etc.) Often, though, discussion on this board is, uh, shall we say, heated: Subject: Re: Re: Please help pay for my ... everything >Pride in oneself is a very admirable quality. However, William Clinton is >the president of the MOST POWERFUL NATION ON EARTH. How about a little >pride in one's country? Can you imagine how this is going to look when >Clinton goes abroad to other countries????!! He should have thought of that when he was perpetrating these crimes. Subject: Re: Canuck health care beats U.S's > >>According to Yale university professor. >> >>"There's no question the United States should be looking to Canada," said >>Yale University professor Ted Marmor •.. >>The US has failed where Canada has succeeeded in achieving a balance >>between costs and services, he said. > >Why is it that the world visits our country and not dear old Canada by >the teeming thousands to have their illnesses treated ... > >The obvious absense of logic in this flawed notion defy reason. > >I dare you to cite specific cases, facts and any other revelant information >to support this claims. I'll wager they won't be forthcoming because when >liberals or other forms of socialists are faced with or asked to produce >truth, they simply change directions, skirt the issue, or resort to name calling. > >If you were to live in Houston as I do and see the scores of foreign patients >that we have pouring into this city, you would have a different perspective. >The American health care system isn't perfect, but it is the best in the world >at caring out its mission ... >What really drives the costs up in America is the >corruption of the patients seeking to sue for medical malpractice ... > Wait a minute on the Malpractice stuff, I watched 3 Dr.'s MURDER my DAD I I Are you trying to say let any a****** that gets credentials can KILL at will without reprisal?? ... (Original letters in two messages above replaced by * to protect the innocent. Also, I take no respon sibility for spelling or grammar in messages.) Babylon-5 Boards 8 and 27 both seem to be about the TV science fiction program Babylon-5. Subjects on the two boards seemed quite different, but I couldn't tell in what way ... Lots of variety here, as you can see. Enjoy. • 50 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 rr the Internet. The central thesis of this book is aptly illustrated in the section where Doing Business on the Cronin explains how IBM was at first reluctant to offer Internet access to its employees. You would think Internet: How the Electronic that a behemoth computer company would be the first to comprehend the Highway is Transforming benefits of Internet access. Not so. Until a few years ago the prevailing attitude at IBM was that everything American Companies that IBM employees needed to know could be found on IBM's internal by Mary J. Cronin company networks. These days IBM managers have arrived at the more enlightened point review by Phil Shapiro of view that there may be times where valuable information and ideas could possibly exists outside PubliS.ller: Van Nostrand practices. IBM's internal company networks. Reinhold . The result is a book that is In those rare instances, it could be 115 Fifth.Ave. highly readable, yet meticulously useful for IBM employees to conduct ~ew York, NY iooos referenced and footnoted. Doing searches on the Internet. :308 pages~ softcOver. Business on the Internet is must reading for information managers Information as the Fundamental · 'Pablleati~n date:· 1994 in companies large and small. The Building Block of Business book also has an audience with Cronin starts with the basic ISBN: 0442-01770-7 people who have a general interest principle that, "information is the in the socio-dynamics of online fundamental building block of any communications. type ofproduct or service." She then goes on to discuss how information ALK INTO ANY book- The Nature and Scope can provide a crucial competitive store and you're bound to of the Book advantage: "Executives have long find a shelf with at least a Doing Business on the Internet recognized the importance of W is a persuasive boolc as much as a dozen books covering the subject of information for competitive business management and descriptive one. The heart of this advantage ... In order to make better efficiency. Nearby you'll find a shelf tome is a series of case studies decisions, chief executives and top overflowing with new books about describing how companies are using level managers require fresh the Internet. Until now these two the Internet. To assemble these information about trends in the shelves of books had little in case studies, Cronin visited and economy and the marketplace, about common. Doing Business on the communicated with information the activities of competitors, new Internet is the first book to link managers known for evangelizing developments in technology, and new these two related topics. the benefits of Internet connection product opportunities." The author of the book, Mary J. within their companies. She then In the information age, to be Cronin, works as the university conducted follow-up interviews via informed is to be armed with librarian at Boston College, and electronic mail. The results of her knowledge. And a primary way of teaches information management investigations are assembled becoming informed these days-is at Boston College School of together with an aim to persuade as to be connected to the Internet. Management. She brings to the well as describe. subject the well-informed mind of a To persuade what? To persuade Improved Communications librarian, tempered with the businesspersons that a whole slew with Customers pragmatism of someone closely of unforeseeable benefits can arise The Internet offers more than familiar with real-world business by connecting their employees to information and ideas, though. The September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 51 rr net can help forge new ties between local community. researchers often yield ancillary customers and companies. Since the Along similar lines, The commercial benefits as well. cost of sending electronic mail is far Washington Post has initiated a Two specific types of scientific less expensive than the cost of a regular column covering oddities on collaboration on the Internet are phone call or letter, companies can the Internet. This same newspaper examined in this chapter: improving use e-mail to communicate regularly has taken to including the Internet medical. diagnosis through with prospective customers as well address of reporters at the end of computer imaging, and using the as with established customers. articles. USA Today currently power of supercomputers to help Indeed, companies can set accepts letters to the editor via locate untapped oil reserves. themselves apart from their Internet electronic mail. (Internet Cronin examines how the net competitors by making it a practice address: [email protected]) helps doctors and researchers to respond promptly and Cronin goes on to tell about a perform medical imaging from the thoughtfully to "external e-mail." radio station in San Francisco, data output of MR (magnetic In Cronin's words: "If a company KKSF, that has set up a gopher on resonance) and CT (computer decides to distinguish itselfthrough the Internet. Listeners ofthis station tomography) scanners. Medical the quality of its customer service researchers can make use ofremote organization, the network can be a supercomputer data crunching decisive asset in achieving this goal." Doing Business on resources, saving the researchers Of course, communicating with the burden ofhavingto purchase a customers is a two way street. the Internet dedicated supercomputer for their Customers benefit by getting own use. answers to their questions. But is must reading In a similar type of computer companies also benefit by getting application, geologists and speedy feedback about their for information oceanographers are using the power products or services. The Internet . of supercomputers on the Internet provides a new type of "intimacy" managers in to help them locate possible between company and consumer. undersea petroleum reserves. In a very real sense, the Internet companies large Gathering data about the possible can help establish bonds of cross location of such reserves is the easy loyalty of a whole new order. While and small. part. Analyzing the data using some companies may cringe at the computer models is the processor inevitable "closeness ofcontact" that intensive part. results, Cronin astutely observes: "Getting closer to the customer is can access a playlist of songs on the Overseas Uses of the Internet probably one of the most important gopher. Should these listeners get Few people realize the true benefits of using the network." the urge to purchase any of the international scope of the Internet. music being played, they can quickly While it's true that the Internet Computer-Assisted Journalism and easily obtain information about had its origins here in the United Manufacturing sector the location of record stores that States, today the net has extended companies are not the only ones to carry KKSF music. its tentacles to just about every benefit from closer customer contact. continent. News providers are also reaching Using the Internet to Promote To help readers gain an out for closer contact with Science and Research appreciation of how the Internet is customers. Cronin tells how The In a chapter titled being used overseas, Cronin relates Boston Globe newspaper has started "Transforming Research and anecdotes of how businesses in a regular column on electronic Development," Cronin explains the Singapore are using the net: communications, and regularly immense benefits offered by the "Singapore provides an includes the newspapers' Internet Internet to scientists and interesting example of competing address to solicit reader feedback. researchers: "For the millions of through connectivity, and the Journalists can then get direct and researchers connected to the dynamic relationship between immediate feedback to their stories. Internet, the communication power policy, commerce, and technology And the journalists themselves can of the network has transformed the in the global village. Singapore use such feedback to become better nature of their work." Naturally, promotes itself as the 'Intelligent informed about happenings in their the benefits that accrue to Island,' and its National Computer 52 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 rr Board has adopted a plan called The quantity and quality ofresearch are one-up on their business IT2000 to transform Singapore into that was done in assembling Doing competitors: "Companies already the information technology capital Business on the Internet is indeed linked to the Internet receive the ofAsia. Government agencies make impressive. Citations are given to advantages of high-speed tele every effort to smooth the way of periodicals as diverse as the Internet communications and continuously multinational corporations wishing Business Journal, Scientific evolving technology while learning to use Singapore as a communi American, Forbes, and Sloan invaluable lessons about the cation hub for the twenty-first Management Review, to name a few. management of networked century." Book citations range from better organizations .... We are just known books on telecommunications beginning to understand the impact Empowering Individuals (i.e. Krol's Whok Internet Guide & of networked communications on our Within Companies Catalog, and the like), to lesser known daily lives and way ofdoing business." Connecting to the Internet can books on modem business practices. Doing Business on the Internet empower companies as a whole, as Along with all the standard and brings you the voices of many people well as empowering individuals predictable references, Cronin who have evangelized the benefits of within companies. Cronin cites the includes references to annual reports Internet connection within their example ofApple Computer's Steve from Motorola and Intel, information companies. The book succeeds in the Cisler, whose informative postings sources often overlooked by others. way that it lets you draw your own pop up regularly on many Internet conclusions from these first hand discussion lists: "Steve Cisler, Minor Quibbles and Nit-Picking sources. another active Internet participant, Doing Business on the Internet It's an irony ofmodem life that it shares information on the Internet succeeds in many respects, but the sometimes takes superhuman efforts through detailed meeting reports book does gloss over a few topics that to convince businesses to act in their and informative postings to begforgreatercoverage. Forinstance, own best interest. When it comes to discussion lists." what effect will the snowballing convincing business managers about Cisler, a senior scientist at the freenet movement have on company/ the benefits of connecting their Apple Library, Apple's corporate customer relations? And if online employees to the Internet, this book library, regularly summarizes communications with customers is just the ticket. • meetings and happenings in the yields substantial benefits to technology/information science field. companies, what actions are these [The author takes a keen interest in He also makes it a practice to help companies taking to help train the the social dimensions of online disseminate information on the general population in basic communications. He can be reached growing freenet movement taking telecommunications skills? on 'GEnie at: pshapirol; · on the place around the world. To be sure, freenets are Internet at: [email protected]] For Cisler, his computer's mentioned in passing once or twice in keyboard serves as his printing press. the book. But the subject could well This article was originally written for The Internet serves as an accessible merit an entire chapter in future GEnieLamp, the new online publication and cost-free tool for disseminating editions of the book. on the Genie information service. (c) his writings instantly around the Another minor quibble with this Copyright 1994 T/TalkNET Online world. book is that it leaves the reader Publishing and GEnie. To join GEnie, Interestingly enough, Cisler's wishing for more. The content is set your modem to 2400 baud (or less) Internet postings are often imbued indeed gripping and well-presented and half duplex (local echo). Have the with a public spirit. Apple Computer -but you can't help but wish for just modem dial 1-800-638-8369 (in Canada may pay his paycheck, but his public a few more anecdotes, a few more have the modem dial 1-800-387-3880). spirited postings could easily give case studies. When you get a CONNECT message, someone the impression that he is type HHH. At the U#=prompt, type: working for the public at large. Conclusion XTX99014,DIGIPUB and hit the Cronin's book is as much about [return] key. The system will then ask Well-Documented Thoughts people as it is about technology. One you for your information. Need more Each of the book's nine chapters oftherecurringthemesofthebookis help? Call (voice) 1-800-638-9636 for has about fifteen to twenty citations the slowness with which people come more information. to further readings on related topics. to understand the usefulness of new Most references are to books and tools and technologies. Those who do periodicals from 1991, 1992, and 1993. comprehend the power of these tools September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 53 I (NOTE: This does NOT apply to Avoiding Expensive PowerBook Duos, Powerbook Repairs which use a different battery & charger by Kel Humphreys arrangement.) It is possible to replace the LDERAPPLE POWERBOOK AC Power Adapters have a blown fuse by bridging it with a 5 tip with an insulator that is subject to cracking and chipping. amp PicoFuse. But this opens up a 0 When the black insulating ring at the tip is cracked or chipped, it new can of worms. Who'll do it for has been known to cause problems on the PowerBook motherboard, you, and what happens ifit doesn't blowing a fuse, which requires replacement of the board. work? Ifyou ever have any thought It is much cheaper to replace the AC adapter than to replace the ofsending that board back to Apple, motherboard. Typical costs: it better not have any evidence of modifications like this. • New 24 Watt AC Power Adapter $85.00 retail KelHumphreys is Senior Macintosh Replace motherboard, w/labor, typical charges: Technician at FC Business Systems. He has used Macs in a corporate PB 100 $512.00 environment, soldMacs, andheaded PB 140/145/145B/170 $512.00 a Mac service operation. He PB 160/165/180 $336.00 continually ponders the inequities PB 165C/180C $405.00 of Mac power node distribution in the DC area, wondering at the How to identity AC Power Adapters: vacuum in Montgomery County. The newest 24-watt AC Power Adapter is backwards-compatible with all PowerBooks, including the PB 100, and offers the additional advantage of faster recharge time. There's no reason you should get stuck with any older power adapter. Solid rod-like raised center. Center spring contacts visible Insulator often cracked~~ within hollow core. 0/ Old-style New-style 54 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 Macintosh Tutorials lq~A~~ll,~~\;. . OLUNTEERS AND INSTRUCTORS-You can't have ~~D*C!Ql\le~;.j>·.;:t;,:;;:.: ::' '' ,:.>·-:;;·c::·; ·:' : .. :,·.:;;;.; raining without teachers. If you have expertise in any subject October V: seful to Mac or Apple users, please consider teaching. Instructors. have an opportunity to work With students in small groups and informal ·no'.A.tutf.iridls,·l ... ~;:;~i.}j .. settings. The teaching process is truly rewarding. Besides the spiritual and intellectual, rewards also include compensation; you will be paid. We wiJl,be especially need someone who can offer training in Excel. Call me if there J .:_·: ..... ·: .: " ... _ :_/::·:\~:t~?: is a subject that you are qualified to teach. gffe~f3d~ .. I am very pleased with the response to our requests for volunteers. We 0 have a very bright and enthusiastic group of volunteers working to bring §~~''the';~ ''' you the best possible classes and programs. We encourage and welcome additional support for the training program. Graphic designers, desktop ·(f)ctt11Je£:(; publishers and illustrators-we could use your help in promoting our programs with brochures and fliers. For further information call Beth ·Journalfor. ''' , : : '' ". ' ~- -. -" ·, '. ' ' . .· ...... , -:- ••. .. . -··:;;:·:;-: Medlin at the Pi office, (301) 654-8060. ne\V' t~~orial Weekly Telecom Tutorials will be provided on Macintosh disks. li~ti*igs.·t THE NEWLY started weekly Students interested in obtaining telecom tutorials will be continuing these supplementary materials are Other Educational Opportunities on Fridays evenings, 7 PM to 10 urged to bring a five formatted -Desktop Publishing & Graph PM-call for location. These Macintosh disks (either high ics tutorials are given by introductory telecom classes are density or double-density) to the Clockface & Creole Communi intended to help people learn basic classes. cations Inc. Please contact telecom skills. Manolo Almagro at 301-718- The first two Fridays of each Important note: These classes are 0612 for details. month are for people who have had purposely set up to be unstructured. little or no prior experience using During any given class, the -Prince George's Community modems. The latter two (or three) instructor will try to answer specific College Center for Business Fridays of the month will be for questions that students bring to the Training, 301 Largo Rd., Largo, people who already have some class. The aim is not to teach any MD 20772-2199. Call 301-322- telecom experience. one particular communications 0726. The classes themselves will be program, bulletin board, or taught on the club's Mac Ilci or information service-but rather' to -Greentalt Systems Inc., 610 Performa computers. To sign up help WAP members develop general Herndon Parkway, Suite 900, for one of these classes, send $25 to tele-communications skills that can Herndon, VA 22070. Call 703- the club's office. (The fee for non then be applied in using any 471-6842. members is $35.) Class size is communications program, bulletin limited to six persons. board, or information service. -Berkeley Computer Training, The instructor for these classes Apple II telecom questions will 1800 Diagonal Rd., Ste. 240, Al is Phil Shapiro. For questions about be entertained as well, time exandria, VA 22314. Call 703- the classes, please call Phil at: (202) permitting. • . 548-9471. 686-5465 (home/office), or contact him via Internet electronic mail at: -Micro Center Training, 3089 [email protected] Nutley Street, Fairfax, VA Incidentally, supplementary 22031. Call 703-204-8409. telecom information and programs September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 55 I (HATTS) These stacks bring together the HyperStudio art, photographs, stories and songs ofHawai'i's children and their fami by Eric Arveson & Jim Skouge lies, especially in support of indi SIGNAL Magazine of the Hawaii viduals with exceptional needs. ''Macintosh & Apple Users' Society-July 1994 Simplified, inexpensive (street price $109), powerful and in color, HyperStudio represents an alter native to HyperCard®. Parents, teachers and students can become When creativity is applied, successful hypermedia developers within three to four hours of train technology can empower individuals ing time - able to incorporate QuickTime movies, Kodak CD's, with special needs to maximize their simple animations, sound buttons, graphics, text fields, navigational independence and participate buttons, screen transitions and nu merous "special effects", into stacks fully in life. that are "up close and personal." Further, the software includes a "run time" application that permits stacks to be shared with HYPERSTUDIO: - Zero-to-Three Hawai'i Project Macintoshes that do not have the - Keiki Tech Project HyperStudio application installed. about this ENTHUSIASTIC -Hawai'i University Affiliated Pro- HyperStudio permits personal multimedia program, for the Apple gram ization of software so that both the Ilgs & Mac, a growing number of -University ofHawai'i Department content and format of programs can individuals and agencies are collec of Special Education respond to the values, experiences, tively "authoring" hypermedia -Special Education Branch of the learning strategies and needs of in stacks. To name a few: Department of Education dividuals within their own micro -Aloha STAC Technology Access - Hawai'i Assistive Technology communities. This is particularly Center Training and Services Project important for children with learn- Darryl Keane designed a Barney stack to help his daughter who has Downs Syndrome. 56 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 I ing and motivational challenges who make QuickTime movies and to cap are waiting for HyperStudio soft so often fail to "connect" with main ture "stills" both from our video cam ware upgrades that will allow both stream curricula. Students at the era and a ZapShot camera; to use button scanning and audio preview University of Hawaii (enrolled in the optical scanner to import so that single switch users and indi SPED 480/601B "Computers in Spe children's drawings and storybook viduals with vision limitations can cial Education") have developed illustrations (including Chinese gain access. (As an aside, we are HyperStudio projects that include characters for a bilingual storybook); learning to include pop-up text win children's stories (written and oral), to employ the "export" routines from dows to coincide with any audio photos and drawings, including KidPix to include quality computer buttons, so that individuals who are many hidden buttons that encour generated art within our stacks; and deaf or hard-of-hearing can read a age children to talk about objects to take advantage ofKodak CD's for captioned version ofany sound file.) and events, and then click to ex full-screen, high resolution photos There are several other caveats plore. We have created stacks in (only 59 cents each at the DiskMaker that should be mentioned. Nothing Japanese, English, Samoan and store near AlaMoana Shopping Cen that is truly empowering and worth Chinese using voices, pictures and ter). while comes easily. The learning animations that are familiar to .the Our enthusiasm for this soft curve for HyperStudio is definitely children who will be enjoying them. ware, however, is tempered by the shorter than for other hypermedia It was so exciting to a visiting teacher fact that we are still exploring ac software with which we are famil from Samoa to discover that the com cess strategies for children with iar; nonetheless it requires time, puter could speak Samoan, in con physical disabilities. Because of its commitment and a network of sup trast with the English-only media to graphical point-and-click interface, portive friends and colleagues. which her students have always been all mouse emulation devices can be A second concern relates to copy exposed. employed, including trackballs, joy right infringements. With scanners Through this process we are sticks, head pointers, membrane and the Video Spigot it is very invit learning to use the Video Spigot to keyboardsandtouch-windows. We ing to include snippets from favor- :):.Hy~rsttudlions~ ririt multisensory communication. cllcks a large jellybean ~tcli~\ ... ~ey de~ght. in_rea~.. while. .. Jis activate ~he ·ne.~ I,lalT~~~ :pie;-; ;: ~.11 tear old girl with autism t~ning as they.· click on· narratj.on tux.e in the. seque.J.1.¢e. H~:js proµgi:_y . · joins herfifthgiade classmates as buttons and scrolltbroughtheircor- of himself and of his· indep.eµ• ~~ir ~a.cher proje~~ .. a "~~ide ~~ponclii'lg text .~elds .• They .~e dence. ~l,loW: f¥9m ·th! Machi#>sh ·to ~e ·re.~ding,;" writing, listening and Classroom TV mom.tor, depicting speaking· for a genuine· audience. An 84 year old wo~ :recov-. ~lie. se September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 57 I Derek Nishimura, a HyperStudio PowerUser, has developed many stacks, one of which is Juan's Communication Book designed to help this autistic elementary school student commu nicate. ite cartoons, movies and magazines. 8 megabytes of RAM. (As an aside, One parent developed a beautiful we have read enthusiastic reports stack using images and sounds of a of a software solution called Ram accessible and empowering to per popular cartoon character and his Doubler which may be far less ex sons with disabilities and their media friends. The stack is utterly pensive that buying RAM chips.) friends within mainstream commu captivating to his daughter who has In a similarfashion, hypermedia nity contexts. We envision posting attention and learning difficulties projects also consume a great deal these stacks through a freely acces and yet is enthralled by her father's of hard drive space. Most consum sible BBS service, so that all of us creative personalization of this ers quickly fill an 80 megabyte hard can benefit from our collective cre popular cartoon character. Within drive just with their application's ativity and experience. • the privacy of this family's home, software, alone. Multimedia projects this is probably not a problem; how with songs, stories and high resolu ever, after investing a great deal of tion photographs consume quanti time and creativity in a project such ties of memory. Our solution to this HyperStudio as this, other teachers and parents has been the addition of Bernoulli Roger Wagner Publishing, Inc. would of course also like copies. We cartridge drives, which allow us to 1050 Pioneer Way, Suite P would like to encourage such shar store our stacks in 90 megabyte El Cajon, CA 92020 ing, even on our statewide electronic "chunks." As our software accumu (619) 442-0522 bulletin boards, such as Hawaii FYI lation grows, our intention is to and Hawaii On-Line. This is when transfer six full cartridges (6 x 90 = Eric Arveson (808) 955-4464 copyright issues become problem 540 megabytes) to a CD ROM, which Jim Skouge (808) 956-9501 atic. will then free the cartridges for on A third concern relates to sys going new development. We are told tem and hardware requirements. that we can press the CD at the Macintoshes running System 7 with University of Hawai'i for just $35, four megabytes of RAM simply can which sounds like a very inexpen not run multimedia in a user sive way to store and disseminate friendly manner. We meet so many HyperStudio stacks. teachers and families who buy their Our vision is to stimulate the computers only to be disappointed development ofa growing collection by the misrepresentation of their ofhypermedia software that reflects new acquisition as a "multimedia" the sounds, pictures, events and tool. We recommend a minimum of "faces" ofHawai'i which will be fully 58 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 I Computer Puzzle p A N A S 0 N I c 0 B M I c R 0 s 0 F T a Washington Apple Pi computer puzzle. Debug : E w M T v c J 0 D L I D N I M 0 R AM Find the hidden computer company names. To make life c y interesting, one of the names listed is not in the puzzle. A s E A G A T E 0 T E F T 0 s H I B A c N c R D E s T V R s L 0 G I T E c H G ABATON DEST NEXT H T M G v T H A A E T E R J s E 0 D A N ACIUS EPSON NOVELL T D I A A B NA R 0 p M A I L 0 ALDUS EVEREX ODESTA D T MW ALTSYS FARALLON OKIDATA R c c N u u R N y p E E I I p L M p 0 v AMDEK FUJITSU OLDUVAI E L R 0 D J y 0 A p A I x u D E I K ·R 0 APPLE HEWLETIPACKARD PANASONIC E A 0 0 p B E T D L M A T p u 0 C E 0 x ASHTONTATE INFORM IX PEACHTREE B R L L z D H T E R E A c B R y T p ATARI u x IOMEGA PIXAR y BITSTREAM KALE I DA RADIUS I I D F R H s u v R 0 c N H D 0 T 0 K BLYTH KEYTRONICS RASTEROPS R s T u u A y A I L A B B 0 0 F p R M R BONSU LETRASET RODIME c K I v F s A y A N G T u D K A R 0 N A BORLAND LOGITECH SEAGATE s E c A u T N N A 0 E E s N I R 0 N D D BRODERBUND MACROMIND SONY I D s I J E D 0 z v M s B A D A s I y I BUSINESSLAND MAGNOVOX TANDON CAERE MICROAGE TARGA N M c R I R E s B E 0 A s T A L E c F u CLARIS MICROLYTICS TEAC I A B A T 0 N p y L I R u L T L I s z s COMPUTERLAND MICROPROSE TEKTRONICS M A s T s p E E Q L J T E G A 0 R c I M CORVUS MICROSOFT TOSHIBA z R Q A U s B M x 0 R E x K T N x w I H DAYNA MINISCRIBE XEROX D D R A K A p T T E L W E H R D B B Y DENEBA MOTOROLA c Out to Munch - MECC's SuperMunchers reviewed by Carla Rose HAT DO "KALIMBA", "binturong", rock/pop acts of the 1970s, or 'not gases at room "solenodon", and "durian" have in common? temperature'. The format is similar to MECC's Word WThey're all among the more obscure words and Number Munchers. Words are displayed on a grid you'll come across in MECC's new trivia game, Super and the player must move the Muncher around the Munchers. Unlike previous Munchers programs, which screen with mouse or keyboard so it can munch the were clearly aimed at the grade-school set, words that fit the category. Ifthe Muncher eats a word SuperMunchers bites into the adult game-playing that doesn't fit the category, it dies. Players start with market, too. It can be customized for play by third four Munchers and have the opportunity to earn extra graders and up, but the adult-level "genius" Challenge Munchers by running up high scores, and to eventually game would be a good mental workout for anyone. enter their names in the Super Muncher Hall of The object ofthe game is to quickly recognize items Heroes. that fit into a particular category such as 'fruits', 'top September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 59 Super Munchers not things thot peop1e eot acetylene propane garlic loquat r ..., lime cabbage raspberry L _J mango chard mango r ..., peach mango orange la L _J allegro mango mumps oboe mango cassava Score: 1 ll525 w. w. Level: 5 Super Muncher is about to attack a Trogglus normalus. Troubles with Troggles Sounds easy? Uh huh...... But there are Troggles to contend with, too. Troggles ! munch on Munchers. To I OBeginner avoid being eaten, ! O 1111uanced Munchers must dodge the Troggles, by running away i 06enius from them or by taking I @llet.Plager. 'choose refuge in a 'safe zone', indicated on the board by ~·-· · ·····- ··· ·· · ······················· · ······ ····· · ·· .. ···· ...... : a four cornered frame. Troggles have another purpose, in addition to [Quick Set ... J keeping the Muncher on its toes. They can change, remove, or add target words to the screen. When ( Help... ) ( cancel ) K OK D a Muncher has identified twenty words correctly, one square on the board Define... shows the targets for each category. 60 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 turns into a transformation cell, a sort of cosmic phone Once you've gotten into Management, you can set the booth wherein the Muncher can slip into its leotards topics and target words, erase the scoreboard, set the and cape and become ... yup, you guessed it... SUPER user levels, and define whether you're playing on a Muncher! Once it's transformed, Super Muncher has a single machine or over a network. Most ofthese features are useful only to teachers, but ifa particular category, such as 'Baroque Composers' or 'Animals with an Exoskeleton' is not your cup of tea, simply disable it. There are over 4,000 target words, in 130 categories, Enable Management. so you're sure to find a few that are especially difficult. This game has one especially nice feature, for those of us who have a tendency to forget passwords. You can IPassword: .....I•_•-~------reset the password, and leave yourself a hint to help Hint: my nickname you remember what word you've picked. Super Munchers will run on a Mac Plus or better, and is compatible with System 7. At only $29. from our favorite mail order software store, it's a bargain. Speaking as a trivia fan, I enjoyed Super Munchers. It's not an easy game, especially at the uppermost ( Cancel ) ( EnaDl'e D levels, but it's fun to play. And it certainly helps expand your vocabulary. Remember those four words at the beginning of this review? Well, a kalimba is a Why can't they all be this easy? musical instrument, a binturong is a member of the civet family, a solenodon is a fur-bearing animal, and twenty second life span in which it can destroy the a durian is a type of fruit. • Troggles, and can peek at the correct answers by typing (command)H A. Super Muncher gains an additional second of life for every correct answer it chooses, but Copyright ©1992 by Carla Rose. Published by Home & immediately reverts back to beingan ordinary Muncher School Mac (the GAMER Project). Non-profit user if it guesses wrong. groups are granted permission to reprint this review as After three rounds, the action stops. Players watch long as the author and original publication (Home & a brief cartoon episode on the adventures of Super School Mac) are credited. Muncher. Each of the first foilr of these contains a puzzle of some kind, which requires that the player remember some detail of the scene just watched. The fifth scene has no puzzle, just the climax of the cartoon adventure. Ifyou keep on completing additional rounds, the cycle begins again. The first time I played this game, I had no idea what was coming up, and didn't pay much attention to the cartoon. As I learned, to my dismay, wrong answers mean that you have to watch that section of cartoon again after three more rounds of the game. Since the scenes and puzzles don't change, the challenge wears out very quickly. Hitting the space bar will return you to the game board. One could argue that the cartoons give players a necessary break from the intensity of game play. Personally, I found them annoying. Management Options Super Munchers can be customized to suit younger players. Customizing options are password protected, presumably so the game can be used in classrooms. September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 61 one of them has this "feature" upon startup of going into a RAM test mode. I've seen other people men tion it in th~ newsgroups, but I don't On The Trail think I've ever seen an answer. It will boot ifl hit RETURN, so there Of The Apple I I I doesn't app_ear to be any problem with it. The others just boot right up by David Ottalini upon powerup. Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman Our friend Tom Linders ([email protected]) out Cali fornia way was one of many to ven A Visitor Consorti in Massachussetts and ture to answer: ou MAY REMEMBER then finished things out at As you were told by the powers 've talked about our friend MacWorld. that be, the self test is triggered by Y:KojiAnourafromJapan. Well, Once again, I was hit by how the keyboard light being burned out, he paid us a visit in late July! Just many nice people our SARA has or not being there at all. This light is one stop on a lengthy cross-country introduced me to from around the tied into the base ofa pnp transistor trip that started in Los Angeles and world! Koji has promised to send me on the mother board and prevents ended up at the Mac World Conven his articles and some pictures. How the computer from working if the tion in Boston. ever, the articles will be in Japa keyboard is not there. Koji is an avid Apple user and nese (imagine that, a Japanese au I have solved this problem by Ill supporter. He's also an author· thor writing articles in Japanese!). replacing all of the lights that I find who contributes to an Apple maga So anyone out there know Japa with a LED and a 100 ohm resistor zine in Japan. And while it is unlike nese? I already have some articles in series. One side of the keyboard any Apple (or other computer) maga on disk from him, as well as the light is connected to power supply zine I've ever seen before, he has magazine he sent. It would be fun to return and the other side goes to the given WAP and the Ill SIG, as well get them translated and then re 26 pin IDC. Ifyou make the change, as On Three lots of space in his published in the Journal. make sure that you cut the trace articles. and bridge it with the 100 ohm re His primary reason for coming New COM Manager Update sistor. I have probably modified to the United States was to visit all We have sent, and Bob has now close to 200 units and have pad no the Apple places he's been reading received, the first payment toward troubles. The pnp transistor is in about, and write articles about them. development of our new Communi saturation and the system works He stopped at Sun Remarketing, cations Manager. If you have not slick as a whistle. for example and talked with Bob pre-ordered, please help us by doing Of course, you can always leave Cook. He visited Alltech Electron so now, so that we can be sure to see it and do a control reset. ics and attended KansasFest. He this project through to completion. Our own Dave Jernigan later also visited the Big Red Computer We are continuing to sell our copies asked about what might be wrong Club (which was going out of busi of BOS3, I am happy to say, and with his/// - the color monitor was ness even as he visited ... ). that is helping too, but your support jiggling and his SARA would not While here, I took Koji to the is greatly appreciated. Note that we recognize his hard disk. Tom WAP office to give him a ton of have a special deal on -buy BOS and Linders answered it this way: Apple /// software, as well as the the new TCM together and save! Ifyour hard drive does not run, complete Apple //, lie, Ill, GS and Call the WAP office for details. and the drive is a Profile, you would Mac catalogs on disk. We had a be well advised to check the activity great time talking about Apple and Internet Questions light on the front panel to make our SARA. And of course, he took New ///ers abound on the sure that it flashes when the unit videos and lots of pictures. We even Internet... and they all have ques first comes on. Getting the power did a session in my computer room tions. Here are a few of interest. supply out of and apart in a Profile at home! From Washington, Koji ///er Kevin Burtch asked: is a real pain in the posterior. went on up to New York, visited Bob I have a few Ills and a///+, and only A simple test to run is to loosen the four screws on the top of the back 62 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 and remove the three bottom screws, Apple JII Cards In the GS? large files I'd like to move, for one then measure the power supply volt That was the question from thing (the 3.5 cards on my Ill have age on the digital board five pin con WAP Ill SIG member Steve Truax both stopped working, and this nector. This board stsn p ofthe power on the TCS recently: seems like the simplest way to move supply. You should find ground (bot Can my Profile and Corvus be and backup files). Are the cards and tom pin) plus five, plus twelve, and hooked up to my ][GS? I have both all compatible, or would I cook them either minus five or twelve, I cannot formatted in SOS, and have some ifI just plug them in? As simple as remember. Also, the middle pin is, I this question seems, my Profile and believe, normally low. Corvus manuals are both specific to Apple Ills and don't address Apple SOS Error Code /Is at all. MESSAGE/CONDITION CAUSE REMEDY This time it was Seth Mize pull ing the rabbit out of the hat: Blank Screen Disk in Drive Retiywithbootdisk. Do not use the Apple Ill cards in is not boot disk the IIGS! Bad things will happen unless you bend the correct pins to RETRY Boot process failed Attempt reboot one of the chips on the controller Remove disk and card. I have not done it, since you insert again might ruin the card for use with an Apple Ill when you bend it back. DRIVE FILE NOT FOUND Disk has no file called Add drivers with I do not expect the cards to fit SOS.DRIVER SCP inside your Apple IIGS... but, even if you took off the cover and tried DRIVER FILE TOO LARGE Memory too small Delete them out, they are not ready for use to hold enough driver on the IIGS. all drivers files to fit And What About Using a //GS EMPTY DRIVER FILE Driver file has no Add appropriate Color Monitor? drivers in file drivers with SCP New ///er Mitchell Spector (SysUtils) ([email protected]) was thrilled to find that he could, in fact, INCOMPATIBLE Interpreter too big Check.SOS version hook up a //GS Applecolor RGB INTERPRETER or specifies wrong memory monitor to his ///. The plugs are location certainly the same. He told other Apple II family users on the INTERPRETER FILE No SOS.INTERP file on Add to disk Internet's comp.sys.Apple2 Usenet NOT FOUND disk board that: "It works! Not just somewhat, INVALID DRIVER SOS.DRIVER file in Delete and add but 100%, as if the monitor were FILE wrong format valid file with made especially for the Apple /// SCP computer! Text looks sharp and great and even displays it in full 1/0 ERROR 1/0 error found when Reinsert disk and color! Funny thing is, the Apple Ill loading kernel, try again makes more use ofits colored ASCII interpreter or driver text than the Apple //gs (up to 16 background and foreground colors KERNEL FILE NOT No SOS.KERNEL file on Add from other using text at once, much like IBM's FOUND disk disk using Sys color ANSI text). Utils Actually, the display is not re ally the same, since the Ill requires TOO MANY BLOCK SOS.DRIVER has too many Delete as many that it go through a special resistor DEVICES block devices drivers in the file network in order to get the proper as required September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 63 colors to be produced on the RGB about the new Communications Why a Ill of course! ;-) screen. Color monitors produced Manager and the status of the Soft during the time the Ill was being ware Development Fund. Just for Apple Ill Resources produced, like the Electrohome RGB fun we'll also try out a CP/M card on monitor included these networks as the Ill. I'll also discuss the new ar Bob Consorti part of their design. Why Apple rangement of the PD library. As 179-B Kent St. didn't do this on the computer side, always, we'll move on to lunch at Brookline, MA. 02148 I'll never know. Mitch realized this some new exciting location the (617) 731-0662 and reported later on the Internet Jernigans will find for us! that: On Three clo J oe Consorti One thing to note! Color infor In Memoriam 1174 Hickory Ave. mation doesn't come through cor We're sorry to report a Tehachapi, CA. 93561 rectly. I run the diagnostic with a SARAsaur passed on in late July. (805) 822-8580 color-map display, and most of the Thanks to Tom Linders for report colors were not as they should be. It ing that: Sun Remarketing STILL works beautifully as-is for John Cowman, a longtime Apple 1-800-821-3221 text or other purposes. You might three guru has died. He had a PO Box4059 want to pick up a second-hand minor stroke about six weeks ago, Logan, Utah 84321 AppleColor RGB screen and try it and a massive one on the 24th. John out (they can be bought from about founded Apple 11/ers Unanimous (in The Lisa Shop $50-$100 US thee days). the San Francisco Bay area). (916) 668-5637 The correct version of the resis I will miss him. We chatted on PO Box 969Woodland, Ca. 95695 tor network, by the way, was pro the phone a few times a week, and, videdwithOnThree'sDrawOnThree because he had a problem getting Tom Linders manual. The version shown in the around, I would go and see him 1-408-741-1001 Apple Ill manuals was not correct. every week or two. 12604 Wardell Ct. Let me know if you'd like a copy. I looked forward to our ten Saratoga, CA. 95070 minute chats early in the morning, SOS Error Codes and will really miss him. Apple User Group Connection The Apple Users Encyclopedia Our friend Jeff Fritz at West 800-538-9696 ext. 500 (Arrays, Inc., 1984) writes that "If Virginia University replied: SOS encounters some condition Sorry to hear about John's pass Apple User Assistance which prevents system operation ing, Tom. What machine do you 800-767-2775 • during the process of booting the think God gave him to use up there? Apple Ill system, a SOS error mes sage is displayed on the screen." And I might add, they are highly aggravating at times! So, to help you deal with them at least a little bit, the messages or condition, cause We Get Questions ... and remedy are all listed in the accompanying box. You might want by Dave Ottalini to make a copy and cut it out, to WAP Ill SIG CO-CHAIRMAN display near your SARA, just in case. BOY DO WE EVER-from As always, ifyou have a question or new SARAsaurs all over the coun two, feel free to write, call or post on Meeting Que try, sometimes even the world! I've the TCS or Ills Company WAP. With the club moving this answered many of the same ques month, I've decided to hold off our tions so often, I decided it was time 1) Are Back Issues of Your Trail quarterly meeting until October. to share them with you as well! ColumnsAvailable?WhatAbout Thus, I hope we can gather on Sat They are in no particular order but Other Articles? urday, October 8th at the new WAP you might find somthing ofuse here. I've been writing articles about Office at 9:30 am. We'll be talking 64 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 the Apple Ill for many, many years and manuals, you'll have to call Sun versa. There was never a software and all ofthem are available on disk Remarketing in Logan, Utah. Their only lie emulation disk, though there from the club. We also have many phone number is: 1-800-821-3221. was a ][ + emulation disk that at other articles on disk from other Sun has the old Microsoft Softcard tempted to provide something near groups. My ThreeWorks Shareware (they have lots of new ones avail 64k. All of these are in our PD li disks list more than a thousand able), though (if you can find it) the brary. Apple Ill articles going back to 1980 PCPI Applicard got a better review. or so (also available from the club). 8) Can I use a Larger Format 5) What's So Great About BOS3? Disk Drive on the ///? 2) Are Back Issues of Old Apple BOS3 is the newest OS for the The Apple Ill can use the origi Ill Magazines and Newsletters Ill. It is completely.backwards com nal Profile 5 and 10 MB drives, as Available? patible with SOS and all /// pro well as SCSI drives, the Apple// I have copies of practically ev grams, but offers a host ofgreat new BOOK Unidisk and the Apple lie or ery Apple Ill magazine ever pub features for our SARA, including Mac 1.4MB "Superdrive". To hook lished and thus can make available disk caching, print spooling, pass up SCSI, however, you need a SCSI copies of specific articles at very word protection, fast menu selec interface card that will fit in the Ill reasonable prices. The WAP library tion, screen savers and much more. and a device driver(whichyou would also has an excellent cross-section It is about $50.00 from the club, and have to get from Bob Consorti of On of Apple //and Apple Ill magazines. all the funds go into our Software Three- he would also have to set The club has a copy machine should Development Fund to help produce up the hard disk for you). The Ill can you wish to copy something. Costs new programs for the///! Our next only handle up to 16MBs so any are reasonable. project, in fact, is an upgraded com harddisk over that would have to be munications program that will offer partitioned and the driver config 3) Is There Any Public Domain all the latest transfer protocols, ured properly (which Bob can do). Software for the ///? macros, terminal emulations, etc... On Three also sells the drivers for The WAP PD library offers some It is available at a pre-sale discount the Unidisk and Superdrive. You 250 PD disks for the Ill alone! A if you buy now. It won't officially be must use the lie 800k (Liron) or catalog on disk is available from the released till the end of the year (our Superdrive card to run the appro club. Or try our Ills Company WAP target date). priate Apple drive. BBS free at 301-593-0024, it offers Bob has also written a "univer some 1000+ files for downloading. 6) What Does the Emulation sal" SOOK driver for use with third The WAP TCS File Download disk do on the Apple /In party SOOK units like the Laser drive area offers a growing amount of The emulation disk gives you (which requires its own interface software too. A new source is the the option of Applesoft or Integer card). Apple /// Listserve on the Internet. Basic but NOT both - since your Contact APPLE3- choice is loaded into memory. The 9) Whatever Happened to the L@WVNVM. WVNET .EDU or basic emulation is 48K Apple ][ + Titan 111+1/E Cards? Are They [email protected] which means it can ONLY run DOS Still Available? and ask to be added as an Apple/// 3.3 Apple ][ programs. Our PD Titan as a company is out of user. Finally, there remains some Library offers a number of different business. A man named Greg Stuk good PD software on Compuserve. versions of the emulation mode, as bought out their supply of Apple Ill After you've joined, type in at the well as the Titan emulation disks components and for a time offered prompt: GO APPUSER and you'll that went with the Ill+// or 111+//e both the Ill+// (a 128KApple II emu be taken to MAUG-The cards. lator and RAM card) and the //!+lie MicronetworkedApple Users Group. (two card set that turned the Ill into The Apple/// board is board 13. 7) Is SOS and PRODOS Compat a true 128K lie or RAM card in ible? native mode). 4) I'm Interested in CP/M • An ProDos was written from SOS Unfortunately, he abruptly Old Operating System for the (by the same programmer). The file stopped offering the cards and will no Ill. formats are the same, though you longer answer letters or calls. The I have copies of CP/M software cannotrunApple//e programs (with only way to get the Ill+lie or///+II now for the Ill but to get the CP/M card out the Titan cards) on the Ill or vice is to get one from anotherSARAsaur. September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 65 the//ewill work on a///. We have the 14) What was the difference be 10) What languages are avail driver in our PD library. tween the Apple Ill and Ill+ able for the ltn keyboards? There are quit.e a few, actually: 12) My Ill goes into a diagnostic The Ill+ keyboard is essentially Basic (our version is called Business when I try to turn it on. I have to the lie keyboard-that is the only Basic), Pascal, Modula 2, Cobol, For press what area, what kinds of write macros (John specifically with Apple 11 Meeting presentations folks were int.erest.ed, MouseTalk). Frank Zappacosta is and who was willing to be a interested in learning more about present.er. Ifyou would like a copy tax software (especially in January by The Jernigans of the questionnaire, please let me or February). Everyone agreed that know (on the TCS or by snail mail). a meeting on telecommunications 1 i\ TE HAD A SMALL but lively Andy and Aaron both offered to (int.ernet and TCS) and t.ele.software VVgroupatth e Julymeeting.Andy present at future meetings. Andy would be very useful. and Aaron Wallo brought a game to has a new spreadsheet program Ron Evry couldn't be at the share. The simulation game, "Lost that he would like to show us. He is meeting (something came up at the Tribe," had us searching for a new also well versed in Logo, Hyperlogo, last minute), but he has offered to home for our tribe of primitive Pascal, Video Cards and music and help with learning more about the people. We carved animal pictures paint programs. Young Aaron is internet. Subsequently, we all in caves, hunted for game, gathered also interested in presenting a agreed that the Sept.ember meeting leadership points for good decisions program on Logo 3D and games! will look at MouseTalk, ProTerm, (and lost points for bad decisions), Others at the meeting had good the TCS and other e-mail services. and even had a feast. They will ideas for presentations, but didn't If the Pi office in Bethesda is bring it and many more to the feel ready to be a present.er. Dave available, we will meet there. After August meeting which will be Game and Ben Gibson are interested in that, who knows where the office Month! JPEG and GIF graphics. Ifthere is will be? If you can come in August, The focus of the meeting was to anyone who has expertise in these bring any games that you would plan activities for upcoming months. areas, please let me know. George like to share. We also hope to see We filled out questionnaires to Griffin and John Karpowicz are you in Sept.ember-but check on determine who had expertise in both interested in learning how to our location! • 66 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 GEnie in the least amount of time of1994," he added. possible. This comes on the heals of Established in 1985, GEnie Press release the release ofGEM 4.22 last month, a Services is one ofthe fastest growing similar navigator for 8-bit Apple II online information services in the Apple Il Roundtables On systems. country. GEnie is offered by GE GEnie(R) Announce renewed Upon signing up for GEnie, all Information Services (GEIS), a support of the Apple Il I former AOL Apple II users will be division ofGeneral Electric Co., USA. eligible for a special deal provided by GEnie and GEIS are headquartered GENIE SERVICES, 1994 AUGUST the Apple II RoundTable for reduced in Rockville, Maryland. 12 (A2)-The Apple II RoundTables prices on the three most popularApple For more information about on GEnie (A2 an A2Pro) today II telecommunications programs: GEnie, call 1-800-638-9636, e-mail announced the next step in their Spectrum for $65.00 (+$3.50 s&h), [email protected], or write: growing support for the Apple II line Talk is Cheap for $20.00 (s&h GEnie, c/o GE Information Services, of computers. New announcements included), and ProTerm 3.1 for $45.00 P.O. Box 6403, Rockville, MD 20850 included: A special GEnie sign up (+$5.00 s&h). In addition, purchasers Syndicomm, the parent company deal for former Apple II AOL oftheProTerm package on this special ofthe Apple II, Macintosh, PowerPC, customers; and special deal on modem deal with receive a free disk containing andNewtonRoundTables on GEnie, software arranged with all the major both Co-Pilot and GEM, the two most was formed in 1993 by Tom Weishaar publishers of Apple II popular Apple II-based GEnie and Kent Fillmore. Now owned and telecommunications programs for navigators. (Details below.) operated by Dean Esmay, America Online users; the release ofa Technical support of the Apple II Syndicomm continues to expand its new version of an Apple IIgs-specific line ofcomputers on GEnie is growing online support of a variety of oftline navigator program for GEnie; as the Apple II RoundTables take over computer platforms and services. It and the assumption ofthe assignment the official assignment of all Apple II is headquartered in Shreveport, of all official file types and all other file types, resource types, font IDs, Louisiana. types, codes, and IDs for the Apple II sound codes, request codes, and all For more information about the from Apple Computer, Inc. All are other similar types, codes, and IDs special Apple II GEnie sign up and just the start of the Apple II from Apple Computer, Inc. All third telecom program offers by the Apple RoundTables' continuing drive to party Apple II developers will now II RoundTables, e-mail carry the torch of worldwide Apple II send their requests for assignments [email protected]. For more support into the next millennium and to the Apple II RoundTables, at the information about the Apple II beyond. [email protected]. The technical support provided by the Starting immediately, all former technical support provided by the Apple II RoundTables, e-mail America Online (AOL) Apple II users Apple II RoundTables is expected to [email protected]. (Or, see may sign up forGEnieunder a special grow with the publication of Apple II below.) deal provided by the Apple II technical documents and additional To receive the special GEnie RoundTablewhichgrants those users third party developer assistance "AppleIIForever"sign-upoffer,made $50.00 worth of online credit during programs. in the wake of AOL's cancellation of their first month online. (Details "We are dedicated to providing their Apple II software support, take below.) AOL's support fortheir Apple worldwideonline supportfortheApple the following steps: IlsoftwarewillbeendingonNovember II line of computers for as long as 1.Setyourcommunicationssoftware 1st, 1994. Apple II computers exist," said Dean for half-duplex (local echo) at 300, At the same time, an improved Esmay, president of Syndicomm, the 1200, or 2400 baud. Recommended version of CoPilot, an Apple IIgs company that runs all the Apple communications parameters 8 data specific oftline navigator program for computer RoundTables on GEnie. bits, no parity and 1 stop bit. GEnie, is being made available for as "These new offers and programs are 2. Dial toll-free in the U.S. at 1-800- freeware to all Apple II users. CoPilot just the start. While other online 638-8369 (or in Canada at 1-800- v2.5 allows users to automate all of services are eliminating their Apple II 387-8330). Upon connection, type their online tasks on GEnie, saving support or allowing them to languish, HHH (Please note: every time you them time, money, and effort. When we are continuing to increase our use GEnie, you need to enter the using CoPilot, all ofthe users' work is support. We're even hard at work on HHH upon connection) done oftline, and the program then afull-blowngraphicalfrontend, which transfers all of their data to and from we hope to have available by the end continued page 71 September 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 67 models and other new products, to take advantage of new capabilities of Macintosh System software, and Macintosh Disketeria in response to the requests of their customers. Jon has collected and assembled 'patch' programs released by Dave Weikert by these software vendors into this convenient series of disks. Do you run Adobe Photoshop, Il New Disks includes only the updates pertinent lustrator or Premiere? Or Aldus HIS A SHORT MONTH to these three computer series. If PageMaker or FreeHand? T for the Disketeria as we re you have updated your Mac II or SE QuarkXPress? Word, WordPerfect, cover from getting ready for the with l.44M drives, then you should MacWrite or FullWrite? FileMaker MacWorld Expo at Boston. Only use the two disk set. Pro and Excel? Or many other ap seven disks this month but all but QuickTime 1.6.2 fixes bugs and plication and utility programs? Are one of them are from the already improves performance ofMacs when they up-to-date? Look over the list popular Applications Updaterseries. running QuickTime. The primary of disks in Mac Disk #26.XX Up In addition, I have repeated the Apple features of this version are: takes dates series below and compare the System Software offerings because much less memory (approximately version numbers with your software. of their importance to many of our 20K) when it is not in use, permits And then order the updates you members running System 7 .1. converting audio tracks to movies, need to maintain your software supports Easy Open extension, adds tools-sharp and ready to use. Apple System Software ColorSync support, Improved There are four disks from last Grayscale and adds smoother (anti About Shareware Requests month which include updates to aliased) looking text. Please honor authors' requests Apple System Software that bear for shareware fees if you decide to repeating because of their impor Oisketeria Catalog Update add shareware programs to your tance to many of our members. The Our Disketeria Catalog was up software library. Shareware is a System 7.1 Update 3.0 is a 'must dated this month. The catalog-in valuable distribution channel for have' upgrade for anybody running Easy View viewer format-permits low cost software and it is impor System 7.1, 7.1.1 (System 7 Pro) or fast browsing of the contents of our tant to encourage authors to use 7.1.2 (Power Macintosh). Disketeria collection. You can search this channel by paying them for System 7.1Update3.0 -1.44M for specific file names or disk num their efforts. consists of two disks and is a "must bers. The three Easy View windows have" update for anybody running make it easy to see the overall orga DISK #00.01 - C 1 System 7.1, 7.1.l (System 7 Pro) or nization of the Disketeria collection MAc D1sKETERIA CATALOG 7 .1.2 (for Power Macintosh). This as well as see the detailed descrip • • Extract Me First.sea • •: When this file is copied over to a disk set fixes bugs and enhances the tions of the contents of each folder hard disk and double clicked, it reliability and performance of all or archive. The catalog disk costs will automatically extract the Macs running versions of System $4; but you can trade in an older following two folders: 7 .1. Its installer script installs up version of the Disketeria Catalog Washin~on Apple Pi f: By Dave dated System Enablers, Control disk for the current version for $1 Weikert. Just double click the Panels and Desk Accessories appro (plus postage if by mail). ..Double Click Me .. file to read our Program Notes and informa priate your Mac. In addition, tion about Washington Apple Pi, SimpleText is provided to replace Application Updaters Ltd. and our Mac Disketeria. This TeachText; SimpleText permits Jon Hardis has compiled a new opens the Easy View viewer. You multiple open document and differ series of disks- Mac Disk #26.X:X may have to select Word Wrap un ent fonts and font styles. An up Updates-that will be useful to der the Style menu to facilitate viewing. You may also open the dated version ofApple HD SC Setup many ofyou. This collection includes Mac Disketeria text file with your is included for formatting Apple 'patches' for many popular applica favorite word processor. branded hard disks. tion and utility software packages. Easy View 2.50 f: By M. Akif Eyler. System 7.1 Update3.0-800Kis Software vendors are continually An application for intelligent brows a single disk which updates Mac II, improving their products-finding ing of collections of structured text Mac SE and Mac Plus computers and fixing bugs, making changes to files, large or small. It allows very fast access by recognizing the in- with SOOK floppy disk drives. It be compatible with new Macintosh 68 Washington Apple Pi Journal September 1994 temal structure. Easy View Intro version 1.5 to 1.5.1 (regular and Enabler 040 1.1, System Enabler duction and Easy View Notes are in Personal Edition); update any version 065 1.2, System Enabler 088 1.2, text format. Easy View-Read Me is ofOptiMem since 1.4.1to1.5.6f; also System Enabler 1311.0.3, System in Easy View format. includes MaxRAM 1.0.2 shareware Enabler 401 1.0.5 and System Files.txt, By Dave Weikert. A delimited utility which increases the multiplier Enabler 403 1.0.2. text file ofall ofthe files included in our in RAM Doubler (i.e., Tripler, etc.). MacDisketeria. ltincludes File Name, DisK #SU a.o (BOOK) File Size, File Type, File Creator, DISKS #26.33A 8YsTEM 7.1 UPDATE 3.0 Creation Date, Revision Date, and MISCELLANEOUS APPUCATIONS This one disk is for Macs with SOOK disk Folder and Disk Names. You should Update MacDraw Pro 1.5 or later to drives; it fixes bugs and improves be able to import this list into your 1.5v3; Clarislmpact 1.0 and later to performance and reliability of System favorite database for sorting and J .Ov3 and Userland Frontier 2.0 to 7.1 and7.1.1(System7 Pro). It applies selection and printing. You could also 2.0.1. only to Macs SOOK drives-Mac Plus, import the list into any word processor Mac SE and Mac II. System Update DISK #SU a.o (l.44MJ 3.0 incorporates all prior that accepts large text files. 1.1 UPDATE SYsTEM a.o enhancements and bug fixes ofSystem DISKS #26.0BB & #26.09B This two disk set fixes bugs and improves Update 2.0.2, Hardware System DENEBA CANVAS performance and reliability of Macs Update 2.0 and Hardware System Update Deneba Canvas from version 3.5 running System 7.1, 7.1.1 (System 7 Update 1.0. This disk includes an to 3.5.2. Two disk set. Pro) and 7.1.2(for Power Macintosh). Installer and script which automatically It applies to all Macs except those installs the proper modifications for your DISK #26.llB with SOO K drives which are WORD PROCESSOR 2 systemandMacandremovessuperceded accommodated with Disk #SU 3.0 System components. Update WordPerfect 3.0 to 3.0p2. Also (SOOK). System Update 3.0 Install System Update 3.0, Installer includes converter between Mac WP incorporates all prior enhancements 4.0, SimpleText 1.0, System Update 3.0 and PC WordPerfect version 6 and and bug fixes ofSystem Update 2.0.2, 3.0 SOOK Archive 3.0 and System two collections of WP macros. Hardware System Update 2.0 and Update 3.0 Read Me SOOK 3.0. Update FullWrite from vl.5s or 1.6 to Hardware System Update 1.0. This System Resources£ includes Keyboard version 1.7, Vantage to version 1.6.1, disk includes an Installer and script Resources 1.0.3, Serial Resources and Thunder 7 version 1.5 to version which automatically installs the 1.5.4. proper modifications for your system 1.0andStandardFileResources 1.0. and Mac and removes superceded Utilities fincludesAppleHDSCSetup DISK #26.13B System components. 7.3.1 and Disk First Aid 7.2. CLARlsWoRKS AND QUICKEN Install System Update 3.0, Installer DISK #QT.162 (l.44M) UpdateanyversionofClarisWorkssince 4.0, SimpleText 1.0, System Update 2.0 to version 2.lv4. Includes such QurcK'llME 1.6.2 3.0Archive3.0andSystem Update QuickTime™ 1.6.2, by Apple Computer, enhancements and new features as 3.0 Read Me 3.0. support for PowerTalk (electronic Inc., is the System Extension. SvstemResources fincludesKeyboard mail), automatic hyphenation, and QuickTime Read Me is a TeachText Resources 1.0.3, Serial Resources additionalimportsandexports. Update formatted document that explains how 1.0 and St.andardFile Resources 1.0. Quicken 4 to Release 6. to install QuickTime extension and Utilities fincludesAppleHDSC Setup Scrapbook. Replacement Scrapbook. DISK #26.30C 7.3.1 and Disk First Aid 7.2. File includes Scrapbook File Read MISCELLANEOUS UTILl'l'lES Disk 2 of the set includes the following: Me, Scrapbook File and sample Update RAM Doubler to version 1.0.4 PowerBook Duo Enabler 1.0, movie. Scrapbook 7.1.2 is a DA that and add RAM Doubler Activity PowerPCEnabler 1.0.1,PowerPC replaces the earlier version ofthe same Indicator; update TimesTwo to version Upgrade Card Enabler 7.1.2, name. TeachText 7.1 is used to read 1.0.3d; update Hard Disk Toolkit from System Enabler 003 1.1, System the documentation. • Are you a member of Washington Apple Pi, Ltd.? YIN_ Ifyes, member number . . All payments must be in U.S. funds drawn ~gains~ U.S. B~g institutions. Non-members add $3.00 er disk to listed nces. 3.5" Singles 4 or less @ $4.00 5 or more @ $3.50 Name _sets (as marked) $(above) 5.25" Singles Box Number, Apt., Suite 4 or less @ $2.00 5 or more@ $1.75 _ sets (as marked) ${above) Street Address +postage $1.00/disk maximum $5.00 City State Zip TOTAL.\&fOUPP\f>UE . $...__----~ Day tele. Evening tele. 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