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BY CHARLES RUBIN THE @LOOKUP FUNCTION Running IBM AND'OTHER involves dealing with the APPLEWORKS TIPS MS-DOS . A guide to the@LOOKUP If you're mostly familiar function in the COVER STORIES with ProDOS or DOS 3.3, module, suggestions for here's a primer on operating using Apple Works systems in general-and effectively, answers to Apple Works questions > PC TRANSPORTER MS-DOS in particular. from our readers, and "'u.. BY JOHN MARKOFF another approach to � PC Transporter does the creating multicolumn text § seemingly impossible-it ;;; lets the Apple II Plus, Ile, AT YOUR COMMAND and IIGS run IBM software. BY GARY B. UTILE ....� < Here's our preview of this A chart showing the most �"' technological achievement. common commands in 0 0 ProDOS, DOS 3.3, MS• ....:I: DOS, and CP/M w >"' 0 SPEAKING OF GRAPHICS 0 QUICK TAKES BY ROBERT A SCHWARTZ AND MICHAEL CALLERY This month, Schwartz and DELUXEPAINT Callery offer a forum in BY ROBERTA SCHWARTZ AND which Activision responds MICHAEL CALLERY ..., to commonly asked A quick look DeluxePaint, questions about Paintworks a program Schwartz and THE LEARNING CURVE Plus. Callery say is reason enough BY DAVID D. THORNBURG to buy a IIGS Part 2 on the possibilities of Prolog, a language that can draw GRAPHICS GALLERY inferences A face, a fish, a whale, and SLOT-BUSTER a wail BY KEN LANDIS Forget about phantom slots RECREATION with Slot-Buster, a board A+ TEACHERS' that lets you add many TOOLBOX functions to your Apple II. Which of the thousands of educational programs are GAMEPORT worth your time and BY BOB LINDSTROM money? To find out, consult Ladies and gentlemen, meet ON BALANCE this monthly guide to the president of the BY MARY JANSIEWICZ educational software. This United States! Also this An easy-to-use personal• month's installment month, "GamePort" finance program from features health and columnist Bob Lindstrom Broderbund Software nutrition software. goes bargain hunting. 'Ii,, ..

.;• Think of an alliance between the Star Wars antagonists Darth Vader and Obe Wan Kanobe. Admittedly an un- likely team, it has certain obvious i advantages. "* t( Apple Computer, Inc., and In-' ternational Business Machines Cor• poration are the two great oppo- ·�. sites of the personal-computer world, but a merger of the two also makes a great deal of sense. After all, the Apple II family of comput- • ers is the clear leader in education= •, ?I: al software, whereas IBM domi- ,,'. ''f nates business markets. Why not, then, have the best of,,.. both worlds? IBM compatibility can give Apple II owners access to ·� the wealth of business software in l'.!i the MS-DOS world. • Enter PC Transporter, an IBM- •. · compatible coprocessor card from, i1 , Applied Engineering. Designed by The Engineering Department, a Campbell, California, develop• ment group composed of key for-! mer Apple Computer engineers,, , PC Transporter (which was code• named Little Blue) is a combination I ,,f_,;.:;.. __i,c A J121V y VF135 VC284MOOl PROTOTYPE B MADE 1rj USA

easily•· 'i of hardware a;d ;oftware-includ- . � t , transiate documents be- . programs-that 1 ·1 ing a set of utility � A A l tol ff th nr1 ' tween Pro DOS and MS-DOS by us- • t adapts an Apple II Plus, Ile, or Iles r, n '1-'I' e WZ rs: Jing an MS-DOS conversion utility to the IBM PC and PC/X� world. I Transporter runs faster "" from T�e Enginee:ing Depart- Plug PC Transporter into your .,, f ment, It is even possible to use an Apple, and you have an inexpen- • .� than a standard IBM PC. � Apple 3.5-inch disk drive, connect- � , sive IBM-compatible computer that � ed directly to the PC Transporter ': runs the major MS-DOS packages.v along with PC Transporter's 16-bit , disk-drive port, to read from and as well as a large RAMdisk that in- data (vs. the 8088's 8-bit bus),� 'write to specially formatted disks, , creases the power of your Apple makes this speed possible. (Other which can then be directly trans- • . � and a simple means of transferring benchmarks also show the speed i-v '.• ferred to the new breed of IBM• program data between the IBM ness of PC Transporter. Watch for a compatible portable ,· ' . MS-DOS and Apple II ProDOS t • complete performance review in including the Tl 100, Ze- worlds. an upcoming issue of A+.) • · nith 181, and NEC Multispeed. PC i , Even better, an Apple II with PC Besides speed, the PC Transport-j,> Transporter is also designed to be 'Transporter runs faster than a stan- f , er has a range of other features: compatible with the 3.5-inch disk dard IBM PC, in fact almost as fast , The PC Transporter circuit 1 drives in IBM's new PS/2 series of as an IBM PC/ AT. The board includes a socket for an computers. i Engineering 1 .; ,.. Department has chosen a low-pow-,; 8087 math coprocessor. The 8087 ·,i Best of all, perhaps, PC Trans- er-consuming, true 16-bit, CMOS,, dramatically speeds operations I! , porter allows you to retain , 17.2-MHz NEC V30, a chip that has ii such as recalculating . �· your existing Apple II peri- • , J more than twice the speed of the ,•1 Fully configured, the PC Trans-• 1 pherals. You can use most s · standard s porter card offers a total of 768K of Apple II monitors (both color and , of the IBM PC. • RAM that you can reconfigure as a � monochrome), printers, and hard-j I saw PC Transporter running • RAMdisk when using PC Trans- • disk drives, rather than having to . the Norton Utilities benchmark I, porter while running Apple II soft- • buy PC-compatible peripherals. To] ,';, program 3.5 times faster than a � ware. This setup lets the Apple- add MS-DOS compatibility, all you , run-of-the-mill IBM PC with a�, Works 2.0 desktop, for instance, need is the PC Transporter package � 4.77-MHz Intel 8088 microproces-Jt show 750K of work space. and a single floppy-disk drive that ' sor. The faster rocessor s eed, '7,3 With PC Transporter, ou can read PC-formatted diskettes.; ' "" · ·r.rpaGn s.p orter (You will also need an IBM-style keyboard if you have an Apple II Plus.) Bringing together two comput• ers as radically different as the Ap• ple II and the IBM PC is a first-class engineering challenge. Although cloning the IBM PC is now com• mon-hundreds of IBM-compati• ble models are on the market• obtaining the same functionality inside an Apple II requires a more sophisticated approach. It also requires the expertise of engineers intimately acquainted with both Apple II and IBM hard• ware and software. The Engineer• ing Department has drawn together the talents of a group of

PC Transporter lets you retain your existing Apple II peripherals.

veteran Apple engineers: Cliff Huston was one of Apple's earliest employees-he helped Steve Woz• niak design the disk controller for a the Apple II; his brother Dick joined Apple as its first full-time programmer and 25th employee and wrote the ProDOS operating system; Wendell Sarider, chief Ap• ple III designer, also designed the Integrated Woz Machine (IWM) chip; Bob Lashley designed mo• PC TRANSPORTER GETS SMAU dems and local-area networks at ike any other circuit board, Apple worlds; it corresponds to b Apple; and Peter Quinn was the PC Transporter started out on the completed PC Transporter. engineering project manager for large and got small. The pho• C is the ancestor of the "glue" chip the Apple Ile and Ile. It's an im• tograph above shows PC (c) that combines the miscellaneous pressive group. TLransporter in several stages of de• circuitry from the two systems. ilicon Valley is the best place velopment, starting at the upper And D is what eventually became in the world to undertake a left and moving clockwise to the the custom video chip (d). project as complex as creating bottommost board-the finished In the upper right-hand corner S PC Transporter. Not only is it product. On the left are four sub• is the first "wire-wrap" version of possible to find engineers who un• boards (A-D) that were built in the PC Transporter, meaning the first derstand the fundamentals of PC late summer of '86 and linked to• incarnation of the product in design, but the most advanced gether to form this early prototype. which all the various components semiconductor-design houses are (The original prototype, not shown reside on the same board. The En• here as well. The members of the here, was built a year earlier to test gineering Department came up Engineering Department team the product concept.) with this board in early 1987. have taken circuitry that originally A is an early version of the disk Midway down the right-hand required dozens of separate off• controller, which has since been side is the next iteration of PC the-shelf chips and squeezed it scaled down to the pint-size con• Transporter, which came into the down so that it now fits comfort• troller chip (a) on the finished world in the spring of this year. If ably on a single plug-in board (see board. B is the that you look closely, you'll notice that "PC Transporter Gets Small," this contains the RAM, CPU, and math it has drastically fewer chips than page). The hardware they couldn't coprocessor, as well as the logic does its immediate predecessor. fit on the board they have imitated that buffers between the IBM and -Lisa Raleigh

32 A+ MAGAZINE/SEPTEMBER 1987 in software that runs simulta• quires several dozen chips on an neously on the Apple II's 6502 mi• IBM PC motherboard. All the croprocessor. You can daisydair: up custom chips are attached to the PC To mimic the IBM PC, The Engi• to four driies off PC Transporter board via a technique neering Department has chosen to called surface-mount technology. shrink most of that computer's Transporter. The advantage to surface-mount is functions onto three custom chips. that it creates very reliable prod• First, a video chip allows PC Trans• ucts, but the downside is that if the porter to send IBM Color Graphics types of disk drives to PC Trans• products fail, they are quite costly Adapter (CGA) graphics to either porter. It is perhaps the most flexi• to repair. an Apple II monochrome or an ble personal-computer disk con• s impressive as PC Transport• analog RGB monitor, or directly to troller ever designed. You can er's custom very-large-scale an IBM-compatible digital RGB daisy-chain up to four drives off integrated-circuit (VLSI) monitor. (The IBM monochrome PC Transporter-as many as two hardware is, the secret of the monitor doesn't work with PC IBM drives and two Iles-style 3.5- Acoprocessor board is the role the Transporter.) inch drives (officially called Apple Apple II 6502 microprocessor plays Second, a powerful, custom, sin• 3.5 Drives). The older Apple Uni• in emulating all the hardware gle-chip disk controller includes Disk 3.5 drives can't be connected ports that normally provide 1/0 for the functions of the Apple IWM to PC Transporter. The IBM drives an IBM PC. While running MS• chip (used in the Apple Ile, IIGS, may be in either 51/.i- or 3.5-inch DOS software, the 6502 operates in and ) plus the ability to format. the background under the ProDOS read from and write to IBM-com• Finally, a third, custom, "glue" operating system. patible drives. -The disk-controller chip concentrates all the miscella• Every time the PC Transporter chip allows you to connect several neous circuitry that .norrnally re- coprocessor asks for data from one of its own ports, the 6502 supplies it. The Apple emulates the func• tions of standard IBM chips and de• vices such as the 8237 A OMA controller, 8259A interrupt con• ADDRESSING THE .DISK-DRIVE DILEMMA troller, 8255A PPI (keyboard, speaker, and switches), game con• hen you buy PC Trans• nately, that's not the right pin trol (through the Apple's game porter, you must also ac• con.figuration to connect with PC port), parallel interfaces (printers), quire an IBM-style disk Transporter, which was designed to asynchronous communications drive in order to run IBM let you connect either IBM-style or (modems), and a hard disk (as a software or to load IBM programs Apple GS-style drives to it. Thus, PC ProDOS volume or file that ap• W as an MS-DOS volume to PC and transfer them to an Apple 3.5 Transporter favors the Apple pin pears drive. To make life easier for its PC configuration and has a DB-19 (19- Transporter). Perhaps most impres• Transporter customers, then, Ap• pin) connector for disk drives-and sive is PC Transporter's emulation plied Engineering is also selling so does the d\sk-drive set from Ap• of the NEC 765 disk controller; IBM-compatible drives. These are plied Engineering. without this emulation, PC Trans• not just off-the-shelf IBM-type disk The back of the drive box also porter would have a tough time drives; they are specially modified has a DB-19 connector for daisy• running copy-protected IBM soft• to work in an Apple/IBM setup. chaining Apple 3.5 drives. The ware. A master control program The Applied Engineering drives drives' internal circuitry has daisy• running on the Apple II translates come in a box that's the same size as chain logic built in so that it knows between PC Transporter and var• that of the older Apple Disk II. You how to handle up to four disk ious Apple peripherals. can get one or two half-height drives. You as a user see only a maxi• drives in a single box. The drives Of course, you can wire your mum of 640K out of PC Transport• come with their own power supply, own cables and connectors for er's total 768K of RAM, because PC which relieves the Apple II power hooking an IBM-type drive to PC Transporter uses the rest of mem• supply from the extra load, and also Transporter, but you run the risk of ory for programs that help emulate have a little circuit board built in blowing the disk-controller chip on a PC, as well as for the menu-driv• that protects your Apple in case you the PC Transporter board if you get en software that helps you config• shut it off but forget to turn the the wiring wrong. The price for all ure the system. For example, the power off on. the drives. this equipment is not especially Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) The most critical feature, though, cheap: $239 for a one-drive box and takes up lOK of memory, and an is the arrangement of the cable con• $349 for two. If the functionality of extension for the PC/XT fills an• nectors. A standard IBM-style drive PC Transporter appeals to you, other lOK. In a PC, the BIOS (a set comes with a 34-pin connector with though, the price is probably worth of low-level software programs which you're supposed to hook up the headaches you'll avoid. that mediate between application the drive to the computer. Unfortu- -Lisa Raleigh programs and the computer hard-

A+ MAGAZINE/SEPTEMBER 1987 41 r------HOT NEW PROGRAMS! Public Do�Shareware ware) permanently resides in read• ous task is connecting it to its life• only memory (ROM). BIOS resides support system through a series of in RAM to save cost and enhance cables and connectors. Separate ca• flexibility. Since you load it from ble kits are available for the Apple disk, rather than burning it into Ile and IIG�. (At press time, Ap• ROM, the task of updating BIOS in plied Engineering said it would the future is simplified. probably bundle these cables with For the Apple II Family Starting PC Transporter the PC Transporter card as well as CAD To start PC Transporter, you provide them separately.) You D 310/311/312 CAD and graphing pkg ... $15 must first load the ProDOS operat• need an additional cable to connect Education a II Plus to an D 062 Alphabet, spelling, word games. . . $5 ing system and then run the PC IBM-compatible key• D 064 Drills: typing, spelling, states $5 Transporter program on the Apple board. D 066 Teaching aids: grader, averager, make and print tests .... $5 from the same disk. The PC Trans• For the Ile, the connections in• D 069 Geography, fractions/decimals . . . $5 porter program initiates a sequence clude a speaker connector and an D 085 Elementary math drills: +,-,x,-;-, 23 levels $5 that begins with a simple series of optional keyboard connector that D 500 D 503 Geometry & Science Tutors: menus for configuration (see be• lets you add an IBM keyboard. If hi res graphics (or make own quizzes) . $5ea. D 501 Teacher's Q/A test, word puzzle .... $5 low). Once you set up PC Trans• you don't opt for the latter, you D 502 Flash cards, speed reading, Spanish .$5 must connect Ile ca• D 505 Grammar Quest II .$5 porter to match your system your keyboard D 602 Genetics, anatomy, biology $5 software, the special driver pro• ble to the PC Transporter card. In D 605 Learn about motion, acceleration .. $5 Word Processing grams load into Apple II memory, D 037 Freewriter (II+ needs paddles or joyst;ck) .. $5 and then the BIOS from the disk Tutorials loads into PC Transporter's own D 000 BASIC tutorial . $5 The engineeringfeat ef Art RAM memory. D 023 Make drawings, paint w/colors . $5 D 026/027 Make animated art movies! ... $10 ou configure PC Transporter PC Transporter's Geneology by using a program that you D 194 Family Tree-Create your own for only $5 can also access any time PC designers is impressive. Business/Home Transporter is running by D 039 G/L, 15 financial programs $5 Y D 056 Check balancer w/documentation . $5 holding down the Shift key and addition, there's a composite video D 057 Omnifile database w/doc.(shareware). $5 pressing Caps Lock twice. It is a jumper that you need if you are us• D 402 Sales Portfolio, market value . $5 D 404 Family Finance, accounting .. $5 ProDOS application running on ing an Apple monochrome com• D 406 Address and Telephone Database the Apple II that lets you select posite monitor, plus a 19-pin disk• w/ramdrive (shareware) ..... $5 Communication items such as printers and printer drive port and an optional analog D 260/261 Bulletin board system w/doc. . $10 interfaces, video displays, and RGB connector port. The II Plus D 262/263 Down/upload-Hayes utilities . $10 Games communications equipment; set setup is similar, except that you D 119 CU•BIT, Cribbage, text advent . .. $5 PC Transporter's ports to match must add an IBM-style keyboard to D 123 Missile Command, Star Trek, Life .. $5 D 124 English dice game, space orbit, etc. $5 standard ports on a PC; adjust set• use PC Transporter because the II D 126 Anti-Gravity-Fast action-Addictive! $5 tings similar to those set by switch• Plus keyboard doesn't have Music D 186 Music Maker/text editor w/doc . $5 es in a PC; set memory configura• enough possible key combinations Passion tions; and configure disk-drive to simulate an IBM keyboard. With D 190/191 Graphic displays, adults only .. $10 Programming arrangements. This "control pan• the Iles, you don't need to worry D 370 BASIC algorithms (shareware) .... $5 el" consists of menus that allow about the keyboard, speaker, and Utilities D 213 Best of Utilities . $5 you to load specific drivers, which video-jumper connections, but you D 229 One Key DOS-Faster than DOS! . $5 are ProDOS control programs that must use a video converter that D 244 30 useful disk & util. . $5 programming govern the devices attached to PC translates PC Transporter's digital D Book: 150 pg. directory of disks ..... $6.95 D 1 Yr. Membership: Qtrly bulletins, Transporter. Once you set up your video signal into analog for the discounts plus directory . $20 configuration, you can save it to IIGS's RGB monitor. your boot disk, which PC Trans• The Monitor I SPECIAL' Any 6 disks plus I • Apple directory I porter subsequently reads every PC Transporter works with one I Only $399s 1 Yr. Membership I time you start it. There is also an out of three graphics-hardware de• L � auto-configure option. vices that IBM PC-compatible com• Add $4 shipping for disk orders, or $2 ii ordering directory only. California orders add sales tax. The most challenging aspect of puters use. Currently the most Enclosed $ _ by O Check O VISA O MC using PC Transporter may be the popular graph• Card no. _ Exp. __ actual task of installing it in your ics standards are the monochrome Apple. Part of the task is straight• text-only mode (Monochrome Dis• Address _ forward. You can put the PC Trans• play Adapter), high-resolution col•

City State_Zip __ porter card into any of your Apple or (Enhanced Graphics Adapter), Il's expansion slots (the and low-resolution color (Color THE�PUBLIC+DOMAIN CALL NOW! higher• numbered the better), except the Graphics Adapter). EXC HANG E: 8��-�!�ii���� 408-496-0624 auxiliary slot on the Ile, the mem• Although EGA is considered the 2074C Walsh, Ste. 518, Santa Clara, CA 95050 ory-expansion slot on the Iles, or optimal mode in the IBM world, We Carry Print Shop Graphics DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED slot O on the II Plus. After you've PC Transporter uses CGA because installed the card, the more ardu- it is a lowest common denomina- CIRCLE 190 ON READER SERVICE CARD 42 A+ MAGAZINE/SEPTEMBER 1987 tor. Still, it provides adequate reso• You can also use PC Transporter Disk Drives lution with a good monitor. If you with a PC-compatible digital RGB PC Transporter's design ele• have a standard Apple II composite monitor. If you have an Apple RGB gance is evident in the single-chip monitor such as the Apple Monitor monitor, you can also use it, but form of the disk controller, which III or Monitor II, programs run• you need a special converter to let normally takes up an entire expan• ning on PC Transporter will ap• PC Transporter work with an ana• sion card in most PC-compatible pear in the log RGB monitor. If you have two computers. The engineering feat of mode. In this case, a simple gray video displays connected when PC Transporter's designers is par• scale is mapped onto the color out• you're using PC Transporter, you ticularly impressive because PC• put, meaning that you get a mono• can switch back and forth between compatible disk drives and Apple chrome image. monitors. disk drives use two entirely differ• L------'------1 ent recording methods to store in• formation on diskettes. PC-compatibles employ a meth• od called Modified Frequency Modulation (MFM), whereas ·Ap• We've Still Got It! ple-compatible drives use a differ• Get the C-VOE ent technique called Group Code Recording (GCR). Another compli• and the quality of cation is that the ProDOS and MS- � APPLIED ENGINEERING PC Transporter makes a great deal cf sense for all at the Lowest Prices practical reasons. and all In Stock! DOS operating systems have very APPLIED ENGINEERING different internal structures. To (additional AE items in stock) $ 39.00 surmount these obstacles, The En• GS-RAM, 1.5 Meg 179.00 gineering Department had to de• Z-RAM Ultra 1, 512K 59.00 37.95 sign an extremely flexible disk Z-RAM Ultra 2, 1 Meg controller. Z-RAM Ultra 3, 1 Meg 119.00 GS-RAM PLUS, 1 Meg 49.95 As a result, you can simulta• GS-RAM PLUS, 2 Meg neously connect up to four floppy Ramfactor, 1 Meg drives directly to PC Transporter: Ram Works Ill, 1 Meg lie Enhancernen Kit $62.00 Serial Pro up to two PC-compatible 51A- or /le D�gichable Numeric Keypad 99.00 RamCharger for Ramfactor-=:=:::=: 3.5-inch drives and to two lie-system Cloqk (external) 48.00 up Ap• Trans Warp L.A. 20 Meg SCSI Hard Drive (Mac+) 650.00 ple "Unified" disk drives (meaning TimeMaster H.O. Sider 10 Meg (/le, GS) 575.00 Phasor the "universal" drives that can Sider 20 Meg (//e, S) 645.00 lie High Output Power Su work with both the IIGS and the =.::.-=,�==:=-,c;=::::-::�BcSwitch'Bo,t(�erial/Parallel) 29.00 ABCD Switch Bo (Serial/Parallel) 39.00 Macintosh). Additionally, you can PORTABLE SYSTEM 5.25 DSDD Dis s , 10 pak( with order) 8.99 use a PC-compatible drive as a Pro• 3.50 DSDD Dis s, 10 pak ( with order) 21. 99 DOS volume when running in the C-VUE LCD Flat Monitor for /le Top otc -ms Natcher 12.95 C-VUE LCD for Laser 128 C'v'.UE Tr-ay_el Kit (protective Apple II mode and similarly use a Prairie Power System, Battery Pa K cover, len cleaner, lubricator) $14.95 143K Apple SIA-inch drive as an (8 Hr. UPS) s Carrying Case Next'-

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:i,k drive f°' use by PC-compat• lier this year, it was still in proto• ible programs. To do so, you first type form, so I could not tell if it Ineed to prepare the Apple disk by would be 100% compatible with using a selection from the setup the PC world. Its developers aim to menu, which allows you to set make PC Transporter capable of aside space on the hard-disk drive, running 99% of all programs writ• actually creating a special ProDOS ten for the IBM PC class of comput• file on the disk. To PC Transporter, ers, however. Watch for A +'s the file looks like a hard-disk MS- upcoming performance-and-com• 005 volume on which you can patibility review to see how well it then format and store data. Disk measures up. + performance is not comparable to the performance of the fastest John Markoff has been an editor for hard-disk drives available for PC• both Byte and Info World. He is now a compatible computers, but using technology reporter for The San Fran• this setup is significantly faster and cisco Examiner. lie Foam Padded Carrying Case more convenient than using flop- with py drives. Removable Cover The Keyboard If have an Apple Ile or a Macintosh you IIGS, can use the Carrying Case you Apple key• $114.50* board and emulate a standard IBM PC keyboard through keystroke combinations. If you have an Ap• MacPlus ple II Plus, you will need an at• Flight Case tached IBM PC-compatible key• � board. The PC Transporter card has a special port that can connect to a separate IBM-type keyboard. The 44r / shoulder strap problem, of course, lies in the fact "UPS Shipping Included. � / $5.25 that the Apple has fewer keys than the IBM PC. Consequently, PC Transporter interprets Apple key Holds: lie, monitor combinations as IBM keystrokes w/stand, external (such as the equivalent of function disc drive, power pack, mouse. keys) by requiring you to press cer• tain key combinations that are as $189.50* easy to use as possible. The PC Transporter card has a jumper con• nection to the Apple II keyboard• controller chip. The jumper provides separate status for keys, such as the Control key, that are "UPS Shipping Included. not reported as separate keys Call for Complete through the usual Apple software Computer Case Catalog. interface. Having It Both Ways PC Transporter is a new alterna• Faosr t. -, EVISA ..� ."A':'.::. - tive for those who have been Semce! - �'II� tempted by the IBM software CREDIT CARD CUSTOMERS "standard" but who feel their heart CALL TOLL FREE Jj still remains with It also 800-847-4176 ��� Apple. (outside N.Y. State)� makes a great deal of sense for practical reasons. It's faster than a PC, it costs less than most clones, and it provides the convenience of Fiberbilt easily moving data between the CASES, INC. Apple II and IBM formats. Also, 601 West 26th Street New York, New York 10001-1199 consider that buying another com• (212) 675-5820 (N.Y. State only) puter would take up more than (800) 847-4176 (Toll Free) twice the desk space. When I saw PC Transporter ear- CIRCLE 164 ON READER SERVICE CARD 46 A+ MAGAZINE/SEPTEMBER 1987