Washington Apple Pi Journal, June 1987
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$ 250 Wa/hington Apple Pi The Journal of Washingtono Apple Pi, Ltd. Volume.. 9 June 1987 number 6 Hiahliahtl-- ,,[g The Ultimate Apple Trivia Test ,,~ GameSIG: Five Reviews ' " Printing Columns in AppleWorks ~ Quick! I Need It Fast! ,,[g Patentability of Software " ~ Vi ew Fromth e Hill: Apple's New Software Company In This Issue... Officers & Staff, Editorial .......... ................................... 3 Bureaucracy: A Software Review ........... Charles Don Hall 36 President's Corner ........ .. ........................... Tom Warrick 4 Realms of Darkness: A Review .................. David Granite 37 Apple Teas, Event Queue, General Information .............. ... 6 Indiana Jones: A Review ........................... Steven Payne 38 WAP Calendar, SigNews .. ...... ...................... ................ 7 Stock SIG News .......................... Andrew D. Thompson 39 WAP Hotline............................................................. 8 Cumber's Corner ........................... James F. Cumber Jr. 40 Classifieds, Comm. Classifieds, Volunteers, Job Mart ....... 9 dPub SIG News ...................................... Steven Payne 41 EDSIG News .......................................... Peter Combes 9 Printing Columns in AppleWorks ................ Lou Pastura 42 Frederick Apple Core ................................................... 12 Quick! I Need It Fast! ..................................... Jay Rohr 46 Annapolis Apple Slice News ..................... NallCY Stump 12 Ready, Set, Wait a Minute .................... Alicia Angelides 50 On the Trail of the Apple III ..................... David Ottalini 14 Patentability of Software ..................... Joseph A. Hasson 54 Q & A ........................ Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field 16 Mac Q & A ..................................... Jonathan E. Hardis 59 Apple IIgs SIG: News and Meeting Report ....... Ted Meyer 18 Letter to the Editor .......................... David Smith/Hardis 62 Music SIG News .......... ....................... Raymond Hobbs 18 MacNovice Column: Growing Pains ..... Ralph J. Begleiter 64 PI SIG News ......................................... Robert Golden 19 Six Mac Magazines ................................ Bonnie Walker 66 The Musical Apple .............................. Raymond Hobbs 20 MindWrite Replies ................................ ..... Susan Raab 67 I Love Apple Music ...... ........................... Gary Hayman 22 Home Accounting With MacMoney ...... Charles M. Sicard 68 Letter to Ed.: AppleWorks 2.0 on)[+ ....... Derek R. Scorer 24 Macintosh Bits and Bytes ........ ............... Lynn R. Trusal 69 Pascal News ........................................ Robert C. Platt 25 Microsoft Word 3.0 Bug Report .............. Robert C. Platt 71 Best of Apple Items From TCS ............. Alexander Barnes 26 Development Team for the Mac SE ........... Paul N. Jenner 71 The Ultimate Apple Trivia Test .. .. .......... Ellen Tom Woz 28 View from the Hill .. ............................ .. ... Rich Norling 72 The Growing TCS! ..................................... Lee Raesly 32 Best of Mac Items from TCS ..................... Bill Baldridge 74 More About Webster's Spelling Checker .... Stuart Goldman 33 Summer WAP Tutorials ......................... Robert C. Platt 81 Auto Logon.ASCII Express Macro ...... Richard M. Rowell 33 Disketeria Dispatch ....................................... Jim Little 82 GameSIG News ....................................... Steven Payne 34 llgs Disketeria News ............ ........................ Ted Meyer 82 Phantasie III: A Review ....................... Charles Don Hall 34 Mac Disketeria News ......... Marty Milrod & Dave Weikert 83 Battlecruiser: A Review .......................... 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Feny Rd, Clinton, MD (301)856-2500- 277S. Washington St, Alexandria, VA (703)838-9700 '* A11 ~ 1 " '* 9636 Ft. Meade Rd, Laurel. MD (301)953-1110 or(301)792-0600 '* 12204RockvillePike,Rockville,MD (301)881-2810 '* Clinton Computer - A Full-Service Dealership! Five Stores Cover Metro Area Clinton Opens Fifth Store -- in Rockville Clinton Computer. the Metro area's largest indepen dent retail computer dealer. now has five stores -- in Clinton. Rockville and Laurel. MD. and in Vienna and Alexandria. VA. We are authorized dealers for Apple™ microcomputers at all five locations. In addition. our Clinton and Alexandria stores are authorized IBMTM Personal Computer dealerships. We also sell printers. monitors. software. supplies. and service. New Macintosh SE Expandable and Flexible -- the brand new Apple® Macintosh™ SE! It comes fully-equipped with two internal disk drives. You get an BOOK disk drive and either a second internal BOOK drive oran internal 20MB Hard Disk. Plus. a built-in expansion slot allows you to customize a systemwith a variety ofcards to meetyour needs. What's more. since the Macintosh SE is a Macintosh. it's easy to use and learn. Besides that. it can run the large software library that has made the Macintosh a standard Clinton Computer'sNew Store at 12204RockvillePike for business applications like desktop publishing, graph ics. desktop communications. word processing, databases , The company operates a huge 3600-square-foot service and spreadsheets. and repair facility in Clinton. with satellite repair shops at the Laurel. Vienna, Rockville and Alexandria stores. Clinton Computer was founded in 197B by co-owners Art Lundquist and Chuck Perilli. It began as a two-man Fantastic Hard Disk Drive Sale! consulting firm on the fourth floor of an office building During June. Apple Pi members may purchase and has grown into a multi-million-dollar retail business. Macintosh Hard Disks at outstanding sale prices! Just bring in this ad or a copy along with your Pi membership card. DISCOUNTPOLICY FORWASHINGTON APPLE PI MEMBERS CLINTON COMPUTER offers Washington Apple Pi members a 25% Apple 20MB Internal HD for Mac SE $799 DISCOUNT OFF THE LIST PRICE on all non-allocated Apple brand peripherals (no CPU's). software and AppleCare. For Gee FX20External HD $799 upgrades, the 25% discount applies to both the parts and normal Rodime 20MB 20PLUS External HD $799 labor rate. Discount is available to persons who have been Pi members for at least 3 months. Discount cannot be applied Rodime 45MB 45PLUS External HD $1199 retroactively. Pi members need to present their cards up-front. No phone or mail orders. please. Discount cannot be used in This ad was produced on a Macintosh and LaserWriter, using combination with other promotions. Products on allocation from MacWrite and Aldus PageMaker. Apple, the Apple logo, and Apple are excluded from this offer. Clinton Computer reserves the LaserWriter are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. right to change this policy at any time. Macintosh is a trademark ofApple Computer, Inc. Washington Apple Pi - June 1987 1 Family Com~uter -----CENTER Fair Oaks Shopping Center, 11917L Fair Oaks Mall, Fairfax, Virginia (703) 385-2758 Backlick Shopping Center, 6691 Backlick Road, Springfield, Virginia (703) 866-9122 Get Expert Authorized Apple Input... Express Service When your Apple equipment breaks down, you need it fixed, not excuses. That's why we're introducing ServiCenter Express Service for Apple 1t members at a special I1Ite. But what does Express Service mean to you? Express Service means fast repairs at reasonable prices for you. As an Apple 1t member in good standing you pay only regular labor rates for Express Service. It means that if we have parts in stock for your Apple-brand peripheral, you can have it repaired while you wait in most cases. 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