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Washington Apple Pi Journal, August 1986 $ 2 50 Wa/hington Apple Pi The Journal of WashingtonG Apple Pi, Ltd Volume. 8 AUGust 1986 number 8 Hiahliahtl v - ­ • Laptop Computers - F':rprtlpt. ,dJ)ploads • Family Home Money Manager:P-art 4 • Multiscribe: MacWrite Comes to the Apple • Beyond MacWrite: Professional Writers &the Mac • 'Excel'ing With Your Mac: Part 6 • Softviews: MacServe and Mail Center In This Issue.. Officers &Staff, Editorial 3 Best of Apple Items from UBBS •• Euclid Coukouma 34 President's Corner ••••• Tom Warrick 4 Poor Richard's Almanac: Hardworks •• Doug Trueman 39 Annapolis Slice . •• • •• • Micha Dannenberg 5 Recent Reading Library Acquisitions •• Walt Franc is 40 Classifieds , Comme rci al Cl assifieds, Job Mart.. 5 Wall Street Jrnl Rep~rts on PC ••• Joseph A. Hasson 42 Event Que ue , Ge ner al Information 6 Multiscribe: MacWrite Comes to Apple •• J.W. Willis 43 WAP Calendar, Si gN ews •• • 7 Home Computer Banking. • Francis Marburg 43 Apple III News • •• • •• David Ottalini 8 dPub SIG Announcement & Postscript •• Tom Piwowar 44 GameS IG Ne ws • Ronald Wartow 10 Beyond MacWrite: Prof. Writers •••Patricia Kirby 46 Conflict in Vi et nam: A Review • •• Ben Mangus 10 Paper for Laser Printers. • H.F. Chevalier 48 OO-Topos: A Revi ew ••••• Barry & Ben Bedrick 11 More on LaserWriter Paper •• Stephen C. Warren 49 Orbiter: A Re vi ew. • •• • •• Rick Stickle 11 The View from Durham • • • Chris Klugewicz 50 The Chessmaste r 2000 : A Review Paul Moore 12 MacNovice Column •• ••• Ralph J. Begleiter 52 Uninvited: A Rev i ew •••• ••• Ronald Wartow 12 Frederick Apple Core • •••• • •••• 54 Wizard ' s Crown: A Revi ew Phil ip Greco 13 Mac Plus with Hyperdrive 'Lynn R. Trusal 54 Og r e: A Revi ew • • • • • • • •• Ronald Wartow 14 Rhythms with Concertware(+) •••Peter Markiewicz 57 Hardball : A Review•• Da vid Blazina & Ronald Wartow 14 'Excel'ing With Your Mac: Pt 6 •• David Morganstein 58 WAP -Hotline . • • • • • • ••••• 15 Two Questions About Excel • Audri G. 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