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With City Strte- Zip- tack-sharp image-unlike lower-resolution the Viking t your Mac SE can serve as monitors that make it tough to read the fine a 7x11-inchscrollable extension to the Ibl. No "roam print. Or higher-resolutionmonitors that large-screenimage. Or and zoom" Dealcr Inquirics Wanted, i create letters too tiny and fuzzy to rcad. in the lar:ge-screenimage, zooming in L "fat at And the Viking l's unique squarepixels two levels of bits" magnification of Seeus at MacWorldExpo, booth 463! assurethat scneenand laser-printer whatever the cursor is pointing to. characters match perfectlSr IBM@ Compatibifi$. monrTEI:lm Eliminates Flicker. The Viking I is the only monitor that's Moniterm Corpomtion Somemonitors have an aruroyingflicker compatible with both the Macintosh SE 5740 Green Circle Drive that can ftazzle your nerves.The Viking I's and the entire IBM line of PCIXT/ATand Mimetonk4 MN 55343 exceptional non-interlaced 66 Hz refresh PV2 computers.So you can stay flexible (612) 935-416r rate provides rock-solid stability and grow TELEX-753626 rHK-(612)933-670r 'Jtm Seymou, PC Fbeft r'Jirn Feltcl PnDllcn, CIRCLE5 ON READERSERVICE CARD Macintosh is a hadel@k of Mclntch laboEtorie Inc IBM is a registered tradeMk of Internatioml "Publishing BNine$ Mrchines Comntion. Reslutiod' is a haderuk of Moniterm Corpomtion. Volume5, NumberI January1988 ONTENTS Leroy,the Moc ll,ond Me 6 Andrew H mes l'hc 68010.l6 nullioncolors. ancl a Mac with a personalitl'. 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Co-op OFFICERSAND DIRECTORS I)RESIDENT: Bob Huelsdonk \'1CE PRESIDENT: Merle H. Davis TRFjASURER: Dave DeGroot SECRETARY: David F. VanBerkem IiIRECTORS: Michael D. Branham Jack Connick Don Williarrrs ADMINISTRATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Dick Hubert (]ENERAL MANAGER: Don Steele PLIBLISHER: CharlesStillman APDA DIRECTOR: Dave Linswood \IARKETINC: RichKnanron PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER: Frank Catalano MacintoshHorizons EDITOR: Andrew Himes ,\SSISTANT EDITOR: Janine West ART DIRECTOR: Michael Gilmore FIDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Karia Landsverk (]ONTRIBUTORS: ,Ieff Meyer. Keith Toleman Phillip Russell .Wayne Wong JeflStoddard . Frank Catalano Bill Kaye . Mick O'Neil . Doug Fraser Timlynn Babitsky . Jim Salmon TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS: Shari Carnahan . 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The particularexample of with thefacts at his metaphoricalsilicon lit'e.I've had the experienceof thegenre which graces my personalhori- fingertips. sitlingtloun in l'ront()l'u eom- zon rs one thc kind peoplein Apple's Granted.the Macintoshis not a par- puter.and f'eeling that I arnin the ProcluctLoan Departmentshipped us a ticularlyintimidating machine compared -- presence of a truly powerful couplemonths ago so we couldevaluate to lts user-enemyMS-DOS cousins,but beast.I f'eelalmost guilty calling this a Mac II sottwareand hardware with it. the Mac II is a qualitativeleap beyond "personal computer."By any coherent l've namedit Leroy. anythingI've comeinto contactwith be- stanclarciof .justicein theworld. it should Odd thing.names. It's not thatLeroy fbre. "social be considerccla computer."the worksany betterorfasterwith aname. lt's Think of the numbersinvolved here.