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1. 16 int eapples eteber 1984 MacDOM 1 The First Mini app les Macintosh DOM by Steven E Baker one The first Mac SIG DOMs have been completed 1 should have been available during our September Mac SIG meeting and will be sold at the Computer show to Mini app les members for 8 00 The disk is nearly full less than 10k of disk available The disk doesn t contain all of the required applications to run the programs on this disk It is suggested you copy the programs from this disk to another disk containing the necessary application program to fully utilize this MacDOM That will give you sufficient work room with the programs and allow this disk to be kept as a back up And now for the goodies in MacDOM 1 MINI APP LES Introduction MacWrite document to Mini app les the Macintosh SIG and the MacDOM 1 AutoTEP Macintosh Terminal Emulator Program with full mouse controls based on MacTEP by Dennis Brothers This program lets you put that modem to work and turn your Macintosh into a telecommunication terminal Program runs under MS BASIC and requires you to run the program Click for AutoTEP to start it Also see modem document BINHEX Program converts binary files to hex and back again Needed to reconstitute hex files downloaded from CompuServe MS BASIC requir
2. imini app les icetober 1984 The full line of Memorex ee Flexible Discs is available 3515 Hennepin Ave So Minneapolis MN 55408 os apples eteber 1984 DaisyWheeling Fish Story by Arsen Darnay neiently meaning back about ten years ago I attended a conference in Atlanta no not a computer con ference and heard something that I ve not forgotten since The talk dealt with growth as in economic growth and the speaker used the analogy of the ocean and its evolution He asked us to imagine the oceans of the world at the time when life first appeared Here was the primordial soup a brine of organic molecules And the first ultra simple creatures that appeared were in a kind of paradise alone as it were on a continent made of hot fudge and whipped cream and they started to eat madly bigger was better and the great race of life began No talk of hew frontiers The whole world was frontier But soon that riot of feeding and growing came to an end The harvesters of long molecules were all alike and now swam around in a
3. G VERBATIM DATALIFE DISKETTES 18158SS DD SOFT Reg 27 50 19 95 18188 DS DD SOFT Reg 39 95 45 29 95 ELEPHANT MEMORY SYSTEMS sil ENG BOX 42 REGULARLY 16 50 Additional Boxes with Coupon 14 95 EMS 2SS DD SOFTReg 20 00 16 99 EMS 5 DS DD SOFT Reg 32 00 24 95 PRINTWHEELS Qume Brand Plastic 20 8 95 7 95 Diablo Brand Plastic 630 5 8 95 7 95 Brother COmMrex ooo ieee 23 95 21 95 ND OPENING CO i e e BE Ee ee Ee S E I 64K MEMORY 7 I UP GRADE FOR IBM PC 7 59 5 91 2 x 11 TRACTOR PAPER 3300 Sheets White 15Ib u a asauran aaura aa 24 50 2550 Sheets White 20Ib 0 0 00 0 0 0 eee 22 45 2500 Sheets White 20 Ib Micro Perf 26 95 14 X 11 White or72GB15Ib 0 41 00 14 X 114 White or 2 GB 201b ouaaa ee eee eee 37 50 2 3 or 4 ply NCR or Carbon available WE NOW CARRY TRACTOR ENVELOPES TRACTOR INDEX CARDS AND 250 SHEET PACKS OF CLASSIC LAID AND MICRO PERF PAPER RIBBONS 20 OFF On All Dot Matrix Ribbons Epson MX RX FX 80 anaana 4 56 C Itoh Prowriter NEC 8510 naana auaa 4 56 Okidata Microline 80 82 83 92 93 1 80 Brother Comrex CR II One Time Film Dz
4. APPLE Il HARDWARE P C Systems 80 Column Card Videx Compat 89 95 80 Column Card w Softswitch 99 95 Z 80 Card Microsoft Compatib 69 95 16K Ram Card ses sciri 128K Ram Expansion w Software 224 50 32x Printer Buffer Interface 0 cece enega hia a hahha 129 95 Serial Interfaces sco iia wsecar eds neces wes tinn sae endeeee esses ea 88 50 Fourth Dimension Systems Extended 80 Column Card lle 0 enrere tor tau KESAEN ERa CALL PR 1 Par Printer Interface 0 0 iorsin asis Srki rert 59 95 GR 1 Printer Card wW Graphics 0 cece eileen ee eee nee nen 83 50 Practical Peripherals Proclock Clock Calendar res SESE KEER ANADAN VAAN SE a aAA 148 00 Sarnia he ra ia ir ANEDEREE EENE KERANA ENARE EEE I TA 148 00 SEIEN a 1a e PREPRE E AA OAE EE NE E saab kd dia eee ae ate 89 00 MicrobutleWs i caja tess cca inece kepa EEEN ANELEE AERA AEEY EY 188 00 Appli Card 6MHZ Z 80 Digital Research CP M Gold Card Kensington System Saver Techtron lle Numeric Keyboard _IBM HARDWARE BIAPACK PLUS sina ge nuesawawins iiae ian aeae eve CAN ean ow 357 00 MEGARLUS Ul ws pirus asap iia cdr emtea eine ng che cnt autor Ra aa 367 00 Hercules Graphic Ca td Bei Mea BENG bie bee IAAT Tear ENE we ERS 199 00 185 00 195 00 JUKV E100 Bieps s duce dco kvanss neen E Erea T EEN EEEE DAUE 449 00 Televideo TP 750 50 CPs ce cece cece tenet eee e ee eeeeeeeee
5. APPLE Wordstar 325 00 R Base 4000 VISI Schedule Microsoft Word Thinktank BPI Personal ACCING 0 2 0 Era an eee ASCII Express Pro Dollars amp Sen Homeword Data Capture 0 BPI Church Management EPES BPI Time Acctg System SMITH SYSTEMS DESKS cccccsesaeee se WORK STATIONS CARTER CRAFT CARRELS o iiiar PRINTER TABLES Diskettes Wabash 5 Box of 10 SS DD 22 00 Magnetic Tape Wabash Datateck ss raene kE esa Ea rade COUT ed da eee NAS appie eteber 1984 MacDOM 2 The Second Mini app les Macintosh DOM by Steven E Baker acDOM 2 is scheduled for release during the October Mac SIG meeting and will also be available at the Twin City Computer Show later in the month Price will be 8 00 Like the first MacDOM certain application programs are needed before you can fully utilize the disk Apple Computer and Bill Atkinson have made several programs available to Mac owners and we are pleased to release some of them as part of this disk and future MacDOMs See the MacPaint document we received from Apple and Mr Atkinson authorizing the release of this program The second MacDOM consists of the following SCREEN MAKER This program allows you to make your own start up screens replacing the Introducing the Macintosh screen The program converts a MacPaint picture into the Sta
6. 34 95 Dollars amp Sense 69 95 119 00 The Home Accountant 54 95 The Home Accountant Plus 110 00 dBase ll 409 00 409 00 Turbo Pascal 45 00 45 00 Sargon Ill 37 95 37 95 MultiPlan 139 00 139 00 Masterlype 29 95 37 95 Apple amp IBM are trademarks of each respective manufacturer 13x16 printer stand for 80 column printers 30 16x22 printer stand heavy duty for wide J _ ACCESSORIES Paragraph Graphics Card 89 CardcoG 0 8 79 Par Cable for IBM 30 36x36 Parallel 30 25x25 RS 232 0 eee 25 carriage printers 40 COMPUTER 8120 PENN AVE SO SUITE 114 BUVING SD service BLOOMINGTON MN 55431 612 884 5009 3 Mini app les The Minnesota PRS outs Users Group Inc e o fe x 796 Hopkins MN 55343 Board Members INFORMATION President David E Laden 488 6774 This is the Newsletter of 1215 Taurnie a ore Mini tapp les the Minnesota Apple Roseville Computer Users Group Ince a Past President Chase Allen 431 7278 Minnesota non profit club Articles Apple Valley MN 35124 Grudnel pablicacions escent wees pple Vailey K 9 Vice President Mark Abbott 854 8304 specifically copyrighted by author 1905 East 86th St Questions Bloomington MN 5420 Please direct questions to appro 890 3769 riate board member or officer Treasurer Jobn Le Hanni echnical uestions shou
7. since that s the scr en we turned on in line 1200 If you have some make of interface card other than the Wizard which has a screen dump option you can substitute the appropriate code instead of the CTRL I G 2 Ed Finally the normal screen PR 0 is turned back on the graphics screen is switched off screen cleared and control returned to you If you don t have a picture of your own create one on the HGR2 screen first When you are done type a carriage return and then BSAVE PICTURE Al6384 18192 And then another carriage return This will store the image on the screen to your diskette K Another frustration of mine has been to create program listings that skip over the perforations of the papere With the Wizard IPI you can take care of that with a brief little program also and here it is 63000 PRINT CHR 13 CHR 4 PR L 63002 PRINT CHR 9 80N 63004 PRINT CHR 9 60P 63008 LIST 0 62999 63010 PRINT CHR 13 CHR 4 PR O Save this to your diskette as a text file Later when you want to list a program to your printer make sure that the program is in memorye Then EXEC this program I call it LISTER It will load underneath your program but make sure you have no lines 63000 and higher The sequence of commands is EXEC LISTER RUN 63000 The printer should be on and ready of course If it is the proper listing will be printed with page skips in the proper places The l
8. 50 KEY PEEK 49152 IF KEY lt 128 THEN 30 60 POKE 49168 0 VTAB 1 HTAB 9 PRINT CHRS KEY 128 This is a great substitute for the mundane normal flashing cursor when awaiting a GET Try substituting other characters in A and see what happens available Try some other characters not directly from the keyboard by using the CHRS function a Manhwsinntd assif ied Want QUALITY SSDD 3M Scotch Diskettes 20 00 Box 10 tax Incl Bob Pfaff 4522541 Microtek Parallel Printer Card for Apple Jf IJI and e 30 Apple Paddles 15 Dion 888 6629 eves Want to BUY bare Apple II 64K Offering 400 Jim 489 47 13 298 3671 Wesper parallel printer Interface card with 16K buffer and graphics BPO 80 Apple Cat Modem with extras 160 Scott 623 4656 work 920 9091 home LET US SELL YOUR USED COMPUTER CORPORATE OR PERSONAL WE RE THE USED COMPUTER PLACE 612 861 5529 BUSINESS SFTW Continental General Ledger 120 Acct Receivable 75 Acct Payable 75 All new and unopened Also Magic Window used 40 Visidex 110 Magicalc spreadsheet 75 with warranty cards Ron 448 5743 Back Issues of Softalk February of 82 thru August of 84 April 82 missing 30 tissues 20 Omron calculator owith rare 12 digit display very easy to read Portable battery operated includes case amp AC adaptor 15 Eric 822 8528 Jetob
9. CALL Dot Matrix BMC BX 80 80 cps w Graphics 6 0 00 ccc cece eee eee een eee 275 00 2 OKIDAT ATA MEJ CALLS minl app los Botobar 1984 talent with the rest of us William Busch and John Carter downloaded programs from CompuServe and John helped copy disks Paul Howe wrote and or contributed several MS BASIC programs and MacArt pictures Stephen Bibus contributed MacArt pictures and helped make copies of this disk Hopefully this list will continue to expand and include your name in the future MacDOM 2 is described elsewhere in this newsletter I need material for future MacDOMs Submit your programs your artwork your goodies anything you feel is of general interest to fellow Mac ers Submissions should be given to the MacDOM Editor Editor s note It is interesting to note that the MacDOM 1l contains LIFE and REVERSI In the early days of the Apple J and Mini app les you could count on there being a new version of LIFE on each new DOM actually we didn t have DOMs in those days just new library disks REVERSI also was a program that appeared in the early days Most Of Our Business Is By Referral From Satisfied Customers Find Out Why MODEMS Anchor Automation Mark XII 1200 1300 Hayes Compal ccc ceceveucseveeues 295 00 Mark X Automodem Hayes Volksmodem 300 Axis Modem Apple i 68 00 ath BAe AETA EEE TEA E 179 00 SOFTWARE
10. OA 1 will move the cursor to the beginning of a file OA 9 to the end and OA 2 0A 8 proportionally within the file For example in a 20 line file pressing OA 1 through OA 9 will move you to lines 1 3 5 8 10 12 15 17 and 20 In a 100 line file the moves would be 1 13 25 38 50 62 75 87 and 100 In the Spreadsheet OA Left Arrow and OA Right Arrow will scroll horizontally one screen display In all three units OA Up Arrow and OA Down Arrow will scroll vertically one screen Integration obviously supplies a consistency in the commands usually not found when you use three programs from different vendors Data Base Data Base Guidelines on use of AppleWorks include the following Maximum number of records regardless of size or number of categories 1350 Maximum number of records in a file assuming an average record size of 75 characters e with 64K RAM about 140 e with 128K RAM about 750 Maximum number of categories per record 30 Maximum entry length characters 76 Maximum length of category name 20 characters The Data Base allows you to work with lists of information organizing them changing and updating them and finally printing out reportse You can create a new data base from scratch from Quick File from a text GOTO 34 Software Reviews 32 Well give you one less thing to worry about OY oO 9 1 TOWED AWAY CAR D Q fe
11. The November 26 and December 17 meetings note dates will again be at the Southdale Library location at the same 6 30 gab and 7 00 meeting time Thanks to Steve Bibus for all the meeting arrangements Following MacSIG tradition host Mike Carlson started the August meeting with self introductions As usual the interest level of the group is greatly varied both in subject and in depth of knowledge The additional striking feature of the group continues to be growth there were about 70 in attendance to again post a doubling of the counte It will be interesting to see what the passing of the vacation season will do for attendance It s hard to believe that the growth rate could be much better There were several questions from the floor on technique and Mac capabilities They are reported on separately by your recordist Tom Edwards in this newsletter under the heading MacSIG notes Also included is a description of the demonstration given by Chuck Thiesfeld Chuck showed how an Apple Graphics Tablet could be interfaced to the Mac through an Apple By the time you read this the September MacSIG will be history At that meeting September 24 we will have had one of the Mac software developers Geoff Wattle showing us more of the inner MacSanctum GOTO 9 Tell our Advertisers you saw it here ODS TE EI a 2 TT RS ES EIS Announcements 8 a les Announcements Continued from page 8 MacDom I m
12. building which is marked Lutheran High School at one end and Edina Community ago at the other That s where you want to be The topic for the October meeting is word processing The format for the meeting will be somewhat similar to that used in the September meeting which had not taken place as of this writing We hope to have several local experts on the podium to discuss the benefits of their particular word processors WP A tentative list of WPs to be discussed is as follows Applewriter Executive Secretary Format Screenwriter Magic Window J Word Handler WordStar Need a volunteer Pie Writer If you have a WP about which you feel strongly contact Mark Abbott ANNOUNCEMENTS eteber 19894 MacSIG on the MOVE by Tom Edwards The August 20 meeting of the MacSIG group was again held at the Southdale Branch of the Hennepin County Library This location has been working out well as a facility There is plenty of room and the video aids arranged by Steve Bibus make it easy for just about anyone to have the best seat in the house The request to place a meeting in the northern eastern environs has yet to spark any firm offers of place and time Unfortunately we are unable to reserve the Southdale Library for the October meeting Therefore the October 22 Monday meeting will be held at the Edina Community Library 50th and Hwy 100 1 Block East of 100 on 50th right behind the police station
13. bulk price but not until the pricing firms up DOM Sales DOMs Disks of the Month may be ordered by mail Apple J e and c DOMs are 6 including postage Send checks to Mini app les PO Box 796 Hopkins MN 55343 Attention DOM Sales Please do not forget the Attention marking MacDOMs are presently only available at the Mac SIG meetings Twin City Computer Show 1984 This is the month The date is Oct 25 28 and the place is the Minneapolis Auditorium See ad elsewhere in this newsletter Unfortunately there will be no discount tickets available this year despite previous announcements to that effect We Mini app les will have a booth Get show program for booth number Items available at our booth include Club Membership Get your friends to join Regular DOMs MacDOMs Pascal DOMs DOM Catalogs Mini app les Software Ideas arguments and friendship Announcements 12 klapp lee lt Ct ObSr 1984 need a lot of at 935 5775 As in past years we volunteers Call Steve George if you are interested The show will retain the same format as last year but with emphasis on local dealers and suppliers and on distributors manufacturers etce It will also showcase a wide variety of modern office equipment The show will host approximately 200 exhibitors and organizers of the show expect 30 000 attendees Admission will be 6 for adults and 3 for children 6 12
14. except 18 EAMON 3 and 8 Send to Pascal disks are currently available Mini app les Software disks MSD are not available General questions about DOMs should be addressed to Peter Gilles Please note that DOMs may also be purchased on club supplied media by sending 6 00 to the software sales coordinator See page 4 The first 3 Mini app les Software Disks MSD 1 Mini scrip 2 Micro Mailer and 3 Higher Print Higher Word Processor Message Maker are available by mail from software sales for 17 50 Or most DOMs EAMON disks and some other public domain software are available at regular meetings and at some Branch meetings for sale to members at 5 each and the MSDs for 15 each WE FIX BRUISED APPLES We re a fully authorized Apple service center offering fast convenient and affordable repairs for Apple 11 IIl l Plus and lle models We also service Epson Okidata NEC and Comrex printers Extended service contracts available at reasonable rates for on site or in shop service Use your Dayton s charge MasterCard Visa or American Express For information call 623 7123 DONS 1984 DHC COMPUTER REPAIR SERVICE 13 Announcements lel app les eteber 1984 DOM 31 October 1984 by Pete Gilles hen is there going to be a new DOM I would imagine Terry Schoeppner and I have heard that question several hundred times this summer Du
15. nature of the Rana drive The Rana 8086 2 may have that problem but based on the small sample we tried there is insufficient evidence one way or the other The Rana would not boot one Apple protected disk Word Challenge It did boot VisiCale It wouldn t boot an IBM format version of Advanced DB Master ither The real problem is that the boot starts from the highest number slot containing a disk interface card So if you have a regular floppy drive as well it looks like it can t be the boot disk Therefore a regular floppy Apple disk would be used as a 3rd and 4th drive controller in Slot 5 Apple Hardware Requirements It won t work on a before Rev 7 It will work on a but you need a Videx Keyboard Enhancer This provides the shift that the 8086 2 requires The other thing that the Rana depends on is the e Open and Close Apple Keyse See section on keyboard below A special card comes with the Rana which allows you to order free from Rana a 2 key membrane switch These are the Open and Close Apple keys and they plug into the Game port The instructions that come with the Rana show the membrane switch installed on the J just above the and Reset Keys on the Apple casing around the keyboard All our testing was done on a e Keyboard Considerations A e has 62 keys A with Videx Enhancer and the Membrane keys see above has the equivalent An IBM PC has a full keyboard a keypad 10 fu
16. text boilerplate body of letter formletter etc that you want included at a certain point then all you have to do is insert an embedded command at the position you wish to merge in that text Subsequently when you print out the letter the program will go and get the indicated information or file as you have commanded and insert that information at that spot Tn this way you can type what becomes a MENU and let the program go and get one after another separate files or information Therefore if you have a lot of words that you constantly use such as WORD PROCESSOR or names that are hard to remember EXECUTIVE SECRETARY will help you All you have to do is set up the word s as a dot command Example gt wp word processor Then just use wp The program will insert the whole word automatically You sould set up a file as commands amp words and bring that up to start your letter In this way all your specials would be automatically defined at the start of the letter The definitions will not show on the printed page except as you call them out with dot commands or embedded commands Alternatively you may wish to be able to edit the letter in true page length Then just before printing create space for your specials at the front of the letter EXECUTIVE SECRETARY allows you to define your entry window which with an 80 column board can be up to 80 columns wide On type in words wrap when you
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19. 9 to O I did this very rapidly with my largest Zoo Table and my Zoo cohort was extremely pleased with the new data presentation Sorting 90 counties and states using the MOVE command was not something I wanted to do AppleWorks will find a cell for you by coordinate by the last text that you entered or by text that you specify OA O gives you access options They are similar to the ones described previously My large Zoo Table fills four standard sheets using 17 characters per inch Without referring to the manual I was able to figure out very quickly the best procedure for printing the table to all the print Cut and Paste Cut and Paste is a process by which you can transfer information within AppleWorks The portion of memory used for the transfer is called the Clipboard Information can be transferred from a file to the Clipboard and then to another file of the same or different mint app les i ct ober 1994 A total of 250 Data Base records can be transferred between two Data Base files or to a Word Processor document must be complete records Up to 250 lines can be copied from one Word Processor document to another 250 rows of a spreadsheet can be transferred to another spreadsheet or to a Word Processing document parts of a file can be transferred or an entire report To make transfers between two data bases or two spreadsheets the files are copied or moved to the Clipboard and then moved or copi
20. Base 5 Spreadsheet Again the first item will be highlighted Pressing Return would in one of my Zoo examples give me AppleWorks Files Disk volume Z00 TABLE 1 has 74k available Name Type of file Size Date Time Z00 1 Spreadsheet 26K 8 04 84 9 32am Z00 1 SORT Spreadsheet 26K 8 04 84 10 03am Z00 2 Spreadsheet 4K 8 11 84 10 45am Z00 3 Spreadsheet 4K 8 11 84 10 54am PAM LETTER Word Proc AK 8 11 84 11 14am Using the up and down arrows I can move the highlight through the list to the file I desire to load and select it by pressing the right arrow The file will then be loaded into the spreadsheet or word processor depending on its type Note that if the computer has a clock card like the e at the Minnesota Zoo it will automatically record the date and time the program was last saved Back in the Main Menu if you select 2 Work with one of the files Desktop you are shown a list of the files on the Desktop and asked to select one If you select 5 Other Activities another file folder is displayed on the l Change current disk drive or ProDOS prefix 2 List all files on the current disk drive 3 Create a subdirectory 4 Delete files from disk 5 Format a blank disk 6 Select standard location of data disk 7 Specify information about your printer s Moving the cursor to any of these and pressing Return will bring up another folder that in most cases has sufficient information for you to carr
21. Hatfield he subject of this review is EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Through a mix up at a local store after having purchased the PERSONAL SECRETARY which is a watered down EXECUTIVE SECRETARY I found that I had received a pre release copy of a new version of PERSONAL SECRETARY instead of a production copy of the previous version Because it was a pre release version the program and manual did not speak the same language On calling John Riskin author of both PERSONAL SECRETARY and EXECUTIVE SECRETARY and founder of Personal Business Systems which he subsequently sold I found out that the pre release copy of EXECUTIVE SECRETARY was not ready to go to press Knowing that I was planning a review he kindly provided me with a copy of the latest version of the more powerful EXECUTIVE SECRETARY John Riskin told me that it would be well to spend the time going through the manual with the aid of the included SAMPLES document disk The same advice is also given by the manual Even though I have already become somewhat familiar with the Personal Secretary I can only say DO IT THEIR WAY BY THE NUMBERS I have spent some time now playing with the various commands examples and formats that this program has and HAVE YET to use them all This is the MOST POWERFUL AND VERSATILE Word Processor that I haye ever used EXECUTIVE SECRETARY comes with a very detailed hand holding start up procedure that will automati
22. Investment SIG by Eric Holterman The next meeting of the Investment SIG will be on Thursday October 18 at our regular meeting place at the Hennepin County Library near Southdale One of our members Russ Kirby will demonstrate VALUE SCREEN a program offered by Value Line and Stockpak II offered by Standard amp Poor These programs are designed to assist the investor with fundamental analysis of common stocks They are offered by large established firms with well known investment information services Also both programs involve subscribing to a service providing monthly updates of data on a disk in order for the program to be of continuing benefit The programs allow you to look up information about the companies in their data base screen or select companies based on the criteria you select and maintain portfolios I have heard of a program called Micro Scan which may provide a similiar approach to analysis If you are familiar with this or other similiar software I would appreciate a call 822 8528 so that we might also comment on it at the October meeting The meeting on November 15th will focus on commodities The first part will be a bit different from our usual format Dick Seng rented a seat on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange and will talk about some of his experiences trading futures on the floor of the exchange His comments will include information about the exchange contracts traded there trading opera
23. Rather I was thinking about that strange phenomenon the User Group Ours is a vertical community one of tens of thousands based not on the horizontal dimension of geographical proximity but on the invisible dimension of an interest We re representatives of a new evolutionary movement in the social ocean Daniel J Boorstin the social historian he was writing in Fortune in September 1967 recognized and named the phenomenon A Consumption Community he wrote consists of people who have a feeling of well being shared risks common interests and common concerns that come from consuming the same kinds of objects Boorstin saw the phenomenon early but saw it only darkly as through a glass because the consumption of objects is almost incidental to something else a common enterprise of exploration application The horizontal conquests of the past were but an impulse to find the planet and to unify the human experience That old impulse to explore driven by greed for gold and glory often violent and harsh created the global village of today so successfully that frontiers Outer Space aside have disappeared New frontiers have emerged in their place but in another dimension and we re engaged in discovering the size meaning and use of one of these Mini app les is a small ship on a voyage of discovery We re on it because we too like all explorers seek gold or glory for ourselves
24. accessories available on the pull down menu under the Apple symbol on Mac software The disk contains a MacWrite document giving complete instructions on how to use the program DAM is being distributed under the MacHonor TM System by its author The instructions indicate Please give copies of this diskette to all your MacFriends Please take this diskette try it out and see how you like it If you decide it doesn t fit your needs just erase the diskette and forget about it If you choose to keep Desk Accessory Mover please send 15 00 for a user s license and registration The copy of the program I received included several additional desk accessories including Executive Decision Maker FRP Die Roller RPN Calculator and Clock The documentation only refers to the first two accessories so the other accessories were probably added later or sometime along the way The diskette can be directly ordered from the author Send 20 00 to cover distribution cost user s license and registration to Let s face it There are lots of books that try to teach BASIC Now there s one that succeeds and it s written by two members of the Mini app les User Group FRIENDLY BASIC FOR THE APPLE II APPLE li APPLE Ile AND APPLE Iic by Jean Rice and James Henke from Reston Publishing Company inc It s successful because it gets you to teach yourself Tested in children s classrooms adult learning centers an
25. are starting address 0800 00 08 above and length of 7AFA FA 7A above and that it loaded through 82F9 82 FA 1 above 0800 corresponds to decimal 2048 and 82F9 to 33529 This last result was obtained by entering 278 4096 2 256 15 16 9 RETURN 33529 Apple s response Since it starts at 800 and Applesoft programs start at 801 it isn t safe to enter a program to look at memory What to do If we enter the Monitor again CALL 151 we can use its memory move command to copy the start of DCOPY into the text display area of Apple 400 7FF CALL 151 RETURN e 400 lt 800 BFFM RETURN This allows us to see what s stored from 2048 decimal to 3071 decimal Display of embedded text can take several forms depending upon whether it is uppercase lowercase etc Usually uppercase will be displayed as letters which are NORMAL when moved to the text page Lowercase will be a distinct sequence of entirely FLASHing numerals and punctuation marks Experimentation is the Technical best way to be able to recognize text in a memory move Nothing in what was just moved appears to be text so we are safe to enter a short Applesoft program to examine the rest of the rangee But what if it was text Well we could just BLOAD the program higher in memory as long as it doesn t over write DOS The following program is a little more involved than one mtght expect because it does some automatic corrections for errors it m
26. are thinking of buying a c with the hope of getting a light portable you may have to wait awhile According to September 24 edition of InfoWorld the LCD screen manufacturers Sharp et al have problems making a screen with 25 lines by 80 characters Apparently everything is OK or at least tolerable up to 16 lines Problems occur above that like with 25 lines of 80 characters The problem has something to do with retention time of maintaining contrast with large displays General Interest However some manufacturers are saying that they can do it some are saying it can t yet _ be done currently exceeds supply T for as little as 250 Computer only 24 Did you realize that the demand for the e Funnily enough at the same time the bottom has fallen out of the used market s have been selling You guys who paid 1500 2500 for your system a couple of years ago don t as a to get your money back For Apple II Specify Wor He List gt PFS File 125 0 PFS Report 125 00 PFS Graph 125 00 PFS Write e 125 00 Flight Simulator II a 55 Beagle Basic Format Il 120 00 Master Type Versoform Dollors amp Sense Homeward Pie Writer Magic Memory Fontrix wane each Vol 1 2 3 4 5 For Macintosh ThinkTank 117 95 Run for the Money 40 95 Milionaire PFS Pulse Repor 159 95 i Microsoft Chart 99 95 Multiplon 159 95 Dollars amp Sense ne 95 Microsoft BASIC 132 95 MacFo
27. be changed Reports can be printed as tables or labels The Report Menu offers the following options le Get a report format 2 Create a new tables format 3 Create a new labels format 4 Duplicate an existing format 5 Erase a format 6 Keep working with current format The Report Format displays three lines from the multi record display and provides the options of changing category positions changing column widths sorting on a category deleting a category changing printer options changing selection rules creating calculated Software Reviews int capp les ___ ___________gotober 1934 categories etc e and finally printing the reporte Printer options include platen width left right top and bottom margins characters per inch lines per inch paper length special codes for the printer report header line spacing line width and printing length Word Processor The Word Processor has two main functions Using the first function working with information you can type a document edit it delete move or copy blocks of text replace old information with new and find specific informations The second function formatting documents lets you define the layout of your document Word Processor files can contain a maximum of 2250 lines approximately 28 54 line pages with 128K of RAM The maximum size file for 64K of RAM is about eight pages New files can be created from scratch o
28. conference got very good feedback Call me for more information The Science Museum is seeking instructors to develop and teach adult education computer classes Any computer related topic will be considered Suggestions are languages other than BASIC they have that already utility min apples _ ___________________9 ctober 1984 Urgent Help still Needed Many of you already know that one of the members of Mini app les who works hardest for the club is Ann Bell our Membership Coordinator Ann has recently started her own business and the resulting 12 hour days are making it difficult for her to devote the time needed to keep up with the Mini app les workload Incidentally that s why some of you new members maybe didn t get your first newsletter too fast or changes of address were ee in being recorded Anyway ANN NEEDS HELP Ann lives in the New Hope area so anybody who can get to New Hope occasionally and who software and graphics They are presently scheduling for Winter Spring For more information contact Chuck Tenson Computer Lab Director at 221 4722 is willing to put in a little time please call Ann or one of the officers GOTO 12 Hope to see you at the Twin Cities Computer Show or at a future meeting of the EdSIG Dysan is a registered trade mark of Dysan Corporation Trademarks of respective manufacturers Ges Stop Shopping The Compl
29. has two primary sections Disk copying and disk formatting You can copy any unprotected DOS 3 3 ProDOS Apple CP M or Apple Pascal disk The disk you are copying to destination disk need not be previously formatted It works with either one or two drives If you have enough RAM memory you can mass produce backups so that the source disk needs to be read only once Diversi COPY compresses information so if the source disk is less than full less memory is required It does an automatic verify of the copied information to assure accuracy at the byte level The destination drive s speed is continuously displayed and updated during writing to help isolate any copying problems It will also copy 40 track disks The other primary option is to simply format empty data disks Again these can be in any of the four operating systems listed above These disks will not contain the actual operating system so they will not boot The advantage to this is that you gain additional disk space by sacrificing the operating system For example an additional 32 sectors are available under DOS 3 3 format Diversi COPY is menu driven and easy to use There is also an on screen instruction section containing further information and detailed explanations of each function With the permission of the author I have captured the documentation portion of the binary file DCOPY and saved it to disk as DCOPY TEXT That way those of you who want fo
30. if you have 100K or more of RAM an entire disk is read into memory and copies can be made in 15 seconds 8 write 7 verify With a Language Card and a 32K RAM GOTO 39 38 iil Copy Concluded from page 38 card 22 tracks are read on the first pass and the balance on the second LOCKSMITH 5 0 automatically finds any RAM cards that you have The program is protected but a backup copy was provided Omega prices were 99 95 for a first time buyer 24 95 to update from Version 4 x and 34 95 to update from Version 3 xe I have no information on prices from Alpha The second group of programs listed above are not commercial programs but appear on various bulletin boards and can be downloaded sometimes a fee is required to access the bulletin board section where they appear DISK MUNCHER 1 0 and DISK MUNCHER 1 1 are the original and an update of the same program The major difference is a VERIFY option in Version l l The program automatically finds a 16K RAM card in Slot 0 and provides an option for you to enter any other RAM cards that you have The times listed above were run with a Language Card and a 16K RAM card Slot 4 The more memory you have the more tracks that are read before the write verify tac Disk Drive for Apple 16K Card 7 Printer Card with Cable Z80 Card Cll 12475 Plaza Drive Eden Prairie MN 55
31. looking for any contributions in the following areas MS Basic programs Stand alone Mac programs MacPaint Masterpieces Multiplan Templates Tips and Techniques articles Clipboard art Software and Hardware reviews and experiences Anything else you might like to share Please mail or give your contribution s to Steven E Baker Advantek Inc 7750 West 78th Street Minneapolis MN 55435 Home 935 1192 KSTP Computer Talk Tune in to KSTP 1500 AM every Saturday at 5 Peme to hear Computer Talk Mini app les will supply an expert for this show on the second Saturday of each month If you have an Apple related question here s your chance to get on the air Note Dave Laden was our representative for September The October representative has yet to be determined s CP M Liaison As announced during the last few months we are not promoting a Mini app les run CP M SIG Instead we are suggesting that members interested in CP M join the Twin Cities CP M groupe We are looking for a liaison individual within Mini app les who can steer people in the right direction and perhaps answer CP M questions If you are interested please telephone Dave Laden your President Minnetonka Branch by Steven E Baker The October 24 meeting of the Minnetonka Branch will be a demonstration and discussion by John Hansen of various SpreadSheet programs available on the Apple J John is treasurer of Mini app les and knows his way around
32. memory sorting capability cursor highlighting operations that I have become accustomed to with Lotus 1 2 3 and text streaming for headings make the Spreadsheet the closest approach to my wished for combination of THE Spreadsheet V1 0 V2 0 and VisiCalc The Data Base program provides very easy manipulation of recordse I have not worked with it except for the examples but it should te GOTO 37 CODERE EI I ELE EEE ELL LE I TES LEP TI TTT LTE ELLE TOTTI Software Reviews 36 mini apples eteber 1984 A New ScreenWriter by Kan Slingaby new version of ScreenWriter by Sierra ON LINE Systems has been released Version 2 2 as it is called features an enlarged and improved manual new goodies such as incremental spacing for even the Epson and the ability to support and utilize the features of the Apple II II and ee The Apple c probably can use the features of this program as well I do not have access to a Hh NOTE This article was supposed to be ready for printing a long time ago It fell into a crack and was forgotten This review will not repeat all the features of ScreenWriter as they have been covered in previous reviews on these pages gt Some of the commands are activated by different keys on the e than on the other Ilse In particular the arrow keys are fully supported Other new features of the e are sup
33. promoters 4 Network promoters 4 Conference promoters 3 Disk drive sellers 3 Book sellers 2 Software seller 1 Educational catalog 1 Computer store 1 Coupon package 1 And this was a dull month as mail goes The magazines offered dealt with the Commodore new technology classified advertisements microcomputers generally and campaigning for political office Wording included such tried and true phrases as reach for the future NOW leading edge you re going to have to scramble just to keep up integrated environment to realize all the power and promise of your system we re no johnny come lately etc etc The discount house mailings ranged from multi page slick four color books down to one smeared postcard printed on what must be an ancient dot matrix with a very faded ribbon They should contact another outfit that sells machines to ink your ribbons and the mailing from the last mentioned organization was done in print so dark that I suspected over inking of their ribbons Here then is the additional stuff that I kept to report on CP M Users can get a free catalog from The Software Toolworks 15233 Ventura Blvd Suite 1118 Sherman Oaks CA 91403 telephone 818 986 4885 This organization claims to have excellent CP M software for the Apple including a spreadsheet program a compiler etc each program at 60 or less Speak to Your Apple using a system by The Voice Connec
34. reach the right limit of the window If you refrain from using the dot commands described above you can effectively utilize EXECUTIVE SECRETARY as a What you see is what you get type of word processor However use of any dot commands will immediately cause the printed copy to be different from the entry screen However the program does provide a preview screen which will translate all of the dot commands and show you on the screen what you would get on the printer When printing or using the preview screen you get a print format screen on which you define such things as margins line lengths etce If you change the print format when typing a letter the screen will prompt you to decide if the new ones are to be saved or note You may record the current print format you are using and the Scroll code for reference etober 1984 FANCY PRINT is name of the menu item used to generate mailable copy I define mailable copy as the copy that contains all of your predefined dot commands translated into their final form Or you can print a rough draft complete with line numbers The draft copy will not translate the dot commands Then you can go to for fast EDIT moves If you have need to use proportional spacing multi columns form letters mail list mail labels card file telephone list get addresses from a file for insertion into letters and AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDE FOR ADDRESSING THE ENVELOPE YOU GO
35. seen fit to handle copyprotection my way but they do offer a reasonable alternative First they provide a back up copy of the program in the original package that you purchase at least in the case of their business programs I don t know what they do with their entertainment products With some programs you have to send in to get the back up even when there is no charge for ite With programs like word processors and data base management packages I want the back up on hand when I use the program from the very start Second with the back up included in the package it is included in the price If you have to pay extra for the back up make sure _ you include that cost when looking at the 25 original purchase price of the program I have actually managed to buy some programs on sale I like sales where the back up costs more than the original program One solution in these cases is to buy two copies of the program on sale Come to think of it maybe the reason the programs were on sale at sucha low price is that they weren t selling well because of the unreasonable back up policy Third they will replace any defective disk within 90 days at no charge After that they charge 5 for a replacement disk for an unlimited time period The 5 replacement after 90 days isn t stated in their warranty so I suppose it is subject to change at any time I do know they have followed
36. software for everyone to Educational software has been around for more usee Occasionally the Mini app les main than 20 years notably Control Data s PLATO meeting has an educational theme In July software running on the CDC mainframe Joe Nathan the well known educational computers Educational software for innovator from the St Paul school district came to speak on the future of computers in education An important role of the EdSIG is a networking group where members can exchange expertise or locate help with educational computing matters We keep a directory of members including interests and expertise We are continually seeking the help of members in Professional Service Get it done right the first time We give quality service on all Apple products and Epson printers Need on site repair Call us on site and maintenance contracts available hagen 601 WEST 77 STREET RICHFIELD MINNESOTA 58423 666 3441 microcomputers is as old as micros themselves late 1970 s Much earlier software was designed by teachers for their own use and later made available for sale or as free public domain software The quality of this software varied and much of it was fairly simple Then came the programmers and the flashy software A few good products appeared with many of little educational value Lately things have changed Over the last couple of years more software is being produced by cooperative efforts bet
37. this policy for over two years since I purchased my first program from them Fourth they have provided updates reflecting minor changes or corrections in the programs at no coste Over the past two years I have received updates for all three programs I purchased from them in this manner I had to return one of my orginal disks which allowed me to keep using the program while I was getting the update and they sent me the update and a new back up Fifth when they added some new features to ScreenWriter mainly 80 column support for the e and produced a new manual they made them available to existing ScreenWriter owners for 15 a price I feel is reasonable GOTO 30 General Interest min apples _ _________________________getober 1984 If you count on quality you can count on MEMOREX flexible discs for your personal computing applications Features like the uniquely sealed jacket and protective hub ring make MEMOREX discs last longer And a soft inner liner cleans the ultra smooth disc surface while in use It all adds up to better performance and reliabilty And it s backed up by a full one year warranty Count on the flexible disc known for quality performance and memory excellence
38. use in MacPaint Tracing is easy helped by some scaling factors that can be applied Chuck s first effort used the Apple II gameport for output but the MouseButton was lost for lack of enough annunciator pins he needed four wires just to get the XY info across Switching to a parallel card solved the wire shortage problem The melding of the AGT and Mac haven t answered all of Chuck s needs for graphics but he feels that for certain types of drawing MacPaint is a more controllable program with the AGT allowing him to draw with a more natural pen than the Mouse Certainly there is a greater awareness within the group that the Mac is expandable It just takes a bit more innovative thought to come up with the how Thanks Chuck for a very interesting look at making the Mac even more fun 20 QGrrn orr tee eteber 1984 MacPlace or Current Mac Rumors by Dan Buchler ac deserves its own rumor column So that is what MacPlace is about I still need your input The first item isn t a rumors Infoworld in August predicted that Apple would announce Fat Mac in September and they did It seems that Apple was able to find enough 256K bit chips to satisfy themselves that could meet some sort of demand One rumor says they have a 3 month supply of those chips For those who missed it the announced prices are List Ship Macintosh with 128K 2195 Now Macint
39. very thin soup each exactly like every other and time had come to make some distinctions like you eat the plankton buddy and as for me I will eat you And then the feeders began to separate on the basis of methods of feeding the predators changed to keep up with their prey And it was the ninth day of creation and the ocean was full So now you wonder what all of this has to do with Apple computers right Well the point is coming but I tell stories the southern way nice an slow There was this feller I once knowed Had a coondog named Ellie etc etc That s the style and the story is not about coondogs at all The point of the story is that in that ocean and aside from the most daring of the fish that ventured out of the sea and onto land they were the mystics of the lot the dreamers the crazy fish what had been easy horizontal growth based on getting bigger had become another game entirely The only way to gain advantage nowadays was to get better in a narrow niche The niches were multiplying the skills were deepening You couldn t just gold rush a state and call it California You had to become inventive find a better way You had to find your fortune in the vertical dimension It s this notion of the vertical dimension that I have in mind today and no I m not thinking about computers particularly and how each brand must become better in order to maintain itself
40. which is the documentation for the programs HIRES SCREEN SCRUNCHER HIRES PACK and HIRES UNPACK PAINT DUEL A human controlled tank vse computer controlled tank each firing paint canisters It contains on screen instructions From Creative Computing submitted by Will Schneider QUINTI MAZE A 5 x 5 x 5 three dimensional maze with Hires graphics It has a built in timer This also contains on screen instructions From BYTE submitted by Will Schneider CHORD A computer aid to music transcription From Creative Computing submitted by Will Schneider BAABAA GREETING XMAS This group of three programs by Corbin Kidder produces six Lores capital letters 4x7 pixels on the screen You can get six or seven letters on a line It s a handy show and tell series for teachers and for people who just want to sit down and do something at the Apple GOTO 19 de a SIT LS I SDA ELECTS ELT DE OIE EIT TELAT EE TSS NEDO DOMs ev O les eteber 1984 7 OM 32 October 1984 by Steve George OM 32 contains Diversi COPY from Diversified Software Research Ince another wonderful program by Bill Bashame Through a unique marketing technique you can receive this very useful utility for only the price of a DOM To legally use it however you are requested to send 30 to DSR The honor system of paying for what you use worked well for the ao DSR product Diversi DOS our DOM 18 Diversi COPY
41. 314 i 39 copyrighted by the PRICE BREAKTHROUGH 59 Regularly 269 Call for pricing for other Apple peripherals No shipping charge for local phone orders Quannon Computers 1612 944 5616 __ a les meee E aga 1984 procedure starts The programs were written by THE STACK of CORRUPT COMPUTING and are available on THE SAFEHOUSE BBS which has a 10 00 fee for access to these and other e A interesting items DAN PATCHER 1 0 was on a disk of copy programs that an unidentified friend of mine got from an unidentified source Except for the author listings on the title screen the program is identical to DISK MUNCHER 1 0 I have seen a document describing the writing of DISK MUNCHER 1 0 by The Stack Interesting that two programs could be so similar I don t know where this one is available These three programs all read and wrote in three blocks of 12 12 and 11 tracks FAST COPY was written by John Me Pechacek and can be found on THE SAFEHOUSE BBS Unlike the other programs that start copying from Track 0 FAST COPY starts at Track 22 and copies down in blocks of 8 8 8 8 and 3 tracks on my Apple All of the programs mentioned have been companies or authors listed 4995 6595 494 amp State Hwy 5 Next to Menard s Software Reviauea imini app les ctober 1984 Executive Secretary A review by Gene
42. 99 239 ELEPHANT 80 8 S5 S0 22 796 189 ELEPHANT 890 8 05 DD 35 1296 319 PRACTICALC GEMINI 10X PRINTER 299 95 N APPLE CAT II MODEM 222 95 59 95 46 95 KoalaPad 77 95 with Micro Illustrator THINKTANK 115 95 SUMMER GAMES 31 95 SARGON IIL 38 95 BEAGLE GRAPHICS 41 95 BEACH LANDING 31 95 ALGEBRA I 31 95 DOLLARS amp SENSE 67 95 SYSTEM SAVER 67 95 MACH Ii JOYSTICK 31 95 80 COL 64k CARD 119 95 612 935 1038 yukon computer products inc pa box 93 hopkins mn 55343 MasterCard eae eae CALL US TO SAVE YOUR MONEY OUR NEW PICK UP CENTER OPEN SAT 12 6 SUN 12 5 VISIT US AT THE TWIN CITIES COMPUTER SHOW FOR SPECIAL SAVINGS 1 1 Price includes UPS delivery MC VISA MN residents add 6 sales tax Bulk Rate US Postage PAID Hopkins MN Permit 631 i 24 41 85 SALO BILL 4998 14TH AVE NORTH CHARPLIN HN 35316 2884
43. ART 8261 FINISH 16909 DS CHRS 4 FILE INSTRUCTIONS TEXT 2DS OPEN FILES D WRITE FILE FOR LOC START TO FINISH CHRS PEEK LOC NEXT 2 D CLOSE Now you can load the text file into your word processor for formatting spelling corrections changing lower to uppercase etce Personally I would have liked the instructions for DCOPY separate from the body of the program because they take up space which in this case could be put to better use during the copy process especially during mass production Hetober 1984 Keytec A Keyboard Enclosure by Steve George learly the dollar value of 3 pieces of sheet aluminum 5 sheet metal screws 8 hex nuts 4 rubber feet 5 of ribbon cable etc doesn t add up to the 60 price tag Where the value enters is in the additional freedom this enclosure gives youe A detached keyboard Envy As I was debating about sending for the kit two thoughts kept crossing my mind 1 why do I need a detached keyboard anyway and 2 ehh what s 60 compared to the overall system pree Add to this the fact that I ve been chopping away at the Apple case since day one Whenever something was added I seemed to need to drill or saw part of the case Needless to say it s no longer a pretty sight The potential of removing it from public view was the final deciding factor Keytec s ads state that they ship by return mail and it arrived 3 weeks later Wha
44. And like those of the people who came before us our conquests will benefit mankind far more than we now imagine Come on Darnay what sort of garbage is this Most of us just want cheap software bargain goods neat tricks help in a crisis and ways to beat the system Why get all theological on us This is a user group for Pete sake not a literary circle Okay okay Just keep your cool The hidden hand is working here Like it or not know it or not you re breaking virgin ground on a new continent Why you think you do it is your business But telling shaggy fish stories is mine and philosophy comes with the territory CRE SS TT LEER IEICE TE SEEDS DIT TELE IEEE ED LEED General Interest 28 THOUS OF COMPUTERS A OFFICE MACHIN GATHERING AGA IN MINNEAPOLIS Thinking about buying a business computer a word or data processor a video game or a personal or home computer The TWIN CITIES COMPUTER SHOW amp SOFTWARE EXPOSITION is the piace to go to compare all the makes and models SAVE TIME AND MONEY The Computer Show offers you at one convenient loca tion the opportunity to learn about try out and compare thousands of different products in a non intimidating no obligation fun filled atmosphere If you decide to buy at the Show you may save hundreds even thousands of dollars because many of the Proqact on display are for sale at super
45. News and Rumors by Dan Buchler ow that the c is launched just about everything new coming out of Apple is Mac or Lisa related I know that I am going to get pinged on by the member ship for emphasizing Mac but if you don t like it give me some material that I can publish Software development for the l e and c by 3rd party developers continues at a reasonable rate but I hate to tell you this most of the really great stuff is being done for the PC or the Mac One exception is AppleWorks which though it has been out for only a few weeks has risen to the top of the best selling list outselling the new Flight Simulator by a ratio of 3 2 according to Softalk August A review of AppleWorks is contained elsewhere in this newsletter Anyone volunteer to review Flight Simulator Apple has just released an enhanced version of AppleWriter II called Version 2 0 It is designed to run on the e and c It runs under PRODOS and supports the Profile hard disk in conjunction with a program selector by Quark called Catalyst ITe New features supported include e Horizontal scrolling Page and line count Terminal mode for communicating to other computers from Applewriter Ability to format a Prodos disk so you don t need to but Prodos Price is 149 Current users of AppleWriter II may upgrade for a limited time for 50 exchange prices Apple c Users Note LCD Screen problems If you bought or
46. TTA GET THIS Would you believe a section that will 1 Stop printing the letter in a pre determined spot 2 Ask S question on the screen name address etc 3 Put that answer into the letter along with a response or 4 Set up a form for FILLING IN THE SPACES ON A PRE PRINTED FORM Well EXECUTIVE SECRETARY will Auto center auto indent and a host of other specials are yours to play with It will take you some time to MASTER this Word Processor but it is well worth it There is also a version that has a speller built in The price of both EXECUTIVE SECRETARY and PERSONAL SECRETARY have recently been reduced The new prices are EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 159 95 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY with speller 189 95 PERSONAL SECRETARY 69 95 These prices put both programs in everyone s range now If the deadline for this issue were farther away there would be time to play and find more of the goodies in the program Editor s note I had looked at EXECUTIVE SECRETARY about 3 years ago when it first came out and rejected it in favor of Pie Writer It sounds now like EXECUTIVE SECRETARY is a highly flexible word processor with lots of features in the same class as AppleWriter Screenwriter and PieWriter None of these programs are super easy to learn like Bank Street Writer and Word Handler But once learned they are easy to use and very powerful 4 Software Reviews miat
47. ally all of the features of both must admit haven t used footnoting in ScreenWriter yet I also use the Dic tio nary a spelling checker from Sierra On several occasions I have found the need to call Sierra s customer support department The folks at Sierra have always been helpful and on occasion have needed to show a good deal of patience and tolerance with some pretty picky questions from me There have been times when the person on the other end of the line has not had the answer on the spot and they have needed to call back or write with further information They have never failed to follow through They have also sent some extra flyers on interfacing Screenwriter with printers and an extra user program to use with General Manager The only complaint I have is that they have recently cut the hours that phone support is available to the morning west coast time I have had no problem in getting through it s just that I would prefer to call after 5 PM central time to get lower phone rates Back ups and updates I do not like software I purchase to be copyprotected Let me repeat that I do not like software I purchase to be copyprotected e My spreadsheet isn t THE Spreadsheet Ver 2 0 from A P P L E and that is one of the reasons I selected that particular program Unfortunately somebody forgot to make the world exactly the way I would like it and most commercial software is copyprotected Sierra On Line hasn t
48. app leg ct ober Rana 8086 2 1984 Preliminary Details or mini review by Dan Buchler n the July newsletter the Announcements section provided a brief description of the new Rana product known as the Rana 8086 2 I was able to play with one an pre production version one afternoon in July compliments of Team Electronics Hennepin and Honeywell Defense Systems Divisione For continuity some of the information previously published in this newsletter is repeated below This product was announced about 9 months ago and scheduled for shipment in early 2nd quarter Like most new products it didn t come out on schedule and in fact is not ready to shipe We understand that the product still has problems that have yet to be resolved Therefore any features hardware or software discussed herein could change before the product is finally shipped When this will be is not known You might have to wait a while As to the price figures used herein are also very tentative What you get is this Hardware A box somewhat larger than the size of two half height disk drives containing funnily enough two drives f e An interface board for the Apple inside of the back panel of a e If you have a you patch to the interconnecting cable below A 25 wire interconnect cable A coax to connect the Apple video out into the Rana This is so you don t have to unplug the monitor when you go from Apple n
49. arate programs to do these functions I suggest you investigate AppleWorks It s the top selling Apple program accord to Softalk and I can see why The list price of AppleWorks is 250 fr Tell our Advertisers you saw it here 37 Software Reviews minl apples lt _ __ _ ___________ t ct ober 1984 A comparison of 10 DOS 3 3 COPY programs by John L Hansen f you purchased your Apple computer prior to the release of ProDOS you received the DOS 3 3 Master e Included on this disk were two copy programs COPY and COPYA COPYA is the program to be used for copying a diskette if you are using DOS from Applesoft Basic You have probably used it to make backups as recommended of programs and data disks COPYA is a relatively slow program It formats the target or duplicate disk and then copies from the original to the target disk There are programs available that will make backup copies much faster than COPYA Described below are some I m sure not all of the programs available These programs are not nibble copiers like Copy Plus Nibbles Away IL or Locksmith 5 0 though a couple of them are associated with two of these programs and generally will not copy protected commercial programs Most of the faster copy programs do not format the target disk but read one or more tracks from the original and write them to the target disk Some of them verify the copy to be sure i
50. are supplier This editor encourages users of this program to send their 15 in to the author so that he may make more good software Do these names ring a bell MY STUDENTS USE COMPUTERS by Beverly Hunter and MICROCOMPUTER RESOURCE BOOK FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION by Delores Hagen If so you re probably a teacher student of education or parent who wants to understand and effectively use computers to teach kids The Reston Computer Group published these classics but we didn t stop there Here s what s new for Apple Il users SCIENCE COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR KIDS AND OTHER PEOPLE by Tom Speitel et al Science concepts for self study by 6th to 12th graders Book price 9 95 THE BANK STREET WRITER BOOK by Don Beil Gets to the heart of what you need to know to use this word processing package effectively Book price 19 95 THE APPLE MATH AND READING DEVELOPMENT KIT by Ed Burns Lab tested BASIC programs that can be modified to meet the needs of elementary grade students Book price 16 95 For Logo newcomers get acquainted with our introductory books Logo enthusiasts we continue to grow with you For a free Computers in Education catalog write Reston Computer Group 11480 Sunset Hills Road Reston VA 22090 Reston Publishing Company Inc is a Prentice Hall Company 23 Software Review Macintosh screen to go with it minti app lea lt lt lt i ctober 1984 News from Afar or Current
51. ative mode to 8086 mode A power cable Software MS DOS 2 11 which includes BASICA and a variety of utilities and Rana enhancements see below including a print driver for Lotus 1 2 3 e ProDOS version 1 01 The MicroSoft Windows previously promised with this product is not mentioned Not suprising since the IBM PC version hasn t been released yet Documentation e A Rana 8086 2 manual e An MS DOS 2 11 Manual o An 8086 BASICA manual e A manual that tells you how to you Rana _ Hardware Reviews A cable to connect interface board to the enhancements such as Putting 40 tracks on both sides of disk in Apple mode This gives you 328K How to format PRODOS with the Rana Formatter e ProDos user s manual Inside the Rana 8086 2 box is a disk controller electronics and an 8086 coprocessor chip with supporting logic The 8086 is the 16 bit version of the microcomputer used in the IBM PC That means it runs faster The box also contains 256K bytes of of random access memory expandable to 512K bytes Read Only Memory ROM containing a Basic Input Output System BIOS package is provided This is the software which makes the system compatible with IBM PCs The 8086 mother board also has space for an 8087 floating point IC Finally there is video logic compatible with the IBM which provides low and high resolution black and white and color output Graphic modes 640 x 200 monochrome 320 x 200 mo
52. ay encounter Prior to entering it enter FP RETURN to reset the Applesoft pointers 10 ONERR GOTO 90 20 LOW 3072 30 HIGH 33529 40 START LOW 50 FOR START START 1 TO HIGH 60 PRINT CHRS PEEK START 70 NEXT 80 END 90 START START 1 POKE216 0 100 ONERR GOTO 90 110 GOTO 50 Now OPEN THE DRIVE DOOR S Some assembly codes will execute when printed in the manner such as trying to BRUNDOGFIGHT at 6879 decimal CONTROL S will pause the display for easter reading and any key will resume program execution It s a good idea to have used the program so that you can distinguish between what are on screen prompts and actual instructions For example the text located between 3000 and 3200 is part of the prompting during DCOPY execution and may fool you the first time through On the second pass though when the actual DCOPY instructions start to appear you ll have to hit RESET to stop the execution of the loop Then if you enter ISTART RETURN 8611 Apple s response This will display the value of the vartable START when the loop stopped and this value will be a little beyond the starting location of the text Change lines 20 30 amp 60 as below to zero in on the exact starting location 20 LOW 7800 30 HIGH 8500 EK START 60 PRINT START CHRS PEEK GOTO 47 46 QGere opptee aes Binary Capture Concluded from page 46 And RUN the composite program This will cause con
53. be stored in the computer temporary or on disk permanently the Desktop When you need a file you call it to the Desktop through a series of menus Each menu and file appears on the screen as a file folder with a label tab As many as 12 file folders can be on the Desktop at one time Its The Main Menu is the first folder options are 1 Add files to the Desktop 2 Work with one of the files on the Desktop 3 Save Desktop files to disk 4 Remove files from Desktop 5 Other Activities 66 Quit The screen also displays the number of the drive currently active the name of the active menu instructions Type number or use arrows then press Return and where to go for help Open Apple The first item on each menu is highlighted in inverse mode If you select a different item by typing the number or using the Down Arrow the highlight will move to the selected item If we hit return for Item l the Add Files Menu will overlay the Main Menu the tab of the Main Menu is still visible At the top of the screen the words Escape Main Menu tell you how to get back to the Main Menue Our choices on Add Files are Get files from 1 The current disk Drive 1 or 2 if you have changed it 2 A different disk GOTO 32 Software Reviews i A file in RAM is said to be on Graer les AppleWorks Continued from page 31 Make a new file for the 3 Word Processor 4 Data
54. ber 115 2ZVM 123 12 green 115 PRINCETON GRAPHICS 189 DISK DRIVES Mitsuba 1 2 hgt Dual w drive controller 375 Asuka Direct Drive A hgt Apple Comp 199 Drive Cantrol Card for above 45 Teac DS DD IBM Comp 185 we carry over 15 different computers IBM Sanyo Epson Columbia Televideo Zenith Corona Eagle More over 20 makes of printers disk drives modems 10 makes of monitors 12 top selling diskettes amp more than 200 software vendors with 3000 titles We have what you want call for prices LOOK FOR OUR AD IN THE OCTOBER COMPUTER USER FOR SPECIAL SHOW PRICES PRINTERS SEPTEMBER SPECIAL KX P1092 459 180 CPS Letter Quality mode Friction and Tractor feed Panasonic KX P1091 120 CPS 339 Panasonic KX P1090 275 Gemini 10X 269 Epson RX 80 299 Epson RX 80 FT 349 Epson FX 80 499 Juki 6100 18 cps IN Daisy Wheel STOCK DISKETTES 10 54 Floppy Diskettes packed with a storage box SS DD DS DD sentinel 21 00 24 00 Wabash 22 50 27 50 CALL FOR QUANTITY PRICING ON 10 OR MORE BOXES SOFTWARE Apple IBM pfs series 85 00 95 00 Friday Ashton Tate 199 00 Wwordstar Micropro 329 00 329 00 Accounting Partner Star 299 00 Bank Street writer 49 95 59 95 Flight Simulator II 39 95 Flight Simulator
55. bout 20 minutes trying various options We din t try printing as we didn t have a printer on the Apple Hard to do without a printer Also the manual warns you that some Apple printer interface cards do not pass the high order bit the old Epson interface card is one example The graphics interface requires a full 8 bits so you must have one of the more modern cards to do print graphs There is a Lotus driver on the MS DOS disk which we think is needed for printing graphics with Lotus PRINTGRAPH We couldn t find any documentation to confirm this though The Rana 8086 by the way was noticeably faster than our Columbia which uses an 8088 Peripheral Interface Considerations MS DOS uses certain conventions when talking to peripherals These are file names which are dedicated to specific devices In order to allow use of Apple slots and peripherals connected through interface cards in those slots certain relationships had to be established These are MS DOS Apple Assumption Name Device LPT 1 lst Printer Serial or parallel printer with inter face in SLOT 1 LPT2 2nd Printer Printer interface in SLOT 4 GOTO 44 43 Hardware Reviews Rana 8086 2 Concluded from page 43 COM1 lst Aynch Super serial with communications modem or certain unspecified modems in SLOT 2 The manual doesn t specifically say so but it sounds like a Micromodem II would work interface COM2 2nd Asynch As above in SLOT 4 com
56. cally force you to correctly configure the program for your hardware and requirements the first time you boot it up Since I use the Omega II programmable key board and have a 80 col card not Videx but compatible upper lower case and SHIFT key shifting worked fine This program seems to allow a wide range of equipment both printers and cards Each Menu is very clear and while there are several to go through at times as with any program that has the power of many options they are straight forward and easy to follow I tried this program on some of the files I had written with the pre release PERSONAL SECRETARY and it worked fine with no changes One of the things that stands out with EXECUTIVE SECRETARY is that when in the EDIT mode you can see between which lines you are page wise and about how many words you can still type in this page as far as this FILE is concerned To EDIT just press the ESC key and the RETURN Moves you UP while the moves you DOWN Right amp Left Arrow do just that The Arrow keys are supposed to move a word at a time but with my OmegaBoard keyboard they only move a letter at a time While in EDIT mode you can set indentations window width and various other format information In the EDIT mode you will see a mark at the left side of the screen where the end of the page is as you have pre set it To SAVE a file use ESC twice and the Menu provides for not only SAVE but PRINT als
57. companies selling clipboard art These are disks of little and sometimes big DaVinci below pictures shapes if one must relate to AppleSoft which can be combined into your own artwork or graphicse Here are some of them McPic 130 pictures by Magnum Software 49 95 Click Art 250 pictures by T Maker Graphics 49 95 Clip 1 100 pictures by MacNificent Sftw 29 95 Mac the Knife 500 illustrations borders maps by Miles Computing 39 00 DaVinci Landscapes 100s landscapes by Hayden Software DaVinci Interiors 100s interior designs by Hayden Software DaVinci Landscapes 100s buildings by Hayden Software We have been able to demo most of this stuff at the Mac Sig meetings Brn ccnp pw 7 i mm er E ED eR EP Ridge Square North ONE 12989 Ridgedale Drive 1984 MacPlace MacMore MacCrap Concluded from page 21 Tidbit seen in InfoWorld Apple has seeded over 250 software developers with Color Macintoshes This seems quite likely according to an interview with Daniel Kottke an Apple hardware engineer on the Macintosh project Another interview with Doug Clapp printed in the August St Mac revealed that most of the additional hardware you need for color is the RAM required to increase the screen buffer from 20K to 80K Clapp intimated that a Color Mac would likely use a separate RGB monitor such as the one just announced by Apple Apple s upcoming Laser printer will be really great I
58. d by our membership Please keep the programs and Mac related materials coming And again Thank You to the individuals that worked hard to put this MacDOM together rv DOM 31 Concluded from page 14 The first program BAABAA was named for the pleasure of finally being able to make random A s and B s come up on the screen From there it was all downht1l The other two programs GREETING and XMAS are just examples of further possible developments COMPUTER KSTP AM 15002Saturdays 5 05 6 00 PM DOMs Macintosh minl apples ctober 1984 MacSIG Notes by Tom Edwards uring the August MacSIG meeting see announcements section of this news letter there were several questions from the floor on technique and Mac capabilities le When a picture element is moved from Paint to Write you lose the ability to place Write text in that horizontal slice of the document that is occupted by the picture For now if you want to add text to that area you must go back to Paint and revise your picture element then move a new copy to Write 2 At least one brave soul has been trying to stuff data from Multiplan into the Habadex file program Glimpses of the data seem to be tantilizingly close on the clipboard but do not move properly into the Habadex fields The suggestion from the floor is to try the Notepad maybe the result w
59. d to be true it probably is General Interest Macintosh See MacPlace elsewhere in this newsletter 7 The gasp UPGRADE A 512K retrofit of Mac certainly appears to be a solid product for the future Timing looks like early 1985 and price maybe 1000 are choicest offerings from the Rumor Mill Everyone wants it yesterday and for free no less oO Although no flood the long awaited software entries are making an appearance Seems that it just takes X many manhours to write X many lines of code August has brought the first of the early harvest and each day seems to add more YR thinks that the MacPromise will be kept look for the easy stuff first followed by the moderately complex now showing followed by the gee whizz do all programs last Some of that last may be holding off for the 512K too 9 There is a video digitizer package available for Mac and other computers I missed full info on who makes it but the cost is about 400 The program for the August meeting was Chuck Thiesfield and his coupling of the Apple Graphics Tablet AGT to the Mac well almost Actually what he s done is hooked the AGT to an Apple II in normal fashion and then linked the Apple II to the Mac by way of the MousePort With the addition of some home brew software which thinks the Mac is a printer connected to a standard printer interface card he communicates pen information on the tablet to Mac for
60. d with senior citizen s groups the book is written in plain language gives you plenty of opportunity to program and solve problems and it keeps you honest with lots of self check questions You can also order a companion disk that contains many of the longer programs and additional sample tests Book price 15 95 Disk price 10 00 To order call 800 336 0338 toll free between 9 AM and 5 PM East Coast Time and ask for Customer Service Allow 4 6 weeks for delivery Prices are subject to change School discounts are available Basham N Donald Brown CE Software 801 73rd Street Dept M Des Moines IA 50312 Phone 515 224 1995 The MacSIG has received permission from the author to distribute D AM for a small copying charge to our membership So any member wishing a copy of the program can acquire one during the MAC SIG meeting or at the Computer show for the cost of the diskette 5 00 I have found the program extremely easy to use and feel it would be a good addition to every Macintosh owner s software library And I encourage all users of the program to pay the licensing fee to allow CE Software and other authors to write and distribute quality and reasonably priced software by this method Editor s note This is exactly how Diversi DOS was distributed by the author Bill And it is pleasing to note that Bill was succesful in receiving donations which allowed him to become a successful softw
61. e Computer Inc similar program for the Apple is called E Z Pieces Although the AppleWorks Reference Manual 319 pages long implies that the program can be used on a e without extended memory I find it hard to believe you could do much with it On a e with extended memory and a c the screen reports 55K of memory to be available Because AppleWorks is an integrated program it is possible to move from word processor to spreadsheet to data base whenever you desire In my work I find it convenient to prepare tables with a spreadsheet Using my word processor Super Text Professional and THE Spreadsheet V2 0 I now print the tables on separate sheets of paper and insert them into the report With AppleWorks I could cut out sections of the spreadsheet transfer them to a clipboard and then insert them in my report at the desired spot by transferring them from the clipboard to the word processor Similar use could be made of the data base The AppleWorks package includes three disks 5 sides the AppleWorks Tutorial 140 pages the AppleWorks Reference Manual 319 pages and the AppleWorks Quick Reference Card The program makes use of two disks the Startup and Program disks these come on a two sided disk First suggested step is to make copies of these using the ProDOS User s Disk or COPYA depending on which one came with your computer The second disk also two sided contains Apple Presen
62. e IIc 245 00 KX XE KE k HAYES MICROMODEM IIe 229 95 Xx Xk KE k ZOOM TELEPHONICS MODEM 94 95 xx E K k MICROMAX Extended 80 Col Card KX E Add on 64K for only 119 95 KX Add on 128K for only 189 95 xX K X SENTINEL SS SD Diskettes 18 50 Xk XK xX k ROLLTOP 100 Disk File 29 95 X EK X x DISKETTE 70 Holds 7 Disks X X Like Flip amp File 14 95 Xx KX KX XE Ke SOFTWARE PLUS XK OK F XX a 560 467 x XE Pecrerttterrecrssteceeesssreree ses ss ees Technical 48 eS ee ee NS minl app lea october 1994 In the Dog House with Beagle Bros by Steve George he following Beagle Bros program will allow you to LIST a line of a running Applesoft programe An example for which you might use this is for help sections of a program 10 INPUT LIST LINE N gt gt your pgm 20 GOSUB 60000 gt goes here 59999 END 60000 LS RIGHTS 0000 STRS N 5 L PEEK 121 PEEK 122 256 51 FOR J 1 TO 5 POKE L J ASC MIDS L J 1 NEXT LIST 00000 RETURN When RUN as is it will ask for a line to LIST The proper line number is then POKEd into the 00000 area of the LIST command in line 60000 Editor s note Mini app les received permission from Beagle Bros to publish short programs that had previously appeared in their advertisements and which w
63. e a demonstration of Mockingbird Bring your favorite game to the November meeting and perhaps get some ideas for Christmas presents No meeting is scheduled in December e All friends in the New Hope area are encouraged to join and participate in our branch meetings held the 4th Tuesday of each month at 7 00 p m The monthly agenda is published in the Mini app les Calendar Calendar Announcements Please submit all calendar dates changes etce to Ron Androff Ron has volunteered to be the calendar maker for the newsletter As for all newsletter items timely submission helps us all DOMs by Mail Continuing Service for Mini app les Members by Chuck Thiesfeld Now members can order DOMs not Mini app les Software or MacDOMs using their own diskettes Here is the procedure Make up a package containing the following 1 Blank diskette or diskettes if more than one is desired 2 Mailer Diskettes will be returned in same protective device used to send the diskettes provided such will fit in the mailer mini app les _______ ___________ October 1984 3 Send correct postage in stamps do not send money in lieu of stamps 4 Self addressed return label 5 1 00 copying fee per DOM or disk 6 A note indicating which DOMs are desired C Thiesfeld 8416 Xerxes Avenue S Bloomington MN 55431 Please allow 60 days for delivery in USA Incomplete packages will not be returned DOMs 1 thru 26
64. e to an unfortunate oversight our membership in the IAC was allowed to lapse and our IAC disks stopped arriving Then summer was upon us and our generous contributors all went on vacation All but Tom Alexander that is Tom s contributions make up over half of DOM 31 The DOM editor says Thank You Tom Alexander Tom is not only a prolific program developer he is also a good documentor His group of programs entitled SECURITIES LEDGER came complete with a text file of documentation PRINT LEDGER DOC LEDGER DOC f Before running the following programs LEDGER PORTFOLIO MARKET SOLD STOCKS or SALES please run the file PRINT LEDGER DOC This short program will print the text file LEDGER DOC on any forty column printer You may of course access the text file LEDGER DOC with a word processor such as APPLE WRITER if you wish LEDGER PORTFOLIO MARKET SOLD STOCKS SALES SECURITIES LEDGER is a group of menu driven programs which will allow you to record the purchase current status and sale of common stock in a portfolio The program LEDGER is the starter program It will load and execute the other files for you The file PORTFOLIO will allow you to update your personal portfolio with purchases and sales The file MARKET will produce a report on the market value of your portfolio and the file SOLD will generate a capital gains and loses report for your income taxes These reports may be previewed on
65. ed and started from program Click for BINHEX LIFE This is John Conway s GAME OF LIFE made interactive and lightning fast The program simulation is based on the simple rules that mimic the way natural processes occur in real life Refer to Byte Magazine 12 78 or Scientific American 10 70 for additional details Program by Bill Atkinson of MacPaint fame CLOCK Demonstrates the usage of ROM tool box routine TIMES user defined function First appeared in the premier issue of ST MAC Enhanced by Paul Howe FILE DUMP This program will dump the contents of any sequential disk file created by MS BASIC It will dump the file in both HEX and ASCII Contributed by Paul Howe GRAPHER This program will plot multiple data sets A sample data file Sample Graph contained on this disk will demonstrate the program Written by Paul Howe 17 PAGER This program will paginate a MS BASIC program listing It will print a page heading on each page consisting of the date time page number bytes in file and file name It will also respond to formatting commands imbedded in the text being printed Contributed by Paul Howe TIC TAC TOE The program plays Tic Tac Toe Game is from the July 1984 issue of A magazine Entered by Paul Howe VARPTR NUMS This program demonstrates the use of the VARPTR function in MS BASIC VARPTR returns the byte address of the high order byte of any numeric variable Contributed by Paul Ho
66. ed from page 35 OA L allows you to change value formats label formats and protection for specific cells rows columns or blocks and column widths for specific columns One unfortunate factor with AppleWorks value displays is that it is not possible to assign a value format to an individual column unless values are presente For example if you have a column where you want to enter all values with 3 fixed decimal places you cannot preformat the column You can enter all your numbers in the column and then format enter a O in each cell of the column format and enter your numbers or use a global format which you may not want in other columns AppleWorks as do most other spreadsheets lets you set two windows side by side or top and bottom and allows you to fix the titles or headings In addition with OA Z it is possible to zoom in and display the formulas in every cell While zoomed in you can print the formulas with OA P AppleWorks has an excellent feature that I have previously seen only in Lotus 1 2 3 Any areas that are blanked columns or rows that are inserted deleted or moved and information that is copied replicated is highlighted in inverse by cursor movement so that you know exactly what items will be zapped changed or moved Another excellent feature of this Spreadsheet is the ability to sort rows in a spreadsheet by values in a specified column Sorting can be done from A to Z Z to A 0 to 9 or
67. ed to the receiving file For some undetermined by me reason when a file is transferred from a data base or spreadsheet to a word processing file it must be PRINTED to the Clipboard not MOVED or COPIED but can be moved or copied to the Word Processor file AppleWorks can send files to a printer print formatted files to a disk print text ASCII files and it is possible to print a copy of the display on a printer It is set up for use with the Apple Dot Matrix Apple Daisy Wheel Silentype Imagewriter Epson MX MX Graftraxt RX FX and the Qume Sprint 5 and Sprint 11 An appendix provides instructions for using a printer not on the list Other appendices discuss using AppleWorks with a ProFile harddisk and sending AppleWorks files over phone lines Summary For the types of files I work with AppleWorks appears at least at first glance to be an excellent program It is well designed has a good tutorial manual and a very good reference manual It is literally possible to carry out most of the program operations by referring to the screen prompts and using the OA Help command The Word Processor and Spreadsheet are the two functions I would use most often The former supports superscripts and subscripts a necessity for a chemist and the ability to make tables in the Spreadsheet and move them directly to a Word Processor file is a big selling point for me Adequate memory for my Zoo files on a e with expanded
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69. er 1984 These ads are provided free to members for non commercial use and are limited to 10 Iines Commercial ads witli be charged at 20 cents word for members or 40 cents word for non members Contact the Advertising coordinator DEADLINE for ads Is the second Friday of the month preceding the month of publication Ads will be repeated on request only Also please notify editor if item is sold otherwise noted all items are For Sale ORDERING DOMs or MSDs A reminder that Disks Of the Months DOMs and Mini app les Software Disks MSDs are available by mail DOMs at 6 00 each MSDs at 17 50 each MacDOMs are not yet available by mail Send your order to MINI APP LES DOM s PO Box 796 Hopk Ins MNe 55343 Attention DOM Sales Most DOM s and all the MSDs are available at club meetings Because of the vol ume of disks distributed they are not tested Club members are asked to make every effort to get the DOM or MSD running For example occastonally the DOS on the disk willbe bad but it wil catalog OK and one can run the programs Master Create on your System master disk will tix up the DOS Of course tf you have a disk with bad programs we will cheerfully replace it A service to copy DOMs not MSDs to your own media is also available See announcements section Unless Meeting Place Edina Community Center 5701 Normandale Road Edina Use entrance 1 on West side of building near
70. ere not credited to any specific individual 2 Here s an excellent example of using Monitor routines from an Applesoft program Beagle Brose again these guys really grow on ya has done just that The program POKEs the delimiters for the move into memory and then PRINTs the character which is to be repeated into a single screen location upper left 1024 dec 400 From there the Monitor move routine duplicates what it found there into the remaining screen locations 5 POKE 768 216 POKE 769 160 POKE 770 0 POKE 771 76 POKE 772 44 POKE 773 254 10 FOR X 1 TO 12 VTAB 1 PRINT MIDS X 1 20 POKE 60 0 POKE 61 4 POKE 62 254 POKE 63 7 POKE 66 1 POKE 67 4 CALL 768 NEXT RUN 49 For an interesting change alter line 10 to read as follows 10 FOR X 0 TO 255 VTAB 1 PRINT CHR X 3 Yes Virginia you can READ in immediate mode The trick is to precede the READ command with a colon Where Beagle Bros come up with these I ll never tell Try this FP 10 DATA 1 2 3 4 50 60 100 READ A PRINT AS SYNTAX ERROR right Now try READ A PRINT A Ah ha it worked Now try CLEAR FORI 1TO7 READ A PRINT A NEXT Amazing 4 Another short but sweet routine from Beagle Bros this time on a twirling cursor 10 A CHRS 92 20 HOME PRINT ANY KEY 30 FOR X 1 TO 4 VTAB 1 HTAB 9 PRINT MID AS X 1 40 FOR Y 1 TO 20 NEXT Y X
71. esota 612 430 1629 Announcements Announcements Continued from page 9 Education Sig by Jane Chatterjee The Education Special Interest Group of Mini app les has been in existence for two iminl eapyo lee iet ober 1984 demonstrating software or providing software for demonstration Minnesota has long been a leading state in educational computing The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium MECC was set up by the state over 10 years ago to yearse We are a group of educators parents serve the emerging educational computing needs and others interested in the educational use of the schools These days MECC is the of microcomputerse We meet each month after largest supplier of educational software the Mini app les main meeting at the same nationwide and has just become a private location Most EdSIG meetings involve the companye Some of the MECC products are the demonstration of a piece of educational best available in their field In late software owned or used by a group member November MECC will be holding their third Software we have demonstrated over the last annual educational computing conference a year includes Bank Street Writer Microzine national event featuring experts in MECC Learning Company Spinnaker and educational computing as speakers and Counterpoint software products Periodically attracting several thousand attendees we have an additional hands on meeting at a computer lab with
72. ete Dysan Diskette Line Select from Dysan s complete media line including 8 diskettes 54 mini diskettes and the convenient mini diskette two pack All come single or double density formats Dysan s advanced production techniques assure that every diskette is certified 100 error free So you can count on Dysan for your IBM Apple Tandy Atari Commodore Osborne or other personal computer So give us a call Or stop by We have a complete inventory on hand Dysan The finest quality diskette available DD tms 12366 River Ridge Blvd e Burnsville MN 55337 e 612 894 9153 SS DD 21 50 DD 28 50 11 Announcements Announcements Continued from page 11 More Vendors at Club Meetings We are planning to allow vendors to come to club meetings and sell We hope that October will be the first meeting when that can happen Now all we need are the vendors Rana 8086 Bulk Purchase by Dan Buchler I started a thing going on setting up a bulk disk purchase for Rana 8086 2s A detailed introduction and mini review is published elsewhere in this newsletter Because of Rana s delay in getting the product out we still don t have any firm prices I had intended to buy one myself but am now targeting a Mac the fat variety instead Despite my Macish intentions I am continuing to maintain a list of interested persons At least two local dealers have expressed an interest in providing a
73. heeling Fish Story by Arsen Darnay ooeee28 DAM MacSoftware by Steven E Baker 23 DOM 31 SV pots ee by Peter Gilles e0000 l4 DOM 32 Diversi COPY by Steve George seol5 Executive Secretary V A review by Gene Hatfield 40 In the Dog House with Beagle Bros by Steve George o0 49 Keytec by Steve George cooor47 MacDOM 1 by Steven E Baker 17 MacDOM 2 by Steven E Baker 19 MacPlace mY Aer wae E a a by Dan Buchler PEA MacSIG Notes by by Tom Edwards oo 020 Magic Window amp Videx Videoterm by Dick Marchiafava 48 Mailbag by Arsen Darnay eo 30 Map of Meeting Place cosccseccccccccseeseseee lS A New ScreenWriter A review by Ken Slingsby occ cese3 News from Afar by Dan Buchler cocovvree24 Rana 8086 2 Preliminary Details by Dan Buchler eooo o 42 Talk about Support Sierra On Line by Eric Holterman 025 by Julian St Martin 45 Wizard Interface v Deteber 1984 ADVERTISERS CRSCOs aesan ana aa a aa e 44 City Desk Computer WarehousSesaoee2 Computer Buying Servicecescesscsed Computer Resources Opus ceecc l6 Dayton s Repair Servicescccccsccel3 Diskcover Softwaresccocce2seeveve00 Fresh Logic Computer Servic esoe22 Hagen Office Equipment coesescceceld House of FormSecccsccceccsvcoocce D KS TP iis b eita ve 50 6 0 Secor 6st reiwilert ele ece olelereee a LO Micro Mat Dado ieceteetere were lees oie ereceve el 4 Minitapp les Softwarecccscscceceld Personal Business Syst
74. heir own media Contact Chuck Tech Adviser hdw Roger Flint 771 2868 Thiesfeld details within this Branch Coordinators newsletter Dakota County Bob Pfaff 452 2541 Dealers Minnetonka Dick Peterson 473 5846 Mini app les does not endorse any New Hope Jere Kauffman 535 6745 specific dealers but does promote St Cloud Frank Ringsmuth 253 6032 distribution of information which St Paul Mahtomedi f Fred Woodward 426 4060 may help club members to identify E ERS PORS n aae y E Clab Gece PaE Liaison CP M _ open fae bale purchases BE ne ia Liaison Geneology Bill Decoursey 574 9062 software hardware and publications Liaison Medical Stewart Haight 644 1838 on behalt of its nenbara To provide contact with non Mini app les SIGS Newsletter Contributions Software Director s Staff gris spose ote ee a 2 E o the Newsletter Editors ard copy DOM Sales Meetings Bae es pner Pan P or m me are preferred Gene Kasper 941 5490 ue any oT orm Wi e gratetuliy DOM Sales Mail Hugh Karesinati 544 7303 peceprede o poe nue fOr BOP eran DOM Editors Producers Peter Gilles 475 3916 preceding the month in which the AE i SEE item might be included An article MAC DOM Editor Prod Steve Baker 535a1192 PALL he printen whan epace res yi in Ene opt an te the Ave itor t constitutes suitable Communication Newsletter Publication Staff material for publication Director amp NL Editor Daniel B Buchler 890 5051 Barail a MN Direct Advertietne inquiries t
75. ier to read than Soft 70 and it is true I had ordered the Videx with Soft Switch to allow the 80 column display to be switched from the keyboard and then had to install an Inverse Video chip in order to run Magic Window II I would recommend this configuration to anyone considering this 80 column board My thanks to those who helped me sort out the Inverse Video problem A short time later a problem showed up when using the word processor When I did a TAB RIGHT CONTROL S the cursor would disappear or the move to the next tab stop would be slow and jerky if repeated tabs were done A call to Magic Window II s publisher Artsci and discussion with their technical person revealed the cause of the TAB problem The Videx card uses CONTROL S as a SCROLL command Magic Window II uses it as TAB RIGHT The Videx checks the keyboard with each character entered and intercepts the CONTROL S often causing the described problem This problem is specific to the combination of Magic Window II and the Videx Videoterm There is no fix for the problem If anyone using either of these products is considering the purchase of the other they may want to consider a card other than the Videx if the other card does what they need or the purchase of a different word processor HKKKKKKAKKAKKKKKKKK KK KEKE KK KK KARR KR KEK XK KE xk TENCAL COOL TIME Fany KE XE Surge and Clock 69 95 x x KK HAYES SMARTMODEM 300 KX KK For th
76. ill be different Most thought that the effort might be greater than the re entry of data 3 If the Mouse gives up you are faced with a non accessible Mac unless you have another Apple and a Graphics Tablet Read on e The Mouse can be returned to the dealer for warranty exchange but once you are past 90 days or as one unfortunate MacSiGer found out have the problem diagnosed as abuse Apple makes no provision for repair You have to get a new Mouse 60 greenbacks or lean on someone for scavenger and repair operations 4 Steve Baker has come up with 2 MacDOMs See elsewhere in this newsletter He may even have a 3rd by the time you read this But that doesn t mean you should stop contributing We want as fourth a fifthee se a hundredth MacDOM Let s give a hand programs art stories tips any and all contributions are needed and welcome 5e The question of group buys came up to the masses Dan Buchler said that it has been left to the initiative of an individual to coordinate a purchase for the interested members Board guidelines are also in the process of change regarding vendors at the meetings Might pay to check Most supporting stores will also cooperate if you make a reasonable request 6 There continue to be MacRumors about mucho things related to the Mac Your Recordist suggests that you don t go off the deep end on some of this stuff If what you heard seems too goo
77. isting routine itself will not be listed The program prints 80 columns across 60 lines to the page If you adjust the paper properly it will leave 3 lines blank at top and bottom of each page If you don t know how to create EXEC files look on page 76 of the DOS manual Apple users or page 97 of the DOS Programmer s Manual that comes with the Apple e 45 Technical Grape les Jetober 1984 Capturing Embedded Text from a Binary File by Steve George erhaps someone else could benefit from a technique I used to capture the documentation portions of the two main programs on DOM 32 The programs are long binary files with the text embedded within There are utilities which will allow you to view consecutive memory locations but if you lack such a utility why not try this technique to get a feel for what they do The process just might be a useful learning experience We will use a program from DOM 32 called DCOPY as our example To begin boot a normal 48K DOS disk BLOAD DCOPY and then enter the Monitor with CALL 151 RETURN At the asterisk prompt enter these commands to determine where in memory the program has been stored AA60 AA61 RETURN to find the length AA60 FA 7A Apple s response AA72 A4A73 RETURN to find starting address AA72 00 08 Apple s response 7A4 08 RETURN 82 Apple s response CONTROL C RETURN to re enter Applesoft The results for DCOPY
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79. mber St Mac A deceptively skinny magazine published by Softalk It seems to go to more depth than MacWorld and really gets a lot of good information in its few 62 in August pages Trial subscription free by sending in your serial number to St Mac Circulation Box 7041 N Hollywood CA 91605 Unfortunately Softalk seems to be in financial trouble and at this time we are not sure if they will survive So don t send them any money GOTO 22 General Interest Macintosh SoftSpot A monthly magazine on disk I have never seen it It goes for 199 00 for 12 issues Might work well with the Mac don t forget the disks would be worth about 60 The magazines are not always complimentary about the new software Don Crabb did a detailed review of Omnis 2 in the September lOth edition of Infoworld In it he really lambastes the publisher of Omnis 2 who is Blythe and Organizational Software of the UK Omis 2 is a Database manager Apparently the program completely sidesteps the use of the standard Mac interface no pull down menus no cut and paste etc This as you all know is completely contradictary to what Apple has been advocating as the reason for buying a Mac a standard user interface The publisher simply brought the software over from IBM PC and other systems on which Omnis 2 runs without any regard for the interface The graphics capability has generated a new phenomenon picture arte Now there are several
80. munications Note that this is interface same as 2nd printer Clock timer Thunderclock or equivalent in SLOT 7 Mouse Apple Mouse in SLOT 7 2nd Clock SLOT 5 2nd Mouse SLOT 5 Additional disk requirements and slots were discussed above Devices not being used by MS DOS can obviously be placed in any Apple slot provided there is no conflict in what MS DOS might expect there The software for all of the above is in the Rana 8086 2 ROM Price Performance or Who needs it We think the list price will be around 1800 At a discount of 20 the selling price would be 1440 Let s compare this with some IBM PCs and compatibles also assumimg 20 discount Let us also assume we need 512k not so little these days with programs like Symphony around Rana 8086 IBM PC Base machine 1440 1600 Memory to 512k 220 1 500 2nd drive incl 300 Videx Enhancer 100 MS DOS 2 incl incl ProDOS incl 60 2 Total 1760 2460 Notes 1 Set of 9 200nanosec 64Kbit chips at 55 2 The ProDOS is for the old Apple Now before your head hits the ceiling realize something about IBM PC and compatibles You are not dealing with home computer prices If you go out and buy an IBM compatible PC you still fork out about 1600 Hardware Reviews 44 min app les ietoboer 1984 at discount prices for a 2 drive system with 128 or 256k without any options You may get some software but usually not what you want The point is the dar
81. n things arn t cheap On the other hand if you like Charlie on TV you could buy a starter system for under 1000 Disadvantages 1 You tie up your Apple 2e You use up an Apple slot 3 You must use the Apple keyboard wherein control combinations have to be substituted for IBM PC compatible function and other special purpose keys which are not contained in an Apple keyboard 4 You get no IBM PC compatible expansion slots 5 1760 is still 1760 You could also consider trading in your Apple and buying the PC or compatible with a Quadram board which allows the IBM PC to run Apple software maybe Anyway if anybody thinks they might be interested in a bulk purchase or negotiated block purchase with some dealer once the thing comes out and we have a chance to evaluate it a bit more thoroughly let me know NOW THAT YOU HAVE YOUR COMPUTER you should think of SECURITY amp FIRE ALARM DEPENDABLE ECONOMICAL GENE HATFIELD 541 1752 CESCO SECURITY SYSTEMS ELECTRONWARE 3525 HILLSBORO AVE N NEw Hope MN 55427 minl cage ga lan mean ce OT OOH 1984 Wizard Interface Graphics Print and List Routines for Wizard Interface cards by Julian St Martin any of you own the Wizard IPI printer driver card by Wesper Microsystems probably purchased with a dot matrix printer capable of printing graphics I d had one for quite a while before I tackled the job of actually printing
82. nction keys and an Alt key which can be used in combination with just about any other key Rana has done a fairly decent job of providing ways of emulating the IBM keyboard For example the commonly used Function F 1 to F1O and the Open Apple key in conjuction with numbers 1 through 0 Alt A through Alt Z is obtained with Open Apple with A through Z Of course compared to the IBM one is using min apples een GF AA 1934 an extra Finger the open and closed Apple keys quite frequently The individual user must reflect on how inconvenient that really is One other option would be to buy an add on keyboard most of which are programmable in either ROM or RAM By then of course one is paying even moree See discussion below on Price Performance I couldn t see any reason why they didn t simply require the Shift Key mod instead of the Videx Enhancer Perhaps that interferes with the Open and Close Apple membrane swiches which also plug into the game port IBM Compatibility With any 8088 8086 micro the key question is always How compatible is it with the IBM PC The usual benchmark is SubLogic s Flight Simulator and Lotus 1 2 3 We didn t have a copy of the Flight Simulator handy but we did have Lotus This particular copy had been configured for a Color display and a parallel printer It worked on an IBM or a Columbia PC Much to my surprise it booted and without a hitch We worked with it for a
83. nochrome 320 x 200 color 640 x 400 monochrome 320 x 400 monochrome 320 x 400 color Text modes 40 column monochrome or color 80 column monochrome or color Screens are stored in a dedicated 32K RAM providing 8 pages of 25 lines in text mode or 2 pages in graphics mode The back panel of the box has connectors as follows Video in from the Apple RCA jack for video out 9 pin jack for RGB DB25 for the interface cable The industry standard 9 pin connector is for attaching to an IBM compatible RGB color monitor An RCA jack provides connection to a standard Apple type composite video color or monochrome monitor As far as I could tell the system does not support the high resolution character IBM type monochrome monitor If you expect to use a monitor for text work in 80 columns an RGB monitor is strongly recommended GOTO 43 42 Rana 8086 2 Continued from page 42 The box is connected to the Apple through a cable and board which plugs into a slot in the Apples The board may be plugged into any slot but Rana seems to recommend slot 6 although their documentation gives 3 examples 2 of which put the Rana in slot 6 and the 3rd has a Rana Hard disk controller in slot 6 and the 8086 interface in slot 5 The problem we experienced might make one think differently We were curious to see if there were any drive compatibility problems particularly because of the multi function
84. o Using embedded commands one is able to automatically center headings right amp left justify etc commands are another form of embedded commands which as well as providing for the merge capability described above provide for very effective printer controls to do things such as Shadow Print Bold Print special character set selection etc For example The command sd allows one to predefine the printer control code for SHADOW printing on It works like this gt esd 27 87 associates the ASCII code sequence 27 followed by 87 Esc W with the Shadow printing embedded code sd Example coding is for the Comrex CRII printer Similarly one pre defines the necessary printer code for SHADOW printing off Then to print a word in SHADOW as in the above line one types in Then to print a word in sdSHADOW so A special code is used for underlining Thus underline which is a word with the special underline code produces underline While each program author has his her own way of using these controls once you settle on a set of commands which you use frequently it does not take long to do them naturally GOTO 41 2 ema a SS TT I ESTEE SE PEALE DET IEEE IEE ITEC LT SOTTO CBI OLE DELETE Software Reviews 40 O les Executive Secretary Concluded from page 40 An interesting Merge capability has been incorporated into this program If you have a
85. o our Assistant NL Editor Jo Hornung 922 7665 Carane ar kere Boruc manors Contributing Editors green Darnay 233 0392 Minneapolis MN 55408 612 822 8528 Composition Layout Joan Kistner E Mail Source BBR490 Advertising Eric Holterman 822 8528 CompuServe 71445 400 Mailing Coordinator Hugh Kurtzman Circulation this issue 2200 O les etober 1984 VOLUME VII No 10 OCTOBER 1984 CALENDAR CALENDAR CALENDAR WHICH WHEN WHERE WHAT St Paul Branch Tue Oct 2 Mahtomedi Fire House Note 3 7pm 10pm Hallam amp Stillwater Pascal amp Apple Wed Oct 3 Minnesota Federal Pascal amp Apple Special Note 1 7 30pm 9th Ave S Hopkins Interest Group Meeting Dakota County Branch Tue Oct 9 St John Neumann Church Note 7 7pm 10pm 4030 Pilot Knob Rd Eagan St Cloud Branch Thur Oct 11 Waite Park City Hall Note 15 7 30pm 5th Ave amp 3rd St N Genealogy Club Sun Oct 14 Minnesota Historical Note 11 2 00pm Socfety Library St Paul MN REGULAR WEDNESDAY Edina Community Center Word Processing Night MINIT APP LES October 17th 5701 Normandale Panel will compare various WPs Note 5 Prgm 7 30pm 7 blocks S of 50th St Bring your questions Map inside S1Gs 8 30pmt Education SIG Wed Oct 17 After Regular Mtg Demo of Microzine Note 12 Business SIG Wed Oct 17 After Regular Mtg Inter comp data transfer Note 10 Investment SIG Thur Oct 18 Henn Cty Lib at Southdale Demo VALUE SCREEN amp STOCK PAK II Note 4 7 9 30pm 7001 York A
86. onverted some of my THE Spreadsheet V1 0 Zoo files to V2 0 converted them to ProDOS and was able to load them into AppleWorks I did find the conversion had changed some variable column widths to a global value but when I readjusted the column widths with AppleWorks I found all my data and headings were still intact Loading my largest Zoo Table took only 26 34 seconds compared to almost 33 minutes with VisiCalc and THE Spreadsheet V2 0 The actual time to load the data was 14 67 seconds 11 67 seconds were used to load the Spreadsheet program into RAM from the Program disk Appleworks loads the data first and then the program the reverse of the procedure used by other spreadsheets Label and number entry is very similar to VisiCalc Any letter is automatically a label A number or mathematical operator or is automatically a value To enter a number as a heading e g a year the quote must be used to indicate it is a label Entries are confirmed by the Return key or any of the four arrow keys AppleWorks has text streaming If a label is too long to fit in one cell it is automatically extended into adjacent non numeric minl app las i etober GNA non protected 1984 cells This was one of the out standing features of THE Spreadsheet V1 0 the only other spreadsheet I ve seen with it is Lotus 1 2 3 e Following is a comparison of functions in AppleWorks and a few other spreadsheet
87. osh with 512K 3195 Now Both of the above include MacWrite and MacPaint Upgrade 128K to 256K 995 Oct Includes MacDraw amp MacProject If you went out and bought the memory chips only right now it might cost you more than 9 the 995 Apple had been promising for some time that they would not penalize anyone pricewise for buying a 128K Mac and the upgrading it to 512K However the 300 price cut in the 128K version implies a 300 penalty at list prices To sweeten the pot Apple are offering a bonus to persons buying the upgrade who bought their skinny Mac when the list was 2495 The bonus is a free copy of MacProject amd MacDrawe To obtain the bonus you have to send in your original system disk Apple then returns the bonus software plus a new system disk Talking about discounts within 48 hours of the product announcement the Fat Mac was reported to have been discounted to 2600 at one dealer somewhere in the USA not the Twin Cities If you work for a Fortune 2000 company which happens to be a National account of Apple you may be eligible to buy Apple products through an employee purchase plan This is a new idea from Apple To keep the local dealers happy Apple pays the dealer a certain sum for each product sold to support the product In effect you buy the product from Apple under the National account agreement naming the dealer who will support you The dealer has to have been selected by Ap
88. ost is 175 at the gate 125 in advance Write Office of Continuing Education and Summer Session University of Wisconsin Stout Menomonie WI 54751 Telephone 800 45 STOUT Talk about Support Concluded from page 25 There are many things to look at in choosing a software package Be careful not to miss the publisher s support policies and reputation These may be more important than many of the items on the important features list that creative copy writers come up with They may also be hard to learn about Often the support policy is unwritten or umnadvertised even though it is well established and run Other times it may be unwritten and non existent The cost of a phone call to the customer support department before you buy may be an excellent investment in getting a feel for what to expect I have tried this a few times and as a result have not purchased software that otherwise looked attractive The bottom line on Sierra On Line is that I like the programs I have bought and their ongoing product support General Interest 30 min apples cteber 1984 AppleWorks A review by John L Hansen What it is What you get Booting and Menus AppleWorks is an integrated spread sheet word processor and data base package for the Apple e and c The title page says By Rupert Lissner and Appl
89. pecial Edition hat s special You may well ask You may have noticed that last month s edition was rather skinny The reason was simply that we wanted to make this the October edition a Ittle bigger and a little better than usual so that we could have a newsletter at the Computer Show worthy of our club It s a sales ploy and I ll be the first to admit it But we hope you like it anyway Newsletter contributions have been down this summer I m not sure why There are some regular contributors for whom we are always grateful But we also need fresh stuff beginner s articles by beginners You new members are the most perceptive as to problems with the hardware and software as it affects the novice Let us have some input October Regular Meeting The next regular meeting of Mini app les will be held on Wednesday October 17 at the Edina Community Center That s where we met in August and we had all sorts of complaints about finding it It was also real hot and the place doesn t have air conditioning a common problem with Minnesota schools Look at the map near the back cover of this newsletter Find Hiway 100 and exit at Vernon which is also the 50th street exit for Edina Immediately to the East of Hiway 100 on 50th Street there is a traffic light and a police station Proceed south on that street that goes by the police station and follow it the frontage road until you come to a brick
90. ple as being eligible to provide this type of support If you need in warranty repairs or have questions you call the dealer As reported in the September llth Wall Street journal a Future Computing survey predicts Mac sales at 252 000 in 1984 compared to 601 000 IBM PCs That s not bade I have heard other predictions that put Mac sales much higher than the above We shall have to see Some analysts blame lack of software on lower than fantastic sales for the Mace But did you see the latest software hardware list for the Mac from Apple There were nearly 500 items in the August lst edition From my prospective the software is really coming forth for Mac Anyway Apple are planning to double their current 40 000 unit production capability to an 80 000 unit per month capability in 1985 21 I see there is a DBMaster for the Mac and it is already released The various magazines on Mac are doing a pretty good job of covering the stuff those who really are interested read those magazines By the way there are 3 such publications right now But that number could go down before it goes up Read on MacWorld Published by PCWorld Communications that s the same company that publishes the very glossy PC World MacWorld is similar It goes for reviews and how to use new programs Pretty good for beginners 24 subscription of 12 issues that s a 20 discount rate Will publish monthly starting in Nove
91. ported such as shift and shift lock and 80 colum display with the 80 column board Seventy column display and the shift key mod are still supported for the II Unfortunately 80 column boards for the II such as the Videx are not supported by this package ScreenWriter determines the machine it is being used in each time the program is booted The most obvious feature is the manual It is almost half again as thick as the old There are more examples Much of the text is expanded from the old manual The tutorial in the first chapter must have been written by a panel of human factors experts as it employs much of the new thinking on manuals including icons shading and a limited use of color The shading continues throughout the manual but the icons and color do not The remainder of the manual has been enlarged and now includes index tabs for each chapter Several sections that were in the appendix or missing in the old manual are now in the chapters where thay belonged I thought the old version had a good manual but the new is much better The incremental printing using the Epson with Graftrax and the infamous APL card also the Grappler or Apple Parallel cards was the new feature that I had to try first The printhead motion reminds me of the old Maytag as it goes along It prints a few characters backspaces moves forward backspaces and prints a few more This cuts down the speed by at least half I do not recommend u
92. program is copy protected but a copy procedure is supplied THE FILER is also from Central Point and appears to include some of the features of COPY without the nibble copier It allows you to copy individual files DOS or entire disks The target disk must be formatted The Fast Copy Program does full read and write error checking and will support Micro Sci A2 A40 and A70 drives as well as the Apple Disk A write read test bad sector scan and disk speed test are also included Price is 19 95 ULTRA FAST COPY is a product of Computer Advances Ideas Ince of Berkeley California It will copy and verify DOS SOS C PM and Pascal disks Each track is read written and verified total of 3 rotations they say The program also includes a technique to create a custom copy program that will copy protect your disks Last price I have seen was 30 00 LOCKSMITH 5 0 until recently was a product of Omega Microware Ince of Chicago According to Hardcore COMPUTERIST issue No 10 Omega has filed for bankruptcy and LOCKSMITH 5 0 marketing rights have been acquired by Alpha Logic Business Systems of Woodstock Illinois see November issue of Mini app les for additional information As noted in my review of this program in the March issue of Mini app les the program has many features but one of the most spectacular is the FAST DISK BACKUP program The copy is obviously much faster than any of the programs listed above and
93. r from text ASCII files including Apple Writer and the Pascal Editor However DOS files must be converted to ProDOS before AppleWorks can use them The Word Processor uses word wraparound the Return key is used only to start a new line OA Z lets you zoom in to see where existing carriage returns are located The blinking bar and blinking rectangle cursors function as described above Material can be deleted using the Delete key or the OA D command With the latter you use the cursor movement keys to highlight material to be deleted Two types of text can be found or replaced If Text is specified an attempt to find the will also find The and THE if present If Case sensitive text is specified a search for The will find it but not the and THE Text can be moved in a document using OA M and copied using OA C Markers can be set to permit you to move rapidly to specific locations Using OA T tabs can be quickly set or cleared I your printer can handle them printer options available include controlling horizontal spacing control print density controlling vertical spacing controlling layout hanging paragraphs headers footers special printing techniques boldface underlining superscripts subscripts and page control Proportional printing justification centering spacing page numbering can all be used Sticky spaces can be used to avoid splitting a name The printer can be instructed to stop prin
94. rmatted hardcopy can load it into your word processor for manipulation prior to printing Permission was also obtained though Bill Basham said it wasn t necessary to put our Mini app les greeting prior to hts programs Better safe than sorry A bonus though a good program in its own right is included Dogfight II It is found and run from within the Diversi COPY main menue This is an arcade style shoot em up where you battle for control of the skies Use keyboard paddles joystick or Joyport adapted Atari controllers Play options include easy hard one two multi player team play etc Full instructions are available on screen from the program or you can use those in the textfile DOGFIGHT TEXT they re the same All this for a 5 outlay and 30 more if you continue to use either Diversi COPY or Dogfight Amazing s Software Disks MSDs Minttapp le 3 Great Disks Mini Scerip Checkbook Financial System MSD 1 A home and small business checking and accounting package by Leighton G Siegel e Micro maiter MSD 2 Mail list program by Juris and Paula Ozols of Prairle Microsystems Inc Magic Window though not required works well in conjunction with Micro mailer e Higher Text Extensions MSD 3 Contains Higher Print by Dan Buchler Message Maker by Charles C Boody and Higher Word processor by Don Hagberg Higher Print provides a high denstty print capability wi
95. rth l 119 95 MAN residents add sales tox include 3 per order for Aaa 99 95 75 00 20 00 Show Special ClickArt 34 95 49 95 Murder by Dozen 28 95 mini app les oe CT OD OP 1984 Talk About Support Sierra On Line Inc by Eric Holterman ser support is part of what I buy in a software package From my point of view when I shell out as much as 100 200 or more for a program disk and manual I expect more than the program and physical contents of the box I want to know that if I need help in the operation of the program after having read the manual I can get it This can mean the difference between the satisfactory implementation of the program which meets my needs or frustration in not being able to properly use all those features that looked so nice in the ads or store The need for that extra help at least in my case has been met by Sierra On Line I am probably like many other personal computer users in that my three workhorse programs are a spreadsheet word processor and data base management program Two of the three are from Sierra On Line ScreenWriter for word processing and The General Manager for data base management I use them both extensively and often together For example I handle all the records correspondence and billing for Mini app les advertising with these two programs I require that they work closely together and use virtu
96. rtupScreene It s by Bill Atkinson of MacPaint fame There are a couple MacPaint documents in the same folder as Screen Maker which show you the portion of the page Screen Maker displays and can aid you in centering your screen ROLADEX development Bill Atkinson s Version 0 01 MacDex under HEXDUMP Program allows you to enter the page of memory you wish to dump in hex 0 FFF Also by Bill Atkinson WINDOWS The program is a Mac Desktop Demo by Andy Hertzfeld Contains the Pepsi Caps demo that may have been the force persuading John Sculley to leave Pepsi and become APPIE s president Try it you ll like it DALEKS A game inspired by the British Dre WO television sertes CALENDAR A new Desk Accessory that allows you to add a calendar to your Apple Menu Can only be used at the Desktop level because of memory requirements 19 QUESTIONS Get the answers from the experts on MP FOLDER Multiplan template for amortizing principal and interest payments on an installment type loan over a 60 month period Can be modified to other periods easily MacSOUND FOLDER Several MS BASIC programs by Dennis Brothers showing off the sound capabilities of the Mac And a few other goodies I find room for The MacDOM endeavor seems to be taking off in the right direction We have several good programs available for future months But this does not mean we stopped looking for programs create
97. s AppleWorks SS V1 0 SS V2 0 VisiCalc GABS GAND AVERAGE CHOOSE COL COUNT ERROR EXP FALSE GIF INT ISERROR ISNA LN LOG10 LOOKUP MAX MIN i i i NOT NPV QOR QPI ROUND GROW SQRT SUM TRUE Pp itttesti PHP et teeeeeete ro i t t iil l ee NE ES AO SE ae ae Ub E a E E tFHtttetttgtgtegetgggeet etereee i available not available available in a roundabout way THE Spreadsheet V2 0 obviously has many more functions usable than the others AppleWorks has all the functions that I have ever needed and a few more For other users this may not be true AppleWorks defaults to standard or global display values for value formats label formats column widths protection and recalculation OA V allows you to redefine the standard values at any time Values can be displayed as fixed dollars commas percent and appropriate default Up to 7 decimal places can be displayed except for the latter Fixed dollars and commas allow you to display trailing zeroes Dollars will display a and commas Commas eliminates the dollar sign Label formats can be left and right justified and centered Columns widths default to 9 but can be set from 1 to 75 Cells can be protected so that entries cannot be changed inadvertently Recalculation can be done by rows columns automatically or manually GOTO 36 35 Software Reviews AppleWorks Continu
98. s with cash discount MasterCard and Visa add 5 Coupon must be presented at time of purchase to obtain coupon prices See other side for restrictions Purchase orders cannot be accepted with sale pricing One coupon per customer One coupon per address Limitations and restrictions apply Quantities are limited to stock on hand Not valid with other discounts Valid only at 164 North Blake Road location Valid only with address label and postmark with P B Meter 1586293 Expires 30 days after P B Postmark In no case is this coupon valid after 11 30 84 Prices subject to change without notice DOES TRYING TO FIND THE BEST PRICES ON COMPUTER PRODUCTS SEEM LIKE TRYING TO NAIL JELLO TO A TREE 103 SmartCat 300Bd Smart 159 103 212 Smart 300 1200 Bd 379 ea li 300 baud for APPIE iiss ot cet eee Sa tee S 225 212 Appiecat 300 1200Bd for Apple 390 ZOOM Networker modem 109 Networker Netmaster combo 135 po re e y MODEMS HAYES Smartmodem 300 209 Smartmodem 1200 489 Smartmodem 1200Bd 425 MicromodemllE 240 Smartcom II Software for IBM PC 00 90 NOVATION J Cat 300Bd direct 99 MONITORS AMDEK 300 12 green 135 300A 12 amber 145 V310A 12 amber for IBM 160 Color I 13 composite 299 Color 113 RGB 425 ZENITH ZVM 122 12 am
99. secutive memory locations to print up the left side of the screen and the contents of each location to print up the middle When the text appears RESET to stop execution so you can write down the exact beginning address it was 8261 Change the values in lines 20 amp 30 to 8261 amp 33529 respectively to cover the maximum possible range of the instructions Also alter lines 40 50 amp 90 40 FINISH LOW 50 PRINT CHRS PEEK FINISH oY 90 FINISH FINISH 1 POKE 216 0 Then RUN again so that you can see the entire message CONTROL S will pause the scrolling so you can read it as you go if you d like When its obvious that the text portion has stopped and weird characters commence jumping and beeping on screen RESET again to stop the programe When I printed the value of FINISH in immediate mode FINISH Apple said 17695 Because FINISH keeps incrementing after the useful text disappears and the jibberish starts again its value will be a little higher than the end of useful text So I arbitrarily selected two numbers for the LOW and HIGH values which might include the end of text 20 LOW 16800 30 HIGH 17500 and changed 60 to 60 PRINT FINISH CHRS PEEK FINISH Run this composite program one last time and when the end of text is in sight stop execution and write down the value of FINISH 16909 The following one liner will save the instructions to a textfile named INSTRUCTIONS TEXT 10 ST
100. several SpreadSheet programs His presentation will cover The Spreadsheet Version 1 and 2 VisiCalc Multiplan and AppleWorks That should be a large enough program selection to fill most people s needs _ bringing all eteber 1984 During our November 28th meeting we are planning on having a demonstration of a new release of a locally written word processing program the Executive Secretary Version V Gene Hatfield is currently working with the program and has offered to present the program to the Minnetonka Branch The program is reviewed by Gene elsewhere in this newsletter Those attending our July meeting were presented with an excellent discussion and review of AppleWorks by Jim Reitz of Southdale Digital Den Jim was able to answer several questions from the floor and gave us a good overview of the powers and capabilities of AppleWorks Thank you Jim for your fine presentation Our August meeting was attended by more than 30 individuals to hear Jim Hanson s presentation on the ASCII Express the Professional communication program Jim s in depth working knowledge of ASCII Express was clearly shown during the program We want to thank Jim for the excellent program and for of his equipment for the evening GOTO 10 Gelesof t Gifarketing Specializing in quality APPLE amp IBM software amp hardware Free metro area delivery 24 Hour Support A Division of Arts amp Farces Video Stillwater Minn
101. show prices SEE IT ALL The Show s more than one hundred displays feature all of the hardware and software made for every major computer for business industry the professions government education home and personal use The Show also features the latest equipment for the modern electronic office typewriters telecommunications business machines furniture and much more IF YOU ALREADY OWN A COMPUTER The Show features thousands of software hardware peripherals accessories for every conceivable application ADULTS 6 CHILDREN 6 12 3 ala TWIN CITIES oian SUNDA COMPUTER SHOW 10 30 A M 6 P M MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION s AND ode SOFTWARE Minneapolis MN EXPOSITION FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EXHIBITING OR ATTENDING CALL OR WRITE COMPUSHOWS Inc P O BOX 3315 ANNAPOLIS MD 21403 TELEPHONE 1 800 368 2066 SHOW UP FOR THE SHOW minl apples eteber 1984 Mail Bag by Arsen Darnay his month I will give you a brief profile of the kind of mail we get before I report on the few items that I found interesting Here is what came in since I compressed the last pile of junk mail into a page or so Discount house mailings 7 Publishers magazine promotions 5 Accessory
102. sing this feature except on rare occasions as I m sure the printer will not stand for a lot of this apparent abuse It is my guess that the program puts out a few graphics characters to get as little as 1 120 inch spacing whenever required This may happen both between letters and words Incremental justification is supported for Qume Diablo and Spinwriters as well Editor s note the latter 3 printers are of the daisywheel variety and as such will handle the incremental spacing without backing up the print head The new disk has a tougher protection scheme than before The older version allowed one to boot a fast DOS such as Diversi then run the Editor to speed up program and text loading The new version does not allow this but does have a fast DOS almost as fast as Diversi A backup disk is included I have not found any features missing from the old version so if you need compatibility with all Apple IIs and want a faster loading program as well the new ScreenWriter has some advantages AppleWorks Concluded from page 36 be very adequate for a telephone list I plan to make at work If you can accept the limitation of file size it is very flexible Setting up files and entering data is very easy Moving data around in the data base can be readily accomplished and the sorting and selection features are versatile This is a well designed package If you are a new computer owner and have not yet selected sep
103. some graphics with it on a C Itoh Prowriter I found the chore of feeding the card its various instructions tedious enough so that I wrote a brief program in BASIC that will 1 load a picture 2 print the picture and 3 return control to the primary Apple screen Thought that some of you would find it useful so here is the program 1000 REM 1002 REM 1004 REM GRAPH PRINTER ON THE 1006 REM WIZARD IPI CARD 1008 REM 1010 REM 1012 REM 1100 HOME 1110 PRINT PRINT GRAPH PRINTER PRINT PRINT 1120 INPUT FILE NAME 3 FS 1130 INPUT DRIVE SDR 1132 REM 1140 HOME 1150 VTAB 3 PRINT TURN ON PRINTER AND PRESS ANY KEY 1160 GET ZS PRINT 1180 REM 1200 HGR2 1210 PRINT CHR 4 BLOAD FS D sDR 1220 PRINT CHRS 4 PR L 1230 PRINT CHRS 9 G 2 1240 PRINT CHRS 4 PR O 1250 TEXT HOME Line 1120 obtains from the user the name of a file containing a picture line 1130 asks for a drive A wrong file name or a wrong drive like Drive 3 will abort the program with a SYNTAX ERROR In line 1210 the picture is loaded and appears on the Apple s screen Then the printer is turned on line 1220 it is assumed to be in Slot l Line 1230 sends a CTRL I to the printer followed by the letter G to indicate Graphics mode The numeral 2 indicates that the image from High Resolution Screen 2 HGR2 should be sent to the printer
104. son 11 Bil DeCoursey 14 Steve George 2 Dave Laden 6 Dan Buchler 9 Mike Car ison 12 Jane Chatter jee 15 Frank Ma Ringsmuth 3 Fred Woodward 7 Bob Pfaff 10 Dick Marchlafava 13 Stewart Haight 16 Jere Kauffman 4 Eric Holterman in City Computer Show SPECIALS 50 OFF SELECTED SOFTWARE LOWEST PRICES ON Mail Labels e Flip amp Files Nashua e Joysticks e Flip Paks Printer Paper e Paddles e Library Boxes Printer Ribbons AND MUCH MORE Come check us out at booth 111 Show specials available at the store during the show DISKCOVER SOFTWARE INC 3619 DOR a Street Edina Minnesota 55410 locks East of 50th and France 612 929 0551 a les IN THIS ISSUE Announcements EELER EES E EERE EA Ee AppleWorks A review by John L Hansen 31 Binary Capture by Steve George o2 46 Classified E EE E A AT ERE a T eee DU Copy Programs Compared by John L Hansen 4038 Daisy W
105. t came was in good condition though half the parts were missing A quick trip to the hardware store and a perusal of my computer junk box for some ribbon cable got the unit up and running And it works like a charm But then what s not to work This has fewer moving parts than I like it because 1 it gives more desk top space to clutter up 2 it gives more freedom in how and where the system is setup and 3 it s a familiar keyboard because it s the same one you ve used all along This last fact may be considered a negative by some but I ve grown accustomed to its feel and I like it Two versions are available so be sure to specify which you d like if you order one 1 for the J and 2 for the e To use it you won t have to do any cutting or defacing of your Apple The J version supports the shiftkey mod All of which leads me to conclude that it is definitely worth the 60 price It really is a joy to be sitting in a swivel rocker with the keyboard comfortably resting on your lap leisurely typing away Although it doesn t seem to affect the number of typos Tell our Advertisers you saw it here 47 Technical imilnl capp les t ct ober 1984 Magic Window II amp Videx Videoterm CONTROL S TAB RIGHT PROBLEM by Dick Marchiafava ote The problems described here do not apply to MAGIC WINDOW IIe Magic Window II is a versatile word pro cessing program that is easy
106. t is correct The table below lists the times needed to copy a disk Times are given in minutes and seconds e g 1 25 34 1 minute and 25 34 seconds Note that if you run a similar experiment your times might differ from mine because of differences in drive speed and perhaps what we select as the start and end of a copy However the relative order should be similar Time Total Program to Format Time COPYA 38 29 1 28 45 Copy COPY 43 76 The Filer Filer Copy 31 16 1 24 58 Fast Copy Verified 45 14 Ultra Fast Copy Verified 1 05 34 Locksmith 5 0 Fast Copy Unverified 20 33 Verified 27 21 Disk Muncher 1 1 Unverified 26 73 Verified 34 08 Disk Muncher 1 0 25 73 Dan Patcher 1 0 25 73 Fast Copy 48 30 2 xe cst Ee 2 EE EEE E ESS oC SE OE ATED ICED DEEL DET LEED ELIOT EEEE TOLLED Software Reviews COPYA is a program supplied by Apple Computer Ince on the DOS 3 3 Master Disk COPY j is a product of Central Point Software Inc Portland Oregon In addition to the Disk Copy program it will also copy individual files or DOS To make it even more useful it also has utilities to catalog delete lock unlock rename files format a disk verify verify identical files verify drive speed display a _ track sector map showing where each program is located on a disk view files fix file sizes undelete files edit sectors and finally it also includes a nibble copier and a good manual Price is 39 95 The
107. t won t be in a price bracket for the home purchaser but should be considered a must for any business that has more than one Mace Expect to see it around the beginning of the new yeare I wonder what Apple will do for an encore to its last two years of Annual stockholders meeting in January 1983 Apple e 1984 Macintosh 1985 Color Mac AppleBus Laser Printer I have a business interest in the art of integrated graphics and text and the idea of moving graphics between otherwise incompatible systems Look for some fantastic happenings with the Mac that will let it interface with other systems Mesa Graphics who developed a Tektronix emulator for the called Tek a like has released a Tektronitc 4014 emulator for the Mace It allows one to do things like send Mac graphics to ISSCO mainframe graphics Tel E Graf and Displa fr FRESH LOGIC maintains major brands of personal computers for home and business FRESH LOGIC stocks a complete line of personal computer supplies and accessories selected to keep your computer running better and longer 612 544 0022 Minnetonka ESH SERVICE CENTER General Interest Macintosh 29 rarr les eteber 19384 D A M DESK ACCESSORY MOVER A Review by Steven Ee Baker ESK ACCESSORY MOVER D A M for the Macintosh allows you to add delete and rename desk
108. th a selection of fonts and more if you own Higher Text from A PoPol E The newsletter headers and logo are printed with Higher Text Message Maker requires that you own HIGHER TEXT It serves as a tool to create and display on your screen messages which scroll up and down left and right and d other useful things Higher Word Processor is a easy to use line oriented text editor suited to letter writing and everyday home use It integrates with Higher Print All MSDs are available at meetings to members only for 15 or by mail from Terry Schoeppner for 17 50 See classified ads 15 DOMs BAD MEMORIES One of the worst memories you ll ever have is when the memory media you re using fails Because that failure almost always means a loss in man hours payroll productivity and critical data That s why Opus is out to make a name for itself in memory reliability We figure if we make the best most reliable magnetic media on the market today you re bound to start remembering our name We build unheard of reliability into all the memory products we make flexible diskettes single disk cartridges multi level disk packs and magnetic tape So if bad memories haunt you keep our name in mind Because Opie could be the best memory you ll ever have SEE US AT BOOTH 128 E NO BAD MEMORIES
109. the flag pole Centrally located on Highway 100 between Highway 62 and 50th Street in Edina MN Vernon Ave or So View Lane Hwy 100 58th Benton Concord Ave Announcements 50 eteber rappin ATTEN TOI g mini app les WE HAVE YOUR PRINTER PAPER IN STOCK 11 X 9 15 or 207 Paper SMALL QUANTITIES TOO 250 500 or 2000 per carton Also MANY OTHER SIZES AND TYPES OF PRINTER PAPER Stop in and see our selection DATA PROCESSING AND OFFICE SUPPLIES SNAP A PART FORMS AND WEDDING INVITATIONS moe OPEN MONDAY thru FRIDAY 8 30 5 00 NEN dw Sposa NOTE New Hours A nd Cel For more information call 612 332 4866 M SAVE THIS COUPON ouse THIS COUPON ENTITLES MINI APP LES MEMBERS TO A 10 DISCOUNT of O r m S This Discount Wilt Not Apply of orms On Sale Merchandise Or With Other Discounts 20 NO 1ST STREET e MINNEAPOLIS MN 55401 20 North First Street l l 1 l f l l I i i i ON ANY PURCHASE AT ouse i gt 1 1 1 l Expires December 31 1984 minneapolis MN 55401 eae Visa and MasterCard eo a Accepted PRICE PRICE PRICE SIZE SIDES DENSITY ig dibs I ELEPHANT 1 1 4 95 5D s 19 69 165 ELEPHANT 2 5 1 4 55 DD s 22 79 16 ELEPHANT 5 5 1 4 08 DD 27
110. ting to GOTO 35 34 Re a EELT R eer a ETRE LT gE T O IA Rea EEA Se Rr eee AppleWorks Continued from page 34 allow you to type information into the document directly from the keyboard This would be a very slow substitute for a mail merge feature but would not bother me because I never do mail merges at least not yet Spreadsheet AppleWork s spreadsheet has 127 columns and 999 rows VisiCalc has 63 columns and 254 rows Lotus 1 2 3 has 254 columns and 2048 rows With a 128K Apple using 9 character cells each containing 11111111 I was able to fill 4454 cells 100 rows from A to AR plus 54 cells in column AS of the 126 873 available About 11 000 can be filled on a 256K Apple About 16 400 cells can be filled in the same manner on an 320K IBM PC with Lotus 1 2 3 This is not a very good technique of determining usable spreadsheet size however My largest Zoo Table which requires 34 35K with VisiCalc and THE Spreadsheet V2 0 and is too large for THE Spreadsheet V1 0 requires only 25K with Appleworks leaving 30K of usable space Obviously I plan to investigate this further Files can be created from scratch or VisiCalc and DIF files can be usede DIF files must have been created with the C or column option to load correctly VisiCalc files can be used directly However both must be converted from DOS to ProDOS to use with AppleWorks Using the A P P LeE Spreadsheet Converter I c
111. tion 17835 Skypark Circle Suite C Irvine CA 92714 Telephone 714 261 2366 I know nothing about voice synthesizers speech recognition and so on but this one intrigues me The claim is that you can put 80 words into the system When it hears one of these words the package will transmit a series of keystrokes to the computer You enter the keystrokes at the same time when you speak the words Thus it should be possible to say Print out loud while running Visicalc and the system will automatically send a slash P to the software This board combined with one that speaks to you see the following paragraph hints at the kinds of capabilities that will soon be available for the blind The cost is still high 1000 range Have Your Apple Speak To You by buying Voice Box III from The Alien Group 27 W 23rd Ste New York NY 10010 212 741 1770 The maker claims that the system can take any kind of text file in English and produce its equivalent in sound i e will read aloud a speech command instruction that you have inserted in the form of letters of the alphabet The package comes with a plug in board and software on disk for 129 Quality is said to be truly excellent This intrigues me even more than talking to the machine and the price here is reasonable Another Conference dealing with technology for disabled persons will be held under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin in Chicago on October 1 3 1984 C
112. tions on the floor and financial requirements for floor trading Incidentally the exchange is encouraging qualified people to try floor trading The rest of the meeting will also be on commodities but the adgenda is still open December s focus will be on technical analysis Specific programs or areas to be covered are not yet selected If you have a program you would like to demonstrate give me a call GOTO 13 Announcements Concluded from page 12 We have some public domain software and demo disks available Bring a disk or two with you to a meeting and pick up a copy of what you wante This is subject to time and computer availability In mid October a few of us will meet to look at SIG activities in 1985 If you are willing to be a bit more involved in the operation of the Investment SIG give me a call and include yourself in Our meetings are on the third Thursday of the month at the at the Hennepin County Library at Southdale We will be in the Helen Young Roome Doors open at 7 PM and the meeting starts at 7 15 PM adjourning by 9 15 PM The library is located at 7001 York Avenue South It is on the east side of the street across from Target Plenty of free parking New Hope Branch News by Jere Kauffman By the time you read this the September meeting will have come and gone We had planned to look at Utilities that night We will return to the Rockford Road Library for the October 23rd meeting when we hav
113. to use and is reasonably priced for its capabilities One of the reasons that I upgraded to this word processor was the ability to generate and display lower case characters that are software generated Soft 70 without the need for an 80 column board However it does require a 16K RAM card in order to use the Soft 70 portion of the program The program is large and the Soft 70 uses some memory space The RAM card provides additional memory to increase the space available for a document Even with the 16K RAM card the length of a given document is limited to 50 sectors of disk spacee Since I already owned a 16K RAM card there was no further expenditure needed I have used Magic Window II for many months and it was everthing that I needed Now the nature of my writing has changed and I found myself chafing under the limitations of the document length of 5 pages 50 sectors If I went to 80 column hardware I could double the length of a given document Well I found that I was going to upgrade my accounting program and would require an 80 column board to run the new package This package needed a Videx Videoterm At least it needed the Videx to insure that the package would run properly Since accounting is the single most important task for which I use my computer I chose to use the Videx and not chance software hardware incompatiblilty in this area Several persons told me that I would find the hardware 80 column display eas
114. ts Appleworks a training disk that guides you through the program Third disk contains AppleWorks Sample Files for use with Apple Presents AppleWorks and the tutorial The training disk is used first followed by the tutorial Both are well done The screen prompting of the program makes it very easy to use In my experiments with it my occasional problems occurred because I did not follow the instructions on the screen Holding down the Open Apple key and simultaneously provides a complete list of commands for the portion of the programs that you are using AppleWorks functions at two levels of activity At the top level it contains information about file storage locations and printer information It also moves files to the Desktop RAM and saves them for you when A 31 you re done working with them The bottom level involves actual use of the Word Processor Spreadsheet and Data Base creating reviewing changing and printing files To run the program the disk called Startup is booted After a brief run you are requested to insert the Program disk The current date is requested a e with ProDOS and the proper clock card automatically takes care of the date and time on a c you must enter a date Pressing Return brings up the Main Menu Your computer s RAM is called the Desktop Each use you make of AppleWorks requires that you make a file This file has a name in ProDOS format and can
115. ve S Macintosh SIG Mon Oct 22 Edina Community Library Note different location Note 9 Gab 6 30 Mtg 7 00 50th amp Hwy 100 New Hope Branch Tue Oct 23 Rockford Rd Library Mocking board Demo Note 16 7 00pm County Rd 9 New Hope by Dick Peterson Minnetonka Branch Wed Oct 24 Glen Lake Community Ctr Spreadsheets Note 8 7 30pm 14300 Excelsior Blvd room E by John Hansen Twin City Comp Show Oct 25 28 Minneapolis Auditorium See ad and announcements Note 14 St Paul Branch Tue Nov 6 Mahtomed Fire House Note 3 Pascal amp Apple Wed Nov 7 Minnesota Federal Note 1 St Cloud Branch Thur Nov 8 Watte Park City Hall Note 15 Dakota County Tue Nov 13 St John Neumann Church Note 7 Board Meeting Wed Nov 14 Call Dave Laden General club business Investment SIG Thur Nov 15 Henn Cty Lib at Southdale Seng on Grain Exch amp Commodities REGULAR WEDNESDAY UNIVERSITY MINNESOTA To be announced MINI APP LES November 21st ST PAUL Note 5 Prgm 7 30pm Room B45 Bldg 412 Map next month 1GS 8 30 pm Near State Fair Ground Education SIG Wed Nov 21 After Regular Mtg Note 12 Business SIG Wed Nov 21 After Regular Mtg Note 10 Macintosh SIG Mon Nov 26 Henn Cty Lib at Southdale Note 9 Return to reg mtg place New Hope Branch Tue Nov 27 Rockford Rd Library Favor Ite Game Night Minnetonka Branch Wed Nov 28 Glen Lake Community Ctr Hatfield on Exec Sec V Note 8 Notes See page 4 for telephone numbers 1 John Schoeppner 5 Mark Abbott 8 Dick Peter
116. w Single record layouts are used for data entry Multiple record layouts containing up to 15 records can be displayed OA Z permits you to toggle between the two OA 1 through OA 9 let you browze through the records in multiple record display New entries can be made from either the single record or multiple record display the latter takes you to single record display for record entry Standard values can be created For example if 75 of those on a mailing list live in Minneapolis Minneapolis can be assigned as the standard city value only the entries for the other cities would have to be changed If a category contains the word date or time AppleWorks will enter the date or the time in a standard format Records can be deleted copied one or more times moved using the Clipboard and displayed using selection rules the selection rules include equals greater than less than does not equal is blank is not blank begins with ends with does not contain does not begin with and does not end with These can also be combined using one or two connectors and or through Records can also be found using OA F A request to find all records containing ace would display any containing Horace or Place Records can be sorted on a category from A to Z Z to A 0 to 9 or 9 to 0 and records with standard dates or times can be arranged in chronological or reversed chronological order A file s layout and structure can
117. we VARPTR STRINGS This program discusses the storage of strings in MS BASIC and demonstrates access to a string via PEEKS Contributed by Paul Howe GOTO 18 PERSONAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS SELLS APPLE IIE amp APPLE IIC SOFT WARE MACINTOSH SOFT WARE e5 1 4 amp 3 1 2 DISKS PRINTER PAPER amp RIBBONS e MAILIING LABELS DISK STORAGE BOXES 20 DISCOUNT OFF RETAIL PRICE ON ANY PAPER DISKS amp SUPPLIES IN STOCK WITH THIS COUPON PERSONAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL 929 4 120 698 1211 NOT GOOD MITH OTHER DISCOUNTS EXPIRES 10 31 84 DOMs Macintosh a MacDOM 1 Concluded from page 17 WEEKDAYS This program will determine the day of the week for any given date Transported to the Macintosh from Sperry 051100 operating system Contributed by Paul Howe MacArt Folder Contains MacPaint art work by a number of Mini app le and Mac SIG members Just for the fun of iteces Tips Hints Folder Contains MacWrite documents containing tips hints and technique articles to aid you with using the MAC REVERSI A Mac version of the game Othello written by Robert J Woodhead of Wizardry fame This is a super little game You can easily become hooked on it Try it And a few other surprises The first MacDOM is the result of the work of several people willing to share their time and IPRODATAI
118. ween educators and programmers The best of this software combines good educational practices with quality programming including emphasis on ease of use and appropriate use of graphics Educational software is available for all ages and in a wide variety of subjects and skills Types of software you will find include learning games simulations of situations and events interactive tutorials on a variety of subjects and drill amp practise training programs Each has its place educationally the main concern is with the quality of the individual product The market for home education software has blossomed recently with many products available to teach basic skills to young children in an enjoyable way Though prices are software is still books records etc gradually moving down expensive compared to It is often difficult to preview as quality educational software is very costly to develop and violation of copyright is still a problem Mini app les EdSIG provides a way of previewing some of the better quality educational software available for Apple computers GOTO 11 Announcements 10 Announcements Continued from page 10 The second annual Get Wise conference is aimed at young women in high school interested in pursuing scientific or technological careers The conference will be held Saturday morning November 3rd in the Bell Museum U of M Minneapolis campus Last year s
119. y out the activity without need of additional instructions Commands Except for the use of ESC to return to the Main Menu AppleWorks commands are given by holding down the Open Apple 0A key plus a letter or number All 26 letters and 9 digits are used The usage is consistent through the three units of the program where possible For example OA D is Delete text in the Word Processor Delete records or report category in the Data Base and Delete columns or rows eteber 1984 in the Spreadsheet OA S is Save the current file to disk in all three Some OA combinations work with only one or two of the units OA L is not applicable to the Word Processor provides options to change the record layout in the Data Base and to change the cell layout in the Spreadsheet OA W creates windows in the Spreadsheet but has no application in the other two units Usage is quite mnemonic A Arrange B Blank C Copy D Delete E Edit F Find I Insert M Move etc OA E toggles between insert and overstrike cursorse To insert text into material already on the screen use OA E to get a flashing underline cursor A second OA E will toggle to a blinking rectangle Anything typed with this cursor will write over material already present Either can be used to enter fresh text depending on the one you prefer The combination OA l through OA 9 is called the Ruler which permits you to move rapidly through a document
120. your monitor or sent to your printers The files STOCKS and SALES provide some sample data to get you started with the SECURITIES LEDGER programs Tom informs me that these programs reflect the latest changes in the tax law concerning long term capital gains PHONE BOOK Another Tom Alexander program which will allow you to build your own telephone directory The program creates a text file called DIRECTORY which will grow as you enter names 14 addresses and phone numbers If you are going to use this program for a very large phone book you will want to move the program to another disk with more free space LONGEST DECIMAL The last Tom Alexander program on this DOM contains a demonstration of a set of routines which will allow you to align the decimal point when you are printing out columns of numbers in an Applesoft programe The routines will search a group of numbers and determine which number has the greatest number of digits to the right of the decimal point Zeroes are appended to the other numbers so that the entire column is aligned by decimal point PRINT SCRUNCHER DOC SCRUNCER DOC HIRES SCREEN SCRUNCHER HIRES PACK HIRES UNPACK This is a group of programs from Steve George which were described in the July 1984 Mint app les Newsletter They will pack and unpack a Hires page with a savings of 40 to 80 percent in disk sectors Run the file PRINT SCRUNCHER DOC to print the text file SCRUNCHER DOC

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