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1. aG nnn Microsoft Word EET ORS Microsoft Fila esio he as Microsoft Chart Causa ex e 000009 PES Report cs es dee eeu wee scien a e nei PFS File amp 6686081 Thinktank 8287 aS Dollars amp Sense Maclorth nc ate ete IRR sess NOVEMBER MIN APPLES SPECIAL Asuka High Direct Driver 178 00 We extend a special welcome to Mini Apples Members Thanks for your support We ve moved We re still in the Z amp S Office Center but we ve expanded to Suite 222 6009 Wayzata Blvd 222 e Minneapolis MN 55416 Two blocks west of the Cooper Theatre on Hwy 12 12 i mini app las MacDOM 3 The Third Mini app les Macintosh DOM by Steven E Baker his the third MacDOM features several interesting programs and files CATALOGGER The program is a Microsoft BASIC program for maintaining a disk based Catalog of Diskettes which contain names and other characteristics of all files on the catalogged diskettes It is strongly recom2. Meeting BUFORD l Place 280 Faort MiowlaY xy TO FREE LOT amp 29049016071 AVE LM umm 15 GORTNER CLEVELAND AVE NO FROM COMO AND RAYMOND AVE S PES 3 lt a ES amp 8 These ads are provided free to members for non commercial use and are limited to 10 lines Commercial ads will be charged at 20 cents word for members or 40 8 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 Unless otherwise noted all tems are For Sale Sale or Trade DD 3M Apple e 128K 80 col U RAM 128k MAGIC t CD 415 00 text card 2 disk drives memory card with software software IPSNM Box 10 tax incl monitor numeric key pad 275 APPLE Graphics MagiCalc spreadsheet Bob Pfaff 452 2541 and Comrex dalsy wheel Tablet new shielded Magic Window 1 Word Pro printer Barely used model with Interface card Magicgraph for bar and ple Best offer on system or 400 Transpack 1 charts spelling checker CONSULTING SERVICES user parts 300 1200 baud modem Clipboard allows data friendly Ii feware Adrienne 958 2098 Transend 2 and ASIO interchange for e or aval lable Hy 200 interfaca card M is with 2
3. 34 95 Dollars amp Sense 69 95 119 00 dBase M 325 00 325 00 dBase Il 459 00 MultiPlan 139 00 139 00 Apple amp IBM are trademarks of each respective manufacturer ACCESSORIES Numeric Keypad for Apple lle 75 Paragraph Graphics Card 89 Cardco Gara ber Deis 79 Parallel Cable for IBM 30 36x36 Parallel 30 25x25 18 232 25 13 x16 printer stand for 80 column printers 30 16 x22 printer stand heavy duty for wide carriage printers 40 ALS CP M Card Apple 219 MONITORS AMDEK 300 12 green 135 300A 12 amber 145 310 12 amber for IBM 160 Color 1 13 composite 299 Color Il 13 RGB 425 ZENITH ZVM 122 12 amber 115 2 123 12 green 115 PRINCETON GRAPHICS MAX 12 oaa 189 489 HX 12 4 COMPUTER BUYING SERVICE 8120 Penn Ave So Suite 116 Bloomington MN 55431 612 884 5009 Member Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce Mini app les The Minnesota Apple ag ene Users Group Inc P O 0 796 Hopkins MN 55343 Board Members X President David E Laden 488 6774 1215 W Laurie Rd Roseville MN 55113 Past President Chase Allen 431 7278 15718 Hayes Trail Apple Valley MN 55124 Vice President Mark Abbott 854 8304 1905 East 86th St Bloomington MN 35420 Treasurer
4. G T Od ag WHY PAY MORE FOR COMPUTER PRODUCTS MODEMS Smartmodem 300 209 Smartmodem 1200 489 Smartmodem 1200Bd 425 Micromodem ll E 240 Smartcom It Software for IBM PC 90 NOVATION J Cat 300Bd direct 99 103 SmartCat 300Bd Smart 159 103 212 Smart 300 1200Bd 379 Applecat I 300 baud for Apple 225 212 Applecat 300 1200Bd for Apple 390 ZOOM Networker modem 109 Networker Netmaster combo 135 DISK DRIVES Mitsuba Ye hgt Dual w drive controller 375 Drive Control Card 45 Teac DS DD IBM Comp 185 Asuka Ve hgt Appie 180 DISKETTES 10 5 Floppy Diskettes packed with a storage box SS DD DS DD Sentinel 21 00 24 00 XInt sm 17 00 19 00 CALL FOR QUANTITY PRICING ON 10 OR MORE BOXES Happy Thanksgiving PRINTERS EPSON New low prices PANASONIC KX P1091 120 CPS KX P1092 180 OPS KX P1093 160 CPS wide carriage SILVER REED EXP 400 ri rrt i kun EXP 500 cerro ees EXP 550 ces pee aee EXP 4104 5 7 SOFTWARE Apple IBM pfs series 85 00 95 00 Lotus 123 i s 325 00 Symphony 465 00 Wordstar Micropro 329 00 329 00 Accounting i Partner Star 299 00 Bank Street Writer 49 95 59 95 Flight Simulator 1l 39 95 Flight Simulator
5. I VOLUME VII CALENDAR WHICH St Paul Branch Note 5 Pascal amp Apple Note 1 St Cloud Branch Note 15 Business SIG Note 10 Dakota County Branch Note 7 Board Meeting Investment SIG Note 4 REGULAR Note 5 Map inside Education SIG Macintosh SIG Note 9 New Hope Branch Note 16 Minnetonka Branch Note 8 St Paul Branch Pascal amp Apple St Cloud Branch Dakota County Business SIG Macintosh SIG Note 9 REGULAR MINI APP LES Note 5 Map next month Education SIG Investment SIG New Hope Branch Minnetonka Branch Notes 1 John Schoeppner 2 Dave Laden 3 Fred Woodward 4 Eric Hol terman 5 Mark Abbott 6 Dan Buchler 7 Bob Pfaff N o 11 CALENDAR WHEN WHERE Tue Nov 6 Mahtomedi Fire House 7pm 10pm Hallam amp Stillwater Wed Nov 7 Minnesota Federal 7 30pm 9th Ave S Hopkins Thur Nov 8 Walte Park City Hall 7 30pm 5th Ave amp 3rd St Ne Thu Nov 8 5701 Normandale 7 30pm 7 blocks S of 50th St Tue Nov 13 St John Neumann Church 7pm 10pm 4030 Pilot Knob Rd Eagan Wed Nov 14 Call Dave Laden 7 30 pm for location Thu Nov 15 Henn Cty Lib at Southdale 7 9 30pm 7001 York Ave S WEDNESDAY UNIVERSITY MINNESOTA November 7 SAINT PAUL Prgm 7 30pm Student Ctr Buford Ave 51 9 8 30pmt Near State Fair Ground Wed Nov 21 After Regular Mtg Mon Nov 26 Southdale Branch Hennepin 6 30 7pm County Library 70th amp York Tue Nov 27
6. evenings Dave 432 0913 92 i i i i i i i 1 I f i i f j Nevemnber 1994 ATTENTION g Ef niniapp ies IODIDE NEED OONDE OO ON WE HAVE YOUR PRINTER PAPER IN STOCK 11 X 9 15 or 2077 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 Edi OPEN MONDAY thru FRIDAY 8 30 5 00 EW jn StOk cards NOTE New Hours 4 A ous contin Cards ape x A e per For more information call 612 332 4866 SAVE THIS COUPON 1 1 THIS COUPON ENTITLES MINI APP LES MEMBERS TO A 1 i 10 DISCOUNT i 1 ON ANY PURCHASE AT ouse 1 i i This Discount Wil Not Apply of 0 5 1 On Sale Merchandise Or With Other Discounts 20 NO 1ST STREET e MINNEAPOLIS MN 55401 20 North First Street Expires December 31 1984 Minneapolis MN 55401 lus Epig cms e An din T Visa and i MasterCard 5222 Accepted 23 yukon compute products inc _ SOFTWARE _ MILLIONAIRE 38 95 P
7. brackets and replace whatever is in there with the current value of x Next 1 ts added to the value of x and the program is directed to replace the value in the next set of gt brackets and so on unt l the gt brackets are not found The program adds a single lt bracket to the end of the file and saves the file to disk as Directory psx 1 getfile ny L Directory d2 lt x gt lt pgo loadfile ny ppr 1 ppr ppr PRINTING COMPLETED ppr pin G G G Press RETURN gt pgo quit loadfile b pls lt n Sa ny L a e pnp ny psx 1 pgo getfile X is again reset to l the file name n 1 gt is loaded and the program loops to load the assigned string into memory and then prints it X is incremented and sent back to load the next file If none is found the instruction to go to the f le load ng section is skipped The screen s cleared with the L the bell s rung with the G and the program waits for a return to continue quit OF Directory d2 The final section of the program deletes the directory file that was used to load and print all the files clears the screen and leaves WPL The nice part of WPL is the ability to do some of the more tedious tasks automatically or more conveniently I sometimes wind up trying to save a file on the text file disk only to get a disk full message I then have to find a disk initialize it and then save my file on it I wrote a WPL program t
8. les More on WPL Concluded from 20 oop2 pls amp x amp amp n d psy d psz y psx 1 pgo loopl lend ppr L psx l psz 64 psy 560 psy z ppr ppr ppr There are x files and ppr y free sectors on this ppr disk ppr z sectors used ppr pin G G G Press RETURN ppr L pin Another disk Y N c pes c y pgo new pcs c Y pgo new pgo quit new ny pgo start quit pat E Minutes September Board Meeting Sept 12 1984 Minnesota Federal Roseville by Ken Slingsby he Secretary s minutes were approved as printed n the Newsletter The Treasurer s report was read and approved Balance as of August 1 4809 02 Deposits Apr July receipts amp advert sements 5827 00 Expenses 3246 55 Closing August Balance 7389 47 OLD BUSINESS Hugh Kurtzman is taking part of the Membership Coordinator s work from Ann Bell as she has requested assistance Another volunteer is needed to fulfill the role perhaps permanently Nevember 1984 TH COMPUTER STATION Let us sell your used computer Corporate or Personal 1 612 861 5529 THE COMPUTER STATION INC NO 1 WEST DIAMOND LAKE RD In the change of Club officers some time ago the International Apple Core membership was inadvertently forgotten That bill was paid and the IAC has acknowledged our check It has been dis
9. such will fit in the mailer 3 Send correct postage in stamps do not send money in lieu of stamps mitac Disk Drive for Apple 16K Card Z80 Card 7712475 Plaza Drive Eden Prairie MN 55314 PRICE BREAKTHROUGH 159 Regularly 269 4995 Printer Card with Cable 4995 6595 Call for pricing for other Apple peripherals shipping charge for local phone orders Cll Quannon Computers i 612 944 5616 11 Nevember 0994 4 Self addressed return label 5 1 00 copying fee per DOM or d sk 6 A note indicating which DOMs are desired Send to C Th esfeld 8416 Xerxes Avenue S Bloomington MN 55431 Please allow 60 days for del very in USA Incomplete packages w ll not be returned DOMs 1 thru 26 except 18 EAMON 3 and 8 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 Mint app les Software Disks MSD 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 e
10. AX WORKSHEET Bl Requires APPLE Ii lle with 48K 1 or 2 disk drives 132 column printer or compatible system Complete with two system diskettes and a user manual 350 00 TEN DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE SEND YOUR ORDER TO POST Software Inc 1779 E Arlington Ave St Paul MN 55449 612 772 2545 O SHIP MY ORDER C O D VIA UP S NAME C ENCLOSED IS MY CHECK PLUS 6 SALES ADDRESS TAX AND 2 SHIPPING CHECK ENCLOSED FOR TELEPHONE lt mu mini app les November 1994 ANNOUNCEMENTS Back to normal ow that the computer show has come and gone for a 3rd time as far as the club is concerned we can get back to things like Christmas shopping a Mac for your spouse Or maybe a one new diskette for yourself November Regular Meeting The next regular meeting of Mini app les will be held on Wednesday November 21 at the Student Ctr Buford Ave That is just North of our usual place on the Ag campus of the U of M n St Paul Dale Archibald Editor of the Twin Cities Computer User will be the featured speaker MacSIG by Dan Buchler The next meeting of the Mac Sig will be held on Monday November 26th at the Hennepin County L brary 7001 York Avenue South Edina Jim Hogin National Account Executive for Apple Computer who operates out of the Apple Minneapolis office in Appletree Square will be the speaker Last s month s meeting was attended by over 50 people Chuck Thi
11. City Desk Computer Warehouse 2 MacDOM 3 by Steven E Baker 13 Computer Buying Service s 2 3 MacPlace by Dan Buchler 14 Dayton s Repair Servicess soes l7 Map of Meeting Place 22 Fresh Logic Computer Serv ce 21 Minutes by Ken Sl ngsby 21 Hagen Office Equipment os 8 More on WPL by Tom Ostertag essee 18 House of FormSeceosesscccecossvea3 SpeeDemon by Dick March afava 16 KSTP c eosssocceccescaosescecs2U Subscription Woes by Dick Marchiafava 17 Micro Matleocccesccvsecvveevecseeld Min app les Softwaresssccossseel3 POST Softwarescccoscacevcccvevesoo Prodata Computer Products 12 Quannon Computetrs 1 00 3316900007 cese 6 The Computer Stations cescccscvvedl The Connecttion 6 Trisdftvccccscececeseccecevcveacsl4 You Can Count On It 10 Yukon Computer Products BC YEAR ROUND PERSONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT MONEY MATTERS E PERSONAL INCOME EXPENSE AND TAX ADJUSTMENTS ACTUAL amp PROJECTED W Bl PERSONAL NET WORTH BALANCE SHEET ACTUAL amp PROJECTED Bl E INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO TRACKING amp REPRICING 8 E ESTATE AND RETIREMENT PLANNING 8 Bl PERSONAL FINANCIAL UTILITIES E BB MINNESOTA TAX WORKSHEET E BI FEDERAL T
12. INBALL CONSTRUCT 31 95 SIDEWAYS 46 95 DOLLARS amp SENSE 67 95 ASCII EXPRESS VISICALC PFS D B MASTER V 3 SENSIBLE SPELLER WORDSTAR W CARD THINKTANK PRINT SHOP STATES amp TRAITS SUMMER GAMES maxgl r HARDWARE SERIAL INTERFACE APPLE CAT II MICROMODEM IIE 80 COL 64K CARD 1 2 HT DISK DRIVE MOCKINGBOARD C ZENITH MONITOR AM 109 95 stor gemini 10X 299 95 28 00 10 SS DD ws KoalaPad gt C97 with Micro Illustrator THINTANK 4 4 c E 3e a gt 77 95 3 We write E j mn 553 SSS a c file INEM PRODUCT 59 95 LITTLITE 18 amp 12 FLEXIBLE QUARTZ HALOGEN LAMP 41 95 39 95 HO RATE RH ad in in din din din a Check expiration date on label Please pay your dues of 12 before that date Mini app 1 Hopkins Mn 55343 Bulk Rate Ne US Postage ADDRESS i 241 4 1 85 o PAID CORRECTION 8 0 BILL Hopkins MN REQUESTED 6908 114TH AVE NORTH Permit 631 CHAMPLIN WN 38316 2805
13. John L Hansen 890 3769 38 Birnamwood Drive Burnsville MN 55337 Secretary Ken Slingsby 507 263 3715 Route II Box Welch MN 55089 Communication Dir Dan Buchler 890 5051 Software Director Pete Gilles 475 3916 Technical Dir Hugh Kurtzman 544 7303 SIG Director 1 John open paar 455 861 SIG Director 2 Dick Marchiafava 572 9305 Branch Director Ron Androff 452 5230 Coordinators Beginners Consultant S K Johnson 869 3447 Shows and conventions Steve George 935 5775 Membership Co tor Ann Bell 44 4505 Spcl Int Apple Joe Horne 941 3411 Spel Int Business Dick Marchiafava 572 9305 Spcl Int Education Jane Chatterjee 888 9447 Spel Int FORTH Mark Abbott 854 8304 Spcl Int Handicaps Steve Lyle 894 2991 Spel Int Invest nt Eric Holterman 822 8528 Spcl Int Macintosh Mike Carlson 866 3441 Spcl Int Pascal John Schoeppner 455 8613 Spel Int Visicalc Mike Carlson 866 3441 Tech Adviser hdw Roger Flint 771 2868 Branch Coordinators Dakota County Bob Pfaff 452 2541 Minnetonka Dick Peterson 473 5846 New Hope Jere Kauffman 535 6745 St Cloud Frank Ringsmuth 253 6032 St Paul Mahtomedi Fred Woodward 426 4060 Jim Schenz 429 4931 Liaison CP M open Liaison Geneology Bill Liaison Medical Stewart Haight Decoursey 574 9062 644 1838 To provide contact with non Mini app les SIGS Software Director s Staff DOM Sales Meetings Terry Schoe pace 455 8613 Dave Nordva 724 9174 Gene Kasper 941 5490 DO
14. M Sales Mail Hugh Kurtzman 544 7303 DOM Editors Producers Peter Gilles 475 3916 Steve George 935 5775 Hugh Kurtzman 544 7303 MAC DOM Editor Prod Steve Baker 935 1192 Communication Newsletter Publication Staff Director amp NL Editor 13516 Daniel B Buchler 890 5051 Grand Avenue S Burnsville MN 55337 Assistant NL Editor Jo Hornung 922 7665 Contributing Editors Arsen Darnay 933 0399 Steve George 935 5775 Composition Layout Joan Kistner Advertising Eric Holterman 822 8528 Mailing Coordinator Hugh Kurtzman INFORMATION the Newsletter of Mini app les the Minnesota Apple Computer Users Group Inco a Minnesota non profit club Articles may be reproduced in other User roue PT lications except where specifically copyrighted by author Questions Please direct questions riate board member or officer echnical uestions should be directed to the Technical Director Membership Applications for membership should be directed to the Membership Co ordinator Ann Bell 544 4505 8325 39th Avenue Ne New Hope Minnesota 55427 12 buys membership for one year New members and persons renewing after letting membership expire pay a 5 administration fee Members receive a subscription to this newsletter and all club benefits DOMs and MSDs DOMs Disk of the Month are available at meetings for 5 disk or any MEE may be ordered by ail for 6 00 disk MSDs are 5 disk at meetings or 50 disk by mail Send o
15. Rockford Road Library 7 00pm New Hope Wed Nov 28 Glen Lake Community Ctr 7 30pm 14300 Excelsior Blvd room E Tue Dec 4 Mahtomedi Fire House Wed Dec 5 Minnesota Federal Thu Dec 6 Waite Park City Hall Tue Dec 11 St John Neumann Church Thu Dec 13 Edina Community Center Mon 097 Southdale Library WEDNESDAY Edina Communi ty Center December 19th 5701 Normandale Prgm 7 30pm 7 blocks S of 50th St 5 65 8 30pm Wed Dec 19 After Regular Mtg Thur Dec 20 Henn Cty Lib at Soufhdale Tue Dec 25 Rockford Rd Library Wed Dec 26 Glen Lake Community Ctr See page 2 for telephone numbers 8 Dick Peterson 9 Mike Carlson apple computer user group newsletter 11 Bill DeCoursey 12 Jane Chatter jee 10 Dick Marchlafava 13 Stewart Haight NOVEMBER 1984 CALENDAR WHAT Pascal amp Apple Spectal Interest Group Meeting Graphics Software Macintosh demo by Andy Regular Board Meeting All members are welcome R Seng on Grain Exch and Commodities Dale Archibald Computer User Editor talks back Demo of Microzine Note 12 Jim Hogin of Apple Computer Favorite Game Demo Night Spreadsheets by John Hansen Note 5 Note 1 Note 15 Modem Demo Using information services Note ear y date Program To be determined Note 12 Demo Dow Jones News Retr Serv amp Sftw Seasons Greetings no meeting No Meeting this month 14 Steve George 15 Frank M Ringsmuth 16 Jere Kauffman PM n 0 400
16. S Graph PFS Write Ze i Flight Simulator 49 95 Beagle Basic 34 95 Format II Master Type VersoForm Dollars amp Sense Homeword Pie Writer Magic Memory 99 95 Fontrix 75 00 Fontpak each V011 2 5 4 5 20 00 For Macintosh clickArt 9 95 ThinkT ank 117 95 Sargon Ill 39 95 Run for the Money 40 pcr i Pensate 1 95 Millionaire 9 95 i Murder by Dozen 38 35 79 95 61 95 16 95 4 PFS File Report 3 8 j Microsof Chart 99 95 Multiplan Dollars amp Sense 119 95 Microsoft BASIC 122 s i MacForth 119 95 MN residents add sales tax Include 3 per order for shipping Dept M14 P 0 Box 1451 Burnsville MN 35337 ein les Nevember 1984 The SpeeDemon Apple Speed Up Board by Dick March afava eeDemon is a co processor speedup board that uses a 65C02 microprocessor operating at 3 6 Mhz clock rate to take over processing from the Apple 6502 which operates at a 1 02 Mhz clock rate This results in a significant increase in the speed of internal operations This board will work with any Apple J l or e It is slot independent and will work in any slot except slot 0 slot 3 on e It accesses the Apple memory including memory expansion boards The following is a rundown of the charact
17. ZHla lt y b f xA amp amp amp SZiHa y b f xB amp amp amp SZiHa y b ff B amp amp amp SZiHla y b fit A amp amp amp SX a y b ff T amp amp amp lt x gt ZI lta y This is the section of the program that manipulates the catalog file in memory to produce a file that can retrieve each file as a string Each find statement replaces the file name and other information with the appropriate structure for generating the directory file The file name is replaced with nothing if it is locked Note the statements with the right after the delimiter or not a text file Note the A and B after the delimiter For unlocked text files an appropriate identifier is introduced in front of the file name In this case it is the value of x in gt brackets followed by a carriage return and then three apostrophes The strange looking sequences are Applewriter s way of being able to use certain symbols as delimiters while also using symbols in the document without driving WPL up the wall GOTO 19 More on WPL Continued from page 18 November 1934 psx l b search F amp C DEK x gt E y pgo increment pgo printfile increment psx l pgo search printfile e lt y p S Directory d2 A loop is now used to number the file created in the previous section The value of x is reset to 1 and directed to the beginning of the file We find the lt gt
18. ach and the MSDs for 15 each 179 Asuka c Disk Drive 189 both are 1 2 height with direct drive mechanism Asuka Disk Drive 494 amp State Hwy 5 minl app les DOM 33 November 1984 by Pete Gilles OM 33 comes to us from the Northern Illinois Apple User s Group NIAUG v a the International Apple Core IAC The disk contains three hi res games in color submitted to a contest run by NIAUG in 1983 The games were all created using a piece of software from Broderbund called the Arcade Machine The games are called Beach Head Westward Ho and Bee Crunch All the games require a joystick or game paddles There are some general instructions that apply to all the games Strike ESC To pause then any key to continue SPACE To restart and hold hi score RESET To restart and zero h score RE BOOT To select another game The specific instructions are Beach Head You are all alone in your tank trying to protect the beach against the landing of enemy troops You must also watch out for the IPRODATAI November 1984 snipers that are hidden on the beach Use the paddle to move the tank left and right and game button 0 to fire your gun There are also unfriendly aircraft strafing the beach I don t know if the tank can shoot the aircraft translated that means I couldn t hit any You have three tank lives Westward Ho The India
19. covered that the Club s CP M board was never purchased or was lost As money was given out for that purchase Scott Ueland has agreed to reimburse the Club for the amount 112 Ken Slingsby was appointed to coordinate a list of Club assets Pete Gilles will keep an inventory of all Club held software NEW BUSINESS A motion was made and seconded to purchase personalized name tags for the Twin City Computer Show in October at a cost of about 1 45 each Ron Androff volunteered to purchase the tags There has been confusion as to how the SIGs are to subm t b lls for payment The following mot on was made and seconded All personnel shall subm t b lls for budgeted transactions through the r coord nators to the Treasurer with an upper l m t of the budgeted amount After much d scuss on the mot on passed The motion is intended to apply to SIGs Coordinators and Branches any entity with a budget GOTO 20 21 CLEVELAND AVE NO Vaf M St Paul Campus uui wo E X FROM LARPENTER OR HWY 36 WHEN ON THE ore TAKE GORTNER TO FITCH AVENUE THEN GO WEST ON FITCH TO THE PARKING LOT THEN 7t USE SOUTH ENTRY AT CLASSROOM OFFICE BUILDING NO 412 an emm a gun FREE PARKIN E AT BoTTon op HILL a eee ee MEETING ROOM 45 iS JUST INSIDE THE POOR ON GROUND LEVEL L 2 COMMONWEALTH FROM STATE FAIR GROUNDS AND SWELLING AVE NO Map of BUFORD
20. ded froin page 14 The Daisy Wheel Connection November MacWorld compares ProPrint Mac Daisywheel Connection and LetterWare 3 software packages that allow one to print to a daisy wheel printer instead of the Imagewriter I found the article though good in certain areas completely lacking on one subject How do these drivers compare as far as handling proportional spacing in right margin justified mode Only ProPrint and Mac Daisywheel Connection handle Proportional but what happens to the interword spacing Anyone know Color Mac still a hot rumor that Apple will release th s an mal at January stock holders meeting Software developers supposedly working on color software Disk Drives Apple may well introduce a hard disk for the Mac in January probably a version of the Profile They are also expected to introduce a high capacity hard disk which will work on the AppleBus as a file server There is always the possibility that Sony will get its act together and make double sided drives available so we can have 800 Kbytes per drive By the way the November 5th edition of InfoWorld has an interesting review of the Tecmar and Davong hard disks They say that the performance of the Tecmar is much better than that of the Davong mostly because of software differences Habedex the same outfit that makes the software are close to releasing a small size 3 1 2 drive for the Mac There will probably be other manufacturers try
21. drives 105 Hel rovid to get you a arc 778 0050 H started with Nie ARS te APPLE DISK Excellant manuals 542 3306 W or software please condition Asking 135 Wade 788 1651 or 484 2497 contact Mike Carlson Call 546 5156 after 6pm r 866 4331 or 377 6553 ORDERING DOMs or MSDs Spreadsheets are Avai lable Computer speclalty Apple Olympic Decathlon 15 carrying case Room for A reminder that Disks Of Macintosh and LISA are Swashbuckler 10 Space Apple Jl 2 drives the Months DOMs and all serviced Vikings 20 Geopolitique si lentype printer Mini app les Software 1990 50 Ultima III diskettes and manuals Disks MSDs are aval lable 35 Computer Baseball Virtually brand new Will by mall DOMs at 6 00 APPLEWORKS New complete 30 Networker modem with sell for 75 Will trade each MSDs at 17 50 package with warranty Netmaster software 90 for monitor each MacDOMs are not yet card 150 00 Paul 933 8553 after 5pm Jim 489 4713 available by mall Send Bob 921 4470 work your order to 888 5625 home PFS File PFS Report PFS Olivetti DY2M letter 0 Graph 40 each quality printer new PO Box 796 WANT TO BUY 16K RAMCARD Wild Card 65 Transend 20cps 17 carriage Apple Hopkins and Integer Card cheap modem 155 AIl in compatable Centronics MN 55343 Call 646 8054 original packages uses standard card Attention DOM Sales excellent condition 495 00 Se ae ui Ken 559 5422
22. e if you own Higher Text from A P P L E The logo are printed with HIGHER to create and display on your screen messages whlch scroll right and do other Is a easy to use line oriented text editor suited to letter writing with eie les Nevember 1984 MacPlace or Current Mac Rumors by Dan Buchler oftware is really beginning to hit the street now Now the problem is trying to decide which database program is the best There seems to be a whole lot of them I hope that you will all help make th s MacSig useful by bringing your opinions and findings on these new software products out in the open Write an article or give us a call with whatever you might have found out As stated last month this is the Mac Rumor column everything reported herein is hearsay Some of it may be heresay and some of it may be true Foreign Printers The ability to use something other than an Imagewriter is now here Several companies offer a variety of different possibilities B Ke Enterprises of California 209 686 7850 sells Mac MX for 49 95 with cable or 29 95 without cable The product is basically a software driver a driver installation program and a cable to plug your MX 80 printer into our le Pe o Well here s your chance to find out All you need is the new adventure game developed by TRISOFT called FYREQUEST FYREQUEST will give you hours of chal lenging fun and exci
23. eristics of the SpeeDemon It works with any Apple software Applesoft Pro Dos Pascal and 80 Column cards It starts on power up but can be disengaged by an ESCAPE from the keyboard to bypass it SpeeDemon is transparent requires no pre boot and will work with CORVUS hard disks The SpeeDemon slows down when accessing peripherals and the game port There is a built in self test Speed up your Apple II If plus amp Apple Ile uy MER SpeeDemon Coprocessor Board List 295 Special The SpeeDemon from McT gt v 250 Up to J 2times faster Call Dick at MAKES ANY APPLE OR e RUN 3 PORA FASTER HAKES APPLESOFT APPLE RAM CO SALES WORD PROCESSING DATA BASE MANAGER PASCAL OR SPEADSHEET PROGRAMS 572 9305 RUN 0 3 1 2 TIMES FASTER USES THE APPLE MEMORY EVEN EXTA MEMORY AREA CODE 61 2 In my experience the SpeeDemon delivers what it says it will It has an honest 3 5 times speed up for in memory operations Since our software operations include a mix of tasks to be done there may not be that kind of advantage in overall operation The operation of the device can be startling or it can be quite subtle but t works to decrease total time of operation I use it with BPI General Ledger which is a clunk as far as speed is concerned and cut processing time by about half I have
24. esfeld and Nancy McClure gave an interesting demo and tutorial about Pascal on the Macintosh showing how one can execute and debug a program statement by statement Thank you Chuck and Nancy Apple Pascal which was the one demonstrated operates interpretively SofTech sells a somewhat more powerful UCSD Pascal Steve Baker was selling MacDOMs 1 2 and 3 and as usual they disappeared quickly MacDom by Steve Baker I m 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 exper ences Anyth ng else you m ght l ke to share Please ma l or g ve your contribution s to Steven E Baker c o Advantek Inc 7750 West 78th Street Minneapolis MN 55435 Home 935 1192 WWIC Computer Talk Tune in not to KSTP but to WWIC 1280AM It happens Sunday morning not night 9AM 10AM Saturday M n app les will supply an expert for this show on the second Sunday of each month If you have an Apple related question here s your chance to get on the air Note Earl Benser was our representative for October The next representative will be Scott Ksander probably on Dec 9th Appl cations SIGS News by Dick Marchiafava Again I must report the conversion of one of our Apple SIGS from the status of a group that serves Apple users exclusively to that a gro
25. in all areas Instead of trying to contain the whole library at one s finger tips sometimes it is better to play the part of the card catalog which contains enough accurate nfo to d rect the questioner n the right direction toward the person with the knowledge they seek in quality APPLE amp IBM f November 1984 We wish to express sincere thanks to you Mark Abbott Barb Kostial Steven Baker Hugh Kurtzman nn Bell Dave Laden Doris Benson Dick Marchiafava Chuck Boody Dave Nordval John Pawlik Al Peterman Dick Peterson Dan Buchler Mike Carlson Jane Chatterjee Sam Fine Matt Pharr John Hansen John Schoeppner Jim Hanson Terry Schoeppner Eric Holterman Milan Sedio Mark Howes Dan Sharp Stan Kehl Ken Slingsby Corbin Kidder Evelyn Vietz Joan Kistner John Wexler Greg Kitchak A Michael Young Its exciting to have so many new people involved in YOUR user group I encourage you all to participate and reap the benefits of volunteerism It DEFINITELY has its rewardS Thank you Steve George Editor s Note Nobody has put in so much time for the show as Steve George himself Having done the job n previous years I am not GOTO 10 Lelesof t Tilarketing software hardware Free metro area delivery 24 Hour Support A Division of Arts Farces Video Stillwater Minnesota 612 430 1629 It s simp
26. ing to get a piece of that action Laser Printer We still expect to see the Apple Laser printer also announced in January Lisa Newsletter Semaphore Signal is a Mac Lisa newsletter available free to qualifying individuals Write Semaphore Signal 207 Granada Drive Aptos CA 95003 Your dealer now has a rather nice 176 page 8 1 2 x 11 booklet entitled The Macintosh Buyer s Guide If you buy something substantial like a Mac you might get it free Supposedly registered users will receive one by mail Otherwise the price is 7 50 15 MicroSoft Word latest word about Word is that release will be Dec Ist Lotus 1 2 3 4 5 available by end of Ist quarter Everyone says it is terrific Apple Mac Apple comes with software for both computers and necessary cables Requires serial card on Apple and Macintosh Basic on Mac Price s 45 Printer glitch seems that some people are experiencing some problems with lst line of pr ntout Supposedly if you power printer off and on whenever printing something from scratch the problem goes away Database managers are multiplying like mice The problem now is knowing which ones do what We are thinking of doing a club project to evaluate them and would appreciate feedback from anyone who may have procured one of the many now available Your Apple With berate sorinvrare For Apple II Specigy Mor we List PFS File PFS Report PF
27. lacement disk fr November 1984 SpeeDemon Concluded from page 16 ESCAPES to get the SpeeDemon off line and then do a RESET to continue the boot This problem has not been experienced by many others and amounts to a change in procedure more than anything else SpeeDemon is made by McT of 1745 21st Street Santa Monica CA 90404 List price is 295 00 Interested persons can also contact me at 612 572 9305 t Tell our Advertisers you saw it here Mini app les Software Disks MSDs 3 Great Disks Mini Scrip Checkbook Financial System MSD 1 A home and small business checking and accounting package by Leighton G Siegel Micro mailer MSD 2 Mail list program by Prairie Microsystems nc Magic Window though not with ds Juris and Paula Ozols of required works well in Micro mailer Higher Text Extensions MSD 3 conjunction by Charles C Boody and Word processor by Don Hagberg Higher Print provides a newsletter headers and Higher Text Message Maker TEXT It serves as a tool requires that you own up and down left and useful things Higher Word Processor and everyday home use It integrates Higher Print All MSDs ar available at meetings to members Terry 15 or by mail from See classified ads only for Schoeppner for 0 Contains Higher Print by Dan Buchler Message Maker Higher high density print capability with a selection of fonts and mor
28. le Buy 10 high quality Memorex 5 25 inch flexible disks and get a 4 00 disk library case free 1 77 ss dd 2 11 ds dd Memorex is a registered trademark of Memorex Corporation minl epi las by WU GAMME RN e ot Announcements Continued fr m page 9 exaggerating when I say that it requ res many many hours Besides organizing and managing the booth Steve wrote a very comprehensive Receipt Printing program that was used in real t me at the show The program ensured accurate record keeping and computat on of charges The club thanks you Steve DOM Sales DOMs Disks of the Month may be ordered by mail Apple e and c DOMs are 6 ncluding postage Send checks to Mini app les PO Box 796 Hopkins MN 55343 Attent on DOM Sales Investment SIG by Eric Holterman The next meeting of the Investment SIG will be on Thursday November 15 at our regular meeting place at the Hennepin County Library near Southdale The meeting will focus on commodities IT S AN OPEN AND SHUT CASE FOR MEMOREX You be the Judge 612 827 5448 3515 Hennepin Avenue South MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA 55408 te i reams November 1984 CES atu J 4 Ma tuta c Y Rud Dou NUS FA One of our members Dick Seng rented a seat on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange and will talk about some of his expe
29. m Volksmodem Cable 12 00 86616680112610 edo e cen eee se e eTa a 220 00 Apptecat 219 sisi acchowendaas su eek aa ha ER EA OR esse 389 00 ojo rj c e e J Juki 18 cps superscript subscript proportional c cene Call Qume Letter Pro 20 20 cps 529 00 Silver Reed 400 12 cps 345 00 Okidata ML 92 Okidata ML 93 Okidata 2 Panasonic KX P1090 Panasonic KX P1091 Mitsuba 150A w tilt base Sa E 135 00 Amdek 300G ccc eee eene nnne 134 00 300A nennen 144 00 Amdek 600 RGB Color 424 00 Taxan RGBVISION IIl 410 00 P4719 Dup Data Capture 40 80 Col e 0 OVER 4 000 TITLES AVAILABLE if it s not listed call for best pricing 1116 Dollars amp Sense BPl Accounting State of the Art Accounting ilies Peachtree Accounting ss nnn M UU EE ura T EM Magic Window Euis ieit iasi eret ro ER RAM e E ry E RN HE ER EY PES IOB Sosa dp ree x EOD e vaste IRI y Piewriter 2 2 Executive Secretary PFS File PFS Report e PES Gr plii iii REIR TURN Cy ove ern Microsoft Multiplan a Ee hh e Rene ren rhe se Microsoft Basic Tee
30. mended that you read the MacWrite document Catalogger Doc before you try running the program This document explains which system files are required and how to run the program BE WARNED SQUIGG A cute illustrated story by Tom Edwards our beloved MacSIG Recordist Read About Squigg to learn the background behind the story NEW FONTS Several new fonts to feed your Mac and dress up your letters and pictures START UP An application that allows you to switch diskettes as the start up disk Top Disk on DeskTop without rebooting the system or opening a file on the lower disk MacART FOLDER A nice owl drawing by Ramsey Smith MacREFERENCE SHEET Our first reference aid for the Macintosh This feature is hoped to become a regular part of our MacDOM If you discover a slick trick using the Mac or any popular program simply document it and give it to the MacDOM Editor me and I ll try to incorporate it in the next appropriate MacReference Sheet I am looking for help with this project so anyone s more the merrier who wishes to help please get in touch with me At the present time I m not certain there will be a MacDOM 4 finished for December I m short on time and running short of good stuff for inclusion in future DOM s So if you want this to continue on a regular basis give and or send me your MacStuff Remember if your contribution is included in a MacDOM the programs on that MacDOM are yours for a blank rep
31. mmon stocks The feeling at the meeting was that Stockpak II was the more useful of the two programs Look for a more complete account of them in the next issue Thanks to Russ amp Don for their contribution Public domain software and Demo disks will not be available at the November and December meetings If you want more info our public domain library before the January meeting give me a call 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 Room Doors open at 7 PM and the meeting starts at 7 15 PM adjourning by 9 15 PM The library s located at 7001 York Avenue South It is on the east side of the street across from Target Plenty of free parking GOTO 11 eire les Announcements Concluded from page 10 Calendar Announcements Please submit all calendar dates changes etc 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 ow 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
32. ndom Access a question and answer session The program starts at 7 30 PM The dates of these meetings and the subjects are November 8th Graphics software PRINT SHOP AL Peterman FONTRIX E Z DRAW and MICRO PAINTER Ken Ruzek and PFS GRAPH Gene Kasper December 13th Tele commun cat ons using information services January 10th Tax packages At the September SIG meeting about 15 persons saw two Apple co processors demonstrated These devices speed up the Apple s internal operations by using a faster internal clock Th s allows in memory processing to be very fast about 3 5 t mes faster These devices are d fferent in that one board contains its own memory and the other board does not but uses the Apple memory The devices d ffer in some small ways but the major differences are the memory and the resultant difference n price The un t w th memory s about twice the cost of the other Thanks to Earl Benser for show ng the Accelerator The SpeeDemon was demonstrated by myself Computer Show Thanks by Steve George It never ceases to amaze me how g ving the membership is of its time and knowledge The calls for volunteers were heard and numerous individuals expressed a desire to help out at the recent COMPU SHOW Although the following list contains many persons with exceptional knowledge in specific areas of Apple ng t was not necessary to have thorough experience
33. ning ld SPACE ON DISK PROGRAM better and longer ta Drive for space on disk A Ridge Square North 612 544 0022 ppr L 12989 Ridgedale Drive ppr Minnetonka ppr ppr BE PATIENT I M BUSY 2 P p 5 spaces b November 19984 PERSONAL COMPUTER REPAIR F ZZDISK amp amp amp S 4 x Sita y b f xT x Gita y b f xA x a y b EHIB x Gia y b ff B x a y b f A x a y b f T x Hta y b fi amp SZX X a y P b search f amp QG amp G x G0 amp pgo increment pgo reset increment psx 1 pgo search reset psx 1 loopl b x y pgo loop2 pgo lend Minutes Concluded from page 21 The Club s third Apple has been without disk drives since it was bought Chuck Thiesfeld has volunteered to house a Bulletin Board system in his home A motion was made to purchase two disk drives for the third Apple which would run the Club s Bulletin Board software The BBS would be placed in Chuck Thiesfeld s home for a 6 month trial period to be used for Club business An announcement facility will be included for general callers The motion carried The meeting was adjourned t QUESTION Get the answers fr Py e M Pd d d S 2 a Se sl Ss E R 9 on GOTO 21 minl app
34. ns have attacked the wagon train You the trusty scout have a gun and nine lives to protect the gentle settlers Beware of the r derless horses because they also shoot arrows You however are such a terrific shot that you can shoot the arrows out of the atr Also watch out for the large boulder on the bluff and the moving cactus Use both game buttons to fire in either direction There are at least two levels to this game I have observed some inconsistency in the scoring in the game I seem to lose points for no apparent reason Bee Crunch This can be a two player game with each player using a game paddle Each paddle controls one of the arrows at the top or bottom of the screen which are your shooters You gain points by killing bees or the other player You will however LOSE points if you destroy 1 the friendly snake 2 the lovable little frog or 3 the adorable bee hives You have three lives to lose ir Most Of Our Business Is By Referral From Satisfied Customers Find Out Why B Dh Asuka High Direct Drive 6 month warranty ON SPECIAL Mitsuba High Dual Drive with controller card 369 00 Quark 10 MEG Hard Disk for lle lc and Macintosh ii 1575 00 8 Maxell Multimodem lle w Multicom Software Micromodem He w Smartcom es Signalman MK XH 1200 Baud Smartmodem compat Volksmode
35. o calculate the remaining sectors on a disk This is certainly not unique as I could use FID but that would require booting the Master disk running FID to get the free sectors and then rebooting AWIIE The program is similar to the file printer program except that the catalog to memory file is not saved to disk The file is manipulated to give just the sectors for each file and then each string ts assigned to y and added to z the accumulator The sequeace is looped until no more stcings are found 64 sectors are added to the total z so it is the same as determined by FID Y is now assigned 560 and z s subtracted from t The program g ves the number of files the number of used Sectors and the number of free sectors It is a l ttle slow but much more conven ent than dee rebooting everything GOTO 20 NOW THAT YOU HAVE YOUR COMPUTER Is IT and your HOME safe Easy to install SECURITY amp FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS DEPENDABLE ECONOMICAL 202 discount on Eq Ordered before Jan 1 84 GENE HATFIELD 541 1752 CESCO SECURITY SYSTEMS ELECTRONWARE 3528 HILLSBORO AVE N NEW HoPE MN 55427 qp ee More on WPL Continued from 19 SPACE ON DISK n Applewriter e WPL Program start ny pnd FRESH LOGIC maintains major brands of psx 1 personal computers for home and business psy O FRESH LOGIC stocks a complete line of psz O personal computer supplies and accessories ppr L selected to keep your computer run
36. rders to Mint abe tee at above address attention DOM Sales Members may have DOMs copied to their own media Contact Chuck Thiesfeld details within this newsletter Dealers Mini app les does not endorse any specifie dealers but does promote distribution of information which may help club members to identify the best buys and service Con 7 0 the club does participate in bul purchases of media software hardware and publications on behalf of its members Newsletter Contributions Please send contributions directly to the Newsletter Editor Hard copy binary or text files are preferred but any form will be gratefully accepted Deadline for publication is the ist Wednesday of the month preced ng the month in which the item might be included An article will be printed when space permits if in the opinion of the Newsletter This is to appro Editor it constitutes suitable material for publication Advertising Direct Advertising inquiries to our co ordinator Eric Holterman at PO Box 8266 Minneapolis MN 55408 E Mail Source BBRAO90 CompuServe 71445 400 Circulation this issue 2200 612 822 8528 PP les November 1984 IN THIS ISSUE ADVERTISERS Announcements vu dee E vv Us ere que Arts amp Farces Video sooo Classified covcesccvscvccscvceccccscces v2 22 CESCO o coets 9 DOM 33 by Peter Gilles 12
37. riences trading futures on the floor of the exchange Cris Galle a representative of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange will also be at the meeting with a short slide show Their comments will include information about the exchange contracts traded there trading operations on the floor and financial requirements for floor trading The exchange is encouraging qualified people to try floor trading Much of the meeting will be open to discussion and question and answer Harold Hoffman the author of Cyber Scan demonstrated at one of our meetings last year will also be on hand to help f eld questions The December 20th meeting will feature an online demonstration of the Dow Jones News Retrieval Service and some of the programs published by Dow Jones such as the Spreadsheet Link The demonstration will be handled by their regional representative from St Louis Pat Jandro Make sure you mark November 15 and December 20 on your calendar Looks like we have a couple of top notch programs coming up to finish out the year The meeting featuring technical analysis techniques originally scheduled for December will be in January The specifics are not yet set so if you have some special requests in this area give me a call At our October meeting Russ Kirby demonstrated VALUE SCREEN and Don Steinkamp and I showed Standard amp Poor s Stockpak II These programs are designed to assist the investor with fundamental analysis of co
38. rt on it SoftStyle is the company wh ch makes the product that Epson is advertising This is also a software driver Epstart and a serial interface It works with the FX series only It makes use of firmware features such as character download that are only available in the FX Also according to one source the ee ea ee E 1 3 resulting aspect rat o s not correcte The 8145 card and Epstart software sells for 129 Alternatively you can use an un ffered version of an interface card model no 1143 at approximately 55 not including Epstart There is also a HanZon card which together with cable sells for 129 There is also an Epson manufactured card with an 8K buffer which will work with the FX i Simulation Process is the company that makes the Mac Daisywheel Connection They also have a d for the new Epson 101500 As some of you may know the 1 01500 is Epson s new super pr nter sport ng a 24 wire head It has an excellent quality letter quality mode achieved through the high dot density coming from the 24 wire head Supposedly the Mac driver for the LQ makes use of the 24 wire head resulting in a quality of print which is only surpassed by the upcoming laser printers Many thanks to Mike Carlson of Hagen who helped me gather some of this information GOTO 15 qe pp les 2 November 1984 oe MacPlace MacMore MacCrap Conclu
39. seen graphing programs run on SpeeDemon equipped systems and the generation and display of the graphs or charts is notably faster This device should really shine in doing sorts on databases and is great with spreadsheets Overall a boon for business applications Yes you may play games with SpeeDemon in operation but the games may run fast This could result in the game being un playable On the other hand we might think of it as a new and greater level of challenge in game playing And of course with slow games it is areal help I was once accused of writing a review that was so glowing that it was assumed that I was throwing roses not being objective So is all rosy in the garden No there have been problems experienced In one instance when running in the fast mode the Apple bypassed a clock card before it could respond In discussion with the owner of that system it appears the problem is one of how and where the clock card is being used and can be solved by moving the clock card Also there is a jumper on the SpeeDemon board which can be removed that will slow down I O access to slots 4 amp 5 s I take it a clock card or any peripheral device requiring a normal operating speed should work if located in one of those slots The only software problem has been in trying to run DB Master version 4 0 which has something to do with some timing changes on Some tracks that are part of the copy pro
40. tection There is no problem running DB Master ver 3 or ver 4 On boot an ESCAPE in the first 2 seconds after power on takes the SpeeDemon off line and the boot proceeds at normal speed On my personal system I have to do two or more GOTO 13 16 f 0 a 8 3 9 E i i z E 1 7 x 1 M ov E E bm d F cee 2 d E o E Le EN E i i minl app les November 1984 ie More on WPL by Thomas Ostertag here have been several articles in recent Mini app les Newsletters dealing with the Word Processing Language WPL in Applewriter II The article by Arsen Darney June 1984 described a Low Cost No feature Data Base I am currently using it for a particular set of information I need to have handy when working with Applewriter He also suggested several other uses for WPL Richard Loggins has published a series on a WPL Address Book program in Apple Orchard October 1983 to February 1984 Chuck Boody had a copy of the WPL Address Book program at one of the Business SIG meetings The WPL Address Book program works well with small lt 100 files I needed a particular type of utility specifically the ability to print out all of the files on a disk without having to sit and load each one individually The WPL manual for the e has a short program to load
41. tement as you re searching the castle of over 250 rooms to slay the evil dragon ALSANTZ But beware There are many dangers lurking in every shadow ready to confound your assault on ALSANTZ If you re ready to try a HOT one like FYREQUEST just send 20 or contact TRISOFT 1292 E Como Blvd St Paul MN 55117 But act now Oru D the Mac It currently is only available by mail from them I talked to them and was impressed with what seemed to be a very honest direct approach on doing business You use the driver installation program to replace the Imagewriter driver on whatever appl cation disk you wish to talk to your MX 80 The installat on takes only a couple of minutes The MX 80 100 ROM version known as Graftrax Plus is required A serial interface with 2K print buffer Epson model no 8145 is also required on your MX 80 or MX 100 The same card will also work n an RX or FX Other Epson manufactured interface cards will not work with the MX See SoftStyle below Price is 102 The card plugs into the Epson printer s motherboard You have to take off the case to get at it The cable then plugs into the interface board Alternatively you might be able to use one of several serial to parallel converter boxes now appearing on the market It is claimed that Mac MX produces printed images in the correct aspect ratio I plan to order the Mac MX and will repo
42. the catalog into memory The sequence in a WPL program is OADSA where A is used to select the drive Once the catalog is in memory it can be manipulated with the find and replace function to generate a numbered file with the names of the files that are to be printed This directory is then saved to disk and each file is loaded and printed within the WPL loop As with all WPL programs this one is used by typing P and then DO PRINT FILES or whatever name you save the program under PRINT FILES An Applewriter e WPL Program start ny pnd psx 1 ppr L The L in the last statement is actually an inverse capitol L in the workable WPL program control V control L control V The command clears the screen The value of x is set to l for future use in a loop ppr FILE PRINTER PROG PPF ppr This program will print out all ppr unlocked text files on an AWIIe ppr file disk Make sure to lock all ppr WPL programs because the control ppr characters do strange things to ppr the printouts ppr pin Drive to Print A The control L is inserted by typing OADS Af P P p 5 spaces The header section descr bes the program and its major limitation Then comes the command that loads the catalog into memory The p s are necessary and there are five typed spaces after the first p The catalog will not load completely without the f ve spaces b EPZZDISK amp amp amp 4A4lHla y b ff T amp amp amp S
43. up that is not machine specific in order to serve a broader base of computer users I am speaking of the Geneology SIG They have expanded the scope of their operations to include all computer users Therefore they will cease operation as a Mini app les SIG and shall operate as the M nnesota Computer Geneology Group They are an independent group with their own by laws The MMGG may still list their meeting on our calendar page and we will have a Mini app les member who is the liaison person between the two groups Mr Bill DeCoursey former Geneology SIG Coordinator has agreed to be the liaison Please call him for information regarding MMGG Thanks for your leadership efforts in the past Bill Mini app les members interested in Geneology are welcome to the MMGG Minnetonka Branch by Steven E Baker The November 28th meeting of the Minnetonka Branch will be a demonstration of Executive Secretary by Gene Hatfield Gene did a review of the program in the October 1984 Mini app les newsletter and made numerous GOTO 8 mini epp les Announcements Continued from page 8 Business SIG News by Dick March afava SIG Begins Fall Meeting Schedule The Mini app les Business SIG will meet at the Edina Community Center located at 5701 Normandale Road for the months of November December and January The meetings start at 7 00 PM with Ra
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