LnSOS BOOT 1.1 SOS.KERNEL SOS KRNLI/O ERRORFILE 'SOS.KERNEL' NOT FOUND%INVALID KERNEL FILE: xةw,@  ȱlmi8#)!) _________________________________________________________________ ================================================================= **** T A U T A L E S APRIL 1985 **** ==========================="A<& P2DISKNAME.DAT <<*MENU.MAKER |<%SEG.T j<Ÿ/ (NUMBER06" @< P8III.INF.17u' (NUMBER07$D<% P*(NUMBER08,.X<% P (NUMBER09Z/Z<% P1(NUMBER10.<& P(NUMBER11P"<& P(NUMBER12 >dLԡm#i㰼m#iЕOLԡȱfg hi !dLԡ憦  Ljmkm l y`2 Lԡ8(Je稽)ʈ@L====================================== Apple and Miscellaneous Micro News: R.I.P. PCjr. It finally happened this month, IBM admitted publicly that it stubbed its toe in the micro-computer market. On March 19th. IBM announced that the  !"#$%&'()*h we reported that Apple was closing manufact- uring facilities for a week because of high inventory; this month nearly everyone is catching the silicon valley wave. Wang is to close U.S. plants for two weeks in July telling employees to "Has believed to come with two disk drives -- 800K double sided 3 1/2 inch -- in a more Lisa like box. CHANGES AT APPLE: Joseph Graziano, chief financial adviser for Apple, announced his resignation. INVENTORY UP: Last mont MAC TURBO NEXT YEAR? Apple is said to be looking to an early 86 introduction of the "NewMac" called turbo (perhaps licensed to Datson for production -- AWESOME). It is based on the Motorola 68010 processor able to support 2meg RAM. It ild Jr. programs. ENHANCEMENTS FOR IMAGEWRITERS: A new printer driver from Apple that allows you to reduce both vertically and horizontally the size of the material to be printed. Will it work on the ///? We'll have to wait to see. illion in advertising, IBM runs a poor second. No, the real losers seem to be all the third party companies that chose to follow IBM into the Jr. market. People like Spinnaker Software who is reported to have an inventory of some 75,000 unsouing the Jr. may even be an advantage for IBM. It frees needed production facilities for the new computer (PC2 due out later this year), and aimed at the business market which they dominate rather than the home market that, despite 40 mthat IBM will have an impact. The big loser is not IBM. Their PC division represents only 10% of the corporation's reported 45.94 Billions in sales last year, and Jr. rep- resented only a small fraction of the PC division's sales. Discontinentory of Jrs., it may choose to liquidate it's supply at bargain prices depressing sales of other manufacturers. One suggested that this may be IBM's chance to hurt the rest of the market. Which ever vision proves true, they all agree two diametrically opposed camps, like choosing up sides for volley- ball. One side thinks it may help Apple sell its ][ line of computers by eliminating it major competitor. At the same time, the other side warns that if IBM has a large invhen the discount prices ended, so did sales. In this competition Apple emerged the winner. At this point agreement ends. Most market analysts see the death of Jr. as having an affect on the computer market, but they seem to grouping int IBM sold approximately 270,000 Jr's many at discount prices during Christmas; while Apple, during the same period, sold 1.1 million ]['s -- Jr's biggest direct competitor. IBM did all but pay people to buy the Jr. at Christmas this year. W will be back. IBM said they would continue to make spare parts and program cart- ridges for the Jr. well into the future. In an article in "The Wall Street Journal" a spokesman for Future Computing Inc., a market fore- caster, said tha Jr. would go out of production in April after little more than a year on the market. While IBM would say very little other than in April they would have enough inventory to meet projected future demands, industry watchers do not believe Jr.ng Ten" in an enforced vacation. DEC has suspended production of the Rainbow 100 completely, and hopes to have the Rainbow 190 out by fall. Xerox stopped producing two of its models, the 16/8 and the 820-II. Even Commodore is overstocked on its 64 as its 128 approaches its next month release date. It seems that an industry that for the past five years has sold nearly everything it made has finally exceeded its market. The reality is that sales are still good, but not he dark side is the pall the jr's failure has cast over the future of the home computer." InfoWorld, "A Bad day in Big Blue's Nursery," April 8, 1985. All these statements have one underlining concept: if something bad happens to IBM, the ma in April". Headlines scream, "PCjr's. Retirement Triggers Wave of Speculation on Fallout" Wall Street Journal March 21, 1985. "IBM's decision to kill the slumping PCjr. raises new question about the viability of the home market," or "T papers were filled with statements like, "IBM's decision on PCjr. fuels doubts about the home-computer market in particular and the market for personal-computers in general." Wall Street Journal, March 20, 1985. "PCjr Goes Out of ProductionBY RICHARD RANN The biggest news item of the past month is the demise of the PCjr. While IBM's announcement came as a surprise to industry and media alike, it certainly was no news that Jr. was in trouble. Following IBM's announcement,he was still selling it for $15.60. His address is Melvin Astrahan, PhD, 11401 Kensington Road, Los Alamitos, CA 90720. =================================================================== IBM is singing the "BIG BLUES" -- AN EDITORIAL slot. First you can select any of five ways to match the fruit for a win, and second, there is a penalty routine. When "IBM" shows on the win line a varying amount (1 to 28 times your bet) is deducted from your winnings. At last report is a slot machine game written by Mel Astrahan, PhD., the same person that did DRAW ON ///. It's fine graphics create a standard three wheel slot machine that will accept bets in values of $1 to $5. Two interesting additions to the standard e's founders Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs were among 14 inventors called to the White House last month to receive the National Medal of Technology for their innovations. APPLE FRUIT MACHINE. The Apple Fruit Machine ome complete with documentation on the diskette. It is ONLY available to OWNERS OF ACCESS /// (sorry) but is in our library for those ready to upgrade. @@@###$$$%%%^^^&&&***((()))___++++++!!!@@@###$$$%%%^^^&&&***((())) AWARDS: Applkey pad (as does Terminus). It is very nice for those who want different terminal characteristics and/or baud rates for different types of sessions..they need not be re-entered every time. It takes a little time and care to set up but does c This version supports macros and appears to be the most versatile communication program for the ///. Macros are able to handle everything in a pre-planned session from dialing to disconnecting. All of this without taking away your numeric dition it drew only 17,000 people a full 20% less than the FALL version. One reason was the absence of both IBM and Apple exhibits. #$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$# ACCESS /// INTERP VERSION: and sells for $1,195. If MacCharlie works as chairman William K. Sadleir claims, it will end office compatability problems. MacCharlie PLUS will be out in fall for $1,895. WINTER COMDEX: Proved to be a dull show with little new. In adoutdistancing production as they have in past. MacCHARLIE: Is a co-processing device with 256K RAM that allows the Mac to run IBM PC software. MacCharlie (the editor had no input into name selection) is made by Dayon Communications of Utahrket place is in trouble. While no one can deny the impact IBM has on the financial world, it is totally inappropriate, bordering on the criminal, to grant them control of the micro-computer marketplace. In all truth, IBM developed and controls only one micro-computer market, that of the major corporation. It was the corporate purchaser, buying hundreds at a time, that made the PC what it is, but it is not typical of the market in general. The majority of the computer sale, will learn from its failures. As for the home-computer market in general; we suspect that it has changed little despite the attention of the Wall Street Journal. What is going on is the same shakeout that started last year. If anything, riced home-computer market? It could, but just as easily it could ignore this market in favor of the business market it already dominates. If IBM does return to the market; it is certain they will be better prepared. IBM, if nothing elsoduct every chance to survive. Apple should take due note because it suffers from its own inability to quietly follow a plan. Beyond this, IBM removed itself from a market in which it was ill prepared to compete. Will it reenter the medium-p Jr. would be dropped. One can only admire the dispatch with which they followed an appropriate marketing plan without giving any indication of their direction. No rumors of Jr's. demise followed it into the Christmas discounts giving the prhe Jr. was probably made last summer contingent on February sales. -- that is to say -- if the discount marketing campaign, a strategy they would employ even if their only purpose was to liquidate their inventory, did not improve sales, press will do "Chicken Little" numbers in print; not only expected, but it is demanded that they satisfy their self created need. The truth is IBM got out of a bad situation with a minimal loss of profitability. The decision to drop tort- able with the personal computers, to allow Big Blue's marketing depart- ment to do their thinking for them. Of course IBM sells itself as the best, every marketing department does. So when IBM bumps its head, it's expected that the such a status is as unfair to IBM as it is to Apple, but is very useful to the press. The "standard" forms an being that is not tied to reality that the press can manipulate at will. Then too, it is much easier for writers, basically uncomfthe fact? We suspect this has more to due with the press than it does with IBM. It simplifies their job to appoint a standard by which to judge the industry, even if it is an irrational standard that no company can satisfy. Appointing IBM toe image. It is this image the press sees rather than the real IBM and its personal computers. Continued on next page Continued from prior page If the image is greater than the reality, then why can't the press recognize a wedge to open the corporate purchasing door, and IBM has been expert in exploiting that advantage. Third, is an outgrowth of the other two conditions. IBM's primary customers are large powerful corporations which give IBM a larger-than-lifecord as a computer maker, but here too, there is a fallacy. IBM's business is primarily in mainframe computers, a market it still dominates today. If mainframe and business machine sales mean anything to the micro-computer market, it is as er size. There is no denying IBM's power over the Dow Jones. It is almost impos- sible for the Dow Industrial Average to rise if IBM falls. That power is impressive, but hardly measure of micro-computer leadership. Next is their track res are still the selling of one computer to one individual. At this, IBM is far from the leader. Commodore and Apple both lead IBM at unit sales, and will far into the future. What then is IBM's hold over the computer media? First their she the boom in micro's is over. The surviving companies will have to work to sell computers with price and value for the dollar; not merely name. Name alone did not sell the PCJr. as it had the PC and the PCXT to the business market. What IBM has provided is a LESSON FOR HARD TIMES. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From Compuserve by Charles Boos A summary of the Apple /// section of Compuserve. If you are having trouble with Cataleither business or personal: "BUSINESS? (Y/N)". Enter "Y" (Return) to record the start of business use, or enter "N" to record Personal use. A prompt: "MEMO?", will follow allowing space to type in any memorandum of activity. -- By the end orecord the end of use. A new prompt will appear asking for the date and time. If your system has a clock, the current date and time will already be shown in the default. Next, if you have selected LOGON, you will be prompted for the purpose "BUSINESS", plus a memo entry. The program defaults consistently to "yes" by hitting return for ease of operation. -- You will now see a new prompt asking: "LOGON? (Y/N)", Enter "Y" (or Return) to record the start of use, or enter "N", to mputer deductions. - Whenever the program is run, a default log entry is prepared, but not written to the log file. The default entry consists of the word: "LOGON", followed by the /// system date and time, followed by the usual purpose of have to do with ][e emulation. (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) TAU DISK LIBRARY New this Month CONTEMPORANEOUS USAGE LOG. by Daniel Wade Its purpose is to satisfy 1985 I.R.S. regs for cod for memory expansion of your /// only works with SOS 1.1. Avoid it if you have a close attachment for SOS 1.3. Incidentally, Legend says it will announce a new product for the /// in the next four months, and the wild guess is that it will the SOS Monitor Boot code. If you saved the Profile demo. (All those pictures of Dick Cavett and animation) you can load these Foto files into Draw On Three and play with them. It gives you a foto library of sorts. The Legend "S" Carnow that the 512K upgrade is being shipped, the next issue of On Three will be out pretty soon. Ah, to be in California now that the publishing season approaches. Several people on Compuserve are working on disassembling and annotating $295. Another issue of the apparently occasional Open Apple Gazette will be out in May. If you want back issues, or have articles to submit, contact Don Norris, 2966 Diamond St. #433, San Francisco, CA 94131 (415) 239-1318. Likewise, continuing it's manufacture." Modula-2 (the professional programming improvement upon Pascal, by it's author Niklaus Wirth) is now available for the /// from Volition Systems, P.O. Box 1236, Del Mar, CA 92014 (619) 481-2286. Cost is c. Micro-sci has returned the checks it received for its offer of a lifetime guarantee on the A-143, the excuse is Apple's cancellation of the ///. "Needless to say, we have phased out any parts acquisition on the A-143 drive and are disance. Compuserve continued The new version of Copy II Plus (5.0) will not work with ///s since it uses all 64K on the ][e. It is suggested that you snap up version 4.3 or 4.4 if you find them in your friendly computer store.ddress. Some of the /// programs that work with the On Three 512K upgrade are /// EZ Pieces, Visicalc, Advanced Visicalc, and Catalyst. Word Juggler unfortunately stays at the same old length. Currently the price is c. $599 paid in advyst on your hard disk, Mel Astrahan has figured out how to "free" it so that it can be easily moved and drivers changed without getting directory damaged errors. If you want a free copy of the instructions, call me or send me your name and af 1985, you will have kept a contemporaneous log that should satisfy the most stringent of IRS personal use regulations. LATE NEWS: Member Jim Santelli reports that Microsoft has released version 1.12 of MULTIPLAN. Delivery was very prompt. He also received CATALYST version 2.1 from Quark. For $30 and your official diskette, you get the new Boot, Installation, and Data disks, a new manual, and a form for return of your other official disk. New features are: ple /// was dropped. Is it any wonder why people are asking what Apple will drop next? HONEYWELL TO SERVICE MacOFFICE: Apple and Honeywell Inc. have reached agreement that the MacIntosh office will be serviced out of the 250 Honeywellslip through its fingers. Perhaps most important, Apple looks like a company with no consistency, little follow through, and a tendency to vacillate; any one of which can destroy a companies reputation. A reputation already bent after the Apresearch. Mac XL DROPPED: In a surprising move Apple announced that they are dropping the Lisa/Mac XL, and may once again have shot itself in the foot. According to some TAU members, Apple is once again allowing potential customers to mputer industry boom is ending, and the industry is sett- ling into a traditional pattern of fighting for a share of a slowly expanding market. At this point in corporate life, more money will go into advertising and marketing as opposed to 84 holiday quarter, but still an increase of 45 percent over second quarter of last year. Though sales were considerably higher, profit was only up 9 percent to $9.97 million or 16 cents a share. It is becoming obvious that the micro co+-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX=============================== Apple and Miscellaneous Micro News: APPLE SAYS THAT 400,000 IIc'S SOLD IN FIRST YEAR. APPLE SECOND QUARTER RESULTS PUBLISHED: Sales for the second quarter were $435.3 million, lower than the preceding _________________________________________________________________ ================================================================= **** T A U T A L E S MAY 1985 **** ================================== a $5.00 initiation fee. Correspondence should be directed to: TAU c/o Lavona Rann 1113 Wheaton Oaks Drive Wheaton, Il 60187 APRIL 1985 TAU is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the accumulation and dissemination of information about (and relating to) the Apple /// computer. Membership fees are currently $12.00 a year, withinput. ********************************************************************* * TAUTALES * ********************************************************************* Volume 3 No. 7 - Installation no longer "catalyses" protected disks - Discourse (the spooler) is included in the update - All emulation baud rates are supported - All mass storage devices are now supported We appreciate Jim's service centers. With this move Apple adds 3,700 trained people with experience in micro, mini, and mainframe service for onsite service. It is particularly important because the MacIntosh office is designed to fit into already existing systems. MAC TURBO InfoWorld reports that the Turbo Mac, called the AT killer within Apple, is having a problem. It uses the Motorola 68020 chip, and Motorola wants to charge between $120 to $150 each in quantity for 86 delivery. This com a semi-literate "paint-by-numbers" type of fiction? Are we seeing the death of the novel or the creation of a new branch of fiction? LOTUS NEWS: A USA TODAY article last month referred to The Lotus Development Corp. as, "The IBM oer complexity of language and plot involvement with the limitation being storage space. It is not difficult to predict that with larger mass storage devices, will come larger and more complex interactive literature, but will this bringresponses. Infocom had had the best parser in the business able to recognize complete sentences and around a thousand words; however, they are now being challenged by Bantam who claims a 2000+ word parser. The trend seems to be towards greatium is Bantam's Living Literature, Activision's Living Novel series, CBS another traditional book publishing company, and Rhiannon. What makes this all possible are language parsers that allow the computer to react to the game player's ck editions. The first of these is "I Damiano" by R. A. MacAvoy a best seller in the fantasy category for Bantam. As arcade style game sales decline, companies are lining up to enter the interactive fiction market. Behind Infocom and Telarhere- after Infocom released Douglas Adams The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy. The next development occurred when Bantam Books entered the field by with interactive editions of books they have previously published in standard, paperbaght out its Trillium (now marketed under the name Telarium because of a copyright problems) they were the first in author-programmer collaborations. People like Arthur C. Clark and Ray Bradbury were sure to affect the market place. Shortly the other characters' perception of reality and their attitude." At first game writing was limited strictly to programmers hence the reliance on problem solving, but now authors of fiction are becoming more involved. When Spinnaker brou oriented. Adventure games are very static; interactive fiction is dynamic....The first example of real interactive fiction was Deadline ....It has characters that move around of their own volition, and it gives you the ability to affect try 25th, 1985 Publishers Weekly. But Publisher's Weekly criticizes Zork as, "an archetypal puzzle, witty and sophisticated, but at no time could you call it a story.... Adventure games are puzzle-oriented, and interactive fiction is plot- ALL INFOCOM'S Fault: For many years now the publishing industry has taken an interest in computers. Not only for the traditional "how to" book, but now for "Interactive fiction." It started with Zork in 1979, claims an article in the JanuaR STORES ON SPOT: InfoWorld wants to hear about the best and worst computer stores. If you want to get your 22 cents worth, write to: Computer Stores, InfoWorld, 1060 Marsh Road, Suite C200, Menlo Park, Calif. 94025. IT'Sroprocessor at no increase in price. Current IIe owners can get an upgrade kit for $70. HYPERDRIVE PROBLEMS: Apple is likely to take over production of the Hyperdrive hard disk for Mac from General Computer of Cambridge Mass. COMPUTEpares to the $5 to $7 a chip for the 68000 now used in Mac. The difference in cost would mean a $750 increase for Mac at the retail level for the microprocessor alone. CHANGES IN IIe: Apple is now shipping IIe's with the new 65c02 micf personal-computer software." Reluct- antly we are coming to the same conclusion. While Mac owners are still waiting for Jazz, now due on the 27th of this month, Lotus continues to grow. This month they acquired the remains of Software Arts which had fallen on hard times as well as Chapter 11. Along with the company came the services of Robert Frankston and Daniel Bricklin, the develop- ers of Visicalc. This marks the completion of a cycle. Visicalc is said to have "made" rather than efficiency. One final point. When we think back on computers that have been tech- nically troubled at their release like the Adam, jr, and he Apple ///, one fact seems to link these machines. They all had shortened life beer problems is with IBM's Topview "windowing" software (the package that was supposed to make a PC work like a Mac). Apparently it takes 256K RAM leaving little applications space, but IBM has historic- ally been an advocate of larger memory as $1 billion. In addition, the faction within corporate IBM who's approach to micro-computers is to design them as smart, independent terminals in order to increase the mainframe market is on the ascendancy within the ESD. Anoth' as well as the jr. Aside from jr, Lowe faces problems of declining sales of the PC XT, and the troubled intro- duction of the PC AT. In an article in Monday, April 22nd Chicago Tribune suggests that IBM's inventory of micros may be as highdivision located in Boca Ratan Florida --, and reports of infighting over the division's direction for the next few years. William Lowe has replaced Don Estridge as division head, and is reported to have cleaned house of management 'deadwoodnitor. It has been said by many observers that not even IBM could afford to give the machine away. Further evidence of problems for IBM came with the report of changes in management at IBM's Entry Systems Division (ESD) -- IBM's micro and programs same as before. Reading between the lines, what IBM is really saying is they have a large inventory of machines, software and parts. Even with IBM's prestigious name, the $1295 jr fell to selling for $800 with a free color moCjr in Monday, April 15th USA Today, as well as in other papers around the country. It started with a quote from Mark Twain, "The reports of my death are greatly exag- gerated," and went on to say the jr's are still for sale, with service s Corp. is certain to create upward pressure on prices. CLOUDS STILL ON BIG BLUE'S MICRO HORIZON: As we all wait for the unveiling of the 'PC too', other problems still trouble IBM. Evidence was provided by a full page add for the Pt day by Jerry Pournelle, Science Fiction writer and computer pundit for Byte Magazine, who said, "The $500 program is a dinosaur." We're not sure what conditions they deem most important in the depressed software field, but the growing Lotu place. While all this was going on, Adam Osborne was speaking at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. He claimed that, "software cartels," were doomed, and predicted drastic price drops for software. He was followed the nexo link personal computers with mainframes. Several months ago Lotus acquired Arity Corp. and that company's "artificial intel- ligence" software. With these moves Lotus increases its prestige as well as its pricing leverage within the marketsiness software. In other actions, Lotus created a division to develop products for scientific use. On March 28th it joined with Cullinet Software, a leading producer of IBM mainframe software, in order to develop programs t the Apple ][ and /// while Lotus 123 did the same for the IBM PC. It would be interesting if Lotus followed the same pattern; however, we doubt that they will. Lotus is attempting to consolidate the corporate market, and thereby dominate bucause of their early problems. IBM is facing the same type of trouble with the AT. It will be interesting to see how IBM faces the problem. One solution would be to have the AT quietly disappear in a shuffling of the PC line. ****** R E V I E W ****** This review is a partly software review and partly book review. The topic is Tom Swan's "data base system" presented in PASCAL PROGRAMS FOR DATA BASE MANAGEMENT. The book and optional diskettes for source cot file and allows a wide range of activities such as add records (at the end of file or inserted), delete records, modify records (one at a time), look at selected records (by record number or by logical searches). One interesting twistle and then runs the Editor to update the file. The Editor is the most "complete" of the programs and includes many commands which share names and part of the purpose of several of the individual programs. The Editor works on any PDBS formactions to do date manipulation. Swan Pascal Data Base Continued The concept applied is that one runs the Create program to define a new file structure, runs the Status program to get a listing of the attributes of the fi for false, and blank for untested values. The point is that any of these limitations are changeable since you have all the appropriate code. If I were to build a data base system from this code, I would add at least a date data type and funbrary units, and a CRTSETUP program to set up the defaults for your monitor. As delivered the source code allows for 1-35 fields in a file, 3 data types (character, numeric and logical) with the logical type allowing only T for true, F Mark Activate Delete Minimize Erase Convert There are additionally, 4 library units to provide code used by several of the programs, a Testunit program for testing when you make customized changes to the li Create Status Editor List Report Copy Append Merge Modify Readtext Writetext Join Project Calc Total Sort Mergesort Index Find Update Upcase from Pascal. The author suggests that you could use chaining and make your own menus but don't be fooled, there would probably be several other things that you would want to change. The 29 programs that are generally executed are: someone wanting to learn about a given concept or needing source code to see a way to do it, but is a definite liability if you want to compile the programs and just use them. Each top level command is actually a program and you execute it and manip- ulate data in true relational data bases. The programs have been set up as if they were developed for a data base course which covered one topic at a time and required a separate program for each topic. This is a benefit for on most commonly available microcomputers. The book is slanted towards the APPLE II family but has an Appendix for IBM PC and was tested by this reviewer using APPLE /// Pascal. The PDBS consists of 35 programs which can be used to defineL and either 1) want to learn more about data base management systems or 2) want or need to develop a customized data base system, this may be very useful to you. The PDBS is written in USCD Pascal and can thus be configured to run need of a data base system and cannot program Pascal, you will need to go to another package or have someone else build one (possibly using the "tools" provided in this package). If on the other hand, you have done some programming in PASCAde are marketed through booksellers rather than computer software dealers. The PDBS (Pascal Data Base System) is NOT an off the shelf product for users. It is closer to a data base construction kit for Pascal programmers. If you are in is that file description files are capable of being edited with the Editor. Changing file formats is not simple but is doable and is explained in the book. The sorts included are representative of sort techniques required to sort small files (those that fit in memory) and larger files. Of course they could be quicker if they were in assembler modules, but without actually running any benchmarks, they seem to compare quite well with sorts available in commercial packages//. It's a hardware/ software combination. The MS-DOS piggybacks on /// CP/M using the PCPI applicard. Anderson also reports that the results of his small ad about his /// programs in A+ magazine has been disappointing, and feels that Amputer Concepts, P.O. Box 182, St. Johnsbury Center, VT 05863 sells pieces of Pascal code (procedures, library units, etc.) Daryl Anderson of D.A. Data Systems, 3792 Windover, Hamburg, NY 14075 has RUNNING an implementation of MS-DOS on a /in fact gave the order a year before it took place...the delay was a small fact that he didn't know they had over $20 million of parts in inventory and needed to build and sell a few more so the losses wouldn't be so large." Kingdom CoVirginia. It has information, conversation and programs. The number is (804) 747-8752 (300/1200 baud, 7 bits, no parity, full duplex). Horse's mouth or hearsay department: "Scully wanted to kill the /// as soon as he came on board and g one new message a week. One theory is that some companies with multiple ///'s are selling them to individuals, creating many new /// fanatics. There is a new Apple /// Bulletin Board System available to anyone who is willing to call program library. Meanwhile, the volume of conversation about the /// on Compuserve between March 20 and April 20 equaled that from November 1 to March 20. All this new verbiage did not come from The Source group since it was averaginp in the SIG (The Compuserve group is free except for the basic CIS charges), and the big boost CIS received from Apple when it suggested that Appleserve users move there. All of the programs on the Source SIG have been moved to the CIS+++++++++++++++++++++++++ From Compuserve by Charles Boos A summary of the Apple /// section of Compuserve. The Apple /// SIG on The Source died this month. Contributing factors were the extra $20 charge for membershit has been solved. He took out the mother board and sprayed the connectors with a electrical circuit cleaner called Big E. It seems to have improved the connections and stopped the shorting. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++$45 with them. Reviewed by Lavona Rann. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SOLUTION TO CHIP WALK: TAU Member Jim Dayton has reported that his recurring problem with chip that would loosen and shor upon his ideas that was ready for users. PASCAL PROGRAMS FOR DATA BASE MANAGEMENT by Tom Swan, published by HAYDEN Book Company, Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. The book which is softcover, lists for $18.95 without diskettes and about It is however a good introduction to the programming side of data base and can give you a good launching pad for developing the "Perfect System" for your needs. I am only sorry that Mr Swan did not go the extra mile and build a system basednd have a desire to build your own data base system, this book and the diskettes will be of value to you. (Be prepared to spend a couple hours compiling!). Do NOT expect this to teach you all there is to know about Data Base Management. available for the ///. Again, anyone could create their own algorithms or go so far as writing assem- bled modules and putting them into the "system" if they had a special need for quick sorting. Bottom line: If you write in PASCAL a+ is not supporting the ///. He suggests subscribing to the TAU Newsletter. Space Coast Systems ICE drive is said to be a true multiuser, disk server, file server systems for the ///. They have demonstrated it with a ///, ][, and IBM sharing the same disk and data files. Todd Blackley, P.O. Box 1368, Provo, UT 84603 has created a Pascal screen dump unit for the ///. If you send him a disk, he will send it to you. There was considerable fear generated by one ///er wND FORCE YOU TO RE-BOOT." ********************************************************************* * TAUTALES * ********************************************************************* Volume 3 No. 8 you attempt to sort on [any of] the last five fields, you will get garbage on the screen and the system will partially crash. The only way out is to 'escape' from the routine. DO NOT PRESS THE SPACEBAR, AS THE SYSTEM WILL CRASH COMPLETELY A. This limits the actual number of items that you can store in a 256K machine to about 2200, but you have the option of nearly instant retrieval and sorting on almost any of the fields.... You are allowed a maximum of 30 fields .... If Each of these disks is available for $3.50 plus $2.50 shipping charge, for the entire order. /// EZ Pieces BUG: THE /// NEWSLETTER of 4/25 reports a bug to the data base portion. "/// EZ Pieces stores all of its data in memoryyou go that way. If you wish, the Keypad macros are automatically loaded and you have a menu choice of 5 screen typefaces. (Caveat: It appears unreliable in find/replace of control characters, but you probably don't do that anyway.) to owners of the previous APPLEWRITER ///, this upgrade allows you to access all of the RAM memory available--ours comes up with 201 K Bytes of available space. You can also set the width up to 255 columns, and the screen scrolls over when you use your computer for business use. 36 FIXER This program will "uncatalyze" original disks that you have loaded into your CATALYST, making them once again bootable on your machine. 37 SUPER APPLEWRITER /// Available onlytaining 16 pages of detailed instructions. 35 CONTEMPORANEOUS LOG PROGRAM Dan Wade's brilliant bit of Business Basic that satisfies the 1985 I.R.S. regulations for computer deductions. It records date, time and purpose each times an interpreter and allows you to write command files that set all parameters and log you on and off various services. You can have a file for each place you call. Included are six sample files by Ray Wilfinger to modify, and a textfile con*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) TAU DISK LIBRARY New this Month New In the Disk Library: 34 ACCESS /// INTERP VERSION Available only to owners of the previous ACCESS ///, this version resides a A /// that may in Summer wear A cooling fan upon her rear. Upon which branches set and clear; And quiet as the forest deer. Poems are made by fools like me, But only Apple made a ///. (*)(*)( I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a ///. A /// whose memory chips are prest Against their sockets, stay at rest! A /// that calculates all day, And tests itself with "I'm OK." and 2) good old Daryl Anderson uploaded the code of the ROM to the Program Library, where you can download it and burn it into an EPROM. A Poem--by Mel (DRAW ON ///) Astrahan (with utmost apologies to Sgt. Joyce Kilmer): ho discovered that his ROM had died. Diagnostics and the computer didn't work. Where are we all left if Apple does not support the ///. Two answers surfaced immediately. 1) The part is available from Apple, Part #342-0031 at about $20, MAY 1985 TAU is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the accumulation and dissemination of information about (and relating to) the Apple /// computer. Membership fees are currently $12.00 a year, with a $5.00 initiation fee. Correspondence should be directed to: TAU c/o Lavona Rann 1113 Wheaton Oaks Drive Wheaton, Il 60187 e D-RAM chips. Industry analysts predict that in the next generation, 1M D-RAM, the US market share wild be even smaller NEW MASS STORAGE ON THE WAY: All the major Japanese companies are working on laser disk storage for microcomputers. Prmpanies are finding it no longer profitable to produce RAM chips. The worst area is in dynamic random-access-memory. The new 256K D-RAM market will be dominated by the Japanese, about a 95% share. Only Texas Instruments continues to mak 848-3371. (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) APPLE AND OTHER MICRO NEWS: US FIRMS GIVING UP RAM MARKET: Faced with low prices and huge quant- ities of RAM coming from Japanese producers, US co group purchase of TOOLS TIMES /// a package of Basic programing tools. It lists for $400, but a group purchase would bring the price under $300 depending on the number of packages ordered. Anyone interested can contact Gary Schmitt at (312)or purchasing more than one. It runs only ProDos, but SOS accesses the full 128 with the .RAM Driver. He reports that rumors are strong at Garden of Eden that the IIe board will be out in the fall. Gary Schmitt would like to arrange a member Gary Schmitt reports that Garden of Eden Computer, 16485 Magnolia ST., Westminster, CA 92683 -- orders (800) 762-3227, technical support 714 841-4994 -- is selling 128k Titan II+ boards for $299.95. He got a further discount of $10 fing on status and hope- fully "deals" on this board and any others that Titan is considering. If you think you would be interested in boards for your ///, let us know at 1113 Wheaton Oaks Drive, Wheaton, Il 60187. In the mean time TAUis attempting to arrange a deal with Titan Technologies for a group purchase or discount on their forthcoming boards for the ///. The new IIe board is supposed to support full 80 column screens as well as most IIe software. We will be reportther cash investments. Among enhancements is the Tax Law of 1984, and greater capacity to handle transactions. $185 from Smith Micro Software plus $2 handling. write P.O. Box 7137, Huntington Beach, California 92615. 714-964-0412 TAU Y[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~=========================== NEW FOR THE APPLE /// : Smith Micro Software, Inc announced the release of the second Edition Plus of their STOCK PORTFOLIO SYSTEM. It handles stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, money markets, CD's and o ________________________________________________________________ ================================================================ **** T A U T A L E S JUNE 1985 **** =====================================oducts are pre- dicted to be on sale within a year. Storage capacity are said to start about 500M. Early uses might be on-line encyclopedias and games. With this type of storage, games might once again become a hot item with life like sound and pictures. MAC OFFICE STILL ON HOLD: Early this month Apple invited large corporate users to New York for a seminar on Mac Office. Most felt that Apple expected the user to do too much systems integration. Anothery requires clear vision of goals. Apple has suffered too long from fuzzy goals. APPLE STOCK: Probably related to Apple's other problems is the report that a number of Apple officers and directors have recently sold a lot of Asinesses". While, we would have included the home market, we are very glad to see an official statement that Apple is not planning on being all things to all people. As noted in such works as IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE, corporate success usuallpple management has finally recognized a need to define a focus for the corporation and then implement it. Scully said that the changes were made to, "focus Apple's resources on our two primary markets education and small and medium sized bupressure from Apple's dealers. We hope that this is the start of implementation of a consistent managed plan for marketing and distributing APPLE products. Finally, in the reorganization announcement, there was a glimmer of hope that AAn article in the June 3rd. Information Week described Apple's plan to shift responsibility for sales to Fortune 1,000 accounts to selected dealers. Apple intends to pare its National accounts team. This policy seems intended to reduce the luded a much needed decision to clarify corporate goals and direction concerning distribution channels. The San Francisco Chronicle article that reported reorganization of Apple management also reported a layoff of 200 sales employees. ofess- ional management" from the "people that understand the business". Now neither Jobs nor Woz has day to day control over Apple. In some ways, it does mark the end of an era. There are indications that the recent reorganization inct range from, "Sculley is finally decided to earn his (2.2 million) salary," INFOWORLD quoted an anonymous company official; to agreement of many that it was a overdue move for Apple. While most applauded, some worried about the shift to "prwinner is said to be Del Yocam, former head of the Apple II division, who became executive vice president of corporate product operations responsible for marketing, manufacturing, and operations. Comment on Apple's changes of managemenore "International role" working on new product strategies, but will have no responsibilities for day to day operations. "Winners": Bill Campbell - VP of sales and marketing; Mike Spindler still heads the International division; the biggest to have proposed the reorganization to other board members gaining their support by telephone on the night before presenting the plan to Jobs. In the new structure Jobs retains the title of chairman of the board. Here he is to take a m not heard, Steven Jobs headed the list of people moved in the May 29th shakeup of Apple management. The moves orchestrated by Apple President John Sculley in order to, "Cut fat, and inspire confidence in its employees." Sculley is reported Street Journal reported the closing of the San Jose plant that made parts for the Mac XL. Apple, like many other vendors, will not exhibit in the National Computer Conference in Chicago in July. JOBS KICKED UPSTAIRS: In case you have complaint was that Apple was selling Mac as a stand-alone machine, and not an office automation system. Another problem is that much third party products are not yet ready for market. Industry slowdown continues: Thursday, May 23rd. Wallpple stock. It is common practice for young companies to pay their key people with stock and stock options, in addition to cash. Because of "insider" considerations, such sales must be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and so become public record. Del Yocam, mentioned above as a big winner in the reorganization, sold 35,000 shares on Feb. 14 at $28. Among other large holders mentioned was Kenneth Zerbe, who sold 220,000 of his 300,000 shares during the tal plate inside the bulb, and discovered that current moved through the vacuum to plate. The vacuum tube was born. With a minor modification of the tube and a fluorescent coating at one end, the Edison Effect was to become the cathode ray t as the Edison Effect. What in truth was "thermionic emission" first observed in the inventor's Menlo Park laboratory in 1883. Working on the problem of why light bulbs blackened with use, Edison and his assistant Francis Upton put a me the creation of an industry, he manages to do much more. In sections spaced through the book, he gives equal space to the developing science of the semiconductor. He begins the scientific story with the discovery of what was then known thenlopment at still young Fairchild Semiconductor. Book Review continued Mr. Reid primary story is the development of the chip from its begin- ning, through Patent squabbles and law suits, to a giant industry. While highlightingce was a man of many interests as widely varied as singing madrigals and flying seaplanes. He had a doctorate in physics, specializing in photo lithography, but it was his management skills had made him the Director of Research and Deve came to Texas Instruments to do the one thing he wanted to do above all else, to work through a problem until he had the best solution. From his Great Bend, Kansas roots, he brought a methodical approach to his work. By contrast, Robert Noy the same instant (Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce) it was an odyssey for each as different as the two men were themselves. Mr. Reid takes great pains to give us an insight into each man's character as well as his method of working. Jack Kilbynly a couple years until almost everyone in America had a shirt pocket size radio, and only a couple years more until tiny, hand-held calculators were commonplace. For the two engineers who independently invented the microchip at almost as did the development of the chip. Even the light bulb and the telephone took years before they reached into the homes and consciousness of the nation. From September 12, 1958 the first demonstration of an integrated circuit, it took o THE CHIP: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution. T. R. Reid. Simon and Schuster: New York. 1984. 243p. -- A BOOK REVIEW -- by Richard Rann Few ideas have had such an immediate impact on the world you get a "Volume Not Found" message. It is very hard to recover your data, and you should let everything cool off before you let your backup disk near the machine. ^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^&^ hotter than 75 degrees. Most common is that they will clobber the disk directory when you save your file. We suggest that you use air conditioning, and direct a small fan at the fins in the back of your ///. When the directory is clobbered,among stock buyers to recent negative short term news. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WARNING: This is the time of year for all ///er's to be aware that ///'s do the strangest things when they get period of November through January. Finally, with Apple stock reaching an all time low of $16, and falling personal computer sales, market analysts are beginning to say that now might be a good time to by Apple. They point to overreaction ube. Mr. Reid points to an irony of the nineteenth century style of inventing. During Edison's work with the light bulb, others were doing work on the curious electronic properties of certain substances that came to be know as semiconductors. Edison's fame wrapped itself around the vacuum tube, and scientists chose that path heading down a fifty year long dead end. What is most evident in reading The Chip is how all the diverse elements that went into making the first ch the ///+ is more flexible.) The ///+ version does allow a slightly larger Driver file than the /// version. If you format a A143 MicroSci disk on Three Easy Pieces it can come out as a 140K disk rather than a 570K disk. On the advicehe device subtype. The ///+ version does not allow this so version 1.4 MicroSci driver handles the change by changing blocks. You should be aware of this difference. If no one tell us otherwise, we think the /// version (which also works witreferably with your computer, and search for fringing of colors in white lines or characters especially in the corner of the screen." The version 1.12 MicroSci driver is for the /// Utilities disk. This utilities allows you to change tor monitors vary tremendously in the degree to which the three guns have been converged, i.e. in the precision with which the red, blue and green guns have been adjusted so as to coincide. My advice is to have the store demonstrate a model pips, 6522 and 6551 chips. They usually have an ad in BYTE. Incidentally, if you have a 128K 5 volt ///, any fool can put the 4164 chips in to up it to 256K. If you are buying a color monitor, don't take it in the carton, untried. "Cole continued Jameco Electronics, 1355 Shoreway Road, Belmont, CA 94002, (415) 592-8097 has clock chips that will work in your /// for $8.95. Its the MM5817AN 24 pin Real Time Clock Chip. They also sell 4164 RAM chips, 6502 processor chl of a sudden...what's going on?". It also appears to him that Apple is out of Disk ///'s. There were 167 ///ers on the list of Compuserve users as of May 5, 1985. This is up from c. 110 at the beginning of the year. CompuservWriter will also NOT print more than 64K of copy at a time. We just deleted the first 64K of a large file and continued printing. Charles McConathy says he was at MicroSci (4/26/85) and the shipping people voiced, "Everyone wants A-143's al there is no room to load Apple Speller. The result is an Error #06 or stack overflow. We hope someone will experiment with this and let us know about how many K Speller requires. We suspect that more than 64K is available. Super Apple joyable. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THIS MONTH FROM COMPUSERVE by Charles Boos If you are using Super Apple Writer /// and want to use Apple Speller, you must set your memory to about 64K or Chip is a must. On one hand, it provides a scientific base on which all other knowledge can be built, on the other, it paints portraits of the people involved in creating an industry. What is more, Mr. Reid's style makes the reading entersperses sketches of the people with their discoveries weaving a picture of inventor and invention that always leads back to Kilby and Noyce and their pivotal position in the creation of an industry. For anyone interested in computers, Theme theory, to the invention of the transistor, and the subsequent "tyranny of numbers" caused by the complex modern circuit, all led to the development of microprocessors. Most important, he does it all in a very enjoyable manner. He inomputer -- eventually the microprocessor -- already existed. There was no invention that was the computer. What happened was a drawing together of all the diverse elements into one engineering whole. From Boole and number theory, through ga of others we tried changing the device type on the format driver to the larger disk, but 3EZP still thinks its a 140K disk. If you format using System Utilities or the Basic Formatter you get 570K just fine. If you save a small spreadsheet on Three Easy Pieces by row, to textfile you may get an intermittent situation where SOS bombs and you get System error 06. This may be a bug. Save only by column. You should never save or print DIF files by other than column. So computer industry. One thing this gentleman said stuck with me. He felt that Apple would have difficulty in the future because he believed that business (primarily the Fortune 500) would be the only active and expanding market for micro-comichard Rann Like most people, I was surprised at Apple's announcement of the end of the MacIntosh XL. About the same time as the Apple announcement, Wall Street Week, on Public Broadcasting, featured a stock analyst specializing in the works well. Each of these disks is available to TAU members for $3.50 plus $2.50 minimum shipping charge, for the entire order. =========================================================== A BLINDED VISIONARY -- an editorial by Rbut should have them. If you have been unable to get the Disk Editor to save your changes, use a lower case "y" in response to the prompt "Save changes to disk?" An upper case "Y" has the same save effect as NO. Otherwise, this program ed to run this emulation of the Lisa screen and received the notice "Missing Intrinsics 55 & 56" these are standard Apple /// Pascal intrinsics (Pgraf) add these to your System.Library. You may discover you are missing different intrinsics, is allows free movement of the Pascal program and files to a hard disk or large capacity drive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A NOTE ABOUT #25 MONA LISA and #3 DISK BLOCK EDITOR If you have trint, Procedure and Op- code information, and output the disassembled listing to textfile or character device. 39 WADE'S PASCAL PATCH 1.2 Dan Wade has modified Jeppson's Pascal Patch to work with the new (1.2) version of Pascal. Thyou to make your own screen type font. FIND REPLACE does just that, as does FILE CLEAR, and QUICK SORT sorts your catalog whether you want it sorted or not. 38 p-Code DISASSEMBLER This will analyze USCD Pascal codefiles for SegmeBasic (1.23) plus eight useful programs for use with Business Basic. CLEANER creates the proper disk movement for a cleaning disk. COMPARE, RENUMBER, and STRING CHECK work like other similar Basic programs but on the ///. DESIGN FONT allows paint shaker. New In the Disk Library: 17 BASIC TOOLS (This replaces the previous #17 the second disk of Wade's Pascal Menu which has been reduced to one disk.) This disk gives you the latest version of Business e issue of POPULAR COMPUTING in an article about "orphan" computers says that the /// user base is actually growing because of big companies selling to the general public. At Comdex, the LaPine Hard Disk drive was demonstrated working on a lities, it will show "Directory Damaged". This is normal as a result of their copy protection scheme. The same is true of TAU's Disk Fix Utility. It shows directory damage when you get the extra disk space. No damage done. The Junte to First Class Peripherals, 2158 Avenue C, Bethlehem, PA 18001 and tell them that you are interested. This is the good hard disk that sells for $695 for 10 megabytes. Quark says that if you read your copy of Catalyst with System Utiurces indicate that the drivers for the SIDER Hard Disk for the /// have been written and tested by Apple, but they have not been released because of "lack of interest," because the documentation has not been written. We suggest that you wriputers during the next decade. In essence, what he was saying was that IBM had already won the sales competition well into the 1990's, and that the scraps would be cleaned up by Wang, AT&T, DEC. as they expanded their sales into corporate America. Continued on next page Continued from prior page Something troubled me about this view of the micro-computer industry that couldn't be defined until I remembered a discussion I had with an Apple Employee when * TAUTALES * ********************************************************************* Volume 3 No. 9 JUNE 1985 needless tragedies such as Lisa and the ///. Apple management has, thus far, failed at giving the company a consistent, thoughtful direction. ********************************************************************* accepted the micro-computer until Apple had proven the market; nor will it see the next boom market in micro-computers until it is already well established. Continuing to set corporate strategy based upon the stock market would lead to more , by courting the most fickle of lovers, Wall Street. The real tragedy is that Apple is taking its direction from an entity that cannot see the future. Wall Street, by its very nature, is always driven by the past. It would never have ter makers, and ultimately a "blue chip" stock. To be in that crowd it had to sell strongly in the corporate market. Apple's goal appeared to shift from making the most profit out of operations, to maximizing stock price, and corporate image' net worth was cut in half. The pressure began for Apple to sell only machines that would increase stock value (i.e. those that dominated their particular market). Apple as a corporate entity saw itself in the first rank of major compu7 and within hours it was selling for near $30 making Jobs millions in an afternoon. From there it moved generally upward until its high a couple years later. When the boom in high tech stock ended and Apple stock went back to the $30s, Jobso do with the net worth of the major Apple stock holders, and the way they perceive Apple's corporate image. Steven Jobs was made a multi-millionaire almost over night. When Apple became a public held corporation, the stock opened at $1 the /// was discontinued. Another year passed, and the Lisa line was dropped at a time Apple stock is selling in the low $20's. What has this to do with the production and sales of Apple computers? Nothing directly, but it has a lot ty active in high tech stocks. Apple stock was trading at an all time high, just over $60 a share. At that time the /// was a safe, solid member of the Apple family. A little more than a year later Apple stock had slipped to $30 a share, and According to Wall Street something more was needed, and that puzzled me. It wasn't until I related these statements with the price of Apple stock that I finally had a clue to why? Lisa was announced during a historic bull market, especiallThey did not dominate the market; therefore, they were not successful. With the /// in particular it seems that it wasn't enough for a product to pay for its development, production, and return profit to the corporation's balance sheet. Like Lisa, also considered a loser because its sales were less than ex- pected, it had to go according to the market analysts and bankers that watched the industry. The /// and later the Lisa just didn't perform on a par with IBM's PC. the Apple /// was dropped. He claimed that Apple had to drop the /// because of pressure from "Wall Street". The bankers and stock analysts saw the /// as a loser even though it was making a profit, and its sales were increasing each year. ================================================================ **** T A U T A L E S JULY 1985 **** ================================================================ "1985 A YEAR OF IMPLEMENTATION" or splementation" is the business slowdown which might speed introduction of new products, later in the year in an attempt to enliven a sluggish market. (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) APaid of Apple, in a year of implementation. Most all trends evident this year were present last year. New products and concepts are hinted at, but no one is willing to show any of their research. The only cross current to the "Year of Imng markets. The problem of positioning the two computers will be an interesting battle fought out this Christmas selling season. So what we had at the Consumer Electronics Show this year was an entire industry, like the Apple spokesperson sd to compete with K-Mart and similar retailers. Besides, both Commodore and Atari have had poor relations with the speciality dealer in the past. So what could potentially be good machines at reasonable prices, may have difficulty findier machine with monitor will have to be over a $1000; that is out of the range of the mass market an discount stores that form the backbone of their sales. Speciality computer dealers are reluctant to get into the low end market and be force's Macintosh clone was not shown on the exhibition floor, but was available to developers in Commodore's hospitality suite. A problem for both Atari and Commodore is distribution. No matter which rumor you accept as truth, the price on eithwith an additional CP/M processor. A prototype expanded to 256K, due out before Christmas was presented as a business machine. The 128 looked quite good, though somewhat limited, and with almost no software in the near future. Commodoressor. Its price was set at $399. Commodore also demonstrated two new machines. The first was a portable business computer with a battery pack and a flat LCD display. However Commodore's major offering was the 128, which is a double 64 , mouse, and an icon driven "GEM" operating system. According to Atari, it is nearly ready for market -- this month sometime -- though a definite price has not yet been published. The other computer is the 130XE based on the 6502c microproce While the industry waits to see the impact of the Commodore and Atari Macintosh clones, both due this summer, only Atari's was on view. Atari demonstrated two new computers. The 520ST a Motorola 68000 based machine with a half meg RAMroducts displayed, especially in the computer field, and even one software publisher, Sublogic, who had nothing other than the same programs it had been selling for years. Only a few hardware manufacturers attended, and they had little new. o Says Apple After a Consumer Electronics Show in early June that was less than exciting, few could doubt that the entire industry is in "an implimentation phase" as an Apple spokesperson referred to it re- cently. There were few new pPLE ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL LAYOFFS: Apple has announced that it will layoff an additional 1200 people during the next three months. Most will come from the closing of the Apple II plant in Dallas; IIe production will be moved to Singapore. IIc production will move to the automated plant in Fremont, California previously used exclusively for Mac and now running at half capacity. In addition the peripherals plant in Ireland will close. By fall, Apple will have trimmed their work onitors, profiles and some software are also on their current price list. Call their bulletin board at 1-801-752-7632 or toll free ordering line at 1-800-821-3221. IBM STILL MAKING NEWS FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS: IBM system 36 has nnounced that is is giving the /// a "new lease on life". They bought APPLES's remaining stock of ///'s as well as used ones. Rebuilt 256k ///'s "completely guaranteed as if new" are selling for $699 without monitor. Printers, disk drives, mity for a /// (SOS) board for emulating SOS on a future "super II". It would make a great transition opportunity for the large number of /// owners. NEW APPLE /// COMMITMENT Sun Data (P.O. Box 4059, Logan, Utah 84321) has aready said to have been increased to $40 million R & D budget. This makes ongoing development of II boards for the APPLE /// very important to those wanting to use emulation in the future! Some of the new technology may indicate a possibilone to insure compatability with future products. . 800K Sony disk drives for Mac. * Bank-memory system that would allow 1 Mega-byte for the IIe. Sculley's influence appears to benefit further development of the II family al . Appletalk for the II -- "the cards were designed nearly two years ago." * ROM semi-conductor that will support new mass storage devices such as new CD optical storage. . Revised Mac disk manager/operating system shell, finder. Dprocessor. * 3 1/2 inch 800k disk drive for II named Liron, priced at $500. This product is reported by other sources as being ready to go now. Some developers are currently using it, but Apple is uncertain about its future. le as being delayed once more because of production difficulties. . A high-end Mac to replace XL in MacOffice. * Imagewriter II with built in sheet feeder for both II and Mac * 16-bit II using Western Design Center 65816 8/16-bit duct introduction in order to stave off challenges by Atari and Commodore Mac clones. These products (* indicates /// potential) are: . An external hard disk for Mac due in the fall . MacOffice file server -- reported in another article in the July 1, 1985 issue of InfoWorld entitled "New Products Slated by Apple," by Christine McGeever and Jim Forbes lists probable future products from Apple. Along with Apple's corporate reorganization, John Sculley may speed up new prooptions, and providing a greater variety of peripherals. According to John Scully Apple will help in building bridges to ease transition to industry protocol standards. Look for Mac-to-IBM PC communication. COMING FROM APPLE: An artic APPLE TO CUT OPEN MAC: In an effort to interest third-party de- velopers Apple will open the previously close architecture of the Macintosh. This move will give smaller companies access to Apple technology in hopes of increasing software The June 18 USA TODAY reported the results of a survey conducted by Future Computing. More people from he 59,000 households surveyed considering buying a computer favor Apple over IBM 32% to 26%. The next company was Commodore at 19%. force by 21%. Not all of the layoffs have been production workers, 250 will come from corporate offices as Apple cuts inexperienced managers and incorporates national sales into its retail sales division. FUTURE COMPUTING MAIL SURVEY: finally made it into the micro-press with the PC/system-36 interface that IBM has been attempting to sell for a year now. IBM's idea of office communications between its "compatible" products is to purchase PC-ATs, and then buy a system 36 with a PC/36 as a devoted controller in order to access IBM mainframes. Behind the absurdity of buying a $5000 PC to connect to a $10,000 plus mini to connect to a multi- $10,000 plus mainframe is IBM's strategy which is to destroy the sep- sonville, MD 21150. We will try to add this to the library. As of July 22 Quark has reduced its QC20 hard disk to $1795 and its QC10 to $1295. Those are both list prices, discounts are available. The nice thing about these is that they go i(Decimal 0) as a control character. Synergistics has a patch to correct this. A disk called "Big Disk Check" which repairs big and small catalogs can be had if you send a disk and return postage to Soft Spec, Inc., P.O. Box 180, Simpsk, but the tally of actual blocks used by the files comes to <> 205...I believe it happens when either a file delete operation or a create or expand is interrupted half way" Applewriter /// as you may know will not take an ASCII Null bark than bite," according to the ubiqui- tous Daryl Anderson who has run Catalyst with that warning for 6 months without difficulty. "It is when the bitmap in block 6 of the diskette says, for example, 205 blocks are used by files on the di a mouse, joystick or the keyboard. Send $20 to him at 11401 Kensington Road, Los Alamitos, CA 90720. He will also upgrade your "Fruit Machine" to a better version if you send your disk and return postage. "Directory Damaged" is "more #276-036B. If you have more than one Serial Device you want to connect to your /// get a T-switch from Inmac. (303) 799-4324. Mel Astrahan has a sequel to his "Fruit Machine" game for the ///. It is "The Card Machine, which works with wired into the diagnostic circuit. You can get it to boot by holding the control/reset somewhat longer. Replacing the lamp is a simple solder. Lamps are about $4.50 from Apple, or replace it with an LED (they don't burn out) Radio Shack e the cost is only c. $239, several testimonials have appeared for its durability in office use. If your /// won't boot or run the diagnostics, see if the "on" lamp is burned out. In one of those quirks of Apple engineering the on lamp is te mind. IBM sees its future in a world on mainframe computers. ******************************************************************* THIS MONTH FROM COMPUSERVE by Charles Boos A good cheap printer is the Star SG-10. Whilo IBM corporate headquarters and easier to control. IBM seems determined to slow the innovation with restrictions on its personal computer division's independence. Again it is a battle of the micro-computer and mainframe for the corporato anyone. IBM is doing what they do best -- creating a demand for an product which may or may not be worthy. PC division is changing too. Its headquarters is moving from Boca Raton, Florida to Montvale, New Jersey where it is closer tC to networking mainframes. Even before they announced their first Personal Computer, they intended to make the PC into a semi-dumb terminal. So why the system/36? IBM has a warehouse full of them. What is happening should not be a surprise es of the PC are lost. IBM's view is that "PC-DOS applications should be considered a casual or secondary use when the system unit is active." From talking with a former IBM executive, IBM's grand strategy was to move users from the P arate processing use of micro-computers. Despite the success of the PC, IBM is still selling centralization. After all this expense of the PC/36, it still does not work well together. While plugged into the System 36 many of the advantagnto the /// drive daisy chain and do not take up a slot. The corrected switch settings if you are using a Apple ][ Super Serial card in your /// are Switch 2-6 and 2-7 are both left on to enable interrupts. ********************************************************************* * TAUTALES * ********************************************************************* Volume 3 No. 10 JUNE 1985 the /// and deserves some support from us. Contact him at the above address for current price list and product information. New STOCK PORTFOLIO SYSTEM Gary Fortune, of MAUG (Apple Sig on COMPUSERVE) and the South Bay Apple ge to symbolic listings) It makes a very interesting listing of SOS Boot code. Several Basic extensions/programs are available as well as software and hardware from other sources. Daryl Anderson has put a lot of effort into supporting Power Cat (sorts and catalogs files over multiple devices and floppies), Power Keys (gives you very powerful MACRO capability from any program on your /// - will be reviewed here soon!), Source Window (disAssembler from machine languawho want only software to "boot and run". Some of these products will be reviewed in depth in this newsletter later this Fall. For now, a "teaser list" of some of the available software follows: The Retriever (to recover deleted files), Ventura, CA 93006. D.A. DATASYSTEMS (3792 Windover, Hamburg, NY 14075) has several pieces of software written specifically for the ///. As a general rule, the items are software aimed at those who program their ///'s rather than those e APPLE DMP and IMAGEWRITER printers. Bob Consorti indicates that support will be added for other printers depending on demand. If you are interested in the package and do not have a supported printer, you can contact him at: P.O. Box 3825, ashington Avenue P.O. Drawer 2767 Titusville, FL 32781-2767 /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// Software and Technical Bits: The Draw On /// package now is available in a version that works on th software, and OMNIS multi-user data base software. 10, 21 and 42MB Winchester storage modules are also available as well as a high speed tape streamer back-up module. For information write: Space Coast Systems, Inc. 301 S. Werver that will allow Apple //+, //e, ///, IBM PC, and XT users to utilize the same hard disk subsystem. It requires no communications software and is compatible with several software systems including: Great Plains multi-user accounting ION: Space Coast Systems has decided to market APPLE /// items directly to /// owners now that APPLE no longer sells them. The Florida company specializes in support for multi-user systems and has among other things a Multi-User Disk S ================================================================= **** T A U T A L E S AUGUST 1985 **** ================================================================ SPACE COAST SYSTEMS PICKS UP OPT /// User Group has provided a good review of this new system. It is designed as a "complete investment accounting, record keeping and control system to provide facts to make informed investment decisions." The package was written by Bill Smith of Smith Micro Software and is available as part of a group purchase for MAUG members and at $185 for those without a discount. Gary is at [74176,444] on Compuserve and his review is available there. The package sounds good from Borland Company signed on and was greeted with "Be ye a ///er or be ye a //er." They let her stay even after she admitted that she was a //e'er. We don't know what would have happened to her if she had lied. She might have been zapped itally protected, but got zapped in the Bell. Fortunately, it was a Hayes, and they sent him a new one. We feel that the charges that the /// SIG on Compuserve is an exclusive clique are unwarranted. Just the other day a lady from the Applicard for CP/M, and is offering it at a "ridiculously low price." DA DATA Systems, 3792 Windover, Hamburg, NY 14075. Unplug your modem from the phone lines now that the thunderstorm season is here. One ///er had his power lines toically accurate in the Round and random number functions. None of these was IBM. One of these was the ///. (The other two are Hewlett-Packard's HP-86 and the Apple ][+ HRFS routine. DA Data Systems has purchased a large quantity of PCPI's et the voltage down to 120volts. (Easily done with a number of cheap converters or your own resistor network if you are clever.) Dr. Dobbs Journal reported that only three computers of fourteen tested by Bradley University are statist an even number of copies, print one side, then turn the paper over, and print it again with one page offset. If for any reason you are leaving the country,you can run a /// on 50 cycles safely without any changes as long as you can gtter. Bill (///'s Company) O'Brien has given up his column in Insider. He is working on some books including a possible /// Survival Manual. More from Compuserve If you want to print both sides of a printout and you needce again, a small blue plastic square with a tiny brass screw sticking out to the left. Use a disk speed test, disk clean program, or the strobe on the flywheel to determine the speed. Use a florescent light or neon lamp to see the strobe be driver. If you leave them out or make them inactive, you won't be able to load. If you need to adjust the speed on your Micro-sci 143, you can find the adjustment pot on the analog card left edge near the back of the card. It is, ons coming out with a new guide to /// software, "hopefully by September." Quark has an upgrade to the Terminus program free of charge. Call their customer service. The .UNUSED drivers on Catalyst are used when you dynamically load a your mailbox, Sun Data, .O. Box 4059, Logan, Utah 84321 [1-800-821-3221] has become the official remainderer for all Apple /// products. They have a list of available /// programs and are selling ///'s themselves at low cost. Apple i/. If you have questions or want to learn about those mythical programs and drivers that only Apple has you can ask him directly, or if you do not have Compuserve, ask us, and we'll ask him. As you should know from the mailing piece in+++++++++++++++ THIS MONTH FROM COMPUSERVE by Charles Boos Two representatives of Apple Computer have shown up on Compuserve. One is Dan Cochran, the other who bills himself as "Apple // Tech" has been providing real support for the //his review. If you are interested and cannot find a Compuserve member to get you information, leave a message with the Ranns (312-665-6319) and we will get you a copy of the review. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++n the Bell. Titan Technologies says that its ///+//e card, which will be out in August or September will support the following: 80 column video, lower case, RGB color for emulation, double hi-res video, use of /// ram as a ram disk, and the same 140K ram disk as their ///+][ version. It will be a two card, two slot system. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ NEW IN THE DISK LIBRARY 40 WADE'S SOS BLOCK EDITORded upon to provide much, if any, support to /// users. To some extent this has always been true, but most definitely it has been true for the past couple years. The Apple /// user community, as a whole, is extremely good at being supp How many times have you found yourself wishing that there was someone you could ask about a specific /// problem? One thing that has been very apparent to the APPLE /// community is that dealers, vendors and APPLE as a whole cannot be depenPESKY PROBLEM, share it with us. You never know how many others are facing the same problem. (312) 665-6319 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Central Time) 365 days a year (often by telephone recorder) lease feel free to call with your /// problems. No question is stupid unless you need an answer and don't ask. If we don't have an answer, we need one for the whole community and will work diligently to get one. ANYONE THAT SOLVES A ================================================================= **** T A U T A L E S^ SEPTEMBER 1985 **** ================================================================ TAU HELP LINE EVERYONE: P*** Volume 3 No. 11 AUGUST 1985 lus $2.50 minimum shipping charge, for the entire order. ********************************************************************* * TAUTALES * ******************************************************************ty is maintained and restored in 80 column .CONSOLE Emodes,including window environments. It is also crash proof in low memory situations.It, of course, requires Pascal 1.1 or 1.2. Each of these disks is available to TAU members for $3.50 p This new program by Dan Wade provides a sophisticated on-line helpfile and screen dump capability for your Pascal programs. You can use it to add explanations that can be called up by operators when they need them. Original screen integri (data dumps), modifications to program files, repair of damaged directories, and recovery of damaged files. Complete documentation and help files are included on the disk. You must have Pascal 1.1 or 1.2 to use this. 41 HELPSTUFF We feel that this is a vast improvement over previous editors. You can use it to inspect and/or modify any block in a file or on disk, using block file I/O or absolute disk addressing modes. Applications include analysis of data filesortive to other users but the problem is getting the questions to those who can best help answer them. As TAU membership has swelled and more people have been calling, we have found it advisable to enlarge our list of "specialists". We have a fairly large number of "specialists" in the U.S. Midwest and are working at getting regional clusters. If any of you would be willing and able to provide a central calling point for your part of the world, please write to: 561,580 Tandy's John Roach................$ 552,490 TI's Chairman Mark Shepherd Jr....$ 550,020. JOBS STARTING OVER According to a report in the September 16, USA TODAY, Steven Jobs presented plans to start a neBig Blue's Chairman John R. Opel..$1,034,390 AT&T CEO Charles Brown............$ 989,500 HP's John Young...................$ 798,210 Digital's President Kenneth Olsen.$ 655,000 TI's CEO J. Fred Bucy.............$ Sculley did even better when compared to the rest of the industry. He did two and three times as well as several other "big hitters". Of course, none of this takes into consideration stock options and other forms of compensation. executive in 1984 was Apple's own John Sculley. He managed to harvest a few bushels of wind-fall apples at his $2,164,068 salary. Quite an achievement for Sculley when you consider that Jobs, the man who hired Sculley, was paid $338,931. printers. While Apple is not likely to move away from the Canon engine, a Mac interface is likely which will add the Xerox 4045 to the LaserWriter and the HP LaserJet. BIG MONEY UNDER THE OLD APPLE TREE The highest paid computer company APPLE Apple micro users are soon to have a third alternative in Laser printers. Rumor has it that Apple has been looking at the Xerox Laser printer engine. The Xerox engine will soon be on the market powering a number of third party Laser ld have any special functions, please let Dan know. He anticipates marketing at approx $25, and it should be ready in about 30 days. {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ APPLE AND OTHER MICRO NEWS NEW FOR Pinzur, Cogen & Co., CPA's Attn: Daniel G. Wade 100 W Monroe St, Suite 1001 Chicago, Illinois 60603 Please be sure to include a complete copy of your printer's setup codes. Also, if you think SIDEPRINT shoun Wade. He has it working on an Imagewriter, where it prints spreadsheets in "landscape" mode, the long way on the printer. If you have a need for this program, or need it implemented on a different printer, drop him a line: e first increase in the last 5 years. We hope that you still think it is a bargain. ============================================================= NEW /// SOFTWARE: SIDEPRINT Sideprint is a utility program written by TAU treasurer, Dadget. The TAU board has finally given in to the postage increase and the increased cost of printing TAUTALES. Rather than go to a cheaper printing process or to third class mail, we have increased annual dues from $12 to $15. This is thlunteers. Anyone that has a special expertise and a willingness to share it, PLEASE let us know. We can never have too many "specialists" MONEY MATTERS: No it is not time for TAU dues but this is information for your buong distance return calls, it has been the practice of the central operation to take calls, research answers, and make the return calls. TAU is willing to negotiate reimbursement of a reasonable amount of toll charges for regional cluster vo TAU C/O Lavona Rann 1113 Wheaton Oaks Dr Wheaton, Il 60187 (or E-Mail Compuserve Lavona Rann [70356,200]) As most volunteer "specialists" are often not available and are not all interested in making lw company to Apple's board of Directors the prior Thursday. The new venture in not intended to compete with Apple. While no details of the new company are available, it is said Jobs intends to develop high-end microcomputers for universities. An additional rumor says that he is taking several of Apple's key people for the new company. Will Steve remain Chairman of Apple? Will he stay on the Board of Directors? How much of his Apple stock will he keep? Will Apple invest in II several times in response to customer concerns. Recently though, Apple managerial and labor concerns have lead to chopping lengths off the consumer leg, just as IBM has. There is no telling if continuing production of the /// and Lis of the customers that IBM has "abandoned". We have all watched Apple follow IBM's lead in their relationship to the consumer leg of the triangle. In the beginning, Apple was closely attuned to the consumer. They changed the Apple I and that a significant percentage of System 34 users are not planning on "upgrading" to another IBM machine. For the first time in their long life they have several strong competitors in the medium size computer market that might capture some ing support for System 34 programs, and operating systems. IBM's goal is to convert people to System 36 and 38, but in dropping 34 cold it has, in effect, cut a segment off its consumer base leg. Will this hurt IBM? It could. It is reported the consumer had few other choices, IBM only had to consider the management and labor legs of its business triangle. Even today, it does business in the same manner that it did in the 60's. Last week they announced that they were droppain stability with its consumer base. Editorial continued Now let us consider the computer industry. For a long time, and still today, the industry has been dominated by IBM. Because they dominated the market and because well being to visualize the potential instability of that triangle. The American auto industry maintained a near balance between management and labor but neglected the consumer and now has to cut both labor and management legs to maintles where one leg became too powerful thereby destroying a company or industry. One only has to think of the strong labor position in the steel industry and the weak management response of pursuing current profits at the expense of long termee functions: Management, labor and the consumer. If any of the three is allowed to expand, or shrink, without compensation from the others, then the triangle becomes unstable as does the business it represents. We have all seen exampur triangle is the consumer. Visualize, if you will, a triangle where all three legs are of equal length. This is an exceptionally stable construct able to take pressure in any direction. When a business functions well, it balances all thr groups using feedback and job enrichment as a means of improving production and quality. While this is true as far as it goes, management and labor are only two legs of a triangle necessary for success. The missing third leg or base of oEditorial by Richard Rann If we are to believe in the Japanese style of doing business, then we must accept that there is an equal role for management and workers in industry. The Japanese method is to create a partnership between the two sell microcomputers in China. ACI Kaihin Co. Ltd. of Singapore will represent Apple and provide software for China's educational system. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ THROW-AWAY CONSUMERS An the new Company? Will Woz be back? Stay tuned for the next episode of "DYNASTY ///". ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CHINA/APPLE CONNECTION Apple is reported to have reached an agreement toa would have made a difference with their present problems, but such actions can only mean difficulties in the future. Are a 100,000 ///ers enough to make a difference? They would if those sales shifted to someone like Franklin or to a Japanese maker trying to enter the American market. A 100,000 extra computer sales within a couple year period could make the difference to a newcomer in the industry, at the expense of oldtimers like Apple and IBM. Apple has abandoned grou Choose to NOT recalculate the minimum interpreter load address, as you would have to remove your program disk to make room for the Catalyst disk. If you have Advanced Visicalc installed, you already have maximum space allocated for interprpath: Default 7. Initial prefix: .D1 8. Max files allowed open: 3 (see notes below) 9. Program path: (none) Escape out to the editor menu, and choose option 5 to update the INTERPS file. arameters: 1. Display name: .D1/SOS.INTERP 2. Interpreter path: .D1/SOS.INTERP 3. Extra drivers: (see notes below) 4. Character set path: Default 5. Screen: Normal 6. Keyboard type 'E' or '1' and return. You will now be looking at the usual menu, but will be in edit mode. Scroll the cursor to the spot where you want the new entry to be, and press "A" to add an entry. The entry should be added with the following pinstall" using the Catalyst editor. Refer to the Catalyst documentation Chapter 3, page 5 "EDITING THE MENU" for additional information on editing. First, Edit the Calalyst Menu: From the main menu, select the Catalyst Editor, and theing your usual device configuration, ie., the one that was loaded with Catalyst. Having hopefully convinced you of the benefits of this approach, the installation in the Catalyst main menu is accomplished by doing a "manual an existing driver file to the new disk, but if you do that, you run the risk of wiping out any special drivers that may have been supplied with it. So, with .D1/SOS.INTERP, you needn't be immediately concerned with drivers, as you'll be usom the TAU disk library for example), you can "boot" it right away, without having to go through the tedium of setting up a new driver file. As you all know, getting the printer and other settings right is a pain. Of course you can just copyly prevent the owner from running the program in a convenient and useful manner. Continued on next page Continued from prior page Another benefit from .D1/SOS.INTERP is that when you receive a new disk (frtallation? Well, there are still quite a few programs that won't install under Catalyst, the main reason being an unusual copy-locking scheme. Note that these special copy protection schemes rarely prevent copying, but they do effective .D1/SOS.INTERP ! That's right, it's a generic selector, one that will run any boot disk in the internal drive. Now, you're probably wondering why not just put the program on the Profile, using Catalyst auto-install or a manual ins+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CATALYST TIP (.D1/SOS.INTERP) by DAN WADE: I have a unique program on my Catalyst menu, and one which I've found so useful I thought I'd pass it on to you. The program? and IBM have to learn is how to bring new products into their line without losing their installed base of users. It is a difficult task, but only by maintaining that three legged balance can the companies prosper in the long run. ++++ps of consumers and thereby created an in- stability that is forcing the management and labor legs of the triangle to react. Unless Apple draws these people back into their consumer base, they are creating problems for the future. What Appleeters. If you ever do get an INTERP TOO BIG error using .D1/SOS.INTERP, you'll have to go thru some tricks to get things right. The approach would be to make a temporary Catalyst entry as follows: copy the big interpreter to the hard disk, manually install it in Catalyst (temporarily), update the interps file and recalculate minimum load address. Then go back and delete the file and the temporary Catalyst entry. Continued on next page Continued from prior p0 WAP /// SIG MENU.MAKER PROGRAM (v. 6.2) =".D1"210: Coldstart (320: Warmstart &*X=11000: TEXT SLOW-DOWN LOOP ,X.1 CHANGE DISK SUBROUTINE23œ202:2200<RFa$=" YOU MAY SELECT YOUR DISK BY TAUTALES VOL. 3 - 1984 to 1985 tly $15.00 a year, with a $5.00 initiation fee. Correspondence should be directed to: TAU c/o Lavona Rann 1113 Wheaton Oaks Drive Wheaton, Il 60187 2 SEPTEMBER 1985 TAU is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the accumulation and dissemination of information about (and relating to) the Apple /// computer. Membership fees are currenapple escape. Daniel G. Wade ********************************************************************* * TAUTALES^ * ********************************************************************* Volume 3 No. 1e important details. The max files open parameter can be set to whatever you feel is safe, but should not be set to *, which will disable the double apple escape sequence. Mine is set to 3, and I'm very judicious as to when I use the double ape, you may have a mess on your hands later. To be as safe as possible, always try to get to the last point the program allows you to get to, before using the double apple escape! Refer to the Catalyst manual, chapter 3, page 3 for morsed-apple + escape key method. The 2 apple escape sequence has certain risks if there are files that are still open when you use it!!! If you've written to a disk file which has not been closed by the program and exit by double apple esc, which will return you to the Catalyst menu. For these programs, there is no problem, just refer to the documentation. However, if your program doesn't provide a proper exit, you will have to return to Catalyst via the open-apple + cloe pathname when you set up parameter 4 in the Catalyst menu, eg., 4. Character set path: .D1/ACS3.FONT Exiting the program and "Max files allowed open" parameter: Most Apple /// programs end properly with a SOS Terminate call specify whatever is needed. Note that Catalyst finds its extra drivers in the CATALYST/SOS.DRIVER file on the hard disk, not from the disk in the internal drive. Sometimes a separate fontfile appears on the program disk. If so, specify thm or by trial and error. Special driver requirements might be .GRAFIX for graphics programs, .RS232 for comm- unications programs, and .FMTDx drivers for formatting disks. If you need something special, simply edit the Catalyst menu and age More about drivers and program specifics: It may be that the program you want to run will require some special driver or character set to run properly. 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While mail will still be collected at the TAU Box, PLEASE ADDRESS ALL FUTURE CORRESPONDENCE TO: TAU c/o Lavona Rann 1113 Wheaton Oaks Drive Wheaton, IL 60187 FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN INCONVENIENCED, PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES. $$$$$$$ne with new software. On the surface this seems like the perfect situation for computer manufacturers. Every five years or so all computer owner will have to totally replace their complete investments. It does mean that repeat sales winew product will cause us to replace all our computer equipment and software. As Apple /// owners we are painfully aware of the process first hand. Eventually all of us will give up our ///'s. All of us will be forced to purchase a new machirocessor, and probably, the 68000 as well. Nothing is as sure as technological change, and the steady march of obsolescence, but just what effect does that have for you or I? If conditions do not change, it means that every few years a to another with no consideration for the computer owner. For Apple, no one in their right mind would believe that the ][ line will go on forever as they claim. At the very least, by the year 2001 the market will have buried the 6502 pd the ability of a specific product to sell 100,000 pieces or several millions, there is a more general process at work here. One that indicates a market grown uneasy about one computer manufacturer after another moving from one product liney are proof of a demand in the general market-place for certain products. How big the demand is, of course, is impossible to determine without much money and time invested in the most sophisticated market sampling techniques. Far beyon//, while others have to do with the 16 bit 6502 machine dubbed the IIx. Aside from the fact that no one besides Woz knows what really is happening, rumors are born by the minute. Some are old retreads of last year, but taken as a group, thehis one went out of business after one issue. AN EDITORIAL BY RICHARD RANN Now that Stephen Wozniak is again pursuing a project separate from Apple, all types of rumors are circulating. Some offer new hopes for the Apple / reached the disk at the end of July while the disk was not received until near Thanksgiving. While at $12 an issue or $40 a year is a bit expensive, it was a good idea. The Apple /// deserves a well produced magazine; we are sorry that the disk was delivered. At one place it seemed the writer did not know that Apple /// development had been stopped. A more telling indication of their problems is found in the date stamping of the disk directory which said that the articles While some of the material was interesting, especially the technical articles on Pascal and Business Basic, the rest was almost laughable. The problem lies not in the level of the writing, but in the delay between its writing and the time t+++++++++++++++++++++++ /// Cheers This is a magazine published on diskette from the Apple Puget Sound Program Library Exchange 21246 68th Ave. S. Kent, Washington 98032. Our copy, the first and only edition is dated Summer 1984. L HAVE TO PAY THE $5.00 INITIATION FEE, IN ADDITION TO DUES, TO BE REINSTATED. Don't lose your link to other Apple /// users. NOTE: MEMBERSHIP FEES REMAIN THE SAME FOR THE 3rd Year in a row $12.00 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 1985 TAU MEMBERSHIP FEES DUE THIS IS THE FINAL NOTICE FOR THE 1985 MEMBERSHIP FEES. AS OF APRIL ALL MEMBERS WITH UNPAYED FEES WILL BE DROPPED FROM THE MAILING LIST AND WILll become more important in the next few years. Not only does a company have to sell a person their first computer, but their second, and third as well. Like the automotive industry, the repeat customer will form the backbone of sales. General Motors is what it is because people keep buying GM cars one after another. Can we say the same thing for Apple? Here, if you believe what your own eyes are telling you, the answer is NO! With the death of the /// many of our fellowsthat a directory is damaged, copy something to the disk to fill it up and then delete it. Most of the time that removes the damage. We tried this on a floppy, and it doesn't seem to work. Apparently its only for hard disks. Have fun fillingu understand what you're doing) is The Retriever from D.A. Data Systems, 3792 Windover, Hamburg, NY 14075. It is reputed to recover files that Lazarus says it can't. This from a user--not the company that made it. If you get a message ][ to non-resident. If you still get a stack overflow change byte 06 on Catalyst to 00 from 80. Got it? Pascal 1.2 uses a lot more memory than 1.0 or 1.1. Another good but more complicated disk-fixer program (read more power if yo1324. This is the card that allows you to use 8" drives with your /// at 1.2 Megabytes per disk. On ///'s Lazarus "WILL NOT work with Pascal 1.2 loaded under Catalyst." To fix this set your Graphics memory to 0 under Pascal. Set Apple 1.2 are very different. P-move allows you to put the system on any Root Directory but NOT into a subdirectory. Rana Systems no longer sells the Floppy Card ///. It is now available from: Burtronix, 19155 Mayall Street, Northridge, CA 9s after you look at it for a few seconds. The Pascal Patch in our library (from Softalk, January, 1984) does not work with Pascal 1.2. "The program modifies certain blocks in each system file. The system films between versions 1.1 and sale. You can install it yourself (if you're handy with a low wattage soldering iron so you don't melt your motherboard). On second look, using the Apple /// monitors, we rather like the look of no dots on the ///, and the flicker disappearr owners and will be reviewed soon and will be in our library next month. Charles McConathy, 183 Monte Vista #E, Costa Mesa, CA 92627, who seems to be making a career out of selling "remaindered" Apple /// stuff has interlace kits for /// section of Compuserve. There is a new, unprotected version of Applewriter called Super Apple Writer that allows you to use WPL to set the amount of memory you are using to that available on your ///. This is public domain to Applewrited /// owners, Apple must find a way to step their present machines into the 68000 technology or risk losing a majority of those repeat sales to another computer company. From Compuserve by Charles Boos A summary of the Appleuture systems. For only when their present base of owners has some- thing to lose in changing brands can they be assured of repeat sales as well as first time sales. For the sake of the nearly three million sales represented by current ][ anin the marketplace. What he must do is rebuild a system from scratch; consequently, he has no more than a passing loyalty to the maker of his current system. What Apple should be doing is creating a bridge between current systems and fr Apple, there are plenty first sales in the market place to make up the difference, but the implications for the future should terrify the owners of Apple. When a machine is obsoleted completely it frees the owner to select any system sold their machines. Some have bought Macs, but the majority have opted for IBM or IBM compatibles. Why is this? Because Apple has failed to lock their present market share into the Apple line of Machines. Right now this is not a problem fo one up. You can buy a program called Fixer from Frank Moore, Apple /// Newsletter, 3201 Murchison Way, Carmichael, CA 95608, that "un-catalyses" program disks that have been changed by Catalyst when you uploaded them to your hard disk, they will then boot again. This is public domain and will be in our library. There was a suggestion that Sixty Minutes should cover the /// story. "It's got everything: corporate games, personal greed and ego, boardroom powerplays. Ale is reported to have sold 500,000 computers in the last quarter of 84, the first quarter would seem have very good sales indeed. In direct opposition to this news is the story that Apple is shutting plants for a week or two because inventome period in 84, and 46% over forth quarter 84 results. A corresponding increase in net corporate income to $86.1 million over $5.8 million for the same period last year. Dividends will climb from 10 cents to 75 cents a share. Since Appiend) with Apple /// developer Merrill Sander. One can only hope that a /// compatible product will result. FIRST QUARTER RESULTS. Apple announced $698.3 million in net sales for first quarter 1985, a 121% increase over the saface card and software that allow IIe or II-plus to act as file and printer servers for MacIntosh and IIs. If you haven't heard already, Stephen Wozniak has left Apple once more. This time it is to form a company called MBF (My Best Froftware, interface cards, and software for designing documents for printing on the Laserwriter." Among the names mentioned are Banyon Systems - Mac to IBM PC, Hayes, I-Omega, Lutzky- baird Associates - Unix file server, Paramis Corp. - inter In a related matter it was reported in the March 11 InfoWorld that Apple is relying heavily on third-party support to make Appletalk work. Currently there has been 21 licenses granted to develop, "file servers, network and communications shased 1,000 Macs to use in Apple's office network with the parent company considering doing the same. In addition, Apple is said to be ready to demonstrate its Appletalk network this summer in a push to crack the major corporate market. a month in which almost every MacMagazine has had articles about it comes word of National Sales first MacOffice success. Seattle First National Bank -- now known as MacBank? --, a subsidiary of Bankamerica -- Big MacBank?? --, has purc in SF on Feb. 24th. Party goers were entertained by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and jazz soloist Ella Fizgerald. No mention was made of Lotus Develop- ment Corp's involvement. THE BUZZ WORD FOR THE MONTH IS "MacOffice". In to stop production of the A143 floppy disk drive, and sell off its remaining stock. If anyone is interested in any of the remaining Micro-sci drive contact Jay Galvin at the TAU address. STEVE JOBS IS 30 Party held at St. Francis Hotelow 5,000 records in a data base. ==================================================================== Apple and Miscellaneous Micro News: MICRO-SCI DROPS A143. With the ending of development of the Apple /// Micro-sci has decided nd guess what, future orders will be filled at $595 (due to cheaper chips.) Those who saw the board at The South Bay Apple /// Users Group in California were very impressed, and On /// is working on a "fix" for 3 EZ Pieces that will all6081 Barbados Avenue, Cypress, CA 99063, (714) 893-4695. On /// reportedly shipped it 512K memory boards on February 18, to those who had ordered. That's the good news. They are keeping your $995 if you were among those first timers, all it needs is sex!" More from Compuserve: There are presently 120 listed loyal Apple ///ers known to Compuserve. It appears that a good data base program is Data Base /// which is still available from Creative Software, ry of Macs are too high. This overproduction is reflected in soft prices for Apple shares in the market. To you hitech speculators, this might be a good time to add Apple shares to your portfolio. Government gets into the act. California enacted the first law to regu- late the Vidotex industry. Assembly Bill 2367 -- The Electronic Commerce Act of 1984 -- is intended to provide subscribers with "specified infor- mation including the charges imposed and the procedure that $5.00 initiation fee. Correspondence should be directed to: TAU c/o Lavona Rann 1113 Wheaton Oaks Drive Wheaton, Il 60187 MARCH 1985 TAU is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the accumulation and dissemination of information about (and relating to) the Apple /// computer. Membership fees are currently $12.00 a year, with a ********************************************************************* * TAUTALES * ********************************************************************* Volume 3 No. 6 andards compiled by Robert Morris Associates ) The package also allows forcasting and modeling in "What If" values for 27 variables. Contact Aurora System, Inc. (608) 249-5875 --- In addition the ON THREE 512 Memory board was mentioned A new Apple /// program was announced. THE CREDIT MANAGER is an analytical tool for financial balance-sheets, income-statements, and equity data. The package compares businesses with industry norms by entering RMA averages ( a set of stare that some PASCAL programs that allocate memory for graphics DO NOT reset the graphics to 0 upon exiting." PROFESSIONAL SOLUTIONS. This week we received the newest edition from APPLE, and if you haven't see a copy, there is a surprise. ing under Catalyst 2.0, or using large PASCAL programs such as Lazarus /// or Apple Speller.... Execute the SETUP CODE file from the PASCAL command line and at the menu check to see if the graphics buffer is set to 0. If not, do so. Bew"1.2 users a bit more memory than version 1.0 and 1.1, and it can be the cause of some programs crashes (stack overflow errors) if memory allocation for the PASCAL graphics buffer is not set to 0. This is especially a problem if you are boothout paying royalties to developer. Due to a loophole in copyright law third party rental of software is currently legal. FROM THE /// NEWSLETTER: Frank W. Moore 3201 Murchison Way Carmicheal, CA 95604 -- Pascal 1,2 Errata -- es and direct purchase services. --- In the final days of the 98th congress, Sen Charles Mathias, R-Md., and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., introduced The Computer Software Protection Act intended to end the renting of computer programs witmay be followed to resolve a complaint regarding use of the service." --- The SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION is examining the practices of on-line stock services. Specifically they are looking at two types of services; telebrokerag