December 1982 — Vol 4 No 12
Source
Open original PDF • December 1982 • Vol 4 No 12 • 60 pages
Overview
Year-end issue + a second major institutional milestone: WAP gets a physical office (map on page 52) — second of Urban's May 1981 unfinished-business items (after October 1982's incorporation). By-Laws amendment for member vote. New columns debut: "The Bottom Line" by Leon H. Raesly (likely accounting/business) and "Consumer Advocate" by Mark D. Pankin. Cover-highlight content: Bill Wurzel's "Speaking of Forth: Getting Started with FIG-Forth"; Charles K. Mesztenyi's "The Cost of Scrolling"; William Schultheis's "Using the Monitor CTRL-Y Interface"; Jack Warner's Apple Word Processor Survey. Jim Eatherly's "Gifts for Gamesters." Curt Robbins's SIG/Disabled call for help continues.
Table of contents
| Section | Page |
|---|---|
| Cover with highlights | 1 |
| Computerland + Frederick Computer + new advertisers | 2–3 |
| Officers; Editorial; Event Queue | 3 |
| Minutes; General Information | 4 |
| Gifts for Gamesters — Jim Eatherly | 4 |
| WAP Hotline | 5 |
| President's Corner — David Morganstein | 6 |
| SIG/Disabled — Call for Help — Curt Robbins | 8 |
| Dealers' Corner | 8 |
| Classifieds | 9 |
| Job Mart; SIG News | 10 |
| IAC Corner — Bernie Urban | 11 |
| Amendment to the By-Laws | 11 |
| SoftViews — David Morganstein | 12 |
| Inspecting Text Files with a Word Processor — J.T. DeMay Jr. | 14 |
| Speaking of Forth: Getting Started with FIG-Forth — Bill Wurzel | 16 |
| Apple Tech Notes — Ed Schencker | 24 |
| Making Better Disk Copies — David Morganstein | 24 |
| Q & A — Bruce F. Field | 25 |
| SIGAMES News — Donn Hoffman | 30 |
| Connect the Dots — David Morganstein & C.K. Mesztenyi | 32 |
| The Cost of Scrolling — Charles K. Mesztenyi | 36 |
| Using the Monitor CTRL-Y Interface — William Schultheis | 38 |
| ApplePlot/Epson — Bob Schmidt | 41 |
| Tidbits from NEWSIG — Bernie Benson | 42 |
| The Bottom Line — Leon H. Raesly | 43 |
| Consumer Advocate — Mark D. Pankin | 44 |
| Apple Word Processor Survey — Jack Warner | 45 |
| EDSIG News — Peter Combes & Dianne Lorenz | 48 |
| TeleComm SIG News — George Kinal | 47 |
| Pilot of the CAI-ways — Paula Benson | 50 |
| Map of the New Office Location | 52 |
| ACM Call for Papers | 53 |
Articles
"Map of the New Office Location" (page 52)
LANDMARK. Pi's first physical office space — second item from Urban's May 1981 "unfinished business" list realized (after October's incorporation). Urban's "WAP office somewhere convenient to serve as pickup (or dropoff) point" finally happens.
"Amendment to the By-Laws" (page 11)
Member-vote amendment to the freshly-adopted October bylaws.
"Speaking of Forth: Getting Started with FIG-Forth" (page 16) — Bill Wurzel
Cover-highlight. FIG-Forth (Forth Interest Group) introduction by Wurzel — joins Benson/Field's October FORTH piece.
"The Cost of Scrolling" (page 36) — Charles K. Mesztenyi
Cover-highlight. Performance analysis of screen-scroll algorithms — extends his "Space/Time Analyses" series from July.
"Using the Monitor CTRL-Y Interface" (page 38) — William Schultheis
Cover-highlight. Schultheis on Apple Monitor's CTRL-Y interface for user extensions.
"Apple Word Processor Survey" (page 45) — Jack Warner
Cover-highlight. Warner's WP comparison — joining Walt Francis's substantial prior work in this space.
"The Bottom Line" (page 43) — Leon H. Raesly
New column. Likely accounting/financial Apple applications.
"Consumer Advocate" (page 44) — Mark D. Pankin
New column. Consumer-protection angle — extends Weikert's August "Consumer's Union."
"Connect the Dots" (page 32) — David Morganstein & Charles K. Mesztenyi
Co-authored — likely a HI-RES drawing algorithm.
"Pilot of the CAI-ways" (page 50) — Paula Benson
PILOT language pun-titled column.
"Gifts for Gamesters" (page 4) — Jim Eatherly
Holiday-gift game roundup.
Other content
- Inspecting Text Files with a Word Processor — J.T. DeMay Jr.
- Making Better Disk Copies — David Morganstein
- Apple Tech Notes — Ed Schencker
- ApplePlot/Epson — Bob Schmidt
- Tidbits from NEWSIG — Bernie Benson
Club news / events / announcements
- Pi office opens (map page 52) — major milestone
- By-Laws amendment to vote
- December Pi meeting: holiday-adjusted date
Notable advertisements
- Computerland Tysons Corner
- Frederick Computer Products continuing
Key quotes
- (Year-end content; substantive material in articles above)
Entities
People: David Morganstein, Mark L. Crosby, Dana Schwartz, Jesse Wagstaff, John Moon, Nancy Philipp, Rich Wasserstrom, Bernard Urban, Bob Peck, Bruce F. Field, Bill Wurzel, Charles K. Mesztenyi, William Schultheis, Jack Warner, Leon H. Raesly, Mark D. Pankin, Curt Robbins, J.T. DeMay Jr., Donn Hoffman, Bob Schmidt, Paula Benson, Bernie Benson, Peter Combes, Dianne Lorenz, George Kinal, Ed Schencker, Jim Eatherly Topics: Pi Physical Office, Pi By-Laws Amendment, FIG-Forth, Monitor CTRL-Y Interface, Scrolling Algorithm Cost, Apple WP Survey 1982, The Bottom Line Column, Consumer Advocate Column References: FIG-Forth
Connections to other issues
- Physical office = second item on Urban's May 1981 unfinished-business list (1981-05 — V03 N05); follows October 1982 incorporation (1982-10 — V04 N10)
- Mesztenyi's "Cost of Scrolling" continues his algorithmic-analysis series from 1982-07 — V04 N07
- "Consumer Advocate" extends Weikert's August "Consumer's Union" (1982-08 — V04 N08)
- Warner's WP survey complements Francis's ongoing work
Open questions
- New office address?
- By-Laws amendment specifics?
- Did The Bottom Line and Consumer Advocate sustain?