September 1983 — Vol 5 No 9
Source
Open original PDF • September 1983 • Vol 5 No 9 • 52 pages • $2
Overview
David Morganstein still President. Five cover hooks: The EPS Keyboard, The Olivetti Praxis 35, LHR Accounts Payable, The Wordstar/Epson Marriage, The WAP Book Library. The EPS Keyboard (Jay Thal, 22) — keyboard hardware piece. Using the Olivetti Praxis 35 (Joan Bixby Dunham, 36) — letter-quality printer/typewriter (Praxis 35 was a daisy-wheel that doubled as an Apple printer over a parallel link). LHR Accounts Payable (Leon H. Raesly, 40) — Raesly's home-grown accounting software, the LHR-prefixed series. The Wordstar/Epson Marriage (Ted Rockwell, 44). The WAP Book Library (Walton Francis, 20) — Pi formalizes its lending library of computer books. A Quick Review of Fast Card (Bob Hicks, 14). Real Programmers Don't Use User Friendly Computers (Joan Bixby Dunham, 23) — humorist reprint of the famous "Real Programmers Don't Eat Quiche" joke. VisiColumn: Multiplan as a DBMS (Walton Francis, 18). 192K Pseudodisk Heaven on the //e (Leon H. Raesly, 46) — RAM-disk on the //e. Double-Take: A Review (Bob Anderson, 25). Who's Number 1 in Software? (Walton Francis, 26). Converting FID to Lower Case (Duncan Langford, 24). EDSIG News (Peter Combes, 28). ASMSIG News (29). DisabledSIG News (Jay Thal, 18). GamesViews (Jeff Brunner, 15). A Page from the Stack (Robert C. Platt, 16). SoftDisk Update (Michael Schemer, 13). Me and My PC (C. Swift, 35) — guest IBM-PC perspective, unusual for the Pi.
Table of contents (selected)
| Article | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| President's Corner; Minutes | David Morganstein | 4 |
| WAP Tutorials | — | 8 |
| ABBS Users File Reduction | — | 11 |
| Q & A | Bruce F. Field | 12 |
| SoftDisk Update | Michael Schemer | 13 |
| A Quick Review of Fast Card | Bob Hicks | 14 |
| GamesViews | Jeff Brunner | 15 |
| A Page from the Stack | Robert C. Platt | 16 |
| Solution to Speaker Noise | Harmon Pritchard Jr. | 17 |
| VisiColumn: Multiplan as a DBMS | Walton Francis | 18 |
| The WAP Book Library | Walton Francis | 20 |
| Apple Business Graphics + Grappler+ | — | 21 |
| The EPS Keyboard | Jay Thal | 22 |
| Real Programmers Don't Use User Friendly Computers | Joan Bixby Dunham | 23 |
| Converting FID to Lower Case | Duncan Langford | 24 |
| Double-Take: A Review | Bob Anderson | 25 |
| Who's Number 1 in Software? | Walton Francis | 26 |
| EDSIG News | Peter Combes | 28 |
| ASMSIG News | — | 29 |
| The Bottom Line | Leon H. Raesly | 30 |
| The ScreenWriter Hotline | Peter Combes | 34 |
| Me and My PC | C. Swift | 35 |
| Using the Olivetti Praxis 35 | Joan Bixby Dunham | 36 |
| LHR Accounts Payable | Leon H. Raesly | 40 |
| The Wordstar/Epson Marriage | Ted Rockwell | 44 |
| 192K Pseudodisk Heaven on the //e | Leon H. Raesly | 46 |
Highlights
LHR Accounts Payable — Leon H. Raesly
Raesly publishes another homegrown business-app package ("LHR" = his initials); the LHR series becomes a Pi mini-franchise of personal-business software shipped via the disk library.
The WAP Book Library — Walton Francis
Pi formalizes a lending library of computer reference books, supplementing the Disk Library — a small-but-meaningful infrastructure addition that recurs in member surveys.
Real Programmers Don't Use User Friendly Computers — Joan Bixby Dunham
Dunham reprints the famous lampoon, a sign of Pi's continuing humor culture (paired with C. Swift's "Me and My PC" admission elsewhere in the issue).
Entities
People: David Morganstein, Bruce F. Field, Walton Francis, Jay Thal, Joan Bixby Dunham, Ted Rockwell, Leon H. Raesly, Robert C. Platt, Peter Combes, Michael Schemer, Bob Hicks, Jeff Brunner, Harmon Pritchard Jr., Duncan Langford, Bob Anderson, C. Swift Topics: WAP Book Library, LHR Software Series, Apple //e RAM Disk References: Multiplan, Olivetti Praxis 35, WordStar, Fast Card, Double-Take, EPS Keyboard
Connections to other issues
- Walton Francis returns from his WP-comparison work in earlier 1981/82 Pi issues
- Leon H. Raesly's LHR series continues from earlier Personal Checkbook piece in 1983-08 — V05 N08
- WAP Book Library survives well into the 1990s — referenced in later Pi inventories