June 1986 — Vol 8 No 6

Overview

Tom Warrick continues as President. ★★ dPub SIG (Tom Piwowar, p19) — Tom Piwowar's first Pi byline. Piwowar becomes a major Pi voice through 1991, launches "Journal Business" column Feb 1989 as Journal lead, disappears from Pi Jul 1989. This is the earliest documented Pi byline for him — correcting backlog assumption that he was a 1989 arrival. ★ dPub SIG Minutes (Rosemary Connelly, p19) — Connelly continues. ★ Music SIG News (Raymond Hobbs, p37) — Music SIG officially launches (Hobbs becomes column lead). ★ "ByLaws Changes" (p37) — Pi bylaws revisions published for member vote. ★ "The New LaserWriter Plus" (Earl W. Douglas, p60) — review. "A Byte of Bix" (Hunter Alexander, p77) — Alexander on BIX (BYTE Information eXchange — McGraw-Hill's online service for BYTE readers). "Learning Dvorak: Meeting Report" (Michael Spevak, p18) — Spevak continues his Dvorak coverage. "Using 3D Fonts in MacDraw" (Jonathan E. Hardis, p54). "Power User Shortcut Summary" (Dan Allen, p72). "MacPaint Documents from MacForth" (Bill Wurzel, p64) — Wurzel still active in Forth. "Microtest II: A Review" (Walter Rhett, p13). "Choosing School with Computer Prog." (Rhett, p14). "Managing Your Bulk Mailing" (Martin Milrod, p63) — Milrod productivity piece. "Gato - 'Game for the Rest of Us'" (Lynn R. Trusal, p48). "Mac Compatible Home Controller" (William J. Jones, p70). "Pascal News" (Robert C. Platt, p66) — Platt's recurring Pascal column. GAMESIG cluster: American Challenge (Shipley), Black Cauldron (Smith), Wizardry for the Determined (Langford).

Table of contents (selected)

Highlights

★★ Tom Piwowar's first Pi byline

Tom Piwowar takes over the dPub SIG column. Correction to backlog: Piwowar's Pi presence goes back to June 1986, not 1989. He launched "Journal Business" Feb 1989 as Journal lead — that was his Pi-leadership inflection, not his Pi arrival. He'd been writing for Pi for ~2.5 years before becoming Journal lead.

Music SIG launches — Raymond Hobbs

Music SIG's monthly column formalizes. Hobbs had been writing "The Musical Apple" for years; the SIG structure makes it official.

LaserWriter Plus reviewed

The 35-font, $1675-upgrade laser printer — reviewed in detail post-launch. Pi members in publishing fields took to it immediately.

Entities

People: Tom Warrick, Tom Piwowar, Raymond Hobbs, Earl W. Douglas, Hunter Alexander, Rosemary Connelly, Michael Spevak, Jonathan E. Hardis, Lynn R. Trusal, Martin Milrod, Robert C. Platt, Bill Wurzel, Dan Allen, Walter Rhett, Brian G. Mason, Chester H. Page, Chris Klugewicz, William J. Jones, David Ottalini, Peg Matzen, Amy T. Billingsley, Peter Combes, Jay Thal, Bruce F. Field, George V. Kinal, Professor Apple, Barry Bedrick, Lester Shipley, Don Smith, Duncan Langford, Ralph J. Begleiter, David Morganstein, Jim Lanford, Regina Litman, Jim Little Topics: Tom Piwowar at Pi, Music SIG, Pi Bylaws Changes 1986, Apple Desktop Publishing, BIX Online Service References: LaserWriter Plus, BIX, MacDraw, MacForth, Gato

Connections to other issues

• ★ Tom Piwowar's first Pi byline — correction to backlog: Piwowar at Pi from Jun 1986, not Feb 1989 (1989-02 — V11 N02 "Journal Business" launch was a column, not his arrival)
• Music SIG formalizes here; Hobbs had been doing "The Musical Apple" individually
• dPub SIG continues monthly through Vol 8 / Vol 9 (Piwowar then Steven Payne)
• LaserWriter Plus thread continues from 1986-02 — V08 N02 launch coverage