October 1987 — Vol 9 No 10
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Open original PDF • October 1987 • Vol 9 No 10 • 88 pages • $2
Overview
Tom Warrick continues as President. ★★★ "HyperCard SIG" (Robert C. Platt, p76) — HyperCard SIG launches at Pi, 2 months after Apple released HyperCard 1.0 on August 11, 1987 at the MacWorld Boston Expo. HyperCard was Bill Atkinson's stack-based hypermedia tool that became the defining Mac 1987-1989 era application. Pi's response was fast. ★ "Volunteer Profiles" (Robert C. Platt, p45) — Platt launches a recurring Volunteer Profile series highlighting Pi volunteers. ★ "SIG for Arts and Video" (p47) — AV-SIG announced. ★ "Apple //GS SIG News" (David Todd, p18) — Todd takes IIGS SIG column from Ted Meyer. "Apple II News and Notes" (Walt Mossberg, p24) continues. "Plus Works + AppleWorks on the ][+: Pt 2" (Boris Levine, p27) — continues from 1987-07 — V09 N07. "Take the Plunge!" (Leon H. Raesly, p32) — Raesly's Apple II→Mac persuasion. "Apple Writer 2.0 Hacker's Patch" (Chester H. Page, p30). "Create a Calendar: A Review" (Steven A. Muchow, p28). "The Associate Producer: A Review" (Bob Oringel, p29). "Ramup: A Review" (Chuck Ward, p30). "What's It Like at Boston MacExpo?" (Chuck Sicard, p50) + "The 'Smell' of MacExpo" (Martin Milrod, p52) — paired post-Expo reports. "FedSIG Corner" (Steve Crawford, p54). "Hard Disk Tips" (Fred Seelig, p64) — Mac SCSI hard-disk era. "MacNovice: Beware the Trash" (Ralph J. Begleiter, p48). "Graphic Alerts" (Jay Rohr, p46). "Last Minute Alerts" (Jay Rohr, p81). GameSIG cluster: The Guild of Thieves (paired Mac John Zerolis + Apple K. C. Mulcahy reviews), Earth Orbit Stations (Soboroff), Lurking Horror + Stationfall (Hall), Questbusters Cartography Sys (Greco), Indiana Jones, Bureaucracy.
Table of contents (selected)
| Article | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| President's Corner | Tom Warrick | 4 |
| Meeting Report - August 22 | Steven Payne | 12 |
| On the Trail of the Apple /// | David Ottalini | 14 |
| Q & A | Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field | 16 |
| ★ Apple //GS SIG News | David Todd | 18 |
| Music SIG News | Raymond Hobbs | 18 |
| Program Interface (PI SIG) News | Robert Golden | 18 |
| IIGS Stuff | Ted Meyer | 19 |
| I Love Apple Music: Part 5 | Gary Hayman | 20 |
| Apple II News and Notes | Walt Mossberg | 24 |
| Plus Works + AppleWorks on the ][+: Pt 2 | Boris Levine | 27 |
| Create a Calendar: A Review | Steven A. Muchow | 28 |
| The Associate Producer: A Review | Bob Oringel | 29 |
| Apple Writer 2.0 Hacker's Patch | Chester H. Page | 30 |
| Ramup: A Review | Chuck Ward | 30 |
| Frederick Apple Core | — | 31 |
| Take the Plunge! | Leon H. Raesly | 32 |
| Best of the Apple Items from TCS | Euclid Coukouma | 34 |
| WAP Acrostic | Dana J. Schwartz | 37 |
| GameSIG News | Steven Payne | 40 |
| The Guild of Thieves (Mac) | John Zerolis | 40 |
| The Guild of Thieves (Apple) | K. C. Mulcahy | 41 |
| Earth Orbit Stations | Ian Soboroff | 41 |
| Lurking Horror & Stationfall | Charles Don Hall | 42 |
| Questbusters Cartography Sys | Philip Greco | 44 |
| dPub SIG News | Steven Payne | 45 |
| ★ Volunteer Profiles | Robert C. Platt | 45 |
| Graphic Alerts | Jay Rohr | 46 |
| ★ SIG for Arts and Video | — | 47 |
| MacNovice: Beware the Trash | Ralph J. Begleiter | 48 |
| ★ What's It Like at Boston MacExpo? | Chuck Sicard | 50 |
| ★ The "Smell" of MacExpo | Martin Milrod | 52 |
| Excelling on Your Mac: Part 15 | David Morganstein | 53 |
| FedSIG Corner | Steve Crawford | 54 |
| Softviews | David Morganstein | 56 |
| Macintosh Bits and Bytes | Lynn R. Trusal | 60 |
| Book Reviews | Robert C. Platt | 62 |
| Hard Disk Tips | Fred Seelig | 64 |
| Musements | Fred Seelig | 66 |
| Best of the Mac Items from TCS | Bill Baldridge | 70 |
| ★★★ HyperCard SIG | Robert C. Platt | 76 |
| Fall WAP Tutorials | Robert C. Platt | 77 |
| Mac Disketeria News | Marty Milrod & Dave Weikert | 78 |
| Last Minute Alerts | Jay Rohr | 81 |
| IIGS Disketeria News | David Todd | 81 |
Highlights
★★★ HyperCard SIG launches — Robert C. Platt
HyperCard 1.0 was released by Apple on August 11, 1987. Bill Atkinson (the original Mac team member, MacPaint author) had created HyperCard as a stack-based hypermedia authoring system. Pi launches a HyperCard SIG in October 1987 — fast institutional response. The HyperCard SIG becomes one of Pi's most influential SIGs through 1988-1990.
Boston MacExpo paired reports
The August 1987 Boston MacExpo (where HyperCard was unveiled) gets two Pi recap pieces. Sicard covers logistics; Milrod takes the "smell" — the cultural atmosphere — angle.
Volunteer Profiles — Robert C. Platt
Platt's recurring profile of Pi volunteers — recognizing the underrecognized labor of running a 1,000+ member user group.
Entities
People: Tom Warrick, Robert C. Platt, Walt Mossberg, David Todd, Boris Levine, Leon H. Raesly, Chuck Sicard, Martin Milrod, Bill Atkinson (HyperCard creator), Bruce F. Field, Steven Payne, David Ottalini, Ted Meyer, Raymond Hobbs, Robert Golden, Gary Hayman, Steven A. Muchow, Bob Oringel, Chester H. Page, Chuck Ward, Euclid Coukouma, Dana J. Schwartz, John Zerolis, K. C. Mulcahy, Ian Soboroff, Charles Don Hall, Philip Greco, Jay Rohr, Steve Crawford, Ralph J. Begleiter, David Morganstein, Fred Seelig, Lynn R. Trusal, Bill Baldridge, Marty Milrod, Dave Weikert, Neal Bozarth, Corey Zimmerman Topics: HyperCard Launch, HyperCard SIG, Pi Volunteer Profiles, AV-SIG, Boston MacExpo 1987, Mac Hard Disk Era References: HyperCard, Guild of Thieves, Lurking Horror, Stationfall, Boston MacExpo, The Associate Producer
Connections to other issues
- ★★★ HyperCard SIG launches — major influence on Pi 1988+; backlog had wiki noting "HyperCard era begins (Jan)" in 1988-01 — V10 N01 but the SIG starts here Oct 1987
- David Todd takes IIGS SIG column from Ted Meyer
- Volunteer Profiles series continues (e.g., 1987-12 — V09 N12 with Peter Combes)
- Boston MacExpo Aug 1987 is HyperCard's launch event