January 1988 — Vol 10 No 1
Source
Open original PDF • January 1988 • Vol 10 No 1 • 92 pages • $2.50
Overview
Volume 10 opens with a Vice President's Corner from Robert C. Platt (Tom Warrick still President) and a major new resource: The First WAP Journal Index by Harvey Kaye — Pi's first systematic index of its own back issues, finally making the archive searchable. HyperCard (released August 1987) has its own SIG under Robert C. Platt; Rick Chapman documents HyperCard 1.0.1 Anomalies. AV-SIG (Jay Williams) joins the active SIG roster. The TEMPEST Macintosh II ad is on page 2 — Mac II shipped March 1987, and a TEMPEST-shielded (emissions-secure) variant is being marketed to government buyers. Calculus for a New Century by Joseph A. Hasson continues the educational/computational math arc. Roger Wagner (of Roger Wagner Publishing fame) writes a Letter to the Editor.
Table of contents (selected)
| Section | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Vice President's Corner | Robert C. Platt | 4 |
| Q & A | Bruce F. Field & Robert C. Platt | 8 |
| IIGS SIG News | Peg Matzen | 10 |
| AppleWorks SIG News | Peg Matzen | 10 |
| Thunderscan for the Apple II | David Todd | 11 |
| I Love Apple Music: Part 7 | Gary Hayman | 12 |
| Letter to the Editor | Roger Wagner | 16 |
| It's Tax Time Again | Paul Koskos | 16 |
| Best of the Apple Items from TCS | Euclid Coukouma | 18 |
| On the Trail of the Apple /// | David Ottalini | 22 |
| GameSIG News | Steven Payne | 24 |
| Calculus for a New Century | Joseph A. Hasson | 32 |
| Volunteer Profiles | Robert C. Platt | 35 |
| Pascal News | Robert C. Platt | 35 |
| The First WAP Journal Index | Harvey Kaye | 36 |
| WAP Acrostic | Dana J. Schwartz | 52 |
| AV-SIG Meeting (December) | Jay Williams | 53 |
| dPub SIG Meeting (December 2) | Cynthia Yockey | 54 |
| A Printer for the Rest...Ah, More of Us | Robb Wolov | 55 |
| Mac Q & A | Jonathan E. Hardis | 60 |
| MacNovice: Filing Maze Pt. 2 | Ralph J. Begleiter | 64 |
| HyperCard SIG News | Robert C. Platt | 68 |
| HyperCard 1.0.1 Anomalies | Rick Chapman | 69 |
| Macintosh Bits & Bytes | Lynn R. Trusal | 70 |
| Best of the Mac Items from TCS | Bill Baldridge | 73 |
Highlights
First WAP Journal Index — Harvey Kaye
Pi's first systematic back-issue index — a meta-resource. After 9 years of publication the archive has become too large to browse linearly; Kaye's index changes how members find content.
HyperCard SIG + Anomalies — Robert C. Platt / Rick Chapman
HyperCard (Apple's revolutionary hypertext-stack environment, free with every new Mac since Aug 1987) gets formal Pi attention. The "Anomalies" piece is community bug-list — a hallmark of user-group value.
TEMPEST Mac II
The TEMPEST (emissions-shielded) Mac II ad on page 2 shows Pi's continuing connection to the DC government/defense market.
Calculus for a New Century — Joseph A. Hasson
Continuation of computational-math educational column.
Entities
People: Tom Warrick, Robert C. Platt, Harvey Kaye, Rick Chapman, Peg Matzen, David Todd, Gary Hayman, Roger Wagner, Paul Koskos, Jon C. Thomason, Euclid Coukouma, Barry Fox, David Ottalini, Steven Payne, David Granite, Ian Soboroff, Forrest Black, Charles Don Hall, Ron Cool, Joseph A. Hasson, Dana J. Schwartz, Jay Williams, Cynthia Yockey, Robb Wolov, Jonathan E. Hardis, Ralph J. Begleiter, Jefferis K. Peterson, Hunter Alexander, John A. Love III, Lynn R. Trusal, Bill Baldridge, Martin Milrod, David Weikert, Bruce F. Field Topics: HyperCard, HyperCard SIG, AV-SIG, dPub SIG (Desktop Publishing), IIGS SIG, WAP Journal Index, TEMPEST Mac II References: HyperCard 1.0.1, Thunderscan, Legacy of the Ancients, Infiltrator II, Xevious
Connections to other issues
- HyperCard launched between our gap years — first formal Pi coverage here
- dPub SIG (Desktop Publishing) (launched 1986-11 — V08 N11) now reporting monthly under Cynthia Yockey
- Stock SIG (launched 1986-11 — V08 N11) — Andrew D. Thompson still chairing
- Annapolis Apple Slice now under Katherine M. Cave (succeeded Claire Johnson)