March 1989 — Vol 11 No 3
Source
Open original PDF • March 1989 • Vol 11 No 3 • 99 pages • $2.95 (cover price increase)
Overview
Major change: Cover price rises from $2.50 to $2.95 — and WAP's New Office: Sneak Preview by Robert C. Platt (Facilities Review Committee's recommendations from Jan are coming to fruition). "Change the WAP" — multi-author letters thread following Raesly's "Whither Goest Thou" provocation last month. "A Mac Temping Career: Make $50,000 a year with no fixed address" (Jess Porter, page 35) — the era of high-end freelance Mac contracting. Macinations: NeXT, Further Thoughts (Robb Wolov) — coverage of Steve Jobs' NeXT Cube (announced Oct 1988). Finale (music notation) review (Ray Hobbs). ReadySetGo! 4.5 (Lindsay Edmunds) and Publish It! (Gary Hayman) reviewed. S.U.M. (Symantec Utilities for Mac) (Jay Heller). Ready for Warp Speed? (Owen Crabb) — accelerator coverage.
Table of contents (selected, by category)
Club News: President's Corner (Bob Platt, 5); Journal Business (Tom Piwowar, 6); WAP's New Office: Sneak Preview (Bob Platt, 7); Meeting Reports (13); Group Purchase (Rich Wasserstrom, 45); MacWorld Expo DC (Martin Milrod, 57); Membership Drive Readout (96)
Special: A Mac Temping Career (Jess Porter, 35); Deadline (Ray Hobbs, 96)
Comment: Change the WAP (various authors, 30); Letters to the Editor (32); On the Trail of the Apple /// (David Ottalini, 48); Ready for Warp Speed? (Owen Crabb, 66); Macinations: NeXT...Further Thoughts (Robb Wolov, 67); Bits and Bytes (Lynn Trusal, 71)
Games: The Playroom (Steven Payne, 54); Arkanoid (Chris Bastian, 55); Manhunter: New York (David Wood, 56)
Reviews: Crossworks for Apple II (Eugene Carter, 44); The TimeOut Series (Bob Oringel, 28); Musical Apple — Finale Sequencing (Ray Hobbs, 32); MacNovice: Craziness in San Francisco (Jeff Alpher, 68); Publish It! (Gary Hayman, 52); ReadySetGo! 4.5 (Lindsay Edmunds, 76); Softviews: Tax Pro Excel Templates (David Morganstein, 82); S.U.M. (Jay Heller, 84)
Tutorials: Advice from Lee: AppleWorks Outside-In (Leon Raesly, 40); IIGS Stuff: Programming and OCRA (Ted Meyer, 46); Best of the TCS: Apple (Paul Schlosser, 51); On HyperCard: Part 6 — HyperNotes (Kenneth Knight, 58); Desktop Publishing Seminars (Tom Piwowar, 69); Mac Q&A (Morganstein & Milrod, 70); Synopsis of Basic Mac Courses (Lynn Trusal, 74)
Highlights
WAP's New Office: Sneak Preview — Robert C. Platt
Pi has identified a new office — the Facilities Review Committee's January report bears fruit. Sneak preview details the space.
Cover price increase: $2.50 → $2.95
18% price bump — covers rising production costs as journal grows past 100 pages with multi-color/high-quality printing.
A Mac Temping Career — Jess Porter
"Make $50,000 a year with no fixed address" — coverage of the freelance Mac DTP contractor economy.
Macinations: NeXT Further Thoughts — Robb Wolov
NeXT Cube (Jobs' post-Apple computer) introduced Oct 1988. Pi's continuing follow-up.
Change the WAP (letters thread)
Follow-on community discussion of Leon H. Raesly's February editorial.
Entities
People: Robert C. Platt, Tom Piwowar, Rich Wasserstrom, Martin Milrod, Jess Porter, Ray Hobbs, Robb Wolov, David Ottalini, Owen Crabb, Lynn Trusal, Steven Payne, Chris Bastian, David Wood, Eugene Carter, Bob Oringel, Jeff Alpher, Gary Hayman, Lindsay Edmunds, David Morganstein, Jay Heller, Leon H. Raesly, Ted Meyer, Paul Schlosser, Kenneth Knight, Steve Jobs, Sanders (IIGS), David Weikert Topics: WAP New Office 1989, NeXT Cube, Mac Freelance Economy, Cover Price 1989, Change the WAP References: Finale, Publish It!, ReadySetGo 4.5, S.U.M., Crossworks, TimeOut Series, Manhunter: New York, Arkanoid, The Playroom, Tax Pro Excel Templates, NeXT Cube
Connections to other issues
- WAP New Office 1989 continues Facilities Review Committee from 1989-01 — V11 N01
- Change the WAP thread responds to Whither Goest Thou in 1989-02 — V11 N02
- NeXT Cube coverage continues in subsequent issues