May 1990 — Vol 12 No 5

Overview

Election Notice (page 59) — Pi's annual elections, including the new bylaws on the ballot. Frank Potter editorial: "On elections and such". As American as Apple Pi (Phil Shapiro, 21) — community outreach projects manifesto. Pachydermic Personnel Predicting (Peter C. Olsen) — Myers-Briggs-style "what type are you" piece. On laptops (Ralph J. Begleiter) — Mac Portable usability vs. MS-DOS laptops. Macinations: New machines and System 6.05 (Robb Wolov) — Mac IIfx (announced March 1990) and System 6.0.5 coverage. macGIS Review Pt 2 (Kim Cimmery) — continued from April. HyperTALK SIG debuts. IIGS Magazine announced (Frank Evangelista) — new commercial publication on the IIGS scene. The UltraMacros Primer (Gary Hayman) — AppleWorks UltraMacros book review. AppleWorks GS-oterica compiled article. Apples for the Students program update. WAP Artists in Review still featuring Brent Heatherington.

Table of contents (selected)

Club News: Editorials (Frank Potter, 7); President's Corner (9); Election Notice (59); Apples for the Students program update (78)

SIGs: IIGS SIG (10); Columbia Slice (11); EdSIG (13); HyperTALK SIG (13); WorksSIG (14)

General Information: WAP Artists in Review — Brent Heatherington (Nancy Seferian, 16); I Like Your Face — Part Six (Jim Donnelly, 18); As American as Apple Pi (Phil Shapiro, 21); Pachydermic Personnel Predicting (Peter C. Olsen, 22)

Macintosh Articles: On laptops (Ralph J. Begleiter, 23); Macinations: New machines and System 6.05 (Robb Wolov, 25); macGIS Review Pt 2 (Kim Cimmery, 27); Bits & Bytes (Lynn Trusal, 34)

Apple II: IIGS Magazine (Frank Evangelista, 42); The UltraMacros Primer (Gary Hayman, 50); AppleWorks GS-oterica (51)

Highlights

Election Notice

Pi annual elections plus bylaws ratification. Outcome will appear in July/August.

As American as Apple Pi — Phil Shapiro

Community outreach manifesto — "important, not just nice". Shapiro continuing the Micro-Mentor Clearinghouse thread.

On laptops — Ralph J. Begleiter

Mac Portable (Apple's first laptop, Sept 1989) review/perspective. Compares to MS-DOS laptops.

IIGS Magazine — Frank Evangelista

New commercial magazine dedicated to IIGS — signals the platform's continued vitality despite Mac dominance.

Lynn Trusal departing

Bits & Bytes credit notes Trusal is "our about-to-be-departed designated Ear to the Ground" — long-running columnist leaving.

Entities

People: David Morganstein, Frank Potter, Nancy Seferian, Brent Heatherington, Jim Donnelly, Phil Shapiro, Peter C. Olsen, Ralph J. Begleiter, Robb Wolov, Kim Cimmery, Lynn Trusal, Frank Evangelista, Gary Hayman Topics: Pi Elections 1990, Apples for the Students, As American as Apple Pi, HyperTALK SIG, System 6.0.5 References: Mac IIfx, Mac Portable, macGIS, IIGS Magazine, UltraMacros

Connections to other issues

• Pi Elections 1990 resolved in 1990-07 — V11 N07 / 1990-08 — V12 N08 (Eric Rall elected)
• As American as Apple Pi continues Micro-Mentor Clearinghouse thread from 1990-01 — V12 N01
• Lynn Trusal long Bits & Bytes run nearing end
• macGIS Pt 1 in 1990-04 — V12 N04