November 1991 — Vol 13 No 11
Source
Open original PDF • November 1991 • Vol 13 No 11 • 99 pages
Overview
A History of the WAP TCS (Leon H. Raesly, 24) — primary historical source for Pi's bulletin-board systems. Pi's longtime SYSOP Raesly tells the story from ABBS through the current TCS. Deborah Hoyt: "Editorial Page: In the Fry Pan" (5). Office News (Nancy Pochepko, 9). Tutorials — November (Keith Malkin, 42). Dvorak Tutorial (Apples and Macs) (Michael Spevak, 45) — keyboard-layout instruction. The Village Messenger (Jay Elkes, 26). Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization (Phil Shapiro book review, 28). Care and Feeding of Your Computer (Tom Witte, 51) — Pt 1: Mouse Maintenance. News of the WAP Book Library (Brian Mason, 84) + Titles on Hand (Mason, 86). FrameMaker 3.0 (Paul Chernoff, 30) — Frame Technology's pro DTP. WordPerfect 2.0 (Douglas M. Bloomfield, 35). The Macintosh Toolbox (Jean-Marc Rivas, 37). Magic It Says — Magic It Is! (Leon H. Raesly, 53) — review of the popular Magic File Cabinet for Apple II. MacWorld Expo (Dana Schwartz, 46).
Table of contents (selected)
Club News: Editorial Page: In the Fry Pan (Deborah Hoyt, 5); Office News (Nancy Pochepko, 9); Tutorials — November (Keith Malkin, 42); Dvorak Tutorial (Michael Spevak, 45); Directions and Map to Oct Mtg (Manny DeVera)
SIGs: Music SIG (Ed Moser, 11); Columbia Apple Slice (Tom Cook, 12); Apple IIGS SIG (Paul Tarantino, 12); EdSIG (Phil Shapiro, 13)
General Information: Volunteer Column (Tom Witte, 14); Exploring Typefaces — 7 (Frank Potter, 16); WAP Artists in Review — John McDougall (Nancy Seferian, 22); A History of the WAP TCS (Leon H. Raesly, 24); The Village Messenger (Jay Elkes, 26); Connections book review (Phil Shapiro, 28); Care and Feeding of Your Computer Pt 1: Mouse (Tom Witte, 51); News of the WAP Book Library (Brian Mason, 84)
Macintosh Articles: FrameMaker 3.0 (Paul Chernoff, 30); WordPerfect 2.0 (Douglas M. Bloomfield, 35); The Macintosh Toolbox (Jean-Marc Rivas, 37); Notes on the Mac (Paul Schlosser, 39); MacWorld Expo (Dana Schwartz, 46)
Apple II: Magic It Says — Magic It Is! (Leon H. Raesly, 53)
Highlights
A History of the WAP TCS — Leon H. Raesly
Primary historical source for Pi's BBS/TCS evolution. Raesly is Pi's longtime SYSOP and architect of the WAP TCS launched 1986-12 — V08 N12. This article spans ABBS predecessors through 1991's TCS.
Connections book review — Phil Shapiro
"New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization" — Lee Sproull & Sara Kiesler's classic computer-mediated-communication book.
FrameMaker 3.0 — Paul Chernoff
Frame Technology's pro-grade DTP — technical-publication competitor to PageMaker/QuarkXPress.
Tom Witte launches Care and Feeding series
Pt 1: Mouse Maintenance — practical hardware care, kicking off a long series.
Dvorak Tutorial — Michael Spevak
Keyboard layout instruction for both Apple II and Mac users.
WAP Book Library news — Brian Mason
Pi's book lending library under Mason — coverage and titles list.
Entities
People: Deborah Hoyt, Nancy Pochepko, Tom Witte, Keith Malkin, Michael Spevak, Manny DeVera, Ed Moser, Tom Cook, Paul Tarantino, Phil Shapiro, Frank Potter, Nancy Seferian, John McDougall, Leon H. Raesly, Jay Elkes, Brian Mason, Paul Chernoff, Douglas M. Bloomfield, Jean-Marc Rivas, Paul Schlosser, Dana Schwartz Topics: WAP TCS, Care and Feeding Series, Dvorak Layout, WAP Book Library References: FrameMaker 3.0, WordPerfect 2.0, Macintosh Toolbox, Magic File Cabinet, Connections (Sproull-Kiesler)
Connections to other issues
- WAP TCS history — primary source for the topic page; founding chronicled in 1986-12 — V08 N12
- Care and Feeding Series starts here (1991-11 — V13 N11)
- WAP Book Library under Mason — first coverage in 1991 ingest range