June 1993 — Vol 15 No 6

Overview

The Pi Blooms in Spring (Lorin Evans, 5). Election Update (8). Community Affairs: Public Access Computers for Young Adults (12). Computer Vision Syndrome (Cottrell Communications source, 13) — workplace eye-strain. Beginning HackerSpeak: The B's (from the Jargon File, 16). BoD Summary (Dana J. Schwartz, 18). Mac Q & A (Jonathan Hardis, 22). You Can Do Voodoo, Too! book review (Debbie Hoyt, 27). Artists on Exhibit — Darby Waters (Ann Aiken, 24). Graphic Tips (Carol O'Connor, 26). Falcon MC (Tom Culbert, 35). Guaranteed Undelete (Jim Campbell, 36). TypeReader 1.0 (Frank Potter, 37) — OCR software. Hypertalkin' (Madge Van Ness-Brucato, 43). Civilization (Jonathan Lechter, 45) — Sid Meier's landmark game (1991/1992 Mac port). A Letter from the Trenches/Debugging Civ (Harry Erwin, 47) — bug-investigation companion piece. ShareTALK (48).

Table of contents (selected)

SIGs: Stock SIG (Morris Pelham, 8); EdSIG (Phil Shapiro, 9); Columbia Apple Slice (Andy Wakshul, 10)

General Interest: Map to the WAP Garage Sale (1); The Pi Blooms in Spring (Lorin Evans, 5); Election Update (8); Map to June General Meeting (11); Community Affairs: Public Access Computers for Young Adults (12); Computer Vision Syndrome (13); Beginning HackerSpeak: The B's (16); BoD Summary (Dana J. Schwartz, 18)

Macintosh Articles: June Tutorials (19); Mac Q & A (Jonathan Hardis, 22); You Can Do Voodoo, Too! book review (Debbie Hoyt, 27); Artists on Exhibit — Darby Waters (Ann Aiken, 24); Graphic Tips (Carol O'Connor, 26); Falcon MC (Tom Culbert, 35); Guaranteed Undelete (Jim Campbell, 36); TypeReader 1.0 (Frank Potter, 37); Hypertalkin' (Madge Van Ness-Brucato, 43); Civilization (Jonathan Lechter, 45); A Letter from the Trenches/Debugging Civ (Harry Erwin, 47); ShareTALK (48)

Highlights

Civilization on Mac — Jonathan Lechter + Harry Erwin

Sid Meier's Civilization finally on Mac. Erwin's companion debug-letter on bug-investigation is a fun complementary piece.

Community Affairs: Public Access Computers for Young Adults

Pi outreach to youth — Shapiro's continuing thread.

Computer Vision Syndrome

Workplace ergonomics — eye strain from screens, becoming recognized condition.

TypeReader 1.0 — Frank Potter

OCR software — Caere/ScanSoft's PageReader competitor.

The Pi Blooms in Spring — Lorin Evans

President's spring editorial — possibly his last as election season approaches.

Entities

People: Lorin Evans, Debbie Hoyt, Morris Pelham, Phil Shapiro, Andy Wakshul, Dana J. Schwartz, Jonathan Hardis, Ann Aiken, Darby Waters, Carol O'Connor, Tom Culbert, Jim Campbell, Frank Potter, Madge Van Ness-Brucato, Jonathan Lechter, Harry Erwin Topics: Jargon File Series, Community Affairs Column, Computer Vision Syndrome, Pi Elections 1993 References: Civilization, Falcon MC, TypeReader, You Can Do Voodoo Too, Guaranteed Undelete, ShareTALK

Connections to other issues

• Civilization = Sid Meier's strategy classic (1991), Mac port reviewed here
• Jargon File Series continues from May (A's) → here B's
• Computer Vision Syndrome ergonomics thread builds