March – April 1995 — Vol 17 No 2

Overview

Web era at Pi: Setting Up Pages On The World Wide Web (Michael Levenston, 32) — instructional piece on building web pages. Mosaic Guides: Two from Ventana (Lawrence I. Charters, 30). MacInTax—Easy Stepping Through the 1040? (Joe Cohoon, 10). FullWrite, the Elusive Word Processor: Upgraded at Last (Bernadette McMahon, 13). Brainstorm Accelerators for Macintosh Plus and Macintosh SE (Sandy Kowalczuk, 19). File Inventory Programs—Review of 7 Shareware Programs on the TCS (Dennis Helsel, 20). MacNovice—"Nesting Habits" (Ralph Begleiter, 24). QuickView (Paul Gerstenbluth, 25). Rae Assist: A Personal Information Manager & More (Glenn Paterson, 26). French Pronunciation Tutor, Spanish Pronunciation Tutor (Stuart Bonwit, 35). Using the Macintosh, Special Edition and Sad Macs, Bombs and Other Disasters (Bill Jensen, 45) — Ted Landau's classic Mac troubleshooting book. Spigot II Tape: Second Generation QuickTime Board + QuickTime Editors for Spigot II Tape (Dennis R. Dimick, 54-56). Anything Word Can Do Nisus Does Better (C.R. Clowery, 64). Lunicus (Jerome Williams, 71). "Missing Myst" (Jeanne Lorenzo, 73). Apple II: "Stop" (Ed Morykwas, 75). Apple III content continues (Bloom, Ottalini).

Highlights

Setting Up Pages on the WWW — Michael Levenston

Web page authoring tutorial — Pi members learning to build their own websites in the early Web (HTML 1.0 / Mosaic era).

Mosaic Guides — Lawrence I. Charters

Mosaic browser guidebooks — Ventana published several. Pi members getting on the Web.

FullWrite — finally upgraded — Bernadette McMahon

Ashton-Tate/Ann Arbor Softworks' FullWrite Professional finally upgraded — last covered in 1988-08 — V10 N08 (MacNovice follow-up).

Sad Macs, Bombs — Bill Jensen

Ted Landau's "Sad Macs, Bombs and Other Disasters" — Mac troubleshooting bible. Plus Lon Poole's "Using the Macintosh, Special Edition".

Apple // and Apple /// SIGs continue

1995 still has Apple // SIG ("Stop" by Morykwas, Balloon v2.0 press release) and Apple /// (Bloom, Ottalini).

Entities

People: Lorin Evans, Joe Cohoon, Bernadette McMahon, Sandy Kowalczuk, Dennis Helsel, Ralph Begleiter, Paul Gerstenbluth, Glenn Paterson, Lawrence I. Charters, Michael Levenston, Stuart Bonwit, Bill Jensen, Dennis R. Dimick, C.R. Clowery, Jerome Williams, Jeanne Lorenzo, Ed Morykwas, Joan Jernigan, Allan M. Bloom, Dave Ottalini Topics: Web Page Authoring 1995, Mosaic Browser, Mac Troubleshooting Books, Brainstorm Accelerators References: FullWrite, MacInTax, Sad Macs Bombs, Spigot II Tape, Lunicus, Myst, Nisus Writer 4.0

Connections to other issues

• Web Page Authoring 1995 = Pi's pivot to WWW alongside the still-active TCS BBS
• Mosaic Browser continues web theme
• FullWrite last covered 1988-08 — V10 N08 — finally upgraded after 7 years