November – December 1995 — Vol 17 No 6
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Overview
Year-end Vol 17. Macs for Teachers: A Review (Lawrence I. Charters, 14). Artists on Exhibit (Blake Lange, 20). Wall Street Managers are Cool to HotJava (Deborah Weil, 28) — Java officially announced May 1995. Artists Attention! (Stuart Bonwit, 29). Graphic Tips (Carol O'Connor, 30). guten Tag: A Review of German Pronunciation Tutor (Anson D. (Bill) Geiger, 34). The New Noise in Town — Windows 95 (Paul Gerstenbluth, 36) — Windows 95 launched Aug 24, 1995 with media frenzy. Crystal Ball (Madame Blavatsky [pseud.], 36). Books About Color (Jim Alley, 44). There Is No Life After Macintosh (Jeanne Lorenzo, 45). Kwik-Knowledge Speeds Database Searches (Dale Lowdermilk, 54). Home Repair Encyclopedia (Jennifer Elsea, 57). The Schoolhouse News (59). Icon Mania—Creating, modifying and managing icons (Jim Alley, 65). Review of Color Compass (Thomas Berens, 67). Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs (Blake Lange, 70). OmniPage Professional 5.0 (Majie Alley, 74). Bigger is Byter (Jeanne Lorenzo, 76). How-to—Label printing: A dark art revealed (Robert Wright, 79). Thoughts from the Alley Cat: Font Problem Found and Fixed (Janet Christian, 82). When and How to Initialize an Apple Hard Drive (David Lake, 82). Statement of Ownership and Circulation (89).
Apple II: Collecting New Software + FTP by Email (Seth Mize, 84). Phantom 5.25 Drives and Other IIGS Problems (David Ottalini, 85). The Mac vs. the GS — Desktop Differences (Gareth Jones, 86).
Apple III: Internet and the ///: Surfer's Heaven (Jeff Marraccini, 87) — Apple III on the Internet!
Highlights
Windows 95 — The New Noise in Town — Paul Gerstenbluth
Windows 95 (Aug 24, 1995) — massive consumer launch. Pi covers it (for context/competition).
Java reaches Wall Street — Deborah Weil
Java announced May 1995 — Pi tracks early commercial reception.
Internet and the Apple ///: Surfer's Heaven — Jeff Marraccini
Apple /// online — vintage machine + Internet. The Apple III SIG's spirit of pushing the platform to new uses.
FTP by Email — Seth Mize
FTP-by-email gateways (FTPMAIL) for users without direct FTP access.
Macs for Teachers — Lawrence I. Charters
Educational Mac book review — Charters' Education Month follow-up.
"There Is No Life After Macintosh" — Jeanne Lorenzo
Mac partisanship essay — at the moment Windows 95 was making major inroads.
Entities
People: Lorin Evans, Lawrence I. Charters, Blake Lange, Deborah Weil, Stuart Bonwit, Carol O'Connor, Anson D. Geiger, Paul Gerstenbluth, Madame Blavatsky, Jim Alley, Jeanne Lorenzo, Dale Lowdermilk, Jennifer Elsea, Thomas Berens, Majie Alley, Robert Wright, Janet Christian, David Lake, Seth Mize, David Ottalini, Gareth Jones, Jeff Marraccini Topics: Windows 95 Launch, Java 1995, Mac Partisan, FTP by Email, Apple III on Internet References: Windows 95, Java, HotJava, OmniPage Pro 5, Icon Mania
Connections to other issues
- Closes Vol 17 — first bimonthly year
- Windows 95 Launch = major competitive moment for Macintosh
- Java 1995 = early days of write-once-run-anywhere language
- Apple III on Internet = inspirational vintage-computing piece