November – December 1997 — Vol 19 No 6
Source
Open PDF • Nov–Dec 1997 • Vol 19 No 6 • 100 pages
Overview
Year-end Vol 19. From the President (Lorin Evans, 5). BOD July, August & September Meeting Notes (8, 9, 10). August & September General Meeting Reports (Don Essick, 10, 12). Genealogy SIG (14) — new SIG launches. Tuesday Night Clinic (Lorin Evans, 15). Welcome to WAP (David Ottalini, 17). An Interview with Dennis Dimick, WAP Member at Large (Nancy Seferian, 19). Out on the Wired Plains (Dennis Dimick, 22). Electronic Highway Robbery (Mary Marsh, 74). Composer's Mosaic (William Harvey, 75). Cookies (Tom Negrino, 76) — Mac author guest piece on HTTP cookies. Graphic Arts SIG (Blake Lange, 26). Just Say Moof (Don Essick, 29). "Do I Really Need a Spleen?" Adventures in Millennial Computing (Lawrence Charters, 32) — Y2K musings. Review: Corel Stock Photos (Paul Gerstenbluth, 35). Graphic Tips (Carol O'Connor, 30, 36). The Luxury of Quicken Deluxe (Henry Miller-Jones, 37). Killer Ads (39, 41, 57). Best of the TCS (Nancy Seferian, 43). Internet Address Detectors (Jim Kelly, 45). Hottest Downloads (Nancy Seferian, 58). Claris Emailer 2.0 (Paul Gerstenbluth, 59). The Anal Retentive Macintosh (Jim Kelly, 60). Graphic Design 101 for Newbies (Mary Keene, 62). How to Laminate (Mary Keene, 72). Apple //: Add a Little Zip to Your Apple (below — continuing Zip Drive on Apple II thread).
Highlights
Genealogy SIG launches
New Pi SIG — genealogy software focus. Family-history hobby+Mac.
"Do I Really Need a Spleen?" — Lawrence Charters
Y2K computing musings — 1997 is the early build-up to the millennium bug coverage.
Tom Negrino on Cookies
Tom Negrino (Mac author, Visual QuickStart series with Dori Smith) — guest piece on web cookies.
Dennis Dimick MAL Interview — Nancy Seferian
Director-at-Large interview series continues (Lou Dunham in V19 N3, Paul Chernoff in V19 N5, now Dimick).
Claris Emailer 2.0
Pre-Apple Mail Mac email app — major Mac email client.
Just Say Moof — Don Essick
"Moof" = the Dogcow, classic Mac Easter egg / icon (from LaserWriter font sampler).
Entities
People: Lorin Evans, Don Essick, David Ottalini, Nancy Seferian, Dennis Dimick, Mary Marsh, William Harvey, Tom Negrino, Blake Lange, Lawrence Charters, Paul Gerstenbluth, Carol O'Connor, Henry Miller-Jones, Jim Kelly, Mary Keene Topics: Genealogy SIG, Y2K Prep, Pi MAL Interview Series, Web Cookies, Dogcow References: Corel Stock Photos, Quicken Deluxe, Claris Emailer 2.0, Composer's Mosaic
Connections to other issues
- Genealogy SIG = new SIG addition
- Y2K Prep thread starts here — continues through 1998-99
- Pi MAL Interview Series = Seferian's interview project
- Closes Vol 19; Steve Jobs returned as interim CEO Sept 1997 (not yet directly covered in this issue's main thread)