March – April 1998 — Vol 20 No 2
Source
Open PDF • Mar–Apr 1998 • Vol 20 No 2 • 100 pages
Overview
Embarrassment of Riches (Lorin Evans, 5). BOD December + January Meeting Notes (7-8). Questions You Ask the Office (9). November General Meeting Report (Don Essick, 11). December Garage Sale a Success (Beth Medlin and Lawrence I. Charters, 12). Scenes from a Winter Market (David Harris photos, 12). January General Meeting Report (Don Essick, 15). Pi Filling—the CD (Washington Apple Pi Labs, 24). Welcome to WAP (David Ottalini, 27). The Value of Pi (John Ludwigson, 29). An Interview with David Morganstein—WAP Member at Large (Nancy Seferian, 30) — Past President interviewed.
Macintosh: My Life as a Beta Tester or How To Stop Worrying and Be a Nerd (Bonnie Ashbaugh, 32). Best of the TCS (Nancy Seferian, 34). Mac OS 8.1 and HFS Plus (Lawrence I. Charters, 36) — major new filesystem. G3 Mac runs NT Server 4.0 (David Ferri, 40). How to Convert PageMaker Documents to PageMaker 6.5 (Jean Koike, 42). Assistive Technology—The MacWay (Heather Rushmore, 45). QuickTime Rounds the Bend—After Nearly a Year, 3.0 Rolls Closer to Release (Dennis R. Dimick, 52). Quark Publishing System (Paul Chernoff, 65). You Can Donate a Pint of Web Space (Phil Shapiro, 75). Tom's Tips: Program Memory Management (continued).
SIGs: Graphic Arts SIG (16); Oct + Dec + Jan Genealogy SIG reports (19, 19, 21); Dec + Jan StockSIG (23).
Highlights
Mac OS 8.1 + HFS Plus — Lawrence I. Charters
Mac OS 8.1 (released Jan 1998) brings HFS Plus — the new filesystem that fixed HFS's wasted-space problem on large drives. Major modernization.
G3 Mac runs NT Server 4.0 — David Ferri
Mac running Windows NT Server — Connectix Virtual PC era. Cross-platform admin.
Morganstein MAL interview — Nancy Seferian
Past President interviewed — Seferian's MAL series continues. Morganstein served 1981-85 + 1989-90 as President.
Pi Filling—the CD
Pi launches its own CD-ROM — software collection.
Donate a Pint of Web Space — Phil Shapiro
Shareable hosting — community-Web advocacy.
Entities
People: Lorin Evans, Don Essick, Beth Medlin, Lawrence I. Charters, David Harris, David Ottalini, John Ludwigson, Nancy Seferian, David Morganstein, Bonnie Ashbaugh, David Ferri, Jean Koike, Heather Rushmore, Dennis R. Dimick, Paul Chernoff, Phil Shapiro Topics: Mac OS 8.1, HFS Plus, Pi CD Filling, Pi MAL Interview Series, Assistive Tech Mac References: Mac OS 8.1, HFS Plus, PageMaker 6.5, Quark Publishing System
Connections to other issues
- HFS Plus = filesystem modernization; major Mac OS milestone
- Pi MAL Interview Series now includes David Morganstein (past Pres)
- Beth Medlin = Pi Office Manager, longtime fixture