January – February 1999 — Vol 21 No 1
Source
Open PDF • Jan–Feb 1999 • Vol 21 No 1 • 96 pages
Overview
Volume 21 opens — first post-20th-anniversary issue. iMac-saturated coverage: - iMac Review: It's a Mac (Washington Apple Pi Labs, 28) - iMac Memory Expansion: Do It Yourself? (Pi Labs, 31) - iMac Benchmarks: Quick Comparisons (Pi Labs, 64) - Washington Apple Pi Mac Bench Pro: Wall of Macs (Pi Labs, 65)
Plus: Tuesday Night Technical Assistance (Lorin Evans, 22). A Compressed Tour of Stuffit 5.0 (24). Y2K: It Is Not a Bug! If It Was Deliberate (Lawrence I. Charters, 27) — first explicit Pi Y2K piece. Financing for the Future (Alice Marshall, 33) — Pi finance article. Best of the TCS (John Ludwigson, 44). Volunteers Needed (90). WebChecker and the herding of URLs (David L. Harris, 34). Hottest Downloads—Making Quoting Easy on the TCS (Lou Dunham, 37). Computer Games for the Deaf (Shirley B. Kent, 38). Floppy Disks are Obsolete (John Ludwigson, 39) — the iMac shipped without a floppy drive, sparking debate. Aladdin Desktop Magician™ (Mary Keene, 59). Learning New Software—Back to School! a Continuing Saga (C. Etana Finkler, 69). Digital Cameras, the Next Breakthrough? (Garr Cutler, EMUG, 80). My ALPS Model 4000 Printer/Scanner (Mical Wilmoth, 82). Design your own home: But use your common sense (Vernon W. Smith, 83). ImageReady: A review (Thomas A. DiBenedetto, 85).
Apple: The Apple // Special Report: The Computer that Refuses to Die (Ron Evry, 87) — Apple II refuses to be killed. WAP /// SIG History (David Ottalini, 88).
Highlights
iMac coverage saturates Pi
4 separate iMac articles including DIY memory upgrade, review, benchmarks, and Wall of Macs comparison. Pi Labs in full swing.
Y2K, deliberate — Lawrence I. Charters
Cynical Y2K take — joke that 2-digit dates were deliberate to create $billions in remediation work.
Floppy Disks Obsolete — John Ludwigson
iMac shipped without floppy drive (Aug 1998) — controversial decision. Apple's vision: USB + Internet + CD-ROM. Ludwigson takes the eulogy seriously.
Apple II: "The Computer that Refuses to Die" — Ron Evry
Apple II still has Pi members — 12+ years after the IIGS launched.
Pi Labs benchmark suite
Wall of Macs comparative benchmarks — Pi tech-team in full swing.
Entities
People: Lorin Evans, Lawrence I. Charters, Alice Marshall, John Ludwigson, Washington Apple Pi Labs, David L. Harris, Lou Dunham, Shirley B. Kent, Mary Keene, C. Etana Finkler, Garr Cutler, Mical Wilmoth, Vernon W. Smith, Thomas A. DiBenedetto, Ron Evry, David Ottalini Topics: iMac Era at Pi, Y2K Coverage, Floppy Disk Obsolete, Pi Labs Benchmarks, Apple II Refuses to Die References: iMac, Stuffit 5, WebChecker, Aladdin Desktop Magician, ALPS Model 4000, ImageReady
Connections to other issues
- iMac Era at Pi — heavy coverage continues from 1998-09 — V20 N05
- Y2K Coverage begins; will accelerate through 1999
- Floppy Disk Obsolete = iMac's controversial design