September – October 1999 — Vol 21 No 5
Source
Open PDF • Sep–Oct 1999 • Vol 21 No 5 • 100 pages
Overview
Cover content: - He's Not Happy — p. 5 (President's column) - MacWorld Reflections — p. 10 (Macworld NY July 1999 — iBook launched!) - Surviving in a Cross Platform World — p. 27 - MacTips 1999 — p. 33 - When Your Zip Disk Takes a Hike — p. 41 (Iomega Click of Death era) - Starry Night Deluxe and the Tracking of Spacecraft — p. 52 - Best of the TCS — p. 61 - SonicWall: Combatting the Barbarians — p. 66 (firewall hardware) - HyperCard: What is it? — p. 70 (HyperCard still alive but Apple winding it down) - Apple II Telecommunications — p. 92
(Full TOC not extracted; standard issue structure continues.)
Highlights
MacWorld Reflections
Macworld Expo NY July 1999 — Apple launched the iBook (clamshell). The original consumer laptop counterpart to the iMac.
When Your Zip Disk Takes a Hike
Iomega "Click of Death" issue — Zip drives failing and corrupting disks. Major consumer-tech story.
HyperCard: What is it?
HyperCard recap/elegy — Apple still shipped HyperCard 2.4 (1998) but the writing was on the wall (officially discontinued March 2004, but already neglected by 1999).
Starry Night Deluxe + Spacecraft
Astronomy software tracking real spacecraft — Sienna Software's Starry Night Deluxe.
Cross Platform Survival
Mac in mixed-platform offices — practical interop guide.
SonicWall firewall
Consumer/SOHO firewall hardware — broadband Internet's security need.
Entities
People: Lorin Evans (President; specific bylines not extracted) Topics: Macworld NY 1999 iBook, Zip Click of Death, HyperCard Sunset, Mac Cross-Platform References: iBook clamshell, SonicWall, Starry Night Deluxe, HyperCard
Connections to other issues
- Macworld NY 1999 iBook = iBook clamshell launch
- HyperCard Sunset = the era of decline; HC discontinued 2004
- Zip Click of Death = major storage failure mode of the era