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Vol. 4, No. 7 October 1983
Entire contents Copyright © 1983
by International Apple Core, Inc.
Peter C. Weiglin - Editor and Publisher
Donna Caldwell - Managing Editor
Morgan P. Caffrey- Senior Editor
Nicole Lefcourt - Editorial Assistant
Val J. Golding - Editorial Associate
Rick van Genderen - Design Director
Contributing Editors:
. Mark L. Crosby - New Products
"Dr. Wo" - Pascal/Languages Editor
Neil D. Lipson, P. E.
AS. (Woody) Liswood
Bany D. Bayer
Jim Linhart - Miscellaneous Cartoonery
Dawn Brown - Circulation Manager
Karen Vanikiotis Zinsmeister - IAC Staff
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Apple users, and it is their interests which we seive.
Yes, we look a bit different this month; we hope you
recognized us. Apple Orchard is in the process of revising and
improving its graphic layout The next few months will bring
even more changes. Rick Van Genderen has been working with
us to make it happen against some "interesting" deadline
problems caused by the magazine's growth in size and
readership.
Another new item in this issue is the Direct Help Card, which
is opposite Page 88. It is designed to do what its name implies:
get help for you on a product advertised or included in our The
f'lew Stuff column. Circle your interest and mail in the card.
Our features this month include a search for speed. The
intrepid Neil Lipson wondered what would happen if he used
some of the products designed to speed up use of an Apple in
combination. The amazing results appear on Page 30. We
edited out his claim that his rig now can read files before writing
to them.
For more details, the Accelerator board for the Apple II is
checked out by Barry Bayer on Page 36. Note the IBM
comparison with the II. Note also that the Apple I I/' s 6502 chip
operates at almost twice the speed of the Apple II' s, which
makes the unadorned 111 much faster than the IBM. But
nobody knows that
We do know a little bit about Apple the Company's future,
thanks to Don Norris' report on a recent Software Developers'
Conference sponsored by Apple. Watch the secret mice
scamper across Bruce Tognazzini.
Speaking of secrets, there's WPL, or Word Processing
Language, which can be found hiding in every Apple Writer II,
I I e, or I I/. It is amazing how many people haven't tackled WPL
yet, and thus only use a third of Apple Writer's capabilities. Well,
here's the first article in a Richard Loggins tutorial series on
WPL It's a real eye-opener, because WPL greatly extends Apple
Writer's capabilities to meet your unique word processing
requirements.
For Apple 111 owners specifically, we have two articles this
month on drivers, in native mode and in CPI M. For everybody,
a personal resource projection program can help chart your
future, while one of two new plotters could make the charts
prettier. And more.
And, of course, there is The New Stuff, which is the most
comprehensive new product listing and description you'll find
anywhere. These items too are tied into the Help Card as an
experiment (Yes, we used to call that column something else,
but let's face it, the old title just wasn't as descriptive. Besides,
Weiglin the Editor thought it was time we backed off the Apple
puns just a bit The main thing is that you'll find the info.)
We look forward to hearing from you.
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