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Well, here's the second issue of Apple Orchard published
from our Santa Clara home office. At 112 pages plus cover,
it should validate everyone's hopes that we have in fact
become a bi-monthly publication. We're gratified by your
response to the March·April issue. We're also not standing
still; the Apple Orchard is continuing to expand, with your
support and participation.
And did we get comments on the philosophical observations,
the unbashful opinions, the penetrating
analyses of the computer? Naah. We got comments on the
cover photo, namely the dirty fingernails on the Grubby
Paws of the Future. Even got accused of running a dirty
book Well, the photo shows the typical condition of the
paws on a more or less typical 9 - year old male,
immediately before discovery by his mother. Reality ain't
always pretty, friends.
This issue, Neil Lipson, the IAC's Software Chairman,
naturally writes about .. er, hardware. Specifically, the
Diablo printer, which is the letter-quality workhorse. Thanks
too to the Diab lo folks for the photos and other information,
despite the fact that some of Neil's opinions may not fit into
their marketing plans.
There has been much discussion of the "transportability" of
the Pascal language. This issue, Paul Sand describes some
"features" of Apple Pascal, and the redoubtable Dr. Wo
covers some different available versions of Pascal In the
July-August issue, Bill Shepard will provide a unit that
allows the user a far greater measure of independence from
specific hardware.
And before the BASIC user feels totally left out, we have
what has to be the prettiest of"prettyprint" programs we've
seen for listing programs in BASIC, thanks to David Bartley.
This one is a great help if you've ever puzzled over a printout
of your latest program, with multiple statements in one
program line, trying to figure out what goes where. The
article appeared in much shorter form in the Apple-Dillo,
the newsletter of the San Antonio Appleseed group; Mr.
Bartley is its Editor. (Note that we will adopt this routine for
use elsewhere in the magazine.)
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