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- The Winning Apple IIgs Systems: They're in Good Hands
-
- What would your User Group do with a brand new Apple IIgs* system?
- That's what we wanted to know when we called the five lucky User Groups
- who won one in the Apple( II Connection contest. The answers are as
- interesting and diverse as the User Groups themselves. From North
- Carolina to Idaho and California, the winning groups didn't waste any time
- putting their new computers to work and spreading the good news. Here's
- the scoop on how these groups are using their new systems.
-
- Caldwell Apple Users Group
- Caldwell, Idaho
- The new Apple IIgs may not be listed in the card catalogue, but you won't
- have trouble finding it. Just go to the Caldwell Public Library. But if you
- want to use the machine, you may have to wait your turn. The 75 members
- of the Caldwell Apple Users Group have just turned their new machine into
- a community resourceQavailable to anyone in this part of aptly named
- Treasure Valley. Custodians of the computer include Susan Hilliard, the
- technical services librarian, and Terry Andes, the reference librarian.
- Together, these two Apple specialists are on hand to familiarize library
- visitors with the new system and to show off its capabilities on 15
- demonstration disksQdisks acquired by Scott Bolton, resourceful group
- president who wrote to software developers requesting the free program
- demos. And when the system isn't showing off, it's hard at work on
- bibliographies, newsletters, other word-processing tasks, or performing
- feats with AppleWorks(. The User Group is hoping to expand their system
- to include an ImageWriter (in addition to their Epson), and to eventually
- beef up their software library. In the meantime, area educators are taking
- a very close look at the IIgs.
-
- Country Computer Club
- Wooster, Ohio
- Club president John Bastin was in the enviable position of test-driving the
- new Apple IIgs for his club and racking up some solo time with the
- machine. John explored the computer's capabilities and put together a
- demonstration that introduced the system to his fellow members. Now
- that John's honeymoon is over, everyone else's begins. The computer is
- now available on loan to all 55 members through the club librarian, and
- will be on hand at club meetings for software demos and other
- presentations. The group, which includes educators, accountants, and a
- bank president, will be running a wide range of applications and may even
- do a bit of software development.
- The group is currently exploring a Bulletin Board communications link
- with the local Macintosh group at Wooster College. Already, the members
- have purchased a 1-megabyte RAM card for their machine, as well as
- Paintworks Plus, a graphics program. From the sound of things, the
- Country Computer Club's new Apple will be busy for a long time to come.
-
- Champaign-Urbana Apple Users Group
- Rantoul, IlZ]nois
- Winning the Apple IIgs system came as quite a shock to group president
- Dan Farris, but it couldn't have been more welcome. Until now, the
- Champaign-Urbana Apple Users Group didn't have a computer to call their
- own. The group was using an Apple II+ on loan from the University of
- Illinois, and sometimes borrowing members' Apple IIe computers for
- meeting demos and presentations. The new Apple is now circulating
- among the nine board members, and impressing the 50 or so members who
- attend the monthly meetings. They've already taken a look inside the
- machine, plugged in memory cards, connected 5 1/4-inch disk drives, and
- explored some of the computer's unique features. Milt Forsberg, the
- group's Bulletin Board operator, notes that the arrival of the Apple IIgs
- meshes well with a change in the interests of the group to more
- sophisticated presentations on specialized topics, such as music. Not only
- has the computer attracted new members, it's also connected their group
- more closely to their local Apple dealerQa relationship that's benefited
- both. So now, as the shock waves subside, appreciation for the machine
- sets in. As Dan remarked, with obvious admiration, "The quality of an
- Apple can't be beat."
-
- Davidson Apple User Group
- Davidson, North Carolina
- When Reese Boyd, group president, picked up the winning Apple IIgs from
- the local Apple dealer, he headed straight homeQto the Davidson College
- campus dormitory. That's where the 45 club members got their first look
- and hands-on experience of their new Apple. From the dorm to the student
- union to the computer lab, the system is getting quite a
- workoutQespecially on all those term papers due yesterday. The final
- home for the group's system, though, is the college's Computer Service
- Center, where it will offer an alternative to other computer systems
- available on campus. In addition to AppleWorks, the group has acquired
- demo disks for Music Construction Set and Paintworks Plus, and are eager
- to explore the system's graphics capabilities and its potential as a
- Bulletin Board post. Although the group includes some faculty members,
- the student members aren't likely to give their Apple to a teacher for very
- long.
-
- Apple SMUG
- Salinas & Monterey, California
- Peninsula Office Products, SMUG's local Apple dealer, and Randy Scherer,
- Apple ace and seasoned problem-solver, helped SMUG get up and running on
- their Apple IIgs. And to make sure everyone gets a crack at the new
- machine, the group is holding a contest of its own. At each meeting,
- names are drawn from the hat entitling those members to a full week of
- uninterrupted use of the machine. Mike Rogers, the group president, hopes
- the drawings will encourage the 60-75 members to become more active in
- the group, as well as entice new members to the roster. In fact, a special
- interest group has already formed around the Apple IIgs, which includes
- the eight members who already own one. And as the group grows, so does
- the new computer. In addition to the 5 1/4-inch disk drive they already
- have, on order is a 1-megabyte RAM card and a second 3 1/2-inch drive.
- Obviously, this group has made a good connection to their machine!
-
-
- [SIDEBARS]
-
- The 75 members of the Caldwell Apple Users Group have just turned their
- new machine into a community resource.
-
- At each meeting, names are drawn from the hat entitling those members
- to a full week of uninterrupted use of the machine.
-
- The Apple IIGS Update
-
- The Apple IIgsQApple's most powerful Apple II computerQwas introduced
- with great fanfare in September. Many things have happened since then,
- and we'd like to share them with you. Here's an update.
-
- In the seven months that the Apple IIgs has been available, two important
- milestones have been achieved.
-
- First, the Apple IIe upgrade for the Apple IIgs shipped in January as
- planned. This upgrade allows any Apple IIe owner to upgrade to the full
- capabilities of the Apple IIgs while still being able to use the peripherals
- and software he or she already owns. The ability to upgrade was a key
- goal of the Apple IIgs development team, and we're glad it's shipping!
-
- Second, a new set of system software that contains the following tool and
- speed enhancements is about to be released.
- % New Font Manager
- % New Print Manager
- % Ability to compact files for faster loading
- % Bug fixes and developer tool updates
-
- You can get this new system software from your local authorized Apple
- dealer or through the recently announced User Group System Software
- license program. See your group Ambassador for more details on the
- licensing program.
-
- And, there's lots of good news on the software front: Over 25 Apple IIgs
- applications software packages have begun shipping, and many more new
- ones are on the way. These products are beginning to establish a whole
- new standard of quality and performance for the Apple IIGS line. Expect
- more new products this summer from leading and upstart software
- companiesQ products that will give true meaning to the words Graphics
- and Sound! Quick Connect will keep you posted!
-
-
- [SIDEBAR]
-
- A new set of system software contains tool and speed enhancements.
-
- Meet Bruce Tognazzini
- Magician of Make-Believe
-
- He doesn't know his title, doesn't have a business card (at least not within
- reach), isn't sure of the name of his department (it changes frequently),
- and he makes his living creating illusionsQillusions that appear so real, he
- believes in them himself. He's Bruce Tognazzini, the human behind the
- human interface of Apple's computers.
-
- Ask him about his work and he'll tell you it's a bunch of different things,
- like designing keyboards, implementing the mouse on the Apple IIgs,
- designing menus like the file card scheme in AppleWorks, developing
- interactive tutorials like Apple Presents Apple, and all the other things
- that ultimately determine how users will respond to and feel about their
- machines. As he puts it, "If someone loves their computer, they will take
- the time to learn it. My job is to make people love their Apple."
-
- And he does it by designing a human interfaceQan illusion of how the
- computer worksQthat is so intuitive and easy to understand, that most
- users forget it's thereQthat is, if they were even aware of it in the first
- place. Once interface problems are solved, such as how to arrange the
- keys on a keyboard or how to visually delete documents from a disk, the
- solutionsQif they're good onesQappear only too obvious. Bruce used this
- analogy to describe good and bad interfaces: It's like watching a very good
- dancer. There's a sense of, "Well, that's easy. I can do that!" But if you
- watched a really bad dancer, you would say, "That must be difficult!" And
- thanks to Bruce and his fellow interface designers, no one is saying Apple
- computers are difficult.
-
- The only difficulty is in describing what this illusive human interface is
- all about. Here's how Bruce explained it.
-
- There are basically two layers to a computer. There's the real hardwareQ
- the microprocessor that's expecting hexadecimal number such and so to
- perform some tiny little function that the programmer builds on and
- builds on. Then up above, is an illusion. With the Macintosh*, we've
- created an illusion that has no connection with the hardware. There are
- no file folders in the Macintosh. There is no trashcan. We've created an
- entire illusion. The software designer and programmer live in this kind of
- nether world that lies between the reality of the hardware and the
- illusion of the human interface. What I do is stand outside the illusion.
- My job is to create the fabric of that illusion. It's roughly the job of a
- magician.
- And Bruce, like any good magician, is adept at using a bit of sleight of
- hand when the situation calls for it. One of those situations occurred at
- the first National Computer Conference that Apple attended, when Apple
- unveiled the hot new Apple II language PASCAL. At the show, one Apple II
- was demonstrating integer BASIC, which, because it was so fast, flashed
- information screen by screen. Another Apple II was demonstrating
- PASCAL, which, because it was 100 times slower, wrote information on
- the screen character by character, line by line. But because the cursor
- was racing across the screen blindingly fast, viewers believed that
- PASCAL ran faster than BASIC. Actually, it was the illusion of the human
- interface that gave PASCAL its appearance of speed.
-
- And what magic does Bruce use in designing keyboards, for example? One
- ingredient is motivational psychology. He's discovered that what people
- say they want in a keyboard is not necessarily what they really want. He
- describes the evolution of the Macintosh keyboard this way:
-
- "It was very important in the early days to keep the Macintosh keyboard as
- simple as possible. One of the main reasons for this was because we
- didn't want to frighten people. In actual fact, most people who own
- computers have a deep desire to frighten all their friends. People who
- will tell you they want something simple, in fact want something that
- looks like Cape Canaveral."
-
- Bruce's "Cape Canaveral" Macintosh keyboard has not only the numeric
- keypad and cursor keys, but ten function keys as well. However, Bruce is
- quick to point out that the purpose of the function keys is to allow the
- user to set them. "We at Apple believe that the user should be in charge of
- what's going on. They can define the function keys any way they want, or
- forget about them and use the pull-down menus. In fact, the pull-down
- menu scheme is far more effective because it offers perhaps hundreds of
- special functions rather than ten, and makes changes for you without any
- effort on your part."
-
- Bruce has a similar philosophy regarding the use of the mouse and the
- cursor keys. And here again, he's discovered a difference between how
- people feel and the reality of what works best. He described it like this:
-
- A very interesting thing happens when you decide to use the cursor keys to
- move from one location to another. It takes a little over two seconds to
- decide what direction to move and which cursor key to press. It takes a
- little over two seconds to find the mouse. But there is an important
- difference in those two activities. In the case of the cursor keys, you're
- trying to make a decision, which is an extremely high-level intellectual
- activity of which you have no remembrance. In the case of mouse, you're
- not trying to make a decisionQyou're just trying to find the stupid mouse!
- During those two seconds, you're bored because it's a very low-level
- cognitive task.
-
- Therefore, for the brand new user, it appears that the mouse is incredibly
- slow, and it appears that the cursor keys are instantaneous because there
- is actual amnesia taking place. In the long run, however, even though both
- activities take the same amount of time to accomplish, you've picked up
- two seconds of productive time with the mouse because you are not
- disengaging yourself from the activity you are trying to carry out. So
- there's a difference between people's feeling about the mouseQwhich is
- often that it's boring and therefore not as good as cursor keysQand the
- reality that the mouse is more productive. The mouse is also faster if you
- have to move in more than one direction. Using the cursor keys, on the
- other hand, becomes so intellectually engaging that you think you're really
- accomplishing a lot, even though it's slowing you down monstrously. The
- very intellectual engagement of a cursor key, command-line-driven
- interface is the very evidence that it's not working.
-
- It's no wonder, then, that Bruce was instrumental in putting the mouse in
- the Apple IIgs package. ("For a long time, the mouse kept crawling in and
- out of the box.") Or that he invented MouseText, which allows word
- processors on an Apple II to run eight times faster than they otherwise
- would in a mouse environment. But most of Bruce's work is not something
- you can put your finger on. His stock in trade is dealing with all the
- ethereal qualities that make up the human interfaceQthe interface that
- makes us believe that trashcans, file folders, elastic pull-down menus,
- and mouse pointers actually exist as real things somewhere inside our
- machines. And it's also the human interface that protects us from, as
- Bruce puts it, "all kinds of horrors." But rather than have two million
- people living with the "horrors" of technologically complex hardware, only
- a few thousand programmers have to live with them instead. That's why
- Apple computers, despite their sophistication, appear so simple and are so
- easy for us to use.
-
-
- For interesting but little-known facts about Bruce, see Tognazzini: A List
- of Firsts on the back cover Bulletin Board.
-
- [SIDEBARS]
-
- There are no file folders in the Macintosh. There is no trashcan. We've
- created an entire illusion.
-
- Bruce, like any good magician, is adept at using a bit of sleight of hand
- when the situation calls for it.
-
- Check Out the Apple Library Users Group
-
-
- "Help! I'm a librarian in a small school in Nebraska with a Macintosh Plus
- and I need help choosing software to meet my needs. The nearest
- computer store is several hundred miles away, and besides, they don't
- really understand the problems of my small library. Is there anyone out
- there who can help?"
-
- "I'm a librarian at a university in the People's Republic of China and I want
- to catalog a collection of English language books on an Apple II+. Can
- anyone suggest software that might do the job?"
-
- "I'm a media specialist for 15 small school libraries in Alaska and I have
- an Apple IIe. Has anyone used AppleWorks to produce a disk format shelf
- list and catalog?"
-
- What do these three requests have in common? They are all from
- librarians who are using Apple computers to solve their information
- needs. The Apple Library Users Group (ALUG) was formed in 1981 as a
- forum for librarians, media specialists, and information professionals to
- share information with one another about their use of Apple computers.
- From a small beginning, this group has grown to nearly 9,000 members
- from around the world, including members from the People's Republic of
- China, San Quentin Prison, and the Library of Congress, as well as from
- schools, public and university libraries, and corporations across the
- country. Their common bond is that they all work in libraries and they all
- use Apple computers.
-
- The fantastic growth of this user group is largely due to the efforts of
- Monica Ertel, who was hired by Apple Computer six years ago to start
- their own automated library. At that time, Monica, a librarian by trade,
- had not even seen a microcomputer, let alone tried to automate library
- tasks with one! Her first step was to send out a call in local library
- newsletters for other librarians who would like to get together and share
- information. That's when ALUG was born. From the 35 responses she
- received, she put together a 6-page newsletter telling about her work at
- the Apple library and listing recent articles on using Apple computers in
- libraries. Today, that 6-page newsletter is now a thick, 70-page
- quarterly and the main method of communication of ALUG. It contains
- information on the latest products from Apple, software and hardware
- reviews by members, an active question-and-answer column, and many
- articles about what members are doing with their Apple computers. In
- fact, the ALUG Newsletter received "The Best Newsletter from a
- Corporation" award by John Dvorak from InfoWorld.
-
- In addition to the newsletter, ALUG also sponsors the Apple Library
- Template Exchange, a cooperative effort on the part of the members to
- share solutions to common problems in database and spreadsheet
- applications. The Template Exchange currently has over 200 templates for
- AppleWorks, as well as about 50 PFS templates, DB Master, dBASE II, and
- assorted programs. Macintosh templates are also available through the
- Template Exchange.
-
- Each year, the Apple Library Users Group has their annual meeting at the
- American Library Association Annual Conference. The meetings consist of
- an annual report on the year's activities of ALUG, a presentation from
- Apple management including a question-and-answer period, and discussion
- groups on such topics as software circulation, telecommunications, and
- computer literacy. This year, the meeting will be held in San Francisco on
- July 1.
-
- Interested in joining? Membership in ALUG is free to any person involved
- in using Apple computers in libraries or for any kind of information
- management. For more information, write to the Apple Library Users
- Group, 10381 Bandley Drive, Cupertino, CA 95014, or call (408) 973-2552.
-
-
- [SIDEBAR]
- The ALUG Newsletter received "The Best Newsletter from a Corporation"
- award by John Dvorak from InfoWorld.
- Macintosh Software List
-
- Are you using the most up-to-date versions of Apple-labeled software on
- your Macintosh? If you're not sure, check the list below.
-
-
- Application Current Date
- Version* Released
- --------------------------------------------------
- AppleLink( 4.0 6/86
-
- AppleShare* (Server) 1.0 1/87
- AppleShare Srvr 1.0 1/87
- AppleShare Admin 1.0 1/87
- Desktop Manager 1.0 1/87
- Finder 5.4 1/87
- System 3.3 1/87
-
- AppleShare (Workstation) 1.0 1/87
- AppleShare 1.0 1/87
- AppleShare Prep 1.0 1/87
- Hard Disk 20 1.1 5/86
- Installer 2.3 1/87
- Installer Scripts 2.3 1/87
- Finder 5.4 1/87
- System 3.3 1/87
-
- HardDisk 20 Startup 1.1 6/86
- Chooser 2.31 5/86
- HD20 1.0 9/85
- HD20 Test 1.1 9/85
- Finder 5.3 6/86
- Font/DA Mover 3.2 5/86
- System 3.2 6/86
-
- Hard Disk 20SC Installation Disk 8/86
- Hard Disk 20SC Installer 1.0 8/86
- Disk First Aid 1.0 8/86
- Find File D/A 1.0 8/86
-
- LaserWriter( Fonts 1.1 5/86
- Font/DA Mover 3.2 5/86
- LaserWriter Fonts 2/86
- LaserWriter Plus Fonts 2/86
-
- MacDraw((400K) 1.9.1 6/86
- MacDraw(800K) 1.02 6/86
- Guided Tour 1.1 6/86
-
- Macintosh 512E Guided Tour 1.0 3/86
-
- Macintosh Plus Guided Tour 1.0 1/86
-
- Macintosh 68000 2.0 8/86
-
- Macintosh Pascal 2.1 6/86
- (Utilities)
-
- Macintosh Plus Sys. Tools
- OR Macintosh 512Ke Sys. Tools
- AppleTalk( ImageWriter( 2.3
- Chooser 2.31
- Clipboard File 1.0
- Finder 5.53
- Font/DA Mover 3.2
- ImageWriter 2.3 6/86
- Installer 2.2 5/86
- Installer Scripts
- (Mac Plus Update) 1.1 6/86
- OR(Mac 512K Update) 1.0 6/86
- Laser Prep 3.1 5/86
- LaserWriter 3.1 6/86
- Scrapbook File 2.0 1/86
- System File 4.13 6/86
-
- Macintosh System Install. 1.04 6/86
- Clipboard File 1.0 1/86
- Finder 5.53 6/86
- Font/DA Mover 3.2 5/86
- HD20 1.1 5/86
- Installer 2.2 5/86
- Installer Scripts
- Mac Plus Update Script 1.1 6/86
- External Drive 1.0 6/86
- Scrapbook File 2.0 1/86
- System File 4.13 6/86
-
- Macintosh Printer Install. 1.14 6/86
- AppleTalk ImageWriter 2.3 6/86
- Chooser 2.31 6/86
- Finder 5.53 6/86
- ImageWriter 2.3 6/86
- Installer 2.2 5/86
- Laser Prep 3.1 5/86
- LaserWriter 3.1 6/86
- System File 4.13 6/86
- The Namer 2.1 5/86
-
- MacPaint( 1.55 5/85
- Guided Tour 1.0 3/85
-
- MacProject( 1.1 6/86
- Guided Tour 1.1 6/86
-
- MacTerminal( 2.1 6/86
-
- MacWorks( XL 3.0 (Rev. D) 8/85
-
- MacWrite( 4.55 6/85
- Guided Tour 1.0 4/85
-
- Migration Kit 1.0 10/85
-
- Switcher Construction Kit* 4.4 8/85
-
- Through The Looking Glass Rev. A 10/84
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 1 Only ImageWriter 2.1 (or later) and LaserWriter 1.1 (or later) are
- compatible with "Chooser" (different from Choose Printer).
-
- 2 This is the first release of MacDraw on a 800K diskette. It is the same
- as MacDraw (400K) 1.9.1. The release contains the latest versions of the
- System File (3.2), the Finder (5.3), and ImageWriter (2.3).
-
- 3 Finder 5.5 and System 4.1 are recommended for users of Macintosh
- Plus, SE, and Macintosh II computers. Macintosh 512K and 512Ke owners
- should continue to use Finder 5.3 and System 3.2, but may install the new
- LaserWriter and ImageWriter drivers.
-
- 4 These disks have been distributed to dealers (July 1,1986 AppleGram)
- for updating their customers. In the future, they will be available as a
- product bundled with a manual that explains installation, HFS, etc. (Part
- No. M0546).
-
- 5 UnBundled Releases:
- % No actual revisions to software
- % Different System Software
- % MacPaint Disk Part No. 690-5011-E
- % MacWrite Disk Part No. 690-5024-C
-
- AppleFest '87 Celebrates the Apple II Family
-
- Attention Apple II enthusiasts: Here's an open invitation to attend the
- first major Apple II show to come along since 1983. AppleFest( is back,
- and promises to be bigger and better than ever before.
-
- AppleFest '87, scheduled for September 18, 19, and 20 at the San
- Francisco Civic Auditorium, is a conference and exposition for the entire
- Apple II computer community. Apple resellers, peripheral manufacturers,
- applications and game software developers, Apple-specific publishers,
- and other vendors of Apple II-related products and services are expected
- to participate.
-
- Steve Wozniak, Apple cofounder, as well as Delbert Yocam, Apple's chief
- operating officer, will be on hand for keynote addresses as Apple kicks off
- the three-day event. Other highlights include:
- % Hands-on Tutorials: Instruction in the use of popular software
- packages, offered in conjunction with the publishers.
- % Educational Computing Showcase: On-going demonstrations of
- the best in educational software for home and classroom.
- % Merit Competition Show-off: Featuring the grand prize
- -winning projects in the Merit Competition sponsored Apple Computer
- Clubs International.
- % Applications-Oriented Sessions: Topics ranging from tax
- preparation and desktop publishing to buying a printer or choosing a
- college.
-
- In addition to these festivities, many companies are expected to make new
- product announcements, particularly new offerings for the Apple IIGS
- computer.
-
- Needless to say, the AppleFest announcement was greeted with
- enthusiasm throughout the industry. As the editor-in-chief of InCider
- magazine remarked, "For some time, the Apple II community has needed a
- strong, national forum to show off its wares and rally its supporters. It's
- good to hear that AppleFest is back."
-
- Trivia Questions
-
- page 2
- What were the smallest and largest memory sizes available on the
- first Apple II?
-
- page 3
- What was the name of Apple's first private-labled printer?
-
- page 4
- What well-known computer company passed up the chance to make
- the Apple I?
-
- page 5
- What is the name of the Apple III database program that evolved into
- the integrated Apple II software package called AppleWorks?
-
- page 6
- Who once told Rolling Stone magazine, "You should be able to carry
- your Dynabook and two bags of groceries comfortably"?
-
- page 7
- Who created the rabbit and the gnome for the program Apple
- Presents Apple?
- [BULLETIN BOARD ITEMS]
-
- This Month in Apple's History. . .
-
- MAY
- 1976Q The Byte Shope computer store orders 50 Apple I boards.
- 1979Q "Disk Utility Pack," a collection of system software routines
- for Apple II computers, is released.
- 1981Q The Apple Language Card is introduced.
- 1983Q "Kids Can't Wait" program is announced. Apple computers are
- donated to about 9,000 California schools.
- 1984Q The Apple plant in Cork, Ireland begins producing custom
- -language Macintosh computers for Germany, Italy, and the United
- Kingdom.
- 1986Q KanjiTalk, a Japanese version of Macintosh built-in system
- software, is introduced.
-
-
- Did You Know?
- The March and April '87 issues of Nibble magazine contain articles on
- how to start a user group, and the June '87 issue has an article entitled
- "Dealer/User Group Issues." All of these articles were written by Ellen
- Leanse, Apple's User Group Program Manager.
-
-
- Trivia Teasers
- page 2Q
- 4K and 48K
-
- page 3Q
- Silentype(
-
- page 4Q
- Hewlett-Packard (Steve Wozniak was employed there at the time he
- designed it.)
-
- page 5Q
- QuickFile(
-
- page 6Q
- Alan Kay
-
- page 7Q
- Bruce Tognazzini and J.D. Eisenberg
-
- Tognazzini: A List of Firsts
-
- As employee number 66, Bruce Tognazzini was the first applications
- software programmer hired by Apple Computer. To his credit is The Great
- American Probability MachineQa fun graphics program for the Apple II, and
- An Infinite Number of MonkeysQa humorous advanced BASIC programming
- kit for users to develop their own programs.
-
- Bruce was also one of the first organizers of an Apple User Group. He,
- along with his friend Scott Kamins (now a Senior Writer for Apple),
- started the San Francisco Apple Corps way back in January of 1978.
- Among the other members who made history as Apple luminaries were
- Steve Wozniak (Apple cofounder), Andy Hertzfeld (a Macintosh designer),
- and "Captain Crunch" (infamous hacker and author of EasyWriter, one of the
- first Apple II word processors).
-
- And by the way, Bruce was also the first person to sell Bill Budge (the
- well-known programming wizard of adventure games) his first personal
- computerQan Apple II, of course! But that's another story. . . .
-
-
-
- Staff
- Director: Cathy Hoolihan
- Contributors: Tom Virden, Bruce Tognazzini, Monica Ertel, and Phyllis
- Farnam
- Coordination: Apple Creative Services
- Editor: Janet Joers
- Design and Production: Aplin & Uno
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- 1987 Apple Computer, Inc. Apple, the Apple logo, AppleLink, AppleTalk,
- AppleWorks, ImageWriter, LaserWriter, MacDraw, MacPaint, MacProject,
- MacTerminal, MacWorks, MacWrite, QuickFile, and Silentype are registered
- trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Apple IIGS, AppleShare, Macintosh,
- and Switcher are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. AppleFest is a
- registered service mark of Apple Computer, Inc. dBASE is a registered
- trademark of Ashton-Tate. Nibble is a registered trademark of Nibble
- Publications.
- May Quick Connect 1
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- Final draft/JJ
- May 19, 1987
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