info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (05/31/84)
Date: 30 May 1984 15:23:40-EDT From: uw-beaver!Kevin.Dowling@CMU-RI-ROVER Subject: Assorted drivel To: utcsrgv!peterr To: microsof!infomac Lu Book: The B. Dalton Bookstore chain has the Cary Lu "The Apple Macintosh Book" for $14.99 (regularly $18.95 or so) This is clearly one of the best books so far on the Mac (I haven't seen Doug Clapps book) and complements the Mac Manuals very well. Mac Video: Does anyone on the net have further information on the Drexel or Univ. of Utah Mac video out? I looked briefly at this and it seems that scan conversion to NTSC would be an ugly problem. One possibility is to store each frame or frame sections in RAM and clock it out at the different scan frequency needed. (22.254545KHz to 15.750KHz for the horizontal for Mac to NTSC) St. Mac: Issue 5 of St. Mac (June) is out. This magazine has a little too much in the Gee-Whiz school of writing department as compared to MacWorld. [There's an article on a convent that bought a Lisa.... sheesh] Several role-playing games for the Mac are out already with pictures and mouse control of direction added to the traditional text. (music and talking would be neat additions on top of this) Some other new products include a $50 disk that contains 130 pictures you can use in MacPaint. My wife, a graphic artist, saw the ad, it had a couple of examples, and mentioned that it was just like the Clip-Art that artists and illustrators used but a lot more expensive. Some people have developed a PC-Basic Developer's Compiler to run most PC programs on the Mac. It can be linked to Pascal programs and integrated into the Mac office environment. Also a PC-to-Mac communication package. Inside Macintosh wil be available 4th quarter in Dealerships and Bookstores in a real binding and presumably cheaper than $150 There are a @i(lot) of ads for tote bags for Mac and Mac peripherals... It seems they're filling the vacuum since Apple hadn't anticipated the huge demand for the carrying bags... MacWare ad for MacAnimation (MSBasic instructions for animation) MacMath; a drill program "with novel animations providing rewards to the child" MacSpell; MacMath with words. Someone else is selling two disks loaded with the following: Basic Disk has "shooting stars, tic-tac-toe, and black-jack" Template Disk has "family budget and check book" for Multiplan Steven Jobs resume is listed also (page 52). Anyone know if this is for real? Sears and Businessland has decided to sell Macs and Lisas after previously rejecting Apple computers. There's a PaintMover program advertised to convert MacPaint files into MS-Basic Format. Only $30 ...... The Apple Corporate Balloon is for sale. $18,000 but only to those authorized to use the Apple logo. Raven S55A Balloon (retails for $31,000). Apple Yuppie Stuff: Apple now has something called the Apple Collection which is a kind of Sharper Image catalog of silly items like Apple Sailboards, Jewelry, clothing and real Apple desk accessories... The Mac T-shirt is the least offensive of all the items. nivek ARPA: nivek@cmu-ri-rover Bell: (412) 578-8830 USMail: Robotics Institute c/o CMU Schenley Park Pgh, PA 15213
info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (06/02/84)
Date: 31 May 1984 04:48-EDT From: Jerry E. Pournelle <uw-beaver!POURNE@MIT-MC> Subject: Assorted drivel To: Kevin.Dowling@CMU-RI-ROVER Cc: INFO-MAC@MIT-MC In-Reply-To: Msg of 30 May 1984 15:23:40-EDT from Kevin.Dowling at CMU-RI-ROVER for reasons unk nown Macworld has decided (according to letter to subscribers) to be every other month for a while; there is announcement that there will not be products for mac until next year; meaning I guess that they are not getting ads. Anyone want to offer theories?