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users and developers.

Mail From Our

Readers

Doug

Briggs at Apple in

Massachusetts wrote to tell us ttLls8Calc 1.4

^and

new version of the Office System have been revOked for an Indefinite periOd

of time.... [See SlfP3l #li. 1_11

Release Fixes LisacaJa] serge Polevitzky of Hi-Tech Computing

in San Diego also wrote, Claiming

HOffice

System version 1.4

has

fallen into disfavor, as version 1.4 Is reported to

have

more

bUgS than

1.2 or 1.D.

The

currently

accepted fix for using the

Apple plus Pertoa keys In Lls8CalC Is:

don't

do

that'"

serge's letter also included some

help for users WhO have run out

of serial

ports:

"Suppose you have a

modem,

ImageWrlter [Apple's new dOt matrix printerl

and

Letter Quality Printer. this would tie up three ports,

when only

two

are avallaole on

the

Lisa PUt

the modem and

LQP into serial ports A

and

B. AA Apple 0-25

Centronics

cable can connect a Lisa parallel port to a

MicroF

azer parallel-to-serial 64K bUffer,

and

an RS-232 cable usIng pIns

1

to 8

and

20 connects

the

MicroFazer to

the

ImageWriter.

The

MicroFazer is jumpered for 9600 oauo ana

request-to-send, while

the

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created entirely with LisaDraw.

Image Writer gets set to 9600

baUd ana X-onlX-off. SInce Apple

has

not

announced a

serial c.ard for

the

Lisa, this

method saves

shuffling

the

three serial devices around

^the

two serial ports,

and

buffering does a lot

to

free up

the

Lisa I am sure other

(SUCh

as Practical peripheralS) bUffers work

just

as

well."

Serge also

mentioned

that error message

#950

appears several times whUe installing Pascal,

bUt that Apple's HotlIne says this is an expected error and

not to worry.

James

Stephens,

from Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, sent us a copy of hIs Interest1ng sIx page memo on

"thoughts and

suggestions

^aboUt the

use of personal computers [read "Lisa"]

at

JPL ^ft.

Attached to

the

memo was a chart comparing L'isa with

the

IBM

XT

usIng VisIon,

the f-P 9836A, the Corvus Concept, and the IBt-1 9000. The Chart

Is slmllar to,

bUt

more

detaIled than, the Lisa vs. IBM XT comparison published in leon's

fIrst Issue. James also IncluaecJ

a

copy of

an

engineering

drawing that

Is

by

far

the

most

complicated LisaDraw document we nave seen

to

date.

The

drawing nicely demonstrates

how

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Last month we received a copy

of the GO Info Net

Personal computer Newsletter from

the

General Dynamics

Data

Systems Division In san DIego.

The

20 page December issue was created

on a Lisa by a seven person staff,

part of a group devoted to supporting General

DynamiCS

employees usIng personal computers.

The

newsletter Is mostly

articles about Apple and

IBM prodUcts, with one page of

the December Issue devoted

to Lisa news.

Charles

Negin of

Grove

Engineering in Washington

Grove,

LisaStat

uses Lis8Calc and lisaCreph to illustrate statistical functions. Capabilit.ies: lineer regression.. t.rend line projections ..

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Marylana, sent us a copy of a letter to Apple that included a LIsa wIsh list. JV10st of

the wishes

were for LisaDraw: allow

"snrlnk to fIt" as In LlsaPro ject

and LisaGraph; provide more line

types, sUCtl as daSt1eCl or dOtted lines; allow user

defined shades;

provide rotation of any

Object,

including text, to at least every five degrees;

allow tile

angIe of an arc to

be

read

with'"show

size"; allow

pages

to

be

cut

ancI

duplicated exactly along a page

bOundary,

even If crossed

by

an

object. For example, cutting along a page DOUneJary crossea

by

8

circle would extract only

the

arc on

the

page

being

cut.

Other Grove Engineering

wIshes:

not keying software to machine serIal nt.I1"Ibers, so tnat If a LIsa

is

taken

in

for repair,

the

Profile or system diSkettes dOn't nave

to be

taken in also if the repair

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people need

to nil

them; allow queueing any

number of

docUments

for printing;

allow the

out-of-paper printer sensor to be overridden; support a printer

and

plotter

that

can produce

engineering drawings up to sIze

o ^or

^E,

to avoid having to

piece

together a large drawing from several small ones; allow colurms

to be

Inverted In LlsaGaIc

and LisaGraph; allow

logarithmic axes

and

grapns larger tnan one page

in LisaGraph; allow changing

a selected range of Llsawrlte

text

from upper to lower case

and

vIce versa

And

last bUt not least, Dave

Redhed

of Clear Skies

consulting

In seattle reported tr.at large fonts sometimes print too

wide.

OUr tests found that long Modem

text

seemed

to print exactly

as

ShOwn on

the

screen, OUt Classic

tended to print l/S" shorl

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