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When the Happy Hacker was still in junior high he went to his first computer show. They were a big thing in those days, before the Apple II and the IBM PC; they provided a rare opportunity for the few zealots who were playing fast and loose with the fringes of technology to congregate...
...good year would see three or four shows come to the New York area, the Happy Hacker's pre-Harvard habitat. Computer shows provide an opportunity for everyone from the computer neophyte to the experienced hacker to keep tabs with the latest in techno-gadgetry...
These days, computer shows are no longer a special cultural event for computer users. The Boston area alone gets several a year. But, shows are still useful, fun and entertaining, and that's why the Happy Hacker plans to spend part of today in Memorial Hall at the Harvard Computer Society's computer show...
...spruced up with a few simple graphs, plots and charts. Rather than merely write about the decline of the Holy Roman Empire, Plot it on a scatter plot. While a chart isn't worth a thousand words, graphs can certainly complement a term paper. One of the Happy Hacker's friends swears that grades on her social science papers are increased a couple of notches because of her Mac graphs...
...Happy Hacker, of Course, sometimes finds a need for more complex or for prettier graphs than Excel and 1-2-3 produce. For the Macintosh, Microsoft's Chart produces excellent charts, plots and graphs. It is much simpler than Excel to use, but its data manipulation capabilities are extremely limited. Excel and Chart are compatible with each other, however, and graphs produced with Chart can be sent to Excel for analysis just as Excel plots can be spruced up in Chart...