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...trio worked out of a summer house on Long Island and then in Brooklyn, where the Georges reside. They spent up to 14 hours a day, six days a week working on the book on two Macintosh computers. "With 150 write-ups done by different people, all with different writing styles, the publishers wanted lots of style revisions. We also edited to make them accurate, interesting, entertaining, and non-libelous," Georges says...
...December the trio printed out the flats for the book on a Macintosh laser printer and the completed project was delivered to the printer at the end of the month...
...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...
...Macintosh afficionados might also want to try Cricket Software's Cricket Graph. Similar to Chart in Concept, Cricket Graph also lets you sort and perform many mathematical manipulations. Especially useful is Cricket Graph's ability to fit regression lines to scatter-plot data. Of course, the cute name is also a plus...
Although computer costs are decreasing, the new Macintosh models are not the Happy Hacker's idea of cheap. The Macintosh II starts at $3898 list, and the SE starts at $2898. Although Harvard's Technology Product Center remains secretive about their planned pricing policy, they will offer the new computers at a discount. The prices should be available within a week, and if they are anything like the present discounts, an SE could sell for around...