Boeing Graph. 3D Power Graphics v 2.0

For the-IBM PC or compatible personal computer with 512K memory, enhanced graphics adapter (EGA) color graphics card with 256K memory, one floppy disk drive and a hard disk, DOS version 2.0 or later, CRT display compatible with the EGA card, and a parallel printer with graphics capability. $395.00. Boeing Graph is a program for creating full-color business and scientific graphs. The program design consists of a data file module, known as the Data Manager, and a graphics module. The Data Manager accepts and formats data and text for the construction of a graph. The graphics module manipulates the completed data file to produce the desired graph. The entire process is guided by the most comprehensive and user-friendly menu system I have ever used in a graphics package: the well-written and thoroughly illustrated manual almost becomes superfluous. The Data Manager is simply a modified spreadsheet into which data may be entered or generated by using the limited repertoire of equations provided. Data created or entered via another program may also be loaded into the Data Manager in several formats, including DIF, SYLK, ASCII, Boeing CALC ASC, Lotus WKS and WK1, and Boeing Graph 3DT files. I found that the Data Manager is quite adequate for simple data entry; however, data which requires complicated mathematical treatment is better handled by a heavy-duty spreadsheet or a math CAD program before transferring to the Data Manager. The graphics module is divided broadly into three types of graphs-two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and three-dimensional stacked types. The two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphs display data in two and three dimensions, respectively. The three-dimensional stacked graphs allow the composer to combine several pages of data. A given three-dimensional stacked graph is a single graph with layered risers, in essence a fourth dimension, representing the different pages of data. Each of the three types has a number of preset graphs which may be viewed in a mini-graph menu and selected by toggling through the choices. Data from the Data Manager may be redrawn in any of these forms by pressing only one button. There are sixteen preset two-dimensional graphs, including the standard pie, histogram, and multiple-line graphs, as well as an interesting polar coordinate and spectral graph. Thirty-three preset, three-dimensional graphs comprise mainly fishnet variants and graphs with a wide assortment of geometrical solids for risers. The twenty-two preset, three-dimensional stacked graphs include many from the three-dimensional type, a few unusual forms, …