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PS/2 CLONK CHIP SKT ANNOUNCED,FE% PUBLICLY LKAP TO G~ ITSAN JOSE,Ca. (NB) — Tltrowingcaution to thewinds,Chips and Technologies has followed Western Digitalin a promise to ship sample sets of PS/2 chips tocomputer makers by Februtuy, and optimistically pre­dicts that the first PS/2 computer dares couldbe readyfor sale by this summer. At a New York news confer­ence, Chips was accompanied by Adaptec, PhoenixTechnologies, Microsoft, and Santa Cruz operations,all of whom said they can offer a complete package ofhardware and software for PS/2 clone makers who wishto duplicate the functions of the IBM Model 50 and 60.Said Raj Jaswa, a Chips and Technologies marketingmanager,"Now even the smallest garage in Taiwan canindeed put one together." Coinpany officers also pre­dicted they' ll be shipping clone chip sets for the higher­end IBM Model 80 by May.One crowning feature of the new chip set is its speed.Chips claims its PS/2 sets run 6¹ faster than IBM's.And Adaptec's hard disk controller will accommodate570 million characters of storage while IBM's can onlyhandle 20 inillion.No computer manufacturers were present at the newsconference, since they generally are taking a wait-and­see attitude. IBM has publicly warned that it wiii go tocourt to 6ght PS/2 ciones. And Computer Automationof Irvine, California, also promises a court 6ght, sayingits patent on the Micro Channel Architecture's "selfconfiguring" feature cannot be bypassed by any clone­maker and all who dare to follow IBM's path wiii haveto answer to their demand fora license. But to the IBMthreat, at least, a Chips spokesman expressed thecompany's position that IBM will have to allow clonesof its machines for them to survive. "They need to showpeople that it's going to be a standard," says GaryMartin, CFO. "If itdoesn't takeoff, it becoines anotherPCJr."

KAYPRO HOPES TO BE FIRST ONBLOCK WITH PS/2, CLONESOI.ANA BEACH, Ca. (NB) — While it is generallyknown that virtually all major PC manufacturers have aPS/2 clone on the drawing boards, few are announcingthem, expecting that the first PS/2 clone maker will alsobe the first hit with a lawsuit by IBM. But KayproCorporation has boldly gone where no other computermaker has gone before, and has announced it willrelease an 80286- based PC with a Micro ChannelArchitecture+ompatible bus by June. Kaypro Presi­dent David Kay has reportedly failed to disclose detailsof the machine but has stated that Kaypro will have alicense from Big Blue for the PS/2 technology.

HEWLETT PACKAR9 SKT TO UNVEILLASER-LIKE INK JKT PRINTERVANCOUVER, Wa. (NB) — On February 1, HewlettPackard is expected to aimounce a $995 ink-jet printerthat's said to rival the laser printer in output. TheDeskJet, said to print two pages per minute and producea 300dots per inch output, reportedly has a laser printerdriver, unique in ink-jet style printers. The DeskJet willbe aimed at the letter-quafity printer market and couldbe a significant product for the company.

ASHTON-TATE/MICROSOFT TEAMUP TO BEAT IBMREDMOND, Wa. (NB) — Microsoft and Ashton-Tatehave announced plans to jointly market a softwareproduct which promises to compete, in the area of net­working, with IBM's corning Extended Edition of OS/2. Microsoft and Ashton-Tate will jointly market SQLServer, based on technology licensed from Sybase of

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Berkeley, CL Theproduct will allownetworked PCs toshamdataandperform calcuhtionspreviouslyreservedto minicomputers andmainlrames, a task IBM has alsoproclaimed will be possible with Extended Edition ofOS/2. While neither company has announced a releasedate for the software, they have said it will be availablein the second half of this year.The move is strategic for Ashton-Tate, whose dBasefamily of products has been in needi of an upgmh inamhv to facilitate the demands of a network,

THERE GOES THK NEIGHBORHOOD;LOTUS MOVES NEXT TO MICROSOFTBELLEVUE, Wa (NB) — Lotus'Chairman Jim Manadenies any ulteiior motives in his firm's opening of ainajor sales office in archrival MicrosOf's home base.Lotus is opening a inajor sales of6ce in Bellevue, justminutes Irom Redmond where Microsoft's corporationheadquarters are locataL In fact, says Manzi, the fumsmay berivalsIbut thechairmen of the twocompanies arebest of friends. Mana told the SEATTLE TIMES. "Weknow each other quite well. I am corning out to Seattlein Match. I think I am having dinner at his (Bill Gates,Microsoft Chairinan's) house."Lotus plans a 13-staff office to market Lotus 1-2-3,Modern Jazz,8r, otherproducts in the Northwestern US.

MGITAL LIKES CLONKS, TOOBOSTON (NB) — Lest makers of IBM PC clones feelleft out by Digital's announcement that it is developinglinks between DEC equipment and the Apple Macin­tosh, Digital has told teporteis that it will continue topush links between its VAX coinputers and the world ofthe clones. Digital is specifically targeting Compaq,Zenith, aud ATILT (Olivetti) personal computers forVAX links. Henry Ancona, Digital vice president, said,"Apple is a piece of Digital's broader strategy," whichincludes tutking virtmQy anything that cancomputeinto the VAX world.Digital also has confirmed that it's troubled by therecently- announced deal behveeu ATAT and SunMicrosystems to upgrade the UNIX operating system.Digital is one of more than a dozen coinpanies whichuse UNIX which signed a leuer to ATkT expressingconcern about the Sun-ATILT deal, The other UMX­users fear that Sun and AT8cT will make UMX proprie­

LOTUS UPGRADES SYMPHONY, JAZZCAMBRIDGE, 54m. (NB) — Lotus DevelopmentCorp. has unveiled Symphony 2.0, a new version of itsintegrated software package for IBM PCs and clones.At the same time, Lotus said it would ship Modem Jazzthis quarter. Modern Jazz is a new version of its disap­pointing Jazz spreadsheet and integrated soflware forthe Apple Macintosh computer. Symphony (not copyprotected) wiII feature an enhanced word processor, atext outliner, spelling checker, a file locking utility, andVT-100 terminal emulation. Available in February,Symphony 2.0 will cost $695 retail. Upgrades rangefrom $95 to $150. For more infomuttion, call 1- 800­TRADEUP.Modern Jazz will be priced at $395 and Lotus willcommunicate with registered Jazz users by mail onupgrades at $95. The new Jazz will read Jazz 1.0 filesand 1-2-3 fiiles. A key feature of Modern Jazz is anEnglish-like command language with a library of mac­ros for automated and customized applications. Theprogram runs on the Mac Plus, SE, and H. It needs onemegabyte of ~ two 800K drives or a hard drive.NEWSBYTES arecori}edby Wendy Weeds, Ken Maize,Dana Sankenham, Masayuki hlyazawa and KeizoYamamoie, and Grant Budder Copyiight 1987, 1988O

Lotus still plans to introduce a version of its best-selling1-2-3 for the Macintosh line soinetime this year, but sofar that product is vaporware.

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HIGH TECH STOCK SCOREBOARD:MOST LOOKING GOODSAN FRANCISCO (NB) — Silicon Valley firms per­forrned with flying colors in the latest quarterly reports.Here's asampling:- APPLE COMPUTER rePorts a record 108Vo jumPin earnings to $121A million in the last quarter. Reve­nuespassed$3 billion. Strong sales of the Macintosh SEand the Apple IIGS get the credit from CEO JohnSculley.- BUSINESSLAND enjoyed a 90% leap inprofits, anda41% jump in revenues compared to a year earlier. Theretail chain reports revenue of $232 million.- MICROSOFT's income jumped 79% to $35.3 inil­hon on sales of $155.9 million. The credit here goes tostrong sales of OS/2 packages, Microsoft Windows­386 and Windows Version 2.0.- SVN MICROSYSTEMS bimted into the stmto­

sphere with a doubling of revenues ($235 million)compared to a year earlier.

ADOBE TOP SOFT+ ARE STOCK PKRFORMER IN '87PALO ALTO, Ca. (NB) — Adobe Systems stock wasthe top earner in 1987, according to a ranking justpublished by "Softleuer," a software industry newslet­ter published by Jeffrey Tarter in Cambridge, MLAdobe started the year at $12.75 per share and ended at$29.50, a 1319o yield for investors. Second in line wasMicrosoft with a 1249o yield. Following in decliningorder were Lotus, Autodesk, Micropro, Samna, Innova­tive, Software Publishing, Ashton-Tate.Activision, Aldus,and Springboard were the only threein the survey which lost money for its investors. Aldus,which started at$20/share for an initial offering in June,ended the year at $17.50, a dmp of 12.5%. But Spring­board really disappointed investors, losing 569o of its$7.75 price over the course of the year.CONTACT: SOFTLETTER, 617/868-0157

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IBM CANADA PROFIT UP LESS THANPARENT'SMARKHAM,Ont. (NB) — IBM Canada Ltd. reportednet income of C$231 million in the year ended Dec. 31,up 3.6 per cent from the previous year's C$223 million.That's less impressive than the parent company's 9.8­percent increase, which was helped along by a tempo=raiy dec~ease in income taxes. IBM Canada's revenueswere C$3. 104 billion, up from C$2.924 billion in 1986.The company's exports rose 20 per cent to C$993

CONTACT: IBM CANADA LTD., 3500 Steeles Ave.E., Markharn, Ont. (4 1 6) 474-2111

CANADIAN COMPUTER STOCKSHAVEN'T RECOVEREDTORONTO (NB) — If you were an optiuustic mvestorafter the stock market crash of October 19, and youbought a basket of Canadian high-tech stocks at bar­gain-basement prices, you are not rich yet. In fact,unless you picked very well, you'te poorer now thanyou were three months ago.NEWSBYTES CANADA checked, the prices of 18computer-related stocks on the Toronto Stock Ex­

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EPSON TO APPEAL PRICE MAINTENANCE FINETORONTO (NB) — Epson Canada Ltd. says a C$200,000 fine assessed against thecompany for illegal price maintenance is excessive and it will appeal. Epson pleadedguilty to the charges, which arose from a chuse in dealer contracts requiring dealersnot to advertise Epson products at less than suggested list price, but said it had notknown the clause was illegal. The judge in the case agreed with that claim, and foundthat no damage to dealers or consumers resulted ftom Epson's action. Although notquestioning the conviction, Epson wants the fine reduced.Epson Canada said in a statement the clause was inserted in its dealer contracts "to tryto protect dealer margins so that dealers would be able to offer proper service andsupport to their customers." Thecompany also said itis concerned about theexistenceof a "grey market" in Epson products in Canada, in which Epson equipment is sold bynon-authorized dealers at bargain prices. Buyers may not be aware such products arenot covered by Epson Canada's one-year warranty, the company said.Epson Canada is Canadian-.owned, with 81 per cent of the company controlled by itspresident, Maurice LaPalme.CONTACT: EPSONCANADALTD.,285 Yoikland Blvd.,Willowdale,ont. M2J1S5, (416) 495-9955

WAIT-AND-SEE ATTITUDE GREETS'CLARISVANCOUVER(NB) — 'Ihe creation of Apple Computer's software "spinout," ClarisCorp., will probably be a good thing in the long run, Cartadians who develop softwarefor Apple machines believe."We would be very surprised if the actions that Claris takes negatively affectdevelopment activity," said David Rebak, a director of Chancery Software Ltd. inVancouver. Apple Canada has generally been supportive of third-party developers,Rebak said, and there is no reason to expect a change. He said Claris could be a boonto smaller developers, helping them market their products.Tom O'Flaherty, vice-president of marketing at Bedford Software Inc., also inVancouver, agreed that Chris could help smaller developers through marketingpartnerships. He added that expanding the software base for Apple hardware shouldbenefiteveryone. "I think it's Apple's intention to cover the world with Macintoshes,and I think that their software subsidiary has been set up to further that end."Malcolm MacTaggart, general manager of Microsoft Canada Inc. in Toronto, said hiscompany is "verypleased" with the move, which hebelieves will help Macintosh salesby offering buyers morechoiceof software. Susan Fisher of Logo Computer SystemsInc. in Montreal said the move "could have a positive effect."The reasoning behind separating Claris from Apple — getting Apple out of directcompetition with third-party developers — meets with some skepticism, however."It's arm' s-length in theory only," commented Rebak. "It isn't independent untilApple actually sells it of." O'Flaherty says Claris will benefit from having Apple's

However, said Mac Taggart,"I don' t think there' s any intentionon the behalf of Appleto provide Chris with any unfair advantage."

CANADA REMOTE SCRAPS ONTARIO COMPUTER EX­CHANGETORONTO(NB) — CanadaRemote Systems Inc. is dropping the Ontario ComputerExchange after three months of"trying to figure out ho to integrate the OCE into ouroperations," the hardware and software dealer and bulletin board operator said in itshtest membership newsletter.The exchange, which was affiliated with the Boston Computer Exchange, "requiresconsiderable effort in tracking down used equipment," president Jud Newell wrote."It also apIiears to need a much harder sell than we' re prepared to give. CanadaRemote has never been noted for the hard sell-pushy type of operation, and we' re notabout to shit now."CONTACT: CANADA REMOTE SYSTEMS, Suite 311, 4198 Dundas St. W.,Toronto, Ont. M8X 1Y6, (416) 231-2383

COPYRIGHT LAW MIGHT MAKE MANY USERS TECHNI­CALLY PIRATESOTI'AWA (NB) — Canada's proposed new copyright protection for software mightput a lot of personal computer users on the wrong side of the hw.

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The new law, due to go before the House of Commons in the next few weeks for thirdreading and final debate, specifies that the licensee of a software package may notmake more than one copy of that softw are. for his or herown use, without the vendor'spermission. Ihat means if you make two backups, or if you copy the software to yourhard disk and then back up the entire contents of the hard disk, you are technicallybieaking the hw.Originally theproposals wouldhavealloweda"reasonablenumber" ofbackupcopies.Mchel Hetu, a spokesman for the federal Department of Communications, whichhelped draft the proposals, said the wording was changed because some softwarecompanies wantedalimitonbackup copies specifid. And Graeme Hughes, presidentof the Information Technology Association of Canada in Toronto, said that while hisorganization didn'task for theone-copy limit, it generally agreed with the legislation.Careful computer users shouldn*t panic, however. Toronto lawyer Daivd Latner, ofthe firm Gordon, Traub and Rotenberg, said nobody is likely to prosecute a user formaking legitimate backup copies.

- BEDFORD SOFTWARE LTD., of Vancouver, has released Version 3.21 of itsIntegrated Accounting softwan:. The new version includes 1988 tax tables for allCanathan provinces, updated Workers' Compensation Board wage bases, and theability to print T4 forms for Canadian income tax in the current format. Suggestedretail price is C$249.

— MICROSOFT CANADA INC., Toronto, has appointed Jonathan M. Sachs to theposition of national sales and marketing manager. Sachs was formerly marketingdirector at The Creative Marketing Network Inc., Microsoft Canada'spublic relationsagency.— THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT has imposed a new federal telecommuni­cations tax of 10 per cent on all long distance phone calls, whether residential orbusiness. On the other hand, Teleglobe Canada has reduced rates for overseas phonecalls from Caiiadaby an average of 13.5 per cent. The net result is that calling a BBSon another continent still costs more than most of us can afford.

NEWSBYTES-JAPANBy Masayuki Miyazawa and Keizo Yamamoto

FUJI XEROX TIES UP WITH SUN MICRO SYSTEMSTOKYO (NB) — Fuji Xerox and California-based major workstation maker SunMicm Systems have signed a broad business agreement which includes joint devel­opment of computer central processing units and operating systems. To start, FujiXerox will adapt Sun's processor called Scaleable Processor Architecture Computer(SPARC) to its wotkstatioa With SPARC, Fuji Xerox expects to make the perfonn­ance of its machine more than ten times faster. Meanwhile, Fuji Xerox and Sun willjointly develop a new operating system with powerful network features. The newoIerating system will be based on the SUN OS, Sun's version of Unix operatingsystem. Both firms will add SUN OS with Fuji Xerox's communication protocol, andXerox Network systems (XNS).CONTACT: Fuji Xerox, International Sanno Bldg., 3-3-5 Akasaka@inato-ku,Tokyo 107

CHINA GETS DOWN TO PC EXPORTS — China is getting ready toexportpersonal computers to the world market in abig way. According to apublishedreport, theC1nneseComputer DevelopmentCorp. (CCDC) exported about1,100unitsof its IBM PC/AT-compatible PC, the Great-Wall 286, during September andNovember of 1987. The number is small but the company has gained major customersin the U.S., Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia CCDC will export more PCs thisyear.

MINOLTA ENTERS PC MARKETTOKYO (NB) — Osaka-based Japanese camera maker Minolta will release two

types of IBM PC-compatible personal computers in Europe and the U.S. in February.The PCW-2 and the PCW-3 have an 8086 CPU, and some business programs arebundled with the m achines. They area Japanesewordprocessingprogram,an Englishtypewriting program, ascheduler, and acalcuhtor. The PCW-2 has two 5-inch FDDs,and thePCW-3 has a5-inch FDD anda20megabytehard disk. They arepricedaround$3,590.CONTACT: Minolta Camera, Osaka Kokusai Bldg., 7-30 Yasudo-cho~gashi-ku,Osaka-shi 541

SUSHI BYTESPHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES IN TOKYO — Phoenix Technologies, Ma, USA,will setup a chip design center in Tokyo. The company will design IBM-compatiblecomputers and provide a consulting service. It is also expected that the company willset up the design centers in Korea and Taiwan.CRAY JAPAN AND TOSHIBA — The American subsidiary of supercomputerfirmCmy JapanandToshibahaveofficiallyagreed tocooperaeon sales of Cray computersin Japan. In the agieement, Toshiba will bundle Cray's supercomputers with variousJapanese computers and peripheral equipment to meet the demands of Japanese

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I 4Q SrlSimply Accounting:Macintosh Accounting From BedfordProgram Requirements and Size

Simply Accounting Program:409.5K Help File: 7K. File Size: requires at least 800K of on-line storage .The program needs 1 megabyte of memory and thenewer 128K ROMs to run (a Mac Plus or better). Up to5000 GL accounts can be created using a4 digit design.$20 million dollars is the maximum account balancevalue it can handle. Suggested Retail Price is $449.Updates are$89/year which includesprogramenhance­ments and tax tables for the payroll module. The pro­gram is not copy protected.Who's it for?

Bedford's new accounting program, Simply Ac­counting is a late entry into the increasingly crowdedaccounting market for Macintosh. Itis slow end single­user accounting system for small business. The targetmarket for this product is small business accounting.Simply Accounting will be competing with the likes ofIn House Accountant (GL, AR, AP -$200), Back toBasics (GL, AR, AP $328), and Accounting Inc. (GL,AR, AP, Inv. $439) While it is a powerful program, itlacks some useful features such aspasswordprotection,and a graphing capability.

Simply Accounting features fully integrated GL,AP, AR, Inventory, Payroll and Job Costing modules,all on one disk. All balances are constantly updated asentries are made. Reports can be sent to the printer or thescreen, which facilitates error checking. The job cost­ing module gives the ability to break outproject,depart­ment or profit centers.

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The program puts the Mac interface to good use.Dataentry is smoothand intuitive. Error handling isrea­sonably good with the entry controls provided. Forexample, the date entry controls give warning if the dateof entry is changed by more than one week If the datemoves pasta significant accounting date it also sends awarningmessage to the screen.

Most fields where there is a finite set of entry optionshave apop up, scrolling window which allows a "point­and-clicker for the appropriate entry. These scrollingwindow also supports the arrow keys on the newer Mackeyboards.

The abihty to split journal entries between up to 255ledger accounts is available. This feature is designed forthose month-enders who take out $2,000 in petty cash,and thenneed todisperse it over ahundred or so expenseitems.

Two minor complaints against the program werefound with respect to dataentry. A keyboard equivalentof Posting would speeddataentry. There isan argumentthaterrors will be noticed if the user has to do somethingdifferent to Post an entry (i.e. pick up the mouse andclick) but therealityis thatswitching to the mouse slowsdown entry considerably. Another improvement wouldbe the abihty to cancel a report request with a "Com­mand-Period" as is available in a number of Macdatabases. This is especially useful with reports re­quested in error that take a while to compile.

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approach on this version as theirPC program where much of thedata is loaded into RAM. Thismakes the program run very fast.Because the basic Mac it can runon has a megabyte of memory, ithas more capacity than the PCwhich is limited to 640K RAM.Correspondingly, the capacity ofaccounts is about double that of thePC version.

The program allows the user tosave whenever they wish, in addi­tion, it will save whenever an ennyis posted and when the program isclosed. This provides reasonablygood protection against losseswithin sessions of data entry. lit,.Ready or Not... The Set Up

Setup is fairly straight forward .sexcept that the "Ready - NotReady" method of compiling theprogram to integrate all the Jour­nals is a little confusing. Bedford'sapproach is unique here in that itallows historical data to be entered

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Not Ready" feature protects data +"'integrity, once Ready is set, itis not,possible to alter GL Account bal­ances, though it is still possible toadd more GL accounts and renameexisting ones. It is a good idea toread through this section a couple , ud -4of times before launching into e~a+~

Six starter templates are pro- d'+>vided on disk. They cover a goodrange of GL account options sothat with a few modifications,most small business can be set upwithout having lo enter everythingfrom scratch. Using the existing,, .. . , ,

templates has the added benefit ofhaving the integration accountsalready determined. This, fortu­ lnately, is not a complex task if itbecomes necessary.

The program uses four digitnumbers for the chart of accounts.There are preset ranges whichmust be used for Assets, Liabili­ties, Equity, Revenue and Expenseaccounts. These cannot bechanged. Each set of accounts islimited to 1000 accounts. So al­though the program can pnten­tially handle 5000 accounts only1000of them maybeanyonesetofaccounts such as Expenses. This should not be a limita­tion for most small businesses, but it may be a consid­eration for unusual cases.Receivables and Payables

The program employs the open invoice method forboth receivables and payables. There is no option forbalance forward invoicing however customer or vendorinvoices that are fully paid may be either purged or re­tained. The documentation claims that the program canhandle 2,000 customers or vendors with transactionslimited only by available memory. The aging periodscan be defined by the user. This is a worthwhile addi­tion, avoiding the limitation of the standard 3040-90

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See the Payroll survey in accompanying article fordetail on Simply Accounting's Payroll.Reports and Printing

A shortcoming of this program is thatitlacks abatchmode for printing cheques. Each item must be proc­essed and printed individually. This approach doesallow for both manual andcomputer generated cheques

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but this is a double edged sword. Itsa nice feature with the potential tocreate havoc, because printing acheque doesn't affect the journalentry. It is conceivable to print outtwo or more of the same cheque.

Another missing feature is theability to print out statements andinvoices on plain paper, the usermust buy additional forms, whichare readily available, but it would anice feature to be able to design andprint custom invoices and state­

Reports are limited in their flexi­bility. In designing reports, it is anice addition to be able to choosefonts, but the program doesn't giveaccess to different font sizes. Thescreen font and the printer font mayalso be different. One slick additionis the ability to suppress zero bal­ance accounts from reports.

There is no budgeting feature toSimply Accounting. The programwiH not retain last years figures ei­ther. The current month and year todate do not appear on the same re­port. Fortunately, it is fairly easy toprint reports fom different periods.The program does have exportingcapabilities for any of its reportswhich can be easily sent to spread­sheets and text files. This is a nicefeature to spruce up the programssomewhat limited reporting func­tions.

An audit trail is also availablefrom the General Journal Report.Documentation

Simply Accounting comes witha very professional looking three

. ring binder Users Guide and ac­counting manual complete withsection divider tabs. The majorshortcoming of the manual is thatthe tutorial section is skimpy. Itmoves off into other areas beforegiving a comprehensive feel for theprogram. Therestof the manualsuf­

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though useful accounting manual The intention is notto teach accounting, but rather bring the user up to thelevel of understanding necessary to use the programcorrectly. Some may still require the services of anaccountant in setting up their books.

The documentation also suffers ftom a short index.For example, the seemingly relevant item of 'Postingre

is not indexed. Another helpful feature would havebeen to print the chapter headlines on the tabs whichdivide the sections rather than just using numbers. Thenumber "3" doesn' t. tell very much, but "Tutorial"might.The "Tips" sections of the manual could be sepa­

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The help files included on disk are very limited,accounting for only 7K, but they can be somewhathelpful on occasion. To call them extensive thoughwould be a definite overstatement.Support

Bedford offers telephone support, (customer paysthe long distance charges if from out of town) by sub­scription for $60 per hour. Payroll tables and progtamupdates are available for $89 a year. Bedford willreplace defective disks for free.We Mssed You...

The hck of password protection seems major. Evenone or two levels would be useful in a small business toprotect sensitive information regarding payroll, etc.Why they left it out is a mystery since password protec­tion is available for the PC version, although it wasapparently complex to use. Bedford seems to havethrown thebaby out with thebath water by not includingit here. Not having automatic posting for recurringentries such as rent or lease payments is another bigoversight by Bedford. A graphing capability, while notyet a standard feature in accounting programs on theMac, is certainly a missed feature here in Simply Ac­counting. Finally, a plain paper option for statementsand invoices would be a great addition, for those whodon't want to spend more on custom forms.Value

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Survey of Canadian Payroll Softwarers it worthwhile to put your company's payroll onyour office PC? The banks and some accountants

may tell you no. We attempt here to give a survey ofyour best options available running on both MS-DOSmachines and Macintoshes. In setting up our compari­son table, we found in many cases we were comparingapples to oranges and to avoid an extremely clutteredand unreaihble table, we opted for a more simplifiedrating scale: one (/) means that the program supportsthe feature, two (//) if it does it well and three (/// )if it excels in some way.Product Positioning

Each of these pmgrams of course has its ownmarketniche. ACCPACisdesignedfortheuserwhore­quires the flexibility and capabilityprovided by its userdefinable formulas for earnings and non-statutory de­ductions. Itis targeted to a medium sized business witha large number of employees possiblyrequiring jobcostor depanmental reporting. It is also well suited to non­pm6t organizations with a large number of employees.

Bedfordonboth thePC and Mac is designed for thesmall owner managed business with a small number ofemployees whorequiresdistribution of thepayrollcoststo jobs.

Both MacPayroll andPaytime fitinto the middle ofthe spectrum. They have more flexibility in definingearnings and deductions than Bedford but lack thecapaMity of user defined farmulas as in ACCPAC.Paytime is a dBase II pmgram and MacPayroll iswritten in a Mac database pmgram called Omnis 3.Correspondingly both pmgrams pay a price in speed ofscreen refresh and report updating.

Another middle-of-the-roader is Accounting Mas­ter. This is a stand alone product with many powerfulfeatures. Accounting Master is positioned as a productto handle larger paymlls without the complexities ofACCPAC. It writes duectly to the ACCPAC generalledger.cate cheques in the event of errors in printing. Thisbrings up an important accounting difference betweenthe pmgrams. Only ACCPAC provides an audit trailwhich would identify that multiple cheques have been

BEDFORD: MAC AND PCBedford's softwaie does about the same thing on

both the Mac and the PC, so the price differentialbetween the pmgrams seeins a little steep. Whateverhappened to economies of scale? The package is a slickproduct in both incamations. The manuals are well

. done, if a little thin in the tutorial sections.

functions. It does not give a monthly payroll summaryreport and a report which calculates the remittance tothe Government. The information is posted to theGeneralLedger andisavailable but itdoes notcomeoutin a specifically named report as in the other programs.

All the programs will print TQs for employees.Bedford however, does not produce an employerssummary of TPs. Neither does it total the earnings anddeductions so that a summary can be prepared f'romsystem mfarmation. 'Ihese shortcomings in Bedford'spayroll portion suggest that it is not a good choice as astand alone payroll program. If, however, Bedford wasacquired far the General Ledger or other functions, andthe choice is between a manual payroll and usingBedford, Bedford's is better than nothing. The infor­mation is all there, it just isn't always labeHed as such

. and sometimes takes a bit of work to get it out.

systems is that Bedford requires the user to print thecheque and stub immediately after entry of each payrollrecord. This creates a situation of having to enter andprint, enter and print. If the number of employees is

Bedford on both machines is weak in reporting

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small, this will not be much problem, in hrger compa­nies, this approach would be very time consuming. Allthe other programs take a batch mode approach to thepayroll process. The data entry person would enter alarge number of time sheets in one session. The entirecheque run can then be run in one batciLMACPAYROLL

MacPayroll does a good jobof generating ahealthysupply of reports. The documentation is decent, al­though a good tutorial, beyond the on-disk samplewould probably lower the learning curve. One nicety isthat they have a free user support line and more oftenthan not you can get either thecompanypresidentor thehead programmer on the phone. The program is a littleslow in getting screens and reports up, a function ofbeing written in the database language Omnis 3. Onceyou get it all in there though, it can print out a payroll infairly short order. Advances can be done either indi­vidually, or with a global command for a group ofemployees. Year-to-date totals on individual employ­ees cannot be altered except by posting reversing en­tries, which leaves an audit trail. The softwarehas someslick eimr checks including the ability to detect bogusSocial Insurance Numbers. This ispossiblebecause theninth SIN number is a check sum.

MacPayroll's worst characteristic doesn't haveanything to do with its accounting abiTities. It isugly...Omnis ugly. This is a characteristic that wouldnot show up as much in a PC version, but it stands outagainst other Mac programs which allow much moreflexibility with fonts and screen representations.

If you can get past the look of it, it has beauty,especially at the new pricing just announced by Altec.As of February 1, the pmgram will retail for $149. Thecompany also intends to release a fully functioningfreeware version which will do 1-5 employees.PAYTIME

An important accounting concern with Paytime isthat the year-to-date information for any employee canbe altered and no audit trail report is generated by thesystem. Otherwise the program operates as stated. It isreasonably flexible in its earnings and deductions. Thedocumentation could be impmved by expanding theindex and introducing a tutorial. A search through theindex more often draws a blank than a source of furtherinformation. More on screen help would also facilitatematters. Data entry is clumsy in Paytime. It is oftennecessary to press RETURN tomove thecursor througha screen in which no data was to be entered.ACCOUNTING MASTER

Accounting Master bears some resemblance toanother payroH program called Journal Master whichdeparted last year. Accounting Master has many im­proved features, including a liberation fmm using cus­tom forms. It will now let you use plain paper to printcheque stubs. As mentioned previously, the programwill write directly to ACCPAC general ledger files. Itdoes this for Client Strategist as well, another popularaccounting program.

A full set of reports combined with a large degreeof flexibility in both deductions and earnings typesmake this a stand outprogram. The program allows forall three types of entering for bothearningsand deduc­

I) a manual entry, where the amount is typed in ateach session,

2) an auto entry, where a fixed amount i entered inadvance and recurs at each payroll

3) a formula entry, where the amount of the deduc­tion is a percentage of some earnings number.

In addition, a manual override is available for anyrecumng or formula entry.

more likely to grumble approvingly at the way Ac­

counting Master deals with altering account balances.Although it is possible to alter year to date earningsnumbers, this feature is only accessible to the highestlevel of password controL It still allows you to printmultiple versions of a cheque, but this is a trade off, ofmore user flexability versus lower accounting controls.ACCPAC

ACCPAC is very complex. Setting up the systemfor the first time is not for the faint of heart. Advanceplanning, the manual and strong nerves are the key to asuccessful approach to setting up the ACCPAC payroll.Once set up, the program is not difficult to use andthings go in smoothly. Data entry is fast and can bespeeded up by the use of recurring time sheets. Addingnew employees to the system goes very fast if jobclassifications are set up for employees with similarearnings and deduction types.

Information can be generated for job costing, sec­tions and departments. It may sound like a lot to theaverage small business but twenty earnings categoriescan pmve to be a limitation to some mid-sized compa­nies. More importantly, only twelve non-statutory de­ductions are available. ACCPAC does not include theemployers portion of the payroll costs in its job costingor sectian reporting, an important oversight.THE BANK

Whatabout the Bankyousay? Thecoshrunarounda dollar per person per payroll, so you figure it out if itis warth it for your company. On the plus side is thatsomeone else takes care of updates, changes in govern­ment regulations and even getting the money into youremployees accounts. You also don*t have to worryabout explaining payroll inequities to curious employ­ees - only your banker knows for sure. O n the negativeside is that the banks charges can run up fast with a largepayroll, you have to get the information to them fartherin advance than if you where to do it in house, they getto sit on your government contributions for a wholemonth befare remitting it- they pocket the interest, notyou. With a medium sized payroll, this loss of interestalone could be enough to rationalize the cost of most ofthe payroll programs mentioned here. Banks can' talways calculate the earnings and deductions as youspecify and there are limits to the job costing informa­tion that can be obtained.And the Envelope Please...

All of the programs represent good value for themoney. Whether thattranslates intoabetterbuy than thebank or a manual system depends on your company.With the range and uniformly good quality productsavailable, your computer can provide a good option forpayroll processing.

For a complex payroll, ACCPAC stands above therest. If itdoesnotinclude all therequired features itmaybe possible to obtain a modiTication. Paytime would besuitable for a small to medium sized business withouttoo many complex earnings and deductions. Account­ing Master offers a professional and easier to set upalternative to ACCPAC with the added bonus of inte­gration. MacPayroll is a good solution for the "Macin­tosh Office". It is priced very reasonably and providesa good variety of reports. Bedford is most suitable foruse fora very small payroll or if you bought it to handlethe rest of you books and wish to maxinuze yourinvestment.

Your accountant may stim grumble, but they are

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MACWORLD SPECIAL REPORTMACWORLD CROWDS, NEW PRODUCTINTRODUCTIONS UNPRECEDENTEDSAN FRANCISCO (NB) — 'I%ere's no doubt that the.Macintosh has become a mainstream machine if thestream of uaffic though and around the MacWorldExpo is any indication. Virtually all the garages in aneight-block radius of the Moscone Center were filled tocapacity when the doors opened at 11 am and show­goers complained of being stuck in traffic for hoursbefore they finally found a place to park. The showbroke all attendance records for a San Francisco com­puter trade show, drawing 20,000 people the first daycompared with 30,000 for all three days of theMacWorldExpoin 1987. The 300exhibitorscouldn'tbe more delighted, but few came prepared for the initialday's crowds. Even the press swarmed to the show inrecord numbers, so much that most companies ran outof press packets well before noon.A variety of new exciting new products were an­nounced, and our other reports have the highlights.

ORCHID INTRODUCES COLOR FOR THEMAC SESAN FRANCISCO(NB) — 'Ihe highlight of the showfor most people was Orchid Technology's new colorvideo interface card far the SE, installed in an open slotof the Macintosh SE. The color image, up to 16 colorsfrom apaletteof4,096, is displayed either on the AppleColor RGB monitor or an IBM or compatible VGAmonitor which is hooked up to the Macintosh SE. Theresolution is 640x480 yixels.When used with a color monitor, ColorVue SE, has a759o largerdisphyareathm the SE'sownbuilt-inblackand white screen. A c ompany syokesperson toldNEWSBYTES that a number of the best selling paintand draw programs have all been proven to work mcolor using ColorVue SE and other manufacturers areadding the capability.Due to be shipped in February, ColorVue retails for$695. CONTACT: ORCHID TECHNOLOGY, Fre­mont, Ca 415/683-0300

FORMS GENERATION A HOT NEWMACINTOSH APPLICATIONSAN FRANCISCO (NB) — Several firms showed offsoftware to enable the Macintosh to generate profes­sional-looking standard or custom forms, a hot newproduct area, according to Dataquest. The industrytracking firm predicts that the electronic forms manage­ment market w'ill expand by 285% between 1985 and1989, horn $700 million to $2.7 billion.J* Claris of Mountain View, California, displayedSmartFonn Designer and SmartForm Manager, twoprograms which can be used to create expense reports,invoice, purchase requisitions, or loan applications, forexample. It is an objectwriented drawing�progra thatincludes graphic tools for -instant creation of suchcomponents as fields, lists, check boxes, and titles. Italso contains data definition features that allow forelectronic capture and the subsequent nianipulation ofdata to fit the forms. Available in the second quarter of1988, SmartForm Designer will cost $395 and Smart­Form Manager $149.*Softview, Camarillo, Califonna, showed its proto­

type forms generator called FonnSystem. Termed"graphically intelligent," the program has the ability tochangeandmaintaina form's graphic consistency whenany change in field size or graphic element takes place.The program has a basic word processor, spellingchecker, spreadsheet interface, and bit-mapped graph­ics editor, among other feahum. Three releases areplanned for the near future: Release I, which has theabove features, Release H, which adds multiuser net­working capabilities, and Release IH, expected to havecomplete tools for painting, drawing, and charting.

12 • PREMERE EDITION • The Computer Paper • February 1988

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NEWSBYTES was unable to obtain pricing on thepackages.*Shana Enterprises of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,

showed Fast Forms version 1.1, an objectwrienteddrawing program for forms creation that includes avariety of design elements including gray screens, hair­lines, variable type sizes, textediting, customized inde­pendent horizontal and vertical grids, and printing andnon-printing drawing planes. The program also per­forms calculations in data entry fields. The list price is$149 and Fast Forms containes a free template diskfilled with forms ready to use.*Spectrum Digital Systems, Madison, Wisconsin, tooka differentapproach t forms genemtion. A pre-printedform can be digitized in a scanner, fed into its programcalled TrueForm, and filled out vi the Macintosh. Thesoftware can "learn" phcement of items in a frequentlyused form, performing calculations, and or preset de­faultvalues. 'Ihe user simpleneeds to tabacross toeacharea to fill in an item. The form can be printed out oneither an ImageWriter or LaserWriter printer. Avail­able now, the program costs $495. Said companyPresident Mitch Stein to NEWSBYTES, "Why rein­vent the wheel?" He said his product is the only oneavailable which allows the Macintosh to utilize stan­dard and pre-printed forms.

HYPERWARE HYPER-EVIDENTSAN FRANCISCO (NB) — From new publications tonew applications, Apple's HyyerCard dominated thisyear's MacWorld Expo. Here' s a partial list of the newproducts and ideas on disphy.* Symmetry Corporation, Mesa, Arizona, exhibited

HyperDA, a desk accessory which allows 512K Macsand up to browse HyperCard stacks while using otherapplications. 'Ibe desk accessory does not allovuhecontents of a stack to be changed. Available now, theprice is $69.* Activision, Mountain View, Ca, unveiled Reporh!,ance-form,graphicswrientedreportdesigner complewith drawing tools to place lines, boxes, text, andgraphis anywhere on a page. Reports! also supportscomplex calculations within individual reports, includ­ing dates, totals, sub-totals, averages, and counts. Theprice is set at$100 when the product is tobe released in

*Activision also showed City to City, stackware whichis a customizable travel guide for 30 U.S. cities andcontains information on business services, etc. Avail­able in March, the program is set to cost $50.*Cognition Technologies, Cambridge, Ma, has what' sconsidered the first artiTicial intelligence shell forHyperCard. Called MacSmarts 3.0, the product is bothrule-basedandexample-based andean be used tocreateexpert systems. An end user could then have an "intel­ligent" stack that would guide him or her to a solutionto a problem, be it how to prepare a Christmas dinner,fix a Rolls Royce, or solve the world's problems. Theretail price is set to be $195.

BUILDING BRIDGES TO THE IBM WORLD:DOS ON A MACSAN FRANCISCO (NB) — While DEC and Apple arenow hard at work improving communications betweentheir machines, others have already produced newproducts to link IBM and Macintosh PCs. Apple'sintroduction of AppleShare PC (see NEWSBYTES­WEST) was rivalled by an offering from Tangent Tech­nologies of Norcross, Georgia, which showedTangent­Share, software which enables a network of Macs andIBMs to share a network. The product does everythingthat AppleSharePC does,butnotonly talks to MS-DOS3.3 applications but PS/2 computers and software aswell. Tangentis pricing itsperipheral cardandsoftwareexactly the same as Apple. ­

ers.

APPLFJDEC FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCESAN FRANCISCO (NB) — On the opening day ofMacWorld Expo, Apple and Digital Equipment Corpo­ration laid to rest rumors of an impending alliance byannouncing they were true. Apple and DEC plan a jointdevelopment effort to integrate Macintoshes and theAppleTalk network with VAX and DECnet/OSI net­works. Expected from the alliance is a consistent set ofapplication programming interfaces for developers towrite distributed�applications an exchange documents.DEC has the second largest installed base of machines.next to IBM, and its contract with Apple, whose Macin­tosh sales are exploding, creates the biggest tlueat toIBM's dominance of the computer market in its history.Apple gains newprestigein the corporate market wherethe Macintosh is finally gaining acceptance. And DEC,which unsuccessfully launched into the small systemmarket with amachinecalled theRainbow several yearsago, can finally offer apersonalcomputertoitscustom­

Analysts suggest the partnership will result in a cross­marketing agreement between the firms and DEC mayorder as many as one million Macintoshes the first yea.

THREE NEW LASER PRINTERS FROM APPLESAN FRANCISCO (NB) — Apple has replaced its

LaserWriter line with three new models, ranging froman entry-level model at US$2,800 to a high perfonn­ance, expandable model at US$6,600. Apple has alsoyroclaimed thatall thepririterscanbeupgradedtoeitherthe next highest, or highest performance LaserWriter.The Canon LBP-SX second-generation printing en­gine, said to produce darker blacks, higher reliability,and longer life span, drives all three models.The low-end LaserWriter IISC, designed to be used

~ alone with an individual Macintosh, has 1 megabyte ofRAM, uses the Motorola 68000 chip, and utilizes theQuickDraw routiae, which addresses the Macintoshscreen, to print a page. It is not a Postscript printer.However, itcomes with severalstandard fonts: Courier,Helvetica, Symbol, and Times, in point sizes of 9through 24.The sample document providedby Apple is remarkablein its definition and clarity and to the naked eye, isvirtually indistinguishable from the output of theyrevi­ous LaserWriter models.The LaserWriter IINT (the "N" refers to networking) isaPostscript printer, priced at$4,600, has 1 megabyte ofROM and 2 megabytes of RAM, comes with 35standard. typefaces, and can shan: input on a network.The high-end LaserWriter IINTX is the first laserprinter to run on the Motorola 68020, the brains of theMacintosh II, and is aimed at the high-volume shop. Ithas all that the IINT has plus three expansion slots forthe addition of ROM, RAM (up to 12 megabytes) andSCSI hard drives. It also includes built-in HP LaserIetemulation.Apple promises to continue to support current ownersof LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plus printers..All thee models are expected to be in retail stores by

February.

APPLE ALSO UNVIHLS MDI I N TERFACE,SHIPS APPLESHARE PCSAN FRANCISCO, Ca (NB) — Macintoshes can nowshare data with PCs on an Aypleshare network withAppleshare PC, which Apple is finally shipping. Theprice of Appleshare PC is set at $149.Apple rounded out its day of product introductions byunveiling the Apple MIDI Interface for the Apple IIGSand Macintosh. The price is set at $99 and the productis available now.

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