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Whyis IBM able time and time again togetawaywithstandardsofqualitycontroland marketing practices that wouldquickly bring any other vendor into dis-repute. In an immature industry, wheretechnological changes continue to oc-cur, the perfect circuit board — likeperfect compatibility — is almost certainto be a feature of an obsolete machine.3. Buying Software First

This is less important now than in thedays when I.B.M.'s were sold like basicChevrolets — you had to add on a bunchofextras to make the thingwork Ifyou'rebuying a minimal system on alowbudgetthen buy carefully, but if the proposedsystem has enough bells and whistles itwill likely run almost any software you

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I don't like the sound of the "postponepurchases as long as possible" bit. There isalways something better and cheaper com-ing soon so nothing will ever be pur-chased. The local market is already run-ning about twoyears behind Toronto andthree to four years behmd the States incomputer acceptance, due to this kind ofconservative thinking. Also note that it isa relatively small price jump from EGA toVGA or from a 20mB drive to a40mB butmaybeexpensive to trade old equipment

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While I agree with John Chapman'scomplaint that you virtually ignore com-puter systems other than MS-DOS andMacs, I can sympathize with your posi-tion. But I must strongly protest Zthe dis-torted view of the Amiga presented inyour artide on Amiga Desktop Video.The article was in error on almost everyimportant point it discussed.

1) The artide stated that only the Amiga2000 and 2500 "can be made compatiblewith IBM through the addition of specialboards." Both the Amiga 1000 and 50Qcan use all of the expansion boards de-signed for the 2000 if expansion slots are

2) Allen Earle's article states that 'Themajor difference quality-wise is theAmiga's image sometimes has a raggededge around it and has a visible flicker."The upcoming version of AmigaDOS willgo part of the way towards elmunating theragged edges by allowing screen resolu-tions up to 1007 by 1007.Mr. Eerie shouldhave also explained that this flickeringoccurs only in hi-res interlacing modeand notin hi-res non-interlacing mode orany of the Amiga's lo-res video modes. Itis NOT a trade off or a matter of poorquality and to suggest that this is the caseto your readership is simply a case of: A)the grossest ignorance of even the mostrudimentary knowledge of the Amiga orB) a malicious attempt at dissuadingpotential Amiga buyers by presentingthem with false information.

I sincerely hope thatyou pass this infor-mation on to Mr. Earle before he at-tempts to write another article aboutAmigas.Jim Sanderson19Q05 76th Ave.Surrey, B.C.VSS 4P1

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North Vancouver., April 10, 1989-Taito Software inc. announced shipmenttoday of two more ef its arcade games,Bettelstuk and Sly Shuk, converted to theIBM personal computer hardware for-

Taite Software, the North Americanhome entertamment softwaxe subsidiaiyof $500 million Japan-based Taito Corp.,

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Rimart International has announcedavailability twe new solutions for the lewcost Local Area Network market. Zero-Lan, a low cost connectivity(LAN) solu-tion for up to 6 computerL Accerding tothe distributor, the system is easy to insutil(less than 15 minutes per station), oper-ates transparently using all DOS com-mands and requires very rtttle user train-ing. It retails at the low for $149.00 pernetwork station and includes am software,hardware and manuaL It is designed forthe small oHice enviroiunent or smallwork grollp.

ZeroNet, a Local Area Network Solu-tion for up to 10 computers supportingrecord and file lochng, Netbios protocoland allows each network station to havesimultaneous access to 4 parallel and 4serial devices any in the network. Thisneusrorkalsocomescompleteand ispricedto sell at a low price of N99.00 per com-puter station which includes software,hardware and cabling.

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VANCOUVER, B.C. — Directed byParliament to cost-recover $10 millionfrom users of the 1986 Census, StatisticsCanada has given the greea light to pri-vate sector distributors ta get invohred.Tetrad Computer Applicatioas Limitedof Vancouver is one firm who, as an olfi-cial distributor, is selling a valueaddedproduct that includes 1986 Canadian

Tetrad Computer Applications Lim-ited has announced the release of thePCensus package and database far thetota11986Censusinduding both the100%population and 20% household sample.

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Demographics may also be retrievedfar any postal coded Forward SartalienAreas ("FSAs") in Canada This would beuseful to erymizahons who have etherinformation referenced by postal cade.

Results may be mewed oa the screen,printed as reports, or saved in a file to beused by ether computer progratns ferword processing, spread sheets etc. Up tasix study areas may be compared at one

For more information, please contact:Wilson Baker, Tetrad Computer Applica-tians Limited, 1445 West Georgia Street,Vancouver, B.C. V6G 2T5. Telephone(604) 68M295.EMJ To DistributeIohne Plotters

Guelph, Ont. — EMJ Data SystemsLtd. is now the National Canadian dis-tributor for Ioline Plettera Ioline is amanufacturer of A-E size pen plotters.Ioline plotters indude the economicalLP5500, a single pen A-D size platter. Theloline LP5700 is a single or 8 ta 20 pen A-E size plotter. The LP4000 is a high speed(20 inches per second [axial] 8 to 20 penA-E size plotter.

Ieline xnanufactures quality productsat competitive prices in their facility inKirkland, WA. Ioline pioneered the con-tinuous sheet plotter which allows theuser to do hours of unattended plating.By allowing up to 20 pens, a variety ofusers with difFerent pen preferences canuse the plotter without changing pens.

Dream Maker Ports Clip-Artto MS-DOS Computers

Software is naw shipping two new clip artcollectiens for MS/DOS based systems.Ciiptures, Volumes 1 k 2 are a series ofbusiness orieated installations for desk-tep pubhshiag and/or presentations.Each volume is a different collection oforiginal Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)

The images are ready to use as-is, orcan be modified with Adobe's Illustra-tor~ program. Many of the graphics arealso opaque so that layouts mn easily bedane aver black or screened backgrounds.

Cliptures' high resolution EPS formatallows the artwork te be resized arstretched without lass of darity or sharp-ness. Anyone with page layout, desktoppresentations or graphics software thataccepts IBM format EPS files can usethese images. Printing can be done enany PostScript compatible device, from a500 dot per inch (dpi) laser printer to a2400 dpi Linotronic machine.

Ashley Fraser Offers DongleCopyProtectionFor Software

Ashley Fraser Technelogies Inc. ofBurnaby, BC has announced the releaseof ROMLOK-p software copy protection.

ROMLOK-p is a small, self-containedcoded hardware device that actively pro-tects software &em heing illegally used orcopied. The hardware is small, mcon-

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Ashley-Fraser daims that ROMLOK-pis the only dongle device with an install/uninstall feature. If a user who alreadyowns a program which is protected byROMLOK-p buys another which is alsoprotected by ROMLOK-p, that user cansimplyrun aspedalinstallprogramwhichwill automatically upgrade the informa-tion &om the new ROMLOK-p.ROMLOK-p is available directly &omAshley Fraser, and costs $70.00.@entity

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will be displayed on the BCBN (and onWashington'sown bulletin board systems)so that companies on both sides of the

by loohng at the demographics of coun-ties and economic development regions,find distributors and agents, prospect fornew customers or reply to tenders.

The first Washington and U.S. listingsavailable include the following:

1.) Washington State Associate Devel-opment Organizations: Lists 55 countyeconomic development associations inthe State„with address, contact person,phone number, and any aailiated coun-

2.) Washington State Department ofTrade: Lists 15 branches of the Depart-ment of Trade by department name,contact person, address and phonenumber.

5.) Trade Contacts — General:A listing of 17 Washington State or-

ganizations involved in internationaltrade. Indudes government agencies,trade councils, custom's services.

For information about access BC Busi-ness Network contact: Ministiy of Inter-national Businessand Immigration, Hon.John Jansen, Minister, 750 Pacific Blvd.South, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6BSE7. Tel. 660-5900.

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ommended that direct mail be used insome circumstances.

Monthlymeetingsof Software B.C. takeplace at Benedict's, 1170 West Pender,Thursdays at 'I:50 p.m. The schedule sofar is: May 18 Speaker: Open form, withfour speakers T.BA. Topic: "What I didright". June .15 Speaker: T.BA. Topic:TNA.

The ComThe meeting featured two guestspeak-

ers — Jim Pettinger &om InternationalMarketAccess, and David McCullough ofEquity magazine. Both David and Jimspoke of the enormous size of the USmarket and the need to be realistic abouthow much of this market a small start upcompany from B.C. can hope to capture.

David emphasized that there are anumber of smaller regional distributorsthat can often take a product to marketwhere the major distributors have notworked out. Jim Pettinger strongly rec-

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BC Business Network GoesOnline With Washington

One of the first tangible results of thePacific Northwest Economic Partnershipisan agreementbetween Washington and

information in the files and databases oftheir economic development and tradeministries and departments. Information

Software B.C.The regular monthly meeting of Soft-

ware B.C. was held at Benedict's Restau-rant on Thursday, March 50, 1989. Thetopic was a popuhr one: marketing soft-ware to the United States.

Express Micro IntroducesNew $86 Computer

Express Micro introduces the Express5000 series, a new series of compact 80586systems. The Express 5000 can be usedeither as a desk top model or a floormodel. Despite its compact in size, it canaccommodate up to three 5.5" and oneS.N" drives. The power switch is conven-iently located on the &ont paneL There

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EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA, 1989MAR 29 (NB) — Shana Corp. has sold its FastForms software and is developing a more so-phisticated package for forms generation andmanagement. John Muxphy, vice-president ofmarketing, said his company sold Fast FormstoPowerUpof San Mateo, Califoxniaearly thismonth, so as todevote itsresources Sodevelop-ment of InFoxm, a package which will com-bine forms genexation with a forms manage-ment module that includes database capabiTi-

capable formspackageson the market, Murphysaid.He said Shana'sexpexiencein selling FastFoxms showed the 6xm that users need thedatabase capability, something not ofFered byClaris' recently introduced SmartFoxms.

InFormis expected to cost$490. The formsdesign module will be available by itself for$295, and the forms management module willsell separately for $195. Murphy said thecompany plans to release the package sometime this summer, possibly at the MacWorldshow in August.

There's Some SCSI. Ether OutBOULDER, COLORADO, U.SA., 1989 MAR20 (NB) — Compatible Systems Corporationhas announced Ether+, a SCSI to Ethernetadapter which can be used with any AppleMacintosh computer. The $495 unit utilizes anew high-integration Ethernet chip set whichcuts it0 pxice to about half that of competitiveproducts. At the same time the companyclaimsthat the secondgeneration chips enhanceavailable network-management informationand make it easier for the user to set up andmaintain a network.

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APPLE WORLDNolan Bushnell Shows Up AtMacuitosh Software FirmSANTA CORA, CALIFORNIA, U.SA., 1989APR 2 (NB) — Nolan Bushnell, founder ofAtari and one of the computer industry's best-known entrepreneurs, has merged his com-pany, AAPPS, with Preferred Publishers, aMacintosh soflware publisher in Memphis,Tennessee. Preferred just shipped DAtabaseand Vantage, desk accessories, and is workingon utilities and applications designed for thenext, multitaDkingoperatingsystem &omAppleComputer, according So MacWeek magazine.

In addition ho snaring the Atarifounde, the16employee company has also attracted RussWeunoxe, a member of the "future systemsarchitectures" group at Apple, to work as partof the company's "dream team."

Preferred plans to open an o6ice in Cu-pertino, California, in ApriL

New AutoCAD For MacSAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA., 1989MAR 28 (NB) — Autiodesk has announcedRelease 10 of AuboCAD for the Macintosh,$8,000, a version of i06 popular computer-aided design program. As with other versions,AutoCAD Release 10 has 8-D wire frame con-stxuction andsuriacemodeling, andAutoLISP,and can share 6les with other operating sys.

sion. Autodesk is believed tio control 50 per-cent of the computermded design marketwith an installed base of 200,000 users.

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Apple Unveils52-Bit Color QuickDrawAPR17 (NB) — Apple Computer has unveiledan extension to Color QuickDraw which sup-ports up So 82 bits of information per pixel.The new graphic system software allows 68020and 68080-based Macintoshes with SystemSoftware Version 6.0.8 So display millions ofcolors, compared to the previous 8-bit ver-

nipulation of 24-bit images, providing smoothshading, and "transitions in graphs and slidesfor truly lifelike images and textures," accord-ing to Apple'scrim Davis, direcbor of systemsoftware marketing. "82-bit QuickDrawchanges the way customers look at the Macin-

Among companies which plan to support82-Bit Color QuckDraw are Radius, Raster-Ops, SuperMac, BaxneyScan, Visual Informa-tion, Electric Image, Tektronix, and Inter-graph.

Apple has also released LaserWriter 6.0, anew version ofitDPostScript printer driver thatincludes color extensions. The new driver al-lows most existing color Macintosh applica-tions to print in color on color PostScriptpllll tera

Both 82-Bit Color QuickDraw and Laser-Writer 6.0 will be available &ee of chaxge fromApple dealexs and otherdistribution channelsin May.

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CUPERTINO, CALlFORNIA, U.KA., 1989APR 18 (NB) — Apple Computer sold 44percent more product in its last quarter thanin the year~o period, translating to $1.247billion in sales, but net income took a nosedive to 29 pexcent — $56.4 million comparedto $'F9.'y million a year ago. The decrease inincome is generally auributed to Apple'spoortiming in buying up huge quantities of dy-namic random access memory [DRAM] chipswhen prices were high.

"We believe the problem of excess high-pxiced 1 MB DRAM is now substantially be-hind us. We look forward to improvement ingross margins in the coming quarters," ex-plained John Sculley, Apple chairman, in aprepared statement.Loohng on the upside, Scuiley remarked,

"We are well on our way to surpassing $5billion in revenues this year." He adds "Theseresults mark our twelfth consecutive quarterof signi6cant revenue growth."

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The Blue Maq, which has been shipping invexy small quantities in the Utah area for thepast few years, ranges in price from $5,695 bo$5,995. The entry-level model comes with fourmegabytes [MB] of random access memoxy, a65MB hard disk and a 12-inch amber Samsung

Versions with 68000, 68020 and 68080 mi-croprocessoxs are available. A68020-based BlueMaq with similar speci6cations Ro the above-mentioned 68000 machine costs $6,000.

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SANDY, UTAH, U.SJL, 1989 APR 21 (NB)-Powder Blue Computers, a small Utah com-puter manufacturer, has begun shipping itsBlue Maq Apple Macinbosh clone. Accordingto Jim Action, Powder Blue's sales manager,the Blue Maq is between 20 and 90 percentfaster than the Mac II/SE series, but costsaround 25 percent less than the of6cial Appleproduct.

"We showed privately at Comdex Spring[earlier this month] and have attracted atten-tion Rom dealers in several European coun-tries,includinglelgium,France,Sweden, WestGermany, and the U.K," he told Newsbytea

Unlike previous Mac clones, the Blue Maqis being shipped with Apple's of6cial MacBIOS [basic input~utput system] chip set.Acbon said that, contrary to con6icting pressreports, thatpcywder Blue isnotgettingits MacROMs Ireadilymemoxy] chips from AppleU.S. or its dealera "We' re getting the ROMs&orna third partysource. They' re the genuine

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MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,1989APR21 (NB) — Shunning established distxibutionchannels, Access Technology has hunched acampaign to sell its three Macintosh softwareproducts to end-users by mail, at a drasticallyreduced rate. Version 2.0 of MindWxite is$89.95 compared to the normal $195, Mind-Write Express is $49.95 compared bo a regularprice of $250, and Trapeze is $59.95 con-trasted with $295.

'The high cost of advertising and promo-tion has made itincreasinglydi6icult for inde-pendent sofbnue developers of quality prod-ucts to get noticed," says Ray Kingman, direc-tor of sales and marketing. 'The channel isfull," he told Newsbytes, Microsoft and Claxisget the mindshare [of business] because theyhave the most clout. We weren' t getting far inthat route in terms of spending so we went forthe dixect mail route."

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Kingman says there is no relationship be-tween the low prkes, which are part of alimited time offer, and his plans to buyout theAccess Technology Macintosh division, alongwith othexs in the unit, from the company'sparent. He says details on the puxchase shouldbe available next week.

Those interestied in ordering should con-tact the company at 80M674M4 or 408448.

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AS, CALIFORNIA, U.SA., 1989 APR) — The Complete PChasreleased twoably-priced desktop image scannexs for

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CAD Gets Two AwardsHUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA,USA., 1989APR17 (NB) — Versacad Corpo-ration hss received a pair of awards for itsVersaCAD/Macintosh Edition CAD [com-puter-sided design] software. MacUser maga-zine presented the product with its 1989"Editors' Choice Award" for the "Best NewCAD/CAM [computer-aided manufacturing]Package" of 1988. The second prize wasawarded by InfoWorld for "1988 Product ofthe Year" for "Madntosh CAD Software."Intexgxaph Announces Macintosh Version OfMicrostation PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVA-NIA, U.SJL, 1989APR 18 (NB) — Intergraphhas unveiled an Apple Macintosh version of itsMicroStation CAD/CAN software at the NCGA'89 trade show in Philadelphia. The softwaretakes full advantage of the Macintosh userinterface.

MicmStation Mac offers a complete graph-icsdatabssecompatibilitywith other MicroSta-tion vexxions, and an interface to the Oraclerelational database manager, as well as true6Dsuppo~

The pmduct,whichrequixesa Mac II, llx, orSE/80, will be available in July of 1989, with ahst price of $$,800.

Blyth Releases New OmnisVersion For The MACAMSIXIIDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 1989APR21 (NB) — BlythSofusaxehas announceda version of its Omnia V relational databasemanagement system [RDMS] system for theApple Macintiosh. Omnis V is a relational/hierarchicaldatabasepmgramwhich has beenspecifically deigne to use the graphicsinter-face, extended memory and color capabilitiesof the Macintoih II system. Such facilitiesdon't come cheaply, however. At $1,5$, thepackage is one of the most expensive on themarket.

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Tramiel also predicted children will be-come more discerning about computers, andAtari will capture usersyoung. Atari ManagingDirectorinAustralia NigelShepherdsaidAtariwould promote its computers for "cool kids"who would say "no way" when parents sug-gested a Commodore 64.

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The growth leaders were Softbridge, whichis 182 percent bigger than last year, Microlyt-ics, 167 percent larger, in terms of revenues,Datastorm, Education Systems, Symantec,Chipsoft, MapInfo, Phoenix Technologies,Software Toolworks, and Micrographx [up152 percent].

In the area of productivity, Microlytics wason top, with $411,429 in sales per employee.Microway, Funk, Accolade, American SmallBusiness Computer, Central Point, Adobe,Chronos, Electronic Arts, and Peter NortonComputing followed, in that order.

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MANTECA, CALIFORNIA, USA., 1989 MAR14 (NB) — Artisan Software has announcedGraph Maker for all Atari ST and Mega com-puters. The company describes the sofuvsre asa powerful GEM-baaed graph and mappingapplication for the creation of bar, line, andpie graphs. The $59.95 product also supportsthe importof Neochrome and Degas picutres.Up to Bve separate clipart elements can becombined in a single graph.

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BUSINESSOttawa-Based CompanyBuys I~par AssetsOTIAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1989 APR 7(NB) — Softco Manufacturing, a year~id sys-tems integrator, has bought the aasetsofbank-rupt Lanpar Technologies of Markham, On-tario.Formedin abaaementbyaformerLanparemployee and an exwtockbroker, Softco is ahitherto obscure firm that specializes inTempest technology equipment that resistselectronic eavesdzepping. The purchase pricehas not been disclosed.

Lanpar manufactured computer terminalsthrough a subsidiary, Northern Technologies.It also distributed an assortment of computerproducts and ran a nationwide third-partyservice operation. The Royal Bank of Canada,Lanpar's largest creditor, appointed Coopersand Lybrand as receiver Ru the company inMarch. Lanpar owed the bank C$11 million.

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MARKHAM, ONTARIO, C~ A, 1 989APR7 (NB) — BusinessLand Canada already hasseveral NeXTworkstations. The Canadian sub-sidiary of U.S:baaed BusinessLand, which re-cently announced a deal with Apple founderSteve Jobs' new venture, will feature the high.powered, Unix-based workstation that startsJune 9. Bob Henderson, vice-president andgeneral manager of BusinexsLand Canada,said the workstation will probably be available

before that." A Canadian retail price has notbeen set yet, but BusinessLand's US. parenthas set a retail price of $9,995. Allowing forcurrency exchange and Canadian federal salestax, this is likely to translate into a Canadianprice between C$15,000 and C$18$00.

Compuadd Launches IntoCanadaTORONTO, CANADA, 1989APR 21 (NB)-Compuadd Corporation, the PC retailer, hasopened its Srst retail store in Canada. Thestore, located in Toronto,covers 12,000squarefeet and will employ more than 20 stafF by theend of the year.

Paul Scazznanlo, previously corporate salesmanager for U.S. retail opexations, has beenappointed retail channel manager of Cana-dian operatiozLL Plans call for the opening oftwo further Canadian stores by the end of thethird quarter of 1989.

Neil Bremner, manager of Compuadd'sU.K operations, said that the Canadian opera-tion forms the second stage of Compuadd'sexpansion into the international market-place,following the opening of the U.K headquar-ters in Bristol, England, six months ago.

"Both operations are strategically impor-tan tin helping Compuadd extend the reputa-tionitenjoysin the U Eo. Ioamuchwiderirameof reference„" he said.

Compuadd currently has 17 retail outlets inthe US and, including the Canadian opera-tion, plans to have more than 40in place by theend of the year.

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lion this year, and Sun Moon Star Co., withsales this year of $55 million. Altogether Digi-tal has sold more than two million licenses forthe productsince itsintroducuon inJne,1988,according to xank Iveson, vice president ofsales at Digital.

According to Computer Leuer, an in6uen-Iial industry newsleuer compiled by Techno-logic Partners in New York City, Digital hassprung back to life thanks to Dick Williams, a22-year IBM veteran, who joined DRI in 1987.He ended the layoas, promoted people, gotinvestor capital, and oversaw development ofa group of operating systems for multitaskingapplications — FlexOS — and graphics prod-

Digital Research is the nation's 19thlaxgestsoftware producer, in terms of 1988 revenues,according to SoftLetter.

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CD.RGM ExtensionsSupport Interleaved AudioANAHFJM, CALIFORNIA, USA., 1989 MAR28 (NB) — MicrosoftCorporafion [NASDAQ:MSFT] announced Microsoft MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions version 2.1 at its FourthAnnual CD-ROM Conference. Version 2.1includes support for interleaved audio in CD-ROMXAappbcatlons,compatibility with DOSversion 4.0, and the ability to share CD-ROMdrives on a LAN [' local area network] serversupporting Microsoft Networks.

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ANAHEIM, CALlFORNIA, VAGAL, 1989 MAR28(NB) — Intel Corporation announced itsPro750Apphcation DevelopmentPlatform forthe creation of DVI [digital video interactive]software and hardware products. DVI technol-ogy brings motion video [natural images],audio and high~ gra phics to the personalcomputer through a combination of high-capacity storage and transparent, real-timeimage compression. The announcement wasmade atMicrosoRCorporation'sFourthInter-national Conference on CD-ROM.

The Pro'l50system,comprised of three add-in boards, four aden modules, system soft-ware and authoring so&ware,requiresan 80886platform. Demonstration software is includedwhich contains examples of DVI microcoderoutines and a collection of application- soft-ware samples. Intel also announced trainingand support programs for the system.

CapaMities of the system include still-im-age capture and compresnon, capture andedit of digital audio, and hyout and format-ting for replication on CD ROM.

It was also announced at the conferencethatIntelwouldjoin with IBM io bring the DVItechnology to IBM's PS/2 systems. The agree-mentcalls for the developmentof MCA [microchannel architecture] boards for DVI. IBMwill work with Intel to define new DVI technol-ogy products including hoards, sofbvare andintegrated circuits. However, Intel's seniorvice preiident and general manager of theMicrocomputer Components Group, DavidHouse, emphasized that the DVI technologywould be an open speci6cation. According to

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OT1'AWA, ONTARIO, CANADA 1989 MAR28 (NB) — Corel Systems and IBM have an-nounced that CORKL Draw software is nowavaiilable through IBM's direct sales for in theU.S. The new product is part of the IBMVendor Fulfifiment Program.

CORKL Draw is a powerful illustration/drawingpackage that runson IBM AT and PS/2 computers as well as compatible equipment.CORKL Draw joins Aldus PageMaker, IBMInterleaf Publisher, and IBM Publishing Sys-tems BookMaker aspartof the IBM PublishingSystems software product offerings.

Adobe Releases MSWindowsIllustrator For The PCAMSTERDAM, THK NETHERLANDS, 1989MAR Sl (NB) — Adobe Systems Europe hasreleased Adobe Illustrator, the popular Post-Script drawing package, for the IBM PC andclose compatibles. The package retails for UKP595 and is available immediately.

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Ad Production ManagementSoftware DebutsCULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA, U.SA., 1989MAR 51 {NB) — Infoxmation International,Inc. [triple-I;NASDAQ: IINT], has mtroducedthe Ad Manager advertisement productionmsnsgementsystem.Ad Manager's Unix-basedproduction support xnodules provide mntrolover advexuslng workaow in an electronicenvironment. Systexn modules include Ad-Stack Monitor, Ad Auditor, Ad Reporter andAD Tracker. The integrated product was un-veiled at the American Newspaper LayoutManagexsAssociation [ANLOMA] conferencein Phoenix.

Ad4tackMonitorwarksmmnjunction witheither an automated advertising layout sys-tem — such as triple-I's Layout ADvisor, SCS'sLayout 8000, SII Layout, or Atex Architect-or manual adverusing layouts to monitor thestauts of all advertisements Sxr a given prod-uct. Up to the limit of the layout system'scapacity, apxoductmaybeacompletenewspa-per edition, a section, or a zone, and multipleproducts can be monitoxecL Achrertisementsare automatically associated with completednews pages and scheduled for full-page re-mxdmg by Ad Monitor.

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lease-wHI provide an adminisuative tool withaccess to the production datateae throughquery bywxample. Its reports can be gener-ated for the screen or hsxd copy. AdTracker~ h eduled for release late in theyear~ fo l low the physical progxess, andprovide the location,of advertisements as theymove through the production cycle. Themodule obtains data &am bar code and/orbadge reader stations placed strategicallyaround a newspaper plant.

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COMDEX Wrap UpBURBANK, CALIFORNIA, U.SA, 1989 APR14 (NB) — There were two or three veryimportant announcements at COMDEX de-pending on your areas of interest. One haslong-tenn implications; the others are lessenduring but will have more dramatic short-texm sects on the way computers are used.The most important, of course, ~culsrlyinthe long texm, is the i486 chip with its integra-tion of processor, enhanced math coproces-sor,cache managementand cache memoxy. ItwiE provide sxnalier, more powerful and lowercost computers that should endure at leastuntil the turn of the centuxy. It might evencontribute to software standardization if de-velopers take advantage of the known cachesize to write code which eiBciently uses it.

Intel's announcement also means morestaMity for processor design. There reallyisn' tmuch reason for Intel to change thischipunless it's to make it faster or less demandingof power. Those objecuves can hkely beachieved without changing the chip's func-tionality. Perhaps the integradon of graphicscould be justitled once it has evolved to asufBcientiy high leveL But developers willprobably jump on the stabilization to createapplications which will endure. More immedi-ate changes will from the IBM-licensed MCA[Micro Channel architecture] clones whichwill appear in about two months. The appear-ance of these machines will pxobably have thesame efFect that the first PC AT dones had.Although the AT ~med to gain slow accep-umce at Srst, a year aber the Sxst one or two

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SAN JOSE. CAUFORMA, USA., 1989 MAR29 (NB) — The American EiectronicsAssocia-tion [AEA] and Dataquest will publish amonthly report on the worldwide computerand workstation market and say it will haveanalysis and statistics never before available.

"Monthly PC/WS Analysis," a monthlyreport, the Sxst of which is expected to beavailable this M,will cost $2,000peryear. Thexepoxtisexqxected tocontaininfoxmaticxt aboutinventoxy, work in progress, orders and ship-ments, trends, book-to-bill ratios, disuibutionmethods and component technologies, gath-ered hem AEA member Bxxns, of which thereare 5,500.

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.SA., 1989 APR 10(NB) — Sheldon G. Adelson devoted his cus.toxnaxy COMDEXwpening remarks today todenying that the computer industxy faces adowntuxn. His mood was echoed by the mn-ference's three keynote speakers, but noteveryone is as optimisdc.

Alluding scornfully to press reports andmagazine featuresuliesabout the "maturing"of the computer indusuy, Adeison said theindustqr needs anequivalentof bxoadcast sexcounsellor Dr. Ruth Westheimer to teil it thatmntinued growth, like sex, is "not only pos-sible, but probable" after the age of 40. Heconcluded his remarks by quoting the title ofa current hit song, "Don't Worry, be Happy.Thekeynotespeakersseemed to take their cuefrom their host.John Doexr, general partnerin the venture capital Brm of Ktemer PerkinsCau6eld and Byers, called the personal corn.puter industry "the greatest legal creation ofwealth in human histoxy." Raymond Noorda,premdent and CEO of Novell, said the indus.uy's growth is just beginning. Heidi Roizen,cofounder and president of T/Maker Co,,talked of the computer as a "tool for creativeexpression." Roizen also noted a current in-dusuy concern, the proliferation of differenthardware platfoxms. WhQe acknowledgingIaxge and wealthy software developers have anadvantage, though, she said small softwarevendors can prosper "if you only develop onone platform but you do it weH."

Later in the day, however, indusuy analystWill Zachmann offered a less rosy view. Thepresident of Canopus Research in Duxbuxy,Mass., and a veteran industry watcher, Zach-mann was a member of a panel on core issuesin the PC indusuy. He said an economicdownturn is coming and the computer indus-uy will not be imxnune. "IBM is going to losemoney in at least one or two quarters in thenext muple of years," Zachmann said. Headded, though, that the PC industry will comethrough the coming hard times relativelywell,with the real bloodshed reserved for tradi-tional main&arne and minicomputer vendors.Those traditional systems, Zachmann said, are"dead meat."

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.SA., 1989 MAR 28(NB) — The Software Pub5shers Associationhas announced that the 1988 SPA Excellencein Software Awards will take place on May 25 inSan Diego.

The foxmai aifair will be hosted by com-puterenthusiast and TV actor Harxy Ander-son, and will feature awards in 41 dUferentcategories. Axnong the products up for theBest of the Best award are, WordPerfect 5.0I'rom Woxdperfect Corp.,Adobe Illustrator88&em Adobe Systexns, Microsoft OS/2'Presen-tation Manager from IBM and Microsoft.MORE II frotn Symmtec, and Q8c A 5.0 &emSytnautec.

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Salaries Of Top ComputerExecs Are RankedM&jHASSET, NEW YORK, U.SA„ 1989APR10 (NB) — Computer ReseHer News hasranked the salary and wealth of top computerexecutives, with Apple's John ScuHey showingthe highest sajaxy for the second year in a row.ScuHey received', 479,000in sahuy,with RodCanion ef Cempaq next at $1,866,889, andMichael Blumenthal of Unisys durd at$1,862P86.

John Akexs, chairman of ISM, the worM' slargest computer company, received$1,525~ in salary.

For the secend year in a rew, MicrosoftChaixxnan Ml Gates remained the stock-xicjc-estexecutive,with avalue of$1,028,80%,451.

Will There Be Fewer FrenchNuclear TestsP'MURAROA ATOLL, SOUTH PAClHC, 1989APR lR (NB) — The jxicxoduccion of higherpower U ci, Craysupercompucexsco the Frenchnuclearweaponsdeslgnlabexacoxy is expectedco reduce the number of South Pacjjic teals

necessaxy to design each future French war-head. France has on average required threetimes as many nuclear tests as the UnitedStates for each cypc of warhead developed, aUnited States study has found.

The respected Natural Resources DefenceCoundl [NRDC] claims in a new study onFinch nuclear testing that en average since1960, areund 20 tests were required fer eachtype ef nudear weapcm in the French axsenaLThat compares with 68 tests for each modexncypc of U8. warhead.

IBM Slammed AsOzone-KimerSAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.SA., 1989 APR22 (NB) — IBM Corporation's fadlity in SanJose is the nation's largest bejcher of chloxo-jluorocarbons [CFCs], cxnjtcixcg an estimated150 million pounds a year. Rm was the Hnd-ing of a cealition of envirenmentalists, indud-ing Cjdzens for a Better Environment. Thegroup is appealing to IBM to pledge an hnme-diate phaseeutof CFC' 115 by signinga GlobalGood Neighbor Agxcement.

ISM'sspokcsxnanRayKcrbysaysthechcmi-cal, which is known co destxoy the earth'sOzone layer, is used to clean and chyparts usedin themaking ef cjiskdrjveL "We chose so useCFCs because they are nenjjaxxcmable, non-corrosive, and havevery jew coxdcicy. Since theenvjxcinmexctal efj'ccts of CFCs have beenunderstood more fuHy, we have been wor jdngto rcdllcc Qur usc.

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URSANA, ILUNOIS, USA, 1989 APR 19(NS) — Dr. David F. Linowesof the Universityof Illinois, who headed up the Pxivacy Protec-tion Commission in the mid-19'as, has «on-cluded in a foHow-up book on the subject thatthe right to bc left alone is being destroyed bycompucerL Businesses are rapidly addingheaxsay, doctors' reports, and private investi-gators' reports co the jiles they Leep on em-ployees, denying those employees access tothem, then denying chose same employeesproxneions based on them. His bock, Trhricyin Amexica: Private Life in the Public Eye„' isnow being published by the University of IHi •nois Press, and he's on the ixcccxview drcuitpremodng it. Ics ISBN Number is 01604-1.

In an exclusive interview with Newsbyccs,Dr. Linowes denied the existence of any con-spiracy. Iliathappcns tobe the pattern they'refoHowing," he said. "It's not premeditated.Over half the companies I contacted hadn' teven reviewed their pracdces for abusea"

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Premier Of25 Meg Hoppy DiskCHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.SA., 1989 APR 10(NB) — Quadxam is showinga prototype of itsQuadHextra floppy drive subsystem here atSpring COMDEX. The subsystexn uses BrierTechnology's Flextra Twin Tier Tracking toprovide 25 or 50 Mb [megabytes] of datastorage on a 5.5-inch diskette. 7645)

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Magellan needs a hard disk a 512 kilo-bytes of memory, and is priced at $159through June 50, 1989. The retail price willrise to $195 after that time.

AUSTIN, TEXAS, U.SA., 1989 MAR 28 (NB)— Novell, Inc., and Fox Sofuvare, Inc., Tues.day announced ajointdevelopment and tech-nology transfer agreement. The two compa-nies plan to codevelop FoxSexver, a databaseserver which combines NetWare SQL, Nov-ell's open- interface, relationalMtabase en-gine, with Fox's dBASE-language teclmology.

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Intel To Unveil 80486 April 11SANTACLARA, CALIFORNIA, USA.,1989APR1 (NB) — Intel Corporation will unveilits next~eneration microprocessor, the80486, on April 11. Said to be two to threetimes more powerful than the 80586, whichpowers highend, IBM<ompatible micro-computers, the 80486 will be priced be-tween $1,000 and $1,200 to manufacturerswhen it reaches the market at the end of thisyear, according to sources.

According to Califoxnia TechnologyStock Leuer, an influential industry watchnewsletter published by CTSL PublishingParmers, in San Francisco, Sequent Com-puter is already designing it into supexmini-computers. "Ihe chip will migrate &om su-pexminis tohighwndworkstations, then into

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CAMBRIDGE, ~ CHUSE TTS, U.SA.,1989 APR 17 (NB) — Lotus has started ship-ping Magellan, a new utility software programfor IBM and compatibles. The product letsusers fmd, view, and use information residingon their hard disks. With a single, consistentviewing environment, Magellan uses a newtext search and retrieval technology that al-lows users to locate information by spedfying

AUSTIN, TEXAS, US&, 1989 MAR 28 (NB)— Motorola'sMicxoprocessor Products Groupreleased architectural featuxtes of its 52-bit68040 chip, a follows for the chip poweringthe highend Apple Macintosh H. The newchip containsover1.2 million transistors, andMotorola says it will be the fastest non-RISCchip on the market, outperfoxmingeven someof the lUSC chips now being put into engi-neering workstations. The '040is also the 6rstconventional microprocessor to include itsown floating-point processor.

Motorola said the improvements betweenthe new 68040 and the older 68050 chip arefar greater than those between the 68050 andthe 68020 it replaced. The new chip includesfive major functions — an integer unit, afloating-point unit, a xnemoxy managementunit and separate caches for data and instruc-tions. All the units operate together. The newchip also supports multi- processing.

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WHITE PLAINS, NEW MRK, U.SA., 1989APR 14 (NB) — IBM has introduced a brandnew advertising campaign, with the theme,'Tbis is not the IBM I knew. The campaign,created by the ad agency Wells Rich, GreenInc., was based on extensive research, andattempts to convey that IBM is positioningitselfasdehvexing the best set ofhsxdware andsafuvare solutions in the indusuy.

An IBM spokesman said the ads, "reflectthe commitment to 1BM as a problem solvingcompany committed to delivering the solu-tions our customers want."

Wells, Rich, Greene is using the photogra-pher Richard Avedon as both comxnexdaldirector and still photographer for the adseries, to degver a distinctive graphic signa-ture. Each ad in the series features a customerportrut whose business life has unprovedbecause of IBM products.

TVadswill 6xstair on "Around the World in80 Days" on April 17, snd "War and Remem-brance," on May 5-14. Print ads will first ap-pear in The Wall StreetJournal during theweek of April 16.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.SA., 1989 MARt9 (NB) — According to a survey by Datama-don, U.S. corporations are scaling back theirinformation systnm budgets to only a 4.4percent growth rate. According to ParkerHedges, the Datamation magazine editorwhooversaw the budget survey, 'Customers aretrying to sort out what kind of computingmodels they will need to build in the 1990s toflourish in the next century.

In 1988, Information Systems budgets grew7$ percent, compared to the anticipatedgrowth rate for thiis year. However, the surveyalso revealed the managers do not expect toscale back their personnel expenses for thecotnlllg year.

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Color Copier Has MountiesWorriedMISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, CANADA. 1989APR 7 (NB} — Canon's color coplers are likea hcense to print money. Not for the vendor,for the users. According to Business Weekmagazine, the bigheadlaser copiexs pmducesuch accurate reproductions they can be usedto counterfeit money. The magazine says theRoyalCanadian Mounted Police axemaintain-ing a list of buyers of the Canon copieraApparently one user has aheady been caughtcopying Canadian cutwency with one of themachinesk and was chaxged. A Canon Canadaemployeesaid his company has uLlked with theRCMP about the machines, and wou'ri coop-erate with the national police $orce'sefiorts tocontml counterfeiting by copier. He couldnot confixm the existence of a litt of buyexLMost puxchasexs of the copiexa, which costabout C$50,000, axe print shops.

Motorola Selling 50 MHxVersion Of Its 68050AUSTIN, TEXAS, U.SA., 1989APR 5 (NB)-In the years after a chip is intmduced, theirmakerslearn to make faster and fastervexsionsso users can get incremental speed increaseswhile waiting for the next major upgrade.That's the background behind Motjoroh'sannouncement that it's now selling a 50megahertz version of its 68050, or 050, micro-processor.

Motomla noted its new chip'sclock speed isfiLster than both standard chips and the RISC[reduced mstructxon setcomputer] chtps usedin engineering workstations. Motorola ratedthe chips processing speed at Ill million in-structions per second, not as fast as Motorola'sown RISC chips but fiister than other standardpmcessors, and said it's made with a newtechnologywhichletsitmake achipinjustonemicron of space. The new 050 is the directdescendentof the 68000 pmcessor firstintro-duced by Motorola in 1979.

The new chip is only available in samplequantities, at $650 per chip, until the thirdquarter of this year. Prices are expecsed sodrop as volume increases.

MOUNI'AIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, USDA,1989 APR 7 (NB) — Why is "gmupware" thelatest buzzword in industry circles? Becauseit's worth an estimated $40 billion by 1995,according -to a survey done by Market Intelli-gence Research Company. The $1,495 report,based on extensive telephone interviews andsecondary sources, says the U.S. will get about$% billion of the total world revenues fordeparunentalworkgroupmultiuser computersystems, and Euxope and Japan will get therest. The multiuser systems are used for officeautomation, graphics, and database manage-ment, among other tasks. %he biggest users ofthese systems will be financial services, govern-mentandmiTitaxy agencies, the medical; engii-neering, and scienttfic communifies.

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IBM has spent $19 billion in research anddevelopmentbetween1985and 1988 and over$15 bfilion of this investmenthasyet to appearin any real form in the product line. Themoney is being spent to address the funda-mental limitations in computer architectureand technology, according to the xeport,whichwas two yeaxs in the mahng.

Revolutionary productswlllappear between1991 and 1996, according to Robert Simko, incharge of IBM corporate strategy and posi-tioning, pmducts such as highly advanced 96.bit architecture for large systems, capable ofaddressing up to 281 texabytes [trillion bytes]of singte4evel sroxuge — approximately 500times more powexful than IBM's currentmainframe architecture. Also, IBM isworhngon a new concept of system organization that"combines multiple, functionally specializedpmcessoxa to achieve levels of performancethatwould be impossible withhistorical formsof computer architectuxe."

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By the time you are finished readingyou should have dear idea which type ofprinter is best for your needs. Moreexpensive is not necessarily betterl Wewill also give you tips on how to judgeprinter quality. With this knowledge youcan impress your fijiends and infiuencepeople.Daisy, Matrix or LaserP

Therearethxee dash of printers:daisywheel, dot matrix and laser. Daisy wheelprinters printveryslowly, producing type-written quality output in only one type-face (unless you manuaHy change theprintwheel). They look and sound liketypewriterL

Dot matrix printers print quicMy, pro-ducing type made of tiny dots that, atbest,looks like fisbric-ribbon typessrriting. Dotmatrix printers usually ofFer a range oftype sizes. Theyusuamymakemildscreech-ing soundL Sometimes they make zip-ping sounds like an arcade game. The bigdrawback is, you guessed it, noise. Thebig attraction is price and the ability tohandle continuous forms, such as maillabels and invoices.

Laser printers print very rapidly andquietly. The type is roughly the samequality as you would see in a newspaper.The big drawback is the high price tagand inability to handle special forms.Daisy Wheel Printers

Daisy wheel printers are glorified elec-tric typewriters. Instead of type baxs orgolf lwslls, they have the letters arrayed onthe ends of the petals of a plastic daisy ora folded-up daisy, resembling a thimble.Daisy Wheel Pros

Daisy wheel print looks hand typed.Form letters printed on a daisy wheel aretruly convincing. Daisy wheel pnnt looksmore personal than the dinical perfec-tion of laser printed lettexs. Daisies workwell with hand-fed single sheet feed, suchas office correspondence.Daisy Wheel Cons

Daisy wheel printers are vier-y s-l~ .Theyprint10 to55 characters per second.Unless you are patient enough to changeprint wheels, they cannot do any specialefFects such as italic, large point sizes or

Daisy wheels are all but obsolete.Buying a Daisy Wheel

Daisy wheel printers often have notori •ouslypoor tractor feeds. Ifyou plan tousecontinuous forms, test the printer bypressing the eject (Form Feed) buttonrepeatedly. Poor tractorswill quicklyjam.

Many daisy wheel printers can onlyhandle a light duty cycle; you cannot runthem continuously. Look at a NEC orDiablo printer to learn how to recognizea heavy duty printer.Daisy Wheel SummaryThere are only a few models of daisy

wheel still manufactured. The mostcommon are the Brother HR series'thatcan double as typewriters with the op-tional keyboard attachment. If all youever print are one-page letters, buy a sec-ond-hand daisy wheel tank that will keepchugging even after a nuclear war-something like the NEC %50.

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Dot Matrix PrintersDot matrix printers range from $200 to

well over $10,000. There is obviouslyquite a bit of variability, however all dotmatrix printers make their image bystrik-ing a set of fine wires through an ink-impregnated ribbon onto the page. Thefiner the wires, the higher the quality theprinted output is.

There are three main classes of dotmatrix printer: 9-wire, 18-wire and 24-wire. The %eire printers are the cheap-est, produce the coaxsest image, but theyare the most robustsince the wiresare thethickest. 24-pin printers produce thehighest quality type. With a brand newribbon, the output might sometimes bemistaken For typewritten.Dot Matrix Pros

Dot matrix printers are flexible. Intheory theycan printanypossible patternofdots. With the proper software theycsnprint symbols, foreign languages andarbitrary pictures.

Dot matrix printers are cheap to buyand operate. For example the mostpopuhr wide carriage 24.pin printer inVancouver is the $752 Fujitsu DL5400. Itprints 288 characters per second in draftmode and 72 chaxacters per second innear letter quality mode.

The most popular narrow carriage 9.pin printer is the $242 Roland 1012, alsosold as the Panasonic 1080i. Itcan handlelight duty printing at 144 characters persecond in draft mode and 28 charactersper second in near letter quality mode.Dot Matrix Cons

Notonlyare dot matrix printers noisierthan other types of printer, the noise ismoregrating. You can put them in soundproofboxeswith fans topreventoverheat-ing, but then the box gets in the way ofthreading paper. When I have a longprintjob, I just leave the room. For shortprintjobs I just grin and bear it Becauseixritation is subjective, make sure every-one who will be exposed to the noise iswilling to live with it, day in and day outSticjxy Mall Labels

Stickymail labels are the bane ofmatxixprinters. A little bit of glue gets stuck onone of the print wires and bang — theregoes your printhead. A new print headfor a premium 24-pin printer such as theToshiba P%1 can cost over $800.

Never roll sticky labels backwardthrough a printer — only forward. If youroll them back they will detach prema-turely and stick deep inside your printer.For most printers, to dean out the labels,you must completely disassemble theprinter. If you are really unlucky, youmight foul your print head.

Sometimes it is wise to buy an auxiTiarycheap printer just to handle sticky labels.Alternatively you can avoid sticky labelsaltogether byprintingon plain paper andhiring a mail house to glue them to theenvelopes. Another option is handingthe mail house a diskette containing thenames alld addi'esses.Buying a Dot Matrix Printer

As I said in the artide on buyinga done,"buy your software first." Before you buya printer, test itwith the software you plantouse! Icannotstress thatenough. Wordprocessors properly support only a hand-ful of the thousands of printer models.

Poke your nose inside the printer. Itshould look tidy and easy to keep dean.Be suspicious ofexcessvisible belts, wires,flimsy plastic comb-like dohickeys or

Make sure the printer covers do notdetach easily and fall on the floor. Thecover should be a simple one-piece aaair,nota setyou have to fit together like ajig-saw puzzle.

Make sure the printer fullysupports theCentronics parallel intexface so that the

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computer can detectif the printerisofIlinor out of paper — pins 12 and 15. If yourprinter is defective in this, your wordprocessor may completely freeze up if theprinter runs out of paper or if you acci-dentally forget to hit the ONLINE button.

For the XT/AT done, do NOT buy aserial printer. Get a Centronics parallelinterface! Centronics interfaces are foolproof. With serial interfaces you must getinvolved with such arcane matters asmatching baud rates, stop bits, parity, nullmodem cables, DTE/DCE, male/female,DB9/DB25,XON/XOFF, Cl'S/RTS,andETX/ACE. DOS does not properly sup-port sexial flow control (spoon feedingthe printer no faster than it can swaHowdata). Some word processors can supportserial printers, butyou are asking for onegiant headache if you try it

Unless you use special boosters, paral-lel printers must be within 15 feet of thecomputer. Serial printers must be within50 feet. This extra distance is the ONLYexcuse for using a serial printer.Paper ThreadingSome printers require an advanced

degree in origami to thread the paper.Othershave thirty difFerentways to threadthem. Twenty-nine look plausible andalmost work Look for a threading dia-gram embossed on the printer where itcannot possibly get lost

The threading should be so simpleanyone can do it flawlessly without read-ing the manual. It should be impossible,or atleastpainful, tomisthread the paper.If not, you will be plagued eternally withpaper jams caused by improper thread-

Ribbon CartridgesThe printer ribbon cartridge should

have no more than 1 cm of ribbon ex-posed. This makes it almost impossible tomisthread the ribbon. Ensure the printeruses ribbons stocked in several stores.Otherwise you might have to wait sixmonths for a special order of ribbons tocome in at outrageous prices.Tractor Feeds

Make sure the tractors have sufficienthorizontal latitude for pre-printed formswith unnatuxallywide or narrowmargins.There should be rulers in both horizontaland vertical directions to make it easy torapidly align pre-printed forms. Ideally

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vertical micro-alignment buttons to ad-just the form alignment on the fly.

The design of a disgraceful proportionof printer tractors is defective. A printershould be able to feed paper hour afterhour without going ofF the rails. Manyprinters are lucky to get through fivesheets before they jam.

How can you tell if a tractor design isdefective? The simplest way is to threadthe paper then press the eject (FormFeed) button repeatedly. If you can rap-idly feed through a dozen sheets withoutjamming, you are probably in luck. Txythe test with various paper stocks thatrepresent real life. Many printers willwork well on heavy stocks but jam in-stantlywhen loaded with lightweightdraftpaper. Others Freeze up the instant they

I still laugh to myself about the time Iwatched a demonstration of the IBM Pro-printer. The person giving the demotried for 15 minutes to thread the paperin such a way it would not immediatelyyam. Then I offered to try. I fared nobetter. If even IBM has trouble designinga fool-proof tractor mechanism, imaginehow much trouble some of the smallercompanies have.Bottom Feed Tractors

How can you tell a poor tractor if youare too timid to test i' Bottom feed pulltxactorswithaverystxaightpaper path arethe most reliable. When thick paper isForced togoaround curves, itoftenjumpsoff the rails. Bottom feeds are best formail labels, multi-part forms, card stock,or unattended runs. Teeth on the printerengage the sprocket hole perfoxy alongthe sides of the paper. Make sure at leastfour teeth on each side are always en-gaged.

The Alps Allegro uses a variant of thebottom feed where the paper feeds in thefrontand out the back in one of the mostjam-proof designs ever conceived. Toobad the Alps engineers could only get 72CPS (characters per second) in draft and44 CPS in near letter quality.

If you can'tgeta bottom feed go forabi-directional tractor. The tractor en-gages the paper both on the way in andway out of the rear of the printer. I tmaintains constant tension.

If you can' t get a b4kirectional tractor,get a rear pull tractor, It puHs the paperout the top of the printer, in the rear.there should be electronic horizontal and

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To use a rear feed tractor successfullyyou must tuck the pile of ingoing paperwell underneath the printer. Otherwise,the outgoing paper stream snags on theincoming streamobscenelywrapping intoa loop.

Ifyou can't find apul tractor youwill bestuck with a push tractor. A push tractorattempts to push the paper through theprinter. Since paper is limp, this methodis not wildly successful. Strangely, mostprinters sold in 1988 were of the pushtype.

Have all the printer designers takenleave of their senses) Not quite. Pushtractors have one very important advan-tage. To remove a sheet of paper from apull tractor printer, you must waste asheet of paper; with a push tractor you do

Ifyou must buya push tractor, use highquality stiff paper that comes 2000 sheetsto a box. Stay away from the thin stockthatcomes 5000 sheets to a box. Place thein and out paper piles directly in align-mentwith the printer so there is no skew.Make sure the paper is not binding in theleast on the sides of the carton. Adjust thetractors to optimum paper tension. Youmay find adjusting the room humiditymight also help. You have my sympathy.Over a five year period, you will spend

about two and a half times as much onpaperasyou paid or'iginally for theprinter.The ability to handle cheap thin paper isthe most significant factor in the overalleconomics.Sheet Feeders

Single sheet feeders allow you to printon cut 85 x 11 sheet paper, usuallyletter-head. Usuafiy they have two bins, one forletterheadand one for plain second sheets.I have only met one person in my wholelife who was completely happy with hersheet feeder. Sheet feeders are notoriousfor jamming. There are good ones, butthey can cost over $2000.

One alternative to sheet feeders is touse continuous forin letterheads. Theproblem with this technique is you can-not easily print page two of each letter ona plain second sheet; everything has to beprinted on letterhead. However, con-tinuous-form laser-perf letterhead is theway togo for bulkprinting one-page form

Manual Smgle Sheet FeedAnother alternative to sheet feeders is

to use manual single sheet feed. Someprinters take up to five minute toconvertback and forth between manual sheetfeeding and continuous forms. Yousometimes have to stick pieces of card-board into the printer to temporarilydefeat the papermut mechanism, or pressbuttons to reassure the printer that it isperfectly ok the single sheet has clearedthe paperwut sensoraParldng

Printers with a parking feature canswitch back and forth very quickly be-tween single sheet feeding and continu-ous forms. You press a button to retractthe continuous forms to allow single sheetfeeding and press another tore-insert the

Unfortunately parking usually impliespush tractors. Please re-read the warn-ings about push tractors.Combination TractorsPanasonic and Roland/Raven recentlyintroduced a new line of printers thathave taken Vancouver by storm. Theyhave bottom feed for continuous forms.They also have a push tractor for backfeeding short runs of stiff continuousforms. They also have a parking mecha-nism to remove the continuous forms toallow temporary single sheet feeding.

nation approach. They use a pull tractorwith automatically retracting paper. Thislets you rip off the sheet just printedwithout wasting a sheet

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other than yourself, you want the simplestpossible control panel. There should beonly three buttons: ONLINE, EJECI' andSET-TOP-OF-FORM. Any configuringswitches or controls should be hiddenwhere novice users are unlikely to screwthem up.If you are seduced into buying one of

those fiuicy printers with a control panelwith enough buttons and lights to fly a747, you will regret it. Fellow users will hitone of those buttons by mistake whilesimply trying to eject a sheet of paper.Then itwill take you ten minutes to figureout what they did, and another five to setthe printer back to normal. A systemsanalyst friend of mine wasted about halfhour per day doing nothing put resettinga complex Centronics 555 printer for his

Even if you are the only user of yourprinter, the excess buttons are still just anuisance. All the same effects can be hadmuch more conveniently through soft-ware, either by customizing printer driv-ers, or with BAT files that send controlsequences.

You may have trouble finding a printerwith a simple control panel. The printermarketing people know that pretty lightsand fancybuttons sellprintersjust the waythey sell stereos. Ifyou can' t find a simplepanel, look for one where the fancy fea-tures are done with one set ofbuttons andthe bread and butter functions are donewith another. If you cannot find one ofthose, write some BAT files such asEJECI'.BAT to do the equivalent func-

printer controls at all.Ideally the EJECT, sometimes called

TOPIC-PAGE or TOP-OF-FORM, shouldalways work, whether or not the printer isonline. In many printersyou have to takethe printer ofHine, then hit EJECT, thenput the printer back online. Novice usersconstantly forget one of the steps, or hit,, ~one of the buttons prematurely, and thencome topesteryou because the "printer is

Configuring DIP SwitchesSometimes printer features can only be

controlled from the panel or DIP switches,but not through software. This is veryfrustrating, since any time you want tochange such settings, you have to walkover to the printer, power it off, open itscovers, and poke awayatmicroscopic DIP

Fujitsu pioneered the latest rage inconfiguring. They do away with DIPswitchesaltogether. This new "improved"method has you answer about fifty ques-tions bykeying the answers in code on theprinter panel. I t takes only about 80minutes to configure a printer, once youget the hang of it. However, the oldfashioned way, with pure software controlof all but the hardware interface, all thiscould be instantaneous.Alanna

correctly make a sound to call for help.Some honk long, loud and rudely. Someact like screaming infants refusing to shutup until fed with paper. Some even screamwhile the computer "abandons" themduring reboots. A polite printer shouldmake a noise like the old IBM 560 Model20 MFCM (Mother Hetcher's Card Man-gler) made when itwan ted service — a dis-tinctive gurgling warble reminiscent of acontented infant. Avoid printers thatsound like a computer beep or a tele-phone ring. More than anything else, thesounds a printer makes determines itsperceived "personality." Rude printersare an embarrassment to their keepers inan office setting. Deafening silence isusuallyquite enoughinducement tobringassistance when they run out of paper.

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Vexy few people with PostScript print-ers ever compose PostScript programsdirectly. They get Ventuxxi to do it forthem. If you plan to program directly inPostScript, get a pnnter with BOTH aserial and parallel interface. The parallelinterface should be used for productionwork The serial interface should be usedfor debugging. Without the serial inter-face the printer cannot display errormessages about syntax errors in yourprogxam. PostScript prograxxuning isdifiicult, fun and addictive.

PostScripts printers typically print at500 x 500 dots per inch. This is highenough quality for newsprint reproduc-tion. To get higher resolutien, you canprint the image 1.5 times larger thanusual and photo-reduce. You can alsotake yeur PostScript program to a Li-notrenic typesetter and have it typeset at1200 x 1200 resolution for about $11 per

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A whole industry has built up aroundthe Laserjet II with admen products. Forample you can buy extra RAM to beefup its rather meager 512K to help withgraphicsHigh Speed Controllers

The most important add~ns to theLaserjet Series II (and some other print-ers) are the high speed controllers. Thesehelp get data &om the computer to theprinter quickly. They also help generat-ing the millions of individual dots &omthe font outlines that make up the cast ofcharacters. Some can even turn a gardenvariety Laserjet into a full blown Post-Script printer.

of the delayisin preparing the bit mappedfonts in the point sizes needed &om themathematical descriptions of the font

The number one error people make inbuying a PostScript printer is getting onetoo slow. You can be so bowled over by thefancy effects you neglect to tote up all thetime you will waste waiting for each proofto emerge. Even the fiNtest PostScriptprinters seem like molasses onceyou take

The number two error people make isbuying a desktop publishing PostScriptPrinter when an ordinary laser printeroptimized for high speed word-process-ing would have been more suitable.

PostScript is a Forth-like postfix stackcomputer language. A computer pro-gram or computer progrannner composesa program in PostScript, then sends itover to the printer for execution. Thespecial effects are thus limited only by theingenuity of the PostScript prof pammer.

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The Tall Tree Jlaser Plus AT4 card al-lows you to build bit map graphic imagesm expanded RAM, then blast them overan auxiliary coax cable to the Laserjetprinter at high speed. Normally, bitmapped graphics are very slow becausethey must be sent painfully slowly byte bybyte over the 1000 byte per second paral-lel interface. Be warned, the perplexitiesTamTreemanualsarelegendaxy. Before 'tackling them, apprentice at the CIA incodecxacking.LaserMaster CAP Card

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Strange as it may sound, when printersclaim Adobe PostScript compatibilitythere is a very good chance they will be99% compatible with all other PostScriptprinters. Unhappily, when they chLim HPPackard Laserjet compatibihty, they aremean onlyabouta90% approximation-not close enough to work reliably withouttweahng the printer dnvers of your word-processor. The main area of incompati-bility is in available fonts. Sometimesprinters only emulate the older Laserjetor Laser jet Plus, not the Series II.

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The intention of this article is to helpyou in selecting the best LaserJetcompat-ible for your needs.

First of all, there is a big difference be-tween LASERJET and LASERJET PLUS.The main difference is that the originalLaseriet had no user memory that couldbe used for fonts. Fonts were availableonly if they came with the printer (built-in fonts) or if you purchased a font car-tridge. There was also no need for macroprolpmnming, which requires memoryfor storing programs on the printer. Bothof these features were introduced withthe Laserjet Plus and the 500 Plus.

HP Compatible FontsThere are 5 basic types of fonts for

Laserjets and compatible printers:1. Built-in fonts2. Cartridge fonts5. Soft fonts

Regardless whxch of these you use,your software must be configured to usethese correctly. One software developersuggests that you can spend 40 hours ormore setting up a printer driver properly,and that'sifyouknowwhatyouare doing.

Most major manufacturers .supplyprinters to software developers in orderto have a printer driver induded with thesoftware that work with their printers.Even in these cases, you may have tospend some time making adjustments tothe driver in order to make them work100%.

WordPerfect5.0wasreleasedinJanu-ary 1988, and it was midJuly before theyhad a good working version for some ofthe printer drivers that they supply.

still struggling to get exactly what theyneed, 2 years after the release of theirsoftware

Displaywrite users can be justifiably&ustrated because the developers xarelyinclude anything but IBM printer driverswith the sofnvare, and you mayhave togoto third party developers to getdrivers foHP and compatibles.

In any case, you xnay need to have anexpert come in to help you set up to useyour software properly, regardless of thesofnvare packages thatyou currently use.This can cost you anywhere &om $550and up, and then onlyifyour software canbe modified easily.

Some packages do not place enoughemphasis on the printer and allow onlythe simplestmodification to the programsthat drive the printers.

Built-in fonts on laserprinters can be misleading.

Some Microsoft Word 4.0 users are

568K for macros112K For buffers800K TOTAL

Presumably, the missing 500Kis used foroverhead. Find out before you buyl Itcould save a lot of &ustrafion, as well asmoney.

Macro MiradesMacro programming allows you to

store forms, logos, or signatures on thelaser printer, and print them by sendinga short printer command &om most soft-ware packages.

Take a reasonably complex form ofabout 100.:i' bytes, with, lines, boxes,circles, log"..'. '«'4 etc. If you need toprintit100:ixmex a day,you must transmitall of the information to the printer eachtime you want to print it. On a PC XT,100,000 bytes can take about 85 seconds.

Saving the same form on the printeras a macro means transmitting it onlyonce, and executing it 100 times. Thenumber of characters required to exe-cute a form xs about 8 byteL

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For example: One manufacturerpromises 12 fonts, but only 2 are availablein HP emulation.

The HP Laserjet Series II claims 6fonts, butCourierNormal, Courier Bold,and Lineprinter are really only 5 fontsthat are counted Nvice: once for pmtraitprinting, and once again if they can beused for laxxdxceps (sideways) printing

Cartridge fonts «re easy to useNo printer memory is required by

cartridge fontsJust plug itin,set upyoursoftware to match the cartridge fonts,and enjoy. Again, each cartridge mayrequire simihr software changes as built-in fonts, unless the cartridge manufac-turer suppliesready~e pr inter driversthat take advantage of all of the fontsavailable on the cartridge(s).

The Super Cartridge &om IQ Engi-neering is one of the best. It containsmost of the fonts available on all HP car-tridges, and comes with printer driversfor WordPerfect and Microsoft Word,proportional spacing tables and kerningtables. If you had to create these table' syourself, you could be looking at manyhours of workI

If two or more users are sharing aprinter, they must each know what theother is doing with multiple cartridges inorder to have the correct cartridge',plugged in when it is required.

The main advantage of the SuperCartridge is thatyou almostnever have tochange cartridges. All of the fonts arealways available to all users at all times.

The cartridge is made to fit Hewlett-Packard printers and a few good com-patibles like the Brother HL8 or the newHL8e.

Advxuxtagee and disadvaxxtalse of pexmanent/tempo raxyxPermanent:

+ pllIlhllg is fitster- initial font load takes time- more memoxy is required

Temporary+ less printer memory needed- careful oxganization required- printing is slowerMost soft fonts normally come in

four variations: NorxnalpoM, Itaric, andSordghaSc and each variation must becounted as a font because each one takesup printer memoxy...-: ""' ="-"4 i '

Some printers can simulate the boldand italic variations and, therefore, re-quire less memory. The same is true forlandscaping. If the printer can automati-cally convert portrait fonts to landscapefonts internally, then you will not have toload the itelic, boM, and bold/QsEc ver-sions, and need less memoxy to holdyourfonts.

Remember, if speed is a factor, andyou plan to use st fonts, get a printerwith plenty of memory, and make certainthat you know how much of the totalm emoxy can be used for soft fonts.

On the Hewlett-Packard Series II,512K bytes of memory is standard. But,only 585K of it is useable for fonts andmacro' Dataproducts also offers 512K,of which only 556K is useable.

advertises 1.5 megabytes of memoxy, butthe memory can only be used as follows:520K for fonts

The worst case is a manufacturer that

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Using the macro method could saveover 2 hours and 4IQ minutes, and thisdoes notinclude printing time, just trans-

Themain disadvaneageofmacroproc-essingis thatyou mustunderstand exactlywhat you are doing, or have someone onhand who can help you out with prob-

For macro processing, you also need100% HP compatibility. Some of theprint-

below were not caImble of processmgmacros properly, and in my opinion,playing with an incompatible printer isnot worth the effort since laser printerscan be dlicult enough to master withoutcompatibihty problems!

The testing of the printers shown inthe table was not an exhaustive, scientificapproach, but intended only for our ownpurposeL In order to program forms intoa laser printer, we had to make certainthat the emulation was good enough notto cause major problems when the finalproduct was installed. These are some ofthe resulta

Some of the printers tested were notmentioned because theyfailed miserably.Others were not mentioned simply be-cause we did not have all of the necessary

One suggestion for users sharingprinters with multiple emulations: eysa

in HP mode.

on one emukstion mode that masts most users'needs and don't change unkss absolutdy nee-esasry. llfcmory is deered when the emuhtionmode is changer, end any soft fonts orforesail ned to be safoadeL

As this article hits the presses, weare preparing to test a new 400 dpiprinter that is rumoured to be fast,Postscript compatible, HP Laserjet+compatible, and allows scaling of fonts

There are many users of Hewlett-Pack-ard laser printers and compatibles but upunitl very recently, there has not been. much useful literature on them.

'laserjet Unlimited" and Laserjet Com-panion" that can be very useful for those

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Choosing A Systempanies, who specialize ia providing PGSsystems, will provide a needs analysis andan investment needs analysis for a smallfee which ean be applied to the purchaseof their system should it be the one youchoose. The money invested in evaluat-ing your business will be well spent, evenif it shows that the system will aot pay foritself in your business environment. Thenlook seriously at systems that cost 15% ofyour annual sales or less.

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A Point of Sale {POS) system recordssales transactions of a retail store or chainin detail, as the sale is first recorded on acashagisteror computer terminaL Thedata is used to update perpetual inven-toxy and the accounts receivable. Thedata is also used togenerate multiple salesanalysis reports, and may also update thegeneral ledger. A more elaborate systexnthat produces sales invoices and shippingdocuments etc. may be called an OrderEntry System.

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(604) 735-2647Lingo Computers Inc.Quick Register POS for PC207-2620 Fromme RdNorth Vancouver V7J 2R3(604) 985-5465MAC ComputersMAC POS for PCSuite 200 1663 West 7th Ave.Vancouver, B. G. V6J1S4(604) 733-3440Nlerlt Digital Systemsmanfacturer of cash & data terminals1330 Main St.North Vancouver V7J1C3 '(604) 985-1391Ilountaln Business CorpFully Integrated POS for PC274 East 1st AvenueVancouver V5T1A6(604) 873-2000NCIS I New Concepts InventoryFully Integrated POS for PCHand held computers for inventory2647 KingswayVancouver V5R 5H4(604) 439-1430Northwest Retail Systems I NRSFully Integrated POS for PC¹105-1670 W. 8th Ave.Vancouver, B.C. VSJ 1V4(604)-7314183Pacific Software EngineeringThe Retailer POS for Mac109 Minna St.San Francisco, Ca. 94105(4'I5) 665-4838Pan-Tech Systems Inc.Quick Service (restaurant)5618 Imperial St.Bumaby, B.C. V5J1E9(604) 433-0199Quality LogicThe Retailer for PC1246- 1124 Lonsdaie Ave.North Vancouver, B.G. V7M 2H1(604) 980-2777Samco Software IncCanadian Synchronics POS for PC4330 KingswayBurnaby V5G 4K6(604) 298-6377Specialized Digital Micro Ltdcustom manufacturer of barcode read-ers, cash drawers and printers7318 12th AveBumaby V3N 2J7(604) 270-6787Squirrel CanadaSquirrel (restaurant)1586 Rand Ave.Vancouver V6K 2N5(604) 266-1336Syspro Touch n' Sell Inc.Touch 8 Sell POS for PC1205-1166 Aiberni StreetVancouver VSE 3Z3(604) 681-6447TVL Inc. ( Terminal Video Limited)Rapid Rental (video rental)403-100 South Park RoyalWest Vancouver V7T1A2(604) 925-1004Western Software SolutionPOS software for PC400-1190 MelvilleVancouver V6E 3W1(604) 589-9066Westwood Nlicrosystems Inc.Interface data tranfer Bedford, Accpac208-1062 Austin Ave.Coquitlam, B.G. V3K 3P3(604) 936-3421

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2. Speed of Recording Sales. This has amajor impact on customer satisfaction.Slow checkout is unacceptable.5. Industry Hardware Components. Asystem that depends on custom hardwarecan lockyou in to one software/hardwarevendor. Service and support for readilyavailable PC compatible or Macintoshcomputers and peripherals are widelyavailable at competitive prices. If the soft-ware did prove unsatisfactory, switchingto an alternate software supplierwouldbemuch less painfuL4. Documentation. Good operating in-

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6. Integration of Accounting Functions.All POS systems integrate with a perpet-ual inventory, but integration with ac-counts receivable, general ledger, andaccounts payable systems may be verydesirable. Some POS systems are designedto work with popular accounting softwaresuch as AccPac or Bedford.7. Get proposals from several vendors, soyou can make a more informed choice ofsystem. Narrow your choice-, then checkwith users of the systems which seem tobest Styour needs. Customizing is costly.An alternative is to choose a system thatoffers the best mix of advantages and livewithin its constraints.

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standard for Amiga graphicsover the past5 years and now with version III and theaddition of Amimation and Extra-halfbright (64 colours &om the previousmaximum of 52) this program comes verydose to mahng it three in a row. Close,but not a one hundred percent winner.According to Lay Phillips, the Localgraphics ~ for ou r Amiga club,"Ibought DPaint III while I was in Califor-nia, and it is definitely buggy. The 61erequester still has problems, and itbombsol'ten. I'm real sorryI bought it."It maybewise to wait for the second release on this

kp1.5Part of the Amiga's appeal to com-

puter user's who like to go beyond thebasics. The Aauga can be used two ways.The easy to learn graphics mterface al-lows new users to jump right in and getproductive quickly. As with all such struc-tures, this point and click approach haslimitations.The Amiga fortunately doesn'tstop there, italiowsyou te program itatadeeper level through it's Command LineInterface, or CLI. People switchiag to theAmiga &om an IBM orcompatiblewill befamiliar with the CLI as i t has many simi-larities to the DOS level.

In the history of Public Domain Soft-ware for the AMIGA Computer there hasnever been anything as useful as the ARPcommands. Under version 1.2 of theoperating system, theARPcommaadsgavethe CLI user smaller, more powerful ver-sions of almost every AMIGADOS com-mand. Now with the release of AMIGA-DOS 1.5, the AmigaDOS Resource Proj-ect (ARP) &om Microsmiths, Inc. the fasteasy to use features are greatly enhanced.If you have an Amiga and you do morethan point and click, you should haveARP. It is available through local BulletinBoards (Mind Link) or contact the Paci6cNorthwestAmigaAssociation. at27M064.ARP is not ShareWare. If you would like

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Here is a plug for my own company.RSI of Vancouver is about to release aVCR tape backup unit for ALL Amigacomputers. Most Amiga owners have aVideo Tape recorder and the WEDGEstreamer allowsyou tosaveyour completehard drive to an inexpensive Video Tapeusing an inexpensive device attached to

— the Parallel port. The anticipated retailprice will be around $250.GVP Hard Drives / RAM

Great Valley Products has released anumber of very exciting products for the

Here is a look at couple of hot newproducts and public domain offerings forAMIGA owners.Video genlochs, the good the bacL .

number of good low cost genlock devicestomanyhomevideoandcomputergraph-ics. Mostofthese, &om the ProGen to theSuperGen have limited appeal for theVideo Professional who requires highquality for output to S-VHS or Broadcastqualitytape. Magni, distributed by Ap-phed Electronics in BC, has what looks tobe the most complete genlock system for

A disapointment in the AMIGAGenlock world seems to be the repackag-ing of the Sytech genlock as the VidTech.All thesameproblems thatplaged SciTechhave been repackaged. Not a new idea.

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May 1st Commodore Business Ma-chines is moving thier Vancouver officeand opening a dealer training centre.According to Reg Nordman, Commo-dore's Educational Representative inVancouver, the relocation is part ofCommodore's plan to penetrate newbusiness areas with thier new powerfulline of personal computers. The move iswell timed withthe news that in westernCanada CBM sales are up 156% over thesame period last year. The new address is8626 Commerce Court, Burnaby, VSA4N6. Phone 421~5 or Fax 421-1554UMX, AMIX and SUN

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Monitoring Your Musicusing a personal computer fer musicapplications is the monitor. The user-interface that is avaHable with the type ofkeyboard instrumentsalreadymentionedis very limited. Usually a keyboard deviceuses a very smaH LED (light emittingdiode) that can suf6ciently aHow the userto monitor events, but also impedes themanipuhtian of' data. The small LEDdisplayscreen creates major preblems forequipment designers and in realitymakesthe end user's task inta an informationtangle. With such a small visual screenand a limited number of control buttons,

deck. To make the task easier for the

Having made this point to the per-son, I quickly pointed aut that one's fx-nancial budget should play a major rolein influencing decisions. Buying a com-puter can be along processbecause to op-timize your buying dolhrs you*H want toknow a lot about the various computersavailable and the particular features eachhas to offer. Though computer and musicshops have product biases, yeu can stillget good solid information f'rom the stafFabout their products' capabilities. Thereare so many ways of acquiring the infor-mation yeu need in order to make thebest decision for you.

By tahng time te carefully shoparound, reading informative magazinereviews and talking to other musiciansone can soon acquire the informationthey need to make the most practicalchoice.Justfar thefun ofit,whynatcheck'<out some of the great music and com-puter shops in your area and get somedemos ef the available software: you' re infor some BIG SURPRISES'

I recently received a telephane caHfrom someone wha wanted to get somegeneral information about choosing apersonal computer for music applications.The person asked me which computer Ithaught they should buy.

My immediate response was to ques-tion whether or not it was even necessaryto use a persenal computer. There are samany MIDI instruments and devices avail-able thathave microprecessors'on board'

that a personal computer mightperform. Most musical instru-ment manufacturers have intro-duced instruments that canbe used without a personalcomputer and still efferenough flexibility ta createensemble and orchestrals o u n d s.Keyboard instruments like the Kork Ml,Roland D-2Q and the Ensoniq ESQ1 comeequipped complete with plenty ef on-board sounds and a sequencer that iscapable ef recording eight or more difFer-entparts. These multi=timbralinstrumentsfeature sync capability for synchronizingthe instrument te a multi-track tape deck,channel and mode assignments and alsothe synthesis capability for creating origi-nal seunds. In most cases, the instrumenthasa stereo outputwhich means the usercan go direct ta a two-track cassette tape

budget minded musician, the on-boardsoftware even aHows the user to mix theoutput levels of the individual tracks ofthe sequencer camplete with efFects likereverb and chorusing, thus eliminatingthe need for a mixing board. In short, it' swerth considering whether or nat it isnecessary to buy a computer in order taplay and write music.Let Your Budget Decide

One of the xnany reasons in favour of

the musical data.

the user usually has problems manipulat-ing the large amount of parameters nec-essaxy in progranuning and controlling

What A Computer Can AddBefore going on, let's consider same

of the options that a 'MIDled' personalcomputer can do. A computer isa power-ful means of centroHing the completemusic environmentand the available soft-ware enhances every aspect involved inmusic praduction. The features availablein most software packages can also takeadvantage of graphics to represent themusic data creating a mare transparentuser-interface. In addition to memerycapability, the computer outweighs stand-alone and on-board sequences in soft =

ware features and capabilities, can printmusic scores and is flexible in the meth-ods of performance and commands;if you don't like one type of soft-ware, simply try another. Be.sides ofFering a much largernumber of sequencer tracks,the computer can also be ameans of editing programpatches for samplers andsynthesizers, creating li-brariesand steringbanksofinformatian; dumpingkeyboard information to disk is amajer advantage over synthesizers thatdump to tape. In addition to being able tohandle coxnplex musical applications„computerscan handlemusicians'account-ing, actas a Ring system and as a commu-nication link by means of electronic bill-boards and modems.

As mentioned, costing a system playsa major role. Remember, once you have apersonal computer, you'H stHI need toprobably buy a MIDI interface along withthe software and other minor penphexalsthat aH add up and sheuld be induded inyour budget.Do You Want To BeThe Next Stevie Wonder?

Decidingwhichapplicationsyouwantto use the computer for goes hand inhand with deciding what your long termplanning will involve. Expandability in asystem applies equally regardless of theuse. Are you primarily interested in own-ing a MIDI work station to compose musicin your home, for playing atlivegigs or foruse in professional studios or for use ineducation? Software availability shouldalways be a priority when buying a com-puter. It'sa standard rule in the computerindustry ta choose the software beforechoosing the computer. In music terms,this can simply refer ta the style of thesoftware and how well the software suitsyour own musical thinking and needs.Another factor to keep in mind is hewmuch time and patience da you have interms of learning a computer's basic sys-tem and applications. Determining thetype of ~r interface that best works faryour gaals and needs can be the singlemastimporrantdecisionyeu have to makebesides the monetary considerations. Inmusic situations, most creative peoplewant the computer to enhance their ideasby allowing them te quickly manoeuvretheir ideas. They don' t want te spend toomuch time typing in commands and risklosing the essence of their creative idea.This cencept led to the Apple Macin-tosh's popularity with professional stu-dios in North America; a quick learningcurve and a very transparent user inter-face unlike the IBM which requires morelearning time, more key commands anddidn'tfeaturea mouse tocontrolsoftwareparameters.

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Having taken a good general over-view of the situation, I strongly suggestgetting demonstrations of the softwareand hardware products you' re interestedin and testing the available market exper-tise; if you can't get a decent demo whatwill happen when you need real supportafteryou'vepurchased the products? Keepin mind, computer stores generally don' thave the expertise to demonstrate musicsoftware packages and music stores gen-erally aren't computer hardware experts,so be prepared to think on your own andbecome asindependentofother people' shelp as possible after al'1, you' re the onewho ultimately will have to control thegear and in most cases the products areusually a lot more simple than they firstappear to belIs There Aaxything Good ForAn IBM or Compatible?have access to a computer, you can dedi-cate more time to costing the MIDI inter-face necessary for communication be-tween the computer and the musical in-struments and checking out the type ofkeyboard instrumentyou want. Itismy experience that the major-ity of people who have suchluck are owners of any IBMcomputer, IBM ciones or IBMcompatibles. The IBM hasnotbeen the firstchoiceof themusic industry and con-sequentlydoes not have

„,of music software to choose& om as the Apple Macin- t o s h a n dthe Atari ST however, being used to theoperating system eliminates a long learn-ing curve when using the available soft-ware since you are accustomed to thekeying system and its demands. The IBMcomputer doeshavesomeinterestingsoft-ware packages available such as Cake-walk, Textures and Personal Composerand a popular MIDI interface called theMPU 401 PC.

Apple's firsthousehold PC, theAppleII, has lots of time tested software avail-able. The Apple IIe, while not known forits sound quality does have a lot of musicsofbvare available for it. These earlierApple computers also feature an open

able to add on peripheral devices creat-ing an expandable environment.

The Apple IIc is the portable versionof the IIe and can be MIDI interfaced tomusical devices with a number of eco-nomic interfaces available induding theJ.L Cooper or Passportinterface.Asmallerand lighter machine, the Apple IIc doesn' toffer the interfacing flexibility of otherApple computers.

The Apple IIGS offers good qualityinternal audio sound capability which al-lows the user to monitor sound whileusing software. This computer showsgreatpotential for the education market andhasalreadygained enough attention &omsoftware developers to create a large cata-logue of quality educational software tobe presently available. There are a num-ber of quality MIDI interfaces also avail-able including Apple's own: a definitiveacknowledgment that Apple is still veryserious about the hidden potential of thecomputer music environment in educa-tion.

A thorough retail listing of the avaiI-able computer interfacesisavailable &oma number of sources induding the veryinexpensive music software catalogue

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Some other considerations indudehow many disks drives your require, theamount of memory, software compafibil-ip with other software packages, cost ofupdate and upgrades, support and senr-ice for the soffware and hardware in caseof defects and what kind of system pack-age price you can get &om retailers: whatkind of financing plans do they offer?Try Before You Buy

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called CODA offered by Wenger Corpora-tion and MIXmagazine'sBookShelf. MusicTechnology, Home and Studio Recordingand Rhythm magazines are infonna6vesources of the MIDI music industry andadvertise all types of MIDI software andhardware available.Mac The Musician

The Macintosh is an extremely welldesigned computer thatishighly celebratedfor its easy operation and flexibility. TheMac's design provides quick and easyoperation without having to enter a lot ofcommands via the keyboard. Using theaccompanying mouse and mouse pad, op-eration becomes both intuitive and trans-parent via simple click, drag and scrollingfunctions. Clicking on the various dropdown menusat the top of the screen quicMylists the particular software options andcommands available. Variations of thismodel include the Mac 512K (single sideddisc drive) and the Mac Plus (double sideddisc drive).

Excellent music software programs forthe Macintosh are easy to find which effec-tively put it in a dass of its own. Having nodones or compatibles creates a monopolyeffect an a higher price range meant theApple Macintosh was becoming targetedat the industrial sector. In the businesscommunity, the Mac started to appeal tothe IBM market. Its easy user interfaceenabled people to quickly learn not onlythe basic desk-top hierarchy but also totake control of the software environmentfor programming.

its processing power and internal soundcapability attracted the industrial musicand film markets as well. With this in mind,software developers designed sophisticatedprograms to satisfy the needs of sound en-gineers and musicians which in turn trig-gered a whole new trend and use for com-puter technology in all areas of soundproduction. With the MIDI standardiza-

Memoirs Of MDIIn 1982, the music industry

created a cooperative standardimplementation for all musicalinstrument manufacturers in-duding Japan and otherinternational countries.With this new digitalstandard, the music in-dustry created a com-mon language for al l M IDI in-strumentscreatinga compatibilitybetweenvarious manufacturers products. This of-fered a flexibility and compatibility to theend user that the computer industry hadnever been able to previously offer and aboon for the music industry. Music tech-nology created new products for not onlyprofessional studios but also for live musi-cians and home recordingenthusiasts. TheMacintosh computer fit into the scenarioperfectly and quickly became the standardin the music industry. Although a closedarchitecture, the Macintosh can retrieve10-20 megabytes of information with anaden optional hard disk drive. With thetrend toward external hard drives theMacintosh is a solid choice for all aspects ofthe music business and the heart of themany MIDI automated studio set-ups exist-ing in North America. Originally, the pricerange was somewhat prohibitive for ama-teur and semi-professional musicians buttoday the cost of the earlier Macintoshmodels is even more accessiblewith Apple'sdecision to decrease prices.

The Macintosh SE ofFered an openarchitecture for expandability and two diskdrives which conveniently avoided all thedisk swapping protocol involved with thesingle disk drives ofFered with the Mac512K and Mac Plus. Until now, Mac 512Kand MacPlus users had to settle for an add-on external disk drive which could conven-iently accommodate system start-up andallowed for the exchange of files and gen-erally aided the whole process of organiza-tion. The Mac SE also featured a quickerprocessing time and a solid choice for

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serious minded musicians and studios format. Clearly all music software usersinterested in the direct-~isk record- regardlessofcomputerbrand,havebene-ing system being offered like Digide- fited &om the Apple Macintosh's pres-sign. Digidesign's Sound Tools include ence and acceptance into the Northan add on Digital Signal Processing Card American music scene.called the Sound Accelerator which ef- As we will see in the next article,fectively accommodates highspeed Europe has a different approach to theprocessing and provides 16-Bit (CD computer music software and hardwarequality) playback of individual sounds market and it is not without its own iro-directly &om the computer and also nies. In concludmg these observationsprovidesreal-time sound processingand let's quickly take a look atanother impor-synthesis. Another componentoption is tant aspect that all owners of computersan A to D converter which allows the must carefumy consider in assessing theuser to directly input audio &om a long-term realities involved in owning anumber of audio sources induding CD pe rsonal computer; support and serviceRom and DAT sources. Other options after thepurchase.AppleComputerInc.'sindude the Universal Sound Designer worldwide network of fullsuPPortviaAP-software package which,workswith prac pl e Link, an on-line electronic informa-6caHy all available sampler models on tion service, ensures PromPt and reliabletoday's market and+Sheet A/Vwhich assistance to dealers and end users. Withis designed tosimplifyand enhance audio the hmited warranties offered by so manypostproductionandalsosupportsDyaxis computercompanies,enduserswelcomedsample to disk system by IMS. Apple's commitment after the point of

The software developers were quick purchase and their Applecare Serviceto release softwarecompatiblewith both Agreement which extends full warrantythe Mac SE and the Mac II. The Mac II covering up to three years. This kind ofwhile offering colour, an open architec- service and support commitment makesture, a larger screen monitor and other the Macintosh computers an even morefeatures clearly became Apple's high attractive choice to the education andend computer with a highland price musicmdustryandcontrastssignificantlywhich formostmusicianswasnotaneco- withmanyothercomputermanufacturer'snomical choice, Since the Apple Macin- atfitude in this important area of service.tosh's premiere performances in the Again, a standard that iswell worth con-North American music scene, we have sidering when budge6ngand forecas6ngwitnessed an everincreasingproduc6on thelong-termreali6esofmaintamingyourQfhigh quahty software thatencompasses personal computer to assure you get theall aspect ofcreative sound produc6on. g r eatest potential from your investmentSynthesizer editorsandlibrarians helpedto create and organize sound files while In future artides, we will be takjjng asophis6cated sequencers like Mark of closer look at the impact the Atari ST, theThe Unicorn's Performer help set new Amiga, and the IBM have had in thestandardsintheareaofdigitalsoundre- music production. As an open policy,cording.Musicnota6onpackagesstarted p l ease feel free to draw our attention toto appear providing away for sequences details and facts that you feel are impor-to be exchanged between software pro- tant and should also be mentioned. Igrams and accommodate score welcome any constructive criticism, per-

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ReduxAccording to Webster, redux means

"that which has been brought back; re-vived; restored." I got version 1.5 of thisdelightful back-uputilityat theJanuary 89MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. Reduxis certainly one of the best back-up pro-grams I' ve seen, but it does take sometime to learn its many features. However,the manual is excellent. It takes youthrough all the possible things you mightwant to do with the program in a step bystep filhion. At the top of each page is astatement about what you might want todo like, "Backup a particular folder," "Justback up what's changed since my lastbackup, or "Let me see what's changedbefore it starts backing up changes." Fol-lowing these siatementsare theexactstepsrequired to accomplish the lash Moresoftware publishersshould organize theirmanuals in such a taskwriented way.Redux has one feature thatI have never

seen before in a back-up utility. Com-puter consultants can create "back-upscripts" that contain instructions forcomplex backups, involvingselected fold-ers or complicated file smrch criteria.These scripts written in a hnguage called"BackTalk"allownaivedients todoelabo-rate backupslongafter the consultanthasleft the scene.Thunder II

ThereisasmallTortontocompanycalledRainmaker Research thathas consistentlycreatedgreatMacintoshsofbrrareforyears.Perhaps they are best known for Disk-Tools II or their set of desk accessories(DA's) called Batteries Induded. I metEvan Gross, their programming wizard, atthe San Francisco Mac Expo and he gaveme a copy of Thunder II, a newversion oftheir DA spelling checker. Thunder II isjust fantastic. InstaHed as a CDEV orControl Panel Device, itis available in anyapplication from the control panelDAonthe Mac. Itwill even run in deskaccesso-ries like Acl'A or MockWrite.

You can now add spellMecking to anyMac program, induding HyperCard andPageMaker. Thunder 11 is not crippled orpared down in any way, either. Contain-ing many more features than the nativespellMecker in Word 5 and other pro-grams, it makes a welcome addition to aMacintosh writer's arsenal of tools.

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An additional benefit of Thunder II isits ability to statistically analyse a docu-ment. Besides discovering the number ofwords and paragraphs, an author can alsoobtain several readability indexes.Tocheck spelling or get statisfics, you mustselect the text first an then tell ThunderII to analyse it.

Thunder II requires 161K of disk spacefor the CDEV portion and 176K For itsdictionary. This is fairly modest com-pared to other powerful spellMeckerswhich can require up to a megabyte ofdisk space. Yet thissmall package has alotof smarts. For example, when being usedto check text in a word processor, Thun-der II is smart enough.to remember allthe misspelled words and use theapphca-tion'sown search and replaceamity togoinand change eachspellingmistake. Thisis handy because it preserves all specialtext formats affecting misspelled words.

The only complaintl have aboutThun-der II is that, like many new MacintoshprotpanLg, it is not optimized for onemegabyte machines like the SE or MacPlus. To get trouble &ee performance&om thisexcellentutilityyou should reallyhave more than one meg of RAM. Other-wise you will find thatyou have to turn osother memory intensive utTiities such asmen~ocks and screen savers in order torun Thunder II without problems.

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sas is wonderful but perhaps just a littleahead of its time. This excellent full-featured spreadsheet and graphics pres-entation program blows Excel away, butonly if you can afford a Mac II or SE/50with extra RAM and a laser printer. Al-though WingZ hsts for a few dolhrs lessthan Excel — about $595 — the hardwarenecessary to put it through its paces willset you back nearly $15,000. Without adoubt, in a few years computers with Mmegs of RAM and dedicated laser printerswill be commonplace, however, unlessyou currently work for a large corpora-tion that has a healthy budget for com-puter hardware, you are probably betteroff stichng with Excel for your day-tcxhyspreadsheet needs.

There is a lot to like about WingZ,though. For one thing, it is Sist — a lotfaster than Excel. Another feature that Ireally like is the way the people at In-formix kept most of Excel's command-key equivalents for common commandsin WingZ. For example, copy right, copydown, delete row, recalculate, and manyother spreadsheet operations can still beachieved with the same keystrokes thatyou' ve been using in Excel. This makesthe transition to WingZ fairly painless. Inaddition to this, WingZ implements a fewcommand-key equivalents that are com-mon to virtually all Macintosh programsbut are sorely missing in Excel. For ex-ample, in WingZ, command-B makes se-

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Another great strong point of WingZ isits totally customizable Menu and dialogbox system. Sample scripts in WmgZ'sHyper Talk-like macro language are sup-plied on the release disks. They clearlyshow how to implement custom menus inWingZ. However, the manuals do not gointo enough detail aboutWingZ'sincredi-bly powerful scripting language calledHyperScript. There should be smallexamples of code showing how to imple-mentallavailablelanguageelementa Un-like HyperCard's HyperTalk which usesunderstandable English words, Hyper-Script contains hundreds of cryptic com-mands and functions li ke AX I S -MAJGRIDPAT and BASEPENFG that arehardly explained atall in the manuals. In-formix does provide the HyperScriptsource code on disk for all the currently

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the object again. This was a limitation insome early Mac programs, butvirtuallyallMac software now scrolls thewindowauto-matically when you try to drag an objectbeyond the visible screen.

Again, I can only assume that WingZ'sdeveloperswere working on glorious (andexpensive) Hitachi M" colour monitorsthat allowed such huge windows, theynever thought of dragging an object be-yond the visible screen. Therefore codewas never written to implemer t this fea-ture. Perhaps all Macinto:.ri softwarecompanies should force their developersto work on plain vanilla Mac SE's.Justimagine how fast their products wouldrun on Mac II's and SE/50's. Unfortu-nately, WingZ was developed and opti-mized for big expensivememo~ehcom-puter systems. Ifyou are fortunate to havesuch a system, you will love WmgZ, but ifyou are one of the millions of users with asmall screen, one megabyte system, WingZmay just be «n exercise in frustration.

The Latest on HyperCardFor all those HyperCard enthusiasts out

there, I called Bill Atkinson the other dayto find out when we could expect Hyper-Card 2.0. According to Bill, they areshooting for a September '89 release butmay be able to supply demonstrationcopies in August. He wouldn't give methe slightest hint as to what new featureswe could expect to see in version 2.0 butit's widely believed in the industry thatmultiple open stacks, variable window sizeand perhaps a type of inter-process com-munication (that would interact with thenew Macintosh System 7.0 software to beavailable around the same time) may beincluded in the new release.

When HyperCard was introduced in1987, Bill Atkinson said that, unhkeMacPaint, he would actively supportHyperCard for three years because he didnot actually consider it to be a "finished"product. Since almost two years havepassed, I asked Bill ifhe would be workingon HyperCard for one more year. His

puter Paper/May '89 39answer was "Oh, I' ll be working on Hyper-Card for many years to come." Perhapsthis kind of long term commitment to asingle product by one of the computerworld's greatest software wizards also re-Bects a commitment on the part of AppleComputer to continue to support Hyper-Card well into the 1990's.

Barry Shell is a computer consultant inVancouver, Canada. His three year oldcompany, SoftShell Small Systems Soft-ware Design Incorporated, specializes intechnical writing, consulting and trainingfor Apple's Macintosh computers. ln1986 Barry won first prize in MicrosoftCanada's Excel Macro writing contestwith an easy to use Mailing Label macro.Barry has written two books on Hyper-Card and is currently the editor of CSSUpdate a newsletter for Artificial intelli-gence research at Simon Fraser Univer-sity.

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One powerful feature of Excel that ismissing in WingZ is the flexibiTity withwhich Excel allows you to create customcell formats. WingZ has a rich but limitedset of cell formats for numbers, dates andtimes but there is no way in WingZ, usingcell formatting alone, to cause a date toappear as "Jan." In Excel the simple cellformat of "mmm" would accomphsh this.To be fair, though, it does appear thatthrough HyperSaipt, it may be possibleto modify the menu choices for celt for-mats so that such a format option wouldbe available. But this would be no simpletask compared to Excel's relatively easyimplementation ofuser4efinable cell for-

Another problem with WingZ is thepoor feedback it gives users about pagebreaks and margins. Unlike Excel, whichmarks page breaks with dotted lines onscreen after a Page Setup or Print com-mand, WingZ never shows which rowsand columns will be printed unless youchoose Page Preview. Even then, there isno Zoom command or magnifying glassin Page Preview, making it difi cult todetermine whatwill appear on the printedpage. WingZ's creators probably assumeyou have the $2000 cash required for alarge screen monitor, so who needs amagnifying glass in Page Preview mode?

Besides having the fastest full-featuredspreadsheetand the mostcomprehensivebuilt-in macro language on the markettoday, WingZ's ability to display data gra-phically is absolutely unmatched, even inthe MS-DOS world. The three dimen-sional graphs are particularly stunning,especially when printed on the laserprinter or viewed on a colour monitor.ButI had one pecubar problem with them.I found that if I wanted a 59 plot of a setof data points that was longer than it waswide — In other words, a spreadsheet se-lection of 5 x 20 cells — I would get a longthin SD chart thatwas hard to read. Theredoesn't seem to be an easy way to stretchor shrink chart axes in WingZ. They arealways scaled automatically. Other thanthis, I love the wayyou can create multiplecharts on the samepage as the data. Proba-bly the single biggest request I get con-cerning Excel is, "How can I print twocharts on the same pageosAnswer: GetWing Z."

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