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The Cosnputer Paper / July '90

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Buying a Laser Printer................................33Price and feature cornfnuisonby Cathatynn LabonteSmith

Computers for Absolute Beginners............36

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This month, we are offering a change ofpace with an excerpt &om a new book byjohnDvorak This excerpt &om his new PC Crash .Course and Survival Guide is a response torequests to offer simple, introductory'infor-mation about computers for people new tocomputing. Pass it around to friends needingassistance in gethng started. Roedy Greentakes a look at the new crop of backup soft-ware, and offers some suggestions on bullet-proofmg your business against hard diskcrashes. Cathallmn Labon~ th gi ves usthe rundown on purchasing a laser printer.

We have been through big changes at TheComputer Paper this month. We have justcompleted the purchase of the Alberta edi-tion of the paper &om our former partners inCalgary We welcome two new employees.Graeme Bennett brings years of experience

editorial and desktop publishing tasks. Patricia FitzGerald has worked for the AlbertaResearch Council in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and has had experience inadvertising sales and events management. She is our new accounts manager forAlberta. We hope to be offering Albertareaders the same consistent good informationthat they are used toaswell as somein tered new services.Our publication in Albertareaches over 50 000readers in Calgary and Edmonton, and has been in publication forover a year there. Our new Calgary ofFjlce is: 4th Hoor, 714 1st St SE, Calgary, T2G2G8with the same phone number 405/262-5757.

Astute readers may have noticed a change on our &ont cover last issue. Instead ofthe usua1 "BC Edition", it said "Lower Mainland Edition". We began an experiment thismonth in the BC edition of The Computer Paper. We printed two separate covers, thevast majority of them stiH said "FREE" on them, buta fewwere issued with a$1.95 priceon them. As you are probably aware, this publication is an advertising supp>+ted paper.We can circulate it for &ee because our advertisers support our efForts through theiradvertising. We offer you something interesting to read, and you, the readers, buy theproducts you see promoted in our pages'sualcient quantities to keep our steadyadvertisers happy with us and in business.

Wegeta steady supply ofrequests for the pubhcation &om outwf-town readers anddistributors.. Our policy initially was fairly open — get the word out and give it to allwho asked. The paper has been very successful. It gets picked up in great numbers. Infact, most months we have less than a 5% return rate of copies to pickup when we goback out to distribute the next edition.

This success has brought its own problems however. We axe now needing morepapers to circulate, and we don't have more. We plan a circulation increase for the fall,but we did not want to initiate one in the generally slower summer months. Oneobvious place to look was at our outmf-town-circulation. We decided to try and sell ouroutwf-town publicafions. We printed a number of these papers with the price tag of$L95. We will give this new "edition" a few month trial run. If it is met with favorableresponse, then we will be able to ofFer very efFective circulation through out BC.

We apologize to those readers outside our main business areas, that we will nolonger be able to provide the edition for &ee outside our immediate distribution area.We hope that you think it is still worthwhile to pick it up and read, even at the new (andwe hope reasonable) price. Ifyou are a retail outletwhois interested in carrying copiesof The Computer Paper, please cail our circulafion manager at 604/7M-5596.

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Computer Calendar .....................................................................................51-55Computer Classifieds .................................................................................56-57Index of Advertisers .......................................................................... . .............58Letters to the Editor........................................................ . .................................6Masthead .............................................................................................................6What's New ............................................. ......................................................8Newsbytes...........................................................................................................11

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RICOH OFFERS ADEN TO. MIILKK STANDARD FAX A PCSCANNERCHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.SA,, 1990JUN4 (NS) — Ricoh was demonstrating itsDX-1 Fax adaptor at the summer Con-sumer Electronics Show in Chicago. This

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The systexn consists of a $799 45-poundhardware unit and a $275 software pack-age. This system is currently available forMicrosofLWindows. An MS-DOSversionwill ship m two weeks and the Macintoshversion will be available inJuly.

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LISAS SURH9) IN LANDFILLCUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,1990 JUN 12 (NB) — Some 2,700 Lisaswent to their graves in Utah after a deci-sion was made to bury the computersrather than rebuild them.Apple initiated the decision in concertwith Sun Rexnarketing, a Logan UT firmwhich upgrades Lisas to the operationalequivalent of Macintosh Plus.C HEKA CT E l 2

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THE STROKE OF A PENYORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y.IBM researchers have advanced the lead-ing edge of computer-based characterrecognition by approaching the prob-lem of how to recognize letters &om anew perspective. Their experimental syetern, called Paperlike Interfikce, employsa stylus Sc tablet to record handwrittentext. Whereas conventional OCR soft-ware takes scanned information andcompares discreet groups of strokes, orcharacters, with existing templates to"recoypize" them, Paperlike Interfacecatalogues the individual strokes allow-ing x'ecognition of characters that runtogether or even overlap. The researcheffort has as its goal the computer recog-nition of cursive writing.Just as work isbeing done in voice recogniton where acomputer is programmed to respondonly to one person'svocalpattexns, IBM'sressearch promises a similar break-through forrecognifion ofanindividual'swriting style. Beyond that horizon ap-pears the potential for recognition ofscientific or musical notation, even writ-ten gestures.

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Hewlett-Packard showed signs of chsd-lenging the Japanese giants on theirown unf. The company exhibited com-petitive products in markets theJapa-nese are used to dominating — printers,

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Usta., 1990JUN5 (NB) — Some in the media criticizedthe Spring Comdex show for the lack ofattendance by big-name fltms like IBMand Microsoft, but a tour of the showfloor found interesting trends in abun-

storage devices, and laptop computers.They were mainly arrayed kcing thenearby Sharp booth. Hewlett-P~also demonstrated scanners and anerasable optical drive with 650 mega-bytes of capacity per disk, which is ship-ping now."The core of thatdrive comesfrom Sony, Jack Huaman of Hewlett-Packard told us, "but we' re developing

taking on Microsoft with its New Waveoperating environment, which was dis-played in the booth.

For the Japanese, meanwhile, it wasbusiness as usual. Panasonic showed itsline of printers, platters and PCs, butthe biggest crowd in its booth was gath-ered around its opticaldiskdrives,whichwon't ship until November. They'readand write data up to 1 million times.Sharp emphasized color laptop tech-nology in its booth, with a line whichruns the gamut from the 4-pound 6200to the 28 pound MultiColor%6, whichsports a fast Intel 386 chip, an 80 mega-byte hard drive and 2 megabytes ofmemoxy for about $10,000. Still, largercrowds stood around a display of itsTFT thin-fllm color screen technology.

That TFF thin-Qm color screen is ev-exything it's cracked up to be, judgingfrom crowd reaction to prototypesshown at the Comdex show. Hitachi,Sharp and Toshiba all exhibited thescreens, which were razor-thin yet dis-played incredibly sharp color, whetherused as computer screens, overheadprojectors or plain TVs.

our own core." Hewlett-Packard is also

The Japanese are also becoming moresavvy about the U.S. market, and up-grading their fax product lines.JefFHolloway of Hitachi said his companywill introduce a hig~ p a city plainpaper fax machine caned HiMail atthe National Oflice Machine DealersAssociation show in Las Vegas nextmonth. Holloway satd the HIMad umtis like having your own post ofBce fornational and international fax.

Two European companies were alsomaking their presence felt in the U.S.computer market at this show. Olivettiwas demonstrating a full line of PCs ina room oK the show floor, incluchng aunitrunning the newIntel80486chip.Magnavox, a division ofN.V. Philips ofHolland, made abigger splash throughits new HeadStart division, which itpurchased earlier this year. That unitintroduced the 500CD, a $2,700 PCwhich contains a CD-ROM player aswell as a floppy drive, Intel 80886SXchip, an 80 megabyte hard drive, 2megabytes ofmemoryand VGAgraph-ics. The CD-ROM drive, unfortunately,only conforms to the High Sierra textstandard, and cannot run CDs con-taining graphics.

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In addition, the company announced itwill soon issue an update for i tsDrawPerfect program, which firstshipped last March. Version 1.1 features

onscreen slide shows, new presentationadvance options, a "go to" inenu whichcan help direct viewers to other slides,and other drawing features. The updatewill ship inaboutaweekandwill cost$15

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released last month, WordPerfect an-nounced it will develop a version of itsflagship word processor for Windowsbefore it develops a version for the Pre-sentation Manager. This is a reversal ofits earlier position, and a victory for Mi-crosoftover IBM. "We saw the light,"saidspokesmanJdfAcerson, "and respondedto our users. The company denied thatdelays in delivering Presentation Man-ager 2.0 weie behind the decision.

Finally, Word Perfect demonstrated itsnew "hold jockey" feature on its cus-tomer support lines. A disk jockey hasbeen hired to monitor the company's200 support lines and tell people howmany people are waiting in hne ahead ofthem toask questions, and howlong theycan expect to wait, depending on thenature of their query. Background mu-sic plays in the background, and theannouncer also reads ads for upcomingversions of WordPerfect products.

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COMDEX SPRING: WIN-DOWS, 486 ARE MAJORCOMDEX 'IRKG)SATLANTA, GEORGIA, U.S.A., 1990JUNE 4 (NB) — The two major technical

companies which aren't even exhibit-ing, Microsoft and Intel.

Microsoft Windows 8.0, which finallyshipped late last month, has broughtexcitement back to the PC platform.Existing Windows developers, indutbngSamna, report great increases in speedand performance for their products un-der 5.0, which breaks the 640K memoiybarrier. "Version 8.0 truly makes Windows'a viable platform, said Bill Jones ofSamna. "The enhanced memoryaddressability makes applications runmuch fitster, and fakes full advantage ofthe PC hardware." Major vendors ofconnectivityproductslike DCAand Eiconalso ported their software to Windows,and WordPerfect announced it will nowproduce a Windows version of its flag-ship word processor ahead of a Presen ta-tion Manager version.

As for Intel, the promised 486 machinesof last MI are now working all over theshow floor. American Megatrends of

Norcross, Georgia displayed one unitwhich features the chip on a plug-inboard. The motherboard contains a fast586 chip. "We think this is the highlightof the show," said vice president~esJohn Morrison, who noted thatif the 486board breaks, the 886 can still run withnoreduction in performance. Other 486vendors at this show indude Olivetti,Acer, and Systems Integration Associatesof Chicago, which showed a 486 ma-chine using the EISA bus.

Perhaps the most interesting commentson the 486 came &om Patrick Lee, vicepresident of Pioneer Computer, Fre-mont, California. "The fastest growing

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The Software Toolworks has introducedThe Miracle Piano Teaching System thatcombines a special cartridge for yourNintendo Entertainment System, an ad-vanced electronic k eyboard, apatentpending interfitce and artificialintelligence (AI) technology. The sys-tem takes people of any age throughcustomized, videobased piano lessons.According to the company, the systemcan have anyone playing one- and two-handed melodies within hours.

The system uses a personalized assort-ment of drills, musical pieces and games(for adults and children) to teach pianotechnique fundamentals. Using AI, thesystem knows which key is being pressedand can isolate and identify trouble spotsin note recognition, rhythm and finger-ing. As a student progresses, the systemwill offer to play one or both hands, slowthe temp, display the keys being pressed,add a metronome or even provide a fullorchestral background to the exercise.

The keyboard can operate standalone aswell as with the system. The keys are full-sized and velocity-sensitive and there is afoot pedal to enable sustaining of notes.The system comes equipped with stereoheadphones for shy players who wantprivacyand can be connected to a stereosystem for those who like to perform fora larger audience.

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CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,1990 JUNE 1 (NB) — The AmericanFihn Institute (AFI) and Apple Com-puter will combine resources to inte-grate computer technology into the filmand television community. Apple willdonate over $1 million in Macintoshequipment to the newly created AFI/Apple Computer Center for Fibn andVideomakers in Los Angeles.

Apple ChairaianJohn Sculley, on handfor the announcement, said the centerwill open thisfall, and proclaimed, "AFI'shistorywith and commitment to the tele-vision and film community combinedwith the breadth and power of Macin-tosh technology, will provide the toolsand information necessary to assist andinspire the visual artists of today and

The Center is also expected to aid Applein iis development of multimedia appli-

In October, Apple is expected to unveil

$1,000 entry-level 68000-based Macin-tosh, and a lowest 68050-based modu-lar machine with a 40 megabyte harddrive and two megabytes of RAM.

Various reports indicate the new low-cost machine, intended to compete witha slew of budget-priced IBMwompatibledones on the market, will replace theMacintosh Plus, the current bottomwf-the-line Macintosh, and will have a built-in hard drive, monitor,and a slot for add-

two new lowest machines: an under-on boards.

Apple is expected to unveil two lowestlaser printers inJuly designed to com-pete against lowest offerings fromHewlett-Packard, among others. The

expected to cost $5,500 and $2,500 re-spectively.

Sculley reportedly says that a new laptopcomputer will not be among products tobe introduced later this year, "but Appleis working in that area, he said.

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AUSTIVLLIAN TIXZCOMAUTHORITY STANDARDIZESON MACSSYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 1990 MAY 51(NB) — Austel, the Australian telecom-municafions authority, is to purchase aMacintosh network for its administrativeneeds. The system will consist of SE/50and IIcx workstations plus a DOS fileserver for the existing accounting sys-tem.

The Macs were chosen "because of their

cations for its Macintosh line.

Specifically, the center will feature avari-ety of Macintosh systems for demonstra-tions, training, conferences, and researchand development. The center will offerworkshops that explore and integratecomputer technology into all phases ofthe creation and production process.Workshop topics will indude issues con-cerning p r o ducing, di r ecting,screenwriting, annnation, editing, cin-ematography, production design, scor-ing, and music editing.

Access to the center will be available toscreenwriter, directors, producers, pro-duction designers, editors and all mem-bers of the filmmahng community.

Announcing the new relaiionship, AFIDirector Jean Firstenberg explained:filmmaking is grounded in a rich tradi-tion of combining creative vision andtechnical invention. The institute isdedicated to providing the resources ofthe future for filmmakers so that theycontinue to challenge the elements ofcurrent technology. The AFI/AppleCenter can play a significant role in sup-porting the synergy of art and scienceand promoting growth in the creativerealm of film, television and video."

Contacts: Emily Lashn, American FilmInstitute, 218456-7690; Patty Tulloch,Apple, 408-974-5449

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The Macintoshes will operate in fourzones, each with its own file server. Thefour zones will be connected throughAustralianMeveloped Multigate gateways.

library of CD-ROM software that will beavailable for the system. They expect 100titles to be available at the time of theCDTVS release during the third quarterof 1990 and 200 titles by the end of theyear. Software includes reference mate-rial such as a 180,000-word dictionary,cookbook, encydopedia, and atlas aswellas entertainment products from majorgame companies. Commodore will alsomanufacture a CD-ROM unit so that ex-isting Amigas can take advantage of theCOMIVIODORE

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The system, with a list price of $999,consists of a one megabyte Amiga, a CDplayer capable of playing audio CDs, CD-ROMS, and CD+G (audio CDs with avideo track). There is no keyboard;rather, input is through a lo-key, 20-function infrared hand-held remote unit.The unit connects directly to a televisionset and a home stereo unit.

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With the addition of a floppy drive andkeyboard, the unit can be upgraded tofunction asa fully functionalAmiga. Thesystem contains y rear expansion portsand 2 f'ront ports for a stereo headphoneand a personal RAM card. Commodorehas notfinalize distribution yet but theywill launch the product internationally.

Commodore is IHbsed in West Chester,Pennsylvania.

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SOFI' SERVICE LAUNCHESPOSTDRIVER FOR AMIGATURKU-ABO, FINLAND, 1990JUN 13(NB) — Soft Service of Finland has un-veiled Postdriver, a printer driver for theCommodore Amiga that enables users ofPostscriptlaser printers to use theprinterwith all programs on the Amiga, whetherthe software supports Postscript printersor not.

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According to Len Nongard of Soft Ser-vice, the software is the fiist package forthe Amiga that gives users this capabihty.Pricmg on the package has yet to bedecided. The software will slartshipping

On GEnie, the program can be found byaccessing, in this order, the followingmenuL Computing, IBM PC CompatiblesRoundtable, IBM PC, Software libraries,then Download a File.

Asmore viruses become known and new'versions of the program are available,they can be downloaded &om theHilgr'reve BBS at 81M48-5915.

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The software, induding a ROM basicinputwutputsystem (BIGS), Video BIGS,Keyboard BIOS and EISA configurationutility, will help the vendors build ina-chines conforming to the EISAarchitec-ture.EISA,anval toIBM'sMi«ro ChannelArchitecture, is backed by a group ofIBM~mpatible PC makers, indudingCompaq.

The companies named by Phoenix are:Advanced Logic Research, Altos Com-puter Systems, Asus Computer, CopamElectronics, Epson America, Intel,Micronics Computers, Mylex, NKC,Tandy (with its subsidiary Grid System),Tatung, Tulip Computer, Wyse Tech-nology and Ztech Electronic.

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HCOPT RELl i>SEBI TO PDHAS VIRUS PROVKCI'IONMONROE, MICHIGAN, U.SA., 1990JUN 1 (NB) — HCOPY, a fil copy utiTitydesigned to filter out viruses during filetransfers in real-time, has been releasedto the public &ee of charge and can befound on GEnie, and other networks.

HCOPY, according to its creators atHilgraeve Inc., works like the COPYcommand found in the DOS operatingsystem, and adds a level of protectionagainst virus infections.

HCOPY detects 68 different viruses byusing data &om IBM and its Virus Scan-ning Program. If a requested file is in-fected with any of the known viruses,HCOPY disphys a warning identifyingthe virus and allows the user to abort thefile copy request before the virus has achance to infect the computer, accord-ing to the company.

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It has been reported that the bug doesnot occurwhen a genuine IBM keyboardis connected. The software company isworhng on a genexal solution but, ac-cording toarepresentative for Microsoft,

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MRD $08 MVBOH5 HASPO tSQSLE INSYAL'LA%IONRUGBRUSSELS, BELGIUM, 1990 MAY 50(NB) — Microsoft Ward for Windows,the graphics word processor availablefor Wmdows KI I and above has a poten-tially serious bug which can cause prob-lems when installing the package on a

estimated.

As the number of%indows users dimbsin the next few years, however, new op-portunities will be created for "bread-aad-butter' business applications, thepanel indicated, and some of theindustry'sbigaames could be in trouble.'Two kmds of companies won't do vrell".those that don't recognize GraphicalUser Interfaces, or ~'8, and those whodon' t have the know-how to develop theproducts well, said Turner. "The mar-ket won't just go to those who use thelatest GUI du jour."

Pattoa suggested Lotus Developmentmay be in trouble if it resists Microsoft'ssuggestions on how to address fuactioaswithia Windows, as users become accus-tomed to a standard way of using the

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B.C. BYTES I I eNEW' FOR IM: Network Cou-rier SuIIIIortsWinIIows S.OVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA,1990 MAY28 (NB) — Consumers Soft-ware has announced that its electronicmail sofbvare, The Network Courier, willsupport Microsoft Windows 5.0.

The announcement is not Consumers'Srst foray into Windows, spokesmanMichael Shandrick told Newsbytes. Con-sumers sold a Network Courier versionfor Windows 1.0. The company also de-veloped aversion for Windaws2.1,whichwas provided to a few customers but notactivelysold. ButWindowsS.Qwasneededto support what the company reallywanted to provide. Consumers, whichwas a beta-test site for Windows 5.0, hasbeen champing at the bit to get itsWin-dows 8.0 product to market, Shandricksaid. "Our users obviously wanted toupgrade a long time ago," he added.

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LOTUS CANADA SEGINSSHIPPING NOTES'TORONTO, ONTARIO, 1990 MAY 29(NB} — Lotus Development Canada hasbegun shipping Notes, the company'sbig-ticket groupware product.

Karl Meema, corporate marketing rep-resentative for Lotus here, said the Cana-dian arm has no Arm orders for Notesyet, but dedded there were prospectssufliciently promising that it was time toput the staff and marketing resources inplace. "We had a lot of sales sites that vrelooked at that we said we' ve got theopportunity to dose them," he said.

Notes is designed to permit sharing oftext, numeric aud gtuphic informationthrough networks, both locally and overwide areas. In Canada, an initial licensecovering as many as 20Q seivers andworksuitionswimcostC$75,000. Licensesfor further machiueswillcostC$559each.Lotus plans to sell the software d'uectlyrather than through dealerL

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These are the firstin a series of releasesexpected tio bring all Accpac Plus mod«ulestoVexsion 6.0level by the end of thisyear. John Schoutsen, of CA's MicroProducts Division in Vancouver, saidthere is no ofilcial timetable for releas-ing the other modules.

The company said Version 6.0 fits int itsrecently announced CA 90s strategy forapplication poriabihty. Enhancementsin the general ledger module induderedesigned data entry screens and theabiTity to create an unlimited number of

purr Paper I July '96Goin'ce journalThe system managers handle servicessuch as file access, printing and commu-xbications for the functional modules,Schoutsen exphined. The general led-ger and financial reporting modulecomes with a basic system manager.Windowing System Manager, which al-lows multiple Accpac Plus modules torim in windows under DOS,is an option,as is System Manager/2,which aiiaiws thesofttie to run on the OS/2 operatingsystem.

Pxicesare US$895 for the genexal ledgermodule, US$195 for the Wmdaiwing Sys-tem Manager, U8$245 for System Man-ibger/2 and U8$599 for CA's LbnPak~d i an prices are the same doihr fig-ures iu Canadian currency.

ConiacLJohn Schoutsen, Computer As-..sociates, 604-757=5522; Kristin Keyes,Computer Associates, 40$922-2510

NEW FOR IBM: FrontedAyplicationl Software for GEnieROCKVILLE,MARYLAND, U.SA., 1990JUN 12 (NB) — The GEnie online infor-mation service, &om GE InformationSexvice, now offers a &ee &anted ap-plications software package for PC's.

The GEnie PC Aladdin software enablesPC's to automatically iniiiate access toselected GEnie service online offeringssuch as GE Mail, RoundTable BulletinBoards and software libraries at sched-uled times or upon demand. It also al-lows GEnie service subscribers to pre-pare messages "o6bne prior to GEnieservice connect chaxgeL

The GEnie PC Aladdin sc&emepackagecan be downloaded by GEnie servicesubscribers. at no cost, except for con-n ect time, f rom e i ther the P CRoundTableortheAladdin RoundTableon the GKnie service. For more informa-tion, call 800/658-9656.

HATES SHIPS ULTRA 96OO,UPGRADES SMARTCOM IIIATLANTA, GEORGIA,U.KA., 1990MAY29 (NB) — Hayes Microcomputer Prod-ucts, the one-time kings of the modembusiness who have been su8'ering re-duced margins and layoffs aver the lastyear„finallyshippeditsUltxa9600modemto North America.

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Contact: Sharon O'Bxien, Hayes, 4N-4494791

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modulation standard and V.42bis error-controland daiacompression standards,as well as Hayes' older propxietaxy stan-dards, is priced at$1,199. Said Presidentand Founder Dennis Hayes: "Ultra 9600represents the success of our first trulyglobal product design. We have alreadyreceived BABT approvals for the UnitedKingdom and are moving rapidly to ob-tain approvals in 50 other countries."

Hayes also announced upgrades for itsSmartcom Ill program and Smartcom IIfor the Macintosh. Both products wereenhanced to provide the V.42bis datacompression and errorworrection algo-rithxus which bring the ef fectivethroughput of a 9600 baud modem to58,4N bits/second. The software alsosupporisthe Hayes Enhanced Serial Port,which amows for these Sist file transferseven on slower computers. Smartcom IIfor the Macintosh Version 5.2 also sup-ports the ZMODEM transfer protocol,which allows users to send files to anunattended remote system. Upgrades forSmarticom III to Version 1.2 will cost$55starting June 25.

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According to Northern, local fiber con-nections could cany cable television sig-nals and other video progianis as well asvoice, data and image services.

The submission to the NTIAwas made inconnection with the agency's Compre-hensive Study of the Domestic Telecom-

hand, the same technology can be usedbycrhninals tounmaskundercover cops,and by abusive husbands to find theirwives.

To some merchants, AM isjustan exten-sion of current mailing-list technology.If you give money to an abortion-rightsgroup, for instance, you' ll soon get mailfrom feminist magazines. If you give toPat Robertson's 700 Club,you' ll getmail&om lik — minded organizations. Thesame is true in packaged goods. Mailing-list management is a mu16billion dollar

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The Computer Paper Iindustry, and although the lists could becombined to create aprofile of your life,mostconsumers don'tobject to the prac-

ANI, in fact, doesn'tyield nearly the kindof detail on your habits that ~ ed&equent shopper programs are pickingup without trouble. Here, shoppers getcards which record their purchases, andinslantcouponswhich save them money.In return,relsilersleamwhatother goodstheir customers need, and sell this datato marketers.

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Industry has already recognized thispower m AM. The Direct Mail Associa-fion is campaigning against it, knowingthat AM will create maiTing lists fiaster,and for less money. Illinois Bell is hold-ing meetings this week with local busi-nesses, helping them create applicationsfor ANI. Dun 8c Bradstreet is selling itsdirect-mail subsidiaries to concentrateon the online businesses, and you canexpect them to use ANI there in someway. Two phone companies, Telesphereand US Sprint, are already selling mam-

munications ln&astructure.

Contact: Frank McNally, NorthernTelecom, 615-7544216

CALL'Elt I JX:WHATS THE PROBLEM?— Editorial by D. Blnnkenhom

Sl (NB) — Judges in Pennsylvania havedealt the fiist major legal blow to theCaller ID service. Caller ID is the con-sumer offering of a technology calledAutomatic Number Identification. ANIwas, in turn, at the heart of a technologycalled ISDN in the 1980's.

Many people called ISDN "I Still Don' tKnow" or "I Still Don't Need It," but asit's been rolled out nafionwide it comesto mean two things: digital and two-way

A~B R A,GEORGIA,U.KA., 1990MAYTHE SYMBOL OF GUARANTEEDSATISFACTION AND SOUNDSOLUTIONS FOR CORPORATEPRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT.

communication.

First, each phone line will be digitized,with 2 channels of 64,000 bits/secondwhich can be used for voice, fax, or dataservice. While most voice lines can takethe whole 64,000 kilobit hne, voice canalso be compressed, and some serviceshave used compression to offer videoconferencing within that bandwidth. ASat madime can send a page every 15seconds at 9,600 bits/second, and mostPCusersare familiarwithmodemswhichwork at 2,400 bits/second. Henceforth,all these devices can share the samephone line.

The second meaning of ISDN is a two-way signabng channel, running at up to16,000 bits/second. This is being used,first, to cany callers' numbers to thecalled party. That's ANI. When ANI issold to consumers, it's called Caller ID.Until the Pennsylvaniadecision, themainthreats to Caller ID were legislative, aCalifornia law mandating the right ofpeople to block their numbers &om go-ingouton aper~ basis,andaproposalby Sen. Herbert Kohl, a WisconsinDemocrat, to offer blockmg nationwide.

ANI is already being used, successfully,on three types of calla For emergencies,aservice called Enhanced911 sendsyournumber to the police asyou call. This notonly cuts out hlse alarms, but helps po-lice find panicked victims, even if theycan'tstate their address. On toll-free 800and caller-paid 900 numbers, ANI is nowcreating databases and mailing lists somerchants can know what their custom-ers are like, and learn of other likelyprospects.

Pohceagenciesare of twomindson CallerID, On the one hand, the technologycuts crank calls, and makes the activitiesof crhninals easier to trace. On the other

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To the industry, then, ANI just meansbetter marketing, more targeted mes-sages and less junk maiL

Buthere's the beef. ANI is the laststepina process which will make your lifestylean open book to anyone who wan|a toopen it. With ANI, every call you mikecould put you into a database for resale.Using the advanced computers of the1990's, anyone big enough to access amainfraine, be they a politician, corpo-ration, a private inves6gator or the gov-ernment, could "profile your hfestylewith pinpoint accuracy, and, perhaps,use that against you.

With ANI, you'llhave no secrets anymore. Thishasprivacyadvocatesalarmed.They see the past, and realize we' ve alllost the war to be le alone. They see afuture of politicians blachnailed or citi-zens harassed because their consumingor calling "profile" matches that of sometypeof criminal,and they'rescared. Theywant rules, now; to control ANI, andharshpenaltiesforviolatorsofthoserules.

The battle over ANI will be fought firstiplaces like Pennsylvania which are themostfavorabletenitory for privacyadvo-cates. But ANI is also being rolled out inharsher legal climates, from Europe toAsia to La6n America. That's why theaiami is going out now. And it had bestbe made as loud as possible.

INFONEI' CONNECXS Wl. THWORLDTALK, MCI MAIL,SOFTS WITCHEL SEGUNDO, CALIFO~ U .SA .,1990 JUN 1 (NB) — Infonet, the packetnetworkwhichis25% owned byMCI, hasannounced that it will interconnect itsNotice 400 E-mail service with TouchCommunications' Worldtalk400, whichwill allow Infonet's NOTICE 400 cus-tomers to expand their reach to over 4million E-mail users on local area net-works (LAN's) or Unix-based systemsworldwide.

Touch Worldtalk 400 will permit NO-TICE 400 clients to exchange messagesthrough X400 gateways with users ofUNIX STMP and UUCP. cc:Mail, ActionTechnologies' MHS, Microsoft Mail,QuckMail and TOPS' InBox Plus LANK-mail packages.

This announcement closely followsInfonet's announcements that it will in-terconnectNotice400messal~g servicewith MCI Mail and Atlas 400. Tests area lso in p r ogress to certify theinteroperability of Notice 400 withSoftSwitch X400Gatewaysand Consum-eis Software's Network Courier 400.

Notice 400 is based on the X.400 stan-dard for passing messages between sys-tems, approved by the Switzerland-basedCCHT, and is accessible in more than100 countries. Users may also transmitbinaiy files via Notice 400 without firstconverting them to ASCII text.

Infonet also announced it will intercon-nectitsNotice400servicewith SoRSwitch

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HP OFFERS TONERCARTRIDGE RECYCLINGPALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,1990JUN 12 (NB) — Hewlett-Packard'sefforts to recyde spent toner cartridgesis designed to reduce the volume ofplas-tics going into landfills. Owners of HPLaserjet printers are being urged to re-turn their spent cartiidges rather thanthrow them in the trash, and are beingoffered f'ree postage for their efforts.

The recyding program, which startedJune 1, is running on a test basis throughDecember 51 in ll states: Arizona, Cali-foinia, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Ne-vada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Wash-ington, and Wyoming. If successful, theprogiam will expand nationwide and toCanada by 1991. Similar prognuns have

INTEL TO MNISH CFC'SBY 199RSANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,1990 MAY 29 (NB) — Intel Corp. ispromising to eliminate all use of chlo-rofiuorocarbons (CFC's) by 1992, andcalls its decision "one of the mostaggres-sive programs in industty."

Citing the environmental damage ofCFC's, which are known to destroy theearth's thin ozone layer, Intel ChairmanGordon Moore proclaimed that his com-pany, "has undertaken an aggressiveworldwide program to immediately re-duce CFC emissions by implementinggood control andconservation practices."

Specifically, Intel isreplacing CFC-basedcucuit board cleaning equipment withmachinery that uses an aqueous-baseddeaner. The change affects faciTi6es inOregon, Ireland, Puerto Rico, andSingapore. The new equipment is ex-pected tobeonlineinallofIntel's systemsmanuSicturmgplantsbytheend of 1990.

Intel says it instituted a comprehensiveCFC Tracking Program in 1987 to as-semble data of itsworldwide usage. Sincethat time, using control, conservation,and alternative manuf'acturing methods,the company has reduced its CFC use by50 percent.

Contact Howard High, Intel, 408-765-

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X.400 Gatewaya So&Switch K400 Gate-ways will connect Notice 400 usersthrough Soft Switch Central on anInfonet dient's IBM mainframe. SokSwitch Central is a maikmchange pro-gram designed to link 40 difserent LocalArea Network schemes, including IBM'sOffice Vision, PROFS and DISOSS;Digital's All-in-1 and VMS h4+ WangOFFICE; Hewlett-Packard's Desk Man-ager; Banyan's VINES Mail; 5Com's5+Mail, Consumers Software's NetworkCourier; cc: Mail and Enable's Higgins

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The Computer Paper/ July '90recentlybeen announced in Switzerlandand Germanyand HP plans to expand toother European countries in the nearfuture.

The National Wildlife Federation andthe Nature Conservancy will share a $1donation for each cartridge returnedthrough this program.

Customers need to get a &ee toner car-tridge recyding kit &om their HP dealeror resemer. The kit indudes instructionsforrepackaging thecartridge, a cartridgereturn bag, and a prepaid United ParcelService shipping label.

HP intends to melt dawn the aluminumdrum and recyde it as a raw material.Other parts wiII be removed and reusedto make new toner cartridges.

Contact: Cathy Plant, 619-5924546

GLOBAL NAVIGATIONSYSTEM EKING DEVELOPEDMINNEAPOLI, MINNESOTA, U.SA.,1990 MAY % (NB) — Honeywell andNorthwest Airlines announced an agree-ment with Soviet aviation ofncials thatcauld lead to a global system of naviga-tion which is &ee of ground-basedequipment.

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fly GLO144+ the Soviet satellite posi-tioning system. Honeywell wins U.S.rights to develop GLONA% for com-mercial aviation.

The agreement takes the form of aMemorandinn of Understanding re-garding intiegration of the US. GlobalPositioning System with the U.S.S.R.Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite Sys-tem. Discussions began hst Septembera nd were concluded May 18 i nLeningrad. The agreementis for S years,subject toapprovalbybothgovernments.

The Soviet participants will lean two setsof GLONASSairbornenavigation equi~ment to Honeywell and Northwest TheGLONASS equipment will be compat-ible with international standards. Deliv-ery of GLONASS equipment toHoneywell and Northwestwill take placeIn Decemberwlth 1Ilsrallanon in a BoeingV4y &eighter next February. Ffight test-ing would take place from March4ep-tember 1991 and a complete reportwouldbe due in December 1991.

GPS and GLONASS are satellite-basednavigatian systems. Both are intended toperformas a "sole means of navigation"for commercial aviation, providingaccu-rate posifioning data in three dimen-sions, with similar levels of accuracy. Bathsystems will use 24 satellites in orbit,induding three spares, althaugh orbitalconfigurations and other details differ.

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Colin Wyatt, general manager of LotusCanada, told Nesttsbytes he believes Ca-nadians may actually be more aware ofUNIX than their counterparts south ofthe border, though he admitted that xt'sno secxtet that a large part of our push toUNIX has been the U.S. federal govern-ment" Wyatt said he expects some cus-tomers who currently use 1-2-5 on per-sonal computers will be looking towardUNIX workstations in the future.

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In Canada, the single-user edition of 1 2-5 for UNIX System V wiH sell for C$859.The multi-user edition, designed for a586-based sexver and induding licensesfor 10 users, will cost C$1,559. The ad-ditional-user edition will sell for C$599with one set of documentation and li-censes for four additional usexi. Extrasets of documentation will cost C$79. AFrench-language versionwiHbeavailableby the end of 1990, Lotus said.

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WALT DISNEY LAUNC29tSNEW SOFAVARE IJNECHICAGO, ILLINOIS,USA.,1990JUN4 (NB) — First it was cartoons, then full-length movies, later it was amusementparks and hotels. Now Walt Disney ism oving into computer softti e .

In a private showing in a Chicago Hotel,the newly formed Walt Disney Softwareof Burbank, CA, demonstrated its newline of personal computer software. Ini-tially the products will be in three lines:entertainment, education, and personalproductivity.

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Fxankston and BricMin founded Soft-ware Arisin 19'/9and launched VisiCalc,the first electronic spreadsheet and theprogxam generally attributed with theproliferation of personal computersthroughout the b usiness world.Frankston remained with Software Artsuntil its acquisifion by Lotus Develop-ment Corp. and was chief scientist atLotus.

Slate is developing software that focuseson those computers such as the GRiDPad which uge pen or stylus input ratherthan the traditional keyboard. Industryanalysts say that Slate is working on soft-ware for coxuputers that GO Corpora-tion will introduce later in the year.

Bricklin, a cofounder and vice presidentof Slate, told Newsbytes, "I am thrilled tobe working with Bob again. We havebeen dose friends for a long time and Iam sure that Bob will make immensecontributions to Slate's progress."

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Disney announced that one of its firstproducts will be a new hardware device:The Sound Source. The Sound Source isa three.mch speaker that attaches to theparallel port of an IBM-PC or compat-ible. (The port can still be used forpxint-exs.) The device will genexate speech,music, and sound at much better qualitythan thesiandardPC speaker.'Ihc SoundSource uses Disney's own proprietaxysystem but the company is making itavailable to other software developers.The price is$84.95 and itwill be bundledwith some of Disney's initial release

A representative from another softwarecompany did notwelcome the introduc-tion of yet another sound standard intothe PC marketplace and questionedwhether his company would support it.

Most were impressed by a demonstra-tion ofDisney's animation package, TheAnimation Studio ($179.95). The pro-gram will be released initially for theAmiga followed bya version for MS-DOScomputers and indudes a tutorial onanimation using actual exaxuples fromINisney cartoons. It uses onion<kin tech-nology to allow designers to see the cur-rentanimation celland the tbreebehindit.'IheprogramindudesapublicMomainprojector so people can distribute theiranimation products to others.

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The lawwas passed despite considerableopposition from members of parliaxnentwho sought to keep newspaper publish-ing under the control of Soviet institu-tional and collective enterprises.

NEW PRESS LAW ADOPIXZ)BY USSR SUPREME SOVIETMOSCOW, U.S.SX; 1990JUN 11 (NB)— A new, Iongwwaited USSR Press Lawhas been approved by Sovietlawmakers.Under this new law, any Soviet citizen,for the first time m USSRhistoxy,will beallowed to run his own desktop publish-inghouse. The law will also end decadesof govexnment censoxship.

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Molchanov cited several examples. First,his ComputerPress magazine, whichpublishes reviews on computer hardware

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Even problems with paper shortagesvrhich badly affect a new small publish-ing agencies don't stop the publisherLAccording to Molchanov's estimates,paper for his magazine bought abroadwill cost him $25,000 per issue whilerevenue from Western advertising will

and software compiled by his staff &omWestern sources, is a monthly magazinewith a circulation of more than 70,000.Copies don' t spend much time on news-stands or shop shelves, Newsbytes was

But amore interes6ng story is what hap- to publish in the computer and commu-pened with the book for new IBM PC nications book market, Molchanov said.users written by Soviet protpainmers. Assoon as the Iirst 500,000 copies were Contact: Boris M olc h anov,printed, theywere completely sold out in ComputerPress, phone+7095 1554540

Moscow within 5 days a8er sales began — Several new publishers are entering thisandthiswithalmostnoadvertising. The m a rket despite the paper shortages,second printing is in progress now, w h ich have been known to cause evenMolchanov said. big national newspapers like the 20-mil-

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But the Bytsfaxed page with circlednumbersworked well because itbypassedthe mail system.

Forty days after faxing the request, onApril 25th, Newsbytes Moscow receivedthe first reply &om British-based TensetTechnologies. More letters kept floodingour mailbox for more than a month.

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mail envelopes are as slow as other das-sificaliens. Two envelopesviere found inNewsbytes' Moscow mailbox openedsupposedly by postal o%cials.

One possible explanation of why mailservice is so slow is that few Soviet postalworkers speak any foreign language;consequently addresses written in En-ghsh mustall be readdressed, and arrivemarked with somebody's Russian hand-writing with the Soviet city and streetaddress. This procedure is most time-

But how good is the reader's card serviceitself' Newsbytes requested information&om 50 Qteadvertisers and received 17replies, or one third, in response. Onlyone, however, &om BIX (Byte Informa-tion Exchange}, was customized to fit

were the same materials sent in the Statesor in Europe.

SONY DATA DISChfAN AVAIIABLE IN BOOKSTORESTOKYO, JAPAN, 1990 MAY 28 (NB}-Sony's Data Discman, a portable CD-ROM (compactdisk readily-memory)player, may find a good market in book-stores. Maj or publishing industry dis-tributor Tokyo Shuppan Hanbai is nowselling the player as well as its CD-ROMsoftwaxe called Electronic Book to book-stores inJapan.

Electxenic Beck will appear in 18 titles&om 14 publishers in earlyJuly. Priced atbetween 2,800 and 19,800 yen ($18.70and $1M), the CD-ROM-based softwareis cheap compared te conventional,ratherexpensive12wentimeter CD-ROMsoftware. Tokyo Shuppan Hanbai expectsheavy sales to people even without aknowledge efpersonal cemputers, whichis why it is distributing the player in

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NeXT LAUNCHINGCOMPU'rKR IN ASIA,JOSS ATI'.ENDSSINGAPORE, SOUTHEAST ASIA,1990 MAY 29 (NB} — SteveJobs haslaunched his NeXT computer in Asiawith amajor presentation in Singapere,soon to be followed by the system'sintroduction in Hong Kong, SouthKorea, Malaysia and the Thailandmarkets.

FoundingdirectorofNeXT, SteveJobs,is personally demonstrating his newcomputer's capaMities. In Singapore,he also played host te a delegationrepresenting Hong Kong informationtechnelogy industry and educatienal

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zsThe Computer Paper / July '90explain why, let me tell you my ownstoryoI used to back up my hard disk everySaturday, using FastBack, the forerun-ner to FastBack Plus. Even when Icompressed my files before backingup, it took 90 diskettes. I would listento the Metropolitan Opera broadcastson CBC radio to avoid getting toobored. I would back up, then verify toensure the diskettes were readable.Usually, after I had backed up 90 dis-kettes, and had just verified disk num-ber 70, FastBack would discover anerror. I would then have to start allover &om scratch. Usually I spent allday, every Saturday, doing nothing butbackups, emitting blood-curdlingscreams of &ustration every few houraDuring the week I might lose a file andhave to use my backups to recover it.About one chance in ten, I still couldnot recover because the floppy wasunreadable. Sometimes the problemwas that I had mindlessly inserted thewrong diskette during the backup.Sometimes itwas that I had not centredthe floppyperfectlyin the drive. Some-

floppy surface.

Life With TapeI never considered mag tape backupsbecause theywere tooexpensive. Thenone day I calculated how much I wasspendingonfioppybackups,givenwhatmy time was worth in dollars per hour.I immediately bought a mag tapebackup.Now I back up every night, not justonce a week. I insert a mag tape car-tridge thatlookslikeaheavydutymusiccassette. I type a couple of keystrokes,then leave the office. When I comeback in the morning the entire backupis done and verified. My own tapedrive is quite slow. It runs only a littlefaster than a floppy. However, I don' thave to sit there, babysittmg it, feedingthe diskettes in. When I go to restorea file, I have had 100% success recover-mg.The average street price of a lo1tpcostmag tape drive such as the ColoradoKE-10isabout$4RS. For businesses, oranyone with a drive over 60 MB, a magtape backup unit is mandatory. Forhard disks over 100 MB you wouldprobably want a faster, more reliable,larger, i.e. more expensive, tape drive.

Is Floppy Bacjmp am that Basp.Ifyou cannotafford amag tape backup,or if you have very little data — justprograms that could easily be rein-stalled — you can get away with a pro-gram that backs up to floppy disk.Floppy backupreliability has improvedsince the days I used it The drivesthemselves are more reliable. The newAT1.44MB floppies con tain four timesas much information as the old XT 560KB floppies and their hard shells pro-tect them better. You need only aquarter as many floppies to back up;this means only a quarter as manychances to foul up. Modern backupprogragns record semi-redundantly tohelp them recover damaged parts offioppies. Even so, tape is still muchmore reliable and fool-proof.

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Bacjting Upde the CrashOne dient had not done any backupsfor a month. He had a crash. He feltguilty and did notwantme to find outthathe had notbeen doing his badtups,so he immediately did one - apparthecrash. What this accomplished was tocopy corrupted files over top ofhis onlygood monthwld backup. Fortunately,,he had another backup that was sixmonths old. He lost six months workl

Fire DrillsAnother client saw an ad for the brand-new FastBack Plus backup program.He decided to install it himself. He didnot test his installation to make sure hewas actually able to restore. He had acrash. He ran the restore, and fed thediskettes through but nothing hap-pened — his files were still corrupted.In a panic, he phoned me. Luckily, it

a special option switch, only availableon the advanced menu, to allow theprogram to restore corrupted files.He abandoned the program and re-cyded the diskettes without reformat-ting them. Little did he know thatFastBack Plus had hidden data in theboot tmcks of his diskettes, subtly cor-rupting them. He thought a virus hadhit, since files would mysteriously ap-pear and disappear &om these floppies.

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How Do You Use FloppyBachapPBacking up is very simple. You selectwhich hard drive partitions (C:, D:, etc.)you want to back up. Then, withinthose drives you select which directo-ries you want tobackup.Then, withinthese directories you select which filesyou want to back up.Then you feed in diskette aker disketteas the program copies the informationto floppy.This sounds very simple. However, thedesigners of thebackupprograms, withfew exceptions, have made this muchmore difficult than it could be.Because the process is intimidating,most backup programs offer "presets."A computer expert selects the myriadoptions, directories and files, then carts

as "WEEKLY. From then on, anyonecan run thewhole backup fiawlesslyjustby typing WEEKLY.

Picldng Up The PiecesIf all goes well,you never have to restore&om your backup. However, if youcorrupt or lose some files, you selectthe partitions, directories and files yowant to restore. The program thenleadsyou to insertjust the disks it needsand it replaces the damaged files withyour backup copies.The designers put most of their effortsinto the backup side of the programsince you use it much more often thanrestore. They sometimes leave the re-store as an afterthought. So you wiIIfind, with few exceptions, restoring isconsiderably harder than backing up.

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I ended up writing a utility called SCATto decontaminate all his disketteL Thelatestversion of FastBack Plus has.finallycorrected the "unvirus" problem.Those who used some of the earlierversions of PC Tools were not so lucky.They could backupfine, but the restoredid not always work

Never again, and againAnother dient lost six months of keyingbecause she had done no backups atalLI restored &om a backup I had made. Iexphtined the importance of backupsand power conditioners, since she was in«n oldbuildingwhere thelights8ickeredalarabingly. She told me she would takecare of this herseK She re-keyed theentire six months, but still could not fintime or money for power protection orbackups. A power surge then scrambledthe hard disk. She lost the keying asecond time. I restored the files &om mybackup a second time. She re-keyed athird time, and then lost it all a thirdtime — again without backups. She wasfurious. She was quite right; this sort ofthing shouldn't happen, but it does.

Aajr Old Dislt will DoAt one large charity they would fob theboring backup task ofF on the newest,greenest stafF member. There were 45diskettes in the hbckup.set. That daythere were some new files on the harddisk, so now the backup had grown toneed 48 diskettes. The new slaff mem-ber was working alone after hours. Sheneeded some new diskettes for ¹46, ¹47and ¹48. The obvious way to solve theproblem was to stick various diskettesinto the computer until she found someit liked. That particular backup pro-gram would accept almost anything...

Mis-Aligned FloppiesAnother charity noticed that they werehaving trouble exchangingfloppieswithother computers, butthat their computercould read disks it had written itself withno trouble. They were tight on funds sothey decided not to get the problemfixed. One day they bought a newcomputer and wanted to transfer every-thing toit. The new computer could riotread the misaligned backup diskettes.In this case theywere lucky, because theycould repair the floppy drive and makenew backups. However, if the old com-puter had died, they would not havebeen able to use the lockup diskettes atall and they would have lost everything.OfFSite BackupsFmally, the heartbreaker. Happily, thishas not happened to any of my clients.These people did backups every day.They dutifully kept grandfather, fatherand son backups. However, they madethe mistake of storing all the backupsconveniently near the computer. Onenight thieves broke in and stole the com-puter — and all the backupslIf they had kept an ofF-site backup, theycould have restored to a new computerprovided by the insurance company.Having an ofFmte backup will also pro-tect you &om the Lucille Ball novicewho, in attempting to restore, backs upcorrupted files onto all your goodbackups.

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Speed TricksWhy does Norton run so much fibstethan the rest? It uses some advancedtricks. It compresses the data. It usessector skew so it does not have to waitfor the sector 1 of the floppy to spin

SpeedIn real esrnte, it's "location, locationand location." In floppy backups it' s"speed, speed and speed. Becausebacking up to Qoppies is so labor-intensive and so mind-numbing, youwant to get it over with as quickly aspossible.For my speed tests, I used a16MHz SXcomputer with a 1.2 MB floppy driveand a Mitsubishi MRS55 40 MB voicecoil hard drive running MS DOS 5.5.Norton can back up about 2.75 MBper minute with verification turnedoff. The other speeds are given rela-tive to the first-place Norton.

backupsl Ifyou have to restore, don' ttouch anything, call in competenthelp. It is wise to have someone ex-.perienced set up your backup pro-cedures for you, and run through afire drill to be sure the backup andrestore works properly. Clearly labeland number all diskettes ahead oftime for each backup set, and makesure there aresufficientsparesin eachset to handle growth. Make sure yourfioppydrives are properlyaligned anddean. Finally, keep multiple sets ofbackups, and keep atleastone of themat a separate location.

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The Envelope, PleaseI won't tease you by making you readthrough my detailed analysis beforetelling you which I think is best. Thewinner is Norton Backup. It has adear lead in speed, convenience andsafety. Norton Backup is pscpt part ofthe Noiton Utilities. You must buy itseparately.Most of Norton's rivals shoot them-selvesin thefootin someway. Theydoall the hard things perfectly, thensnatch defeat &om the jaws of victorywith some blunder in the user inter-face.

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Proprietary FormatsThe FastBack was the Srst fast backupprogram. Itwasa temperamental beastbecause it used a proprietary format.Itsqueezedan extrasector ofdataintoeach Soppy track To find room, ithadtoshorten the gapsbetween the sectors.If your dnve speed was the least bit outof whack, FastBack would not workProprietary formats earned a badreputation and Fifth Generationswitched to conventional DOS formatwith Fastback Plus.However, Norton and PC Fullbak Plususe proprietary formats with largersectors, and fewer of them, to cmmmore data onto a Soppy quite safely.Since there are fewer intersector gaps,there is still room to make the gapsregulation size.Proprietary formats do have theirdrawbacks, however. The Srst timeyou use a diskette, it must be specially

next track Itusesa proprietary formatthat squeezes more data per track. In-stead of using the slow DOS directoryand FAT structure to read the harddisk, itbuildsits own index. Itoverlapsreading the hard disk and writing toSoppy using a technique called Simul-taneous DMA. While you are busyswapping diskettes, it uses the time toget ahead on reading the hard diskThe instant you put the next diskettein, it staris up without waiting for youto hit a key.Other backup programs use some ofthese tricks, but only Norton uses all ofthem.

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formatted. Even though this is auto-matic, it makes the backup take twice aslong the Srst time. If ever you decide torecyde a backup diskette for use as anormal DOS diskette, you Srstmust usethe DOSFORMATcommand. You needto mark your diskettes with coloureddots to track which format they are. If aproprietary format diskette becomesunreadable, none of the recovery urih-ties such as HDTEST, Norton NU orMace will be of any use.Norton gives you a choice: proprietaryformat for extra speed, or conventionalDOS format for extra safety. PC FullbakPlusalwaysusesproprietaryformat. Theothers always use DOS format.

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and the onesyou select with tickmarkLThissubtledistmction maysound cleveron paper, but it just causes confusion.Norton is remarkable in that you cansimultaneously back up files &om yourC: and D: drives in one fell swoop. Itletsyou balance time against safelywith flvelevels of vexification. It has four sepa-rate recovexy mechamsms when thebackups themselves are damaged. Ithas abundant on-line help.As you are bachng up, the upper leftwindow scrolls the directories and theupper right scrolls the files. This is ausdul check that you are backing upwhat you think you should be.The lower right window tellsyou whichbackup set you are working on. Thelower le@ window tells you which die-ketteyou axe supposed toinsextnext-nicely' bolded and endosed in eye-catching blinking brackets, A ther-mometer shows you how fitr througheach diskette you are. The countdownmakes for speedy diskette swaps.In addition, the bottom two windowsare littered with decorative stalisfics-two percentages, four times, two bytecounts, two file counts and two diskettecounts. V4ypilotswill feelxightathome.However, for novices the screen is toobusy and confusing. For them, youshould have the option of displayingnothing but the name of the diskette setand the number of the diskette insertednow, or the one toinsertnext. The onlytwo statistics of interest are: how manydiskettes will we need in total, and, howmuch longer till this is over.Distributed Error Correction

In 198'7, I invented an error coxrectionscheme for Soppy disks that would re-cover from abullethole (the main causeof Soppy fitiluxe in Floxida), a big greasythumbprint or apiece of grit that wipedout two complete adjacent tracks of dataand part of a third. I broadcast my idea,and to my greatpleasure, the authors ofNorton Backup decided to use it Theychose a slightly watered down versionthat is not as robust but that does notlake as much RAM to compute.Needless to say, I think the method issplendid.h|sertiag the Wrong Dlsmtette

progxams at handling the problem ofpreventingyou &ominsertingthewrongdiskette. Whenever you insert a suspectdisketteit telhyouwhatison the disketteend then asks your permission to over-writ it You also have the option oftrying a dmfexent diskette.However, Norton still has not got thisquite right. What no vendor seems toundersutndisthatyoudorsglderbackups,time after time, backing up the samefiles to the same set of Soppy diskettes.The sets are preeumbered. When youdo a backup, you should be inserting thesame diskettes every time in the sameorderl No backup program enforcesthis. They will let you accidentamy feedin diskette ¹8 before diskette ¹'7. Theywill let you accidentally feed in yourmonthly accounting backup disketteswhen you are backing up your weeklyword processing. They will even let youfeed in the boss's httle black book dis-kette.

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Wamingl PG Tools' Restore, by de-Btult, restores your files to the wrongdrive. Itdoes not remember where thefiles came &om originally. You mustmanuallyset the drive before you re-

"Start Restore" command until youhave all your directories and files selectcfL Itjust takes oilFastiadt PlusFastBack was the original Iast backupprogram. FastBack Plus is a total i@-write. I t is the world's best~llmgbackup pxogram. Make sure you get

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If you want to see something amusing,lry running FastBack Pluswitha mouse.There is no mouse cufsor, butwhenyoumove your mouse right the highlightbar suddenly disappears and reappearson the kjLside of the screen. Sometimesitgets caughtin a box in the upper rightcorner. Using thee mouse is not practi-

Like PC Tools, FastBack Plus runs hestin colour. Ifyou run itin monochrome,lt confuses you by hlghhghtmg every-thing EXCEPT the item you have cho-sen. This is not too had when you areselecting &om three or more items, butit is like tying your shoes in a mirrorwhen you have to select between two.PC FullBalt PlusPC Fullbak Plus is a plainJane backup.It has a menu system that works some-thing like the Lotus 1-2-5 interface. Ithas no &ills, such a mouse or the abiliiyto select individual files to back up. Itisaimed at a technical user. For example,it asks you how many tracks your floppydriveshave. Notmanycasualuserswouldknow the answer to that question. Themanual warns that FullBak should notbe used to transfer files between difFer-ent computers, This is odd, since ifyournukchine dies,youwould have torestoreyour files to some alternative computer.KeepTlradt PhujKeepTrack Plus is not a real backupprogram. Itis a DOS shell to copy, viewand delete files. It has an XCOPYhkefunction to copy a set of tagged files toSoppy. You might prefer this sort ofprogram ifyou backupa small numberofdifFerentfilesevetytime. Thediskcttcs

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MageHan is nat a true backupprogram. It is a navigator.Itfindsfiles for you when you cannotremember what they are called,when aH you remember are a fewwords that might be in the docu-ment. It can also find groups offiles &om aH your drives and di-rectories thatare related by topic.It lets you view those files in theirnative mode. For example, if youpeek at a spreadsheet, you don' tsee hex gibberish, mstantly yousee a real spreadsheet. Yau don' thave to bxingup 1-2-5 toloakatitI think everyone with many smaHfiles should immediately buy acopy of Magellan. Everyone elsecould wait perhaps a week.MageHan is the inast useful utilityI have come across in the last fiveyears.As a lwlckup program, though,MageHan is pathetic. Its savinggxace is its magical ability to finda set of 61es that meet some crite-rion to back up.RugsIn the bad old days, if you backedup your root directoxy, then re-stored it, your hard disk wouldbecome unbootable, because re-store would disturb two systemf iles, IO.SYS and MSDOS~ .Happily, none of the true backupprograms still have that problem.I found one small bug commonto Norton, FastBack Plus, PCFullBak Plus and In tel l igentBackup. They aH fail to restore adirectoxy unless it contains files.Only PC Tools and Backitgot thisright.InteHigent Backup did not workproperly unless I pre-formattedthe diskettes for it. Ifyou abortabackup part way through, it gets

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confused, aad does not record thefact that the backup isnelongervahd.Protecting Yeurself From BugsI have not had enough experiencewith any of these progxaxxis to feel.confident theyare bug~. You mustprotect yourself by testing the pro-gxams yourseK They may work fineon someone else's computer, but netyours.AAeryou installyeurbackup program,backup some files, and make dupli-cates on another part of year harddisk Deletie the eriginals. Then re-store them and compare. If you finddifferences,report the problem to themanufacturer. Doa *t trust the pro-gram until you have done this with atleast 10 diskettes full of data. Be es-pecially careful of Norton (because itis new), and PCTools because of Cen-tral Point's history of releasing im-preperly tested sofhvare.Terminology-Three Kinds OfBackupThere are three kindsofbackups: full,incremental and differentiaL I rec-ommend that you avoid incrementaland dMereatial backups. That is allyou have to knew. For the curious, Ihope yeu will find this explanation-

A full or d' a r t b a ckup backs upall the requested files. Differentialbackups only back up files that havechanged since the last full backup.Incremental backups only back upfiles that have recently changed, sincethe last incremental or full backup.With a full backup, when it comestime to restore, you have only one setof diskettes to deal with. With a differ-ential backup you have two. With aniacrementalyoumighthaveaaywhere&om two to twenty sets to deal with.However, incremental backups arefixster than differential, which are iaturn faster thaa full.For each file, DOS maintains thearchive bit ~t notes whether a filehas changed since the last backup.When you do an incremental or dif-ferentialbackup,you only backup thechanged files. When you do an incre-mental backup, you turn the bit ouseyou won't back up that file again.When you do a di8erentlal backup,you leave the bit on so you will con-tinue to back up all the changed filesever again evexy time you hack up.Onlywhenyoudoaaother fullbackupdo yeu turn eff the arduve hits.Why are incremental and differentialbackups dangerous) Unrelat ied filecopying pxegrams may inadvertentlyflip the archive bit and throw yeurbackup scheme out of whack Also,you should keep at least three backupsets. You would need to keep track ofall three sets independently, so youwould need three archivebits for eachfile. Unfortunately, DOSprovidesenlyone archive bit per file. So, if you useincremental and differential backups,yoli cail have only ONE backup setlThis is living dangerously.FutureThe next generation of backups willmanage your backup sets, telling youwhich ones to hack up today, whichones to take offsite, which ones tobring into the office.They will allow incremental backups,hy maintaining their cxwn records of

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-Peter Norton Backup 1.1, 100 WilshireBlvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401-1104.Customer service (215) 519-2010. Techsupport (215) 51M020. FAX (215)458-2048. About $120.- PC Tools 6.0, Central Point SoftwareInc, 15220 N.W. Greenbrier, ¹200,Beaverten, OR, 9V006. (505) 69M090.About $120.- FastBack Plus 2.10, Fifth GenerationSystems, 10049 North Reiger Road, Ba-ton Rouge, LA 708Q9. (504) 291-V'221.Sales (800) 8754584. Tech support(504) 291-7285. About $140.- PC Fullbak Plus 1.12, Westlake DataCorp, P.O Box 1711,Austin, TX, V8767.Telephone (512) 528-1041. About$75.- KeepTrack Plus, The Finot Group,259Q El Camino Real, Suite 5, Palo Alte,CA94506. (415) 856-202Q. About$269.- Back-It 4.0, Gaselle Systems, 42 NorthUniversity Avenue, Suite 10, Pram, UT846Ql, (800) 2554585, (801) 577-1288.FAX (801) 5756955. Customer support(800) 7554585. About$90.- DOS Backup 4.Q1 - comes bundled aspart of MS-DOS.- Lotus Magellan V2.0 file manager,Lotus Development Corporation, 44Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA02142. About$150.-Intelligent Backup DMS/IB 5.21, Ster-ling Software, 2255 Sheppard AvenueEast, Suite 901, Willowdale, Oatario,M2J 5B5. (416) 492-5000. FAX (416)4924258. About $500.Access to Packages Not Reviewed HereUnfortunately, the copy of Micro Inter-faces QaikSave 2.45 was damaged inshipment so I cauld not evaluate it.Cere did not provide us with a reviewcopye-~ ikSave 2.45, Micro Interfaces Corp,18590 N.W. Avenue Suite 2QO, Miaxm,FL55Q15. (505) 8254088. Aheut$240.- CORKFast, Core International, 71VlNorth Federal Way, Boca Raton, FL55421. Sales (505) 977%055. Techsupport (505) 9774055. About $580.SuxnxmayThe newcomer, Norton Backup, isnumber oae. It is the one I wouldrecommend. PC Tools is a bargain ifyou want all the attachmea ts. FastBackPlusis the seasoned veteran. Ifyou canafford it, forget floppies and get tape.Backing up to floppies is as exciting aswatc¹ing paint dry, hut you have to de

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Below 500K free it is inoperable; therock~ttomminimumis 700K Runmngwith 18Mb free (a 2Mb '020 Mac II withATM and oodles of fonts and lola ofINITs aud CDEVs performance is guisegood.The program is tidy about Sle place-

folder inside the System folder. Inmde itplacesall the dictionaries, impart/exportGlters and other goodies. As we awaitSystem 7's folder organization features,this approach is welcome.And, ao Sar, the program has flawlesslyconverted all publications created withversion ej.02. Long-time users will recallthe transition from 'R.D to 5.0 was not so

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in Seattle boasted some 75 new featuresin this version. Without a doubt, themost significant development is the newstory editor and its related spelling andGnd/change utilitieLBefore this release only the foolhardywould have tried to use PageMakerwithout Grat running the copy through aword prxycessor. It was tmjicult to seewhatyou were typing unlessyou were in8N% view; you couldn't check spelling,search and replace and so on.The new story editor offers, in a separatiewindow, an excellent tool for writing,applying styles and other formatting,spe5checking, searching and repladng.

The story editorThe stdyqr editor can be used to originatenew material, to edit stories alreadyplaced on the layout, or to import storiesand revise them before they are placedin the layout.Click in any story in the layout with thetext tool, hit Command-E, then it popsinto the story editor. You can also do thiswith a tripackwith the pointer tool.For speed the story is displayed in asingle fjypeGtce of your choice. You canhave a running display in a narrow left-hand column of all the styles being used,p «g- phbyr g p h.Make changes, press Command-E or-%and the story editor doses, composing

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Enter The ElectronicJungleBefore me was a tangle of thick cables,alive with the glowing red eyes of powerbars. I entered the electronic jungle-M y safari had begun; my search was forthespecies oflaser printersunder $5000(street price). This was the world ofsilence and efhciency; no more was I tohear the comforting wheezes of 24-pinprinters. Now thatI have safelyreturned,I am ready toguideyou through the wildworld of lasers.

Don't be alarmed — that flash of bril-liance silhouetting the darkenedjunglewas just a laser printer consuming atypical meal of electronic signals, whichit spits out onto &esh sheets of paper.

Don't be a&aid of the natives of thisjungle — the computer salespeople.They are &iendly and please accept theglossy sheets of useful specs that theywillinvariably press into your hands. Thenatives often tell entertaining mythsaboutlaser printers thatmigrate to theirarea, myths thatnew species of printersare on their way here &om distantmanufacturers. If we are lucky, we willget to see PGcompatible laser printers

demonstrating their day-&ay behav-ior: printing text and graphics.

Glmtaary of Laser Meter SpecsDPI — dots-per-inch; how many dots theprinter can put in an inch. The higherthe DPI, the denser the image. Laserprinters organize dots to create charac-ters and graphics. The standard laserprinter prints at 500 x SOQ DPI.

Internal Memory — internal memorywithin the laser printer stores graphicsand fonts, rather than the computerdoing so. The amount of internalmemory in a laser printer afFects theprinter'sspeed in processing documentsand graphics, and the more graphics youplan to put on a page, the more memoryyou need. The bigger the number doesnot necessarily correspond to morememory; for instance, 512Kbyte (K) ishalf as much as 1 Mbyte (MB).

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PPM — Pages (Printed) Per Minute isthe way to compare printer speed. Thisnumber, which can range from S PPM to20 PPM, is accurate assuming that theprinter is producing copies of the samepage of text.

Toner — this is the laser printer's "ink"Sold in cartridges, most of which arereSIable, the toner is an extra cost Inlaser printers based on a Canon engine,this toner cartridge is exactly the samehnd ofmechanism foundinyour Canon-style personal photocopier. They are anadditional charge in the operation ofyour laser printer. These cartridges costabout$1SQand are good for about s,000pages. The exception is the new IBMLaserPrinterE,whichprints10,000pageswith a cartridge costing $199.

Drum — this is the part in the laserprinter which transfers the toner to theprinter paper using heat and gentle

pressure; it needs regular replacement,once again like in a photocopier. Main-tenance of a laser printer is rtimilar tomaintenance of a photocopier.

HPCL — Hewlett-Psrckard CommandLanguage is the programming languagethat the computer uses to communicatewith the Hewlett-Packard type printer. Itis one of the two main htser-printer lan-guages, the other being PostScript.Printers thatuse HPCLare referred to asHPwompatible printers. However, someof these printers can be upgradedthrough special cartridges to PostScript-compatible printers.

PostScript — This is the programnunglanguage that the computer uses to com-municatewith PostScriptprinters, whichare the most expensive type of printerbecause of their versatiTity and the vari-ety of the SS scalable PostScript type-faces, plus the easyaccess to hundreds ofother downloadable sofbvare-based fonts.PostScript printers also excel at printingPostScript-based graphics produced byprograxnssuch asAdobelllustzator, CarelDmw Sc Micrographx Designer.

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to your local laser-printer dealer andlewe with a trophy under your axm,you will be frustxated. Keep in mindthese facts about computers and peri-pherals such as laser printers:l) Allow plenty of time for this adven-ture. Dealers keep their inventory toa minimum because of the expense ofhaving inventory that may becomeobsolete as itsitson the sheK Dealersdon'twant to stock what may not seII,and buyers don't want to buy whatian'ton the shelf. Patienceisrequired,then, for orders tobe placed, printersto be aet-up...

Rarely in the electronic jungle willyou find herds of on-line laser print-exs, just waiting to be bagged. Theboxed variety are more common, butsalespeople arenotenthusiastic aboutsetting them up unless they have aserious prospect I was more often

strator grazing through its paper txaysat the back of the store. But patiencewill reward the buyer withlower prices.

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2) Weekdays are best to shop for laserprintexs, because unlike everyother typeof retail shop, many computer shops aredosed on Saturday. For instance, were itnot for trapping an employee in thedarkened and dosed Computer Shopsection of the UBC Bookstore, who ad-mitted that they had one but was understrict orders not to serve anyone on Sat-urday, Iwouldnothavefoundan exampleof a PostScript printer.9) It is difficult to find examples ofPostScript printers and color laser print-ers, as theyare in the highwnd market. Ihave not covered color beers nor fullycovered PostScript lasers as they arespecial- order items. You may want to call+MS directly to view their color laser

. printers. They have reps who will demotheir more expensive printers for you.Be prepared to pay over $10,000 for

4) Make cerlain that your applicationssupport the printeryou choose. You canrefer toyour computer program'smanualto see if it is compatible with the printeryou are planning to buy.

Paoelnaker4.0 CONTINUEDthe revised version on the layout.With enough RAM you can have severalstory windows open at a time, which letsyou cut, copy and paste among them.You needn' t even place astoxywindaw'scontents before saving and dosing thefile. When the PageMaker file is nextopened, unplaced stoxy windows pop tothe fore.All of this is in addition to the ability totype and edit on the layout itself.The search/replace, find and spell-checker all function through the storyeditor. You can check the contents ofthe current window or evexy story in apublication. The speEchecker is fast,easy to use and smart: It will point outpossible improper capitalization anddouble words — the infamous "the the."The one time the program froze was ona spellwheck of the whole publication. Isuspect I had run out of memory. Anystory in whichyou make achange during

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FROM PAGE 32a global spe~eck stays open until youleave the spelMaecker and dose it Haveno fear- the check picks up xight whereyou left ofK,These functions behave quite the sameas those in MS Word with one importantexception. You can also search/replacespecific styles or other type attributes.This makes handling dingbat bullets a

Cursor controhPower usersaccustomed tonegotiatingaword document using the numeric key-pad will be a little disappointed to learnthat it is only partly implemented in thestory editor. Command-9, for example,will takeyou to the top of a story butlosesthe insertion point; Command-5 goes tothe bottom but loses the insertion point.This may be related to several new key-

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Thus, our fingertips burnt from hotsample printouls, our handsblackenedby toner, and our eyes made starry bythe laser-beam lights,we complete oursafari. We have placed our orders, anda lucky few are straining under theweight of their laser prizes.

We studied these elusive, mysteriouscreatures until we learned how oftenthey need their paper trays changed,how their toner cartridges could becoaxed into printing a few more pag'es

before being refilled (by shaking themgently). And, we witnessed the rapid evo-lution of lasers, for example, from HPgenus, the simple HP Laserjet I to thenew HP LaserJet HI. Aa we stagger backto our tidy offices and homes, we canhardly wait to tell our colleagues and6Lmilieswhatlife is like out on the laser'sedge.

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In 1975, the first home computers werelaunched. Among the first producerswere such faxniliar companies as Apple,Commodore, and Tandy. Atari launchedits first computer aimed at both homeusers and sxnall companies in 19'79, andabout a year later the first small business

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For example,you can useyour computeras a typewriter for writing letters, as apocket calculator to balance yourcheckbook, or as a VCR/TV combo todisplay pictures and drawings. You canalso use it ta store teLephone numbers,play gameg produce technical drawingsand develop cameraready documentsfor printing. Computers can even beused ta run production lines.

Just like any other electrical appliance,computers can and do break down andcause problems..However, be very skep-tical when a mistake is blamed on thecomputer. In most cases it's a humanexror that causes you to receive that no-fice from the phone company that saysthat unless you payyour outstanding billfor $4,567,5M.15, your telephone wiII

If you ask your computer to print outRt5m9, it will do so. Again, itis not capable of thixxking for itself andtelling you that 2+5 does notequal 9. It also can't refuse to pmit lies.On the other hand, by giving the com-puter the right information it could, forexample, calculate the wages for thou-sands of employees in alarge companyin a matter of seconds.

By giving a computer an appropriateset of instructions, it can very quicklyperform a wide range of utsks. A com-puter is avery fastworki n, but com-pletely stupid, machine.

The Different Partsof a ComputerWhile their appearanre varies, thebasic parts which make up a per-sonal computer are the same. Allcomputers need some way of allowingthe user to give instxuctions or informa-tion (koybouyd), and some way of showingwhat's going on (yuonitoror screen). Otherimportant parts needed are a pLace inwhich information can be stored (dixkxorhurd disks), and the mechanism that canserve as a traaic cop and control the flowof' information within the computer(systeot yxrut). You also need a means ofmaking your data accessible to peoplewho don't have a computer handy(pnmter).

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A computer is not some sort of super-natural, super~telligent, ahnighty ma-chine poised to uxke over the world. Acomputer can not think for itself, it canonly follow instructions. Itis notcapableof suddenly deciding that itwould like tohave an icecream cone, or of feeling thedesire to take a long vacafion on somesunny island beach. It can however, foI-Iowinslructionsand perfoxmpredefinedtasks atan amazingly high rate: a millionor so instructions per second.

Assume thatyou have a list of telephonenumbers stared in your computer sys-tem, and a program, or predefined Iistoinstructions„which can extract the rightnumber for a given pexion. If you askyour computer what telephone numberAbraham Lincoln has, it will probably,after a shortdelay, tellyou thatit can notfind his number. It is not capable, how.ever, of answering directly that Lincolnwasalive 8$yeaxsagoand doesnot, anddid not, have a telephone.

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The monitor is used to shaw informationwhich your computer sends out such as aletter you' ve typed, the results of a calcu-lation, or even a picture.

The System UnitThe system unit is the central part of acomputer. All ether units, like the moni-tor and the keyboard, are connected toand controlled by this unit.

The system unitprocessesyour keyboardinputs and controls the output to yourmonitor. Italso precessesallmstructionsit's given and all relevant data For eachtaskitperfoxms.Allcalculationsare donewithin the system unit.

The Computer's MemoryAn integral part of the system unit is thecomputer's memoxy, where text andnumbers are stored. Fer example, anumber can be stared in the computer'smemory and retrieved later to be used ina multiplication operation.

There are twe vexy different sorts ofmemory: ROM memory and RAMmemoxy. These are described below.

ROM Memory

can reproduce the Ml visual spectrum.A color moniter will often brighten upthe time you spend working vrith yaurcomputer. On the other hand, a mono-chrome monitor costs less, is morecompact and will often suf5ce for your

vated. RAM stands for Bnndme Accara

ROM is a permanent memory. Datastared in ROM contains informationnecessaxy for your computer when youturn it on to ensure its correct perfor-mance. ROM stands fer Reed oral'Manrayy, which means that you can neverchange its contents. Your computer canonly read and use the inferxnatien that isstered there. Information in ROM re-mains even when your computer is oK

RAM MemoryRAM is a nonpermanent memory andit's there that data is stored temporarilywhile yeu are working with the cem-puter. Textand numbers can be saved aslong as they are needed for a specifictask, but they will disappear from RAMwhen the computer is turned off orwhena different computer program is acti-

Manroyy, which refers to the concept thatdata can be written te, and read from,this sort of memery at will.

Memory SizeThe size of your computer's memory ismeasured in bytes, or AiMyras. Each byte isrhe same as ene character. Fer example,the text, "Hew nice you arel" would bakeup 17 bytes, not forgetting the blanksand the exdamation point. A kilobyte is1024 bytes, and it's sometimesjust calledger Nk

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The Cosnputer Paper I July '90into ~ aa d hrger programs requirelarger RAM. If your computer's RAM istoo small, you will not be able to runsome of the larger programs.

Most computers these days have 640KRAM, which is 640 h1obytes, i.e., about640;000 bytes (or, more exactly, 655,%0bytes). Older computers oRen have lessmemory; 256K, or 512K, while newercomputers may have 1 or 2 rnegs or Nb(million bytes) of RAM. It is possible toincrease thesizeof the memorywithadd-oncircuitboardscalled rasnfsthatcaa pluginta your system's unit.

Data StorageOne of the most important aspects of acomputer is ite capability ta store andrecall information. When you are creat-ing a document, for erurmple, the text isstored in RAM, but this means that allinformation disappears when you turnthe computer oK You can, however, makea copy of that information on afloppy diskor herd disk, This allows you, at a latertime, to recall the stored informationand load it into your computer again.You can thea extend, edit, or erase thedocument.

text.

(usually referred to as kigk density disks).

As an example, a 560K disk can store theequivalent of about 200 pages of pria ted

drirra This is a unit that reads and records

Floppy disks can be moved betweencomputers, assuming that both comput-ers are IBM compatible and have thesame kind of disk drives. You can, forexample, create a text on your computerat work, save a copy of that text on afloppydisk, and take ithomewithyou foruse on your own computer.

Disk DrivesThe uee of floppy disks requires a disk

information on floppy disks. It'snormallymounted in the system unit, although itis possible to have afreestandingunit

All computers have at least one such diskdrive, and most have two. Units for 5.5"floppies are becoming more aad morecommon, and you may see some PC'sthat sport a 5.25" disk drive that can readoaly560Kfloppies, a5.25" unit thatreads1,2M floppies and a 5.5" unit that reads560K, 720Kand 1.44M disks. If the owneris a maa, it's likely that he goes to workwearing both a belt rand suspendersl

To use a floppy disk, you just insert thedisk into the available slot. Most 5.25"units also require you to push a leverdown or close a door to enable it tofunction properly.

Harci DisksA hard disk is a rigid set of disks that aremounted permanentlywithin the system

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ABC For INk. IhivesYour computer wiH automaticaHy give aname to each of the disk drives in yoursystem. The letters A:,8:, C: etc. are used.This is done so that it is possible to keeptrack of which drive the computer isworking with.

A:.

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• Thefirstfloppydiskdrive iscaHed drivefordable.

A computer that has a hard disk is muchbetter equipped than one that doesn' thave a hard disk Many larger programsnow require a hard dislr; and, smce theyoperate three to ten times faster than a

' Soppy drive, their use is habit forming.Onceyouuseahard diskfor somelength

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entersAlthough a printer is not actuaHy part ofa computer, it's the most common addi-tion to one. You would not create lettersand other documents on your computerifyouwerenotable togetprinted copiesof them.

There are several types of printers, thecheapest and most common being thedot ma&is Pnnter.

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Theprintinghead ofadotmatrixprinterhas a block of pins. These look like tinyrods and they create ~ters with adot pattern by hammering the correctpins against a ribbon and the paper.

Another type of printer is the daisy arhwfprince; which works like an ordinarytypewriter. Chaxacter sets are suppliedon metal or plastxc pnnt ukssb, and thesecan be interchanged to produce difFer-ent styles of type. Thus, a ~ical officemight have a Letter Gothic print wheelwhose results look hke they were doneon a typeaaiter, and a Satipt type wheelthatgxvmamoreinfoxmal,personallook.The pxint quality is better than a dotmatrix ~ t er, but a daisy wheel printerworks much slower and is more expen-

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There are in fact several hundred differ-entlanguages. Eachlanguage has its ownpredefine setofcommands, and asetofrules on how each command can beused.

:DOSDOS is short for Disk OPerating System. It' sa collection of progranis that provide

"you with a set of commands designed tohelp you gain access to your hard orfloppy disk, and perform some otherbasic routines. All computers must havesuch an operating system. When youstart your computer, this operating sys-temisautomaticaliyloaded into memory.

For example, DOS commands can beused to investigate the contents of a disk,to copy or deletefile or to prepare a newfloppy disk for use.

FilesMany different sorts of information can

, be stored on a floppy or hard disk. Forexample, a letter, aword processing pro-gnun, a diagram, a game program, aprogranuning language, or an addresslist can all be maintained on a disk Eachcomplete unit of information is called afile, and has its own unique name.

When creating programs, different pro-gmmming languages can be used. Thenormal user will not create programs,but will only use ready-made programsdeveloped by professionalprogrunmers.When running a program, it is not evenapparent to the user which program-ming language has been used to createthat program, but here is a list of the.more common languages used with PC's: in case you have heard them mentionedand wondered what they were:

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What Can a Computer Do?We have already hinted at the differenttaskswhichacomputercanperform. Thissection contains some more general in-formation on the most common uses.First, however, here's a summary of thefour most basic things a computer cando:• receive information• process information• send out information• store information

By information we mean text, numbers,pictures, and even electrical voltage. Itisthe combination of these four processes,controlled with the help of programs,which allow computers to be so ver-

WritingThe most common use for a computer iswriting. You can create letters and mes-sages or write entire books. To write witha computer, you generally use a wordprocessing program, although someother kinds of progranis can also be

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DrawingYou can use your computer to creatediagrams, pictures, and technical draw-ings. This sort of work usually requires alarge RAM-type memoryand a hard disk

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ConnnunicationsCommunications pro~lrsans allow youto connect your computer to othercomputer systems. You can, for ex-ample, search for information in manyof the available databases, or send andreceive mail and files.

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coxporations which have giant main- us ed atmeetings.frame systems to do their "official" ac-counting, many middle managers main- Iedustmtl Productionrain their own accounting systems on R com ~ es have~udiedcomputer

systems which conirol production hnesthe funds theyhavespentandhaveyet to ineictories, and programswhich help to

design products. The latter are calledGLO Pmgrxstssr, which stands for Com-

Grapbical Presentation puter Assisted Drawing or ComputerAnother group of prograxns is aimed atthose wishing to produce graphic pre-sentations ofstatisticalresulss. These are p]~g Garnestypically produced in the form of charts

used m the workplace. Even in major or overhead transparencies that can be

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.An imporlant extra when drawing is amouse, This is a small object which you

gmove around onyour desk. Asyou moveit, a "televised arrow points out where

.„'on your screenyou are currentlyaiming.

' Justclick one of the mouse's buttons andthe cursor will appear at that point. If

bayou're maymg the cursor around yourscreen a lot (as when you' re drawing),the mouse is a lot faster than trying tomaneuver the cursor using the arrowkeys on the computer.

A mouse can also be used with someword processing and spreadsheet pxxs-grams, and it' s rettuired by several of thebetter desktop pubhshing prof pams.

CalculatingA computer am perform calculationsvery easily and quicmy. It eskes just amatter of seconds for a computer tocount up to I million, a feat which amortalhumanwouldhavegreatdi8icultydoing at alL

Spreadsheet prognuns help you to orga-nize numerical data for calculation. Thenumencal grid that a spreadsheet pro-duces is sometimes called a modeL Re-sults from one part of the model can beused in other parts. By cisanging certainentries, you can test different assump-tions and produce the "whatif?" modelsprized by fmancial analysts and businessschool professors.

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Most people will try a game program atsome time and some of you will get ad-dicted. There are many differentsorts ofgames: adventure games, action games,fiightsunulators, chess, and sportsgames

Kinds of ComputersWhile all computers can essentially dothe same things, the speedandversatTiitywith which they run depends on whattype of procarsorthey're builtarouncL Theprocessor is the part of the computerwhich controls all other parts. There arefour main processors used in IBM PC'sand compatibles. In order of effective-ness, with the slowest and most hmitedfi t,th~arethe 8088, SmW,8OS86,and8%86.

An ordinary PC machine has an 8088processor and no hard disk It is a com-parativelyslow machine by modern stan-dards and it can'trun many of the newerprogxams that require hard disks.

An XT machine has a hard disk, but inother respects is like an ordinary PC.

An AT machine has an 80%6 processorwhich mates it quicker and more pow-

are almost always equipped with a harddisk and they can run almost all of theprograms available today.

Finally, 586 and 486 machines have theeven faster 586and 486 processors. Theseare the machines power users dreamabout. A 586 with R' mega of RAM and a150 meg hard disk is not consideredunusual. Also, these machines are spe-cifically designed to multitask, whichmeans to run more than one program ata time. Thanks to multitasking, a poweruser can be worhng on a letter with hisword processing program while, in thebackground, his computer is also chug-ging away at a statistical analysis thatmight take several hours to complete.

IBM has also launched its PS/2 com-puter series, which is somewhat differenin design from the other models, butcomes in models that use all 5 of theprocessors. Thus, their PS/2 Model 25uses an 8086 processor (a close relativeof the 8088) while their PS/2 Model 80uses an 80586. The PS/2's are mostlycompatible with eiisting programs but

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The display portion of a computer iscalled its grrxPhics srxbsys/srrr. This usuallyconsists of a circuit board, called anarhPfsr awe, which is placed in yourcomputer's system unit, and the appro-priate monitor. Sometimes it also in-dudes a special software program calleda drioer that's used to ensure that theimages generated by a program appearproperly on the screen.

There are now monitors and adaptercards that can automatically switch be-tweengraphicsbandarda Thesearecallednxulfisyrxc morxitoxs und rsrhpfsrs, and theyprovideyouwilhatleastlimitedinsuxancethat what you buy today won't be obso-

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Finally, we come to the VGA sfarwkmLThese are so fme in resolution and shad-ing that it's easy to mistake animatedpresentations done on them with video-tape or film.

In a class by themselves are the LCD dis-phys used on laptop computers. Theseusually snxuhfs or make believe thatthey' re CGAmonitors, but they' re reallymonochrome displays that use shadingsto reproduce the various colors muchthe same way the HGA monochromedisplays do. The older LCD displays werehorrible unless lighting conditions wereperfect Now, thanks to what's calledsupexfxoisf fschxxotogy, aud the building ofbackhghtirxg into the better laptop com-puters, the displays are Fairly good. Nev-ertheless, using these displays for morethan about an hour at a time can beconsidered crud and unusual punish-

colors on what are called RGB rrrowiton.

can reproduce graphic images and theyonly cost a little more than the bargainbasement MDA models. Thus these canbe used in place of more expensive andbulky color monitors when minimalgraphics capabiTity is needecL

Among the color monitors, the choice isequallywide. At the low end are the CGAxfaxigixs which produce a full range of

Abouts years ago thesewerethe sta eof-the-art Now, due to their relatively poorresolution, they' re hardy considered ac-ceptable.

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More on styles and text handlingPM4.0 offers a hostof otherlonghairedtext-handling features. In previous ver-sions, one of the most annoying tasks wastrying to properly align the left-handmaqrin in the tabs/iadents box with theactual maqpn on the layout. Itnow leapsinto view already aligned. HooraylStyleshavealwaysbeenparayaph-based.Many Word users have wondered whymore paragraph features were not in-cluded — such things as rules, keep-togethers, orphan and widow controls„spacing and so on. It's all here.The "in-line graphics" feature allows art-

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PageIbeter vs. XFrcssWant to sfarta heated discussion amongMac publishers) Just raise the issue ofPageMakervs. Qm'kXPress, Beforeyouknow it, voices will rise as the two camps

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The next Big Thing' ?Foruenk Into Se jhAeeBemk&cg the fhtaxe is ahelye dangeloixx. The xeoaQ4e eieionnry rsshsfolfing jfet on hisprooerbial 'oM hot, or seufieg sm)bmctiedideus up hkeso saoset piss in the eh). ThefeQowi~itexae are this oixthor's piehfor soon to he vxey poputer.

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1) Itmustbe a revolution, notjustevolu-tion. Axguably, even MIDI was merelyevohxtionary; but as part of the digitrevolution, it stands as a good exampleofa technology that forever changed theway many musicians compose and per-

0) It must be a price and/or perfor-mance breakthrough. CD's were a goodexample of a performance break-through; laser printers represented a6eld.

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5) The potential market must be hori-zontal; meaning that a wide segment ofthe population should be able to takeadvantage of it. MIDI is probably not avery good example, since the MDI in-terface is not often seen or used by non-musicians. Nonetheless, it csin beused bynon-musicians, just as a player pianocould be played like a parlour game.Telephones, CD's, home video decks,cassette decks and TV's aH are xnorehorizontal by comparison.

Just as 1988 was the year when evexyrespectable business hid to have a Saxmachine, and 1989 is likely to be re-membered as the 'Year of the CeHularexplosion," 1990 will probably be re-membexud for DAT and other l owlanddigital audio recordexs.

I s (DigiuilAudio Tape) DATa~ tion ?I think not.While the CD and highlandhome stereo market is tremendouslysuccessful, DAT is only incrementaHybettereounding than a good-qualityanalog tape deck, and aH tape-basedsystexns suPer &om the same problems:the media is easily damaged and is notrandomly accessible in the way that adiskis. When aread/writeaudiodiskhitsthe mass-market (and it won't be long),DAT wiH be toast.

A Digital Audio Disk (no, they don't callitDAD) system thatis rather remarkableis the Sound Tools system fromDigidesign for Macintosh (SK/50 or IIseries) and Ataxi Mega ST computers.The basic idea is sixnple. Audio is digi-tally recorded at CD quality (44.1 kHz)by the Digital Signal Processor (I?SP)chip and is stored on the hard disk, ormanipulated invariousways by the audioediting portion of the program. In con-

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junction with cerlain MIDI sequencersoftware programs (cuxren tly limited toOpcode's StudioVision on the Mac andC Lab's Notator on the Alari SI'), thesoftware controls MIDI equipment tocreate the electronic portions of themusic. Then when an acoustic instru-ment or voice plays, the Sound ToolsDSP "kicks in" and plays the audio tracksstored on the hard disk Only a couple ofyears ago, this type of thing cost hun-dreds of thousands of dollars. Ataround$10,000 for a minimum setup, SoundTools isn't exactly cheap, but for a fuu-fledged digitalaudioeditingandrecord-ing environment, Sound Tools is a hLr-gain. But horizontal? Are you kidding?Let's keep loohng....

I predict that a few years from now,something like a video version of SoundTools (let's call it Video Tools) will be-come available. It will require enormousadvancesin storage technology tehandle

tomorrow's highAefinition TV will dis-play, but the net result will be somethinglike this:

Your entire TV show will be digifallyrecorded, and you will be able to edit outcommercials, nearly instantly flip to anyplace in the show, viewmultiple programssimultaneously and a myriad of otherspecial effects. Ho-hum, right?

How about timecompressing that 2.5-hour movie to 2 hours, xvithoxst affectingthe pitch of the voices or music. Thecritics who complained about TedTurner's colorization ofblack~dmhitemovies will be going anMwhen they startseeing thisf But if you are consideringthe negative esthetic implications, waitl

With digital time compression (alreadyused in audio production to squeeze, forexample a 51 second commercial into29.5 seconds), the '%p side" is time ex-pansion. TV networks will be able todramatically compressthebroadcast,andyour "smart TV" will be able to d~om-press the show out to it's normal lengthlSo instead of completely altering thepacing of a director's masterpiece, your

length, or any amount of time that you

the incredible amount of data that

the average folks who don't know F mailfrom chain-mail. In many respects, it isbecause PC-based E-mail systems are sodumsy and hard to use that a devo sys-

. tem like fiax ever became a viable alter-native. Someday, an easy-to-use andwidel~ompafible E-mail network willprove that sending a low-resolutionbitmap via FAX isn't the best way.

A more likely course of progression ferfuture technologies is towards the trans-parent human/machine interface. Al-ready, in the personal computer indus-try, we have seen the dominance ofGxaphic User Interfaces and emphasison ease of use.

As voice input, optical character recog-nition and handwriting recognition re-place manual data entry in the informa-lion centres of tomorrow, more and morepeople will be able to communicatesuccinctly and quickly with their com-puters. As higher-bandwidth telecom-

the nation, the. boundaries betweencomputers, telephones, cellular networksand cable TV will become increasinglyblurred. With thisintegration, wewill seethe true implications of the informationage; today's buzzwords — "Hyper text"' and "Multimedia" — will become popu-larized and assimilated into the culturalmainstream. With this transition, "trans-parent computers"will be seen simply asthe information they represent.

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GLOSSARY of TERMS

CDQualitys a 44.1 kHz (or better) re-cording. Sce also Hertz

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