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Rocdy nopondsiIf it takes 54floppics to back up your hard

disk you should buy a mag tape. I'ou havesugcmd long enough Howcocr, to answeryour ciiticcsms.

When I did my timings, I checked themthreetimes. Here aresmnepossibkreasons whyymcr results and mine werc so digercntl

1. Did you haec any TSR's or unusualdcoiccdriocrsncnningt BackuPs work batt inaspartan enecronmcnt wtth nothing tointer-fem or skrto things dowrc.

2. Did you ulkeo for the fact that propri-etatyfcemats takeforcoer theFIRST time ymcbackup, and only run atfull tilt on subse-quent backups to thc sameflqhjbiesy

9. Did you tdso try thc Norton Backup instandard DOSfmmatf It gives you the optionof standanl and proprietary.

4. Do you haoean unusual BIOS, DOS orhard dish contrrdkrt If ymc do, the morcssatsveFastBockPlusis a good choicebecauseits authorc haec had time to karn about thekcs common hardware,

5. It smcnds as thmcgh you had ¹rtoncompessxon turned og I tasted sock of thcpacfhrgsx withthc option 'coscpmNfor spell

ti. It also sounds as though you may haechad onc of the timoconeuming Nmton hideenfccution kctelx turned on. I did scy textswith all eeiPcation og

It is possibk Nmton Backup 1.1 did cor-ruptyoxcrhanl dxsk BccauscNoetenissoncw,in the artick, I warned psopk to test it espe-cially carcftdly befon mlyingo»it. Hotceocr,itis also poscihk your FAT could haec btundamagedbcforeNortoneocnwent nasrit, andmxttwingfiks J'uct brought totisting trmcbk tothe surface, I haec not been abkto get NmtmxBackscp to corrupt any of my disks. Pkasercpeet thc dctaik to thc authecs.

Fina@, thc distributed crmr cmmction m-dundancy method used in the Nmton propri-etaxyformat is safer than using plasn DOSfmmat and mcooery with traditional tools. Ina sense, coerythingis mcorded twccx, so that ifone part is damaged„ it can he mcmcstructedpmn the undamaged part. I f ymc want to bemolly safe, use theredundant distributed erroottrcction and DOSformat.

More Backupthe July issue, Roedy Green says "Nortongives you a choice: proprietary formatfor extra speed, or conventional DOSfoxmat for extra safety. PC Fullbak Plusalways uses proprietary format. The oth-ers always use DOS format" Apparentlyhe did not notice that PC Tools alsoprovides for the optional use of apropri-etary format. I would be curious to knowhow PC Tools would fare in the speedcomparison when used with its "Stan-dard Format" option turned ofF.

Sincerely, Andrew Shaw.

Reedy mxpondx:Oops! I dsd indeed fail to notcccthc 'stan-

dard fonaat optioninPC Took that you turnoptoturn on the proprietary format. Ijmthenchmaxhed PC Totds in proprietaryfmmatmode. That mooed it into second ptaox a hairbehind Pontvunner Nmton. If Norton nxtex100, then PC Tools nates fl6.I1%e comPuAe PePer sexist?

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Reedy mspondx:t'ust as thc wheel was ineenasd in many

dement ptaccsat many digcrsnt tcmax on theplanet, many peopkhcroeworkedmx sohctionsto thc eariahk AUVQEKC.MT pcebkxtc.Itfy solutitnc is quite ohL I htcoc been usingeaxiations mx it commenially since 1983.

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ful.When I came to the section on 'Vari-

able AUTOEXEC.BAT' files it seemedlike quite familiar territoxy. In order torun Ventura in expanded memory mysystem needs QEMM 586on board. Win-dows can't tolerate it. The solution was ashareware program (available for &ee&om the CD-ROM disk in the mainbranch of the Vancouver Public LibraxySystem) called RECONFIG.

Reconfig. amows one to maintain aminiature database of up to 100 difFer-ent C onfiig.sys and as sociatedAutoexec.bat files. This can be added to,deleted &om, created, edited, selected,etc. &om a very usable set of pulldownmenus. Once you have picked the com-bination required, the progxaxn modi-fies your files and asks if you want toreboot the system. Very smooth.

Perhaps Roedy Green's ofFer of a'Variable Autoexec disk' is a minor ex-ample of 're-invention of the wheel'.

WordPerfectI am writing to thankyou for printing

information &om our COMDEX Springpress conference in your July issue. Weget very little coverage in the Canadianmarket and we are appreciative of yourefforts to let your readers know aboutour products.

Kathxyn Pond4aigentCorporate CommunicationsWordPexfect Corp.

Windows 5.0 ArticleI havejust read an article on installing

Windows 5 by Roedy Green in your Au-gust issue with considerable interest Hisasides and insights are, as usual, thoughtprovoking and in many cases vexy help-

tion) in it However, I was disappointedin theJuly1990 cover. The picture of thewoman crying, saying "backing upishardto do" only served to reinforce the ste-reotype that all women are computerilliterate. Again, the artide on backingupwas extremelyinformative, butI thinkyou could have chosen a better (and lesssexist) cover layout (the pink didn'thelpeither) . It is notjust the female secretar-ies who lose all their data because theydon't know how to or have forgotten toback up.

And having the title of the artide"Computers for the complete beginner"right next to the woman on the coversuggested that women are "completebeginners" when it comes to computers.Not that the artide itself was biased inthis way (and I think it was a good articleto include in the paper) but hopefullyyou will be more conscious of your cov-ers, and of sexist stereotypes, in futureeditions. Thank you.

Suzanne ReimerE-Mail received &om Mind Linkl

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NKC Canada recently introduced theUltraLite 286V, a 6&lb, 12 megahertzbattery-powered notebook computer. Itis designed for professionals seehng in-the-briefcase portabiTity. The originalNECUltraLitevirtuallycreated the note-book computer category. The UltraLite286V takes it the next step. Pricing is$5,799 for a 20 megabyte,25 millisecondhard drivemodel. Conlact: NEC Canada,Inc. 416/8S8-5SOO

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First there were desktopcomputers. Then came thelsptops. Each offered somethingthat the other did not.But now there's something thatcombines the best of bothworlds. Because now there's sportable that's easy enough totake with you; yet powerfulenough to double as your officecomputer.

split personality. %e say itsounds like the new Altuns One.Ahms One can run MS-DOSand OS/2 with ease, Plus itfeatures an impressive 80286microprocessor that speeds to afull 16Mhz, without ever gaspingfor breath,

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Vision Does WindowsVANCOUVER, B.C.— Vlsioxs Presen-

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daunting. Wordprocessing,spreadsheetand accounting progronts offer a so-phisticated zange of belh and whistlesthat seemed uninmginable only two orthree years ago. Many lack the time orpatience to wade through a five-pound

One opfion worth exploring is thewide variety of courses onered throughNorth Shore Continuing Education.when NSCE entered the' computertraining market six years ago, it quicklybecame one of the most progressive andweEequipped public f'acihties in the

art tedmology — all three IBM labs con-lain only286or586computerscompletewith mice, 2 inegabytes of RAM and atleast a 60 meg hard drive as standardequipment. There are also seveml Maclabs available ao NSCE through its aHili-ation with high schools in North andWest Vancouver.

AII instructclsatNSCKarealsoprivateconsultants or tutors in the computerfield. They have the indepth knowledgethat comes &om using prof psuns on adaily basis. So thatyou can havealookatthe computer labs and courses of5ered,and meet the instructors, NSCEishavingan open house on September 11th be-

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SlandardlnternationalSystems (SIS),SCO'sAuthorized Education Centerwithcenters in Edmonton and Calgary, hasbeen recognized for Highest Achieve-ment in an Authorized Education Cen-treu for 1989, the firstyear that the SCOAuthorized Education Center Programhas been in operation.

William Berry, president and SCOAuthorized Instructor for Standard In-ternational Systems, has trained moreusers and resellersof SCO products thanany Authorized Instructor in NorthAmerica. Hegetsconsistentlyhighmarksf'rom his SCO training customers in thePrairie Region. Contact: Standard In-ternational Systems in Calgary 405/266-0695 and in Edmonton, 405/4284558.

Dataport OpensRichmond Warehouse

A Canadian wholesaler of computersupplies has opened a warehouse in.Richmond to accommodate their west-ern customersmore efficientl. Dataportstocks most -major OEM name-brandproducts. Dataport is also introducingwhat they feel is an industry first — theInstant Rebate Chequebook. In con-junction with leading manufacturers,Dataport is offering resellers Instant Re-bate Cheques before the order is placed.Each cheque is for a specifi dollar valueper manufacturer product line, deduct-ible at the time of invoice payment toDataport. This program is in effect fromSeptember 1st through November 50th1990. Conlact: Dataport 604/688-2555.

Recyded Non-ClilorineBleached Computer PaperA Vancouver company specializing in

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According to Paper Choice, althoughthe recyded sheet is softer and requiresalittle more care in tearing, these papersdo perform to.the same standards asnon~ecyded products. It is available inall standard sizes and formals and isreasonablypriced. Contact Paper Choice505F 6thAve. Vancouver 604/&75-5700.

New Newsletter Aims toDemystfdyDesktop Publisliing

A free newsletter aimed at makingdesktop publishing comprehensible toexecutives was launched today byVancouver-based Resolutions Enter-prises. According to Resolutions staff,the gap between desktop pubhshing'spromises and actual fulfillments calledfor an unbiased pubhcation which ex-plains DTP concepts, methods andproduct to coqxmte users in plain En-glish. The newsletter will be published

quarterly, and will attempt to bridge theknowledge gap by reviewing the latestsoftware, outlining optimal system con-figurations and giving tips about every-day desktop publishing use. Contact:Resolutions 604/685-1599.

Database DetailsCanadians' $3$4-BillionAnnual Spending Spree

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The Computer Peper /Sept. '90 'la ~for provinces or large metropolitan ar- o r own "the most" in over 140 categories.eas," says Wilson Baker, President of Con tact: Mari-Lou Shoulak, ProductTetrad ComputerApplicationsLimited. S p ecialist, Tetrad ComputerApplications"Now, by combining Statistics Canada's L i mited 1400465-1554.Surveys of Family Expenditures andHousehold Equipment with detailedcensus data, we are able to derive familyspending and consumer goods owner-ship patterns for the 42,584 enumera-tion areas in Canada." Tetrad's FAMEXdatabase provides a new source of mar-keting data for users of Tetrad's desktopdemographics software. Define anyareain Canada and PCensus describes howthe money is spent PSearch softwarefinds where Canadians live who spend

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First Advertising Show ToBe Offered In Vancouver

With a slowing economy, many busi-nesses are looking for ways to maxitnizetheir advertisinginvestment.AdVantage,a new adver6sing show hopes to offersmall and mid sized companies a chanceto expand their knowledge of advertis-ing. On September 6 Sc 7, AdVantage,the first Western Canada Advertising

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A series of seminars to help sales andmarketing people become better adver-tisexs will be offered. In addition, theexhibit floor will become a full-serviceAdvertiser's Warehouse where a broadrange ofcompanieswilldisplay the diversadvertising options they ofFer.

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CADKEY TrainingComes To B.C.

The Pacific Marine Training Institutehas recently acquired Training CentreStatus for CADKEY, the first in B.C.

CADKEYisa54hmensionalComputerAided Design and Drafting (CADD)program thatisaimedprimarilyatmeet-

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CADKEYwas voted Editor's Choice inMarch by PC Magazine. "No other-package offers the blend of 2-D func-tionality, 5-D versatihty and ease of usethat CADKEYdoes." the magazine said.Contact: Pacific Marine Training Insti-tute: 265 West Esplanade, NorthVancouver 604/98546RR

AIVIIGAMore Red Ink

COMMODORE INTI9tN'ATIONALreports a loss of U.S.$55 million for thefourth quarter which ended June 50,1990 on revenues of U.S.$198 milhon.For the whole year, however, the com-panyreports earnings ofU.S®5.5 millionon revenues of U.S4I887 million. IrvingGould, chairman, dud, "Sales of Amigacomputexs increased by 40 percent dur-ing the fourth quarter while unit sales ofC64 and PC XT systems dedined.

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Commodore Business Machines,which is recovering &om a recent quar-terly loss, xs tahng a stab at the small-businessmarketwithitslatestpxomotion.

Commodore Director of BusinessMarketsDavidArchambault, says, "Whilethe Amiga 5000, our newest and mostpowerful model, is ideal for advancedapplicafions, the popular and costM-fective%00 series models are well suitedfor the small-business/work-at-homeaudience as well as the first time buyer."

The mulfitaskingAmiga hne includesthe Commodore Amiga 500, the Com-modore Amiga RQOO, two enhancedproducts — the Commodore Amiga2000HD and the Commodore Amiga2500/50 — and the Commodoxe Amiga5000.

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House Bill HR4801, submitted byCongressman Pallone ofNewJersey, andthe amendment to House Bill HR4875,submitted by Congressman GeorgeBrown, were the objects of testimonybefore the Subcommittee on NaturalResources, Agriculture, Research andEnvironmentin the House of Represen-tatives.

Dr. Nagel stated Apple's position call-ing for comprehensive research on theeffects of ELF and VLF (vexy low &e-quency) emissions, and called for thecomputer industry to adopt protocolsfor the testing and measuxement of VLFand ELF. He also called for aconsortimnapproach to conducting research, inwhich government, academia, and in-dustxy collaborate.

Nagel, an Apple vice president, notedthe 'recent indications in electroxnaa-

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Onbalance,however, Dr.Nagel statedApple's pmition that the body of scien-tific evidence gathered to date supportsthe behef that VDT's are safe for peopleusing them.

Apple Computer was featured in anartide about the heath hazards ofVDT'sin theJuly edition of Macteorfdmagazine.The report stated that the AppleColorHigh Resolution RGB Monitor had thehighestemissions of ten monitors tested.The report suggested that users keepthis and all monitors at arm's length&om their bodies in order to lower their-radiation exposure. The magazine planstohave follow upreportsin itsNovember

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ATARIComputer Friendslint Hand-Held AtariTo Macintosh and PC

BOSTON, M A SSACHUSETTS,AUG 15 (NB) — Computer Friends,

Inc, at Mac%orld Expo/Boston, an-nounced the availabiTity of the UltimatePortable for the Mac, a configurationlvhich links the 1-pound Atari Portfoliohand-heldcomputer to a Macintosh. Thepackage indudes the Message Mover

held unit and the Macintosh and pro-vides intemigentfil transfer between thetwo systems.

The Ultimate Portable for the Macpackage contains theAtari Portfolio with128k memory, an AC Power Supply, theAtari Serial Interlace, Message MoverSoftwareforthePortfofiio,Message MoverSoftTIIare for the Macintosh and a cableto connect the Macintosh and the Port-folio. The suggested retail price for thisconfiguration is U.S4599. An optional2400hps (bits/second) Hayescompatiblemodem, listing for U.SQ189, allows thePortfolio, using the same Message MoverSoftware, to access remote telecommu-nications systems and transfer informa-

Computer Friends' Calvin Smith toldNewsbytes that although there is a simi-lar configuration, also l isting forU.S®99, for a Portfolio/MS-DOS con-nection, the Macintosh connection ismore elegant.

"It' s not really to do with our product.It's rather that the user interfilce on theMacmtosh lends itself to more transpar-ent connections. On the PC side, wetransfer text files to be loaded as ASCIImto any word processor that supportstext file input. On the Mac side, text canbe moved directlyinto MSWord format-

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advanced Gravis To GetLoan From LogitechMouse manufacturer Logitech Interna-tional has signed a letter ofintent to loanC$840,000toAdvanced Gravis ComputerTechnology.

Advanced Gra~ based here, makesjoysticks, other input. devices and a lineof portable hard disk chives. Lagitech isa major manufacturer of mice andscanners with headquarters in Freiuont,California

Dave Reid,vice-presidentandgeneralmanager of Gravis, told Newsbytes hiscompany buys Logitech technology foruse in its own products, and the compa-nies also share an interest in soundtechnology for personal computers. "Wedon't compete with each other, we tendto cotuplement each other." While re-maiimig separate entities, he said, thecompanies plan to work together in anumber of ways.

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There is also a connection product,listing for U.S.$249, for hoohng intoeither a Macintosh or MS.DOS systemfor those who mayalready have an AtariPortfolio. The Portfolio is less than I" indepth, weighs 1 pound and runs on S AAbatteries. Contact:Jimmie Moglia, Com-puter Friends, 509626-2291

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The debenture will be convertible, atLogitech's option, into 1,500,000 unitsof Gravis, at a price of G$0.56. Each unitwill consist of one share of Gravis com-mon stock and one nontransferablewarrant entitling Logitech to purdiasean additional share at C$0.'swithin fiveyears &oin the date the loan is advanced.Exercising this option would giveLogitech about 54 percent of AdvancedGravis on a fully diluted basis and makeLogitech the single largest shareholder.

Reid said he expects this option to beexercised, although "I couldn't tell youwhen."AconnectionwithLogitechcouldhelp Gravis in several areas, such as im-proving its distxibution in Europe, he

Gravis will also give Logitech a firstright of refusal to purchase any furthersecurities it issues, except for any cur-rently outstanding righis to purchasesecurities and employ incentive opfions.

Proceeds &om this private placementwill be used to repay a $500,000 (U.S.)bridge loan made by Logitech inJune1990 and to supplementworkingcapitaLMth this inveslment, Gravis' workingcapitalposiiion willbeimprovedandwillallow the company a better opportunityto meet the strong expected demand forits joystick products this fiiil.

Reid said the original bridge loan wasobtained to "keep our business rollingatthe level it is now." By exeseising itsoption to buy a stake in Gravis, Logitechmay help meet future capital needs, he

VANCOUVER, BC, AUG 14 (NB)-Consumers SoftwarehasannouncedTheNetwork Courier Gateway for MCI Mail,which links its Network Courier elec-tronic mail software to the MCI mailnetwork.

Those using NeiivorkCourier on DOS,OS/2, Windows and Macintosh systemscan exchange messages with MCI Mailsubscribers anywhere in the world, orwith remote Network Courier users alsolinked to MCI, Consumers said. Theycan also send facsimile, Telex and papermail messages using MCI Mail.

Network Courier users cansetup dis-tribution hsts containing MCI Mail ad-dresses, allowing them to queue mes-uiges for transunssion to MCI with threekeystrokes.

The gateway also allows sending textor binary files as atncchments to ruailmessages, and wiH address a reply to anMCI Mail address automatically. Userscan get automatic notice when a mes-sagearrives, thanks to Network Courier'smemory-resident software.

TheNetworkCourier Gatewayfor MCIMail costs U8$695 orC$900per gateway,plus US$200 or C@60 for each addi-tional Network Courier post office(server) • It works with IBM, Novell,SCom, Banyan and other MS-Netcom-patible networks, andrequires agateway

The transaction is subject to approvalby Gravis shareholders and regulatoryauthorities. Contact: Dave Reid, Ad-vanced Gravis, 604-454-72'l4; Tim Zier,Logitech, 415-7954500

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Battered Mission CyrusSeeking New Financing

VANCOUVER, BC, AUG 14 (NB)-With many of its employees laid off andmanufacturing severely cut back, PCmaker Mssion Cyrus is scrambling fornew financing.

Tania Klvin, the firm's marketingmanager, told Ncwvsbytes Mission Cyruslostexpectedfunding &ornaBritishlxmkearfier in the year. Elvin could not con-firm the ainount, which has been re-ported to be C$5 million. She said Farad

founder and president of thecompany, is currently in Briuun seehngmore fiinding.

The company has obtained a courtorder restraining its creditors &om tak-ing further action before October, Klvinsaid. "Obviously we' ve cut right back onour opera6ons, she admitted, but someunits are still being sold &om inventory.

Azima, founder of the upscale Britishstereo equipment maker Mission Elec-tronics, founded Mission Cyrus last year.The coinpany launched a series of Intel80586-based PC's, ranging &om a por-table to a file server, at Comdex/Fall hstNovember.

Azima's Mission Group, at least oneCanadian bank and the DiscoveryFoundation, an agency of the BritishColumbia provincial government, areamong other investors in Mission Cyrus.Contact: TaniaElvin, Mission Cyrus,604-4$2-VVg'V

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CA-Access UpdatedWhile continuing to roll outVersion 6.0of its Accpec Plus accounting line, Com-puter Associates has updated its CA-Ac-cess development system.

John Schoutsen, Canadian productmarketing manager in Gl's Micro Prod-ucts Division in Vancouver, toldNewsbytes CA<ccess is a MI develop-ment system with its own programminglanguage and application program m-terface (API) to Accpac Plus. Some 600developers worldwide use CA-Access tocreate companion products for the ac-counting software, Schoutsen said.

The new release indudes increaseddatabase capacity, improved file sortanmerge utihties and an. extended APIproviding internaiional and mul&cur-rency support and better screen input/

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GENERALCornell Vision StudyEyes Bad Lightiaa'— A new study &om Cornell Univexsitysays indirect lighting can dramaticallyreduce eyestrain among VDT (videodisplay terminal) workers.

The study, involving 147 workers at aSyracuse, New York Xerox plant, com-pared groups worhng under indirect,"bounced fluorescentlightingand thoseworking under conventional computer-area overhead (parabolic) fluorescentlighting. The workers in the overhead-litarea had RS% higher rate of complaintsof eyestmin and said theylost15 minutesa day because of trouble focusing theireyeL In contrast, only one percent of the

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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS,AUG 6 (NB) — A protest march, orga-nized by the League for ProgrammingFreedom (LPF), was held on August 2 atLotus Development Corp.'s Cambridge,MA offlces to protest Lotus' recent legalactivities concerning copyright issues.

League President Richard Stallmantold Newsbytes that the protest went ex-tremely well and that all demonstrationswere performed in a peaceful manner."We had about 520 people according to

MIT and began the march about 1:00.We got to Lotus about 1:15 and then wehad shortspeeches byPatrick Winston ofMIT's AI Laboratory,John McCarthy&om Stamford,Javellin SofbvarefounderStanley Kugelandmyself. We then beganto picket and finished up about 2 p.m."Stalhnan said that the main puxpose ofthedemonstra6onwastoheighten public

Congress.Stalhnan went on: 'There were some

very innovative signs in the picket linesuchas'Can LasVegasSueAtlanticCip?'and 'Lotus Says IfYou Can' t Beat Them,Sue Theml'and'Drop the Suit, We HaveYou Surrounded k'Thepointofall this isthatwe don't believe thatanyone has theright to own a user interface. The publicinvests too much time and resources inlearning a user interiace for anyone todaim ownership of it.

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"something we composed last week" Itgoes like this: "14$4; Kick that lawsuitout the door — $4-74; Innovate, don' tlitigate — x3A-BC; Interfaces should be&ee — D-E-FQ — Look and Feel has gotto go."

Staihxxan also told Newsbytes that aLotus employee came out tio pick upmaterial and stickers and told LPFmembers that "while there was supportfor the League within Lotus, manage-ment had instructed the personnel tostay away.

Tom Lemberg, general counsel ForLotus, was quoted as suggesting that theprotesters should also picket stores thatsell books and records since they, likesoftware, represent the expression of anidea, 'The underlying question iswhydowe have copyrights," Lembexg said. "Wehave copyrights to protect creators, toprovide incentives toinnovate."ContactRichard Stalhnan, LPF, 617-2454091

ARMONK, NEW YORK, AUG 2 (NB)— IBMhasannounced thatithasformeda new wholly owned subsidiary whichconsolidatesIBM's typewriter, keyboard,intexmediate and personal printers andsupplies business in the Unit@i Statea It

Clayton Sc Dubilier, Inc. to form an alli-ance under which Clayton Sc DuMierwill become the majority equityowne ofthe new subsidiary.

IBM Vice President Marvln I Mannwill become chief executiveofhcer of thenew company which includes IBM's In-formationProductsbusiness,largely&omIBM SLcilities in Lexington, Ky., andBoulder, Colo. The new company isexpected by the end of the year to have5/00 to 4,000 employees.

As a result of this announcement, eli-gible employees inLexingtonwill beoffered the opportunity to voluntarilyresign, retire or begin a fiv-year pre-renrement leave with an incentive pay-

IBM spokesperson MacJeffexy toldNewsbytes that the formation of the newsubsidiary and subsequent selling of it is"another phase of the overall slimxningof our workforce as announcedearlier inthe year." He said that, now that step 1,the spinoK had been completed, IBMhoped to conclude the sale by the end ofthe year.JCIFexy also told Newsbytes thata name had not yet been chosen for the

Rick Martin, Prudential-Bache'scomputer industry analyst, to ldNewsbytes that he felt the sale of the newentity would benefit both IBM andClayton kDubilier. "Ifyoulookatit&omIBM's side — This business brought insomewhere between two and three bil-lion dollars in revenue resulting inU$475-150 million in net income — or15 to RS cents per share. The impact onIBM is tiny. Even though thatsegmentofthe business has growth potential, thetime, energyand money thatwould haveto be put into itis, in IBM's case, muchbetter spent on nxain&'uncs or PC's.

As hr as Clayton Be DubiTier is con-cerned, however„ the business potentialis enormous. The unit being acquired ispresently profltable and the staff reduc-tionswillmakeitevenmore so.Addition-ally, it has a market that IBM never had,

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The Computer Paper / S~. 'SOthe market to 6rms other than IBM andthe poten6al looks vexy good there. Forinstance, IBM has a laser printer that isCanon-engine compatible and is RS%hster. The new firm should be able togenerate addi6onal market share withproducts like that."

Martin says IBM's Lexington plant,which goes with the deal, is one of thelowestwost production lacili6es in theworld and can produce commodityproducts such as keyboards at as lowproductcostasanycompanym theworld."The new Srm shouM become akctor inthe world marketplace for these com-modi6esand be oneof thefewU.8.6rmsthat can outperform Far Kastexn rivalson a cost basis. In short, I think it's ahelluva deal,' he said.

Aspokesperson for Clayton 8eDubiliersaid the company is a private investmentfounded in 1978. Since that date, it hasacquired 15 businesses whose sales totalaround USQ75 billion. Its normalmanner of acquiring business has beenthrough investment in divisions of largecorpomtions which are no longer con-xsdexed part of the core business. Con-xactL Peter W. Thonis, IBM, 914-765-6565; Thomas C. Franco, Clayton 8eDubiTier Inc., 212-742-1282

DelHsa OEersWindows 5.6 Fax Drivers

TORONTO, ONTARIO, AUG5 (NB)— Delrina Technology has announcedtwo kx drivers for Microsoft Windows5.0.

One version works with lax boardscomplymg with the GAS standard, in-cluding those hem Intel, Pure Data,Spectrafaxandotheil. The otherversionworkswith Sxmodemsthatuse the SiermSemiconductor Sendhx chip set. Bothversions inchide a driver that looks toWmdows bke a regular print driver, sousers of any Windows application cansend a fax as if they were prin6ng adocument, Delrina said. Contact:JosefZancowicz, Delrina, 416441-5676

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Using Computer Associates' majorenhancements tosuperCak5, The MagicPackage takes advantage of a powerfulspreadsheet macro language providingusers with the applications and tools tocreate applications that no longer looklike spreadsheets.

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Caere's Typist enables the user to in-putsamned,recognized m'iterialdixec6yintjo whatever application is currentlyrunning on 'the user's computer. Thisdirect inputis made peevebya designmethodology which interxup|s the key-board opera6oq'and allows data to enterthe application via the keyboard buIfer.

Caere's sofbsare is capable of recog-nizing mul&columned pageos one col-umn at a time. To prevent columnoverlap, the Typistrecognizes thecolumnthatisin thephysical center ofthescannerand throwsaway theincomplete columnson either side. The hand scanner alsoautoma6caHy discards repeated textwhich occurs when two sans overlap bycomparing the ASCII text of the hst lineof the Srstscan with theASCII text of theStat line of the second scan. This proce-dure is commonly referred to as 'stitch-

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announced at this year's Fall Comdex inLas Vegas, but the leading players in theindustrywiilstaywithproprietatydesignsuntil the market forces a change. That' sthe view of Dale Bandy, a vice presidentof Silicon Systems Inc., which is design-inga chip set that will implement the so-called EIA578 Class One standard. Thatproduct may reach the market by theend of this year, or early in 1991.

Bandy told Newsbytes the Class Onestandard, which won final approval inFebruary, is "a basic definition for the

ment," but it's limi'ted and requires anintegmediate driver before it's installed.

Standards work is continuing on twolevels — an extension of the standardwhich would be called Class Two, and amore complex interface between mo-demand fiut Seing worked outin the TR-% group. This work was stimulated byHayes Microcomputer Products of At-lanta, Bandy said, which offered an en-hanced version of its own AT commandset "It holds promise, but it's not final,"Bandy said.

Despite the continuing work on stan-dards, theleading piayersin the fikxboardbusiness continue to release Iyroprietagydesigns, Bandy said, i n c ludingG~ ax, Spectrafiuf, and The Com-plete PC, which cunently is the salesleader. Datagace of Texas is one of thefew with a Class One product on themarket, Bandy said, but more may beexpected in time for the Fall Comdex

The significance of all this is three-fold, Bandy said. An established stan-dard would let software developers in-sert fax capabiTityinto base applications.Itwouldallow for thecreation ofstandardhx applications running with any fikxboard — a fax version of "Crosstalk" or"Procomm Plus." Finally, once a stan-dard is implemented in chip form all

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TOIQO, JAPAN, JUL 24 (NB)-Hitachi's plan to use recycled paper, andto abandon use of disposable woodenchopsticks, arejust two of the measures ithas instituted in an effort designed tohelp save the earth.

Hitachi's Green Center is a new &cil-ity staffed with 60 researchers whose jobis to design methods to combatacid rain,the greenhouse effect, the destructionof ozone layer, aud other environmental

Hitachi says it currently consumes 1.7million business cards, 05 million enve-lopes, 1.5 million interoffice mail mes-sages, one million copies of press re-leases, 59 million sheets of copy paperand 4.8 million computer pages annu-ally. It also estimates total consumptionof paper is 10 times larger when all itsof6ces in Japan are taken into account.

Hitachi will switch to recycled payerin September and disposable chopstickshave already been replaced with plasticchopsticks at its cafeteria. Contact:Hitachi Co., Ltd. 05-258.1111

Motorola IntmducesWristwatch Pager

SCHAUMBURG, ILUNOIS, AUG 1(NB) — Ata New York news conference,Motorola introduced awristwatch pagerweighing just 2 ounces, or 57 giams. Itwillretail for U.S®00andbe distributed,at first, by existing pager companies.MotoroLa also announced a distributionagreement with Timex, the leading U.S.watch distributor,whichwillputthepagerinto the mass market within two years.

The announcement comesjust weeksaRer the debut of the film "Dick Tracy,"based on a comic strip whose hero uses awristwatich TV. And Motorola won't bealone in the market — ATScE of SanFgancisco has already introduced a simi-lar device, andJapanese companies arealso expected to enter the market

Motorola has protected its pager with11 patents, induding one for an antennawhich runs around the watch face andthrough the watchband. The Motorolawrist pager is water-resistant, spokesmanBob Wah told Newsbytes. 'You can wearitjogging, but Iwouldn'tjump in a swim-ming pool with it," he said. "I wore it inthe rain in New' York yesterday with noproblems."

The Motorola unitalso actsasan alarmwristwatch, and can store up to 8 me8-sages. It is compatible with all existingUS. radio paging systems. The spokes-man said that new device falls near thehigh end of Motorola's current pagerprice range, and paging companies canbe expected to rent it for about U.S425per month, including service costs.

Motorola executives told reportersthere are currently 9 million pagers inuse in the U.S., but 150 million watchesare sold evegyyear. "requestionhere isthe shape and form4actor," the spokes-man added, "the way you use the pager.Obviouslywatches are user-friendly, andthis may open up new markets. At thepress conference, Motorola suggestedparents may use the watch-pager to keep

If granted local regulatory approval,the watch pager will be introduced in'Canada, Britain, Singapore, Hong Kongand Taiwan by the end of the year,Motorola executives said. Contact: BobWalz, Motorola, 708-597-5000

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SCO says its new version supports all586 and 486 computers based on Indus-try Standard Architecture (ISA), Ex-tended Industry Standard Architecture(EISA), and Micro Channel Architec-ture. It's also the foundation of OpenDesktop, SCO's graphical operating sys-

SCO Unix System V/586 Release 5.2Version 2.0 adds several new features tothe earlier version, including I/O per-formance improvements, simphfxedmanagementof Cdh-level trusted systems,job control under the Korn shell, sup-port for several new peripherals, andsupport for extended memoxy.

SCO Unix System V/586 Release MVersion R.Q is available now on S.RS" and55" diskettes and on cartridge tape fromdamestic SCO Authorized Distxibutorsand Resellers for a U.S. list pxice ofU.S.$595 for a two-user license andU.S.$895 for an unlimitekeser license.An update package for users of SCOUnix System V/586 Release S.R is avail-able through these same channels andfrom SCOataU.S. listpriceofU.S4150.

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several experienced prognunmers. TheMetod c~p is oneandw-half years oldand employs about 50 people.

The newprogram can showusers howto find the right process through whichto convert one physical efFect into an-other using a proprietary physics efFectsarray. It links difFerent gerieral laws ofphysics from a 1,000-piece library to-gether and shows a series of connectionsbetween the resulting effects in plainlanguage.

According to Svetlov, "Even thesmart-est people usually can't work with morethan 200 effects simultaneously. Ourprognun uses 1000 of them and worksmuch faster. Of course, you have to besmart enough to give the computer theproper command.

'There's another developer withasys-tem of this type in West Gexxnany but wethink our product utiTizes a much betteralgorithm for searching the knowledgebase," Svetlov exphtined.

The package is available immediatelyfrom Meted, which can be reached atP.O.B. 455, Moscow 119048, U.S.S.R. Itc asts 10,000 roubles {U.S~ by t h emarket rate) per one copy-protecteddiskette. According to Svetlov, Metodstill is having problems opening hardcurrency accounts in the only Moscowbankallowed tohandlesuch lransactionsbut they welcame foreign orders eventhough the pxiceindollarsmaybehigherthan the one translated by the market-driven exchange rate. Contact: NikolaySvetlov, Metod, +7 095 dl454507

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The UNIX System version is function-ally similar to the MS.DOS version, in-duding menus with prompts, as well asspeed keys for bypassing menus. Mi-crosoft Word 5.0 requires fewer key-strokes than otherword processors to settabs, margins, headers and footers, or toexecute other routine processing lasks,SCO says.

Microsoft Word 5.0 provides a full setof workgroup productivity tools, all ofwhich are designed to work with thepowerfulmulfiuser,multitasking featuresof the UNIX System. They indude linksto other applications, so that graphicsand spreadsheets can be integrated intoword processing documents; style sheetsthat ensure consistent, highquality out-put; an advanced outliner that makes iteasy for groups to brainstorm and re-structuredocumentsquickly; annotationand redlining features which take theconfusion out of editing documentswithin a workgroup; and advanced tools

for archiving andretrieving documents.Microsoft Word 5.0 for UNIX Systems

is available now from SCO authorizeddistributors and resellers in the UnitedStates and Canada for the ATSIT SB2/400 at a U.S. list price of U$.$1,495, forthe ATSIT SB2/500 and SB2/600 at aU.S. list price of U.S.$2,S95, and for theATScT6S86rtmningATScTUNIXSystemV/S86 at a U.S. list price of U.S41,095.

For further information on theseproducts, call 1400/SCO-UNIX (726.8649) in the United States and 1400/461-%62 in Canada. Contact:JanetMorton, SCO, 408/425-7222

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Among the companies introducingnew products at the exposition wasAcius, Rc. (4th Dimension, V 2.1),Adobe Systems, Inc (Illustrator S.O),Animus (24-bit color scanner), Avery(MacLabelPro), Caere Corporation(The Typist), I.S.M, Inc. (Life Sc DeathII - The Brain), MacAvenue (Protegeexternal hard disk), Motion Works(AddMotion), OCR Systems, Inc.(ReadRight), Orchid Technology(OrchidFax modem for MacPortable),Spinnaker Software Corp. (Plus), TGSSystems (Prograph 2.0) and Visual

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Microlytics EncyclopediaBOSTON, M A SSACHUSETTS,

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The new encyclopedia, announced atthe MacWorld Exposition, will be avail-able both for the Macintosh and theIBM PC, company ofEcials said. It isscheduled to ship in October and costU.S. $119.

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Quickmfps Upgrade Due(NB) — An upgxacle of the popularQuicaeys kejkaard mane utility for theMacintosh will be swailable in mid4ep.tember, CE Soffvutxe officiah say.

Q6CKeys 2 is new entering beta test-ing, said company spokeswoman SueNail. Suggested retail pxice win be U.S.$149.95, with upgrades costing U.S.$49.95.UsexswhobuythecuxxentvexaionafherAugustl will beable to upgrade forU.S. $29.95. QsicKeysisapopuhrutilityused to assign single-keystroke equiva.lents to many Macintosh fimctions, in-duding mouse movements and dicks,menu selections and system funcffons.Among the new features, Nail said, will

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ager for the Pi ttsford, NY-basedMicrolytics, said future releases will in-dude Strunkkc White'sElementsof Styleand the Bible. In addition, Microlyticsofficials said the company is licensing astylechecker and copy editor for indu-sionin other companies'products. Writ-ers Suggestions and Reminders is avail-able for the Macintosh, IBM PC andUnix envixenmentLNopricewas stated.

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Apple and OutboundReach Property RightsQpeement(NB) — Apple Computer, Inc. andOutboundSys~ l n c .haveannouncedthat they have reached an agreementconcerning intellectual property issuesrevolving around Outbound's manufac-ture and sale of a Macintoshwompatiblelaptop computer. SpeciSc details of theagreement were not released.

The companies issued idenffcal pressreleases on the agreement, saying onlythat, 'The agxeement allaws Outboundto offer its products without violatingApple's intellectual property rights.Apple and Outbound believe the agree-ment will be beneffcial to Apple, Out-bound and their respective customers,asitprotects Apple'srightswhile permit-ting Outbaund to pursue market op-portunities for its system."

Christopher Escher, Apple, spokes.person, expanded on the release toNewsbytes. "We are not, contraxy to ru-mors, buyingOutboundSystemL Wearenot licensing our Macintosh ROMS toOutbound. Outbound will notbe manu-facturi ngunits tobe soldunder theAppl

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Contacts: Christopher Escher, Apple,408-974-2202; Jane Rubinstein, Out-bound, 505-7869200.

AdobeImlms Qluslrattm 3.0MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA,

JUL 24 (NB) — Adobe Systems an-nounced that it would demonstrateAdobe musuutor 5.0, anew version ofixsMacintoshdrawing pxogram,atBoston'sMacWorld Expo,August8-11.Italso saidthat the program, scheduled to ship inAugust, will have a suggested reeul paiceof U.S. $595.

Enhancements tothepxeductindudetext4andling capabilities and graphingtoola The product also indudes a rede-signed version of Adobe Separator,Adobe's colar separation sofhvare andprovides compatibility with AdobePhotoshop Slea

Aho bundled with the new version ofAdobe Illustrator 5.0 will be Adobe TypeManager (ATM) Version2.0,announcedconcurrently with the new version ofIllustrator. The upgrade will have a sug-ested standelone reuul price ef U.S.

and will aha be demonstrated atMacWorld Expo.

Adobe states thatits testing hasshownATM2.0 tobe uviceasfastas thepxeviousversion and pxavides type quality im-provement in screen display. ATM 2.0 isscheduled to be available for purchase

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Ming to their Macintosheswill becomemore commonplace, if the promises of aMassadxusetts company are fuISmed.

Articulate Systems, Inc., Cambridge,MA,announcedanddemaustxutedVoiceNavigatorlIlastweekatMacWorldExpo.The new preduct is scheduled te beavailable at the end of this month forUS. $595.

Voice Navigator II is a scaledownversion ef the original Voice Navigator.It has all the capabilities of its predeces-sor except audio output and the abilityto control telephones — two featuresonly supported for third-party develop-exL New sofbnm makes ihe product

onstxated Voice Link, a speech digitizer

on August 8 and registered ATM ownerscan upgrade to the new version for U.S.$20 (+ U.S. $7.50 shipping) . Registeredowners can also choose, foran additionalU.S. $59, to receive any typeface packagefrom the Adobe Type Library of font

Commenting. on the announcement,Kathy Englar, Adobe group productmarketing manager, said: "Many cus-tomers want to build their own personaltype libraxy but have not been able to.make the investment Now, this specialpackage offers a large collecffon of ourmost popular typefaces at a very afford-able price. Contact: LaVon Collins,Adobe, 4154614400

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Texas Instruments Digilal Sound Pro-cessor and supports the Macintosh Au-dio Compression/Expansion (MACE)standard. Unlike the MacRecorder, Azticulate oaicials said, Voice Link per-fozms all its digitizing itself, leaving thehost Macintosh &ee for normal taskL

Support for the Voice Link was an-nounced by CE Software, publisher ofQuckMail, and by Microsoft. Both com-panies also have i n terfaces toMad4corder, allowing users to attachsound to electronic maiL

Voice Link will be available at the endof August, company ofiicials said, forU.S. $269. Contact LaurynJones, Ar-ticulate Systems, 40$5704949

New PixelPaintProfessional Introduced

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AUG9 (NB) — A new, completely rewrittenversion of the PixelPaint Professionalcolor painfing program for the Macin-tiosh has been announced by publisherSuperMac Technology.

The program is scheduled to beavailable in October at a price of U.S.g99. Upgrades &em PixelPaint Profes-sional will cost U.S. $1%5, with free up-gzadesforuserswhobuyversion 1.O'erAugust 1, Upgrades &om PixelPaint to

' PixelPatint Professional LO will cost U.S.$%99. Cont(tct: SuperMac: Kim Tarter,415-59k760P' Jennifer Delamare 408-.7754405. VideoLogic; Karyn Scott: 617-

MacRecorder. VoiceLink contains a Ventura for the MacBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AUG

9 {NB) — Ventura Sofhvare, San Diego,has rolled outa Maantosh version of itspopular Ventura Publisherdesktoppub-lishing program, which it says has beencompletelyrewritten for the Mac. Satedto be commercially available in fourthquarter, 1990, the product will retail forU.S. $795.

The programwillbe able to exchangefiles or chapters" with PC versions ofVentura: PC GEM version, Windows 5.0version, and the OS/2 PresentationManager Version, a Ventura spokes-woman tellsNewsbytes. Thiscapacitywillbe demonstrated publidy on September50 through October 2 in SanJose, Cali-foznia, at the Red Lion Inn, site of he1990 Ventura Publisher Seminar.

New features for the Ventura Pub-lisher, Macintosh Edition indude spellchecker, undo/redo, apply/cancel withdialog box chaining, movable dialogboxes, 500 on-line help menus and fileimport/exportcapaMities, theconitrmysayers

Although theVentuzuPublisher DOS/GEM Edition is the basis for some 100eytistmg third~ enh ancementpxod-ucts, the Macintosh edition has but oneso fitr. SNA Inc., manu{actuzer of VPToolbox, a file and style sheet managerfor the DOS/GEM environment, will beshipping a Macintosh version upon re-lease of Ventura Publisher, MacintoshEdition. Ventura Software says it is ac-tively building a following for theMacintosh Edition. Contact: JudithTarabini, Hill and Knowlton, 408/496-6511; Ventura Software, 619/6754172

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trol. Pre+lass surveys help, but thehumble people underrate their skillsand the overconfident say they knowmore than they' do. In addition, everyone has a difFerent learning speed andstyle. A person who knows nothing maybe so quick that their inexperience isirrelevant. An experienced person mayfind themselves trying to unremembertheir company's old computer system.

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Do you have a computer touse when you return to theof6ceP

If not, the training could be a com-plete waste. A computer course is oftenjust the start to being able to do yourwork To retain thematerial of the course,apply it right away.

What does the coursecoverP Does it match yourneeds' Will you be able todo what the boss wants youto do?

Once you' ve found a vendor that suitsyour personal and financial points ofview, prepare for the dass. Ask. yourselfwhatitisthatyouwanttoknow. Thismayseem an odd question; if you know whatyou don't know, why are you tahng a

No course will cover every aspect of acomputer apphcation. For example, theLotus 2.2 manual has about 500 pages,excluding appendiceL A one-or urroehxycourse won' t. cover it aIL Nor should itThe job nxsks you have to complete are

Are you doing budgetingPAdministering payioHPInvestment traddngP OnceemtpensesP

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An instructor should have patience,dear speech, usefulhandouts, flexibiTityand a sense of humour. Unless you aretaking an advanced course, a trainer willassumeyou know nothing. Sometimes, acourse will have 'homework" to do be-fore arriving at the dass. If this is thecase, do the work And, if possible, don' tcomplete it moments before dass. Thepoint of such material is to mstke yourbrain ready to receive new informationand ideaL

You shoum also physicallyprepare forthe course. Get a good night's sleep and

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have chosen a course)So, you' ve picked the best course and

are in the dass. Now whats Sit there andhopeP In a dass, there are means to helpyourself learn more. Make it easy for aninstructor to teach you. In a learner, aninstructor likes:

o Enthusiasm. Nothing makes an in-structor more depressed than teaching aclass of disinterested slugs. Bring a desire

• People who ask questions. A goodtrainer will mod@ the course content onthe Qy to suityour needs, if the needs areknown. This is the purpose of askingquestions. If you are a shy person, tryhard to think ef a question to ask. Theinstructor may ehcita question Rom you

uter Paper I Sept '90to see if you are following the material.Those who talk a blue streak, make surethat you let others ask questions. Vfhatthey say may assist you m yom own vrork.

• Don't aak Yes/No questions. To getthe most of the instructor's knowledge,

computer "o• Note4xkmg. Some people daim to

learn better when they jot down notes.Others Snd itdistracting. The instructorshould hand out booklets that outlinewhat is being covered. TIanscnbing everything will slowyou and the chas dawn,and having no notes is fataL A compro-

outs themselves. Rarely wiii avendor askfor the handouts back.

>Relevance.As the course pragresses,take the examples presented and imag-ine how they could be made to St intoyourwork Ifyougeta good idea, write itdown. If you wonder if something ispossible, ask the trainer. In many cases,the answer toyourquestionmay hake toolong. If instructors defer questions to abreak, be aggressive and don't let themforget. Also, remember. the instructormaynotknoweverythmg.Ashlled trainerwill admit a lack of knowledge, promiseto get back to you, and then actually do

Have PuntAll of these ideaswill help to make the

computer course a useful experience.Also, make sure you have fun at the class.This is valuable, as relaxation and laugh-ter let your brain absorb more informa-tion. If you have fun, you will associate apleasant experience with the course andconsequentlybetter remember the skillsyou learned.

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Target: The Mass Markethuge leap into the home computermarket. According to Bill Machrone,writing iu the August edition of PCMcrguxlsr, ISM has identiSed an incred-ible number of households which canafford a PC, as many as 66 million.

Researchhasindicated thatrhissectionof the buying public wishes to buy com-purersasitwouldastereoorVCR,namelyat a department store which remainsopen late on Thursdays and on week-ends. Studies show that 70% of all homecomputers are bought at this time (Le.,after work, not on bankers' hours.)Consumers do not wish ro spend time ata specialty store. This means that theyare still computer~obic and are reluc-tant tosallyforthintonewtemtory. Theyapparently want to buy from stores suchas Sears, The Bay and Eatons.

When the PS/1 is turned on, KMpresents the viewer with a four-quadrantscreen display. Simpliciry is the name of

With the new PS/1, IBM has taken a

the game. Clockwise the user moves themouse tolrsforsuslicas {top left) MS-Wmks(top right) PROS (bottom right) andYour Sojhuara (bottom left).

Thelnfoxmarion sectionconrainsbothSystem and Works tutorials where themost basic applicadons are explainedstep bystep. The new user has the optionjust to read the informadon displayed orto do elementary exercises jn order tobecome comfortable with the pxogram.

MS-Works is a bundled with the com-puter. This pxofpam includes word pro-cessing with the aid of a spell checker,spreadsheets with varied Snanciatappli-carionssuchasbudgers,8at4le databasesand a telecommunications packagewiththe built-in Hayescampatible modemup to 2400 baud.

PC.DOS displays a xnenu of usefultools known as the DOS ShelL Theadded feature here is that one can usecommonDOScommandswithouthavingto know more esoteric DOS commandlanguage.

Lastly, Your Softwaxe allows the userto locate and run his own software. Thescreen illustratesfourareas:Drives,OpenFolder,Other FoldersandFuncrions.Thesoftware can be organized and custom-ized to St the user's needs and wants.

On the whole, IBM has crossed its t'sand dotted its i' s on the new PS/1. It hasanswered the needs of a newly deSnedbrcusd-based market. The manuals andliterature have ampleillusrrationswhich

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The texminology is directed to Srst-timebuyerswithamodicnmof compursxeseunder their belts. The costis reasonable,particularlywith the topendmodelwhichindudes a color monitor, thereby ~ing many consumers.

ISM in this instance, has underlakento meet irs public in the doinain of theShopping MalL It is rumored that sup-portandserviceswillbeheavilypromotedwith the use of diaMirect 800 numbexsthatdeal directwith IBM, not the retailerif there is a problem.

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incxeasecL The monitor and keyboardare also bothexsome in several ways Thescreen is fraught with excess flicker un-less the Brightness/Contrast controlsaxemuted into opaque tones. Although thekeyboard still outperforms many otherbrands with irs good tactile response, thedicking noise generated during exten-sive word processing is annoying and

ISM's goal is to become a householdword as well as word processor for the90's. With VCR's, microwaves andcamcordexsin manyhomes, the topbxassis counting on Slling that niche called"indispensable". The PS/1 is not for theaScionado who reads industxy maga andattends users' clubs, the PS/1 is dearly a"hmily" home computer that can satisfythe needs of wives and husbinds work-ing after houxs outside the,of8ce andtheir childrenwho neededucational andrecreational sofiNxaxe. A success stoxy?Time will tell.

Lynne Henderson is a humanitarianwho hasspentanumberofyeart'workingfor the Red Cress as wel-a0.50 yearsselling real estate. She was chosen forthis review because of a self-avowedlack of knowledge about computers.

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NKWYORK, NKWVORK,JUL25 (NB)— Usingaplush New Yerk Cityapartmentas a backdrop, Tandy Cerporation in-troduced the Tandy 1000 RL computer,a system designed to be used in thehome. The 1000 RL is available imme-diately at authorized Tandy dealers andcomes in four modelswithpticesranging&am U5. $749.90 to U.S. $1,56.90.

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Inirodudng the new system, TandyCEO John V. Reach stressed that the1000 RL is the first Tandy computerdesigned especially for the home and

tion of software and hardware togetherrather than as simply a piece of equip-ment. Roach toM the assembhge thatthe newsystem user interface is based on

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a greatly enhanced version of the exist-ing Tandy DeskMate user interface, Theenhancements to the system include thebundling of 24 built-in progiams, allaccessible through DeskMate, to carryout activities which Tandy has deter-mined, through focus groups, are thosemost desired in a home system.

When speaking ef the ease of use ofthe new system, Roach said: "The Tandy100Q RL is so easy to use that it guaran-tees success. Even the novice user can beproductive with the 'RL' after just 15

In a conversation with Newsbytes,Roach explained what he meant byguaranteeing success, saying. We have

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spent considerable time training eurentire Radio Shack station all aspects of' the 1000 RL We expect customers tehave little diSiculty using the systemsright &em the start. If they do, however,the staff of their local store will both beable to answer questions and arrangetraining dasses. If the question tunas outto be something beyond the storepersennel's knowledge they will have ahotline in Fort Worth to question — andthe hot line wiii be up during U.S. storebusiness hours. Additienally, chentswithmodems will be able to go right in to aTandy technical information center inFort Worth for answers. Finally,ifwe everhave to give up on a user — and we don' texpect to — we' ll take the system back"

Demon~tmg the machine at its in-troduction, Howard Elias, Tandy vicepresident of computer merchandising,pointed out that the system does notcontain a Sin. "We use a very low-powerconsumption unit and have utilized so-phisticated sleepprocessing toshutdewnthe system iiself and an instilled hard

Kfias then took those present throughthe 24 built~ pregriims. The programsare divided into four categories,DeskMate Productivity Programs, Per-sonal Solutiens, Kitchen Solutions andFinancial Solutions. The hLst 5 of the 4categories are all grouped together en aDeskMate screen called Heme Orga-

As Elias went through thc applica-tions, which include - checkbookrecordkeeping, checkbook balancing,diaiy, expense analysis, travel planning,home inventory, cookbook, groceiy listand menu planner, he called attentionto the fact that all apprications weregraphically oriented and were ratherintuitive to use. Elias also said that pur-chasers can utTiize am standard MS-DOSsoftware with the 1000 RL and that theDeskMatecempatible versions of Lotus145 and Symantic's +&A St in mostcomfortably with the user interface.

Roach aho pointed out that the 1000RL is the Srst personal computer to re-ceive the Good Housekeeping Seal.Roach then brought in Elias who de-scribed the system as an 8086 unit with512K of tandem access memory (RAM)and Tandy enhanced graphics.KdJuge, Tandy director of marketing

inferma6on, later demonstrated toNewsbytes that Microsoft Works, a pro-gram bundled with IBM's PS/1, loadsslightly6ister on the 8Q86-based 1000 RL 'than on the 80286-based PS/1.Juge at-tributed the doseness in speed to thefact that eui' enhanced graphics adapterswhile dose in quality to IBM's VGA enthe PS/1, operates much faster andovercomes the speed differencesbetweenthe two chips. The pointis net thatwe'reslightly&sterbut thatyou have to loekatthe oveiall question of which system ac-complishes the task bettersather than atthe isolated technical issues."

The lowest-priced model, at U.S.$749.90, contains a 5 I/O" 7MK Soppydrive and a monochrome monitor. Thesame unit with a color monitor has asuggested price of U$.$899.90. The

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Mostpeople are under the delusion acomputer is something hke a CD stereoplayer. They expect to be able to playany program on any computer. Theydon'tstart thinkingaboutsoftware untilafter they h'ave already purchased thecomputer. By then it is too late. Thesoftware they want may not work on thecomputer they have purchased, or theymay have already blown the budget onhardware and have nothing left for thenecessary software.

A computer cannot do anything(except hum) without software. Thismonth I will give you an overview of thevarious hnds of software.

1. Commercial vs.Freewiire vs. Sh Irewdue

You buymost Gyssmcrcia/programs ata storein a shrinks box.Theyrangein price from $20 to $5,000. If you don' tlike them, or if they don' t work on yourparticular computer, you are often le&

without recourse. Usually there is noguarantee and norefund. So, itisimpor-tant to consult with accountants, sales-persons, or people who already own thepackages how they like them — beforeyou buy. Another good source of infor-mation is software reviews in computerpublicationL You are notallowedtomakecopies of commercial programs to passon to your friends. You are not evenallowed to make copies to run on othercomputers you may own. .

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8Aeysrtrtweis a middle ground. You areallowed to make cepiesand pass them onto your frieadL You are allowed to usethe pregtam for a (rial perio, usually amenth, fer f'ree. Then, if you grant tocontinue using the proglam, you mustregister by sending a fee (anywhere from$$ to $60) to the author. Normally theauthor sends you some goody in return,such as a spilier version ef the program,a printed manual, the source code, or aversion with the advertising and delays

L Which Word ProcessorPWhether you think so now or not, you

willend upusingyom computer forwordprocessingmore(haaanythingehe. Wordprecessingletgyoucreatelettegs,minutesvaotes, reports, manuals er form letters.The beautyefwerdprocessingis thatyoucaa go in at any time and make somesmall chaages to your clocument, thenprint out a new, perfect copy with thechanges seamlessly incorporated. Mostword processors will checkyeur spelling.Auxiliaty Progxauksv such as Graanmatlk,will check your gratatutkar, too

People are fiercely loyal te their wordprocessors, no matter hew old-fashionedand slew. Itis more hkely for someone tochange spouses than word processors.

How do you pidr. a word processors' Ifyeu are in an office, you should use thesame word processer as everyone ehe. Ifyou don't,you maynotbe able teworkoneach other's documents. Many of thepopular word processing progrants newlet you read and write to the file formatsof thea competitors. These convemonsare not always flawless. It is wise te checkthem in a "real-life" situation to see hewwell they work. Try the conversiens in

It is possible to start the equivalent ofa religious war in many onices simply bystating that word processor X is-betterthan Ybecause it has feature L So de notbe surprised when you find experts whodisagree with everything I am about to

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oKces. There isa free-help phone line ifyou getin trouble. WordPerfectis eccen-tric in its use of keys. This can be confus-ing if you uge both WordPerfect andother DOS pregranls. WeldPeffect lsbetter than MS Word at handling gridsand columns ef figures.

I%WriteXYWrite is common in the boolr. pub-

. lishingand newspaper industry. Itis easyte send XVWrite files directly to thetypesetters. XVWrite commands arewordy, but there is a way of crea6ngabbreviatiens chlled macres. XVWrite isthe fikstest word processor, but one ofthe hardest to learn. MestXHVrite usersonly tap a small part of i(E power.

Nota BurneNots Bene is XYWrite with a coat of

paint te make it friendlier and easier touse. It is popular in the academic com-munity because of the way it can handlecomplex footnotes, bibliographies, etc.

MS Works is a strippehdown versionof MS Word. Italso contamsa simplifiespreadsheet, a miai4arabase, and amodem program. I often recommend itas a starter. You will probably outgrew itafter ayear and graduate to MS Word orWord For Windows.

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Wang dominated the word processormarketwith dedicated madkmeL Peoplefamihar with Wang systems feel right athomewithMultlate.Mestetherpeoplefind it slew and antiquated.

Desktop PublishhkgThe dislinclion between a word pro-

cessor and adegktop publishing pregfskmgets blurrier all the time. Desktop pub-lishing gives you finer control of theposifioning of text, a larger assortmentof typefaces, and greater ease mixingtext and graphics.

Ventura is the most popular programfor books and reports. PageMaker isbetter for short newsletters and adver-tisements. Professional desktop pub-lishing requires special large-screendisplays, fikgt computers, and higbeadPostScript laser printers. However, youcan dabble with it en small computersusing an inexpensive program like Fi-

S. A Text Mitor, TooPA text editor is a strippedMown word

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p lain AS CI I file s s uch a sAUTOKXKC.BAT aad CONFI( .SVS erother s.BAT files that you use to kickofFyour variou programs. In a pinch, youcan use your word processor. If you aregoing to be doing a lot of suchwork, yeumight like a tool fine-tuned just for thatjeb.

I use the Norton Editor AK QDOS DOSshell comes with a little editor calledQKD. Brief iS a fanCy editor fOr prefes-sional profpsmmers. DOS comes withthe world's worst text editor, calledKDLIN. PG Write and QEDITAdvancedare shareware that will serve as both atext editor aad simple word processor.

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Magellan letsme automate all kindsofboring tasks in ways I never thoughtwould be possible. Every day I 6nd newuses for it.

%mdowsWindows M may be one of the most

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Ordinaxy programs can usually rununder Windows, but there is not muchadvantagein that. Only special Windows-aware programs can take advantage ofthe mouse, windows, menus, multipletypefaces, standardized printer andscreen drivers, and especiamy the en-hanced access toahuge RAM memoxy. Ifyou have enough mexnoxy, you can evenrun several prograxxis simultaneously,though they may run more slowly than ifyou ran them separately.

You can dabble with Wmdows using asmaller madune, but to use it seriouslyyou should have 4 MB RAM and at leasta 16 MHz SQ586 SX computer to run

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tion charges which could be larger thanthe cost of the extra RAM itself. Expertscan tweak and tune their machines toextract every last byte of performanceout of it, but if you lack this expertise,throw a bunch of RAM at it and watch itfly anyway+

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spreadsheets. It is still the best-knownand bestselling. It has maintained itsearlylead byendearingitself tocorporate

need not make any changes to theirspreadsheets when new Lotus 1 2-5 ver-sions come out Lotus runs on manyother computers besides IBM ciones.There are two versions of 1 2-5: fim cy

(version 2.2) and extra;fimcy (version5). Version 2.2 can squeak by with amegabyte of RAM. Version 5 requires 2MB RAM to run comfortably. It is de-signed to work with a RS MHz 805S6 DX.Few people ever leam touse theadvanced

Version 2.'2wantsonlyexpanded RAM.Version 5 wants only extended RAM,and will not tolerate the presence of amemory manager likeQEMM. Later inthis article I will cover RAM memorymanagers.

Lotus's many competitorsaresuperiorin different ways. VP Planner, writtenhere in Vancouver, is much less expen-sive, and runs quickly even on smallmachines. Microsoft Excel runs underWindows and produces graphs that youcan import into other Windows pro-grams. Borland®attro Pro is a nnnblespreadsheet that has advanced "what if"features to try out various possibilitiesautomatically. It also prepares graphsthatrival Harvard Graphics. SupetCalc 5excels at 5-D. PC Mugnutis reviewedspreadsheetsin the Apri12, 1990edition.

If you decide you want to switchspreadsheets, you do not have to start allover. Competitors often offer tools toconvertyour spreadsheets totheir format.

Lotus has been successfully fightingback at its competitors by slapping themwith lawsuits claiming their products lookand feel too much like Lotus 1 2-5. Theironyis, Lotus is itself a carbon copy ofanearlier spreadsheet called VisiCalc.

7. So You%ant a DatabasePA database is just an automated fihng

cabinet.Justas building your own houseis a undertaking only for the exception-allyintrepid, building a custom databasepragrun is best le@ to professionals.

You have a good chance of successbuildingadatabaseofonlyafewhundredrecords,butwhenitgets larger, the thingwill probably collapse under its ownweight

A few errors in a small database areeasily corrected manually. That sameerror rate in a large database makes itunusable. One of the easiest ways toconstruct a small database is to use aspreadsheet, especiallyonewithdaeabaseextensions such as VP Planner Plus.

I write my pralpiuns in BBL/Abun-dance, though other progrannners maychoose C, dBase IV, Foxbase, Paradox,Revelation, etc. Ifyou hireaprofessionalto write a custom program for you, allowhim to use the tools he is fiinnliar with.

8. Modem Software-a Window on the%orld

Ifyou have amodem,you can dial intothe global electronic conferences like

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BIX, Suzy and Compuserve, and localBulletin Board Systems (BBS's) too.Thereyou will meetexpertswhowill giveyou &ee advice on every topic under thesun. You will need some sort of genericmodem program to get you going.Shareware Telix, written right here inCanada, is the one of the better sharewaretelecommunications programsavailable.

Unicorn is a shareware telecom pro-gram that runs under Windows. It is stilla new progratn, but it shows promise.Other commercial telecommunicationssoftware offerings include: Crosstalk IV,Crosstalk for Windows, and ProcommPlus (formerly shareware).

9. Do I Need A MemoryManager PIf you have 2 MB or more RAM and

you have an 80586 SX or DX, you need amemorymanager. Memoiymanageisarehard to understand because they do somany different things. The two mostpopular are QEMM and 586Max.

Memory managers ensure that twodifferent programs don't try to use thesamepieceofRAMatonce. Theyalsoplayfancy games with advanced memory-mapping features of the 80586 chip tokee up more room for your programs towork in.

The most important thing a memorymanager does is convert some of yourextended RAM into expanded RAM. Thisimplies there is not much point in hav-ing a memory manager unless you havea megabyte or more of extended RAM.

In the August issue, I explained thedifference between conventional, ex-panded and extended RAM using thetapestry analogy. Some programs such as

tended RAM directly. They need it pre-digested as expanded RAM.A computer has 640 Kof conventional

RAM.Above thatis a 584-Khodgepodge.Some shadow RAM is in thatregion. Thevideo RAM that describes the pictureyou see on your screen is in there. TheBIOS program that controls the key-board, disks and screen is in there, butmostly it is just empty space.

A memory manager can find the littlepockets of empty space in this hodge-podge region and back-611 them with

(pop-up) prograins, and instead of run-ning them in the main conventionalmemoiy, it stuffs them in one of thepockets.

Whyis this a good thing? This &ees upyour conventional RAM to run really bigprograms. Italsogivesordinaryprogramsm ore room to breathe so they run faster.

Last month I talked about shadowRAM and how the invisible extra 5S4 Kspeeds up your BIOS. Normally, about520 K of the shadow RAM goes to waste.A memory manager recydes the wasted

QViM and Move'Em are memorymanagers for 80286computers. However,the 80826 cannot pull off nearly as manytricks with memory as the 80586 SX orDX. If you have the Chips and Technol-ogy NEAT chip set hardware on yourmotherboard, then a memory managercan convertsome ofyour extended RAMto expanded for you and can recycle

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RAM ctichc option to go between your of e xtendedRAMtouseasadiskcachaOnRAM and your expensive 55 MHz 80%6 a p er-byte basis, static RAM cache is 284DX CPU. The purpose of this the hst tim es more expensive than disk cache.SRAM cache is to hold duplicates of the K n owing this will motivate you never tonumbers that the CPU most &equently c o nfuse the two again. You then need aexamines, so that the CPU does nothave u t i l ity program called a disk cacher.towaittoget them &om the slower RAM. The purpose of the disk RAM cache isThe CPU can fetch a number in 25 nano- t o hold duplicatesof the parts of the dataseconds (billionths of a second) &om th e CPU most frequently examines, sothe ~ but i t takes 80nanosecondsif th a t the CPU does nothave towait to getit must get it &om regular RAM. Static them &om the much slower hard disk.

The CPU can getinformation &om RAMin microseconds (millionths of a sec-ond), butit takesa thousand timeslongerto get it &om hard disk

Data base programs and spell check-ing benefit most from disk caching,though nearly every program will showsome improvement

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Microsoft make a version called MSDOS,and IBM makesaversion called PCDOS. The two axe almost identicaL

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S.S and DOS 4.01 are most commonright now. Which should you use1'

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When you go to use the file, the diskarms must thrash back and forth overthe hard disk finding all the pieces. Thisslows things down.

Also, DOS does notlike to take out thegarbage. If you'closely examine a direc-tory, you will see it is dogged with rem-nants of old files you deleted monthsago. Further, DOS keeps her directoriesof iles in higgledy-piggledy order.

A de&agger is a maid — a housekeep-ing utility to run aker your daily backupto tidy up after DOS. It sorts the direc-tories alphabetically and squeezes outthe old deleted iles. It moves the direc-tories to the prime real estate near theouter rim next to the FAT — the FileAllocation Table — which is the mastertable rei!ording which parts of the diskare in use and by whom.

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The Case Against DOS 5.8DOS 89 is rather clumsy handling

very large hard disks and it has beendiscontinued by Microsoft.

The Case For DOS 4.01DOS 4.01 allows you to treat a giant

150 MB chive as one big piece. Ifyou usedDOS bayou would have to split it into 50MB &agments called partitions. If youhave expanded RAM, DOS 4.01 can ex-ploit it by putting DOS buffers andFastOpen caching in it, thus freeing upyour conventional memory. If you haveIBM brand equipment, you should use

DOS 4.01 contauis a number of smallimprovemexlts, sllch as a better methodof defecting when you have changedfloppy diskettes and of allowing you toput remarks in your CONFIGSYS files.

The Case Against DOS 4.01DOS 4.01 is larger than the other DOS

versions, leaving you even less room foryour programs. However, if you haveexpanded RAM, DOS 4.01 can grow intoit, thus having mininuil impact on yourpfogfauls.

The DOS 4.01 mstal can occasionallybe complicated and timeconsummg.Some users may find the DOS 4.01 shellprograni, thatbydefiiult takes over, is tooslow and confiising to be usefuL

The Futuxe of DOSWhen DOSS.Ofinallycomesout, itwill

beleanerand faster than DOS4.01,whichmeans there will be more room for yourown programs to run. Itwill also be moxeconfigurable, so that experienced pro-gxammexs will be able to prune out thepartsofit thatyou donotneed. Microsoftis currently beta testing DOS S.O. It is notyet publicly available.

AccessAny computer dealer will be able to

get you any of the commercial progxanisI mentioned in this artide. You can finda8 the shareware and &eeware on theBIX electronic conference. Much of it isalso available on local bulletin boards or&om the Vancouver PC User Society at(604) '1544060.

Admowledgements

tronic conference, the following peoplehelped gatherinformation and weed outerrors. From Ontario, Canada: DavidDunfield and Michael Saxgent. FromSwitserlancLJensAugustiny,Jau Sinstadtand Mike Greve. From the USA, RandalBarnes, Michael Covington, Ward(XModem) Christensen, Sean Curry, IraEmus,JeffGoMberg, David Harvey, Mar-tin Heller, TexxyHofhnan, ThomasJones,Ross Nelson, David Nye,Jcnuxne Shortell,Jay Vanderbilt and Dave Williams.

Reedy Green is president of CanadianMind A@ducts,acornpany that seiis andinstallsATcomputetsand software. Youcan reach him al Canadian Mind Ptod-ucls, %68 - 1020 Mainland Street,Vancouver, BC, Canada V882T4, (804)684-6529.

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TCP: Like memos?

TCP: X.RS is similar to X.400?

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Easy as Fax' ?From LAN to WAN'yyhat doyou do urith ekctronic mail (F maitj

gathcredPom a local area netcumk (IANNA, thatneccts to be scot across the on ce block, city orglobe to a dissimilar computer system? As otd-fashioned mailis sent to a post opec, E-mail canbe sent to an ekctronic post once (E~st oguj,then sent through a gatnvay (or bndgingl Pro-gram like X400 (an ekctronic enuetope shigedurithE-mail) to a mainPame to besortedin buN,and sent on to itsJc nat ekctronic adcbexs.

Consumers Sojhuare is the only IAN Email uendor to prooide X400 connecticrity,though its ¹txoorh Courier 2.0 mPoare,xohich urilieoon be updated arith the 2.1 uer-eionurithcharacterformatting(e,g, underlin-ing, bcrid) added. Conefsmers SePuers ie thefia uendor to oper a Nbrdoua 3'.0 integFacscalkd WinmaiL (Ymc can also use otherinter-facee hthe Macintosh, charxu~4uud DOS,08/2 and Lotus. )

In an intercri ce arit Mihe Shandrich attheir hssdqrcaxtcss xshich ie gvuuring Sheyeast in sugar ueter — he described Gseeam-erx SoPuaxs'e ruk i» the nexo Epopt opstechncriogy hhe this:

MS: It's like a rural delivery, someonewalks the mail to the local postoffice, it' ssent to the General Delivery, main city,center post of6ce and then it's distrib.uted.

TCP: To their central post of6ce andthen it's sorted...

MS: And then it's delivered. In thesimplest terms, that's how it works. Thereason X.400 is popular is largely be-cause you have many different mail sys-tems within a corporation. What manycompanies do, is use them for intrawom-pany communications.

MS: The users will have different mailsystems in different departments, and itcould be a vexy large corporation andhave thousands and thousands of users. '

So they bridge it — so this can be widearea communications — &om one endof the country to the other, or you canhave it within a company, «nd you havedifferent parts of the company with dif-ferent E-mail systems.

TCP: Are you talking in the same loca-

MS: Yes, a campus or a hrge corpora-fion, that uses different mail environ-ments, they would use X.RS to link thesec6fferent departments.

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axe issues raised

mail ta aaly aae X.400 gateway. Theseothers are what we call downstream pasteKces, addressing components, so weonly need one X.400 gateway te bridgethatwhole network, butif thereare othermail systems (if every post office has adifferent mail system), thea you havediffexentMTA(message tmasfer uait).-in that case, you use X.400 to bridgethese different mail systems.

American Airlines is very much likethis; they have difFerent mail systemsthroughout and they will have up ta14,0tO people using different mail sys.tems in different locations across theUSA,eveawithin their awaexlpaization,soitmay be Network Courier here, DataGeneral here, DEC here, then they havea LAN with another mail system here,and ever here maybe PROFS, so they' reusing X400 to cennect those very dif-ferent environments to send messages

L'Biles hsecLX400 offersgreat potential, but there

Addxessing the coxnplex SOclsaxacteraddress string required tia send Emailthrough K400, may be mtimidating tepoteatial useas, however Cansumexs ar-gues thattbissystem couldbe quite man-ageable afhm the initial entering ef theaddresses and aliases. The network ad-xainislxatar, a clever eng r o r evenCoxssumers So&ware could enter the ad-dress protocol and then all the user eversees is a simple fist of networks aad theindxviduals' addresses on that network.

True, once the addresses are assignedall the user has ta do issel~ the ahas onthe menu tetany insulated fram anycomplexity but ls xtas easy tio maintain asConsuxners chunk Long, complex ad-dress weuM seem to increase the possi;bilities for exxaxs. If the user had Con-sumers do the initial addressiag, hawwill they deal with updates and changesmade to theoriginaladdressabases tobeseat to the xnaia databases A less convo-luted method would eacaux3ge users toinstall this system. Consumers SoireeIs calapassag a directaxy ef all fhe ad-dresses iaduded in their system, whichbrings us to the next topic: X500.

would need to add would be a dedicated

sages simultaneously, or at individuallyspecified times, after they have been se-lected from the address menu, without~g up telephaae fines.

2) Leased lines - using the X.R5 leasedhaes, the user pays only for the nuxnberof messages, which are seat in packets,instead of paying for the time the trans-mission takes, avoiding costly tall charges

chines, and their maintenance, er eveasaving the cost af having a modem ineach sexxainaL

5) Seclmty and integrity of data-When you send messages through X.400Ihe inherent secunty m the E-mail pro-gxam is xnaintaiaed, induding featureslike password protection aud inscriptionschexnes. Also, yau caa only transmityour messages to specific addresses in-stead of having your xnessage hap framterminal to terxninal looking for a freeline. You may alse send xuessages as reg-istered mail and the program will returnwith the thne the mail was epened, soyou canbesurethatyourpxxvatemessagesafe lecexselL

X500 is the equivalent af a phonebeak aa E-phoae beak that will be acompanion ta the X.400 addressing sys-tem. When you think of how such adirectory cauld be useful, think of tele-phone directories aad haw often youneed to pick them up. Will X.400 pro-vide a dixectaxy that a user could query)Adirectoryassistaace service when thereis a new numbers The possibility existsfar frequeat updating, because af itselectfaxlic fatal bllt it just xaay be ~passible ta keep up with new addresses,especially since X.400is stilin the initialslages. KSQQ has been in compositionfar quite a few years. Consumers willoffer the Brst available commercial useof X.500 in North America, and they'recxeztfag a user's manual of X500 terxni-nolagy. KSQQ wim be a very valuablebusiness teolasfarasprevidingan acces.sible global xaaxket.

X.400 m. MedemsWhat advantages does X.400 ofFer us.

1) Stareand-forwaxxf technalogy-X.400 can send out any number of mes-

trends.

aad hardware like FAX and telex ma-

Staat up colts of X.4OOThe initialcostsefX.400faramultiple

LAN enviroamentareabout$5$00. Thiswould include Network Courier Iater-aetwark software fram Censumexs andthe X.40Q gatewaysoftware; then all you

terminal, then perhaps yeu would havete ald the monthly charge of an K25leased line if the volume of calls is suf5-cieatand forextexnalmessagiagacbargefor public carrier like Envoy 100(Canada} or US Sprint (USA).

Far aae neaxark Esnail system in anoxgaaization with no extexxxal xaessag-iag, the user could buy Sngle Networkvexmon for $695/newark Other gate-ways besides X.40Q could be added ifnecessaxy, like PROFS (IBM's large host-based E-axail), Unix-based SNTP (farUnix}, MCI, SNADS, and even FAX

WRl X.406 Catch OnPIn July, Consumers Software in con-

junctioa with USSpriataad Eicen Tech-nology of Montreal launched a series efseminars oa LAN-te-WAN Global Coa-aectivity in seven major US. cities: Chi-cago, Dalhs, Saa Francisco, Los Angeles,Atlanta, Washington, D.C.,and New YorkThe purpose ef these seminars was tawao major corporate aad mstitutiaaalplayers ever ta X.400. This was their firstmajor step onto that vast satellite of con-sumers, who orbit in iaterest around thestrong pull af their telecommunicationstechnology.

Consumers Sofbvare has a reliable, at-tractive, cost~viag line af products, satheir future success will depend on asolid xxlrketiag strategy in a very com-petitive field. If the trend caatinues mward global coauauaicatioas, aad ifcompanies continue todeceatralizeintetelecoxamuting nodes, X.400 will beready ta provide the meaas to these

Somces:Coa'sumers Software. (1989). The

Network Cauxier 2.0. XVM Gutecey.Handout. Belliagham, Washington.

Fisher, Sharon.Uuae 1990). Byte, vol15,na.6. TAzLatcst ot3IMP.McGraw-HimInformation Systems, pp. 21M18.

Meeks, Brock M. (December 1988).Byte, vai. 15, ao. 15. X400 Gsoais Up.McGraw-Hill Inforxaatioa Systems, pp.149-1N.

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The Macintosh, with its mouse andGraphical User Interface, almost single-.handedly changed the face of computergraphics, largely due to Apple's decisionto indude "bundled software" with themachine. Every purchaser of the origi- Inal Macintoshes received a word proces-sor called MacWrite, and MacPaint,abit-mapped graphics program. It was theseprogxanxs that amply demonstrated thecomputer's easeef use and power to in-tegrate text with iHustxations, charts orlogos. Best of aH, this power was obvious,intuitive.

The Macintosh seemed to encouragecreativity, and Apple spread the mes-sage: If you can point, you can use aMacintosh. More than any other pro-gxam, MacPaint exemplified that mes-sage. After a few dicks of the variousMacPaint tools, the answer was dear.Computers could &xakfsf create art.

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One of myfixvorit features of Studio/8 is that virtually every tool can be ac-cessed with a single key keyboard short-cut. 1Kis may be a concept inspired byEA's groundbreaking Deluxe Paint pro-gram for the Amiga Apple IIgs and IBM,where B is for brush and F is for fiH (etc.),or it may simply be common sense.

While the thought of a keyboard-in-tensive paint program may seem an un-likely advantage, in use it is a dramaticimprovement over the typical approachof using Command-8 for this axxd Com-mand-F for that. This is one area inwhich Electronic Arts should be com-mended for daring to deviate from thestandard. Itshouldbenotedthatseveralcommandsare accessedwith thenumerickeypad, therefore users of Apple's EASYACCESSutihty should turn itoff to avoidconflicts. -",

Studio/8 loads MacPaint, PICT andTIFF files, and saves in color PICT andcolor or grayscaleTIFF formati. Itcomeswith five disks: program, fonts, textures,brushes and backgrounds, and aslideshow called Gallery that allows youto assemble customizable presentationswithavarietyofdissolves, Sdesandwipes.

Several example pictures show off thevarious possxbxTxties. One picture is of alighthouse,andusingatechnictueknownas color cyding, the scene can be madetio animatei Color cyding is a very easyand fun type of animation,'appropriatefor images like rain faHing, water flow-ing, tires rotating and other types ofrepetitive motion.

A snapshot FKEY called ColoxCam is

N-bxt "true color"P Even xf you have an8-bxt video card now, you can still use aR4 bitcolorpaintprofpaxnsuch asAdobePhotoshop or SuperMac's PixelPaint

In defence of Studio/8, I have foundthat in practice itfesre better than mostother Mac graphics applications. It is adecidedly artistic tool that many graph-tcs aficionados wil prefer overprogramswith more color capacity.

Keyboard ShortcutsWhen you open Studio/8, you' ll im-

mediatelynoticemmyfiuniliarMacPaint-style tools in the tool palette at the leftside of the screen. What isn't immedi-ately obvious is that many of these toolshave popout sub-palettes that can be"tom os and placed anywhere on yourscreen. The rectangular color selectorbox in the lower left corner of Figure 1 iso ne of these of f etre s .

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1) It comes with a great library ofuseful brushtslkapes and backgroundssuch as clouds, wood, satin, marble andgranite. These are welexecuted ShitPICl' images and have proved to be ex-tremely useful as backgrounds in otherprograms too.

fk) The welhvritsen manual is an im-pressive-looking hard cover book.(Shouldn'tprogxarxl thatcost this muchmoney aa have this quality of manual?)

5) The gradient fill tool is simply themost elegant one of its hnd that I haveever seen. Of course, I just lstgtttt thosegradient fillsi

4) Studio/8 is justly fitmous for itsmashng functions which allow you tomask selected objecrs or the last objectcreated; to mask individual colors orranges; or even tosave the masks forlateruse. With ~ you can easily createsolid objects with airbrushed texturesand other layered and stencil. type ef-

5) My favorite feature though, is De-fine Perspective/Plane. By setting theangles of perspective of a small grid, youcan map any selected object ontfo a per-spective plane. Indeed,you could fill theentire plane with a marble texture tocreate an elegant "fioor"I

Overall, it is the "feel" that distin-guevhes Studio/8. It feels comfortable

L quick, Iikeagood pair ofsneakexs. Itis also fikftrly easy to leaxn, and many willfind the PIC'textures,backgroundsand

publishing arsenals.

Wish ListStudio/8 does not directly produce

color separations, so if you want to pub-lish your color mastexpieces, you' ll needto import them into Qmrk XPress orAldus's new Separator utTiity for Page-Maker. Photoshop, Colorsxndio and afew other "high end" progxaxxl can alsoproduce color separatlona

Nevertheless, I was able to open sev-eral fullwolor pictures simultaneously.Macintosh users with less copiousamounts of RAM will prolagbly not no-tice this slight anomaly. As alway withMultifinder, increasing the apphcationmemory size helps.

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Have you ever tried typing informa-tion straight &om a phone convexsafioninto a database? You wiII often have toask the caller to wait while you decidehow to categorize the data, find the ap-propriate field, and then key in.

It can be &ustrating even after a lot ofpractice. This is because most informa-tion coming in &om the real world israndom, while the database will acceptonly structured information.

It would be much easier to type theinfo straight into a word processor. Butatter a while this can become just as&ustrating. Howwillyou findaparricularconversation that was recorded monthsago amongst hundreds of others?

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You can load Info slelect as a regularapplication or as a TSL If you want tostore a lot of darxkin it then I suggestyouuse a little utiTity program that comes onthe same df'fsk called SWAPIS made byInnovative Dala ConcepiL This swapsInfoSelect between RAM and your harddrive-reducing Info@elect to less than%, of RAM when not in use. Unfortu-nately it takes vf seconds to load on ourNovellNetworkandsometbnesjusthangsup the work station.

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next~eration SR+it "true color" paintprognuncalled Studio/8'R, thatsupportsthe full 16.8 miliioacolor palette of theMacintosh. It is expected to comparefixffrorablywith 244itcolor programs likePixelPaint Professional and AdobePhotoshop. Look for a review ofPhotoshop and Color Studio in an up-c~ issue of The CoxyyIfrufcr Paper.

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Your caller may phone several timesover the next few months. At any timeyou can get a record of all conversationsyou have had with that person almostimmediately, like this. After hotkeyinginto InfoSelect, type "G (for Get"),

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If there are too many to f'it on thescreen together, you can move throughthis pile of phone notes one at a time byusing the Dcpam and Up Arrows. Thenadd new notes and put them all back inthe original stack by just escaping toyour word processor again.

abiTityto eGrab (Le„Copy) your screenand save it in a window or Put (i.e.,Paste) data from a window straight intoyour application. You could save re-petitive typing by pasting addressesstxaightfxomyouraddresssiackintoyourlettexson your ward processor or do thesame with a collection of template para-gxaphL Infe$elect makes, them easy tofmd and quick to insert

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Luge companies like Lotus or Mi-crosoft can spend tens of millions ofdollars hixing dozens ofprogxxunmers toadd ~ xt f o r different graphics dis-plays, differentkeyboards, differentmice,diFerent processors and differentprint-era But what's a small single program-mer going to do, often progxanuning atnightwhile keeping a dayjob? Or whatabout someone who just wants te playwith some simple graphics, without hav-ing to read and understand three 500-page manuals? The progranuner needsto concentrate on just progxsgcuning hisidea; that is all he has the resources for.So how does he compete with the big

A Bigger Levelthan stxaight C under DOS. Microsoftoffers a solution with Windows and Pre-sentation Manager; however, these cancost $1000 to set up to program in, andthe progranuning is extremelycomplex.TEGL offers a low cost solution to theproblem ofgraphicsand input (throughmouse and keyboard). In fact, I foundTEGL tobe as simple as many text-basedmenuing and windowing packages.

The TEGL Windows Toolkit is a su&rouiine libxaxy and a number of utilitiesthat allow a programmer to easily writegraphicallybased programs thatuse boththe keyboard and mouse. TEGL offers aset of five games as shareware that are allwritten using the toolkit These gamesgive a good indication of the capabilitiesof the toolkit (the games are Monopoly,Klondike Solitaire, Big 2, Mahjong, Soh-taire and Mille Bornes). TEGL also of-fersagame toolkit forwritingcaxdgames.

Progxanuning using the TEGL toolkitis relacxvely easy. The toolkit includesroutines for displaying menus, drawingwindows, inputting from the mouse andkeyboard, drawing icons, handlingevents, drawing text (in several fonts),perforxnmg animation and pexforxxunga set of special elects. Also provided inthe toolkit is an icon editor for drawingbitmapped icona The next release ofthe toolkit promises to add dialog boxes

The documentation is excellent. Thepackage comes with a R00-page manualon disk which documents all the subrou-6nes and explains the overall program-ming methodology. The toolkit also

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entire TEGL toolkit. This is ideal forcomeswith complete source code for the

programmersinterestedin knowinghowa modern windowing system is mitten.Also, if TEGL was to disappear, the pro-grunmer could fix any bugs that werelater discovered or could add new fea-turesas needed, and hence would notbeleft out on a limb.

Event DrivenGenerally, as in many windowing

packages,youwriteyour code in anevent-driven manner. In this case, instead ofpolling the mouse and keyboard for in-put aud then figuring out what to dobased on the keystroke, mouse buttonstate, and mouse cursor positicm, you setup event handlers, so that when certainevents occur certain routines in yourprogram get called.

For instance, if the left mouse buttonis dicked over a specific icon, then aroutine in your is called txt per-form theaction. ' could besomexhinglike chcking the "save'button in the filemenu, causmg the routine in your pro-gram to save the current user's work tobe called. Working with this sort ofmethodology makes the progxaxxuningof highly interactive applications mucheasier, as they become more haplystructured, and thusmere xnaixxiainable.

No Run-Time RoyaltiesTEGL produces a stand&one pro-

gaun that requires no speaal environ-ment. This means you do not have todistribute any sort of run-time environ-ment, nor pay any additional royaltieswhen you sell your prograxn. For gamesprotpaxnmers this is a must, since theycannot rely on home users having pack-ages such as Microsoft Wmdows, or evenhaving computers powerful enough to

Nothing,'s Perfectprmter support (however, other pack-ages are available for printer supportonly); you have to use one of the sup-ported Luiguages, and the end user musthave a supported display driver (whenHercules is supported, this should not bea problexu).

With the introduction of MicrosoftWindows 5.0, which indudes very highquality graphics, printer support,multitasking, advanced virtual memorymanagement and a very large user base,much of the graphics market is going togo to Wmdows 5.0; but, hopefully, thereis still a niche for simpler, les@expensivepackages suchas TEGLWindows Toolht.

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Thebiggestnevrslheznd rumble throughthe Amigeid community this month is anamazing aew graphics enhancementknown as HAM-K &em a company csHedSlack Belt. Basicallya video card thatplugsinto the RGS outputef any (yesl) Amiga,the HAM-K device can generate up te 16.8million colors, while maintainingfuH com-patibility with Amiga genlodrs and othervideo output options. Priced at a remark-able US $500 and already attracting sup-port &om most key Amiga graphic soft-ware developers, HAM-K looks like a surewinner.

Amax IIAlso newsworthy is an ad placed in the

latest AmigeWurfd znagazine by Canadiancompany ReadySoft promoting Amax II/Plus, an upgrade te their previously sesoMac emulator. And what an upgrade it islW ith an Amiga 2000 or greater, you cannew read/write MacdisksonAmigadrives,printdirecttioIslerWriterseverAppleTalk,connect Mac SCSI devicessuch as scanners,hard drives, etc. Amax 11/PLus also sup-ports Mac MIDI, Mac digitized sound andthe ability te use partitions on most exist-ing AmilpiDOShazd drives. Nethad for amachine that also has an ISN'T cempat-ibiTity option.

Also kichngaroundisapatch thataHowsowners of earlier Amigas te use the newWerkBench t.0 thatis shipping at this timeonly with the aew Amiga 5000. The ealycatch is, Amiga owners with ealy 512K ef"chip RAM" wiH Gnd that the new Work=bench and 0/S patch leave them with amarginal amount ef usable RAM, at best.

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The advantage of Izue gray scales be-comes apparentwhen yea resize an im age.If the different gray shades were saved asSxed pattezasofdots, these dotswiLL "clumptogether" when the image is shrunk.However, with gray scales, the gray areasare savedasactual "colors"of gray. Hence,when the picture is resized, the grays staygray'. The actual dots are rendered by theeuzputdevice,m this case theAmigaprinterdriver. Iadeed, Touch Up 1.0 was weHworth the waitl

Sketch includes a bevy of features thatwill delight hackers, Like the ability to loadin several contiguous screens to make asuperchargescrolling background, outputgraphics as source code, even send graph-ics eut the serial pertl Yeu can customizeprinter drivers (if yeu dare), and Sketchincludes direct support for scanners, with

even a 59 object editer and animater.Gh, yeah, you can sketch with it, toe.

Sketch comes with a giant multi~een"Lifesize" demonstration picture of a, er,buxom young lady in Iairly revealing garbthat' s a big hit with the guys at the softwarestores, at Least.

When I 6rst installed Script, I had thestrangest sensation of Deja vu. N%are hsd 1seen this before? Sure, it was based on theoriginal (German) Signum Write, which inturn was derived &cun the powerfuL (antipricy) Signumtechnical documentpreces-sor, but mere thaa anything else, Scriptbesrsanuncannyresemblsace teMacWrite.From the rulers to the menus, this programis clearlyan Atari done of MacWzite 5.0 (orpossibly WriteNew 2.0)

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The supphed software allows formatting,babecctor mapping (mine had none),partitioning, autoboeting and parking efthe hard drive. Better still was the newsthatinside the Mega6le 44'sattractive caseis aH the circuitry, connectors and privrernecessary to conaecta secend hszd drive.Even the mounting brackets and powerHght are right there, ready for a standardPC-type SCSI drive and cable tobedropped

Reportedly, the next version of SpectreGCR, the papular Macintosh emulator ferthe Atari, wiH be able to read and writeSyguest platters formatted on Mac drives,much «s the Spectreequipped Atari trans-parently handles Mac floppy disks. At themoment, the Megafile 44 works Gne withthe Spectre, usmg the Spectre's propr-ietar disk format.

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Script, like Sketch, requires an Atari ST,STKor Mega computer with monochrome

onitor and a minimum of one megalzyteof RAM. Both programs have also beentested successfuHy en Atari's new TT 050computer. The manual waras that STusers with 1 meg may want to skip thespeHing checker if theywant tense severalfonts. Sketch comes with one highgualityfamily ef fonts, aad (you guessed it), an

If you' re an Atari SI' user with mono-chrome meniter, at least one meg of RAM(preferably znere te take advantage ef aHfeatures) aad want easy~use pragxaxmwith unbeatable print quality, Sketch aadScript are well worth a Look

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Newshippingis themuchMLayedAmigavermea ef theMiGraphhandscanner,withversion 1.0 ef its Touch Up zeflzvare. TheMiGraph scanner with Touch Up has fersome time been the premiere scannerpackage for the Atari Sl" market. TeuchUp is also available for IBMcompatibles.

, With the abiTity te load and save pepularIBM and Mac gxaphicformals such as TIFF,MacPaint and PCX, Touch Up is a useful

; tool for desktop publishers.When liirstgot thescaaaerafew months

ager lt seeals that MiGraph managementsaid "Ship it anyway," because the Amiga

Free upgrade to1.0when it'sready." Whatthis means is that, ifyou purchased ene ofthese "beta releases,' instead ef several ofthe eperatioas described in the manual, adialog box popped up sayinguStiH UnderGmstruction." Luckily, all the scanningfunctions worked Bne, with up to 400 DPIresolution. After sendiag in the registra-tion card, theBnal release arrive recently,with aH of the pxogram's advanced imagemanipulation functions active, and an ex-tra surprisel

'Ihe Amiga 1.0 version of Teuch Upfeatures a "true gray scale mode" unavail-able in the Touch Up beta or the Atari

version's box said "Beta Sofhvare 0.9-

"New tio North America" is a pair efprograms that have been popular in Ger-many for about two years. Created by Ap-plicatioaSystems/Heidelberg, the Germantitles STnd and Signtzra Wtitehave reachedeur sheres «s 8ketrk and Snipt. Marketedhere by MegalNax/ASD, each nen~py-protected, monochrememnly programfeatures apleasaatly Low price of around ahundred bucks, a completely rewrittenmanual and includes printer drivers for 9-,%+pin,iakjetaadlaserprinters. Happily,the print quality is nothing shert ef spec-

The only bug Iceuld Snd was in Sketch,where a special function keir commandallows you to load super4igh resolulenSignilni ox Script font$e Altllough theregula graphic andtextwegraphicsfuac-tionsefSketchwerkpreperly, the high~stext feature exlzoses the program's Ger-man origin. When you type the letter Y,yougetaZ character,because of Germany'sQWKRTZ keyboard Layout. Of ceurse, thework amund is simple. Just type Z insteadef Y and "Jed's a miHionaire."

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one board. As a result, you can have full-motion video in a window on your Macscreen while you worM (RasterOps isalso well known for their monitors andaccelerators.)

ColorSpaceIIi 8 is a24-bit color board&om Mass Microsystems. The board canbe set to display Mac graphics only,videoonly, and adjustable levels of Macgraph-ics and video. It can't capture video inreal time like the NuVista board does,but MassMicroSystemsoffers acompan-ion board, the ColorSpace FX priced at$4,000, which will allow flicker-&ee full-motionvideo. The ColorSpace IIiS boardsells for about $2,700.

There are now dozens of graphicsboards to choose from for the Mac, in-duding a couple of new 8- to 24 bit cards&om Apple. A buyer should carefullyexamine theoperationalcapabilitiesofaboard to be certain it will be compatiblewith the software they' ve chosen.

Not Quite Prime Time...If you plan on using your animation

for in-house, educational or home vid-eos, you probably don't need profes-sional quality output. With the correctNTSC signals out of your computer, youcan send your animations directly to avideo recorder, in real time, withouthav-ing the expense of costly controllers andVTR's capable of single fnme recording.By not mixing computer animation to-gether with hve video images, you alsowon't need Same grabbeis or some ofthe other costly graphic boards neces-sary for high quality output.

Interestingly, the standardMacllvideocard can be programmed to output anotguite-broadcast-quality RS-170Acomposite video signal using a little-known utility &om Apple called "VideoCard Utility."This &eeprogramincludessimple instructions for building the nec-essary cable for connecting a VCR orcomposite monitor. Though officiallyunsupported by Apple, this utility maybe found on many Mac BBS's.

Mac SD ModellingA. variety of powerful SD modelling

prognuns are available for the Macin-tosh, including the SoftVisions' RIO ScTOPAS programs mentioned earlier.Swivels &omParacompin San Fran-

cisco is a medium priced SD renderingpackage that has texture mapping andanti-aliasing. It was initially developedfor simulating objects in a CyberSpace

(CyberSpace is a SD computer gener-ated environment where the user inter-acts with objects in the simulated envi-ronment through sensors that are wornon the body or hands such as aDataGlove.)

Swivel SD allows users to define com-plex camera paths by tweening betweenmultiple keyframes. The rendered&ames can be saved in a number of fileformats or saved in a Sctapbook for sub-sequent import into an animation pro-gram. It has shadow casting, texturemapping, an6iiliasing, a variety of ren-dering and shading splesand has ahier-archical linking option. It retails 'forabout $450.

The nextupgiade to Swivel SD, SwivelSD Professional, is scheduled to ship bythe time you read this. The Professionalversion promises to be 24-bit compat-ible, support RenderMan and AutoCADDXF (Data Exchange Format) flles inaddition to having a number of new

vidual &ames in a PICS file fo

features.Anotherpopular SD program for

Mac is StrataVision SD ($650), whiwas used to create the cover of theJ .issue of ThcComputarPaper. StrataVisifeaturescomplexmy-tracing, reSectiontexture mapping and smooth photrealisfic rendering, including the export of AutoCAD DXF and RenderMRIB filea

MacroMind Three-D, soon to be rleased, is made up of a set of threemodules: SDWorks, RenderWorks, anImageWorka

SDWorks accepts files &om SD modcling packages such as Swivel SD andother CAD programs and then allothe wire&arne objects or camera to bemoved in threedimensional space anberecordedaskey&ames. RenderWoradds N-bit color, shading and textureand allows scenes to be exported mRenderMan fcmnats. ImageWorks pro.videsantialiasingand saves the in '

Single &arne videotape controllerwhich handle the memoiy intensive M-bit images are available &om Diaquest,Lyon Lamb, and Videomedia.MacroMind Three-D will list for abou$RRSO.

Sculpt SD, &om the Byte by ByteCorporation in Austin, Texas, offerspowerful photorealistic 5D modelingprogrun for the Mac. In addition to thestandard wire&arne, hidden liqe rmoval, an6eliasing features offered byother SD programs, Sculpt SD also hasfull-image ray-tracing and a number ocolor and light sources. It retails foraround $1800.

Dimensions, &omVisuallnformatioqInc. in California, has a set of SD designmodules that can read and write files ta number of CAD formats and produchigh resolution animation for film ovideo output Itwill support upto M biofcolor (16.8million colors) and hasoptionalRay Tiacingmodulewithbuiltin marble, wood, metal and other cornmon textures. The Dimensions Prsenter, Ray Trace, Design, and Interreter module pricesrange &omaroun500 to $2000.

RD AnimationV ideoWorks I, &om MacroMind,

one of the first popular animafion prgxams for the Mac. Clips created withis program have appeared on network television bug due to the jagblack and white nature of the' outpuonly as part of program content.

MacroMind Director is an upgrade&om the earlier version VideoWorks IIwhich is rumored to end publication.Director isapowerful Shit color animaltion program which supports MIDIsound, imports MacMnt, PICT, andPICT2 files, and contains a nice pain)prognim. However, hke its predecesjsor,itrequires8MBofIAM to run largefiles properly. Version 2.0, due to bereleased soon, will support 52-bits o)color and have drivers to control audid

recorderL List price is $800. (Anointeerhiigncsisur that sss heing nssr&as, spar that hfasrallfsnd aws mhiasingPmgmss ghat ssould amoar anilietimssoped oa a Mncis Dietor, to he pkyedNM-PCs)

MotionWorks in Vancouver, isabout to release AddMotion, their 2animation program which is designto work together with Apple's new ver

and video disk players,and videotape'

sion 2.0 of HyperCard. When an anima-tion is created with AddMotion it is sim-ply saved as a stack Aplayer XCMD forviewing the animation is also saved in thestack together with automa6cally gener-ated command scripts and buttons.AddMotion extends HyperCard'sgraphic manipula6on capabiTities withmany features such as scaling, transitioneffects, auto-transform, multiple pathanimation, four voice sound, and theoption of 24-bit color. The progxam willretail for around $290.

A fully loaded Macintosh FX with aMotorola680$0CPU runningat40MHzwith co-pxocessoxs, a RAM cache card,accelerators, virtual memory, and a 80MB hard drive together with ahigh reso-lution 19" color monitor, rivals the capa-biTi6esofworkstationscosting many timesm ore than the $20,000 you will pay forthe Macintosh system. (A basic colorMacintosh starts at around $N00, andless powerful Macintoshes can be pur-chased for much less.)

The Computer Paper&om, the most popular of which is theSuperGen &om Digital Creations — it re-tails for $1,400.

A company called NewTek is due torelease "Video Toaster" — a 244it, &arnegrabber, s~tore, character generator,video switcher, digital efl'ects board whichhas four built-in processors. The videographics board will be bundled with SDand paint programs and will sell foraround $2,000.

Software for the AmigaAs any computer widow can tell you,

the cost of the hardware is by no meansthe major por6on of your long-term

the cost of the AT BxidgeCard.)Nonetheless, according to the Amiga's

product managerJeff Evans, Amiga hasalready captured over 60% of the low-end video graphics market.

Growing PainsThe Amigawasn'twithout its growing

pains. The genlock cards (controllerhardware which synchronize incomingvideo signals with computer graphics)were along time in coming and develop-ers were slow to produce enhancedgraphics boards for the platform.

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than "Plug & Play..."The AedgaMotorola68000-basedcomputerin1985,it was the first microcomputer that in-cluded the necessary built-in videocircuitxy, to produce reasonable quality',NTSGcompa6ble video graphics. This,coupled with the capacity to eliminate(overscan) the borders around the ac-tive screen area makes the Amiga par-6cuhirlyappropriaxefor titbngandotheroutput to video.

The Amiga series of computers haveacquired, since their iniroduc6on, a dis-propoxtionately large base of artisticall-yindined use. TheAmigapioneerscamebecause of the machine's (then spec-tacular, now unrexnarkable) hardwarecapabiTities; the others came for thegraphics sokwme that has grown steadilyin quantity and quahty. Today's Amigaartists are blessed with a seemingly end-less supply of SD editors, video titling,paint and animation programs.

Anqp-EvolutionAmigagxaphicsprogxamshaveevolved

&om the firstgenexa6on progxaxns likeDeluxe Paint, Aegis Animator and De-luxe Video (each with a maximum of Mcolors) through the secondgenexa6onhold-and-modify "HAM" programs(DigiYiew, DigiPaint, Deluxe PhotoLab).

M0*400 resolution (or slightly higherwith overscan), HAM. is a big improve-mentover the Amiga's 52 color "low res,"but still hres poorly when comparedwith IBM or Macintosh 24-bit color op-tions (themselves, third~enera6ongxaphic technologies).

5-D Software For AmigaThe third genexation ofAmigagraph-

ics are almost, but not quite here. Asmattering of Amiga programs such asTurbo Silver (SD rendering) now sup-port '24-bit color, or resolution-independent output tn fiim recordersand other ultxa4ighquality output de-vices, but there axe few higherwesolu-tion oulput options other than thosethat plug into the IBMwompa6ble slotsfound in the Amiga 2000 and above.These slots can be used with an IBMemulator called the BridgeCaxd, whichenables the use of most PC ~ e andhardware aeons. (An ATwompa6bleversion is also avaihhle, although cynicspoint out thatyou can buy a xuxl AT for

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The Atari ST and STEDecidedly more popular in Europe

than NorthAmerica, theAtari STE sharemuch in common with the Amiga. Withits animation-enhancing Blitter chip,stereo sound, a maximum of 4096 colorsandbuilt-in compositevideoandgenlockcompatibiTity, Atari has dearly designedthe STE as a competitor to the AmigoAn STE with color monitor sells foraround $1400.

A few aden graphic boards for theST computers exist, notably a unit &omParsec that supports 16.8 million colors.Image Systemshasahigh-res (1024x768)

y called JRI sells a lowest (under100) board thatincreases the 512wolor

palette of older ST's to the STE standardof 4096 colors. JRI also produces agenlock for the ST for around $800.

Sevexal companies also supply real-time video digitizers for the SI'. The bestdigitizer/software combo for the SI' ap-pears to be Color ComputerEyes andTrio Engineering's DigiSpec software.With thiscombo, any SI'can digitize fixH-color,512wolor pictures &orna compos-

Soft>mare for the STA group of graphics prof paxns called

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Partly due to the Amiga's specializedgraphicsco-processors,notablyitsBlitter(Block Transfer) chip, and partly due toits relafively low resolution and numberof colors, animations axe speedy, evenon alowend 7.16MHz Amiga.As Macin-tosh owners who upgrade to graphicboards with millions of colors will tellyou, many colors and higher res makefor slower graphics performance.

The Amiga is we@equipped to act as apresentation vehicle for animatedgraphics and soundtracks.

The new AmigaVision authoring soft-ware currently bundled with higherwndAmigas is a good step in bringing "mul-timedia to the masses." AmigaVisionmakes it relatively easy for a non-artist tocreate sophisticated visual effects, pre-sentation graphics and animations. Thepackage will also be available sepaxatelyto current Amiga ownersandis expectedto sell for under $200.

Roll 'em!WithanAmiga, video camera,genlock

and aVCR, virtually anyone can afFord toproduce their own video extravaganza.

The Amiga is a cost efFective solutionfor desktop video and, like the Macin-'

tosh, provides current users with an af-fordable upgrade path &om their older

lers. It lists at $600.Turbo Silver, another SDgraphicsaud

animation program &om Impulse, isprefered s ome for its ease of use. Itretails for $250.

The Director, &om The Right An-swers Group, is a display and animationlanguage for the Amigo This programallows the user to choreographanimatedSD scenes with 2D scenes, add text,sounds, and videofor avarietyofpresen-tation styles — it retails for $115.

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IBM and ClonesIBM and done usershaveanumber of

low-priced, mouse-driven animationprograms to choose &om, the mostpopular of which are GRASP andAutodesk Animator.

The Professional GRASP animationprogram &om Paul Mace Software inOregon sports an acceptable on-boardpaint package. Animated dips can beaccessed &om within other applicationsthrough external commands; however,scripting is required in order to animateimageL It sells for about $150.

AutodeskAnimator &om AutioCAD isprobably the best of the lovtpcost anima.

enables the Atari to run most mono-

utiTity for CAD SD/Cyber Studio, CyberControl is a proceduxul language to as-sist in the creation of complex SD Cyber

CyberPaintisa2D/SDanimation andpaintprogram virtuallyidentical in com-mands and functions to Autodesk Ani-mator for theIBM (notsurprisingly, bothwere written byJim Kent, who also wroteAegis Animator and Zoetrope for theAmiga.)

Spectrum 512 and UniSpec are sec-ond~neration512colorpaintprogr'unsmuch like the Amiga's DigiPaint.

Cyber VCR allows an Atari ST to re-motely control certain DIN p l ug-equipped SonyVCRs, allowing the seam-less splicing together of complex anima-tions &om the'above-mentioned prod-

A handful of other Cyber utilitiesround out this well-integrated and ex-tremely inexpensive library of graphicsand animation utilities. (As an example,Cyber Paint sells for less than $100,compared toAutoDesk Animator's priceof nearly $400 )

New PhaseInterestingly, several of the program-

mers thatoriginallyworked on the Cyberseries of programs for Antic Softwarehave left that company to form a newventure called Lexicor SoftwareInc. Theyare, by the time you read this, slated torelease a series of "nextgeneration" im-aging and animation products.

Called "Phase4," the series consists offour modules: ROSETTA SD Objectviewer, CHRONOSKeyframeAnimationStudio, PRISM Rendering Package andKENITC Player Package. Phase4featuresmath coprocessor support and resolu-tions up to1024x768 in 4096 colors, us-ing the above-mentioned color board&om Image Systems.

The Phase4 prognuns at~ supportan application dala exchange protocolthat provides output of RenderMan-compatible RIB files and six other for-mats. This allows Ataxi artists to use theirequipment as om-'line workstations andthen have the images transmitted tohigher-performance machines for finalphoto-real rendering.

IA:xicor is reported to be initiallymar-keting the Phase4software bundledwithImage Systems' above-mentioned hi-res

The Mac OptionAnother option for ST owners is a

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tion pxogrants for IBM DOS VGA plat-form. It is compatible with Autoshadeend AutoCAD 6le formats and it willsupportAmiga,Arari, RenderMan, Targeand PCX image files. It sells for approxi-mately $400.

Micro AdvantagesSome of the advantages of the lower-

priced microcomputer systems like theMacintosh, Arxuga, Atari or IBM are thatthey support the integration of sophisti-cated MIDI or internal sound playbackwith the aaimation,allow for SMFIE timecoding, have relatively shallow leerniagcurves and, probably best of all, have alarge installed base. This means that thesoftware will be less expensive to pur-chase and, when you have a problem,there are a lot of people who cen helpyou+

The leading edge in video and com-puter technology is at best a tenuousplace tobe. Some of the largest sad bestcomputer~imarion houses have had todedare bankruptcy. Is the big leaguewoxxied about microcomputers creep-ing iato their lairP No, the networks willalways be able to afford the best. AHarrySuite withQuentel s~ e c a n do justabout anything you can ever imaginewithvideo. Ia Vancouver the Harry Suitecosts $800 per hour and TV show pro-ducers and major corporate TVadvertis-exs won't mind paying for it. It's themanufacturers of mid-range machines,between the dedicated highwnd systemsand the new breed of micros, that areprobably womed.

Which way to go)If you need to include memory-inten-

sbre special effects in your pxeseatationsthen the higher', dedicated anima-tion workstations are probably the bestbet because hxgh+uahty anxmatioa lswhat they axe designed to do best. How-ever, if you want ao use the madune forother things like desktop publishing, ac-counting or word processing, then thelower-priced microcomputers bkeMacintosh, Amiga, IBM or Atari are theway to go.

Bus PassTo paxaphrase Chipp Walters from

Design Edge, You can either get on thebus, getrun over by the bus or, watch thebus go by. The fmal chapter on com-puter animation hasn' t been writtea yet,so the bestyou cea do is determine whatitisyou would like to do withe computerand then nnd a package that will do itwith the dollars you have to spend.Larry DeFehr is president of ArtBase, acomputer graphics, desktop publishing andsoftware devehpment fire. He is also apartner in GraphicText Applicathn Inc., acompany that developed ConvertUnits forthe Macintosh. He has produced bath con-ventional cell animation as well asanlmathncreated on a variety of computers. He iscurrently the aft director for the TV scienceseries %reekthro h".

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Rendering individual SD images withassigned texture maps, antiMasing,shading,andshadcrttpcastingfxamesfroman animated sequence require a lot ofcomputer processing capability andmemory. A smgle kame of broadcastquelityenimauon can take 15 minutes toprocess even on a Sun workstation.(That's '75 hours of processing time for10 secoads of axtixxtatlon). To render asingle fxame of a complex, ray-tracedimage oa ordinary microcomputers cantake hours. Once processed, the &amesare stored as 2D images each of whichcan be up toe few 100Kia size, so even afew seconds ofhigh-resolution color ani-mation will require asubstantial amountof storage space.Regardless ofwhich type of rendering

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ANO Automatlou PTancouver) Ltd.A Monthly Newsletter From

hen theproposedGoodsand Serv-ices Tax passesSenate and thenthe first and

second readings in the House ofCommons, Canadian businesswill venture into a time of con-fusion and uncertainty.

Although being well in-formed is one part of the solu-tion, it is important that theinformation coincides with astrategy for implementation.Whether you' re a profes-sional, a farmer, importer/exporter, sell commercial or residen-tial real estate, or simply manage asmall retail store, the changes will beparamount.

transitional period, ANOOffice Auto-mation has brought together someheavy weights in the industry, for aone day only look at the tax itself,how it will affect you, and ways tocombat it in a computerized environ-

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In a move to aid business in this

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which to tap will be available. Such This agenda will be repeated forrespected names as Peat Marwick the afternoon session, except forThorne,Computer Associates,Canon, ANO's discussions, which will focusAST Research, and Roland DG, will on networking personal computers.be on hand to tackle your concerns, Whether you' re requirements be aand present you with some fresh two station LAN, a full scale multi-ideas. station/multi-purpose communica-

The seminar, aptly titled "Auto- t i ons system, or somewhere in be-mating The GST", is broken into a t w een, no stone will be left unturned.morning and an afternoon session to Befor e , du r ing, and after thefit your busy schedule. In the morn- seminar, you will be able to see someing, Peat Marwick Thorne will dis- o f the most state of the art equipmentcuss migrating your existing system available on the market today - in-

whether it be by hand or by key-troke) into one which handlesthe GST, Computer Associateswill provide an outline on howthe GST can be implementedinto ACCPAC (the numberone selling modular account-ing system in North Amer-ica), while for first timers, orthose lookingataddingnewcomputer equipment,ANO Office Automationwill be presenting guide-lines on selecting therightbusiness system foryour needs.

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Sept 10 Exploring DOS

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Sept 29 Intr o. to Word Perfect . R/K

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Oct 27 In tr o , to Word Perfect . R/K

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Call your nearest ANO office forfurther information.Call BCIT at (604) 434-1610 for more information.

SMALL WONDER

Solution: The Canon B J-10e.

Problem: Most portable printers are okay for roughdrafts, but you need something you can makepresentations with.

Solution: The Canon B J-10e.

Problem: The portable printers you' ve looked at re-quire special paper which costs a fortune.

Problem: You would love to have the same quality print

Solution: The Canon B J-10e.

Problem: You can't afford to buy both a printer for yourdesk and a printer for your portable com-puter.

on the road as you get at your desk.

nomenal.

combined with the optional battery pack (add another .6Ibs) this little beauty can be brought anywhere you wantit to go.

Utilizing Canon's incredible Bubble Jet technology,also available on the BJ-130e (a full size wide carriageversion), the BJ-10e will make you look good withoutmaking a whole lot of noise. The 360by 360 dots per inchoutput makes text and graphics quality absolutely phe-

Another option which makes the BJ-10e excellent asa desktop printer is a multiple page, automatic documentfeeder. Simply clip it on when you get back to the officeand you have a full blown, ready to go, business printingsystem.

If you think this little puppy will cost you a lot ofmoney, well you' re in for another shock- ANO has pricedthe BJ-10e at only $575.00 Canadian. Plus, you won't bespending another heap load~bucks on consumables.The 10e uses regular everyday plain paper (letter, legal,A4, or envelopes), acetate paper for overhead presenta-tions, and the dry ink itself costs only pennies per page.

Quiet, portable, and inexpensive - the Canon BJ-10e.For further information, or if you would like to ar-

range for a demonstration, simply call the ANO officenearest you.

Solution: The Canon B J-10e.

This may sound too good tobe true,but the Canon BJ-10e Bubble Jet printer is truly a printer made for both thedesk and the road. Smaller than the Vancouver WhitePages, weighing in at an impressive 4.4 pounds, and

Advertteina Supplement to the Computer paper.

Cal1ingA11 Computer

CornerCustomers

Kith the recent closure of theComputer Corner chain of stores atthe end of June, many of Computer

out warranty support for their sys-tees. Limited salvationis now avail-able.

Due to a recent agreement withsome of Computer Corner's formersuppliers, ANO Office Automationis now able to offer partial coveragefor Computer Corner customers whohaveequipment which should still becovered by the manufacturer's war-ranty.

able to offer 100% coverage, but wearill be able to replace defective partsonsomeitems which are still coveredby the original manufacturer's war-ranty at discounted rates.

Labour charges urill still apply,but we are hoping to be able to offerComputer Corner customers a levelof support and service unavailable tothem previously.

lf you have a system rohich waspurchasedfrom Computer Corner,arul require servicing, bring yoursystem to the Service Department atour Richmond location, or telephoneus at 276-8898,

Corner's customers have been with-

Our service division will not be

InECJ4 II

When we asked for HP LaserJet Series II compatibility, Roland listened.When we asked for dual font cartridges, Roland listened. When we asked foradditional memory expandability, Roland listened. And when we asked fora manual paper feed slot, Roland listened.

Now, after listening to our requests, Roland is acting. Recently pre-viewed at the VAR show this spring, Roland and ANO are now shipping theLP-1110- the offspring of its highly successful LP-1100.

The Raven LP-1110 is a feature rich 11 page per minute laser printer. Itsadvanced paper handling, multiple emulations, and font capability meet allof your business laser printing needs.

Two 250 sheet paper cassettes mean less paper refilling and easy printingof large jobs. An adjustable manual feed provides even more paper flexibil-ity. The LP-1110 prints on letter, legal, and A4 size paper, transparencies,labels, and envelopes.

HP Laser Jet Series II, dot matrix, and Diablo printeremulations ensurecompatibility with today's most popular software. Plus the 512KB RAMbuffer is expandable to 4.5MB so as to handle complex graphics and desktoppublishing jobs.

The LP-1110 produces output at 300 dots per inch (dpi) for clear, crisp textand graphics. Thirteen built-in fonts and the downloadable font capabilitycreate high quality business output. There are also two font card slots toaccommodate any of the 5 optional font cartridges.

Scorching speed, uncompromised compatibility, and smart looking ou t-put make the LP-1110 a must see!

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eluding Canon's impressive BJ-10e,Roland's comprehensive line of dotmatrix printers, and AST's awardwinning CUPID computer systems.As well, representatives from all ofthe companies will be available to an-swer yourquestionsand demonstratetheir wares.

As seating is limited, we recom-mend that you register early. Toregister, or for further information,

DATE: September 19, 1990

LOCATION: Pa n Pacific Hotel

999 Canada PlaceVancouver, B.C.

MORNING: 830 am - 12:00 pm

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there!

please call ANO's Western CanadaHead Office at (604) 276-8898.

If you attend only one seminarthis year, be sure this is the one.

We look forward to seeing you

PS.... . Don't tell the boss, but wewill also be givirtg away some very at-tractive door prizes after the morningand the afternoon sessions, plus therewill be plenty of ref'reshments so youdon't starve!

AFTERNOON: 1:00pm -04:30pm

COST: Q5.00/Person

a hybrid of the 80286, that combinesinternal 32-bit processing with a 16-bit interface to the rest of the PC. Thismeans that it is capable of using lessexpensive 286 technology, whileproviding 386 compatibility. Newapplications such as Window 3.0,Desqview/386, and a host of other386 programs are already capable oftaking advantage of the SX's capa-

One hardware manufacturerthat's cashing in on the SX band-wagon, is AST Research with its af-fordable Bravo/SX personal work-

Where the Bravo really make itsimpact, other than a truly brilliantperformance rating, is a host of stan-

ible. 2MB of RAM (expandable to4MB without additional expansionboards), the powerful AST VGA Plusvideo adapter,serial and parallel portsbuilt right into the system board, andan impressive 16MHz clock speed,

in the world.

"Out with the old and in with thenew" seems to be the motto of theIntel Corporation, the largest manu-facturer of PCbased microprocessors

With 3&6 technology beginningitsdominationof thePCmarketplace,Intel is making great efforts to movebuyers into selecting its nearly twoyear old 386sx microprocessor, oversystemsrunning the sixyear old 80286chips.

In a nutshell, the 80386sx chip is

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Priced dose to most competitors286 based systems, the Bravo alsoboasts AST's shining track record foraward winning computer systems.

If your concerned about price,but don't want to be left out in thecold a couple of years from now, theAST Bravo/SX is for you.

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