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For owners of Ataris, Commodores and Macintoshs.

:,, Why Your Next Computer liight Be A 38$ ............35A buyer's guide to choosing a computer that suits your needaBy Graeme Bennett.

'." CThe best gets better.By Netson Ruest.V. e n t u r a F o r T h e M a c s • $ • eraser • $$$ • $$ • s • $$$ • ss • oooo • ss • esses • $$ • $43The long document master comes to the Macintosh.By Netson Rttest.

C omp e t i t io n Fo r W i n d o w s $$$$$$ • oooo • $$ •s s • $$ • $$$$$$ $ $$$ • $$ • $$ 4 5

GeoWorks Ensemble offers Windows features and speed.By Graeme Bennett.N Icro e o f f N OU Se eeseseoseaasoseeassaeeesesseeeooaaooeesesasoosoaesee4 ®The industry standard mouse.By Pattl ocher.Used Computer Handbook .....................................49A new book tells you how to get the best deal when buying and selling a used

By T. Bass.Amiga Gets Networking Capabilities ....................52. Long a favorite in the home, the Amiga gets networking for business.By Nancy Dpi tt Lorieau.

Tex t H o o v e r oeor o a aaasaasesaasrseesrsseeaseeeeeeeereeeeeeeeseresseeesse53Darth Vader's shaver, or Optical Character Recognition mirade?By Craeme Bennett.

Stunt Orwer ...........................................................55The game Stunt Driver proves addicting.By John McCormick,Trilogy: A Language For The Logical .....................38Locally developed Trilogy offers programming based on mathematical logic.By S~h Smith.

LAPTOP COMPUTERSNoteable Notebooks ..............................................28Three recent offerings from Toshiba, Sanyo and Sharp.Bv DanielWager.The Intra LT-386SX Laptop ........................•...........30Heaftier than a notebook PC, but powerfuLBy Graeme Bennett.

B drIdggng The Laptop Gap .......................................33

By Nancy Devi tt Lorieait

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Poraable ComputersPortable computers keep getting more

portable. The notebook computers welook at this month are extremely light-weight and easy to live with. At this size,computers can be much more easily inte-grated into everyday living. No longer areyou desk4ound by your PC, you can takeit with you.

I took a trip this month, and broughtalong a "pocket organizer", the little Port-folio from Atark I found it very helpful,withitsdaydimer and mini-wordprocessor.Interestingly, the spreadsheet turned outto be its most valuable asM:t for me. Iwanted to play around with the effecls ofsome business projections, and I was ableto quickly build a small model of theproject and try a few what% scenarios tocome to a better business decision. Thenumbers were right there, I didn't have to

waituntilI got back from the trip to make myconclusions. I could testmyhypothesesright in the field. While the Portfolio has its limitations, portability is one of its bestsellingpoints. I can'twaituntil someoneputsoutalovpcost%6kased computer witha goodmzed hard drive in this pocket style package.

Speahng of speed, GeoWorks Ensemble, a new Mac4ike graphical user interfacefor PCs, is offering up competition to Microsoft's behemoth. Unlike Windows,GeoWorks is written in assembly language for speed. It offers much of the samefunctionality as Windows, but runs reasonably even on older XTatyle computers.Check out our review on page 45.

Ottawakesed Corel is out with a new version of Corel Draw, its very successful-Windows drawing program. Sales for this package have skyrocketed since itsintroduction. It is recognized by many as the best drawing program on the market,even beating the Macintosh programs in this area. Nelson Ruest, desktop publishingwiz extraordinaire and long%me contributor to these pages, is back to give us anoverview of the package.This Month, We Have...& Really Big Show

This month, you will see in our pages the Pacific Rim Computer 8c Communica-tion ShowGuide. TheshowisbeingheldJanuary'l4, 15 & 16at the WorldTrade andConvention Centre. From what we have seen of the products that will be there, it isa show not to be missed. If you get a chance, drop by our booth and say hello, we are

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The battexypowered device promisesto be much faster than looking for thedesired section of printed material.

The PIP uses a high resolution displaydevice called the Private Eye~, to pro-duce animage sharperand brighter thanmost CRTs, yet visible only to its user forthe ultimate in privacy. The display unitis only 1" x 1" x 5" and weighs only twoounces. The Macintosh version is avail-able now, with the IBM-PC version avail-able in the first quarter of 1991. Formore info about Colby Systems, callCamelot Computers at(604) 4$9-7082

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Like it or not, Microsoft Windows ismaking a big noise in the PC world.While DOS-fearing users are filling

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KIS Information Systems has releasedPayroll for Windows. Like all Windowsapplications, it uses mouse and menus tosimplify payroll duties like employeeearnings, deductions, cheque printingand more. The $349 package rxms onany PC/XT/AT or PS/2 with 640K RAMand a hard disk, but if you' ve ever usedWindows on a PC/XT, you' ll know that"xun" is an overstatement at best. Walk,maybe.

Contact: KIS Information Systems Inc.,at (604) 222-2252 (and dial carefully, oryou might end up with a pizza instead ofa payroll packagel)

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The PIP stores — in a compressedform — hundreds to thousands of com-puter frames downloaded through theserial port of a Mac or PC, and can thendisplay any &arne of the stored materialat the touch of a button.

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The CPU/floppy/power supply unitcan weigh between 5 to 7 pounds de-pending upon configuration. Additionof the 2 1/2 pound top section gives youone of the lightest and most powerfulportables.

And, if this isn't enough versatility,the top unit can also be plugged intoColby's Nu-Bus card that can turn yourMac Ilcx, llci or the new, very small MacIlsi (available in October) into a vexypowerful transportable with Nu-Busprovisions. Perfect for those applica-tions when you must have transportabil-ity, speed and Nu-Bus capability.

And, for the ultimate power user, theStealth also will plug into Colby'srepackaged Mac FXportable CPU unit.

briefcase. It has four Nu-Bus slots (threeavailable with the Stealth adapter inplace), a 1.44 floppy and a 45, 9Q, 180 or500MB vexy fast hard drive. The powersupply is either a 110/220VACSQ/60 Hzinput module power supply or a 9-18VDC input power supply module.

This combination is the ultimate inportables! All of the speed of a Mac FXwith S open Nu-Busslots for color boards,videodigitizers or whatever, and the easeof use of the Stealth on your lap. You canuse it in meetings, while relaxing in yourfavorite chair or unobtrusively, whilewaiting in the airport. You can put onlythe low profile (1 1/2" thick) Stealthunit on your lap and the CPU part on thefleer next to you. The Stealth makes itpossible to use a portable in situationsthat preclude operation of conventionallaptops. The Stealth sitting flat in yourlap is so much easier to use in all situa-

This unit is about the size of a business

named B.C.'s "Innovation of the Year."

months of formal cfassroom instruction

tions than a conventional laptop with itsdisplay in the upright position, blockingyour view of the world around you andcaHing attention to the fact that you havea computer in front of you.

Access AbihtyThe Open Learning Agency has an-

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with a three xnonth internship with avariety of employers in the InformationSystems industry, For more info, callOpen Learning Agencyat 14D04z63-167Sor (604) 660-2000

Innovation Of The YearOne of the commercial partnernhips

made possible by TRHMF, Ebco Indus-tries'Tan Medical Cyclofron,has been

Interestingly, Ebco is also in the newsbecause they are the manufacturers ofCanada's hrrgest Menorah, which theydonated to the Ritz Chaim Synagogue incelebration of the Jewish holiday

Why was the Menorah, designed by

Erickson, funded by non-Jewish Ebcofounders Hehnutand Hugo Eppich? "Topromote goodwill, understanding andfriendship," they state. And lighting thegiant 8Koot Menorah this year? None

and prominent business leader CharlesDiamond. It seems as though a littlegoodwill certainly goes a long way.

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Caere Corporation informs us thatthe DOS version ofTypist, Zhe UltimateTyping Machine," has been delayed, butis expected by the time you read this. Seethe review this issue for details on thishargl+eld OCR devxce.

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In Microsoft's 1991 Momeatv of'Mad-aeex im Wcrxrcolrprxters Calendar ($11.95,and reportedlya Christmasgift favorite),has the company developed their ownwackybrandofhuxnor? You be thejudge.Here's the caption for March, set in anold west saloon: "Every number in thejoint tensed — it was the new accountantin town, and he was packing Excel...." Orhow about June's, where a hammock-hanging husband watches as his wifeworks: "I can'tjust leap into these choreswilly nilly — a backlog of this magnitudecalls for Microsoft Project scheduling...."And, if you can stand it, here's August'scaption for a scene where a couple ofnovices contemplate their new BrmrrrrWharf Pmcnxor. "It sounded great on theT.V. offer — but maybe we should havegone for Microsoft'Word." Har har.%howrites these guys' material, anyway?

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Computer Associates, they describe thecost of GFI upgrades for their line ofaccounting programs. In particular, onething caught my eye: The order forminstructions section that described howto pay the GST on the 1991 portion ofSupportPlus (CA's extra~ost telephonesupport program) are but a sample, I'msure, of what we will soon be inundatedwith.

I quote: "As outlined in Subsection341(3) of the proposed GST legislationbeginning September 1, 1990 we areobliged to collect a goods and servicestax of 7% on the 1991 portion of ourSupportPlus service. GST does not applyto "upgrade only" orders. To calculatethe GST due on your SupportPlus service,please multiply the total dollar value ofyour SupportPlus order (excluding PST)by the number of months in 1991 towhich the service applies. Divide thisfigure by 12 months and then multiplythis amount by7% (.07).e.g. SupportPlus

months of SupportPlus service in 1991.(SupportPlus price X 10/ 12X.07 = GSTpayable)."

H mm. They say that 50% o f t h epopulation can'tfigtu e out how to recordwith their VCR's. They' re probably the

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Eric Rojo (an architect by trade), hasjust completed MacHeliodon, intendedto help building designers quickly andaccurately calculate the direction of thesun &omanylocation in theworldatanytime. It will also calculate the degree ofshading provided by an overhang, evenwarn you if the entire wall is in shade forthe overhang specified. While there aresome top of the line 3-D CAD programsthat can perform calculations like this,MacHeliodon's $22.95 price is hard toargue with.

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know exactly when their disk will fail.This risky "Russian Roulette" is furthercompounded by the fact that it is impos-sible to say how long — if at afl — it willtake to repair a "crashed" disk

Obviously, backups are essential forbusinesses or other organizations thatare dependent on computerized data.The trouble with tape backups, though,is the length of "down time" that is re-quired to recover Rom a backup.

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T he new c o m puter , c a l led t h eNoteMaster 386S/16, featuresaVGAcoldcathode flourescent tube (CCFl') sidelitdisplay said to offer a near-photographicdisplay with up to 64 shades of gray, a1.44 MB floppy drive and 20 MB harddisk, as well as ports for a mouse, munerickeypad, second floppy drive and exter-nal VGA monitor. A parallel and serialport are also included.

An unusiial feattire is an external slotfor the easy fitting of a numeric cogro-cessor. The unit will be bundled withTravelling Software's LapLink filetransfer software, and comes with a one-year warranty.

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AUSTIN, TIUGK, DEC l l ( NB)-Coiapuadd, an 89-store Texas basedchain of computer stores and mail orderoperation that makes it own clones, hasannounced the Companion SX, a 20megahertz 386SX that can fit in a brief-case and weighs less than 6 pounds.

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The Companion SX is expected to beavailable in the first quarter of 1991.

Novell Chtims 'N% Of UKMarket Share

BRACKNELL, BERKSHIRE, EN-GLAND, 1990 DEC 19 (NB) — Novellhas commissioned a survey of the Lon-don Times™top 1000" companieswhichconfirms the position of its Netware op-erating system in the nuinber one sales

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According to Novell, the accuracy ofthe survey was verified by a separate sur-vey with 100 managers from computerdealers supplying networks. Novell re-ports that some 44 percent of PCs soldthrough dealers are networked, with 74percent of these choosing NovellNetware.,

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The Beijing virus is apparently in-tended to spread a political statementbecause its only designed feature (crash-ing disks is apparently a bug in the virus)is to display the message "BloodylJune 4,1989," the date of the Tiananmen Squaremassacre. Glath says that he feels it issignificant that it appeared on both sidesof the Atlantic simultaneously becausethis may indicate a coordinated effort tospread the virus.

Because the new virus is a boot sectorvirus that bypasses the normal MS-DOSinterrupt system, it is not detectable bymost anti~ pro gruns, according toGlath, and even those programs thatdealwith this type of virus won't properlyreport the Beijing virus until they aremodified. VISPY will include the newvirus in the nextversion due to ship at theend of this month but current VISPYusers who need an immediate updateshould contact Glath.

VISPY, the first software modified tod etect the new virus, is an anti~ p r o -gram published by R.G.Software, 6900East Camelback Road, Suite 860,Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Users of the latestversion of VISPYwould only see a reportthat 2K(2048 bytes) of memoryis hidden&om MS-DOS by an unknown program,but the next update will fullyidentifyandremove the Beijing virus, according to

Thomas Grayson, manager of theTransportation Systems Division Com-puter Department of the Civil Engineer-ing Department at MIT, reports that thevirus overwrites absolute disksector 1 ona hard disk but it also apparently copiesthe original information to absolute sec-tor 6so thosewith the technical knowhowcan probablyrepair the diskbyremovingthe virus signature and copying the cor-rect information back to absolute sector1.

Mr. Grayson, an M1Tgraduate studentwho did his undergraduate work atHarvard, points out that the boot sectorup to 01BE (the HEX or hexadecimaladdress of the beginning of the secondabsolute sector on a hard disk) normallycontains a small amount of code alongwith some error messages and a s~g ofzeros but if the Beijing virus has infectedthe disk it will contain garbage up to the01BE (HEX) addresL

He reports that the origin of the virusispresentlyunknown because there are anumber of students with access to theMIT computers which have become in-

GCN Reports Nearly 5,000U.S. Army PCs Have AVirus

WASHINGTON,D,C., DEC ll (NB)-Robert Greene, a staff reporter for Gou-enamsnt CsfaInltsr Nerss, has reported inthe December 10 issue that about 5,000U.S. Army PC computers have becomeinfected with viruses in the last 90 daysand thatPentagon officialsareconcerneabout the effect this might have on Op-

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Several other virus strains have alsoshown up, including the "Stoned" viruswhich prints the message, "Your com-puterisnowstoned. Legaliaemarijuana."

McAfee Associates' VShield is report-edlynow being distributed at test sites inSaudi Arabia to help stem this virus at-

Court Strips dSaseCopyright14 (NB) — FederalJudge Terrence Hat-

against Fox Software for copyright in-&ingement and, in doing so, has ren-dered invalid Ashton-Tate's copyrightfor dBASE IH Plus. The suit was diemissed "with prejudice" and the use ofsuch language precludes Ashton-Tate&om refiling a new suit in the same

Ashton-Tate president and CEO, Wil-liam Lyons, was quoted assaying that theruling is wrong and that Ashton-Tate willask the judge to reconsider. Lyons alsosaid that the company will appeal if theruling is not changed. "We' re surprisedand alarmed," said Lyons.

As basis for the removal of copyrightprotection for dBASE III Plus, JudgeHatter need that Ashton-Tate, at thetime that it obtained copyright, did notreveal that dBASE was based onJPL/DIS, a product originally developed attheJet Propulsion LaboratoriesQPL) inPasadena, California. Wayne Ratliff, de-veloper of dBASE (originally known asVulcan), was a former employee ofJPL

In the written ruling, Hatter said thatwhen Ashton-Tate applied for a copy-right, it failed to mention theJPL linkand, in doing so, Ashton-Tate had "re-peatedly failed to disclose material infor-mation to the United States Copyright

The dBASE language, althoughdaimedbyAshton-Tate asitsintellectualproperty, is used as the basis for products&om other software firms including FoxSoftware, WordTech Systems, and Nan-

Immediately following the judge' sruling, WordTech issued a statementsaying, in part, "Although WordTech hasa separate 1987 contract with Ashton-Tate in which Ashton-Tate agreed thatWordTech products are free &om copy-right lawsuit, WordTech bdieves thisdecision is a further measure of protec-tion for its customers." The WordTechstatement also said "This decision willstrengthen the dBASK after market fordBASE langua~ompatible databasesand follows products by encouragingindependent implementattons of thedBASE language."

FoxSoftware PresidentandCEO DavidFulton told Newsbytes, "We are delightedwith the ruling. We feel that justice hasbeen served and that it is a reletter dayfor the X4mse industry. The ruling re-moves a cloud from the users of non-Ashton-Tate products and is a just re-sponse to the monstrous claims that hadbeen made byAshton-Tate. The languagethat.underlies the XZase products isestimated tobe; the most commonlyusedlanguage for microcomputer applica-tions with up to 8,000,000 users. Ashton-Tate, through this lawsuit, tried to arro-gantly establish a monopoly over thissoftware in Saudi Arabia such as com-

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entire group of users. FortunatelyJudgeHatter recognized the unfairness of thisattempt and reached a fair and proper

Pat Adams, a long-tenn consultant in.the dBASE community and the found-ing treasurer of the International dBASEUsers Group (IDBUG), coaunented onthe ntfing to Newsbytes, saying, "Inde-pendent attorneys specializing in soft-ware and intellechial property issuesteUme this is one of the most suartling deci-sions they have seen. I think that thentling is a victory for the entire X4Jasecommunity."

MsAdams explained that the term "X-base" is now being use.d by the commu-nity using what has previously been com-monly referred to as the "dBASE lan-guage." Adams said that the change interminology is a result of Ashton-Tate's"recenthasslingofanyoneusingthe termdBASE. The hassling has been directedat everyone from corporate competitorsto not-for-profit user groups such asIDBUG. In the case of IDBUG, the has-sling is almost comical since the groupwus started with Ashton-Tate approvaltuider that name and we received a cor-porate sponsorship of $5,000 from

Adams went on, "I see this as a victoryfor the entirecommunity.Ashton-Tatehad not only clanned a look~duelissue, it also claimed ownership of theprogatmming language and file formatsand even recently tried to establish own-ership of the entire marketplace. Its ag-gressiveness certainly boomeranged. Ihope thatAsh ton-Tate nowconcentrateson market competition rather than liti-gation. I think that, whenever a firmattempts to compete in the courts rather

HENLEYWN-THAMES, ENGLAND,DEC 11 (NB) — Metro Software has un-veiled PC Artifax, the first Hewlett-Packard Lmerjet Series II emulationpackage for PC fax cards.

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than in the marketplace, there is boundto be problems created and I'm glad thatthe judge has ended this action."

A Wall Street analyst who closely fol-lows the software industry told Newsbytesthat he sees the ruling as having far-reaching implications. The analyst, whopreferred to retnain anonymous, said,"The ruling could trigger a number offorces. Although the dBASE language isconsidered a standard, it is, in manyways, inadequate. I think that now firrnswill be wffling to invest developmentdollars to enhance the language." Headded that he expected to see ramifica-iionsfor theLotusvc. Borfandcase. "Onecan certainly say that 1 M is a derivativeofVisiCalc and, based on this ruling, thatmay weaken Lotus' position."

Robert Frankston, vice president ofSlate Corp. and corleveloper ofVieiCalc,in a conversation with Newsbytes agreedthat there may well be implications forthe Lotus/Borland case, saying that al-though he hadn't read the details of thejudge's ruling, "I'm sure that this issomething that Borland will pick rightup on to see whether there are any rami-fications. It would seem to me it Inay

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Southern Bell Wins CallerID Without BlockingThe Georgia Public Service Commissionvoted 54 to allow Southern Bell to offerthe controversial Caller ID service with-out blochng, except for selected policeagenciesand social servicehotlines which

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request it The decision is due to bereviewed in a year. Southern Bellspokesman Susan Bradbury toldNewsbytes the decision will "increase theprivacy of people receiving calls."

Using a special display unit, Caller IDallows consumers to see the number ofthe person calling them before they an-swer the phone. When linked to com-puter prograomlike Rochelle'sANI Plus,it allows businesses to link incomingnumbers to their own databases, or savecallers' numbers for later use or sale tomaiTing- list firms.

Southern Bell pushed hard to offerCaller ID without blocking, saying itwould eliminate harassmg or obscene

line busmess customers. Customers who

calh, and maintain the privacy of peoplebeing called. The charge for Caller IDservice will be $6 a month for residencecustomers and $9.50 a month for single-

subscribe to the service will also need torent or purchase a separate display unit.

Southern Bell will provide freeblocking of Caller ID service to law-enforcement and crisis-interventionagencies like suicide hotlines and bat-

provide any protection for others, in-cluding customers with unlisted num-bers. The effect will be to make unlistedcallers' numbers pubhc to mailing- listproviders or businesses they call whichare equipped with Caller ID software.The service will be offered by the secondquarter of 1991.

Contact: Susan Bradbury, SouthernBell, 404-391-2478

Jupiter Head Calls ProdigrTop Online News of 1990

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK, DEC 14(NB) — Prodigy, and the rest of theindustxy's response to it, was the toponline news story of 1990; according tomarketanalystJosh Harria Harris, whoseJupiter Communications studies the in-dustry and whose monthly Coawsct Tiwissnewsletter cover's it, told Newsbytes that,whether it succeeds or not, the IBM-Sears joint venture has had a profoundeffect on the online services business.

"Everyone changed their billingstruc-ture to some sort of flat rate, exceptCompuServe," he said, in response toProdigy's flatrate pricing. GEnie, for in-stance, introduced its Staraservices,withdozens of services offered at a nightierate of $4.95 per month. For 1991, Harrisexpectsa further response&om the olderplayers in the online industry.

"GEnie and CompuServe will moreardently pursue a graphical interface,"he predicted. But Prodigy will have torespond to the older part of the industryas ithasn'tin the past, he added. "Prodigywill add some o f t h e fe a turesits competitors have, like uploading anddownloading of files, as well as real@memessaging and technical support.

Harris also feels shopping and onlinegames will star t to take off in 1991, partlybecause of Prodigy and partly because ofnew technology.

As to who's making money online,

CompuServe. "CompuServe makes a lotof money. HR Block owes them, andwithout CompuServe they'd be introuble." Harris estimates CompuServewill net $86 million in 1990, with theCompuServe network netting another$44 mi l l ion. S t i ll , H a r r is says,CompuServe has not grown at a fantasticrate in years, having taken 2 years toincrease its membership by less than50% "GEnie has grown a bit," Haxrisadds, but he's skeptical of the member-ship numbers being put out by all of the"big 5" — CompuServe's claim of 725,000users, Prodigy's claim of 600,000, andGEnie's claim of 285,000.

The Bell Gateways, Hatris feels, aredead in the water. 'They' re never goingto do anything, as they' re configurednow," he says. The guys there now aresmalllocalIPswhoaren'trunningsystemsproperly.Whyadvertise thegatewaywhenusers can't get to other services with ibIn France the gateway works becausethere's no competition for the Kiosk,which is what they call their gateway. In,

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Dutch SoftwarePirate Arrested

THE HAGUE,NETHE~ Q fDS, DEC14 (NB) — Dutch poHce have arrested acivil service employee &om the DutchMinistry of Defense on charges of settingup a software distribution center withprop Yarns he copied from his employer,ware Alliance watchdog group has filedan of6cialcomplaint.The 3+earmld DeNt, HoHand resi-dent may stand trial for infringementson copyright, fencing, and stealing whileon o8icial duty. Police say they found astack of illegal softwareand an improvisedcatalogue with 1,200 titles elsewhere inThe Netherlands and proceeded with aninvestigation assisted by The Hague PilotTeam to Fight Computer Crime.

The dossier wiH take a few weeks to becompleted, a police spokesman said. Butthere was no confixmation of when or ifthe District Attorney will begin criminalproceedings against the Defense Minis-try oKciaL The impounded IHegal soft-ware has an estimated value of 1 miHionguilders ($750,000) according to thespokesman.

Earlier this year, NoveH had success-fuHy managed to force a software pirateoperation out of the market after a yearof court battles. Computer Technologyde Espana is no longer allowed to seHCompNet after ajudge ruled that part ofthe software was copied from NoveH'sNetWare.

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In recent events concerning thepatent, PresidingJudge Samuel A. Contihas granted Hayes motions to disniiss allantitrust claims made by the four, andthe Circuit Court has upheld Conti'sruling not to hold the patent invalidwithout a trial. In order to win, the defen-dants must prove to the trial court thatthe Hayes patent is either obvious orinvalid in some other way. Recent courtrulings have increased the protectionoffered bypatents in the computer field.

Hayes alsohas protectionfor its patentin France, Germany, Italy, the UnitedKingdom, and Canada. A second patent-in&ingement case against Multitech is

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San Francisco supervisors voted 8 to 1to approve the measure, which will comeup for a second vote next week beforereaching the desk of Mayor Art Agnes.

The law affects businesses with at least15employeesand allows them to take upto two years to provide comfortable andsafe equipment with which employees

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(NB) — Philips Ko m munikationsIndustrie says it has successfully bridged15$ kilometers at a speed of 2.5 GB persecond without a repeater. The test wascarried out under stable conditions witha laser in single mode. The wide areanetworkmakesuse of a 1,550nanometerwavelength. Philips said that the speedand the capacity is equal to 80,270 digital64KB channels and hence is anewworldrecord.

For the test, a new 2 milliwattlaser wasdeveloped, as was anewoptical receptionsystem.

The Synchronous Digital Hierarchystandard opens iiew horizons, accosdingto Phihps, and may lead to worldwidenetworking standards,, its importance asbig as the development of ISDN.

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Sponsored by Meckler ConferenceManagement of Westport, Cormecticut,producers of the Sedghng Virtual Real-ity Report, the show was held at theCathedral Hill Hotel in San Franciscoand is promised as the 6rst of many.

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Additionally, the term "cyberspace" isinterchanged with virtual reality,cyberspace being defined as "the illu-sion of being somewhere other thanwhere you are," by Randal Wahser ofAutodesk, and as "a consensual halluci-nation experienced daily by billions oflegitimate operators in every nation, bychildren being taught mathematicalconcepts," by William Gibson, author of

Although there are few if any seriouscommercial applications of virtual real-ity being employed today, most of theresearch is in the labs,experts say. Projectsare underway at the universities of Wash-ington, Pittsburgh, UC Santa Cruz, andthe Universityof North Carolina, ChapelHill, among other places.

The research involves use ofheadmounts, sensors, eye controllers,Polhemus magne6c trackers, and soft-ware, such as that designed by Sense8, ofSausalito, California, which provides toolsto integrate various input sources withthe Digital Video Interactive technologyof Intel. The projects are designed toenable a person to experience an alter-native realityin which theycan physicallyinteract. At the show, Sense8 demon-strated this concept both by use of ahead~ounted device and simply with amonitor on which a ~ s cene could bemanipulated with a "spaceball" — a de-vice similar in appearance to a trackball,but capable of moving the onscreen im-age in three dimensions.

thusiastic market for the virtual realitytechnology; the most successful productto date from this field is the Daiaglove,which sold $115 milhon worth m its 6rstyear. The Dataglove enables gameplayersto direct action on screen without touch-ing a keyboard or a mouse, but simply bymoving their 6ngers. The technologywas created by VPL Research of PaloAlto, CA.

The entertaiiunent 6eld also featuresthe "virtual real i ty" arcacle calledBattletech Center, a popular Chicagocenter where gameplayers are physicallyplaced inside closet+sized modules and

interactive hituristic battle. JordanWeisman, president, tells Newsbytes thatthe concept has been so success6si thatnew facilities will be opened soon in NewYork, Los Angeles, Florida, and London,with San Francisco and Boston on thedrawing boards. He says the Chicagocenter has had 40,000customerssince itsopening late in the summer.

There was also a head~ounted LEDdisplay system for a PC vrhich 6ts overone eye. The Private Eye, $V95 to end-users, is &om Re6ection Technology ofWaltham, MA. Al Becker, companypresident, told Newsbytes that 500 com-panies are developingapplications for it.

One of them is combining the head-mounted viewer with a CD-ROM player.Reddy Information Systems of New YorkCity says its bundle is designed to appealto the mobile blue~oltar worker likeairline mechanics and surveyoss, whoneed to see data while they work, in a

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MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., DEC 10 (NB)-The unstable political situation and signsof coming big changes in state 6scalpolicy have raised rouble computerprices.

According to a variety of dealers andbuyers of computers and other electron-ics in Moscow, the price of a standard AT

week to 54,lX&55,000 roubles now. Faxmachines are also up, &om 11-15 thou-

Last month, President Gorbachev is-sued a decree that takes 40% of foreigncurrency earnings from all Soviet enter-prises "to service state debt paymentL"This decree and riunors about coming

forced many people to spend money-local and foreign — investing in small butexpensive units such as computers, ac-cording to Leonid Malkov of Paragraph,a joint venture.

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portable fashion. Liz Rich, CEO, tellsNewsbytes that the firm is seeking a sec-ond round of venture capital before sell-ing the product commercially.

Still, the bugs to be worked out ofvirtual reality tend to iiivolve the speedof the hardware, says Sense8's PatriceGelband. "The processors in the sensingdevices are too slow," she said, addingthat an even bigger problem is the com-fortof the devicespeople mustuse. "LViththe gloves (Datagloves), people's armsget tired. All these issues have to be

cial and technical success.

(NB) = Insignia 8otutions, the Britishublisher best Imown for software that

ets users run MS-DOS programs onMacintoshes, hasbought technology thatwill let Unix users iun MS-DOS applica-tions. The seller was Phoenix Technolo-gies, one of the pioneers in cloning IBMPC components.

Price of the sale was an undisclosednumber of shares in the privately«heldInsignia.

Phoenix, based in Norwood, Massa-chuseus, was one of the 6rst companiesto duplicate the ISM PC's basic input/output software (BIOS) — thus allowingthe "cloning of MS-DOS systems. Itcurrently makes a variety of system soft-ware products. Though it daims morethan 200 companies as dients, Phoenixhas been in Snancial trouble for sometime.

Insignia Solutions is best known for itsproduct SoftPC,which letsusersrun MS-DOS programs on M acintoshes,Sparcstations and Next computers. Thesoftware emulates Intel processors onnon-Intel platforms. The company isheadquartered in High Wycombe, En-gland, and has U.8. marketing ofEces inSunnyvale, California and Andover,Massachusetts.

The abiTity to run DOS programs as atask under Unix is not new. Severalvendors have sold such a system since1985, with varying degrees of commer-

Contacts: Roger Friedberger, Insig-nia, 408M2-7600; Richard Levandov,Phoenix Technologies, 617-5514005.

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(NB) — UniForiun Canada, the nationalUnix users' group, has announced itsschediile of events for the coming year.It includes a national show and confer-ence in Toronto in May, a French4an-giiage show and conference in Montrealin October, and a road show for westernCanada.

The Open Systems for GovernmentShow and Conference will be held at theOttawa Congress Centre in Ottawa enJanuary 16 and 17.

UniForum's Canadian ExecutiveSymposium on Unix and Open Systemsis scheduled for Torontc 's Prince Hotelon March 6 and 7.

The Open Systems Road Show sndSeminars will he in Calgary March 4 and5, in Edmonton March 7 and 8, and inVancouver March 12 andi'. The Calgary

convention centres, while the Vancouvervenue is the Robson Square Media Cen-

The National Open Systems ShowandUnix 'll Conference is scheduled forthe Metro Toronto Convention Centreon May 15 through 17.

Finally, Les Systemes de @xebec etConference will be held at PlaceBonaventiire in Montreal on October 10and 11.

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Microsoft ReleasesOLE Specs(NB) — As promised "by the end of theyear," Microsoft this week released pre-liminary speci6cations for Object Link-ing and Embedding (OLE), a protocolthat could considerably expand thepower of Windows.Based on the Dynamic Data Exchange

(DDK) protocolthatalreadyexistswitbinWindows and which allows systems inte-grators to add the functions of of-the-shelfWindowsapplicationstoeachother,OLK represents MicrosoSt's atteinpt tobring a form of objectmriented pro-

ing to office automation. Theyave labeled it, "Information At Your

Fingertips." The newspecsenvision callsto Application Program Interfaces (APIs)embodied in Microsoft~upplied OLK-related Dynamic LinkLibraries (DLLa-the Windows version of overlay program6les). The use of DLLs invoked at theAPI level should greatlysimplify theworkof application programmers, who previ-ously had to work directly with the Win-dews "messaging loop — a chore widelydescribed as "hairy at best."

The speci6cations were announced(and the DLLs distributed) at a system-design workshop hosted by Microsoft inRedmond, Washington, attended bymore than 200software developers. Thespea6cations were reported to be ar-rived at a8ter input from Lotus, Aldus,WordPerfect and Micrograht.

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What we are good at is understandingconceptual relationships between eventsand actions. In other words, we are greatat data management, but poor at datastorage. In the past, books have beengood for information storage, and add-ing machines good for numeric calcula-tion. Graph paper and pencil provided

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Options for the T1200XE include upto five megs of RAM, a built~ Hayes-compatible modem, additional batterypacks, international keyboards, and anexternal 5.25-inch Soppy drive. TheToshiba, heaviest of the three, weighs inat a hery 8 p6uncls.There are four things which infiuence

the attractiveneesof these machines. Thefirst is the weight. The second is thescreen, the third is the keyboard and thefourth is the feel of quality/ruggedness.The Toshiba has little to distinguish itselfon any of these points.

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Within the last year or so, notebookcomputers have begun to profiferate.Theyare small enough tofitin a briefcase,light enough to be picked up with onehand by a normal human being, andpowerful enough to "take your officeanywhere."

What separates the notebooks &omthe laptops, desktops, minie and main-&ames is that they function without theneed for a trunk full of peripherals anddon't require the user to squint or use amagnifying glass to see the screen.

machine off standard household cur-

Telhiba TlROOXEmicroprocessor switchable between 12and 8 Megahertz. It runs under MS-DOS4.01 and comes standard with one megof RAM. This machine is powered byonerechargeable NiCad battery pack andalso has a second internal battery forsystem clock and settings memory. AnAC adapter is provided for powering the

rent, and for automatically rechar'gingthe NiCad battery. {The adapters in allthree notebooks reviewed here are quitelarge and represent one of the areas of"miniaturization" which needs some at-tention.)

The keyboard on the T1200XE isstandard both in type and size (big fln-

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Toshiba. The CPU is also an 80C286

The unit doesn't feel as if it could take

a case or briefcase.

Whereas the Toshilxt has a rounded,lozenge4ke shape and feel, the Sanyo ismore hard~ged and bookie . Thedepth of the Sanyo (12.5 by 10 by 2inches) is one inch less than the Toshibaand it weighs one pound less than the

running at 12MHz (switchable down to8MHz). It has one 1.44MB, 3.5-inchSoppy drive and a 20MB hard drive. Thedisplay, an LCD blue panel with CFLbacklighting, can achieve a resolution of640 by 480 pixels in VGA mode. It alsosupports CGA, EGA and MDA modes.

Like the Toshiba, the Sanyo also usesa NiCad rechargeable battery pack forDC power, as well as an AC adapter forhouseholdcurrentand automafic batterycharging. Options for this machine in-dude expansion of RAM to 5MB, a Hayes-compatible240Q4audmodemandaclip-on rechargeable batterypack The Sanyoruns under the MS-DOS 4.01 operatingsystem+

The Sanyo MBC-17NB is closer to theideal of a powerful, full-function DOSmachine. Again, of the four attractivenesscriteria,onecrificismwoulclbe thefeelingof quality/ruggednesL Neither the key-board nor the casing inspire solidity.

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crosoft CEO. "With OLE we make a step

Your Fingertips' with more powerful ca-pabilities to manipulate information."

Linking is already present in manyWindows applications that make use ofthe DDE protocol, and allows data in oneapplication to be linked to data in an-other so that if one changes, the otherdoes also. With embedding, the data"remembers" the application that gener-ated it. For instance, clicking on an em-bedded chart in a word-processing docu-ment would call up the original chartdata and the application that produced

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The introduction of OLE is seen bymany observers as Microsoft's answer toObject Management Facility (OMF), asimilar protocol in Hewlett-Packard'sNewWave graphical user interface. SinceNewWave is basically an extension ofWindows, and absence of anythinglike itin Windows has been a source of annoy-ance to Windows software developerL

handled at the operating system level,while OLE is handled at the application

Microsoft's new OLE-related DLLs,available now, will be a standard part ofthe next Windows release, scheduled for

the middle of 1991.Similar subroutines for 0$/2 Presen-

tation Manager, and for Apple Macin-tosh System 7 (the next version of theMacintosh operating system) are alsosupposed to be available by the middle of1991.Contact: Kathryn Hinsch, Mi-crosoft, 206-8824080.

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attractive machine of the three reviewedhere. Even before taking it out of thesoft~hell case, its lighter weightis notice-able. As soon as one picks it up, onenotices the feel of a solid, durable, com-pact device. It is both lighter and smallerand best fits the concept of a "notebook"computer. The shell is squared and itreallydoesappear to be a blacknotebookUpon opening the top panel the key-board layout, power switch, display ad-justments and other controls are all ontop, clearly visible.

The PC'A220 uses the same 80C286proceaior, running at 12MHz. It comesstandard with 1MB of memory, which isexpandable to SMB using optional RAMcards. The display is truly a pleasure towork on. It is a triple Supertwist paper-white backlit VGA LCD display. Theresolution reaches 640 by 480 pixels. Itdoes not emit any more light than the

. other displays mentioned in this review,but the paper-white color and the seem-ingly higher quality of the display make

Two things really distinguish this ma-chine from the others: it weighs only 4pounds, and it's only 1.4 inches thick.

Like the others, it has a 20MB harddrive, serial and parallel ports as well asan expansion port. Its dimensions are 11by 8.5 by 1.4 inches and it is powered bya NiCad battery pack A DC adapter is

The only real difference in compo-

built-in floppy drive (hence the thin-ness). An external 5.5-inch, 1.44MBfloppy drive snaps into the expansionport in back The keyboard is a realpleasure to type on; the 79 "step~ulp-tiued" keys have a soft touch and feeLThe function keys are half-height acrossthe top of the keyboard, and a numerickeypad snaps onto the right side of the

This machine exudes quality and du-rability. It can be held in one handwithouttoo much fatigue. The display is rich andcool with little strain on the eyes and thekeyboard feels like velvet.

It is obvious that the Sharp isby far the

reviewed here. Since all three tend to failwithin the $8500 to $4500 price range,the major influence for choice is qualityand reliability. Without question, thisreviewer became immediately attachedto the Sharp.

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CPUk Like the XT's fell upon arrivalof the AT' s, now the 286-based machinesmarch inexorably toward their own ex-tinction, destined to be outlived by theS86,486 and beyond. Whether you like itor nat, Windows is a harbinger of things

Just as Excel was one of the first pro-grams to require an AT„now more andmare programs have features that onlywork if you have a 386SX or higher mi-croprocessor. With its 16 MHz 386SXCPU, the LT is an ideal configurationthat I can recommend without reserva-tions today and tomorrow.

Optlonsk This is where the LT shines.If we ask again the queskian,"How willpeople actually kksc a portable com-puter?" we may conchide that they willwant to have battery power for onkhe-road, and AC for the home/office base.At this base, they' ll likely want to have afikil~ize monitor and perhaps a standardor enhinced keyboard. With mostlaptops, this means you' ll have to buy adesktop system too. Not so with the LT.Just phig in an external keyboard and, asmentioned earlier, an external VGAmonitor.

The LT can be expanded with addi-tional RAM beyond its standard 2MBconfiguration ta a maximum of 6MB assimply as adding commonly availableSIMMa Althaugh I didn't try this, fromthe manual it koks easy.

The LT supports RAM shadowing,which copies the contents of the BIOSROMs inta a RAM location for fasteraccess during normal operations. Anoptional 80387SX may also be added toenhance math operations,

Standard parallel and serial ports areprovided, too. There's even an optionalinternal modem available in two con-figikrations: 2400 baud with 4800 baudsendwnly fax or 9600 baud send~d-receive faxabilities.Just the thing for youon-the-road types. (Incidentally, themodem slot ii the only proprietary con-

dustkyetandard.) The LT does not havea standard expansion slot.

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41MB hard drive akkd a connector for anoptional 5.25n Soppy drive. Extra batterypacks are available ta extend the system'sthree-hour battery life.

Software: The LT beeps if you closeits cover while the power is on. Its BIOSalso has an automatic "Stand-by Mode"thatcauses the computer ta slow to 8MHzand blank the screen after a specifiedtime (or not atall). This helps to conservebattery life, as does an included softwareutility that turns off the hard disk after aset time. Once the disk is turned off, youonlyhave to access the diskto turn it back

The LT comes with DOS 4.01 pre-

tools.

Hardware: The internal 41 MB harddisk turned in a very respectable 18.5 msseek time speed in my tests, with a datatransfer rate of'614.2 KB/sec, placing itahead of the drives found in IBM PS/2models 50 and 80 and the Compaq 886/20 in overall performance.

The LT's overall manufacture seemsof good quality; it doesn't look like thereare any flimsypieces that could break off

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Jan '91or quickly wear out. The unit comes witha one«year parts warranty, and a ~arwarranty on labor.

Unfortunately, in the unit I tested, theSoppy drive died during my rigoroustesting, and became unable to format orwrite to Soppies. When I called Omninet(posing as a customer), the representa-

it right away. Still, this cast a bit of a darkshadow over my enthusiasm for the unit.

KeyboarCk While not my favoritelaptop keyboard, the feel of the LT's 85keys are quite good, with a shorter- than-average travel. The cursor keys are in thefamiliar "inverted T" shape, although I

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Dvorak's PC Crash Course and Survivalcoined byJohn C, Dvorak (author of

Guide, from which we presented an ex-cerpt in theJuly'90issue of The CompueerPaper.)

DOS OrdealsThere is no question that IBMs and

compatibles are more dif6cult than theothers to set up, configure andreconfigure each time an addiaon ismade to the system.

Adding a mouse, second floppy driveor video adapter is vastly more compli-cated on PCs than other brands, wherethese operations are essentially Na-

unvatandard mouse standards.

bnuaers, The reasons PCs have severaldifferent varieties of "standard" disks(560K, V20K, 1.2MB, 1.44MB), severalvideo display "standards" (MDA, CGA,Hercules, EGA, VGA etc.), and similarly

Even once the initial ordeal of settingup the system is done with, PC ownershave to accept that vntually every PCprogram has its own way of doing things.In WordPerfeat, it's F7-N-Y to quit, inLotus 1-2-8 it's slash©Y. In some DOSprograms, it's ESC to exit, in others it' sCI'RLQ

Compare this to the Macintosh, forexample, where every program openswith the same COMMAND) and quits

The Computer Payer / Jan '91 ss ~with the same COMhGQCDQ. Although,of course, each Mac program has its ownunique features, 6lemriented and edit-ing operations are consistent betweenapplications, allowingauser tointtutivelyknow how an application will behave.

It's ahnost as if "once you' ve learnedone, you' ve learned 'em aa." This is, ofcourse, why MS Windows is a best~lierfor the PC. (You still have to rememberthat ALT-P-X meansQUIT, but at leastit's the same for aH Windows applica-tions.)Windows promiseddeliversorcase of use and consistency of com-mands. Unfortunately,itall+utAemandsa fast 8864ased machine with RMB ofRAM or more to perform at an accept-

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Welcome to the FutureAs you may surmise from the title, this

article is primarily aimed at computerusers who are looking to upgrade to afaster, more powerful computer. Itis notthat 386-based computers are my onlyrecommendation, nor are they the fast-est or most powerful. As we shaH see,what they da offer is a good price/per-formance rado for "average" users.There are, of course, always going to

be userswith needs thatare better servedby a different type of computer, usuallybecause they need to run a certain pieceof software that only runs on that par-ticular "other" computer. Indeed, therewould be no Macintosh, Amiga, Atari orNeXT computers if IBM compatibilitywas uniformly best~iited for every per-

So many people automatically pre-stune that they va'I/buy an IBM compat-ible, that they never even look at theothers. During the course of this article,I will try to show where each type ofcomputer has its greatest strengths, sothat readers may make their own in-

details the areaswhereI thinkthe variousbrands are particularly strong.

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As for the latter, consider that eventhough IBM compatibles may have tentimes the amount of software of any othertype of computer, this 6gure is largelyirrelevant to the average buyer, who pur-chases only a couple of dozen softwarepackages anyway.

More important to the potential com-puter buyer is the vital question: How doyou choose the right system)

Those who reguhrly read The Caia-puter Paper will recognize the wisdom inthe words "Choose your software first."This is a lot like saying, "Use the righttool for the job."

Your software programs are the toolsthat will help you get your job done, andwhile a screwdriver is a great tool, it's notwhat you need when you want to pullnails. Other "golden rules" abound, in-cluding "wait a year for new technology,"

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the knight/knightette is. The magicbroadsword is, of course, computertechnology. Every year, software getshungrier for more RAM and disk space.

O K, maybe the dragon analogy is alittle dumb, but you do want to hold ob-solescence at bay as long as possible,don't youP (Interestingly, when I toldthe Srst part of this parable to a &iend ofmine, she was convinced that the"dragon" was negative emotionsbecause,of course, if we keep repelling there, theycome back even stronger later on. Butthat's another story...)

The best way to avoid obsolescence istoanticipate yourfuture needs. Unfortu-nately, beginners are often unprepared,

The Computer Psper Iboth financially and technically, to makethe "choice ofprofessionalL "Therefore,for there of you that want to test the coldwaters of computerdom with a toe, in-stead of a leap, I' ll offer some ways ofhedging your bets.

Decision TimeUndoubtedly, the most daunting task

required of a would-be computer owneris deciding exactly what to buy. Onething's for certain, though. Once you arein a computer store, the salesperson isgoing to try to convince you that theproducts on his or her shelves are theones you need.

needs are.

Jan '91 $7 ~As any sales professional will tell you,

a confused customer never buys, so thesalesman's strategyis necessarily tosoundvery, very sure of how his product will

essary element that you, as potentialcustomer, must bring to the sale is aconcise description of just what those

I would beware of any salespersonthat does not direct his or her enquiriesabout just what those needs are. Morethan anything else, that is the service thatthey must provide.

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CPU EnvyAs most computer enthusiasts will

agree, it is quite normal for a person' sneeds to outgrow a first(or even second)computer's capabilities. Many computerusers got their stsat with a "home com-puter" such as a Commodore 64, Apple

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The newmachineswith oodlesof RAMand disk capacity can simply run vastlymore sophisticated programs, whetherthey are games with better graphics,sound and animations, or the latest inword processors, replete with as-you-typespelling checking, on-line thesaurus andgrammar checking (I kn'ow that was theclincher for me). The increased produc-tivity and performance are persuasiveargmnents, indeed.

computers in their o6ice, or other busi-ness environment. For these people, thepersonal productivityimprovements of amore powerful machine are obvious assoon as they try their co-worker's com-puter and it is mechfaster. These peoplesoon come down with what we refer to as"a serious case of CPU envy."

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Unfortunately, each year that yousuccessfully repel it back in to its cave, th' enext year it comes back even hungrier.Will your trusty broadsword save thekingdom this time?

Now, let's say that the kingdom isyourhome or ofBce. We' ll call the dragonobsolescence, and we already know who

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are in the box?

8 spIders + 6 ' beetles = 46

The Result window wiH then displaythe two correct solutions (spiders= 2,beetles = 5 and spiders = 5, beetles = 1)along with some statistics on the time thequery took Basically this query says tofind all solutions where the number ofspiders and beetles are (long) integersaad positive, aad satisfy the constraintthat the muaber of spider legs is a mul-tiplee of 8 plus the number of beetle legsis a multiple of six and altogether theycome to 46. If we left out the spiders ) 0!

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(604) 688-8479, BBS: (604) 925-4238.System Requirements: Any IBM PCCompaliblewithatleast 640Kofmemory

and preferably a hard drive.Price: C$395.00 ($50 discount if yousend them your Prolog

or LISP disks).Not copy protected.

Trilogy is a programming languagebased on mathematical logic. It containsm uch of the backtracking and logic fea-tures found in Prolog but expands themconsiderably. Trilogy also contains someof the procedural constnu:ts found inlanguagessuch as C and Pascal, andcontains an integrated programWvel-opment system which givesyou the abilityto edit, compile and run your programeasily.

Trilogy is very good at solving logicpuzzles. For instance, consider theproblem:

Some spiders and some beetles are ina Imx. The box contains forty+six legs.I low ma»yspiders aadhow many beetles

ln Trilogy we can solve this problemby typing in thechery:all spIders::L & beetles::L & spiders >0 & beetles > 0 &

L beetles) 0, allowingnegative numbers,then we would have gotten an error thatthere is more than 16884 solutions.

Trilogy has considerable logic to op-timize aad solve problems of this nature.For instance, to solve this problem easilyin C we might have written the following(SEE FIG.1):

This is a much larger program thataeeds to be compiled; it then solves theproblem using brute force examiningevery possible solution. Obviously, if theproblem got any more complicated andthe number of nested loops increasedthen it would take an extremely fastcomputer indeed to solve.

As an exercise, spreadsheet usersmight try solving this problem in theirfavourite spreadsheet

Trilogysupportsif/then/elseand casestatements found in C or PascaL There isno loop-type structure, just recursion,however the compiler optimizes simpletail recursions into loops so that if all you

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Documentation consists of a 20&pageuser/reference manual and an Seepagelibrary modules guide. The manual isquite good and very complete. But likewith most languages, you have to learnthe language by practice and experi-

Trilogy is, as Mr. Spock would say, a"fascinating" language with a lot of in-novative features. The package comeswith an extensive library with modulesfor math, graphics, strings, patternmatching, character-based windowing,mouse support and DOS.

The documentafion also shows howto set up Assembler and C routines to becalled by Trilogy. This implementationhas a few shortcomings, for instance ithas no facility to use expanded or ex-tended memory and hence everythingmust fit in 640K Also the programmingenvironment, although fully functional,lacks the slickness of the newer BorlandTurbo and Microsoft Quick languages.

For programmers interested ia learn-ing more about logic programming,Trilogy is ideal since you can still usesome constructs &om procedural lan-guages. Trilogy is very wellauited forartificial~telligence-type applications,where problems are expressed in termsof various constraints and in which thereare multiple possible solutions to be

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Scenario ¹1: The Loblaws:A %computer Family?

spend around $3000fora computerforhome,so that he can type ktters, pkeyafew games andbnnghome the ocauionaj lobPvm work — kt'ssay that Bob'soffice.rune Lotus 1-2-3 andWordPerfect 5.1 on 1BM PS/2 computers.

To complicate the issue, however, Bob'sspouse thinks that maybe a Macintosh wouldbe betterfor the kids, but the two kids want anAmiga and an Atan resPectively. What nowtArethey all doomed toa nightmare of unhappycompromiser Can Bob really agord three dif-ferent cvmPuterer

RecommendationRemember the Golden Rule? Choose

the software firstl To do that Bob needsto prioritize his family's needs. Everyonein the family agrees on wanting to printout reports, school assignments and let-ters From there, things get a bit tricky.

The kids say that "more than any-thing" they want games with greatgraphics, sound and a heavy~ty pair ofjoysticks. Mrs. Loblaw says Macintosh,but really wants an easy4z~e graphicaluser interface, a user-&iendly word pro-cessor and some (ahem) worthwhileeducational software;and our &iend Bobwants Lotus 1-24 and WP 5.1.

People often confuse what they wantwith a particular product that seems toepitomize those characteristics. Unfor-tunately, with computers, as with muchof life itself, things are rarely that clear-

Let's examine the facts: The Loblawshave $8000 to spend. Let's get the soft-ware picked and paid for first. Bob wantsto do wordprocessing with WP 5.1 ($280)and spreadsheetswith Lotus 1-2-8 ($400).Although some people might be inclinedto copy the office's software for theirhome, I am obliged to point out that thispractise is both immoral and illegaL

(Depending how adventurous Bob is,he might want to consider an alternativespreadsheet for his home system. Mi-crosoft Excel, Borland'sQuattro Pro andInformix's Wingz are all similar enoughto 1-2-8 that a Lotus user can rapidly

files created by 1-2-8, and all offer sig-nifican enhancements in various areas.Quattro Pro is a great price, too.)

graphical environment. Let's get her aMicrosoft serial mouse and Windows 8.0($180). Some people prefer the Logiteehmouse, but I find the larger left buttonon the Microsoft model easier to pressandmore comfortable in myhand. (Well,Mrs. L, which one do you like?)

The kids want a couple of games ($50' each). and they will just love learningtheir history lessons withN%erein TimeisCannes Santiago ($60). An aden sound

sound effects and speech to the threegames they' ve chosen for $250. Totalsoftware and goodies cost: $1220. Thatleaves about $1800 for the actual com-puter hardware. For that amount, theycan get a 16 MHz 886SX computer witha 40MB hard drive, VGA color monitorand 9gin printer. (I'm basing these fig-ures on typical prices found in a currentissue of The ComputerPaper.) Why notjustget an AT or — shudder — a PC/XTcomputer? Lots of reasons, but forstarters, one of the great features ofWindows8.0called NrtualMemorydoesa'tworkon these models.Itrectuiresa mini-

learn the new software. Each can all use

card called SoundBlasterwill addrealistic

For the sake of exampk, kt's presume thatMr. Loblaw (we' ll call him Bob) wants to

Mrs. Loblaw wants a mouse and a

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which includes but is not limited to the

mum of a 886SXwlass computer. Theadditional $800 or so it costs to move up&om aa AT to one of these is moneywell-spentin fightiag thatdragon. If the fiunilycouldafford a few hundred dollars more,I wouldn't hesitate to recommend abetter printer, such as the wonderfulCanon BJ10e Bubble Jet unit.

If still more money could be spent, Iwould recommend a better monitor withasmaller "dotpitch." More on thatlater...Stay tuned while we look at another casehistory.

Scenario ¹R: 'Ihe Best BelerJohnny is having a littk troubk with

cmthmetic and speNing at schoot The teachersuggests that perhaps some home study ieneeded, and tells Mom and Dad thatJohnnyreally seems to likeueingtheAppklTe computerat the school. Shmdd Mom and Dad springfora home computers If so, which kinds

RecommendationUnfortunately, when Mom and Dad

go looking for an Apple IIe computerjust like the one at the school, they' llprobably find that none of the stores intown have any.

It'sjust as well, because the IIe isaveryold design that has some significantmemorylimitations compared with mostof today's computers(These limitationsstand for any8-bitcomputer, asizableljst

Commodore VIC-20,C64and C128,Atari400, 800, 800Xt„1200XL, 64XE and180XEC, Apple H, II+, Ile, IIc and com-patibles. As much fun as they were backin the early'-mid '80s, you have mystanding recommendation not to build asystem for the '90s based on an 8-bitprocessor. You are forewarnedl).

If Mom and Dad do decide to "goApple," they have three basic choices:look in the classifieds for a used Apple II-series computer ($800400), getan AppleIIgs ($150(h$2000) or a new MacintoshLC with Apple IIe compatibility card($8500 or so).

Obviously, buying a 10 yearold usedcomputer is &aught with peril, so I don' trecommend the'first option unless thefamilycan locate a friend who is an AppleII expert that can help them make thepurchase and set it up for them. TheApple IIgs option isonlymarginallymoredesirable, as the IIgs is — at the pricesabove — underpowered and overpricedcompared with other available brands,although it hasn't got limitations nearlyas severe as the 8-bit systems listed above.

TheIIgs, even though it featuresgoodgraphics and sound capabilities, suffers

denominator" problem, which occurs invarying degrees with all computers. Be-cause the Ilgs is compatible with earlierApple H software that did not utilize itsenhanced graphics aad sound, much ofthe software that nms on the IIgs doesn' t

&om what I call the "lowest common

considered.

take advantage of its features. Indeed, asSteveJobs once said "standards are theenemy of innovation."

However, the IIgs is much faster andnewer than the IIe, and with the rightsoftware, can more&an-adequatelymeetJohnny's present needs, It is likely, how-ever, that in a few years, thatJohnny willwant a different type of computer, be-cause Apple II series computers are-whether Apple II enthusiasts like it ornot — near the end of their evohitionarylife cycle. Software and hardware devel-opment for them has ail but slowed to atrickle, and most schools are upgradingto either Macintosh or IBMwompatiblecomputers.

Unfortunately, there is currency nomethod of adapdng an IBMwompatibleto nui Apple II software (butit icpossibleto purchase an Apple II compatibilityoption from IBM — of ail places — for usein their PS/2 line of computers). Thismay be an aveinie worth considering,but I don't think a PS/2 machine wouldbe the best choice for the cliild,especiallyif he will be doing schoolwork at home.This is because the IBM board requiresthat the user first run a utility that con-verts the Apple II's ProDOS 6les to PC-

the board. In contrast, Apple's solutioncari nin real ProDOS files simply by in-serting an Apple II 8.5" disk into theMac's internal drive, or connecting anApple II 5.25" floppy to the card.

Big Blue BluesIn general, I don' t recommend IBM's

PS/2 machines because they areequipped with an incompatible slot de-sign called Microchannel Architecture,making them incompatible with widely-

patibles." Strange, isn't i'IBM's heavilyedvertised new home

offering, the PS/1 also falls into my dis.favor for similar reasons. Basicaliy, thePS/1 is a mediocre AT- compatible withlimited expansion options and a propri-etary slot design. In short, a somewhatoverpriced under-performer.

In summary, this family will be bestserved by an Apple computer, primarily

Apple II software. Which model theychoose depends on their budget. Thethree options have widely different pricei'anges.

The inost expensive one, the newMacintosh LC with IIe option card, is theone with the biggest bene6ts. Admittedlyexpensive compared to the otheroptions,it does provide for the child's currentand future needs, and provides a goodgeneral purpose computer.

Scenario f5: The HomePublisher

Here'sJane. An art schaal grrrd, she's noiuan aspiring cntreprencur with as «y»for de-sign. She wants to start hcr orun brrsincss as agraphic design studio, using acomputer tocreate business cards, letterheads and brachures. She's got aborrt $5000 toinoectin her

producer boypiend, ruho teNs her that Ainignsare lhe bestfor graphics'Recommendation

Jane should get a PostScript printerarid compatible iihistration software.Why? Because no self-respecting DTP'erwill argrre that PostScript is, at least forthe time being, the professional choice.

So, assuining thatJane's system includesat least a low~ d o ge P ostScript la-ser printer (I'il pick the highlyrated+MSPS410, although several other modelsare in the $2000 price range), she onlyhas $2000-8000 leR to buy a computer,hard disk and so~ .

A lthough she could take h erboy&iend's suggestion, it would not bemy choice, unless her other primary useof the computer was to create video titles,animations or 8D renderings (a few ar-eas.the Amiga is very strong in).

A hard drivoequipped, expanded<o-2MB Amiga 500 system (about $2200)

published graphics, but most users will

I'rom Commodore called the A2820 dc.

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interlacer, designed to counter theseAmigahigh<esjitters,requiresan Amiga2000 or one of the newer models which,similarly equipped, start at about $8500.

Ironically, this Bicker isa side effect ofthe very attribute that endears the Amigato Jane's TV-producer boyfriend. TheAmiga's interlaced video output is well-suited for output to VCRs and othervideo recording equipment. In short,the Amiga makes a damn 6ne cup of TV,but is out of our price range for DTP.

Interlace problemsaside, the Amigaislacking in good-quality DTP and

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/Jan'Ss 3$ ~PostScript drawing programs comparedwith PCs or Macs. (Yes, outraged Amigafans, I know about Professional Page,Professional Dr aw and theCompugraphic font library.) Addition-ally, the DTP programs that do exist forthe Amiga are painfully sluggish to usewith the slow 7.18 MHz clock speed of astaiidard Amiga 500„1000, 1500 or 2000.I have used Amigas for DTP, and havenot been satis6ed with the results.

Jane could get a Macintosh Classic (at7.15 MHz, it is too slow for any seriousdesktop publishing) with a 40MB harddrive for around $2000,and spend what's

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comprehensive features — nearly 100typefaces, all editableon a pointky~intbasis; 50 PostScript fills, automatic andagain editable;an interface weil designedto tahe advantage of Windows; simplebut comprehensive tool selection; andmore... Draw 2.0 impmves both theselection of features aswell as the overallopexation of the program. Here'sa closer

Special Effecflmenu which lets you pexform many op-exationsin singlesteps. Youcan envdopeobjects such as type inside other objectsof vaxiousshapes. In simple, st~ tepprocesses, you can fit a word to a givenshape bynxodifyingits "envelope" — fromdistortion of text to making text looklikeit is spiraling down a drain.

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ings, place it in a word processor of yourchoice to perform major edits, then re-place it within your illustration. This fea-ture also lets you perform Print Merges,to customize each printed piece of art toits intended recipient.

Corel now boasts an additional 51fonts to give you an even broader choiceof typefaces in your designs. Along withfltting text to any path, you can now fiittext to shapes, creating unique specialefFects (for example,fit theword "round"to a circle shape). Corel's limitation to256 characters in one text block is now athing of the past. The upper limit has yet

' All of these text features make CorelDraw a most valuable addition to anydesktop publisher's library of software.

Improved InterfaceCorel 2.0 takes full advantage of Win-

dows 9.0's 5-D interfiLce. Carel's screenincludes "button" tools and selections aswell as several new features. At the bot-tom, younowhave auserMeflnable colorpalette making color selection quick andsimple. Colors can now be definedthrough Hue, Saturation and Chroma,the Red, Green, Blue (RGB) system-used to display color on monitors — aswell as its previous Pantone or CMYKsystems.

An improved status bar lists cursorposition — in points — as well as objectsize and position, object type, and filland outline value UserMefinable gridsare displayed on screen as dot patternLRulers are used to draw guidelines andreorigin the zero point just as in Page-Maker. Previews can take up the fullscreen if. desired as well as display asimulacrum of PostScript pattern 6lls-gone are the multitude of PSs used inprevious versions.

User preferences include the abiTityto program the second mouse button tooperate as another tool or to zoom intoyour drawing and more... You can alsoprogram the linodrawing tool to oper-ate as a &eehand pen as before or createbezier curves, a vast improvement inprecision drawing control

Nodes can be converted to lines orcurves, joined, edited or broken or evenmoved to precise locations. 'Objects canbe stretchedor scaled &omcentrepointsor "nudged" to precise positions. Objects .can also be seen when being moved,which helps in moving them only onceto get them to the right position.

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2.0 is in many ways faster than it wasbefore. Users can interrupt redrawing ofthe screen image, avoiding the some-times interminable waits incurred inDraw 1.0. File selection includes an im-age preview, making sure you get theright drawing when you open a file. (Thisisa function of version 2.0. Old drawingswill not preview until they have beenopenedandsaved.)

You can turn on an auto@ave feature,avoiding tim~onsuming Save proce-dures and making sure Drawalways savesyour changes automatically. Printing isimproved on HP LaserJets through anewrasterizing feature giving better typeon non-PostScript printers (users whowant to improve HP ZaserJet printingspeed &om Windows should also getMicrosoft's Supplemental Driver library.It provides up to 50% faster LaserJetprinting; $15 &om Microsoft). A newprinting message box new lists whichobjects are being sent to the printer,giving you a visual indicator of the time ittakes to print.

additional Tools Ee UtilitiesCorel Draw has always ofiered excel-

lent value for your money through theadditional tools provided with the pro-gram itself.Again this hasbeen improved.Draw now includes a better organizedand enhanced cli~ co l lection con-taining over 750 drawings in 14 catego-rieL It also boasts more than 8,000 sym-bols in 86 categories — a libraxy you canenhance with your own symbols.

Additionalutilitiesincluch; CorelTraceto automatically convertscanned images

WFNBOSS, Corel's fon conversionutility, lets you import almost anymanufacturer'stypefacesinto Corel DrawandexportanyCorelDrawfonttoAdobe 'Type 1 format. This lets you use alt of.CorelDraw's 150 fonts in any other DTPprogram. Mosaic, a new tool, lets youconvert drawing collections to libraries,compress 6les to save disk space, andselect drawings visually.

ConclusionThe features listed above are by no

means a comprehensive description ofDraw 2.0's new features. Its enhance-ments cover a much broader range thancan be described here. For previousowners of Corel, $125 for this upgrade ismore than worth it. For publishers newto the desktop, Corel Draw 2.0offersyoua selection of illustration tools whichcould easily cost over $2,000 elsewhere.How can they do i' Only through con-tinued support by us, their user base.

Corel Draw is byfar the best and mostcomprehensive illustration programaixyuhewe.' Nothing rivals its features onthe Macintosh and nothing even comesclose on the PC. Frankly, this program isso complete, that I feel sorry for Corel'scompetitors. They' ve got a long way togo to catch up.

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Side+ mdeparagraph creation is verystraightforward, letting you desigii com-plex listings and tables with ease. Head-ers and Footers can contain variable in-formation which is automaticaily pickedup from the text of yow document.

Ventura's typographic features in-clude extensive operator control of glo-bal or interactive kerning, tracking, andword and letter spacing. These and otherattributes like hyphenation control andnding lines are incorporated into thestyle sheets, so intricate type specifica-tions can be applied to text in a quick

Ventura is still the largeAocumentleader. It can jump around a 12~agemanuscriptwith athletic ease. Itaddressesevery aspect of document organizationfrom the standpoint of a professional'sneeds: chapter and page numbering;automatic anchoring of images todocument text, and re anchoring whentext content changes; table generationcomplete with lines and/or shades con-trols and as an integral part of the pro-gram; or even the ability to import orautomatically update complex graphics.

Finally, Ventura Publisher is the onlytool to date which makes Database Pub-lishing a snap. Since Paragraph styles areaddressed through text tags, databasereporting procedures can automaticallyinser tall typesetting information for you.Simply open the document in Ventura,et voiki! Complete typesetting.

Ventura for the Macintosh adds an-other final flair: complete Macintosh-PCcompatibility within documents. Anypublishing environment using bothplatforms can quickly and easily transfer

Ventura's power does take time toharness. Its file-management system canbe complex. Because of Ventura's "livelink" to text and graphic files, it oftenbecomes easiest to copy all contents intothe same folder befovepublishing through

More than perhaps any other page-layout program, Ventiua requires op-erator training. Learning thisformidableprogram should be undertaken in man-ageable doses. With instruction andpractice, though, Ventura's approach tobuildingdocuments begins to make moreand more sense. An experienced Venturaoperator can put together a large docu-ment with amazing speed — to standardsthat would impress a union typesettingshop.

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Acquiring Ventura for bigger, morestandardized projects will put virtuallyanypublishingprojectwithin your reach.Where PageMaker and XPress competein verysimilar markets, Ventura Publisherstands alone in the publishing worldthrough its automation features.

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PC/GEOS, on the other hand,Pcs. Iteven pexforms respectably on an old808&-based XT. The speed of PC/GEOSis a credit to the programmers ofGeoWorks, who wrote the whole thing inassembly language. The multitaskingkernel of PC/GEOS occupies only 55Kof RAM and sits on top of MS-DOS.If a user runs a "normal" DOS pro-

gram, PC/GEOSshutsdown temporarily,andreactivatesupon exit. PC/GEOS canuseregular,extendedor expanded RAM,and can even modifyits configuration tomake use of an extended memory man-ager.

There is a massive potential user basefor PC/GEOS that can't (or shouldn' t)run Windows. All of the years we've beenlistening to MicrosoR's line about howdi8icult it is to build a windowing envi-ronment for the PC, and suddenly a tinyupstaxt shows them how it's done. Takethat, mighty giant!

What You GetInside the package are both 5.25" and

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online services to offer news, electronicmail, and access to software libraries andvarious information services with agraphical user interface similar to otherPC/GEOS (or Macintosh) applicationL

Interestingly, the Arnbrics Orblirxs bro-chure describes the induded telecomsoftware ass "pre-release version" (whenI exaxnined the included Arrbsrirxb Orblirbssoftware, I found the HELP files labelled"under construction"). A coupon in thepackage, however, promises a free up-grade to the final version vrhen it's avail-

SetupIt's not hard to get started. Disk Sl is

labelled "Zype SETUP and press EN-TER." That's about all most users willneed to figure the rest out.

Setup installs the various componentsof thenonwopygrotectedprogramontoyour hard drive. Setup is agreatexampleof dummy-proof programming, indicat-ing the percentage of the operation thatis complete, how to cancel the operationand what is being pexformed.

Once the GeoWorks installation iscomplete, the program prompts youthrough the final stages of the setupprocedure, whexe mouse and video cardchoices are made. PC/GROS was smartenough to figure out that I had a VGAcard installed in the 886SX that I per-formed these tests on, and defaulted toit After stepping through a few otherscreensforchoosingandtestingaprinter,the installation was complete.

When PC/GEOS startsup for the firsttime, it prompts you to type in the serialnumber from the inside front cover ofthe manual. Presumably to register eachunique copy for customer support andsoftware update purposes, this is a vastimprovement over the heavily copy-pro-tected 64C version of PC/GEOS.

to make a selection.

COPY instead of a MOVE.

Look and FeelPC/GEOS has a clearly superior user

intexface over Microsoft Windows S.O.It's also faster, better4ooking, and re-quires much less RAM and disk space,More importantly, it's smarter. As anexample, look at the way that Windowsunnecessarily alarms you with the mes.sage "Are you sure that you want to for-mat the disk in drive A:?" in the dialogbefore you are given one last chance tostop the format operation. ARer you' veanswered, "Yes, I'm sure," Windows pes-ters you with the equivalent of,"...areyou really, really sure?"

Bycomparison, PC/GEOSuses subtleaudio cues to alert you when an erroroccurs (such as trying to look at thedirectory of an unformatted disk), andallows you to choose the capacity of the

onlyshowsahighAensitycheck~x, andtherefore supposedlyimplieslowdensitywhen it is unchecked, PC/GROS doeswhat a user interface xhorbkf do, and thatis to make things dearer.

Right there in the dialog, you chooseRom explicit entries: "l. (RequiresHigh Density Diskette)" or "720K (LowDensity)." This is just the kind of infor-mation that might save a lot of hair-pulling by caned users.There are plenty of other examples of

smart thinking, such as PC/GEOS' M-character file-name length (unlike theDOS- or Windowsanposed 8plusdireecharacter limit); or the fact that PC/GEOS actually uses both of the buttonson your Microsoft mouse (the rightbutton is used for selecting files formoving or copying). Plenty of smartshortcuts are available, too, such asholding down the CTRL key to do a

Like Windows, PC/GEOS allows youto change the size of windows by grab-bing anywhere along any perimeter.Gxabbing any corner allows you to re-shape the aspect ratio of the window. Adot in the upper right corner allows awindow to be shrunk to an icon along thebottom of the screen (an operation atsoavailable viaALT-F9,much like Windows'Minimize function). At the top of eachwindow is an icon of a push pin, which"tears ofi the menu, allowing you toposition it anywhere on the screen.

Menus can be invoked the same waythey are in MS Windows (e.g., ALT-Fdrops down the File menu), and menusmay have hierarchical subgenus thatpop out of the side when the user movesthe pointer over any arrowat the edge ofthe menu. Good user interface design isevident here, with such standard Sare asthe ellipsis (...) shown on those menuselections that bring up a further "con-tinue or cancel" dialog box.

The scroll bars at the window edges,too,arewellAesigned,growing inlengthwhen there is less "hidden window area."Although Digital Research's GEM haslong featured this dever visual cue, thesystem soRware engineers at Microsoft'sWindows and Apple's Macintosh divi-sions could leaxn a few things here.

An interestinginnovation in the "lookand feel" of the PC/GEOS dialog boxesis the way that the mouse pointer turnsinto a "don't do this" circleend-bar sym-bol when you move it outside the correctarea. Also, the default button (e.g.,OKor CANCEL) is highlighted as a visualcue for those who prefer to press ENTER

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"certified compliant with OSF/Motif, anindustry standard interface developedby the Open Software Foundation ofCambridge, Massachussetts." To thosewho don't know or care what that means,it means a resemblance in appearanceto various highend UNIX-based work-stations (all in all, not a bad thing toresemble). It reminds me of a blend ofWindows 3.0 aiid NeXTStep.

The PC/GEOS "welcome screen" fea-nires three large graphical icons, labelledAppliances (GeoSpeakfor what Macuserscall Desk Accessories), Professional, andDOS programs. Clicking on the first re-veals a calculator, notepad, planner,banner printer and RoloDex~e indexsystem called GeoDex.

Oh, yes, and the obligatory Solitairegame. In the PC/GEOS Quick Startmanual, it calls these appliances "theeqttivalent of the toaster sitting in yourkitchensmall, simple, basic."

Clicking on Professional for the firsttime brings up the prompt, "You' re

Workspace where you can use advancedapplicationL You may want to have yourUser's Giude Handy. Are you sure youwan t to e n te r t h» Pr of e ssionalWorkspace?" Gulp. I'm not so sure any-more, but here goes. Geyortirrtrp!(Inci-dentally, this dialog is seen only the firsttime you run the prograln. Nice touch.)

The DOS opfion brings you face toface with the ubiquitous C> prompt. Italso allows you to assign various icons toyour DOS programs &om a selection ofimages induded with PC/GEOS. TheButton Settings option also allows a pa-raineter to be passed to the application,either by asking for options each time(useful for filenames, for example), orby specifying options to be uncondi-tionally specifiecL Batch files mayalso becreatedandeditedin PC/GROS' &iendlygraphical environlnent.

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Geo%riteof the features one would expect Rom anentry-level WYSIWYG word processor,and a few surprises, too. GeoWrite in-cludes headers, footers, columns, justi-fication, variable line spacing (leading),custom borders, table creation, halftoneand color. Objectwriented graphics

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PC/GEOS appears to use Macintoshfonts, which is not too surprising, as thiswas something that their Commodore64 version did, too. Even the specialkeyboard characters like bullets, copy-right symbols and the like are accessed ina way that will be familiar to Mac users,with the PC keyboard's CI'Ri ALT keyssubstituting for the Mac keyboard's OP-TION key. But the surprise is that theSIZES menu lets you create charactersup to 792 points (a full page) high ttrith-OMt "jc|ggids. "

Imaging EngineYes!...PC/GEOS uses outline font

technology, for both screen and printeroutput. With its use of a unified imagingengine for both screen and printer, anyPC/GEOS application will output crisptext and graphics at the highest resolu-tion supported by the screen, dot matrix,inkjet or laser printer. The fol~utcoverof the package shows several stunningexamples of GeoWorks Ensemble'6printed output. When you read the fineprint you discover that they were allcreated on a 9yin dot matrix printer.Wowi

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Geo Managergoing to bypass the appliance mode andenter the "Professional Workspace"called GeoManager. In this area, iconsrepresent the various programs, muchlike the displayof the Macintosh's Finderor Windows' Program Manager. How-ever, unlike Windows, which uses aseparate File Manager appfiication tomanage files, PC/GEOS' GeoManager

copied, directories to be created, andfiles sorted, copied, moved and deleted.File atlributessuchasReadily,Archive,Hidden or System can also be set.

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Summaryi This is a guide to the buy-ing and selling of usedcomputers. It alsoadvises on when to upgrade instead ofsell and how to test systems to see if youare getting what you need.

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The bookdeliversonemessagedearly.Obscure brand clones do not have verygood resale value. However, it says, notto be discouraged; your computer maynot be a boat anchor just yet If there is asystem that works it will fit a need some-where. What has become a bottleneckfor your data flow might be just what isneeded else:where. For instance, manynonprofit organizations, through whichyou can obtain tax writemffs, need onlyto assemble and maintain address data-bases. They may need to write an occa-sional letter or report. There may belittle or no need for a firebreathing,multitasking machine in their office.

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For DTP chores, she is going to behappiest with a system with plenty ofspeed and storage. A good DTP systemmight consist of a 25 MHz 886DX with64Kcache, 5.25-inch Qoppy drive, 80MBhard drive and mono monitor for$2586.Costs add up quickly when we includeMS-DOS ($90), a Microsoft or LogiTechMouse ($100-$180), and Corel Draw($400) to her system.Jane's total: $8206plus tax. Better wait till next month tobuy that Logitech scanner ($250) l

The $5500 or so thatJane has spent toset up her complete desktop publishingsystem, including computer, PostScriptprinter and software is about the same asshe would spend for Apple's LaserWriterIINT alone. Acomparable (color-capable25 MHz) Apple-brand system would costabout $18,0001

When Jane is ready to expand intocolor, she can use as reference materialsome of those computer magazines she' sbeen buying since she got her computer.From the ads and reviews, she' ll noticethat the VGA color monitors with theclearest pictures tend to have the small-est dot pitches. If her taste in monitors isanything like mine, she might narrowitdown to two: the $1,000 18cnch Seiko1450 (.25 dot pitch) or the 18-inch SonyMultiscan HG ($1,800, with a,26 dotpitch). Although PCMcynine picked theHG Multiscan as their "Editor's Choice,"these are both unequivocably great-looking Trinitron monitors with razor-sharp graphics and text.

Because most of her work is related toblack and white printing and simple spotcolors, she might team her VGAupgradewith -an al V GA600 card ($500, andalso a PC Magassne Editor's Choice) giv-ing 16 colors from a palette of 256 inhigher-thaneverage 1024x768 resolu-tion, or one of the new Super EnhancedVGA Adapters with 1MB of video RAM,for up to 256colors at 1024x768 (around$800).

If her tastes ran to having a largerdisplay and/or millions of colors, thesky's the limit; both in capabilities andexpenselJusta browse through the pagesof Thc Computer Paperwill give you an ideaof the popular standards and the localplaces that sell them.

The total for Jane's upgrade frommonochrome to high-res color. around-$1,500.Scenario ¹4:The Expanding 08ice

JoeownstheAcme Widget Company. They' reenjoying quite a success with their newTurboWidget, andJoe thinks that maybe nowis a good time tojunk the Selectric and get acoocpu terfor theoffc ce.Joe saccountant agrees,and says that he thinks thatJoe could reallymake good use of a spreadsheetfor doing sometrendanalysisandforecasting and a databaseto keep track of the growing number ofTurbog~cdget orders. The accountant, who isa bit of a computer enthusiast himself, saysthere's enough money!n the coffers to "go forthe gusto" and get a topefthe line system withlotsofmemocy, storage and plentyofspeecL Jceis wcNing to spend up to $10,000 as an

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investment in his company'sfuture.Recommendation

My first recommendation toJoe is toconsider not making his purchase at abargainyricesretail outlet, unless he hasa pretty clear idea of exactly what hewants. His best plan will be to enlist theservices of a VAR (Value Added Reseller)to help him analyse the areas of his busi-ness that can best benefit &om officeautomation. Likely candidates are hisaccounting system, projectplanning, andinventory system. His secretary will beable to lose her typewriter, but what isthe right printer for his office's weeklyworkload? Should he install a network?Could he get stock market information"piped in?" What about fax? Is a stand-alone machine or a fax board for the newPC the best route?

The VAR will install and set up a sys-tem that best meets his needs. Sure, hemight pay a few hundred dollars morefor the once service and training, but itis money wellapent.

It is probably not a very good idea forJoe to base his new system purchase onwhat his accountant thinks he needs. Sooften, there is an elementof transference,where a computer buff thinks he knowswhat is best for the business person. Thiscan be especially dangerous when it' snot his money.

To make a longstoryshort,Joe went toa VAR specializing in network solutions.They set him up with a network of three12MHz ATwompatibles, a General Led-ger and Inventory Control package, anda suite of business software, completewith once installation and configura-tion. The VAR chose these modest 286-based computers because unlike graph-icocntensive appfications like CAD, pub-lishing or animation that demand a fast,powerful CPU, the typical tasks thatJoe'ssystem would be performing were typingletters, entering widget orders and print-ing reporls.

Because the VARaccuratelyidentifieAcme Widget Company's computerneeds, they recognized that the kind oftasks that the company would use thesystem for were not those that benefitgreatly kom the incurred expense ofextra memory, storage and speecL Bestof all, the total cost was less than theoriginal $10,000 Joe had anticipatecLWith the money he saved on his network,Joe bought computer training coursesfor all his staff member. Now that's good

Scenario ¹5:The Do-it-Yourselfer

Paul pkcys the keys. As a musician, he playsthe clubs, records as a session nncsician, andlikes to pen his own tunes "with an attitude. "Paul fancies getting a computer to act as asequencerfor helping him to remrd and playback his synthesisers on-stage and in his homestudio. He's got a dayj ob, too, so he's got afewthousand dolksrs to spend. He reads in themagazines that Maci ntoshesf'cgure promi-nently in many recordingstudiosin the U.S.A.,but here in "noceheresvilk," several of hisfrcende own Atarc 1040 STs. Should he gewith hisPiends'recommendations or take alead Pom the big-timers down south 7Recommendation

If Paul does the right thing, he' ll pickwhatever system has the software thatbest meets his needs. The Atari 1040 STE(about $1200 with monitor), with built-in MIDI ports is well~stabhshed withexcellent MIDI software, as is the Mac.

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The actual computers themselves dif-fer little in comparable price ranges,except that the Atari oaers stereo soundand 4096 colors versus the monophonic,monochromconlyMac. Whilel like Macsand their MIDI programs just fine, Ithink the Alari has better MIDI softwareoptions.

On theAtari, rnostexpertswuuldagreethat the one to beat is C-Lab Notator. Formodern composers and electronic musi-cians, an Atari running C-Lab Notator isan excellent choice. It works reliably, isfairly easy to learn, and prints a great-looking score.

Performing musicians have their ownlist of features they need &om a se-ciuencer, and I don't think Atari letsthem down there, either. For travellingtypes, Notator nuis on the $2000 AtariSTacy portable computer. As with ourlast example, it is probably best to allowa salesperson at a music store to be yourinformation source on specific featuresof thesehighland MIDI programs.Depending on Paul's budget, he could

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If Paul could spring for a few hundredmore, he could substitute the 2-megabyteMega 2 model (about $1500 with moni-tor) instead, which would allow him totake advantage of Notator's multitaskingabiTities, and later (when he hits the bigtime), add DigiDesign's Sound Toolssound card for ~gualiiy digital audiorecording capabilities.

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TCP/IP and NFS softwareThis product will enable the Amiga to

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test more or less substantiates that claim.

Believe it or not, all the text above wastyped into my word processing programsimply by gliding a hand-held scannerover the contents of two pages of theTypistmanuaL The procedure tookaboutfourteen seconds per page, seven ofwhich consisted of actually moving thescanning unit down the page.

The text automatically appeared inmyword processing program, appearingto the computer asif the inputwas coming&om the keyboard. This trick allows Typ-ist to input textintovirtuallyanyprogram.No editingwas done, and as you can see,the text recognition was (in this case)100% accurate. However, notice that inthe last two paragraphs, Typist insertedcarets (") in three places, as a way ofindicating that it was unsure if it hadcorrectly recognized the following char-acters (it had).

Caere Corp., makers of Typist, daim a99.8% average accuracy rate, and this

This is dose to the 99.V% accuracy levelof their earlier OmniPage OCRsoftwarefor flatbed scanners under similar con-ditions. Unl ike T ypist, t hough,OmniPage is a separate program thatmust be run to perform the OCR task

The Typist's convenience of not hav-ing to exit your word processor is im-mense. The potential benefits are obvi-ous to many kinds of people, especiallyto us here at Tkc Computer Paper, wherewe are continually inundated with infor-mation, often in the form ofpressreleasesand printed documentation.

So, does the Typist come in handy?Yes and no. Undeniably, it works well oncertain kinds of documents, particularlysmall books and manuals that can lierelatively flat, and have wide margins.Unfortunately, original documents ofpoor quality (like most %axes), or thickbooks with insubstantial margins tend toproduce results that are erratic, to say

The very next document I tried (asample of text from a press release, actinGaramond), ended up loohng like this:

Fremont's jirst Faxography progra "m..pmvidespdl Lcncr Qualisy (LQl dot snurnxPnntcr and 24pin graphics cnnr kstima. AnyPC applicsrtirns pregrem (wessex ~ngsPrcrrdskcet, rkrtabasc pmgrams,for instrrnce)thai sr~srts Epson, pnnfers cmn generateletter quaQyfax messnges, inctrrding graph-ics, witt, Fremont's Faxogrnpky I.Qsoftw are.

In our second example, as before, theprogram flags words it's not too sureabout with a caret (again, it was a case ofovercautiousness — progra"m is, ofcourse, spelled correctly). Of particularnote are the ones it didn't even suspect itgot wrong. the program mistook "format"for "format"; "time" for "time" and"matnx" for "matrix." Also, in this ex-ample, we saw a tilde character (-) re-peated several times throughout. Thismeans that the OCR program could notidentify the correct character, and in-

guess. AIN told, our second example had12 recognition errors out of 156 words,or about 92% OCR accuracy. As you cansee, the better-than 99% average men-tioned earlier represents ideal condi-tions. In realmorld applications, espe-cially with unusual fonts, results will varywidely.

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to "splice together" horizontal passes ofthe scanner to allow full Netter~ p a ges

scan where none existed. Here's how:

to be recognized. Even better, if a seg-ment of text in this "overlap area" isdeleted during your editing process,Typist does not re-insert it

Amazingly, you can scan &om left<o-right, right~eft, or g odownandthe program flgures out which way is up,and interprets the text correctly. This issuch a nifty feature, that I leave the "autoscan direction" option on all the time,even though it adds a second or two tothe recognition time,

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Typist can also function as a graphicsscanner, although its pictur~ a n n ingcapabilities are somewhat rudimentary.(As far as I can tell, the manual doesn' teven mention the unit's dots-per~ehspeciflcation.)

Mostscanners these days indude whatis called grayscale capabilities Typistdoes not, instead oifering only bilevel(black and white) scanning with a choiceof three dithered dotes. This type ofsimulated halftone produces acceptableresults only if you don't resize or other-wise distort the resulting image. Luckily,it is possible with several programs (run-ning on either PCs or Macintoshes) tocreate true gray scales &om a dithered

1) You will require a program that canload a bit~ p and convert it to grayscales. On the PC, Pictsrre Publisher &omAstral Developments, Gray E/X fromXerox Imaging Systems, andImrrgKdit&om IBM's applications Software Divi-sion are dedicated gray~ale editors,while Image-In &om Image-In Inc. in-cludesgrayecale editingfunctions aspartof an all-purpose scanner package, and

porates them in a standard paint pro-,gram. On the Mac, you could use DigitalDarkroom by Silicon Beach Software,LetraSet's ImcrgcStrrdio or CotorStrrdio orAdobe PkotoShop.

2) Load in thebitmapped "dithered"image. Convert the image to gray scale.Some programs will ask you to enter thenumber of dots that you want to convertto each gray "celL" If possible, select a

ing the resolution &om its original 400dpi image to on~ixth of that, or about66 dpi; but the conversion process calcu-lates different shades of gray based onthe number of dots in each cell. Hence,the dots disappear.

Why would you want to reduce theresolution from 400 dpi to 66 dpi? Oncethe image has been converted to grayscale, you can alter the brightness, con-trast, size and a myriad of other aspects ofthe image. Particularly effective is aprocess called error di8usion that con-verts a grayscale picture back into a bi-level image, but with complex dot pat-terns (Digital Darkroom callsit "advancedhalftone" ), that print much better onlow-resolution output devices like laserprinterL (This trick works with other bi-level scanners, too, including units de-signed for Amiga and Atari computers.)

Around the ofNice, we refer to Typistas "Darth Vader's Remington," but it isreally more like a text vacuum. If I wantto keep a piece of information I haveread, I Hoover it into a file on my com-puter with Typist, and I can later let thecomputer do the searching. After all,that's what computers are for, isn't it?

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Stunt Driverby John McCorsnsch

Product: Stunt Driver, game for IBMPCand compatiblesPublisher: Spectrum Holobyte, 2061Challenger Drive, Alameda, CA 94501,415-522-3584.System Requirements: PG-compat-ible with one Soppy drive and 640 Mlo-bytes of memory.Price: USS4S.95Rating: 4 (on a scale 1 lowest to4=highest)Summary: Terrific muscle car race andstunt-driving simulation that pushes theenvelope of driving games.

I don't have much time toreviewgamesbl lt I take a look at everything that comesinto the office for review before I assignthem to other testers, either my wife orthe ultimate tester, the nine-yearmldwho

As usual I expected to spend moretime loading Snmt Driver into the com-puter than I would playing it, but after aFew minutes playing around with it Idiscovered that three hours had passed

This is the ultimate accolade I can payto any game and is the same way I choosescience fiction novels if they are so ab-sorbing that I lose track of time, thenthey have ful6lled their purpose. If theyalso teach or expand a user's horizonsthen so much the better, but if a novel ora game is entertaining enough to makeme forget what time it is, that is certainlyall I feel I can ask of the author.

ln Snmt Drivel you get to try yourhand at driving a 1966 Shelby Mustangboth on a training track and on variousstunt tracks, both solo and against up tothree opponents who range from a littleold lady in a VW to a pol~laying yuppiein a Porsche and an IROC-Z drivingpunk. You can also play against a humanopponent on another computer.

Itis always difficult to translate car andairplane controls to the keyboard, joy-stick, or mouse; at least the results arealways unsatisfying for those who haveflown planes, driven race cars, pilotedracingyachts, and so forth. Butgiven therestrictions imposed by a computer'savailable controls, Stunt Driver is quiteeasy to drive, at least at very low speeds.

You get an automadc to start out with,but if you are up to the hanMye coor-dination needed you can switch to a four-speed stick. Sounds (which can be shutoff) are very realistic even with the smallspeaker in my IBM PS/2 and should bespectacularwithan optionalAdLibsound

Stunt Driver will nm from a singlefloppy system, something which alwayswins my praise, but isn't copy protectedso it will end up on many players' hard

version won't run from a Soppy simply

The now~ommon method of protect-sng the game's copyright involves iden-tifying pieces of snmt tracks «s picturedin the manual and, although I don' tobject to tlus sort of owner verification, Iwasn't pleased to find that even with themanual I sometimes failed to correctlyidentify the proper choice and had to tryagain to enter the game.

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be easy to address by making the dia-grams a bit simpler so a standard VGAdisplay would be clear enough to differ-entiate betweenvariouschartpieces. Theresolution problem doesn't apply to ac-tual game play, just the password pro-

The game is very interesting and Ifound it absolutely engrossing, so pleaseread the following suggestions/com-plaints in the light of my overall strongliking for this game.

Something I would really hke to seeadded to games of this sort is an indica-tor that would light up to show when youare starting to push the envelope'ratherthan just let you crash and burn whenyou go into a corner a bit too fast.

This might seem a bit wimpish butwould actually just be a substitute forthose environmental feedback signaLsthat let a driver know his or her machineis about to break loose and go sliding

I can't think of any other way a com-puter game could provide such feedbackthat is essential to actual driving at anyhighyerformance level.

I must admit that, despite having a lotof fun with it, I didn *t do very well atStunt Driver„despite the fact that I havebeen a pit crew member of an SCCA(Sports Club of America) racing team,owned a sports car garage, and still col-lect, drive, and generally play with veryhigh~rformance cars quite similar tothe one heing used in Stunt Driver.

The problem with ALLgames like thisis that there is no way for the software toprovide a real "feel" for the condition ofthe road which is necessary for any race

I would really like to try some gamelike Stunt Driver that included a green-yellow- red indicator of some sort whichwould provide somewarning that the c:arwas about to go out of control. Such asystem might not replace the actualfeeling you get when the steering startsto go a bit mushy, but it might, and I

Certainly users should be able to turnsuch a feature off if they didn't like it.

I would also like to see a way to tune acar for understeer and oversteer, a vitaladjustment in real vehicles. There are alot of adjustments you can make both toyour car and opponents' vehicles, so thisis a minor complaint from an oldi edriver and tinkerer and perhaps it is inthere and I just missed it.But those arejustmy suggestions for a

"perfect" game, something which gameproducers like Spectrum Holobyte arecoming doser to every day. I still highlyrecommend this game for anyone wholikes this sort of arcade game; it is a lot offun, even when you crash.Once you have mastered simply

keeping the vehide on an oval track (notall thateasyifyouwsnt to reach qualifyingspeeds), you can move on to "real" stuntdrivingon trackswithjumpsandinver tedloops. You can also design your ownst mt track when you get bored with theoptions supplied with the game.

The normal view is through thewindshield, the view that lets you watchthe gauges, but you can look out anywindow, choose to drive from the view ofa hdicopter followingyou down the track,or even attempt driving f'rom thechanging viewpoints supplied by trackcameras placed at strategic positions

A simulated VCR that automaticailyrecords your race and lets you play itback to see aspectacularjump (or crash)is a nice addition that I really like.

Despite my minor complaints andsulgestions, lreallyhke Stunt Driver andmayhave to hide itwhen itcomes time to6nish up my next book. While it is stillnice outside I im playing with real cars,but I have a feehng that Stunt Driver willget a lot of computer time once the snowstarts flying.

PERFORMANCF. 4. This is a terrificgame.

USEFULNIr'iS: 4. I am giving it a highrating because it is a lot of fun. StuntDriver may even prove to be the way Iease my wife into driving musde carsbefore trusting my toys to her on the

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cover some of those lost dollars.

The Soft Costswas the amount of time spent sifting through all of the GST paraphenaliaaccumulated over the course of 1990- not to mention the cost of employingadditional hours of an accounting firm to translate the data. Many of youwill have even spent time re-evaluating your existing computerized ac-counting system.

Aside from accounting, these "soft costs" can be given very littleintrinsic value. However, time means money, and the educational andresearch costs alone have been expensive.

The Hard CostsFor anyone that turned to a computerized system to handle the GST, the

hard costs are obvious - hardware, software, training, the learning curve,data entry time, and other sundry expenses. Those of you lucky enough toalready have been computerized the sting is not nearly as bad - unless ofcourse your accounting system was custom made.

The hidden cost of this whole GST affair for the small business owner

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One industry hit hard by the GSTcrunch is softwaredevelopers. SamcoSoftware Inc., a local developer ofaccounting solutions for DOS, Nov-ell, Unix/Xenix, and VAX operatingenvironments, calculates they willhave spent over 348 man hours inspecling, re-programming, testing,and documenting GST changes. Notto mention the cost of preparing,packaging, and shipping updates toits clients across Canada. They esti-mate a net cost of close to $50,000once the dust settles.

Write It OffUnfortunately for Samco, very

little of the $50,000 can be reclaimedthrough government incentives,however, there are a few areas wheresmall businesses can.

Aside from the 50% the first year,50% the 2nd year standard write offfor most software applications, upuntil December 1992, businesses thatpurchase cash registers, and certaintypes ofcomputer equipmentdirectlyrelated to Point of Sale (POS), or in-ventory control systems will benefitfrom a capital cost allowance rate of100% of the equipment cost.

As well, equipment that was pur-chased after December 1989 for thesame purpose is considered FST ex-empt providing that you can providean appropriate end-use certificate.

The third and final cost recoverytool being offered by Revenue Can-ada is a one time credit which must beclaimed by the first full fiscal quarterof 1991. This credit is designed tohelp defray some of the costs incurredto implement the GST. Businessescan claim between $300 to $1,000depending on sales volumes for anygiven quarter between January 1989and April 1991, and the net amount of

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taxable and zero rated supplies pur-chased during the same period.

To many this is very small pick-ings relative to the actual costs in-curred. But its better than nothing atall.

Computerizing Nowis as good a time as any to look atcomputerizing. An automated ac-counting or bookkeeping system cansave countless man hours calculatingyour GST remittance.

Businesses that rely heavily onan inventory of real products willbenefit from what is referred to as aperpetual inventory. In a nutshell,perpetual inventory allows you tomonitor the status of goods in stockwithout having to do a periodic orphysical inventory count. The bene-fit of this, aside from being an excel-lent financial management tool andmore cost effective, is that you canclaim your tax credits back quicker,thus improving cash flow.

Service industries also benefitgreatly by computers. As with retail-ers and wholesalers, the service sec-

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V Take advantage of 100% yearly CCAfor Point of Sale or Inventory Control

V Compute input tax credit for allpurchases.

V Store supporting documents for 6years for tax credit audit.Handle zero-rated Goods tk Services.

V' Handle tax exempt Goods Ik Serv-

V' Handle taxable Goods & Services.Finance cash flow (if disadvantagedby GST).

V' Continue to offer cash discounts.V Fi le monthly, quarterly or annual

V Handle long term contracts overlap-ping 1990/91.Apply for transitional one time credit.

V Track bad debts for GST tax credit.

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tor can track GST collected, as well asinput tax credits with almost flawlessprecision - provided you have theright software of course.

There's Still TimeIf you have still got some unde-

cided issues within your organiza-tion about the GST, we have pro-vided a checklist (see Figure 1) foryou to approach a qualified profes-

As you may notbe reportinguntilJanuary 31, 1991, March 30, 1991, orDecember 31, 1991, there is still timeto tie up those loose ends END

GSTCHECKLIST

We would like to thank the people at SamcoSoftware for their invaluable contribution to

Make sure you 've covered all the G.S.T. bases.

ANOVATION DECEMBER 1990

Canon introduces relief to the dot matrix duldrums

were sacrificed.

hen personal com-puters began pop-ping up on desk-tops around the

world in the early eighties,system administrators hadlittle choice but to furnishthem with loud,and overbear-ing dot matrix printers thatproduced subpar output .Generally speaking it was amatter of giving up perform-ance for inadequate quality or give up quality (what littlethere was) for performance — and sometimes even both

As all mediocre things come to an end, so does the eraof the dot matrix printer - introducing the 300 series ofBubble Jet printers from Canon. Designed to keep thenoise of a stock exchange trading floor where it belongs,and stunning output back on the desktop, the BJ-300(narrow carriage) and BJ-330 (wide carriage), are sure toplease.

What makes these darlings so special is a unique printphilosophy, patented by Canon, called Bubble Jet. You seewith a dot matrix printer, up to 24 metal pins are used topunch into a fabric ribbon. The mechanisms required toproduce the output not only cause a great deal of noise, butare incapable of producing the quality professionals be-came accustomed to with typewriters.

Bubble Jet on the other hand completely revampedprinting as we know it. By utilizing a 64 nozzle print head,firing out tiny ink capsules, the BJ-300 and 330 are nearlysilent. As well, the print quality is no more than stunning- this includes both text and graphics.

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From the performanceside, the 300 and 330 are quitesimply magnificent. At a mindboggling 300 cps they can zipthrough even the most gru-elling document withoutblink-ing. And this stands true forboth text and graphics.

Just to give you an examplewe ran t h e W o r d Perfect

BJ-330, a Roland Raven 2417,and a Fujitsu DL3450. By the time the 2417 and DL3450had barely a third of the print job completed, the 330 wasalready loaded and waiting to print again. Side by side the330 not only outperformed speed wise but the crispnessand accuracy of the combined text and graphics was nomatch for its counterparts.

tive include quick and easy paper handling, compatibilitywith existing software, support for plain paper, fanfold,envelopes, and transparencies, and a wealth of upgradeoptions to personalize the printer to your specific needs.

"The 300 and 330 Bubble Jet printers, put quite simply,are in my opinion the best desktop printers money canbuy." states Todd Drahoff, Manager of ANO's CorporateSystems Group, "The needs of business users, and that in-cludes the health care profession, and engineers, have longbeen ignored. These two entries wiU now prove who' struly the King of the Printer Jungle."

Strong words backed by tToo premiere printers!

Other features which make the 300 and 330 so attrac-

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Q. I recently purchased a laser printer,and would like to set it up as serial in-stead of parallel. The installation manualexplains how to run the setup function onthe printer but does not tell me how tosetup my DOS programs to use it. Pleasehelp!

A. This is quite a common problem forall serial printers. You see, DOS itselfmust first be setup to handle the commu-nications (aka serial) port to handle out-put for an "LPT" device. This is donethrough the addition of the followinglines to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

C:%DOS%MODE COMx = 96,N,8,1C:%DOS%MODE LPTx = COMx

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Note: C:N DOS can be replaced with thedirectory where your DOS programsreside. LPTx is equal to the next availableprinter port (usually LPT1, LPT2, LPT3,or LPT4), and COMx is the serial portwhich the printer wil l be attached to

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(usually COM1, COM2, COM3, orCOM4).

Be sure that these commands pre-empt any menu system commands orcommands which call up a batch file. Ifthis is not done, chances are that theMODE commands will never get exe-cuted.

Should you have any questions forTech Talk, please feel free to send them to:

ATTENTION: TECH TALKc/o ANO Office Automation110 - 11100 Voyageur WayRichmond, B.C.V6X 3E1 END

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this commitment.

ST Research was founded10 years ago by three uni-versity students, deter-

mined to extend the life span of per-sonal computers, while adding con-nectivity. Such products as the SixpakPlus, RamPage memory board, 3270emulator boards, and the CUPID-32line personal computers, reinforced

Now, 10 years later, AST hasdiscovered a new way to providemore power to the people- the Bravoi486/25 business computer. Whatsets the Bravo i486/25 apart from therest of the AST line is a completelyintegrated system board. By build-ing the processor, memory, SuperVGA video (800x600), mouse port,serial ports, and a printer port rightonto one board, and reducing thenumber of pal chips required to oper-ate the system, AST is capable of of-fering the system at a very attractiveprice - how does under $5,000 grabya?

BUILT TO PERFORMAt the heart of the Bravo i486/25

is a 25MHz, i486 microprocessor withan integrated 8Kb of cache memoryand an 80387-compatible math co-processor. These integrated featuresenhance the system's performance,making the Bravo i486/25 nearly hvotimes faster than a 33MHz 386 com-puter.

Not only is the Bravo faster thanan engineering workstation, it givesyou more expansion and storage ca-pabilities as well - without the hefty

THE NE N B RA Vworkstation price, The Bravo 486doesn't lock you into a proprietarysoftware solution either, so you canrun the thousands of software pro-grams available for MS-DOS as wellas take advantage of the technical,scientific, and custom applicationsrunning under UNIX and other work-stations from Sun, Data General, andHP/Apollo.

YOU NAME ITFor some time now, financial and

business users have been relegated toslower 286 and 386 systems just be-cause they didn't build buildings,reroute rivers, or map maps. Well

same computing power as an engi-

The Bravo i486/25 will run your

now there is no excuse not to have the

move.

resets.

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Lotus at lighting speeds, dazzle yourdBase, make your Excel excite you,and give pure power to Paradox. Allin all this new offering from AST willtake any punch your software has topull.

SLEAK DESIGNAST moved a few things around,

and tucked in some skin to make theBravo i486/25 a truly desktop per-sonal computer. With a footprintthat takes up 25% less desk spacethan a comparable Compaq Deskpro485/25, you' ll have more room to

As well, you won't have to reachbehind your computer every morn-

placed in front. A reset switch, whichmaximizes wear and tear on yoursystem is up front too - of course it' srecessed to prevent any accidental

AVAILABLE NOWAnyone can blow their horns

about a new computer, but few de-liver when promised. AST and ANOcan deliver this new product now-right when you need it. Available atall ANO locations across Canada, andbacked by ANO's AST AuthorizedService personnel, so you' re guaran-teed top notch service and support.

AST's Bravo i486/25 — A 486 For AllReasons.

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THE BUBBLE ETPRINTING SYSTEM aximnm o enia

from the nozzle.

In the bubble jet printing system, charactersand graphics are printed by firing ink drops at thepaper from thin nozzles. When the ink in thinnozzles is rapidly heated, it produces bubbles thatquickly expand and produces ink ejections. Heat isgenerated by applying power to the heating ele-ments which are built into the nozzles. Each pulseserves a two-fold purpose.

(1) First, when the pulse is applied, heat isgenerated and vaporizes neighbouringink almost instantly.

The bubble which results generates apressure wave which ejects an ink drop

(2) Second, negative pressure is producedas the bubble contracts after the pulseends. This draws fresh inkinto the nozzle.

An important feature of this printingsystem is the simple construction of individ-ual nozzles. This construction has the follow-ing advantages in addition to reducing manu-facturing costs.

It achieves high durability and enables toreduce the size of the print mechanism.

(2) It attows the nozztes to be much denser,and thus makes it possible to achievehigher print quality.

It achieves non-impact quiet operation.

What this means is that the printer can beused in a far wider range of applications thatis possible with other printers.

sales.

The sales staff at Mantec SystemsInc. used to have a problem. Wi thseveral salespeople on staff, and someworking on the same accounts, it wasimpossible to keep track of where po-tential buyers of their software prod-uct stood in the sales cycle.

"We didn't have a good follow-up system. We had no idea who saidwhat to anyone." The result, says salesmanager Gerald Chudyk, was lost

Being in the software businesshimself, Chudyk had a pretty goodgrasp of the marketplace when he wentshopping for a contact managementprogram to keep better track of clients.He chose The Maximizer.

One of Chudyk's key criteria wasflexibility. He has since tailored Maxi-mizer to fit his business needs exactly."Now I couldn't survive without it,"he says.

fice, Maximizer contains a list of some200 contacts, Chudyk has created hisown screen within the program todisplay at a glance, all the informationabout a given contact that's importantto him, including the next contact date,and the status of the account.

Their dient list is an impressiveone, induding the likes of Rolls Royceand IBM. Customers pay $15,000 andup for Mantec's maintenance manage-

At Mantec's Richmond, B.C. of- want.

ment software, so it's important tokeep close track of them.

Chudyk makes constant use ofMaximizer's description feature,which allows you to describe yourcontacts in literally billions of ways.As an example, he could call up a listcontaining all those companies thatare in the auto industry, have sales ofmore than $100million, were contactedtwice in the past six months, and haveindicated an interest in their product.A simpler example would be a list ofall companies that require follow-upwithin a week.

stored includes currentaddress, phonenumbers, industry type, income level,personal interests, co-workers, resi-dence, birthday, anniversary, numberof children, hair colour, favouriteauthor... Maximizer allows you to gointo as much or little depth as you

"I' ve been telling anyone who istrying to keep track of a large group ofclients or contacts to use it," saidChudyk. "It's fle xible enoug to tailorto exactly what you' re doing."

The Maximizer, a product ofRichmond Technologies and Software,

Canada. For more information, callthe office nearest you. sun .

Other information which can be

is sold at all ANO locations across

Canon's unique Bubble lel print system.

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t o anyone who believesthat all big-capability

PC networks demand b igbucks, big hassles and bigRAM, we offer the LANtasticNetwork Operating System.

You see, only LANtasticNOS gives you a long list ofpowerful features at a priceeven the smallest installationcan afford. So you can link as

few as two PCs, and grow to

rificing capabilities or speed.And only LANtastic uses

the smallest RAM of any LAN.So you can run all your pro-grams without springing forthe high cost of memory up-grades.

can be run on four different

hundreds of PCs — without sac-hardware platforms - w i thLANtastic 2Mbps adapters orLANtastic Ethernet adapters,as well as in a serial/parallel/modem version, or in a versionthat runs on selected third partadapter cards.

received so much industry rec-ognition.

No wonder LANtastic has

And only LANtastic NOS

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NOTE: Installahon, cabling, training, and setup costs vary from installation to installation.A basic rule of thumb for calculaiing your costs would be $480.00 for the base 2 PCinstallation and $90.00 per additional station. An optional on-site Network Security Sup-port Program is available through all ANO locations. Ask your dealer for details.

All pricing F.O.B. Vancouver and is subject to change without notice. Prices may vary

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FEATURESPeer-to-Peer topologyLow RAM overhead

Voice mail optionE-Mail built-in

Easy to use fk setupDisk caching

Networks laptops and modemsSupports diskless workstations

Printer sharing tk spoolingShare CD ROM devices

Audit trail trackingMulti level security

NetBIOS compatibleFile 8c record locking

from location to loca hon.

L AN T A S T IC F R O M A R T IS O F TDECEMBER 1990 ANOVATION

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nounce authorization as a service centre forASI' Research personal computers - reinforc-ing our commitment to servicing what we sell.

To you the end-user, this means fasterturnover on service, and extended warrantyoption on new equipment purchases. As well,if you have an emergency whereby the unitrequires immediate repair, ANO can arrangefor the necessary parts expedited overnightfrom AST (should the parts not be in ourinventory).

WELCOME ABOARD!customer base, ANO's head office inRichmond, B.C. is proud to announce theaddition of Grant Berezan and lan Cummings

In order to better service our existing

ANO Office Automation is proud to an-

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Welcome to the ANO family!!

After many red-eye flights to Ontario,

y Au tomation is pleased to announce the open-i a"8tt

to our service and support team. Grant will be I

ware support, while lan is a welcome additionto our on-site support team.

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and dozens of cross country facsimiles, TobyChu, Chief Executive Officer of ANO Office

ing of our new office in Ottawa, Ontario. .

"Ottawa is our starting point for a new growthplan we have implemented.", exdaims Mr.CChu, 'This means that we will be able to offer

r)S our government accounts the added dimen-sion of an office in the federal capital."

A new office in Calgary is slated for mid1991, with an office in theMaritimes also in the .

responsible for telephone software and hard- Ir works. As well, ANO's head office inRichmond, B.C., was recently expanded byanother 1400 sq. feet to accommodate ourunprecedented growth pattern.

YET ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENTWith the 199(ys being hailed as the dec-

ade of the PC network, ANO has formed thenetwork Information Systems Group (NISG).Headed by Carmine Di Marco, this group ofprofessionals will be responsible for the im-plementation and support of Local and WideArea N~orks, as well as PC to mainframe/mini communications.

As well, they will be testing and evaluat-ing new networking products, to ensure totalcompatibility. Currently, the NISG handlesnetworks operating under Novell, BanyanVines, and LANtastic.

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PACIRC RIM COMPUTER h COMMUNICATION SHOW GUIDEJANUARY 1991

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IntroductionSouthex welcomes visitors to the1991 Pacific Rim Computer 8 Communications Show.

An easy guide to finding your way around the show.

Exhiliitor I-loorPlan/Index

UNIX Showcase

Brief descriptions of this year's vendors.Compiled by John Oliver.

What's ileII

Unix vendors listed for your convenience.

Mac Illetworidng

The state-of-the-art products on display at this year's show.

Exhilsitor Listings

%'elcome to the 1991 Pacific Rim ComputersCommunication Show.Southex Exhibitions is proud once again to bring you the state of the art in

computers and communication. Feast your eyes on the latest in technology tosolve all your business needs.

The GST is on everyone's mind now that it has been passed into law. Lookamund the show fora number of vendors selling accounting solutions to helpdeal with this complex new tax.

Networking continues to be a rapid gtowth area of the computer industry.Companies which a fewyearsagoboughtonecomputer todotheiraccounting,are increasingly integmting computers into other areas of their business.Networkshelp tocombine the power of individualcomputersintoa whole thatis greater than the parts.

Multi-media is another hot topic this year. Computer vendors are bringingtogether compute+, sound and full-motion video to create powerful impactmessages for education, entertainment and marketing.

This year, we draw special attention to the Unix Showcase. Unix is anoperating system that isgrowing in leaps and bounds because of its benefits inthearieasofmultitasldngandmultiusercomputing. Unixis theoperatingsystemof choice for many of today's powedul workstations.

Again this year we would like to thank the Canadian Information ProcessingSociety for its support in sponsomtg the show. It is again putting on a numberof timely and informative seminars on various aspects of computing. See theback page for a listing of the seminars.

Finally, we would Mce to thank show and fadlity staff as well as our OSicialsuppliers, who have helped make the Pacific Rim Computeracy CommunicationShow the largest and most exciting "one-stop solution" venue for the businesscommunity in Western Canada.

Networking for the Mac need not be a headacheBy Richard A. Sparfcs.

UNIX News ~f'mm 0i up~.Late-breaking stories on the UNIX world from Newsbytes.

Richenda CrawfordExhibit Sales Manager

Maryenn ScheldarsShow Manager

Local Area lletworlclniLantastic oflers an inexpensive alternative to Novell and 3Com.By Robert Loewen.

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The 7th Annual PacIAc Rim Computer h Communicagon Show Is pnxluced and managed by SouthexExhibhhns, 4285 Canada Way, Bumaby, B.C. VSG 6E7. Show Manager Is Maryenn Scheldars.

The Pacigc Rim Computer h Communicathns Show Guide Is published as a supplement to the January1991 Issue of The Computer Paper, ~1 We st 4th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. VSR 1P2. Copyright 1991.

All rights reserved. No part of this pubhcatlon may be reproduced without written permission from thepubhsher. Second class malhng registration number 7718. Inliormatlon prcNtded In the exhibitor hstlngs was

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3Com Canada Inc..........................................4243M Canada Inc..............................,.............519ACR Access Computer Rentsts Inc...,............221Advanced Business Mteasystsms Inc............ 21 2Aied Custom Cabte ......................................413Alpha Technotogles Ltd.................................. 240Anixter Canada Inc........................................ 239Apple Canada Inc..........................................309Applied Hectrcntcs Umltsd ....................557, SSSAtart (Canada) Corp.......................................463Azcom Intcsmattan Systems Inc.....................318B.C. Cellular................................................. 452B.C. Unix Users' Group .................................81 0Barr Business Machines Inc...............„..........241BCIT.......................................,.....,108, 109, 110Brother International Corpomthn ...................254Bytswlde MaIkettng Inc...............................5498C-Tran Systems Corp....'................................446Cadence Computer Design Inc...................... 234Calsma Consulting Group Canada Inc...,........207Call-Net Telecommunications Ltd./Ughtel Inc............................................406, 408

Canadian Inkfrmattan Processing Society .......455Canadian Standards Association .......,......,.....421Cental Inc...................................................... 21 1Cardz Camputers ..........................................487Cefttttsd General Accountants Assoc. of B.C. 447Commercial Hsctronics Ltd.........................567ACampus'ower Contrcfls lnc............................ 238CompuCsble ...............................................535Computer Exchange ......................................349Computer Users' Groups of B.C....................528Comshare. Inc...............................................226Comsoft Inc..........................................,..... 21 88ConcentItc Technologies Inc........................ 575ACcetl Computer ~tsms ..............................579Corporate Software Canada ..........................537Cave ONce Products Ltd..............................322Data Terminal Mart ........................................308Datasphere Sales Ltd.................................587CDiplomat Coflee Systems ...........................4568Distinctive Travel ...................................502, 503Dominion DtrectoIy Company ..............'..........430Education Development Centra(Part of the BCTel GnxIP) ..........................517

Egghead Discount Software ...........................205EMJ Data Systems .......................................320Express Micro .................,.............................578RIst Image ....................................................420FocusTrantcs 5 Co........................................415Fountain Software Ltd....................................235Fujikama OA Distribution (Western) Inc....... 486Fujitsu Canada Inc.........................................584Graphtcalty Spsaldng ................................... 2328Great Plains Soltware ....................................550Hepttng S Associates Inc...............................547High-Tech Express and Distrlbutke ................206Hogan Computer Caipamtton ........................501Hunt Pefsonnel/Temporarily Yours .........562. 563Image Software Ltd.....,.......,.........................319Independent Computer Consultants Assoc.....345interactive Technokfgtes Inc...........................102ITR lime Recorder .........................................548InterwoIId Hectrcetcs 5 Computer Ind. Ltd... 232AInvestors Syndeate .......................................552J. 8. Marketing ..............................................545Jump Systems ..............................................53&

' Kelly Temponsy SeNtces Ltd.................213, 214Kodak Canada Inc.......................... 523, 524, S30Learning Tree Intematkeal ............................. 559Lynxx Mlcrasystems Inc.................................308

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Mactssn Hunter Technology Group ................ 220MacWest Computer Society .........................348 ffLMarathon Systems Sotutians .................540, 541 'ir.Mentek Systems Corp.................................. 242Micro Supply (Canada) Inc..................4........5168Micfabase Systems Inc.................................425Mttsubtsht Hectrlc Sales Canada Inc............... 258Moco Canada Inc.......................................,422Namtec Systems lnc...................................412ANational Pagette ................,........................... 228NeXT Computer inc.......................................804Northwest Digital ..........................................321Oflice Automation Systems Group .................435P.I.C.S. Photo Ident Card Systems Ltd........ 218APacilic Ribbco 8 CaIbon Co...........................561Panasonic(Matsushtta Hectrtc of Canada Umtted) ........246

Phanettx CaIporatton .....................................513Plesman Publications Ltd...............................443PowerSaft Systems ......................................107Practical Peftpherats ......................................518Prism Desktop Publishing Inc.........................438Q by Javell ..................................................3178QMS Canada Inc................................,.......317AQuality LearningSystems Inc.........................529Ralph's Radio Ltd...................................431 • 432RJM Systems Ltd...............f.........................444Roland DG Canada Inc..................................302Servex Computers, Inc................514, 51 5, 516ASharp Hectronics of Canada .......................... 262ShaIP's A/V Ltd............................................527Society of Management Accountants of BC ...323Software BC .................................................101Software Publishing Cofporatton ............,'......325STD Computer 0/ancauver) Inc..........;........5758Strache Computers Ltd, .......................577. 578Supply 8 SeIvtces Canada ....................,.....201ASymantec Canada ...„....................................586Syspra/GIoup West ...................................... S56TS DRibbons Ltd.........................................551Tandy Business Products (DMsion of IntertanCanada Ltd.) .................................................571Targus Canada Ltd........................................526Teltnfomattc Inc............................................. 219Texcan Cables Ltd......................................5678The Ccntputsr Papfsr ......,...,,.............,.....344Toshiba of Canada Umtted.....................;.......301Tratnhc ...........................................................305Telequlp Services tnc.....................................525Unlbind .......................................................549AUnlhall Computer Books Co. Ltd............569, 570UniTel Communications Inc........................,...227Vancouver Boanl of Trade/World Trade Centre .....................................539

Vancouver Cellular Ltd...................................44SVancouver Community College ...................... 560Vancouver Netware Users' Group ................;459Vancouver School Board ...............................458Vsfksting ......................................................306Vend-VPItnt ...............................................847Ventura Soltware Inc.....................................419Vision Presentations Inc................................457VMS Vancouver Mtcfa Support .....................512Vtech Laser Computers Ltd...........................441Westcoast Digital/ Westcoast Computers ...568Westech Intonnatlan Systems Inc..........426, 442WKK Systems Ltd......................................201 8Wordpert'ect Corporation ..............................225Xerox SeIvtce Centre ........................,....453,454Zsgna Hectrontc lnc.........,...,.......,................546Zenith Data Systems (Canada) ......................250

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the Shaw isComsoft,which will be showingits Abacus acmunting software. Comsoft,says spokesman Marshall Kushnuruk, wasflrston themarketwith a package thatcouldhandletheGST. Its productwasavailablelastsummer, long in advance of GST imple-

ComsoftisheadquarteredinEdmonton. InB.C., call (604) 6NHH33.

Among the more exdting produas beingshawn at this year's show is Ihe grouptelecanferencing software (GTCS) devel-oped by Bell Northern Research in Ottawa.This software ties any number of personalcomputers together over telephone lines,andallowsthe userstoshareandamendanytext ar graphics files, to scan in fu!I-colorstills,ortoinput fmmavideacameiaorVCR.

This product will be demonstrated byInteractive Technologies Inc. of Vancouver,which has obtained exclusive distributionrightsfar B.C.,Washington and Oregon,andhas rights to distribute elsewhere as weII.Heading up Interactive is George Wootton,former president of Douglas College in NewWestminster, B,C.

'the GTCS software won fust prize for"Most SigniTicant Advance in Audiagraphicor Computer Conferencing at the presti-gious Telecon IX Conference in San Jose,California in October of 1989.

Ihisgioup teleconferenangsoftwarewasused at the World Ecanomic Summit inToronto in 1988. Each of the leaders had thesoftware available on the desk, and wasconnected ta stalF in ather rooms, for im-mediate communication as the meetingspfagi'essecl.

None ofthesevenprindpalsattheSummitwasavailable forcommenton the praductat

Contact: (604) 682-2034.

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Qby Javell is a new Vancouver-basedlineof miaommputers that makes its debut atthe 1991Paafic Rim Computer%Communi-cations Show. Featuring an award-winningmatherbaard design by the Motherboard

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Whether or not this has ever happened toyou,there'sanewpnxluctonthemarketthatcan remedythis and many sirnilarscenarios.It's called Card Express, and it's a vendingmachine that praduces instant businesscards, invitations, "get well" wishes, Ihankyou's, notices and so on.

And it's being demonstrated at the 1991PacRim show by Vancouver4aed Vend-U-

Card Expressisa product that daims tobecustomer-friendly. All you do is deposit yourmoney, and follow instructions to aeateyour own language, card size, layout andtypeface. With touchscreen technology,youcan program your selection in minutes.IanguagesindudeEnglish,French, German,Italian and Spanish. The machine even pro-vides you with a receipt.

Card Express is manufactured by InterproIab Inc. of Montreal. Vend-U-Print has dis-Iributionrights for .C.and partofthe PacificNorthwest Contact. (604) 657-7556.

Factoiyof California, QbyJavell'scomputersare also assembled in that state. Ihe mm-pany,Javeli Enterprises International, is tar-'

geting the corporate market Its computerswill be marketed against high~d U.S. ma-chines, but are more reasonably priced,according to company spokesman RobTiterle. Thelineshouldbeofinteresttosmallbusiness, too, he said, i nduding "those whodon't have the money fora Compaq or even

Q by Javell has a full line of machines,induding a slirnline 286, 386-SX, 386 and486. The 386-SXslimline mmes with 2MBofmain memory (expandable to 32MB), 64KRAM cache, built-in 1024by 768 VGA(withCanadian-builtAIIchipset),and1.2and1.44floppy drives.

Ihese computers come with a twa-yearlimited warranty on parts and labor.

'Ihe company welmmes enquiries fromdealeis throughout B.C. Contact (604) 685-7003.

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Linkauilder Networks

ManufacturedbyMiao SupplyInc. of SanJose, California, the line will be ofFered ashigh~d systems,with an offshore price tag.Micro Supply (Canada) opens its doors inJanuary, and welmmes dealers, initially inB.C.and thenaaossCanada. Themmpany'sheadquarters is Richmond, B.C.

At its booth, Micro Supply will be dem-onstrating a voice-activated card that under-stands DOS commands, as well as a laserarcnet card. Contact: (604) 273-9119.

GST: The TmmmnCometh

For those businesses wishing to have aIitfle light shed on accounting solutions forthe GST, a visit to the World Trade 5Convention Centre in mid-January mightwell be in order. A number of softwarecompanies and vendorsoIFering accountingpackages with GST modules will be at the1991 Padfic Rim Computer 8'r Communica-

Among the mmpanies that would behappy ta talk to you about GST acmuntingsolutions are Advanced BusinessMicrosystems, Camsoft, Great Plains Soft-ware and PowerSoft Systems.

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products at this year's show is Micro Supply(Canada) M. The company is introdudng anew line of U.S.-made 286, 386 and 486systems, and will also spedalize in networkservers and modems.

3Com Canada Inc. has announced avail-ability of its new LinkBuilder ™" manageablehub pnxluct line. The LinkBuilder productsprovide customers with a flexible tool tobuildsystemsolutionsspanning thenetworkfrom the desktop to the Wide Area Network(WAN).

'Ihe linkBuilder family of products ex-pands 3Com's connectivity offerings to in-clude manageable hubs and fiber optic solu-tions. Based on SynOptics' IattisNet ~ Sys-tem 3000 architecture, linkBuilder is avail-able from 3Com's worldwide network of8KOW GUKIE PRODUCED Bv THE CaArPVTHT PAPW

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resellers and distributors in a variety ofconfigurations, with the base unit starting atUS$1,995. 3Com's LinkBuilder product line

product,supportedbythe company'sexper-tise in networking and connectivity for localand wide area networks.

For further information, visit the 3Coinbooth at the Show, or call (604) 682-3266.

This R Thai...• Lynxx Micfosystems has taken over the

network division of Softrak Systems. FormerSoftrak employees Mike Wolfe and IanFrazer have moved over to Lynxx.

• A number of exhibitors at the show willbe holding free draws at keir booths for avariety of products and services. Among thelist are VMS Vancouver Micro Support,Syspro/Group West, Strachan Computers,and Vision Presentations. It's certain therewill be others, so come with your businesscards and keep your eyes openl

e Supply' Services Canada will be dem-onstrating its "Open Bidding Concept," partof the Procurement Oppottunities Board.Visitorswillbeable toviewbidoppoitunitiesat the moment they arise. This would be ofinterest to businesses seeking to fill govem-

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Sharp New laser Printer

Sharp Electronics of Canada will be show-ing a newly released 16-page-per-minutelaserprintercombiningasmall footprintwithincreased productivity. The JX-9700is one ofthe first laser printets to offer this type ofspeed and compact size at a competitiveprice. The laser printer comes standard withHP, Epson, IBM Graphics Printer, IBMProPrinter, and Diablo 630 emulations and aparallel and meal interface, (416) 890-2100.

VTech Laser has announced a competi-tivelypriced286computeraimedatthesamemarket targeted by IBM with its PS/1 com-puter, the home market. The Pal286 is a 12MHz,40Mbharddrivecomputerwithatwo-year warranty and two expansion slots. Asimilarly configured machine from IBMcouldcostuptothree hundreddollars more,come configured with only a 30 megabytehard drive and lack theexpansion slots. ThePal286 comes with GeoWorks Ensemble, anew graphical user interfmce which is win-ningravereviewsinthecomputerpress. (SeeJanuary 1991 edition of Tbe ComputerPaperfor a review.)'Ihis computer is on display atthe Strachan Computer booth They wim begivingoneawayattheendoftheshow. Dropby their booth and enter their draw. (604)984-8500.

UpdateGreat Plains Accounting Series has been

upgradedtoversion5.4todealwiththeGST.They also have added a new CanadianPayroll module that integrateswith theothermodules of their accounting series. Priced atUS$795. the program will be available im-mediately for MS-DOS and Macintosh envi-ronments. A Unix version is to follow. Formore information contact Great Plains toll-free at 1-800456-0025.

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facility in British Columbia. Specializing in286/386/486 motherboards, VGA Cards,Controller Cards, Hard/Floppy Drives and

Super VGA Monitors, we also carry acomplete line of system units and laptops.

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Vertisoft System's DOUBLEDisk offers aPC user a much easier and less expensivealternative to doubling the capacity of itsexisting hard disks. The program works "onthe fly"automaticallyto compact and un-compact files as theyarebeingusetL Typicalsavings result in a doubling of disk capacityfrom the $139.95 utility, The photo aboveshows "DDIR", a directory utility windowillustrating the amount of space saved byusing DQUBLEDisk. The product is beingdistributed in Canada by J.B. Marketing. 1-800-267-2424,

@MS Droys Price On11" X 17" laser Printer

@MS recently lowered the price of itspopular ll" X 17" laser printer from $17,995to $15,995. The @MS-PS 2220 laser printersupports 11" X 17" PostScnpt piinting andcomes standard with two 25Wheet inputbins and a i~hect direct feed input tray.

This printer has been popular withnewspapers,andbusinesseswith large-sizedoutputneeds.AccordingtoarecentsuiveyofPostScript printers done by P Cdfagazlne,the PS 2220 is the fastest printer currentlyavailable and shows ratings well above thespeedofferedbyothervendors.'Ihe PS 2220is available only from @MS Canada. (800)

Fax CemmunicationsFor Unix Users

Faximum Solbvare Inc. is offering Unixcomputer users the ability to send faxesdireclly Irom their workstations, The pro-gramciaimstoolfereaseofuseandpowerfulfeatures for SCO Unix and Xenix, OpenDesktop, Interactive 386/ix, ATILT UnixSystem V/386,Sun-4andotherUnixsystems,The software is compatiblewith all Group llfax machines and supports HP LaserJet, HPDeskJet, PostScript and Epson FX laserprinters. See the Trainix booth for details.(604) 925-~.

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Soa are BC/CADAPSO represents the com-puter software and services industry hcally. provin-cially, na5onally and Internathnally. Membership ap-plications viill be available for sofhvsre developers.senrice provlders and anyone interested in the com-puter software and senrices industry In BC. We alsoinvite members of ths press. government, financialcommunity and computer users to come by ourbooth. Please drop off your business card for the

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Inter active Technoloiles Inc.Interac5vs Technologies Inc. will be demonstrating

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"PowerPay," a powerful payroll program devehpedespeciallyfor Canadian businesses. The products aredesigned with ease ofuse inmed. You shouklbe ablsto team and operate PowsrPay in Isss than thirtyminutes. PowerPay has a suggested retail price of

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BCIT is an innovs5ve and flexible advanced tech-nology enterprise that focuses on those hi5a5vesthat increase entrepreneurial activities within theprovinm. In addi5on to pnwkllng a highly trainedworkiorce. the Institute facilitates technology trans-Ier by providing innovation, industrial assistance andmetracted applied research. The Institute ofl'ers itsexper5se and resoun:es in specIc techndoy'ealareas and develops applications for Bri5sh Columbiabusiness and indusby.

Snpyly and Services Canada201A

Supply and Senrices Canada (SSC) will be featur-Ing online demonstrathns of its new ProcurementOpportunities Board, a new initiative of theDepartment' s Open Bidding Concept. Visitors to thebooth will be abls to view Federal Government bkl-dingopportuni5eseisctronhally. In addl5on,SSCwIhave literature and Inkaoth markersxl assistancesesshns along with information on How to DoBusiness with the Federal Government.

WKK Systems Limited201$

WKK Systems t)mlted is dsdhated to providingthe personal computing mariret with quality, name-brand equipment and superhr personal service. Ourpnoduct hne spans the en5re range of PC @+ducts,0om the Evwex cube 486 ESA Ie-server to scan-ners, Fax/Modems and MacIntosh peripheruis. Theaim of our company is to ensure that each clientreceives the appropriate comblnaihn of productsand senrices to p arantee sa5sfac5on. Weofl'er the

RIIlhead Discount Software205

Egghead Discount Software ls North America' slargest retailer of personal computer software. Westock 20001tsms of MLDQS and Appie computers,Including a wide range of accessories. Eggheadoffers full customer service and demonstra5on I'acill-ties. Our4atea stores are: Downtown6884)984.W.Broadway 73t 4255, Bumaby 4324633, RIchmond

Hllh-Tech Express andDlstrihntion200HIgh-Tech Exfxess Is a uunspata5on company

that speciahzes In the movement ofhlgh value, sensl-5ve commodi5ss such as computers and medhalequipment. Our professhnal experisnced staff, com-bined with a fullcomplementof alrdde vehicles,alhws us to provide safe, sscute, and punctualservhe North America-wide.

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207Calema ConsnNnl Grenp Canada

Calema Consulting Group prcvkfes a fully Inte-mul5user accounting/Informa5on system.

vailable modules: Accounts Payable, AccountsReceivable. Cos5ng, Equipment Rental. GeneralLedger, Inventory Control, Market Manager, OrderEnby. Point of Sale. Process Producthn, PurchaseOrders. Serial Number Tracking, Works Orders. Thesystem is G.S.T. ready. Phone: (604) 299-7795.

Cental lnc.211

Cental - The leader in mobile communha5ons InCanada. at work con5nulng to proNde quality cellularsnd paging servhes.

Advanced SnslnessINicrosystems, Inc.212

Advanced Business Mlcrosystsms (ABM) pro.vides advanced accoun5ng andMIS systems for usein any business. throughout Canada and intema5on-ally. Our Platinum Series features MIS and customrepor5ng capabih5es that make it more than just anormal accoun5ng system, but adetailedlnlorma5onmanagement system.

Kelly Temporary Services Ltd.21+ 214

Kelly TemporeSenrices is a full-service corpora-5on provkling temponay emphyees in the antes oftechnical, oflice automs5on, clericai, marke5ng. andIlghtindustrial support.Kellyhasdis5nguishedltselfln

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the industry by its commitment to supplying qualiliedoNce automation employees through extensive test-ing and training programs on our unique computers,video training tapes, Support Line, and rsfelshceguides.

P.I.C.S. Photo Ident CardSystems I.td.218A

Photo Ident Card Systems Ltd. Is a dealer ap-pointed to sell and service the new Kodak Vkleo IDProducts. P.I.C.S. have been innovators in cardtechnology. klenttica5on and security systems forover 23 years. We also manufacture vinyl creditcards, mylar plastic pouches and laminating supptesand equipment.

Comsoft Inc.218$

The Abacus falnily of integrated Accoun5ng Sys-, tems from Comsolt includes three unique programs.

Abacus EL ls a I'ully functional enby-level systemwhich includes a comprehensive bookkeepingprimer.

Abacus I is s fully integrated single-user systemdesigned to handle most small-business accoun5ngneeds.

Abacus II sets the standardinmu15useraccoun5ngsystems. and includes such capabilities as Job Esti-mating/Costing and Inventory/Order Entry.

In addition to the other features In each system, theAbacus family of accounting systems Is designed toelegantly handle the Goods and Services Tax, bothinreceivables and payables.

Telinfomatic Inc.210

Telinfomatic Inc. Is the publisher of BusinessConnexions, Canada's national bilingual directory ofbusiness products and services. Ustlngs can befound alphabe5cally by company name and also bybusiness classlllca5on. The directory is ave1able intwo sizes: the Rei'srsnce edition (&-1/2'x 11') andthe Executive edition (5.4'x&.3'). Telinfoma5c alsopublishes the ONcial Fax Directcxy and is the agentfor the UniTsl Telex Directory and Jaeger sndWaldmann International Publica5ons,

Ilaclean HunterTechnology Greup

Do more than reach the computer and informationtechnology market. Cover it thoroughly with theMaclean Hunter Technology Group of publica5ons:Canadian Computer Reseller. a bi-weekly newsmagazine, provides resellers with the inionna5onthey need to understand what is happening in theindustry. Serving VARs/VADs, system Integrators

Canadian Datasystems. a monthly magazine. pro-vides indepth analysis of trends and developments.Serving prol'sssionals in Infolms5on systems/dataprocessing and telecommunications.

ONce Systems & Technology, a new magazineserving the needs of execu5ves and managem inbusiness and government organizations using inI'or-mation technology.

ACR Access ComputerRentals Inc.221

Access Computer Rentals provides computerhardware to end-users on a Monthly, Weekly or DailyRental basis. Product lines canied are all IBM MS-DOS and compa5bles andinclude brand names suchas IBM, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Toshibaand others. Types of products include 0(f, AT2&6,AT3&$ Desktops and Laptop Computers, NetworkWorksta5ons and Sewers; Laser, Dot44atrix sndDaisy-wheel printers. Telephone (604) 255-7342.

WordPerfect Corporation225

Developers of WordPerlisct. the best~ling wordIxocessing soltwars; PlanPelfect, a WoldPerlsct-compatible spreadsheet: DstaPerfect. a menu-drlvsn database: WordPerfect ONce, a comblna5onof desktop utility programs with electronic mall andscheduling; DrawPerlect, a business prisents5on

' graphic package: and Lettsrperisct, a lowland wordssor. Network and intema5onal versions of

ordperI'act Corpora5on products are availablefcravariety of machines.

Comshare228 '

Comshars, Inc., s $100 million intema5onal soft-ware vendor, provides the msrket&ading executiveinfonna5on snd decision support system softwareproducts. Commander EIS allows executives toaccess critical perfonnance lniormation with a touchscreen or mouse. It includes IIve applica5ons: statusrepeating, Inves5gation and analysis, strategic newsnavlga5on, execu5ve reminder and an Interface toelectronic mall system.

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UniTel Communications Inc.221UniTel, Canada's Na5onal Telecomlnunlca5on

Carrier, has been a long-time provkler of innovative,cost~c5vstelecommunica5onnetwork solutions.UnlTel provides FacsRoute (facsimile service);Broadband (private voice servhe); Mach I gnte-grated voice/data/image service): FasPac (packetswitching); and s wide variety of other voice and data .

National Pagette228

National Pagette is the leader in Oe communica-tions Industry with a cro~nada paging network.as well as extensive B.C. coverage which includesLower Mainland, Vancouver island, and Interior ofB.C. Our answering service ofl'srs professionalsen4ce at compe5tlve rates.

Interworld Electronics SComputer Ind. Ltd.232A

You will be treated to the very latest in Pen/PencilPlotter Technology Itam Mutoh snd Enter Comput-ers, large format dig15zers from GTCO, as well asvery large graphics monitors from Image Systems.Demonstra5ons of the latest honvhw version ofLabtec will be on display plus the latest release IV ofOread's leading schematic capture package.

Graphically Speaking232B

Presenta5on graphics products and servtms willbe dhsplaysdby the leader In this market,GraphicallySpeaking. We specialize in the production of presen-tations using mul5snecLt,35mm slides and overheadtransparencies on both IBM snd Apple computers.

Our oNce is kcatecl at 210-1 161 Melville St. InVancouver. Call (604) 6824500.

Compu-Power Controls Inc.233

CompuPower Controls Inc. provides Sales, Ser-vice and Dlstrlbutlon of Computer Power Protectionequipment. We offer a full range of EmersonUnintenuptible Power Supply Systems (U.P.S.)ranging from 150VA up to 625KVA three-phasesystems. We also cany a comprehensive productline of surge suppression, voltage regulation sndpower dlstribu5on units. Look for us at the EmersonComputer Power Booth 4233.

Cadence Computer Design Inc.

Cadence Computer Design Inc. is a WesternCanada company with headquarters in Vancouversndaregional oNce in Cslgany. Cadence has evolvedto become the most proilc keel area network in-staller in Western Canada. It is also a softwaredevelopment house and currently has software InNorth Amedcswide distdbu5on. Cadence provklsocustomized SQL, h4closolt Windows and Presenta-tion Manager sppllca5ons written In Microsof't C aswell as ACCPAC customiza5on and ACCPAC com-

nion products wrttten In ACCESS C. Theancouvsr oNce Is kcated at 3rd floor, 1681 Chest-

nut Street. Telephone (604) 733-7638.

Fountain Software Ltd.235

Complete software for conveyancing documentsneeded by knvtsrs and notaries In B.C. to increaseproduc5on and eliminate stress. Word processingnot needecL includes GST calcula5ons. No memo-riza5on of function keys or procedure needed. Runson MS-DOS IBM or compa5ble.

Anllter Canada Inc.23$

Anixter, the wiling system specialists locus ourproductlnvsntorytoservicethe needsofthePhysicaland Data Unk sectors ofthe Open Systems Intercon-nection Model. Anixter distributes products whichInclude cabling systems, hubs, Intslhgent concentra-tore, network interface cards. tsnnlnal servers, Intsr-netwceldng de'vices and network management soft-ware. Psrtnering with Anixter to sup+ products tothe Data Communica5ons Modest are IBM, Belden,ATCT, Synop&cs, Amp, DEC. Nevada Western snd

Alpha Technologies Ltd.

Canadian manuisctursr of CSAwp proved UPSbackup power systems, voltage regulating line condi»5oners and DC power systems, used to protectcomputers, business telephones snd date equip-ment from power problems such as blackouts,brownouts, spikes, surges and electronic noise.

Barr Business INachlnes Inc.241For 53 years, Barr Business Machines Inc. has

pncudly serviced Vancouver businesses. Known asthe The Typewriter Service Pktce for decades,

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Panasonlc ONatstIshlta Electric ofCanada Limited)245

Panasonicis abrand name of Matsushita Electric ofCanada Umited (Meha). Matsushita is a leadingmanul'acturer and supplier of electronh goods. in-cluding a full range of computer equipment. copieIS,electIIc typing systems. phone systems, cellularhones and pointwf-sale equipment. Matsushltaead oNce is in Mississauge, Ontario. Telephone

Zenith Data Systems fCanadal250

Zenith Data Systems (Canada), a Groups Bullcompany, has manufacturing and sales facili5es for

Itsble and desktop microcomputers and monitorsr both single andmultluserapplicaaonsinmorethan

30 countries. Innovation hss been and continues tobe &edrViing force behind everypnxluctZenith DataSystems engineers — from the technologically ad-vanced ESA-based 80386 a 80486 desktop pnxl-ucts, through to our new VGA SlimsPort laptop. Totake a closer look at the company and products withan established Ieputatlon lor innovation, quality andvalue....Zenith Data Systems (Canada)-loin us atThe Pacllh Rim Computer Show.

Srother International Corp.254

We will feature our complete line of dot matIix andlaser ptlntenI including our new 4 page per minutePostscIIpt laser. Also $satured are Brother's full lineof electronh typewIiters and facsimte. The Brotherelectronh lettelng systems and I'ull cohr coplers willalso be displayed.

Nitsublshl Electric SalesCanada Inc.258

Mitsublshl willbe displa)rng highlights ofouraxten-slvspmluctline. Ofspeclallnterestwlllbe: S340-10,e neer-photographic quality sublimation colourprinter MH216CG-400d.p i. Page Scanner-peIfect

Resoluaon Monitor-the newest standard ln I+ResGraphhs.

Sharp Eleeh onlcs of Canada252

Sharp Intsoduces its latest First Colour TFT LCDLaptop Computer PC8501. It displays 256 dazdingcolours. New 386 laptop and notebook computers$saturing 120MB HDD, 20MHz,386, SX model PC-6751 and PG4641 notebook-weightlessthan elba.Also with 20MHz SX processor. Other pnxlucts willinclude cohur scanner and the new professionalllquklcrystalcohurprciector,modelXG-1000.Anewlaser printer, JX-9700, 16 page per minute. $cr healarea network (LAN) high prin5ng requirement pur-poses. As well • corns and see our wide mnge ofcopiers. facsimiles, and electIonh organizers.

Toshlba ef Canada LimitedInformation Systems CroupQSQ)301

Toshlba Information Systems Group ls Canada'sleading suppllerof portablemicrocomputer products.In the oNce or on the road, Ior the student, home-user. orexperhncedbuslness poweruser, ToshlbalsCanada's llrst family' of portable exnputers.

Roland DG Canada Inc.302

Roland DG Canada hs the exclusive CanadiansupplierofDalatraln computers andmonitore, Ravendotmatrixandlaser printers, and Roland pen pbttets,thermal plotters and Camm's. New $cr this shcwv:386 and 486 personal computers, 19' colour monktora. expandedllne of 24 pin printers, flatbed plottersand hand-hekl slgncutter.

Nentek Systems Corp.242

Mentek Systems Corlxee5on is a manu$acturers're tesenta5ve and distributor of quality, dependablevE

Ber has a secret to share with ycu: Computers,Laser Printers, Word Proosssors, Typewriters, FaxMach'Ines and mcse. Featuringsuch bmnd names asOlive(5, Fulasu, Amstrad, Kyccera, Silver Reed andHewlett-Packard. Sales, SeIvhe, Supplies andRentals....lfyouhave needs. we olfer soiusonsI Cell(604) 73691 11.

ajor business areas Include: PolntwfZales, distri-bution accoun5ng, system integration and network-Ing of UNIX and DOS based (Novell Gold/LANManager) computer systems.

Apple Canada lnc.300

Apple Canada Inc., a subskllaIyofAppleComputerInc., will be displaying staff - thewrt mul5medlasolutions. Apple's UNIX Platlorm and the newlyintroduced products. Apple Macintosh computershave the capacity to run A/UX. MS-DOS, andMacintosh O.S. (with disk compatibllliy) at the same5me for true integra5on.

QNS Canada Inc.31TA

QMS Inc. Is a wodd leader In the development,manufactuIIng and marketing of printer systems andsoftware. @MS product lines include monochromelaser printers, color thermal transfer pIInters, Intelli-gent controllers $cr impact and nonqmpact prInters,and software utilities. The company's extensiveproduct oifeihg encompasses most major prin5ngstandards andoperating environments, providing ananay of printer solutions which can saasiy a user'smost complex pIin5ng Iequirements.

Q by Javell317B

Rnsllyin Canada! /by Javell Introduces a new lineof high-peIfoImance IBlukampa5ble personal com-puteIe. Key featuIes of the full line include: Awanl-winning American design and manufacture, and atwo.year hmlted waITanty on both parte and labour.Both Q's corporate oNces and the QseIvhe Centreare based in Vancouver,

Axcom Information Systems Ino.318

Azcom is a Novell Gold Authcxlzed Systems Inte-rator experienced in LAN design and installationm 3 to 140 stations including Gateways and

remote E-Mall. We prcNIde on-line telephone supporor complete on-site LAN Management. Azcom alsols an Advanced Revels5on data base AdvantageDevehper of custom and packaged software. WithSQL instsllaaon and support. Packages includePersonnel, Fund Raising. OIder Entry. Point-of-sale,Client Contact and RO270.

Imaye Software Ltd.310

Image Software Ltd. Is committed to providing theindusby's best customer seN(ce and software prod-ucts. We offisr lils5me.warranties and guaranteedprhing on all software products and seIvice. Weemploy a full complement of pro$sssionals and off'era complete portfolio ofintegrated, mulauseraccount-lng packages. We also pIovtde hardware and customsoftware services.

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Lynxx Nlcrosystems Inc.308

Lynxx Microsystems Inc. ls a $ull-sevhe otganha-thn providing soluthn sales, training, technologyroblem-solving, service, support and consulting.4

Data Terminal Nart303

Data Terminal Mart is one of Canada's oldesttesellers of computerequipment.Repiesenanglead-ing manufacturers such as Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and NEC. DTM o1$srs its dhnts a widevariety of hardware to beet suit th'elr needs.

DTM also offers softwee solu5ons fiem Omcle.Great Plains andnetworklng applhatlons fromNovelland SCO/XENIX.

NeXT Computer Inc.304NeXT Computer Inc., $cunded by Steve Jobs (co-

$cunderof Apple Computer), develops andmanufac-tures a line of UNIX-based computers and appllca-thns. NeXI products I'esture integra5on, connectiv-ity and advanced technohgical tools $cr produc5vityinbusiness, educa5on, science, publishing andmore.Canadian sales oNce 6834)199.

Tralnlx305

Trainix is the leading source of UN0(training in BC.The company has been designing and teaching UNIXand C courses publicly, 5Irough universlbes, and on-site since 1984. Trainix is also the SCO Author@edEducation Centre for BC. Instructors will be on handto discuss course materials and cunicula.

Varketlng305

Solutions $cr Manufacturers in UNIX 6 DOS isthe theme of the booth. Exhibited will be a UNIX-based data collection system which combinestouchscreen and bar code technologies. Also beingshown Is an MRP2 soltware solution, running onDOS, whhh is suitable for small to medium scalemanufacturers.

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ENIJ Data Systems320

EMJ is a Canadian distributor with 6oNces acrossCanada. EMJ Data are authoihed distributors forVersaCad, Acer, Data General, Interactive UNIX.Sony, Intel, USRobotics, Hitachi, ATI, Tecmar, AlphaTechnologies, Connecttech, Practical Peripherals,Digiboard, Tatung, Cyrix, Nth Graphics, Cardinal,Metheus, Renaissance, DPT, Microsolution, Net-work Interface. EMJ has service, warehouse andsales ofRce facili5es in Richmond, B.C.

Northwest Diyital

Northwest Digital is Canada's largest national full-line Hewlett-Packard dealer. Our commitment totechnical excellence and product support has beenthe cornerstone of our success. The extra value youreceive when deafing with Northwest Digital is ourexperienceandabilitytoprovide toourcustomers theleading edge of computer technology. We don't)ustsell products — we sell solu5ons. See us at Booth

Cove ONce Products Ltd.322

Cove ONce Products Ltd.is featuring: the Laserhlepiacess, saving up to 75% olfthe priceofa nawtonercartrklgewithup to 10% higheryield. Recycled paperproducts/copier, facsimile, computer, and laser

'nter supplies. Disks/data cartridges/ribbons/Ia-Is/data accessories. Priced right and delivered on

time. (604) 2534677, fax 255-7744.

The Society ofINanayement Accountantsof British Columbia323

The Societyof ManagementAccountants ofl'creenaccredita5on program that dls5ngulshes Canada's40,000 CMAs from other accountants through aprogram of prac5cal management training. Amongthe Society's senrices to Its members and the gen-eral pubfic is an ongoing series of profisssbnal devel-opment seminars with a comprehensive computertraining segment These intensive, hand~ ses-sions are designed speciRcally for accountants andIeature Instruc5on by dis5nguished profisssbnals inthe Raid. See our chsplay br program details.

Software Publishlny CorporationSPC developseasy'-use business software br

IBM4ype PCs. Enhylevel products such as PFS:RrstChobe and Rrst Publisher address the needs of theoccasbnal user and small business. ProlissslonalWrite and File target the corporate managerial pro-fisssional. Harvard Graphbs 2.3is the markst4eadlngbusiness presentation graphics package.

The Computer PaperThe Computer Paper is a free monthly tabbid

newspaper that reaches over 130,000 computerusers in Bri5sh Columbia. Alberta, and Manitoba Inthree separate editions. Featuring Inficrmative m-porte. hardware and software reviews, 5mely ar-5cles, expert hints and tips, and the latest news in the

infonna5on source of chobs.

Independent ComputerConsultants Association345

A non~Rt association of 125 member Rrms andprofessionals dsdbated to promoting professbnal-ismln the industry. The assoclatbn offers a varietyofbeneRts to members. and seives the general publhby means ofa rel'eiral service and the maintenance ofa database/chiectory of members and member ser-

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Vend-U-Print347

The Card Express System available Item Vend4J-Print is a new and unique machine manulactumd InCanada. The system dispenses personaRzed Busi-ness Cards and IvRniJtnnouncements such as invlta-tkes, no5ces and advertisements. The systemoperates as a vending m achine and when ac5vated,vAII prompt the consumer by means of an alpha-numeric touch screen to input the variable data ontoa pre-selected card fionnat. The consumer instantlyreceives the Rnished product.

INacWest Computer Society348

The MacWest Computer Society ls a n~roRtuser group dedicated to serving and supportin theneeds of Macintosh computer users. Membersreceive our newsletter and have access to varioussupport and tschnbal servbes, as well as one of thehugest endmost comprehensive publb domain andsharaware Iibmries dectcatad exclusively to Macin-

349Computer Exchanye

Computer Exchange is a B.C. owned and operatedretail outlet chain, I'eaturing a full line of CEX 286, 386and 486 computer systems. The cornerstone of oursuccess has been our dedicatbn to customer satis-fac5on, service and reliability. We offer affordablecomputer solutions for indMduals, small businessand corporations at both our retail outlets inVancouver. We are authorized dealers of Novell,ACCPAC+, Roland and Xerox Computer Products.

Call-Net TelecommunicationsLtd./Llyhtel Inc.406. 406

These sister companies are the largest resellers oflong distance senricss in Canada. Operating in theprovinces of Ontario, Quebec and Bri¹sh Columbia,theyofierreducadmte bng distance senrices aswellas calknanagement repcxts. Ughtel in con)unctbnwith B.C. Rai) has Ried an applba5on with the CRTCto become a I'aclll5eekased carrier.

Namtec Systems Inc.412A

Namtec Systems Incorporated, fioundedin 1984, lsa computer systems Integia5on and information sys-tems dsvebpment house speckilhing In: RelationalDatabase, SQL, HIghPeifiormance Decisbn Sup-poitappllca5onsinmul5user UNIX/DOSkased lANand WAN environments. Namtec is an authorizeddealerofAcer, ACCPAC, Lotus. SCOUNIX/XENIX,Novell • Unily Accell/SQL and more.

Allied Custom Cable413

Allied Custom Cable offers a wide range of stan-dard and custom cable assembfies. patch panels,switch bcsces, wire harnesses, ribbon cable assem-bRes, connector wire and cable assemblbs, connec-tor wire and cable, coaxial assembliesand RF assem-blies.

Focus Tronics! Co.415

Focushonbs carries a full line of computer key-boards, power supphes, computer cases. and com-puter edwin cents. Our line includes the Focus FK2001 101 key, the FK 5001 130 ksy with built¹ncabulator, actustable speed, and 24 I'unction keys.the Nerthgate Omnlksy 102, Omnikey Plus, andOmnikey Ultra with 36 func5on keys, CSA approved200-250 watt power supplies from Senstron andLevel and 15 types of cases. ~ ryone saysFocustronlcs is 'The Keyboard Pkice', but we offermuch more than just keyboards.

Ventura So%ware Inc.419

Ventura Software Inc. has Intmduced several prod-uchi over the last fsw months. The show display willfocus on Ventura Publsher Gold Series andFonnBase 1.1, The new Gold Series oil'ers desktoppublishing users the Rsodbll5y to use the sofitwareunder GEM, Mbrosoft Windows 3.0 and OS/2 Pie-sentatbn Manager. FormBase automates the de-sign, manipulation of bnns and fonna-mkited data.

First Imatle420

Confused about where that colour desktop stuffcame from at the Trade Showf Then give Rrst Imagea call. We can easily identlly your mqulrements,provide interlaces br your DOS, PS/2 or Mac plat-fionn, and then train you to become a Mul5-MediaMagbianl We'reyourbcal Taiga andNuVlsta dealerand since we' ve been there, we' re here at Booth¹420.

Canadian Standards Association421

CSA Is a world-leading csr5Rca5on and testingorganlza5on. CSAwit showcase seivhesitprovklesto meet the needs of businesses dealing In hightechnology. Emphasis will be placed on SpeckilInspectbn/Acceptance piograms that provkle 5ms-and costwflisc5ve services. Quality Assurance pro.gnamswlllalsobeemphaslzed. Call(604)2734581.

INOCO Canada Inc.422

MOCO Canada Inc. is the leading independentmobile communba5ons supplier In Britlsh Columbia.MOCO Canada wll display the new RACOTEK mo-bile data terminals. The RACOTEK terminals useDOS 3.0 and operate on Cleamet's bunked radbsenrice available In 23 Canadian ci5es.

3COSI Canada Inc.424

3COM Corporatlonlsa leading independent gbbaldata networking company, providing mul5vsndorconnectlvity that spans organlza5ons and busi-nesses worldwide. The company designs, manufac-tures, markets and supports networldng systemsbased on industry standards and open systems

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Microbase Systems Inc.Microbase, a developer of seamlessly integrated

data imaghg and document Imaging software fiorprofessional work groups, will demonstrate its imag-ing software to corporations, government andVAR's. The imaging software is spsciRcallydesignedto extend any PC-based machine or network Into acompletedata-imaging or document-Imaging systemin a way that is quick, easy, and cost-effec5ve.

Westech InformationSystems Inc.

Westech Infonnatbn Systems Inc. and Grid Sys-tems Canada will be dlspbying state of the cattechnologies developed ficir distributed systems.

Westech will demonstrate appfica5ons utilhingtheir Graphb User Intsifisce appRca5on tools, theGrklPadhandwrl5ng technobgy, and their LANtech-noiogies.

Grkl Systems will Inboduce their latest Rdd sys-tems hardware Including the highly pubtcized1550SX Laptop computer. The 1550 is a 20MHzlaptop with bullt4n ISOPOINT bar fior Windows.

Dominion Directory Company430

Dominion Directory Company, the publishingagent fior B.C.'s Yellow Pages, wit be featuring the

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Ralph's Radio Ltd.431, 432

At Ralph's we take the 5me to ensure your cellularcommunics5on needs are fully met. We guaranteeeverything we sell and senrice. Visit our booth andsse the new Motorola hand-held personal cellulartelephone, as well as cellular phones from NEC andAudiovox. Ralph'~uthorhsd agents for B.C. Cetu-

Prism Desktop Publlshiny Inc.433

Prism Desktop Publishing Inc. would like to drawyour attentbn to the new standard In desktoppublish-ing. Introducing LaserMaster's ~ew tabloid-she1200 dpi Pbln&yer Typesetter along with the 1000dpi Pleinkaper Typesetter. Increase your laser'sresolu5on to 800 dpi with the 6MB contnciller card ortake a bok at our 19' GrayScale Outline Font Moni-

ONcce Automation Sys. Group436

ONceAutomatbn Systems Group has emerged tomeet thegronfingdemands for specialists withmicio,mini and mainframe experthe. As a leader In therecruitment and placement of computer specialistswe are committed to piovkling the most highly quali-

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Cardz is a custom manufacturer of complete 386/486 systems. Pnclng is considered the lowest inCanada on a broad spectrum of hardware. CardzBBS is an advanced bulletin boardwithmore featuresthan anyotherin Western Canada. Afullce-line storeis implemented through B.C. and Alberta via CanlzBBS.

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From the $299 companion portable lASER PC4computer to the lASER 4&6 Tower, the lASER lineof compatibles are International bestsellers. ThelASER Pal286has been toutedas the PSI's only realcompe5tor in publhasons as well as the popular

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Westech Infermatlon Systems lnc.

Westech Informatke Systems Inc. provides sys-tems Integration and consultIng services to uslity,government and private sector clients throughoutNorth America. Regionally, Westech also pravidesDistributed Systems services Including Local AreaNetwork Installatke and support, Personal Computer development, customization of proprietarysoftware packages, CASE/Workbench softwareand support, and both malnfnune and PC technicalsupport.

Plesman Publications Ltd.443

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iPalent Peslny See Us at Booth «317A.

News forcomputer resellers, Sl Business for systemIntegrators!VARs, Compusng Canada Ior informa-tion processing management, and DirectionInformasque Ior French-spealsng infomM5on pro-cessing management sndQuebec-based computerresellen'.

RJiw Systems Ltd.

RJM develops PCcleliversd learningtools de-signed to meet the exact tnslning needs of yourorganlzason. Our in-house production facility usesthe RJM proprietary authorlng tools (SASY) to pro-duce highly intaracsve learningenvironments thatincorporate simulations, expert system tutorhls.graplscs, text, videodisc and digiszed vkleo sndsound. Whether you nxtuire an online perfonnancesupport system or an on-5ne tutorial, our team ofexperts wi provide you w@l thelearningtools thatmeet your training ~ s.

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C-Tron Systems Corp.44$

C-Tron Systems Corp. installs. certilies and sup-ports twisted pair, coaxial, or Rber optical cablingsystems. We specialize in IAN applica5cns forsingle-building, mul5-building or campus environ-ments. We offer technical expersse, full 3-yearwaman5es, maintenance optkes, ands reputation forsuperiordesign, installation andsupport. OuroRIces:3785 Myr5e St., Bumaby, B.C. (604) 432c690;3378 Douglas St., Victoria, B.C. (604) 388-5649.

Certlned General AccountantsAssociation of B.C.447

B.C.'s largest professional accounting associa-5on. CGA Rrms specialize in small business, offeringclients a full range of servhes including: accounting,audlsng, tax advice. management consulsng. andestate and personal Rnancial planning.

Vancouver Cellular Ltd.448

Vancower Celluks Umlted ls a fuiiservice cellularcenbe, providing all aspects of cellular and mobileofRce needs across Canada, from costelfecsve In-car programs to the latest In execusve portablecommunlcasons. For mesa Infotmation on today' shlghestmtum Investment In time management, call(604) 6840910 or 14)00665-9335.

B.C. Ceiular452

B.C. Cellular is the leader In the Brissh Columbiacellular communhasons industry. Our knowledgeand axpersse allow us to provide tailcxed solusons toyour evolving needs Ior mobile communlcasonsproducts and services — liom cellular telephonesand the Iastwmerging workl of personal communha-tkes, to moblle$exand data. electronic vote mall andpa gerXerox Service Centre4$3 4 454

The Xerox Servhe Centre in Vancouver spear-heads a' nasonal service network across Canada.Through Maintenance Agreements or Time S Mate-rhd mpalrs, we support most mlcrccomputers andperipherals available today. The Service Centre alsonuskets Datatrain, Acer. Everex, Novell and ASTpnxfucts, among others. For more lnformatkeplease come and visit our booth at the PaclRc Rimshow or call us at 668-2380 during nrgular businesshours.

Canadian InformationProcesslny Society455

The Canadian Information Processing Society(CIPS),wlthover6000members.is Canada's kugestassocla5on representing professionals In the Infor-mason processing Industry. Since Its Incepson in1958, the society has been attrac5ng businesspeople, sclen5sts, educators. and others in both thepubtc and private sectors who make their careers incomputing and inkxmason processing.

Diplomat Coiee Systems450B

Dlpbmat ls Canada's malor cowse senses com-ny, oflisdng a variety of special blends, includinga, 100% Cobmbian Mocha Java and naturally

decafleinated coffees. We also I'esture a M selec-tke of allied products such as creamers, sugar, hotchocolate, and cold drinks. Our service includes theIree use of CSAwpproved equipment such as ournew space-saving Diplomat brewers. Come sae usat Booth 456B Ior a taste of our brawl

Vision Presentations lnc.457

Vlsko Presentations Inc. pmluces slides, over-heads and 4'x5' transparencies from the PC orMacintosh. Vision is the Rrst seivice bureau InVancower to provide Imaging from Windows soft-wie, and the only Imaging sensce to output colourImages to4'x5' atgK resolution. Enter Vision's drawto win MS PowerPoint for either the Mac or PC.

Vancouver School Board408

Vancouver School Board is your most completeBuslnessandComputer Training Ins5tuson. Weofl'erspeclalizedinstrucsoninmhrocomputertechnology,from Industry standard applhatkes in their latestrevision, tocustomandlnncvativebusiness softwaresolu5ons. Our labs conelet of Networked IBM PS/2and Mac solusons, hlghwnd CAD and DesktopPublishing workstasons.

The Corporate Career Training Divlsbn oflisrs spe-cialized staff tntinlng programs and seminars thatcanbe talbnsd to your company's specitc needs. Ourbooth wi also show you the tesources that areavaiable in our newest Business and ComputerTraining Centre.

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Vancouver Iietware Users'Group459

The Vancauver Netware Users' Gnciup Is a nce-peAt oigsnizs5an of Nevsll Netware end users,consultants, and resellers. Our mandate la to providean sducs5onsl forum far end users. If you woukl liketo share with and leam Inxm fellow ~ use rs,you csn lind out haw by visiting Booth 459.

Atari CCanadal Corp.453

AtsriCansdais a leading manufacturerofhome andbusiness computers, Premiering at the shaw Is thenew Mega STe 68000 16 MHz computer system.Also featured Is the new TT42 bit. 82 MHz 68030worksta5on dellverlng statewf-the-art DTP and CADsolutions. Visitors are Invited to see and experleiuxiAtari's world leadership in the music industrythroughentertaining live MIDI performances. The exc15ngproduct line-up for the shaw eisa includes dernon-sb'ations of the Portfolio, the world's smallest hand-held organizer/computer. running productivity appli-cations as well as communica5ng with s PC.

Fujllzama Q.A . D i s t r ibutionCifestern) lne.455

Manufscturersnddistributorof Fufikama computercomponents and peripherals. Well established in theU.S. snd Ontario, Fujikams has recently opened anew distribution facility in British Columbia. Special-izing In 286/886/486 motherboards, VGA Cards,Controller Cards, Hard/Rappy Drives and SuperVGA Monitors. we also csny a complete line ofsystem units and lsptops.

Hoian Computer CorporationHogan Computer Corporation Is a Vancouver-

based microcomputer practice piavlding businessand professional clients with a wide range of technicalservices and premium products. At this year's shaw.Hogan is dsmanstrs5ng Windows@seed systemsIar execu5ves. Integrated accaun5ng solu5ans forGST problems, encl CADD systems fer keel sndremote oNces. Take thisopportunityto talk to theirspecialists about your specliic oNce needs. We areavailable to help with advice on networks, data inte-gration. system manageinsnt and training.

Distlnetlve Travel5e2, 5O3

DISTINCTIVE TRAVEL, located dawntown, Is swellmstsbllshed Vancouver agency, serving a diver-siFied loyal clientele, Class links te the businesscommunity, and a good waiking relatkinshlp withDELTA AIRUNES, prompts us ta co-sponsor theexciting grand pitze of aiiIine 5ckets toe Pacilic Rimdes5nation. See DISllNCTIVE TRAVEL and DELTAAIRLINES at the show to enter our fabulous pitzedraw.

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VINS Vancouver Nliero Support512

A Iull~ivice company. VMS can assist yiir or-ganization in the anal)tais, selec5on, acquisi5on andImplementation of technobgicallycunentoxnpu5ngequipment and services. Ourexpsitiseas acoinpanyspans fram single wcxksta5ans to Loc~ AresNetworks and Systems Programming. Come te the

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Phonethz Corporation5'li

Phane5x Corpora5an la a Canadian carnpany pro-viding a pren5sr offering of advanced voice process-ing solutions including Voice Mall and Interac5veVoice Res penes. We festum Iew-cost voice recog-nl5on. a menudrlven applica5an generator, and off-the-shelfhost interfaces. Dealers welcome. Pleasecall (408) 240.9080.

Serve@ Computers, lne.51+ 514 51OA

Servex Camputers is 5te exclusive dlstdbutar farEverex in Canada, with oNces across Canada. Ourproduct range Includes graphics, I/O, and networkadapters. drives, Iaptaps, monitors, printers andsbeamhg tapes. We distribute the corn plate smay aAGI, step and tempo Desktaps and Tawem. Seivexstands for service, value and excsllencei

Mlero Supply CCanada) Ltd.5158

We st Micro Supply (Csnsds) Ltd. are proud taannounce the epsning af aur First Canadian oNceilnRichmand, B.C..

With the support of lvgcra Supply of San Jose,Callfcenia, we are able to offer tap value products atcompetl5ve prices, compared with aifshoie prod-

Our superior service and technical expertise willenable us to become s major farce In the computerindusby in Canada.

Dealer inquiries sre welcome.

Education Development CentreCPart of the S.C. Tel Group)

The Education Development Cenbe is located inBumsby In s handsome three-storey, 160,000squaie feet facility containing 68 erganamically de-signed classrooms, s litnsss centre, cafeteria sndmedical services. In excess of 28AXO Canadian andIntems5ansI students enicill annually to participate Inover 550 courses covering every aspect af Infaima-5an technology. telecommunica5ons, lnstiuc5onaltechnology, management skills, customer contactand custom course design. Courses extmmelypopularinthelawermalnlsndandBC.ssawhokiaie:customer ccetact, Infcxma5en technology, manage-ment and safety.

Praetleal Peripherals

Prac5csI Peripheralswill show new modems gisteen5nue the cxxnpsny's tradi5on of superior U.S.-made quaiityat highlycempe55ve pitces. New pmd-ucts include a complete line of modems for Teshlbaand NEC (muI5-speed and PreSpeed) lap~a, a9600bps V.82/V.42bis external modern. a2400bpsNable (pocket-size) modem, snd 2400 bps V. 42s internal snd external modems. See why Prsc5cal

Perl herals modems areconsistently best-sellers.AIIucts come with s live (6) yssr wairsnty.

31I Canada lne.519

3M Visual Systems ofl'eis a complete line ef LCDprojsc5en panels, transparency Alms and overhead

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PACIFIC RIM COMPUTER 8 COMMUNICATION SHOW GUIDEters. For more effective presenta5ans and indusbisl audlowisual dealer ln Western Canada.

tter mee5ngs, contact aur Vancouver oNce at Sharp's Is e full sales / seivies / rentals / system(604) 273-22'I I orcaIIFreamanSmyth.anauthorized design orgsniza5on. Computer graphics and video8M Vbiual Syabsms Dealer at (604) 281-2446. prejsc5on aur specialty.

Kodak Canada lne.523, 524, 530

The Kodak Canada exhibit will featum an anay ofeiscbanic stillqmaging products Including the KodakXL7700 Digital Continuous Tone Printer. Otherproducts Include the Kodak Dlcenix peraceal printerproducts and the recently announced Kodak PhotoCD System.

Telezlulp Servlees Ine.

Telequip Services Inc. Is a modem~ successstory. While only In Its fouith year. It has becomeB.C.'s leading Interconnect telecammunics5onscompany. Knowledgeable, experienced prafessice-als will help you with Network Cost Reductions, CallAccounting, Digital Telephone Equipmsnt, (sales,service and Installsthn). Voice Mail and Data Ca-bling, Telequip Services Inc. has its awn LeasingDivlske and maintains three Service and Sales af-IIces in Suney, North Vancouver, and Victoria.

Taryus Canada Ltd.

Manufacturer of deluxe leather and nykin canyingcases for the portable eNce Industry.

Sharp's A/V Ltd.521

Shaip's A/V Ltd. with 6 aNces Is the largest

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Computer Users' Groupsof S.C.525

Users' groups oll'era lsvsl of si4>pcxt to computerusers thetis unmatched anywhere else in the dealer/vendor channel. Made up en5rely af volunteers,these groups amsrbusiness and otherusers a naturalconduit far Inlarms5an exchange and problem solvIng. Infanns5an on sll local users' groups will be

Quality Learnlny Systems lne.Quality Lesmlng Systems (QLS) Is a Canadian

software company speckiitdng in the devekpmantand produc5an af hlg+usllty educational saltwareIar school-aged students. QLS's softwsie pack-age — marketedunderthename SchaalWare ~IIIbe available in computer stores across Canada inJsnuaiy. For more infarma5on, eall (604) 492-2592.

Fujltsu Canada lne.Fujitsu Canada, s subsidiary of the wadd's second-

largest camputer company, the $20 billion FujitsuUmited, wIII feature its complete Iins of computerperlpheral andoNce sutoma5on products. Ahighlightof the exhibit wIII be Fujitsu's new Pocket Com-mander, the world's smallest, lightest portable cellu-lar phone. A new line of quality facsimile machines,

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including hQt and laser models, wih also be dis-played.

Comp uCahle53S

CampuCable Communhaihns Canada Ltd. sps-chhzes in the instshs5on af computer nstwceks.CompuCsble prides Iteelfanquahiy and cleanwark-manship. We dssldirectly with corponste accountsar actas subcontractors forcamputercompanhs orgeneral contractors. We offer a Iree cansul5ngservke te cempenles requirhg assistance en de-sign. Our trainedinstahsrsarefamihsrwith all typesof cabhng and termlnagon including Rbre Opgcs.References aviilabie. Phone (604) 433-2458.

Symtuhtec CanadaSyrnantec is a leading inierna5onal sofbvare de-

veloper pravkhng award-winning ap phce5on soft-ware to IBM PC and Apple Macintosh users. Fea-tured show products Include Norton Anti-VInis,Norton Ugligss 5.0. TIme One, PEA, Mans, SsmAn5.VIrus for Macintosh, and Norton Utihges forMacintosh. Product demenstnstlons will be heldregularly throughout the shaw.

Corporate Software Canada537

Carperate ~ ls a v i ed re seller ofPC and Macintosh scArnm. We aier a compnshensive array ef highly a~i z ed services de-signed to help cerpora5ons evaluate. iaxiulre, sup-port, maintain, and manage personal computerproducts. These services enable organ)M5ens toafgoad reugne suppart acgvt5es and dfocus anmceestrategh issues.

Jump Systeme531

Msnulactunng and dhtribu5on systems and ser-vhes. lAN sndUNIX systems htegrstion. Custom

mmming in Oracle. BBX. RBass snd Paradox.crecamputer training centre. Document Image

processing systems. PC DOCS document centralsoftware. Many goad references. Call usl

Y anoouver Board of Trade -World Trade Centre539

The Vancouver Beard of Trade, fanned in 1887,cunently beasts 4700 members vke support itspubhc pohcy Ini5e5vee end lobbying efbrts vkilselsebenehthg Iremits speaker progmms,seminarsand pubhcagans.

In addi5on, members have access to a privateluncheon facihiy, World Tmde Centnss throughoutthe world, the Urilversliy Galf Cub and a groupinsurance program. They are exposed to network.hg oppcxtunitfes at Business Alter Business mhl.trade shows and also areehg'Ible farmsnycarperate

Maratlhon Slfatems Solutlone54O 4 541

Marathon Systems Salutiens Inc. is a systemsIntegrator serving the cempu5ng needs of distribu-tors, retailers and membership argsniza5ens withsales In the range of $3,0N),000 ta $60,000,000

r annum. We provide harebell. software. Inshd-thn, training and, most Importan5y, Iong-tenn

support of everything we seh.

JB Narlzatlno545

JB Msrkegng Is a Canachan ~ and operatedcomputer hardware and ~ dis t nbutor. JB'shtentkins aretaoilercan5nued aggressive market-ing, personal service, dehvery end suppcet. Ourevsr~xpanchng product offering includes such re-

New Vlshns, Ohvetg, fox, Appalnt. Wardperfect.Legitsch, Bondweil, Seike Inshuments, Baca, Car-chnaL Zoom, TUM and many mare.

Regna Heotronio Ine.

Zsgna Bsctrenhs Inc. manufacturers and Ise-vldes servhe far thecampleteZeyw computerhne.We have many ofllces spannlngthree cceiinenta: InCanada-Toronto, Mlssissauga, Ottawa,Vancouver London, England; and Hong Kong.Zegna Elscbanicsmsnuhscturws Ihechsgnc5ve hneef systems ~ g f rom the 80286 series to thenew 80486.25/33 EISA serhs. The VancouveroNce la keated at 110.I1180 Vayageur Way.Richmond, B.C. Tel. (604) 27&51 51.

IIeptlng N Aeeociatee Ino.Hspgng h Aesechtes inc. has for sixteen years

bean a leading dsveloperanddisbibutar ofsoftwsreaciess a mulgtude ofhdusthas. h adchthr. te theirpowerful ofherhgs they support their chants withdrawing, research and development andcustemizagan. To get more infonnathn on this full-aervtce organizagen call (604) 294-4440.

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Bytewlde INarlzetlnII Ine.5498

Bytevitde Mekethg Inc. prevkles and supportscomputer peripherals that aee UNN/XENIX cempat-Ible. Up te seven SCSI devices, including eur harddisk and tape backup units, can be contrehed by asingle SCBI Host Adapter whhhis fully UNIX/XENIXcempa5ble. Bytewide Msrke5ng is an authartzeddlstnbutar af: Micropehs snd Fujitsu disk drives,Tandbeig, Taltgrzis and Wangdst tape backup unitsand Puslstar 9-track tape subsystems. Call 322-9699 or toh-free 1-~ 6972 for mere infanna-5on.

Creat plalne Software556

The Great Pkiins Accoun5ng Series is a full-fea-tured. multi-module line of accounting seftwsm forMS-DOS. Macintosh and UNIX platforms. VershnSA includes a new module, Canadian Payroll. as wellas cemprehensive GST tracldng and reporting caps-bihtles. The Great Phins Accounting Saris Is a PCIvlagszine Ediiers' Chohe' recipient far IAN ac-counhng.

T 4 D l I Ibbons Ltd.551

T 8 D Ribbons Ltd. is the chetributor ef UM-CORN brand ribbons for computer printers inWestern Canada, Our target and pohcy is to piavldecustomers with good quahty praducts, supported bycompetitive Ixhes and excellent servhe. Our al'ficeis Iacated at3631 Na, 3 Road. Suite 31 0, Richmond.B.C. V6X289. Tel $04) 279.9836 Fax(804) 271-9) 33. Dealer inquirhs only.

Intzeetorg Syndicate

The Investors Infermagan booth wlh give the pubhcsn opportunity to see haw we can help them toachieve their goals In the felbwhg areas: save In-come tm; pay aif the mortgage early; estabhsh aneducagon fund; rehm comfortably; beat ths cost ofhving; haw ie managemoney; hew to retire eady; andhaw to invest wisely.

Syepro/Group WestAt Byspro and Gieup West we' re not MAD we'm

just CRAZY abaut showing off our Manufacturhg,Accounting, Dhtribu5an and SCO salugans thatcater to all facets ofyeur business including the newGST. Stop by our booth and enter aurdraw to win anEverex computer with hnpact software or an IBMProprinter.

Applied Eleetronles Limited557 L 558

Whahy Canachsn owned Apphed E)sctranlcs Isbased in Toronto with effices in Vancouver. Calgary.and Montreal. We are Canada's largest suppher ofdata ~5cn and display systems havhg delivemdand hstaiied, snd can5nulng to support, aver sevenhundred instailagans across the country. ChantsInclude major banks, ol companies, automobilemanufactumrs andcomputercampanies.

Learning Tree International550

Learning Tree Intems5anel is s world leader Inadvanced technology educa5on. Shee 1974. we' vea%aud htsnslve courses in software development,cemmunicagens. electronics and management.These thme to four day courses am available inVancouver, Tcsento. Ottawa and Montreal. We alsoofer an-site nurses at yaur facility. Telephone I-

Vancouver Coznmunlty CollegeVancouver Community Cohsge ofers computer

trshhg at three lacagans in Vancouver. Tminingopgens include diploma and asig ficate ptagrams Inthe business and technical ansss, Inlinnnagen Sys-tems andmanagement semhars Iar theprafessbnal.

ITR Time Heoorder54®

IlR Time Recorder h the Cansdhn leader h com-puterized time and attendance, labour ces5ng, andaccess central. With bmnches coast to coast, ITRhas serviced the Canachan market far mars than 25years. Products include stand~lone cemputenzed5me reccedsrs, as well as data cahectke terminalswith PC applhsthn sofbvsre far attendance. hbaurcasting and access conhal. ITR csn provide a fullyIntegrated system with interfaces to all malar banksand payratl seivhes.

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Pacilc Ribbon & Carbon Co.501

A DMsion of Mid-City Copying Products Inc.,servicing Brittsh Columbia. Distributes Kerr NortonBrand Original, Wide, Mini, Word Processing 8 Type-writsr Ribbons; Laser Cartridges. Computer Labels.Stock Tab, Fax, Photocopier II Ca*on Paper. AlsoDiskettes, Data Carbidges 5, Magnetic Tape lar 3M,Dysan, D.E.I., BA.S.F.. Syncom LKAO. Plus anewrangy of Environmentolly Friendly Recycled Product.

Hunt Personnel/TemporarilyYours/Hunt Leial502 S 503

Widely-recognized by their professional approachand high standards of quality and service, HuntPersonnel/Temporarily Yours is committed to estab-lishing o long-tenn relationship with your llim. Per-sonnel recruitment speckilists in oflice automation,support staff, management and soles areas will be onhand to discuss yourpermonentand temporoiy hiring

Commercial Electronics Ltd.507A

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ontrary to popular opin-ion, integrating severalMadntosh computers fornetworking business so-lutions isnotassimple asplugging them in.

Networks must be de-signed for expansion and flexibility. A de-tailednetworklayoutdesignisciucial forthesuccess of a networked configuration. Of-fices ca be wired now for future expansionand be flexible enough so that users canchange offices and computers or add newusers without disrupting the entire network.Flexibility also depends heavily on the net-work topology or layout that is decided

In my experience, a backbone topokgyissuited for small LocaITalk networks of lessthan ten users shanngor pnntingsmall files.Each node has ils own wall jack, and termi-nation isput in the jack at the beginning andthe endofthe Backbone.1hecablefilomlhePhoneNetconnectorispluggedintothewalljack.

Ihe benefits of doing it this way as op-posed to krfsychatntngeach node via thePhoneNet connectors is that when a userdisconnectsandmovestoanewlocation,theentire network does not come to an abruptstop. Disconnecting a workstation only sev-ers its connection to the network and doesnot affect other users.

For larger networks or for offices thatanticipate growth in the number of users tobe more than ten, an active star topologyshouldbeused. Atlhecentieof thisnetworka star hub is installed.

A star hub is a multiport repeater thatreceives signals from a device on one port,amplifies them, then retransmits them todevices on other ports. Ifa port jams, the starhub will automaticaliy shut it down. Allnodes on that port will stop network opera-tion until the problem is resolved and thenthe port will be put back online.

To avoid degradation on network perfor-m anceyou shoulddaisy-chain nomore thantwo devices from one port on a star hub.

Proper cabling is very imporlmt Recom-mended cable is 24-gauge solid copper.Tw~onductor twisted-pair cable is com-mon, but I would recommend three-con-ductor for new networks as it appears the10Base-T Twisted Pair Ethernet standard ismaking inmads. Twisted Pair Ethernet re-quires the use of four of the wires; the othertwo can be used for a standard LocalTalkconnection.

It is important to install cable according tobuilding code specifications. Plenum cablemustrun through theceilings; PVCcablecan .run along the floors,

Terrifnatfon of any network topology iscrucial to its performance. You will know ifa network is not terminated properly whennetwork devices such aslaser printers or fileservers appear and disappear under thechooser menu or you get the error message"can'tfindprinter."WhenthePrintcommandis invoked,the signal goes to the printer andcontinues travelling to the end of the cable;if a terminator is not present to absorb thesignal, the signal bounces back down thenetwork causing havoc and chaos in theform of the printer disappearing.

Problems such as "system errors" or thesystem locking up when transfemng filesover a network from a file server can alsooccur because of improper termination.Proper termination avoids this phenomenabecause the tenninators absorb high-leveland low-level signals which actually arevarying degrees of voltage. Doing this inter-nallyinthewall jackishighlyrecommended.

Macintoshes that have Ethernet transceiv-ers with 10Base-T standard built-in connec-tions or are us ing the PhoneNetStarconnector EN, do not require termina-tion because it is built into the transceivers.Machines using Ethernet thinwire orthickwire connectors will require the slan-dard termination for Ethernet networks.

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Unix Market study InEurope

LONDON, ENGLAND, DEC 18 (NB)-The market for Unix systems in Europe ispoised togrow from 2.9billion ecu in 1990to9.0 billion ecu in 1995, an Ovum studypredicted. Over this period the fastestgrow-ing sector will be large systems costing$200,000 or more.

The British study centre, Ovum, said intheir study, "Unix In Europe: CommercialUsers and Markets," that Germany has thelargest market share due to Siemens-Sinixoperating system that has 21.7percentofthemarket, followed by Britain (16.1%), France(14.89o) and Italy (11.5%).

Applications enabling software, such asdatabases and supporting developing toolsare forecast to grow in Europe from 392million ecu to 1,273 million ecu betweennowand 1995,thestudysaid. Thehorizontalapplications software market, induding of-fice automation and general accountingpackages are set to climb from 276 millionecu to 1,752 million in the same period.

Separating the winners from the I mrs,authors Peck Tan and Peter Quinn said thatamongthewinnersonewillcertainlyfindtheusers who no longer are locked in to avendor. Software vendors with the most togain from the availability of standards andthe convergence of Unix into one (or two)version(s) are Sybase, Informix, Orade,Ingres and olllce au'omation vendors suchas Uniplexand Quadratron. Nichehardwarevendorssuch as Sun Microsystems, Pyramid,Sequent, and MIPS will benefit from theirearly start while older vendors such as HPwill be actively engaged due to the acquisi-tion of Apollo.

The main losers, the authors said, will be.the midrange proprietary vendors such asWang, Prime and Data General who alreadysaw major losses in the late 1980s. EvenDigital Equipment will find Unix eating into-its VMS market, the authors said.

IBM wasalsoputonthelosers'listbecause"it cannot hope todominatethe Unixmarketas it did with the personal computers," Tanand Quinn maintained. "More importantly,IBM's Risc/6000 Unix systems will competehead-on with IBM's proprietary products inthe midrange with the Risc/6000 having theedge on price and performance but offeringIBM the lowest profit margins."

The study warned that asUnix becomes acommodity product, suppliers should beaware that the level of support and servicesthey offerwill be crucia for vendor differen-tiation. Users will be looking for one-stopshops for theiropen systems and a completesystems integration capability will be a re-. quirement. The 1990s will be the decade ofsoltware and services, not hardware, Ovumsaid.

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Detailed informafion and fixes are avail-able on the NIST(National Institute of Ran-dards and Technology) security BBS at 301-948-5717 (84)it, NO parity, 1 stop bit) but afew specific cases follow.

Users of Release 1.0 and 1.0a shouldremove file /usr/etc/restore0.9. This file al-lows any user togain rootaccess and is onlyneeded during installation. You must haveroot status to remove this file using thecommand w/bin/rm/usr/etc/restore0.9.

If your NeXT system has publicly acces-sible printers, replace /usr/Iib/NextPrinter/npd with a more secure version obtainedfrom NeXf.

The BuildDisk command allows any userto become root; change permissions toeliminate this problem.

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BRACKNELL, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND,NOV27(NB) — Dell Computer Corporationhas announced the release of Unix SystemV.4 for its desktop and floor-mounted PCs.The release follows September'slaunch of arange of Unix computers and related multi-disk storage systems plus networking prod-

Dell's SVR4 version of Unix will ship tousersearlynext month. Pricesstart from UK3,515 for a two-user license running on aSystem 320LX with 4MB of RAM, an 80MBhard disk and tape back-up unit. AdesksideSystem 433TEwith8MBof RAM,640KBharddisk tapeback~punitandanunlimiteduserlicense for Unix SVR4 costs UKP 11,865.

For exisbngusersofUnixonits hardware,Dell is offering an upgrade kit for UnixRelease 3.2 users for UKP 399 on a limiteduserbasis,andUKP 599foranunlimiteduserversion of Unix SVR4.

Accordingto Roger Stone, Dell UK'sprod-uctmarketingmanager,Dell isoneofthe firsPC manufacturers toolfer an enhanced ver-sion of Unix SVR4. "This further underlinesour commitment to provide enhanced sys-tems at aggressive prices. When purchasedinconjunction with a Dellsystem, UnixSVR4gives users with complete industry standardhardwareandsofiwaresolufionsatouhtand-ing price/perfonnance," he said.

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Installation of LANtastic is feasible for aconfident, careful user who knows how toopen acomputer, install adapter cards andmove jumpers and who has mapped outhow the network should be used and howIesshouldbeorganized. Potentialwrinklesin the installation processare avoidinginter-rupt conflicts with other I/O devices andmemory address confiicts.

Set-up and maintenance of the network,including bufFer sizes, access privileges andnetwork resources, is through a menu sys-tem, with on-line help and sugge@ons forappropriate parameters for eNcient opera-tion. Another menu system is available forusers to review print queues, send andreceivee-mail, andtologinoroutofsevers.

It shouldberememberedthatnetworksofany type add complexity to the computingenvironment in return for the benefits ofimproved work-group productivity.

A LANtastieInstaHationLANtastic installation in a finn of planningconsultants. There was a mixture of ninecomputers: Xl-type (Compaq, IBM), 286(ANO) and 386SX (APQ .

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The natural choice was LANtastic, TheEthernet version was chosen because of thehigher transfer rate and because it is non-proprietary technology. The total networkcost including Ethernet cables and sales taxcame to less than $500 per computer.

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Getting a functioning, two.station net-work operational took less than an hour,including the installation of the networkcards in the computers, hooking up thecable, installing the software and setting upnetwork access. The default jumper settingson the cards worked fine.

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