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Fina@, thc distributed crmr cmmction mdundancy method used in the Nmton proprietaxyformat is safer than using plasn DOS

I havejust read an article on installing

Windows 5 by Roedy Green in your August issue with considerable interest His
asides and insights are, as usual, thought
provoking and in many cases vexy helpful.
When I came to the section on 'Variable AUTOEXEC.BAT' files it seemed
like quite familiar territoxy. In order to
run Ventura in expanded memory my
system needs QEMM 586on board. Windows can't tolerate it. The solution was a
sharewareprogram (available for &ee
&om the CD-ROM disk in the main
branch ofthe Vancouver Public Libraxy
System) called RECONFIG.
Reconfig. amows one to maintain a
miniature database of up to 100 difFerent C o nfiig.sys an d as s ociated
Autoexec.bat files. This can be added to,
deleted &om, created, edited, selected,
etc. &om a very usable set of pulldown
menus. Once you have picked the combination required, the progxaxn modifies your files and asks if you want to
reboot the system. Very smooth.
Perhaps Roedy Green's ofFer of a
'Variable Autoexec disk' is a minor example of 're-invention of the wheel'.
David AM Cull

Backscp to corruptany of my disks. Pkase

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In his article on backup software in

the July issue, Roedy Green says "Norton
gives you a choice: proprietary format
for extra speed, or conventional DOS
foxmat for extra safety. PC Fullbak Plus
always uses proprietary format. The others always use DOS format" Apparently
he did not notice that PC Tools also
provides for the optional use of aproprietary format. I would be curious to know
how PC Tools would fare in the speed
comparison when used with its "Standard Format" option turned ofF.
Sincerely, Andrew Shaw.

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to do" only served to reinforce the stereotype that all women are computer
illiterate. Again, the artide on backing
upwas extremelyinformative, butI think
Rocdynopondsi
you could have chosen a better (and less
If it takes 54floppics to back upyour hard
sexist) cover layout (the pink didn'thelp
diskyou should buy a mag tape.I'
ou have
sugcmdlong enough Howcocr, to answer either) . It is notjust the female secretaries who lose all their data because they
your ciiticcsms.
When I did my timings, I checked them don't know how to or have forgotten to
back up.
threetimes. Here aresmnepossibkreasonswhy
And having the title of the artide
ymcr results and mine werc sodigercntl
1. Did you haec any TSR's or unusual "Computers for the complete beginner"
right next to the woman on the cover
dcoiccdriocrsncnningt BackuPswork batt in
aspartan enecronmcnt wtth nothing tointer- suggested that women are "complete
beginners" when it comes to computers.
fem or skrto things dowrc.
2. Did you ulkeo for the fact that propri- Not that the artide itself was biased in
etatyfcemats takeforcoer theFIRST time ymc this way (and I think it was a good article
backup, and only run atfull tilt on subse- to include in the paper) but hopefully
you will be more conscious of your covquent backups to thc same
flqhjbiesy
ers, and of sexist stereotypes, in future
9. Did you tdso try thc Norton Backup in
editions. Thank you.
standard DOSfmmatf It gives youtheoption
Suzanne Reimer
of standanl and proprietary.
E-Mail received &om Mind Linkl
4. Do you haoean unusual BIOS, DOS or
hard dish contrrdkrt If ymc do, the morc
Point taken this xuas
not an sntcntional
ssatsveFastBockPlusis a goodchoicebecause
cmabination fotitlar. And we had no datim to
its authorchaec had time to karn about the
opnd or to pcr
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rtctrutc stereotypesfowoolen
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in theJuly1990 cover. The picture of the

Reedy mxpondx:
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fail to notcccthc 'standard fonaat optioninPC Took that youturn
turn on the proprietary format. Ijmt

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henchmaxhed
PC Totdsin proprietaryfmmat
mode. That mooed it into second
ptaox a hair
behindPontvunner Nmton. If Nortonnxtex
100, then PC Tools natesfl6.

1%e comPuAe
PePer sexist?
I really enjojl 1%e Ceeputcr Paperthere are many useful things (informa-

I am writing to thankyou for printing

information &om our COMDEX Spring
press conference in your July issue. We
get very little coverage in the Canadian
market and weare appreciative of your
efforts to let your readers know about
our products.
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what they feel is an industry first the
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Dataport is offering resellers Instant RebateCheques before the order isplaced.
Each cheque is for a specifi dollar value
per manufacturer product line, deductible at the time of invoice payment to
Dataport. This program is in effect from
September 1st through November 50th
1990.Conlact:Dataport 604/688-2555.

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Show, will bring the buyers and sellers of most prestigious advertismg awards.The
advertising together on common ground Cmnputer Pojerwill have a booth at the
at the Vatxcouver Hyatt Regency HoteL Advertiser's Warehouse. For more inThe show is sponsored by an ad agency formation, contact Joe Makrovitch,
and Pacific Press.
Campbell, Mithun, Esty Ltd., 604/876A series of seminars to help sales and 0064.
marketingpeople become better advertisexs will be offered. In addition, the CADKEY Training
exhibit floor will become a full-service
Advertiser's Warehouse where a broad Comes To B.C.
The Pacific Marine Training Institute
range ofcompanieswilldisplay the divers
has recently acquired Training Centre
advertising options they ofFer.
To top things ofF, AdVantage will also Status for CADKEY, the first in B.C.
feature the premiere screening of the
CADKEYisa54hmensionalComputer
1989 New York Festivals and the 12990 Aided Design and Drafting (CADD)
CUOS-two of the world's largest and program thatisaimedprimarilyatmeet-

ing the needs of the mechanical engineering market. It is versatile enough to

be used in civil and electrical drafting
and haseven been used in the design of
knitting patterns and stage production
layouts.
CADKEYwas voted Editor's Choice in
March by PC Magazine. "No otherpackage offersthe blend of 2-D functionality, 5-D versatihty and ease of use
that CADKEYdoes." the magazine said.
Contact: Pacific Marine Training Institute: 265 West Esplanade, North
Vancouver 604/98546RR

AIVIIGA
More Red Ink
COMMODORE INTI9tN'ATIONAL
reports a loss of U.S.$55 million for the
fourth quarter which ended June 50,
1990 on revenues of U.S.$198 milhon.
For thewhole year,however, the com-

panyreports earnings ofU.S5.5 million

on revenues of U.S4I887 million. Irving
Gould, chairman, dud, "Sales of Amiga
computexsincreased by 40 percent during the fourth quarter while unit sales of
C64 and PC XT systems dedined.

Commodore USA Throws

In Monitor With Amiga

Purchase

WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVAMA,

AUG 16 (NB) Commodore will give

away a &ee 1084S color monitor, list

U.S.$599, with every purchase of a new
Commodore Amiga ROOOHD or Amiga
%00/50 computerthrough September

29.

Commodore Business Machines,

which isrecovering &om a recent quarterly loss, xs tahng a stab at the smallbusinessmarketwithitslatestpxomotion.
Commodore Director of Business
MarketsDavidArchambault, says, "While
the Amiga 5000, our newest and most
powerful model, is ideal for advanced
applicafions, the popular and costMfective%00 series models are well suited
for the small-business/work-at-home
audience as well as the first time buyer."
The mulfitaskingAmiga hne includes
the Commodore Amiga 500, the Commodore Amiga RQOO, two enhanced
products the Commodore Amiga
2000HD and the Commodore Amiga
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Apple In Congress
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,

JUL 27 (NB) Apple Computer Vice

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for additional funding for research on
ELF (extremelylow &equency) radiation,
and said thatAppleis prepared to donate
research money. The testimony comes
as Apple has been criticized for radiation
levels in its monitors,
House Bill HR4801, submitted by
Congressman Pallone ofNewJersey, and
the amendment to House Bill HR4875,
submitted by Congressman George
Brown, were the objects of testimony
before the Subcommittee on Natural
Resources, Agriculture, Research and
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Dr. Nagel stated Apple's position calling forcomprehensive research on the

effects of ELF and VLF (vexy low &e-

quency) emissions, and called for the

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computer industry to adopt protocols

for the testing and measuxement of VLF
and ELF. He also called for aconsortimn
approach to conducting research,in
which government, academia, and industxy collaborate.
Nagel, an Apple vice president, noted
the 'recent indications in electroxnaa-

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netic science...promptmg observers that
more attention should be given to the
issue. He said the National Academies
of Science and Engineering is uniquely
posifioned to call on preeminent scientific and engineering resources to conduct areview of the entire corpus of
reserachconcerning the problem.
Onbalance,however, Dr.Nagel stated
Apple's pmition that the body of scientific evidence gathered to date supports
the behef that VDT's are safe for people
using them.
Apple Computer was featured in an
artide about the heath hazards ofVDT's
in theJuly edition of Macteorfdmagazine.
The report stated that the AppleColor
High Resolution RGB Monitor had the
highestemissions of ten monitors tested.
The report suggested that users keep
this and all monitors at arm's length
&om their bodies in order to lower theirradiation exposure. The magazine plans
tohave follow upreportsin itsNovember
and December issues.

ATARI
Computer Friends
lint Hand-Held Atari
To Macintosh and PC
BOSTON, M A S SACHUSETTS,
AUG 15 (NB) Computer Friends,
Inc, at Mac%orld Expo/Boston, announced the availabiTity of the Ultimate
Portablefor the Mac, a configuration
lvhich links the 1-pound Atari Portfolio
hand-heldcomputer to a Macintosh. The
package indudes the Message Mover
software which runs on both the handheld unit and the Macintosh and provides intemigentfil transfer between the
two systems.
The Ultimate Portable for the Mac
package contains theAtari Portfolio with
128k memory, an AC PowerSupply, the
Atari Serial Interlace, Message Mover
SoftwareforthePortfofi
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SoftTIIare for the Macintosh and a cable
to connect the Macintosh and the Port-

folio. The suggested retail price for this

configuration is U.S4599. An optional
2400hps(bits/second) Hayescompatible
modem, listing for U.SQ189, allows the
Portfolio, using the same Message Mover
Software, to access remote telecommu-

nications systems and transfer informafion.

Computer Friends' Calvin Smith told
Newsbytes that although there is a simil ar configuration, a lso l i sting f o r

U.S99, for a Portfolio/MS-DOS connection, the Macintosh connection is

more elegant.

"It' s not really to do with our product.

It's rather that the user interfilce on the

Macmtosh lends itself to more transparent connections. On the PC side, we

transfer text files to be loaded as ASCII
mto any word processor that supports
text file input. On the Mac side, text can
be moved directlyinto MSWord format-

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contributing editors: Wendy Noods,

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There is also a connection product,
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either a Macintosh or MS.DOS system
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BC Bytes
advancedGravisTo Get
Loan From Logitech
VANCOUVER BC AUG I'7 (NB)Mouse manufacturer Logitech International has signed a letter ofintent to loan
C$840,000toAdvancedGravisComputer
Technology.
Advanced Gra~ based here, makes
joysticks, other input. devices and a line
of portable hard disk chives. Lagitech is
a major manufacturer of mice and
scanners with headquarters in Freiuont,
California
Dave Reid,vice-presidentandgeneral
manager of Gravis, told Newsbytes his
company buysLogitech technology for
use in its own products, and the companies also share an interest in sound
technology for personal computers."We
don't compete with each other, we tend
to cotuplement each other." While remaiimig separate entities, he said, the
companies plan to work together in a
number of ways.
The loan is to be secured by a threeyear convertibledebenture, Gravis an-

nounced. The loan stBl depends on final

agreement by each party on the form
and terms of the debenture and warrants.

The debenture will be convertible, at

Logitech's option, into 1,500,000 units
of Gravis, at a price of G$0.56. Each unit
will consist of one share of Gravis common stock and one nontransferable
warrant entitling Logitech to purdiase

an additional share at C$0.'swithin five

years &oin the date the loan is advanced.
Exercising this option would give
Logitechabout 54 percent ofAdvanced
Gravis on a fully diluted basis and make
Logitech the single largest shareholder.
Reid said he expects this option to be
exercised, although "I couldn't tell you
when."AconnectionwithLogitechcould
help Gravis in several areas, such as improving its distxibution in Europe, he
said.
Gravis will also give Logitech a first
right of refusal to purchase any further
securities it issues, except for any currently outstanding righis to purchase
securities and employ incentive opfions.
Proceeds&om this private placement
will be used to repay a $500,000 (U.S.)
bridge loan made by Logitech inJune
1990 and to supplementworkingcapitaL
Mth this inveslment, Gravis' working
capitalposiiion willbeimprovedandwill
allow the company a better opportunity
to meet the strong expected demand for
its joystick products this fiiil.
Reid said the original bridge loan was
obtained to "keep our business rollingat
the level it is now." By exeseising its
option to buy a stake in Gravis, Logitech
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Those using NeiivorkCourier on DOS,
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Network Courier users cansetup distribution hsts containing MCI Mail addresses, allowing them to queue mesuiges for transunssion to MCI with three
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The company has obtained a court
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Azima, founder of the upscale British
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The coinpany launched a series of Intel
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November.
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CA-Access Updated
VANCOUVER, SC, AUG 15 (NB)While continuing to roll outVersion 6.0
of its Accpec Plus accounting line, Computer Associates has updated its CA-Access development system.
John Schoutsen, Canadian product
marketingmanager in Gl's Mi cro Products Division in Vancouver, told
Newsbytes CA<ccess is a MI development system with its own programming
language and application program mterface (API) to Accpac Plus. Some 600
developers worldwide use CA-Access to
create companion products for the accounting software, Schoutsen said.
The new release indudes increased
database capacity, improved file sortan
merge utihties and an. extended API
providing internaiional and mul&currency support and better screen input/

output and print controL

Apphcations developed with CA-Access can run under DOS or OS/2, on
local~ n e t works orin ComputerAssociates' own window environment with

recompiling, the company said.

The suggested retail is price is

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whopur~
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Others may upgrade for US$200, or
CENO in C anada. Contact: John
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biggestconvention become more arduous, with most showgoexs increasingly
forced tobookresexvationsfor their travel
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GENERAL
Cornell Vision Study

Eyes Bad Lightiaa'

ITHACA, NEW YORK, AUG 9 (NB)

A new study &om Cornell Univexsity

says indirect lighting can dramatically
reduce eyestrain among VDT (video
display terminal) workers.
The study, involving 147 workers at a
Syracuse, New York Xerox plant, compared groups worhng under indirect,
"bounced fluorescentlightingand those
working under conventional computerarea overhead (parabolic) fluorescent
lighting. The workers in the overhead-lit
area had RS% higher rate of complaints
of eyestmin and said theylost15 minutes
a day because of trouble focusing their
eyeL In contrast, only one percent of the

computer users working under indirect

lighting lostmore than 15 minutes a day
because of focusing problems.
Cornell's Department of Design and
Environmental Analysis, which 'conducted the 1988 study under the direction of Dr. Alan Hedge, returned to the
sitelastyear tofind thatemployeesworkingunder the overhead, parabolic lights
had modifled nearly half of them to txy
to improve their visual environment.
The conlguration most appreciated
by the employees was the indirect lighting, consisting of lensed indirect fluorescent lights which direct light upward
toward the ceiTing, something called

,uplighting. The new type of lighting is

being used bycompanies such asAT8eT,
USWest, IBM and other companies that
rely heavily on computerwquipped
workstations, according to the Cornell
research team. 71 percent of the employeesworking under the indirectlight
preferred it, while 74 percent of those
working under the parabolic system preferred uplighting.
Dr. Hedge said, "This is an over-

whelming preference.We didn'texpect

able parts of the demonstration was the
to see results this on~ided, especially ' chanting by the crowd of the Hex Chant,
"something we composed last week" It
given that the parabolic lighting was designed for computer axeas." Contact:
goes like this: "14$4; Kick that lawsuit
out the door $4-74; Innovate, don' t
Dr. Hedge, Cornell, 6174$5-2168
litigate x3A-BC; Interfaces should be
&ee D-E-FQ Look and Feel has got
Radiation SuperShield For
to go."
19-Inch Monitors
Staihxxan also told Newsbytes that a
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA,
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AUG 6 (NB) NoRad corporation has material and stickers and told LPF
introduced the NoRad SuperShield, a
members that "while there was support
radiation, glare and reflection shield
for the League within Lotus, managedesigned For 19-inch and two-page dis- ment had instructed the personnel to
play monitors induding the Sony 1950,
stay away.
the SuperMac 19o Display, Radius TwoTom Lemberg, general counsel For
Page Display, RasterOps 19" Display, Lotus, was quoted as suggesting that the
Megagraphics Rival, Hitachi Superscan protesters should also picket stores that
Plus, Sigma Lasexview and other simisell books and records since they, like
larly sized and shaped monitors.
software, represent the expression of an
According toBruce Sperka, director
idea, 'The underlying question iswhydo
of marketing, the SuperShieldwasdevel- we have copyrights," Lembexg said. "We
oped in response to the growing dehave copyrights to protect creators, to
mand For higher-resolution, larger dis. provide incentives toinnovate."Contact
plays."VDTradiationlevelsincreasewith
Richard Stalhnan, LPF, 617-2454091
the size of the display, the level of resolution and with color. And, as larger
monitors, especially those with cuxved
bezels,become more popular, itmade
sense for us to extend ourproductline to
take advantage of the Nxo-page display
ARMONK,NEW YORK, AUG 2 (NB)
IBMhasannounced thatithasformed
market
a new wholly owned subsidiary which
The new shield measures 17-5/8
consolidatesIBM's typewriter, keyboard,
inches by 15-5/4 inches &om kame to
kame with a usable display area an inch
intexmediate and personal printers and
supplies business in the Unit@i Statea It
less in each dimension. The fabric is cut
on a bias to eliminate the moire patterns also announced that it will work with
ClaytonScDubilier, Inc. to form an allithat can be a problem on some color
ance under which Clayton Sc DuMier
monitors and the shield is attached to
the bezel by velcro tabs. The kame is will become the majority equityowne of
shaped to confoxm to the horizontal
the new subsidiary.
curvatureof the bezel.
IBM Vice President Marvln I M ann
will become chief executiveofhcer of the
The SuperShield is now available
through NoRad and its dealers at a sug- new company which includes IBM's InformationProductsbusiness,largely&om
gestedrelailprice ofU.S4549.00 ConIBM SLcilities in Lexington, Ky., and
tact: Michelle Hartzell, NoRad CorpoBoulder, Colo. The new company is
ration, 800462-5260
expected bythe end of the year to have
5/00 to4,000 employees.
Protest Held At
As a result of this announcement, eliLotus Development
gible employees in
will be
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, offered the opportunity to voluntarily
AUG 6 (NB) A protest march, orgaresign,retire or begin a fiv-year prenized bythe League for Programming
renrement leave with an incentive payFreedom (LPF), was held on August 2 at ment
Lotus Development Corp.'s Cambridge,
IBM spokesperson Mac Jeffexy told
MA offlces to protest Lotus' recent legal Newsbytes that the formation of the new
activities concerning copyright issues.
subsidiary and subsequent selling of it is
League President Richard Stallman
"another phase of the overall slimxning
told Newsbytes that the protest went exof our
workforce asannouncedearlier in
tremely well and that all demonstrations the year." He said that, now that step 1,
were performed ina peaceful manner.
the spinoK had been completed, IBM
"We had about520 people according to
hoped to conclude the sale by the end of
our count We formed atabout 12:50 at
the year.JCIFexy also told Newsbytes that
MIT and began the march about 1:00.
a name had notyet been chosen for the
We got to Lotus about 1:15 and then we new firm.
had shortspeeches byPatrick Winston of
Rick Martin, Prudential-Bache's
MIT's AI Laboratory, John McCarthy c omputer i n dustry a nalyst, t o l d
&om Stamford,Javellin Sofbvarefounder Newsbytes that he felt the sale of the new
Stanley Kugelandmyself. We then began entity would benefit both IBM and
to picket and finished up about 2 p.m."
Clayton kDubilier. "Ifyoulookatit&om
Stalhnan said that the main puxpose of IBM's side This business brought in
thedemonstra6onwastoheighten public somewhere between two and three bilawareness and to attract interest &om
lion dollars in revenue resulting in
Congress.
U$475-150 million in net income or
Stalhnan went on: 'There were some
15 to RS cents per share. The impact on
very innovative signs in the picket line
IBM is tiny. Even though thatsegmentof
suchas'Can LasVegasSueAtlanticCip?' the business has growth potential, the
and 'Lotus Says IfYou Can' t Beat Them,
time, energyand money thatwould have
Sue Theml'and'Drop the Suit, We Have to be put into itis, in IBM's case, much
You Surrounded k'Thepointofall this is better spent on nxain&'uncs or PC's.
thatwe don't believe thatanyone has the
As hr as Clayton Be DubiTier is conright to own a user interface. The public
cerned, however the business potential
invests too much time and resources in
is enormous. The unit being acquired is
learning auser interiace for anyone to
presently profltable and the staff reducdaim ownership of it.
tionswillmakeitevenmore so.AdditionStallman said that one of the enjoyally, it has a market that IBM never had,

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the market to 6rms other than IBM and software application, without any need
the poten6al looks vexy good there. For for an intermediary utility program a
instance, IBM has a laser printer that is breakthrough in input devices.
The Caere Typist, U.8$695 for the
Canon-engine compatible and is RS%
hster. The new firm should be able to Mac versionand U.8.$595 for the PC
generate addi6onal market share with version, is said to have true 500 dpi CCD
input array and lets users scan informaproducts like that."
tion mtoan application at the rate of500
Martin saysIBM's Lexington plant,
which goes with the deal, is one of the w'ords per mmute,
Larry Miller, Caere's vice president of
lowestwost production lacili6es in the
world and can produce commodity marketing and sales for oIIice products,
products such as keyboards at as low said thisin prepared remarks: She Typist
productcostasanycompanym theworld. setsa new standard for speed, eff"The new Srm shouM become akctor in use, practicahty and versatility, and its
the world marketplace for these com- pricepoint under U.8$700 makes
page recogmtion vexyaIfordable toindimodi6esand beoneof thefewU.8.6rms
that can outperform Far Kastexn rivals . viduals as well as all sizes of businesses."
Designed speci6cally fox page recogon a cost basis. In short, I think it's a
nition, the Typist uses Caexe's AnyFont
helluva deal,' he said.
Aspokesperson for Clayton 8eDubilier opticaldiaxxicterrecogni6on technology
said the company is a private investment to recognize text regardless of the font
founded in 1978. Since that date, it has style or the number of columns on a
acquired 15 businesseswhose sales total
page, the company says. This enables
users to take information &em almost
around USQ75 billion. Its normal
manner of acquiring business has been any hard copy source and put it directly
into word processors, spreadsheets, dathrough investment indivisionsof large
tabases or other applica6ons.
corpomtionswhich are no longer conCaere's Typist enables the user to inxsdexed part of the core business. ConxactL Peter W. Thonis, IBM, 914-765- putsamned,recognized m'iterialdixec6y
6565; Thomas C. Franco, Clayton 8e intjo whatever application is currently
running on 'the user's computer. This
DubiTier Inc., 212-742-1282
bya design
direct inputis made p
methodology
which
interxup|s
the keyDelHsa OEers
board opera6oq'and allows data to enter
Windows 5.6 Fax Drivers
the application via the keyboard buIfer.
TORONTO, ONTARIO, AUG5 (NB)
Caere's sofbsare is capable of recog Delrina Technology has announced nizing mul&columned pageos one coltwo kx drivers for Microsoft Windows umn at a time. To prevent column
5.0.
overlap, the Typistrecognizes thecolumn
One version works with lax boards thatisin thephysical center ofthescanner
complymg with the GAS standard, in- and throwsaway theincomplete columns
cluding those hem Intel, Pure Data,
on either side. The hand scanner also
Spectrafaxandotheil. The otherversion automa6caHy discards repeated text
workswith Sxmodemsthatuse the Sierm which occurs when two sans overlap by
Semiconductor Sendhx chip set. Both comparing the ASCII text of the hst line
versions inchide a driver that looks to of the Srstscan with theASCII text of the
Wmdows bke a regular print driver, so Stat line of the second scan. This proceusers of any Windows application can dure is commonly referred to as 'stitchsend a fax as if they were prin6ng a
mge
document, Delrina said. Contact:Josef
The Maantosh version of the Typist
Zancowicz, Delrina, 416441-5676
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Macintosh SK or any mexnber of the
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announced at this year's Fall Comdex in
Las Vegas, but the leading players in the
industrywiilstaywithproprietatydesigns
until the market forces a change. That' s
theview ofDale Bandy, a vice president
of Silicon Systems Inc., which is designinga chip set that will implement the socalled EIA578 Class One standard. That
product may reach the market by the
end of this year, or early in 1991.
Bandy told Newsbytes the Class One
standard, which won final approval in
February, is "a basic definition for the
control of fax functions in a PC environment," but it's limi'ted and requires an
integmediate driver before it's installed.
Standards work is continuing on two
levels an extension of the standard
which would be called Class Two, and a
more complex interface between modemand fiut Seing worked outin the TR% group. This work was stimulated by
Hayes Microcomputer Products of Atlanta, Bandy said, which offered an enhanced version of its own AT command
set "It holds promise, but it's not final,"
Bandy said.
Despite the continuing work on standards, theleading piayersin the fikxboard
business continue to release Iyroprietagy
designs, Bandy s aid, i n c l uding
G~
ax, S pectrafiuf, and The Complete PC, which cunently is the sales
leader.Datagace of Texas is one of the
few with a Class One product on the
market, Bandy said, but more may be
expected in time for the Fall Comdex
show.
The significance of all this is threefold, Bandy said. An established standard would let software developers insert fax capabiTityinto base applications.
Itwouldallow for thecreation ofstandard
hx applications running with any fikx
board a fax version of "Crosstalk" or
"Procomm Plus." Finally, once a standard is implemented in chip form all
board manufacturers could use it. Contact: Dale Bandy, Silicon Systems, 714-

Hitachi Recyeles Paper,

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Motorola Intmduces
Wristwatch Pager
SCHAUMBURG, ILUNOIS, AUG 1

(NB) A n e w study fr'om ACM

Siggraph's special interest wpoup on
computer graphics predicts that com-

(NB) Ata New York news conference,

Motorola introduced awristwatch pager
weighing just 2 ounces, or 57 giams. It
willretail for U.S00andbe distributed,
at first, by existing pager companies.
MotoroLa also announced a distribution
agreement with Timex, the leading U.S.
watch distributor,whichwillputthepager
into the mass market within two years.
The announcement comesjust weeks
aRer the debut of the film "Dick Tracy,"
based on a comic strip whose hero uses a
wristwatich TV. And Motorola won't be
alone in the market ATScE of San
Fgancisco has already introduced a similar device, andJapanese companies are
also expected to enter the market
Motorola has protected its pager with
11 patents, induding one for an antenna
which runsaround the watch face and
through the watchband. The Motorola
wrist pager is water-resistant, spokesman
Bob Wah told Newsbytes. 'You can wear
itjogging, but Iwouldn'tjump in a swimming pool with it," he said. "I wore it in
the rain in New'York yesterday with no
problems."
The Motorola unitalso actsasan alarm

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the long term, the study adds, HDTV
could significantly influence the evolufion of desktop workstations. ~
HDTV is most fagniliar as a consumer
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help save the earth.
Hitachi's Green Center is a new &cility staffed with 60 researchers whose job
is to design methods to combatacid rain,
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Hitachi says it currently consumes 1.7
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US. radio paging systems. The spokesman said that new device falls near the
high end of Motorola'scurrent pager
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(NB) The closelywatched indicator of
the health of the US semiconductor industry, the book-to-bill ratio, fell inJuly
to its lowest level to date in 1990. According to the Semiconductor Industry
Association, the xatio fell to 1.0 in July
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between the resulting effects in plain
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SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, JUL
29 (NB) The Santa Cruz Operation is

shipping SCO Unix System V/586 Release 5.2 Version 2.0, which is said to
offerimproved speed and new features
that make it the most advanced Unix
System developedfor586 and 486 PC's.
SCO says its new version supports all
586 and 486 computers based on Industry Standard Architecture (ISA), Extended Industry Standard Architecture
(EISA), and Micro Channel Architecture. It's also the foundation of Open
Desktop, SCO's graphical operating system.

SCO Unix System V/586 Release 5.2

Version 2.0 adds several new features to
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support for extended memoxy.
SCO Unix System V/586 Release M
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Mythology,Social Mence, and Law and

Government. Each category contains
several subcategories and artides.
Like Inside Information, the encydopedia uses a revers~ctionaxy technology calledRWord Nerd, developed by
and licensed from Xerox's Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC).
Mark Homuth, national sales manager for th e P i ttsford, NY-based
Microlytics, said future releases will indude Strunkkc White'sElementsof Style
and the Bible. In addition, Microlytics
officials said the company is licensing a
stylechecker and copy editor for indusionin other companies'products. Writers Suggestions and Reminders is available for the Macintosh, IBM PC and
Unix envixenmentLNopricewas stated.
Contact: Bob Lang, Microlytics, Inc.
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Quickmfps Upgrade Due

WEST DESMOINES, IOWA, AUG2

(NB) An upgxacle of the popular
Quicaeys kejkaard mane utility for the

Macintosh will be swailable in mid4ep.

tember, CE Soffvutxe officiah say.
Q6CKeys 2 is new entering beta test-

ing, said company spokeswoman Sue

Nail. Suggested retail pxice win be U.S.
$149.95, with upgrades costing U.S.
$49.95.Usexswhobuythecuxxentvexaion
afherAugustl will beable to upgrade for

U.S. $29.95. QsicKeysisapopuhrutility

used to assign single-keystroke equiva.
lents to many Macintosh fimctions, induding mouse movements and dicks,
menu selections and system funcffons.
Among the new features, Nail said, will

be learning mode. QuicKeys 2 will let

users show the program the desired
functions, replacing the currentmethod
of teaching the program with a menu
system. Contact: Sue Nail, CE Software,

the agreement is a posi6ve development

forthe company and we're happy to be
doing business with Apple's blessing.
Customers who might have had any concerns in this area can now be assured of
Outbound's continued presence in the
market."
Contacts: Christopher Escher, Apple,
408-974-2202; Jane Rubinstein, Outbound, 505-7869200.

515 224-1995)

Apple and Outbound

Reach Property Rights

Qpeement

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, AUG 1

(NB) Apple Computer, Inc. and
OutboundSys~ l n c . haveannounced
that theyhave reached an agreement
concerning intellectual property issues
revolving around Outbound's manufacture and sale of a Macintoshwompatible
laptop computer. SpeciSc details of the
agreement were not released.
The companies issued idenffcal press
releases on the agreement, saying only
that, 'The agxeement allaws Outbound
to offer its products without violating
Apple's intellectual property rights.
Apple and Outbound believe the agreement will be beneffcial to Apple, Outbound and their respective customers,
asitprotects Apple'
ermitting Outbaund to pursue market opportunities for its system."

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person, expanded on the release to
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not licensing our Macintosh ROMS to

$20 (+ U.S. $7.50 shipping) . Registered

owners can also choose, foran additional

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from the Adobe Type Library of font
software.
Commenting.
on the announcement,
Kathy Englar, Adobe group product
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type libraxy but have not been able to.
make the investment Now, this special
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AdobeImlms Qluslrattm3.0
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JUL 24 (NB) Adobe Systems an-

most popular typefaces at a very afford-

nounced that it would demonstrate

Adobe musuutor5.0, anew version ofixs
Macintoshdrawing pxogram,atBoston's
MacWorld Expo,August8-11.Italso said
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able price. Contact: LaVon Collins,

Adobe, 4154614400

New Ways To Talk To Your

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of U.S. $595.

BOSTON, M A SSACHUSETTS,
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text4andling capabilities and graphing
toola The product also indudes a redesigned version of Adobe Separator,
Adobe's colar separation sofhvare and
provides compatibility with Adobe
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Articulate Systems, Inc., Cambridge,
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Aho bundled with the new version of

Adobe Illustrator 5.0 will be Adobe Type

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US. $595.

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Voice Navigator II is a scaledown

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standard. Unlike the MacRecorder, Az

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QuckMail, and by Microsoft. Both companies also h ave i n t erfaces to
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Adults have an averageattention span of
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but, when it wears oiF, you may feel
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better snacks as they don't give that
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It is frustrating to be in a dass where
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for others, make sure you tell the students what is expected of them. In addition, tern the course vendor what you
want people to leam from the course.

%hat ihouldyou expect

&om the instructorP
An instructor should have patience,
dear speech, usefulhandouts, flexibiTity
and a sense of humour. Unless you are
taking an advanced course, a trainer will
assumeyou know nothing. Sometimes, a
course will have 'homework" to do before arriving at the dass. If this is the
case, do the work And, if possible, don' t
complete it moments before dass. The
point of suchmaterial is to mstke your
brain ready to receive new information
and ideaL

You shoum alsophysicallyprepare for

the course. Get a good night's sleep and
eat breakhst.

%hat do you do once you

have chosen a course)
So, you' ve picked the best course and
are in the dass. Now whats Sit there and
hopeP In a dass, there are means to help
yourself learn more. Make it easy for an
instructor to teach you. In a learner, an
instructor likes:
o Enthusiasm. Nothing makes an instructor more depressed than teaching a
class of disinterested slugs. Bring a desire
to learn to the dass.
People who ask questions. A good
trainer will mod@ the course content on
the Qy to suityour needs, if the needs are
known. This is the purpose of asking
questions. If you are a shy person, try
hard to think ef a question to ask. The
instructor may ehcita question Rom you

to see if you are following the material.

Thosewho talk a blue streak, make sure
that you let others ask questions. Vfhat

they say may assist you m yom own vrork.

Don't aak Yes/No questions. To get
the most of the instructor's knowledge,
ask "what do I have to do to make the
computer "o

Note4xkmg. Some people daim to

learn better when they jot down notes.
Others Snd itdistracting. The instructor
should hand out booklets that outline
what is being covered. TIanscnbing ev
erything will slowyou and the chas dawn,
and having no notes is fataL A compromise is to mite ideas down in the handouts themselves. Rarely wiii avendor ask
for the handouts back.
>Relevance.As the course pragresses,
take the examples presented and imagine how they could be made to St into
yourwork Ifyougeta good idea, write it
down. If you wonder if something is
possible, ask the trainer. In many cases,
the answer toyourquestionmayhaketoo
long. If instructors defer questions to a
break, be aggressive and don't let them
forget. Also, remember. the instructor
maynotknoweverythmg.Ashlled trainer
will admit a lack of knowledge, promise
to get back to you, and then actually do

Have Punt
All of these ideaswill help to make the
computer course a useful experience.
Also, make sure you have fun at the class.
This is valuable, as relaxation and laughter let your brain absorb more information. If you have fun, you will associate a
pleasant experience with the course and
consequentlybetter remember the skills
you learned.

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IBM PS11 Targets The Home Market

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Pxoduct: IBM PS/1, 10 MHz RS6 personal computer.
Manufietuxer: IBM Canada
Price: Suggested Retail (dealers may
selt for less) Monochrome model, single
diskette drive C$1,299; Color monitor
single diskette drive C$1,899; Color
monitor and $4negabyte hard drive,

$2,649.

Target: The Mass Market

With the new PS/1, IBM has taken a
huge leap into the home computer
market. According to Bill Machrone,
writing iu the August edition of PC
Mcrguxlsr, ISM has identiSed an incredible number of households which can
afford a PC, as many as 66 million.
Researchhasindicated thatrhissection

of the buying public wishes to buy compurersasitwouldastereoorVCR,namely

at a department store which remains
open late on Thursdays and on weekends. Studies show that 70% of all home
computers are bought at this time (Le.,
after work, not on bankers' hours.)
Consumers do not wish ro spend time at
a specialty store. This means that they
are still computer~obic and are reluctant tosallyforthintonewtemtory. They
apparently want to buy from stores such
as Sears, The Bay and Eatons.
When the PS/1 is turned on, KM
presents the viewer with a four-quadrant
screen display. Simpliciry is the name of

the game. Clockwise the user moves the

mouse tolrs
forsuslicas{top left) MS-Wmks

(top right) PROS (bottom right) and

YourSojhuara (bottom left).
Thelnfoxmarion sectionconrainsboth
System and Works tutorials where the
most basic applicadons are explained
step bystep. The new user has the option
just to read the informadon displayed or
to do elementary exercises jn order to
become comfortable with the pxogram.
MS-Works is a bundled with the computer. This pxofpam includes word processing with the aid of a spell checker,
spreadsheets with varied Snanciatapplicarionssuchasbudgers,8at4le databases
and a telecommunications packagewith
the built-in Hayescampatible modem
up to 2400 baud.
PC.DOS displays a xnenu of useful
tools known as the DOS ShelL The
added feature here is that one can use
commonDOScommandswithouthaving
to know more esoteric DOS command
language.
Lastly, Your Softwaxe allows the user
to locate and run his own software. The
screen illustratesfourareas:Drives,Open
Folder,Other FoldersandFuncrions.The
softwarecan be organized and customized to St the user's needs and wants.
On the whole, IBM has crossed its t's
and dotted its i' s on the new PS/1. It has
answered the needs of a newly deSned
brcusd-based market. The manuals and
literature have ampleillusrrationswhich

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The texminology is directed to Srsttimebuyerswithamodicnmof compursxese
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particularlywith the topendmodelwhich
indudes a color monitor, thereby ~
ing many consumers.
ISM in this instance, has underlaken
to meet irs public in the doinain of the
Shopping MalL It is rumored that supportandserviceswillbeheavilypromoted
ISM's goal is to become a household
with the use of diaMirect 800 numbexs word as well as word processor for the
thatdeal directwith IBM, not the retailer
90's. With VCR's, microwaves and
if there is a problem.
camcordexsin manyhomes, the topbxass
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a greatly enhanced version of the existing Tandy DeskMate user interface, The

enhancements to the system include the

Tandy Introduces
Home Computer
NKWYORK, NKWVORK,JUL25 (NB)

Usingaplush New Yerk Cityapartment

as a backdrop, Tandy Cerporation introducedthe Tandy 1000 RL computer,
a system designed to be used in the
home. The 1000 RL is available immediately at authorized Tandy dealers and
comes in four modelswithpticesranging
&am U5. $749.90 to U.S. $1,56.90.

bundling of 24 built-in progiams, all

accessible through DeskMate, to carry
out activities which Tandy has determined, through focus groups, are those
most desired in a home system.
When speaking ef the ease of use of
the new system, Roach said: "The Tandy
100Q RL is so easy to use that it guarantees success. Even the novice user can be
productive with the 'RL' after just 15
minutes.
In a conversation with Newsbytes,
Roach explained what he meant by
guaranteeing success, saying. We have

Inirodudng the new system, Tandy

CEO John V. Reach stressed that the
1000 RL is the first Tandy computer
designed especially for the home and
that it sheuld be looked at as a combina-

tion of software and hardware together

rather than as simply a piece of equipment. Roach toM the assembhge that
the newsystem user interface is based on

spent considerable time training eur

entire Radio Shack station all aspects of

'the 1000 RL We expect customers te

have little diSiculty using the systems
right &em the start. If they do, however,
the staff of their local store will both be
able to answer questions and arrange
training dasses. If the question tunas out
to be something beyond the store
persennel's knowledge they will have a
hotline in Fort Worth to question and
the hot line wiii be up during U.S. store
business hours. Additienally, chentswith
modems will be able to go right in to a
Tandy technical information center in
Fort Worth for answers. Finally,ifwe ever
have to give up on a user and we don' t
expect to we' ll take the system back"
Demon~ tmg the machine at its introduction, Howard Elias, Tandy vice
president of computer merchandising,
pointed out that the system does not
contain a Sin. "We use a very low-power
consumption unit and have utilized sophisticated sleepprocessing toshutdewn

the system iiself and an instilled hard

disk
Kfias then took those present through
the 24 built~ pregriims. The programs
are divided into f our c ategories,
DeskMate Productivity Programs, Personal Solutiens, Kitchen Solutions and
Financial Solutions. The hLst 5 of the 4
categories are all grouped together en a
DeskMate screen called Heme Orga-

Hiv

mzere

As Elias went through thc applications, which i n clude - checkbook

recordkeeping, checkbook balancing,
diaiy, expense analysis, travel planning,
home inventory, cookbook, groceiy list
and menu planner, he called attention
to the fact that all apprications were
graphically oriented and were rather
intuitive to use. Elias also said that purchasers can utTiize am standard MS-DOS
software with the 1000 RL and that the
DeskMatecempatible versions of Lotus
145 and Symantic's +&A St in most
comfortably with the user interface.
Roach aho pointed out that the 1000
RL is the Srst personal computer to receive the Good Housekeeping Seal.
Roach then brought in Elias who described the system as an 8086 unit with
512K of tandem access memory (RAM)
and Tandy enhanced graphics.
KdJuge,Tandy directorof marketing

O~

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Cadence's challenge to VNUG for a showdown between 3Com 3+Open LAN MANAGER V 2.0/1.1
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Newsbytes that Microsoft Works, a program bundled with IBM's PS/1, loads
slightly6ister on the 8Q86-based 1000 RL '
than on the 80286-based PS/1. Juge attributed the doseness in speed to the
fact that eui' enhanced graphics adapters

/
e

e I I ee

while dose in quality to IBM's VGA en

the PS/1, operates much faster and
overcomes the speed differencesbetween
the two chips. The pointis net thatwe're
slightly&sterbut thatyou have to loekat
the oveiall question of which system accomplishes the task bettersather than at
the isolated technical issues."
The lowest-priced model, at U.S.

$749.90,
containsa 5 I/O" 7MK Soppy

drive and a monochrome monitor. The

same unit with a color monitor has a
suggested price of U$.$899.90. The
monochrome monitor version with an
additional 20 MB (megabyte) Sxed disk
is listed at US. $1,149.90while the top of
the line % MB color unithasasuggested
price ofU4. $1,299.90. Contact: Fran

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treme. Theyare completely free. You can
copy them aud pass them ea. Be careM
where you pick these up. Unless they
cmne from a commercial source, they
might be infected with a virus. Sometimes Freeware authors make a request
thatyeu denate to a charity or send them
a postcard.
8Aeysrtrtweis a middle ground. You are
allowed to make cepiesand pass them on
to your frieadL You are allowed to use

the pregtam for a (rial perio, usually a

menth, fer f'ree. Then, if you grant to

continue using the proglam, you must
register by sending a fee (anywhere from
$$ to $60) to the author. Normally the
authorsends you some goody in return,
such as a spilier version ef the program,
a printed manual, the source code, or a
version with the advertising and delays
removed.

L Which Word ProcessorP

Whether you think so now or not, you
willend upusingyom computer forword
processingmore(haaanythingehe. Word
precessingletgyoucreatelettegs,minutesv
aotes, reports, manuals er form letters.
The beautyefwerdprocessingis thatyou
caa go in at any time and make some
small chaages to your clocument, then
print out a new, perfect copy with the
changes seamlessly incorporated. Most
word processors will checkyeur spelling.
Auxiliaty Progxauksv
such as Graanmatlk,
will check your gratatutkar, too
People are fiercely loyal te their word
processors, no matter hew old-fashioned
and slew. Itis more hkely for someone to
change spouses than word processors.

roce
ssors'If

How do you pidr. aword p

yeu are in an office, you should use the

same word processer as everyone ehe. If
you don't,youmaynotbe ableteworkon
each other's documents. Many of the
popular word processing progrants new
let you read and write to the file formats
of thea competitors. These convemons
are not always flawless. It is wise te check
them in a "real-life" situation to see hew
well they work. Try the conversiens in
both directions.
It is possible to start the equivalent of
a religious war in many onices simply by
stating that word processor X is-better
than Ybecause it has featureL So de not
be surprised when you find experts who
disagree with everything I am about to

ssy

MS Word
MS Word is a good choice if yeu plan
to der ccrmplex fcvrm letters. It in also a

good choice where you have ene expert

whe can set up complicated macres and

style sheets for a group of typists. The

unskilled people can get perfect results
using only a little cheat~hect ef style
codes without having to unders(and very
much ef hew it all works.

Werdpeffect
WordPerfect is common in lawyers'

software

oKces. There isa free-help phone line if

you getin trouble. WordPerfectis eccen-

s For Fast gervirs call orrr

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tric in its use of keys. This can be confusing if you uge both WordPerfect and

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other DOS pregranls. WeldPeffect ls

better than MS Word at handling grids

and columns effi
gures.
I%Write
XYWrite is common in the boolr. pub. lishingand newspaper industry. Itis easy
te send XVWrite files directly to the
typesetters. XVWrite commands are
wordy, but there is a way of crea6ng
abbreviatiens chlled macres. XVWrite is
the fikstest word processor, but one of
the hardest to learn. MestXHVrite users
only tap a small part of i(E power.

Nota Burne

Nots Bene is XYWrite with a coat of

paint te make it friendlier and easier to
use. It is popular in the academic community because of the way it can handle
complex footnotes, bibliographies, etc.
MS Werha
MS Works is a strippehdown version
of MS Word. Italso contamsa simplifie
spreadsheet, a miai4arabase, and a
modem program. I often recommend it
as a starter. You will probably outgrew it
afterayear and graduate to MS Word or
Word For Windows.
ultiMate
Long before the personal computer,
Wang dominated the word processor
marketwith dedicated madkmeL People
famihar with Wang systems feel right at
homewithMultl ate.Mestetherpeople
find it slew and antiquated.
Desktop Publishhkg
The dislinclion between a word processor and adegktop publishing pregfskm
gets blurrier all the time. Desktop publishing gives you finer control of the
posifioning of text, a larger assortment
of typefaces,and greater ease mixing
text and graphics.
Ventura is the most popular program
for books and reports.PageMaker is
better for short newsletters and advertisements. Professional desktop publishing requires special large-screen
displays, fikgt computers, and higbead
PostScript laser printers. However, you
can dabble with it en small computers
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when I explain the peculiar "gotchas" of
some of the DOS commands. In a word,
DOS is un&iendly.
A DOS shell is just a computer program that acts as an agent to shield you
from DOS. It talks to you in some reasonablysane way, then it does its best to
trans1ate your requests into the arcane
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Using a DOS shell, in under a day, a
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viewing both 61es and directories. However, even after a week of instruction,

4. Sadmpf
In theJuly issue of Thc Compute Paper,
I devoted a whole column to backup
software. Backupisabsolutelymandatoxy.
Running without backup software is like
skydiving without a parachute.

5. 908 Shells
DOS was conceived back in the days
when evexyonewho used a computerwas
alsoa computer progranuner. DOS has
not changed much since. When I teach

thing in raw DOS are still befuddled.

Popular DOS shells indude @DOS,
XTree Pro, Norton Commander and
PCTools. XTree and Treeview come in
shamwareversions. I usually recommend

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tostartbecauseitis the fastest and
simplest. The myriad features of the
Smcier packagesoften overwhelm novxcesi

Magenan

Lotus Magellan is a DOS shell, but it

does much more. Magellan is like a secretaxy who remembers where you put
ereything You don*t have to remember
the cryptic names of the directories and
6les.Youjust give Magellan some vague

most novices attempting to do the same

hints, and in a few seconds, it produces a

list of candidate 6les induding some
related ones you had forgotten all about.
With a single keystroke you can instantly look at each 6le, whether it is a
word processing document or a spreadsheet. With another keystroke you can
start up the appropriate word processor
or spreadsheet program to edit the file.
You can use Magellan to create new
61es bypasting bits together &om others.
Magellan can also let you store your 6les
in compressedform, which saves disk
space.Magellan has one major drawback
on ordinary tasks such as launching a
program, or deleting a 61e, it is much
slower than its competitorL

Magellan letsme automate all kindsof

boring tasks in ways I never thought
would be possible. Every day I 6nd new
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the cost of the extra RAM itself. Experts
can tweak and tune their machines to
extract every last byte of performance
out of it, but if you lack this expertise,
throw a bunch of RAM at it and watch it
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There are only two Windows spreadsheets today, Excel and Wingz (just announced). You have a choice of four
word processorstoday, WFW, Ami, Ami
Pro or Legend. Many super VGA cards
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blackboard with asuperimposed grid. In
each squareyou can write a number. In
some squares, instead of a number you
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then automaticailypropagate the change
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your refund should be. You can play
"what if" games. What if I deducted
Granny as a dependent? What would
happen if I got a $200a-month raise?
Lotus 1 2-5 was one of the first
spreadsheets. It is still the best-known
and bestselling. It has maintained its
earlylead byendearingitself tocorporate
users. Lotus has been stable so that users
need not make any changes to their
spreadsheets when new Lotus 1 2-5 versions come out Lotus runs on many
other computers besides IBM ciones.
There are
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(version 2.2) and extra;fimcy (version
5). Version 2.2 can squeak by with a
megabyte ofRAM. Version 5 requires 2
MB RAM to run comfortably. It is designed to work with a RS MHz 805S6 DX.
Few peopleever leam touse theadvanced
features of version 5.
Version 2.'2wantsonlyexpanded RAM.
Version 5 wants only extended RAM,
and will not tolerate the presence of a
memory manager likeQEMM. Later in
this article I will cover RAM memory
managers.
Lotus's many competitorsaresuperior
in different ways. VP Planner, written
here inVancouver, ismuch lessexpensive, and runs quickly even on small
machines. Microsoft Excel runs under
Windows and produces graphs that you
can import into other Windows programs. Borland attro Pro is a nnnble
spreadsheet that has advanced "what if"
features to try out various possibilities
automatically. It also prepares graphs
thatrival Harvard Graphics. SupetCalc 5
excels at 5-D. PC Mugnutis reviewed
spreadsheetsin the Apri12, 1990edition.
If you decide you want to switch
spreadsheets, you do not have to start all
over. Competitors often offer tools to
convertyour spreadsheets totheir format.
Lotus has been successfully fighting
back at its competitors by slapping them
with lawsuits claiming their products look
and feel too much like Lotus 1 2-5. The
ironyis, Lotus is itself a carbon copy ofan
earlier spreadsheet called VisiCalc.

7. So You%ant a DatabaseP
A database is just an automated fihng
cabinet.Justas building your own house
is a undertaking only for the exceptionallyintrepid, building a custom database
pragrun is best le@ to professionals.
You have a good chance of success
buildingadatabaseofonlyafewhundred
records,butwhenitgets larger, the thing
will probably collapse under its own
weight
A few errors in a small database are
easily corrected manually. That same
error rate in a large database makes it
unusable. One of the easiest ways to
construct a small database is to use a
spreadsheet, especiallyonewithdaeabase
extensions such as VP Planner Plus.
I write my pralpiuns in BBL/Abundance, though other progrannners may
choose C, dBase IV, Foxbase, Paradox,

Revelation, etc. Ifyou hireaprofessional

to write a custom program for you, allow
him to use the tools he is fiinnliar with.

8. Modem Softwarea Window on the%orld

Ifyou have amodem,you can dial into
the global electronic conferences like

BIX, Suzy and Compuserve, and local

Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's) too.
Thereyou will meetexpertswhowill give
you &eeadviceon every topic under the
sun. You will need some sort of generic
modem program to get you going.
Shareware Telix, written right here in
Canada, is the one of the better shareware
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Other commercial telecommunications
software offerings include: Crosstalk IV,
Crosstalk for Windows, and Procomm
Plus (formerly shareware).

9. Do I Need A Memory
Manager P
If youhave 2 MB or more RAM and
you have an 80586 SX or DX, you need a
memorymanager. Memoiymanageisare
hard to understand because they do so
many different things. The two most
popular are QEMM and 586Max.
Memory managers ensure that two
different programs don't try to use the
samepieceofRAMatonce. Theyalsoplay
fancy games with advanced memorymapping features of the 80586 chip to
kee up moreroom foryour programs to
work in.
The most important thing a memory
manager doesisconvert some of your
extendedRAM into expanded RAM. This
implies there is not much point in having amemory manager unlessyou have
a megabyte or more of extended RAM.
In the August issue, I explained the
difference between conventional,expanded and extended RAM using the
tapestry analogy. Some programs such as
Lotus 1 2-5 version 2.2 cannot use extended RAM directly. They need it predigested as expanded RAM.
A computerhas 640 Kof conventional
RAM.Above thatis
a584-Khodgepodge.
Some shadow RAM is in thatregion. The
video RAM that describesthe picture
you see on your screen is in there. The
BIOS program that controls the keyboard, disks and screen is in there, but
mostly it is just empty space.
A memory manager can find the little
pockets of empty space in this hodgepodge region and back-611 them with
chunks of extended RAM. Then later it
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your conventional RAM to run really big
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Last month I talked about shadow
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speeds up your BIOS. Normally, about
520 K of the shadow RAM goes to waste.
A memory manager recydes the wasted
shadow RAM.
QViM and Move'Em are memory
managersfor80286computers.However,
the 80826 cannot pull off nearly as many
tricks with memory as the 80586 SX or
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First, let us dear up the distincfion
between the two kinds of caching: static
RAM caching and dirk cactung.
For $800you might buy a 82 K st
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RAM ctichc option to go between your
RAM and your expensive 55 MHz 80%6
DX CPU. The purpose of this the hst
SRAM cache is to hold duplicates of the
numbers that the CPU most &equently
examines, so that the CPU does nothave
towaittoget them &om the slower RAM.
The CPU can fetch a number in 25 nanoseconds (billionths of a second) &om
the ~
but i t takes 80nanosecondsif
it must get it &om regular RAM. Static

RAM cache thus speeds up calculations.

It has no effect on the disk. Heavy4uty
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For $90you might buy
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tim es more expensive than disk cache.
K n o wing this will motivate you never to
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u t i l ity program called a disk cacher.
The purpose of the disk RAM cache is
t o hold duplicatesof the parts of the data
th e CPU most frequently examines, so
th a t the CPU does nothave towait to get
them &om the much slower hard disk.

The CPU can getinformation &om RAM

in microseconds (millionths of a second), butit takesa thousand timeslonger
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Data base programs and spell checking benefit most from disk caching,
though nearly every program will show
some improvement
Multisoft PC-Kwik is the most respected commercial caching utiTity. It
can exploit any combination of conventional, expanded and extended RAM.
Peter Norton hasjust announced a caching program. AdCache is the best of the
shareware cachers, though it can handle
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11. What Is A Defragl pr?

DOS is about as good a housekeeper
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you use a tool such as Norton NU, you
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One chunk of a file might be near the
outer rim, and the next piece near the
centre "beach," and the rest broken into
little &agments scattered like confettL
When you go to use the file, the disk
arms must thrash back and forth over
the hard disk finding all the pieces. This
slows things down.
Also, DOS does notlike to take out the
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Before your computer can do even
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programs. One is called BIOS, which
comes burnedintosiTicon EPROM chips
onyourmotherboard. The other is called
DOS, which comes on Soppy diskettes.
Microsoft make a version called MS
DOS,and IBM makesaversion called PC
DOS. The two axe almost identicaL
Every year or so, they jointly issue a
new version. DOS 5.0 will be next DOS
S.S and DOS 4.01 are most common
right now. Which should you use1'

If you put a group of DOS experts in

a room and bring up this question they
will soon be at each other throats. My
short answer is, Srst timers with hard
disks under 'N MB should probably stick
with MS DOS S.S, and advanced users

who have disks over 100 MB should go

with MS DOS 4.01. MS DOS 5.5 is increasinglyrare, and may costyou more

money. Microsoft has ofIicially announced that they are not making it
any more. Most new computers are be-

ing shipped with MS DOS 4.01

The Case For DOS S.S
DOSS tl has been around for agoodly
while. It has few bugs and those it does
have are well understood. All progranis
will work fine under DOS S.S.

The Computer Paper I Sept. '$0

The Case Against DOS 5.8
DOS 89 is rather clumsy handling
very large hard disks and it has been
discontinued by Microsoft.
The Case For DOS 4.01
DOS 4.01 allows you to treat a giant
150 MB chive as one big piece. Ifyou used
DOS bayou would have to split it into 50
MB &agments called partitions. If you
have expanded RAM, DOS 4.01 can exploit it by putting DOS buffers and
FastOpen caching in it, thus freeing up
your conventionalmemory. Ifyou have
IBM brand equipment, you should use
IBM PC DOS.
DOS 4.01 contauis a number of small
improvemexlts, sllch as a better method

of defecting when you have changed

floppy diskettes and of allowing you to
put remarks in your CONFIGSYS files.
The Case Against DOS 4.01
DOS 4.01 is larger than the other DOS
versions, leaving you even less room for
your programs. However, if you have
expanded RAM, DOS 4.01 can grow into
it, thus having mininuil impact on your
pfogfauls.

The DOS 4.01 mstal can occasionally

be complicated and timeconsummg.
Some users may find the DOS 4.01 shell
prograni, thatbydefiiult takes over, is too
slow and confiising to be usefuL
The Futuxe of DOS
When DOSS.Ofinallycomesout, itwill
beleanerand faster than DOS4.01,which
means there will be more room for your
own programs to run. Itwill also be moxe
configurable, so that experienced progxammexs will be able to prune out the
partsofit thatyou donotneed. Microsoft
is currently beta testing DOS S.O. It is not
yet publicly available.

Access
Any computer dealer will be able to
get you any of the commercial progxanis
I mentioned in this artide. You can find
a8 the sharewareand &eeware on the
BIX electronic conference. Much of it is
also available on local bulletin boards or
&om the Vancouver PC User Society at

(604) '1544060.

Admowledgements
This artide was an international collaborative effort. Using the BIX electronic conference, the following people
helped gatherinformation and weed out
errors. From Ontario, Canada: David
Dunfield and Michael Saxgent. From
SwitserlancLJensAugustiny,Jau Sinstadt
and Mike Greve. From the USA, Randal
Barnes, Michael Covington, Ward
(XModem) Christensen, Sean Curry, Ira
Emus,JeffGoMberg, David Harvey, Martin Heller, TexxyHofhnan, ThomasJones,
Ross Nelson, David Nye,Jcnuxne Shortell,
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others are what we call downstream past
eKces, addressing components, so we
only needone X.400 gateway te bridge
thatwhole network, butif thereare other
mail systems (if every post office has a
different mail system), thea you have

diffexentMTA(messagetmasfer uait).-

in that case, you use X.400 to bridge

these different mail systems.
American Airlines is very much like
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throughout and they will have up ta

14,0tO people using different mail sys.

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USA,eveawithin their awaexlpaization,
soitmay be NetworkCourier here, Data
General here, DEC here, then they have
a LAN with another mail system here,
and ever here maybe PROFS, so they' re
using X400 to cennect those very different environments to send messages
back and faxth.

L'Biles hsecL
X400 offersgreat potential, but there
axe issues raised
Addxessing the coxnplex SOclsaxacter
address string required tia send Email
through K400, may be mtimidating te
poteatial useas, however Cansumexs argues thattbissystem couldbe quite manageable afhm the initial entering ef the
addresses and aliases. The network adxainislxatar, a clever eng r o r e ven
Coxssumers So&ware could enter the address protocol and then all the user ever
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indxviduals' addresses on that network.
True, once the addresses are assigned
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the menu tetany insulated fram any
complexity but ls xtas easytiomaintain as
Consuxners chunk Long, complex address weuM seem to increase the possi;
bilities for exxaxs. If the user had Consumers do the initial addressiag, haw
will they deal with updates and changes
made to theoriginaladdressabases tobe
seat to the xnaia databases A less convoluted method would eacaux3ge users to

install this system. Consumers Soiree

Is calapassag a directaxy ef all fhe addresses iaduded in their system, which

brings us to the next topic: X500.

X500 is the equivalent af a phone

beak aa E-phoae beak that will be a
companion ta the X.400 addressing system. When you think ofhow such a
directory cauld be useful, think of tele-

phone directories aad haw often you

need to pick them up. Will X.400 provide a dixectaxy that a user could query)
Adirectoryassistaace service when there
is a new numbers The possibility exists
far frequeat updating, because af its
electfaxlic fatal bllt it just xaay be ~

passible ta keep up with new addresses,

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nolagy. KSQQ wim be a very valuable

business teolasfarasprevidingan acces.
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X.400 m. Medems
What advantages does X.400 ofFer us.

exs avermadenH~adem caxaxnunicatiaa as a WAN?

1) Stareand-forwaxxf technalogy-

X.400 cansend out any number of mes-

sages simultaneously, or at individually

specified times, after they have been selected from the address menu, without
~g

u p telephaae fines.

2) Leased lines - using the X.R5 leased

haes, the user pays only for the nuxnber
of messages, which are seat in packets,
instead of paying for the time the transmission takes, avoiding costly tall charges
aad hardware likeFAX and telex machines, and their maintenance, er evea
saving the cost af having a modem in
each sexxainaL
5) Seclmty and integrity of dataWhen you send messages through X.400
Ihe inherent secunty m the E-mail progxam is xnaintaiaed, induding features
like password protection aud inscription
schexnes. Also, yau caa only transmit
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stead of having your xnessagehap fram

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afe lecexselL

Staat up colts of X.4OO

The initialcostsefX.400faramultiple
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would include Network Courier Iateraetwark software fram Censumexs and
the X.40Qg
software; then all you
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te ald the monthly charge of an K25
leased line if the volume of calls is suf5cieatand forextexnalmessagiagacbarge
for public carrier like Envoy 100

ateway

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Far aae neaxark Esnail system in an

oxgaaization with no extexxxal xaessagiag, the user could buy Sngle Network

vexmon for$695/newark Other gateways besides X.40Q could be added if

necessaxy, like PROFS (IBM's large host-

based E-axail), Unix-based SNTP (far

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WRl X.406 Catch OnP

In July, Consumers Software in conjunctioa with USSpriataad Eicen Technology of Montreal launched a series ef
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Atlanta, Washington, D.C.,and New York
The purpose ef these seminars was ta
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players ever ta X.400. This was their first
major steponto that vast satellite of consumers, who orbit in iaterest around the
strong pull af their telecommunications
technology.
Consumers Sofbvare has a reliable, attractive, cost~viag line af products,sa
their future success will depend on a
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decidedly artistic tool that many graphtcs aficionados wil prefer overprograms
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When you open Studio/8, you' ll immediatelynoticemmyfiuniliarMacPaintstyle tools in the tool palette at the left
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have popout sub-palettes that can be
"tom os and placed anywhere on your
screen. The rectangular color selector
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handedlychanged the face of computer

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to indude "bundled software" with the
machine. Every purchaser of the original Macintoshes received a word processor called MacWrite, and MacPaint,abitmapped graphics program. It was these
progxanxs that amply demonstrated the
computer's easeef use and power to integrate text with iHustxations, charts or
logos. Best of aH, this power was obvious,
intuitive.
The Macintosh seemed to encourage
creativity, and Apple spread the message: If you can point, you can use a
Macintosh. More than any other progxam, MacPaint exemplified that message. After a few dicks of the various
MacPaint tools, the answer was dear.
Computers could &xakfsf create art.

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When MacPaintwas released, itestablished a set of standard graphics tools
known as a toolbox that has become

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if not everyone. These, and the other
tools of the MacPaint Toolbox have become a de fixcto standard for user-interface design ofmanyMacintoshproiptams.
Of course, when MacPaint was introduced,therewere no color Madntoshes.
But since AprH, 198'1, when the Macintosh 11 was introduced, color has been

growingin both importance and capa-

biTity on the Mac desktop.

Studio/8iswhatisxeferred to as an "L
bit" color paint progr'un. This means
that, unlike MacPaint's I+it (monochrome) bitmaps, the paintings created

by Studio/8can have asm any on~een

hues as "0 to the power of 8," or

(O'O'O'R*F'O'2*&256) coloxs. Twoand

sixteen color modes are also available.

These colors can be chosen from the
Macintosh's 16.8 miHion~olor palette.
One question that must be consid-

ered, though, is why should anyone invest in an 8-bit color piofpaxn, when the
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Another nicety shows up in the file

selector dialog (Figure 2). A small Picture Preview is shown for each picture
file as you chck on its name in the file
selector. Note the. actual image dimensions listed below the picture.
One of myfixvorit features of Studio/
8 is that virtually every tool can be accessed with a single key keyboard shortcut. 1Kis may be a concept inspired by
EA's groundbreaking Deluxe Paint program for the Amiga Apple IIgs and IBM,
where B is for brush and F is for fiH (etc.),
or it may simply be common sense.
While the thought of a keyboard-intensive paint program may seem an unlikely advantage, in use it is a dramatic

improvement over the typical approach

of using Command-8 for this axxd Command-F for that. This is one area in
which Electronic Arts should be commended fordaring to deviate from the
standard. Itshouldbenotedthatseveral
commandsare accessedwith thenumeric
keypad, therefore users of Apple's EASY
ACCESSutihty should turn itoff to avoid
conflicts.
Studio/8 loads MacPaint, PICT and
TIFF files, and saves in color PICT and
TIFF formati. Itcomes
with five disks: program, fonts, textures,
brushes and backgrounds, and a
slideshow called Gallery that allows you
to assemble customizable presentations
withavarietyofdissolves, Sdesandwipes.
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colororgrayscale

Several example pictures showoff the

various possxbxTxties. One picture is of a
lighthouse,andusingatechnictueknown
as colorcyding, the scene can be made
tio animatei Color cyding is a very easy

and fun type of animation,'appropriate

for images like rain faHing, water flowing, tires rotating and other types of
repetitive motion.
A snapshot FKEY called ColoxCam is

The Computer Papery Sept. '99

also provided to allow you to easily grab
screen images &om other programN.

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Himhlighls
There really isn' t room in this review
to give a blow4y41ow account of all of
the features of Studio/8, so I' ll stick to
the highlightsg
1) It comes with a great library of
useful brushtslkapes and backgrounds
such as clouds, wood, satin, marble and
granite. These are welexecuted Shit
PICl' images and have proved to be extremely useful as backgrounds in other
programs too.
fk) The welhvritsen manual is an impressive-looking hard cover book.
(Shouldn'tprogxarxl thatcost this much

money aa have this quality of manual?)

5) The gradient fill tool is simply the

most elegant one of its hnd that I have
ever seen. Of course, I just lstgttttthose
gradient fillsi
4) Studio/8 is justly fitmous for its
mashng functions which allow you to
mask selected objecrs or the last object
created; to mask individual colors or
ranges; or even tosave the masks forlater
use. With ~
you c an easily create
solid objects with airbrushed textures
and other layered and stencil. type effects.
5) My favorite feature though, is Define Perspective/Plane. By setting the
angles of perspective of a small grid, you
can map any selected object ontfo a perspective plane. Indeed,you could fill the
entire plane with a marble texture to
create an elegant "fioor"I
Overall, it is the "feel" that distinguevhes Studio/8. It feels comfortable

L quick, Iikeagood pair ofsneakexs. It

is also fikftrly easy to leaxn, and many will
find the PIC'textures,backgroundsand
brushes to be terxific additions to their
publishing arsenals.

Wish List
Studio/8 does not directly produce
color separations, so if you want to publish your color mastexpieces, you' ll need
to import them into Qmrk XPress or
Aldus's new Separator utTiity for PageMaker. Photoshop, Colorsxndio and a
few other "high end" progxaxxl can also
produce color separatlona
Nevertheless, I was able to open several fullwolor pictures simultaneously.
Macintosh users with less copious
amounts of RAM will prolagbly not notice this slight anomaly. As alway with

Multifinder, increasing the apphcation

memory size helps.

Other EA offering

ElectronicArts also hasamonochronxe

pxogram (intended pnxxkaxily for the
smallvxcreenMacintoshes) called Studio/
1 that shares many of Studio/8's featuresandcomakands. Studio/1 includes
sound and animation features not
present in Studio/8.
EA has shown beta versions of their
next~ e r ation SR+it "true color" paint
prognuncalled Studio/8'R, thatsupports
the full 16.8 miliioacolor palette of the
Macintosh. It is expected to compare
fixffrorablywith 244itcolor programs like
PixelPaint Professional and Adobe
Photoshop. Look for a review of
Photoshop and Color Studio in an upc~
iss ue ofThe CoxyyIfrufcr
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type it. Then type [Escj twice to put this
new window on top of the stack with any
other windowsyou have and hotkey back
to your word processor. Nothing to it.

Even Easier Trc~nl,

Your caller may phone several times
over the next few months. At any time
you can get a record of all conversations
you have had with that person almost
immediately, like this. After hotkeying
into InfoSelect, type "G (for Get"),
then the caller's name. All windows with
that naxne in them will appear on the
screen.
If there are too many to f'it on the
screentogether,you can move through
this pile of phone notes one at a time by
using the Dcpam and Up Arrows. Then
add new notes and put them all back in
the original stack by just escaping to
your word processor again.
Another useful featureislnfo4etect's
abiTityto eGrab (LeCopy) your screen
and save it in a window or Put (i.e.,
Paste) data from a window straight into
your application. You could save repetitive typing by pasting addresses
stxaightfxomyouraddresssiackintoyour
lettexson your ward processor or do the
same with a collection of template paragxaphL Infe$elect makes, them easy to
fmd and quick to insert

Use $tructtmred Forms Too

If you want to set up template forms
which prompt you to fill in the blanks,
you can easily do this, too. Use the
program for jotting down ideas, making
"te do" lists, and creating reference materialofanykind. Wheneveryouwantto
track down some info, type "G" and any
word(s) you think are contained in that
same window. Any windows in the original stack or a selected pile can be summaxized, joined together, exported to
another application, or printed.
Your RAM will limit the number of
windows you can keep in one stack The
smaller the windows, the more you can
have. You can quickly flip to another
stack and can have as many stacks asyou
like but each stack acts like a separate
database and only one can be stored in
RAM at a mme.

Other Feattmm
In&@elect also has 5 ways to see overviews, hypertext (make your own info
base), line drawing, date tickler, and
phone dialer. It is efficient on portables
and allows 61e locking and sharing on
LAL These and more features can be
accessed from putt<cern menus.
This program is unique, easy to learn
and doesn't cost much. But I use it because I can trackall kinds of information
without wasting time ttiinking about it
Don't you hate to waste time thinking?

Robert Tarrant is principal of Office

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TEGL Windows Toolkit

byStephen Strath

Product: TEGL Windows Toolkit

Publisher: TEGLSystems Corporation

Suite 780,789 West Pander Street,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6C 1H2
Phone: (604) 669-2577 Fax: (604) 6689530

System Requirements: IBM PC compatible with VGA or EGAcolor graphics.

The current version requiresthat you
program in Borland's Turbo C or Turbo
Pascal. A new release, that shoukl be
ready by the time you readthis, will also
support Hercules and CGA graphics
and allow you to pegtamin Microsoft's
Quick C or Quick Pascal.
Price: $99.00
Luge companies like Lotus or Microsoft can spend tens of millions of
dollars hixing dozens ofprogxxunmers to
add ~
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plays, differentkeyboards, differentmice,

diFerent processors and differentprintera But what's a small single programmer going to do, often progxanuning at

nightwhile keeping a dayjob? Or what

about someone who just wants te play

with some simple graphics, without having to read and understand three 500page manuals? The progranuner needs
to concentrate on just progxsgcuning his
idea; that is all he has the resources for.
So how does he compete with the big

A Bigger Level

The answer is to use a higher level

than stxaight C under DOS. Microsoft
offers a solution with Windows and Presentation Manager; however, these can
cost $1000 to set up to program in, and
the progranuning is extremelycomplex.
TEGL offers a low cost solution to the

problem ofgraphicsand input (through

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of the toolkit (the games are Monopoly,
Klondike Solitaire, Big 2, Mahjong, Sohtaire and Mille Bornes). TEGL also offersagame toolkit forwritingcaxdgames.
Progxanuning using the TEGL toolkit
is relacxvely easy. The toolkit includes
routines for displaying menus, drawing
windows, inputting from the mouse and
keyboard, drawing icons, handling
events, drawing text (in several fonts),
perforxnmg animation and pexforxxung
a set of special elects. Also provided in
the toolkit is an icon editor for drawing
bitmapped icona The next release of
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menuing and windowing packages.
The TEGL Windows Toolkit is a su&
rouiine libxaxy and a number of utilities
that allow a programmer to easily write
graphicallybased programs thatuse both
the keyboard and mouse. TEGL offers a

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package comeswith a R00-page manual
on disk which documents all the subrou6nes and explains the overall programming methodology. The toolkit also

comeswith complete source code for the

entire TEGL toolkit. This is ideal for
programmersinterestedin knowinghow
a modern windowing system is mitten.
Also, if TEGL was to disappear, the progrunmer could fix any bugs that were
laterdiscovered or could add new featuresas needed, and hence would notbe
left out on a limb.

Event Driven
Generally, as in many windowing

packages,y
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riteyour codeinanevent-

driven manner. In this case, instead of

polling the mouse and keyboard for input aud then figuring out what to do
based on the keystroke, mouse button
state, and mouse cursor positicm, you set
up event handlers, so that when certain
events occur certain routines in your
program get called.
For instance, if the left mouse button
is dicked over a specific icon, then a
routine in your
is called txt perform theaction. ' could besomexhing
like chcking the "save'button in the file
menu, causmg the routine in your program to save the current user's work to
be called. Working with this sort of
methodology makes the progxaxxuning
of highly interactive applications much
easier, as they become more h a ply
structured, and thusmere xnaixxiainable.

No Run-Time Royalties
TEGL produces a stand&one progaun that requires no speaal environment. This means you do not have to
distribute any sort of run-time environment, nor pay any additional royalties
when you sell your prograxn. For games
protpaxnmers this is a must, since they
cannot rely on home users having packages such as Microsoft Wmdows, or even
having computers powerful enough to
run Windows.

Nothing,'s Perfect
On the down side, TEGL offers no
prmter support (however, other packages are available for printer support
only); you have to use one of the supported Luiguages, and the end user must
have a supported display driver (when
Hercules is supported, this should not be
a problexu).
With the introduction of Microsoft
Windows 5.0, which indudes very high
quality graphics, printer support,
multitasking, advanced virtual memory
management andavery large user base,
much of the graphics market is going to

go to Wmdows
5.0; but, hopefully, there

is still a niche for simpler, les@expensive

packages suchas TEGLWindows Toolht.

Stephen Smithis a computer programmer in Vancouver. 2244242

Thecoruputer PeperI Sept.'90

All the latest do-dads

by Cesemc
8ennsu

version. With this new znode, the scanner

Amiss
R4-bit Color for Axon@

Thebiggestnevrslheznd rumble through

the Amigeid community this month is an
amazing aew graphics enhancement
known as HAM-K &em a company csHed
Slack Belt. Basicallya video card thatplugs
into the RGS outputef any (yesl) Amiga,
the HAM-K device can generate up te 16.8
million colors, while maintainingfuH compatibility with Amiga genlodrs andother
video output options. Priced at a remark-

able US $500 and already attracting support &om most key Amiga graphic software developers, HAM-K looks like a sure
winner.

Amax II
Also newsworthy is an ad placed in the
latest AmigeWurfd znagazine by Canadian

can digitize pictures in 16 true gray scales,

er 51 apparent gray scales, as weLL as the
diithered patterns available in the beta reLease.

The advantage of Izue gray scales becomes apparentwhenyea resizean im age.

If the different gray shades were saved as

Sxed pattezasofdots, these

dotsw
iLL "clump
together" when the image is shrunk.
However,with gray scales, the gray areas

are saved
asactual "colors"of gray. Hence,
when the picture is resized, the grays stay

gray'. The actual dots are rendered by the

euzputdevice,m this case theAmigaprinter

driver. Iadeed, Touch Up 1.0 was weH

worth the waitl

ACQI'I
R emovableStorage for ST

Also kichngaroundisapatch thataHows

owners of earlier Amigas te usethe new
WerkBench t.0 thatis shipping at this time
only with the aew Amiga 5000. The ealy
catch is, Amigaowners with ealy 512K ef
"chip RAM" wiH Gnd that the new Work=
bench and 0/S patchleave them with a
marginal amount ef usable RAM, at best.

TQQch Up
Newshippingis themuchMLayedAmiga
vermea ef theMiGraphhandscanner,with
version 1.0 ef its Touch Up zeflzvare. The
MiGraph scanner with Touch Up has fer
some time been the premiere scanner
package for the Atari Sl" market. Teuch
Up is also available for IBM

comp
atibles.

, With the abiTity te load and save pepular

IBM and Mac gxaphicformals such as

TIFF,
MacPaint and PCX, Touch Up is a useful
; tool for desktop publishers.
When liirstgot thescaaaerafew months
ager lt seeals that MiGraph management

said "Ship it anyway," because the Amiga

version's box said "Beta Sofhvare 0.9Free upgrade to1.0when it'sready." What
this means is that, ifyou purchased ene of

Sketch includes a bevy of features that

So, did it survive the traxislation? Hap-

will delight hackers, Like the ability to load

in several contiguous screens to make a
scrolling background, output
graphics as source code, even send graph-

pily, yesl The North Ameriam version

does not suKer &om theQWKRTYanomaly

supe
rcharge

noted in Sketch, ner does it lack the features of its

Macintosh counterparts: multiple fonts, graphics, footers,
headers, speHing checker and multiple

midge

ics eut the serial pertl Yeu can customize

printer drivers (if yeu dare), and Sketch

includes direct support for scanners, with

document windows.

customizable "dither matrixes." There' s

even a59 object editerand animater.

Script, like Sketch, requires an Atari ST,

STKor Mega computer with monochrome

Gh, yeah, you can sketch with it, toe.

Sketch comes with a giant multi~een

"Lifesize" demonstration picture of a, er,
buxom young lady in Iairly revealing garb
that' s a big hit with the guys at the software
stores, at Least.

When I 6rst installedScript, I had the

strangest sensation of Deja vu. N%are hsd 1

seen this before? Sure, it was based on the

original (German) Signum Write, which in
turn was derived &cun the powerfuL (anti
technical documentprecespricy) Signum
sor, but mere thaa anything else, Script
besrsanuncannyresemblsace teMacWrite.
From the rulers to the menus, this program

onitor and a minimum of one megalzyte

of RAM. Both programs have also been

tested successfuHy en Atari's new TT 050
computer. The manual waras that ST
users with 1 meg may want to skip the
speHing checker if theywant tense several
fonts. Sketch comes with one highguality
family ef fonts, aad (you guessed it), an
orderform forlotsmore.
If you' re an Atari SI' user with monochrome meniter, at least one meg of RAM
(preferably znere te take advantage ef aH
features) aad want easy~use pragxaxm
with unbeatable print quality, Sketch aad

Script are well worth a Look

is clearlyan Atari done of MacWzite5.0 (or

possibly WriteNew 2.0)

Fer the last few months, I have had the

pleasure of working with Atari's new

Mega6le44,aSyguest+ased 44 megabyte

company ReadySoft promoting Amax II/

Plus, an upgrade te their previously seso removable haxd diskfer their SL' series ef
Mac emulator. And what an upgrade it isl
computers. This quietunit has perfoxmed
W ith an
Amiga 2000 or greater,you can . flawlessly, and is quite speedy, too, with an
new read/write MacdisksonAmigadrives,
appreximat access time of 25 ms.
printdirecttioIslerWriterseverAppleTalk,
The supphed software allows formatting,
connect Mac SCSI devicessuch as scanners,
babecctor mapping (mine had none),
hard drives, etc. Amax 11/PLus also suppartitioning, autoboeting and parking ef
ports Mac MIDI, Mac digitized sound and
the hard drive. Better still was the news
the ability te use partitions on most existthatinside the Mega6le 44'sattractive case
ing AmilpiDOShazd drives.Nethad for a
is aH the circuitry, connectors andprivrer
machine that also has an ISN'T cempatnecessary to conaecta secend hszd drive.
ibiTity option.

Ot ~

Even the mounting brackets and power

Hght are right there, ready for a standard

PC-type SCSI drive and cable tobedropped
inl
Reportedly, the next version of Spectre
GCR, the papular Macintosh emulator fer
the Atari, wiH be able to read and write

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Prints Charming
"New tio North America" is a pair ef

programs that have been popular in Germany for about two years. Created by Ap-

plicatioaSystems/Heidelberg, the German

titles STnd and Signtzra Wtitehavereached
eur sheres s 8ketrk and Snipt. Marketed

here by MegalNax/ASD, each nen~pyprotected, monochrememnly program

features apleasaatly Low price of around a

hundred bucks, a completely rewritten
manual and includes printer drivers for 9,%+pin,iakjetaadlaserprinters. Happily,
the print quality is nothing shert ef spec-

these "beta releases,' instead ef several of

the eperatioas described in the manual, a

dialog box popped up sayinguStiH Under
Gmstruction." Luckily, all the scanning
functions worked Bne, with up to 400 DPI
resolution. After sendiag in the registration card, theBnal release arrive recently,
with aH of the pxogram's advanced image
manipulation functions active, and an extra surprisel
'Ihe Amiga 1.0 version of Teuch Up
features a "true gray scale mode" unavailable in the Touch Up beta or the Atari

The only bug Iceuld Snd was in Sketch,

where a special function keir command
allows you to load super4igh resolulen

GEMS ARE WELCOME.

Signilni ox Script font$e Altllough the

All hrende eence ere ~

tionsefSketchwerkpreperly, the high~s

text feature exlzoses the program's German origin. When you type the letter Y,
yougetaZ character,because of Germany's
QWKRTZ keyboard Layout. Ofceurse,the
work amund is simple. Just type Z instead
ef Y and "Jed's a miHionaire."

ZsrtuiStrohrrer a SrqrpSer

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Animation is the illusion of move-

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egated tothe demain of main&arne

computers.
By the late 1970's Apple II, Commodare Pet, and Radio Shack owners were
animating images by writing routmes in
Basic. Even though the pixel chunks
were big, they moved acress the screen,
but itwouldbe a number ofyearsbefore
microcomputers would be able ta compete with the big league.
To be of much use fer television, images must he in celor, af a reasonable
resotutian andcempatihlewith the NTSC
output standard. Those requirements
dan'tcome cheap. A typicalbroadcast

quality video animatien workstation in

the early 80's commanded a price tag
well into the 6 or7 figurebracket a topof-the-line video post production suite
can stN cost that much today. The focus
af this artide will he on salufiens for
IBM-PC and compatibles, Macintosh,
Atari and Amiga computers.

Render Man
RenderMan is a procedure, or more
correctly, a setaf software algarithms for
assigning color textures, volume shading, depth af field, motion blur, and
envirenment daaa to objects in a 5D
s cene. T he t e c h nique u sed b y
RenderMan is mare efficient and precise than other methods of

aligning

attributes to 5D objects and has been

accepted as an industry standard. Developed by Pixar of California, RenderMan

describes how light sources emit light,
how surfaces refiect and transmit light,
the scene
and haw
even when lights, cameras and objects
change positien. The program assigns
the attributeswitheutincreasing the size
af the file in which the original 5D objects were created. The RenderMan algorithm are called shaders and can
even be used to praduce special environmental effects such as rain, anew and
wind. Pixar's animated short Knickknack and the seawater creature in the

theatmosphereaffects

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movie "IheAbyss aregood examples of

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what RenderMan can do.

We can expect to see a grmjvmg number ef 5D modelling and CAD progreuns
which will be supporting the RenderMan
method of generating photerealistic
scenes.RenderMan toolkitpackagesare
availableforunder $1QQQ but,check for
compatibiTity with your existing rendering software before you rush out to get it.
Your 5D modelling program must be
able to save files in a RIB (RenderMan

Interne Bytestream) format in order to

be compatible.(See 'The RenderMan
Campanion A Pregrmtimers Guide to
RenderMan", Addison Wesley for mare
information.)

Graphias8meds for SeeMac

High-resolution yaphicsheards&am
third-party suppliers have been slow in
coming, due in part to Apple's lengthy
delay in defining the criteria fer their
color ~
kDia w " screen writing descriptions. Broadcast quality output has
therefore anly recently been possible
with the Mac.
Truevision's52-bit NuVista+ graphic
hoards which include a 52-bitprocessor,
1,'2 or 4MB of video memory,4diannels 1
of digital-to-analog conversien and
genloch, are aow acailahle for the Mec. ~
They can capture res&me video and
indude the capabilities of Truevision's
previausly optional Vidl/0 box in order
to convert video signals. The NuVista+
boards list fer between $4,00049,000
depending anwhich model yen choose.
The Colorcapture graphics beard
&om Data Translation has 16-bit color
(52,768coiors), which isabout the effective limit of television video. Unfartunately, it is not adjustable to adequately
handle pralpmns which only have 8-hit
color. It sells for around $4$00.
RasterOps, &om Santa Clara, California, preduces a series of high~uality 8te M-bit boards starting at under $1,000.
Their 564 heard combines 24-bit video
output with real-time video capture eu

The Computer Paper/Sept. '90

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Interestingly, the standardMacllvideo
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screen while you worM (RasterOps is
also well known for their monitors and
accelerators.)
ColorSpaceIIi 8 is a24-bit color board
&om Mass Microsystems. The board can
be set to display Mac graphics only,video
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real time like the NuVista board does,
offers acompanbut Mass
ion board,the ColorSpace FX priced at
$4,000, which will allow flicker-&ee fullmotionvideo. The ColorSpace IIiS board
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There are now dozens of graphics
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The nextupgiade to Swivel SD, Swivel
SD Professional, is scheduled to ship by
the time you read this. The Professional
version promises to be 24-bit compatible, support RenderMan and AutoCAD
DXF (Data Exchange Format) flles in
addition to having a number of new

features.
AnotherpopularSD program for
Mac is StrataVision SD ($650), whi
was used to create the cover of the J .
issue of ThcComputarPaper.StrataVisi
featurescomplexmy-tracing, reSection
texture mapping and smooth phot
realisfic rendering, including the ex
port of AutoCAD DXF and RenderM
RIB filea
MacroMind Three-D, soon to be r
leased, is made up of a set of three
modules: SDWorks, RenderWorks, an
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SDWorks accepts files &om SD mod
cling packages such as Swivel SD and
other CAD programs and then allo

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Single &arne videotape controller

which handle the memoiy intensive Mbit images are available &om Diaquest,
Lyon Lamb, and V ideomedia.
MacroMind Three-D will list for abou

$RRSO.

Sculpt SD, &om the Byte by Byte

Corporation in Austin, Texas, offers
powerful photorealistic 5D modeling
progrun for the Mac. In addition to the

standard wire&arne, hidden liqe r

moval, an6eliasing features offered by

other SD programs, Sculpt SD also has
full-image ray-tracing and a number o
color and light sources. It retails for
around $1800.
Dimensions, &omVisuallnformatioq
Inc. in California, has a set of SD design
modules that can read and write files t
a number of CAD formats and produc
high resolution animation for film o
video output Itwill supportupto M bi
ofcolor (16.8million colors) and has
optionalRay Tiacingmodulewithbuilt
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RD Animation
V ideoWorks I, &om MacroMind,
one of the first popular animafion pr
gxams for the Mac. Clips created wi

thisprogram have appeared on net

work television bug due to the jag
black and white nature of the' outpu
only as part of program content.
MacroMind Director is an upgrade
&om the earlier version VideoWorks II
which is rumored to end publication.
Director isapowerful Shit color animal
tion program which supports MIDI
sound, imports MacMnt, PICT, and
PICT2 files, and contains a nice pain)
prognim. However, hke its predecesj
sor,itrequires8MBofIAM to run large
files properly. Version 2.0, due to be
released soon, will support 52-bits o
color and have drivers to control audid
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MotionWorks in Vancouver, is
about to release AddMotion, their 2
animation program which is design
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sion2.0ofHyperCard. When an animation is created with AddMotion it is simply saved as a stack Aplayer XCMD for
viewing the animation is also saved in the
stack together with automa6cally generated command scripts and buttons.
AddMotion extends HyperCard's
graphic manipula6on capabiTities with
many features such as scaling, transition
effects, auto-transform, multiple path
animation, four voice sound, and the
option of 24-bit color. The progxam will
retail
foraround $290.
A fully loaded Macintosh FX with a
Motorola680$0CPU runningat40MHz
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accelerators,
virtual memory, and a 80
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m ore thanthe $20,000 you willpay for
the Macintosh system. (A basic color
Macintosh starts at around $N00, and
less powerful Macintoshes can be purchased for much less.)

The Aedga
When Commodore released this
Motorola68000-basedcomputerin1985,
it was the first microcomputer that included the necessary built-in video
circuitxy, to produce reasonable quality',
NTSGcompa6ble video graphics. This,
coupled with the capacity to eliminate
(overscan) the borders around the active screen area makes the Amiga par6cuhirlyappropriaxefor titbngandother
output to video.
The Amiga series of computers have
acquired, since their iniroduc6on, a dispropoxtionately large base of artisticallyindined use. TheAmigapioneerscame
because of the machine's (then spectacular, now unrexnarkable) hardware
capabiTities; the others came for the
graphics sokwme that has grown steadily
in quantity and quahty. Today's Amiga
artists are blessed with a seemingly endless supply of SD editors, video titling,
paint and animation programs.

the cost of the AT BxidgeCard.)

Nonetheless, according to the Amiga's
product managerJeff Evans, Amiga has
alreadycaptured over 60% of the lowend video graphics market.

Growing Pains
The Amigawasn'twithout its growing
pains. The genlock cards (controller
hardware whichsynchronize incoming
video signals with computer graphics)
were along time in coming and developers were slow to produce enhanced
graphics boards for the platform.
Today there are a number of broadcast~uahp genlock systems to choose

&om, the most popular of which is the

SuperGen &om Digital Creations it retails for $1,400.
A company called NewTek is due to
release "Video Toaster" a 244it, &arne
grabber, s~tore, character generator,
video switcher, digital efl'ects board which
has four built-in processors. The video
graphics board will be bundled with SD
and paint programs and will sell for
around $2,000.

Software for the Amiga

As any computer widow can tell you,
the cost of the hardware is by no means
the major por6on of your long-term

5-D Software For Amiga

The third genexation ofAmigagraphics are almost, but not quite here. A
smattering of Amiga programs such as
Turbo Silver (SD rendering) now support '24-bit color, o r r e solutionindependent output tn fiim recorders
and other ultxa4ighquality output devices, but there axe few higherwesolution oulput options other than those
that plug into the IBMwompa6ble slots
found in theAmiga 2000 and above.
These slots can be used with an IBM
emulator called the BridgeCaxd, which
enables the use of most PC ~
e and

hardware aeons. (An ATwompa6ble

version is also avaihhle, although cynics
point out thatyou can buy a xuxl AT for

anting,

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Amigagxaphicsprogxamshaveevolved
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colors) through the secondgenexa6on
hold-and-modify "HAM" programs
(DigiYiew, DigiPaint, Deluxe PhotoLab).
With a maximum of 4096 colors at
M0*400 resolution (or slightly higher
with overscan), HAM. is a big improvementover the Amiga's 52 color "low res,"
but still hres poorly when compared
with IBM or Macintosh 24-bit color opgxaphic technologies).

computer investment. Software usually

represents the lion's share of the money
spent. Luckily, the Amiga fares quite
well here. Because it is perceived as a
budget machine, software prices tend to
be low; compared to IBM or Macintosh.
There is a good selection of software
for the Amiga.to choose &om today.
Sculpt-Animate 4D &om Byte to Byte
(the same people that make Sculpt SD
for the Mac), make a nice SD modelling
and animation package. It has features
like: metal, glass and mirror textures,
selectable phong shading,
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Turbo Silver,
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Partly due to the Amiga's specialized
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The Amiga is we@equipped to act as a
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The new AmigaVision authoring software currently bundled with higherwnd
Amigas is a good step in bringing "multimedia to the masses." AmigaVision
makes it relatively easy for a non-artist to
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package will also be available sepaxately
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An STE with color monitor sells for
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genlockfor the ST for around $800.
Sevexal companies also supply realtime video digitizers for the SI'. The best
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the Cyber series are currently the best

such applications available for the Sl'

series computex. CAD SD, Cyber Studio
and CyberSculpt are SD graphics editoxs, Cyber Texture isa texture mapping

utiTity for CAD SD/Cyber Studio, Cyber

Control is a proceduxul language to assist in the creation of complex SD Cyber
Studio animations.
CyberPaintisa2D/SDanimation and
paintprogram virtuallyidentical in commands and functions to Autodesk Animator for theIBM (notsurprisingly, both
were written byJim Kent, who also wrote
Aegis Animator and Zoetrope for the

Amiga.)
Spectrum 512 and UniSpec are second~neration512colorpaintprogr'uns
much like the Amiga's DigiPaint.
Cyber VCR allows an Atari ST to rem otely control certain DI N p l u g equipped SonyVCRs, allowing the seamless splicing together of complex animations &om the'above-mentioned products.
A handful of other Cyber utilities
round out this well-integrated and extremely inexpensive library of graphics
and animation utilities. (As an example,
Cyber Paint sells for less than $100,
compared toAutoDesk Animator's price

of nearly $400 )

New Phase
Interestingly, several of the programmers thatoriginallyworked on the Cyber
series of programs for Antic Software
have left that company to form a new
venture called Lexicor SoftwareInc. They
are, by the time you read this, slated to
release a series of "nextgeneration" imaging and animation products.
Called "Phase4," the series consists of
four modules: ROSETTA SD Object
viewer, CHRONOSKeyframeAnimation
Studio,PRISM Rendering Package and
KENITC Player Package. Phase4features
math coprocessorsupport and resolutions up to1024x768 in 4096 colors, using the above-mentioned colorboard
&om Image Systems.
The Phase4 prognuns at~ support
an application dala exchange protocol
that provides output of RenderMancompatible RIB files and six other formats. This allows Ataxi artists to use their
equipment as om-'line workstations and
then have the images transmitted to
higher-performance machinesfor fi
nal
photo-real rendering.
IA:xicor is reported to be initiallymarketing the Phase4software bundledwith
Image Systems' above-mentioned hi-res
color board.

The Mac Option

Another option for ST owners is a
f700 cartridge called Spectre GCR that
enables the Atari to run most monochrome Macintosh propos induding
animation softwaresuch as Super SD,
VideoWorks H, Macromind Director,
Studio/1, HyperCard, SuperCard and
others.

IBM and Clones

IBM and done usershaveanumber of
low-priced, mouse-driven animation
programs to choose &om, the most
popular of which are GRASP and
Autodesk Animator.
The Professional GRASP animation
program &om Paul Mace Software in

Oregon sports an acceptable on-board

paint package. Animated dips can be
accessed &om within other applications

through external commands;however,

scripting is required in order to animate

imageL It sells for about $150.
AutodeskAnimator &om AutioCAD is
probably the best of the lovtpcost anima.

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tion pxogrants for IBM DOS VGA platform. It is compatible with Autoshade
end AutoCAD 6le formats and it will
supportAmiga,Arari, RenderMan, Targe
and PCX image files. It sells for approximately $400.

to produce. When dealing with multimedia, a wide vaxiety of problems can

The High End

Higher End

The leadingedge in video and computer technology is at best a tenuous

place tobe. Some of the largest sad best
computer~imarion houses have had to
dedare bankruptcy. Is the big league
woxxied about microcomputerscreeping iato their lairP No, the networkswill
always be able to afford the best. AHarry
Suite withQuentel s~
e c a n do just
about anythingyou can ever imagine
withvideo. Ia Vancouver the Harry Suite
costs$800 per hour and TV show producers and major corporate TVadvertisexs won't mind paying for it. It's the
manufacturers of mid-range machines,
between the dedicated highwnd systems
and the new breed of micros, that are
probably womed.

I recently spoke witha localcomputer

animator who had purchased one of the

Which way to go)

Micro Advantages
Some of the advantages of the lowerpriced microcomputer systems like the
Macintosh, Arxuga, Atari or IBM are that
they support the integration of sophisticated MIDI or internal sound playback
with the aaimation,allow for SMFIE time
coding, have relatively shallow leerniag
curves and, probably best of all, have a
large installed base. This means that the
software will be less expensive to purchase and, when you have a problem,
there are a lot of people who cen help
you+

h
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er'axachineswhichwasruxming
expensive software that had been developedinEurope. Hesaidrhathehadjust
spent an hour talking to someone in
France m an atteinpt to solve the problem he was having. If your softsare/
bsxrdware support line isn't in the same
time zone, at least it should be on the
same continentl
Rendering individual SD images with
assigned texture maps, antiMasing,
shading,andshadcrttpcastingfxamesfrom
an animated sequence require a lot of
computer processing capability and
memory. A smgle kame of broadcast
quelityenimauon can take 15 minutes to
process even on a Sun workstation.
(That's '75 hours of processing time for
10 secoads of axtixxtatlon). To render a
single fxame of a complex, ray-traced
image oaordinary microcomputers can
take hours. Once processed, the &ames
are stored as 2D images each of which
can beup toe few 100Kia size,so even a
few seconds ofhigh-resolution color animation will require asubstantial amount
of storage space.
Regardlessofwhich type ofrendering
and animation system one decides on, it
is recommended that you purchase all
the nec~
com p onents well in advance ofthe projects they are intended

If you need to include memory-intensbre special effects in your pxeseatations

then the higher', dedica
ted animation workstations are probably the best
bet because hxgh+uahty anxmatioa ls
what they axe designed to do best. However,ifyou want ao use the madune for
other things like desktop publishing, accounting or word processing, then the
lower-priced microcomputers bke
Macintosh, Amiga, IBM or Atari are the
way to go.

Bus Pass
To paxaphrase Chipp Walters from
Design Edge, You can either get on the
bus,getrun over by the bus or,watch the
bus go by. The fmal chapter on computer animation hasn' t been writtea yet,
so the bestyou cea do is determine what
itisyou would like to do withe computer
and then nnd a package that will do it
with the dollars you have to spend.

Larry DeFehris president of ArtBase, a

computer graphics, desktop publishing and
software devehpment fire. He is also a
partner in GraphicText Applicathn Inc., a
company that developed ConvertUnits for
the Macintosh.He has produced bath conventionalcell animation as well asanlmathn

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Why settle for less'7 When you can buy abrand-name Warner 286 or386
system from Doppler Computer Centre. Unlike some systems, you don't
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comes with a full one year parts and labour warranty, plus a com
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it's a fact that rrost computer users use only a small fracbon of the potential power

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Dappler'S Camputer EduCatian Centre ~nn aive yau the neaeSSary training ta
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Our one-thousand squarefoot afr-cortdftfoned classroomis fully equipped with 28(3
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Our 33 MHz 386 Warner computer runs sixteen modems at
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and services available to any computer user with a modem.
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into ACCPAC (the number

Commons, Canadian business

one selling modular accounting system in North America), while for first timers, or
those lookingataddingnew
computer e q u ipment,

will venture into a time of confusion and uncertainty.

Although being well informed is one part of the solution, it is important that the
information coincides with a

ANO Office Automation

strategy for implementation.

Whether you' re a professional, a farmer, importer/
exporter, sell commercial or residential real estate, or simply manage a
small retail store, the changes will be
paramount.
In a move to aid business in this

which to tap will be available. Such

will be presenting guidelines on selecting the

rightbusiness system for
your needs.
This agenda will be repeated for

respected names as Peat Marwick the afternoon session, except for

Thorne,Computer Associates,Canon, ANO's discussions, which will focus

AST Research, and Roland DG, will on networking personal computers.
be onhand totackle your concerns, Whether you're requirements be a
transitional period, ANOOffice Auto- and present you with some fresh two station LAN, a full scale multimation has brought together some
heavy weights in the industry, for a
one day only look at the tax itself,
how it will affect you, and ways to
combat it in a computerized environment.
A wealth of information from

ideas.
station/multi-purpose communicaThe seminar, aptly titled "Auto- t i o n s system, or somewhere in bemating The GST", is broken into a t w e en, no stone will be left unturned.
m orning and an afternoon session to
Befor e , d u r ing, and a fter t h e

fit your busy schedule. In the morn- seminar, you will be able to see some
ing, Peat Marwick Thorne will dis- o f the most state of the art equipment
cuss migrating your existing system a v ailable on the market today - in-

amoa

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SSOCIAZES
Software
by design.
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British Columbia
Institute of
Technology (BCIT)

ANO
Professional
Training

Noro aoat1able in ANO Richmond

Date

Course

" Course

Course0

D u ration F e e

Date

59264

6 wk s .

$ 241 .

Sept 15

Intr o . to DOS

Sept 12

Word Perfect 5 Iev. 1 49917

4 wks.

$ 161 .

Sept 29

Intr o. to Word Perfect . R/ K

Sept 13

L otus 123 lev. 1

5010 9

4 wks.

$ 161 .

Oct 13

In tr o . to DOS

Sept 11 d Base IV lev. 1

50171

4 wks.

$ 161.

Oct 27

In tr o , to Word Perfect . R/ K

Sept 10 A CCPAC G/L

59331

4 wk s .

$ 161.

Nov 10

Intr o . to DOS

Oct 15

59345

4 wks.

$ 161.

Nov 24 .

In t r o Word Perfect

Sept 10 Exploring DOS

A C CPAC A/ R

Location'

Fee

R/K/T

R/K/T

R/K/T
. R/K

R = Richmond K = Kelouma T = Tonmto

Call your nearest ANO office forfurther information.

Call BCITat (604) 434-1610 for more information.

SMALL WONDER
Problem: You would love to have the same quality print
on the road as you get at your desk.

combined with the optional battery pack (add another .6

Ibs) this little beauty can be brought anywhere you want
it to go.

Utilizing Canon's incredible Bubble Jet technology,

Solution: The Canon B J-10e.

Problem: You can't afford to buy both a printer for your
desk and a printer for your portable computer.
Solution: The Canon B J-10e.
Problem: Most portable printers are okay for rough

also available on the BJ-130e (a full size wide carriage

version), the BJ-10e will make you look good without
making a whole lot of noise. The 360by 360 dots per inch

output makes text and graphics quality absolutely phenomenal.

Another option which makes the BJ-10e excellent as
a desktop printer is a multiple page, automatic document
feeder. Simply clip it on when you get back to the office

drafts, but you need something you can make and you have a full blown, ready to go, business printing
presentations with.

system.

If you think this little puppy will cost you a lot of

Solution: The Canon B J-10e.

money, well you' re in for another shock- ANO has priced

the BJ-10e at only $575.00 Canadian. Plus, you won't be

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

Solution: The Canon B J-10e.

spending another heap load~ b ucks on consumables.

The 10e uses regular everyday plain paper (letter, legal,

A4, orenvelopes), acetate paper for overhead presentations, and the dry ink itself costs only pennies per page.
Quiet, portable, and inexpensive - the Canon BJ-10e.

This may sound too good tobe true,but the Canon BJFor further information, or if you would like to ar10e Bubble Jet printer is truly a printer made for both the range for a demonstration, simply call the ANO office
desk and theroad. Smaller than the Vancouver White nearest you.

Pages,weighing in at an impressive 4.4 pounds, and

Advertteina Supplement to theComputer paper.

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A11 Computer
Corner
Customers

InECJ4 II

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Kith the recent closure of the

Computer Corner chain of stores at

theend of June,m any of Computer
Corner's
customers have been without warranty support for their systees. Limited salvationis now available.
Due to a recent agreement with
some ofComputer Corner's former
suppliers, ANO Office Automation
is now able to offerpartialcoverage
for Computer Corner customers who
haveequipment which should still be
covered by the manufacturer's warranty.

Our service division will not be

able to offer100% coverage,butwe
arill be able to replace defective parts
onsomeitems which are still covered
by the original manufacturer's warranty at discounted rates.

When we asked for HP LaserJet Series II compatibility, Roland listened.

When we asked for dual font cartridges, Roland listened. When we asked for
additional memory expandability, Roland listened. And when we asked for
a manual paper feed slot, Roland listened.
Now, after listening to our requests, Roland is acting. Recently previewed at the VAR show this spring, Roland and ANO are now shipping the
LP-1110- the offspring of its highly successful LP-1100.
The Raven LP-1110 is a feature rich 11 page per minute laser printer. Its
advanced paper handling, multiple emulations, and font capability meet all
of your business laser printing needs.

Two 250 sheet paper cassettes mean less paper refilling and easy printing
of large jobs. An adjustable manual feed provides even more paper flexibil-

them previously.
lfyou havea system rohich w as
purchasedfrom Computer Corner,

ity. The LP-1110 prints on letter, legal, and A4 size paper, transparencies,
labels, and envelopes.
HP Laser Jet Series II, dot matrix, and Diablo p
emulations ensure
compatibility with today's most popular software. Plus the 512KB RAM
buffer is expandable to 4.5MB so as to handle complex graphics and desktop
publishing jobs.
The LP-1110 produces output at 300 dots per inch (dpi) for clear, crisp text
and graphics. Thirteen built-in fonts and the downloadable font capability
create high quality business output. There are also two font card slots to

arul require servicing, bring your

system to the Service Department at
our Richmond location, or telephone

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

Labour charges urill still apply,

but we are hoping to be able to offer

ComputerCorner customers a level

of support and service unavailable to

rinter

accommodate any of the 5 optional font cartridges.

us at276-8898,
Automating The GST Cont'd ..
eluding Canon's impressive BJ-10e,
Roland's comprehensive line of dot
matrix printers, and AST's award
winning CUPID computer systems.
As well, representatives from all of
the companies will be available to answer yourquestionsand demonstrate
their wares.
As seating is limited, we recom-

mend that you register early. To

register, or for further information,

DATE:

September 19, 1990

LOCATION:

Pa nPacific Hotel
Pavillion "A"
999 Canada Place
Vancouver, B.C.

MORNING:

830 a m - 12:00 pm

AFTERNOON: 1:00pm -04:30pm

COST:

Q5.00/Person

please call ANO's Western Canada

Head Office at (604) 276-8898.
If you attend only one seminar
this year, be sure this is the one.
We look forward to seeing you
there!
PS..... Don't tell the boss, but we
will also be givirtg away some very attractive door prizes after the morning
and theafternoon sessions, plus there
will be plenty of ref'
reshments so you
don't starve!

.'..:<~A5.'l.5,<:~X5::t.."..Y5,'H <,Y5,). a hybrid of the 80286, that combines all packed into a case which won' t

internal 32-bit processing with a 16- hog your desk space.

Priced dose to most competitors
means that it is capable of using less 286 basedsystems, the Bravo also
expensive 286 technology, while boasts AST's shining track record for
providing 386 compatibility. New award winning computer systems.
If your concerned about price,
applications such as Window 3.0,
Desqview/386,
and a host of other but don't want to be left out in the
386 programs are already capable of cold a couple of years from now, the
taking advantage of the SX's capa- AST Bravo/SX is for you.

~~Pc (it~.s 4 )pN s.:w~.s:w~rA

bit interface to the rest of the PC. This

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bilities.

One hardware manufacturer

that's cashing in on the SX band"Out with the old and in with the
new" seems to be the motto of the

wagon, is AST Research with its affordable Bravo/SX personal work-

Intel Corporation, the largest manu- station.

Where the Bravo really make its
facturer of PCbased microprocessors
impact, other than a truly brilliant
in the world.
With 3&6 technology beginning performance rating, is a host of stanitsdominationof thePCmarketplace,

Intel is making great efforts to move

buyers into selecting its nearly two
year old 386sx microprocessor, over
systemsrunningthesixyearold 80286
chips.
In a nutshell, the 80386sx chip is

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dard features which make it irresistible. 2MB of RAM (expandable to

4MB without additional expansion
boards), the powerful AST VGA Plus

video adapter,serial and parallel ports

built right into the system board, and

an impressive16MHz clock speed,

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issue of ANOVATION, arenomaoailabic mith a

tue yser parts and labour marrunty..... Mscrtor
is off
ermg an optiomd 5 year parts and labour
marranty on most foits line of highesIksrmancc/
high capacity hant disk drioes.. . . . I f your
company or organization is hsoking for classnem
space to conduct computer trainmg and can' t
afford the $1(hsslsour askedby many,gme the ANO
office nearest you a call for injbnnutionon our
a/lordable, /idly equippedchtssnmens - you' ll bc
plcasmtly surprised.

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Vancouver, S.C V6Z 2M1
Ph (604) 6816165
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tt2-1026 Johnson Street

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Canon BJ-10e

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ANO Training

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Maxtor Hard Drives

ANO RICHMOND
4110-11100 Voyageur Way
Richmond, BZ V6XSRI"
Ph (604) 226-tttt08

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