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Erom the Editor

Contents
R,C. Kdftfon tune 1991

f you had to read ealy one pub1icatioa

per month to keep up on the latest in
the coxaputer industry which oae
would it be? Well it depends which
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Special Interest Magannes

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Pshhsh is usually lunger aad more pohshed, but Psxxonnf PnhRehing's editor usually has a chip
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run neck and
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very cuxrent. The oaly problem is that it is a
complimentary subscription, (as are aaumber of the other publicationsmenticmed here) and
they seem to want you to be hi charge af purchasmg for a couple of hundred Macs to get on
the list. On a mere sporadic bans, I read Unin Wintd,a relative newcomer in computer
magazhxes (or perhaps it is just me who only recently discovered it) which covers the

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This month check out the Atari Fest onJune 15-16 at the Steveston Senior Secondary
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Microsoft Mail
version 2.1 for PCs
TORO N T O , ONTARIO, APR 15
(TCP) M i c r osoft C a n a d a has
announced version 2.1 of its E-mail
system for PC networks. The newrelease
is based on The Network Courier, which
M icrosoft r e c ently a c quired f r o m
Bellingham's Consumers Software. The
Network Courier achieved the highest

THE COMPUTER
PAPER JUNE '91 9

%HAT'S NHN

ew

versions of six ofitspopular 9-and

dot~atrix models.

spin

Designed as a plug~d elay solution

success of Apple's lower~oat Macintosh

models, Raven has announced a new
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model+
Since Raven is said to be the numberone supplier of dot matrix printexs in
Canada, it is perhaps not too surprising
that the n e w l i n e-up i n cludes Mac

for any Macintosh computer, the printers are bundled with Macintosh printer
driver software the company calls
RavenPrint (based on GDT Softworks'
excellent PrintLink), and a high~eed
(5'/.6K baud) parallel~ e r ial intexface
that adapts the parallel printers for the
Mac's serial port. T h e intexface is an
OEM version of PaxaLink also a GDT
product.

Priced &om $599, the ~in models

with RavenPxint ship with 18 outline
typefaces (the Expressive Fonts collection from you guessed it GDT
Softwarks). When shipped with a Raven
24pin printer, RavenPrint includes 85
outline fonts.
Unlike some other thirdgarty printer
drivers, RavenPrint fully supports
printing &om HyperCard, Adobe Type
Manager and True Type at the maximum
resolution of the printer 860 dpi on

thespinmodels, and 200 dpi on 9gin

overall rating for a PC LAN (local area

network) Email product in the March
1990 Software Digest Ratings Report
Licensed users of The Network Courier

will be offered a &ee upgrade to the

Microsoft release.

Including support for Microsoft

W indows a n d oth e r des k t op
environments, the companysays the new

'

product provides connectivity through

a broad set of gateways, including all

major PC networks and E~ail systems
such as X.400, PROFS, MCI MAIL and
others.

Via a bridge due later in the year

called Microsoft Mail Connection, the
system will also be able to exchange
directories, messages and fxles with
Microsoft Mail users on AppleTalk
networks.
Contact: Johnathon Sachs or Tim
Stewart, Microsoft Canada, 415-5680484.

Northwest High Tech Iuide

BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON,APR15
(TCP) The latest edition of Nmthwest
High Tech,a comprehensive guide to the
computer industry in th e Pacifxc
Northwest and Western Canada, hasjust

been released by Resolution Business

Press.
r thwest High Tech 1991 lists more
than 1,700 computer companies in
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British
Columbia and Alberta, featuring
detttiledinformation on thecompanies'
products and services. Listed are details
of each product's application, price,
quantity sold in 1 98 9 an d 1 9 90,
trademark daims, and where and when
reviewecL
Other information includes data on
sales and sta6'sizes, names of company
ofBcers, expansion plans and other
information, plus sections entitled
Northwest Computer People and
Northwest Computer Media Theguide,
priced at C$29.95, is available &om local
bookstores and the publisher.
Contact Resolution Business Press,

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WHAT'S NEW
models.

The companysays its newprinters are

between twice and four times the speed
of the mostpopular printers in the Apple
market and ofFer more flexible paperhandlingcapabilities,includingmultiple
paper paths thatcan accommodate
continuous forms, cut sheets and enve-

lopes.
Contact: Greg Fleck, president, or
Mike Fleck, vice president of sales and
marketing, Raven, 604-2784458.

Hyphen RIPs it up
RICHMOND, B.C., APR 15 (TCP)Hyphen, Inc.
recentlymademore than a
few heads turn at the Seybold publishing
conferencewhen one oftheiremployees
demonstratedwhat appears to be a bug
in the Macintosh's printing software that
causes it to be unduly slow when outputting to a PostScript printer. Besides
demonstrating that Apple's system software isn't always what it's cracked up to
be, these findings (later corroborated by

@sark's Tim Gill) serve as evidence that

Hyphen really knows its business:
PostScript RIPs (raster image processors).
Hyphen has announced the release of
the Hyphen PC RIP, a sofbvare package
that transforms a normal PC into a high
quality, high resolution PostScript compatible RIP for imagesetters from
Linotype, Ultre and ECRM.
Unlike traditional hardware RIPs,
which are bulky, expensive, and have no
upgrade path, PC RIP is a softurar~nly

solution. Approximatelyone-half the cost

of hardware RIPs (inexpensiveis,of

course, a relative term: the PC RIP soft-

ware still costs nearly $10,0001), PC RIP

is one of the only vendors licensed for

Hell screen angles, said togreatlyimprove

color reproduction.
Hyphen and other Macintosh and PCbased publishing systems are available in
B.C. exclusively from Western Imaging
Systems, 604-270-8214.

Computers on TV
Vancouver viewerswith cable can pick
up a short segment about computers on
UTV News at 1 pm on Thursdays. The
segment features David Chalk, president

of Doppler Computers, and Doug Miler

discussing technology for computer
novices. They apparently talk about
hard%me and software for a bit and then
open the phone lines for questions.
Ch k't

New Notebook has

Resume Function
TORO N T O , ONT ARIO, MAY 15
(TCP) Panasonic's new CF-870 notebook computer features an innovative

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resume function thatallows the memory

contents to be preserved when the
computer is turned ofF. When you power
up again, it will automaticallyreturn you
to the programs and data you were using
beforeyou leftoff.
The 20 MHz 886SX-based unit sports
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Weighingin atunder 7pounds,including
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Contact Edmund Yeung, Panasonic,
416-288-2405.

Pal Systems is proud to present the, superior IDEK Iiyama 17"

MF-5117 snd 21" MF-5221 monitors.
The IDEK MF-5117 is an Analog snd TIL 17" colour video monitor for high

resolution engineering, CAD/CAM snd Desktop Publishing applications.

The Japanese made IDEK MF-5117 combines s flat screen with automatic
frequency scanning for sll frequencies from 21.8kHz to 50kHz horizontal
and SOHz to 90Hz vertical. The monitor supports all high performance video controllers and is capable of displaying crisp, clear and
precise graphics with its Superb 0.28mm dot pitch and 1024 X 768 resolution.
The superior qualities of MF-5117 has also won big honours from the PC Magazine. After comparing it with 9 other monitors in the same
class, the experts were so impressed that they crowned the IDEK MF-5117 with the award of "Editor's Choice".
The IDEKMF-5221 shares the same superior qualities as the MF-5117, but with an increased horizontal synchronization signal of 30kHz
to 80kHz snd 1280X 1280resolutioa at 0.31mm dot pitch. There is ao doubt that the IDEK professional monitors arethe most advanced
products from s company that has pioneered colour video technology.

Pal Sysfems (Canada) f.fd.

Vancouver ONce: 118-13982 Gamble Road, Richmond, B.C. V6V 2K2 Tel:(604) 270-1M3 Fac (604) 2704389
Edmonton ONee: 531 249th Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6E 5P9 Tel: (604) 465-1972 Fac (604) 462-9689
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aiantMpacity Hard Drive

TORONTO, ONTARIO, MAY 16
(TCP) Fujitsu Canada has announced
the industry's first 5 2&nch Winchester
disk drive to break the 2 gigabyte (GB)
unformatted capacity barrier.
Called the M2652, the new drive is the
first 5.25-inch drive to support the SCSI2 command set, and ofFers a formatted

capacityof 1.6GB and an average positioning time of 11ms. An IPI-2 version is

also available.
Contact

G w e n L annaman, Fujitsu

Canada,4166784666 or 1400-2684716.

correction
The Commodore C286-LT Notebook
Computer comes with a one year parts
and labor waxranty, not 90 days as stated

in our Ma 1991 issue.

T HE COMPUTER
PAPER JUNE '91 1 1

ews

the Commodore Amiga 500 Staxter, a

version of the Amiga targeted at Srst-

Newtek Markets Stand~lone

time

Video Toaster

TOPE+i, KANSAS, MAY 14 (NB)-

One of Commodore's major success

stories is going it alone. NewTek, whose
Video Toaster board for the Amiga acts
as a stillsttore, switcher, titler, and video
e8ects genesattor, among other things,

has announced it is now selling a standalone Toastersystem for $5,995.

The new stanc4tlone Toaster has the

gula of a Commodore Amiga 2000, but it

is designed specifically fo the broadcast
TVmarket. The product features afour-

es

c o m p u t e r us e r s , a nd

th e

C ommodore
Ami g a
2000H D
Professional, an enhanced system for
the small business market The latter
productcosto$2,000 and comes bundled
with a word processor, spreadsheet,
database, desktop publishing, business
graphics, print, and music program,
along with a program to read and write
MS-DOS 61es. The Starter system costs
$599,andcomesbundledwith simulation

gupsrh Business
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esit, .

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Contact: NewTek, 918-854-1584;

Commodore, 215481100.

c'ltd'

input production switcher which can

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effects generator, a thr~
ensi o nal
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, MAY 18
animation package called LightWave, a (NB) To coincide with the extra
charactergenerator, apaintprogram, 2
memory requirements of the newly
kame buyers, a color processingengine released System 7.0 operating system,
called ChromaFX, and a kame grabber Apple has announced a signiScantprice
and storer.
reduction on its logic board upgrades
Theproductinctudmall the newvideo and memory for its Macintosh hne of
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year ago, alongwith additional software. much as 57percent for memory kitL
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For example, Apple Canada has anthecomedyegtatmteamofPenn Sc Teller, nouncedreductions thatthe Mac SE/80
that was created with the Toaster.
logic board upgrades for the Mac SE has
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down 58 percent to C$180 &om C$427,
a 2MB kit is down 64 percent to C$270

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Macintosh models to take advantage of
System 7.0's virtual memory capabilities,
and allow some
models to access 82-bit addressing. 2MB of RAM is
required to run System 7.0.
The priceof Macintosh hardware in
the used computer market plunged in
response to Apple's price reductions.

trading board observed that in its ~ar

history,
there had been no prior drop of

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to end the week at US$500.

machines came down and Mac owners

Contact: Apple Computer Inc., 408974-8145

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CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 6
(NB) Apple Computer, saying it has
responded to the needs of its corporate
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processors, induding one developed by
an alliance between itself, LSI Logic,and
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M achine an alliance formed i n
November, 1990. The
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Britain, has created prototype RISC
machineswhichofferhigh performance
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VANCOUVER, B.C., APR 26 (NB)-

The Vancouver Stock Exchange has announced the first sale of its computerized tradingsystem, to the Caracas Stock
Errchange in Venezuela. Terms af the
sale were not disclosed.
The Caracas exchange has agreed to
purchase the system from a consortium
made up o f I B M V e n ezuela, the
Vancouver Stock Exchange, New York
consulting firm TCAM Systems, and
OLTP Venezuela, a Canrcasbased soR-

ware developers
Bave Laundy, aspokenmm far the
Vancouver exdrange, toldNewshytesthe
fact that the system was already up and
runninginVancauverwasamajorfactor
in the Caracas exclrange's choice, Staff

ware. There are twe or three bich "on

which we thinkwe have ageod chance,"
Laundy said.
The system has been operating in
Vancouver since May, 1990.
Contact VancouverStadt Errchange,

fromVanceuverwillhelp train employees 6044894854.

at the Venezuelan exchange and will be
avaLrble to provide ceasulting services,
he said.
The Vanceuver exchange is
actively
pursuingothersalesofthesystem,which
was develaped by the exchange and
TCAM Systems and runs on IBM hard-

Nuitimedia Division
Launched by Qaerum
Computer group

software for other companies to producing multimedia sales pitcheL The company has launched a multimedia division, based en a custom service called
Selling With Software.
Jim Secard, multimedia product
manager fer Quorum, told Newsbytes
Selling With So&ware isa cusaim service
based on a core structrrre that can be

VANCOUVER, B,C, APR 26 (NB)Quorum Computer Group is branching

oirt fram duplicating and packaging

tailored toindividualdients'needs. The

idea is to present information using
graphic3, text, sound,and animatioa that
can be played hack aa any IBM or
compatible PC.
The price of a SeHing With Software
package varies with the client's needs,
Secordsaid, butaboutC$5,000istypicaL
Clients to date include a Vaacouver
cempany thatproduces databases fer
lawyers and customs brokers. The
companyneeded abetterwayta explain
its offeringr and hew theycouldbe used,
Secerd said.

Secord said the multimedia divisioa

has the added advantage forQuorum of
generating disk duplication businesa
The companyhas80to 90percentofthe
Westera Canadian disk duplication
market, he said, working fer Lotus
Development, Vancouver developers
Richmoad Software and Stratford
Software, and others.
Contact: Quorum Computer Group,
6048V94886, fax 6048794214.

Canada Citizen's Forum on

Scuy and Nind link!
VANCOUVER, B.C., APR 26 {NB)The Citizens' Forum on Canada's Future is accepting submissions online, via

StratfordSoftware'snatioaal Sruyonline
systcaa and a Vancouver~ca bulletin

beard systera. Thisis the forum'sf irstuse

of enline information services, Mark
0"Neill, a faciTitator for the forum, told

Newsbytes.
The Citizen's Forum on Canada's
Future, also known as the Spicer Royal
Commission, was set up last November
to collect ideas from the public oa the
future of the Canadian federal system.
The forum is part of current attempts ta
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Theenlinesysremshave the advantage
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Oeac DonatinlSofbvare to
Celebrate 2OIl Anniversary
MAR K H A M , O N T A R IO, MAY 6
(NB) Libraryautomation vendor Geac
Computer plans to celebrate its 20th

THE COMPUTER
PAPER JUNE '91 17

NHNSSYTES
year in business by donating its Advance
integrated library system to 20 needy
libraries around the world.
Geac said Advance licenses will be
donated to libraries that would like to
automate butcan'taffordentire system,
and which "have a special vision and
scope on+ e future of
the library'asan
information center in society."
Geac is asking libraries that are
interested to submit essays of not more
than five pages outhningwhat they hope
to achieve through automation and how
automation willhelpthempravidelibrazy
services in the future. An internafional
selection panel will decide who gets the
20 licenses. Further information is
available from the nearest Geac office,
and entries must be submitted by August
30.

Contact: Geac, 4164750525.

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, MAYS

hasfireditslatestshotatIntelbyreleasing
details about a 2&megahertz (MHz)
version o f i t s 8 8 6 SXcompatible
microprocessor due to ship inJunc. The
fastest Intel 386SX new being marketed
operates at 20 MHz.
AMD's new chips are not only faster
than Intel-chips but are said to use less
power, making them especially suitable
for the very fast~owing 20 MHz notebook market.
Sample quantities are now shipping
and prices are expected to bein line with
Intel chip prices.
Contact: AMD 408-732-2400.

IBIN Kicks Off Environmental

Research Program

MARKH AM , ONT AR IO, MAY 14

(NB) IBM C anada h a s s i gned

ARM O N K , NEW YO RK, MAY 15

(NB) IBM has announced what it refers toas "a major research program

a distributor for its PS/1 computer.

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ter which a review committee will reAbout 85 percent of Beamscope's quest formal proposals on selected
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happy with PS/1 sales in Canada to date, communities, will then evaluate the
but has focused so far on its existing formalresearchproposalsand nominate
dealers. While continuing tosell through candidates for final selection by IBM.
those channels, he said, IBM wants to
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LarryWasser,presidentofBeamscope, ground water pollution, ozone deplesaid that his company expects the home tion and waste disposal." It also stated
computer market to take off,and
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which we hope vfitl go on for many years may obtain guidelines by writing to:
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FORT W O R T H , TEXAS, MAY 9
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depict the hlling of Turks andJews are

being distributed in Germany and now

able to determine, the Bruce Lee games

only rotate and display Nazi symbols.

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tial arts movie actor's name is unknown,

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subjects of the games for economic rea- caustremembrance, human rights and
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is used to the 'melting pot' concept, but
The Center researchers asked their
in these countries everyone was either identity not be revealed due to their
French or German, until the recent
secret work. in in6llrating the Neo-Nazi
Turkish population, over 400,000 in
party in the U.S. The researchers said,
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of the Turks have taken jobs that natives
Contact: Avra Shapiro, Simon
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The standard serial ~232 connector
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document processing product that op-

drop from the 1987 figure of 3 million

pounds.
CFCshavebeen linked with depletion

erates under Microsoft'sPen Windows

Operating System. Software Publishing

of the earth's ozone layer, a natural shield

against harmM ultravioletradiation. The

claims the product exploits the capabilities of the Pen Windows Operating System by providing handwriting recognition and gestures.
The company daims users who want
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or advancedfeatures.For example, Software Publishing claims the speed icon
bar, used to give commands to manipu-

electronics industry has long used CFCs

to clean electronics assemblies and
printed circuit boards.
A combination of deionized water,
detergent and ultrasonic sound waves
are used in the new deaning process to
wash the parts, and hot air to dry them.

gallons of water per load. The water is

reused so the total daily volume per
machine is about thatused byan average
household.
cleaning is equal to, or better than the
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Unattended Interactive Fax

In one water cleaner system, parts are

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than half the cost to operate, because

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SUM.'%VALE, CALIFORNIA, MAY 6

(NB) Add~ America has introduced

stainless steel baskets by a robotic arm

that operates under the control of a

personal computer.
The washing and drying cycle takes
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IBM m a i n tains that w a ter-based

required and solvents are not used.

IBM's SanJose+ased Storage Systems
Products Division develops and manufactures computer disk and tape storage

systems and employs more than 9,000

people.
Contact: IBM, 408-256-2217.

Delivery System

late text, operates with a pen. The ges-

turingcapabilityof the pen also provides

away to edit and correct documents, the

company said.
"Software Publishingbuiltits heritage

on its intuitive interface," said Richard

Frank, vice presidentand chief technical
officer. 'The simplicity and natural feel
of a pen presents a wonderful opportunity for us to continue extending this
heritage. Professional Write Plus is just
one exatnple of how our intuitive interface canadapt, Imodified,to a penbased operatingsystem such asPen Windows.
Professional Write PLUS is currently
available and has a suggested retail price
of $249,according tothecompany. The
same version will run under Windows or
Pen Windows, the company said.
Contact: Software Publishing, Tel:

415/8854440.

IBIN San Jose, 4ke Apple,

Re&aces CFC Air Emissions
SAN JOSE, CALIFORMA, MAY 16
(NB) Citing a corporate goal of eliminating the usage and emissions of chloroSuorocarbons by the end of 1998, International Business Machines has reported that it has reduced CFC-113 air
emissions at its San Jose, California site

by 95 percent over the last three years.

The company said that CFCs have
been used primarilyin the past for deaning and drying disk storage system parhs.
Now though, the company is converting
to aqueous cleani'ng systems and dryers
which use hot air or vacuum instead of

CFC-113.
Newsbytes recently' reported that
Apple, too, is taking steps to eliminate
CFCs from manufacturing processes in
its plant in Fremont, California, just
across San Francisco Bay from the IBM
facility. In addition to eliminating the
use of CFCs to dean electronic assemblies and circuit boards, Apple also said
that it had developed a new' process for
circuit board assembly that did not require the boards tobe cleaned.

IBM said its SanJose site will report to

the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) that 68,000 pounds of CFC-113
were emitted to air in 1990 compared
with 280,000 pounds reported in 1989.
The total year-toyear emission reduction is 70 percent, the greatest in three
years.Its 1987 CFC air emissions were
reported at 1.5milhon pounds. IBM also
reportedusing 5%1,000 pounds of CFC118in 1990,
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cisco Bureau) that he cancelled his sub-

scription after finding sensitive personal

information in files created and accessed

by Prodigy. Hirshal Wolfson, a retired

physicist/computer consultant and a
resident of Culver City, told Newsbytes,
"If anyone asked me, I'd tell them to stay

away &om it."

In a l etter &o m R a n die L . M o ss,

Prodigy services manager, to Wolfson,

Prodigy claimed it could inadvertently
access user data, but not if it was operated &om a bootable, &eshly formatted
Soppydisk. In thatcase, the letter stated,
the information &om the hard disk files

would not be accessed by Prodigy.

Prodigy President Theodore C. Papes
yesterday issued a statement saying that
Prodigy cannot read or access private

data on its meznbers' personal computerL Papes said, "Such wild speculation
simply isn't true. Prodigy is committed
to protecting the privacy of our nearly
one million members."
Wolfson told Newsbytes, "I started out

in this innocently. My hard disk was

loaded, so I wanted to install Prodigy
onto a boointble Soppy, and I had to call
them [Prodigy] to find out how to do it
I tried it severed ways, and when my data
kept showing up, I cancelled the service."
The Wall StreetJournel reported
Prodigy does access information &om
users' personal computers, but said
Prodigy doesn't look at the data. In an
article titled "'Prodigy' Headquarters
OFered Pecks Into Users' Private Files,"
Wednesday, May 1, 1991, Prodigy ofScials were quoted as confirtning a software quirk that picks up unrelated
Prodigy information oF a user's hard
disk, and also confirmed they could access that data Brian Ek, a spokesman for
Prodigy was quoted by the Wall SIneet
Journelas saying, "We couldn't get to that

Toshiba's latest fax machine, called

the "Display Fax," is equipped with a

MEMBERSHIP HAS ITSADVANTAGES

mission to reveal the name of the Prodigy

user who informed Newsbytes over a
month ago (March 29, 1991, San Fran-

information without a lot of work, and

we haven't any intention of doing so."
Newsbytes has reporin &om seven
other Los Angeles residents, including a
journalist for Newsbytes, of incidents
involving the finding of personal data in
Prodigy files. Ail of the seven have canceled their Prodigy servicea
P rodigyisunderfire &om~
side a
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office says itisbroadening an earlier investigation into Prodigy to include possible
criminal and civil violations involving
alleged unfair business practices and
unauthorized access to computers and
computer data. Two ciasaection suits,
filed in Los Angeles County Superior
Court, have been moved to Federal
Court, -and are pending. Board Watch
magazine reported on a story &om
Iefommrdin which Sonib Opetu Noe,a
weekly newsletter, has sued Prodigy, alleging Prodigyillegallyused stories &om

The received messages can be displayed

and scrolled up and down on the screen.
This feature allows the user to choose
which fax messages to print out, thus it
will save the fax paper.
Interesiinglyenough, theacanner part
can be separated&om the body of the
fax machine so thick documents such as
books can be transmitted easily.
Thisfaxmachineis expectedto debut
thisM, andwillbe aimedathomeusers.
the newsletter in its online serviceL
Other elecironics firms are expected to
Contact: Lo s A n geles District
f ollow shortly thereafter with ai ms
Attorney's OfBce, Tel: 218/9748981.
productL
Contact: Toehiba, +81-85457-2100.
DA.'s Office Soliciting

Partof Evil Empire't

Prodigy
LOS ANGELES, CAUFORNIA, MAY
5 (NB) Newsbytes has received per-

Prodigy Complaints

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MAY

6 (NB) Rich Goldston of the LosAnge-

THE COMPUTER PAPER jUNE '91

les District Attorney's OIIce has asked options are selected, and, if necessary,
that anyone who has a complaint against caUs backthe caUer'sfax machine and
Prodigy register it with his onlce in writ- traxsamits them.
ing, as part of the Prodigy investigation
Its creators say FaxPump is Mly comregarding the alleged criminal and/or
patible with all e xisting PBXs and
civil violations involving unfair business Voicemail systexns using analog lines.
"lliereis a tremendous need for autopractices and unauthorized access to
coinputers and computer data.
mated inquiry handling," said Victor
Goldstonisacceptingcomplaints&om Hanna of ServicePlus Technology, a
all over the country &om both current national distributor of computer prodand former Prodigy customer+
ucts. 'The $15,000 add~a solution ofThis announcement comes a8ter disfered by voicemail companies is out of
closure that some Prodigy users claim the reach of most small to xnid~
they' ve found personal data in a Gle
companies andcorporatedepartmentL"
createdand accessed by Prodigy called
Contact: Chris Claudatos,Closed Loop
STAGE.DAT. Prior to this disclosure, Marketing, 800/695-1210.
the LA. District Attorney's OKce was
investigating possible deceptive adver- Soft4witchIntelratel Fax,
tising chargeL
Complaints should be submitted in

writing to: Rich Goldston, Los Angeles

County District Attorney's OKce, Hall
of Records,Room 540, 820 W. Temple
Street, Los Angeles, CA90012.
Contact: Rich Goldston, Los Angeles
District Attorney's OIice, Tel: 218/9y48981.

Fax Voicemail Called

Faxpump
CAMPBELL, CALIFORNIA, MAY 15

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Is MIND LINE( a local

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Bxitish Columbiaas but offers many of

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MIND LINKi's internetm ail
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'He Iatexaet is the largest email network
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Stoxage space is impoxtaat because it

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offexed for people to download. Two

gigabytea is more than thxee ames as
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MND LINKi xeceived moxe than 900
new files from its members - every
month there axe humheds mote.

Who sponsors MIND

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Nobody syoasoxa MIND LINK!. We axe
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MIND LINKt is vexyactive. Last

m onth our
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veadoxs.We stick to our owa knitting,
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400,000public message@ Iaexcessof

12,000 pieces of mail were sent or
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makes MIND LINKi a dedicated

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MIND LINK! is B.C.'a largest

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Our beginner's gmde will aaswer most of

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MIND LINKl is growing qmckly as

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Tbere axe sigas that we axebegiaaing
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Jetmam allows more

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About

BBSs axe measuxed in different waysmost commonly bythenumber of

way of ruxining their own fax delivexy

and voice mail systems are being eyedby
Faxpump Systems, which has just come
out with the $1295 Faxpump, an inteThe gateways can also receive Ssx and
gxatedvoicemail with faxsystem for PCa telex messages, although the distribuConsisting of two &bit, PC compat- tion of fax messages within a network is
ible (ISA) plug~ ca r ds, an external limited by the graphics capabilities of
speaker, two telephone cords and softthe workstations Company spokesman
ware, FaxPump requires a PC with a
David Zimmer explained the optical
minimum of 640KRAM (random access character recognition (OCR) technolmemory) and a hard diskdrivewith DOS ogy is not yet up to converting an in8.1 or greater. An optional Esx/phone coming fax into machines eadable text
switch is $199.
as in an email message. So, if the adThe way it works is this. The unat- dressee has aPC with adequate graphics
tended FaxPump, using digitaUy re- capability, the message can bedisplayed
corded voice messages, verbally offers as an image. Otherwise, it can be printed
callers a set of menu options and, de- out for delivery on paper.
pending on which options are selected,
Telex is easier; since the message is in
can immediately traxumit the desired machineseadable form anyway, it simdocument by fax if a call is being made ply needs to be translated. It can he
&om a fax machine.
dehvered like any other e-mail message
The software keeps track of which
provided it hears the recipient's coxrect

Answers

WAYNE, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 16

(NB) However efficient a means of

ing that, SoftSwitch is offering gateways

to two other forms of electronic comxnunicatlon: facsimile and telex.
SoftSwitch saidits new gatewayproducts will let any email user connected to
a SoftSwitch mail backbone send Esx or
telexmessageL Axnessage maybe sexlt to
a distribution list encompassing email,
fax, and telexusers. The fax gatewaycan
also add graphics and logos to the mes-

27

MIND LINKi does not charge by the

hour. Thee ia a flat moathly ox yearly

fee(aa low as $430/mouth) which

covers almost evexy service. A few
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email address.
Safit4witch'sproductsprovidc switc- Micraso8t, and HP each had their awn
hingand connectivityamong anumhcr versions of LAN Manager under development As a result of this agreement
vendors' electronic mail systems.
Zimmer asid SoR4witch expects the anly one set of code will be developed,
gateways to be popular with multina- allowing 6sr cansistmcy and less cus.
tional corporanans that must use a mix tomcr confusion. Thecompaniesexpect
that the Application Programming Inaf communications methods. Telex,
though its use is declining in highly de- tcrEsce (API) far both products will developed counlries, remains popular in velop jointly and compatibly. Microsoft
Eastern Europe and the ThirdWorld, he and ATgsT will both market the product
saicL The capahiiitywim also ease conipa- internationally to hardware manufacnies transition fram older technologies turers and iiidependent software vendora
to email, he added.
We are camtsuttcd to bringmg ane
The gatesrays work with Sof't ciwitdi's
email backbone.The fax ~y has a
powerful, portable Unix system-based
base priceaf US$82,000; the telex gate- nctwarkopcratingsyssem,aswellas~
way starts at US$80,000. In both cases added services and support, to the marthere may be additional customisation kelplaec," said Mike Murray, general
c harges depending o n h o w t h e manager of the Microsoftnetwork husinessunit "Ihiscooperaiivc development
customer'sbackbone is setup, Zimmer
agreement will benefit customers by ensaid.
abling them to use the power of chentContact Sof't ciwitch, 21544$8600.
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Calera OCR for Sun SPARC

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Contact: Micsosak, 2068824080.
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Central Point Ooes Iitindows,

Uplracies Popular lNilities

BEAVERTON, OREG ON , MAY 8

(NB) Central Paint Software is expected toannounce major upipadcs of
PC Tools and Central Point Backup on
Monday, the 6th of May. PG Tools,avexy
papular and highlysatedutilitysoftsrare
packagethatprovides backup and other
useful utilities such as password Sle encryption, undeletc, and unformat tools.
PC Tools 7.0, priced at $179 ($49
upgrade), adds virus protection, a powerful remote coniputing capability, en

hancedWindowssupport,including MSDOS and Windows Backup, and extensive network support PG Tools 7.0 will
ship immediately.
Available in June will be the separate
CentralPaint Backup forboth MS-DOS
and Windows at a list price of $129 ($80
upgrttdc).
fened to ATILT.
LAN Manager for Unix is thc server
Aho due ta ship in June is Central
Point Commute, a new program which
application that win run under Unix.
LAN Manager for OS/2 will continue to provides fullkeatured remote computwill influ- ing for LAN or local area network, mohe d
dem, and direct connect computer sysence the future development of LAN
Manager for Unix. Microsoft's goal is to tems. This program, which is also
allow for interconnections among ma- bundled with PG Tools, will carry a list
chinesofmanymanufacturersand typeL price of $129 and offers remote control
Microsoft hopes that all computer plat- for those operating a computer from
formswill evcntuailyencompass support hame or directly connected to a laptop.
Central Point is apparently going to
af LAN Manager in onc way or another.
The companies' currentstrategy calls continue hreahng some popular utilifor LAN Manager server applications to ties out of PG Tools for those who just
resideon OS/2andUnixmachincswhile want one feature, hut savvy purchasers
all other machines will support LAN will continue ta buy PC Tools for the
Manager dient applicationa If this oc- same and much more software at a very
curs, Macintashes, DOSmachines, Suns, reasonable price.
Last fa5 the company separated CenHPs and many others will all hc able to
reside on one netwark exchangmg files tral Point Backup, offeri n it as a separate program but keeping the same feaand sharmg resources seamlessly.
announced an ~cem ent to have Bell

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T HE COMPUTER
PAPER jUNE '91 2 9

NEIIIYTES
tures in PC Tools, and now they are
offering Commute as a separate program, but only after releasing it as a part
of PC ToolL

There is some demand for this sort of

unbundling but Central Point is giving
the consumer arealbreak by keeping a
lowyriced complete set of tools available.
Contact: Central Point,503490-2650.

Harvanf Graphics 3.0

CorWindows

Lotus for Windows Due This

Summer

The program provides a "What-Youkeels What-You~t" feature to print out

TOKYO, JAPAN, MAY 16 (NB) Lo- the screen image.
tus will release both English and JapaApparently, Lotus was behind in the
nese versions of Lotus I-24 for Microsoft development of a Windows 8.0 version
Windows 8.0 this summer, according to because it spent a great deal of time
the Nikkan Kogyo newspaper,
developingthe program for IBM's PreThe Windows 8.0 version of Lotus 1-2- sentation Manager. Now, Lotus is simul8 suppoits multiple worksheets and a taneously developing the English and
pulldown menu as well as the conven- the Japanese versions. The firm has
tional 1-2-8 menu of MS-DOS version. already developed the betawersionof

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA,

MAY 16 (NB) Fast on the tracks of
other major publishing houses trying to
cash in on the Microsoft Windows 8.0
bonanza, Software Publishing has
brought out a Windows version of its
Harvard Graphics presentation graphics package, as well as released version
8.0 of its main DOSbased product.
The company says that version 8.0
featuresenhanced charting, drawing,
and presentation featuresbyincorporating such tools as chart layout regions, a
broad selection of chart types, and a
spreadsheet view to simplify the chart
creation process, while maintaining the
product's ease of use.

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In addition to these chart types,
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displayed through icons, enabling users
to preview the design and charting options available for developing a slide.
According to the company, Harvard
G raphics8.0also offers an extensive selection of chart typea Users can create

the programs, says the Nikkan Kogyo.

Meanwhile, major Japanese business
application programdeveloper Creo will
release a unique integrated program for
Windows 8.0 this summer. The program
cod@named "Scene" has multiple features including word processor, spreadsheet, database, scheduler, graphics, and
telecommunications. Thisprogramprovides much faster switching &om one

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customize data or emphasize keypoints.
Thecompanymaintainsthatnewchart
appearance options in the DOS 8.0 version, such as wordwrap and shrink-tokt,
automatically reformat text to fit within
chart layout regions. Framing options
letusersplace differentbox &ames, such
as thre~
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add more dimension to datain a specifi
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Both Harvard Graphics 8.0 and
Harvard Graphics for Windows will be
distributed
thr o u g h Sof t w are
Publishing's network of over 4,500
resellers nationwide. International language versions of Harvard Graphics 8.0
will be available in September 1991. Users of H~
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Contact: Viki Hahne, Software Publishing Corp., 415485-2059.

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(NB) First Byte has announced that it

will preview a beta Windows S.l version

of Monologue, the company's text~
speech software for PGcompatible computers, at Windows World '91, which
runs in parallel with the 1991 Spring
Comdexshow. ComdexSpringrunsfrom
May 20-N at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
This is an important development
because applications software run under Windows are normally inaccessible
to vision~paired computer users and

E P CX KO72 New Chip Speeds Up Windows

SUNNYVALE,CALIFORNIA,MAY14

(NB) Weitek has announced the imcommediate availabilityof

puter industry's first user interface controller microprocessor, the W5086.
which builds the software screen draw
commandsintothevideocontroller card,
and speeds up Microsoft%indows.
The single chip controller incorporates in hardware the key functions of
Microsoft Windows' graphic device in-

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Windowsapplications, thecompany said.
Industry experts have expected for.
some time the introduction of a hard-

special
needs employees and customers.
Monologue for Windows is a Windows S.O version of Monologue which
will read words presented in text+need
applications but, unlike the MS-DOS
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for virtually every country in the worlcL
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owners, a Soppy disk included with the
package provides a Macwompatible
graphical front encL When run, it opens
up two windows:one
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data of the country shown. A panel of

containing
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options for copying, pasting and printing the data.
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use, environment, population, birth,
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Addresses 'are given for diplomatic
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standard Macintosh, but in the case of
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continued on page 57

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CD-ROM
continued Rom page 55

have a few rough edges, but overaS, the

images are useful and consistently welldrawn.
There is a fabulous selection of over
800ornatedecorativecapitalletters,such
as those found in illuminated manuscripts (Figure 1), and plenty of borders
in art nouveau and deco styleL

RK)E- ~

Product Time Table of History, Science 8I Innovation, 1990 Edition

Publisher. Xiphas, 8758venice Blvd., LosAngeles,
CA 90034' (213) 841-2790
Data on cilsa 536,028K
Price:US $129
INac and MS@OS

The promotional material for the

Time Table of History Claim, "This disc
covers over 6000 key events in science
and technology, kom the 'Big Bang' to
the Supercollider. Every word of every

LX

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story is 'hot' linked to other stories

with the same word. Stories are linked to

exciting multimedia efFects, including

over 1000 graphics and sounds."
Soundsgreat, huh? Unfortunately, the
human interface of this HyperCard4ased

search engine is less than stellar. Large

icons that look like buttons do nothing,
while smaller ones fsrvbuttons, and Time

Table was the only HyperCardkased system I tested that appeared to be incompatible with HyperCard 2.0.
E ach tim e I

Figure 1. One of dcfzens of ornamental caps in

various styles from Spectrum Clip Art's Calligraphy

section.

t r i e d t o s e arch f o r

"MOON," the program aborted at a different point in the process. The first
time, it failed during the search; the
second time, it found a icfnglist of references, but aborted as I clicked on a
b utton labelled "Play." Each time i t

The biggest problem with t his

collection is the fact that the. images are

not well indexed. The decorative caps

mentioned above, forexample, are
simply stored in a directory called
CALLIG02, and the file names have
names like 0001.PCX and the hke. Thc:
book included 'with the disc shows a
small sampling of each directory, but
does not illustrate or name each enuy.
There is a text file on the disc itself that
does list the contents of these files, un-

fortunately thisdescriptionmerelystates
that file 0002 contains images of the
letters "A and B" (etc.). Wouldn't it be
better to cail that file A AND B.PCX or
something simiLely descriptive?
It might lake a long time to properly
catalog this collection, but the user
shouldn't have to do it
Product The International GraphicsUbrary

Publisher. Gazelle Technologies Inca 7434 Trade

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Data on disa 536,028K
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lNac and IN&SOS

impress'

While I am very
with the
quality of graphics on this disc, I hesitate
to recommend it to Canadian readers

due to its absolutely relentless focus on

all things American. Considering its
name, this ismostunfortunate, for while
there are maps of each and every U.S.
state induded here, there is not even a
single map of Canada among the 200+
images. The British Isles farelittle bc;tter,
seen only lumped in with the whole of
Europe.
Meanwhile, wegetseeminglyinumerable images of U.S. fiags, U.S. Presidential Seals, dollar bills, Capital Building,
the Statue of Liberty and other images

dumped me back to the desktop.

Once I dug out an old copy of HyperCard 1.2.5, things improved. I managed

to get a grainy black~at e

20, 40,.80 or '100Nag hard:~

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per fame, animation is too kind a term.

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liftofF was not too spectacular. Other
moonwelated graphics were not animated, including a cutaway view of the
innards of a Saturn V, Command Module, Lunar module, and that historic first
step onto the moon's surface.

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Although I could scarcely believe it,

searching for the word CD-ROM produced no matches, despite the above
entry I stumbled across by manually
browsing.
Another complaint I have with the
TimeTable is the all<oobrief explanations it gives for its entries. The microprocessor, for example, isgiven onlyone
paragraph,while Marcian E."Ted" Hoof,
credited asitsinventor, is given two paragraphs. (The U.S. Patent OKce recently
found that Californian Gilbert Hyatt had
a legitimate claim to this title, although
word, each distressingly brief.

you will find it of little use.

286-18Mhz
386sz-1INu: '::
886sx.20Mhz

that it was so slow. At about one second

There are, however, some truly great

volume is sure to cause a sensation at

y our next presentation south of t h e
border, but for Canadian productions,

386 - 26, 26,.83 Mhz,

486- 25, 88 Mhz

anima-

thisinformation isn'tmentioned.) There

were a total of sixteen other links to the

high-tech look of the evening news. This

286 - 1NNhz,

tion of a moonwalk rrmning with the

"Play" command, but was disappointed

sure to stir American patriotic fervor.

images of the Earth, &omrealistic planet
views to surreal globes that glowwith the

Desk iop computers

Interestingly, some other entries were

wrong or missing. 1986 was noted as the

year ofthe release of the Atari 520SI',
when it was, in fact, on the market in

1985. Neither the Commodore 64 nor

the Amiga computers are mentioned at
all.

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CD-ROIN
I had other diaiculties, too. Despite
theclaims on the package, Ineverfound
a single instance of an audio link, nor
waseveryword
hot."When
I clicked on the word "Computer," for
example, itmerelybroughtup ageneric
searchdialog. All in all, thisproductwas
an extreme disappointment

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ProducbOcean ImagetyCD-ROM
Publisher. Gazelle Technologies Inc., 619-6369999
Distributed by: EduCorp, 7434 Trade St., San
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Data on disc404,482K
Price US $99
Mac and MS-DOS

vtews, landscapepanoramas,boats, piers,

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everytlimgassociatedwith thebrinydeep.
The images are copyrighted by professional photographer Rick Doyle, but
by purchasing the Ocean Imagery CDROM you are entitled to unlimited reThe Ocean Imagery CD-ROM con- production andmanipulation rightswith
tains over 100 scanned photographs photographer's credit, provided that the
storedin obit colorTIFF, obit PICl',
images are notreproduced for com%bit colorTIFF, and 8kitgrayscate TIFF
mercial resale.
formats. This collection includes subThe images on the disc are neatly
jects such as water sports, scenic ocean organized into sensibly named folders,

and 61es have already been saved as

Photoshop TIFFs. The disc comeswith a
d emonstration version o f A l d u s
Photoshop that will let you view the images, but will not save any changes you
make.
The CD also comes with the obligatory HyperCard search engine, and indudes a copy of HyperCard 2.0v2. The
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CD-ROM
Product Wheeler Quick Art
Publishoa Wayzata Technology Inc., 16221 Main
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(612) 447-7321 or (800) 735-7321
txata on disc 390,624K
Price: US $179
M$4IOS and INac

I have three major complaints with

this collection ofover 2,200images: first,

the files ar'e named generically, "001. TIF,

002. TIF" etc. Second, the files as stored
en the disc have the wrong file type:
"TEXI i nstead of TIFF." Lastly (and,
in my thinking, most seriously), the files
are stored in a tremendously inefficient
format. Iloadedone 320KflleintoAdobe
Photoshop and saved it lnick out as an

LZH~ mpressed TIFF. The resulting

6le was 35K, or a whopping.90% reduction in size, with no loss of image data.
The supplied HyperCard viewer stack

allows the viewing and saving of 6les,

which does correctly change the file-

type to TIFF, but does not compress the

file.The viewer also forces you to re-

select a 6le aker viewing before it can

save it. Ho-hum.
I could forgiveallof these annoyances
if the artwork was of decent quality, but
as you can see from Figure 3, this is not
the case.

Even worse, the TIFF file the viewer

program createdcould not be read by
Deskpaint, which normally loads such
uncompressed files without problema I
cannot recommend this collection to

anyone.
Producb The EduCorp Sharevvare CD-ROM
Publisher. EduCorp, 619-536-9999
Data en disc 598,605K (disc 1); 174601 K(disc 2)
Price US $199
Mac Only

Disc 1 isapotpouxriofproductdemos,
utilities, pictures, fonts and other ~
cellany; Disc 2 is comprised entirely of
HyperCard stacks.
Billed as 'The premier library of public domain and shareware software for
Macintosh computers," this Lwmlisc aet
bulges with more freely~ t r ibutable
softwareandHyperCardstacksthan even
the ment avid Hyper~xuac couldamass
in a lifetime. Well, maybe.
The only trouble is, many of these
programs and stacks are a couple of
years old and contain obsolete or outdated information. Take, for example

the Adobe Type Stack &om disc number

are files in the collection with creation

dates as
late asDecember, 1990.
I also noticed many duplicated 6les
(for example, ResEdit IPSResEdit Help
and Icon files) put in more than one
appearance in the utilities folder.) The
disc also contains at least three identical
versions of a screen saver called Moire
copies of
cdev and no less than t
SoundMasteri But, really, sowhati There

ulane

Another example, this time &om Disc

l,is the demo version ofAdobe Illustrator

88. As the name implies, this version is at
least three years old. In all fiurness, there

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The operative word seems to be quantity, not quality. Virtually every PD utility

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utilities that amateur Mac programmers
are so indined to write. (A dassic example is one called "I'm Batman" that

plays Michael Keaton's digitized voice

utteringthose famed words whenever
you type your name. Besl useful()
Much of the mostinteresting and appropriate:-for-the-medium content is
includingsome great
NASA images of space and the shuttle)
and digitized sound files. These files
don't agebadly,and are probably most
appropriatefor "near@ac" storage such
as that afforded by CAROM. Because
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Publisher: EduCorp, 619-536-9999
Date on disc 89,640K
Prim: US $59.95
Mac Only

The EduCoxp dip art library is a decent collection of dip art that makes up
for whatitlacksin consistencywithvalue
and vaxiety. The images are of erratic
quality, but tend to be fairly good (see
Figure 4).
h1

Fi9ure4.One oface(lectionofdinosaurpictureson

the EduCorp ClipArtdisc, this 9Kimage isdean and

coinpact.

Generally, the files are stored in elfic ient formats, and th e fi le s can b e

browsed and used without the supplied

browserprogram,provided thatyou have
an application that can read the wide
xungeoffile types (Photoshopcan handle

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makes the files very convenient for running the occasional utility directly hem
the disc. EduCorp is correct: this truly is
the premier library of its genre. If it
exists, it's probably here some gold,
somegravel. Thereisnobetter collection.

This colleclion, culled entirely kom

public domain and shareware sources,
period (lending credence to the theory includes blacked-white, grayscale and
that people actually used to craxe @tug color images in a varietyof formats: EPS,
with HypexCard). Hence, 1987's Mac Draw, PICI', TIFF, MacPaint, Scrapbook
Tipsstackcontainsplentyofgoodsyatem files, Compuserve GIF format, PixelPaint
softwure tips that may be largely irrel- and Startup Screen.
yond.

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stacks on this disc are &om this time

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however, mildly amused to see that the
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two. This reference lists Adobe fonts 1 to

50, available at the time it was created,

back in 1988. Of course, Adobe has releaseddozens ifnot hundreds ofnew
fontssince that time. Aco)lection of Mac
Il~ c i fic 6les (agreatselection ofcoloronlymemorabiTia,incidentally) similarly
heralds from this time period.
Aquickbrowse with theindudedutility (again, HyperCard4ased) shows that

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virtually aS of them). One of the worst

things about this collection is the inadequate browser that isindudecL While it
does haveFIND, MAM and COPYoptions, itcan onlydisplayMacPaintfiles. A

have some flaws that may present problems for qualitywonscious users. For example, in Figure 5, notice how the center of the letters "0", "A and "D" are a
different color than the background)

handfiil of other picture viewer utiTities

Splitting the shapes so that they are hol-

are also included on the disc, but none

are integrated into the browser stack
Like most CD-ROM coSections, and
particularly those by this publisher, the
biggest complaint I have is that there
appears to be little or no chscretion as to
what constitutes suitable content. This
lack of quality control shows up in the
myriad of amateurish inclusions mixed
in with a few real gems...just like most

low is easy enough to do (the letter "P" is

constructedthisway,which explainswhy
it does not share this problem), but
should not have to be done by the user.
(The problem also shows up when the
EPS file isoutpu to a PosIScript printer.)
Also, I found the images to be sloppily
drawn, asseen by the erratic curves of
the laxge letter "S."

In an illustration of acomputer, shapes

that did not display when printed were
arefenr,ifany,hopelessly poor images, and imbedded "behind" otheropaque oblots of great ones here, eapeciaSy in the jeclsand corners were misahgned, leavarea of tuxn~fWecentuxywoodcutsand ing gaps in solid shapes. In an image of
other antique4ookmg clipart
a credit card, lines that should have been
pubiicdomain soflwaxe. Neverthelemi, there

parallelwere not and rounded coxners

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The ProArt Trilogy derives its name

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found on the disc: Business, Hofidays
and Sporis. These subjects are represented bya total of over 850 images, each
saved in Adobe Illustrator l.l EPS format This gives them compatibiliiy with

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PAPER jUNE '91 4 3

CD-ROIN
Produch FM Waves CDROM
Publisher. FM Waves, 70 Derby Alley, San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 474-7464
Data on disc 203,136K
Price: $US 544
MS4NS and Mac

The company calls it "clip art with an

attitude," and I couldn't agree more.

In addition to 180 megabytes of

artware, this collection (pacltaged in a
100% recycled cardboard sleeve) includes 20 MB or so of demonstration
versions o f s o f tware, i n c luding
Photoshop, Studio/M, Illustrator S.Oand
a handful of others. With all these titles,
you should have na problem exanxining

these (or any other) images. There' s

over 5 MB of games demos on the disc,

tao, most of which are playable.

FM Artware comes with a b o oklet

showing the images, which are consistently "uncomputexish" in their look

The collection tends to have a trendy,

SLshionwriented look and, with the exception of 100 very normal, o16fa&ioned4ooking animal images,appears
to be the work of a smaH number of
slightly demented contempoxary artists.
.The art is grouped inta categories
that include animals, borders, business
cartoons,fi
mt asy,fashion, glamour and
one called "Agenda for the '90s," which
features a mostly gloomy collection of
drawings of drugs and violence, and environmental, sexual and political imagery.
Most of the images are stored in
DeskPhintwompatible TIFF formatat400
dpi, although the collection includes a
selection of EPS borders and socalled
"bonus images" consisting of Macintoshspecific "Mactoons" (cartoon images) in
EPS and Canvasformata, ATIFF~PICT
convexsion utilityis also included. Overall, this is a vexy successful collection, in
that it manages to go beyond the typical
computer dip art look and subject matter. While FM Waves probably shouldn't
be your only dip art collection, it may
end up beingyour favorite one.
GOMACnan
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of the ima es from
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Product7he Paperlag PNncessby RabertMunsch

Publisher: Disas Books, 416-2506537
Data on disc: 334,410K
Ptfca US $7495
CNV and Mac

As soon as I started up TltcPrxpcr Berg

PHncaxx, I lmew I was in for a treat. A
window in theshape of an open book
(neatl) appeared, and there was a full-

O wners of
today's small businesses face
greater challenges than ever before.
Like minimizing taxes, developing
financial controls and determining
business strategy and direction.

color illustxation of the diminutive hero-

ine and a rather personable-loohng

dragon, in best storybook fashion.
Suddenlysix years old again, I started
clicking my mouse all over the page.
Wherever I pressed, a little indent appeared and the word describing what I
had clicked on was spoken and shown

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I soon discovered how ta turn the

page (a man's voice named Help taldme

to just dick on the tuxned~ corner),

and soon the story was unfolding before
my very eyes, narrated by a pleasant
woman's voice, completewith music and
temfic sound effectL How could any
youngster not adore this disc (or the
stoxy, which is quite hilarious)?
I was also impressed by Discis Books'
"no questions asked" one-year waxranty,
which states that no matter how the disc
is damaged, the comptnywill replace it.
Stepped on it? That's OK Kids played
baseball and used it as second base? No
problem. Thiscompanyobviouslyknows
its audience.
TIte Paper BngPrincccc isjust oneof a
series of children's books adapted and
enhanced for CD-ROM by Discis Booka
The disc also includes preview versions
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You can listen to the narrated article,

watch examples and read along with the

text of the narration. In another section,
there's a demo version of the famous

Cosmic Osmo game; eisa&ere you' ll

find literally dozens of foreignkanguage
versions of Apple Macintosh System
Software' and HypetCartL(Reportedly,
the latest Nautilus disc contains the full

release version of the new System 7.0l)

How about a 5-minute demo of
Warner New Media's CD-ROM version
of Mozart's Magic Flute? Complete 5;
15; SO- and Qlsecond pieces of highquality sampled music, &eely usable in
your own presentations? Maybe agallery
of digital photographers showing their
works, ora selection of standard MDI
files of Bach pieces (complete versions
of R4preludes and fugues &om Thc Wcl
TcmppctsttXbvicr, completewith digitized

only thing you need to enjoy Nautilus is

a litle patience. Despite itssluglpsltness,
I recommend this product most highly.
(Nautilus is said to be planning a PC
version of their disc subscription for the
fall.)
The great thing about Nautilus, and
CD-ROM technology in general, is that
the vast amount of storage available

makes it feasible to have materials with

exceptional depth. Unlike TV, which
tends to provide entertaining but shallow coverage of complex topics, CDROM has at least the potential to OFer a
rich environment for the information
revolution to Sourish.
tsracttto Jtctltctt is shll hying to cstimatc
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hose tttaey Gigebytcstcotth o
hc loohcd at tchilc mscerchittg this artick.
Thatths ta David Bibby &om Abaton

sound "preview versions" for those who

Technology Inc., whowasveryhelpful in

assisting with initial problems with our
EMAC Metro CD-ROM player.

do not have a MDI synthesizer) is more

to your lihng. There is a tremendous
variety of creative and informational
works here,frommegabytesof dip art to
what Naulitus calls "Instant Software"complete versions of commercial programs on the CD that require only an

NewViews
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access code "key" to unlock the data.

a demonstration version of PowerPoint

that acts as the delivery vehicle for an
Apple presentation of the benefits of
System7.0. Because of this swapping inandmutofmegabytesofdatawhen nearly
any selection is made or button pushed,
Nautilus tends to be S-LO W. Switching
&om the Nautilus "shell" to HyperCard
(which occurs &equently) takes almosta

minute;the PowerPoint4ased presentations are even slower.

This is more a problem inherent in

the CD-ROM medium, than one that
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the disc, complete with its access code.
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CD-ROM
It Is IIOT a ComIBNter

@Pcs it Is...)
Q Peter Jones
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Commodore doesn'twantyou to think

of its new Commodore Dynamic Total

Vision (weprefer themuchlessconhivedsounding acronym) as acomputer. By
marketing the device as consumer electronics equipment to the masses, the
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stereo hi% system. It consists of a standard audio CD player, a CD graphics
player, and a CD-ROM based Amiga
computer, housed in a box the size,
shape, and look of a modern VCR.
Commodore has packed a surprising
amount into this product, which looks
like a normal, matte+lack piece of hiW
equipment. At the back, a Ihconnector
hnksit to a television set Provision isaleo
made for RF,RGB and S VHS output.
Aho on theback are connections for a
keyboard, an externaldlskdrive,a mouse
or ajoyatick, as well as serial and parallel
and MIDI interfaceL
On the &out lek-hand side is a slot to
receive a compact disc, which must first
be inserted in a special caddy and then
placed in the machine. The disc can
then be played using thecontrols on the
Ssscia or by using the remote control.
This is a thin, oblong unit about six
inches long, but differs &om a normal
remote controlmasmuch asitisthelong
sidewhichispointed towards the CDTV.
WhenplayinganaudioCD, the television
screen displays a graphic contml panel.
However, these features, nice though
theyare,areancillarytothemainpurpose
of themachine: toprovideanmteractive,
muldmediamachineinJoePublic'slivmg
room. To this end, Commodore has
managed tocraminanAmigacomputer,
withaMotorola68000andonemegabyte
of RAM, which uses the CD unit as a CDROhL Sinceeach CD can hold up to 640
megabytes of data, quick access to
enormous amounts of information
becomes available&om the comfort of

Dragon's Lair &om Visionary LtcL, for

inseauce,comes on five one megabyte
floppy disks. One can only imagine the
scope with 640MB on linel
The Welcome desk, dehvered with the

CDTV, starts byrunning a demo to show

the graphic and sound possibiTiiies of

the machine, and then provides an interactrve tutorial on how to use it. A digitized voice accompanies images of the
machine and guides you through the
various features. The remote control is
used to guide the cursor about the screen
to pick the various aspects you wish to
see. This was quite well done.
Since not many compact dislrs were

available,
I hooked up an external 8.5inch diakchive and tried out some of my
Amiga software. This was greatl My
television has a SSench screen and with
the CDTV connected via the SCART
connector, the image was of a verygood
qualityindeed. Mynin~ ml d son tried
out various of
hifavorite games, most of
which ran without problems. Those
which required alphabetic input would
not run, however, since the remote
controlprovidesonlyanumeric keypad,
although it is possible to connect a
keyboaxd directly to the CDTV..My son
was also critical of the reaction times
available &om the direction indicators
and the fire button on the remote
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with a joystick But he was fascinated to
be able to sit backin an armchair in the
living room and play Amiga games on
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There is a certain amount of noise
&om the built~ Sm of the CDTV. This
was not obtrusive, although it could well
become so in small rooms.

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Likewise,
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CDTV becoming established as the
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Especially if they don't think of it as a
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computers, they solved this problem by unit (CPU) used in the latest, hottest
designing a new bus they caSed saicsxs IBM compatibles is InteVs 80486, often
chassael arcIsitectssre,or MCA. This new

design was (and still is) incompatible

with virtually every other machine on
the market, butwasmuchfaster than the
old AT bus. As ysnx may have guessed,
you cannot use ISA boards in an MCA
system, or vice versa.

Additionally, MCA has a great feature that aSows plug~ caxds to automaticaSy configure thexnselves when
pluggedinto the system. Bycomparison,
many ISA cards have small switches
(cafied DIPswitches) orjumpexson them
that must be fiddled with to get the
computer to recognize the new addition.

A fair number of plug~ cards are

available for MGA architecture, but htr

fewer than for ISA4ype machines. Because IBM holds a number of patents on
the design, companies thatdesign boards
for MCAmachinesmust payalicense fee
to IBM, which tends to add to their cost.

The

Clonemakers

sang Up

When IBM inrroducedthe MCA,

many saw it as an
attempt to regain
control of amarket
that had spiraled
out of its control.
By introducing a
system with some
very real advantages, it encouraged users to aban-

referred to as the 486.

The 486 contains about 1,200,000

txaxxsistors, and is considerably more

complex and powerful a chip than the

S86, which contains only 2V5,000
integrated transistors in its design. However, despite its increased complexity,
the 486 maintains compatibility with
earlier generations of Intel CPUs, You
will still be able to use the software, disk
drives, plug~ boards, printers and most
other equipment from earlier PCs.
Although the cuxrent generation of

486 chips is rated at a clock speed of 25

megahertz (MHz, or millions of cycles
per second), it still vastly outperforms a

S86 chip rated at SSMHz. A S86rxmxung

at this speed is no slouch, mind you,
running approximately 25 times Sister
than an original IBM-PC. Powered by a
486 chip, your computer will run a hall
50 times &Lster than the original IBM-PC.
There are several reasons vrhythe486
can processdatasomuchmoreeffectively
t han even t h e
fastest S86. It has
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Powdered by a 486
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original IBM-PC.

don the clones and

j ump on the PSf 2 ban~

a.
In retaliation,anumber ofprominent
manufacturers of IBM compatibles got
together. and developed their own
enhanced design to address the same
hadofissuesthatISMwasattemptingto
do with the PS/2's MGA architecture,
Theycalled their alternative standard
EISA, for ealsasscediadssxtg standard
arcIsitectsere.The EISA design offers the
bus speed, bus mastering, autoconfiguring cards (caSed programmed
option select) and other benefits of the
MCAbus,with oneimportantdifference:
EISA is downwardly compatible with
older 8- and 16kit boards.
The sockets on an EISA motherboard

arepositioned in the same place as those

on an ISA system, but are twice as deep,
with extra contacts below the ISA
contacts. EISA cards have an extra-high
edge connector so that when inserted
into a slot, t hey extend f u rther
downward, makmgcontactwith the extra

pinson the connector. SmaS rabsprevent

older 18&type boards from touching
the EISA~nly part of the socket.
Asyoumayhaveguessed, EISAsyatems
cost more than the ISA variety. In fact,

you may end up payingnearly double

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EISA cards (also more expensive), you
will not gain any significant benefitL

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unit which dramatically accelerates the
math functions in softwarepackageslike
Lotus 1-2-S, dBase, AutoCAD and other
software designed to work with a math
coprocexsor. Because thesefunctionsare
integral to the design of the 486 CPU,
they are vexy hiist. The 486 aho has a
special buxst mode that can throughput
data at an astonishing 80 megabytes per

Lip smacking
performance.

secoxxd.

The 486 can directly access a maximum of four gigabytes (4,000,000,000

bytes) of RAM memoxy. Even using the
newer 4 megabyte RAM chips, it would
take 9000 chips to equal that much
memory, Suaice it to say that you' re
probably not going to outgrow this CPU
anytime soon.
It is, however, safe to assume that
hsster versions of the 486 wiS appear,
with speeds of 50 or even 100MHz. As
with the first genexations of many products, today's 25MHz 486 GPUs will
eventuaSybe superseded by faster models.
You ca n b u y a 25M H z 486
motherboard for about$1,650. ASSMHz
version will cost a few hundred more.

4SSX
Priced about the same as a SSMHz
S86, avariation of the 486 dubbed the
486SX has recently been released by
Intel. Costing about 40% of the price of
a Ml+lown 486, the new chip does not
include an onym d math coprocessor,

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on your screen. You can predetermine
the approximate qualityof an RGB (redgreen+lue) monitor byfinding outwhat

its "dot pitch" is. The smaller the number, the clearer the screen in most cases,

although several other factors such as

image geometry,misconvergence, and
brightness play an important role, too.
My monitor has a Trinitron tube with a
.25 dot pitch (referred to as "point-twofive") and is one of the best I've seen. Try
to get a mqnitor with a.28 dot pitch or
better, but base your purchase on how
the display actually looks, not what its
specifications say. Remember, you are

going to be spending a lot of time looking at it.

When it comes to PC video cards,
there is a definite trend towards graphicsacceleration and higher~erformance
video. While many home usersare over-

joyed just to have color, most soon discover that afew hundred dollars more

buys substantial performance improvements, especially in graphical environments hke Windows.

Amiga and Atari owners have had
graphics accelerators built into their
computers as standard equipment for
years,improving the performance of
their graphical user interfaces. While

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An improved system is to have the

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positioned for immediate reading. For
example, say that by the time it takes the
system to read one sector, the disk rotates to where the read/write head is
over sector four. Byputting sector two in
this location, it can be read as soon as

possible. With this arrangement, you

could read six sectors in one revolution.
Thisisa considerable improvement over

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operation called a low4evel format, This

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Your PC will benefit significantly fr
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Aside from acceleration, the trend in
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Old PC and Xl' machines also had Ifyouare notfeelingup tothe challenge,
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For a 286, 12MHz is considered ordinary; the 586SXcomesin 16and 20MHz;
and 586srun at20, 25andup to 55MHz.

Sil Slue and the Clones

IBM is often referred to as "Big Blue,"
I suppose ~ u s e the company is very
big and its corporate logo is blue, although I' ve also heard that ics large
mainframe computersused tobe painted
blue. Or perhaps it's the blue suits they
wear. Anyway, copies of IBM personal
computers are called IBM compatibles"
or "clones." I suppose you could call a
machine with IBM written on the front

"an IBM original," but people tend to

refer to thembytheirexactmodelnames,

as in "IBM PC/AT."
An IBM original hasalwaysbeenmore
expensive and arguably more reliable
than the clone equivalent and this is by
and large still true. There are a few
companies that are as expensive either

becausethey areasgood or betterorjust

because they are expensive.
Today there are two true4lue lines,
the PS/1 ndthe PS/2. You may have
seen theadvertsforthe PS/1 shown as a
computer for thewholefanily:"Mommy,
my computer has the answer to the National Debt." These PS/ls have a 286
CPU and are cute but slow. Don't buy
one; you can get a clone cheaper. The
other IBMs are called PS/2 and you
don't want one of these either, unless

you geta good deal.PS/2 isthename of

a range of computers with 286, 586SX
and 586CPUs. Theyuse new technology
called Micro Channel Architecture
(MCA) that you don't need and it will
cost you extra cash. I' ll tell you about all
this in the next letter.

Clones or compatibles ate where the

dealsare at. They are copies of the old
IBM design and prettywell all the bitsare
interchangeable so parts abound and
prices are low.

Hard Disk and Floppy Disk

You need to keep your work even
while you and your computer are
switched oK T o d o this we use the
circular equivalentof a cassette tape: the
disk As we have a player for a cassette
tape we use a disk drive to access the
information on a disk
A Soppy disk drive is a slot, usually in
the front of the computer's case. Into

this slotyou push (gentlyl) a Soppydisk

Floppy disks today are used mainly for

taking data from one machine to another and formaking backup of the
hard disk You can run a computer on
nothing but Soppy disks but it is awkward. To start the computer you would

needonediskwithMSSOSonit(called
a boot disk), and when you wanted to
run a program, you would have to
change disks between programs and
sometimes while you are in the middle
of a program.

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Floppy Disks-3.5' or 5.25'

It is popular today to refer to Soppy
disks and Soppy disk drives by their
capacity. Hence you may equally well
describe a disk as "5 point 5 inch high
density" or "1 point four four mega
byte."
Floppy disks come in two sizes. The
old industrystandardis5.25", the new is
5.5". If you have a 5.25" disk drive then
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ever hard. Hard disks are something
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Each size of Soppy disk comes in two
sorts, High Density (HD) and Double
Density (DD). A HD Soppy drive can
work with both sorts of disk but a DD
drive can workonlywith DD cfiskL %6th
two sizes and two densities af floppy
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million characters or thereabouts);
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times) is a disk that you am't remove

audit holds lots more informadon. To
start a computer with a hard disk you
simply switch it on and work, no hassle.
I strongly recommend. a hard disk because of the ease of operation once the
thing is set up.
I am assuming thatyou are notgoing

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to buy more than three applications
progxams and a few gamea A hard disk
withabout SOMBshouldbeenough, but
you can't go too far wrong with 40MB.
Today's hard disks go up to 1000MB,
but most people have BOMB or 40MB,
You should be able to add a second hard
drive at a later date; you should check
this with the store where you buy.

forit. 65ms (xnilliseconds= thousandths

of asecond) isslowand I'ymsisvery fast,
Rs ms is a good compromise between
speed and cost

RANI-Randonl Access
Ilemoty

RAM has become the word for the

microchip memory used by the CPU.
DOS limits us to 640KB of useable
memoxyso txaditionallycomputerscome
Speed
The speed of a hard disk is typicamy with 840KB or less. Having spare RAM is
measured by the average time taken for good; some software can use more than
the disk to find information when asked 840KB and if not then you can make it

actlike a very fast hard diskcalleda RAM

disk Today,manycomputers come with
1MB.

Ilonitors
Think of the monitor as consisting of

two parkathe television bit and a part

that sits inside the computer case. The

former canbe called thescreen orVisual

Display Unit (VDU); the latter is called
the graphics adapter. The two have to
match.

The screen can be monochrome or

color. Monochrome comes in black and

white,black and green, and black and

amber. If
you are getting monochrome
tryforwhite. I haveworked with all three
and find white most relaxing for a long
session.
Manyof today'sapplications use color
extensively and, of course, games look
better in color. It's reaHy your choice.
You can make a color screen work in

black and white; I do.

The most important thing about the
screen is not what color it is but how it
works. In other words, what is its graphics standard?
Ask what video standard the screen
supports. There are several standards

including monochrome ITI. (transistor/transistor logic) monitors, grayscale

and RGB (red/green/blue) monitors,
which are probablywhatyou'll enjoy the
most. RGB screens come in two major
types, the older being digital, the newer
ones analog (that's a switch, eh?). In a

nutshell, analog monitors have a nearly

unlimited palette of colors, while digital

Come and pick upa catalogue and check out the large
selection of pmgrams for IBM it, Macintosh computers

ones are limited to 16 or lese

There are also some rather obsolete
TV~ e composite video monitors, but
these were mostly used with older computers like Apple IIs and Commodore
64s.Idoubt you'd even fi
nd any forsale
in the shops these daya
No matter what hnd of monitors you
look at, be sure to have a fiddle with the
contrast and brilliance knobs. These
things are just like televisions and one

Utilities Education Graphics,

Business Bz Accounting Games etc

person's setting may not be for you. In

any case, have a look at the screen and
decide how dear it looks. Not all software use all screens to best advantage so,
if you can, check out the software you

will be using on the screen.

By theway, thescreen from your computer will notworkasa television norwill
your television work with most comput-

The graphics Adapter

This part plugs into one of the slots
inside the main box and handles all the
drawmg that goes on while you look at
auygraphics on the screen. If you didn' t
have one, you could only work with alphaaumeric characters. Mauyprogxams
these days don'tworkwithoutagephics
adapter.
I strongly recommend buying a
graphics adapter of some sort The trick
is that not all graphics adapters do the
samejob. Try and get VGA; it is the best
for your budget. It's versatile and can
have 256 colors on~een at the same
time. You won't outgrow it for a long
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CGA Color Graphics Adapter (640
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standard for graphics so almost all the
games wxitten work on this. Laptops
often come w it h t h is . CGA i s
characterised by large, ctumsy4ooking
letters and poor~uality graphics. I'd
avoid it.
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
(640 by 480; 16 colors). Much better

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resolution than CGA; most games work jolly nice features like fancy characters
with it.
and graphics. You will not have much
VGA Video Graphics Array (640 by problem if your printer emulates an
480; 256 colors). The latest thing, all the Epson h
an IBM Proprinter.
rage. Costs a bitmore, worth the money.
Ask for a demons(ration of the quality
The visuah you can get are almost like of ou{put and ask them to let you watch
photographa
itgetprintecL Try to check if the printer
The thing that I really like about this works with your software. Get a narrowstandard that none of the others have is carriage printer unless you need the
that itwill support all of the abave so you wide one; the narrow one will printstanget EGA, CGA and MDA all on one dard 8.5" x 11" and will be cheaper.
graphics adapter. When you need good
resolution you have EGA; when you want Printer Bam Norcis
to play dumb games you have CGA.
Fanfold Paper the stuff that has
Hercules (720by 850; Green, amber holes down the sides and loolrs like
or paper white on black). Better resolu- computer paper, Ifyou buy a good
fion than EGA but I don't know of any weight of paper with eas~ a r m f fholes

rs

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games that run with this. It is cheap and

fine if you don' t want to play games, itis

way better than CGA. I'd avoid it.
There aresome other {ypes of video
adapters, including st a l led "Super
VGA" adapters (Ike VGA, only higher
800x600 resolution), and a standard
called 8514, that can produce displays
up to 1024 by 768, but they tend to be a
trifie on the pricy side. Maybe next year,
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sheet feeder,"if there is one avaIIable for
your printer. For the more expensive
printers such as laser printers you can
only use cut sheet paper.
Fanfold paper works outatless than 1
centper sheet and laser printer cut sheet
at 5 cents per page. You should consider
Printer
this when you buy your printer.
Arguably, the most imporiant part of
Paper paaer~ows one to move the
the machine. This decides how your fimfold temporarilyout of the way while
output looks. As always, you get whatyou you put a single sheet of the good stuff in
pay for.
at the front; very useful for the occaFor me, the power of having my own sional business letter.
PC is tobecomemore productive;part of
Dot aaaebrix away of printing. The
that p
i s to write the letter,
charactersare made up of dots rather
print it and post it just like that
like those on a color magazine. ComThere is a lot of talk about letter- mon pinnumbeasare9and24; themore
quality (LQ) printerIL Judge for your- pins, the better the quality of output.
self. Get a printout at the printer'6 high- Typical prices are Spin: $250; 24pin:
est quality. listen while it prinia some $400.
printers are noisy. There are a lot of
Laaarprintaa thebestqualiayoutput
naachines that are called "LQ" but really available. Expenslvebutbecomingmore
arenot. Isuggestanewstandarch
affordable every year. Acts like a phoresume quality. This standard asks the tocopier using light to make black pew
question: "Would you send your resume der s{ick to a sheet of paper. Prices start
to a prospective employer in this quality at$1100andgoalot higher; the costper
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you, at least, are happy.
getting great paintouSL
Look for aprinter with paper park
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per out If you have this "single sheet" the printout. A 24pin dot matrix probfiaciiity, then you can uge the cheaper ably produces 180dpi, a laser printer
fianfold pape (see text box) most of the 800- to 4OMpi
time, and putin a sheet of the good stuff
Ink Jet oriubble Jet usesadifferent
when you are ready to print the final method to the laser printer but procopy+
duces simihe results in terms of DPI.
My printer, the Raven PR-241'/, emu- These printeis are quiet and produce
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Prices start at$500 but do note the cost
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Different Shapes Available

The size and shape of the right computer for you depends on how you want
to uae it. Read this section and think
about it. Have a look aroundyour apartment and see where a computer might
St. Remember to leave space for papers
and atua so that you can spread out
around the computer when you work.

Computers come in several sizes: note- briefcase. They cost more money so you

lize the wide variety of plug~ PC cards,

book, laptop, desktop, miniver and maynotevenbeabletoalordaSSbased their keyboards are small and their distower. A notebook is the size of an A4 CPU and wiR have to go with an8088. If
folder and would be nice but costs quite a you want to use the computer when you
bit. A type of upright case caRed a tower or travel then you may have to buy a laptop;
minive r o&ea comes as an option for short of the hath you can use them anymore powerful machines; as we are on a where.
lowbudgetI shaRnotrecommend paying - Theyareattheirbestusedfrommams
extra for one of these unless you really as the batteries do not last very long
need tokeep your computer down on the without charging. Many people buy extra b'attery packs if they want to use one
floor beside your desk,
of theseon a plane, for example.
Laptop
There are several disadvantages to
Alaptop can be smaR enough to fltin a laptops: they are typically unable to uti-

plays sometimes difncult to read in low

or brightlight. I doubt thatyouwouldbe
satis6ed using a laptop as your onlycomputer, even if you could plug a regular
monitor screen into it (with many, you
can' t). There is a chap I know who uses
his laptop a lot and has no problems; I
guess it's whatever you are used to but it
would drive me crazy. See what you
think when you see one in a store. The
screens uM:d with desktop and tower
units are larger and easier to read.

Desktop

Macintosh LC Colour System

Like all Macintosh computers, the Macintosh
LC provides users with the benefits of
unsurpassedease of use,thousands of graphical
applications that work well together, built-in
networking, and an easy growth path. This
combination significantly differentiates the
Madntosh LC from the competition.
Though priced similarly to many leading
80286-based systems, the Macintosh LC
provides performance comparable to
that of 80386sx machines (source:
Ingram Laboratories Benchmark
Report, July 1990). Moreover,
the Macintosh LC provides all
the advantages of
Macintosh.

The Madntosh LC can support an Apple //e card which enables you to use nearly all
Apple //e software. While in the Apple //e mode, the card supports not only 5.25"
and 3.5" drives, but also printing to a LaserWriter over LocalTalk~.
This solution enables customers to use thousands of existing Apple //e applications and
protects customers' investments in existing Apple //e software and hardware.
The Madntosh LC computer's ability to take advantage of a wide variety of general
productivity applications, support for LocalTalk , EtherTalk~ and other network
environments, and optional ability to run Apple IIe software, make it a strong solution for a
variety of markets, induding Education, Business, Government, and Home.
For the home, the Macintosh LC provides an affordable, color capable computer for general
productivity, education, or entertainment. In addition to general productivity applications,
you can use the Madntosh LC for oFice work performed at home, management of personal
finances, management of personal databases, instructional programs or games for home
education, creative interests using music, graphics, and programming.

To fit on the desk there are two sizes,

the regular and the more modern

smaRkoofprint. With a smaR footprint
you can typically add three extra items;
with the larger box, fijve. I' ll describe the
extra items in the next letter. I d on' t
think that you wRI need more than one

or two, so get whichever size appeals to

you most
In anycase you might want to put the
CPU on its side on the Hoor. This is a
space saver on a small desk I personaRy
do notlike the CPU on the deskwith me.
If you are going to do this, check that the
warranty will stiR be valid, as some computers don't like to be on their side.

Tower and Mini-tower

These are units that are designed to

bestanding.The tower sits on the

Soor and has pots of room for cxlras.

TheminiMwerishalf theheightand has
less room for extras.' You will usually be
asked formore money forone of these.
For the vast majorityofhomeusers there
is too much room in one of these machines, so why pay for it?

Power
Power is a combination of CPU type,
amount of RAM, and size and speed of
hard disk The combined result is the
speedatwhichyoucangetyourcomputer
tasks done. It seems that computer users
always want more power.
I would add the printer as a measure
of power, as the quality of output is just
as important as how fast you got it.

S<c}n<nl Off 2
Next tune I vali dose thas topsc by
telling you about aR the extras you can
buy, how to get started and get training,
and I will deal with a few special topics
that don't St in anywhere else.
Till then get out your copy of Thc
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PAPER jUNE '91 5 9

MAQNTOSH

ystem
7.0
Nem Operating SyStem fOr MaCintOSheS p

selections on a menu. Users can also see

ge of
pl te x t ' t h e ch.'
font. The Font/DA Mover utiTlfy is no
l o nger needed to install fonts and desktop accessories; all one has to doisdrag
the icons into the System folder.
bbcbrTbrs hdt
Several True Type
fonts are included with
0
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System 7, and Apple
S allow yyeonery c S , IS W L m
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hopes there will be
f etal Pyemory c
I O r teyu 1 0.
more
in future. The
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sytyc g
available to all applicadsyyc E
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CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA,MAY18 p o i nter telling the system

where to find
(NB)~
ple C omputerhasannounced the original. Aliases can keep track of
that it is new shipping the System 7.0 t h eir originals even when the original is
upgrade to the MacinFS0 Edit Sr dms Lab er specter
tosh operating system,
CSIrlrcsrPbb>dt
a product that it cadls
Sy.d ls ed
"the most significant
e nhancemen t
to
Macintosh since its in-

hearst Controls

ml

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troduction in 1984."
Among the features
contained in the new

KIi

operating system are

Smoi
improved handling of
lyme Q
Staple Seep
Sommt
fonts and desk accessoVnd yap
Starter Phn
ries, "-virtual memory"
Tines
This Ne aentahs hfermathn
which allows the autosdd...
Stth l mva'
'yes'
Itaohtoshneath te
eporoh. To iletoll er
matic expansion of
ramousfonts, sounds,and
lay herd leyauls, dray them m Fordcr
memory available for
Into m rt of Se Systemfye.
a ppl i c a t i o n s,
Vptuatehmery
" InterApp l i c a t i o n
5 s r~
Communicati on s"
Sy
ap p le Ieenn Items
Sxchnreae Control Peels Preferwees Starhp Itens
(IAC) which allows disparate programs to dyFhder
Not e Pad File Cttphoard Sorophoah
Fde
n amically work t o gether, and "Data Access Manager" (DAT) This sere Indicates many of the visible enhancements inSystem7.0. Note the dialog box in
upper-right comer showing "virtual memory" being twice the actual amount ofbuilt-in
which allows access to the
memory. The Balloon Help function can be left on ss you work-ideal for beginners.

dow is now selected

when the mouse button
is released rather than
when it is pressecL This
was done to solve a
problem that occurred
when users tried to dr
an icon &om one window into another that
overlapped the first
one. Dragging the icon
wouldselectthewindow
where it originated,
sometimes obscuring
moved, said Steve Goldberg, whoseApple the window to which the user wantied to
business card prodaims him a "System 7 move.
Changes like this, and others making
Guy." Aliases can also operate across
more
objects respond todoubl~ c k ing
network links between Macintoshes.
File sharing, another addition to Sys- are aimed at makmg the system more

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changes in the system are small refinements.

In briefings before the official announcement, reporters and industry

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multitasking to a change in thewaydicking the mouse selects a folder.
The most visible changes are virtual
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help, and "publish and subscribe" linlrs
between files.
System 7willallowanyMacintosh that
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diik space as virtual memory, making it
appear to applications programs that
there ismorememorythan themachine
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subtle changes, a win-

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give colleagues access to their files without using a network file server.
Balloon help is an addition to the Mac
user interface. When the featureis turned
on, pointing to any object on the screen
will cause a "balloon," like the speech
balloons used in comic books, to appear
next to the object. In the balloon is an
explanation of what the object is and
how it is used. Apple has attached balloons to almost everyvirable object in the
operating system itself, Goldberg said,
and hopes that application developers
will also take advantage of the feature.

We sharpened

our pencil
even more on ....

File
screatedbydlfferentMac applications can now be hot4nked using pub-

lish and subscribe. Data created in one

application can be 'published" to make
it accessible to other applications. Once
another apphcation "subscribes" to the
data, any change in the original will
appear inthe subscriber's copy aswelL
Thus, changing numbers in a spreadsheet would change the corresponding
numbers in a chart copied &om the
spreadsheet file into a word processor
main&arnecomputers,virtualmemory
is a relatively new feature in personal document.
There are many more subtle changes
computing.
Vhtualmemorywill beuseM to those in System 7. For instance, the Trash isno
longer emptied whenever a user starts a
who take advantage of System 7's
multitsshng ability. Up to now, Macin- new application or reboots the ~
.
Instead, itis only emptied when the user
tosh users could run more than one
program at a time and switch quickly so orders. A new Find command can
between them by using the Multiflnder, locatefilesanywhereon thesystemwhose
an extension of the system software. Sys- names contain a specified string of text.
tem 7 makes multitasking part of the
Users can now assign a text label as well
as a name toeach icon, and view the
basic system.
Aliases let users give a file more than contents of a window by label.
Desktopaccessoriesarenowiconsfhat
one name and place it in different folders, for convenient access. An alias looks can be opened by doubleclicking on
like an original file, but is actuallyjust a them hke otherprograms, rather than

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Apple hopes software developers will

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Iluickly. Jim Davis, System 7 marketing . System 7.0: Free Tech Support
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personal computers sporta parallel port
and one or more ~

m seri a l p o rts.

This meant that Macs could only connect and print to ImagcWriters (and
later Apple LeerWriters). The Apple
line of printers are solid performers but
relatively expensive, especially in comparison to the variety of printers and
features available to DOS users. Mac

users soon began to look for alternatives

to the Apple printing monopoly.
Numerous companies responded
with printer~
soft ware and hardware to connect and print from Macs to
the huge variety of printers commonly
available to the DOS worlcL One of the
oldest and most experienced of these
companies is GDT Softworka, Inc., of
Surnaby, S.C. From humble beginnings
in producing a driver for printing &om
Macs to Epson 9-pin dot matrix, daisywheel printers and typewriters, by 1988
GDT had introducedJetLink Eirpretis, a
collection ofchiven for Hewlett-Packard
and compatible laser printers as well as
the HP line of inkjet printers.

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p

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New Release supports Lasers,

Nubble Jets

The latest JetLink release, version

2.0.1, not only represents a major upgrade of the HP drivers, but adds driver
support for four Canon Laser Seam
printersand three Canon
dpi ink type) printers, for a total of 17
separate drivera The package contains
four 800K disks, one with thc: HP chiv-

Subb
leJet(560

ers, one with the Canon drivers, a fonts

disk and one with Apple's Communications Toolbox.

When one considers the vast number

of laser printers that include as one of
their languages" a Hewlett-Packard laser emulation,JetLink Express can provide Mac users printing capaMity to
over 120 different laser printersl
How well do theJetLink Express drivers performP Firstly, they are not
PostScript compatible, but rather rake
lanadvantage of the
guage built into every Macintosh. In this
respect, GDT has achieved shate of the
art for thiMparty QaickDraw printer

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Graphics? Mac applications like
MacDraw have always made use of

serialize-parallel port converter, the

QtxickDxaw to produce graphics to the

maximum resolution of theprinter used,
and JetLink handles these flawlessly;
Illustrator, Quark Xpress, Freehand and
PageMaker, while intended for
PostScript output d o s u p port
Qulckdraw versions of their graphics,
and respectable results can be obtained
fromJetLink ExpresL In fact, due to the
1% scaling capabilities ofJetlsnk drivers, some desktop publishexshavefound
that in applications like Illustrator, by
"blowing up a graphic to 400%, then
setting theJetLink driver for 25% scaling, the printed result in many cases is
very close to a PostScript version.

ParaLink). The manual also includes a

discussion of the history and usage of
typefaces and a delightfully quirky discussion of the mthetics of desktop publishing.

Manuals Much Improved

TrlClgf

most
heavyweightapplicationslike

Early editions of theJetUink Express

m anual were
panned by criticsfor various omissions and irrelevant informa-

Technical Support

GDT's technical support is one of the

best in the industry (if you can get
through the line is often busy), but
most questions

are thoroughly
manual.

If there is a

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Helping pmplo Oacompu4tu work tottelher

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speed, requiring these printers to have a

minimum of 1.5 MB of memoxy. Atari SI'

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Spectre Mac emulator users will find the

able fonts are

mdustxy standard
f on t
m etrics s o
t hat
t he
laser's fonts
(clones of the
s tandard 8 5

DeskJet driver in this set maynot be fully

compatible.

Solid Product
For Mac users who want to use one of

LaserWriter
set) m a tch
the Mac screen fonts exactly and the
printed output is WYSIWYG (and very
fitst) f'rom 8 to 255 points.
GDT indicates that they are actively
loohng into ways to improve their cartxidge support A company spokesman
let slip that GDT is also loohng into a
major new area ofinnovation for upcoming releases (my lips axe sealed on
particulars). The company conscientiously infoxms registered users of upgrades and charges only a nominal fee

the inexpensive 800+ dpi non-PostScript

laser ormkjetprintexo widelyavailable to
IBM users, GDT Softworkshasproduced
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chock4mll of features and solid accuracy
in this wellMocumented and supported
product to make it probably the top
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weak area for

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The ROM@meed bitmap typefitces often have similar names to Mac or Adobe

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For Canon
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Connection: Modem pert

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GDT even goes so far as to help the
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GDT's own products, as in the case of
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A drawback forsome users isthat the
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with whatever cartridge is being used, Mac programs,more memoryis required
but sometimes the combination is awkfor the software to work, and users may
ward, as in mapping a Mac Times 18 to find that they have to close desk accessoan HP Tms Rmn 12; even then, the
ries and increase application memory

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Hourbig is MIND LINK!?
BBSs aremeasured indifferent ways-

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Holv much doyou charge
per hour?

most commonly by the number of phone MIND LINK! does not charge by the
lines, available storage space, or iunount hour. There is a flat monthly or yearly

What do I do to register
and-become a member?
1) Complete this registration form and send it along with your payment to the
address below.
8) Call our data number (576-1214, 685-1214, 856-3231) and register online.
Log into system asGUEST and choose option from Main Menu labelled
"Register".

Instant Access!

of use they get. MIND LINK! has 20

fee(as low as $4.50/month) which covers

People buy fast computers so that they

don't have to wait for them and we
don't think you should have to wait for a
phone line either - with 20 lines
we almost ALWAYS have a line free,
Storage space is important because it
determineshow many filescan beoffere
for people to download. Two gigabytes
is more than three times as much as a
typical CD-ROM will hold - that's a
LOT of space. Just last month MIND
LINK! received more than 900 new files
from its members - every month there
are hundreds more.
MINDLINK! is very active. Lastmonth
our members spent more than 5000hours
online and read more than 400,000 public

have a low usage fee. We' ll be happy to Customer Service number with your credit card information.
give you details.

incoming phone lines, and more than almost every service. A f e w special
two gigabytes of permanent storage.
services (like our international fax service) To have your account activated immediately, register online and then call our

Data: 576-1214, 685-1214, 856-3231 Voice: 534-5663 Fax:534-7473

Is MIND LINKI a local

service?

more than 6 million people in every

d eveloped nation in the world. T h e
Internet is the largest email network in the
world.

Who sponsorsMIND
LINK(?

Focal

Name:
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Yo u r Computer Type?

Date:

Home Phone:
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which is online communications.This

makes MIN D L I N K ! a d e d i cated

communications service for individual
MIND LINK! is growing quickly as and business users.
more andmore.peoplediscover what we
have tooffer. Each year for several Whatif I need help?

/ Registration

ices. MIND LINK! 's internet mailreaches

mail were sent or received (locally and an independant business free of the
restrictions and biases imposed by a
internationally).
sponsor; we do not sell, nor are we
MIND LINK! is B.C.'s largest affiliated with, software and hardware
vendors. We stick to'our owu knitting,

Is MIND LINK! growing?

E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E

MIND LINK! is owned and operated by

British Columbians but offers many of
the advantages of the international serv-

messages.
Inexcessof12,000piecesof Nobody sponsors MIND LINK!. We are

bulletin board service.

TOT A L

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= $90.25
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credit
card, please call our
years we have added 50% more phone Our beginner's guide will answer most of
customer service number
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lines and doubled our storage capacity. your questions, but if need be we are
534-5663during regular busiThere are signs that we are beginning to happy to answer telephone or fax inquiries
nesshours foryouraccountto
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