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t has been said: "The computer you

really want costs $5,000' And,.for many
years-tmd many buyers-thin has been
true. Over the pastdecade, $5,000 or so
bought a s t a t e ~ f - the-art c o m puter.

(Typically, the fully loaded, leadingwdge

machines weonly dreamed about owning
cost more like $10,000.)

Features
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From dot mauix to color laser, there are more choices than ever. ByOmemeBcnnctt.

li ooking a PC printer to a Mac....................................................51

How to do it~d why you might want to.' By One Bcnnctt.

S eftware Pe~ cnpt Emulation ..................................................52

Read this if you don't hswe a PostScript printer. ByCnteoteBennctt.

computer forunder $5,000 including GSI'. A P r l l l t e r G I O S Sa r y e eeeeeeeeessoeneeossseseeaeaeeesesseeoeeee
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That is amazmg amachine with enough
Betterthan a buzzword decoder ring. By Qnwne Bcnnett
horsepower to run a bank or a g
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ten years ago, can now be purchased by a 0 Vorak S G u i d e t o P C G a m e s eseeeeeeesesaeeeaeeeae
An excerpt from a new book and a gamer's hall of Same.ByJohn C. Dvonrk and Pc!or Spoor
mere m
wit h a little extra room on their
Visa card. Despite the considerable merits of lb e lest and Worst of 1991 ........................................................62
Three eagles, a turkey and.... By RocdyOncn.
other computer platforms, Intel-based
machines have once again redefined the What to get the computer user who has everything ..............68
marketplace.
Banish boring gifisl Here are some ideas that even Scrooge would love. ByGnaws Bennctt.

Today, you can buy a complete 486

overnm
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These machines are capable of awesome

thingL An individual running AutoCAD on

a 486 becomes limited only by his or her
imagination. The hardiaire is no longer a
major obstacle (although there will always

be power users pushing the envelope,

ArScles
Show Report: ComdexlFall'91 .....................................................2$

More news from Las VegaL FnanNoncBytoL

c hallenging the u p per l i m it s of t h e
machine's and their own aMities). This kind of power changes the playing field for COm d e x R e p o r t oan se s ossseeeseeseessseeasssessseseeeeaeesessooeeasesesseeeeeaesssaesoeeesa
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roduct development. Now, designers can create thre~
ena i onal renderings that are so
Las Vegas has its own version of the Walkabout. By16rtnn Singh ffhaha.
' elite that they are using the computer~ e l oped images in-their marketing campaignsas if they were actual photographs of a thing which only exists in the mind of the designer. Th e Enabled Computer.......................................'.........................28
Computerized Braille and telecommunications bring the world doser. ByJohn McGessick
This significantly shortens the development curve, by allowing marketers to test more
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realistic representations of a product on their target market,
How the cover illustration was created.By QnsomeBenncN.
Today, a 486 computer has the horsepower, connectivity and sofiware that, ~te liteiamy.
can be measured in a business' bottom litic. PCs can now act as document arduving systems, Co mputel based lTaining ............. . ..........................................96
voicemail centers and major multNne bulletin boards or information networks. Instead of
Research discovers how different personality types respond. ByFntns Fanfcy.
costing mimfons, we are talking about tens af thousands of dollarL Networked to the world

via the Internet, Compuserve or GEnie, your potential customer base expands into the
hundreds of thousands. In the '90s information is power, and people will pay for
in5mm ation.
How about your database? Lots of records you say? At Comdex, I saw a demonstration of

FoxPro 2.0(Fox Sofia'e 4194744162) The gentleman doing the demo was searching a

Reviews
WordPerfect for Windows...........................................................72

The definiiive word in Windows word processing? ByCathayLafontoSssitL

database Sle vnth virtually every address in America for streets-millions of addresseL If you
bBnked, you missed how long it took to Snd things.
Word For Word ..n.........................................................................75
These are just a few ideas that occur to me in my short ponderings about what people
A conversion utility for converting word processor iles. ByPs McNwy.
can do with a powerful computer. I think we are at a time very much like when Gutenburg
and his friends had Snished their movable type printing press. Books stopped being rare, IN eos si INoney..........................................................................76
Home Financial Management software for%endows.By SacPheaSonth.
handweproduced oddities, and became massonarket ite~
hea p , readily avafiable and
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wide~ g i ng. This development probably had the same effect on popularizing the ideas of
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Easy to use and inexpenave, it promises-and delivers-good DTP value. ByDanicf
the Renaissance thinkers that Sx machines had in the recent Soviet coup. Information
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moved more quickly. I believe that these morepowerful computers have the capabih
ty to A ut o ( A O r s1 1 e e e eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeo
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quite literally change the way we work, by giving us, as Bill Gates has said "information at our
The new release is easier to useand provides impressive 5-D alities. By E8 Tcichcoeb
Sngertips.
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Taking this kind of quantum change into another area, if you could buy a used Datsun
RenderMan shaders add reallfe textures to CAD modelL By Erl TcichfooL
pickup in 1981, then this year for the same $$,0NL-you could buy one of those monster
G e n e r I C CA D D S eO ee e eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesoeeeeeeeee'eoooosoeosseseoeseoooo
earthmovers with the 1$foot-high wheeh that are used to haul tons of earth.
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For those who don't need the power of a high~d CAD system. Bye Trichcock
The hardware is awesome. The software is catching up. Are you using it to your best
advmtage? Do you htow what it can do for your business? Interesting times
very exciting
So ny Laser Ubrary ..................................................................... s85
and empowering.
This CMtOM collection gets topmarks. Is it the library of the Siture? ByLinda Rehrbough.
Add another $1,000to your $5,000 486 and you can have a MDl keyboard atid some
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software your own personal recording studio. This combination has the ability to produce
This add~ fos the SatMAXiion board adds versatfiity. By T. BNcc.
the sounds that you had to pay an entire orchestra at union scale 10 years ago.

Wiser.'

utoShade....................................................................................79

For another $1,000 (and up, up, up), you can add Simcnoiion video and imag~pture

capalities, opening up the world of multimedia and-hmm, it seems we' re back at $5,000.
Well, maybe next year.
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to cover.
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N. Vancouver

Ersatz Windows

in iktail on page284 of thc DOS 5.0 reference

vuinai.
17wrv ic agoodchance that thc bad sectorsos
your hanf drive arcindeed bad, and reclaiming
thc dish space just icos't work This is quite
common os himf drives, asdformatting prvipumc
win "lock out thc bail sectors co
that fhc operating
system wiN not acckkstafbp
hy to save anything to
them.
Sce the N~
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PC Worfd section) asd Cordon Young'svinu
artick fact isiucfor the namesfothc top PC virus
utiTitici.

Ae for Disks although I do nof personally

ucc it, my umkrrtasdisg is that the option you

mention is merely giving you a chancetocave hut
clusters to af ile. Whik this is, of course, so
substitutefor ngufarfy boding p yourimportant
J'ul is thc case fo
f iki, and is not particularly uce
euccutabk cede, it anddhoprecover trert or ether
daas, whkhyou couhf thes euamine with a tait
editor or even thi DOS Shel's view option.

And I thought nothing could top the

article written by Mr. Barr on "A Brand Ncw
OS/2" of the August issue, but the arlide Where can I get Canofilet
written by Graeme Bennett on "Ersatz
In the October '91 issue of 1%eComputer
Windows: The Future of DOS" was the best Paper you describe a document storage
yet. And by the way, Ihave heard many
system (the Canofile) manufactured by or
people talk about Deikview 586, how does it disuibuted by Ano Automation.
compare to Windows S.O? Keep up the
Unfortunately, nowhere in your
EXCELLENT workl
description do you give thc address of the
Ai-Kao Chang
company or any other means of contacting
Port Moody
them. Could you supply me with such
information?
Windows
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I read Thc Computer Paper each month
Medical Director
with enthusiasm. Your artide on "How to
Brandon General Hospital
Get the Most out of Windows" in the
Brendan, Manitoba

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In the article, however, you listed the

configuralion for Windows on the 586SX,

58MOMHz and SOS M H z but neglected
to list it for the 586DX45MHz with 2MB
RAM. Is it the same as on the 586SX?
Another point I would like to raise is that
in the General Optimization Tips, item 5, it
was recommended that the liine STACK&O,
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I n a r e p ort t hat a ppeared i n t h e

NewsBytcs section of the November issue of
the local Computer Papers, Innosoft
International daimed to have developed the
frat multimedia electronic mail application.
This is a gross liel
NeXT users have enjoyed the benefits of
conventional memory. Could you please multimedia e-mail for almost three years.
explain what does STACKS mean7
The NeXT m ai l a p plication uses the
I would appreciate getting some answers standard transport mechanism on the
from you with regard to the questions Internet. It can transport images, sound,
below:
and text. Besides NeXT mail, there are
1 . What u t i l ity p r o gram d o y o u several other multimedia ~
stan d ards
recommend using to correct bad sectors on on the Internet; the Andrew mail system ia
an XT's Hard Drive to make the sectors one of them.
u sable? I performed the Sprinrite II ' a
If Innosoft is to retain ita credibiTity, it
Thorough Analysis but waa not successfulto must pubhdy retract that Be and give credit
, correct the bad sectorL
where credits are due.
2. What Anti Virus sofivirnrc program do
Joseph Chin
you recommend using on an XI' to prevent
Wordcrnfh Systems Corporation
infecting the computer with the [stoned]
Vancouver
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Unfortunately, y ou have vic at a
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disadvantage is that I have not read sor ifo I
Diikfix analyzes the Lost Chistera and finds hove avaifahk to mc the reportPws thc NewctPptec
errors, I am given the option of deleting section o
f the November issuefoThe Computer
them or converting them to Slee in the root Paper which yoii have cited.
d irectory, e.g., P C T O O O O . F IX . M y
lssoco
ft mahccso claims of dcvefopisg thc
.question is: How can I determine which
irst multimedia o'neil system and youaiv indeed
f
'Slee I lost and from what Directory? Can I concct in citing XT asd Andrew oarail cycteorc
convert or rename the .HX files to make as caacipks of e-mail systems ivhich support
them usable again? If not, what is th use of mu~
oa ia i f. No te,horcvvw,that you arv
convcrung the lost duaters to.HX Slee?
inconectin daiciing the NcXT or hndew cyctcvN
Ilookforward to heari n &em you.
to be ctandank kt alone Internet standards. For
Raymonde Jabaji
thcoi to bv standards, you must be abk to cite
Vancouver
documents iufif iaf by awcogsiscd ctandank body
iehich describe the stasdanf. I can assure
you
Onaeow Bcssc ivpfkii 17ie Wiiukuu aitick that no such docuciest caisfcfor ANF multimedia
had a section calkd "A special notelor 986SX oarail systemother than Xdot? which, beyond
Syctevl that ako sscntioscd"machines with 2 back teat body parti, admits osbpimager in the
;MB of RhM or lera In these cares,wc recommend form offaccimikc. Note that the viultioiodia
you uic Stasdanf meek
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f ile sets thc amount of M M t h at MS-DOS boasimplescstcd in other ocnail syctcmci thus,
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f Bemcoreand
Ned Fyecd of Innoso
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About a year ago, tkc Interact Activities Boenl

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p o stal codes to draw from, and usersDreacfed Commute
find that it is taster than searching through
In an effort to practise what they preach,
big postal code directories.
B.C. Tel, along with Bentall Development,
ZipCode users say t h at u s ing t h e has launched a 1&snonth trial of a satellite
office in Langley, B.C. Fifteen employees
program reduces the amount of mail
returned due to the wrong postal code being who live in Langley but normally commute
written on the envelope, as typists can often to various B.C. Tel offices are now doingthe
make mistakes entering postal codes same jobs from this satellite office that is
manually.
dose to their homes.
The company is projecting sales of
B.C. Tel and Bentall Development hope
$1,000,000 within the product's first year. to address some of the roblems associated
ZipCode Software Ltd. may be reached at with daily commutes, like traffic
j am, lack
P.O. Box 15986, Nepean, Ontario, KRC 8SS, of parking, pollufion, road maintenance
telethhone: (618) 2804889; fihx: (615) 250- expenses and the high cost of mass transit.
SFU's Burnaby campus has developed
another solution to t h e p r o blems of
commuting: computer carpool software
Multimedia 92 Pacific
called Ride Share. Ride Share matches
Exposition and Forum
Professional Photo Video TraCe Shows people together to form a carpool, taking
into consideration registrants gender, and
Ltd. and Design Vancouver are hosting an
whether they are smokers or non~okers.
exposition of multimedia desi~ issues and
To parficipate in the program you need
equipment called MultimeCka 92 Pacific
Exposition and Forum. Multimedia 92 will a valid library card, and then you type in
your name and where you live and when you
be held at th e V ancouver Trade and
like to commute, and then Ride
Convention Centre February 27-29, 1992, would
Share prints a list of people within five
during Design Vancouver Week.
DigiPen Computer Graphics Inc. will be hlometres of your home who also want to

to campus.
showcased in a display called "Multimedia carpool
The response has been phenomenal;"
Window into the Future," where they will
demonstrate 8-D computer graphics for
design on workstations. Demonstrations will
be given in creating computergenerated 8-D

said Ralph Yeomans, manager of traffic and

security. 'Dozens of people who want
transportation alternatives have formed
carpools in the first month of operations."

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Listed at $645, the The BJ-10ex can be
with a battery pack that makes it
Impact on
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ideal
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laptop
and notebook computing.
Canon h a s ex In April of 1992, the B.C. Homekescd Parallel PoM
It also has an optional SO+hect paper feed.
Business and Opportunities Show will be
p anded i t s p r i n t e r ContactCanon Canada at 604/278-1451.
Impaq Technology is
product line with two
held in t h e n e w T r a dex b u ilding i n distributing a universal,
new laser beam printers
Abbotsford. The show will give home4ased zero-slot e x p a nsion
that achieve improved Taxbyte Takes aBite Out of
business owners an opportunity to meet chassis which plugs
resolution of approximately 1200xSOO dpL Personal Taxes
suppliers and manufacturers of office directly into the parallel port of any PC.
FLS Research, a Toronto-based tax
equipment, b u siness services fi rms, The Lightek ex-Port expanaon chassis turns The LB' M ark II Plus ($2895) and the
LB '
P l u s ($1695) both use the Canon software developer since 1987, has released
franchisors, m u l t i -level m a r k e t ing any notebook or laptop computer' into a
Taxbyte Tl L Y I 'E, for p r eparation of
companies, direct sales firms and a number fully configured PC by allowmg peripherals Printing System Language IH (CaPSL Ill).
Canon is also offering a new version of personal tax returns by tax preparers, and
of homekased businesses in the market for like external hard drives, tape backups,
d istributors, sales people o r h o m e - network, cards, scanner interfaces, floppy its portable Bubble Jet Printer. The BJ-10ex Taxbyte T2 LYrE, for preparation of
manufacturing assistance.
weighs a scant 4.6 lbs, but this portable federal, Ontario and Alberta corporate tax
drives, S270 emulations, or the IEEE488
The show is aimed at those already in i nterface t o b e a d d ed . For m or e printer is no bintamweight when it comes to returns. For information 'contact FLS
home~sed businesses or thinking about information, please call: Joyce Gordon, features. It prints highquality 560 dpi text, Research, 505-150 Consumers Rd., North
starting a home-based business. Practical Impaq TechnologyInc. (604) 261-1800.
and can also print out scanned graphics. York, ON M2J 1P9 (416) 4908997.
advice will be offered on how to write a
business plan, and how to finance and
market a fiome-based business. For more
information contact Stan Sauerwein or Ken
Grant (604) 985-1145.

Home-based Business Show in

Abbettsford

Canon Joins Hi-

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Window on Business Silow

has Booths for Home45ased

Entrepreneurs
As we went to press, Wisdow oa Besiaoss
Skoro was stBl accepting applications f'rom
B.C. home-based businesses that want to
participate in a booth in the Pacific Rim
Computer and C ommunication Show
January 14-16, 1992. Th e b o oths for
Vancouver's largest computer show are
available to first~e h ome4esed exhibitors
at amuchweduced booth fee.Contact SheBa
O'Keeffe or C a thy H e p pner, I m p act
Communications, telephone: (604) 5205720, Fax: (604) 854-5087, toll-free voice
message: 14784155.

with StyleWriter Printer RClaris Works Integrated Software.

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Fans of animation festivals will find the

new v i de o of com p u t er-generated
animation, M i n d' s Eye: A C o m puter
Odyssey, by Miramas, a taste of what,
animation can potentially become beyond
commercials and cute dips. The 40ednute
video was created by 500 of the world's top
computer animators under the direction of
Jan Nickman. The video is very New Age: a
meditative series of animations set to music
by James Reynolds. Themes of the video
include: Creation, Natural States, Desert
Vision and Canyon Dreams, a romance
called Love Found, and Heart of the
Machine. Th e o n l y s h ortcoming f or
computer fans is that it doesn't tell you what
kind of computer systems all the great
animations were done on. The video is
available in Canada directly from the
distributor, Noor Imports (416) 5574695.

Easy Retail 3.0-POS Software

for Small Businesses
Easy Retail v. 5.0 is a software program
that turns a PC into a point~
e te r m inaL
Small retailers can use an XT or higher
computer to made GST calculations and
print receipts. Easy Retail's features indude
Cash Drawer that works like a cash register,
an inventory control feature, and a sales and
payments accounting feature. Easy Retail is
avafiabie at software dealers with a suggested
list price of $299.

Laser's Edge Makes a INove Nr

Opens DTP aallery

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service bureau, moved to 1112 W. Pender
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agreement to include the coupon is an
lateran arrangement, Adobe said, in effect

Conlrsl taael

Adobe
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until Adobe Type 1 font technology is

d elivered to A p ple customers via i t s
inclusion with a future version of Apple
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Adobe, Apple Start ATM
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Apple is including the oottprm with new least 2MB of memory installed-on their number isrhtted on the coupon, Adobe said.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIIPORNIA, OCr Apple printers and Macintosh computers computer.
A $730 shippmg and handling fee will
Sl (NB) Adobe Systems hasannounced an with 4 megabytes (MB) of random access
ply to each order placed in the U.S. or
U.S. and Canadian users may get the
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anada, while the international English
versionisUSD $50, the company added.

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forJapan are expected to be announced ata
later hate, Adobe said.
Adobe Systems is headquartered in
Mountain View, California and its ATM
software is designed to gbe the user on the
computer's display screen exactly what will
print on the pdnter, caned What-You4eeks-

What-YotsGet t(W%IWIto).

Contach Patrida Pane, Adobe Systems, Tel: 415962-3967, Fmc415-961-3769.

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REDMOND, WASHINGTON, NOV 15

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Using the new drag~dMop, words,

sentences and paragraphs can bc; moved by

clicking on th e h i ghlighted text and

dragging it to its new location.
The company says the feature most
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manager that lets the user locate Slee even if

they can't remember the Sle name. The
search can be by title, author, date, or
k eywords. D o cuments ca n a l s o b e
previiewerL
Print Merge Helper is a graphical on.
screen feature which assists in the steps
necessary to perform a mail merge. The
Helper guides the user through the creation
of a form letter, then helps to create the
data Sle, link it to a form letter, and inseri
Information.

The upgraded pro@am introduces plug

Contained in this section is a glossary of

common computer and application terms
as well as a quick reference page of the
most important application commands and
keystpkcs.
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checking, and version 5.0 obliges them. The

program also has a Find File document

i n m o d ules, w h ic h S e n io r V P f or
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look for Que's Easy series titles at your

an integrated grammar checker, draveend-

drop text, and a new Print Merge Helper.

Veraon 5.0 was developed to run under the
Mac System '7.0 operating system, induding
Balloon Help, Truetype fonts, Publish and
Subscribe, and support for AppleEvents.

EACH BOOK IS ORGANIZED INTO

TTIjs section pfpvides a basic overview of

the software.

of Word for the Macintosh. The Srst version

of the program was 'originally introduced in
1985.
The company says new features include

Prices subject to changewithout notice. Ail products or brand names are

the trademarks orreghtered trademarks of their respective ovveeru.

an extenmono
said that Word for the Mac 5A
has a suggested Ifst price of $495.
Microsoft maintains a toll&ee numbei

Maples'

(8004280400)forproduct infonnadon.

Ciotttach Sarah Charf, Miaosoft, 20MB24080 o

Miaosoft Canada, 416-5684434, fax 416-568
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PAPER DEC '91 13

Microsoft Announces
New 6-Mail Products

REDMOND, WASHINGTON, NOV 15

(NB) Microsoft has announced several
new gateway programs, as well as a free
program for Microsoh Mail for Appletalk
customers, and new Microsoft Mail for the
Macintosh andOS/2.
The seven new gatewaysinclude those
for IBM Profs, Fax, X.500, SMTP/Unix,
Novell MHS and MCI Mail. A gateway to
IBM Snads is also shipping in conjunction
with Softswitch and Linkage. The gateway
programs allow users to connect their
electronic maO programs to another
network which uses a dmferent protocoL
Aho announced is the shipment of new
Microsoft Mail workstation software for the
Macintosh and for OS/ 2 P resentation
Manager. Mail for the Maantosh now has
resizable windows, customixable fonts, and
the ality to have multiple message screens
open at once.
Microsoft daims that when using release
2.1, users cnn save messages in hierarchical
folders, managing their messages in an
intuitive fashion through th e use of
subfolders. Messages can be saved by being
dragged and dropped into folders,and
users with hited hard drive apace have the
option of saving locally clr on the server
hard. disk
The program aho allows users to share
information with others on their post o8ice
by using shared folders to create bulletin
boards for speci6c topics. A post onice is a
system with a mailbox for each local user.
Shared folders can be established with
specific levels of access for each user,
induding read, write and delete.
The program includes the ability to
attach multip)e ales to messages, and has a
view attachment which lets users open and
read text fBes attached to messages. The
program also uses mulrilevel address lists
and personal address books, and the
addresses can be combined into personal
groups for Opttcker mail tranmnisaion.
For a hmited time, customers can get a

free copy of Microsoft Schedule+ when they

buy Microsoft Mail version 5.0 for Appletalk
networks. Schedule+ allows users to add
group calendaring and scheduling to their
electronic mail program. If you buy a Qve- or
20-license pack of Mail version 5.0 for
Appletaik, you will receive a coupon in the
product box for a Bee Sve or 2&evorkstation
pack of Schedule+.Complete the coupon
and send it to Microsoft, and they vnll send
you the program. Although Schedule+ ia
I'ree, there ia a $5.50 shipping and handling
cost
Contact: Microsoft Canada, 416-568-0454, fax
416-568-1 527.

Intros Icon CreetIn9 Software

WEST DES MOINES, IOWA, NOV 5

(NB) CE Software has announced it has
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Tiles automatically creates and assigns
graphic icons to documents as they are
open elL
(Icons are picture representations of
programs or Qles, used on computer systems
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Uahtg TQea, the icon call be selected b}l
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pertaining to forestry. CK Software daima
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Outbouncl Lowers Its IIiac-

Compatible Notebook isrices

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UPGRADE MrrhlORY a SS9 Ssr rxtrb(aaas)
allow users to mix video, animation and
denotes the presence of a 68881 math
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ceproces
sar.
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rsorsitors
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shipments are allowing for better pridng
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fax cards
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u other peripheruts
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hard disk drive. It costs US$1,995.
Bell said Alias chose to develop the
software for the Macintosh because of the
Mac's stronger graphics and widespread
acceptance in the design field, but will do a
camparable product for Microsoft Windows
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ContactLeighAnne Sutton,Out bound, 303-7869200.

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spectatoIL
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Other displays used similar technology, the computer that enhanced the viewer's
but users stood against a dark background perception of a television screen viewed
and actively participated. A display from through the goggles. NewsBytes understood
Enter Corporation and the University of the goggles themselves cost approximately
Michigan Comm Tech Laboratory offered $1,500. Participants are given a white lab
thre~
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scene but sound effects as well, it is quite

engaging. The user's perception is that of
having "moved into" t hat computerCALGARY, ALBERTA, NOV 15 (NB)New Horixon Computer Syitems, a twayear- generated worllL
From a spectator's viewpoint, the user
old Atari dealer, has acquired North
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MIC Profiline TT/ 5 2 FastRAM upgrade senses. The spectator cannot see the screen
boards f'rom GE Soft Computersystems of to which the user is responding and the user
Germany. The boards allow Atari TTOSO is isolated against a dark background,
owners to add as much as 52 megabytes obviously deeply engaged and wavmg their
(MB) of extra memory to their machines.
New Horizon claims it is now accepting
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The company expects to receive the first
boards within days, said Keith Brooks atNew
Horizon.
The company maintains that the board
will be useful with new software specific to
the Tl'050, with both Atari System V Unix
and 5.06 Multitasking TOS. Using current
four~egablt single inde memory modules
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available, increasing its total capacity
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The board attaches to the existing TT
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Brooks said New Horixon is the first
distributor to stock the board in North
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File E dit

The company is primarily a dealer for Atari

computers and related products, with a
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applications such as computermded design
a nd d e sktop p u b l i shing, h e sa i d .
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MB of 70-nanosecond RAM chips. New
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(NB) The second annual C yberarts
International Exposition and Conference
opened fora preview last evening before the
show's oifidal opening today. Several of the
displays included opportunities for users to
step into a television and actively
participate
in a virtual reality worid.
Part of the show is a gallery of computergenerated art, some of it using virtual
reality. User~lected poetry was the focus of
the art display "Life On A Slice,' where the
subject sits in Ront of a television screen
with a video camera mounted on top. The
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will go next. So Rom a seated position more
than 10 feet away, the user's movements
activate the computer, just as a user might
touch a touchscreen to make choiceL From
the user's view, though, it is easy to move in
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move around.
The computer~nerated images on the
screen respond to the user's actions, and the
user's image i s
d i s p layed i n the
environment. Swimming motions, for
example, are r e quired i n t h e o c e an
' environment where one can also catch fish
swimming by. T h er e i s a c o m p utersimulated shark which comes along now and

then, and irequently swallows the user. But

at that point, the user can look around in
the shark's stomach and try to get out
through an opening in the top through
which the ocean environment can be seen.
A small octopus also participates in the
scene and likes to attach itself to the user,
and the user has to shake it off. Obviously,
users have to be quite physically active to
successfully partidpate in the game.

The Vivid Group's commercial version

While the images were much like home
used similar technology but without the video with crayon-type drawn animated
goggles. Here, users play virtual reality characters to represent the imaginary parts.
drums, with the appropriate sound effects, like the octopus under the ocean, the
or a video game in which two users, standing sharks' stomach, o r t h e d r u ms, t h e
side by side, hit a virtual reality ball back and experience is so engaging that most users
forth trying to get the ball into the goal, gave up their time only grudgingly when
which was a white square behind each user's asked to let someone else participate.
head.
The video reproduction of the user is
called chromakeying and the screen display
is referred to as 8-D stereoscopic video. The
software, called the Mandala Virtual Reality
(VR) System, runs on an Amiga 500, 1000,
2000 and 8000 series systems and allows
users to create interactive environments that
can be entered and controlled through the
use of any video camera, said Vincent John
Vmcent of the Vivid Group.
The Vivid Group claims the software was
only available as a $20,000 system until
recentlywhen the price dropped to $495.
The Vivid Group was offering complete VR
d evelopment systems i n cluding t h e
computer, software and video camera
starting at $7,800.
More information is available from the
Vivid Group at (416) 8409290.
Contact Vincent john Vincent, The Vivid Group,
Tel: 416-340-9290, Fax: 416-348-9809; Carne
Heeter, Comm Tech Lab Michigan State, Tel:
517-353-5497, Fax: 517-336-1244; 8everly Reiser,
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(NB) The Amiga Centre Scotland has
announced an enhanced version of its
Harlequin 82+it kame buffer system for the
Commodore Amiga.
According to the centre, the Harlequin
has rapidly come to be seen as the premier
professional Amiga graphics card since its
introduction in February, 1991. The new
card called the Harlequin Plus supports
full PAL an d N T S C b r o adcast color
specification without the need for an
external synch pulse. The requirement for
synch pulses usually pushes the price of
video graphics cards up substantially.
According to Martin Lowe, managing
director of the Amiga Centre, pricing on
Harlequin Plus will be decided when the
card ships at the end of the year. Existing
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ContacL TheAmiga Centre, Tel: 031-557%242;
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Gates To Keynote PC
Windows/Canada

TOR O N T O , O N T A R I O , NO V 1 5
(NB) Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder
of Microsoft, will be the opening keynote
speaker for the first PC Windows/Canada
s how and c o nference. Th e e v en t i s
scheduled for March 28 to25, 1992, and
Gates will speak on March 28 in the John F.
Bassett Theatre at the Metropohtan Toronto
Convention Centre.
Gates and Paul A l le n c o -founded
Microsoft in the 1970s. The company had
worldwide revenues of $1.18 billion in 1990,
and Gates is reported to be the secondrichest person in t h e U n i te d States.
Microsoft is also, of course, the maker of
Windows, on which the PC Windows shows
and conference is focused.
The PC Windows/Canada conference
rogram will also include sessions on
ardware and software migration issues,
networking, e n t e r prise c o m p u ting,
multimedia, evolving hardware platforms,

and a special wrap-up panel with

representatives of Apple, Microsoft, and
IBM discussing issues in the effective use of
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through its Strategic Planning for Applied
Research an d K n o w ledge ( S PARK)
ln16ative.
Wolfgang Strigel, coordinator of SPARK
and interim director of th e software
productivity center, told NewsBytes a recent
change of goverrunent in the province the
New Democratic Party was elected toreplace
a Social Credit Party government has
disrupted the process somewhat, but
government ofBcials have assured him the
Contact Roland Klassen, IC+E, 416-5814797, fax plan is among their top priorities and he
416-591-8539.
expects the money to start flowing in four to
six weeks.
Strigel said British Columbia's software
companies, most of which are small to
722 percent of the

current and future technologies.

The show and conference is produced by
International Conferences + Expositions of
T oronto a n d I DG W o r l d E x p o of
Framingham, Massachusetts. IC+E, World
Expo's Canadian representative, also
producesMacWorld Expo/Canada and Sun
Solutions Expo.'World Expo produces PC
Windows shows in the United States,Japan,
Australia, Germany, and Sweden.

medium-sized, have little time to think

about boos6ng productivity. The Software
Productivity Center would employ two fulltime software engineers who would act as a
sort of "methodology department" helping
those companies become more productive,
he said.
The center would also arrange seminars
and courses as demand arose among its
members, Strigel said. The program is
initially expected to have a staff of four,
including a n e x e cutive director, an
administrative support person and the two
software engtneerL
The provincial government is to supply
half the program's funding initially, with the

rest coming from membership fees that

would range from C$350 to C$4,500 per
year depending on the size of the cotnpany.
The Sdence Council plans to sponsor a
two<ay conference on software quality
assurance in February, and assuming that
the software productivity center is in
operation by that time, it will probably
become a co-sponsor of the conference,
Strigel said.
Contact: VVoifpang Strigel, Science Council of
British Columbia, 604-436-3574, fax 604-4366564.

workstation users surveyed

are using commercial
applications such asgraphics
and desktop publishing.

~R E SHOIB

Canada: Rapid growth In

Workstation Market
T ORO N T O , O N T A R IO, OC T 3 0
(NB) The workstation market is growing at
better than 20 percent per year in Canada
and will probably continue doing so,
according to a new study from International
Data Corp. (Canada). Th e study also
pointed to growing commercial use of what
once were technical machines.
About '72.2 percent of the workstation
users surveyed are using commercial
applications such as graphics and desktop

Contact: Mark Pettettier, IDC Canada, 416-3690033.

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'provincial software produc6vity

center. The center is a project of the

Science Council of British Colulnbia,

publishing.

Everett Anstey, general manager of Sun

Microsystems of Canada, said recently that
commercial workstation sales are growing
"at least twice as fast as the total business.
They will comprise about SO percent of
Sun's business this year, Anstey predicted.
According to Tom Vassos, marketing
programs manager at IB M Ca n a d a ,
commercial applications account for a
larger portion of IBM RS/6000 worksta6on
sales in Canada than elsewhere. About half
of Canadian RS/6000 sales are for
commercial use, Vassos said, while in the
rest of the world RS/6000 sales are between
60 and 70 percent technicaL
For Digital Equipment of Canada, the
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include purchasing agreements with
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M AR K H A M , O N T A R I O , N G V 1 1
Ontario. The company also has strategic
(NB) The Canadian governnient has
alliances with the Ontario Institute for
granted "rationalized" status to Apple
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advantage in s elling it s p r oducts to Ministry of Education, and 10 university
faculties of architecture across Canada
govexnment departments and agencies.
In 1989, Apple Canada set up a Strategic
Rationalized status means the Canadian
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government approves ofthe amount of
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manufacnxringand purchasing a coxnpany manufacturing
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Apple is to increase contract manufactudng, Contact: Edward Gould or John Elias, National
software development, and research in
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fax 416-860-1094; Sonja Gundersen, Apple
Apple's existing rehtionships in Canada Canada, 416-513-5527.

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produce new polymers with some properties
of each of the originals. Xerox's original
KINGSTON, ONTARIO, NGV 4 (NB)R esearch at a X e r o x r esearch lab in interest in this research lay in developing
new toners for printers and copiers. But the
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generation.
Queen's University, is now selling software
When Xerox researchers realized they
that uses algorithms Xerox researchers
had something that could help in DNA
discovered while looking for ways to
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combine polymers.
Research Council of Canada, a federal
Dr. Joseph Wright, vice-president and research granting agency. Since the DNA
manager of the Xerox Research Centre of
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Canada, told N ewsBytes that mi xing
interests, the company wanted funding and
p olymers large molecules t ha t a r e
help in finding a partner to develop and
commercialize the technology.
The NRC put Xerox in touch with QLife, which has developed a device called
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separating DNA strands. This is done by
passing controlled electrical impulses
t hrough a g e l c o n t aining th e D N A ,
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Q-Life ha s t a ken t h e a l g o rithms
developed at Xerox and put them on a
series of readily memory (RGM) card,s
that, used with the AutoBase device, can
control various DNA experiments. Pugh
likened the ROM cards to those on which
software for Nintendo and other games
machines are sold. Their purpose is much
more serious, though: Pugh said they are
expected to play a role in the Human
Genome Project, a 15-year efFort to map the
human gene.
)
AutoBase was launched in late October
at the Human Genome IH conference in
San Diego. The National Research Coundl
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Canada's Ministxy of Industry, Science and
Technology is also providing money over
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Contact: Dr. Joseph alright, Xerox Research

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Revenue Canada's E6le service currently
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territories to send returns to th e t ax
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Julie Tinson, marketing manager for
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version of Quick Returnsl, designed for tax
preparers, will now allow those with the
necessary connection to Revenue Canada to
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Early in 1992, she said, Ontek plans to
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version of Quick Returnsl with a number
they can call by modem to have Ontek relay
their returns to the Efile system.
The software will check returns for
conformance to the Efile rules before
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The standard version of Quick Returnsl

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Canada Expanding Electronic

Tax Filing
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, NOV 7 (NB)Revenue Canada, the Canadian income tax
authority, is gradually expanding the
electronic income tax filing program that
started as a pilot project two years ago. By
1995, plans call for the Eflle service to be
available across Canada
The program started with a pilot project
in Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba, early
in 1990. In the first year around 5,000'
income tax returns were filed electronically
through participating tax preparers, a
Revenue Canada spokesman said. Last year,
146 tax agents filed returns electronically for
more than 100,000 individuals in Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Northwest
Te111to11es.

Early in 1992, tax preparers in + xebec

and British Columbia will be able to file
1991 ta x . r eturns f o r t h e i r cl i e n t s
electronically, and in the following year the
program will be extended to Ontario and
the four Atlantic provinces.
Up to now, only tax preparers and
accountants have been able to file returns
electronically, said Greg Cartier, manager of
communications and marketing for the Efile
program at Revenue Canada However, said
Cartier: "we' re looking at ways to make it
available to the public."
Cartier said that some tax preparers
might choose to offer electronic filing as a
separate service, allowing taxpayers who
prepare their own returns to bring them to
a tax preparer for transmission to Revenue
Canada.
This year, Revenue Canada expects more
than one million tax returns to be filed
electronically through about 1,200 agents,
Cartier said.
Contace GregCartier,Revenue Canada, 613-95405B1.

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Phoenix cites the multiple problems of
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make it less and less likely that pension
benefits will be there for any but the most
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So, Phoenix says that you have a
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you choose the first option, there are lots of
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Called Retiring Wealthy, the DOS-based
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worth, projecting the value of registered
r etirement savings plans an d o t h e r
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Phoenix Accrual is packaging the
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wdtten by Canadian finandal writer Gordon
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Comdex ReportComdex: Windows Products

Big Winner for 1991

Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows was

selected for PC Magazine'sBest of 1990
award and also got the magazine's Editor' s
Choice award, in addition to PC Wccls's
Analysts' Choice award, and was picked by
PC Worfd asthe best buy.
Microsoft Works for Windows got the
Gold Award in the integrated software
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)fear.

exhibiting Super PC-Kwik Power Pak~

. Fin a l l y, Dan Janal, public relations
spedalist, said that he had sold 2,000 copies
performance enhancing utilities which
tnclude a word processor and a graphic o f his book designed to help others in PR
display of cache activity while running
d e al with the press.
Janal said this is a good
Windows 3.0. Shipments of DR DOS 6.0 now perfonnance for a self-published book.
include the Super PC-Kwik disk cache
Corltact: Dan Janal, 408-7342092; MultiSofta John
standard, they noted.
SourceMate offered AccountMate, which P. Davis, 503-644-5644; SourceMate, Hewitt
Jackson, 415-381-1011; Reference Software, Leis
it called the leader in pricegerformance Tfgns 415 5410222. Raosoft Mcpoia Rao 206
value in accounting software, based on a
survey by the eminent Sheldon Needle.

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, OCI' 28 (NB)Microsoft Windows applications were a big

hit this year, winning many of the major
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Excel for Windows version 3.0 walked off
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P roduct o f t h e Y e a r a w ar d i n t h e
applications software category from Systcnss
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and was cited as the highest rated product Following were some of the products
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ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON, NOV 6

(NB) Egghead Discount Software has
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for computer software and accessory gifts.
The list includes personal productivity
products, items for the traveling executive,
games for both kids and adults, and even a
computerized version of "The Far Side"
cartoons for the person who has everything.
Each year the discount chain designates
"eggspert" buyers who select software and
accessories for sale in the company's 182
retail outlets. They picked items this year in
fo'ur categories home office u sers,
traveling executives, children, and "the
person with everything."
In the home office category, items
selected included th e $ 1 69.99 Z oom
internal or external 2400 baud modem, with
fax sending and receiving capabilities for
the Macintosh or IBM and compatibles.
Another item in this category is the Scan
Man 256 hand-heldscanner from Logitech.
T he scanner, u sed wit h a n I B M o r
compatible, can scan up to 256 shades of
grey, and sells for $519.99.
Also selected for home office workers
were Microsoft Publisher at $159.99, a lowend desktop publishing program running
under W i n d ows 5 . 0 on I BM an d
compatibles, and Works for Windows.
Works is an integrated package containing
word processing,database, communications,
spreadsheet,charting and drawing modules.
Works sells for $159.99 and runs under
Windows. Microsoft Money, at $59.99, is a
finance management program running on
IBM and compatibles which tracks expenses
and budgets and can even pay bills with its
electronic checkbook feature.
In the traveling executive category, the
"eggsperts"picked On-The~ S o ftware Set,
selling for $69.95. The program includes
checkbook, accounting, spreadsheet, list
and mail management and word processing.
Also offered for the traveler is Automap
Road Atlas, a $59.99 item which, once given
a starting point and a destination, will figure
out the best route and how long it will take
to get there.
A irline t r a velers m i gh t l i k e t h e
Trackman Portable Mouse, a $119.99 device
that dips to the side of a laptop or notebook
computer and replaces the conventional
desktop mouse.
Stacker, a device which compresses files
so more information can be stored on a
hard disk, also made the hst. Stacker is for
IBM and compatibles, and sells for $109.99
Christmas is big for th e k i ds, and
Egghead has listed several items for
inclusion under the tree this year. Ecosaurus ($29.99) is a program that teaches
kids about recyding and conservation, while
strengthening their reading and thinking
skills. It is for children I'rom four to nine
years old , a n d ru n s o n I BM and
compatibles. There is also Kidz Mouse, a
smaller version of the regular mouse, but
with blue ears for buttons. Kidz Mouse
comes in IM and Macmtosh versions.
Other programs for the children on
Egghead's est this year are: Kid Pix, a Mac
paint program for the Macintosh with color,
and Supersolvers Outnumbered, a learning
program for kids y to 14. There are also
three programs from Walt Disney Software:
Mickey's ABCs: A Day At The Fair; Mickey's
Colors and Shapes: the Dazzling Magic
Show; and Mickey's Crossword Puzzle
Maker. All are classified as 'edutainment"
programs selling for about $80.
For "the person who has everything,
Egghead suggests "The Far Side Computer
Calendar," which NewsBytes reported on in
October. It is a computer version of the
popular cartoons by Gary Larson.

(Prices are in UQ-EeL)

COntatt:Megan McKenzie, Egghead, 206-3916266.

Goinci OnlineTalk is Cheap

by John MoConnick
WASHINGTON, DC, NOV 8 (NB) This
c olumn d e a l s w i t h us i n g onl i n e
communications services and will focus on
details involving costs and necessary
equipment.
With talkcll-you-want services, anyone
can stay online for up to 12 hours or so
every day, paying only one small monthly
charge plus whatever your local phone
access charges are.
GEnie's star services, for instance, let you

send and receive an unlimited number of

messages during non-peak (nighttime)
hours for
only about C$6 per month.
IBM and Sears' joint Prodigy venture is a
fixed-price system which, after it got started,
began charging extra after a certain number
of e~ail messages and, since it is mostly a
shopping service anyway, it isn't much use to
most disabled subscribers outside that
potentially very valuable advertising feature.
Other services have special rates for
evenings, and many private BBS systems
allow e-mail messages without charges.
So, given the inexpensive talk~e, how
expensive is it for users to get online in the
first place)
CompuServe was the first service I

subscribed to many years ago;.back then

Radio Shack was selling a combination
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soon after became a Color Computer.
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line (for personal use you will probably just
Radio Shack store's warehouse, the final use your regular phone, so no added
dearance price was $100 for the:computer expense here u nless you don't h a ve
and $10 for the modem a great deal since standard RJ-11 phone jacks), a terminal of
it connects to your TV.
some sort (usually a computer ranging in
Many of these systems are available used price from $20 for a used system to $500 for
in good condition from people who have a brand new PC compatible), and a modem
moved onto Madntosh or IBMwompatible costing less than $100.
systems.
With a bit of shopping through a local
Ahnost any other discontinued computer newspaper's "for sale" ads you can probably
with a built-in modem or just a serial port get online for well under $100 and get a
will serve as the basis of a communications taste of communicating with the world.
system, as will most laptop computers, and
lots of working but no longer stateMWeart Special Services
computers are available used.
Although you can spend years online
In new computers, Tandy's $600 Model making friends and sharing information
102 has climbed in price to the point where without anyone learning that you are
many full floppy disk-based MS-DOS disabled, many choose to come out of the
computers are less expensive. (Tandy often doset and join one of the discussion groups
sells complete systems including monitors geared to those with spedal needs.
for less than $500.) But the 102 is a useful
CompuServe has long had a special
computer complete with built4n modem interest group for the disabled. (GO HUD).
a nd it o f ten goes on sale at a m o r e G Enie has r ecently added b ot h t h e
, reasonable price.
unlimited Star Services pridng scheme and
Even the $550 WP-2 word processor has enhanced its disABILlTY services. gust type
terminal capabilities at a reasonable price A BLE < E N T ER>.) D e l p h i a d d e d a
and all you need to do is add an inexpensive disabilities forum last $11 and you can spend
external modem.
20 hours onhne each month for $20.
Assuming that. you have selected a
All of these specialized services provide
computer of some sort, if it doesn't have special information and camaraderie for
one built in, you also need a modem.
those with spedal needs.
There are many powerful, fast, and
expensive modems on the market, but
unless you are a very fast typist and reader
you probably can'tkeep up with even a
1,200-baud modem unless you plan to
by John McConsi4
upload or download a lot of fileL
You can easily find inexpensive 1,200
WASHINGTON, DC, NOV 15 (NB)baud external modems for sale in magazines Braille is, of course, the raised4ot printing
like Computer Mostkly.Unless you hear a. lot method which the visually impaired can
of static on your phone line (pick it up, read with their fingers. Braille output
press the number "1 and listen for a few devicesare avamable for computers but since
seconds) you can probably use a very many visually impaired people use Braille so
inexpensive modem.
much it is also a natural way for them to
Let's total that up.
input data for such devices as portable
You need membership on a system (this speech synthesizers.

Cotstiisuedp

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APH, The American Printing House for

the Blind, P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, KY
40206-0085, TWX: 810455-5449 or voice
502-895-2405, offers a wide range of
introductory computer books in Braille and

One such program is Stephen Neely's

TRAN, which produces barely recognizable
speech through the tiny speaker on my IBM
PS/2 but does a better job with some other
MS-DOS computers whose speakers are a bit
large type, including Apple II computer larger.
manuals, books on computer literacy, and
I have found that after a few minutes'
BASIC programming.
listening I can understand it much better, so
For $5, you can get the Apple II gs I suppose that it could prove usefttl for some
Owner's Guide on a 5.inch disk, either to people, especially since it is free and
print it out in large print or to read via a available on many BBS systems.
Braille display.
Also for the visually impaired are the
As you could probably guess, APH
professional voice synthesis products from
specializes in Braille products, and one is GW Micro, whose standard business cards
the APH PocketBraille, a $905 battery- are thoughtfully Braillewmbossed.
operated portable seven-key Braille-toGW M icro develops PC and Apple
speech computer with a 224-kilobyte (K) software as well as selling complete tahing
memory.
laptop systems and a voice synthesizer board
Most of their pr o ducts that aren' t for PC compatibles.
accessories for th e PocketBraille are
Vocal-Eyes is a $450 voicewccess system
intended for Apple II users, such as the for computers running MS-DOS software,
$8.95 rigid plasfic model of a IIe keyboard which takes up only 42- to 62K of memory
with Braillewmbossed keys, useful for those depending on the predse setup or as little as
learning the keyboard, and the $59.50 set of 2K of lower RAM memory if expanded or
five thin plastic Braille4abeled overlays for extended memory is available to hold. the
the Apple Ilgs keyboard.
rest of the program.
. Documentation on disk, in large print,
Speech Synthesis
or on tape, as requested, is provided, along'
Turning text into recognizable speech with onhne help and pulldown menus.
has long been a goal of many people
Speech can be regulated for speech rate,
working with computers, either because they pitch, tone, and volume, and these settings
wanted to make them accessible to those can be made independently for both
who can't read text on a screen or just characters read from the screen and the
because it would provide a good alternative keyboard.
A hard disk is supported, but Vocal-Eyes
to reading hour after hour even for those
only requires one floppy disk on the system;
who have no visual impairments.
An oftenwverlooked point is that there it works with most commercially available
are a great many illiterate people who could speech synthesis hardware, and it is not copy
benefit from using computers that can talk protected.
as well as present visual information.
SoundingBoard isa $595 internal voice
All really useful speech synthesis systems synthesizer fo r M S - DO S c o mpatible
involve both hardware and software, computers with the standard PC bus (not
although there are some public domain ~ Micro Channel) which provides spell mode,
p rograms t ha t w i l l g e n e r at e f a i r l y 10 speech rates, 10 pitch levels, 26 tone
comprehensible speech right through a l evels, f o u r punc t u atio n m od e s ,
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the Toshiba 1200 is available for $5,295.
The Sounding Board LT synthesizer
used in these laptops is also available
separately for $595; the main difference
between it and the larger Sounding Board is
the substitution of a pair of headphones for
the speakers.
If you want to translate. text for Braille
readers, Braille-Talk PC is a $195 MS-DOS
program that will translate standard ASCII
text into accurate Grade 2 Braille. Output is
saved to a disk and can be reproduced on
any standard Braille embosser.
GW Micro is located at 310 Racquet
Drive,Fort Wayne, IN 46825, phone 2194884625.

capitalization alert, and other important

features. This is a fulllength PC board with
built-in speaker and a separate external
speaker.
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desktop systems from GW Micro, complete
with Vocal-Eyes, Sounding Board, and tape,
print, and disk documentation.
A laptop based on the Toshiba T1000
and complete with Vocal~ca and a headset
weighs only 6.4 pounds and lists for $1,749.
A similar but bigger and faster, twofloppy system based on the DataVue Spark
lists for $2,695, and both systems come with
audiotape documentation.
A 20cnegabyte hard disk laptop based on

C OMTE X

Sierra Lures Kids With $1IN Ed

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OAKHURST, CALIFORNIA, NOV 14

(NB) Sierra On-line is entering the
educational software market, investing more
than $1 million in its first three educational
software titles that are fun enough to steal
children away &em television, the company
The three new titles are expected to be
available before the hohday season this year.
Announcing the packages, Ken Williams,
president and chief executive officer of
Sierra, said the company's plan is not to
build software for schools, but create
entertaining software which will increase
children's interest in learning.

CON POTEOO

The educational games Sierra plans to

release for the holiday season indude:
Mixed-Up Fairy Tales, a sequel to MixedUp Mother Goose, which won the
Software Publishers Association (SPA)
1991 award for best early education

program. Designc;d for kids age six and

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Suggested retail price has been set at

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Children aged 12 ance

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multitude of enviromnental hazards on
the way to save their king. The added
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spectacular. Suggested retail price is

g9.95.
Castle of Dr. Brain Analytical and
problem~olving skills are the focus of
this game, also designed for children 12
and up. Suggested retail price is $49.95.
Sierra claims that its initial marketing
strategy targets its best customers upward
of 700,000 Sierra fans. Of thatgroup,
according to Williams, 30 percent are under
the age o f 1 8 a n d b u y a t l e ast two
Sierra/Dynamix games per y e a r. A n
additional 29 percent of the company's most
loyalbuyers have children under the age of
18 who play computer games.
Williams plans to produce four new
educational titles per year, with five new
titles slated for next year, as only three are
being released this year.

Contact: Anita Greene, Sierra On-Line,Tel: 209683~8 , ext. 504, Fax: 209483-3924.

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ROUNDUP: Steries
Carried By Other INedia
WASHINGTON, DC, NQV 15 (NB)-

Roundup is a brief look at some computer

stories carxied in other publications received
here this past month.
November's Data BasedAdssizorexplores
the world of really large databases.
Lotzss magazine for November tells
readers where to get help with their Lotus
problems.
DEC Pr%ssional has its $25 Annual
Buyer's Guide dated the October issue.
The October 28 Infosmationseask outlines
the battle between retailers and truckers
over the need for more uniform data
exchange standards.
November's CommssnicatiosLIfothc ACM
indudes stories on the use of computers in
molecular biology, a look at the Sist (1990)
ACM chess championship with a full game
described, and software fo r p a xallel
computer L
October 28's NctsuoskWorld says that the
price battle in frame relay services is heating
up, with Sprint Data Group preparing to
compete with CompuServe, and the

newspaper saysprices are going to fan.

Compn tcnuortdfor the Nth watches Rod
Canion being moved out Compaq's door
and looks at IBM vs. Comdisco.
Cmwpstcr Ilcsclcr Nenssdated October 28
also looksat Canion's ouster and says other
companies will also be hit by Hying shrapnel
in the ongoing price wars.
December s Mactuorldis, of course,
devoted to the new Madntosh computers
recently introduced at COMDEX.
PC Magazine dated November 28 cames
the eagerly awaited 8th annual printer
review', which takes a critical look at 108
printers. Sharing the cover are the new 800
dpi IBM Laser Printer 10 Postscript printer
and the tiny Citizen PN48.
Compntcr Rcscncr Nosesfor November 4
headlines the changes at IBM, Apple, and
Compaq, as the three giants strive to regain
preeminence.
Informationsucckfor November 4 carries a
story about Rod Canion, founder and
foxmer CEO of Compaq was recently ousted.
The November 4 Telephony exploresthe
ISDN puzzle, carries a special on wireless
networks, and comes with the 1991 Pro61es
of Top Telecom Executives.
Thc Seyhsdd
Itcport on Desktop Pesbtizhing for
N ovember 1 l o oks at th e Apple/ I B M
alliance and tests the new IBM l a ser
printers. Also included is a look at Copal's
new 900 dpi laser print engine.
The November 4 Eefcral CompsstcrWeek
s ays that t h e U . S . Depa r t m ent o f
Commerce's
N ati o n a l
T ech n i c al
Infoxxnation Service sent out a stoned virusinfected disk to 85 federal agencies.
November's ItczcNcrWorld continues its
tutorial on selhng to the federal market.
The November/December issue of PC AI
concentrates on Decision Support and a
review of IF/Prolog.
Thc Officefor November looks at getting
it on paper, Rom fax and copiers to desktop
publishing.
Technological Horizons in EdsscationJusssna4
dated November, concentrates on school
administrative software.
November's Netsuorking Managementsays
that recent telco outages should be a
warning to network managers of things to
conic.
Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 nevrsletter
dated October 51 looks at handwriting
recognition and penkased computers.
Commesnicationz Weekfor November 11
says that "Windows is the key to Microsok's
networking strategy" and r eports on
response to user d emand fo r b e t ter
performance on S i gnaling System 7
networks.
Netsuork World dated November ll says
that IBM and SynOIptics have devised a

Boardsuatch Magazine, the BBS bible,

explores Internet in its November issue.
December's Unix Wsqfkt looks at the top
10 Unix suppliers for 199IL
Tekpkonyfor Novexnber ll explains the
recent AT&T outage in New England as a
mistake made during a routine maintenance
pf occdurc.
The University of Minnesota's MIS
Quarterly dated September carries an
interesting paper by UC-Irvine's J. Yannis
Bakos titled "A S trategic Analysis of
Electronic Marketplaces," which explores
pridng strategies for information vendors.
John McConnick

The U.S. Department ofCommerce'sNational

Technical Information Service sentout astoned
virus-infected disk to 85
federal agencies.
proposal for the IEEE 802.5 whing scheme
antI features a buyer's guide on ISDN
scrvtccs. Thcrc arc only thrcc cxchaxlgc
listings, ATILT, MCI, and US Sprint, and
seven local Bell offerings.
Compntcr Itezeller Nesusfor November 11
carries two front page stoiies on the impact
of Compaq's recent moves in the reseller
channel.

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November 11's Compestenuorldreports

that NCNB supcxTegional bank has turned
over its msiin&ame processing work to Perot
Systems and that IBM has delayed its
notebook's introduction into the U.S.
market, reportedly because the company did
not think it would be competitive in this
market.

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Gold Star 14' Grayscale VGA monitor 800x600
Samsung 14' Grayscale VGA monitor 640x480
14' VGA monitor 640x480,.41 dp
Darius HRV-1024 SVGA monitor 1024x768, .28 dp
Legend.2 14' Trl-sync VGA monitor 1024x7N,.28 dp
Legend-214' non.inL VGA monitor 1024x768,.28 dp
NEC 4FG 15 Multi-sync VGAmonitor 1024x768,.28 dp, 70Hz
ViewSonlc 6 non-int VGA monitor 1024x788,.28 dp 70Hz
Sony 1304 Multiscan monitor, 70Hz
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256K Video memory (442564IOns)
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What Does It Take To Nake A PC AMultimedia PC?

(NB) The a n n o uncement o f t h e

Multimedia Personal Computer in New York
on October 8 was heralded with much
excitement and some confusion on the part
of IBM personal computer (PC) users who
are glad the MPC standard for the IBM PC is
available, but not sure what it all meanL
Multimedia or video, sound, and
graphics are fast becoming the new
standard for computer software. John
Roach, president of Tandy Corporation, one
of the companies participating in the MPC
standards, said: "Multimedia technology is a
reality and will soon be a part of every
computer."
However, part of the confusion stems
from the fact that many users understand
they could make their PCs meet the MPC
standard, if they knew what it was.
In an efFort to educate users, Tandy has
released a booklet entitled, "Multimedia,
More Than You Imagined," with a listing of
the minimum standards for a computer to
be called an MPC.
Those standards are listed by Tandy as: a
1 0 m e gahertz 8 0 2 8 6 A T - t yp e I B M
compatible PC with 2 megabytes (MB)
random accessmemory (RAM); a 4 bit video
graphics adapter (VGA) card and monitor; a
5.5-inch 1.44 megabyte floppy disk drive;
serial, parallel and joystick ports; a 50 MB
hard disk; a compact disc readilymemory
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(CD-ROM) drive with compact disc&gital

audio (CD-DA) outputs; a 1014ey keyboard;
a Microsoft compatible 2+utton mouse; MSDOS 5.5, 5.51 or 4.01; Windows 5.0 with
multimedia extensions and Audio support.
Audio support is listed as: an 8- or I&bit
DAC converter, direct memory access
(DMA) and intemxpt, an 8- or l ait linear
analog-toAigital converter (ADC), music
synthesizer, a digitally controlled analog
audio mixer and MIDI-in/MIDIwut.
Boiled down, these standards are a 286based computer with a CDROM drive, a
sound card, and the Multimedia Extensions
software for Miicroso6 Wmdows. Almost any
28$4xased computer purchased today comes
with VGA, a 5.5-inch drive, serial and
parallel ports and at least a 40 MB hard disk
drive. A joystick port is necessary only if the
multimedia software in question requires a
joystick
Many vendors, including Tandy, are
offering full MPC systems to users. But just
because a computer has the MPC logo on its
outside case doesn't mean it will run any
software that has the MPC logo on its
outside packaging.
The MPC standards are the minimum
and many software vendors are requiring
more. Microsoft, which hosted the New York
City MPC event an d w hose product,
Windows 5.0, is the basis for the MPC
environment, is developing MPC software
that will not run on a PC that meets the
minimum MPC computer con6guration.
Realistically, users need more horsepower under the hood of their PCs,
M icrosoft said. V i d e o e s p ecially i s
demanding of CPU speed and capability as
well as of hard disk space. Microsoft's newly
announced Multimedia Works CD requires
a minimum of a 586SX CPU, the company
said.

What should a user dot The rule of

thumb is "more is better." A much larger
hard disk drive (like 150 MB), more RAM
(like 4 to 8 MBs), and a 6Lster CPU (like a
586) will guarantee the average user can
pull nearly anything labeled MPC off the
shelf and run it on their computer.
Users also have the option of upgrading
their computers to meet the MPC standard
with upgrade kits. The kits usually come
with a compact discreadily m
emoxy (CDROM) drive, a sound board that is installed
i n a s lot i n t h e c o m puter, an d t h e
Multimedia Extensions Somme version 1.0
for Windows.
Microsoft offers the following list of
companies that offer MPC upgrades. They
are Compu&dd in Texas at (800)827-1967,
Media Vision of California at (800) 8456870,
Headland of California at (800)2584101,
Creative Labs of California at (408)986-1461
and Tandy of Texas at (817) 590-5700.
One vendor, Media Vision, said its MPC
upgrade kit retails for $995 and includes a
Pro Audio Spectrum sound board, a Sony
Internal C D -ROM d r i ve, M i c r osoft's
Multimedia Extensions on CD version 1.0
for Windows 5.0, Compton's Multimedia
Encyclopedia on CD, and thegame "Jones
in Fast Lane" from Sierra On-Line on CD.
Installation instructions are included, Media
Vision said. The companysays it sells the
upgrade kit through retail outlets and
named Compusa as one of its retailers.
Though perhaps somewhat confusing,
the MPC standard has the advantage of
using much of the existing hardware users
already own. 'The speci6cations will lead to
practical, a6brdable multimedia PCs," said
Tandy in its MPC brochure.

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F REMONT, CALIFORNIA, OC T 2 9
(NB) Video Seven daims it can turn any
IBM or compatible Intel 80286; 586- or 486based personal computer (PC) with a
minimum clock speed of 10 megahertz
(MHz) into a multimedia workstation with
its three modular products, the Media FX,
Soundengine and Multimedia CD-ROM Kit.
The Media FX is a multimedia audio
board that allows users to add sound to
business presentations, spreadsheets, or
even database applications. For game use,
the card plays sound from all the popular
PC games, and is hackwmd compatible with
the Ad Lib and Soundblaster audio cards.
The SoundEngine enhances theoutput
Rom the Media FX card for MIDI (Musical
Instrument Digital Interface). Soundengine,
a daughter hoard for the Media FX, can be
installed without a MIDI breakout box to
generate lai t stereo sound in contrast to
FM synthesized sound, Video Seven oi6clals
said.
Soundengine features sample playback
synthesis, 52-voice polyphony and 215
sample presets. Both the $549 Media FX and
the 4599 Soundengine carry three-year
warranties.
Video Seven's Multimedia CD-ROM Kit
is a CD-ROM optical disk drive designed to
be connected tothe Media FX card or any
other fully Multimedia P~ompatible audio
aud with a SCSI (Small Computer System
Interface) port.
The kit is pxiced at $749 for the internal
drive and $899 for the external drive. All
products conform to Level 1 Multimedia PC
speci6cations, the company claims.

Contact Ray Berardenelli, Waggoner & Edstrom,

Tel: 503-245-0905, Fax: 505-244-7261, Media Contact: Maria Kertzman, Headland Technology,
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Philips claims that i t h a s a lready
(NB) Multimedia computing has come
home in the form of computers introduced introduced an industrial version of the CD-I
by Philips in mid-October, disguised as player, which come;s with a 5.5-inch 1.44 MB
home entertainment systems, and called CD- fioppy disk drive and a mouse. The system
can also be equipped with a SCSI port, and
I players.
Looking much like a VCR and available an Ethernet adapter.
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that the company sees compact disc
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television with one cable and take a tour of technology in three separate veins: CD
the Smithsonian, play learning games with Audio fo r m u sic; CD-Interactive for
Big Bird Rom Sesame Street, or play golf in Multimedia; and CD-ROM for text-based
Palm Springs to the commentary and advice pc,rsonal computer applications. CD-I is a
different format than the other two, and
of sportscasters.
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Motorola 68000 or 68070 central processing CD-I drive, CD-I titles cannot be played in a
CD-ROM drive and vice versa.
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Philips is no t t h e o n l y c o mpany
and compact discs with optical technology
d eveloped b y Phi l i p s , a Phili p s developing CD-I players, but was one of
r epresentative t ol d N e w sBytes. T h e several companies represented at the first
industrial players come with a high capacity CD-I One conference for developers and
5.&inch drive, can be equipped with SCSI publishers held at the Westin Bonaventure
(SmaU Computer Systems Interface) ports Hotel in Los Angeles. The focus of the
conference was dearly on the home market
or Ethernet adapters for connection to a
network, and can use a mouse as well as a with Philips in the lead. However, Yamaha
also had a CD-I player on display and Sony
remote control for data input.
and Kyocera were displaying portable CD@
The players come complete with a
players, both not much bigger than a
remote control with a thum&controlled
joystick" built' for moving the onscreen portable audio compact disc player.
Sony's player included a four-inch
pointer to onscreen choices. Buttons to
c onfirm th e c h oice ar e b u i lt-in a n d d iagonal television screen, while th e
Kyocera player did not. The portable players
duplicated in four locations around the
thumbcontrolled joystick for easy access. A had all the functionality of their full-sixe
counterparts as well, th e c o mpanies
regular joystick is also available for the CIM
player, as is a child's track ball, a Philips claimed. Both companies said they expect
the players to be available in Japan in first
representative said.
Philips introduced the home CD-I player quarter of 1992, with Sony specifying March.
to the mass market in midWctober and is FCC approval is holding up the introduction
offering more than 50 CD-I titles ranging in of the Sony unit in the U.S. and predictions
price from less than $20 to f 60. Sears carries a re more t ha n a y e a r f o r t h e U . S .
the Philips CD-I player, which is priced at introduction of the portable players.
Some CD-I titles now available indude:
less than P800.
However, NewsBytes found the lack of "Treasures of the Smithsonian," "Sesame
sharpness in the television display of the CZ)4 Street Numbers," "Stamps: Windows on the

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Photography."
Many firms at CD-I One demonstrated
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not yet available in Enghsh. Some CD-I title
production companies were focusing on
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to inject insulin. Others were focused on
business management training topics.
One D u t c h c o m p any, I n d u strial
Management Force b.v. (IMF), offered a
CD-I in cartoon form for management
training in how to implement change in a
corporate environment using the metaphor
of implementing change in a fishing village
on another planet. MJ. Franzen, marketing
director for the company, amusingly said
t hat the t i tl e was available i n t h r e e
languages, Dutch, English and American
English.
Several companies offered tools for
authoring CD-I titles, in'eluding Script
Systems of New York, Post Modern Media of
Santa Monica, Opthnage ofIowa, and the
Valkieser Group of the Netherlands.
The Interactive Support Group of
California, demonstrated the Cassiopee
Board, a CD-I board for the Apple
Macintosh so CD-I development can be
done on a Macintosh. The ISG is hoping
that the Cassiopee Board will become the
standard platform around which all CD-I
development willbe done. The company
also announced that i t h a s signed a
distribution agreement with Microboards of
Japan for the Cassiopee Board.
Contact: John Hartigan, Philips, Tel: 615-5214638, Takeo Ihashi, Sony, Tel:+81-0303458-7148,
Fax: +81-03-3458-7919, M.F. Franzen, Industrial
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perform searches in minutes that would take
a team of scholars many weeks.
In addition to text and search software,
the Library of the Future also includes any
illustrations that were in the original texts.
New for the second edition, in addition to
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Women," "Tale of Two Cities," "Dracula,"
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,"
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complete works of Shakespeare and Edgar
Allen Poe, and the complete Sherlock
Hohnes series.
Important religious and historical works
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"The King James Bible," "The Book of
Mormon, "The Life and Teachings of
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Unix To Lead CADICAII, CAE

Revenue 6rog8rth
Study

Apple Heralds A/UX 3.0, Explains Poweropen Connection

direction and intentions with regard to
A/UX and Poweropen.
A pple says its implementation o f
Poweropen will be A/UX. As Poweropen is
planned to be an open architecture, Apple
says both it and IBM will implement a "core"
of Poweropen for each company's own
system. Poweropen is to be based on the
Open Software Foundations OSF/1 kernel,

NEW Y O R K , NEW Y O R K , OCT Sl

the
( NB) In
co n j u n ctio n wi th
announcement of its newest version of the
Unix-based A/UX, Apple gave up some
more information on its joint venture with
IBM, explaining how A/UX version S.O ties
in with Poweropen, the Unix operating
environment previously announced with
IBM.
In recent announcements, IBM and
Apple have said Poweropen is expected to
be at least two years in coming, and
Poweropen applications are two to three
years away. However, Apple has released
what it calls a "roadmap" to define its

Apple said.
Much mention is made of migration by
both IBM and Apple, with Apple saying
A/UX is a step toward the migration to
Poweropen, as it provides many of the
features planned for Poweropen. Apple says

Poweropen will integrate A/UX and IBM's

AIX and is planned to available on a wide
range of computers' from desktop to large
enterprise servers. Thousands of Madntosh
and AIX technical applications will be
available to Poweropen customers, Apple
asserts. Because of the integration of A/UX,
Apple says Poweropen users will have access
to the Macintosh interface.
Apple, as part of its sales pitch for A/UX
version S.O, says A/UX S.O users can have
many of theplanned Poweropen features
today. Specifically outlined features in
version S.O include a Macintosh graphicsbased desktop, simultaneous access to
Madntosh, Unix, Posix, X Window System,

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S y s t em s Fou n d a tion/ M o tif
3SF/Motif from Integrated Computer
olutions), and Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS)
pplications using SoftPC from Insignia
alutions, Apple said.
Macintosh System 7 functionality is
rovided in A/UX, Apple said, as well as a
ew Finder for easier access to folders and
ocuments, a Data Access Manager for built1 access to remote databases, and the
alloon Help feature allowing users to learn
1 they work with A/UX. Apple also pointed
ut the availability of the Truetype font
tchnology allows users access to fonts in
ny point size in Macintosh documents and
1 the A/UX Unix command shell.
System 7 capability under A/UX also
rovides users with easier network access as
allows built-in file sharing, so a server is
ot needed and users can share Macintosh
nd/or Unix files with other network users,
,pple said.
A pple- also p oints ou t t h a t n e w
fsplications that take advantage of System
s Interapplications Communication (IAC)
iii allow users to keep information up-toate in automatic links between documents.
'he automatic links provide for changes in
ne document to be automatically reflected
tt another even on a network for
xample, a spreadsheet linked to a report,
o changes i n t h e s p r e adsheet a r e
utomatically refiected in the report.
Apple recently announced the Quadra
00 and 900 computing workstations based
n the Motorola 68040 central processing
hip, Apple says A/UX version S.O shines on
he Quadra, which has faster processing,
dgher storage capacity, on-board Ethernet
n d on-board video and i s a imed a t
nterprisewide computing customers.
,'ontact: Jackie Promes, Apple, Tel: 408-974609, Fax: 408-974-641 2.

"A Launches
promised Unix Push

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, NOV 8

NB) Following through on its statement
sst January that it would aim for a leading
rresence in the Unix market, Computer
tssociates has announced a dozen Unix
oftware products. They include systems
aanagement, database, and business
.pplications packageL
CA put particular emphasis on CAJnicenter for Unix, which came from a
:ooperative dc,velopment agreement the
;ompany announced with Hewlett-Packard
n January. CA-Unicenter is designed to
nanage Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX Unix
ystems. Its capabilities indude automated
torage management and production
:ontrol, data center automation, resource
tccounting, and security features. CAJnicenter will be available for HP-UX
ystc;ms in the first quarter of 1992, with
trices f'rom $4,500 to 448,000.
New database ofFerings include CA-DB
'or Unix, a relational database system
lesigned to work in a client-server setup
rith the company's CA-DBJPC Client
oftware or the newly announced CAlB/DAL Server for Unix, which links Apple
<Iacintosh computers to Unix systems.
available now for HP-UX, IBM RS/6000,
kTtcT StarServer, Digital Equipment VAX
tnd RISC Ultrix, and NCR/S000 systems,
A-DB for Unix costs $665 per user, with a
ninimum number of users on some systems.
~ A-DB/DAL S e rver c o sts 4 SSS p e r
ldacintosh user, and CA-DB/PC Client is
FSSS per PC user.
CA also announced CA-DB:Generator
'or Unix, a C l a n guage source code
Ienerator, available for the same list of
tystems as CA-DB at $665 per user.
CA said CA+byX, a recently announced
query-bycxample package for Microsoft
Windows, will let PC users query the Unix

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database system. CA+byX also provides a
link between the Unix database and CACompete, a f i n ancial m o delling and
spreadsheet package for Windows.
The announcements also indude a line
of business applications software for Unix.
The CA&lassie/Open suite includes payroll,
personnel, and benefits management
modules. Pricesrange from $85,000 to
$240,000depending on number of modules
and number of users. The software will be
available by the end of 1991 for HP-UX,
RS/6000, RISC Ultrix, and NCR/ 8 0 00
systems.
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DA R I U S

Sunsoft Ships First Solaris 2.0

Components

MO U N TAIN VIEW, CALlFORNIA, OCT

80 (NB) Sunsoft, a newly formed

subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, has begun

volume shipments of its first Solaria 2.0
operating system distributed computing
components. The two components are the
Openwindows version 8.0 application
development environment and Deskset
version 8.0 multimedia desktop metaphor
for the Spare platform.
Aimed toward developers for the Solaria
operating system, the two new components
operate in the Solaria 1.0 environment now,
and allow the opportunity for developers to
create applications that easily migrate to

Solaria 2.0, Sunsoft claims. Software

applications written using Openwindows
and Deskset components require only a
single recompilation to move from the
Solaria 1.0 environment to the Solaria 2.0
environment.
Sunsoft claims that Oracle, Cadence
Design Systems, Informix and the SAS
Institute have announced plans to use
Openwindows version 8.0 and Deskset
version 8.0 in their migration to Solaria 2.0.
- The company also claims more than 800
software developers are evaluating the
components.
In anotherannouncement to encourage
development for the Solaria 2.0 operating
system, Sunsoft has announced that it plans

PR OF ES SION AL .

to release the Openwindows Developer's

Guide 8.0 in December of this year. The
Openwindows Developer's Guide, already
available for Solaria 1.0, allows developers to
visually design interfaces using objects
without writing even a single line of code,
the company daims.
Sunsoft maintains that advantages to the
Openwindows Developer's Guide include
reduced development time and cost, while
creating a common Open Look interface for
applications developed for the Solaria
operating system.
Solaria, Sunsoft's operating system, is
based on AT&T's Unix operating system.
Sun Microsystems, the parent company o
Sunaoft, develops and manufactures the Sun
Sparcstation based on reduced instruction
set computer (RISC) technology.
The OpenWindows version 8.0 and
DeskSet version 8.0 c omponents are
available as a single package on a compact
disc and, as of December, will be induded as
a part of the Solaria 1.0 package.
According to the company, current
customers of Solaria 1.0 can upgrade to the
OpenWindows version 8.0 and DeskSet
version 8.0 with a right-torose license of $50.
The p r o ducts wit h m e d i a e n d -use
documentation are available for f125, while
the Developer's Guide is priced at $895 with
media anddeveloper documentation.

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( NB) Microsoft has announced th e
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the new version, Microsoft has explained the
new product incorporates multimedia in its
interface to the user, specifically in the
Online Tutorial and reference sections.
T he a d d i tion o f dig i t a l s o u n d
animation, and pictures is to make the
learning process easier and more engigmg,
Microsoft said.
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Microsof't said that users need a IBM or
compatible PC that meets the Multimedia
Personal Computer (MPC) standard, with
an addition. The addition is the computer
must have a minimum of a 886SX central
processing unit (CPU). Th e 'Windows
multimedia extensions have to be version
1.0.
Microsoft says that the Multimedia
version of Works For Windows is expected
to be on store shelves by the third week of
December of this year. Retail pridng is set at
$199.00, but sources at Microsoft said end.
user pricing is expected to be 25 percent
less.
More information is available from
Microsoft toll-Bee at (800) 4269400.

Contact Karen Meredith, Microsoft, Tel: 206i882

8080, Alison O' Brien, Waggener Edstrom, Tel
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Pros: near-photographic-quality, glossy paper, and scalable fonts. (More about scalable the C-Itoh 8510 are twe examples, aloag
ultra-smooth blends and gradients, moderately fonts later.)
with some oMer Okidata units and many
quiet, can be used fer some proofing tasks,
Another notguiteaspopular standard is others. In some cases, you may be able to
upgradeable, networkable
upgrade a printer with a new set of ROM
Cons: high equipment and per-pagecosls, limited that of the IBM Proprinter. The Propxiater
resolution, colors may appear shghtly muted or XL is the Spin medel, while the 24XL is the (readilymemory) chips. The C-Itoh 8510,
24-pin one. The IBM Graphic Printer' s for example can be converted inte a
dark.
reasonably E p son-compatible (IBM
name crops up fairly regularly, tooespecially
in
older
programs,
but,
like
many
Proprinter) machine by installing new
Color Laser
Pdce range: $28,000 to $62,000 (various options older printers, it suffers in the resolution ROMS, which also happen to give it a aew,
hnpreved NLQ font. (an unabashed plug: I
can push the priceto $150,000I)
and features departments.
Consumables: color toner, paper or transparency
happen to have an extra set of these ROMs;
There are printers on the marketSlm.
espedally oMer medels that are not Epson contact me for details).
Cost per page: $0.50
I also recoaunend against purchasing a
Pros: near-magazine-quality, smooth, vibrant or I B M Pr op r i n t er c o m p a tible. I
recommend avoiding any dot- second-hand dot-matrix printc;r, unless it
colors, moderately quiet, can be used for many categorically
proofing tasks, very low p e r-page cost, matrlx printer that is not compatible with has not sc.en much duty. Because; printers
upgradeabla, nil
e
one of the above names. The NEC 8025 and are largely mechanical items, there are
Cons: high equipment and connec&iity costs.

several key components that can and dowear out, especially the print head and
paperkeeding mechanisms. I have also seen
wear~drear problems with the belt and/or
gears that makes the prin-head move f'rom
sidewoeide.
Unfortunately, repladng a print +ca in
a dot-matrix printer is usually almest as
expenxive as buying a whole aew printer. For
example, I was recently quoted a price of
$210 for the parts aad installation of a
. replacement print head fer a printer that
now seHs for $199l
Note that printers generally do not come
with a c able fo r c o n necting to y o ur
computer's parallel pert. This cable is

There are also other high~ad output

devices that are outside the scope of this
article. Briefiy, some of the notable devices
include Canon's color BubbleJet, which caa
reproduce (and enlarge up to 20' x 50')
scanned or computergeaerated images ea
2' rolls of paper at a cost of about $18 per
22 x 55" section, ~ a l led continuous tone
imaging devices such as DuPent's 4Cast (an
11" x 17" print on photographic paper can
cost $40-$50), a n d i m a g esetters by
Linotronic, Agfa, Varitype and others for
ultra-high-resolution output to film or
paper. For most people, it is more practical
to consider having color and other higLend
output done at a service bureau. See the
March 1991 issue of 1%cGnspuxsr I'Oper for
more details on service bureaus in your area

First time-buyers
Most first-time computer buyers choose a
dot-matrix printer, usually for reasons of
economy. These printers are called dotmatrix because they form characters when a
series of moveable pins in the unit's printhead strike through an inked ribbon,
producing dots on the paper. The most
inexpensive aad common types are 9-pin,
while better models are usually' 24pin. The
designations ~in and 24pin refer to the
number of pins in the printhead, aot the
number of dots in each character.
Years ago,printe manufacturers found
that by moving the print-head slightly and
overprinting another series of dots, the
characterscould be made to look more solid
and, hence, less "dotty. T his is usually
referred te as near4etter quality (NL Q) or
LQ (letterguality), and today, virtually all
dot~trix printershave one or more hag
or LQ modes available.
When perusing the performance or
specifications of a printer, be sure te nete
which mode it is in. The SLster draft modes
of printers can be 200 characters per second
(CPS) or faster, but NLQ is usually much
slower but pxints with better quality.
Depending on the number of pins in the
pxint-head and the graphics mode they are
in, dot matrix printers have various graphics
resolutions. There are many possibiTities,
but some efthe common ones are:
9~ : 1 20 x 144> 240 x 144, 240 x 216
24pin: 360 x 360, 180 x 560, as above
Note that most printers are capable of
emulations of various printer standards
(Kpson FX, LQ and IBM Proprinter are
popular) and, as such, their resolutions may
Most dot matrix unitsarc equipped with
an industry-standard Centronics parallel
port, and many are said te be "Epson
compatible." With the myriad of models that
Epson has released over the years, this term
has all but lost any real sigaificance, unless
categorized by spedfic models, as in "Kpson
FXWO" or "Epson LQ-2500. T h e -FX is
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usually referred to as an IBM printer cable
(even ifyou are connecting an Amiga 5000
or Atari Tl'), and shouldn't cost more than
$20. It might also be called a Centronics
parallel cable. Ask your dealer what cable
you requirefor your computerkmd-printer
combo tf you are not sure.
Macintosh computers do not have a
parallel port, so some special considerations
are necessary (seeMadsrach Oprioas,later in
this article) if a parallelknterfaced printer is
to be used.
In office environments, dot matrix
printers are especially suitable for the
printing of invoices or other informational
d ocuments, listings, etc., where t h e
appearance of the text is not an important
consideration.
It is not appropriate to use a dot matrix
printer for producing graphics or text
intended for professional publishing,
resumes, important business letters or other
"formal" documents. Nor is a dot-matrix
printer appropriate in environments where
noise levels are an important consideration.
Two of the most popular dot matrix
brands are Raven and Panasonic. What a lot
of people don't know, is these are essentially
the same printers. In Canada, Raven simply
r epackages the Panasonic uni t i n a
cosmetically different case and sells it into a
different market than Panasonic pursues.
By far, these printers are the most
common in Western Canada, and the
availability of ribbons proves it. If you are
considering purchasing any printer, phone
around a dozen places or so and see if they
have ribbons (or, in the case of inkjets or
laser p r i n t ers, t h e cor r e sponding
consumables) in stock. You' ll soon see
which models are market leaders. Avoid
units with hardko8nd supplies.
Mac versions of the Raven pxinters are
also available, complete with a paralielkoserial adapter cable and an OEM version of
GDT's PrintLink software, discussed in
Macintosh options.

and several so-called "color dithering'

choices, which help to create the imusion of
thousands or even millions of colors by
creatmg patterns ar clusters of dots.
Drivers for a wide variety of color
printers are available for the Amiga. Some
are included with the system, and many are
available from third parties and sources such
as GEnie, CompuServe and other BBSes.
The Fred Fish PD/shareware collection has
a large selection of drivers.
System4evel drivers are also available for
the Atari ST that allow anything mewed onscreen to be output in monochrome or
color. An Epson FX driver is standard with
the system; color drivers are available from
user groups and PD software sources.
The Mac, too, has some system-level
support fo r c o l o r p r i n t ing. A p p l e's
LaserWriter driver supports color PostScript,
but even the venerable ImageWriter II
printer can be equipped with a fourwolor
ribbon. When used with software called
MacPalette II (U S$69) by Microspot, it
outputs color at 144 dpi. A color driver for
the ImageWriter also ships with Adobe
PhotoShop 2.0.
Mac drivers are also available for many
thirdyarty color solutions, including other
color dot-matrix units (the Epson JXWO is
supported by the Grappler and GDT's
e xcellent P r i n t L in k s o f tware), t h e
aforementioned HP offerings, and virtually
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Secondhand laser printers are not quite

as problematic as dotknatrix units, although,
as Chris Small from Superior Laser Supply
points out, used ones can be hard to Snd.
Many companies, he says, just give it to
workers in another department when
upgrading. Small says that laser printers
generally have a good resale value.
The drum component of a laser printer
(the cylinder that carries the toner to the
paper) is an expensive component that
requires replacement periodically. Drums
Color Dot-matrix
can cost upwards of $250, and sometimes
Although color is an option on several are part of the toner cartridge assembly.
brands of dot-matrix printers (A'pple, .
Laser printers also consume toner as part
Citizen, C-Itoh, Epson and Fujitsu come to of the printing process. Replacement toner
mind), my experience has been that the cartridgesrange from about $50 to $265
quality leaves much to be desired. Users who (although the drum "tunektp kit" for the
only need to put a line of text in red or blue Qume is a whopping $900). Laser printers
may find dot-matrix color acceptable, but that use Canon engines can take advantage
for graphics, forget it. Unless you will be of wldelyevailable recycled cartridges. (Vista
content with uneven patches and bands of Laser says it will also recycle IBM, Minolta
color with varying intensities, save your cartridges.)
money for a color inkjet instead.
Not only are these cartridges better for
You need software to print multicolor the environment and less expensive, but in
images. Unless you will be content with signs somes cases, they even produce better
that are all red or all blue (in which case you quality than the originals. Superior Laser,
could have just bought a colored ribbon for f or e x ample, s e ll s w ha t i t ca l l s a
your black~dkvhite printer), you' ll only be "supercharged cartridge" that promises
able to o u t pu t f r o m p r o grams that blacker print than that of a new one. Solid
specifically support the color-selection blacks, of courseare important if you are
commands of your printer. In the case of planning to reproduce laser output via
DOS, printer drivers tend to be application- traditional methods such as offset press or
specific. If, for example, you wanted to print photocopier.
a color banner from The New Pmtt Shop,
Remanufactured cartidgesare available
you'd have to make sure that your color with an enhancement sometimes called a
printer was supported by that particular "Super D r u m . " T h is rep l a cement
program.
drum/toner cartridge assembly is available
In
Win d o ws , t hi n g s imp r o v e for any Canon SX engine (used in Hewlettc onsiderably. Because, u n lik e D O S , Packard Series II, IIP, III, +MS PS Series,
W indows supplies a m e t hod fo r t h e Apple LaserWriters and m an y o t h er
operating system to share resources amongst printers). The $115 Super Drum produced
compliant applications, it is possible to have clearly superior output to that of a standard
one printer driver used by all Windows drum in fact, during our tests, I picked a
programs (although all features might not Super Drum-produced page as being
be exploited by a particular application).
superior to that of a 6$Mpi printer at least
Many color printer manufacturers include on first glance. Although a dose inspection
drivers for Windows and the most popular revealed the inevitable jaggies in the %0dpi
DOS applications.
unit's output, The Super Drum produced
System-level drivers are available for clearly superior toner dispersion, with
many computers. For example, a color crisper edges and less toner "splatter." Most
printer selected by the Amiga's Preferences vendors warrant Super Drums for several
tool is available to all programs that call the recharges (refiUing with toner). Said to last
standard A m i g a s y stem r e s ources. at least 40% longer than the OEM part,
Preferences supports a variety of printing Super Drums are rated for 40,000 pages.
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The life expectancy of any printer,

w hether d ot-matrix, i n kj et, l a ser o r
o therwise i s u s ually s t ated b y t h e
manufacturer (sometimes as MTBF or mean
time between failures), along with its
recommended duty cycle (i . e ., w h a t
percentage of the time ia it actually used, or
how many pages will be pxinted per month).
It is important to have a printer that is
capable of standing up to the tasks you
require of it. Most inexpensive printers are
lightAuty units that 'are not appropriate for
steady use, day-in, day-out, as might be
required of a heavyeduty office machine.
Canon engines a workhorse at many
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A good dot matrix printer should have a
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printhead lasting 200 million strokes per
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Another consideration is the cost of
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thc. PaintJet models and the Desk
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PaintJets have a maximum resolution of 180
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text. at 800 dpi.
The second major differenf:e is the way
that the units print black during color
printing. The PaintWxiter has a fourwolor
ink system -(cyan, magenta, yellow, and
black), whereas the DeskJet C uses only
three: cyan, magenta, and yellow. This
means that the DeskJet C must simulate
black by overprinting all three colors.
Fortunately, when all-black pages are
required, the DeskJet C can substitute a
single black ink cartridge. This arrangement
does, however make "mostly-black pages
somewhat inconvenient. Like all inkjet
printers, these units benefit from smooth
paper stock (I' ve found HammerMill Laser
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print on plain paper and transparency film.
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SBLudging.
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Figure 2(b). An enlargement of the same file, output from a MicroSoft Truelmage interpreter.

Outline Fonts

One of the biggest trends in printing is

the use of scalable outhne fontL Once only
found in the domain of expensive units such
as PostScript pr inters, scalable f ont
technology has gradually filtered down to
the mass market. HP now supports outline
fonts through its PCLS language, and
scalable fonts are available as software for
virtually all computers. The newest Epson
dot-matrix printers even include scalable
fonts as a built-in feature, or you can use
outline fonts with the help of software fxom
a wide variety of sources. In actual practise,
it matters little which method you choose. I
generally prefer softwme~ d f o n ts, which
makes it easy to add or remove fonts, or
improve the driver as software technology
improves. On the other hand,hardwarebased solutions are often faster and less
troublesome to set up and maintain.
Software outline font options include
Adobe Type Manager for Wmdows and the
Mac, Bitstream FaceLift (for PC), and all
software PostScript implementations (see
PostScriptErarslexioa Sopusrroon this pageEd.). The forthcoming Windows S.l will
reportedly indude TrueType, a scalable font
technology already available as standard
System software on Apple-brand machines.
In all cases, be sure that the applications
you use support the chosen outline font
technology. For example, ATM for Windows
only wor~
s t h en ame suggests in the
Windows environment, so DOS WordPexfect
users would be better off with FaceLift.
Hardware options for outline fonts
indude HPGL 5 and Adobe PostScxipt (and
its dones).
When it comes to PostScript, I prefer
hardware-based interpreters as opposed to
software implementations. I am often asked
which PostScript cartxidge I recommend. I
categorically recommend a true Adobe
PostScript interpreter, preferably one that
supports (or is upgradeable to) PostScript
Level 2. I have seen too many third-party
PostScript clone anomalies to trust any of
t hem. I f t h e r e a r e a n y v e n d ors o r
manufacturers out there that think they
have a perfect done, send it to us, and well
torturotest it...but be forewarned: none but
Adobe's have ever passed all the tests. One
of the toughest for many clones is a file
available in CompuServe's DTP forum
called LYLES.EPS. Figure 2(a) shows how an
Adobe interpreter prints it; Figure 2(b)
shows how the same file (enlarged to show
the detail) p r i n ted w it h M i c r osoft's
TrueImage PostScript clone. Note the
bizarre anomaliesl There may be other
problems, too, including font outlines that
do not match Adobe's.

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PostScript EmulationSoftware

There are several programs, both

commercial and freely-available, that
pexform a software emulation of PostScript.
The best of these is Freedom of the
Press, for PC and Mac. It supports
e 1
fonts. (For more info on what a Type 1 font
is, see the glossary at the end of this artide.)
F reedom o f t h e P r ess comes i n a n
inexpensive hte" version, supporting most
opular monochrome printers,for about
100, and a full-blown professional version
t hat s u p ports c o lo r pr i n t er s a n d
imagesetters, too. With the proper interface,
it can even turn a Canon color laser copier
into a 4(Odpi PostScript printerl
UltraScxipt, also available for the PC as
RavenScript, still does not support Type 1
fonts, even though Adobe went pubhc with
the Type 1 file format over a year ago.
Versions of Ul~
pt a r e also available for
the Mac and Ataxi ST/Tl'.
I recently tested a freely available
interpreter called GhostScript (for Unix, PC
and Atari ST). It supports Type 1 fonts and
can display PostScript output to the screen.
Unfortunately, it has the kind of user
interface that only a Unix guru could lovefull of command line batch files, parameters
and "/" switches. Versions are available on
GEnie and UseNet, but be forewarnedGhostScript is big. Eapect to spend a couple
of hours downloading it.
Other software PostScript clones include
C ompoScript a n d GoS c r ip t (bo t h
c ommercial p r o ducts f o r t h e PC ) ,
PixelScript (Amiga, commercial), Post
(Amiga, shareware) and Teletypesetting's TScxipt (Mac). One interesting feature of TScript is its ability to act as a network node,
so that other Macs on a network can print to
TNcript as if it was a standard Mac laser
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InIrjet (SIrN)
DeakJet 500 {500 dpi). At less than
8500 these days, the DeskJet 500, and its
predecessors the DeskJet Plus and original
DeskJet, are popular alternatives to midrange 24-pin dot matrix printers and lowend laserL The DeskJets have excellent print
quality that dosely resembles laser output,

never want to hear another dot-matrix

scf earner agahl
To its credit, HP retroactively extended
the warranty on all DexkJets to 5 years, and
shipped a free kit to all DexkJet owners who
requested it that improved the efficiency
and life of the ink cartridge. It also has
maintained an upgrade policy that allows
owners of older models to upgrade to the
new, improved models for a very reasonable

C anon
Bu b b l J
e et B J l o o and
StyteWritor Whisper~ilent, the BJ10e is
about th e size o f a s m al l n o t ebook
computer, and, at 560 dpi, prints with
quahty that rivals or even surpasses that of
laser printers costing ten times as much.
Speed or lack thereof can be a

model. The HP spokesperson I spoke to

didn't have an exact figure available, but
'said it was between 8500 and 8400. With
olicies like that, this company got my
em
For Macs,an AppleTaikmquipped model
called the DeskWxiter is available. It, too, is

four fonts, pexfoxxnance drops substantially.

The StyleWriter took an abysmal 22 minutes
to accomplish this test. For comparison, an
HP DeskWriter did it in a little over 6

sobc.ring thought. The BJlOe and its Apple

equivalent, the StyleWriter, manage only

about 5 pages per minute when printing

fee. This policy even applies to upgrading a text. When set to a gxaphtcs4ntensive task,
DeskJet 500 to the newest DeskJet C color such as a fouryage Excel spreadsheet with

minutes and a +MS-PS 410 {PostScript)

laser printer took only 5 minutes. Similarly,

a fivegage Word document contatnhtgfour
good paper handling, fairenvelope upgradeable to a color model. According to fonts took 15 minutes on the StyleWriter,
handling.and reasonable speed (except the the company, the upgrades require sending but only 5.5 minutes on the DexkWxiter and
two on the laser.
old original DeskJet, which was as slow as the unit to HP for modifications.
Although I know several people who
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several problems during my tests. Most
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distortions in the printouts produced by the
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The unit uses water-soluble ink that
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Unlike the HP inkjet pxinters, the BubbleJet
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Low-cost Lasers: Best Buys

Under 3800
OkiLaser 400 (See review, Oct 91). LED
engine, comes with a good selection of
fonts. A best buy, espedally if you purchase
thirdgarty RAM. Note that this additional
RAM is required for full~ge graphics.
Under $1100
Epson EPL-7000. Using a M i n o lta
engine, this fast printer has good print
quality. RAM upgrades are inexpensive (it
uses commonly available SIMMs.) It has
trouble with envelopes, despite its nearly
straight paper path.
Under S1600
HP's IIIp has new PCL level 5, scalable
fonts, an d r e s olution e n h ancement
technology (RET) for better print quality.
The new 4029 series of printers from
IBM/Lexmark, ' including th e $ 1 5 9 5
LaserPrinter Se, also have a feature similar
to RET.

PostScript Lasers

I n a test conducted by NSTL for th e

April 1990 PostScript laser printer issue of
PC Digs' t Ratings Rcpmt,seven of the most
popular modelswere compared and rated
for overall performance. The results were as
f ollows (higher i s b e t t er, w it h 1 . 0 0
representing the average):
1.60 Epson EPL-7500
1A6 Apple LaserWriter II NTX
1 .16 QMS ~ 1 0
1.16 Texas Instruments MicroLaser PS35
1.05 NEC Silentwriter2 Model 90
.92 Hewlett-Packard Laserlet Series III
.75 Apple Personal LaserWriter NT
The Epson's RISC processor gives it the
blazingly fast performance that rates so
highly in the performance test. All of the
o ther machines ar e b a sed o n C I S C
processors typically a Motorola 680xo
series CPU.
When rated according to overall output
quality, a different picture emerges (based
on a subjective zero to 10 scale; higher is
better):
8.4 H ewlett-Packard Laserlet Series III
8.0 Epson EPL-7500
6.6 A p ple LaserWriter II NTX
6.4 NEC Silentwriter2 Model 90
5.8 QMS PS-410
5.8 A pple Personal LaserWriter NT
5.6 Texas Instruments MicroLaser PS35
Although the HP LaserJ et III's RET
(resolution enhancement technology) gives
r exacts a
it the best-looking output, it
performance penalty. Nevertheless, we still
rate it a best buy.
Of course, at the rate the computer
industry moves, several of these companies
now have new, improved models on the
market (@MS has the 600Api PS-815R;
Apple has the LaserWriter IIf and Ilg with
vastly improved handling of gray scales and
other enhancements; TI has new, faster
models of the MicroLaser it calls the
MicroLaser XL Turbo, etc.)

Best Buys
Any of these models is an excellent
choice. Overall, the Epson is the top-rated
unit and a best buy. Based on a Minolta
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model dubbed theEPL-7000 (which may be
upgraded at a later date). The only problem
I have found with the Epson is its poor
performance when printing envelopes
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path, they tend to wrinkle and have poor
print quality). For this reason, I only
recommend it if pdnting envelopes is not an
important requirement.
For those wanting the best unit for
printing envelopes, look no further than the
IBM Model 30 (one of the LaserPrinter
4029 sreies). With its optional automatic
envelope feeder, it has a mechanism that
spreads the fuser rollers and blows air in the

envelope's path. Sure enough, they feed

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smoothly and more reliably than any other
unit we have tested. The Model 50, like
several other new PostScript printers from
IBM, has a maximum resolution of 600 dpi
For users who want the beat gray scales
fiom a 500dpi printer, the LaserWriters lIf
and IIg are worth checking out. However,
according to M a lcolm Powell at Byte
Computers. both PageMahm 4.1 and Qmrk
XPreas 5.0 currently have trouble with their
"PhotoGrade" gray scales.

Macintosh options: using PC

printers on a Mac

option...or is there) Despite font outlines

that are not as well~awn as those of its
Because Macs lack a parallel port, most aforementioned competition, Expressive
+MS printers. Both mades can be hooked Apple dealers will tell you that you must f onts have one b enefit t hat may b e
up simultaneously, and the printer switches either use an Applnspecific (serial) printer aignificant to Mac users with 1MB machines.
automatically, evm when the optional HPGL
or one that connects via AppleTalk, the PrintLink and JetLink's Expressive Fonts
plouer emulation card is used.
create smooth fonts at any size on your
Mac's builtm network connector.
Some other pxmters, such as IBM's 600.
One alternative method is to use a printer, but are not used. to draw the fonts
dpi Model 50, have automatic emulation
o n-screen,
hen c e , the
m emor y
parallel-toaerial converter, such as PaxxxLink
switching (software is retiuired), but can
r
equirements
ar
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m
u
c
h
l
o
wer
than
or Grappler, and an appropriate printer
only switch ports via the fiont paneL
TrueType or ATM, even in their minimum
driver. These components, available for
between one and two hundred dollars, allow configurations. Even those with so little
Under $2000
Best Graphics
ou to use virtually any printer with a Mac. memory (or ao many system extensional)
NEC SsentWriter 2 Model. 90 Rated a
Although the LaserWriter IIf and llg
ot only does this jve you a greater choice that PrintLink can't work in conjunction
BestBuy in our March 1991 issue (worth a have compatibility problems with the
of printers, but you ll often save money, too. with ATM will find that their printouts need
read if you' re interested in more details current versions of the two top Mac DTP
not suffer if they try Expressive Fonts
about desktop publishing or the vartous applications, once these problems are
PrlntLink In general, these are the beat instead. Of colxrse, those with enough RAM
laser printers on the market), this PostScript ironed out, I w i l l h ave n o p r oblems
to use ATM or True Type should do so.
drivers for most dot-matrix printers. One
printer is still a solid performer and pxiced recommending them. As the figure at the
PxintLink and JetLink work admirably with
caveat: be careful, when examining the
lower than ever.
lef't shows, the PhotoGrade outputs beats compatibility list, to aee if the printer is them. See the June 1991 issue of Thc
Texaa Instruments MicroLaaer Based even that of a QXMpi printer.
supported in its native" mode. The 24pin Geaputcr Paper for a full review of JetLink
on the Sharp engine, memory upgrades and
Fujitsu DL8400, for example, isn' t, and can ExpresL
other supplies for this PoatScxipt pxinter are Best bang for the buck
Steve Gully of GDT Softworks said the
widely available locally and by mailwrder.
There is a dear trend towards higher only be used when it is emulating a 9pin
company had "no plans" to produce a
Epson or IBM. This causes the printer to
resolution output, 400- and 6OMpi engines
output graphics 8c fonts (sent Rom the Mac) driver to allow the DeskJet C to be used on
In INixed Environments
are becoming common and some, such as
the Mac, as it has done so sucesslally in the
+MS 1%410 unusually fast graphics t he Pro-II a n d P r o -II I m o d el s f r om of lower quahty than it should.
past with its JetLink Express for the
Worse,
the
print
comes
out
the
wrong
performance and a slick feature called PxintWare, go as high as 1200 dpi.
monochrome DeskJet, LaaerJet, BubbleJet
automatic emulation and port switching
Upgrade options are available for some size, causing margins to display smaller onand other normally PCwnly printers. He
screen
than
the
final
printed
version
and
makes this printer one of the best in an pxinters (usually those that use Canon SX or
indicated that they are "considering it,"
other
annoyances.
A
good
24pin
printer
environment where multiple users might be LX engines) to increase the resolution. For
though.
sending it a combination of PCL4 (the IBM and compatibles, DP-Tek, Inc. has one should be able to pxint at a resolution of
In other GDT news, the company is
560
x
180
or
560
x
560
in
24pin
mode,
but
"native tongue" of an HP LaserJet SeriesIl) of the better ones I' ve seen. Its PostScriptmay only work at 120 x 144 in Spin mode. planning an upgrade ofthe JetLink and
a nd PostScript commands. O n m o st compatible PCmnly interface prints 256
As with just about everything else, though, PrintLink software to coindde with the Jan
printers, you would have to manually set the shades of gray at 600 x 600 dpi.
'91 MacWorld Expo. At that time the
printer to receive data on, say, the parallel
At 600 dpi, the $6,695 QMS 815MR and remember that specs aren't as important as company hopes to release a version that is
how
it
is
to
use
and
how
the
end
product
IBM 4029 series (600Api models start at
featurewompatible with its enhanced
$2,595), and the new 12(e x SO%pi LBP4 looks.
BetterWriters pxinter drivers (now available
Plus ($1595) and LBP-8 Plus ($18'lg)
as a replacement driver for standard Apple
JetLink
Expreaa

For
my
money,
the
models from Canon'represent the next
pxinters).
best
product
of
its
kind
by
fiu.
The
product
generation of laser printers. It is interesting
The company also hinted at future
to note that their prices are approximately supports the HP LaserJet, DeskJet and
developments that wiill allow PC printers to
Canon
laser
and
BubbleJet
pxmtera
equivalent to what 500-dpi PostScript
be used with increased efficiency on
New that Apple is giving away
models were selling for only a year ago. In
standalone Macs and networks.
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ATM Adobe Type Manager. A system
extension for Macintosh and Windows
computers that allows PostScript Type I
outline fonts to be used on display and
output devices. Included with new Macs, and
soon to be incorporated into System '7.l.
AppleTalk a network standard built into
every Macintosh. At 275 kilobits per second,
Appletalk is slow compared to many other
networking standardL
Centronics the name of a company that
devised the D-shaped parallel connector
found standard on most prints,m.
CISC complex instruction set computer.
Intel's 80x86 series and Motorola's 680xO
s eries CPUs ar e e x a mples o f C I S C
processors. Motorola processors are found in
many laser printers, often a 16MHz 68020 or
68080. Not as fast as equivalent RISC
processors See also RISC.
CMYK cyan, magenta, yellow, black. The
process by which colors are printed via ofizet
press and most color printers. The "K" is to
difFerentiate black kom the B usually used
to denote blue, as in RGB.
Dot Matrix a process in which text and
graphics are formed when a mechanical
printhead causes tiny pins to strike the paper
through an ink~vered or carbon ribbon.
Dye-sublimation an emerging c o l or
printing process (long used in the screenprinting business) where a special solid ink is
vaporized onto the page. The term dyesublimation refers to the fact that the dye, a
translucent solid ink, does not become
liquid, but turns directly from solid to
gaseous and back again (similar to the way
dry ice evaporates). Dyeeublimation printers
produce photographic~ality images.
Ethernet a networking standard common
in the Unix world, and standard on new laser
printers and h;gh-end computers from
Apple. Ethernet is available as an option for
virtually all computers. Because of its higher

throughput, it is prferable to slower network

standards such as the Macintosh's built-in
Apple Talk
HPGL Hewlett-Packard graphics language;
the command language of HP plotters.
Sometimes available. as an emulation option
for laser printers, enabling them to output
drawings from computer-aided design
applications such as AutoCAD.
Imagesetter typically a digital graphics and
photo-typesetting machine capable of
producing extremely highquality PostScript
output in a process often referred to as
"outputting it to Lino" (a contraction of the
brand name Linotronic). Imagesetter ouput
can be to film or photographic paper, at
various resolutions, including 1270, 2450 or
3300 dots per inch.
Inkjet a type of printer in which ink is
sprayed onto the page, either by thermal
vaporization or via a hydraulic pump.
MHz megahertz. Often referring to the
speed at which a CPU operates, the term
means millions of cycles per second.
Pantone a color-matching system.
Paralel a port found on printers and most
computers. So called because data fiows from
the computer to the printer on several wires
simultaneously. See also Centronics.
PCL4 Hewlett-Packard's printer control
language found on LaserJet Series II (and
compatible) laser printers.
PCL5 an updated printer control language
with impmved graphics abiTities and scalable
font support.
PostScript a page description language
developed by Adobe Systems. PostScript is an
interpreted, stack-based language said to
resemble Forth. PostScript has various
version numbers; the newest is called
PostScript Level 2. It has improved support
for color and enhancements such as data
c ompression, w h il e r e m a ining f u l l y
compatible with L e vel I co m m a nds,

according to Adobe.
At this writing, only a few machines with
Level 2 interpreters are available, but their
performance would seem to validate Adobe's
claims.
There is also a version of PostScript
optimi.ed for screen displays, called Display
PostScript. It is used on the NeXT and some
other computers. Reportedly, the new
operating system in development by the
Apple/IBM a l l i ance will u s e D i splay
PostScript.
Many current printers have a PostScript
(Level I) version known as 52.3 which, like
Level 2, uses an improved font-rendering
algorithm called Adobe Type Manager.
Older printers such as the original Apple
LaserWriter had early PostScript revisions
that contained certain bugs; many PostScript
clones also contain anomalies from "true"
Adobe PostScript.
RISC reduced instruction set computer. A
type of CPU that typically delivers faster
performance than CISC processors. Weitek
makes a RISC processorfound in many of
the fastest laser printers.
Serial a communications standard in which
data is sent serially, one bit at a time. Several
serial standards exist, including RM32, RS422 and MIDI.
A bisectional seriallink often relies on the
communicating devices sending signals such
as "ready to send" and "clear to send" to
control the fiow of data.
All Apple Macintosh computers have two
serial ports for connecting to devices such as
printers and modems. IBM compatible and
most other computers may have one, two or
more, bu t u s ually u t i lize a p a r a l lel
connection for the printer. PCs can also use
a serial printer, but because of the necessity
of setting up baud rates, start and stop bits,
flow control and other settings, PC users may
find serial printers more complicated to set

up than parallel ones.

Thermal trasssfer a process in which a waxy
film of (usually colored) material is heated
by a thermal printhead, drum or other print
element. Most thermal transfer printers uses
separate rolls for each of the four colors, but
some use only one. The heat transfers the
color from an acetate carrier, usually to a
special smooth paper. Because the color is
transferred Rom the film during printing, a
roll of the color material can only be used
once, hence the consumable costs are sluite

high.
Truelmage MicroSoft's PostScript level I
done. Our tests reveal certain anomalies in
its PostScript emulation.
TrueType ohipping with System 7 and
freely available as a system extension for
System 6 on the Macintosh, and soon to be a
part of Windows S.l on the PC, TrueType
displays outline fonts onwcreen, and outputs
them to the printed page. See also ATM.
Type I f ont a PostScript font format
defined by Adobe, now therfofacto outline
font standard on most computers. Type I
fonts may have "hints," which help define
their shapes at low output resolutions. CI
Contact: Adobe Systems Inc., 415/961-4400;
Apple Canada, 416/477-5800; Benndorf Verster
(Canon vendor) 604/872-0131; CalComp,
416/635-9010; Canon, 604/278-1431; Citizen
America, 416/498-3636; Colorlmage Canada, Inc.,
604/669-8341; DP-Tek, 1-800-727-3130; Andy
Yacob, Epson Canada,416/881-9955; Fujitsu
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Softworks, 604/291-9121; Hewlett-Packard, 1800-387-3867; for IBM printers, call Lexmark at
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We all have little secrets, and while most

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polite company.
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category of secret pleasures. Few people
admit doing it, yet millions of PC games are
bought each year, and all the research done
on who is doing the buying agrees on the
same fact. Computer games are mostly
purchased and p l ayed by ad ults.
Children and teens buy their share, to be
sure; but the average PC game player is well
into adulthood. That person could very well

be you.

Think about sex aftermarriage for a

moment. That'slong enough. Few people
come right out and talk about doing it, but
babies are born all the time. It's the same
situation with PC games; adults don't come
right out and talk about playing and
enjoying them, but more and more are
being bought all the time. We' re not
psychologists or sociologists able to draw
fine theory out of contradictory evidence.
We' re just two guys who work with personal
computers in order to make a living. We
don't know why PC games are a secret sin
and a guilty pleasure. We do know that we
spend more time playing them than we mn
comfortably confess. We suspect the same
could be true for you.
Don't worry about it. It's okay for grownups to relax and have fun occasionally. It' s
good for you. It relieves stress. It's healthy. It
makes you more productivein the office
(see below). There's absolutely nothing to
feel guilty about.
We can hearsome of you right now. You
are saying that you never play computer
IameL Never. Well, sometnnes a httle btt of
fill in th e n ame of th e game you' re
thinking of here."
And that's the point of this book nearly
everybody can fill in that blank. Many of us
can fill it in more than once. A book that
made sense of all those names, and all the

different kinds of PC games was necessary,

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Games in the Office:

Dvorak's View

Games in the office are too often

condemned by management. The litany is
simple: You can probably find better things
to do with your time. Worse, you may
accidentally release a nasty virus on the
network thus upsetting corporate bigwigs
and fellow employees, especially if files are
destroyed.
The fact is that in most places the
sanction against game playing in the ofSce is
as result of a general prudishness and
underlying fear that an employee may
actually be enjoying his time there.
When I was the editor at Iafowerkf, I'd
encourage the reporters to play games as
much as they wanted and as often as they
wantc.d. Writer after writer, when feeling
burned out or su6ering f'rom writer's block
(or just plain bored), would traipse into the
socalled "game lab" and play games for as
long as she or he wished.
The first thing we discovered was this
simple fact: when people take time out f'rom
their work to relieve stress, they make up for
it with better quality work, and they work
longer too.
Since then, I' ve talked to over 1000
people who play games in the off ice an,
without exception, they are the most
producfive employees. I' ve sense:d increased
sensitivity and improved intelligence among
them. I suspect that their IQs have somehow
increased through t hi s activity, too,
although I c a n' t p r ove it . P erhaps a
government study should look into the
mauer.
Games do exercise the intellectual facets
of the brain. They require problem~Diving,
hand-eye coordination, and complex
thinking. These aspects are fine tuned and
carriedover to humdrum day-tra y office
work
The game player is more creative and a
more forward thinker in the modern office.
He or she is destined to go to the top.
Ahnost all multimillionaires who run today' s
gigantic software companies are avid game
players. Ask them.
Executives take note: Games in the office
are a route to improved productivity.
Employees should be required to take as
many game breaks as they can manage. In
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minutewo~ u t e activities, we recommend
that corporations make their employees log
into the game machines and show a certain
number ofhours per week of game playing.
It's the patriotic thing to do.
As for the fear of viruses, a company can
set up computers dedicated to games and
place them throughout the office.
If we are to beat the Japanese in the
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Without prepcr fire protection, fires burn
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Clther challenges include responding to
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Why These Are Special

Carmen Sandiego is one of the most
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Introduc
tion

but so far they have spent only a little

touting Magellan. Technical people have
probably ignored Magellan, thinking that,
because Lotus wrote it, it must be fat and
slow and ponderous. It is large, but graceful,

This month I am going to tell you about

three eagles, a turkey, and Microsoft
Windows. My picks for the best utilities of
1991 are Magellan,Stacker and DES @view.
The turkey is Central Point's PC Tools.
Windows is simultaneously brilliant,
infuriating and complicated so I will leave
that for last.

like a Disney dancmg hippo.

I use MageQan many times a day. It is xny
one indispensable utility. When I tell you
what Magellan does, you will probably say to
yourself, I don't need that. People who
had never used electricity thought the same
thing. You have to use it before you realize
why you need to uae it.
Let us first exainine soine if its niore
mundane capabilities before I get into the
real reason you would want it.

Magellan
I really like Magellan. It is like a tropical
paradise that. the tourists have not yet
discovered. Lotus (the people who brought
you the 1-2-8 spreadsheet) wrote Magellan.
Lotus has an unhmited advertising budget,

Magellan as File Manager

Magellan is much like +DOS, Norton

Commander, DOSShell, PC Tools desktop,

XTREE, File Director, etc. in that it lets you
copy, move, delete, vie~ rename and print
files using a simplified menu system. You
just point the cursor at filenames and hit
function keys.
It abo lets you create, delete, copy and
move whole directories. So far, nothing
special until you look at its polish. For
example, it warns you when you are copying
a file on top of another of the same name. It
gives you fuH details about both of the iles
to decide which one to keep. It will even
give you a hst of differences in the two files.

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Magellan has Sle viewers. If you look at a

spreadsheet Sle for example, you don't see
hexadecimal giMaerish, you see much the
same as you would see if you had loaded the
file into the spreadsheet program. Magellan
has over forty viewers to handle most of the
major types of file. Prograimners can buy a
toolkit to write your new viewers, so even
more viewers are available from third
parties. Some competing products (e.g.
Norton Commander) also have viewers, but
cannot handle as many Sle types.
The advantage of a viewer is that you can
see the contents of a file in a fraction of a
s econd. In c o n trast, to l oad a l a r g e
spreadsheet into the spreadsheet program
might take minutes.
When Magellan is displaying a list of
files, you just hit a single key, the down
arrow, to have a peek at the contents of the
next file. Magellan's designers worked hard
to keep the keystrokes to a minimum.
One special piece of magic is that
Magellan viewers can see inside compressed
2XPfiles without having to decompress them
first. You can treat compressed files alinost
the same as uncompressed ones. In
addition, you can compress and decompress
with a single keystroke. Compressed files
take up much less disk space.

Magellan as File Finder

However, Magellan's forte is Qnding

things. Here is an exainple. You named your
file INIERCOM.BAT but you cannot even
remember what drive you put it on, much
less the directory. You can ask Magellan to
searchevery drive,and every directory for it,
and in a twinkling there they all are. (You
might have several files with the same
name.) Magellan can find files much more
quickly than other utilities such as Norton
FileFind because Magellan maintains its own
upcoAate private index of files. Magellan
uses efiicient techniques to keep that index
up to date without wasting time rebuilding it
f'rom scratch the way some competitors do.

Magellan asLookup Engine

Other programs can find files, even if

more slowly, but they cannot handle the
following tougher problem.
Let us say you have S,OOO invoices, each
prepared with a word processor. You want to
get hold o f a c u s toiner. You canno
remember his name. All you can remember
is that he lived on a street that reminded
you of royalty; it could have been King
Edward, George, Charles, Elizabeth or
perhaps Andrew/Andrews.
You hit the F9 "explore." key. Then you
narrow down the types of file of interest.
Y ou select "invoices" on t h e m e n u .
Magellan's presets know which drives,
directories, and extensions potentially
contain invoices. Then you type in the
following list of words "King Edward George
Charles Elizabeth Andrew,"
In a few seconds Magellan will give you a
list of invoiceswith the best matches sorted
near the top. To view each invoice, hit the
down arrow key.When you find the one you
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s

Stacker and Olive Oyl

In a classic Popeye cartoon, Olive Oyl
peered into an Arab's small tent. Inside was
a huge palatial room. She was just as puzzled
as I was about how Stacker could pull off
this magic feat.
Here is how it works. Let us say you have
an 80 MB disk formatted with DOS 5.0 as a
single C: partition. You allow Stacker to
create
a
60
MB
fil e
cal led
CMTACKVOL.000. This leaves 20 MB on
t he C :
pa r t i t io n f o r oth e r fi l e s .
STACKVOL.000 is a perfectly ordinary file
you can copy, back up, view etc.
At the same time, a brand new D: drive
mysteriously appears on your system. If you

does Stacker manage to squeeze 120 MB of Stacker is Boring

data into a 60 MB file? It takes advantage of
Using Stacker is boring because you
the fact you repeat yourself in most of your simply ignore it. You never even type any
files. It makes up abbreviations for your
commands to it. You just treat it as if you had
common words and phrases, and shortens an extra disk partition or extra disk drive.
the text byapplying these abbreviations.
However, I like boring utilities. They just
It automatically and tr ansparently work.
abbreviates (compresses) and fluffs up
(expands) as you read and write the D: disk Stacker's Catches
Some files it can compress tenfold this way.
There are three catches:
Some it cannot compress at all (e.g., ones
1. Stacker software takes up 40K of RAM.
already compressed with PkZip). However,
Stacker Compression
You can load this into memory above
Stacker is storing all the information on on average it can compress to half size. It
640K, though.
the &ke 120 MB D: drive inside that 60 MB can compress all types of files including' 2. Stacker extracts a slight speed penalty for
COM, EXE, WK1 spreadsheet and GIF
STACVOL.000 fil
e on C:.
its use.
That still does not solve the mystery. How graphics files.
S. If the files are already compressed, they
won't compressany further and Stacker
does you no good.
It takes Stacker time to compress and
expand the data as you use it. To my great
surprise, Stacker volumes sometimes read
faster than ordinary volumes. This is because
Stacker can read a tiny bit of densely packed
information from the slow hard disk, then
expand it into ahuge amount for your
program. On a non-stacker volume, DOS has
to retrieve the reams of fully expanded data
from the slow hard disk
When you are writing data, there is
always slight slowdown as Stacker fiantically
examines your data loohng for repetitions
to abbreviate.
look at D:, it appears to have room for 120
MB. You can use this new drive perfectly
normally. You can copy files, run programs,
backup, index it with Magellan, run Norton
Utilities, etc.
At this point you have the remaining 20
MB on your C: drive plus 120 MB on the new
D: drive a total of 140 MB when you
started out with only 80 MB. In other words
it magically expanded your disk by 75%.

Don't Get Ibpp

by Mr.C

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Stacker software takes about 40K of RAM.

If you use the compression engine, you can
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Abe Uncoln and Stacker

There is a utility called SSWAP.COM that
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I did not discover DESQyiew until this

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year, though the program has been around
a long time. Now, I spend nearly all my time
at the computer using it to help me run
several programs at once.
Why would I want to do that? When I
heard about this "multitasking" I said to
myself, "Who needs iti" I thought, "How
c onfusing it would bei W ouldn't t h e
programs just get in each others' hair)"
After some experience, I have completely
changed my mind. DESQview is a necessityi
I keep a copy of Magellan, Microsoft
Word, the Telix modem program, and
several copies of the Norton Editor (each
editing a different file) running all the time.
I can flip f'rom one program to the other in
under a tenth of a second.
There are many other utilities that allow
you to do this, induding Windows. However,
what makes DESQview special is that all the
programs can continue to run, almost
normally, in the background because
DESQview manages them so efficiently.
DESQview is not magic. If you run three
programs atonce, then each runs roughly
one third as fast, since the three programs
must share a single CPU. To combat this
slowdown effect, I give the foreground
program extra priority, at the expense of the
background programs. You can even pause
programs running in the background so
that they use no CPU cycles at alL
This means, for example, that when I
start up a file upload or download with my
modem, it can continue in the background
while I do some word processing in the
foreground. With acouple of taps on my
right Alt key, I can look in on the download
to see how it is doing, then go right back to
my work
I write custom software. Sometimes I
need to run long programs called compiles
that don't require any intervention. I used
to take a coffee break when I ran those. Now
I just run them in the background and
continue with something else. The same

principle applies to long print jobs or long

database runs. It is like having an extra
computer to use while mine is tied up.

DESQview versus Windows

DESQvfew and Windows both tackle the

problem of running more than one program
at a time. DES Qview excels at running
multiple ordinary DOS programs. Windows
excels at running graphics programs tailored
for use under Windows. DESQview is lean
and mean. Windows is bigger, slower and
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DESQview gives acceptable performance
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DESQview menus are spartan. Windows
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though some programs support a mouse as
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Both are difficult to install and tune.
Windows is newer and more complicated
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once you get the base working, installing
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Both let you see two or more programs at
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Windows provides:
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SX or 886 you normallycouple DES Qriew 4. A consistent user interface.
Most readers will not even know what
with QEMM. On a 286 you couple it with
the +RAM memory manager and EMS 4.0 these points mean. You soon will. Drivers
don't have much sales appeal, but these are
c xpanded memory hardware (extended
RAM alone wJ1 not work). You should find the most important reasons for buying
' @RAM for under $60. In theoiy you can run Windows.
DES+view with just plain DOS memory
management, or with competitive products The Trouble With Printers
like 586Max, but I would not recommend it.
'; Consider how m any t h ousands of
different kinds of printer there are. Every
PC Tools
cme has its own private printer language it
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, wants the computer to talk to it in, to make
Central Point, with PC Tools 7.0, "snatched it change type faces and sizes, to turn on
bold and italic, etc. For every new printer
defeat f'rom the jaws of victoiy."
' g, Peter Norton and Paul invented, i n t h e ory, every computer
In the be
Mace had the utihties market sewn up. program in the world must be adjusted to
learn yet another private printer lingo. In
C entral Point challenged them with a ~ l e
idea: "Offer more features for less money.
practice, this does not happen. The major
They were very successful. The only programs may support a quarter of the
catch was, they dick not realize you can have printers extant, but the minor programs
too much ofa good thing. They kept adding
only supportperhaps a doien of the more
feature afterfeature after feature. The
popular printers.
What do'you do when the program you
programs ballooned larger and larger,
tahng up more and' more RAM, and more want to run does not speak your printer
and more disk space. The programs ran language? You have only a few options, none
slower and slower. T hi s is known as of them satisfactory.
"featutitis."
l. You can beg and grovelto the program
manufacturer to teach the program yet
The box that PC Tools comes in reads
another language and send you a
like a combination Ronco cucumber slicer,
toastc,r oven and answering machine ad.
supplementary set of printer drivers on
M any other
famous programs have fidlen
fioppy
into the same trap, but Central Point made 2. You can sometimes hire a computer
a second mistake. They did not adequately
programmer to adjust the program for
beta test the programs.
yolL
Thc PC Tools programs work fine on S. Usually, you just expeiiment with similar
printer languages till you find one that
some computers sometimes. However, on
many computers, sooner or later they fail,
almost works.
with catastrophic results. One classic 4. You can sell your printer, and buy one
example was the compression utility that
that is alrc:ady supported.
What is worse, you go through this hassle
could squeeze your files down, but could not
always fiuff them back up again. Gigabytes of almost every time you buy a new computer
the world's data went down a black hole. program.
You can avoid the problem to some
PCCACHE, the caching program, would
suddenly fail, leaving your hard disk a extent by buying a very popular printer
complete shambles. PCBACKUP could back brand (such as Hewlett-Packard or Epson),
up data to fioppy, but you could not always or an expensive standard PostScript printer,
but you cannot escape the hassle altogether.
restore it. PC Tools probably did more
damage than all the viruses put together.
Ironically, the PC Tools checksum+ e anti- Windows as Interpreter
viral program could not detect even the
Windows acts as an interpreter between
most massive damage to the files.
your program and the printer. Internally, all
Granted, many of these problems were the programs think they are talking to a
side effects of other programs interacting h ighly i n telligent p r i n te r t h a t f u l l y
with PC Tools. But that is what beta testing understands Microsoft's complex printer
is for, to resolve these oblems.
1 eg
Angry users poured their complaints into
The Windows printer driver interprets
Compuserve;. Bug reports came so fast that the 'commands for this hypothetical perfect
Compuserve did not even have enough printer into the real-world lingo of your
room to store a single day's worth before actual printer. This way each application
they had to be erased. Central Point reacted program needs to learn only how to control
by offering eithc;r a fiiil refund or to send a a single ideal printer. Further, once one
new version, 7.1, at no charge to people who application program works with your
phoned in complaints. Normally after such a printer, they all workl
fiasco, a company would automatically send
In other words, once you get Windows to
an apolo
a n d a f r ee update, with the work with even one application program,
problems ed, to all its users.
installing all the other programs is a snap.
By shipping PC Tools 7.0 before it was
There are st'ill three catches. The first
ready, Central Point blackened their already catch is the Windows repertoire of printer
tarnished reputation. It may be a while
drivers is quite: limited. Teaching it new ones
before many people are willing to trust PC is fairly complicated. Microsoft expects the
Tools again. To quote Shakespeare's 94th printer manufacturers to do thc work of
sonnet, "LiTies that fester, smell far worse writing the printer drivers to handle new
than weeds."
rinters. So far, the printer manufacturers
ave stubbornly resiited. Make sure the
printer you buy is one that Windows already
Windows
M icrosoft W i n d ows i s t h e most understands.
One advantage of this state of affairs is
successfully marketed program of all time.

QEMM (a memory management program)

Available in the
Following Modeb:

Customers say to me, "And I'd like a copy of

Windows. By the way, what is it for?"
You have undoubtedly heard t h at
Windows is a GUI a Graphical User
Interface. You may have heard that because
it shows you little pictures called "icons"
instead of words, this makes it easier to use.
The icons are window dressing. The true
value of Windows is more subtle.

WE COMPUTERPAPER DEC '91 67

that it puts pressure on the ptinter makers
to start standardizing the printer languages,
rather than inventing a fresh one every time
they design a new printer.
The second catch is that something is
lost in the translation. Typically, Windows
printer drivers do not fttily exploit all the
features of a printer, with the result the
printing is, to be charitable, speedy as a
snaiL
The third catch is, Windows printer
drivers only work for programs specially
tailored to run under Windows. If you run
ordinary DOS applications under Windows,
you are back where you started, individually
configuring each program.

with two smaller 16-bit numbers. As you

might guess, this faking takes more than
twice as much time as doing it directly with
a single 52Wt number. Future versions of
Windows, coming even later, will also have
this 5Nrit aMity.

Consistent User Interface

If you have ever used WordPerfect, when

you are familiar with Microsoft Word, you
will detest it, and vice versa. Why) Because
they use completely different keystrokes to
do the same thing. In most programs you
h it ESC t o g e t o u t o f a m c :nu. I n
W ordPerfect sometimes you hi t F 7 ,
sometimes ESC and sometimes Enter.
There are no official, standard ways of
doing things.
Windows Screen Drivers
In Windows there is much grea'ter
Wmdows has a similar scheme to printer
standardization. To start working on a file,
drivers for i n terpreting the p ainting
commands between t h e a p p l i cation you type Alt@ 0 (for File Open). All native
programs and the screen. The f reedom to Windows application programs work this
invent new types of screen "languages" has w ay. This m akes i t m u c h e a sier t o
resulted in a burst of creativity and new remember. It also means that once you have
learned one program you
faster hardware, such as
. are well on your way to
t he
gr a p h ic s co4~ a T
learning another.
process
that
In Windows, there are
discussed in my October
standard ways for sharing
column. Without the
data between programs.
Windows scrc.en drivers,
You can cut information
there would be almost
ous of one program and
no prog ~s
paste it into another. You
this new fancy hardware.
can even automate this so
Now, the manugsemrers
et
your word processing
need only write a single
report is automatically
screen driver program,
updated with the latest
and instantly nearly all
existing Windows applicafion programs run spreadsheet figures every time you pmtt it.
on the nc w hardware without change.
Windows screen drivers have freed the The Dark Side of Windows
writers of application programs from the
Despite all the nice things I have had to
thankless task of endless modifications to s ay about W i ndows drivers and t h e
make their programs run on new kinds of consistent user interface, Windows is one of
v ideo card. The b enefit for you, t h e
my least favorite programs. It gives me more
consumer, is a huge array of programs all headaches than aH other programs put
running ona wide choice of hardware.
together including the ones I wrote
myself.
Windows is wasteful of c o mputer
Windows and Clark Kent
resources, slow, complicated and buggy.
If you buy 4 MB of R AM , very few
programs will even know it is there. You first Sometimes it is duck simple to install, but
need to install an XMS (extended) or EMS other times I have wasted days getting it to
(expanded) memory manager like QEMM, work It needs expensive, fast hardware to
perform adequately.
586Max o r H I M E M . SYS b efore the
Mousing is a motor skill you need to
programs can make any use of the RAM.
learn, like riding a bicycle. I still have not
Even then, programs flnd getting at the
fully mastered it. Anyhow, going back and
XMS and EMS memory clumsy, compared
with accessing the conventional base 640K forth between keyboard and mouse cuts my
productivity.
RAM.
Like the rest of us, Windows should
There are three main generations of
improve and mellow with age.
CPU chip: the XT4088, the AT40286 and
the newest SX/DX486/486. When you run
DOS, the Supermen 80286 and 586/486 Windows Summary
play Clark Kent, pretending they have no
You should find Windows for sale for
special powers. They fool themselves into under $110. Some companies provide it
thinking they are lowly but fast 8088
"free" bundled with your machine or
computers that can only access 640K of
another program. Keep in m ind t hat
RAM.
Windows is not a s preadsheet, word
Windows unleashes the 80286-level of
procc;ssor or desktop publishing system on
power. Here progratns can directly access up its own. You also need to bu y some
to 16 MB (16,777,216 characters) of RAM, Windowmpecific application programs to
but only 64K (65,556 characters) at a pop.
go with it. Windows is sometimes tricky to
In a way, this is a backward step from the
install, especially if you have third-party
8088, but in practice it fi'ees programmers screen, printer, or mouse chivers. Try to talk
f'rom trying to perform a ballet in a phone your dealer into installing it for you.
booth.
To you the consumer, it means large,
ParCin9 Advice
featurnrich programs are now possible.
Though the utilities I have talked about
are easy to use, they can be quite difficult to
Windbws versus OS/2
set up initially. If you are inexperienced, get
However, under Windows,the 586/486
help. Later, after you have used them for a
chips still conceal their full powers. When while, again ask someone experienced to
OS/2 2.0 finally comes out, we will at last give you some tips. He or she may have
use all the power of the 586/486. 'I%en, the
some ideas that will make using them more
computers will be able to directly address enjoyable and efiicient. 0
memory in stupendous-sized chunks.
About the Author
Further, they will be able to handle 52+it
Roedy Green, president of Canadian Mind
numbers as large as 4,294,967,296. Under
Products in Vancouver (604) 684-6529, builds
Windows, they normally can handle 16-bit custom computers. He also writes custom
numbers only as large as 65,556. When
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Windows programs need to work with organizatians and charities, and offers training and
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bottomless hole into which we throw advertise in Thc Computer Paper.Look in the
money. This statement could easily have index of this issue for the one nearest you.
been made about computers, for they, too, Pricesrange from $5.75 to about $6.There
are constantly in need of new and improved are games,
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A box of disks. All computer users seem with their terminology). One of the outward
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Floppy disks are widely available at
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conventions. Unfortunately, they are hardly
the kind of items you' ll find at the local
superstore...but it is a lucky person who
finds one in a stocking on Christmas
morning and a sure sign of prestige
around the office.
How about a designer mousepad? In
what seems to this writer as one of the best
gift ideas going, you can snap up a limitededition piece of original art (signed and
numbered by the artistl) simply by being a
WYSIWYG Graphics Inc. customer. The cost
of this great gift will vary depending on what
job you have done, but just think you could
lay out your own Christmas cards with any
program that can output to PostScript and
make thatthe job you have done for$80 or

so. A little Christmas clip-art, a color laser

print, and it's watch out, Hallmark
By the way, all WYSIWYG Graphics
customers also receive their choice of one of
two different complimentary 1992 calendars
(PostScriptgenerated, naturally), designed
especially for WYSIWYG Graphics by Steven
R. Gilmore, who also designed the objet d'
art
mousepads.
Every WYSIWYG Graphics customer who
produces color PostScript files is also given a
complementary
Pan t o n e -to-process
reference chart. Needless to say, these
giveaways are a trend we'd like to see theother service bureaus in town follow.
Contact WYSIWYG Graphics at 6044846466.
Computer user groups are another

good place to enquire after computer

memorabilia. For example, at the recent
NeXPO ( t h e N e X T c o m p u ter s h ow
sponsored by Advantage Computers), the
local user group (VNUS, 6048224429) was
selling pencib (80 cents), cofFee mugs ($4),
T~hirts ($5000, and you get a FREE NeXT
computer), even $80 Cross pens (ooh, ahhl)
emblazoned with the NeXT logo. Other
types of computers have similar goodies.
There is a list of user groups at the back of
this (and every) issueof The Computer Paper.
When I was in Mississauga recently, I
found a great selection of gift items at the
Microsoft University sweatshirts, T-shirts,
sunglasses, books, pens, mugs and more.
Microsoft's phone number is 4166680484.

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group (PaNorAma, 597-1746) has offered
sweaters, Tehirts and disk labels.

Other inexpensive gift ideas

in dude:

A disk case ranging 8 om a few dollars

to quite a few, you can get plastic, metal, or
what looks like and may even be wood. For
travelling types, there are soft floppy wallets
(made from Goretex or some such material)
for a dozen disks or so. A variety of weird
schemes for storing disks exists, including
modular, rack-'em-stack-'em gizmos with
foldout doors and whatnot. Try to get the
same kind that your friend currently uses.
Printer paper perhaps in a fancy
color, or luxurious parchment. Especially if
y our f r i en d u s e s a pr o g r a m l i k e
Broderbund's Print Shop, fancy papers are a
welcome gift. Besides, practically no one
buys parchment for themselves. Many
software stores carry a good supply of
unusual papa.
Printer ribbons if you cannot manage
to "borrow" one, you' ll need to know the
brand and model of printer. There are
specialty ribbons available for some printers
that come in colors ideal for printing
banners and signs. There are even ribbons
that make printouts you can iron onto a Tshirt.
A docutnent holder there are several
brands, i n c l u din g t he T hin g i I I
manufactured by Advanced Gravis in
Burnaby. These things either stand on the
table next to the computer (but who has any
desk space next to their computer?), or
attach to the top or side of it.
There are also various gadgets that
stick onto your computer to hold a mouse
(seems a bit dumb, actually). Other cute-butdumb rdiftsare t', ase little ostumes o dress
a computer mouse up in so that it looks like
a real mouse. Oh, pleasel
Really dumb, but fun is a product for
the Macintosh called Shark Attacki "The
screen saver that's also a game." You get
some software that blanks the screen so that
your pal's screen doesn't fry its phosphor
and best of all, an incredibly stupid shark fin
that sticks on top of his or her computer.

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For a Mac~phile who wants a screen

saver, I would suggest After Dark (if they' re
really special, throw in the optional package
called More After Dark). Definitely a winner,
except nearly all Mac users already have
bought it. Mac users love screensavers.After
Dark is also available for Windows users. If
you' ve ever seen all sorts of weird things
drifting, bouncing, swimming or crawling
around on their screen (while they' re not
using the computerl), you probably need to
think of a different present or call the

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little hand+eld scannesa, they' ve probably
noticed that it's fiendishly difficult to drag
one across a photo in a straight line. A
device is available that provides a straightedge for it to slide along.
A monitor stand or printer stand also

makes a nice (boringl) gift. For the same

amount of dough (about $80) you could get

them the gift that keeps on giving. a modem
(1200 baud is pretty slow, but hey, it's the
thought, right?), a serial cable and a
shareware telecom program. For about a
hundred bucks more,you can get a better
modem that is faster (2400 baud) and might
even include hx abilities. With either one,
they' ll be able to "log on" to bulletin boards,
electronic shopping services,information
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Software Goodies

What you need to know

A n e w g a d get Heaven knows,

computerphiles love thehr gadgets. Probably
because of this, there are a million to
choose from. Here are a few that they might
not already have:
A wrhst rest. For anyone who does a lot
o f typing, a wrist rest can mean t h e
difference between comfort and carpal
tunnel syndrome, a debilitating af8iction
that attacks the nerves in one' s, uh, carpal
tunnek A locally made product called Wrist
:" Doktor does the trick nicely, and it looks
' pretty good, too.
A new product called the Foot Doktor
-' promises to reduce strain on one's lower
back resulting from from long sittings at a
'!r computer or desk. With happy wrists and a
' happy lower back, even Scrooge would
probably cheer up.
The same company (Orbit Industries,
also of Burnaby is Burnaby turning into
the hub of high-tech manufacturing, or
what?) also makes the Disk Wimsrd, a 5.5inch Soppy punch that turns DD disks into
HD disks. Read about it in our Sept.'0l issue.
Special colored ahceta and metallic
foils are available that can turn a black~dwhite laser-printed (or photocopied) page
into something of an extravaganza are
available. One brand name is Color Tag,
there are others.

I. What type of computer is it? (IBM

compatible, Macintosh, Apple II, Amiga,
Atari, Commodore, etc.)
2. What type and size of disk does it uae?
(Although there are several difFerent disk
standards in the PC world, many packages
only come with one. Usually, you need only
to know whether the computer has a 5.25"
or a $.5" disk drive.)
S. What type of monitor display does it
have) (This question is primarily relevant to
PCs, which may have VGA, EGA, CGA,
Hercules, etc.) Macs and Ataris only have to
distinguish between color and monochrome
Inonl'tera

Some stores sell seftware with a "no

At this time of year, many manufacturers
add extra goodies to the packages too, like returns" policy, while others have a moreTwhirts, posters, maps, badges, spc:cial offers reasonable policy that allewa refunds if the
package is unopened. Still others (Egghead
or other goodieL
For kids, the best software I' ve sc.en is Software is one) have a generous software
Kid Pix, a paint program where every tool refund or exchangepolicy: you can return it
has wacky special effects and outrageous as long as it is in original and undamaged
sounds. Kids just leve blowing up their condition, within 50 days. You must, of
urchase and all
pictures with the Srecracker tool. You get course, include p
original packaging. I recommend that if yeu
the idea. About $50, it's for IBM or Mac.
Gary Larson fans with IBMs or Macs will are considering buying a software gift for
undoubtedlyenjoy The Far Side computer someone this season, that you purchase it at
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many people would rather give a "real" gift.
Here are some guidelines:
If thc. person you are buying for plays
games, you frat must determine what kind
of games they prefer. Seme enjoy the
intellectual challenge of a good strategy
game (cards, chess, maze games), while
others go for the more visceral thrill of a
great shoot-'em' . Avid players will usually
be found tightly dutching a jeyafick to the
endless sound of computer laser- or g
as their on-screen hero faces hordes of
marauding foes, aliens or monsters. Still
others prefer a simulation game (flight
simulators, golf games, car radng, etc.). Kids
may be encoiuaged to explore non-violent
pastimes, or educational games with, one
hopes, some redeeming value. Many games
are a combination of one or more of these
types (Le., Sight simulators with elements of
military strategy are a popuLtr subcategory.
There is even an educational typing tutor
game where you must learn to type, or be
attacked by monsters &om space. Really.)
Your next challenge is to Snd a title they
don't already own. One sure-fire way to
probe them for this information ia to
observe them playing a few games, until yeu
am identify one of the above categories, and
then ask them or better yet, one of their
computer pals what the latest, greatest
[strategy/shoot-em-up/ s i m u l a ti on /
e ducational, etc.] i s for t hat k in d o f
computer. If they' ve already got it, they' ll be
sure to trot it out for you to ogle over.
While I h e sitate to m ak e spc.cific
recommendations, there are dasalcs in each
genre that are sure winners. Most stores
maintain a 'Top 10" list that can help you
pick a popular title. (See also Dvorak's
Guide to PC Games," this issue
Ed.)
The last thing you need to know is what
kind of computer equipment your friend
haa. All programs have certain "system
requirements." In an ideal scenario, your
choice of software will take full advantage of
the computer system it is going to run on.
For example, if your friend has a
S oundBlaater sound card and a V G A
monitor, a game that takes advantage of
these options will certainly produce better
sound and graphics than a game that does
not. As before, one of their buddies can
help you make a list of what equipment they
have. Here'a a(notherl) list of what you
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the other packagesdo. With one package
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WordPerfect v. 5.1 and Windows functions
keys. Also, WordPerfect Corp. assures users
that not one feature of WordPerfect v. 5.1
has been left out of W o rdPerfect for
Windows v. 5.1.
I' ve never u sed ch a r a cter-based
WordPerfect; to m e W o r dPerfect for
Windows is a n o ther g o o d W i n d ows
application and I need never know the
complexities of WordPerfect's codes to
enjoy thisnew package. WordPerfect for
Windows has the full complement of
features, like the standard WindoWs user
interface containing all the basic tools for
opening, saving, and closing files. Plus, all
the intermediate features like columns, style
s heets, macros, s p ell-checking a n d
thesaurus. Bu t h ere are some of the
features that WordPerfect for Windows has
been innovative with, and why this program
earned a permanent spot on my hard disk
drive, as pa rt of m y W i n d o ws word
processing toolbox.

Button Bar

The Button Bar in WordPerfect for

Wmdows will bring out your creative nature.
Buttons can be created by selecting Button
Bar in the View menu and then a little hand
icon clutching an over~ized button can be
dicked on any menu item. The menu item
will then become a button appearing in 'the
Button Bar. Multiple Button Bars can be
saved and loaded depending on which
B utton Bar you need at the time. T h e
buttons on the bar can be shifted like one of
those child's word slide pussies, and can
also be assigned to execute macros.

File Manager
WordPerfect for Windows has induded a
Navigator and Viewer feature that looks very
close to the one found on the highwnd
NeXT computer. The sleek-looking File
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system, and use the Viewer to look into a file
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standalone file
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Quick List

Quck List is a customizabte feature that

lets you put in a tmnmedAown list of files
that you f'refluently open. Also, puck List
cm be used with the Ruler; for instances you
can have the Font box on the Ruler list just
one font, or as many as you normally use.
spell~hecker and a standee thesaurus The advantage of using Qdck List on the
icon included in the W'ordPerfect menu.
Ruler bar is that you L n' t have to scroll
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fioppies outof.five; a good product by
company which is always ranked first in th
number of packages sold, is known to giv
excellent customer support, and has million
of loyal users. Four ftoppies out of five
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System aeituiramunts: 18M and compatibles,
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Macintosh and a Windows version
Publlshar: Mastersoft, 5991 Camelback Road,
Suite A-320, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 602-2770900
Prlca $149; registered usersof earlier versions can
upgrade for $39.95

Summary
Word For Word 5.0 struck me as a
program that some people would love to
have, and others would never in a lifetime
use. It converts files from one format to
another, e.g., from MultiMate to QUA
Write, WordPerfect to WordStar, etc. If you
do have occasion to translate file formats
from one program to another,' I can' t
imagine anything doing it easier than Word
For Word (WFW). It's not just for word
processing files, either, but will convert
spreadsheet Slee to word processing formats
and will even convert from PC to Mac
formats.

Installation

WFW's instaUation procedure conserves

the amount of disk space required by
allowing you to instaU only the conversion
routines you need from its list of 90
recognized formats. If you install aU 90, you
would need about 2.5megabytes of hard

disk space. WFW can also run from floppy

several different versions of Lotus without

any problem. We also converted between
Lotus, QscA 5.0, WordPerfect, and ASCII.
WFW handled each without any difiiculty.
When converting spreadsheets, an
option allows you to specify the conversion
to be formatted with spaces separating the
columns, tabs separating the columns, or
each cell being placed in a separate column.
There's even a choice of currency options
available, so you can select the currency
symbol and the location of the period or
comma decimal point. Dollar signs can be
placed before or after the amount with this
option.
AU of WFW s choices are available from
pull<own menus or function keys, and
pulling the Help menu down will allow you
to select help for any feature you want The
help is dear and "helpfuL
WFW will batch-file conversions if you
select the automatic recognition option.Just
select the files you want to convert by
highlighting them and pressing ENTER or
clicking with the mouse, and press Fg to
start the conversion. The converted file is
named by WFW using some or all of the
original file's name, plus an extension of
".NEW," unless you have specified a
diEerent default extension for the converted
files. You can also rename converted files
from within WFW.
WFW will show you a horizontal bar
g raph depicting the p r ogress of t h e
conversion, and after all files have been
converted, will display an error log if any
conversionerrors occurred. We forced some
errors and found the error messages to be
quite specific. There is also a list of the error
numbers with their explanations in the back
of the manual, although they wouldn' t
generally be necessary, since the on~creen
information is so spedfic.
WFW even allows Sle conversion directly
from the command line.By entering WFW
plus the source format, target format, old
Sle name and new fil
e name, you don't even
have to make your selections from within the
program. We found it easier to load WFW,
then make our selections.
WFW does support font translation, and
has a nice section in the manual explaining
which font selections work and which work
in a limited way. WFW will convert PICT and
b it-mapped graphics between all t h e
supported Madntosh formats, and ignores
graphics when doing PC formats, or when
converting either PC to Mac or Mac to PC.
WFW does not interpret macros. It will
handle tables between WordPerfect 5.x,
Microsoft RTF, and Ami professional.
Programs that do not have a table command
will convert columnar data in the source
document to whatever column mode the
target format uses. If there is no column
mode in the target format, WFW will convert
the data by separating the data by tabs.
WFW handles PC-to-Mac or Mac-to-PC
conversions, but you will have to get the data
onto a disk that the source machine can
read. For example, if you want to convert a
Mac Sle to a PC format, you would have to
send the Sle to the PC via modem or on the
network, transfer the Sle by direct cabling,
using something like LapLink, or use a
spedal drive such as the SuperDrives some

disks if you don't have a hard drive. As you

select the formats you want to install, WFW
will tell you how much disk space will be
requirecL
After selecting about a half a dozen
formats we wanted to test, it was just a
matter of selecdng the desired Sle, selecting
the desired target format, and pressing F9.
There is an automatic format recognition
for the source file(s) which was very
accurate in Newsbytes' tests. If you want, or
if the a ut o r e cognition ha s t r ouble
recognizing the format, you can manually
specify the format of the source Sle. The
available formats that you have loaded
appear in a window on the screen.
While we didn't try any huge Slee, the
p rogram does seem t o b e f a st, a n d
Mastersoft daims the program will convert
at rates up to 5 pages per second.
Of the 90 formats available, Mastersoft
says in an addendum to the manual that
WFW is 100% accurate with 50 of them,.
including many of the popular programs
such as Lotus, WordPerfect, QScA, Excel,
Ami Professional, Microsoft Word for the
PC and the Mac,WordStar, and others.The
company is up front with the user, stating in
the manual that there are some features and
commands that do not convert from one
format to another, due to differences in
those program. In that instance, WFW
marks the exceptions, providing two
methods of tracking those exceptions. If you Macs are equipped with.
The WFW manual has a nice section
have selected Embed Exception Codes from
containing information about the various
the Options menu, special codes are
inserted into the target document to mark formats that require any special information.
the features that could not be converted.
If you chose Create Exception List from RATIN6
PERFORMANCE: 4.0. It's easy to use,
the Options menu, WFW creates an ASCII
file Usting the exceptions. We liked the and reasonably pnced. It's also easier to use
"embed choice, since it was easier to look than some of the earlier programs we have
at the converted document and see that used, and will recognize many more formats
than those programs did.
there was something that didn't come
USEFULNESS: 4.0. WFW does exactly
across, without havmg to access a separate
docunlellt.
what it is lied to do, and it does it quickly,
One of the conversions we did was to neatly, and elegantly. It handles enough
convert some Lotus files to various other difserent formats to satisfy almost any user,
formats. WFW handled Slee created with
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Publisher. Microsoft Canada Inc., 1500-701 W.
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Microsoft's Solution Series which also management package. Money even allows
includes M i crosoft Wo r ks a n d you to import and export files in Quicken
Microsoft Publisher. The objective of this Interchange Format (QIF) . H o wever,
series is to provide a set of extremely eaa)sco- Quicken has a few features that Money
use programs for Microsoft Windows that doesn' t, such as electronic bill-paying over' a
wouiPd be very useful for personal home use, modem and an optional Payroll module.
home business and small business. You will
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Lack of Windows Connectivity
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and some of these programs.
any sort of connectivity with other Windows
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Easy To Use
H owe v er , t h e
This program is very simple and easy to E mbedding ( O L E ) .
use. Features were kept to a bare minimum usefulness of these features to the average
so that the program wouldn't get cluttered b eginning user would be minimal. O n e
like some of the large d~ verything word possible use for DDE would be for Payroll
Calculation. Money lets you do Payroll-type
processing packages that h ave b e en
appearing. This way all the features are easy cheques with what it calls split transactions,
to find and easy to use. Each window has an however, you have to figure out the Income
icon bar. The window's icon bar gives you Tax, CPP and UIC yourself and enter in the
quick access to the other windows, a search final amounts. It would be nice if there was a
facility, other views and the Windows DDE connection, so that a Windows Payroll
package such as KIS Payroll for Windows
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could be requested by DDE to do the payroll
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(payers), transaction categories and money. However, ifyou find yourself
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Overview

en "desk top publishing" first

became a reality, many people
p redicted th e d e m ise o f t h e
typesetting, graphic arts and printing
industry. Today, of course, these activities
are still going strong, powered in part by the
same DTP activities which were supposed to
destroy it. When Aldus Pagemaker first
appeared on the scene, it altered the way
people prepared all kinds of preseatation
material aad documentation. Rather than
doing the Xerox/cut-aad-paste ahuff1e,
people could compose documents in
electronic form and print a fully finishe
w ork once, without the terror of laat~ u t e
editing. Glueatick sales fell sharply after the
first DTP program appearedl
Since then, the struggle for superiority
haa beea between Pagemaker aud Ventura,
the two gargantuan DTP software packages
for the PG platform. The race between these
two has always been to add more and more
features/functions. The only real constraint
is the hardwarel In the near future, we may
well see these two programs reporting such
things as "can handle 1,000,000 pages per
documeatl" or "can import TIFF images up
to 20 gigabytes in sizel . For those of you in
the DTP industry, this would make the heart
race wildly, but in most office environments,
desktop publishing means much snore
mundane tasks. In many cases, 20 pages or
leaa, with a few charts and graphs, or maybe
a haadArawn diagram or two.Hardly the
mahnga of a fuGcolor, coffee@ablehardcover!
Oaerhll is the operative word here.
Enter Microsoft Publisher. At Brat
glance, one would assume that Microsoft is
trying to bite a big chunk out of the two
established giants of DTP. But upon closer
examination, you realize that Publisher ia
designed fora type of DTP user who does
not require the power of Pagemaker or

Ventura For years now, if you needed DTP

software, you had to pay lots of money for a
lot of features you would never uae.

Installation
Installation of Mi crosoft Publisher
follows the current trend for software
installation of Windows products by asking
you to start Windows, go to the "file' menu
in the program manager, and click on
"RUN". At this point you enter "A:setup"
and the software is installed directly into
Windows PubHsher comes on three disks in
both 5.25" high density (1.2MB) and 5.5"
highAenaity (L44 MB) formats It does not
t ake an abnormally long time. O n ce
installed, it appears in ita own folder and is
ready to run. Simple and relatively fool
proof.

Performance
MS Publisher is fast. Of course, since
Microsoft also produces the Windows
environment under which it runs, one
would expect it to perform at maximum
effidency. This is not to say, however, that
busy documents iaatantly appear and that
zooaung in and out is breathtahng, but it is
comfortably quick ia all but one of ita
functions (PageWizarda).
The main executable program of
Publisher is only 670K bytes, as opposed to
Pagemaker, for example, which is around
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and easyto uae, perfect for a great many of
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System Requirements: 80386 (step BO or higher)
or 80486 CPU; 80287 or 80387 meth co-pro;
640KB system RAM plus 1MB extended RAM
(recommended: 3MB extended RAM); 20MB herd
drive; 005 v3.3.
Prices AutoCAO 386 - $3500; AME - $500.
utoCAD comes with the AutoLISP
progratnming language and ADS
AutoCAD Development System).
The AME is also induded in the software
but you only get to use it when you pay your
$500. AutoCAD is also available for many
other systems like the Madntosh, Xenix,
Sun, OS/2, IBM 286, etc., but it may not
come with all the bells and whistles, so be
sure and check it out.
For an explanation of terminology used
in this artide, see my artide, "Intro to CAD,"
in the September issue of Tt Io Computer
P~.

ADS reference manual, an AutoUSP manual, and an ADS reference manual. You can
see AutoCAD would have a fairly long learning curve and it might be worthwhile to take
in some short introductory course if you are
new to it. You can probably learn the basics
of 2-D drafting in a week or so, but it will
take considerably longer to become very
profident at it, espedally if you are trying to
master it on your own.

Drafting with AutoCAD

AutoCAD provides a full complement of

commands and variables for you to use. The
screen is set up in very straightforward fashion. On the tight hand side is the main
menu and along the top is a pulldown
menu. Placing your mouse cursor on any of
these commands initializes the command
and usually takes you through a series of
subnnenus. You can also respond to the
Command prompt at the bottom of the
screen via the keyboard.
The first thing to do when you enter
aenerai Overview
AutoCAD is set up the parameters of your
AutoCAD is the most widely used CAD drawing such as the scale, limits, grid size,
program available. It probably makes up at snap points, and viewports.
least half of all highwnd PGbased CAD sysViewports (which are most helpful with
tems out there. I n t h i s latest version, SD models), are like having a number of difAutodesk has improved the 2-D and 3-D ferent screens on your monitor, each of
aspect of AutoCAD in a number of impor- which can be set up with a diFerent view of
tant ways.
the wire4rame model. For example, you may
It indudes both ADS and AutolISP, draw a line which only is only a couple of
which can be used to write, simple macros or inches long and looks parallel to your xy
highly complex commands to customize axis, but on checking another viewport you
AutoCAD to your particular needs. ADS is a discover it is drawn at an angle and extrudes
progrntnming interface that allows high- into the z axis. Viewports are not usually
level C programtning, although you will necessaty for 2-D dtawings.
have to buy a compiler for it. AutoIISP,
There are over 40 diFerent drawing and
which has also been hnprcrved, and doesn' t editing commands with which to produce
need a compiler, is a simpler progran!ming your drawing. Each of these has additional
language that has been included with
submenus. The Arc command, for example,
AutoCAD since the mid '80s.
indudes 11 different ways to draw arcs.
Release 11 also indudes AME, which simThe layering system allows you to apply
piifies 8-D construction and is capable of various layers to diFerent line types or assocreating solid S.D modeh. This version of date diFerent colors with line thickness. You
AutoCAD aho allows networhng up to 128 Imn also apply layers to different sections of
useri, but you need to have the same memo- your drawing and then breeze (they don' t
ry configuration for all workstations. You show up on your screen but stBI exist in the
also get a file lockmg system.
drawing editor) or unfreeze them according
to dadthsg or plotting use.
Installation and %'aining
Blocks and nested blocks (blocks within
Like m ost p r o grams t hese d ays, blocks) can be inserted and manipulated
AutoCAD is just about selfmstnlling. You according to scale and orientation and easily
insert disk 41, type install, and it does it all created as you need them. You can keep
foryou except for maybe three or four ques- them in your current drawing or copy them
tions it asks you along the way. Then you go to a main directory for use in other drawthrough the configuration menu which has hsgs.
drivers for just about any hardware you
AutoCAD a lso
i n d u des a ssodative
might have. The whole process takes about dimensioning, which changes your dimen15 minuteL
sions as you make changes to your drawing.
AutoCAD indudes six manualm a referThere is a large array of hatching patence ~
over 600 pages long, a tutcmial, terns, a dozen Ihfferent ways to zoom or

an instalhtion and perfIoxxnance guide, an

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mends and variables to draft just about anything within reason.

Those of y o u w h o a r e w o ndering
whether i t i s w o r t h u p grading f'rom
AutoCAD release 10 might want to take note
of the next section, in which I summarize
some of the additions and changes made to
release 11.

Release 11
AutoCAD release 11 has improved on
many existing areas of release 10, but has
also come up with a number of brandmew
features, some of which I would now like to
concentrate on.
Release 11 includes a simple text editor.
In previous versions you had to re-type the
entire line or write an AutoLISP routine.
Release II n e w works in paper and
model space. Model space is what AutoCAD
has always worked in, whereas paper space is
provided to help in setting up and plotting a
drawing. Paper space represents the actual
sheet of vellum or whatever material you will
be plotnng onto. Up to 16 different viewports areprovided, each of which can be
scaled differently. You make each viewport
active and manipulate the drawing into
whichever view or scale you wish. For example, if you want to produce a sheet with a
floor plan at 1/8" scale and a detail at I/2"
scale you would activate a viewport, make it
l arge enough to accommodate the I / 8 "
floor plan, and then make a smaller viewport in which the detail fills the viewport, In
previous versions you would have had to
copy the detail and then trim off' the lines
you didn't want and then insert it or make a
block of it if you wanted to insert it in another drawing. You can use AutoCAD commands in each viewport to turn layers on
and off, etc.
External references can now be used.
This means you can pull in another drawing

and not make itpart of your current drawing. It is similar to Inserting a block but only
using it for reference. You can manipulate
the reference drawing the same way as your
current drawing using the editing commands, by turning different layers on or off,
or by snapping to objects. You can also
attach and detach secuons or elements of
the reference drawing tothe current drawing.
There have been enhancements made to
most areas of the software, making this
release a substantial upgrade compared to
other upgrades.

uo ae
v.2 with AutodeskRenderMan

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3-D Drafting
In release 10, creating 3-D models was a
rocess. You
somewhat
could use the "mesh" commands, but often
you had to create a wire-frame model line by
line and then create 5.D faces to produce
objects that emulated a solid object. Release
11 has changed all that.
Now you can u s e t h e f e atures of
"AMElite" (which is induded), and use simple geometric solid 3-Dobjects such as cylinders, cones, spheres, and wedges to create
your solid models. If you have the full AME
(for which you pay extra) package you can
easily combine these solids to create one
solid object. You can then edit and analyze
your solid object. Commands are provided
to produce 2-D Block References by ling
off" 2-D faces, or taking a slice through the
solid object at any userwpedfied angle.
A rudimentary Shade command is now
included. It is not nearly as complex or Qexible as the AutoShade package, but it does
provide ashaded image of your 3-D model
with a single light source stationed at the
same position as the viewer.
The AMElite commands are induded
with the software, but the AMK package

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Publisher. Autodesk, Inc., 2320 Mannship Way,
Sausalito, California, 9496S, USA.
System Requirements:80386 (step BO or higher)
or 80486 CPU; Intel 80387 or Weitek 11i07I3167
math co-pro; 4MB Rem (6MB RAM recommended);
20MB hard drive; DOSv3.3.
Price: $1200

utoShade can b e b o u ght w i thout

RenderMan for about half the cost.
What RenderMan doesfor you isgenerate photoreaiistic images by applying different textures and surfaces to your model.
In some cases these textures come very dose
to emulating "real life" textures. You can
also use three different light sources, which
provide some interesting shadows. I admit to
being very impressed with the results. With
AutoShade aloneyou are able to have colors
of your choice applied to the surfaces of

your 3-D model. Rendering a model with

RenderMan also takes a lot longer than
shading a model does.

Installation and Configuration

Like AutoCAD, and most current software,
A u t oShade is
Configuring can be a bit more complicated.
RenderMan is not very well supported and
both it and AutoShade will use the default
320 x 200 resolufion if you want to use 256
colors (which, of course, you do). It took
t he help of a "computer programmer"
friend of mine to get the whole package
working at SVGA resolution. Low resolution
simply does not allow you to really make
sense of the RenderMan renderings as they
use such detailed and complicated surfaces
and textures.
AutoShade does support enough drivers
so you don't have to buy any new ones.
RenderMan doesn't come with any hardcopy supporting drivers but it does support
TIFF files.

self
~stalling.

Setting up in AutoCiLD
The first thing you do is enter AutoCAD
to draw or importyour model. When you
are readyfor shading you set up your model
with the view you want and then load the
Ashade menu, which provides you with the
necessary tools. AutoDesk uses terminology
borrowed from the movie industry, which is
a good idea in that you don't have to learn a
-whole new jargon. You set up lights (point,
directed, and spot light) and then position
your camera with the lens (flsh~ye to super
telephoto) you are going t o u se, which
determines the way the model will appear
on the display. Different light sources and
cameras can be used in the drawing but be
sure that when you are placing them you are
working parallel to the xy axis or you might
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Generic CADD is one o f t h e m o re
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can't expect the a dvanced features of
AutoCAD or other high~d CAD packages,
but you do get a powerful set of commands.

get some unexpected results.

After you have placed the lights and cameras you create "scenes" by picking one of
the cameras and any number of lights you
want to use for that particular view. The last
stage is creating a filmroH fiie, complete
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to AutoShade.

Using AutoShade

In AutoShade you open thefi

lmroH and
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Generic CADD is very simple to install Fastshade or Qdckshade will give you an
and doesn't rewrite any of your .BAT iles. idea of what you are going to be looking at,
You can have the program installed and run- and when you are satisfied, the FuHshade
ning in about five minutes on an IBM or
command will give you the Snal product.
IBM clone, as it provides supporting drivers AutoShade allows you to change the paramfor most hardware.
eters for hghts, cameras, and the view.
There are three manuals inClude, aH of ThankfuHy, the software also provides a
which are well writ'ten and laid out and igus- Smooth command for smoothing out awktrated with helpful examples. Besides the ward wireframe models.
reference manual there is a user guide
AutoShade doesn't have the aMity to
which is primarily concerned with configur- create shadows. Surfaces that are facing the
ing your system and a tutorial guide which light source are brighter than surfaces that
walks you through some basic exercises.
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light parameters to have the light become
Functions and Features
dimmer as you move away from the light
Generic CADD has aH the draw and edit source.
commands you need foreffi
cient CAD proThe software's commands are aH set up
duction. You can create your ovm fonts if as puHAown menus and submenus.
you don't like the ones induded, plus it
gives you macro capability up to 255 charac- Rendering in Renderlan
ters. Generic also has a few features that are
RenderMan works much the same way as
not always found in lowland CAD systems.
AutoShade. First you apply the surface
Double Auto-fifieting allows you to draw shaders and textures and create the filmroH
two parallel lines with the arcs automatically in AutoCAD. Then you copy the flle to
trimmed for the correct radiua This feature, AutoShade and create an RND filewhich
when combined with the Intersection Trim you render. Just like in AutoShade, there is a
command (which cleans up crossing double menu for adjusting the shadersand even
lines) is quite useful for drawing waHs on changing to a completely different shader,
Soor plans. There is also an Undo and Redo although you won't be able to set up aH the
(to undo your undo's) that aHow you to original parameters as in AutoCAD. You can
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With nested commands you can begin a line Spotlight option you can come up with
at one end of adrawing and then pan or
some fairly complex shadows. Be warned
zoom to the other end to complete the line. though, where it will take 15 seconds to
The Like command is also helpful in that shade a model it wiH take upwards of 15
you can change values, angles, color, etc., by minutes, and longer, to render the same
pointing to an enfity that has the desired model in RenderMan. The results, though,
property or status instead of having to type it are very impressive.
in or lookhtg for it through the menus. You
can also save the drawing in text form for AutoFlix
use in text editors.
AutoHix i s a n a n i mation p rogram
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Limitations
also usuaHy available on bulletin boards and
Genedc CADD allows you to start and shareware, although you have to send in
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prompt or make a mistake typing in the new set up other objects for movement, and
drawing title. When you end the new draw- adjust the number of frames you intend to
ing it will be saved over the old drawing, and use for the animation. AutoHix sends the
since Generic CADD does not provide an Sle to AutoShade, where each hne is shadautomatic backup drawing, as other CADD ed. After this you use the "player" provided

Getting started

systems do, you will lose the old drawing.

If you don't have a plotter and want to

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conQicts occurred, so I went ahead.
Sony provides a screwdriver that adjusts
Rom Phillips to standard for the installation.
Not an expensive screwdriver, but it was
there and I used it. I took the cover oK the
computer, found an empty slot, inserted the
SCSI card according to the step@y~tep-withpictures Read Me First instructions, dosed
up the computer, installed the software, and
it worked.

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Review
I have two schoolschildren, girls 13 viewed. The installation was easy and selfand 7 yearsof age, and hke most parents I e xplanatory, bu t i t d i d c h a n ge my
know, I'm quite interested in their academic AIlTOEXEC.BAT and CONHG.QS files
progress and I want them to be able to and required me toreboot.
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disc (CD)
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card to control the drive, and six program an icon as well.
Once the menu was on the screen, I
disks. The disks include the Compton's
Family Encyclopedia, T h e M i c r osoft
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Laser Library ~ni.p

p g 83

pictures as welL We asked, "Why is the sky

blue?", "When do wisdom teeth come in?"
and we looked up Cats.I'd heard we could
type in questions in sentence form and the
encyclopedia software would bring us the
answers, and it did. The user interface on
the encyclopedia is easy, but text oriented.
Just looking through the pictures at random gas
was quite interesting.
We looked through the Software
Toolworks Atlas, and looked at California
topographically, then played with the
Microsoft Bookshelf looking through
famous quotes, but my youngest really liked
the National Geographic Mammals. It was
graphically oriented and she was able to
figure it out and find the animals she was
loohng for~ h eetahs. It allows you to hear
the animals if there's something to hear
(there isn't with hamsters which we also
looked up, and all dogs sound pretty much
the same after a while), and it even has
video clips of the animals in some cases.
While the resolution on the clips wasn't as <k'I!
nice as I'd like, you certainly get the idea
how the animal b'ehaves. A game is available
where children look for a specific animal
with specific characteristics for a zoo
director. My daughter liked the game the
best, after she learned to navigate the
program. Pronunciation for some terms is
also available, and I found it helpful for
r: . 'i
it.
I won't spoil the demo by describing it, those troublesome scientific names.
Also, the drive allows the hook-up of
since I couldn't describe it well enough
anyway, but the demo is mostly just for stereo speakers in the back, which I did. The Y,
showing off the capalities of the CD-ROM sound quality was great and the stereo
drive. After a few sound and graphics speakers really enhanced our enjoyment of ig'g
experiences, the demo goes into a tutorial the system. Now, however, I' ve switched to
of sorts for what a CD-ROM drive is, how it using the yPe of sPeakers with theh own
works and what information is available on battery power that my daughter uses with
her Walkman, because of their size.
CDs in the Laser Library.
I understood the CD-ROM player could
Once the CD-ROM drive was installed
be
used
for music es well end i wes trying to '-":.:.
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and working, I got my kids involved. We
asked questions of the Compton's Family figureout a way to borrow a CD, but Ifound
Encydopedia and not only got answers, but I didn't need to music was on the demo

decided to try out the demo program. The

drive has a stereojack on the front, and
comes with a set of stereo headphones, so I
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on.
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enthusiastically, and at first I thought it
might take my fingers with it. After closer
inspection I can see no possibiTity of getting
pinched fingers, but it startled me at first.
Complete pictorial instructions are supplied
for how to use the CD caddy.
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program on it was in the drive, I selected the
demo from the Laser Library menu. I was
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everyone who came around for about the
next week. Thinking back on it, it wasn' t
that the pictures were so shockingly real,
though the sound certainly was, but it was
coming from such an unexpected source,
my PC. That's when the excitement started
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graphic of a very realistic CD music player
with speakers and buttons came on screen. I
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would on a real CD player, and here came
the songs provided on the demo disk. I was
impressed, both with the way it operated
and with the music Sony chose to Include.
The most difiicult program disk was the
Languages of the World, whose interface is
not the least bit standard or intuitive. In
fact, I thought it was a damaged or buggy
program. To get into the program, I had to
press AltSpacebar, although the screen says
"Press any key to continue." When I pressed
any key the first time I was put back in the
main menu, and the second time the
machine locked up. I had to power off to get
it back I called support and they explained
that the program instructions have all the
necessary keystrokes. They do, but it would
be necessary to spend some serious time
learning to use the program. It depends
heavily on the right and left arrow keys for
paging through the menus and pressing the
Enter key produces an error message. I did
f ollow the i n structions and go t t h e
iranslation for the word "tree" in French.
By far the best program in the set was
Mxed-Up Mother Goose from Sierra We' ve
all played it, and the graphics, sound, story
line and the interaction were the best of all
the programs included, as well as exciting
and fun. My seven-year-old is into it the
most, however my thtrteen~arwld wants to
play as well and the two of them will play for
1 to 2 hours at a time.
Though I understand the programs all
run in 640 (K) hlobytes of random access
memory (RAM), more RAM is better. The
Microsoft Bookshelf and the Languages of
the World Programs are memory resident
and will require more than 640 K if run with
a word processing program, which is a
- reasonable way to want to use them. I found
I had to reboot after using them to switch to
another CD program, because I ran out of
memory.
Also, an addendum is included which
states MS-DOS 5.0 users will need to add the
line DEVICE~&OS SETVER.EXE to the
CONHG.SMI file, if it is not already there, to
run the Laser Library System.

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canner
by T. Bass
Product Intel Hand Scanner for Intel SatlsFAXtion
Manufacturer: Intel Personal Computer
EnhancementOperation, CO3-7, 5200 N.E. Elam
Young Pkwy, Hillsboro OR 971246497, 5034297354, 800-538-3373.
System Requirements: PC-AT, 386, 486, PS-2,
and 100% compatibles with one megabyte RAM, a
floppy end hard disk with two megabytes of free
space, MS-DOS 3.2 or higher, and a VGA, EGA,
CGA, or Hercules-compatible monochrome
monitor. In order to use Ansel, the image
enhancing software provided with the package,
Windows 3.0 has to be running.
Prke: US$399.

Summary

Intel's 256 gray-scale hand scanner

works, but the interface may be shaky with
uncommon motherboards.

Review

It was a bit scary installing the scanner

b ecause of m y p ast h istory with t h e
SatisFAXtion board. Readers will recall last
year how it caused my system to crash
repeatedly. However, the scanner installed
without a hitch and everything seemed to be
doing fine,
for a while.....
This hand scanner was much easier to
use than the ones I reviewed a year ago. It
was a pleasure to scan items for clip art. I
also created by scanning a p e r f ectly
acceptable 256-gray scale rendition of a
color picture of myself and my mother at
400dpi with the DOS scan feature. Later I
viewed the picture through XSoft's PCPaintBrush 1V Plus. It was beautifuL
I played with various features, Includingdots per inch, DPI, calibrations of 100, 200,
500 or 400,and black and white gray-scale
settings of 16, 64, or 256 shades.
I was enjoying myself with just the
command line scan command. This
command was induded with scanner drivers '
and can be included in your DOS subdirectory. Its parameters govern the size of
scanned image and provide various file
Rating
format extensions.
PERFORM A N C E: 4. Ifound the Sony
Then I installed the LogiTech's Ansel,
CD-ROM Leer Library to be outstanding. It
is well thought out and I n o t iced no which is packaged with the scanner. Ansel is
performance penalty in speed compared to designed to accept scanned graphic images )
what I normally get with programs loaded into the MS-Windows 5.0 environment. (
Ansel proved to be an excellent program for
on my hard disk
USEFULNESS: 4. The drive itself is manipulation of scanned images.
I was confident that all my previous,
useful as more CDs for software are
becoming available, but so is the software problems with the SatisFAXion board were
that came with it. I would recommend this water under the bridge, so I shut off the
for kids over a set of encyclopedias or other computer. Later, when a fiend came over
to see the scanner, I turned the machine
reference books without hesitation. The
price is actually $599 instead of the $699 back on and was crushedl My computer
went crazy. Something was corrupting the
seen in several advertisements from
hardware vendors. I think it would be an CMOS.
Over the next couple of days I spent
excellent family holiday gift, and one of
those gifts a family would spend aII year hours on the phone with various techies
Rom Intel Corp. trying to get the board and
telling fiiends what a smart purchase it was.
MANUALS: 4. The documentation is s canner back up. Every time I cu t m y
excellent. I found everything I needed in it, computer off and rebooted cold it would go
especially for instailafion, which was one of h aywire. Whatever was going on w a s
my concerns. It's a good thing for the user happening between start up and the PowerOn Self Test.
that the documentation is so complete,
Finally Intel's technical support people
because, though technical hardware
problems are supported at just the price of said that they would send me another board.
the phone call, software support is offered If this did not resolve the problems they
on a 900 number with the first minute f'ree, would have me send my computer to their
laboratory. Their engineers could then
but after that it's $2.00 per minute.
AVAILABILITY: 4. No problem here. perform tests directly on my computer to see
Since it's from Sony, I'm sure it will be what was causing the problem.
When I r e ceived the new board, I
available everywhere. I haven't had any
noticed
an updated chip in the U22 slot and
trouble finding it and my contacts in the
major chains, like Software Etc., all say what looked like a resistor soldered between
two terminals. Much to my relief the new
they' re getting them in soon. 0
board worked. The modem, FAX, and
scanner all functioned as they should.
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On follow up, I talked to several of the

Intel tech suppoxt people, who stated that
there were occasionally problems with
S atisFAXtion's i n teraction wit h l e s s
common motherboardsand/or their BIGS.
If you are having problems, it is best to
communicate with Intel's tech support a
helpful bunch. If they can't get it to work

4Q' HI-TEE

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Configurations 4 Upgrades

for you they will give you a Return Material

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Authorization (RMA) and take it back

PERFORMANQI8 (S.O) Once installed,

it performs flawlessly, a credit to both
LogiTech's scanner design and Intel's
SatisFAXtion board. H owever, I never
received a satisfactory answer as to what was
wrong between my computer and the
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combination with the SatisFAXtion board
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MANUAL: (5.5) The manual is short

and to the point. The directions are clear
about how touse the DOS scan program.
There could be a little more infoxmation as
to thechanging DMA info when there are
possible conflicts. Interestingly enough
- there was an addendum already, addressing
incompatibilities and conflicts. A separate
manual is provided for Ansel, the scanning
and paint program.
AVAILABILITY8 (5.5) The Intel Hand
Scanner for the Intel SatisFAXtion Board
seems to be less readily available than the
SatisFAXtion facsimile/modem cards, but
'can be special-ordered from the same
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HE MOTHER OF ALL TRADE
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in Las Vegas. Comdex is the
largest trade show in North America with
125,000 plus attendees and over 2,000
exhibitors. It fills seven major exhibition
halls and takes the full five days just to walk
through every aisle. The typical Comdex
report begins with a moaning about how '
sore the reporter's feet were after
wandering the halls of technology. I am
not going to do that. Sure I was a Zombie
at the end of every day as well, but I was
back out there every morning as
interested as ever. It is just such
computer heaven to go to.
Comdex, around every corner
there is something new and

inte
resting.
Having had a few weeks
to digest the material I
brought back, I thought I

w ould give my

ort

Document Processing
The idea of the paperless office, or least
an office with a little less paper, continues to
gain momentum. Many more exhibitors
were on the floor showing i n novative
solutions to document handling. The
basic idea here is turning paper
into a digital image with a scanner
to create a file that gets stored on
magneto optical d r ives and
p assed a r o u n d com p u t e r
networks as images on a computer
screen instead of the kind you can
bend, staple and mutilate.
Many of these solutions were tied
to Windows t'ront ends and
required a fair investment
in hardware (fast scanners,
big h ar d d r i v es, f a st
' computers a nd
f ast
4 networks) an d s o ftware

'(image-compression

own

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ware

and

file

anag e m e n t
programs). But the

Pen-based Notebook
Computers

pricing is creeping
down

' These units seem to be ",

about where notebooks were I,,
last year at this time. Lots of big ' '
lans and units announced,

from

Q $100,000

ut nothing shipping in"

volume yet. There are still bugs

to the operating system to work l
out as well as bottlenecks in
some of the components such as
the writing pen tablets. By summer,
we may actually be able to buy.
these units. I saw an interesting:
version of PenDOS demonstrated

at the W acorn booth which

overlayed apen4ased handwriting

recognition technology on top of
DOS. The demo involved crossing
words out of WordPerfect 5.1 and
having
th e m dele t e d . A
representative f r o m Kur t a , .
another pen m a nufacturer,
commented that he felt both
PenWindows
and
GO
Corporation's PenPoint were
still too slow. He declined to
pick a winner.

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towards the $10,600

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systems
cost
effective. One of the
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fr om
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s oftware'. You can scan i n a
document, then select an area at
' the top of the document with ydur
mouse, havethe computer do OCR
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OS/2 may not be dead yet,but the

dominant operating system being displayed
at Comdex was d e finitely W i ndo~s.
Everywhere new Windows applications and
utilities were on display. I was reminded of
the early days of the Macintosh, when
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Gravis (604/484-7274) introduced a new PC
s ome major limitation, f'rom the lowe d ,
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Ultrasound board. Incidentally, sister (or is
C asio's BOSS u n its, w h ich a r e n o t it aunts) company, Swiss4sased Logitech had
compatible with major operating syst'erne
one of the hottest booths at the show. They
and lack me m o r y for storage or
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sophisticated applications, to the Hewlett
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relatively high price and insufficient memory
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computer' and a m'ause designed for kids. It
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from Sharp called the Palm Executive
S HAR P
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(where do Trey get these names'rr
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Hints
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of
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For those who are eadyto join
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the movementto portable
small Hong Kong company called Palmcom
power, Sharppresentsa
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International Ltd (852) 75808&0. They were
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emerging technology that ties a computer
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and the f ourth fo r o p ening existing

documentL
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induthng a fimction called 'Introduction to
Publisher which teaches you the basics of
page layout within Puibssher. In fact, the
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seems to be designed to be the main source
of help. The printed manual is well wrhscn,
but a sparse 288 pages very thin for a
software manual Obviously the idea is to
move to morc "digital "hypertext" type of
manual/help. This makes sense.
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spell checker for correcting your sloppy
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graphics, importing text from most major

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MANUAL: 4.0. This reviewer seldom
awards our highest PUMA rating to a
manual, since many requireyou to know
how to use the program before you can
understand the manual. Others occasionally
leave out a critical piece of information.
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you can use the Grappler as an interface
only, and use a third-party printer driver
(available separately) to actually control the
printer.
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graphics formats (TIFF, EPS, CGM, PCX,
DRW, WMF, BMP) supportecL As well, there
are over 100 eh@art images included with
the package. BorderArt is another feature
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printer. For example, if you are using a
DeskJet, you vsould use Apple's hnagcWritcr
LQ driver. Unfortunately, the ~' s 2lfaefpi
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transparent mode" that simply passes the
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information rather than on one s own
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experiences, they are called experiential
learnerL
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the population) than to Divergers and
Accommodators (approximately 60 per
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technology of CBT and became its early
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