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Table of Contents

Letter From The Editor

A New View c8 AccounIny7
Phil Quackenbush is not a happy man. He
feels misunderstood by the public and he
blames it on shortsighted
accountants.
Phil is president of Q.W. Page, the
Canadian company that developed
NewViews accounting sofiware. I met with
him recently on the occasion of the
release of a new version of the software.
When it first came out in 1986, it was
hailed as revolutionary by PC hfagaciae,
Sales went ballistic on Phil and his crew,
but they hung on and survived that first
sales surge. Then a prestigious accounting
firm did a review of the product, where
they slammed it for a lack of "controls.
Another computer publication picked up
the review and reprinted it verbatim. Sales flattened and even fell off But
QW. Page weathered the storm, because of a solid and growing baseof users,
largely built on word of mouth. When I asked him how sales were now, he
held his ann at about 15% above horizontaL Still, NewViews has in his estimation sold over 50,000 copies and maintains close to 40,000 registered users
around the worhL
NewViews is a bit like a spreadsheet. It is a place to store your accounting
numbers and the program acts like a window on those numbers. It has a
Lotuslike, character-based front encL Zooming in on your numbers is a matter of selecting a row at the top level, then a couple of keystrokes will take you
deeper down into a report. Select an account, then repeat your "drilMown"
keystrokes and you are down at the item leveL The accountants at Price
Waterhouse criticized NewViews because it is possible to select a row and
delete it. Worse still, according to them, it is possible to edit descriptions,
dates and numbers at any time. Phil's side of the storyis that when he came at
designing NewViews, he looked at it from the perspective of the engineer that
he is. He was looking for something that was flexible and used the powers of a
computer to their best advantage. As he saw it, the 400.yearold practices of
accounting were built to fit the limitations of paper. In his vision, computers
could free people from the drudgery of accounting. They are also fast
enough to give us reai4ime numbers. Every time you enter new information
into NewViews, your income statement and balance sheet are updated. No
batches, no waiting.
According to Qmckenbush, most changes that end up getting done in
accounting systems are simply data entry mistakes, not attempts to de&aud
the company. The best-selling packages such as ACCPAC and Bedford the
ones accountants seem to prefer are menu@riven batch systems. In these
systems, every time a minor mistake is. made, a new entry must be made to
reversethe mistake and then another correct entry must be made.
Qmckenbush tells the story of an accountant who asked, "Is it true that in
NewViews 'I could enter a cheque, print that cheque, delete the entry and
walk out of the oflice with the cheque m my pocket and leave no record of
the event?" Skilled salesman that he is, he had to admit that this was true, but
he was quick to respond that he could do the exact same thing with ACCPAC.
In Qmckenbush's story, the same person could walk in, make a backup of his
ACCPAC accounting files, make the entry, print the cheque and then restore
the files Rom the backup. His point is that it is not accounting software that
keeps people irom fudging the numbers, it is systems and honesty.
Qmckenbush says that the lack of controls was always overstated about
NewViews anyway. If you enter a set of numbers, and then quit the program,
anyone reentering tbe program and editing it wiH have these changes written
to an external audit file. It is now possible to designate numbers as dosed,"
causing the program to beep a warning. Determined users can still alter the
numbers, but it is often enough to prevent acddental errors.
Personal experience tells meQuckenbush is right on at least one count:
traditionaletyle accounting systems suffer from lengthy learning curves. I
have known companies that became married to their consultant once they
took on one of the larger accounting systems. According to Qxackenbush,
once it is set up correctly NewViews is quick to learn and maintain because
mistakes can be easily correcteiL With traditional computer accounting systems, everything is done in extensive menu heirarchies. It is as if they are
designed by programmers who purposely want to keep people in the dark
(the theory being that if the data4nput person doesn't know what they are
doing, they are less likely to attempt to cheat). NewViews, because of its
spreadsheet4ke interface, is a much quicker study.
ls he right? Are the accountants a bunch of fuddyduddies? Only time will
tell. At the same time thatQW Page has been tightening up the controh on
NewViews, the traditional accounting systems have been making moves
towards some of the flexibility that NewViews has long offered. Great Plains
Accounting, for one, now offers the ability to enter data for four periods
ahead, avoiding the month-end processing panic to get a statement out. More
"real-time" systems are becoming available, but still, Quackenbush says, six
yearsafter its release, NewViews remains unique.
Enjoy the issue.

Kirtan Sngh Khalsa

Editor/Publisher

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Toshiba ships color

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Toshiba claims that operating hfe from
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Known as BitFax/OCR for Windows, it

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With BitFax/OCR for Windows, users
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fraction of the time it takes to retype the
original. The contract can then be loaded
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resent. Sales managers canreceive updated
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spreadsheet applications for analysis and
presentation.
With BitFax/ OCR for W i ndows, a
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BitFax/OCR for Windows requires
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ATI ships OSI2 2.0 screen drivers

for Graphics Accelerator Series
A number of hardware companies
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Sca r b o rough-based ATI
Technologies makers of the
popular Ultra range of PC
graphics cards announced -".
at Windows World '92 in
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Vantage and 8514 Ultra boards.
Available this month, these drivers are
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ATI says that OS/2 2.0 was designed for

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When products have been as successM as
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CorelDRAW, the temptation by many manture~
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them with as many features as possible ta
based drawing package.
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win the "tick-box shootout i n product
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reviews. This way, they can be assured of
designed from the outset as a Windows
the product yet is shnpler ta use and even
having at least as many features as the comapplication unHke Adobe IHustrator or
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CorelDRAW 3.0, Carel has nat done so by
CorelDRAW is produced by a Canadian
after looking at a near-Snal "beta" version just blindly tacking on extras. It is clear
company. Staying Canadian is amajor
of the product following a sneak preview
from thc start that an intelligent plan has
achievement in itself, especially when yau
given to the Winnipeg PC User's Group.
been behind it. To start with, a number of
consider the rate at which other software
new 'ease of use" factors have been added.

There is, far example, an editable preview made making it much easier ta act
on ideas for changes as soon as you see a
need for them. This made is now the
"default mode" with objects displayed in
full color and complete detaiL
CarelDRAW does, af course, still ofFer
the option of working in "wire frame'
mode. Meanwhile, Carel has now made the
number of layersin a drawing theoreticaHy
infmite (although you' ll run eut of memoty
eventually if you add too many). These layers can sdH be locked, hidden, printed and
assigned colors.
Anybody doing detailed work with large
numbers of objects will be grateful to see
the hnproved precisionin CarelDRAW 5.0,
which incorporates the idea ef "flexible"
guidelines. These allow you te issue a "snapteebject command for any object thus
aHewing you to align any object ta any
shape. GuideHnes can even be assigned colors, displayed, hidden and customized by
freekorm shapes.
Coral has also realized that although a
picture may be worth 1000 wards, the words
you do put in a drawing are st i m
t.
New text-hancHing features include color
control over individual characters, a spellchecker, thesaurus and a hyphenation
opdon. AH these features make it more likely that anyone producing drawings with a
moderate quantity of text can now consider
doing the whale thing in CorelDRAW',
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Publisher for Wmdows.
While all these features are welcome,
they might detract from the usefulness of
CorelDRAW if they hadn't been added so
creatively. Many of them such as some of
the new blend control o p tions are
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on-screen, but neatly tucked out of the way
when you' re not using them. This makes
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The final point worth making on these
overall design improvements lies in Corel's
support for OLE (Object Linking and
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support, however, you really should run
CorelDRAW S.O under Windows S.lrather than Windows S.O as only the former includes the final OLE client/server
system software. You can run CorelDRAW
S.O under Windows S.O, but you won't get
the most out of it.

Iwaidng anodal efforts moro special

CorelDRAW has long had one of the best
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Windows drawing application market and
with CorelDRAW S.O it gets even better. For
example, when you have text that is bound
to a ctuved object along a path, and then
you change the path, the text will automatically be bound to the changed path. And, if
you like, you can set things up so that you' ll
be automatically prompted when this happens.
Rotating and moving S-D objects
through space has always been difficuh in
drawing packages. With the new Extrusion
commands in CorelDRAW S.O, however, it
should make sense even to the novice. The
extrusion command is accessedthrough a
roll-up window and shows a sphere with
arrows in four directions, as well as diagonal rotation arrows at the bottom and top
of the globe. When you select an object and

INore modules
When you install CorelDRAW S.O, you
notice immediately that there are six program icons in the Corel folder. In addition
to CorelDRAW, you' ll see the CorelChart,
CorelShow, Corel PhotoPaint, CorelTrace
and CorelMosaic icons shown.
These add a raft of new functions to
CorelDRAW but by being added as modules, they don't clutter up the main application too much. Each of these applications
(perhaps w i t h
t he exc e p t i on of
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itself, but given the limited space we have
here, we' ll have to run through them
briefly.
CorelChart, as the name suggests, is a
new data~ven charting application. When
you load it up, you select a chart type and
are then presented with a spreadsheetetyle
grid irito which you can either enter or
import data. If you choose, you can also use
t he OL E a n d D D E ( D y n amic D a t a
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Excel or L o tu s 1-2-S for W i n dows).
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cars stacked on top of each other) to make
your charts easier to understand.
Corel PhotoPaint, meanwhile, incorporates the image-processing portion of
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In an attempt to perhaps grab some
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Mosaic is a useful, but unexciting, module designed to help you manage your
graphics files, as well as carry out searches,
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Finally, there is the tracing module,
CorelTrace, always an extremely useful tool
when you need to convert black~dmhite
bit mapped images into smooth, vector
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orel has acknowledged some bugs
in CorelDRAW version S.O, induding problems with OLK, certain
video drivers (such as those for
ATI's Graphics Ultra and Western Digital's
Paradise Windows Accelerator), and memory confiicts. Corel technicians said patches
to th'e software would be uploaded to
Corel's CompuServe forum as soon as they
are available.
W e also n o te d b u g s i n C o r e l ' s
PhotoPaint module, induding an inability
to save compressed TIFF fiies.

IY

S.O is Stater (especially in conjunction with

%'indown S.l), allows editing in Preview
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export capabiTities at least in theory. As
noted above, some import/export options
which used to work are now broken.
Another minor complaint remains
regarding CorelDRAW's inability to open
more than one file at a time. One would
think that Corel would have nouced the

No longer is CorelDRAW a poor choice

for a desktop publishing stand~; the company has obviously been listening to its
users. Although the 25fhodd fonts included
with the program are of varying quality, it is
great to have them available in standard
TrueType and Type 1 formats for use in
other Windows S.l applications.
Virtually all of our complaints with version 2.0 have been addressed. CorelDRAW

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nearly universal disdain that users of other

DTP programs have for Aldus PageMaker's
similar afiliction. Perhaps in the next version?
Overall, it's an upgrade with fabulous
features but too many bugs. Reportedly,
Corel predicts that S0% of the users of version 2.0x will upgrade. We think that will
prove to be a low estimat~ n c e the bugs
are squashed.

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identical file to the curves option. (In previous incarnations of the program, this feature workc:d correctly.)
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CorelDRAW S.O; the program must be
restarted. Again, this function worked perfectly in version 2.01.
Moreover, some users complain that
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Extrude function.
Some users have gone so far as to switch
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and the regional Bell companies are
expected to follow suit.
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experienced operators and secretaries. The
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human being, by
human beings.

where they' re treated like a human being,

by human beings.
And that's thc lesson. Technology

should help people, not replace them. Only

when top management learns this lesson,
and brings back those operators (maybc
with a nice raise) will we coming out of
Voice Mail Hell.

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PC users needto have a proper understanding of just what is meant by true data security. It comesin a number of forms-indud-

ing the process of mahng backup copies of

data, controlling access to the company's
PCs, implementing a comprehensive virus.
protection programme and adopting proper user procedures.
In this, there are two main levels of
security: privacy and corporate data security. The first is fundamentally a low-level.
function and can he something as simpleas
the password protection in a wordgrocessing program or other applicafion.Such
password systems are easy to break by a
determined hacker, but not by the average
person.
Don' t, however, confuse privacy with
real corporate data security. The first is
what you might call expressing a preference
that other people don't look at your data

Companies need to ensure that employees

take a proactive role in protecting the company's data Proper procedures and responsible attitudes are key aspects of data security. This also has implications for a company's training policies. Companyeride data
security policies and procedures should be
defined and communicated efFectively to all

employees.

People should be uained in what the

poficies are, what provisions there are for
back-up and the procedures for limiting
access to PCs
using a combination of so&ware or hardwarebased security products.
A manual on corporate data security
should be produced, setting out details
from top to bottom explaining things
such as how to define passwords (Le., use
upper and lower case letters, mix in numbers, etc), how to avoid getting viruses (i.e.,
don't insert any application disk into your
PC which you haven't first checked with the
network administrator), and how to carefully control and' consistently implement data
security.
T he f i r m' s p e rsonnel o r h u m a n
resources department should be involved in
the implementation of data security.
Employment contracts should be drafted to
ensure that aggrieved staff cannot leave the
company and prevent accessto data by
marching out without leaving their passwords. Ideally, a network or security administrator should have "master key" access to
all passwords on the network but that
doesn't always happen.
So, ideally, an integral part of a firm's
employment contract should cover provisions for proper protection of the company's information. It should specify what you
can and can't do with disks brought in from
outside the company and lay down what
happens where there isn't a master keyholder to all passwords so that employees
have to hand over their passwords along
with thecompany Amex card, company car
and offic door keys if they should leave the
company.

The PortableProblem
Employees should also be given instruction
in and encouragement to make their
portable computers more secure. There are
few lessons about the dangers of leaving
valuable data on unprotected portable computers more painful than the one experienced by a BritishRAF wing commander
during the Gulf War when his portable
computer containing topsecurity war plans
was stolen from the seat of his car.
While the data contained on most
portable computers is not hkely to he a matter of life or death, it could have serious
commerdal implications. So it only makes
sense that any portable or handheld computers used by a company be included in the
implementation of any corporate data security system. Otherwise they could provide a
large and problematic secutity loophole.
Finally, and probably most importantly,
security products need to be simple to
use so that people can easily work them
into their daily routine. If they are too difitcult, they will waste time, fiustrate users and
end up being ineffecfive because one
will use them. They should be "fit and forget" systems that users only see when they
are starting or finishing their work on the
PC, and operate with a minimum of fuss. As
to which specific systems they should buy,
that's another story.

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Protecting Your PC From

ieves

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magine a fate worse than a crashed

hard drive. Imagine that you get to
work and your computers are all
gone stolen away by h i gh-tech
thieves in the night who have already
fenced them in the streets. The electronic
memoiy of yourcompany has disappeared
off the desktop: no more accounts receivables, and work in progress has vanished.
Personal computer theft, especially theft of
the all~o-portable laptop computers, is on
a sharp incline. According to Constable
Elias, Community Relations Department of
the Vancouver City Police, "It [personal
computer] is one of the items of choice of
thieves."
Constable Elias suggests that owners
engrave their driver's licence number onto
the computer equipment, so that equipment can be crosmeferenced to the owner,
or at the very least have a record of the
equipment serial numbers.
Shirley Harvey, of St. Paul Fire gc
Marine Insurance, suggests that businesses
and those with home computers install a
burglar alarm to protect their valuable
machines. St. Paul Fire geMarine Insurance
is an insurance brokerage that offers a
small package policy for PC owners for
$850/year that covers the loss of equipment
and 90% of the value ofthe equipment
towards
lost data. Harvey said
that even high~cunty buildings are prone
to computer theft. She gave a scenario
where in large companies, someone in a
suit enters the of5ce and walks off with a
computer and is not stopped because it is
assumed that the person is a repair person.
The insurance companies also lose out
in cases of fraudulent computer theft. Dan
L emieux o f t he I ns u r ance C r i m e
Prevention Bureau said that he sees cases of
computer insurance fraud, where a PC
owner arranges to have obsolete computers
stolen, so that they can replace them with
insurance money that was fraudulently
gained.
Besides insuring your computer, engraving your driver's licence number on it,
installing an expc;nsive burglar alarm, or

reentering

securing the unit by dnliing holes in your

desk and wrapping cables and locks around
it, what else can a PC user do? A Vancouver
company has come up with an alarm for
desktop IBM PGcompatible computers for

a reasonable price ($129). Mindf1ight

Technology Inc. has developed the Safetec
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internal card that is installed into the internal bus of a computer, a 9VDC battery to
power the card, and software that gives the
user password protection.
Here's how it works: you have anished
computing for the day and you turn off
your computer, which puts the alarm on
standby mode. If the computer is not dis
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in your password and the alarm is disabled
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would have sounded. If the computer
stopped moving when the thief realized
their mistake, thc:n the alarm would have
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A few months later, the new user may
phone to tell me a story of woe. I say "Not
to worryl Just get out your backup and
w e' ll have you going in a j i f fy." H e
responds, "What backups You never told
me I had to do backups. What is a backup?"
"Oh oh!" I reply. "Why didn't you tell me)"
he wails.
It is not just backups. There are many
"obvious" things every new user must know.
This article will cover these basics. Not surprisingly, many of them revolve around
backups. I will also tell you how to keep
your machine clean, your AC p ower
smooth, your hard disk tidy, and your computer virus-free.

Hammers

BY
R OEDY G R E E N

WHA T E V E R Y N EW
C OMPU TE R U S E R N E E D S
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Never turnyour machine off when a program is running. Only power ofF at the DOS
Ch> prompt. When a program isrunning,
part of the data are in RAM and part on
disk. Only when the program terminates
normally does DOS write everything properly to disk
At times, you will be at war with your
computer. You will want k to stop, but you
cannot figure out how to make it stand stiH.
Powering the computer ofF is equivalent to
nuclear war. The big red power switch will
stop it, but using it will have distressing side
effects. You should do evexything posable
to avoid powering ofF including phoning
for help.
To stop a computer, you first must get
its attention. The gendest, smallest "hammer" is the <Esc> key.
If that does not work, you can try <CtrlC>. Hold down <Ctrl> and tap <C>. If that
does not work, escalate to a bigger hammer
and hit <Ctrl-Break>. This means hold
down the <Ctrl> key and tap the <Break>
key. Most novices have a tough time finding
the elusive <Break> key. Look on the right
hand side of the keyboard near the top.
The labeling is often on the side of the
<Pause> keycap.
If that does not work, call for help.
Often a knowledgeable person can bail you
out. Resist the temptation to turn off the
power. Powering ofF willnearly alwaysmake
matters much worse. Only turn the power
off if you see smoke.
However, if there is no help available,
you can escalate into abut war. If <CtrlBreak> does not work, try <Ctrl-Alt-Del>.
Simultaneously, hold down the left <Ctrl>
and <Alt> and tap <Deb. If that does not
work, hit the <Reset> button on the front
panel of the computer. If that does not
work, try powering ofF, waiting ten seconds,
and powering on again.

The Sorcerer's Apprentke

9 I

he nI senda customer home with hisnau MS.

DOS computer, I am a bit like a Mom sending
her sonoff to hisirst
f day ofschool "Remem.ber
to do your backups; watch outfor viruses; be
careful about Picking uP strange so
@ware!" I
tend to ovaxehelm with scoresfoperils However t.he nnu
user is so excitedwith his new toy that he only remembers
I% of what Itell him

The firs time you try to stop a printer, you

m ay feel like M i ckey Mouse in T h e
Sorcerer's Apprentice trying to stop the
brooms from carrying water.
If you are trying to stop a printer, first
get the computer to stop sending more
information to the printer by first trying
any instructions displayed on the screen. As
we computerists say, "When aH else fails,
read the directionsl"
If that does not work, try <Esc>, then
<Ctrl-Break>. After you have succeeded, the
printer will still keep printing for several
minutes, finishing off the material sent
before you cut off the flow. The printer has
a storage buffer. If you are impatient, you
can dear the printer's buffer by turning
printer off then on again. Do not turn the
computer itself offl Remember, this procedure will do no good until you have first
stopped the fiow of infoxmation from the
computer to the printer. Otherwise, the
printer will come right back to life again
like the villain in Terminator IL
If you have Windows, stopping the 'printer is even more complicated. You must per-

suade a background printing da;mon,

called the Print Manager, to stop sending
information to the printer.

If you wish to temporarily pause the

printer, for example to adjust the paper, hit
the printer's OFF-LINE button (sometimes
labelled ON-LINE, SELECT or READYi.
Don't use this button if you want to abort
the printout entirely. OFF-LINE wiH usually
ut both the computer and the printer on
old. When the computer is on hold, it will
ignore your keystrokes. When you have
adjusted the paper, hit the button again to
put the printer back ON-LINE, and resume
pMl ting.
Hitst' if everyour computer appearsPmen, check
that the printeris ONLHVE, ready to print.
Hint: Every printer and printing programhas
its own quirks. fI you do much printing with a
particular
program, beg your computer sorcererto
give you a magic spell or recipe to stop your particuhsr printer.

Diskettes
Diskettes back up your hard disk or transfer
information f'rom one computer to another. Floppy drivesare Rube Goldberg contraptions that will give you trouble unless
you treat them with care.

The Four Kinds of Diskette

There are four kinds of floppy diskette.
Unfortunately it is hard to tell the two kinds
of 5.25" diskettes apaxt. What is worse. even
computers cannot always tell them apart. I
suggest that you label each diskette with a
colored dot when you buy it to avoid confusion.
Green Dot: 1.44 MB, AT style 8.5", hard
shell, high density. Has two square holes,
one in each bottom corner. The hole in the
bottom left is usually plugged. When it is
open, you cannot write to the diskette.
Red Dot: 1,2 MB, AT style5.25" floppy,
high density. Usually has no hub ring.
When the notch on the upper right side is
covered over, you cannot write tothe
diskette.
Slue Dot: 720 KB, XT style 5.5" hard sheH,
double density. Has one square hole in the
bottom left corner, usually plugged with a
sliding switch. When the hole is open, you
cannot write to the diskette.
Yellow Dot: 860 KB, XT style 5.25" fioppy, double density. Usually has a hub ring.
When the notch on the upper right side is
covered over, you cannot write tothe
diskette.

Formatting Diskettes
Unless you buy pre-formatted diskettes, you
must format the diskettes when you first
buy them to prepare them for use.You
must use the appropriate format comxnand
for each type of diskette. If you acciden&ly
choose the wrong command, your data will
later tend to disappear a week or so after
you write it to that floppy. If you make such
a mistake, you must use a machine called a
bulk eraser to clear the diskette before you
try the format again.
Here are the commands you would use
in DOS 5.0 to format diskettes:
Format A: /u /v /f:1.2MB
Format A: /u /v /f:%0KB
Format B:/u /v /f:1.44MB
Format B:/u /v /f:720KB
To avoid confusion, it is best to use
green dot and red dot AT style diskettes
only,and avoid the blue and yeHow dot XT
style diskettes.

Diskettesare Fragile
5.25" floppy diskettes are delicate and can
be easily damaged. If ever you touch the
exposed magnetic surface, the diskette may
be ruined. Handle a diskette only by its top

edge.

3.5" diskettes are much more rugged,

but you still should treat them with ewe.
If dust gets inside the jacket, the
diskette may be ruined. Floppy diskettes
should always be kept in their protective
envelopes when not inside the diskette
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THE COMPUTER
PAPER JULY '92 21
Equipment that emits strong magnetic
fields can corrupt the data on a diskettealthough it does not destroy the diskette
permanently. Never place a diskette on the
computer, display screen, power supply,
magnetic tape cassette drive or near a telephone.
Pressure will damage a diskette. Type
sticky labels first, then apply thc;m to the
diskette. After you have applied a label to a'
diskette, never write on that labeL In an
emergency, when you absolutely must
cheat, use a soft felt pen or old fashioned
fountain pen and press very lightly. Never
use ball point or penciL

ttomovinu a Diskette

If you take time to learn these ridiculously

detailed instructions on how to rc.move a
diskette f'rom the diskette drive, you will be
blessed with good diskette luck all the rest
of your days:
1. First find the empty envelope, sometimes called a sleeve. Normally the envelope will be sitting at the front of the
storage box. If you don't find the sleeve
first, you will likely unconsciously put
the diskette down on the desk while you
search for the envelope. Invisible fingerprint oils or minuscule amounts of dust
on a desk surface can contaminate a
diskette.
2. Pick up the empty envelope in your left
hand holding it face~ with the thumb
on top and theforefinger underneath
gripping it lightly at the centre of thc:
bottom edge of the envelope.
S. Open the diskette drive door with your
right hand.
4. Grasp the diskette in the centre with
your thumb on top.
5. Gently pull the diskette out of the drive,
and slide it in one motion immediately
into the envelope.
6 . File th e e nvelope containing t h e
diskette into a storage box.

Insortlnu a Diskette
Here is how to insert a diskette into the
diskette drive:
1. First remove the old diskette using the
procedure described above.
2. Find the new diskette. Pick up the envelope containing the new diskette in your
left hand holding it face-up with your
thumb on top and your forefinger
underneath gripping it lightly at the
centre of the bottom edge of the enve-

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My machine is guaranteed. 1f something
goes wrong the dealer will 6x it. I don' t
need to do backups." "I don't need to do
backups. I have PC-Tools to recover."
Recognize yourselP Please read on. It
will save you many thousands of dollars and
untold hours of grief.

When you install a new version of some

soFtware, you should take a BKFORK"
backup of everything just before you install,
and an "AFrER" badkup of evexything just
after. Keep the BEFORE' backup for at
least a month in case there is any trouble
with the new software.

Why BackIll

As you might guess I have a bee in my bonnet about backups. If I catch people failing
to make them, I give thexn stern lectures.
This has backfired more than once.
A customer did something foolish that
destroyed his files. He looked at the backup
log and discovered he had not done a backup for 30 days. What will Reedy say when

In July 1999 I did a whole article, just on

backups. If you cannot find the article, I
have it available on diskette. When you do
backups, almost any mistake you make with
your computer can be undone. Ifyou
delete all your files by mistake, no problem.
If you get a virus, not to worxy. If your computer catches fire, if a thief steals your comliter, lf youx' accolllltaxlt corrupts your
oks, relax if you have done your backups.
However, without backups, very ordinary events can sometixnes'destroy everything. The computer will completely forget
every keystroke you ever told it. It does not
take much. Sometimes just a surge on the
AC power line, a power failure, or a
xnechanical failure in the hard disk can
wipe out the crucial parts of your hard disk

When Net to Sa* Vp

he 6nds out) Oh nol" So he immediately

did anew backup over top of that backup,
hoping I would never 6nd out.
When I came to straighten up the mess,
I fotmd the recent backup containing only
the useless corrupted Iles. The only other
backup was six months old. He had to
rekey six months workl
When you have a crash, do not backupl
You will only make matters worse.

able.
To avoid this, nuxx on the verify option
so the program tests the backups as it mites
them. Further, from time to time do a
firedxill, i.e., try restoring a noncritical file
just to make sure it works.
FastBack Plus and Norton Backup both
Force you to do a 6redrill as part of the
installation. I wish other such prograxns
would follow suit.

RrecHlls

Rotate Your Backups

If you keep three backup sets A, B and
~n
d o n ly normally use only set A, what
happens if backup set A becoxnescorrupted' You would Ml back toB and C which
Continaed on page 26

Backup software is notoriously unreliable.

You can be religiously using FastBack or PC
Tools, for years. Then one day you go to
restore, and discover your infernal restore
program thinks all the backups are unread-

and you lose it alii Sometimes a caching or

defragging program like PC Tools can hiccough and scramble everything. A nasty

viruspiggybacking on a computer game

can wipe you out totally.
Computers commonly have such fits of
amnesia Expect a crash at least once every
6ve years. Your only way to protect yourself
is to have backups.
A backup is a duplicate copy of all the
61es on your hard disk that you store on a
cassette tape or floppies. Nowadays, hard
disks are so big it is impractical to back
them up to floppies. Tape drives are now
inexpensive. If you share one between several computers, the peter cost is neghgible. The tape drives look like fioppy drives
with a biggerWan-usual slot. The tape cassettes look like stereo cassettes that have
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True, it is sometimes possible to salvage
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You must keep at least three backups.
There is always a possiMity one of the back
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then have a copy ofthe files before they
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are perhaps a year or two oldl You would
lose two years' keyingt
You must rotate backup first to A then
the next day to B then thc; next to C then
back to A again. This way you maintain
more than one recent backup.

Installing Software
Installing software requires a fair bit of
computer knowledge. Even the most automatic install programs need some manual
tuning to prevent the newly installed program f'rom interfering with existing prograins.
If you want to try it yourself, there is a

very good chance your computer will stop

working entirely after the instalL Make sure
you do a backup first.

The Rescue Diskette

Ask a computer wizard to make you a
"Rescue Diskette." If ever your hard disk
faib to boot, you can boot from this Soppy
instead. It will restore your CMOS, hard
disk boot track, DOS boot files, crucial
DOS flles,AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. It might include copies of the crucial Norton recovery utiTities. I have written
two freeware programs called BOOTSAVE
and CMOSSAVE that help in the construction of rescue disks.

Keep it Clean

Computers still have many mechanical

parts in them, e.g., the cooling fans, the
floppy drives, the printer motors and the
keyboard switches.Mechanical parts need
to be clean to work properly.
The fan in your computer sucks cooling
air in the slot in the front of the floppy
drive and blows it out the back of the computer. This drags dust and lint inside.
You have toclean both your Soppy drives and your tape drives specially. You can
clean most everything else just by blowing
the dust out and wiping with a doth.

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Cleaning Diskette Drives

I suggest cleaning your diskettes drives

once a month. The easiest way to dean a
fioppy drive is with a liquid cleaning kit. I
have written afreeware program called
SCRUB that rubs the read heads over the
entire surface of the cleaning diskette. Do
not poke around inside with a swab or you
will knock your drive out of alignment.

Cleaning Tape Drives

I suggest cleaning your tape drive once a
week. The easiest way to clean a tape drive
is with a foam-tip swab and some 99% pure
isopropanol. You can get this at most pharmacies. It might be labelled "99% isopropyl
alcohol." Make sure you also clean the photocell that detects the end of tape. If this
gets dirty, tapes will run right off the end
and be destroyed.

Hink If ever yoccr tape drr've destroys a taps cio

sot psst is yet another tapeforit to eat. Ckan the
drive jirst or have it serviced.

Mousewash
Your mouse ball will gradually pick up lint
and the mouse will behave enatically. Take
the ball out and clean it with 99% isopropanol. Use afoamup swab and gently
dean the rollers inside the mouse.

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The electrical parts of computers require
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Do Not Discard
Your new computer will come with some
technical manuals. You might have a look
at them and decidethey are way over your
head and throwthem in the garbage. Don' t
do thatl
If ever your computer needs service, the
technician will need those manuals.

Learn Your Printer

Your printer bristles with levers, knobs and

buttons. Read the manual to learn how to
use them. Take a permanent marker and
place a small dot beside the standard position for each controL Learn how to thread
and align the paper. If you don't do i t
exactly right, the printer might appear to
work, but it will keep jamming. Especially
pay attention to the tractor/friction control.
Eventually, someone will be using your
printer, and they will have trouble making
it work In &ustration, that person wiU randomly start fiddling controls. You will then
come back to your printer, and may fail to
notice the strange settings.
You may then wonder why the paper
keeps going off the rails, or why the printer
insists on printing everything in italic. If
you know how the controls are supposed to
be set, you will save a needless "repair" bilL

put data files in the CAWORD55 directory

that MS Word creates for its files.
When you createa subdirectory, ensure
that it will be backed up regularly. Often
backup programs da not back up new
directories until explicitly told to do so.

Keep Subdirectories Small

A customer brought his computer back to
me complaining it was ninning too slowly.
I discovered the problem. He had created
a subdirectory with over 5000 files in it.
Every time DOS went to look for a file, it
started at the top of the list, and one by
one, searched the entire 5000 forthe
requested file. On average it had to wade
through 1500 entries before it found the

file.
By breaking his directory up into 10
smaller directories, each with only about
800 files in it, DOS on average would only
have to wade through 150 files to find the
one it wanted. This would make DOS ten
times faster!
Try to keep each subdirectory to 200
files or less.

wade through extraneous files to find the

ones that program needs.

Viruses
The Michelangelo virus made everyone
aware of the virtis problem, and generated
outlandish rumors about how dangerous
computer viruses are. If you take some simple precautions, it is unlikely a virus will
ever harm you.

installing Software
If a program package contains more than
one file, always create a subdirectory just
for that package. If you later decide to
upgrade or remove a package, it will all be
in a tidy bundle. Finally, when that program is running, DOS will not have to

Defending Against Viruses

Your I virus cure is having sever@ backups. To recover, you need clean copies of
your programs beforethe infection.
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Nave Trouble Attended to Promptly

If your computer behaves strangely, have it
attended to quickly. If you procrastinate,
the problem will only get worse. More and
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You might get the mad notion to change
some jumpers or DIP switches inside your
computer. Any changes may make matters
worse. Therefore, write down the old settings before you start any experiments.
Make sureyou power off everything before
making any changes.

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Keep Your Disk Tidy

Novices often put up with hard disks ten
times slower than they need be simply
because they don't know the basics of keeping their hard disks tidy. I love to watch the
expression on someone's face when they
see the results after I tidy up their hard
disk. "I never knew my old dunker had it in
herl"

Defrag ging

ou've waited a long time for

this one. The quest continues

into the Black Gate. Will you

have the courage to enter?

DOS is a messy housekeeper. It stores files

all higgledy-piggledy. Gradually your

machine becomes slower and slower as the

disk arms chase hither and yon to find the
various bits of each file.
Once a week, you should run a defragging utiTityto tidy up the disk and pull all
the pieces for each file into one contiguous
piece. The fastest defragger is called ORG,
a shareware program from Switzerland.
The safest is Peter Norton's SpeedDisk.

Stay out of the Root

There is a place on the hard disk called the
root directory, e.g. C:X or DX This is something like the air-traffic control tower at an
airport. Keep your files out of here. The
root should contain only subdirectory
entries, AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS,
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Your I virus prevention is running only
clean software, e.g., commerdal programs
and shareware programs direct from a reputable BBS or shareware dealer.
A reputable BBS (Bulletin Board
System) knows the identities of all subscribers and knows the source of every file.
Any virus infection can be traced back.
Further, the reputable BBS sysop (system
operator) scans every file for viruses before
allowing it to be presented for distribution.
Be especially wary of any bootleg software you are offered or any diskette that
has been within 50 feet of a schooL Some
BBSes take no precaufions and effectively
invite anonymous vandals to submit boobytrapped sofeame for distribution.
You can check your machine for known
viruses using the McAfee shareware SCAN
program. Unfortunately the brats who
invent these things can create them. much
faster than we can catalog them. One estimate I read said there are over 1000
unknown viruses.
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Surprisingly, a virus cannot hurt you,
even when you do thefollowing "dangerous" things:
1. Make a directory listing of an infected
diskette.
2. Copy word processing files from an
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S. Copy aninfected program to your hard
disk (if you never execute it.)
4. Put an infected diskette next to one of
your diskettes in a box.
5. Run a virus-scanning program on an
mfected diskette.
6. Use a computer that has a virus, then
come home and sit at your coniputer.
"Virus" is a figure of speech. Computer
viruses have nothing do to with germs. A
virus is just a computer program written
by an obnoxious child.
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Boot Track %ruses

If you deal with a service bureau,e.g. a typesetter, you must exchange floppies back
and forth. Both you and the typesetter
should presume that these floppies are
infected with viruses. You should label them
with something disdncdve to warn users o
the potential infection.
Happily, there is not much cause for
alarm. You are sending only data Biles back
and forth, not programs, so there is never any
need to run a potentially mfected program.
However, boot track viruses can hurt you i
you leave a floppy in the machine by acciden
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Fortunate people are stung early, and lose
only a year's work. The least fortunate
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OFFICE AUTOMATION

Contrary to the popular belief, networking personal computers in an

office is not that dimtcnlt. Only when not-so-qtmlified personnel gct invoked
do true network screw-ups occur.
This month, ANO presents a ten point plan to assist you in developing
a network strategy. The list is based on our experiences with our in-house
network and the many installation we have performed for our customers. No
two networks are ever the same, but the basic rules apply in the maJority of

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6 HARDWARE SELECTION

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using, the network want or need. By approaching them, you will gel a clearer
picture of your nehvorking needs, and dowse any tlames ot' insccurih they may
have about nehvorking.
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cases, also given the least attention.
Avoid falling into this trap! Planning nul a cabling scheme hich allos
for clean expansion is vilal. Also be sure it is done ba a qualitied organization that
deals strictly with data and telecommunications. Evan if you are only hooking up
tavo or three systems, it shnuld be done prnpcrh and to building standards.
An improper cabling job can lead tn headaches and lost producthih..

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I! sun though most of today's nctorks look and feel like DOS, that
dnesn'1 mean that any IX)S application will function correctly (if at all) in the
netx1rk. Be sure that the programs ynu need to use are compatible with the
network you afc ga1nlg lo 1nstall.

8 WHAT IF...
Wailing tbr disaster to strike isn't goaxt business, and certainly isn't good
I'or nehvnrks. Be sure lo cover as many "What Ifs" as possible, and document

your plan ot auack.

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see if you can aisit to ol' their installations, and talk ln as many reference sites as
poss1ble.

Some hardware ynu should seriously consider include a lape back-up

unit (ilh tapes, ol' cnursc), an unintnruptable poer supply for the Fileserver,
and a fast modem lbr on-line suppnrt.

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GHI such as Windnavs as your primary aapcmting cnaironmcnt.
By relieving. the user from learninngchvnrk jargon and complex
commands, ynu are aLso reducing their stress levels.

Avoid doing, an entire netork installation on yourarTI.I)ring in an

experl hn can give you a digercnt perspective on the direction ynu should go.
Getting a second opinion is never a bad idea.
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2. If you don't have a nehaork specialist in-house, and rely on

your vendor heavily for support, be sure to have evavyone
trained nn the basics, and at least one or tavo people trained on
more advanced tmuble-shooting and administrative techniques.

9 SUPPORT
(Ioing il alone could end up costing. you in lost time and money. Arrange
for a service and supporl agreement with your vendor.

10 PLAN FOR TOMORROW

As the needs of lhe users on the netork will no doubt change, so
should 1our network be able lo adapt. Puture factors such as the expected number
of users, hard disk space, and cabling should be addressedbefore installation.

IN SUMMARY
Nchvnrking in the '90's is an integral pari of the evolution of the
compuler. Be aare that like all things a business it must be done right.
If ynu have any question please fell free to contact a network specialist at
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Concinnagpmn page 33
tive "mirror" layer on top of a plastic film.
NeXT disks use a single laser to both read
and write data.
To write data to the disk, first the drive
applies a magnetic field to the disk. This
field is oriented to write the binary digit 0
on the disk. Then, a laser is used to heat a
sector on the mirror layer to its Curie point,
or the temperature at which the crystals in
the mirror layer change their polarity to
match that of the magnetic field. This
makes all binary data in the sector consist
of Os. The drive then orients the magnetic
field to write the binary digit 1 on the drive.
The laser then heats all the sector's areas
where a bit must be set to a 1, to the mirror
layer's Curie point.
To read data onto the disk, the drive
first removes the magnetic field. When it
uses the laser to aim a beam of light at the
mirror layer,a phenomenon known as the
Kerr effect causes the crystal alignment to
alter the polarization of the refiected beam.
The amount of beam polarization determines its intensity, and a polarizing filter in
the read head then determines whether a 0
or a 1 was read on the disk by the level of
beam intensity. As in CD-ROMs, lasers
enable a large amount of data to be written
in a very small space. Several magnetooptical disk drives have been introduced, most
providing 512 - 640 megabytes of storage
per cartridge. However, Maxtor has introduced a $6000 drivecapable of storing
more than 870megs of data on a cartridge,
with the potential to store 1 Gigabyte (or
1024 megs).
While magnet~ptical drives hold great
potential, several factors have contributed
to their relative obscurity in the computer
industry, For example, while the NeXT
computer shows many of the potential uses
for Magnet~p tical technology, the price
of such technology ($8000 per disk drive,
and at least $150 for one cartridge) forced
NeXT to abandon their use in their lowend NeXTstation computers. Also, the slow
access rate of magnetowptical disk drives
(60 milliseconds, as compared to the < 20
ms speeds found in conventional hard drives) have caused potential users to use
WORM drives (or very big hard drives)
instead. Currently, price/performance
issues make magnetomptical drives too
expensive for conventional microcomputer
use. However, as this technology is further
devc:loped, it has the potential to seize
many of the markets now dominated by
WORM drives and large hard drives.
In fact, since NeXT started using the
600MB-plus optical storage technology in
its machines, a whole new dass of 128MB
magnet~ptical devices have bc:come popular. These devices are now on offer from a
wide variety of manufacturers for connection to most PCs.
A noteworthy effort to "commerdalize
magnet~ptical technology has appeared
from Insite Peripherals. Founded by Jim
Shugart, one of the engineers behind the
original 5 1/4 inch Soppy disk drive, Insite
Peripherals has developed the Insite
1285VM Drive, which provides an innovative new twist on magnet~ptical technology. Unlike CD-ROMs, WORMs, or "NeXTtype" drives, the I285 uses removable 8 1/2
inch disks called "flopticals." Capable of
storing up to 25 MB of data, fioptical disks
are veiy similar to high4ensity floppy disks
in design. The I285 can read/mite to both

that can be stored on floppy disks. Insite

Peripherals solved this problem by embedding an optical seivo track (using lasers to
precisely etch the track markers) onto the
surface of conventional highAensity disks.
An infrared LED is used to follow the
tracks, so magnetic heads can be aligned to
be more precise. Since the read/write
heads are made more accurate, lasers can
etch tracks on the disk more densely, and
the LED can easily follow the tracks. This
allows many more tracks (15,000 per inch,
as compared to the 185 tracks per inch
found on regttlar 8 1/2 inch disks) to be
used on fioptical disks. Roughly translated,
this means that much more data can be

ly. To make it easier for the drive's magnetic heads, floppy disks have always had a very
limited number of tracks (or grooves) per
inch. While this solution improves reliabiTity, it reduces drastically the amount of data

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hard disk crash. Many new mass-storage
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systems from the flaws of current hard disk
drives. While hard drives are currently useful, alternative methods of data storage will
become a vital part of the computer industry's future.

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going head to head with current hard disks
now on the market.
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lomega announces
Pro line of removable drives
that can boost the average storage capacity
per disk to 180 MB. The new product,
called Stacker for Iomega, is available for
PCs with ISA bus (US$549); Microchannel
bus ($549); and parallel port interface

($415).

Iomega has released the Bc,'noulli 90 Pro

line of removable drives.
The company says the new family of
products store 90 megabytes (MB) of data
per removable disk, but are available with a
special version of Stac Electronics' Stacker

The drives sport a new mechanisxn that

is said to improve access thne to 18 milliseconds (ms). Ioxnega claims that disk caching
software included with the new products
reduces the effective access time to 9 ms.
The company maintains that the new mechanisxn is quieter and runs cooler than previous Bernoulli drives, for even longer life.
Bernoufli drives are avaihble for a wide
r ange of c o m puters, in cluding P C ,
Macintosh, NeXT, Sun, SGI and others.
Prices start at US$849 for a host-powered
external drive for AT-bus PCs.
Contact: lomega, 800-777-6179.

Rodime Offers Ricoh

Rewritable Optical Drives
BOCA RATON, FLORIDA, MAR 50 (NB)Rodime Systems is about to introduce two
rewritable optical drives for Macintosh systems based on Ricoh drives. The new drives
will be compatible with all Macintosh systexn software from 6.07 up, including
System 7.0.
The Condor 650e is a 650 megabyte
{MB) wapacity, 5.25-inch drive based on the
Ricoh HyperSpace drive which turns at
8,600 revolutions-per-minute (rpm) to
achieve 57 millisecond (ms) average access
times with a sustained one MB-per-second
data transfer rate. This would compare to
CD-ROM drives which have accesstimes
from 850 ms to well over 600 ms.
The second drive is the Condor 180e
(128 MB), based on the Ricoh 5.5-inch

Transporter Drive which turns at a slowe

8,000 rpm rate and offersa data transfer
rate of only 640 kilobytes-per-second with
an average access time of 45 ms.
These ar e b o t h m a g n eto-optic
rewritable drives, but the Condor 180e can
also read discs mass produced (published
under the new 8.5-inch 0-ROM standard
which is very like a small CD-ROM but
stores only 120 MB of data instead of the

550 MB cried on a larger CD-ROM disc.

Ricoh builds optical drives but sells

them to manufacturers who integrate them
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aden systems for existing computers.
Contact:John Dean, Ricoh,408-4824SOO.

Maynard Intros Transportable New Faster C}uantum HDs

Tape Backup Systems
Geared Toward Workstations
LAKE MARY, FLORIDA, APR 14 (NB)Maynard Electronics has introduced the
Irwin EzPort transportable tape backup systems. EzPort connects to the paramel port
of desktop, laptop, or notebook PC, or
PSf 2 systems.
Maynard said the unit does not require
a separate controller card, and shares the
PCs parallel port with a printer, elixnfnatfng
the need to connect and disconnect either
of the peripherals to use them. According
to Maynard spokesperson Anne Lardner,
the special cable connects the tape drive to
the computer. A port in the tape drive
accepts a cable from the printer. Only one
of the devices can be used at a time,
Lardner said.
Maynard said they will start shipping
EzPort with its EzTape DOS software in
May. EzPort will have a suggc'.sted retail
price of$699 for the 120 megabyte (MB)
versionand $799 for the 250MB drive. The
company says EzPort can backup a 40MB
hard drive in less than 10 minutes. EzPort is
compatible with the installed base of Irwin
Accu Trek systems.
EzTape is a menu driven prograxn, and

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ability to select full backup or only selected
files. Maynard also offers EzTape software
for Windows as an option.
The Windows version includes xnultitasking capability, allowing the backup to
be done while other tasks are being perforxned. Data compression, automatic
scheduled backup, network support and an
integrated tape librarian are also included
in the Windows version.
Present EzTape users can upgrade to
the Windows version for $59. If you do not
already use EzTape, the Windows version
has a g69 price tag.
Network support is provided for Novell,
LANtastic, IBM's PC LAN (local area network), and TOPS.
The AccuTrak system provides for the
exchange of data between minicartridge
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NCR, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Data General,
Zenith, and other distnbutors. The EzPort
drive can also interchange data with tapes
written by EzTape for OS/2 software.

MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA. MAR 16 (NB)Quantum says it is offedng 426 megabyte

(MB) 8.5-inch hard disk drives called the
Prodxive 425i beginning next month.
The new drives are small coxnputer systems interface (SCSI)Cased or Integrated
Drive Electronics (IDE)-based models and
offer 256 kilobytes of random access m.emory (RAM) as a cache buffer for improved
perfonnance,the company said.
Qmntum says the new drives are geared
toward the workstation market. The company said its previous hard disk drives have
been well received and in 1991 about 20
percent of workstation hard disk drives
were Quantums.
The SCSI versions will ofFer an optional
Fast SCSI, also known as DifFerential SCSI.
Fast SCSI is a mode of data transfer which
allows twice as much data to be transferred,
up to 10 MB per second as opposed to the
older 5 MB/second 1bnit imposed by the
SCSI-1 protocoL Fast SCSI also allows for
longer cable lengths with increased integrity of the transferred data, Quantum said.

Read/Write Multiple firmware is available on the new IDE4xased AT models and

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The cache buffer on the new drives is
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write caching is supported via the company's proprietary Discache and Writecache
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Quantum says it manufactures 8.5-inch
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Contact: Quantum, tel 408-894-4000.

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C OSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA ( N B ) Emulex has announced its Palomar family
of rewritable optical storage systems which
the company says are designed to offer a
faster alternative to tape back-up and storage on large systems at a lower cost per
megabyte.
Emulex says it offers turn-key optical
storage in sizes from 15 to 85 gigabytes
(GB) for small computer systems interface
Unibus, and HSC interface(SCSI),
based VAX systems or dusters. Full systems
come with a host adapter, optical jukebox,
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Emulex said.
Teri Blackledge, director of product
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Palomar system eliminates the need to
patch device drivers and accept data stored
in non-standard formats. The Palomar is
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here are a number of pointeof asale

(POS) software systems on the
market today. The vast majority
manage inventory, customer, and
transaction databases. This means that if a
customer purchases an ardde of inventory,
the computer automatically updates the
inventory database by removing one item,
updates the customer database with a
record of what the customer has purchased,
when they purchased it. It then records
what they paid for it, updates the transaction database with total sales and payment
type information to be transferred to the
general ledger. Other transaction types
such as layaways are handled in a simHar
manner, as are returns and voidL

Bo proparod
to make the right choice

SE L K ( ::T

WATERS

plus.
Accounting for your invostmont
Do you want an accounting-based systemor a POS system that can be linked to your
present accounting system (or any of the
ether very good accounting systems that
exist today)? Approximately half of the systems currently on t h e m a r ket w ere
designed with the accountant in mind.
Others were developed for sales derks, but
with the ability to compile information to
be fed into a good accounting software
package. If you are presently using an
accounting p a ckage, w h y c h a n ge?
Ch a n ging to an accounting-based system
w o uld necessitate more expense retraining
on the new accounting system as well as the

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made to look and operate almost exactly
like a cash register. You can save some
money by accommodating the fuH-size com-

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puter even if you have to bide it under

the counter.
Do your have budget restraints? What
can you afford? There is POS software on
the market ranging from $149 to $5000

To pick the right software package you

must first be prepared. Preparing yourself
can be a timewensuming, but eventually
POS package.
rewardmg experience.
Do you carry accounts receivable? If so,
You may also wantte consider the use of
a consultant. There are many retail consul- i t w ould be best to have at least this subtants who wHl sit with you, discuss your busi- ledger account handled by the POS system
ness, help you determine your needs, inter- for speed and ease of use.
Do you have layaways? This is a special
view prospective softwarecandidates, set up
feature, so if you do a lot of layaways, it
demonstrations, and make recemmendashould be a strong
tions.
point in d e ciding
If you decide to do
which POS software
the job yourself, start
~
by determining your
needs. First consider
ls it easy to use'?
w hether t h e r e a r e
Isy
Ease of use is one of
industry factors that
the most important
make your business
ffy
factors to be poaunique.
dered. Who is going

858 t 8 L I 1FIICCII
to use the system? If
What do younoodle
the system will be
If, for instance, you are
operated by a sales
in the softgoods indusclerk with little comtry, a size matrix is a
uter keyboard experequirement.
rience the system
Alternatively, you may
heul
o m ob e in the hardware g g j
date t ha t . T he
business
where smaHprocess of completi tem t r a cking a n d
ing a sale should be
t
weighed items become

so easy that a manual

a factor.In the grocery
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is not required.
business, interfaces to
Do you require
other hardware such as
a
e
the use of multiple
scales. gas pumps. autf
terminals {registers)
external displays be
due te voiume er
comeamust.
depar tmentalization?
As well, the system
If so, t h e s ystem
must be able to accept
should be network
UPCs (Universal Product
Codes the ubiquitous black bars you see c o mpatible. Multiuser versions of software
require the abgity te lock the use of one
printed on every tnanufactured product
these days). Ia the gift business, meaawhHe, custemer or inventory item recerd on one
you may want to sell items individuaHy er as terminal so that the same customer or
inventory item cannot be updated at the
a set (such as cutlery or dishes). The term
same instant on the other terminal, thereby
for this in computer software is assemblies.
causing erroneous information to be saved
to the database.
Make room for the nom system
Next, do you have the necessary space
I s the system to be used by multiple
stores reporting to a head of6ce? This fearequirements? You then need to think
about where you are going to put the sys- t u r e adds a magnitude of dif6culty and
tern the sales counter is a popular cheice. p r o bably requires the indusien ef telecomWhea you' vedecided where you want it, munications between operations te transfer
data.
you need to make sure there is room fer a
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methods are average cost, actual cost, Ltro

(last in first eut ), and HFO {first in 6rst
out). The enly two methods acceptable to
Revenue Canada presently are actual cost
and fifo.
Another consideration with inventory is
how easy it is to enter. Does the method of
inventory entry require the typing of the
same information over and over again?
Does a new size matrix have to be designed
with each new inventory item? The average
retail user may have very little keyboard
experience and as such the catty of inventory must be simple and accurate.
A good customer~anagement system
can pay for itself over the short term. Ask if
the system has some type of form-letter generator. Bulk mailwuts with the personal
touch to your best customers are one way te
compete with the big guysl

Don't boafraid to ask

Ask for demonstrations of the software. Be
prepared to spend from two to four hours
per demonstration to get a feel for the
product. During the demo, try to determine whether you will have any trouble
communicating with this vendor. Trouble
at the first meeting could mean future
problems.
Den't be afraid to ask other people in
your industry what they are using. Ask them
if they had it to do over again, would they
still purchase the same software?
Does the vendor seem flexible) Can
they accommodate the time constraints you
may have in your business? Can they train
after-hours or in slow periods? Do they
seem willing to repeat training if refreshers
are needed)
Caa modi6cations be made to the software?If you run a gift business, a bridal registry program might be one of your main
concerns. Will the vendor add this to your
program or at least modif'y it te link to a

third-party program?

Ask for references. Any reliable software

vendor wiH have a list of references that may
be caHedto verify the claims made by them.
Check out the references and make sure
that the technical suppert promised was
given and that aH was delivered as contracted. Don't stop there ask about weaknesses, technical support, training or reliability.

What is included) Dees the system

include training in the purchase price or is
it additional? Some systems are sold with a
minimal number of hours of training and
then an hourly rate is charged for subsequent instruction. What is the technical
support pelicy of the veador? Is the technical support induded for a limited time?
What is the fee for subsequent technical
support? What is included in the technical
support fee? b it only telephone supporter is fax and personal support given as well)
How often is the program updated? Will
program updates cost addidonal money?
Yeu should consider buying the complete solution from one vendor. Although
you may save money in the short term by
buying your own equipment fram a discount house, you will leave yourself open to
argtuneats about whose fault a system failure may bel The hardware salesperson
could claim the software is at fault and vice
versa. If you buy both the hardware and
software from the same vendor, they are
responsible te make sure it operates correctly.
On-site service contracts are generally
more expensive than standard arrangemeats. Consider whether the loss of your
machine for a day er twe will be disastrous.
Is the company established? How long
has the company been i n b u siness)
Remember when yeu ask this question that
the IBM Personal Computer only came ea
the market in 1981. Ask if the company
should become insolvent or cease te support the product you are purchasingwhether there is some plan ia place to
maintain your system, er at the very least
make the source code available so yeu can
continue te support yourself. Same companies have their software in escrow for just
such an event.
Selecting the right pointaofMe sofbvare
and the right vendor can be a very hard
decision. Correctly made, however, it will
reap invaluable rewards for you and your
business. Incorrectly made, it wiH cost you
time, money,and confidence.
Tom Nafara is a longtime vendor and developer of POS syatatns at Sand Dollar System
Daaign in White Rock, British Columbia. He can
ba reached at (804) 588-4654.

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vendors, he predicted.
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records storage, and smaller ones at departmental levels playing host to desktop
clients.
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Storage: 3.5" 720K/1440K drive and 5.25"
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Inlerfacea: Telephone line cord with plug,
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Dlaplay: 2 x 16 character LCD
Dfakefte confroller. PC/AT standard
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t seems like the fax machine is everywhere these days. Sending documents
by phone saves a great deal of time and,
for international information interchange,
it is often essential. If a diagram inJapan is
needed'in Vancouver, faxing it across is the
obvious answer. Unfortunately, though, it
isn't always this easy when dealing with
other types of information.
If you opt for using one of the many
"remote control" packages available these
days such as PC Anywhere III for P~o mpatibles and Carbon Copy or Timbuktu
Remote on the Mac you need to keep the
remote control package running all the

serial communications channeltime and really dedicate that PC and

with one channel used for control
modem to the job. You also need to
over the modem and the other for
ensure that whomever you are sendthe serial port. The serial port is
ing your data to at the other end has
wired so that it can be used with a
the same remote control package,
pIlll tel.
has enough disk space for the files
The rear of the unit is a bit more
you are sending and so on. In short,
intriguing, with a 9-pin serial port
Phased file transfer over the teleand an auxiliary socket. The former
phone line can be cumbersome,
can be used to talk to PCs, while the
complicated and expensive.
latter allows connection to a teleAlfa Systems' Diskfax offers an
phone or fax. Using special "comintriguing alternative to direct transpanion" software, several PCs can
fer or e-mail. Rather than forcing
share a single Diskfax over a netyou to set aside a PC at either end
work and send files to a remote
for the job, Diskfax incoiporates disk
Diskfax without leaving their desks.
drive controller, modem and comThe keypad is by far the most intermunications software as a single
esting part, though, with 21 buttons
device. Instead of paper, it uses disks
and three LEDs. It also houses a
and will transmit the contents of a
2xl6 character LCD screen, used to
disk to another via Diskfax by teledisplay prompts and information.
phone. The receiving device conAMB Syatema' Dfaktax hopes to do for remote file transfernng
The actual keys are set in a rectantains a blank floppy or internal hard
di s k s m a kes an instantly usable what the paper fax machine has done for paper-based remols
gle, with numeric in the middle and
communications.
functions outside. Starting from the
copy. All Diskfaxes use the same
top the first is Send, used, naturally
software and can communicate at
enough, when sending information.
identical speeds.
Pressing this and inserting a disk causesare fitted as standard. The mechanics of
these drives are the same as those found in
the Diskfax to examine its contents, after
Hardware
which it prompts you to dial. Numbers are
PCs and offer 1.44 and 1.2 MB capacity,
At first glance, the Diskfax looks like a tall
entered via the keypad and once this is
fikx machine with a matt grey finish and a
respectively.
done, the rest is automatic. Next in line is a
series of simple plastic buttons on the top.
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Measuring 259mm 'tall by 198mm wide by
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the whole Diskfax unit itself is run on a
receive data, and this is the default mode
drive unit, but has a large, colored, keypad
good old 8 MHx Intel 8088 processor. The
on power up.
stuck to the top.
hard disk model features an IBM XTwomGrrktirkued ark pagek/8
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Crpariristedpore page 47
Last in the top row is Unload. Used in
conjunction with an
internal hard disk, it
copies any stored messages to a floppy disk.
The hard disk model
contains a 20 MB
d evice, capable o f
holding a great deal of
data. The c h eapest
Diskfax model is a floppy disk only version.

Typesetters could welcome it too, as

some of them accept PostScript 6les via
modem and the
9600 baud transmission speed of the
Diskfax makes this
attractive.

The Diskfax holds

out the hope of

vastly broadening

Who needs ltV

Interesting question.
The answer is probably
people in large.companies who could send
data around branches

complex e~ syst
and WANs.
It would also be

the number of
potential users of
PC based clata
communications.

Pricing
T he price of t h e
Diskfax is its biggest
problem, although
North American distributor s
T he
Diverse Business
Group promise that
prices will drop as
volume increases.
You will currently
pay $5299 for the
basic floppydisk version an d s everal
h undred d o l l a r s
more for the hard
disk model.
These prices are
comparable to what
you would expect to

ever, is that it's often one of the simplest

elements of the package to fix. No redesign
is required just some long hours slaving
over a spreadsheet to figure out whether
increased volumes will make up for loss of
potential pro6t on the current high price.
And the company is willing to lease the
machines foraround $100 a month. So if
you save at least that in telephone costs by
being able to Diskfax your long documents
instead of faxing them, then it may be
worth using a Diskfax now, rather than waiting for the price to drop. I could also see
strong arguments in favor of using Diskfax
in corporate environments where secure
fax and simple data-transfer systems are
essential.

trade and for companies with lots of PCs,

but few modems to
pay for a highl
send information in
fax machine and
original format to each other. The; Diskfax t h e y are also ahnost exactly what you would
offers the potential of becoming a given
have to pay for a copy ofPC Anywhere III,a
department's data communications out9600-baud modem and a good 586SX PC.
let thereby eliminating the need to buy
Alla Systems,developers of the Diskfax,
individual modems for lots of PCs.
daim price is n ot a problem. Diskfax is
In addition, it could replace the need
w i t hout doubt ore
m convenient and easier
for expensive multigage faxes. Sending a
to use than a dedi'cated PC tucked away in a
50-page fax in the conventional manner
corner running a remotewccess package.
can take up to half an hour. "Diskhxing"
A n dthere are sign
16cant cost savings to be
the word-processed file containing that
made by not having to waste valuable comsame 50 pages of information would take
pa n y resourcesnoestablishing PC-based
you less than a minute a huge potential
c o m munications
systems in your company
savings for those who send lots of computor by sending long faxes and racking up
ergenerated faxes to people capable of
long~tance charges.
readingthe same document on~een.
The best thing about high pricing, how-

and

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The Diskfax is an interesting concept and
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Producers of catalogues, telephone
directories, product directories and direct

do is load up the database file (or files)

containing the data you want to publish. To
do that, you go to the Query menu and
select the option to Create Query Table.
There are two modes you can use in

real use of database publishing technology but few of the producers of database
pubhshing products have so far had much
success in marketing them.
It should thus come as no surpxise that
the major players in the desktop pulshing
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In the case of market leader Aldus
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marketing rights to the %Findows-based
PageAhead desktop publishing productoriginally developed and marketed by
PageAhead Software of Seattle.
PageAhead allows you to query, retrieve
and format data from ASCII and dBase Ilies
and arrange them in such a way that they
can then easily be placed into PageMaker 4
for Windows. Within PageAhead, you can
sort the data in the database, combme data
f'rom multiple database tables and create
"calculated Selds' I'rom the data.

except an SQL expert, the QBE system is

likely to be by far the easiest.
Once you have selected Query By
Example, you then need to select a database on which to carry out the query. If
your default database type is dBase,
PageAhead will show you a file list of all
.DBF f1les from which you can choose to
create your queries.
PageAhead then brings up a spreadsheet-style grid on the screen, with the
name for each Beld in the database becoming the name of each column and the
record in the database running fram left to
right across the screen.
If you want all the records in the database to be included in the Snal, databasepubBshed document, you can then just use
the QuexyNow command and PageAhead
will go and retrieve all the data f'rom the
database. A more likely scenario, however,
is that you will want to publish only some
Seids such as names and addresses.
To select those, you tell PageAhead
which Selds you sforr 'rwant to include in the
final report by clicking on the tick-box
beside the name of that Beld at the top of
its column (e.g., to exclude the field
Employee's Salary from the report, you
dick on the tick%ox to the left of this field

mail marketing campaigns can all make

Veiny PaleAheasI

You start PageAhead as a separate application, rather than from within PageMaker. It
has its own icon on the Windows desktop

and operates entirely independently (which

is fair enough, given that until recently it

was sold separately f'rom PageMaker).

You then have totell PageAhead a few
things about your work starting with the
type of database Ble (dBASE or ASCII are
the only two formats on offer), the "target"
PageMaker publication into which the database information will be placed and (if
Windows hasn't aleady selected one for
you), the target printer.
Then things start to get interesting. One
of the first things you are likely to want to

preparing your query either SQL

(Structured Query Language) or QBE
(Query By Example). For almost anyone

UK Survey Shoms Fax

llsaIIe And Costs
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ARLOW, ESSEX, ENGLAND, JUN 16
(NB) According to a suxvey from Gallup,
usage of fax machines is skyrocketing.
However, perhaps more worxyingly, is that
the survey indicates that the growth is being
paralleled by a massive increase in costs,
which Gallup daims is out of control.
The survey, carried out on behalf of
Pitney Bowes' fax division, reveals that 51
percent of users have increased their usage
of fax machines on the past year, despite
the recession. Ninety~ne percent of users
believe that fax machines help increase
their productivity.
The suxvey, which covered the Finandal
Times top 500 companies in the UK,
showed that regular fax users in the US and
UK now send an average of 40 documents a
day, with UK users topping the league with
an average of 61 documents a day.
Interestingly, almost half of the major
users of fax machines are now using plain
paper rather than expensive and "curly"
thermal paper. Additionally, while only 29
percent of those who use a thermal paper
machine said they wished they had plain
paper, 59 percent said they needed to make
copies of their thermal paper faxes for filing purposes all or some of the time. This is
because thermal fax paper fades after a few
months,
Meredith Fischer, vice president of marketing for Pitney Bowes fax division, said he
believes that some of the fmdings will surprise senior management.
"While fax usage has increased considerably aver the past 12 months, operational
costs are not being controlled, given that
the technology to do this is readily avail-

able, often on machines already installed.

Thermal paper, for example, is relatively
expensive, tends to fade and has to be
copied if it needs to be kept. At l.y pence
per copy,for paper and toner,that can add
more than UKP 950 a yearper machine,"
he said.
Perhaps more worxyingly,only 20 percent of UK users said that their company
had guidehnes onfax usage, compared to
28 percent in the US and 52 percent in
Canada. Only four percent of UK users had
had any formal training on fax machine
usage.
Fischer said that he knew that fax volumes were increasing, but the Gallup figures were beyond what anyone had expected. He also said that companies seem to be
missing an opportunity to cut costs using
the features of the latest fax machines.
"In many cases, for example, if they
upgraded their fax networks with new 14.4
kilobits per second modem plain paper fax
machines, the savings in transmission
charges and supplies costs could actually
pay for the machine," he said.
It also seems that fax machine users
waste a lot of money on telephone charges.
Only six percent of UK users said they used
cheap rate phone periods to send their
faxes most of the latest fax machines can
be prograinmed to send faxes during offpeak times, Newsbytes notes.
The overall theme of the report is that
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query and a Work Table showing the same
results, but allowing you to work on the
appearance and formatting of the data
while loohng at them.
Within the work table, you can sort the
data, change the fonts and typestyles used,
adjust column widths and carry out all the
same kinds of format adjustments you
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Da a ase 101

A book by Guy Kawasaki

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Review of: Database 101,
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a freeway; (b) an analog act to continue the

human race; (c) combining data from different sources; (d) a Wall Street practice of
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After that, he resigned from Apple and
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book, Guy attempts to educate the masses
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T here ar e 1 5 4 p a ges i n t h e b o o k .
Ordinarily, that might seem like a chunk of
reading. However, I found that it took me
about 3 hours to go through the book,
cover to cover. The book's pages are divided into 16 chapters plus a Preface, Forward,
Condusion, and 2 appendices. Each chapter begins with a "cover page" that contains
its name, the key concepts endosed within
it, and a quote (which may or may not have
anything to do with the contents). At the
end of each chapter there is a sutnmary scctlon and a quiz+
Throughout the text of the chapter
itself, you will notice that text comprises
about three fifths of the page. The rest is

given over to white space (presumably for

writing notes') and the constant gray

square design that appears to bc a styhstic
theme of the book Each chapter is also liberally strewn with cartoon graphics that
attempt to apply humor to the discussion in
the text.
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Guy Kawasaki is known in the Macintosh
world for his sometimes wacky humor. It is
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millions of Madntosh fans. In this book, he
lets that notorious humor loose. There are
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As everyZoner knows, modems come in a

variety of speeds, from %$ bits per second
(bps) to...well, how much do you want to
spendtt
Note that "bps" is sometimes incorrectly
used synonymously with the word "baud."
Because it is possible that certain modems
may send more bits per second than the
baud number they are rated at, it is dear
that the terms axe not always the same. 'We
explained this complex topic in depth in
the April 1991 and March 1992 issues of
Iyr ~
ter Pager.
Today's 9600- and 1 4 ,400-"baud"
modems can, under ideal drcumstances,
reach data transfer rates of up to four umes
that rate using various datawompression
and errorworrection technirlues. (V.$2bis
and V.42bis are only two of a plethora of
strangely named standards.)
Like nearly everything ehe in the world
of cotnputers, prices are dropping steadily.
Whereas in the early eighties, a 500-bps
modem would setyou back a couple of
hundred dollars,
today you can get a 2400bps unit (with a sendfax option, if you shop
aroundl) for half that price.
I recommend against getting any
modem slower than 2400 bps when miits of
this speed or greater can now be had so
inexpensively. Recently, 9600- and 14,400bps modems have begun to drop in price,
with several brands now resdng comfortably belowthe $600 mark. When connected to another modem that supports the
V.42b standard, these units can sustain data
throughput rates as high as 57,600 bps.
Zonin'I
High-speed modems from Practical
Peripherals, Supra, Everex, U.S. Robotics
and ATI are also highly regarded units.
Prices range from about $500 to $800 and
occasiona5y higher. External models tend
to cost more than internal ones which plug
into a PC slot. I prefer external models for
their portability and iront~anel displays of
status lights.
If time is money, you might consider
one of these internal or external units as a
relatively bener investment than the slower
models. Even if you only venture into The
Telecom Zone as a hobby, you can never,
as Zoners say, have too much speed.

High Speed Not Yetthe Standard

Despite the wonderfulness of having a hotrod modem, you must have high-speed
access numbers to dial to make it all worthwhile. There is little point to having a fast
modem if you are connecting to a slow

modem, because, just like spouses, the two

units must communicate at the same rate.
Thus, you should determine what telecommunications services you plan to use in
order to decide which modem is ideaL
(Remember, though, that fast modems am
slow down to talk to slow modems you
just don't want them to.)
Generally, the best models are those
with V.52bis/V.42bis compatibiTity. These
are the fastest and most versatile units currently available.

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disk that comes bound to the back cover of
the book. The two are TouchBASE and
FileMaker Pro (a Windows version of
F ileMaker P r o h a s re c e n tl y b e e n
announced Ed). Guy &equently refers to
them as good examples of what your first
database should be like since he considers
chetn as just thac: first databases that you
will likely outgrow. Since he explains that
you will be most likely dissatisfieci with your
first purchase, here's an opportunity to tty
these packagesout before you plunk dewn
some serious cash for a product.
The biggest question of ail is whether
Guy Kawasakisucceedsin explaining things
well or not. And whether it is worthwhile

spending the money for the book. My

response is that it depends. If you are a
complete computer neophyte who, quite
naturally, are somewhat taken aback by the
terminology and the technelogy, then this
book is quite appropriate to yom needs. It
certainly does not assume that you know
much of anything. If, on the other hand,
you are somewhat cotnputer knowledgable,
and have dabbled inother programs, then
the book'a main intent would be to fill in
some gapa in the database area. In such a
case, it is still a worthwhile investment.
However, if you' ve dabbled in databases to
almost any extent, then the book's main
appeal lies m reading Guy's writing. There
ia hardly anything in the text that you will

not have already known.

As to the book's dtle, I find that what it
covers would most hkely fill one or two sessions of a university curriculum, hardly
enough to justify even the "101" label.
However, the name is perfectly acceptable
and accurate in its intended marketmg role.

Rating

PERFORMANCE: 4 This book is not turgid.

I found myself laughing out loud several

times. All of which were experiences that
helped me in gc.tting the most out of this
book'
USXJQLNESS: 4 I am assuming that the
most likely audience for this book is the
database neophyte. For you, this book is a

godsend.
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There are a ton of graphics that are well
done. And, I was only able to detect one
typo in the whole: book and that was in an
illustradonl
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Severalcompanies make pocket~ized
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that combines high performance with low
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any means the standard offering in xnost
notebook computers, the design of the SL
makes so much sense that it really does
point the way ahead for portable coxnputer
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The 386SL was flrst introduced in late
I990 and by the thne of Fall Comdex '91
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chimixxg up to eight hours of battery life.
The reason for this fast take-up is that it is
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tixne establish a number of important hardware standards.
Systems based on the 386SL now run at
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the 586SX awhole notebook computer
power management sub.system is built into
it.
According to John Davie, who heads up
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the SL is based around a static 586SX
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cache tag RAM, cache control logic, an onboard clock, an internal bus controller,
memory controller and an AT bus controller.
Intel, however, is no longer the only
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as soon as you touch a key.
Before the 586SI the problem was tha
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the 586SL. It is a new CPU operating mode
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winning through. Manufacturers ofSLbased portables now include Acer, Dell,
Epson, Everex, Grid, Librex, Mitac, NCR,
NEC, Sharp, Toshiba and Zenith with
more expected toannounce further new
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Intel's message in designing both the dockdoubling upgrade for desktop systems and
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worrying that p r o cessor technology
improvements will make those systexns
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yet others ofFering color flat screens.

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Vordlc!

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Summer Consumer Electronics Show
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John Scufieyannounced previously at the
Winter CES in Las Vegas early this year.
Newton is actually part of a product line
that Apple terms Personal Digital Assistant
(PDA) electronic devices. The flrst Newton
is an electronic notepad which Apple
boasts will allow users intelligent help in
capturing, organiiing, and communicating
ideas and information.
A pple says its goal is to m ake t h e
Newton as easy to use as a pencil and
paper. Newton will use technology similar
to handwriting recognition pen-based computing technology, but Apple says the difference is several different recognition
technologies will come into play simultaneously, rather than one at a time. Apple gave
the example of a business person who
writes "lunch Jane Thursday" on the
Newton, which the Newton would interpret
to mean lunch is at 12:00 pm.;Jane is Jane
Green, who listed in the user's address
book; and Thursday is this Thursday. The
Newton would make those assumptions
and ask for confirmation by opening a calendar and scheduling lunch from 12:00 to
1:00 with Jane Green.
So aH those bits of information, phone
. numbers, business cards, directions, meetings, notes, birthdays, appointments, can
aH be handled by the Newton, Apple said.
But more importantly, users can view the
information for everything that relates to a
specific client, week, or subject such as
"Jane Green."
Also, wired and wireless communications abiTity will allow two Newton users to
electronically exchange businesscards or
compare calendars, Apple said. Faxing a
letter, checking electronic mail messages,
or connecting to a sateHite news serviceare
also possibiTities, the company added.
AH this inteHigent help will be brought
to users in portable form via a reduced
instruction set chip (RISC) Rom Advanced
RISC Machines (ARM). The processor, the
ARM 610 powering the Newton's capabiTi-

ties, has the power of a desktop computer,

but uses less battery power than a flashlight, Apple said. Intelligent cards will be
the vehicle for users to get specific functions in the Newton, Apple added. Some
electronic devices designed for portable
ftrnctions use cards now, such as the Sharp
Wixard, which has functions such as time
and billing available on insertable cards.
Apple and Sharp announced c:arlier
this year the agreement between the two
companies to jointly design and produce
the Newton devices.Also, Apple says it is
licensing Newton technology to selected
vendors, including Sharp, who are planning to produce their own versions of the
PDAs.
Apple saysa number of major companies have said they will support Newton
and will develop complementary products.
Apple named Motorola, Pacific Bell,
Random House, Skytel, and Traveling
Software. The general areas of third~arty
development arc. in communication for use
of the Newton in a mobile environment;
content products, or interesting and personal information products; and compatibility products for using Newton devices
with existing computer systems, Apple
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At the same time he announced the formation of a new division Apple PIE
(Personal Interactive Electronics) to concentrate on new technologies and products
in the fields of computers, telecommunications, entertainment, and consumer electfomcs
The PIE division already has 200
employees and has a research facility in
Cambridge, Mass., according to Sculley.

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language called Dylan, designed for use

with portable electronic devices and software.
Contact: Apple Canada, 004484-0113
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New Far Mac: Aldus PressWise 1.0

S EATTLE, W A SH I N GT ON , M A Y 2 7
(NB) Aldus Corporation has released
Aldus PressWise 1.0, a page imposition program for the Macintosh computer.
PressWise provides page-handling and
pagewdjustment tools for film strippers and
production artists. With PressWise those
professionals can impose almost any
PageMaker or QuarkXpress file from the
desktop, says Aldus. For example, you can
merge the pages of multiple publications
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PressWise is intended for organizations
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Commercial printers, service bureaus, inhouse printers and color prepress providers
all fall into that category.
PressWise uses ready-made or custom
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parameters. The pages are then arranged

in the correct order and orientation (vertical or horizontal) for printing. The user
can also design their owri library of templates to meet their particular needs..A
reduced view of the imposition form provides visual feedback
PressWise carries a price tag of $2,295,
and is available directly from Aldus. It is
also being bundled as part of a complete
prepress system from some imagesetter
manufacturers.
Aldus recommends an Apple Madntosh
11 series or a Quadra 700 or 900 running
System 7at least two megabytes of RAM,

and a hard drive. The company says

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Macs Produce Animated TV Programs

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only Apple Macintoshes, with the likeBhood of a subsequent 13.
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and is based on a classic tale, but rewritten
and modernizeri
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nineties style. A slight departure from the
original tale of a monster brought to life in
a storm-swept castle, this version still sees
the creation of a monster, but the main
focus is a water~wered car.
The deadline for the delivery of the first
feature isJune 8, and the entire series will
be completed by mid-1994.
"Since signing the contract, literally
every waking hour has been spemt worhng
on Frank Enstein. We' re all exhausted but
the results are worth it. Frank Enstein is
exactly how we'd visualhed it to look and
that's fantastic, said Robert Davidson,
Unhxnited Energee's founder.

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Madntosh Quadra 900s and Sve h&dntosh
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optical disk drives which utilize phasechange technology. This provides them
with one gigabytc of storage per disk.
Unlimited Emergce use 16", 19" and 21'
color monitors which provide them with
screens large enough to foctrs on every finely crafted detail of the scene they are working on, without loss of focus anywhere on
the screen.
Software used by Unlimited Energee
indudes Pixel Paint, PhotoShop, Swivel 3D,
StrataVision, InfiniD, Adobe Illustrator,
Publish Itl, Quick Keys, Microsoft W'ord,
MacroMind Director, Disk Express, and
Disk Doubler.
The characters or stars" of the features
are hand drawn and then scanned into the
scene, while the backgrounds are drawn
directly on to pressure~nsitivc Wacom
boards.

IVlac Version Of Perform Pro Filler Debuts

LONDON, ENGLAND, JUN 2 (NB)Delrina Technology has announced the
availability of an Apple Mac version of its
Perform Pro Filler. The package enables
Mac users to fiil m electronic forms created
in Perform Pro for Windows.
According to Delrina, the software is
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resolutions plus font technologies. In usc,
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and a hard disk. A Superdrive amd laser
printer are recommnended.

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that Perform Pro allows WYSIWYG (what
you see is what you get) "intelligent" forms.
These and other features make the package
unique in the electronic cress-platform
form marketplace.
"We' re the only vencioi that offers companies the opportunity to introduce electronic forms throughout the organization
regardless of platform for Wmdows, DOS,
and Mac users alike,' he claimed.

1 (NB)~ h i pments of Macintosh productivity software will almost double f'rom 1991
through 1996, according to a recent report
from research firm International Data
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such as database, word processing, and
spreadsheet packages
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dealer margins win shrink due to increased
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fastest growing Mac software segment, IDC
forecast, growing f'rom 185,700 units in
1990 to 638,600 bythe end of 1996. That
translates to a compound annual growth
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Autodesk Announces AutoCAD 12,

Nem Direction
DALLAS, TEXAS, JUN 09 (NB) Autodesk
says it is not only releasing a new performance upgrade to AutoCAD, version 12,
, but is also announcing a new direction
induding an open systems approach for the
company. The announcements were made
at the A/ E / C S y stems '92 show and
Autodesk Expo in Dallas, Texas.
Autodesk is also developing a platfoimindependent dialog system for AutoCAD so
no matter what hardware platform the
product comes up in, it has a naive look
and feel, Rand said. That's true of am platforms exceptDOS, where the company had
to develop its own graphical user interface,
Rand maintains. AutoCAD Release 12 is a
DOS/Spare release, however Rand says versions of Release 12 that accommodate the
other platforms, such as Macintosh, are
expectedsoon.
Release 12, in general, simplifies and
speeds; up the most frequently used CAD
functions, the company said. One; hundred
and seventy-four enhancements, including
improved plotting, and easier-to-use interface, support for structured query language
(SQL) and Postscript data exchange, integrated rendering, enhanced drawing tools,
and bidirectional file compatibility with
AutoCAD Release 11 are in Release 12,
Autodesk said.
The company says Release 12 has faster
zoom and panfunctions,drawing regenerations (regens) are virtually eliminated, entity selection, object snapping, and entity display and hidden line removal are quicker.
New functions and commands allow a user
to enter anew drawing and begin work
immediately, and customers can work in
noun-verb mode, by first selecting entities
then specifying the operation to be performed.
A new AutoCAD S QL Extension has
been added (ASE) so links can be created
with external databases and database management systems such as dBASE, Paradox,
Informix, and Orade. Support for the read,
write, and display of Postscript 6les is also
induded.
Rendering is integrated in Release 12,
Autodesk said. With the functionality of
Autoshade, and the appropriate hardware,
users can create either 25Wolor or full
True~olor images of any AutoCAD S-D
entity, including Advanced Modeling
Extension (AME) solid models, from within
Auto CAD.
Release 12 for DOS 586 or the Sun
Sparcstation is retail priced at C$4,500.
AME is another $594, the company said.
R and talked about th e f u t ure o f
Autodesk, specifically in the use of the
product for maintenance operations on
large machinery. He said he envisions an
engineer with a pen computer could call up
a particular turbine and then request the
disassembly of a certain portion be demonstrated on the display screen. Rand says
there is no reason why video clips of equip-

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C UMTE X

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, MAY 29 (NB) XCAD, the computerwided design package

for the Commodore Amiga, has been
acquired by the UK-based company Digital
Multimedia Inc. X~
wa s previously marketed by AVT, which has gone into bank-

2000, the entry-level package which offers

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sales and marketing director of DMI, who
said t hat two new versions of X~ w ou l d
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Ad Lib Goes Out Of Business

QUEBEC, CANADA, JUN 10 (NB)-

Canadian multimedia hardware company

Ad Lib has gone out of business, but is now
being purchased by unidentified sources,
Newsbytes has learned.
Operators manning the phones at Ad
Lib are telling callers the company has
been bought b y u n n a med s o urces.
Reportedly, the buyers will allow themselves
to be identified whc;n the deal is finalized.
Canadian Ad Lib was one of the top
three major sound card manufacturersthe others being Creative Labs with its

Sound Blaster products and Media Vision

which offers Pro Audio Spectrum. T h e
company was on the verge of introducing a
new hne of sound cards called the Ad Lib
Gold 1000 and 2000Stereo Sound Adapter
when the doors closed on May 1, Ad Lib
representatives said.
Newsbytes had a beta version of the
Gold 1000. Ad Lib said the card induded a
nc.w MMA Yamaha chip, and a surround
sound-module could also be added that
created a pleasant, lingering echoing in the
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However, the card was extremely buggy

and trouble-prone. The hardware card
seemed to work well enough, but the software was riddled with bugs, such as the
install program wasn't smart enough to
install a 8.5-inch disk designated as the B:
drive and it wouldn't work with Microsoft
Windows 5.1.
A c ompany spokesman di d t e l l
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by a consortium of Canadian companies.
The spokesman also said that an official
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MONTREAL, QUEBEC, JUN 8 (NB) The
Montreal International Computer and
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Montreal (SIIM), had about 120 exhibitors
this year, compared to roughly 200 last
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product introductions.
Fujitsu launched what it said is the
world s first 5.5-inch magnet~ptical disk
drive in a one-inch-high endosure. Fujitsu
said the smaller drive is possible because of
a spindle4oading technique that means the
disk cartridge does not have to drop into
position when loading. Fujitsu said the
smaller size of the drive will make it easier
to use as a replacement for conventional
disk drives in personal computers and workstations. The ddve holds 128 megabytes of
data.
Fujitsu also announced a new eightpageyer-minute compact laser printer, the
VMSOO. The company daimed the new unit
offers faster image and font processing than
other printers in its dass, as well as superior
print quality and a multilingual control
paneL The VM800 is designed to print an
average of4,000 pages per month. It has a
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option, as well as seven bit-mapped fonts
and eight scab&le typefaces built in. Due to
be available in Canada inJuly, it will carry a
suggested list price of C41,995.
Third, Fujitsu launched what it said will
be an aggressive campaign to recruit
resellers in the province of Quebec. Fujitsu
wants the resellers to handle its line of
image scanners, as well as Norick's image
scanning software and the Dunord I2000
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Also at SIIM, Quarterdeck Canada
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71

Canadian IT Buyers Focus

On Results: IbC Study
TORONT, ONTARIO, MAY 26 (NB)The big challenge for companies buying
information technology in Canada in 1992
is controlling costs and better justifying
their investment in the technology, according to a study by International Data Corp.
(Canada), a market research firm.
The study, entitled 'The 1992 Canadian
IT Customer Directions and Spending
Strategies," said Canadian companies continue investing in information technology
despite the weak economy, but are focusing
on strategic investments, upgrading older
systems, and integrating existing technology.

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About half the respondents

favored anopensystemsstrategy.
Most commonly,IDCfound this meant
adopting a commonoperating system,
but not necessarily Unix.
The study also forecast slow growth in
information technology spending in the
coming year. The industry will grow at less
than three percent in 1992, said Valerie
Dickson, an IDC researcher.
The study also looked at at t i t u d es
toward new technologies. Respondents
showed the greatest interest in workstations, electronic data interchange (KDI),
and image processing. Of the companies
surveyed, 65 percent said they were using
workstations, 48 percent EDI, and 22 percent image processing.
IDC also found increasing interest in
computer-aided software engineering
(CASE) and objectmriented programming.
Twentywight percent of the respondents
reported significant use of CASK, while
another 86 percent said they were exploring it. For objectwriented programming,
the figures were 17 percent and 49 percent.
Many organizations are looking into
downsizing or otherwise adjusting their systems. Downsizing from large central systems to distributed hardware is the most
popular direction, with 28 percent of those
surveyed saying they are doing so. Four percent reported moving the other way by taking applications f'rom distributed systems to
a central host. About 45 percent said they
expect to maintain their current mix of
central and distributed systems.
About 22 percent of respondents said
they have moved to dient/server computing, and another 21 percent plan to do so.
A further SD percent said they would hke to
do so but were not sure they would. The
remainder had no plans for client/server
computing or considered the concept nothing more than a buzz word, IDC said.
Transportation and communication
utilities showed the strongest interest in
client/server computing, with 80 percent
reacting positively to the idea. Financial services companies showed the lowest level of
interest at 35 percent.
About half the respondents 51 percent favored an open systems strategy. Most
commonly, IDC found this meant adopting a
common operating system, but not necessarily Unix, which is commonly identified with
open systems. Common development tools,
database software, and programming languages were also mentioned.
Respondents also showed growing
acceptance of the idea of outsourcingturning information systems operations
over to an outside company but more
than two4hlrds still said they had no plans
t o do so. More companies about I p e r cent~ s o showed interest in relying on systems' integrators to help them put together
new systems.
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Canadian PC Sales Still Growing;

Apple Strong

IBM Canada To Sell Clones

Through Separate Unit

TORONTO, ONTARIO, MAY 26 (NB)Unit sales of personal computers grew

about nine percent to almost one milhon
units in 1991, according to a recent study by
Evans Research, a market research
firm. However, revenues were up
only two percent over 1990,
thanks to rapidly dropping
prices.
A pple
Canad a
showed very strong perf ormance i n
19 9 1 ,
Evans said, gaining two
percentage points of
market share and moving
into a dead heat with IBM
for the fitle of market leader
in Canada. Both had about 10.6
percent of the market in 1991, Evans
Research reported.
Bill Fournier, senior market analyst at
Evans Research, said Apple's increased market share came partly from sales to new
accounts and partly from selling more
machines to existing customers. The company shipped about 105,000 units in

MARKHAM, ONTARIO, JUN 4 (NB)-

Canada in 1991, he said, up f'rom 79,000 in

1990. Evans predicts Apple wiII ship about
120,000 units in 1992.
Evans also reported strong growth in the
sales of portable computers, which
accountedfor more than 16
percent of the total market in 1991. Portables
using Intel's SOSS6SX
chip were most popular, accounting for
just over 20 percent
of the total.
I
For 1992, Evans
is forecasting even
better growth in unit
sales, at about 18.5 percent. That would nearly
match 1990's 15 percent figure.
The market research firm also forecast a
rebound in revenue growth to about 12 percent in 1992 again, just slightly below
1990's growth figure, which was about 125
percent by revenues.
Contact: Evans Research, tel 41 6-497-9662.

When is an IBM personal computer not an

IBM personal computer? When it's an
Ambra, sold by a wholly owned subsidiary of
IBM Canada but bearing no IBM nameplate.
IBM Canada hasannounced the formation of ExperComp ServicesLtd., a new,
small company 100 p
ercentowned by IBM
Canada. ExperComp will sell the Ambra
personal computer line, which was also
launched in thc: United Kingdom and is
due to appear in France shortly, IBM
Canada said.
It had been rumored for some time that
IBM would launch a low- price line of personal computers under a different brand
name. IBM offidals in the United States
had told Newsbytes earlier that the company planned such a move in Europe, though
there was no advance warning from IBM
that Canada was also being considered.
IBM Canada spokesman Stan Didzbalis
said the first Ambra machines are being
manufactured "offshore," but that manufacturing in North America and possibly even

in Canada is being considered for the

future.
To be sold with pre4oaded spreadsheet,
word processing, and database softvnee, the
Ambra PCs will carry prices starting at
C$1.600. ExperComp plans to offer free onsite service and support for one year, plus a
toll-free telephone help line. Thc first
Ambra machines are to be available in
Canada late in August, the company saicL
Although earlier rumors suggested IBM
might sell its low-price line by mailwrder,
ExperComp has instead signed up two
national distributors, Merisel Canada of
Concord, Ontario, and Hartco Enterprises
of Montreal.
ExperComp will start off with five
employees at its offices in Markham,
Ontario, a Toronto suburb where IBM
Canada is also based. Andre Turgeon of
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for a president and chief eFPcutive.i

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NewsEdge In Canada
TORONTO, ONTARIO, MAY 26 (NB)Globe Information Services, the electronic
pubfishing division of the Toronto newspaper Thc Clobo and Mail, will m a r ket
NewsEdge, a news-feed filtering package for
PCs running M i crosoft Windows, in
Canada.
Globe Information announced a marketing agreement with Desktop Data of
Waltham, Massachusetts, the developer of
NewsEdge. N e wsEdge is available in
Canada now through Globe Information
Services, and the first customer is John
Labatt, the Toronto brewery, which is due
to install the product within days, according
to Douglas Hobbs, manager of marketing
a nd business development at G l o be
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NewsEdge captures news from an electronic news feed such as that provided by
Globe Information Services Info Globe or
Dow Jones News Retrieval. Each user can

define as many as 16 profiles that select the

news items of interest to them. NewsEdge
can then display headlines of relevant news
stories on the computer screen, and can be
set up to sound an alerting beep when an
important story isreceived.
NewsEdge also creates a database of
news stories on the user's computer, making it possible to search the full text of the
stories for key words and phrases, company
officials said.
NewsEdge will work with a variety of
n ews services p r ovided b y G lo b e
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available from third parties, Hobbs said.
The software can run in the background
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Delrina Shipping DOSFax Pro

TORONTO, ONTARIO, JUN S (NB)Delrina Technology has begun shipping
DOSFax-Pro, the plain-DOS version of its
WinFax Pro facsimile software for Windows.
DOSFax Pro is fax communication software that runs on the DOS operating system. Company spokesman Josef Zancowicz
said it is essentially a DOS version of
WinFax Pro, Delrina's popular fiut communications software that r e quires the
Microsoft Windows operating environment.
DOSFax Pro includes scheduling and
fax broadcasting features and the ability to
attach documents from various DOS appli-

cations. It works with any Sendfax, Class I,

or Class II fax modem, Delrina ofiicials said.
According to Delrina, the software provides pop-up menus and graphic dialog
boxes. It works like a printer driver, so that
sending a fax is essentially like printing a
document. HP LaserJet Series II and Epson
printer emulations make faxes sent to any
Group III fax machine look as if they were
laser printed, the manufacturer said.
Files from different DOS applications
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addressee,according to Dehina The software can also add company logos and other
graphics to cover sheets. Faxes can be sent
immediately or scheduled for later transmission to save on long~tance charges.
The suggested list price for DOSFax Pro
is CS89. Delrina is also offering a scaleddown version called DOSFax Lite for manufacturers of h boards to bundle with their
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Business Audio is the new name computer

manufacturer Compaq, software developer
Microsoft, and sound chip developer
Analog Devices have given the joint hardware and software technology development
effort the three companies have agreed to
pursue geared toward sound for business.
The move is centered around a new sound
chip developed by Analog Devices that
Compaq is using in new products.
Analog Devices introduced the specification for the new chip which it calls the
Soundport. Bill Schweber of An alog
Devices told Newsbytes the Soundport has
all the capability of a sound card, but can
be placed on the motherboard of acomputer. The advantages to the chip are its
lower cost and space savings, Schweber
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HOUSTON, TEXAS, JUN 1 ( N B)-

Compaq has the first opportunity to

incorporate the Soundport chips, however
Schweber assured Newsbytes the chips will
be available on the open market to other
manufacturers this year.
The Soundport chip can understand
the various types of audio data, also known
as sound files, and is capable of recording
or playing PGquality sound (8-bit linear 11
KHz), telephone/workstation~uality sound
(8-bit a-law and 8-bit u4aw), and C~ u ality
sound (16-bit linear 44.1 kilohertz), in
mono or stereo, Compaq said.
The most obvious first application for
Business Audio is voice annotation within
Windows S.l for spreadsheets, word processing documents, and electronic mail, the
companies said.
M icrosoft r e p r esentative C o l l i n s
Hemmingway told Newsbytes its support of
Business Audio and the Soundport won' t
exclude anyone else, but it appears the chip
will make it easier for users to take advantage of sound capability in Wtndows S.l.
However, developers will still have to incorporate the audio functionality that is
already built into Windows S.l into applications, Hemmingway added.
Contact: Analog Devices, tel 61 7-4614821;
Microsoft,
206-662-6080; Compaq, 713-3748316.

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processor
PS/2Server
O'HITE PLAINS, NEW YORK, JUN S
(NB) Playing catch-up to arch-rival
Compaq and a handfulof other PC manufacturers, IBM has extended its line of personal computer servers with the PS/2
Server 295, the first PS/2 model to allow for
multiple processors. The Server 295 will be
offered with a choice of one or two Intel
486DX processors, running at SS or 50
megahertz (MHz).
A design that places the processors on
plug4n modules will make it possible to use
even more powerful chips in the Server 295
as they become available, IBM spokeswoman Tara Sexton told Newsbytes.
Sexton said the Server 295 is meant for
client-server computing, in which users at
desktop workstations request not only data
but processing services from the central
server. In contrast, other IBM servers such
as the PS/2 Model 57, Model 90, and
Model 95 are meant mainly to be used as
file servers whose job is to store data, or as
print servers.

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Tandy, Casio Collaborate On New Personal Info Processors

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to~ , p e n-based systems. The PalmPrint
Tandy and Casio say they expect to set h a n d writing recognizer, developed for
the pace for the emerging market of handG R i D Systems' GRiDPAD computer, will be
held portable information devices, by corn- u sed for this project.
bining their extensive technology and disGrid' s Bob Goligoski told Newsbytes the
ttibution systems.
PalmPad system is immediately available.
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Fujitsu Renames Poqet Computer

SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, JUN 2
( NB) Poqet Computer i s n o m o r e .
Fujitsu, which helped bankroll the palmtop
computer starts,then slowly bought out
the remaining equity, otficially re4aunched
the company as Fujitsu Personal Systems,
part of its $2 billion personal systems

group.
From the beginning, the Poqet was a
controversial machine. Its light weight
turned heads, but its high price about
US$2,000 turned off buyers. The computer's keyboard, which was hard to use, and
its limited expendability hurt it among buyers.

Recently, the company has tried to redirect its efforts toward field computing
apphcations, adding wireless modems and
calling it th e P oqet Communicating
Computer. But its market share remains
low.
Fujitsu said that will remain its strategy,
leveraging the company's patented powermanagement technology for systems used
in field automation and mobile worker
apphcations, such as data collection, sales
force automation, field service, and electronic messaging.
Contact: Fujirsu Canada, 41 6402-5454
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ZDS spokesperson John Bace told
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 29 (NB)Zenith Data Systems (ZDS) introduced its
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ZDS said the ZDS-106 and the ZDS-ll'2
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financial, mathematical,
logical, range, string, statistical, database, and table
functions, according to
the manufacturer. It also
produces graphs and
charts, which can be
saved for inclusion
in 6les created with
other appficadons
packages, such as
word processors.
Taking advantage
of the Series 5's multitasking capabilities, the
spreadsheet can run at the
same time as other applicaMONTREAL, QUEBEC, JUN 3 (NB) A
dena, Compulys said.
new spreadsheet package for the Psien
Worksheets can be as targe as 256 rows
Series 3 pocket computer reads and writes
Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet fiies, according to by 8,192 columns, with the additional limitation that iles cannot take up more than
Cempulys, Canadian distributor for Psion.
Psion developed the software, described 45 hlobytes (KB) of memory. The Series 5
spreadsheet will not operate on the version
as "fully compatible" with 1-2-5. Patrick
Taylor, vice~esident of sales and market- of the Series 5 computer with only 128 KB
of memexy.
ing at Compulya, said the package can work
The software has a hst price of C$199.
with Lotus 1-2-3 files downleaded te the
pecket computer through its serial port
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MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, JUN 1 (NB)Creadve Labs, makers ef the Sound Blaster
and Sound Blaster Pro sound caids, has
announced a new, low-priced Multimedia
Starter Kit, and a lower price and additional sofNvare titles for its original Multimedia
Upgrade Kit. Both kits are for the upgrade
of an IBM or compatible personal computer (PC) to a multimedia personal computer

(MPC).
The new Starter Kit contains everything
that is in the more expensive Creative Labs
Multimedia Upgrade Kit except the musical
instrument digital interface (MIDI) and the
larger library of compact disc-read only
memory (CD-ROM) titles, and is retailpriced at U85650, Creative Labs said.
The Sound Blaster Pro stereo sound system, an internal CD-ROM drive, the
Microsoft Bookshelf Reference Library, and
the Sound Blaster Pro collection of software are all induded in the Starter Kit,
Creative Labs said.
The CD-ROM drive in the starter kit has
a volume controland phone jack oa the
&oat panel. The drive connects to an interface on the Sound Blaster Pro card for data
transfer with the PC and audio connections
with the sound card, so both the card and
the CD-ROM only requireone expansion
slot ia the PC. The CD-ROM drive meets
the MPC standard for perfermance with a
64 kilobyte (K) buffer and a 150 K per second direct data transfer rate, Creative Labs
said.
The company said the Sound Blaster

Pro includea a stereo digital/analog mixer,

a four~perater FM synthesizer chip fer 20
voices, recording sampling rates from 4
kilohertz (KHz) to 44.1 KHz, a built-ia
amplifier, a volume control, aad microphone and stereo line-ln jacks. Software
induded with the Sound Blaster Pro allows
for texts-voice applications, voice or music
recording and editing, integration of sound
with graphic animation, and control of
standai'd audio CDs, Creative Labs added.
The Upgrade Kit has been reduced in
price tl50 f'rom the suggested retail of II849
to $799. An additional four multimedia
titles have been added aa well. Macremind,
a multimedia presentation package;
A utherware Star, an autheriag te el;
Multimedia Works for Windows from
Microsoft; and Tempra, a professional
graphics and presentation system are all
induded now in the lower-priced Upgrade
Kit. Already mduded is Microsoft Windows
5.1, Microsoft Bookshelf, the Sherlock
Holmes Censulting Detective multimedia
game, Creative Sounds prefeasional audio
dips, and a collectioa of sound dips with
musical instrument digital interface (MIDI)
61es called Creative Music Clips 400.
Creative Labs abo has tbe distincuen of
having the software drivers for the Sound
Blaster Pro and Sound Blaater cards built4n
to Microsoft Windows 3.1. The new Starter
Kit is expected to be available June 1st,
Creative Labs said.
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MultiMedia DeskTop is designed for
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ToolBook, and MultiMedia DeskTop also
includes materials for completing the preproduction stages of the presentation.
Every piece of an interactive presentation resides in the system's hard drive and
the video, audio, sulls, graphics and text
can be modified in real time, IBM said.

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tions; and video with optional text, graphics, or audio. It can also collect still pictures
from motion video, pause and change the
video source while capturing video, and set
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"Big Fish Borland

Threatening dBASEPond
VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, JUN 1 (NB)Borland was wide and generous to the
dBASE community when it was the biggest
fish in the dBASE pond after its purchase of
Ashton-Tate, but now the company's tone
has changed with the official drop of suits
AshtonTate was pursuing. The change
appears to be directed at Microsoft, which
recently announced it is entering the
dBASE arena with the purchase of Fox
Software.
Borland announced it has finally ofiicially dropped the copyright suits it promised
to stop upon its purchase of Ashton-Tate,
the company credited with the development
of the business software product dBASE.
Ashton-Tate was pursuing Fox Software and
the Santa Cruz Operation in roller coaster
legal battles that appeared would continue
for years.
Under the terms of the Borland purchase of the dBASE giant, the U.S. government required Borland drop any suits
Ashton-Tate was pursuing over copyright
infiingement. Borland's President Philippe
Kahn had already publicly announced his
intention to do just that before the government requirements to do so.

Borlandmaybetrying to
walkatightropebetween
fending off a suit filed
against
itby Lotusand
keeping Microsoft at bay.
But threatening undertones exist in the
most recent Borland announcement. Kahn
spedfically goes out of his way to congratulate Microsoft on its recognition of the
dBASE standard by its purchase of Fox
Software. However, in the next paragraph of
the announcement, Borland daims nothing
in the U.S. g
requirement that it
drop the Ashton-Tate suits affects its copyrights in the dBASE products.
Further, Borland says the decree speafically confirms that nothing in it predudes it
fiom asserting copyright infringement
actions with respect to all other aspects of
those programs. Borland aho is reminding
everyone that the consent decree will expire
on the 10th anniversary of its date of enny.
Borland inherited those copyrights,
which some speculate might be unenforceable because of the fact that the parent of
dBASE, Vulcan, was originally developed at
Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena.
Borland also went out of its way to say
that published reports that the decree puts
aspects of the dBASE products in the public
domain were incorrect.
B orland may be t r ying t o w alk a
tightrope between fending off a suit filed
against it by Lotus and keeping Microsoft at
.bay. Kahn said last year the AshtonTate/Fox Software suit is very similar to the
Lotus suit against Borland.
In its announcement, Borland took the
opportunity to restate its position that menu
names and command structures are functional systems that are not protectable
under copyright law. This is significant in
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this year, under which Lotus is claiming
Borland's Quattro Pro infiinges on its Lotus
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Solving System 7 Font Failures

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when I double-click on any of my bitmapped font
suitcases. What's wrong, and how do I fix It7
exactly what happens if you are
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you can run thenew improved packing"
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dose font suitcases at any time and access
fonts in any folder. Remember to keep font
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Salient Software's AutoDoubler, for example, greatly increases the amount of thne it
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PAPER JULY'92 8 1

Mystery of the
Missing Colors
printed color separations from
Q .Imyrecently
DTP program and,although the back-

separation) EPS files capable of being separated from within that program.
ground and text colors printed correctly, all of
To further c o mplicate th e i ssue,
the scanned color pictures came out in black
because a color printer outputs a composite
and white. HoWever, l printed a color laser print
image (i.e., not separated), it prints thecolof it, and everything looked fine. Why?
ors correctly (well, probably not, but that' s
another storyl)
The best way to accurately proof color
Your color scans printed in color but
didn't separate because most page-lay- separations is to have have a color key
made. There are several different color
out programs (including PageMaker,
proofing technologies, including SM's
Quark XPress and the standard release of
Matchprint and Du Pont's Cromalin. We
Ventura Publisher) cannot do their own
use one called Cromacheck; there are othseparations of RGB color TIFFs. This
explains why everything but the photos sep- ers.
Making a Cromacheck involves printing
arated, and why the photos looked fine oneach separation layer on clear acetate in
screen.
the actual ink color it is supposed to be,
PageMaker 4.2 for the Mac now
then sandwiching the four layers together.
includes PrePrint, a separation utility.
When you place this color proof on a samQuark users can use an add-on called
ple of the paper stock you will be printing
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yellow/black) TIFFs or DCS (desktop color

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S.l. The face was inspired by a picture from an old horror movie poster, the
computer was based on an illustration I created for a previous issue.
The logo got a unique treatment this
issue. I first selected all of the letter outlines
of the logo (by clicking each one while
dpressing the the Shift key), and then used
FreeHand's Join Paths command to create
a composite path. When I first did this, I
noticed that the area where the composited
"h" and the "e" overlapped created a hole
in the "e." To solve this, I used FreeHand's
Knife tool to cut and rejoin the letters so
that no areas overlapped. (It may interest
longtime readers to examine .the word
'The" on the May 1991 cover to see what it
looks like when such an obscure problem
occurs.)
Overlapping composite paths are often
desirable. In this case, joining all of the
logo elements together as a composite path
allows the "holes" in the letters to be trans.
parent, so that it is unnecessary to fill each
one with thebackground color. An additional benefit and the main reason for my
efforts is that once a composite path has
been defined,an object or pattern may be
pasted into it using FreeHand's Paste Inside
command.
To create the d i agonal crossfade

(light/dark/light), I drewa right angle just

outside the upper-left corner of th logo

and made a "dosed path. An easy way to
do this is to press Command-I and click the
checbbox labelled "Closed" in the Path dialog that appears. This produced a triangle
which was then filled with white. Parallel to
the diagonal side of the triangle, I drew a
four-sided parallelogram which was filled
with a dark blue. (Colors were easfiy created and selected via the on~creen Colors
palette.) Then, again using the Shift key to
select both objects, I clicked on a control
point for each object. Just as I was about to
invoke FreeHand s Blend... function, I real-

ized that blending a threaded object with

a founded one wasnot going to give me

the smooth fade from white to blue I

intended. I clicked on the triangle and used
the Pen tool to make a fourth control
point. After this was done, it blended
smoothly FreeHand's automatic blend
calculation function suggests the optimum
amount of steps to produce a smooth
blend. Then, using the Clone Function
(Command- ee), I d uplicated the nowgrouped white-teklue object, rotated it 180
degrees using the Rotate tool and positioned it in the lower-right corner of the
logo. With minor size adjustments, the two
opposing triangles fit together to form a
white/blue/white square. I grouped it and
cut it to the Clipboard. I then selected one
of the outlines of the logo and used
FreeHand's Paste Inside command to fill
the letters with the blended colors of the
object on the Clipboard.
The face and computer were mostly crc.
ated using gradient fills and blends. I left
areas unfilled until all of the important sections had been drawn. Idefined about 50
colors mostly minute variations in fleshtone, pink and beige.
The picturegrew to be a 424K file big
for a FreeHand file, but a far cry from

scanned photos, which could be 20

megabytes or more for the same size image.

I modemed the file to our service
bureau, WYSIWYG Graphics, which main
tains a BBS for this purpose. After printing
a color proof and making som mino
changes, a revised version was output a
c olor separations at 1 27 0 dp i o n
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THE COMPUTER
PAPER JULY '92 83

HP OffersNewColor Norkstations PricedUnder $'I0,000

PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 1S {NB)
Hewlett-Packard {HP) is introducing two
new color workstations, priced under
$10,000 and geared directly at competing
systems from Sun Mcrosystems and IBM.
The new modelsthe Model 705 and
710, are additions to the Apollo 9000 Series
700 family of PA-RISC {reduced instruction-set computer) workstations. HP is
going direcdy after both Sun and IBM with
price/performance comparisons and

HP added that the same con6guration

compared to the IBM RS/6000 offers S0
percent greater performance, 400 percent
greater graphics performance, and is
priced at $500 less.
The Model 705 can be board upgraded
to the Model 710, something Sun and IBM
cannot do with their comparable workstation systems, HP maintains,
Competition in the workstation market
is heating up, as Sun recently announced
price reductions on its workstations.
According to market research company
Dataquest, Sun has three of the top 6ve selling workstations, but both IBM and HP
hold a ranking in the top 6ve. HP's 9000
Model 425 is its member of the top 6ve selling workstations, Dataquest said.

upgrudamity.

HP says the Model 705 is entry-level

priced at less than $1000 less Sun' s
Sparcstation IPX. However, the couipauy
maintains that a typical con6guration with
a 420 megabyte {MB) hard disk and 16 MB
of RAM offers 70 percent greater graphics
performance and nearly40 percent more
performance for the price than the Sun
IPX.

Contact: Hewhstt-Packard {Canada) Ltd.,804270-2277.

VINI-Cross-platform INail, MessagingStandard Available

CUPERTINO, CALIFORN IA, JUN 11
{NB) Software developers can new get a
tool to help them with crossplatform development of mail and messaging software.
Version 1.0 of the Vendor-Independent
Messaging {VM) Interface sped6cation is
available, according to Apple, Borland,
Microsoft, and NovelL
The companies say the purpose of the
spedfication is to eliminate the need for
software developers to write a different software module toaccommodate c:ach computer system and messaging platform the
software is to run on.
Each company is now offering the specification at no charge to anyone who
requests it. Each of the compames is providing technical support for its developers
implementing the VM speci6cation, how
ever developers will need to get the specification document itself to get the instructions for support, the companies said.

The compames said they hope to promote a proliferation of conunercial and inhouse applications that incorporate interpersonal and interprogram communications for computer users.
Apple, Borland, Lotus, Novell, and IBM
have all announced their intenuons to support the VM Interface standard in future
products.
Speci6cally, Apple says it will support
VM into System 7, and Borland says VM
support wul go into its Object Exchange
{OBEX) technology. Lotus plans to place
support VIM into future cc:Mail and Lotus
Notes versions, and Novell says VM support will be incorporated into Netware
Global Messaging and Netwate MHS. IBM,
meanwhile, says it will support VM in its
Of6ce product strategy.
Contact: Apple Canada, 418-513-5787;
Borland, 418-229-8000; Lotus Canada, 418979-8000; Novell Canada Ltd., 804-884-0344.

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T HE COMPUTER PAPER jULY '92

AUSTIN, TEXAS, JUN 11 (NB) Dell

2.0 slot, an industry standard expansion

four pounds.
Weighing 5.6 pounds induding the battery, the slim unit is powered by an Intel

Another nice feature is the use of the

"Fn" key and the cursor keys to emulate a
mouse. Users could use programs that

hertz (MHz). Called the 52QSLi, the unit

has a footprint of 7.75 by 11 inches, just
slightly smaller than a piece of office stationery. Only 1,25 inches high, it would fit
into some of the slim briefcases that other,
fatter models might not go in.
Dell said the unit will ship with two
megabytes (MB) of RAM, a 5.5nch high
density external Soppy drive, and a 60MB
internal hard disk. RAM can be expanded

tions, without having a mouse attached.

This is especially convenient if you use your
notebook on an airplane.
The external disk drive connects
through the parallel/diskette drive port,
weighs 12 ounces, and measures 4.2 by 5.8
by 4.7 inches. The 520SLi is powered by a
Nickel Metal Hydride battery which Dell
says will power the unit for about three
hours without the use of its power manage-

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PAPER JULY '92 85

Zenith Announces 40 New PCs And Monitors

PARIS, FRANCE, JUN 10 (NB) After wining and dining its dealers and major dients
at the new Euro Disney complex, Zenith
Data Systems flew into Paris this week to
launch no less than 40 new machines. The
company says the machines form the basis
of a revitalized range of products, majoring
on the portable PC front, that will confixxn
Zenith's position in the European market-

phce.

"This is the biggest product launch in

the 1$year histoxy of Zenith Data Systems,"
said Enxico Pesatori, the company's president and chief executive officer.

and portable PC user.

Among the new products, Zenith
unveiled 19 "Z station" desktop PCs, five
monitors, eight deskside/tower systems,
eight portables. The portables include four
"Zsxote" notebooks and four portables with
networhng fadlities.
The Z station systems feature a modular
intel+axed architecture starting from a 25
megahertz (MHz) 80586SX microprocessor
and rising te the I n tel d ouble-speed
80486DX2 technology.A key feature of all
19 Z station machines, which range from
$1,899 to $5,599, is the indusion of a pro-

The products will feature built4n networking capabilities and upgradable microprocessors and hard drives.
Zenith Data Systems was the computer
division of Zenith Electronics until 1989,
when it was purchased by France's Group
Bull. Zenith Electronics is a compefitor in
the emerging highAefinition competition
presently being tested.
According to Pesatori, the launch of the
new machines signab a split for the company, which is dividing its activities into two
specific market sectors the professional
highend user and the mainstream desktop

New For PC: Lotus SmartPak For Windows 1-2-3

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSEITS,JUN 10

(NB) Microsoft has been scoring cempetitive points over Lotus with some of the features of its new Excel S.O spreadsheet software for Windows, and Lotus doesn't plan
to sit stfil for much more. The maker of 1-2S has struck back with a companion product to its own Windows spreadsheet that
adds many of the features found in Excel
S.O.
Speaking to reporters and analysts in
Boston recently,Jeffrey Beir, viceyresident
of Lotus' spreadsheet division, admitted:
"the cempetition (he didn't specifically
mention Microsoft) had been "makmg hay"
out of some features Excel has and 1-2-S
hasn' t. He called SmartPak for Wmdows "a

quick, aggressive response."

Among the features of SmartPak is

SmartFI, which fills in a spreadsheet range
with commonly used data series such as
months, days, numbers, and letters. For
instance, if you enter "January" in a cell,

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well as files created by other applications

packages including Lotus' 1-2-S spreadsheet
package. However, AceFile is a simple file
management package,not a programmable
database management system meant for
application development as dBASE is, a
spokeswoman for the company said.
The announcement thus should not be
seen as another in the direct line that
includes Microsoft's purchase of Fox
Software and Computer Assodates' buyout
of Nantucket Corp.,both of which make
database packages that are compatible with
and direct competitors to dBASE. However,
the move could play a role in Lotus' plans
to enter the Windows database market, an
area that is expected to boom in the comlxlg yeal'.

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, JUN 4

(NB) Lotus Development has licensed
AceFile fer Windows, a flat-file database
product from Ace Software of San Jose,
California Lotus intends to use the AceFile
technology in future products.
A statement f'rom Lotus described the
AceFile technology as a "technical foundation for certain of our future entry-level
products.
The license is nonexclusive with worldwide distribution rights. Suneel Kelkar,
vice~esident of marketing at Ace Software,
said his company will continue to sell
AceFile and does not expect any conflict
with Lotus' plans. Lotus plans to incorporate the technology into other products,
not sell the current AceFile package, he
said. No other terms of the pact were disdosed.
AceFfie can read files created by dBASE,
the widely used PC database program, as

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you can then use SmartFill to fill in the

next ll cells of the row automatically with
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SmartFormat lets users cycle through as
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the like. SmartPak also provides SmartIcons
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zooming in and out to display more or less
data on the screen, centering text across a
range of columns, and other functions.
The software also adds application
development tools to help 1-2-S users create
custom applications.
Lotus plans to slipstream" SmartPak
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Release 1.1, meaning it will be shipped with
all new copies sold at no extra charge.
Users who already have Release 1.1 can get
SmartPak from Lotus at no charge.

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Norton Backup 2.0 For Windows Offers Tape Backup

CUPERTINO , CALIFORN IA, JUN 9
(NB) Tape backup software for Windows
is being offered in the new version of
Norton BackupforWindows.
Symantec maintains that the Norton
Backup version 2.0 for Windows supports
industry standard quarter-inch ( QIC
40/80) tape devices such as those made by
Alloy, Core I n t ernational, Tallgrass,
Archive, Irwin SX, Tecmar, Colorado
Memory, Mountain, and Wan gtek.
Automated capabiTity for backups is induded in the product, along with time and
space estimates, Symantec said.
While most tape backups come with
software, some of the software conflicts with
Microsoft Windows. Colorado is such a
manufacturer. While the company says it is
working on software that will work with
Wmdows, Colorado users are instructed to
boot Rom a Soppy disk in order to run the
tape softwareunder DOS.
However, Rod Turner, executive vice
president of Symantec'6 Peter Norton
Group, said in a prepared statement that
backups can be made transparentlyand
automatically under Windows with the new
version of Norton Backup.
Backups can be performed to other
devices as well, including hard disks, network drives, and Soppy disks. Also, in case
of an emergency, a restore can be done
without r e i nstallation o f W i n d ows,
Symantec said. Password protection to prevent overwriting and unauthorized use of
backups is also provided.
Network backup problems, including
dealing with retrying when Slee for backtsp
are open on the localwetwork disk drives,
are also built-in to version 2.0, Symantec
said. The product creates reports which lists
the backedwp Sles and identiSes any problems during the backup, restore, or compare, the company added.

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ZenithData Systems To Break Even, May Leave ACE

PARIS, FRANCE, JUN 10 (NB) Speaking

to reporters after a news conference
announcing a new line of Zenith Data
S ystems high-end c o m puters, B u l l
Chairman Francis Lorentz said Zenith Data
Systems (ZDS) should break even this year.
ZDS reported a loss on sales volume of $1
Mlion last year.
Lorentz and ZDS President Enrico
Pesatori also said the company might quit
the Advanced Computing Environment
(ACE), an industry group set up to develop
new computing standards. ACE founders
Digital Equipment and Compaq Computer
have already left the consortium. Bull' s
announcement could be the obituary for
ACE, which was attempting to develop standards for RISGbased computing.

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(NB) The new r e lease of H a r vard
Graphics for Windows, version 1.01, has
multimedia capability for the addition of
sound, musical instrument digital interface
(MIDI), and animation to presentations,
Software Publishing said.
The company says it has added a transparent multimedia player called "HGW
Play" that works in conjunction with the
product's "Launch Application" feature. A
user associates a multimedia clip with a
"button" by typing in the name of the file.
Upon a press of the button with the mouse
the new version of Harvard Graphics for
Windows will play the file.
Support for import and export of
WordPerfect graphics files ( . W PG),
M acintosh graphics files ( PICT a n d
PICT2), and import of Lotus (.WKS)
spreadsheet files is included in the file filters in the new version, the company
added.
A runtime option, called Screenshow,
allows Harvard Graphics presentations to

be played on Windows-based computers

without H arvard Graphics installed.
However, users don't need to upgrade to
the multimedia version 1.01, but can simply
send $15 for shipping and handling to
Software Publishing to obtain the runtime
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However, the $595 priced multimedia version 1.01 costs registered version 1.0 users
the same $15 for shipping and handling,
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Software Publishing said.
The new version requires an IBM or
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