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Under The Hood ...... • . • ...•....•......20 • There is no such thing as a zero wait state 586 Roedy Reveals All

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The Electronic Cottage ..............26 Ten top computer based businesses you can do &om your home

by I.is Ekming

NEWSBYTES on The Electronic Cottage ................28

The Home Office From Hell .. • ....29 • Find out how to avoid the pitMs of home working byCathalynn LabontoSmith

On-line Investing ........................32 A growing range of information about stocks can be obtained electronically.

by Hari Singh Kkalsa

Buying a Used Computer .... • •.....34 Things to watch out for if you choose to buy a used computer.

by Alan Earie

The Platform of the 1990's? ......36 UNIX is the greatest, George tells us why.

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MACINTOSH SOFTWARE MacWrite II .................................38 An old standby gets a re-write and looks good.

by Cameron Smith

D Atabase ....................................39 A Desk Accessories that ofFers an impressive flat file database byCameron Smith

Canadian Payroll Software ........40 Three new programs have emerged since our last survey.

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LOCAL AREA NETWORKS ..•.......42 Networking Novell 586

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HIGH TECH STOCKS ........•.... • ••...44 5D Graphics, Fax Machines.

by John Kaiser

COMPUTER BASED RELIGION....46 What do you mean a Computer Based Religion?

by St.Simeon

Random Thoughts I read a book this month. It was the first one in a long time. It made me think about things I have taken for granted. The book is called Chaos and it is by James Gleick (available at Siliconnections).. The book talks abouta "paradigm shift."

'4' P4+M So what was this book about? Many scientists believe that the world is understandable, that the universe is built on patterns. If we can understand the patterns, we can understand and therefore predict the world. You see this approach everywhere. Weathermen try and tell us that it will be along hot summer. Economists predict that the economy is going into anose dive.

Even computer publications tell us what computer systems will be popular in eighteen monthsi If they are wrong in their predictions, it is simply because something in their model needs fine tuning. The basic concept of science is: find the underlying structures, and you have predictability.

Now what if, instead of predictability, you have an underlying model of chaos? What if the world was designed to be random? There is a purposefulness to the disorder.

We have had glimpses of this before. An example is the random mutation of species to keep them from getting wiped out strain of disease, or predator. This unpredictability keeps the species vibrant and growing despite adversity. Gleick's thesis in his book is that this realization has been occurring in virtually every branch of science today. In the words of Douglas Hofstadter in the book,"It turns out that an eerietype of chaos can lurkjustbehind a facade of order-and yet,deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order."

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E-Mail This month I got a letter asking what was E-Mail and the Mindlink BBS. E Mail, simply put, is sending letters from computer to computer over the phone lines and on office networks. With the phone type F Mail, you need your own computer or terminal, telecommunications software and a modem to be able to communicate.

Mmdlink BBS is a Bulletin Board System. That means that someone has set up a computerand one or more phone lines to actasa storage house of information for others who call in. Many BBS's are run for &ee because of the interest of the owner in communicating on a variety of subjects.

Mindlink (55M512 or 278-5545in Richmond) isone ofVancouver's larger services with 9 phone lines and 550 megabytes of data storage. It offers a wide selection of public domain software for downloading, a variety of areas of conversation ranging &om specific types of computers to politics .and computer games The Computer Paper maintains an account with Mindlink This allowsour readers, customers and writers to send us letters, fr'ee dassifieds, ads and articles whenever they like. It also saves us &om dedicating one of our computers full-time to the task of receiving this information. We then check our file area once every week or so to pick up things that have come in. This service is extremely useful and is an effective communication aid for us. It gives us some very direct feedback &om our readers. It also saves everyonIe on couriers and diskettes. Mindlink can offer this type of service to other businesses as well (call Dave Allen at 757-7950). Mindlink has recently changed theway their system works. Now anyone can sign on for free and trymost of the functions, induding leaving E-Mail messages, without becoming a member.

Enjoy the issue.

THE SHAREWARE SHELF: ...........50 Zoomracks a shareware database.

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The program features an automated installation program which through a series of simple questions guides the user through the program. Labels are automaticaHydrawn on screen afterdimensions are entered, ready for text entry.

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May 24, 1989 (Sass Diego, Gs.) — After six months of suspense «nd campaigning within the software industry„ the SPA announced the winners of the 1988 SPA Excellence in Software Awards. Eightynine companies had products in the 41 categories on the Snal baHot. Topping thisyear*sawardwinnerswere Adobe, Broderbsmd,spectrum HoloByte and Symmtec, aH of whom had winning products in three or more categories.

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Business Application Quicken (Macintosh)(Intuit) Best Power Business Application FoxBASE+(v.2.10 (DOS) (FoxSoftware)

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The new NC-1, a full-function microcomputer that includes two disk drives, monitor and keyboard — built-in-America quality with a strong, one-year limited warranty.

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PC Use'Soc&ky Plans AnnualJaunt To Con@ex The Vancouver PC User SocietywiH be sponsoring a charter to the largest computer show in North America, Comdex/FaH 89. This trade show, to be held in Las Vegas November 15-17, is expected to attract 12Q,QQQ people and 175Q exiubitors. With the number of people expected, both airline seats and accommodations thisyearwiHbehard to come by. This will be the third year that the PC Society has sponsored this charter. There are a limited number of seats available and it is recommended that those interested should caH early. For moreiss fortysatioss eosstaotVPCUS Coyodesc/ FallS9 Chafer c/o 227119 WestPnukr St., Vanrossstsr V68 1S5.

Consumers' ComPuter Show 'S9 Targets Gctober The Consumers' Computer Show '89 wiH be held once again this year at the PNE Forum in October. At press time the date had not yet been finalized, but according to show organizers, Nisteora Aosysotiosts(27S-3S09j, "aH systems are

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ware Artists for Infoxmation Dissemination," says in a letter obtained by NEWSBYIXS News Service, to have "no axnbition beyond seeing the genius of a few Appleempltyyeesbene6ttheenfireworld, not just ditttlpated by Apple Corpoxate through litigation and ihwill."

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680004asedMac,and the16kIHz68000based portable.

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Ledbyuvo servers," devices that txanslate IBM main&arne data into information that can be displayed on Macintosh computers, new hardware devices induded three NuBus communications cards and a server for Digital Equipment VAX computers. The servers will be available for site licensing in the first quarter of 1990.

The threenewNuBuscommunications cards for IBM data links provide support for SR70Coax, Token-Ringand Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC), and, along with new softwaxe, let the Macintosh emulate the S270 fiunily of IBM terminals. This essentially converts a Macintosh into a $S00 dumb terminal but is necessary because so many IBM main&arne applications are written for SR70 texminaIL Unix and VAX links are provided by MacX sofNsare that lets Macintosh users retrieve information &om Unix systems by supporting the X-Window standard.

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Macintosh, although long recognized as a powerful and versatile computer, has experienced very limited acceptance in business and industry because of its inabihty to work with the IBM standard machines.

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pression, effectively doubling transmission, speed and is also available on the 2400baud$499VenTel NuBus internal modem. Another product announcement was for the Communications Toolbox, a set of tools to allow developers to standardize communications on the Mac. The Communications Toolbox was also announced last August and on May 9. It is now scheduled for release this falL The X-Window support, CL/1 connectivity language (used in the IBM servesa), and other MAC-VAX connection productswereannounced lastyearat the August MacWorld Expo in Boston, and Monday'sannouncement was a confirmatio that the products, which were supposed to be released late this year and early next year, are on schedule. ( Contact: Cindy McCaffrey 40M741578 or Brooke Cohan 408-974-5019)

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formats can be imported. The software can display, print and plot map data in various formats,and supportsmore than 100 dmferent printers and plotters, ESL said. Applications inCude distribution management, market reseihrch, routing and scheduling, cityplanning, sihrheying and various environmental useL The suggested retail price of the software is C$700. It requires %56Kof memory and at least a I&megabyte hard disk. A math colhrocessor is recommended.

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$1.% M for BC RMP BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, 1989JUNS (NB) — The British Columbia Achanced Systems Insti-

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AISI Plans Partnership VICH)RIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA,

CANADA, 1989 JUN 2 (NB) — Homeautomation firmAISI ResearchandMPR Ltd., the research and development arm of British Columbia Telephone, have agreed in principle toa partnership. The two companies would work together to developandmarkettelecommunications products based on CEBus, the Electrionics IndustriesAssociation hom~utomation standard.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago June 54 and at Pacific Bell' s Texpo show in San FranciscoJune 74, AISI is scheduled to demonstrate a remote telephone mterfihce developed by AISI and MPR. The interface is designed as a gateway to the home automation network, allowing appliances to be ccxhIrolled &em a remote telephone using touch4one orvoice commanda AISI is active in the homoeutomation market and is listed on the Vancouver StockExchange. Ithasoilcesin Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia,andin

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ComputerAssociates. Straiford Sofiware will proceed with development of Suzy, a new on-line information product. The renamed company will continue'to be traded onthe Toronto Stock Exchange.

Meanwhile,' shareholders are to meet July 4 to approve the Computer Associates deal, which also requires regulatory approval. (Contact Terry McDonald, Bedford Software, 604-294-2594)

CANADIAN NEWS Info Globe Adds-Lqpl Data TORONTO, ONTARIO, CAItIADA, 1989 JUN 1 (NB) — Info Globe, the electronic publishing division of the Toronto dailynewspaper The Globe and Mail, will have the Index to Canadian Legal Literature on fine later this summer. Info Globe gets exCusive online distribution rights to the index in a deal with Carswell Company, the Toronto company that publishes itin association with the Canadian Association of Law Librarians and the Canadian Law Informafion CounciLTheindexisabibliography and periodical index of Canadian secondary legal literature. The ea4ine veislcm will be updated every Nro weeks.

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Lotus RarruSai-M Upgrade TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1989 JUN 15 (NB) — Lotus DevelopmentCanadahasannounceditsupgrade phhns for 145 Release LR and Release

5.0,which Colin%yatt, general manager of Lotus Canada, described as the largest

The Computer Paper I July 'aa upgrade project in the history of the software industry. In Canada, an upgradefrom any previous release of 1-2-5 to either 2.2 or 5.0 will cost C$185. The only exception to thatprice will be a free upgrade for anyone who has bought Release 2.01 since September 6, 1988.

Lotus plans to mail upgrade order kits to registered I 2-5 users across Canada.

The company is also supplying its authorized dealers with prepaid upgrade kits, in which customers may mail in their system or Imckup system diskette for an upgrade.Fmally, the company has a volum~pgrnde plan for its hrge accounts. Wyatt said upgrades will be shipped out by courier to reduce the wait for the new software.

Release 5.0 is scheduled ta be available inCanada before the end ofJune, while Release 2.2 is due out in the faIL (Contact: Peter Hebb o r C a thy Browne, The Communications Group, '4164474591;

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U.SA., 1989 JUN 2 (NB) — Commodore says that at the April 29 meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters [NAB] theAmiga2000personalcomputer received the Product of the Year award.

The award, voted on by the readers of both AV Video and Video Manager magazines, acknowledged the usefulness of the graphi~riented computer in the video industry.

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their o%ces,"Unison'svice president for trading and d evelopment, Deidre Deamer, told NewsbyteL Shedoesnot think, however, thatexisting joint ventures with China will be affected long term. "It's a question as to whether new investors will go in. We don'texpect to see cutbacksin U.S.firms' sales within China. But there is a question as to whether China has enough foreignexchange to continue to buy."

Computer companies with business stakes in the US$690-million China market have adopted a "wait and see" attitude, according to an Asia Computer Weekly report.

Statistics by International Data Co~ ration [IDC] show that research analysts believe the political crisis in China will cause the growing computer market there, which has rise from an estimated

US. high-tech firms and isa consultant to firms seeking to establish joint ventures, has dosed its Beijing office and sent three sesff' members on "forced" vacations to other countries in order to size up the situation.

Unison, which represents such hightech clients as International Imaging Systems aud Systems Integrators, can communicate with its Chinese staff via phone, fax, and telex, but no mail is being delivered within the country. Of the overnight courier services based in the U.S., only DHLis continuing to serve certain areas of China.

"Over the LLst week we have not done «ny business in China. Everyone is on hold for another couple of days until we see how quickly our office will open, and to see how quickly the Chinese will be in

US$450 million in 1987 to last year' s U8$690 miihon, to deflate.

Phifit p Wong, general manager ofAST Research [Far East] and Ms Linda Wong, marketing communications manager of Data General [Asia North] said that their companies have shut down their Beijing officesandfiown their foreign staffhome. . China Hewlett-Packard and NCR have reported a temporary crippling of their Chinese operationL SAS Institute's general manager, Nigel Gasper, said thatbothHP and Digital have postponed indefinitely seminars planned for Shanghai and Beijing.

IDC China believes that companies which had made definite plans to enter China will delay them while those which had no definite plans but were consider ing entering the Chinese market will think twice about doing so. »

Thegeneral managerof ReseslehAsia, Reid Rasmussen, thinks that the IT market of Hong Kong will also be af» fected. He said that at least two large vendors are reconsidering their investment plans in China and turning to countries which are more politically stable, like Singapore

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The Pacific Stock Exchange is seeking approval to trade futures on DRAMs [dynamic random accessmemorychips].

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DRAM prices have been up and down in recent months. For a whil,e a worldwide shortage of the chips created a steep price rise and a rise in DRAM thefts.

Trading in DRAM futuresmay not be universaL TexasInstruments, the largest

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Meanwhile, planning for the 'futureo. polis' city is progressing. The plan is for a high-tech city to be developed in Austraha by bothJapan and Australia. The city would be built from the ground up, incorporating the latestin technological advances for living, working, learning and relaxing. A large proportion of the population would be Japanese people and Japanesecompanies taking advantage of the space, dimate aud raw resources that Australia has to offer.

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COMDEX/89 Nov. 1$-17 NEEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, U.SA., 1989 JUN 16 (NB) — The Interface Group is beginning the call to arms for its gigantic computer-industry trade show, Comdex/Fail, slated for November 15-17 in the glitter capital of the world, Las'Vegas. Interface says more than 170 companies wiH exhibit and over 100,000 wN attend. Special travel packages are available for international attendees. Fullwonference registration has been set at $fr95 per person, on+clay conferences at$150 aud exhibits only

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ControlData Selling Schools MINNEAPOLIS, MI N N E SOTA, U.SA., 1989 MAY 51 (NB) — Control Data Corp., which recently closed its ETA Systems supercomputer operation, streamlined iS CYSER mainf'rame business, and cut its corporate staff, has gotten abankwaiver extended untilJUN 50 so it can keep negotiating a $20.million illcrease m its credit tumt, to $50 million.

The money is needed to help with the dosings and provide working capital, and the company hopes to have it paid hack, as well as have other bonowings reduced, by the end of the year.

The company aho announced it' s reached an agreement to seII its Control DattaInstitutesandlnstittateforAdvaaced Tecbnology to Human Capital Corp., an Edina, Minn. company set up for the purpose. Human Capiial wlII pay cash for the schools, which were the centerpiece of founder William Norris'drive to offersocialresponsibilityataprofit. That drivefoundered in the early 1980s as profits feK (Contact: Nancy Foltz, Control Data Corp., 61ft455-5229)

IBNI WORLD Pascal Now Object-Oriented SCOTTS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, U.SA., 1989 MAY 25 (NB) — Bo th Borland and Microsoft chose the same week toannounce new objectwriented progratttming features on their versions of the Pascal computer language. The two announcements represent the first implementation of objectariented technology in a mainstream, indus~tandard computer language.

The benefit of objectwriented technology, according to Borland, is that it gives software programmers a "building block" approach to programming. Programmers can spend more time designing and less time with the basic mechan-

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Borland's Turbo Pascal 5.5, $150, combines the simplicity of Apple's ObjectPascal language with extensions from the C+I+ objectwriented programming language, induding static objects, object constants, static methods, constructors,

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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, Uc)W, 1989 MAY50 (NB) — Spinnaker Software is readying a WIndows. based product thatwill allow PC users accessto stacks created for Apple'5 HyperCard environment. This makes it the first product that actually allows PC users to work with HyperCard stacks.

Other products, like Brightbill-Roberts 8c Co.'s HyperPad provide HyperCardlike functions in a text-based environment. The Spinnaker program, codenamed Wildcard, will actually allow PC users to work with the huge amount of HyperCard stacks that are now out.

According to sources, the program, which is expected to be available for around $100 early this fall, runs 40 times faster than Apple's HyperCard. Also, the progrunis compiled and notinterpreted, so thatapplications createdwithitcan be invoked without running WildCarcL If WildCard works well, it promises to open up a whole new world to PC users, who so far have seen HyperCard as one area of theMac theyhaven'tbeen able to duplicate with high-powered PCs.

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According to Scott, "This wae aproblem with a lubricant that leaked out of the bearings and, in combination with the thin film media on the 120 megabyte hard disks, sometimes caused sficking.

The disk can usually be restarted by powering the system off and back on. again [for a temporary fix]."

IBM is offering free on-site replacements for certain early models of the computerand recommends that owners of 70-121s with serial numbers below 729027617 and 70-A21s with serial numbers below 7MD00679 contact their dealer for further information and to arrangeforkee replacement.

This recommendation applies even to those not experiencing problems because,according toMr. Brooks, accelerated aging tests at IBM's labs indicate thatthe chances of such a failure grow with time. Actually there have been few or no actual failures in the field as yet, and IBM stresses that this is preventive maintenance, an indication of IBM's emphasis on customer service.

Speaking about an earlier problem with the 25-MHz 70-A21 computer, Mr. Brooks emphasized that media reports about theproblem were highly exaggerated, the entire problem stemming from a single faultyconnector which did not require a complete re- engineering of the A21's mother board, as reported elsewhere.

(Contact Scott Brooks 914442-5408)

Samna Setting On Ami NORCROSS, GEORGIA, U.SA. 1989

JUNKS (NB) — Samna isintroducing an

enhanced version of its Ami word processorfor Windows, Ami Professional, at the PC Expo Show in NewYork starting June 19. The introduction comes amid negative pressreports daiming Ami is underpowezed and theAmi Professional is incompatible.

The company enteredthe market for Windows. based word processors long

before anyone else, and scored big as users learned Windows offers WYSIWIG features common to the Apple Macintosh on the IBM PC. But criticism has been registered of the code behind Ami, and big users said the productwas underpowered.Ami Professional, at$495,adds features like merging, macros, footnoting, annotations and automatic generation of contents' pages and indexes. But Ami, a $199 product, cannot. edit files made on Azni Professional, it can only print and read them.

%mna was best known for the Samna word processor, which itself is descended &om the program used on the old Lmier word processors of the early 1980s. A spokesman blamed the bad press on jealousy among magazines.

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the database. A telephone l(nk to MusicWriter's home o6ice host computer enables local laser printing of the customer's selection.

The MusicWriter system will be available for in~tore installation in the spring of 1990. ( C ontact: Kent C ooper, Hakuhodo Advertising, 21&ML5200)

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iNet R000 Says Gateway Success Slow CHANTILLY,VIRGINIA, USA., 1989 JUN 2 (NB) — Both the iNet2000 gate wayin Canadaand the somewhat-related iNet of America gateway in Virginia are making slow,steady progress toward market acceptance,mainly by concentrating on work-related users.

Telecom Canada's iNet 2000, introduced in 1985 and connected to the Datapac public data network, has about 50,000 users, said product manager Rob Huband, despite arecently-approved price increase. He credits success to a marketing plan targeting specific industry groups. Lawyers have been especially active, through the Canadian Bar Asso-

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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA., 1989 JUN 9 (NB) — Omnet has introduced a system to bring even the most e-mail-resistant executive into your E-Mail universe. LUDD Mail — it' s short for luddite — will print electronic mail and send it to users, in areal envelope, to a real mailbox. Mark Mueller of Omnet told Newsbytes, "It's designed to make things easier for people who use e-mail. ciation.

Sometimes youhave one curmudgeon The software, which is being marketed by a separate company, will appear soon who says no, and you have to deal with him." The product is priced on the basis in Australiaand Hong Kong, while negoof mail packets, which Mueller explained tiations continue to bring iNet to the this way. "For each business day we send U.S. I n t h e U.S., iNet of America mail to you, you get charged." scored a major coup earlythisyearwhen ( Contact: Mark Mueller, Omnet, 617it won the contract to run ABANet, formerly on Dialcom. ABANet presently hasabout15,000members,and Director David Weinberg says he's getting dozens ofnewapplications eachweek. Still, Barry Wilson, vice president of business development with i Ne t o f

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Postscript To Fax PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA., 1989 JUN 12 (NB) — GammaLink has tied PostScript securely to Group III fiicsimile standards with GammaScript, a software program which sends files mad in the page description language PostScript, as crisp fax images. Gammalink says the product will clear up the fax quality problem by letting people use any of 5,000 Postscript~pported programs to create hxes. GammaScript's Postscriptinterpreter isaPostscript done

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Fastest 1-Meg DRAl'N KYOTO, JAPAN, 1989 MAY 27 (NB) — Researchers at IBM Japan's Tokyo Basic Research Center and IBM's Watson Research Center have jointly developed the world's fastest one-megabit dynamic random access memory [DRAM] chip at IBM's Yasu manufacturing plant.

The experimental one-megabit DRAM is based on a new complementary metaloxide-semiconductor [CMOS] process.

Two layersof polyciystalline silicon or small silicon crystalsjoined together and two layers of metal were used for the chip's wiring. This composition allows the chip to operate two to three times filster than the current generation of one-megabit chips, retrieving a unit, or bit, of information injust22billionthsof a second. Moreover, Pa nel M O S access transistor allows the new chip to reduce noise and pick up small signals.

IBM expects that the higWpeed onemeg DRAM chip heralds the advent of very fast main memory in supercomputers, personal computers,-and engineering workstations. Thus, Big Blue is in a hurry to launch the product for practical use.

Massive 4M DRAM Output TOKYO, JAPAN, 1989 MAY 26 (NB) — Seeking to quickly become theworld's leading semiconductor maker, Hitachi has announced plans to increase fourmegabit dynamic random access [ DRAM] chip production to up t o 800,000 units per month by the end of the year.

Hitachi now makes 50,000 units of four-megabit DRAM chips per month, and will increase production gradually to 200,000 units by September and by another 200,000 to 400,000 units by the end of the year. The chip will be produced in its two local plants, at Kofu

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA., 1989 JUN 7 (NB) — The world' s first public demonstration of virtual reality which supports more than one person at a time took p 89, the Pacific Bellwponsored telecommunications hade show. This science fiction concept, popularized by writer William Gibson in such books as "Neuromancer, allowsa person toexpeiiencea computergenerated visual world in which they can interact without moving . &om their chair.

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Hiroshi Tanaka, director of the Canon The Apricot VX series centres around business machines sector, was on hand two microprocessors, the 25-MHz 80586 in Fremont for the announcement. He chip andthe 25-MHz 80486 chip. The told Newsbytes that Canon's only other 80486.based VX Ff- server series promajor investment in a U.S. company is in vides 15 million instructions per second Detroit-based Energy Conversion De[MIPS] of processing power. The 80586- vices, a research firm pioneering the use based maduneswill ship in August, while of silicon for solar cells and other electhe 80486-based machines wiII ship in tronic purpchces. Canon owns ten perSeptember. cent of that firm.

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publicity about Unix being an open system, it's not a truly portable operating system. In order to move Unix to diIfer ent madunes you have to xaake changes to the system. This is not so with either Pick or DOS." He the said that Pick also beat Unix with a much larger user-base. "It is favored by small development houses who lookforprice to performance. From day one it was a multiuser, commercial system, unlike Unix which started up as an operating system used in the educational and scientificarea. Myaim is for Pick and Unix to work sid~ i d e so thatyou can log onto Fick &om Unix — thatplatform doesn't exist yet but it should. We need true integrationl"

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Canon Invests $100 Million In NexT FREMONT, CALI FORMA, U.SA., 1989 JUN 12 (NB) — Canon has officially announced its first major alliance with a U.S.-based computer firm, NeXT

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NeXT Bundles FrameMaker SAN JOSE, CAUFORMA, U.SA., 1989 JUN 5 (NB) — Buyers of NeXT computerswiii get &ee copiesof Frame Technoh ogy's FrameMaker 2.0 workstation publishing software. "We wanted our cus. tomers to get a taste of what truly arnaz-

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Some machines have a dual-speed dock. Running at the faster rate is called "turbo mode." The slower rate is for runninggames orrunning temperamental programssuch as FastBack 5.14.

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You cannot simply replaceyour crystal with a faster one and expect everything to work. Every component in a Aster computer has to be more stringently

designed to function properly at the mcreased speed. Going back to the conductoranalogy,what would happen if Mario Bernardi suddenly decided to conduct The William Tell Overture 209o &ster than the Calgary Symphony had rehearsed) Itmightsound O.K., but there would be little slips. Beware of unscrupulouss done-makers who pushthe components beyondtheirsafe-rated speed. Such machines may run too hot, will be unrehable and will not last long. If you buy a done, get a knowledgeable friend to check that the design does not push the components. In particular, beware of a 16 MHz 80286pushed to 20 MHz.

0 crating Systems charm ani p u l a t e s ere are three operating systems, in acters (letters of the alphabet). (whole numbers) and

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Before we can understand why some computers are faster than others, we have to take a peek under the hood.

Inside every computer is a quartz crystal that sends ou tan electric heartbeat called the dock. This heartbeat extends to nearlyevery chip in the computer. The crystal is like the conductor of an orches. tra. On the beat, every transistor in every

chip checks its inputs and decides whether to change state.

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increasingorder of complexity: DOS, OS/2 and Unix. An operating system is a mother program that runs all the time in

a computer. It helps ordinary programs do things like control the keyboard, hard diskand screen. Microsoft designed DOS for the 8086. Microsoft designed DS/2 for the 80286. AT8cT designed Unix for general use on CPUs with large address

spaces (such as the80%6),

DDS When DOS is running, all nine types of chip pretend to be the simple 8086. In this mode (called real mode), only 640K of RAM is accessible. Don't panic, I witt explain soon what RAM is. Ail the chips

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The babies of the family, the 8088 and V20 used in XT clones, handle data 8 bits ata time, but do their best to fake itas 16 bits. The overhead faking every 16-bit

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Obviouslya 25-MHz 80586 could run rings around an 8 MHz 8086 simply because the 80856 has a faster dock.

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computer, which is something OS/2 cannot do.

Unix exploits the full power of the SX and 80586. The computer can address an unimaginably large amount of RAM. In native mode, the 80586 works on data in 52-bit chunks twice as large as the 16bit 80286, meaning approximately twice the speed.

Under Unix, the SX can actually only access data 16 bits at a time, though it fakes 52-bit accesses. When running 52-

Under DOS, thereare only a handful of programs that exploit some of the powerfulfeatures of the SX and 80586.

For example, IGC's VM-586 runs several DOS programs at once, accessing 5 MB of RAM. In summaiy, there is not much point in buying an expensive SX or 80586 machine if all you want to do is run DOS. An 80286 AT will be quite adequate at much lower cost. An 80286 AT system will be at least four times faster than an 8088 XT system with the same MHz rating. Most new software requires AT speeds to function properly, particularly word processors and desktop publishing

Unix is a complex, mature operating system thathas been ported to the 80586 and SX SCO Xenix, Microport Unix, ATScT System VUnix, IBM'sAIX,Venix/ 5S6, ISC's 586/ix, etc. are all Unix variants for the 80586. Some muchness powerful Unixversions run on the 80286.

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OS/R OS/2 is a new operating system that allows you to run several programs at once. However, it does not allow more than one person to use the computer at a time. Operating systems, like people, and Gne wines, improve with age. Because it has not had time to mature, and because it is held back by its attempts to

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The 8088, V20, 8086, and V50 cannot run OS/2. Microsoft designed OS/2 around the limitations of the 80286 chip used in AT ciones. Under OS/2, the SX and 80586 pretend to be an 80286 running in protected mode where 16 MB of RAM is accessible. Like DOS, OS/2 largely wastes the power of the SX and

80586.These chips can run OS/2 onlya little faster than a real 80286 of equivalent clock speed.

OS/2 requires hardware that is 100fo compatible with IBM. DOS is not nearly so picky because the ROM BIOS can mask minor differences.

Because the 80286 has such glaring flaws in its design (leading to its reputa, tion as "brain damaged" ), I predict that OS/'2 will be entirely supplanted by a successor OS/2-586 that works only on the 80586. The original OS/2 for the 80286 will then wither away. For this reason, if you are planning to move to OS/2 in ftiture, go with the SX or 80586 now. The 80286 will probably be left behind.

If you have multi-tasking (running more than one program at once) or multi-user (attaching more than one active keyboard to the computer) in your future,go forthe 80586. Ifyou want the option to merely dabble with such software, use the much less expensive SX.

Which Chip Do You PickP Pickthe 8088 and V20 inan XT clone only when you can get it second-hand cheaply. Do not buy a new one. Writers and students will probably be quite happy with such a machine running DOS and PC Write forever. There is no possibility of migrating to OS/2 or Unix later.

The 8086 and V50 are rare, used only in expensive, incompatible European clones. Avoid them altogether.

The 80286 is the heart of eveiy AT done. This isyour basic DOSworkhorse, with the possibility of migrating to OS/2 sometime in the future. The 80286 chip has several design defects which means it will never be truly satisfactory for multitasking. For pure DOS use, you can buy a 20-MHz 80286 that will be only 20% slower than the fanciest 80586 clone and will cost only a third as much. If you go this route, make sure your clone is a true 20MHz chip, nota 16MHz chip pushed beyond its rated capacity.

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The case itself is called an IC or Integrated Circuit) . In the CPU are electronics that can do arithmetic and compare

two numbers to see which is bigger. This does not sound vesy promising, but, with those humble tools, programmers can teach the CPU to do such diverse things

as design nudearweaponsor help Greenpeace prepare abrief. Computer analysts (humans) create programs in RAM. Programs are just lists of instructions for the computer to calculate.

What is RAM? RAM is a set of elec!ronic pigeon-holes that act as the computer's high-speed memory. In an XT, you have 640K of RAM (1K= 1024 characters). There are some older XTs and ATs without the full complement of640K, (often only 512K, the amount of RAM in a true-blue IBM AT), but nearly all new machines have at least 640K. Thus there are 655,560 pigeonholes, each capable of storing a single digit or letter. The pigeonholes are numbered 0 through 655,559. The CPU says, "Hey RAM, please store thisQ in pigeon hole 654,555." That is called storing or writing the value Q at address 654,555 in RAM. Then the CPU says "Hey RAM, whatletter didI putin address555,125?"

This is called fetching or reading the value at address 555,125.

The group of wires (grown-ups call them "conductors") that run between the CPU and the RAM are called the bus.

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The RAM has many uses. It stores numbers used in calculations. In a word processor, itwould be used to store your keystrokes. Programs, the todo lists for the CPU, occupy most of RAM. A program is just a coded list of letters and numbers that tell the computer what to do. For example the number "128" is the code to ask the CPU to add 1 to the accumulator register. Using a binary code, numbers 0 to255 can alsobe stored in a single RAM cell, just the way letters are.

RAM has one failing. It has total amnesia when you turn ofF the power. This is

why you must remember to save your work onto hard disk from time to time.

RAM Width Up to now, we have talked about 8-bit RAM, the kind you find in XTs. In ATs you have 16-bit RAM. In ATs, the CPU says, e "Hey RAM, what did I put in the upaire o f cells starting a t a d d r em 456,222? ~ The RAM then respondswith two characters (or two bytes, in computer jargon). 16-bit RAM doubles the speed since the RAM can fetch two bytes just as fast as 8-bit RAM can fetch one.

You don't get quite double the speed, because often the CPU only wants to read orstore one byte.The SX machines use I&bit RAM, just like the 80286 AT. The 80586 machines usually use 52-bit RAM. They can fetch 4 bytes at a time.

However, they rarely get a chance to

strut their stufF and end up most of the time just fetching 2 bytes at a time. The classic AT bus only has 16 wires for data.

This means an 80586 would have to re-

sort to 16.bit fetching if the memory were on the bus. To work properly it needs 52 wires.

$2-bit RAM Using 52-bit RAM requires redesigning the bus. The MCA and EISA buses are two ways of adding the extra 16 data

wires. Designing a new bus involves politics since, ideally, all computer and board manufacturers must agree. In the meantime, each manufacturer designed his own private 52-bit bus — all difFerent, all incompatible. The 52-bitmemory fit on the little proprietary 52-bit bus, and the rest of the cards lit on the dassic 16-bit

bus.

Whyam I telling you all this? To warn you thatyou may find itdifIicultin future to buy additional 52-bit memory to 6t in

any 80586 machinevou buy today since it is all os a - k ind design. You will be able to add extra 16-bit RAM, but not the

higher speed 52-bit RAM. You would be wise to buy the extra 52-bitmemorycards now, even if you do not fill them with RAM chips.

EISA vs. MCA bus The EISA and MCA 80586 machines do not have a problem adding 52-bit RAM since they use standard (but differentt) 52-bit buses. EISA machines are just becoming available. MCA is incompatible with the classic AT bus, so if you go that route, you cannot use ordinary add-

in cards; everything must be MCA. IBM patented the MCA bus, which has held it back from becomirig an accepted standard. The only other major manufacturer to license the MCA bus is Tandy (Radio Shack) . Patenting means that the MCA computers and cards are expensive.

I have been lobbying to have patent law changed. I believe no patent should ever begranted on anything remotely resembling an interface.

Expanded vs. Extended Once you havefi lled up your 640K of ordinary conventional RAM, there are

two methods of adding extra RAM: expanded and extended. The names are so similar that even professionals often get them confused.

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For example, there are not enough bus wires to address the extra memoxy because all possible patterns of 20eddress wires in the XT bus are already assigned.

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It lets the CPU have a peek through a window onto a small part of the whole expanded RAM. Whenever the CPU wants to see a diKerent part of the expanded RAM, the CPU mustfirst send a command to special mapping registers to switch the view. More precisely, the CPU can access only four rfiKerent 16K banks at a time of the entire 52-MB expanded RAM. Expanded RAM makes the conventional RAM seem fatter. You cram more information into the same 640K of addresses. Think o"Fat RAM is expanded RAM"'toavoidconfusionwithextended

RAM. There are three kinds of expanded RAM. EMS 5.2 is the original specification thatallowsupto 8MBofextraRAM. AST (themakersof theRamPageboard) thenextended thespecification toEEMS. Then the LIM group extended it in a slightly diKerentway toEMS4.0 to allow 52 MB. You are probably safest going with EMS 4.0.

All expanded RAM is totally useless under OS/2 and Unix.

Extended RAM When DOS first aune out, Intel thought it was a sto~p until a "real" operatingsystemarrived. Theydesigned the RAM ofthe 80286and 80856not for DOSatall. The &0286hasa 16MB limit, about 25 times as much RAM as DOS allows. People often buy this extended RAM in hopes the promised operating

system wimsoon appear, or s™ply be-

cause they did not understand how useless extended RAM is under DOS. Disk cachers are the only programs that can use extended RAM eKectively.

Extended RAMismemoryoutpast the 1-MB address limit. The memory is stretchedoutwithextraaddresses. Think o"Stretched out past 1-MB RAM is extended RAM~ to avoid confusing (long and skinny) extended ram with (short and fat) expanded RAM. You cannothave extended RAMonan XT. Only the AT has the necessary 4 extra addressing wires on the bus to allow addressing of 16 MB of RAM directly. Unfortunately,theextendedRAM is inaccessible when the CPU is in real mode running DOS. Extended RAM is onlyaccessible when the CPU isrunning in protected (OS/2) mode.

Unscrupulous dealers sometimes sell XT computers with more than 640K. This "extended" RAM on the XT is totallyuseless. Onlyexpanded RAM can be used on the XT. Even onanAT,extendedRAMisalmost worthless because the 80286has tomini-

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There are programs that make extended RAM pretend to be expanded RAM. Because of the reboot goofiness, they run very slowly. In addition, they chew up conventional RAM by simulating the windows into expanded RAM. Happily, the 80586andSXdonothave these problems with extended RAM. Further, they have two features called virtual mode and memorymapping that allow the 80586 to use extended RAM under DOS with just as much ease as expanded RAM.

AC/DC RAM The best kind of RAM has a dual personality. Itwillbehaveasexpanded RAM now under DOS, but allow you the option of turning it into extended RAM later shouldyou switch to Unix or OS/2.

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For DOS and the XT and AT, use expanded RAM, not extended. Forthe 80586 and SX, use extended not expanded. Forfuture use under OS/2 or Unix, be sure your expanded RAM can be converted to extended.

Wait States Today' s CPU chipsaresofast the RAM chips cannot keep up with them. The computer designer has two choices. He can use more expensive, faster memory that can keep up, or he can use slower memory and then give the memory one extsaclockcycle'sworthoftimetoregurgitate the desired data. If the memory needs one extra clock cycle, we call it 1wait state memory. If it can keep up, we call it(4hmt state memory.

Why all this concern aboutwaitstates?

According to Clif (yes, one "f") Purkiser atIntel, each additionalwaitstate on the 80586representsa209oto24% performance degradation.However, from my ownexperiments, Ihavefoundwaitstates are not quite so crucial in 80286 machines.

For the 80586, the theoreticallyfastest read from RAM takes two clock cycles.

Only the fastest, most incredibly expensivestaticRAMcouldeverkeepup. There are no80586 machines with 0-waitstates for sale.

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There are two hnds of RAM chips, static and dynamic. Dynamic sounds better than static, but it isn' t. Dynamic RAM is much cheaper and more compact which is why it is much more common. 10- nanosecond dynamic RAM has to "rest" foran additional90nanoseconds before it is ready to do another read. It needs time to "precharge." Static RAM is ready to go immediately.

Dynamic RAM needsan electronic slap in the face every 2 milliseconds to keep it alert. Without this re&esh, it forgets everything. Tahng time out to re&esh the DRAM results in a 5-7% performance degradatioq.

Unfortunately, you cannotsimply pull out your. slow DRAM chips and replace them with faster DRAMS or SRAMS. To exploitfitsterDRAMS, the clockspeed or number of wait states must be also changed. ToexploitSRAMS, you would have to completely redesign your computersince SRAMS do not need re&eshing or precLirging.

do not do so welL Benchmark programs, such as Norton SI, because they are so small, float into cache and attain 100% hit rates. This is why they are biased unfiiirly in favour ef cached machines.

Just in case you did not notice, caching, with 0.1 wait states, is the most effective method of using slow RAM. To make life complicated, there. are several kinds of caching..All else being equal, delayed posting (also known as delayed write) is better thaa writethrough and 2may associative is better than direct-mapped. The bigger the cache, the faster it runs. In other words, 64 KB caching is better than 52 KB. However, there is a point of diminishing returns. In a 1-MB DRAM system, 128KB of SRAM cache,though twice as expensive as 64 KB, will run only a little fiister.

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It is not too difficult to buy RAM chips and insert them yourself. Read the manuals, because sometimes you need differentkindsofchipsatdifferentplaces on the motherboard.

One Year Warranty If there is no way of getting a manual, Four-Way Interleave Full Satiefaetlon or Money Back The leastwffective method to avoid . there is still hope. Write down the part ISII Avis A amlllEISD TINPBWIK OF IWSNI1IOIQL allsiNNS INOsNES COlip. numbers on the existing RAM chips. wait states on slow RAM is four-wayinterThen, buy some with the same numbers. leave. This means RAM is divided into Usually there is no need foryou tounderfour groups. The first 52 bits of RAM are stand the specifications. You have about inbank0, thenextinbankl, thenextin a 75% chance of success. bank 2, the nextin bank 5, then the next Ifyou have a deeper understanding of are in bank 0 again. While the CPU is RAM addressing, you have a better using bank 0, banks 1, '2 and 5 can be chance of success. Often 256Kchips cover resting, getting precharged. If the next the first 512K, and 128K chips cover the access is to bank 2, then the CPU need next 128K taking you to 640K. Then 1 not wait for precharge.

If the next access 5 Build your own computer Loglcom AT-288 MB chips cover the RAM above 1 MB. is to bank 0 again, then it must wait.

At Universal Technohgy Inc., we have all the computerparts to enabls you tobuild So, on average, 5 out of 4 times you Other times 1-MB chips cover the first or leee it for our own system. don't have to wait and 1 out of 4 times 640K, with the extra 584K remapped ea per mone • motherboards you do. The odds are often better than . above 1 MB as extended RAM or tumed Loglcom XT • memory ehi into expanded RAM. this because of the interleaving. If the • Golage XT ................$848.00 er su ies • If you phone a company such as LCH Business XT...........$1,840.00 CPU examines cells sequentially, e.g. as Loeham Cusloiiwede Cables d controller cards Resources that specializes in RAM chips, 9910, then 9911 then 9912 etc. each cell • hercules videocaitfa Syalam wananty. they will be able to find you equivalents would be in a differentbank, resulting in . floppy diskette drives 1 year pea and hbor warranty. if the originals are not available. Itissafe no waits ever.

If we more realistically • hard drives Flue assistance inparts aelecdng to use chips rated faster than required, assume 5 out of 4 hits, this would average • hilh reL monitors Freeence on system assembling.

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It keeps track of one of the pages and claim 0 wait stateL whether there are supposed to be an Interleaveand page mode can be used even or odd number of ones in the other together.

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Static RAM is too expensive to use for the main RAM. The fiistestsystem use a small amount of it, 52K (52,768 bytes).

The cache hardware keeps duplicate copies ef the most commonly used RAM cells in the static RAM. When the CPU asks for the contents of an address, both the RAM and the cache race to grant the request If the value desired is in the cache, the whole read can be done quickly, with nowaits. Ifitis not,you have to wait for the slow dynamic RAM. Vendors daim 80% to 90% hit rates en the cache. Thismeans they are averaging about 0.1 wait states. Again the ad men round this off to 0. Somefimes the dynamic RAM is soslow it takes two or more wait states on a miss, which drags the average down even further.

The actual hit rate depends heavily on the program. Scientific calculations at-

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chip for the parity. Often there are two banks of 256Kchips and one bank of64K chips to make up the 640K of conventional RAM. AAer you install your RAM, you must test it for several hours with a program such as IBM's Advanced Diagnostics.

Volatile Pricing It is only a slight exaggeration to say you must determine the price of RAM in the hour beforeyou buy it.The prices rise and fitll crazily day by day. Some people buy and sell RAM chips speculatively the way others bet on horses.

Why are the prices so volatile? Fluctuations in the overall balance of trade be-

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the currencies to shift in value relative to one another. This is one factor.

This still does not account for all the fluctuation. One controversial theory

The comyister paper I Juiy '8 9 explains it this way: There are only a handful of coin psnies that manufacture RAM. Most of the cost of RAM is in developing the Grst one. Thereafter the assembly line churns them out like pop. corn. Only when you have at least 26 suppliers of an item do you have a true free market. The few manufacturers informally cooperate to maximize pro6t by creating ar66cial shortages. When they are successful, the price skyrockets.

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I answer quesdons for athers on my areas of expertise. The information gathering and proofreading'for this article was a collaborative effort by the members of the BIX cpus/int86conference who go by these handles:billn, bomb, ccolvin, drifkind, intel, irae, johnf, morlock, mslater, rfoxmich, rlimebert, tmarshall, twagner and others I inadvertently left

share. This sends the price down.

Debates rage on the BIX electronic conference chips/RAM about the causes of pricevolatility. Authors there will assure you I am all wet.

SIMhfs A SIMM (S ingle In-line Me mory Module) is a little carrier board that

I found awonderfulway to talk directly to the people who design the integrated circuits or who use these chips to design new computers. I talk daily with the authors of the sr tides in Byte and PC Tech Magazine. They were more than willing to answer att my questions. How did I do i' I simply signed uponBIX (Byte Information eXchange). I use a modem ta leave my quesdons, and then check back

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SIMMs cost more than the equivalent chips since someone has to build the carriers and attach the low-pro6le surfacemountchips. Whybotherwith them?

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The "Electremc Cottage Ekdnuuic refers to computers, telephones, answering machines, fax madnnes and other electronic equipment thatisused to produce work Cogagarefersto the home â&#x20AC;&#x201D; colegaindushy is the term for hone-based work or business.

The advent of electronic equipment makes it possible for much of today' s work to be done in your own home.It' s not necessary to travel to a downtown office in order to use a desktop computer or a telephone.

Making money with your home computer is a growing trend. More than 25 million Americans tiow work kom home and about half of them own computers.

This isaccording to a198'7 surveyby Link Resources, a New York-based electronic researchfirm. The study projected that an additional 2 million people would be working from home by the end of 1988.

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That brings the number of electronic cottagers to more than 12 million people worhng in their home offices with computers.

About 10 million home-based workers areentrepreneurswithbusinessesof their own. Many ofthem have discovered how to turn their PC's into "Money Machines" in full-time or part-time businesses. %Ms is the exciting newworld you will meet in this handbook.

Another 15 million home workers are employees who take their jobs home &om one to five days a week These are the pioneers of a flexible new work option called telecommuting. In manyways, telecommuters have theircake and can

eat it, too.They have the security of a pay checkand the flexibility of the entrepreneur in having more control of their lives.

Jobs At Home Before launching into the headyworld of the entrepreneur, let's take a closer look athow you can have a regularjob and shll enjoy the benefits of working in the electronic rottage. Here are the current opportunities for jobs at home.

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The word tsiscoaimuliytg wascoined by Jack Niiles in 19V2. Tdc refers to telecommunications technologyand anaiauting refers tothe daily trip to work. The word literally means using telecommunications technology such as the telephone or modem to work from home instead of c o mmuting t o a c e n t ral

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Jobs done by telecommutera are just about any kind of information work.

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5. Set «p special situaaon Teorkwtkome days. Look for a few strategic times when your willingness to work at home will help the company out of a pinch. Offer to take work home when there is more work than the regular staff can handle, when there are rushjobs thatput regular work behind or when you would have to miss a day of work to care for a sick child.

This will give you an idea of how well telecommutingis suited for you andyour job. Don't let this test last too long. It could backfire and become away to work overtime without benefit of pay.

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muting a regular part of the work schedule. Talk about success of your trials and the advantages to the company. Find a chronic problem atyour once and show how telecommuting can help provide a solution. It may take some time to get your idea accepted, so don't give up with the first "no."

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In the early-morning darkness I picked my waythrough the sleeperson my lining-room poor to thedesh. I slid theJoppyin thedrioe and booted upthetenyearwld Appiell. Within minutesI was printing out a manuscript on the daisy-wheel pnnter, which phscedeach charrscteron with anintensityrsnparsdleledby the cmnmon jackhammer. 7ysr sleepersawoke,sat rsp,groaned and thensank beck into their sleepingbags. I mrsst admit I rehfdtoindicated tiusswho cramped orsr tiny basementsuite during Expo summer when I first started a businessout of my home I had unwittingly created a Hame Office from Hell. The inadequacies ef the work area were: the lighting was nonex-

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My equipmentwas meagre; an ancient Apple II+ machine that at first didn' t even have an eigh~ olumn card. Its monitor was an old bhtck-and-white TV that I had to keep whacking on the side as it would go fuzzy every time the Dunbar bus went by. The Roland printer gave excellent output and this was pre24-pin technology, so I had to endure the slowness of 17 characters/second and the lack of a bin<beet feeder. I used our residential number as eur business phone, but I didn't have an answering-

But my summer of workaholic hours, crowded out by guests, eye strain, exhaustion andnervoussobbing could have been avoided if I had properly set up my work area and set down some rules of operation. Now, I am in a small office only ablock away from my home, but if the time ever comes for me to move the office home I will take advantage of the structure, professianalism, and technology ofan outmf-home office.

Technology, especially, hasmadeitpossible in the past few years for a home office to have all the goodies that the big companies use in a compact low-cost version, without the need to install extra

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It's a good idea to bring along your software to test it on a potential computer, though most computers are reliablewhenitcomestocompatibility these dayL When we purchased our AT we brought along a disk to boot Xenix, and Found that two out of the dozen or so systems we tried couldn't run this progaun. There are also analysis programs like the one &om Norton that you can run on thecomputers to compare performance.

Consider your needs when investing in hardware and the software to drive it.

Will you be doing a large volume of work? Will you be doing mainly word-

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Comparisondonesandnamebrandsalike and don'tleave a storewithout a price list, so you can compare the computersfeature for feature. Don' tbe a&aid to ask for a better deal. The market is very competitive.

Independent stores buy componettts and assemble them themselves. The partsare more or lessthesame, however, the skill of the assembler may make one computer more reliableand trouble-&ee than another. Have the salesderk open up the computer and immediately you appear to beaknowledgeable consumer.

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Telephone Of all the mistakes I made, the worst were not having a separate business hne and nothaving an answering machine. I received calls around the dock &omcustomers, some of whom had a craving to get some word~rocessing done at midnight; I was a war@processing service nota pizza parlour. You have to be tough with customers to get them to respect home of6ce hours, turn on that machine at 5:00 p.m.; be inaccessible after hours. Also, I could never leave my home to pick up supplies without worrying about missing calls.

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A bonus is thatyou geta free listing in the Yellow Pages and the Pink Pages with a business number. Phone companies offer services such as call-waiting and call-forwarding if you choose to stick with your existing number, but these chargescan quicmy add up to the price of another line. The telephone company can give you information about installing a WATS line for you, if you need a toS-&ee number for clients to reach you at.

A fl a l ternative would be to have a special communications board in your computer like the Watson VIS Combo, that can make sophisticated messages like, "If you are calling about our rates, press Ol,-if you are calling to book an appointment press 4R, or if you would like to leave a message press 45 on your phone." People won't know if they' re calling a company the size of IBM, or a sole proprietor in the basement of their parents' house.

You need to invest in a good businessquahty telephone, preferably one which has a mute or a hold button. Most phones now come with some memory for speedWaling keysand redial keys.

I'm planning on buyinga headset for my phone, as I Snd I spendmuch of my time on the phone and get &ustrated because I need my hands &ee forkeying. A modem can be used over an ordinary telephone line to get computers to talk to. each other -just another useful telecommunications tooL Celluhr technology offers the advantage of mobility. Some businesses like real estateagents or repair services operate solely out of a vehide equipped with a cellular phone, and perhaps a laptop computer. It is a cheap, uncomplicated choice aver radio dispatch.

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saves you from driving, or in my case walking toa copy center. The convenience of an on-site copier is also much appreciated by your clients, even if they have topay more per copy than a large copy center would charge.

For example, we have in our little office the Sharp Z50, purchased for under $800, that produces impressive copies comparable to very expensive full-size copiers. The copier also takes bonded papers, has a manual bypass, optional toner colors, and an exposurecontrol.

The only space consideration we had to make was moving a potted plant for the moving platen to have room.

When purchasing a personal copier, you should consider the duty or number of copies per week, the size ofpaper you will be using, color, if you need more sophisticated features like reduction/enlargement. There aremany excellent personal copiers on the marketnow &om companies such as Toshiba, Xerox, Sharp, and Canon. For large quantities ofcopyingyouwould wanttogoto a copy center, as personal copiers are not speed demons, but since we got our copier last year, we haven't used an outside service.

Manylargecompaniesand dientshave come to rely upon the facsimile machine, which sends a photocopy image of a document over the phone line. The combination FAXphone makes it unnecessary to install a dedicated line, for the FAX, as it can be used as a regular phone when not receiving or sending FAXes. Ifyou need to consultwith clients across town or across the world, the FAX is the quickest way to get a document into their hands.

Good~uality fax machines are avail-

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public FAX, but more than a$100/month in FAXbillsmightmake you consider becoming a FAX owner. And like all of the items mentioned in this article, FAXES can be bought or leased through a payment plan at many stores.

S.O.S. Nowyou know that a business line and a telephoneensweringmachine can give your business professional polish, and keep your private and business life separated under dose quarters. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do to stop a customer &om tapping on your windows at 1:00 a.m. demanding your attention, except to ignore him.

The Computer Paperoffers the home office a free source of computer news, products, software and hardware reviews, detailed advice on purchasing equipm ent, and acalendar of events.Forideas on marketing, administration, contracts,

etc. there are many useful books put out

by Self-Counsel Press. I'd recommend Start and Run a Pro f itable CorLnslti ng Business. Also, I used many issues of the magazineFamily &" HomeOttiee Computingasa source for this article, and found that it was wealth of common<ense and special interest artides for the homeofficecomputer user.

Your hardware and software dealer can help you with support, as they have a direct number to manufacturers through which they can get the answer to any question they can't answer themselves.

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if you so much as breathe on it, or a

program with a bug in it.

Take advantage of outside help ifyou're an inside-the-home worker. If you expect that you will be receiving clients in your home office, you need maid service once aweek to keep your home looking It was a constant strain for me to keep the house spotlem, and work around the clock. Also, you can't be expected to assume full child~re duties, as well as a full-time business, so a rrange day-care, or child~ e i n t h e home for at least your best productive hours, i.e. morningsor afternoons. Don' t underestimate the helpfulness of friends and family.

Cet suppliers to send catalogues and deliver orders, so you aren'twasting time running errands out of the home of5ce, but be prepared to buy in bulk quantities. Call around — some minimum orders are smaller than others.

To preclude isolation and stagnation in the home oflice, join computer-users groups, attend events like the Vancouver Computer Sc Communications Show in November, or you can do what I do; enjoy the company of your dien ts. Customers are a major part of your life, get

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to know them a little bit, find out what

they' reup to,and in afriendly,warm way care about their weil-being. Not onlywill it help your business, it will help make you a better human being.

Whether you are a new entrepreneur hoping to save on overhead while your new project gets off the ground, or a home-body content to work out of the home forever, I hope this will help you avoid the giant pit of the Home Office &om Hell andbecome a part ofa pleasant, rapidly growing trend.

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planners. It will tell you where you can get access to information that will make that quantum leap in controlling your own net worth possible.

Is this about "program trading"? No. Whatfollows applies only to information you can process with your home computer. Fortunately for all of us, the public cannot execute trades from a PC at

home. The exchanges are not likely to allow it. Hopefully the security systems within brokerage houses are tight enough to prevent it.

Getting Quotations There are three principle carriers for quotation services in B.C.: TV cable, FM sidebands, and telephone lines,. The first of these is being exploited by two local vendors of data.

Rogers Cable markets Xepress Information Services. At $24.95 per month (assuming the cable is already installed), it weighs in as the slimmest cost for current stock information. Rogers broadcasts information from SSeP's Market

Monitor on a 15-minute delay. This gives access to price information from all of the major North American stock exchanges. Also available are news wire

services from Business Wire to TASS (Russia) and Xinhua (China). The hardware requirements to run Xepress are an XT with 256K RAM and one &ee RS252 serial port or an Apple Ilc or IIe. For "real time" data there is Microstat's

Personal OMEN system. OMEN offers a waterfall display of trades as they are recorded &om the VSE and up-to-thmecond monitoring of selected stocks from any of the Canadian exchanges. With OMEN you can access bid/asked, high/ low, volume, change, block trade information and eventhe brokerage house involved. System requirements are an XT with 640K, one serial, and one parallel port 5.1 or higher. The cost includes a one-time charge for software and a monthly charge starting at $55.00 plus exchange fees.

If Rogers cable were more widelyavailable, then the FM sideband carrier would only have one unique characteristic: a portable receiver. However, any location that can pick up the CFMI-FM signal clearly has access to the quotation information riding the sideband. Think of the sideband as an extra lane on a highway. CFMI-FM rents out the "extra lane" on their signal to @Data Systems of Vancouver.+Data uses it to carry "real time" stock quotations and news clips to their subscribers. The receiver (they start at $55 per month) has an LCD display and can track up to 50 securities in "real time."

Enhancing the potential of @Data's system isStock-scan/Stock~ from Waymor Software. These products, sold through the Investor's Data Exchange, enable the user to track "real time" bid/ ask quotes from all Canadian exchanges on a PC. The full display of information found in more expensive systems is present in Stock-scan.Yet the PC terminal is still available to run other DOS applications while the +Data receiver silently

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Seeing It All On the telephone linesyou can see italll; North American stocks; Options; Bellies in Chicago; Gold in London. All this and news you never dreamed was news:Barge movement and Hog Flashes; Poetry &om the Sandburg's of the on-line set. All for a price. At the inexpensive end of the scale is Hav-Info. Once you' re into Datapac their service costs $.29 per minute plus exchange fees.

The offeringsof the four vendors below all have numerous variations and pricing structures. They require a dedicated phone line For access. Suffice it to say that the costs associated with their

personal investor packages run $500 per month and up. From Dataline comes PCQuota This software package works with data received on a dedicated phone line &om Dateline's Autodat and Broker Pages services. Also available is the full range of stock, option, and, futures information through Csnquofa Along with quotation information you can track a myriad of indicators and pick up strategies Rom the world of the traders.

Telerate markets their information through CMQ Communications. In addition to sophisticated stock and option information through Quick Quote,CMQ provides access to DowJones News Retrieval for three months ofhistoricalclipL For the futures trader there is a gem called Churl 100.

Star .Data provides Starrpsohr,an ex-

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training onmte. Sfarquofc'sdata is also available on-line via Datapac.

The elder statesman of information services is Reuters. Their coverage is global and services start around $1000 per month. As the old adage goes, you get what you pay for.

Remote Alternative These three media for information aren'tviable for manyB.C. residentswho live outside ofVancouver. Unfortunately, private-investor access to satellite transmission ofquotationsis quite limited.All the data is up there; the trick is getting thedecoder.Foreign~change informationand futures markets can be tapped this way through CMQCommunications.

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There are literally dozens of sources for business and financial information.

Here are seven worth looking into. Fust is the Investors Data Exchange. Their on-line service for historical stock data compliments their combination of "real time" information and the software to

work with both. Madean Hunter, The Globe and Mail, and Southam all provide on-line services to compliment their print publications. FP On-line offers corporate surveys, dividend and bond information as well as who's who in Canada's top businesses. Infoglobe provides areadable, comprehensive package on Corporate Canada in addition to historical quotation information. They also offer stock and option evaluation

software. Southam's offering is markete through Infomart. In addition to North American quotation information on a fifteen minute delay, Infomart provides The ICC Canadian Corporate Database.

More than half the listings in ICC are of privately held companies. Chart traders look into the ten year database of FRl Corporation.

On the commodities side, chartists will love MarkctRoutrs from Grassroots I n for-

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Bedford Plans Database Now that the ÂŤccounting portion of Bedford Software is in the hands of Com. puter Associates, what remains for the staffwho stay on? Acompany named Stratford Software and a project called "Suzy".

Targeted for December 19&9, Suzy promises to be a database to rival Compuscwcor 77ic Smma Nested within uStcrf" will be

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Personal computers themselves are a relatively new phenomenon, so it is not surprising that usedwomputers stores are rare locally. In the Lower Mainland there are only a few retail stores with any emphasis on used computers. TakeA-Byte Computers (112-11511 Bridgeport Road, Richmond 2762985) and Able Office Equipment (7%0 Edmonds, Burnaby 5224641) are two which handle used PCs. Able focuses on repossessed equipment, and Take-A-Byte offers consignment sales. Often though to find these dinosaurs of the recent past you must dig.

But it's worth it. In an industry where the winds af change are gusting, many computers become obsolete long before theywear out. Whatnolonger serves the

needs of ane user, might suit another just fine.

Used computersare affordable,— often there is a 50 to 75 percent depreciation as soon as they' re removed f'rom the store. But you don't want to buy someone else's troubleL Ifyou are anew, unsuspecting seconduser shopper, this artide should help you findyour heart's desire and recognize the lemons for what they are.

Where to Look Some of the more obvious places to start searching include The Buy and sell (listing some 60 or 70 used computers per week), the dashed ads of the dailies and The Cmapafar Paper,both for classifieds and listing of "User Groups" (including phone numbers in the back pages) which also have used~omputer swap meets.

IBM shops like Superior (2554251) carryused computers but only a few ata time.For the bigger PC boneyards you should visit larger institutions like UBC (contact Vincent Grant at 228-2815).

SFU has an annual surplus sale that includes some computers but unfortunately it was held earlier in the spring.

(Next April call E.S. Shane at291-5256.)

Once you've unearthed a computer you like,you need to know how to expose any possible gremlins and glitches.

Getting a deal on a used computer that breaks down a week after you buy itis no deal at alL The process and considerations are much like buying a used car. Both are costly, servic~ri ented items that must

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First figure out the hnd of computer you wantand whatone costs new. Aswith buying anything, an informed buyer will do much better than an uninformed buyer.

Don't even consider purchasing a computer or peripheral thatdoesn'twork or is malfunctioning inanyway. Put the machine through its paces on the software course you intend to use. When buying a peripheral such as a disk drive, ' printer or monitor, be sure it's compatible with your computerbefore buying.

This includes buying such items as spares. Never take the seller's word for it — always try it yourself.

Floppy Drives Inspect the floppyMisk drives. When possible, ask the seller to have the drive heads aligned and.the speed set. Failing that, have the alignment and speed

checked by a technician or software specifically made for this special function.

This software is available — both commercially and publidyfor most Apples, IBM : fl® and comp a tibles, and CommodoreL Check the drive for loading . and rllnniilg programs and for files formatted and saved on adiff erent disk drive.

Just judging from the seller's software and f i les •

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drive is misaligned. Look closely at the drive light if there is one. Several fhckers when loading a simple file could mean that the drive is having trouble reading the file, a symptom of problems pending.

Hard Drives Beware of hard drives, since this technology has snawballed in the past few years. Earlier models were eight inches in diameter. They are tough to repair and tougher to replace.Leave them alone.

Earlier drivesusuallyused conventional interfaces, making it impossible to interchange drives. Prior to purchase, try finding the drive manufacturer to see whether they' re still in business. If not, avoid it like the plague.

Your best bets are drives designed by such manufacturers as lomega, Tallgrass and Seagate. Even with these models,

check hardMisk drives with utility progiains like Disk Technician, Mace Utilities or No rton U t i lities for standard

problems.

Monitors When buying computers with monitors, especially when they' re built in as

are the TRS40 line, pay special attention to the display. Leave iten for about a half hour and look for such symptoms as af thescreen; for flicker;and burned spots on the display tube face.

Notice the brightnesa If adjustable, be sure it has a full spectrum af gradations.

An unadjustable dim screen is a sign that either the power supply, video circuit or cathode-ray tube (CRT) is dying.

Naw, turn off the monitor and look for indications of program displays burned into the CRT. This results from an image beirig kept on the screen so long that it' s burnt some of the phosphorus off the face of the CRT. When the monitor is not part of a single unit, change monitors. If the problem vanishes, the monitor is bad. If the problem remains, the computer is bad. Don't buy it.

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Telltale Signs Like buying a used car, you should always look under the hood. These are the areas that tell the tale of a system about to fail: e Loose circuitboards thatcan'tbe tightly reseated.

• Signs of over-heating or arcing as revealed by blackened wires,blackened spots on circuit boards, particularly close to cables, connectors and switches.

• Plating on plug-in circuit boards for wear and signs of arcing.

• Any external cable that can't be removed and reinstalled easily and correctly.

• Any screws for the cabinet and matching cables that are missing or don't fit

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lapse, you get refunded.

With this guarantee, leave the computer on constantly for this period to allow trouble with overload and oxidation to surface. Oxidation occurs when a combination of moisture, salt and oxygen eats into the metal; rust is the most severe form of oxidation. The process weakens the electrical contact between the chips and the computer, and can cause intermittent failure, particularly aker the computer heats up and the sockets inside it expand.

Overloading happens to computers that havemore cards and peripherals added than the power supply is capable of handling. Under these conditions, fanscan keep the computer from overheating but won't prevent the damage overloading causes to the power supply.

For example, the original IBMPC power supplywasnotmade to handle the added burden of a hard~ d r ive. Extra cards in all the slotsmay also be more than the

power supply can carry.

The perverse part of all this is that there's no visible way of detectmg this kmdof damage at thepointofpurchase.

Leaving the computer on constantly for several days will expose inost problems caused by these conditions.

Maere's the Mlnuah Lastly,retrievingallmanuals,anyother instructional literature and documentation on the computer, is a must.

Be sure you acquire the original operating system diskettes (not pirated software) and manuals, and any updates. It doesn't help to have a formatted hard disk with DOS 5.2 when all you have is DOS 2.0 to reformat, which came with the computer at the original purchase.

In cases where it has third-party floppy disks or hard drives, get the manufacturer's name, address and phone number.

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Pricing Possible Purchases Now, for the buyer's bottomline: fixing the price of used hardware. According to JefF Watts at Take-A-Byte, a good rule of thumb is thatyou shouldpay 50 to 75 percent of what the computer would cost new. This varies, since manufacturers introduce new lines that make old lines drop in price even when they aren't discontinuing the earlier models. This sometimes makes the orphans, or discontinued computers the best deals.

Watts lists the slow, functional and outof~tyle Ietter~ ty p r inters for $150.

Another good deal, he suggests, can be had in used Apple II dones, which sell

for $250.

Where the used computer in question is an IBM or done, be sure that the cost does not exceed. new dones with equivalent equipment. A lot of excellentdones ' can be bought locally at rock bottom pr ice Vancouver is said to be the most competitive market in North America by some studies. This may go some way to explaining the shortage of people interestied in used computers. The flip side of this is that if you are buying used, the differencebetween a clone and a namebrand computer is usuallyonly$504100.

When buyingfrom a dealer and they give you a warranty, be prepared to sometimes pay more — up to 75 percent of what the computer would cost new.

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tern) and delivers about four times the c om p u t er purchases. A spokesman for performance at less than twice the price the U S N a tional Institute of Standards of their VMS workstation. Even more and T e c h nologyestimatedlastyear that compellingistheadmission thatafuture the t o t al amount of outstanding cqm-

versien'of V1VlS will be POSIX complipute r procurement requests from the ant. (POSIX is the internaffonal stan- g o v ernment t hat specified U N I X dard ForUNIX.) Indeed, reports from a (POSIX) was over ten billion dollars. A DKCUSmeetingwhereabetaofthenext recent US AirForce procurement fer release of VMS was demonstrated indi2 5 , 000 systems speci6ed that 15fo were cate that the new VMS already includes t o run MS-DOS and859o to run UMX. many UMX-like features. Microsoft has S o we see that UNIX and its standard, also indicated that itisjoining the move P O S IX, are starting to attract serious towardsepensystemsandhasannounced a t t ention among the major computer that OS/2 will become POSIX compli- c o m p anies.Andnote: theworld's largest computer buyer is standardizing en ant.

If DEC feels that market pressures are U N I X as its operating system of choicet such that it has to announce a UNIXI t a l soseems that the UNIXisbecoming only machine and make VMS UNIXav i a bleifnotsuperioralternaffvetoOS/ compatible, and Microsoftfeels that OS/

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Formatting Claris has all but abandoned the.multipleruler approach to paragraph formatting that so cluttered the screens of the original MacWrite. Instead ofhaving to insert a new ruler when paragraph indents or alignment are tobe changed, the changescan be made on the ruler at the top of the screen and they will be applied to the currentand subsequently entered paragraphs only. In addition, fine tuning of paragraph formats can be done in a dialog box that gives the user numerical feedback for positioning of indents, line spacing, and space before and after a paragraph.

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The menus and screens are duttered but much of this dutter is help or instructions. I found the terminology not entirely convenfional, as it uses the term "work credits"; these were not fully explained in the tutorial.

Data input can be directly to the pay roll or through time cards. The pay run process required turning the printer on at each step where a hardcopywasdesirable. The process was not entirely dear or easy without the use of the instructions in the tutoriaL The built-in backup is a very nice feature as is the masschange featurefor some data fi elds.

The program is very flexible in its definition of earnings and non-statutory deductions so is suitable for most payroll applications. Reporting is excellent and all necessary reports are available. I am unable to report on the manual since one was not available for review. The program is good value at the special promotion piece, especially if a manual is not required.

Pay-Mate Plus Pay-Mate Plus came complete with manual which meant I was able to do a more thorough review. Again, the menus were cluttered and entry screens contained agreatdealofinformation. Good errordetection and good prompts were available during data entry. Internal backup was aho available in this program. It had a much more logical and easy to-use payroll run routine which did not reqrnre me to go the manual for instructions.

The definition of earnings and deductions was simple and very fiexible; reporting was excellent. This is a very complete and competitive product with more of the features ofFered in top-line products.

Again, I am i by the quality of ' Canadiarpdevelopedpayrollapplications and would not hesitate to recommend either product discussed here.

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"It was the first time a state government put something like this on. It was the first timealotofbusinessesattended," ,said consultantJack Nilles, of Bel Aire, California. He predicted at the conference thatalmostfour millionworkhours will be lost annually by1990 in the Puget Sound area as employees sit in cars instead of ofFices. He said with telecommuting, "productivity is increased, employee morale is greatly improved, and the environment benefits."

Nilles has been workmg from home since 1970, and still spends four days per week there. "The state of California has had an ' ongoing telecommuting pilot projectfrom 1987," he added. "We' re just now analyzing the flrstyear's results, what's changed and who's different.

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Except for the Kernel,all other server commufunctions such as disk,p nication services etc. are written asseparate routines called Netware Loadable

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Connectivity to other types ofcompu ters is much easier, since the additional protocol (or language) required to "talk" to another computer can simply be written as anNLM, allowing direct communication between the Netware/586server and the "foreign "host without transla-

tion. Since there are many standards {and pseudo standards) on the market, Novell elected to provide the mechanism to support them all rather impose its own choice.

With the exception of the Kernel, all Netware services are available under

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In addition„ the number of Application Program Interface (API)calls pubbshed for software developers has increased bv approximately 200. A completeyetstandardizeddeveloper's toolkit

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No. Netware /586 and its offspring, Portable Netware, represent Novell's answer to the challenge of LAN's in the 1990's. We know PC-basedLAN's work, but corporations are demanding computing solutions that solve enterprisewide problems, connecting different hardware platforms without compatibility issues, to manage ever-increasing amounts of data in an efficient, secure

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Speculative Markets Thrive On Great Expectations Speculative markets feed on momentum, and presently there is none. The October '8V crash signalled the end of the rising bull and ushered in predictionsofeconomicrecession orslawdown.

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Archer trades twice the VSE's volume.

The recent price dimb is being partly attributed to a major short squeeze.

The controversy turns on whether or not Archer has the goods to revolutionize the sound industry. The skeptics point out that the demo-tape has a single-sweet spot, whereas what is really needed to revolutionize the recording industry is

technology whose 5-D effects are not limited to sweet spots. Archer claims it

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As the inventors continue work on the key to Archer's success, management has begun negotiating a license with a home entertainment giant such as Nintendo or Atari for the use of HoloSonix, the video game application of +Sound.

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Silicon Valley computer sales force.

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After hours of looking for the Any Key, a second miracle occurred, and the text

began to scroll across the screen of its own accord."

"What appeared was a Divine Transmission from the Giver Of Data, G.OSk, the Gra hie OmniscientDevice;ofwhom

Middle East. Two weeks later, with an

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masses. And so he also wandered in the DOSert and sold many computers to the File-istines as he went.

Upon reaching the Holy City of Al'Machina, he was converted to ISOlam and went upon the sacred pilgrimage to Mac'a. It was there, surrounded by millions of confused and superstitious seekers, that he had his first vision of the coming new religion and the mission Destiny had waiting for him. In Saint silicon's own words: "Wewere circumambulating the Ka'ab, the large cube around which all devout MOSlims walk and pray. The cube stood beforeme draped in alargecanvascover, the setting sun shining its rays all around

the Monolith solution. SuddenlyI sawan angel appear in the sky above us and lift the Dustwover revealing a large color monitor."

"In a flash I realized that Mohammed may havebeen the Seal of the Prophets but thatnow the time had arrived for the Sale of the Profits. Indeed I saw that the Cube was merely an unfinished Computer Monitor."

Thus the way was made straight for Saint $ilicon's future calling, the founding of the world's first userkriendly religion. Indeed, C.H.I.P. isa for-Profit religion. Whereas previousreligions had prophets. who were persecuted, in C.H.I.P. we make Profits and are prosecuted, and are tested by Chapter ll. For thatreason Saint$ilicon is now kncnrn as the 4th Quarter Profit Yes, this is the Marketing Plan of the Ages — a brief window of opportunity in Eternity. And all this is possible because he paid THE FULL PRICE. Yes, dearly C-loved,JefFrey Armstrong paid Retail for his first computer.

But as is often the way with Carbonbased entities, Jeffrey soon forgot this vision. After his return to the hectic pace of Silicon Valley he went through a rapid succession of jobs in Sales and Marketing, unknowingly being prepared by the Giver Of Data for his future mission. It was shortly after that time that Jeffrey Armstrong was to have revealed to him Photonal Transmission, which wouild change historyforevermore.

Photonal reception was discovered accidentally as a result of a little known archaeological dig which was unearthed by workmen during excavation of the building site for the Apple Computer Mariani Building in Cupertino, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

As destiny would have it, one of the worlunen who built the Apple Computer building at Mariani was a close friend of JefFrey's named John, now known in the church asJohn-the-back-up. During the excavation he found an unusual crystal stone, which he gave toJeffrey as a birthday present, knowing his love for such things.

JefFrey eventually visited the Micron Institute, where research is performed on extremely small submicroscopic levels. In fact, itis said that, in relation to the

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During his visit, the tour guide asked if anyone had something they would like to see magnified under the high-powered electron microscope. Jeffrey reached into his pocket, and brought

out the crystal stone, which isnowknown in the Church as the "Marietta Stone."

Under intense magnification the Crystal revealed a cryptic document which was etched inside it in a then-unknown language.Th laterphotographed, and now is on display in the church Museum.

After months of arduous labor, and with the help of his Apple II computer, he finall y managed to break the code of the language. The translated document spoke ofan ancient race of people who called themselves the Dren. They spoke a long-forgotten language called Tecferp. The manuscript, which contained many ancient secrets from their technologically sophisticated society, also gave directions for the construction of a remarkable silicon-based communication

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Thatamazing inventionallowscarbonbased human beings toreceive otherwiseimperceptible transmissionsbeamed through space in Binary Code, by means of Photonal Transmission. As a result of the Drens' instructions, he was able to create a special device, consisting of a certain type ofchip. Thatspecially treated chip is designed to be worn on the forehead above what the Dren instructions called, roughly translated, "the third I/ The device is known as the MEEPROM, or MindProgrammable Readi l y M emory. It acts as a two-way communication system capable of sending or receiving a signal which consists of a stream of Light Pho-

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