1990 11 The Computer Paper - BC Edition

In This Issue: Power point Charisma Show Partner Harvard Graphics Demo II Amiga Vision Persuasion 2.0

The Computer Paper /Nov '90

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if you could print some arcades for us "dummies. I am particularly interested in modems — and whether or not you requirea program with which to run a modem properly. No one seems to be able to give answers for the "new com-

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Richard A. hfiner (no relation toJay MnerofAmigafirme),researchmaaager at Lowell University Imaging Research Laboratory, where the AR410 card was developed, was on the Commodore stand, showing an impressively fast graphics detnoruaningwith X-Windows in the Unix environment He tiold Newsbytes thataversion ofXWindows designed to run in the aative AmigaDOS operating system was also beingdevelopecL The price of the A2410 card hasyet to be fixecL The Ealciency Beurs (exhibition) is an annual Trade Fairfor offi ce,informatioa and communication technology which runs frotn October 8 to ll. To emphasize its trade character, the show closes on the weekend. 480 companies from atoundtheworldwererepresented, and with 15,000 visitors passing through the turnstiles in the first two days, a total ofaround 100,000wasexIrectedbyshow's

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Art Vancouver 90, a display of Vancouver artists being put on at the

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togetlher for under US$10,000," company representative Steve Peterson tells

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The Video Toaster is designed to integrate functions that h ave traditionally

been performed by separatepieces of equipment — character generator,

switching, &arne grabbing, and digital video effects.

Four years in the making, the video toaster is the creation of Tim Jenison,

p resid entandfounder ofNewTek, whose previous product was Digiview, a 24kit slow scan video digitizer which retails for US$199. The software is now on version 4.0. For m or e i n f o rmation, contact NewTek at 140(M434 934.

Apple World Teenager Admits%ritiug

The roadtoapprehension ofthe teener began when computer consultant ark H. Anbinder of Baka Computer,

York, the local district attorney's of5ce announced that it will not file charges against the author. In r eturn for this nonaction, the author is said to have committed to cooperate with the police,

And Releasing Viruses

Inc. in Ithaca found the CDEF virus attempting to i nfect a c lient's system.

ITHACA, NEW YORK, Oct 8 (NB)A 16-yearold high school student has

Anbinder told Newsbytes: "I have an antivirus program, Vaccine, installed on my

assistin future investigations andprovide

clients' Macintoshes. I had a call &om one who encountered a Vaccine alert

analysis.

New York State Police investigator Ted

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vestigators that he has written three computer viruses which have recently surfaced on Macintosh computers in upstate New York The teenager, whose name was not released, admitted to writing the CDEF,

MDEF A (known as "Garfield" ) and MDEF B viruses as well as another variant of the MDEF virus which had not been released.

that a program was trying to install a CDEF on the system. We stopped the virus &om infecting my client's system and, after analyzing it, turned it over to authorities who eventually traced it back to the author."

After interviewing the teenager and determining that the virus had apparently not spread beyond upstate New

source code &om his viruses for expert

Palmer told Newsbytes that the viruses had been spread &om single computer

to single computer through diskettes.

Palmer pointed out that the fact that they had been spread this way, rather

than by uploading to national computer bulletin boards, was a reason that the viruses had been confined to a single geographic area. Palmer also said that the investigation had not found any data loss caused by the virus, "While the infected parties had to spend time and, therefore, money to remove the viruses, we did not find any financial loss due to the viruses destroying firms' data."

Palmer also told Newsbytes that one of the installations hardest hit by the viruses

was Cornell University which maintains a number of Macintoshes for public use.

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The public prosecutor in Taiwan charges that the illegal copies were used in performing company business and were found to be "scattered throughout

the company's quality control and finance departments and in its computer center," according to a BSA statement.

The violation carries a potential three years in jail for the accused parties and

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fines up toUS$600,000 under Taiwan law, according to one BSA source.

In addition to indicting the company, Atari Taiwan, the public prosecutor indicted Kuo Mao Hsing, chief of Atari's computer center,and Atari employee Chen Jian Chung, who, the statement says, "admitted to bringing a Soppy disk containing an in&inging copy of Lotus 12-3 to Atari and copying Lotus 1-2-3 and dBASE III onto a computer."

"The indictment of Atari Taiwan and two of its employees sharply illustrates the risks to an organization when there appears tobe a lack of control and managementof softwareresources,"said Tom Lemberg, chairman ofthe BSA board of directors and general counsel to Lotus

Development.

For its part, Atari has reportedlystated

that the unauthorized programs were used by two employees without the company's knowledge and against its

policy.

"Being a computer company, we are very sensitive to the software community," said August Liguori, vice president of finance, in a published report. "We fight Gus kind of (piracy) all the time. It

The Cempagter Paper / Nev '90 would befoolish for us to cheat our own peers over afew hundred dollars. Contact: Lori Forte, BSA,202- 787-7060

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News ~ STM Systems Acquires Apricot Distributor TORONTO, ONTARIO,Oct 19 (NB)

— STM Systenis, a subsidiary of Inter-

national Semi-Tech Microelectronics,has

acquired AIC Computers, the exdusive distributor for Apricot computers in Canada.

AIC, which does business as Apricot in Canada, will continue as a separate sub-

sidiary of STM, said Ray lancashire, an STM spokesman. The purchase price has not been disclosed.

Lancashire told Newsbytes the move was the first step into hardware distribution for STM Systems, Canada's largest computer service bureau and systems integmtor. He said he could not speculate on the possibility of further moves into that area. I would image that a lot will depend on how we do with Apricot," he said.

AIC has distribution rights for the Apricot line only in C anada, and Lancashire said there is no immediate prospect the deal will lead to parent International Semi-Tech distributing the BriYish~ade computers through its international operations. International

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Oct 8 (NB)FirstMarkTechnologies hereand Tetrad Computer Applications of Vancouver have agreed to sell each other' s software.

Tetrad's PCensus and PSearch provide Statistics Canada census and survey data, while FirstMark's KnowledgeSeeker is a tool for analyzing databases.

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under their original names, he said, al- fi l e L Contact: Barryde Ville, FirstMark, though FirstMark and Tetrad have had, 6 1 8-7234020 discussionsabout how theproductsmight evolve together.

Mssion Cynas "On Ice," Though both companies are seehng to expand in the United States market, Hoping For Early Thaw de Ville said he expc:cts more success in VANCOUVER, B.C. Oct 17 (NB)Canada with PCensus and PScarch iniMission Cyrus, launched last year with tially, smce the Canaambitious plans to sell highs perdian. But he said it will be useM to sonal computers to the North American FirstMarkin the U.S.market tobe able to niarket, has suspended operations and demonstrate its product working with laid off most of its employeeL But the

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statistical databases hke Tetrad's. Tetrad

coinpany hopes toannounce a refinanc-

place right now to see who wjll sell the

has plans to produce products for the U.S. market, he added.

KnowledgeSeeker also works with dBase, Lotus 1 24 and Microsoft Kxcel

ingdeal within days, spokesman Balunan Sanii told Newsbytes.

other's softwme first," Barry de Ville, new products director at FirstMark, told

Newsbytes. The packages will be sold

First there were desktop computers.

Thencame the lsptops. Each offered something that the other did not.

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But now there's something that combines the best of both worlds, Because now there's a portable that's easy enough to take with you; yet powerful enough lo double as your oAice computer.

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You may say that soundslike s split personality.Wesay lt sounds like the new Altnns One. Altims One canrun MS-DOS snd QS/2with ease. Plus it features an impressive 80286 microprocessor that speeds Io s full 16Mhz,withoutever gasping

Semi-Tech also manufiictures IBM~ompatiblepersonalcomputeis. Contact Ray

Lancashire, STM Systems, 416-97$8900

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And though lt casts hundreds (even thousands) less, the Altims One comeswith features ether

SCOM Gets Contract

For NehmxkTo Sagest GST OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Oct 10 (NB) — Polls suggest most Canadians aren' t thriBed about the Goods and Services

Tax (GSI'), a broad4ased vatueedded nsx due to take dfect January 1. The people at &Corn Canada probably like it better than most, though. SCom hasbeen

chosen toprovide software for a 9,000workstation network that will help Revenue Canada administer the tax.

SCam 5+Open LAN Manager software win be the primary software for a network that will connect 54 sites across Canada, the company has announced.

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management consulting firm, designed the network. Peter Hyne, president of Remuera, told Newsbytes his company choseLAN Manager because of its supportt for multiple protocols, its openness and its growing popularity. SCom's promise to provide support for X.400

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m egabyte internal floppy drive: plus s40MB harl disk drive,

to an IBM main&arne, Hyne said, using LAN Manager will allow the use of IBM's NetView network management system.

The workstationswill be 886SXkesed personal computers running MS-DOS. More than 100 network servers, mostly

M6 PCs, wiU also be part of the system.

Philips Information Systems of Montreal aud Trillium of Waterloo, Ontario, are

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newmcsney cauld be found, said Missiou Cyrus hoped to announce a deal with a

f'ram a Sritiohbankfell through. Contact.

Sahmau Sauii, Mission Cyrus, 6044M-

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"A local party has presented a proposal to the shareholders and creditors," he said.

Sanii added that Farad Azine, Missiau Cyrus'founder and,president, retains his position as chief executive but will give up his stake in the company.

Investars in Mission Cyrus included the Discovery Foundation, au agency of the British Columbia provincial government, and at least ane Canadian bank.

The company found itself in troubleearlier this year when expected fmancing

eral manager afstrategicmarketingprograms at Keyverord, told Newsbytes his company will also continue selling the software About 80 percent of direct sales of Keypak are far Digital

directly.

Keyword, Digital Announce Marketing Agreement

hardware,Demca said,though versions of thesoftware also exist for MS -DOS,

CALGARY, ALBERTA, Oct 15 (NB) — Keyward Oaice Technologies here has auuounced an agreement under which Digital Ecluipment will resell Keyword's Keypak document interchange so&ware.

Digital will sell the version of Keypak that xuns on Digital hardware to ils custamers worldwide. Denis Demco, gen-

Macintosh and Unix. Versions for Hewlett-Packard minicomputers and

IBM mainframesareooan tobereleased, Demco addecL Demco said the agreement with Digital builds an a cooperative marketing relationship in which the two companies worked together ta sell Keywaxd's saftware with Digital's haahme.

Keypak translates word processing documents among avarietyof farmato an ~ ty p es of hardware.

Contact Denis Demco, Keywoxd, 408-R50-1770

Desktop Publishing New Aldus PC Pagemaker Neat Mon& TORONTO, ONTARIO,Oct 19 (NS) — Desktop publishing pioneer Aldus wants its aagship Pagemalcer product ta accauut far no more than half its salesby 1992, according to the company's founder and chief executive,Paul Brainerd. Speaking to repoxters in Toronto, Brainerd said Pagemaker and rebated products account for some 70

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The arrive of Microsoft Windavvs 5.0 earlier this year was a key to perking up Aldus' efFort on the PC, he said. "We were x'edly having to wait for Windows

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Noting that Pagemaker is currently solcl in some 50 covmlries in about 14 languages, Bramerd pointed to promising international markets. In particular he singled aut the Soviet Union. The Soviet government publishes huge amounts of material, he said, mostly using outdated ectuipment The Soviet Communist Party is couunitted to moving to PCbased publishingaver the next five years, he told reporters. Contact Aldus Canada, 4169RW288

Microsoft ShipsPastScri jt Clone Language REDMOND, WAQIINGTON, Oct 5 (NS) M i c rosoft says it's shipping to

developers its TrueImage page descriptionlauguage (PDL) vervsion 1.0,software designed to compete with Adobe Postscript. The softwaxe offers fan{as, open architecture, campleteAdobe PostScript compatibility, and a cheapn pxice than Adobe's original, says Micrasok, Cal Bauer„general xnanager of the printer business unit at Microsoft, says OEMs already are i n corporating TrueImage into their printers. They'indude Graphics Edge, Intel, mnd Advanced Micro Devicea Intel and AMD

have parted TrueImage to their 52-bit MSCprocesooxs, theIntel i960audAMD Am29000. LaserMaster TechnalogieswiN uee it in its personal typeeetters and printers.Microtek, a pioneer scanner manufacturer, hasanuounced shipment

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Corel Schedules 5sd Annual Design Contest OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Oct 16 (NB)

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Design Contest, deigned to promote its Windows-based graphics package CoreIDraw..

The companywill give out more than C$800,000 worth of cash and prmea Karen Evans, contest cxpordinator said last year's contest drew more than 800

e n t r ies from 12 countries, ranging from Supermac, Kbldius fine art to corporate logos and business Announce Graphics File cardL The winner I'rom each country willreceiveaC$1,000prizeandbe among the finalists for a grand prize to be SANJOSE,CALIF' Oc t 4 ( NB) — The two Ieadingmakers of Macintosh awarded at a ceremony in Ottawa on May 16, 1991. monitors haveboth announced software The grand prize consisni of C$10,000 to compress video imageL in cash plus a complete PC system. SecRadius and Supermac Technologyinondand thirdpxizesandawardsofmerit troduced software based on the Joint will also be given out.

Photagxaphic Experls Group, orJPEG, Cord,also announcedthatCorelDraw compression standard.JPEGallowscomfor OS/2isnowshipping. The suggested pression of video images at a rate deretail price is US$595or C$725. Contact: scribed by Radius af up to 50 to 1 and by Karen Evans, Corel Systems, 618-728- SuperMac of up to 80to 1. Compression 8200 is desirable because Iaxipvscreen 24bit

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dard drafted by the CATT and ISO. SuperMac said it will include its Supexsqueeze compression softwarewith all color cards and disk systems beginning in January 1991. In addition, purchasers of SuperMac products after October 1 will receive the product free when it ships. SuperSqueeze will also be generally available for US$49.

Radius aha announced JPEG compression software. As yet unnamed, the softwaxe will be available in November for US$800.

Both announcements came shortly after GCube Microsystems, San Jose, Calif, announced software which allows developers to incorporate JPEG compression in their programa That software, called Image Compression Inter-

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Syquest Technology, Fremont, Calif., has ceased shipment of its removable cartridge dxivemechanismsto Microtech

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The Computer Paper/ Nov '90 issuingthevendor for US$851,000itsays is owed it. Microtech hasresponded with a US$1 milhon lawsuit, daiming that Syquest failed to meet quality targets.

Delona Lang, Microtech's marketing c ommunications m a n ager, t o l d Newsbytes that Syquest had promised earlier thisyear that 5percentor fewer of its drive devices would fail, with thatlevel dropping over time. Iong said that in a letter dated September 6, Syquest President Syed Iftikar "admitted that he M.ed

to live up to his assurances."

Joel Levine, Syquest's vice president of marketmg, noted in an intenriew wit Newsbytes that his company provides drive mechanisms to "at least 15 to 20"

companies. "Each of them places the mechanism in their own box and with their own electronics. When you put all thepieces together, some customershave

low return rates, some have high return rates with the same" mechanism.

Lang said that Syquest would continue shipping drive mechanisms for rep air an d r e p l a c e m e n ts, a n d t h a t Microtech would continue to honor its

warranties. In addition, she said, Microtech would offer to replace defec-

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Motorola Announces Settlement With Hitachi In Patent Suit SCHAUMBERG, ILUNOIS, Oct 9 (NB) — Motorola has announced that a satistactory settlement has been reached with Hitachi, Ltd. i n t h e i n tellectual

property and technology disputes reg arding Hitachi's H/ 8 a n d H / 1 6 microcontrollers and Motorola's 680% and 88000 microprocessors, Terms of the settlement were not dis-

dosed. Motorolaindicated thatitwillfile joint motions with Hitachi in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S, District Court for

Statesand Canada from Medical Technology International of Scotland.

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PapubackSokwaae Responds To LottIs SeNhanent CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETl'S, Oct I'y (NB) — Lotus has won a major and final victory in its longest-running "look and feel" suit against a maker of a

competing spreadsheet product. Lotus Development says that it has reached an agreement withPaperback Software and

Stephenson Software, its development partner, for the violation of its Lotus 1-25 copyrights.

In June, U.S. District Court Judge Robert E.Keeton ruled that Paperback

of Berkeley, Calif.,and Stephenson Sokware of Vancouver, British Columbia, violated Lotus' copyrights in 1-2-8 by copying substantial elements of the soRware program'suser interface.

PaperbackSoftware,agreeing to paya US$500,000 settlement to Lotus Development and promising to remove all its copies ofVP Planner from the market, will not go under as a result of the loss of the costly fourgear suit, according to Michael Burdick,vicepresidentsalesand marketing'.

Burdick tells Newsbytes, "Reaching a settlement with Lotus allows us to concentrate on the marketplace andnot the

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President and General Manager,James PaperbackSoftware, founded byAdam A. Norling said: "We are very pleased Osborne who is now the firm's single with this settlement. Our unwavering largest shareholder, has about a dozen goals in this legal action were to protect employees. Osborne has not taken an Motorola's intellectual property and to active role in the company since Februassure our customers an uninterrupted ary, opting to put his time into an entersupply of Motorola's leadership micro- prise which is making PCs in India. Steve processors. Thissettlementachievesboth Cook is the firm's president. those goals." Contact: Tim Kellogg, Burdick says that the company will Motorola, 708-5764642 carry on without its Lotus 1-2-$ done.

"We intend to solidify and exploit our position as the numberwne provider of expert system development tools for PCs." KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, Oct 16 (NB) — Researchers say the best way to He says that VP Expert is the expert system with the largest installed base in fight je lag, other than staying home, is the world. carefully timed exposure ta light and darkness to adjust to a new time zone. A small Britishdesigned computer, now available in North America, is designed

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Network Problem Catches ce TORONTO, ONTARIO,Oct 15 (NB) BankofCommercecouldnotchecktheir bank balancesfor severd days recently due toproblemswithanetworkcannecting the bank's branches.

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Supportis also provided for LIM4.0EMS memory management. The chip is said tobe the &nctional equivslentof an IBM ATmotherboard that previously required up to 175 integrated circuits. It also fea tures battnyeaving techniques targeted at the expanding notebook PC market.

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NEC Launches Tiniest Pahntop PC TOKYO, JAPAN, Oct 19 (NB)-

Japan's personal computer giant NEC is leading the personal computer industry into new tecritory with anew, superhght, personal computer, Handy98, which is roughly half the size of a current notebooMized computer andweighsonly 1.1 kilograms despite having a standard

MS-Works, an integrated software program includingJapanese word processor, dautbase, spreadsheet, business charting,and communications comes standard in the memory card. A schedul~ age m ent software program is

available in ROM (read only memory).

Handy98 sports NEC's 10 MHz lait V50 microprocessor, which is an upgradedverslon of the VSOequippedwith its previous notebook 98Note. A standard buihsn battery pack allows the computer to run for as long as seven hours and, together with an optional batterypack, for lS hours. The chsplayis a 6.$mch LCD with a 640byy~ i x e l resolution. A resume function which recovers data last viewed when switched on comes standard with the unit. By attaching an optional 50,000 yen (U8$$90) Dochng Station with a builtin S.i nch FDD (Soppy disk drive), Handy98 can run about 500 application software programs for NEC 5C98LT laptop computer, which isincompatible with Japan's de Seto standard NEC PC9801 personal computsra With an optionalRS.282Ccahle, however, the handy computer canshare data with PGQSOL Handy98 is priced at 198,000 yen or US$1,520 and becomes available late this month. NEC expects to sell 200,000 nails in the initial year.

Though a Japanese industry report says that NEC will market an IBMcompatihle version of the machine for the overseas market in the future, an NEC spokeanan did not provide any details to Newsbytes. Contact: Mr. Kato, Public Relations CMRce,NECCorp.,08-7984511

Compaq Intros Notebook With Aerospace Technology NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Oct 16 (NB) — Compaq Computer has introduced a powerful new notebook~ computer that it daims is the most powerful computer of its hnd in the world.

It is the Srst computer to use a printed circuit board technology known as "RegalFlex,"which wasoriginallydeveloped

by Teledyne Electro-Mechanisms for aerospace and defense industry applications such as missile guidance systems

and stealth Sghter instrument panels Regal Flex was initially developed to save space and weight and to ensure greater reliabiTity of circuit boards by eliminating separate, detachable cables in favor of Sexihle interconnectionL Compaq used Regal Flex to create a single, central circuit board for the new notebook system, designated the Compaq LTE 886s/20, that starts asan 8 x 11 inch sheet, snaps apartatkeypoints and folds into a compact, multiplaned part that ends up at a size of 4 5/4x 6x 1 I/O inches.

The Compaq LTE 386s/20 has a 60 MB (megabyte), 5/4 inch high Sxed diskchive,creditcardsizememorycards, and a miniature (about the size of a

packageofchewing gum) power supply.

The drive is also available in a 80 MB capacity and the computer has optional 1 MB and 4 MB memory cards that can QWERTY-type keyboarcL be used to expand memory to 10 MB. The miniaturization owes much to The suggested retail price for the 60 ~ tech n ologies, such as the incor- MB model is US$6,999. For the 80 MB poration of an IC (integrated circuit) model, the list price is US$6,499. The memoxy card and a 1.25 MB (megabyte) suggested retail price for an available RAM (random access memory) drive for desktop expansion base is US$1,499. The storage. There is also a smaller LCD new notebook computer is expected to (liquid crystal display) and a smaller keyship before the end of this month. Conboard. The motherboard is alsc more tact:John Sweney, Compaq Computer, highly integrated.

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Ogivar Technologies Iatros 286 Laptop MONTRKtkL, QUEBEC, Oct 15 (NB) — Ogivar Technologieshas introduced alightmeightnotebookcomputer called the Internote 286. The system features a

VGAwompatible LCD display, a full~e embedded keyboard and a 20 MB hard disk drive.

Without the battery, the unit weighs only 4.8 pounds. The system employs an 80C286 microprocessox' and has a 12.5 MHz (megahertz) operating speed. One MB (megabytes) of RAM (random ac-

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The company saysthat the keyboard has thefeelof a desktop computer keyboard with 82 full~ k e ys and 1014ey emulation For programs written to use a full-101 key keyboard.

The ovexall footprint of the unit is less than 1 square foot. It has a removable, rechargeable NiCad battery pack thatis good for two hours and a standard AC Adaptor/Qaick Recharger that plugs into an AC power source.

The Internote 286 is available immediately atalistpriceofUS$2,999. Contact: At Safaxikas, Ogivar Technologies, 514787-8840

Red GenerationNotebook PC From Sony TOKYO, JAPAN,Oct 15 (NB) — Sony has announced its first notebook personal computer, QL/Note PCX410NR series, based on the AX architecture, and says the machine is more advamced than the current generation of booksized computers in terms of ability to handle large apphcations and ita pexformance on lANs (local area networks).

Expected to be released next spring, the machine of the seriea, the NR7, ia so aophisficated that it can nm Microsoft Windows 8.0, and it has a 20 megahertz i8868X CPU (central processingunit),40MB (megabyte) ofHDD (hard disk drive) space and 2MB of main memory expandable to 6MB. The Lowerend machines include a 16MHz CPU version with 20 MB of HDD and 1MB of main memory expandable to 5MB. The three machines are 815 by 262.5 by 45 millimeters in size and weigh 8 hlograms. Sony promises that the builtin battery allows one hour of continuous use when futly charged.

Sonyalso bundles variousapplications with the machine: MS-DOS V.8.21, Mi. crosoft Windows V.2.11 andQUKM 't86 V. 5.1 expanded memoxy driver, which was developed jointly with U.SAmaed Quarterdeck Office Systems.

8ony has also given the units what it calls a Ball-Mouse = an unique device featured on the upper right side of the keyboard and which functions like the trackball on Apple Computer's Macintosh Portable.

The pxice of the lowed machine is 898,000 yen or US$8,060 with increases in 100,000yen or U8$770incrementsfor each higher~nd model. Shipping is slated for the first half of December and Sony has no plan to ship the machme to overseas markets at this hme.

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This loss is smaller than one suffered this timelastyear,when thefirmreported a net loss of US$798,000, or 6 cents per share, on revenues oF U8$11,817,00Q. For the fiscal year ended Aug. 81, 1990,the companyreportedrevenues of U8$87,879,000 and a n e t l oss of U8$4/85,000, or 88 cents per share. For the fiscalyear ended Aug. 81, 1989, WordStar reported revenues of US$48,157,000 and a n e t l oss of U8$8,084,000, or 22 cents per share.

Regarding the reaignafions of Gari Grimm andrim Dalrymple, the board of directors issued a simple statement, saying that it believes Grimm had accomplished the task of r educing the company's operating expenses, and her decision to resign was amicable on both aides The company says the disappointing results are due to lower sales in North America, a problem anticipated when the company instituted a coatweduction progxsm esrher this year.

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Keep hck Of Clients With French Version CX MCuilgiser VANCOUVKR, B.C. Oct 4 (NB)Richmond softrum hasannounced that Version 2.0 of its contact management software Msximizer is now available in French.

Janette Peters, a spokeswoman for Richmond, said the program code is actually biTingual and cau be switched between French and Kriglish at will The difference between the versions is the language of thedocumentation,she said.

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Due te begin shippiag September 25, BlueMax will carry a retail price af US$155. Those wha awn Qxalitas's 886Max or its other memoxy management productscan upgrade ferUS$25.

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HILLSBORO, OREGON, Sep 28 (NB) — Intel's Personal Computer Enhancement Operation announced SatisFAXtion, its second~nexation PC fax board, succeeding its successful Conneciiaa CoProcessor. Like its predecessor product, SatisFAXtioa iadudes a 2,400 bit/secend data modem, but sends faxes. at 9,600 bits/second, or 4 pages per minute.

The new board works ia the background, and ean send files f'rom any applicatian which can print to an Epson FX85 printer. Epson fonts and formats are presexved, the company said, as are Windows screen fonts when the product is used with Microsoft WindowxL SatisFAXtian also supper@ the Intel/ DCA Communications Applications Specificati on, a proposed standard fer effering faxserviceswithin applications.

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BETHESDA, MARYLAND, Sep 25 (NB)~ u a l itas, a developer of memox management products here,has announced a memory manager designed especiallyfar IBM PS/2systemsbasedan the Intel 80886 chip.

Paul Tarlaw, a Qmlitas spokesman, told Newsbytes the PS/2 hae reserves 128K of memoxy addresses between the 640K and on~egabyte levelsfor ROM BIOSfunctions,indudiagbumt~ BASIC aad cededesigned farnmaiag the OS/ 2 operating system. This has put PS/2 users at a dixsidvantage compared tous-

speaker notes, and indude time, date, and filename stamps.

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"whatM sceaaries; database eanaectiv-

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The Qmttro Pra LAN pack far network useretailsfor US$295. Registered awaexs ofQxattro Pra 1.0 may upgrade directly fram Borland ferUS $79.95.

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Called Qemm 5.1, the new release of Quarterdeck's popular expanded memory managerand processor centrol program providesa number of toolsfar integrating the current installed hase of DOS packages into the Windows S.O environment. According to Quarterdeck, Qemm 5.1 will allew Windows S.O users to load terminate aad stayresident (TSR)

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CA introduced the Santa Fe Media Manager, a multimedia database far the PC that has been developed under the company's SantaFe User Interface, a multimedia environment for the PC. The Santa Fe Interface is a graphical

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The Santa Fe User Interface takes advautage of the expanded memory available within a PC and is the only

ductmarketresearchbefereitsexpected commercial launch of the productin the latter half of next year. Contact: Sony Corp., 0344M200

600 megabyte capacity, allowing storage of about 7,000 natural scenes or 16 national languages of aatration for one hour.The CD-I player also can playback an existing musical CD. The monitor is a baclit four~ eh color LCD (liquid crystal display) incorporating T$T (thin Sim transistor) technology. The portable CD-I player measures 1S6 by 54.5 by 160 millimeters and weighs 850 grams except for batteries.

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"For Desqview users who want to nm Windows S.O programs, Desqview 2.S pravidesanenviroamentwhereWiadaws S.O applications can run aloagside existing DOSprograms,"continued Myers.

"With this revision, Desqview retains its position as the mast powerful and flexible operating enviromneat far PC users. With Desqview '2.S, users can run DOS programs, 286 DOSextended applicatiens like I-24 Release S, and S86 DOSesrtended programs hke Paradox S86 and AutaCAD S86 sidekymde with Windows 2.0 and Windows S.O applicatians," she said.

In Europe, the newversions ofQemm and Desqview are available ta end users immediately. Qemm costs UKP 65,while Desqview retails for UKP 99. Desqview 586 sells for UKP 149.

ExistiagusersofQuarterdecksoftware can upgrade for various priceL Qemm upgrade pricing ranges from UKP 15 te UKP SO, while Desqviewupfpades range from UKP 15 to UKP 40. Upgrade pricing is subject to a shipping charge af UKP 5. Contact: Wilham Poc:I, Quarterdeck UK- Tel: 0245496699

Nlultimedia Sony Develops Portable CD-I Player TOKYO,JAPAN,Oct5 (NB) — Japan's top CD (compact disk) player manufacturer Sony has develeped an experiental portable CD-I (compact disk ineractive) player with a small color monir, a device which Sany hopes will cape the popular imagination and spur cation of CD-I titles by software maks.

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Santa Fe Media Manager is the first costwKective multimedia progxam that allawsdatabases to store andretxievestill images, videa, audie, and text. Users caa viewPCX, GIF, or FLI (the staadard file far Autadesk Animator) graphics with a I/4 screen viewing window or in full screen. Itispossible to search for specific records based on text, values, graphics, or audio information. Photorealisticstill images and videe can be selected &om the database,sectuencedandplaycd back in order far apresentatien format. Users can view still images or videe while simultaneously hearing sound associated with the images. Thiis so&ware can be used as a &ont end to all the leading datalxase products and is fullycompatible with Paradex 9$ since it uses Borland's Paradox as the underlying engine to

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"So&ware is what wilL bring multimedia together aad we want to be the leader," Wllcsak continued. "We ~ in the imaging 6eld. Photo graphics was missiug at the84it calar levelwhexe the massmarhetissowedeveiopedaKaxdable image processlngsoftwsm to fillthisgap.

Nowwearemavinginto multimediawith the Santa Fe Environment af which the Saata Fe Media Manager is the 6rst applicatian. Our cnvixaamentgoesdirectly to the card without layers ef software to ga through. It emulates the caalrols on regularVCRs and other products people are accustomed to using so it doesn' t farce pcoplc to learn all xlcw operations We even chase the colaxs far the saRware en screen te be '&iendly.'"

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tioa of KDD's calar motion picture videophone mto booths in the U.s.,

Smgapore, anclJapan.

The sexvice is based in Tokyo, and later will be extended to major metropolitan areas. The ovexseas booths are in Los Angeles and Siagapaxe ta start, and

eventually will be installed m New York and London.

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VIDEOCOM decided to oKer the service publidyfellowing a favorable test of the e x p erimental i n t e r national videophone service. In the six~oath test, which started in September, 1988, callers could make videophone calls for &ee between Tokyo and New York Contact VI D EOCOM I a t em aiional

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Telecom Mitsubishi Offers Smimest, Lightest CelMar Phoae TOKYO, JAPAN, Oct 11 (NB)hfitsubishi Electxic has announced the availabihty ofwhatitdaimsis the world's smallest and lightest cellular mebile phcme unit for die overseas market The fixm says the phonewill be available next week.

Thecellularphone,named Mihaxbishi Haadheld Cellular Mabile Telephone, measures 160 by 56 by N.5 milhmetexs or about210 cc,and issuperlight at279 grama Itis smaller and one gram lighter than the entreat lightest and smallest

Handy Phoae Minimo developed by Matsustula Communication IaduslrM The phone &am Mitsubishi has mauy hmctions,iactudinga telephone number memaxy capable af storing more than 100 numbers, and a 2&digit alphanumeric display. It also has Smctians such as abbreviated pre6x dialing, battery power level indicator, and electric 6eld intensity display.

The world's smallest and lightest portable telephone conforms to AMPS (advanced mobile phone system) specificatians of U.SAmsed telecam giaut ATILT. It will ga en sale this month in Australia, Canada, Hang Kong, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the U.S.,where the AMPS systemisused. Mihaxbishiaimstosell200,000 units in a year. Contact: Mitsubishi Electxic, 05-218-2552

America Online Enhances APPle SerwieeS — ReadieS IBM Service VIENNA, VIRGINIA, Oct 19 (NB) America Online, Quaatum Computer Services' online service for Apple II and Mac owners, has enhanced ils xange of scxvices, ancl coafirms plans to publicly launch an IBM service later this year.

Among the sever6 new forums available for Apple II and Mac users are those &am Fifth Generation, Salient Software,

Softek and Working Software. In addition, a new menu catalogue is now available online. This service listsxaare than 15,000 software package fer the Apple II and Mac, as well as MS-DOSkased comOn the MS-DOS access &ant, Naacy Bechnan, a representative of America Online, told Newsbytes that there are plans to introduce an IBM PC and com-

The Computer peper I etov 'ae patible service soon. ,"There have always been plans to launch an IBM service. We are working towards that," she said.

In the meantime, she added, MS-DOS computer usexe can access the Apple II and Mac service using a package f'rom Geoview, which drives the America Online system software. The software is being bundled with laser Computer's Laser Pal 286, a machine intended to compete directly with the home computers recently announced by IBM and Tandy.

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Newsbytes' access on America Online has been improved. Readers can select the various sections such as Apple, Business, IBM etc., oint and shoot"graphical user interface. A powerful keyword search facility has also been introduced. Contact: Quantum Computer Services-Tel: 703/448/8700

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UNIX Toronto Firm One Of Informix ts First Marketing Partners TORONTO, ONTARIO,Oct16 (NB) — Windstar, a Toronto maker of productivity tools for Informix's Unix database and fourthgeneration language software, has signed a joint marketing agreement with Informix.

Informix s p okeswoman C a t hy Donohue said the agreement is one of the first two such deals Informix has

signed. The other is with FourGen Soft-

NewsbyteL Though she denied that service has been a weakness for Sun, she saidthe agreement would "expand and extend our hopefully already good service."

Xerox hes more than 1,800 field service engineers across Canada, and pro-

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Sun Unveils New Low&ost Laser Printer M OUNTAIN VIEW, ~ ORNI A , Sep 26 {NB) — Attempting to break out of the engineering market into more of the mainstream ofixce computing market, Sun Microsystems haa unveiled an

aggressively priced, US$2,695, 12 pageper-minute laser printer capable of Postscriptwompadble output, which it plans to ship in the fourth quarter. Also unveiledwasnewsoftwaredesigned to allow Sun' s SPARGbased computers to output pages to a variety of popular printers: Epson, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Seiko, C anon, F u j itsu, K o d ak , X e r o x , Mitsubishi, Okidata, Raster Graphics, Talaris, and Versatec.

Sun's Newsprint software, still unpriced but expected to cost around US$700, is designed to depart from the standard printer setup in which the escripprinter itself harbors the pr tion language, for emmple, Postscript, andfonts. TheNewspxintsoftwareresides in the Sun computer, or SPARCstation, and it enables any output device hooked to the Sun system, from dot matrix or laser printers to thermal printers and plotters, to produce Postacriptcompatible output, the company says. The Postscript compatibility is obtained with a clone of Postscxipt, not the real thing.

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Brian Conrad,chief executive officer at Windstar, said his four-year+id companyhas focused mainly on the Canadian market to date, though it has sold its software as far away as Turkey. The Informix deal will "give us a bit bigger exposure," he told Newsbytes.

Informix will bundle WindStar's WindCode, adata entry code generator, and WindPaint, an i n teractive forms

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(Analog to Digital Conversion) rate of an audio CD. CD's, of course, use a DAC (need I explaint ) to convert the digital information stored on the disc back into analog audio waveforms. I included the

CD reference merely to allow less musically sophisticated readers a common started out as a consulting firm, chose audio source to compare. The ADC rate the Informix software as a basis for develshown for CDs is, of course, the rate they opmentbecause itwas"the bestdatabaee are recorded at product out there." Windstar's software Mr. Woodworth also pointed out that is designed strictly for use with the Roland'sCM-52LandLAPC-1 have some Informixproduct,hesaid. Contact: Brian additional soundeffectsnotfoundin the Conrad, WindStnr, 416495-7967; Cathy M T-S2, even though theyare advertised Donohue, Informix, 415xl2641651 to "share all the features of the MT-S2."

This is approximately what I thought I Sun Canada Calls In Xerox said when I wrote "[they] share the same specs asthe MT-S2." Iapologize for the To Improve Service inadvertent misuse of the word SPECS MARKHAM, ONTARIO, Oct 9 (NB) when I actually meant FEATURES. It is — Sun Microsystems of Canada has signedadealwherebyXerox Cenadawill my hope that readers will take features and specs with a large: grain of salt and let provide service on Sun hardware across their earsbe their guide when itcomes to Canada. choosing musical options for their comUp to new Sun Canada has provided Thanks Devel all service on its hardwaxe directly, com- puter.

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6) For truly professional results, you are going to want to use a 85mm slide projector, and uae your computer to prepare (in advance) some killer presentation graphics. To do so,you'Swant to use a program such as Harvard Graphics, Applause II, Microsoft PowerPoint or Aldus' Persuasion (etc.) thatiscapable of generating output to a film recorder (eee the aceompanygngartickein thisiseccejor more informationon PC pregentation padtotgag).

Manyof theseprogrcunshaveprMefined color schemes and "mockup headlines" that help even no n e s c r eate slick, powerful visuals quickly and msily.

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Product:Applause II business presentation graphics software.

Publisher:Ashton-Tate,20101 Hamilton

Avenue, Torrance, CA, 90509-9972 Avallablllty: Available at most retail outlets.

Of Interest To: Executives who must prepare their own presentations quickly.

System Requirements: IBM PC or 100% compatible, 512 KB RAM, MSDOS V. 2.1, Hercules, CGA, EGA, or VGA display, Printer, plotter or film re-

corder Price:$635 Key Features: Easy to use; Mouse driven; 400 Pizzazz-clip art drawings; Ashton-Tate Graphics Service.

Overview Applause II is a graphics presentation package. With Applause II,you can create your own worksheets or import your raw data &ommostspreadsheetsor databases

and create graphs or charts &om this data. Onceyour infoxmatian ispresented graphically, you can jazz up the presentation with Pizzazz chpart pictures and drawing tools. Text can also be added to thepresentation, with differentfont types available. A slide show can be created using a script editor and shown on other computersor the images can be printed, or sent ta Ashton-Tate'sown slide sexvice through a built-in communication utility.

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Product: Harvard Graphics V. 2.3 Graphics and presentation package for professional business presentations.

Publisher:Software Publishing Corp.

1901 Landings Drive, P.O. Box 7210 Mountain View, CA 94039-7210 Avallablllty: Available through most retail outlets.

Of Interest To: Marketing professionals who wish to create multi-media presentations. Corporate executives who needto presentideasand concepts to large groups. Entrepreneurs who wish to use their own computer for their marketing and presentations.

System Requirements: IBM PC or 100% compatible, 512K RAM, CGA, EGA, VGA or Hercules moncchrome display board Price:f719. A LAN versionis available for a retailprice of $2,295.

Key Features:Hot key in slide shows; Spell cheddng; Slide shows; Lotus data import; Freehand drawing; Overnight slide service.

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Installation is a snap and takes less than 20 minutes. Once installed, the program is extremely easy to use. Our experience with other presentation packagesdid not keep us &om catching on to Applause xluicMy. The whole system is menu driven and set up for a mouse. In my opinion, even the most inexperienced of users could achieve quite nice resultswith Applause II.

Harvard Graphics is a full functioned presentation graphics package containing most of the functions which one would expect &om a professional presentations package. The only functions we found missing were included in a companion packagecalled Screen Show Utilities which sells for a retail price of $199. Haxvard Graphics will allow the user to produce output on slides, transparencies, laser printers, colour laser printers, plotters and send the file to an overnight slide sexvice. The overnight slide service, Autographix, offers a $100 start-up credit to test them first.

One note — the Toronto phone number in the brochure is wrong, the actual phone number is (416) 5874161. For us Canadians, it is nice to see a map of Canada included in the symbols.

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The installation process is a simple one that is completely governed by an installation program. It takes anywhere &om r minutes for a pragramanly installation on a4864ased machine (most of that time is spent changing the 10

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Publisher:Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 980526399 Avallablllty: Available at most retail outlets.

System Requirements: IBM PC or compatible with 286 or 386 processor (386recommended) ' Windows 3.0 ' VGA,EGA,8514/Aorany video adaptor

suppoitedby Windows 3.0(except CGA) ' Mouse'1MB RAM Hard drive Key Features:Imports data from Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Symphony, Excel,W orks.

Built-in word processor and spell checker. 16 million colors. On-screen slide show. Uses Bitstream fonts.

Of Interest To:People who do a lot of presentations using slides or overhead projeclors.

Price:4699.

Gverview PowerPoint is a presentation package specializing in creating slide shows and overhead projector shows. With PowerPoint, you can create your own worksheetsor impoxtrawdata&om other spreadsheets and create graphs and charts &om this data. You can enhance your presentations with 400 color Genigraphics chpart pictures and easyto-use drawing toolL Text can be added with a word processor and edited with the aidofaspellchecker. You can create handouts togo resentations as welL Slide shows and overhead projector shows are created and edited with an editor, You can print your pre sentations or send them ta Genigraphics slide service using a built~ driver and communications utility.

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Product:Show Partner F/X. Presentation package specializing in screen effects.

Publisher: Brightbill-Roberts & Company, Ltd., 120 E. Washington Street, Suite 421, Syracuse, New York 13202 Availability: Available at most retail outlets.

System Requirements: IBM PC,XT,

AT.,PS/2 or 100% compatible; 320K of

memory (256K available); One or more disk drives; MS-DOS 2.0 or later; A

system with the following graphics adapters or 100% compatible: CGA; EGA; Hercules Monochrome; MCGA; VGA (Object Editor does not support Hercules Monochrome); IBM Personal Computer Display, IBM Enhanced Color Display, a display monitor from the IBM PS/2 series, or 100% compatible; MouserequiredfortheObject Editor.

Of Interest To:People who can utilize

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tions and presentations. Show Partner F/X presentations can be used for train)ng, tutor)als, sales demonstrations, marketing projects and presentations of all sorts.

Price.$469

Overview Show Partner F/X is a presentation software package that specializes in creating self~ n i ng shows. These shows a re greatly enhanced with the ~ tch ing special effects provided by Show PartnerF/X. Screens from other appli-

cation software packages can be captured, enhanced by Show Partner F/X, and then axranged using a Script Editor to create professiona14ookmg presentationL Captured screens are saved as separate text or graphics files thatca be enhanced bya Text Painter or Graphics Editor to spice up screens or add titles andexpianations. Aniamtion sequences can be created using the script editor or with the aid of an Object Editar. Presentations to be run on other computers are

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tures and toIpof the@ac drawing toolL Text can also be added to the presentation with the 41 difFerentfont typesavailable. A slide show can be createdwith a slid+show editor and shown on other computers or the images can be printed, or sent to a slide service through a builtin communicafion utility.

Product: Charisma, a graphics and presentation package for professional business presentations.

Publleher: Micrografx Inc., 1 303 Arapaho. Richardson, TX, 75081. Phone (21 4)234-1 769.

Of Interest To:Marketing professionals who wish to create mulI-media presentations. Corporate executives who need topresentideasandconcepts to large groups. Entrepreneurs who

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this could be used on a 286. If yeu choose this option, I hope you like to drink a lot of cofFee. It would be inter-

esting to compare anon-Windowaversion of Charisma to see if the performance improves without the sluggish overhead of Windowa Charisma is packed with opfions. Itis so packed with options and fimctions that if it did not have a graphical user interface the package would be almost impossible to use.

The set up and installation of Charisma is not a diffitxsit process, but it is

very time consuming. There is also ne warning before you begin as te just hew long it will take. Budget at least twe hours just to copy all the files to your disk If you are going to use all the ClipArt and samples, then budget 5 - 4 hourL To conserve disk apace yeu have

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System Requirements: 80286 or

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free disk space, Mouse or digitizing pad, OOS 3.1, Microsoft Windows 2.1 or 3.0

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ChpArt you want The installation is not a standard windows installation. The installation program is run &om DOS and the fi les are unarchived &om the

KeyFeature: 2200 Clip Art symbols; On-line context sensIve help; Macros; Bezier curve edlIng; 41 edilable fonts; 16 million colors.

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5 seconds a le~th is is not a typo.) We must at this point note the computer we

Overview Charisma is a complete graphics solution for the business user using windows.

With Charismayeu can create your own worksheetsor importyourravr data&o m most spreadsheets or databases and create graphs or charts &om this data.

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Reports 8c Documentation The documentation is gootL it is nice to see that the documentation is not

overbearing, considering the package is so large. The documentation mcluded a handy quickweference chart,learning guide andreference manual. There are also many useful tips in the manual on hew to create efFective presentations,

such aa the proper background design to suit cerlain types ef screena The number of options available to you with this package allows yeu to create somepre + slick presentations.

Ermr H ttlmisg ScLimiLttions Clsariama traps errors efFectively and did not crash during any of our testa There are few limitations to what Charisma can produce. However vre feel the package's main limitation is in its speed (or htck of it). Other than speed, the program is c~ yno t lacking m other areas — 6 million colors, 4.2 million data pomia, 41 type fontL

Conclusion Chazisaus has all the functions one

expects &om a professional presentations package and more. The limits of Charisma are so broad that fewuserswill reach the barriers of the capabilities of

this package.

One word of caution. Most people who are inexperienced with marketing or presentations tend to try to pack as many options as possible in one presentation. This same problem came about when desktop publishing flrat arose. If you don't have the shlls to create a good prestmtation, this will not help. If you aheady have good marketing skills thisis a very powerful tooL If you are in the business of mahng presentations 8 hours a day, 5 days a week andyou can afford to have thebest and fastest hardware and peripherals

(we recommend that this package not be considered for anything less than a 55MHz 586), Charisma is what you should invest in.

Ratmle Pezfozznassce - 2 - Sluggish at best even on a 586. Should not be run on a 286based machine.

Usefulness - 4 - Has every fimction you can think of.

Masnsa1-5.5.-Not everbearing for the size of the package and is laid out nicely.

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4.77 MHs machine attempt any form of presehtation graphics regardless of the pmgrtun, thus we would not consider the time for the installation to be a problem. Most people using this package would have a 286 or 986, which have an installation time ofbetween Mand 60 minutea Before the installation proceeds, the system teilsyou howlongitwill be. We found this very convenient~

you do not start an hour long process with only a half hour of time available,

Harvard Graphics installed on our test machine as is. All other presentation packages required achange to either the hardware orthe software con6guration in order to run. The machine it was tested on has an odd coneguration of hardware but Harvard is universal enough to handle it.

One functionwe appreciate on apphcations new, is the ability to set a data directory; Harvard Graphics allows thia The reason we appreciate this is that it allows one to configure one's system in such a way that one drive is used for apphcation software and another drive is used fordalu. This isneeded more and more todaybecause applications tend to take up a lot of disk space.

Harvard Graphicsiscompletelymenu drivenand a good number of the functionscsn be masteredwithoutlookingat the manual. Context sensitive help is available. Thus if one gets stuck there may be no need to pull out the manuaL

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Harvard Graphics, just the output for your presentations. T his output is nothing less than spectacular: videodriven slide shows, which can be displayed with a video projector, 55 mm slides, overhead transparencies, laser-

printed presentationbooksorpamphlets, and large graphs done with plotters. In every case the output is impressive and enhances presentation.

The documentation is verywell done.

Not only is the manual complete and indexed well, but it is presented in a mannerthatconumnncatesideascpnckly and esssly.

Error Handliug 8e Limitations We were notable to make the product crash in any test situations. There are a $ew things to note which we discoverecL In the very rare case where you are operating an EGA card and a monochrome

monitor, draw partner does not support this configuration. Th e installation missed settmg up the swap 6le path in the Applications Menu.

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Features: Capturesscreensfromappiication; Creates screens with Demo II's editor; Programmable key events.

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Set Up and Ease of Use Demo H isinstaiiedsimply by copying the distribution disks to your hard dislr.

Demo H isnot aprogram intended fora novice user and, in faÂŤt, the primary users of Demo H would be software developers. Perhaps this is why it is not the mostuser4iendlyproductwe haveseen.

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This is not the case with Harvard Graphics. We found no significant function which a competitive product featured that was not availaMe in Harvard Graph-

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Most people will find PowerPoint one packages to use. Its slick Windows 5.0 design and logical screen layout allows users to grasp the program quiddy. We reviewed PowerPoint with a group of other preseniation packages. It was the last package we looked at and even atter .being loaded with a number of biases from the previouspackages, we found PowerPoint quite ref'reshing. Not onlyis it easy to use, it is, in this reviewer's opinion, the nicest looking and best designed of the presentation packages we reviewers Italso allows you to create new presentations easily by cutxing and pasting from old ones.

Unlike morocomplete graphics presentation packages, PowerPoint sticks to

one area — slides and overhead projector shows — anddoesthisquiteeffectively.

It is not packed with opfions that make the program overbearingand sluggish.

We did our testing on a 12 MHz 286based machine and this did not hamper performance in the least. There isvery little waiting while charts on the screen are beingrefold b y the program (txyrunning Charismaon a 286). Unlike other graphic presentation packages that boast the "complete" solution to one' s presentation needs, PowerPointisgeared around producing slides, and the user interface refiects this.

Reports 8c Documentation Shde presentations produced with PowerPoint are quite impressive, although not quite as spectacular as other more sophisticated p~ s can p r oduce.

The documentation isvexygood. The manual is hard cover and is attractive and easyto read. A reference section oudinesallmenuoptionsin the program in alphabetical order. A quick reference card for creating presentations is also induded.

1hxer H'Indhng 8eIimhltlme Errors are trapped efFectively and the progxam did not crash in anyof our testa PowerPoint is not your "total" presentation graphics solulion. It lacks a few options that are present in other

One cannot import as many package file typesasother presentationpackages, although you can import ASCII files, data from soxne spreadsheets, and most types ofgraphicL One caxmotcustomize line thicknesses in the program. When creatingcharfsor graphs,one canchoose to autamatically display the percent or label or value of a data point, but not a combination of the three. Thus they have to be added separately if you want more than one. As well, PowerPoint does not support CGA. One significant limitation is the lack of a stand&one slideshow utility. One can view shows directly f'rom the program,but thisisnotstandMone,so shows are not easily dispLayed on other computers. Thus it serves mostly for practisingg your presentations. There is also only one iransition between slidea This is aho a sifpaificant hxniiation if you want to display ~ a t c hmg shows on other

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solufien bythem,norisitfair to compare itwith mare total selutien" packages. If you need to produce presentations quickly, easily, ancl professionally and yau find the medium of slide shows effective, de net be without Microsoft Power Point.

RldmNS Performance-8.'7 - PowerPoint operates very quickly, presenting no unreasonable delayL a 286based machine. Ne did not find this in ether presentatien pac~ Usefulness-8-Nottoomanypackages will produce as effective slide shows as easily ar as qcuckly. However, it lacks a few featureL Manual - 8.4 - The manual is very goodL The abundance of screen shots is helpful.

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Set Up 8c Ease of Use The installation is automatically run by an install program. There are only a few options for installation, and thus itis quite a simple procesa The program is somewhat cumbersome to use initially; as moving areund the pmgxams and selecting menu eptionsseexuitebealitQeunconventional.

Ahro, each pmgram locks different and operates slightly different fmm the next ene, makingthe package harder to get used to. Once used te Shaw Partner's little quirks, we found the salware easy to move around in and actually quite fast. Entire scripts or parts of scripts are easily. viewed ~ ht f r o m the Script Editor while yeu are creating the script.

This malres editing a snap.

Te learn Show Partner F/X, one should definitely use the tutcmal and experiment with the sample scripts, as this is the best way to grasp the program.

The manual should be used more as a reference when one gets stuck. This is definitely a package that can easily &usirate an inexperienced user. However with a httle patience, a few hours learn-

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to learn the package and use the manual mere as areference. This is a package that requires the user to cxeate and thus themanualcsn benamarethan asimple reference tool outlining and explaining features.

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Show Partner handles ermrs quite effectively. In the Script Miter, upon exrers occumng, fields are nat updated and the previouscontents are restored.

The script editor did crash a couple of times while working with sample scripts, though it never chd cxash when creating aur awn. Thus we cannot conclude if i tins%as the pfogxanL s fault er eur ewn unfamuliariiy with the pregxanL The Gxaphics Editor isnotassophisticated as other drawing pmgrams alxd it was a little disappaintmg. The best bet is ta create special screens in ether drawing programs and then capture them with Shaw Partner F/X. A system using CGA is the best bet ta

createpresentationsonbecausethefinal product can be viewed by mast other machineL One major hmitation is that shows produced on EGA/VGA can not be seen an a lesser machine, unless ene uses text screenL Amajor improvement would be to enable Show PartxLer F/X ta pmchxce CGAkssed showson EGA/VGA machinea

Conclusion

The versatility of Show Partner F/X's Script Editor and the mac af creating and editing scxipts is unmatched by any other presentatian software package we have seen. E~ tc h ing special effect are easily used to bring in each new screen in a show, greatly enhancing presentations. Shaw Partner F/X's strength is its Script Editors, whereas it cannot createfancy graphs er pie chaxts as easily as other presentation packages can. Thus itleansmere towards creating showsbyusmgandenhancingscxeensar drawings from other software packages.

Based on this alone, Show Partner is a must fer those interested in creating tutorials, demanstrations and presenta-

Rainy: Performance-8.R-Show PartnerF/X operates very quickly, presenhng no unreasenaMe delays. Heveevex, it has a few little quirks that hinder performance

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They give your presentation visual consistency &om slide to slide. With Persuasion however, you can assign multiple masters.

You can nowcreate overlaycharts &om any of the 10 chart formats in Persuasion. A drawing module is helpful for accenling your slides with rudimentary graphics. Otherwise you can import clip art m various graphic formats.

For those who would rather switch than fight, you can import PowerPoint presentations through the Scrapbook.

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Y ou can spruce up your on~ e e n slide presentations by using numerous transition effects (e.g., glitter, dissolve, curtain, etc.) Automatic "builds" are possible, where the image components appear over several &ames.

For those who don't have the talent to create effective visuals, Aldus includes a dozen Autotemplates (six in black~dwhite, six in color). These templates have been created byprofessional designers to help give your presentation greaterimpact on your audience.

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already familiar with version 1.0 and the other is a complete user guide. Aldus also packages a handy desktop reference

Presentationpackages help us organize our ideas and create visuah through several mediums which assist in formal presentations. Before this software became available, presenters had to coordinate the efForts of several individuals within an organization. For example, a slide presentation would require the in-

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Installation As with all Aldus products, Persuasion comes with an installer utility that lets

you customize which files you want to include with the program. You have the option of installing autotemplates, tutorial files and dip art. In all, this lakes about 4 megabytes of disk space. One of the nice features of the installer utility is its ability — if you choose — to run a set of

diagnostics. It can check your system configuration (including INITs, CDEVs and RDEVs) and check for font damage and duplicate font IDs. It then writes a report to disk that can be opened as a TeachText document The entire software packagecomes on a setoffive 800K disks.

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Persuasion supports many of the lowend film recorders which can connect to the Macintosh. For those who don' t have their own in-house slide recorders, the documentation includes booklets describing how to prepare your presentation for Aldus packages a Chooser~lectable driver that enables you to format your presentation for output at any Autographix Centre.

There is also a manual that explains how to tweak your presentation for output to a Crosfield Dicomed system.

This software has only one major drawback Using a Laserwriter NTX I experienced problems with printing handouts. Processing was unacceptably slow andsometimesplaguedbyPostsmpt errors. This is one area where Aldus definitely haa to improve this product Otherwise, Persuasion is a solid offering which ranks among the best of any presentation packages.

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New, Commodore itself may have taken that ground with icz AmigaVision authomig system. Targeted mainly at theprofessional, training,and traditional education markets, the program allows theintegration of CompactlXiskstitl and video capacities, four~hannet/Skit internalsound, MIDIeidemalsound/light 8c other systems, genlocked video, inter nalgraphicsand animation, the Amiga's built' computerspeech functions,and mouse, keyboard,joystickand/or touch screen input into full interactive instructional, informational, and/or educational applications. The program also has bmlt~ database construction capabilities compatible with dSaseotyle data.

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The output is, needless to say, very impressive. Note that screens can be saved in the GX2 format which is the same formatused by Show Partner F/X, a very slick slideehow and special~ t s package. Combine these two padrages, andyoucau createstunningeelf~nning presentations.

&XerHIn dlhsg®elamlmiimtS All errors were trapped correctly and reported with a message and a beep sound. One item of noteis thatwhenwe used Applause H with DesrIView, the mouse action tnNrnflcantly deterioraterL We are not sure whether this is an undesirable feature of Des@View or Applause H. We found less deterioration with Harvard Graphics and DestlView,

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functions of the package. Applause H is not as sophisticated as Harvard Graphics or Charisma, but for the executive, Applause H has all the functions and power needed, Applause H is a nice package and is probably our second choice in presentation packages. The price is lower than our fustchoice. Ifonedoesnotneedlots of advanced functions, Applause His the rightpackage because of price and ease of use.

Here today, Here tomorrow In a marketchtuactetfaed byeipessive pricoelasbhg, wehavefocusedour efforts on developingthe highest qualty productL

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Bedford,Avantage also offersa &e e program that can transfer their ACCPAC Bedford accountingdata to Avantnge.

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The automobile has succeeded in If you watch television, you have seen decreasingtraveltimebetweenlocafions. what $ihcon Graphics Inc. (SGI) cornGraphic models of the real world, supputers can do. The "pseudopod" special effect in the movie, 7%cpbyxx,was de- p o r t ed by S-D computing, decrease the time between concepts. Word processigned and animated on an SGI cornaors are familiar to most of us, but I like puter. The animated Crest toothpaste to think of these machines as idea pro"SparkleGel" commercials are another cessors.

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pete in the emerging fields of data visualization and virtual reality. However, SGI still remains the company to beat Even IBM bought SGI hardware for its new R/6000 series of workstations.

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At the low end of the product line are three uniprocessormachineL These vaxy with increasing CPU performance and graphics subsystems. An entry4evel Iris would give you 10 MIPS, 1 MFLOP, Shit color, 8 MB RAM, 19" color monitor, Unix, 200 MB HDD and a 150 MB cape drive at a cost of US$20,000. Double the price, and you get: 24bit color, 24bit Zbuffer and S times the graphics performance (200Kvectors/sec, 24Kpolygons/ sec). The other two systems give enhanced CPU and/or graphics performance. The three lowe d

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a degree of delegation (combined with lets of memory for buffering information) allows the high-end graphics package to store 268 bits of information

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places If thc user mlIlnnxzcs the Crossrsttk window, the details below the program's icon indude a counter of clusters received/sent to allow the user to see how the transfer is going even while using other program@ The scripting language is extensive, and would allow the user to script mundane tasks to be run as needed. There is even a "Learn" script which observes the

hassle.

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user's actions and creates a new ~ t based on these actions for later use. Not

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This is not to say that the machines won't sell well — or even to say that purchasers will make a mistake buying them. They should sell well and many teIl be well served by buying them for they are attractive lottpcnd computers

and, in the case of the IBM entry, have enough bundled software to let a workat home person (or, in author Norman Schriber's delightful terminology, a

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The benefits ofhaving a computer may

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such as these but they do not HAVE to have a computer. Computexa will only become acommoditywhen theybecome an essential home item and we' re not

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For years, most in the industry have been convinced that there is a great uptapped home computer market and, as soon as powerful systems could be made affordable to the mass market, there would be jillions sold. Yet, as industrywatcher Stewart Alsop haepointed out, every computer designed +ecijkully for the home has failedl Think only of the IBM-PCjr, the TI99, the Sinclair.

Certainly, there have been many computers well used in the home but these

Tandy seems to understand where we have to go better than IBM — or, so it seems &om the recent introductions.

The user interface and associated programs provide for such routine household items as "leaving notes on the re&igerator" and developingshoppinglists &om recipes. Tandyalsorealizm that the

to maintain an insurance inventory of valuables. These functions are built~

forwhateverreason,used theminahome

features of the interface and associated prograxxm. On top of that, there is a common user interface through Des&hte. The user only has to learn one setofcommandsand theyare rather intuitive.

IBM, on the other hand, bundles Microsoft Works with ita PS/1. The user has to leaxn how to uee a program to do any. of the mundane functions listed above.

Certainly one can produce a more sophisticatedbudgetorinventoxyon Works than through a canned utility, but do most of us need this power? We doubt it — particularly if we have to learn a program to do itl The PS/1 does, however, have one aignificantadvantage,in ourjudgement, over ita Tandy counterpart It is heavily communicationsbaeedwithconnections

.tronic spreadsheet, but they were used

exclusively by programmers and engineers or by computer enthusiastspersonsforwhom computers became a passion in themselves. We did not find, however, Altairs, Puts, IBM 5100sor even Applesin corporate officesunti SofLware Arts introduced VisiCalc. With that in-

troduction, computers (in this case, the Apple H) became firstueefu devices and thennecessifiesincorporate offixces. They revolutionized the way firms opexated and now, less than 12 years after the advent of VisiCalc, we find very few firms of any size that do not have some type of computer.

Who Needs It? We do not have a similar compelling reason tobuy a home computer. Certainly, it's helpful for persons who use computers in a business to have a similar

computer at home to work on. Likewise, it simplifies a student's life to be able to use a computer at home for papers, online research, etc. But these people could make otherarrangements — work longer, go into school on weekends, etc.

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Where do we go &om here? Well, for one thing, the hunt will go on for the compelling application. We tend to believe that it will be found in the kitchen, which has become the central room of

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for a machine to be successful in the kitchen~andthatPENtechnologycanbe of importance here. Tandy, through its GRiD subsidiary with pen technology alreadyinplacewiththeGRiDPad,seems to be in an excellent position to move in this area.

Another point that seems important to us is the intent i on with other home electronic devices. Why should people have to have both computer and television screens or both computer and stereo speakers? Some may wish to, but

thosefimitcdbybudgetorspace,suchas a college student, should not have to duplicate c o s t a n d sp a ce . I f modularizarion isavailaMe,itmustnot be as di8icult to hook up as a good stereo. Perhapsvideo andaudioconnections through wall jacks will become common in homesl Evcn t ualy the computer should become the home controller — with a screen, perhaps, right in the rtjrigerator and a pen dangling next to it This home controller will be able to set the

microwave,sendmessagestootherplaces in the house (wherememberscan access them on the television screen through a pressing of a remote control button), retrieve information from a remote data base or from a more rzadititmal PC elsewhere in the home, order items automatically from selected star~ etc. In short, do in an improved manner all of the tedium that always used up the homemaker's time. Itmustbe done with pizzazz, it must be done inexpensively and it must be easy to usef It can all be done — but rm cwtaiop area't tirreu yell

UPGRADET JUST SAY HO! Editorial by John McC prrnick I am about to speak heresy, so be prepared. I have the latest computers made, the latest software on my shelves, and spend my worhng life testing and writing about computer systems, yet, despite that background, I seldom upgrade mypersonalworhngsofNrare, the programs I use to make a living.

It seems as if computer companies are

alwaysofferingnewer,faster,bigger,and fancier software, some ofitincorporating impoxtant changes that manyusers need but usually just adding some ex tra

chrome hereand there or changing the shape of the tail fins.

In a neo-Pavlovianresponse, many users automatically start droohng when

theyread the fust announcement of an upcoming update of their favorite program and leap to place orders with no thought as to vrhat the new version will do that their old one won' t.

I can tell you what the newversion will probably do, even without knowingwhat program isyour favorite.

New versions of old software will generally run slower, have new and exciting bugs, retprire users to learn new ways of doing old things, need more memory, possibly better video, and, oh yes, might justhave some new feature you are desperate for.

For myself, I still have a wonderful relationship with WordPerfect 4.1, even though 5.0 sits on my hard disk, tested, reviewed, and found very good.

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changes to the way the program uses macros and Igive them high marks for the changes, but, since my hundreds of oldmacroswould all have to be rewritten

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to run under Version 5, I haven'tlot any place for it in my daily working fife.

Despite new features in WordPerfect, mostly relating to desktop publishing, I havenotupgradedmybasewordprocessor for years; why should I? After all, I don'tneedanyofthosenew featuresand would lose some usefir ones I need dally.

WP 5.0 waslarger and didn't add a single feature thatI wanted, butl am not pichng on that fine software in particular; most upgrades tend to add bulk and new features that few. users want, often added merely' to outpace the competition. lVhile many upgrades are basically harmless, that isn't always true.

One past upgrade of Norton UliTities added a bug that would wipe out hard disks with larger than standard partitions dBASE 1Vwassuch agreatupgrade idea that it nearly broke Ashton-Tate.

The list goes on, but you get the idea.

And, some software should have been upgraded more oftenbut wasn' t Why? Simple; I have gotten used to WordPerfectand the effort to become proficient in WordStar again would cost me too much productive time, so my only usefor WordStar isas a fullword processor that will run on a laptop or other small memory machine, and the old version runs comfortably in under 100 kilobytes of RAM.

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Files can be saved as EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) or PICT on the Mac, ancl EPS or Windows Metafile (WMF) on the PC. Equations can also be copied into the Windows clipboard as WMF or Tex compatible, which allows equations to bepasted into Tex files fo output On the Mac, MathType can be run as a Desk Accessory or under Multifinder for use while the page layout program is being usecL On the PC, MathType supports Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE).

bo t hered to look at the manual. Most u s ers would be able to start creating eq u ationsright away, but it is recommended that you read the manualt h ere are many worthwhile, not~ b v i o u s features in the program.

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tended booth vms at the back, ancf apeared largely unfocused. By contrast,

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r unning in color on the new color N eXTsiation (ooh, ahh), and displayed a beta version of their NeXT Xpress to the eager throngs. Frame showed a new version of their powerful FrameMaker pubLthingsoftware,which is already shipping. Several scanner and other peripheral manufircturers.also released or announced NeXT versions of their hardware.

The NeXT booth was packed with people even when the rest of the booths were comparatively empty; many folks

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One oftheslickest thingsaddedto the new NeXT system software is a geaeric fitx modem driver. This allows you to plug in a regular Macintoshaype Srx modem, such as the popular Model 24/ 96 made by Abaton, and sead or receive firxes &om any NeXT application. By simpkyinvokmgaa OCRoption, the con-

Largely because of the NeXTStep developmentenvironment,NeXTsoftttrare is unusually easy to write. Using the NeXT's Application Builder, a fullyfunctional user interfirce can be developed in minutes, aever mind weeks or montha In fact, in the words of one of the developersof WordPerfect for the NeXT, "Our development cycle is one

tents of the incoming fax am be converted back to editable text in an mstant,

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2-8 or Excel on those "other machimme ' take a few minutes and try Improv for yourself (Improv can read and write' „ standard Lotus I-2-Sfiles). Itsdikferences &om the usual post-VisiCalc spreadsheet . model are so striking, yet it is so simple!; . and obviously a bslsr rsrry, that I predict ' that in five years, this will be theway spreadsheets are. For now, though, it is;.; clearly one of NeXT's unique ~ :, tages.

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Largelydue to NeXI"scommitmentto the higherWucatioa market, the origi-'rr nal cubes have been available for sale at .

SS.U. and inthe U.B.C. bookstore for.over a year already', and U.B.C. has acquired a NeXT lab consisting of over™r ,.:,t fortycubeL Even U.B.C. musicprofKeith~'.,„, Hamill, author of Macintosh music pro,,"'';: grams NoteWriter and NoteWriter II;; hasboughthanselfaNeXT.Atuniverskty ';-.',: prices, it's no wonder. An education~~,," only NeXT pricelist seen at the U.B.C.""-.;" .

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Hsi • The Macintosh IIsi is Apple's replacement for the alsocfiscontinued Mac

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The IIsi, like the LC, features an inte-

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as either a NuBus slot, or an SK/80 PDS using optional adapters. (Apple warns that due to space, power supplyand CPU performance considerations,notallcards

may be compatible.) The adapters also provide the IIsi with a 68882 math coprocessor, which is lackmg on the standard model The computer, with built-in 8-bit RGB video output, is priced similarly to the recent 16 MHz IIcx without a video card, which demonstrates its rela-

tively good value. Still, at $5277 for the 2MB RAM/40MB hard disk model, calling this unit a lowest Mac is clearly stretching thing+ A 5MB/80MB hard diskwquipped model is also available for $6897. Unlike the Classic and the LC,

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spend?" although the price is, of course, a contributing factor. With th e M a c

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recently would have paid a similar price for a Mac Plus (which,now discontinued, can be found for significantly less). Of the two machines, the Clasiic ofFexs a

25% speed advantageover the Plus, as well as increased disk capacity and fiexibility. Chalk one up for progresL The bigger question is really "Do you want color?" because unlike a PC,Amiga or Atari you just can't add a color monitor to a Mac Plus, SK or Classic. It is a decision thatmustbe made at the time of

purchase. And unfortunately, there is a sizable subset of Mac programs (mostly graphicsrelated) that do not work without Color Qaickdraw, which, as you may guess from the name, is not available on the monochrome-only 68000-based Macs. Hovvever, acolor-oxpabkMac, such as the LC or Ilsi, even if it only had a grayscale monitor, would still be able to run these programs, albeit in shades of gray rather than glorious living color. It . is a way of keeping your options open.

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B Y DEFINI T I O N

A peer-to-peer network is simply a group of PC's operating under MS or PC DOS, linked together via interface cards and cabling (see figure 1). They allow users to share filesand programs, expensive hardware resources such as laser printers or CD-ROMs, and communicate via electronic mail.

Although peer-to-peer DOS-based networks offer good value th most definitely not about to dethrone mighty server-based LANs. Designed to meet the connectivitp' needs of larger workgroups, LAN operating environments such as Novell's Netware still offer a highergrade of performance and expandability.

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The second, is an Ethernet version which fully complies with the IEEE 802.3 and NETbios standards for Ethernet connectivity. One obvious advantage is that users looking at possibly expanding into a full serverbased network in the future, won' t have to throw away their investment.

As well, it offers maximum throughput on the network of up to 10Mbps - 5 times that of the proprietary version.

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ELECTRONIC MAIL

One of the most under utilized featuresofLANtastic, from our experience anyway, is electronic mail.

In a nutshell, electronic mail (email for short) allows messages to be sentback and forth between users on the LAN. E - mail can be used for phone messages, quick conversations while on the phone, internal memos, or however you need to communicate without getting your message lost in the paper shuffle.

When you send a message to a user, the message will pop up onto the users screen. If the user does not respond within a defined length of

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time the message is saved for future reference. The message will state who it is going to, what the message is about, and who sent it.

E-mail, when used properly can be an effective tool for streamlining your offices communications system.

One of the most impressive features of LANtastic's e-mail system is voice mail. Acting as an electronic answering machine, userscan improve the effectiveness of their mail.

Such features as sending recorded m essages, and chatting back and forth over a phone hand set plugged into the optional voice card, as well as the ability to erase, rewind, forward, pause, or even broadcast a message to a multiple list of u sers, make LANtastic's e-mail facility a useful business tool.

L ANTASTIC IN A C T I O N

The first thing that will astonish you when you open the package is its lack of documentation. This is not a sign of how lazy Artisoft is, rather it is a reflection of the systems simplicity.

Initial installation is quick and straight forward, via a completely automated routine with p lenty of support available through an on-line help function. Of course the faint at heart should let a professional do this, as DOS based systems tend to have mish mash CONFIG and AUTOEXEC files which tend to complicate matters.

Once theserver and workstations are setup, the systems menu driven a dministration facility all ows f o r quick setup of system users and res ources. Each user is setup wi t h predefined permissions which restricts access to sensitive data or hardware resources.

After the applications software is setup, users can then share common files and hardware resources spread across the system.

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station requires a network card, Don't go running out and cabling,and a Tconnector tosplit buying any network without first the line. investigating your existing apThe 2Mbps version is an 8-bit ISA card which supports XT, 286, plications to see if they are network compatible.For example, 386, and 486 compatible systems. if you decided to link together Artisoft's16-bit Ethernet version, the accounting department runalsosupports these standards by ning ACCPAC, you would have sensing whetherthe system bus to purchase a Network manager expansion slot is 8 or 16-bit.

For users with IBM PS/2 pack for every 4 users that will LANtastic's resource shurin means no.lineu s.

MicroChannel systems, Artisoft be sharingthe system.

Although WordPerfect5.1 is supports Western Digital Ethalready network aware,you stillhave to purchase workernet Plus/2 adapters via an optional software driver kit. station modules to link in the various stations. Other apSimply plug in the card, load the driver onto the PS/2, and you' re in business. This must be used in corespondence plications, Lotus 1-2-3 and dBase to name just two, require with the Ethernet version of LANtastic. you tobuy a fileserver version plus the necessary workstation packs.

Other options available include a ROM daughter card Of course, if your intent is simply to transfer files from to helpreduce the amount of base memory used by the netstation to station, or utilize electronic mail, then buying work drivers,a boot ROM daughter card for diskless network versions is usually irrelevant. workstations, voice adapters for voice mail, and "The Network Eye" LAN management software for the more adI N GENERA L vanced system administrator.

As we explained earlier, there are two version of Overall, LANtastic is a smooth running, cost effective, LANtastic-2Mbps and Ethernet. Each can be purchased feature rich system designed for the small workgroup. as a starter kit which includes the LANtastic software With the minimal investment required, your productivity which supportsup to120 users,two network cards,one 25' Cna gains will soon pay for themselves. cable, and two terminating resistors. Each additional

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S UPER BUN D L E Brace Yourself! Thanks to an exciting new promotion, buying the award-winning PC Tools from Central Point Software's about to get even better. Between now and December 31, 1990, customers who buy PC Tools can receive free, a full featured copy of 386MAX 5.0. The newest release of Qualitas' acclaimed memory manager for80386 and 80486 based personal computers... a $130 value!

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backup units operating under SCO Xenix 386.

The drivers allow for data compression up to 2 times what the normal tape is capable of storing. For example, the Colorado Jumbo tape drive with a DC-2000XTD or DC-2120 tape will store up to 120MB of data on a single cartridge. As well, you can link multiple volumes, andeven archive DOS and Xenix files on the same tape!

W ELCOM E A B O A R D ANO Office Automation is pleased to announce the addition of Mr. Imad Zahrawi to ANO's sales team in Richmond, B.C. !mad is an experienced systems analyst, specializing in networking personal computers under +n< j both Novell and Banyan Vines.

Colorado Memory Systems is now offering a driver for their Jumbo and QFA tape NOVI-:MBF I< 19<i) ANOVATION

TECH • TALK Q. What is meant by the term "low level format" for hard disk drives?

A. Essentially, low level formatting is a process whereby a raw hard disk is prepared for use before the operating system is loaded on. This is done by way of a t h ir d p a rty software package such as On Track's Disk Manager, or through the hard disk controller itself.

During this process the hard drive is primed and a bad track table, which is simply a list of the undesirable spots, is created and embedded in the

initalization track. When DOS, OS/ 2, or Novell is loaded onto the drive, the low level format makes sure that you don't write data to the bad portions (note that Xenix and Unix hard drives, although they must be low level primed have their own table which you setup during installation).

Let us compare this to baking a pie. Before you put your dough (the operating system) into the pan (the hard disk), you usually grease it with butter or lard (the low level format).

If the pan is not greased, the crust will char and stick, thus creating a rather

Business today has come to rely on its PC vendors to offer top notch service at a reasonableprice. To many thismay seem to be a contradiction of terms, but to us at ANO it is a reality.

In response to this demand, ANO offers a comprehensive support package geared to meet every level of business user. Starting with our Connect Support Program, every user can take advantage of complimentary telephone support. This program allows users to call us up with queries on their spreadsheets, database, desktop publishing, or even communications packages without worrying about receiving a bill for support.

For the corporate user looking at stabilizing expenses, and reducing billing headaches, while, receiving top notch onsite service and support, we offer our Security Support Program. Since billing is done once a year, there are no worries • g

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One added variation ANO provides its users with Security Support, compared to other on-site service organizations, is best put into words by Mr. Derek Godfrey of Molson Breweries, who states that "the people at ANO take the time to analyze a problem over the phone before rushing out to help. This means that when they actually come to our office they are prepared to resolve the problem. Our down time is reduced, thus our productivity is enhanced."

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The Security Support Program also extends to local and wide area networks. Our fully qualified support staff offer not only support for existing and new equipment, but we also offer installation and training for Novell„Banyan Vines, and LANtastic. So, whether your starting our with one PC, or twenty PC's, we will be there every step of the way.

"Service and support have been the pillars by which ANO stands on.", states Mr. Ken Wong, Service Manager at ANO's head office in Richmond, B.C., "without service we cannot expect customer satisfaction, and without customer satisfaction we would become a memory like many of the discount operations we' ve seen in the past."

Connect and Security, two support programs to fit both your budget and your needs.

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AST Research Premium II 386sx/20 The most recent "hot" product to hit the streets this year has been personal workstations powered by Intel's new 80386sx-20 microprocessor.

In keeping with a commitment to offering the latest in PC technology, AST Research is proud to announce a new member of its Premium familythe AST Premium II 386sx/20.

Built around AST's patent pending CUPID-32 architecture, this new power house offers a built-in migration path to allow performance upgrades as your needs grow.

CUPID ARCHITECTURE In a nutshell, CUPID-32 (Comp letely U n i v ersal Processor I / O Design) isolates those components most likely to change with technology (microprocessor and math coprocessor) on a replaceable processor casd. Buying into this technology leaves the option open to a simple upgrade to the next level of processing â&#x20AC;&#x201D;be it386/25 or 33, 486/25 or 33, or even the 586 (when available). â&#x20AC;˘Q

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Todd Drahoff, manager of ANO's Corporate Systems Group, exclaims that "One of the main reasons we chose AST for our clients is the commitment AST has shown to the future. They are realists. They know that since technology changes, and users needs change, so should their computers be able to adapt to the times."

M AXI M U M E XPANDABI LI T Y Designed to offer full expandability, AST built a Super VGA adapter, mouse port, floppy controller, hard drive host adapter, and the I/O ports right into the oard. Freeing up expansio'n slots for LAN boards, modems, mainframe emulation, and specialty cards is just another way AST is looking out for your future.

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MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK There's a lot of power packed into the AST Premium II 386sx20.

Besides a dedicated CPU b o ard loaded with the 20mhz,80386sx processor, two full megabytes of ram, sockets for up to 16MB of memory and support for80386sx math coprocessor,you'll also find AST's cache memory architecturefor increased performance.

"Since the inception of the Intel SX processor," Drahoff explains, "we have seen a massive migration in the business community away from 286 based systems. A c cording to our clients, they see the SX as a more stable technology t hat p e r fectly compliments applications such as Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.1 and Microsoft's Windows 3.0. In our opinion this new offering from AST will become the benchmark for workhorse personal computers!"

H APPY A N N I V E R S A R Y !

Apart from this new release, Fall 1990 also marks the 10th anniversary for AST Research. Way back in 1980 AST was a pioneer in PC expansion technology. Over the nextdecade they have maintained their commitment to expandability.

Such productsas theirCUPID-32 architecture, h i g h p e r f o r m a nce memory expansion boards, PC-toMainframe links, network interfaces, and the development of what we now know as theLIM EMS 4.0 expanded memoryprotocol,provethattheyare truly the leader in extending the life span of personal computers.

Congratulations AST for a job well done, and our best wishes in your next 10 years!

NOTE: A lorig 'with this intro--. 'duction AST has also announced,. substantial price reductions on~" its Premium 386sx/16. >'

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High performance is the name of the game here. This line packs premium power into a well designed desktop case. Five drive bays mean optimum expandability now or in

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CANON BJ-10e • Only $575.00 • T ruly Portable Less Than 4.5 Lbs. • V ery Quiet • H igh Quality Output

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NOVEMBER 1990 ANOVATION

Attention all Mac desktop and portable users! Announcing the affordable alternative to high priced Apple printers. With GDT Softwork's JetLink Express, you can now quickly and painlessly hook your Mac into any of Canon's powerful Bubblejet or Laser printers.

JetLink Express is as simple to install as it is to use. Package options are available for both types of printers, which include the necessary cables and software.

Compatible with the Macintosh Plus or higher, operating under System 6.0.2 or higher, you can take advantage of high quality output at a more than attractive price.

Mac portable users will definitely appreciate the portability of the Cannon BJ-10e which offers exceptional resolution in a

light weight package.

More sophisticated CAD users, or those wishing for peace and quiet even while they print, the Canon BJ-130e promotes

superb text and graphics at less than 45dB - in other words it' s quiet.

Not to be left out, Canon's laser printers will leave you breathless. Whether your needs are small and compact (the LBP4), or big and complex (the dual bin/duplex LBP-S111 T), Canon has a printer for you.

Designed with strict adherence to Apples interface guidelines, JetLink Express will work wonders with whatever your application. Including but not limited to PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, MacDraw II, WordPerfect, MacProject, Wingz, and

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