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Beamscope is currently a leading distributor in Canada and its signing on with Aztech will now make the products even more accessible on a nationwide basis.

Data General building Pentium PCs in Canada The desktop computers will feature Pentiums running from 75 to 133MHz as well as the latest Intel Triton chipset, 8MB RAM, 256KB cache, two 16550 high speed serial ports, EPP/ECP parallel port, four ISA and four PCI expansion slots, FLASH BIOS with plug and play support for Windows 95.

Customerscan choose casestyle,CPU speed, memory, storage and display options as well as networking and multimedia. The computers have a 3 year warranty. Prices startat$2,200 and take 5-7 days to be built.

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It currently operates13 locations across the country, generating sales with a superb annual growth.

ANO Office Automation was ranked as the 33rd fastest growing company in Canada by PROFIT Magazine outof 100 companies in 1993, and in 1994, it was ranked byrevenue growth as B.C. 's 24th fastest growing company inthe previous five years.

Gigabyte introduces the GA-586AVS "All-in-one Mainboard" Gigabyte is one of the first mainboard manufacturers to introduce the "all-in-one" Pentium Processor mainboard with a super VO, enhanced IDE and Fast PCI Display. This new technology eliminates the need to purchase an extra video card because a video module is built right onto the board.

The GA-586 AVS features an on board PCI VGA (SiS 6205) with Shared Memory Architecture, video performance upto 45 fps using MPEG software, an Intel 3.3V Pentium 75-200 Mhz microprocessor, 3 Master PCI slots, 3 ISA slots, a SiS 551X and 6205 chipset, 256KB/512KB/1MB Write-BackAsynch. end cache and a Pipeline cache module on board.

Additional features include true plug and play (Winbond 83787), a maximum of 512MB DRAM, 2 channels enhanced IDE port on board, green function support and a flash AWARD BIOS. For more information, call ('800) 863-6722or (800) 852-5039.

Franchising is known as one of the safest forms of independent business ownership. With ANO Office Automation,franchising can be one of the most prosperous.

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Sceptre flat panel screen for vertical apps 2" thick LCD flat panel screen weighs 2.6 lbs and has zero radiation.

Flicker and static free with sizes up to 11.3" diagonally. Screen can be wall mounted or base mounted and uses less space than CRT monitors.

The TFT display is larger than others on the market, 640 x 480 resolution and 800 x 600 VGA with a response time of 40ms. Two alternatives are available in the dual scan monitors: an 11.3 with a 640 x 480 VGA resolution and a 11.2" with a resolution of 800 x 600 SVGA. Both Dual Scan LCD monitors have a response time of 150ms. All LCD monitors are CCFT backlit.

Sceptre monitors are supported by the new PCI bus and VESA/LB cardsand therefore able to operate atpeak performance. The VGA card is able to simultaneously support both the LCD monitor and an external CRT monitor with a resolution of 1280 x 1024. Contrast ratio for the TFT is 150:1 and 20:1 for the dual scan. Brightness and contrast are digitally controlled. SRP starts at US$1,495. The panels are aimed at high end vertical markets.

For more information, contact Sceptre at (818) 369-3698 or Lapro Marketing in Canada at(604) 244-7798.

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Company Background Sidus Systems Inc. was established in 1983. In less than a decade, Sidus has become the leading Canadian custom manufacturer, systems integrator and distributor of high-end computers, peripherals and network products, with global sales approaching $200 million.

The company is established in four main businesses: Distribution - the core business focusing on a broad range of complimentary products, such as monitors, hard-disk drives, network peripherals; Custom manufacturing of Sidus-brand products for government and corporate end users; Custom manufacturing of private label products for original equipment manufacturers(OEM) and for other computer companies which includes system integration; Multimedia - providing a wealth of products which compliments the other three areas of business. With a staff of over 200 people serving our customers from over 12 offices across Canada and the U.S., Sidus is also well established in the European arena.

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Sceptre's new monitor line Sceptre's new WINplay series of monitors met the VESA Display Data Channel (DDC) protocol requirements set forth in MS Windows 95. The plug and play WINplay series has 14, 15, 17 and 21 inch DDCI and DDC2B displays. They have VLMF and MPRII standards, on-screen display withdigitalcontrols. The 15" features 1024 x 768, 72Hz refresh rate and.28 dot pitch.

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Themanufacturer's SRP is US$199.95, street pricing could hover around US$139.

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Fujitsu releases Windows 95 keyboard The Fujitsu FKB8725 is an 104-key membrane keyboard with 3 new keys for the Windows 95 OS. The new keys are located adjacent to the left and right of the spacebar. An application key, identified by a menu icon, functions like the right mouse button in apps that makeuseof it.AleftandrightWindowskey, which have a Windows logo icon on them, activate the Windows 95 Task Manager user interface.

GB brings portable multimedia to notebook users GB Micro is shipping the EXP CDS-940, a portable CD-ROM player with sound capability from EXP Computer Inc. The CDS-940 consists of a 2x CD-ROM interfaced to a PCMCIA Type I card, providing a connection to any notebook with such a slot. The unit does not need an external power source. It also has SoundNote, a small sound modulewhich connects to the PCMCIA i n terface card,

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Pressing the application key will not disturb the current mousepointerposition. The left Windows key sets focus to the Windows 95 user interface.

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Daewoo Introduces 17" Monitor Daewoo Electronics has introduced a new 17" monitor. The CMC-1703B features, improved display and a newly designed bezel with extensive user controls.

The CMC-1703B is a 17" flat screen monitor featuring 0.28mm Dot Pitch and Invar Shadow Mask picture tube with viewable size of 16.2". Digital control OSD, VESA and NUTEK compliant DPMS, MPRII are standard with the unit and optional TCO is available. It' s user controllable functions include Contrast, Brightness, Horizontal Position/Size, Vertical Position/Size, T r apezoid, D e gaussing, Pincushion, Colour Control, Memory Recall, Mode Display, Self Diagnosis and 16 factory presetand 25 userdefinable mode memory. The CMC-1703B comes with the compliance to VESA Display Data Channel (DDC) 1/2B s pecification designed t o p r o v ide f u l l compatibility in a plug-and-play environment and is compatible with Mac system.

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The Bondwell Pro notebooks are available with 530 megabytes to 1.3 gigabytes of storage space.

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Megalmage introduces the MegaBook 770 and the new Pentium MegaBook 880 The MegaBook 770 multimedia notebook was designed to run today's most demanding multimedia applications.

Available in 10.4" TFT active or STN passive LCD colour screens, the MegaBook utilizes 1MB of local bus video and provides simultaneous video display on both the LCD and any external device. This notebook offers optional processing power with the Intel DX4/100 microprocessor, storage (featuring 540MB, 810MB or 1.3GB removable hard drives) and expandability (from 4MB to 36MB).

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3D Microcomputers announces the introduction of 6 IPC NB/OS notebooks. The systems are priced ranging from the IPC 575 at $2999.00 to the IPC 5100t at $3900.00. All units are shipped standard with an Intel Pentium CPU, 8MB RAM, 16-bit sound cards, PCMCIA Type II & III slots, Track Stick pointing device, 1MB local bus video, External SCSI Port, Rechargeable NiMH battery, carrying bag, car cigarette adapter.

The new EzBookSx86 series notebook computers offerhigher performance than the 486 DX4/100 based models but are comparably priced. Estimated street prices beginning at $2,699.

The new notebooks provide write-back cache support to perform higher CPU benchmarks, along with 8 MB RAM expandable to 32MB and an 810MB HD plus many other highly advanced features.

Contact 3D Microcomputers at(905) 472-8822.

The EzBook Sx86 notebooks have 10.4" diagonal TFT active matrix color displays that support 640 x 480 resolutions, and can display 262,000 colors. When attached to an external monitor, EzBooks can display 1024 x 768 resolution at 256 colors.

A slide out allows users to swap drives easily. It also features built-in Sound Blaster Pro-compatible 16-bit stereo sound card along with a built-in speaker and mic, 3.5" 1.44MB internal floppy drive, 2 PCMCIA slots (one Type II and one Type III), EzGlide touch pad pointing device. EzBooks come with Windows 95 and a carrying case. Options include PCMCIA 2x CDROM drive ($299 SRP), PCMCIA fax/modem and Ethernet card.

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410CDT weighs 7.5 lbs with CD-ROM module and battery and Options are 4x CD-ROM reader which 410CS is 7.0 lbs with floppy and battery. The notebooks have can be swapped out for floppy drive, 2 Accupoint pointing devices and 2 stacked PC Card slots (accepting stereo speakers and integrated 16-bit 2 Type II or 1 Type III PC Cards). Built-in infrared communications. audio that supports .WAV, MIDI and Sound Blaster Pro sound files.

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There are additional solutions, such as external or PCMCIA hard drives that are available in many capacities. Many external media devices connect via the parallel port To get the fastest transfer rate, the notebook should have an ECP compatible parallel port; a standard port only transfers 150kb/s and an EPP (enhanced parallel port) transfers300kb/s. ECP isdesigned for external devicesand may transferat1,000kb/s.

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RAM is 4MB expandable to 20MB. Power Management features include normal, doze, sleep and suspend.

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Sceptre High speed Notebook The new SoundX Series 4000 modularized, high-speed notebook uses the Pentium P54CSLM 120/133MHz processor and 11.3" active matrix screen with 800 x 600 resolution, built-in removable 4x CDROM which can be swapped with floppy or battery. HD is swapable with expansion to I gig. 72-pin DIMMs expand from 8MB to 40MB. Keyboard has Windows 95 keys and a touchpad with palm rest. Sound Blaster compatible 16bit sound, lithium ion battery with 4.5 hours of run time. Docking station can be hot docked and has PCI slots, 3 audio ports, MIDI and PS/2 connector.

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Colorpassive screens have had many improvements since the Single Scan Passive Matrix came out and now approach the brilliance of active matrix screens. Dual Scan screens redraw in two different directions simultaneously, producinga fasterrefresh and clearerpicture.A faint horizontal line in the middle of the screen, caused by the dual scan process, will be apparent until the display warms up. The Triple twist Pneumatic is a better Dual Scan screen. DSTN screenshave large viewing areas and greater contrast, which is better than other Dual Scan screens. DSTN screens are approaching the clarity of active matrix displays and it is sometimes

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TFT screens are made up of 307,200 transistors, each with its own RGB and light source. Active matrix have superior display quality, but also have higher power drain as the computer must drive each of the transistors separately. TFT technology is expensive as there is a high defect rate in production. Many entry level, even brand named,notebooks use TFT screen seconds that may be comparable to a good quality DSTN screen. The TFT seconds usually have a few dead pixels which show up when you display a full white page. The defect will appear as a few black spots.

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Impaq Technology is shipping Eurocom's newest notebook, Model 5400, a fast Pentium 133 with PCI bus architecture. The Eurocom 5400 offers features including built-in CD-ROM, 2MB video RAM, 256KB of external L2 "Writeback" memory cache (expandable to 1MB), cost saving memory expansion via standard DIMM modules and removable hard drive based on enhanced PCI IDE technology at a capacity of up to 1.3GB. The Eurocom 5400 even includes a game/MIDI port.

Pacific Royal has introduced the Smartbook Compact computer. Featuring a 10.3" color DSTN color, easy upgrades using standard DIMM memory modules, a removable hard drive and local bus video in a 4.8 pound package. The DIMM module was developed in 1994 by Hitachi, designed specifically fornotebook computer.Th e 4.8 pound Smartbook Compact is 486VL-bus system that includes a PCMCIA type 2.0 or 3.0 slot, integrated floppy, front-centered 19mm trackball and NiMH battery.

An ergonomic design includes wrist-rest and regular sized 18mm keys.

Eurocom 5400 is CD-ROM, voice and sound ready, incorporating internal CD-ROM and 16-bit stereo sound system with FM synthesizer, 2 built-in speakers, a microphone, external mike jack and audio output jack.

List price for a Eurocom 5400, 10.4" TFT Active Colour with Pentium 75 CPU, CD-ROM, 8MB RAM, 540MB Hard Drive $5295.

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The Cirrus logic CL-GD7543 VGA controller provides the following features: BitBLT GUI acceleration, true-color capability, support for 600x800 LCD's, mixed voltage operation for low power consumption and support for MotionVideo Acceleration (MVA) for playback of Video for Windows AVI. The unit's 24-bit true-colour RAMDAC video controller supports up to 1280x1024x256 colours on an interlaced monitor and 1024x768x256 colours on a non-interlaced monitor (or up to 16 million colours at 640x480).

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Lithium ion batteries are charged in series, one cell at a time. On average, with a twelve cell battery, the first cells are damaged by the time the last cells are charged. To over come this,

Jetbook CD5(F 1 j Pacific Royal is introducing the etbook CD5, a 586PCI multimedia otebook that has built-in CD ROM, 16it sound and an Optional MPEG module or CD movies. The Jetbook CD5 is esigned to allow the user to use the CD ROM, floppy and battery simultaneously, with no swapping. It is ufilizing the new DIMM standard memory modules and will support the Pentium 133mhz processor. Available in a three year limited warranty and proven express service by Pacific Royal.

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Ultinet PVT/M Pentium Notebook Specs: 75 or 90MHz Pentium processor, VESA local bus video and 32bit removable HD, multimedia notebook, 8MB RAM expandable to 40MB, builtin floppy, 640 x 480 DSTN color 9.4" or 10.3" 256 colors, TFT color 9.4" 256 colors, built-in speaker and mic, 16-bit sound, Sound Blaster compatible, PC Cards - 2 Type H or 1 Type HI slots, 200 pin VESA bus docking station connector, 19mm trackball pointing device, weight under 6.5 lbs.

For more information, contact: (416) 862-2064.

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By Gary Dunn t's not exactly a battlefield out there, but all of us from time to fime feel the pinch of increas g competition.

The strategies we rely on to protect our positions reflect the level of competition, and our sophistication in dealing with it. Economic barriers to competition are increasingly being augmented by claims of legal rights.

The approachof Western law has been to expand the concept of property rights to knowledge.The "creator"oftheknowledge isbestowed with an exclusive right to use the knowledge for a fixed period of time. In return, the creator publicly discloses the knowledge. The rationale for giving this monopoly is simple — when the property right expires, the information is available for public use.

Not surprisingly, this has translated into a blossoming awareness of knowledge based property rights, commonly referred to as intellectual property. Patent, copyright, trademark and industrial design laws are well known rights. But did you know that there is a fifth type - trade secrets?

Trade secretscan also be protected by other forms of intellectual property rights. For example, obtaining a patent may be an alternative to relying on trade secret protection.

To qualify as a trade secret, the information must have some value to the person possessing it, the information cannot be widely known, and some effort must be made to keep the information confidential.

contract between parties to give rise to protection. The famous Canadian case of LAC Mineralsv.Corona w asdecided on the basis that information given to LAC was disclosed on the understanding that it would be used

Therearepros and cons to each choice.If you rely on keeping your knowledge secret, your One of the most famous trade secrets is the protection would last as long as the information recipe for the soft drink "Coke". In the manufac- met the criteria of a trade secret. If you obtained a turing and distribution business, trade secrets patent, the property right would expire in twenty might include customer lists, mailing lists, busi- years and your secrets would be published as part ness plans, drawings of devices, and internal busi- of the patent process. ness policies such as pricing and estimating.

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only for the purpose of deciding if the two companies would jointly develop a proposed mine. When LAC acted on the information and obtained property which would later form part of the mine, Corona sued claiming ownership of the property. The Supreme Court of Canada awarded the property, which by now had been turned into a mine, to Corona provided that they paid LAC's development costs.

All of us at some point have been asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Should you be using one too? The answer is most emphatically yes.

All businesses have some information that would harm their competitive position if it became public knowledge.

Most compelling, if the knowledge is made public, it can never regain the status of a trade secret. For those businesses considering patent protection, a non-disclosure agreement is a must when disclosing information about the invention before the patent is granted.

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A managementplan isa key component of a strategy to protect intellectual property rights. The first step in any plan is to identify what information is important to your business.

If (I) identification is followed up with (2) an examination of how the information is stored, (3) who has access to it, (4) how is it marked as confidential, and (5) how is it used, you might well identify where remedial action is required.

Your employees are a key element in the planning process. Often they know more than anyone about the company's trade secrets.

Common outcomes of the planning process are restricting availability of information to a need to know basis, educating your employees regarding disclosure and centralized or controlled storage of information. The planning processcan also help you become clear as to what information gives you a significant competitive advantage. Learning more about your business can never hurt!

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Day to day business activities also give rise to many opportunities to unwittingly make secrets public knowledge. When you apply for a government grant, a loan, provide information to a manufacturer of your product, contract out research and development, or just provide plain old information to a prospective business partner, your secrets can be lost to you by becoming public knowledge. The careful use of a nondisclosure agreement might save the day.

Many areas of the United States have legislation dealing with trade secrets. Caution is advised when doing business in these areas to ensure that your non-disclosure agreement complies with local legislation. This is in addition to any agreement about what laws apply to the contract - an important point in this age of globalcommerce.

Returning to the home front, if an employee takes your secret information, you have remedies that are based in employment law.

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The component bus of a Pentium processor is designed to interface to an external L2 cache and includes features to optimize CPU-to-cache data transfers. In contrast, the first Pentium P r o pr o c essor includes a 256KB L2 cache in the same package and the CPU communicates with its L2 cache using a private internal bus. The component bus of a Pentium Pro processor is designed to interface to a cache coherent memory bus and includes features to optimize cache-to-memory data transfers.

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At what voltage does it operate?

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By Sean Elrington ver the last few years, Frame Relay technology h a s b e c o m e th e transmission medium of choice for companies replacing expensive dedicated leased lines. Unlike leased lines, which are private, point-to-point connections, Frame Relay sends your data through a public data network.

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The idea of public networks devoted solely to data is not new - in the 1970s the telephone companies introduced the X.25 standard as a way of sharing public data networks. The trunk lines in those days were nowhere near as reliable as they are today, so the X.25 standard included a lotofoverhead forerrorchecking and correction.

This was done at each switch as the data packet traveled through the network. The protocol required a lot of extra information sent with each packet to ensure that it arrived at the desfination intact.

Frame Relay takesadvantage ofm odern telephonelines'low errorratesand leaves errordetection to the computers at either end of the link which actually receive the data. If a packet is corrupted in transit, the applications running on your computer will detect it and request that the sending computer re-send the packet. This means that Frame Relay does not need the elaborate error checking mechanisms of the old X.25 net~- works and is able to handle much more data more quickly.

Frame Relay is very scaleable and therefore very cost effective. You buy a Committed Information Rate (CIR) Rom the telephone company which is the amount of data that your carrier guarantees will always be able to get through the network. Even though you might have a 56 Kbps line into the cloud, you might only need an average throughput of 16 Kbps through the cloud so you pay onlyfor the amount of bandwidth you actually use.

The Frame Relay cloud is not terribly busy in Canada so you can 'burst' up to 56 Kbps and still take a chance that your data will get through. When a Frame Relay packet enters the network there is a bit called the 'discard eligible' (DE) bit which is switched on or off.

If the cloud is temporarily busy, any packets you send inexcess of your CIR are marked DE and are discarded by the network. This

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If you want to connect your LAN to a Frame Relay network you will need a router.

Virtually every router on the market provides integrated Frame Relay software support, however, there are some important differences among them. You might want to look for a router which supports Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (FECN) and Backward Explicit Congestion Notification (BECN). FECN and BECN are packets sent by the cloud to your router telling it that the cloud is congested. Your router should slow down the rate at which it is pumping data into the cloud, and if it doesn' t, then it will continue to pour out data which may be earmarked to be discarded.

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Recently, severalvendorshavecome to m arket with 'voice over frame' units which allow When choosing a Frame Relay router you you to use your data network to also carry voice shouldalso look foran easy to confi gure inter- traffic.A company with an under-used Frame face, a fairly fast processor and a migration path Relay network can save a lot of money if the to ATM (asynchronous transfer mode). Frames sparebandwidth isused to send packetsofvoice The savings can be hugeforcompanies with used in Frame Relay vary in size depending on data. the protocol being used. ATM frames are the international networks and lots of overseas telesame size regardless of the protocol. Just as stan- phone lines. Because voice traffic is time sensidardizedcontainersmake shippingmore efficient, tive (ie. we can't have large gaps in the middle of standardized data packets can move through the a sentence) a voice over frame unit must have a network more quickly. ATM holds a lot of prom- fairly largebufferand fastprocessorto avoid deise and you will want to have a migration path lays or latency inthe transmission. Look for more from Frame Relay to ATM as it becomes avail- of these type of products to hit the market soon. able.

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Also by taking advantage of the performance of thePentium 75 chip, hardware manufacturersare integrating hardware accelerated components, building in MPEG decoder chips and putting speakers and microphones right into the lid of the notebook.

"One of the big programs at Intel is to see what we can deliver with the added performance," says Doug Cooper,architecture managerfor Intel Canada. "We are taking the available MIPS in the laptop and enabling functions by simply adding a new piece of software to the system. The disnnction between hardware and software blurs."

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come out simultaneously in the laptop. But that's not reality," says Alok Sama, president of Impulse Computers, which only sells portable technology. Because notebooks use batteries, power consumption affects the pace at which new technology can be adapted to the mobile arena.

Battery technology, especially lithium ion batteries, is allowing the transition of features like multimedia and CD-ROM to the mobile environment. With lithium ion batteries you get about double the battery life of nickel metal hydride.

As batteries get lighter and last longer, more components are put into laptops, which use more power. Three hours is still the time limit that users can reliably expect from their notebooks.

Sony is a major supplier of lithium ion batteries. Sony recently had a fire in its lithium ion plant which may affect the supply for awhile.

Ergonomics Notwithstanding the added features, even the most loaded notebooks are staying within the range of 6.5 to 8 pounds. The real weight barriers are being broken in the ultra portable sub-notebook segments which might weigh as little as 4.5 pounds without losing any functionality.

With fewer movirig parts, less cleaning and higher accuracy, touch pad and pointing stick devices, rather than mouse or trackball, have become the dominant pointing device on new laptops. In a mobile environment you never know if you' re going to have a place to put your mouse. Think of how cramped the seat trays are on many aeroplanes.

Toshiba, Compaq, AST, and IBM, tier one of the mobile computing industry, are using the pointing or track stick. NEC, Texas Instruments and Epson opted for the track pad.

Michael Garbe, the Canadian representative for Cirque GlidePoint track pad says toggle pointers are tougher to use than track pads since from the time we said, "it wasn't me, it was him", the finger is the pointing device we understand best.

Eventually, industry observers suggest, the easiest way to point will be to touch the screen.

Trackpads are gaining popularity because it has become a fashion statement, says Alok Sama."Notebooks are like clothes. You take them with you and work on them in a public environment when other people are around."

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Apple with its popular PowerBooks was really the first to incorporate track pads and palm rests concentrating seriously on the look and feel of the mobile product.

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Especially in the mobile world, they found, comfort makes a big difference in the accep~ce a product. "If it's not comfortable, you don't use it," says Sue Belanger, mobile product manager for Apple Canada. "It has to be comfortable whether its on your lap, on a desk, or if you' re lying on a bed in a hotel room. It has to feel the same."

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takenfora telecommunications convention or an Internet congress. Getting on the Internet means usinga modem to connect to a remote computer. This trend in computing can be categorised as Information in Motion. The very nature of mobile computing has always constituted remote connectivity.

Cellular, infra-red and other forms of wireless communication, as well as copper wire land line, are ways mobile computers interconnect. Although not all the applications that use these capabilities are there yet, users are loading them on their computers preparing for when it does happen. Today thirty seven per cent of all laptops are shipped with infrared capability. By this time next year that proportion will grow to well over eighty per cent. IBM says every ThinkPad it ships from now on will have infra-red.

Infra-red allows multiple devices to share the same equipment. So you could, for instance, have a desktop, a laptop and a PDA all using one printer.

Computing by remote control is becoming increasingly attractive to people who travel or telecommute. Using a modem and Norton pcANYWHERE software you can work just as if you were actually sitting at the PC you are calling, meaning that an entire application or database doesn't have to be downloaded to the remote computer. It brings the McLuhanesque idea of the global village that much closer.

Portable computers have been cellular ready for some time now, but until now, users have not taken advantage of the capability. With the digital evolution of cell phones, and the development of Personal Communication Service networks, the transmission of data by cellular phone becomes more feasible and reliable.

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Toshiba's newest product, the 120 MHz Pentium based Tecra 700CT, is a full multimedia machine. With a 1.2 gigabyte hard drive, integratedquad speed CD-ROM and stereo speakers it is as sophisticated as any desktop. "With more and more applications being written for CDROMs, operating systems delivered only on CDROM, and data storage stored on CD-ROM, there is no doubt CD technology will really boom," Mr. Grossman says.

Many sales professionals use their notebooks to make presentations. By adding sound and full motion video the mobile computer becomes an essential and powerful sales tool.

Bigger and more interactive databases are becoming andmore readily accessible on CDROM.

Han4hel4s eompanlon io oiher pCs technological breakthrough we waiting for is battery development," says Sharp Electronics of Canada mobile communicationsproduct manager, Larry Breakwell.

"Battery development is slowly developing and will always be an issue for these hendheld devices."

Priced at around the $600 range they allow customers to coimnunicate via cellular for e-mail, messaging and on-line services.

They can connectviainfra-red orcable to a desktop for file management and backup. Infra-red also allows computers to communicate with non-computing devices.

Publicpay phones now being developed have infra-red connectors built in so if you takeinfra-red ready handheld ornotebook you dial and point it at the phone you don*t need an acoustic coupler or external modein to transmit data. The next generation of Personal Communication Service phones, like the latest Nokia phone, have infra-red and the data card built into the base of the phone so all you have to do is point and shoot.

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value products, without any of the bells and whistles like multimedia and CD-ROM, range in price from $2500 to $3000.

Durability, toughness and fair price still appeal to the smaller independent company, the SOHO market and students.

Modern mobile sales professionals, who makes up the second market, are typically looking for high-powered features like multimedia, CD-ROM technology, motion video architecture, connectivity, and a docking station. Power needs transcend megabytes and explode into the realm of gigabytes and have put the Pentium 75 into the midrange of products. All this is available for between $4000 and $10,000.

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These used to be called the sub-notebook "By naming it that, it killed the market," Alok Sama explains. "Anything sub means less. Less to a lot of people means price. In fact sub-note books were less in everything except price Sub-notebooks have been reinvented. Be cause of the other new trends, they are now slim mer without sacrificing any capabilities. Though they aremaking a comeback, there are fewer

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Markham, Ontario. The company is currently Quan brings over ten years of management, setting up its Montreal sales office to serve the sales and marketing experience in the computer Quebec andEastern markets of Canada distribution industry to EMPAC. He was formerly Last December 17, 1994, Supercom was a Regional Account Manager with Ingram selected by the Financial Post as one of Micro's Consumer Markets Division. Prior to Canada's 50 Best Managed Private Companies that, Quan was the Director of Marketing at G lobelle Canada for3 years.

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Aztech New Media gets new VP Brian Austin is now VP, North American Sales for Aztech New Media a CD-ROM publisher. Austin spent 5 years at Leading Edge Computers serving most recently as VP sales He reports directly to Alan Bass, VP and GM. With placements in several leading computer retailers like Computer City CompuUSA, Electronic Boutiques, MediaPlay, MicroCenter and others, Austin's experience and account relationships and understanding of the retail market will help put more of Aztech's products into other retail outlets

SGI gets director of m a rketing Rich Gaasenbeek hasbeen appointed Director of Marketing of Silicon Graphics Canada Limited in an announcement last Nov. 9, 1995 by Dave Black, president of Silicon Graphics Canada Gaasenbeek previously was with Data G eneral Canada where he helped the operation achieve the highest revenue growth of any international subsidiary of Data General Before that he was with HP where he spent 10 years in sales management and marketing

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Richmond, B.C. Tel:(604) 270-8561 Fax: (604) 270-4953

Advance Medal Computer 75 Konrad Crescent, Unit C, Markham, Onc L3R 8T8 Toll-Free:(800) 206-2724

Acbel Canada 5500 Tomken Rd. Unit 8, Mississauga, Ont. L4ie 2Z4

TeL(905) 946-9660 Fax: (905) 946-9663

Tel: (905) 602-7866, (905) 602-7871

An international manufacturer of peripheral cards, cases, power supplies and keyboards, and a Canadian distributor of a variety of imported computer parts.

ACP Marketing Inc. ¹I20-13751 Mayfiekl Place, Richmond B.C. V6V 2G9

Agfa Division Bayer Inc. 77Belfield Road, Etobicoke, Ont. M9W I G6

Tel: (604) 278-2811 Fax: (604) 278-1211 Toll Free:1-800-567-7227 A distributor of computer accessories, disk cases, power bars, furniture, mouse pads, printers, screen filters, disk drive cleaners. Wholesale and retail accounts only.

ADAM Peripherals Inc. 265 Hood Roatt, Unit 3, Markham, Ont. L3R 4N3

Tel: (905) 305-1277x 305 Fax:(905) 305-1281 Intcineti info ead am Pex corn Approximately 900 different products from thirty vendors are distributed through ADAM' s warehouse and sales office located in Marham, Ontario.

Tel: (800) 268-1331, ext. 4032 Fax: (416) 241-5409 Agfa is a leading worldwide manufacturer of imaging products and systems. Through its Graphic Systems business group, Agfa markets a range of electronic and photographic prepress imaging systems and supplies to customers in the graphic arts, printing and publishing industries. Products include a wide range of desktop scanners for home/office, publishing and graphics applications; digital cameras; and the DuoProof digital proofer. Some of Agfa's leading desktop scanners arethe entry-level StudioScan, the new StudioScan Ilsi and the award-winning Arcus II.

47338Fremont Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538 TeL'(510) 770-5700

2115Ringtoood Ave., SanJose,CA 95131 Tel:(408) 944-0100

Alaris is marketing motherboards, video cards, computer systems, monitors and NexGen Nx586 CPU.

Althon Inc. 251 Amber St., Unit 5-6, Markham, ONL3R 3J7

Advance Integration Research (Canada)

Tel:(905) 513-1221

7575Thtns-Canadienne, Unit500, St-Launmt Quebec H4TI V6

Althon is featuring ATI video, accelerator, multimedia, and communicauon products. New MAC Innovision monitors

Tel: (514) 956-0400 Fax: (514) 956-0323 A.I.T. is a m a n ufacturer o f h i g h p e r f o rmance motherboards offering 486 and pertium in various configurations of ISA, EISA, PCI, gc VL architectures, intecrated IDE/ SCSI-2 I/O.

have been added and are available in a variety of bundles with ATI extra-fast accelerators.

88 Konrad Cres.Maikham, Ont L3R 8T7

Tel: (905) 479-1443 Fax: (905) 479-1834 A PC manufacturer/distributor of high performance PC systems, notebooks and peripherals. Leading product lines

Tel:(416) 8975665 Fax: (416) 897-6236 Anixter is a global provider of quality products and services to the networking and internetworking marketplace.

ANO Office Automation Tel:(604) 871-9500 Fax: (604) 874-8808

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255 Mar)anon Blvd. West, Mississauga, Ont, L5R 3G3

Tel:(905) 507-3278 Fax:(905) 507-0586 Distributes, markets, and services its full line of high performance desktop, server, and notebook computers through distributors and direct dealers across Canada.

AVS Technologies Inc. 2100 ykansCanada Hwy., Montrea, QC H9P 2N4 TeL(514) 683-1771 Fax:(514) 683-5307 A Canadian consumer electronics supplier selling to retailers, distributors and wholesalers. The lines carried include a number of well known brand names in the electronics industry. AVS's main business in the computer industry is with TDK data storage media.

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Branch oJ(net Vancouver: TeL(604) 821-0000

Birde Marketing

Is an office automation franchise based in Vancouver, BC. ANO sets up and trains potential computer centre owners in key demographic locations around the country. Each computer centre is a turn key operation selling stand alone and networked solutions.

Distributor of POS printers, cash drawers, customer displays, keyboards, dot matrix and thermal printers, bar code and card readers to the POS market across Canada.

Branchofficers Kanata Ont. Te L(613) ' 592-5411Fax: (613) 592-5415 Vancouver, B.C. Tel: (604) 431-0426Fax: (604) 431-0427

BOCA Research Inc. 577 BurnamthorPe, P.O. Box 336, EtobicokeA Etobicoke,

OnL M9C IJO Tel: (416) 695-2999 Fax:(416) 695-1991

ANO provides hardware and software solutions from personal computing to corporate and institutional installa-

number arid company'jmfi'le to: '; """""CCW Sourcilig D&ctory Fax: (fy04) 739-$$89

The company's productsenhance the performance and increase the functionality of personal computers.

They enable personal computers to be linked through local area networks and share hardware, databases and

tions through its 13 branches across Canada.

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Publisher retains righ to fest ter d¹fsst tstsst company for antJrectrots.

Tel:(416) 213-8600 Fax: (416) 213-8602 LANtastic from Artisoft is the easy, affordable and safe networking solution for small and growing businesses.

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TeL'(905) 477-7722 Fax: (905) 477-7813

380 West 2nd Ave. Vancouver, B.C.

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TeL(905) 731-1928 Fax: (905) 731-6875 A distributor of computer components and peripherals.

Also custom-builds systems to specific configurations.

Distributes to dealers, retailers, VARs across Canada with major concentration in Central Canada and Maritimes.

111 Esna Park Drive, Unit I, Markham, Ont. L3R IH2

Anixter 33 City Centre Drive, Suite 510, Mismsauga, Ont. L5B 2NS

Advance Interface Electronic Inc.

45A West Wilmot St. Unit 15, Richmond Hill, Ont. L4B IKI Toll-Free:(800) 461-8079

Alaris, Inc.

ADI Systems Inc.

ADI is marketing new digital monitors, notebooks, CD ROM drives and 64-bit PCI graphics accelerators and 16bit stereo sound cards.

Asia-Link Computer Inc.

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Artisoft Inc. 10 Carlton Court, Unit 590, Etobicoke, Ont. M9W 6L2

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Brother International Corp.

I Rue Hotel De Ville, Do(lard-Des-Ormeaux,Que. H9B 3H6

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CiMSYS Canada Inc. TeL(905) 472-6904

Unct 10, 73 Railside Rd., North Ymk, Ont. M3A IB2

nation wide.

CIMSYS provides software for sales force automation featuring the Action+Plus contact management system.

The software integrates database management, word processing, electronic fax, e-mail, mail merge, bid/quote, order processing, invoicing, and inventory into one seamless software package.

TollPee: 1-800-265-2870 Tel:(416) 444-3100 Fax: (416) 444-4144

BTI Technologies Inc. 3757Jacombs Road, Suite 255, Richmond B.C. V6V2R3

TeL(604) 244-8100 Fax:(604) 273-1600 Order: 1-800-767-4038 A distributor of Multi Express Business System Series Software used in industrial automation, point~fwate, financial online transaction processing and communications.

Bytewide-D&D Solutions Inc. 5610 Boisfarne Ch., Montreal, QC,H4S IA9

Tek (514) 335-8888 Fax: (514) 335-6664 Bytewide-D¹cD is a value-added distributor of superior quality, storagemanagement, document imaging/distribution and display solutions.

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81 Ramona Blvd., Markham, ON L3P 2K5

One of the Canada's largest importer and distributor of molded computer cables and computer accessories.

Brand names include TechCraft, Ray-0-Vac and Lava.

Claris Canada, Inc.

Computer Accessories Plus

3 Church St., Ste.402, Tmvnto, ONM5E IM2 1100 Masse, Montreal Nmth, PQHIG 4G3

Tel:(800) 361-6075 Claris is showing ClarisWorks 4.0 for Windows, the allin-one product for business, home, and e ducation users that integrates word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and drawing functions in one application.

Tel:(514) 323-1000 Fax:(514) 323-2222

Classic Software Systems Inc.

Computer Accessories Plus is Canada's leading distributor of computer accessories and multimedia products with over 400 different computer ¹c electronic accessories such as micro-floppy diskettes, plastic storage boxes and electronic surge suppressers, etc.

¹20, 2861 Shanoood Heights Drive, Oakville, Ont. L6J 7KI

Computer Associates Canada Ltd.

Toll-Free:(800) 200-5379 BBS:(905) 829-2283 TeLi'905) 829-5147 Fax:(905) 829-5074 Classic Software Systems Inc., is a national distributor of POS automation solutions, supplying software, hardware and peripherals to dealers, coast to coast.

5935 AIPPmt Rd.,Mtssissauga, ON L4V I W5 Tel:(905) 676-6700 Desktop-to-mainfrune client/server software is available from Computer Associates.

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905) 712-41 78Fax: (905) 712-41 79, 1-800467-0554 'onal wholesale distributor ob diskettes, CD-R disks, edia ucts, cables, ribbons and accessories inc speakers, sound cards, CD-ROM drives, CD-RO ntles, jewel cases, printer sharers, compatible printer ribbons, remanufactured HP laser toner cartridges, joysticks, mice and microphones etc.

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Canadian Memory Products Ltd Suite 250 10991 ShellhridgvWay,Richmond B.C. V6X2W8 TeL(604) 279-9585 Fax: i'604) 2790656 Suppliers of high quality memory modules for all types of computers, laser printers, notebooks and laptops. The only West Coast-based Distributor specializing in Memory Upgrade Products, Canadian Memory Products is now serving over 2500 clients.

Canbell Group Enterprises Inc 110-13431Maycrest Way,Richmond B.C.

Tel: (604) 279-2366 Fax:(604) 279-2369

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Toll Freed('800) 263-1121

Tel:(905) 795-1111 Fax:(905) 795-2014 A vendor of information systems products to dealers and distributors across Canada. Products indude bubble jet, color bubble jet and laser printers, image scanners, multimedia PC systems and color notebook PCs with built-in bubble jet printers.

Canta Technologies Inc. 16 Etna Park Dr., Unit 7, Markham, Ont. L3R 5XI

Tel:(905) 513-0943 Fax:(905) 513-0648 A national distributor of PROCASE computer cases, power supplies, multi-media and networking products.

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Comtex Micro Systems inc.

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13751 MayJield Dr. Suite 100, Richmond B.C.V6V2G9

floppy disk drives, and monitors serving Ontario and

Tek (604) 273-8088 Fax:(604) 278-2818 A manufacturer and distributor of computer systems and peripherals serving all of Canada. Service centres

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puter Systems iddlefteld Road,Unit 101, Scarborough, Ont. M1V5H5

Tel :(416) 499-2889Fax: (416) 492-6501 T e (905) L 238-8701 Fax: (905) 238-1586

Calgary, AB. Tel: (403) 250-3386 Fax:(403) 250-8092

Daytek Electronics Corp.

Comtronic Computer Centre

3830facombs Road, Unit 105, Richmond, BCV6V1Y6 Tek (604) 270-3003 Fax:l'604) 270-3022 A subsidiary of Daewoo Corp. Its main business is selling computer monitors, manufactured in South Korea, direct to dealers, VAR channels and system integrators.

90 Riviera Dr., Marhham, ON L3R 5M1

Tek(905) 479.8336 Comtronic Computer is a distributor of brand name and OEM computer systems, peripherals, and components.

The company specialized in networking hardware and

software 50 Burnhamthorpe Rd., Suite401, Misstssauga, Ont. L5B 3C2

Tek(905) 272-3216 Fax:(905) 272-3264 Found in 1986, the company sells, designs and builds a comprehensive line of information storage solutions products, including disk drive, tape drives, storage management softwware and disk array storage systems.

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Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd. 4110 Young St. Willotudate ON M2P 2C7

Tek(416) 730-7000

Mississauga, ONL5L 5M8

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DATAHOME Infosystems 263 - 13986 Gamble Road, Richmond, B.C.V6V 2K3 Tek (604) 278-3584 Fax:(604) 278-0532

Conner Peripherals

hernet, Arcnet, and soon ATM and hardware.

Daewoo Electronics Canada Ltd. 170 A/den Rd., Markham, Ont. L3R 4CI

Tek(905) 415-7290 Fax: (905) 415-7287

Digital's Internet-ready Alpha Server combines the 64-bit RISC performance of Alpha and the strength of Digital UNIX. Hi-Note Notebooks, Celebris XL Multimedia, Venturis 486 and Pentium desktops, and the Prioris Server line are also available. Networking products include

DECHub 90/900, GIGAswitch Family of FDDI and ATM, RoamAbout Wireless connectivity products, and HubWatch network re-configuration and management software. Printers include inkjets plus Multimedia Fullvideo MPEG, Multia universal client desktop.

A leading manufacturer of computer monitors and consumer electronic products. Produces high-performance quality monitors ranging from 14 to 21 inches.

Dynatek Automation Systems inc.

Daiwa Distribution inc

Dynatek Automation Systems manufactures and distrib-

200 Bluewater Rd. Bedford, NS B4B IG9

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EMJ Data Systems Ltd. PO Box1012, Guelp, Ont N1H 6N1 Tel:(519) 837-2444 Fax:(519) 836-1914 A national distributor of computers, software, computerrelated hardware, and peripherals.

Branch ff o tcesi Fdchmond B.C. Tel: (604) 270-9324 Fax: (604) 270-7834 Calgary, Alta. Tek (403) 250-5343 Fax: (403) 250-5373 Bedford, B.S. TeL (902-835-1621 Fax: (902) 835-9127 St. Laurent, Que. Tek(514) 7454500 Fax: (514) 745-2886

Winnipeg, Man. TeL(204) 9490055 Fax: (204) 949-0063

EMPAC Computer Corp.

168 Konrad Crescent, Marhham, Ontario, L3R 9T9

TeL'(905) 940-3600 Fax:(905) 940-3604 Empac is a national distributor and manufacturer of computer systems and peripherals. Empac's head offlce is located in Markham Ontario, with regional oiftces located in Vancouver and Montreal. Empac distributes a wide selection of brand-name computer products. Product line includes: the complete line of EMPAC and C2 PCs; Shuttle Data and GIGA-BYTE motherboards; Megaimage and Goldstar monitors; Qtronix input devices; American Power Conversion UPS; Samsung hard drives, notebooks and printers; Panasonic, TEAC CD-ROMs and floppy devices; Exclusive l peripheral cards; Empac computer cases and multimedia products. In addition, Empac also carries many other brand names.

BranchOffices Montreal, Quebec TeL (514) 345-9000Fax: (514) 345-8551

Richmond, B.C. Tel; (604) 8214)177Fax: ('604) 821-0277

EPSON Canada Ltd.

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ANSI and High Clip Grades

Over 10 colors to choose Mac Formatted available

A wholly-owned subsidiary of Epson America, which is a service aIKiate of Seiko Epson Corporation, a global manufacturer of computers, printers, robotics, LCDs, watches and other high-technology innovations. Epson's line of printer products provide complete imaging solutions at the personal and network levels. A national imaging products company specializing in the distribution of dot matrix, laser and ink jet printers, scanners, and e personal computers and notebooks.

Evetek Computer tt248-13986, CambieRd. Richmond B.C. V6V2K3

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Tek(604) 273-8008 Fax: ('604) 273-8820 The company manufactures personal computers and distributes PC pert'pherals.

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Calgary: Tel: (403) 250-3633 Fax: (403) 250-1360

Exide Electronics Canada lnc.

380 Carlingvieru DR, ON M9W 5X9

Tel: (416) 798-01 12 The Exide Electronics Powerware Prestige UPSs from 650- to6000 VA provide network power management with UPS hardware, specialized software, network connectivity tools, and worldwide service and support.

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yfield Place, Richmond B.C. V6V2G9 9686 Fax:(604) 279 9787 'butor of high-performance computers, computer multimedia products, to~ u ality screen filters. 'alized in leading edge technology including S professional video production stations, high end servers and communication systems like Internet Gateways for LAN, WWW servers, fax servers.

Branch oj)icei Alberta Tek (403) 291-4451 Fax: (403) 291-3519

Focustronics & Co. ¹145-4471 No. 6 Road, Riehvumd, B C. V6V IP8

Tel:(604) 273-8086 Fax: (604) 273-3488 Distributor of computer keyboards, hard drives, motherboards, monitors, cases, modems gc accessories.

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Tel: (905) 602-5454 Fax: (905) 6'02-5457 Fujitsu Canada distributes computer peripherals including document imaging scanners, dot matrix and laser-quality printers, hard disks, S.&inch MO drives,

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GINS Datalink International Corp. ¹102 342 East Kent Ave., Vancouver B.C. V5X 4N6

Tollpee1-800-661-6555 Tek(604) 327-4335 Fax: (604) 327-2600 A value-added distributor specializing in multimedia products and service, Canada-wide. Assembles custom multimedia upgrade kits for resellers and mass merchants.

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AI Tech, Acckum, Ahead, Altec Lansing, Audiophi(e, Books that Work, Broder Bund, Chinon, Corel, Datalink, Future Domain, GTE Interactive Media, Gametek, Great Bear, Intelliplay, Jazz Hipster, KOSS, Lasennate, MIRO Pmducts, Media Vision, Merit, Microforum, Microieague, MicmsoP, Mindscape, OptiealData, Panasonic, Pioneer, Plantmnics, Pm Phone, Relisys, Sanyo, Sony, SPacetech, Teac, Tart(e Beach Systems, Vau(e Media, Virgin

Branch fojices Richmond Hill Onk Tek(905) 771-1188 Fax: (905) 771-1 131 Toll Free1-800-361-3234

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Hewlett-Packard Canada Ltd. 5150 Spedrum Way, Mississaugu, ON L4W5GI

Tel: (800) 387-3867 HP is presenting new HP Laserjet and HP Deskjet printers, HP Vectra PCs, NetServeis, 100VG-AnyLAN networking demonstrations, OmniBook PCs and HP 200LX and 100CX palmtop PCs. Products are available for the office orfor on the road.

G.B. INicro Electronics Inc.

Hewitt Rand Corp.

5575 Ch. Sk Francois, Sk Laurent, PQH45 IW6 Tel:(514) 333-7373

160 Admiral Blvd., Mississauga, Ont L5T 2N6

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Tel:(905) 738-9300 Fax:(905) 738-5563 The Canadian olfic e for GVC brand products.

GHM Computer Accessories 63 Silverstar Blvd., Unit C 11 Scarborough Ont. MIV5E5

Tel:(416) 2993369 Fax:(416) 299-3685

Globelle Corporation 57AdessoDrive, Conconl, Ont L4K3C7

Getting more and more Multi-Media Mini Speakers Tower Cases, Power Supplies EXT SCSICase 8 SCSI/IDE HD Removable Rack Focus, Seiin and Unikey Keyboard SVGA Monitors

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Richmond, BC Tek (604) 273-1 155Fax: (604) 273-0629 Doroal, QC Tel:(514) 631-1686 Fax: (514) 631-7198 WinniPqbMB Tel: (204) 9898750 Fax: (204) 254-7832 Tek(819) 459.1414 Fax: (819) 4593564 Ottaiea

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PCI SVGAw/MPEG and full function MPEGdecoder Card.

Golden Dragon Systems 3330 McNicoll Avenue, Scarborough, Not, MIV 2L2 Tel:(416) 297-1202 Fax:(416) 754-2240 Golden Dragon Systemsis a leading computer system products distributor you can depend on. If reliability and prices are your concern, Golden Dragon Systems provides the best products with superior quality and performance. Their worldwide connections with manufacturers throughout Canada, USA, and Asia, aBow them to search for the best products to fit your computing demand.

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Branch off ice: Richmond, B.C. TeL' (604) 276-8271 Fax: (604) 270.0187

Hitachi (Canadian) Ltd. 6740 Campobello Rd., Mississauga, ON L5N 2LB TeL(905) 826-4100 Hitachi's office automation peripherals include HM and CM Series colour monitors. Mass storage products are Winchester disk drives, optical disk drives, optical libraries, and optical jukebox. CD-ROM drives, the Hilmpact Document Imaging System, Harbor Network Storage Management System, and new generation IGBT Modules are also available.

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00) 265-7081 ack:(905) 853-3210 ng Southwestern Ontario's largest combined trade ' omputer exhibition.

TeL(604) 2447798 Fax:(604) 244-7796

TeL(510) 222-0199 Fax: (510) 2224748 Publisher and distributor of entertainment and educational CD ROM titles.

LCH Resources Inc.

Impaq Technology Inc.

¹9-13511 Crestroood Place, Richmond, B.C.

Tel: (604) 261-1800 Fax:(604) 263-9201 Toll-Free: 1-800-663-9272

Tel:(604) 278-0708

Distributor of notebook PC's, notebook and desktop peripherals and software. Impaq serves all of Canada with toll-free phone service and next day delivery on request.

Hardware line includes Pentium and 486DX4-100 Notebook PC's, PCMCIA and parallel port add-ons (universal keypads, CD-ROM, scanner, tape backup, hard drives, floppy drives, SCSI and network adaptors), Multimedia Video, Audio Capture, Networking, Printer Sharing, CPU Sharing, Fax/Modems and Voice/Fax switches.

TeL(604) 321-8533 A national distributor of networking products, computer systems, CPUs, mother boards, keyboards and cases. Also carries point of sales systems. Mentek is the number one source for the NexGen 586 processor in Canada.

Merisel Canada 200 Ronson Drive, Erobicoke, Ont. M9W5T9

Tel: (416) 240-7012 Fax:(416) 240-2605 A distributor of computer products, distributing more than 19,000 products from 400 hardware and sofnvare publishers to more than 10,000 Canadian resellers.

Branch ff otcesi St. Laurent, QC. Tel:(514) 745-1695Fax: (514) 745-1736 Richmond, B.C. Tel: (604) 273-2445 Fax: (604) 273-1113

Mindf light Technology Inc.

A computer wholesaler of motherboards, video cards, cases, keyboards etc.

TeL(604) 294-6465 Fax: (604) 294-1301 Mindflight Technology produces portable data products that connect to either an IBM parallel port or a SCSI port.

Logitech Canada, Inc.

Minitronics Office Automation

5025 OrbitorDr., Bldg. 6, Ste200, Mississauga, ONL4W4Y5

110-3320 Jacombs Road, Richmond B.C. Tel: (604) 278-0783 Fax:(604) 278-0769

Tet:(905) 629-2006 Logitech's computer peripherals let a computer take in information through the senses of sight, sound, and touch like a human. Peripherals include mice and trackballs, hand-held scanners, digital cameras, and joysticks.

Ingram Micro Inc. (Canada)

Lonson Group

230 Barmac Drive, Weston, Ont. M9L 2Z3

¹3-3511 Viking Way, Richmond B.C.V6V I WI

Tet:(905) 740-9404 Fax: (905) 740-6100

Tel; (604) 273-4668 Fax:(604) 273-7989 A national distributor of high quality GIGA-BYTE motherboards, add on cards and computer systems.

Canadian microcomputer distributor that markets and distributes more that 16,000 products from more than 450 of the world's top hardware manufacturers and software publishers. Ingram kflcro Inc. (Canada) is a subsid-

iary of Ingram Micro Inc. Branch offrcesi Montreal, QC. Te l:(514) 334-9785 Fax:(514) 33421 74 Ottawa, Ont. T e L(613) 228-3386F x: (613) 228-3387 Calgary, AB. T e (403) t 285-6321 Fax: (403) 285-61 78 Rich ond, B.C. TeL (604) 276-8357 Fax:(604) 2768359

Mitsubishi Electric Sales Canada Inc.

Tet:(800) 663-7662 Lexmark's network laser printers, the Optra series, feature MarkVision, an implementation of the Networking Printing Alliance Protocol (NPAP) for bi-directional communications with a printer on a LAN.

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systems include quad-speed CD-ROM (Toshiba), sound cards, 14.4kbps voice fax modems, and a collection of Microsoft software. All Pentium systems include PCI bus with standard 16-bit ISA slots. The systems are Novel certified and have passed the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility test for Windows 95.

Tel: ('905) 946-0908 Fax: (905) 946-8749

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Mits Computer Supplies Co. 40 Shields Court 1-2, Markham, Ont. L3R OM5

Lexmark Canada Inc.

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Authorized distributor and service centre for Panasonic and Sharp products. Their new products include the first full size internal CD-ROM color (TFT) notebook.

Toll Free:1-800-796-5225 Web site: httP://vnoro.micro)ack.corn A national distributor of computer multimedia products and accessories. Brand name include MicroJack, A4 etc.

IPC Personal Computers

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Branch o ffice: Richmond, B.C. Tel (604) 273-9114Fax: (604) 273-9142

8557 Main Street, Vancouver B.C. V5X 3M3

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Tet: (604) 279-8818 Fax: (604) 278-3089 A manufacturer/distributor of floppy disks. Carries both 8.5-inch and 5.25-inch diskettes, high clip products for duplication use, and ANSI products either in bulk packs or in boxes of 10.

Steeles Ave. E, Markham, ON L3R 977 800) IBM-4YOU pr ov i des hardware from PCs to mainframes; softfrom operating systems to application solutions.

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240-11181 Bridgeport Road, Richmond, B.C. V6X IT2

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Megahertz A Division of LL. Robotics 5420N. ServiceRd. Burlington, ONL7L 6C7

Information Tech nologiai GrouP 429914th Ave. Markham, ONL3R 012

Tel: (905) 475-7728 Mitsubishi is distributing cost-effective high-resolution monitors from 15 to 42 inches.

Motorola 400 Matheson Blvd. W, Mississauga, ON L5R 3MI

Tet:(905) 507-7136 Motorola produces products at all levels of integration include microprocessors, motherboards, client/servers, high-availability enterprise servers, and faulttolerant systems.

MultlMedia Effects Inc.

Tel: (905) 3368168

40 Wynford Drive, Suite 106, North York, Ont M3CIJ5

Megahertz is a data communications manufacturer for mobile computer products.

Tel:(800) 367-3054 (416) 444-2324 Fax: (416) 444-0465

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national sales, marketing, and value-added distributor high-performance optical storage systems from Pincle Micro, the world leader in optical storage tech-

>logy. Optical storage systemsinclude the ¹I Selling ID-1000 recordable CD system and MO drives nging from the Portable 250MB Tahoe to the 5 rabyte Grand Teton optical library system. Optical lutions for CD mastering/premastering, desktop iblishing, prepress, imaging, networking, digital dio/video, and commercial multimedia. Call toll free 1-800-367-3054.

ultimedia Solutions Inc. >ocr1401, 2nd St. S.W. Calgnry, Alberta, T2R OW7 0 (403)233-94II Fax: (403) 233-7757 tltimedia Solutions Inc. offers many products and ser;es including software development, premastering CDyM, encoding analog to ISO digital video formats (e.g.

PEG, JPEG, AVI), networking digital video over LANs d WANs, creating interactive multimedia presentations c information and training kiosks, as well as reselling d supporting a variety of multimedia hardware Qducts.

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ific Ram Distribution Corp 0 Clarke Place, Richmond B.C. V6V 2H6 53 748 utors of GIGABYTE, Silicon Star motherboard,

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PC Craft inc.

Pacific Royal Enterprises Ltd. 383-13988 Cav>bie Road., Richmond B.C. Tel: (604) 279-8731 Fax:(604) 2798739 Toll-Free: 1-800-538-821 2 A true portable specialist, Pacific Royal concentrates on notebook solutions only. Pacific Royal is the exclusive Canadian distributor of Jetbook and Smartbook notebook computers for Reseller and Distribution markets. Units are available barebone in small quantities or fully configured with PC Cards. Touch screens, wireless, or for desktop replacement. New products include:

Symphony withVideo capture, NovaPak fax/modem, voice tc pager on one PCMCIA card, clip-on Touch Screen, and much more. The latest and greatest in ) 661 - 8595 d i s tributing business computer solutions portable computing call (800) JETI'A - I - 2.

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75 Konrad Cres., Unit A, Markham, Ont. L3R 8T8

Tel: (905) 475-5177 Fax:(905) 475-2893 A distributor of video graphics cards, moderms, monitors, keyboards, notebooks and printers.

PC DOCS Group International Inc. 85 Scarsdale Road, Suite200, Toronto, Ont. M3B 2R2

Tel: (416) 445-4823 Fax:(416) 445-6228 PC DOCS is a client/server enterprise document management system providing instant access to files over LANs and WANs.

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Tel:(800) 995-6908 Fax:(510) 527-3823

Packard Bell Electronics

A publisher, mantifacturer and distributor of CD software packages with over 240 multimedia titles on educational software and games.

1025 Tri star Dr., Mississanga, ON L5T I W5

Tel: (905) 5641 122

hstssauga,Ont. Tel: (905) 625-0125Fax: (905) 625-4885 Toll Free: 1-800-363-8595

,nconvcr, B.C. Tel (604) 253-3400 Fax (604) 2538249 Toll Free1-800-665-8595 ilgary, AB. T e(403) l 262-7270Fax (403) 455-5439 Toll Fice1-800-661-8595 (Canada vridc)

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EC Technologies Canada

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'25 Ken>cay Drive, Mississauga, Ont. L5T 2L3

l: (905) 795-3600 Fax:(905) 795-3583 :C is a premier computer hardware manufacturer. .C manufactures Versa notebook computers, sltisync Monitors, Multispin CD-ROM readers, wermate desktops, Image desktops and Ready Muliedia systems, NEC also manufactures RISC servers d workstations for Windows NT.

well Canada Ltd. 00 StocksAvc. E, Markhav> ON L3R 8T3

': (905) 940-2670 >veil's NetWare is a network operating system with >re than 40 million users. Based on UNIX technology, d deployable on cost-effective industry-standard rdware, UnixWare delivers simplified use, wide plication support, and fully integrated NetWare nnectivity. WordPerfect, the Novell Applicaffons oup, is presenting products such as GroupWise and rfectOffice combining business applications into e productivity-enhancing package.

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Learn to operate in Flexible pay period and 30 minutes er less! * Chooses pay method individually * Simple Key Strokes * Menu-driven Selections * Form Data Entries

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PowerSoft Systems Ltd. Vancouver Oflice TorontoOffice 103-14888 104th Ave. 3 - 4 4 East Beaver Creek Rd. Richmond Hill, Ontartio, Surrev, B.C. Canada L4B 1GB Canada V3R 1M4 Phone:(604l 582-7488 P h one:(905) 886-1688 Fax:(604) 552-7399 Fax : ( 905) 886-2650

System Requirements: 51 2Kmemory, DOS2.0 or higher, hard disk, 525' or 3.5> floppy drive, coloror mono-chromemonitor.

RunsonIBMsnd 100% compatible.

Supports sll popular printers.

(905) 89M100 Fax: (905) 890-1207

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Promar Enterprises Company Ltd.

3260 Viking Way, Unit 10, Richmond,B.C. V6V1N6

2595 E. 8th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V5M 1W3

Tel: (604) 273-8281 Fax: (604) 273-8207

Tel: (604) 251-5768 Fax:(604) 251-6588

A national distributor/wholesaler of monitors, floppy drives, keyboards and CD-ROM products. Also carries printers, motherboards, hard drives, and cases.

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A distributor of well designed computer cases, computer products and the largest stock of power supply in B.C.

Calgary, AB Te k(403) 250-8281 Markham, Ont. Tel (905) 513-5777Fax: (905) 513-5770 Sz Laurent, QC. Tel (514) 956.1234 Fam (514) 956-1099 Ottawa, Ont. Tek (613)745-1888

297Labnuse, Points.Clain, Quebec, H9R1A3

Perle Systems Ltd

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Tel:(905) 475-8885 Fax: (905) 475-8646 Perle Systems Ltd. is a manufacturer of communications and connectivity products for IBM Midrange systems.Perle Systems specializes in products that make it easy to connect a wide variety of PCs, displays, printers and other devices to IBM AS/400 systems. Perle supports connectivity via Twinax, ASCII, Token Ring, Ethernet and X.25. Perle latest product, the Perle 855, is a Remote Access Server for Ethernet LAN access.

Samtack carries name brand motherboards, controllers,

Provincial Products

video cards, CPUs, memory, power suppfies, cables, drives keyboards, monitors, CD-ROMs, speakers, and printers.

Tot&Free:(800)267-4686 (905) 629.3737 Fax: (800) 665-1982, (905) 629-1982 Provincial's Snappy, pocket-sized high-definition video grabber, plugs into the parallel port of a PC or laptop.

Users plug in a camcorder, TV, VCR, or any video input and click SNAP. The grabber captures any image in I/ 60th of a second as high as 1500x1125 resolution in 16.8 million colours.

Proxcel Technology Inc.

A distributor of L apro notebooks, Proxcel computer systems, keyboards, cases and other peripherals.

Pucka Computer Corp.

50Don Park Rd., Unit 5,6Makham, Ont. L3R lj3

Tek (905) 940-9839 Fax: (905) 94&6977 A national distributor of 'YOUNG YEAR" computer cases (including multimedia cases) and power supplies.

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Samtack Computer, Inc. 385 Bentley St., Markham, ON L3R 9T2

Tek (604) 231-9630 Fax: (604) 231-9631

19 Technology, Irvine, CA 92718, USA Tel:(714) 789-3000 Pinnacle Micro, a provider of optical storage systems for data-intensive computing applications, is marketing the RCD-1000 recordable CD system. The affordable CD-R system for both Mac and Windows includes easyto-use CD authoring software and backup utility suitable for mastering CDs or archiving sensitive information/data. Drives range from 2SOMB to ITB. Optical storage solutions for desktop publishing, prepress, imaging, networking, digital audio/video, and commercial multimedia are also available.

. Mssissauga, Ont. L5N6R3

-3535 Fax:(905) 542-3835 A man of PC systems and peripherals including op atl cbook PCs, printers (laser and dot ma, hard disk drives and fax machines.

Tel: (514) 6305832 Fax: (514)6302987

2nd Floor, 510-3771 jacombs Road, Richmond, B.C.

Pinnacle Micro, Inc.

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Protec Microsystems, a leading Canadian manufacturer of networking products and peripheral sharing devices.

3035 Wharton Way, Mississauga, Ont. L4X 2B4

60 RenPeto Drive, Markham, Ontario L3R OEI

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Scene 2 Interactive Distributors 136 Wingei Road, Suite8, Woodbridge, Ont, L4L 6C3

Tel: (905) 856-3456 Fax: (905) 851-0844

Scene 2 is the exclusive distributor for many interactive games for adults, servicing the Canadian market.

Sceptre Technologies Inc. 16800E. Gale Ave., Industry CA, USA 91745

Tel: (818) 369-3698

Sceptre Technologies manufactures high-resolution computer monitors, PC notebooks and related prod. ucts. Highlighted are a I 'I-inch multimedia monitor with 1260x1024 resolution at 76Hz VL-Bus refresh rate; the multimedia Pentium notebook SoundX Series 2000; a new generation of lightweight, spacewaving LCD monitors with a 10.5-inch TFT color screen; and a PC with an integrated color monitor. Some high-end monitors are bundled with the company's screen FX Enhancer software to enhance features in presentations, demos and training sessions. A wireless remote control is also of. fered.

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Fax: (905) 940-9709 Fax: (604) 278-8918

SDMS Ltd. ยน15-12200 Vulcan Way,Richmond, BC V6V lj8

Toll free1-800-850.1 703 Tel:(905) 946-7427 Fax: (905) 946-7417

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Pioneer of Canada distributes and sells Pioneer CD-ROM dirves, miniwharges, single drive and 500 discjuke boxes; WORM and rewritable OMDD products.

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Powersoft Systems Ltd. 103-14888104th Ave., Surrey, B.C.V3R IM4 Tek (604) 582-7488 Fax: (604) 582-7399 A developer and distributor of PowerPay. PowerPay is the ultimate payroll program having many options as well as power and ease of use.

Tek(905) 2060848 Fax: (905) 206-0903 QMS Canada provides monochrome laser and colour high-end thermal wax LAยนeady printers. A 600x600dpi Desktop Colour Laser Printer and a Multi-Functional Device product are highlighted at a reduced price.

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Tel:(604) 821-0066 Fax:(604) 821-0110 National distributor of TDK brand data storage products, including disks, CD R, data tapes, rewritable optical disks etc. Importer and distributor of ANIS tk High clip grade generic diskettes in all formates and sizes. Also Canadian distributor and service centre for USA made GENESIS brand diskette duplication equipment. Various accessories are also available.

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elivers est + quality standards and quick turnaround. Advance exchanges, technical support and a minmum of six month warranty are just a few advantages you receive. With over 2,700 new and remanufactured tape drives in stock, and service capabilities of over 750 diFerent models you can count on RCE to provide you with the complete solution to all your tape drive needs.

Ready Computer International ยน110-12860 ClarkePlace, Richmond B.C. V6V2H1

Pro-data Unit 6, 854 Marion St. WinntPeg MA, R2j OK4

Toll fme1-800-567-3274 Tel:(203) 231-0590 A detributor of GVC, Fuj itsu, Acer computer products

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Tel: (604) 270-7618 Fax:(604) 270.7658 A national distributor of high quality GIGA-BYTE motherboards, 2 the Max video cards, RCI cards and computer systems. Also carries SIMMs, add-on cards, monitors, CD-ROM drives and multimedia CD titles.

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interfaces, magnetic stripe readers and custom hardware designs. SDMS also Distributes a full line of POS Peripherals including Epson, Star, and CBM etc.

Also available products include 9" Monitors, Barcode readers, and customer displays etc. Serves dealers all across Canada. Also provides sales and technical support.

Branch O ffice: Mississauga,Ont Tek (905) 564-4897 Fax: ('905) 564-5920 Montreal, Que. Tek(514) 343-9998

Seanix Technology Inc. ยน140- 6631Elmbridge Way, Richmond B.C. V7C4N1

Tel:(604) 273-3692 Fax: (604) 276-81 79

A PC manufacturer based in Richmond, B.C., with branches in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal.

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ServiceWorks Inc. 13880 Mayjield PL, Richmond, B.C. V6V2E4

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emory products from: Apple, AST, Compaq, Canon, ?C, Everex, IBM, HP, NEC, NeXT, Okidata, TI, nasonic, Zenith, etc... snufacturers: EXP Computer, L.G. Group, Hyundai, ngston, Motorola, OKI Semiconductors, Toshiba, Fujitsu, tachi, Intel, Micron Technology, NMB, Samsung.

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102-3850jacombs Road, Richmond, B.C. V6V I F6

Tek (604) 276-2677 Fax:(604) 2760807 Supplier of computer hardware products to the reseller market across Canada. From offices and warehouses in Vancouver and Toronto, it distributes a wide selection of brand-name products, from computer systems to peripherals and components.

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Tel: (604) 278-2893 Fom (604) 278-2861 A computer hardware manufacturer and nationwide distributor of computer accessories, the Brother line of printers, LEO and SOYO motherboards, Nanao Monitors, Zenith and Hyundai notebooks and Intel peripherals. Manufacturer of its own name brand machineCompupartner. National master standing offer supplier.

Branch fo/iced: Edmonton, AB. Teb (403) 466-6800 Fax: (403) 465-5355

Markham, Ont. TeL (905) 415-1166 Fax: (905) 415-1177

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Sunnet Image Ltd.

Symantec has application and system software products designed to enhance individual and workgroup productivity as well as manage networked computing environments.

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imple Technology Inc. 50B Caldari Road, Concord, Ont. L4K 4N8

ll-Fne:(800) 565-7157 L (905)738-7122 Fax: (905) 738-7120 Canadianwwned value added distributor of computer oducts and peripherals.

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any of Canada Ltd. mputer and Personal Information Products 5 Gordon Baker Rd., Witkxodate, ON M4E 2R8 ny's multimedia products include the CD-ROM kcman,quad-speed CD-ROM drives,and audio prodts. New storage products include 4- to 16GB DAT, iGB MO, 12-inch write once products, and CD-ROM :ordable drives. Also on display are 15-, 17-, and 20:h Trinitron monitors.

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.'(8 18) 854-9355Fax: (818) 854-9361 ecR esearch Inc., is a prime source of input devices in .co mputer market. As a keyboard specialist, they are :lar gest importer and distributor for the most popular yboards such as, Chicony, Focus, Keytronic, and Spec. anch J O/test FrthW est Tel: (510) 440-8190 Fax:(510) 440-8191

tarTech Computer Products OP(ccadhlly St. Unit103,London, Ontano N6A IR8

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Oaawa: Tel: ( 6 13)782-2360 Fax: (613) 782-2219 Vctmia: Tel : (6 04) 595-7111 Fax:(604) 595-7119 Quebec City: Tel: (418) 626-2080 Fax:(418) 626-5044

Trimex Marketing Inc. 4611 Viking Way,Suite 120, Richmond, B.C. V6V2K9

and Microsoft training.

Tel:(604) 278-6700 Fax:(604) 278-8619

Brunch ojf'cess Ont.: T el: 1-800-265-0332(905 region) Tel:1-800-265-8918(416905region) B.C.: T el: I-80lM63-0968

TMI is a wholesale distributor of computer accessories, peripherals and supplies. TMI serves all of Canada with warehouse and ofBces in Toronto and Richmond.

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Tektronix Canada Inc.

TTX Canada Inc.

785Arrozu Road, Weston Ont. M9M2L4 Toll-Free:(800) 661-5625

4428- 10Stmet NE Calgary Alberta T2E6K3

Tel: (416) 747-5000 Fax:(416) 747-9799 A manufacturer of electronic measurement equipment,

videosystems(non-linear) andcolorprintingand imaging devices.

Tenex Data Corp.

45 Commander Blvd. Sca&mough, Ont. M1$3Y3

TeL(416) 291-7151 Fax:(416) 291-6416 A 100 per cent Canadian owned national distributor focused on data storage solutions, disk, tape, optical and CD-ROM.

Texas Instruments Canada Ltd. Personal Produclivily Products 41 Shelky Rd., RichmondH('L ONL4C5G4

Tel: (905) 770-2323 TI's TravelMate 5000 notebooks have a new design for desktop PC performance. A Pentium/75MHz and PCI bus is used. The company is marketing the TravelMate 4000multimedianotebookserieswith optional CD-ROM docking system to create a complete battery-powered portable multimediasolution.

TKP Electronic(Canada) Ltd. ¹l l 8 - 13982 Cu~R n a d, Richmond, B.C. V6V2K2

Tel: (604) 279-0320 Fax:(604) 279.0321 A national distributor ofwell designed computer cases, MLi series high quality speakers and multimedia products. 1995 model Golf series cases are available now.

They also carryhard drives, SIMMs, add-on cards, CDROM drives and CD titles.

Top Link Distribution Unit 9, 4751 Shell Road, Richmond, B.C. V6X3H4

Tel:(604) 279.2580 Fax: (604) 279-2581

Tel: (403) 25&6877 Fux:(403) 25(45879 TTX is a leading brand name for monitors in Canada with over 12 years experience, TTX carries a full range of monitors from mono VGA to 21" in a value-oriented and professional quality series. All TTX monitors are also available as integrated Touch Screens. A two year monitor warranty is serviced by our own expert stair.

Brancho+cest Mississaugn: TeL'(905) 238-6610 Fax:(905) 238-5409 Winnipeg:

T e l(204) : 633-7180 Fax:(204) 63307181

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283) Fax:(604) 946-9269 esaler of brand name duplicatic ' fo t d i s kettes; CD-Rs; CDCaddiesa jewel'~ ; b~ d d bulk d ata cartridges and opti disks;mailers;disketteand CD-Rduplicationequipmer new and used diskette manulacturings and packagir equipment; labellers; baggers; collators and degausse

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Wes-Micro Electronics Inc. 13988Cambie Road, Suite373, Richmond, B.C.V6V2K4

Tel:(604) 279-1866 Fax:(604) 279-1867

W es-Micro's p r o d uc t l i n e i nc l u d e s m o n i t o r motherboards, hard drives, memory chips, video care interface cards and multimedia products.

Western Digital Canada Corp.

50Burnhamthorpe Rd. West, Suite 710 Mississauga, Ont. L5B3C2

Tel: (905) 566-4702 Fax:(905) 566-4711

A designer and manufacturer ofhard drives, integratt circuits, and graphics controller board-level products.

White Knight Distributing 2300 Vauxhall Place, Richntond, B.C.

@tenet Computer Corp. ~I )ltinet ~., I100Bridplund Ave. Tmonto, Onc. M6A124 ul.'(416) 25ts2800 Fax: t (416) 256-1449

turret is agotpbook distributor. They offer the latest v CDent m k ' 486DX4 notebooks including built-in R sosupplyafulllineofMinitowar Systems, as well as components such as motherboards, video cards, memory and CPUs.

UNIVELL Microsystems Inc. ¹107-3830 facombs Road, Richmond, B.C. V6V1X6 Tel:(604) 276-9986 Fax: (604)276-9983 A national distributor of computer systems, monitors, motherboards, add-on cards, hard drives etc.

Toll-Free: 1-800-668-6188

Branch Office: Rickmond Hill,Ont. Tel: (905)886-3862Fax: (905)886-309 Toll: I-80tb852-5039 Calgnry,AB. T el: ( 4 03)291-1688 Fax: (403)291-081 Toll: 1-800668-3381

Xtslox Clmtada Ltd. r 565 ~ + Noh York, ONM2M 4G7 TeL(gtr) 2293769 /

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ViewSonic Canada

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comp~~ t h ee xclusive distributor of Vtech, Laser and LaserPal computers.

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Tel: (714) 693-0808 ZyXEL data/fax/voice/cellular modems include ISDN

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