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65MB Mlaubiahi 28ms
Voice CoilHardDisk
VGA 1024x 768 14' Monitor .2&mm
16 bit VGA
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Focus 2001Keyboard

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386-26 True 25MHRCILTChipset 1MBRAIN,Tower Case ..31399

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40 MB HardDrive

3299

Super VGAHi-res Analog Monitor

.28mm1024x768 ............................................

with Excelogic 512k1024x7N ........................

Laptops

Hard Drives(bare)

386SX Laptop

Mew! Seiko 1440Monitor

1024x7N.25mmDP,Mulisync, flatter screen........ Sale II4I


with Ulrimate1MB
video canl ................,,.......................... o95

Selko1459 Nooltor

AS above,non-interlaced...........................................$9$$

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Tnnltron tube, .31mm, 1024 x 768 .....

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Orchid ProDesigner II

Star 24 Pin Printer Q39l

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BYTEWELL 286 AT

12 Monochrome Amber Monitor

System Price: 1399

BYTEWELL 386 SX

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80286, 12MHz, O.W.S.


1MB RAM, MAX. 4MB on Board
1.2 MB or 1A4 Roppy
40MB 28 ms Voice Coil Hard Disk
Oalatiam 14 Paper White Monitor
TWO YEAR WARRANTY, ONE YEAR ON MONITOR

oniy:1460

MULTITERII INT-386SX

N386, 16MHz, O.W.S.


1MB RAM
1.2MB TEAC Roppy Onves
40MB 28ms Hard Disk
12 Monochrome Paper White Monitor
ONE YEAR WARRANlY

80386SX, 16MHz, O.W.S.


1MB RAM, MAX. BMB on Board
1.2 MB or 1.44 Flappy
40MB 28 ms Voice Coil Hard Disk
Datatrain 14 Paper White Maritor
TWO YEAR WARRANTY, ONE YEAR ON MONITOR

System Prim'. 1789

. Only: 1870

BYlKWELL 386-20DX
N386, 20MHz, O.W.S.
1 MB RAM
1.2MB TEAC Roppy Ddve
40MB 28ms Hard Disk

Quality

12 Monochrome Amber Monitor


ONE YEAR WARRANTY

Syst88m Price: 2299

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BYTEWELL 386-2SC
60386, 25MHz, O.W.S. with 64K fast cache RAM
1MB of Fast Nns RAM

1.2MB Roppy Drive

MULTITERII MT-386-25

40MB 28ms Hard Disk

12 Monochnxne Amber Monitor


ONE YEAR WARRANTY

System Price: 298

BYTEWELL 386-33C
60388, 33MHz, O.W.S. with 64K fest cache RAM

DATATRAIN DPC-21 12 AT
80286, 12 MHz, 1 W.S.
1 MB RAM
1 2 MB or 1.44 Reppy
>40MB 28 ms Value Cor Hard Disk

Danaraln 14 Paper White Muriacr


MS.DOS 3N
TWO YEAR WARRANTY
O88iy

$ '1 356

DATATRAIN DPC-3016 SX
80388SX, 18 MHz, 0 WS.

2 MB RAM
Max. BMBon Board
12 MB or 1A4 Floppy
40MB 28 mn Voice Coil Hard Disk
Daiairain 14' Paper While Monbcr
MS-DOS 4.01
TWOYEAR WARRANlY
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. $1 962

DATATRAIN DPC-3326 386


80386, 25 MHz, 0 W.S.
4 MB RAM, Max. BMB
cn6eard
64K Stadc Cache RAM
12 MB or 1A4 Ftuppy
40MB 28 ms Voice Cail Hard Disk
Datatiam 14" Paper While Monaor
MS-DOS 4.01
TWO YEAR WARRANTY
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80386, 25MHz, O.W.S.


1 MB RAM Max, 10MB on Board
1.2 MB ar 1A4 Rappy
40MB 28 ms Voice Coll Hard Disk
Oatatrain 14' Paper White Monitor
TWO YEAR WARRANTY, ONE YEAR ON MONITOR

only: 82430

1MB of Fast 80ns RAM

1.2MB Roppy Oifve


40MB 28ms Had Disk
12 Monochrome Amber Monitor
ONE YEAR WARRANTY

MULTITERM INT-386-25C

System Price: 43499

SCQ

INULTITERIN MT-286-12

80288, St12 MHz, O.W.S.


1MB, Max 4MBon Board
1.2 MB TEAC Roppy Drive
40MB 28ms Hard Disk
ONE YEAR WARRANTY

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1MB RAM, Max. 18MB on Board
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Datatrain 14 Paper White Monitor
TWO YEAR WARRANTY, ONE YEAR ON MONITOR

oniy: 82999
MULTITERM MT-38$83C
N386, 33MHz, O.W.S.
1MB RAM, Max. 16MB on Bcmird
64K Cache RAM with Intel 82385 Controller
1.2 MB or 1.44 Roppy
40MB 28 ms Voice Coil Hard Disk
Datatrain 14 Paper White Monitor
TWO YEAR WARRANTY, ONE YEAR ON MONITOR

only: 83270

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12 AmberTTL..., .. .....$125 DCBIS(860x600).28mm....$52


DC 504
MnaeVGA ....... $195 DC 518 (1024x768).28mm...$58
NEC 30(1024xr88) .38mm . $1

Hard Drives

Mtulec
dbe,4OMBI28me .. .. $448 lmprlmie 135MBttSme.. ... $13
Minlecrlbe,BOMBIISme ....$890 Mndei 2OOMtyISme -- --$1
Coaaer100MBl25me. ........$920 Fu)iteu33OMBti9meESDI .. $19
FuilteuBO
OMBtlBme ESDI ...

Iarinters

RavenBIOI 9 pin Narrow .'....$265 Fu)iteu DL340024


pin Wide ....-$658
Rmau 241l 24 pinNarrow....$455 RolandLP111011ppmLaser..$2150
Raise 9505 9
plii Wide -- .--- $699 Roland
LPBOOBppm Laser......$1650
Rane 246524 pinWide ... ...NBOPeetacdptupgmde
on LP .....$656

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CONTENTS

New Wave.
That's what Hewlett Packard is calling
their new software for Windows 5.0. I saw a
demo of it recently, and was very impressed
with its potential. The basic premise is that
H-P plans to sell a software library to Wmdows software developers. Products would
then be given the attributes ofNew Wave
software. H-P has already got the software
addmnsworking in anumber ofcommercial
products, including Ami Professional, a
Windows 5.0 word processor. At the demo,
they dropped an animafion and a full motion video into a word processor. The word
processor does not need to knew how to
create these things,New Wave simply allows

The Computer pepir - B.C. EdNon Qotober 1990

THE. GOODS AND SERVICES TAX


Is Your Business Ready For The GST7 ...................28
The FederalGovernment is coming afteryour money. Are you ready?
By Iisytan Singh ISaisa.

it to create frames which can accept New

What Is It Going To Do To The Cost Of Computers Sc


S oftware) ..............................................................32

ever is then "hot linked" to the Ami'docu-

ment. If
you doubl~ck on the New Wave
window in the word processor, you can directly enter and edit the other p
file. This conceptis similar to DDE, or Dynamic Data Exchange, thatis supported with
many Windows programs. The difference with H-P'sNew Wave is the simplicity with
which it is executed.
The program isdemanding of computer hardware, itneeds a fastSS6 to perform
well, and runs best in 4 megabytes of memory. It will be interesting to see how the
product develops, if it receives wide support, it will take Windows-based computers a
major step forward in the Graphical User Interface wars. It offers the potential to
totally integrate your favourite spreadsheet, word processor, page layout program,
etc., etc., into the ultimate integrated program, complete with"hot links" and cross
application macro capabilities. It retails for C$275.
The GST
You are probably getting a bit tired of hearing about it. Unfortunately, it is going
to have an impact on almost everyone's businesses, so we decided to dig in a bit and
find out what it is aH about. I think you will find the artides worthwhile in giving an
overview of the types of issuesyou will as abusiness person and a consumer have to deal

rograms

Impacts on mail order, retail, programming and other areas.


By Tom Pa&neon.

Survey ef PC Accounting Software


Acc o u n t i n g F o r T h e G S T . ss ~10
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o.ss . 0 wo ~ .O.s. . a s s o c. . . .
An overview of the accounting software solutions available.

Wave objects into them. The animation, or


full motion video, or spreadsheet or what-

3 5

Bty Graeme Bennef4

Sound Processing On Computers ...


.......................46
A review of computer music options and other addwns that sound off.
By Graeme Bennett

Shareware For Windows 3.0 ... .. ........... . ...... ..49


Unicorn provides Telecommunications. Organize! promise to organize your life.
By Gonton Simmonds

A Decade Of The PCCFA II Personal Computing ..50


The Pacific Coast Computer Fairs help to chart a timeline of the rapid development of the computer industry. By LanyDcFehr.
t\Lt
D ESQVIew
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386. . .. ........ .. ...... . . ..... . ......52

Multitasking, multiwindowing IoithotstWmdows 5.0


Bit GeorgeSlode.

2600: The Hacker Quarterly ...................................53


A magazme for Hackers.
By Barbara E. MeMtdien &'John F.MeMnlteyL

P ump Llp The Volume ............................................54

with..

When I found out that we would be seeing a new tax on many products and services
that did not have taxes before, I was appalled. If you are a business, most of these taxes
can bedaimed back. Ifyou are theend consumer, you have to paythem, and you don't
get them back. Itwasat this point thatI pondered the possibilityof setting up my family
as a child-manufacturing industry My wife would be president as well as a
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Do With Your N<mspaper
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Things Ta Know...." in the August '90
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type to buy.
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Norton Support
I gust pxcked up the September 90
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The Penny Group


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for the Penny Group's new full~alar
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of the most popular products with photos and short descriptions. The Penny
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Sell to the U.S.

estimated to be $100,000,000 for 1990,


while a total of $5 billion is spent annually on all information/technology security. The patented BioPassword technology is awned by BioPassword Security
Systems, Inc., a who~wned subsidiary
of Vancouver's Trove Resources Ltd.
Contact them at (604) 681445L

Color Reference
CoraPIerer Color. 10,000 CorIIPIeref-Ger
book by Michaeland Pat Rogondino
($29.95 from Chronicle Books/
Raincoast). Called a "must-have reference for
anyone who works with computers and color," the 10,000 CMYK color
samples show the correct screen percentages for each ink, allowing graphic
artists, designers and desktop publishers

VEPA PublishesNew Rates

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$50,000 or so, you might want to check


out the impressive new offering from
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does 400 DPI fuScolor output that more
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if you weren't thinking of buying just
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Admission is the same as last year ($2).


Doors open at 10 a.m. for what is one pf
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Swap Meet>

such as estimated private-sector sales

Saturday, October 20th is the big day


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Fairand Swap Meet atMacPherson Centre, 7525 MacPherson Ave. in Burnaby.

He]p T$QUMF
With a suitably high-tech brochure
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dollars of Canadians. Induded in the
package are several impressive stafistics,
based on KAON (short-lived subatomic
particle) technology: $245 million, induding $75 xniilion in software alone(
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Computer Whiz Shortage


A suxvey conducted by the computer
software and services industry association ADAPSO predicts a shortage of
c omputer p r ofessionals. W h il e t h e

number ofjobs for programmers and


systems analysts is expected to grow 5.2%
each year, the number of computer sci-

ence majors fell from a high of 4.5% in


1985 to 1.7% in 1988.
The suxvey showed that 46% of respondents have difliculty finding communications specialists, and twenty-nine
percent have trouble finding software

specialists. Interestingly, only 4% of respondents identified technical (network


and hardware) skills as most essential to
their systems integration business. In-

stead, 54% of those surveyed looked for


skills in project and program management, 17% wanted an analytical understanding of customer requirements, 15%
sought skills in software design and development, and 15% named interpersonal skills as "most essential."
To see the complete results of the
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tourists to visit B.C.


Packaged with an expensive-looking
brochure (a17"x54" foldoutpanorama
of Super, Natural British Columbia), the
Macintosh computer diskette contains
an interactive HyperCard "stack" of animations, sound andgraphics createdwith
a new animation program, AddMorion,
designed by Vancouver's Motion Works
Inc. By following Eddie," a backpacksporting cartoon adventurer, Mac users
can check out the travel and vacation
spots of B.C.'s great outdoors.
10,000 copies of the brochure and
disk are slated for distribution, and users
are encouraged to &eely distribute the

program on the diskette. According to


the brochure, Mac users"tend to be the

adventurous types exactly the kind of


people who would have a terrific time
rafting our rivers, hiking our mountains
or fishing our deepsea inlets." (Editor's
note: Anrj, they'
nioney,too.)
Apparently, this is only the first step in
B.C. Tourism's high-tech plans. Mr.
Michael stated thatfuture plansinduded
usinglow-&equency FM broadcasts to air
B. C Minister fe Toarlra CliII'Michael, localized information about tourist atAssistant Bepury Miraeter, Mmkcring, Ad tractions. Road signs displaying station
Van Haajlen and Morse's Worksprasiderd information would encourage passing
Lloyd Bernhanft introduce a pregrara thar' s motorists to tune in for more info. Also
an udeentnrein
planned are TV broadcasts for hotels in
vacation spots and touch~creen information panels for B.C. Ferries.
B.C. TomL~m
The Minister indicated that by inGoes High-tech
cluding advertising or promotional tieVANCOUVER, B.C., Sept 10 In
ins,theseventures could even berevenuewhat the Ministry of Tourism called a
producing. Contact: Eileen Schafer,
"new high-tech initiative, combining
Communications, Ministry of Tourism
computer technology with tourism mar- 604/556-9952 or Joseph MacLean, Moketing," B.C. Minister of Tourism Cliff
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Michael unveileda computer program
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Atari
Atari Unveils SR MHz TT
Series In West Germany
DUSSELDORF, WEST GERMAN',
AUG 50 (NB) Atari has put on display
production versions of its 68050-based
TT machine, a year late and still without
the long-promised Unix operating system. The occasion was the Atari Fair in
Dusseldorf, August 24-26.
An annual event, the Atari Fair has

grown rapidly to the point where it now


fills over 20,000 square metres of exhibition hall, with more than 200 exhibitors
&om 16 countries. The organizers were
expecting over 50,000 visitors mainly
from Belgium, France, and H o lland

during the three days.


Atari claims its TT computer is completely compatible with ST software and
peripherals, and runs the progranis 7-10
times filter with its 52 MHz 68050 proceasor. The machine also comes with a
newversion of the TOS operating system
and the GEM graphical environment,
upgraded by Atari.
The TT machine comes with 2MB
(megabytes) of RAM, upgradable to
26MB, and Atari expects most machines
to be 'sold with color, VGA-like screens
and hard disks. West German priceswere
quoted atDM 7,000 to DM 8,500, depending on configuration.
There was somedisappointmentabout
the lack of Unix. According to Bob
Gleadow, UK managing director for
Atari, "We' ve been developing the TT so
long we gotcaught in the changeover

from Version 5 release 5.1 to Release 4.


But we' re optimistic we' ll be showing it
atHannoverin March, shipping in April."
Gleadow hedged on the issue of how
important Unix would be to the TT's
success. "If the Unix market develops, by
definition we' ll benefit," he said. "Will
our machine make Unix successful? No."
However, one of Arari's main targets
for the machine is the education market,

and Unix will be useful, if not essential,


in helping the company to crack that
notoriously tough nut.

Arari boss Sam Tramiel did think the


new machinewould have a positive effect

on sales of existing machines. "I like


being my own main competitor, "he said.
"It can only help the Sl'. It gives it more
credibilitybyprovidingan upgradepath."
He also hinted at forthcoming Mega
ST models but refused to give details.
"Now that the TT is out, you' ll be seeing
m any new products
over the next year,"
he said. "But we' re not announcing new
that' s a
machines until we' re ready togo;
mistakewe've made before.

Apple
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CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, SEP 15
(NB) The fatladyisn'tsingingyet, but
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ship. An Apple spokeswoman told.
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as low as a street price of U8$650 for an
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Sun Microsystems X-Windows serversfirmly in the Unix arena.
Occupying the middle ground is a
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Several software publishers were
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one book about Hypercerd 2.0 is available at bookstores.
The "golden master," the spokeswoman said, is expected to be the final
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The spokeswoman declined to predict when the release will occur, saying

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Apple II software. Industry experts on


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OIBcially, Apple UK made no comment when these rumored machines
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tems, Adobe Chairman john Warnock
appears ready to step back on the rollercoaster.
Only 15 months ago, Apple announced suddenly that it was selling its
16 percent stake in Adobe, which owns
the PostScriptpagedescription Language
on vvnich thevastmajority of laser printers re based. Apple, it seemed, had
elected
itsown meansofhighquality printing. Adobe stock plunged.
Three months later, Apple said that it
wouldn't develop its own page description language after aH but would instead
license True Type and TrueImage,which

to dev
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industry GuHiver Microsoft was writing.

Why rely on Microsoft (with whom Apple


was and is in litigation on other matters)
and not Adobe' Adobe was charging for
the use of PostScript; Microsoft would
license True Type for f'ree.ALso, True Type
was going to be used in OS/2, aHowing
Apple an inroad into the PC market.
Two days after the Apple/Microsoft
bombshell, Warnock stood up at a trade
show and tears in his eyes called
True Type "vapoxware" and "the biggest
bunch of garbage and mumbojumbo
I' ve ever heard in my life." He then
announced dramatically that Adobe
wouldpublish the proprietary specificafions to PostScript and its font technology giving away the keys to the empire.
This week, just as suddenly as they
split, Apple and Adobe suddenly kissed
and made up, though precisely wiry re-

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CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA,SEP 19
(NS) Apple Computer promises to
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won't receive xt until the first half of
1991, yet another delay in the release of'

the new Macintosh operating system.


Alpha versions of the software have

been available to developers since May.


Developers have been growing restive
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how they will be ixnplemented. At the
same time, Apple is committed to producing error-&ee system software,no
matter how long it takes.
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developers and customers, said Roger
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our developerswe are confident System


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Adobe and Apple plan to continue to
work together to provide new products
based on Adobe's PostScript software
and printertechnology developed by
Apple Computer."
There was no agreementannounced,
no signatures at the bottom of contracts.
Apple spokeswoman Patty TuHoch said
the intentwas to "give us some flexibility
on new technology, being able to better
integrate True Type under future printers."The idea, she said,was to insure that
TrueType would work with new versions
of PostScxipt though she said no new
technologies were specified.
The commitmentbetween Apple and
Adobe appealedto Wall Street Adobe
stock jumped 5 1/8 to N I / 8 on the
announcement.
The companies had never split completely. TrueType remains on the horizon, promised by Apple as part of its
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year. PostScripthas rexuained very muc
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Apple has said from the beginning
thatwhatever TrueType does,itwiH do it
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While the listofprice reductions is too
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lists for US$6,999; the Deskpro 586/20e
Model 40 is now US$4,899; the Deskpro
586/s Model 1 now lists for US$2 799;
and the Deskpro 586n Model 40 is also

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One 286n computer, the Deskpr'o
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to a new price of US$2,599.
A number ofmemory products have
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586/25e and 586/25 has been cutto
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modules have also been reduced. Contact:Mike Berman, Compaq, 715-5742510

got the look and feel of Macintosh."


Ensamble interfaces with MS-DOS version 4.01 and throughitsuse, said Dahlke,
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almost exactly like they are on a Macintosh."
Thirty-day trial subscriptions to
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Pal and, Dahlke told Newsbytes, "an automatic installation program will automatically set up Ensamble, Prodigy and
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The system, the Laser Pal 286, will ship
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Grant Dahlke, Laser spokesperson,
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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS,
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rized Resellers induding Egghead DisTheESA/9000seriesconxainsthemost
countSoftware,Computerland,andSoft powerful computerever introduced by
Warehouse.
the firm, a system that xs water cooled
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thatitwilllaunchdirecdyfxom Windows Most industryattention was centered on
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high+ p eed processors, have an opporIn its announcement, Lotus stressed
tnnily to gain market share.
theover200enhatncementproductsnow
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available for Release 5.1 kom third~
annou n cing its entry in the highrttpeed
vendoxsand said that', to further encourrace: the M-1800 group. Although the
age such development, Lotus will be
company did notannounce the exact
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ch i nes, on the other hand, were-being
fourth quarter of this year.
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IBM do. The challenge to IBM was to
announce steps to smooth the transition
period and they' ve done so."
Martin continued,"As toactualspeed,
we won't kuaw until the machines are
actuamy in customer's bands and we expect them both to be out around the
same tune in second balf '91. IBM tries
not to measure ils throughput in MIPS,
as most like to do, but dwells on toed
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but, as I said, we won't really know until


next year. Contact: Amos A. Kexxnisch,

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Software Audits Hard Disks


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WASHINGTON, D.C., SEP 5 (NB)The SofNsaxe Pubhihers Association is

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computers for over 650 of the mostcommon profpams used in business today.
AfterallPC'sbavebeen SPAudited, the
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what sokware pxofpams are authorized
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The SPAsaysitbasreceivedoverS,N0
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Grandview 2.0 indudes connections
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The problem "is not widespread, according toCompaqspokeswoman Debra
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Theywere fustalerted to the problem by
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Dealers are offering owners of the
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operating system, which lets companies
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memoryisused. Timeslicing techniques
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June McLaren,The Software Link, 404448-5465

Unix World
Unix Users Question Value
of Benchmarhs
SYDNEY, AUSIRALIA, SEP 15 (NB)

Greg Rose, president of the Australian Unix Users Group, says that too
many Unix users are evaluating systems
on benchmarks alone, while ignoring
other issues such as support and breadth
of software.
He told Newsbytes that this was one of
the issues to be discussed at his group's
annual exhibifionand conference tobe
held in Canberra on September 26to 28.
The conference theme is"Unix: The
Computing Platform for the '90's."
Rose expects about500 delegates and
1000 exhibition visitors.

UK: New PICK Quarterly


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BUSHEY, HERTFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, SEP 10 (NB) A new Pick
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IBM/Hitachi OSF Alliance


Seen As Harbinger Of
Future
TOKYO, JAPAN, SEP 7 (NB) The

agreement between IBM and Hitachi,


majormembersofOSFor Open Software
Foundation, to cooperate on porting
software to meet OSF/Motif specifications this week has been greeted with
mixed feelings here inJapan.
Some see the alliance, involving 10
workers &om IBM and 40 &om Hitachi,
according toindustrysources, as the end
of cooperation within theJapanese computer industry incubated under the protection provided by MITI, or Ministry of
Internafional Trade and Industry.
In the 1960's, many Japanese electronics firms joined forces with technically advanced Western companies:
Hitachi and RCA, NEC and Honeywell,
Toshiba and General Electric or GE, and
Fujitsu made a pass at IBM but settled
down with Amdahl, a spin-off of IBM.
Then in 1971, MITI arranged a series
of marriages amongJapanese firmsto
develop general-purpose computers.
Hitachi and Fujitsu teamed up to make
an IBMwompatible machine, Toshiba
and NEC joinedforcesbecause GE sold
its computer division to Honeywell, and
Mitsubishi joined with Oki.
Japanese journalists suggest the relationship between Hitachi and Fujitsu,
which rolled out the first IBMwompatible M series generalgurpose computer
in 1975, has come to the tuning point.
A Hitachi oKicial, however, stressed
that this relationship with IBM pertains
only to the Unix arena and has no effect
on its entire business.
Fujitsu dearlypartedwayswith former
partner Hitachi in the Unix arena when
itacquired U.K:based ICL to build up its
Unix business. Fujitsu has devoted ICL
to Unix standardization for Unix International.
Also, Hitachihas reconciled with IBM
since the espionage scandal of 1982 in
which Hitachiwas alleged to have stolen
technical information &om IBM with

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Mitsubishi's help.
In recent years, the situation has
changed between Westernmakers and
Japanesemakers, and thejapanese computer industry is expected to face a
turning point in the 1990's.

Ashton-Tate Intros

Spreadsheet For
Pomm
e/,
NeXT
TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA, SEP 5
(NB) Ashton-Tate is announcing
PowerStep, a spreadsheet designed to
take advantage of the graphical and audio output capabiTides ofNeXT workstations. The product, for which no pricing
or shipping date has been announced,
offers 5-D graphics, voice annotaiions,
spreadsheet publishing capabilities, and

dropoutscast
theeconomyaboutUS$240
billion in lost lifetime earnings.
The authors say that whik only 15
percent of future jobs will require a college degree,more than halfof alljobs
beyond high
school) educations.
The 8-page educationtrend report,
abstracted from the authors' forthcoming book, "Educadonal Renaissance: Our
Schools into the Twenty-First Century,"
St. Martin's Press, December 1990, is
available from World Future Society,4916
Saint Elmo Ave., Bethesda, MD 20814 at
US$5 for asingle copy, US$2 for each
additional copy, and US$1 each in quan-

will
requirepostsecondary (

tides of 100 or more. Contact Timothy


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Report Sees 46% Growth


In Workstations
TORONTO, ONTARIO, SEP 11 (NB)

Canadian workstation shipments rose


40.1percentin 1989,according to anew
report from Evans Research here.
The technology
market research fi
rm
predicted even stronger growth thisyear,
with 1990 shipments rising 46.9 percent
from 6165 units to 9055 units.
In revenues, this tr anslates into

21 ~

C$240.'7 million in 1989, up 52.2 percent from 1988, with a prediction of


C$656.4 million in revenues in 1994.
Revenues are not gratwing as fitst as unit
shipments, Evans noted, because prices
are falling.
Evans said Sun Microsystems retains
its leading position in the Canadian
workstation market, accounting for
about 57 percent of shipments in 1989.
That figur is up slightly from 54percent
in 1988, the research firm added, but is
likely to slip back to 55 percent this year.
Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment
took second and third place. Coming
from behind are IBM and Silicon

a graphical user interface.

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(NB) Kodakhasunveiled ahigh~
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Designed to be "the most dramatic
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PostScriptpagedescripdon
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BETHESDA, MARYL/LND, SEP 15
(NB) The World Future Society has
released a report showing thatworkfarce
entrants and current employees are
poorly educated for thejobs that involve
rapidly changing technology.
In 'Educational Renaissance: 45
Trends for U.S. Schools," Marvin Cetron
and MargaretEvans Gayle say that,due
to poor vocabuhry, reading, and writing
skills, U.S. workers can't adapt to
changing jobs. "Ihree-fourthsof new
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only 40% of thenew jobs created between 1985 and 2000, said the report.
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PARSIPPANY, NEW JIHLSKY,SEP 10
(NB) The Bureauof Electronic Publishing sent out its quarterly hst of the
best-selling CD-ROM titles, and there
was little change between the first and
second quarters of 1990. The Bureau,
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disks, said the Microsoft Bookshelf,

Grolier's Encyclopedia, and Microsoft


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the
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CIA World Fact Book.
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Supercomputer Seeks
Substitute For Dyiag
Spruce Forest
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA,
SEP 6 (NB) As the Norway spruce
forests are being destroyed by air pollution and the world is losing the bestwood
for maki3ig violins, Carnegie Mellon
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Robert Schumacher is using a National
Science Foundation-funded Gray
supercomputer to analyze possible sub-

composites.
So fitr,Mr. Schumacher's research
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IRD Predicts Computerized


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starting October 1. The gadget predicts
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BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, SEP 8
(NB) Scientists at the Universityof
California at Berkeley believe that have
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The United States office of GECMarconi So8ware Systems has acquired
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wumg.
The Verran DataLink and Dedicated
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royalties &om the date the patent is is-

North America.

which he dedined tonamebutsaiditwas

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The devices are not limited to personal


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with almostany computer. The DalaLink


can be connected to a serial or parallel
port
To communicate, two DalaLinks must

be plugged into the same electrical circuit. The devices should be within 100
meters (500 feet) of each other, Boers
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lent with the internal combusfion engine" and says Hyatt might be able to
seek royalties &om the sale of every microprocessor made after the date the
patent was issued - July 17, 1990. He
says that an inventor can only collect

The DPS allows as many asseven computers to share a single printer. It also
acts as a print spooler.
Boers said the technology is essentially the same as that used in "smart
home" devices that let a computer control home appliances through devices
plugged into electrical outlets.
The Datalink sells for US$545, while
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GECMatconiisasubsidiaxyof General
Electric of Great Britain. Contact: Susan
Boers, GEC-Marconi, 705-648-1551;
Jenny Young, KSK Communications for
GEC-Marconi, 705-754-1880

Hyatt New Father


Of The Micmprocessor
CERRITOS, CALIFORNIA, AUG 50
(NB) Twentyyears after inventing the
first microprocessor, Gilbert Hyatt has
finallyreceived apatent for it an thanks
the US Patent OKce for mahng it so
diKcult.
Hyatt, an engineer and technology
consultant who invented the"computer
on a chip" at his firm Micro Computer
Inc. in 1968, says the patentoffice "scrutinized 'very thoroughly work done by
Texas Instruments and Intel," the companies which have until now been considered the inventors of the microchip.
"That patent is much stronger because
they already addressed those issues and
put them to becL They did a big favor by
being so careful," Hyatt tells Newsbytes.
The US Patent Officeon July 17
granted Hyatt patent number 4,942/16
entitled "Single Chip Integrated Grcuit
Architecture," the daun for which was
originally filed December 2, 1970based
on work done in 1968.
Contacted byNewsbytes, patentattorneyGaryHeckerof the lawfirm ofHecker
and Harrimau confirms that 'The daim
appears to cover all the elements of a
microprocessor: main memory to store a
computer's instructions, operand
memory to store operands (or operational instructions), and a processing
circuit to process the operations in response to instructions in memory."
He says this could be a patent equiva-

sued, not the date of the invention.


Asked how he kept up the patent applicafion process for 20 years, Hyatt told
Newsbytes, "You justkeep plugging away.
Itwasvetyimportantand itwas worth it"

Hyatt says he has no plans to getgreedy


with the existing microprocessor industxy, but does want to collect some royalties. "I am not an enforcer. I'm an engineer and an R Sc D man." He will turn
over the job of negotiating licenses with

high-techcompanies to "anew company"

international licenses. "We will offer li-

Hyatt says he plans to use monies


gained &om licensing to fund his current
research and development projects into
liquid crystal devices, high-performance
processors,improved memory systems,
and new display technologies. His laboratory is located in the La Palma area of
Los Angeles. His address is PO Box 5557,
Cerritos, CA 90705.

VDT Safety Laws


Eyed In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,
AUG 50 (NB) San Francisco city supervisors are considering legislation
which would mandate safety standards
for workers who use computers. San
Francisco's legislation could serve as a
model for the country, and attempts to
make up for the absence of state or
federal legislation protecting workers
against repetitive motion injuries and
other VDT-related health problems.
The bill,putforthbySupervisorNancy
Walker, would require firms with at least
15 employees to give VDT workers regularbreaks and ergonomically designed,
adjustable office furniture, including
wrist rests. Violators could be fined
US$500 a day. An additional part of the
bill requires the city to do regular
monitoring of the health of VDT workers. San Francisco employerswould have
two years to comply with the new guidelines.
A simBar bill was defeated in Suffolk
County, New York this year, but San
Francisco backers believe this bill has the
votes and the support, including that of
the unions.
In June of thisyear, a number of
reporters and editorial workers in New
York City brought suit against Eastman
Kodakfor cumulative trauma disordersra
which they allegedly acquired while
working with Kodak's Atex text-processing system. The US$270 million suit
charged that the eight journalists, employed by Newsday, The Village Voice,
Associated Press and Discount Store
News, "developed and suffered severe,
permanent and disabling cumulative
trauma disorders, as well as psychological injuries" &om continued use of the
Atex VDT's. Since the filing of that suit,
othershave followed.
The legislation comes as there is
mounting concern about the health effects of VDT's, especially on pregnant
women and on the vision of workers.
Also, repetitive+train injuries, caused by

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the repetitive demands of the hand and
wrist while typing on a conventional
computerkeyboard, areon theincrease.

Managers Axe Spending


Too Much Time As Clerks
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,AUG 28 (NB)
The proliferation of personal computers on managers' desks has turned
too many of them into derks, leaving
too little time for managing, according
to Georgia Tech economist Dr. Peter
Sassone. He said his studies of 1,565
employees in 77 offices induding 4 Fortune 1000 companies showed that a
sample of middle-level managers were
spending only 25 percent of their time
managing, but a third of their time on
support tasks and other non-productive
activities.
Sassone said many companies can
dramatically increase productivity and
profits by rethinking stafF requirements,
redefining job responsibifiities, and taking full advantage of information technology. The key, he said, is to give managers enough of a support stafF so they
can get out of their offices and get back
onto the shop Hoor. Contact: Ginger
Pinholster,
Georgia Tech, 404494-5444

successful trade shows devoted to CDROM is scheduled for March 18-20, 1991
at the SanJose Convention Center. The
Microsoft~onsored, Cahners Exposition Group-managed eventhas a new
name this year The Sixth International Conference on Multimedia and
CD-ROM, the "multimedia" added for
the first time to reflect the high growth of
CD-.ROM in the multimedia arena
Next year'sevent was rescheduled to
allowforcoverage of key new products
and technological advancements, the
show sponsors say.

For information about attending the


show contact Cahners at 205-9648287.

Potential exhibitors should call Jon


Leibowitz, show manager, at 205-552-

8224.

Monthly MediaRoundup
WASHINGTON, D.C., SEPT (NB)Roundup is a brief look at stories appearing in other publications.
The WrtllStraet
Joarrtal'sSeptember 4th
issue reported that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) may attempt this fall to
done the Intel 80586, and both Chips 8c
Technologies and Japan's V.M. Technology Corp. may join AMD in production next year.

2n ~

Compaq got some bad press in the


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schedule shipping the 68040 microprocessor chip, and there is extensive coverage of Lotus's new 1-2-5.
October's Macrrrorlrlspecializes in all
phases of Desktop Publishing.
The September 25th issue of PC
Mrsgtizitte may be the most important

issue they have ever published, containing as it does the results of a massive
survey of computer users asking which
PC vendors offered the most reliable
computers and accessories and best ser-

Paxus Acquires Orchard


Susieess Systems
VANCOUVER, B.C., SEP 11 (NB)-

Australian software company Paxus has


acquired Orchard Business Systems, a
British maker of accounting software.
Lee Brebber,marketing manager for
Orchard's Canadian subsidiary, Orchard
Software (Canada), based here, told
Newsbytes Orchard's operations would
becoine unitsof Paxus. Ithasnot been
decided whether the companies will
change their names, he said, though that
is probable. The software islikelytokeep
the Orchard name, he added.
Paxus' resources will provide a boost
to Orchard, Brebber said. "It means a lot
more will be happening in the area of
RScD."
Brebber said no purchase price was
being disdosed.
Paxus is 49 percent owned by Genetfal
Accident Fire and Life Assurance and 15
percent by IBM. It sells software worldwide, particularly to the European finan-

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Orchard Software Canada,604-588-7768-

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15 (NB) A new calendar, in wallmount format, will highlight more than
200 trade shows and conferences in 1991.
Called the Computer Calendar, it is being ofFeredby Tech Trade Events of San
Francisco for US$24.95.
The company says its wall calendar is
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and contact information for high-tech


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events taking place each year in both the
U.S. and overseas.
The calendar ships in mid-November
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Andersen Sc Co. which covered the bigpicture issues. The following article is
based' on notes from this semmar. tes
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what he thought of the GST as a tax, his
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is s611 growing at a rate of $28 billion a
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growing economic black hole that government spending is creating. This is
before they consider the added cost of
administering the increasingly complex
GSL Their first estimates were that it

would require4,000-5,000 new tax collectors; now that estimate is slipping up


to 10,000-plus. Scary.

Will It Pass?
Bill G62 completed final reading in
the House of Commons in April of this
year. It still has to flght its way through
the Senate, but the odds are that it will

pass, and on Januaxy 1, 1991 we will have


a new tax system to replace the existing
Federal Sales Tax (FFI}. One scenario
has the implementation delayed until
April of 1991, or possibly July 1991.

The FST is a multiple tax rate with a


narrowtax base. Itisimplemented at the
manufacturing stage, andas such iscalled
a'hidden tax, because when you buy
something at the retail level, you don' t
know if you are paying it or not,Because
itis levied primarily on Canadian goods,
it is said to favor imports.
The GSI', on the other hand, is a
single tax tate with a much wider ttx
base, because it taxes both goods and
serviceL It is a mu16stag'e tax which will
be leviedon primary producers, manufitcturers, service contributors, distribu-

torsandfinailyretailers. The governxnent


daims it is a visible tax, because in all
likehhood,retailerswill continue to quote
their pricesh)forr ter GST to make them
appear more attractive. Goods created
for export will be exempt &om the GST,
which win supposedly favor exports.

How It Will Work


The &axnework for the proposed tsx
is a bureaucrat's dream come true; they
get to tax virtually everything, all the
time. Everyone except the ultimate
consumer gets to daim credits back.
Some income levels of consumers will
get rebates through the personal tax
system. This iswhere the record-keeping
nightmare comesin. Businesseswill have
to save all their receipts and be able to
prove what theywere in order to get their
credits.
An example of how it will work is
illustrated belovr.

SalesPurchasesTaxlnputNet
oh Tax Tax
SalesCrsdit
P rim. Producer$100
$7 $ $ 7
Manufacttrrer $30D $100 $21 $7 $14
Distributor $ 4 0 0 $300 $ 2 8 $21 $7
Retail Level $800 $400 $42 $28 $14
Ultimately the only tax paid is at the
levelof the consumer.

The Accounting Level


A manufacturer's accounting entries
would look something like this:

Purchases
Debit Purchases
Debit GST
Credit Cash

Payment
Debit GST
Credit Cash

$5el
$500
$21
$100

$7
$107

D E S K T O P P U B L IS H I N S IN C .

$14
$14
Asyou can see, the entrieswill never
on your income statement, they
are all balancesheet items.

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Your basic calculation will be: Taxable
Sales X Tax Rate (7% for a while
anyway}= Tax Charged on Sales. From

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this amount, you will be able to subtxact

tax paid on purchases (your Input Tax


Credit); the netamountwill be your Tax
Payable (if it is positive), or your Tax
Refundable (ifnegative). Itis conceivable
that youcould claim refunds before you

How Is It Different
From The FST?

Sales
Debit Receivables
Credit Sales
&edit GST

GST Account
Debit GST
Credit GST

actually sold any product, if you are just


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Quick And Streamlined?


On June 1,1990 the government released a quick method" for certain
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remitting the net difference, "qualifying
small businesses can instead remit at a
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capital purchases will still be accounted
for in the "normal" method and input
Iax credits will be available for them.
The "streamlined method was conceived of for businesses in the food industxy, where the GSl' is particularly
complicated. For instance, a purchase of
six prepackaged mtdnns is exempt while
a purchase of one is taxedl
Note that you must determine which
of the three methods (basic, quick or
streamlined) is most advantageous to
your business.

The Thought Police


There will be a rebate on the federal
sales tax paid on inventories held for
resale (not supplies). Therefore, businesses with inventory must do a count at
December Sl, 1990 to differentiate
productwhichis tax paid &om thatwhich
is not. Note that you must be registered
by January 1, 1991 to collect the rebate.
If Revenue Canada believesyou have a
decent perpetual inventory system, they
may not require you do inventory. The
approval process for what constitutes a
satisfactoxyinventorysystem has notbeen
released at this time. The government
has expressed an intention to t r ack
businesses which do not pass this savings
on to their customers.

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Taxable is where most of us will SLll as
thegreatunwashecLAlmostallbusinesses
producing goods or sexvlces wiI be taxable, as will be the eud consumers. The
fundamental dilerence between a busjness and a consumer is that the business
willbeable to:daim credits back,asa part
of the process of creating their good or
service. The consumer will not.
Tax Free items will be basic groceries
and exports. There will be notax on the
sale af these goods and the producers
will be able to daim input credits back
for puxd~es they made to create these
goods. If you buy one single sexving of
yoguxt, it will not be basic groceries but
if you buy a four-pack, it will be considexed a basic gxocexy item.
Tax Exempt services will indude doctors, dentistsandresidentialrents. These
people win not have to collect the GSI'
on their services, but theywill also not be
able to daim credits on their purchases.
The net effect is likely to be increased
costs for doctors, dentists and landlords,
because they cannotdaim the GST back
on things that they buy for their businesses. In all likelihood, these increased
costs will be passed through to the consumer anyway,although they may not be
as high as if the GST had been included.

Welcome to The Public


Service
If you run a business that hlls under
the Taxable group outlined above, you
will join the ranks of government employeesas ofJanuary 1st,aud become a
tax collector for the government If you
are engagedin acommercialactivity that
results in tangible personal properly being delivered in Canada, supply intangibles that will have their use or benefit
in Canada, sell real property located in
Canada, or supply services for end use in
Canada, you w'ill become liable to remit
on all taxable sales made.

Timing Is Everything

nuallybut may be required to make


monthlypayments. Businesseswithsales
between $500,000and $6 million annually must file quarterly, but may elect
monthly filing. Businesses over $6 million in annual sales must pay their GST
bills monthly. The trick is that you can
only daim your credits on the same basis
as you are liable for them, so for cashflowshortbusinesses, it maybe advisable
to fil
emore reguhrly soyou can getyour
credits moxe rapidly as welL

What Doei It Mean To Your

CustomersP

What Changes Wll You


Have To Make To Your
InvoicesP

"When does the GST become payable?" you might ask.


According to the government in Section 168 of the proposed GST Act, payment is due to the government the earlier of (A) the date the consideration is
paid, or (B) the date the considerahon
becomes due. That date is deteimined
by the date of the invoice, the day the
supplier would have issued the invoice
butfor undue delay, or the day the receipt
is required by agreement, whichever is
earliest.
Whatall thismeansis that therewillbe
incxeasedpressure tokeepreceivablesin
line.After 50 days,ifyour customer has
not paidyou,you will still have to pay the
government their share.
Interestingly, ifyou delayyour invoice
until the first of the month, you win not
have to pay the gavexnment until the
end of the month following the invoice
date. On theother hand, you may be
under pressure from your customers to
invoice earlier,say the 50thof the month,
so that they can daim their credit m the
month following.

One factorto consider for your accounting system is the need to possibly
change your invoices or cash-register
slips. The GST Act requires documentation for the Input Tax Credits. These
inClud:

How Of'ten Do You Have


To Pay The GST?

Planning

Businesses with annual sales below


$%,000areexemptfrom the GSTsystein
but may elect to be in the GSI' system.
Businesses with sales bdow $500,000
annually, can report their GST bill an-

Emil N. Nlanchutenko, C.A.,is an experiencedmanager, taxation services,


in the Vancouver offices of Arthur
Andersen & Go. Emil is responsible for
the commodity tax practice in the
Vancouver office and is working with
the National GSTgroup and Vancouver
clients to analyze the effect of the GST

on specific companies and to advise on


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100% capital cost allowance rate applied
effective December 19,1989.

Dealing with the changes resulting


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Shet by establishing a &amework for
planning and implementing the GST.
Set up a timetable of the activities, time
required, who will be responsible and

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what the reporting system will be. Determine the length of time required for
changes a'nd the costs associated with
them. Talk to your accountant.

In most cases, the GST will just be an


accounting headache. They will have to
pay the GST for your good or service, but
then they will be able to get credit for it
The real cost is going to be in changingyour accounting system to keep track
of whatyou owe the government, and
what they owe you.
Another cost is the time value of your
money. Thegovernment has structured
itso thatyoupaynastypenaltiesifyouare
late (6% penalty plus interest compounded daily), and yet they don't pay
much interest if they are late in repaying
you.
Higher storage costs may also be incurred, because your volume of documents may be larger. You still have to
meet the current requirement of saving
all invoices for six years should Revenue
Canada Customs and Excise wish to do
an audit on your business.
If you are selhng to consumers, there
will beaperxod ofgettingused to thenew
uut. Evexyone will have to get used to the
price being 'l% higher, and asking
whether the price tag indudes GST or

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Will Be The First Hit
The Goods and Services Tax (GST}
goes into effect on j'anuary 1st, 1991 if
the Tories manage to push it past the
present Senate opposition and there are
no delays new that Ontario and Quebec
have agreed to combine it with their
sales tax. The fust impact was felt on
September 1st, when GSI'was appliedon a pro-rated basis to subscriptions

that extend into 1991. It is uncertain


how effective Revenue Canada will be in
enfordng the GST on US. magazine
publishers.

Massive Tax Grabi


The tax has been the subject of many
comments and criticisms. The Tories
originally daimed it was a revenue-neutral substitute for the inequitable Manu-

facturers or Federal Sales Tax (FSI').


The opposition daims it is a massive tax

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grab. Both are partlyright On manufactured goods a 7% GST replaces a 15.5%
FST and, on average, will have a neutral
effect the specifics forvarious compute
items are discussed later. On services
this is a new tax that will bring in additional revenue to the tune of several
Mlion dollars annually.
The GST is a Value Added Tax applied at all levels of the raw material,
manufircturing, distribution and retail
chain. Each level charges the 7% GSI'
but only remits to Revenue Canada the

difFerence between the tax charged to


the next level and the tax paid to the
previous level so that the tax is not
compounded.
Value Added Taxes are common in
many countries, including throughout
Europe. Typical rates are in the 15% to

refusing to buy temporarily. A downturn in sales the first week of the New
Year should rapidly bring prices back
into line.
Low-volume computer products and
hot new equipment will face a different
impact &om the GST. The selling price
of this equipment is often set atwhat the
market canbear. The mark-up between
manufacturing cost and wholesale can
be high, both to cover development and
advertising costs, and to maximize profits. This can be particularly pronounced
where the Canadian distributor is wholly
owned bythe manufacturer.
In this case, after adjusting for differencesin corporate taxes and any oIFsetting tax losses between the two countries, the manufacturer may import the

item at the lowest price possible to pay

22% range with occasional higher levels

the lowest amount of FSI' then remit

on luxury goods. By these standards, the


Canadian uniform 7% GSI' is modest,
and herein lies the danger.
Once the GST is in place, future governments have a goose that can lay a
golden egg. Increases will generate
higher revenue immediately, without
extraadministrative eKort. There will be
obvious temptations to increase the tax
to reduce the Federal deficit.. Given the
negative long-term consequences of our
growing deficit, this may not be a bad
thing,althougheverythingwillcostmore,
increasing inflation in the short term.

the profit &om the higher mark-up back


to theparent company.
Forexample thathot, new,2-kilogram
286 notebook computer could beimported at $1,500, priced at $5,600
wholesale and sold on the street for

Computer Programmers
WQ1 Be Taxed
In the computer world, the GSI' will
have mixed impacts. All services, including repairs and custom programming,
will immediately cost 7% more. Conversely, the cost of printed computer
forms and other custom-printed items
like advertising fiyers, which have the
FST added at the retail level, will drop by

65%.

Effects On Hatthvare And


Sof'twaxe
Changes in the price of computer
hardwareand packaged software vrillbe
smaller andmore varied dependingon
the mark-up between the import cost
and the retail price.
Take aggressively priced equipment
hkePCclonesandlcnvendprinterL Both
the component importer and the value
added retailer work on low margins, often avoiding distributor and assembler
stages. A computer with $1,000 of imrted parts could sell for as little as
1,500. Duty of 5.9% at the import level
remains the same, but the FST ofl5.Ho

on $1,000is$1% while the GST of 7% on


$1,500is$105. In simple terms,your cost

should drop $50, or 2%.


There will be anomalies at the beginning of1991. Computer equipmentand
components already in hand will have
paid the 15.5% FST and the 7% GST
would be added on top. While double
taxation is not unusual in Canada, Revenue Canada, Customs and Excise, has
made arrangements to avoid this situation by offering FST Inventory Rebates
forall stockm hand atyear end. Itisup
to the importer, distributor and retailer
to daim this rebate and adjust the selling
price accordingly onJanuary 1st.
The announced government watchdog on price gouging is unlikely to have
any immediate dfect and inJanuary it is
up to the consumer to resist having 7%
simply added to the December price by

$5,995. 15S%%u
o FST on $1/00 is $200,

while7/o GST on $5,995 is $280, an


increase of $80 or 2%. Alternatively, the
distributor, facedwith little competifion,
will leave the wholesale price unchanged
and pocket an additional $200 profit,
stifimg the consumer with 7% more.
If you are in the market for such
productsyou may be wise to buy before
the year-end orplay the technology/
price curve game and wait a year until
competition brings the price down, say
to $5,000.

Computer Books And


MayLKines To Be Taxed
Books and magazines are not subject
to FST but the GSTwill apply, increasing
their costby7%. Thisincrease should be
partly offset by the fortuitously higher
Canadian dollar. However publishers
and Canadian distributors have used the
opportunity of our low dollar over the
last few years to widen the gap between
the U.S. and the Canadian list price.
There seems little momentum to reduce
tbis gap now the dollar is up. Once
again, the consumer can take charge by
choosing books with a reasonable differential, by buying at stores that offer a
discount, or by ordering by mail &om
the United States.
Afher January 1st, mail-order costswill
change. Revenue Canadawillcontinue
to collect duty and taxes on the landed
priceof goods &om abroad. The 15.5%
FSI' will be replaced by the 7% GSI;
making allimported computerhamhere
6H% cheaper. However, software and
books will now carry the GST for an
increaseof7%. One of theadvantagesof
mailwrder and an inequity for local
dealers is that provincial sales tax is
avoided. Technically you should remit
sales tax to the province on itemsbrought
in, but this is only enforced on automobilesand major corporate purchases.
The provincial
gavernmentshavebeen
discrsssing arrangements whereby Revenue Canada would collect provincial
sales tax at the same time as federal
duties and taxes. There is no agreement
as yet, but if it occurs, it will wipe out the
advantages the GST brings to hardware
maRarder and further penalize private
software and book imports.
After the year-end, the higher Canadian dollar, coupled with reduced taxes,
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buyer beware,there are pitMls.

Effects On U.S. Mail Order


Sevexal U.S. mail~rder suppliers do
not ship outside the continental United
Stateg othersadd high shippingcharges
to Canada, while others no longer offer
postal delivery. The much-maligned
postal sexvice has advantages as it indudes &ee brokerage. Your package
amves at your doorstep with an invoice
for duty and taxes. Revenue Canada
informally exempts shipmenis with duty
and 1axesless than $5, so itemsworth less
than C$5040 enter &ee. AfterJanuaxy,

if this policy remains, goods up 'to


approximately C$60-70 could be exempted duty and GSI'.s
Brokerage is alsoinduded in UPSand
Federal Expressairshipments. You have
to supply the shipper with a power of
attorney so they can dear your goods,
and you will have to pay the shipper the
duties and taxes plus a surcharge, typi-

cally $7 to $20.

The commonly used UPS ground


shipping does not indude brokerage,
which adds$25 to $50 to the cost of duty
and tax. In all cases, you can go to the
shipper's bonded warehouse near the
airport and process the paperwork
through Customs yourself; any savings

depends on how much you value your


time.
Warranty service in Canada isa potential problem with the majoxity of maiorder purchases. Only a few U.S. mailorder vendors usually not the lowestpriced have Canadian service arrangements. Most Canadian distributors will
repair items personally imported at
their full labor and parts cost, a few will
honour International Wasrantisp
you pay
labor butparts are covered; a fewwill not
repair self imported equipment at all.
Although most equipmentmeets both
the UL and CSA electrical standards,
some does not. There are slight differences in the US and Canadian siandards.
I

Using non-CSA-certified electrical


equipment could invalidate your fire insurance.
Telephone equipmentsold in the US,
indudingfaxboardsand modems, rarely
carries Communications Canada (DOC)
certification. Connectmg uncertified
equipment toyour telephone line is contraxy to BCTe'sregutations {regulations
that are not practical to enforce).
Returning merchandise for warranty
repair out of Canada involves packing
the item, but leaving it unsealed for inspection, taking it personally to the Customs House at 1001 West Pender, and
completing a set of E15 paperwork. Otherwise you have to pay duty and iax again
along with the shipping charges one
way, or sometimes both ways; it can take
weeks or months to get the item back.
My experience with mailmrder electronic equipment has been poor. One
item did not work on delivery and, short

of time, I ended up paying the repair


charges to the Caxtadian distributor.

Another item failed two months after the


warranty expired. The item was not
imported into Canada although similar models were and the Canadian
distributor could notrepair it. I scrapped
it.

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difFerential on software rarely justifies
buying in the States after taking the dollar premium, taxes and shipping into
account, particularly if the software is a
popuhr item, often on sale here. Maybe
the ease of importing keeps our prices
reasonable; certainly some local dealers
are by-passing the Canadian distributor
and bringing software in directly &om
the U.S.

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anomalies have been worked out, the
GST impact on computer hardware and
packaged software should be minor, in
the range of 4 2% at the retail leveL
Books and magazines including subscriptions will increase by 7%. Maitorder costs &om abroad will drop by

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eNote thttt this S5 etutttaption mty not apply at

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applying 9 no tnfawmtrtsgnuet, and ooaectintr all
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'Enemy-icosipiogmuis are &nited in cape-

bihtier; at the otherend of the scale, you' re


deahng with a product rohichroasdesigned by
accountantsfor accountants. "
Murray Aston of BusinessVision
Management Systems Inc.
If you run a business, you probably
realize that the GSI' will introduce an
increased level of complexity in your
day-to@ay opemtions. Because of this,
many businesses that have in the past
resisted computerizing their accounting
system realize thatnowis the time to bite
the bullet Others may flnd that their
l~ n daccounting so@ware is not able
to handle the additional complexities of
the GSL
Beforeyou dive headlong into the sea
of automated accounting solutions,
here's a quick look at some of the products that can help. While by no means
complete(there are over RS Canadian
accounting packages), we have tried to
coversomeofthemorepopularpackages
in Canada. Please contact the companies
for furtherinformation on their products
and plans for the GST.
The growing maturity of accounting
software has led toa segmentation of the
market into three streams: entry-level,
and high~d.
The entry-level market has prograxns
priced at $250 or less and indudes such
top sellers as ACCPAC Bedford Integrated Accounting from Vancouver's
Computer Associates and Dac-Easy Accountingfrom DacEasy Canada of Don
Mills, Ont.
High-end accounting prof paxns typically sell for more than $2,000 for a
complete system of several modules. Everyone in the accounting software businessin Caxiadaagrees thatACCPAC Plus
has a lock on the high end of the accountingsoft@me market.There are,as
we shall see, several competitors outthere
trying to change that.

middleweightcrown. There are however,


plenty of other strong contenders. Consider that product training and support
may be a package's most important features. Be sure to contact the companies

to find out what they offer.

High End
Much to the disappointment of the
competition, Computer Associates has
achieved overwhelming success in
Canada with its ACCPAC Plus line of
modular accounting software. Market
surveys show ACCPAC Plus riding high
with an 809o-plus share of the IBMwompafibl
e highl accounting software
market If you'
ve got an accounnuit,
chances are good that he or she uses it. If
you need a customizable system, there
are a few accounting systems that come
complete with modifiable source code,
including SBT Database Accounting Libraxy and Open Systems Accounting
Software.

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(CA) has announced a plan of upgrades,
utiTities and GSI' planning guides designed to ease the transition for businesses using its ACCPAC family of accounting software solutions. The plan is
designed to help existing users and new
users of CA's accounting products prepare for and successMly implement the
federal government's new tax structure.
As the fixst step of the plan, CA will
send a booklet titled Accounting for the
GSI'" to all registered ACCPAC users
beginning October 1990. The booklet
will provide tips on preparing for the
GSI', answer commonly askedquestions,
and explain the changes in specific
ACCPAC GSI' product upgrades.
Computer Associates will also provide
a transition utility thatwill allowACCPAC
Plus users to globally update their data
with GST information prior to the GSI'
slart-up date. This will ensure that these
users are able to switch as quickly as
possible to the new tax structure when it
At a Glance
comes into effect
Low End
CAwill also release GST upgrades for
Computer Associates' Bedford InteACCPAC Plus,ACCPACBPIAccounting
gxated Accounting offers greater ease of and ACCPAC Bedford (PC-DOS and
use thanany other package, but take a
Macintosh) to provide additional GSI'
lookatDacEasy4.1beforeyou buy. Ithas functionality.
far more functionality than Bedford
"Our goal is to simplify the GSI' tranwithout a comparable rise in complexity sition for businesses. By providing inor price.
creased GST functionahtyin our products as well as software tools and documentation thatcan be used in advance of
Mid-Range
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"Our approach is designed to benefit
current ACCPAC users and potential
users alike, said Comfoltey. "We are
eacouraging businesses who are thinking about automating their accounting
to purchase ACCPACas soon as possible .
so their systems can be up and running
when the GST comes into effect."
Accountants specializing in micro
computer consulting are giving similar
advice to their clients. "Accounting for
the GST is
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nesses' accounting procedures," said


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"Using a computerizedaccoundng
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receipts will reduce this effort for most
businesses. However, businesses planning to automate their accounting systems for the GST should begin doing
this now."
The GSI'upgrades for each ACCPAC
Familyproductlinewillbe released prior
to the federal government implementation date (currentlyproposed as
January
I, 1991). GSI'upgradeswill be provided

for users of ACCPAC Plus Accounts Re-

within the new GST tax system.


"OurACCPACPlus users typicallyhave
The ACCPAC Plus AR GST eahance- ' very large databases," said Comfoltey.
"The transition utility'is designed to save
ments will allow trachag of a GST portionoftheinvoiceamountaadwilihaadle
many hours of updating time that these
users would otherwise experience pretaxable recurring charges. A transition
utilitywill be released for otherACCPAC
paring for the GST. The fact that this
aew tax structure will occur virtually
modules allowing users of version 5X to
overnight makes this utility an essential
input GST information such ascustomer
tool for ACCPAC'Plus users.
and inventory tax statusanditem pricing
In the ACCPAC BPI Accounting line,
modifications while continuing to operGSI' upgrades will be provided for the
ate within the cuirent tax structure.
When the GST comes into effect, they AR and Inveatoiy Control (IC) m odules. The upgsade to AR adds tsx groups
can simply export the infomsation &om
to allow for multWevel taxes, including
the utility into their working (live) datathe GST. This information will also be
base and' thereby function immediately
included in the product's reporting capabilities. The IC upgrade will allow the

ceivable (AR) and Retail Invoicing (RI).

user to define a liabiTity account for GSI'

paid on inventoiy receipts for proper


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February 28, 1991 will also receive &ee
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forupgtades totheseusersisbeingwaived
for the GST upgrades.
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ACCPAC Plus AR, OE and IC users who
receiveor purchase GST upgrades will
alsoreceive the GSI'datattansition utihty.
ACCPAC BPI Accounting AR and IC
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technical support for twelve months by
purchasing SupportPlus for $150 per
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balance. Although this step caa be pass.
word-protected, fhat password is the same
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want to give your users the ability to add
vendors or customers, then there is little
stoppiag theiu from making onecided
journal entries.
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prmt a precheck-pmbting report, and
although its Amounts Payable module
caa quickly turn a purchase order into a
voucher and update inventory, only the
individual selection of vouchers for paymentis possible. Also, because it uses an
alphanumeric account number that can
mdudeup to ten characters, the account
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chart of accounts.
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standard report writer and standard reportsmakes for strong Geaeral Ledger
repor(ing. Using these filciTities will al1owyou to produce any reportyour business might need, including detailed
turnover analysis, financial ratios, and
detailed general ledger and custom 6nancial s{atements. For versatility and
ease of use, DacKasy is a good choice,
aad with an inexpensive multi-user optionDacEasy can provide a growth path
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Competing agtuast CA'8 Sedford In-

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lac. of Findlay, Ohio. M a rketed in
Canada exclusively by Metcan Informagon Tecbnolo~es Inc. Of Markham,

Ontario, Pro6twise is the entry-level part


of TLB Inc.'s Solomon line of accounting products, which also include the
oriynal Solomon III series, aad an advanced productbeing readied for market.
Profitwise's biggest stumbling block
etting started. Even though the
installation process is largelyautoaiated,
it fakes almost aa hour of set-up work
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accounting records.
This~
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maybe
g

Inaliyhtgh&ad accoun tulg sptems. This

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neophyfes will need help to get up and
runxllng
Profitgnse has fl1fee modbgles> each

Iistmg for $299. The fiixt coafmiasall the


accounting functi,ons that many companies wBI ever need, induding general
ledger, accounts receivable, invoicing,
fixed assets, payables, payroll, and mailinglabd management.Another module
covers inventory and job costing, while
the third has a report writer mad graph
designer.
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structure as the Soloinoa IH aecountiag
series for lguger companies. This means
fhait compa1ueswhlch oufgrowprofitwme
can upgrade to Solomon III without going through the pain ofa timecoasuming
data conversion.
The package has several arbitrary
limitations, seeminglyimposed to distinguish it &om the higher-priced Solomon
ID, such as the odd inability to void
checks,itsmsximumof ten mlFNccouats,
a 5MB database, and accogding to PC
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Profitwise is also weak in its Inventory
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system. Less knowledgeable users are
likely to find this sofNyare unwieldly.
MKTCAN Information Technologies
Iac., 77 Steelcase Road West, Unit 4,
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SET Database
Accounting Xib~
Toronto's MSR Iac., distributes a series of progragns that helps companies

40

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tailor their accounting system to match i n g is also timeconsuming, as you wait perienced with its popular dBase profor progrannners to write the software. granuning language are relatively easy to
their needs.
OriginallydevelopedbySBTCorp.,of
Ad d i tional time is required to test and find.
Running SBT in the source code verSausahto, Califoinia, the SBT Database d e bug the fimshed programs to ensure
sion can be rather slow. So, once the
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code written in Ashton-Tate's dBase proSBT i s positioned as an affordable code has been modifiedto meet your
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grtmming hnguage. This means that
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counting program to change its opera- c u stom software. You can start with the furtherchanged, but a backup of the
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SBT runs on many difFerent hardware
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Soon a version for Digital Equipment's
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A wide range of accounting functions
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such as general ledger and accounts
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The recentlyreleasedVersion6.2adds
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Informatic accounting programs can
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difFerent foreign currencies. Customer
accounts receivable listings and sales
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originalcurrencyorin Canadian dolhrs.
BCS providesa lot of power and requiresasubstantialinvestmentof time to
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BCS is definitely not for accounting
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Thesystemhasunusuallylarge capacities
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alphanumeric characters, whereas most
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addition,you can use another 50 characters to describe the product.
Many of the modules have built-in
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budgetforeverymonth of theyear. The
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for most accounting modules in the
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rograms,
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but it represents good value given its
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NewViews
Currently, the NewViews accounting
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mid-range program in Canada. The


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The Computer Paper I oct '96


financial reporting models and proce-

dures called NVTIMEBIU. ($2%) that


automates time entry, biHing, and re-

por6ng.

TimebHI can accommodate up to


10,000 clients with as many as 100,000
projects per dient. Time and expenses
for 1,000 professionals can be tracked in
the system. A dMerent hourly billing
rate can be established for each service
provided bya professional to each dient.
You have up to 50 characters to describe each service on an invoice. AdcStional informa6on can also he entered,

however this cannot easily be printed


out on a hill. This could be a limitation,
particularly to professionals whowant to
indude a detailed record on the invoice
of aH services provided.
NewViews has been criticized in the
past for weak error-handhng capabsli-

ties, but the TimebiH system has beefedup controls. It won't allow you to enter
tiine into a nonexistent dient account,

are in the business of taking orders and


selling something."
The current version of NewViews

(1.13) began shipping in May, 1990. As


with previous NewViews updates, users
are required to purchase the newest
version 1.15 to maintain their customer

support privileges.
W. Page Associates Inc., 1 St. Clair
Avenue West, Toronto,Ontario M4V2Z,

(416) 9254567.

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BusinessVision, originaHy introduced
in October 1987, is excep6onaHy strong
in the preparation of billings.
The newest version adds functions for
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The optional network upgrade costs
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Segregated dient trust fund accounting
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RichardMorochove, oftheaccounting
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In his review of NewViews on that network, he states,"Although these account
ucts.
capaci6esaremore than adequate foraH
The package posts transac6onsimmebut the very largest professional Grms,
diatelyasyou
approve them. Thismeans
the reporting capabilities aren't equally
that youi' accouiltnlg i'ecoi'ds are ahvays
as strong. For example,invoices are
up to date. This allows the small business
prepared one at a time. You view the
to closely monitor the amount of cash in
account details on your screen and then
the bank, for example. However, with
decide if you want to prepare a bilL This
this online type of system, you may need
could be techous and timeconsuming if
to wait a few seconds until pocessing is
you have more than a few dozen active
completed before you initiate another
dients. More capable time and billing
tnmsac6on. Large companieswith inany
packages aHowyou to set overall criteria
transac6onswiHprobablybebetter served
for billing purposes, such as aH accounts
by a program which "batches" transacwith a work~-process balance greater
tions, accumulating them un61 they can
than $500."
be posted aH at once.
Due to the design of the NewViews
The automatic posting feature of
accounting system, you have a great deal
BusmessVision allows you to set up stanof flexibility in modifying the program.
dard postingaccounts for many areas,
For example,you can change the calcusuch as product sales. This means that
lations and reports of the TimebiH proyou don't need to consider the accountgram byadjusting the "procedures"writing debits and credits with each sales
ten in Page's proprietary computer lantransac6on. The program will calculate
guage. However, this should not be
the entries and post them automatically.
attempted by neophytes without previHowever, this automa6c pos6ng can be
ous progratnming experience.
overridden ifyou want to process an
Murray Aston of BusinessVision
exception.
Management Systems Inc., the manuUnlike some other prolpaxns which
facturer of competing product Business require you to print out most of your
Vision, calls NewViews a"super general
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ledger." However, he says, "It is not
good online inquiry capabilities. Its
mu16user and you do need to have an
screen orientation allows you to view
extensive knowledge of accounting to
important information on your monitor
use the product. They don't have an
order~
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looking to translate its good fortune in
@xebec into English~ a d ian sales.
Fortune 1000 was the bxainduld of
tvro computer retailers, Denis Ratte and
Fxancois Taschereau. They searched in
vain for a suitable accountmg system ta
se5 to their customers, so theydecided to
develop their own. Since its inception
liveyeaxsaga, the company has grown to
become the leadingaccountuxg software
vendor in @xebec.
The new push to AnglaCanadians is
spearheaded byFortune sales rep William Daucette, in Toronto. Although
the accounting market is very competitive, Doucettesaysthat Fortune 1000wili
succeed due tothe easeaf~ of the
system and its power.
"Installation and training For genexal
ledger can take fjust] 2 I/O hours. In
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The HexAccounting Software System


by Toronto's Flex Software Corporation
(formerly known as Ray Computer Systems) mdudesdozensafaccountlngand
reporting alternatives.
For example,you can decide ifyou
want to allow for drop+shipments to
customers. By selecting this option, yau
then activate this otherwise hidden capability in the saftware. On the other
hand, if you don't require this functian,
your computer screen never shows this
menu item. In this way, Flex can offer a
lot of functions without confusing the
user with irrelevant capabiTities.
Flex isn' t positioned as a general purpose accounting system equally suitable
for all companies. It has principal vertical markets: distributorsand hghtmanu-

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The Fortune system consists of accounting modules far general ledger,
accounts receivable, accounts payable,
imrentoxy and Fortune Calc, a spreadsheet package. Each module sells for
$495. A mul~ampany option lets yau
keep the books for more thaxi ane business. However, no networking version
for multiple users is yet available.
Fortune 1000 is fast, with quick movement&om screen to screen and a speedy
response to our queries. The input

The Computer Paper I Oct '90


screens arerather spartan, giving you
little informa6on beyond that which is
absolutely required.
Operations of the system are somewhat unconvenfional. It uses the slash
and question-mark key to control menu
movements. This is dMerent &om most
other progranis which use the escape key
to back out of operations. However,
neophyteswho don'tneed to unlearn old
habits should pick up operations quick
enough.
There have been argumentsover which
method is bestwuited for processing accounting transactions: an online system
which posts entries immediately, or a
batching method which doesn't post
transactions until after you check them.
With Fortune 1000 you can use either
method. The standard programis setup
for online processing but a batch processing program is available.
A pointwf~e option is available for
retailers. This prints out a sales invoice
for customers on the spot and controls a
cash drawer.
The instruction manuals and input
screens were obviously translated by
soxaeone whose mother tongue was not
English. However, this is more of an
annoyance than a major flaw asthe
meaning is usually quite apparent. According to Doucette, a re-write of the
manuals is planned.
Lotus Development Corp. needn' t
woxxy about stdf competition &om the
Fortune Calc spreadsheet. It features
adequate, but unimpressive, basic
spreadsheet capabilities. However, Gale
is integrated with the accounting modules toaremarkabledegree. You can pull

outselected datasuchasaccountdescriptions and amounts directly &om your


accounting records and develop a cash
flow forecast very quicMy.
Fortune 1000, CP 158 succ. C,
Montreal, @xebec H2L 4K1, (800) 465-

2552.

Accounting Sofbnee
Toronto-based accounting software
distributor Softport Technologies Inc., a
subsidiary of TSE-listed Delrina Technologies, distributes the accounting software of Open Systems, of Eden Prairie,
Minnesota. There are two lines, the high-

end Open Systems Accounting Soflware

(OSAS) and the mid-range Harmony

line of business software.


OSAS Version 4.0 is the latest version
of a venerable line of accounting software. It was first sold in 1976 the stone
age of personal computing. Thirteen
years later there are 150,000 installations of OSAS worldwide, with an estimated 10,000 in Canada.
The newversionincludesanumberof
refinements designed to make the system more "operator xdfable." You can
nowreceive context~nsi6ve online help
at the touch of a key. Onhne help is
available with mostother accounting systems, but Open Systems adds a twistyou can change the help messages to
customizethem for your own requirements. For example, you might add

accruals.
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Consolidated financial statements can
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Although the sales-tax reporting capabilities of OSAS have been enhanced,


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Vigilant Business Software


Toronto4ased accounting software
developer Vigilant Business Software's
integrated accountingsystem,also called
Vigilant Business Software, has sold approximately 5000 modules to some 400
companies. Vigilant tries to straddle the
line between the general-purpose horizontal accounting packages, with their
"one. size fits all" approach to business
information, and the vertical accounting systems oriented towards a specific
industry such as construction.

The company has put together a set of


nine complete accounting packages,
tanging in price from $5,600 to $6,145,
for businesses as diverse as wholesale
distributors, professional firms, and process manufacturers.Each package includes half a dozen or so modules of the

Vigihnt software. You can run the packages on single-user MS-DOS computers
or on a multiuser local area network for
an additional $500.
The customer order and invoicing
function can vaxy considerably among
different businesses, so this is one of the
key areas to examine in any vertical system. Unlike true vertical systems, the
Vigilant modules aren't always specificallywritten for the induslxyapplicafion.
For example, the same order entry/billing module is included in several packageso

The company handles the vaxying requirements bybuilding-in a great deal of


functionalityin each module. Industries
that are radically different require special billing modules such as point-of-sale
for retailers, and contract-billing for
leasing companies.
About half of Vigilant's users are in

California,rather unusual fora Toronto-

based software developer. Company


PresidentJon Mainwaring attributes this
to strong dealers in the state. However,
the unusual dual~
ncy c apabilities
of the software may also be a contributing factor.
Billings and customer receivables can
be tracked in either U.S. or Canadian
dollars. All foreign currency amounts
are automatically translated, even customer credit limits. This feature can be
very useful to companies with a large
cross@order trade. The accounts payable module also indudes this useful
foreign~ e n cy capability.
Listening to customer needs has resulted in new features being added all
the time, according to Mainwaring. For
example, pricing goods on an invoice is
exceptionally flexible. The software has
separate pricing tables for both customexs and products. This means that you
can assignone offive discount
levelstoa
customer, offer additional price breaks
for quantity purchases, and temporarily
override regular prices for a sale.
Transactions are posted immediately
as you approve them in Vigilant. This
means that your books are always up to
date, unlike the updating required with
other,batch~osting,accountingsystems.
However, I noticed apercepiibledelayas
each entry was posted. This could become tedious for a larger company with
many transactions and may require the
use ofa more powerful computer than
would otherwise be necessaxy.
Your bookscan remain open forup to
three years. This allows you to post
adjuslments fitrther back than the year
or so offered by most other accounting
systems
The software manual is Vigilant's

greatest weakness. The documentation


is barely an inch thick for a complete
package. Important applications such as
inventoxy and order entry/billing are
allocated a scant 25 or so.pages apiece,
compared to the comprehensive 100200 page manualsprovided by competing highend accounting systems for each
module. Themanuals of other accounting systems indude vital tutorial lessons,
quick-commandreferencesandanindex.
Vigilant software has none of these.
Right now the company is small
enough so that users can ignoxe the
manual'sshortcomings, call upwith their
questions, and get individual attention

from one of the six employees. But if


Vigilant hopes to hit the software bigtime, they' ll need to improve the documentation so that each package can stand

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In Summary
Some accounting programs stretch
the truth by daiming to be "GST ready."
When you probe a bit, you usually find
they' re talkingaboutproducingupgxades
in December. If the GST passes, which
certainly seems likely, one thing's for
certain: businesses will submit GSI' returns and remissions quarterly or
monthly, deducting as credits the GSI'
they' ve paid on business inputs.
For firms wishing to avoid the drudgeryof traclCing GSTcollectionsand input
credits manually, the first step will be to
make sureyour accounting system is GSTcapable. And who knowsi Maybe you' ll
find thatupgrading your accounting system was a pretty smart move, after all.

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'

Sounds
Good!
A review of computer music

options and other aeons


that sound off.
by Graense Btttataaft

Since the dawn of the computer era,


people have been attracted to the idea of
adding music and sound capabilities to
their computers. In anear-legendaxy tale

&om the '50's, a scientist at Bell Labs

programmed theirhuge main&arne

computer's bell to ding along in time as


the teletype printer dattered outa musical rhythm. Later devices, aswe shall see,
used considexably more sophisticated
sound generation circuitryl
The "first generation" sound circuits
usually produced "beep and boop"
sounds based on simple square wavefoxms, and tended to create tones that
pop musicians fondly refer to as "really
cheesy."
These relatively simple sound genera-

tots used one or more oscillator circuits


to produce sounds notunlike those emanating &om a Nintendo game machine
(which not coincidentally, uses this vexy
methodofsoundgenerafion.) OldApple
II sound cards such as the Alf synthesizer
are of this type. The sounds produced by
a cheap electronicorgan are another
example of this type of sound generator.
One step up the ladder were those
sound generators that could produce
sawtooth, triangle and noise waveforms
(see Figure l) in addition to the square
or pulse wave. Byadding filters an other

modifiexs to these oscillators, the analog


synthesizerwas born. The sound chip in
the Commodore 64 {or most prog-rock
records of the '70'sl) are good examples
of thistype of sound generator.

Trtangts

Figure l.
The classic Moog synthesizer is a fine
example of this technology. (Remember
the end of Emerson Lake gc Palmer's
Lucky Nata)) Still more experimentation
yielded the "additive approach": many

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discrete oscillators generate harmonic


&equencies sepaxately, and then these
outputs are added together to greatly
improve the realism of the synthesized
sound. T h e M a c intosh program
Turbc6ynth (and a compatible musical
instrument) allows additive synthesis.
But, just as analog synthesizers gave
way to more sophisticated digital electronic musical instruments in the mid
'80's, so did computer sound options...

The Birth Of FM Synthesis


Developed by John Chowning of
Stanford University; FM (Frequency
Modulation) synthesisinvolvesmodulating one oscillator with another to create
complex waveforms.
FM was popularized by Yaxaaha, who
acquired exdusive rights to ifis musical
apphcationsforseveralyears.
From their
first F instrument, the enormously expensive (US$50,000) and unwieldly CXI used by Stevie Wonder, Keith Emerson
andfewothers, to theirphenoxxtenonaily
successful DX-7, the impact elf FM synthesis on modern music is undeniable.
The DX-7, with a maximaun of six

Filure 2. Comparative
Computer (Soundoption)
Amiga 1000 (Perfectaound)
Amigo 500etc. (Perfectgmnd)
Apple Ilga (SonicSlaatar)
Alai ST lMega
Atart ST orMega (Rephy 4)
Atari Mega(SoundTaoh)
Auul 1040 STE
Aude CD
Commodore 84 or128
Enaaniq Nrage
Fairlight CN Serhe III
Human acing
Mac Ptua orSE
Mac (MacRecorder)
Mac SE (SoundTools)
Mac SEOOos 0
Mac SB80 or II (SoundTooh)
NeXT
NeXT (DtglmlNc)
PC orATetc.
PC (AdUb)
Roland MM2 (MIDI module)(5)
Sound Bhmer(PC ad&a)
Tefephone(CODEC)

Vofieee
4
4
16

8
8
2-8
4

2
8
8

2-?y
1
4
4
2-8
4
24I
24I
24I
1
Qor tt
82
trg or11
1

In the abovechart, youwill notethatthe AUDIO W


rate ie usually twice he NN. FREQ rate. This ie to
avoid
a phenomenan known asdigiaslafmaing,where
frequendeahigherhen halfof thecamping ratecootie
nonhamtanic
Viglad noise. In same cases,such as
the NeXTand
theSoundBloater,hemacfdnehcapatNe
af playingbackbetter aaundthan it randigifize, hence
he diaoepancha. Also
please note hat he 8ofbltaof
audo "reaalufion ie a significantfactor in the overall
quafity,there-fare ans-bltaamplewan'teoundaegaad
as a16-bit sample.

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simultaneous waveform-manipulation
algorithms, is referred to as a "6 operator" FM synth. The more operators, the
more complexthe wayeform; and hence,
the more interesting the sound may be.
The typical FM sound" is characterized
by a bell-like tone, a somewhat "cold"
darily as opposed to the usually "warm
and fat sounds of analog synths.

a Mirage, on a single chip that probably


cost $20 to producel When Apple released their IIgs computer, they licensed
and built in the 16.voice Ensoniq sound
chip. Soon, the electronic musical instrument manufacturersmoved to 12bit, then 16 bit, in their quest for everbetter sound quality... and on it goesl

Digital Samplers

A Bit Of Explanation

Around 1980, a device called the


Fairlight CMI (Computer Music Instrument) was invented, and soon began to
appear listed in the album hner notes of
some of the most innovative artists of the

new decade. The Fairlight (the original


Series I model was only an 8 bit sampler,
and slartedat$27,000I) was the Cuisinart
of Sound,and could,for example, digiurlly record the actual sound of a door
slanuning,and mixor merge thatin with
a ample of asnare drum. Of course,
once you'
ve heard a kitof"slam drums,"
nothing else quite comparesl
The Fairlight's computer technology
allowed musicians an unprecedented
Ireedom of musical invention and sonic
variety. By the mid "80's, artists Ske Peter
Gabriel and Kate Bush would call the
instrument "a new kind of composition
(ool," as they and many others released

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HUNTERS

(See Figure2.)
An 8-bit sample is comprised of 256
every additional bit doubles the resolution and hence the size of the sample
(e.g., 2 to the power of 9 is 512 steps).
Therefore, imagine how much more acc~
a164 i t sample (with 65556steps)
can describethe contour of a waveform
than an 8 bit sample)
Today, you can get 8-bit sampling
options for most computers for a few
hundreddollars. Afull-blown 16bitMIDI
sound module can cost as little as $100Q.
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hke other high-priced high-tech, the
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By 1985, you could pick up a digital
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$1Q,QQQ.A year later,a company called
Ensoniq (started by former Commodore
employees, including Bob Yannes, inventor of the C64's SID sound chip)
releasedthe Mirage, an under-$2000 8bitsampler. Apple'sMacintosh,released
in 1984, featured an internal monophonic sound chip capable of reproducing
speech and 8-bit/4-voice, complex
sampled waveforms.
In 1985, Commodore's Amiga computer was released with internal 8-bit/4voice stereo digital sampled sound playback capabilities roughly comparable to

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8 bit
8 bit
n/e
8 bir
18 bit

8 bir
18 blr
n/a
8 bit
18 bir
enah8
8 bir
8 bit
18 bir
8 bit

Complex
18 bit
Complex
8 bir
Complex
18 bir
Smple
n/a(4)
FM
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ROM samples 8/12 bir
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Response
7$ KHz
7ti or14KHz (1)
15 KHz
18 KHz
1S KHz
18 KHz
18 KHz
20kHz
18 KHz
12.5 KHz
18 KHz
20 KHz
11 KHz
11 KHz
20 KHz
22 KHz
20 KHz
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20 KHz
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23 KHz
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Yes
No
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No
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No
No
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samplingrates of ttp lo 50 KHz
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Speech (Stereo/55ono)
Phoneme 14/28 KHz
Phoneme
14/28 KHz
Opuphonsme 1MO KHz
Opr/Phoneme
n/a
Opr/phoneme no/30KHz
Opr/phoneme 33.2 KHz
OprJ Phoneme
n/a
n/e
Opr/Phoneme N5xonly
n/a
no'25 (2)
n/a
322 KHz
Yes
20Hz-18kHz
Opr/Phoneme
n/a
VoiceMail
11/22 KHz
Opt/Phoneme 33.2 KHz
Opuphonems 11/22 KHz
Opr/Phoneme44.1/882 KHz
VoiceMail
no/7.5 KHz
VoiceMell
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back of digitized sounds), text-tcpspeech


MIDI interface standard.} Nevertheless,
synthesis, and "the inscrutable Dr.
SoundBlasterrepresentsatremendous
Sbaitso,' sure to be a hit with anyone
value for PC owners.
unSuniliar with Efiur.
Toy samplers could soon be found in
The Sound Blaster is compatible with
p l a ces like Radio Shack or department
the AdLib card (alsoan FM music option
stores for less than $100. Of course,a few
for the PC), which is weSeupported by y e ars later, CD's and Digital recordings
variousgames and other prograins, and became common terminology as the
even has sockets for optional I R voice C/
record industry underwent its period of
MS music synthesizer chips (yet another
g r e atest upheaval. Truly, although the
earlier PC standard supported by Game
specific techniques of Digital Sampling
Biasterwompatible software). Unfortumay not be well-known to many, there is
nately, the MIM feature of the Sound
Httle doubt that the technology has
Blaster requires an optional MIDI Contouched most of us.
nectorBoxwhichisnotcompatiblewith
Most of the current generation of
the Roland MPUMI (the dominant PC
electronic MIDI instruments use a tech-

niquewhereasetofl6-bitdigital samples
are stored "on-board" in ROM (Read
Only Memoiy) chips. The instruments
typically include the abHity to mix four
or more of thesecomplex waveform
"building blocks" together, and usually
add reverb, chorus and/or other digital
ambient/spatial eFects to enhance the
resulting sound. The top instruments by
Roland, KoqCasio, Knsoniq, Kawai,
Peavey, even FM pioneers Yamaha, aH
feature this type of "samples in ROM"
technique, mainly because digitaHy recorded waveforms result in more realistic-sounding instruments.
Roland Corp. is one company that is

aggressively pursuing the "computer


hobbyist market. Their recipe is an ingenious one: take the popular MT-M
module, remove aH the knobs and buttons exceptfor volume and power, and
repackage it in a bundle with an inexpensive MIDI controHer keyboard (either the PC-100 or the newer velocity-

sensitive PC-200) and software For aH


papular computers.

Thus was born the "Desktop Music


System" featuring the CM-S'IL for Atari,
Mac and Amiga computers,and the
~l
so u nd card for IBM PC/XT and
ATmachines. These units share the same
sound capabilities as the MT-S2, and like
it, they can play eight separate parts plus
a rhythm part under computer controL

For those wishing to explore "Desktop


Music", the Reland systems are inexpensive, yet complete plug-n-play packages.

The Next Generation


When SteveJobs, one ofthe founding

members of Apple was ousted from that


company ina power struggle in 1985, he
started a new company to create a "next
generation" personal computerworkstation. That company became NeXT Inc.,
and their first product, the NeXT
Workstation, was announced in October
1988. Because of its appearance, it be- '
came known as the NeXT cube, and
ainong its many innovations, it features
what is simply the best internal sound
capabiTities ofany computer. The reason
for this is a 16-bit sound processing chip
called the Motorola 56001 DSP (Digital

RR5j,,

Signal Processor).@or rrroredetrsih ori the


dfT, ssePage 58 of tIris isrrrta)
While it is possible to add a DSP to a
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NeXT cube comes with, as standard
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"Sound Kit" routmes to support MIDI
and the DSP's sound capabilities. (Reportedly, future Madntoshes wiH also
indude digital audio input as standard
The output of the DSP is stereo, 16bit, 44.1 MHz, or utterly CDqua}ity although the standard microphone input
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Already, the NeXT cube has an impressive array of DSP-related tools, programs and peripherals available, including a Ml 16-bit recording option. NeXT
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induding a highland 68040-basedcolor
machine, and a lowermost model said to
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Although not standard equipment,

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Oriented towards the multimedia market, it is able to add p~ ua l i ty audio to
HyperCard stacks and other Macintosh

presentation programs.)
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GOLDMAN MATHIESEN

A Decade of the PCCFA

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Thisyear marks the tenth anniversaxy of the firstpersonal computer Mr beld in the
Vancouver area.
In the summer, the Apples B.C. Computer Society decided to hold an
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That first fair, dubbed "The B.C. Personal Computer Fair," was held on a
beautiful August Saturday at the University of B.C. All the local personal computer
user groups were there, as well as a dozen commercial exhibitors. A number of

& Hw & A

local experts gave talks on various computer-related topics. Over 1500 people
showed up for the fair. The ticket-takers at the door were overwhelmed. The

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manic atmosphere persisted until half an hour before the scheduled end, when a
power outage struck, bringing a slightly-premature end to a hectic day.
With the success of the first Mr, the organizers renamed it the Pacific Coast
Computer Fair" and formed the Pacific Coast Computer Fair Association. The
members of the PCCFA were all members of user groups and took great pains to
ensure that the focus of the Mr was on individual computer users.
~ T he Osbmwel, thelsst pmtabk computer, was rekased. Also an/ nmsnced thatyear seasthapst IBM PC. The clmputer tradejuurnal
InfoWorld said aboutthe NM arinouncement, Whether or not that vsiN
hase any ejiect on the micsocomputing industry remains to beseen.

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That year, the computer Mr was expanded to two days and was moved to the
Robson Square Media Centre. The new site allowed a larger speakers" program
and more space for exhibits. Attendance was double that of the first fiur and the
organizers chalked up another success.

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The 1982 Pacific Coast Computer Fair featured several new user groups that
had sprung up to support the newest computers. The computer fair program
induded a hst of local computerized bulletin boards all ten of theml

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be its first maj orfailure in the microcomputing market place), and
Microso
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1985 also saw some fundamental changes in the direction of the industry as
microcomputers to gain widespread acceptance in the business sector.
The 1988 Pacific Coast Computer Fair attracted nearlv 8000 and there were

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almost sixty commercial booths. The
speakers'program mciuded microcomputer pioneers George Morrow and Bill
Godbout, andPC Worldeditor Andrew
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bursaries for computer science students at
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The 1984 fair celebrated the tenth birthday of the Altair 8800, the first microcomputer available to the general public. The speakers' program featured Les
Soloman, the technical editor of Popular Ekctronicr,Apple co-founder, Steve
Wozniak; Bill Godbout; founder of the Byte Shop stores, Paul Terreii" ,Macintosh
software architect, Andy Herlzfeld; and one of the original shareware authors, Bob
Wallace.
Despite the optimism of the organizers and the quality of the programming at
the fair, the number of commercial exhibitors was only half that of 1988 and
attendance was down, too. As a result, the 1984 Pacific Coast Computer Fair,
although an "artistic success," was something of a financial flop.

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The computer indusby begun a slow recovesy. Commodoreannounced the


Amiga, and Atari announced the ST. The Macintosh, paired with the
Appk LaserWriter, got deshtoppubliihing rolhng

First-time speakers at the 1985 fair induded Apple's Manager of Human


Interface, Bruce Tognazzini, and the author of PC-File,Jim Button. An overfiow
crowd packed the Robson Square cinema to see Western Canada's first demonstrafion of the Commodore Amiga.
The organizers of the Pacific Coast Computer Fair decided that a new directionwas needed for 1986. Therefore, instead of a large computer fair,two smaller
events were put on.

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Unfortunately, 1984wasako the year of the Qvat Slump in the personal


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bend, Appk released the 128KMaantosh, IBM unveikd the PC/AT, and
Hewktt-Packard inboduced thefirst Laser
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a dozen computer user groups, and almost 2000 visitors.

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Cassette tapes have given way to floppy disks, which have given way to hard disks,
which may soon give way to optical disks. The mouse has gone &om being a mere
curiosity to an essential part of many personal computer'systems. And personal
computers have gone &om being novelfies to being integral parts of many
people's lives.
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many changes. Yet, the b'asic philosophy has remained constant. The Pacific Coast
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Overview

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DESQview installs with a simple setup
progxam which copies the appropriate
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QEQM586 are installed, they must be


fine-tuned toachievemaximumbenefits.
This fine-tuning takes a great amount
of time. Basically you must run all pxo-.
gxams and all peripheral devices and
then you look at aQEMM586 analysis of
your memory. Thisproduces a chart of
your used and unused memory in the
high RAM region. You then may modify
your CONFIG.SYS file to include the
unused portions of high RAM. This will
giveyou space to load mouse driversand
other memoxy-resident programi into
high RAM. The restwill be converted to
extended memory foruse by DES Qyiew.
Thisisaverycomplexprocedurewhich
must be performed carefully. If not
perforxnedcorrectly,you may convert a
portion of high RAM used for one of
your apphcations. If this happens, that
application will no longer run or it may
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I am able to have a mouse driver, disk
cache and network drivers all in high
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dxiniersin standard RAM,Ionlyhad486K.
DESQyiew is a simple program to use
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Documentation
The documentation is complete and
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tion oflice books, one for each part of


the prograxn. One thing I found about
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two to three months before you can appreciate all the power of the program.
A lso, you need to get u sed t o a
multitasking, mul&endowing environment beforeyou can receivefullbenefit
If you are used to a standard DOS
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For about the firstmonth, when I wanted
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It took about a month for me to get

used to simply jumping to another program. For this reason, you will find
yourself referring to the documentation
for quite some time after you install and
start to use the program. This is actually
one of the few programs I use which I
refer back to the documentation.

Error Handling
In. this environment, error handlingis
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have to set up how to reset a window and
how to reset the whole system. The
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within the window,you reset the window
as if it was a DOS machine.
This is quite nice when 6rst setting
things up because if you are not careful
in your set-up, you can have a lot of
conflicts. AtfirstI had manycrashes, but
once the system was set up to my lihng,
there were fewer crashes than would
normally occur with straight DOS.
One limitation which is of some concern to me is the hck of record and file
locking. When you are in a multitasking
environment, you should have record
and file locking.
For example, let' s sayyou are worldng
on a document in desktop publishing
and you are using a word processor to
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With DESQview, thisisa snap. However,
you must be careful to load and unload
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Condusion
DESQviewisa very powerful progxam.

I firstused DES
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1.0. There have, in some ways, been alot


of changes since then, snd in some ways
there have been no changes. The menu
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ranging from those which portray hackers asvaliantyoungpeoplewithinsatiable
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as techno-bandits committed to vandalizing our online systems.'
One thing on which all wjLll agree is
that hackers are concerned with technical information computers and communications devices. This type of information is rarely found in the eslablishment
computer press, which tends to address
end-users, industry analysts and professional developers mther than hackers.
Even Dr. Dobbs,long known as the most
technical of magazines, is aimed at the
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newsstand). Edited by Emmanuel
Goldstein, afrequenter ofbulletin board
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of persons identified asJohn Drake, The
Plague, Log Lady, Eric Corley, Zilent
Switchman, Bernie S., The Infidel, and
Paul Estev, 2600 provides technical explanations (often with diagrams and
schemafics), news of interest to hackers,
a lively letters section and editorial
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Secret Service's Operation SunDevil arrest of hackers throughout the country.
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solution to all of the legal problems

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Mail complaining about the amount or
The remainder of the issue dealswith
Abenefitofthisissue'slatenessis that t o n e of 2600's coverage of the Neidorf
it went to press after the verdict in the
c a se and related issues. The section also technical matters. There is an artide
CraigNeidorf"Pluack"casehadcomein i n dudeseditorialresponseto the points explaining Prime's PRIMOS operating
and Goldstein was, therefore, able to
r a i sed in the communications this is system and its PrimeNet components.
include anin~ t h d ay - ~
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professorsJim Thomas and Gordon
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Meyer. The issue also contains an inters e ction vuth a one-page commentaty on in an unsuspecting user paying up to
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credit card calls. The same artide also
rial on the case and its imphcations. c o mmentatythatchartsamiddlecaurse
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It just goes to show what personal
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asia 8aemsinuxiceandbankingSelds),
and too little, as found in the library
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Sddle to a rodent.
I would like aa encourage Rainey's te
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accounting because I think it would be a
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because once theygetit theyxnightcatch
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YouwouldthinkthatsinceRadioShack
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while getting odd items &am a rural
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but just the opposite is the case. It is a


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where yo havealready looked for the
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If you point aut that you bought one
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Sometiinesthe derk ar manager uses a,
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Contrast that with the no~omputerized General Stere. I usually loakaround
far what I need, and although parts of
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spreadsheets."
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images and sound.
Lotus says it will start beta testing
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ColorStudio 4 Photoshop
formed some tests loading and using
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ColorStudio showed the greatest difFerence in load times, yet Photoshop, ranging &om 9 to 54 seconds (or 5.7 times
glower] also vividlyillustrates howsystem
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(ssg@batety
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Of course, faster Macintoshes will exhibit lesser but proportionately tumiIar overall times. The results of these
tests pointed so ominously to the performancedegradationcaused byAdobe's
Type Reunion INIT, that I promptly
stopped using itl
I then compared Photoshop and
ColorStudio's respective load times for
opening aTIFF fi
le of4450k.

Photoshop Color Studio


Load 4450K TIFF:44

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2:05

I was able to speed up Colorstudio's


loading time somewhat by changing its
"Get Info box to decrease its required
RAM &om 50QOk to 4000k with no apparentill eHects. By doing this, the load
time dropped &om 2:05 to 1:54. This,
Dama Lies Se Sendumadm
however, is not recommended, and is
They say there's Iies, damn lies, and
merelyevidenceof Yirtudmemory'hardbenchmaiks." When tests are not con- -- disk acuss 6mes, as less virtual memory
ducted in a completely controlled test
is paged &omdisk for 400OKthan5000K.
environment (with identical hard disks,
INIT's, etc.), statistics can be very mis- Virtgai Memory
leading. For example: using a "wickedly
(The Virtual mentioned in the first
fast' (40 MHz) Macintosh IIftt, I perchartisa program thatcan fool any Mac

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the Mac II, and 15 seconds flat on the
Iifitl After I picked up my jaw ofF the

System Configurgttlon
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Each program
created its oINn

color separation
you be the judge
Adobe Photoshop
on the right and
Letraset's
Colo&tudlo on the
left..

vnth a Paged Meinory Management Unit

(PMMU) into using hard disk space as


RAM. Both Photoshop and ColorStudio
incorporate their own i n t ernal virtual

memory schemes that do not require a


PMMU, hence the use of this program is
not required, and may in fact detract
&om their overall performance.)
In another test, I compared Photoshop
and ColorStudio's SAVE FILE func tions;
both for file size, and time required to
save.

Photoshop ColorStudio
Save to
"native file format"
: 51 3 5 ' 7

File size of above save 4452K 12'/6K


To compare more equivalentfunctions, I also used Photoshop's "Save as
compressed TIFF" function, which afteradangerouslyboringsevenand ahalf
minutes yieldeda file size of only1118
T o round out the SAVE test, I also tried
compressing the native Photoshop file
with Stuflit. Interestingly, Stu8it took

only 2:58 to compress the original 4452k


file to j ust 89 lk l
T h i s i s o b viously a
s uperior m e t hod both i n t i m e a n d

indicated completion of the operation.


The second time, a System Error ID =4

dialog appeared upon completion, yet

size for making backups.

t he fil e wa s saved. I t

ColorStudio c rashed in different


ways the first and second times I tried
itsSAVEfunction. Bothcrashesoccurred

ColorStudio (like most very large appli-

with the RAM allocated normally, and


could notbe reproduced later.Alarmingly, the supposedly saved file was comj
lost after the first crash, in which
thewholesystem&ozejustaftertheSAVE
FILE function's "moving bar" indicator

program run.
When run &om a "freshly started"
machine, I had no reliability problems,
although during the tests, ColorStudio
workfiles"
named work0,
scrap0, undo0 and float0 in its folder.

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Thisseemed tohappen most ownwhen
a desk accessory was opened up while
ColorStudio was running.
Also, when generating Desktop Color
Separation files for Quark XPress (a
series of KPS files consisting of one each
for C, M, Y and K, and a fifth file containing an KPS screen representation),
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ButAdobe goes one better: using their
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the background.
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Each program includes the ability to
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image layer, but while ColorStudio has
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with 16 channels, 8 for RGB, leaving 15
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I converted a grayscale (single channel) image to RGB mode, producing


three separate layers or channels, plus a
fourth full-color RGB channel (quadrupling the size of my file!). I was then able
to edit the RGB channel, afFecting all
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to save Alpha channels with your image,
separately, or delete them when no
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50 MB Temporary
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A word of warning: these programs
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disk space. In the above-mentioned instance, I started with 50 megabytes (!) of
&ee hard disk space. I opened a twomegabyte gray-scaleTIFF, and converted
it to RGB color mode, with the intent of
colorizing the image. I saved a partly
colored interim working version (now
over '7 MB), then reloaded the original
image. I then decided that I wanted to
cut out a piece of the colored picture,
and paste it into the originaL "DISK

FULL?"

I almost fell off my chair! Admittedly,


it was (ahem) a rather laxge piece of
picture I was trying to cut and paste, but

only after I deleted the interim version,


was I able to complete the operation.
With a morbid sense of curiosity, I discovered that in such an operation, tem-

porary"working" filesofover BOMB are


not uncommon! Needless to say, once

you get one of these programs, you' ll


probably want a bigger hard disk, too.
An unrelated, but equally distressing
situation may occur if a screen saver, oncalendar accessory,
screen
E-mail and/or filesharing network kicks
in and interrupts you while you are editing a huge image. If such events or
users send messages to your screen, the
screen updating (when they disappear)
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disk can be dangerous to your patience
and/or sanity!
Which one should you get? After all,
ColorStudio is over twice the price (and
size) of Photoshop. ColorStxscho, I suspect,iscapable of better coIor correction and control (imperative for reproducible results) but overall, Photoshop
is somuch quicker and generamy more
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ColorStudio's greatest habiliqr.
On the other hand, its US$295 Shapes
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capabiTities ofPhotoshop. Of course, the
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ColorStudio has somewhat steeper
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Photoshop's default memory requirement is a relatively spartan 2048K, and
does not require Color Quickdraw or
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Mac Plus with System 6.02, although the
stated system requirexnents specifyan SK
or higher.Of course, many of the ben-

appoi
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efits of color photo-retouching cannot

be fully realized without a colar~pable


Macintosh. While you' re at it, a scanner
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&om the original MacPaint's 128K RAM

requ
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How about results? We' ve used one or
the other of these prograxxis in conjunc-

tion with Quark XPress to produce the


last few covers of TheComputer Poper and
Sherif Visionmagazines, with generally
good results. And doing our own desktop
separations saves lotsof money. (Ifyou're
interested, the RGB image files are typically converted to ~
sav e d as EPS
binary files which are then placed in
XPress.) While notup to Voguestandards,
for publications such as ours, desktop
color is worth the elfort.

And, you' ll probably continue to see


the results on the cover of future issues of

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(2 Sat) Nov. 3 & 17, 9 am- noon and (3Tues)
$885 .
Nov. 6-20, 7- 10 pm
VAN DTP CTR 1150 Homer'681 9161
Ventura, Pagemaker
VAN SCHOOL BD 786-7241
DTP IBMPageMaker$.0,Oct.23 $135
D TP PageMaker 3.0 Lev. 8, Oct. 25
$1 8 5
DTP PrqpiMaher
8.0,Bus.Appl,Oct.25 $135
DTP Ventum 2.0, Oct 29
$185
DTP Versura 2.0 Level II, Oct. 24
$135
D TP Ventura 2.0 Bus. App., Ocr. 24
$ 135
VCC, 250 W. Pander St, Van., 882-5844
IBMriBM Compatible
$75
Graphic Design for DTP,
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$75
$160
PageMaker (Intro, Inrsrm),
$375
DTP Workshop (PageMaker)
Intro. Io Ventura,
$160
$160
Adv. WordPerfect DTP,
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$190

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EVENTS
CENTRE FORADVANCED PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION. Implementing lANS, Nov. 12-14,
Vancouver. Conver5ng, Expanding, Upgrading
IBM&PSr2, Vancouver, Oct 2980, 31, Nov. 1.
COMDEXIEurope at SCOB, Oct 4-8,Paris
COMDEXIFall '90, Nov12-16, Las Vegas.
COMPUTEAFES'f
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COMPUTEA SWAPMEET. Sat., McPherson Ctr.,
7325 Mcphersan Ave., Burnaby. Far info, call 5310829.
COAP. PUBLISHINGGROUP LTD., 1M0-701 W.
Georgia St., 887-1140. Inheducrion To TheWorld
of Desldep Publishing, Oct.4., $150. Preparing
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Ardshc Techniques hr the Non.Ardst Using
Scanners, Clip Art, and Mawal Tools, Oct S1,
$150.
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would like to announce Selling Up
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noon, Pan Pacific Hoteg. Co.sponsors are Price
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Parddpating organlxagans are Safrware B.CJ
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if an assodation member. Call 2084558281 or
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DATA TECH INSl'ITUTE, Understanding Data
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1990, Toronto, Ont. Hundreds of exhibitors IIem
Canada, US and overseas are expecsed ro attend
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technologies available. Also, worid-renowned
experls will be par5dpahng inaway Mac
conference.
MAXIMIZER U. Mastering Maximrzer, Vancouver. 549
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Richmond Soflware: 299.2121
MCA Continuous e
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Haw To Get OnTop of Your Pmjecta (Before they
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(604) 885-1771.
NOATHEAST COMPIJTEA SHOWOct 25-27, Boston
PACIFC INFORMATION MANAGEMEhff INC.
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Nov. 2, 12-16. 26-80.
PACIFICCOAST COMPUTER FAIR & SWAP MEET,
Oct. 20, McPherson Centre, 879-98?1.
PUBLC LEGAL EDUCATIONSOCIETY. Free dass
on computers and the law far sellers. buyers and
users. 438-4041.
RELATIONSHIP MARKETING. Execufive Briefings.
Advanced Direct Markedng Topics, Odeber 2,
1990.
SIMON FRASEA UNIVEASITY. Focus Session &
Managing
Technology,Oct.25,28.27,28,
Thursday
evening through Sundayafternoon,
Bowen Lodge By The Sea, Bowen Island.
UBC Execu5ve Programs. Planning a Ssateef-rhe-Art
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2244400.The Execu5ve'sComputer,Oct.3 and
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Canvendon Cemie. 800 Denison Street, Unit 7,
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CIRRUS ENTERPRISES Vlaoiia, 8868844.
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$89
STM SYSTEMSCORP. 684-7721 Symphony SSO
SURREY (Newton Cont Ed.) S94-2000
hgcrosoft Works
TLD COMPUTERS, 1$k%51 No. 3 Rd.
Microsoft Works,
$200
UBC Cont Ed., UBC Microcomputer Lab, 2224251
MS-Works: Inhe,
$195
VAN SCHOOL BOARD788-7241
Frameworir III, MS Works Lev.1&2,
Symphony Lev. 1& 2
$89
VAN. COMM. COLL, 250 W. Pander, Van. 682-5844
Inlro to Micracompuhirs,
$160
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$160
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$160

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Load Area Networks, Nov. 10, 10 am - 1 pm$85
Novell Administratar's Workshop,(5 Thur)
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$295
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$190

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100 MByte Hard Disk,
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4MB RAM expandable lo 16MB
Rodime 110MB 18ms 64K Cache HD

1.2MB TEAC Floppy Drive


Focus 5001 Deluxe Keyboard

1.2 MByte Floppy Drive


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8 Expansion Slots
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Mini Tower Case
One Year Parts and Labour Warranty

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VGA (Datatrain DC509, .31mm Dot Pitch, 16 Bit
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VGA (Datatrain DC515, .51mm Dot Pitch, 16 bit
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PT500 ..........................................$1,435

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12 MByte Floppy Disk Drive

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200 Watt Power Supply (CSA Appr.)


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Monochrome Graphics Card(Hercules Compadble)
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