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month, I had the sa6sfying
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had never considered there might be
another way of doing thing@ Then I
went back to school and had access
to an early model dual-Qoppy IBM
PC and a copy of WordStar. It was
incredible. Ideas could be shaped
and manipulated much like a sculptor gradually gives a statue shape
from what wasance a block of marble. Sentences could be rearranged,
ideas clarified, spelling correctedand best of all, I didn't have to
rewrite everything by hand. {I had
learned how to type on a manual
typewriter in Grade 9 someone
told me "learn how to type; you will
always appredate it.") It made my hfe
A little while later, I was introduced to an "idea processor" called
ThinkTank. It was a simple program that allowed me to type out a
whole slew of ideas in point form, and then move: the ideas up or
down in a hierarchy. Ideas became like sticks. I threw out the sticks in
a streamwfwonsciousness session the idea was to get everything I
could think of down on paper; then I could move the sticks around
later to snake my writmg logical. Life was de6nitely made easier.
Even before I had discoveredword processors and outline managers, I had been exposed to spreadaheers. {In fact, for a whGe, before
I got Wordslar, I used to try and use Lotus 1-2-5 as a word processor.
Don't try this at home).
The real point of spreadsheets is to do numerica "what ifsP You
type numbers in "cells' of a worhheet grid, and then enter a formula
in another cell. When you change the source numbers, you don't have
to change the formula, the totals change dynamically based on the
formula you have de6necL Anything to do with the 5mancial side of a
business is vastly easier to analyze with a spreadsheet. Once again, it
de6nitely makes life easier.
I have had coundess other small inddents where computers made
life easier, but the one that happened this month had to do with communicaring, This change is not totally tied to the computer, but
relates to the vast number of fax machines installed now in virtually
every type of business. This month, I discovered the joys of a fax
modern.At this point, some of you may groan and say,"Welcorae to
the 20th centoryl He is Snally getting his act together and using a hx
modemi"
It is not that simple. I have actually been using a fax modem extensively for a couple of years now. Every month, we fax out a notice to our
regular advertisers notiiying them of the impending deadline for new
ad materiaL We call it our broadcast fax," because it goes from our fax
modern to two or three hundred fax machinea We start it up when we
leave the o8ice, and it diah throughout the night. When we come in
in the
we often get abls saying, thanks for the wrming, the
new ad is on the way {as well as the occasional grumble to "take usoif
the 'junk fax' list").
What I discovered this month was the potential of using a fax
modem as apersonal conununications device. In our oiilce, as with
many oisces I am sure, the Sar. machine is ahnost always in use. Not so
busy that no one can get through, but busy enough that it seems every
thne that I go over to it, at least one other person is sbanding there
ready to send something out. A quick trip to the hx machine often
takes ten minuteL.
Recently, I got a new 14.4 Kbpa data modem that does double duty
as a Sx modem. It comes with some snappy fax software that lets you
"print to Sx" as if it was a printer. Amazmgly, it works great. Printing
to fax is Sister than printing to the printer and much Sister than
printing to the printer, ~Ying for a while to make sure the document
has deared the printer queue, getting up to retrieve the output Rom
the printer, standing in line to Ssx out the document and possibly re.
sending the document because the ofher person's fax line was busy.
Suddenly, a few quick keystrokes ar cheka of the mouse are all it takes
to go Som hrsplratirm to cammunicatirm.
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de8nitely be made easier...Now if only everyone had a hx machine.
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always discouraged many pc:ople &em using

the network. ~
you f o r such a concise
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Sad to say, the Internet as described is
inaccessible for most of your readers outside government, university and research
establishments. In the USA there are alternatives, but here in Canada the options are
severely limited. Few BBSes offer access,
direct or indirect, and their costs are high.
UUNorth is one company which is trying to change that by worhng to make the
facilities you describe available to any
Canadian with a PC and a modem. We have
packages forDOS, Macintosh and Amiga
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in my mid~ e s , I was very impressed by an unreasonable expectation? Are the
The Computer Paper which my nephew
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ble in power to those offered by PCTools? I
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Compaq enters
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But the company has a big challenge

ahead of it. Compaq is not the only PC
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also major players. Only Apple, IBM and
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The fact that Compaq is starting at the
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It will have come as a surprise to few that

leading computer maker Compaq has
entered the laser-printer market. It was a
heavily leaked announcement from a company that in recent months has acted nothing like its former self. The new Compaqwith its price-slashing, market-broadening,
lean, mean mentality can be expected to
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glory.

Compaq's printers are known as the

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They are designed to be shared by users
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T he really interesting part of t h e
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Compaq cofounder RodCanion ignominiously exiled from the company he built.

So Compaq's announcement that it is
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According to Compaq, printers are the
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retain higher margins on printers than PCs.
The company argues that network laser
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sale of a low'-end system to a single user.

Dell joins the SS MHz

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Dell Canada announced last month the
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Intel's new 66 MHz i486DX2 processor. It
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Richmond-based Comtex Micro Systems

Inc., has become the local distributor for
Umax flatbed color and grayscale scanners
in Canada. The Umax scanners operate
with both Apple Madntosh and IBMcompatible PCs. Umax makes a 60(hdpi 24-bit
flatbed colorscanner, the UC450 which
was recently reviewed by PC Sourcw, (April
92) and compared to anumber of other
scanners including units made by Epson,
HP ScanJet IIc and Microtek. In the product comparison, the Umax was the only
unit which achieved 100% accuracy with
the OCR software. It was also one of the
fastest units. (running necked-neck with
the HP, Microtek and Howtek scanners).
Contact: Comtez (604) 886-2326.

ATI cuts prices on

accelerator boards
Leading Canadian PC graphics hardware
manufacturer ATI has cut prices on its popular Accelerator graphics board range. The
Ultra range of boards will come down in
price by between 20 and 29 percent, making the Graphics Ultra 1 MB board one of
the cheaper upgrades at only $499 US.
There will be no change to the price of
ATI's Vantage range.
Contact ATI (416) 756-0718

Run Mac software on

your HP workstation

t sounds a bit wild, but it's true. HP has

announced plans to make available emulation software that will allow HP's PA-RISCbased workstations to run Mac software
w ithout m o dification. H P w i l l u s e
Kcelerated Systems Inc.'s Liken emulation
software to let users of the HP Apollo 9000
Series 700 workstations run shrink-wrapped
copies of Mac applications such as @sark
XPress and ClarisWorks. HP claims these
applications will run on the emulator at
about the speed of a Macintosh IIci. The
software will cost $891 for a single-user
ixed license in Canada and $96)0 for a 10f
pack of "floating licenses."
Contact: HP Canada (41 6) 678-9430

Wang files for bankruptcy

protection in U.S.;Wang
Canadaclaims "Business
as Usual"

Wang may be down, but it is not dead yet. It

looks like it will be "business as usual" for
many of the wholly-owned subsidiaries of
Wang Laboratories, the ailing minicomputer giant that recently filed for Chapter ll
bankruptcy protection in the United States.
At least that's what Wang CanadaLimited is
telling its Canadian customers.
The company says it has no plans to
seek protection from creditors in Canada
and that it will continue to serve customers
in the same way throughout Wang's "reorganization process" in the United States.
"We plan to continue serving our customers in Canada and throughout the
world without interruption during this reorganization process, says Wang Canada
resident and CEO Ross Marsden. "We
ave made major strides in Canada in
restructuring to serve our customers.
Clearly this action by our parent company
will affect the way we are perceived, but we
have already started calling our customers
to assure them there will be no r e al
changes in the level of service and commitment Wang provides."
Despite speculation that the pare'nt
company's announced plans to trim jobs
worldwide from 15,000 to 8,000 and that
this would mean Wang becoming more of a
service and consultancy organization and
less of a hardware company Marsden
says Wang will continue to beat its own
technological drum.
'The company will continue to manufacture, support, service and upgrade its
traditional VS minicomputer line which has
an installed base of 58,000 customers
around the world," he says. "During the
past six months, we have introduced a number of significant VS upgrades and a new
highwnd VS processor. Wang's imaging
technology has been announced for the
Wang RISC series platforms sourced from
IBM. The Wang/IBM alliance will continue
to move forward."
Both Marsden and Richard Miller,
chairman and CEO of parent company
Wang Laboratories, say that Wang has a
great deal to offer business users and
that it will offer it in a way that Wang systems will easily be able to link into those of
other manufacturers.
"As it works to emerge successfully from
Chapter ll, Wang hopes to build on its
established leadership role in creating the
paperless electronic office," says Miller. "It
has focused on developing advanced software products and systems that streamline
and accelerate the flow and work and sharing of information through 'open systems'
computer networks that accommodate
many vendors' hardware, in addition to
Wang's own systems. The strategy is one
that management believes will restore
Wang's ability to compete in this fastmovlllg mdustry.
However successful this strategy is, it will
be a longroad back for Wang which lost
$116.5 million for the financial quarter
ending June this year. On the plus side,
Il i er notes that Wang's revenues have stabilized at between $460 and $500 million
per quarter for the past six quarters and
suggested that the new, leaner Wang will be
more competitive with lower costs and estimated annual revenues of $1.4 billion
(which would be down substantially from
last year's $L9 billion).
Contact:
Wang Canada Ltd.,604-681-9264

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OTTAWA (TCP) LOOK Software has
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computers.
Virus ALERT is a couaboration between
LOOK Software of Ottawa, Ontario, and
Frisk Software International of Reykjavik,
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Pacific Coast Computer

Fair celebrateslucky 13th

The Pacific
Coast Computer Fair and Swap
required. The company maintains that any- Meet has reached those difficult teenage
one can find a virus in two keystrokes and
years without rebeHing too much.Just as in
remove it in three, needing no pre-instrucprevious years, the event will be held at
tion.
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problem that faces retailers, wholesalers
and distributors when they have to offer
proof of purchase for inventory that is to be
returned for repair, replacement or credit.
If the company concerned does not have a
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InsMring a high-tech hello

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machine is,how long they can have for
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chain Tandy Corporation that will see the
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some 6,000 Radio Shack and Tandy stores
throughout the United States and Canada.
S anctuary W o ods' p r o d ucts a r e
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betweenpalmtop and notebook
COIIlputar.

he distinction between notebook

computer an d p a l mtop system
appears to be blurring every day.
While palmtop manufacturerssuch as Hewlett-Packard with its HP95LXare figuring out how to add hard disk storage to something which runs on AA batteries, makers of notebook computers are continuing to cut down both the size and
weight of their systems.
ABC's new Bicorn B240i is a dear example of this trend. The company's pintwized
notebook sports a 16 MHz 80286 processor,
2 MB of RAM, a 40 MB hard disk and a
highwesolution 640x400 monochrome LCD
display, yet weighs only about two pounds
and is around half the size of most notebook computers.
If that were all it had, the Bicorn would
not be a particularly interesting machine,
but it isn' t. The B240i also offers the ability
to run on five AA batteries, provides an
external fioppy disk drive port and a PCMCIA/JEIDA standard expansion port for
memory cards, fax or data modems, network cards and any other cards which conform to this standard.
The fact that the machine accepts PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card
Industry Association) cards and their earlier Japanese JEIDA counterparts is noteworthy, as it marks one of the first times that
this standard is being used on a notebook
machine, rather than a palmtop. PCMCIA
standard expansion is aIready available on
palmtop computers from HP, Poqet, Sharp
and Memorex.

In theory, this means that the Bicorn

B240i will let you get the best of both
portable computing worlds all the latest
expansion interfaces from PCMCIA-supporting hardware companies (such as Intel,
which is planning to offer modems, fax
cards and network interface cards in PCMCIA format) with the full compatiMity
provided bya notebook computer design.

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B Y GEO F

W H E E L W R I GH T

Manager for Windows NT will be outow do you follow a year when your
PC software company's revenues
m a h n g life even more difiicult for Novell.
It is supposed to provide everything you get
grow by $950 million, its bank balin Novell NetWare 3.1 yet comes "bolted
a nce increases t o $ 1.4 bi l l io n an d i t
into "Windows NT and will also include the
achieves an overall turnover of $2.8 billion?
aforementioned built-in electronic mail,
That was the not-unpleasant question facscheduling and, of course, Windows NT
ing Microsoft chairman and cofounder Bill
itself.
Gates this summer as he faced a crowd of
For the corporate users considering
U.S. financial analysts at Microsoft headWindows NT as their development platform
quarters in Redmond, Washington.
for the future and there are many, comThe answer was long, detailed and
inciuded a few surprises particularly conpr i s ing some SO per cent of the 5000 attendees at Microsoft's Windows NT developcerning Microsoft's plans for future investment conference in San Francisco lastJuly
ments.
He said that the company's current suc- LAN Manager for Windows NT has got
cess is the result of technology "bets" that
t o b e worth considering. It should be fully
compatible with existing Novell systems, yet
the company made seven years ago and
so integral to the NT operating system that
that what he is planning now will not really
it will allow for a simple and phased transistart to pay off until the latter half of the
tion.
decade.
At least that is what Microsoft is hoping.
These new bets indude:
a major investment in workgroup cornBy encircling NetWare with its Windows
bandwagons and firing arrows of bundled
puting software
a scheme to make Microsoft Windows
software at the Novell stagecoach, it plans
to stop the Provo wagon train before it can
an integral part of office equipment
get any momentum for its
such as fax machines,
own Windows alternatives.
photocopiers, laser printThe company is also
ers, telephone systems,
hoping to work with partvoice mail, video conferners to take on Apple in
encing and EDI ( electhe handheld computer
tronic data exchange)
the design of specialist
and of6ce-equipment sector. Gates dreams of an
software for "broadcast"
environment where the
information to and from
fax, photocopier and teleportable computers over
'v:
:, phone all run
some form
wireless networks, perof Windows, are connected
sonal information-manto one another and the
agement applications for
telephone PABX shares its
use on handheld computphone directories with the
ers, electronic and voice
electronic mail and voicemail from portable sysmail systems and both are
tems and the transfer of
available t o
Pe r s onal
data to and from desktop
Informafion Management
systems automatically
ssgeWtOn
iS
the design of Microsoft
products for dialing by PC
modems.
Windows into consumer
handWylting
But the most intriguing
electronic devices such as

of Gates' office~uipment
video cassette recorders,
visions is the handheld
audio systems, home tele
so it yeii on
Windows machine. Gates
phones, i n f o r mation
suggests that Microsoft will
browsing systems run
the
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over cable television net-

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At least that is what is supposed to happen. But when you actually use the Bicorn
B240i, you get a strong dose of reality. To
start with, using Microsoft Windows 5.1 with
the machine reveals right away that it uses a
non-standard video display (high resolution, but not VGA) and that you must use
ABC's own screen and system drivers when
installing%endows S.l on the machine.
This is not a crucial problem and can
easily be gotten around, but it is annoying
to have to do so. It would have even been
better to go with EGA than this quasi-VGA
standard.
Second, you realize that battery operation on this machine isn't what it could be.
I was initially impressed by the idea that I
could run a machine with a40 MB hard
disk from five AA batteries and then was
seriously disappointed when I realized just
how little time the machine would actually
run on those batteries. Even when I fully
charged the rechargeable batteries which
came with the machine I only got about an
hour's use Rom them.
The overall hardware design of this
machine looks clever, but there are a few
silly things which the designers could have
paid a little more attention to. These
indude the &ustrating habit of putting tiny
removable rather than hinged covers
on interface sockets. If you remove the cov-

ers from the serial port or printer port, it is

quite easy to lose them.
On the plus side, we start with the operating system DR-DOS 6.0 which is
held in Flash RAM, as is the BIOS. This
scores somes positive points with me, as it
means that both can be upgraded without
repladng chips (a problem that faces you
when using one of the many notebook systems with DOS in ROM).
As you would expect to find in a palmtop, this hybrid notebook comes with a
number of built-in applications a file
link package to move files to and &am your
desktop PC (a must, as the B240i doesn' t
indude a built~ floppy disk drive), as well
as a scheduler, diary, telephone/address
book and text processor.

Overall, the Bicorn B240i is an interesting alternative to standard DOS-based notebooks and proprietary palmtop systems. If
you are willing to live with its particular set
of design compromises (the biggest of
which is the non-standard screen and the
use of a 286, rather than 386SX, processor),
then it is well worth a look.

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Newton-style system with

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are inherent in the Apple

design. "Newton is handwriting-intensive, so it
relies on the weakest part
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dia education software.

By far the most aggressive

interfaCeS On
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s
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mOdeleSS deVICeS.
m o st work I prefer
workgroup computmg The
structured interfaces on
upcoming
r el e as e of
modeless dances," he says.
Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 5.1 will
Meanwhile, Gates admits many of the
issue a strong broadside attack against netother projects he is planning will also
work arch-rival Novell. This product will
require partnerships with others in various
basically allow users to run a simple netindustries but he says that with $1.4 bilwork without having to buy a network operlion in the bank, Microsoft has the cash to
ating system (such as Novell's NetWare Lite
make strategic investments to help realize
or Artisoft's entry4evel LAN products).
its goals. He cites as an example the compaIt will also include Microsoft Mail S.O
ny's investment last year in London puband a new network Personal Information
Management package called Schedule Plus lishing house Dorling Kindersly and the
subsequent development of multimedia
making networking, electronic mail and
workgroup scheduling all a basic part of the
p r o ducts based around the company's educational books.
operating environment. This will undoubt"Partnership is key getting people to
edly hit not only Novell but also Lotus
build these devices in an intelligent form so
with its cc:Mail Windows-based electronic
that other people's machines can talk to
mail offering and its recently acquired
their machines," says Gates. "We don't want
Threadz Organiser PIM system.
to dictate partners or form factors we are
And even before Windows for
working with dozens of manufacturers to
Workgroups S.l hits the streets, LAN

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United States about Gates allegedly discussing an investment in the ailing Orion
film studio makers of the popular
Terminator movies. All Gates would say on
the subject is that he is not the only highprofile member of the PC industry who has
been "doing lunch" with H o l lywood

moguls.
"All these people I have had hmch with
seem to have had lunch with John Sculley
he is keeping up with me in lunch at
least," says Gates. The media companies I
talk to always say to me that 'you are so
under4everaged' and I have to admit that it
hasn't bothered me yet."
But Cinemania is by no means the multimedia title into which Microsoft has put

the most time and effort. That dubious distinction would have to yo to Microsoft's
electronic encydopedia. Gates says it has
been in th'e works as long as the Cirrus
database and has been in the company's
usability lab to be tested no less than five
lhnes.
'The encydopedia category is a tremendously interesting category we have
more than 100 people working on itand
only two are programmers,"'he says.
"Everything we have done is focused on the
computer experience 95 percent of the
content in this product was created at
Microsoft and only seven per cent was
licensed. Encyclopedias in the U.S. is a billiondoilar market.

He says that by producing a topnotch

encyclopedia with graphics, music, maps,
statistical graphs, diagrams, charts, sampled
speech and animation, Microsoft has a
chance of marketing the product against
existing paper encyclopedias particularly
when updating the encyclopedia is as simple as doing the rewrites and issuing a new
CD-ROM.
It's clear to see that Microsoft is moving
fast on many fronts at the moment and
"placing bets" in a wide range of industries.
You may see it also having to make some
strategic investments to shore up these bets
but with $1.4 billion in the corporate
bank account to do that, Gates seems pre-

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projected to be in the 10snillionunit range for 1992. With so many
modems being sold, you'd wonder what
they' re all being used for.
One application is calling, or nmning, a
computer bulletin board system, or BBS.
BBSes have been around since about 1980.
The first ones ran on Shit computers like
T andy's TRS-SO, the Apple II o r t h e
Commodore Pet. These machines cost
around $8000, ran at speeds of one or two
megahertz and sported between SK and
48K RAM.
Back then owning a computer meant
you knew how to program it. Off the shelf
software was not readily available so BBSes
became the main means of distributing programs, most of which were given away for
f'ree.
There weren't many computer magazines at the thne so user groups ran BBSes
as a means to exchange technical information as well.
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Modems were pretty primitive and ran

at the blazing speed of 500 bps (that's 48
times slower than today's 14,400-bps
modems). They weren't Hayeacompatible,
this usually meant you had to wire the
modem up to the computer yourselfand
figure out how to control it through some
home4eew drcuitry and software.
BBS software was rather primitive too.
There was usually only one message area
and the BBS wouldn't keep track of which
messages you had already read and which
ones you hadn' t. This usually meant writing
the last message number on paper and
refemng to it the next time you ajiied.
File areas on these BBSes seemed enormous, even the ones withunder lOOK of
storage. Although 100K of storage may
seem like a small amount, back then a program that was SK in size actually performed
a useful function. Today, you' re lucky to
find a useful program that's under lOOK
Most file transfer protocols we use
today, like Zmodem, hadn't been invented
yet, so you usually had one of two choices:
xmodem or Punter protocol. Both were
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on commercial software, mostly games, and
distributing the stufF through BBSes every.
where. It was here that BBSes also began to
get a bad reputation.
Trojans horses malicious programs
that would erase data were also born in
this era, soon to be followed by the computer virus and all sorts of other digital nasties.
During these, "dark ages" of BBSing, a
lot of really innovative thinking began to
emerge as welL One great ideas was this: my
BBS will call your BBS and we will trade
messages. Wide~en network electronic
mail (netmail) was born.

in order to communicate with someone

Exactly where, this idea began no one is
sure, but one of the pioneers of netmail was there. The netmailer would do it for you.
This meant the r ate o f i n f o rmation
a Canadian named Steve Punter.Steve
exchange was accelerated and ideas spread
worked out of his Mississauga home and
more quickly. But there was a newer, more
wrote two very important pieces of software:
one was one of the first word processors,
powerful, technology waiting just around
the corner.
called WordPro,and the other was a BBS
program: BBS64.
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BBS44 allowed people to send mail to
Before the IBM PC came onto the market
any other BBS44 system overnight, when
the biggest problem with BBSes was storthe longWstance rates were cheap. The
BBS would havea rough idea of how much
age. Stacks of floppy drives were the only'
this call would cost (usually about 25 cents affordable means of providing storage
space on a BBS. IBM changed all of that
per message), and deduct the amount f'rom
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with the integration of a hard drive as a
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often only came in kit form. The PC provided a flexible, expandable platform that
forced much of the industry to finally
adhere to a standard.
Along with the IBM PC came the Hayes
modem. Instead of the modem being
"hard~ ed " into the computer, it was controlled by a simple language called the
"AT" command set. This allowed software
to be more independent ofthe brand or
type of modem that was being usecL
Now computers finallyhad adequate
storage, interchangeable parts, reasonable
speed, lots of memory and a wide range of
languages and software tools. The pieces of
the puzzle were all there and the time was
right for the next leap forward: Fidonet.
Fidonet evolved &om an mtc.resting set
of problems. Two programmers lived quite
a distance &om each other and wanted to
exchange both so&ware updates and messages, but they wanted to do this automatically without one person having to call the
other.
One of them created a program to do
this. At a predetermined time it would call
and send a packet of data to the other person's computer. This computer would then
convert the packet back into either a file or
a message. Once other programmers heard
about this they wanted to be able to do the
satne thing.
Computer enthusiasts are well-known
for their sharing of resources so instead of
having a bunch of one-towne links, they
established a set of protocols and a hierarchy of network design.
For example, if I wanted to send a message to someone in Richmond, B.C. &om
Toronto, Ontario I would not call the person in Richmond, B.C., I'd call my local
Fidonet node, which would then call the
local Toronto hub, which would then call
Vancouver, which would call the node in
Richmond. The message would wait in the
BBS in Richmond until the recipient called
to pick it up.
This interconnectivity of individuals
through independently operated BBSes is a
revolutionary way to communicate, not just
with individuals but with entire groups of
people who all want to share their opinions
and ideas.
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BBSing by looking at some more recent
developments: echomail and graphical
communication. We' ll also catch some
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that in the BBS community there exist
hundreds of special interest groups, or sub.
cultures, with diverse and often unusual
tastes.Specific topics of interest range from
bomb building to sadomasochism and
many draw a surprisingly large number of
subscribers. Computerized bulletin boards
offer a relatively unregulated forum for discussion, a feature that is proving to be both
an attraction and a threat to users of the
services.
The attraction stems hem the f'act that
computers and modems offeran unparalleled sense of anonymity, far greater than
traditional communications media such as
television or newspapers. Partly this is due

to the administrative policies of some bulletin boards which allow for pseudonyms.
But in many cases, even those services
which require full names and signed consent forms have few deterrents.
Working from the security of one's own
home, a person typing commands on a keyboard leaves no oral clues about his identity. Experienced users know that the system
operator (especially on some of the less
reputable BBSes) is usually the only one
who could track them down if necessarysomething which is unlikely as many of the
more experienced users are also the best
sources of income to the services.
On the more reputable BBSes there is
simply too mu c h in f o r mation b eing

uploaded and downloaded to expect

administrators to keep track of it, even if a
policy for doing so were in place. More
often than not, system operators treat the
situation the same way police vice units do:
they investigate only specific coinplaints,
removing offensive material if necessary.
At the international level, files and pictures can be transmitted through a series of
networks and telephone exchanges before
finally turning up on a bulletin board. Add
to this the hero-like computer hacker created by popular culture and you' re bound to
find a computer fanaticsomewhere who
succeeds in accessing a system illegally. As
far back at 1983, the movie War Games was
quick to pick up on this attraction for

restricted information and there's every

reason to expect the same holds true for
the adult forums available today. The large
distances involved, number of networks inbetween and indistinct voice of a modem
all act to strip away almost any moral inhibition imaginable.
What worries Tolan and other computer administrators isthat "computer users in
general are getting a bad reputation" whenever stories of bulletin boards and pornography surface. The material available on
these services certainly isn't unique to computer users, but much of the attention
focused on bulletin-board services these
days concentrates strictly on the ofFensive
material.
Some of the unregulated services that
offer adult forums also perform a valuable
community service as distributors of highly
useful research and professional information. Other bulletin boards are strictly businesaoriented or educational, but their services rarely warrant media attention. The
operators of these business services cringe
whenever racist bulletin boards are mentioned, realizing that uneducated computer
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Tolan would prefer to see selfwegulation at

the administrative level, believing that the
logistics of polidng so much information
thoroughly would be impractical, and perhaps even harmful in the long run. He
emphasizes that self-regulation of public
systems should be extended to cover more
than just pornographic material.
"We have to learn to regulate ourselves," he says, and points out that other
forums, such as those containing hate literature, will soon be examined.
For system administrators like Tolan,
this is not an issue of censorship, but rather
one of distribution. "You' re not denying
anyone access to the material, you' re simply
saying that using public funds for such
access is unacceptable."
At home, parents must share a similar
responsibility. For Tolan it's a personal
issue.
As a youngster in British Columbia he
knew of a child disfigured in an explosion
while assembling a pipe bomb. Two years
ago, his own son, with just three clicks of a
inouse button, was able t o a c cess a
pyrotechnics forum on a bulletin board
that listed detailed instructions on how to
assemble a similar device. Seeing that kind
of information enter his home so easily
alerted him to the potential dangers of
some of this information.
John Wennerstrom, a Calgary bulletinboard user since 1982, agrees there's a
problem, but feels that regulation should
exist at the user leveL
'There's a lot of good, legitimate, information out there and I want access to everything available. It's like television if I
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Wennerstrom, however, is quick to point
out that he's concerned about keeping kids
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that is bound to surf'ace with businesses and
eventually home computer users as well.
While it's true that much of the offensive
material originates south of the border,
Americans are also capitalizing on the ability of electronic bullenn boards to promote
free speech in a more productive way.
Bob Wise, United States Congressman
&om West Virginia is systems operator of
The Federal Whistleblower BBS," a con6-

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I nternet, including M in d L i n kl , t h e
Questor Project, the Bomb Shelter, and
Gybe rstore.
One sign of the development of an
industry like on-line information systems
is the growing realization that there is
money to be made, The most popular session at ONE BBSCON dealt with "How to
make money with your BBS." Some key
points: give your board a special "sense of
place";make people feelwelcome; do some
promotion and advertising; and very
important let users pay by credit card.
As computer bulletin boards become
more successful and prominent several speakers predicted that as a group BBS

Sysop Conference Report

I Y N EA L E A D A M S
OEEt of the Basement
Computer bulletin hoards have moved out
of hacker hobbyist basements to become
part of the computer-industry mainstream
that was the message delivered at ONE
BBSCON held late this summer.
For the first time, over 1,000 systems
operators of computer bulletin boards
("sysops"), software manufacturers, and
modem makers got together in a first&ass
h otel (the Stouffer Airport H o tel i n
Denver) to participate in seminar sessions
(100 of them) and a trade show.
A computer bulletin board system (a
"BBS") is a computer, attached to a modem
(or many modems), attached to phone
lines. People call up and sign on to the
computer by giving a password. The computer then responds by sending out information. One can post or receive messages
(hence the "bulletin board" analogy), send
in or receive files, chat with the sysop or
with other people hooked up to the same
computer, and so on.
Ward Christensen, the inventor of the
computer bulletin board in 1978, was in
Denver to accept an award. He's the man
who wrote the Xmodem error-checking
rotocol that made it possible to send data
etween personal computers over telephone lines with accuracy.
Back then, messages moved at a snail' s
pace: 500 bits per second (bps). It took
almost a minute for a BBS to send out a
page of text;today affordable 9600-bps
modems ($500 to $400 and dropping)
blaze away at speeds 50 to50 times as fast.
These higherepeed modems, along with
falling long&stance rates, have made computer bulletin boards multiply. There are
800 BBSes listed in the Vancouver area
alone who knows how many more are
unlisted. Billboard Afagasiyseestimates
46,000 computer bulletin board systems
exist across the continent.

A Varied Group
The BBS operators in Denver were a varied
group: a woman from the Bay area who
operates a one-telephone-line system in her
basement to keep the list of the hundreds
of BBSes in the Bay area; Neil Fleming of
Toronto who runs Canada Remote Systems,
a huge 200-line, 9,000-subscriber commercial board.
Fleming got an award for operating "the
best BBS system in North America," the
result of a contest by Billboard. Wayne
Duval's local Doppler/Deep Cove board
was the other Canadian BBS to place in the
top 100.
Most of the BBS systems represented in
Denver do the usual things BBS users
expect: offer files of software (either f'ree or
"shareware" one is supposed to pay for),
digitized photographs, and on-line games.
Some of the more popular boards specialize in running "chat" areas, usually, but not
exclusively of the "boy~eet~ r l " variety.
Interesting survey statistic: about one in
seven BBS users is female.

Appsal1nl to s Wider Audience

Today's BBSes more and more are appealing to a wider- audience by providing news
and features from many sources. These
include the United Press wire service, USA
Today's electronic newspaper, several
sources of computer news, stock quotes,
and connection to the Internet, which connects to 10 million people in over 40 countries.
There was much talk about the Internet,

a huge network that in the past has chiefly

linked the continent's universities to enable
professors to talk and do research. Recently
the rules of the Internet have been relaxed

by action of the U.S. Congress. A few BBSes

in Vancouver are already connected to

systems will have to get more involved politically to protect themselves, and project a
positive public ilnage. Telephone companies keep trying to push up rates; corporate
interests want to monopolize the business
for themselves; governments want to regulate. As BBSes become valuable properties,
lawyers find more reason to sue.
Some 88 vendors' exhibits filled half the
ballroom of the hotel. All the well-known
companies who write commercial bulletin
board software showed their wares. No
extraordinarynew products were revealed,
though what has been a frustratingly difficult job of getting a BBS up and running
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The market for Windows word processors has matured considerably over the past few months. When Windows
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tables within a document, support for
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and a world atlas to Word for Wmdows 2.0.
many simple paint~ d c lraw packages.
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ware products, this particular combination
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of reference materials will be familiar to
expect, but WordStar for Windows adds
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y o u as Microsoft Bookshelf. The diiFerence
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and Word for Windows together so that
rotation of text or graphics by one
degree increments (something only a few y o u can access information in Bookshelf
fi'om Word for Windows and "send' inforWindows-based DTP packages offer,
mation to Word for Windows documents
never mind word processors) and the
directly from within Bookshelf.
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for Windows normally takes up more than
have a complete grip on what Windows is
10 MB of hard disk space for a full installaall about. Simple things which are quite
tion, being able to do a "CD-ROM" installastandard in other Windows applicafions still
tion of it with only 4 MB of space being
don't work the same way in WordStar for
used (for files that need to be written to) is
Windows.
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There is a slight degradation in speed
example, recognize the Microsoft multiple
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once and be able to cut and paste
So Word for Windows is an intriguing
between them you still have to use the
alternative to standard Windows wordpromultitasking power of Windows to open up
ceasing offerings for users of CD-ROM sysa second instance of W o r d Star f o r
terna. If you have a CD-ROM and use it with
Windowai This also means there is no hst of
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Installation took 22 minutes on a 40
MHz 486. Despite the fact that installation
went fairly smoothly (a couple of minor
hitches are mentioned below), I find it
objectionable that the install program
forces you to exit the Windows environment before beginning.Fully configured,
the program and supplementmy files occupy almost 8 megabytes of disk space.
Both problems I encountered had to do
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Enghsh" version of the program. The first
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Windows" (NDW) users. The instructions
that are included in the WPWIN package
on how to set up a WPWIN group (in other
words, a window with program icons) in
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between the two are somewhat problematic.
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option and could not load it into WPIN,
which complained that it had encountered
an "unknown file
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that it includes the opportunity to "import" a file created with

Asal This is the most widely~ccepted format for data, but also one of the
most hmited. There are many extended ASCII character sets, but the basic
ASCII set includes simply all the characters you see on a typical PC keyboard in addition to a few extras for
non-printing characters such as
Caniage Return (CR) and Line Feed
(LF). It doesn' t, however, offer any
faciTity for describing text layout, typefaces or pagination.

another wordprocessor or "export" itto a different file format. If

you are ever unsure about which file formats do what, here is a
brief explanation of the major word processin9 file formats.

Wang Wang's dedicated word processing format became the root format for
a number of future4edicated and PC
packages, the most notable of which is

Word Processing
6le formats
When you use a word processor these days, you will likely find

Multimate. Due to its early success in the

"office automation" field, there is still
quitea demand for Wang documentconversion software.
Diaplaywrite Much the same story as
Wang, but in the PC field. IBM still ofFers
both dedicated DisplayWrite word processors and DisplayWrite PC software. These
days, however, the vast majority of
DisplayWrite's modest sales are on the PC

softwarefont although many people

still have older, dedicated DisplayWrite
systems. IBM also now allows DisplayWrite
software users to write to DCA fiies so that
their output files are a good deal more
accessible.
Navy DIF An early standard for text and
spreadsheet data, most wellknown for its
support within VisiCalc, DIF is more widely offered as an import/export format
than it is as anyone's "native" data format.
This ends up often being a "halfway
house" between one application and
another, where DIF (or the slightly more
primitive ASCII) is the only thing they
share.

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Microsoft Word 1.0 through 4.0 =U s ing

improved formatting and typeface support, Microsoft Word provides a better
and more widely available PC format for
word processing files. Through the oKering of hficrosoft Word on a number of
platforms i n c luding M S - D OS,
Windows, OS/2 and the Apple Madntosh
Word is also a high-function format
which allows the movement of word processing files from one operating system or
hardware platform to another.
DCA/RFT/HtT IBM's DCA-based (DCA
being IBM's acronym for Document
Content Architecture) Revisable Format
Text, which along with its Final Format
Text provides an IBMwndorsed and
improved method of packaging text. Like
DIF before it, DCA is fast becoming a
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and an early stab at mahng Wang's dedicated word processor users feel at home
on the PC, Multimate was acquired several years ago by Ashton-Tate. In the future,
it is likely that the product will be
eclipsed by a planned OS/2 Presentation
Manager version o f A s hton-Tate's
acquired, b u t hig h l y s u c cessful,
Macintosh word processing application
FullWrite. This application is expected,
however, to at least allow the importing
o f Multimate files, so that on e n e e ds
to feel they need stop using Multimate
now in fear of it becomng obsolete.
WordPerfeet 4.2 As WordPerfect grew in
popularity (most notably with Version
4.2), people became used to its "rich" set
of formatting and typestyle features. For
anyone doing document conversions the
h ard way, i t w a s a lso useful t h a t
WordPerfect stored its data by placing
some formatting information at the
begmning of the file, some at the endand only a few tiny control characters (to
note elements such as emboldening)
through the body of the text.
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WordPerfect format supports multiple
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the name of the graphics file you are
using (instead of the content of the file)
thus ensurin g t h a t i f y o u m a k e
changes to that file, those changes will be
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processed document that uses it.

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and point sizes. In addition to the package's own improved layout fadlities, these
facilities can also be maintained when
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For MS-DOS computers using Microsoft
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available from a wide variety of manufacturers for under $1000. With the recent
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Another ofthe more affordable "video
windows" boards is the Media-V Multimedia
Adapter from Singapore Technologies. It
allows your desktop PC to display a video
signal in an adjustable window at an
adjustable volume with the option to capture any desiredframe of video for future
use on your desktop PC. No special monitor is required to take advantage of this
capability, any VGA monitor will do, but
you will need a VGA card with a feature
connector. (Sometimes called a passthrough or auxiliary connector, this pin or
edge connector allows aden accessories to
accessthe VGA circuitry. )
This card supports both NTSC and PAL
composite video input for display in a video
window as large as 640x480 with over two
million colors available for simultaneous
display. The card also has an audio input
and is capable of modulating the volume
but has no ability to processor capture the
audio signal.
The software-based control panel allows
real-time control of the size, position, hue,
saturation, brightness, and contrast of the
"video window" display and of the volume
of the audio.
The incoming video can be instantaneously frozen and the frozen frame of
video captured as a data file under one of
the many supported file formats (TARGA,
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video card may only be able to display &bit
color (256 colors), you will be able to display 21-bit color (2 million colors) images if
it is loaded into an application (such as the
Media-V Panel) which utilizes Media-V.
Additionally, the Media-V supports overlay of VGA graphics on the video window
and special effects based on luminance and
chrominance masking. Graphics overlay is
achieved through color keying the substitution of a video signal over a selected
color of the VGA graphics.

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PC; it had a video card built-in;
you used it with the display that
came with the machine. End of story.
In those days, video adapters simply
copied whatever standards were set by IBM
with a few important exceptions. If IBM
produced a PC that could only handle
monochrome graphics, so did everyone
else. If IBM then ofFered a basic standard
color adapter (CGA), you could be sure
that the rest of the world would follow.
There were, of course, a couple of cases
the Hercules monochrome graphics
card and Compaq's built-in video being the
best examples where people didn't follow IBM's lead. But, by and large, IBM's
video standards set the pace until the introduction of the VGA display standard in
1987 with the launch of the IBM PS/ 2
range.
It took the PC cloners about a year to
start cloning VGA, but they haven't looked
back since. IBM has also released two new
video standards of its own XGA and the
8514 but they haven't achieved the popularity of their predecessors.
This has left users in something of a
quandary. If you want a video display that' s
better than VGA (and who doesn' t?), then

"Super VGA" display adapter cards. In most

cases, the display cards will be able to show
fewer colors at this resolution but obviously provide you with a sharper image.
Most midge PCs these days come with
cards that ofFer some sort of display at this
resolution.
T he t h i r d l e v e l o f r e s o l u t io n i s
1024x768 which was until recently the
high end of PC display resolution for most
applications. It commonly tops out at being
able to display 256 colors and is quite adequate for most desktop publishing work
The highest level of display resolution
you might want to consider is 1280x1024.
This gives an extremely sharp and detailed
picture; in order to take advantage of it,
you will have to shell out lots of money on
both the display adapter itself and a highresolution monitor to use with it.

what do you do? Well, take heart, there is

adapter card itself.

life beyond VGA, and it is far more varied

than when IBM was running the show.
Most display adapters for PCs now take
VGA as their "baseline compatibility." This
is useful since it means that even if you run
an application which doesn't support the
highest-possible resolution of your display
card directly, you can always "fall back" to
VGA.

There are two ways of measuring this

performance. First look at the amount of
RAM which comes with the video cardwhich can vary from a basic 512K right up
to 4 MB or more. Secondly, you will want to
get some idea of the "refresh rate" the
amount of time the display adapter takes to
update the screen when changes are made.

Maintaining Maximum Rmoivo

There are four major display resolutions
that "go beyond" VGA. These start with the
640x480 used in the original IBM implementation. Many developers have moved
beyond the original definition of this resolution by being able to display far more colors. Display cards such as the Hercules
Graphics Station G o l d 2 4 + 2 d i s p l ay
adapter, for example, offer a choice of 16.7
million colors in 640x480 mode.
The next-highest resolution is 800x600,
one that is quite popular on most SVGA

FrameMaker for Windows has a powerful

capacityto crossgeference text and graphics, making it again a great choice for those
users who have to refer to figures and quot ations w i t h i n t h e d o c u m e n t . A l s o ,
FrameMaker for Windows allows a user to
create documents with conditional text and
graphics. This means that if you were producing a textbook intended for different
audiences, say a version for a teacher with
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and pictures, you don't need to write two
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graphics conditional to each version.
Hypertext creation for on-line documentation is another included feature of
FrameMaker that will be popular with the
techie set.

trait within the same file. Also, there is a

text-flow feature that works more like a
desktop publishing program for placing
text onto pages.
Tables are fun to create in FrameMaker
using the table dialog box; however I still
prefer the option of clicking and dragging
on a table icon to create a table as found
in MS Word for Windows v. 2.0 and
WordPerfectfor Windows over a dialog
box where you have to fill in the specs for
the table.

FrameMaker for Windows has a pop-up

menu of graphic tools that lets the user
draw in the document without having to
switch applications. Graphics can be put
into anchored frames that have text wrap
around them, orthey can be free and flow
with the text. Similarly, text may also be
anchored in place. This anchoring feature
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appear in a certain place.
FrameMaker for Windows comes with a
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within the document without interrupting
document creation. This equations editor
works better than any comparable Windows
application I' ve seen to date, which would
make it the superior product for engineers,
mathematicians and other technical people.

Needs a 488 and a BIB Monitor

So far sogood. Well, there are few other
things you should know about this new
Frame product. I had started out using
FrameMaker on a highland
Mac with a large
m onitor, a n d a f t e r I i n s t a l le d t h i s
Frame.'Maker for Windows on my 586 under
Windows 5.1 with a standard 14" VGA monitor, I found myself frustrated. I think that
FrameMaker for Windows would work optimally on a 486 computer with a monitor
large enough to give a full-page view, or at
least a monitor with high resolution.
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Are Displaying
The other major issue to keep in mind
when looking at moni t ors and display
adapters is that the display adapter is really
a miniature computer in itself. It has its
own dedicated graphics processor, its own
RAM and has to handle its own I/O. All of
the performance considerations which
afFect a desktop PC come into play with the

Optimized for Windows

The final issue you should consider is optimization for Microsoft Windows. Microsoft
has worked with a large number of thirdparty video display adapter vendors in
recent months to help them produce products that are at their best when running
Microsoft Windows. The Windows display
drivers used with them make them perform
better than their raw statistics would otherwise suggest. Look for the Windows hardware compatibility when you buy and
then ask to see the card running Windows.
Seeing is believing.

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OC T O B ER '92THE COMPUTER PAPER B.C. EDITION

Speedstar24

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WordPerfect for DOS and Microsoft Word

for DOS. For users of DOS programs that
have strict requirements for certain graphics modes, a DOS utility is provided which
enables the Speedstar24 to run in these
video modes by setting up for the appropriate hardware register level operation.
WinRIX DCS, a featureweduced version
of the WinRIX image processing and 24-bit
paint package, is also included. WinRIX
DCS, although limited in this special version, enables you to begin to take advantage of the color capabilities provided by
the Speedstar24. The excitement of using a
16-million~olor palette and the ease of use
of WinRIX DCS definitely whetted our
appetites for the full commerdal version.
You can upgrade to the full version of
WinRIX for US$179, approximately $300
off its list price. For those with simple
needs, the basic functionality left intact in
WinRIX DCS may be all you need.

Instaiiation and Operation

Installation was relatively pain-free. With
both test systems, no hardware incompatibilities were encountered. The software
installation script was easy to follow, and
Windows 5.1 was up and running within
minutes. The documentation is well written, thorough, and easy to read and reference. As well, Diamond Computer Systems
provides a 24-hour support BBS and the
staff was extremely helpful when contacted
by phone. The Speedstar24 also comeswith
a generous five-year warranty, well above
the average for similar manufacturer support.
A multi4requency scanning monitor is
required if you anticipate using all of the
available video modes. The installation provided with the card allows for custom configuration of the Speedstar24 for optimum
settings for your particular monitor's specifications.

Perfonnance Testing
Several graphic@intensive Windows applications were tested and ran without dinlculty:
Aldus PageMaker, Aldus PhotoStyler, Aldus
FreeHand, Microsoft Word for Windows,
Microsoft Publisher, and Zuma Curtain
Call. Games such as Civilization and
Wolfenstein 5D all worked without a hitch.
Aldus Persuasion 2.0 demonstrated some
strange screen artifacts in the slide-show
presentation mode when run under the Hicolor video mode (although we believe this
to be a problem with Aldus Persuasion and
not the video card or drivers).
T he performance on a 5i l z 4 8 6 D X
was surprisingly good, and noticeably snappier than the same card on a MMHz 586DX.
On the 486 system, performance easily
rivaled not only competing boards, but
Diamond's own Stealth SS accelerated
graphics board, and in some cases, Texas
Instrument's own TIGA graphics accelerator chipset.
The high level of performance from this
moderately priced card can be attributed to
the excellent TurboWmdows drivers included with the Speedstar24. For those readers
that own other brands of Tseng-based video
cards, and want an inexpensive way of
accelerating
t he ir
vi de o,
t he
TurboWindows drivers are well worth the
minimal investment.
The Speedstar24 comes with a VESA
Feature connector and a M u l timedia
Feature connector. A Media-V video-window/framegrabber board was used to test

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compatibility with multimedia adapters that

utilize the feature connector. The Media-V
and Speedstar24 combination performed
well.
Caveats
In a side-by side comparison with the similarly priced ATI Wonder XL, the ATI board
was distinctly sharper on the same monitor.
The sharpness of the Speedstar24 was quite
acceptable, and could be viewed for long
periods without strain, but lacked the pinpoint clarity that the ATI offered. Also, on
one of the test boards, the top 4mm of the
display was slightly warped in the highest
resolutions. The other test board performed flawlessly.

Is this the video card for you7

What are you going to do with 16 million
colors, you ask? You simply may not need
any more than standard VCA's 640x480 resolution, or any more colors than the common 256color palette that most products
offer. The crux of th e m atter is that
Diamond's aggressive pricing poses a
poignant question if you' re in the market
for anygraphics card: Why not?
Brand-name SuperVGA adapters that
offer relative performance sell for around
$ 200, an d t h e s t r ee t p r ic e o f t h e
Speedstar24 falls within $50 of that mark.
For an extra$50, you get the added functionality of the 640x480 true- color mode,
as well as the now-standard 256 colors, an
800x600 mode that offers 256 to 32,768colors, a 1024x768 mode sporting 256 colors, a
1280x1024 interlaced mode with 16 colors,
and a 1024x1024 virtual mode with 256 colors (this mode pans automatically when the
mouse pointer hits the top or bottom of the
display, giving you a larger display size that
can only be accessed by scrolling).

Con dusions

What the Speedstar24 is not is a highland

24-bit solution. In a pinch, it may certainly
be used for highland
applications, but the
trite adage of "you get what you pay offer"
is appropriate here. While the board offers
an extremely good price/performance
ratio when considered in the context of
comparative products, the Speedstar24 is
simply in a different league than say, a
TARGA board or one of the new Radius
ofFerings, both in truewolor performance
and resolution.
With those considerations in mind, the
Speedstar24 is not a low-end solution
either, given the TurboWindows drivers
and its performance that rates well above
standard VGA adapters. With the value
added to the board by the inclusion of a
good set of utilities and drivers and the 24bit paint program, you do get more than

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B Y G E O F W H E E L W R IG H T

f you do any inAepth examination of

personal computer video technology
over the next months, you will find it
hard to avoid a new buzzword: localbus
video. It is a new way of handling video output produced by the PC that could considerably enhance video speed and overall performance.
In most IBM-compatible PCs, video output is generated through the use of a display adapter expansion card that sits in one
of the PC's "expansion slots." Since the
advent of the IBM AT in 1984 and the
enhanced expansion slot technology that
went with it these adapter cards have
generally run 6 om the 16-bit AT expansion
but at a rate of 8 MHz.
While an 8 MHz bus speed was fine in
1984, anyone who knows anything about
processor technology can tell you today' s
fastest PC processors can run at between 40
and 66 MHz with 100 MHz 486 processors not far off in the distance. Having a
video card that only runs at 8 MHz is therefore a bit of a waste. It's like having a turboc harged P orsche 9 1 1 w i t h o n l y a
Volkswagen Beetle engine in it. All the
other parts of the system are optimized for
high performance but they hit a bottleneck when it comes to the video output.

A variety of solutions have been presented to this problem. They include video
accelerators, faster processors on the video
display adapters themselves as well as
more memory. But whatever you do to the
video card itself, it still has to communicate
with the motherboard of the PC at a measly
8 MHz.
This is where local bus video comes it. It
is a way for the video circuitry to talk
"directly" to the processor over a "local
bus," rather than the standard AT expansion bus. This means that a local bus video
system has to be built onto the motherboard of the computer in a proprietary
fashion at least until some form of local
bus video standard evolves. There are 52-bit
expansion slots around induding IBM's
MCA and the ISA-based EISA but none
will yet operate at the kind of speeds that
can be achieved by hanging a localbus
directly off the processor.
Local bus video systems claim to be able
to run at 55 to 50 MHz, making them much,
much faster than those running from an 8
MHz AT bus. And with today's graphical
applications demanding that kind of extra
performance, it has to be a technology that
will be much in demand over the coming
months and years.

Sony Licenses Trinitron Technology To Mitsubishi

TOKYO, JAPAN (NB)any wiU license its

inch workstation displays in the world market, according to the ikkei newspaper. It
can produce a clearerscreen image than
that of the current standard "shadow masktype" display developed by RCA in the U.S.,
says the newspaper.
M itsubishi is the first firm t o g e t
Trinitron technology from Sony.

Trinitron Braun-tube display technology to

Mitsubishi Electric which will manufacture
and sell displays using this technology
under its own brand name.
Sony's Trinitron display has a good reputation among workstation users. Sony has
a 50 percent share in the market for 21-

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If you are searching for an economical

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overall solid performance, its sensible
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VideoToolkit Videotape

control package
NORFOLK, MASSACHUSETTS (NB) Abbate Video reports that VideoToolkit, a
videotape c o n t r o l p a c k ag e f o r th e
Macintosh, now provides an option for realtime QuickTime movies.
Mark Abbate, president and chief designer, explained the value
of the program:
"VideoToolkit adds a
tremendous value to
QuickTime...because it
l essens the i ssue o f
large hard disk capacity
by automating the digitizing of the exact video
s equences t ha t y o u
n eed t o w o r k w i t h .
We-'ve made full frame
real~ e v i deo a reality
(30 fps) through a stepand~ab routine.
"By simplifying the
production
of
Q uickTim e
M oo v s,
V ideo Toolki t
ad d s
tremendous value to QuickTune presentat ion p ackages such as Pr emiere a n d
VideoShop. In fact, Video Toolkit is the perfect front-end for any videotape-based
QuickTime MoovMaking." Cue Track is
another application that enables a user to
log and assemble rough cuts and create
exportable edit decision lists (EDL) that
conform with both CMX and Video F/X
formats.

Version 1.2.5 resolves 52-bit addressing

incompatibilities, the company reports.
The basic VideoToolkit package now
includes control for logging and assembling withSony's Vdeck and Vbox, RS252
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ersonal computer-based fax systems

have come a long way in the past
few years. They used to be simple
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more than send basic text files from the
screen of your computer to the paper of
someone else's fax machine.
That in itself was quite a feat, but it real-

ly wasn't enough especially if you were

considering junking your fax machine in
favor of a PC-based fax machine. You needed to be able to reliably send faxes containing both text and graphics as well as
receive them.
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with the arrival of handheld, batter)aopera
ed fax modems that operate quite happil
from the serial port of most PC4>ased hand
held, notebook and desktop computers
We recently had a chance to look at
range of such devices from San Jose, CA
based Macronix.
Known as the MaxLite range, these
modems are designed to operate wit
either Mac- or PC-based systems. They
on a single 9-volt battery and are smal
enough to fit in the palm of your hand
They are also very simple to use.
But first the specifications. These f
modems range from a basic2400/960
model that will send and receive compute
data at 2400 bps (while handling incomin
and outgoing faxes at 9600 bps) right up t
a 14.4/14.4 "screamer" model that use
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We first looked at both the most basi
model (which sells for $299 withou
Delrina's excellent WinFax bundled as p
of the package and $M9 if you include it)
To start with, even before you get to any o
the fax functions themselves, as a modem i
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interface and a socket to plug in the external AC adapter. To acknowledge the fact
that you might be using the modem with
either the Mac or the PC, cables are included for both.
The rest happens in software. The
Macronix MaxLite's command set is a
superset of the Hayes AT set, but indudes a
few useful additions. For example, when
you issue the ATI4 command on the
Macronix MaxLite it brings up a quick-reference listing of basic modem commands.
As mentioned before, the Macronix
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will "faU back" to establish a regular asynchronous connection.
Cont. on page 50

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frustrating experience.
Three manuals are included; all are well
thought out with lots of examples and diagrams. Besides the reference mamial there
is a tutorial and a guide to the BasicCAD
programming language included with the
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Inside DaslgnCAD
DesignCAD has a number of viewports so
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esignCAD is one of the most popular
angles. The crosshair consists of three lines
lo~ d 3 - D CAD programs available equivalent to the X, Y, and Z axes so that
today. There are two reasons for
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this. First, it was one of the first ofFered,
whatever you are always doing it from this
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vantage polil't.
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The commands are accessed from popIt is always difficult to assess what one
down menus aleng the top of the screen. A
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and advances rapidly as far as new ofFerings more advanced 8-D commands which proa re concerned. Fo r t h e p r i c e t a g , vide basic objects such as spheres and
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3-D entities. Rudimentary text and dimenis not in the same league as the highland sioning conunands are also provided.
CAD systems.
T he solid 3- D o bj ects created i n
DesignCAD can be manipulated in fairly
Installation and Documentation
complex ways. You can join or remove
Installing DesignCAD is simply a matter of
intersections of two different objects and
following a few prompts and takes a few
take 2-D slices of the 3-D objects at difFerent
minutes. As with any CAD system, you will
angles.
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ing capabilities. Once you have created
math co-processor if you don't already have your object you can shade it and apply up
one. Most 486s already indude one. It will
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DesignCAD also comes with BasicCAD,
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accustomed to the slick-looking applications that run under Windows or OS/2,

though, ASCII looks pretty crude.
The reason BBSes seldom operate in
"graphics mode" is simple. To date, it has
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information to th e user's computer.
Transmitting a picture can take several
minutes. Today, if a graphic image is transmitted, it is usually in a 61e that the user
doesn't look at until he or she goes "offline," that is, hangs up the phone.
But software the C anadians were
demonstrating showed that "online" trans-

mission of graphics screens is certainly feasible certainly with a 9600- or 14,400-bps

modem. The key to the software is compression: putting enough information into
a package only one or two thousand bytes
long that can be sent out in seconds but
can still instruct the user's computer how to
draw a screen full of graphics.
MicroStar Software of Ottawa was showing its software based on the mostlymadein&anada NAPLPS compression system.
Cardz Computers of Vancouver was busy
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So while the BBS industry is coming of
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I found the Macronix MaxLite to be
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to merge files, edit 3-D objects,
cameras and textures which yc
the Materials Editor; and final
the animation in the Keyf'ramer.

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VERY ONCE IN A W HILE WE TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT

everyone else is charging for computers. It

usually makes us green with envy. We get all
glassy eyed thinking about the big profit margins
they must be raking in. Then we come back to
earth and remember the commitment we' ve made
to our customers.

Ever since we started building IPC computers seven

years ago, our goal has been to produce reliable
quality computers and sell them for the most
affordable prices. While the other guys said you
had to pay a premium for quality, we were busy
proving them wrong.
Judging from their price slashing behavior in recent
months, it looks like we were right all along. The
competition say they' ve cut their margins to bring
you lower prices. That's reassuring! At IPC, We
started out with lower margins, then kept finding
ways to save you money.
One of our secrets is vertical integration. We own
a chip design firm and a board manufacturer. That
e nables u s t o

c o n t ro l c o sts t h r o ughout t h e

engineering process.
By downsizing our 486 class boardswe cut material
costs and condensed our chip requirements to a
minimum. Our engineers designed the new 486DX
boards with only 15 TTLs(transistors) and 2 ASICs

DNL.
Bravo 4$6/33 P r oLinea 4/33

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ES4-3300

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i486DX

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33MHz

33MHz

33MHz

33MHz

33MHz

2 MB RAM

4MB R A M

4 MB RAM

4MB R A M

4MB RAM

SVGA Colour
Monitor

SVGA Colour
Monitor

SVGA Colour
Monitor

SVGA Colour
Monitor

SVGA Colour
Monitor

8QMB HD

120MB HD

120 M B HD

105MB

105MB HD

no ext. cache

no ext. cache

no ext. cache

128K cache

128K cache

MS/DOS 5.0

MS / D OS 5.0

MS/DOS 5.0

M S/ D OS 5.0

MS/DOS 5.0

Windows 3.1

no windows

Windows 3.1

W ind o w s 3.1

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MS Mouse

no mouse

MS Mouse

Everex Mouse

MS Mouse

145%

145%

150%

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WHAT DO THESE PRICES MEAN

To be fair, we used "suggested list
prices" quoted directly by each manufacturer during the week of August 3,
1992. We made every effort to compare systems that are as similar as possible but each vendor has their own
ideas about what is and isn't standard.

Naturally, list prices are not accurate

selling prices (except in the case of
Dell who sells direct). But whatever
price you pay you can be sure of one
thing dollar for dollar IPC offers the
best value in the computer industry.
We wouldn't have it any other way!

(integrated chip sets). That means lower production

costs, lower QC costs, increased yield rates, and

frankly less components to worry about.

And we don't have big fat overheads either. If we

thought having a corporate jet would improve the

quality of our computers we'd probably buy one
tomorrow. But we think you'd prefer that we beef

up support and service. So we' ve installed a toll

free line and have engineers standing by to answer
a I I your questions.

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The simple truth is, we build computers as good, if

not better than the other guys, and sell them for a
lot less money. Either they charge too much, or we
don't charge enough you decide.
The Intel Inside logo is a trademark otIntelCorporation. The ASTlogo and Bravo are registered trademarks of ASTResearch. The Compaq logo is a registered
trademark and Proktnea is a trademark ol Compaq Computer Corporation. The Dell logo is a registered trademark of Dell Computer Corp. The Everex logo and
Tempo am trademarks of Everex Systems. The Banyan lago and Vines are registered trademarks af Banyan Systems. Microsoft is a registered trademark and
Windows and the Windows logoare Iradernmks ot Miaosok Corp. IPC disdaims proprielary interestin the marks and names of others.

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cuxve ability. It also has arraying and copying capabilities similar to most CAD programs. Its layout is even more like a CAD
program in that you adjust your snap and
grid points on an imaginary drawing sheet
(see The Cossptxxer Paper,September '91,
Intro to CAD), and then begin your creations.

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Keyframer

This is where the animation takes place.

camera path is selected, along with th
number of &ames needed.You can qui
and easily preview the animation using th
wireframe model before doing the act
rendering, which, depending on the num
ber of frames, complexity of the object, and
speed ofyour computer, can take hours.
Many tools are provided for fining
the action, and it will be worth your while
to take a few hours and get a good under
standing of this module; it will make the
difference between average and impressive
work Certain functions such as light and
camera control also overlap with the S-D
Editor.

3-D Editor
1N'Yo

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ERROR
FREE

Shits

After working in the Shaper you import

your drawing/shapes into the S-D
Lofter. This is where you add the
third dimension by extruding
(stretching) your objects.
You definethe path you want
your lofting to follow curved or
straight and the number of vertices. You might, for example, want
an object to staxt off as s uare and
then become round, ancI folio
cuxved path at the same time.
It's simple enough to arrange
this in the S-D Lofter. By ch g' g
paths, shapes, and adjusting scales
you can come up with surprisingly
complicated shapes. It does take
some time to master this module
as S-D transformations and editing
are represented on a 2-D graph.

Five small preview windows are provided fo

checking the accuracy of your surfaces an
textures.

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The S-D Editor a r ranges the

objects as speciBed by the user.
This is also where you adjust the

cameras and lights. Three different kinds of

light source are provided, each of which
can be turned off or on at will. You have
full control over the intensity and color of
the lights, and the size and edge (sharp or
soft) of the spotlight.
Pladng the cameras and their targets is
easy enough and you have achoice of different camera lenses. You can change these
around at any time. SD Studio gives you the
tools to create and edit lights and cameras
very easily, especially compared to other
programs like AutoShade.

INaterials Editor
This module is where you prepare the surfaces which will be projected or mapped
onto your S-D model. Simple surfaces
r equire m i x in g t h e c o l or s o n t h e
Hue/Saturation/Luminosity scales and
then, if you want, assigning other factors
such as transparency, shininess, etc., before
projecting t hem o n t o t h e s u r faces.
Advanced graphics boards give you the
capability to capture images, transform
them into computer files, and map them
onto the S-D models you' ve constructed.

Summary

As stated earlier, SD Studio works best in

conjunction with other software. Autodesk
Animator Pro is pretty well a must buy; it
provides the color and palette fine-tuning,
needed for SD Studio. AutoCAD is also
helpftxl for more advanced and controlled
S-D modeling.
Upon completion of your program the
images can be put out to poster~uality
hardcopy, and the animations can be
recorded onto VHS tape or you can view
both on your computer.
Make no mistake, SD Studio is a complicated program, and has a fairly long learning curve. When you flip through the hundreds of pages in the tutorial and reference
manuals you will be somewhat overwhelmed if you have never worked with
software like this before. If you decide to
urchase it, make sure that whomever you
uy it from will give you adequate telephone support. E
Erl Telchrceb has been using 3D Studio for his
animafiona and still images. He can be reached
at 604427-8430.

B.C. EDITION THE COMPUTERPAPER OCTOBER '92 5 5

The Apple Catalog just for U.S.'F

Apple USA has announced a service it calls
Apple Canada spokesperson emphatically
stated that 77ioAppk Carologis not available
TAoAppk Catalog,a toffee, 24-hourwAay
mail order sales line for Apple accessories, in Canada. However, at press time, The
supplies, merchandise, scanners, modems,
GwspnrorPaper has discovered that the 1non-network printers and selected Apple
800- number announced Sept. 17th by
Macintosh computer products including
Apple USA is, in fact, accessible from
the PowerBook model 145. The initial cataCanada. TAo AppkGsastog representative we
log
will
also
indude
what
the
company
calls
spoke to cheerfully pledged to send us a
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA ( N B )
avai l a ble at press time, but published
"complementary" thirdyarty products from
catalog. Hmmm.
Apple has launched a n e w l i n e o f
rep o r ts price the new Performa line at anyClaris,
Aldus
and
Kensington.
Macintosh computers that are, in part,
thi n g from U$$1,000 for the low end, to
According to Apple Canada, the service Contact: The Apple Catalog, 1-800-795-1000.
aimed at Ir a t e u s ers within the family. m o r et han $5,000 for the high end. All
is
specific
to the U.S. market only. An
T he new products include the M a c
Performa products include an
Performa 600, which comes with a proces80MB hard drive, at least four MB
sor direct slot and three NuBus slots. A CDof RAM, and such integrated softROM version of th e p r oduct, called
ware as ClarisWorks.
Quarles h
Suite 202
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Performa 600 CD, along with
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ment was made September
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m ent andmanagement consulting company in

ning at 32 m egahertz
about Apple's new distribuggcICIgtOSQ
Vancouver, is looking for seasoned software
tion and support strategy,
(MHz). Neither version
development
professionals to work with our clients.
contains a built~ memory
COfflP u t g ~
which t argets the consumer
Both short and long-tenn contract and employee
cache or h ave a m a t h

marketplace, was Apple

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positions are available.
coprocessor.
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a nd A p pl e U S A V ic e
a,
We require
Openings are also
next month is the low-priced
President o f
Co n s umer
experience
in:
available in our:
Performa 200, which is a
Markets Keith Fox.
renamed Mac Classic H, and the Performa
I ntere s tingly, Apple Canadadid not
PU1 COBOL
Micro Support
400, which is a renamed Mac LC IL
announce any new products, but daims to
OB2.
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Division
Sometime before the end of the year
be " evaluating" the Perfoma line for release
will come the Mac IIvx and the Mac Hvi,
in t h e near future. The company reportedboth essentially featuring the same archil yplans to release selected models from the
tecture as the Performa 600. The Mac IIvx
n e w line in Canada on Oct.
15th.
Qualified individuals
is reported to run at the same speed as the
should send their
Performa 600 but will include 52 hlobytes C o ntact: Ginny Smith, 41 M54-4425, or
resumes to the attention
(KB) of cache RAM and a 68882 math
Co n stance Clark, 415-3544480, both of Regis
coprocessor. The IIvi will only run at
McKe nna for Apple USA.
of the Administrator.
16MHz and come minus a memory cache
Mora' Norosbyrar onpalp 57
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Apple Inb'os Macs

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CATION PRODUCTS

AFFORDABLE COMPUTER R CO

486 DX-33

486 DX-50

486 DX-33 r.ocax. avs

AMI Bios

AMI Bios

1MB ram, 64K cache (expandable to 1MB

1.2 MB or 1.44 MB floppy drive
Minitower case 200 watt p/s
NEC 105 MB H/D (19ms, V.C; 32k cache)
2 serial/paralleVgame ports
101 enhanced keyboard
14" .28 dot pitch, SVGA monitor
Trident 9000 SVGA card w/512K RAM.

4 MB ram, 64K cache (expandable to 1 MB)

1.2 MB or 1.44 MB floppy drive
NEC 105 MB h/d (19ms, V.C. 32k cache)
2 seriaVparallel/game ports
101 enhanced keyboard

AMI Bios
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Minitower case 200 watt p/s
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2 serial/paralleVgame ports
101 enhanced keyboard

14" .28 dot pitch, SVGA monitor

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King County DA Goes After Alleged

Canadian Virus Author
S EATTLE, W A SHIN GTO N ( N B )
Alleged computer virus author Richard
Brandow is one of four people against
whom the King County, Washington district attorney's office has filed charges.
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department to see if the U.S. agreement
with Canada allows extradition for mali.
cious mischief. If not, Brandow's informa
tion will be placed into the National Crime
Information computer network and if he
enters the U.S. and is apprehended he can
be held and delivered to Washington,
Orton said. Orton said Brandow seems to
be quite vocal and he is welcome to use the
trial as a stage from which to speak.
However, the downside is if the audience in
a trial disagrees with you, you can go to jail,
Orton quipped.
When asked why wait four years, Orton
said the King County prosecutors office has
flled criminal charges against four individuals in four separate cases, three of which
involve employers and employees. The
hope here was to take the emphasis ofi
computer viruses and place it on computer
crime,where itbelongs, Orton added. The
other three cases include an exwmployee
who allegedly placed a date bomb in his
employer's computer system; a government
employee who allegedly got into areas of
the Washington State computer system
where he could have issued checks and
fixed traffic tickets; and an employee of
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media software under development and
txied to start her own software company.

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hlosn r h os

QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC (NB) Centre

d'ordinateurs Microbec, a chain of four
computer stores, has been handed the
largest software-copyright fine in the
province's history. The company was fined
C$65,000 for selling computers loaded with
illegal copies of the MS-DOS operating system.
The fine is not the worst of it for
Microbec. When the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police raided the company last
October, they seized about 140 computers
carrying the illegal software as evidence.
Since the company was convicted, the
seized hardware will not be returned, said
Allan Reynolds, manager of the Canadian
ADiance Against Software Thefi (CAAST), a
Toronto-based group of major software vendors set up to f i ght software piracy.
Reynolds said the value of the seized computers is "more than double the fine

Contact: Apple Canada, 418-51 3-5787.

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Quebec Dealer Convicted Of Software Piracy

Gemulator Runs Atari Seftvvai e On A PC

Mnhh s ' ss eoshs thi n r ir e

amount in terms of revenue value."

It could have been worse, though: the
Copyright Act allows for fines of as much as
$1 million or imprisonment for up to five
years in cases of this type. Charges against
the managers of three Microbec stores have
been dropped, and charges against the
company's owner, Guy Painchaud, will be
dropped as long as the fine is paid by
January 17, 1995, CAASI' said.
CAAST's members ar e A u t odesk
C anada, B o r l an d Ca n a da , L ot u s
Development Canada, Microsoft Canada,
Novell Canada, and Quarterdeck Canada.
R eynolds said th e g r ou p h o p e s t o
announce the signing of another major
software vendor in the next couple of
months.
Contact: CAAST, 41 8-59@8988.
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Canadian Firm Carves Niche Selling

Sofbeare About U.S.
BURNABY, B.C. (NB) Canadian software

companies often have a hard time finding

the resources to compete with the industry's
giants, most of which are based in the adjoining United States. But Didatech, a maker of
educational software, is making sales in the
U.S. market with an approach that makes
the most of what the small firm has.
Didatech has just announced a deal with
the state of North Dakota to tailor it s
Crosscountry geography- education software for that state s schools. The state itself
will provide statistical data needed to adapt
Crosscountry USA to focus on North
Dakota. Didatech officials estimate it will
take about 100hours of work to produce
the tailored version of the software a far
cry from the more than a year's work that
went i n t o
t he ori g i n a l pa c k age.
Crosscountry USA, the new Crosscountry
North Dakota and three other versionsCrosscountry Canada, Crosscountry Texas,
and Crosscountry California are intended for children in grades four to nine.
The child plays the role of a truck driver
travellingthe area covered by the package,
assigned to pick up and deliver various
commodities. Along the way he or she
learns about the commodities and the political and physical geography of the state or
country. Didatech says the game also helps
children improve their decision-making

about how
t o m ee t

their schedules,control their expenses, and

so on,
Crosscountry North Dakota is unique in
that Didatech worked directly with the
state's education officials to produce it. In
contrast, the Texas and California versions
were produced without state involvement,
said Paul Melhus, president of Didatech.
"Very preliminary discussions" about deals
similar to the North Dakota one are under
way with officials in the states of Illinois and
Virginia and the Canadian provinces of
Ontario and British Columbia, he added.
Didatech sells the Crosscountry packages to schools and to home users, both
directly and through dealers. The U.S.,
Canada, California, and Texas versions are
available for both DOS PCs and the Apple
II computer. So far Crosscountry North
Dakota is available only for the Apple II,
Melhus said, and Didatech has no plans to
go after home users until a DOS version is
ready, probably some time next year.

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account for students, with the card automatically storing balance details in the chip
on the card. This "chip in a card" is the
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A DELAIDE, A U S T RALI A ( N B )
Adelaide-based company Camms Systems
has won a contract with the University of
Calgary for the supply of smart card systems. Camms beat French firm Bull for the
initial AUS$100,000 contract, which holds
great potential for exports in the future.
Despite the seemingly small amount of the
initial contract, Camms Systems' managing
director, Kevin Brightwell, said the poten-

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HFIRD DRIVES

Revenue Canada documents say electronic filtng is not limited to tax professionals, but at present the service is not set up
to allow individuals to file their own returns
electronically. Tax preparers can file
returns they prepare for their clients, or
firms or individuals may get approval to
offer electronic filing by itself as a service to
people who prepare their own returns.
However, in order to provide an electronic
filing service one must complete an application form and receive approval from
Revenue Canada.
Alinost any computer can be used for
electronic filing, according to Revenue
Canada. Filers also need software that formats data to the government's requirements; anumber of packages are commercially available.

Canadian Univ. Chooses Australian Smart Card

Contact: Didatech, 800-665-0667 or

604-299-4435.

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Canada Taxation has completed the final
step in rolling out electronic tax filing
across the country. The service is now being
offered to tax preparers in Ontario and the
four Atlantic provinces. According to documents Revemie Canada sent out to tax preparers recently, 1,550 firms in the four
Western provinces,Quebec, the Yukon, and
Northwest Territories, filed clients' 1991
tax returns electronically.
The program started with a pilot project
in Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba, early
in 1990. In the first year about 5,000
income tax returns were filed electronically
through participating tax preparers, a
Revenue Canada spokesman said. Revenue
Canada plans to launch a series of seminars
in September to tell tax preparers about
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SD Micro is selling the machine in
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Khalisa said. SD Micro was established in
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Mills Davis told some 160 printing, publishing and prepress professionals in a kickoff
speech to this month's Color Connections 4.
For these groups, current technological
advancements represent adoublewdged
sword, suggested Davis, president of Davis
Inc., a color publishing consulting company that is sponsoring the threesconference in conjunction with the Graphic
Communications Association.
By making color a commodity item, the
migration of color publishing to the desktop is posing a challenge more severe than
any the industry has faced before. But at
the same time, desktop color publishing
and other new methodologies are creating
viable new market opportunities, Davis suggested.
Printers and publishers can surviveand even thrive by moving into such segments as high-fidelity color publishing,
high-volume desktop color publishing, and
multimedia, he asserted.
Davis acknowledged that current technological changes are cutting prices, sparking turf battles within the industxy, and letting customers in on the color-printing

increasing pie. The longcerm question is

not whether print will merge with the new
media, but whether publishing and printing companies will adapt in timely enough
fashion,"
he commented.
Later in the morning, speakers from
printing and publishing firms, service
bureaus, and equipment vendors elaborated on each of the new business segments.
In the afternoon, the attendees split into
roundtable groups for inAepth discussions
on the various opportunities.
Other conference sessions focused on
such issues as smart image capture,
PhotoCD, RIPS and imagesetters, highbandwidth networks, desktop supercomputing, workflow management, personnel
training, and how to cost for services.
Throughout the first two days of the
conference, Kodak, Screen USA and
Pitman Company, a systems integrator,
demonstrated color publishing systems.
Kodak depicted the use of the Kodak
Precision Color Management strategy,
while Screen showed its Desk Top Press
System for color retouching, page assembly,
stripping and trapping. The Pitman display
illustrates how multivendor equipment can
be brought together into a single unified

process. Some customers today, for exam-

system.

ple, are performing their own scanning, he

said.

Yet not all customers will want to perform every stage in desktop publishing,
leaving the door wide open for such lowend and mid-range services as frontend
processing and short~ p r i nting, he main-

In addition, other vendors were displaying products ranging from color printers
and monitors to high-speed file transfer
boards, to spectrophometers, densitometers, and other color-testing devices.
Contact: Peter Brehm, Graphic Communications
Association, tel 703-51 9-8162.

tained.

Further, he predicted, some customers

will want to differentiate their products and
packages by hiring printers and service
bureaus that offer high<delity color, now
arising on the upper end of the production
spectrum. High-fidelity color, he explained,
is being made possible by new colormanagement systems, in which scanners, printers and other devices are calibrated for
end-trend color consistency.
Finally, the indusuy must promptly take
advantage of the upcoming fusion of print
and multimedia, D avis emphasized.
"Although print continues to be a growing
area, it represents a decreasing share of an

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business. Annual growth

will slide to four percent by
1996, when some 488,600
c ards will be sold, t h e

49 PerCent Of interfaCe competition from new

network interface card Ethernet aCCOunted fOr Emo said. However, IDC

Ethernet, NetWare Still Dominate

Canadian LAN Market
TORONTO, ONTARIO (NB) Canadian
sales of local~ca network hardware and
software showed healthy growth in 1991,
a ccording t o a rec e n t survey by
International D ata C o rp. C anada, a
research firm. In both sectors, the same
products stayed on top: Ethernet interface
cards remain dominant and Novell's
NetWare LAN operating system continues
to lead the market.
Sales of network interface cards for personal computers grew 24.6 percent in 1991,
although revenue grew only 8.7 percent as

IDC forecast continued

but slowing growth for the

prices fell. IDC said this market showed

"intense vendor competition."
Ethernet continued to account for the
largest share 49 percent of interface
card shipments, with IBM's Token Ring in
second place at 21 percent. Token Ring's
higher price tag remains a deterrent, IDC
said. Sales of the older and slower Arcnet
technology declined, as did shipments of
Apple's LocalTalk cards. Sales of the highspeed Fiber Distributed Data Interface
(FDDI) technology remained small, largely
due to the high cost, IDC said.

Bantam Releases Networking Book By Dvorak

to cover every aspect of PC connectivity. For
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (NB) Bantam
that purpose, the authors start from the
Books has released a book it calls "the
simplest subject and progress to networkdefinitive guide to PC Connectivity'."
ing. Chapters on serial connections, paralWritten byJohn Dvorak with the assistance
lel connections, displays,
of veteran writers Nick Anis and
input devices, modems, fax
Werner Feibel, the book is a
machines, scanners, storage
hefty 992 pages in length and
devices, printers, CD-ROM,
comes with a couple of spedal
graphics formats, image probonuses.
cessing, and LAN hardware
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here with its NetWare operating system-

through 1996, IDC predieted, reaching C$90

million in 1996 with a compound annual
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1996.
Contact: I DC Canada, 416-369-0033

Interface Group Plans

Comdex/Canada Show In 1993
son for launching the Canadian show was
exhibitors' desire to reach ultimate buyers
as well as dealers and distributors, meaning
they need more regional shows to get doser
to those customers
Comdex/Canada will grow out of the
LAN Expo and PC Canada shows now run
by The Interface Group. Next year's event,
to be held July 15-15 at the Metropolitan
Toronto Convention Centre, will have
three parts: LAN Expo, Windows World,
and Corporate Computing.
Schwab said his "guesstimate" of attendance atthe 1995 Comdex/Canada would
be 10,000 to 15,000. Attendance at this
year's LAN Expo and PC Canada, which
ran July 28-50, was estimated at 5,000 to
7,000, he said.

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Interface Group plans in 1995 to run its
first
Comdex/Canada show. The announcement makes Canada the third country currently hosting a Comdex event.
Interface runs two Comdex shows in the
United States the annual "fall" show in
Las Vegas is North America's largest computer show and recently launched a
South American Comdex in Sao Paulo,
Brazil.
In the past the company has run
European shows in Amsterdam and Paris, a
Japanese Comdex, and an Australian version.
While Comdex in the United States has
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be aimed at both groups. He said a key rea-

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IBM Reorganizes PC Hardware Unit

As expected, IBM has reorganized its personal computer manufacturing, distribution, and marketing into a new unit called
the IBM Personal Computer Co.
The president of the new unit is Robert
J. Corrigan, who as vice-president of the
entry systems division was previously in
charge of IBM's PC manufacturing. Made
up of employees &om IBM's former national distribution division and entry systems
division, the group will focus on manufacturing, distribution, and brand marketing
for the new company's products in North
America. Responsibility for personal systems marketing in Canada will stay with the
current executive: Don D. Myles.
The new unit will have six marketing
groups: oneeach for the PS/2 and PS/1
lines, one for portable computers, one for
displays, one for systems integration, and
one for a new brand aimed to compete

with lewdest PC clones. IBM already sells a

lewdest PC line called "Ambra" through
separate subsidiaries in Europe and
Canada It has been widely rumored that
the company plans to introduce these
machines to the United States market this
fall. H o wever, company spokesman
Michael Reiter said that is not the plan.
IBM will launch a new line of lower~riced
PCs that will carry the IBM logo but not the
PS/2 brand name, andwillbe cheaper and
use less advanced technology than the
PS/2 line, he said. For example, they will
use the older AT bus (Industry Standard
Architecture) rather than IBM's Micro
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were equally impressive at $2.74 biHion, a
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applications software while
the first half of 1991. While
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software sales did not do as
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o u s year). Combined spreadsheet sales for
beginning to penetrate the graphical user a l l P C p l atforms climbed to top rank
interface market and both demand for and
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Software Sales ~t p mp g 67
and Mac sales accounted for another $52.8 mulion (other platforms made up the remaining
$4.5 million i n w or d p r o cessor sales).
Spreadsheet sales for MS.DOS were $85.8 mulion, Windows sales reached $121 million, and
Madntosh spreadsheet sales totaled $25.6 m9lion. These numbers indicate a 55.5 percent
drop in word processor sales for DOS (compared to the second quarter of 1992) vetsus a
strong rise of nearly 117 percent for Windows
and a 51 percent jump for Macintosh sales for
an overall
salesincrease ofjustover 15 percent
in this important category.
In the spreadsheet category, the total combined platform sales jumped 29 percent, with
both DOS and Macintosh sales dropping by
double digits (-18.8 percent for MS-DOS and27.2 for Macintosh), while Windows spreadsheet sales more than made up for those losses
by rising slightly more than 200 percent. But
utilities software vendors must really be grinning all the way to the bank because their
Windows utility sales went up by more than
1570 percent
Although total Windows utiTities sales only
reached $22.6 million, this category of software
lends itself more to sales by the smaller publisher/developer and the impact of that large
percentage increase should be signi6cant to
those smaller companies already worhng in

that area and spur new entrants to the 6eld.

One category where DOS is still the undisputed king is in the entertainment area: MSDOS game sales surged 67.7 percent and Mac
sales jumped by about 17 percent for an overall
increaseof 56.7 percent for the category as
compared to the second quarter of 1992.
Windows entertainment sales were not reported last year because the total value for the second quarter 1992 fell below the $1 million 6gure considered signi6cant, so no percentage
increase is available, but while DOS game sales
reached $48,4 million for the second quarter
of this year, Macintosh sales accounted for only
$5.8 million and Windows sales barely climbed
over the $1 million mark at $1.7 million.
Desktop publishing software sales for
Windows edged out Madntosh sales in that category, with Windows accounting for $15 million
in publishing software sales and Macintosh
numbers only reaching $18.5 million. DOS
desktop publishing sales are traditionally low at
only $5.4 million but that number represents a
42 percent drop in this category and even the
strong Windows sales numbers were actually
down by6.5percent.Macintosh made a comeback in this, ils traditionally strong market, scoring nearly a SS percent increase in sales.

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90 U.S., 49 UK Jobs Affected By Librex Closure

New For PC: Microsoft Visual Basic For DOS

SAN JOSE, C A L I F O RNIA ( NB )

Management at Librex Computer Systems,
Inc., has announced that Nippon Steel wiH
be closing down the company, and is
attempting to find an interested party willing to buy the business. The retreat by the
steelmaking giant from the computer
industry affects Librex businesses in both
the U.S. and the UK
The company issued a statement saying
it was withdrawing from the PC market "as a
result of the intense competition and the
slumping profit margins within the industry, which makes it not feasible to continue
to support the business."

REDMOND, WASHINGTO N ( N B ) Microsoft Corporation says it is now shipping the DOS version of Visual Basic, saying
the DOS version is based on the Windows
model. Visual Basic for DOS aHows developers to draw the user interface and attach
code that responds to events, and indudes
the same collection of objects available for
its Windows counterpart.
The program gives developers forms,
menus, 15 standard controls and a compatible programming language to simultaneously deveIop applications for DOS and
Windows. Finished applications can be

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Visual Basic for DOS also runs the existin
Microsoft QdckBasic development systexx
Basic professional development system, an
MS-DOS+Basic interpreter code.
According to Microsoft, new feature
can be added incrementaHy to QuickBasiI
based applications without restructurin
the existing code. Microsoft says th
Standard Edition is designed primarily fc
hobbyists, engineers, students, and "othe
casual programmers" who need an eas
productive means for creating compile
DOSkased applications that are portable t
and from Windows.
The Professional Edition is designed fc
professional developers such as VAR
(value added reseHers), ISVs (independer
sofiware vendors) and software consultant
Features indude a form designer for dra>
ing user interfaces, a multi-Wxndows syntax
chechng code editor, debugging tools, an
a toolkit of commonly used dialog boxe
Also included are sample applications, cox
text~nsitive help with on@ac sample codr
and an on-line tutoriaL
M icrosoft s p o kesperson M a r t i :
Middlewood tolcT Newsbytes that Visux
Basic for DOS has a suggested retail prie
of $199. Teachers and students can buy:
for $49.95 and current Windows an
Borland product users will pay $99. Th
professional version sells for $495 reta
( prices i n U S $ ) . M i d d lewood t o l
Newsbytes the professional version includt
mask edit controls, communications cox
trois, two pen controls, a language- base
ODBC, and a sequel server driver fo
ODBC. ODBC refers to Open Databas
Connectivity, which uses structured quex
language to access multiple database env
ronments. ODBC supports access to bot
SQL and nonSQL data
According to Pete Higgins, VP of th
Microsoft business analysis unit, "Ou
intent with ODBC is to provide users wit
universal access to data, from dBASE t
dBASE2." ODBC allows applications unde
the Windows environment to communicat
with relational and non-relational databas
management systems (DBMS). There ar
already more than a dozen books out abox
the use of Visual Basic, and Microsoft offer
a 48-page catalog ofthird-party add-on
with the software.
Contact: Martin Middlewccd, Waggener
Edstrom for Microsoft, 503-2454905.
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Commodore Intros Amiga 40N

PASADENA, CA ( T CP) Commodor
Business Machines, Inc. has introduced th
Amiga 4000, a computer the compan
daims marks the most signiflcant technoh
gy advancement in its Amiga line since th
product's announcement in 1985.
The Amiga 4000, slated to sell fo
US$5,699, includes a new graphics ct
processor chip set capable of multiple rest
lutions up to 1280x400 (more with ove:
scan) and up to 256,000 colors from
palette of 16.8 million.
The new hardware features are drive:.
by AmigaDOS Release 5, the newest versio:
of Commodore's multitasking operatin
system, in combination with the machine
main processor,
a 25MHz Motorola 68040.
The Amiga 4000 will come standar
with a120MB hard drive, 6MB of memor

a highAensity Soppy drive and CrossDO!

which enables users to read and wxite I

DOSformatted Soppyand hard driveL
In addition to the A4000, Commodor
announced several other products, indut
ing the Amiga 600 and 600HD, AmigaDO
Release 5, A570 CD-ROM Drive, an
AmigaVision Professional Authormg system

B .C. EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER OCTOBER '92 7 1

Digital Broadcasting To Transform Radio

W ASHINGTON, D.C. (NB) A m a j o r
topic when the National Association of
Broadcasters descended on the city's convention center for its annual radio show was
to be digital broadcasting, and how new
technology can be added to radio stations
in preparation for the future.
One aspect of the new technology sure
to spark interest among technical types is
the idea of adding data messages to broadcasts, which would be picked up by special
radios. The Radio Broadcast Data System,
or RBDS, would let stations pass short, specific messages to listeners, either editorial
or advertising. Radios will be integrated
with computing to scan for specific program formats, or to collect reams of computing data over the air, in competition
with online services. Car radios would then
compete with paging services, and all sorts
of new advertising opportunities would be
created.
Two things have to happen befor e
RBDS becomes a reality. First, stations have
to adapt to the digital technology. Second,
people have to buy new radios. About 50
million new radios are already bought each
y ear, says th e E l e c t r o ni c I n d u s t r i e s

Association, and the new technology will

only cost about $50 per radio to implement. As many as 37 companies are expected to bring such radios out in time for next
year's Consumer Electronics Show, probably under a single standard endorsed by the
EIA.
But there is a second component to all
this. Radio stations must get new equipment to broadcast data alongside their programs, and must learn how to use this technology to best effect. Some European stations have been using the technology for as
many as five years, and there has been no
revolution as a result. The equipment itself
will cost just a few thousand dollars per station, and the marketing work could be
spedmp as new radio ownership rules spur
c reation of new n etworks. But i n N e w
Orleans, broadcasters will be told the truth.
RBDS is no fast buck It may be many years
before enough people own RBDS sets for
benefits to accrue.
Contact: National Association of Broadcasters,
Lynn McReynolds,
202-429-5350; Electronic
Industries Association, Cynthia Upson, 202-4574900.

Lasermaster Intros
1200 dpi Plain-paper Typesetter
M INNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA (N B ) Lasermaster Technologies has introduced
the second in its family of plain-paper typesetters, a 1200 do~ e r 4nch (dpi) with the
capability to handle paper sizes up to ll by
17 inches. The Unity 1200xl follows the
Unity 1000, which was introduced in April,
and can be used with Macintosh or IBMcompatible computers, as well as other systems, through LocalTalk, parallel, or serial
interfaces.
Lasermaster says the Unity 1200xl is targeted at the graphic arts market that can
use 1000 dpi and above as camera-ready
copy. It indudes the standard 55 typefaces
available with PostScript devices as well as
an additional 100 Type 1 typefaces. All typefaces are pre-installed on an internal hard
disk, eliminating the need to download
desired fonts.
Other features of the typesetter include
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C$1 million worth of prizes and nms until
April 15, 1993.
Michael Cowpland, Corel's founder,
p resident, an d c h i e f e x e c u t i ve, t o l d
Newsbytes entries in last year's competition
jumped from 1,000 to more than 5,000.
"People have spent literally hours and
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A total of 72 winners in nine categories
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awards. In addition to the grandyrize gold
bar, there were other prizes donated by a
number of computer hardware and software vendors.
This year, there will be seven categories
plus a new student section for those 18
years old or less. Finalists will be selected
monthly. Each finalist will receive a prize
package worth about C$4,000 and willbe
entered in the final round of judging.
Corel recovers some of the cost of the
contest by selling a CDNOM disk containing
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Dell Cuts Price

of
Color Notebook
AUSTIN, TEXAS (NB) Dell Computer
says it has reduced the suggested selling
price of its 325NC color notebook computer by as much as S350, depending on the
model being purchased.
Newsbytes reported the introduction of
the 7.1wpound 525NC from the fall Comdex
show in Las Vegas last October. At that time
the 25 megahertz 58Mxeed system was selling forS4,500. In May '92 Dell reduced the
525NC's price to S3,499.

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The system uses a passive matrix color

liquid crystal display, and comes with DOS
5.0 preinstalled. The 60 megabyte (MB)
hard drive version will now sell for S2,799.
With an SOMB hard disk, the system sells
for 82,899, while the 120MB version has a
price tag of S3,099. Dell says users can
expect up to three hours of operation on
battery power under normal use. Dell proprietary power management features can
extend that time.
Dell USA senior vice president, Joel
Kocher, said tfte reduction brings the cost
of a color notebook to within S550 of a

comparablyconfigured monochrome note

book PC.
Dell has pursued an aggressive price
position for th e p ast 11 m onths. In
September 1991 it announced an acrossthe-board cut on all its systems by as much
as 85 percent, and f ollowed that in
December with reductions of as much as
$500 on seven of its systems, including its
monochrome notebook unit.
In February this year the company
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Data General To Sell NeXT Workstations

WESTBORO, MASSACHUSETF S (NB)Data General and NeXT Computer have
announced a deal that will see Data
General resell NeXT workstations
with its owns Aviion servers.
The two compamea also said
they will cooperate to
develop
adv a n ced
client/server systems.
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ditferent systems, she
explained.
NeXT'a workstations run NeXTstep, an
object~riented environment. The systems
"really are for those people that are loohng
to do fast application development in that
objectwriented environment," Bigusiak
said. The NeXT systems reportedly speed

Maximizer For Windows Contact Nlanager

VANCOUVER, B.C. (NB)

Richmond Technologies &:
Software will launch a Windows
version of its Maximizer contact manager this fall. The company planned to announce the
software in mid4eptember and
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Earl van As, Maximizer ::.:.,-:
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suited to users who want
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applications running
WinFax Pro, Windows fax software from
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and Motif environments.
Toronto.
Users of g eographic
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market for Aviion workstations, Bigusiak
gram with full font support, mail merge,
spelling checker, and thesaurus, the vendor
said.
said. As many as 10 editor sessions will be
able to run at once, so that jobs such as the
Contact: Data General, 508-898-4298.
printing of a mass mailing and sending
up application development by a factor of
five to 10 over other workstations, she
added.
Company officials said NeXT's new
Database Kit of objects allows
even faster creation of
client/server applications that rely on intensive database usage on
the server and provides a
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happen s i m u ltaneously.
Users will be able to open as
many as nine windows on the
program at once to see different information and work
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clients as well as personal appointments,
and scheduled events will be blocked off
using color codes.
The retail price for Maximizer for
Windows will be $249, but Richmond is
planning an introductory price of $149
until the end' of 1992. A local area network
version of the software is planned for early
in 1998.
Contact: Richmond Technologies & Sottware,
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MOBILE, ALABAMA (NB) In an effort

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market, +MS has introduced a new laser

printer, called "Hammerhead, the /MS

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According to the conipany, the 860 is

based on +MS's proprietary Crown printing architecture and a newly developed

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higher~uality output, more connectivity
options and higher overall throughput than
conventional printing systems, the company mamtams.
The Crown prindng architecture allows
fox the interfaces to be simultaneously
active, allowing for the receiving of data
from multiple users in various data formats,
and for producing completed documents
without user intervention, says@MS.
The printer emulates a wide variety of
page description languages including userselectable PostScript Levels 1 and 2, HP
PCL, HP-GL, and DEC LN03 plus. The
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advertising campaign by Apple Australia,
following a similar one in the U.S., which
compares the advantages of buying a
Macintoshover a PC, has floundered aker a
complaint was made to the Trade Practices
Commission (TPC). The ad purported to
show that buying a PC was more trouble
(and more expensive) than buying a
Madntosh a claim a TPC complainant
has described as misleading, Sctional and

of traditional 300 dots per4nch (dpi) laser

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printing and a standard set of HP PCL fonts
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aho included. It is powered by a 25 megaheitx (MHa) Intel 80960CA IUSC (reduced
instruction-set computer) processor. The
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will be distributed in Canada by authorized
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Contact 0MS Canada, Inc., 614-888-5940.

RadiusTe Pesti.ewer Earnings;

President Resigns

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA (NB) Radius

Inc., which has posted several consecutive
successful quarters, has indicated that it is
"experiencing a lower than anticipated
sales rate for t h e c u r r ent q u arter.
Additionally, President and Chief Executive
OIBcer Barry James Folsoxn has resigned
for what the company claims are "personal
reasons to pursue other interests."
Accoxding to Radius, its net revenues
for the quarter ending September 30, 1992,
The 4-page fuilwolor ad, distxibuted as
are expectedto be comparable to the $35.5
an insert in two editions of a Sydney news- milhon net revenues for the quarter ended
September 30, 1991, compared to $44.2
paper, showed how setting up a PC with
million net revenues for the quarter ended
Windows, graphics cards, network cards
and software to "get it to act like a Mac"
June 30, 1992. The company also expects
that its net income for the current quarter
would cost around AUS$8500, as opposed
will be "substantially below" the 13 cents
to the "integrated Mac, with prices from
around AUS41700. The validity of the comper share reported by the company for the
hke quarter last year. The company mainpaxison has been called into question, not
only by the TPC complainant, but also sev- tains that this is due to its "lower than
eral leading local newspapers (including expected revenues and to price reductions
the newspaper in which the ad was an
on one of its display product lines."
insert, the S
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plashNl
turning to the classifieds section of the
parton the dif6culty of one of its display
crryrfney
Morning Hcrnkf on the day the ad was
suppliers m Slling the company's orders for
154nch monochrome displays. The compainserted, readers would be able to Snd PC
ny anticipates that sales will improve "folsystems set up as in the ad for approximatelowing the resoludon of the monochrome
ly half the daimed pxice, and more astute
supply issue." Additionally, lower than
readers would have noticed the Mac poranticipated demand in its target markets
trayed was a Mac Quadra 700, with the total
also contributed to the lower revenues. The
Mac system shovrn costing a r ound
coinpany hopes that revenue from its near
AUS$11,000.
RocketShare multiprocessing technology
Several other fLaws in the ad have been
and VideoVision product will help turn
pointed out naxnely, it showed the need
things around in the near future.
to buy software for the PC (including
Although the company denies that
Microsoft Nord) but famed to mention that
Folsom's departure was related to the disapthe Mac would also need such software
pointing earnings results, some press
which costs about the same for both operas
repoxts dispute that.
ing systems. Also, many of the features in
Some analysts believe that the lower
the quoted PC system were not available on
than expected revenues make it likely that
the AUSE'700 Macintosh (color screen of
VGA to Super VGA quality, for example) the company will at least consider selective
and consultancy fees for setting up the PC job cuts in response. Some analysts also
believe that sales are lower because buyers
would amount to approxhnately AUS$5040
are holding off purchasing new peripherals
per hour around AUS$40-50 less than
Apple's clahned price. When contacted by
in anticipation of product allnouncexnellts
Rom Apple, and are also waiting for the
Newsbytes, an Apple spokesperson refused
dust to settle in the recent hardware price
to make specific reference to the case, and
said Apple would release a statement when wars. No one at Radius was available for
comment by Newsbytes' deadline.
the TPC handed down its dedsion.

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Contact: Apple Australia, +61-2~-8000.

Contact Radius Inc., 408M4-1010

B.C. EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER OCTOBER '92 77

ShareVision Real-time
Mac Video Telephone
S AN JOSE, CALIFORNIA (NB) T h e
trend towardvideoconferencing technology, especially as a way to help companies
reduce travel costs, has received another
boost with ShareVision Technology Inc.'s
planned r e a l -time D e s ktop V i s u al
Communications (DVC) for use over ordinary analog telephone lines. According to
the company, its VATP (Vector Adaptive
Transform Processing) technology involves
data compression and other techniques to
allow for "plug~dglay" voice, video, data
communications, and document sharing.
Mike Jackman, spokesman forthe company, told N e wsbytes: "We haven' t
announced product names or pricesyet,
but we will be shipping products in late
October. October 26 is the official day. The
total system the complete video telephony, document sharing we know will be
priced under 44,000."
The company claims that its DVC products for the Macintosh will combine two
NuBus cards and ShareVision software with
a color video camera, and a NorrisEar
Phone to provide a screen+ased telephone,
video telephone, voice and video mail, voice
and video answering machine, motion video
and still image capture, sound digitizer,
Group S send~d-receive facsimile, and
v.52bis data modem hmctionality.
Jachnm told Newsbytes that no company on the market is offering the same products. "I%ere are a couple of companies like

CompressionLabs and Northern Telecom,

which have announced products that are in

the $5,000 area," he said. "But they are not
going to be shipping them until December
and also next year. Also those are essentially computer4ased video telephones whereas here we are going to be able to do realtime document sharing."
Jackman went on to explain the difFerences between the two types of products.
"(Ours) are the only ones that can work on
your regular phone system. All the other
companies that have announced products
can only work on ISDN (integrated services
digital networks) or digital networks, which
the majority of people still do not have."
Dr. Lung Yeh, ShareVision president,
said: "Desktop computers are the natural
platform for increasing-communications

between coworkers, but nobody has been

able to do this before over ordinary phone

lines. Desktop Visual Communications
products will replace a lot of businesstravel.
Electronic mail and voice mail services have
taken us a long way, but DVC will take interpersonal communications much further."
According to the company, the first
DVC products will support both QuickTime
and A p p l e' s O p e n Col l a b oration
Environment (OCE). Dean Tucker,
ShareVision vice president of marketing,
said: "Some people have been saying that it
will be ten years before widespread digital
telephone availabiTity puts video telephone
service on the desktop. ShareVision will
make it practical and affordable before the
end of 1992. VATP provides better quality
video communications... (over ordinary telephone lines) ...than other products we' ve
seen that use more expensive digital telephone services.
Jackman told Newsbytes that there
would be a non-video product introduced
soon. 'There will be a non-video version of
the product for instance, if you wanted a
regular (screen-based) phone that was not
a video phone, but with all the modeming,
faxing,and rea14me document and application sharing, and voice mail coming
out that will be under $1,000. We expect to
announce that (product) in about three or
four weeks."
ShareVision Technology was founded in
1991 b y d e velopers who l e ft A p p l e
Computer'sAdvanced Technology Group.
Contact Phase Two Strategies 41 5-772-8439

New Amiga Disk Utilities

O RLA N D O ,
FL O R I D A (NB)
Moonlighter Software Development Inc. is
now shipping its new disk utilities product
for the Commodore Amiga. Ami-Back
Tools is designed to keep hard disks and
diskettes in top condition.
One utiTity is GP, a disk optimizer that
ensures data is efficiently stored on the
disk. Data Analyst examines disks looking
for potential problems and repairs them if
necessary.911-Recovery allows the user to
recover files that have been deleted and
may also be able to recover files Rom corrupted disks. Antiseptic is a disk~pe program that wipes the disk dear, rather than
just marking it as dear. LabTest calculates
and compares checksums on disks and files,
ensuring that they haven't been altered by
viruses or sabotage. All of these programs
run under The Administrator, allowing
users to set up, schedule, and perform any
or all of the <ests easily, and as required.
Gary
H ol l a nd , pres i d en t of
Moonlighter, said, "Ever since we released
Ami-Back, Amiga users have been damoring for a professional disk utfiities package
with the same high quality. Ami-Back Tools
is our answer to all these users, and we are
certain they will f i n d t h i s p a ckage
unmatched by any other utilities package
available for the Amiga." He said the product was the result of over a year of develop.
ment, takmg into account the wish lists of
hundreds of Amiga users. High quality was
always a high priority, and we' re certain
Amiga users will find it a professional and
elegant package."
Ami-Back Tools will rim on any Amiga
with at least 512 kfiobytes of memory, and
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Canadian Government
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO (NB) Canadian

civil servants who meet certain criteria will
be ableto work at home under a three-year
pilot program announced by thefederal
government. The government's telework
policy will permit employees to work Rom
their homes either full-time or part-time,
provided there is no loss in productivity,
ongoing costs are no higher than for working at the office, and any initial costs are
recovered in a reasonable time.
Any workout-home arrangement must be
voluntary and must not violate union agreements, said Bob Fortier, project manager
for the program, and the employee's manager must also agree. Fortier said some jobs
are dearly better suited to teleworking than
others - "you can't have a submarine
repairman working at home," he quipped.
Translators, lawyers, and others who
deal with documents all or part of the time
are good candidates. Fortier said the government expects many of its teleworking
arrangements will be part-time ones, where
employees will come into the office a couple of days a week and spend the rest of
their working hours at home, or even just
take occasional afternoons away from the
office to work in peace on such jobs as finishing up a report.
During the initial three-year pilot program, teleworking employees will be
required to work the same office hours
spedfied in their present collective agreements, and will not be permitted for
instance to do their work in the evening. In
future, Fortier said, this rule might be loom
ened to let people work at the hours that
best suit them.
The government will provide equipment such as personal computers where
needed. Fortier said this will not always
mean buying new equipment. For instance,
if an employee deddes to work at home full
time, the computer on the employee's desk
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to buy furniture for employees' home

offices, he said. The policy is due to be reevaluated after three years.

at work can be sent home with him or her.

If a department has several employees
working at home part time, it can give them
some of its PCs to take home and set up a
rotation system for use of the remaining
ones at the office. Some government
departments also have portable "fioaters"
available for loan to employees, as well as
older PCs in storage that might be suitable
for simple tasks at home.
If a department does have to buy a PC
or other equipment for a teleworking
employee, the cost will have to be demonstrably recoverable in a reasonable amount
of time before the plan can be approved,
Fortier said. The government does not plan

Contact: Government of Canada Treasury

Board Communications, 61 3-957-2428

Windows3.1forWorkgroups
In Beta Testing

R EDMOND, WASHIN GTO N ( N B )

Microsoft Corporation is beta testing
Windows for Workgroups 5.1 at 8,000 sites.
The program is a superset of Windows 5.1,
which Microsoft says is designed to make it
easy for groups of PC users to share information and work together. According to

Microsoft it will include network client software compatible with both Novell Netware
and Microsoft LAN Manager, as well as
improvements to t h e W i n d ows File
Manager.
M icrosoft s p o kesperson C o l l i n s
Hemingway told Newsbytes that the pricing
for Windows for Workgroups hasn't been
set yet, but did confirm that Windows users
will be able to upgrade to the program
without having to buy a complete version of
the workgroup software.
In the second quarter, sales of Windows
applications were $526 million, a 181 percent increase over the same period last
year. Microsoft said it would show Windowsbased applications with Microsoft S QL

Server running natively on Banyan Vines at

the A s sociation o f Ban y an U se r s
International Fall Conference in Boston
beginning September 20.
The estimated 1500 show attendees
were also to see Windows NT being demonstrated by Microsoft. One session discussed
Microsoft's strategy for Windows in relation
to Microsoft and Banyan products.
The August 31 issue of Open Systems
Today,a trade publication for Unix users,
reported that a surprisingly large number
of Unix workstation users are either evaluating or planning to evaluate purchases of
Windows NT. The paper said the results
were based on a reader survey.
Contact: Microsoft, 604-688-981 1

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will also offer WinDOS, a bundle with both
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Quattro Pro for Windows will ship this
month, Borland said.
Borland is pricing WinDOS at the same
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Windows and Quattro Pro for DOS. A
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Excel will also be offered for WinDOS,
Borland said. A $99.95 competifive upgrade
for just the Windows version will be available as well and the Quattro Pro for
Windows LAN License to add one additional user to a network LAN installation will
retail
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audio CDs, and is based on Microsoft
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VIS, which is made possible due to a special
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Tandy says the unit can be equipped
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committed to delivering over 100 VIS titles,
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processor, three on the 486SX, and one on
the 486DX. The remaining machine is a
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chip. IBM does not publish suggested retail
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the time being, though he added that "it' s
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B.C. EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER OCTOBER '92 83

months to respond to moves that arch-rival
Compaq, of Houston, made inJune.
There is little sign that IBM's recent
decision to reform its personal systems
operation as a quasi~dependent unit will
help, Brown said. It would have been better
to move the personal systems unit well away
from IBM headquarters say to Boca
Raton, Horida, the birthplace of the IBM
PC than to keep it in Somers, New York,
in the heart of IBM country, he said. And
"there's no shift in the people running it....
They' re not getting anywhere it's really
depressing."
Commenting o n t h e n e w PS/ 1
machines, Brown said the decision to bundle most of the models with Microsoft's
Windows operating software rather than
IBM's own OS/2 operating system simply
reflected the state of the market. "What do
customers want to buy7" he asked rhetorically "they' re using Windows applications." IBM admits as much spokesman
Hanunock said putting OS/2 on the new
PS/ls at the moment would risk making
people feel they are being pushed into buying an operating system for which they are
not ready.
But while IBM is optimistic that OS/2
will gain ground in the PS/I's target smallbusiness and home market, Brown is not. "I
doubt it severely," he said. Brown said it is
dMBcuit to comment on IBM's overall personal computing strategy at the moment
because there is more news sdll to come.
The company is expected to introduce a
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and new PS/2 models are also expected in
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image catalog. Photo CD i s Eastman
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television set equipped with a special CD
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computer programs.
The Image Bank provides iznages and
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Users with a Kodak Photo CD Player,
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"By putting our catalog on a Photo CD
disc, we' re offering graphic designers and
art directors an easier way to experiment
with various images in different formats
and layouts, an important step in the creative process and an essential step in the
approval process," according to Image
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preparing its Picture Exchange, a subscriber service which will allow imagesto be
downloaded toyour PC via a modem which
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when it comes to market in mid-1993.
Kodak has also announced several
photo editing software packages for Photo
CD. Outdoor clothing mail order company
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catalog on Photo CD, and the Smithsonian
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explore the development of interactive
exhibits.
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Contact The Image Bank, 212-370-1313.

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well as games axed a telecommunications
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some of the organizers for adults.
Casio's latest electronic organizer for
children is called the "JD-300 Junior." It is
equipped with some advanced feature~
scheduler, an address hook, a calculator,
and a telecommunication program. Two
JD-MOs can exchange data via in&ared ray.
Also, interestingly, the address book supports a graphic feature.
It accepts the input of fadal data along
with the address, name and the phone
number of people. The facial graphic data
can be created using a "montage method.
Under this method, the organizer shows
about 30 different partsof a face for
instance, various noses, eyes, hair styles,
mouths and face outlines. All the users have
to do is to choosethese parts and design
the face graphically on the organizer. Casio
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biHion kinds of faces can be designed.
The organizer also includes games and
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parents, IBM and Sears, before the year
2000, and Harris doubts that the personal
computer-with-modem market is large
enough to sustain the business over the
long haul. The good news, Harris adds, is
that Prodigy is likely to develop into a signifiicant consumer information appliance
player when the service is put onto devices
like Apple's Newton, onto screen-based
telephones like the ATScT SmartPhone,
and into interactive television systems like
TV Answer. Harris says that only S.l percent of U.S. households now subscxibe to
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to subscribe to Prodigy.
The new devices will bring online use
to 16 percent of homes by 1997, he thinks.
In an interview with Newsbytes, Harris had
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remain weak.
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he were put in charge. 'The flrst thing I'd
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and use the money on t hings like a
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so they can do it on a pay-per-use basis
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Contact: Jupiter Communications, 21 2-9419262, Fax: 2t 2-941 -7376.

Northern Telecom jobs ToINove

From Canada ToMexico

SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN (NB)Northern Telecom will move 36 jobs fiom

an optical fiber plant in Saskatoon to an
existmg faciTity in Monterey, Mexico next
summer,
Company spokesman Preston Peek told
Newsbytes that the plant, which produces
optical fiber, had a small operation "in one
c orner" making connectors for fiber~ t i c
communications. The work is not closely
tied to the rest of the Saskatoon operation
and is lowerwkilled than other jobs at that
location, he said, so it made sense to move
the jobs to Monterey.
Peek said the decision was not related to
the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA), which is set to phase out many
tarif barriers between Canada, the United
States, and Mexico. Pointing out that the
NAFl'A, signed during the summer, has still
to be ratified by the three countxies, he said
Northern could make no assumptions at
this point about the final agreement. Peek
would not comment on the wages paid at
the Monterey plant.
In general, Mexican workers' wages are
substantially lower than those in Canada;
figures may run as low as US$4.00 per day,
which is less than the minimum hourly
wage in most Canadian provinces.
Jobs have been lost at several Northern
plants in Canada in the past two years,
some to overseas facilities. In May of 1991,
Northern announced cuts at a plant in
Belleville, Ontario, which induded moving
the manufacturing of telephone power
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA (NB)Sun Micxosystems has announced that six
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According to Sun, the products will be
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process color imaging, raster image processing, and database management. Sun
daims that its prepress partner roster now
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According to Sun, one of its strongest
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Newsprint XP software from SunPics, a
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process color and PostScript imaging on a
Unix file sexver. System Integrators Inc.'s
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manage output processes and devices and
increase throughput, claims Sun.
The product increases productivity by
graphically displaying production flow
between departments and devices.Also,
Sun claims that Crossfield Electronic Ltd.,
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allows several applications to be managed
by a single SPARCstation. The impetus
towards Solaris has been kept going with
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on desktop systems based on the Intel
80x86 processor platform.
At the beginning of August, Newsbytes
reported that SunSoft had signed a technology-sharing agreement with WordPerfect
that would eventually allow WordPerfect
products to use technology drawn from
Solaris for distributed computing.
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Although the cover of the manual says

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Both products are not big enough to be
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InstaUing the software is shnple, because
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RAM is the only other consideration in
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the ability to embed speech into documents.
For most PC users, however, the issue of
buying sound add~ns will be a matter of
looking at "bundled-together" third-party
products in a "multimedia upgrade kit" or
individual addl e such as sound cards, CDROM drives, speakers and microphones as
part of a gr adual up grade. Th ere are
unique considerations which apply in each
component of a typical multimedia sound
system.

sheets. It is, however, something of a chicken~d ~

sit u a tion.
The more PCs that have sound and
voic~ecording capabilities, the greater the
interest will be in adding sound to documents. But unless users have the ability to
send these sound messages to others with
similarly equipped PCs, there will be little
use for doing so. After all, you are hardly
likely to dictate some vital business criticisms that you want someone to hear quickly if that person doesn't have the technolo-

gy onward their system to play them back

Sound Boards
These represent one of the most interesting
opportunities for helping users upgrade
their PCs. They offer a variety of features,
from the ability to help users record and
play MIDI sounds to the enhancement of
sound from a CD-ROM to th e use of a
microphone to record voice input.
Typical of today's mid-range sound
cards is Creative Labs' Sound Blaster Pro. It
sells for less than $500 and includes the
ability to play full stereo sound recorded in
MIDI format, Microsoft Windows S.l .WAV
format and most other common "
modulated" (FM) data formats.
It consists of a half'
PC c ard available in either ISA or MCA format which
offers plug-ins for a microphone, input
Rom a tape recorder, CD playc.r or record
player, a CD-ROM, a games port and of
course stereo speakers. The Sound
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that you can offer a complete multimc.dia
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controller.
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under Windows 5.1.
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card and others like it hark back to
the days of the basic "combo cards" that
used to be so popular for PCs in the early
1980s. In recent days, they have tended to
be irrelevant as most of the functions of the
combo card (serial and parallel ports, video
adapterand memory expansion) have tended to be built into the PC. The arrival of a
demand for sound capabilities on the PC
should fuel a revival in sound-based combination cards.

One interesting wrinkle in this market

will be Microsoft's own part in it. Microsoft
recently confirmed rumors that it is to produce its own MP~ o m patible multimedia
sound card to help build the population of
multimediawware systems in use. It is likely
to be sold in much the same way as the
Microsoft Mouse and, no doubt, with as
much vigorous competition.

Microphones and Voice Annotation

This is an area which has yet to develop in a
big way. Microsoft, Lotus and Compaq,
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Aldus says the kit works with versions 2.0
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According to the company, the new software makes it easier for users of Macintosh
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Program: Morph 1.0 for Macintosh
From:
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feature spectacular special effects where

one object or person metamorphoses into
another.
In the movie Terminator 2, the evil
Terminator melts into various shapes at
will; in Michael Jackson's video Black or
White, people of variousraces "shapewhift"
into one another. Morphing can be seen in
a dvertisements for e v erything f r o m
Budweiser beer to automobiles. Until now,
however, morphing was a pastime that pretty much required a workstation and a program that cost about $5,000. (There are
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Now, from San Diego-based Gryphon,

comes Morph for the Macintosh. This
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Lot It Morph
Morph takes two or more PICT files and
calculates any nuxnber of "in-between"
frames, using one of several compression
o ptions available t h r o ugh A p p l e ' s
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Macintosh application.
The entire process is as easy as it
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transition. The more key p
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Morph 1.0, like all other cur.
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Figure 2 shows a dassic Ferrari
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whole series of "original" variations to present to a dient.
Using different "compressors" can result
in dramatically different performance. The
Apple Video JPEG compressor, daimed by
the Morph manual to produce compression
ratios of up to 25-to-l, produced a 2.2MB
file at the highest quality setting, while the
lowest setting produced a file only 598K in
size. Both of these settings produced a
564x480 pixel movie that crawled along at a
pathetic three frames per second on a
Quadra 700 with 20MB of RANI
However, by substituting the sowalled
Apple Video compressor, the movie (now
1.8 MB in size) played at a much more satisfying rate of 15 fps. For comparison, I made
an uncompressed movie using the "None"
compression setting. To save disk space and
p erhaps speed up p l a yback, I c h o s e
'Thousands of Colors" instead of "Millions"
from the list of Save options.
Surprisingly, this uncompressed movie
did not play back as quickly as the one created with the Apple Video compression
option. Well, perhaps not so surprisingthe uncompressed flle was over 19 MB in
s izei I also tried th e so-called "Appl e
Animation" setting, and set it for millions
of colors. This setting produced a file over
56MB (i) in size.
For movies, it is clear that the Apple
Video setting is the best choice. For still
images, the choice depends on whether
image compression or image quality is
more important. In the former case, the
Apple Video-JPEG compressor is a good
choice; for the latter, the "None" setting or
the Apple Graphics setting produce the
best results.
The Morph manual describes each of
the settings in detail. I discovered, for
example, that the Apple Video compressor
performs both spatial (single-frame) and

In the movie
Terminator 2, the
evil Terminator
melts into various
shapes at will;
...Nlorphing can be
seen in advertisements for everything from
Budweiser beer to
automobiles.

Figure 2. Mcrphing a 'new" design from two ciassics

temporal (inter-frame) compression to
achieve its high playback speeds and compression ratios.
Gray~care images compress better with
the Apple Animation or Apple Graphics
compressors. The Apple Video compressor
is good for color images, but has a limited
selection of grays.
PICT and PIGS files destined for videotape on a frame-by-frame basis are best
compressed using the Apple JPEG compressor, since it provides excellent compression
at the cost of speed, which is not usually as
liilpoftail t.

It is worth noting that QuickTime is an

extensible architecture, and future versions
are certain to include other compression

options. Apple has already revealed that the

next version will indude MIDI support and
the SuperMac compression algorithm.

Performance
I got occasional "Out of Memory" error
messages when I attempted to morph large
images with the default memory setting. By
increasing the program's memory allocation to 5120K, I eliminated all problems.
The program fully supports System 7 (complete with Balloon Help), but also works
(minus Balloon Help, of course) under
System 6. QuickTime is supplied and
required.
The manual is a slim 74-page volume
that does adequately describes the capabiTi-

ties of the 276K program. Morph has a few

limitations that might make it unsuitable
for professional applications, It accepts only
72 dpi PICT foimat files and, as you might
e xpect, can take a while to perform it s
magic on the two or more source images
you choose to morph. (Performance was
better than I expected, actually.)
The biggest limitation is QuickTime
itself, which can barely handle a quarterscreen movie at 15 &ames per second on a
Quadra with 20MB of RAM. Users of lesser
M acs will l i k el y b e d i s satisfied w i t h
QuickTime's performance if they venture
beyond creating movies the size of a big
p ostage st amp . R e p o r t e d ly , a t th e
MacWorld Expo last month, SuperMac
Technologies previewed a hardware board
(and new compressor software) that allows
full-screen/full-motion QuickTime playback just the thing if you' ve got a spare
$5,000 or so.

Morph Fool INe

The only bug I noted was a "Mac OS Error"
when I used the Apple Video compression
option set for "Millions of Colors." When I
chose "Millions of Colors+", everything
worked properly. It is not clear whether this
was a Mac OS bug related to the Quadra's
internal 24-bit video or a Morph problem.
Overall, the program worked very well and
I have no qualms in recommending it to
any Mac owner with 5MB or more of RAM
and a 68020 or greater microprocessor.
Greeme Bennett is inansging editor and
resident morpher at 7tie Computer Paper.

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Casady 8 Greene Shows 5 New Products

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (N B) Casady Bc Greene showed five new products
at its booth at the MacWorld trade show.
The five new products represent just over
half of the new products that Casady tc
Greene says it is planning for introduction
this year.
The first product is called Innovative
UnTifies a collection of five utilities that
are aimed at making the life of a Madntosh

user easier. The utilities include Conflict

Catcher, which helps identify start-up conflicts and helps manage and resolve such
conflicts, Color Coordinator, Memory
Maxer, Whiz Bang Window Accelerator, and
HotDA. Confiict Catcher will also be sold
individually apart hem the other utiliYies.
Fluent Laser Fonts has achieved a second edition. This new library of fonts contains 120 different fonts in both Postscript

and True Type formats. 39 of these fonts are

brand new.
Glasnost Cyrillic Library 2 is a collection
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necessarily use the Cyrillic alphabet but
have special needs of their own. These
Postscript and TrueType fonts support
Albanian, Czech, Croatian, Hungarian,
Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, and Slovak.

This collection also comes in either a

Macintosh or a MS-DOS flavor.
Pararena is a fantasy sports simulation
game. Casady % Greene is following in the
footsteps of what they did with Glider a year
ago. Pararena was a shareware game and
was supported by the author for a while.
Now Casady k Greene has acquired the
rights to the game and has asked the author
to polish up the interface, add color and
sound support beyond what was already
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While speakerswill form a key part of any

multimedia sound upgrade, there are no
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which apply in the audio world. A few issues
present themselves, but they have more to
do with the way that sound is output from
PC sound cards than anything else.
One of the first issues is that any set of
speakers to be used with a PC is likely to
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