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METRO TORONTOEDITION THE COMPUTERPAPER MARCH '93 5

From
the
Editor,

Electronic Soup
The other night I was at a meeting where
they had invited a speaker to come in and
tell them about the Internet and what it had
to offer. When this fellow reached for his
portable overhead projector, we joked that
the meeting was starting to resemble one of
those multi-level marketing seminars, held
in people's basement rec roomL What kept
it from being the equivalent of an electronic
NuSkin party was the nature of the
presentation. Speaking was Mike Patterson,
the general manager of BCnet, the network
that provides Internet access in BC.

F EA T U R E 5

Your Guide to
Renting/leasing Computers ................................14
BY JOE WHEELER.

Toronto Computer Rental Guide.....................................................................14

Alphabet Soup

And what exactly is the Internet? Well, it is a

little hard to get a handle on it. Descriptions
quickly turn into an alphabet soup of
computer acronyms and it is the old
problem of the three blind men describing
an elephant it dependsonw here you look
at it from. A "big picture" view is that it is
the new electronic highway system for the
world. What the railways represented to the 19th Century and the highway
infrastructure meant to the 20th Century, believers are saying the Internet
will be for the 21st Century.
It originated with the U.S. military, and was extended to universities
doing military research. From there it gradually spread to include most of
the research and education sectors to become a wide-area network of
computers all talking to each other using the TCP/IP protocol (see what I
mean about alphabet soup). This protocol is native to Unix-based
computers, and it allows them to easily transfer electronic mail, but more
importantly run files and programs off other users' machines that are often
hundredsofmi lesaway,oreven halfwayaround theworld.
The, Internet has grown massively in the last few years. At times its
volume of data transmitted grew at a rate of 25% per month!!
According to Patterson, the message base for the Internet runs at about
50 megabytes of messages aday on a vast array of topics. This volume is only
for Network News, the Internet's distributed conferencing system, and
excludes all of the terminal access, file transfer, and other applications
which use the network. Pick a topic that you might be interested in and
there are probably a variety of Internet discussion areas on it.

Chunky Soup

P ALMTOP C O M P U T I N G

Survey of Palmtop
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The palmtop and handheld computer business is a
lot like the desktop PC industry was 10 years ago.
BY GEOF WHEELWRIGHT.

Zeos Pocket Personal

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FROM NEWSBYTESBY LINDA ROHRBOUGH.

Is there a PCMCIA Card

in your Future'F.............20
Credit card-sized hard disks, network connections,
modems and other add-ons for palmtop and notebook computers. BY GEOF WHEELWRIGHT.
T E L EC0M M UNICATI0 N5

W hat No Modems .............................................22

As you could imagine, the key to all this marvelous activity is bandwidththe capacity of data lines to cariy information in a given amount of time. Why buying a computer without a modem is shortsighted. BY JAMES MACFARLANE.
Video can be carried across the Internet along with all the other data if the
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data lines are fast enough. As Mike Patterson says, large multimedia and
graphics files are "chunky." Imagine trying to pour your Campbell soup
down a tube the thickness of a regular phone wire, and you get an idea of A review of the data-fax modem. FROM NEWSBYTES
BY DANA BLANKENHORN .
the need for broad bandwidth.
The recent U.S. election has meant that Vice President Al Gore will be
M o d e m v .3 2 b i s ea a ee a e s e a a s a a a as24
calling the shots in the U.S. He is a leading proponent of spending Sup e r F A X
megabucks in the U.S. on the Internet to give it a billion bits per second Coming in a neat package, the SuperFAX Modem looks like a toy.
throughput (lots of soup) . He is considered very fotward thinking and views
the Internet as a competitive advantage to U.S. industry. If you take away the BY JOHN McCORMICK AND WENDY WOODS
barriers of communication, brilliant (and ordinary) people from all over
can communicate without the constraints of time and space.
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Scotch Broth

How does Canada fare in all this? According to Patterson, we are lagging
behind considerably. If the U.S. is going to spend billions, we should be
spending about $100 million over five years but will probably spend only $20
million. Right now, they have just managed to get funding so that all the
major sites can connect with Tls. (A Tl is equal to 24 phone lines, and runs
at 1.5 million bits per second.). This will help, but it doesn't compare with
the U.S. funding.
The phone companies have been coming up to speed installing fiber
optic cables, and it is in place in the U.S. and Canada. Canada's challenge is
to come up with the money to pay for high-speed lines implemented on the
fibreoptic links. What can we do about this? I am usually the last one to
encourage more government spending, but in this case it seems like one of
those areas that the spinof benefits are so great, that the government
should devote more of their scarce resources to it, Let your M.P, know you
think this is an important issue. You can also contact the federal Minister of
Science and Technology, whose ministry is doing the funding for the
current upgrade. If the world is becoming an information economy, we
cannot afford to be left behind on something like this.
You don't need to run Unix, nor do you need to be involved in
government, university or the military to access the Internet. Socalled
gateways to "the Net," as it is sometimes called, are available via CompuServe
(see your software dealer for an access kit, or call 6144574650) as well as
regional information networks. In the Toronto area, you can access the
Internet through Canada Remote Systems (416-798-7750). Users in other
areas might need to call long4istance to one of these services or ask the
local phone company about "Datapac" access. Finally, take the time and
experiment with the Internet, it is broad, deep and exciting an ocean of
information soup.
The Gnnputer Paperwill be at the PC World Expo/Network World Expo,
March 10-12 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Drop by our booth
and say hello.
Enjoy the issue.

Kirtan Singh Khasa

publisher/Editor

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The latest from Macworld Expo, San Francisco. FROM NEWSBYTES.

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Reviewof Artificial Intelligence, the Quest for aNew Creation.

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I'm Not Dead Yet

I have noticed through publications such as
yours that there has been a complete lack
of support for the Atari ST. I know this is
not your fault entirely, as many manufacturers and software developers haven' t
taken to making their packages available
for the Atari systems.This makes many in
the Atari community angry as there is much
we would like to do with this versatile
machine that developers and manufacturers have limited us to.
As a sysop of a fairly popular Toronto
BBS, I feel affronted that users of this great
machine get squat from the developers out
there... or are they just too afraid to make
a wee bitof cash from us who want a compatible product?
Developers, let your views be known at
Monty Python's Flying BBS 4IM90-9879.
Supporting IBM and Atari-ST files, with 80megs on-line (1200-14.4K bps), it's something completely different!
Glen Ketteringham,
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Graeme Bennett replies: I sympathize with
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1985, and it is still lhe best machine on the market for MIDI, in my oPinion. (We are PreParing
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much reason to buy an IPC. After

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speeds up applications in Windows environment
between the central processing unit (CPU)
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Canadian Computer Show & Conference Reports

Increased Attendance Numbers, Begins Planning
For 1993
TORONTO, ON Organizers of the 1992
Canadian Computer Show IIc Conference,
which took place last November at the
Toronto International Centre, have exciting plans for the 1993 show after reporting
increased numbers in attendance.
The 1993 Canadian Computer Show &
Conference, theyhave announced, will
take place from November 22nd through
25th at the Toronto International Centre.
More than 30,000people attended the
1992 event, which represents an eight per
cent increase over the previous year, said
Group Show Manager Robert Grainger.
"This increase is particularly significant at a
time when the computer and business sec-

tors are facing challenging economic

times," Grainger said.
Grainger said that plans are now in the
works to deliver an equally eventful show
this year, including a new series of timely,
leading-edge features and even more internationally-acclaimed conference speakers
The Canadian Computer Show 8c
Conference, which just completed its 23rd
y ear, is Canada's largest and N o r t h
America's first computer show.
I t i s m a n aged an d p r o d u ced b y
Industrial Trade 8c Consumer Shows Inc., a
subsidiary of Maclean Hunter which organizes eight other computer shows across
Canada.

Advanced Gravis Brings 3D Sound to

the Consumer Market
Advanced Gravisrecently announced the
Gravis UltraSound 3D card, and plan to
start shipping during the first quarter of
1993 for $249 U.S. complete with a set of
h eadphones with 512k of memory T h e
company is currently working with more
than 25 developers who are writing for, or
already offer produ cts that suppor t
the
Gravis
U ltraSound c a r d
standard including
such companies as
A c c o l a d e
Electronic Arts, and
MidiSoft.
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wave table synthesis and CD quality sound
reproduction and recording capability.
UltraSound is compatible with software
that supports Sound Blaster and AdLib. It
a lso supports M i c r o soft W i n d ows 3. 1
Multimedia Extensions.
According to the company, it would
take two hundred sliders for gain and
another two hundred sliders for phase shift
per ear and the ability to change all of
them in real time to achieve the immersive
virtual reality audio e f fect o f G r avis
UltraSound SD.
"Game players particularly jetfighter
enthusiasts will be first to embrace

Gravis UltraSound 3D," said Grant Russell,

president of Advanced Gravis Computer
Technology Ltd. "As a fighter zooms past,
the sound will now follow the jet...Sound
can even beplaced above or below the player.
"There are many other significant applications,"Russell coni n u e d
"Entertainment multimedia such as the new
music CD-ROMs featuring rock artists can
now deliver a much
more interactive conc ert e n v i r o n m e n t .
Business applications can use SD audio to
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impaired users navigate complex spreadsheets. "

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devices. In addition to U l t r aSound and
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B Y JOE W H E E L E R
Wteo Rents?

to make a presentation or for a show or

convention, a short-term rental may be
your salvation.

Practically any person or organization using

a computer may find themselves in a situation where renting or leasing is advisable.
Whether you are an individual who needs
to rent a computer for a few days, a student
who will need a computer for a school
term, or CEO of a large corporation intent
upon leasing an entire network of computers, there are soine basic considerations of
which you should be aware to make the
best decision.

Cash flow A new business or one hardhit by recession may need computing
power but not be able to raise the cash or
financing for a new system, or may
decide that it is
better to devote
cash on hand to
other priorities.

Why Rent?

Try before you

Obsolescence and depreciation There

is probably no field advancing more
rapidly than computers; prices have tumbled at the same time. A computer system purchased twoyears ago for $5,000
may not evenbe capable of running the
currentcrop of software or aden hardware and may have sunk to a resale value
of V4 the purchase price. Renting or
leasing avoids being locked into a purchase of a machine whose depreciation
rate rivals that of a new automobile. Also,
maintenance and repair are the responsibility of the rental company (but not necessarily the insurance check the terms
of the rental contract; you may be
responsible for insuring against loss).
Convenience Ifyou need your computer out of town, to work on the road,

CN Coflnectieff

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Phone:5374509 Fax;537-1354

Tax advantage Depending on your

business and your accountant's advice,
rental or lease payments may provide a
tax benefit that exceeds the Capital Cost
Allowance to be deducted from owning
the equipment.
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Disadefantayes

I ndividuals o r
businesses who
c onclude t h e y
need a computer
in their work but
are not sure which brand
or operating platform is
best for their needs can
keep their options open
by renting. The right
rental company that
has a good selection can
be a valuable resource in
making recommendations to
get you started with the right
system, particularly the
smaller companies willing to take the time with
you to discuss your needs.

Compemelferiee

No software provided T h e m ajor

downside to renting
or leasing a computer
system is that you
can' t ren t the sof tware; it is illegal. You.
must own the software that goes on the
rental machine, so it
won't be provided
for you (aside from
a few public domain
or shareware utilities). Even then the
licence for some software is so restrictive
that y o u are n ' t
allowed to put it on
your rental machine
temporarily, unless you
remove itfrom your regular computer (although
most licences allow you to
use the software provided it is only used on

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is a highly competitive business; many
such companies come and go, both large
and small. For the user this can translate
into problems with support, return of the
equipment, disruption of usage and
worse. Your best protection is to ask your
prospective rental company how many
years they' ve been in business, and for
references from past satisfied customers.

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you figure it, in almost all cases the "bottom line" cost is always higher than if you
had purchased a system outright, except
in those circumstances such as short-term
usage where you wouldn't have made a
purchase in any case. Often the effective
rate of interest that you are in effect paying, particularly on "rent/lease to own"
plans, is excessively high. Also figured
into rental/lease payments is a depreciation factor as well as the net profit the
rental company seeks to earn.

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This problem is particularly bothersome
if you aren't settled on what operating
platform you may eventually buy, or in a
short-term rental situation where purchasing the software that you need to use
on the rental may not be costwffective.

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Otherwise you may call a company for a
repair on your rental machine and find
yourself talking to a bankruptcy receiver
who can't help you. This is not to say that
there aren't many reputable and solid
firms both large and small, simply that in
a cutthroat industry in r ecessionary
times, you can't be too careful. The up
side to this situation is that you may be
able to negotiate with the rental supplier
for the best possible price and terms.
Getting locked in This is potentially
the worst situation you could find yourself in, particularly with long-term leases.
If your business plans don't work out the

way you thought and you need to break a

lease, you may find that your options are
extremely limited and always very expensive. Again, negotiation may help.

ual or a small business without a "track

record," you may find that you must provide a credit card imprint, personal guarantee or postAated checks. Some rental/lease
companies work in conjunction with personal finance companies whose contracts
a re severe an d c o l l e c tio n m e t h o d s
Draconian. Established individuals and
companies may find that they are simply
invoiced monthly.

there are many variants: (I) a true lease is

generally from 24-48 months and usually
has an option to buy the equipment outright for an additional 10%; (2) an "installment lease" is in reality a form of financing
with a built-in financing percentage (which
may be high)and a token buyout figure of
$1.00; (S) a "short-term" lease is actually
closer to a rental and often has an option
to renew into a true lease; (4) "2020" lease
requires a 10% security deposit, 20 equal
payments and has a 10% buy-out; (5)
"deferred" lease this fnay feature "no
payinent for 90 days" but often requires the
first and (ast payments in advance.
Payment options: if you are an individ-

Types ofrentalslleases and payment

options
The basic difference between renting and
leasing is similar to renting vs. leasing a
rental property: rentals are month-tomonth while leases are based on a longer
lixed period of commitment (usually a year
or more). Even rentals which have a period
exceeding a month are based on the
month-to-month principal, and the paym ents are
priced accordingly.As for leases,

Special thanks for providing the wfRer with background information goes to Tom Masters of
MCC Computer Leasing, Victoria (595-7105).
Joe Wheeler is a freelance writer and computer
consultant Ilvlng in Victoria (888-571 2).

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14ewlett Packard HP-9SLX

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The handheld HP 95LX palmtop PC is

something of a one-of-a-kind computer.
Not only does it include a specially developed full-blown version of Lotus 1-2-3
Release 2.2 on a chip, but it was jointly
developed by Hewlett-Packard and Lotus
Development and represents a rare foray
by the latter into the hardware business.
The HP 95LX is also one of the smallest
vaguely PC-compatible handheld computers you are likely to find, It measures just
6.3 x 3.4 x 1.0 inches and weighs only 11
ounces and that's fully loaded with batteries and ready to rolL
Despite its small size, the HP 95LX will
allow you to do anything to your Lotus 1-2-3
spreadsheets that you would do on a desktop machine except display graphs and
run spreadsheets larger than the 512K
memory of this rnachine will allow. Even
with this memory limitation, the HP 95LX
is still powerful enough to handle sheets of
256 columns and 8192 rows in size.
All of this is running on top of a ROM
version of DOS 3.22 with its own custoin
DOS shell to help you with file-handling on
this machine. Although you might not
think that a massive number of files could
fit into this tiny machine, the HP 95LX can
use standard silicon storage cards with a
capacity
of up to 2 MB each.
These storage cards conform to th' e
Personal
M emory C a rd
International Association (PCMCIA) standard for handheld computer memory
cards. But we digress. The real issue with
the HP 95LX is not that it uses PCMCIA
memory cards (although that is a useful
feature), but rather that it is not really
designed to run any MS-DOS software
other than the copy of Lotus 1-2-3 that
comes built-in with it.
This does not mean, of course, that HP
doesn't offer any other applications for the
HP 95LX. In fact, a whole suite of "personal
productivity" applications come with the
machine. These include an appointmentbook function, a financial calculator, a
memo writer, a communications manager
(which can beused to operate a -modem
through the built-in RS-232 port) and a
telephone list.
And if you don't want to use the built-in
coinmunications software to transfer files
created on your HP 95LX to your desktop
PC, HP also offers an optional "connectivity
pack" and connectivity cable to connect the
two together more easily.
Taken as a whole, the high degree of
flexibility and power offered in the HP
95LX means thatif you need a handheld
computer with a spreadsheet you know will
be compatible with Lotus 1-2-3, there is
really only one choice. But if you want to
run other DOS applications, you would better to look at a more well-rounded palmtop
like the Sharp PC-3000 or the Poqet PC.

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puter

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The PalmtoPand handhf,ld comPvter businessis a lot Like

the desktoP I'C industrywas lo years ago. PalmtoP and
handheld comPuters are largelysojtruare incomPatibk, use
a con
fusing variety of storage media, don 'tffer
o any kind
of standard keyboard or data entry system and still oPer
ate usinga bnvildering range o
f ProPrietary Chsjlays and
operating systems.
hile DOS and the IBM PC
standard have been successful
in attracting the makers of a
number of handheld systems
(such as Atari, Hewlett-Packard and Poqet)
andmany keyboards seem to be a variation
on the QWERTY layout, the question of
how data is stored and applications are supplied is still subject to hot debate.
This argument has gained strong currency throughout the handheld and palmtop manufacturer community over the past
two years and has resulted in the establishment of the Personal Computer Memory
Card International Association (PCMCIA).

It was formed in 1989 as a non-profit trade

association aimed at establishing a worldwide memory-card standard for the PC
industry.
Overall, the market for palmtop and
handheld computers has developed dramatically over the past couple of yearswith a number of PGcompatible offerings
that weigh less than two pounds, run on AA
batteries and still run off-the%elf PC software. Here we profile a number of the
recent offerings that have graced the pages
of The Computer Papethroughout the past
12 inonths.

Bicorn82401 notebook computer

This machine is an interesting halfway
house between palmtop and notebook
computers. The distinction benveen notebook computer and palmtop system
appears to be blurring every day. While
palmtop manufacturers such as Hewlett
Packard with its HP95LX are 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 clear example of this trend. The company's pint-sized
notebook sports a 16 MHz 80286 processor,
2 Mb of RAM, a 40 Mb hard disk and a
high-resolution 640 x 400 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 abili-

ty to run on five AA batteries, provides an

external floppy 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 the PCMCIA/ JEIDA standard.
The fact that this machine accepts PCMCIA iis cards and earlier Japanese JEIDA
counterparts is quite 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 already 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 coinputing 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 compatibility provided by a notebook computer design.
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 3.1 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 Windows 3.1 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.
Secondly, you realize that battery operation on this machine isn't what it could be.
I was initially impressed by the idea that you
could run a machine with a 40 Mb hard
disk from five AA batteries and then was
seriously disappointed when I realzed 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 from them.
The overall hardware design of this
m achine looksclever,but there are a few
silly things which the designers could have
paid a little more attention to. These
include the frustrating habit of putting tiny
removable rather than hinged covers
on interface sockets. If you remove the covers 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 some positive points with me, as it
means that both can be upgraded without
replacing chips (a problem
which faces you
when using one of the many notebook systems with DOS in ROM).
As you would expect to find in a palmiop, this hybrid notebook comes with a

number of built-in applications a file

link package to move files to and from your
desktop PC (a must, as the B240i doesn' t
include a built-in floppy disk drive, as well
as a scheduler, diary, telephone/address
book and text processor.
Overall, the Bicorn 8240i 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 coinpromises (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.

Poqet PC
Probably the most well-known handheld PC
isthe Poqet PC developed and manufactured by a subsidiary ofJapanese computer
giant Fujitsu. The company has been enthusiastically promoting the systemin recent
months with a repackaging that now
includes a 512K PC Card (the creditward
size silicon storage media used by the Poqet

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back and forth to other personal computwere recently joined by Memorex with its
ers.
new Commuter Computer.
The latter is really essential if users want
The Commuter Computer is similar in
to transfer any standard PC software to the
many respects to the two-year-old Poqet PC
Poqet PC, as it doesn't come with any kind
it conforms to the CGA display standard,
of conventional fl oppy
disk drive. The machine
weighs only I.I p o unds,
comes with 640K of system
RAM, MS-DOS in ROM
and a r e a sonable-size
Chiclet-style integral keyboard.
In use, the machine is
fine for r u n n in g m any
c onventional DOS appl i cations including bestsellers such as Lotus 1-2-3
Version
2 .2
an d
WordPerfect 5.1 and
because all the storage is
based in RAM cards, it is
actually much faster than
a similarly specified desktop system.
Users don' t, however,
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part of the basic design.
single PCMCIA/JEIDA expansion slot (the
Despite all this, the high price of the
Poqet has two), a serial port, a parallel port
machine and the limitations imposed by its
non-backlit CGA screen and (by desktop
(both as options on the Poqet) and an
external 3.5 floppy disk drive port.
standards) small storage capacity means
Also like the Poqet, DOS (in this case,
that users will really need to have a very
DR-DOS 5) comes in ROM, as do a series of
clear idea of what they want this machine to
do before it could be cost justified.
built-in utilities (including a calendar,
scheduler, to-do list, phone directory, text
Sharp IsC-3000
processor and calculator).
Sharp Electronics, developers of the popuThere is also a file transfer utility builtlar "IQ" and "ZQ-3500" personal organizin that performs a lot l ike Travelling
Software's LapLink which makes sense
ers, has entered the PC-compatible palmtop computer market with the PC-3000.
as this software was also written by OregonIt is interesting for a number of reasons
based Travelling Software.
not the least of which is that it's one of
When you start using the Commuter
the first PCmompatible handheld systems to
Computer, however, you begin to wonder
c onform t o t h e P e r s o na l C o m p u t e r
why they bothered making it DO&compatiMemory Card International Association
ble. To start with, the 640K is all the storage
(PCMCIA) design standards.
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been designed and devel- , t h e

oped in conjunction with
DIP Systems of Guildford,
E ngland. DI P w a s a l s o
responsible for the design of

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Xchange integrated software. There was no

other word processing software I had
around that would fit i nt o t his modest
amount of disk space.
Of course, none of this really matters if
you just use the built-in software provided
by Memorex. It isn't bad although a little
limiting and could just about do the job
for corporate note-takers. The only problem here is that there are a few recent
releases that will do this job a whole lot better not the least of which is Psion's Series
3 and Sharp's PC-3000.
On the p l u s side, th e C o m m ut er
Computer does have a good keyboard, the
screen is better than most of the competing
products and the overall external design of
the machine is neat and professional.
The doors to all the interfaces fit cleanly
and snugly and the PCMCIA-compatible
expansion slot allows RAM cards to slip in
and out of the machine reliably. I used
three d i f f erent J EIDA cards i n t h e
Commuter Computer without problems.
If you need a 640K RAM, single-drive
XT-compatible computer with some personal information management software
that can fit in your pocket, then look no

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yoll.

Psion Series 3
While the machines reviewed above demonstrate relatively conventional approaches to
PC portability, they don't really make any
pretension to set new records in lightweight
design or portability. This one does and
succeeds, to boot.
Psion's new Series 3 handheld PC is one
of the smallest 8086kased PCs in the world,
runs on two AA-size batteries, provides storage of up to 4 MBytes and stores files in MSDOS format. It weighs only 265 grams and
is smaller than the average wallet, can be
used to drive Hayes-compatible modems,
and includes built-in word processing software that al lows files to b e saved in
Microsoft Word RTF (Rich Text Format).
Batteries last up to 70 hours, a tone
dialler is built-in to permit phone numbers
to be dialled from the machine's built-in
address book, and an agenda/alarm system
is provided for time management.
That's the good news. The bad news is
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sonable chance ofrunning modern DOS

applications) then you get no disk storage.
If you use the setup menu to set aside
128K of this 640K as a RAM disk that
arranges itself as drive D while the "system
disk" is drive C then you do get a little
disk space. This is hardly enough space,
however, torun Lotus 1-2-3,WordPerfect
or anything else but the most modest of
utilities. The only way you will be able to get
any real DOS applications running on the
Commuter Computer is to either use the
optional external floppy disk (which makes
the system a little too big to fit in your pocket) or buy a PCMCIA or JEIDA-compatible
RAM card. These are now available in sizes
of up to 2 Mb each.
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palmtop computer sector.
The PC design of ten years ago now fits
within a small, low-powered handheld
machine and dozens ofmanufacturers
have been flocking to produce them. Atari,
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Tel.: 41 6-731-521 4
fax: 41 6-731-5250
Price:
US $ 595
PUMA Rating: 2.5 on a scale of
1 =lowest to 4=highest
fter hearing about the Pocket
Personal Computer from Zeos, I
was hoping that Zeos would finally be the company to come up
with a decent handheld computer with a
real word processor I could use on the go.
But, alas, it was not to be.
The Zeos Pocket Personal Computer is
based on a NEC VSO microprocessor running at 7.15 megahertz (MHz). It has two
slots for flash memory cards, one on each
side, and parallel and serial ports that, with
the included adapters, become real, lif~ize
parallel and serial ports. It's easy to carry
and comes with a padded case with slots for
storing extra batteries and has nearly a fullsize keyboard.
The unit also comes with I megabyte
(MB) of random access memory (RAM)
and 1.5 MB of read-only memory (ROM).
I found th e u n i t v ery at tractive in
appearance. It is delightfully light at 1.8
pounds, just the right size to fit into my
purse, comes with a case, and has Microsoft

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Works with a word processor and spelling

checker, spreadsheet and database built-in.
Zeos claims it will run 80 days on two AA
batteries with a lithium battery as a back-up,
but I got about two weeks out of the two AA
batteries. The computer has a handsome
black exterior and a graphics screen with an
opening menu t h a t a l l ows switching
between the multiple applications included.
DOS 5.0 is also included, and a DOS 5.0
utility for null-modem transfer between the
Zeos and another personal computer (PC)
is explained in the manual.
The built-in applications in the unit
include a file management utility; a utility
called Planner for appointment scheduling;
a To Do List utility; a Card File for keeping
n ames a n d
pho n e num b ers; a n

Information utility with international time

zones, telephone area codes, weight and
measure conversions, currency exchange,
and a place to keep personal information; a
calculator; Microsoft Works; and a Utility
program that allows set-up of the system
i tself as well as a DOS shell and f i l e
exchange utility.
The Zeos shuts itself ofl' automatically
after about tw o m i n u tes of n o n -use.
However, whether you press the ofF button
in an application or the unit shuts down
itself, it never really goes off but waits in
"suspend" mode. So when you turn it back
on, it's right where you left off.
But this machine was designed for
someone who doesn't type, despite the
nearly full-size keyboard. Whoever designed
it never heard the Enter key stories about
the IBM XT. The Shift key on the right side
of the keyboard is tiny, and next to it is an
Up Arrow key, a part of a group of four
arrow keys. I couldn't ever hit the Shift key
but instead I continually hit the Up Arrow
key. I spent two hours on a train trying to
write a single article and couldn't because
each time I'd go to make a capital letter, I'd
end up inserting text on the line just above
where I was working.
Now on the left side, the Shift key is a
nice, long, easy-to-hit key. And while the
space bar looked too small, I never had
trouble with it. Just the left Shift key was a
problem and it appears someone decided

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So, it's useless to me for writing. Despite
the attractive price of US $595 retail and
despite the built-in features, as a righthanded touch typist, I can't use it.
There were other problems as well. The
7-inch by 2 8/4-inch screen at a resolution
of 640 by 200 can display 25 lines of 80 column text but reflects the display so that you
get a double image unless you adjust the tilt
angle just right. Also, the choices of programs are in graphical boxes selected by
moving a dotted box so light in hue that it' s
diflicult to see unless its moving. The text
is small as well. All this is annoying, but I
could live with it.
To be fair, I' ve shown this unit to associates who are not interested in writing but
who need something portable, and they
think it's great. The Pocket PC also comes
with a 804ay money-back guarantee,a I
year warranty,and 24 hour a day toll-free
technical support. So, if you need lots of
functionality, are not a touch typist, have
good vision, and a small wallet, the Zeos
Pocket Personal Computer is for you.

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(now a division of Symantec), Travelling

Software and WordPerfect. Not surprisingly, versions of DOS, Lotus 1-2-5, Norton
Utilities, LapLink and WordPerfect 5.1 are
all now available on PCMCIA cards.
Assuming that PCMCIA succeeds in
being established as a standard, the question then arises of what will PCMCIA cards
be able to do. To start with, their abilities
were very modest, with only 128K of storage. Within the past year, 512K and 1 MB
PCMCIA cards have become more common and 2 MB are now starting to be
offered.
But PCMCIA is not just a standard conbe used as general-purpose expansion slots,
using six spare pins on the interface that
can cater for input/output devices such as
networkadapter cards and modems.
Despite having to do a lot more work

What s smaller than an average matchbox, weighs less than turbo ounces and can store the tl an justproviding memory,thesecards

ornHewktt-Pachard, which has d

vaknt of 14,389 typed pages I The answer comes p

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i d mo i trat d b r~th.
membership of Intel, Hayes (the world' s

aced one fothe world's smalkst hard disks It .will store21.4 Megabytes fodata and (a'"""e
major player in the networking market)
yet is only 2 inches long 1.44 inches across and .4 inches high.
n own as the H P
Kittyhawk Personal
S torage Mo d u l e
(PSM), it is typical
of the growing number of
computer add-ons produced
in sizes that are only a little
larger than the average credit card. These peripherals
are typically f a st, s l i c k ,
expensive, small. But the
computer industry is so convinced that users want these
tiny devices that it is developing them in unprecedented numbers.
At last fal l' s Co mdex
t rade exh i b i t io n i n L a s
Vegas, forexample, a wide
range of credit card-sized
add-ons for palmtop and
notebook computers conforming t o t h e P ersonal
Computer Memory Card
Industry Association (PCMCIA) standard were on display including cards that
added hard disks, network
connections, modems and
other crucial functions to
t iny PCs. T h e P C M C I A
expansion slot is basically a

Microprocessorand memory chip manufacturers are

ably represented by AMD,
Chips fk T echnologies,
Intel, Micron Technology
(one of the few U.S RAM
chip
man u f a c t urers),
M otorola ,
N ati o n a l
Semiconductor,Samsung
Semiconductor and Silicon
Storage Technology.
Next come the companies that produce IBMcompatible BIOS products
the ROM chips which
ensure IBM software compatibility. Included on the
list of PCMCIA members
are b o t h Aw a r d an d
Phoenix T e c h nologies,
w hich pr o d uce a h u g e
chunk of the BIOS chips
for the mainstream desktop PC clone market.
A nother i n t r i g u i n g
issue to note in the membership list is the number
The first 1.3" disk drive module from Hewlett-Packard Co. is the size of a small of magneticmedia compamatchbox, has 21.4MB of storage space and is ideal for integration into mobile- nies involved - suggesting
computlng devices, digital-imaging peripherals, telecommunications and consumer that they are starting to
look beyond the traditional
electronics.
floppy disk and hard disk
storage technologies to a
68-pin tiny replica of the AT expansion bus
Products, HP, Lotus Development, Maxell,
future where storage is provided on lowused in most 886 and 486 desktop computMicron Technology, Mitac, Motorola,
power silicon. Among these suppliers are
ers.
National Semiconductor, Peter Norton
Connor Peripherals (a pioneering manuComputing (now a division of Symantec),
PCMCIA was formed in 1989 as a nonfacturer of sm all, f ast hard d i sks for
S amsung, T r a vellin g S o f t ware a n d
profit trade association aimed at establishportable computers) and Maxell (a major
ing a worldwide memory-card standard for
WordPerfect. Although having names such
manufacturer of floppy disks).
as Microsoft, IBM and Intel on the memthe PC industry. The standard defines the
Perhaps not surprisingly, there are lots
size, pin assignments, electrical requireof major PC manufacturers including
ments, protocols and file formats of credit
Apple, Atari, C o mmodore, Co mpaq,
card-sized PCMCIA add-on cards. More
Epson, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Mitsubishi, NEC,
than ISO manufacturers, semiconductor
S harp, Texas Instruments, Zeni t h companies, software suppliers and systems
attracted to the idea of establishing a stanintegrators have joined the PCMCIA since
dard for removable silicon storage media.
its establishment and two years ago the
Atari (with its Pocket PC ), Fujitsu (as reporganization reached an agreement with
resented by its Poqet subsidiary) and HP
Japanese standards group JEIDA on adop(with its HP 95LX handheld system) were
tion of the specifications.
all pioneers in producing systems that use
The list of PCMCIA members is impresPCMCIA storage.
sive. Leading names on the group's execuFinally, software producers have also
tive membership list include Fujitsu, Intel,
warmed to the idea of the PCMCIA stanIBM, Mi crosoft, M i t subishi, Phoenix
dard as it offers a way to sell traditional
Technologies, Polaroid, Poqet, Sharp,
ber's list is important, it is the breadth of
PC software (albeit often in a truncated
Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Zenith.
Other well-known ass'ociate and affiliate
support the group appears to enjoy across form) to handheld and palmtop computer
users who might normally use only the softthe industry which could make it succeed
members include AMD, AST, Apple, Atari,
ware that is built into the machine. Already
where similar previous attempts have failed.
Award, Citizen, Commodore, Compaq,
signed up a s PCMCIA m e mbers are
Connor Peripherals, Dell, DIP, Epson,
There appears to be representation
Microsoft, Lotus, Peter Norton Computing
from every sector of the PC industry.
GRiD Systems, Hayes Microcomputer

PCIVICIA was formed in

1989 as a non-profit
trade association
aimed at establishing
a worldwide memorycard standard for the
PC industry.

in the PCMCIA group.

Release 2.0 of the PCMCIA specification, meanwhile, was released in late 1991
to meet the g r owing r ange of n e eds
demanded by the PCMCIA membership.
These included a new "execute in place"
facility that allows software companies to
not only put their software onto PCMCIA
cards, but also include on the card the
RAM needed to run the application so
that o n a P C - corn
P a t i bl e h a n d h eld
machine, for example, you can run Lotus 12-3 without using up any of the system RAM
on your pocket PC.
In addition, Release 2.0 offered better
support for flash memory and improved
low-voltage operation. Finally, there were
f urther d e f i n i t i ons p r ovided fo r t h e
input/output capability of the cardswhich its developers say is similar to that of
an EISA (extended industry architecture)
expansion bus on a PC. By "multiplexing"
on the 68-pin connectors, you can now
plug in cordless communications systems
(such as pagers), network cards, modems
and other devices.
All is not totally rosy in the PCMCIA
garden, however. There are a number of
difFerent interpretations of the PCMCIA II
standard, which means that PCMCIA cards
produced by differentmanufacturers do
not always work with all machines designed
to accept the cards. In addition, chip-maker
Intel has designed a superset of the standard calledE~ (exchangeable card architecture) that is supposed to eliminate
potential incompatibilities between systems
produced by different manufacturers.
The final issue is a psychological one.
How many users or corporations are going
to be willing to pay several hundreds of dollars (typically between $500 and $1000) for
add-ons that bring capabilities to handheld
computers that they can get much more
cheaply in desktop systems? In addition,
there will also likely be resistance to expensive addwns that are so small they can easily
be lost through a hole in a suit jacket or
even left on the bus by accident.
For those who do buy PCMCIA cards,
the best advice would be to think of them
as you would any other add-on circuit
board for your desktop system. Buy from
reputable dealers and get them to install
your PCMCIA cards just as you would
add-on cards for the inside of your existing
personal computer. That will ensure you
treat the equipment with the respect it will
need in order to survive life in a pocket or
notebook PC.And by comparing the PCMCIA version of the ade n w i t h the same
item for a desktop system, you get a good
idea of the price premium you' ll pay for
"going portable."

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Conrinnedfermi
page17
ble. While word processed data can be
moved to and from the Series 5 via a cable
and Microsoft Word users will be able to
maintain the format of their documents
even as they are being edited on the Series
3, no one should expect to be able to run
L otus I-2-8 or W o rdPerfect on t h i s
machine.
The interesting thing about it for PC
users is that it demonstrates where PS technology is going and how much further it
can go by making use of the NEC VSOH,
low power 8086 compatible processor,
Intel's innovative flash memory storage and
Psion's own considerable experience in the
hand-held market. It has shown what could
be the way ofthe future for handheld
portable PCs.
And make no mistake about it, the
Series 8 is a fully fledged personal comput-

added to the system.

Technically, it is a well-designed and
clean little machine that is well-equipped
for handling the tasks for which it was created. It is, however, an expensive and somewhat 'flash' way of doing so.
A great many lowermost non-DOS-cornpatible handheld systems many of which
offer pouches so that they can be clipped
onto belts are already available to serve
this market and don't have the memory
and hard disk requirements dictated by the
DOS-based peninterface on the Palmpad.
But if you want a machine that is DOScompatible, innovative and inviting for your

workforce to use, then the Palmpad has got

to be worth a look.

INitac Palmtop 1800A

One of the PC industry's best barorneters

for the success of a new design or hardware
standard has always been whether or not
Taiwanese clone makers were interested in
producing it. Proponents of the palmtop
computer recently joined the club of those
who have been "flattered" by Taiwanese
efforts to imitate and improve upon their

ing the Mitac Palmtop 1600A a sub1000 DOScompatible handheld computer

that includes both MS-DOS 5.0 and
Microsoft Works 2.0 in ROM, I Mb of RAM,
a CGA-compatible display, the ability to
run on four AAA batteries, and two PCMCIAwompatibte expansion card slots. If you
want a relatively low-cost entry to the palmtop world and have either a smallish
application that will run under DOS or a
great affection for Microsoft Works then
this system has to be worth a look.

ideas.

Mitac, one o f t h e t h r e e b i ggest

Taiwanese PC makers, recently started ship-

Paimtop Computer Survey on page 40

And make no mistake about it, the

Series 3 is a fully
fledged personal
computer with its
own built-in
advanced operating
system.
er with its own built-in advanced operating
system, a windowing and pulldown menu
interface and a graphically oriented version
of Psion's OPL applications development
language.
The Series 8 overs the perfect adjunct to
a desktop PC for anyone who needs to be
able to take a few quick notes while they' re
on the road, organize their diary electronically and be able to access the office E-mail
system without lugging a large portable PC
around with them. At less than $500, it is
cheap enough for even the most occasional
portable computer user to consider.

s o ites

Grid Palmpad
Smaller, faster and cheaper always seems to
be the way the PC industry is moving in its
product designs, but there is always room
for innovative and good ideas along the
way.
O ne of t h ese comes from G r i d
Technologies, which on first inspection
appears to be pursuing the idea of computer as fashion accessory. The company's new
Palmpad pen-based computer is designed
to be worn on the hip or the arm and
used in the field by those who don't claim
any particular expertise in handling PC+.
The Palmpad can be strapped to your
arm or worn on your belt but is small
enough to hold in the palm of your hand.
And, of course, it is operated using a pen-

based interface allowing users to just

point at icons on the screen to control and
run their applications.
Grid envisions it being used for remote
data collection, stock-taking in warehouses
and really just anywhere that a keyboard
is going to get in the way. It runs on an
NEC V20 processor (which is compatible
with the old 8088 used in the original IBM
PC, but a lot faster), weighs less than three
pounds, comes with MS-DOS 5.0 in ROM,
offers 2 Mb ol'memory and provides 20 Mb
of storage on solid state disks.
Like most of the other palm-sized PCs
on the market today, it also offers expansion based on the PCMCIA standard. This
is an international industry standard for
creditward-sized expansion devices and

allows memory, modems, network connector cards and extra storage from a wide variety of third-party manufacturers to be

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Buying a computer withouta modem is shortsighted. It's Like buying one
xuithouta mouse you can get along yIjithout it, but having one makesa
soorldfodifference
There are better things to dream about
than buying that nice new multimedia
upgrade. A modem givesyou more bang
for your buck than anything you' ll ever buy
for your computer.

recently downloaded a program that

allowed you set all kinds of parameters in
your inodem without resorting to deciphering all those AT commands that are listed
in your inanual. Handy stuff.

Case II4: Really cool stuff

whyyolishellliihffyamoiiem you
Really Cool Stuff (RCS) is the kind of thing
rarely see in computer stores. If you do
Case 81: Infinite advice

Imagine you' re sitting in a classroom and

the instructor asks you a question. You
don't know the answer but that's okay
because you' re psychic and someone, somewhere in the world knows the answer. All
you have to do is ask.
Imagine again that, instead of being psychic, all of these people, and the informauon they have to offer, is available to anyone with the simplest of home coinputers.
That coinputer is yours because you were
smart and you bought a modem.
Answers to anything you could think of
are out there, stored in someone's head.
All you have to do is ask the question and
someone will give you the answer through
electronic mail, whether it be about where
to buy a good mountain bike or how to program really neat rnacros in Excel.

Case N2: Shareware

There are thousands of independent computer software developers out there who
have chosen not to market their products
ihrough traditional channels. They sell
their software as "shareware," meaning you
'"get" it f' or free to evaluate, but if you
decide to use it, you' re supposed to pay for
It.

As a programmer there are many reasons for doing this you get to keep all of
the money; nobody else is going to take
control of your creativity. You can inarket
software that may not be commercially
viable on a large scale, but fits a niche market something like a program that calculates the positions of satellites so you can
watch them drift by with your telescope.
There are a lot of really great shareware
programs out there everything from
video games to spreadsheets. Registering
the shareware you keep makes sense. It
allows the developer to continue to develop
and provides you with updates, technical
support and everything else you'd expect
from commercial software.
If you look around in most computer
stores and shows, you' ll find people selling
unregisteredshareware for anywhere from
$2 to $6 per disk. Downloading shareware
from a BBS is free. The stuff is more up-todate, and you usually get a wider variety.
Browsing through the stuff is a lot easier as
well.

Case II3: Technical support

Think about it: everyone on a BBS already
has a computer and probably knows how to
use it. If'you ever need help with your computer, or a piece of sof'tware, you can get
quick andinformative answers on a BBS.
Not only can other people be helpful,
but many computer companies run their
own BBSes to provide drivers, software fixes
and updates, product release information
and online technical suppori.
BBSes also have many shareware utilities
that do some really amazing things. I

find RCS in a store the price is insane. Take

printer fonts, for exainple. You can download hundreds of them on BBSes as shareware, and the prices are usually amazing. I
downloaded 25 fonts for my old Atari ST a
while back and they wanted $15 for the
whole set.
One guy on my BBS collects maps of
golf courses all over the world. He converts
them into templates forgack Nicholas Golf
for FREE. If you' re into games, there's a
lot of RCS for many games like Railroad
Tycoon, SimCity and others. It makes the
investment in a game really worth it.
Clip art, sound samples, screen savers,
you name it. If you don't have a modem,
you' re missing a lot!
A special tip for shareware buyers: most
of the stuff comes from the U.S. (are there
a lot of top-notch Canadian developers
too)), so many want to be paid in U.S.
funds. The cheapest way is to go to Money
Mart (the guys who cash checks, and pocket a percentage) and get an American
ExpressU.S. money order.You'llpay a fraction of what a bank will charge for a money
order or a check made in U.S. funds.

Case N5: Information

There are hundreds of online magazines
that are free to download. You can get
everything from Telecompseting Digestto
JesoisIsWeekly sos. The scope is incredible.
There arealso many conferences that
are dedicated to specific topics. Messages
that appear in these conferences sometimes
come from allover the world. Once again,
the scope is mind-boggling: particle physics
to home brewing,
The information you get online is often
available months before it appears on the
newsstandsor even in press releases. As a
journalist, this is very important to me since
information is the main ingredient to what
I do.
There are also many non-profit organizations thai. use BBSes to spread their message. The purpose of these groups is usually
to disseminate information about their
cause. Going online gives them an inexpensive channel for two-way communication
with the public.
Unlike newsletters or flyers that are
expensive to print, mail and distribute, a
BBS can provide exposure to a wider geographical area and provide interactive databases and inAepth information that can' t
be printed in every edition.

Case IIS: Entertainment

If you' ve got kids, what would you rather

have: vegetation in front of a television or
interaction with other people where communication skills are developed as part of
creative play? Most of BBSing consists of
conversing with other people, whether it be
in a message or in a live computer teleconference.
BBSes are a land where people judge

you by whatyou say,not by what you look

like, sound like or are capable of performing. It's the inside, not the outside that
counts. For inany people, expressing themselves electronically taps into a part of them
that has something to say, regardless of
whether they' re shy or unable to express
themselves for whatever reason.
Of course there's more to entertainment than conversation. Many BBSes have
online games where callers coinpete against
each other in different siinulated environments. Online games concentrate on business skills your ability to make investment or marketing decisions Other games
are most centered on knowledge, like trivia
games, Some are snore action-based, like
today's arcade games but with an emphasis
on interacting with other people rather
than simulated villains.
Regardless of the style of game you prefer,BBSes can give you more of a challenge
than the predictability of many of today' s
video galnes.

liow to buy a modem

Without getting too technical, modems are
measured in bits per second. The higher
the number of bits per second (bps) the
fasterthe modern can exchange information. Modems on the market colne in three
speeds: 2,sl00bps, 9,600bps and 14,400bps.
There are faster speeds but these modems
are currently non-standard. If you want to
buy one ofthese faster modems, do your
homework first.
If you buy a modem you will eventually
want to get liles from a BBS. This is called
downloading. How long it takes to download a file depends on the speed of your
modem. With the average file on a BBS
being about 120K, it would take almost
nine minutes to download a file with a
2,406bps modem, while a 14,400 would
take just over a minute.
I haven't mentioned 9,600bps moderns
because they don't cost much less than a
14,400 modem these days. Buying a
9,600bps modem, unless you get it for a
really good price, is a mistake. You might as
well make the jump to 14,400.
On the streets you can expect to pay
about $150for a decent 2,400bps modem
with 9,600 fax and about $850 for a 14,400
modem with fax.

A modem is more than a box.

If you' re buying a modem, especially an

internal one, you should really make sure
you can get decent technical support.
Modems are definitely not plug-and-go
products. They can be complicated to set
up and so can cominunications software.
Ask your computer dealer some questions
before you buy, since he or she is your first
line of support.
If you are buying an internal model, ask
your dealer how to instaB it Sometimes
modems can conflict with your I/O card
and other cards inside your computer.
Don't be brushed off, get as much detail as
possible before you leave the store.

Ie wary ofbad modem software

Modems usually come bundled with some
free software. This is usually provided by
the modem manufaci.urer. Ask about it. If
the package is not available in the store se~

arately as a coinmercial package it's probably not worth the disk it's stored on.
Most manufacturers still haven't figured
out that bundling crappy software ends up
costing them money because of unsatis6ed
customers and technical support calls,
The rule is, don't expect inuch from the
bundled software. You' re usually much better off spending the extra for a coinmercial

communicationsprogram or finding a

friend who can provide you with a decent

s hareware p r o g r am , l i k e Zt er m
(Macintosh) or Telix (MS-DOS).
Many modems also come bundled with
free time on CompuServe or GEnie.
Calling CompuServe or GEnie is not something I'd recommend for a new modem
user. If you get one of t hese "trialaccounts," put It away for a few months.
You don't want to waste your trial time
while you fumble with your new modem.

Getting online

Finding a decent BBS can be difficult.

There are BBSes that charge for access and
ones that are free, You can usually get a
demo account of some sort on the pay
ones, so you can try before you buy.

Nrus protection
Many people are worried about viruses
when they call BBSes. You can't get a virus
unless you download a file. So before downloading, ask the BBS's system operator
(sysop) about what virus scanning is done
on downloadable files. If you are not satisfied on their virus protection, it's up to you
to pl ovlde your own.

Signing up
On some BBSes, signing up for an account
can be like taking out a bank loan. Sysops
feel they need to ask for your name, age,
occupation, home phone, work phone,
address, date of birth, credit card nuinber
and other assorted information.
Beware, lthough most sysops are great
people, some disreputable ones abuse this
inlormation. Harassing phone calls have
been known tohave been made, especially
to women, andcreditcard numbers can gei
into the wrong hands.
Personally I wouldn't give a sysop anything other than my name and home
phone number. They have no right to ask
for other information, unless you are paying for a membership (they need an
address to send a refund to if you require
one), I'd much rather mail a check than
give out my credit card number.
Also, like buying anything else, it's good
to know who you' re dealing with. If they ask
for yourvoice number, make sure you get
theirs, and make sure it's not an answering
machine. When you need assistance, an
answering machine isn't much help.

Free OFcommercial
You don't need to sign up for a commercial
BBS to getgood service.There are many
greatfree BBSes that are run out of people's holnes, usually with money out of
their own pockets (be nice to them). The
main problem is that free is popular (it
sure is to me). If you call during off pea
hours you may actually get through. Don' t
be surprised if you encounter a busy signal.
Cominercial BBSes usually have a lot
inore to offer because they have the money
to buylarger hard drives (more room for
downloadable files) and can afford the
long-distance bills that are often required
to participate in many of the worldwide
electronic mail services.
Another nice thing about commercial
BBSes is that they can afford to have more

than one phone line.Canada Remote

Systems in Toronto has around 200 phone

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lines, one of the largest systems in the
world.
Commercial BBSes usually have more of
everything you want: more files, more information, better online games, wider-reaching electronic mail, etc.

one you like and start dialing.

Once you make aconnection to a BBS
you' ll probably be asked to apply for access,
Until you apply, which usually requires the
system operator (sysop) to call you back to
make sure you' re not a vandal, you probably won't be able to access much of the sys-

INaking that first call

tem.

Some people arescared when they call

their first BBS. They' re afraid they' ll accidentally delete all of the files on the system
or something like that. Don't worry. BBS
software has been designed to make disasters like this impossible. If you think something is seriously going wrong you can
always hang up.
Finding a BBS you like can be the hard
part, The Computer Paper usuallyhas BBS ads
in the Classified section. Grab the list, find

One smart thing to do is to figure out

how to capture the data the BBS is sending
you and save it to disk, Go through it later
and print a bit of the help files and make
cheat notes. Leisurely wander through the
BBS and see what it's all about.

How to download
Once you' ve managed to figure out things,
like how to write a message, you can try
downloading a few files. Downloading con-

sists of the following steps:

I) Selecting the files you want. This usually
means looking at a list and selecting "D"
from the menu. The system will then ask
you for the names of the files you want.
2) Selecting a protocol. A protocol is a
method for transmitting the file to your
machine. The BBS will ask you what protocol you'd like to use. Check your software for the protocols it has to offer.
Zmodem is your first choice, followed by
Ymodem and Xmodem.
S) Starting the transfer. Once you' ve told
the BBS to start sending, it will wait for
you to start your file transfer. Select the
Receive File option on your communications software and select the same protocol that you did on the BBS.
4) Wait for the transfer to complete. Your

software will probably give you some

indication that the file is being transmitted. It will soon appear on your drive.
5) Decompress the file. In order to save
disk space on the BBS, and to keep multiple parts together, files on BBSes are
usually archived using PKZIP, Stuffit or
some other method.
You need a utility to decompress your
downloaded files. This program can also be
obtained though your BBS. If you' re lost,
ask some of the other BBS users for assistance.
Hopefully this information will help you
understand the value of buying a modem
and how to get it up and running without
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package, but they do the job unless you have Summary: A powerful fax and modem at a very
low price, if you get one that
he Hayes Optima 144 is not the
y o u r own favorite.
company's top line a l in e
I can't say enough good things about works.
called Ultra includes an X.25
Ha y es support, either. The operators have
PAD. But it's the fastest modem
n e ver heard a stupid question at least
he h i g h poi n t s of the
SupraFAXModem (other than
you can buy which runs under an interna- t h ey won't admit to having ever heard one.
the low price) include its appeartionally recognized standard, V.52bis. The
A n d the online support, which sports a tollance a two-digit alphanumeric
Hayes product also supports the V.42bis
f r e e line for out-of-towners, is also among
standard for online error correction and
th e best in the industry. The support peo- message display that goes beyond the inforcompression, as well
pie always seem to be there, mation provided by modems that only use
as the Class I fax
and Ineverhad to wait to talk indicator lights to show the user what is
a tO~P fg~ht
s tandard,
whi c h Tg~~ ~~
9
happening, More than 20 messages are
to a technician after more
operates o n
an
provided by the display, including line stathan a few minutes on hold.
mOd~m fiOm
e xtension t o t h e
You willpay more for a tus, current connect speed and transmisHayes AT command
Hayes modem, but given the sion errors. Since these are two-letter or letset and allows you to
excellent support and quality ter/number codes, you need to keep a list
handy toknow what uncommon messages
finally buy
of the product, it's worth it.
third-party software
mean, but for most of our two-month test
for your fax board.
period the only messages we saw were the
PUIINA Rating
I tried the Hayes Optima on every conPerformance: 4. It per- three or four associated with normal (or
abnormal) transmissions.
ceivable data speed, with a number of diffo r med flawlessly.
There are two versions of this modem.
ferent computers. The unit worked every
Use f u l n e ss: 4. This modem will be
time. While some other modems I' ve tried
u s eful to call virtually any online service or The V.32 model, which is $100 less than the
version we tested, has a maximum transmishad trouble with GEnie's 2400 bits-per-sec- BBS you currently use.
ond access, the Hayes worked both at the
Illia n u a l : 4 . M a nuals provided are sion speed of only 9600 baud, which seems
pretty fast until you compare it with the
slowest and fastest (9600) speeds. (On a
de t ailed and written well.
Macintosh we had to disable XonXoff, as it
A va ila b i l i ty: 4. Available in a store maximum 58,400 which can beachieved
using full MNP-10 (Microcom Network
does hang up some high-speed transmis- n e ar you.
Protocol) compression and the top 14,400
sions during Xmodem transfers, but we' re
bits per second (bps) data exchange rate
told this problem is normal for high-speed C ontact Beth McElwaine, Hayes, 404-840-9200.
available with the V.52bis model.
modems and Macs and not unique to Hayes
Both versions of the SupraFAXModem
modems.) It is also Bell IOS-compatible,
operate at standard speeds as low as 500
meaning it even works well with my favorite
baud and are therefore supposed to be
Chicago editor whose computer operations
compatible with all BBS systems. Some BBS
operators, however, have had problems
with these modems, Newsbytes was told by
What's t h e : d i f f e rence does not, if it has already moved on.
one BBS softwaremaker. So check with the
... It can:.be a real pain, if you do have an
BBS software manufacturer before buying
between Ymodem-G and
error, after 100k of a 125k file has been
one if you are buying it for a BBS.
received. That is why an error-checking
Modem comm ands accepted by the
Zmodem?
modem is really needed.
SupraFAXModem are 100-percent "Hayes
Because Ymodem does not havethe
AT"-compatible so there is no difficulty
I understand that Ymodem-G, Zmodem capabilities, it has less overhead
using existing communications software
per packet. This results in the fastest file
with the modem. We started testing the
which requires a modem with xfer available.
modem with the PC using a five-year-old
Ymodem& does require an error corversion of Hilgreave's HyperAccess and
error correction, does no error recting modem. Ymodem-G is just like
encountered no problem.
Blotchexcept itdoes not do any
Both versions of the modem also feature
checking, while Zmodem Ymod~
CRC checks. Since it doesn't do these
Class I and Class 2 fax command compatichecks, it relies on the modem to do the
bility and group 8 fax compatibility at
does. Are there any other dif- check
and is supposed to be faster.
speeds from 2400 bps to 14,400 bps.
I haven't found it to be much faster
While the external modem is the same,
ferences?
than Zrnodem at all, at leis( not fast
there are separate Macintosh and IBM
enough to make up for the beneflts that
packages available which come with optiActually, Ymodem-G does do
Zmodem offers. Zmodem is a stream-type
mized communications software. The softthe same error checking as
protocol and doesri't send ariy ACES
ware
that comes with the Macintosh ver8 Ymodem. However, since it has unless asked to do so. If you.are using
sion, FaxSTF, which Newsbytes tested, is
already gone on to the next packet, when
2400 baud only, then there is no, real benexcellent and fun to use one can create
an error is discovered, there is no way to efit in speed between Ymodem/Ymodema customized fax cover page, maintain a fax
recover, and the xfer aborts. 'Zmodem
G/Zmodem except Zmodem has some
mailing list and specify when a fax is to be
and CIS B+ have ways to go back and
nice features like transfer resuine. g:
sent and when the fax is to answer a call.
resend the erroneous packet.Ymodem
Customer support for the software is readily
available through a phone number in

a tOp f)>9gt
company.

"

Missouri, and during the testing of the

Macintosh unit, repeated calls to the customer support area were necessary. People
were always ready to take the calls, with no
wait. The fax function is selectable by the
Chooser as if one were selecting a printerone needs to manuallychange back to
printer, however, when the fax function is,
no longer needed.
Hook-up and configuration were very
simple and there were few line noise problems during the test period using the PC.
One firmware upgrade did arrive, but testing was completed using the original configuration as supplied by Supra. No incompatibility problems were encountered and
the modem operated flawlessly during tests
with the PC.
However, there were major problems in
the test with the Macintosh. The modem
would answer incoming fax phone calls
occasionally or not at all, and try as we may
for three days, we couldn't get the modem
to behave consistently. I say "we" in reference to the makers of FaxSTF software, not
Supra Corporation. Fax STF experts
attempted to make a connection to our
Supra modem but after several days of
reconfiguring and testing, we still could not
make the fax unit answer the call.
Although our PC reviewer never needed
to call customer support, our Mac reviewer
did. Calls to Supra reached an endless
phone-mail loop at a non-toll-free number
without a human on the other end. After
three days of waiting, and many tens of dollars spent on phone calls trying to reach'
Supra without result, we finally got a call
back from customer support three days
later by then it was too late. We had concluded the unit was defective and sent it
back to the distributor.

PUIIIIA Rating
Performance: 2. Since one unit
worked and another didn' t, we can't give
this modem the top rating.
Usefulness 2. Inexpensive combina-.
tion fax and high-speed modem small
enough to carry along with a notebook, if it
works.
INanual 4. Well-written, if a bit too
technical for some users.

Availability 1. Although the units are

widely advertised and widely available via
mail order, and the company offers special
price rates for BBS sysops, the dismal state
of customer support drops our rating here,
to the bottom.
Contact: Marilyn Jordan, Supra, 503-967-2400
or fax 503-967-2401.

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IBM'S FINANCIAL HEALTH AND THE AMIGA

AMIGA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

IBM's recently announced staggering loss during the past fiscal

year was sobering news and gives everyone pause to think.
Losses of this magnitude affect all sectors of the economy, not
just the computer industry. Unemployment is increased, pension
plans which have invested in AM stock have lost value, public

Telecommunications
can open up a whole new world of
possibilities for the Amiga owner. With a modem, the Amiga
owner can connect to a Bulletin Board System (sas) through any
telephone line. A aBs is a central meeting place for computer
owners, and can be run by an individua'1, group, or company.

faith in the economy, at a very critical turning point, is again

shaken. And, unfortunately, the public's faith in iaM itself, has
been shaken.

A BBsservesmany needs,including the exchange of software,

information and ideas.

While this may appear to be just retribution to Amiga users, who

have for years been virtually ignored by followers of the "Big
Blue" and its clones; think againt Surely there is no vindication
in someone else's misfortune.
Fortunately for Amiga, Commodore in comparison to IBM, is able
to anticipate and react to market trends and needs in a far quicker

fashion. It is also a much leaner corporation. Beyond a point, size

tendsto breed inefficiency,beaureaucracy and lack of
communication.
With the Amiga line of computers, Commodore is very much in
touch with the market. They are delivering state-of-the-art

computers at a remarkably competitive price. Moreover, Amiga's

engineering development is second to none. All-in-all,
Commodore is managing to run a healthy business.
This state of affairs is of course comforting to Amiga owners as
well as prospective Amiga owners. They know that their
platform is well supported and will continue to prosper. Also,
Amiga's good health is of course not lost on all of the third party
developers who prodigiously continue to increase their support of
the Amiga with top-quality software and hardware peripherals.
And not to be forgotten, the Amiga's inherent architectuie which
allows easy upgradability of earlier models, maintains the value
of installed machines.
Having commented on Amiga's health in comparison to AM, it
must still be remembered that future computer development relies
to a large degree upon shared advances in technology.
Research
by major corporations,universitiesand othersources
form the foundation from which new technology evolves.
Amiga's engineering group can only work with the tools which
are first developed by physicists, chemists and mathematicians in
their laboratories. This End of research is funded by the
collective demands of the computer industry.
The financial health of every major player in the computer
industry is essential to maintain the massive strides that have been
made in producing today's computers. For this reason, let us

hope that IBM can get their act together as soon as possible. Down
the road, Amiga owners will also benefit.

For the new Amiga owner, telecommunications can be a big help.

Amiga bulletin boards are frequented by &iendly Amiga owners
willing to assist beginners in making the most out of their
systems.Chances arethatifyou have a problem, someone has
alreadybeen there and hasa solution. Even advanced userscan
benefit
from thisexchange of knowledge.
A common problem for many new Amiga owners is a lack of
software. With a modem and a telecommunications proyma, you
haveaccessto a large variety ofsoftware,rangingfrom graphics
to music and business applications to entertainment.
There are two general categories of software available on bulletin
boards. First are public domain (pD) programs which are
availablefree ofcharge. Second are shareware programs which
are a low cost form of commercial software which you can try. If
you like the program then you are expected to send the author a
feefortheirwork in producing the program.
Thislarge base ofsoftware can go a long way towards making
your Amiga more productive and more enjoyable to use.
W hen purchasing
a modem, modem speed,defined as baud rate,
is an important consideration. A 2400 baud modem can be
purchased for just over $100.00, while a 14400 baud modem can
cost almost $400.00. Does the higher speed justify the price?
Consider that to fill one standard Amiga floppy disk with
software, using a 2400 baud modem would take over one hour.
To fill that same disk, using a 14400 baud modem would take
only ten minutes. Most bulletin boards limit your "online" time to
somewhere between thirty minutes to one hour. Under these time
constraints, a 2400 baud modem can limit your access to the
resources available on bulletin boards.
O nce you
have a modem, and have read the manual foryour
telecommunications program where do you find a bulletin board?
You are holding an excellent source of information in your hands
rightnow. At the back ofevery issueofThe Computer Paper is a
BBs Classifieds section. Any one of the listed bulletin boards can
in turn provide you with a list of other boards.

Your local friendly Amiga dealer is of course also well equipped

to assist you with any further questions that you may have.

mso om u er s ems
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26

M ARCH '93THE COMPUTER

PAPER METRO TORONTO EDITION

BY FRAN K

H I LL I A R D

You' ve probably seen the ad by ATI Technologies in computer magazines showing a business-

manrisingpo
rnthe pavement aper being squashedflat by a steam rolkr. The headline reads,
"Flatly Refuse to Compromise on Graphics!" It' sa pretty accurate image, because in the next
couple of years we' re all goingto be overrun by a steam rolkr of True Color applications that
simply won't work on our current equipment.
Suggested Retail:1 meg $71 9, 2 meg$959.
Street Price: 1MB $589; 2MB $699
Available st:most PC retailers
hey won't work because True
Color, or 24-bit color, needs
more video memory than most
people have. It also needs video
acceleration, because the extra colors slow
screen activity to a crawl.
ATI in Toronto, which already had a
reputation for graphic accelerators, obviously saw the 24-bit issue coming and
rushed development of cards that could display True Color images and accelerate
them at the same time, These cards, the
Graphics Ultra+ and the Graphics Ultra Pro
have now reached the retail, level, listing
for $479 (IMB) and $599 (2MB) for the +
and $719 (IMB) and $959 (2MB) for the
PRO. Street prices are
lower, about $400 and
$700 for the IMB version
of each board.
Many users get their
first taste of the color
memory problem when
they start creating multimedia applications with
programs s u c h as
Macromind Action or
HSC InterActive. They
find when two 256-color
images are placed on the
s creen, one after th e
other, the second invariably ruins the colors in the first.
The name for this is "palette blowout."
It occurs because one 256-color image
almost never uses the same 256 colors as
the next. Since the memory on most video
cards can't hold the additional colors, their
video drivers simply hand over the palette
to the new picture.
You can get around this by not displaying two pictures simultaneously, by hiding
one picture with the next one or by relying
on the 20 colors reserved by Windows, to
draw boxes and write text, which won' t

blowout, but it's by no means quick in

dolllg So.

There are many ways to display pictures

in a multimedia program. One is a top-tobottom overlay, an effect that presents the
bottom of a picture at the top of the screen
and then appears to slide it to the bottom.
Unlike a Reveal, in which the picture isstatic and only new scan lines are being written, in an Overlay, every line is rewritten
every time. It's one of the hardest tasks a
video board can be asked to do.
It can be made even harder if the picture is taller than the 480 pixel lines on the
screen.

Test Picture

Another workaround is to put both pictures through a palette-sharing program

which eliminates blowout, but invariably
reduces the quality of each picture.

Best Solution
The best solution is to upgrade to a card
with at least 1MB of video memory and
then show the 25&color pictures with a 16bit, 65,585-color driver, a level referred to
as Hicolor. This eliminates palette blowout
and also gets rid of the dithering and cross
hatching that is a limitation of all '256-color
drawing and presentation programs.
One card in this league is the Diamond
Speedstar 24, which uses the Tseng
ET4000AX chip and sells for around $300.
The Speedstar can display 256 colors at
1024x768 resolution, 82,768 at 800x600
and 16.7 million at 640x480. Because it
reserves one bit, its maximum color capability in 16-bit mode is 82,768 colors
(2is~82,768). When an HSC InterActive
multimedia program is run in 16-bit mode,
the Speedstar has no diAiculty displaying
multiple 256color pictures without palette

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This is a very remarkable figure when
you consider that the Texas Instruments
board that usually acts as the benchmark
only generates a WinTach of 6.80/A16.
Astute readers will by now be asking what
happened when we carried the comparison
on to the 24-bit level. The answer is, we
don't know, and the reason for that is that
as of mid December, ATI hadn't shipped a
24-bit Windows driver For the card.
A little note in the users guide said the
integrated Crystal fonts driver and 24-bit
Windows mode support will be enabled in
the next software driver release.
It's clear ATI was in a great hurry to hit
Comdex, the huge American computer
convention, with the Graphics Ultra Pro
and decided to get the board out without
all the software it will eventually need.

Condusion
The switch to HiColor and True Color is
already underway. The Kodak Photo CD
system that turns snapshots into digital
images is using 24-bit color. Graphics programs like Image Prep are currently available for True Color, and even shareware
like Paint Shop Pro can now handle it.
HSC is promising that HSC InterActive
will be able to edit 24-bit color in the second quarter of 1993.
And, of course, there's Video for
Windows. Another feature of the mach32
accelerator is that it is hard-wired to speed
on-the-fly decompression of Video for
Windows AVI files. ATI says it can process
80 frames per second, but limitations in
Windows currently restrict this to 15fps.
When you look at all the straws in the
wind, it's clear the industry is all headed
down the same road and that programmers
are increasingly going to write for True
Color presentation systems.
For the user, who's already made a considerable investment in a computer and
monitor, a fast True Color card like the
Graphics Ultra Pro will keep his or her
investment current at the lowest possible
price.
The fact it's made in Canada, creating
jobs and helping Canada's balance of payments, is just the icing on the cake.

To test this, we compared the Speedstar to

ATI's earlier graphics accelerator card, the
Graphics Ultra (It has a similar name, but
differs from the Graphics
Ultra Pro). Using HSCIA,
we took a tall (589x675)
256-color PCX file and
ordered a fast, overlay
f rom th e t o p o f t h e
screen. I n
25 6 - color
mode, the Speedstar took
9.2 seconds to display the
picture, blowing out the
palette of the previous
picture. In addition, as it
moved into position, the
redraws created a wavelike motion that detracted
from the smooth effect
desired.
Rough Edges
Then we used the Graphics Ultra. It
There are also a few rough edges in its
shot through the test, displaying the picture
operation, notably a screen flash after the
in less than a second. Unfortunately, since
Windows logo and before the desktop, and
the plain jane Graphics Ultra. can only hanupon exiting, full-screen DOS boxes.
dle 256 colors, it also immediately blew out
On the other hand, there are some deft
the palette of the preceding picture.
touches as well. The ATI logo has an aniAs a result, we were very interested to
mation sequence. The FlexDesk utility
see what would happen with the Graphics
Ultra Pro, which has a p r o prietary
"mach82" accelerator and a display capacity
of 256 colors at 1280x1024, 65,000 colors at
1024x768 and 16.7 million colors at
800x600 and 640x480.
The Graphics Ultra Pro did exactly
what ATI claims, providing lightning speed
and consistent color. In 16-bit mode, it cut
the display time down to .9 of a second, slid
the picture in smoothly and maintained the
previous palette.
To keep the comparison apples to
apples, we tried the same test in 16-bit
mode with the Speedstar. It handled the
palette OK, but the display time went from
9.2 seconds to 14.6 seconds.
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Instruments called Win Tach. This self-contained Windows utility measures video dis Mail and SpeCial Order by phOne
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standard VGA. TI puts it out because very
few cards measure up to its 3401060 TIGA
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card.

The GRAPHICS
ULTRA PRO did
exactly what ATI
claims, providing
lightning speed
and consistent
color.

affect the picture palette.

allows users to change resolution and color

depth without going through Windows
Setup, and you can call up a higher resolution than you can actually display, creating
a virtual desk bigger than the size of your
screen. To get to the edges, you just move
your cursorto the edge of the screen and
keep on going.
In addition, ATI has thrown in a DOS
viewer for 16- and 24-bit colors that also
plays Autodesk Animator files.

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gamereviem

N en a N a
Games
for the PC
R EV I E W E D F O R N E W S B Y T E S B Y L IN D A R O H R B O U G H
Runs on: IBM PC, PS/2, and compatibles,
with VGA or MCGA color monitor,
and 640 kilobytes of memory
From:
Wa t erford Institute,
1480 East 9400 South,
Sandy, Utah, 84092
Price:
$5 9 . 95
PUMA Rating: = 4 (1 lowest, 4 highest)
Summary: This is the best program I' ve ever
seen for getting kids to memorize
those basic math facts.

My daughter jessica cried

every school morning for
six months in thefourth
grade. "Seventimes eight,
eight times seven, seven

times six, seventimeseight,

sevenPlus eight, " over and
over again my husband
drilled her at the table, in
the hall, out the door to
schooL
We'd tried everything. Card games,
flash cards, rewards, but Jessica wanted to
learn her math facts about as badly as she
wanted tobe pecked to death by a chicken.
Her fourth grade teacher finally said Jessica
could go no further in math without knowing her arithmetic facts. After the third conferencewith her teacher, we gave up on the
fun approaches and became "Mom and
Dad, the Relentless."

And she learned them.

Now, four years later, here is the Waterford
Institute with Mental Math Games, an educational package for the IBM or compatible
personal computer (PC). It didn't sound
like much, but I' ve got a third grader who is
just being introduced to the times tables,
and I know what's coming.
My only complaint with this program is I
don't know why they didn't do it four years
ago. My nine-year-old, Maggie, spends two
hours a day, of her own volition, doing
math problems. The problems are rote
memorization type stuff, but she does them
so she can keep the mouse out of the traps
and direct him to cheese, or move a cute little animated raccoon named Rodney
through an adventure, or win the giant
stuffed dinosaur in an arcade.
Honestly, this is absolutely the best program I' ve ever seen. I' ve seen others. They
were cute or clever, but not as systematic
about knowing what buttons to push in my
child to motivate her to do literally'ten to
twenty problems quickly, without thinking
and without her realizing she's done so
many. I would guess she's done the problems literally thousands of times.
And the program keeps challenging
her. Sowhen she's completed a game, a
new problem or two is in'troduced. Not
enough to make her fail, but enough to get
her used to the answer.

One of the best things about the program is the sense of humor it offers. I
played it and got the mouse in a trap, and
he surprised me by hollering like something from a Laureland Harvey comedy
movie. Each level has new surprises and
new games.
I thought my nine-year-old would tire of
the program, but she hasn' t. Occasionally,
when she comes to the computer after not
playing for a day or two, she gets upset
when she sees the level of difficulty she
obtained the last time. "These are hard, I
can't do them," she' ll say. But in five minutes she is doing them and moving further
ahead.
The program uses excellent graphics
and a sound card, if you have one. I have a
Sound Blaster Pro card that I also use for
sound in Microsoft Windows, and it worked
quite well with it. I have not been able to
get it to run i n a DOS Window under
Microsoft Windows, but for what I get from
it I'm willing to exit Windows to use it. It
also requires 6 megabytes of hard disk
space, but that's to be expected once you
see the graphics. You can also run it from
floppy disks, but you lose some of the
games, like the mouse.
Another maker ofmath programs for
kids, Davidson and Associates, has sued the
Waterford Institute for showing on the box
how many more math problems kids do per
hour with Mental Math Games than with
Davidson's New Math Blast product. The
Waterford Institute has taken the graph off
the packaging to avoid litigation with
Davidson, but says independent tests show
its program offers a significant difference in
the number of problems kids do.
Just to make sure my kids weren't an
exception, I sent my copy to my sister in
Colorado who has an eight-year-old boy and
she reported the same results I'm having
with my nine-year-old daughter.
Broderbund, the company that developed the Carmen Sandiego series of geography games, has started distributing
Mental Math Games so you' ll find it at
m ajor so f tware d i s t r i b u t or s suc h a s
Egghead.
As a parent, this is one of the most exciting products I' ve seen in a long time. I
understand the Waterford Institute is coming out with similar products, one for fractions and decimals and another at the
preschool reading level. I can't wait!

PUMA Ratings
Performance: 4. The software performed flawlessly, the graphics are delightful and engaging, and it takes advantage of
a sound card if you have one.
Usefulness: 4. At the rate my daughter is going, she' ll have her math facts down
in no time. I' ll say it's useful!
INanual: 4. The manual is well done,
but I didn't need it at all and neither did
my daughter, nor the other kids who tried
the program.
Availability: 4. The major software
stores c a rr y t h e p r o d u c t b e c a u se
Broderbund is distributing it. I understand,
while the retail price is $59.95, it is being
offered for as low as $39.95.
.Contact: Ana Treacy, Waterford Institute, tel
801-572-1172,fax 801-572-1667.

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creators through in4epth interviews. They
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and fixed framework. This has far-reaching
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For many yearsthe idea of computerbased artificial life has been considered as
belonging to the fringes of "pure" comput-

his dreams are finally being realized.

The researchers Levy looks at take
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see it purely as a model for how "real" life
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of developing artificial intelligence. One
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genetic algorithms, which are sets of mathematical rules that allow digital organisms
to evolve within a computer. We are shown
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Many are able to reproduce, colonize territory and can attack other digital creatures.
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Unfortunately, Levy has not done his
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Like the Frankenstein monster, there is

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also a dark side to this research, which Levy

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live in a land made of information in
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computer. Von Neumann died ofcancer
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It has only been in the past few years that

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to anybody who has had the experience of i
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onto your hard disk and follow screen

instructions to install the software. The 22
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files using 164,864 bytes. You can reduce
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If others will be using the file, you can
designate any client as "private." Private
records can only be accessed when you are
logged on with the same password under
which theywere created. Your database can
thus contain a mixture of public and private records. Names of private records will
not even be displayed in listings for other
users.
You can set up "Categories" which provide additional fields, such as industry type,
occupation, hobbies, income level, or any
other criteria upon which you may want to
classify and search client records. Category
fields can be numeric, alphanumeric or
d ate format. An u n l i m i ted n u m ber o f
Categories can be attached to any client
record.

Being preprogrammed, the

Maximizer saves you
from having to learn
complex database
software and design a
system to meet your
needs.
Search

Maximizer uses the fast and reliable Btrieve

database program. Some fields are indexed
to speed searches, and you can search for
all records that meet multiple criteria to
create selective lists of clients. You can also
search by a range of dates, times, or numeric data in Categories. Wild-card characters
enable you to search by partial names.

Hotiist 5 Calendar
From next-contact dates, the system can
create a Hotlist (to do list) for a range of
dates. You can assign priorities to ensure
items are handled in order of importance,
and move selected items I'rom the Hotlist

into your Calendar (schedule). You can

view yourCalendar for a day, week, month
or two months, A dialog box pops up in any
Windows application to alert you to a forthcoming appointment in your Calendar.

Quick Reference Card, which lists commands and how to access features. A slim
"Quick Start" manual shows how to set up
the system, with brief instructions for using
the software. The "User Guide" provides
detailed instructions, shows how to apply
the features to your needs and how to avoid
problems. Both manuals are well written,
contain many screen illustrations and have
indexes. Appendices in the User Guide list
the programs and their functions and list
Btrieve error messages with explanations
and recovery procedures. As a writer as well
as a user of many manuals, I give Richmond

high marks for user documentation.

you to print or fax mass mailings and do

searches in the background while doing
other Maximizer tasks. A LAN version is
planned for release in early 1998;
Using Maximizer for Windows should
give you a tremendous advantage over anyone using a personal scheduler and paper
records to manage business contacts.

Customer Support

When I phoned for assistance, the customer support person who answered was
knowledgable, helpful and courteous.

Summary

Being pre-programmed, the Maximizer

saves you from having to learn complex
database software and design a system to
meet your needs. You just select features
you need; the fields and linkages have
already been set up for you. Multitasking
capabilities of the Windows version enable

Chris J. Metten, B.Comm., is a freelance technical writer who writes and edits software and
hardware user manuals, operation snd maintenance manuals for equipment and policy and
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and your printer. You can choose to deny

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Phoning and Faxing
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Attain Upgrades "InControl"

SOMERVTLLE, MASSACHUSETTS (NB)
Attain Corporation has upgraded! n
Control, its popular todo list manager, to verII
sion 2.0. The new version features over 50
new capabilities and
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not assign times but have the program display them in order. Attain has also included
a check-off box so that the user can check
oR'an item once it has been completed.
In Control 2.0 will continue to retail for
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milhon, Loevner said Apple will
create products that "make the
most." of users' investment in
data, The demonstrations showcased the AOCE set of application
programming interfaces (APls).
Apple describes AOCE as foundation servicesat user and server
levels.
As such, AOCE appears to be
a cross between Microsoft's Object Linking
and Embedding API and Novell's Netware
network services.
Loevner and several Apple managers
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work together in several ways. They integrate E-mail, voice mail and video mail in a
single inailbox; enhance workgroup productivity through workgroup editing; and
streamline the process of routing and electronic sign-oif of paper documents such as
a purchase order.
Loevner gave no details on QuickDraw
GX. McCaArey noted that because Apple is
providing more information on AOCE, it
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Loevner, instead.
Heinen left the company earlier this week for a job at Microsoft.
A pple s p o k eswoman C i n d y
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able to free his schedule for the
presentation and his presence does not
indicate he will be succeeding Heinen.
McCaffrey said that the presentation was
identical to that Heinen as scheduled to
give.
"I' ve been wanting to give a keynote
address at Macworld for years," Loevner
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Microsoft to inake it happen." The light
tone continued throughout the deinonstrations, with Heinen's name crossed off of
one foil and another pun describing a
multi-user flight simulator as "Warfare for
Workgroups."
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determination to build on the System 7
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communications software, and a spreadsheet with charting capabilities. The program works with Apple's System 7 and features In-Context Editing, which allows users
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Aldus Intros
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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON (NB) One
of the new products for Apple Computer's
Macintosh platform shown at Macworld
Expo in San Francisco was SuperPaint 5.5
from Aldus Corporation. Among the new
features of the upgrade are support for
QuickTime, Kodak's Photo CD, and direct
scanner support through TWAIN. Pressuresensitive tools and new paint and draw
plug-in tools and brushes have also been
added.
The program was to carry a suggested
retail price of $199 and ship in February,
Aldus spokesperson Xenia Moore told
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version 3.5 for $25, which includes shipping via Federal Express. Registered users
of older versionscan upgrade for $45
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Contact: Aldus Corporation, 800-888-8293, ext
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA (NB)Apple Computer has introduced five new
products that it hopes will help continue to
differentiate the company's desktop products from its competitors in the PC clone
industry. Speaking to an appreciative audie nce o f M a c i n t os h d e v o t ees a t t h e
MacWorld trade show, Apple Executive
Vice President of Worldwide Sales and
Marketing Ian Diery heralded the products' use of color and imaging technologies
as two f'actors that demonstrated Apple's
innovation over its PC competitors.

There are not enough

people with CD-ROMs
for developers of multimedia applications
Despite the products' focus on printed
documents and color, D i e r y's speech
emphasized Apple's vision for desktop
imaging. The color p r o d ucts include
Apple's Color Sync technology which automates matching the colors of scanned
images with those of the original image.
Color Sync is one means to simplify the
more arduous tasks of providing clear
images on a computer. "Quality and simplicity will rlrive imaging in the '90s," said
Diery.
Apple sees iis customers having access
to millions of still and moving pictures.
However, delivery of photographs and moving pictures has been a major stumbling
block to i.he long-promised new graphics
frontier. To address one delivery bottleneck, Diery said that he expects network
capacity to increase "10,000 times what we
have today." A p ple is also seeking to
i ncrease distribution b y C D-ROM t o
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claimed that only one million CD drives we
have today." Apple is also seeking to
i ncrease distributio n b y C D -ROM t o
increase availability of i m ages. Diery
claimed that only one million CD drives
were inplace by the end of 1992.
"There are not enough people with CDROMs for developers of multimedia applications," Diery said. Apple will support the
needs of the CD-ROM developer community by shipping more drives as standard features on some Macintosh models, he said.

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Quickeys allows users to establish shortcuts, or macros, for popular programs from
Microsoft, Aldus, Claris,Quark, and Adobe.
The company says the only limitations on
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limit and limitation of the number of each

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given time.
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to the regular program, the reseller who
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NB) The continuing debate over Integrated Services Digital
Networks, or ISDN, took center stage at a
House hearing yesterday.
ISDN software turns phone lines from a
single analog channel into two 64,000
bit/second digital channels and a 16,000
bit/second s i gnalling
channel. In the discussion stage since 1968,
ISDN standards were only
put in place recently and
just more than half of
U.S. phone lines will have
the technology two years
from now.
At a hearing before
the House Energy and
C o m m e r c e
Subcommittee
on
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chaired by Massachusetts
Democrat
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Markey, lawmakersdebated whether government should help pay for ISDN, or
whether government should get out of the
phone companies' way.
The merger among telecommunications, computing, and broadcasting was
highlighted by Apple Computer Chairman
John Sculley, who will incidentally keynote
this April's convention of the National
Association of Broadcasters, and former
Lotus Development chairman Mitch Kapor,
who also founded the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, sometimes called an "online
ACLU." They both repeated to the House

Committee what the phone companies

have argued that phone companies currently have the technology to provide
ISDN, and its resulting video services, at a
relatively modest cost and relatively quickly,
over copper phone lines.
Vice President Albert Gore has argued
in the past for investment
in fiber cable, even to
s ubscriber h o m es, i n
order to deliver new serii
vices. As a result of the
new technology, debate is
likely to shift to long dist ance n e t works, a n d
attempts to create "multigigabit" per second links
between majorcomputer
systems. ISDN is only a
first step, Sculley argued.
E ven w h i l e I S D N
r emains a d r ea m f o r
m ost, meanwhile, t h e
phone companies seem to recognize it and
are looking formore. AT&T'8 Paradyne
unit has just announced a set-top converter
which will work with copper phone lines,
and use a compression algorithm from
Compression Labs to let phone networks
sell television services. Thus, many argue
that if the government just gets out of the
way, Gore's dream will become reality in
short order.
Craig
Fi el d s ,
ch ai r m a n
of
Microelectronics Computer Technology
Corp., the Austin, Texas-based research
consortium, held to this view, saying "the

government doesn't need to make massive

investments or pick technologies,"
Sculley and Kapor were more urgent,
s aying thousands of j ob s depend o n
improving links between sources of information and computers. Kapor urged government support for ISDN, at reasonable
prices, "to break the infrastructure deadlock." Both agreed with the Bell companies,
however, that a bill from Rep. Jack Brooks
forcing the phone companies out of the
information services business would have
slowed the needed investment.
There is another route to all this, however, as a press statement from the National
Association of Broadcasters before the
hearing made clear. The NAB is urging
U.S. regulators to let broadcasters use the
extra capacity created by High Definition
TV to broadcast dani. Data broadcasts, sent
over the air, actually have more capacity
than ISDN lines. Prodigy is among the services looking to use this capacity.
The big task, however, remains the
replacement of copper in local phone networks with fiber cable. Sculley admitted the
$80 billion needed to do that many
experts put the cost much higher is just
not available from private sources. As a
result, said Fields, the government should
back pilot projects, help set standards, promote competition, and support research
and development in how the network
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Toronto Drive
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41

IBM Ousts Akers As CEO

H ALIFAX, N OV A S C O TI A ( N B )
DynaTek Au t o m atio n Systems I n c., a
Toronto maker of disk drive arrays, has chosen an unconventional location for expansion. Keeping some operations in its present Toronto location, the company is setting up a new manufacturing, research, and
development operation on Canada's east
coast, away from much of the country' s
high-technology industry.
DynaTek was lured to Nova Scotia partly
by government incentives. The provincial
government will give the company a C$4million building loan and a C$3.4-million
term loan, inexchange for shares in the
company and first call on its assets in the
event of a default.
DynaTek Marketing Manager Barbara

Mighton said the company looked for a

location outside of Toronto because of high
costs in Canada's largest city. Real estate
costs and wages are higher in Toronto than
in other parts of Canada. DynaTek considered moving to the northern United States.
DynaTek, a maker of Redundant Arrays
of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) storage systems, sells its products in North America,
Europe, and a number of Pacific Rim countries as well as parts of South America.
Another attraction was a ready supply of
workers, Mighton said, noting that Nova
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Sales and marketing, technical support,
and a satellite research and development
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the coming year.
Contact: Barbara Mighton, DynaTek, 416-6363000, fax 41 6-636-3011.

ARMO N K, NEW YORK, U.S.A. (NB)After months of speculation as the company's fortunes sagged, IBM has announced it
will seek a replacement for John Akers as
chief executive. Akers is to remain as chairman.
A t th e

same t i m e ,

President Jack Kuehler

has been shunted aside
to the post of vice-chairman,
and
I BM
a nnounced the r e t i r e m ent o f F r a n k M e t z ,
senior vice-president of
finance and planning.
Paul Rizzo, a retired vicechairman ofthe company
who was called back in
D ecember ,
b ec o m e s
chief financial officer and a vice-chairman.
A search committee of directors from
outside IBM has been set up to search for a
new chiefexecutive. In a change from past
practice, the board said it would consider
candidates from outside as well as inside
the company, andindustry observers predicted the new chief executive will come
from outside IBM.
The announcement followed an IBM
board meeting at which directors also
decided to cut the company's quarterly dividend by more than half, from $1.21 per
share to 54 cents.
It comes close on the heels of financial
results which Akers himself said were "unac-

ceptable."
For the year ended December 31, the
company reported a net loss of $4,965 million, after changes in accounting principles, on revenues of $64,423 million, down
slightly from 1991.
In December, IBM announced plans to
cut another 25,000 jobs worldwide this year,
in addition to about 40,000 positions
removed from its payroll during 1992. The

company also admitted it might not be able

to maintain its long-standing policy of
avoiding involuntary layoffs. Some 70,000
employees have left IBM in the past two
years.
Industry analysts have
been calling for changes
in IBM management for
some time, and the reaction to today's announcement was cautiously positive.
But th e a n n o u ncements at least seem to provide for the possibility of
major changes. William
Milton, who follows IBM
f or B r o w n Bro t h e r s
Harriman in New York,
said Kuehler's departure as president and
Metz's retirement clearly follow from the
replacement of Akers as chief executive.
Those moves will leave Akers' successor
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PAPER METRO TORONTO EDITION

DellUnveils486-based PC Range
T ORONTO ,
O N Del l Com p u t e r
Corporation (Canada) has launched 14
new Intel i486-based machines. The company states that this is the single largest
product roll-out in Dell's history. With this
announcement Dell hopes to move the
competition away from
t he pr ice c ut s w h i c h
marked 1992 and into
the realm ofadded features and value.
The new PCs are
based on Intel 486 SX,
D X and DX 2 m i c r o processors running at
25, 33, 50 and 66 megahertz. They break out
into four different product families:
The 486/L seriesf ive low p r o f i l e P C s
based on an Industry
Standard Architecture
(ISA) with prices starting at $1,559,
The 486/M seriesthree mid-size ISA systems with prices starting
at $2,269.
T he 4
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series another three
Extended ISA (EISA)
machines starting from
$2,649.
The 486/T, a new
family of Dell machines, consisting of three
ISA-based floor-standing PCs, starting with
a 33MHz 486DX-based system at $2,569.
The prices of these machines include a
"base" specification of 4 megabytes (MB) of
memory an 80MB hard disk,one fl
oppy.
Monitors are extra.
All four of the new systems share a

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number of what Dell claims are innovative

features that increase their performance
and ease of use, including an integrated
Local Bus sub-video system that boosts
video performance when running under
Microsoft Windows and other graphical

user interfaces.
Also featured are improved performance in benchmark tests, a diagnostics
program stored in Flash memory and quick
access to upgrade the systems.

U.S.Computer Fax Units Reached

2.4 IVlillion In '92
NORWELL, MASSACHUSETTS (NB)Pushed by sales of PC fax modems, U.S.
computer fax unit placements will surpass
2.4 million unit placements this year and an
astounding 7.9 million by 1996, according
to a new study by BIS Strategic Decisions.
The rise of the portable computer, the
emergence of the integrated fax/ data
modem, the development of fax standards,
and a drop infax modem prices are each
playing a role in the growth of PC fax
modems, the survey said.
By 1996, portable PCs will account for
almost half of all fax modem unit placements, reported BIS, a Norwell, MA-based
market research and consulting company
specializing in information processing,
telecommunications and imaging processing.
"Fax modems are enjoying particular
success in the portable market for three
reasons," stated Janet Fugazatto, senior
market
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conduct business on the road in the same
manner as in their offices," she commented.
"Another reason is the PCMCIA standard," she remarked. PCMCIA is designed
to let compliant I/O and memory devices
be used interchangeably in portable computers that also adhere to the standard.
Finally, "notebook vendors view fax
modems as a method of maintaining product value in a highly competitive market,"
said Fugazatto. "We estimate that in 1992
about one-third of all portable computers
sold contained fax modems," she noted.

"Just as portable computers are opening

up the fax modem market to traveling businesspersons, the development of integrated
fax/data modems is captivating data
modem users," added Judith Pirani, director of the Image Communication Systems
Service.
"Further, more attractive pricing is luring users of many kinds," Pirani suggested.
"A fax modem that cost $200 to $300 last
year can bebought for much less today,"
she pointed out. Pirani attr i buted the
declining prices to reduced manufacturing
costs.
The Class 1 and emerging Class 2 fax
standards are also giving fax modems a
boost, by helping to move the industry away
from proprietary operations and toward the
Hayes AT Command set, BIS determined.
All told, U.S. computer fax unit placements will soar from some 2.45 million this
year to 3.68 million in 1993, 5.15 million in
1994, 6.68 million in 1995 and 7.94 million
in 1996, the survey predicted. Although
centralized and LAN fax units will account
for portions of these placements, the vast
majority will be PC fax modems.
To achieve continuation of their current success, vendors are concentrating
right now on making fax modems faster
and simpler to use, Pirani indicated. "14.4
is the speed of choice for new products.
Easier to use software has become another
way for vendors to entice people to buy
their products," she said.
Contact Martha Popoloski, BIS Strategic
Decisions, tel 81 7-982-9500.

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ABC Intros 2.2-yound 386SL, Plans Two

More Handhelds
TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA (NB) With
the launch of a new 2.2-pound 386SL
machine from ABC Computer, the ranks of
hand-helds have just gotten richer by
another member, and Newsbytes has
learned that ABC plans to
release two more subnotebooks on top of that.
In an interview with
Newsbytes,
Ca r l o s
Guerrero, US operations
manager, said that the
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company's new Bicorn

BSL60 includes a 60MB

hard drive, 2MB of RAM
(upgradable to 20 MB), a
64-key keyboard, and a
screen that offers 640 by
400 resolution.
Guerrero stressed that "
the BSL60 is the lightest
386SLbased subnotebook
now on the market. The 3.5-pound Dell
System 320SLi is heavier, and the 1.2pound Fujitsu Poquetpad is limited to 8086
processing power, he said.
Unlike either the Dell and Poquetpad
systems or ABC's previously released 286based BICOM B260i hand-held,ABC's new
BSL60 is lacking in PCMCIA capabilities,
he noted. 'This is a drawback," he acknowledged. But ABC is now in the process of
developing a pair of PCMCIA-compliant
units, he told Newsbytes.
One of the upcoming models will be
similar in size to the BSL60, but will use a
386SX processor, according to Guerrero.
Another will be larger than the BSL60, but
equipped with 386SL functionality,
"ABC was unable to include PCMCIA in
the BSL60 due to the size of the 386SL
processors available when the unit was
being developed," Guerrero explained. For
the BSL60, the company used the same
body as the one employed in the B260i.
The two-chip 386SL chipset used in the
BSL60 would not fit into the Bicorn body
and still leave room for a PCMCIA slot.
"For the two future models, ABC
intends to pursue a duo of different strategies to circumvent this problem," he
informed Newsbytes. One of the upcoming
makes will be based on a single integrated
386SX chip, just released by Headland.

"The other will be a l a rger unit,

equipped not only with a 386SL processor
and a PCMCIA slot, but a screen providing
full VGA resolution," he added.
"Despite the fact that the BSL60 lacks a
P CMCIA slot, i t o f f e r s
advantages over the B260i
beyond mere processing
power," Guerreo commentQ ed. "The BSL60 brings
-, upper memory m anage.. k . k
men t ," he pointed out. And
in contrast to the BSL60,
oe' which expands in RAM to
20MB, the B260i is fixed in
, memory at 2MB, except for
whatever amount can be
:l supplied by PCMCIA SRAM
cards.
"Right now, most PCMCIA SRAM cards offer only
I or 2MB of memory. 4MB
cards are rare, and 8MB cards when you
can find them cost something like
$3,000," he asserted. Even when larger
SRAM cards become available, RAM on the
B260i will still be restricted to 16MB. "The
286 processor can only accept up to 16MB
of memory," he stated.
Regardless of the advantages of the
BSL60, ABC will continue to offer the
B260i. "This is because of the PCMCIA,"
Guerrero remarked. The B260i furnishes
one Type II slot, backward compatible to
Type I. The Dell unit provides the same
kind of slot, but the PoquetPad is restricted
to a Type I slot.
The deeper Type II slots are typically
used for fax modems, LAN adapters, and
other I/O devices, while the Type I slot is
used formemory cards. A Type I card can
be used in a Type II slot, but a Type II card
is too thick to fit into a Type I slot.
Further down the road, ABC hopes to
come out with a 486-based hand-held,
Guerrero disclosed. oBut at present, 486
chipsets are too expensive for that to be
practical," he told Newsbytes.
ABC's Bicorn B260i is shipping now, at a
price of$995. The Bicorn BSL60 is slated
for release inJanuary at a price of $1,200.
Contact: Carlos Guerrero, ABC Computer, tel
310-325-4005.

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address for Newsbytes, in that scheme,
would be Newsbytesgenie.geis.corn.
Angelis added that GEIS also offers
X.400 message transfers. GEIS is an administrative domain for such transfers designated as mark.400.GEnie hopes to add X.400
access in time.
"We recognize it's something that our
users want," Angelis said, "and in the future
it's going to be required. The directions
X.400 and Internet are going in allow for '
such open communications that if your ser-,
vice doesn't offer the features, you won't be
in the running." In a recent survey of users
on communications issues, she added,
Internet access was the most requested service, with X.400 third. GEnie has something over 825,000 members, Angelis said.
Contact: Pam Angelis, GEnie, 301-340-4212.

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1,000 visitors will receive a free
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756-3221.

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gies applied to the fields of
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andinthewest,Vernon Samarooat403448-91 81.

PC WORLD EXPO/NETWORK WORLD

EXPO March 10-12, 1993 at the Metro
Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto,
Ontario. A combination of two events
under ons roof. PC WORLD Expo
explores theworld of pemonalcomputing
while NETWORK WORLD adds the
focussed volume networking products
buyer. Sponsored by PC WORLD,
NetworkWorld Canada,the Globe &Mail
end InfoCanada.Contact: RolandKlassen
(416) 581
JI797.
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in computers, software, games, shareware and related products. Also local
computer clubs. Dates and locations:
Sun. March 21/93 Windsor, Cleary

International Centre, Sun. April 18/93

Kitchener, Kitchener Memorial
Auditorium, Sun. May 2/93 Ottawa,
NepeanSportsComplex,Sun.May9/93
London, lldenonCommunity Cerrire,Sun.
May 16/93 Burlington, Burlington Central
Arena. Contact Creighton& Associates
Toronto 5%-3761, elsewhere in Ontario
11 4 65JI286.

CeBIT '93 Hannover, Germany. 6,000

exhibitors from45countries will showcase
technology from the entire information &
communications sector. Information
Technology, NetworkComputing, Local
Networks, CIM (Computer Integrated
Manufacturing), Software 8 Consulting,
Telecommunications, Office, Banking &
Security Technology,Slrategic Research
Centre, Conferences, Company
Presentations and Special Displays.
March 24-31, 1993. Contact: Jennifer
Cooke,repres
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is 15,000. Contact: Industrial Trade &
ConsumerShowsInc. (416)252-7791.
HOME OFFICESHOW AND THE BUSINESS TOBUSINESS EXPOSITION '93
will run concurrengyat the MetroToronto

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Sponsored by TheBoard of Trade of

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at the International Centre

April 14-15/93.
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selection of computem,
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1993. Robot Judging will be based on
sophistication of behavior, novelty of
design, ef8cisncy of powersource, and
quality of hardware.Rules andguidelines
are available. Pleasecontact MarkTitden
(519) 885-121
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'93 "Global Success in the Computer
Industry: Putfmgthe Business,Legal and
MarketingResourcesTogether." April 2528, 1993, Hotel Del Coronado, San

Diego,California, Formoreinfo contact:

Michael D. Scott, World Computer Law

Congress(213)589-5166.
THE CANADIANHIGH TECHNOLOGY
SHOW April 27 & 28, 1993 at Place
Bonaventure, Montreal. An electronics

showcase of exhibitors. Four showsections: Components & Microelectronics,

Design Automation;Electronic Production
& Packagng
i ;and Test,Measurement&
Instrumentation. For professionals from
the high-technology industry or users of
elerrironics.Tradeonly. Theshowandthe
ConferenceProgramwil be runningconcurrent. For more information call Reed
Exhibi6onCompanies (416) 479-3IXS.
ECOO - Educational Computing
Organization of Ontario's 14th Annual
Conference.April 29th to May1st 1993at
the Regal Constellation Hotel, Toronto,
Ontario. Over 200presenters in a mui5.
skanded~ference. Pre-workshopsand
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industry leaders)are avmlable. For more
informagoncontact ths ECOOoffice at
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or fax (416)7735963.

PC EXPOApril 30, May 1 8 2, 1983 at

the Palais des Congres de Montreal.
Estimated attendance 15.000. Contact
Industrial Trade &ConsumerShows Inc.
t JI00-3614I329.

VARDEX
'93 with anaddedUnix secgon.
May 5 & 6 at Toronto's International
Centre. Contact: Marina Perry, Reed
ExhibiTions(416)479-3939.
RADIOCOMM
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27th 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Fri, May 28th 10

s.m.-3 p.m.Formoreinfo contact: Hariey

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Fax (416)2524848.

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FORUM"The Merging of Technologies'
Featuring: MuNimediaCommunications,
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LAN ExpoandWindowsWorid. Contact
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and profitable. A showcaseof the latest

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NAME OF BBS " Thename by whhh the 888 is known.

If there h a Star P) at the end of the namegeld that means
the 888 in operated by a registered member of The
Intemaaantd Programmers Goad.
US The number of 888 Data Uncs or Nades available at
PHONENUM gkren.
4: Four888 ance.I+: hhrethen one
BBS Une. 7: Tha actualnumber af active lines is unknown.
PNONENUM The data
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624-4761 Typical example af a valid phone number at
which tho 888 ctmbe reached during the haute indicated
in ACCESS. 999-9999 A private BBS ora BBS ret accept-

ingany now momhnm. Ifynu area member,and ynuhave

tie number you may add it in by hand, but anly in the converled diaang directory flst of youawncammunicatinns snftware, NOT in a list to distributedor posted anywhere.
Recards nf BBSea canhining 9994899 numbers WILL be
wriuen ta your cammurca5ons software dialing directory
with the 888//CNtt/T.EXE uglay, readyfor manual edit by
yaumek. Accidentally dialing a 999-9009 number will result
in a We are sorry, your call cannot be completed as
dialed...." message from BELL.
BAUD The maximum bps rate supported at PHONENUM.
2400:2400/1200/300 bps supported 9600: 9600 to 300
bps supported. 14,4: Up tn 14400 bpa nvppnrted

PAFIThe communications parameters required to lag on tn

und 888. 8N1: 0 data bits, No parity, 1 slop bit
7E1 7 data bile, Even parity, 1 stop bit
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PHONENUM field which you mny then edit when ynu

receive the real 888 number from the Sysop.
"Tmnporargy Down ato Sysnp instructed us to indicate to
tho twain that his/her 888 is temporarily out af cammissian
duo to major repairs. maintenance, rebuilding ar renovathns. "Cauldn't Connect" means that the Guild could not
vwify lhe 888 as aperaganai this month. If unable ta veriiy
far three cnnsecuave months the BBS will be deleted fram
the tisL"2nd. MonthDawn " means that this BBS was last

month 'Catrtdn't Connect' making this the second month

that NO connection could be established. 88 8 Dawn
and Otrt" the Bysnp i structed us tn indicalo tn the users
that his/her 888 was permanently closed down and
ceased aii operathns it could also mean that this 888 was
hst rrenth marked ns "2nd. Monih Down " mating this the
third month that NO cnnnecunn could he established. This
will ba the inst entry mentioning this BBS. This 888 recard
line is ready to be deleted at the next issue af the 888 listing, "Recently Revived indicates that last month this
888 wac listed as one of the following:"Temporarily
Down,"Couidn't Connecl", "2nd. Month Dawn', BBS
Down and Out",hut it was verified as operational again this

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used.AL = Alchemy HM = Home Make SaitwarePU =
Punter/PCPNBB =888 PC HO = Host PY =Pyrata
Bi = BinkisyTerm FrantEndIB = IBBS QB = Qvick888 866
= 888 Management System IH = In-House Software NA
= Remtrie AccessCH = ChairmanM2 =Michtran 2.0 88 =
RBBS-PCOn = Dracana IS(= Maximus BG = Renegade
EM =Emuiex or EMiX Ml = MiniHast SL =SearchUght Fl
o Fido NC = NCCI icon SU = SuperBBS FO = Foram PC
OP = OpusTB= TBBSGA = Gahtckc m 888 PB = PCBoard TG = TeleGard GD= GuildDriver/Ghost SystemPll
= Prannt System UL o Ultra888 GH = PC-Ghost TA =
TAG VA = Vanguard GT = GT PawerCamm HostSP =
SPNiro WI = Wildcat! HE = HermesWW WWiv Net 77 =
Other

TO CONTACT THE PROGFUU9MERS GUILDeither by:

VOICE(416)624-7947 between 0:00 am and 4:00 pm or
byeMAIL lngon to GUILD BBS (416) 6244731 at any time
FidoNet Node 259/419 tn have your new BBS gated or
have any changesmadeconcerning
your existing BBS.

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Virtual Village BBS. Over

593-6502

Games are supported. M46 Messages and Games supparted INa Fkes),M- Only local Message bases supported,
C- LocalConferences and Message basessuppar
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supported-F- Only Filesavagabte,no Messages, na
Games ??? Nnt Verified, Can'I Connecti

given, then Ihey will give ynu atxxws. Such private BBSos
neunay also have Ihe 999-9999 number in the 888 dateline

06FG Indhatea if Messages, PD-Files and/ar on-line

requires you to call him/her Rrst at lhe voice plene number

Onl i n e COfftmUAicatiOAS Software

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NOTE: on yearly membership fees. Ag user fees were

given ta us by the hoanh. The Guild is not responsible for
their corrnctnenn. Usually there are additional initiation
fees, but these innauon fees. if any, are NOT included in
theFEEs as indkxdod intho8886 dahhaae shown above.
7VS G.S.T. may or may not be added on tap of tivatfee.

SPECIALITYTho rmmt impartnnt features af the 888, or

redo6 "................"means that the Sysop did not omvey ta
the Guild what their BBS'a apecialhadnn ie, or that they
epeciged that na features should bo rnentinned. Ptfvate
Board " means it's NOT a public BBS and ehntriII he
accessed with caution and only after having spoken with
thn owner."rr$$0 Lacathn Shows that this 888 is also a
WAN {Wide Area Network). n means the code for the
WAN's name F = FtdnNnt Node G
. = GuMNet Node
P Pu nterNet Node 8o RetayNet Nods 0 = Other net
$06 means the Node number af that WAN ie, "F412
Srwsissaugn" indicates a Hdn nehvnrk rede. at a location
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Hf 14 models to choose from
Hf Top quality and value
Pf $30 gift certificate from the
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or FeeOp5anal $8
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THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMERS GUILD

Canadian Chapter, Toronto, Ontario Voice. General info:
I416) 624-7947. Business haute only.

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PRICES MEAN.

OT EVERY ACCOUNTANT IS AN EXPERT ON

computers, but most of them know the

value of a dollar. It's their job.

To be fair, we used "suggested list

prices" quoted directly by each manufacturer during the first week of February,
1993. 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.

At IPC, our jo b i s t o b u i l d a f f o rdable

computers without sacrificing quality or
reliability. And we' re the experts.
While everyone else was busy cutting this
and cutting that (the middleman for instance)
we' ve been busy finding ways to make IPC
computers even better without charging
you more money. The IPC 4SX/25 is a fine
example of what we' ve accomplished.
From the upgradable Intel 486SX CPU, to
the genuine Microsoft mouse, every IPC
4SX/25 is built w i t h th e m ost re l i able
components on the m a rket. (Otherwise
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We even pre-load the hard drive with everything you need to be up and running right
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(416) 599-1 428
Computroniks
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Copen Computer
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I.C.C.
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(416) 250-0705
IncorporatedComputer
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(416) 567-0040
Scarborough Bus. Mach.
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So, if the only d i f ference between our

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then you probably don't even need an
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for the name of the qualified IPC dealer

nearest you. (Toll-free of course!)

The Intel Inside logo is a registeredtrademark of Intel Corporation. The ASTlogoand Bravo are registeredtrademarks ot ASTResearch. The Compaq logo is a registeredtrademarkand
DeskPro is a trademark of CompaqComputer Corporation. The Oeg togo is a registered trademark of Dell Computer Corp. Microsoft is a registered tmdemark and Windowsand ths
Windowslogo are trademarks ofMicrosoft Corp. IpC is a trademark of 3D Microormpuarrs. IpC disdsimsproprietary interest in the marksand namesofothsm. All pricesandconfrguragons
subject to change withoutnofice. Monitor notnecessarily as shown.

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 thingdollar for dollar IPC offers the best value
in the computer industry. We wouldn' t
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