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"All learningls
an obstacle to
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interesting new technologies which allow

voice control of the computers. An industry
editorial suggested that Apple should stick to
the bread and butter lines of computers. Basically they were saying that everyone really
some smart management type.
uses computers for word processing and
spreadsheets so in their humble opinion
Apple was wasting its time because users
Wordperfect Itflan
would be reluctant to pay a few more bucks
I was recently in a government office and I forthese fancy extras.
noticed that they had a big color Mac Ilci
The promise of some of this technology is
that they were using to log on to a govern- very exciting. Using your voice to command
ment database. I asked the agent if it was his a computer is a whole new ball game; if it
works, it adds the same quantum-leap poten-

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the editor that suggested the best free

upgrade to any program is, after using it for a

When the Macin- while, to go back and read the user manuaL
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device called a mouse), value of this exercise. As we say around our
came along, many peo- office, aRTFM" ReadThe Friggin'ManuaL
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were reluctant to switch Life is incredibly busy for most of us. We are
despite promised bene- barraged by demands at work, from televifits in the area of train- sion and radio. Everywhere there are too
many things to do. But somehow, there
always seems to be a bit of time to do the
these reluctant computer users have switched things that you really want to do. My theme
to find many gains in productivity. They use of the month is to encourage you to pick
more programs now because it is easier to something that you do regularly, whether it
learn each new program when many of the is on a computer, or some other aspect of
commands are similar. They also get more your life. It could be learning a new computdone in a shorter period of time within the er program. It could be using an old program
programs that they use.
more efficiently. It could be the system that
you use to do your work. Reexamine it, read
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benefits.

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See if there isn't a way to do it better, faster,

ZipCode features missed

The recentarticle titled "AComparative Reviewof PoCo and
ZipCode"(Sept.93) byKeith Schengili-Roberts wasinteresting. However,
therewereseveral factsthatwereincorrect or
missing. Theauthorwentinto greatdetail aboutcerlein features of PocothatarealsoincludedinZipCodebut he fiiled
to mention
these.
I would like toset therecord straight. ZipCodehasfull
cut-and-pestefeaturesin bothlhe DO
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canpastetheDOSversionintoanywordprocessor
or delebese.
Theamount of herddrive space(needed) for ZipCodeis4.8Mb,not5.5Mb.ZipCodecanbeloadedasestand
aloneapplication. Thepick list featuredescribedin detail for
Poco is automatic injtipCode,Thecorrect street typeand
directionis automatically inserted.
The ZipBase
product retails for $199.Contrarytoyour
article, it isnotincludedwith 2ipCodebut ratherit is ZipBase
that includes
efree copyof ZipCode. Theproduct will verify
100,000records
perhour andactualy correctandwdteto disk
30,06) perhour.ZipBesewil alsoincludea reverse search
featurewhichwil allowyouto entera poslel codeendget lhe
province,city, streetendrangeol numbers. ZipCodeincludes

both theDOSand Windowsversionin eachpackage,theyare

not soldseparately.Thesix-pack networkcanalso beused
with sixstandalonesystems.
We doappreciate yourcoverage. Youreffort toincrease
awareness
for anewtypeof softwareadd-onis commendable,
My primarypurposein writing to youis to ensurethat the
information
youpresent onZipCodeis accurateendbalanced.
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CEO,ZipCodeSoftware
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whengivingpricinginformation. I wasnot awarethat thesixpack lornetworkscouldbeusedas six stand-alonesystems,

and thepackaginginfonnation lor ZipCodesuggests Ihat they
are completelydifferentpackages.
In my reviewI tried topick outthemost salient of eachof

Ihe two
programs. l4hiieZipCodedoesoccasionally providea
pick-list whengivenanincomplele orinvalr'd address, thefact
is that PoCo
capitafizes onthis ideabyproviding potential
matches
beforea lul addressisentered.Thisfeaturecanshorten Iheamountoiinformation neededto getIhecorrectaddress,
especially whensomeoneis doing repetitive postal code
searches.
Both PoCo
andZipCodeareexcelent programs,but Ihey
work differentlyandarebest usedin situationsIhatplay to their
respectivestrengths.

Graeme Bennett replies:Itislruethalsome

areasaremoreexpensivelhan theywere.All theGEnie'Basic
servicesandGEMail thatwerefonnerlyfree nowcost $4an
hourin non-prime
time. (GEMail nolongerlimits thenumber
of messa
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small number
ofcustomers were making heavy demands on
Ihe service
demandswhich began to outpaceIhesystem's
inlraslructureand
capacity. Theresult, saysthecompany, wasa
level of performance
that pleased no one. Particularly in lhe

Who will seeprices rise underthenewsystem? Clearly,

anyone
who'
saccustomedtomakingheavyuseolGEnie"Basic
serviceswil havetochangehis or herusageto keep monthly
bills down,
The company
saysthat whenit started workingonthe
price change
it studiedfheusagepatlemsofactive membersto
seewhowould beaflected,andto whatextenl.
lt concludedthat more than85%of GEnieusers would
see aboutthesameor Iowwbills at Iheendofthemonth.
GEnie officials maintain that, underthe formerpricing, a

Re: CEnie Rates

I feelthatImustcorrectafewfactsinyourAugust'93Whats New
item "GE
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place
onJuly 1st, 1993wasmo
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itseffectsthanyourarticle indicates.Althoughyourarticle did
have
thecorrecttiguresin thedecreaseofthehourly connectrate
fromC$8toC$4,it neglectedto me
ntionthefoffowingfacts:
1) Themonthly subscription feebeforetheratecut was
$5.95Cana
dian,andassuchhas nearly doubled, althoughit
nowdoesincludefourhours amonthfreeatthenewhourly rate.
2)Therestill remainsa premiumchargefor high-speed
connections
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3) Mostimportantly,agoodnumberoftheBulletin Boards
of therecreationalRoundTableswere,until theJuly 1streorganization,whatwerecalled"Ba
sic Services."Thismeant thatfor
these
areasthehourly connectchargeof $8did notapply. They
werefree.Unlimited useofBasic Servicesaspartof themonthlysubscriptionwasa majorsellingpoint inGEnie's promotionalliterature.Amongthe"Basic" areaswerediscussionareasfor

earlyeven
ings andonwlkends, GEnie services ere painfully
sluggish, Onseveral occasions, TheComputer Paper witnessedGEnie systemcrashesanda variety ofotherenors. yye
a~pactthatthenewpricing wil helpGEnieimprove Ihequalify
and reliabilityofitsseNfces
CD-ROIIII on an Audio CD Player?
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Pet Ownership,Collectors, Writers, ScienceFiction, Canadian

Issues,
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statethat"bulletin boards...areaff available for$4anhour.
This is halwhat
f GEnie customers havebeen paying." Asyou
can see,
lorthosewhofolloweddiscussionsintheBasic areas,
it is $4an
hourmorethanwehadbeenpayingpreviously.
Asanillustrationof this lastpoint, a userwhospent 10
hours a
weekreadingor replyingto discussionsintheBasic
ServicesBulletin Boards,andusednoother GE
nie services
wouldhavepaid, beforethefeerestructuring, onlytheflat subscriptionfeeof C$5.95 a month. After theso-caffedrate cuts,
he would
nowhavetopayfor36hours of connect time,sothat
his monthlbi
yl wouldincreasetoC$154.95.
Hadourhypothetical userloggedevenmoreconnect time
a month,theincreasein his bill would beevenmorepronounced.Il this is indeedtheeffect of a "ratecut," I would
quake
withfeartoseewhatwouldhappenafterarateincrease.
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bethat your artide wasformulateddirectly fromaGeneralElectricpressrelease,whichwouldexplainwhythenumbersin
yourstory,andtheabovenumbersseemsodiferent. Ifeel, asaformerGE
niesubscriber,thattheeffectsofdroppingBasicServicesare
tooimme
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toanyone
whoisconsideringsubscribingtoGEnie.
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Low-cost
P Accountin So tware
B Y ALA N S A L M O N

Accounting software comes in many varieties expensive high en-d packages all
the waydown to inexpensive, entry le-vel software In .this article, I look at a num
ber of mexpensive, entry lev-el programs
As part of your evaluation of an account-

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ing package, do not overlook the accounting

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Price:
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control entry to modules and specific files.

In addition, the program should check for
an unbalanced entry before postings are
made and provide built-in restrictions on the

Product
Publisher.

deletions of accounts that contain balances.

Price is an important consideration, but

its importance is often overstated. Other
costs such as set-up and training can easily
run to several times the purchase price. Any
initial cost difference will disappear in the
long term if a future conversion to a more
expensive and sophisticated package is
required.
You should also consider the world of
,s

Windows. Windows is an operating environ-

ment that adds graphics to your screen and

most accounting software vendors now offer

Windows versions of their accounting programs. Using Windows offers advantages

and disadvantages.
The major advantage is that routine tasks
(

are handled by clicking on little icons (pictures) with the mouse. This eliminates the

need to learn complex DOS commands. The

screens themselves resemble the task that
you are doing. When you pay a bill you see a
check blank on the screen. When you create
an invoice you fill in the detail on an
invoice on your screen.

The disadvantage to the Windows envi-

ronment is speed. The programs are much

o be considered for this article, the

software had to have a street price of

under $300 and have a Canadian version that handled the Goods and Services
Tax, It also had to be easy to install and use.
When evaluating acCounting software
you need to consider many things, such as

trouble-free installation, ease of use, a good

feature set, adequate documentation, good

vendor support and a regular upgrade policy.

You need to ask a lot of questions and you
need to find a knowledgeable sales person to
answer them and this is often difficult to
manage.
Typical questions include: Is the installation automatic or do you have to use DOS
commands to create directories and sub-

directories? Is on-screen help available? Is

support available by telephone from the vendor at a reasonable cost? Is the manual easy
to understand?

Even more important, is using the program on a daily basis easy? Selecting menus
and functions should be simple, data entry
screens must be intuitive to understand and

use. The various modules should use the

same interface so you only have to learn
one. Error messages should be helpful and

make error correction easy to accomplish.

Basic computerized accounting programs

incjude general ledger, invoicing, accounts
receivable, accounts payable, and inventory.
Additional modules may include payroll,
cash management, budgeting and purchasing. Buying a program with a ton of modules
is not necessarily the best solution as it may
introduce unnecessary complexity.

A key point to evaluate is the report-writing capabilities of the program. It is essential

that you get the management information
you need to run your business. Look carefully at the sample reports in the manual. Also
check to see if you can create custom reports
from within the program. If you cannot,
check to see if there is a separate report
writer available or if you can export the data

to a spreadsheet program.
Make sure you do not get trapped into
having to buy preprinted formsfrom the
vendor. Preprinted form requirements vary
from package to package. Sometimes forms
are only available from the software vendor,
sometimes only from third-party printing
houses while with many of the programs
you can print the forms on plain paper with
a laser printer.

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controls. Clear audit trails for all transactions

must exist. Passwords should be available to

slower in Windows than in DOS. It also

requires some sophisticated hardware. You
really need a 386-based microcomputer with
at least 4 MB of RAM and a 120 MB hard

disk to run Windows programs. If you are

using an older microcomputer the conversion cost can be expensive.
With that i n t r oduction to l o w-end
accounting software let us now take a look at

the more popular programs available in

Canada today.
Access To Platinum
Access to Platinum runs under Windows and
you need a working knowledge of Windows
to use it.
Installation is straightforward and takes

about five minutes. The manual is well-written and easy to follow. Novices will benefit
from sections in the manual that discuss
basic accounting principles and all the Plat-

inum Windows components. This is helpful

because the screens are not as intuitive as I
would like them to be.

You can select an on-screen tutorial by

clicking the tutorial icon. The tutorial is
quite extensive, containing eight lessons. I

worked through them very quickly and

found them clear and easy to use. The comprehensive nature of the tutorial is a real

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strength of the program. One other nice

touch: you can choose whether or not to

load the tutorial lessons when you first

install th'e program. This is a welcome
option because the tutorial lessons can take

up a lot of disk space, particularly since there

are eight of them.
Transactions are entered in screen displays that look like paper forms. A feature .
called "multiple document window" lets you
view multiple forms and reports concurrently on screen. For example, you can view a
customer's credit record while you enter an
invoice for that customer. Another feature
called "zoom window" lets you enter information (customer, vendor, employee, inventory item, client or general ledger account)

on a transaction screen. You can use the

zoom window to look up the desired code or
description on a file, which can then be pasted onto the transaction window.

The general ledger accommodates an

unlimited number of companies, checkbooks, and transactions. Details of financial

transactions may be kept for as many years

as you like. You can enter budget information to produce actual versus budget reports,

and recurrin'g journal entries are easily set

up.
Modifiable, predefined charts of accounts

are provided, and you can also create your

own custom chart of accounts. Unlike most
accounting programs that provide predefined accounts, these charts are not orga-

nized by typical businesses, but by functional criteria such as 8-digit and 1-digit departmental codes and 54igit and 8-digit cost-ofgoods-sold groupings. A sample chart of
accounts is provided, but there is no integrated tutorial in the manual devoted to its

use.
All checks and deposits are controlled by
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inventory, non-inventory, and service items.
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Accounts receivable is fully integrated

with the other modules. You can apply customer payments to specific invoices, and
partial payments of invoices are also permitted, You can generate finance charges for
customers with overdue balances; the charge
is based on a finance percentage set for the
specific customer and on the number of days
the account is past due. You can also customize aging categories for accounts receivable reports.
Purchase vouchers can be allocated to a
particular job in order to generate job cost
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vidual payment or a range of vouchers. You

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report samples and grouping them together

charges are accommodated. You can make

in one place. There is however, a small manual that shows samples of some reports, as
well as some screens. Preprinted forms are
available from Platinum and include both
continuous and laser forms.
One of the most useful advantages of
Access To Platinum is its upgradability to the

some modifications to the standard invoices

and statement formats.
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maintaining accounts receivable. Periods for

sales. Inventory profits are calculated on

either a cost or selling price basis, and the

is a much better method than scattering

weighted average method of inventory cost-

tion chapters, the method used by some of

the other programs reviewed in this article.

ing is used. The program also highlights

inventory items that are ready for reorder
due to low stock levels. This feature can be

producing customer aging reports are speci-

very helpful.

Also, you can export data to spreadsheets

and databases through an export utility pro-

fied by the user.

The open invoice method is also used for
accounts payable (the balance forward
method is not available), and you can cus-

vided with the package; data can also be

tomize aging periods for accounts payable

imported, but it must be in ASCII format.

Password protection is available to control access to the entire system, and so are
separate passwords that limit the use of separate modules. Backup is left entirely up to

balances that are due.

Inventory records are automatically
updated to reflect all item purchases and

Reports are customizable to a certain

degree within the program, but since you
can export report data to spreadsheets, you
can do a lot more customizing with some
extra effort. Preprinted forms can be purchased from most forms suppliers.
A single chapter in the manual explains
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report examples throughout various applicaA job costing module in the package
tracks revenues and costs by specific jobs.
You can use ACCPAC on a network, but only

one workstation at a time can access the data

files. Since the DOS version was available
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ing) users can use their data directly with the

Windows version without re-keying.

You can set up a password to control

you.
There are two particularly strong controls
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transactions to be in balance before they are
recorded in the system. With the other, if
you edit or delete a transaction, the system
automatically generates the necessary reversing or adjusting journal entries. This ensures
that a complete audit trail is maintained.
Access To Platinum is a package with significant strengths and some weaknesses. The
Windows environment makes it easy to use.
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particular needs of the business. An on-line

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tutorial walks you through the operation of

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cash drawer and receipt printer.

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of the financial reports. Thirteen period
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numbers. The system is totally date-sensitive
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or detail. Reporting options include daily

sales, customer, salesperson, inventory item,
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provides a host of different and useful
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Accounting
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counts.

Overall, it would be an excellent choice

for a small business that needs accurate and
timely accounting, particularly in the sales
and inventory area.

DacEasy Accounting

recurring journal entries. The program features automatic reversal of adjusting journal
entries at the close of a period, and lets you

converted back to open purchase orders; this

to the Windows environment and the use of

enables you to track back orders.

a mouse.

keep all detailed transaction information in

the files. You can also print out the data and
purge the files to save space.

take advantage of available discounts, you

can print a payments report that lists all
open invoices by due date and discount date.

not accountants and its organization is very

different from the traditional joumalwriented accounting software programs.

The general ledger can be used alone

without other modules, and this is an excellent way for a novice to start using the sys-

Advance payments are applied to the invoice

created when the merchandise is received.
Payments that are the same each month may
be entered once and automatically generated

When you first start M.Y.O.B. a "command center" shows a logical flow chart of
the functions for each area of the program.
For example, the checkbook flow chart

thereafter.
The program supports multiple inventory

shows the logical steps of writing cheques,

cial ratios? DacEasy does it and also gives

costing methods such as last purchase, average cost, and standard cost. A price adjustment feature automatically generates new

you the power to create monthly budgeting

prices for inventory items on request. These

and budget comparisons with the previous

adjustments can be a flat dollar amount or

can be calculated on a percentage basis. You
can also make book-to-physical inventory
adjustments.
Printing is flexible: print to the printer,

reconciling accounts, making a deposit,

recording cash receipts, and stating cash
flow. Other command centers include general ledger, sales and receivables, purchases
and payables, inventory, card file, and

tem. DacEasy allows multiple companies

that can be consolidated on the financial

DacEasy Accounting is a fully integrated,

multimodule package that combines ease of
use, power, and low cost. It was one of the
first low-cost, entry-level accounting soft-

statements. You can also use this feature to

keep track of the departments and branches

of a single company. Need to calculate finan-

ware programs.
Installation could not be easier and takes
just a few minutes. The manual is well-written and easy to follow. The appendix contains all the system error messages together
with clear explanations. You do not get a
sample company to practice with, but a self-

year.
Invoices can be prepared for inventory,
service, or miscellaneous item transactions.

You can generate recurring invoices without

re-keying, and an unlimited number of sales
tax rates can be calculated. Invoice pricing
can accommodate quantity price breaks for
different types of customers.
New customer accounts can be added on-

paced tutorial that contains sample transactions is available at extra cost.

All modules are fully integrated but can

also be used as stand-alones. The transactionoriented pulldown menus for data entry are
easy to follow, and the number of transac-

the-fly during transaction entry, and finance

To make vendor payments easier and

M.Y.O.B. is designed for users who are

printing checks, mahng cash disbursements,

administration.

A feature called linked accounts allows a

single entry to be used to post multiple

accounts. You can link the accounts receivable account to the sales account for sales

screenor a disk file. A section in the manual

shows samples of all reports and gives
instructions on how to print them. A full
complement of forms is available from
DacEasy and several national form vendors.

entry. Other links are sales tax to sales tax

payable, and customer deposits to a counterbalancing liability account.

.

The manual contains a helpful section

called "Accounting Entries What Happens

Reports can be modified with the built-in

tions the system can handle are limited only

by the capacity of the hardware.
Help screens are available at two levels.
Field-sensitive Help gives information on
any specific field selected, while the Help
index lets you select any topic. The onscreen explanations are easy to follow, and
further assistance is provided by field-sensi-

charges can be automatically generated

report writer. Customized reports of up to 15

When You...". This is followed by a series of

based on terms you establish. Partial pay-

columns can be generated and you can select

data from the 13 accounting periods of the

paragraphs under titles such as "Write

Checks, Make a Deposit," and "Record an
Item Invoice."

tive lookups (e.g., account numbers). When

maintained.

easy to use with the pull-down menus. Both

batch and on-line processing are accommodated, and the software works with a wide
variety of printers.

You can use this module to create purchase orders, receive merchandise, return
merchandise, and print appropriate journals
to record activities. For partially received
orders, the items that were not received are

Reports can be exported to ASCH text or

comma-delimited files that are used by many
spreadsheet programs, such as Lotus 1-2-3.
DacEasy also has built-in graphics, and is
able to produce bar, 3-D bar, 3-D pie. line,

ments from customers are not a problem,

and when customer checks are applied to
accounts, all open invoices for a given customer are displayed on the screen. Flexible
account aging is available on reports, and

customer back-order information can be

the necessary information is obtained, it can

be pasted into any data entry screen.

DacEasy offers a modifiable, predefined
chart of accounts. Journal entry is flexibie,
and you can automatically enter and modify

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stacked bar, and other charts. To run

last recorded, and due date.

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M.Y.O.B. handles both item and service

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also like its easy-to-follow manual.

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automatically compared with both on-hand
quantities and quantities due to customers;

lates the user from most accounting jargon.

There is extensive hand holding with con-

Terms such as owed and paid replace the

accounting phrases debit and credit on the

you can also set the reorder quantities to

text-sensitive help, a wellwrganized manual

your own specifications. As with the purchasing/accounts payable function, the buying unit of measure can differ from that
used in sales, and back-order information
can be maintained. You can also produce
inventory count sheets for taking physical
inventory.

and QuickTrainer, a comprehensive on-line

tutorial that literally pops up how-to-do-it
information whenever the keyboard sits idle
for too long. You can adjust QuickTrainer's
response time or turn it off altogether for
the more experienced user.
QuickBooks communicates to the user in
plain English such as, "You have checks to
print, press 7.1." There are no screen names
like "Accounts Receivable Transaction
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message will say "Write/Print Invoices."

entry screen; this makes the program

remarkably easy to use.

A series of preset financial reports comes

with the package; some have a great deal of
customizable criteria, some do not. Invoices,
statements, checks, purchase orders, and
mailing labels are customizable, Standard

pre-printed forms are available for purchase

from the vendor.

If you are familiar with the Quicken program, then QuickBooks will seem like an old
friend, There is the same clear and simple
interface with pop-down menus accessible
from most screens. The forms approach
which Quicken started is raised to a new lev-

from three predesigned invoices for product,

professionalor service-related businesses.
These can be customized by going back to
the main menu to make the changes. You
have the ability to add text and calculated

fields for things such as taxes and shipping

charges. You can also take and store notes
on-the-fly, which is a nice feature when you
need to remember something about a customer's order.

el with QuickBooks. The invoice entry

In the accounts payable module, you can

screen looks exactly like the invoice it

either issue checks immediately or enter

prints. And, of course, the bill-paying menu

looks like a check on the screen.
In the invoicing module, you can choose

vouchers to be paid on a future date. The

entry screen looks like a checkbook register

You have a choice of sending reports to

the printer, screen, or disk. Those sent to
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them to be exported to many spreadsheets,
databases, or word processors.
A feature called card file creates a series of
electronic cards containing information on
any desired entity, such as customers, vendors, employees or personal contacts. These
cards are used to produce reports like contact

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logs, mailing labels, personalized letters, or

sales histories by customer or salesperson.
M.Y.O.B. provides a business calendar that is
used to set up and control date reminders. If
you have a modem on your computer, you
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dial telephone numbers.
When you set up M.Y.O.B., open
account amounts must be in balance before

you can use the program. You can set up

passwords to control access to data files.

Backup of data files is handled by the program but it is not automatic, the user has to
initiate the process.

As one of the first accounting packages

available for the Windows environment,

M.Y.O.B. has an entirely different look and

feel from most standard PC-based accounting software. While this novel approach
may put of f t h ose tied to t r a di t i onal
accounting, it works very well with the
novice small-business user it is intended for,
blending useful features with an easy-to-use
interface.
M.Y.O.B. is a well-designed program that
is particularly useful for the small-business
person with limited accounting experience.

QulchBooks
QuickBooks is a true breakthrough in ease of
use. While it doesn't make accounting fun
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an easy and painless way for them to keep
the books in order.

The program is a complete small-business accounting program that includes

invoicing, accounts receivable, collections,
accounts payable, job costing, cash forecasts,
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Installation was extremely easy and took
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daunting process of setting up the books

It's an option that allows you to print on both sides of any

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and works the same way. Type in the first

few letters of a payee's name and the program will fill in the rest if the information is
already in your database, If it is not, you
automatically move to the screen that lets
you add a vendor. These lookup screens are
available within each module and include

lists for customers, vendors, employees, payments, terms and shipping options. QuickBooks will even remind you that you have
checks due to be paid when you turn on
your computer. A nice touch.
One of the nicest features of QuickBooks

Dynacom AccounthgGold
Dynacom Accounting Gold is a feature rich, low
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inventory, job costing and payroll. Installation is
straightforward and takes about 5 minutes. The
manual is well written and easy to follow.

The general ledger accommodates an

unlimited number of transactions. A unique

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accounting data for your general ledger accounts.
There is a full set of general ledger reports
including trial balance, balance sheet and income
statement. The user can define the headings to
customize the presentation of the data.

ONTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER OCTOBER '93 21

An inquhy screen lets you quickly look up modules. It can track an unlimited number of
data and a full set of reports is provided including jobs and costs can be accumulated by dollars or

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The accounts payable module handles an
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The inventory can handle an unlimited
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standard or average costing method.
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hours.

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Dynacom Accounting Gold is a programwith
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is the memorization of recurring transactions. All regular invoices and payments can
be entered once, memorized by the program,
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from other vendors allow the connection of

choose genuine Adobe PostScript. Now that

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 2.0, ~

World Atlas, Chessmaster 2000

however. It lacks a SCSI port (some printers

the 4M's LocalTalk port.

As always, we recommend that you

486sx 25mhz
2400 Baud Modem, Mouse
129mb Disk, 4mb Ram 3,5' Disk Drive
Mouse
LOCAL BUS VIDEO
14' SVGA Monitor
3 Expansion Slots, 3 Bays
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vices.)

QMS and other manufacturers do. Some

LeseAVrlters produce 600 dpi

Apple's own LaserWriter series of printers
have long been popular with Mac owners
who appreciate Apple's easy-to-understand
manuals and software installation proce-

printers, such as the IBM/Lexmark LaserPrinter 6P and 10P models, support automatic emulation switching through software

installed on the user's PC, which I feel is not

as effective a solution as those that accom-

plish this "in hardware."

dures, The latest generation of LaserWriters
brings 600-dpi quality, enhanced gray scales Choices Abound for Personal Lasers
and PostScript Level 2 to the Apple lineup.
For personal use, the most popular laserApple's PhotoGrade technology allows printer brands are HP, Brother, NEC, OKI,
the LaserWriter Pro 600 and 630 to produce Roland/Panasonic and Epson. Several mod91 shades of gray. (Earlier Ilf and Ilg Laser- els are priced sharply under $1,000. Virtually
Writer models produced about 65 shades), all laser printers claim to be "HewlettUnfortunately, the printers can only use Packard LaserJet compatible," although that
PhotoGrade while running in 300 dpi mode. term is less significant now that the newest
Also, you may find that Photograde output HP models include resolution enhancement
reproduces poorly when photocopied. technology (RKT) and a new printer control
Despite PR statements we' ve read that imply
language (PCL) known as Level 5. Most of
that Photograde produces the output equiva- the under-$1,000 printers do not offer PCL 5
lent of 800 dpi, we find PhotoGrade print- or RET. HP is in a strong position at the low
outs to be inferior to those of the LaserJet end of the market. (See myarticle in the July
4M, which offers HP's own resolution '93 issue for more details.)
enhancement technology (RET) and
As I reported in that issue, the HP Laserenhanced grayscales.
Jet 4L ($949) is an excellent choice for users
Originally released with 4MB, the Laserwho are looking for alow-cost laserprinter
Writer Pro 600 now comes with 8MB stan-

with superb print quality. Although the 4L

dard, as well as Adobe PS Level 2 and HP

PCL Level 4+. The Canon EX engine is pow-

lacks PostScript (or even the option to add

ered by a 25MHz 68030 (the unit is not

RISC-based). Emulation switching is not

it), a model (dubbed the 4ML) with PostScript is available for several hundred dollars

more. Although HP is tight-lipped on the

automatic with this model.

The only difference between Apple's

LaserWriter Pro 600 and its big brother, the
LaserWriter 630, is that the latter offers Ethernet, an external SCSI port as standard

subject of unannounced products, sources

suggest that HP will boost the speed of its

LaserJet 4 and 4M printers before the end of

the year and introduce another new lowercost PostScript model dubbed the 4MP.
The street price of the Epson ActionLaser
II is around $940. Like the under-$800 OkiLaser 400, the ActionLaser II does not support resolution enhancement or PCL level 5.

equipment.

way the HP Series 4 models and competing

38Mx40/486sx25

Continued onpage30

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models from Brother, LaserMaster, NewGen,

The LaserWriter 600 and 630 feature

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III
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Mini Tower, 101Enhanced Keyboard

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Continued from page 26

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mode but there is not a lot of difference
between the two of them. Both provide

often-used features by pressing a Graphic

like, re-size it, add a background gradient

fill, and get the text to wrap or contour itself
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This version has a lot of the same features found in the most recent WordPerfect

for Windows release. This includes a QuickFinder utility, which creates key-word index-

es of your WordPerfect files. Once you have

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you will get a listing of all the files that contain both "Aunt" and "Jane". Unlike the current Windows version of WordPerfect, you

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ONTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER OCTOBER '93 29

can access this feature from within the program, while writing a file.
WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS also includes
the Grammatik utility first introduced in
WordPerfect's Windows-release earlier this
year, which is handy for checking the grammar and general readability of your text.
With the appropriate hardware, users are
now able to fax documents directly from the
program, which will be a relief to people
who currently have to deal with DOS-based
fax programs which often do not provide
the ability to transmit fonts or pictures accurately (or at all).
Current users of WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS
will enjoy several major improvements over

their existing package. In the old release you

were limited to editing only two documents
at once. With this version you can now edit
up to nine documents at a time which can
either be displayed in separate windows or
in a cascade fashion.
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS users will also
be pleased to find that they do not have to
abandon their function-key skills, and can
opt for the already-familiar function-key layout to use the program. People migrating
from other word processors will probably
prefer the Common User Access (CUA) keyboard layout, which conforms to the standard function-key sequences seen in other

word-processing software.
There's also a spreadsheet feature thrown
in, good enough to do some simple functions. Seasoned users will be relieved to
leam that WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS finally
includes an easy-to-use column-making util-

ity, a decent Change Font utility (that

includes many scalable font types), and con-

verting documents to or from a WordPerfect

format no longer means you have to exit
WordPerfect and run a separate conversion

program.
However, the macro facility has been
completely redone in this version, which
means you have to exit WordPerfect to run a
separate macro convert utility, provided
with WordPerfect 6.0, to convert your
favorite old macros to the new format.
WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS also saves files in a
new format which cannot be read by previous DOS or Windows versions of WordPerfect, but all this means is that you have to
remember to save your files in the WordPerfect 5.1 file format instead of its native 6.0
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user, definitely consider getting an upgrade,
as long as your machine meets the recommended system requirements. If you' ve got
an older PC, this single program may help
prolong its useful life, though you may find
performance sluggish when using a lot of
graphic images or different fonts.

However, the ActionLaser II does have an

option for adding Adobe PostScript, which

is important if you plan on creating highquality graphics or DTP layouts. Of course,
these users would probably not choose a
300-dpi unit in the first place....
Business Demands Higher
Performance
For business use, the question of which
printer to buy becomes more complex. Net-

If you' ve got WP S.X for Windows, wait

for the upgrade to WordPerfect for Windows 6.0, which will incorporate many of
the same functions seen here, and is expect-

work compatibility, duty cycle and speed are

more critical factors here than in the home.

ed to be released later this year.

If you are looking for Windows functionally but don't like Windows itself then
this is the program for you. While in graphics mode this program is no speed-demon, it
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time, the SLIM hadn't started shipping in

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lot higher.

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Long known for their dot matrix printers
and notebook computers, Citizen entry in
the laser printer market might well be worth
watching.
Citizen's ProLaser 6000 is reported to be
a powerful laser printer with advanced print-

with DataProducts' LZR 1555 and 1560

receiving honorable mention.

implementation of a one-piece cartridge

most will require a new drum after several

petitive with other brands. The ProLaser

thousand pages.
Only Kyocera's EcoSys printer claims to
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printer you choose is specifically mentioned

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installed. If a remote fax machine sends a

Other Considerations
Be sure to consider supplies and maintenance when choosing a printer. Despite
what manufacturers would like us to believe,
laser printers require regular service, and

Allan Gillies of Vancouver, B.C.-based

Printers Plus, says that the 1560 (15 ppm)
sold well until Compaq came out with the
PageMarq series of printers (with the same
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system demands Windows requires to operate. This is a good, solid DOS programprobably one of the last to be made before
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PFS:WindowWorks might be an
option.
The package includes a word processor, a
spreadsheet, a database,a chart maker, label maker,addressbook orcommunicationspackage.A
cut-down version of Delrina's WinFax is also

FIrnkIoax Tie Write,$1999($1499direa);EasyWorking

for Windows,
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he low-cost word processing market has

become problematic for vendors since the
arrival of Windows 3.0. The reason is simple: Windows comeswith a basic word processor
in the form of Windows Write, and even a basic

text-processorcalled Windows Notepad.

Despite this a number of lower-mst word processing products have finally started to emergefor
Windows userssothat they have an alternative to
Write and Notepad.Onecompany to specialize in
this is SpinnakerSoftware, who recently launched
a whole raft of lowest applications for both DOS
and Window.

(41$) 481-73$$
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A Write 3.0 for Windows is supposed to
be conservative on both disk spaceand memory,
as well as being low in cost. Symantec says it
investigated the features usersusethe most and
included them in the product. Those features

calls a "writing and resume" product lt includes

all the basic WP features of Microsoft Write,

Microsoft Word and WordPerfect.

Without the excess features Symantec calls

offers pre-formatted templates, abuilt-in drawing

module, a spell checker, thesaurus, addressbook

fat, the product takes up only 1.7 MB of disk

and a label maker. Since Windows provides it

space for a minimum installation, and 4 MB for a

full installation,

with TrueType font support and it can be used

with all standard Windows-compatible printers,
the package is areasonable "cheapie" alternative.

Symantec says this 1.7 MB of disk space

required for QSTA
Write comparesfavorably to the
maximum of 15 MB needed for Microsoft Word

if you want a word processor to work along-

for Windows or Ami Pro for Windows, and the 12

MB needed for WordPedect for Windows.

The totally integrated software

package with an open door policy
that allows dynamic linking
between Database, Word Processing,
Spreadsheet, Graphics and
Communications applications.

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include a spelling checker, a thesaurus, the ability

to insert graphics, text, and tables, direct mailmerge capability with popular databaseformats,
communications for fax and electronic mail
capability, and transparent file conversions from

side other applications, then Spinnaker's

See Ability Plus 2 at your local computer store or phone

ules within PFS:WindowWorks look and operate

quite professionally.
Contrary to appearances,Spinnaker is not the
only company in this low~oat WP market. Utility applications specialist Symantec also offers
products in this category, including its newQST
A

based packageincludes all the basic w.p. features

and needsonly 384K of RAM.
Spinnaker also offers an Easy Working for
Windows word processor, which the company

The cheapest of these is The Write. This DOS-

For COMPUTER SOLUTIONS ~

induded to allow you to fax directly from within

the package. Despite the low cost, all the mod-

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ONTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTERPAPER OCTOBER '93 4 1

DE/Cartes Groupware Document Management System

B Y GRA E M E BENNETT
Security

Product:DE/Cartesdocument managementsystem
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"missing documents," it can also be instructed on

how to run your office software. After a onceanly

Prfce:US$150(singleuser); US$49750(net-

simple set-up, just double dicking on a document

name runs the appropriate word processor,

work up
tofivesystems), Addltlonalnetworkedsystems US$99each.

whatever and loads the selected

revision of your chosen docu-

MS-DDS30orlater,DR
-DOSB,PCor
100'Lcompatible
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Windows
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ment into it. Most DK/Cartes

operations are carried by a

mouse click on a graphic

Windows users radically improve the filing and availability of all the documents on their
office network

In any office, computer documents aregenerated by many different software programs, and
possibly by many people, making it difficult to

of your workgroup or workgroups is merely a

386DXPO Texas I.486SLC33

w.128KB cache
w.64B cache

DE/Carielsaalsoaelable for avarietyof Unixworkstagonsrunning

Motif.
E/Cartes is a groupware document man-

agement system that promises to help

Com uters

organized as a tree of folders, which is presented

diagrammatically in the main DE/Cartesdisplay.
DE/Cartes works throughout using simple,
easy-to-understand graphical buttons which are
representations of everyday office equipment
such as filing cabinets and folders. The graphical
interface allows the user to view, edit, copy, move

or delete folders or documents. When documents

are revised, DE/Cartes makes it easy to go back to
a previous revision.
A limitation of DOS-based PCs is their inability to store documents with a descriptive and

meaningful name. This is a major contributor to

the delays in retrieving documents using normal
PC software open resulting in several being
looked at before finding the right one.
With DE/Cartes, you can give documents

more meaningful names of up to 64 characters.

This makes it easier to recognize a document and

so minimizes the tedious process of opening files

to examine their contents.

Once a document has been located,

DE/Cartes provides a viewer that will enable you

to see its contents without running the applica-

P r i nters

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MOTHERBOARDS
(AMI BIOS)

486DX2M EISA+ ISA+ LBUS, 256KB

FUTURE DOIWAIN SCSI 16blt...............18$

HARD DRIVES
WESTERN DIGITAL

cache.................................................1086 21 2MB WDAC2200........................

486DX2M, 258KB cache, LBUS........845
486DX40, 255KB cache, LBUS..........775
486DX2JIO, 256KB cache, LBUS........745
486DX43, 286KB cache, LBUS..........650
486DLC240 IBM 64KB cache..............545
486DLC43 Texas Inst $4KB cache.....19$

256MB WDAC2250........................
340MB WDAC2340........................

MONITORS

TTX SVGA 0.28.....,......,......................,..335

TTX SVGA n.i.0.28................................385
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285 DC415N SVGA Data Train...................325
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435

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CA Image Win.....,..................................226
CA Present VNn.....................................160
CASuperProiect Win............................588
CA Textor Win.........................................78
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FOR CD SELECTION ........................CALL

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388DX40, 128KB cache........................t68 170MB ISmsr32KBcache)...... ..............275 HP IIP+................................................
...............355 HP IIIP+................................................1130
FAX 8 MODEM
386SX33.................................................128 245MB ISms/266KBcache)...
Cooling fan for 485.................................25 428MB ISmsr256KBcache).... ....,.........678 HP 4.....................................................1780 ZOLTRIX 8600FAX SIR S 24OO MODEM
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..............235
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tion. Then if the document requires editing,

DE/Cartes automatically finds which application

program is needed for any particular type of document and runs it. It's as simple as that.

Every cabinet, folder and document filed by

DE/Cartes can have a 64 character descriptive

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attached. Every document can consist of up to 99

revisions, all automatically stored by DE/Cartes.
DE/Cartes not only solves the mysteries of

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Notebooks and 486, 386, Do t -matnx pnnters, quiet Wide selection of programs
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same time making them readily accessible to oth-

Within each DE/Cartes cabinet, documents are

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helps to manage and keep track of all types of

documents, including word processor files,
spreadsheets, databases,CAD drawings, scanned
images, and other related documents.
In most offices, documents are filed in an
orderly manner and the retrieval of papers is arelatively painless, if long winded process.DE/Cartes
can organize your computer-based files in a simi-

filing are a thing of the past (replaced, some

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keep the documents well organized. DE/Cartes

er members of a workgroup. And because

DE/Cartes is a computer-based filing system, the
long and frustrating waits associated with manual

Cealclualoh

Sharing work between the various members

icon button.

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folders used bythe group.

DK/Cartes groupware is its ability to control

access to cabinets and folders timough a security
system. Security can be controlled to four user

Overall, DE/Cartes is asimple to use but powerful

piece of software to work with. It provides the
defined levels. Access rights can be granted to
speed and effidency you would expect from a
users and groups of users so the configuration computer based filing system combined with the
required for your own combination of employees simplidty and ease of use of the conventional
office filing cabinet.
and workgroupscan easily beachieved.

spreadsheet, DTP application or

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matter of dropping the document into one of the

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Computer-related eyestrain is one of the
chief causes of headaches among office workers. Studies have shown that computer users
tend to blink less while intently scrutinizing
their work, which exacerbates the problem.
Therefore, the first decision most would-

BY 6RAEME

be computer users should consider is where

BENNEZT

Ergonomics making our workplace "human-friendly" is an aspect of computer purchase,use

and education that is seldomgiven as muchdueas, say, which modelof CPUto buy, or which software to get.But, comparatively speaking, ergonomics is much more important, and potentially
much more
expensivetoignore.

their new computer will reside. If you place a

desk facing a bright window, you may find

that the screen is dim and hard to read. In

this case, curtains or blinds should be considered.

Conversely, if the screen reflects the light

from a window or other light source, you
may find the glare a strain on the eyes. This
can be partially alleviated by using a glareredudng filter over the screen. The best ones

I have seen are from OCLI and have an antireflective optical coating. The company's
high-end models also have a clear, conductive coating that the company claims blocks
99.99% of the ELF/VLF (extremely low fre-

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quency/very low frequency) E-fleld radiation

from 30 Hz to 30 KHz. OCLI maintains its

filters cut up to 99% of glass glare.

The only kind of glare filters I do not recommend are the ones consisting of a thin

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wire mesh. These must be installed underneath the bezel of the display and are easy to
damage and/or dirty with pens, pencils, fin-

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ergonomic design. Thesecompanies apparent-

Microsoft'e ergonomically
Ergo correct workspace
Mouse can reduce the
risk.
Remember ,
t oo, t h a t a n y
repetitive action
can lead to these
sort of in j u ries.
Watch the hands
of the person at the checkout at your local
supermarket as she or he types in the totals
for produce or other unlabeled goods. This
bent-wrist posture, experts say, is one of the
worst RSI threats.

ly noticed what their users have known for

years: an uncomfortable mouse tires the hand,
or worse, leads to muscle strain.
Another "ergonomouse" specialist is Log-

The ubiquitous computer mouse has been

improved in many ways since its invention by

often, too. The first thing to break on a

mouse is usually a wire inside its cord typically, it breaks right where it connects to the

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itech, The company has a wide variety of PC

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mice and trackballs, including at least one

mouse especially designed for left-handed

users. Some users complain that Logitech's
mice are too light they seem to move too

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easily. You may also find that designs with

abrupt edges tend to be uncomfortable.
Avoid cheap mice. They usually don' t
"track" well, due to poor-quality compo-

We carry a over 50 brands of PC and Mac software,

dlskdrlves, soundcards and other accessories.

nents. Of course, they break down more

Doug Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute in 1963. Microsoft's first model, released

Hundreds of books, all 20'If off.

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"body" of the mouse and can be fixed with a

screwdriver and a pair of scissors. However,
beware of cordless mice unless you don' t
mind their voracious appetite for batteries.
If possible, you should try a mouse out
for a while before buying, or purchase from a

in 1983, was an ungainly beast; a subsequent

model released in 1987 was dubbed the "Dove

bar" mouse for its shape. This year, Microsoft

again updated its mouse. The new model is
shaped something like a lima bean and is surprisingly comfortable for both right- and lefthanded users something the other handspecific PC mice from Colani, Logitech, and
several other suppliers are not.
Graphic designers, desktop publishers
and other heavy mouse users were among the
first to discover that those countless clicks of
the mouse could lead to RSI. In response,
Apple has revamped its mouse several times,

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dirty rollers. Just turn the mouse upside
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removing the ball, you' ll see either metal or

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1284itpaih from csehto dynamic ram. Moeiof the'Peniiumupgradable'486computereon the market

with at least three major design revisions. The

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plastic rollers, probably with loads of gunk

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ble the thing, and you' re back in business. A

incorrect by releasing the Apple Desktop Bus

Mouse II, which has a more comfortable
design and a larger button than previous

mousepad can help reduce gunk buildup.

More on these later.

The new highperformsncs Pentfumchip from Intelie Indeed muchfaster than the 488series
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ball (at least in the literal sense) is the Honeywell Mouse. This unit has an innovative
design with two opto-mechanical "feet" that

models. Alternatives to the Apple mouse are

available from several suppliers.
Commodore, too, recently put its old Amiga mouse out to pasture in favor of a more

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Ergonomics is important, yet inadequately addressed in many homes and offices. The
cumulative loss of productivity, unfortunately, tends to show up after the damage is
already done.
Unfortunately, repetitive strain injuries
are often difficult to claim compensation for.
As I write this, The Computer Paperhas heard

the support of the rigid type, but I know

denying this. Officially, WCB claims that this

people who like the soft touch, too.

Wrist supports aren't just for keyboards,

kind of injury is covered despite what

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er is registered with the WCB, you can call

the assessments department of the WCB (in

Remember to take plenty of stretch

breaks; relax your fingers, arms, legs and eyes
often, keep your legs, feet and arms in a cor-

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does not an ergostation make. In the accom- might also ask to be put on the mailing list
panying photo, for example, the keyboard for more info.
appears to be too high relative to the seating
And don't be shy about asking your
employer to upgrade your workstation with
position. Note also the copy stand to the left
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from the display screen, but it is in front of a cheaper than the alternative.

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According to Richard Woloshen, WCB's

manager of public affairs, all RSI claims are

It's no wonder IBM Canada chose to show-

ergonomic workstations and chairs I' ve seen.

It's PW series of personal workstations are
intelligently designed and relatively inexpensive, and its chairs are heaven to sit in.

Or $59.47/month

RSI claims, we received a letter emphatically

sation. Of course, your employer must be registered with WCB and be paying premiums.
Woloshen says that the board is currently
reviewing the issue of ergonomics with the
aim of establishing a more firm policy.
If you are not sure whether your employ-

Forminco also makes some of the best

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known ergo mousepad comes from Quebec-

to enough claimants who have been tumed

down to see a pattern emerging. When The

ous brands some are rigid metal and/or

plastic, while others are foam rubber. I prefer

either. The company that manufactures the

Wrist Doktor, a keyboard wrist rest, recently
came out with a mouse pad with a built-in
wrist rest called Mouse Doktor. Another well-

appealing a process that can be both timeconsuming and expensive. Not surprisingly,
WCB officials deny that the organization is
reluctant to pay RSI claims, but we' ve spoken

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W ord proces
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The ComputerPaper.What lsyour

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Why did you start RIP?
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is "R Y S A". You can define an icon with the

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world. Things might not change overnigh,

but they are certainly going to change.

screen without having to download them

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f or some sort o f

graphical user interface for our boards.

We'd come across
many solutions, but

they all fell short in one way or another, In

short, we hearne frustrated.
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history and philosophy of the design
concept ofRIP and why a private
company can solve such an obvious
problem while larger organizations
(ANSI, etc.) cannot?

make it easier and more fun to use.

We also have a philosophy of soliciting
feedback from the telecommunications community. We work closely with the host
developers and terminal developers to find
out what their needs are, and to assist them
in their implementations. We don't want to
live in a vacuum.

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a IAIIndows/Iwac/Amlga/other terminal?
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on an Amiga terminal and an Atari terminal.

They havenot made any announcements

yet, so I can't tell you any more than that. A

JB: Development on RIPscrip was started

back in the middle of 1991. The first public
showing was at ONE BBSCON in August
1992. The first release of RIPterm and RIPaint

Mac terminal is in progress, but no release

date has been set. There is the possibility of a

came in late 1992. Immediately many people

tem) but nothing definite there.

were interested in using it because it was

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knows, the key to learning a language is frequent and varied exposures.

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MicroBiz AnnouncesNew
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3Com Canada has announced plans for

introducing a family of interoperable products to scale Ethernet from 10 to 100Mbps
while retaining the current IEEE 802.3
CSMA/CD Media Access Controller. 3Com's

10/100 Mbps Ethernet family of products

will allow customers to easily migrate their
current installations up in performance without changing their existing cabling, network
management or network topologies.
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and is designed to fit the needs of any business owner in any retail environment.
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help users reduce stress, prevent fatigue,

improve blood circulation and therefore
increase productivity.

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Prices
IBM Canada has repriced many of its personal computers, lowering prices across all four
of its major brands. This action comes just as
computer retailers head into a busy sales
period for both corporate customers and
consumers in the autumn buying season.
The fall in prices will be more than 20 per
, cent on some models. The successful 6384-M50
ValuePoint model, with a 486DX-33MHz
processor, 8MB of RAM, 212MB hard disk and
IBM's new OS/2 2.1 operating system will be
$1,849, 21 per cent lower than the earlier price.
Other cuts come in the PS/2 line. Selected
PS/2 servers have been reduced 15 per cent,
while PS/2 desktop systems have seen reductions up to 20 per cent.
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professionals and focuses on the body parts
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receipts, receive and track inventory and

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scheduling
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line exercise

announced a new state-of-the-art point of

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So are for Power8ooks
Apple Canada has announced Power- Books to a variety of VGA and SVGAdisplays.
Bookrai File Assistant software created specif-

As further opportunities to support Power,, Book customers with the Assistant line

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bring new packages to market.

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exchange information created in popular software packages, between PowerBooks and coputers running DOS; to print t o m an y
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the same file on the desktop and updates it to
in c l ude the changes the user made since last
w o r king on the desktop version.

Chip Makers' Resin Supply Thin

TOKYO (NB} Sumitomo Chemical's resin
plant explosion in July has led to a major shortage of resin supplies to worldwide chip makers.
Hitachi and Toshiba may run out of stock
if a supply isn't found. Most of the chip makers
had a supply of about two month's worth of
resin. Some, including Toshiba, are seeking

replacement substancesfor resin.

Sumitomo Chemical's plant made 60 percent of world's highguality epoxy resin, a sub-

stance in use in about 80 percent of the packages of computer chips.

Sumitomo Chemical hoped to get about
half of its supply from US-basedDow Chemical.
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1991, and a Dow spokesmansaysstart-up costs

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SymantecBuysFifth Generation
CUPERTINO, CA (NB) Symantec is buying again. This time it's Fifth Generation
Systems, probably best known for its PC
backup software product Fastback. This
makes the tenth company in four years.
The Peter Norton Group was the first

company Symantecbought beginning in

1990. Since then Symantec acquired some of
the best known companies, These include:
Dynamic Microprocessor Assodates, maker
of PC Anywhere; Zortech, developer of C++;
IA,'onard D
Company, maker of
Great Works; Multiscope; the Whitewater

evelopm
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Grou; and Certus, maker of tools for software developers.

The tenth company acquired was an
exclusive, independent distributor of
Syrnantec products in Europe, Syrnantec UK.
Estimated cost of the acquisition is about

US$43 million at current market prices. The

acquisition will be accounted for as a pooling of interests as Symantec will issue
approximately 2.8 million shares of its common stock for the current outstanding

shares of Fifth Generation"s stock

S ymantee, tel 408~ 8 8 86

W P For
Windows 6.0 Due Before Year-and
OREM, UT (NB) WordPerfect Corporation a ppearance of that upgrade on the shelf is
has announced plans to ship release 6.0 of getting longer and longer.
its WordPerfect for Windows before the end
WP C o rp says the suggested retail price
of the year, putting perennial competitors o f release 6.0 will be US$495. Present users
WordPerfect and Microsoft neck-and-neck can upgrade for $125, while users of competfor the "who can get our word processing i t i v e products can change for $149 if their
product out the door first" award.
g;eg~~~, ongrnal product cost at least $395.

Both companies are now touting the new,:'

,: j You will need at least a 386-based
features of their respective programs. It isn' t:,,::...;:...,,. '- PC, a minimum of 4MB of memolikely to be vaporware of the days of yore,
ry, and Windows.
but it seems that the period between features
announcements of major upgrades and the WordPerfsct Corporation, 8NN51-5151)

Introducing IBM DATABASE 2 OS/2'

(DB2/2-)f mIBMP g m~ agsyst ~ t he

birthplace of relational database technology.
DB2/2 iadudes aa ind~ - st r ength DB

apphcations rertuiring
online access.
You can access data

.,

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Seanix Technology's popular ASI 9000 PC

will now be shipped in a newly designed,
dual-purpose case.
Developed by Seanix President Paul
Girard, the new case can serve as either a
desktop or a minitower case. Seanix is currently seeking a patent on the design,
which the
company
h as di s played at
v ari o u s
trade shows
across Canada during
the last few
months.

It's available now ready to perform on your desktop. A new

function-rich, 32-bit relational
database you can reaHy trust
with your growing dient/server
network, your mission-critical
data and your busiaess.

DOS Wmd~ m OS/2

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Client/Server
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engine that supports tranmction management,

concurrency control, security, integrity, and
recovery functions. Desigaed to exploit the
power and open architecture of OS/2, it also
supports industry-standard SQL for developing
portable applicatioas. And it runs your DOS,

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE
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databasesas ifthey w ere on your desktop, too.
This versatility can play a signi6cant role in
an Information Warehouse solution
for your business.
We've developed an

directly from DB2/2 on

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lished in M '
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research, testing and assembly at its head
officein Richmond, B.C.
Seanix Technology (604) 27&8692

IBM Ucenses
Sun Select's
WABI
Technology
NB SunSelect, a unit of Sun Microsystems
Inc., has signed an agreement with IBM that
will result in ISM's RISC System/6000 workstations running software written for

exciting demo diskette to show

you just how well new DB2/2
performs right on your desktop. CaH us today
foryour free demo, or to order DB2/2:

1 800 342-6672; or fax: I 800 445-2426.

In Canada, caH 1 800 465-7999,ext 850.
An upgrade from OS/2 Extended Edition
or Extended Services is also available.

Microsoft Corp.'s Windows user interface.

The two companies have signed a deal
that gives IBM the right to use WABI, SunSelect's software that lets Windows applica-

tions run on Unix machines, on the 15/6000

line. In exchange, SunSelect is to be allowed
to use certain IBM technology to enhance
WABI further.

SunSelect announced WASI earlier this

year. Initially the name was described as an
acronym for Windows Application Binary
Interface, but lately the company has stopped
spelling it out, reportedly because Microsoft
objeted to the use of the word Windows.
In a press release, ISM said it would provide further details on WABI availability for

'Manufacturer'a suggested NrtaII prlee Is 8538

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seroseft coqeethn; o1998 IBM
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the RS/6000 Bne later this year.

WABI's ability to run Windows applications on the RS/6000 will be added to a previously announced plan to support software
written for the Apple Madntosh. The result,
IBM said, will be the ability to run Unix,
Windows, and Madntosh app)ications sideby-side on the one RS/6000 screen.

ONTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER OCTOBER '93 57

Software Dev't '93

- Objects Hot, Says IBM offers stand-alone monitors,

announces Pentium-based server
IBM Director
BOSTON (NB) In the ever fluctuating

computer industry, where can the best career

opportunities be found? According to John
Soyring, director of software development
for IBM, object technology and distributed
client/server computing hold two of the

keys.

MARKHAM, ON (NB) IBM Canada Ltd. of

Markham, like its U.S. parent, has begun to
sell monitors that will work with personal

computers from other manufacturers.

The IBM 14V, 14P, 14PT, 15V, 15P, and
15PT color monitors, and the 21M monochrome monitor, were made available in

Canada in August. Suggested retail prices

range from C$650 to C$2,100.
IBM Canada said it had about a 10.9-percent share of the Canadian monitor market
in 1992, and it expects the market to grow at
11.4 per cent through 1997.
IBM Canada also joined its parent com-

pany in announcing the PS/2 Server 95 560,

the company's first piece of hardware based
on Intel Corp.'s Pentium processor. The Serv-

er 95 560 was to be available for ordering in

Canada in September, the company said.

In a presentation at Software Development '93, held in Boston, Soyring asked

developers in the room for a show of hands
as to how many were currently working in
OT-oriented development. After seeing that
many of them hadn't yet hopped aboard the

OT bandwagon, he advised audience members to start getting ready now for the industry changes to come.
A recently released IDC study revealed
that 56 per cent of participating companies

were "exploiting or expecting to exploit OT,"

along with a strong positive relationship
between use of OT and client/server technology, he said. Organizations are interested in
these technologies as methods of downsizing
applications to the desktop, he explained.
Vendors are supporting this movement

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by developing new hardware, user interfaces,

operating systems, and standards, Soyring
added. Computer professionals can assure
themselves of future employment by starting
to gain expertise in OT and client/server
technology now, he advised.
New hardware architectures such as Pentium and Power PC are already extending the
capabilities of PCs for use in distributed computing, he indicated. Other hardware technologies, such as digital signal processing
(DSP) chips and asynchronous transport
mode (ATM) network switching, are furthering the trend.
"We as an industry have not yet provided
the tools for managing distributed computing," he contended. But this current industry
"weakness" presents great opportunities to
computer professionals who can fill the gap.
At the same time, deployment of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) is becoming more
and more widespread. Yet many organizations report that, so far at least, GUIs are
actually bringing a loss of productivity. "The
GUIs are pretty, not but very productive,"

Soyring noted. Similarly, computer professionals can convert this weakness to an

opportunity, he said.
Vendors are laying the groundwork for
OT and distributed computing by establishing such standards as DCE (Distributed Computing Environment), DME (Distributed
Management Environment), and CORBA
(Common Object Request Broker Architecture), according to Soyring,
In addition, smaller coalitions are working together on such efforts as COSE (Common Operating System Environment), OpenDoc, and Taligent, a joint effort between
Apple and IBM. "IBM intends to layer OS/2
and AIX above Taligent," Soyring stated.

Programmers can get a head start on

their colleagues by beginning to develop for
these emerging industry platforms now, he
told the audience.

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O C TOBER '93THE COMPUTER PAPER ONTARIO EDITION

Consumer Reports Rates Macintosh, DOS, Windows

Is It EO vs. Newton,

NB Although most serious computer buyers know that cost and availability of popular
software are usually the most important fea-

Or Will PDAs Fly At

tures to consider when looking at computers,

some first-time home users may benefit from

reading the comparison results gleaned by

the respected testing experts at Consumer

Reportsand reported in the September 1993

issue. Apple Computer's Macintosh rates best
in overall ease of use.
The report concludes that both Windows

and Macintosh systems are easier to use than

MS-DOS versions for word processing tasks,

Apple users.

but the differences narrow considerably

when comparing file management capabili-

elists who rated both Windows and Mac sys-

ties with even lowly MS-DOS rating somewhere between very good and excellent.
Consumer Reports does point out that

Nevertheless, the concluding paragraph says,

Macintosh systems were still more expensive

than comparably equipped Windows or MSDOS computers and that more software and
hardware choices were available to non-

One surprising result was that the pantems as easier to use were mostly experienced MS-DOS users, not complete novices.
"Don't be stampeded into a costly purchase

if you' re happy with DOS."

The four-page report did not compare
different computer or software brands in any
detail.

AII?
LOS ANGELES (NB) American Telephone
R Telegraph (ATRT) is struggling to differentiate its ATRT/EO Personal Communicator

from the newly announced Newton MessagePad from Apple Computer. Market analysts are saying ATRT, Apple, and the rest of
the crowd that will announce pen-based personal digital assistant (PDA) devices, have
much work ahead to educate the public as to

what the differences are and how the devices

will be beneficial to users.

ATRT is complaining loudly and bitterly

that the Newton is getting undue attention

as a business communication device. ATRT

describes the MessagePad as "little more than
an advanced organizer with 'add-on' capabilities that provide limited communication."
The EO was the first of the new breed of

PDAs to market, available by special order

beginning in April. However, the ATRT/EO
440 just became available in the retail market in select ATRT Phone Center stores

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said the EO has many of the organizer functions the Newton MessagePad has, but offers

cellular phone capabilities (at additional

cost), a larger-size screen, and a built-in 20
megabyte hard disk drive.
The retail prices of the EO start at $2,000
US and goto $4,000 but the MessagePad
starts at $699 and goes to an estimated $949.
According to Cole, the difference in price
gets much smaller when you consider that
the 2MB Personal Computer Memory Card
International Association (PCMCIA) memory
cards for storage of data and applications on
the Newton are $300 each, compared to the
built-in 20-megabyte drive offered with the

EO. Apple daims the MessagePad's operating

system requires less storage space for data
than the Penpoint Operating system for the
EO, so users don't need as much additional
storage space, but Cole says that remains to
be seen.
Contact Dataquest, tel4&4374245, fax 408437-0292;AT&T, tel408M2-3966, fax 408437-0398.

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users who purchased the

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Adobe Illustrator version 5.0 for the Macin-

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tosh. The graphics illustration and design

tom page sizes and support for a pressure-

Adobe Illustrator program

for the Macintosh after
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sensitive calligraphic pen with a variable nib.

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tomers who purchased the program prior to

how hot the market is, because the first full-

application is available in both floppy format

and in the Deluxe CD-ROM edition.

scale test in the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos has been a resounding flop.

The new version offers plug-in filters,

including Adobe's Pathfinder technology-

able now for the suggested retail price of $595.

Registered owners may choose either a regular

ber 31, 1993, and $199 after that. The Deluxe

A Los AngelesTimes story also carried in

the Washington Postreports that after a fouryear trial GTE's two-way cable TV experiment
has had little impact on Southern California
residents who had access to the services.

a set of filters that allows users to modify the

intersecting areas of overlapping objects.
The new'software offers a number of oth-

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teenagers' time.
Although this may not have been a good
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only about five percent of the cable subscribers even participated in the interactive

test should yve pause to those cable companies which are making big plans to invest in
the new technology, espedally since another
interactive cable test in Virginia (suburban
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Saskatchewanto TestVideo On Demand

REGINA (NB) About 200 households in
Saskatchewan will be able to watch current

hit movies whenever they want for the next

year as part of a trial of video-on-demand

technology delivered through Saskatchewan

Telecommunications' fiber-optic network.
SaskTel, the telephone company serving
the province, has joined with Acme Video, a
Regina videotape distributor and operator of
five video superstores in the city, to run a

one-year trial of the video-on-demand technology, which can deliver video signals over
optical fiber to individual subscribers.

Fastest Rewritable

Acme will offer 10 to 12 movies at a time,

Acme Video hopes to launch a commer-

said Joel Steinberg, vice-president of the

video firm. They will be currently popular
releases from major studios. Subscribers will

cial video-on-demand service in the city after

be able to see the movies they request within

al's success.

five minutes of asking for them, the companies said.

The service is unlikely to be extended to

rural areas in the foreseeable future, he said,
as the cost of the technology today requires a

The service will compete with video-

the trial is completed, Steinberg said,

although of course that depends on the tri-

rental stores and its offerings will be priced

accordingly $3.99 for a new release, possibly with midweek specials and other incen-

fairly dense population to support it.

tives like those that video stores sometimes

offer, Steinberg said.

panies in installing optical fiber in the 1980s.

SaskTel, which is provincially owned, was

a pioneeramong Canadian telephone com-

Optical Rivals
Hard Disks In Speed
SAN JOSE, CA (NB) Maxoptix has introduced a rewritable magneto-optical (MO)
multifunction drive that is the industry's

fastest, rivaling a hard disk drive in speed. The

T3-1300 is a 5.25-inch drive with an average

seek time of under 19 milliseconds (ms).

The removable media comes in 650megabyte (MB) and 1-gigabyte (GB) sizes,
and write-once read-many (WORM) media

Don Savaria, SaskTel, 308-777-4105

and 1.3GB removable discsarealso supported. The drive spins the discs at about 4,800
revolutions per minute (rpm) and has a splithead optics head design, and latency times
as low as 6.5 ms. Average access time to any
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Readoperations have been clocked atsustained data transfer rates of 2.2 MB per second and write operations at 1.1 MB per sec-

ond. Small computer systems interface (SCSI)

transfers clock in at 5 MB per second in synchronous mode and 3 MB per second in
asynchronous mode.
The drive offers a fast three-second cartridge load/unload and has a HP compatible
jukebox interface that can be used with juke-

boxes from HP, DISC, Kodak, NKK, IDE, and

US Designs. In addition, the T3-1300 drive is
available as either an internal or external unit.
The MO multifunction drive uses disks

that conform to the International Standards

Organization 10089 and ECMA 183,184
media standards. These disks look much like

3.5-inch floppy disks: they are in a protective

- cartridge and have a metal hub in the middle,

according to Wemer Glinka of Maxoptix.

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P ROTECTING YOUR WOR L D

The International Standards Organization has authored a set of

Caring about our planet, we can save limited resources and help the
standards called the ISO 9000. It defined the basic
earth recover by recyciing. CTX is proud to
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ingredients of a quality system from design to
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creating the ROM-based software for the
upcoming Personal Digital Assitant (PDA).

Palm Computing a partner in Zoomer

with Tandy and Casio has kept a "fun"
interface in mind, Dubinsky explained, during a special session at PenExpo.
Written for the Geoworks graphical
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software includes five components: a palm

calculator, a PIM, America Online, three
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495-9649.
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388/20SXLaptop, 2 MBRAM,42 MBHD,
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492-8102.
366/ESMH
Zw/387 HD
40 digilal board12xl2
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4MBRamVGAmonitor DDS6
Win 3.1 manygames. Bigtower1.2/1.44
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pin. Call2724}087.
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IBMCompatible. 84 Meg Hard
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ing $N- Margaret754-7328.
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$65,WAN
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magazines,all for$650. Bardya490-7997.
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DPI}w/toner 8 warranty. Callto
demonstration $100discount.
AMIGA508 I MB1084SGolden Image schedule
mouse Joystick over $300 in Darren5IH42-3064.
games/
ugliges/disks/Amigamagazines.$700 HPScannerinterface kit tor IBMPS2. Never
obo Glenn479.5454.
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20N: IMeg, 34 IBMxt compat(.5 IBM computer640K2FDmonowilh software
Meg, EGA
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printer,mouse,loyal, 50+ softwampkgs, ISN PS/I366SX28/387N MSIa 3.5 fd,4
manydisks,$8N, 416-2944}474.
MB RAM,VGA color,mouse,2400 bps,
AMIBA
monitor for sale$200obo. 2400bps modem.$10N. 74H056.
modemfor sale$50obo. GallMark287- IBMPS/I w/40mb1A4color. New.Asldng
0026.
$600. Paul8860796.
AMIGA.system:Amiga500$150, Amiga IBM PS/2SSSX: 4MB, NMS.HO, internal
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ax modem carryingcase,sleekdesign.
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536-5896.
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at 631-8156,
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andlots of sfwr. 6 months
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386DX33,4MBRAM, 120MBhdd,1.44 and

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i Q24k}96.
486DLC40:12SKCache. 8 RAM.212MB HD
& 300MB
SCSIHD,1 &4floppy SVGAmonitor & 1MBSVAcard, SBPROwilh MIDI, GVC
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651-3081.

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COMPIITER
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HOVELL
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