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ISP supports.
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network,you can ignore the Ethernet and

email server via the internet,

router charges and just go and

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"modem". These are sold by
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then our charges would be $155 a month-

hack and forth modem negotiation, that high

more than we currently pay for plain oId tele-

pitched whirring that you associate with

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almost immediate. What this means is that

Internet service irrovider charges

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into the Internet.
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Internet with ISDN. One is through a continuous connection. These start at about $400 a
month and would be appropriate if we were
planning to host our own Web server at our
house. We aren't planning on thisso we

you can set your connection up to log off

after five minutes of no activity. When you
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almost instantaneously is back online. I

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of dozens of ISPs, we were only referred to

two that could actually provide this service.

Internet access up to 10 times the speed of a

modem, up to five email addresses, 5MB of

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100 hours, and $1.75 for each hour over that

on 24 hours a day.

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looked at the second way ISDN dial-up.

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onto the single ISDN line from home. First,
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aHows anyone on the network to connect to
the Internet, via the ISDN line. These are not

Currently its offering costs $55 a month,

if you sign up for a year, but it only works

with single systems. That is, you cannot put a

local area network onto the Internet through
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modem connection for each computer on

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install it in your home. Finally, it is still not
available in many areas of Canada, though
Rogers says it is getting there, and the company can put you on a waiting list and call
you back when your area comes online.
One other alternative for high speed
Internet access from the phone company is
ADSL, which promises users Internet access
speeds of up to 7 Mbps.
On the hopes that the instant connectivety of ISDN will actually save us online
time, we are going to give this dial-up ISDN
connection a try and then report back to you
after a few months of service to let you know
how the reality of monthly charges are turning out. In the meantime, as more people
feel the need for speed, we are likely to see
more competition in the ISP area for these
services.
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On the cover, it says this is our 10th anniversary edition, We have come a long way since
my wife and I put together a 16-page issue
using a MacPlus, and had trouble figuring out
what the printers meant by a color separation. When the first issue came back from the
printers, I loaded up our aging Ford LTD station wagon and hit the road, trying to find
locations to take the paper. The paper has
grown vastly in that time. Our first print run
was 30,000 copies, which were distributed in
and around Vancouver. Currently, our circulation is 357,000 copies, read by close to one
million people each month all across Canada.
Our company, Canada Computer Paper
Inc., has grown as well, producing, in addition to th e five regional editions of The
Com
puter Paper, Toronto Computes!, Quebec
Micro!, Computer Player!, Ottawa Computes!,
three online editions, and our latest addition,
a magazine for computer resellers called
Canadian Computer Wholesaler.From a staff of
two, we have grown to employing approximately 75 full-time and numerous part-time
production and distribution people as well as
freelance writers.
We thank you, our readers and our advertisers for this growth. Our publication is free.
Our major source of revenue is from advertising. Readers pick up the magazine, see the
advertising and respond to it. This makes the

advertisers happy, and they keep buying

advertising. We keep publishing.
We look forward to the next 10 years of
bringing buyers and sellers together, as well as
offering new opportunities through new publications. Thanks for reading and letting
advertisers know you saw their ad in The
Computer Paper.

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says, we are 10 times bigger. Size has little

bearing on validity. Thanks.
Barrie Barrington, via Internet

190 serie
sportablesare considered by many to be
badly flawed.Macswith a 601 or 603 processor
or a 680x0 CPU are not on my recommended list
either. (603eis okay.)
Mac reader depressed {In more ways
Note that some models, such as Apple's
then one)
new6400, don't support 24-bit color on their
I just want to take a few minutes to tell you (intenial) video. I don't think that is too good.
how discouraging it is these days to be a Mac There are also some models such as the 5200
user and a believer in this incredibly satisfy- that lack a 64-bit bus, and others that lack a
ing computer platform.
Level2 cache, These are allstandard items on
All I see these days is apocalypic news today's PCs, and yourMac should have them
about Apple's laughable marketshare in the too.
PC world. I see Bill Gates raking in the billions every month. I read the technical
demonstrations of Windows NT's superiority over the Mac platform in key, leading-

S M-W: Can PowerPCs run PC software?

GB: Yes, with varying degrees of success(fair-topoor). I wouldn't recommend this. Buy a $2500
Mac and a$1500 PC ifyou need both.
S M-W: On a budget of $4000, which of the
Macintosh systems would be considered a
smart purchase?
GB: I'd buy a PowerBase($2000 - $3000) and
upgrade the slow internal IDE drive for a fast
SCSI drive, and fill the DIMM slots with about
48MB of IIAM, and then invest in great sofhvare

and a decent printer. Pay$100 extra for a tower

case i f you want one.
5 M-W: I' ve made visits to several large computer retailers in the hope of finding out
more information. But the salespersons push
sales more than service. If possible, please
recommend several reputable Macintosh
dealers. Any assistance provided will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
GB: If the local dealers that advertise in TCP
don't satisfy you, then maybe try looking on

edge technology sectors (memory management, multi-threading, etc.) and it makes

me sad.
All those technological breakthroughs
that Apple cumulated over the years (the
desktop interface, drag and drop, the 3.5-inch
floppy, QuickTime technology, the mouse,
Control Panels, etc.,) have all been copied
and pasted successfully to the Windows platform, leaving the Mac stranded on a virtual
island.
There is no way the Mac platform will
make it to the 21st century which will
leave the non-geek world with one computer
platform: Windows.
Now, excuse me if I find this forecast
painful and frightening. I'm a graphic artist

'a

and a Web page designer; a Photoshop and

Bryce so-called expert. I' ve worked on the

Space Jam merchandising project recently.

Next up: Batman 4, in January.

In two years, I' ll probably be working

under the Windows NT platform. Big Brother
is here.
I know there's nothing you can do about
all that not even devote more space to the
Mac platform in your pages. That would be
irrelevant.
Resistance is futile. We will be assimilated.
How sad.
Martin Rivard, via Internet

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Stacey Man-Woh writes:

It appears that PC systems become outdated in a matter of 18-24 months, whereas Macs

IMAGE QUALITY. Reses are red, vielets are blue, but only if you take their
picture with the EPSOMPhetePCSee. The digital camera with 640 x 48e pixel

take longer, about 4-5 years. I was wondering

if this statement is true.
GB replies: Not really, butI own a Mac that is
over five years old (it cost$11,000 back in 1991,
though!) Want to buy it? Cheap!

resolution that gives yeu the most lifelike pictures around. It's get all the
convenience of a regular camera, frem its built-in red-eye "

Stacey M-W: When it comes to upgrades, are

Macs upgraded in similar manner asPCs?

no other camerahasEpsorvs unique cotortrue in-camera

reduction flash te its optional lenses and filters. But

preressing and ctearoptics system. for accurate, vivid

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GB: No,Macs have generallynot been upgradeable byswapping inexpmive CPU components,
as youcan on virtually all PCs. On Macs, you
usually have to replace the entire motherboard. A
few new models have CPU daughtercards.

imagesthat add impact te documentsor ~ail messages. ~ S i ~ ~

S M-W: There are now Mac clones offered on

the market. How do they compare with Macs
in design, performance, and price?
GB: Virtrrally all Mac clones are a better deal
than equivalent Apples. Power Computing units

digital photography, a camera by any ether name just isn't as good. For more information, visit

(wwwpowercc.corn)are generally regarded to be

the price/perfonnanCe leaders. I'd buy a

te preview

@thh ThePhetePCsee is flexible,tee. Withanoptional LCD

playback, or eraseimages, Memory that expands te hold weelPEGimages. PC/Maccompatibility. And

eur free Internet Sampler Pak that lets yeu access and create Web pages. Se, when it comes te

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www.epsen.cern te download somesample images, or call vgee-GO-EPSONand ask for operator 5e>S.

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PowerBase180 for US$1495 (as of the end of

December, '96), personally.

S M-W: When considering a Mac purchase,

are there certain trouble areas that might
be of concern (i.e., comparable to the
faulty math coprocessors in Pentium sys-

tems)

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were taken with titrr Kodak ec-ate, clsio ev30 and EpsoN phihttspc 500 as configured for pelail uatit.. Nts special effects or lenses were rttMtc Awards
given ta the EisseNiahtetisc the iteht in the line thf Eiphtsss
cutlassdiiiittti cameras. Eia seNis a registered trademark of stmkts
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GB: Mac Sx00 desktop and portable rmits and

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are all major vendors, although mai larder service
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For more Mac in fo,see

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httpi/Www.dentalsite.corn/macvantege/macsurl/
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Wlnnlpegger wants more SUN

I' ve been an avid reader of TCP for several
years but have yet to see any regular discussion regarding, in my opinion, the best hard-

SUN offers the best platform for anyone who

uses their PC's for work a PC after all is simply a tool, n'est pas'?

ware and OS yet developed by human minds,

I hope that future issues of TCP will devote
more pages to SUN PC's, for example, comparing with other RISC PC's. I personally own
a Pentium, solely because of games for our
family and because of the common software
available out there.
"Bubble gum" wrapped software aside,

work ... VERY informative and excellent ser-

(http.//www.windows95.corn) using Netsca pe

Navigator 3.0 the site won't give me any music.

(unidentified reader via Internet)

I love TCP. Please keep up the exceptional

viceto computer users, both novice gr experienced. A comparison of various more robust
OS's (OS/2, NT, X-win) would be nice.
Andre Hamel Winnipeg

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g o t o t h e W i n dows 95 w e b s i te

GB replies: Unfortunately, interpreting Microsojt

Internet Explorer-specific BGSOUND or DHVSRC
tags is not possible using any tscape software
or plug-lns I' ve seen. Thisis because IE uses dl fferenttags than Netscape to embed audio and
video into a web page. the BGSOUND, M/IRQUEE, DNVSRC, and a handful of other togs are
thus not supported by Netscape. For what it' s
worth, the web authors "could' rewrite their
pages to use EMBED tags, which MSIE3 also supports. That way, the pages would work on both
MSIE and tscape Navigator.
In lieu of that, your only options are to either
keep a copyof IE3 on your systein (I.e., in addition
to tscapeNavigator)
,orto view thesourceofthe

web page, copy the sectionof the HTML codethat

contains the reference to the audio or video clip,
and then paste that into Netscape's location bar, so
that Netscape Navigators multimedia plug-ins can

interpret the clips and play them for you.

Hope this helps.
Leaving thebank vault open
In the January issue of TCP you have an excellent wrap up of the current financial software.
There is a concern that I believe you may wish
to cover in a future issue. With the amount of
information in the data files of the financial

packages, anyone that gets a hold of this fde

has enough information, especially once electronic transfers start, to do a lot of damage.

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This could be a t hief who steal your

machine, (computers are usually one of the

first things stolen), a thief who liberates your
laptop, and lastly a rogue Java app that

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obtains your data file and up loads it without

CONlaihs

even your knowledge. While Quicken allows

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other packages, perhaps this could be part of

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password protection of the data file, this is a

very false sense of security. It provides only

application level security and the data is not

the investigation you do. This would seem to

leave the security up to the user. If you the

user are concerned, then it's up to you to

manually encrypt and decrypt the data files.
The problem most users don't know to

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even thmk about this.

Anyway, thanks for the paper, I enjoy it.

John Galea, via CompuServe

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January Lab Test. The HiNote Ultra is only 1.2
inches thin, weighs just 4.0 Ib and comes
with many other options, Because of the
t hought and enginereeing put i nt o t h e
HiNote, a 133MHZ Pentium proved to be
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shipped tous. We' ve let them know of oia upcom-

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of the largest color thin-film-transistor (TFT) liq- Computer Corp., have for some time been placing
uid crystal displays (LCDs) on the market Qne of labels on their keyboards warning that improper
the new displays has a 14.2-inch XGA display and use can lead to Injury.
graphics. The size of this library hasn't been
the other a 15.l-inch SXGA desktop TFT display
The court awarded US$5.3 million to Patricia
decided on yet, she sairL
that claims to have twice the luminance of a con- Geressy, a former employee of the Port Authority
Users wiII also be able to import video clips
ventional desktop monitor.
of New York and New Jersey. An award of
from other sources and edit them using the softAccording to Mitsubishi, the 14.2-inch dis- US$302,000 went to Jill Jackson, formerly a New
ware, and they will be able to do the same with
play is targeted for high-end "Mega-Note" and York legal secretary, and another U5$274000 was
music files. The software will include the ability
erences, and links to additional information, If multimedia notebook PCs, and the 1S.l-inch dis- awarded to Jeanette Rotolo, a former billing clerk
to add text and special ~
, bu t i t w ill not the neural engine doesn't understand, it can even play is aimed at the engineering workstation and Small amounts in derivative damages also went to
export presentations to professional video editing ask specific questions back to further limit the high-end PC markets.
the spouses of the three women,
decks
a key difference between Lumiere and
search. Slightly slower than less complicated
The 14.2-inch notebook TFT display has
The damages were d~
as c o mpensatory
rival Adobe Systems Inc.'s Premiere product, search technology, the new service is specific, easy 1,024x768 resolution, and a brightness of 130 nits rather than punitive, and the court did not find
Smirle admitted.
to use, and as is the case with all breakthrough (candelas per squa're meter), Mitsubishi claims evidence that the Digital keyboards were defecThe software needs a system with at least a 90 technology, more expensive.
that conventional displays operate under 100 tive in design.
megahertz (MHz) Pentium processor and 16 MB
It's slower and more expensive because nits.
In August, a New York appeals court threw out
of memory.Corel recommends a 120MHz micro- answers.corn is powered by human beings. The
The 15.1-inch TFT display has 1,280x1,024 a similar lawsuit against IBM, Apple Computer
processor, 32 MB of memory, and a video capture questions are asked over the Internet, but a person pixel resolution, and 200 nits of luminance.
Incand other keyboard manuhcturers, ruling
card. Depending on configurabon, the software finds the answers. Answers.corn is limited to the
Biggerand brighter means better?No tneces- that claims must be made within three years of
occupiesfrom 72 to 114 MB of hard disk space, availability of people to field the questions. When sarily, says Chuck McLaughlin, president of
when the products allegedly causing the injury
Smirle said.
asked by Newsbytes howmany peoplewereavailMcLaughlin Consulting Group. McLaughlin
were 6rst used.
able to handle the questions, we were told that are pointed out to Newsbytes that in the large display
Contact Coral, Web site: httpitwww.coral.corn
40 researchers, about half of them full-time.
notebook or portable market, the most important Handy help for PC novices For all its
"By combining published information, pro- numbersare costand wa ttage.
improvements to the Windows experience,
Open Text unveils Irstranet srrlte TORONTO prietary databases, and electronic data with the
McLaughlin says that large displays cost more Windows 95 still has some behaviors that can be,
(NB)
Open Text Corp. has announced its
personal knowledge of qualified individuals, because the mother glass (the glass manufacturers well, mysterious to the beginner.
Livelink Intranet Suite 7 tool suite that includes answers.corn delivers specific information rather cut the displays from) is designed for 12-inch
Rather than callmg the office expert every
World Wide Web server software licensed from than 10,000 hits generated by automated search monitors. New plants are designed for 4-up 12- time a mysterious message appears, or a p
Netscape Communications along with several engines," says Clemente Izzi, chief executive of8- inch monitors,
occurs, you might fmd Symantec's PC Handyman
pieces of software designed for work-flow automa- cer of answers.corn.
When larger panels, like 14- or 15-inch ones, can provide help and configuration tips. Unlike
The site charges amounts based on three levels are cut out, only two panels per mother glass are the "active assistance" offered by programs such
tion, collaboration, document management, and
searching on-intranets.
of questions, Fast hcts like, "Who won an
possible. This means manufacturing large panels as First Aid 96 and QuarterDeck's CleanSweep
Academy Award for best supporting actress in
Open Text's Livelink Intranet Suite 7 is
is significantly more expensive,
(often with disastrous results), PC Handyman is
designed to work with Netscape's Navigator Web 1971?"costUS$1.79 for each answer. Questions
Mitsubishi is producing only sample panels more hke a consultant who advises you with senbrowser, the only software needed on client com- reqw'ring moderate research like "Do any restau- now: the 14.2-inch samples are priced at $2,500 sible strategies, by telling you, in plain language,
puters to use all of Livelink's facilities, said David rants in the New York theater district accept email each, and the 15.1-inch samples are $5000 each. exactly how to perform each step. For example, if
Weinberger, vice-president of strategic marketing reservations? cost US$5.99, Extended research for Mitsubishi was not able to provide production your printer isn't working correctly, it walks you
at Open Text.
questions like "How is imaging technology used in prices at this hme.
through the various steps to troubleshoot the
The software can also work with Microsoft
the insurance industry?" or "What kinds of coatMcLaughlin said wattage might be more problem.
Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser, Weinberger ings are used on blister cards to allow them to stick important. He points out that 10-inch panels typHow cM I IN' ~ wllh SIIK~
said. But because Explorer does not currently sup- to the blister?" costs US$11.99. Answers are deliv- ically draw one watt, and 12-inch panels between
port file upioading, users cannot take advantage ered via email within 24 hours. An expedited ser- one and two watts. Mftsublshi told Newsbytes
of Livehnk features requiring this capability. vice is available for a small additional charge.
that the 14.2-inch panel will draw seven watts at
"From our point of view, that's a big lack,"
130 nits (4 watts at 70 nits), and the 15.l-inch
Weinberger told Newsbytes.
Contact answers.corn,
panel will draw 18 watts. McLaughlin said that at
MeaIlniFlea.feline sn4 Irises
@A'jrtaIs~
these levels battery usage will be cut down draWeb site: httpifwww.answers.corn
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matically. Mitsubishi admitted that the 15.1-inch
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Irrltlative
ed system.
Microsystems, with partners Apple Computer,
IBM, Qracle and Netscape, unveiled the 100- Contact: Mitsubishi, Tel: 905-475-7728.
Percent Pure Java Initiative at a press conference
during Internet World in mid-December.
The program, supported by more than 100
The program includes a glossary of common
other companies, is aimed at assunng interoperterms and a program called CrashGuard that can
The suite i n cludes L ivelink P r oject ability between multivendor products.
help you save dataafter a software program crashCoHaboration, which is enhanced in this release
JavaSoft president,
es, but PC Handyman lacks coverage of many
with bulletin boards where project workers can
AVASOFT a nsaa<~as'
areas, such as how to troubleshoot interrupt
post notes to the whole project team, onewlick
new initiative will
request 0RQ) conflicts or memory problems,
creation of project pages, and the ability to notify
use approaches ranging from a comprehensive
Unfortunately, these are probably the most frususers by email when something significant
test suite to a Java logo, to make certain aII implr,
trating problem areas for most novice users.
changes in a project,
mentations of the Java Virtual Machine are comIt's fairly low-level help best suited for those
Livelink Library Is the document manage- patible at the application layer.
Dlflital orzlererl to pay for keyboarzl-related who tend to avoid the Windows 95 Help menu
ment component, and in Suite 7 audit trails have
Other elements of the Java plan include InJury BROOKLYN, N.Y, (NB) In a case that (use it, it's full of helpful advice). PC Handyman
been enhanced and compound documents can industry education, assistance to developers, could lead to a flurry of claims against computer Is not likely to be especially beneficial to users
now be managed. Livelink Seasch allows search- technical marketing updates, hotlinesand Web and keyboard manufacturers, a United States with more than a few ruonths of Windows 95
ing of documents on three levels: Livelink docu- site exposure through a new "100-percent Pure District Court has ordered Digital Equipment
experience under their belts, but for the basics, PC
mentsnetwork documents, and the Web.
Java Hall of Fame network.'
Handyman is handy, indeed.
Corp, to pay US$5.3 million to a 50-yearold
Livelink Workflow, which Open Text claims
Also at the press event, of8cials from Sun' s woman who lost movement in her hands, and
PC Handyman sells for US$49, GB
can model almost any business process, has some partner orgardzation endorsed the concept. Apple smaller amounts to two other women suffering
enhancements to its status screens in this release. now offers 30 Java products and wBI provide a from carpal tunnel syndrome.
What's New is compiledky JeIf Evans, Keitfr
The package also comes with Netscape's FastTrack Javawnabled edition of QpenDoc next month,
Carpal tunnel syndrome, a form of repetitive- Schengili-Roberts, Chris Fisher, Graeme?Iennett,
server software,
says Apple's Andy Lauta. "Apple wholeheartedly strain injury, has been linked to extensive and/or David Tarwka and Megan Johnsy.
Livelink Suite 7 is now available for Sun embraces 100-Percent Pure Java," he asserted.
improper use of computer keyboards. Symptoms
Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris operating system,
To eliminate the fatNient syndrome, Oracle include numbness, tingling, and pain in the finHewlett-Packard Co.'s HP/UX, and Windows NT. is using Java across its entire product line from gers. The court held that Digital Equipment
Prices start at US$62,500.
the database server to application servers and should have warned its customers of the hazard.
tools, said Qracie's Beatriz Enfanta. The new 100In a brief statement, Digital Equipment said it
Percent Pure Java Initiative "guarantees uniform disagreed with the verdicts and plans to appeaL
Contact: Open Text,
delivery of write-once, deploy everywhere Java," The company chimed the verdicts are inconsisWeb sita: http./iwww.opentext.oorA/livelink
according to Enfanta.
tent with relevant scientific knowledge, and
lNeb site with the or4glnal neural searching
maintained that it "prides itself on providing
NltNsblshi claims largest flat-panel rlls PASADENA, Calif. (NB) The
ultimate ln a longinformation to customers and employees about
evolving neural technology has created the most plays ~ SAN JQSE, Calif, (NB) Mitsubishi the comfort and safe use of its products."
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Some other manufacturers, such as Compaq
flexible internet search engine yet developed. No Electronics America claims to have released two

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According to one advertisement in the first issue of The

ComputerPaper, you could buy an upscale 286 or "AT clone"

system for about $2,0QQ, or an XT clone for about $1,50Q. In
this price was included a dot-matrix printer (an office-quality
laserjet printer, like the HP LaserJet II, would set you back
$2,600), monochrome monitor and a 1200 bps modem. A 30
MB hard drive cost about $350 extra, while a ginormous 60
MB hard drivecould be yours for an additional $650.

a suggeste
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We also camed a review of Micrografx Designer 1.0, which
offered tools for PC owners envious of the fabulous tools being
developed for the Mac. Our reviewer commented that Designer
felt a little slow under Windows 2 on a 286, but noted that
graphic artists working on PCs would be "thrilled" with

Designee
At MacWorld in Boston in August, there were rumors
being whispered about a new workstation%ass Mac II based

on Motorola's new 68030 CPU. What was real was Apple's

Mac II 4/4Q (4MB of RAM, 40 MB hard drive), announced at
the show with a suggested retail price of US$7,398.

Other highlights of our first year of publication

By mid year, 386s were beginning to show up in the con-

If Macintosh users wanted hard drives, they'd have to pay

between $800 and $1,100 for a 20 MB unit and $1,400 to
$1,900 for a 65 MB unit, according to oneTCPadvertisement in March 1988.
Also in March, we ran a side-by-side comparison of two

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that month PageMaker 3.0 and QuarkXPress

2.0. Pagemaker gained color support for
the first time, as well as automatic text
flow around graphics,The hot new feature in XPress was the ability to import
full-color TIFFs from a scanner.

Among the news was a report of

pounds, the battery life was rated at only 30 to 54 minutes,

Sun Microsystems' unveiling of "the

first supercomputer to fit on a deskis issue marks a milestone of sorts it's our 10th

top." This wasthe 4/110, based on the company's SPARCchip, It had a suggested price of US$.18,900.

anniversary issue. Vol. 1 No. 1 of The ComputerPaper

In April 1988, Intel president Andrew Grove announced
was the February 1988 issue. It was a whopping 16 the company would be introducing six new 32-bit 386 CPUs
pages longwith no color pages on the inside (although we that year. But back then, the Intel-based computer wasn't the
did manage a twocolor cover).
only dance out there. Atari reported its quarterly sales jumped
Our feature report was the Canadian Payroll Survey,
which has become an annual fixture, the latest appearing in
our December 1996 inue.

Among the news we reported in February 1988:

H e wlett-Packard was just about to introduce a US$995
inkjet printer "said to rival the laser printer in output."

From MacWorld,
Orchid Technology announced aUS$695
graphics card that would addcolor to the Macintosh SE.

The ColorVue SEwould allow Mac SEusers to see in col-

former by industry analystJeff Tarter. Adobe sharesstarted

1987 at US$12.75 and ended at US$29.50, a 131 percent

yield. Microsoft nmked second, with a yield of 124 percent,

We also reported that quartedy earnings for Apple
Computer were US$121.4 million on revenues of more than
$3 billion. Meanwhile, Microsoft showed a quarterly income

and it had a suggested retail price of $16,999. If it was any

consolation, the street price was closer to $10,000 (and

remember, no GQ' in '88).David Tanaka

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199 percent over the same period the previous year, totalling
nearly US$277 milhon. In Germany, the Atari 104Q ST was
ranked the number one computer aimed at the semi-professional user for the sixth straight month, according to one
report we carried (the Atari 520SIM and Commodore Amiga

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ManyTCPreaderswill identify Toronto-based Softguad as
a developer of Web authoring tools. But back in April 1988,
we reported that the company had just introduced the first

ors 16 at a time.
SGML (standardized general markup language)authoring sys Apple's creation of software subsidiary Claris Corp. (to tem for the Mac,
remove Apple from direct competition with third-party
In May '88 we reported that Ted Nelson, who invented
software vendors) was met with mixed reaction. Some the term "hypertext," sold 80 percent of his Xanadu project
said it would be good for the software industry, while to Autodesk. Xanadu was an ambitious literacy project which
others said it was an arms-length arrangement in theory
ollly.
Adobe Systems was ranked 1987's top software stock per-

Powermate 386 (16 MHz) with a floppy and monochrome

monitor was advertised in our September issue for $4,350with no hard drive. A fully loaded 20 MHz 386 "dream
machine" from a done vendor, with 2 MB of RAM, a 65 MB
SCSI hard drive, and monochrome monitor was available for
the cheery price of $5,400.
By year's nd, we saw enough action in the portables market that we ran a laptop survey, in which we listed the specifications of three dozen portables that were available locally.
The one with the highest drool factor was Toshiba's T5200, a
20 MHz 386 with a 100 MB hard drive, It weighed nearly 20

desktop publishing powerhousesthat were scheduled to ship

sumer marketplace, but with premium price tags. A NEC

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and retrieval system. According to some, we now see some

expressions of the Xanadu vision in the Internet and in corporate virtual branch offices.
Among the hot titles being sold by booksellers in May
1988 weredBase III Made Easy, Inside Xerox Venriira Publisher,
I23 Tips and Tricksand Mastering DOS.

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PS/2 line, highlighted by the hot PS/2 Model 70. IBM claimed
this 386-25 powered beast was 1.5 times faster than its previous toIH.nd PS/2 Model 80. In Canada the PS/2 Model 70 had

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some highlights.

Active 2.0, complete with a demo and testimonials from Web m asters, during an
Internet World press conference. The compa=
Vivo teams oi Web video streams ny also outlined its strategy to ease integraVivo Software announced the release of Vivo
tion of the streaming video software into

the world's biggest computer companies presented their visions of what the connected

World Wide Web sites through increased

standards support and partnerships with
other video software vendors and Informix.
Peter Zaballos, vice-president of marketing for Vivo, said three months after its commercial release in September, YivoActive

Producer is now being used by 300 organiza~

tions, induding ABC, CNN, HBO, NetRadio,

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users who have downloaded the VivoActive

Player.
Brenden Kootsey of WGBH-TV claimed
that VivoActive produces the smoothest
video streaming of all the software he has
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VivoActive on its Nova Web site about five
months ago. Kootsey said he has received
only a few complaints from users during that
period all from people whose modems were
too slew for viewing streaming video.
Zaballos said that Vivo has added new
capabilities to the latest VivoActive release,
letting Web masters process high volumes of
content on remote machines through scripted production, define streaming parameters
for frequent content types, and automatically
generate media for transmission at multiple
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process, VivoActive Producer will add plug-in
integration with the Adobe Premier video
editing product, according to Zaballos.

Vivo also plans to add support for

Informix Universal Server database, and to
comply with standards such as OpenDoc
OCX, and ONE for further integration with
outside video production and Web authoring
tools.
VideoActive Producer runs on Windows
NT and Power Macintosh platforms. Video
Player operates as both a Netscape Navigator

sions on ideas for converting IBM's Internet

prodllcts.
Starting in the first quarter of next year,
he added, IBM will open up the AlphaWorks

Sun and allies ready JavaSeans tools

With
of the JavaBeans technolo-

comp
letion

gy for cross-platform interoperability targeted

for 1997, Sun Microsystems and its partners

dialogs, through a new threaded discussion are now readying a final JavaBeans applicagroup designed to let end users
communicate tion programming interface (API), seven
their cominents, suggestions, likes and dis- application development tools supporting
likes, with direct feedback from the IBM
the API, and bridges to three other comporesearchers themselves,
nent architectures: OpenDoc, Microsoft's
Contact: AlphaWorks,
Web site: httpi/www.alphaworks.ibm.corn.

ActiveX, and Netscape's LiveConnect.

"JavaBeans is a complete technology
which we hope to finish up next year," said

Gina Centoni, product Itne manager for

JavaBeans.
IBM rolled out its second d

evelop
m
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tool on the JavaBeans plate, a product known

as Applet Author. Sun's JavaSoft and multivendor collaborators first i n t roduced

JavaBeans in May, and nAPI wasannounced

in October.
In a teleconference in Octoberofficials
described the JavaBeans API as an "architecture and platform neutral" environment
aimed at letting developers use a wide range

plug-in and an ActiveX control for Internet

Explorer. Vivo expects to release a beta demo
version of VivoActive 2.0 early in the new
year, with a commercial edition targeted for
later in the first quarter. VivoActive Producer
2.0 will b priced at US$995.
ContactVive Satware,Tel:617-999-8900.
Sites using VivoActive-based video streaming:
ABC,Website: http: //www.abc.corn
Cafe Metr, Website:
http://mindspring.corn/pjcom/eaten oir.htm
Fine Line Films,Website: http://www.ill.corn

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h o l d u s er/Inventor W e b

dlaloels +IBM revealed that early this year,

its AlphaWorks online "laboratory" for
Internet technologies will add an online
forum for direct dialog between end users
and IBM inventors.
Andrew Morbitzer, AlphaWorks' manager
for Advanced Internet Technology, said that,
with about 25 percent of its huge research
budget dedicated to the Internet, IBM is a
hotbed for Internet development.
IBM launched the AlphaWorks Web site
last August, mainly as a way of letting other
companies and members of the general public try out hot new Internet technologies still
in the development stages at IBM, Morbitzer
said.
Since then, he reported, about 20 new

Internet technologies have been offered for

free download from AlphaWorks, 12 of them
Java-based. Four of these have already
evolved into IBM products, while two others

have been licensed by other vendors. In both

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will run acrossmultipleoperating systems
(OSes).
End users, in turn, will be able to "snap
together" the JavaBeanscomp
onents within
containers (also known as forms, pages,

frames, and shells) to produce custom applications, the JavaSoft executives said.
Centoni told reporters at Internet World
that developers could start working on

JavaBeans applications right away with the

use of the Java Development Kit (jDK) 1.0.2,

a software development kit conforming to

the emerging JavaBeansspecification.
She said JavaBeans takes advantages of
many of the built-in strengths ofJava, suchas
support for a lightweight run time, for example.

LiveConnect object environment.

For distributed applications,JavaBeansare

According to Centoni, Sun is now working on a bridge to Microsoft's ActiveX, with

expected delivery in the first quarter of this

Joe.

year. Meanwhile, IBM and Apple are creating

a bridge between JavaBeans and OpenDoc,
and Netscape is preparing a bridge to its

designed to intemperate with object connec-

tivity technologiessuch asCORBAIDL (corn=

mon object request broker architecture), RMI
(resource manager interface), and Sun's own
Centoni said Sun and its partners have by
now rolled out seven tools supporting
JavaBeans, including two tools each from

The tools are targeted at developers acrossa

wide range of programming experience.
The newly announcedAppletAuthor joins
VisualAge for JavaamongJavaBeans develop-

ment tools from IBM, Centoni said. Like

Symantec's Visual Cafe, AppletAuthor will
come with a variety of pre-built JavaBeans

components. AppletAuthor's bundled

JavaBeans will include: animations, sounds,

links to other Web pages, special effects, form
SunSoft and IBM, and one product apiece for fields such as buttons, lists, and labels, and

Syinantec, Borland, and Penumbra Software. IDBC databaseaccess.

Visual Cafe, on the other hand, provides
professional developers with a library of 56

JavaBeans, ranging from databases to forms,

windows, and controls, Centoni said.
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has introduced AltaVista Directory '97, a corporate directory combining features like
phonetic search and bulk loading with user

access from a wide range of Internet and corporate mail systems. The new directory software is now available on a free 30-day trial

basis as a free download from the Web (see

Being able to organize and facilitate

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contacts).

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Administrators, he said, can create centralized enterprise-wide directories by pouring data into the new AltaVista directory software directly from any of a variety of multi-

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it's rated highest for ease-of-

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Lehmenkuler said.
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Lehmenkuler noted, Entering information
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all employees listed who meet that particular criterion,
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World Aversue shopplrtiJ asslstarst

Tom Patterson, IBM's chief strategist for
IBM plans to extend its spectrum 'of electronic commerce, says
with online securiCommercePoint electronic commerce (e- ty now coming into fons, and the number of
comm) services in two new directions early CommercePoint customers already surpassthis year with a new "'personal shopping

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mall, plus new data mining services for merchants seeking to anaIyze consumerbehavior secure socketslayer {SSL) and secure electronsite and World Distributor business-to4)uston Web sites.
ic transactions {SET) is well underway, and ness service at the New York show.

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gratnming languages such as C/C++, says

Oracle's big Internet World announcement

was the release of the beta version of a Javabased merchant server, code-named Project
Apollo, designed to let retailers from small
shop owners to large investment firms set
up "secure" virtual storefronts on the World
Wide Web.

Mark Jarvis, vice-president of server marketing for Oracle.

During a product demoJarvis showed the
journalists and analysts how Apollo can be
used in conjunction with cartridges from
Taxware and Uerifone to market goods to
consumers over the Web, calculate tax, and
obtain credit card authorization.

Along with a commerce server from

Oracle, Project Apollo belongs to a new category of "cartridges" being created by Orade
and third-party developers in accordance
with Oracle's new network computing architecture (NCA), according to company officials.
About 70 NCA cartridges are already
being ct..ated, in Java as well as other pro-

During a panel discussion at the dose of

the event, Beatriz Infante, senior vice-pres-

prior to its release. But, she notes, the wide

distribution made possible by the Web is giv-

ident of Internet and media products, said

ing rise to new, generally lower, software

prices.
Also during the press conference, David
Spenhoff, director of product marketing for

that Oracle expects Apollo to receive 60 to

70 percent of its use from smaller mer-

chants running single-pmcessor Intel systems.

Infante predicts that as their online
b usiness grows, many c u stomers w i l l

Jarvis says that, beyond working with an

migrate to larger store sites with assistance

from systems integrators, Some of the cus-

X.S09 security server cartridge also from a

JavaSoft at Sun, said that JavaSoft has worked

closely with Grade on the development of

Oracle's 20 Java-based products. Orade also
added its support for Java with the announcement of J/SQL, or embedded SQL for Java,

third-party vendor
Apollo provides security
tomers beta testing Apollo include Fidelity
thinwlient JDBC, and Java-enabled database
on several other levels, including SSL and a Investments, KDS, B u r l ington C o a ts, servers. 0
choice of data encryption standard (DES) or Motorola in t h e U n i ted Kingdom, and
RSA (whose name is derived from RSA Data
Security, which created the type of encryp-

Telefonica in Spain.

Infante says a company policy prevents

her from giving a specific price for Apollo

tion found in Netscape) encryption.

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$250

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$33
$35
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HP DcskJet$20Cxi/870C,..............$488/$638
HP LaserJetSUSN.......................,.$569/1979
HP LaserJet5/SM/SSi..........$1709/2359/3669
HP LaserJet5MP/4M+ ..............$1370/$2610
HP 4V/4MV/1666C........$25$0/$3819/Sl$19
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Brother HL-641, 300dpi, 6ppm..............$3$9
Brother HL-730, 600dpi, 6ppm..............$439
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Epson Stylus Ils/500/Pra........$229/$379/529
OkiData 606e/610e/Sloe....5549/$679/5IOIO
HP ScanJet4S/4P/4C..........$269!$649/$1119
Logilech PageScanner...........................5399

72 pin 4M ...,..............................$22

72 pin 8M..,......,....................$39
72 pin 16M
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72 pin 32M ..............................$169

72 pm 4MEDO.........................$22
72 pin SM FDO.........................$39
72 pia 16M EDO.......................$$5
72 pin 32M ED0......................$169
16$ pin 16M/ED0...........$109/$119

Motherboard svl CPU

5x86 75/100MHz .............$149/169
Pentium 75/100MHz ........$245/259
Pentium 120/133MHz ......$279/3$9
Pentium 150/166MHz ......S419/599
P200/6x86/Pentium pro......$799/Call

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I.QSGBEIDE HardDrive .........$229

1.2GB ElBE Hard Drive ..........,$249
1.6GB EIDE HardDrive ...........$279
2.0GB EIDE HardDrive ..........5309
2.5GB EIDE lIard Drive............$339
3.1GB EIDE HardDrive............$419
I.QSGBSCSI-2 Hard Drive .......$3 19
2.1GB SCSI-2 HardDrive .........$629

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lomega Zip Drive, IOOMB,SCSI/Para...$249
lomega JazDrive, I 0, Int/Ext.......SSOS/$625
Zip 106MB/Jaz I GBDisk...............$1&/$12$
Colorado TIQOQ,
SQOMB Int/Ext...f I79/$229
Colorado Jumbo1.3GB ........................$299
Comer Int 420MB/SOO
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3. IGBSCSI-2liard Drive .......SIQ99

4.2GB SCSI-2 Hard Drive .......$1249

VLB BIDE Controller......,.....,..................$27

Adaptec 1526/15?2SCSICtrl ...........$85/$90
Adaytec 2940SCSICtrl ..................,....,.$235
Adayicc 2940WSCSICtrl ............,........S269
Adaptec 3940SCSIC(rL..................,....$569

Hard Drives

Monitors

Printers /Scanner

30 Pin IM..................................$8
30 pin 4M,...,...,.......,.............$25

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16MB ie
32MB...........,............BIN
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Acer 14"/I5 "/I 7" ................,....,$299/$399/$749
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SONY ISSFH/SX,..............................$619/$529
SONY 17SF
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SoundCard ....................$39

SoundBlastcr 16PNP/H?E...........$$9/$99
Sound Blaster 32AWE/PNP......f I69/SI45
Panasonic CD-ROMSx........................$135
Mitsumi CD-ROMSx.........................$135

ToshilmCD-ROMgx............,..............5145
Sony CD-ROMgx.
$145
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SCSICD-ROM.........,.,M149
HP Surestore 4020i CD-Writer........51025
Sony 924SCD-Writer......................$779
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Cirrus Logic VLB/PCI, IM ...,................$79/$39
S3 Trio 64, I M/2M D ...............,..........,..$49/$69
S3 Virgo 3D, 2M/4M..........,.......,.......$99/$139
ATI Mach 64, IM/2M D ..........,..............$79/$99
ATI 3D Xpressron, 2MDIVA........,............$159
ATI 3D+,2M/4M SDRAM..................$169/$199
ATI 3D+, PC/IV, 2M/4M SDRAM.....$1$9/$219

Modems
33.6 Kbps Int. Fax/Data .......,...... ...595
33.6 Kbps Int. Voice/Fax/Data ............$109
28.$ Kbps Int. Fax/Data ........................$89
28.8 Kbps Int. Voice/Fax/Data ............$109
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USR 33.6 Kbps Int. Voice/Fax............%169

ATI 3D+, ProTurbo, PC/IV, 4M/SM...$279/$399

ATI Mach 64,2M/4M V .....................$229/$349

ATI TV TunerCard......................................,$139
Diamond Stl 64, I M/2M D ...................$95/$115
Diamond Stl 64, 2M/4M V .................$249/$319
Diamond 3D 2MEDORAM....................$149
DiamondEdge3D IM/2M D..............$179/$199
Matrox Millenia 2M/4M W..................$249/$34$
Matrox Mystique 3D2M/4lvL....,.......$229/$3 IS

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104 Windows 95keyboard ................520
Fujitsu $725/4725 ..........................$30/$5$
Logitech MnuseManSerial ................$33
Logi tech MouseManBus.....................589
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1.2868 EIDE hard drive, Mode 4
3.5' 1.44MB floppy disk drive
PCI EIOE,w/2x16550UARTSerial, 1xBi-Directional Parallel
Cirrus Logic 5446 64hit Graphics Card. 1MB DRAMExp. 2MB
14" 1024x768 N.l. LR..28dpi
14" Mini-tower case with 200W
Logitech 26 mini mouse
104 Windows 95 Keyboard
Two years parts & labour limited warranty

256KB Pipelined Burst Cache, 430VX, Support SDRAM

Ball Bearing Spring Mount CPUCooler
16MB BgnsEDO RAM Exp.12BMB
1.6GB EIDEhard drive, Mode 4
3.5" 1.4MB floppy disk drive
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Soundblaster 16bit PnP (Creative)

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32MB 60nsEDQ RAM Exp.128MB
2.166 EIDE hard drive, Mode 4
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USR 33.6 V,34 Fax/Modem Internal
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The taxes last us
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A tonlh time for tax comlaanles

final version hitting the shelves in mid-February. Purchasers of

This year's annual roundup of tax software finds the market in

disarray. Change is in the wind, and with it, a sense of confusion. Smaller companies are scurrying hither and yon with

gram to a Ning version, while adjusting any forms and calcu-

plans and schemes while the more experienced stay the course
and fear the worst. The factors that are causing these tax software companies difficulty are the nature of the product, on
the one hand; and the nature of the Interne, on the other.

On the one hand

The first difflculty inherent in tax software is the short time
frame within which these companies must act. Individuals
begin to think about tax software when their T4s arrive,

the early edition are mailed a diskette that upgrades their pro-

without the missing forms, which they can get, but not

ing of another set of diskettes or CD-ROMs (and packaging). This escalates costs, especially when you consider that
the retailer must make money as well. Consumers will pay

"We don't pay taxes. Only the

little people pay taxes"

only so much for a product that they will use only once or
twice especially when one rationale for doing your own

And finally, retailers will try to cut their losses at the

end of the season by discounting, which can seriously
annoy consuiners, especially when those who thought they
were getting a Iow price as a repeat customer see their software on sale to the general public for less than they paid.
In an attempt to overcome this situation, the publishers of
two of the products reviewed below have gone to a oneproduct strategy. Their software arrives on the shelves at

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taxes is to save money.

can be found on the shelves of retail stores during the transition from early bird to final versions.

and getting through the distribution channels and onto retail

shelves is difficult and time consuming.
It is for these reasons that tax software has traditionally
come in two stages: a prefiling version, with an incomplete set
of forns arriving on shelves before Christmas; anda complete

only about 70 per cent of users will be able to file with the
product. The remainder will discover that they cannot file

lations that have changed at year's end.

The problem with this strategy is the cost of putting the
product on the shelf once, followed by a complete re-mail-

which is legislated to happen before the last day of February.

Unfortunately, Revenue Canada cannot finalize tax forms
making diskettes or CD-ROMs, boxing and shrink wrapping,

the end of November and is the final version. However,

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The second reason that the industry is in a state of great
flux is that all of us little people are using the Internet. As
we predicted last year, more and more tax software is
available on the Net. Seven of the products listed below
are available for dowiiloading while a mere three are
retail-only programs.
Tax software is ideally suited to online purchasing because
it is small. However, selling tax software from a Web page is
not without difficulty. The public does not have mass access to
the World Wide Web, nor much confidence in the security of

Internet commerce. The driving force behind this development is the low cost of delivery. There is no packagjlng, delivery, retail middleman or other cost. For this reason, over-thecounter software can't compete with downloaded software on

price alone.

Don't be too quick to leave the traditional retail channel

though, that box and those manuals, the registration card and

having a place to go if you are not happy are all import considerations. Also, to get the amount of information over the

Web that you get from a package like HomeTax or QuickTax

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would take many hours of downloading if it

were offered, which it is not.
The good news here is that tax software as
a whole has come down in price, with the

high end moving down from $59.99 to

$39.95 and the low end moving
from $39.95

The main

CanTax is headquartered

contenclers

developer of income tax

CanTax for Ninch3cers,

Canasian Taa Toter
From: CanTax
(division of SoftkeySoftware producls)
Supgestedrehil price: $36.95, $59.95(TaxTutor)

ny in troduced it s

in Calgary, and is a leading

software for individuals,
small businesses and tax
prafeseional. The compa-

Personal Income Tax Software, in January,

1985. In 1989, it launched T1Plus for professional income tax preparers, which has
become one of the most popular programs for
professionals, and which' approximately
8,000 of Canada's tax preparation services

f i r st

p roduct, Can Tax T l

down into the under-$30 range and lower,

Hile Infancy
Kfiling (electronic filing) is still in its infancy.
Again the problem with this method of sub-

mitting tax returns is inherent and not likely

to go away soon. Revenue Canada, under-

standably, will not let the public file returns

electronically. Plus, they will not let a tax pre-

parer efile unless he or she has an actual signature from you. Thus, Internet tax coinpanies are effectively stopped from simply
uploading your return and efiling for you.
This is also understandable on the part of the

government as there must be accountabiTity.

Lastly, efilers must be paid for their service.

When you add the cost of a software program

.(3 c

to the cost of efiling, the whole business

becomes too expensive.

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This may be the reason behind this year' s

appearance of a free tax program. Perhaps the
company described below is testing the

waters for a new modeL Maybe the program

is free so that the only chargeyou would

incur would be to the efiler. The efiler would

6e DAYTEK

have to purchase the efiling program thus

Ranked as the Imonitor sold in

earningthe software company its income.

Canada in 199$, DAYTEK remains the

onlyhaltefor your computer system.

This may or may not be what is happening

behind the scenes, but if it is, it could be a
succelful marketing model because it would

Ta back up aur superior q~, ell DAYTEK

manitars
inrJude 0 3-yearwarranty.

keep prices down.

Efiling is a win-win scenario because it is
considerably faster for you and i t s aves

Haw can we make this excraardinary commitment?Because,as partofthe US$57

billian Daewaa Gitaup, we have the strength
ta provide unsurpassed service.And we
have the resources ta stay at the faltefranc of
the industry with feeding-edge technalagy.

Revenue Canada the cost of rekeying your

data.

Casualties
Also as predicted last year, the number of traditional players in this market has thinned.
D olmen Software I nc . t h e c r eator o f
VizionTax, the 1994 TCP Reviewer's Choice
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GriffTax Web page and enter your data,

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numbers belonging to an anonymous file.

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This is a safe, reliable and fun tax program

and top-notch teaching software all in one.
QuickTax Deluxe is outright the best tax pmgram ever made.

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From: Coliff Gtiffiths 8 Associates Ltd.

Suggested Retail Price: $39.95
Last year we favorably reviewed this product
as a Windows program. A number of things

And to top it ag, Quickyav Dduxe indudesseachnrts sastuet pteat,

aoavvmu.You11 be abie to conqxoe, sort and rank almost every
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TAX
that prints as a tax return. You can go

online and alter the numbers as much as

you like but can only download three
times, When you are satisfied that you

have your return in order, you can either

download the printable file or you can
have an efiler download the password protected file and efile it (you must visit the

SprlntTax
From: AKMlcrosyslems

Suggestedretail price: lo beannounced

A KMicrosystems has taken over t h e
W indows version o f

revamping it as SprintTax. The software

sent to The Computer Paperfor review was

(operating system) independent and opens

up the program to the Windows world.
Bravo, for innovation. The process was not
up and running at the time of this review so
we must rely on the word of the company

long roadbetween alpha code and gold

Griffiths is giving away the efile software to anyone so that even if your efiler
doesn't use Griffl'ax he or she can down-

load the software and prepare the return.

This effectively makes the product OS

for this year.

The software product itself is elegant and
well written. It is possible to do multiple

returns. There is a good help program and all

the regular functions, As with many of the
companies reviewed here, the 1996 product
was not finalized at the time of the review,
thus these findings are based on last year' s
product. A good interface and an innovative

company make Griffl'ax a good choice for

Mac users and may be a good choice for
Windows users too.
Contact Colin Griffiths 6 Associates,
120 Plneridge Rd., RRP3,Carp, ON, KOA1LO,
Tel: 613-839-2455. Fax 613-839-1764.
Web site: htlp Jtwww.grifftax.corn

Computers

T AX !

G r i f fTax an d i s

accompanied by a note explaining that this

was an alpha version of the product. In
fact, as far as we can tell, this is last year' s
Grifffax for Windows intact. This poses a
difficulty because the Windows product
was well reviewed last year and, should the
revised product remain true to the original,
it is likely that this will be a successful
offering. However, if the program is altered
more than. cosmetically the final version
may be anything what-so-ever. There is a

efiler and give a signature).

codei This will certainly be a make or break

year for the product and we look forward to

reviewing the real McCoy next year.
Contact: AKMlcrosyslems, 98-245 W. BeaverCreek
Rd., Richmond Hill, ON, L48 1L1. Tel: 905-771-1155,

TAX made EASY (DOS only)

From: La Motte Enterprises Inc.
Price: $39.95
"For those who don't like rodents!" was
the note scribbled on the package containing this software. The last in a dying breed,
T AX made EASY clings to life with t h e
tenacity of those aging lovers of the command-line interface. The product hasn' t
changed, neither has the review: If minimalism were a criteria for tax software TAX

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company has been writing tax software for

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y ears and i s f i r mly

ensconced in the DOS world. The manual

is a single, folded piece of paper, which is

all you need because the question windows
and accompanying forms are as clear as
they are Spartan. There is nothing pretty,
superfluous or added t o t h i s p ackage.
What you get is a Lilliputian, prosaic bit of
DOS code that performs a function it calculates your taxes. Unfortunately, 40 clams
is a hefty price for such a thin product.
Contact: La Motte Enl., 204-2614 Bridge Street,
Victoria, BC, V8T4S9. Tel: 250-389-0428.
Fax: 250477-9145.

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interface filling out the blank spaces. When

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return. You can do a spousal return but must
close the first return to get to the second. For

a simple and tiny program this is a decent

offering. SonicTax is a solid, simple little program that you can get at the Web address
below. For simplicity this is it. However, to be
a really good product the price should be
$15.95.
Contact: UnSinn Software, 410-10665 Jasper Ave.,
Edmonton, AB, T5J 3S9, Tel: 403-425-8917.
Web site: htip Jlwww.faxbuster.corn

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The Macintosh product works as well as

these types of programs do, which is to say

they work but are neither pretty nor smart.
The price is about right for a repeat user but
seems high for a first time user.
If you already spend lots of time in your

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this is a retail Produ ct, an d b ) w e

couldn't get it to work.

The company sent two programs with
different passwords but neither would let
us enter any data. As well, the text and
information boxes didn't line up, There

At $9.95, it's not

was an option to play a peculiar little MIDI

file in the background but we are not sure
if this is meant to please or distract. All we
can guess is that this is pre-release product
that is still a work in progress. The company even borrowed our title from last year' s
tax review (Many Happy Returns!) for their
disk cover.

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From: Tax Cruncher Software Incorporated
Price: $15
Tax Cruncher Software is an innovative company that uses your existing spreadsheet program to do tax calculations. It works like
this you download a small 100KB compressed file for your particular operating system and your individual spreadsheet program. Using PKUnzip you expand it to a standard spreadsheet file. You start your spreadsheet program nd load the file. You enter
your social insurance number and then call
the company's toll-free number. You arrange
for payment and they give you an access
number. You sit down at your machine, enter
the number and fill in the tax form boxes.
When you' re done you print a copy and mail
it to Revenue Canada,
There is no paper manual and the interface takes a little getting used to since the
forms lie one beside the next. This is really
just one large spreadsheet so don't expect it to
look like the real tax forms.
Tax Cruncher is available in the following
formats: Lotus 1-2-3 (DOS and Windows),
Quattro Pro (DOS and Windows), Microsoft
Excel (Macintosh and W i ndows), Claris
Works (Macintosh and Windows), Microsoft
Works (Windows). The concept is good and
although the process of using a spreadsheet
takes some getting use to, overall it works.
The company is considering adding an interview-style component, but how this would
be achieved is unclear. The only recommendation we would give them is to lower the

acceuneasy.

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From: FLS Research inc.
Price: Free
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the line of Taxbyte professional tax software in mid-February, 1997.
by FLS Research Inc. of Ontario. It is availCooltax highlights include: an online
able in both a 16-bit version for Windows animated tutorial showing the user how to
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for data entry; complete tax forms that are

fully approved for submission to Revenue
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and fully interactive "what if" scenarios.
What's the catch, you ask? Nothing. That is
all. The company does have add-ons for professional users and efiling but for the individual user the program is gratis and it will
do up to 15 returns.
The program is just over 2 M B and
downloads as a self-extracting .ZIP file.
Once unzipped the executable opens up
and offers the user a choice of two dataentry methods. Although the i n terview
format is ugly and confusing the forms
accurately reflect Revenue Canada forms.
The program looks and feels just like the
other tax programs that you pay for. You
can't efile, unless the tax preparer purchase s the professional product, but for t h e
majority of users that is not a problem. The
program does not have all the bells and
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conscious there has never been anything
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membership surge over the holiday season.
Microsoft is offering a free 304ay unlimited trial subscription to MSN (see contact).
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is the way that the software access is packaged. WebTV Networks has attempted to
guide its users to sites that use its software to
optimize the search for Web sites for viewing
on TV, while shepherding users to those sites
in preference over those that might not look

so great when viewed on TV.

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also encourages each family member to have
their own user name and password, so Mom
and Dad's favorite sites and personal email
won't get read by the kids. it also helps
ensure that the wrong people don't get
access to anticipated features such as home
banking.

What it means
At this early stage, it is really unclear what the
impact of WebTV is likely to be. While Web
surfing has fashionable appeal, it is by no
means certain that this is how people want to
use their television sets,
Another salient issue is th e s i mple
question of who wants to overburden the
television set with ye t a n other device?
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videotape recorders and dedicated video
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depends on this single, all-purpose (and

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Although Intel first introduced the 200 MHz

Pentium processor on June 10, 1996, it wasn't until recently that it became closer to
affordable for mainstream users. Most system
vendors today are able to offer these processors without having to make the customer
waiting for a spedal order. These days, the
majority of advertisements you' ll see for

will opt to get the faster processor just for the

sake of having one. But the budget~nsdous

among you will find our test results very

interesting, According to Intel, a Pentium
processor speed of 166 MHz will result in an
iCOMP 2,0 index rating of 127, whereas the

200 MHz processor will achieve a rating of

142. By doing some simple arithmetic, we
can see that the numbers translate into an
computers will have, at the very least, a 120 increase of 11.8 percent.
MHz processor, with 133 MHz being the
(The iCOMP 2.0 rating is a system used
most common. for t h ose who are still
by Intel to compare the relative performance
equipped with 386 and 486 machines, these of its various processors. It is intended to give
systems will undoubtedly look very attrac- non-technical users a way of determining
tive.
what they can expect from various processor
However, for those few who are fortunate speeds, and to help them dedde which one is
enough to have been spoiled by a lab full of better suited to their needs. for further
200 MHz Pentium Pros, it can be very dis- details on the iCOMP 2.0 system, take a look
onvergenc
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separate media
is the driving force
with these 200 MHz Pentium systems, we paper/ch2icomp.htm)
of personal computing. The high- found ourselves thinking back wishfully to
end maclrines we review thh month not the good ol' days of August. During a partic- The meitlaya ef e IsiII~
sy s t em
only boast exceptionally fast processors, ularly warm month, the temperature in our Ask just about anyone, and they'll tell you
they aho give the processor a lot to think Test Lab was further increased when these that a true high-performance system will
about.
Pentium Pro beasts were powered on and let have a 200 MHz Pentium or Pentium Pro
These high~d systems combine video, . loose to take on our infamous BAPCo bench- processor. While the processor speed is ceraurfio and-hmtasingly sophhticated tele- mark suIte. With our daydreaming sessions tainly a key inyedient in any computer,
phony capability aB under one roof. The over, we slowly began our j
back into there are several factors to consider before
computer is, now more than ever,a dynamic
reality, where we were eager to find out how buying any computer-especially when

ourney

communications centre. It isn't just for play-

ing games and performing spreadsheet cakulations anymore. It is merging multiple

mefia to create interactive presentations to
be nanow~ across the globe.
The demands placed on personal computers today not only require procming
power, but a host of various hardware components, aB of which must be seamlessly
integrated to achieve acceptable performance. Offering nifty tools means very little
if they bog down the system.
During the course of this month's
review, we' ve seen a slew of new hardware
making its way i nto th e PC sector.
Everything from larger hard drives, to
faster video cards designed for 3D acceleration, to 12x CD-ROMs are now everyday
items which we can obtain to further
enhance our computer's performance. And
of course, there are faster processors avaIIabl, such as the 200 MHz Pentium series
which are at the heart of this month's
reviewed systems.

their younger siblings would fare this month.

So, the questions readers are dying to

have answered are "Do I buy a P-200 or wiB

a 166 MHz version do the job? Or how about
a 133MHz? My friend hasone,and hesays
all his software runs without problems." As
with many things we desire in life, the
answer to this question is as simple as "do I
really need one?"
Of course there are those with propellers
on their heads (who happen to be drooling at
the mere mention of 200 MHz) who will
immediately throw caution to the wind and
buy a 200 MHz system just because it's the
fastest clock speed currently available to
home users. Sure, the numbers sound attractive, and yes, they are indeed fast, but as we
will come to see, there is far more to a highperformance computer than its processor

speed.

At the time of writing, the difference in

price between a Pentium 166 and a 200 MHz
chip was in the realm of $150 to $200. To
some, this may seem insignificant, and they

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you' re going to spend a lot of your hard-

much youadd,you won't notice any diNerence. This is especiafiy true of programs written several years ago, before DOS extenders
such as DOS4GW were available, back when
the dreaded 640KB barrier was in existerKe.
On the other hand, let's say you just
bought a fully updated version of the same
game, but thh one's designed to run under
Windows 95. Now, our hypothetical Pac Man
has a set of lasers, ion canons, and shrink
rays that all look yeat using the new 3D
yaphical interface. They sound even better
with digital stereo and surround sound
where you actually determine the ghost
location by sound alone.
All of a sudden, you' ve added a tremendous amount of complexity to the yune, and
with the added complexity comes the need
for more RAM. Playing the game on the same
machine equipped with 8 MB wIB most like.
ly be dreadful, making it anything but enjoyable.
Now go ahead and throw in the 32 MB.
Notice how your hard drive light isn't constantly fiashing anymore? ThaA because the
program h novr residing in RAM, rather than
being swapped to and from your much slower hard drive.
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are measurable using software.
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TCP labs first look: MMX comes up smokin'

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32 MB of EDO RAM, 512KS of pipeiined cache,
a Matrox Mystique video card with 2 MS on
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Also included for the $2,799 suggested retail
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card.
How did it pertorm? To our surprise, the
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benchmarks. This is quite a teat, considering
that none of the applications in the suite are
designed to take advantage of MMX. Our otherwise fastest P-l 66 machine in the December
survey came from Dell, scoring 145 overall.
With the MMX processor inside, the Comtex
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ever seen by a margin of 10.3 percent.
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is no slouch either. The BAPCo score of 160
puts the Comtex 166 MHz MMX unit smack in
the middle, at seventh place, in a iield ot 16
non-MMX P200s,
The Comtex MMX machines went on sale

December '96 roundup managed to

both surprise and delight us at the
'same time. While booting up a machine from
Comtex Micro Systems based in Richmond,
B.C., we noticed that the BIOS status box stated that the processor was ot type P55C, rather
than the usual P54 variety. To make absoiuteiy
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to improve on the current Pentium line by
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Intel' Pentium 200

COMPUCO."g/86Series.
Intel Pentium 133MHz

IOA" SVGA Active Mauix Colour Display

256KB PB Cache

16MB RAM (expandtble to 40MB)

1.068 IDE (Optional 1368)

PCI Bus Graphic Atxel, with lMB RAM
4X CD-ROM drive, 3.5" FDD
Smart NiMH DuraceU Battery Pack

Auto-voltage AC Adapter
1 Type Hl aad I Type HPCMCIA
Infra Red- IrDA
16bit Audio, Built-in Speakers
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speaker,headsetjacks
Touch Pad
Power Management, Windows95
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Con.'inued from pagelio
sevrral ways. SGRAM has a higher bandwidth,

whch means it can deliver more pixels to

your screen in any given time. It has added
capabilities for block writes, which lets you
pe)form area fills and text Iminting at a greatly lccelerated rate. Also, the fact that they' re
called synchronous means they are tied to

your system clock, which enables them to

function at higher bus speeds than 66 MHz.
This is beneficial to you if you like to plan
ahead, When the time comesfor 225 MHz or
250 MHz systems, their bus speedswill range
anywhere from 75 MHz to 100 MHz. Today's
DRAM and EDO DRAM are designed for use
only up to 66 MHz.
VRAM (video RAM) and WRAM (Window
RAM) are significant improvements over any
other type of RAM due to the fact that they
are dual-ported. This allows for far greater

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EDO RAM.

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drive was a very speedy Matrox Millennium

sporting 4 MB of VNAK This card w)1l not
only deliver superb performance, but will pro-

Togo hand-in-hand with the speedy hard

The moment weopened up the box and saw

the enclosed spec. sheet, we new we had a vide you with support for resolutions as high
screamer on our hands. The giveaway was the as 1,600x1,200 thanks to its large comply
Ultra Wide SCSI hard drive from Seagate. The
controller was Adaptec's 2940UW~ perfect
match for this drive. Nat only is it huge, at
43 GB, but it's also incredibly fast. The sys-

ment of RAM. Multimedia accessories indude

a state of the art 12x CD-ROM drive from
Panasonic, and a Sound Bluster 32 Plug and

Play sound card, A pair of 150W speakersare

tem wau powered by a 200 MHz pmcessar also included.
with 512KS of pipelined cache and 32 MB of

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bandwidth, which in turn allows for much

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greater thraughput in terms of both MB/s and

pixels per second. You' ll find some of the best

video cards on the market are equipped with
VRAM or WRAM.

Not long ago, the price difference between

DRAM and VRAM was far greater than it is
today, which put VRAM cards out of reach for

many. That's no longer the case

today, with 2
MB VRAM or WRAM cards selling for close to
$200.
It's all important that you pick a video
card which can handle vertical refresh rates of
at least 70 Hz to 75 Hz in all video mades. The
refresh rate of the card and monitor denote
the number of times the image is being
repainted (refreshed) on the screen. For flick-

er-free displays, you' ll want to stay above 60

Hz, and aim for 75 Hz or higher. Note that
both your monitor and video card have to
have support for these refresh rates. It's not
much good to you if you buy a super video
card that can refresh at 160 Hz to find that

yaur monitor won't go any higher than 60

Hz.
What's ln stere uuexty
One of the most eagerly awaited additions
to the PC industry is Inteps MMX processor.

Initially scheduled for the later part of 1996

these chips are expected to be available in
early 1997, perhaps even by the time you

read this. MMX processors are basically an

enhancement of Intel's current processor

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applications.
But aside from the new instructions
introduced, the new chips will also have a
larger on-board cache of 32KB, compared to
today's 16KB, This alone will yield a boost in

S.

overall system performance of about 11 percent.

We were able to get an early look at an

MMX processor during our September '96 sur-

vey, and a "realm system from Comtex in

December. Although we bad no applications
that take advantage of the MMX technology,
we were definitely able to notice an increase
in speed. It is estimated that with software

designed to take full advantage of MMX, performance boosts as high as 50 to 400 percent

can be expected. So, if you' re the type who

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Intel Pentium Pro 200Mhz, processor with
Intel 440Fx Chipset and full support of Intel's
multiprocessing standard (MP Sec 1.1) for
processor-intensive applications. 32MB RAM
expandable
to512K cache.8X CD ROM IDE,
Matrox video card, 2 GBScsi hard drive,
windows NT.
MODEL: D4353N
Monitor Extra

32MB RAMexpandabl
eto512K cache,BX
CD ROM IDE,Matrox video card, 2 GBSCSI
hard drive, windows NT.
MODEL: D4353N
Monitor Extra

Standard software
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256 K Pipeline Burst synchronous
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4 SIMMs), 60ns, EDO
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ISA data bus
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Canon BJC 4550 wide carriage colour bubble jet

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Creative Lab Discovery 8X ....... . . . . . . .$415
Creative Lab Performance 8X ....... . . . . .$421
Creative Lab OEM
Sound Card ....... . . . .$141
HP Surestore CD
Writer incl. Win 95 ......$990
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Seagate 2.1/4.3/9.1 GBSCSI ...$662I151 0/2752 No.9FX Mofkm 7712MB/4MB VRAM.....$315/472
Herculese Dynamic 2/4 MB ......, . ..$156/271
Micropolis 2.1/4.3/9.1GB SCSI,,$581/1467/2751
Millenium 2MB WRAM ......$245
Quanfium
Fireball IDE1.2/2.1/3.2.....$275/357/430 Matrox MGA
TsangLab ET~ PCI IIGA 1MBI2MB ....$78/90
Quantium
Rreball SCSI1.2I2,1/3,2,...$381/441/585
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32MB RAM, expandable to 256MB
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HP Color Laserjet Printer 5 .....$8197
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Viewsonic
E655/17EA .............$495/$875 486DN2-66MHz System, 8MBRAM. 1.44 MB,
Mitsubishi 21" TFWDP917XM....... . . . .$2550
Roppy Drive, Mini Tower, SYGAcard, 14' SVGA
Hitachi 21'802 ...... . . , . . . . . . . . . . , ..$2734 Monitor, 420 MBHardDrive, AT I/O Card, 101
.$2176 Advanced keyboard ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . .$795
Sony 20" SF/SE
Sony 15 SF2/17SE2...... , . . . . . . . .$655/1406 *limited quantity
NEC 15"XV1
5+/XV17t/XE21 ....$609/1077/2486
Mag 15DN15T/17DN700T...$520/546/950/98Q
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Samsung17 GLI/GLSI...... . . . . . . .$910/1067
Samtron151JXL .
.$492 1,44 MB RAM,1MBATI video card, 19' tower
case, BX CDROM,16bit sound card, keyboard,
Datatiain DC625/7QQU710/629 $396/696/813/1605 1.2 GB hard drive, speakers. Microsoft mouse,
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Continued from page434
from ServiceWorks Distribution Inc. in B.C.
comes this DataTrain system. It features many
of the accessories common among this
month"s tested systems, including the 200
MHz Pentium CPU, 512KB of pipelined

from Panasonic should make CD-ROM-based

software a breeze to access. Video is accomplished through an ATI Mach64 with 2 MB of
DRAM on board. The system also features a
33.6Kbps faxmodem, a Sound Blaster 16
sound card a n d f o u r s o f tware t i t les.
Performance of this machine was at acceptable levels based on the given components.

cache, and 32 MB of RAM, Hard drive storage

Empac

should be adequate for the next while with a

2.1 GB drive. The zippy 12x CD-ROM drive

Computers from Empac are distributed under

the Azura name. While fairly new to our Test

Lab, these systems have managed to surprise

us every now and then, with this month

being no exception. The configuration, which

is found among many systems surveyed this
month, includes a Pentium 200 MHz processor, 512KB of pipeline burst cache, and 32 MB
o f SDRAM. One unique feature of t h i s
machine was the Diamond Stealth video card
with 2 MB of EDO RAM. It's been our experience that systems equipped with these cards

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tend to score high marks in the area of our

benchmarks that deal with graphics-intensive
Isa

applications. The unit is made complete with

a 2.5 GB drive from Seagate, a 33.6Kbps faxmodem and a 12x CD-ROM drive from
Panasonic.
As far as performance goes this machine

managed to achieve a score of 159 on our

suite. This is a well-rounded sys.Patiallj[.,P.- .,13x,:.IDatunix I?-I&&-:,'3Pat4i

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ultimate machine, loaded with features not
found among any of its competitors. Thiswas
one of those cases where we knew we had a
winner on our hands just by reading the

endosed spec. sheet. To start off, the system

bears a 200 MHz Pentium CPU, 512KB of

pipelined Level-2 cache and 32 MB of EDO

RAM. All your video needs will be met with a
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4.5 GB Quantum Atlas Ultra Wide SCSI,
complete with Adaptec's 2940UW controller.
If you want the hard drive of all hard drives,
this is definitely the one to get.
Now we come to the multimedia components of the system, where things really start
to get interesting. To start off, you' ll get
unparalleled sound quality and features from
Creative Labs' brand new Sound Blaster
AWE64 Synthesizer. The CD-ROM drive in the
unit is not only a fast Panasonic 10x, but adds
a unique twist by being able to juggle five CDROMs at the same time. This five-disc chang-

er is great if you have a set of CDs that you' re

constantly using but are tired of swapping
back and forth.
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Digicom faxmodem and the Microsoft Plus

ROM featuring MS Office Professional. A great

package,backed by one of the industry'
s
giants, is yours for $4,435 with a three-year
warranty.

RAM. Whether your graphic requirements are

simple or that of a real gaming nut, the ATI
3D Rage chipset with 2 MB on board will go a
long way to satisfying your needs. Storage is
provided using IBM's own 3.2 GB EIDE drive,
which has proven to be very fast in our tests.
Using IBM's Mwave, you get a 28.8Kbps faxmodem and 16-bit sound capabilities all on
one card, As was mentioned before, the media
console houses an Bx CD-ROM drive.
The package wouldn't be complete without a slew of software that you' ve come to
expect from IBM. Among the many titles are
Microsoft Encarta '96, Lotus SmartSuite 96,
Quicken SE, MechWarrior 2 designed for the
3D Rage chipset, VR Soccer, TripMaker 1996
SE, and others aimed at younger children
that fall into the "edutainment" category. To
give you the best possible chance of defeating those enemy Mechs, IBM includes a very
attractive, high-quality joystick with buttons galore, and a cordless mouse. The price
of this model with a 15-inch monitor is
$4,999 or $5,499 if you want a 17-inch version. The system includes a three-year warranty.

pack for Windows 95. The package sells for

$5,799 with a five-year labor and three-year
parts warranty. The Panasonic PD/CD drive is
an additional $599. A truly exceptional system, definitely Editors' Choice material.
Hewlett-Packard

HP's evaluation system this month was from

the Vectra 500 series. Our test unit came
equipped with a 200 MHz Pentium processor,
32 MB of RAM and 256KB Level-2cache.
Video in this system is achieved through a
Matrox Millennium with 2 MB of WRAM
Storage comes in the form of a 2.5 GB
Quantum hard drive, which definitely aids in
system performance. Multimedia components include a Sound Blaster 16 sound card,
and an Bx CD-ROM drive. What really makes
this system ~nd out is the included CD-

GAME PLAYER
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AMD K5-100 CPU

256 KB CacheMemory
16MB EDOMemory
Trident 1MBVGACard
1.0 GB HardDrive
1.44 MB RoppyDrive
13 Tower CaseW/230W PS
14' PC-Partner Monitor NI/LR
Window 95 Keyboard
Hi-Res Serial Mouse

Well, it's black, it's sleek, and it's new from

IBM, This latest innovation, code named
Stealth is IBM's attempt to, among other
things, help keep your desktop clean. The system is composed of three main pieces the
monitor, media console, and the tower case
itself. IBM's design allows you to place the
monitor and media console on your desktop,
while conveniently letting you hide the tower
under your desk. The media console is home
to your floppy and CD-ROM drives, so there
are no worries about having to crawl under
your desk all the time to insert a disc.
Aside from being a great performer, this
system is very aesthetically pleasing, making
it a sureflre way to impress someone. The unit
consists of a 200 MHz Pentium processor with
256KB of Level-2cache and 32 MB of EDO

INTERNETOREAMER
IntoI Pentium 120MHzCPU
256 KB CacheMemory
16MB EDDMemory
Trident 2MBVGACard
16 Bit SoundCard
SX CD-ROM
1.7 GB Hard Orive
33.6 FAX/MODEMCardWNtrice
15 SVGA MonItorNI/LR
1.44 MB FloppyDrive
15 Tower CaseW/230W PS
Window 95 Keyboard
Microsoft Mouse
60Waft Speakers

$895

$1,495

3D LOVER

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Intel Pentium 166MHzCPU

512 KB CacheMemory

Intel Pentium Pro200MHz CPU

32MBEOOM

32MB EDOMemory
Matrox Millium vortcsraw<4Muwtutss
32 Bit Sound Blasfer w/AWE
12X CD-ROM
2.1 GB HardDrive
33.6 FAX/MODEM
Card W/Voice
Sony 17" Monitor
1.44 MB Floppy Drive
17' ATX TowerCaseW/230W PS
Fujitsu 4725 Keyboard
Mlcfosoft Mouse
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12X CD-ROM
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NEC M500 15' SVGAMonitor N/I L/R
1.44 MB FloppyDrive
19' Tower CaseW/230W PS
Microsoft Nature Keyboard
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lowest-priced systems, but certainly not lowest performers. In fact, with a score of 155 on
our BAPCo benchmark suite, this system
managed to place among the fastest in the
survey. The system as a whole leaves little to
be desired. The 200 MHz Pentium processor is
aided by 512KB of pipelined cache an 32 MB
of EDO RAM. This was yet another system to
use the new Rage chipset from All. The 4 MB
version of this card is expandable to 8 MB of
SGRAM, and has the capability of redirecting

PENTIUM MULTIMEQIANOTEBOOK
Pentium 133 MHz
6X CD-ROM
2MB VideoRAM
11.3" Active Matrix LCD(800 x 600)
1.0GB HardDrive
16MB EOD
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ATI 64Bit PCI 1M/2M ................-.............. $8o......... $95
ATI 30 Xpress 2M/4M SDRM ................ $140....... 6177
Cxamzrnd aD M64 2M/4M VRAM
Matron Millitrrrr pCI 2M/4M VVRAM ......,. s25t ....... $343
Matron Myst 30 2M QRAM .................... $247
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$260 ....... $255 .... $252

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2.5GBW.O./Seagate/Fuinsu .....
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Computers from IPC are known to us around
the Test Lab as the ones with all the little
extra gizmos. This machine is equipped with
everything you need to get you up and running right out of the box. Whether your main
concern is price or system features, IPC has it
all. Driven by a 200 MHz processor, 256KB of

pipeline burst cache and 32 MB of RAM, you

have plenty of computing power to run all of
the applications that come with this system,
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SX CO-ROM
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2.0GB Hard Drive
32MB EOO
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Seagate 2.1568 51 2K SCSI .................. $675

seagate2.fGB 51 2Kscsl wide ....... 61,115

seagate 4,26GB 5f 2K Scsl wide ..... $1,490
Adaptec 2920 PCI SCSI Controller ....... $14S

Adoptee zoaoU PCI SCSI Controller ..... $267

Adaptec 294OUW PCI SCSl Controller . $325
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canon Lapaoo laser ..............................$324
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Fujiisu 8725 ...........................,................. $29
Fuiitatz 4725 ............................................. $59
Micronrzft Nature Keyboard ..................... 895

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a 12x CD-ROM drive from Mitsumi, a Sound
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w/17" monitor/NKC15"..........+$3QO/170
w/ gx/12x CD-ROM................+$135/165
w/ l6bit sound/SB16pnp ....... +$35/80

w/SB32Pnp /SB64AWE....... +$150/250

w/33.6 Voice / USR voice....... +$105/I 60

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8M/EDO 72pin ........................$42/42
16M/EDO 72pin ......................$90/86
32M/EDO 72pin .................$172/172
64M/EDO 72pin.........,........$485/48S
IM/4M 30pin ........,....,.....,....$9/28
Parity 4M/8M 72pin.................$35/52
Parity 16M/32M 72pin ......,.$110/210
DIMM 8M/16M 168pin,...,.....$65/95
DIMM 32M/64M 168pin....$210/445
SO DIMM 8M/16M ..............$85/145
INTEL MMX 166/200.........$600/820
AMD K5-75/100/133......$58/105/155
Intel PS-IOOI120/133....$135/165/275
Intel PS-150/166/200....$295/460/680
Intel P6-200 2S6k/512k...$1110/1895
6x86P ISO+/166+................ $168/240

PRINTER
Panasonic24p/OKI 32DT....$240/360
Canon BJC240/4100..........$245/300
Canon BJC4550.........................$560
HP 400C/680C/690C...
$265/390/450
HP 820Cxt/870Cxi.............$510/640
Epson Color 500/Pro..........$390/530

Pnnnsonic KXP6100 laser.........$390

Brother HL730dx .....................$430

HP 5L 600dpi,.
..$530
HP 6P/6MP, 2M,8ppm.....$960/I260
HP 5/ SN/ 5M .......$1680/2100/2460
HP 4V/5si/5siMx...$2580/36SO/5130
HP 4P scaner.............................$640
HP 4C scaner...........................$1115

Microtek E3.........,....................$470
Logitech pagescaner.................$400

Triton2 VX 256k PBC/DIMM....$110 "

LuckyStar VX256 PBC DIMM..$130
GAS86VX 512k PBC/DIMM.....$175
GA586HX 512k PBC.................$195
Asus VX 256k PBC/DIMM.......$190
Asus T2 HX 256k PBC .........,...$200
Asus T2 ATX 256k PBC............$210
Tyan S1470/dimm,256k...
.........$230
TyanTomcat III/ Dual PS/512.....$340
Intel Marl T2 ATX 256k.............$170
Intel Tucson T2 ATX s16,256k. $250
Intel Venus 44OFX P6 ..............$330
Dual P6 Supro Natoma .............$550
Dual P6 Tyan Natoma...............$615
CPU fan 486/PS/P6...............$7/8/16
256k/512k PBC......................$20/38
FD 1.44
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MONITORI Video Card

14 "/15 "/17"................$260/355/650
Acer 15 "/17" digital..........$390/710
MAG DX 15/1795e..........$465/830
NEC CSOO/M500..............$530/630

NEC XV17+/M700......$1090/1040
NEC P750 17" 1600..............$1360

Sony 100SX/SF 15".........$530/610

Sony 200SX/SF 17".......$920/1090
Viewsonic 17PS/GS.......$960/840
NEC P1150/Sony20.....$2680/2100
PCI 64b I M/2M...................$40/58
PCI 64 w/MPEG I/2M...,....$50/70
ATI 64 I M/2M DRAM........$65/85
ATI Xp 3D/Diamond 3D 2M..$155
ATI 3D Rage2 PC2TV 2M.....$165
ATI 3D Pro Turbo 4M............,$270
Millenum 2M/4M 1600...$248/350
Misteque 2M/4M 1280....$200/315
SOJ RAM for Video IM..........$15

Intel PentiumPro (P6) CPU/256k

QuantntnFS 2 si/3.2GB...$340/400
Intel Venus w/Natoma 440FX
Quantum FS1.28/2.16......$255/315
EIDE, 2x16550, Parallel
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Quantum 2.5/3.16...............,...$340/400
Scagate 1.2/1.7/2.1.............$258/290/320
Seagatc 2.56........,.....,....,..........$350
Quantum 2.1 scsi/W/UW...$480/610/730
Quantum 436 Wscsi/UW....$1260/1300
Sengate 46 UW scsi .............,.....$1490
Scagate 9G wide scsi ....................$2690
ISA 16bit super I/O 2x 16550.............$35
VESA 32bit 2xl6550.............,.........$35
Adaptcc 1520/1522 scsi................$85/90
Adaptcc 2940/2940ultra............$240/250
Adaptec2940W/2940UW.........$29S/320
scsi /widc scsi cable..............,.......$l5/35

HP colorado T 1000/E ...........$160/200

HP T2000/E...........................$230/290
ZIP 100M scsi int/cxt ......$250(us$50)
ZIP IOOM Parallel.........,.,$248(us$50)
Jaz 16 scsi int/ext..................$500/610
Ditto 800M int/ext.................$155/180
Ditto 26B Traven int/cxt.......$200/250
DC2120/2120XL ....,......,....$18/25
Traven TRlffR3 tape ..........,....$36/70

Zip disk lOOM ..........,....................$18

Jaz disk IG...................................$125

CD Writer

HP SurcStore 6020 ..........,...........$940

Creative 4x/2x w/ctrl/sft..............$600
Yamaha 100 4x/4x in/ex....$1050/1130
Sony CD Writer CSP940 w/ctrl...$890
TDKI SONY writablc cd-disk........$10

CD-ROMI Sound Card

gx Acer/Panasonic...,.........,......,..$140
12x EIDE CD ROM,...,.......,......$165

NEC gx SCSI int, SCSI ............$320

16bit sound card/SB 16pnp,......$35/80
SoundBlaster 32 Pnp....,.............$148
SB64 Awe Pnp retail box ............$260

60W/80W/230W Speaker.
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33.6FaxVoiceMod/ USR........$105/160
33 6Voice retail int/ext.USR..$210/25

Supra 33.6 VoiceFaxModem........ $140

Mouse ICaseIKeyboard
Mouse/logitech 2B......................$8/20
Logitech 38/MS v,3......,....,..,.$32/40
13 "/15 "/19" w/power............$50/55/65
ATX 17"/ Full tower..............$105/110
104KB/Fujitsu8725/4725....$20/30/60
M icrosoft
Nature Kbd .............,.....$85

16bit ISA ComboEthernet.................$35

32bit PCI Combo Ethernet.................$60
Intel ISA Ethernet Pro 10+.................$99

Intel ISA Ether Pro 10+Combo.......$140

Intel PCI Ethernet Pro 100..............5140
3Com Etherlink 16 comb/IOB..$140/120
3Com Ether PCI 5098 (IOB)...........$150

3Com Ether PCI 590 (Combo)........$190

BNC/Terminator/T .........,,........... $5
Coax Cable IOII/20II/SOIL......$15/20/35
Netware 5/10 users..................$960/1700

NT 4.0 Server 5 /10 user ........$950/1100

NT 4.0 Workstahon ........................$290
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32 MB EDD
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2 MB WRAM
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S ound Blaster 16
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Quantum
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14" SCEPTRE (PNP) (028) $290
15o PC PARTNNER (028) $350
504 EAST BROADWAY VANCOUVER, B.C. V6T 1X4
SCEPTRE N/LL/R (0.28) $380
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PKNTIUM TRITON II
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256 KB PIPELINED CACHE
256 KB I PKLIN~ CACHE, PN 256 KB~IP JJM~CACHE. PNP
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8 MB KIIQ I~M
6 MB ~(U I A M
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16 MS~OR M
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640 MB EIDE HDD MODFA
1.2 GB EIDE MODE4
1.6 GB EIDE HDD MODE4
2.1 GB EIDE HDDMODFA
15" SONY 100SX/SF 10.25l(NEW)
- $520/620
MPKG IMB SVGA CARD
(MPKG) ATI I MB DRAM CARD
ATI 2MB DRAM (MPKG)
ATI 2tiPIB 39 XPRKSSION MPEG 17" SONY 200SX/200SF (0.25) (NEtW)--$&90/1060
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1.44 MB FLOPPYDRIVE, 2S/1P
1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE.25/1P 1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE, 2S/1P
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104WIN95 KEYBOARD
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2.1 GB EIDE HDD MODFA
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1.44 MB FLOPPY DMVE, 2S/1P
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MGA MILLKNIUM 4 MB WRAjkl tRETAIL BOXr
$350
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- $100/135

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32 MB El@i~RA /1
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2 .6M$72 P I BI E9 0 - - $7 6
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28.8 /33Ai INT FAX/MODEM VOICE-- ----$130/140
104WIN95 KEYBOARD
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16MB ~QRAM
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www,lcf,corn

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Datatrain DEX 100:

PenSum Processor 100 Mhz

10.4' TFT SVGA Color
1,4G Hdisk,16 meg ram
TouchPad, 6X CD-ROM
6,3ib, NiMH Battery
1.44rng Floppy Drive
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1 yr warranty
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16 meg ram, 256k cache

1.3G Hdisk, 1.44 meg Roppy drive

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Cirrus Mpeg 1megPCI

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6.3lb, NiMH Battery

1.44mg Floppy drive

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1 yr Datatrain Warranty

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1.3G Hdisk. 1.44 meg Floppy drive
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14" Ni low rad SVGA Monitor

High Power Speakers
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Windcws95Full Version e1di88

Printers, Maderns 8c Fax INachines

Canon LBP460 Laser printer 600 dpi. 4 ppm
$359
Canon B540Plain PaperFax Machine
$579
Canon MP2500 Color Plain Paper Fax, Scanner, Copier, Printer $S8
Canon BJC4100 Color Inkjet printer w lots of kids software $309
12X CD-ROM by Cyberdrive with Audio cable
$169
ATI 3D to TV, 4 mug SDRAM, Output VGA Image to TV
$229
ATI TV Tuner, input source for TV, VCR
$149
Modems
SupraExpress 33.6 Voice Fax/Modem Internal
$139
U.S. Robotics 33,6 Voice Internal Fax/Modem Duplex Phone $239
MegaHertz 28.8 PCMCIA notebook Modem with Fax
$29 9
Raven Printers a Fax Machines
Raven LS66ppm Laser Windows Printer, 512K. 1200dpi $499
Raven QuickFax 2, Paper Cutter, Digital Answer Machine $429
Hewlett Packard
HP 5 Laser printer, heavy duty, 12ppm, 600 dpi
$1 799
HP6P Laser Printer, 2 mag 600 dpi, 8 ppm
$1029
Brother HL730 laster printer, 600dpi, 2 yr warranty
$499

Pentiufn, 6X86 8 Pentium Pro Systems

.Windows 85 with TutcnalCD
4BM 2.1G Hdisk
16 meg EDOSIMM RAM72 pin
Mitsumi Win 95 Keyboard & Mouse

15" tower case, 3 fens

Grolier+ 7 tace CDs free

Sound Blastar 16 w/Powered Speakers

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399
MAG1795.28dp17" SVGA $498

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53 Virgo 3D 2 meg EDO PCI Graphics Crd. 12x CD RONI Drive, 15" 8VGA INonitor
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ATI 3D Expression 2mg PC to TV $ 1 2 9

Matrox Mystic 2 meg SDRAM
$169
Matrox Miilenium 2MB WRAM
$169
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Prices Subject to Change Without Notice

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Intel P-1RO Triton VX 356k PPL O'379,95
Intel P-133 Triton VX RSdk PPL $399.95
Intel P-150 Triton VX R56k PPL $489.95
Intel P-166 Triton VX RSdk PPL $6R9.95
Intel P-R00 Triton VX R56k PPL $789.95
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Asus TritonII P/I-P55TVP4
$185.95

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AMD 5X86-133Mhz
AMD 5X86-P75-133 CPU
486 PCI/ISA W/256K Cactte
4MB Ram
1.44 Floppy Driv
63OMB Hard Olive
PCI Cirrus Lol3ic 64t3it I MB
13s Tower Cose W/PS.
104 Wrn95 KB

83.95
38.95
39.95
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85.95
10.95
87.95

Medio mouse w/pad

Pe!ItiIIm-I Entity LeVel

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256k Pipeline, Trffon II430vx chlpsef
BMB TdAMEXP.128MB
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3.5'1.44MB FIOPPY DRIVE
PCI EIDE WI2x16550IIAIPT SEIF
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Cirrus Logic 64bit w/1MB (exp.2mb)

14" IV.L LR. .28 SVAG MONITC%
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Canoe LBP-4do laser doodpi
5375.95
Brother HL630 Laser 300dpi
541 5.95
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3 599 . 9 5
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$189.95
$539.95
$349.95
1.7GB HndDme
$375.95
R.IGB Hed Drive
IBM $315.95

Bnnas
onicBxCD-ROM $145.95
Hitaciti Bx
CD-ROM
$135.95
Ruanordc
CD-ROM 1RX $175.95
PioneerCD4IOM 1RX $169.95
16BR Pap~~hadst $36.95
Dieaand Steahh64 4mb
Vrna 30 $3 I5.95
DrinOumlse $359.95
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$85.95
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38 PnP $139,95
S3 Virs
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595.95
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Creatures, Works and Money. The popular

Virtual Fighter by Sega is also part of the deal.
Hard drive storage comes in the form of n 1.6
GB Fu)itsu drive. Although smaller than most
of the systems in this survey, it still provides
you with sufficient room, at least for the near
future,
The one thing we would change in this
system is the 1 MS ATI Mach64 video card.
For 8 very small amount, it would certainly
be beneficial to usk for 8 2 MS version of

the card, or even for ATI's new 3D Rage.

Multimedia components include a 12x CDROM drive from Toshiba, 8 Sound Bluster
16 sound card, 8 Zoltrix "snake" microphone and a33.6Kbps faxmodem. Popular
among IPC nnd Bondwell systems are the
radio tuners, which are found in the form
of an ISA card, complete with Windowsb ased software to ai d y o u i n fl i p p i n g
between your favorite stations, lt is priced
at $2,549 and comes with a three-year warranty.

Known for providing us with fast systems at

competitive prices, OA's submission into this
month's Test Lab wns n complete package
with nothing but the best of components. It
featured S12KS of pipelined cache, 32 MB of
EDO RAM, and an ATI 3D Pro Turbo with 4
MS of SGRAM. The video card is capable of
using your TV as a monitor, which can prove
to be quite fun. The hard drive in the system
was a Quantum 2,0 GB Wide SCSI, complete
with an Adoptee 2940UW controller. Other
components include a 12x CD-ROM drive
from Toshiba, 8 Sound Bloater 32 Plug and
Play sound card from Creative Labs with n
Yarnahg DBS0XG MIDI daughterbonrd if
you' re 8 real sound buff, and a 33.6Kbps faxm odem w it h s p eakerph one fro m U S

Robotics, The price of the system is $3,188,

and an extra $200 for the Yamnhn daughterboard.

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this month from Sirus wgs among the fastest

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From Quebec-based Mycomp comes a wellbalanced, competitively p r iced system.

Features in this unit include the standard
200 MHz Pentium processor, 256KB of
Level-2cache, 32 MS of RAM, and a Matrox
M illennium video card w it h 2 M S o f
WRAM.
The 3.2 GS Quantum hard drive will not

only give your system a perfonnance boost,

but will also pmvide you with plenty of storSge for the foreseeable future. An ESS1688
sound card provides you with 16-bit stereo
sound. The Sx CD-ROM drive in this system
is not ns fast as the newer 12x variety, but is
still very reliable, considering nearly nll CDROM titles require no more than 8 2x drive to
ensure compatibility. To add the finishing
touches to the system, Mycomp has included
a 33.6Kbps fnxmodem from Supra. The price
tag on this machine rends $2,850 nnd comes
with a three-year warranty.

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of the lot. Using Intel's 430HX chipset and

other high-quality components, compu
ters
from Sirus are always a trent to work with
because we never have to worry about things
like system crashes every five minutes during
testing. Powered by n 200 MHz processor,
this system boasts a number of features that
are sure to please any power-hungry user. For
example, the S12KB of pipelined cache was
certainly a factor in p utting this system
among the fastest ever surveyed. The system
was further enhanced by 32 MB of EDO
RAM, 8 super fast 3.1 GB hard drive from
Western Digital, Ond t h e e v er-popular
Matrox Millennium with 4 MB of high-speed
WRAM on hoard. A US Robotics 33.6Kbps
voicelfnxmodem will meet your communication needs with ease. Multimedia components include 3 Pioneer 12x CD-ROM drive,
n Sound Bluster 32 sound card, nnd a pair of

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B Y CI R A E M E

Compucon Supert raph 2$0S

System configuration: 128 MB RAM, 200 MHz
Pentium Pro4 GB fast/wide SCSI hard drive,
Windows IIT 4.00.1381, Leadtek L2500 (Glint 500TX-

based) graphicscard
Price: under $9,000, including COwriter
ere is a saying in the computer industry

(from a writer at PC Magazine, as I recall)

that "the computer you really want
always costs $5,000," (5,000 US dollars, that

is). Personally, I' ve always had enough budgetary constraints that the computers I' ve
bought have tended to cost as little as possible,

focusing on delivering a superior user experience (read: easecf-use) and as much performance as possible without breaking the bank.
This has led me through a range of highvalue platforms over the years, including
Commodores, Amigas, Atari STs, IBM clones
and even Macintosh compatibles.
Invariably, there is a tradeof when one
attempts to balance the demands of perfor-

B EN N ET T

ble a condition that also plagues Macs and

Windows 3.1 to a certain extent. Atari ST
computers suffered from their GEM operating
system's architectural weaknesses and a few
too many cut comers, not to mention the
company's continued ineptitude at successful
marketing. PC clones? Well, let's just say that
I wish "industry standard architecture" and
MS-DOS would just go away.

Budget be damned
But what if things had been different? What if
money were no object? What system would I
choose? Naturally, I'd try to address all of
these issues in my perfect computer:
~ fast disk drives
fast CPU(s)
flat memory model
robust operating system
great multitasking
elegant operating system
better expansion architecture
serious butt-kicking graphics performance,

mance and budget. Generally, you put up

with annoyances. The old 8-bit Commodores
had appallingly slow disk drives, a slow CPU
(1 MHz!) and a limited 64KB-bank-switched
memory architecture. Amiga computers had
great graphics but were notoriously unsta-

J& L

The good news is that, as I write this, I

have a system sitting on m y d esk that
addresses all of these issues to my satisfaction.
Unix, OS/2 or Macintosh fans may prefer to
spend the big bucks on their favorite plat-

C omputer I.td

the ATI 3D Expression+ PC2TV scored, um,

34. It's worth pointing out that the Winfast
3D L2500 is considerably more expensive
than these lesser cards afact due, in part to
its 8 MB VRAM frame buffer and 8 MB EDO
local buffer.
Running under NT3.5.1, the 500TX
scored even higher, ranking 128, compared to
the ATI card's score of 27. According to a

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looking for lowest ways to implement highspeed Internet solutions.

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the services early. Integrated services digital

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per phone lines that get DSL modems at bot

ends, that represents $3 billion in equipmer

revenues (based on $500 per line)."

Case also says he expects with this vo

ume of potential business, ADSL mode>
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bear. "I think you will have a nice custom(
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modem by theend of 1997."
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ucts.
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ments in the technology in terms of both

speed and reach. With an announcement
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Paradyne's

adaptive model that will adapt the available

Dataquest, which is cited as predicting th(

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tiny percentage of consumers use the>

by the turn of the century, says Case. "F

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years. Garrick Case, who was with Paradyne

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volume.
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dictions from research organizations such <

the s mallwffice/home-office (SOHO),

telecommuter and Internet addicts adopting

ADSL demand and rollout in the next few

about 80 percent coverage.

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crashed or misbehaved, Photoshop has always
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nie down.
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not the least of which is the fact that it Anally offers a macro function that provides customizable sets o f p r ocedures termed
"Actions."

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and additional actions, which are easy for
end-users to create Qf Iriodifymay be
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process a number of images, or perform

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layer. This means that you have to perform a
few additional operations if you want to turn
the text into a selection. (Fortunately, it's not

Photoshop's greatest weakness (and the core

of its strengths, as well) is that it is plxelbound. Bigger files take longer to work with.
Picture-It! and LivePix products based on
Kodak's FlashPix format (which, in turn, is
based on the FITS technology that first

available on the Internet in the next few

cursor key.)

years.
Speaking of the Internet, Photoshop 4.0

il 3 0w users who were used to pressing the

Live Picture, t hat o nc e r etailed f or

US$3,000) have a better solution for bigger
Ales than Adobe currently offers. But I

er nod to the increasing pervasiveness of the

Interne, there ls a link to Adobe's Web site

has added several Net-friendly Ale formats,

including standard support for GIF89a (at last,
the GIF89a format has been out for more than

(see contacts) accessible directly from the

Photoshop toolbar. The Web site includes

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appeared in a Macintosh application caUed seven years!), and ProgressiveJPEG. In anoth-

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However, there are a few features that are

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Picture-It! and LivePix applications, that will

probably be giving Photoshop a run for its this is it.

Expect to see a lot of userxreated actions
money by this Ame next year. Why? Because

t ire me
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links to tips and techniques, access to a

searchable
tech-supportdatabase,updatesand
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hard
just drag a marquee around any item
on a layer and then move the selection with a
A similar (and related) situation will bedevDelete key to remove text that was the mong
size or font. Because version 4.0 puts new text

items on separate layers, you can no longer

press Delete to remove the newly created text
layer. Fortunately, you can simply Undo the
operation to achieve the same result.
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One annoyance is the fact that version
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these claims). Photoshop fully takes advantage of multiple processors on both PCs running W i n d ows N T and multi-CPU
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information in the photo itself as a waterWindows and Mac platforms, and the PC's
mark. The only problem is, I added a water- significantly faster disk performance is fairly
mark (set to "most durable" ), saved the fiie as evenly offset by the PowerMac's excellent pera JPEG, and loaded it back in.
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have to be encouraged by predictions of
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addition of more than 40 new exhibitors to
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Newsbytes spoke to Jeffrey U. Arcuri, a veteran executive with show producer Mitch
Hall and Associates. "The Mac is deady
Anyone saying that should take a quick look
at the numbers for this show," said Arcuri.
"We are sold out, We expect more than
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He continued, "Apple may have difficult
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to see thousands of products especially
designed for their computers."
Arcuri said it was also a chance for
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services. "This is one of the few shows where
people can buy products right off the floor.
They can see them, test them and take them
home."
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Hall Associates. The latter also produced E3,

Comnet and Macworld/Boston.

tern will be done in what Apple calls the Open

Step program. Ellen Hancock said that

Rhapsody will support more than 85 percent

Dual M key to Mac evulutlen
Minutes before Gilbert Amelio, chief executive officer at Apple Computer, was to deliver
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next five to 10 years.
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month, a Tempo release due in July, an

Allegro releasedue in early 1998, and a Sonata
release due at the end of 1998. This continuation of System 7 guarantees Mac users of compatibility with existing applications.
Moving into th e f uture, a developer
release of the first integration of the Next
Software operating system into Apple's Power
PC architecture, now called Rhapsody, is
scheduled for some time this year, with a premier Rhapsody release due at the end of 1997.
That premier rhapsody release will be followed by a full unified version of Rhapmdy and
the Mac OS for broad customer distribution.
The integration of Apple's Power PC architecture into the Next Software operating sys-

of existing applications. "'It will run the vast

majority of applications unchanged, System 7
applications will meet or exceed current performance. The operation of applications under
the Open Step program will be similar to the
operation of 16-bit Windows applications and
the Windows 95 32-bit environment."

ExponentialApple's acey
Analysts say Apple Computer Inc. needs to

attendees were promised a s ide-by-side

demonstration of Exponential's processor and
Intel's Pentium Pro processor. One source
who previewed the demonstration said, "You
will be amazed with this demonstration and
how the Exponential processor outperforms
Intel's Pentium Pro."
Another sign Apple will offer a high-end
computer system powered by and Exponential
chip surfaced when news of a second round of
financing for Exponential was backed by
Apple Computer, Although a number of other

companies including Macintosh clone-maker,

Umax, participated in the funding, Apple was

the largest contributor.
nology. Exponential Technology Inc., of San
Newsbytes learned Exponential is also
Jose, could provide the processor technology to talking with Power Computing the first commove Apple into the forefront and power a
pany to manufacture Macintosh clones.
"I cannot mention names, but there will be
new Mac/Next operating system in 1998.
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announced and demonstrated microproces- an available by mid-year," said Barta. The bet
is that Apple will be first to deliver a 500 MHz
sors operating at 450 and 500 megahertz
system sometime in 1997 and will be part of
(MHz) on Apple computer systems, A 533
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produced by the company, but Exponential's Macintosh computer and computer company.
In its debut, Exponential's Exponential X
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company is not revealing names, but a fabriprocessors using our technology. We would
not rule out the possibility of running a 1000 cation deal has been completed with an offshore manufacturer w hich o n e s o urce
MHz processor sometime in the future."
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JavaScript
BY KEIT H
avaScript is a basic scripting language that
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(like mouse clicks) that occur when a user

interacts with a Web page. It also provides
greater fiexibility to the Web designer by

allowing them to create windows, display

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ments. JavaScript can be used in place of common CGI operations, like processing form
data. It can also be used to control Java

applets or plug-ins, or open up new browser

windows for adding navigational functions to
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document. write("Hello worldl")

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string of text (" Hello world!" ) contained within the quotes to the browser window,
JavaScript can also be embedded into a Web
page as statements added within specific HTML

Scroller: Scroll some Text in the statuswindow. This script is a freescript

function scroller(pos)

and can be used and modified at

var out = "".

will. If you use it, you do It at your

own risk. I take no responsibility

scrollOn=false;

whatsoever. If It doesn't work, don' t

if (pos < msg.length) window.status

= msg.substring(pos, msg.length);

blame me...

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Comments and enhancements are

tags that work as "event handlers," causing the

JavaScript code (often contained elsewhere on

welcome.

the page) to function. For example:

cA HREF=""onMouseOver="random-

Stephan Mohr <stephan.mohr@unituebingen.de>

scrollOn=true;
timerid=window.setTimeout("scrolle

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// End ofJavaScriptcode

JavaScript is based on the Java programIn t h i s c a se, a J a v aScript c a lled

"onMouseOver"is added to a hypertext refer-

ming language, which has taken the Web

(and much of the programming community)

by storm. Whereas Java applets are compiled
programs that have to be downloaded separately from the Web page, JavaScript programs are contained within the HTML code of
the Web page. Java applets are compiled programs, while JavaScript is comprised of code

ence tag (<A HREF> ... </A>). In this case,

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var waitfor=100;
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words in the hypertext reference, the

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function scroll stop()

where. JavaScript program like this are

if (scrolIOn) (
ClearTimer(timerld);

interpreted by the browser as it is read. Like

Java, JavaScript is designed to be a "safe" programming language, so it cannot access any
system controls or hardware on a user's computer, JavaScript was first introduced within
Netscape Navigator 2.0, and has also been
implemented within Internet Explorer 3.0.

"event-driven" they respond to the actions

of the user working within the Web page.
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(such as the "onMouseOver" code tied to the
anchor tag), the script is executed when the

There are two ways JavaScript can be

are likely to run across is Scroller, a simple pro-

var I=O;

inserted within a Web page. Code can be

inserted by using the <SCRIPT>tag within a

gram that scrolls text across the bottom of the

Web browser's status bar. Here's its code listing:

scroll stop

event (a cursor passing over the link) occurs.

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tainer" tag that holds (or contains) the

JavaScript code. It has only one attribute,

LANGUAGE,which tells the browser the type

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JavaScript program that displays the words
"Hello World" looks like this:

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code that automatically scrolls some
textin the browser'sstatusbar.
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ensure that they are not displayed by Web
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displayed at the bottom of the

Since the program is read progressively as the

browser frame.";

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Web authors who design with M i crosoft

Internet Explorer in mind have it easy; they

just have to use the <BGSOUND> tag. Thanks
to JavaScript, it is now possible to add sounds
to a Web page viewed through Netscape
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JavaScript gives Web authors the flexibility of attaching sounds to system events,

something not currently possible with the

Internet Explorer <BGSOUND> tag. The following HTML code adds asound to a link that
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This artide only serves as a teaser to what is

possible with JavaScript, There are a number of

And thanks to Stephan Mohr for his public domain JavaScript Scroller, found at:

resources on the Web to help you leam to program in JavaScript. A good place to begin leaming JavaScript is from Netcape's own extensive
tutorial on the subject which can be found at:
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htipi/www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/eii/em/cruller.htm 0

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orHIML tips and tricks yw may
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His book an HTMLThe Advanced HTML

tor/version 2.0/script/script info/indexittml.

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Companion {ISBN/ 0-12423$4&6j is available in

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Unlike the personal information manager
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products here sport more Internet features, such

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as broadcast emaiTing and Web page capture,

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contact inanager is a specialized database.

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managers in the United States and has a large

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caller ID and the option to use your

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later. Like its peers, this program supports a

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would've been a great game if it allowed you to
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This is where you enter in the general text
and apply forruatting with the field codes
inserted into the appropriate spots. The field
codes are entered by using the insert field
command on the Merge toolbar, If you want
to create mailing labels using your data file,
activate the label command before inserting
the field codes.

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merge itself. In completing the merge, you create a third document that places the actual
names and other information from the data
source into the places where the field codes were
entered on the main form. A merge can appear

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