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advertising sales and events management. She is our new accounts manager for Alberta. We hope to be offering Albertareaders the same consistent good information that they are used toaswell as some Our publication in Alberta reaches over 50 000readers in Calgary and Edmonton, and has been in publication for over a year there. Our new Calgary ofFjlce is: 4th Hoor, 714 1st St SE, Calgary, T2G2G8 with thesame phone number 405/262-5757. Astute readers may have noticed a change onour &ont cover last issue. Instead of the usua1 "BC Edition", it said "Lower Mainland Edition". We began an experiment this month in the BC edition of The Computer Paper. We printed two separate covers, the vast majority of them stiH said "FREE" on them, buta fewwere issued with a$1.95 price on them. As you are probably aware, this publication is an advertising supp>+ted paper. We can circulate it for &ee becauseour advertisers support our efForts through their advertising. We offer you something interesting to read, and you, the readers, buy the products you see promoted in our p sualcient quantities to keep our steady advertisers happy with us and in business. Wegeta steady supply ofrequests for the pubhcation &om outwf-town readers and distributors.. Our policy initially was fairly open — get the word out and give it to all who asked. The paper has been very successful. It gets picked up in great numbers. In fact, most months we have less than a 5% return rate of copies to pickup when we go

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This month, weare offering a change of pace with an excerpt &om a new book byjohn Dvorak This excerpt &om his new PC Crash . Course and Survival Guide is a response to requests to offer simple, introductory'information about computers for people new to computing. Pass it around to friends needing assistance in gethng started. Roedy Green takes a look at the new crop of backup software, and offers some suggestions on bulletproofmg your business against hard disk crashes. Cathallmn Labon~ th gi v es us the rundown on purchasing a laser printer. We have been through big changes at The Computer Paper this month. We have just completed the purchase of the Alberta edi+ w. 'g % tion ofthe paper &om our former partners in Calgary We welcome two new employees. Graeme Bennettbrings years of experience on a varie of cornputers to heiPout with editorial and desktop publishing tasks. PatriciaFitzGerald has worked for the Alberta

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This success has brought its own problems however. We axe now needing more papers to circulate, and we don't have more. We plan a circulation increase for the fall, but we did not want to initiate one in the generally slower summer months. One obvious place to look was at our outmf-town-circulation. We decided to try and sell our outwf-town publicafions. We printed a number of these papers with the price tag of $L95. We will give this new "edition" a few month trial run. If it is met with favorable response, then we will be able to ofFer very efFective circulation through out BC. We apologize to those readers outside our main business areas, that we will no

longer be able to provide the edition for &ee outside our immediate distribution area.

Computer Calendar .....................................................................................51-55 Computer Classifieds .................................................................................56-57

We hope that you think it is still worthwhile to pick it up and read, even at the new (and we hope reasonable) price. Ifyou are a retail outletwhois interested in carrying copies of The Computer Paper, please cail our circulafion manager at 604/7M-5596. Enjoy the issue.

Index of Advertisers ........................................................................................58 Letters to the Editor..........................................................................................6

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CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA., 1990 JUN 12 (NB) — Some2,700 Lisas went to their graves in Utah after a decision was made to bury the computers rather than rebuild them. Apple initiated the decision in concert with Sun Rexnarketing, a Logan UT firm which upgrades Lisas to the operational equivalent of Macintosh Plus.

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The Japaneseare also becoming more savvy about the U.S. market, and upgrading their fax product lines. JefF Holloway of Hitachi said his company will introduce a hig~ p a c ity plain paper fax machine caned HiMail at the National Oflice Machine Dealers Association show in Las Vegas next month. Holloway satd the HIMad umt is like having your own post ofBce for national and international fax. Two European companies were also making their presence felt in the U.S. computer market at this show. Olivetti was demonstrating a full line of PCs in a room oK the show floor, incluchng a unitrunning the newIntel80486chip. Magnavox, a division ofN.V. Philips of Holland, made abigger splash through its new HeadStart division, which it purchased earlier this year. That unit introduced the 500CD, a $2,700 PC which contains a CD-ROM player as well as a floppy drive, Intel 80886SX chip, an 80 megabytehard drive, 2 megabytes ofmemoryand VGAgraphics. The CD-ROM drive, unfortunately, only conforms to the High Sierra text standard, and cannot run CDs containing graphics.

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Norcross, Georgia displayed one unit which features the chip on a plug-in board. The motherboard contains a fast 586 chip. "We think this is the highlight of the show," said vice president~es John Morrison, who noted thatif the486 board breaks, the 886 can still run with noreductioninperformance. Other 486 vendors at this show indude Olivetti, Acer, and Systems Integration Associates of Chicago,which showed a 486 machine using the EISA bus.

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COMDEX SPRING: WINDOWS, 486 ARE MAJOR COMDEX 'IRKG)S ATLANTA, GEORGIA, U.S.A., 1990 JUNE 4 (NB) — The two major technical trends at this Comdex show come Rom

companies which aren't even exhibiting, Microsoft and Intel. Microsoft Windows 8.0, which finally shipped late last month, has brought excitement back to the PC platform.

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APPLE APPLE AND AINIKICAN FILM INSTITUIX FORM PARTNIKSHIP CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA., 1990 JUNE 1 (NB) — The American Fihn Institute (AFI) and Apple Computer will combine resources to integrate computer technology into the film and television community. Apple will donate over $1 million in Macintosh equipment to the newly created AFI/ Apple Computer Center for Fibn and Videomakers in Los Angeles.

In October, Apple is expected to unveil two new lowest machines:an under$1,000 entry-level 68000-based Macintosh,and a lowest 68050-based modular machine with a 40 megabyte hard drive and two megabytes of RAM.

on boards. Apple is expected to unveil two lowest laser printers in July designed to com-

pete against lowest offerings from Hewlett-Packard, among others. The

Personal Laserwriters NT and SC are expected to cost $5,500 and $2,500 respectively.

Various reports indicate the new lowcost machine, intended to compete with a slew of budget-priced IBMwompatible dones on the market, will replace the the-line Macintosh, and will have a built-

in hard drive, monitor,and a slot for add-

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 1990 MAY 51 (NB) — Austel, the Australian telecommunicafions authority, is to purchase a

Sculley reportedly says that a new laptop computer will not be among products to be introduced later this year, "but Apple is working in that area, he said.

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Apple ChairaianJohn Sculley, on hand for the announcement, said the center will open thisfall, and proclaimed, "AFI's historywith and commitment to the tele-

vision and film community combined with the breadth and power of Macintosh technology, will provide the tools and information necessary to assist and inspire the visual artists of today and tomorrow." .

The Center is also expected to aid Apple in iis development of multimedia applications for its Macintosh line.

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Specifically, the center will feature avariety of Macintosh systems for demonstrations, training, conferences, and research and development. The center will offer workshops that explore and integrate computer technology into all phases of the creation and production process. Workshop topics will indude issues concerning p r o d ucing, di r e c ting, screenwriting, annnation, editing, cinematography, production design, scoring, and music editing.

Network-OS is a I 00%IBM NetBIOS Compatible Local Area Network (LAN) operating system written for IBM PC-DOS/MS-DOS and 8088/8086, 80286 and 80386 based microcomputers.

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screenwriter, directors, producers, production designers, editors and all members of the filmmahng community. Announcing the new relaiionship, AFI Director Jean Firstenberg explained: filmmaking is grounded in a rich tradition of combining creative vision and technical invention. The institute is dedicated to providing the resources of the future for filmmakers so that they continue to challenge the elements of current technology. The AFI/Apple Center can play a significant role in supporting the synergy of art and science and promoting growth in the creative realm of film, television and video." Contacts: Emily Lashn, American Film Institute, 218456-7690; Patty Tulloch, Apple, 408-974-5449

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1990 JUN 12 (NB) — Apple Computer President John Sculley has said that his more or less for thisyear. His comments indicate that Apple will not further cut its margins on existing hardware before the fall introduction of its lowest-priced machines, which are expected to be priced competitively.

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.SA., 1990JUN 4 (NB) — Commodore unveiled its Commodore Dynamic Total Vision (CDTV) at the summer Consumer Electronics Show. Rather than make a big splash about the new system, which is an Amiga capable of playing CDs, it was hidden behind partitions and not shown on thefl oor. There were not even press kits available for distribution in the press room.

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On GEnie, the program can be found by accessing, in this order, the following menuL Computing, IBM PC Compatibles Roundtable, IBM PC, Software libraries, then Download a File.

PHOENIXANNOUNCES 14 EISA IICENSEES NORWOOD, M A SSACHUSETTS, U.SA., 1990 MAY 90 (NB) — Phoenix Technologies has announced licensing agreements for its Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) compatibility software with 14 computer vendors. Several more contracts are currentlyunderno~ los ureagreements, Phoenix added. The software, induding a ROM basic inputwutputsystem (BIGS), Video BIGS, Keyboard BIOS andEISA configuration utility, will help the vendors build inachines conforming to the EISAarchitecture.EISA,anval toIBM'sMi«ro Channel Architecture, is backed by a group of IBM~mpatible PC makers, induding

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CANADIAN NEWS LOTUS CANADA SEGINS SHIPPING NOTES' TORONTO, ONTARIO, 1990 MAY 29 (NB} — Lotus Development Canada has begun shipping Notes, the company's big-ticket groupware product. KarlMeema, corporate marketing representative for Lotus here, said the Canadian arm has no Arm orders for Notes yet,but dedded there were prospects sufliciently promising that it was time to put the staff and marketing resources in place. "We had a lotof sales sites that vre looked at that we said we' ve got the opportunity to dose them," he said. Notes is designed to permit sharing of text, numeric aud gtuphic information through networks,both locally and over wide areas. In Canada, an initial license covering as many as 20Q seivers and worksuitionswimcostC$75,000. Licenses for further machiueswillcostC$559each. Lotus plans to sell the software d'uectly ratherthan through dealerL

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GARDEN CITY, NEW' %)RK, U.SA., 1990 MAY22 (NB) — Computer Associates (CA) hasannounced thatitwill ship Version 6.0 of the Accpac Plus general ledger and fi nancial reporter module, and Accpac Plus system managers, in

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TELECOM NEW FOR IBM: Fronted Ayplicationl Software for GEnie ROCKVILLE,MARYLAND, U.SA., 1990 JUN 12 (NB) — The GEnie online information service, &om GE Information Sexvice, now offers a&ee &anted applicationssoftware package for PC's.

The GEnie PC Aladdin software enables PC's to automatically iniiiate access to selected GEnie service online offerings such as GE Mail, RoundTable Bulletin Pxicesare US$895 for the genexal ledger Boards and software libraries at schedmodule, US$195 for the Wmdaiwing Sys- uled times or upon demand. It also altem Manager, U8$245 for System Manlows GEnie service subscribers to preibger/2 and U8$599 for CA's LbnPak pare messages "o6bne prior to GEnie ~d i a n prices are the same doihr fig- service connect chaxgeL ures iu Canadian currency. The GEnie PC Aladdin sc&emepackage ConiacLJohn Schoutsen, Computer As-.. can be downloaded by GEnie service sociates, 604-757=5522; Kristin Keyes, subscribers. at no cost, except for conComputer Associates, 40$922-2510 n ect time, f r o m e i t her t h e P C RoundTableortheAladdin RoundTable on the GKnie service. For more information, call 800/658-9656.

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Upgxwdes for Sm artcomll for theMacintosh to Version 5.2 will cost $2$ starting the same date. Users who bought their software after March 1 will be upgraded &ee. Finally, Hayes announced a strategic relationshipwith Phylon Communications of Fremont, CA. The relationship has aheady resulted in the joint develop-

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The Computer Paper I July '$0 tion4ased society," said Roy Merrills, president of Northern Telecom Inc., in the slatement.

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To some merchants, AM isjustan extension of current mailing-list technology. If you give money to an abortion-rights group, for instance, you' ll soon get mail from feminist magazines. If you give to Pat Robertson's 700 Club,you' ll getmail &om lik — minded organizations. The same is true in packaged goods. Mailinglist management is a mu16billion dollar

ANI, in fact, doesn'tyield nearly the kind of detail on your habits that ~ ed &equent shopperprograms are picking up without trouble. Here, shoppers get cards which record their purchases, and inslantcouponswhich save them money. In return,relsilersleamwhatother goods their customers need, and sell this data to marketers.

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Contact: Frank McNally, Northern Telecom, 615-7544216

CALL'Elt I JX: WHATS THE PROBLEM? — Editorial by D. Blnnkenhom A~ B R A ,GEORGIA,U.KA., 1990MAY Sl (NB) — Judges in Pennsylvania have dealt the fiist major legal blow to the Caller ID service. Caller ID is the consumer offering of a technology called Automatic Number Identification. ANI was, in turn, at the heart of a technology called ISDN in the 1980's. Many people called ISDN "I Still Don' t Know" or "I Still Don't Need It," but as it's been rolled out nafionwide it comes to mean two things: digital and two-way communication.

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1990 MAY 29 (NB) — Intel Corp. is promising to eliminate all use of chlorofiuorocarbons (CFC's) by 1992, and calls its decision "one of the mostaggressive programs in industty." Citing the environmental damage of CFC's, which are known to destroy the earth's thin ozone layer, Intel Chairman

Gordon Moore proclaimed that his company, "has undertaken an aggressive worldwide program to immediately reduce CFC emissions by implementing good control andconservation practices."

Specifically, Intel isreplacing CFC-based E L SEGUNDO, CALIFO~ U .S A ., cucuit board cleaning equipment with machinery that uses an aqueous-based 1990 JUN 1 (NB) — Infonet, the packet networkwhichis25% owned byMCI, has deaner. The change affects faciTi6es in Oregon, Ireland, Puerto Rico, and announced that it will interconnect its Singapore. The new equipment is exNotice 400 E-mail service with Touch pected tobeonlineinallofIntel's systems Communications' Worldtalk400, which manuSicturmgplantsbytheend of 1990. will allow Infonet's NOTICE 400 customers toexpand theirreach to over 4 Intel says it instituted a comprehensive million E-mail users on local area networks (LAN's) or Unix-based systems CFC Tracking Program in 1987 to assemble data of itsworldwide usage. Since worldwide. that time, using control, conservation,

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the company hasreduced itsCFC use by 50 percent. Contact Howard High, Intel, 408-7651488

HP OFFERS TONER CARTRIDGE RECYCLING PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA., 1990JUN 12 (NB) — Hewlett-Packard's efforts to recyde spent toner cartridges is designed to reduce the volume ofplastics going into landfills. Owners of HP Laserjet printers are being urged to return their spent cartiidges rather than throw them in the trash, and are being offeredf' ree postage for their efforts.

Notice 400 is based on the X.400 standard for passing messages between systems, approved by the Switzerland-based CCHT, and is accessible in more than 100 countries. Users may also transmit binaiy files via Notice 400 without first converting them to ASCII text.

The recyding program, which started June 1, is running on a test basis through December 51 in ll states: Arizona, Cali-

Infonet also announced it will interconnectitsNotice400servicewith SoRSwitch

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The Computer Paper/ July '90 recentlybeen announced in Switzerland and Germanyand HPplansto expand to other European countries in the near

The agreement takesthe form of a Memorandinn of Understanding regarding intiegration of the US. Global Positioning System with the U.S.S.R. Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System. Discussions began hst September a nd were concluded May 1 8 i n Leningrad. The agreementis forS years, subject toapprovalbybothgovernments.

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In a private showing in a Chicago Hotel, the newly formed Walt Disney Software of Burbank, CA, demonstrated its new line of personal computer software. Initially the products will be in three lines: entertainment, education, and personal productivity. Products will be available for the Amiga; IBM-PC, C64, aud the Apple H. Initial productsare expected to be released during the third and fourth quarters of 1990. Disney announced that one of its first productswillbe a new hardware device: The Sound Source. The Sound Source is a three.mch speaker that attaches to the parallel port of an IBM-PC or compatible. (The port can still be used forpxintexs.) The device will genexate speech, music, and sound at much better quality thanthesiandardPC speaker.' Ihc Sound Source uses Disney's own proprietaxy system but the company is making it available to other software developers. The price is$84.95 and itwill be bundled

with some of Disney's initial release A representative from another software company did notwelcome the introduction of yet another sound standard into the PC marketplace and questioned whether his company would support it. Most were impressed by a demonstration ofDisney's animation package, The Animation Studio ($179.95). The program will be released initially for the Amiga followed bya version for MS-DOS computers and indudes a tutorial on animation using actual exaxuples from INisney cartoons. It uses onion<kin technology to allow designers to see the currentanimation celland the tbreebehind it.'IheprogramindudesapublicMomain projector so people can distribute their animation products to others. Also induded is a full range of sound effects from Disney cartoons. Contact Ralph Giufire, Marketing, Walt Disney Software, 818-56'7-5540

BRICIKIN AT SLATE U.SA., 1990 JUN 1 (NB) — Slate Corp.

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has announced that Robert Frankston, codeveloper of industry-spawning VisiCalc, will leave Lotus Development and join Slate. The move reunites Frankston with Dan Bricklin, the other VisiCalccod evelo per. Fxankston and BricMin founded Software Arisin 19'/9and launched VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet and the progxam generally attributed with the proliferation of personal computers throughout th e b u siness world. Frankston remained with Software Arts until its acquisifion by Lotus Development Corp. and was chief scientist at Lotus.

Slate is developing software that focuses on those computers such as the GRiD Pad which uge pen or stylus input rather than the traditional keyboard. Industry analysts say that Slate is working on software for coxuputers that GO Corporation will introduce later in the year. Bricklin, a cofounder and vice president of Slate, told Newsbytes,"I am thrilled to be working with Bob again. We have been dose friends for a long time and I am sure that Bob will make immense contributions to Slate's progress." Contact Dottie Hall, Shte,602445-'182st

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and software compiled by his staff &om Western sources, is a monthly magazine with a circulation of more than 70,000. Copies don' t spend much time on newsstands or shop shelves, Newsbytes was told.

But amore interes6ng story iswhat happened withthe book for new IBM PC users written by Soviet protpainmers. As soon as the Iirst 500,000 copies were printed, theywere completely sold out in

Moscow within 5 days a8er sales began — Several new publishers are entering this andthiswithalmostnoadvertising. The m a r ket despite the paper shortages, second printing is in progress now, w h ich have been known to cause even Molchanov said. big national newspapers like the 20-milIiothcopiesa dayKomsomotskayaPravda Even problems with paper shortages to miss a couple of daily issues. Despite vrhich badly affect a new small publish- : the diaiculties, there's still plenty ofroom ing agencies don't stop the publisherL to publish in the computer and commuAccording to Molchanov's estimates, nications book market, Molchanov said. paper for his magazine bought abroad will cost him $25,000 per issue while Contact: Boris M ol c h a n ov, revenue from Western advertising will ComputerPress, phone+7095 1554540 total a bit less. Iax+7 095 288-9522

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Forty days after faxing the request, on April 25th, Newsbytes Moscow received the first reply &om British-based Tenset Technologies. More letters kept flooding our mailbox for more than a month. The Soviet postal service is very slow, and itcan be proven by the fact that European and U.S. letters take approximately the same time te arrive. U.S. first~ mail envelopes are as slow as other dassificaliens. Two envelopesviere found in Newsbytes' Moscow mailbox opened supposedly by postal o%cials. One possible explanation of why mail service is so slow is that few Soviet postal workers speak any foreign language; consequently addresses written in Enghsh mustall be readdressed, and arrive marked with somebody's Russian handwriting with the Soviet city and street address. This procedure is most timeconsummg. But how good is the reader's card service itself' Newsbytes requested information &om 50 Qteadvertisers and received 17 replies, or one third, in response. Only one, however, &om BIX (Byte Information Exchange}, was customized to fit our local Moscow needs. AII the rest were the same materials sent in the States or in Europe.

SONY DATA DISChfAN AVAII ABLE IN BOOKSTORES TOKYO, JAPAN, 1990 MAY 28 (NB}-

Sony's Data Discman, a portable CDmemory) ROM (compact player, may find a good market in bookstores. Maj or publishing industry distributor Tokyo Shuppan Hanbai is now selling the player as well as its CD-ROM softwaxe called Electronic Book to bookstores inJapan.

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software. Tokyo Shuppan Hanbai expects heavy sales to people even without a knowledge efpersonal cemputers, which is why it is distributing the player in bookstores.

While Tekyo Shuppan has laid heavy emphasis on sales of several other media such as video tapes and compact discs, besides books, it has never entered into the hardware business befere now. Claixning that Data Discman has been received enthusiastically among its bookstore customers, the company antiapates successful sales of both Data

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COMPU'rKR IN ASIA, JOSS ATI'.ENDS SINGAPORE, SOUTHEAST ASIA, 1990 MAY 29 (NB} — SteveJobs has launched his NeXT computer in Asia with amajor presentation in Singapere, soon to be followed by the system's introduction in Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia and the Thailand markets.

FoundingdirectorofNeXT, SteveJobs, is personally demonstrating his new computer's capaMities. In Singapore, he also played host te a delegation representing Hong Kong information technelogy industry and educatienal

computer. Canon has sold an estimated

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potential buyers to wait and see how well NeXT computers and software fare in the West.

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I used to back up my hard disk every Saturday, using FastBack, the forerunner to FastBack Plus. Even when I compressed my files before backing up, it took 90 diskettes. I would listen to the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on CBC radio to avoid getting too bored. I would back up, then verify to ensure the diskettes were readable. Usually, after I had backed up 90 diskettes, and had just verified disk number 70, FastBack would discover an error. I would then have to start all over &om scratch. Usually I spent all day, every Saturday, doing nothing but backups, emitting blood-curdling screams of &ustration every few houra During the week I might lose a file and have to use my backups to recover it. About one chance in ten, I still could not recover because the floppy was unreadable. Sometimes the problem was that I had mindlessly inserted the wrong diskette during the backup. Sometimes itwas that I had not centred

the floppyperfectlyin the drive. Sometimes I had dirtied or scratched the floppy surface.

Life With Tape I neverconsidered mag tape backups because theywere tooexpensive. Then one day I calculated how much I was spendingonfioppybackups,givenwhat my time was worth in dollars per hour. I immediately bought a mag tape backup. Now I back up every night, not just once a week. I insert a mag tape cartridge thatlookslikeaheavydutymusic cassette. I type a couple of keystrokes, then leave the office. When I come back in the morning the entire backup is done and verifi ed. My own tape drive is quite slow. It runs only a little faster than a floppy. However, I don' t have to sit there, babysittmg it, feeding the diskettes in. When I go to restore a file, I have had 100% success recovermg. The average street price of a lo1tpcost mag tape drive such as the Colorado KE-10isabout$4RS. For businesses, or anyone witha drive over 60 MB, a mag tape backup unit is mandatory. For hard disks over 100 MB you would probably want a faster, more reliable, larger, i.e. more expensive, tape drive.

Is Floppy Bacjmp am that Basp. Ifyoucannotaffordamag tape backup, or if you have very little data — just

programs that could easily be reinstalled — you can get away with a program that backs up to floppy disk. Floppy backupreliability has improved since the days I used it The drives themselves are more reliable. The new AT1.44MB floppies con tain four times as much information as the old XT 560 KB floppies and their hard shells protect them better. You need only a quarter as many floppies to back up; this means only a quarter as many chances to foul up. Modern backup progragns record semi-redundantly to help them recover damaged parts of fioppies. Even so, tape is still much more reliableand fool-proof.

Backing up is very simple. You select which hard drive partitions (C:, D:, etc.) you want to back up. Then, within those drives you select which directories you want to Then, within these directories you select which files you want to back up. Then you feed in diskette aker diskette as the program copies the information to floppy. This sounds very simple. However, the designers of thebackupprograms, with few exceptions, have made this much more difficult than it could be. Because the process is intimidating, most backup programs offer "presets." A computer expert selects the myriad options, directories and files, thencarts the whole selection under a name such as "WEEKLY. From then on, anyone can run thewhole backup fiawlesslyjust

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If all goes well,you never have to restore &om your backup. However, if you corrupt or lose some files, you select the partitions, directories and files yo want to restore. The program then leadsyou to insertjust the disks it needs and it replaces the damaged files with your backup copies. The designers put most of their efforts into the backup side of the program since you use it much more often than restore. They sometimes leave the restore as an afterthought. So you wiII find, with few exceptions, restoring is considerablyharder than backing up.

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diskettes through but nothing happened — his files were still corrupted. In a panic, he phoned me. Luckily, it turned out all he needed to do was set a special option switch, only available on the advanced menu, to allow the program to restore corrupted files. He abandoned the program and recyded the diskettes without reformatting them. Little did he know that FastBack Plus had hidden data in the boot tmcks of his diskettes, subtly corrupting them. He thought a virus had hit, since files would mysteriously appear and disappear &om these floppies.

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backupsl Ifyou have to restore, don' t touch anything, call in competent help. It is wise to have someone ex-. perienced set up your backup procedures for you, and run through a fire drill to be sure the backup and restore works properly. Clearly label and number all diskettes ahead of time for each backup set, and make sure there aresufficientsparesin each set to handle growth. Make sure your fioppydrivesareproperlyaligned and dean. Finally, keep multiple sets of backups, and keep atleastone of them at a separate location.

The Choices Thereare aver a dozen diskette backup progranis to choose &om. I will be reviewing nine of the best known: Norton Backup 1.1 Central Point PC Tools 6.0 Fifth Generation FastBack Plus 2.10 Westlake Data PC FullBak Plus 1.12 Finot Keep Track Plus 2.1a Gazelle Back-It 4 Sterling Backup 5.21 DOS Backup 4.01 Lotus Magellan 2.0

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The Envelope, Please I won't tease you by making you read through my detailed analysis before telling you which I think is best. The winner is Norton Backup. It has a dear lead in speed, convenience and safety. Norton Backup is pscpt part of the Noiton Utilities. You must buy it separately. Most of Norton's rivals shoot themselvesin thefootin someway. Theydo all the hard things perfectly, then snatch defeat &om the jaws of victory with some blunder in the user interface.

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In this case theywere lucky, because they could repair the floppy drive and make new backups. However, if the old computer had died, they would not have

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Another dient lost six months of keying because she had done no backups atalL I restored &om a backup I had made. I exphtined the importance of backups and power conditioners, since she was in «n oldbuildingwhere thelights8ickered alarabingly. She told me she would take care of this herseK She re-keyed the entire six months, but still could not fin time ormoney forpower protection or backups. A power surge then scrambled the hard disk. She lost the keying a second time. I restored the files &om my backup a second time. She re-keyed a third time, and then lost it all a third time — again without backups. She was furious. She was quite right; this sort of thing shouldn't happen, but it does.

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all and they would have lost everything. OfFSite Backups Fmally, the heartbreaker. Happily, this has not happened to any of my clients. These people did backups every day. They dutifully kept grandfather, father and son backups. However, they made the mistake of storing all the backups conveniently near the computer. One night thieves broke in and stole the computer — and all the backupsl If they had kept an ofF-site backup, they could haverestored to a new computer provided by the insurance company. Having an ofFmte backup will also protect you &om the Lucille Ball novice who, in attempting to restore, backs up corrupted files onto all your good backups.

and location." In floppy backups it' s "speed, speed and speed. Because backing up to Qoppies is so laborintensive and so mind-numbing, you want to get it over with as quickly as possible. For my speed tests, I used a16MHz SX computer with a 1.2 MB floppy drive and a Mitsubishi MRS55 40 MB voice coil hard drive running MS DOS 5.5. Norton can back up about 2.75 MB per minute with verification turned

off. The other speeds are given relative to the first-place Norton. Inst 1N Norton Backupr.'r {proprieratyfortaati 99 Norton Backup1.1{Dos format) 89 Central Point PCTools 6.0 79 Rlth Generation FasSack Plus2.10 79 Wesrlake Data PCFullaak Plus 1.12 70 RnotKeepTrack plus2.la 63 Gazelle Back-It4 32 Srarlitts Intelligent Backup3.21 27 DOSBackup3.3 23 lotus Magellan 2.0 waist

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The Computer Paper I July '90 next track Itusesa proprietary format that squeezes more data per track. Instead of using the slow DOS directory and FAT structure to read the hard disk, itbuildsits own index. Itoverlaps reading the hard disk and writing to Soppy using a technique called Simultaneous DMA. While you are busy swapping diskettes, it uses the time to get ahead on reading the hard disk The instant you put the next diskette in, it staris up without waiting for you to hit a key. Other backup programs use some of these tricks, but only Norton uses all of them.

Proprietary Formats The FastBack was the Srst fast backup program. Itwasa temperamental beast because it used a proprietary format. Itsqueezedan extrasector ofdatainto

each Soppy track To find room, ithad toshorten the gapsbetween the sectors. If your dnve speed was the least bit out of whack, FastBack would not work Proprietaryformats earned a bad reputation and Fifth Generation switched to conventional DOS format with Fastback Plus. However, Norton and PC Fullbak Plus use proprietary formats with larger sectors, and fewer of them, to cmm more data onto a Soppy quite safely. Since there are fewer intersector gaps, there is still room to make the gaps regulation size. Proprietary formats do have their drawbacks, however. The Srst time you use a diskette, it must be specially

formatted. Even though this is automatic, it makes the backup take twice as long the Srst time. If ever you decide to recyde a backup diskettefor use as a normal DOS diskette, you Srstmust use the DOSFORMATcommand. You need to mark your diskettes with coloured dots to track which format they are. If a proprietary format diskette becomes unreadable,none of the recovery urihties such as HDTEST, Norton NU or Mace will be of any use. Norton gives you a choice: proprietary format for extra speed, or conventional DOS format for extra safety. PC Fullbak Plusalwaysusesproprietaryformat. The others always use DOS format.

Norton Bacltnp N orton Backup works bestifyou have a mouse. You just point and dick at the options and Slesyou want, or point and dickatspacesona61Vin-the-blanks form and type. This is as easy to use as a Macintosh. Ifyou don' thavea mouse, the program is a little more complicated to use since

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backup. Time has passed it by. Back-It 4 is a disappointment. The changes &om Back-It5 are nearlyaH show and no substance. Back-It stiH makesyoufeedyour aH your diskettes backin,whenaHyouwanttorestoreis a tiny file. The method you use to select the drives, directories andfiles to backup is evenmore obscure than it used to bet N a vigation left me s easick Thearrowkeysm ely~km e where I expected ta go. In theold Back-It, Restorewasa three-

stage process, with only certain commands vahd at eachstage. Happily that nightmare is gone. On the positive side, Sack-It is the only program with parental tags,so yau can teH the backupwhat to dowith any new directories that should appear. It was also one of the fewpragrams to correctly restore an empty directory.

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Like a spoiled child, it has an odd habit of writing only a few bytes on a diskette before asking far yet another &esh ane. I think it likes to start everyhrge 61e an a new diskette. The display during backup is somethingonlyanaccountantcauid love. It is nothing but statistics. IB is likea Tar Baby. It wiH takeyou about 20 keystrokes ta get aut of it. Aborting is almost impossible. On the positive side, it has a stxaight forward multiplechoice type menu

system. IB has one major point in its favor — it does insist you insert the correctly numbered diskette. Unfortunately, it muddles aH your backup sets into one.

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DOS comes with a &ee backup program called BACKUP. I strongly recommendyou avoid using it First, DOS 5.5BACKUPisalmostfour times slower than a proper backup pragrauL The version that comeswith DOS 5.2 had 20 repoxted bugs. A Microsoft tech leman of MS.DOS." Even the latest 4.01 pxegxamiswithoutanysafetynetL If yau insist on using it, you may findyou cannot later restox e your files. I h ave written a replacement For the DOS RESTORE program to rescue you should this happen. I will send you a copy anywhere inthe world for $5. As with aH my diskettes,you are &ee to make copies and pass them on to your friends. Unlike theafBcialRESTORE,mine works under any version of PC-DOS or MS DOSandrestoresfiles backed up under any other version. Because of this feature, the Federal

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Mage Ltn MageHan is nat a true backup Itfinds program. It i filesfor you when you cannot remember what they are called, when aH you remember are afew words that might be in the document. It can also find groups of files &om aH your drives and directories thatare related by topic. It lets youview those files in their nativemode. For example, ifyou peek at a spreadsheet, you don' t see hex gibberish, mstantly you see a real spreadsheet. Yau don' t have to bxingup 1-2-5 toloakatit I think everyone with many smaH files should immediately buy a copy of Magellan. Everyone else could wait perhaps a week. MageHan is the inastuseful utility I have come across in the last five years. As a lwlckup program, though, MageHan is pathetic. Its saving gxace is its magical ability to find

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The Cemputer Paper/ July '90 confused, aad does not record the fact that the backup isnelongervahd. Protecting Yeurself From Bugs I have not had enough experience with any of these progxaxxis to feel. confidenttheyare bug~. You must protect yourself by testing the progxams yourseK They may work fine on someone else's computer, but net yours. AAeryou inst allyeurbackup program, backup some files, and make duplicates onanother part of year hard disk Deletie the eriginals. Then restore them and compare. If you find differences,report the problem to the m anufacturer. D o a *t trust the pro-

gram until you have done this with at least 10 diskettes full of data. Be especially careful of Norton (because it is new), and PCTools because of Central Point's history of releasing impreperly tested sofhvare. Terminology-Three Kinds OfBackup There are three kindsofbackups: full, incremental and differentiaL I rec-

which l fi eshave changed. Thisway you will he able to maintain several independent backup sets. They will track which files have been deleted, so that when you restore, all yourdeleted fileswen'tnecessarfiycome back to haunt you. All these wonderful things will come to pass as soon as the cost of mag tape drops lew enough te completely obsolete floppy backup.

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DPI — dots-per-inch; how many dots the printer can put in an inch. The higher the DPI, the denser the image. Laser printers organize dots to create characters and graphics. The standard laser printer prints at 500 x SOQ DPI.

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doing so. Th e amount of internal memory in a laser printer afFects the printer'sspeed in processing documents and graphics, and the more graphics you plan to put on a page, the more memory you need. The bigger the number does n ot necessarily correspond to m o r e

memory; for instance, 512Kbyte (K) is half as much as 1 Mbyte (MB). Fonts — a font is a set of charactiers of a

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Laser Printers cont. Most HP-type laser printers come only with one or sometimes a few typefaces; each variation of the font, so the specs would say that a printer has 14 fonts. Upon looking at a sample sheet, you' ll see that they are ail variations of the typeface Courier, for example. PostScript (see below) printers have a generous number oftypefaces that are

pressure; it needs regular replacement once again like in a photocopier. Main tenance of a laser printer is rtimilar to maintenance ofa photocopier.

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HPCL — Hewlett-Psrckard Command Language is the programming language that the computer uses to communicate with the Hewlett-Packard type printer. It is one of the two main htser-printer lan guages, the other being PostScript. Printers thatuse HPCLare referred to a HPwompatible printers. However, some of these printers can be upgraded through special cartridges to PostScriptcompatible printers.

scalable to unlimited pointsizes; the HPtype laser printer can have fonts added on in the form of cartridges. PPM — Pages (Printed) Per Minute is the way to compare printer speed. This number, which can range from S PPM to 20 PPM, is accurate assuming that the printer is producing copies of the same page of text.

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PostScript — This is the programnung language that the computer uses to communicatewith PostScriptprinters, which are the most expensive type of printer because of their versatiTity and the vari-

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Ifyou expect tobe able to pop down to your local laser-printer dealer and lewe with a trophy under your axm, you will be frustxated. Keep in mind these facts about computers and peripherals such as laser printers: l) Allow plenty of time for this adventure. Dealers keep their inventory to a minimum because of the expense of having inventory that may become obsolete as itsitson the sheK Dealers don'twant to stock what may not seII, and buyers don't want to buy what ian'ton the shelf. Patienceisrequired, then, for orders tobe placed, printers to be aet-up...

the revised version on the layout. With enough RAM you canhave several story windows open at a time, which lets you cut,copy and paste among them. You needn' t even place astoxywindaw's contents before saving and dosing the file. When the PageMaker file is next opened, unplaced stoxy windows pop to the fore. All of this is in addition to the ability to type and edit on the layout itself. The search/replace, find and spellchecker all function through the story editor. You can check the contents of the current window or evexy story in a publication. The speEchecker is fast, easy to use and smart: It will point out possible improper capitalization and double words — the infamous "the the." The one timethe program frozewas on a spellwheck of the whole publication. I suspect I had run out of memory. Any story in whichyou make achange during

2) Weekdaysare best to shop for laser printexs, because unlike everyother type of retail shop, many computer shops are dosed on Saturday. For instance, were it not for trapping an employee in the darkened and dosed Computer Shop section of the UBC Bookstore, who admitted that they had one but was under strict orders not to serve anyone on Saturday, Iwouldnothavefoundan example of a PostScript printer. 9) It is difficult to find examples of PostScript printers and color laser printers, as theyare in the highwnd market. I have notcovered color beers nor fully covered PostScript lasers as they are special- order items. You may want to call +MS directly to view their color laser Rarely in the electronic jungle will you find herds of on-line laser print- . printers. They have reps who will demo their more expensive printers for you. exs, just waiting to be bagged. The Be prepared to pay over $10,000 for boxed varietyare more common, but salespeople arenotenthusiastic about these units. 4) Make cerlain that your applications setting them up unless they have a support the printeryou choose. You can serious prospect I was more often refertoyour computer program'smanual directed to a lone ousted demonstrator grazing through its paper txays to see if it is compatible with the printer at the back of the store. But patience you are planning to buy. will reward the buyer withlower prices.

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We studied these elusive, mysterious creatures until we learned how often they needtheirpaper trays changed, how their toner cartridges could be coaxed into printing a few more pag'es

Power usersaccustomed tonegotiatinga word document using the numeric keypad will be a little disappointed to learn that it is only partly implemented in the story editor. Command-9, for example, will takeyou to the top of a story butloses the insertion point; Command-5 goes to the bottom but loses the insertion point. This may be related to several new key-

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Thus, our fingertips burnt from hot sample printouls, our handsblackened by toner, and our eyes made starry by the laser-beam lights,we complete our safari. We have placed our orders,and a lucky few are straining under the weight of their laser prizes.

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The Computer Paper I July 'SO Mmt I's a Computer, ReallyP In simple termsâ&#x20AC;&#x17E;a computer is no xnore than an electrical appliance. Like your television, or freezer, it has been developed to be able ta perform certain taskL For example,youcan useyour computer as a typewriter for writing letters, as a pocket calculator to balance your checkbook, or as a VCR/TV combo to display pictures and drawings. You can also use it ta store teLephone numbers, play gameg produce technical drawings and developcameraready documents for printing. Computers can even be used ta run production lines. Just like any other electrical appliance, computers can and do break down and cause problems..However, be very skeptical when a mistake is blamed on the computer. In most cases it's a human exror that causes you to receive that nofice from the phone company that says that unless you payyour outstanding bill for $4,567,5M.15, your telephone wiII be disconnected. A computer is not some sort of supernatural, super~telligent, ahnighty machine poised to uxke over the world. A computer can not think for itself, it can only follow instructions. Itis notcapable of suddenly deciding that itwould like to have anicecream cone,or offeeling the desire to take a long vacafion on some sunny island beach. It can however, foIIowinslructionsand perfoxmpredefined tasks atan amazingly high rate: a million or so instructions per second. Assume thatyou have a list of telephone numbers stared in your computer system, and a program, or predefined Iisto instructionsâ&#x20AC;&#x17E;which can extract the right number fora given pexion. Ifyou ask your computerwhat telephone number Abraham Lincoln has, it will probably, after a shortdelay, tellyou thatit can not find his number. It is not capable, how. ever, of answering directly that Lincoln wasalive 8$yeaxsagoand doesnot, and did not, have a telephone.

because they do not understand what happens.They're womed that they can destroy the computer in some wayif they press the wrong combination of keys. This is not the case, however.

If you ask your computer to print out Rt5 m9, it will do so. Again, it is not capable of thixxking for itself and telling you that 2+5 does not equal 9. It also can't refuse to pmit lies. On the other hand, by giving the computer the right information it could, for example, calculate the wages for thousands of employees in alarge company in a matter of seconds. By giving a computer an appropriate set of instructions, it can very quickly perform a wide range of utsks. A computer is avery fastworki n, but completely stupid, machine.

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The monitor is rather like a television set, although it does not function in quite the same way. Its display is the computer'sway ofshowingyouwhat's going on. Itcan also be referred to as the eideodixPtuy rescind (VDT), the xlideodisphy unit (VBO), or simply as the screen, There is a third term, cethekruy @de (CR7), which is often used sy n onymously with VDT and VDU. All of these terms are used to refer to the display unit on a comput . There are many hnds of monitors, but the main difference is between monochnnnemodels thatcanonly display images in varying shades of amber,green, or gray,and cofermonitoxsthat

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RAM Memory

RAM is a nonpermanent memory and it's there that data is stored temporarily while yeu are working with the cemputer. Textand numbers can be saved as long as they are needed for a specific task, but they will disappear from RAM when the computer is turned off orwhen a different computer program is activated. RAM stands for BnndmeAccara Manroyy, which refers to the concept that data can be written te, and read from, this sort of memery at will.

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The size of your computer's memory is measured inbytes,or AiMyras. Each byte is rhe same as ene character. Fer example, the text, "Hew nice you arel" would bake up 17 bytes, not forgetting the blanks and the exdamation point. A kilobyte is 1024 bytes, and it's sometimesjust called

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Most computers these days have 640K RAM, which is 640 h1obytes, i.e., about 640;000bytes(or,more exactly,655,%0 bytes). Older computers oRen have less memory; 256K, or 512K, while newer computers may have 1 or 2 rnegs orNb (million bytes) of RAM. It is possible to

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Data Storage One of the most important aspects of a computer is ite capability ta store and recall information. When you are creating a document, for erurmple, the text is stored in RAM, but this means that all

Floppy disks can be moved between computers, assuming that both computers are IBM compatible and have the same kind of disk drives. You can, for example,createa texton your computer at work, save a copy of that text on a floppydisk, and take ithomewithyou for use on your own computer.

Disk Drives The uee of floppy disks requires a disk drirra This is a unit that reads and records information on floppy disks. It'snormally mounted in the system unit, although it is possible to have a unit

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information disappears when you turn thecomputer oK You can,however,make a copy of that information on afloppy disk or herd disk, This allows you, at a later

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formation on the most common uses.

There are in fact several hundred differentlanguages. Eachlanguage has its own predefine setofcommands,and asetof rules on how each command can be used.

:DOS DOSis short forDisk OPerating System.It' s a collection of progranis that provide "you with a set of commands designed to help you gain access to your hard or floppy disk, and perform some other basic routines. All computers must have such an operating system. When you start your computer, this operating systemisautomaticaliyloaded into memory. For example, DOS commands can be used to investigate the contents of a disk, to copy or deletefileor topreparea new floppy disk for use.

Files Many different sorts of information can , be stored on a floppy or hard disk. For example, a letter, aword processing prognun, a diagram, agame program, a progranuning language, or an address list can all be maintained on a disk Each complete unit of information is called a file, and has its own unique name.

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By information we mean text, numbers, pictures, and even electrical voltage. Itis the combination of these four processes, controlled with the help of programs, which allow computers to be so versatile.

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The Computer Paper I July '00 Connnunications Communications pro~lrsans allow you to connect your computer to other computer systems. You can, for example, search for information in many of the available databases, or send and receive mail and files. .An imporlant extra when drawing is a mouse, This is a small object which you gmove around onyour desk. Asyou move it, a "televised arrow points out where .„'on your screenyou are currentlyaiming.

Accounting Many companies use computers for doirig all of their accounting functions. Next to word processing, this is probably the most popular application forwhich personal computers are

used m the workplace.Even in major or overhead transparencies that can be coxporations which have giant mainus ed atmeetings. frame systems to do their "official" accounting, many middle managers mainIedustmtl Production rain their own accounting systems on R com ~ es h ave~ udiedcomputer systems which conirol production hnes the funds theyhavespentandhaveyet to ineictories, and programswhich help to receive. design products. The latter are called GLO Pmgrxstssr, which stands for ComGrapbical Presentation puter Assisted Drawing or Computer Another group of prograxns is aimed at those wishing to produce graphic presentations ofstatisticalresulss. These are p]~ g Garnes typically produced in the form of charts

'Justclick one of the mouse's buttons and the cursor will appear at that point. If

bayou're maymg the cursor around your screen a lot (as when you' re drawing), the mouse is a lot faster than trying to maneuver thecursor using the arrow keys on the computer.

A mouse can also be used with some word processing and spreadsheet pxxsgrams, and it' s rettuired by several of the better desktop pubhshing prof pams.

Calculating A computer am perform calculations very easily and quicmy. It eskes just a matter ofseconds for a computer to count up to I million, a feat which a mortalhumanwouldhavegreatdi8iculty doing at alL

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Dalabase Database prograxns allow you to systematically oxganize and store information on — forexample — companies, products, or collectors items such as records, wine, or stamps. The information is immediatelyretrievablee, and can give you useful lists and analyses. In addition, the better daia base management programs are so sophisticated that they can be used to do almost anything a computer can do. Increasingly they' re being used in place of traditional pxxsgraxnming languages to do awide variety oftask@

Desktop Ptzblisbing Desktop publishing is the art of producing brochures, manuals, books, and the like on your computer. Such programs allow you to combine text and pictures, and to defme the layout and styles used. You can produce complete works or , camera-ready oxigmals that will be sent to a printer. Their most treasured feature is called W151WYG,which stands for "What You See h What You'Get." This refers to these prolp3xns' abiTity to show multiple fonts, difFerent print sizes and even proportionalspacing on the computer screen so that the author can tell exactly what the fmished printed copy will look like.

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Kinds of Computers

Among the color monitors, the choice is equallywide. At the low end are the CGA xfaxigixs which produce a full range of colors on what are called RGB rrrowiton. the sta eofthe-art Now, due to their relatively poor resolution, they' re hardy considered acceptable.

While all computers can essentially do the same things, the speedandversatTiity with which they run depends on what type of procarsorthey're builtarouncL The processor is the part of the computer which controls all other parts. There are four main processors used in IBM PC's and compatibles. In order of effectiveness, with the slowest and most hmited fi t,th~arethe8088,SmW,8OS86,and

8%86. An ordinary PC machine has an 8088 processor and no hard disk It is a comparativelyslow machine by modern standardsand itcan'trun many ofthe newer progxams that require hard disks. An XT machine has a hard disk, but in other respects is like an ordinary PC. An AT machine has an 80%6 processor which mates it quicker and more powerful than a PC or XT. These machines are almost always equipped with a hard disk and they can run almost all of the programs available today. Finally, 586 and 486 machines have the even faster 586and 486 processors. These are the machines power users dream about. A 586 with R' mega of RAM and a 150 meg hard disk is not considered unusual. Also, these machines are specifically designed to multitask, which means torun more than one program at a time. Thanks to multitasking, a power user can be worhng on a letter with his word processing program while, in the background, his computer is also chugging away at a statistical analysis that might take several hours to complete. IBM has also launched its PS/2 computer series, which is somewhat differen in design from the other models, but comes in models that use all 5 of the processors. Thus, their PS/2 Model 25 uses an8086 processor (a close relative of the 8088) while their PS/2 Model 80 uses an 80586. The PS/2's are mostly compatible with eiisting programs but use adiÃerentsetofaccessoriesandaddin circuit boards. Another area in which computers differ sharply is their display capabilities. For inslance, a monochrome monitor cancostaslittleasgl9ifitisanNDAdligrx, meaning thatit'smonochromeand can't produce pictures or graphics on its screen, or over $2,000 if it's a highxaxolrxtion des/ifoPPrxbtxshiug rtssigrxwith a 20" screen thatcan dearly reproduce 2 facing pages of newspaper classifie ads at their actual size. In beNreen these extremes are the popular HGA designs which are said to be Harcuks-comprsfibls. While these are monochrome, they can use shadings of their basic green or amber color to re produce awide range of tones. Also, they

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O n the next rung up the ladder are the EGA 4eigus. These are finer in resolution than the CGA models and can produce even awider spectrum of colors. For most people today, they' re quite sufScient. Finally, we come to the VGA sfarwkmL These are sofme in resolution and shading that it's easy to mistake animated presentations done on them with videotape or film. In a class by themselves are theLCD dis-

physused on laptop computers. These usually snxuhfs or make believe that they' re CGAmonitors, but they' re really monochrome displays that use shadings to reproduce thevarious colors much the same way the HGA monochrome displays do. The older LCD displays were horrible unless lighting conditions were perfect Now, thanks to what's called supexfxoisf fschxxotogy,aud the building of backhghtirxg into the better laptop computers, the displays are Fairly good. Nevertheless, using these displays for more than about an hour at a time can be considered crud and unusual punishment The display portion of a computer is called its grrxPhics srxbsys/srrr.This usually consists of a circuit board, called an arhPfsr awe, which is placed in your computer's system unit, and the appropriate monitor. Sometimes it also indudes a special software program called a drioer that's used to ensure that the images generatedby a program appear properly on the screen. There are now monitorsand adapter cards that can automatically switch betweengraphicsbandarda Thesearecalled nxulfisyrxcmorxitoxsund rsrhpfsrs, and they provideyouwilhatleastlimitedinsuxance that what you buy today won't be obsolete tomorrow.

What hnd of monitor should you buy? Thatdepeudsonyourintended uses and your budget. Today there are millions of users who are happily using inexpensive HGA monochrome systems and slightly more expensive CGA colorsystems.

But, ifyou can spend a bitmore, try togo for an EGA or multisync color system or — if writing and desktop publishing are your game — a smaller desktop publishing monitor. And if cost is no object, by all means go for VGA or one of those handsome 20" desktoppublishingmonitors. After all, you deserve them!

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