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Not Timely~ut Comely Shortly I will consider renewal of my subscription to The Cornpsfer Paper(BC). For two years this publication has been my source of useful-and, I h o ped, timely -market information for B.C. I based my $8500 investment for a home system on your articles... and strangely enough... current advertised prices. For a neophyte computer user, living in Williams Lake should be a distinct marketplace handicap. I used your information to acquire a 386SX system, at a time when otherswere purchasing "sooncobeMted" 286 systems. I was even able to spend my dollars at competitive prices with a Williams Lake dealer. I would like to say thank you for your helpful publication — like to, but cannot. Unfortunately, I feel slighted. And it seems I feelthat way for good reason. When I first attempted to request a subscription to the then "free" paper, I called to request commencement, ask for an invoice, and arrange payment after the fact as is the custom in o u r g o vernment organization. In polite but certain terms I was requested to pay up&ont. That cost you possibly two other subscriptions to other folks. I n o netheless proceeded with a personal subscription, fully believing in what you produce. I was also becoming suspicious of late mailings to my residence. Despite being an up-front prepaid customer, I was starting to see your paper in retail outlets around the province, well ahead of the date I was receiving my copy in the maiL The most recent indignation was receipt of your January 1992 edition. This contained the wonderful invitation to attend the Pac-Rim Computer Show. Your paper was received on January 20, 1992, four days after the show closed. I will say little more. T h e story is s eemingly deserving of a rebuttal. T h e service is seemingly in need of a priority adjustment. Canada Post cannot shoulder the blame for all of society's woes. Possibly I will meet you at GIS '92. I have many positive things to say about your magazine. I regret that timely mailing to prepaid customers has not been a 1991 success for you. Eric Gunderson Williams Lake, BC

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Whether Mr. Green is paid for his would like the opportunity to clearly work is, in my mind, irrelevant. In an anide communicate the product history and that spans six pages, readers are told what cap alities. Our business relationship with SharphIcr products Mr. Green and, presumably Canadian Mind Products, endorse. Readers produced many leadingedge products.The a good example.This notebook are also left with a dear impression of what ThCOOO is products or components Mr. Green has emerged once Sharp's LCD technology srNd packaging prowess wasmatched with TI's doubts about. For example, Mr. Green says the CgeT electronics design and experience. The Snal chipset is the safest. There are, however, product met FCC regulations and has been many professionals who would give Intel recognised as an award-winning, fullchipsets the edge over CgcT. Probably as f unction c omputer. T h e T M 2 0 0 0 i s manufactured a t T e x a s I n struments' many as would give the nod to OptL After going on at length about choosing Temple, T e x a s f a c i l i ty. Combinkd components, Mr. Green tells his readeis that manufacturing volumes helped reduce costs they will need a workshop and tools; "the and competitively position our product in easiest way to handle this is to use someone this aggressive market. Our Sharp relationship continued on the else's fully equipped workshop,' he adviseL The article then goes on to suggest a TMSOOO. In November 1990, we unveiled k itchen t a bl e w o ul d b e a suitable the smallest and lightest 886SX notebook computer available at that time. Successin arrangement for much of the work I wonder what the staff and graduates of our laser printers is largely due to our such technical trades institutions as CDI, . Sharp/TI relationship. We used the Sh CompuCollege, BCIT, Kwantlen College engine and TI's unique electronics to snd others must think when someone else produce an affordable PostScript microLaser says a computer can be mainly assembled on printer — the smallest printer package a kitchen table. Mr. Green offers no real available. In summary, we continue to enjoy a instructions o n p u t t in g t o g ether a computer, aside Rom offering his opinions strategic, healthy relationship with Shaxp. By leveragmg our company strengths, we have on various components. To make cables, he cautions that you%I reduced design times, reduced production need a viSe,an Exacto knife and a right- costs, increased volumes and secured a angle triangle. After that, you' re on your signi6cant market share in both product own. (Most cables can be bought for only a categories. Michael G. GrifBn few dollars.) Manager, Marketing Communications He says ESDI hard drives are the easiest Temple, Texas to instalL I will provide Mr. Green with the name;s of several experienced technicians who would argue that point vigorously. Mr. Cantax Clarification Green leaves the impression that CSA Caneax sells for $60 suggested list price and approval is a swift — almost assurednot $49.95 as we stated in our article on process. He fails to mention the charge of personal tax software in the February more than $155 per hour. (Admittedly-if edition. The program is also the only one of the system is properly assembled it could the three personal tax software packages take as little as SO minutes.) r eviewed which has the ality to print ~ r In condusion, Mr. Green tells us he is dupoicate printouts on an HP Laserjet 9 or holding a "free course on how to build a compatible which are virtually identical to computer. However,a $250 course— also, I Revenue Canada forms. Cantax can be assume. chaired by Mr. Green — is available reached at (405) 2554665. The program is to teach you even more. Mr. Green says he is also the only one of the three personal tax "pretty exacting, but the advantage is that I software packages reviewed which has the personally guarantee your workmanship for aMity to print laser duplicate printouts on two years." Is he also prepared to guarantee an HP Laserjet II or compatible which'are the workmanship of those naive enough to virtually identical to Revenue Canada forms. have started such a project after reading his Cantax can be reached at (405) 2554665. 0 February ardde? My best advice is to leave this type of work to the. professionals. If your company haa a new and interesting Mike Williams product or service, let ua know. Send your Vicnpresident, Versatile Computer prese rcleaaea or other information for Products cenalderaIon toi Whatss Nmo Vancouver, B.C. c/o Vhc ~ us sr Itapcr Reedy Green responds — I was dismayed to Psd (See the Masthead on pg. 0 for address) how many readers interpreted my broad-brush articleon hoseto busVda computer as suppeserQy all you nerdto know. For asamplc, on the subject of making ribbon cabka alone, I harrc written a 4,000 word essay — alaiest as long as thc cntini THEXIII i article, mr oscc re s«crace arrsr Reich is hest: SC5'I ESDI, IDE, IMFM, RLLI I sr'~ sru™ have recommended all fothea for some particular case.ENVOIis simpkst to instaN, bccacsscit docs not rcrtuinr device drirrcrs and is july standard. NanhctCS/1approoalfor a design is snub mora complee thanCSAinspection of a single machina Inspection costsonly about $80. 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First Looks at New Products and Services AME Unk connects SDRC's I-DEAS to AutoCAD Autodesk Canada has announced AME Link, a new software package that lets AutoCAD customers transfer AutoCAD/ A ME solid-modeling i n f ormation t o Structural Dynamics Research Corporation's I-DEAS software. Autodesk daims that the benefits for mechanical engineers and designers of using the two companies' integrated set of industxy-leading products are more efiiciency and more control over the designkor~ u f a ctuxing process. A utodesk's A d v anced M o d e l i n g Extension (AME) — the solid-modeling module for AutoCAD — is used to develop solid models of component designs. AME Link transfers the geometry to I-DEASSVRC's flagship design product — where it can be further developed, tested and analyzed. AME Link runs on 886- and 48Mmsed

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HP marks 20th anniversary of its first handheld calculator Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd. recently marked the 20th anniversaxy of the HP 85, HP's first handheldwalculator product, which became known as "the electronic slide rule. During the early 1970s, William R. Hewlett, HP's cofounder, was impressed by handheld calculators. While working with HP engineers, Hewlett became convinced that HP could expand the technology into a shirt-pocket-size calculator capable of perfoxming trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential functions. The result was the introduction of the 9 oz. HP 85 on Jan.

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llford effers selfwontained color print processor I lford P h ot o ( C a nada) L i m i ted h a s introduced the Ilford Omnipro System, a new processor that processes direct positive colour print an d o verhead material, continuous tone biack~dmhite prints and graphic arts materials in a single, selfcon gained unit, without changing chemistry. In addition to full-spectrum colour capabilities, the Omnipro System also claims t o be t he wor l d ' s f a s test photographic colour print processor, providing a wet processing time of under three minutes for colour pants. The new system teams a statewfWe~ computerized roller transport processor with advanced new chemicals that can process awide range of colour and black and white materials. The Ilford P4 chemical process is based on Ilford SDB, o r s i lver dye b leach technology. The processor integrates a unique bleach bridge which enables the Omnipro System to switch at the touch of a button b e tween p r o cessing c olour, continuous tone black and white, and graphic arts materials. Users can talre advantage of a single system and one chemical inventory — instead of multiple machines, chemistries and technicians; Available in 20", 26", Sl", 42n and 52" widths, the Ilford Omnipro System is scheduled for availability in mid-l992.

Sharp introduces pioneering SCSI-2 color scanner

Sharp's patented one-pass scanning system allows the new JX-820 to reduce scan Sharp Electronics of Canada is chiming to time while providing high~uality 24-bit have introduced the computer industry's color with full control over threshold, first color scanner that is fully compliant hrightness and color gamma correction. with the new SCSI-2 interface standard. The unit also outputs 256-level grayscale The JX420, a bighguality color scanner and biack~dmhite images. for business applications such as reports Scanning at a true 800 dots-per-inch and proposals, is also the Srst in its dass of (dpi). resolution can be increased through business scanners to offer a transparency interpolation up to 600 dpi. The JX-820's o ption w h ich t r a nsforms i t i n t o a modular interface slot lets the unit connect professional-level scanner capable of both as a GPIB or SCSI 2 scanner. Also available transparent and refiectpre scanning modes. is a direct~rint option which, when used in With a scanning area of 8 1/2 x ll", it can conjunction with the JX-780 or JX-785 handle anything from 85mm slides to glossy printers, transforms the JX-820 into a lowphotographs, p e r fect f o r bu s i n ess cost color copier. presentations and production houses. While in the color copy mode, the

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The17 ppm Canon NX engine features 1000aheet input capacity and a 50,000 page per month duty cycle. It supports up to legal-size paper, as well as envelopes, transparencies, and label stock An optional duplexing (two-side) unit and power envelope feeder are also available. The Canadian suggested list price for the QMSfPS 1700 is $9,495. Options and supplies include the following: Novell E thernet; Ether Talk Ethernet; TCP/I P Ethernet; DECnet Ethernet; duplexer; powered envelope feeder; 4 MB SIMM; 1 MB SIMM; microfine toner cartridge; additional paper trays. The printer is distributed in Canada through @MS Canada Inc. direct sales. The printer carries a tw~ear warranty and is supported inCanada by @MS Canada Inc. National Service, which offers a variety of once depot, and returnco&ctory service plans backed by factory~ e d Q M S service techmcians.

QMS announces 17 ppm, $00 dpi multi-network printer

developers launch product The Information Technology Assodation of Canada (ITAC) — through its regional branch ITAC BC (formerly Software BC) and with assistance 6I'om Western Economic Diversification~s sponsoring the return of its seminar/consulting pr o gram f o r software developers. It's called Marketing

Your Somme: A HanCkOn Tour Through the Product Launch ProcesL The sponsorsclaims their program is unique because over the course of it, developers can actually launch their own ITAC is the national product. association representing the information technology industry including software developers a n d publ i s hers. T he seminar/consulting programme is one of the ways 1TAC BC says it is addressing the need to upgrade marketing skills within BC's software community. The programme is made up of six seminar sessions. All seminar leaders are software industry specialists. Each session is then followed by a personal one~n~ne consulting session. Some of the topics planned for the program include: Budgeting, Publicity, Lead Generation, Product and Corporate Identification, Production of Promotional M aterials, Di s t r i b utio n Chan n e l Management,'Direct Mail and Advertising. Seminars are scheduled to commence at The BC Club on Tuesday, March 24th and

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Known as the+MS-PS 1700, this new laser printer connects directly to either Ethernet or Token Ring (802.5) networks when these optional interface cards are installed. Ethernet supports either DECnet, TCP/IP, NetWare, or EtherTalk protocols. The Token Ring intedace card supports NetWare also. Up to four simultaneously active interfaces mclude the standard RS252C, Centronics, parallel, and LocalTalkplus the optional inted'ace.

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IBM Canada announced last m onth corporate sponsorship of a new exhibit at the Ontario Sdence Centre that combines Space exploration with learning. IBM has sponsored the Challenger Learning Centre, a new permanent exhibit hall which opens in March. IBM has been involved with the NASA space program since the early 1960s, providing computer hardware and software systems on the ground and in spacecraft for every U.S. manned space4ight program since Gemini. In Toronto, IBM Canada's Software Development Laboratory has worldwide

company calls "Multi-Res technologywhich allows user selection of 600 x 600 dpi or 500 x 500 dpi output. It is powered by an Intel 8 0960 C A / 2 5 M h z R l S C-based processor. A not inconsiderable 8 Mb of RAM is standard and is expandable to 16 MB via user~staiable SIMBA The @MS-PS 1700 also includes an emulation sensing processor (called what else but ESP?), designed to automatically select the appropriate printer language on any intedace. Resident selectable lamguages include Adobe's PostScript software, HP

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Canadian phone companies form new hoidin9 firms and revise mandate Canada's major telephone companies last month announced the creation of two jointly held companies — Stentor Resource Centre Inc. and Stentor Telecom Policy Inc. In addition, they announced a revised mandate for Telecom Canada, which will now be known as Stentor Canadian Netnrork Management. The CEOs of t h e n i n e t e lephone companies unveiled their plans at an Ottawa news conference that was broadcast to Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, Stentor Resource Centre will consolidate the shareholder companies. marketing and engineering development activities at the national and international levels. Stentor Resource Centre will develop and deliver national telecommunications products and services, will develop national technology standards, will conduct or sutw:ontract research and development projects for the telephone companies, and will establish i nternational a l l i a nces w i t h ot h e r telecommunications organizations. It may also b e come i n v o lved i n sy s t ems d evelopment w i t h t he tel e p h o n e companies. Stentor Resource Centre will ofncially be in operation as of January I, 1995. It is expected to have approximately 2,500 employees drawn f ro m t h e m e m ber telephone companies. It will be centred in Ottawa, but will also have operations in other parts of the country. Brian Hewat, currently Executive Vice:-PresidentM arketing fo r B e l l C a n ada, will b e appointed President and Chief Executive Ofncer of Stentor Resource Centre. S tentor Telecom Policy will be i n operation on Feb. 5, 1992. The coxnpany will act as a governmentcelations advisory and advocacy arm for the shareholder companies. Stentor Telecom Policy will focus on national issues and policy.Jocelyne Cote-O' Hara, previously vice-president government retaixms for B.C. Tel, has been appointed President and Chief Executive.

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wanted to give you good news. I wanted to tell you that you could save money on your taxes this year. Our recent reader suxvey revealed that about a quarterof you have home offices. It's a growing trend today for people to do some of their work on computers at home. Telecommuting — or transxmtting work back

Many employees may find it difficul) to have their employer certify that home is the regular work place — working at home three days out of five in a work week might satlisfy The Employer's Certification this condition. Also, the second condidon Form P2200) may be difficult to meet if the employee Getting this form filled out is the first major does not have to meet with people in the and forth from home to office by telephone hurdle you must overcome. Your employer home as part of the job. modem transfer — is replacing the daily must cooperate and fill in part of the form T he exclusive-use rul e m e ans, f o r grind of traveling to and {ro. for you. example, that the family TV room cannoi be I knew self-employed people like me Your employer must clearly state on the t he office d u r in g t h e d ay. T hi s is t h e could deduct costs of a "home computer form that: concept of "dedicated space." A separate of6ce" from their income taxes. I thought 1) The home spaceis your principal place of room used only as an office best satisfies this that people who work for someone else — 90 employment, AND/OR rule. per cent of the work force — should be able 2) You use the home space regularly and These rules parallel those for selfto as well. continuously to meet people related to your employed taxpayers claiming home o ce Some can, but not many. Revenue employment AND the space is set aside for expenses. Canada's rules on deducting home office exdusive home oifice use. If you can't meet these rules, you' re probablyout of luck. You won't get a penny off your income tax. The cost of havhIg a home office so you can do your job is just another tax on your aching back. expenses improved for tax year 1991 — but are still far from liberal.

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this if you' re purchasingNew and Improved Dessert Topping or a Ginsu Knife, but it becomes a costly experiment if you happen to be buying a new watch, VCR, or personal computer. In the mid-19'70s, for example, the LED (Light Emitting Diode) digital watch arrived on the scene with its glowing red numbers. marketed as "the timepiece of the future" these watches were amazingly accurate and could display, in some cases, time in thousandths of a second. Without one, we were told, that important meeting or appointment might be missed. Yeah, right. A small oversight on the part of design engineers was that most people don't think

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n the late 1960's, before he made it big in the movies, comedian Woody Allen was busy working the night clubs and writing stand-up routines for The Johnny Carson Show. One of his comedy sketches makes me laugh as hard today as when I first heard it years ago, and I wonder ifwith a few changes — the sketch might be just as humorous in the boardroom of a computerizedoffice. In this sketch Allen, frustrated at technology and its reluctance to cooperate, calls all his appliances into the living room for a staK meeting. He calls in his toaster, his television, his radio, etc., and proceeds to lecture them on the consequences of their actions should they continue to behave this way. They do. Allen, sensing a conspiracy, makes an example out of his television set by attacking it. Technology retaliates: six months later it gets even by lochng him in an elevator and adling him names through the ceiling speaker. Then things get really ugly.

Time aoes High-Tech Some of us will always be skeptical of technology — and for good reason. Too many developers of computers and other high-tech gizmos introduce us to a new technology simply because it is new (rather than better ). You may be able to stomach

digitally. That is, most people don't think of time as 09:24:15:25. These are just numbers; most of us think of time as the movement between these numbers. Consider your car's speedometer. Knowing that you' re going 100 km/hr isn't enough. Unless you have a radar detector or diplomatic immunity, it' s also important to know whether your speed is increasing or decreasing. Like an oldfashioned watch, a traditional dial (analog) speedometer gives you this information much more efficiently than a d i gital readout. A traditional watch face allows you to envision your time of arrival by showing you how quickly the hands are moving, the digital one just tells you whether you' re late Coatiasted oaneat Page

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Ergonomics And Icons So things are getting better. Designers, more and more,are considering the human perspective when building our machines.As early as 1948 the term "ergonomics" was coined to refer to this applied science, but only in the last ten years or so has it been pursued as a design philosophy. In fact, today's computer users have an even more human name for hardware and software created this way — we call it "user Instead of just saying it "works better for people," today's engineers are embracing the philosophy and saying, "now let's make it work better with people." The use of icons is one example here. Macintosh, and more recently IBM (via Windows), utihze Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that replace those impossible-to-

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remember commands with physical pictures or icons. What goes on behind the scenes hasn't changed that much, it's just that the computer no w a n i m ates th e a c t ual commands for us, making it unnecessary to memorize them. By comparison to the codemriented world we once had to deal with, the icon system is great. At least thisis the case when it comes to computers. Unfortunately, an icon~e d real world has its drawbacks. In many instances, icons only make sense after they have been explained to us for the first time.Justwatch s omeone unfamiliar w it h a n o f f i c e building's elevators attempt to hold the doors open for afiend. In the couple of seconds it takes to determine which icon on the control panel means "Open Door," the doors have shut Oops...sorry about that. Or step into a new car and try to figure out which button means "Heat. Nme times out of ten I selected "Air Conditioning" in the middle of winter. Sorry about that. Or worst yet, try to remember if the male or female symbol on the restroom door applies to you. Really sorry about that..ma'aml

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subsequently, into our desktop dictionary. As a side note, script writers for futuristi mevies have been known to "borrow" texms from these ISO subcommittees, in an efFort to convince us that they really are ahead of their time. Senxetixnes it works, and five or ten years later that Dick Tracy gadget (with a funny name) we once saw in a movie is suddcnty a reahty.

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professionals: If you want to buy an outdated computer, buy the most recent model on the market. Unfortunately there's an element of truth to this. This is an industry that has elevated change and improvement to an art form. But in the process many of us have been alienated by the speed and «iso by the terminology of the movement. By the time the PC or mainfr<unc you' re using today has made: it through the research, development and marketing stages and arrived in the workplace for you to boast about, a faster and more e&cient model is already making it look like an antique. If computers, like perishable food items, were required te carry expiration dates, many would be inedible by the time they reached the breakfast table. A nd like th e h a r dware, th e l i n go associated with it evolves at a frightening pace. According te the Universal and World Almanacs, there are now more than threequarters of a million words in the English language. Approximately BOO,OOO of these are technical terms, and the list is growing at an accelerated rate every day.

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Jargon is r eally a subset of specific vocabulary. A carpenter speaks of "six-penny nails"; a nurse speaks of "ventricular expansion"; and a programmer speaks of "read protection." All are jargon and all reside within a person's vocabulary waiting Portmanteau Terms The computer industry — and scientists in ' to be drawn upon. general— are very fond of portmanteau A curious thing about jargon is that, unlike words that refer to a spedfic type of terms. These are hybrid words made up of the sounds and meaning of other words technology ( such a s I B M o r UN I X (usually only two). A well-known example is commands), jargon tends to become a personalized way of thinking. That is, years SMOG (Smoke + Fog). Closer to home, electrical engineers who design computers after a new method of measurement is adopted by t h e c o n struction t r ade, speak of electronic circuits such as NOR carpenters still refer to nails a's "six penny" gates (Not+ Or) and NAND gates (Not+ And). Many exotic-sounding technical rather than twoinch. terms can be broken down in a similar fashion. Acronyms An acronym is a word (though occasionally a phrase) whose letters reflect its definition. Acronyms really got their start during the industrial revolution in nmeteenthwentury England and became more and more popular during the First and Second World Wars. There are two types of acronyms: true and displaced. A true acronym's letters are, ideally, made up of the first letters f'rom its definition, and the acronym itself forms a pronounceable word. One example would be SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breather Apparatus). True acronyms are almost always language-specific, meaning that the same word rarely occurs in, say, English and Spanish, at the same time. A displaced acronym, on the other hand, is often an international mishmash of a definition's letters that only occasionally forms a word. Because this happen so rarely,people have become wonderfully creative: an acronym such as SCSI (Smail Computer System Interface) becomes "scuzzie" to the technically inclined. A cronyms, unlike j argon, t end t o originate from specific, often patented inventions. DTP (Desk Top Publishing) was

Hijadced Terms

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power, while computers are built to use AC. The battery DC must be converted to AC before being sent to the computer.

Online and Off-line

The different types of UPSes divide roughly into two classes. In an online UPS the batteries power the computer system all the time. The rest of the UPS serves to keep the batteries charged using incoming AC power. In an on e U P S the batteries only cut in if the regular supply fails. There is a lag, a "transfer time," when this switch takes place. Errors can be caused by this switching process. Some experts think oiF-line UPSes The value of the data lost in a crash can Continuing operation is possible if don't deserve the name "uninterruptible." needed. Hospitals and other vital services be more than the cost of the LAN system They prefer to hear them called Standby keep banks of batteries big enough to run hardware. The time spent recovering Rom a Power Supplies (SPSes). for hours. Stand-by generators can keep crash caused by power failure costs even Power Conditioning computers running, but power output i'rom more in lost production. In the interest of Power conditioning goes on constantly in a UPS Strategies most generators is crude and rough. It must speed, LAN file-server directories may be Most users don t want a UPS that continues b e p assed t h r ough a go o d p o w e r stored in volatile RAM memory. If this goes UPS. Robust circuitry cushions the to operate when power failL For them a UPS conditioner before going to a coxnputer or it's a real disaster. computer against power transients. It A UPS can run out of juice if it's trying ensures the power getting to the computer is for shutting down the system without this cure can be worse than the disease. to support a LAN in unattended mode. is the smooth, steady AC they are meant to losing data, time and efFort — the model of Some LAN server software can sense power run on. grace under pressure. The size of a UPS LAN's Best Friend They protect against spikes, surges and should be m a t ched wit h t h e p o w er The LAN (Local Area Network) has a level failure, shutting down the system and saving ' sage by buffering the incoming power. requirements of a system and the time of system complexity sufficient to require data while the batteries last. Some protect against brownout by sucking n eeded fo r e m e rgency back-up an d backup with a UPS. Most LANs are used by shutdown. more current when voltage drops, then small- to medium~ d b usinesses. Money is The Boomerang using the extra power to boost the voltage Peripheral devices like printers may not on the line if the LAN crashes. There isan option cheaper than a UPS and going to the computer. need UPS backup. It depends how vital the Because of their complexity LANs are better than no power backup at all: the function is. For example, a printer may be more vulnerable than single compute:rs to Boomerang, by Micro Sync. This DC Battery-power Backup pxinting a run of cheques. If the job shut power and noise problems. Even a simple hardware device that fits inside a computer UPSes contain rechargeable batteries. down when the power went out,and then LAN can form ground loops with its own case will bail you out when power Sails. When power fails, these batteries power the restarted, duplicate cheques would be wiring. This transmits electrical noise among Corati7644oajo74neet page computer system. The batteries produce DC produced. A big~ough UPS would see the all network nodes. job through.

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A cheap plug-in surge protector can be worse than no protection at all. If you If you decide you need a UPS there is a bought a cheap surge protector of a power process to choosing one. You have to work out your computer system's power demands, bar design from a hardware or drugstore then decide how long you want it to keep more than a year ago it may be useless by running if the power Ms. This will give you now. Cheap surge protectors can contain as an estimate of the size of UPS you need. little as $1 worth of surge-protecti4n The quality of your power will tell you how important power conditioning is to you. electronics. These cheap electronics burn out when the first big power surge hits In Third World countries power is not as them. After that all you have is a simple clean as in Canada, for example. Battery life is important when choosing a power bar mislabeled as a surge protector. UPS. How long before the batteries that The only thing it's doing for you is lulhIng come with the unit wear out and must be you into a false sense of security. replaced? Batteries can account for 80% of the unit's price, so the ongoing expense of The Right Way Surge protectorsshould be replaced every battery replacement is important. year or so. Spending sixty dollars or more to protect thousands of dollars in delicate The Laptop Advantage components is cheap insurance. You can Portable laptop computers combine a continue to use the old one as a sim~le rechargeable battery power supply with AC power lMLr. plug-in capadty and come with their own At the vexy least, get a surge protector UPS. Benefits are limited by battery life and with MOV (Metal Oxide Varistors) in it. recharge time. If you know your computer is Since these wear out, it's best to get a going to o p erate i n a c h a ncy power environment, consider buying a portable protector that can be taken apart so the MOVs can be replaced. model. A good basic test when shopping is to Laptop battexies can be recharged from look inside the surge protector. In general, less-than-perfect power sources like car the more stufF in there, the better. cigarette l i ghters o r s m al l p o r t able generators. The stored charge can then produce dean, steady power for computer Sackup, Sackup, Sackup! operation. A system of spare batteries A regular, systematic practice of backup is one of the best defenses against power charging up in a separate charger can problems. The more recent the last badrup, ensure continuous operation. the less new information will need to be salvaged during shutdown. Th e g aps Suiit-in UisSes between backups are th e a m ount of UPSes built right into a computer are inforxnation you will lose when the system becoming more popular.Mounting them Ms sooner or later. inside the standard case cuts the cost of It's a good habit to back up to your hard their having a case of their own. As more drive as you enter new data into RAI IL A computers are made with the role of LAN common~ense appredation of the value of server in mind, this trend will grow. The own time and effort will tell you this. batteries are heavy, though, and add ten your If you' ve spent hours slaving over a wordp ounds or more to the weight of th e processing or spreadsheet file without machine. backing up, you' re walking a tightrqpe. Power~upply failure will knock all that Work INore Information out of precarious RAM. What you didn' t For details on computer power, read store on the hard drive you can't recover by Mark CompactorEjodrioo Pmoor Ito r diroyooyats when the power comesback on. Wailer, ISBN-0472-22561-1, Howard W. Sams and Co. Emerson Computer Power Electrical Ecology distributes e x c ellent g e n e r al UPS Be aware of your computer's electrical documentation, available through Compuenvironment. Loads on other parts of the Power Controls Inc., Coquitlam, B.C. power supply system can cause problems American Power Corporation produces 77ao with your computer. Pmoor Pmtootioa Book,with detailed technical Loads with electric engines, like vacuum notes. cleaners, floor polishers, rug-cleaning machines, refrigerators, washing machines . PC Wdok magazine reviewed UPSes in its or fans cause transient power problems. ril 22, 1991 issue. ByteMagosiao reviewed When electric motors first start they suck all 2 different UPSes in its Nov. 27, 1990 issue. the power on a circuit, causing a sag. If

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THE COMPUTERPAPER MARCH '92 23 built in the electronic age their powersystem specifications aren't meant to suppurt COInputere. Computers are delicate compared to light bulbs, heaters and oven burners. Standards that served these simple devices well years ago will deliver power that destroys computers and other electronic equipment.

capadty to absorb shocks. It am't be eroded away gradually by the undesirable but not uncommon surges that come down the hne from thepower company. If a computer isn't going to be used for a while, say if you' re going on vacation, unplug it.

Lightning Storms

D on't u s e a com p u t e r du r i n g a thunderstorm. A lightning strike on a power pole anywhere near you will send a spike down the line so strong you' ll be roasting marshmallowsover your motherboard. U nplug t h e p o w e r a a d m o d e m connections during a storm. A lightning strike on a phoae pole can send a surge into the modem that can damage your machine's innards. Surge protectors for modems are

Dedicated Circuit I f possible, put your computer on a dedicated circuit. A dedicated circuit is a power line back to the drcuit breaker in the fuse box that you use for nothing but the computer system. If you can't set up a dedicated drcuit, at least keep sources of problem transients — photocopiers, motors and so on — on different drcuits than your computer.

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The Smder your computer, the fussier it is about its power supply. A simple 12 MHz supply. By contrast, a highwnd SS MHz 80486 demands very clean power. The robustness of simpler computers is an advantageoften igaored. 0

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UPS Glossary of Verms Alternating Current (AC) Electric current that periodically reverses direction. (see Current)

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Meter for measuring electric current.

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caused by adding large loads to the power line in a building. An elevator starting, a copier or coffee pot being tuxned on, or a large motor on a factory Soor starting can cause sagL

Getting electric power from the power plant to the point of use.

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Direct Current Electric current that flows in only one direction.

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The unit of electric current.

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proposed load.

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A switch that automatically transfers electxic loads to alternate or emergencymtandby power sources.

Slack-out An interruption or total loss of commerdal electrical power.

Brown-out An abnormal low-voltage condition on commerdal power lines. Brownout may be intentionally produced by the po wer company during periods of near overload demand, ormay be produced by conditions like storms, Sres or acddents.

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charge.

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A noise that happens on all power lines of an electric circuit shnultaneously,

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A power system that protects against shortterm power outages. UPSes typically rectify A sharp but brief increase in voltage. the incoming AC line voltage to DC. The commonly caused by turning off heavy loads DC voltage charges storage batteries. An like photocopiers, air condirioners, power inveftcx', driven by thc DC power, suppltcs tools, coffc» machines or other appliances. AC voltage for vital equipment. How long These devices draw large amounts of power thc UPS lasts depends on the load it must and, when they are shut off, there is a support and the capadty of the batteries. momentary excess of power on the line that Volt can enter computers and cause problems. Unit of electrical potential difference, or Surge voltage. Similar to a spike, a surge is a longer increase in voltage. Surges last from 15 Voltage milliseconds to a half second or more. The electrical force or potential. Another Surges are commonly caused by the removal name for voltage is the e l ectromotive '

of heavy loads (equipment shutdown) or

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utility power network switching. Surges seriouslydamage computers.

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Off-line When the UPS inverter is off or "cold." The computer is not relying on the UPS battexy power. Switching the UPS online usually takes soxnc thnc.

Equipment that needs uninterrupted power to prevent damage, loss or injury.

The inverter is on and the UPS batteries are bearing load. The time the batteries can power the computer is being used up.

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The flow of electricity in a circuit; the volume or intensity of electric Sow. Current may be either altexnatilng or direct.

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%ansformer A device that transforms the voltage of an AC circuit. Transformers may isolate an AC drcuit from its distribution. Transformers are AC devices only.

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changing technology.

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The process of regulating voltage to ensure a steady, even supply of power to the computer

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given human naxnes to make it sound ess f intimidating. This is exactly what Stanley Kubxick IBd in the movie 20D1: A Space Odyssey. Anyone who has seen the movie can recam the monotone voice of thc supercomputer named HAL There have been some pretty wild theories where the name for this computer came from, but my favorite has to do with th e w h ole issue of p r oduct cndofscntcnts. IBM (according to th e story) was approached by the producerswho wanted to use their name on the computer. Not wanting to be associated with a failed product, the compu t e r gi~ a nt understandably declined. But Kubrick had the hst laugh. The letters in the IBM name were simply replaced with those that preceded them in the alphabet. So„ I" became "8"; B " becaxne "A; and "M" became "L" As a fringe bencSt, EBK-the paranoid computer who goes out of control — acquired a name that sounds as harmless as a favorite unde. (ghtsr sseta Arthu C Clash, the ssxhor of 2001: A Space Odyssey daisies this story oiyeously. Aecon@ag fohim, HAL staadsfor "heuristically programmed algorithmic computer.' Uk@eh. Sec page 71fm suer oa

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Blackouts

A blackout is the most obvious and easily imagined eifect. As power fails completely, computer systems crash. All data in RAM memory is lost, data on crashed disks is damaged, and communications links in networks are disrupted.

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deally the power f'rom your wall outlet is a perfecdy steady hum. Voltage shoulci follow a sine wave of 60 Henz (60 cycles per second), oscillating between -170 and +170 volts. The power supply Rom your wall outlet is rated at 110 to IK volti AC (altemathTg current). This rating is the RMS (rootmean~ e) v o ltage, a kind of average that

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A Language With Character: Chinese Word Processing

By Jan Wslls and EksnorNg To identify the hurdles and make a fair written by about 22.5% of humanity. assessment of the computerization of the In China, science and technology Chinese language, first we consider some of have been designated asone of the "Four the differences between the Chinese M odernizations" t o en j o y pr i o r i t y character-writing system and alphabetic development from now into the 21st languages, around which the first computer programs were developed. Cenuuy. Whereas 52 a l phabetic O ne o f the m o r e symbols (26 in lower case important challenges of the and 26 in upper case), a Four Modernizations is that few punctuation marks and of using the most powerful lS basic functions take care symbol of science and of fundamental English t ech n o l o gy — t h e word processing, Chinese computer — to pro c e ss has about 8,500 characters words in t h e C h i n e se in use today, and although language. Unfortunately, the Kangxi D i c tionary automation of t his catalogues nearly 50,000 l anguage has been different characters, 95% complicated by anumber of all c o m monly u sed o f factors. Th e m a j o r words are represented by obstacles are the nature of about 2,000 characters, and the written language, the mastery of about 8,000 diversity of its dialects and characters makes a person the divisiveness of modern essentially literate. Chinese politics. What complicates the In this artiCI, we offer issue is the bewildering an o v e rview of t he variety of character input challenges, the difficulries and retrieval methods that and some of the successes are available. Imagine for a in the effort to computerize moment that the English the Chinese language. This is a quest for modernizing things Chinese. In the process, language were written not with 26 letters, we will also give a brief critique of the major but with several thousand. In designing a Chinese-language software p r o ducts Chinese wordyrocessor, users must be able to choose, for example, the letter on the available today.

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keyboard that is designated to represent a particular radical (semantic field), stroke (vertical, horizonta, downward to the left, downward to the right, dot, etc.) or stroke sequence. Assuming that you already know how to write a few thousand characters in the correct stroke sequence, you then have to memoriz the arbitrary assignment of all the keys on a Western alphabet keyboard to a pen stroke or stroke sequence. The major benefit of this method is that you may retrieve then a character no matter how your native dialect pronounces it. On the other hand, if efficiency and simplicity are what you seek through the computer, then you must admit that a phoneticapproach has apparent advantages since there are a limited and small number of sounds in the Chinese language, each representing several different characters pronounced the same way. Psychologically, the writer first conjures a word phonetiatlly,

character strokes on a computer note pad. Once again, the high percentage of homonyms (several different characters pronounced the same way) embedded in t he C h i nese l e x icon i n c r eases t h e complexity of input by pinyin even if all users (different dialect speakers) were to pronounce the characters the same way. For example, let us say that we wish to reuieve the character for "horse." If we used the pinyin romanization system for retrieving single characters, we would type an "m," an "a," and a number 5 to indicate that we want the character pronounced "ma" in the "third tone," which is low and riiing. Having typed in the proper syllableplustone, a number of characters, probably six, will appear in a window at the bottom of our screen, all pronounced "ma in the third tone. Only one of them will be "horse," so after scanning the window, we must enter t he number (one through six) of t h e character for "horse," which will then be

One More Variable The existence of dialects and their influence on pronunciation of Mandarin by nonnative speakers of Mandarin has also become one o f the m o numental obstacles in t h e development of voice input for character retrievaL By the same token, the calligraphic idiosyncrasies of different writers hinder the hit rate of input through handwriting

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34 THE COMPUTERPAPER MARCH '92 Telegraphic Codes. The Five Stroke method may want to look at other packagesthat now being promoted for use among students allow retn'eval by compound words or by in schools throughout China is not yet well c o n t ext s ensitivity as compared to the 1 method of retrieval by single known outside China. T h e S t andard t r a d itions Telegraphic Code is perceived as beyond the characters. Programs such as Weiwu pinyin reach of average users such as scholars, an d Xiahbaren offer retrieval by compound Singapore. business people and translators — who wants words, but in different ways. To retrieve the Automation of the Chinese language to memorize several thousand fourwumeral c h a racter s for "Beijing," for example, Xialibareg will deliver took offin 1980 when research conducted sequences, such as 2055 the right characters in came to fruition with the for I or me (wo5)? by Zhu B response to the entry Having settled on one invention of Gang Jie Character Input "bei5jing," and Weiwu desirable input method, s r M ethod (Cang Jie is the name of t h e pinyin may deliver the mythological inventor of th e Chinese a buyer should also s ame c h aracters i n written language). Between 1980 and today, consider such matters as response to bj." cha r a c ter over 400 types of character retrieval speed o f The Stone (Sitong) methods have surfaced in the market. This retrieval, ease of use, Computer So f t w are proliferation of methods, unfortunately, has output quality, price, after-sale support and p rogram i s c o n text produced greatbreadth but not as much sensitive (lianxiang), depth i n C h i n ese-language software potential for up g. which means that when programs as we have seen in Western A full-featured wordy ou type b e i 5 " a n d language programs. Since Chinese hmguage processing so f t ware choose th e de s i r ed computing is a relatively young branch of character &em the Bttle science, even researchers in China have not wmdow, the window will had as much time to devote to the task of R automatically 611 itself perfecting and standardiring it. The major $500 to $aoo. ~I • w i t h t h ose characters As an alternative to ~ obstacles, however, relate to the strtscture of statistically most likely to input methods involving the language as identified above. f ollow t he cho s e n Let us now move on to examine the a' lot of rote leatmng, we character, i n c l udinq products available in the market and assess "jing" for Beijing, bian t heir r ol e a n d p o t e n tial f o r f u t u r e accepting input by pinyin for "beibian," "fang" for development. To classify them by their or phonetic spelling. "belong," Q" for beiji," fimctions may be of the greatest interest to Most products available etc. Ease in use and end-users — whom we identify broadly as in t hi s c ategory will teachers, translators, publishers, scholars address Mandarin or Cantonese speakers. Sexihilityis evident. and business people. They all look for Shorter training time makes this method T he grouping an d a ssociation of difFerent features in software that will cater attractive, since the trainee must only learn in d i vidualcharacters in compound words to their particular needs. Hopefully, the t o manipulate 26 litters to produce the o f f e r s (and reflects) insights into the following listing may help some of them to sounds that link to the adnese characters. It structure of the Chinese language. One g of these products is that they make an informed decision should the need can also be argued that this method is s h ortcomin natural, since we speak and think through a r e more memory hungry than those that arise. We start with word processing packages, concepts that have spoken sounds. Since all o nly manipulate individual characters. s in Taiwan, especially in the L oc a l user since they are part of desktop publishing school chfidren in Mainland China and most and translation systems. For users not well y oung students i n H o n g K o n g a n d business sector, enjoy a much wider choice versed with any particular phonetic codeSingapore and in local Mandarin classes o f p a c kages integrating spreadsheet, be it Hanyu pinyin, bo-po-mo-fo or learn the Hanyu pinyin romanization system, database, text editing, graphics and even Cantonese — input by pure stroke sequence users of the second generation will require C A D p rogr ams together. Here in North is an option, assutning that one can write very Btde training to master input using this America, the need to do one's accounts or computermded design in Chinese is very Chinese and knows the strokes and stroke methocL Xialibaren (XLBR for short), a powerful small. Sho uld such need arise, the buyer order welL It is relatively easy to learn, an te the readality of manuals and asset for those who cannot or do not want to yet mode s t l y pri ced word mus t evalua processing/desktop publishing software the quality of local support, without which go through a time-consuming training program, acceptspinyin input. Its amazing an appar ently fantastic product could process. The price we pay for using this system is capaMity for "phonetic conversion of blocks effectivelybecomea piece oFjunk Some u sers do h a v e a ge n u i n e retrieving characters one at a thne, which in of pinyin input" allows a fluent user to e to learn how to use a new turn affects th e speed o f c h a r acter continue typing English letters without r e l u c tanc interruption while the program converts p ackage f'rom scratch. Recently marketed processing. A good example of such products is EasyWord, a software product string of syllables into Chinese characters, be Chinese versions of PageMaker, Windows 2 . 0and Harvard Graphics may help to fill manufactured in Australia It requires the they@'anti (simplified) or Snti (traditional). user to input no more than eight strokes on For example, when you key in"women the gap fo r this group. Text preview and (" What-You-See-Is-What-Youa numeric keypad and choose among the list yidingyao4jianshe4yige fanrongfuqiangde WYSIWYG es make the job much easier for of single ~ ers d i splayed in a window. It zhongguo, the display on the Xialibaren G e t") featur ublishers. The availability of also offers some word-processing features, screen will be the Chinese characters for d e sktop p e-1 compatible Chinese fonts but its real strength is its use of the numeric We must build a prosperous, rich and A d o be Typ keypad to mimic the actual penning of strong China." This is indeed a far cty &om m a kes it possible to print Chinese on character strokes that one would write on packages that require users to enter text Srst postscript printers. However, problems still ' g such fonts on PageMaker. p aper. T h e met h o d i s a sim p l e , by monosyllabic pinyin and then choose one exist in runmn T he 1ack of t e x t-editing f eatures straightforward "translation" of pen strokes character Rom a long list of homonyms. If a mistake is made or a wrong word is provided comparable in sophistication to Hypertext to keypad strokes. One rung higher up the ladder of f or a particular context, it also offers the i n E ng l is h leaves m uc h r o o m f o r abstraction, the user may be required to fiexibihty of going back in the sentence to i m p r ovem ent. Automatic indexing and input a combination of radicals (semantic pick amore desirable character or character spellwheckmg are not yet widely available. ket recently, we have Xiaomishu fields), strokes and stroke sequenceL Jn this string without retyping the pinyin spelling. On t h e mar With the Read Another File function, the ( l i t tle Secretary), which is a small desktop category, ior example, we have Mr. Qan's System. At the highest level of abstraction user can actually do mail merge in annese. p ubhsher. For M acintosh users M acChinese devised to date, input involves a radical As its name (which literally means "Country (semantic element) key, pinyin and tone of Bumphn") suggests, it is a recommendable Version 5, which providesa good choice of the word. For example, to retrieve the product for non~ e cialist teachers, small fonts and high-quality output on laser the most hkely choice. Coupled er for she,' we need to input "n for printers, writers, business people, and p r i nters, is "nu5, the "female semantic element, "ta" cultural institutions, induding those who w i t h M ac Calligraphy, users have a wide for the pronunciation, and 1" to indicate need to send Chinese texts over their c h o ice offonts to choose from, plus the the "first tone. Such an input method modems (for which, by the way, a Chinese a dvantage of being able to run several eBmimates ambiguity on the one hand, but CCDOS version of Kermit, the famous d i f f e r ent word-processing p r o grams on the other, it requires a lot of work telecommunications shareware program, is ( M i crosoft Word, MacWrite, etc.) with the same Chinese character operating system. to produce a single now available). (mental and For other sophisticated telecommuI ncidentally, apart f rom t h e m o st character. ary MacChinese disk operating The W eiwu ( M a t erialist) C h i nese nication needs, such as sending- a fax r u d i ment Sofiaatre System is another product that uses message in Chinese, XinTianMa may supply system, the Mac sofiware usually sells for a radicals and stroke sequences, but to master a bc:tter, if more expensive,answer. Texts of higher pri ce than products offering similar it a user must be prepared to spend a characters retrieved with contextwensitive f eatures on PC As a marketing feature, many software lengthy dme in training. pinyin, ~ ~ o-f o o r radical components The most popular input methods among can now be sent directly via hx board in the programs offer more than one mode of

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Wubi (5 Stroke Input Method), Babi '(8g Stroke Input Method), Cangjie and ' (Pen Stroke Input Method). HDCCDGS (Hua Da Chinese Character Disk Operatipg System) 2.12, on the other hand, accepts l5 different input methods. The manufactur~ start off in good faith recognizing the diversified backgrounds of users and end Iip confusing some novices. For regular users, pinyin is a good and safe start. Another improvement evident in many current products is automatic conversion &om Jtanti (simplified characters) to Fanti

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the computerization o f t h e C h i n ese language takes on a more global scale, tjns SexiMity is a welcome achievement. SPDOS,

XLBR, XinTianMa, etc., all have su h capaMity. No technology can t h rive withc Iut

receiving returns on Snancial investment in the process of development. In the past and to this day, progress in the developmen( of some important software products is seriously hampered by virtual disrespect for

copyright. Piracy results in money dripping down into the pockets of those who have not contributed to a product's development technically or Snancially. Education of the p ublic as well as vigorous exercise of copyright laws bothj in the PRC and Hong Kong will gradually rectify this situation. Meanwhile, some manufacturers such as XLBR prefer to appeal to the scruples of individual resemers and users, while authors of other products, such as Brushwriter, resort to devices sue) as security locks in printing and saving iles to prevent unregistered use of their product

Perhaps when users are more prepared to pay the very reasonable price required for

most shareware programs (averaging $15 to $75) and observe their legal and moral obhgations to these products, progranmlxers can concentrate on upgrading software instead of spending their time trying to safeguard their copyright. ASer all, users can always look up products in the public domain if they are not ready to pay. A new piece of legislation on the protection of computer software products took effect in the PRC on October 1, 1991. This is where we should start. Tremendous effort and much malney have gone into the development of Chinese computer software. Future growth will be linked very closely with solutions to the problems outlined above. An overwhelzInng obstade only lately bemg addressed is that of creating compatibility between the GB and Big 5 Codes.XinTianMa and a few other software programs now use a conversion rogram. Interfacing of this kind, one opes, will eventually lead to meaningful cooperation in the years to come. In this brief overview we have begun tocover the Seld of Chinese language comput'mg. Please direct questions to the authors,Jan Walls at Simon FraserUnity Harbour Centre, or Eleanor Ng, Director of Alpha Computer Automation Ltd. ($04) 6848146. 0

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5) If I buy IBM OSI2 1.$ now, how much will it cost to get 2.0? Nothing. Upgrades to 2.0 have been sent free ofcharge to customers who purchased or upgraded to OS/2 1.2 on or after April 17, 1991and before March 51, 1992. Other Version 1.5 licensees will bc assessed a nominal media charge (once per site). Version 1.5 EK licensees will receive the full 2.0 ES upgrade. IBM reseives the right to revise or add to these terms.

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7) What applications are available for OS/2 1.x?

It numbers in the low thousands at present and indudes applicatioas from almost every category imagiaable.Some are character-

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DOS ap p l i cations wi t h O S/ 2 counterparts include Lotus 1-2-5 (both character and PM), Freelance, Microsoft Word (both character and PM), Excel, Multiplan, Aldus PageMaker, Ventura Publisher, C o r e lDraw, W o r d Perfect, DisplayWrite, AutoCAD, Orade, RBase, PC SAS, SPSS, HyperAccess/5, DynaComm, ProYAM, Borland Sidekick, Paradox, Wingz, QEdit, and many others. 6) What hardware do I need to Brief, In some cases DOS and OS/2 versions run IBM 05f2 1.3 SE? ship together (e.g., Microsoft Word 5.5, You need aPC, PC compatible, or PS/2 with Lotus 1-2-5 5.0, Wingz). Utilities indude at least an 80286 CPU, 2 MB or more of PKZIP/UNZIP, SEA's ARC, LHA, Zoo 2.1, RAM (configured as 640K base plus the GNU tools, tens of differcat file finders, remainder asextended memory), a 20 MB desktop clocks, calculators, aad many more. or larger hard disk, a supported video Prograaaning lan es i n clude Assembler, adapter (CGA, EGA, VGA, MCGA, 8514/A, C++, COBOL, Pascal, C, Fortran, BASIC, XGA, or thirdyarty driver) with appropriatc REXX, Smalltalk, Modula-2, aad still more. display, and a highAensity 5.5- or 5.254ach The IBM NSC BBS (tel. 4044554600) floppy drive for installation. A mouse is provides an online product database of recommended. hardware and software compatible with PM w il l n o t op e r a t e w i t h t he OS/2. M onochrome Display Adapter or t h e Hercules Monochrome Graphics Adapter. U sually PM w i l l f a i l t o w o r k w i t h 8) Where can I obtain OQ2 monochrome EGA. However, some EGA freeware and shareware? adapters (e.g., Paradise Monochrome EGA Many BBSes hold large OS/2 libraries. Card, ATI EGA Wonder) will emulate all Fernwood (tel.20MSM548) has over 50 color EGA modes on TTL monochrome MB worth. The OS/2 Shareware BBS (tel. 705-585-0951) and the Windows SsOS/2 monitors and thus will work with PM. Autoswitching on non-IBM EGA adapters Magazine BBS (tcl. 8054844589, fee req.) and "shadow RAM" should be disabled carry still more. The IBM NSC BBS has some shareware/freeware as weL', along with CSDs (usually with a DI P switch or jumper and the PS/2 Assistant (an invaluable setdng). On ISA bus machines, OS/2 supports 16- resource for locating almost any sort of bit hard drive adapters which conform to information on OS/ 2 ) . T h e U s e n e t the Western Digital chipset interface conference comp. binaries.os2 carries OS/2 standard (i.e., nearly all MFM, RLL, IDE, software. Several sites are available via and ESDI adapters). An adapter capable of anonymous file transfer programs. (No ftp? sector remapping should be used (and Send a singlckine message with the word enabled) with hard drives larger than 1024 HELP to bitftpepucc.bitnet to learn about cylinders. (The 1024 cylinder limit is a BIOS Princeton's ftp mail server.) They include Internet node number and subdirectories: constraint.) IBM OS/2 1.5 is directly compatible with MTSG.UBC.CA 157.82.27.1 OS2i IBM's Microchannel SCSI adapters and LUGALATROBE,EDUAU151.172.2.2 attached devices. Question 15 discusses PUB/OS2 third-party SCSI compatibility, including FUNIC FUNETSl 12S ' 214.6.100 CD-ROM issues. Irwin (tel. 8004484242) PUB/OS2 manufactures OS/2 compatible tape backup MSDOSARCHIVE.UMICH %DU systems. 141411.164.165 MSDOS/082 Supported printers iadude the Hewlett- N OVELL.COM 1 5 087.4.1 OS 2 Packard LaserJet family; IBM ExecJets, The last site should not be accessed Proprinters, Quickwriters, Quietwriters, Pageprinters, and Laserpiinters; Epson dot weekdays between 8:00 am and 5:50 pm matrix printers; Postscript devices; and Pacific Time. Other sources include CompuServe other printers compatible with t hese fiuniTies. A variety of IBM and HP plotters is ("GO IBMOS2 ) and the Bitnet/EARN site a lso supported. I f dif f i c ulties a r e BLEKULll encountered in printing, make sure the (Smd a single4ne message printer port generates interrupts aad does with the word HELP to not confiict with other installed devices. Also LISISERV@BLEIKJLlllhlTNEr make sure that a high~uality, fully wired for more information). cable is used. IBM PS/2 Models 90 and 95 must have their parallel printer ports set to 9) Is there a driver available compatibility mode using the setup disk. for my SCSI adapter? IBM OS/2 1.5 runs on a wide array of SCSI support has improved dramatically in clones with a wide variety of hardware. the past few months. Users should make However, compatibility cannot be assured sure, however, that driver support extends to with every non-IBM device. Often problems multiple SCSI devices, includiag CD-ROM, can be fixed with aBIOS upgrade or an tape backup, and both primary (bootable) OS/2 corrective service diskette; for and secondary (non-bootable) hard disk example, CSD 05016 for IBM OS/2 1.5 fixes drives i n bot h FAT and H PFS a problem involving the loss of CMOS setup configurations. Such extensive support is information on certain PGeompatibles. still rare. Version 2.0 will, however, be officially Columbia Data Products (tel. 407-869tested and supported on a wide variety of 6700, BBS teL 407%624724) supplies or non-IBM equipment, including machines plaas to supply OS/2 1.5 device drivers for manufactured by Compaq, Tandy/Grid, numerous third-party SCSI adapters, Olivetti, Siemens, AST, CompuAdd, NCR, induding some of the products mentioned Aeer, ALR, Apricot, ATaT, Club Amcrican, below. Support may be limited to a choice of CSS Labs, DEC, Dell, Epson, Everex, NEC, one priinary SCSI hard diskdrive, or one or Netframe, Northgateâ&#x20AC;&#x17E;Parrallan, Reply, more secondary SCSI hard disk drives. Tandon, Tricord, Toshiba, aad Wysc. The Adaptec (tel. 40S445-2550, BBS tel. 408-

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and swap Soppy drive cable connectors, sue system's setup utility to set the new 17) I would like to set up an 1254) overs OS/2 1.$ driver support with its your OSI2 ISS. What is available' CMOS parameters, and then install OS/2 7000 FASS1'ISA SCSI adapter for both FAT I'rom thc: new Drive A. Sometimes the Soppy Many packages are available from and HPFS hard disk drives. Seagate (BBS drive cable connectors will not be the same. shareware/frceware somces listed above. teL 4084588771) has chosen not to supply OS/2 is an excellc:nt environment for BBS If so you can use the DOS program an OS/2 driver for its STOl/02 ISA SCSI operation, i n cluding l arge m u ltiline FDFORMAT (available via anonymous ftp adapters. facilities. Related software will enable from wsmrwimtel2.0.army.mil, directory Corel Systems (publisher of CorelDraw, F idoNet c a p a bilities, g a t eways t o teL 615-7288200) supplies OS/2~mpatible pdLcmsdos.dskutl>) to create 1.44 MB (80 Usenet/UU CP , n o d e-list p r ocessing, ~ 18 s e ctors per track) 5.25 inch dists. C94LOM (and rewxiteable) systems. As before, reset your CMOS parameters to additional Slecransfer protocols, and more. IBM 0 8/ 2 2. 0 should include direct Three popularOS/2 BBSes are Maxiuuxs support for many thhbparty SCSI adapters fool your machine into thinking the 5.25(available from shareware/freeware inch drive is actually a high4ensity 5.54nch and devices. sources), Omega Point/2 (BBS teL 404564drive, DISKCOPYthe diskettes, and instalL 1961), and Multi-Net (teL 50588$8099, BBS IBM is working to make the install 10) How about a high-res process iriendlier in future releases of OS/2. tel. 5058858197).

stock communications driver to enable certain features. Smart" (coprocessor-controlled) multiport comxuunication adapters should be used when installing more than four ports. Such an adapter wxil work with OS/2 i f th e m a n u facturer h a s w r itten a n appropriate driver. Examples indude IBM's own ARTIC products.

22) On my 1024x788 high-res-

olution display I get obnoxiously large icons (84x64). How do I make them smallerT Patch the display driver Sle, DISPLAY,DLL, using a program like DOS's DEBUG. Search ~ for the byte sequence 40 00 40 00 20 00 20 00.

23) How do I start a background process from the OSt2 command linet

L ook u p t h e S T A R T a n d D E T A C H commands in the onhne reference.

24) How do I start a DOS applicationfrom a PIN icons

In IBM OS/2 1.5 DOS applications can be started Rom a PM program group icon just

like native: OS/2 and PM programs

(assuming the OS/ 2 C O N F I G.SYS iile contains the bnes DEVICE=.. M)OS.QS and 1$) The printed and online 14) Sometimes Presentation PROTKCTONLY=NO) . manuals donot document Manager will freeze when I From the PM desktop go to a pro@mn REXX in any detail. Where can group and select New'. Enter the DOS run an application, and I have program's title (e.g., "Lotus 1-2-5"), the path I obtain more information' to reboot. What's wrongT Often the problem can be traced to the IBM publishes two separate manualrc "IBM to the program (to an EXE, COM, or BAT DOS box. If at all posable, upgrade to true Operating System/2 Procedures Language file, e.g., CM .otus&otus.Exe"), and any parameters like command line OS/2 applications. OS/2 1.x provides far 2/REXX User's Guide, Part No. 01F0272, optional options and/or the DOS application's Document No. 801F-0272; and "IBM more protecdon in nauve mode. cratingSystem/2 Procedures Language workmg dlrcctoxy (c.g.p Cetu s ) o Select PM has some protection of its own. It can trap appBcations that do not respond to 2 REXX Reference," Part No. 01F0271, the Add button, and PM will create a DOS icon with that application's name in, the input, but you have to give it a chance. Press Document No. 801F427L An alternative is 'Thc: REXX Language: program group.These parameters may be display drive. DOS and Windows programs CTItLkﾃイ (to attempt to bring up the Tast running under OS/2 2.0 will work with their Manager), then walt up to a full minute A Practical Guide to Programming (2nd altered by highlighting the i con pnd selecting-ProperticL DoubL i c king on that own deice driver as well as with any OS/2- before rebooting (without moving the Ed.)" by Mike Cowlishaw, Prentice Hall, applicadon's icon will cause OS/2 to switch ISBN 0.1$-7806514. supported device. mouse or pressing any other keys); a dialog to the DOS compatibiTity box and start the In addition, there are at least two box may appear with further instrucuons. application. d ifferent v ersions o f R E X X o n l i n e 11) How about a driver for my references available from one or more of 15) Why should I use HPPSV printer? 25) What are CSDs, how do I the shareware/freeware sources listed If your printer is not compatible with What does itoffer me7 Does it above. tell which I have, and where

driver for my video adapter?

In many cases an upto4ate OS/2 driver is available. If not, a driver for an older version of OS/2 may work. If all else fails, standard VGA must sunice. Drivers are available directly f'rom the manufacturer of the video adapter or, in many cases, thx'ough the shareware/ frccwmc sources listed above. Orchid (bamd on Tseng Labs chips) and Txident (among others) have released highwesoludon dxivers for OS/2 1.$; ATI has not. Most 08/2 2.0 features will bc available using an OS/2 1.$

one of thc drivers supplied with OS/2,

check with the printer manufacturer Srst, then with the IBM NSC BBS. For example, a Hewlett-Packard LaserJct IlI dxivcr for IBM OS/2 1.5 is now available on the NSC BBS. If you own an IBM printer, check with the Lexmark BBS (tel. 6064524655).

Non-PM applications may supply their own prhxter drivers, and textwnly output is ahxays an optioxL

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drlve7 I' ve done somethinl

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HPFS of'fers long file names (greatly 19) Doesn't OSQ have applets exceeding the "8 dot 5" limit in FAT/DOS file systems) and speedier disk operation, like Windows? I miss Solitaire. particularly on large hard disks. HPFS is not All the Windows applets have been ported caseeensiuve, although it does prescxve case to OS/2. The package is called Windows

After obtaining the OS/2 command line prompt, remove the Installation Diskette and insert Dhtette 1. Type CHKDSK C: /F to repair damage to the boot partition.

1$) I can't install OSI2 from Drive B. What's

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lBM QS/2 can only be installed from Drive A. If you have the wrong disk size, go back to your dealer and obtain the coxrect media. Otherwise you could go inside your machine

CSDs are Corrective Service Diskettes, or bug Sxes, periodically issued by IBM. The

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using the command SVSLEVEL from the OS/2 comxnand line prompt. CSDs are cumulative, Le., only the most recent CSD is supported on removable media, although and from some of the shareware/freeware required to bring a systenx up from any some programs (e.g., BACKUP) preserve sites listed above. IBM 08/ 2 2.0 will ship previous CSD level. However, CSDs only apply withm a major versionnumber. For long fil names on such FAT disks. Also, with several example, a Ml upgrade, not a CSD, would native-mode DOS cannot access aHPFS bring OS/2 Version 1.2 up to Version~ 1.5. partition. However, the DOS compatibiTity 20) How do l redirect printer Note also that SE CSDs are not the same as box 'sees" ail Iles that conform to the '8 dot output to a fileT EK CSDs. 5 naming conventions, even if they are The Postscript pinter driver has a builtin CSDs may be ordered by anyone wip sn stored on HPFS volumes, option for prxnting to a file. Navigate IBM customer number (usually large sites) through the PM Pr i n t M a n ager irom IBM (teL &004576511). PS/2 IS) l'm a UNIX wizard. How do con6guration options to access this feature. directly users without customer numbers should ask For all other drivers,Srst hold (pause) I make OSI2 resemble UNIX? an authorized IBM dealer to order the QD. the Print Manager queue, then print from A greatnumber of GNU and other standard Many dealers do not know about this the application. The output file will be UNIX utilities have been ported to OS/2 program, so be persistent. CSDs may Qo be native mode and are available from the located below the SPOOL subdirectory. downloaded from the IBM NSC BBS or COPY this Sle e1sewhere then cancel the job shareware/freeware sources listed above. A CompuSexvc ("GO IBMOS2'). uupc package, UUPC/Extended, is available irom the Print Manager. (These mc:thods assume the IBM Print via anonymous ft p f r om For changes/suggestions/additions sun.soc:.darkson.edu, directory pub/uupc; Manager (spooler) is installed and active.) please mail sip1equads.uchicago.edu. netmail helpekcw.corn with questions. I nclude subject line "OS/2 FAQ. T h e In addition, the Hamilton C Shell is 21) Can I use COhN and COIN4 mention of a product does not constitute an available from Hamilton Labs, teL 508-558- in OSIS endorsement. 5715 or netmail 589052221ﾂｩmchnaiLcom. IBM OS/ 2 1.x ships with a driver that The Thompson Toolkit, a Bourne4ke shell, supports COM$ on Microchannel PS/2s EcQw's Nefsx At this xsnting, IBM Gxnsds is is published by Thompson Automation, teL only. However, the Fernwood BBS (and sslliag beta vsrsions of OS/2 2.0for,C$$2 206424-16$9). Thompson overs a version of perhaps other sites) caxries a replacement asckufing shipping.AH yes heus xodo Xoquahjj awk as welL MES (teL 519484 2251 or driver which supports COM 5 and/or ispxssxiss Xsbuy Xhsxsfssxcvxxsioa ehsa it come netmail patemkacom) publishes a number COM4 on ISA bus machines. This driver out. Thc cmspeay advisesthat this ~i sa s s of standard UNIX utiiides for OS/2. TCP/IP also supports speeds greater than 19,200 bits pxegrass is pnssarily intsackdXohslp soPwaxs support is available from IBM {and no per second. Ports must not share intemxpts dssdopcxsand thsx sackaew may bs bsxtsrog tu longer requires EE) or ITP Software (send on ISA bus machines, however. Fexnwood xssiXfor ths jinni rekass vcxsioa. Csatact IBhf netmail to infoeftp.corn). also carries files that describe patches to the Csaeds sx 149$465-1294. D

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been no back i n g-u p pr o c e dures novices, as we could see what worked best implemented in this office at all Bachng up for us in the present and in the future.

files was up to each user, and most users were not familiar with the concept of savmg files to diskette or tape. There are also some security features, like password protection and audit trail in NetWare Lite that would give this office a bit of security where there was none before. Si888pficisy — NetWare Lite comes with one slim manual compared to the pounds and pounds of documentation other networks c ome with. I t w a s my hope that t h e installation wouldn't need a f ull-time network manager to keep things running. Fkxibility —The flexibility to have each computer designated as a server, a client, or as a server/dient was appealing to network

Installation of Ne5Nare Lite If you have some network savry and want to try installing NetWare Lite yourself, go for it. I did the next best thing, or perhaps, the best thing: I found a network consultant who had installed the system in his own oKce. Multiuser Computer Solutions, Inc., of Vancouver, did an excellent job of installing the NetWare Lite. software and E thernet c ards, even i n ' th e o l d e r , questionably configured 586SX computers. Unlike its we114nown parent, NetWare Lite is still new to most consultants, so ask them specifically if they have installed the software before.

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Lite Lived Up to Promises NetWare ldte lived up te ell lu featurelt aud functions, plus it saved the company puch in the initial start-up of a network system. Sharing files over the network was asIluick as saving them to your hard drive. The laser printers had slowed down a bit, becausethey were queuing print jobs, but that is n rmal and expected. My expectation that such a network would not need a network manager, however, was optimistic. I think that ~der perfect hardware conditions, (e.g., identical and sound PCs with a computer enthusiast onboard to t r oubleshoot), a n e twork manager would not be needed. But 6 this instance, with each computer bought in diiferent years irom severaPlstores, ancl then configured with DOS versions S.l ~ o u gh 5.0, and numerous other anomalies, it would take a full-time network manager to get things cleaned'up, tested, ruyning smoothly, and regularly backed up. ' Novell's intent is that NetWare Lite be a baby step towards a full NetWare syste+ but I feel that for small networks, NetWare Lite's e xcellent p e r f o rmance i s a s m u c h networking power as would ever be needed. 0

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ver the past couple of years, Compaq seems to have been suffering what

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wherem it has built a name for itself as an addeddvalue favorite of corporate customers and then suddenly ibund itself competing in a pric~ s Yiive commodity market. In an effort to win back market share, Compaq has slashed its prices (or rather dropped the wholeidea of recommended retaIIPprices altogether) and introduced a whole new range of extensible PCL Compaq calls this design mtelhgent modularfty" and it goes beyond what most manufacturers mean when they say their PCs can be

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Everex Tempo C 386 Compaq is not the only manufacturer of d esktop PC s w h o i s m a k i n g t h e m upgradable these days. Fellow American manufacturer Everex also makes systems which are upgradable f'rom a moderately powerful 25 MHz S86DX spedfication to a btisteringly fast SS MHz 486DX. All these systems are based on a smallfootpxint desktop computer chassis which is only S.9 inches high, 15.2 inches wide and 15.5 inches deep, powered by a hefty 200 watt power supply and weighing only 22 pounds. The version we looked at was the entry-level 25 MHz S86 model (there are 286 and 586SX systems which use the same chassis, but a different motherboard). It comes standard with 1 MB of memoty, 128K of extexnal RAM cache, connections for an IDE hard disk and up to two standard floppy disks, VGA display adapter, two serial and one parallel ports and three 16-bit expansion slots. Memory expansion is rovided using standard SIMMs (single in' c memory modules) — with up to S2 MB o f RAM a bl e t o b e i n stalled on t h e machine's motherboard. The most interesting aspect of this otherwise respectable — if a little boringpint~ e PC is the upgradabiTity. Using the Everex Tempo upgrade modules, you can change a 25 MHz S86 system into a 25 MHz 486, while anyone starting with a SS MHz S86 can use this upgrade to easily change their machine into a SS MHz 486. F inally, l i k e m o s t m i d -range P C manufacturers, Everex is induding MS-DOS 5.0, W i n dows S.O an d a M i c r o softcompatible mouse with the packagemaking it instantly "Wmdowsready" to run the latest and greatest PC applications. If youneed a lovPprofile,upgradable PC at a reasonable cost, you could do far worse than the Everex Tempo C series of PCs. They are stylish, flexible and appear to offer at least some small measure of "future-

By either swapping th e c omplete motherboard — or at least the processor and memory components — Compaq will let you upgrade its l atest range o f d e sktop machines (the Deskpro M series) from 25 MHz S86 systems to full+lown SS MHz 486s. To ensure t h e g r e a test p ossible flexibiTity in terms of expansion, aU of these machines use the EISA 52Wt expansion bus that Compaq helped to develop. And Compaq has equipped all of them with 240 watt power supplies and made most of the n on-performance-related p a rt s f u l l y interchangeable between one model and the next. The "top of the line" variation on the Deskpro theme is the Compaq Deskpro 486/SSM — which comes with a 486 processor running at SS MHz, 4 MB of memory, at least a 120 MB hard disk (although you can add far more capacity), VGA display adapter, paralleI and serial ports and four EISA expansion slots. Overall, the Compaq Deskpro 486/SSM is a well-built, cleverly designed, highperformance PC. Its biggest problem, however, is still going to be price. At a time when SS MHz 486 systems with hard disks and displays can be had for around $5000 f rom o n e of the fac e l ess c l o n e manufacturers, it will be diKcult for many proofmg." 0 corporate users to justify paying more than twice that amount for the Compaq name and some intriguing design work,

PFFAF cont. Peas Page +5 would be an excellent choice for your homesewing work station. You ctm get some nice effectshke mirror image and you can plan carefully to get m u tti~ olor p atterns, although you will stilt have to rethread your machine for each new color of thread. If you don't have a PC and don't plan to invest in o ne , t h e n c o mpare Pfaff's computerized sewing machines to other brands to see which best meets your needs. While Pfaff is a very trusted German manufacturer — in fact, my first electric machine was a Pfaff~ t h er computerhed machines have better ways to select stitch numbers and more impressive embroidery, hke the JapanesebuiltJanome Memory Craft 8000. The Memory Craft can sew designs up

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sofia' s tarts at $12,000, their speed cm be up to 1800 stitches/minute. Monogram systems weigh up to a ton, have multiple needles to run half a dozen colors at once, and several stitching heads can be mounted to sew on several projects simultaneously. The Meistergram can create special effects like text arching and design scaling. The satinwtitched, complex crests of a professional computerized monogram machine are stunning. If I had one of these power embroidery machindds, I would put away my tapestry needles for good, but the e mbroidery results I s e e o n h o m e to comm wide, and helps you assign diFerent computexized sewing machines still keeps me sharpening those needles on emery, colors to individual stitches on the LED paneL Dealers are expecting a new version beeswaxing my floss, stretching my canvas of theJanome out this summer that will have and Aida doth over frames, and squinting at a color scanner — the sewer will be able to those complex designs on gtaphs. I do like computerized sewing machines scan in color pictures and have them for everyday sewing, however, and it is nice to duplicated in threacL see that Pfaff is beginning to offer home Another brand worth comparing is Husqvarna; their machines have a preview sewers some of the technological advances feature, and display which presser foots and borrowed from commerdal sewing. The cost stitch numbers to select for different sewing of Pfaff's new system seems to me to be tasks. beyond what a typiatl home sewer is willing to invest, especially for those who sew to save on dothing costs for a growing famiy. 0 Commercial Embroidery Those sewers that want to start a professional Co@ssIyas tubonh$$ttsiS is dt VattdoMtrdp fstsdtf monogramming business shouMlmve a look pssrdtttdeMeirdz spsdfdslidttg il high rccjtrdofogy at high-speed production monogram Nadf aeiPtsrdptdd tatsdf toPisa

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M iceuso Prado' Mc r oeoft Mall $.0for PC Networks Pubffeha: hgooeoft Corp., OneMicrosoftWay, Redmond, WA. 0005R4SQSS USA Herrfweru rerfufremente (vorksfrNlon eolkwue): Any ~o mpafhlo capable of runnfng Windows 3.0 Warranty: Mcney4sck guemntee If seal notbroken lectronic mail has always been a t roublesome application t o implement on IBMwompadble PCs. It was rarely consistent, often difficult to use and was easy to crash.

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that still operated mini and mainframe terminals. All of which brings us to 1992. Anyone serious about electronic mail these days There were many good reasons for this, needs to offer suppoxt for all major network not the least of which were the multitude of operating systems standards (notably all PC network operadng system offerings in versions of Novell NetWare and Microsoft circuladon. Most of these were incompatible LAN Manner) ~ well as provide "gatevrays with one another — making it impossible to into m i n xcomputer a n d m a i n f r ame establish workable enterprise-wxde e-mail electronic mail systems. systems. It was with these needs in mind that And even when the network market Microsoft went about designing its own started to shake out — with Novell left latest electronic mail system — Microsoft Mail holding by far the biggest chunk of it — users 5.0 for PC networks. Mail 5.0 is easier to use found that they not only wanted to be able and far more compatible than any previous to communicate with other people in their versions of Microsoft Mail — particularly company that used PCs, but also with those where hflcrosoft Windows 5.0 is concerned.

It is a logical companion to the exis)ing Apple Macintosh and OS/2 versions of Microsoft Mail offered by the company.

Tough Competition Mail 5.0 faces its toughest competition Rom Lotus Developments' cc:Mail, a product that company acquired in late 1990 as a part of a big Lotus push i nt o t h e wo r k group applications market. Microsoft Mail 5.0, however, is making a strong attemIIt to o utpace the L o tu s p r oduct an d p u t Microsoft on top of at least one part of the PC network sector. Microsoft Mail 5.0 for PC NetwIrrks comes in two parts: the server and the workstation software. The server softwaIrewbich sells at an SRP of $485 — control) the movement of all electronic mail around the network, provides diagnostic utilities, ap as a central storage point for all messaging data and is the connecdon point for t any "gateways" which may be established into mini and mam&:une networks. It is at the "sexver end of the pad>age that Microsoft has made its most signHjcant improvements to Microsoft Mail. To start with, Microsoft Mail 5.0 provides what it calh "global directory synchronization."' This is designed to link d i rectories on all Microsoft Mail servers within a network in such a way that when users are addrtd or deleted from the electronic mail direptoxy

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What You ileed Vo Know About Modems to cost more than modems using proprietary modulation protocols (Hayes introduced uying and using a modem used to be the Smartmodem 9600, a V.S2 modem, in relatively easy. Not so long ago, almost 1988 with a $1999 price tag). But it is no all modems were 1200 or 2400 bps longer true. At present, street prices for units 'and they were all compatible with the most V.S2 modem are below US$500. Every Hayes Smartmodems (although some were modem manufacturer is making V.S2 modems now. Packet-switching networks more Hayemompatible than others). How like Sprintnet (Telenet) and CompuServe time has changed. Today, modems not only run faster, they are also starting to support V.S2 modems. are also loaded with features like error Companies that m ak e m o dems with control and data compression. Suddenly, proprietary modulation protocols are you are confronted with all the buzzwords: mahng modems with "dual standard." U.S. Robotics, T«lebit, Hayes and CompuCom all V.S2, V.S2bis, V.42, V.42bis, MNP4, LAP-M, etc. What do they mean? And what do they mean to yourr To make the most of a h igh-speed modem, you need to understand three d ifferent kinds of p r o tocols and t h e relationships among them. They are the modulation p r o tocols, error c o n trol protocols and data compression protocols.

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Nlodulation Protocols M odem st a n d s f or M O dul a t o r / DEModulator. A modem converts digital signals generated by the computer into analog signals which can be transmitted over a telephone hne and transforms incoming analog signals into their digital equivalentL The specific techniques used to encode the digital bits into anafog signals are called m odulation p r o t ocols. T h e v a r i o u s modulation protocols de6ne the exact methods of encoding and the data transfer speed. Infact,you cannot have a modem without modulation protocols. A modem typically s u pports m o r e t h a n one modulation protocol. The raw speed (the speed without data compression) of a modem is determined by the modulation protocols. High-speed m odems ar e m o d em s t h a t f e a t u r e modulation protocols at 9600 bps or higher. A 2400 bps modem with data compression that can theoretically yield a 9600 bps throughput is not a high~peed modem. "CCITT" is a French acronym for the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee. CCIIT, a United Nations agency, i s a n i n t e r n ational telecommunications standards committee that makes recommendations on a broad r ange o f s u b j ects c o ncerning d a t a . communications.

2400 bps INodems A 2400 bps Hayes-compatible modem typically supports the following modulation protocols: Bell 103 (300 bpaU.S. Ssndsrd) Bell 212A (1200 bpeU.S. Ssndsrd) CCllT V.22 (1200 bpernandardusedoutside the U.S.) CCITT V.22bia (2400 bpaIntemsdonrdSsndard)

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Some 2400 bpa modems also support the following protocols: CCIlT V.21 {300 bpe raendsrdusedoubrlde the U.S.) CCITT V.23(1200/75 end 75/1200 bpa, used inEurope) In the past, most 2400 bps modems did not support any error correction or datacompression protocols. Recently, however, many m o d e m m an u facturers have introduced 2400 bps modems with extra features like data compression, error correction and fax capability.

High-speed Modems There ar e t w o s t andard m o dulation protocolsfor high~eed modems: V.S2 and V.Mbis. Both are standards established by the CGA . VB2 This is the standard for 9600 (and 4800) bps modems. CCITT V.S2 was adopted by the CCITT in 1984. But the market has not taken off until recently. V.S2 modems used

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ISDN In a couple of years we may not need modems at all. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) has been coming for years. not have to be Som the samemanufacturer. When will ISDN really become available for Taro V.S2bis modems can talk to each other the rest of usP It depends on your local at 14400 bps. A V.S2 modem can talk to a telephone company. It is estimated that by the end of 1994 about half the telephone V.S2bis modem at 9600 bps. connections in the U.S. will have access to it. lhin9s to come With ISDN, you won't need a modem since VSaat no modulation or demodulation will be CCITT i s working o n a n e w m o d em necessary. You will need an ISDN adapter standard, dubbed VSast. If all goes well, the instead. next modem standard can materialize An ISDN l in e carries three digital before 1995. A V&st modem is expected to channels: two "B" channels that carry various reach a raw speed of 19/0044,000 bps over k inds of data at 64,000 bps and a ' D ' standard dial~ telephone linea channel at 16,000 bps that can aury control the CC1Tl' V22bis modulation protocol). On the other hand, two V.S2 modems can talk to each other at 9600 bps. They do

V.42 and MNP4 There are two standards for error~otItrol protocols: MNP 4 and V.42. The Microqom Networking Protocol, MNP, was develoPped by Microcom. MN P 2 t o 4 a r e e r r orcorrection protocols. MNP-5 is a data compression protocol. V.42 was established by CCITT. V.42 available, lowest digital communications actually incorporates two error-con )rol for voice and data communication. Until schemes. V.42 uses LAP-M (Link Access signals or serve as a third data channel. A single I S D N c h a n ne l c a n tr a n sfer uncompressed data bisectionally at 64,000 bps. ComMne that with a data compression scheme and you will be able to transfer data at hundreds of k i l obits per second. Eventually, ISDN w ill p r ovide widely

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scheme and indudes MNP4 as the alte ate scheme. Therefore, a V.42 modem ' b e Err' control Protocols able to establish an e r r or-controlled Besides highwpeed modulation protocols, connection with a modem that only supports all current models of high~peed modems MNP 4. A modem that uses a propriqtary also support errorwontrol an d d a t a- modulation protocol may also use a noncampression protocols. standard error~ontrol protocol. For ex a m p le , H ay e s ' V -s e r i es Smartmodem 9600 supports an ers'orc ontrol pr o t o co l cal l e d LAt ' - & . .i CompuCom's SpeedModem Champ 'also uses a nonstandard errorwontrol protocol. 4j V.42 & M NP A ca n p r ovide error-iree

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THE COMPUTER PAPER MARCH '92 53 Imodem depend on themodems to provide assurance for the integrity of data being

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consisting of a collection of applications and a DOS shelL While i t s e r ves a s i m ilar function to Windows, you do not have to throw major computing horsepower at it. It is is fast — and far outperforms Windows. GeoWorks' speed allows it to nm on even an X T . T h o ug h i t s speed and efiicicncy makes it a peifect graphical user interface for those large number of usc:rs who have XTs, ATs, and $86SXs, its power

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Appliances workspace holds a day planner, calculator, address book, note pad, 'banner m aker, an d a s o l i t aire g a me . T h e Professional workspace holds the GeoWorks a pplications: G eo C o m , G eoD e x , G eoPlanner, Ge o D r aw , Ge o W r i t e, G eoManager, Pr e f e r ence s se t u p , Scrapbook, calculator, notepad, solitaire, holds user-installed DOS applications.

There is also an Extras folder containing soine miscellaneous programs that do not do much. Improvements overthe previous version include MS-DOS 5.0 and Novell compatibihty, Postscript printer support, and more appliances and games.

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GeoWorks' documentation is welt-writ)e and ahncd at the beginner. The manatals consist of a user guide, a version 1.2 a ddendum, a q u i c k s t ar t g u i de , a Troubleshooting manual, and a custoiner support handbook, The cmFine help is poor in that it is only available in a pew

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Geoworks' graphical user interi'ace is based on the Motif standard and is both v' ery functional and attractive. uke most GUJa it makes extensive use ef windows, icons,Pulldown menus, and dialog boxes. /he windows are far easier to shc than those in MS Windowa It aho posseaccs the trash '~ of Mac an d A m iga f ame. G e oWqrks should also appeal to owners of 886DXs and combines applications management and flle 486s. management in the same workspace, a ficr GeoWorks is divided into three work more sensible organhation than that of MS spaces: Appliances, Professional, and DOS Windows with its seImrate program manager Programs. Any of these workspaces can bc and file manager. sct as the def'ault opening workspace. The

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CD ROM drive as a disk drive and amowrtthe

user to access it as such. Moving around your subdirectories is

qmteeasy. At the tep of the window there is a n icon that tales the user up one ~ l i n the subdirectory tree. Subdirectories are displayed as folders, which can be entcIred by doubleMcking on the folder.Double c licking on th e world i con, which is displayed on the window border, takes the user back to the &ofessional workspace's opcilhlg screen.

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execution is also quite easy. GeoManpger p erforms t h e u s u a l f i l e a n d di s k management hmctions required in oday computing.To execute a DOS pr or GeoWorks application the user doubleclicks on the icon. While the user can doubleMck on a GeoWerks appliccttion data file to launch that applicatioti, it cannot be deme with a DOS program data

file. Still, am in all GeoManaler is a ccq Iauc fileand program manager.

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6eoCom

GeoWorks

6eoPlanner

GeoComm i s t he com m u n i cations application. While it is better than nothing, it certainly can't compare to a dedicated communications package like Procomm or 6eoWrite CrossTalk It suppoxts only one file transfer GeoWxite is the W%IWVG word processing protocol, and requires a Haye~ompatible program induded in GeoWorks. It indudes modem. L i k e m o s t c o m munications nine font families of scalable screen and programs it is able to capture the session to printer fonts. While printed output is disk file. While it has seven terminal superior to that of MS Windows, the screen e mulators I o n l y t e sted th e V T 1 0 0 fonts are a bit jagged, a trait also shared by emulation. Using this emulation with Simon Fraser University's computer I found that MS Windows. GeoWrite has ASCII text import and export capability, and can the normal VT100 backspace key didn' t import GeoDraw graphics from the system work and the screen didn't clear during the dipboard. Documents can be viewed in sizes login process, though the screen deared ranging from 25% to 200%. Added in this normally during the session. version of GeoWxite is a spell checker. Using this emulation on Mind Linkl was While GeoWrite supports headers, more huitful, though it couldn't display the footers, and page numbers, it does not graphic linedraw characters surrounding the support footnotes and endnotes. A more Mind Linkl menus. Therefore GeoComm's VT100 emulation is not 100%. Another glamxg omission is the lack of a search~dreplace function. There is also no thesaurus irritant is that GeoComm's window sizes provided. Despite the lack of the above cannot be changed, though the manual features, GeoWrite is more than adequate daims they can. for simple word processing. A collection of templates is provided for anything from 6eoDex business cards to form lettera GeoDex is the address book application. It has the ability to dial a stored phone GeoDraw number if the user has a Hayemompatible GeoDraw is the object-oriented drawing modem. An entry can be searched for, even program. What that means is that each if the user only remembers a partial name, section of text, circle, polygon, and line is a or the user can browse the address book separate object that can be manipulated. using the previous/next buttons. Entries can Background and foreground objects can be be copiedPor cut and pasted to other cards switched, and objects can be fused or or to other applications. GeoDex can also unfused with another object. GeoDraw can l ook up e n t r ies i n G e o Planner, t h e import both PCX and TIFF images, which appointment book Besides fields for hoxne, means that it can utiTize the vast hbraries of ofiice, car, and hx numbers, there are also dip art available in those foxxnatL GeoDraw three uscr4efxnablc fields which, for also indudes a small collection of dip art. example, can be used for e-mail addresses. The drawing itself can be viewed in Overall, it is a well thought out and useful s cales ranging from 1 2 .5% t o 4 0 0 % . address book application. Disasivaxxtages of GeoDraw indude the lack of a freehand drawing tool, no means to manipulate individual pixels, and no export cap alities.

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GeoPlanner is both an appointment book and a calendar. It enables you to schedule both single events and repeating events. Scheduled events may be viewed or printed in day,range of days, week, or month at a glance. There is also an event alarm. The calendar can display either a single month or all twelve months. GeoPlanner is also a well thought out and useful application.

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In Conclusion While several of the applications need improvement, Geoworks'program and file management features are fast, easy to use, and ficxible. GeoWorks is very simple to install and requires no optimization. MS Windows, on the other hand, can require a fair degree of knowledge to optimize for a given machine. Furthermore, MS Windows requires a fast machine with lots of memory to really run well. So unless you need to run a Windows-based application, you are far better off buying GeoWorks. 0 — Theesl

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2. You cannotafford a V.$2 modem. In this case, your only choice for a high-speed modem is the CompuCom SpeedModem Champ. Should you pay the extra for a V.$2bia modem) A V.$2bis modem is faster than a V.$2 modem but it also costs morc.

Champ modems, shouldyeu save the money and buy the Champ? Unfornmately, there ia

Should you pay more for the speed difference? That depends on two factors: what's the price difference,and how do you want to reach the remote system. If the price difference is $50, I would buy the V.$2bis medem. But what if the price difference is $200? Assuxning the remote system supports V.$2bia, a V.$2bis modem will pay for itself rather quickly if you are placing longdistance calls to t h e r e m ote system. However, it may be more cost~ffectivc for you to use some packet~tching networks to reach the remote aystexn by calling a local number. A V.$2bis modem will be wasted since none of the packet~tchhxg networks currently support V.$2bis. In fact, they are just starting to offer 9600 bpa access service.

Champ is generally not supported by

no clears answer to the question. The answer again depends on how yeu are going to reach the remote systems. If yeu want to reach the remote systems via a packetswitching network, the CompuCom Champ may not bea good choice.The CompuCom p acket-switching netw'orks (th e o n l y coxnpany that supports the CempuCom Champ ia Connect-USA). As a result, you will only be able to connect at 2400 bps with the packetswitching networks. You would be forced to place a long distance call if yeu want to connect at 9600 bpa.

Should yeu buy a 2400 bps modem with V.42bfs? If you are thinking of purchasing a 2400 bps modem with V.42bis data compression, think again. We have xnentioned earlier that V.42bis and M N P- 5 a r e u s eless for downloading compressed files. There is ene more reason why a 2400 bpa with V.42bis is generally not useful when you are calling Should yeu buy a modem with a prepxfctaxy commercial online sermces er BBS. Online modulation pretecel? services and BBSes usually have separate With the exception of the CompuCom phene numbers for 2400 bps and highSpeedModem Champ, it is generally not a s peed modems. Most of them do n o t good idea topurchase a modem which only support V.42bia on their 2400 bps lines. supports a proprietary modulation protocoL Therefore, yeu won't beable to xnake a If you have to connect to a modem that uses connection with V.42bis if you call their a proprietary modulation protocol, you 2400 bps modem lines. should consider getting a modem that Couldn't you call their 9600 bps lines? supports dual modulation protocols (USR Well, not really. Commercial online aermces, as well as many bulletin board systems, Courier Dual Standard, Telebit 2500 er $000, Hayes Ultra). typically do not allow you to call their bigheed modem lines with a 2400 bps medexn. ou won't be able to make a cennection Should yeubuy the SpecdModem Champ? It certainly costs much )esa than even the even if you try. You should seriously lcastwxpensivc generic V.$2 modem in the consider the CompuCom SpeedModem market today. Champ instead of a 2400 bps modem with Assuming the systems you are calling V.42bia. The CompuCom Champ will support both V.$2 and the CompuCom probably giveyou much more for your

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If the initialhation string provided by your software does not work (or if your software does not support your modem at all), you%i need to edit the initiahzation string in your communications program. The modem initialization string consists of a series of commands (called the AT commands). You will find desaiptions of these commands in your modem's manual.

Comm Port sends a message to the sending system and For your computer to talk to your modem, requests the retransmission. This process is you need to ten the software where to find automatic. When errors occur during file the modem. If you use a PC with an external transfer, the communication program shows modem, you need to specify which serial an etror in the file-transfer status window. port the modem is connected to. If you have an internal modem, you.need to configure ASCII the modem and tell the software which This is designed to work with ASCII text files COM port the modem isconfigured for. If only. Notice that you do not have to use this you use a Macintosh, specify whether your protocol when transferring text files. The modem is connected to the modem port or ASCII protocol is useful for uploading a text the printer port. file when you are composing e~ online.

Match Software Scttlnga To the Modem Se~ Besides using the tight initialization string, File-transfer Protocols you also need to make sure that the settings Errors that occur during file transfer are in your communications program match automaticaily detected and corrected by filethose of the modem. transfer protocols. If a block of data is received incorrectly, the receiving system Speed aatthag lf you have a modem that supports data compression, you want to make sure that the speed setting for the entries in your dialing directory is the maximum throughput. Here are the general rules of thumb: For a V.52bis/V.42bis modem, set speed to 58400 or 57600 bps(check your modem manual). For a V.52/V.42bis modem, set speed to 58400 bps. For a V.52/MNP4 modem, set speed to 19200 bps. For a V.22bis/V.42bis modem, set speed to 9600 bps. For a V.22bis/MNP4 modem, set speed to 4800 bpL Note: Your computer may not be fast enough to work rehably at 58400 or 57600 bps. Also, the communications programs you use may not suiiIxet speed higher than 19200 bpL

Xmodem Xmodem is one of the most widely used file transfer protocols. The original Xmodem protocol uses 128-byte packets and a simple "checksum" method of error detection. A

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es Apple Canada Launches 7Week PowerBook Promotion MARKHAM, ONTARIO, FEB 7 (NB)— Now that Apple finally has a contender in the notebook computer market, it wants to make up for lost time. So Apple Canada is setting out to get the attention of portable computer buyers with an aggressive price promotion of the PowerBook 100, the lowend model in its notebook line. From February 10 to March Sl, Apple Canada is offering the PowerBook 100 at a suggested retail price of C$1,799. That is t4900 less than the regular retail price of C$2,699. The special price also indudes the System 7.0 Tune-Up (an update to the M acintosh o p e r atin g s y stem) a n d AutoDoubler disk management software from Salient Software. In addition, company spokeswoman Franca Miraglia told Newsbytes, Apple Canada has arranged for a number of other software vendors to make their products available at special discount prices when purchased along with a PowerBook 100. Apple dealers will be able to offer customers assoxted software discounts depending on their needs, she said. Apple said it shipped more than 100,000 PowerBooks worldwide during its Srst Sscal uarter, which ended December 27. No ata is available on Canadian PowerBook shipments, Miraglia said. The PowerBook 100 uses a i&megahertz Motorola 68000 processor and comes with two megabytes of random access memory and a 20snegabyte internal hard disk drive. An external diskette drive is aho provided. The PowerBook 100 weighs 5.1 pounds. A sealed leaded battexy provides two to four hours of use before recharging, Apple said. Salient's AutoDoubler software packs more data into a given amount of hard disk space by compressing iles. Contact: Franca Mlra9lla, Apple Canada, 4164135511; JohnElias orJulle Rusctotelll, Nathnal Publh Relallons forApple, 4164I604160, fax 4164I60-1094.

Apple IntrosBeefed-up Versions Of Powerhook 100 CUPERTINO, CMJFORNIA, FEB 5 (NB)In a flurry of price reductions and new marketing strategies, Apple has announced two new versions of its popular Macintosh Powerbook 100 modelnotebook computers. The two new configurationare to offer more power and Sexility to users. The new models come standard with four megabytes (MB) of RAM and a 40 MB internal hard disk drive. The difference between the two new Powerbook 100 models is that one comes without an external Soppy disk drive for a retail price of USf2,599, and the other has an external floppy for a retail price of US$200 more. Apple says the new Powerbook 100 configurations are in response to customers who have asked for more options in this lightest and least expensive Powerbook A hard disk upgrade program is already in the works forcurrent Powerbook 100 owners. Apple said it expects to be able to offer the upgrades beginning in April of this year for customers who want to exchange the 20 MB hard disk dxive that comes with the Powerbook fora 40 MB hard disk Apple says it expects to announce the details of the

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MARKHAM, ONTARIO, FEB 10 (NB)Apple Canada has announced cuts in suggested Canadian retail prices on many models of its Macintosh computers. Price cuts are between nine and S7 percent, with the highest cuts in the lowend Macintoshes — the Classic II, Madntosh LC, and Classic lines. No price cuts were announced for the Macintosh IIci and Macintosh IIsi, which the company says were "reduced significantly" in October of last year. Contact: Franca Mlra9lla, Apple Canada, 416-5135511; John Elias or Julia Rusclolelll, National Pubic Rehtions for Apple, 41M604160, fax 416460-1094.

The new pxices are as follows: N ew O l d Maontosh Classic, 2MB40HD $1, 449 $1,729 MacintoshClassic II, 2MB 40HD 1, N9 2 , 499 M acintosh Classic II,4MB60HD 1,9 9 9 ,1 9 9 MacsttoshLC, 2MB40HD IKvbdind.),050 2,399 Macsxtosh LC, 4MB90HD (wlo Kybd) 2,N9 3,020 In theU.S.,Apple computer announced additional price cuts, including reductions in the IIsi, IIci and the lowed Powerbook 100, which was cut between 12 and 1S percent. The U.S. price of the Stylewriter printer was cut SS percent, a $200 decrease to just under $400.

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, JAN 9 (NB) — Apple the new System 7 operating system, which allows the indusion of video, animation and President John Sculley, in his keynote speech at the Winter Consumer Electronics audio. These computers were announced by Show in Las Vegas, said that Apple plans to introduce consumer-specific computers by Apple to be available to consumers to purchase for Christmas 1992. Christmas, 1992. "There is a long history of entry-level The new computers, which Apple is calling Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), Macintosh owners trading up over time to theoretically wouldn't require any user shll more sophisticated Macintosh systems, so and would focus on specific functions. reaching out to more new users should have a strong, positive effect," he said. Apple lists some examples as electronic Some consumerwriented devices may books, electronic organizers, multimedia players, electronic note takers, display use the already-available television as a display terminal. Commodore is already telephones, and personal communicators. upgrade program soon. Sculley said: The transformation f'rom seHing CD-1V, and Infruurrorfd reportedTandy Apple in offering price reductions also analog to digital technologies opens the is planning a CD-ROM4med system that will announced a reduced price on the current possibility for a wide range of potentially work on a user's television set. Infearerfdreported Apple's CD-ROM PDA Powerbook 100s with two MBof RAM and 20 very innovative and useful devices...." M B hard disks. Both versions of t h e Apple has specifically mentioned plans is being developed in conjunction with Sony Powerbook were lowered in suggested retaiil for its compact discreadilymemory (CD- and will use a t e levision set as well. price by US$500, to US$1,999 for the ROM) desktop Macintosh systems in two However, Apple, when contacted, said it is Powerbook without an external floppy disk versions, one for the consumer channels not releasing specific details about the PDA devices or its alliances in developing PDAs, driveand US$2,199 for the Powerbook with and one for th e t r aditional personal an external floppy. computer market. Both products would use but only that it is intending to pursue the Interestingly enough, Apple says the Apple's QuickTime multimedia technology, consumer market. reduction in suggested retail prices may not an extension to the recent introduction of Contact: Patty Tulloch,Apple, Tel: 406-974-5449, Fax: reduce pxices consumers are paying. This is 40IHI74441 2. because Apple says it already reduced pxices to its dealers in a special program last falL Contact: Usa Byrne, Apple, tel 4094t62-5154, fax 406974-1 19i.

New For IVIac: Apple System 7.0 8 7.0.1 Tune-Up SYDNEY, AUSTIIALIA, FEB 5 (NB) — Apple C omputer h a s re l e a sed t h e fir s t enhancements for its System 7 operating system. The System 7 Tune-up improves several aspects of operation for users of System 7.0 and 7.0.1. The most notable (and called for) enhancement involves the way Macintoshes access memory a nd r e p o rt me m o ry problems to the user under System 7. If a user does not have enough memory to xun an application, and there is an application not in use (no documents opened), the unused application will be terminated to free up memoxy. The system wiH also suggest quitting from used applications to free up memoxy. I n systems with l o w m e m or y ( t w o megabytes, the minimum requirement with System 7), memoxy handling is improved, to allow users to work easier within those constraints. If there is less memory than required for an apphcation, but more than the minimum, the program will open without an alert with the Tune-Up installed. Apple has also updated the drivers for several of its pxinters, mahng prinung faster in certain situations and less "troublesome." For example, True Type fonts are converted to Type 1 postscript, then downloaded to the LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plus printers. This means that TrueType fonts and software do not need to be downloaded and the print job can be completed using the pxinter's "native language. For those printers with the fonts and

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memory), these are also not downloaded. TrueType fonts use of system memory has -also been rationalized, cutting down processmg thne. Several aspects and consequences of the use of the"Chooser" are handled by the Tune-Up. If AppleTalk is turned off from the Chooser, up to 100 kilobytes (KB) of memory is freed — especially useful on stand&one Macs.Chooser performance has been improved up to52 percent for device selection and 61 percent for zone selection. Users can now use keyboard shortcuts to select devices within the Chooser, further speeding usage. Several bug-fixes were incorporated in the Tune-Up, induding the elimination of "Sle sharing" errors resulting in the risk of data loss from the simultaneous access of files; "PrintMonitor" usage is now much more reliable; elimination of an occasional bug when aliases were put in the f r ash"; improved SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)bus operation; and keyboards are now continually scanned at start-up to ensure they are recognized by the system. The System 7 Tune-Up is available from all authoxized Apple dealers, user groups, and bulletin boards. From dealers, it is available as an 800 KB disk, Apple has recommended that there be no fee for the Tune-Up. System 7.0.1 was o nly r eleased fo r t h e Q uadra an d PowerBook computers,and offers no real enhancements to users of other systems. Contact: FrancaMtra9lla, AppleCanada, 416-5135511.

Apple To Release Cress-platform QuickTime Toolkit SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. JAN 16 (NB) — Better late than never for Apple, as the company has announced it will begin development of tools to allow users of other computers to integrate dynamic data such as sound, video, and animation (a format called "Movie" ) into applications on other computer platforms. The Movie format is to desaibe the capality of the newly released @6ckTime, an extension to Apple's System 7.0 operating system. The Apple announcement comes ayear after Microsoft released beta versions of its Multimedia Development Kit (MDK) to independent software developers (ISDs), i ncluding t h ose d eveloping o n t h e Madntosh. The MDK, offldally released in August of 1990, includes a Movie Converter disk for moving QuickTime Movies to M icrosoft Wi nd o w s mul ti m e d i a applications. M icrosoft r ep r e sentative, Ray Berardinelli, said Apple ISDs want to be able to leverage the investment they have made in Apple QuickTime~vvy products by bringing them over to the Microsoft Windows Multimedia Personal Computer (MPC) platfoxxn. Apple's planned QuickTime Movie Exchange Toolkit for developers will support a w i der r a nge o f p l a tforms including MS-DOS, Gray, Silicon Graphics, Sun, DEC, and IBM computers. The kit will contain utilities to allow a developer on another platform to convert the multimedia application, such as an animation to QuckTxme. The completedconversion can then be distributed over a network or on a

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Thc. QuickTime M o vi e E x change Toolkit will retail for $79, Apple said. Further Information is available from APDA at 800-282-2752 inthe US and at 8064570029 in Canada International locations are encouraged to call 4085624910. Apple says it is also working with Corel Systems Corporation, makers of the popular CorelDrawl graphics and a n i mation program that runs in Microsoft Windows. The plan is to develop Corel file format translators to be shipped as a part of a Madntosh utility in the QackTIme Starter Kit. The Corel translators will allow for the conversion ofthe MS-DOS and Windows format p r esentation, g r a phics, and animation files to the Apple QuickTime Movie file. Apple says the software development community has expressed interest in playback functionality for QuickTime on other platfoxms such as Microsoft Windows. Apple demonstrated a prototype of a QuickTime player for Windows at the MacWorld show and says it is exploring the possibility of releasing the player for Windows and other possible partners. As a final note, Apple said its latest version of Unix, A/UX S.O scheduled to ship early in t his year, will integrate QuickTime into the Macintosh running the Unix operating system. Apple says A/UX S.O will be one of the first Unix-based systems in the computer industry that integrates dynamic data movies" into documents. Contact Patty Tulloch,Apple, tel 40B4744449, fax 40IHI7~ ; R ay Benudlnelll, Wa99ener Edstrom for Ncrceck, tel 503-24$0605, fax 506-244-7261.

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(NB) — Adobe's Premiere and Apple'a QuickTime shared the spotlight at this year's San Francisco MacWorld Expo. Adobe's newest product, whichaflows you to create digital "movies on the desktop, is shipping now and Adobe says demand is

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pa n e lists tried to second~ ess Big Red's u n a nnounced plans at a keynote session of M a cWorld in San Frandsco. On t he f irm ' s rec e n t l y a nnounced plans to enter t h e Madntoshes ($599). consumer el ectronic b u siness, Premiere aUows users to combine video Denise Caruso, editor of Digital footage, audio recordings, animation, still images and graphics to create digital movies Medi a , reflected general opinion that o n the M a cintosh. T h e Apple has its work cut out for it when sh e o b served: operating system. Showing how far we'$e product i s b u i l t o n "Apple is up against a come since then, Alsop joked, There are QuickTime, Apple's

production houses, but the elements to allow Premiere and its progeny to do this have not all been put in place, according to newly releas ed Ale NIO C whol e w o rld that doesn' t Adobe. The main problem is a lack of extension to System underatanddigitaltechnology." tOcjpy jS Walere machine controls — Premiere cannot control 7.0. QxickTime allows Apple Computer's CEO John video tape machines or laserdisks yet to users to combine and S culley announced a t t h e WSS llVllell ale perform actual thnecode video editing. It distribute sound, video Consumer Electronics Show can be used,however, to perform off@ne and animation on the thatApplewouldbeoffemig MQCjlltOSll WS S editing, or the determination of where cuts Macintosh platform as "PDAs" or p e r sonal j g t rOcjgCeCj jul in videotape, and where music, should be easfly as text fllea can be digital assistants, aa well 19&4 lntroducoL interchanged. Premiere as C D -ROMwquipped Adobe says, however, that the release of displays tracks in fllmstrip' ~a et t AkoP versio n s of Macintoshes in Apple's QrickTime is a step forward, as now style, allowing the user to see die consumer market in 1998all audiovisual inputs am conform to one different strips for different 94. All of the new devices are to standard in order to be integratetL video sources, spedal effects, superimposed center around the new digital, rather than Premiere is an enhanced version of analog technologies. titles, and sound tracks. Supermac's ReelTime, a digital videoAdobe lists the minimum hardware T im Ba j a r i n , analyst with Creative editing software product developed last requirement for Adobe Premiere software as Strategies, suggested that if Apple were to year. Adobe acquired rights to the product a Macintosh I I c o m p uter w it h f o u r go a l one into consumer electronics, as it in August, 1991 and has worked with megabytes (MB) of random access memory stands now as a company, "it would M." He Supermac in its continuing development. (RAM) and a hard disk drive. Adobe is added, however, that Apple needs to Recently, Randy Ubillos, who developed bundling QfickTime version 1.0 extensions establish a spedal division to work with Sony ReelTime, has been hired by Adobe. with Premiere — extensions which have only t o build PDAs." He suggested thatJapanese The ReelTime software waa developed to recently been released by Apple. Premiere fl r m s already have consumer electronics make use of the Video Spigots, SuperMac's also requires 524it QxicMrm version 1.2 or e x pertise. digital-video capture hardware boards, later aa well and Adobe says a QaickTimeCar u so agreed that Apple and the rest of which were another hit of the show. compatible, digital video capture board ia t h e U S electronics industry should stop WordPerfect showed off its new version recommended. wasting time recreating technologies that of WordPerfect for Macintosh with a digital already exist, and should form more Contest: TedChedboume.Adobe,tel415461~. video clip prepared with Premier. Other alliances with overseas countries, namely clips prepared with the product were in Japan. Citing Lee Iacocca of Chrysler as an

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(NB) — Folkstone Design has announced Anatomist, a human anatomy teaching and reference tool b u il t a r o und A p pl e's HyperCard doftware. Anatomist incorporates illustrations, speech, reference text, and p ersonal annotation in a hypermedia framework, the developers claim. It is based on material trom The Anatomy Coloring Book, by Wynn Kapit and Lawrence M. Elson, Ph.D., and is designed to complement the process of study the book provides. L uinda Bleackley, one of t h e t w o principals in F o lkstone Design, t old Newsbytes her company sees three main markets for the software: the nrst is medical education, including first-year university anatoiny courses; the second is public school systems; and the third is the generalenterest consumer market. Commenting on the package's appeal to children, Bleackley said Folkstone gave the software to a number of doctors for beta testing. "They had to kick their p r eschoolers otf the machine to sit down and use it, she said. The software indudes more than 500 i llustrations an d m o r e t h a n 2 , 5 0 0 anatomical terms. It p r ovides spoken pronundations of terms. Descriptive text is available to expand on the illustrations. Bleackley said Folkstone plans to market the software worldwide, and has had expressions of interest I'rom North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. .The suggested retail price is US$295. Anatomist requires a Macintosh with two megabytes of memory, a CD-ROM player, and HyperCard 2.0. Conteol: Lulnda Bleachley, Fokstone Desfgn, 8044864502.

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TORONTO, ONTARIO, JAN 24 (NB)Apple Computer is about to get more aggressive about promoting multimedia, according to Paul W ollaston, market development manager for media integration and consumer products at Apple Pacific. Talking to a g r oup of j o u rnalists, Wollaston said Apple Pacific is adopting a policy of "CD-ROM pervasiveness,' aiming to get as many compact disk memory players as possible into the hands of its customers in the belief that this will break a vicious circle that has delayed the widespread adoption of multimedia Multimedia is the combination of data, text, audio, graphics, and/or video. It f'requently relies on CD-ROM as a storage medium because of the large capacities needed. Wollaston said that to date software developers have hesitated to produce CDROM titles because they believed there were too few CD-ROM players in use to make a viable market. Consumers, meanwhile, have not been buying the players because there were not enough titles to make them attractive. Wollaston also announced that more than 100 new thirdgarty products will take advantage of QuickTime 1.0, a system software extension that allows Macintosh users to manipulate sound, video and animation files more or less as they do graphics and text. Packages supporting QuickTime include presentation packages such as Aldus Persuasion and V ividus' Cinemation, education applications such as Kid Fix f'rom Broderbund and Scholastic's BankStreet Writer, word processors such as WordPerfect and Microsoft Word, and new videoediting products such as Adobe's Premiere and

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Apple Canada is crowing over the results of two recent reports that gave its products top spot in both unit shipments and customer satisfaction in the Canadian market. The latest Nielsen Computer Products Index, in which Nielsen Marketmg Research measures personal computer shipments through resellers, said Apple was number one for the fifth consecutive two-month period, ending October Sl, 1991. Nielsen named the Macintosh Chlsic the topeelling personal computer in Canada for the 12inonth period since it was launched in 1990. The Macintosh LC placed third. E arlier i n January, J.D. Power a Associates published the results of its Overall Business Personal Computer End User S atisfaction Study. Ou t o f s o m e 5 5 computer, printer, and soft@me brands,J.D. Power gave Apple t h e h i g hest usersatisfaction rating based on a survey of nearly 6,000 business PC users at more than 4,000 sites across Canada. J.D. Power's study rated products on a number of a t tributes related to u ser satisfaction, giving Apple highest marks on easemfmse, support, capability, reliability, and software triendliness, as well as m overall satishction. Contact: Prance Mlraglh, AppleCanada, 416-5135511; EdwardGouldor John Esas, Iedfonal puhlio Reledone forApple Canada, tel 41$88D0180, hu 416860-1 0$4.

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knight on a horse running across the screen are actually transitions to give the software. time to load another segment of the game. When asked how long it takes to win the game, Sachs said johngly, "I only write these things, I don't play them." Actually, the game isn't complete, though it was not dasy to tell by playing it. Available in five languages,' German; French, English, Italian, and Spanish, Defender of the Crown II is expected to be available this Spring and retail for $59395. The CDTV player retails for $799, but is expected to drop in price thickly, Newsbytes sources said. Sachs is scheduled to teach another seminar onthe Queen Mary in Long Beach at the next AMI Expo, focused on [he Commodore Axniga hardware and software platfoxxn. Issues of Annga World Magaxhte industry-specKc wireless apphcations and contain details about the AMI Expos around integration services, along with access to the country. Bell-Ardis sexviceL Centaen Jlm Dlonne,Commodore,Tel 21$4$1-01 SO, Bel14rdis will charge for the use of its Fax 215421%1 SS. netvrork at the rate of eight cents per packet, regardlessof the distance over which messages are transmitted. Fontaine said a typical user's usage charges will probably be CES: Show overviewin the C$IOLC$150 rangeeach month. Computers as "Appliances' Along with IBM Canada, BellMdis has LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, JAN 14 (NB)signed up Otis Elevator and Ontario Hydro, Consumers will be using computers and not a provincially owned electrical utility, as even know it, if the plans and products initial mstomers for the network. announced at t h e W i n te r C o nsumer Bell-Ardis also announced strategic Electronics Shaw take root. partnerships with 12 companies that will sell Severalcompanies announced products products able to work with its network. that are computers with modems for Besides IM Canada, they include Carrier conununication, but that look like slightly Logistics, Digitech, IIS Technologies (a Bell different versions of ordinary house/old Canada a8iliate), Itron, Lec~ Mobil e items, such as telephones and televisions. Computing, Poqet Computer, Servic~ ATILT's Videophone is a good example, as is Systems Internatxonal, Simware, Telxon the Scanphone,and the Fox Home Theater. Canada, and Toshiba Apple President John Sculley announced the company's intentions to create PDA Centaol: Chds Beedle,Bell-AnSs,418-254-7O10; Sob (personal digital assistant) devices for the TrowelI, MotomlaCanada, 41&ASS-1441; Stan consumer market which will be disguised DldzbaIis, IBM Canada 418474-20$6. MadntoaMxmd xnultimedia computers.

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CES: Defender Of The Crown II Debuts For CD7V

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, JAN 15 (NB)-

Commodore's CDTV, a compact disc player for home entertainment that hooks up to a television, looks like a video cassette recorder and competesdirectly with Philips' CD-I product, had some impressive titles on display here at the Consumer Electronics Show. One was "Defender ofthe C'rown II" by software author/publisherr im Sachs. The quality of the appearance of compact disc titles seems to have a good deal to do with how the title is developed and not the CD player itself. Defender of the Crown II" seemed to show oif what the Commodore CDTV is capable of. Sachs, a retired mihtary pilot, is a hero weB known in the Commodore industry when it comes to developing games with superior graphics and music. Sachs not only develops games and music to go with them for the Commodore Axniga «nd CDTV, but teaches courses in how to do so. Sachs told Newsbytes that Defender of the Crown II is a takeoff I'rom the original

Defenderpackage, erst developed for the Amiga

"I was able to take all the stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor from the Srst Defender of the Crown and use it here," Sachs said. But the second version doesn' t

However, other issues were tahng re at

the show. A new piece of compromise legislation between the recording industry and the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) was being promoted in a grass roots

catnpaign by the Home Recording RiIIhts

Coalition. Congressmen were being escaped around the show by HRRC representatives; HRRC is dosely ahgned with the EIA. The H R R C w a s a c t ively seeking consumers at the show to write to their elected representatives to promote~ the Audio Home Recording Act (S. 1625/KR. 52M), a piece of legislation which insures consumers, retailers and manufacemers may not be sued for private, noncommercial home audio recording. Manufacturers of digital audio recording products would pay a modest royalty to a special fund for copyright interests. The biii is aimed at digital recordings only, (not analog) and could have an effect on the computer industxy as well, paving the way for consumers to be able to copy

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In theway of games, Nintendo and Sega were competing, with Nintendo in very high profile. Nintendo dominated the South Hall and had a tent outside which wasilike entexmg another world. ¹ntendo products Som thirdyarty developers abounded and players intensely concentrating on video

games were evexywhex'e. One of the most fun and intriguing

look like a stopped together version of the displays wasa real4me animation display of Brst game. Maxio from the Mario Bros., who called to, The graphics are fascinating and the game is intriguing and complex. Set in the year 1192 in Europe, the object of the game is to earn 20,900 pounds sterling to get Richard the Lion H e arted back from

Leopold of Austria. The game is very deep and indudes strategy, adventure and arcade play. The game appears to be wellylanned and the animation is fun and engaging. Intriguing graphic e8ects, hke a shadow of a

and talked with, attendees from a television screen. Mario would call to a passerby who w ould look a r ound u n ti l t h e M a r i o

animation directed the person's attention to the television screen. The Mari character was just the head, but it smiled, laughed, ftowned, and interacted with attendees just hke a real person. In Btct, Mario told several attendees how "real" they looked. The secret to Mario is called "digital

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THE COMPUTERPAPER MARCH '92 71 to control the head movements and speech of a high-resolution, computergenerated c haracter w i t h hi s / h e r o w n h ea d movements and speech. Simgraphics, developers of the display, took Newsbytes behind the curtain. Improvisational actor J. Stephen Coyle was Mario, with a Digital Fadal Waldo from The Character Shop attached to his head and neck Coyle viewed and heard attendees via monitors and microphones hidden near t he television screens where M a r i o appeared.The Waldo was a conglomeration of wires and electrodes protruding all over Coyle's head and shoulders that made Mario imitate his facial movement. Coyle had a mouse in one hand that rotated Mario, so if Mario got disgusted with an attendee, he would turn his back on them. A %icon Graphics 420 VGX Workstation running a Performance Animation System did the digital animation, interpreting the signals from the Waldo. The Character Shop of Van Nuys, California, has done similar animation projects and is responsible for the animation of the character Pizza the Hut from the movie "Spaceballs." Of course Japanese 6rms were at the show in force and received even more attention after the publicity U.S. President Bush got from his recent trade talks with Japan. While Japanese products seem to dominate many of the consumer electronics industries, it seems they do not have a foothold in the stereo speaker industry, or in the computer software industry. Audio speakers, it seems, are the realm of the US, as rock and roll requires a speaker with a dynamic range, heavier base response, and more efficiency to play louder, says Steven Frankel, a consumer electronics analyst quoted by the Associated Press. Computer software is another realm US companies have almost exdusively, and that was quite evident at CES. Further, while the economy is still sufFering, the consumer electronics industry is holding its own compared to other sectors of the economy, said Frank Myers, chairntan of EIA and speaker at the opening session of the CES. The last major topic at the show was from Sculley and others who strongly echoed the theme already espoused by the major computer retail stores like CompUSA and ComputerLand. Everyone seems tobe predicting further growth in the awakening home ofBce market. Contact: Steve Glenn, Slmgtaphhe, tel 213-255-N00, fax 218-255-N87.

Technology Forecast Intel has announced it expects to introduce as many as SO new processor chips during the next few months. Most people agree this w ill cr eate m o r e c o n fusion i n t h e marketplace. Most computer makers will settle on four or five chips selected from this group. These new chips wiII be comprised of both S86 and 486 designs. At the same thne Intel is expected to cut the prices of the S86 chips by another 20 to SO per cent. This will place their price at half that of the 1990 price. By March, Intel will be offering several complete 486 PCUs. It has been speculated that Apple may discontinue the original Classic at the same time it converts the Macintosh LC to the 680SO chip. This would make the complete product line consist of 680SO and 68040 processors. If the Classic is dropped, the p rice o f u se d M a c intosh SEUs a n d Macintosh Pluses could xise. John Hastings is the president of the American Computer Exchange, which matches buyers and s ellers of u s ed microcomputer equipment. For more information c o n t act t h e Am e r i c an Computer Exchange Corporation at (800)

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HAL Celebrates Birthday

URBANA, ILLINOIS, JAN 1S (NB) — The occasion of the arrival of January 12, 1992 brought commentaty throughout the media concerning the "birthday of HAL, the computer from 2001." In the 1968 movie based on Arthur C. Clarke's book 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL says "I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H~ . l abs in Urbana, Ill. on the 12th of Januaty, 1992." (The voice of Hal in the Stanley Kubrick film was actually that of Canadian actor Douglas Rain.). The arrival of January 12th caused Uaitef Pms Isstessatioaal and the ¹w FmhTidal to devote feature stories about 2001 and its relation to b oth th e p r esent state of computer technologyand what may come in the future. Both piecesquote authorities stadng that

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we are a long way f'rom developing the type of independent decision~aking computer system that the fictional computer was. The UPI quoted Clarke as saying, however, that HAI like computers are inevitable because man is just "an intermediate stage in the development of real intelligence." In the SusdayTissss piece, writer John Markoff also refers to the longstanding stoiy that the term HAL was a "lightly veiled reference to IBM" (because each letter in HAL proceeds those in IBM by 1). Markoff quotes Chrke as saying: I' ve been trying to put that myth to rest for the past SO years." Clarke insisted that HAL stands only for what was originally stated — "heuristically programmed algorithmic computer." — BarburNE McMslkn O'JohaF. McMulsa

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kilobits/second and an additional control channel at 16 kilobits per second. Voice communication requires 56 hlobits without

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modems attain little more than 9600 or 14400 bits per second by contrast. In theory, ISDN should cost no more than voice phone calls, because many phone companies already transmit most of their voice by digitizing it and sending it over the 64-kilobit channels that ISDN uses. Because ISDN uses the copper wires that are already in place throughout the network world, it requires no additional physical equipment — unlike plans for fiber optic multi~egabit data connections. ISDN is also sufficiently fa s t for good - q uality videotelephony. Kapor suggested, and the audience agreed, that almost every member of the audience would buy such ISDN service if it were available under the terms he describes. Such could be the start of a network world Contact: GVC - Tel: 6174914$42. for everybody in the USA. K apor a l s o pus h e d f or more commerdalization of the TCP/IP "Internet" t hat already hooks together t ens of thousands of computer systems in research SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,JAN 80 labs and educational institutions around the (NB) — Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus world. Kapor offered some free business Development and the Electronic Prontier ideas to the audience, suggesting that Foundation (KFF), used the keynote address people work to start network service bureaus to allow the exchange of money, and even a at the W i n t er '92 Usenix t e chnical conference to hammer home the EFF's network bank that accepted checks signed vision of a civilized network world, with with digital signatures. networhng for am. T he EFF hasrecently opened an ofiice in Kapor feels that ISDN — a technology Washington, DC to assist with its public considered by many to be obsolete even policy lobbying efforts. In addition to before it has become widely available — is in promoting universal network availability, the fact the key to universal access to the KFF has worked to make itself the ACLU of network world. ISDN provides digital service the network world, assisting those whose using the same basic equipment used by rights are abused by law-enforcement voice technology. An ISDN connection o fficers who m i sunderstand o r f e a r provides 2 c h a nnels of d a t a a t 6 4 computer and network technology.

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for a crime story to wind up in the dajly paper than a story reporting a new on ' e NEW YORK, NEW YORK, JAN Sl (NB) — A offeflIlg. Quittner said: 'Everyone understands panel of professional observers of the crime and can jump right into the stop. i nteractive services industry told a n When I write about new information servi audience of service provlders that it must do I have to define such terms as 'information more in theway of promotion and market 'modem,' 'on-line,' 'operatidg education if it wishes to attract the popular service,' s ystem,' e t c. , f o r t he s t o r y t o Qe marketplace it desires. understandable to the general public. By the Speaking on January 80th before the time I do that, there is no room left in a Sew New York chapter of the Interactive Services hundred words for the story. I'm sick of the Association, D e nman M a r oney, v i ce term 'chicken and the egg' but that's whalt it president of the advertising firm' D'Arcy is — the general public has to understand Masius Benton 8c Bowles, concentrated on more about technology before it will relate the differences between mass media and to an in-depth article about some new what he called "class media," saying that d evelopment; i t w i l l , h o w ever, p o t c urrent advertising methods will b e understand the pieces unless I explain ge dramatically affected by any movement terminology and the explanations reduce toward interactive services. Maroney said: "Advertising in a mass the readability of the article." John McMullen, Newsbytes NY Bureau media world is passive. People watch Chief, agreed with Quittner's analysis as it television and ads come and go. When we deal with interactive television and radio, applies to Newsday but said that it was Itot faxes and computer systems, advertising particularly relevant at Newsbytes, which takes on a much narrower focus and, as we concentrates solely on technology. He ssrid: "Our readers are, by and l a rge, very progress, the recipient will have a hand in technically aware and do not r e quire selecting and tailoring the advertising he or constant explanation of terminology." she receives." McMullen added: 'The use until nod of Maroney used soap operas as an example of mass media, saying "people watch the the term 'videotex' was a liabiTity. The term dramas and then are hit by the soap ads," causes many to think of a medium whose and "dialw-porn" as an example of class time has never come. I'm glad that tIhis organization changed its title from )he media, adding that "We shouldn't dismiss Videotex Industry Association. The tIew the impact of porn —tiwas triple-X movies name is much less threatening.and p and not the betamax that jumpetarted the a much dearer image of the medium." VCR boom. Quittner told Newsbytes that he felt Newsday technology reporter Josh widespread use of interactive services ~ay Qdttner admitted to the audience that the sneak up on u s r apidly, saying: "The t echnical nature o f o f f erings by th e technology is in place. What is needed now telecommunications and interactive services is for the industry to convince the public of industry often causes its news not to reach the value of such services." the public. Quittner, a f o rmer crime — BuMra E McMeficn reporter, said that it was much more likely

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Multimedia expert and keynote speaker James Burke briefly talked exclusively to Newsbytes'after his opening address at the Windows & OS/2 conference here inSan Jose. In reply to a question as to whether he thought th e c o m puter i n d ustry was dominated by vested interests such as Microsoft and IBM, he replied, "not for much longer. The "vested interests question came as a result of Burke's interesting keynote speech which had r evolved a r o un d t h e theme of "1 plus 1 makes 3," in which he argued that, historically, two seemingly unr e l a ted technologies have often combined to make a third. In it, Burke had also argued that "institutions" and "institutionalized thinking" had historically constrained the development of innovative thinhng. Newsbytes also asked Burke if hc did not think that the computer industry itself was just another institution, to which he that "the computer industry is different. In his speech, Burke said he sees multimedia technology as a continuation of the uend away from large scale. Also, he said that individuals want more choice, and multimedia is a way to give it to them. New technology, he said, will allow everyone to have their say. Speciflcally, he said, multimedia is a way "to rapidly educate the electorate. One of the major potentials for multimedia, he said, was in educauon. Interactive programs," said Burke, 'are already revolutionizing adult education. Said Burke in his speech: In general, perhaps the most important aspect (of this new technology) might be.. . to foster the acceptance that education does not flnish in school. Kn owledge, he said, i s a key commodity for the individual." "With u nrestricted a c cess t o a com m o n information source, people will use the technology for everything in life," he said. "If you g i v e p e o ple u nlimited a n d uncontested access to knowledge, to each other, and to the software that will teach them to use the system in t h eir own idiosyncratic way, and through the network, remove from them the constraints of place and time, then the institutions that have held us back for centuries will lose their importance. And with them will go thc institutionalized attitudes." Concluding his talk with Newsbytes, Burke said that he was "very optimistic" about the future of the industry.

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demonstration of $.1. However, the trickle to the exits had become a deluge by the time he got to thc "Bad Apple" feature, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, JAN 30 (NB) — It should come as no surprise to anyone that which can recover data after one of the Windows 5.1 has reared its head almost as product's trade-mark Uninterruptible many times at the Windows & OS/2 Expo in Application Errors decides you' ve done San Jose as the After Dark carrier bags. And enough work on this particular document. Those premature departees, had they why not, I hear you retort, the product has its name in the title of the show, so it surely s tayed, w o ul d h a v e s e e n a bri e f demonstration of the new File Manager, deserves some airtimel Well certainly, plenty of people have which now allows both the tree and a been crowding the Microsoft booth to sce a directory to be seen at the same time on the demonstration of the product, along with screen. It also allows for multiple windows to other such luminaries as the dangerously be opened simultaneously. Speed improvements are said to be a vaporous Windows NT, U i sual Basic, major feature of S.l, along with improved Miicrosoft Pubhsher, and Miicrosoft Word. "drag-and-drop c a pabilities, and new At the end of the "What's Hot and What's Not in Windows" session, Bill Miller, TrueType fonts. One of the PC industry's manager of systems marketing for Microsoft, new catchyhrases, OLE (object linhng and made a valiant effort to detain the audience embedding) also got a lightning mention as o f grizzled j o urnalists with a q u i c k it "allows users to create compound documents," according to Miller.

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formulae, analysis and graphing, and macros. Quattro Pro scored higher in the first and second categories and tied in the macros category, Borland said. Quattro Pro for DOS has been doing quite well against Lotus 1-2-5 for DOS. The Pasadena IBM Compatible Users Group, one of the largest IBM user groups in the U.S., had both products in last year for a "shoot out" side by side and feature by feature, and said the Borland product won hands down. Lotus is in fact in the midst of a "lookandkeel suit against Borland in regard to one menu in the Quattro Pro for DOS

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Professionals in the Leading Edge isn't the only company computer virus fiel say '+/hen /he Co~p4ter Q table thatisthe divider If a user is using only fioppy disks, the boot disks should be .write-protected. Never between one logical that has had a virus problem. Computer computer viruses are a drive and another on a reboot a system from an unknown floppy Sales Professional, a Somerset, NewJersey- general category, but single large hard disk, and write-protect all bootable disks, the based mail brder hardware distributor had fall more specifically or programs that have CVIA said. an outbreak of the same virus, around the into nine subcategories. aQi+t p birthClay To get rid of the Michelangelo virus on direct access to the same time last year. In that case, Virtual One category, BugCPU — like programs an infected system, a low-level then highReality Laboratories Distant Suns software ware, specifically names March S. with th e e x t ension level format of the h ard disk drive is product was infected and distributed with software that is simply .EXE, .COM, or attach required.The CVlA recommends backup of the virus, because VRL bought a computer poorly p r ogrammed t hemselves t o t he all the user data on the hard disk If the disk for development work from the New Jersey and therefore destroys a user's data, like letters generated in a word- was partitioned, it will have to be reuser's data. mail order firm. A program dassified as a Trojan Horse is processing program or accounting files, partitioned. An alternate method is to use a Novell has had similar problems with the Stoned S virus, distributed on its computer a programWsguised as a useful one4ntent b ecause those files do not have'direct access virus detection and disinfection package, said the CVIA. on destroying data. Often poinography or t o the CPU. networking software. John McAfee of Viruses should not be left unchecked, M cAfee Associates, a c o m pany t h a t other graphics files are the medium used to The Mi c h elangelo virus is believed to distributes anti~ s o f tware told Newsbytestransmit a Trojan Horse. A Trojan Horse h ave originated in Europe in the Spring of but if the Michelangelo virus is suspected, a the story told here is a common one. destroys data sometime immediately after 1 9 9 1 , says the Computer Virus Industry temporary flx is to change the system date to McAfee says he gets at least five calls a week the program is started but the user is A ssociation (CVIA). It infects IBM personal a date before or after March 6 using the from hardware or software vendors who unaware because the program loads into the c o mputers (PCs) and compatibles, and DOS DATE command, and change the date back to noimal after March 6. That will at video memoxy and while the user's hard disk particularly the hard disk drive partition have distributed a mus to users. In the case of Leading Edge and data is being destroyed, distracts with t a ble and the boot sector on the Soppy disk least prevent activation of the virus, but not its spread. C omputer S a l e s P r o f essional, t h e displays of moving graphics on the computer d rive. Several virus detection and prevention Inonltoi' • The virus is spread by booting from M ichelangelo virus infected the n e w A computer virus is more specifically u n known or shared fioppy disks, the CVIA programs are commercially available. Most computers in the preparation of the hard disksfor "plug and play" so users would not defined as "programs that modify other s ays. The CVIA says once booted the virus Can detect a virus~ected system, and some have to do formatting and installation of the programs to include an executable and i n stalls in the computer's random access add preventative measures like loading into colnplltei' s operatmg system. possibly altered copy of themselves. Easy to memory (RAM) and transfers itself to other RAM and "watching" for viruskke activity. Microsoft, which supplies the operating create and difilcult to detect, viruses pollute fi les each time DOS commands are used or Contact: ComputerViws IndustryAssceletion, tel 408system DOS and the environment Windows systems by inserting copies of themselves executable programs are started. 727~5$, Su408-7394204; Lance Woel,Virtual to computer manufacturers, says it has i nto, appending viral clones onto, o r T he vir u s i s a ctivated when t h e Realily Labonuoka, tel 805-287-2$11, fax 805445begun licensing DOS and Windows to OEMs creating shells around ordinary executable c o m puter's system date is the artist' s 8615; Sake Roblnzln, Conyuter Sales Professional, tel (original equipment manufacturers) in such files,' says Richard Levin in his book The bi r thday, March 6. 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