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But the company has a big challenge ahead of it. Compaq is not the only PC manufacturer in the laser-printer marketApple, IBM, Olivetti, Canon, HewlettPackard, Brother, Epson and Panasonic are also major players. Only Apple, IBM and Olivetti have any major presence in the mainstream PC market as well — but they certainly point up the dHBculties facing PC manufacturers in the Iasergrinter business. The fact that Compaq is starting at the high end of the market is probably a good thing. It will ofFer dealers a chance to actu-

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IBM subsi tary ExperComp last month started shipping its new range of Ambra PCs to dealers all over Canada. There are three systems in the range: Sprinta — a 886SXMsed "slimline" desktop system running at 25 MHz; Hurdla — a larger 586SXbased desktop machine with an 80 or 160 MB hard disk; and Treka — a pair of 586SL-based notebook PCs running at Continued on Page12

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It will have come as a surprise to few that leading computer maker Compaq has entered the laser-printer market. It was a heavily leaked announcement from a company that in recent months has acted nothing like its former self. The new Compaqwith its price-slashing, market-broadening, lean, mean mentality — can be expected to try all kinds of things to restore its former

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Compaq's printers are known as the Compaq PageMarq 20 and PageMarq 15. They are designed to be shared by users over networksand offer high~eed performance and large paper capadties. They run at 20 pages per minute and 15 pages per minute, respectively, and offer both Adobe PostScript Level 2 and PCL Level 5 page control languages on-board. The machines will hold up to 1500 pieces of paper each and will print high-resolution graphics at up to 800x400 dots per inch. Prices on these machines start at $4899. T he really interesting part of t h e Compaq announcement is that Compaq has actually been working on a plan to develop laser printers for three yearslong before last year's palace coup that saw

Compaq cofounder RodCanion ignominiously exiled from the company he built. So Compaq's announcement that it is moving into the highland network laserprinter market is actually a cautious, muchstudied choice — not a panic reaction to loss of market share. In fact, given the weight of evidence about the use of laser printers that Compaq has gathered together, it would seem that Compaq has entered this arena far later than it shoultL According to Compaq, printers are the second4argest revenue stream for PC dealers after PCs themselves — and dealers retain higher margins on printers than PCs. The company argues that network laser printers — designed to be used by a group of users — have the highest possible margin and offer the aMity to sell all kinds of valueadded services that just wouldn't exist in the sale of a low'-end system to a single user.

Dell joins the SS MHz front-runners Dell Canada announced last month the availaMity of a range of desktop PCs using Intel's new 66 MHz i486DX2 processor. It uses "speed~ubling" technology to ofFer a more than 25 percent improvement on the performance of the 50 MHz i486DX. The chip is being usedin a range of the company's desktop and tower systems — and is being complemented by the introduction of a highyerformance video subsystem on these faster models. The improved video output is provided by Western Digital's QOCSI controller and daims to offer up to a 100percent improvement in video performance. Prices on the systems start at $$269. Contact: Dell Canada (416) 7644200

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Wang files for bankruptcy protection in U.S.;Wang Canadaclaims "Business as Usual"

Wang may be down, but it is not dead yet. It looks like it will be "business as usual" for many of the wholly-owned subsidiaries of Wang Laboratories, the ailing minicomputer giant that recently filed for Chapter ll bankruptcy protection in the United States. At least that's what Wang CanadaLimited is telling its Canadian customers. The company says it has no plans to seek protection from creditors in Canada and that it will continue to serve customers in the same way throughout Wang's "reorganization process" in the United States. "We plan to continue serving our customers in Canada and throughout the world without interruption during this reorganization process, says Wang Canada resident and CEO Ross Marsden. "We ave made major strides in Canada in restructuring to serve our customers. Clearly this action by our parent company will affect the way we are perceived, but we have already started calling our customers to assure them there will be no r e al changes in the level of service and commitment Wang provides." Despite speculation that the pare'nt company's announced plans to trim jobs worldwide from 15,000 to 8,000 — and that this would mean Wang becoming more of a service and consultancy organization and less of a hardware company — Marsden says Wang will continue to beat its own technological drum. 'The company will continue to manufacture, support, service and upgrade its traditional VS minicomputer line which has an installed base of 58,000 customers around the world," he says. "During the past six months, we have introduced a number of significant VS upgrades and a new highwnd VS processor. Wang's imaging technology has been announced for the Wang RISC series platforms sourced from IBM. The Wang/IBM alliance will continue to move forward." Both Marsden and Richard Miller, chairman and CEO of parent company Wang Laboratories, say that Wang has a great deal to offer business users — and that it will offer it in a way that Wang systems will easily be able to link into those of other manufacturers. "As it works to emerge successfully from Chapter ll, Wang hopes to build on its established leadership role in creating the paperless electronic office," says Miller. "It has focused on developing advanced software products and systems that streamline and accelerate the flow and work and sharing of information through 'open systems' computer networks that accommodate many vendors' hardware, in addition to Wang's own systems. The strategy is one that management believes will restore Wang's ability to compete in this fastmovlllg mdustry. However successful this strategy is, it will be a longroad back for Wang — which lost $116.5 million for the financial quarter ending June this year. On the plus side, Il i er notes that Wang's revenues have stabilized at between $460 and $500 million per quarter for the past six quarters — and suggested that the new, leaner Wang will be more competitive with lower costs and estimated annual revenues of $1.4 billion (which would be down substantially from last year's $L9 billion). Contact: Wang Canada Ltd.,604-681-9264

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Product: Bicorn B240i notebook computer From: A B C ComputtN (USA) Corporation, 2531 - 237th Street, Suite 122, Torrance, California, 90505 Tel: 21 242&4005. Distributed in Canada by Power Industry, 4132 - 97 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6E 5Y6 Tel.403-463-3838 P rice: $1 7 2 0 Summary: An interesting halfway house betweenpalmtop and notebook COIIlputar.

he distinction between notebook computer an d p a l mtop system appears to be blurring every day. While palmtop manufacturerssuch as Hewlett-Packard with its HP95LXare figuring out how to add hard disk storage to something which runs on AA batteries, makers of notebook computers are continuing to cut down both the size and weight of their systems. ABC's new Bicorn B240i is a dear example of this trend. The company's pintwized notebook sports a 16 MHz 80286 processor, 2 MB of RAM, a 40 MB hard disk and a highwesolution 640x400 monochrome LCD display, yet weighs only about two pounds and is around half the size of most notebook computers. If that were all it had, the Bicorn would not be a particularly interesting machine, but it isn' t. The B240i also offers the ability to run on five AA batteries, provides an external fioppy disk drive port and a PCMCIA/JEIDA standard expansion port for memory cards, fax or data modems, network cards and any other cards which conform to this standard. The fact that the machine accepts PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card Industry Association) cards and their earlier Japanese JEIDA counterparts is noteworthy, as it marks one of the first times that this standard is being used on a notebook machine, rather than a palmtop. PCMCIA standard expansion is aIready available on palmtop computers from HP, Poqet, Sharp and Memorex.

In theory, this means that the Bicorn B240i will let you get the best of both portable computing worlds — all the latest expansion interfaces from PCMCIA-supporting hardware companies (such as Intel, which is planning to offer modems, fax cards and network interface cards in PCMCIA format) — with the full compatiMity provided bya notebook computer design.

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Manager for Windows NT will be outow do you follow a year when your PC software company's revenues m a h n g life even more difiicult for Novell. It is supposed to provide everything you get grow by $950 million, its bank balin Novell NetWare 3.1 — yet comes "bolted a nce increases t o $ 1.4 bi l l io n an d i t into "Windows NT and will also include the achieves an overall turnover of $2.8 billion? aforementioned built-in electronic mail, That was the not-unpleasant question facscheduling and, of course, Windows NT ing Microsoft chairman and cofounder Bill itself. Gates this summer as he faced a crowd of For the corporate users considering U.S. financial analysts at Microsoft headWindows NT as their development platform quarters in Redmond, Washington. for the future — and there are many, comThe answer was long, detailed and inciuded a few surprises — particularly conpr i s ing some SO per cent of the 5000 attendees at Microsoft's Windows NT developcerning Microsoft's plans for future investment conference in San Francisco lastJuly ments. He said that the company's current suc- — LAN Manager for Windows NT has got cess is the result of technology "bets" that t o b e worth considering. It should be fully compatible with existing Novell systems, yet the company made seven years ago — and so integral to the NT operating system that that what he is planning now will not really it will allow for a simple and phased transistart to pay off until the latter half of the tion. decade. At least that is what Microsoft is hoping. These new bets indude: • a major investment in workgroup cornBy encircling NetWare with its Windows bandwagons and firing arrows of bundled puting software • a scheme to make Microsoft Windows software at the Novell stagecoach, it plans to stop the Provo wagon train before it can an integral part of office equipment get any momentum for its such as fax machines, own Windows alternatives. photocopiers, laser printThe company is also ers, telephone systems, hoping to work with partvoice mail, video conferners to take on Apple in encing and EDI ( electhe handheld computer tronic data exchange) • the design of specialist and of6ce-equipment sector. Gates dreams of an software for "broadcast" environment where the information to and from fax, photocopier and teleportable computers over 'v: :, phone all run some form wireless networks, perof Windows, are connected sonal information-manto one another and the agement applications for telephone PABX shares its use on handheld computphone directories with the ers, electronic and voice electronic mail and voicemail from portable sysmail systems and both are tems and the transfer of available t o Pe r s onal data to and from desktop Informafion Management systems automatically ssgeWtOn iS • the design of Microsoft products for dialing by PC modems. Windows into consumer handWylting But the most intriguing electronic devices such as • of Gates' office~uipment video cassette recorders, visions is the handheld audio systems, home tele so it yeii on Windows machine. Gates phones, i n f o r mation suggests that Microsoft will browsing systems run the WeakeSt part h elp design an A p p l e over cable television net-

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At least that is what is supposed to happen. But when you actually use the Bicorn B240i, you get a strong dose of reality. To start with, using Microsoft Windows 5.1 with the machine reveals right away that it uses a non-standard video display (high resolution, but not VGA) and that you must use ABC's own screen and system drivers when installing%endows S.l on the machine. This is not a crucial problem and can easily be gotten around, but it is annoying to have to do so. It would have even been better to go with EGA than this quasi-VGA standard. Second, you realize that battery operation on this machine isn't what it could be. I was initially impressed by the idea that I could run a machine with a40 MB hard disk from five AA batteries — and then was seriously disappointed when I realized just how little time the machine would actually run on those batteries. Even when I fully charged the rechargeable batteries which came with the machine I only got about an hour's use Rom them. The overall hardware design of this machine looks clever, but there are a few silly things which the designers could have paid a little more attention to. These indude the &ustrating habit of putting tiny removable — rather than hinged — covers on interface sockets. If you remove the cov-

ers from the serial port or printer port, it is quite easy to lose them. On the plus side, we start with the operating system — DR-DOS 6.0 — which is held in Flash RAM, as is the BIOS. This scores somes positive points with me, as it means that both can be upgraded without repladng chips (a problem that faces you when using one of the many notebook systems with DOS in ROM). As you would expect to find in a palmtop, this hybrid notebook comes with a number of built-in applications — a file link package to move files to and &am your desktop PC (a must, as the B240i doesn' t indude a built~ floppy disk drive), as well as a scheduler, diary, telephone/address book and text processor.

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moguls. "All these people I have had hmch with seem to have had lunch with John Sculley — he is keeping up with me in lunch at least," says Gates. The media companies I talk to always say to me that 'you are so under4everaged' and I have to admit that it hasn't bothered me yet." But Cinemania is by no means the multimedia title into which Microsoft has put

the most time and effort. That dubious distinction would have to yo to Microsoft's electronic encydopedia. Gates says it has been in th'e works as long as the Cirrus database and has been in the company's usability lab to be tested no less than five lhnes. 'The encydopedia category is a tremendously interesting category — we have more than 100 people working on itand only two are programmers,"'he says. "Everything we have done is focused on the computer experience — 95 percent of the content in this product was created at Microsoft and only seven per cent was licensed. Encyclopedias in the U.S. is a billiondoilar market.

He says that by producing a topnotch encyclopedia with graphics, music, maps, statistical graphs, diagrams, charts, sampled speech and animation, Microsoft has a chance of marketing the product against existing paper encyclopedias — particularly when updating the encyclopedia is as simple as doing the rewrites and issuing a new CD-ROM. It's clear to see that Microsoft is moving fast on many fronts at the moment and "placing bets" in a wide range of industries. You may see it also having to make some strategic investments to shore up these bets — but with $1.4 billion in the corporate bank account to do that, Gates seems pre-

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Modems were pretty primitive and ran at the blazing speed of 500 bps (that's 48 times slower than today's 14,400-bps modems). They weren't Hayeacompatible, this usually meant you had to wire the modem up to the computer yourselfand figure out how to control it through some home4eew drcuitry and software. BBS software was rather primitive too. There was usually only one message area and the BBS wouldn't keep track of which messages you had already read and which ones you hadn' t. This usually meant writing the last message number on paper and refemng to it the next time you ajiied. File areas on these BBSes seemed enormous, even the ones withunder lOOK of storage. Although 100K of storage may seem like a small amount, back then a program that was SK in size actually performed a useful function. Today, you' re lucky to find a useful program that's under lOOK Most file transfer protocols we use today, like Zmodem, hadn't been invented yet, so you usually had one of two choices: xmodem or Punter protocol. Both were slow, especially at SOO baud.

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Kids were cracking the copy-protection on commercial software, mostly games, and distributing the stufF through BBSes every. where. It was here that BBSes also began to get a bad reputation. Trojans horses — malicious programs that would erase data — were also born in this era, soon to be followed by the computer virus and all sorts of other digital nasties. During these, "dark ages" of BBSing, a lot of really innovative thinking began to emerge as welL One great ideas was this: my BBS will call your BBS and we will trade messages. Wide~en network electronic mail (netmail) was born.

in order to communicate with someone Exactly where, this idea began no one is sure, but one of the pioneers of netmail was there. The netmailer would do it for you. This meant the r ate o f i n f o rmation a Canadian named Steve Punter.Steve exchange was accelerated and ideas spread worked out of his Mississauga home and more quickly. But there was a newer, more wrote two very important pieces of software: one was one of the first word processors, powerful, technology waiting just around the corner. called WordPro,and the other was a BBS program: BBS64. IBWL The BBSsteam~gine BBS44 allowed people to send mail to Before the IBM PC came onto the market any other BBS44 system overnight, when the biggest problem with BBSes was storthe longWstance rates were cheap. The BBS would havea rough idea of how much age. Stacks of floppy drives were the only' this call would cost (usually about 25 cents affordable means of providing storage space on a BBS. IBM changed all of that per message), and deduct the amount f'rom the user's BBS netmail account. with the integration of a hard drive as a You no longerhad to calla faraway BBS ' standardized item.

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to the administrative policies of some bulletin boards which allow for pseudonyms. But in many cases, even those services which require full names and signed consent forms have few deterrents. Working from the security of one's own home, a person typing commands on a keyboard leaves no oral clues about his identity. Experienced users know that the system operator (especially on some of the less reputable BBSes) is usually the only one who could track them down if necessarysomething which is unlikely as many of the more experienced users are also the best sources of income to the services. On the more reputable BBSes there is simply too mu c h in f o r mation b eing

uploaded and downloaded to expect administrators to keep track of it, even if a policy for doing so were in place. More often than not, system operators treat the situation the same way police vice units do: they investigate only specific coinplaints, removing offensive material if necessary. At the international level, files and pictures can be transmitted through a series of networks and telephone exchanges before finally turning up on a bulletin board. Add to this the hero-like computer hacker created by popular culture and you' re bound to find a computer fanaticsomewhere who succeeds in accessing a system illegally. As far back at 1983, the movie War Games was quick to pick up on this attraction for

restricted information and there's every reason to expect the same holds true for the adult forums available today. The large distances involved, number of networks inbetween and indistinct voice of a modem all act to strip away almost any moral inhibition imaginable. What worries Tolan and other computer administrators isthat "computer users in general are getting a bad reputation" whenever stories of bulletin boards and pornography surface. The material available on these services certainly isn't unique to computer users, but much of the attention focused on bulletin-board services these days concentrates strictly on the ofFensive material. Some of the unregulated services that offer adult forums also perform a valuable community service as distributors of highly useful research and professional information. Other bulletin boards are strictly businesaoriented or educational, but their services rarely warrant media attention. The operators of these business services cringe whenever racist bulletin boards are mentioned, realizing that uneducated computer users may come to associate bulletin boards with strictly offensive materiaL

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Tolan would prefer to see selfwegulation at the administrative level, believing that the logistics of polidng so much information thoroughly would be impractical, and perhaps even harmful in the long run. He emphasizes that self-regulation of public systems should be extended to cover more than just pornographic material. "We have to learn to regulate ourselves," he says, and points out that other forums, such as those containing hate literature, will soon be examined. For system administrators like Tolan, this is not an issue of censorship, but rather one of distribution. "You' re not denying anyone access to the material, you' re simply saying that using public funds for such access is unacceptable." At home, parents must share a similar responsibility. For Tolan it's a personal issue. As a youngster in British Columbia he knew of a child disfigured in an explosion while assembling a pipe bomb. Two years ago, his own son, with just three clicks of a inouse button, was able t o a c cess a pyrotechnics forum on a bulletin board that listed detailed instructions on how to assemble a similar device. Seeing that kind of information enter his home so easily alerted him to the potential dangers of some of this information. John Wennerstrom, a Calgary bulletinboard user since 1982, agrees there's a problem, but feels that regulation should exist at the user leveL 'There's a lot of good, legitimate, information out there and I want access to everything available. It's like television — if I d on't want to watch it, I t ur n i t o f f . " Wennerstrom, however, is quick to point out that he's concerned about keeping kids away fro m t h e o f f e n sive m a t erial. Administrators of the services and parents themselves simply have to be more aware of the problem and keep in mind who has accessto the materiaL

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B.C. EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER O CTOBER '92 2 3 I nternet, including M in d L i n kl , t h e Questor Project, the Bomb Shelter, and Gybe rstore. One sign of the development of an industry — like on-line information systems — is the growing realization that there is money to be made, The most popular session at ONE BBSCON dealt with "How to make money with your BBS." Some key points: give your board a special "sense of place";make people feelwelcome; do some promotion and advertising; and — very important — let users pay by credit card. As computer bulletin boards become more successful — and prominent — several speakers predicted that as a group BBS

Sysop Conference Report I Y N EA L E A D A M S OEEt of the Basement Computer bulletin hoards have moved out of hacker hobbyist basements to become part of the computer-industry mainstream — that was the message delivered at ONE BBSCON held late this summer. For the first time, over 1,000 systems operators of computer bulletin boards ("sysops"), software manufacturers, and modem makers got together in a first&ass h otel (the Stouffer Airport H o tel i n Denver) to participate in seminar sessions (100 of them) and a trade show. A computer bulletin board system (a "BBS") is a computer, attached to a modem (or many modems), attached to phone lines. People call up and sign on to the computer by giving a password. The computer then responds by sending out information. One can post or receive messages (hence the "bulletin board" analogy), send in or receive files, chat with the sysop or with other people hooked up to the same computer, and so on. Ward Christensen, the inventor of the computer bulletin board in 1978, was in Denver to accept an award. He's the man who wrote the Xmodem error-checking rotocol that made it possible to send data etween personal computers over telephone lines with accuracy. Back then, messages moved at a snail' s pace: 500 bits per second (bps). It took almost a minute for a BBS to send out a page of text;today affordable 9600-bps modems ($500 to $400 and dropping) blaze away at speeds 50 to50 times as fast. These higherepeed modems, along with falling long&stance rates, have made computer bulletin boards multiply. There are 800 BBSes listed in the Vancouver area alone — who knows how many more are unlisted. Billboard Afagasiyseestimates 46,000 computer bulletin board systems exist across the continent.

A Varied Group The BBS operators in Denver were a varied group: a woman from the Bay area who operates a one-telephone-line system in her basement to keep the list of the hundreds of BBSes in the Bay area; Neil Fleming of Toronto who runs Canada Remote Systems, a huge 200-line, 9,000-subscriber commercial board. Fleming got an award for operating "the best BBS system in North America," the result of a contest by Billboard. Wayne Duval's local Doppler/Deep Cove board was the other Canadian BBS to place in the top 100. Most of the BBS systems represented in Denver do the usual things BBS users expect: offer files of software (either f'ree or "shareware" one is supposed to pay for), digitized photographs, and on-line games. Some of the more popular boards specialize in running "chat" areas, usually, but not exclusively of the "boy~eet~ r l " variety. Interesting survey statistic: about one in seven BBS users is female.

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Today's BBSes more and more are appealing to a wider- audience by providing news and features from many sources. These include the United Press wire service, USA Today's electronic newspaper, several sources of computer news, stock quotes, and connection to the Internet, which connects to 10 million people in over 40 countries. There was much talk about the Internet,

a huge network that in the past has chiefly linked the continent's universities to enable professors to talk and do research. Recently the rules of the Internet have been relaxed

by action of the U.S. Congress. A few BBSes in Vancouver are already connected to

systems will have to get more involved politically to protect themselves, and project a positive public ilnage. Telephone companies keep trying to push up rates; corporate interests want to monopolize the business for themselves; governments want to regulate. As BBSes become valuable properties, lawyers find more reason to sue. Some 88 vendors' exhibits filled half the ballroom of the hotel. All the well-known companies who write commercial bulletin board software showed their wares. No extraordinarynew products were revealed, though what has been a frustratingly difficult job of getting a BBS up and running Corgtirrsdod rra page 50

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The market for Windows word processors has matured considerably over the past few months. When Windows $.0 was launched in 1990, there were only a couple of reasonable products on offer — Microsoft's own Word for Windows, and Lotus Ami Pro, and only the former was supported by a company (Microsoft) big enough to handle the support and upgrade issues that a complex environment such as Windows demands. i nce t h en , w e h a v e s ee n a n onslaught of second- and thirdgeneration Windows word processing products, including WordPerfect for Windows, NBI Legacy and WordStar for Windows. In addition, Microsoft has moved through Word for Windows 1.1 and Word for Windows 2.0, while Lotus has brought us Ami Pro2.0 and, more recently,Ami Pro S.O. Meanwhile, Microsoft is expected to release Word for Windows S.O some time in the next six months. In the meantime, it has recently bundled Word for Windows 2.0 together with its Bookshelf multimedia reference books in something it calls Microsoft Word for Windows and Bookshelf — a "word processor with an integrated CD-ROM reference libraxy." Late entrant WordStar has moved relatively quickly to correct the problems in its original WordStar for Windows with the just~nounced WordStar for Windows 1.5. So how does the average user make sense of this everwhanging landscape? What's worth buying and what's worth waiting for) While it is impossible to ever offer more than a snapshot of the market at any given moment, we felt it would be useful to have a look at some of the most recent Windows releases to get a fiavor for where thingsare going and what you can buy now — rather than just speculate on where they will be in six months' time.

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Ami Pro can be credited with shaping the entire Lotus Development approach to Windows software development, which had been floundering until Lotus bought Samna — the developer ofAmi Pro — a few years ago.The idea of configurable "SmartIcons," the use of text and graphics "frames" within wordyrocessing documents and the whole look ofthe product have very much become part of a Lotus approach to Windows. And although Ami Pro has never achieved the sales of Word for Windows or WordPexfect for Windows, it is one of the most innovative users of the Windows interfirce around. Ami Pro S.O makes use of facilities such as DDE (the Windows Dynamic Data Exchange feature), OLE (Object Linking and Embedding), the Windows Multiple Document Interface (MDI), yet builds in a number of innovative, easy-touse shortcuts. The best of these lie in Ami Pro's context-sensitive and conf i g u r able "SmartIcons." Rather than just having a single "toolbar" of icons across the tcp of the e, Ami Pro S.O lets you put a user4efinab e set of icons where you want — and define sets of icons for different purposes that can be saved in settings files.

B.C. EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER OCTOBER '92 25 In addition, the available icons change according to what you are trying to do at the time. If you are iimply editing text, you see icons about changing fonts, point sizes, justification and indentation. But if you start working with Ami Pro's built-in table editor, you suddenly get tools to insert rows or columns, size columns, connect cells and edit formulae. As much as possible, Lotus has attempted to second~ess what a user wants at any

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Asal — This is the most widely~ccepted format for data, but also one of the most hmited. There are many extended ASCII character sets, but the basic ASCII set includes simply all the characters you see on a typical PC keyboard — in addition to a few extras for non-printing characters such as Caniage Return (CR) and Line Feed (LF). It doesn' t, however, offer any faciTity for describing text layout, typefaces or pagination.

another wordprocessor or "export" itto a different file format. If you are ever unsure about which file formats do what, here is a brief explanation of the major word processin9 file formats.

Wang — Wang's dedicated word processing format became the root format for a number of future4edicated and PC packages, the most notable of which is

Word Processing 6le formats When you use a word processor these days, you will likely find

Multimate. Due to its early success in the "office automation" field, there is still quitea demand for Wang documentconversion software. Diaplaywrite — Much the same story as Wang, but in the PC field. IBM still ofFers both dedicated DisplayWrite word processors and DisplayWrite PC software. These days, however, the vast majority of DisplayWrite's modest sales are on the PC

softwarefont — although many people still have older, dedicated DisplayWrite systems. IBM also now allows DisplayWrite software users to write to DCA fiies so that their output files are a good deal more accessible. Navy DIF — An early standard for text and spreadsheet data, most wellknown for its support within VisiCalc, DIF is more widely offered as an import/export format than it is as anyone's "native" data format. This ends up often being a "halfway house" between one application and another, where DIF (or the slightly more primitive ASCII) is the only thing they share.

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WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1 — The l a test WordPerfect format supports multiple columns and the option to insert graphics and scanned images, bringing it very dose to a desktop publishing format. It also accepts WordPerfect 4.2 documents. WordPerfect 5.1 is particularly interesting as its handling of graphics files, for example, works in such a way that it only stores the name of the graphics file you are using (instead of the content of the file) — thus ensurin g t h a t i f y o u m a k e changes to that file, those changes will be i mmediately refl ected on an y w o r d processed document that uses it.

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A Versatile Tool Just because FrameMaker is touted to be a technical document-processing program doesn't mean it's limited to this narrow purpose. Recently, I was working in a software development company's office, where I had the opportunity to see how people really used the Unix and Mac versions of this program. The secretaries were as comfortable using FrameMaker to process letters as the programmers were at home using it for technical documentation. What users told me they liked about FrameMaker was how easy the menu items were to find. FrameMaker has a nice menu bar to the side with icons representing the paragraph formatting menu, character formatting menu, the drawing tools menus, and the equation menu. The support staff e ven preferred FrameMaker o n t h e Macintosh to Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, because they felt Frame had a more straightforward interface.

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n the much talked about multimedia r evolution, te c h n o logies h a v e emerged that integrate video onto our desktop computer environment. One of these technologies, commonly referred to as "video windows," overlays the signal from any common video device (VCR, camcorder, laser disk, etc.) onto your computer display inside the boundaries of a window with the attributes native to your platform's graphical user interface. For MS-DOS computers using Microsoft Windows, "video windows" boards are now available from a wide variety of manufacturers for under $1000. With the recent entrance of Creative Labs (of Sound Blaster fame) into this product area with Video Blaster, you can expect these boards to become more common and more affordable. Another ofthe more affordable "video windows" boards is the Media-V Multimedia Adapter from Singapore Technologies. It allows your desktop PC to display a video signal in an adjustable window at an adjustable volume with the option to capture any desiredframe of video for future use on your desktop PC. No special monitor is required to take advantage of this capability, any VGA monitor will do, but you will need a VGA card with a feature connector. (Sometimes called a passthrough or auxiliary connector, this pin or edge connector allows aden accessories to accessthe VGA circuitry. ) This card supports both NTSC and PAL composite video input for display in a video window as large as 640x480 with over two million colors available for simultaneous display. The card also has an audio input and is capable of modulating the volume but has no ability to processor capture the audio signal. The software-based control panel allows real-time control of the size, position, hue, saturation, brightness, and contrast of the "video window" display and of the volume of the audio. The incoming video can be instantaneously frozen and the frozen frame of video captured as a data file under one of the many supported file formats (TARGA, PCX, MMP, TIFF, BMP, JPEG). Once captured, the image can be retrieved for viewing or loaded into any application that supports the same file format. Although your video card may only be able to display &bit color (256 colors), you will be able to display 21-bit color (2 million colors) images if it is loaded into an application (such as the Media-V Panel) which utilizes Media-V. Additionally, the Media-V supports overlay of VGA graphics on the video window and special effects based on luminance and chrominance masking. Graphics overlay is achieved through color keying — the substitution of a video signal over a selected color of the VGA graphics.

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"Super VGA" display adapter cards. In most cases, the display cards will be able to show fewer colors at this resolution — but obviously provide you with a sharper image. Most midge PCs these days come with cards that ofFer some sort of display at this resolution. T he t h i r d l e v e l o f r e s o l u t io n i s 1024x768 — which was until recently the high end of PC display resolution for most applications. It commonly tops out at being able to display 256 colors and is quite adequate for most desktop publishing work The highest level of display resolution you might want to consider is 1280x1024. This gives an extremely sharp and detailed picture; in order to take advantage of it, you will have to shell out lots of money on both the display adapter itself and a highresolution monitor to use with it.

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life beyond VGA, and it is far more varied than when IBM was running the show. Most display adapters for PCs now take VGA as their "baseline compatibility." This is useful since it means that even if you run an application which doesn't support the highest-possible resolution of your display card directly, you can always "fall back" to VGA.

There are two ways of measuring this performance. First look at the amount of RAM which comes with the video cardwhich can vary from a basic 512K right up to 4 MB or more. Secondly, you will want to get some idea of the "refresh rate" — the amount of time the display adapter takes to update the screen when changes are made.

Maintaining Maximum Rmoivo There are four major display resolutions that "go beyond" VGA. These start with the 640x480 used in the original IBM implementation. Many developers have moved beyond the original definition of this resolution by being able to display far more colors. Display cards such as the Hercules Graphics Station G o l d 2 4 + 2 d i s p l ay adapter, for example, offer a choice of 16.7 million colors in 640x480 mode. The next-highest resolution is 800x600, one that is quite popular on most SVGA

FrameMaker for Windows has a powerful capacityto crossgeference text and graphics, making it again a great choice for those users who have to refer to figures and quot ations w i t h i n t h e d o c u m e n t . A l s o , FrameMaker for Windows allows a user to create documents with conditional text and graphics. This means that if you were producing a textbook intended for different audiences, say a version for a teacher with all the correct answers and further explanations, and a student version with questions and pictures, you don't need to write two b ooks, y o u wo u l d j u s t h a v e o n e F rameMaker d o c u m en t w i t h t e x t a n d graphics conditional to each version. Hypertext creation for on-line documentation is another included feature of FrameMaker that will be popular with the techie set.

trait within the same file. Also, there is a text-flow feature that works more like a desktop publishing program for placing text onto pages. Tables are fun to create in FrameMaker using the table dialog box; however I still prefer the option of clicking and dragging on a table icon to create a table — as found in MS Word for Windows v. 2.0 and WordPerfectfor Windows — over a dialog box where you have to fill in the specs for the table.

FrameMaker for Windows has a pop-up menu of graphic tools that lets the user draw in the document without having to switch applications. Graphics can be put into anchored frames that have text wrap around them, orthey can be free and flow with the text. Similarly, text may also be anchored in place. This anchoring feature is espedally valuable when a document contains figures with captions that have to appear in a certain place. FrameMaker for Windows comes with a very good equations editor that can be used within the document without interrupting document creation. This equations editor works better than any comparable Windows application I' ve seen to date, which would make it the superior product for engineers, mathematicians and other technical people.

Needs a 488 and a BIB Monitor So far sogood. Well, there are few other things you should know about this new Frame product. I had started out using FrameMaker on a highland Mac with a large m onitor, a n d a f t e r I i n s t a l le d t h i s Frame.'Maker for Windows on my 586 under Windows 5.1 with a standard 14" VGA monitor, I found myself frustrated. I think that FrameMaker for Windows would work optimally on a 486 computer with a monitor large enough to give a full-page view, or at least a monitor with high resolution. • Cetflslynn LebontcSSmithis a freelance writer based in Tsawwassen. You may reach her al 604/948-03f 5.

Romognboring What You Are Displaying The other major issue to keep in mind when looking at moni t ors and display adapters is that the display adapter is really a miniature computer in itself. It has its own dedicated graphics processor, its own RAM and has to handle its own I/O. All of the performance considerations which afFect a desktop PC come into play with the

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WordPerfect for DOS and Microsoft Word for DOS. For users of DOS programs that have strict requirements for certain graphics modes, a DOS utility is provided which enables the Speedstar24 to run in these video modes by setting up for the appropriate hardware register level operation. WinRIX DCS, a featureweduced version of the WinRIX image processing and 24-bit paint package, is also included. WinRIX DCS, although limited in this special version, enables you to begin to take advantage of the color capabilities provided by the Speedstar24. The excitement of using a 16-million~olor palette and the ease of use of WinRIX DCS definitely whetted our appetites for the full commerdal version. You can upgrade to the full version of WinRIX for US$179, approximately $300 off its list price. For those with simple needs, the basic functionality left intact in WinRIX DCS may be all you need.

Instaiiation and Operation Installation was relatively pain-free. With both test systems, no hardware incompatibilities were encountered. The software installation script was easy to follow, and Windows 5.1 was up and running within minutes. The documentation is well written, thorough, and easy to read and reference. As well, Diamond Computer Systems provides a 24-hour support BBS and the staff was extremely helpful when contacted by phone. The Speedstar24 also comeswith a generous five-year warranty, well above the average for similar manufacturer support. A multi4requency scanning monitor is required if you anticipate using all of the available video modes. The installation provided with the card allows for custom configuration of the Speedstar24 for optimum settings for your particular monitor's specifications.

Perfonnance Testing Several graphic@intensive Windows applications were tested and ran without dinlculty: Aldus PageMaker, Aldus PhotoStyler, Aldus FreeHand, Microsoft Word for Windows, Microsoft Publisher, and Zuma Curtain Call. Games such as Civilization and Wolfenstein 5D all worked without a hitch. Aldus Persuasion 2.0 demonstrated some strange screen artifacts in the slide-show presentation mode when run under the Hicolor video mode (although we believe this to be a problem with Aldus Persuasion and not the video card or drivers). T he performance on a 5i l z 4 8 6 D X was surprisingly good, and noticeably snappier than the same card on a MMHz 586DX. On the 486 system, performance easily rivaled not only competing boards, but Diamond's own Stealth SS accelerated graphics board, and in some cases, Texas Instrument's own TIGA graphics accelerator chipset. The high level of performance from this moderately priced card can be attributed to the excellent TurboWmdows drivers included with the Speedstar24. For those readers that own other brands of Tseng-based video cards, and want an inexpensive way of accelerating t he ir vi de o, t he TurboWindows drivers are well worth the minimal investment. The Speedstar24 comes with a VESA Feature connector and a M u l timedia Feature connector. A Media-V video-window/framegrabber board was used to test

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compatibility with multimedia adapters that utilize the feature connector. The Media-V and Speedstar24 combination performed well. Caveats In a side-by side comparison with the similarly priced ATI Wonder XL, the ATI board was distinctly sharper on the same monitor. The sharpness of the Speedstar24 was quite acceptable, and could be viewed for long periods without strain, but lacked the pinpoint clarity that the ATI offered. Also, on one of the test boards, the top 4mm of the display was slightly warped in the highest resolutions. The other test board performed flawlessly.

Is this the video card for you7 What are you going to do with 16 million colors, you ask? You simply may not need any more than standard VCA's 640x480 resolution, or any more colors than the common 256color palette that most products offer. The crux of th e m atter is that Diamond's aggressive pricing poses a poignant question if you' re in the market for anygraphics card: Why not? Brand-name SuperVGA adapters that offer relative performance sell for around $ 200, an d t h e s t r ee t p r ic e o f t h e Speedstar24 falls within $50 of that mark. For an extra$50, you get the added functionality of the 640x480 true- color mode, as well as the now-standard 256 colors, an 800x600 mode that offers 256 to 32,768colors, a 1024x768 mode sporting 256 colors, a 1280x1024 interlaced mode with 16 colors, and a 1024x1024 virtual mode with 256 colors (this mode pans automatically when the mouse pointer hits the top or bottom of the display, giving you a larger display size that can only be accessed by scrolling).

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What the Speedstar24 is not is a highland 24-bit solution. In a pinch, it may certainly be used for highland applications, but the trite adage of "you get what you pay offer" is appropriate here. While the board offers an extremely good price/performance ratio when considered in the context of comparative products, the Speedstar24 is simply in a different league than say, a TARGA board or one of the new Radius ofFerings, both in truewolor performance and resolution. With those considerations in mind, the Speedstar24 is not a low-end solution either, given the TurboWindows drivers and its performance that rates well above standard VGA adapters. With the value added to the board by the inclusion of a good set of utilities and drivers and the 24bit paint program, you do get more than

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f you do any inAepth examination of personal computer video technology over the next months, you will find it hard to avoid a new buzzword: localbus video. It is a new way of handling video output produced by the PC that could considerably enhance video speed and overall performance. In most IBM-compatible PCs, video output is generated through the use of a display adapter expansion card that sits in one of the PC's "expansion slots." Since the advent of the IBM AT in 1984 — and the enhanced expansion slot technology that went with it — these adapter cards have generally run 6 om the 16-bit AT expansion but at a rate of 8 MHz. While an 8 MHz bus speed was fine in 1984, anyone who knows anything about processor technology can tell you today' s fastest PC processors can run at between 40 and 66 MHz — with 100 MHz 486 processors not far off in the distance. Having a video card that only runs at 8 MHz is therefore a bit of a waste. It's like having a turboc harged P orsche 9 1 1 w i t h o n l y a Volkswagen Beetle engine in it. All the other parts of the system are optimized for high performance — but they hit a bottleneck when it comes to the video output.

A variety of solutions have been presented to this problem. They include video accelerators, faster processors on the video display adapters themselves — as well as more memory. But whatever you do to the video card itself, it still has to communicate with the motherboard of the PC at a measly 8 MHz. This is where local bus video comes it. It is a way for the video circuitry to talk "directly" to the processor over a "local bus," rather than the standard AT expansion bus. This means that a local bus video system has to be built onto the motherboard of the computer in a proprietary fashion — at least until some form of local bus video standard evolves. There are 52-bit expansion slots around — induding IBM's MCA and the ISA-based EISA — but none will yet operate at the kind of speeds that can be achieved by hanging a localbus directly off the processor. Local bus video systems claim to be able to run at 55 to 50 MHz, making them much, much faster than those running from an 8 MHz AT bus. And with today's graphical applications demanding that kind of extra performance, it has to be a technology that will be much in demand over the coming months and years. •

Sony Licenses Trinitron Technology To Mitsubishi TOKYO, JAPAN (NB)any wiU license its

inch workstation displays in the world market, according to the ¹ikkei newspaper. It can produce a clearerscreen image than that of the current standard "shadow masktype" display developed by RCA in the U.S., says the newspaper. M itsubishi is the first firm t o g e t Trinitron technology from Sony.

Trinitron Braun-tube display technology to Mitsubishi Electric which will manufacture and sell displays using this technology under its own brand name. Sony's Trinitron display has a good reputation among workstation users. Sony has a 50 percent share in the market for 21-

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ly wasn't enough — especially if you were considering junking your fax machine in favor of a PC-based fax machine. You needed to be able to reliably send faxes containing both text and graphics — as well as receive them. Systems allowing you to do this finally arrived — but they tended to be limited to in-built, fulldength fax modem cards. If you

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accustomed to the slick-looking applications that run under Windows or OS/2, though, ASCII looks pretty crude. The reason BBSes seldom operate in "graphics mode" is simple. To date, it has taken far too long to send the graphics information to th e user's computer. Transmitting a picture can take several minutes. Today, if a graphic image is transmitted, it is usually in a 61e that the user doesn't look at until he or she goes "offline," that is, hangs up the phone. But software the C anadians were demonstrating showed that "online" trans-

mission of graphics screens is certainly feasible — certainly with a 9600- or 14,400-bps modem. The key to the software is compression: putting enough information into a package only one or two thousand bytes long that can be sent out in seconds but can still instruct the user's computer how to draw a screen full of graphics. MicroStar Software of Ottawa was showing its software based on the mostlymadein&anada NAPLPS compression system. Cardz Computers of Vancouver was busy exhibiting a method of compressing and storing images using fractal mathematics.

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INaterials Editor This module is where you prepare the surfaces which will be projected or mapped onto your S-D model. Simple surfaces r equire m i x in g t h e c o l or s o n t h e Hue/Saturation/Luminosity scales and then, if you want, assigning other factors such as transparency, shininess, etc., before projecting t hem o n t o t h e s u r faces. Advanced graphics boards give you the capability to capture images, transform them into computer files, and map them onto the S-D models you' ve constructed.

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As stated earlier, SD Studio works best in conjunction with other software. Autodesk Animator Pro is pretty well a must buy; it provides the color and palette fine-tuning, needed for SD Studio. AutoCAD is also helpftxl for more advanced and controlled S-D modeling. Upon completion of your program the images can be put out to poster~uality hardcopy, and the animations can be recorded onto VHS tape — or you can view both on your computer. Make no mistake, SD Studio is a complicated program, and has a fairly long learning curve. When you flip through the hundreds of pages in the tutorial and reference manuals you will be somewhat overwhelmed if you have never worked with software like this before. If you decide to urchase it, make sure that whomever you uy it from will give you adequate telephone support. E Erl Telchrceb has been using 3D Studio for his animafiona and still images. He can be reached at 604427-8430.

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increasing pie. The longcerm question is not whether print will merge with the new media, but whether publishing and printing companies will adapt in timely enough fashion," he commented. Later in the morning, speakers from printing and publishing firms, service bureaus, and equipment vendors elaborated on each of the new business segments. In the afternoon, the attendees split into roundtable groups for inAepth discussions on the various opportunities. Other conference sessions focused on such issues as smart image capture, PhotoCD, RIPS and imagesetters, highbandwidth networks, desktop supercomputing, workflow management, personnel training, and how to cost for services. Throughout the first two days of the conference, Kodak, Screen USA and Pitman Company, a systems integrator, demonstrated color publishing systems. Kodak depicted the use of the Kodak Precision Color Management strategy, while Screen showed its Desk Top Press System for color retouching, page assembly, stripping and trapping. The Pitman display illustrates how multivendor equipment can be brought together into a single unified

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Ethernet, NetWare Still Dominate Canadian LAN Market TORONTO, ONTARIO (NB) — Canadian sales of local~ca network hardware and software showed healthy growth in 1991, a ccording t o a rec e n t survey by International D ata C o rp. C anada, a research firm. In both sectors, the same products stayed on top: Ethernet interface cards remain dominant and Novell's NetWare LAN operating system continues to lead the market. Sales of network interface cards for personal computers grew 24.6 percent in 1991, although revenue grew only 8.7 percent as

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prices fell. IDC said this market showed "intense vendor competition." Ethernet continued to account for the largest share — 49 percent — of interface card shipments, with IBM's Token Ring in second place at 21 percent. Token Ring's higher price tag remains a deterrent, IDC said. Sales of the older and slower Arcnet technology declined, as did shipments of Apple's LocalTalk cards. Sales of the highspeed Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) technology remained small, largely due to the high cost, IDC said.

Bantam Releases Networking Book By Dvorak to cover every aspect of PC connectivity. For NEW YORK, NEW YORK (NB) — Bantam that purpose, the authors start from the Books has released a book it calls "the simplest subject and progress to networkdefinitive guide to PC Connectivity'." ing. Chapters on serial connections, paralWritten byJohn Dvorak with the assistance lel connections, displays, of veteran writers Nick Anis and input devices, modems, fax Werner Feibel, the book is a machines, scanners, storage hefty 992 pages in length and devices, printers, CD-ROM, comes with a couple of spedal graphics formats, image probonuses. cessing, and LAN hardware First, there are a bunch of and softwaregive you an idea coupons bound into the book of thebreadth and depth of for the products that are disthis book. cussed and recommended in Available in bookstores the book. Secondly, there are since July 1, it retails for three diskettes that accompany $49.95 The included disks the book that contain several of 5.25" format but there t he programs, or demo versions y „ ~e e uaa fe pC upon to receive 5.5" o f the p r ograms, that t h e ennecffrify attemptsto 'f desired. For those authors discuss. LANtastic/Z is ~)yg f evety aspect of PC one of the programs that come ectiMty In 992 pages who need to order this book, the IS BN number is 0-555on the disks and for which 55555-7. there is a coupon bound in the book. Doornk's Officio to PC ConnosfitNSyattempts C o ntact 212-76M500

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Interface Group Plans Comdex/Canada Show In 1993 son for launching the Canadian show was exhibitors' desire to reach ultimate buyers as well as dealers and distributors, meaning they need more regional shows to get doser to those customers Comdex/Canada will grow out of the LAN Expo and PC Canada shows now run by The Interface Group. Next year's event, to be held July 15-15 at the Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre, will have three parts: LAN Expo, Windows World, and Corporate Computing. Schwab said his "guesstimate" of attendance atthe 1995 Comdex/Canada would be 10,000 to 15,000. Attendance at this year's LAN Expo and PC Canada, which ran July 28-50, was estimated at 5,000 to 7,000, he said.

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IBM Reorganizes PC Hardware Unit As expected, IBM has reorganized its personal computer manufacturing, distribution, and marketing into a new unit called the IBM Personal Computer Co. The president of the new unit is Robert J. Corrigan, who as vice-president of the entry systems division was previously in charge of IBM's PC manufacturing. Made up of employees &om IBM's former national distribution division and entry systems division, the group will focus on manufacturing, distribution, and brand marketing for the new company's products in North America. Responsibility for personal systems marketing in Canada will stay with the current executive: Don D. Myles. The new unit will have six marketing groups: oneeach for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines, one for portable computers, one for displays, one for systems integration, and one for a new brand aimed to compete

with lewdest PC clones. IBM already sells a lewdest PC line called "Ambra" through separate subsidiaries in Europe and Canada It has been widely rumored that the company plans to introduce these machines to the United States market this fall. H o wever, company spokesman Michael Reiter said that is not the plan. IBM will launch a new line of lower~riced PCs that will carry the IBM logo but not the PS/2 brand name, andwillbe cheaper and use less advanced technology than the PS/2 line, he said. For example, they will use the older AT bus (Industry Standard Architecture) rather than IBM's Micro C hannel A r c hitecture, an d w i l l b e equipped with Super VGA displays rather than IBM's more advanced XGA. Gontact: Tare Sexton or Michael Reiter, IBM, 91 4-642-4662.

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Digital Broadcasting To Transform Radio W ASHINGTON, D.C. (NB) — A m a j o r topic when the National Association of Broadcasters descended on the city's convention center for its annual radio show was to be digital broadcasting, and how new technology can be added to radio stations in preparation for the future. One aspect of the new technology sure to spark interest among technical types is the idea of adding data messages to broadcasts, which would be picked up by special radios. The Radio Broadcast Data System, or RBDS, would let stations pass short, specific messages to listeners, either editorial or advertising. Radios will be integrated with computing to scan for specific program formats, or to collect reams of computing data over the air, in competition with online services. Car radios would then compete with paging services, and all sorts of new advertising opportunities would be created. Two things have to happen befor e RBDS becomes a reality. First, stations have to adapt to the digital technology. Second, people have to buy new radios. About 50 million new radios are already bought each y ear, says th e E l e c t r o ni c I n d u s t r i e s

Association, and the new technology will only cost about $50 per radio to implement. As many as 37 companies are expected to bring such radios out in time for next year's Consumer Electronics Show, probably under a single standard endorsed by the EIA. But there is a second component to all this. Radio stations must get new equipment to broadcast data alongside their programs, and must learn how to use this technology to best effect. Some European stations have been using the technology for as many as five years, and there has been no revolution as a result. The equipment itself will cost just a few thousand dollars per station, and the marketing work could be spedmp as new radio ownership rules spur c reation of new n etworks. But i n N e w Orleans, broadcasters will be told the truth. RBDS is no fast buck It may be many years before enough people own RBDS sets for benefits to accrue. Contact: National Association of Broadcasters, Lynn McReynolds, 202-429-5350; Electronic Industries Association, Cynthia Upson, 202-4574900.

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Dell Cuts Price of Color Notebook AUSTIN, TEXAS (NB) — Dell Computer says it has reduced the suggested selling price of its 325NC color notebook computer by as much as S350, depending on the model being purchased. Newsbytes reported the introduction of the 7.1wpound 525NC from the fall Comdex show in Las Vegas last October. At that time the 25 megahertz 58Mxeed system was selling forS4,500. In May '92 Dell reduced the 525NC's price to S3,499.

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Data General To Sell NeXT Workstations WESTBORO, MASSACHUSETF S (NB)Data General and NeXT Computer have announced a deal that will see Data General resell NeXT workstations with its owns Aviion servers. The two compamea also said they will cooperate to develop adv a n ced client/server systems. Data General also s ells t h e Avi i o n machines in workstation configurations and will continue to .

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VANCOUVER, B.C. (NB) — Richmond Technologies &: Software will launch a Windows version of its Maximizer contact manager this fall. The company planned to announce the software in mid4eptember and ship it in midWctober. Earl van As, Maximizer ::.:.,-: ;:: product development manag- :.:i;:, er, said the Windows version <'g' will ship by the second week of October and will offer a num- I:„ Language (SQL) data- ber of features not found in the r esent DO S ver s i o n . bases. ' er for Windows version 1.0 will supData Gene r a l ' s port dynamic data exchange (DDE), a Aviion workstations, on the other hand, are best Windows feature that allows easy data sharing among applications. One use of this will suited to users who want be automated faxing through a link to applications running WinFax Pro, Windows fax software from under the X W i n dow another Canadian company, Delrina of and Motif environments. Toronto. Users of g eographic The text editor portion of Maximizer information s y stems for Windows will become a separate pro(GIS) and similar applications are a major market for Aviion workstations, Bigusiak gram with full font support, mail merge, spelling checker, and thesaurus, the vendor said. said. As many as 10 editor sessions will be able to run at once, so that jobs such as the Contact: Data General, 508-898-4298. printing of a mass mailing and sending up application development by a factor of five to 10 over other workstations, she added. Company officials said NeXT's new Database Kit of objects allows even faster creation of client/server applications that rely on intensive database usage on the server and provides a single consistent interface to Structured Query

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based on +MS's proprietary Crown printing architecture and a newly developed ' h-resolution marking engine; Priced at

C 5,995, the +MS 860 system provides higher~uality output, more connectivity options and higher overall throughput than conventional printing systems, the company mamtams. The Crown prindng architecture allows fox the interfaces to be simultaneously active, allowing for the receiving of data from multiple users in various data formats, and for producing completed documents without user intervention, says@MS. The printer emulates a wide variety of page description languages including userselectable PostScript Levels 1 and 2, HP PCL, HP-GL, and DEC LN03 plus. The +MS 860 produces 600 by 600 output resolution, which, according to the company, is four times the resolution and print quality

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RadiusTe Pesti.ewer Earnings; President Resigns

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA (NB) — Radius Inc., which has posted several consecutive successful quarters, has indicated that it is "experiencing a lower than anticipated sales rate for t h e c u r r ent q u arter. Additionally, President and Chief Executive OIBcer Barry James Folsoxn has resigned for what the company claims are "personal reasons to pursue other interests." Accoxding to Radius, its net revenues for the quarter ending September 30, 1992, The 4-page fuilwolor ad, distxibuted as are expectedto be comparable to the $35.5 an insert in two editions of a Sydney news- milhon net revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 1991, compared to $44.2 paper, showed how setting up a PC with million net revenues for the quarter ended Windows, graphics cards, network cards and software to "get it to act like a Mac" June 30, 1992. The company also expects that its net income for the current quarter would cost around AUS$8500, as opposed will be "substantially below" the 13 cents to the "integrated Mac, with prices from around AUS41700. The validity of the comper share reported by the company for the hke quarter last year. The company mainpaxison has been called into question, not only by the TPC complainant, but also sev- tains that this is due to its "lower than eral leading local newspapers (including expected revenues and to price reductions the newspaper in which the ad was an on one of its display product lines." insert, the S crlvcivcg Hcndd). By shnply Radius blames the lower revenues, in plashNl turning to the classifieds section of the part„on the dif6culty of one of its display crryrfney Morning Hcrnkf on the day the ad was suppliers m Slling the company's orders for 154nch monochrome displays. The compainserted, readers would be able to Snd PC ny anticipates that sales will improve "folsystems set up as in the ad for approximatelowing the resoludon of the monochrome ly half the daimed pxice, and more astute supply issue." Additionally, lower than readers would have noticed the Mac poranticipated demand in its target markets trayed was a Mac Quadra 700, with the total also contributed to the lower revenues. The Mac system shovrn costing a r ound coinpany hopes that revenue from its near AUS$11,000. RocketShare multiprocessing technology Several other fLaws in the ad have been and VideoVision product will help turn pointed out — naxnely, it showed the need things around in the near future. to buy software for the PC (including Although the company denies that Microsoft Nord) but famed to mention that Folsom's departure was related to the disapthe Mac would also need such software pointing earnings results, some press which costs about the same for both operas repoxts dispute that. ing systems. Also, many of the features in Some analysts believe that the lower the quoted PC system were not available on than expected revenues make it likely that the AUSE'700 Macintosh (color screen of VGA to Super VGA quality, for example) the company will at least consider selective and consultancy fees for setting up the PC job cuts in response. Some analysts also believe that sales are lower because buyers would amount to approxhnately AUS$5040 are holding off purchasing new peripherals per hour — around AUS$40-50 less than Apple's clahned price. When contacted by in anticipation of product allnouncexnellts Rom Apple, and are also waiting for the Newsbytes, an Apple spokesperson refused dust to settle in the recent hardware price to make specific reference to the case, and said Apple would release a statement when wars. No one at Radius was available for comment by Newsbytes' deadline. the TPC handed down its dedsion.

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ShareVision Real-time Mac Video Telephone S AN JOSE, CALIFORNIA (NB) — T h e trend towardvideoconferencing technology, especially as a way to help companies reduce travel costs, has received another boost with ShareVision Technology Inc.'s planned r e a l -time D e s ktop V i s u al Communications (DVC) for use over ordinary analog telephone lines. According to the company, its VATP (Vector Adaptive Transform Processing) technology involves data compression and other techniques to allow for "plug~dglay" voice, video, data communications, and document sharing. Mike Jackman, spokesman forthe company, told N e wsbytes: "We haven' t announced product names or pricesyet, but we will be shipping products in late October. October 26 is the official day. The total system — the complete video telephony, document sharing — we know will be priced under 44,000." The company claims that its DVC products for the Macintosh will combine two NuBus cards and ShareVision software with a color video camera, and a NorrisEar Phone to provide a screen+ased telephone, video telephone, voice and video mail, voice and video answering machine, motion video and still image capture, sound digitizer, Group S send~d-receive facsimile, and v.52bis data modem hmctionality. Jachnm told Newsbytes that no company on the market is offering the same products. "I%ere are a couple of companies like

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which have announced products that are in the $5,000 area," he said. "But they are not going to be shipping them until December and also next year. Also those are essentially computer4ased video telephones whereas here we are going to be able to do realtime document sharing." Jackman went on to explain the difFerences between the two types of products. "(Ours) are the only ones that can work on your regular phone system. All the other companies that have announced products can only work on ISDN (integrated services digital networks) or digital networks, which the majority of people still do not have." Dr. Lung Yeh, ShareVision president, said: "Desktop computers are the natural platform for increasing-communications

between coworkers, but nobody has been

able to do this before over ordinary phone lines. Desktop Visual Communications products will replace a lot of businesstravel. Electronic mail and voice mail services have taken us a long way, but DVC will take interpersonal communications much further." According to the company, the first DVC products will support both QuickTime and A p p l e' s O p e n Col l a b oration Environment (OCE). Dean Tucker, ShareVision vice president of marketing, said: "Some people have been saying that it will be ten years before widespread digital telephone availabiTity puts video telephone service on the desktop. ShareVision will make it practical and affordable before the end of 1992. VATP provides better quality video communications... (over ordinary telephone lines) ...than other products we' ve seen that use more expensive digital telephone services. Jackman told Newsbytes that there would be a non-video product introduced soon. 'There will be a non-video version of the product — for instance, if you wanted a regular (screen-based) phone that was not a video phone, but with all the modeming, faxing,and rea14me document and application sharing, and voice mail — coming out that will be under $1,000. We expect to announce that (product) in about three or four weeks." ShareVision Technology was founded in 1991 b y d e velopers who l e ft A p p l e Computer'sAdvanced Technology Group. Contact Phase Two Strategies 41 5-772-8439

New Amiga Disk Utilities

O RLA N D O , FL O R I D A (NB) Moonlighter Software Development Inc. is now shipping its new disk utilities product for the Commodore Amiga. Ami-Back Tools is designed to keep hard disks and diskettes in top condition. One utiTity is GP, a disk optimizer that ensures data is efficiently stored on the disk. Data Analyst examines disks looking for potential problems and repairs them if necessary.911-Recovery allows the user to recover files that have been deleted and may also be able to recover files Rom corrupted disks. Antiseptic is a disk~pe program that wipes the disk dear, rather than just marking it as dear. LabTest calculates and compares checksums on disks and files, ensuring that they haven't been altered by viruses or sabotage. All of these programs run under The Administrator, allowing users to set up, schedule, and perform any or all of the <ests easily, and as required. Gary H ol l a nd , pres i d en t of Moonlighter, said, "Ever since we released Ami-Back, Amiga users have been damoring for a professional disk utfiities package with the same high quality. Ami-Back Tools is our answer to all these users, and we are certain they will f i n d t h i s p a ckage unmatched by any other utilities package available for the Amiga." He said the product was the result of over a year of develop. ment, takmg into account the wish lists of hundreds of Amiga users. High quality was always a high priority, and we' re certain Amiga users will find it a professional and elegant package." Ami-Back Tools will rim on any Amiga with at least 512 kfiobytes of memory, and has a suggested retaiil of fl9.95.

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Canadian Government Launches Home-Work Plan

OTTAWA, ONTARIO (NB) — Canadian civil servants who meet certain criteria will be ableto work at home under a three-year pilot program announced by thefederal government. The government's telework policy will permit employees to work Rom their homes either full-time or part-time, provided there is no loss in productivity, ongoing costs are no higher than for working at the office, and any initial costs are recovered in a reasonable time. Any workout-home arrangement must be voluntary and must not violate union agreements, said Bob Fortier, project manager for the program, and the employee's manager must also agree. Fortier said some jobs are dearly better suited to teleworking than others - "you can't have a submarine repairman working at home," he quipped. Translators, lawyers, and others who deal with documents all or part of the time are good candidates. Fortier said the government expects many of its teleworking arrangements will be part-time ones, where employees will come into the office a couple of days a week and spend the rest of their working hours at home, or even just take occasional afternoons away from the office to work in peace on such jobs as finishing up a report. During the initial three-year pilot program, teleworking employees will be required to work the same office hours spedfied in their present collective agreements, and will not be permitted for instance to do their work in the evening. In future, Fortier said, this rule might be loom ened to let people work at the hours that best suit them. The government will provide equipment such as personal computers where needed. Fortier said this will not always mean buying new equipment. For instance, if an employee deddes to work at home full time, the computer on the employee's desk Cmstiamd on vertPage

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at work can be sent home with him or her. If a department has several employees working at home part time, it can give them some of its PCs to take home and set up a rotation system for use of the remaining ones at the office. Some government departments also have portable "fioaters" available for loan to employees, as well as older PCs in storage that might be suitable for simple tasks at home. If a department does have to buy a PC or other equipment for a teleworking employee, the cost will have to be demonstrably recoverable in a reasonable amount of time before the plan can be approved, Fortier said. The government does not plan

Contact: Government of Canada Treasury Board Communications, 61 3-957-2428

Windows3.1forWorkgroups In Beta Testing

R EDMOND, WASHIN GTO N ( N B ) Microsoft Corporation is beta testing Windows for Workgroups 5.1 at 8,000 sites. The program is a superset of Windows 5.1, which Microsoft says is designed to make it easy for groups of PC users to share information and work together. According to

Microsoft it will include network client software compatible with both Novell Netware and Microsoft LAN Manager, as well as improvements to t h e W i n d ows File Manager. M icrosoft s p o kesperson C o l l i n s Hemingway told Newsbytes that the pricing for Windows for Workgroups hasn't been set yet, but did confirm that Windows users will be able to upgrade to the program without having to buy a complete version of the workgroup software. In the second quarter, sales of Windows applications were $526 million, a 181 percent increase over the same period last year. Microsoft said it would show Windowsbased applications with Microsoft S QL

Server running natively on Banyan Vines at the A s sociation o f Ban y an U se r s International Fall Conference in Boston beginning September 20. The estimated 1500 show attendees were also to see Windows NT being demonstrated by Microsoft. One session discussed Microsoft's strategy for Windows in relation to Microsoft and Banyan products. The August 31 issue of Open Systems Today,a trade publication for Unix users, reported that a surprisingly large number of Unix workstation users are either evaluating or planning to evaluate purchases of Windows NT. The paper said the results were based on a reader survey. Contact: Microsoft, 604-688-981 1

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REDMOND, WASHIN GTO N ( N B ) Tandy, Microsoft, and Zenith have all made announcements about anew home video information system (VIS) product that attaches to a television set and stereo system, uses compact discs (CDs), can play audio CDs, and is based on Microsoft Windows. VIS is geared toward pictures, voice, music and motion, according to Zenith. The interactive titles for VIS can be developed on an IBM or compatible personal computer (PC) and moved to the VIS, which is made possible due to a special version of Microsoft Windows 3.1 called Modular Windows. Modular Windows was developed by Microsoft and acts as a user interface for the VIS player. Microsoft says Modular Windows is made up of large threeAimensional buttons and colorful icons that can be seen five to 10 feet away and accepts pointmd-shoot control from a hand-held inirared device. Modular Windows and MSDOS have been built into the readwnly memory (ROM) of the VIS player. Support for memory cards and software motion video is alsobuilt into ROM, Microsoft said. Tandy says the unit can be equipped with a modem, but no definite information was forthcoming as to the applications for modem use. Also some hint was made that the VIS players may take on a role similar to that of the TV Answer boxes being developed by Hewlett-Packard for interactive television, which is slated for next year.

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B.C. EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER OCTOBER '92 83 months to respond to moves that arch-rival Compaq, of Houston, made inJune. There is little sign that IBM's recent decision to reform its personal systems operation as a quasi~dependent unit will help, Brown said. It would have been better to move the personal systems unit well away from IBM headquarters — say to Boca Raton, Horida, the birthplace of the IBM PC — than to keep it in Somers, New York, in the heart of IBM country, he said. And "there's no shift in the people running it.... They' re not getting anywhere — it's really depressing." Commenting o n t h e n e w PS/ 1 machines, Brown said the decision to bundle most of the models with Microsoft's Windows operating software rather than IBM's own OS/2 operating system simply reflected the state of the market. "What do customers want to buy7" he asked rhetorically — "they' re using Windows applications." IBM admits as much — spokesman Hanunock said putting OS/2 on the new PS/ls at the moment would risk making people feel they are being pushed into buying an operating system for which they are not ready. But while IBM is optimistic that OS/2 will gain ground in the PS/I's target smallbusiness and home market, Brown is not. "I doubt it severely," he said. Brown said it is dMBcuit to comment on IBM's overall personal computing strategy at the moment because there is more news sdll to come. The company is expected to introduce a new "value line" of lowyriced, strippeddown PCs before theend of September, and new PS/2 models are also expected in the next few weeks.

Image Bank'sFirst Phot' Image Catalog DALLAS, TEXAS (NB) — The Image Bank, a worldwide supplier of black-and-white and color photo images, Q~t lD O C $ 7 has announced what the company says will be the Brut Photo CD image catalog. Photo CD i s Eastman Kodak's process which takes regular 35 mm photos and places the images on a compact disk, The images can then be viewed on a television set equipped with a special CD player, or imported into graphics editing computer programs. The Image Bank provides iznages and illustrations by professional photographers to ad agencies, the publishing industry, graphic design studios, Shn producers, and other users who need a particular picture. The company says the image catalog will correspond to its Catalog 12, and will be available November 1. Catalog 12 will indude both still photography and illustrations. Users with a Kodak Photo CD Player, P hilips CD I n t e ractive player, o r a Macintosh or IBMwompatible computer equipped with a CD-ROM XA drive, can view the images one page at a time or conduct a search using a key word. "By putting our catalog on a Photo CD disc, we' re offering graphic designers and art directors an easier way to experiment with various images in different formats and layouts, an important step in the creative process and an essential step in the approval process," according to Image Bank President RexJobe. The catalog will offer image resolution comparable to highAe6nition TV, 256x884. That's good enough for display, but not enough resolution to print a hard copy at finished reproduction quality, thus protecting the image copyright. To get the image you want, users can contact an Image Bank oiBce.

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OreanizerForKids TOKI , JAPAN (NB) — Japan's Casio has developed an electronic organizer for children. It has regular organizing programs as well as games axed a telecommunications feature. In a way, it is more advanced than some of the organizers for adults. Casio's latest electronic organizer for children is called the "JD-300 Junior." It is equipped with some advanced feature~ scheduler, an address hook, a calculator, and a telecommunication program. Two JD-MOs can exchange data via in&ared ray. Also, interestingly, the address book supports a graphic feature. It accepts the input of fadal data along with the address, name and the phone number of people. The facial graphic data can be created using a "montage method. Under this method, the organizer shows about 30 different partsof a face — for instance, various noses, eyes, hair styles, mouths and face outlines. All the users have to do is to choosethese parts and design the face graphically on the organizer. Casio claims that with these facial parts, over 100 biHion kinds of faces can be designed. The organizer also includes games and fortune telling. The price of this organizer is higher than regular adult organizers. It is retailed at 15,8OD yen (511D). Casio hopes to ship 50,000 units for the initial year.

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SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN (NB)Northern Telecom will move 36 jobs fiom an optical fiber plant in Saskatoon to an existmg faciTity in Monterey, Mexico next summer, Company spokesman Preston Peek told Newsbytes that the plant, which produces optical fiber, had a small operation "in one c orner" making connectors for fiber~ t i c communications. The work is not closely tied to the rest of the Saskatoon operation and is lowerwkilled than other jobs at that location, he said, so it made sense to move the jobs to Monterey. Peek said the decision was not related to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which is set to phase out many tarif barriers between Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Pointing out that the NAFl'A, signed during the summer, has still to be ratified by the three countxies, he said Northern could make no assumptions at this point about the final agreement. Peek would not comment on the wages paid at the Monterey plant. In general, Mexican workers' wages are substantially lower than those in Canada; figures may run as low as US$4.00 per day, which is less than the minimum hourly wage in most Canadian provinces. Jobs have been lost at several Northern plants in Canada in the past two years, some to overseas facilities. In May of 1991, Northern announced cuts at a plant in Belleville, Ontario, which induded moving the manufacturing of telephone power packs to Penang, Malaysia. Later that same month, cuts at a London, Ontario factory

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sheets. It is, however, something of a chicken~d ~ sit u a tion. The more PCs that have sound and voic~ecording capabilities, the greater the interest will be in adding sound to documents. But unless users have the ability to send these sound messages to others with similarly equipped PCs, there will be little use for doing so. After all, you are hardly likely to dictate some vital business criticisms that you want someone to hear quickly if that person doesn't have the technolo-

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Sound Boards These represent one of the most interesting opportunities for helping users upgrade their PCs. They offer a variety of features, from the ability to help users record and play MIDI sounds to the enhancement of sound from a CD-ROM to th e use of a microphone to record voice input. Typical of today's mid-range sound cards is Creative Labs' Sound Blaster Pro. It sells for less than $500 and includes the ability to play full stereo sound recorded in MIDI format, Microsoft Windows S.l .WAV format and most other common " modulated" (FM) data formats. It consists of a half' PC c ard — available in either ISA or MCA format — which offers plug-ins for a microphone, input Rom a tape recorder, CD playc.r or record player, a CD-ROM, a games port and — of course — stereo speakers. The Sound Blaster Pro also offers a built~ SCSI controller for Matsushita CD-ROM drives — so that you can offer a complete multimc.dia upgrade package to customers without having to buy a separate SCSI CD-ROM disk controller. Sound Blaster Pro comes with a variety of DOSbased sound utilities — induding those which allow you to play and record sound files — as well as "drivers' to allow it to provide MP~ o mpatible sound capabilities in Microsoft Windows S.l. MPC is the "multimedia personal computer" hardware

frequen cy and software standard defined by Microsoft and a host of participating hardware and software companies that allow multimedia hardware addl e an d Windows "multimedia aware" software to run in a standard way under Windows 5.1. In many ways, the Sound Blaster Pro card — and others like it — hark back to the days of the basic "combo cards" that used to be so popular for PCs in the early 1980s. In recent days, they have tended to be irrelevant as most of the functions of the combo card (serial and parallel ports, video adapterand memory expansion) have tended to be built into the PC. The arrival of a demand for sound capabilities on the PC should fuel a revival in sound-based combination cards.

One interesting wrinkle in this market will be Microsoft's own part in it. Microsoft recently confirmed rumors that it is to produce its own MP~ o m patible multimedia sound card to help build the population of multimediawware systems in use. It is likely to be sold in much the same way as the Microsoft Mouse — and, no doubt, with as much vigorous competition.

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Apple Offers Software ToCustomize Nlacs BOSTON, MASSACHUSSETTS (NB)Targeting Madntosh users in the home and education markets who share a single system, Apple Computer has introduced At Ease, an extension to the Madntosh System 7 operating software that simplifies the tasks of launching applications and opening files, while providing protection for system settings, files, and folders. According to the company, the new software makes it easier for users of Macintosh personal computers to share them with children, students, and novices. Roger Heinen, senior vice president for the Macintosh software architecture division, said: "At Ease is Apple's first software package that customizes the Madntosh for a specific set of customers. At Ease makes the Madntosh an even stronger solution for the home and education markets by providing enhanced ease of use for parents sharing a Macintosh with youngsters, and teachers who manage the sharing of Macintosh computers among many students. At Ease actsas an alternative to the standard "Finder" desktop, and comprises a "Documents" folder and an "Applications" folder. The company maintains that both folders feature large, singlewlick buttons that make it easier to launch applications and open documents. All documents created by the user are automatically displayed in the Documents folder, regardless of where they are stored, reducing the search for a document to just one location. The primary user of the computer indicates during setup which applications and system controls will be displayed in the Applications folder. While At Ease is running, the user cannot move, rename or delete documents or applications. Apple gives some examples of who would use this method. A parent can create a setup for a child's use of gaxnes and educational applications. An educator can manage a lab with several Macintosh computers by restricting students to spedfic applications and only their own documents. Also, a business customer can let coworkers use his or her Macintosh, knowing that the system settings will remain unchanged and confidential files will remain private. One option of At Ease shnplifies management of the shared computer's hard disk by saving all documents on a floppy disk or a remote file server, effectively locking the hard disk. The company says that saving only to a fioppy disk is especially useful for sharing Macintosh computers in public areas such as service bureaus or storefronts, and that saving to a remote file sexver is useful in dassrooms and computer labs.

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B.C. EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER OCTOBER '92 93 whole series of "original" variations to present to a dient. Using different "compressors" can result in dramatically different performance. The Apple Video JPEG compressor, daimed by the Morph manual to produce compression ratios of up to 25-to-l, produced a 2.2MB file at the highest quality setting, while the lowest setting produced a file only 598K in size. Both of these settings produced a 564x480 pixel movie that crawled along at a pathetic three frames per second — on a Quadra 700 with 20MB of RANI However, by substituting the sowalled Apple Video compressor, the movie (now 1.8 MB in size) played at a much more satisfying rate of 15 fps. For comparison, I made an uncompressed movie using the "None" compression setting. To save disk space and p erhaps speed up p l a yback, I c h o s e 'Thousands of Colors" instead of "Millions" from the list of Save options. Surprisingly, this uncompressed movie did not play back as quickly as the one created with the Apple Video compression option. Well, perhaps not so surprisingthe uncompressed flle was over 19 MB in s izei I also tried th e so-called "Appl e Animation" setting, and set it for millions of colors. This setting produced a file over 56MB (i) in size. For movies, it is clear that the Apple Video setting is the best choice. For still images, the choice depends on whether image compression or image quality is more important. In the former case, the Apple Video-JPEG compressor is a good choice; for the latter, the "None" setting or the Apple Graphics setting produce the best results. The Morph manual describes each of the settings in detail. I discovered, for example, that the Apple Video compressor performs both spatial (single-frame) and

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Figure 2. Mcrphing a 'new" design from two ciassics temporal (inter-frame) compression to achieve its high playback speeds and compression ratios. Gray~care images compress better with the Apple Animation or Apple Graphics compressors. The Apple Video compressor is good for color images, but has a limited selection of grays. PICT and PIGS files destined for videotape on a frame-by-frame basis are best compressed using the Apple JPEG compressor, since it provides excellent compression at the cost of speed, which is not usually as liilpoftail t.

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Performance I got occasional "Out of Memory" error messages when I attempted to morph large images with the default memory setting. By increasing the program's memory allocation to 5120K, I eliminated all problems. The program fully supports System 7 (complete with Balloon Help), but also works (minus Balloon Help, of course) under System 6. QuickTime is supplied and required. The manual is a slim 74-page volume that does adequately describes the capabiTi-

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ties of the 276K program. Morph has a few limitations that might make it unsuitable for professional applications, It accepts only 72 dpi PICT foimat files and, as you might e xpect, can take a while to perform it s magic on the two or more source images you choose to morph. (Performance was better than I expected, actually.) The biggest limitation is QuickTime itself, which can barely handle a quarterscreen movie at 15 &ames per second on a Quadra with 20MB of RAM. Users of lesser M acs will l i k el y b e d i s satisfied w i t h QuickTime's performance if they venture beyond creating movies the size of a big p ostage st amp . R e p o r t e d ly , a t th e MacWorld Expo last month, SuperMac Technologies previewed a hardware board (and new compressor software) that allows full-screen/full-motion QuickTime playback — just the thing if you' ve got a spare $5,000 or so.

Morph Fool INe The only bug I noted was a "Mac OS Error" when I used the Apple Video compression option set for "Millions of Colors." When I chose "Millions of Colors+", everything worked properly. It is not clear whether this was a Mac OS bug related to the Quadra's internal 24-bit video or a Morph problem. Overall, the program worked very well and I have no qualms in recommending it to any Mac owner with 5MB or more of RAM and a 68020 or greater microprocessor. • Greeme Bennett is inansging editor and resident morpher at 7tie Computer Paper.

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While speakerswill form a key part of any multimedia sound upgrade, there are no hard~d-fast rules here — apart from those which apply in the audio world. A few issues present themselves, but they have more to do with the way that sound is output from PC sound cards than anything else. One of the first issues is that any set of speakers to be used with a PC is likely to need either a built-in amplifier or one placedbetween the speaker box and the PC. The sound whichcomes out of a sound card is more amplified than that which comes out of the average CD player — it must be amplified before you can hear it. For this reason, a whole new range of small desktop speakers has evolved in the past couple of years. Such sets of speakers generally have the amplifier unit (and a mainsplug to power it) coming irom one of the speakers — with both that speaker and its companion running from this builtin amp. The speaker containing the amplifier will also generally have two external volume controls— one knob for each speaker. Quite often, these volume controls will be located at the front and bottom of the speaker — although some place them at the back to improve the appearance of the speaker. It is useful to be able to offer both types, as some people find it irritating to have to reach around to theback of the speaker every time they want to adjust the volume of the output. In the future, such design considerations are likely to be complicated by the introduction of affordable software control for audio output. Software already exists to allow users to play CD audio discs through Microsoft Windows — and program which tracks they want. It can only be a short time before manufacturers begin building affordable speakers "smart" enough to have their volumecontrolled by software.

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