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Power shift This year has been one of incredible improvements in what you can get for your money. In September of 1995, an entry-level machine was a 486 with 8 MB of RAM, a 300 MB hard drive, a 2x CD-ROM drive, a 1 4 -inch m o nitor, some cheap speakers, a 14.4K modem, and software — all for about $3,000. Today, the 486 has aII but disappeared from the desktop market, a casualty of the aggressive moves of Intel, in its desire to prevent the loss of market share to other CPU makers like Cyrix. An entry-level machine today is a 75 to 100 MHz Pentium with 8 MB of RAM, a 500 MB hard drive, and a 4x CD-ROM drive — all this starting at around $1,600.

What to buytoday This is a loaded question. Obviously what you buy is best determined by thorough evaluation of your needs, what you will be using the computer for, what software you will be running, and what kind of computer your friends/company/available support people have. (Many people will want to consider purchasing a Macintoshbecauseof their ease of use and the fact that their friends have them and love them. for publishing, music, Web creation, and digital video, they are a popular choice. Many of my comments on RAM, hard drives, CD-ROM drives and modems below apply to Macs as well, just ignore the bits that are specific to PCs.) Having said that, the lion's share of people today are likely to buy some kind of IBM-PC compatible. After choosing a brand name and a vendor, consider what you want in your new PC. Motherboards and RAM: Get faster EDO memory and L-2 pipeline burst cache of at least 256K, they wi(I add five to 10 percent to the price, but can easily improve performance by more than that. Almost all motherboards do Plug and Play now if your operating system supports it. If possible, buy a motherboard that supports a range of processor speeds because you will likely upgrade the processor over the life of the system. Again, if you can afford it, buy lots of RAM. RAM prices have dropped amazingly in the past few months, and because it is such a commodity, it is difficult to know if it will continue downward. The "sweet spot" for running basic applications in Windows 95 is 16 MB of RAM. Photoshop, CAD programs or digital-video applications need 48, 64 or even 128 MB of RAM to really perform. Chips and things: Hurrah to the forces of competition. Processing power is up by a huge leap. We may be nearing the end of Moore's Law, which claims that there is a doubling of processor power every 18 months. It is hard to imagine how vendors can continue at this rate of innovation, but they have surprised us continuously in the past. Modems: Get a 28.8K modem for the extra $80 over a bundled 14.4K modem. If you are Net surfing, you will thank yourself after a couple of minutes online. If plan to earn your living through

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the Internet, consider that you can get an ISDN modem for less than $400. An ISDN line installation from the phone company will cost you $100 or so, and then you will pay about twice the usual business phone rate for the monthly charge on the line. Video cards and monitors: Get a better quality video card. Good names include Matrox and ATI (both Canadian companies) and Diamond. In general, you get what you pay for in video cards. More video RAM will give you more colors. Buy a big monitor if you can afford the bucks. A 17inch monitor will still be givmg you pleasure in a few years, even if you have sold off or upgraded the system underneath it. Hard drives: Hard drive prices took a drop over a period of several months and now seem to have stabilized. SCSI drives are still ki n g on the Macintosh side and for servers. EIDE is for t he

masses. It now supports up to four drives (two master-slave relationships), including CD-ROMs and removable or tape drives. EIDE also does faster throughput now and supports higher capacity drives — 1.2 and 1.6 GB drives are the bestsellers today. Top performers are Quantum Fireball, Western Digital Caviar and Seagate Decathlon drives. CD-ROM drives: Apparently, the 6x and 8x CDROM drives are not worth it if you are just playing games. Most games are optimized for 2x models, which are the largest share of the market right now. Working with large databases, full-motion video files, or large photoshop files can justify the purchase of faster CD-ROM drives. Multiprocessors and Pentium Pro: Leave these until next year, when Windows NT becomes Microsoft's new baby. Both items needtrue 32-bit applications that are written specifically to take advantage of these new technoloj<s. Look for MMX chip sets to show up late in the year, which will breathe new life into the Pentium. Oops) If you buy all the stuff I have listed above, you are back up to spending over $3,000 for your computer. Oh well, you really will have a very powerful system when all is said and done. One last thought on the topic: a computer system is only as good as its weakest link. I usually include the carbon-based unit in front of the inonitor in my description of what constitutes a system. Damn, this is just like the radio. I just get going and I am out of time/space. Time for a commercial. People often give us grief these days about not heing able to find a copy of The Computer Paper. The problem seems to be that when we started our publication almost nine years ago, the number of people interested in computers was perhaps 10 to 15 percent of the population. Today the market research people tell us that every second household has a computer. We have attempted to deal with the issue by gradually increasing our circulation. We have to be careful with that because if we increase too much, our ad rates (our sole support, because we are a free publication) have to go up. Many of our core advertisers have been facing fierce competition in recent years. Another approach has been to launch sister publications in the larger markets. Towards that end, we purchased Toronto Computes!three years ago and havelaunched Canada Computes!and Quebec Micro! These publications come out two . weeks after The Computer Paper,and effectively make our publications biweekly, but it still is not enough. So what is the answer for someone who wants a guaranteed copy of our publications? Buy a subscription. I have always been the last person

Another take on digital cameras I read with interest about the digital cameras (TCP,June 96). However, I use a dirt-cheap alternate product: the Snappy. Since the most of us have a camcorder, the picture quality of those digital cameras isn't that great anyway, why not save a bundle?AII one has to do is connect the Snappy to the printer port, install the software and connect the camcorder to the Snappy.

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SH replies: I' ll do my best to address each of the poizzts you raised, in thc' order in which they were raisecf. As far as the weight of th«HP is concerned,yes, yo«are conect in that it weighs 99 lb. (44.5 kg). Hciwever, the 300!b. (13S kg) we stated was "as tested," including all the I arious options. You are also < orrcct in stating tlrczt it cioes nof come standard with a Z,OOO-sheet input tray, nor the nuiftibin znailbux optivii, but the fczctis, wenever snid it did. I fyou take a look at the chart and the write«p, you' llnotice that it states the>I these are both optic)ni and were not included in the prii e of 56,bo3. They were included in the total weight, which, as I saicl beforewas 300 lb. (135 kg) "czs I<'stc'<I."

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Wedid make an enor though, in stating thnt the stnzufard input capncity on the Si MXwas SOOsheets, but ii>fact, it is actually 1,100. You also mentioned thnt the HP cvmes with zzzvre meniory as standard than the Xerox. Quite tni«, however, with RAM prices being as lowas they are, you could easily upgrade the Xerux to the sczmeIZ MB fur an actditionnl $50 with the purchase of a4 MB SIMM module. The sauiegoesfor the z>ctwurk interface, which can alsu be added, ancl the price would still be well below that of tfu HP. Note too, that the Xerox has a print resolution of 800x800, which is svznething tlzat you caine)t Icpgrade on the Hl'. And although the Xerox is 4 pages per niinutc (ppzu) slower than

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there's a mistake. Xfarilyn was married to the playwright Arthur Miller, not the author Henry >Miller. Arthur, of course, svrote such plays as Death of A Salesnian and The (.'n(cibicswhereas Henry wrote the sexy stuff such as Trupii uf (:apriior>i. Henry Miller sv<?uld have been old enough to have been Marilyn's grandfath»r. Seymour Trieger, via Internet

First it worked, now it doesn' t I have a i486sx33 mothertx>ard that is giving me a headache. Atfirst, it svorked tine. later, it only svorked whenit wanted to. Now,,it d<sesn't work at all. Khen I turn on my computer, the po<v<.'f-scip-

ply fan starts, the hard drive spins up and the turbo LED also goes on —but the monitor remains completely blank. 'I'herefore, I can con»Iud» that power is definitely being supplied to the motherboard from the power supply, but svhy is it that the regular boot-up procedure (RAS1, keyboard, and video checks, and further execution of operating system) does not occur? Remember,it used to do this once in a svhlle, then became worse until it just did not <cork anymore — s« it can't be dead! Besides, posver still tlosvs through it. Any advice <vill be greatly appreciated. Jimmy Boutin, Toronto

SH replies: If you I«lve poiver, ai«I are not seeing «nythiirg on the screen, it sown<Is a lc>t like either il loose coimection, or a finiln cumponeiit. Are ) uu getting any beeps from >'owr PC speaker? If' yoii are, then it's j(ist a matter uf Ivuking wp ivhat the. sequence vf beeps n>ean for ) our parti< ular inaike vf IIIVS, «nal tak-

ing it froln there. Huwei'<'r, if' that is Iiut tile case, then I >vuwiai start bi checking to inake sure that yuwr iideo card and k4$f izre properli in pla><e. If ix»( Cr( Chic c(i>?i yuw rc' still hai'ing prof?Ic(nr» Ini' n<'xt r<'a'(»no><'nafaitioil ivoulcf I?c' Co si'»alp cunlpc»>Outs all<' (ll a>tin><' wiltil >/oii isulate the probleni, vr cai> i(C least con< Iuafc

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Upgrade chips: a maybe it is In your May 96 issue, the articles '1« I' or not t« P" and "Upgrading y«ul computer" svere very informative but had I'?pp«sing views on the Pentium upgrade for 4B(? c«mputers. Recently, I have read about the (.PU SIAXimiser bv Galnberv computer products. 1'hey sayit can upgrade lny 486SX-33 to SB6-100. They said this upgrade costs $139.99. Isit worth it? Iielp. A yes, no, or maybe will suffice for an anssver as long as it's honest. 1'hanks for your time. Eric Bergeron, via Internet

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younger counterparts on to technology and computers. For veterans of last summer's high-tech camps, there is a new group of advanced camps, such as those offered at McMaster University i n Ha m i l to n a n d Br i t i sh Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Burnaby. And most camps hold spaces for girls until the last minute to encourage their presence in the world of computing. The stars of camps for teenagers are Virtual Ventures at Carleton University and

Adventures in Engineering Computing at

Contact: Camp Summer Sun, Housing and Services Dept., Dalhousie University. Halifax, N.S. Tel: 902-494-8840. Fax: 902-494-1 219 Web site. http;//www.registracdahca/summer/

In its third year of operation, this studentrun camp is affiliated with the Faculty of Engineering at Ot ta w a' s Ca r l eton University. Many of the camp's faculty organizers are also affiliated with SchoolNet. As

a result, the camp is meaty with programs such as robotics, UNIX, Web page design

ment, the YMCA or local private schools.

with HTML and Java, and a scavenger hunt in cyberspace.

ComputerComÃotlorf'96 (St. Jo51I'9) There are two levels of camp in Memorial University of N ewfoundland's program, Level I camps are one-week, full-day camps and are divided into two age groups, 6-10 and 11-13. They include "krazy keyboard-

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managing to attract Bill Gates last year.

tions, cyber-surfing and productive prog ramming." T hey a lso o f fer a "Mad Scientists Academy," art exploration or "circus excitement" camps. Cost is $95, except for weeks that include a statutory holiday, which cost $80.

program, which is held at the university, is that it helps demystify campus life for teenagers. If you are an adult and are feeling melancholy because the kids are getting all the "good stuff," then cross out camp and write in "workshop." Virtual Ventures offer

One of the lesspublicized advantages of the

New to the program are two advanced sessions, which will include more in-depth

special group Internet and HTML programming seminars for adults. This year it also offers two four-day camps for 6-9 year olds, in addition to the camp for 10-18 year olds. The standard full-

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sions run the weeks of July 8 through Aug. 26. The four-day junior camp costs $150 and is held july 2-5 and Aug. 6-9.

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The main objectiv of the camp is to throw teenagers kicking and yelling with glee into the new "information-based society," The student instructors, through their creative and innovative workshops, inspire the teen cybernauts, spark their interest, and act as role models. "Learning should not only be educational but FUN as well!" is

in guest speakers,

Contact. Division of Continuing Studies, Personal & Professional Development, Memorial University, St. John' s. Tel: 709-737-7979.

all three of these camps, held at Halifax's Dalhousie University, along with morph magic and manipulating sound and video clips. Each camper has use of their own computer and beginners may go on to intermediate and advanced camps, all in the same

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Now in its second year of operation, the AdVentures camp is open to students in Grades 9 to 11. It is a non-profit, hands-on program run by students within the Faculty of Engineering.

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Many of the non-profit computer camps are taught by university students, who have an almost evangelical zeal for turning their

two-night stay, plus five meals, to encourage attendance from all across the Maritimes. Open to junior-high students.

Contact: Faculty of Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa. Tel: 61 3-520-2600, ext. 1932. Fax: 61 3-520-56B2. E-mail directorovv.cadeton.ca Web site http: //vv.carieton.ca/

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E-mail vespi@mcmaster.ca or aecomp©mcmaster.ca Web site: http: //aecomp.mcmaster.ca/

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The University of Toronto camps' fare is somewhat more academic and combined into "modules." Module A includes computing with law and business. Working with hardware, games, Internet, buying a computer for their own " company," or finding a job as a computer scientist should give kids a glimpse into the future. Module B includes the same computer topics but is shared with camp time on archaeology and physical and health education. Module C combines computing with science and engineering and teaching/the world of education. All modules are full-day, two-week camps for ages 10-15, running July through rnid-August. Cost is $295-$325 (the lower rates are for camps that include a statutory holidav).

tfnlversfty of BrNsh Columbia, 184-8886 Thunderbird Blvd., Vancouver, VBT1ZS. UBC's Community Sport Services offers a series of camps for kids with no computing experience and for those who are ready to develop their oen mu(timedia

projects. Beginnercampers leamfundamentals such as

'windows,' using a mouse, and file management through projects such as creating greeting cards and writing stories. Advanced 0 campers delve deeper into Webauthoring and will post their own pages at the Community Sport ServicesWeb site. All campers use Macintosh computers. Age group: Beginner: 6-10, Intermediate, Advanced: 8-13, Advanced II: 9-14 Program: Half-day, week-long camps Dates: Beg inner. July 1 through Aug, 23 intermediate: July 1 through July 19, July 29 through Aug, 16 Advanced: July 8 through July 26, Aug. 5 though Aug. 23 Advanced il: July 22-26, Aug. 19-23

Contact: Camp U, of T., University of Toronto, Athletic Centre, Tel: 416-978-3436. Fax: 416-9786978 WEB site: http: //www.utoronto.ca/dar/csp/csp.htm

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Other camps: A variety of sports, recreational, and leadership camps. Conlact: T e l: 604-822-3688 Fax. 604-822-9237 Web site: bttp://www.hockey-school.tjbc.ca

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C ampers in this program, held at t h e University of Manitoba, use both Apple and IBM-compatible computers and spend half of each day on recreational activities. C ampers i n th e beg i n ne r a n d "advanced" beginner camps, ages 9-12, develop m u l t imedia c r eations using

Children in Grades 1-2 create animated slide shoes and use CD-ROMbooks. Students in the Grade 3-4 program will use multimedia software to create their own electronicbooks. Grade5-8 participants will use sound and video to create newsletters, presentations and their own home pages. The school also offers programs that deal

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internet Surf Camp(Grades6-9), Computer Building (Grades 7-9)

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Szzrfiztg tIIg Nut This is the University of Regina's,'irst foray into computer camps. As the n;me implies, the camp will introduce kids, ages 8-13, to the World Wide Web and will teach them how to

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Calgary's offerings over t h e p ast ye ar. Originally a collection of rather dreary sounding camps in introductory subjects or programming, this year's schedule has something for every computer-addicted kid from ages 4-16. Notables programs for ages 8-12 are Creating Storybooks and Doing Animation, and Junior Publishers. Teenagers are treated to Internet camps, creating animation or multimedia with HyperStudio scripts, or my favorite, Journey to the Centre of the Computer. In the latter camp, kids will leam about simple electronics, digital information and how computers use it, what goes on inside the central processing unit, how to write sim-

ple programs, how to build simple computer circuits and an exploration of the guts of a computer. This camp is two nights a week for two weeks, while the other camps are half days for one week. Kids can take a morning and an afternoon camp, on different topics, simultaneously or paired with a recreational activity for preteens. The age groups for the various camps are 4-7, 8-12, or 13-16. Most sessions are a modest $89 each. Contact: University of Calgary, Tel: 403-220-2866. Fax: 403-289-7287 Web site: http: //www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/CTE0

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design, video editing and morphing, The advanced camps cover some of the same topics but add Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere. Both explore Web page design with HTML and Java. The regular sessions are for ages 12-15, and the advanced for ages 13-16. The full-day, two-week camps cost $409 each.

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er they are! These desktop killers are lean, mean, feature-rich, optimized, fighting machines, the kinds of notebooks many of us only dream of owning. We' ve chosen to discuss them under the umbrella of "busii ess-class" notebooks, but as market forces squash prices and add more functionality to the rr achines, it's difficult to gauge where they fall. The line between an entry-level value notebook and a business class one is becoming somewhat blurred. Desktop 486 class-machines are dead and gone, and in the notebook arena, 486s are already end-of-the-line items. Entry-level seems to entail a Pentium 75 MHz processor, and not many vendors would ship a notebook with anything less than 8 MB of RAM. This month we look a short distance beyond the entry class, at 75 to 120 MHzbased Pentium digital companions. We managed to restrain ourselves from venturing too far into " massive performance" territory, despite offers from several vendors eager to show off their latest wares. Still, the specification sheets on these notebook machines read like those of fully configured entry-level desktop machines. Some of these gems even produce scores comparable with many desktops with faster processors. Looking at this month's crop of notebooks, it is evident that one part of their design has undergone a m a jor c hange. Notebook vendors seem to have, for the most part, dumped track balls and trackpoints and incorporated touchpad technology into the machines. Apple and NEC were some of the earlier adopters of the touchpad, and it seems that much of the rest of the industry has been

persuaded by this technology, The beauty of the touchpad is that it allows you to take control of the pointer with one finger through a single interface, sliding it across the pad and tapping to execute commands. Other pointing devices require a certain amount of finger contortion in the form of movement from the pointer control to the button. We have

seen a number of implementations of pointers that require users to have motor control in their

fingers akin to a musidan's. Touchpads, however, are not all-created equal. While the ones in this survey, for the most part, seem to be responsive and smooth to operate, we have seen examples in the past which didn't function to our expectations (ironically including the non-tappable touchpad in Apple's 5300-series portables). Moreover, the pointing device is an item of personal preference. Personally, I have been wooed by the touchpad, like the familiarity of the trackball, and enjoy the extra design space that an eraser-head trackpoint implementation affords. Still, if I'm using a notebook for any length of time, I'm still tempted to rip a

top-notch performance, especially in light of the fact that it was only configured with its standard 8 MB RAM. The external complement of 256K cache appears to have boosted this machine's performance considerably.

mouse off my desktop computer and use it rather than the default offering. Give me a fullblown mouse anyday of the week. Another progression in notebooks is the inclusion of CD-ROM drives on many more machines. The lower price of the drives seem to have spilled over into the notebook markets, enabling them to be sold with systems and as after-market additions without significantly moving the price point. These aren' t the 2x CD-ROM drives that we were looking at only a few short months ago: we are beginning to see 4x and even 6x drives. The hard drives on these business-class portables have also increased in size dramatically since our last visit to this product area. Notebooks seemed toembrace 240 MB and 500 MB hard drives wefl after they faded out of the desktop scene — not these notebooks. They are equipped with 800 MB and even 1 GB+ hard disks — big enough to store a wealth of programs and information.

The notebook is jammed with top-of-the-line features, such as a bright and beautiful 11.4" TFT LCD panel capable of 800x600 resolution, 1.2 GB hard disk, lithium-ion battery, infrared (IR) port, SoundBlaster-compatible audio, and 4x CD-ROM drive. As an added bonus, the keyboard provides the new keys designed for Windows 95. Like many of the machines in this survey, the CD-ROM drive is used via the same bay as the floppy drive, meaning you cannot use the two devices in conjunction with each other. The unit comes with a three-year warranty, and despite the small and common shortcoming mentioned above, we give this AST a big two thumbs up.

thy of mention is that this is one of two notebooks in this survey with a keyboard which incorporates the new Windows 95 keys. Eurocom 5400T

The 5400T is one of the most interesting items in the survey. On the face of it, it is a pretty normal notebook with a Pentium 75 MHz processor, a 10.4" TFI' LCD panel capable of 800x600 resolution, a 540 MB hard drive and 8 MB RAM. This machine has both an internal 4x CD-ROM drive and an internal floppy drive. The unit stands alone in the survey, being the only one that comes with a built-in gamepad in addition to its touchpad. The speed on this machine is decent, so, should you want to use it to do a little gaming on the road, it will meet your needs adequately. Hyperdata 773 TFT

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We started this survey with the intention of looking at business-class machines with a budget orientation, and asked for Pentium 75 to 100 MHz machines with 8 M B RAM. Several vendors showed a keen interest in sending in their newer, faster model, and we obliged them by looking at machines up to 120 MHz, as long as we also had a machine that fit the original specification. We were not too sensitive with the price points, which allowed vendors to send in machines rich with top-of-the-line features, active-matrix screens, speedy CD-ROM drives and the like. There are one or two machines notable in their absence. Hewlett Packard was in a transitional period with its notebook line, and did-

The demo machine we got from Dell displayed the message "For Development Only, Not For Resale" on boot up. This notebook blew through the benchmarks so quickly that we were checking to make sure that there had been no mistake with the processor speed. The 100 MHz machine beat the pants off of everything in the lab in terms of raw performance. So quick is this notebook, that it actually out-

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based on the same and even faster processors. The unit's benchmark score was helped along with 16 MB RAM, a larger than standard configuration. An 11.4" TFT display provides ample viewing area; and with a 770 MB hard

drive, storage will not be much of a concern. AST Ascentia P30 This is one of the slickest looking machines To round out the system, Dell has included yet. The layout is tidy, clear and decidedly 16-bit sound, along with a 4x CD-ROM drive stylish. This 100 MHz Pentium system offered

to handle your multimedia needs. Also wor-

We have seen several n otebooks from Hyperdata in the past. This one is similar in form and construction to the one discussed in our last roundup, but slightly more feature-rich. The heart of the system is a 100 MHz Pentium processor; it also boasts a 10.4" TFI' screen capable of 800x600 resolution and an 810 MB hard drive. Pentium models comes standard with 8 MB RAM, a SCSI port and built-in sound. The Hyperdata 700 series come with a 6x CD-ROM drive, wlrich is well above the average spin rate in today's notebooks. For presentation versatility, the 773 offers a video port to TV interface. The unit has a lower than aver-

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N/A 149.09 219.42 N/A 183.87 174.40 N/A

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for a machine of its class and is comfortable to use. The palm rest is larger than those found on most machines and is cupped in around the touchpad to provide more ergonomic support. This unit has a suggested retail price of $4,300. The dual-scan version, with fewer features, sells for $3,100.

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solid judgment of them. However, our cursory look at them does lead us to believe they are good candidates to consider if you' re in the market. Texas Instruments Extensa 560CDT A thing of beauty, the Extensa is powered by a

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Toshiba 410CDT and Tecra 700CT Toshiba has built a reputation for innovative and solid notebooks, and its line is a force to be reckoned with. Its sales volume is among the highest in the country. Toshiba is one of only a handful of vendors that are remaining true to the eraser-head type pointing device, and most of their products still incorporate this technology. The Toshiba 410 is the lower-end model of the two we

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reviewed, but it is certainly not a lower-end machine. The 410 came with a Pentium 90 MHz processor, an 11.3" TFr display with 800x600 resolution, a 1.6 GE hard drive and 16 MB of EDO RAM. As one has come to expect from Toshiba, the notebook has all the

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er management and manual scan zones but that is a quick look at this program. I have only one small criticism. The search engine doesn' t highlight the words it finds. This is a little annoying as the reader is obliged to scan the

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I phoned to inquire about getting a line, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the service was already available where I live. The business of physically installing a line is straightforward. Many homes already have two pairs of copper wire coming into them. One pair is undoubtedly used for your POTS (plain old telephone service), the other pair is usually spare unless you have two lines in

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0 The real pocket stinger lies in the fact that you need to purchase several pieces of equipmen t before you can do anything useful with an ISDN line. These are a terminating device (NTI), used to interface with the ISDN line and required to connect ISDN terminal equipment to the line, and a ter-

er application. I click, I connect, I seek, I consume, I d isconnect. In essence, using ISDN has turned what used to be a batch process job into more of a transaction processing one. ISDN is quick. Theoretically, using one B channel, the connection is a little over twice as fast as a 28.8Kbps modem connection. In practice, I find the connection offers somewhere close to double and sometimes triple the speed. As many of you know from experience, a 28.8Kbps modem will rarely connect at its top speed, and even if it does, it will quite often drop back to lower speeds during the call due to line noise, etc. An ISDN line has little to no interference. Connections are robust and always fast. Often, when communicat-

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not the connection speed, but the particular point on the Net that you' re trying to get to. My browser stalls the same way it always has — "Waiting to connect." On the whole, however, I'm quite happy about the new lease that

Apple's CEO, and tried a whole lot of plug-ins for the Navigator. Even though many of these features are d esigned t o w o r k w i t h s l o w er modem connections, personally, I h ave a lways p a ssed t h e m b y 1 :00IIIi@f'Si0010%100)I018'0100~".',;::,::,:~' ' : ~ :~ 0~ @ N() @ „';,'. because o f t he "time-to-load, cheesy-payoff" equation. Multitasking is another area where I have seen a big improvement. It seems like nothing now to start a few instances of the browser and download several files at once. I even dare to open my PIM and start a word processor while the connection is in progress — stunts I wouldn't o f ten attempt with a modem in use. ' III'$P~S I $ ®f jjj~ ~ r';, "',;",, (88nfl ";ati)I)I ®:~ i ~' 'gjIIIj '";"'" We' ve had an ISDN connection to the Internet at The Computer Paper's office for quite some time, which is 0/I I0 - Ij(0)10+ + IIII) 7"@~."4+3,,::,;::;,,:,':,';8IT)j0eiferk 1~0II0'0'II08)00).' " IIS routed and shared over our local area 1 0 0060If~':;:;:;:',, .";".:,:.I'IIA II le';)SI )' I N IIIIB68 < 000'0Ij)0 I , :,01IN r1100 Y IT II I 1( Iir1800 '-:," (I0910' 0 80IV network (LAN). I have seen more than IIXI a few other offices where this is also the case, however, a horne connection somehow seems nicer. The bandwidth is mine and mine alone. ISDN can also make telecommuting more viable — I use it to access both my machine at work and the '

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Anyone who has upgraded from a 14.4Kbps modem t o a 28 . 8Kbps company e-mail server. As I do this modem will have an idea of what twice using TCP/IP over the Internet, no the speed means: a lot less thumb twid- additional ISDN lines are needed at dling. Even the most graphic-intensive work. Certainly, an ISDN dial-up of Web pages reach my screen before directly into the paper would provide I' ve started to fidget. My desire for a faster connection (as there is no instant gratification is indulged, Internet bottleneck to contend with) This new-found speed has also but, for grabbing a document or two, checking correspondence and makmade me more intrepid about trying out new t h ings. I' ve watched ing sure that the previous evening' s backup was completed without error, videos over the Internet, listened to a n h o u r-long W e b C a s t f r o m this scheme works well.

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Q: When is a modem not a modem? Au When it's an ISDN modem. Many devices used for communicating across ISDN telephone lines are generically termed ISDN modems, but this is a total misnomer. The word modem, as many of you know, is a concatenation of modulator/demodulator, which is exactly what a modem does on an analog POTS line: it converts a digital signal to analog, and then back to digital. With an ISDN connection, modulation/ demodulation doesn't occur, as the information can be passed in a digital fashion. In fact you can't use a standard ISDN "modem" to send faxes or connect to other analog modems. However, some ISDN devices also come with analog data-communication capability. The Internal-external debate Microsoft has stepped onto the ISDN band wagon in a big way and has entered into the business of recommending hardware. Its Web site recommends using an internal adapter over an external one. This is because most C OM ports only support speeds up t o 115.2Kbps. Microsoft's reasoning is that a call placed with two B channels has the potential to transfer data at 128Kbps, and thus an external model creates a small bottleneck at the com-

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Internet service providers There is still the issue of finding a service provider that will allow you to use your ISDN l ine. These are still f a irly few an d f a r between. At the time of this writing, even Bell's Sympatico had not yet implemented ISDN dial-up. I phoned iSTAR and asked whether any service providers that fell under their umbrella offered this service. The answer was no. It's funny how the information industry always seems to want to offer the solution you need months or years after you need it. As a word of caution, if you are considering an ISDN line and will use it for Internet access, I suggest you survey the providers in your area. Several providers offering this service have decided to charge an arm and a leg — more than $100 a month — for this kind of service. Hopefully, as ISDN lines become more commonplace, the forces of competition will crush these rates. 0

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The instruction manual simply tells you to that jumper and BIOS stuff will only come into

It turns out that the notebook upgrade chip is, in fact, an AMD Sx86 with a clock quadrupler built in. That's why it works with

play on specific models and the chip is com-

any motherboard bus. Regardless of your orig-

ucts consisted of desktop CPU upgrades based pull out the old chip and put in the new. All on AMD chips. Now — and this is where the swoon finally comes in — they are producing an AMD Sx86 chip especially wired up to Pentium-like world of the Sx86. Really diligent readers will recail several references I' ve made over the years to my trusty NEC Versa E notebook which, a whole

patible with virtually any motherboard bus. Trusting soul that I am, I nearly did, the deed too. Within minutes I had my computer helly up on my desk and a screw driver firmly in hand. Then it came to me — I'd only just paid a

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block: DX/2 50 power, 4 MB RAM, a 210 MB hard drive and that oh-so-wonderful active color screen, Except for adding another 8 MB RAM, it all remains the same and I'm becoming less and less enchanted waiting for things to happen when I try to get my work done. "Gee," I have often thought, "if only there was some way to upgrade the CPU," or words to that effect (this is a family publication after ail). Paradoxically, NEC did make an upgrade available for my Versa E at one time in the recent past, but it was only to a DX/4 75, it required factory installation and it cost — I'm not sure you' re going to believe this — $2,600! I decided to skip it. Now, for about one-tenth of that amount, Gainbery promises Pentium 133-like speed. The product itself is a simple enough looking CPU with the standard 168-pin mount.

my warranty. I decided I'd better call NEC first. Of course, the Grst person I spoke with didn't know what the Peck I.was talking about when I asked if a self-inflicted CPU upgrade would void my warranty — though she was far more lucid about the chances of getting my money back if I decided to opt-out of the warranty for the-sake of the upgrade, We left it that she'd get a technical type to call me back, I got my call back from NEC that very afternoon.

But that's neither here nor there because it just ain't gonna happen for me. But it might

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happen for you. Despite my own unfortunate chip-mounting circumstance, this will be the ideal product for hordes of notebook users reluctant to retire their multi-thousand-dollar dinosaurmaddeningly slow as it might now be. The GB586NB-133 comes complete with a chip pulling tool (for LIF socketed CPUs) and

I had a problem: NEC used what's called a "four~ocr garrjei package" for mounting

even includes a US$40 rebate voucher to cover the cost of installation if you' re not quite up to the task yourself. All you have to supply is a notebook with a PGA CPU socket. Consult your manual. 0

the CPU in my Versa. In simple terms, that means it's soldered to the motherboard, never to be excised. In even simpler terms, that means I did all that swooning for nothing. Still, I wanted to know what was up so I called Gainbery and eventually talked with one of their technicians.

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A feeling of mission must motivate the person to go into business; the activity must have meaning.The mission may be to make an attractive prof'it, to sell some necessary and unique product or service, or to develop ideas or skills without the constraints of others' expectations.

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Rather than being content with reaching goals, successful entreprcnrurs continue setting new goals to challenge themselves. They sct clear goals that are challenging but attainajile, and continually re-evaluate and adjust goals to make sure they are consistent with their interests, talents ar>d values as well as personal or husir>ess needs,

Successful entrepreneurs have the ability to understand and interact weil with people o( varying personalities and values. T his is i m p o rtant vvhen dealing w i t h employees, bankers, investors, partners, suppliers, or customers and is reflected in characteristics such as sociability, consideration, cheerfulness, cooperation, and tact.

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calculated risks, and the ability to identify risks and weigh their relative dangers to achicvc goals that are high but realistic. This is contrary to the stereotype thai entrepreIlcurs are gamblersor high-risk takers — the risks involved are often moderate due to the amount of planning behind th em. Strong desire for independence They have a genuine desire to be their own ,boss, free from external direction and control, with a sincere willingness and proven ability to he self-disciplined in sometimes isolated working condition~. They are able to organize activities to reach personal goals, Successful entrepreneurs are not usually joiners by nature. They often join only to network: to make business contacts, further their ventures, or obtain

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It is unrealistic to sugg:st that all successful entrepreneurs possess all the traits outlined. Many of th e characteristics are interrelated and not ail are necessary for business success, so do not he overly concerned if you feel you do not possess every one of these qualities. The key question is how significant thc missir>g traits arc to your type of business and your business goals. You also have to fully identify and understand your personal strengths and weaknesses in the areas of management skills, product knowledge, and expertise.Once you have identified these areas, you are in a much better position to compensate for them by hiring employees, bringing in partners, or taking further training. 3

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the other program. However, the interface is much more functional and elegant. The model view shows us a series of four vertical columns and selecting one button displays the branches beneath it in the next column. The charts and graphs that can be selected to compare different items are very cool. For example, let us say that you are buying a I1ouse. You could input hundreds of particular details about each house„ if you were so inclined, and compare them as a total or in parts. A line chart of their differences would make it easily apparent where they differed. In this case you would not even be forced to set up the categories — Which Sr Why has already made up a model for comparing houses; just as they have for buying a company jet, choosing a university, deciding on a corporate relocation and about 100 other situations. If you do have to set up a model from scratch, the brainstorming utility will help you get moving in minutes. As well, once you enter various items that must be taken into consideration, you simply drag and drop them onto, or beside, each other to make the model. The Pairwise comparisons are very useful, allowing you to simply state that one thing is more important than another. As you go through all the details the software will keep track of which items are more important, and even by how much, before it makes a recommendation. Are some things a must? Fill out the Must Haves and it is done.

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DecisionMaker wants your business. Here is how it works. The program is based on using a branching tree where you enter decisions, known and unknown events and other information. After you have understood and set up a proper representation of the problem you must step through the tree and make educated guesses as to the likelihood of certain events happening, or a best, and worse, ase for each scenario. When yoi have done that, the software will analyze the data and choose an overall recommendation based on the data you entered. You can view the data as a chart, scatter graph or numerical tree. Also available is a risk-attitude tool which will allow you to select from a five-point scale ranging from Risk Seeking to Risk Adverse. This may alter the program's recommendation depending on how close the various scenarios are. I found the program to be useful for business scenarios, but it felt limited for other uses. Understanding the numerical rating system takes a bit of work, but it is logical when understood. There is good value here because of the

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ast time, we looked at just two of the hypertext markup language (HTML) tags

that are (or were) specific to Microsoft's Internet Explorer — the <MARQUEE> and

<BGSOUND> tags. This month, we are going to look at a few other Internet Explorer specific tags, that will help liven up the text and add some color to your tables. Font-o-raine

Netscape started using the <FONT> tag as an alternate way of changing the size of text without having to resort to using the

header (<Hl> ... <H6>) tags. Microsoft takes the idea of the <FONT> tag to its logical conclusion by specifying the specific font and color that appears on your Web page whe n v i e wed t h r o ug h I n t e r net Explorer. You can use Internet Explorer's extensions to the <FONT> tag to good effect to

emphasize particular sections of text on a Web page, Any font name will work, but it needs to be the actual name of the font installed on the user's system. There is no

way you can determine what fonts are resident on a user's system, therefore Microsoft has built in the ability to "cascade" several

Web authors to further emphasize their tables.

Using these extensions, you can align tables on a page, add a caption to a table, or change the background color of an individual cell.

Roman, Courier, (MS) Sans Serif and WingDings. The last one is not particularly helpful unless you want your page to display gibberish characters to anyone viewing it

with Internet Explorer You can also change the color of text by

That's not all though. By using BORDER-

<TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLSPACINGW CELLPADDINGW> <FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT> <frABLE>his sentence begins with a drop cap.

that in mind, you can create the following

code for a drop cap effect:

COLORLIGHT or BORDERCOLORDARK you can control the colors that are used to add the 3D effect to the frame of a cell. BORDERCOLORLIGHT is used to specify the 'highlight' color, and BORDERCOLORDARK is used for

the 'shadow' color. So in the following example:

background color, change the color and type of font:

separate <CAPTION> ... </CAPTION> pair of tags. You can place your caption above or

<TABLE BORDER BGCOLOR="BLUE" BORD ERCOLORDARK="NAVY" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="TEAL" > not only sets the background color of the table to blue, but by altering the highlight and shadow colors for the cell frames, maintains the blue tone even in the 3D border colors. With the release of Netscape Navigator

<TABLE BGCOLORAILVER ALIGN=LEFT CELLSPACING=O CELLPADDINGW> <TD><FONT FACE="HELVETICA, ARIAL" COLOR=FUCHSIA SIZE=+3>T <fI'ABLE>his sentence begins with a drop cap.

below the table by using VALIGN=TOP or VALIGN=BOTTOM respectively, and u se ALIGN=LEFT, RIGHT or CENTER to draw the caption flush left, right or centered with respect to the table. Note that this tag must be used in conjunction with a table. There are a number of color options that

can be used within tables. One is the BGCOLOR attribute, with which you can set the background color for a cell, row or the entire table by specifying the font color

using the hexadecimal rrggbb format, or by color name.

You can set an independent color for the separated by a comma, as in the following border by using the BORDERCOLOR attribute and specifying a color value for it. The folexample: <FONT F ACE="ARIAL, H K LVKTICA, lowing example shows a table with a teal background color, a yellow border, its first GENEVA, SWISS, SANS SERIF"></FONT> row marked in blue, and the cell containing Internet Explorer uses the first font it finds from the list that it locates on the user's the letter "E" in aqua:

that are reasonably universal: Arial, Times

tains a single cell for the drop letter. With

Using the AUGN attribute in conjunction with the initial <TABLE> tag, you can now display your tables on either side of your Web page. Use <TABLE ALIGN=LEFI' to have your table appear on the left side of the page, or <TABLE ALIGN=RIGHT> to have it appear on the other side. To add a caption to your table, use the

font names, by specifying multiple fonts

system. The example provided is a good example of common sans-serif fonts found on many different computing platforms, and will almost certainly find a match on Windows and Mac systems, There are about five different font types

<CAPTION

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have been adopted.

Future developments Capital dropping

There are still m ore tags that could be

One other nice touch you can add to the display of text on your Web page with Internet

Explorer tags is to add drop caps. A drop cap is when the first character of a paragraph is

larger than the rest of the paragraph, and its

Netscape Navigator was the first browser to incorporate tables, but Internet Explorer adds a few interesting extensions, which allow

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These and the characteristics of all of Internet

Many drop caps you see on Web pages are image files, but since images are generally

Meanwhile, the people at Microsoft are busy working on the next version of

loaded after text, you can end up with a Web page that seems to be missing the first letter

Internet Explorer. One of s ingle biggest

of its paragraphs, until the image finally loads, There is no <DROP CAP> tag in

Internet Explorer, but you can get the same effect by using a combination of the <FONT> and <TABLE> tags. The idea is to create a table aligned flush left which has no border and con-

changes you can expect to see in Internet Explorer 3.0 is support for cascading style sheets. These sheets provide an easy mechanism for adding layout and visual formatting information to a Web page, but will still provide a viewable Web document to a browser capable of understanding only strict HTML 2.0 tags and attributes.

You will be able to specify character styles (i.e. boldness, italics, alignment, and font size), select fonts, and set the color for both the text and the background color for

mat, or specify it by colorname. To display some san-serif text on a page in red, you could use the following:

Colorful tables

<AREA> tag used with image maps, fixing a watermark onto a page, setting the left margin for a page and several others Explorer's tags can be found on a handy document called the "Complete List of HTML Tags" at http://www.microsoft.corn/ie/author/htmlspec/i e20htmLhtm.

hexadecimal number in the usual rrggbb for-

black, silver, gray, white, maroon, red, purple, fuchsia, green, lime, olive, yellow, navy, blue, teal and aqua.

c overed in t hi s article, such as t h e

baseline extends below that of the first line of the paragraph, which also results in the second line (or more) of th e text being indented.

same way as the <BODY BGCOLOR> tagyou can either specify the font color using a

For the record, the 16 colomames are:

You can also add italic and/or bold tags to further emphasize the drop cap.

For more information on various ways to cre3.0, it is now possible to use BGCOLOR ate drop caps, seeRobert B. Hess'sexcellent Drop attribute in Netscape tables, but none of the Caps page at http: //www.microsoft.corn/intother Internet Explorer attributes seem to dev/author/dropcaps.htm

using the COLOR attribute. This works the

You can take things further and add a

individual elements on a page. You will also be able to display bitmap images beneath specific text, or control the vertical and h orizontal layout o f i n d i vidual page elements. Expect another article or two on this topic when Internet Explorer 3.0 is released. 0

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done painstakingly by hand. Then, Microsoft

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systems and Netscape. Java is a platform-independent deveiopment system that can be used

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ing their documents online in this format. • What HTML does for flat documents, VRML (virtual reality markup language) does for 3D. It sends coordinate information to a VRML browser, which then renders 3D poly-

a Microsoft Word document on someone' s Web page,and have a copy of the Word viewer on your machine, you can download the file and view the document, just as it would

applications and embed them in a Web site. Java promises to transform the Web into a global shared workspace. Microsoft and Netscape continue to add new features to their browsers for font support, and something

phone and chat services, are built-into the latest version of Netscape. • New plug-ins, like Macromedia Shockwave, allow for a multimedia authoring approach to site design, providing a more robust and flexible method of designing rich online material. • Many companies are working towards standalone network computers that have no operating system, but instead use Java and a Web browser to provide all functionality and

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5o how can Lumina sell a true MFP for $560 when everybody else wants $1,200 or more? The rejoinder says less about covert corporate cartels than good oi' American ingenuity. The Lumina people reasoned that most computer owners already have a printer. Chances are they' ve already been through the ringer of

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most of which is coded for your CD player. watchable and there are a full 90 snapshots to look at while listening to their Unfortunately, even Cranberry aficionados with only a modest taste/or multimedia very good music. Though tailored specifically to Cranberry are destined for disappointrrtent because that admirers, this reasonably priced disc might collective 10 minutes of video has been severely diced into a couple of dozen clips. draw others who simply enjoy an eclecuc And you don't have to have a calculator musical palate or even collectors of mayhandy to estimate the length of each at that become-obscure-and-worth-something memorabilia. rate. Despite my disappointment at the miniRegardless of that„doors and windows mal multimedia, this Cranberries disc is not a is chock full of the kinds of things that those with a h a nkering for Cranberries turkey. 0 will undoubtedly find appetizing. Those short clips o f p e rformances and back- Contact: Phiiips Media, Worldwide Plaza, 825 8th Ave., New York, N.Y., 10019. Tel: 212-333-1384. stage/tour bus activities are eminently

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Optimizing the desktop The Lumina is deceptively small and light, with three simple control panels and an LCD screen traversing the entire top/front panel. The raised buttons on all three of the Series 2000 control panels are well spaced and evoke a variety of "beeps" to acknowledge prestidigital success. And, lacking a printer engine, paper handling is through a single slot from the 30-sheet paper bin straight through to the front of the machine in a fashion identical to a standard, standalone fax (all other paper handling depends on your own printer). My Lumina carne bundled with Phoenix's Eclipse Fax software and a single diskette package for controlling the various functions through your computer. The press kit I received discusses the addition of an OCR package from Phoenix as well as an electron'ic file management application c alled Documagix PaperMaster SE, but these were

get your phone off the desk too. Overall, the Lumina Series 2000 MFP is well built and excellently conceived, though I'm not entirely enamored with the documentation or the aesthetics — this machine is unnecessarily plain. But at under $600, you certainly can't lose, unless you' re unhappy with your current printer and were planning on getting a new one. 0 Contact: Lumina Office Products, 265 Santa Ana Ct., Sunnydale. CA, 94086. Tel: 800-839-0143, 408-992-1088. Fax: 408-992-1090

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After the changes were complete and I selected "Exit," PM informed me that I had to reboot to enable the changes made to the partition table (the dialog comes up with a Reboot button to hit once you are ready to shut down). After rebooting, the first thing I did was run OSl2 from my beta-test partition, which came up just fine. In fact, other than the change in the free space on that partition, everything was exactly as I had left it. In this test drive of PM, I only covered about half of its capabilities, PM v2.0 is now a replacement for FDISK (the previous v1.0 did not duplicate any functions already

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URER6RUUPR ATTENTION USERGROUPS. Sendin your listing (maximum120characters) for the August issueby Monday.July 8, 1996.Submissionsrunfor onemonthonly in the local edition. TheComputer Paperreservesthe right not to print submissionswhicharedeemedunsuitable. ACM/SIGGAPH R Computer Graphics. 2nd Tuesday, at 201-1140 Homer St,Call TomBerryhill at 734-3976. ADAM OWNE RS! Varcouver Island Senior ADAMphiles (Visa): newsletter, meetings, supplies. Contact David Cobley, 417, 885 BerwickRoad,OualicumBeach. B.C.V9K1NT. (604) 752-1984. ALT.2600VANCOUVER USER GROUP. Meeting are 1st Friday of each month at Pacific Center Mall by payphones in FoodCourt. north ofDunsmuirat Granville4pmto gpm.Starts early to catchthe eveningshift 2600ers.Formore information contact Stevevia email at<sage@vanbc.viimsey.corn>or<sage@rainbow.descon.corn> AMIGAUSERGROUP (PaNorAmA) For meeting timesand place call :RayNorman 589-7199orRobertHardy 942-8364.BBS numbers 231-0363 or231-0364. APPLESB.C. COMPUTER SOCIETY. A User Groupfor Macintosh andAppl e lls.Macintoshmeetingsareon 3rdW ednesdayofeach month attheYork HouseSchool in Vancouverat7 p.m.Noviceand other special-interestgroupsareheld mid-month. Apple II meetings are on1st Mondayof eachmonth at 7 p.m. at the Century Housein NewWestminster. Forfurther inforcag437-9935 or 299-9597. ATARIUSERS! Vantari, P.O.Box3614 Main Post Office, Vancouver, B.C., VSB3Y6. Bill Sutherland 988-1450; Don Hatch 433-8055. Meets 2ndWed,7:30p.m.,HastingsComm. Ctr.,3096E.Hastings. B.C. EDIUSERGROUP. For more information call 532-S204(preferred), or voicemail 532-8219. B.C. INTERG RAPH USERS GROUP (BCIUG). Contact: II/like Barnes 528-1936(voice) or 528-2944(Fax)for info on nextmeeting. B.C. OPENSTEP GROUP. Regular monthly meetings focus on vari-

ous themes, for singleusers, corporateusersanddevelopersinthe Vancouverarea.NextSIepandOpenStepare thepreferred platform for rapiddevelopment. Formeetinginformation andemail servercall KevinHiebertat 264-1584or <khiebert@wimsey.corn>. B.C,REG IONAL USERSGROUPSOCIETY of Hewlett-Packard Users. For info, call DarenStatichuk at661-8753or BCRU Gat 661-8048. B.C.VAX/VMSLocal UsersGroup(BCVAXLUG) provides aforum for the professionalgrowthandeducation of its membersthrough the exchange of solutions, ideas, andopinions. Usergroupmeetings are heldthe3rdWedof everyother month at6:30 p.mand location to be advised.Forfurther info pleasecalf voicemail 2764966. BIG BLUE ANDCOUSINS.P.O.Box5309, Station 8, Victoria, VSR 664. Generalmeeting last Wednesday,7:30 p.m. at U. Vic.-Egiott Bldg., LectureTheatre 168.Also, special interest group meetings. 382-3934. CANADIANS ONCOMPUSERVE. Canadians around theworld and anyone interestedin things Canadian arejoining theCanadian issues section of TheIssuesforum on Compuserve. Lively discussions center aroundpolitics, society, customsand conflicts. Plus, there's agrowinglibrary of Canadianfiles. Go Issuesat any CompuServe prompt. Oial1-800-84S-S199for moreinfo. CIPS VAN COUVER SECTION. (Canada's largest Association for Computer Professionals), CIPSMembersenjoy unparalleled networkingandprofessional developmentopportunities at ourmonthly meetingsandspecial events. Discountsofferedfor student members. POBox20522, HoweSt, Vancouver.B.C.V6Z2NB.Phone (604) 681-2796or Fax(604) 689-1S79for next meeting date. CONSULTANTUSER GROUP. (Associated with the VancouverPC UserGroup).Educatesconsultants. Sharingof ideas. Businessside of being aconsultant. Meetingsarethe3rdThursdayof themonth, at the OakridgeLibrary, Meeting Room, 191 - 650 W41st Ave., Vancouver. Southwest comer of the mall next to the Valetor Cleaners,5:30pm.Free.Forfurther information call: Ritch.Net:4326554orsyv@infomatch.corn CORELARTISTSUSER GROUP.LastTuesdayofeverymonth,7:00 to 10:00 pm, at Kwantlen College in Richmond, BC. Monthly newsletter.Contact:BevHarcus, 533-5854. DATA-LI NK/USERS GROUP.Tel3214387.PC supportBBS:3218873 (24 hrservice), with specializedself-made BBSsoftware. The purpose ofthis Usergroupis toallow userstoget together forproblem solving,discussionof setupandto meetpeople. Gallbyvoice8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ONLY please. This group is dedicated to RoboBOARD by Seth Hamilton. Other BBSsoftware arewelcome. Membershipis free! FOXSOFT, EDMONTON'SFOXPRO USERS GROUP-secondTuesday, 7.00 p,m.,GrantMacEwan City Centre Campus, East Wing, Room C-137/C-135,10700-104Ave. Contact Ken Raynerat 4374L315or RobinStuartat460-3712 (days). Info Bulletins onBBS4574105. GENERIC CADD USERS GROUP.Contact:FrankZander(604)5828283. BBS: 2944)287 (9600n,8,1). HELP DESKINSTITUTELOCALCHAPTER. An organization providing training, education and a networking forum for Help Desk Professionals:Thosepeoplewho help computer users with hardware orsoftwareproblems. Formoreinformation onmemberships, pleasecall GaryTaylor at 665-0728or KarenYuenat 665-5799. INDEPENDENTCOMPUTER CONSULTANTS ASSOCIATION OF BC. The ICCA is anon-profit associationof consultantswhoprovideservices in thefield of Information Technology.Theobjectives of the ICCA are to provide aforum where consultants cannetwork with eachother,exchangeideas, andimprovetheir businessandcomputer skills. Monthlymeetingswith speakers. For further information contact us at: POBox 820. BentagStation, Vancouver, BCV6C 2N6 tel: 682-2747 fax: 681-0916 email: icca@mindlink.bc.ca / WWW:httpy/www,icca-bc.org/icca/ LOTUSNOTES. - see Pacific NotesUserGroup' MACWES T COMPUTERSOCIETY. Meetings for membersandvisitors include PDcopy sessions. Generalmeetings: 2ndWednesday of eachmonth;Beginner's meetings:3rdWednesdayof eachmonth. 7:30 p.m..Guildford Public Library,Surrey.Messagesandinformation at 268-9530. MS ACCESS TECHNICAL USER'S GROUP. For those whowant to participate inlearning moreabout MSAccess. For information cali Greg Hindat 4544)262,from 9:00to 5:00. NANUGS (Northern Alberta Novell Users GroupSociety) - meets quarterly attheCompuSmart store on MayfietdRoad,For information, pleasee-mail to nanugs@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca or phone Mike Brown(403)487-7666. OBJECTS USERSOCIETY. See British Columbia OpenStepGroup (B.C.O,G.), OPENSTE P USERSOCIETY (VNUS). SeeBritish ColumbiaOpenStep Group(B.C.O.G.).

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