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63 M aturity of Psion Series 3c hard to beat

Laptop computer use on airplanes takes off

eMate 300 is proclaimed by kids (and odultsjt to be 'King of Cool'

72 Wireless solutions for handhelds

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22 NEC MobllePro 400 A handheld RISC workstation?

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76 Putting your financial house in order Diagnose and leam about your finandal health

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Chosts of the past My home office is littered with the debris of past experiments. Regular readers of this column will support my claim that in these pages I have chronicled my. passion. Psions, Sharp Zauruses, H-P O m n iGo's, Windows CE devices, Pilots and numerous PC-based software solutions — I have tried them all. My most recent experiment was with the USR Pilot (C $429). I like this unit because it fits right into your pocket. It has great connectivity to a desktop, The downside is that you need to tie it to a real computer to get any productive data entry done. It does accept handwriting data entry through Graffiti, but has no optional keyboard for longer sessions away from the computer. This means dragging a full-sized notebook along to feed the thing. I tried one of the Windows CE handheld PCs (HPCs), and enjoyed the compactness of it, but was put off by the tiny keyboard. (Memo to USR and HPC makers: get an optional fuller-size keyboard happening for your units.) Besides, if I were to go that route, I would probably go back to the Psion, which is reaHy a great little unit. It does most things a Windows CE device does, but is a little smaller and more likely to fit into one' s pocket. Anotherissue isthatthe CE devices'battery life goes all to hell as soon as you plug PC card modems into them. We watched the battery charge drop to almost zero after about five min-

utes of modem use. The Psion uses an external modem with its own battery pack. Needs paralysis My needs this time round for a PDA are a little different. I am planning a trip with my family and I want to both travel light and stay connected. I wanted a decent keyboard for data entry and to be able to browse the Web. Good backlighting was important. Reading everything I could on the various devices, I thought that the Newton might be the ticket. My choices were to buy an older Newton MessagePad 130 for about $900 or the state of the art Newton 2000 for around $1,600. Apple also sells a rugged clamshell unit called the eMate, but only to schools. After looking at the specs, I went for the high end. The new Newton 2000 has a chip that runs five times faster than its predecessor and claims double the battery life. Hard to argue with that kind of improvement. Keyboard kludges and other design flaws Apple has done it again in its never-ending quest to recreate the computer universe. It is forever coming up with new kinds of ports. Instead of using the DB9 port that it has managed to make standard in the Apple world, the company createda new port,so— of courseyou have to use a highly losable, little dongleadapter to plug the keyboard or serial cable into the unit. Not all the applications for Newton are what you would call excellently designed, but there are usually a couple of competing products to choose from. People looking for a power spreadsheet will be disappointed with the Newton Works application shipping with the unit. In our spreadsheet tests, it was very slow. This

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Online hen!sing convenient? Mot quite Regarding the article on PC Banking I"Banking from home" in the April '97 issue), I have been using the Canada Trust, TD and Royal systems smce their inception and the Royal is not exactly my number one choice. Although the concept is good, with the Managing Your Money combination, when it comes tn the actual operation of the program it does not quite measure up. For example, everything in the Royal system Ls geared to the client card number. If you are running a small business, even if it's frnm home, according to the bank you need a business client card. That means you now have to have two completely separate datasets even though the handbook says you can set up a dataset for home, business, or home and business. So now you have to make two separate connections and two downloads to update your accounts. If for any reason you have to change your client card, you guessed it, new dataset! I moved my accounts from the West to Ontario so the division code tone digit) on my client card

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make two separate online connections to download iny updates! One other glitch appears to be v>tth U5. funds. According to the handbook, on a U.S.dollar account not only can you access the account, but you can show it in U.S. dollarssimply by including theletters "USD" in the account name. However, the Royal system is not designed to handle U.S. dollar accounts and you cannot retrieve any information. I realize that PC banking is just getting started here, but these problems are fundamental and considering the time it took before the Royal was ready,you would have thought they would have

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Arid another )umps IrI I'd like to point out a few things about the letter you entitled "Apple nnt dead, etc." First, Apple registered huge losses even with those huge market shares. A company can't survive with losses, no matter what its sales. Second, the older 1998data could well have changed drastically by now. Third. Apple is not the Macintosh. This is a very important point, which is often missed. The implications are: A, Even if the Mac survives, Apple may not. B. Measuring user satisfaction by repeat purchase is not quite the same thing on an Apple as it is on a PC platform, and won't be until the cloners take a large chunk of Apple's share. A PC user can buy froin many different vendors without sacrificing compatibility. Up until recently, a Mac user could only buy from Apple. I' ll wait tn see what Apple's repeat customer base is like in 1999 before I form an opinion of customer satisfaction. I would like to point nut that Rhapsody is scheduled for mid 1998, not "late 1997 or early 1998". While I don't think Apple has a chance of going bankrupt (itql probably be bought out long before that happens even if they don't reverse their huge losses and start making a profit), I don't think Apple has a chance of keeping even &0 percent of the Mac market for long. Michael Lewchuk, v>a email (Ba<kground: Mr. Firth gatthis debate going with a letterto the editor e><titled "Long live Macclones" which appeared in our April 97 issue.ln it, Mr. Firth said Apple'sdecision to buy NeXT and ta base theli<lure Mac OS an NeXT (« iu<olog> was "the last nail in Apple'scagn," and the finer< af (lie Macintosh (a> with the Mac <'lone vendors. Mr. Bushell responded ta that ln <>urMay 97 issue willi a letter entitled "Apple »ar dead, repeat,Iuir dead."l

Do in4)etsfade from under use? I am very interested in buying the Epson Stylus 500 printer after reading your review of color deskjet printers in the Nnv. 96 issue. However, I cannnt nnt find this model in any ads. There are 400, 600 and 800 m<xlels. Do you know if the S00 has been

replaced by one of these other models? Also, I know my color printing will be very limited. Could the color cartridges dry up from too little use? The article mentions that these cartridges go from $3S to $60? Are there significant price differences on the make of printer? Stephen St. Denis, via email DT replies: The Stylus 500wasintra<breedin August '96, and as you suspected,has been replaced by the Slyhis400. According t<> Epson Canada, the Stylus 400 ls slightly less expensive,while being slightly foster. lt will also print720x720dpi on plain paper, whereas the Stylus 500 required special,coatedpaper (moreexpensive! tn print at that resolution. The 400 includes(lie sanie so/hvare biindle thatwasinch<dedwith the 500.

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"Compaq is building products to order, rather than building to forecast — we will build and ship standard products within one to five days of receiving an actual customer order," he explained. "Build to order reduces the need to have weeks of inventory in the channel.. Customers and channel partners will reap the benefits of lower prices, greater product availabihty and more predictable delivery." The second key element in this retooling is Compaq's plans to offer custom configuration of its products — which allow either its "channel partners" (including distributors, dealers and resellers) to custom configure products for customers or Compaq itself to do the custom configurations directly. While some of Compaq's rivals do offer such a ser-

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tually pioneered the whole portable computing market and once held a vice-like grip on it. "We are dedicated to re-establishing ourselves as number one in portables,'" he said. Winkler said that since the introduction of an earlier range of value-priced notebook computers last summer, the company has already made some strides in regaining market share — claiming a number one position in recent market surveys of $3,000-plus notebook computers (which are primarily those used in business and by corporations). The new Armada 1500 machines come in three models and offer a choice of Intel's Mobile Pentium Processors in either 120 MHz or 133 MHz; 16 MB of RAM (expandable to 80 MB) and either a 11.3-inch color passive matrix or a 12.1-inch color active matrix display. Also included in these machines are either lithium-ion or enhanced smart nickel metal hydride batteries, two Type ll or one Type III CardBus PC Card slots, four user-programmable keys and a touchpad-style pointing device. All models include an integrated 10x CD-ROM drive, an integrated 33.6Kbps data/faxmodem, and sound capability. ln recognition of the fact that many corp orate customers have no t m o ved t o Microsoft's Windows 95 computer operating system and are instead opting for the newer Windows NT 4.0 operating system, Compaq has pre-installed both operating systems on the Armada 1500 and users may choose between them. One option not currently available on these lower-priced systems, however, is Intel's new MMX multimedia computer processor. Compaq is protnising it will introduce an Armada 1500 notebook early in the third

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the Internet. And this year, airlines are starting to offer in-seat power sources for notebook computers so that passengers don' t find themselves running out o f b attery power in mid-flight. Meanwhile, the pre-flight and post-flight

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facilities at airports have been trying to keep ing from early laptop systems. It soon become pace.Businesscentres have sprung up atair- Preflight checklist clear that this was not a major worry and lap- ports all over the world offering services for For many, however, the prime issues around top computers, initially in the form of modest notebook computer users—and recently even air travel and technology will hit home once systems like the Tandy Model 100, were cleared for take-off. Then came the on-board phone from companies such as GTE Airfone, which first allowed passengers to make those urgent last-minute calls to the office and later allowed full data communications to fax machines, corporate computer networks and

Internetwonnected terminals with built-in Web browsers. Last year, Virgin Atlantic also recognized that not everyone wants to use technology to work — at least not until they are stuck onboard the plane. At the airline's "Virgin Clubhouse" at Heathrow (for its first class passengers), it installed a Namco "Alpine Racer"

they start trying to use their notebook computers on the plane. Whether the ride is a half-hour hop or an eight-hour slog over the Atlantic, the name of the game will be to try and accomplish all those things that fall into the category of "I' ll do it on the plane." Continued onpage 62

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er desktop versions of the software. Pocket Word outline mode works well, as do the font styles and sizes. Some document graphics are supported, but there is no spell checker, The Pocket Excel spreadsheet handles 3D "books" but doesn't make graphs, and some functions

MobilePro 400 — using the 33 MHz NEC Vr 4104 RISC — is the first handheld to use a CPU based on a design (MIPS R-4000) that has actually been used in recent workstations. On the other hand, that same experience leads the company in the direction of choosing a relatively safe Microsoft software base. WinCE is supposed to be the "Windows you already know" in a smaller package. But there are two furictional problems with it. First, there are differences that are at times minor irritations and sometimes worse; and second, sometimes "Windows-like" is simply not appropriate. Moreover, it's not the established Windows. You can't run your desktop Windows programs on these handhelds — not yet, anyway:

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quate applications, comparable to, but not better than, the competitors. The Pocket internet Explorer 1.0 Web browser included on the CD-ROM gives minimal functionality, including still graphics, but no caching (athough Version 1.1, which does offer caching, is available for downloading). Even with a better Web browser, there isn't enough room for adequate caching and the cost of PC Card memory is very high for use in this way. Email is a more practical Internet duty on the Mobi)epro 400 and 200.

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ble-hinged plate that protects the LCD display when your Newton is not in use. When you unlatch it, it conveniently swings to the back of the unit and snaps into place. It can also be removed. The MessagePad 2000 is powered by four AA alkaline batteries, which will give you anywhere between three to six weeks of intermittent use, There are also the options of alkaline rechargeables or a n i ckel-metal hydride (NiMH) pack. The LCD panel is noticeably larger and has a higher resolution than in its predecessors. The 480x320 pixel, 14.9 cm (5.9-inch) display has a resolution of 100 dots per inch and is capable of displaying 16 levels of gray. It also has a backlight that you can use at your discretion.

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M essagePad, and itworked fl awlessly. I only have a few criticisms of this unit: the LCD screen, even with backlighting, is difficult to see in extreme lighting conditions; the aluminum touch-screen pen should have a rubber grip as it's sometimes difficult to grasp in dry conditions; and it takes a bit of getting used to writing on the slippery screen surface. If Apple could make the experience more like writing on paper it would be a great advance.

summary At a mere 675 g (1.5 lb.) with batteries, it is arguable that the Newton MessagePad 2000 is the most powerful and sophisticated handheld computer in the mainstream market today. It is ideally suited to situations where mobility and ease of data entry are of

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hy on earth would anyone want to buy a notebook? Generally, they"re expensive, cumbersome, relatively slow (compared to a desktop PC with the same processor) and more difficult to upgrade. They have small keyboards, and even smaller display screens. Yet, notebooks remain an indispensable item for many mobile professionals. Notebook users tend to fall into three categories: • Fi rst are marketing professionals who use notebooks for off-site presentations. These people are selling ideas by using their notebook's multimedia capabilities to wow an audience. • Second are the remote professionals. For these users, the office has no walls. Today, notebooks are found in some of the most rugged environments, from construction yards to swamps. • Th ird are general mobile professionals, who take their work home or to the boardroom. For them, their notebook must be a desktop replacement. Fortunately, there are systems to suit all needs. The notebook market has fragmented into severalniche markets,each vying for an increasingly specialized audience. Each niche places greater or lesser emphasis on the following characteristics: mobility, durability, and multimedia functionality. For example, general

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Processors One exciting development is the use of leading-edge chips in mobile systents. In the past, there was a significant lag in the movement of high-end chips from desktop to notebook systems. However, the systems we reviewed this month are sporting the latest MMX-enhanced chips with clock speeds of up to 200 MHz. Both heat and power requirements influ-

ence designers' decisions on what processor to use in a mobile system. Faster chips require more power and cooling mechanisms. ln notebooks, electricity is a particularly scarce resource. lt takes time for chip manufacturers to effectively redesign their latest chips to make them smaller and less power demanding. The end result is a slower pace in notebook

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Readers will note some of this month's manufacturers didn't wait for the mobiie version of the processors. They have included 200 MHz desktop processor chips in their mobile mobile and marketing professionals are likely systems. At present, Intel only makes a 150 to have a wall socket nearby when the system MHz and 166 MHz version of its mobile MMX is up and running. Therefore, concerns such as chip, These chips operate at 2.45 volts whereas maximum battery life are a lower priority. the desktop variety operate at 2.8 volts. The As with all systems, the quality of note- Tower voltage means longer battery fife and less books is defined by four elements: memory heat dissipation. structure, processor power, display screen and By including a regular desktop chip in their component integration. machines, some of our lab participants are tryThis month we reviewed the extreme high ing to avoid the trade off between miniaturizaend of the notebook market. These notebooks tion and processor speed. However, the trade are loaded with all the latest features, and then off doesn't disappear; it simply shifts.

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there is a Catch-22 to power supply. The more effective the battery, the more gadgets manufacturers cram into the machines. For example, the inclusion of a 200 MHz MMX desktop chip and its required cooling fan will drain the system's batteries at a greater rate.

Storage Processor and processor-enabling technologies are not the only advances in this round up of notebooks. Storage and connectivity devices of all kinds are appearing in notebooks. Storage capacity is no longer an issue for these top-of-the-line systems. Hard drives designed for notebooks have grown in capacity and' continue to be more compact. A 2.1 GB hard drive is standard in this month's round up, with one particulat modei sporting a 3.1 GB drive. Several systems offer space for an additionai internal hard drive. Again buyers should be aware that hard drives designed for mobile systems are much slower than their desktop cousins. This is due to a mmbination of compact system integration, slower transfer rates, lower spindle rates and higher access times. This is a key reason why a typical desktop machine will almost always outperform a similarly configured notebook. ln addition to hard drive improvements, this month's tested notebooks have some of the most up-to-date storage features, like 10x CD-ROM drives, and PD (phase change dual) drives, which have only recently appeared in desktop systems.

key factor should consider forgoing the fancy display and investing in other mmponents. Batteries Today's notebooks feature significant Ixests in power supply. Much of the improvement has come from the adoption of lithium ion batteries. These batteries are far superior to their nickel-metal hydride predecessors. Unfortunately,

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Conti mrerf frompage 34 Some of these machines include internal modems, thereby saving you a PC card slot. For many users, their mobile computer needs to seamlessly integrate into their office environment. Notebooks need to access systemwide resources, moving from client to standalone status at a moment's notice. Other remote users need to keep in constant contact with their home base. These users are typical-

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internet or direct links. There is a misconception that PCMCIA cards are handy but limited by low performance. However, several manufacturers have introduced cards with the latest features. At Comdex Japan, TDK introduced both ISDN and 56Kbps PCMCIA network cards. US Robotics has also announced its intention t o shi p 56 K b p s ca r d s. Unfortunately, purchasers will pay through the nose for this premium technology, at least initially.

Component integration The key variable in determining the quality of notebooks is component integration. The fastest processor in the world will be next to useless if the system's hard drive is of poor design. The widest active matrix screen wiB fail to impress if the system lacks a quality video subsystem. Our Editors' Choice systems are those with the best holistic designs. The tests

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they would consider their current "topwf-theline" notebook. To some, this meant a 133 MHz machine, while others quickly jumped at the chance to send their latest 200 MHz MMX systems loaded with 64 MB of RAM and enormous hard drives. Our benchmark suite was run on each machine at a resolution of 800x600, with a 16-bit color depth, or 65,536 colors. To minimize the possibility of system crashes and inconsistencies, each notebook's power savings features were disabled, and all of the systems were tested using their AC adapters.

Angel $800 Performer Plus A new contender to this month's Test Lab is t hi s 5800 Performer Plus note

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a removable 240 MB Fujitsu MO (magneto optical) drive. The unit has an estimated street price of $6,100 and comes with a one-year parts and three-year labor warranty. KTX 880 The KTX 880 is a model we tested back in January of this year. However, there are some changes in its configuration for this month's tests. The unit is powered by a 133 MHz processor, 256KB ofLevel2 cache and 40 MB of RAM, expandable to a total of 80 MB. The hard drive differs sflghtly, this time being 1.3 GB in size. KTX notebooks are distributed in various cities worldwide by Edge Wholesale. The model 880, as configured for

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this month's survey. Although some may wonder how a 166 MHz MMX machine can outperform a similarly configured 200 MHz model, the answer lies in tight integration, and the use of the highest-quality components. In the game of raw performance, everything counts. Whether it's the type of RAM, the make of the hard drive, the type of video accelerator and especially the construction and layout of the motherboard itself, they all play a crucial role in separating the good from the best, NEC seems to have found the perfect combination, as can be seen from their 6200MX. If you want a notebook that has it ail and then some, get the Versa 6200MX.

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expected, the im ageswere very sharp with spectacular color at resolutions up to 1,024x768. To round out the system, Toshiba has included a built-in 28.8Kbps faxmodem and built-in microphone. Performance was good, with a score of 123, but had the machine been equipped with 32 MB of RAM or more, that number would no doubt be higher. The Tecra 740CDT is priced at $9,679 and comes with a three-year warranty. Ultlnet

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very effective if properly targeted. A larger ad does not always bring in a greater response. You may want to test the market by placing classified ads in selected community or daily newspapers, and tracking the response. You may then want to test a display ad in those newspapers that produced a good response.

(o-operative advertising with suppilers QMany manufacturers and suppliers will pay for a portion of your ad if you use their name or logo in some way in your ad or other marketing promotion. Do your research and talk to your suppliers and their suppliers. The savings to you could be 50 percent or more.

Teaching courses and seminars • Teaching adult education classes is an effective way to make business contacts, meet prospective customers, obtain public exposure, and enhance your reputation as a credible expert in your business. In addition to being paid, teaching also has the fringe benefit of keeping you current in your areas of interest. Contact the continuing or adult education . program coordinators of s chool boards, colleges and universities in your area. If you don't feel comfortable speaking in public and want to develop that skill, you can take courses through school board or college adult education programs and/or join a local chapter of Toastmasters, Before you decide what forms of marketing to consider and the time, energy and financial resources you wish to commit, make sure you do a marketing plan in writing that

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help this cause, the 3400c has a 256KB Level-2 cache, which is supplemented by 16 MB (expandable to 144 MB) of 128-bit fast interleaved EDO RAM. A 12 x CD-ROM drive and 3GB fast ATA hard drive help the cause even further. An accelerated video circuit was added to drive a bright 12.1-inch SVGA active matrix screen in thousands of colors. And it's all interconnected by a 64-bit PCI bus.

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The case design of the 3400c is distinctly different from the 14Mc model. Apple decided to throw in more smooth curves and give it a more "muscular" look than the squarish 1400 design. There are two raised speaker grilles on the cover that house pseudo sub-woofers in addition to two smaller speakers at the top of the keyboard. This four-speaker system offers the best sound I' ve heard on a portable model, but audiophiles will still prefer to use the 16-bit/44 KHz audi+nut jack to their stereo. An integrated microphone enables sound recording or the utilization of Apple's speech recognition software. Below the middle of the screen are two convenient slider controls for volume and brightness. The 3400c shares the same great full-spaced keyboard and precise trackpad as the 1400c. A single lithium ion battery provides two to four hours of use on a single charge and recharges in a couple of hours. One drawback to the 3400c is that it's not

Today's 603e's running at 300 MHz only dissipates 3.5 watts and occupies a die size of 42 sq. mm. On the other hand, a 160 MHz MMX Pentiurn dissipates 8 watts and occupies a die size of 141 sq. mm. The PowerPC architecture has some obvious advantages when it comes to portable design. But clock speed is wasted unless the subsystems surrounding the CPU are optimized, To

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The PowerBook 3400c/240 admirably fulfills the objective of desktop performance in a portable design. It is a scintillating "road rocket'" that is indisputably the performance champion of the portable market. Although its sticker price is beyond the justification of most mere mortals, its pricing is in line with the top offerings from IBM and Compaq whose models only run at 166 MHz. If your are involved with high-end multimedia presentations or demanding applications in science and engineering (or if you have

Expansion There's lots of expansion ports on this baby. A clever i n n ovation i s a comb i n ation Ethernet/33.6Kbps faxmodem port that can be accessed simultaneously. Add to that two PC card slots for support of Type I, II and III cards (with the bottom slot supporting "zoom video," a method for displaying full screen

videoon externaldisplays). There is also an external VGA monitor port to hook into a second display. It only supports video-minoring and not the tiled video capability that Mac users have become accustomed to.

The CD-ROM and floppy drive modules are designed to be hot-swappable, something you don't want to try on a PC. To round out your selection is the standard fare of wireless IrDA, SCSI and ADB. The 3400c ships with software similar to the 1400c with the exception that Mac OS

a lot of cash burning a hole in your pocket), then this model will make sense for you. The pure exhilaration of experiencing this unit makes one give serious consideration to abandoning a desktop model altogether. Kith the low-power 300 MHz (and beyond) PowerPC 750 (G3) slated for release in desktops and notebooks this summer, it appears that Apple will have a lock on the ultra-high performance portable market well into the future. 0 Peter Milbum is a consultant with Elite SystemsSupport located in Calgary, Alta. Hecan be reached on the

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In Ivlode 1, which includes error-correction data and is the common format for CD-ROM data, Panasonic claimed the drives can transfer 3,600KB of data per second. In Mode 2, which lacks error correction and is usually used for Photo CD, video, and CD-Interactive (CD-I), the maximum throughput is 4,104KB, the company said. Company spokesman Tom Kivett says the two new models are essentially the same except they support the connection/interface types indicated by t h eir n ames — the LK-MC686BP EIDE/ATAPI and the the LK-MC606BP SCSI. Both models are for Intel-based PCs. Panasonic does not have a 24x madel for use with Macintosh OS systems, Kivett said. The new drives support CD-ROM, CD-Audio, Photo CD, CD-Recordable (CD-R), and CD-ReadWrite (CD-RW) formats. They also support CD-I and Video CD, but only with the addition of a Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) board or software, which is not included or offered as an option with the drives, but can be bought separately fromvarious suppliers. Both drives can be mounted either vertically or h orizontally, Panasonic said. Estimated street prices are US$199 for the EIDE/ATAPI model and US$209 for the SCSI model, the company said.—Gmnr Buckler

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ISIN Canada hecomes technology partner utlth Chinese Canadian community • Canada's Chinese business community has developed a strong presence in the PC market, mainly selling budget-priced "clones," so it comes as a bit of a surprise to leam that Big Bluehasbecome a participant in the most ambitious Chinese Canadian cultural project to date. On April 24, IBM Canada and the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto (CCC) announced a technology partnership, which will see IBM engage in a longterm commitment to the development of North America's largest Chinese cultural centre, to be c onstructed in M e tro Toronto's City o f Scarborough. Don Myles, vice-president and general manager of IBM Canada's Channeh M and Personal Systems said, "IBM Canada recognizes that our country is a diverse society and are pleased to support the Canadian Chinese community. In February we opened our first IBM Home Computing store dedicated to serving the particular needs of Chinese Canadians. We are pleased today to further demonstrate our conimitment by investing in the Chinese Cultural Centre as. their exclusive technology supplier." Plans for the centre include state-of-the-art videoconferencing and Internet and intranet facilities that will help link the centre to other Contact: Kodak,Tel:800-465-6325 or416-766-&m. Web site: http: //www.kodak.corn parts of Canada and Asia. Ming-Tat Cheung, chair of the CCC, said, NAs we enter a new millennium, we believe state-of-the-art technology is the best tool to preserve and promote invaluable Chinese culture to Canadians and to the world. IBM is a logical choice in such a technology partnership because the company has the most experience in a wide spectrum of information technology. Their International network and diversified expertise will help us build a strong information system that can be linked to other cultural centres around the world." Aside from being a good Canadian corporate citizen with this partnership, IBM has probCO-ROM speed Jumps asaln with Panasonlc ably made a shrewd strategic move, both to announcement e SECAUCUS, N.J. (NB) — CD- raise its profile in the Chinese Canadian busiROM drives just keep getting faster. Panasonic ness community, and, through the CCC's links Computer Peripheral Co., a unit of Matsushita to China and overseas Chinese communities, to Electric Industrial Co., has announced two 24x bolster its international brand recognition and models. The 24x figure means the drives are 24 reputation.—fE times as fast as the first CD-ROM drives that were Contact: IBM Canada,Tsl: 905-316-3902. Wgbsite: introduced. To date the market has seen 2x, 4x, http: //www.ibm.corn &x, 12x, and 16x models. Chinass Cuitutai Centre, Tel: 416-927-9377.

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Contact: Acer, Tel: 905-712-7900. Web site: http: //www.acer.corn.aac/ Corel sells CD Home Collection multimedia software line • Ottawa-based Corel Corp. has announced the sale of its Corel CD Home Collection line to L Hoffmann + Associates Inc., a Toronto-based publisher of interactive CD-ROMs. The line includes a popular movie guide, and a verderangeof fami)oriented "edu tainment" titles. Corel founder and chief executive officer, Michael Cowpland, says the sale is in linewith the company's strategy "to move forward in pursuing our interests in the held of productivity application and graphics software and the vast

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opportunities presented by the Java-based operating system. We are confident Hoffmann + Associates will lead the Corel CD Home Collection to continued success while enabling us to place better focus on our flagship Corel WordPerfect and CnrelDRAW products." Under the terms of the deal, Hoffmann will pay Corel $1 million cash and a royalty fee on future sales of the former Corel titles. As well, Corel will retain a minority interest in Hoffmann, and will continue to sell CD Home titles through its online shopping centre, Corel Galleria, and will cooperate with Hoffmann in developing sales through Corel's established channels. I. Hoffmann + Associates is a long-established Canadian (.D-ROM publisher, noted especially for children's titles. According to founder Isabel Hoffmann, "over the years we have worked closely with Corel and have developed a great affinity

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Intelfaces cash crlslt u makes too much money • Intel Corp. has announced its financial results for the first quarter nf 1997, and its main problem would seem to be finding rental space to store all the extra cash that keeps pouring in. Gross revenue for the quarter was US$6 4 billion, up 39 percent from the same period in 1996. Net income was almost US$2 billion, a 116 percent increase over the previous year. According to Intel, "revenue andearnings per share both set new records driven by higher demand for the company's most advanmI processors, the Pentium processor with MMX media enhancement technology and the Pentiuns Pro processor," Competing PC processor makers, such as Motorola, Cyrix and AMD, cannot assume that intel's prosperity will be a flash in the pan. Intel has been investing its profits in a vast and aggressive research and development program to create even more powerful generations of processors. In 1997 Intel plans to spend $2.4 hiffion on research and development, and capital investments (mainly chip fabrication plants) of $4.5 billion. Intel chief executive officer Andy Grove claims, "1997 will be a year of major product transitions for InteL,. In May, we plan to introduce the Pentium II processor, the next dna[or step in computing. As we shift to these more powerful processors, our challeng», as always, will be to add manufacturing capac-

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touted as the Next Big Thing in computing, which, along with improved networking technology, w(ll break the dominance of the MS Windows/Intel alliance on the desktop. Yet, according to recent claims by Intel Corp., the best hardware platform to run Java applications on may be.. .an Intel-based PC. On April 16, Intel released test results that show the Java programming language runs best on intel Architecture processors. The results, obtained w i t h the ind u stry s t andard CaffeineMark benchmark software by Pendragon Software, indirated that a 100 MHz-based Pentium PC system ran Java software at I,S to two times the speed of systems based on other vendors' processors, according to Intel. In a press release, intel claims. "The findings are expected to be welcome news to customers at two levels. Computer users, who have made Intel processors the most widely used processors in the world, can continue working and playing on Intel-based products, confident that they' re seeing top performance from Java applications. Application developers, who have embrared Java as a means of adding excitement to their products, can rreate innavative new software knowing it can reach the largest cadre of computing customers." At a presentation at the Innovate '97 Conference in Houston in early April, Andy Grove, chief executive officer of Intel, demonstrated a prototype of a Network PC (or Net PC — a computing platform defined by Intel and Microsoft to provide (avast computing systems in netwarked environments), based on a 233 MHz Pentium (I processor, which ran the Core( Office for Java program side by side with a Sun Microsystems JavaStation also running the Core( Office for Java. The Intel Net PC was said ta have had visibly faster performanre than the Sun computer. Intel claims Java performance on intel systems will continue to increase, as Intel "tunes" and optimizes the Java virtual machine. "Java syst em performance, as m easured by t h e CaffeineMark, often depends more on the Java virtual machine software than on the hardware. Due to the intense competition in the Java compiler market for Windows PCs, today's fastest implementations of Java run on the Intel arrhitecture," says Ivan Phillips, president of Pendragon Software Corp. The Jmw Perfunumrcewhite paper describing the benchmark results in more detail is available from both Intel and Pendragon Software's Web sites.— JE

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Pslcttt Series 3c From: Psion Dimensions: 16.5x8.5x2.2 cm (6.5x3.3x0,9 in.) Weight: 275 g (9.7 oz) with batteries Processor: NECV30H. 7.68 Mhz Keyboard: 58 keys plus nine touch-sensitive buttons Price: S899.99 (with 2MB RAMand backlit display)

hile there is a lot to be said for handheld computers that bear the Microsoft Wi ndows CE l abel, sometimes labels don't tell the whole story. They don' t, for example, say much about the experience that the manufacturer behind the Windows CE label has in actually producing useful and productive handheld computers for the average person. That's why some users may want to look beyond the Windows CE machines when considering the purchase of a handheld computer. inexperience is not a description that could be laid at the feet of Britain's Psion Plc., the makers of Europe's long-standing most popular handheld computer range, the Psion Series 3. The Series 3 was first u nveiled in 1 990 an d w a s so named because it represented the third series of handheld computers I'sion had designed since 1984. The latest Series 3 model, the Series 3c, was unveiled late last year and compares pretty favorably to anything you' ll find on a Windows CE system. It p r ovides an onboard spreadsheet that is more powerful than Pocket Excel (yet can be transferred to a desktop PC in Excel format), and a wordprocessor that offers a lot more than Pocket Word (including the same file format transfer capabilities, along with a built-in thesaurus and spell check). There are also the address book and time management applications that you would expect on such a machine, along with a game, T he real joy o f w o r k ing w it h t h i s machine is that you get a true sense of the maturity of both the onboard software and the design ofthe machine. Psion uses a s imple — but e f fective — keyboard a n d menu-driven interface with all its applications, so there is no messing around with trying to issue pen-based commands to the screen. In fact, the great thing about the Psion, overall, is that everything works as you would expect it to. Using the PC file transfer software package that you can buy with the machine, all the files move over to the PC and open in PC applications properly. And there's even a Windows version of the addressbook enclosed so you can do allof your data entry on the I'C and then transfer it to the Psion. S torage is p rovided either vi a t h e onboard 2 MB of RAM or via Psion Solid

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feedingFrench francs, into the pay phone as my friends sipped cafe au lait and enjoyed fresh morning croissants. In those days it wasalmost inevitably faster and cheaper to dictate my copy to some kind soul at the other end of the phone. Now fast forward to the summer of 1995 when I took possession of a Motorola cellular "flip phone" and an EpsonPCCard cellular modem at my home office in Vancouver. Using these pocket-sized devices alongside my notebook computer,a whole bunch of things became possible. Soon I was surfing the Internet from the comfort of my local coffee shop, filing stories while watching my daughter at her skating lesson — and even sending a fax from the beach. And it was all a lot more painless and hassle-free than ever before. There were still a number of issues to watch (which I' ll get to), but the overall experience was quite liberating, meaning that I could count on being able to file stories and send information wirelessly

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to make sure you have a dear and clean connection from where you are calling. So before making any data calls, try making a voice call to someone, even if it is just to the operator. If the line is scratchy or reception poor, you may want to reposition your antenna before making your data call. The second tip is to make sure that you know the order in which things need to be switched on. In my system, for example, the computerand modem had to be powered up before I switched on my mobile phone. Thirdly, you should think about which numbers you need to call before setthng on this solution. In my situation, I did experience some frustration in being unable to directorial calls to the United Kingdom from my cellphone with my account with BC Tel Mobility (the local cellphone service provider).

as CSM) last summer in the V.K.. • .. And this did mean that I was unable to file stories directly to customers at their access numbers in the U.K. un/ess Iwaswilling to put up a deposit in the region of $1,000 against the potential overseas long distance charges I might incur, Instead, I use my BC Tel calling card to make operator-assisted voice calls to the U.K. and wait until I can connect to a land line to send any stories that need to go directly to a U,K. telephone number. Finally, I was also unhappy about the fact that incoming calls incurred charges on my account — asituation that is pretty universal throughaut North American mobile phone systems. This made me reluctant to give out my cellphone number — particularly to anyone out of area — as all incoining calls were charged at the highest rate (as they were not made with the use of my discount calling plan). Jurnp now to May and June of 1996 when I decided to do a first-hand comparison of U.K. and North Atnerican wireless data offerings. I spent three weeks in the U.K. doing research for some stories, visiting with editors and filing some stories For the duration of the visit, I made arrange-

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Io tiara aIloctor oaboartl? 1'echnology could also soon be helping peopl who get sick while travelling by air. A European Union project is under way t~ test the viability of in-flight confererning for telemedicine. The multi-million dollar project is an off-shoot of an ongoing t h ree-year EU p r oject c alled "Hermes" and involves a four-party consortium: Oxford University, SITA (Societe

Internationale de Teiecommunications Aeronautiques), Hea l t h skills , an d Huntleigh Diagnostics. 'I'he consortium m embers recently announced that they are close to starting trials for what they say will be the world' s first commercially available telemedicine service to allow medical experts on the g round t o m o n i to r t h e c o n d ition o f patients in-flight, at any time and anywhere in the world.

I nitially, the consortium says it w i l l focus on "providing effective, expert medical diagnosis and advice" should a passenger become ill during a flight. I'urther, it suggests the service could have major implications for airline passengers who previously would have been unable to travel as health insurance may not have covered them. The consortium says in-flight medical diagnosis using telemedicine will involve

use of a p o r t able m o n i toring d evice (which will be stowed on board the aircraft) in conjunction with a communication link to a ground-based medical facility. The patients "vital signs," such as oxygen saturation, temperature, blood pressure and those generated by an ECG, will be monitored continuously and the inform ation transmitted in r eal t ime t o a n appropriate m e dical e x p er t o n th e ground.— G W

The PCS experience Couriuued fino> pnge68 ments to make use of a Digital Equipment Corporation HiNote Ultra notebook computer with CD-ROM and sound capabilities, alongside a M e r cury C o m munications Mobile Services DataMotion data transfer package with Nokia data card and connection and a Nokia 2110 GSM mobile phone. The computer came first and it was a lightweight, but surprisingly powerful, little beast that easily allowed me to install my applications and data from the CD-l(OMs I had brought with me. 1'hen came the DataMotion kit, which gave me my first real experience of

modern wireless digital data communications over the European GSls1 network (which has the benefit of greater digital capabilities than most North American cellular networks, which are still largely analog). 1'he system was easy to install and configure with Microsoft Windows 95 and the Digital HiNote. The data card was extremely clever in the way that it handled the wireless data calls, emulating the functions of a standard modem without many of the disadvantages of modem technology. Because the data card and the phone were not needing to modulate and demodulate Information (i.e., turn it from digital to analog information), this made it perform much quicker than its rated 9600 baud specification would have initially indicated. It was also more cost-effective than the North American analog systems I was used to, as there was much less in the way of line-dropping (meaning I was not constantly having to redial and establish connections if I got line noise and interference). With a digital connection, either the connection was made or it wasn't. 'I'here were no frustrating "halfway" connections that faded in and out. 1'he other pleasant surprise was that there was no extra charge (over and above airtime) for incoming calls. This made it much more reasonable to have people call me, without me worrying about my bill skyrocketing. I:,uropean coverage was also good. I found the system worked just as well from a hotel room in I'aris as it did from a restaurant table in London. 'I'he system automatically figured out the necessary connections and left me free to get on with my data communications. My only quibble would be with the covera ge in c ertain areas. In p a rts o f t h e Northhamptonshire countryside — particularly the village where I was staying — the reception was uneven and I could not always get a signal. In North America, that has been less of a problem. I have even made calls from the tops of ski mountains without difficulty. 1'his irritation aside, wireless data communications — in the U.K. and North America — is one of the most liberating developments I have enjoyed over the past five years and I expect that as wireless data networks continue to expand and diversify, things will only get better from herc on in. J WWtN. tC P. Ca

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since capacity is limited to 230 MB, SyBack nicely accommodates multiple cartridge backups by politely asking for another cartridge

uninterrupted. And, following in what has all the earmarks of a trend, the syJet can be adapted to

after the current one's full. SyQuest, the next application, is a simple formatter. And, thrown

interface through the parallel port using a special optional cable, though performance will necessarily be reduced by about 50 percent. This adapter cable includes an extra outlet so

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documentation are written onto that cartridge. Most salient in that software bundle is SyBack, SyQuest"s own backup utility package. As expected, this lets you backup and compress and schedule automatic backups, etc. And,

in for good measure is Zip Zap—.adata-base of U.S. Zip codes, area codes and time zones around the world — plus a game called Triazzle. Physical installation is as simple as plugging the ezflyer 230 into your parallel port

using the cable provided (and they' ve considerately wired another parallel connector into

the back of the machine so your ezflyer and your printer can both speak to the computer). It's neat„ it's handy and it's small. And the performance to price ratio is hard to beat.

you can simultaneously hook up your printer. As promised by the technology, having a SyQuest ezflyer or syJet 1.5 GB is not unakin to having a second hard drive hooked up to your computer. Either of these machines

backup, copy, save, load and run applications at a pace virtually indistinguishable from your regular hard drive. And, of course, since it virtually is another hard drive, you can use

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Zip and Ditto Easy.Jaz is the big guy, a remov-

Strangely enough, no one at l omega would define the software bundle because, they said, it's changing all the time. However, you can at least expect to receive a disk of specialized Jaz tools for backing up, cataloguing, etc., and f o r n o w , s o mething c alled AppMover that lets you shift your applications onto a Jaz disk in a configuration that will be usable from there. Like its SyQuest competitor, the Jaz drive is alsovery easy to set up and use.The cartridge itself is quite different from the Zip in

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space. The program comes on a CD-ROM, with an additional disc containing video tutorials, VoiceType does not require enrollment,

the process of teaching the computer (and yourself) your pronunciation, but it is an option and will improve both navigation and dictation. For the tests in this review I spent an hour enrolling for dictation but no time at all enrolling for navigation, The navigation worked so well I never thought it necessary and the dictation was so onerous that one hour was all I could manage. Could ' you ' spend ' more ' than ' an ' hour ' talking ' like " this?

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Office 97, you must either use the specialized, and quite good, WordPad that comes with the program or the Quick Dictation window that will take your work and when you are finished dump it i nt o the open word processor. As you would expect, VoiceType allows for templates and macros. Using templates is especially useful where a business or institution routinely re cords the s ame information. Also, in this scenario the pro-

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"The creek Brown fox. Over the lazy dock." Dictation. six seconds. Okay, that was a little too quick. Once again: "the quick Brown box jumped over

whatever is recorded I will leave for your observation. BEGIN DicTATIoN: "This is a story about a man named dead, apoor manager barely

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Applets and oranges ing often had to hide their activities from their masters. More than once, politicians and bureaucrats overseeing research and education expenditures raged against "improper" or "frivolous" use of taxpayer or shareholder money, and threatened severe punishment for misuse of publicly or corporately owned computers. Unknown to the bean counters, however, it was the underground, self-directed, self-teaching part of the computer culture that created much of the talent pool that made America the leader in high technology. The revolt against Big Computing paradoxically wanted both to promote individual freedom and also to encourage socially responsible, community-based computing. The desire to bring computing out from under the control of the military, the government and the large corporations was one of the driving urges behind the invention of the original Apple computer. The release of the Apple Macintosh, in 1984, was explicitly promoted in a fan:ous video commercial as a revolt against "Big Brother" (i.e., IBM and all its kind). Personal computing broke the monopoly of Big Computing. Nobody predicted it, and nobody really controlled it.

The next wave: network computing and Java

Some industry leaders, such as Corel Corp.'s founder and chief executive officer, Michael Cowpland, are convinced that the traditional Windows/Intel (Wintel) PC has just about reached its peak. The traditional PC may soon start to f eel serious competition f rom Network Computers (NCs), powerful little Kalifornia Kosmlc Komisuting "thin-client" computers that lack a hard and the birth of the i i'C drive, and function by downloading applicaHowever, in the bowels of Big Computing tions trom the network. Instead of almost during the '60s, there were free thinkers in' universally running the Microsoft Windows academic and scientific computing centres operating system, NCs will be compatible who dreamed of a kind of computing that with servers running a variety of operating was not "top-down" â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not centralized, hierar- systems, and especially will run applications chical and slavish, but rather communicated written in the Java programming language. l aterally, and w h ic h a l l owed fo r f r e e To be fair, in order for billions of people to exchanges of " u n o fficial" i n f ormation. have access to computer tools and the Pioneers at places like MIT and Berkeley Internet, rather than the current millions of invented the first "virtual communities" of users, computing solutions will have to get a computer users, using "time sharing" mainlot less expensive, better connected, and simframes and the networks that preceded the pler to administer. As companies and counInternet. The first computer networks of the tries confront the cost of upgrading tens of 1960s allowed users to share both work-relat- millions of obsolescent Wintel computers, ed and personal information. Independent the argument in favor of NCs and Java softminded hackers programmed the first won- ware applications may become irresistible. In derfully useless computer games, and a rapidly developing nation like China, the

dreamed of bringing public access computing to the world. The early practitioners of social comput-

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appliances, However, as much as network computing may bring real benefits, it may also enable increased government and corporate control over access to information, and over computer users' behavior.

Time bandits In the case of network computing, freedom to compute ultimately belongs to whoever owns or controls the network, and more precisely, the network server. In recent years, big business has begun to pay excruciatingly close attention to what employees do with their networked PCs. Software that allows management to track, observe and restrict employees' Internet use is selling briskly. A whole indust ry fo r c o mputer-based monitoring o f

employee behavior has sprung up. The concept of "time theft" has become the buzzword for the employers' mania for squeezing every last second of work, every last keystroke, out of fewer and fewer employees. After all, managers reason, if I pay you for every second you' re in the office, then every second you aren't actively producing for me, you are actually stealing my money (in the form of your unearned wages) from me. And, with network surveillance technology, the boss can cheaply construct employee activity profiles that target the goof-offs for the next round of downsizing. One of the intangibles that may be ignored in the drive to sharpen profits is that the most productive workers are those who are creative, highly motivated, engaged in lifelong skill upgrading, and who eagerly learn and communicate well with customers and co-workers. I worry that the elites who run governments and large corporations will find netw orked computer technology a tool f o r increasing their power and wealth at the expense of the less powerful. Also, I think that in countries without strong legal and social support for free speech, collective computing technology is much more susceptible to centralized censorship and control than personal computing. Even in the liberal democracies, there are unceasing attempts to diminish free

Network computing has several potentially benign aspects, aside from its lower cost. For tasks like retail point of sale, making airline reservations, and factory inventory control, a diskless network computer may make more sense than a PC. Java software, and network computing technology generally, is tolerant of many o p erating systems, including Windows, Mac OS, and UNIX. It could reduce existing incompatibility headaches and offer

more real choices to end users. The return of potentially serious competition to the Wintel PC platform has galvanized both Microsoft and Intel to hustle to produce their own, lower cost "Net PC" technology. We will likely see a spectrum of computing devices appear over the next decade, with price and performance characteristics suitable for different needs and budgets. Devices comparable to today's PCs will likely remain part of this product mix, but they may be available only to a small minority.

The past as prolo9ue The point to remember, however, is that control over computing may be irresistibly passing back into the hands of the authorities, particularly in undemocratic nations. If network computing technology is misused, it will help foster the creation of a global "security state," organized to protect and hide the rich few from a restless mass of disenfranchised citizens. If, however, the freedom of choice that flourished with the PC is protected, and extended to network computing and the Internet, then the future may be much different, and much better, than the first age of collective computing. As citizens in a democracy, Canadian PC users have a voice in determining how the next wave of computing technology may be used, for either freedom or repression. 0 Photos were down1oadedfrom a site created by the University of Manchester to cemmemorate the 5()ih Anniversary of the Manchester Mark 1, the first stored-program, electronic, digital computer. More information and other photos can be found at: http:11www.cs.man.ac.uk/mark1/index. html

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