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or the past few days I' ve been stressing about one thing: getting this editorial written. Because, you see, with every day, I'm closer to my maternity leave — and who knows how many hours closer to the actual event, What if I have to leave my computer in mid-sentence? Will I accidentally pack a laptop instead of diapers? Other preparations have been under way for some weeks now. I' ve come up with an exciting editorial schedule for 1998; I' ve rerouted certain high-tech publications to my home

saidso many times,however,we canonly continue to grow and improve through your input, Please keep the letters coming. Let us know what you appreciate and what you'd like improved. We' re here to listen — and leam!

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On a more esoteric note... Several weeks back, as I was standing in the Psychedelic exhibit at Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I had an epiphany. For the first time in my life, I felt as if I was a cursor in the Internet. With billions of bright colours and walls and walls of text, I didn't know where to address; and I' ve made sure I' ll still be able to turn, nor where to stop. log on to the office server for letters and People complain about information overload on Newsbytes. the Internet. How about in reality? I'd say that' s where it gets really overwhelming. As a cursor, I But this is by far the hardest part. I' ve gotten used to the monthly cycle of sharing thoughts needed ahand on a mouse to guide me, As a on technology. How do I come to a full stop at museum visitor, I just wanted to get to the nearthe end of this one, knowing that it is, in fact, est computer terminal, sit down, and calmly sift a truly pregnant pause? through information at my own pace. This ability to control information retrieval, as Checking the rear-view mirror opposed to having to rely solely on books, and Heading off for a break like this also causes one the advice of friends and relatives, provoked me to look back at what's been achieved. My two into doing some Web surfing with a specific years as editor-in-chief of TorontoComputes! destination: pregnancy, baby, and parents-toand its extended publications have certainly be sites. been full of exciting changes. Even with the office ISDN line, I was forced to First and foremost has been our redesign, both wait patiently for connections, but I did find a in look and read. TC! is now definitely distinnumber of goodies. At www.thebabynet.corn, guishable from its competitors — at least we I was able to download personalized calendars think so! Our stories are written in an easy-tofor each month of pregnaticy, and search a read, journalistic fashion, while striving to d atabase f o r nam e s , maintain a high level of technical lanAnother site offered the guage and understanding. Our graphi"Accumulated Web Wisdom cal design is funky and colourful, and on Motherhood." our covers are memorable. I found a site that had numOver the past two years, we' ve expandbers to call for free stuff ed from the Toronto and Vancouver (Pampers, baby food, and so markets to include Alberta, Ottawa, and on), with a warning that I Quebec, not to mention our worldwide would then be put on mail• expansion via the World Wide Web. ing lists I'd possibly never Our list of writers has grown to give read. Ii:," escape. Yet another site had ers a wider variety of perspectives and archives of zillions of Q-andinformed reviews. We' ve added a Games A' s, including the effects of eating hot sauce section (The Fixx) and made more of an effort to during pregnancy. design issues with one overriding theme that But what I'm thinking now is that thereality of gets examined from a variety of angles. At the the baby scene will probably be a lot more like same time, we' ve continued with established the Psychedelic exhibit than a controlled surf columns readers have grown to expect. though the Web. To explore the effects of technology on society in more depth, we continue to have a strong lineHolding the fort up of guest columnists. This month, it's TV/radio That said, I hand over my chair and computer to personality Steve Dotto (of Dotto's Data Cafe); interim editor Lara Thais King, and wish her the best of luck and much fun in putting together next month, we' ll hear from digital guru Don Tapscott, author of The Digital Economy. Toronto's numberwne computer publication. Many people have seen my editorials on CFTO TV's Tomorrow, Today science and technology Enloy the issue! show; more recently, that spot featured our Mgra Gulens own TechNomad, Alan Thwaits, with his very editor@tcpon,corn + successful wireless cycling tour.

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A.M. Printers Inc. 3888 Chesswood Dr. Toronto, M3l 2W6 Tel: (416) 636-2070 Repair types: Printefs, moniton Authorized brands: C. Itoh, C-Tech ElectronKs Hourly fee: Flat rate Warranties: 90 days House cats: On-site sevice, pickup and delivery In business for. 2 years

Dave Trottier of Time Comp ter u Products Inc. has seen remarkable changes in the 14 years his shop has been in business. Years ago, he was inundated with software repairs, but user-friendly operating systems s uc h as Windows 95 and the Mac OS have put an end to that. Now, it' s hardware repairs — of the worst kind. "Most of the computers brought to my shop

CD's Movies N GamesExchange inc. 1896 Kennedy Rd. Scarborough, Ml P 2LB Tel: (416) 609-8687 E-mail:asiOworidy.corn Repair types; Hardware repair/upgrades Authorized brands: None Hourly fee: Fixed price by estimate Warranties: 30 days House calls: No In business for: 3 years

beyond belief," says Trottier. "That's the only time people will pay to get their computer fi x ed — when they have no idea how to fix it themselves." He foresees computers adopting a Lego-like c onfiguration, w i t h sna~n bays that will easily enable users to d o u p grades a n d repairs themselves. "In ~o t o t h ree years, predicts Trottier, "there will be one-tenth the repair shops in Toronto than there are now. Llmltations U nfortunately, w e weren't able to include all of the repair shops in the area —perhaps next time, thoughl lf you' d like to be included in our next listing, fax or e-mail your name, the name of your shop, and your business phone number to Toronto Computes! at ( 416) 5884110 o r repairs hopsNtcpon.corn Please clearly label your fax or e-mail "Repair Shop Listing," We regret that we cannot guarantee that the information provided to us is accurate, +

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365 Dupont St. Toronto, MSR 1WZ

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3 Whitehone Rd. Unit 6 Toronto, M3l 3GB Tek (416) 636-3030 E-mail:citywidefapasspoft.ca Repair types: IBM compatible; specialize in preventative maintenance service

Authorized brands: Hewlett Packard, Dell Houriy fee: lmhop — free estimate, $85/hr.; Onsite — $85/hr. (induding estimate and senrice) Warranties: 3 months for hardware House calls: On-site serrice; $25 fee for pickup and delivery In business for: 19 years

4 Computer ModuleExchange 319 Denison5t. Markham, L3R 187 Tel: (905) 415-9500 Repair types: Component-level repairs to computer systems and major peripherals (scanners,tape drives, monitors, printers) Authorized brands: Acer, AST, Fujitsu, Panasonic, NEC Hourly fee: $70/hr. Wafrantks: 90 daysfor parts and kbour House calls: Billabk service cats In business for. 10 years

ComputerServiceCentre

358 Queen St. E. Toronto, MSA ITI Tel: (416) 3404000 Repair types: IBM compatibk PCs, printers, monitors, component-level repairs Authonzed brands: Acer, A5T, Gtizen, Epson, Fujitsu, Okidata, Packard Bell, NEC, Samsung, Samtron, Sharp, Sony, Tatung, ZenithData Systems Hourlyfee: $70/hr. (in-shop service) Warranties: 90 days House cats: On-site service, PKk-up and delivefy In business for. 13 years

4 Computer Systems Repair 93 Woodstream Blvd. Toronto, MSR 1WZ Tel: (905) 850-9117 Repair types: Hardware upgrades, printers, monitors, CPUs Authorized brands: None Houffy f~: $65/hf.

Warranties: 90 days House calls: Yes In business for, 8 years

387 Donlands Ave, Toronto, M4l 253 Tel: (416) 467-7356 E-mail:692061NPican.net Repair types: Hardware upgrades, software, multimedia systems, laser printers Authorized brands; IPC Hourly fee; $65/hi, Warranties: 90 days House calh: On-site service, pickwp and delivery In business for. 5 months

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50 Acadia Ave., Suite 110 Markham, L3R 083 Tel: (905) 415-1563 WWW: cpused,corn Repair types: Apple CPUs Authorized brands: Apple, Compaq Hourly fee: $100/hr. Warfantks: Yes House calls; Occasionally In business for. 10 years

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4 Hi Tech World Canada 2400 Finch Ave, W„Unit 2 North York. M9M 2CB Tek (416) 748-8232 Repair types: Hardware repairs/upgrades, printen, monitors Authorized brands: Hi Tech brands Hourly fee: Flat rate depending on job; free estimate Warranties: lyr. for hardware, 3 montfu for printers and monitors House calls: No In business for. 5 years

High-Tech Bectronics 3232 Yonge St. Toronto, M4N 2L4 Tel: (416) 484-9903 E-mail:hightech@famori.corn Repair types: Hardware/software upgrades, printen, moniton Authorized brands: None Hourly fee: $49/hr. Warranties: 90 days House cats: No In business for. 11 years

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365 Dupont St. Toronto, MSR I WZ T@I: (416) 922-6363 WWW: pcused.corn Repair types: Repain of IBM compatible CPUs, brand-name hardware repair, and upgrades Authorized brands: None Hourly fee: $25 min. inspection fee;$50/hf, for service (billed on half-hour basis) Warranties: 3 month for hardware House cats: No In business for: 14 month

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monitors, and all other peripherals Authorized brands: Lexmark, Canon, Kyocera Hourly fee: $60/hr.,free estimate Warranties: 34 months House calls: On-site senrice, free pick-up and

358 Edgeky Blvd., Unit I Concord, L4K 3Yl Tel: (905) 669-4903 Repair types: Laser, dot-matrix, and bubbk-jet printen, and monitors Authorized brands: Canon, Fujitsu Hourly fee: $90 Rat rate plus parts; $25 diagnostic fee ifKNKkd in Rat rate Warranties: 90 days House cats: On-site service, pick-up and deliv. ery (price varies) In business for. 9 years

MkroLab 5481 Dundas St. W, Toronto, MSR I WZ Tel; (416) 2374244 Repairtypes: CPU,hardware upgrades, pnnten, moniton Authorized brands: None Hourly fee: $65/hr. Warranties: 30 days Home calb: On-site service, pick-up and delivery In business for: 9years

4 Microxpert Corporation 100 Westmofe Df. Unit 110

Toronto, M9V SC3

Tel: (416) 520.7102 E-mail; msingh@difect.corn Repair types: PC and Macintosh CPUs, laser and dot matrix printen, monitors, software Authorized brands: None Hourly fee: In-house $55/hr.; on-site — $60/hr. Warranties: 100 days House cass: On-site service, with a $35 charge per visit (plus hourly fee) In business for,4 years

PC Fixers 370 McCowan Rd. Scarborough, Ml I I I3

3336 Yonge 5t. Toronto, M4N 2M4 Tek (416) 488-9258 Repair types: IBM compatible; hardware upgrades, some software Authorized brands: IPC, KTX Hourly fee: $35/hr. Warranties: I year for parts, 2 yean for systems, 5 yean for sefvKe House calls: On request, billable In business for. 6 yean

Time Computer ProductsInc. 21 Gfenviik St.

Toronto, M4Y I AI Tel: (416) 920-2220 Email: timecom@infofamp.net Repair types: Software, CPUs, hardware upgrades Authorized brands: Compaq Hourly fee: $95/hr., $60/hr. for customen with products purchased at store. Free repair estimates. Warranties: Hardware — I year for parts and labour, software — 90 days House caNs:On-sfte service, pick up, and delivery In business for, 14 yean

Upgrade Factory 1515 Matheson Blvd. E. Unit 811 Mississauga, L4W2PS Tek (905) 625.5525 E-mail:upg fade@globalsefve.net Repair types: Hardware repairs and upgrades, desktops, towers, notebooks Authorized brands: None Hourly fee: $25 min. inspection fee;$75/hr. fof sefvke

Warranties: I year labour, I year end-of-the-kne and refurbished year, 90 days used products House cats: No In business for: 2 yean +

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up your office where you live. Obviously, it eliminates commuting time, and allows you to flexibly integrate family leisure v ith work. Possibly, of greater importance is that you can start a business out of the home for a lot less than renting space in an office building. And with recent innovations in lowcost, sophisticated office equipment your home office can compete with the best outfitted corporate offices. The home worker can fax broadcast,send email, have access to reams of up-to-date information over the internet, use voice mail and produce quality documents with a

Show presenter, SOHO Business Group, is a national home-ogice association that ojfers its members special rates on products and services from an exclusive list of business partners like Microsoft, mbanx, I-Star, iVesbitt Burns, Pitney Bowes, SHL Systemhouse and others. Members also get a quarterly newsletter, networking sessions, small business seminars and members services listings on the SOHO website. For more informarion visit nww rWo ca or call theat ar 800 290 SOHO

Doug Gray feature speaker in free seminars Canada's leading authority on the home office,Doug Gray, headlines the free seminar series in the Home Office Theatre at the show with three daily presentations. Being the author of fifteen best-selling business books, seven of which are on

small business, and a regular columnist for a number of national publications, Doug is well versed in all facets of working out of the home. Doug, formerly a practicing lawyer, now devotes his time to consulting, speaking

Home-based business a reality for growing number of people Do you dream about being your own boss and having the freedom to transform a neat idea into a profit making reality? Most people do, In fact, studies show that over 70% of adult Canadians want the same thing? If you think you are ready to make that leap from the dream world to the real world you should consider launching your business from home. You would be joining a growing movement. About half of all new businesses start out in the home. T here areplenty of good reasons to set

Direct. Facilitators can show you all the best webpages forthe home-office, or they can just leave you alone to browse at your leisure. That is far from all. The price of admission also gets you into Computer Fest, with over 120 exhibitors and a whole new set of specialattractions. See pages 38 and 39 for all the details.

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home office. For more personal attention drop by the Home Office Help Desk, sponsored by the SOHO BusinessGroup, and get a free consultation froin people who have mounted successfulhome-based businesses, Curious about what the internet has to offerthe horne-office worker? Then drop by the Internet Cafe, presented by Internet

colour laser printer. There are also increasing opportunities for home-based businesses.The trend to corporate downsizing means that more and more work is being outsourced to

smallbusinesses. And growth of the service industry is now accounting for nine orbit of every ten new jobs created in this country. Since these jobs generally require less startup capital, have lower operating costs, and have minimal equipment requirements, they are ideally suited for home-based businesses. A recent Market Facts study found that ten percent of the national labour force now has a home-based business and that an additional seventeen percent of Canadians regularly bring work home from the office. Five percent of C~ d i ans actually te! ecommute to work The number of people using the home as principal place of work w il l almost double this decade, topping one-and-ahalf million by 2001, according to Statistics Canada projections. T he opportunities are there. All y ou need is the know how to pull it off.

and writing, His books, some of which have been translated into as many as eight languages, include Home inc, The Complete Canadian Small B u siness G uide, R a ising Money, and Start and Run Prof itable Consultingg Business. Doug's regular coluinns appear in The Computer Paper, C anadian Computer Wholesaler, P r ofit an d Op p o r t unities Canada. He also appears as a regular guest expert on CBC's Ncwsworld show "Life Today Each day Doug will give the following enlightening presentations: Money-Saving Tax Strategies for the Home Business. Covers the ten streetsmart tips you need to know to save more money, make more money and increaseyour "take home" income. How to Create a Big Business Image for Your Small Business. Perception is reality. Learn the ten low-cost but highly effective ways of developing a positive image that attracts confidence and clients,and setsyou apart from your competition Getting Free Publicity That 8 ' ork» for Your Home Business.Most horne-business owners don't want to spend any more on advertising than necessary. Publicity is a natural and highly effective complement to your advertising

Home-office authority Doug Graygives three daily talks at Home Office Expo strategies. Learn p r actical l o w -cost techniques to generate positive publicity for you business. ln addition to Doug Gray's presentations, the Home Office Theatre will also host the following free daily talks: Legal Foundations of a Home Business by lawyer and speaker Stuart Sklar. Start building your business right from See Home Office page 38

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may no longer be a novelty to most of us, but do we know how it can help us in business? If you' re not sure, then drop b y the internet Cafe at Home Office Expo, p resented by Internet Direct, one of the city's leading Internet providei>. G et on any of 15 computers, hooked up t o a high-speed ISDN connection, for a l ook ai the best web sites serving the home

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office and small office. Or just take the time to browse and get a feel for all the internet offerd. Facil itators from the Mississauga-based tr a i n i ngcompany, The Trainer's Advisory Net w o k, r along a number of student assistants wi ll be on hand to help you out. U nf or tunately, you w on' t b e a ble to brow s eall day, You have to give others a cha n c eto iry it out. T O R O N T O C O M P U T ES !

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Watch next Fest in cybercast C an't make it t o t h e sh'ow? Well now you can get it live on your computer as a cybercast. Bob Pritchard, host of thesyndicated Computer Insider show on r adio a n d I V , i s mounting a cybercast version o f C o m puter Fest on the Internet. Y ou may h ave a l -

ready c a ught his cybercasts from Toronto's Comdcx in July or the Festival of the Future at Exhibition Place Radio commentatior Bob Pritchard will be cybercasti ng daily in August. and Home Ogice Expo. F ach da y o f the fr om Computer Fest show, September 26 t o 2 8, st arting at page at svww.com t 'nsider.com. Just twelve noon. Bob will be doing about three click on the Computer Fest icon. Before hours of interviews with many of the indusyou view you may alsoneed to download tryrepresentatives and speakers atCompuMicrosoA Netshow 2.0. You can access the Microsoft download site through a link on ter Fest and Home Oflice Expo. You can find it on the Computer Insider the Computer insider page.

Copyright bill boosts antipiracy effort Things could get a lot tougher for CAAST believes this new legislation will significantly deter softsoftware pirates with the recent ware piracy in Canada. passage of ncw federal copyright To find out more about this leglegislation, according to thc Canaislation and other weapons in the dian Alliance Against Software industry's anti-piracy campaign. TheA (CAAST). drop by the CAAST booth at the Under the new copyright legisIIgy~~ gyp upcoming Computer Fest. CAAST lation, the holder no longer has to representatives can also show you prove actual financial loss when how to d i stinguish a M i c rosoft individuals or companies illegally copy and distribute computer sof'tware. Inmouse from its counterfeit. or how to destead, they can elect to claim statutory tect a forged certificate of authenticity. However. you shouldn't have lo worry damages of up to $20,000 per infringetoo much about ending up with pirated ment. T his c l aim c o ul d b e m u l t i p lied t o goods at the show. CAAST will be on the lookout for copyright infractions at the S80,000 or morc inthe case of an office s uite package which contained four o r show. Armed with the new copyright legislamore separate soAware packages. "Essentially the law puts us on par with tion. their el'forts should prove very effective. the US. which has effectively used statuFor inure information on the industry's tory damages to reduce the overall piracy fight against piracy check out the CAAST rate," says CAAST spokesperson Norm web site at http:h'www.bsa.org (click on Canada).

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Computer Fest, Canada 's largest coniputer show and sale, presented by Toronto Coniputes, has taken a big .step forward by pai l ing with Home Off'ice Expo, presented by the SOHO Business Group,for a dual show September 26 to 28in the Automotive Building at Exhibition Place. These complementary events give visitors so much more tosee, learn and buy. Read allabout Computer Fest on these two facing pages and all Home Off ice Expo on the preceding page. Of course there is only one admission fo> both events. Checl out ww n.coni e s t.coni for moreinformation.

Computer Fest has earned the respect of Toronto consumers Computer Fest deserves its reputation as the largest cotnputer show and sale in Canada and one ofthe most popular consumer shows in tow~. Over 100,000 will come to the four Computer Fests this year. That's on top of the better than one-half million people who have attended since the show's humble beginning» in a west-end Lion's Club hall back in 1985. If it wasn't a great show it wouldn't be so durable. Indeed over fi Ay percent of the attendees at any show are return custom-

ers. They keep coming back because they know they get good value from thc retailers, honest advice in the seminars, and lots of entertaining features. According to exit surveys, the vast majority of people loved what they saw at Computer Fest, awarding it an average customer satisfaction rating of seven and a half out of ten. Ni'incty-two percent say

they would return. If the amount of money spent on exhibitors is any gauge, the shopping at the show is probably the main attraction. Each person at Computer Fest spends an average of S123 on exhibitors at the show and indicates they wilt spend an average of $358 on exhibitors in the two months after

the show. These visitors clearly do have the disposable income to spend at Computer Fest. Average personal income of those over eighteen is $49,778. Generally they spend because they get such great deals. With thc extremely high sales volumes at the show, exhibitors can afford to bring their margins way down to meet the competition. People alsocome because of features at the show like ongoing sottware dernonstrations. virtual reality test-drive centres and free seminars with good buying advice from profession journalists and commentators, With such a strong appeal. Computer Fest hasdeveloped a commanding presence in the consumer market that the competition couldn't match. While it prospered at l east four maj or consumer-oriented shows in Toronto went out of business — Computer Fair (198486). World of Commodore (1983-1994), Computer Expo (1987-1991), and, most recently, the Great Canadian Computer Show and Sale (1995-1996). Computer Fest'sproducers hope they can continue to maintain the respect of the show-going public f o r many years to

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Home Office Theatre .....,.i,....„the beginning by knowing what thc law has to say about organizing a company, running a business out of the home. leasing equipmcnt and more. Marketing for Growth by Hclcn Walker, a speaker, designer and consultant. Participants come away from this presentation with a clearer vicv of their businesses and markets, and with the basics

they must haec to create (or to judge if their dcsigncrs have created) marketing material» that will help them grow their business. Home Business.Accounting by Rory Ring or Cadsby and Ring Accountants. You

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can savea lotof money and aggravation bv knowing about lower tax rates for small businesses. tax benefits of personal assets, taking advantage of write offs, deducting parts of your house or office, and staying on thc right side of business traps. Sening l'p for Success by Susan Spcakc ot the Design Connection. Learn how to design your office. w hat kinds of lurniture are available. and the value of good ergonomic design. For a fullschedule of all seminars see our

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Get a true-to -life shooting experience in VRat Fest You can gct the feel of a real gun with the new Winchester Total Recoil virtual reality game in the upcoming Computer Fest, September 26 to 28 Total Recoil's strength is its simplicity, All you have to do is select a game, step into the fiery red machine, put on thc highresolution headset, pick up the gun and fire

away! Then you' re surrounded by a 360 degree world of stunning 3D graphics and sound. The shooting experience is so real it even has recoil. You can play Quickshot Carnival, an exciting shooting gallery with an amazing array of targets. Or try Trap Master, the first clay shoot simulator that test your timing, accuracy, and ability to keep calm under pressure. Sporting Gun Magazine, called it "serioits fun and highly addicti ve....No shooting game yet devised comes anywhere near

matching the real thing. Until now. " See what your kids think of softwarein test-drive centre at Computer Fest Puzzled over what educational software to get for yourself, your family or your students". Then stop by the Educational Software Test-Drive Centre at Computer Fest. lt's a great chance to try before you buy. I'ifteen multimedia machines supplied by I PC Personal Computer will be loaded up with over fifty of thc leading educat ional t i t l e s f r o m pub l i shers l i k e Microsoft, Edmark. Broderbund, IQ Media, Courseware Solutions, DK Multimedia and more. Since retailers are not allowed in the area, you will get lots of guidance, without any sales pitches. You even gct individualized hand holding by education

It's just one part of the great virtual reality experiences you can get at the Cyber Times Virtual Reality booth at the show.

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T here will b e s o ftware for al l a g e groups. For the preschool set you' ll find early reading and number recognition programs. Elementary age children can explore k eyboarding, m ath, s c ience, drawing and research titles. Junior-high and high-school students will want to investigate m ultimedia c r eation t o o l s, simulations, plus electronic encyclopedias and atlases. columnist for Toronto Computes, Sandra Once you've decided on what software Mingail and the staff of the 1 rainer's Ad- you want, you' re sure to gct a good deal visory Network, supported by a number on the exhibit floor of C omputerFestknowledgeable students. Canada's largest computer show and sale.

Be one of the first 1675 in the door to ComputerFestand Home Office Expo each day and geta free mouse pad worth $10, This vinyl covered, durable pad will last

for years. Its surface is colour printed with handy informationon upcoming shows and the web addressesof many of the leading exhibitors.

Industry leaders on Demonstration Stage Microsoft will be showing thc latest version of Office 97, the most popular software suite on the market.This word processing, data base, spreadsheet and scheduling suite is now fully integrated with the Internet. Catch d ai ly pres e n tations of Maximizer97, the latest version of this Canadian made, award-winning contact rnanagement package. Over 400,000 packages have been sold worldwide.

Looking to m ake some investments? Then you should see thc demonstration by E*Trade of what Money Magazine calls "the hest of the cyberspace brokers." E*Trade will provide you with a fun yet informative glimpse into a future that will see brokerage services become unbundled. For a full schedule of these and other demonstrations at the show, check out our web page at www.coin fest,c

Journalists and broadcaster give free Fest seminars Don't buy a thing at Computer Fest until you take in at least one of the informative free seminars in the Presentation Theatre at the show. You' re guaranteed to get authoritative and independent buying advice in these hour-long talks given by respected computer journalists and commentators from Toronto Computes, 8'e Compute, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Computer and Entertainment Retailing, a nd 6 8 0 iVews. Not one of them has any vested interest in any of the products sold at the show, with the possible exception of plugging some of thc books they have authored. Anyone planning to buy a PC should definitely take in the daily "How to Buy" talk given either by Myles White or Jim

Stcinhart. Myles is a weekly columnist for Toronto Star 's Fast Forward section, associate editor of IVe Compute, and author of I/oiv to Buy a Computer by McClelland and Stewart. Jim Stcinhart, is a Globe and Mail contributor and computer consultant. Myles also conducts a similar daily talk on "What toLook for in a Notebook ". After you have figured out what kind of computer to get, you might want some tips on what to load it up with. Then you should probably listen to one of Myles White's daily sessions on "Office Software You IVeed to Get the Most Out of Vour Computer". If it's industry scuttlcbut you' re interested in, thcrc is no one better source than Bob Pritchard in his daily 10:30 "Compu-

ter Insider" talk. Bob is the computer commentator for 680 News and U.S. Business Network. For a guided tour of the latest in interactive entertainment, yo u s h o uld c a t c h "Gaming Technolgy: The Leading Edge" by Frank Lenk, thc games columnist for Computer k En tertainment Retailing and 8'e Compute. He' ll look at some of the hottest new game titles, and provide an indepth buying guide that will help you put together the best possible gaming system at a reasonable price. Do you want to learn how to "Get the Most Out of the 8'eb''? Let Lynn Greiner, internet columnist for both Toronto Computes and Computer and Entertainment Retailing, show you how.

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It's a commonplace that museums present i nformation — and, whe n t h e y' re g o o d , lessons as well — from the past. What's not always conveyed is the fact that museums can teach us about our possible futures. In the case of the Boston Computer Museum, though, the future's hard to ignore. The Museum was founded as a non-profit organization in 1982, but had its real beginnings in 1974, when Ken Olsen, president of Digital Equipment Corporation, and Bob Everett, president of MITRE Corporation, saved the IBM Whirlwind computer flam the sclapheap. In 1984, the Museum moved to its present waterhant location in Boston's picturesque downtown area, and in 1996 established a Computer Museum History Centre in California's Silicon g C' Valley. The M u seum i n Boston is housed in a t hree-storey, w ar e house-type building. It covers 53,000 square feet of sPace, in which @. fjan are 1,500 artifacts (read computers), 1,000 pho- ~:-".' ~ : j tographs, an d 450 videotapes and films. It's a busy place — it sees 135,000 visitors each year, 45 per cent of whom are students — but is designed in such a way that's it's almost always possible for visitors to explore: the history of computing in their own way and at their own pace. -

Byte's eye view The Museum's cornerstone exhibit is "The Walkthrough Computer 2000." It's a great Fantasy fulfillment for everyone who's ever peered into his or her computer box and pondered what happens in its depths. The recently upgraded exhibit i s a w o r k i ng model of a networked, multimedia-equipped Pcntium PC built at 50 times scale — so it' s the size of a two-story house! The size of the components is enough to inspire smiles in the most jaded of computer geeks — a car~ tr a c kbail, an eightibot long CD-ROM player — but it's their usefulness that gets every visitor involved. At the giant hard drive, you can use a monster ~te ann to flip magnets and write messages to the computer by setting eight bits of code As the mammoth disk platters spin, you can see the bits read magnetically and decoded with the results displayed on a I afoot tall monitor (sitting in fiunt of your home system is likely never to feel the same!). History is the focus of an exhibit caUed "People and Computers: Milestones of a Revolution."True to its moniker, this part of the Computer Museum tracks pivotal events in the evolution of the computer, showcasing each one with a life-size recreation of a computer environment typical of the ela. The journey is hugely instructive for those of us whose familiarity with them dates from afterthe introduction of the home- and userfriendly Personal Computer — in Fact, the dis-

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I t pay s t o b e c y n i c a l , s a y s N e t e x p e r t was based on an e-mail message of dubious doctors doing medical research, investors origin circulated on the Net, purporting to searchingforbusiness news, scientists assemhave come from the former safety chairntan bling facts to corroborate their theories." Conspiracy theorists abound on the Internet. 1'he growing use of thc Nct to spread false of the US Airline Piiots Association. Their latest target: Timothy McVcigh's trial f or bombing th e f e d eral b u ilding i n Although it was uncorroborated by any serior misleading information inspired Gilster's ous evidence. Salinger st still taken in by it. Oklahoma City. Digital Literacy (from John Wiley & Sons, Says Net expert Paul Gilster. What is dis- , $52.50) as a scarning not to be taken in. You don't expect to find prominent journalists such as America's Pierre Salinger turbing about this incident is not that it hapL ook the gift horse in the m o ut h pened to a prominent journalist,b ut that it among those who see plots everywhere outThe Raleigh, North Carolina, author wants happens every day on the Internet, not just to side graveyards. Yet, last summer, Salinger us to be cynics to research, to question, to well-known authorities, but also to school wrote about a conspiracy surrounding the extract the needle of truth from the online downing of TWA Flight 800. His evidence children researching classroom assignments, haystack. Hr urges using search engines and news filters to weigh the veracity of material found on the WorM Wide Web, newsgroups, and chat areas. Highlighting the seeming anarchv of the Net was the closure in June by the Ontario III$tlfe STANDARD SVX SERIESSYSTEM COMPONENTS Securities Committee of a Toronto-based site Intel Triton VX Chipset Motherboard pentlum' where share tips were freely given and dis512K Pipeline BurstCache cussed. Imagine the opportunities there to 32MBEDOMemory Max I 8MB riin up or depress share prices.And imagine Pentiurn 166 Penesonic 1.44MB 3,5"FDD p e ntium 200 how prospective investors may no longer get $1508.00 Upgrade Options: ' Add $ 1 70 Maxtor 2.1GB EIDF HDD vital information about Company X or Y. pentjum MMX 166 $ 1 3 98 QQ 64M EDO 2.5G EIDE HDD Add $55 16X EIDE CD-ROM Drive In his book, Gilster declares: "We must Pentium MMX 200 $1558.00 3.1G EIDE HDD Act<I $95 come to terms with the fact that for every Acer Full Duplex 3D Sound Card Pentium MMX 233 $ 1 7 58.00 24X CDROM A dd $65 Wall Street Journal or iVeut York yltnes on 15" Monitor Ad d$ 95 33.6Kbps Voice Fax'ModemSpeakerphone the net, there are thousands of individuals S3 Virge 3D SVGACard wt 4MRAM (PCI. MPEG) who have the opportunity to publish with Proview 14" SVGAMonitor (.28dp N/I Color) impunity and certainly without editorial Pair of 40W Amplified Stereo Speaker STANDARD BVX SERIESSYSTEM COMPONENTS scrutiny."The onus, hc says, is upon users to IBM 6x86 PR-166+ or AMDK5-100 CPU Mid Tower Case wl 230W PowerSupply develop the critical skills necessary to evaluIntel Triton VX chipset Motherboard Mitsumi 104 KeyWindows95 Keyboard ate the materials available online. DEPOT ' 1'he father of three docs not favour filter pro512K Pipeline BurstCache Mitsumi serial Mouse & MousePad grams such asiVet Nanny. He holds that the 16MB EDO Memory(Max 128MB) Microsoft Windows 95 SR2 CD 8 Manual Net — designed to survive a nuclear attack1.44MB 3.5" FloppyDrive renders such software largely ineffective. 1.08GB EIDE Fast ATAHardDrive M CIO;CII Rather, parents should take the responsibility «eeo Wi 16X EIDE CD-ROM Drive of teaching their chiMren how to deal with 16blt Full Duplex SoundCard offensive material when they encounter it. 64bit SVGACard wi 1M (PCI, MPEG) Intel Pentium MMX 166 Dutch dilemma Triton VX Mbd wl 512K 14" SVGA Monitor (.28dp N/I Color) Upgrade Options: "You can't plug all the holes in the dike," he 32M EDO RAM 3 2M EDO Ad(j $ 8 5 40W Stereo Speaker says."How do you stop it coming in fmm anoth2.1G EIDE HDD 1.7G EIDE HDD Add $35 MidTower Case w/230W Power Supply 2.1G EIDE HDD Acid $75 S3 Virge 3D 4M SVGA 104 Key Windows 95Keyboard A dd $ 8 9 Mid Tower with 230W PS 33.6 vtflm MMX 166 A(t ( t $150 Serial Mouse& MousePad Win95 Keyboard Microsoft Windows 95SR2 CD 8 Manual Mouse 8 Pad 4 J~)gp

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settle down. Online discussions of such things as pedophilia only becomes threatening, he writes, when they close out alternative viewpoints. Sites that do, and which offer little or no attribution for their outlandish claims, are readily idrnttfiiable. "We can defeat their provincialism by understanding how they function and insisting on sound standards of reliability," he asserts. Meanwhile, barring access to thc Net, or even parts of it, can bring about undesirable results. Thus, using a filter to refuse items with, say, the word "breast," and you immediately lose access to any discussion of breast cancer.

Here to sttsy Gilster observes: "If there is one thing we can assume, it's that technology will not vanish becausesome of us raise questions about its impact on society." And, perhaps most importantly, he points out that to survive after they leave school, youngsters have to be digitally literate. Gilster's book is a refreshing, non-hysterical look at a p henomenon that puzzles, enlightens, and frightens. Those familiar with the Net won't find much that is new in his tour of cyberspace. But, for both skilled surfer and tyTos alike, Digital Literacy introduces a healthy dose of skepticism that may prevent many of us making even bigger fools of ourselves than we do already.

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Fashion over function7 These days, even the most basic word processor produces a professional-looking rcport with m i nimal duress. Students are empowered to present an excellent visual product, sometimes to the detriment of content. Preplanning and creating outlines, first drafts, and edited versions are crucial. In fact, the ease of use of word processors should encourage a student to develop a project outline, modify paragraphs, and improve vocabulary through the use of an electronic thesaurus. This doesn' t always happen. As more and more classrooms acquire

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Ail business As I have mentioned before, IBM is targeting OS/2 at b u sinesses and corporations only. Just like AIX and AS/400,OS/2 will continur to have a strong presence for large businesses. Warp Server is growing at over 20 pcr cent prr year and has recently surpassed Novell in yearly new licenses according to IBM. A recent prrss release hy IBM o n t h e Internet claims that t h ey m a d e mistakes w hen OS/2 Warp 3 w a s m arketed at t h e home user, and the desktop market has been i..onrcdcd to Microsoft, I suspect that t hi s will result in no m arketing dollars for the home market, hut home users should still be «blr to order future vrrsions of OS/2 directly from IBM.

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Java is still hot IBM may be putting its OS/2 eggs in the Java basket. Right no w t h ere are p erformance issues, and IBM is working on a separate Java operating system (JavaOS), but Java under OS/2 is an IBM priority. Lotus is working on SmartSuite for Java, which wig be oprrating-system independent, to compete with Corel's WordPerfect Suite for java.

Q uickTltne for 0 $ / 2 The official b r t a o f I B M a n d A p p le's QuickTime 2.1 for OS/2 is available for download at hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmrdia/video/players/QUICKTIME.ZIP It requires OS/2 Warp 4.0, and, since it is in beta, there are known problems such as memory leaks and occasional audio corruption. IBM claims that the next version will include additional such features as MIDI track support, f ile dialogue, movie player, picture viewer, more video com-

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Versus Brokerage Services Inc. The initial a ttraction? E'Trade charges a flat f e e o f $38.88 per transaction on the bulk of i ts online stock trades, a figure significantly lower than the average traditional brokerage account for small investors with few trades. As for the E Trade site itself, it's a model of clarity and accessibility, so much so that it pays to heed the handy "Account Status" utility to make sure you' re not trading yourself into the poor house. The site features individual stock information (including bottom-line performance data and recent trad-

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services feature similar password-protected security systems, and most are w i lling to demonstrate to clients the safety levels of their particular s)wtems.

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Green Line discount brokerage. Green Ice has a flexible and attractive online presence in WebBroker, and boasts a compelling flatfee commission on trades. A recent commission priceof $29 per trade was offered,with some stipulations. Rival Bank of Montreal has recently countered with a$25 fee per trade (plus a few cents per share depending on the stock) on

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Peaceful coexistence? Riley's mission is not to replace the stoneand-mortar banks, however, but to cornplernent their services with cheaper atternatives for the Net-savvy investor. Such an investor might find E'Trade's flat-rate fee for mutual-fund trades an i ncentive, for

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maintaining that content must comply with the memberhip agreement and Sutherland believes "we are obligated to deal with offensive content, when it has been brought to ow attention and it appears to break the law." Club Librrtrl Montreal now has a sponsor for the server and I n t ernet l i nk . M i chel Gauthicr notes, however, that "people are still arguing about what should be done first, such as giving thr 'members of the community'access, or doing'outreach and education to community groups' before giving access."

Toronto the battered The Toronto Free-Nct has seen better days. It started out with $1.5 million of Ontario government money and "donations in kind of goods and servicesfrom the likes of Rogers, Sun (Microsystems). and Ryerson Polytechnic ( University)," notes Bob Allisat, one of t h e inside druactors in what he calls "an incomplete history of the dismal record by community computer nrtworks in Toronto." He thinks the system is out of control, and points to the resignations of board members and the ejection of a member from a board meeting as proof, He docs not hold out much hope for the TFN, concluding:"This, on top of a general inability to envision a freenet after the clumsy text-based interface it is now saddled with, this will mean TFN will inevitably fold under the wright of obsolescence, corruption, and thc resultant infighting." Nevertheless, the TFN, now u nder Colin McGregor, is scrambling to reorganize itself and Qnd ways of raising funds and providing special services to make money. Survival depends on how much monry thcTFN can raise.

"If the current fundraising efforts work out we should be fine for the indefinite future," says McGregor. They will be offering some additional services for a fee, such as open telnet and larger mailbox sizes. As well they will be incorporating corporate sponsorships, with advertising on th e m ain screen, as is done on the Ottawa network

Underachievers Carroll thinks the efforts are too little, too late. The goal of the frccnets, to give Net access to people who can't otherwise afford the Internet, was not achieved. He says it is still an admirable goal, but,"I don't think its going to happen through the rfforts of some volunteers. I think that it w ill have to hc a program that has more corporate guidance, or more government guidance, because there was too much of a free-wheeling Woodstock, San Francisco, isn' t-life-brautiful, hippy sty! e of mentality that surrounded a lot of frecnetsin Canada." He says there were too many conflicting goals and ideals, and too many conflicting groups of people."The Toronto Net is just a joke. If you read some of the crap that goes around on thr n ewsnct about it — my God, there is not going to be any business that is going to dare to go within 2,000 miles of it." One of the outgrowths of the TFN conflict may be the establishment of the Toronto Free Community Network, which will put terminals into public piaces for those who don' t have ready access. "I'm keeping my fingers crossed we will have it up and running next week," says McGregor. If all cise fails, however, there are still the Bulletin Board systems.

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Most of you know thc feeling when you' re staring blindly at the monitor at school or at the office, and you' re just not in the mood to do any work. Of course, you' ll launch Windows solitaire yet again, even though you' ve played it a million times bcforc. Well, if you' re craving a fresh diversion to gct you through to your next coffee break, then the World Wide Web is your answer. There are literally thousands of fun l i ttle games to play, tucked into the small dark c orners of c y b erspace that r e q uire n o downloading and very little waiting. All you need to partici pate in the festivities is a 28.8 Kbps or higher modem, /Vetscape Coniinunicator/h'avigator or h fi cr o s o ft Internet Fmptorer (versions 3 at least, but 4 recommended), and the free Shockwave plug-in available at wham.macromedia.corn 'I'he following sites are great for all ages, and are perfectfor those who aren't permitted to

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I,too, was in the arcade I' ve talked about the next site quite a bit in the past because it brings me back to my

younger days hanging around Fun!and Arcade at Yonge and Dundas streets in Toronto. Toronto's own Virtual Arcade is brought to you hy Webwurx Multimedia, and has been recently expanded to include a second floor with even morc playing "rooms." Each section is genre-specific (action/arcade, strategy, the n>ie-pla)mg inom, and so forth) and you must saunter u p to th e ma c h i nes to play Shock~ve and Javaversions of classics like Frogger, Dig Dug, Asteroids, Space tnt aders, or Gakxxtan — or throw a virtual quarter into original tides such as Ice Btnx or Unearthed. If ynu are running /tticrnsoJl LE as your browser, cool MIDl music will also kccp you humming frnm room to room. If a mini arcade on your PC is what you' re after, then make sure you enter the Virtual

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State of shock ShockZonc is Macromedia's official page to showcase many impressive Shockwave games on the Nct, Here you' ll bc linked to fun games such asCelebrity Slugfest (punch out Let tcrman or Bi!i Gates), Lobe Runner (a humorous spin-off from th e+>on incident),

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Java fun Java is also a very effective language to code small interactive games wi th, and there are many applets on the Web for your amusement.Java technology should already be inherent in your browser, so don't worry about any special plug-ins here. The Gamelan Java Arcade carries over 1,000 games and links to games that have

In the Zone The E-Zone is a wonderful collection of a dozens-so animated movie- and TV-based games, such as Roar, Daylight, Hercules, and

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old (with Gubble being their first release), th« management duo are c~ no st r a ngers to this genre. CEO Franz Lmzinger was responsible fnr designing and prograinniing Atari's hit Crystal Castles and Ms. Pacman for the NES, while president Mark Robichrk's daim to fame is having the highest reported scores in the world fnr idden game dassics Frogger Moon patrol, Fengo, Tutankban, and Bagman! In short, Gubble is a delightful diversion of dementia, requiring both last ref l exe and strategic savoir-hire. If games like Quake and Shadow Warrior are too violent for your tastes and you want something the whole hmily will enjoy, then gobble up Gubble today. +

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Staying Alive Here are a few tips for keeping the forces of good at bay: 1. Don't venture all over the map until you have the makings of a decent defense force. Secure some gold and a portal, and then develop your dungeon! 2. Keep training your c reaturesf H igher le v e l monsters often have very effective special powers. 3. Don't just torture enemy prisoners to deathmake them join y our team ! How? Before you torture t h e m, get their health up by force-feeding them chickens. This may take a while. 4. Experiment with different sacrifice combinations at the temple — but don't sacrifice humans or undeadf 5. Get your Imps to fortify your walls, or heroes will drop in when you least want them to. A magic door surrounded by soft walls is useless.

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DK is not for the faint of heart. It waiiows in the maniacal ambiance of horror-movie evilonly this time you are the creepy thing that goc:s bump in the night. During the course of the game, you will be expected to dish out abuse to make your underlings work harder, allow prisoners to starve to death in order to gain valuable Skeleton war-

Here are some whispers from beneath the earth: 1. To get the Homed Reaper (the best fighter you can have), you need to sacrifice a Dark Mistress, a Bite Demon, and a Troll at the temple. 2. There are five "regular" secret levels, which you can find through normal play. There are also "moon" levefs, though, which appear during phases of the moon (the game reads your CPU clock). Keep your eye out for them, especially when the moon is full. 3. There is a way (undocumented and unsupported) to have muftipfayer-style skirmishes against the computer. At the DOS prompt, type "keeper -Iplayer" or "keeper95 -1player" (no quotes), depending on whether you' re playing through DOS or WingS. Beware: the Al is much more aggressive (but this is a good thing),

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With its ail-Canadian content, GeoRiddler Canada, an inter-

active tris' game for up to three players, will help anyonr who is feeling culturaily illiterate gct over it. Not only are all the questions purely Canadian (such as " Which Vancouver novelist's book c o i ned t h c t e r m 'Cyberspacc?'" ox "A fire swept through this city in 1886 destnsying almost the entire town. What town got toasted?"), but a bonus portion of the game is "hosted" byAIex Trebek,the

Canadiankorn host of Jeopardy. Thc main portion of the game is conducted by a voice-with': = a~ tie- w i t a t titude that sounds an awful lot like JimCarsey (but isn' t), The script for the gamewas created by writers fn>m the Second City comedy team. Watch out for the amusingly sarcasticcomments when you get a wrong answer. To get the most fun out of the game, the user is supposed to

purchase "slammers" — special buttons to hit when players think they know the answer. Using a keyboard is equally effective, though. When I tried the game as a solo player, it wasn't half the fun. The game doesn't have an option to let the computer play against you. It's like playing Jeopardy against two empty podiums. Still, it's a fun game and it's surprising what you can learn. Being all Canadian makes it a bit special, too. + GeoRiddffrConndo,from IQ Media and CanadianCeographic. Win95 fs 3,1 CDROM. $56.99.

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worth the wait. The only reason DK doesn' t get five stars is the AI is as dumb as a bag of rocks (except in skirmish mode —see sideb ar). The heroes are tough, but the r n r m y dungeon keepers you encounter are rarely a problem. If Bullfrog ever releases a patch making the A l m o r e f e rocious, DK w i l l become a classic. As it is, it's simply, fiendishly great, +

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riors; and sacrifice and/or torture both friend and foeforyour benefit(or amusement). 'I'hemechanics of the game are easily mastered. Like Tberne Park and Theme Hospital, two other "god" games from Bullfrog, you construct your world in a modular fashion, and the inhabitants drawn to it are more or less independent (they' ll pursue their own interests unless you direct them otherwise).

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' >.'i. ULTINET TOWER PKG ¹TCPd ':-, Parts 4 Upgrade sectIon Intel Pentium processor & Tnton HX chipset T riton rnbd with 256/512k cache $88 / 9 8 ;%5%~ Triton HX/TX mbd with 512k cache $108/148 32 mb EDO ram & 512k7ns pipeline cache ", ASUS Triton HX mbdtw512k cache SCSI (3.1gb hdd 816X cdrm), Adptc 2940 ctrl $169 17" Intelliview .28dp mtr 8 SB16 Oem sound IPentiumll(Klamath) mbd $295 -- ~ + ; ~16mb(2pcsx8) or 32mb (2x16) ram $72/144 S3 Virge 2mb video & USR 33.6 fx modem -" ~<-.— ~~TV tuner card for any PCI system Ms-Windows 95 cd ver installed & configured $149 P-166MMX $2451 or l e ase $91/rnth CPU's P133/P166/ $151/$227 ' CPU's (with MMX) P166/P200/P233/Pll-233/266 P-200MMX $2619 o r lease $97./mth P-233MMX $283 5 o r lease $105 mth $201/358/558/820/1028 -.g~+RHW (cpu's and ram sold with mbd only) Penll-233(Klmth) $3259 o r lease $121 /mth Penll-266(Klmth) $3479 o r lease $129/mth Fast service and upgrades done for any system. -

ULTINET TOWER PKG ¹TCP18 Intel Pentiurn processor & Triton HX chipset 64 mb EDO ram & 512k 7ns pipeline cache 3..t" "~+q 4.1gb enh ide hdd & 17" Intelliview .26dp mtr S3 Virge 2mb video 8 USR 33.6 fx modem 16x cdrom 8 Creative Labs SB16 sound card Win NT Wrkstn V4.0 installed & configured I P-166MMX $2343 o r lease $87./mth , P-200MMX $25 12 o r l e ase $93./mth I P-233MMX $2727 o r l e ase $101./mth Penll-233(Klmth) $3042 o r lease $113/mth Penll-266(Klarnath)$3262 o r lease $121 /rnth

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: ULTINET TOWER PKG «TCP17 I n tel Pentium processor 8, Triton HX chipset 64 mb EDO ram & 512k 7ns pipeline cache ' l SCSI (4.5gb ultra wide hd, 16X cdrom), Adptc -.j2940UW ctrl, 17" Intelliview .26dp mtr 8 SB16 ; S3 Virge 2mb video & USR 33.6 fx modem : ~ Ms-Windows 95 cd ver installed 8 configured :P-166MMX $3341 o r lease $124/mth iP-200MMX $35 10 or l e ase $130/mth ,P-233MMX $3725 or l e ase $138/mth, , Penll-233(Klmth) $4149 o r lease $154/mth Penll-266(Klmth) $4369 o r le ase $162/mth , Clearance Corner (New or refurbished units) P-100, '32mbram,4Xcdrom,1.6gb,33.6vfx $645 P' 133,32mbram,4Xcdrom,1.6gb.33.6vfx $711 P-166,32mbram,4Xcdrom,1.6gb,33.6vfx$770 PPro-180, 32mbram,8X,3.1gb,33.6vfx, $1280 ,486DX4/75 ntbk,only 4lbs,8mb,520hd $1445 i P-100 ntbk,10.4" dualscan, 16mb, 1gb hd $1395 P-133 ntbk,10 4" dualscan, 16mb, 1gb hd $1795 I P-133 ntbk,10.4" active, 4Xcd,16mb,1gb $2295

i ULTINOTE/CD Model 7200 PKG ¹TCP11 ' No compromise big 13.3" 1024x768 active clr Incredible desktop size graphics and power! 32mb ram, 2gb hdd & 256k cache, 1,44mb floppy & 11X enhide cdrom, lithium ion battery ~2mb video ram & 33.6 vfx modem, 2x Pcmcia Approx 2hrs battery life & Ms Windows 95 cd iiP-166MMX $5018 or l e ase $186 mth ' P-200MMX $5190 o r lease $192 /mth P-233MMX $5409 or l ease $200 /mth

ULTINOTE/CD Modeld200 PKG ¹TCPT/9 ',12.1" dual scan or active matrix 800x600 clr 16mb ram. 1.3gb hdd, 256k cache & 1.44 flpy I',11x cdrom. 2mb video ram 8 33.6 vfx modern ~ Three PCMCIA slots, two empty, TV out video . Approx 2hrs battery life, carry case & ac adptr .' Ms-Windows 95 cd ver installed 8 configured P-166MMX $2789/3422 or $127 /mth , 'P-200MMX $2961/3593 or $133 /mth

.'Upg S3 Vlrge 2mb to 4mb/Matrox Mystique 2mb (OEM) .. . . . . . . . . . $ 60/$80 ,'Upgrade S3 Virge 2mb to Matrox Mlllenlum 4mb/8mb (OENI) .. . . . . $ 210/465 Upgr ntbk 1.3gb hdd to 2gb, reg HX mbd to ASUS with 512k pipeline $180/65 ,Upg SB16 OEM to SB320EM, or SB64AWE Value editn /TV tuner. ..$55/$118 'Upg 32mb EDO ram to 64mb ram (32mbx2)/16X to 24Xcdrom. . . . . . $ 198/$40 Upg HX to TX mbd with 10ns(Watch for cheaper 12ns/20ns SDRAM) (but our ~HX mbd with EDO ram outperforms any TX with 10ns SDRAM by 10%) $95 'Upg to S3 Video/TV tuner combo with picture in picture, simultaneous TV$99

New item. for your existing Pentlum or new Pentium system, fast disk cacheing controller with Motorola 68000 MPU and 4mb/16mb disk cache .only $98/185 AII systems can be configured to your exact specs, please call or fax price request. Lease to own rates at $37/ per $1000 for 36 months, other lease terms available. All towers include kybd, mouse, spkrs,mm titles, Windows 95 and 2yrs P&L warranty. Free 2 week internet access, eRer which flare saiilaited access is only 41 8.95 /iath. Instant one nominate set-up. Any and ail customers welcome. lyr prepaid speciei Ior only $10.5S/ mIIiiI. '•

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