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Can you walk and chew Num?

According to a recent article in Psychology

Today (Sept/Oct p,14), "dual task interference" is what the psychologists call the
phenomena of the inability to walk and
chew gum at the same time. While most
people can walkand chew gum, some
combinations of tasks just can't be performed at the same fime no matter how
simple. Psychologists talk about a "bottleneck" it seems our response to a second task is upheld until the response to
the first task is selected. When we have to
figure out a response, there is a delay.
How is it that we can drive a car and
s till engage i n d e b ates about t h e
Canadian Unity question? The answer is
that most of us don't think about driving
it has gone down to an automatic level
of consciousness. Selecting and responding are two different things and accomplished by different neural networks in
the brain. The bottom line: when expected to perform two tasks, don't bother
starting on the second before you' ve performed your first and steer clear of
Unity debates with student drivers.

What doesthisallhave to do with computers?

Getting Started
in Desktop
Publishing ...........16
BY GRAEME BENNETT

Toronto Service SLIreaus .......18

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A ccount in g S o f t w a r e e e e\ e\ ees2 8

Well, I happened to read that Psychofogy Todayarticle on my way back

from the September MacWorld Show in Toronto. At the same show, I Converting to a computerized system. BY ERIC HOY
g ot a close-up look a t R a d ius's new RocketShare. What t h i s
software/hardware combination does is allow you to use your Macintosh
as a multiprocessor. Multiprocessing systems are one of those "big
trends" that will probably reach average desktop users in the next few BY ALAN SALMON
years. OS/2, Unix and Windows NT all promise multiprocessor support,
with Compaq, Everex, IBM and a slew of other vendors at various stages
of shipping such systems. Unfortunately For most PC users it means buying a new machine that is built to handle multiprocessors, according to
William Zachmann of PC Week (Aug 10, 1992 p. 60), and it will be 1993- The conclusion of our two-part series, BY JAMES MACFARLANE
94 before hardware vendors start building them with this capabfiity builtin.
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Back to Radius. It seems they have licensed the necessary software
from Apple, added their Rocket accelerator boards which fit into slots in Understanding RAM and Hard Drives. BY ROB MAYHEW
the Macintosh II line of computers and made Macs into multiprocessor
computers. You can add three or four to a Mac Quadra and have a mammoth system.

Keeping the Numbers Straight.......39

A Brief History of the BBS ...............30

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Toronto MacNorld Show.......13

Going back to our "walking-and-chewing~m d i l emma, our computer

may be able to do two things at once, but most of us can' t. I asked the
salesman from Radius what people are using RocketShare for. He said
that so far, most of them have been sold to people working with image
processing software like Photoshop or rendering software. (Robert
Goodman, the award-winning publisher of I tlrkkrErsong, apparently uses
one of these systems to publish beautiful four-color coffee table books in
record time PC Week Sept 21, 1992 p. 29.) These types of tasks are
things that take the computer a long time to complete. Not a lot of decisions are happening, it is just a computer-intensive task, that they send to
one processor and then flip to another one to do some other unrelated
task. (Some software is heing created to be sophisticated enough to take
a chunk of a big task and split it between multiple processors.)
The model of multiprocessor use that seems likely to evolve will
resemble similar to the way the human brain works (surprisel). Make a
decision, perform a task make another decision, perform another task.
etc. asymmetric processing.

How useful will multiprocessors be to most of us?

It is risky to say that multi-processors will be useless to general business

users. On the surface, it would appear that there aren't that many tasks
that we really need multiple processors for. I thought of things like
modems and downloading. Much of telecommunicating consists of
selecting a file to download and then waiting 5-10-20 minutes for the task
to be completed. I can already do that with my software. It downloads
files in the background and I can continue to work on other thingsthough occasionally the computer will get a bit j umpyas it gets overworked. Then there are maintenance-type things on my computer like
printing, copying files and initializing disks that are just a pain to wait
for.Many of these tasks can already be done in the background. OS/2
lets you initialize disks while you work something that DOS cannot
do. System 7 gives the Mac the ability to copy files in the background.
Background printing is available on virtually all the major platforms.

Do we really need multieprocessors?

For specific computer-intensive tasks the answer is a definite yes. For
general business users, I guess the answer will ultimately depend on how
easy it is to use the additional processors and how inexpensive they
become, If the power is there for a reasonable price, I am sure we can
think of something to do with it. It wouldn't be the first time our tools
have caused us to evolve.
Enjoy the issue.

Kirtan Singh Khafsa

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HP sends Deskjet on the road with

portable version

BOISE, IDAHO Laser printer market

leader Hewlett-Packard has fmally entered
the portable computer market. From the
beginning of November, North American
PC users will be able to buy a portable version of HP's popular DeskJet 500 inkjet
computer that runs on batteries, prints at
three pages per minute, uses standard
DeskJet ink cartridges and includes four
scalable internal fonts along with support
for PCL and True Type.
Known as the HP DeskJet Portable, it
weighs four pounds and and will sell in the
U.S. for $599 (not including battery). It is
smaller than the Canon's BJ-10ex Bubble
Jet printer and similar offerings from
Mannesmann-Tally and Kodak-Diconix,
and the company claims that it will offer
users everything they can get in the existing DeskJet 50Dse6es systems.
A number of optional extras are available including a 5Wheet~padty cut~hect
feeder, a rechargeable battery, n world-

wide rapid recharger" (which you' ll need

in order to run the system on anything
other than 110 Volts) nnd a carrymg case.
In the U.S., the company is charging $99
for each of the add-ons except the
rechargeable battery, which will sell for
The interesting thing about the battery
is that it's actually a standard Panasonic
camcorder battery, so that if you can't get
one from HP, anylarge video store or electronics shop should stock it.
The DeskJet Portable indudes scalable
versions of Times, Univers (similar to
Helmtlca), Courier and Letter Gothic typefaces from 6 to 14 point and will also
h andle T r u eType an d A d ob e T y p e
Manager fonts in Windows. The printer is
also capable of printing in either portrait
or landscape mode.
Contack HP Canada (416) 678-9430

VTechoffershigh-speednotebook withon-boardmodem
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Computer Associates has entered the market for Microsoft Windows office" products. The company has announced a 'bundle' of Qve of its Windows-based applications to be sold together as CA@imply
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at Home Seminars, Wednesday November
November 2 5 t hro u g h T hu r s day, 25th on Advanced Computing and a special
November 26 (the show is in fact four full
series for VARs Only.
days, not three as wasstated last month in
Toff- the-line speakers include Jim
The Computer Paper). It is really the show
Manzi, CEO of Lotus, who will give the
of shows for the Toronto market. The
keynote address on the evolving role of
Toronto I n ternational Centre ( 6 9 00
computers in workgroup and portable comAirport Road, Toronto) will be filled with
p uting, Gordon Eubanks, CEO o f
over 500 exhibitors and 30,000 plus attenSymantec, T e r ese M y e rs, C E O of
dees. This year, along with checkmg out the
Quarterdeck,and Frank Clegg, General
latest offerings from major vendors such as Manager ofMicrosoft Canada.
Microsoft, NEC, Compaq, Canon, IBM,
Show limes are: Monday, November 25,
Lotus, WordPerfect, Fnjitsu, QMS, Toshiba 10 am4 pm, Tuesday, November 24, 10 amand Lotus, attendees can experience
6 pm; Wednesday, November 25, 10 am@
Virtual Reality, plug into a wireless LAN,
pm; Thursday, November 26,10 am rI pm.
sajnple the Software Pavilion, drop by the
Registration at the door is $20. A sepahome office display, handle the latest palmrate registration fee is required for the
top and pen-based computers, quiz the
Conference.
experts at the Consultants Forum and test
Contact For further details and rogietrahon
drive OS/2 at I BM's OS/2 Test Drive
information, calI Canadian Computer Show &
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Microsoft adds network software and e-mail to new version of Windows

Microsoft has fired off a major salvo in its
war to seize the PC network market from
Novell.
At a recent briefing for industry editors
and analysts in Bellevue,WA, Microsoft
described its plan "for making it easier for people in
both large and small companies to build workgroup
and enterprise solutions."
As part of the presentation, Microsoft demonstrated several new products,
including the Microsoft
Windows for Workgroups
operating system which
includes integrated networking as well as database products for
Windows 5.1.
During the all-day session, Microsoft
outlined its strategy for workgroup computing, which will be based on an open, evolutionary, scalable solutions-based approach.
Microsoft says it is adding basic workgroup
functionality to the operating system,
extending and adding to its line of applications, and supporting custom solutions to
satisfy the needs of workgroups.
According to Bill Gates, chairman and
CEO of Microsoft, it is all about meeting
the needs of the networked 1990s."We are
seeing the world evolve from islands of
information on individual workstations to
groups of people collaborating on shared
information," he said. "Microsoft is providing the infrastructure in the operating system for the development of the next generation of applications those that empower
these groups of people and bring our vision
of 'information at Your Fingertips' to the
desktop."
Windows for Workgroups, the first ver-

sion of Microsoft Windows to incorporate

workgroup functionality into"the operating
environment, was demonstrated during the
briefing. Windows for Workgroups is a version of Microsoft Windows S.l that is supposed to make it easy for
groups to share information and work together by
providing built-in file and
printer sharing. It comes
complete with electronic
mail, group scheduling and
network-enabled dynamic
data exchange (DDE) that
allows users to link objects
across the network.
Windows NT, m e anwhile, will also incorporate these workgroup capabilities when it is shipped in
early 1993, while Windows for Workgroups
is scheduled to be available at the end of
October 1992.
Microsoft also outlined a strategy for
integrating Windows for Workgroups and
the planned Windows NT operating system
into existing network and messaging systems, and demonstrated future systems
management tools for the large enterprise.
In addition, for companies with host-based
or integrated office systems as their computing infrastructure, Microsoft demonstrated why it thinks WOSA can enable a
smooth migration to LAN-based client-server solutions.
Another key component of Microsoft's
workgroup strategy is to make existing
applications, such as Microsoft Excel and
Microsoft Word, "workgroup-enabled"
through standard APIs such as MAPI
(Microsoft's electronic mail interface). The
company says this would create new applications and technologies critical to both

individuals and groups, as well as "leverage"

applications as building blocks for customized solutions.
In addition, Microsoft says it recognizes
the importance of treating data as a
reusable asset with general-purpose databases. "We view workgroup computing as
an evolutionary process," said Steve
Ballmer, executive vice president, worldwide sales and support at Microsoft. "Users
should be able to use the applications and
operating systems they are already familiar
with, and be able to pick and choose the
elements they need for their particular
workgroup without the inflexibility of onesize-fits-all products."
Microsoft also said that development of
workgroup solutions requires an in&astructure to provide the service, support and
specialized expertise needed for complex
business computing.
To that end, Microsoft announced yesterday the launch of a new initiative to support businesses integrating Microsoft software into all kinds of PC "solutions." As the
first element in this strategy, Microsoft will
offer direct access to Microsoft tools, support and information for companies in the
business of selling value-added software services to customers. This support plan is
called the Microsoft Solutions Channels.
Microsoft says it will offer a broad outreach to corporations and specialists who
provide personal computing solutions, of
which the Microsoft Solutions Channels is a
part. It comprises a long-term strategic shift
toward building business relationships with
companies whose use of personal computing technologies is being reshaped by current industry trends.
The new Microsoft Solutions Channels
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value-added resellers, systems integrators,

consultants and training organizationswhom Microsoft says require a wide range
of information about Microsoft products in
a variety of personal computing environments.
Microsoft will offer these organizations
sales and product information, development services, customer support tools
induding priority telephone support, education and business development support
and early access to Microsoft products.
Microsoft says the program is a result of
extensive research conducted over the last
year and incorporates the company's experience to date in serving the emerging
needs of the thousands of companies providing software solutions that integrate
Microsoft software. It expands Microsoft's
channel offerings into an overall program,
incorporating two pre-existing Microsoft
programs the Network Specialist and
Industry Specialist programs.
Microsoft promised that members of
those programs will retain all their current
benefits and receive all benefits from the
new program, at their option.
"Personal computing technologies have
evolved to a point where they are central to
business computing," said Jeff Raikes,
senior vice president at Microsoft, "One
result has been extraordinary, new opportunities opening up for software service
companiesable to provide the tailored personal computing solutions businesses now
want. Our goal is to work with those companies, to make it easier for them to provide tailored solutions that incorporate
industry standards including Microsoft
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Apple recalls early
PowerBook 100
notebook Macs
Apple Computer is urging owners of early production PowerBook 100
notebook computers to
r eturn t h ei r u n i t s f o r
what it calls "minor circuit board modification."
A pple s a y s i t h a s
"become aware" ofa malfunction in some
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models.
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only occurred on three of almost 60,000
PowerBook 100 systems and that no personal injury or property damage (to anything other than the PowerBook itself)
resulted from the malfunction.
If you think you may need to return
your PowerBook 100, contact your nearest
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Fracterm brings high-quality graphics to BBSs

Fracterm, Inc., a Vancouver-based software
developer, has recently announced the
release of Fracterm 1.1, a BBS package
capable of real-time graphics.
According to Fracterm CEO Dwight
Jones, "everyone thought that we'd have to
wait for both ISDN and fiber optics to see
real-time graphics, but hopefully seeing is
believing; it's here now."
According to Scott Brinker, vice president of a leading BBS software developer,

Galacticomm, Inc., "Fracterm This technology is going to blow the doors off the BBS
market. High-quality on-line graphics, with
incredibly fast response time such as the
Fracterm package are going torevolutionize the way people use bulletin boards."
The package consists of four modules
which can upgrade a variety of host BBS
software packages to what the vendor calls
"full graphical status." The four modules
are: 1) software compression based on frac-

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VGA 640 x 400, 24 bit files to be a mere
10K or lower); 2) a Sysop Module, 3) a terminal program for BBS users; and 4) a
viewer for off-line viewing.
Pricing has been set at $175 per. phone
line. A format to support on-line magazines
or newspapers is scheduled to be released
before the year end.

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using object-oriented programming techniques.

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Mississauga getsnew
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Brothers' BeagleWorks. I couldn't find an
unbusy Microsoftian for long enough to get
a demo, so I can' t say how good it was.

Toronto IVlacWolld Show

The One-Off CD Shop inc. (1-800-

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sell franchises as to demonstrate their ability to produce low cost "onewfl" CDs. The
concept is that you go to their store with
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BY K I R T A N S I N G H K H A L S A

ne of the highlights for me at the

Toronto MacWorld S how held
Sept 1 5 - 1 7 a t th e Me tr o
Convention Centre had to be seeing a
Macintosh control Legs> robots. Whether
this is testament to the fact that there was
little new and thrilling at the show, or a
general devolution of my own tastes, I'm
not sure. There were lots of good evolutionary new items at the Show, but seeing a
computer reach out. and control something
outside its own internal world of chips and
software struck me as a real feat even if
it was only little plastic blocks. The concept
of being able to affeci many more things
on the other side of ihe screen is what
makes the promise of rtibotics so appealing
to so many. I am sure that the changes we
have seen with compuiers will seem minute
once we get to the stagif personal robots.
The g a n g I' it>tn Sa v e d
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Technology (416-9" 8-i>434) were making
lots of loud noises wiili their MIDI and the
Mac demonstrations. The incidence of
ponytails went up consicferabfy in the vicinity of their booth.

Claris did very well with their Filemaker

Pro Consultants Centre as well. It seems
more than a few businesses have managed
to make the easy-to-use database the core of
their operations.
Microsof t was showing the new version 3.0 of Works. This venerable old-timer,
which Microsoft claims has more than
750,000 users, has started to face some serious competi t io n f r o m C l a r i sWorks,

Claris'
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Hardpac Pocket Drives for the Mac. These
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to and including 120 MB, fit in a shirt
pocket and weigh abut>i a pound. They also
come in "PowerBook gi v."

BMU6, the Berkeley Macintosh

Uses' 6roup (510-8-19-9114), was there

selling memberships, I'-shirts, CD-ROMs,
shareware disks and hrks t The books that
have come out of largely volunteer effort
are some of the best ii > the field. They have
the BMUG Shareu>are t)i >tt Catalogover 700
pages long, which catitlogues much of the
available Macintosh shareware. They also
sell Zen and the Art of l<esource Fditing The
BhfUG Guide to Bulletin Boards and Beyond
offers a Macintosh ust i 's view of the world
of telecommunications lt got an excellent
review in Boardyoatch i n.igazine.
Apple took a nuii>ber of us into their
confidence and showed us their newest
computers, which werc to ship Oct 19th.
We can't talk about tlicm till then; suflice
to say that everything vou read about them
in MacWeehis true.

Berkeley Systems, inc. (510-540-

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Dark, the screen saver that features flying
toasters, are not resting on their laurels.
Not only were they selling flying toaster
ties, they will be out soon with Star Trek
screen savers.
Judgin by the number of
Trekkies who lined up in front of their
booth to watch Mr. Spock beam onto their
computer screens,they have another winner on their hands.
Microtek (213-32 I -2121) was on hand
t o show their new S ~n Maker I I C o l o r
Flatbed Scanner. This retooled version of
their popular 300Z and 600Z line of scanners offersmore speed, easier-to-use software and support for TWAIN (a new standard which allows TW.ttl o m p atible software to scan directly into a variety of software.) At least one vendor at the show was
selling the Scanmaker II for $1099 including the Photoshop buiiclle.
Clat'is (1-800-668-8948) was showing
the new Macintosh version of Filemaker
Pro. Most of the enhai < ernents were of the
evolutionary type, except for extensive
Apple Events support, the promise of a fivefold speed improvement over networks,
a nd fil e c o m p ati b i l it y w it h t h e n e w
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was demo-ing in their booth (among other

things) Telemagic, one of the best-selling
sales management software packages.
Telemagic has made its name in the DOS
world. It is built on the database Foxbase
and is available in single and multi-user
configurations. It features "scripting,"
order history, a "tickler file" as well as interfaces to a variety of accounting software. It
is the way to go if you are setting up a telemarketing division in your company.
SeftCOde seems io be emerging as the
independent Macintoshwnly full-range distributor for Canada. Their booth was
booming with a variety of products. One
that caught my eye was Agent DA from
Team Building Technologies in Montreal

8 830
8 860
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1MB RAM.
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COIOr VGA Monitor.

VGA Card 255 K Ram.

2 SerIal, l P'arallel. 1 Game Part.

Mini TOWer Or DealttOP Caae.

(514-278-MID). This is a fairly simple network calendaring prograin. Simple, but

well thought out. It includes a to-do list and
an elegant copy-and-paste routine that
allows you to share your calendars with
other users on the network
WorldUnk. A couple of months back
we ran an article about the Internet. A
number of people called looking for ways
to get onto the Internet. Now there is
WorldLink, a $2&e-month, widely available
service that allows users to connect to the
Internet. Contact InterCon of Herndon,
Virginia (705-709-9890).

Recycle Your Computer (416-516-

4800) was bandying their Blue Book of

used Macintosh values about. Their concept is to make dealers aware of a resale
value for used computers. As new machines
come into the market, a growing aftermarket is developing for less-than-state-of-theart computers.

Canada Remote Systems, (voice:

416-620-1459). Canada's largest BBS (and

North America's best, according to a recent
Boardroatchmagazine poll) was there to
show their support for Mac users
X ant e C o r p csrat lo n a n d t h e i r
Canadian Distributor (Mike Watson 604925-1141) were showing the Accel-a-Writer
upgrade controllers for existing HP and
Apple Iam.rwriters. For owners of older generation 500 dpi printers, these controller
boards are a must see. They add considerably to the speed and the resolution of
both text and graphics. They also sell the
complete hi-res printers the 8000 and 4000
models. Check them out.
For anyone involved in high-end desktop p u b lishing, E C SZI ( E l e ctronic
Composition and Imaging) magazine
(Youngblood Communications 416-2996007) is a must-subscribe. They feature a
minimum of fluff content and great how-to
articles. They also have excellent taste in
covers (Last month, they managed to run
the same picture on the cover as The
Computer Paper.)
The trouble with reviewing trade shows,
is that there are always about 500 different
things you could write about, and it is really
a combination of the reviewers current
obsessions and chance that result in what
gets covered. This was definitely the case at
MacWorld Toronto. A good show, evolutionary (most big vendor save up their big
products for Sari Francisco or Boston) but
enough to please the 15,DOO or so dedicated Mac fans who came from Toronto,all
over the n o r t hern U . S . an d e astern
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TORONTO, ONTARIO (NB) Visitors to

MacWorld Exposition Canada got a sneak
preview of After Effects, software designed
to let Macintosh users do video editing and
special effects on their computers. The
Company of Science gc Art (CoSA) plans to
release the package late this year, company
spokesman David Tecson said.
Tecson described the softwarewhich
uses the QuickTime video extensions to
Apple's System 7.0, as a post-production
tool. It can take video clips and graphics
from varioussources and edit and combine
them. Features include chroma-keying,
which allows all areas of a specified color to
be replaced by a second video signal, and
the ability to animate graphic objects.
In a demonstration, for i nstance,
Tecson started with a video signal of a man
talking against a plain blue background. He
added the graphic image of a red-and-white
beach ball and animated it so that it moved
around the screen while the man talked.
Then he usedthe chroma-keying feature to

replace the pIain background with a second

video clip showing penguins walking
around on an ice floe.
The software supports full 32-bit color
and can handle large screens, according to
CoSA. Up to 256 layers of video can be edited together.
Tecson said that. After Effects will be
useful to video production houses. At present, he admitted, Macintosh hardware is
probably not fast enough to be satisfactory
for final production, but a Mac equipped
with After Effects will offer a way for producers to experiment with possible effects
before deciding what to produce using fullfledged video editing systems.
In future, Tecson added, improved
hardware may makethe computer a reasonable platform for final production. He said
the software today can provide video quality
corn parable to 16-millimeter film.
Contact: David Tecson, CoSA, 401-831-2672,
fax 401-831-2875.

M ETRO TORONTO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER NOVEMBER '92

IiflacWorld Canada:

tiwacWorld Canada:

"Blue Book" For Used Macs

SoftCode Adds To Driue Line

M ARK H A M , O N T A R I O ( N B )
SoftCode Distributors and Consultants
a nnounced a t M a c W o rl d E x p o s i t i o n
Canada that it has added to its line of disk
and tape drives for Macintosh computers.
SoftCode manufactures some of the drives entirely in Canada, and assembles others out of components imported from the
U nited S t a tes an d t h e F a r E a s t , a
spokesman said. They are sold across
Canada and internationally, but not in the
United States.
SoftCode added a network server that

can accommodate as much as 12 gigabytes

of storage. It features high-grade power
supplies, multiple cooling systems, and a
multiple SCSI (small computer systems
interface) ID selector, the company said.
SoftCode's servers use the SCSI interface and can be used withany computer
that can support SCSI, the spokesman said.
The company also added to its line of fixed
hard drives.
Contact: The Cohen Group for Soflcode, 416226-6267.

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$94
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Education Master
$46
Electronic Home Library
$104
Electronic Library of Art
$104
FamilyDoctor
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First Canadian Shareware
$56
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Great Cities vol. 2
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Hall of Fame
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King Quest V
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The blue book is available only to

authorized dealers and used-computer brokers, the spokesman said. RYC said it
promises to pay the prices listed in the blue
book to any authorized retailer, dealer,
value-added resellers, or leasing company.
Recycle Your Computer is publishing
updates to the book a slim, pocket-sized
pamphlet twice a month.
Sample prices include C$700 for a used
Macintosh Classic II with four megabytes
(MB) of memory and a 40MB hard drive,
and C$2,300 for a Mac II fx with two MB of
memory and an 80MB drive.

T OR O N T O ,
O N T A R I O (NB)
Wondering what your old Macintosh is
worth? The answer or at least the answer
according to one Toronto used computer
broker is in the RYC Blue Book.
Recycle Your Computer, a Tor on to
used-computer dealer that specializes in
the Macintosh line, has launched the blue
book as a source of current price information on Macintosh models. At present the
book only covers the Mac l i ne , bu t a
spokesman at RYC's booth at MacWorld
Exposition Canada said the company is
considering expanding the reference to
include machines based on Intel and compatible chips.

. Throne Computer Systems

Multimedia PC

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Languages of the World

$76
Loom
$85
Macmillian Dictionary for Children$76
Magazine Rack
$46
Microsoft Bookshelf
$114
Mixed Up MotherGoose
$56
Monarch Notes
$94
Multimedia World Fact Book
$54
Sherlock Holmes Con. Detective $65
Secret Weapons
$89
Stellar 7
$71
Time Compact Alamanac 1990 $75
Time Table of Science
$75
Total Baseball
$71
U.S. History
$94
U.S. Atlas
$46
Vital Signs
$90
Windows Shareware
$62
World Atlas (Multimedia Version) $85
World View
$55
Wing Commander/Ultima VI
$75
"' CD Caddy for Sony Ddve
$9

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120M IDE Hard Drive 64K cache
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Parallel, 2 Serial, Game poris
32 bits Local Bus VGA ....+ $163
101 archancad keyboard
GoldStar Inl. Monitor .......... - $35
ksni-Towar with 200W CSA Power Supply
Mag Data Non-Int. Monitor + $50
512K 16 bits Super VGA Card
MS cornpak'bla 3 boson mouse
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386SX-33 with 2 Meg
386DX-40, 128K, No RAM
386DX-40, 128K wl 4 Meg
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Flopllcal 21M Drive 6 Interface $479
Ropllcal 2IM Disketle
$35
IDE Seagaie 42M, 28ms
$235
IDE Kalok 105M, 19rns
$295
IDE Kalok 120M, 19ms
$335
IDE Quantum 127M, 17ms
$400
IDE Maxior 130M, 15ms
$400
IDE WD 213M, 15ms
$555
IDE Maxlor 340M, 15ms
$ ggg
Colorado Irri 250M Tape Drive $325
Panasonlc 5 1/4" 1.2M
$ 68
Fujilsu 3 1/2" 1.44M
$60
$25
IDE FD&HD controller
I DE FD&HD 2Ser/1P/1G cntr $ 3 8
AT I/O caid 28er/IP/IG ports $25
AT MFM HD&FD conkoller
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Citizen GSX240, 24 pins
$ 435
Epson LX810, 9 pins
$210
Epson LQ570, 24 pins
$ 370
Panasonlc 2180, 9 pins
$ 210
Panasonic 1123, 24 pins
Panasonlc 2123, color 24 p

$249
$295
Panasonlc 2124, color 24 p
$419
Raven 9105(2180), color 9 p $ 195
Raven 2406(2123), color 24 p $295
Raven 2420(2124), color 24 p $389
Raven 2465(1624), 24 p wide $445
Color Kit for Raven & Pane $59
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HP IIIP 4pp, w/TONER
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HP III 8ppm wll'ONER
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HP IIID Sppm w/TONER
$2860
HP IIISI 17ppm w/TONER $4350
Okldata400 4ppm w/TONER $728
Okldata 810 Sppm w/TONER $1280
Okldata830 Sppm w/TONER $1570
Okldata840 8ppm w/TONER $1920
Panasonic 4410 5ppm(HPII) $855
Panasonic 4430 Sppm(HPIII) $1095
Raven LP-510 Sppm (HPII) $799
Raven LP-530 5ppm (HPIII) $1095
Raven LP-1130 11ppm(HPIII) $1710

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Canon BJ-300
$ %0
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$660
HP DeskJet 500
$ 478
HP DeskJel 500C color

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HP IM/2M memory board $98I142
HP 4M memory board
$230
HP Pacific Page Postscript $365
HP Toner for IIPIIIP+/IIIP
$89
HP Toner for II/III/IIDIIIID
$99
HP Legel size paper tray
$ 95
HP DeskJel 500 Ink Carl
$30
H P DeskJel SOOC Color Cart $4 9
Oki 400 1M/2M memory $155/200
Oki 800/820 1M memory
$200
Oki Toner for Laser
$38
Raven 510/530 1M memory $150
Raven 510/5302M memory $200
Raven 510/530 Toner Refill
$50

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DRAM 44256-70
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$55
Trident SVGA 512K 1024
9800 Send/Recfax ini Modem $80
Trident IM 1024 256 color $ gg
GVC 9600InfSIR fax Modem $99
ALVGA Accel. 1280 64K color $ 165 GVC 9800 ExtSIR fax Modem $125
ATI XL 1M 1024
$148 GVC 9800 Exl v42 v32 mnP5 $300
ATI XL24 IM & Mice, origlna$183 GVC 14.4 Exl v42 v32 mnp5 $340
ATI Graphic Ultra 1280 1M $345 GVC 14.4 Exl sir fax v42 v32 $380
WinFax 2.0 for GVC only
T seng Local Bus VGA 1M $ 2 2 5
$30
Monographlcs
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Aamazlng VGA .41
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CA Supeicalc for Dos
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CA Superprojecf for Windows $590
LogllechMouseman
$76
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CA Texlor for Windows
$9g
Logltech Trackman Serial $99
CP Anti-Virus V1.2
$2.00 Logllech Scanman 256
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$325
$6.50 Video Blaster *' NEW **
CP Commute
$35
$470 CP PCTool V7.1
$6.00
$ 110
$128 CP PCTool Anti-virus bundle $165
$15.50 Sound Blaster V2.0
$42.00 Sound Blaster Pro with MIDI $227 MS DOS 5.0 Full Version
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$38.50 Sound Blaster Pro with 2CD $227 MS Windows 3.1 Full version $88
$160.00 ATI Stereo F/X with speaker $145 MS Windows 3.1 OEM version $78
$44,00 Stereo Speaker w Amplifier $45
OS/2 2.0Windows upgrade $80

16

NO V EINBER '92THE COMPUTER PAPER METRO TORONTO

EDITION

Getting Started in
Over the past few years, prices on computers have been dropping consistently and
rapidly. The price wars started by the noname clone brands have spread,not only to
Compaq, IBIN and other big players in the
PC arena, but also tothe INacintosh camp.
It's war out there,and, as usual, the consumer is the victor.

Image courtesy of
Ventura Software Inc.

You' ve probably no t i ced

p rice d i f f e r ences between
the fastest models
and their s l ower
kin diminishing. You
have to be careful ,
though. W h e n th e
\
salesperson at your local
c omputer store c l a i m s
that you can get a 486 for
$1,500 and asks you, "Why
settle for less?", you need to
take a deep breath and make
your choice based on quality, not
price. Unusually low-priced PCs
tend to have poor-quality components.
I have heard many stories of "bargain-priced" monitors that malfunction
after a few months, keyboards that begin to
stick, mice that begin to squeak, disks that
develop read errors, video displays that
manifest strange interference patterns, and
other grievous tales. You get what you pay
for. Seriously.
Keep in mind what you want the computer to do and choose the system that best
meets those needs. This probably means
that you should decide on the software first.
While it is beyond the scope of this article to give a complete feature list of all the
leading desktop publishing (DTP) programs, there are several worth checking
out. Here are some of my favorites.

Aldus PageMaker

B Y 6 R A E IN E B E I I N E T T

Aldus PageMaker is a good choice if easeof-use is more important than precise typo
graphic control. Its main benefit is that it
closely emulates the notion of positioning
items on a "pasteboard" that designers
doing manual pasteups are already comfortable with, Another advantage is that
files created with the PC version of the program can easily be loaded into the Mac version, and vice versa.
PageMaker's main drawback is that its
feature set lags behind most of its competition. For instance, PageMaker can have
only one document open at a time and its
capabilities for rotating text and graphics
are weak.
The PC version lacks the ability to perform its own process color separations a
capability included with the Mac version by
means of a bundled application called
PrePrint. All of these shortcomings, incidentally, are slated to be addressed in a
revision to the program due in the first
q uarter o f 1 9 9 8 . F o r n o w , t h o u g h ,
PageMaker's main strength is its intuitive
interface.

With a street price of around C$650,

PageMaker is not cheap, but it is one of the
most popular DTP applications. If you plan
to work for a company doing desktop publishing, PageMaker is a valuable addition to
your resume.

Quark XPress
Quark XP ress, a longtime favorite of
Macintosh "power publishers," will soon be
available for the PC. Both versions have a
street price around $800. A considerable
number of XPressusers were first attracted
to the program because it offered typographical controls and features not available in programs like Ventura Publisher
and PageMaker.
A few years ago, this also meant having
to sufFer through Quark's oftenmbtuse user
interface. Today, however, with version S.l,
XPress employs a "pasteboard" metaphor
much like that of PageMaker, and ofFers a
feature set that is significantly more robust.
Such subtleties as ligatures, color blends
and drop caps are well addressed by the
program, and its extensible "XTensions"
architecture makes it easy for third-party
developers to add specialized features. At
this time, I rate Quark XPress as the best
overall DTP program on the market.
XPress is slightly faster than PageMaker
when redrawing the screen. Program stability is quite good (especially compared to
earlier versions, which rightfully came to be

xpress").

known as "Quirk E

Mac versions earlier than S.ll suffered

some bugs that occasionally caused the program to quit unexpectedly. When the user
re-runs the program in such a case, Quark
typically announces that it is already running on the machine when, in fact, it isn' t.
Rebooting cures this problem, caused by
the program's copy-protection scheme, but
it is aggravating, nonetheless.

Ventura Publisher

Ventura Publisher, originally written for

the now-obsolete GEM graphical environment, has for a couple of years also been
available for Windows and the Mac. The
Mac versionnever really got offthe ground,
but the Windows version has garnered
praise from some users for its prowess at
handling long documents.
W ith v ersion 4 . 1 , ( a r o un d $ 6 0 0 )
Ventura Publisher has finally got something
over its competition: its paragraph tagging
system can now define global formats for
text flow and positioning as well as paragraph styles. With this feature, a hundred
boxes can have their l in e t h i c k nesses
changed from, say, one point to two in a
single step instead of a hundred. None of
Ventura's competitors have such a capabili-

The new version also contains estimable

color-separation capabilities and word processing features. Ventura users who have
suIFered with the inadequacies of previous
versions should check out this upgrade, but
be warned: Ventura Publisher 4.1 still has
clumsy font handling (it identifies typefaces
by numeric codes and uses an awkward
"environment width table" to manage font
metrics.)
Ventura also continues to lack the ability tohave more than one document open
at once, and remains blissf'ully ignorant of
Windows interface standards like keyboard
navigation of dialog boxes and cursor control while editing text.

FrameMaker
FrameMaker (about $800) is a technical
document-processing program that is now
available on numerous platforms Sun,
HP, Apollo, DEC, IBM RISC/System 6000,
X terminals, Intel iABI, NeXT, Macintosh
and PCs running Windows.
The advantage Frame has over other
document-processing programs is that it is
compatible between all of its platforms. For
instance, you could load an X-Windows
FrameMaker file into the Macintosh vers ion o f F r a m e M aker, an d a l s o i n t o
FrameMaker for Windows. There are no
more conversion blues for users to face
with this kind of application, and you don' t
have to start over with a switch from one
flavor of the program to another, as all the
FrameMaker versions have the same interface.
F rameMaker i s essentially a c r o ss
between a powerful word processor and a
desktop publishing program. With powerful features such as the ability to create documents with conditional contents (you
could, for example, create a single document that could be printed with metric
measurements in Canada and inches-andf eet m e a surement s i n t h e U .S. ) ,
FrameMaker is arguably the most powerful
document processor available on a PC.
I apologize to budgetwonscious readers
who will note that virtually all of the programs mentioned here cost over $500. It is
true that there are other, less-expensive
p rograms worth consideration for DT P
tasks. Unfortunately, I have purchased or
used nearly all of them, and have concluded that they generally don't represent a
very good investment.
Once you get even a little bit serious
about DTP, you' ll want to take a course on
your chosen application, or read a book on
the subject. If you choose a cheapo publishing package, you severely limit your future
options.

M ETRO TORONTO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER NOVENIBER '92 1 7

That said,here are a few budget-priced
titles I recommend for non-professional
users.
Microsoft Publisher (about $175) is my
top pick as a reasonably priced entry-level
title for the PC. For the Mac, the choice is a
little tougher, with Personal Press (street
priced around $120) and Publish It Easy
($200) being my two favorites.

Beware of:

A Slow or Lowcapacity Hard Disk How

much capacity is enough' Try twice what
you think you need. Look for a drive with a
long (2-, 3- or even 5-year) warranty and as
low a millisecond rating (9 ms is better
than 19 ms) as possible. I'd recommend at
least a 14 ms 105MB drive for DTP purposes.
Some desktop publishers find that a
removable SyQuest cartridge drive is a
handy item to have as a secondary storage
device. A removable SyQuest disk can hold
up to 44MB of data, making backups of
files easy, and facilitating the transportation of large scanned images (etc.) to and
from service bureaus, virtually all of which

have their own SyQuest drives. SyQuest drives are, however, somewhat prone to readwrite errors, usually due to careless handling or dust contamination. A SyQuest
disk is not a good choice for primary storage.
Optical drives are available at evermore-attractive prices (currently, a 128MB
optical drive goes for about US$1500), but
I'd hold off for a while yet. The same goes
for the so-called floptical disks (US$550),
which are essentially 21MB floppy disks.
Maybe next year....
Most IBM-compatible computers (and
some models of Atari and Amiga) use a
type of hard disk known as IDE, which
stands for integrated drive electronics.

These drives have been discussed at considerable length in previous issues of The
Computer Paper,most notably the Sept '92
article "Planning for the Future" by Roedy
Green.
Slow Video As regular readers are
aware, I highly recommend getting a system with accelerated video. The fastest
available systems come equipped with builtin display circuitry known as local bus
video, but accelerated video cards from
ATI are a good choice for other PCs.
Cheapo VGA cards are a Bad Thing, as are
cheap keyboards, bargain-brand mice and
"economy brand" cables. All spell T-R-OUB-LE.
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CorelDRAW
CorelDRAW is a viable alternative for single-page graphics-intensive publishing
tasks. The latest version (5.0) of the pro
gram includes spelling checker, thesaurus,
hyphenation and column features, control
over kerning and character paths and
numerous other DTP-oriented features. It
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vast array of features makes it uncommonly
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print to a PostScript printer or imagesetter.
For the $500 or so CorelDRAW retails
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all, I'd go as far as saying that it is worth
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OS/2, CTOS, Unix OSF/Motif and Open
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be creating primarily text-based documents
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on three of the best-selling desktop

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If you can afford it, I recommend a 486SX

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complex objectwriented images, you will.
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Graphically oriented applications such as
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math coprocessor? Only applications specifically written to exploit a math chip, such as
AutoCAD, SD Studio, Lotus 1-2-5 and Excel
will make such an investment worthwhile.
Sheer CPU (central processing unit)
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In e iDraw
B Y 6 E O F W H R f LWRI S H T
he fact that it was called "Spock"
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IntelliDraw, this new "intelligent
drawing" software from Aldus subsidiary
SiTicon Beach Software is designed to bring
the same kind of logic and common sense
to the PC-based drawing and illustration
world that the famous Vulcan science officer brought to the USS Enterprise.
As wit h m o s t A l d u s p r o d ucts,
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Windows. During our test of IntelliDraw,
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but could easily accept one another's files.
So what is IntelliDraw? To start with, it' s
a very capable Windows and Mac drawing
package with all of the object-oriented
tools you would expect. These include tools
for drawing lines, squares, circles, polygons
as well as an editable preview mode,
slide shows, limited animation, graphs and
limited page-design functions. But all of
these functions can just as easily be performed with existing Windows and Mac
drawing and illustration tools although
most would cost you mor'e than the price
Aldus is charging for IntelliDraw.
The real difference is the way in which
IntelliDraw helps you build relationships
between objectswhen you draw them. If,
for example, you are drawing a typical PC
display, the objects involved might include
a couple of rounded rectangle's (one inside
the other), a couple of circles to represent
the contrast and brightness adjustments
and a square to represent the on-off button.
This sounds quite simple until you
start to consider the relationship that is
required between the elements for the
drawing to work. The inner rounded rectangle must be directly in the center of the
outer one, the contrast and brightness
knobs must be aligned together vertically
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outer rectangle, and the on-ofF button must
be aligned to the lower right-hand side of
the drawing.
Using IntelliDraw, you can define these
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ability to establish links as complex as those

offered by IntelliDraw. Say, for example,
you are designing a backyard pool and
want to show the amount of entertaining
space available by having deck chairs
placed around the outside of the pool. The
links function of IntelliDraw is powerful
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shape of the pool, the number of deck
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change the drawing. You could rotate,
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easily draw symmetrical shapes without the
need to join or duplicate pieces. Using this
tool, we were able to create complex
shapes for fl ower vases, multi-teeth
mechanical gears and several other quite
complex objects with a single-line stroke.
An associated tool is the Connectigon
which provides another form of intelligent linking for objects. It lets you link one
polygon shape that as you are drawing it
can be linked to another at various
points. The two shapes are then linkedbut only at the places where you have indicated with the Connectigon, Otherwise the
two linked objects maintain separate identities and can have separate fills, lines, be
independently resized and so on. And if
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object only where the two are attached.
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lowermost offering such as this. There are
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most, though, can be found elsewhere. In
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If you want something that will aid you in
doing complex drawings and illustrations
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is easy to use, well-designed and offers a
number. of creative tools that allow the
maximum possible flexibility.
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CorelDRAW, A l d u s F r e e H an d or
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Memory. Today's IBM-compatibles
usually have a minimum of I MB (that's I
megabyte, or the electronic equivalent of
1,048,576 characters), of which the first
640K (IK =1,024 characters) is available for
your system's input/output and internal
operating instructions, your programs and
the datathey need or produce. The next
8 84K is reserved fo r a s o r t o f m e n t a l
scratchpad space for your system, so it has
room to keep track of things like what' s
supposed to be on your display and other
such things that I don't really want to get
into right now. More powerful systems have
additional memory space as well (extended
or expanded memory), but we won't get
into that either.
That didn't help much, did itP Let' s
find some analogies. Look inside your
mind (most people have one), and think
about the stuff' you carry around with you
in there.
You' ve got your I/O (input/output) systems, which let you make sense of what you
see and hear, and tell somebody else about
it. You' ve got an operating system, which
lets you walk around without falling down
and without requiring that you think
very much about it,
even when chewing
gum at the same time. You' ve got your prog ram instructions, which you went t o
school for years and years to learn, so that
you know how to solve the problems that
come up from day to day without haxdng to
go dig up a textbook. You' ve also got in

your mind all that information that you' ve

picked up along the way data like the
number of ounces in a pound, and your
maiden aunt's birthdate. Or more important stuff, like the approximate amount of
your next paycheque, and how much of
that is going to go to the landlord for rent.
Maybe you can see some parallels
between the last two paragraphs. The first
was a summary of what's in a computer's
random access memory; the second was a
description of some of the departments in
your mind. RAM is, in a sense, your computer's "mind," or at least the place where
it thinks about what it's doing, and whether
or not it's going to do it for you.
If you really want to know, it's contained in a bunch of multi-legged silicon
chips somewhere in your mach'me. Your
computer can look at the data stored on
those chips very quickly access times are
usually rated at somewhere under a tenth
of a microsecond.Yes, you heard me right
less than a ten-millionth of a second.
And like the contents of your mind, most
RAM is "volatile" pull the plug on it, and
it's gone without a trace.
Now let's look at your hard drive. Think
of it as a floppy drive that has awesome
capacity, and uses disks you can't see or
remove trust me, they' re there!). It's where
you keep the programs and data files
you' re not using at the moment. A hard
drive holds far more than RAM 80 MB
isn't a big hard drive any more, and the
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The usual desktop computer today has
a hard drivr storage capacity that is 20 to
50 times its memory capacity. That's why
the term "nass storage" is sometimes used
for hard dries, although that term generally refers toany device that stores significantly mort program/data material than
can be read into RAM at any one timejust as your@lingcabinet contains far more
than most Ieople care to remember at any
one time.
The information onyour hard drive is
"non-volatile" it doesn't disappear when
you switch off your computer any more
than do the contents of your filing cabinet
when you turn out the lights.
Like digging for information in your filing cabinet, it takes the computer far
longer to look at what's on your hard drive
than whit's in memory. Average access
times fo, the best hard drives today are
around i hundredth of a second a figure which is about I 0,000 times slower than
RAM access time, Also, it can take several
seconds or more to read a whole file, particuiarlI if it's large and/or scattered all
over the surface of the hard drive.

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your filing cabinet, first you have to put the
contents of your mind on paper. Then you
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run out of room on your desk and the floor
of your office).
Your computer works the same way.
Before it can start doing work for you, it
must read an appropriateprogram (and
m aybe some data)
on your hard drive, and
copy that into memory (RAM).
Let's assume you wanted to make some
changes to an existing spreadsheet. After
loading Lotus 1-2-3 (or whatever), you
must read the spreadsheet into memory.
Then, any changes your program makes
are made to the copy in RAM, not to the
file on your hard drive.
It's as if you photocopied a letter in the
file cabinet that you wanted to edit, and
made your changes and your additions to
the photocopy. All those changes and additions are only in your computer's mind
(and yours, presumably) until you save
your work.
Then, most programs will simply write
the changes over the original file on your
hard drive; some will ask you if you want to
save the unamended original as well as a
backup. To use the filing-cabinet analogy
again: many programs will electronically
throw out the original document, and put
the revised one in its place under the same
name.

Some will give you the option of putting

the revised document into storage along
with the original under another name. But
one thing to remember is that none of this
happens until you "save" your work; until
you do, what's on your hard drive is what
was there when you started all the new
stuff is in RAM alone, and will go straight to
the Great Bit-Bucket in the Sky if your computer loses power or crashes before you
save your work. (Moral? Save your work to
your disk drive often and particularly
before you print or switch tasks.)
P erhaps the best way to keep it al l
straight is this: think of RAM as "memory,"

because that's exactly what it is. (And don' t

forget how easily it can be forgotten until
it's written down in the hard drive.)
Think of your hard drive as a humongous floppy drive, because that's what it is.
It isn't memory, it's a filing cabinet. Think
of your hard drive as a storage facility that
supplies programs and data to RAM on
demand and remember how much more
room it has than your computer's memory.
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Converting to a Computerized

cxoun in

The Benefits
BY ERIC

s em:

HO Y

s your business still operating with a

manual or outdated accounting system? If so, it may be time to re-examine what is in the marketplace and
make a change. In today's business environment, information is king; information
allows informed decisions to be made
regarding financing, pricing and marketing. A good computerized accounting system can provide your organization with the
information to operate more efficiently and
effectively.

ensure that data is entered correctly is

matching manual adding tape totals to
computerized batch totals. Once the transactions are correct and posted, the computer takes over footings and totals. The result
is financial statements and reports which
are accurate down to the last penny.

4. Improved quality of management

information

The following are some of the tell-tale

signs of problems or inefficiencies in your
current accounting system:
Information is not available when it is
needed;
Information is simply not available or
too costly to obtain;
Information is inaccurate or incomplete.
These may result in a number of problems, including:
Increased cash-flow problems through
poor accountsreceivable,accounts
payable, and inventory management;
Increased delinquent accounts;
Reduced credit with bankers and vendors;
Overstocked or understocked inventory;
Uninformed management and sales stafF
resulting in poor decision-making and
missed opportunities;
Reduced market share;
Increased auditand accounting fees;
Increased visits from Revenue Canada.
Computerizing your accounting operations with a solid accounting package can
alleviate many of the above problems.
Some of the major benefits of computerization include:

1. A reduction in the amount of

bookkeeping time required
The preparation of a manual trial balance
may take hours or days because information needs to be transferred from the journal to the ledger, to the trial balance and to
the financial statements. With a computerized system the same information is available with a few keystrokes.The key point is
that once a transaction is entered, it is avail-

As the heart of the

accountingsystem,
the general ledger
tracks all financial
transactions affecting
your organization. A
good general ledger
can replace manual
cashbooks
and synoptic journal.

able in any repor t

that needs it.
Typically, good
accounting packages
allow t r a nsactions
across accounting
modules to be "integrated." This means
that once a transact ion i s e n t e red i n
one module, it flows through to all other
modules requiring it. Take an order-entry
system, forexample: once an order for
inventory is entered and posted in the
"invoicing" module, an invoice is automatically generated; the inventory is depleted in
the "inventory control" module; an entry is
made in the "accounts receivable" module
f or that customer; and all accounti n g
records are updated in the "general ledger"
module.

2. Improved timeliness of information

A list o f c u s t o m er
receivables can now
be prepared in minutes instead of days,
Delinquent accounts
can be tracked down
quickly resulting in immediate improvements in the bottom line. As well, financial
statements can be prepared upon request
resulting in more informed financial decision s.

3. Improved accuracy of information

In a computerized system, information is
only as accurate as what is entered (the old
axiom, "Garbage In , G a r b age O u t , "
applies) . One of the accounting controls to

~ o >Du Have F i n a n c i a l

Decision-making is a fine art which affects

the performance of a n o r g anization.
Decisions, however, cannot be made in isolation; there must be quality information. A
good computerized system treats your
information as a variable which can be
manipulatedand reported in any number
of ways. Take sales, for instance: properly
implemented, the system should produce
reports on sales by salesman, by territory, by
product line, by region, by fiscal period, in
detail or summary.
Most businesses process various types of
transactions throughout the month. These
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belonging to one of five specific groups:
Sales and collections
Purchases and payments
Payroll and personnel
Inventory and warehousing
Capital purchases and repayment
A quality modular accounting system
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As the heart of the accounting system, the
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general ledger can replace manual cashbooks and synoptic journal, allowing source
journals, ledgers and financial statements
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desired. Transactions for the entire year,
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Receivable
Sales and the collection of cash is the lifw
blood of any business, A good invoicing

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program will bill customers, update inventory and track GST. A good accounts
receivable system will uack the invoices for
each customer, age them accordingly,
print tnonthly statements for collection,
and receipt the cash collected. The
amount a customer has purchased, the
amount still outstanding, and the specific
invoices unpaid should be available at a
keystroke.

3.Accounts Payable
Good cash management means keeping
track of your purchases and knowing when
to pay your bills to take full advantage of

Selectlny ansi lmplementlny the

System
Selecting and installing a new accounting
system can be a major undertaking for any
organization. There are a number of factors to consider, including:
determining organization and user
requirements
determining hardware requirements
including networking
evaluating software relative to user needs
determining total costs of installation
deciding on the software vendor and evaluation of commitment to o ngoing
upgrades and support
deciding on implementation team and

outside consultants
scheduling implementation and data conversion
preparing new list of duties, procedures
and controls
scheduling stafF training time
evaluating results of implementation and
follow-up,

About the Author

Eric Hoy is a CertTiied General Accountant and
Manager of Computer Systems Consulting with
Equity Business Services in Vancouver. He has
more than seven years of information technology experience in the management consulting
groups of several large national accounting
firms. His areas of specialty include system conversions, and installation, support and training
for Accpac Plus and Novell Network systems.
He can be reached at 604<74-9080.

Although the staff of an organization

may be able to implement the above steps
without outside assistance, it may be prudent to enlist the help of an outside consultant or accountant if the system is fairly
complex and a short implementation
schedule is a necessity.

Por mere oil acoslwIny

taen to paya 39.

A good accounts
payable package will
track vendor invoices,
forecast cash requirements, issue computerized cheques and allow
a detailed bank
reconciliation to be
performed. At any
time the amount of
purchases from a vendor and the outstanding balance should be
available.
vendors' terms and discounts. A good
accountspayable package willtrack vendor
invoices, forecast cash requirements, issue
computerized cheques and allow a detailed
bank reconciliation to be performed. At
any time the amount of purchases from a
vendor and the outstanding balance
should be available.

AkeQrm

4. Inventory Control
Inventory is a valuable asset of the company which must be carefully monitored; too
much inventory means excess carrying
costs, but too little inventory means unhappy customers, A good inventory system
should have a flexible numbering structure
and allow goods to be tracked in various
units of measure (feet, lbs, doz, etc.). For
each item the system should track the
quantity on hand at each location, name of
the supplier, amount paid, and the selling
price. Reports detailing slow-/fast-moving
items, sales to date, and margins should
also be available.

5. Payroll
Preparing the payroll manually can be a
time-consuming process, especially for a
large number of employees. A computerized system can reduce the amount of work
by calculating all statutory deductions and
automatically printing out your pay
cheques. Most payroll systems are fairly
sophisticated, allowing specific types of
income and deductions to be calculated
and tracked. Most systems will also accommodate hourly or salaried employees, generate remittance forms, records of employment and year-end T4s.

6. FixedAssets Iwanayement
Managing the fixed assets of an organization can be a major mk. A computerized
system tracks each asset, assigns it to a class
for grouping purposes and tracks its location and cost. Most systems also automatically calculate depreciation charges in each
group for posting to the general ledger.

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shareware programs are released every
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BBS software has always been a generation

behind other types of software. Today a lot

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remember) a series of commands to make
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Some BBSes have advanced a little more
with single-key menus, dropdown menus
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text-based. Recently there have been some
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one window, chatting in another and writing a message in yet another. The integrated terminal program does it alk
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Wayne Arcus, vice-president of marketing for Apple Canada, said his company is
"evaluating" the Performa line for launch
early in 1998. The new machines were initially launched only in the United States,
he said.
A pple in t r o d uced th e new l i n e o f
Macintosh machines, aimed at the home
market, on September 14. The company
also expanded its distribution strategy,

electing to sell the new series through

department stores, consumer electronics
outlets, and office suppliers.
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Performa 200, the Performa 400, and the
Performa 600 and Macintosh Performa 600
CD. The Performa 600 CD is Apple's first
Macintosh with an internal CD-ROM drive.
The CD-ROM drive reads a number of CDROM formatted disks and plays audio disks,
and also supports Kodak's Photo-CD technology.
All t h re e Performas are based on
Motorola's 68080 processor and come with
four megabytes of memory and an 80megabyte hard drive.
A pple Australia is also holding of f
launching the Performa line while it works
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA (NB) Before apacked audience at the Seybold
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outlined his company's plans for the next
two years, including the intention to make
highland upblishing products.
Apple would engage in a "strategic
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beginning in 1998," Sculley said, Apple,
which started as a general-purpose hardware company, is moving into customizable
systems - "a software-driven transformation." He promised that new technologies
would be usable on the current Macintosh
models.
He said Apple technology is progressing
from today's Macintosh, Photo CDs, imaging applications and printers, to media
servers and media databases in the next 18
months. In 1998, he specified, Apple will
unveil new color scanners, color printers,
and media servers, capable of delivering
not only data, but video and sound to users.
In 36 months, he promised, Apple will
unveil "compound document imaging systems" through Taligent, a company Apple
formed with IBM. Taligent, he said, is "well
along in its development." The compound
document imaging systems being created

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will support the IBM 80x86, RS6000, and

PowerPC platforms, he said. He said the
foundation technologies for the next few
y ears on th e A p pl e p l a t f or m i n c l u d e
Quickdraw GX, which, among its other
traits, enables documents to be reproduced
on any other Mac,
whether
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i n i t t h e fonts
in the document.
Quickdraw GX is an imaging software
architecture that will be delivered next year
as an extension to the Macintosh System 7
operating system. Other foundation elements, said the Apple chairman, will be
Worldscript; OCE a communications
function for use of e-mail and faxing within
documents; Quicktime; and Applescripta coming software capability which will
allow the user to automate routine applications and which may herald the "intelligent
agent" Sculley and others have been touting for several years.
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announced multimedia computer, to small
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a separate digital signal processor (DSP) so
the central p r o cessing uni t ( C P U) , a
Motorola 68050, doesn't have to handle the
processing of sound. Atari pointed out that
the only other twe currently available computers that come with a DSP are the NeXT
and a S i l i co n G r a p h ics workstation.
Rehbock demonstrated how the addition of
the DSP enables the Falcon to play sound
without tying up the CPU for other work by
adding a four-second audio sound to each
press of a key on the keyboard.
I n fact, the audio capability of t h e
Falcon enabledRehbock to record hisvoice
saying the name of several letters of the
a lphabet, like " A, " an d assigning t h e
recording to the upper- and lowercase versions of the corresponding keys on the keyboard. He was then able to type at a normal
speed, while the Falcon played back in his
voice the letters he was typing.
Rehbock told Newsbytes any instrument
that has an audio o u t p ut , such as an
acoustic guitar or acoustic piano, can be
connected to the Falcon, and the output
edited. The Falcon olfers 50 kilohertz 16-bit
sound. Voice tracks can also be laid over
the instruments, so a musician can record
all the parts in his own voice, put the instruments in and put the whole thing together
himself, Rehbock added.
Rehbock demonstrated the Falcon en
the SC1224, a color monitor released for
the Atari ST computer in 1985. An annoying flicker in the screen image was present
and the same annoying flicker would be
present when the Falcon is connected to a
television set because the Falcon is outputting video graphics array (VGA) quality
display output, Atari said. The company is
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monitor can be connected to the Falcon,
but wanted home users to be able to use
whatever they already had. The flicker disappears during the display of video or
games and is only present in the Atari user
interface.
Atari said with software such as Chronos,
Prism Paint, or a share.
ware program called
Ray Shade, home users
c an "pr in t t o v i d e o "
titles and computergenerated animation
o n iop o f v i d eo . A
video camera, a $120
adapter, and a video
-' cassette
recorder
(VCR) are all that is
necessary for a Falcon
user to make their own
titles and put animation over video or de
special effects with still images, Rehbock
told Newsbytes.
A $200 digitizer and third-party software
not yet available are required for editing of
video images on the Falcon, but Rehbock
said the Falcon is fully capable of processing such video images. The DSP also allows
the processing of the images to be done
independent of the CPU as well, Atari
added.
Rehbock demonstrated to Newsbytes 16bit True Color at 24 frames per second on
the Falcon (broadcast quality is 50 frames
per second). Atari says the capability is 520
by 200 pixel resolution and 52,768 colors,
or 640 by 480 pixel resolution and 256 colors from a 264,144 color palette. Rehbock
said the Falcon's DSP can decompress and
display a 520 by 200 24-bit JPEG image in
less than 1 second.JPEG compression is not
built in and neither is MPKG, however, a
slot for a processor to do real-time MPEG
cempression is available on the Falcon, and
JPEG compression may be added as well,
Atari said.
T wo models of th e F alcon wil l b e
offered atthe end of October. A $799
madel will offer 1 MB of memory and a single 5,5-inch disk drive. A $1,899 model will
include 4 MB of memory and a 65 MB 2.5inch IDK hard disk drive. Atari said the unit
will support larger capacity internal drives,
but only in the 2.5-inch form factor, It will
support any size external drive via the SCSI
H interface, Atari added.
Atari says it plans to demonstrate the
video-editing capability of the Falcon at
Comdex/Fall '92 in Las Vegas, Nevada in
November, though the company doesn't
expect the software for video editing to be
available until January or February of next
year.
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Commodore Announces Amiga 4000

Commodore Launches 386, 486 PCs

T OR O N T O ,
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C ommodore B u s i ness M achines h a s
unveiled a line of four compact personal
computers using the Intel 586 and 486
processors. The machines will not be sold
in the United States, but will be marketed
i n th e r e s t o f t h e w o r l d , s a i d T o m
S hepherd, d i r e c to r o f m a r k e t i n g a t
C omm o d o r e ' s
Canadian operation.
The
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machines have system units measuring
less than 17 by 15 by
four inches, according to Commodore.
They use the AT bus
(Industry Standard
Architecture or ISA)
and have five expans ion slots and t w o
full-size drive bays.
Each one comes with
a 150-watt power supply, one parallel and
t wo s e r ia l po r t s ,
mouse port, 101-key keyboard, a 1.44megabyte diskette drive, and Super VGA
video controller with 512K bytes of video
random-access memory (VRAM). DOS 5.0
also comes with the PCs.
Shepherd said the major market for the
machines will be in education, small business, and the home, although they are certified for use with Novell networking software.
The first model has a 25-megahertz
586SX processor and comes standard with
two megabytes of memory. It uses the

A mi g aD O S
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v ersion o f t h e
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system which will
ship on the new
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company said.
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added to Release
5, as i s a n ew
installer utility and a PostScript printer driver.
Retail price for the 4000 is US$5,699,
and some Commodore dealers are already
offering discounted prices of around $5,000
to those who will put a deposit on a 4000
now.
Commodore is struggling with some
U.S. software developers who say they will
n ot s u p p o r t th e A mi g a f u r th e r .
WordPerfect Corporation has said it will
support previous versions of WordPerfect
for the Amiga, but will discontinue further
development o n a n y n e w r e l e a ses.
Commodore officials say the U.S. market is
small for the Amiga, but the company has
four million in its worldwide installed base.
Some talk on the part of Commodore
was centered on the possibility of an Amiga
laptop, but the company has not made a
commitment to producing one.
T he company also announced t h e
Amiga 600 and 600HD for the home computer buyer to connect to a television set,
an'A570 compact disc read-only memory
(CD-ROM) d r i v e , a n d A mi g a v ision
Professional Authoring System.

P ASA D E N A ,
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a nnounced i t s
latest version of
the Amiga personal computer,
the Amiga 4000,
expected to be
released at the
end of October. The Amiga is well-known
for its use in the television industry as the
engine for Newtek's Video Toaster and the
4000 model appears to be building on that
established market base.
The 4000 offers a faster central processing unit , t h e M o t o r ol a 6 8040, and a
redesign of the three-chip set for display
and animation of graphics in up to 256,000
colors f'rom a 16.8 million color palette.
The screen resolution of the Amiga
4000 is 640 by 480 video graphics array
(VGA), and there was some discussion as to
why Commodore didn'tgo to 1024 by 768
video graphics array (VGA) resolution. No
answers were immediately forthcoming,
though company officials did say the Amiga
is aimed at the video, presentation,.and
kiosk markets.
The 4000 will come standard with a 120megabyte hard disk drive, 6 megabytes
(MB) of memory, a dual-speed high-density
.5.5-inch floppy disk drive, and CrossDOS
for reading MS-DOS formatted floppy disks
and drives. The 4000 includes a dedicated
slot for video devices, selectable NTSC scan
rate coinpatibility, four-voice dualwhannel
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A "pen-based technology village" will
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Grainger said.
At a preview press conference, reporters
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Canada allow two players to battle in a ahnple simulated environment.
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Other conference highlights include an
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Microsoft Canada, on software piracy, and
one by Paul Kennedy, president of
International Data Corp. (Canada) on "the
disnntegration of the information technology industry."
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Sanctuary Woods In New CD-ROM Deals

VICTORIA, BR1TISH COLUMBIA (NB)Sanctuary Woods is making a large splash
with a bunch of announcements that relate
to their distribution methods for multimedia CD-ROM programs.
In the most important of
these releases, Sanctuary
Woods has revealed an agreement reached with Sony of
Canada under whichSony will
bundle a Sanctuary Woods
CD-ROM program with each
Sony CD-ROM drive or drive
mechanism that is sold in
Canada between now and
mid-December. Sanctuary
Woods will supply Sony with
the Macintosh versions of
their interactive fantasy game
The Vampire's Coffin, which
is the first in a series of games
featuring Victor Vector ss
Yondo.
In other developments,
Sanctuary
W oo d s has
announced that it wnl be supporting Tandy's VIS format
for CD-ROMs in addition to
Apple's QuickTime format
and Microsoft's MPC formats. Sanctuary
Woods intends to have its first two titles
converted to the new format in time for the
Christmas selhng season. Company ofBclals
expressed hope that they would be able to
have the CDs in time for display at each of
Tandy's Radio Shack stores during the
Christmas selling season. Sanctuary Woods
is also talking with non-Tandy distributors
for the VIS format to ensure wide distribution of their products. Sanctuary Woods is
attempting to convert both The Vampire's
CofBn and Shelley Duvall's "It's a Bird' s
Life" to this new format.

The company has also announced distri-

bution agreements with C o m pton's

NewMedia, Soft-Kat, and Educorp. All
three organizations will distribute the company's products to.their respective resellers
and dealers.

Finally, Sanctuary Woods is attempting

to prepare a line of products for future
releases. The Vampire's Coffin is being converted to the MPC format with a proj ected
release date of December. The next dtle in
the Victor Vector and Yondo series is being
tanned for February '95 in the Macintosh
ormat. It will be called The Dinosaur Egg.
And Sanctuary Woods has a third title in
production out of the 20 that it plans to
ultimately market. Each of Sanctuary

Woods' titles will retail for $59.95.

Contact:
Sanctuary Woods, 804480-7582.

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The key tosuccess for any business is cash flow management and while more and more businesses are movinI
to computerizetheir accountinl many people don't realise that they can have both in the same packa9e. One of
the first purchases that a small business often makes is a Phased accountin9 system. This artide will look at
the key factors that should influence accounting software selection; identify the players in the Canadian
accountin9 software industry; and provide you with a snapshot of the current proyrams being offered by these

comp
anies.
he right accounting system can
provide important financial information about your business.
R ather than waiting fo r a n
accountant to deal with a pile of bills and
invoices, the right accounting package will
help you manage yourcash fi
ow, make sure
you take advantage of discounts and help
you collect overdue accounts. At any given
time, you will know the finandal health of
your business.
In many businesses the person responsible for maintaining the numbers is not a
professional accountant. The job is likely to
fall on the shoulders of the owner, the
owner's spouse, or an employee who has
other responsilities besides accounting.
Computerized accounting programs
range from inexpensive, less than $50 packages to systems that cost thousands of dollars and require extensive professional help
to get them up and going. Defining your
specific requirements and then matching
these requirements to an accounting software program is cridcal in order to gain the
benefits of computerizing your business.
There are three levels of accounting
software available today, entry-level, midrange, and highwnd. Among the difFerent
environments, accounting programs are
available for the DOS, Windows, Macintosh,
and Unix platforms. Let us take a look at
the profiles of these products.

The Players
High~nd
With rare exceptions, the programs are usually modular and will consist of a system
manager,general ledger, accounts payable,
accounts receivable, order entry, inventory
control, and various other modules. You
purchase the modules you need and then
integrate them together. The software cost
for a basic system will be over $2,000 and
can easilyrun to $5,000 ifyou need 6 or
more modules. Most companies will need
professional assistance to install the proam and fees for installation will run from
2,000 to over $5,000. The total cost of software and professional services for a highend system will start at around S5,000.
These programs are complex and contain extensive features that provide a powerful accounting solution. They often need
extensive support after the installation is
completed. Traditional PC dealers lack the
necessary expertise to install and configure
these systems and the high-end software
vendors have developed an extensive network of certified installers to provide this
expertise.

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Mid-range
Usually, mid-range packages contain the
core functions such as the general ledger,
accounts payable and accounts receivable
in a single module. They will be priced
under $1,000 and require some professional assistance to setup. The total installed
cost for software and professional services
for a mid~ g e system should not exceed

$5,500 for most companies.

The features and technology will be less
complex than the highland programs
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Entry-level
The packages are completely integrated
and usually have a retail price under $250.
The packages are usually designed for single users, with features that are relatively
simple, and are easily installed by the user.
The programs are usually sold by retailers
and dealers, ofFer little in the way of customization and require little or no support
after installation.

The Canadian Market

The high-end range is dominated by
Computer Associates with their ACCPAC
Plus accounting system. Evans Research
estimated thai ACCPAC Plus had 86.4% of
the Canadian high-end market in 1991,
Two relative newcomers to the Canadian
scene are giving Computer Associates a run
for their money. Great Plains software has
picked up 4.5% and Platinum has L'7% and
these number are likely to increase again in
1992.
A CCPAC BPI , B u sinessVision I I ,
DacEasy, and NewViews are the key players
in the English Canadian mid~g e market.
BusinessVision II, DacEasy, and NewViews
each hold about a 209o market share with
ACCPAC BPI in the 59o range. In Quebec,
Fortune 1000 holds the dominant position.

market, takingabout 48% wi th their highend product. ACCPAC Simply Accounting,

a low end producthas about a 26% share.
The other major player is Checkmark with
about 11% for their mid-range program.
In the Unix world the market is split
among RealWorld, SBT, and Great Plains.
This is a growing market, but still represents a very small part of PC accounting
software being used in Canada today.

What Features Oo You Need

Matching your needs to your accounting

software package is the key to making it
work. Here are the things you should be
looking for when you go shopping for
accounting software.
Easemf-use has to be at the top of your
list, If it is not easy to use you will not work
with the program. Setting up the program
should straight forward. The operating
commands should be intuitive and there
should a good manual and on-screen help
system. WellAesigned accounting programs
let you perform tasks in a nonwtructured
manner. In other words, they let you work
your way, within reason. An example would
be adding a new customer while creating
their first invoice.

aettlng Going

The system should provide a sample charts

of account to make getting started easy. It is
Entry-level
easier to modif'y a sample chart of accounts
In the entry level segment ACCPAC
to suit your business than create a new one.
Bedford, or Simply Accounting asit is now
Entering your opening balances, customer
known holds a 71%o market share with
and vendor lists and inventory items can be
BusinessVision II next in line with 84.5%.
time consuming and you need to make sure
The balance of the market is split among a
that the program can handle all of your
number of American and Canadian soft- needs in this area. A good online tutorial is
ware developers.
another invaluable tool in getting going.

The Other Environments

The Apple Madntosh world has never really focused on the accounting market
although this is changing with a new attitude from Apple Canada. Only 5% ofthe
accounting software market runs on the
M acintosh p l a tform. G r e a t P l a i n s
Accounting holds the lions share of the

debits and credits.

Invoicing and cash collections are the
key to staying in business. Make sure the
invoicing modules covers all your requirements and look at the cash flow management features of the program. Will they
provide you with current information on
your customers, help you chase past due
accounts and tell you what your cash should
be in the future?

Doing the Work

The processing side of it should be easy to
do and the program should provide critical
information such as account, vendor, customer and product numbers at the touch of
a key. An accounts payable screen that
looks like a cheque is far easier to use than
a cluttered screen that forces you to use

This part of the system should track your

expenses, tell you how much cash you need
and write your cheques for you. It should
also forecast your cash requirements and
predict the cash you need to pay your bills
in the next period. This will help you identify when there will be a cash shortage and
give you time to deal with it.

How Am I Doing?

The reporting side of the program should

provide timely information about the current and future health of your business.
The reporting should be comprehensive
and you should be able to modify the
reports to suit your particular needs. It is
also useful to be able to move financial
informationfrom your accounting program
to a spreadsheet where you can play "whatif" and develop different forecasts for your
company.

How Do I oet Help7

With all but the simplest accounting program, you will need training and/or professional assistance in setting up your accounting system. Check out the services provided
by the software company that produces the
program and consultants who install and
configure the system. Find out about the
software companies certified consultant
training program, check out the available
training and in particular look at the cost
and quality of the telephone support that is
available.
All of these issues are important and
should be thoroughly reviewed before you
decide which accountingsoftware package
is going to become your business advisor.

A Look At The Programs

Here is a snapshot of the programs generally available in Canada. It by no means covers all the available programs that are currently being sold. Each program listed here
has been Canadianized, handles GSI', and
support is readily available in Canada.

The Highland

ACCPAC Plus is a multi~odule DOS based

program that contains the usual system
manager, general ledger, accounts payable,
accounts receivable, order entry, inventory
control, purchase order, payroll and sales
analysis modules. It is fully integrated and
each module can run on its own or with the
other modules. The new general ledger
module gives the ability to track foreign
currencies. With a high market share in
Canada, it is a solid performer. The price
per module varies from $179 to $1,200.
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Mac DTP
Despite its design foibles, the Mac is my top
choice for a publishing machine. Here then
is a short list of features a DTP Mac should
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1) Color capability. Even if you plan on

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W ith t h e s e c o n siderations, t h e
DeskWriter is a good choice for those on
tight budgets who require "near4aser qualioutput
If, however, you intend on publishing
work for other people professionally or
semi-professionally, definitely invest the
extra few hundred in a laser printer with a
PostScript upgrade option.
The latest models of laser printers have
two things in common: resolution higher
than 800x800 dots per inch, and enhanced
grayscale abilities. Certain new models
from Apple, Hewlett-Packard, LaserMaster,
NewGen, +MS, and Xante indude both of
these features. Other manufacturers are
certain to follow suit.
I t is worth noting that of al l t h e
PostScript clones I have ever tested, only
the PhoenixPage (used in Xante printers
and controllers) and Adobe interpreters

successfully meet my criteria for PostScript

compatibility. Refer to my article in the
April '92 edition of 17ic Cmsputer Paperfor
more detaih on this complex issue.

Scanners

I steadfastly maintain that anyone who considers buying a handheld scanner because
they can't afford a flatbed scanner should
keep saving until they can. Handheld scanners, besides producing images that invariably look like they were captured with a
handheld scanner, make you feellike a
klutz half of the time. And don't computers
already seem to do that more often than we
want them to?
Get a flatbed scanner or this advice will
haunt you forever.

Look for a unit that can capture 256

"true" shades of gray. The HP Scanjet IIp is
a good choice in grayscale scanners, as is
the Apple One Scanner.
Lo~nd color units of reasonable quality arenow available for between $1,000 and
$1,500. I' ve seen good results from the
Epson color scanner (La Cie markets this
unit via mail~rder with its own exceptional
software), the HP ScanJet IIc and the Umax
UC650. Other units, such as the Abaton
Scan/800 Color and the Microtek 500Z
have a tendency to produce scans that are
too "red." Such lopsided color can, of
course, be corrected with a program like
Adobe Photoshop (still The Best Program
Ever Written, in my opinion), but the others mentioned have better color fldelity.
None of these desktop color scanners
produce images that would be considered
acceptable in a professional publishing
environment. To achieve a good quality
scan, you might utilize a drum scanner at
your localservice bureau, or ifyou have
an appropriate CD-ROM drive have a
roll of fihn processed as a Kodak PhotoCD.
In fact, at about a dollar per picture,
PhotoCD could do serious damage to the
desktop color scanner market.

Aldus Bundles PagelNaker, FreeHand, PhotoStyler

SEATHX, WASHINGTON (NB) Aldus
Corporation says it will group its Windows
applications PageMaker, FreeHand, and
PhotoStyler programs into a promotional
bundle called Aldus Publishing Showcase.

The company says Showcase will be

available only in the U.S. and Canada during the fourth quarter of 1992. The combined package will have a suggested retail
price of C$995, less than half the price of
the three programs purchased separately.
PageMaker 4.0 isa page layout program; FreeHand 5.1 is a design and iHustration tool; and PhotoStyler l.la is an imageprocessing program that allows Windows
users to enhance digitized photographic
images.
"The Publishing Showcase is a very
aggressive attempt on our part to give customers ranging from business professionals to graphics designers an easy,
costwffective way to set up a complete publishing environment r unning u n der
Windows," says Mike Peronto, Aldus USA
sales director.
T he c o mpany says t ha t t o u s e
Publishing Showcase, you will n e ed
Windows 5.0 orlater, and a 586- or 486based PC, although the programs will run
on a 286-based machine. You' ll also need

4MB of RAM, an 80MB hard drive,highresolution graphics adapter card, and a

mouse. For professional image enhancement, a 24-bit color display system and a
Super VGA card or better is recommended.
Aldus says the bundle started shipping
October 1. The special promotion ends
December 51st. Users who purchase the
standard retail version of any one of the
products bundled in the Showcase on or
after September 1st are eligible for a rebate
coupon on the purchase of one other
Showcase product.
Aldus has had several disappointing
quarters recently; it blames the poor results
at least pardy on less than antidpated sales
of i ts Win d o ws-based p r o d u cts.
Undoubtedly the company hopes that
Showcase will help those saleL It is also in
the middle of a lawsuit flled by some of its
stockholders, claiming that the company
inflated its growth projections and withheld information, which affected the sale
of Aldus stock
The company isexpected to announce
an upgrade t o i t s f l agship pr oduct
PageMaker in early 1995.
Contact: Aldus info centre: 1 800488-2588 or
1 640-1288.

Fonts
For DTP, I recommend PostScript fonts
rather than TrueType. I fully expect this situation to change in the not-too-distant
future and yes, I know that TrueType has
better performance than Adobe Type
Manager running under Windows S.l, but
at this time,virtually all service bureaus use
PostScript Type 1 fonts.
I recommend Adobe fonts, primarily for
this reason. They are what most service
bureaus use. There are numerous other
reputable font houses, too. Agfa and

Monotype have very good collections, particularly if you get one of their CD-ROMs
where you unlock fonts and pay as you go.
You don't need a thousand typefaces to
be a competent desktop publisher. As a
matter of fact, you might find that less is
more. Many designers stick with a small collection of dassic faces; perhaps a couple of
sans serif families (Frutiger, Futura,
Univers, Helvetica) for headlines and a
handful of serif faces (Goudy, Caslon,
Garamond, New Baskerville, Century
Expanded) for body text, or headlines
where you want to impart an air of elegance
or fashion.
Start by adding the one thing that you
don't get with standard laser printer fonts:
a sans serif face with really bold holds.
I advise you to stay away from cheapo
fonts. The imperfections they invariably
contain practically scream AMATEURI
Some fonts print better at low resolutions thaa others. Faces with subtle curves,
such as Zapf Chancery, Optima, Eras and
most script faces look particularly hideous
in small point shes at SOO dpi or lower.

Books
My favorite PageMaker text is Reel WorQ
I'agell&kcrfrom Bantam Books.
Quarh XPnssHandbook is a good choice
for power users of that program.
Rca/ War@FneHaad is a must-read for
FreeHand buffs.
I have not yet seen a good book on
CorelDRAW 5.0.
The best magazine for aspiring publishers is Before &' APsr (call 9I6-'784-8880 to
subscribe). Strongly oriented towards
PageMaker and FreeHand users, this
bimonthly publication is chock481 of fantastic design and layout tips, techniques
and step-by-step examples. It's worth its
weight in gold. Other good mags include
EC&V (416-299-600'I), Pitblish(415-9785280) and The SeyboidReport on Desktop
Publishing(5104574500).

Corel Upgrade To araphics Users

OTTAWA, ONTARIO (NB) Eager to
lure new customers to its recently upgraded
CorelDRAW graphics software, software
developer Corel is offering users of rival
products a sweetheart deal.
Users of any Windows or DOS-based
graphics program can trade in their software for CorelDRAW 5.0 for C$299. That
price covers a version with both diskettes
and CD-ROM, normally sold for C$695,
Corel said. A CD-ROM only version is available as a competitive upgrade for C$260.
Products eligible for trade-in are:
Picture Publisher, Aldus Photstyler,
Micrografx Designer, Harvard Draw, Aldus
Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, Professional
Draw, Arts 8r,Letters, Charisma, Aldus
Persuasion, D r a w P e r fect, H a r vard
Graphics, Lotus Freelance, and Microsoft
Power Point.
The trade-in deal will be in effect for a
limited, but at present unspecifled, length
of time, company spokeswoman Janie
Sullivan said.
Launched in May, CorelDRAW 5.0 adds
charting, photo editing, and slide-show
modules to the drawing module that gave
the software its name.

CorelDRAW also includes the Mosaic

visual flle manager, which allows users to
preview graphic flles in several formats, and
CorelTrace, a tool for converting blackandmhite bit-mapped images into vector
graphics.
The new release supports Object

Linking and Embedding (OLE), a

Windows feature that makes it easier to

exchange flles among applications. Besides
allowing interaction with other applications, Michael Cowpland, Corel's president
and chief executive, said earlier OLE provides the means for the different modules
of CorelDRAW to operate on their own but
with easy
exchange of data among them.
Capabilities added to the flagship
CorelDRAW module indude the ability to
edit graphics in preview form as well as in
wire-frame m ode, u n l i mited l a yers,
improved precision, and on-screen text
editing, the company said.
Other new features in the draw module
include "roll-up windows" meant to give
quicker access to frequently used features,
as well as a variety of new spedal effects.
ContacL Corel Corporation, 61 8-728-8200.

PhoioFinish2.0 Automates Scanning Tasks

ATLANTA, GEORGIA ( NB ) Z S o ft
Corporation and WordStar International
have announced the release of PhotoFinish
2.0.
The program is an image editor running under Microsoft Windows. The companies say it's designed for business users to
enhance images in business presentations,
brochures, flyers, and newsletters. The $199
program is expected to ship this fall.
According to WordStar VP Alex Hoag,
photo-realistic images are often the most
compelling graphics available, but the
expense, time, effort, and technical expertise needed to make even the smallest
enhancements have been beyond a business user's capabilities. H oa g s ays
PhotoFinish 2.0 is easy to use because of its
automation and simplicity.
Version 2.0 includes automatic scanning
and enhancement of images, and can scan,
crop, straighten and enhance all in one
step. You also get a collection of obit, royalty-free, business-related images. The
ImageViewer feature allows the user to

select and manage images in the library as

well as images they have scanned themselves. The program also allows the user to
perform basic flle~anagement tasks such

as renaming, deleting, or moving images.

Photoflnish 'supports OLE (object linking and embedding), which allows images
to be placed within other documents, and
fourteen fllters are provided to enhance
photos and apply special effects. The pro
gram stores images using JPEG compression technology to conserve storage space,
and a calibration feature automatically
adjusts color in the scanner, monitor, and
printer. The user can select the level of
onscreen help they need.
WordStar and ZSoft announced last
month that they would merge as soon as
shareholder an d r e g u latory a gency
approval i s rece i v ed . Wor d S t ar
International is best known for its venerable
word processing program of the same
name. The company wasfounded in 1978
as MicroPro International Corporation, and
claims an installed base of five million
users. ZSoft publishes DOS and Windows
graphics, image editing, and paint progf anls.
Registered owners of PhotoFinish 1.0
and CorelDRAW 5.0 can upgrade to
PhotoFinish 2.0 for $69.
Contact: 28oft, 0-514827.

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they are addressing two of these areasthe multitasking ability and network support address the transmission speed problem. The computing time within the printer is being reduced by the application of a
very high speed and RISGbke processor.
The two models are distinguished by
two main features. The ColorScript 210 can
print on paper that is up to legalpsize while
the ColorScript 250 can handle B-size
pape.r. The other main distinguishing feature is the ability of the 210 to print on
paper that was formulated for laser printing. This is paper that looks like standard
copy paper; it is not the special paper that
some other color printers require. The 250
cannot support this paper. QMS spokespeople told Newsbytes that they discovered that

QMS RollsOut Color Printers

M OBILE, ALABAMA (NB) Q M S i s
expanding its line of printers that use its
advanced Crown" technology, specifically
in the color printer market. The company
has just announced two new color printers
that are based on this technology.
T he C o l orScript 2 1 0 a nd the
ColorScript 250 are the two newest members of the QMS family. Both are built
around Mitsubishi color thermal transfer
engines. Both also have the Crown processor board in them that gives the printers a
very high speed controller (the Intel 80960
running at 25 MHz), as well as the abiTity to

emulate several p r i n ting l a n guages

(PostScript Level 1 and Level 2 and HPGL),
networking ability, and the capability to
sense tra8ic on any of its connectors, accept
that traffic, and buffer it up for later processing. The Crown board has as one of its
options a hard drive to allow for departmental use of the printer.
QMS spokespeople told Newsbytes they
have discovered that while some color
printwuts may take as long as an hour to
print, most of that time is spent either at
the originating computer, in transmission,
or in the printer. With Crown technology

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the larger format printers are used by the

graphics arts professionals while the smaller
format is primarily used in a business
graphic sense. Graphic artists tend to be
much more particular about exact color
matching and therefore require the spedal
paper and its greater accuracy. Those that
do not need to be so discerning are quite
happy in being able to use more regular
paper in their printers.
Both printers will begin shipping later
this month. The ColorScript 210 vn'll retail
for $4995 while the ColorScript 250 will
retail for f7995.
Contact:
QMS Canada, 1-800-361-3392; 604872-0631.

Cap'n Crunch Discusses

SneakersMovie With
Newsbytes
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (NB) John
Draper, author of one of the earliest word
processing programs, EasyWriter, and,
under his nom de plume "Cap'n Crunch,"
one of the first known hackers, told
Newsbytes that while he "really enjoyed
Sncaksss, people should realize that there is
an important message contained within."
Draper, who served time in prison for
his phone phreaking," is considered the
model on which the role of 'Cosmo,"
layed by Ben Xingsley, is based. Cosmo,
'ke Draper, served a prison sentence for
his activities and, while in prison, became a
collaborator with a nationwide criminal
organization, becoming their technical whar d.
Draper accepts the identification with
Cosmo and says that the movie brings out
the problems of technology transfer in
rison. Hc: said, "While I was in prison, I
earned how to pick a master lock I didn' t
ask for the knowledge; it was forced on me.
Someone would say 'Let me show you this'
so you would.
'They would wheedle things out of me
you don't snitch or not go along in
prison. I showed them how to build a random code voice scrambler as well as other
things about methods of obtaining f'ree
phone service. It bothers me that these
methods are probably used today by
Colombia drug dealers.
"We have to be concerned about the
fact that prisons are Universities of Crime.
We don't want criminals to have the benefit
of knowledge that our government doesn' t
have. We don'twant a Robert Norns or a
Phiber Optik sharing a cell with a friend of
Noriega's. We should learn from history
and come up with procedures to insure
that this relationship between the computer underground and true criminals is not
allowed to flourish."
Draper also told Newsbytes that while
he enjoyed the movie immensely, he did
not care for violent portions in which guns
were used; he said, "I hate guns."
Draper became "Cap'n Crunch" when
he found that whistles given away in Cap' n
Crunch cereal emitted the 2600 tone necessary to "fool" the automatic billing and verification system of the phone companies.
Since his release from prison, Draper has
rewritten EasyWriter and a Forth compiler
for the Apple II. (While writing the software products, Draper was known as "Cap' n
Software"; he has since resumed being
Crunch). He has also been employed as a
programmer and consultant.

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who wish to access Madntosh files with
one difference. The files need first to be
stored on the gateway machine's hard
drive. When printers are being shared,
LANtastic for Macintosh allows the PC user
to access directly any PostScript printer that
exists on the Apple side and the Madntosh
user can access any networked printer on
the PC aide. This is also the way it is for any
other networked and shared peripheraL
LANtastic for Macintosh is being sold in
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gets the software and documentation necessazy to convert a PC into the gateway. For
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of data would require only a few minutes to
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Kodak did not disclose exact piices for
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that the materi~ nl y costs of produdng a
single disc would be about $25.
The costs of other CD-WO or CD Write
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including the CD recorder hardware and
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software. Other available drives include
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Philips (CDD521), JVC (XR-W1001), and

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Publishing Software will come in DOS,
Windows, Madntosh, and Unix versions.
Newsbyteswas unable to obtain any further information about pricing on the
Kodak PCD Writer 200 but a customer service representative did say that thc product
wouldn't actually ship until the second
quarter of 1995.
The person at the customer service
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ricing information and referred this
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Artisoft Ships lANtastic

TUCSON, ARIZONA (NB) Artisofl has
begun shipments of its LANtastic for
Macintosh product. This new product
allows Macintosh and PC users to access
each other's files and to share printera
LA astic for Madntosh is a program
that runs on its own dedicated PC. This PC
needs to be equipped with an Ethernet
adapter for access to the LANtastic network
that is already in place, as well as an interface card for the AppleTalk network that
t he Macintoshes are on . T h e n t h e
LAastic for Madntosh sofiware is run on
this dedicated PC.
Once this whole set-up is up and operational, Macintosh and PC users can interchange files via this gateway computer as
well as share printers and other peripherals. For Madntosh users, the gateway looks
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vantaged" by this, 'I think that there' s

enough need out there,' that the extra digits won't have a major effect on Unitel s
business, Hoey said. From 10 to 25 percent
of phone company customers are dissatisfied enough to move to an alternative service despite the extra digits, Hoey said, and
in addition, autodialers will insulate many
people Rom the extra codes.
Unitel announced three discount plans
for home users. In one plan, users will pay
C$4.50 per month for a sl4ninute block of
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Unitel said its national network will go
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hook-up fee.
Unitel also announced several discount
plans for home and business users, which it
said will provide savings of as much as 55
percent over phone company rates.
Toronto telecommunications consultant Eamon Hoey described Unitel's plans
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away, and the magnitude of the discounts is
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There is a catch, thougiL For the time
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In its most recent statement, Unitl
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Unitel the right to compete in longMstance service. On the day the competition
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frenzy with the news that a certain company was

dropping their prices. Other companies jumped on
the bandwagon and price cuts of ten, twenty, even thirty
percent happened overnight. If they cut their costs by
that much, that's great. If it was their margins, look out!

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At IPC we didn't panic. Building affordable computers

means a lot more than just slashing prices. We' ve spent
seven years learning the art and that's about six and a
half years longer than most of our competitors.

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Our strategy has always been to go to the source and

design affordability into every system we sell. We own
a chip design firm, a board manufacturer, and assemble
every IPC system right here in Canada. Our engineers
are able to control coststhroughout the manufacturing
process.

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We try not to reinvent the wheel every time out, but we

certainly haven't ignored research and development.
IPC systems are based on some of the most advanced
technology in the industry. In fact, we were the first
Canadian manufacturer to deliver systems using Intel's
new i486DX2/66 processor.

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WHAT DO THESE PRICES MEAN

To be fair, we used updated "suggested Naturally, list prices are not accurate
list prices" quoted directly by each selling prices (except in the case of
manufacturer the first week of October,
1992. We made every effort to comare systems that are as similar as possile but each vendor has their own ideas
about what is and isn't standard.

Long term strategic relationships with companies such

as Intel and Microsoft are key components in our
success. Both our ISA and EISA systemsare completely
compatible with every popular operating system and
peripheral on the market.

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Some of our competitors may like to make fun of our

decidedly un-lavish offices. Of course, if we spent all
our money on fancy furniture we wouldn't be able to

offer you a comprehensive three year limited warranty

Dell who sells direct). But whatever

price you pay you can be sure of one
thing dollar for dollar IPC oHers the
best value in the computer industry.
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So if solid value, technical excellence, and a dependable

warranty are important to you, call us for the name of the
nearest IPC dealer. If you' re one of those people waiting
for us to raise our prices sorry, we like things the way
they are!

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