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Tips and reviews of Norton Backup, PC Tools, Fastback Plus and 6 more
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Price and feature cornfnuison
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Computers for Absolute Beginners............36

Excerpts from PC Crash Course and Survival Guide
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The next Big Thing? ...................................48

Looking into hi-tech music, video and "transparent machines"

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Research Council in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and has had experience in

advertising sales and events management. She is our new accounts manager for
Alberta. We hope to be offering Albertareaders the same consistent good information
that they are used toaswell as some
Our publication in Alberta
reaches over 50 000readers in Calgary and Edmonton, and has been in publication for
over a year there. Our new Calgary ofFjlce is: 4th Hoor, 714 1st St SE, Calgary, T2G2G8
with thesame phone number 405/262-5757.
Astute readers may have noticed a change onour &ont cover last issue. Instead of
the usua1 "BC Edition", it said "Lower Mainland Edition". We began an experiment this
month in the BC edition of The Computer Paper. We printed two separate covers, the
vast majority of them stiH said "FREE" on them, buta fewwere issued with a$1.95 price
on them. As you are probably aware, this publication is an advertising supp>+ted paper.
We can circulate it for &ee becauseour advertisers support our efForts through their
advertising. We offer you something interesting to read, and you, the readers, buy the
products you see promoted in our p
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advertisers happy with us and in business.
Wegeta steady supply ofrequests for the pubhcation &om outwf-town readers and
distributors.. Our policy initially was fairly open get the word out and give it to all
who asked. The paper has been very successful. It gets picked up in great numbers. In
fact, most months we have less than a 5% return rate of copies to pickup when we go

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This month, weare offering a change of

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Course and Survival Guide is a response to
requests to offer simple, introductory'information about computers for people new to
computing. Pass it around to friends needing
assistance in gethng started. Roedy Green
takes a look at the new crop of backup software, and offers some suggestions on bulletproofmg your business against hard disk
crashes. Cathallmn Labon~
th gi v es us
the rundown on purchasing a laser printer.
We have been through big changes at The
Computer Paper this month. We have just
completed the purchase of the Alberta edi+
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tion ofthe paper &om our former partners in
Calgary We welcome two new employees.
Graeme Bennettbrings years of experience
on a varie of cornputers to heiPout with
editorial and desktop publishing tasks. PatriciaFitzGerald has worked for the Alberta

ages'

back out to distribute the next edition.

This success has brought its own problems however. We axe now needing more
papers to circulate, and we don't have more. We plan a circulation increase for the fall,
but we did not want to initiate one in the generally slower summer months. One
obvious place to look was at our outmf-town-circulation. We decided to try and sell our
outwf-town publicafions. We printed a number of these papers with the price tag of
$L95. We will give this new "edition" a few month trial run. If it is met with favorable
response, then we will be able to ofFer very efFective circulation through out BC.
We apologize to those readers outside our main business areas, that we will no

longer be able to provide the edition for &ee outside our immediate distribution area.

Computer Calendar .....................................................................................51-55

Computer Classifieds .................................................................................56-57

We hope that you think it is still worthwhile to pick it up and read, even at the new (and
we hope reasonable) price. Ifyou are a retail outletwhois interested in carrying copies
of The Computer Paper, please cail our circulafion manager at 604/7M-5596.
Enjoy the issue.

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.SA,, 1990JUN
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unit allows a standard fax to serve as a
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our own core."
Hewlett-Packard isalso
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operating environment, which was displayed in the booth.
For the Japanese, meanwhile, it was
business as usual. Panasonic showed its
line of printers, platters and PCs, but
the biggest crowd in its booth was gathered around its opticaldiskdrives,which
won't ship until November. They'read
and write data up to 1 million times.
Sharp emphasized color laptop technology in its booth, with a line which
runs thegamut from the4-pound 6200
to the 28 pound MultiColor%6, which
sports a fast Intel 386 chip, an 80 megabyte hard driveand 2 megabytes of
memoxy for about $10,000. Still, larger
crowds stood around a display of its
TFT thin-fllm color screen technology.
That TFF thin-Qm color screen is evexything it's cracked up to be, judging
from crowd reaction to prototypes
shown at the Comdex show. Hitachi,
Sharp and Toshiba all exhibited the
screens, which were razor-thin yet displayed incredibly sharp color, whether
used as computer screens, overhead
projectors or plain TVs.

The Japaneseare also becoming more

savvy about the U.S. market, and upgrading their fax product lines. JefF
Holloway of Hitachi said his company
will introduce a hig~ p a c ity plain
paper fax machine caned HiMail at
the National Oflice Machine Dealers
Association show in Las Vegas next
month. Holloway satd the HIMad umt
is like having your own post ofBce for
national and international fax.
Two European companies were also
making their presence felt in the U.S.
computer market at this show. Olivetti
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unitrunning the newIntel80486chip.
Magnavox, a division ofN.V. Philips of
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its new HeadStart division, which it
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WordPerfect Officeprogram at this
Spring Comdex, but decided to hold
back owing to delays in producing the
documentation.
The package was promised for later this month, possibly in time
for the PC Expo show inNew York
In addition, the company announced it
w ill soon issue an update for i t s
DrawPerfect program, which first
shipped last March. Version 1.1 features
a runtime module for the distribution of

Norcross, Georgia displayed one unit

which features the chip on a plug-in
board. The motherboard contains a fast
586 chip. "We think this is the highlight
of the show," said vice president~es
John Morrison, who noted thatif the486
board breaks, the 886 can still run with
noreductioninperformance. Other 486
vendors at this show indude Olivetti,
Acer, and Systems Integration Associates
of Chicago,which showed a 486 machine using the EISA bus.

onscreen slide shows, new presentation

advance options, a "go to" inenu which

can help direct viewers to other slides,
and otherdrawing features.The update
will ship inaboutaweekandwill cost$15
for individual users who own veraon 1.0.
Responding to increased interest in Microsoft Windows since Version 5.0 was
released last month, WordPerfect announced it will develop a version of its
flagship word processor for Windows
before it develops a version for the Presentation Manager. This is a reversal of

its earlier position, and a victory for Microsoftover IBM. "We saw the light,"said
spokesmanJdfAcerson, "and responded
to our users. The company denied that
delays in delivering Presentation Manager 2.0 weie behind the decision.
Finally, Word Perfect demonstrated its

new "hold jockey" feature on its customer support lines. A disk jockey has
been hired to monitor the company's
200 support lines and tell people how
many peopleare waiting in hne ahead of
them toask questions, and howlong they

can expect to wait, depending on the

nature oftheir query. Background music plays in the background, and the
announcer also reads ads for upcoming
versions of WordPerfect products.
(Dana Blankenhorn/19900604/Press
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COMDEX SPRING: WINDOWS, 486 ARE MAJOR

COMDEX 'IRKG)S
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, U.S.A., 1990
JUNE 4 (NB) The two major technical
trends at this Comdex show come Rom

companies which aren't even exhibiting, Microsoft and Intel.

Microsoft Windows 8.0, which finally
shipped late last month, has brought
excitement back to the PC platform.

Existing Windows developers, indutbng

Samna, report great increases in speed
and performance fortheir products un-

der 5.0,
which breaks the 640K memoiy
barrier. "Version 8.0 truly makes Windows
'a viable platform, said Bill Jones of
Samna. "The enhanced memory
addressability makes applications run
much fitster, and fakes full advantage of
the PC hardware."Major vendors of
connectivityproductslike DCAand Eicon
also ported their software to Windows,
and WordPerfect announced itwill now
produce a Windows version of its flagship word processor ahead of a Presen tation Manager version.
As for Intel, the promised 486 machines
of last MI are now working all over the
show floor. American Megatrends of

Perhaps the most interesting comments

on the 486 came &om Patrick Lee, vice
president of Pioneer Computer, Fremont, California. "The fastest growing
end of the marketis theUnixworkstation
area, and Intel knows that, he told
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foot pedal to enable sustaining of notes.

The system comes equipped with stereo

headphones for shy players who want
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system for those who like to perform for
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Dudley Moore,the well known comedic
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Let StrachanComputersshowyouwhy it paysto invest
alittle moreinequipment that wil endure.

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1Nb RAN
40 Nb voice coil bard drive
1.2 Nb floppy drive
12-inch TTL
monitor
baby case

TWO-YEARWARRANTY ON COMPUTER
U.S.
DESIGN 8 CONSTRUCTION
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Mini-tower
(386) +$99
Tower+$119

Chckkeyboardupgrade-

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------S2399

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IIARD DRIVE
UPGRADES
80 Mb24msvoicecoil upgrade +$399

MaNITOR
a VIDEOUPGRADES
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V GA
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VGAcolour 640x 480+$529
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Windows
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APPLE
APPLE AND AINIKICAN FILM
INSTITUIX FORM
PARTNIKSHIP
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,
1990 JUNE 1 (NB) The American
Fihn Institute (AFI) and Apple Computer will combine resources to integrate computer technology into the film
and television community. Apple will
donate over $1 million in Macintosh
equipment to the newly created AFI/
Apple Computer Center for Fibn and
Videomakers in Los Angeles.

In October, Apple is expected to unveil

two new lowest machines:an under$1,000 entry-level 68000-based Macintosh,and a lowest 68050-based modular machine with a 40 megabyte hard
drive and two megabytes of RAM.

on boards.
Apple is expected to unveil two lowest
laser printers in July designed to com-

pete against lowest offerings from

Hewlett-Packard, among others. The

Personal Laserwriters NT and SC are

expected to cost $5,500 and $2,500 respectively.

Various reports indicate the new lowcost machine, intended to compete with
a slew of budget-priced IBMwompatible
dones on the market, will replace the
the-line Macintosh, and will have a built-

in hard drive, monitor,and a slot for add-

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 1990 MAY 51

(NB) Austel, the Australian telecommunicafions authority, is to purchase a

Sculley reportedly says that a new laptop

computer will not be among products to
be introduced later this year, "but Apple
is working in that area, he said.

Macintosh Plus, the current bottomwf-

AUSTIVLLIAN TIXZCOM
AUTHORITY STANDARDIZES
ON MACS

Macintosh network for its administrative

needs. The system will consist of SE/50
and IIcx workstations plus a DOS file
server for the existing accounting system.

The Macswere chosen "because of their

Apple ChairaianJohn Sculley, on hand

for the announcement, said the center
will open thisfall, and proclaimed, "AFI's
historywith and commitment to the tele-

vision and film community combined

with the breadth and power of Macintosh technology, will provide the tools
and information necessary to assist and
inspire the visual artists of today and
tomorrow." .

The Center is also expected to aid Apple

in iis development of multimedia applications for its Macintosh line.

For Your Local Area Network, Connect Up With

Network-OS~.
A "TRULY" Affordable and Full-Featured Network Solution.

Specifically, the center will feature avariety of Macintosh systems for demonstrations, training, conferences, and research
and development. The center will offer
workshops that explore and integrate
computer technology into all phases of
the creation and production process.
Workshop topics will indude issues concerning p r o d ucing, di r e c ting,
screenwriting, annnation, editing, cinematography, production design, scoring, and music editing.

Network-OS is a I 00%IBM NetBIOS Compatible Local Area Network (LAN) operating system
written for IBM PC-DOS/MS-DOS and 8088/8086, 80286 and 80386 based microcomputers.

Access to the center will be available to

devices in it or attached to it.

screenwriter, directors, producers, production designers, editors and all members of the filmmahng community.
Announcing the new relaiionship, AFI
Director Jean Firstenberg explained:
filmmaking is grounded in a rich tradition of combining creative vision and
technical invention. The institute is
dedicated to providing the resources of
the future for filmmakers so that they
continue to challenge the elements of
current technology. The AFI/Apple
Center can play a significant role in supporting the synergy of art and science
and promoting growth in the creative
realm of film, television and video."
Contacts: Emily Lashn, American Film
Institute, 218456-7690; Patty Tulloch,
Apple, 408-974-5449

Any program that operates in that environment will operate with Network-OS.

Network-OS supports thePC/MS-DOS and Novell operating system file and record locking
schemes. Therefore, software written for Novell will operate successfully in the Network-OS
environment.
Network-OS is a peer-to-peer LAN, enabling true resource sharing. No dedicated file server is

required. Each station on a Network-OSLAN can be a Netserver, thereby sharing any or all

User "Personalities" are transportable throughout Network-OS. Any user can log onto any

available network station, and by utilitizing the User Registration system, appear to be working
on their own computer with familiar disk drive, program and printer assignments.

Other Outstandin Features:

Supports all printers

attached to the network.

Highly conformant to

Multiple servers
permitted.
LAN card independent

Over 50 network

Easy installation.

interfacecards supported

DiskCaching provided.

Supports up to 255 users.

cations support.

ISO/ OSI model.

Low cost - per node

Asynchronous communi

E-mail /conferencing
Bulletin board/filling
(optional)
Bridging among two or
more Network-OS. (opt.)

Call ustoday for your nearest dealer.

A PPLE PRICE C UT S H N I S H E D
"MORE OR LESS"
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,

1990 JUN 12 (NB) Apple Computer

President John Sculley has said that his
more
or less for thisyear. His comments indicate that Apple will not further cut its
margins on existing hardware before the
fall introduction of its lowest-priced machines, which are expected to be priced
competitively.

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costwffectiveness when considering the
total cost of an installation such as training, ease of use and low support needs,"
according to a statement.

The Macintoshes will operate in four

zones, each with its own file server. The
four zones will be connected through
AustralianMeveloped Multigate gateways.

el

COMIVIODORE
COM M O D O R E SHOWS NEW
CD-ROM BASED AMIGA AT
CES

FINALLY asuper high resolution service specializing in

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U.SA., 1990JUN

4 (NB) Commodore unveiled its
Commodore Dynamic Total Vision
(CDTV) at the summer Consumer Electronics Show. Rather than make a big
splash about the new system, which is an
Amiga capable of playing CDs, it was
hidden behind partitions and not shown
on thefl
oor. There were not even press
kits available for distribution in the press
room.

POWERPO
INPand manyother popular softwareprograms.
GenigraphicsAuthorized Service Bureau
for PowerPointreSlide Imaging:
8,000 Line Resolution.
Next Day Turnaround.

"..- Pricingstarts at -,-''-

Same Day
EmergencyService.
Custom Slide Design & Production.
Overheads & Handouts.

The system, with a list price of $999,

consists of a one megabyte Amiga, a CD
player capable of playing audio CDs, CDROMS, and CD+G (audio CDs with a
video track). There is no keyboard;
rather, input is through a lo-key, 20function infrared hand-held remote unit.
The unit connects directly to a television
set and a home stereo unit.

V ISION :
Vision PresentationsInc. 200-1380 BurrardStreet, Vancouver V6Z2H9
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Commodore's major selling point is the

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SOFI' SERVICE LAUNCHES

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TURKU-ABO, FINLAND, 1990JUN 13

(NB) Soft Service of Finland has unveiled Postdriver, a printer driver for the
Commodore Amiga that enables users of
Postscriptlaser printers to use theprinter
with all programs on the Amiga, whether
the software supports Postscript printers
or not.

oAMI BIOS
:::,: o4MB exp. to 16MB

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With the addition of a floppy drive and

keyboard, the unit can be upgraded to
function asa fully functionalAmiga. The
system contains y rear expansion ports
and 2 f'ront ports for a stereo headphone
and a personal RAM card. Commodore
has notfinalize distribution yet but they
will launch the product internationally.

INTEL 80386 - 20 CPU

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CDTVS release during the third quarter

of 1990 and 200 titles by the end of the
year.Software includes reference material such as a 180,000-word dictionary,
cookbook,encydopedia,and atlasaswell
as entertainment products from major
game companies. Commodore will also
manufacture a CD-ROM unit so that existing Amigas can take advantage of the
new software.

AMI BIOS
Landmark:23.5 MHz
1 M Ram exp. to8 Men

as lowas

CONTEX 386-25

titles to be available at the time of the

CONTEX 386-20
386SX

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library of CD-ROM software that will be

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Accordingto Len Nongard of SoftService, the software is the fiist package for
the Amiga that gives users this capabihty.
Pricmg on the package has yet to be
decided. The software will slartshipping
at the end of this month.
Sofk Service daims thatPostdriver is fully
compatiblewith Preferences (autTiityon
the Amiga) and is therefore very easy to
instaL Once installed, the program interceptsnormalprintercommands &om
the apphcations software and converts it
to Postscript connnands.
Contact:
Lan Norrgaid, Soft Service,c/
o Electrocity, 4th Hoor, 205ROAbo, Fm-

On GEnie, the program can be found by

accessing, in this order, the following
menuL Computing, IBM PC Compatibles
Roundtable, IBM PC, Software libraries,
then Download a File.

PHOENIXANNOUNCES 14
EISA IICENSEES
NORWOOD, M A SSACHUSETTS,
U.SA., 1990 MAY 90 (NB) Phoenix
Technologies has announced licensing
agreements for its Extended Industry
Standard Architecture (EISA) compatibility software with 14 computer vendors. Several more contracts are currentlyunderno~
los ureagreements,
Phoenix added.
The software, induding a ROM basic
inputwutputsystem (BIGS), Video BIGS,
Keyboard BIOS andEISA configuration
utility, will help the vendors build inachines conforming to the EISAarchitecture.EISA,anval toIBM'sMiro Channel
Architecture, is backed by a group of
IBM~mpatible PC makers, induding

SFk O uh i i IIIOQFpOFSIOII

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Asmore viruses becomeknown and new'

versions of the program are available,
they can be downloaded &om the
Hilgr'reve BBS at 81M48-5915.

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And though it costs hundreds
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Compaq.
The companiesnamed by Phoenix are:
Advanced Logic Research, Altos Computer Systems, Asus Computer, Copam
Electronics, Epson America, Intel,
Micronics Computers, Mylex, NKC,
Tandy (with its subsidiary Grid System),
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manufactures call options. Like

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Altima even remembered to give
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HAS VIRUS PROVKCI'ION

MONROE, MICHIGAN, U.SA., 1990
JUN 1 (NB) HCOPY, a fil copy utiTity
designed to filter out viruses during file
transfers in real-time, has been released
to thepublic &ee of charge and can be
found on GEnie, and other networks.

Add to this a stunning

paper-white LCDbacklit display
(you' ve gol to see it lo believe
it!); s full function 101-key
detachable keyboardwith
numeric keypad; a 3.5" L44
megabyte internal floppy drive;
plus a40MB baal dishdrive,
snd you' ll soon realize why the
Altima desktop/laptop is one
heck of a computer. Or is it two?

HCOPY, according to its creators at

Hilgraeve Inc., works like the COPY
command found in the DOS operating
system, and adds a level of protection
against virus infections.
HCOPY detects 68 different viruses by
using data &om IBM and its Virus Scanning Program. If a requested file is infected with any of the known viruses,
HCOPY disphys a warning identifying
the virus and allows the user to abort the
filecopy request before the virus has a
chance toinfect the computer, according to the company.

"a (rue bargain" PC Laptop

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hosted by SoR'Letter publisherJeffxtey
Tarter, the major topic of conversation
was f'rom a compaay which wus not exhibiting at the shoar. Windows 8.0 f'rom
Micxosok,
Rod Turner of Symantec, Carole Patton
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Grayson of
and Cameron
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in useby the eud of the year. But Tarter
warned that xuay not be enough copies
to make a worthwhile market, noting
that 2 million Commodore Amigas are
in use worldwide, and that Apple Macin
tosh software developers vrent hungxy
when 2 million of those machines were
in use. About 50 million IBM PC's and
clones are in use worldwide, the panel

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'Two kmds of companies won't do vrell".
those that don't recognize Graphical
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don' have
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the know-how to develop the
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(NB) Microsoft Ward for Windows,
the graphics word processor available
for Wmdows KI I and above has a potentially serious bug which can cause problems when installing the package on a
PC.
Although upon installation Word for
Windows recluestsat least $5 MB (megabytes) of space oa disk, the software's
installation routines will proceed with
installation even if this disk space is not
available. When this is the case, installing
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when the program is booted.

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The Computer Paper / July '90

no decision on how to proceed has yet
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NEW' FOR IM: Network Courier SuIIIIortsWinIIows S.O

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA,

1990 MAY28 (NB) Consumers Software has announced that its electronic

mail sofbvare, The Network Courier, will

support MicrosoftWindows 5.0.
The announcement is not Consumers'
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for Windows 1.0. The company also developed aversionfor Windaws2.1,which
was provided to a few customers but not

activelysold.ButWindowsS.Qwasneeded
to support what the company really
wanted to provide. Consumers, which
was a beta-test site for Windows 5.0, has
been champing at thebit to get itsWindows 8.0 product to market, Shandrick
said. "Our users obviously wanted to
upgrade along time ago," he added.

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worldwide Notice 400 messaging service
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facsimileand telex transmissionsto more
than 100countnes, according tolnfonet.

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CANADIAN
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TORONTO, ONTARIO, 1990 MAY 29
(NB} Lotus Development Canada has
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big-ticket groupware product.
KarlMeema, corporate marketing representative for Lotus here, said the Canadian arm has no Arm orders for Notes
yet,but dedded there were prospects
sufliciently promising that it was time to
put the staff and marketing resources in
place. "We had a lotof sales sites that vre
looked at that we said we' ve got the
opportunity to dose them," he said.
Notes is designed to permit sharing of
text, numeric aud gtuphic information
through networks,both locally and over
wide areas. In Canada, an initial license
covering as many as 20Q seivers and
worksuitionswimcostC$75,000. Licenses
for further machiueswillcostC$559each.
Lotus plans to sell the software d'uectly
ratherthan through dealerL

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The system managers handle services

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Schoutsen exphined. The general ledger and financial reporting module
comes with a basic system manager.
Windowing System Manager, which allows multiple Accpac Plus modules to
rim in windows under DOS,is an option,
as is System Manager/2,which aiiaiws the
softtie to run on the OS/2 operating
system.

GARDEN CITY, NEW' %)RK, U.SA.,

1990 MAY22 (NB) Computer Associates (CA) hasannounced thatitwill ship
Version 6.0 of the Accpac Plus general
ledger and fi
nancial reporter module,
and Accpac Plus system managers, in

June.

TELECOM
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ROCKVILLE,MARYLAND, U.SA., 1990
JUN 12 (NB) The GEnie online information service, &om GE Information
Sexvice, now offers a&ee &anted applicationssoftware package for PC's.

The GEnie PC Aladdin software enables

PC's to automatically iniiiate access to
selected GEnie service online offerings
such as GE Mail, RoundTable Bulletin
Pxicesare US$895 for the genexal ledger
Boards and software libraries at schedmodule, US$195 for the Wmdaiwing Sys- uled times or upon demand. It also altem Manager, U8$245 for System Manlows GEnie service subscribers to preibger/2 and U8$599 for CA's LbnPak
pare messages "o6bne prior to GEnie
~d
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ures iu Canadian currency.
The GEnie PC Aladdin sc&emepackage
ConiacLJohn Schoutsen, Computer As-.. can be downloaded by GEnie service
sociates, 604-757=5522; Kristin Keyes,
subscribers.
at no cost, except for conComputer Associates, 40$922-2510
n ect time, f r o m e i t her t h e P C
RoundTableortheAladdin RoundTable
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These are the firstin a series of releases

expected tio bring all Accpac Plus mod
ulestoVexsion 6.0level by the end of this
year. John Schoutsen, of CA's Micro
Products Division in Vancouver, said
there is no ofilcial timetable for releasing the other modules.
The company said Version 6.0 fits int its
recently announced CA 90s strategy for
application poriabihty. Enhancements
in the general ledger module indude
redesigned data entry screens and the
abiTity to create an unlimited number of

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Hayes also announced upgrades for its
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of Fremont, CA. The relationship has
aheady resulted in the joint develop-

ment of a Axmycomphant CCITT V82

modem module &om Phylon, the PHY96H, which meets global requirements.
The module is contained in the Hayes
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Phylon in thedevelopmentand extensive
testing ofPHY46H, we have asNxred our
customers of a quahty CCflT V.52 modem with improved capabilities that
meets Hayes performance standards,"
said Dennis Hayes. 'Our relationship
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supplied by Rockwell.'
Contact: Sharon O'Bxien, Hayes, 4N4494791

POLICY TO ENCOURAGE
XNTIK.LIGENT NIITS
WA%HNGTON,D.C., U.LA.,1990MAY
29 (NB) The United States needs a
national telecommunications policy that
removes obsiades to mtelligent, digital,
interconnected broadband networks,
Northexn Telecom has told an agency
studying tdecommunications.
In a statement submitted to the Nafional
Telecommunications and Information
Administrafion (NTIA), the communications etluxpment maker argued that
present policies inhibit the deployment

of new technology. In particular, Northern said, legal and relpxlatory restraints

workagainstthe useofbroadhbndoptical
flber for local service.
Removing these reslraints would "set in
place the in&asiructuxe for the significant economic benefits of an informa-

The Computer Paper I July '$0

tion4ased society," said Roy Merrills,
president of Northern Telecom Inc., in
the slatement.

Accordingto Northern, localfiber connections could cany cable television signals and other video progianis as well as
voice, data and image services.
The submission to the NTIAwas made in
connection with the agency's Comprehensive Study of the Domestic Telecommunications ln&astructure.

hand, thesame technology can be used

bycrhninalstounmaskundercover cops,
and by abusive husbands to find their
wives.

industry, and although the lists could be

combined to create aprofile of your life,
mostconsumers don'tobject to the prac-

To some merchants, AM isjustan extension of current mailing-list technology.

If you give money to an abortion-rights
group, for instance, you' ll soon get mail
from feminist magazines. If you give to
Pat Robertson's 700 Club,you' ll getmail
&om lik minded organizations. The
same is true in packaged goods. Mailinglist management is a mu16billion dollar

ANI, in fact, doesn'tyield nearly the kind

of detail on your habits that ~
ed
&equent shopperprograms are picking
up without trouble. Here, shoppers get
cards which record their purchases, and
inslantcouponswhich save them money.
In return,relsilersleamwhatother goods
their customers need, and sell this data
to marketers.

tice.

17

Industry has already recognized this

power m AM. The Direct Mail Associafion is campaigning against it, knowing
that AM will create maiTing lists fiaster,
and for less money. Illinois Bell is holding meetings this week with local businesses, helping them create applications
for ANI. Dun 8c Bradstreet is selling its
direct-mail subsidiaries to concentrate
on the online businesses, and you can
expect them to use ANI there in some
way. Two phone companies, Telesphere
and US Sprint, are already selling mam-

Contact: Frank McNally, Northern

Telecom, 615-7544216

CALL'Elt I JX:
WHATS THE PROBLEM?
Editorial by D. Blnnkenhom
A~ B R A ,GEORGIA,U.KA., 1990MAY
Sl (NB) Judges in Pennsylvania have
dealt the fiist major legal blow to the
Caller ID service. Caller ID is the consumer offering of a technology called
Automatic Number Identification. ANI
was, in turn, at the heart of a technology
called ISDN in the 1980's.
Many people called ISDN "I Still Don' t
Know" or "I Still Don't Need It," but as
it's been rolled out nafionwide it comes
to mean two things: digital and two-way
communication.

First, each phone line will be digitized,

with 2 channels of 64,000 bits/second
which canbe used forvoice,fax,or data
service. While most voice lines can take
the whole 64,000 kilobit hne, voice can
also be compressed, and some services
have used compression to offer video
conferencing within that bandwidth. A
Sat madime can send a page every 15
seconds at 9,600 bits/second, and most
PCusersare familiarwithmodemswhich
work at 2,400 bits/second. Henceforth,
all these devices can share the same
phone line.
The second meaning of ISDN is a twoway signabng channel, running at up to
16,000 bits/second. This is being used,
first, to cany callers' numbers to the
called party. That's ANI. When ANI is
sold to consumers, it's called Caller ID.
Until the Pennsylvaniadecision, themain
threats to Caller ID were legislative, a
California law mandating the right of
people to block their numbers &om goingouton aper~ basis,andaproposal
by Sen. Herbert Kohl, a Wisconsin
Democrat, to offer blockmg nationwide.
ANI is already being used, successfully,
on three types of calla For emergencies,
aservice called Enhanced911 sendsyour
number to the police asyou call. This not
only cuts out hlse alarms, but helps police find panicked victims, even if they
can'tstate their address. On toll-free 800
and caller-paid 900 numbers, ANI is now
creating databases and mailing lists so
merchants can know what their customers are like, and learn of other likely
prospects.
Pohceagenciesare of twomindson Caller
ID, On the one hand, the technology
cuts crank calls, and makes the activities
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TRENDS
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BY 199R
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,

1990 MAY 29 (NB) Intel Corp. is

promising to eliminate all use of chlorofiuorocarbons (CFC's) by 1992, and
calls its decision "one of the mostaggressive programs in industty."
Citing the environmental damage of
CFC's, which are known to destroy the
earth's thin ozone layer, Intel Chairman

Gordon Moore proclaimed that his company, "has undertaken an aggressive

worldwide program to immediately reduce CFC emissions by implementing
good control andconservation practices."

Specifically, Intel isreplacing CFC-based

E L SEGUNDO, CALIFO~
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1990 JUN 1 (NB) Infonet, the packet
networkwhichis25% owned byMCI, has deaner. The change affects faciTi6es in
Oregon, Ireland, Puerto Rico, and
announced that it will interconnect its
Singapore. The new equipment is exNotice 400 E-mail service with Touch
pected
tobeonlineinallofIntel's systems
Communications' Worldtalk400, which
manuSicturmgplantsbytheend
of 1990.
will allow Infonet's NOTICE 400 customers toexpand theirreach to over 4
Intel says it instituted a comprehensive
million E-mail users on local area networks (LAN's) or Unix-based systems CFC Tracking Program in 1987 to assemble data of itsworldwide usage. Since
worldwide.
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through X400 gateways with users of
UNIX STMP and UUCP. cc:Mail, Action
Technologies' MHS, Microsoft Mail,
QuckMail and TOPS' InBox Plus LAN
K-mail packages.
This announcement closely follows
Infonet's announcements that it will interconnectNotice400messal~g service
with MCI Mail and Atlas 400. Tests are
a lso in p r o gress to c e r tify t h e
interoperability of Notice 400 with
SoftSwitch X400Gatewaysand Consumeis Software's Network Courier 400.

and alternative manuf'acturing methods,

the company hasreduced itsCFC use by

50 percent.
Contact Howard High, Intel, 408-7651488

HP OFFERS TONER
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PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,
1990JUN 12 (NB) Hewlett-Packard's
efforts to recyde spent toner cartridges
is designed to reduce the volume ofplastics going into landfills. Owners of HP
Laserjet printers are being urged to return their spent cartiidges rather than
throw them in the trash, and are being
offeredf'
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Notice 400 is based on the X.400 standard for passing messages between systems, approved by the Switzerland-based
CCHT, and is accessible in more than
100 countries. Users may also transmit
binaiy files via Notice 400 without first
converting them to ASCII text.

The recyding program, which started

June 1, is running on a test basis through
December 51 in ll states: Arizona, Cali-

Infonet also announced it will interconnectitsNotice400servicewith SoRSwitch

Canada by 1991. Similar prognuns have

foinia, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Ne-

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recentlybeen announced in Switzerland
and Germanyand HPplansto expand to
other European countries in the near

The agreement takesthe form of a

Memorandinn of Understanding regarding intiegration of the US. Global
Positioning System with the U.S.S.R.
Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System. Discussions began hst September
a nd were concluded May 1 8 i n
Leningrad.
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subject toapprovalbybothgovernments.

future.

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donation for each cartridge returned
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Northwest Airlines announced an agree-

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TORONTO, ONTARIO, 1990 JUN 12

(NB) Though Canada has nothad the
strong government push toward UNIX
that has boosted the operating system in
the United States, Lotus Development
Canada is optimistic about prospects for
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UNIX than their counterparts south of
the border, though he admitted that xt's
no secxtet that a large part of our push to
UNIX has beenthe U.S. federal government" Wyatt said he expects some customers who currently use 1-2-5 on personal computers will be looking toward
UNIX workstations in the future.
In announcing I 2-5 for UNIX, which is

funcxionaHy compatible with I 2-5 Release 5.0 for DOS, Wyatt caHed it a critical part of Lotus's phn to supply spreadsheets across multiple computing phtfoxms.
At the Toronto press conference, Karl
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have been asking Lotus for hetter network support induding Iransparent access to remote files, for cc?operative processing capabilities and for more coxn-

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plans. Where Lotus will really be competing in the 1990's," Meema said, "is
with what axe called fourthgenexation
languages today."
In Canada, the single-user edition of 1 25 for UNIX System V wiH sell for C$859.
The multi-user edition, designed for a
586-based sexver and induding licenses
for 10 users, will cost C$1,559. The additional-user edition will sell for C$599
with one set of documentation and licenses for four additional usexi. Extra
sets of documentation will cost C$79. A
French-language versionwiHbeavailable
by the end of 1990, Lotus said.
Contact: Karl Meema, Lotus Canada,41 69V94000

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4 (NB) First it was cartoons, then fulllength movies, later it was amusement

parks and hotels. Now Walt Disney is

m oving into computer softti e .

In a private showing in a Chicago Hotel,

the newly formed Walt Disney Software
of Burbank, CA, demonstrated its new
line of personal computer software. Initially the products will be in three lines:
entertainment, education, and personal
productivity.
Products will be available for the Amiga;
IBM-PC, C64, aud the Apple H. Initial
productsare expected to be released
during the third and fourth quarters of
1990.
Disney announced that one of its first
productswillbe a new hardware device:
The Sound Source. The Sound Source is
a three.mch speaker that attaches to the
parallel port of an IBM-PC or compatible. (The port can still be used forpxintexs.) The device will genexate speech,
music, and sound at much better quality
thanthesiandardPC speaker.'
Ihc Sound
Source uses Disney's own proprietaxy
system but the company is making it
available to other software developers.
The price is$84.95 and itwill be bundled

with some of Disney's initial release

A representative from another software
company did notwelcome the introduction of yet another sound standard into
the PC marketplace and questioned
whether his company would support it.
Most were impressed by a demonstration ofDisney's animation package, The
Animation Studio ($179.95). The program will be released initially for the
Amiga followed bya version for MS-DOS
computers and indudes a tutorial on
animation using actual exaxuples from
INisney cartoons. It uses onion<kin technology to allow designers to see the currentanimation celland the tbreebehind
it.'IheprogramindudesapublicMomain
projector so people can distribute their
animation products to others.
Also induded is a full range of sound
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BRICIKIN AT SLATE
U.SA., 1990 JUN 1 (NB) Slate Corp.

Where are theBES

Tcomputer deals
in Canada?

has announced that Robert Frankston,

codeveloper of industry-spawning
VisiCalc, will leave Lotus Development
and join Slate. The move reunites
Frankston with Dan Bricklin, the other
VisiCalccod evelo per.
Fxankston and BricMin founded Software Arisin 19'/9and launched VisiCalc,
the first electronic spreadsheet and the
progxam generally attributed with the
proliferation of personal computers
throughout th e b u siness world.
Frankston remained with Software Arts
until its acquisifion by Lotus Development Corp. and was chief scientist at
Lotus.

Slate is developing software that focuses

on those computers such as the GRiD
Pad which uge pen or stylus input rather
than the traditional keyboard. Industry
analysts say that Slate is working on software for coxuputers that GO Corporation will introduce later in the year.
Bricklin, a cofounder and vice president
of Slate, told Newsbytes,"I am thrilled to
be working with Bob again. We have
been dose friends for a long time and I
am sure that Bob will make immense
contributions to Slate's progress."
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MOSCOW, U.S.SX; 1990JUN 11 (NB)
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has been approved by Sovietlawmakers.
Under this new law, any Soviet citizen,
for the first time m USSRhistoxy,will be
allowed to run his own desktop publishinghouse. The law will also end decades
of govexnment censoxship.
According toparliamentreports, the new
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Newsbytes several years ago, is expected
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of months.
The new law, however, does not address
what many journahsts say is a basic problexu inhibiting freedom of the press in
the Soviet Union the government
xuonopolyon the limited supply ofprinting paper. There has been a chronic
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MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., 1990 MAY29 (NB)
There'sahuge demand for computer
books in the USSR and it's long-tern
one, Boris Molchanov, director of the
ComputerPress Advertising and Publishing agency told Newsbytes.
Molchanov cited several examples. First,
his ComputerPress magazine, which
publishesreviews on computer hardware

and software compiled by his staff &om

Western sources, is a monthly magazine
with a circulation of more than 70,000.
Copies don' t spend much time on newsstands or shop shelves, Newsbytes was
told.

But amore interes6ng story iswhat happened withthe book for new IBM PC
users written by Soviet protpainmers. As
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printed, theywere completely sold out in

Moscow within 5 days a8er sales began Several new publishers are entering this
andthiswithalmostnoadvertising. The
m a r ket despite the paper shortages,
second printing is in progress now,
w h ich have been known to cause even
Molchanov said.
big national newspapers like the 20-milIiothcopiesa dayKomsomotskayaPravda
Even problems with paper shortages to miss a couple of daily issues. Despite
vrhich badly affect a new small publish- : the diaiculties, there's still plenty ofroom
ing agencies don't stop the publisherL
to publish in the computer and commuAccording to Molchanov's estimates, nications book market, Molchanov said.
paper for his magazine bought abroad
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Discman and Electronic Book

e st numbers ar e d u e t o C a n o n ' s
marketing of the machine as a worksta-

The Data Discman and Electronic Book

tion, not as a reasonably priced personal

Unfortunately, the PC 8'art/i card waslost

somewhere on the way to the editorial
office and Newsbytes Moscow got nothing &om their advertisers. This isn' t
surprising, since oIIicial statisfics for hst
year say that goods worth 400,000 rubies
"were lost while shipping."

will be alsoavailable in electronic goods

But the Bytsfaxed page with circled

numbersworked well because itbypassed
the mail system.

NeXT LAUNCHING

Forty days after faxing the request, on

April 25th, Newsbytes Moscow received
the first reply &om British-based Tenset
Technologies. More letters kept flooding
our mailbox for more than a month.
The Soviet postal service is very slow, and
itcan be proven by the fact that European and U.S. letters take approximately
the same time te arrive. U.S. first~
mail envelopes are as slow as other dassificaliens. Two envelopesviere found in
Newsbytes' Moscow mailbox opened
supposedly by postal o%cials.
One possible explanation of why mail
service is so slow is that few Soviet postal
workers speak any foreign language;
consequently addresses written in Enghsh mustall be readdressed, and arrive
marked with somebody's Russian handwriting with the Soviet city and street
address. This procedure is most timeconsummg.
But how good is the reader's card service
itself' Newsbytes requested information
&om 50 Qteadvertisers and received 17
replies, or one third, in response. Only
one, however, &om BIX (Byte Information Exchange}, was customized to fit
our local Moscow needs. AII the rest
were the same materials sent in the States
or in Europe.

SONY DATA DISChfAN AVAII

ABLE IN BOOKSTORES
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1990 MAY 28 (NB}-

Sony's Data Discman, a portable CDmemory)

ROM (compact
player, may find a good market in bookstores. Maj or publishing industry distributor Tokyo Shuppan Hanbai is now
selling the player as well as its CD-ROM
softwaxe called Electronic Book to bookstores inJapan.

disk readily-

Electxenic Beck will appear in 18 titles

&om 14 publishers in earlyJuly. Priced at

between 2,800 and 19,800 yen ($18.70
and $1M), the CD-ROM-based software
is cheap compared te conventional,
ratherexpensive12wentimeter CD-ROM

software.
Tokyo Shuppan Hanbai expects
heavy sales to people even without a
knowledge efpersonal cemputers, which
is why it is distributing the player in
bookstores.

While Tekyo Shuppan has laid heavy

emphasis on sales of several other media
such as video tapes and compact discs,
besides books, it has never entered into
the hardware business befere now.
Claixning that Data Discman has been
received enthusiastically among its
bookstore customers, the company antiapates successful sales of both Data

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COMPU'rKR IN ASIA,
JOSS ATI'.ENDS
SINGAPORE, SOUTHEAST ASIA,
1990 MAY 29 (NB} SteveJobs has
launched his NeXT computer in Asia
with amajor presentation in Singapere,
soon to be followed by the system's
introduction in Hong Kong, South
Korea, Malaysia and the Thailand
markets.

FoundingdirectorofNeXT, SteveJobs,
is personally demonstrating his new
computer's capaMities. In Singapore,
he also played host te a delegation
representing Hong Kong information
technelogy industry and educatienal

computer. Canon has sold an estimated

1,000 systems since marketing efforts

suu ted in September inJapan. The geographical sales territory is being expanded now that a Japanese operating
system for the machine is near.
Overall host for the Singapore presentation wasJardine OfficeSystems,recently
appointed by Canon Inc as authorized
distributor of NeXT cemputexs in Hong
Kong. Shipping will be handled via the
disTokyo-based Canon. The
tribution and sales configuxafionwill then
be triangular the machines are made
at the company's Fremont, California
fitctoxy, shipped toJapan, and then distributed to other Asian destinations.

com
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In South Korea, Canon wiii introduce

the NeXT Computer System in conjunction with Lotte Canon Co., a joint ven-

Hong Kong saw its Grst pxactical demonstxation ofJobs'new software system
Nextstep at the unveiling efIBM*s
RISC System 6000 earlier this year.
Some industry observers, however, say
they denot expect any dramatic jump
onto the NeXT bandwagon in Asia.
They suggest that commercial success,
if it comes, is still at least a couple of
yearsaway. They point to the progress
of Jobs' latest etfort in the US and say
that traditional Asian caution will cause

potential buyers to wait and see how

well
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in the West.

If they do well there, potential Asian

users are more likely to turn that potential into reality. On the other hand,
the observexs say, NeXT's association
with IBM will inevitablyactin its favour.
Contact: Steve Lo or T h omas Wan,

Jardine OKce Systems, +852 565 2011

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To new computer users, I cannot

stress enough the importance of
backups.Ican helpyou recover from
almost any mistake, dreapt Ruling to
do proper backups.

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First Heartbreak

When You Need It The Most

Backup software makes copiesof the
files on your hard disk onto floppy diskettes. Making backups is the nredf irrrpdrtarrt thingyoudowithyourcomputer,
and it is aho the most boring.
When you inadvertently destroy your
original hard disk files, or when your
hard disk fails,you can restoreyour files
by copying the intact floppy diskette
backup files back to hard disk
l. Ifyou have'no backups you will lose
uN the work you have ever donel
2.Even ifyou have doneyour backups,
you will still lose all your keying since
the last backup.
Please ensureyoufullyunderstand those
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explain why, let me tell you my own

How Do You Use Floppy

storyo

BachapP

I used to back up my hard disk every

Saturday, using FastBack, the forerunner to FastBack Plus. Even when I
compressed my files before backing
up, it took 90 diskettes. I would listen
to the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts
on CBC radio to avoid getting too
bored. I would back up, then verify to
ensure the diskettes were readable.
Usually, after I had backed up 90 diskettes, and had just verified disk number 70, FastBack would discover an
error. I would then have to start all
over &om scratch. Usually I spent all
day, every Saturday, doing nothing but
backups, emitting blood-curdling
screams of &ustration every few houra
During the week I might lose a file and
have to use my backups to recover it.
About one chance in ten, I still could
not recover because the floppy was
unreadable. Sometimes the problem
was that I had mindlessly inserted the
wrong diskette during the backup.
Sometimes itwas that I had not centred

the floppyperfectlyin the drive. Sometimes I had dirtied or scratched the

floppy surface.

Life With Tape

I neverconsidered mag tape backups
because theywere tooexpensive. Then
one day I calculated how much I was
spendingonfioppybackups,givenwhat
my time was worth in dollars per hour.
I immediately bought a mag tape
backup.
Now I back up every night, not just
once a week. I insert a mag tape cartridge thatlookslikeaheavydutymusic
cassette. I type a couple of keystrokes,
then leave the office. When I come
back in the morning the entire backup
is done and verifi
ed. My own tape
drive is quite slow. It runs only a little
faster than a floppy. However, I don' t
have to sit there, babysittmg it, feeding
the diskettes in. When I go to restore
a file, I have had 100% success recovermg.
The average street price of a lo1tpcost
mag tape drive such as the Colorado
KE-10isabout$4RS. For businesses, or
anyone witha drive over 60 MB, a mag
tape backup unit is mandatory. For
hard disks over 100 MB you would
probably want a faster, more reliable,
larger, i.e. more expensive, tape drive.

Is Floppy Bacjmp am that Basp.

Ifyoucannotaffordamag tape backup,
or if you have very little data just

programs that could easily be reinstalled you can get away with a program that backs up to floppy disk.
Floppy backupreliability has improved
since the days I used it The drives
themselves are more reliable. The new
AT1.44MB floppies con tain four times
as much information as the old XT 560
KB floppies and their hard shells protect them better. You need only a
quarter as many floppies to back up;
this means only a quarter as many
chances to foul up. Modern backup
progragns record semi-redundantly to
help them recover damaged parts of
fioppies. Even so, tape is still much
more reliableand fool-proof.

Backing up is very simple. You select

which hard drive partitions (C:, D:, etc.)
you want to back up. Then, within
those drives you select which directories you want to
Then, within
these directories you select which files
you want to back up.
Then you feed in diskette aker diskette
as the program copies the information
to floppy.
This sounds very simple. However, the
designers of thebackupprograms, with
few exceptions, have made this much
more difficult than it could be.
Because the process is intimidating,
most backup programs offer "presets."
A computer expert selects the myriad
options, directories and files, thencarts
the whole selection under a name such
as "WEEKLY. From then on, anyone
can run thewhole backup fiawlesslyjust

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Picldng Up The Pieces

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A fully integrated purchase order subsystem
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MANUFACTURER BENEFITS

If all goes well,you never have to restore

&om your backup. However, if you
corrupt or lose some files, you select
the partitions, directories and files yo
want to restore. The program then
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and it replaces the damaged files with
your backup copies.
The designers put most of their efforts
into the backup side of the program
since you use it much more often than
restore. They sometimes leave the restore as an afterthought. So you wiII
find, with few exceptions, restoring is
considerablyharder than backing up.

Bacjtup Horror Stories

I work with charitieL Here are some of
their mistakes I hope you will be able to
avoid.

MISys will provide the Manufacturer with the

following benefits:
Eliminate unnecessary inventory.
Avoid production delays.
Prevent costly purchasing mistakes.
Reduce time required for physical inventory
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Full integration with the Accpac series of
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Another client saw an ad for the brand-

new FastBack Plus backup program.

He decided to install it himself. He did
not test his installation to make sure he
was actually able to restore. He had a
crash. He ran the restore, and fed the

diskettes through but nothing happened his files were still corrupted.
In a panic, he phoned me. Luckily, it
turned out all he needed to do was set
a special option switch, only available
on the advanced menu, to allow the
program to restore corrupted files.
He abandoned the program and recyded the diskettes without reformatting them. Little did he know that
FastBack Plus had hidden data in the
boot tmcks of his diskettes, subtly corrupting them. He thought a virus had
hit, since files would mysteriously appear and disappear &om these floppies.

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touch anything, call in competent
help. It is wise to have someone ex-.
perienced set up your backup procedures for you, and run through a
fire drill to be sure the backup and
restore works properly. Clearly label
and number all diskettes ahead of
time for each backup set, and make
sure there aresufficientsparesin each
set to handle growth. Make sure your
fioppydrivesareproperlyaligned and
dean. Finally, keep multiple sets of
backups, and keep atleastone of them
at a separate location.

The Choices
Thereare aver a dozen diskette backup
progranis to choose &om. I will be
reviewing nine of the best known:
Norton Backup 1.1
Central Point PC Tools 6.0
Fifth Generation FastBack Plus 2.10
Westlake Data PC FullBak Plus 1.12
Finot Keep Track Plus 2.1a
Gazelle Back-It 4
Sterling
Backup 5.21
DOS Backup 4.01
Lotus Magellan 2.0

Inte
lligent

The Envelope, Please

I won't tease you by making you read
through my detailed analysis before
telling you which I think is best. The
winner is Norton Backup. It has a
dear lead in speed, convenience and
safety. Norton Backup is pscpt
part of
the Noiton Utilities. You must buy it
separately.
Most of Norton's rivals shoot themselvesin thefootin someway. Theydo
all the hard things perfectly, then
snatch defeat &om the jaws of victory
with some blunder in the user interface.

Another charity noticed that they were

Speed

having trouble exchangingfloppieswith

other computers, butthat their computer
could read disks it had written itself with
no trouble. They were tight on funds so
they decided not to get the problem
fixed. One day they bought a new
computerand wanted to transfer everything toit. The new computer could riot

In real esrnte, it's "location, location

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At one large charity they would fob the

boring backup task ofF on the newest,
greeneststafFmember. There were 45
diskettes in the hbckup.set. That day
there weresome new files on the hard
disk, so now the backup had grown to
need 48 diskettes. The new slaff member wasworking alone afterhours. She
needed some new diskettes for 46, 47
and 48. The obvious way to solve the
problem was to stick various diskettes
into the computer until she found some
it liked. That particular backup program would accept almost anything...

In this case theywere lucky, because they

could repair the floppy drive and make
new backups. However, if the old computer had died, they would not have

2ss-is1tss, estop s2,747'

Another dient lost six months of keying

because she had done no backups atalL
I restored &om a backup I had made. I
exphtined the importance of backups
and power conditioners, since she was in
n oldbuildingwhere thelights8ickered
alarabingly. She told me she would take
care of this herseK She re-keyed the
entire six months, but still could not fin
time ormoney forpower protection or
backups. A power surge then scrambled
the hard disk. She lost the keying a
second time. I restored the files &om my
backup a second time. She re-keyed a
third time, and then lost it all a third
time again without backups. She was
furious. She was quite right; this sort of
thing shouldn't happen, but it does.

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I ended up writing a utility called SCAT

to decontaminate all his disketteL The
latestversion of FastBack Plus has.finally
corrected the "unvirus" problem.
Those who used some of the earlier
versions of PC Tools were not so lucky.
They could b
fine, but the restore
did not always work

all and they would have lost everything.

OfFSite Backups
Fmally, the heartbreaker. Happily, this
has not happened to any of my clients.
These people did backups every day.
They dutifully kept grandfather, father
and son backups. However, they made
the mistake of storing all the backups
conveniently
near the computer. One
night thieves broke in and stole the computer and all the backupsl
If they had kept an ofF-site backup, they
could haverestored to a new computer
provided by the insurance company.
Having an ofFmte backup will also protect you &om the Lucille Ball novice
who, in attempting to restore, backs up
corrupted files onto all your good
backups.

and location." In floppy backups it' s

"speed, speed and speed. Because
backing up to Qoppies is so laborintensive and so mind-numbing, you
want to get it over with as quickly as
possible.
For my speed tests, I used a16MHz SX
computer with a 1.2 MB floppy drive
and a Mitsubishi MRS55 40 MB voice
coil hard drive running MS DOS 5.5.
Norton can back up about 2.75 MB
per minute with verification turned

off. The other speeds are given relative to the first-place Norton.
Inst
1N Norton Backupr.'r {proprieratyfortaati
99 Norton Backup1.1{Dos format)
89 Central Point PCTools 6.0
79 Rlth Generation FasSack Plus2.10
79 Wesrlake Data PCFullaak Plus 1.12
70 RnotKeepTrack plus2.la
63 Gazelle Back-It4
32 Srarlitts Intelligent Backup3.21
27 DOSBackup3.3
23 lotus Magellan 2.0
waist

Speed Tricks
Why does Norton run so much fibste
than the rest? It uses some advanced
tricks. It compresses the data. It uses

The Moral

sector skew so it does not have to wait

for the sector 1 of the floppy to spin

What is the moral of the story' Do your

around before startin t o w r ite the

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next track Itusesa proprietary format
that squeezes more data per track. Instead of using the slow DOS directory
and FAT structure to read the hard
disk, itbuildsits own index. Itoverlaps
reading the hard disk and writing to
Soppy using a technique called Simultaneous DMA. While you are busy
swapping diskettes, it uses the time to
get ahead on reading the hard disk
The instant you put the next diskette
in, it staris up without waiting for you
to hit a key.
Other backup programs use some of
these tricks, but only Norton uses all of
them.

Proprietary Formats
The FastBack was the Srst fast backup
program. Itwasa temperamental beast
because it used a proprietary format.
Itsqueezedan extrasector ofdatainto

each Soppy track To find room, ithad

toshorten the gapsbetween the sectors.
If your dnve speed was the least bit out
of whack, FastBack would not work
Proprietaryformats earned a bad
reputation and Fifth Generation
switched to conventional DOS format
with Fastback Plus.
However, Norton and PC Fullbak Plus
use proprietary formats with larger
sectors, and fewer of them, to cmm
more data onto a Soppy quite safely.
Since there are fewer intersector gaps,
there is still room to make the gaps
regulation size.
Proprietary formats do have their
drawbacks, however. The Srst time
you use a diskette, it must be specially

formatted. Even though this is automatic, it makes the backup take twice as
long the Srst time. If ever you decide to
recyde a backup diskettefor use as a
normal DOS diskette, you Srstmust use
the DOSFORMATcommand. You need
to mark your diskettes with coloured
dots to track which format they are. If a
proprietary format diskette becomes
unreadable,none of the recovery urihties such as HDTEST, Norton NU or
Mace will be of any use.
Norton gives you a choice: proprietary
format for extra speed, or conventional
DOS format for extra safety. PC Fullbak
Plusalwaysusesproprietaryformat. The
others always use DOS format.

Norton Bacltnp
N orton Backup works
bestifyou have a
mouse. You just point and dick at the
options and Slesyou want, or point and
dickatspacesona61Vin-the-blanks form
and type. This is as easy to use as a
Macintosh.
Ifyou don' thavea mouse, the program
is a little more complicated to use since

you must use the Arrow, Tab, Space and

Enter keys to navigate and make selections. You need to read the manual to
get the hang ofhow these keyswork, but
onceyou understand that,youcan throw
the manual away. The program desperately needs some on~creen prompting
in the use of these keys especially
during the instalL
Norton marks the directories you lag to
back up both with bold and with check
marks. However, what it is really doing
is marhng the ones you change bold,

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and the onesyou select with tickmarkL

Thissubtledistmction maysound clever
on paper, but it just causes confusion.
Norton is remarkable in that you can
simultaneously back up files &om your
C: and D: drives in one fell swoop. Itlets
you balance time against safelywith flve
levels of vexification. It has four separate recovexy mechamsms when the
backups themselvesare damaged. It
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upper right scrolls the files. This is a
usdul check that you are backing up
what you think you should be.
The lower right window tellsyou which
backup set you are working on. The
lower le@ window tells you which dieketteyou axe supposed toinsextnextnicely' bolded and endosed in eyecatching blinking brackets, A thermometer shows you how fitr through
each diskette
you are. The countdown
makes forspeedy diskette swaps.
In addition, the bottom two windows
are littered with decorative stalisficstwo percentages, four times, two byte
counts, two file counts and two diskette
counts. V4ypilotswill feelxightathome.
However, for novices the screen is too
busy and confusing. For them, you
should have the option of displaying
nothing but the name of the diskette set
and the number of the diskette inserted
now, or the one toinsertnext. The only
two statistics of interest are: how many

diskettes will we need in total, and, how

much longer till this is over.

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of Soppy fitiluxe in Floxida), a big greasy
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out two complete adjacent tracks of data
and partof a third. Ibroadcast my idea,
and to my greatpleasure, the authors of
Norton Backup decidedto use it They
chose a slightly watered down version
that is not as robust but that does not
lake as much RAM to compute.
Needless to say, I think the method is

splendid.
Norton does much better than most
progxams at handling the problem of
preventingyou &ominsertingthewrong
diskette. Whenever you insert a suspect
disketteit telhyouwhatison the diskette
end then asks your permission to overwrit it Y o u also have the option of
trying a dmfexent diskette.
However, Norton still has not got this
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undersutndisthatyoudorsglderbackups,
time after time, backing up the same
files to the same set of Soppy diskettes.
The sets are preeumbered. When you
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same diskettes every time in the same
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in diskette 8 before diskette '7. They
will let you accidentally feed in your
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If,by chance, they are markeli ReadOnly, you will get only a cryptic "DOS
error code 5.
Like Norton, PC Tools backup runs a
confidence test to ensure the install
went properly by automatically hacking up and restoring a few files.
The program requires a colour screen
to work properly. In monochrome,
you must have your contrast adjusted
just right or you cannot tell which directories are selected for backup and
which are not. Further, m monochrome, the highlighting used for the
directory cursor is easy to confuse with
the highlighting used to select directories for backup.
PG Tools works best with a mouse.
Haarcver, using the mouse is not as
intuitive aswith Norton. For example,
if you chck on the displayed drive to
select the drive to hack up, nothing
happens. You have to puH down the
"Backup menu, and click backup
From entry... O h reaHy?
It lso has its own uniqueway of using
the Enter, Letter and Arrow keys to
navigate and make selections. There
are no prompts to help you along.
However, once you understand the
basic method, the program is straightfoyward.
Wamingl PG Tools' Restore, by deBtult, restores your files to the wrong
drive. Itdoes not remember where the
files came &om originally. You must
set the drive before you restore. Be careful not to invoke the
"Start Restore" command until you
have all your directories and files se
lectcfL Itjust takes oil

tories to a hst by hitting the Ins key. If

you add one by nuslake, tioo bad. If you

Fastiadt Plus

and delete files. It has an XCOPYhke

function to copy a set of tagged files to
Soppy. You might prefer this sort of
program ifyou b
a small number
ofdifFerentfilesevetytime. Thediskcttcs
are almost the same as XCOPY would
produce.

man
ually

FastBack was the original Iast backup

program. FastBack Plus is a total i@write. It is the world's best~llmg
backup pxogram. Make sure you get
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FastBack Plus has an inept way of
speciiying which directories and files
you want to
nstead of simply
fagging the ones you want, the way
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backup. Time has passed it by.

Back-It 4 is a disappointment. The
changes &om Back-It5 are nearlyaH
show and no substance. Back-It stiH
makesyoufeedyour aH your diskettes
backin,whenaHyouwanttorestoreis
a tiny file. The method you use to
select the drives, directories andfiles
to backup is evenmore obscure than
it used to bet N a vigation left me
s easick Thearrowkeysm ely~km e
where I expected ta go.
In theold Back-It, Restorewasa three-

stage process, with only certain commands vahd at eachstage. Happily that
nightmare is gone.
On the positive side, Sack-It is the only
program with parental
tags,so yau can
teH the backupwhat to dowith any new
directories that should appear. It was
also one of the fewpragrams to correctly
restore an empty directory.

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Sterling Intelligent backup is a turtle,

only marginaHy faster than the glacial

D OS ~

Like a spoiled child, it has an odd habit

of writing only a few bytes on a diskette
before asking far yet another &esh
ane. I think it likes to start everyhrge
61e an a new diskette.
The display during backup is somethingonlyanaccountantcauid love. It
is nothing but statistics. IB is likea Tar
Baby. It wiH takeyou about 20 keystrokes ta get aut of it. Aborting is
almost impossible.
On the positive side, it has a stxaight
forward multiplechoice type menu

system. IB has one major point in its

favor it does insist you insert the
correctly numbered diskette. Unfortunately, it muddles aH your backup
sets into one.

noss~

DOS comes with a &ee backup program called BACKUP. I strongly recommendyou avoid using it First, DOS
5.5BACKUPisalmostfour times slower
than a proper backup pragrauL The
version that comeswith DOS 5.2 had
20 repoxted bugs. A Microsoft tech
leman
of MS.DOS." Even the latest 4.01
pxegxamiswithoutanysafetynetL
If yau insist on using it, you may
findyou cannot later restox e your
files. I h ave written a replacement For the DOS RESTORE
program to rescue you should
this happen. I will send you a
copy anywhere inthe world for
$5. As with aH my diskettes,you
are &ee to make copies and pass
them on to your friends. Unlike
theafBcialRESTORE,mine works
under any version of PC-DOS or
MS DOSandrestoresfiles backed
up under any other version. Because of this feature, the Federal

repr
esentativecaHeditthe"

k
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Mage Ltn
MageHan is nat a true backup
Itfinds
program. It i
filesfor you when you cannot
remember what they are called,
when aH you remember are afew
words that might be in the document. It can also find groups of
files &om aH your drives and directories thatare related by topic.
It lets youview those files in their
nativemode. For example, ifyou
peek at a spreadsheet, you don' t
see hex gibberish, mstantly you
see a real spreadsheet. Yau don' t
have to bxingup 1-2-5 toloakatit
I think everyone with many smaH
files should immediately buy a
copy of Magellan. Everyone else
could wait perhaps a week.
MageHan is the inastuseful utility
I have come across in the last five
years.
As a lwlckup program, though,
MageHan is pathetic. Its saving
gxace is its magical ability to find

twat Satx

sanavigator.

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Aviafion Administxatian uses it to

distribute software.

a set of 61es that meet some crite-

rion to back up.

Rugs

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In the bad old days,if you backed

up your root directoxy, then restored it, your hard disk would
become unbootable, because restore would disturb two system
f iles, IO.SYS and MSDOS~ .
Happily, none of the true backup
programs still have that problem.
I found one smallbug common
to Norton, FastBack Plus, PC
FullBak Plus and I n t e lligent
Backup. They aH
failto restore a
directoxy unless it contains files.
Only PC Tools and Backitgot this
right.
InteHigent Backup did not work
properly unless I pre-formatted
the diskettesfor it. Ifyou aborta
backup part way through, it gets

The Cemputer Paper/ July '90

confused, aad does not record the
fact that the backup isnelongervahd.
Protecting Yeurself From Bugs
I have not had enough experience
with any of these progxaxxis to feel.
confidenttheyare bug~. You must
protect yourself by testing the progxams yourseK They may work fine
on someone else's computer, but net
yours.
AAeryou inst
allyeurbackup program,
backup some files, and make duplicates onanother part of year hard
disk Deletie the eriginals. Then restore them and compare. If you find
differences,report the problem to the
m anufacturer. D o a *t trust the pro-

gram until you have done this with at

least 10 diskettes full of data. Be especially careful of Norton (because it
is new), and PCTools because of Central Point's history of releasing impreperly tested sofhvare.
Terminology-Three Kinds OfBackup
There are three kindsofbackups: full,
incremental and differentiaL I rec-

which l
fi
eshave changed. Thisway you
will he able to maintain several independent backup sets.
They will track which files have been
deleted, so that when you restore, all
yourdeleted fileswen'tnecessarfiycome
back to haunt you.
All these wonderful things will come to
pass as soon as the cost of mag tape
drops lew enough te completely obsolete floppy backup.

Access
The prices quoted here are average
Vancouver street prices in Canadian
dollarL
-Peter Norton Backup 1.1, 100 Wilshire
Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401-1104.
Customer service (215) 519-2010. Tech

This is living dangerously.

Future
The next generation of backups will
manage your backup sets, telling you
which ones to hack up today, which
ones to take offsite, which ones to
bring into the office.
They will allow incremental backups,
hy maintaining their cxwn records of

C4Laaa dian

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acceletfng is
organized."

support (215) 51M020. FAX (215)

458-2048. About $120.

- PC Tools 6.0, Central Point Software
Inc, 15220 N.W. Greenbrier, 200,
Beaverten, OR, 9V006. (505) 69M090.
About $120.
- FastBack Plus 2.10, Fifth Generation
Systems, 10049 North Reiger Road, Baommend that you avoid incremental
ton Rouge, LA 708Q9. (504) 291-V'221.
and dMereatial backups. That is all
Sales (800) 8754584. Tech support
you haveto knew. For the curious, I
(504) 291-7285. About $140.
hope yeu will find this explanation- PC Fullbak Plus 1.12, Westlake Data
dearer than those in the manuals.
Corp, P.O Box 1711,Austin, TX, V8767.
A full or d' a r t b a ckup backs up Telephone (512) 528-1041. About$75.
all the requested files. Differential
- KeepTrack Plus, The Finot Group,
backups only back up files that have
259Q El Camino Real, Suite 5, Palo Alte,
changed since the last full backup.
CA94506. (415) 856-202Q. About$269.
Incremental backups only back up
- Back-It 4.0, Gaselle Systems, 42 North
files that have recently changed, since
University Avenue, Suite 10, Pram, UT
the last incremental or full backup.
846Ql, (800) 2554585, (801) 577-1288.
With a full backup, when it comes
FAX (801) 5756955. Customer support
time to restore, you have only one set
(800) 7554585. About$90.
of diskettes to deal with. With a differ- DOS Backup 4.Q1 - comes bundled as
ential backup you have two. With an
part of MS-DOS.
iacrementalyoumighthaveaaywhere
- Lotus MagellanV2.0 fil
e manager,
&om two to twenty sets to deal with.
Lotus Development Corporation, 44
However, incrementalbackups are
Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA
fixster than differential, which are ia
02142. About$150.
turn faster thaa full.
-Intelligent Backup DMS/IB 5.21, SterFor each file, DOS maintains the
lingSoftware, 2255 Sheppard Avenue
archive bit ~t notes whether a file
East, Suite 901, Willowdale, Oatario,
has changed since the last backup.
M2J 5B5. (416) 492-5000. FAX (416)
When you do an incremental or dif4924258. About $500.
ferentialbackup,youonly backup the
Access to Packages Not Reviewed Here
changed files. When you do an increUnfortunately, the copy of Micro Intermental backup, you turn the bit ouse
faces QaikSave2.45 was damaged in
you won't back up that file again.
shipment so I cauld not evaluate it.
When you do a di8erentlal backup,
Cere did not provide us with a review
you leave the bit on so you will concopye
tinue to back up all the changed files
-~ i kSave 2.45, Micro Interfaces Corp,
ever againevexy time you hack up.
18590 N.W. Avenue Suite 2QO, Miaxm,
Onlywhenyoudoaaotherfullbackup
FL55Q15. (505) 8254088. Aheut$240.
do yeu turn eff the arduve hits.
- CORKFast, Core International, 71Vl
Why are incremental and differential
North FederalWay, Boca Raton, FL
backups dangerous) Unrelat ied file
55421. Sales (505) 977%055. Tech
copying pxegrams may inadvertently
support (505) 9774055. About $580.
flip the archive bit and throw yeur
Suxnxmay
backup scheme out of whack Also,
The newcomer, Norton Backup, is
you should keep at least three backup
number oae. It is the one I would
sets. You would need to keep track of
recommend. PC Tools is a bargain if
all three sets independently, so you
you want all the attachmea ts. FastBack
would needthree archivebitsforeach
Plusis the seasoned veteran. Ifyou can
file. Unfortunately, DOSprovidesenly
afford it, forget floppies and get tape.
one archive bit per file. So, if you use
Backing up to floppies is as exciting as
incremental and differential backups,
watcing paint dry, hut you have to de
yoli cail have only ONE backup setl

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Buying a
Laser Printer

OUT

By Catltaiynn Labont&Smith

Laser's Edge provides

Enter The ElectronicJungle

high resolution output

with up to 18" by 4'

Before me was a tangle of thick cables,

alive with the glowing red eyes of power
bars. I entered the electronic jungleM y safari
had begun; my search was for

demonstrating their day-&ay behavior: printing text and graphics.

the

DPI dots-per-inch; how many dots the

printer can put in an inch. The higher
the DPI, the denser the image. Laser
printers organize dots to create characters and graphics. The standard laser
printer prints at 500 x SOQ DPI.

spe
ciesoflaserprintersunder$5000
(street price). This was the world of

silence and efhciency; no more was I to

hear thecomforting wheezes of 24-pin
printers. Now thatI have safelyreturned,

I am ready toguideyou through the wild

world of lasers.
Don't be alarmed that flash of brilliance silhouetting the darkenedjungle
was just a laser printer consuming a
typical meal of electronic signals, which
it spits out onto &esh sheets of paper.
Don't be a&aid of the natives of this
jungle the computer salespeople.
They are &iendly and please accept the
glossy sheets of useful specs that theywill
invariably press into your hands. The
natives often tell entertaining myths
aboutlaser printers thatmigrate to their
area, myths thatnew species of printers
are on their way here &om distant
manufacturers. If we are lucky, we will
get to see PGcompatible laser printers

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Laser Printers cont.

Most HP-type laser printers come only
with one or sometimes a few typefaces;
each variation of the
font, so
the specs would say that a printer has 14
fonts. Upon looking at a sample sheet,
you' ll see that they are ail variations of
the typeface Courier, for example.
PostScript (see below) printers have a
generous number oftypefaces that are

pressure; it needs regular replacement

once again like in a photocopier. Main
tenance of a laser printer is rtimilar to
maintenance ofa photocopier.

typefac
eisa

HPCL Hewlett-Psrckard Command

Language is the programming language
that the computer uses to communicate
with the Hewlett-Packard type printer. It
is one of the two main htser-printer lan
guages, the other being PostScript.
Printers thatuse HPCLare referred to a
HPwompatible printers. However, some
of these printers can be upgraded
through special cartridges to PostScriptcompatible printers.

scalable to unlimited pointsizes; the HPtype laser printer can have fonts added
on in the form of cartridges.
PPM Pages (Printed) Per Minute is
the way to compare printer speed. This
number, which can range from S PPM to
20 PPM, is accurate assuming that the
printer is producing copies of the same
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Toner this is the laser printer's "ink"

Sold in cartridges, most of which are
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laser printers based on a Canon engine,
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your laser printer. These cartridges cost
about$1SQand aregood for about s,000
pages. The exception is the new IBM
LaserPrinterE,whichprints10,000pages
with a cartridge costing $199.
Drum this is the part in the laser
printer which transfers the toner to the
printer paper using heat and gentle

PostScript This is the programnung

language that the computer uses to communicatewith PostScriptprinters, which
are the most expensive type of printer
because of their versatiTity and the vari-

ety of the SS scalable PostScript typefaces, plus the easyaccess to hundreds of

other downloadable sofbvare-based fonts.
PostScript printers also excel at printing
PostScript-based graphics produced by
prograxnssuch asAdobelllustzator, Carel
Dmw Sc Micrographx Designer.

Scalable this term, used by typesetters

and desktop publishers ahke, means that
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This gives you the abiTity to create a
range of sizes, from barely readable (6
point) to the easy-reading standard (10
point type) to screaming headhnes (24-

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Survbal Strategr

Paoelnaker4.0 CONTINUEDFROM PAGE 32

Ifyou expect tobe able to pop down

to your local laser-printer dealer and
lewe with a trophy under your axm,
you will be frustxated. Keep in mind
these facts about computers and peripherals such as laser printers:
l) Allow plenty of time for this adventure. Dealers keep their inventory to
a minimum because of the expense of
having inventory that may become
obsolete as itsitson the sheK Dealers
don'twant to stock what may not seII,
and buyers don't want to buy what
ian'ton the shelf. Patienceisrequired,
then, for orders tobe placed, printers
to be aet-up...

the revised version on the layout.

With enough RAM you canhave several
story windows open at a time, which lets
you cut,copy and paste among them.
You needn' t even place astoxywindaw's
contents before saving and dosing the
file. When the PageMaker file is next
opened, unplaced stoxy windows pop to
the fore.
All of this is in addition to the ability to
type and edit on the layout itself.
The search/replace, find and spellchecker all function through the story
editor. You can check the contents of
the current window or evexy story in a
publication. The speEchecker is fast,
easy to use and smart: It will point out
possible improper capitalization and
double words the infamous "the the."
The one timethe program frozewas on
a spellwheck of the whole publication. I
suspect I had run out of memory. Any
story in whichyou make achange during

2) Weekdaysare best to shop for laser

printexs, because unlike everyother type
of retail shop, many computer shops are
dosed on Saturday. For instance, were it
not for trapping an employee in the
darkened and dosed Computer Shop
section of the UBC Bookstore, who admitted that they had one but was under
strict orders not to serve anyone on Saturday,
Iwouldnothavefoundan example
of a PostScript printer.
9) It is difficult to find examples of
PostScript printers and color laser printers, as theyare in the highwnd market. I
have notcovered color beers nor fully
covered PostScript lasers as they are
special- order items. You may want to call
+MS directly to view their color laser
Rarely in the electronic jungle will
you find herds of on-line laser print- . printers. They have reps who will demo
their more expensive printers for you.
exs, just waiting to be bagged. The
Be prepared to pay over $10,000 for
boxed varietyare more common, but
salespeople arenotenthusiastic about these units.
4) Make cerlain that your applications
setting them up unless they have a
support the printeryou choose. You can
serious prospect I was more often
refertoyour computer program'smanual
directed to a lone ousted demonstrator grazing through its paper txays to see if it is compatible with the printer
at the back of the store. But patience you are planning to buy.
will reward the buyer withlower prices.

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Until now, youhad achoice,

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compromiseyourfinances with
a higher resolution prinler.

800 x 400 resolution

Now there's the NewGen Turbo

PS/480 with astandard printing

resolution of 800x 400 dpi.

We studied these elusive, mysterious

creatures until we learned how often
they needtheirpaper trays changed,
how their toner cartridges could be
coaxed into printing a few more pag'es

Power usersaccustomed tonegotiatinga

word document using the numeric keypad will be a little disappointed to learn
that it is only partly implemented in the
story editor. Command-9, for example,
will takeyou to the top of a story butloses
the insertion point; Command-5 goes to
the bottom but loses the insertion point.
This may be related to several new key-

"Seeingis Believing"

$1390
$3900

Prices aremundedoff to the nearest$10. Theseprices repreaent a maremedian pricethan discounted prices.
"" Mesne printer cai print anbathsidesof the pageautomatically.
+ Fontsaredifferent vanationsoftypefimea;for instance, the HPLaserjet IIPhaa14 fontsbutthey are all the sametypefaxi.
Crairier. Don't confuse
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Thus, our fingertips burnt from hot

sample printouls, our handsblackened
by toner, and our eyes made starry by
the laser-beam lights,we complete our
safari.
We have placed our orders,and
a lucky few are straining under the
weight of their laser prizes.

Cursor controh

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MOST-COMMON lASERPRINTERSAVAILABLE IN THELOWERMAINLAND

a global spe~eck stays open until you

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These functions behave quite the same
as those in MS Word with one important
exception. You can also search/replace
specific styles or other type attributes.
This makes handling dingbat bullets a
lot easier.

before being refilled (by shaking them

gently). And, we witnessed the rapid evolution of lasers, for example, from HP
genus, the simple HP Laserjet I to the
new HP LaserJet HI. Aa we stagger back
to our tidy offices and homes, we can
hardly wait to tell our colleagues and
6Lmilieswhatlife is like out on the laser's
edge.
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pttter, the collectivenamegiven toawhole
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ment of computers was 1981, when IBM a c
assumes that you have no prior knowl- . launched its first personal computer.
edge of them.
Since then,computers have developed
at a fitst clip. Today's personal computersare Stater,haveamuchlargercapacity,
A Little HiStoay
aud cost only a &action of a 1981 modeL
The first electronic computer was produced as long ago as 1946. It was called
Apersonalcoxnputerisacomplete system
ENIAC,andcomprisedmore than 18,000
which can
be placed on your desk, Itcan
vacuum tubes, the kind used in oldperform
a
whole range of utsks at vexy
fashioned radio and television sets. As
high speeds.
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size it could not do more than today' s as the IBM machines. These are often
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v.
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compatibles have undergone enormous
In 1975, the first home computers were
development,
with improvements being
launched. Among the first producers
announced every, few months. This has
were such faxniliar companies as Apple,
resulted in newer models with names
Commodore, and Tandy. Atari launched
such as the XT, AT, 286, 586, and PS/2.
its first computer aimed at both home
These different models are discussed
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Mmt I's a Computer, ReallyP
In simple termsa computer is no xnore
than an electrical appliance. Like your
television, or freezer, it has been developed to be able ta perform certain taskL
For example,youcan useyour computer
as a typewriter for writing letters, as a
pocket calculator to balance your
checkbook, or as a VCR/TV combo to
display pictures and drawings. You can
also use it ta store teLephone numbers,
play gameg produce technical drawings
and developcameraready documents
for printing. Computers can even be
used ta run production lines.
Just like any other electrical appliance,
computers can and do break down and
cause problems..However, be very skeptical when a mistake is blamed on the
computer. In most cases it's a human
exror that causes you to receive that nofice from the phone company that says
that unless you payyour outstanding bill
for $4,567,5M.15, your telephone wiII
be disconnected.
A computer is not some sort of supernatural, super~telligent, ahnighty machine poised to uxke over the world. A
computer can not think for itself, it can
only follow instructions. Itis notcapable
of suddenly deciding that itwould like to
have anicecream cone,or offeeling the
desire to take a long vacafion on some
sunny island beach. It can however, foIIowinslructionsand perfoxmpredefined
tasks atan amazingly high rate: a million
or so instructions per second.
Assume thatyou have a list of telephone
numbers stared in your computer system, and a program, or predefined Iisto
instructionswhich can extract the right
number fora given pexion. Ifyou ask
your computerwhat telephone number
Abraham Lincoln has, it will probably,
after a shortdelay, tellyou thatit can not
find his number. It is not capable, how.
ever, of answering directly that Lincoln
wasalive 8$yeaxsagoand doesnot, and
did not, have a telephone.

because they do not understand what

happens.They're womed that they can
destroy the computer in some wayif they
press the wrong combination of keys.
This is not the case, however.

If you ask your computer to print out

Rt5 m9, it will do so. Again, it
is not capable of thixxking for itself and
telling you that 2+5 does not
equal 9. It also can't refuse to pmit lies.
On the other hand, by giving the computer the right information it could, for
example, calculate the wages for thousands of
employees in alarge company
in a matter of seconds.
By giving a computer an appropriate
set of instructions, it can very quickly
perform a wide range of utsks. A computer is avery fastworki n, but completely stupid, machine.

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While their appearanre varies, the
basic parts which make up a personal computer are the same. All
computers need some way of allowing
the user to give instxuctions or information (koybouyd), and some way of showing
what's going on(yuonitoror screen).Other
important parts needed are a pLace in
which information can be stored (dixkxor
hurddisks), and the mechanism that can
serve as a traaic cop and control the flow
of' information within the computer
(systeot yxrut).You also need a means of
making your data accessible to people
who don't have a computer handy

Sy

Atypical IBM-compatible computer

The keyboard is used ta send instructions to the computer and to input required information or dutu.Many beginners are slightlywaxy of pressing keys

The monitor is rather like a television

set, although it does not function in
quite the same way. Its display is the
computer'sway ofshowingyouwhat's
going on. Itcan also be referred to as
the eideodixPtuy rescind (VDT), the
xlideodisphy unit (VBO), or simply as
the screen, There is a third term,
cethekruy @de (CR7), which is often
used sy n onymously with VDT and
VDU. All of these terms are used to
refer to the display unit on a comput .
There are many hnds of monitors, but the main difference is
between monochnnnemodels thatcanonly
display images in varying shades of amber,green, or gray,and cofermonitoxsthat

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can reproduce the Ml visual spectrum.
A color moniter will often brighten up
the time you spend working vrith yaur
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Memory Size

The size of your computer's memory is

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aa d h rger programs require (usually referred to as kigk density disks).
larger RAM. If your computer's RAM is
As an example, a 560K disk can store the
too small, you will not be able to run
equivalent of about 200 pages of pria ted
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One of the most important aspects of a
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stored in RAM, but this means that all

Floppy disks can be moved between

computers, assuming that both computers are IBM compatible and have the
same kind of disk drives. You can, for
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at work, save a copy of that text on a
floppydisk, and take ithomewithyou for
use on your own computer.

Disk Drives
The uee of floppy disks requires a disk
drirra This is a unit that reads and records
information on floppy disks. It'snormally
mounted in the system unit, although it
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information disappears when you turn

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or herd disk, This allows you, at a later

All computers have at least one such disk

drive, and most have two. Units for 5.5"
floppiesare becoming more aad more
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and load it into your computer again.

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Floppy disks, sometimes referred to as
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A computer that has a hard disk is much
better equipped than one that doesn' t
have a hard disk Many larger programs
now require a hard dislr; and, smce they
operate three to ten times faster than a
' Soppy drive, their use is habit forming.
Onceyouuseahard diskfor somelength

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Thefirstfloppydiskdrive iscaHed drive

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The second Hoppy disk drive is called

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or Soppy, (Remember our belts-andsuspender type users) are named D:, E:,
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name to each of the disk drives in your
system. The letters A:,8:, C: etc. are used.
This is done so that it is possible to keep
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Subsequent disk drives, whether hard

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Although a printer is not actuaHy part of

a computer, it's the most common addition to one. You would not create letters
and other documents on your computer
ifyouwerenotable togetprinted copies
of them.
There are several types of printers, the
cheapest and most common being the
dot ma&is Pnnter.

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Theprintinghead ofadotmatrixprinter
has a block of pins. These look like tiny
rods and theycreate ~ters with a
dot pattern by hammering the correct
pins against a ribbon and the paper.

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Another type of printer is thedaisy arhwf

prince; which works like an ordinary
typewriter. Chaxacter sets are supplied
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can be interchanged to produce difFerent styles of type. Thus, a ~ical office
might have a Letter Gothic print wheel
whose results look hke they were done
on a typeaaiter, and a Satipt type wheel
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The pxint quality is better than a dot
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When creating programs, different progmmminglanguages can be used. The

normal user will not create programs,
but will only use ready-made programs
developed by professionalprogrunmers.
When running a program, it is not even
apparent to the user which programming language has been used to create
that program, but here is a list of the
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What Can a Computer Do?

formation on the most common uses.

There are in fact several hundred differentlanguages. Eachlanguage has its own
predefine setofcommands,and asetof
rules on how each command can be
used.

:DOS
DOSis short forDisk OPerating System.It' s
a collection of progranis that provide
"you with a set of commands designed to
help you gain access to your hard or
floppy disk, and perform some other
basic routines. All computers must have
such an operating system. When you
start your computer, this operating systemisautomaticaliyloaded into memory.
For example, DOS commands can be
used to investigate the contents of a disk,
to copy or deletefileor topreparea new
floppy disk for use.

Files
Many different sorts of information can
, be stored on a floppy or hard disk. For
example, a letter, aword processing prognun, a diagram, agame program, a
progranuning language, or an address
list can all be maintained on a disk Each
complete unit of information is called a
file, and has its own unique name.

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We have already hinted at the different

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First, however, here's a summary of the

four most basic things a computer can
do:
receive information
process information
send out information
store information

By information we mean text, numbers,

pictures, and even electrical voltage. Itis
the combination of these four processes,
controlled with the help of programs,
which allow computers to be so versatile.

Writing
The most common use for a computer is
writing. You can create letters and mes-

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will. When you make mistakes, you just

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Connnunications
Communications pro~lrsans allow you
to connect your computer to other
computer systems. You can, for example, search for information in many
of the available databases, or send and
receive mail and files.
.An imporlant extra when drawing is a
mouse, This is a small object which you
gmove around onyour desk. Asyou move
it, a "televised arrow points out where
.'on your screenyou are currentlyaiming.

Accounting
Many companies use computers for
doirig all of their accounting functions. Next to word processing, this is
probably the most popular application forwhich personal computers are

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prized by fmancial analysts and business
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wine, or stamps. The information is
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lists and analyses. In addition, the better
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Kinds of Computers

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Finally, 586 and 486 machines have the
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might take several hours to complete.
IBM has also launched its PS/2 computer series, which is somewhat differen
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Another area in which computers differ
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O n the next
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For most people today, they' re quite sufScient.
Finally, we come to the VGA sfarwkmL
These are sofme in resolution and shading that it's easy to mistake animated
presentations done on them with videotape or film.
In a class by themselves are theLCD dis-

physused on laptop computers. These

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The display portion of a computer is
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There are now monitorsand adapter
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ofa technologythat forever changed the
way many musicians compose and perfoxm.
0) It must be a price and/or performance breakthrough. CD's were a good
example of a performance breakthrough; laser printers represented a

price/performance breakthrough that

spawned an entirely new market: the
desktop publishing industry.
5) The potential market must be horizontal; meaning that a wide segment of
the population should be able to take
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horizontal by comparison.
Just as 1988 was the year when evexy
respectable business hid to have a Sax
machine, and 1989 is likely to be remembered asthe 'Year of the CeHular

explosion," 1990 will probably be re-

membexud for DAT and other l owland

digital audio recordexs.
I s (DigiuilAudio Tape) DATa~

tion ?

and

I think not.While the CD and highl

home stereo market is tremendously

successful, DAT is only incrementaHy
bettereounding than a good-quality
analog tape deck, and aH tape-based
systexns suPer &om the same problems:
the media is easily damaged and is not
randomly accessible in the way that a
diskis. When aread/writeaudiodiskhits
the mass-market (and it won't be long),
DAT wiH be toast.
A Digital Audio Disk (no, they don't call
itDAD) system thatis rather remarkable
is the Sound T ools system from
Digidesign for Macintosh (SK/50 or II
series) and Ataxi Mega ST computers.
The basic idea is sixnple. Audio is digitally recorded at CD quality (44.1 kHz)
by the Digital Signal Processor (I?SP)
chip and is stored on the hard disk, or

manipulated invariousways
bythe audio
editing portion of the program. In con-

The Computer Paper / July '90

the average folks who don't know F mail
from chain-mail. In many respects, it is
because PC-based E-mail systems are so
dumsy and hard to use that a devo sys. tem like fiax ever became a viable altercreate the electronic portions of the
native. Someday, an easy-to-use and
music. Then when an acoustic instru- widel~ompafible E-mail network will
ment or voice plays, the Sound Tools
prove that sending a low-resolution
DSP "kicks in" and plays the audio tracks bitmap via FAX isn't the best way.
stored on the hard disk Only a couple of
years ago, this type of thing cost hun- A more likely course of progression fer
dreds of thousands of dollars. Ataround
future technologies is towards the transparent human/machine interface. Al$10,000 for a minimum setup, Sound
Tools isn't exactly cheap, but for a fuuready, in the personal computer indusfledged digitalaudioeditingandrecordtry, we have seen the dominance of
ing environment, Sound Tools is a hLr- Gxaphic User Interfaces and emphasis
gain. But horizontal? Are you kidding? on ease of use.
Let's keep loohng....
As voice input, optical character recogI predict that a few years from now,
nition and handwriting recognition resomething like a video version of Sound
place manual data entry in the informaTools (let's call it Video Tools) will belion centres of tomorrow, more and more
come available. It will require enormous people will be able to communicate
advancesin storage technology tehandle
succinctly and quickly with their comthe incredible amount of d ata t h at
puters. As higher-bandwidth telecom-

junction with cerlain MIDI sequencer

software programs (cuxren tly limited to
Opcode's StudioVision on the Mac and
C Lab's Notator on the Alari SI'), the
software controls MIDI equipment to

tomorrow's highAefinition TV will dis-

munications netwerksare installed across

play, but the net result will be something

like this:

the nation, the. boundaries between

computers, telephones, cellular networks
and cable TV will become increasingly
blurred. With thisintegration, wewill see
the true implications of the information
age; today's buzzwords "Hyper text"
' and "Multimedia" will become popularized and assimilated into the cultural
mainstream. With this transition, "transparent computers"will be seen simply as

Your entire TV show will be digifally

recorded, and you will be able to edit out
commercials, nearly instantly flip to any
place in the show, viewmultiple programs
simultaneously and a myriad of other

special effects. Ho-hum, right?

How about timecompressing that 2.5-

hour movie to 2 hours, xvithoxst

affecting
the pitch of the voices or music. The
critics who complained about Ted
Turner's colorization ofblack~dmhite
movies will be going anMwhen they start
seeing thisf But if you are considering
the negative esthetic implications, waitl
With digital time compression (already
used in audio production to squeeze, for
example a 51 second commercial into
29.5 seconds), the '%p side" is time expansion. TV networks will be able to
dramatically compressthebroadcast,and
your "smart TV" will be able to d~ompress the show out to it's normal lengthl
So instead of completely altering the
pacing of a director's masterpiece, your
TV will stretch it back out to its correct
length, or any amount of time that you
have to view itl
Is this hypothefical Video Tools unit
revolutionary? Perhaps. Mass market? I
doubt it For the forseeable future, the
amount of memoxy required to store an

hour of full~ e n video is prohibitively

(astronemicamyl) expensive. Only the
most elite of video production companies are likely to have such tools for quite
some time.

Neither is FAX technology a revolution,

although it meets many of the criteria. It
ix amazingly popular and represents a
performance breakthrough over the
postal system. Unfortunately, FAX is deevolutionary with respect to the idea of
electronic mail, which computer users

have been using for yearswith vastly

better benefits.

Until E-mail systems become as ubiquitous as telephones, fax will better sexve

the information they represent.

GLOSSARY of TERMS
CDQualitys a 44.1 kHz (or better) recording. Sce also Hertz

Netstation

Hertz or Hzx waveform cydes per second. The human ear can normally hear
from 20Hz to 20kHz (Kiloherfz).
HyperTexh a system ofcrose-referencing text or other data stored in a computer. Apple's HyperCard isawell-known
Hyper Text application.
MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interfixce, a standard method of transmitting
information between differentbxands of
electronic musical instruments. Technically, MIDI is a fast (51.25 kilobaud)
serial communications protocol.
Modem: a telecommunications device.
Secalled because it MOdulates digital
informafion into sound for telephone
transmission, then the receiving computer DEModulates the sound back into
digital form.
Multimedia: Interactive computergenerated graphics, animations and sound
sometimes integrated with CD ROM or

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WHAT'S A PCF
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Hardware
KAYPRO 16/XT.C/w 380K floppy
drive, 512K RAM, GGA card, hard

drive controller, keyboard, unknown

damage, $200. Also, CGA monochrome monitor, perfect condition,
$1 00; Samsung amber monitor,

missing brilliance knob, $50. Call 4653162.

Used Barcode
Equipment

TRITON ENFORCER:Basic Surge

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Office hours, call Wendy 946-2011.
FOR SALE:Amstrad PPC 640, 640K,
2 - 3.5" Disc Drives, 20MB Hard Drive,

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monitor, carrying case and Panasonic
KX-P1180printer. Software includes
professional word processor, database, spreadsheet, grammar checker,
client management, and communications programs plus books and
manuals.
Asking $1500 OBO. Phone
Francis (w) 688-23S8, (h) 255-6123.

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WANTED: HP 75808 PENPLOTTER

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lt0 lSMCompatibles and dones

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at 538-3383 for details.

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60286-12 up to 4 M B+ IMB RAM .......$260
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Sony 720K lloppy with Itit ....................... $79
AT mull I/O ..........................................$29
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time employment. Available August
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outlet for programming skills. Wayne

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FREELANCE DESKTOP PUBLISHER

working at home with pagemaker on a

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File conversion alsoavailable.

Best Rates

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is seefang an individual interested in desktop welk

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Index of Advertisers
Accounting
TXL MsoagemcatSystems hc ...................... 8
Book WarehouseLtd ......................,.......... 2
Cody Barks Ltd ............................. .....,.... 57

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Doppler ComputerCeattn ......................51-55

Sihcannect
ionsBonk Stem ............. ........ 57
Sntxxr
Saftwaxa....,...
................., . . ..57
Umhall CmnputerBacks .............
.36
Unbcamity
Boakstoxe ...............
.. . S7
CAD
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Dssklap Publishing
.

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ALL IIODELS
FEATURE

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12" Monochrome Monitor

Hercules Compatible
Mono/Graphics Card
101-Key Enhanced Keyboard
Serial/Parallel/Game Ports
User's/Technical Manuals
1 Year Parts 8 Labour Warranty

(:I

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Laser's Edge Gr Ltd.
................ 33
One StopDcsktap .................,............ S4
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....... 12

Vsicm Csnputcr GmphicsLtd .......

hdustrial Trad Shows

...........,...................41
PAX

286AT-401IB

WITH MONITOR
1MB Ram
12 MHz Clock Speed
1.2MB Roppy Disk Drive
40MB WD Hard Drive
(28ms, 1:1 Interleave)

Alliance Business
Computer ................
. 47
Alpha ~
Aat a maticn .....................2

Bsrsa-HarporGamp c ...........................$4
BCD Softwaa Dsvetoftes ............. ........ $6
Bmmaa Systems ....
...........46
Csmctot Camputaas ............. . . . ....... SS
CampusCamputas ................................. Ss
Canada
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Gmh Camputsas .......-..........-.-.-...-....--.. 3
CE Technologies . . .......,.............,.....49
.

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286XT-40MB

WITH MONITOR
640K Ram
a 12 MHz Clock Speed
360K Roppy Disk Drive
40MB WD Hard Drive (65ms)

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WITH MONITOR
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Intel 80386SX-16
Intel 80386DX-25

Computer Empixa
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Intel 80386DX-25 1MB RAM
'i /" c 1.2 MB 5.25" Floppy Drive
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UPGRADE TO VGA COLOUR:

h5nhxcxricn
of Canada Ltd ................,..3947
Nocto Tech Ccanputer Iac. ........... - 45
Naticmsl ComputerPmducts....
........ 3$

................... 28

PAL Systems(Gmada) Ltd......

...........?4
PC Compares Ltd ...................................25
Peep CmaputcrSystemsLtd...............,.... 36
Polytcch Ccxnmunicarions......................... 32
Prism Desktop
Publishing Inc.................. 33
Roland DG ........... .......................... 14,15
Sam Soft dt Hnrdwae Suppart ......... . .....16
Sovo Ccanputer Ccsxe ................................ 16
Standard Computxaaim .............................. 29
StxschanCcmpatsm .....,........................10

TLD Computes Ino ................... ............22

Umsys ............... ...................................53

Umversal Techaolosy ..... . . .... .. . . ... 29
Versatile Computapxoducs Ltd.....,........ 38
WcutcosstCanpmes .......................... 13
Netwerldng
Cadence
Computer DodgeInc ......................4S
Camel Business
Machines Ltd ...................... 9
Compater Csxdc
....,,...............,..............20
Namtec Systems
hc................11$7,19PIPS
Safuak Systems
Inc .......................25g7,37
Vancouver NetwareUses Gmup ............54
Online Systems
Mind Lmkl ........,......,......,
.........24
Chris6naPcrsanael ........... . . .........53
Rentals
AbtThy Computer
Restate ............,.... 28

Service

Affordable CcmtptnerSotuncss IxcL ........... S7

Hcetwaod Cammumcatioas ..................57

Sharewmn
Gemim Madte6ng ................. ............13
Nexiss Distributhg .. ....................,......... 56
SmCcm Services........................ ....... 47
Supplies
Superior Laser
Supply................... ... 7~
Tralnhg
Accrue Media ................., .................. ..50

Computer
ConsuhiagInternational ........... 55
Duke TxainingCcntm ................. ....... 55
E ffex Data Services .............. .
.....54

adtaspiaa College ... . . . . . . ..

....54
Masako Holdings Ltd ............ .......... 22
Quaxtcch
SystemsLtd .. ..................--. 54
.

1MB RAM
1.2 MB 5.25"--Fioppy
Drive
16MHz Clock Speed .
Expandable to BMB

81688oo 81148oo

8198800

Micm
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Ommnct Computer Ltd...

81496OO

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QubMac .........,... ....,............., ........, 23

CompatiblesPhs ................................... 53

...... .................... 8
CamputerExchange(BC) .......................... S9
Comtach Distribctas ............. .......... 56
Camtsx Miso Systcas Inc...................... 30
David Nares /DaoPsc.........................57
DBE ComputasCmp.................,............ S6
DopplerComputerCsatxo ...,..................... 739
DPE Ecctronicn ...................................4,42
ExpxcmMfcm....,......,,,,....,................40
Fxxeadlywaxo
Computas Inc............................ 2
F utme Shop
..............,.....,.........,........ . 4 3
Help Saftwae Senriccs
............................31
Impaq Tccfmology ............................. ..6,34
hfospec Systems
Iac............ ...,...,...... 36,38
hncxtech
Hardwae .................... ......... 31
IPC ......
Xfneric Eectrcuhs Iac............................,9
Labtop Computes ..................................... 21
Mainland Ccxnpates Plus ...,........,........,..... 47
Master Script Iac ..............................,........ 32
MC Micm CannaLtd.
........... 26
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McmPias........, ...,...................,..... 56

386SX-40NIB

WITH MONITOR
1MB Ram (Expandable to 8MB)
16 MHz Clock Speed
1.2MB Floppy Disk Drive
40MB WD Hard Drive
(28ms, 1:1 Interleave)

VGA Package EL:

640'480 Resolution
OAK VGA (256K, t6-bit)
SamtronSC~tV VGA Colour
Monitor
14" Monitor with Tilt/Swivel
Base
.4tmmDot Pitch

VGA Package A:

640'480 Resolution
OAK VGA (256K,16-bit)
Hyundai HCM-401 VGA
Colour Monitor
14" Monitor with Tilt/Swivel
Base
3tmm Dot Pitch

S29900
RODENT ALERT
Logitech DEXXA

Mouse

2844

S36800

cll

7 9844

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VGA Package B:
1024'768 Resolution
ATI VGA Wonder (256K,
18-bit)
TVM 3A VGA Colour Monitor
14" Monitor with Tilt/Swivel
Base
3tmm Dot Pitch

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S59800
INatiPOROLA PHONE$!
8000L...........>78844
Talkrnan..........134844
PT 500
8 $44 8 4 4
Ail Iwotorola phones come with a 3 year
Canadian warranty.
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