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Commodity INarketl
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in the past, has an article on wide area netsothr in the August rtgtnn of Byte mogrtinr.
Mac Stuff
On the Macintosh &out, we have a look at WordPerfect's impressive, but not
quite perfect, challenge in the word processing arena. Microsoft has a new release
of Excel for the Macintosh, that should keep it ahead of the pack. They can look
forward to competition &om both Louss and Claris later this year in the spreadsheet market
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Deparhnents
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Education Ri Training,
Point of Sale
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Word Processing,
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Windows
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'y. Electronic intercom. You can type
short messages and send them over
the LAN to other people sitting at
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Beides the hardware, you have to
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MN. You need a copy for each workstation and for each sexver. Scmnetimes
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5, 10, 50 or unlixmited computers.
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application software if you want to get
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accounting package is not a special
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allow one person at a time to use it. If
you have a woxd processor, you have to
buy a hcenseto allow you to use it on
more than one station at a time.
KindsefLAN Software
Just asyou need DOS to manage
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PAPER AUG '91 3 5
than just manage Sles for workstations,
it can do computational tasks on their
3. OS/2 is still new. Software, like people and fine wines, needs time to
mellow (to get the bugs out and to
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w ork tr a f fi c d o w n t o a d u l l r o a r .
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IBM has created huge amounts of software to link OS/2 LANs with their
mainframes. Like Novell, OS/2 can
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Ring. OS/2, used both on servers and
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LANtastic Hardware
rebooting.
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This competition ensures you will
receiveexcellent bang for your buck,
But, even more important, if your chosen vendor goes bankrupt in a few
years, your investment in the LAN is
protected. You can still repair, expand
or upgrade the LAN with compatible
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Ethernet comes is three flavours
them to go fixnt.
Token Ring
Except for fiber optics, Token Ring
is the most expensive type of LAN
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Ethernet LANs work by generally
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shouts out. During this time, other stations wanting to send messages just listen and wait for silence, then jump in
at the first opportunity like a sedate
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stations before one could send a mess age, then wait again as th e t o k e n
made another circuit for the receiver
speak." A s s oo n a s a w o r k station
receives the token, it passes it on to the
Security
Please do NOT skip this section. I
wrote it precisely for people convinced
they have no need whatsoevcn for aecu-
ncy
When you have a LAN, you put
everybody's files in one big pot. Unless
you make special provision, anybody
can look at and modify anything. Any
user can easily ri6e through the electronic desk and personal papers of any
other user, including the president,
forever escaping detection.
There are four reasons why having
no securiiy is not such a hot idea
1. Limiting damage: Perhaps you are
one of those butter6ngered types
who accidentaBy types DEL instead
of DIR and ends up destroying hundreds of files, If you get loose on a
LAN, you could wipe out not only
all your own files, but everyone
else' s.
2. Congdentialityi If you know that
ANVONE in the company, including
the officegossip, can read any of
your computer files at any time, you
cannot record the truth. People
who would never dream of rifl
ing
the president's desk will cheerily
brovsie his IAN 6les.
8. Fraudi If all employees knew they
had access to the accounts payable
files, a few might be tempted to
have the computer issue them a
cheque.
4. Malicious Damage: If a disgruntled
employee had access to all files, he
could subtly corrupt them, so that
by the time the
were detect-
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The problem withpasswords are:
1. People choose words easy to guess
names of loved ones, initials or
heart-wordslike "love" or "peace."
Ideally, passwords should contain
some numbers or punctuation to
words.
5. Employees will happily divulge their
passwords to anyone they consider
trustworthy. When I worked at a
large crown corporation, I could
easily get users to give me their
passwords just by asking for them.
They would tell me so I could help
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difficult to get employees to co-
it as just a nuisance.
4. Users fail to change their passwords. If users change their pass-
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Network). Have a look in the July 1991
issue of Bytemagazine at my "Remate
buy one too complex, or without a sufflcient growth path, you may end up
throwing it out and starting over &om
Connections" arIRcle.
If a LAN sounds a little too rich for
your blood, have a look at the August
1989 Thc Gn/tputsr Paper for my piece
o n low cost alternatives to L A Ns . I f
you can't 12nd copies, give me a call at
scratch.
Get
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Summary
Dobbins, M ar k D u l c ey, H a r v ey
Fishman, David Nye and John Rails
Learning INore
If you want to get a deeper introduction to LANs, read Michael Miller's
InfousorkLUndcrstrdnding l rrerhs (ISBN
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more about how UPSes and SPSes can
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Set Temp
Windows likes to write things to a
variety of places on the hard drive. As
with the root directory problem above,
some of these places are not particular-
Standard INode
Windows runs in three modes -real,
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you might be able to reduce the number of lines because the utilization of
the line is better.
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Communications Administrator, who
has global privileges to monitor and
delete events, route or delete incoming
faxes and modify the queue.
I found it easy to fax from either
MS Word for Windows or Borland
ObjectVision; both produced very
good quality faxes. One thing to watch
for when using a product based on
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at the workstation and then sent to the
fax server, traaic on a busy LAN can
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increases with the addition of each new
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periodically backup enly the system
and pmgaua 6les during normal operatiag hours, say over lunch.
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days per week. With ten tapes, designate four tobe used weekly en Monday
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failure.
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386-25 $1098
386-33 61198
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VGA Card with 256K & 0.4lmm dp VGA Color Mcmitor ........
9GMB Fujttsu IDE Hard Diitc Drive ............................................
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~ 64K External SRAM Cache
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A ccpac Plus is a mid- to high~ g e ,
full-featured accounting system for
companies which have standard
accountingneeds. AccPac Plus is a customized database application that
records yaur financial transactions.
Transactions areentered under the
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lier versions, and found all my concerns were addressedin the appropriate manner.
Reports And
Documentation
The documentation is complete
and easy to read. There are sufficient
Error Handling 8
Limitations
I wns not able to crash this package
and I feel the error handling is cam-
system manager
In appearance this'new versien is
the same as version 5.0. This particular
menuing process is quite pleasing to
the eye and gives yau a quick visual picture of where you are in the program
at anygiven menu. Once you are at a
data entry screen, you no longer see
the menu iree. This ia not a graphical
user interface but when it cames te
accounting, it may not be as crucial.
When using the windowing system
manager there isa fi
nder key and a
smart finder. These function to make
data entry quite easy when you forget
I have used AccPac Plus since version 4.0 and find the improvements in
version 6.0 to be significant over version 5.0 and 4.0. What a delight it is
when yeu receive an update ta a product which is already very good but yeu
are &ustrated with a few miner fail-
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Wordstar
Laptop
CollectIon
A- Pick-and-Mix Surprise
hy GrthalynnLabentc4'rnith
product Wcrdstar Lsptcp Collection
pubnshen Wordstar Intematicnsl Inc.
Wordstar has bundled their wor~rocesscr along
with other software packages for laptop snd
notebook computers. The package includes:
Wordstar (word-processing program), LspUnk (for
linking laptops to deskstops), On-Time (a calender), TelMerge (e modem progrsm), snd MsilUst
gist mansgerleddressbook).
Wordstar
The word processor includes all of
the standard featureL thesaurus, spellchecker, multiple text windows, page
layout options and macros. However,
the documentation was not equal in
q uality to th e d o c u m e n t ation t h a t
Laplink
cable that links the laptop to a desktop, and this makes the package a little
frustrating for those who expected an
all~elusive deal. Wordstar Inc. includ-
On-Time
This was my favorite program in the
bundle. This is an easy-to-use daytimer
that toggles quickly between other
applications. For instance, you could
be using Wordstar and then hit the hot
key and get back to your calendar.
A lso, you could b e w o r king o n
Words'. and an alarm will ring and a
message flashes on the screen reminding you of your next appointment.
The flexibility of this program allows
you to set the frequency of the scheduled event, for instance, daily, monthly, yearly, so you don't have to write in
a Monday morning meeting every
Friday, you just enter it once and the
alarm will remind you.
Telmerle
I could not test this program, but it
seems to be a typical communications
program except that i t's limited to
I@ail list
This is a miniMatabase to manage
mail lists for printing on envelopes,
merging addresses into form letters
and printing labels. I banned labels
from my onice since the great daby-
popularsoftwareprograms.
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Monitors
Math Co-processors
80387SX-16'
80387SX-20'
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215
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Panssonic 1180 (91 01)
Panasonic 1123 (241 6)
Panascnic Laser 4420 (800)
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Microsoft or compatible mouse optional but rec:ommended.
Prlca $449
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THE COMPUTER
PAPER AUG '91 67
Quicken
for Macintosh
by Joe N%ukr
given in the manual, MaclnTax apparently is dedicated to the U.S. tax system (a call to Intuit technical support
; E."-".'j~a.
f ailed t o c o n f ir m a n y su p p or t f o r
Canadia n
t a x pr e pa r a t i o n vi a
MacInTax). Still, the sort, report and
SYLK format to more powerful programs like Excel, or in text format for
use in a word processor, for preparation of a financial siatement & the like.
The Downside
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State/Province
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$$0/month (electronic mail delivery)
Electronic Mail System and Address
Option 2
J7$/ m onth (disk delivery) Mac disk 3. $ " PC disk
We sharpened
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Floppy Drives
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280
405
480
475
550
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Hard Drives
40MB Fufilsu IOE
50MB Pius Impulse IDE
80MB Maxtor IDE
80MB Fuliisu IDE
106MB Quantum/Plus IDE
135M8 Fujiisu IDE
180MB Fujitsu IOE
210MB Maxior IDE
Modems
w/ MNP 6 Software
2400 Baud External (Made in u.S.Al 120
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386SX/16
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386/25
$1,200
$1,050
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$2,250.00
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$1,350
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$2,550.00
$1 995 pp
$1 75p pp
1.44 MB FDD
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS genuine
EACH ADDITIONAL MB OF RAM: - $75.00 Adobe Postscript Laser
$1 99800
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DOT MATRIX PRINTERS
To MINI TOWER CASE
$45.00 ROLAND 9101 .
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"This chair is just right," she said as
she sat in the middl~ized chair with
the silent casters. She was pleased by
the snazzy icon of the word processor
found on this computer and eagerly
opened itup. She began composing
her story, "Serving Porridge Just
Right," Goldilocks was amazed that
she could make the text appear on the
screen incolor, so she used red text
for the word HOT, blue text for the
word cold, and magenta text for the
wordsJUST RIGHT.
"This word processor is just right,"
she said, and so it was, it wasJust. Write
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a non-postscript printer the program
does not support Adobe Type Manager
for printing high resolution text, producing instead a screen resolution
bitmap.
Quicken provides for a field in the
cheque printingarea where the user
can paste in his own art and/a r t ext.
a t p r e s s t i m e , b u t t he
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PAPER AUG '91 6 9
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such as the deletion or highlighting of
the wrong charactersand anomalies in
the right margin position. Sometimes,
text was not inserted or deleted at the
insertion point, but rather a few letters
or words away. This condition also
s erious bug
t h at , a c cording t o
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f i n d i n g t h e fo l d e r .
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he HP 95LX Palmtop is quite
impressivel Two things strike
you right off the bat. First, it' s
much smaller than it looks in the ada
1-2-$ in ROM
The Palmtop is built around a SOSS
processor and runs afullversion of
DOS 8.22. It comes standaxd with 512
KB of RAM, and contains a fum version
(2.2) of Lotus 1-2-5 built into ROM. In
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Quicken 4.0 w/ HomeTax Plus
Sidekick Plus
Software CarouselV.5.0
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WordPerfect 5.1
1MB RA
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40MB28ms IDE Hard Disk
SVGAColor Monitor 1024x768.3bnm
256K VGA Graphics Card
101 KeyEnhanced Keyboard
One Year Parts/Labor Werrtmty
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T-1000 9-Pin $179 LQ-200 24-Pin $309
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Act V.2.0
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Corel Draw V2.0
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Leplink III
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PAPER AUG '91 71
Mailbox
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Microsoft 008 4.01
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f you' re one of the estimated 80
percent of working Canadians who
do not like their jobs, the home
office revolution may be for you.
Today's lovspriced, highgowered computers and software have placed the
dream af financial and personal independence withinthe reach of the average worker where once it was available
to only a few. Personal f'actors, the cost
and stress of commuting, the rising
price ofcommercial oSice space, and a
shrinking pool of skilled workers have
combined to cause both einpleyers
and independent businessmen to considerthe home oSice as an increasing-
sion, used his severance pay to purchase his Srst computer and software,
taught himself word processing, and
went on to publish a best-selling
Canadian employment guide entitled
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InterviewL He has since published four
additional titles, chieSy related to the
home business area, and conducts seminars on these topics far community
colleges and continuing education
departments in the Vancouver area.
Job
predict that the home computer market will grow by 16 percent per year fer
the next Sve years.
A Fast-Growing 9'end
Vancouver consultant H.A. (Buzz)
Bezanson, author of How to Earn
Money with your Home Computer,
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fastest growing trend" of the decade.
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AUGUST 1991
Home Market
Applaudes
Head Start
Since ANObegan carrying the
HeadStart total home/small business computerpackage in May of
1991, it has quickly become a hot
seller. The driving force behind its
success is that it is a complete system.
And we mean complete. Aside
from the VGA colour graphics and
hard disk,each HeadStart comes
bundled with a 680MB CD-ROM
publishing).
For potential personal computer users who are located in
remote regions and have been reluctant to purchase a system, Philips includes 1-800 support for
every system. We' vetested out
theirsupport personnel and believe me they' re top notch. The
knowledgeable gentleman on the
other end of the phone gave us the
type of support all manufacturer's
should provide.
If you' re considering getting a
system for the kids or small business the HeadStart line is definitely
worth looking into. Priced at $
2,850 for the 386sx and $2,420 for
the 286 it certainly won't hurt the
pocketbook either.
A Mon t h l y
Deal Inked
The Canofile 250 will be featured in September at Market Discover '91, and
the Vancouver Business Computer Show. Readers of ANOVATION can look
forward to a full length profile in the September issue.
Innovation
INSIDE THISISSUE
Novell Netware ..
Business Class ..
Tech Talk
Employee Purchase Plans ..
Duel-ing Bins... . . . . . . . . .
DOS 5.0 ..
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Editorial.
Ne w sl et t e r f ro m A NO Of f i c e A ut o m a t i o n
NEW 8c
IMPROVED
Zenith Continued ..
Quiet to the outside world maybe, but working diligently on bringing Zenith back to the forefront in portable
computing technology. This is reflected in their 5 new portable products unveiled at this years Spring Comdex. The
most notable offerings include the firstbattery operated 486
and 486sx portable, and the first portable based on the Intel
386SL processor.
The 386SL isalready being heralded as one of the most
technologically innovative products since the battery oper-
'VV~~;~%N~':
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and aspace saving LAN workstation. The server isbased
on the EISA architecture with a powerful RADE 5 SCSI disk
subsystem, while the low profile workstation houses an
Intel 16MHz 386sx processor. Both are currently shipping.
Con nectivity
NEW4 IMPROVED
Cost Effective
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s Business Class ForEconomy
The signature of ANOOffice Automation has always been affordable
product backed by a powerful service network. On May
31, 1991 this was taken one
step further with the introduction of the Business Class
line of personal computers.
Priced for th e b u dget
contious user, the Business
Class line ranges from a slim
line 286 based network stat ion, all th e wa y u p t o a
powerful tower EISA 33MHz
486. One of the most flexible
lines of personal computers
on the market, each system is
configurable to any u sers
needs.
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line of PCs Mr. Toby Chu,
CEO of ANOOffice Automation was at no loss for words,
Video Memory
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memory in a laser printer in that it doesn't improve speed, but simply what it is capable
of producing.
Let me explain, on a laser printer the amount of memory dictates the amount of graphics it is capable of printing on
one page. With a video card it means the number of colours it is capable of displaying on the monitor at one time (see Figure
1.1). The advantage to more colours is that at higher resolutions the picture is more realistic. Of course the software you
use must also support the video card and its extended resolutions.
Memory
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FEATURE
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STEP 1
STEP 4
Approach at least 5 different vendors with your proposal. Be sure to give t h e m as much information as
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and expect in return a good deal more information.
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EPPs with;
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8. Terms of the sale;
organizations
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After the finance portion has been ironed
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to include an area in your petition for the type
of equipment they would be interested in and EPPs can save an organization money by helping to reduce training & re-training costs.
FEATUREPRODUCT
Time Saver
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disposable EP cartridge system. Essentially the drum,
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tridge. Every time you replace the EP cartridge the printer
The Canon LBP-8 Mark IIIT offers dual paper cassettes is virtually brand new again.
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thattogether hold up to 400 sheets. You can choose between
letter, legal, executive, A4 and envelope trays and use them volume or to attach to your LAN the Canon LBP-8 Mark IIIT
in many combinations, with letterhead and white, or for and Mark IIIR are definitely worth checking into.
legalsized spreadsheets and executive sized memos. This
solution also takes up no more deskspace than Canon's LBP
Mark III 8PPM Laser.
UPGRADES
Long Awaited
STEP 6
Take special care in deciding on
w hat equipment to go w i th . A l though most PCs pretty much look
the same from the outside it is the
innards that are important. On name
, brand systems such as Philips/Mag,: navox, AST, Zenith, and Samsung,
' '. -:quality is not an issue. However, the
''so-called clones require a little more
IN SUMMARY
In summary, here are the steps in
preparing an EPP:
company;
3. Petition the employees;
4. Solicit proposals from
thought.
With a clone, take special care to assure you are getting
vendors;
-. good value for your money. Sloppy workmanship and a
5. Evaluate vendors merits;
poor grade of components will lead to a lot of unhappy
6.- Evaluate products;
employees should you make the wrong decision.
7. Order equipment;
If at all possible set aside a week for the vendors to
-'!demonstrate
their products when it is most convenient for
EPPs are an excellent opportunity for both the comA,'
'.:.the employees - one day for each vendor should suffice. If . pany and its employees. Taking the time to do it right will
;this isnot possible, have the vendors send up sample make all the difference in the world.
systems and peripherals for display.
NEW 5 IMPROVED
New Products
PREMIUM II 486sx/20
What makes the486sx processor
differentfrom the standard 486 processoristhe absence of a math co-processor. By removing the co-processor,
Intel was able to provide a solution for
the business user that doesn't require
floating point functionality. A 487sx
co-processorisavailable asan upgrade
feature for those who may need it in
the future,
Although it is only operating at
20MHz the 486sx isreported to be
between 30to40% fasterthan a33MHz
386 system. T his is accomplished
through an 8K on-chip cache, and
variousother enhancements.
NEW BRAVOS
AST is revamping its Bravo line of
inexpensive workstations by replacing the 286 and 386sx systems with a
16MHz 286 and a 20MHz 386sx. Aside
from the processor changes, other
enhancementshavebeen made, including an on-board VGA adapter, memory expandability to 16MB on-board,
the ability for the 286 to be upgraded to
a 20MHz 386sx via a plug in module,
and a slightly larger chassis.
These new systems are priced very
competitively, making them an excellent solution for network nodes.
Networking Windows
EDITORIAL
Lights OIIt
By ToddWm. Drahoff
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