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The Computer Paper B.C.Edition July1ty89

Under The Hood ...... . .............20

There is no such thing as a zero wait state 586 Roedy Reveals All
by Z Green

oetic

The Electronic Cottage ..............26

Ten top computer based businesses you can do &om your home
by I.is Ekming

NEWSBYTES on The Electronic Cottage ................28

The Home Office From Hell .. ....29

Find out how to avoid the pitMs of home working

byCathalynn LabontoSmith

On-line Investing ........................32

A growing range of information about stocks can be obtained electronically.
by Hari Singh Kkalsa

Buying a Used Computer .... .....34

Things to watch out for if you choose to buy a used computer.
by Alan Earie

The Platform of the 1990's? ......36

UNIX is the greatest, George tells us why.

byGemsPajari

MACINTOSH SOFTWARE
MacWrite II .................................38
An old standby gets a re-write and looks good.
by Cameron Smith

D Atabase ....................................39
A Desk Accessories that ofFers an impressive flat file database
byCameron Smith

Canadian Payroll Software ........40

Three new programs have emerged since our last survey.

by JoanHomal

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS .........42

Networking Novell 586

by MikeWolfe

HIGH TECH STOCKS ............ ...44

5D Graphics, Fax Machines.
by John Kaiser

COMPUTER BASED RELIGION....46

What do you mean a Computer Based Religion?
by St.Simeon

Random Thoughts
I read a book this month. It was the
first one in a long time. It made me
think about things I have taken for
granted. The book is called Chaos and it
is by James Gleick (available at Siliconnections).. The book talks abouta "paradigm shift."
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So what was this book about? Many
scientists believe that the world is understandable, that the universe is built on
patterns. If we can understand the patterns, we can understand and therefore predict
the world. You see this approach everywhere. Weathermen try and tell us that it will
be along hot summer. Economists predict that the economy is going into anose dive.
Even computer publications tell us what computer systems will be popular in eighteen monthsi If they are wrong in their predictions, it is simply because something in
their model needs fine tuning. The basic concept of science is: find the underlying
structures, and you have predictability.
Now what if, instead of predictability, you have an underlying model of chaos? What
if the world was designed to be random? There is a purposefulness to the disorder.
We have had glimpses of this before. An example is the random mutation of species
to keep them from getting wiped out
strain of disease, or predator. This
unpredictability keeps the species vibrant and growing despite adversity. Gleick's
thesis in his book is that this realization has been occurring in virtually every branch
of science today. In the words of Douglas Hofstadter in the book,"It turns out that
an eerietype of chaos can lurkjustbehind a facade of order-and yet,deep inside the
chaos lurks an even eerier type of order."
Some foodforthought.

byaparticular

E-Mail
This month I got a letter asking what was E-Mail and the Mindlink BBS. E Mail,
simply put, is sending letters from computer to computer over the phone lines and
on office networks. With the phone type F Mail, you need your own computer or
terminal, telecommunications software and a modem to be able to communicate.

Mmdlink BBS is a Bulletin Board System. That means that someone has set up a
computerand one or more phone lines to actasa storage house of information for
others who call in. Many BBS's are run for &ee because of the interest of the owner
in communicating on a variety of subjects.
Mindlink (55M512 or 278-5545in Richmond) isone ofVancouver's larger services
with 9 phone lines and 550 megabytes of data storage. It offers a wide selection of
public domain software for downloading, a variety of areas of conversation ranging
&om specific types of computers to politics .and computer games
The Computer Paper maintains an account with Mindlink This allowsour readers,
customers and writers to send us letters, fr'ee dassifieds, ads and articles whenever
they like. It also saves us &om dedicating one of our computers full-time to the task
of receiving this information. We then check our file area once every week or so to
pick up things that have come in. This service is extremely useful and is an effective
communication aid for us. It gives us some very direct feedback &om our readers. It
also saves everyonIe on couriers and diskettes. Mindlink can offer this type of service
to other businesses as well (call Dave Allen at 757-7950). Mindlink has recently
changed theway their system works. Now anyone can sign on for free and trymost of
the functions, induding leaving E-Mail messages, without becoming a member.
Enjoy the issue.

THE SHAREWARE SHELF: ...........50

Zoomracks a shareware database.
by Gmrlon Sr'mmonds

The Masthead .......................................;...................................4

Kir tan Singh Khalsa

Publisher/Editor

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AcademyAwardsof Software

printing labels for a varietyof purposes.

The program features an automated
installation program which through a
series of simple questions guides the user
through the program. Labels are automaticaHydrawn on screen afterdimensions are entered, ready for text entry.
Automatic style tracking "learns" your
label style from first one created; additional labels can be created quickly at
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centering, etc.
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May 24, 1989 (Sass Diego, Gs.) After

six months of suspense nd campaigning within the software industry the SPA
announced the winners of the 1988 SPA
Excellence in Software Awards. Eightynine companies had products in the 41
categories on the Snal baHot.
Topping thisyear*sawardwinnerswere
Adobe, Broderbsmd,spectrum HoloByte
and Symmtec, aH of whom had winning
products in three or more categories.
For the second year in a row, Adobe
Systems captured Best of the Best cate-

gory, thisyear for its new product, Adobe

IHustrator 88.
BUSINESS SOFfWARE AWARDS

Best Entry Level

Business Application
Quicken (Macintosh)(Intuit)
Best Power Business Application
FoxBASE+(v.2.10 (DOS) (FoxSoftware)

Beat Vertical Market Application

MaclnTaxrraxVkjtw 1$88 (Softview)
Best Nord Processing Application:
NordPerfect 5.0(IBM) (WordPerfact)
Best Graphic Business Application:
M (Adobe Systems)
Adobe illustrator SSs
Best NumerlcIData Business Application:
QSA 3.0 (Symantec Corp.)
Beat Business Utility or Accessory
Aiiways (Funk Software, Inc.)

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The New Kaypro KC-X

The American Dream
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Best New Business Use Of A Computer

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Q8 A 3.0 {SymantecCorp.)

Best Graphical User Interface Design

HP New Nave (Hewlett-Packard)
Best Multi-User Product
QM 3.0 (Symantec Corp.)

The new NC-1, a full-function

microcomputer that includes two
disk drives, monitor and keyboard
built-in-America quality with a
strong, one-year limited warranty.
All for an incredibly low price!

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PC Use'Soc&ky Plans
AnnualJaunt To Con@ex
The Vancouver PC User SocietywiH be
sponsoring a charter to the largest
computer show in North America,
Comdex/FaH 89. This trade show, to be
held in Las Vegas November 15-17, is
expected to attract 12Q,QQQ
people and
175Q exiubitors. With the number of
people expected, both airline seats and
accommodations thisyearwiHbehard to
come by. This will be the third year that
the PC Society has sponsored this charter. There are a limited number of seats
available and it is recommended that
those interested should caH early. For
moreiss
fortysatioss eosstaotVPCUS Coyodesc/
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Consumers' ComPuter
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The Consumers' Computer Show '89
wiH be held once again this year at the
PNE Forum in October. At press time
the date had not yet been finalized, but
according to show organizers, Nisteora
Aosysotiosts(27S-3S09j, "aH systems are

go.

Easier Label Printing

A new program developed locaHy by
interactive Sales Corp, called Labelex, is

designed to ease the pain in creatmg and

Have you been shopping for a low- bines all of the necessities into one
. united, state-of-the-art machine:
pricedcompu
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have noticed the foreign invasion:
,', Strong American Narranty/Service
Complete Computer
swarms of electronic
boxes sporting incpu: aoaa cpu,4.77/a.o MHz
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to be missing a few "minor" features t

such as a keyboard, monitor, operating system, etc.
It's downright un-American!
Well, meet an honest American,
the KC-1. This powerful patriot corn-

KayprO Started Out aS

Non-Linear SyStemS, a
respected electronic instruITlentatlon manufacturer SinCe 1952. Thia

means that 37 years of

experience in the elecron i cs business stands behind every

KA Y PRO computer.

Exercise your freedom of choice,

ask for the new KC-1 The New
Kay p ro American Dream Machineat t h e se fine KAYPRO dealers:

SPeortioattunSSubjeCt 1OChange Withcut natiCe. KC.1 iS a regialered trademark Ol KayPrOCOrPOratian; DR DOS,Digilal ReSearChInC.

Call for your neareat Kaypro Dealer

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Macs 50% Faster With Udlity

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without the use of a math copxoceasor
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jithr the various Macintosh ROMs to
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soIbaaxe in the next few weeks. Apple
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to be launching an aggressive investigation in order to stop them. At stake is the
"crown jewels" of Apple Computer, its

ware Artists for Infoxmation Dissemination," says in a letter obtained by NEWSBYIXS News Service, to have "no axnbition beyond seeing the genius of a few
Appleempltyyeesbene6ttheenfireworld,
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through litigation and ihwill."
MacWeek Editor Dan Ruby tells
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authentic,havingbeenveri6edbyone of
the softxaare designers, Andy HerlzfeltL
He has no idea who sent the disk and

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staged by individuals in the League for
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Finder 6.1, and Appletnik LO next. Any
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Ledbyuvo servers," devices that txanslate IBM main&arne data into information that can be displayed on Macintosh
computers, new hardware devices induded three NuBus communications
cards and a server for Digital Equipment
VAX computers. The servers will be
available for site licensing in the first
quarter of 1990.
The threenewNuBuscommunications
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for SR70Coax, Token-Ringand Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC), and,
along with new softwaxe, let the Macintosh emulate the S270 fiunily of IBM
terminals. This essentially converts a
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but is necessary because so many IBM
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by supporting the X-Window standard.
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scientific and engineering Unix environments
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With millions of I BMwompatible
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machines.
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Industry observers point out that this
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failure will have a marked impact on
corporate and government Macintosh
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pression, effectively doubling transmission, speed and is also available on the

2400baud$499VenTel NuBus internal modem. Another
product announcement was for the
Communications Toolbox, a set of tools
to allow developers to standardize communications on the Mac. The Communications Toolbox was also announced
last August and on May 9. It is now
scheduled for release this falL
The X-Window support, CL/1 connectivity language (used in the IBM servesa), and other MAC-VAX connection
productswereannounced lastyearat the
August MacWorld Expo in Boston, and
Monday'sannouncement was a confirmatio that the products, which were
supposed to be released late this year
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AISI Plans Partnership

VICH)RIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA,

CANADA, 1989 JUN 2 (NB) Homeautomation firmAISI ResearchandMPR

Ltd., the research and development arm
of British Columbia Telephone, have
agreed in principle toa partnership. The
two companies would work together to
developandmarkettelecommunications
products based on CEBus, the Electrionics IndustriesAssociation hom~utomation standard.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in
Chicago June 54 and at Pacific Bell' s
Texpo show in San FranciscoJune 74,
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Librarians and the Canadian Law Informafion CounciLTheindexisabibliography and periodical index of Canadian
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Lotus RarruSai-M Upgrade

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of Lotus Canada, described as the largest

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upgrade project in the history of the
software industry. In Canada, an upgradefrom any previous release of 1-2-5
to either 2.2 or 5.0 will cost C$185. The
only exception to thatprice will be a free
upgrade for anyone who has bought
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Lotus plans to mail upgrade order kits
to registered I 2-5 users across Canada.
The company is also supplying its authorized dealers with prepaid upgrade
kits, in which customers may mail in
their system or Imckup system diskette
for an upgrade.Fmally, the company
has a volum~pgrnde plan for its hrge
accounts. Wyatt said upgrades will be
shipped out by courier to reduce the
wait for the new software.
Release 5.0 is scheduled ta be available inCanada before the end ofJune,
while Release 2.2 is due out in the faIL
(Contact: Peter Hebb o r C a thy
Browne, The Communications Group,
'4164474591;

C OMM O D O R E
Amiga Product Of The Year
WESTCHESI'ER, PENNSYLVANIA,

U.SA., 1989 JUN 2 (NB) Commodore says that at the April 29 meeting of
the National Association of Broadcasters [NAB] theAmiga2000personalcomputer received the Product of the Year
award.
The award, voted on by the readers of
both AV Video and Video Manager
magazines, acknowledged the usefulness of the graphi~riented computer
in the video industry.
The Amiga 2000, which uses Commodore or third-party genlock interfaces,
canworkwithboth PAL [European stan-

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dard] and NTSC [U.S. standard] video

signals and has more than 200 specializedvideo programs avaihble.

New Amiga Software

LONDON, ENGLAND, 1989 JUN 02

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the Commodore Show that it has secured U.K. distribution rights for the
GVP48050 add-in board for the Amiga
'2000.
The GVP4S050 microprocessor card

736-3741

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much as 1,500 percent, using a 25Mhz
68050 microprocessor. Ken Browning of'
Power Computingisplanning togeteven
better performance by using 52MHz
crystals and faster chips. This is made
possible by the cards' asynchronous bus
design, which allows the Amiga custom
chips to continue running at the standard sa. of 7.14 MHz.
New on 'ie software &ant from Power
Computing was Video Magic, a video
presentation program for the Amiga.
This product, asyetunpriced, isaimed at
a growing niche market in which the
Amiga excels.
(Contact: Ken Browning, Power Computing - Tel: 0254-275000)

GENERAL
China Turmoil
Disrupts High-Tech Trade
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Inllhon 1ll allllual sales to China from

their o%ces,"Unison'svice president for

trading and d evelopment, Deidre
Deamer, told NewsbyteL
Shedoesnot think, however, thatexisting joint ventures with China will be affected long term. "It's a question as to
whether new investors will go in. We
don'texpect to see cutbacksin U.S.firms'
sales within China. But there is a question as to whether China has enough
foreignexchange to continue to buy."
Computer companies with business
stakes in the US$690-million China market have adopted a "wait and see" attitude, according to an Asia Computer
Weekly report.
Statistics by International Data Co~
ration [IDC] show that research analysts
believe the political crisis in China will
cause the growing computer market
there, which has rise from an estimated

US. high-tech firms and isa consultant

to firms seeking to establish joint ventures, has dosed its Beijing office and
sent three sesff' members on "forced"
vacations to other countries in order to
size up the situation.
Unison, which represents such hightech clients as International Imaging
Systems aud Systems Integrators, can
communicate with its Chinese staff via
phone, fax, and telex, but no mail is
being delivered within the country. Of
the overnight courier services based in
the U.S., only DHLis continuing to serve
certain areas of China.
"Over the LLst week we have not done
ny business in China. Everyone is on
hold for another couple of days until we
see how quickly our office will open, and
to see how quickly the Chinese will be in

US$450 million in 1987 to last year' s

U8$690 miihon, to deflate.
Phifit
p Wong, general manager ofAST
Research [Far East] and Ms Linda Wong,
marketing communications manager of
Data General [Asia North] said that their
companies have shut down their Beijing
officesandfiown their foreign staffhome.
. China Hewlett-Packard and NCR have
reported a temporary crippling of their
Chinese operationL
SAS Institute's general manager, Nigel Gasper, said thatbothHP and Digital
have postponed indefinitely seminars
planned for Shanghai and Beijing.
IDC China believes that companies
which had made definite plans to enter
China will delay them while those which
had no definite plans but were consider
ing entering the Chinese market will
think twice about doing so.

Thegeneral managerof ReseslehAsia,

Reid Rasmussen, thinks that the IT
market of Hong Kong will also be af
fected. He said that at least two large
vendors are reconsidering their investment plans in China and turning to
countries which are more politically
stable, like Singapore

DI4LMS As Commodities)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA,

U.SA., 1989, JUN 1 (NB) DRAMS

may be the next major commodities
market, trading futures just like pork
bellies and soybeans.
The Pacific Stock Exchange is seeking
approval to trade futures on DRAMs
[dynamic random accessmemorychips].
Accordingto thePacific Stock Excha ng,
the idea has been under consideration
for ayear and they expect approval so
that trading can begin in early 1990.
DRAM prices have been up and down
in recent months. For a whil,e a worldwide shortage of the chips created a
steep price rise and a rise in DRAM
thefts.

Trading in DRAM futuresmay not be

universaL TexasInstruments, the largest

U.S. DRAM maker and a worldwide force

in the DRAM market, says it won' t sellits
chips on the futures market The company plans to work with its customers to
solve the DRAM supply and price problem.

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1 (NB) Australia has been invited to
join European high-tech development
projects aimed at stemming the deminance ofJapan in setting new standards.
The Dutch minister of economic affairs
carried the invitation to the Australian

Governmentbetween One example he

gave wasthe upcoming fight over srandards for high definition TV [HDTV].
He said that business would becoxue
much more internationahzed in the
future and that Europe intended to lead
much ofthe research and development.
Meanwhile, planning for the 'futureo.
polis' city is progressing. The plan is for
a high-tech city to be developed in Austraha by bothJapan and Australia. The
city would be built from the ground up,
incorporating the latestin technological
advances for living, working, learning
and relaxing. A large proportion of the
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percent] and Digital Equipment [16
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-58 percent believethe U5. will fail in
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- 69 percent think the government
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- 80 percent think takeovers of technology companies will increase through
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- 5'y percent see the Gray Research split

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- 62 percent believeJapan will be the
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the company to be the fastest available

Pascal on a PC, hnking programs 10 to 15
percent faster than Borland's as well as
being compatible with it. Unlike the
Borland product,itoffersawindow-based
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NEEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS,
U.SA., 1989 JUN 16 (NB) The Interface Group is beginning the call to arms
for its gigantic computer-industry trade
show, Comdex/Fail, slated for November 15-17 in the glitter capital of the
world, Las'Vegas. Interface says more
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ControlData Selling Schools

MINNEAPOLIS, MI N N E SOTA,
U.SA., 1989 MAY 51 (NB) Control
Data Corp., which recently closed its
ETA Systems supercomputer operation,
streamlined iS CYSER mainf'rame business, and cut its corporate staff, has gotten abankwaiver extended untilJUN 50
so it can keep negotiating a $20.million
illcrease m its credit tumt, to $50 million.
The money is needed to help with the
dosings and provide working capital,
and the company hopes to have it paid
hack, as well as have other bonowings
reduced, by the end of the year.
The company aho announced it' s
reached an agreement to seII its Control
DattaInstitutesandlnstittateforAdvaaced
Tecbnology to Human Capital Corp., an
Edina, Minn. company set up for the
purpose. Human Capiial wlII pay cash
for the schools, which were the centerpiece of founder William Norris'drive to
offersocialresponsibilityataprofit. That
drivefoundered in the early 1980s as
profits feK (Contact: Nancy Foltz, Control Data Corp., 61ft455-5229)

IBNI WORLD
Pascal Now Object-Oriented
SCOTTS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA,
U.SA., 1989 MAY 25 (NB) Bo th
Borland and Microsoft chose the same
week toannounce new objectwriented
progratttming features on their versions
of the Pascal computer language. The
two announcements represent the first
implementation of objectariented technology in a mainstream, indus~tandard computer language.
The benefit of objectwriented technology, according to Borland, is that it
gives software programmers a "building
block" approach to programming. Programmers can spend more time designing and less time with the basic mechan-

ics of writing a program.

Borland's Turbo Pascal 5.5, $150,
combines the simplicity of Apple's ObjectPascal language with extensions from
the C+I+ objectwriented programming
language, induding static objects, object
constants, static methods, constructors,

and destructors. Borland says only four

new keywords have been created, making its version of Pascal the cleanest and
more consistent.

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Microsoft's QaickPascal is daimed by

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Uc)W, 1989 MAY50 (NB) Spinnaker
Software is readying a WIndows. based
product thatwill allow PC users accessto
stacks created for Apple'5 HyperCard
environment. This makes it the first
product that actually allows PC users to
work with HyperCard stacks.
Other products, like Brightbill-Roberts
8c Co.'s HyperPad provide HyperCardlike functions in a text-based environment. The Spinnaker program, codenamed Wildcard, will actually allow PC
users to work with the huge amount of
HyperCard stacks that are now out.
According to sources, the program,
which is expected to be available for
around $100 early this fall, runs 40 times
faster than Apple's HyperCard. Also, the
progrunis compiled and notinterpreted,
so thatapplications createdwithitcan be
invoked without running WildCarcL
If WildCard works well, it promises to
open up a whole new world to PC users,
who so far have seen HyperCard as one
area of
theMac theyhaven'tbeen able to
duplicate with high-powered PCs.

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SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,
1989 JUN 6 (NB) Autodesk has unveiled its newest version of the world' s
most popular computer-aided design
program, AutoCAD. Release 10 increases
theprogram'sperformanceon 586.based
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1989 JUNE 14 (NB) = IBM announced
last week that certain of its toff-theline 25-MHz Model 70 computers are
likely to experience problems with the
120-megabyte hard disk
The problem is only with the Model
70-121 and 70-A21 desktop PS/2 machines and involves failure of the hard
disk to start on power up after an extended shutdown. Scott Brooks, IBM
spokesperson, told Newsbytes that this
problem potentially affects only about
159oof the installed base of the Model 70
computers.
According to Scott, "This wae aproblem with a lubricant that leaked out of
the bearings and, in combination with
the thin film media on the 120 megabyte
hard disks, sometimes caused sficking.
The disk can usually be restarted by
powering the system off and back on.
again [for a temporary fix]."
IBM is offering free on-site replacements for certain early models of the
computerand recommends that owners
of 70-121s with serial numbers below 729027617 and 70-A21s with serial numbers below 7MD00679 contact their
dealer for further information and to
arrangeforkee replacement.
This recommendation applies even to
those not experiencing problems because,according toMr. Brooks, accelerated aging tests at IBM's labs indicate
thatthe chances of such a failure grow
with time. Actually there have been few
or no actual failures in the field as yet,
and IBM stresses that this is preventive
maintenance, an indication of IBM's
emphasis on customer service.
Speaking about an earlier problem
with the 25-MHz 70-A21 computer, Mr.
Brooks emphasized that media reports
about theproblem were highly exaggerated, the entire problem stemming from
a single faultyconnector which did not
require a complete re- engineering of
the A21's mother board, as reported
elsewhere.
(Contact Scott Brooks 914442-5408)

Samna Setting On Ami

NORCROSS, GEORGIA, U.SA. 1989

JUNKS (NB) Samna isintroducing an

enhanced version of its Ami word processorfor Windows, Ami Professional, at

the PC Expo Show in NewYork starting
June 19. The introduction comes amid
negative pressreports daiming Ami is
underpowezed and theAmi Professional
is incompatible.
The company enteredthe market for
Windows. based word processors long

before anyone else, and scored big as

users learned Windows offers WYSIWIG
features common to the Apple Macintosh on the IBM PC. But criticism has
been registered of the code behind Ami,
and big users said the productwas underpowered.Ami Professional, at$495,adds
features like merging, macros, footnoting, annotations and automatic generation of contents' pages and indexes. But
Ami, a $199 product, cannot. edit files
made on Azni Professional, it can only
print and read them.

%mna was best known for the Samna

word processor, which itself is descended
&om the program used on the old Lmier
word processors of the early 1980s. A
spokesman blamed the bad press on
jealousy among magazines.
(Contact: Pam Alexander, Alexander
8c Co., 4NN764482)

MUSIC
Sheet Music Distribution Via

Computer Debuts
CHICAOO, ILLINOIS, U.SA., 1989
JUNE 14 (NB) At last week's National
Association of M u si c M e r chants'
[NAMM] show, MuszcWriter, Inc. unveiled an in<tore computerized sheet
music distribution system with concurrent access to a database containing as
many as 20,000 titles licensed &om leading music publishers
This system allows reuzil outlets to sell
a vast selection of sheet music titles without taking up a lot of floor, wall or shelf
space. The system uses a PC with color
monitor. The program is menuMiven,
allowing interactive customer access to

the database. A telephone l(nk to MusicWriter's home o6ice host computer

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1989 MAYSI (NB) Ungermann-Bass
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phone wires called unshielded twisted
pair wiring. The product will be compatible with British Telecom's Open System
Cabhng Architecture, Abc T's Premises
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iNet R000 Says

Gateway Success Slow
CHANTILLY,VIRGINIA, USA., 1989
JUN 2 (NB) Both the iNet2000 gate
wayin Canadaand the somewhat-related
iNet of America gateway in Virginia are
making slow,steady progress toward
market acceptance,mainly by concentrating on work-related users.
Telecom Canada's iNet 2000, introduced in 1985 and connected to the
Datapac public data network, has about
50,000 users, said product manager Rob
Huband, despite arecently-approved
price increase. He credits success to a
marketing plan targeting specific industry groups. Lawyers have been especially
active, through the Canadian Bar Asso-

being discontinued.
The GEnie service is also adding
ZModem to the list of errorwhecking
protocols supported in its roundtables,
where softwareis exchanged. Zmodem
does not need to wait for the PC to
acknowledge correct data, eliminating
the biggest delay during file transfers.
Also, if you download a partial file, then
get diiconnected,ZModem can download only the remainder of the file, when
you come back on. ZModem joins
XModem, XModem-lK, YModem, and
YModemG as protocols available to
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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS,
USA., 1989 JUN 9 (NB) Omnet has
introduced a system to bring even the
most e-mail-resistant executive into your
E-Mail universe. LUDD Mail it' s short
for luddite will print electronic mail
and send it to users, in areal envelope, to
a real mailbox. Mark Mueller of Omnet
told Newsbytes, "It's designed to make
things easier for people who use e-mail.
ciation.
Sometimes youhave one curmudgeon
The software, which is being marketed
by a separate company, will appear soon who says no, and you have to deal with
him." The product is priced on the basis
in Australiaand Hong Kong, while negoof mail packets, which Mueller explained
tiations continue to bring iNet to the
this way. "For each business day we send
U.S.
I n t h e U.S., iNet of America
mail to you, you get charged."
scored a
major coup earlythisyearwhen
( Contact: Mark Mueller, Omnet, 617it won the contract to run ABANet, formerly on Dialcom. ABANet presently
hasabout15,000members,and Director
David Weinberg says he's getting dozens
ofnewapplications eachweek. Still, Barry
Wilson, vice president of business development with i Ne t o f

A m e rica, told

Newsbytes "I'm a bit of a pessimist about

the massive build up. The applications
just aren't there to drive it. I'm very

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Postscript To Fax
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,
1989 JUN 12 (NB) GammaLink has
tied PostScript securely to Group III
fiicsimile standards with GammaScript, a
software program which sends files mad
in the page description language PostScript, as crisp fax images. Gammalink
says the product will clear up the fax
quality problem by letting people use
any of 5,000 Postscript~pported programs to create hxes. GammaScript's
Postscriptinterpreter isaPostscript done

licensed &om+MS of Mobile, Alabama

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KYOTO, JAPAN, 1989 MAY 27 (NB)
Researchers at IBM Japan's Tokyo
Basic Research Center and IBM's Watson Research Center have jointly developed the world's fastest one-megabit
dynamic random access memory
[DRAM] chip at IBM's Yasu manufacturing plant.
The experimental one-megabit DRAM
is based on a new complementary metaloxide-semiconductor [CMOS] process.
Two layersof polyciystalline silicon or
small silicon crystalsjoined together and
two layers of metal were used for the
chip's wiring. This composition allows
the chip to operate two to three times
filster than the current generation of
one-megabit chips, retrieving a unit, or
bit, of information injust22billionthsof
a second. Moreover, Pa nel M O S
access transistor allows the new chip to
reduce noise and pick up small signals.
IBM expects that the higWpeed onemeg DRAM chip heralds the advent of
very fast main memory in supercomputers, personal computers,-and engineering workstations. Thus, Big Blue is in a
hurry to launch the product for practical
use.

Massive 4M DRAM Output

TOKYO, JAPAN, 1989 MAY 26 (NB)
Seeking to quickly become theworld's
leading semiconductor maker, Hitachi
has announced plans to increase fourmegabit dynamic random access
[ DRAM] chip production to up t o
800,000 units per month by the end of
the year.
Hitachi now makes 50,000 units of
four-megabit DRAM chips per month,
and will increase production gradually
to 200,000 units by September and by
another 200,000 to 400,000 units by the
end of the year. The chip will be produced in its two local plants, at Kofu

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marketsby year-end. That's more nodes
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the Motorola88000and theSPARC chip,
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division, expressed surprise over Intel's
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BEAVERTON,OREGON, U.LA., 1989

on Sun Microsystems' reduced-instruction~t specifications, has broken the

speed barrier for SPARC microprocessors, running at 65 million instructions
per second, or MIPS. Bipohr Integrated
Technology's BIT SPARC chip promises
to lead to workstations three to four

hmes fiister than current offerings. The

52-bit chip is said to be six times faster
than any other SPARC chip on the market.

The BIT SPARC, actually a sixMip set,

"gives computer designers a means to

significantly reduce the size while increasing the performance of future

computers," says company marketing
vice president Chris DeMonico. "BIT
SPARC allows computing systems that
cost less than $100,000 to deliver the
same performance as mainframes cost-

lays due to its complex architecture.

ing more than $1 million."

Virtual Reality A Reality

The unit is also the first to use highspeed emitterwoupled logic in a RISC

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,

USA., 1989 JUN 7 (NB) The world' s
first public demonstration of virtual
reality which supports more than one
person at a time took p
89,
the Pacific Bellwponsored telecommunications hade show. This science fiction concept, popularized by writer William Gibson in such books as "Neuromancer, allowsa person toexpeiiencea
computergenerated visual world in
which they can interact without moving .
&om their chair.
Created by VPL Research, RB2 or
RealityBuiltfor Two, operatesviabroadband telephone cables, and consists of
what's called "eyephones" headaets
which allow the wearer to view a computer~nerated, 8-D landscape inside
the hehnet and the DataGlove, a
computer inputdevicewornon thehand
which converts hand gestures and posi
tions into computerweadable form. In
the demonstration, two RB2 wearers
shook disembodied "hands" aker "walking" across a cubical computer~nerated day+are center. The audience
watched on television monitors hanging
above eachparticipant's heads.
Virtual Reality, part of the Visionary
Network exhibit, is the brainchild ofJaron
Lanier,former video game designer for
Atari. While the Eyephones have just
been introduced, his DataGlove technology has already been licensed to
Mattel where it is being employed as a
game-machine inputdevice. On the other
hand, it's being used by Stanford Medical Center surgeon Dr. Joseph Rosen
who is experimenting with it in remote
hand-injuiy diagnosis as well as in virtual surgery" in which the hand can be

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tor of product design. VPL is located in

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made to perform the surgery, as directed

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chip.
Sun Microsystems President Scott
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Sun'
are planned
for use in future systems.
( Contact Marge Breya,505445-1551)

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1M DRAkM Price Drop

TOKVD,JAPAN, 1989JUNE7 (NB)The market for one-megabit dynamic
random access memory [DRAM] chips
has become decidedly weaker. The
world' s leading producer of the memoiy
units, Toshiba, has decided to lower the
price of its flagship one megabit DRAM
byfive percent
to about,900 yen or$15.
And as Toshiba goes, so goes ita competition. Analysts expect the average price
80
ofoneapiece,or under 2,000 yen, for the first
time in two years.
Severalfactors, such as volume production, slow growth of exports to the
US., and the alleviafion of a domestic
one megabit chip shortage, have conspired to cause the price-to drop.
The on~ e g abit DRAM price drop
should lead to lower prices for personal
computers and dedicated word processors, and also signals the beginning of

mega
bitDRAMchipstobe/IS.

demand for the next generation of

memory units, four-megabit DRAM

chips.

Cheapest Fax Modem Yet

VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA, USA, 1989
JUN 5 (NB) Best Data Products, Inc.
has announced what may be the cheapestfax modem on the market a new
modem that will send a fax called the
Smart One 4824SF. The unit sells for
under $200 retail.
The modem incorporates the CMOS

technology that is common to the com-

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pany'stop
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has the new Sentmsx technology. The

modem is 2400bps; the fm operating
mode is C 5 compatible. The Smart One
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or transmit a Qe. T his modem is
equipped with the ability to transmit
format [picgraphics in a bit
tures] to felix capable machines.
Both the fax and modem capabilities
incorporate M-hack for communicating through poor line conditions orwith
lower speed modems.
(Contact: BruceJohnson, Best Data
Products, Inc., 818-7864884)

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TOKYO, JAPAN, 1989 JUN 8 (NB)Mitsubishi Klectxic and Taiyo Sanso believe they have an industrial cleaning
machine that can replace ozonewating

constantly at a computer screen. The

Institutde recherche en sante et en securite du travail du Qaebec [Institute for
Workplace Healthand SafetyResearch
of Quebec] is organizing the conference.The fi
rstsuch conference was held
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SYDNEY, AUSTRAUA, 1989 MAY 50
(NB) Speaking in Sydney last week,
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put more than a few noses out of joint.
"Even though there has been a lot of

chlorofluorocarbons.

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material that are Irozen with a fine water
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These firms are expecting to put the
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FujitsuJapanese SalesLeader
TOlQQ,JAPAN, 1989JUN 15 (NB)IBM Japan has given up itslead to Fuji tsu
in sales of general-purpose computers,
and in personal computers, Seiko-Kpson
has registered the biggest sales increase,
so says a suxvey of the top 100 major
productand service companies inJapan
by Nihon Keizai Shimbun Company.
The survey of general-purpose computer makers shows Fujitsu with 24.5
percent of sales, IBM Japan with 24.4
percent, Hitachi with 17.7 percent, NEC
with 17.1 percent,. and Nihon Unisys
with 10.5 percent.
In the office computer arena, Fujitsu
also leads, with a 26.2 percent share,

NEC is second with 24.9 percent, and far

behind are Toshiba, 8.9 percent, IBM
Japan, 8.2 percent, and Matsushita, 8.1
percent.
NEC leads in the personalwomputer
market with a whopping 52.5 percent
share, Fujitsu has 15.6 percent, Seiko
Epson has 10.1 percent but registered
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years, a measure aimed atpreventing any
potential
takeover of NeXT by Canon.
The Canon-NeXT alliance is generally
seen as a brilliant business deal, since it
provides NeXT with Asian sales channels
without any cash outlay. Canon, meanwhile, gets a machine it can launch into
the Japanese workstation market, where
no dear leader has yet emerged. The
alliance also assures Canon of a steady
demand for its erasable optical diskdrive
units, on which it has invested over 10
billion yen or $67 million.
Canon has been distributing other
brand-name computers, induding IBMcompatible AX machines, Apple computers, and minicomputers &om Hewlett-Packard. The deal with NeXT is expected to increase Canon's computer
sales from $1,550 million to $6,670 milApricot First
lion annually, say company oflicers, who
With 80486-Sased Machines add they expect to sell 1,000 NeXT
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND,1989JUN
computer systems each month.July 10is
02 (NB) A p ricot Computers has the date Canon will introduce the NeXT
launched the first series of computers
computer system inJapan. Shipments to
based around the Intel 8Q486 micropro- Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and
cessor. The machines code-named
Singapore will begin in September. Both
the Titan series are known as the VX
firms also will jointly develop aJapanese
FT~rver series of integrated network version of the machine.
and Unix servers.
Hiroshi Tanaka, director of the Canon
The Apricot VX series centres around
business machines sector, was on hand
two microprocessors,
the 25-MHz 80586
in Fremont for the announcement. He
chip andthe 25-MHz 80486 chip. The
told Newsbytes that Canon's only other
80486.based VX Ff- server series promajor investment in a U.S. company is in
vides 15 million instructions per second
Detroit-based Energy Conversion De[MIPS] of processing power. The 80586- vices, a research firm pioneering the use
based maduneswill ship in August, while
of silicon for solar cells and other electhe 80486-based machines wiII ship in
tronic purpchces. Canon owns ten perSeptember.
cent of that firm.
The VX series splits neatly into two
families- the VX 400 network servers MSC Wave SurgesIn

publicity about Unix being an open system, it's not a truly portable operating
system. In order to move Unix to diIfer
ent madunes you have to xaake changes
to the system. This is not so with either
Pick or DOS."
He the said that Pick also beat Unix
with a much larger user-base. "It is favored by small development houses who
lookforprice to performance. From day
one it was a multiuser, commercial system, unlike Unix which started up as an
operating system used in the educational
and scientificarea. Myaim is for Pick and
Unix to work sid~ i d e so thatyou can
log onto Fick &om Unix thatplatform
doesn't exist yet but it should. We need
true integrationl"

and the VX 800 Unix host systems. Each

, family has four models, the Model 1Q,50,

' 40 and 90, each with differing harcMiskh
and tape backup configurations. A
1,200MB digital audio tape [DAT] data
system, plus1.44MB5.5-inch floppydrive
is fitted as standard on all machines.
The entry4evei Model 4QQ/10, for

example, has a25-MHz 80586 microprocessor with 4MB of random access

memory [RAM], a 117MB hard disk, and
80MB tapestreamer. The 400/10 prices
in at a hefty UKP 8,995, whilst the topofthe-range 400/9Q,with 25-MHz 80486
microprocessor,1047MB hard disk, and
15QMB tape streamer, costs UKP 16,995.
Shghtly higher product specifications
are found onthe VX 800 series,which
range in price from UKP 10,995 for the
Model 10 to UKP 21,995 for the Model
90. RAM configurations range from 8 to
16MB on the VX 800 series.
The new Apricot machines have been
welcomed by several third-party companies, all of whom are developing systems
software for the VX series. Companies in
this category indude Microsoft, Novell,
Oracle, Sybase and The Santa Cruz
Operation.
(Contact: Jes Dorrell, Apricot Computers - Tel: 021%56-1254)

Canon Invests
$100 Million In NexT
FREMONT, CALI FORMA, U.SA.,
1989 JUN 12 (NB) Canon has officially announced its first major alliance
with a U.S.-based computer firm, NeXT

Computer Systems. The company has

invested $100 million in Apple cofounder SteveJobs' new workstation company, in return getting l 6.67 percent of
the operation aswellas exclusive Far East
distribution rights for the NeXT machines. Canon is restricted, per the con-

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tomers to get a taste of what truly arnaz-

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saysNeXT founder Steve Jobs. The prerelease copy of FrameMaker 2.0 will run
under the current version of the ma-

chine's operating system, Release 0.9,

NeXT, meanwhile, hosts thepressfor
a tour of its worldwlass manuIacturing

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The faster the clock beats, the faster

computations get done. If eveiything

else is equal, a 12 MHz computer will be
twice as fast as a 6 MHz computer. In
practice, everything else is not equal, so
the onlyproper testis to benchmark (i.e.
test and measure the speed of) some
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Some machines have a dual-speed
dock. Running at the faster rate is called
"turbo mode." The slower rate is for
runninggames orrunning temperamental programssuch as FastBack 5.14.

Pushml, the CPU

You cannot simply replaceyour crystal

with a faster one and expect everything
to work. Every component in a Aster
computer has to be more stringently

designed to function properly at the

mcreased speed. Going back to the
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In order of increasing power the chips

are: the 8088, V20, 8086, V80, 80286,
80586SX (or SX pronounced "esSKX"),
the 80586, 80486 and 80586.
XT clones contain an Intel 8088 or
NKC V20. Some European clones con-

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fain the la tel 8086 or Nec V50. AT clones

contain an Intel or Harris 80286. Lowc ost 586 machines contain an I n t e l

80%6SX. High-cost M6 machines contain an Intel 80386. Gold-plated graphics workstations will contain the new
80486, but you can't buy them yet. Intel

is stN working on the 80586 and have not

yet even released sample chips.

The Crystal

Before we can understand why some

computers are faster than others, we
have to take a peek under the hood.
Inside every computer is a quartz crystal
that sends ou tan electric heartbeat called
the dock. This heartbeat extends to
nearlyevery chip in the computer. The
crystal is like the conductor of an orches.
tra. On the beat, every transistor in every

chip checks its inputs and decides

whether to change state.
In the original XT, the dock was a

increasingorder of complexity: DOS,

OS/2 and Unix. An operating system is a
mother program that runs all the time in

a computer. It helps ordinary programs

do things like control the keyboard, hard
diskand screen. Microsoft designed DOS
for the 8086. Microsoft designed DS/2
for the 80286. AT8cT designed Unix for
general use on CPUs with large address

spaces (such as the80%6),

DDS
When DOS is running, all nine types of
chip pretend to be the simple 8086. In
this mode (called real mode), only 640K
of RAM is accessible. Don't panic, I witt
explain soon what RAM is. Ail the chips

handle data in character (i.e. 16-bit)

chunks. 1 character = 1 byte = 8 bits.
The babies of the family, the 8088 and
V20 used in XT clones, handle data 8 bits
ata time, but do their best to fake itas 16
bits. The overhead faking every 16-bit

access e
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the main reason XT clones are so much

slower than ATs.

DOS wastes most of the power of the

80286, SX and 80586. However, these
chips,even when hampered by having to

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pretend to bean 8086, can still do thejob
somewhat hster than a real 8086.
Obviouslya 25-MHz 80586 could run
rings around an 8 MHz 8086 simply
because the 80856 has a faster dock.
However, the 805S6 also has a better
design and can get more done per dock
cycle. The new 80486 and 80586 chips
gain most of their extraordinary power
by accomplishing nearly all instructions
in a single clock cyde, where the 8086
takes 2 to 185 cycles to finish a single

Unix

instruction.

computer, which is something OS/2

cannot do.
Unix exploits the full power of the SX
and 80586. The computer can address
an unimaginably large amount of RAM.
In native mode, the 80586 works on data
in 52-bit chunks twice as large as the 16bit 80286, meaning approximately twice
the speed.
Under Unix, the SX can actually only
access data 16 bits at a time, though it
fakes 52-bit accesses. When running 52-

Under DOS, thereare only a handful

of programs that exploit some of the
powerfulfeatures of the SX and 80586.
For example, IGC's VM-586 runs several
DOS programs at once, accessing 5 MB
of RAM.
In summaiy, there is not much point
in buying an expensive SX or 80586
machine if all you want to do is run DOS.
An 80286 AT will be quite adequate at
much lower cost. An 80286 AT system
will be at least four times faster than an
8088 XT system with the same MHz rating. Most new software requires AT
speeds to function properly, particularly
word processors and desktop publishing

Unix is a complex, mature operating

system thathas been ported to the 80586
and SX SCO Xenix, Microport Unix,
ATScT System VUnix, IBM'sAIX,Venix/
5S6, ISC's 586/ix, etc. are all Unix variants for the 80586. Some muchness
powerful Unixversions run on the 80286.
Like OS/2, Unix allows you to run more
than one program at time. In addition,
when you attach terminals, more than

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about $150 more, but you will have a
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OS/R
OS/2 is a new operating system that
allows you to run several programs at
once. However, it does not allow more
than one person to use the computer at
a time. Operating systems, like people,
and Gne wines, improve with age. Because it has not had time to mature, and
because it is held back by its attempts to

remain partiaHy compatible with DOS,

OS/2 is slower than DOS and uses up a
whopping 4 MB of RAM to do a job that
DOS could often do in 640K. I recommend you do not partake of this operating system before its time.
The 8088, V20, 8086, and V50 cannot
run OS/2. Microsoft designed OS/2
around the limitations of the 80286 chip
used in AT ciones. Under OS/2, the SX
and 80586 pretend to be an 80286 running in protected mode where 16 MB of
RAM is accessible. Like DOS, OS/2
largely wastes the power of the SX and

80586.These chips can run OS/2 onlya

little faster than a real 80286 of equivalent clock speed.
OS/2 requires hardware that is 100fo
compatible with IBM. DOS is not nearly
so picky because the ROM BIOS can
mask minor differences.
Because the 80286 has such glaring
flaws in its design (leading to its reputa, tion as "brain damaged" ), I predict that
OS/'2 will be entirely supplanted by a
successor OS/2-586 that works only on
the 80586. The original OS/2 for the
80286 will then wither away. For this
reason, if you are planning to move to
OS/2 in ftiture, go with the SX or 80586
now. The 80286 will probably be left
behind.

If you have multi-tasking (running

more than one program at once) or
multi-user (attaching more than one
active keyboard to the computer) in your
future,go forthe 80586. Ifyou want the
option to merely dabble with such software, use the much less expensive SX.

Which Chip Do You PickP

Pickthe 8088 and V20 inan XT clone
only when you can get it second-hand
cheaply. Do not buy a new one. Writers
and students will probably be quite happy
with such a machine running DOS and
PC Write forever. There is no possibility
of migrating to OS/2 or Unix later.
The 8086 and V50 are rare, used only
in expensive, incompatible European
clones. Avoid them altogether.
The 80286 is the heart of eveiy AT
done. This isyour basic DOSworkhorse,
with the possibility of migrating to OS/2
sometime in the future. The 80286 chip
has several design defects which means it
will never be truly satisfactory for multitasking. For pure DOS use, you can buy
a 20-MHz 80286 that will be only 20%
slower than the fanciest 80586 clone and
will cost only a third as much. If you go
this route, make sure your clone is a true
20MHz chip, nota 16MHz chip pushed
beyond its rated capacity.
The SX machine will costyou roughly
an extra$450 above the costofan 80286.
The two are about equally fast, with the

80286 oftentaking the lead. The advantages of the SX are, it allows you to run
some of the virtual-mode software such
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migration to Unix later. The SX will let
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time. Because under DOS and OS/2,
both chips pretend to be an 80286, both
are constrained to read and write data 16
bits ata time. Thiswastes the 52-bitpower
of the80586. However, under Unix, the
80586 will access memory nearly twice as
fast as the SX. For pure DOS use, an
80586 ofFers little. advantage over an SX.
However, if you want the fastest possible machine (even just to run DOS),
you must buy an 80586which is available
up to 55 MHz. The fastest 80286 you
could buy would be 20 Mhz. The SX is
only available at 16 MHz.
Beforeyou spend a lot ofmoney buying a very fast computer, test drive it,
then ask yourself "Which would I rather
have, this or a vacation in Hawaii?"

How RAM Works

Before I can explain RAM specifications, again, I will have to take a peek
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puter, then the CPU (Central Processing

Unit) is the brain, and the RAM is the
memory. The CPU is the 8088, 80586
etc. the big chip with the many tiny
legs. (Purists will point out that the chip
is the tiny wafer inside the ceramic case.
The case itself is called an IC or Integrated Circuit) . In the CPU are electronics that can do arithmetic and compare

two numbers to see which is bigger. This

does not sound vesy promising, but, with
those humble tools, programmers can
teach the CPU to do such diverse things

as design nudearweaponsor help Greenpeace prepare abrief. Computer analysts (humans) create programs in RAM.
Programs are just lists of instructions for
the computer to calculate.

What is RAM? RAM is a set of elec!ronic pigeon-holes that act as the computer's high-speed memory. In an XT,
you have 640K of RAM (1K= 1024 characters). There are some older XTs and
ATs without the full complement of640K,
(often only 512K, the amount of RAM in
a true-blue IBM AT), but nearly all new
machines have at least 640K.
Thus there are 655,560 pigeonholes,
each capable of storing a single digit or
letter. The pigeonholes are numbered 0
through 655,559. The CPU says, "Hey
RAM, please store thisQ in pigeon hole
654,555." That is called storing or writing the value Q at address 654,555 in
RAM. Then the CPU says "Hey RAM,
whatletter didI putin address555,125?"
This is called fetching or reading the
value at address 555,125.
The group of wires (grown-ups call
them "conductors") that run between
the CPU and the RAM are called the bus.

In an XT there are 20 wires reserved for

sending the address and 8 for the value.
With 8 wires, there are 256 possible binary patterns ofhigh/low voltages. Each
pattern represents a different letter of

+is

the alphabet, for example,

- or in binary 01010001.
The RAM has many uses. It stores
numbers used in calculations. In a word
processor, itwould be used to store your
keystrokes. Programs, the todo lists for
the CPU, occupy most of RAM. A program is just a coded list of letters and
numbers that tell the computer what to
do. For example the number "128" is the
code to ask the CPU to add 1 to the
accumulator register. Using a binary
code, numbers 0 to255 can alsobe stored
in a single RAM cell, just the way letters
are.

RAM has one failing. It has total amnesia when you turn ofF the power. This is

why you must remember to save your

work onto hard disk from time to time.

RAM Width
Up to now, we have talked about 8-bit
RAM, the kind you find in XTs. In ATs
you have 16-bit RAM. In ATs, the CPU
says, e "Hey RAM, what did I put in the
upaire o f cells starting a t a d d r em
456,222? ~ The RAM then respondswith
two characters (or two bytes, in computer jargon). 16-bit RAM doubles the
speed since the RAM can fetch two bytes
just as fast as 8-bit RAM can fetch one.
You don't get quite double the speed,
because often the CPU only wants to
read orstore one byte.The SX machines
use I&bit RAM, just like the 80286 AT.
The 80586 machines usually use 52-bit
RAM. They can fetch 4 bytes at a time.
However, they rarely get a chance to

strut their stufF and end up most of the

time just fetching 2 bytes at a time. The
classic AT bus only has 16 wires for data.
This means an 80586 would have to re-

sort to 16.bit fetching if the memory

were on the bus. To work properly it
needs 52 wires.

$2-bit RAM
Using 52-bit RAM requires redesigning
the bus. The MCA and EISA buses are
two ways of adding the extra 16 data

wires. Designing a new bus involves politics since, ideally, all computer and board
manufacturers must agree. In the meantime, each manufacturer designed his
own private 52-bit bus all difFerent, all
incompatible. The 52-bitmemory fit on
the little proprietary 52-bit bus, and the
rest of the cards lit on the dassic 16-bit

bus.
Whyam I telling you all this? To warn
you thatyou may find itdifIicultin future
to buy additional 52-bit memory to 6t in

any 80586 machinevou buy today since

it is all os a - k ind design. You will be
able to add extra 16-bit RAM, but not the

higher speed 52-bit RAM. You would be

wise to buy the extra 52-bitmemorycards
now, even if you do not fill them with
RAM chips.

EISA vs. MCA bus

The EISA and MCA 80586 machines
do not have a problem adding 52-bit
RAM since they use standard (but differentt) 52-bit buses. EISA machines are just
becoming available. MCA is incompatible with the classic AT bus, so if you go
that route, you cannot use ordinary add-

in cards; everything must be MCA. IBM

patented the MCA bus, which has held it
back from becomirig an accepted standard. The only other major manufacturer to license the MCA bus is Tandy
(Radio Shack) . Patenting means that the
MCA computers and cards are expensive.

I have been lobbying to have patent

law changed. I believe no patent should
ever begranted on anything remotely
resembling an interface.

Expanded vs. Extended

Once you havefi
lled up your 640K of
ordinary conventional RAM, there are

two methods of adding extra RAM: expanded and extended. The names are so
similar that even professionals often get
them confused.

Expanded RAM
In an XT, you have a maximum of
640K What if you want more? Intel and
IBM designed the 8088 and XT circa
1980 when 640K seemed ridiculously
large. They left no room for expansion.
For example, there are not enough bus
wires to address the extra memoxy because all possible patterns of 20eddress
wires in the XT bus are already assigned.
Even if we added extsn wires, there are
not enough pins on the 8088 chip.
Lotus, Intel and Microsoft got together
to invent an inelegant way out of this

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expanded, EMM or EMS RAM.
Expanded RAM is fastand reasonably
easyfor programmers touse. Itisnot the
same as conventional memory, so, in
general, you cannot run program int.i
Spreadsheets can overflow into it. Diskcaching programs can use it. Ventura
can overflow documents into it.
It lets the CPU have a peek through a
window onto a small part of the whole
expanded RAM. Whenever the CPU
wants to see a diKerent part of the expanded RAM, the CPU mustfirst send a
command to special mapping registers
to switch the view. More precisely, the
CPU can access only four rfiKerent 16K
banks at a time of the entire 52-MB expanded RAM.
Expanded RAM makes the conventional RAM seem fatter. You cram more
information into the same 640K of addresses. Think o"Fat RAM is expanded
RAM"'toavoidconfusionwithextended

RAM.
There are three kinds of expanded
RAM. EMS 5.2 is the original specification thatallowsupto 8MBofextraRAM.
AST (themakersof theRamPageboard)
thenextended thespecification toEEMS.
Then the LIM group extended it in a
slightly diKerentway toEMS4.0 to allow
52 MB. You are probably safest going
with EMS 4.0.
All expanded RAM is totally useless
under OS/2 and Unix.

Extended RAM
When DOS first aune out, Intel
thought it was a sto~p until a "real"
operatingsystemarrived. Theydesigned
the RAM ofthe 80286and 80856not for
DOSatall. The &0286hasa 16MB limit,
about 25 times as much RAM as DOS
allows. People often buy this extended
RAM in hopes the promised operating

system wimsoon appear, or sply be-

cause they did not understand how useless extended RAM is under DOS. Disk
cachers are the only programs that can
use extended RAM eKectively.
Extended RAMismemoryoutpast the
1-MB address limit. The memory is
stretchedoutwithextraaddresses. Think
o"Stretched out past 1-MB RAM is extended RAM~ to avoid confusing (long
and skinny) extended ram with (short
and fat) expanded RAM.
You cannothave extended RAMonan
XT. Only the AT has the necessary 4
extra addressing wires on the bus to
allow addressing of 16 MB of RAM directly. Unfortunately,theextendedRAM
is inaccessible when the CPU is in real
mode running DOS. Extended RAM is
onlyaccessible when the CPU isrunning
in protected (OS/2) mode.
Unscrupulous dealers sometimes sell
XT computers with more than 640K.
This "extended" RAM on the XT is totallyuseless. Onlyexpanded RAM can be
used on the XT.
Even onanAT,extendedRAMisalmost
worthless because the 80286has tomini-

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reboot every time it accesses extended

RAM. This takes a fewmilliseconds. One
millisecond, one thousandth of a second, is an eternity by computer stand ds.
There are programs that make extended RAM pretend to be expanded
RAM. Because of the reboot goofiness,
they run very slowly. In addition, they
chew up conventional RAM by simulating the windows into expanded RAM.
Happily,
the 80586andSXdonothave
these problems with extended RAM.
Further, they have two features called
virtual mode and memorymapping that
allow the 80586 to use extended RAM
under DOS with just as much ease as
expanded RAM.

AC/DC RAM
The best kind of RAM has a dual personality. Itwillbehaveasexpanded RAM
now under DOS, but allow you the option of turning it into extended RAM
later shouldyou switch to Unix or OS/2.
Many of the newest clones (using the
Chips and Technologies chip set) oKer
you this choice even with the memoryon
themotherboard. Intel'sadd-inmemosy
card, the Aboveboard, also givesyou this
option plus the option of running in an
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Confused? Here is the bottom line.
For DOS and the XT and AT, use expanded RAM, not extended. Forthe
80586 and SX, use extended not expanded. Forfuture use under OS/2 or
Unix, be sure your expanded RAM can
be converted to extended.

Wait States
Today' s CPU chipsaresofast the RAM
chips cannot keep up with them. The
computer designer has two choices. He
can use more expensive, faster memory
that can keep up, or he can use slower
memory and then give the memory one
extsaclockcycle'sworthoftimetoregurgitate the desired data. If the memory
needs one extra clock cycle, we call it 1wait state memory. If it can keep up, we
call it(4hmt state memory.
Why all this concern aboutwaitstates?
According to Clif (yes, one "f") Purkiser
atIntel, each additionalwaitstate on the
80586representsa209oto24% performance degradation.However, from my
ownexperiments, Ihavefoundwaitstates
are not quite so crucial in 80286 machines.
For the 80586, the theoreticallyfastest
read from RAM takes two clock cycles.
Only the fastest, most incredibly expensivestaticRAMcouldeverkeepup. There
are no80586 machines with 0-waitstates
for sale.
But,you can lookin any newspaper or
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What theymean is that "sometimes", the
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There are two hnds of RAM chips,

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to "rest" foran additional90nanoseconds
before it is ready to do another read. It
needs time to "precharge." Static RAM is
ready to go immediately.
Dynamic RAM needsan electronic slap
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alert. Without this re&esh, it forgets
everything. Tahng time out to re&esh
the DRAM results in a 5-7% performance degradatioq.
Unfortunately, you cannotsimply pull
out your. slow DRAM chips and replace
them with faster DRAMS or SRAMS. To
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number of wait states must be also
changed. ToexploitSRAMS, you would
have to completely redesign your computersince SRAMS do not need re&eshing or precLirging.

do not do so welL Benchmark programs,

such as Norton SI, because they are so
small, float into cache and attain 100%
hit rates. This is why they are biased
unfiiirly in favour ef cached machines.
Just in case you did not notice, caching, with 0.1 wait states, is the most effective method of using slow RAM.
To make life complicated, there. are
several kinds of caching..All else being
equal, delayed posting (also known as
delayed write) is better thaa writethrough and 2may associative is better
than direct-mapped. The bigger the
cache, the faster it runs. In other words,
64 KB caching is better than 52 KB.
However, there is a point of diminishing
returns. In a 1-MB DRAM system, 128KB
of SRAM cache,though twice as expensive as 64 KB, will run only a little fiister.

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Caching

Static RAM is too expensive to use for

the main RAM. The fiistestsystem use a
small amount of it, 52K (52,768 bytes).
The cache hardware keeps duplicate
copies ef the most commonly used RAM
cells in the static RAM. When the CPU
asks for the contents of an address, both
the RAM and the cache race to grant the
request If the value desired is in the
cache, the whole read can be done
quickly, with nowaits. Ifitis not,you have
to wait for the slow dynamic RAM. Vendors daim 80% to 90% hit rates en the
cache. Thismeans they are averaging
about 0.1 wait states. Again the ad men
round this off to 0. Somefimes the dynamic RAM is soslow it takes two or more
wait states on a miss, which drags the
average down even further.
The actual hit rate depends heavily on
the program. Scientific calculations at-

tain high hit rates. Databaseprograms

the normal 8-bit data and one 1-bit wide

chip for the parity. Often there are two

banks of 256Kchips and one bank of64K
chips to make up the 640K of conventional RAM.
AAer you install your RAM, you must
test it for several hours with a program
such as IBM's Advanced Diagnostics.

Volatile Pricing
It is only a slight exaggeration to say
you must determine the price of RAM in
the hour beforeyou buy it.The prices
rise and fitll crazily day by day. Some
people buy and sell RAM chips speculatively the way others bet on horses.
Why are the prices so volatile? Fluctuations in the overall balance of trade be-

tween Canada,Japan and the USAcauses

the currencies to shift in value relative to

one another. This is one factor.
This still does not account for all the
fluctuation. One controversial theory

The comyister paper I Juiy '8 9

explains it this way: There are only a
handful of coin psnies that manufacture
RAM. Most of the cost of RAM is in
developing the Grst one. Thereafter the
assembly line churns them out like pop.
corn. Only when you have at least 26
suppliers of an item do you have a true
free market. The few manufacturers
informally cooperate to maximize pro6t
by creating ar66cial shortages. When
they are successful, the price skyrockets.
Then the temptation is to break ranks,

The Shoemalter's Elves

flood the market and grab a large market

I answer quesdons for athers on my areas

of expertise. The information gathering
and proofreading'for this article was a
collaborative effort by the members of
the BIX cpus/int86conference who go
by these handles:billn, bomb, ccolvin,
drifkind, intel, irae, johnf, morlock,
mslater, rfoxmich, rlimebert, tmarshall,
twagner and others I inadvertently left

share. This sends the price down.

Debates rage on the BIX electronic
conference chips/RAM about the causes
of pricevolatility. Authors there will assure you I am all wet.

SIMhfs
A SIMM (S ingle In-line Me mory
Module) is a little carrier board that

I found awonderfulway to talk directly

to the people who design the integrated
circuits or who use these chips to design
new computers. I talk daily with the authors of the sr tides in Byte and PC Tech
Magazine. They were more than willing
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i' I simply signed uponBIX (Byte Information eXchange). I use a modem ta
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SIMMs cost more than the equivalent
chips since someone has to build the
carriers and attach the low-pro6le surfacemountchips. Whybotherwith them?
Because the SIMMs are mounted on
edge, more memory can be crammed
into the same board area
In theory, different types of RAM chip
could beused tocreateastandardSIMM,
which wouldgive a inanufacturer more
Gexibility in adding RAM ta an existing
design. However, in practice, because of
tight space limitations, 1-MB SIMMs
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The "Electremc Cottage

Ekdnuuic refers to computers, telephones, answering machines, fax madnnes and other electronic equipment
thatisused to produce work Cogagarefersto the home colegaindushy is the
term for hone-based work or business.
The advent of electronic equipment
makes it possible for much of today' s
work to be done in your own home.It' s
not necessary to travel to a downtown
office in order to use a desktop computer or a telephone.
Making money with your home computer is a growing trend. More than 25
million Americans tiow work kom home
and about half of them own computers.
This isaccording to a198'7 surveyby Link
Resources, a New York-based electronic
researchfirm. The study projected that
an additional 2 million people would be
working from home by the end of 1988.

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That brings the number of electronic

cottagers to more than 12 million people
worhng in their home offices with computers.
About 10 million home-based workers
areentrepreneurswithbusinessesof their
own. Many ofthem have discovered how
to turn their PC's into "Money Machines"
in full-time or part-time businesses. %Ms
is the exciting newworld you will meet in
this handbook.
Another 15 million home workers are
employees who take their jobs home
&om one to five days a week These are
the pioneers of a flexible new work option called telecommuting. In manyways,
telecommuters have theircake and can

eat it, too.They have the security of a pay

checkand the flexibility of the entrepreneur in having more control of their
lives.

Jobs At Home
Before launching into the headyworld
of the entrepreneur, let's take a closer
look athow you can have a regularjob
and shll enjoy the benefits of working in
the electronic rottage. Here are the current opportunities for jobs at home.

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between the telecommuter andanyother

employee.
The word tsiscoaimuliytg wascoined by
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word literally means using telecommunications technology such as the telephone or modem to work from home
instead of c o mmuting t o a c e n t ral

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about any kind of information work.
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programming
management, supervision
law work

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graphic art
brokering
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word processing
data entry, processing
analysis
journalism
writmg
daims processing, adjustment
research
medical advising
civil service
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sales
foreign-language translation
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Control Data
Honeywell
Rising Star Industries Citibank
Digital Equipment
JC Penney
New York Life
Am Express
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Equita b le Life
Montgomery Ward
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S. Improved morale
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Rei5xced relocation cost
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12. Reduced cost of training

backlash of disgruntled co-workers who

might sabotage your effort.
5. Set p special situaaon Teorkwtkome
days. Look for a few strategic times when
your willingness to work at home will
help the company out of a pinch. Offer
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work than the regular staff can handle,
when there are rushjobs thatput regular
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This will give you an idea of how well
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Your boss will already know about your

special workout-home days. Now is the

time to see if you can make telecom-

muting a regular part of the work schedule. Talk about success of your trials and
the advantages to the company. Find a
chronic problem atyour once and show
how telecommuting can help provide a
solution. It may take some time to get
your idea accepted, so don't give up with
the first "no."

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kilow welL A good way to become a
telecommuter is to begin as a regular
onsite employee and look for opportunities to telecommute, using the six steps
provided above. It is a process that takes
time.

Work schedules
You should also realize that although
some telecommuters work from home
five days a week, most do not. They usually spend some time during the week at
the central office. Three days at home
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provide the best of both worlds the
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The Home Office From

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In the early-morning darkness I picked my

waythrough the sleeperson my lining-room
poor to thedesh. I slid theJoppyin thedrioe
and booted
upthetenyearwld Appiell. Within
minutesI was printing out a manuscript on
the daisy-wheel pnnter, which phscedeach
charrscteron
with anintensityrsnparsdleledby the cmnmon jackhammer. 7ysr
sleepersawoke,sat rsp,groaned and thensank
beck into their sleepingbags. I mrsst admit I
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tiusswho cramped orsr tiny basementsuite
during Expo summer when I first started a
businessout of my home
I had unwittingly created a Hame Office from Hell. The inadequacies ef the
work area were: the lighting was nonex-

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istent, the steno chair had a broken hack,

the desk was only student<ized, the
printer was on a low coffee-table so I had
to getup from my chair and lean over to

load one page at a time, and no, there

was noextra table to do proofreading or
paste-up on. The only thing good about
the suite was that it had a street-level

separate entrance.
My equipmentwas meagre; an ancient
Apple II+ machine that at first didn' t
even have an eigh~ olumn card. Its
monitor was an old bhtck-and-white TV
that I had to keep whacking on the side
as it would go fuzzy every time the Dunbar bus went by. The Roland printer
gave excellent output and this was pre24-pin technology, so I had to endure
the slowness of 17 characters/second
and the lack of a bin<beet feeder. I used
our residential number as eur business
phone, but I didn't have an answering-

But my summer of workaholic hours,

crowded out by guests, eye strain, exhaustion andnervoussobbing could have
been avoided if I had properly set up my
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office home I will take advantage of the
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read mare like the programmer's notes
to himself. SuperText could only take IQ
pages oftext per fi
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formatting like underlining or bold and had no
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to compensate for the deficient equipment and produce a quality product.
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substantial. The only comfort I get was
when the lynnGi document holder arrived and cured the stiffness in my neck
by having the copy at eyelevel, rather

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tool to do the work of many. Home
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publishing programs, require the additional memory of a har&lrive than say a

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toolforyour job, but you needn't overspend.
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Microsoft Word for the PC it will tell you
thatyou need atleastan MS-DOS or OS/
2 computer with a minimum of 584K, a
hardWsk drive, or a minimum of two
Soppy drives,and a Hercules Graphics
Card, Hercules Plus Card, etc., and a
monochrome monitor.
It's a good idea to bring along your
software to test it on a potential computer, though most computers are reliablewhenitcomestocompatibility these
dayL When we purchased our AT we
brought along a disk to boot Xenix, and
Found that two out of the dozen or so
systems we tried couldn't run this progaun. There are also analysis programs
like the one &om Norton that you can
run on thecomputers to compare performance.
Consider your needs when investing in
hardware and the software to drive it.
Will you be doing a large volume of
work? Will you be doing mainly word-

processing? CAD?

spread
sheets

? or
using the computer mainly to administrate.your home office, such as taking
mail orders, bookkeeping? or to promote your company with desktop publishing?
Comparisondonesandnamebrandsalike and don'tleave a storewithout a price list, so you can compare the
computersfeature for feature. Don' tbe
a&aid to ask for a better deal. The market is very competitive.
Independent stores buy componettts
and assemble them themselves. The
partsare more or lessthesame, however,
the skill of the assembler may make one
computer more reliableand trouble-&ee
than another. Have the salesderk open
up the computer and immediately you
appear to
beaknowledgeable consumer.
With the top off the co mputeryou shoul
see components and wires neatly tucked
away with good solid connections. I

shop
for

iK

didn't know what I was looking for when

we got them to pry the machines open,
butwhen I sawa mass ofwire snakingout
&om one of the machines and the boards
awkwardly jammed in, I knew it didn' t
look right.

Telephone
Of all the mistakes I made, the worst
were not having a separate business hne
and nothaving an answering machine. I
received calls
around the dock &omcustomers, some of whom had a craving
to get some word~rocessing done at
midnight; I was a war@processing service nota pizza parlour. You have to be
tough with customers to get them to
respect home of6ce hours, turn on that
machine at 5:00 p.m.; be inaccessible
after hours. Also, I could never leave my
home to pick up supplies without worrying about missing calls.
The ideal would be a separate line for

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A bonus is thatyou geta free listing in the
Yellow Pages and the Pink Pages with a
business number. Phone companies
offer services such as call-waiting and
call-forwarding if you choose to stick
with your existing number, but these
chargescan quicmy add up to the price
of another line. The telephone company can give you information about
installing a WATS line for you, if you
need a toS-&ee number for clients to
reach you at.
A fl a l ternative would be to have a
special communications board in your
computer like the Watson VIS Combo,
that can make sophisticated messages
like, "If you are calling about our rates,
press Ol,-if you are calling to book an
appointment press 4R, or if you would
like to leave a message press 45 on your
phone." People won't know if they' re
calling a company the size of IBM, or a
sole proprietor in the basement of their
parents' house.
You need to invest in a good businessquahty telephone, preferably one which
has a mute or a hold button. Most
phones now come with some memory
for speedWaling keysand redial keys.
I'm planning on buyinga headset for my
phone, as I Snd I spendmuch of my time
on the phone and get &ustrated because
I need my hands &ee forkeying. A
modem can be used over an ordinary
telephone line to get computers to talk
to. each other -just another useful telecommunications tooL
Celluhr technology offers the advantage of mobility. Some businesses like
real estateagents or repair services
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with a cellular phone, and perhaps a
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Personal Copiers
Personal copiers the size of an Apple
LaserWriter are now available. The cost
of the copiers is kept low because of a
moving platen, rather than the costlier
stationary platen. Having a photocopier

inyour home isamat terofconvenience

rather than costwutting, though if you
are doing a lot of copies it will save you
money. You have to look at the time it

The Ceaiputer paper I July 8 0

saves you from driving, or in my case

walking toa copy center. The convenience of an on-site copier is also much
appreciated by your clients, even if they
have topay more per copy than a large
copy center would charge.
For example, we have in our little office
the Sharp Z50, purchased for under
$800, that produces impressive copies
comparable to very expensive full-size
copiers. The copier also takes bonded
papers, has a manual bypass, optional
toner colors, and an exposurecontrol.
The only space consideration we had to
make was moving a potted plant for the
moving platen to have room.
When purchasing a personal copier,
you should consider the duty or number
of copies
per week, the size ofpaper you
will be using, color, if you need more sophisticated features like reduction/enlargement. There aremany excellent
personal copiers on the marketnow &om
companies such as Toshiba, Xerox,
Sharp, and Canon. For large quantities
ofcopyingyouwould wanttogoto a copy
center, as personal copiers are not speed
demons, but since we got our copier last
year, we haven't used an outside service.

Manylargecompaniesand dientshave
come to rely upon the facsimile machine, which sends a photocopy image of
a document over the phone line. The
combination FAXphone makes it unnecessary to install a dedicated line, for
the FAX, as it can be used as a regular
phone when not receiving or sending
FAXes. Ifyou need to consultwith clients
across town or across the world, the FAX
is the quickest way to get a document
into their hands.
Good~uality fax machines are avail-

able &om a number of suppliers. A reasonably full-featured fax, the Raven fax

f'rom Roland sells locally for under

$1,700. The Murata M-1 fax with fewer

frillscan be purchased from just under

$1,000.

If you need the FAX only occasionally

then there are many places that offer a

public FAX, but more than a$100/month

in FAXbillsmightmake you consider becoming a FAX owner. And like all of the
items mentioned in this article, FAXES
can be bought or leased through a payment plan at many stores.

S.O.S.
Nowyou know that a business line and
a telephoneensweringmachine can give
your business professional polish, and
keep your private and business life separated under dose quarters. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do to
stop a customer &om tapping on your
windows at 1:00 a.m. demanding your
attention, except to ignore him.
The Computer Paperoffers the home office a free source of computer news,
products, software and hardware reviews,
detailed advice on purchasing equipm ent,
and acalendar of events.Forideas
on marketing, administration, contracts,

etc. there are many useful books put out

by Self-Counsel Press. I'd recommend
Start and Run a Pro
f itable CorLnslti ng Business. Also, I used many issues of the
magazineFamily &" HomeOttiee Computingasa source for this article, and found
that it was wealth of common<ense and
special interest artides for the homeofficecomputer user.
Your hardware and software dealer can
help you with support, as they have a
direct number to manufacturers through
which they can get the answer to any
question they can't answer themselves.
Don't put up with shoddy service or
equipment;haveitreplaced. There'sno

reason to u
pt upw
ith a keyboard that has

keys that stick, a mouse that goes berserk

if you so much as breathe on it, or a

program with a bug in it.

Take advantage of outside help ifyou're
an inside-the-home worker. If you expect that you will be receiving clients in
your home office, you need maid service
once aweek to keep your home looking
It was a constant strain for
me to keep the house spotlem, and work
around the clock. Also, you can't be
expected to assume full child~re duties, as well as a full-time business, so
a rrange day-care, or child~ e i n t h e
home for at least your best productive
hours, i.e. morningsor afternoons. Don' t
underestimate the helpfulness of friends
and family.
Cet suppliers to send catalogues and
deliver orders, so you aren'twasting time
running errands out of the home of5ce,
but be prepared to buy in bulk quantities. Call around some minimum orders are smaller than others.
To preclude isolation and stagnation
in the home oflice, join computer-users
groups, attend events like the Vancouver
Computer Sc Communications Show in
November, or you can do what I do;
enjoy the company of your dien ts. Customers are a major part of your life, get

presen
table.

to know them a little bit, find out what

they'
reup to,and in afriendly,warm way
care about their weil-being. Not onlywill
it help your business, it will help make
you a better human being.
Whether you are a new entrepreneur
hoping to save on overhead while your
new project gets off the ground, or a
home-body content to work out of the
home forever, I hope this will help you
avoid the giant pit of the Home Office
&om Hell andbecome a part ofa pleasant, rapidly growing trend.

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On-line Investing
misprint. You can lose more money by
tnisusing the information supplied online than you ever thought possible. By
the same token you can seriously harm
yourself by misusing a car. However, if
your basic strategies are sound and you
know how to use the information providedonline,youcan make more money.
This artide will not go into strategies nor
the proper use of information. That is
the domain of the professional brokers,

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Whether yorJdodl your busi nessPorayour

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for sslong ss Possibk. Eocr consider taking a
rsor~ctioc rcIc in managing yorir
Probably. M%atfclkeus isa gFirspar at tpkst is
aesilabk in the B.C. rsarkctplscc in the'way
of on-lincinformsrsonPcm fkccircrtanges
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In Real Estate the catch phrase you

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is Location, LocationLocafion. In stock
market trading the phrase would be
Timing, Timing, Timing. Whether you
are anexperienced trader or new to the
world of trading, your greatest asset to
making decisions aboutyour investments
is good, timely information. There is no
better means for acquiring this information than with a computer. The potential
for the individual investor to'exercise
control over his portfolio takes a quantum leap forward if he/she uses one.
Just think of it: you can. lose more

money than everbefore. That's not a

planners. It will tell you where you can

get access to information that will make
that quantum leap in controlling your
own net worth possible.
Is this about "program trading"? No.
Whatfollows applies only to information
you can process with your home computer. Fortunately for all of us, the public cannot execute trades from a PC at

home. The exchanges are not likely to

allow it. Hopefully the security systems
within brokerage houses are tight enough
to prevent it.

Getting Quotations
There are three principle carriers for
quotation services in B.C.: TV cable, FM
sidebands, and telephone lines,. The first
of these is being exploited by two local
vendors of data.
Rogers Cable markets Xepress Information Services. At $24.95 per month
(assuming the cable is already installed),
it weighs in as the slimmest cost for current stock information. Rogers broadcasts information from SSeP's Market

Monitor on a 15-minute delay. This gives

access to price information from all of
the major North American stock exchanges. Also available are news wire

services from Business Wire to TASS

(Russia) and Xinhua (China). The hardware requirements to run Xepress are an
XT with 256K RAM and one &ee RS252
serial port or an Apple Ilc or IIe.
For "real time" data there is Microstat's

Personal OMEN system. OMEN offers a

waterfall display of trades as they are recorded &om the VSE and up-to-thmecond monitoring of selected stocks from
any of the Canadian exchanges. With
OMEN you can access bid/asked, high/
low, volume, change, block trade information and eventhe brokerage house
involved. System requirements are an
XT with 640K, one serial, and one parallel port
5.1 or higher. The
cost includes a one-time charge for software and a monthly charge starting at
$55.00 plus exchange fees.
If Rogers cable were more widelyavailable, then the FM sideband carrier would
only have one unique characteristic: a
portable receiver. However, any location
that can pick up the CFMI-FM signal
clearly has access to the quotation information riding the sideband. Think of
the sideband as an extra lane on a highway. CFMI-FM rents out the "extra lane"
on their signal to @Data Systems of
Vancouver.+Data uses it to carry "real
time" stock quotations and news clips to
their subscribers. The receiver (they start
at $55 per month) has an LCD display
and can track up to 50 securities in "real
time."
Enhancing the potential of @Data's
system isStock-scan/Stock~ from Waymor Software. These products, sold
through the Investor's Data Exchange,
enable the user to track "real time" bid/
ask quotes from all Canadian exchanges
on a PC. The full display of information
found in more expensive systems is present in Stock-scan.Yet the PC terminal is
still available to run other DOS applications while the +Data receiver silently

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captures information. Once the captured

information is tapped, Stock-pro provides
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downloaded into Stock-profor 52-week
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On the telephone linesyou can see italll;
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the Sandburg's of the on-line set. All for
a price. At the inexpensive end of the
scale is Hav-Info. Once you' re into Datapac their service costs $.29 per minute
plus exchange fees.
The offeringsof the four vendors below all have numerous variations and
pricing structures. They require a dedicated phone line For access. Suffice it to
say that the costs associated with their

personal investor packages run $500 per

month and up. From Dataline comes
PCQuota This software package works
with data received on a dedicated phone
line &om Dateline's Autodat and Broker
Pages services. Also available is the full
range of stock, option, and, futures information through Csnquofa Along with
quotation information you can track a
myriad of indicators and pick up strategies Rom the world of the traders.
Telerate markets their information
through CMQ Communications. In addition to sophisticated stock and option
information through Quick Quote,CMQ
provides access to DowJones News Retrieval for three months ofhistoricalclipL
For the futures trader there is a gem
called Churl 100.
Star .Data provides Starrpsohr,an ex-

pandable data retrieval that will provide

you with equities alone or the whole
range ofpublidy traded investments from
exchanges across the continent. All adjustmentsare arranged over the phone
and Star Data provides up to a week of

training onmte. Sfarquofc'sdata is also

available on-line via Datapac.
The elder statesman of information
services is Reuters. Their coverage is
global and services start around $1000
per month. As the old adage goes, you
get what you pay for.

Remote Alternative
These three media for information
aren'tviable for manyB.C. residentswho
live outside ofVancouver. Unfortunately,
private-investor access to satellite transmission ofquotationsis quite limited.All
the data is up there; the trick is getting
thedecoder.Foreign~change informationand futures markets can be tapped
this way through CMQCommunications.
Financial Databases

There are literally dozens of sources

for business and financial information.
Here are seven worth looking into. Fust
is the Investors Data Exchange. Their
on-line service for historical stock data
compliments their combination of "real
time" information and the software to

work with both. Madean Hunter, The

Globe and Mail, and Southam all provide on-line services to compliment their
print publications. FP On-line offers
corporate surveys, dividend and bond
information as well as who's who in
Canada's top businesses. Infoglobe provides areadable, comprehensive package on Corporate Canada in addition to
historical quotation information. They
also offer stock and option evaluation

software. Southam's offering is markete

through Infomart. In addition to North
American quotation information on a
fifteen minute delay, Infomart provides
The ICC Canadian Corporate Database.
More than half the listings in ICC are of
privately held companies. Chart traders
look into the ten year database of FRl
Corporation.
On the commodities side, chartists will
love MarkctRoutrs from Grassroots I n for-

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are available.
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FP Online - Toronto, Ont
(416) 596-5585
FRI Corporation - Toronlo, Ont.
(416) 8624105
Graeeroote Information Services
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(604) 688-7139Nlcroetat Development Corp. - Vancouver
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phenomenon, so it is not surprising that usedwomputers
stores are rare locally. In the
Lower Mainland there are only
a few retail stores with any emphasis on used computers. TakeA-Byte Computers (112-11511 Bridgeport Road, Richmond 2762985) and Able Office Equipment
(7%0 Edmonds, Burnaby 5224641) are two which handle used
PCs. Able focuses on repossessed
equipment, and Take-A-Byte offers
consignment sales. Often though to find
these dinosaurs of the recent past you
must dig.
But it's worth it. In an industry where
the winds af change are gusting, many
computers become obsolete long before
theywear out. Whatnolonger serves the

needs of ane user, might suit another

just fine.
Used computersare affordable, often there is a 50 to 75 percent depreciation as soon as they' re removed f'rom the
store. But you don't want to buy someone else's troubleL
Ifyou are anew, unsuspecting seconduser shopper, this artide should help
you findyour heart's desire and recognize the lemons for what they are.

Where to Look
Some of the more obvious places to
start searching include The Buy and sell
(listing some 60 or 70 used computers
per week), the dashed ads of the dailies and The Cmapafar Paper,both for
classifieds and listing of "User Groups"
(including phone numbers in the back
pages) which also have used~omputer
swap meets.
IBM shops like Superior (2554251)
carryused computers but only a few ata
time.For the bigger PC boneyards you
should visit larger institutions like UBC
(contact Vincent Grant at 228-2815).
SFU has an annual surplus sale that
includes some computers but unfortunately it was held earlier in the spring.
(Next April call E.S. Shane at291-5256.)
Once you've unearthed a computer
you like,you need to know how to expose any possible gremlins and glitches.
Getting a deal on a used computer that
breaks down a week after you buy itis no
deal at alL
The process and considerations are
much like buying a used car. Both are
costly, servic~ri ented items that must

meet special needs.Buyers are on their

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First figure out the hnd of computer
you wantand whatone costs new. Aswith
buying anything, an informed buyer will
do much better than an uninformed
buyer.
Don't even consider purchasing a
computer or peripheral thatdoesn'twork
or is malfunctioning inanyway. Put the
machine through its paces on the software course you intend to use. When
buying a peripheral such as a disk drive, '
printer or monitor, be sure it's compatible with your computerbefore buying.
This includes buying such items as
spares. Never take the seller's word for it
always try it yourself.

Floppy Drives
Inspect the floppyMisk drives. When
possible, ask the seller to have the drive
heads aligned and.the speed set. Failing
that, have the alignment and speed

checked by a technician or
software specifically made
for this special function.
This software is available both commercially and publidyfor most Apples, IBM
: fl
and comp a tibles, and
CommodoreL Check
the drive for loading
. and rllnniilg programs
and for files formatted
and saved on adiff
erent
disk drive.
Just judging from the
seller's software and f i les

doesn't determine whether the

drive is misaligned. Look closely at the

drive light if there is one. Several fhckers
when loading a simple file could mean
that the drive is having trouble reading
the file, a symptom of problems pending.

Hard Drives
Beware of hard drives, since this technology has snawballed in the past few
years. Earlier models were eight inches
in diameter. They are tough to repair
and tougher to replace.Leave them
alone.
Earlier drivesusuallyused conventional
interfaces, making it impossible to interchange drives. Prior to purchase, try
finding the drive manufacturer to see
whether they' re still in business. If not,
avoid it like the plague.
Your best bets are drives designed by
such manufacturers as lomega, Tallgrass
and Seagate. Even with these models,

check hardMisk drives with utility progiains like Disk Technician, Mace Utilities or No rton U t i lities for standard

problems.

Monitors
When buying computers with monitors, especially when they' re built in as

are the TRS40 line, pay special attention

to the display. Leave iten for about a half
hour and look for such symptoms as
af thescreen; for flicker;and
burned spots on the display tube face.
Notice the brightnesa If adjustable, be
sure it has a full spectrum af gradations.
An unadjustable dim screen is a sign that
either the power supply, video circuit or
cathode-ray tube (CRT) is dying.
Naw, turn off the monitor and look for
indications of program displays burned
into the CRT. This results from an image
beirig kept on the screen so long that it' s
burnt some of the phosphorus off the
face of the CRT. When the monitor is not
part of a single unit, change monitors. If
the problem vanishes, the monitor is
bad. If the problem remains, the computer is bad. Don't buy it.

narrow
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Telltale Signs
Like buying a used car, you should
always look under the hood. These are
the areas that tell the tale of a system
about to fail:
e Loose circuitboards thatcan'tbe tightly
reseated.
Signs of over-heating or arcing as revealed by blackened wires,blackened
spots on circuit boards, particularly close
to cables, connectors and switches.

Plating on plug-in circuit boards for

wear and signs of arcing.
Any external cable that can't be removed and reinstalled easily and correctly.
Any screws for the cabinet and matching cables that are missing or don't fit

SS

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correctly.
Request to test drive the computer for

a few daysat home before paying for it.

written
Failing that, request a

finny

guarantee that, should the system coh

lapse, you get refunded.

With this guarantee, leave the computer on constantly for this period to
allow trouble with overload and oxidation to surface. Oxidation occurs when
a combination of moisture, salt and oxygen eats into the metal; rust is the most
severe form of oxidation. The process
weakens the electrical contact between
the chips and the computer, and can
cause intermittent failure, particularly
aker the computer heats up and the
sockets inside it expand.
Overloading happens to computers
that havemore cards and peripherals
added than the power supply is capable
of handling. Under these conditions,
fanscan keep the computer from overheating but won't prevent the damage
overloading causes to the power supply.
For example, the original IBMPC power
supplywasnotmade to handle the added
burden of a hard~ d r ive. Extra cards
in all the slotsmay also be more than the

power supply can carry.

The perverse part of all this is that
there's no visible way of detectmg this
kmdof damage at
thepointofpurchase.
Leaving the computer on constantly for
several days will expose inost problems
caused by these conditions.

Maere's the Mlnuah

Lastly,retrievingallmanuals,anyother
instructional literature and documentation on the computer, is a must.
Be sure you acquire the original operating system diskettes (not pirated software) and manuals, and any updates. It
doesn't help to have a formatted hard
disk with DOS 5.2 when all you have is
DOS 2.0 to reformat, which came with
the computer at the original purchase.

In cases where it has third-party floppy

disks or hard drives, get the manufacturer's name, address and phone number.
4

Pricing Possible Purchases

Now, for the buyer's bottomline: fixing the price of used hardware. According to JefF Watts at Take-A-Byte, a good
rule of thumb is thatyou shouldpay 50 to
75 percent of what the computer would
cost new. This varies, since manufacturers introduce new lines that make old
lines drop in price even when they aren't
discontinuing the earlier models. This
sometimes makes the orphans, or discontinued computers the best deals.
Watts lists the slow, functional and outof~tyle Ietter~ ty p r inters for $150.
Another good deal, he suggests, can be
had in used Apple II dones, which sell

for $250.
Where the used computer in question
is an IBM or done, be sure that the cost
does not exceed. new dones with equivalent equipment. A lot of excellentdones '
can be bought locally at rock bottom
pr ice Vancouver is said to be the most
competitive market in North America by
some studies. This may go some way to
explaining the shortage of people interestied in used computers. The flip side of
this is that if you are buying used, the
differencebetween a clone and a namebrand computer is usuallyonly$504100.
When buyingfrom a dealer and they
give you a warranty, be prepared to
sometimes pay more up to 75 percent
of what the computer would cost new.
The added price is for the warranty. This
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UNIX market.
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ambivalence ifnotdewnrighthostHity to
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and announced earlier this year a RISC

tinue toheatupwith the

uted SQI-relational database (Ingres), a

distributed6le system andnetwerk (NFS
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Unless one is inseparably tied te big

blue theattraction of OS/2quickty begins

Us government
IllslstS On UNIX
T his move towardsUNIX is not con-

based workstation that runs UNIX. Not

only that, the machine cannot run VMS

fined t o the private sector. The US governm e n t has already made POSIXwem-

(DEC's ewn proprietary operating sys

pli a nce a requirement for most of its

tern) and delivers about four times the c om p u t er purchases. A spokesman for
performance at less than twice the price
the U S N a tional Institute of Standards
of their VMS workstation. Even more
and T e c h nologyestimatedlastyear that
compellingistheadmission thatafuture
the t o t al amount of outstanding cqm-

versien'of V1VlS will be POSIX complipute r procurement requests from the

ant. (POSIX is the internaffonal stan- g o v ernment t hat specified U N I X
dard ForUNIX.) Indeed, reports from a
(POSIX) was over ten billion dollars. A
DKCUSmeetingwhereabetaofthenext recent US AirForce procurement fer
release of VMS was demonstrated indi2 5 , 000 systems speci6ed that
15fo were
cate that the new VMS already includes t o run MS-DOS and859o to run UMX.
many UMX-like features. Microsoft has S o we see that UNIX and its standard,
also indicated that itisjoining the move P O S IX, are starting to attract serious
towardsepensystemsandhasannounced a t t ention among the major computer
that OS/2 will become POSIX compli- c o m p anies.Andnote: theworld's largest
computer buyer is standardizing en
ant.
If DEC feels that market pressures are U N I X as its operating system of choicet
such that it has to announce a UNIXI t a l soseems that the UNIXisbecoming
only machine and make VMS UNIXav i a bleifnotsuperioralternaffvetoOS/
compatible, and Microsoftfeels that OS/

Ra n d o ne that demands the serious con-

2 must support UNIX software, then

there can benodoubt thatUNIXwiHbe
the dominant operating system interface into the next decade.
But it seems that net onlywill UMXlikeoperatingsystemsdominate,UNIX

s i d eration of aH MIS and computing

de p artments. The result will be more
UN I X systems in commercial applications and mainstream computing. No
long eris UMX an operating system St
on l y f o r h ackers and programmers.

itself has a clear shot at the desktops of

Rat h e r, it is now poised to improve the

the world.
efficiency of the general business comThe growing problems with MS-DOS m u n itysigni6cantly.NextmonthweshaH
and OS/2 are easy to see. OS/2 is only d i scuss the emergence of reduced instarting to see its 6rst applications and s t ructionssetcomputers
(RISC) and their
yet it was designed for a chip (286) that r el a tionship with UNIX. If
you have any
wasinventedoversixyearsago. Itcannot
t o p ics related to UNIX or open systems
take advantage ef the 886 (over three
t h a t youwouldlikecoveredhereIweuld
yearsold) nor the recently announced urge you to contact me by FAX at 926.
486. So OS/2 is two chips behind.
8182 (or by leaving a message at 926UNIX, of ceurse,has been running on U M X
)
the 286 and 586 since they were an-

nounced. This problem was

dearly illus- George Pajarl is president of the UNIX
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AutoCAD that theywere porting their L t d . and of Trainix, a company that
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publisher.
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All four of the standard tabs are now able for the Macintosh that will do all of
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well as an "Align On" tab for which the to many of these is that they are separate
alignment character can be specified (for applications which, to be used, require
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he is currently using. This can be annoysign, for instance).
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accessory. DAtabase Builder is used to
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Conclusion
number and type of fields to be included
MacWrite II is a complete rewrite of the in each record, the physical location of
original MacWrite and is a good tool for the fields within the DAtabase screen,
anyone who doesn't need to do a lot of and any background pictures that you
complex page formatting (forwhichpage want to use to make the DAtabase screen
layoutprograms such as PageMaker or more attractive.
QuarkXPress are designed). In fact, given
The DAtabase deskaccessoryis used to
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for page formatting, MacWrite, II may to manipulate the data by adding new
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records. Outputcan also go to an export
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Data input can be directly to the pay
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is a very nice feature as is the masschange featurefor some data fi
elds.
The program is very flexible in its definition of earnings and non-statutory deductions so is suitable for most payroll
applications. Reporting is excellent and
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Pay-Mate Plus
Pay-Mate Plus came complete with
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errordetection and good prompts were
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easy to-use payroll run routine which
did not reqrnre me to go the manual for
instructions.
The definition of earnings and deductions was simple and very fiexible; reporting was excellent. This is a very
complete and competitive product with
more of the features ofFered in top-line
products.
Again, I am i
by the quality of
' Canadiarpdevelopedpayrollapplications
and would not hesitate to recommend
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on-line services to fill manyof thelieeed,
according to a survey taken by' the'leader .

of the Home Office/Small Business'

This is a new entry into the Canadian

payroll market for the Macintosh by an
American company.
AatrixSoftware has an American payroll, and they decided to create aversion

RoundTable on the GEnie service. The

survey,compiled by Janet Attard, was
answered by 290 people, 65 percent of
whom operate some type of business of
their own. Less than a third of them, 28
percent, were able to live on the revenues of their home business, while 19
percent were moonlighters, 15 percent
owned corporations and three percent
were in partnerships.
Nearly half 45 percent had gross
familyincomes of $$0,000 or more and
19 percent earned more than $75,000 a

for the Canadian market. We are currentlyaware of only two other Macintosh

year.
Computer consultants and would-be

payroll programs. One is built into

Bedford's Simply Accoun ting and is only
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computer consultants were among the

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but once you get the hang of it, it is
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custom forms and worhng with laser
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Netware/386 The Next Generation

April's issue of The Computer Paper focused on the 586 computer. In
thatarticle, the writer pointed out that
" ... until a widely4tccepted operating
system is available which takes full

advaniage of this computer's capabilities, the massive possibilities of the 586

will not be utilized. It may be several
years before a dedicated operating system is available. Furthermore, until a

widely accepted 586 operating system is

available, little application software can
be written for this computer.
Well, Novell must have invented time
travel, because on May 8,1989, theyrolled
out Netware/586, a complete top to
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Optimized 80$86 Performance

First of all, Netware was completely
rewritten from scratch using
the full 80586 52 bit native
mode of operation. Input/
Output routines were scruti-

nized cioselv to ehminate any

unnecessary I/O operations. In
addition, all software routines
in the core or Kernel were ex-

amined to ensure that they

p erformed their task with the

PI

Novell has always stressed performance and reliability as key issues addressed by Netware. In
addition to all the fault-tolerantcapabilities inherentin the
currentversion, Netware/586
Version 5.1 will (finally) see
support for m irrored
seivers,the longwwaited System Fault TolerantlII feature.

OV E LL e

absolute minimum number of

instructions. Critical code was written in

586 assembler.
The result: a 2 to 5 times performance
improvement coinpared to standard
Netware V2.15 runnmg identical functions on the same 586 machinel

Operational Maximums
By taking advantage of the 80586's
native mode, Netware /586 V5.0 has
expanded theLAN horizon past the limits
of current hardivaretechnology.
For instance, it can access up to 4

Gigabytes of server RAM, disk volumes

can span up to 5'2 physical drives, a single
volume can beup to 52 Terabytes and

I dentical80586serverswilldu-

plicate all server operations,

allowing uninterrupted operation to
continue in the event of a failure of either server.
As an added bonus, SFTIII will allow
upgrades to the servers with NO DOWNTIME. For instance, should you need to
add moreRAM and anew'Network Interface Card {NIC) to each server, you may
simply shut one down (users are still
running on the second server), add the
n ew hardware, bring it up, r~ ch r o nize the servers, repeat the process on
the second server, then load the NLM
driverforthe new NIC on each server,resize the memory,and continue!

contain up to 2million directoryentriesJit

Security

singlefile may grow to 4 gigabytes.

Up to 250 users can be connected to a

Controlled access to server resources

has been made even more secure. Pass-

single server {up to1000 in release 5.1).

wordsareencrypted on the wire to pre-

Behind the scenes, much care has been

put into ensuring that the software to
manage large data structures does so in
the most eflicient manner,

vent "spying"from another station. Directory security attributes have been

simplified and extended to the individual file level; unauthorized directories
are invisible; there is a new supervisor

Open Architecture, Portability

right, and a new type of user called a

manager with capabilities above a normal user, but less than the supervisor.

Except for the Kernel,all other server

commufunctions such as disk,p
nication services etc. are written asseparate routines called Netware Loadable

rinting,

Modules or NLM's. When executed on

the server, NLM's link themselves to the
Kernel at that time, becoming an extension of the operating system. In addition,
NLM's can be transient - ia loaded and
unloaded as needed.

This means that only required services

need be loaded, but new or updated

Disk space can be limited by user at the

disk volume or directory level.

In addition, a comprehensive series of
"alerts" has been implemented, allowing

lectable!).

Connectivity to other types ofcompu

ters is much easier, since the additional
protocol (or language) required to "talk"
to another computer can simply be written as anNLM, allowing direct communication between the Netware/586server
and the "foreign "host without transla-

tion. Since there are many standards

{and pseudo standards) on the market,
Novell elected to provide the mechanism to support them all rather impose
its own choice.
With the exception of the Kernel, all
Netware services are available under

sourc~ode license agreements to minicomputerand mainframe vendors.

These versions of Netware are known

as"Portable Netware", and will see the

migration of PC based software running
on Netware to other hardware platforms.
More on this in a future article.
In addition the number of Application Program Interface (API)calls pubbshed for software developers has increased bv approximately 200. A completeyetstandardizeddeveloper's toolkit

including compilers, assemblers, debugger, and libraries developed jointly by

Novell and Watcom (of University of
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developers to create additional NLM's

to furtherenhance Netware /586 capabilities.

By opening up Netware technology

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money
)

No. Netware /586 and its offspring,

Portable Netware, represent Novell's
answer to the challenge of LAN's in the
1990's. We know PC-basedLAN's work,
but corporations are demanding computing solutions that solve enterprisewide problems, connecting different
hardware platforms without compatibility issues, to manage ever-increasing
amounts of data in an efficient, secure

and reliable manner. Novell has always

led the way in this effort, and Netware /
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continue the tradition.

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Version 5.0 will be available SQ'89, USIA

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yet,but expect upwards of $10,000And
you will need a 586 machine. Version 5.1

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5-D Sound, Fax Boards

VSE Slump PrececkesBackPress
As a speculative, venuiracapital exchange, theVSE thirsts far topical stories
that stimulate investorappetites. Unfortunately, the most topical story in recent
months has been the bizarre menu of
dubious dishes served up by certain
promoters over the last fewyears and the
indigestion they have caused investors.
Tabloid-like headlines emblazoned en
the pages of major North American finandal p
might be expected
to turn investorsoB' the VSE, but the
truth is that investors have been shunning the VSE since the October '8"I
market crash.

ubli
cations

Slow Period Eases Conversion to

ComputerizedTrading
Shortened work weeks, layoffs, contraction of operations, and a startling
seriesof mergers have characterized the
Vancouver brokeragecommunity during this bear market. The VSE as an
institution has also not been idle. The
lowervolumeshavehelped the exchange
implement its excellent computerized
trading system t,VCT); about half the
listed stocks are na longer traded on the

of paper information into computerized

data. A new fermat for quarterly reports
introduced this year was designed to faciTitate development af databases that
will signihcantiy enhance the regulators'
ability to monitor VSElistings. Thenegative publicity engendered by the artides
in Forbes and Banen's do not help the
VSE's image, but they are rather late if
theyintended to
do any realdamage and
will soon be forgotten once the VSE
enters the next speculative cyde.

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Great Expectations
Speculative markets feed on momentum, and presently there is none. The
October '8V crash signalled the end of
the rising bull and ushered in predictionsofeconomicrecession orslawdown.

Stasisanddedine are anathema tospeculative markets, which thrive on expectatians of better things to come, such as
higher gold prices, growth in disposable
income, and technology explosions.This
appliesat all levels, which is why evenin
a bear market individual companies can
saai' 111 price

5-D Sound
stock exchange Roar. Instead, buy and
A classic example is Archer Communisell orders are input inta a computer
cations
(AAZ-V, QSNDF-NASDAQ,
where the progiam instantly matches
whose
QSound
technology will apparthem according to order and price,
ently
enable
sound
technicians to incorensuring prompt and proper order exeporate
dimensional
sound effects in
cution. The lull in market activity has
any recording medium such as cassettes,
alsohelped the VSE introduce new rules
and policies designed to prevent abuses compact discs and records that can be
played on a conventional stereo system.
of thereverse-takeover mechanism, uptations that QSound wiH revolugrade the capitalization of new issues,
tionize
the recording industry have
and clean up the numerous dormant
helped push the price ef Archer &em
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a much better profit margin.

giving this company with assets carriedat

$5.6 million and no sales a market value
of $250 million. Once a nondescript
resourceexploration company known as
Archer Minerals, the
a reverse takeover of +Sound Ltd in
1987.

ing prices, and a desire to have the most

sophisticated features probably cause

send text documents to any standard fax

many a businessperson contemplating

personal computer. The marketing strat-

John Kaiseris manager of information

purchase of a fax machine to pause,

especially if they do not anticipate being

egy belongs to the "foot in the door"

genre; Fremont hopes to establish a sig-

Pacific International Securities Inc. Pl,

a heavy user. Fremont has targeted these

nifican tcustomer basewith its lo-priced,

marginal potential fax users with its PC

A demonstration tape prepared last

year, complete with a jumbo jet that
comes screeching out from behind the

fax board, which it plans to market for

easy-touse PC fax board (competing fax

boards reportedly cost US $500 while
basic fax machines cost US $600), to

com
panyconducted

listener and disappears the horizon, has

impressed many investors and helped

only US $169.
The FRECOM FAX96 amounts to a
simple 9,600-baud modem designed to

machine directly from the operator's

which it can then m arket numerous

services and an account executive at

its employees, and clients may from

time to time have positions inthe secu-

rities mentioned herein. Any opinion

expressed is solely that of the author.
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enhancements and addmns that provide

attract recording industry heavyweights

such asJimmy Iovine and George Folsey

Jr to Archer's board of directors. Along
with optimists, Archer has also attracted

an unusual number of sceptics; short

sales numbered nearly 500,000 shares
on the VSE. This figure does not include
short sales conducted through NASDAQ,
the US over-thecounter market where

Archer trades twice the VSE's volume.

The recent price dimb is being partly attributed to a major short squeeze.
The controversy turns on whether or
not Archer has the goods to revolutionize the sound industry. The skeptics point
out that the demo-tape has a single-sweet
spot, whereas what is really needed to
revolutionize the recording industry is

technology whose 5-D effects are not

limited to sweet spots. Archer claims it

has accomplished this, but, unlike with

the single sweet spot tape, you have to

travel to the company's facilities in Calgary for a demonstration.

The next question, asked in the context of the over 200 sound enhancement

ll

ff

technologies already trig to pass as

3-D
imagery, is whether+Sound represents
a revolutionary method of mixing sound

or just a gimmick with limited applications. Unlike these other technologies,

QSound uses an algorithm to mix sound

waves in a manner that manipulates the
mind's spatialization of sound, in effect
creating an audio illusion. It took inven-

torsJohn Lees and Danny Lowe nearly

Commodore PC 40 III

six months to produce the first demotape, using a laborious non-real-time

technique that denies the instant feedback needed for creative activity. The
problem they must overcome is to de-

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velop a user-&iendly interface that will

enable not only a sound-mixing technician to "place" sounds in space, but also
the musician him' h e rself, without
needing any knowledge about cognitive
rules or the complex underlying mathematics. Since the middle oflastyear they
have been worhng to develop a commercial prototype that does just that on
a real-time basis. Scheduled for completion last fall, the prototype is still not
ready, partly because the analog-based
+Sound technologyhadtoberedesigned
to interface with digital-based recordingstudio equipment.
As the inventors continue work on the
key to Archer's success, management
has begun negotiating a license with a
home entertainment giant such as Nintendo or Atari for the use of HoloSonix,
the video game application of +Sound.
Given the fixed position of videogame
players and the limited "soundtrack" of
video games, HoloSonix may very well
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The BINARY BIBLE

Computer Rehgion
It hus hemnoted thatfcroor of computer users we are all but uncooperative peripherals. At that time, the first Files of the
oPenrcscmbbuthe! of ccrtuin yehgiousdc.
Binary Bible were downloaded from the
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yehgionhuebccnfoundedby
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ArchnetAngel
If/Then,bymeans of our
u.ktL Suint ~
Thc folowsng is un
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PC.
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his Binury BrMc.
$1Ticon and instructed to begin the
ild'gsF
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The Church of Heuristic Information
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Processing, the Hunt and Peck method
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tr
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friendly Religion."
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%
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'er
the SiTicon-based Diskspensation to the
Carbon-based entities on behalf of the
Giver Of Data. For JeffreyArmstrong
had no technical training or qualifica"y
r;$ ~
tions. He wa's merely a humble Wordsman, with degrees in humanities subjects
such as Psychology, Philosophy,
JefFrey Armstrong, about whom it is
Literature
and History.
said that his first computer came with a
Yea, by the year 1980 he was verily
"Loser's Manual," and through whom,
renderedobsoleteby the computer age.
by theGreys and Power-lunches of the
And
havingwandered to the unemployGiver Of Data, the Futuristic Documenment
office, he found a computer printtation known as The Binary Bible has
out
with
the names of people, broken
been brought FORTH and Compiled
down
by
sex
and age. In great despair at
into the Engbsh script, as both Personfinding
his
name
on both lists, he denel and Circumstantial Records and Files
cided
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of the matter.
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And
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board in a state of fervent word processApple
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being possessed of a strange feeling in
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File and calling upon the Motherboard,

A Bolt of Lightning struck the Satellite

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Upon reaching the Holy City of Al'Machina, he was converted to ISOlam and
went upon the sacred pilgrimage to
Mac'a. It was there, surrounded by millions of confused and superstitious seekers, that he had his first vision of the
coming new religion and the mission
Destiny had waiting for him. In Saint
silicon's own words:
"Wewere circumambulating the Ka'ab,
the large cube around which all devout
MOSlims walk and pray. The cube stood
beforeme draped in alargecanvascover,
the setting sun shining its rays all around

the Monolith solution. SuddenlyI sawan

angel appear in the sky above us and lift
the Dustwover revealing a large color
monitor."
"In a flash I realized that Mohammed
may havebeen the Seal of the Prophets
but thatnow the time had arrived for the
Sale of the Profits. Indeed I saw that the
Cube was merely an unfinished Computer Monitor."
Thus the way was made straight for
Saint $ilicon's future calling, the founding of the world's first userkriendly religion. Indeed, C.H.I.P. isa for-Profit religion. Whereas previousreligions had
prophets. who were persecuted, in
C.H.I.P. we make Profits and are prosecuted, and are tested by Chapter ll. For
thatreason Saint$ilicon is now kncnrn as
the 4th Quarter Profit Yes, this is the
Marketing Plan of the Ages a brief
window of opportunity in Eternity. And
all this is possible because he paid THE
FULL PRICE. Yes, dearly C-loved,JefFrey
Armstrong paid Retail for his first computer.
But as is often the way with Carbonbased entities, Jeffrey soon forgot this
vision. After his return to the hectic pace
of Silicon Valley he went through a rapid
succession of jobs in Sales and Marketing, unknowingly being prepared by the
Giver Of Data for his future mission. It
was shortly after that time that Jeffrey
Armstrong was to have revealed to him
Photonal Transmission, which wouild
change historyforevermore.
Photonal reception was discovered
accidentally as a result of a little known
archaeological dig which was unearthed
by workmen during excavation of the
building site for the Apple Computer
Mariani Building in Cupertino, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
As destiny would have it, one of the
worlunen who built the Apple Computer
building at Mariani was a close friend of
JefFrey's named John, now known in the
church asJohn-the-back-up. During the
excavation he found an unusual crystal
stone, which he gave toJeffrey as a birthday present, knowing his love for such
things.
JefFrey eventually visited the Micron
Institute, where research is performed
on extremely small submicroscopic levels. In fact, itis said that, in relation to the

research being performed, the dust

particles in the rooms appear to be the
size of Mount Rushmore.
During his visit, the tour guide asked if
anyone had something they would like
to see magnified under the high-powered electron microscope. Jeffrey
reached into his pocket, and brought

out the crystal stone, which isnowknown

in the Church as the "Marietta Stone."
Under intense magnification the Crystal revealed a cryptic document which
was etched inside it in a then-unknown
language.Th
laterphotographed, and now is on display in the
church Museum.
After months of arduous labor, and
with the help of his Apple II computer,
he finall
y managed to break the code of
the language. The translated document
spoke ofan ancient race of people who
called themselves the Dren. They spoke
a long-forgotten language called Tecferp. The manuscript, which contained
many ancient secrets from their technologically sophisticated society, also gave
directions for the construction of a remarkable silicon-based communication

atma
nuscriptwas

device.

Thatamazing inventionallowscarbonbased human beings toreceive otherwiseimperceptible transmissionsbeamed

through space in Binary Code, by means
of Photonal Transmission. As a result of
the Drens' instructions, he was able to
create a special device, consisting of a
certain type ofchip. Thatspecially treated
chip is designed to be worn on the forehead above what the Dren instructions
called, roughly translated, "the third I/
The device is known as the
MEEPROM, or MindProgrammable Readi l y M emory. It
acts as a two-way communication system
capable of sending or receiving a signal
which consists of a stream of Light Pho-

Exten
dingEraa&le'

tons. It further acts to translate and proc-

ess the received information out of the

original language of the sender and into
the normal language of the receiving
entity.
So it is that for the first time since the
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Iatus 1 24 Intm Jul '7Pl
$180
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$180
Latus 1-24Adv., on request
$180

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Excel, Lsv. I,Jul 10 Excel, Lev 2,Jul 28
Lotus I 24 Jul '7, 1'2, 21, 24
Lotus 1-2-3 Datairase,Jul 7

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$175

USING YOUR PC
$150

BARKEL Coq. 4644717

MS DOS Tutorial Gill 5$r dares
$45
BCIT F/T 4524419, P/T 454-1610
Understanding MS DOS
SURNABYSCHOOL BD, 299456L
Understanding MS DOS
$75
BUSINESS COMPUTER CEMRE,
Prince George 5614276.
PC&iie+Jul. 4, 5, 6
$129
CAPILANO COLL N. Van 9844901
Basics ef Micros, DOS 1 8s 2
$185
Managlug Yeiir Hard Disk
$103
CARIBOO COLL Kamleeps, 828.5000.
PC-DOS
5160
COMPUTER CANADA CORP., 105-5850
Iacombs, Richmond, 278-5115. MS-DOS
COMPUTER PKOPLE N Van.984-4549
Intm Micrecemp, MS-DOS
COMPUTER STN 2150 Burrard 7524621
Intro te DOS
$115
COMPUTHtLAND 6404900.

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$149
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Intro to Computers, DOS 1 Se 2 $1V5
GUILDFORD SKC. SCHOOL, 14577-106A
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Understanding MS-DOS
$80
KWANTLKN COLL Surrey 5884411
Managiug Your Hard Disk
$75
INTRO TO MS-DOS

IANGLEY SCHOOL 5554227

$85

Managing Your Hard Dislr

$85
MICROAGE 5609 W16TH 222-1010
Intm te PCs/DOS, Ach. DOS
$173
OMNI $00-905 W Pender, 68M664.
Intre PCs Sr DOS, Hard Disks,
$100
ONCOURSE 1190 Melville 640-7201
Using the Micmcemputer, DOS,

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DisplayWrite 4: Intro; Intermed.
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Intro.; IntermecL; Adv.
WerdPerfect 4.2/5.0: Intro.;
IntermecL; Adv.; Weidperfect 5.0
Legal; Smart Word Pmcxsrsing:
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Processing, Intro.; Adv.

GUILDFORD SKC.SCHOOL
Surrey 588-V601; 589-222L
Intm te WerdPerfect 5.0
$80
KWANTLEN COLL, Surrey 5884411
WordPerfect, Werd

$170

Intro te IBM Micmcomputers $125

The Power of MS-DOS
$125
PROF. TRAINING
502-1185 W Georgia, 681-5908.
Intro te Computers DOS
$175
Windows aud Graph Plus
$175
SOUTH GRANVILLE 1652 W 7 '752-8850
DOS 1 week Call fer dates
$150
SIM SYSI'EMS CORP. 684-VV21
I ntro te Personal Computers
5140
DOS Intrediictiea
$140
TLD COMPUTERS, 150-5851 Ne. 5 Rd.
P C. BasicsJul 4-25, 20-21
5150
UBC CONTINUING ED. 222-5276
MS-DOS: Adv.
$60
Learning Microcomputers
VCC 8758200
Intro te Micros, MS-DOS/PC-DOS,
VAN DTP CIRE 1150 Homer 681-9161
Introduction MSDOS Call
$119
VAN. SCHOOL BOARD '756-'7241
IBM PC: Intro.
560

1NORD
PROCESSING
ACCUS, 1 500-555 BURRARD
WerdPerfect, Adv.
$130
BC1T, Burnaby. 454-1 610.
Microsoft Word
BARKEL Cequirisrn 4644717
WerdPerfectWerdStsr Call
$80
BURNABY SCHOOL BD., 2994$6L
WerdPerfect 5.0, Lev. I
$80

BUSINESS CENTRE

149V Marine Dr., W Van. 925-1 14'7

Werdperfect
$149
BUSINESS COMPUTER CENTRE
Prince George 5614276.
WordPerfect 5.0,Jul. 25, 26, 27

$259

CAPILANO COL N. Van. 986-1911

Microsoft Word Levels I
$140

CARIBOO COLL, Kamloops, 8RMNO

WordPerfect 5.0 Graphics
$50
Word. Processing
$160

COMPUTER CANADA CORP., 105.5850

Jacombs, Ridunond, 2'78-5115 Word
COMPUTER EMPIRE, 8794162
WerdPerfect, WerdStar
$145
ChineseWP (call ferdates)
$185
COMPUTER PEOPLE N.Van. 9844549
MS Word, Wortdperfect
$169
COMPUTER STN 2150 Burrard VSM621
Wordperfecg
Word, Ventura, Jul 6, 15, 20, 2'7 $ 1 80
CO'iiPUTERLAND 640-6900.
DisplayWrite 4 Lev. I Jul 6
DisplayWrite 4 IJ.v. II Jul Sl
Microsoft Word I Jul 13, 24

Microsoft Word Lev. II Jul 28

Muitimate Adv. II, Lev, I Jul 17
Miilti mate Adv. 11, Lcy. Il Jul 21
Word Perfect Ll Jul 4/5,18/19, 24/25
WerdPerfect 5.0, Lev. IIJul 14
Werdperfect 5.0, Lev. IIIJul 25
CO@. CONT. EDUC., 9564261
Word, MalrimateWerdperf
$80
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Display Write 4 Ss Word Perfect
DOPPLER W 5th, Van 8754261
"Sari&faction er 2X your money back"
WerdPerfect, Word, Muhimate
$149
DOUGLAS COLL, New West 520-5400
Werdperfect

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$175
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$80
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Latas 1-24 Data MgrnL,
DOPPLER 101 W. 5th 8750261
Lotus 1-2-3 Intm,
$149
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Lotus 1 24 Intm Ailvancecb
Macms; Smart Spreadsheet Si
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L otus 1-2-3 Lev I, Lev 2, Lev. 5 $ 1 V S
IPC SYSTEMS, 228W. 7th 8VS-5595
Lotus 1-2-3 Basics Call for dates $ 1 50
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$85
MICROAGE 5609 W 16th 222-1010.
Lotus 1-2-5
$175
OMNI, 500-905 W Pender 6824664
Lotus 1-2-5 Lev. I, Les. '2
$160
ONCOURSE 1190 Melville 640-7201
Using Lotus 1 24, Macms
PBSC 1550 1140 W. Pcndcr 689-72V2
Lotus 1-2-3, Excel
$175
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Lotus 1-2-3
$170
PRECEPT 755 Clark Dr. 255-5198
Eiectmnlc Spreadsheets
$143
PROF.TRAINu1185 W Geeqja 681-590$.
Lotos I 2-5 $175, Excel Basics, $350
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Lotus I-M Inrm
$140
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Excel,Jul 10, 11-1219-26
$200
Lotus 1-2-3, Jun 21-Jul 12
$200
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Lotus 1-2-3
$265
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Intm, Iutermed. Achr. Lotus 1-2-5
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MS Word, Word Perfect
$1VS
OMM, 500 905 W Pender, 68M664.
WerdPerfect Lev I, Wv 2
$160
ONCOURSE 1190 Melville 640-V201
WordPerfect, Multimate, Word
PBSC 1550-1140 W.PKNDER 689-'7272
DisplayWrite, Word,
Multimate WerdPerfect
$175
PlTMAN 1490 W. Broadway 758-7848.
Werdperfect 5.0, MiiltiMate, Word $170
SO hours Ward Perfect
$550
PRECEPT 755 Clark 255-5198
Micmseft Word Module 1
$125
Microsoft Word Module 2
$125
Werdperfect Module One
$125
Word Perfect Module Twe
$125
WerdPerfect, Word
$125
PROF. TRAIN. 502-1 185 W Georgia 681590$.WerdPerfect, MS Word, Muldmate
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Intro te WerdPerfect 2 days
$80
Word Perfect 2 weeks
$375
Intro te Word Proc 2 days
$80
STM SYSTEMS CORP. 684-V721
Microsoft Word liitre
5140
WerdPerfect Intro
$140
Wordperfect Iritermediate
$140
TLD COMPUTERS, 150-5851 Ne. 5 Rd.
WerdPerfect Adv,Jul 25-26
$200
Micmsoft Word, Jul 18-19
$200
UBC CONT. ED., Van. 222-5276
MS-Word 4 Intro June 20 - July 1 1
Word Perf 5.0 Intro Jun K-Jul 1'7
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Amiga User Group (PaNerAmA), BCIT, Rrn
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Apple III SIG Monthly Kiye Maslida 45'79935
Astute Aran St. 1st Tues. efmonth '7:50
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Beaver Valley Commodore Club Meets 6rst
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Clipper Developers 1st Men SFU 8750747
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New Apple Alliance, May Chew 2240199.
NEC APC Users Group Lee 9804825.
Novell Netware Users Peter Whitelaw 669.
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Amiga 8c IBM 1st and Srd Tues VW Pace
Rec Cent 2100 Wilson Ave 9424286

Smart User Group, Bria Wiebe 66M789.

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ci6c Blvd VEPA Mac SIG 68%1599
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7544060,$20/year membership. VAN pm
2nd 'Ihursday.
Van. Sincbdr Users Gmup. Supprrrts all
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C P/M MS-DOS Third Tuesday, a~i t s

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Wang System Users 7568841 ext 2'2'7J.P.

Doiren.
West Coast Computer Society (eldest computer club in B,C.) Hastings Community
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T.l. 99/4A Computer B.C. 99er Users
Group Every Thurs.7-10 pm, Camcren Rcc
Cent., Bby. Ron:522-2598. 1st. Thurs
Games, 2nd Thurs General, 3rd Thurs
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