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SoftwareExec Outlines Education Future

an Davidson, president of Davidson
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tional Computing Conference audience

in Orlando in rapt attention during her
keynote address. Unlike the sales pitch
delivered a day earlier by 3DO's Trip
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asking teachers to think of students as custorners to be satisfied, not charges to be led.
Her talk, titled "The Future Isn't What It
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moving the debate forward.

Like many other industry veterans,
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computers. "There are powerful products
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with text you need a keyboard." The pro-

posed 3DO machines will lack keyboards

for some time. "I'm not convinced people

will want to learn in front of the TV any-

way," she added.

Davidson also addressed the problem of
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glitzy. I couldn't get the press or crowds

here with CGA (graphics).s For schools, she
suggested, "I understand educators want
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schools have only old PCs on which her

not think of technology as something you

new software won't run, "It does make

things difficult for parents who leave their

do once. It should be a permanent part of

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where she sat in the audience when people

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products and concepts which are now common currency. She was obviously thrilled
to be in their place, and her audience, recognizing the former teacher as one of their
own, seemed genuinely thrilled to hear her.
"In Information Age classrooms, students will move through the school day in
a similar way their adult counterparts move
through the workday. They will manage
their time. They will have tools. They will
have teammates. And they will take respon-

sibility for a given task, leverage their skills,

ferret out information needed to solve a
problem, and work with classmates to get
the job done."
She said moves toward school privatization, public-private choice and Whittle's Edison Project are stimulating change toward
such a classroom, and such stimulus is a good

In Information Ageclassrooms,
students will move through the
school day in a similar way their
adult counterparts move
through the workday
thing. "In order to serve our customers, we
need to embrace the second C of the Information Age: Change." Change isn't something
that's done once, but a continual process.

"Site-basedmanagement, teacher empowerment, team modules for l

and risk

earning

taking hardly sounds like life in the little

Red Schoolhouse. It's not. It is life in the
Information Age. If your school hasn' t
embarked on a course of change, I challenge

you to lead the way." In that change, computers are enablers, not the change itself.

"The feeling of empowerment a child experiences when she learns to use a tool on the
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And it can happen every day, she concluded. "Let's commit ourselves to making
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said. ""It's up to use to go back to our schools
and be the change-makers. We all entered
this profession to make a difference in the
lives of our students. What I'm saying to you
today is, that in order to do so, you have to
also make a difference in your school."
Davidson is optimistic that technology
is becoming part of America's debate on

schools. "People are catching on. And we're

inserting ourselves into the debate more

and more," She cited Julie Saltpeter's "Kids

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SEP TEMBER '93 TH E COMPUTER PAPER ONTARIO EDITION

XI '

Buying a Computer For Your Kids

B Y 6 R A E M E B EN N ET T
W ITH A D D I T I O N A L

ids like computers for a lot of dif-

ferent reasons. To some, they represent an adventure something

to explore. To others, they represent an escape from boredom, a box full of

fun and games. As they grow older, some
children come to view computers as many
adults do: as a tool for helping with the

homework, or helping to solve problems.

But most kids I' ve talked to don't care so
much if their computer has this microprocessor or that one. They want to be
compatible with their friends' computers
or their school's a lot more than they
care about the world of megahertz and
DOS compatibility that moms and dads
care about. In many ways, I think that

IHATERIAL S V S L A K E C O W A N

the C$550 or so that one of these drives

will add to the cost of your system, you

designs that could only be loosely termed

"paper airplanes." While I heartily recommend a color-capable printer for obvious
reasons, anything will do. After all, kids
like coloring, too.

should look for these two features: doublespeed access and multisession Photo CD
compatibility. It's best if the CD-ROM drive

connects to the computer via SCSI (small

computer systems interface). Some of the
cheapest PC drives use a proprietary con-

FearleSS CONIPutin
You probably know a person or two who is a computer

nection method that is slow and can lead

to compatibility problems. I' ve explained
these terms enough in the past
(june, 93, etc.) that I won't go
into them again here, but not all
drives have these features, so

whiz. You know, the type that

can sit down and figure out anything what's the secret'? How do
they do that? I think the answer is
that they are fearless of the computer.
They know that if they try everything,

don't take them for granted. Don' t

kids have the right idea: they care

more about the content than the deliv-

What do your kids like? If they are anychildren enjoy computer games (especially
those transparently "educational' ones), but

dedsions.
5. Longevity it should have enough

Do they have any special

depth and breadth so that an active child

will not exhaust all the possibilities within

interests? Many children (and

more than a few adults)

a week.

have an abiding pas-

?% .

f o r din-

get a slow (150-millisecond access)

Trek, music and such

things, right? You can just bet
that there is a bevy of products out there
that hope to capitalize on these loves-

" bargain-brand "

CD-ROM drive, or your family will soon be
using the word "boring" a lot.

and just about every other fad you can

just about any kind of computer, whether

it's an IBM-compatible PC, Macintosh, or

good products, but that's part of the reason

you read The Computer Paper,isn't it?
So, the first thing to do when trying to

figure out which computer to buy should

be to find that "special something" that
your kid(s) will love so much that they will
be compelled to learn to use the thing.
A suggestion: consider getting a system
with a compact disc read-only memory
(CD-ROM) drive right from day one. CDROM-based games are much richer than
their floppy-disk based cousins. And if it' s
an educational tool you want, you haven' t
lived until you' ve seen the latest generation of multimedia encyclopedias.

Adult Talk
I' ve tested a wide variety of CDROM drives here at The Computer
Pnper over the last few months.
My favorite drives so far have
been the Toshiba TXM-3401

and the Sony CDU-561. (The

CD300 external and CD300i
internal drives for the Apple
Macintosh line of computers are
based on the Sony mechanism,
by the way). I' ve also tested the
Texel DM-5024 and the Teac CD50 drives with good results.

If you are not willing or able to spend

ners to gain a positive experience quickly.

Like good movies, there are certain
characteristics that "classic" software
programs share. To ensure long life and
great value from your software purchase,
look for;
1. Interactivity the child is in
control of the environment, not a spectator but an explorer.

different conclusions based on different

nearly every child loves to explore.

think of. Of course, not all of them are

The initial period of ownership is the best

time to take a few lessons. This helps begin-

3. Fun it must do a good job of

combining content and amusement.
Learning on a computer should be funl
4. Open-ended it encourages children to explore, make choices and arrive at

thing like most youngsters, sound, color and

lots of variety will be on their list. Not all

osaurs, old Disney cartoons, Star

made a large financial investment that is

both frustrating and under-utilized."

competitive with TV and Nintendo, software must use brilliant images, excellent
animation and rich sound.

an old one you' ve grown out of, my first

suggestion is: think like a kid.

need knowledge if you are to receive value

from your investment. The worst thing
that can happen is to find that you have

2. Great graphics and sound to be

ery mechanism.
So, if you are thinking of buying a computer for your kids, or handing them down

sion

used to like a TV or VCR," says Cowan. "It

is a multifaceted "knowledge" product. You

You canhook a CD-ROM drive up to

Amiga even some game machines have
CD-ROM options.
Of course, thinking like a kid, you
shouldn't worry too much about which
brand to get just yet. Let's check out more
neat stuff!

Such a Deal
How's this for an irresistible bargain: a
practically limitless supply of games, information and educational materials all for
free? That's what you get when you add a
modem to your computer, as long as you
know a couple of the right phone numbers
to dial. In case you were wondering, all this

great stuff you can download is legal. Some

of it is "freeware" and some of it is distributed on the shareware "honor system." You
download it for free and try it. If you con-

tinue to use it, you are expected to pay

the usually meager sum the authors
request. It's a good system: cheap software with no mi ddleman. And it
teaches that great Klingon virtue, honor.

lwaking It
Every kid loves to make things. Hav-

ing a printer connected to their computer will give them a veritable manu-

facturing facility for cards, letters, posters,

and probably strange new aerodynamic

something will work.

It's a very "whizzy"
state of mind. Here' s
how to cultivate it.

Here are a few programs which meet all

of these criteria.
Kid Pix (PC and Mac) Kid Pix is an
electronic paint program with wacky tools
and sound effects that absolutely delights

kids (of all ages). You can create cards, invitations, school worksheets, connect-the4ot

Infonnatlon Navigstors
According to Blake Cowan, president of
Vancouver,B.C.-based WIZ Zone Computers For Kids Inc., children who are "information navigators," comfortable using the
computer as a tool, are the children best

prepared to succeed in today's world.

Cowan says, "Computer games, read-

drawings and just about anything you

could think of. It is as much fun for the

parents as it is the kids. Everybody who

uses it laughs with delight.
Where in t h e W o rl d I s C a r men
Sandiego? Deluxe Edition (PC and Mac)
An entertaining blend of travel and mystery, this program introduces kids to the

ing programs, electronic paint programs,

wonders of geography and history,

and newsletter/story making programs

may seem a little pedestrian when discussing the future, but they are the
building blocks that will teach
children to be comfortable with
the tools that will drive the

while encouraging them to use reference books like atlases and almanacs
to catch the thieves.
Impressive National
Geographic pictures
and realistic sounds

computer age."

are blended with inter-

Cowan cites the advantage of a computer over a games machine. "The difference is
that the child is in an interactive environ-

esting educational facts. Versions of Carmen are also available for Apple II and
Amiga computers, but lack the graphics

ment having to use higher order thinking,

reasoning, logic and deduction skills. The

and sounds of the Deluxe edition.

result is hours of play time that are as educational and intellectually developmental as
they are entertaining. Just try and say that
about TV or Nintendo!"

But are today's computers easy enough

Kids will typically also want a program

that makes cards and posters (Broderbund's

Print Shop is available for most types of

computers and is a good choice for youngsters); a drawing and/or painting program,

a word processor, and perhaps a typing

for a child t o u se? "Computers have

become mature and simple enough that

tutor or other educational application, such

as an encyclopedia or, in t h e case of

with the proper setup and training, a threeyear-old can use it unaided," maintains
Cowan. As a result, he claims, most parents
can actually use them as well.
"A computer is very different from the
other electronic commodities that we are

younger children,
an interactive
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"playhouse" type
of program. Oh
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office productivity 30'Yo;
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What kind of computer(s) do they use
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Does your child have any friends with
computers?What do they use?
What software do you want your child
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Will the computer be shared with other
members of the family? What are their needs?
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the ages of the children, their specific
strengths, weaknesses, likes and dislikes.
These are important for determining the
power of the computer required and, more
importantly, the specific software programs
that will make sure that everyone uses the
computer to its fullest. In most cases, this
narrows the list down to:
a) IBM and compatible PCs
b) Macintosh
c) Amiga

d) Atari, Apple II, Commodore 64, and

other "hand-me-down" models.
I' ve used most of these models and
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factors in establishing a "best choice"budget, compatibility, ease-of-use, etc.
that it isn't easy to pick a single "best"
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I want my, I want my MPC

If you want a steady, readily available
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and training options, your only real choices
are to go with an IBM compatible or a Macintosh system.
Novice users or first-time buyers should
purchase a "ready-to-go" system, pre-configured with a CD-ROM drive, modem,
sound card and all the other goodies you
want. These are quite complicated to add
later, particularly in the case of IBM compatibles.
A few years ago, Microsoft and a group
of PC manufacturers got together and
defined a standard called MPC (multimedia
personal computer). It purported to be a
decent minimum platform for running
sound- and graphics-intensive "multimedia" programs. The original specification's
minimum CPU requirement (a 286!) was
ludicrously underpowered for the demands
of multimedia. Other parts of the original
spec were similarly inadequate, so the MPC
council went back to the drawing board.
This time, they' ve come up with a more
reasonable minimum requirement, although
it should still be treated as a minimum. The
MPC2 spec calls for at least a 25 MHz 486SX
microprocessor, color video display with
thousands of colors, 4 megabytes of memory
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with DOS and Windows
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speakers
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and involves at least a couple of steps to transferan address and postalcode to a document.
Unlike ZipCode, PoCo can be used as a
stand-alone application. It can also be used as
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also uses just over 3MB of hard disk space.
In assessing both PoCo and ZipCode,
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given to each program and compared to
their listing in the current Canada Post
postal code directory. For regular residential
addresses within towns or cities, PoCo gave
correct responses in all cases, and ZipCode
made one error. PoCo's search engine also
provided better matches for addresses using
postal box or rural route numbers.
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postal codes for either provincial or federal
government addresses. Often government
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to a postal code directory hundreds of pages
thick and weighing several pounds to find a
particular postal code. There is now another
option: postal code software. There are currently two different Canadian postal code
programs available: ZipCode and PoCo.
When given an address, they return a
postal code, which can then be copied over
to whatever application you are using.
Both programs use postal code data
obtained directly from Canada Post, so the
accuracy of their information source is not in
question. ZipCode and PoCo use very different
search engines to match postal codes to the
addresses you give them, and this can affect
the accuracy of the resulting postal code.
ZipCode prompts the user for an address
in a way people are already familiar with:
you simply write out the street number and
name, and then the name of the city.
When you hit Enter, ZipCode then searches
its database, prompts the user if that exact
address appears in more than one province,
and then delivers the postal code.
Of the two programs, it has the better
user interface. It works as a terminate stayresident (TSR) program, and can be activated using a hot-key sequence. The Windows
version of. ZipCode lets you transfer either
the full address or just the postal code
directly to your favorite word processing
program. With the DOS version you have
to copy the information over yourself.
It works in either English or French, and
its ZipBase program can verify 10,000
postal codes an hour from dBase III, IV,
FoxPro or Clipper database files. It also has
a label-maker program which prints out
labels conforming to Canada Post specifications. As a TSR it requires about 7K of RAM,
and takes up S.SMB of hard disk space.
PoCo retrieves a postal code by a system
called "successive refinement." You are first
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And the Kitchen Slnis, too
orelDRAW." What does this word

remind you of? If you thought of

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charting, animation, scanning, forms tracing, file management, word processing,
spreadsheet, OCR, page layout, fonts, clip
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Why? Because CorelDRAW 4.0 has reinvented itself as much, much more than just

also get 100 of the "PB" variety, too.)

now find "Avant Garde," "New Baskerville"

Thankfully, most of the names are now recognizable. Instead of oddballs like "Aval-

and "Garamond." There are still a few

(probably licensing-related) oddities, but

monikers that are likely to be familiar to

professional publishers and Mac<entric service bureaus. The default installation

on," "New Brunswick" and "Grajon," you' ll

the majority of Corel's fonts now have

installs 50 fonts; you can install some or all

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a drawing program.
DTP Prowess
lf I was in charge at Aldus (developers of
PageMaker), I'd be more than a little worried about Corel's inclusion of heavyweight
DTP features such as multi-page layouts,
color separations,
word processing,
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a spelling checker
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images and symbols. Aldus has

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arena for a couple

o f years. N o w ,
with QuarkXPress on the PC and CorelDRAW stomping on its DTP turf, Aldus
must be feeling pressure from both sides.
Ultimately, it's not so much a question
of whether CorelDRAW is a better or worse
product, but what a potential buyer feels is
the best purchase decision, Seasoned
DTP'ers may scoff at CorelDRAW 4.0 for its
inability to open more than one document
at a time (something Aldus took a lot of
heat for, I recall, from PageMaker 4 users),
and CorelDRAW is as it has always been
painfully slow at opening and displaying
pages of styled text (compared to straight
DTP applications, as well as competing
draw programs), but most users will be able
to justify these shortcomings by considering CorelDRAW"s other strengths.
In much the same vein, CoreiDRAW
now demands that it be included in the list
of "natural media" programs featuring computer-assisted fine-art tools. Now that
CorelDRAW 4.0, too, delivers digital brushes that simulate the styles of Van Gogh and
Seurat, its competitors (Fractal Painter,
Aldus Gallery Effects, etc.) are bound to lose
sales.
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puServe, GEnie, etc.

In the Corel areas on these services, you
soon begin to notice recurring themes. One
part of the package that a number of users
seem to be having difficulties with is the
color separation facility.

To be sure, the prepress functions of the

program have been greatly expanded from
p revious versions. PhotoPAINT n o w
encroaches on the domain of Adobe Photoshop, Aldus PhotoStyler and Micrografx Picture Publisher as a photo enhanceinent and
retouching package, and with "painterly"
programs such as Fractal Painter with its

"Impressionist" and "Psychedelicize"

backgrounds!), sample DTP layouts, menus,

effects. Unlike version 3.0 of PhotoPAINT,

which strongly resembled ZSOFT's PC
Paintbrush (no idle coincidence; Corel
licensed the PhotoPAINT code from ZSOFT

brochures, etc., bitmapped cartoon charac-

much as it has licensed the code for Corel-

ters and scenery for the CorelMove anima-

MOVE in this version from Vancouver,

tion utility, symbol libraries, charts and

infographics galore, and of course,many,

B.C.-based Motion Works), version 4.0 of

PhotoPAINT has a much stronger similarity

many thousands of beautifully rendered

to the "look and feel" of CorelDRAW. Its

drawings of everything from dinosaurs to

popwut toolbar design and unique win-

spacecraft.
The book also displays aH 750 fonts
(sub-grouped into categories such as signs,

dowshade-style Canvas and Color Selection

"roll-up" palettes are now consistent with
interface conventions in the main "draw"

publisher, technical, presentation, fun,

etc.).

portion of the program.

PhotoPAINT offers many special effects
and photo-enhancement features, including numerous sharpening and unsharp
masking options that can dramatically

As with version 3.0, CorelDRAW 4.0

includes a file-management facility which

allows you to browse thumbnail versions of

the files and/or search for keywords. There

are several hundred entries for the word
"computer" alone, so you' ll have to be fair-

ly specific!
PhotoPAINT ansi Color Seps
One good way to find out more about a

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product before you buy is to use a modem

and browse the technical support forums of

This package is yet another example of

improve the quality of scanned images, but

unfortunately omits one important feature
that will probably ensure a bright future for
its competitors. There is, as far as I can tell,
no way to "feather" the edge of a selection
in PhotoPAINT. Cut-and-pasted objects
therefore have a harsh and artificial pixelat-

ed edge, whereas in Photoshop, PhotoStyler, Painter and others of their ilk, selections can blend smoothly into the background, with a soft edge transition that

fades from opaque to transparent.

Also part of the new PhotoPAINT are

high-end prepress features such as gray

component replacement and undercolor
removal (both are procedures used to optimize process-color separations), gammacorrection, and display and printer calibration. With CorelDRAW's enhanced colorseparation and prepress features, I suspect
that the company will find that these are

areas where many users report technical

problems (and there are a few) or require
extensive support. Desktop prepress is not a
subject that can be easily mastered and
does not lend itself to a set of default set-

tings. Good quality color separations

require a thorough understanding of how

much ink a given type of paper can take,

what "line screen" is appropriate for the
chosen output device, and a vast array of
other technical details. To its credit, Corel
provides strong words of caution to this
effect in its manual, along with over 40
pages of detailed technical information on
the printing options.

Yechnkal Difficulties
The tech support area of the Corel
forum on CompuServe ("GO COREL") is
abuzz with reports of p
with the initial release of 4.0. Some users accuse the
company of releasing the program early so
that Corel execs could announce the prod-

roblems

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the eyes of beta testers, who knew the product was not ready for release.
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tion facility that many users can't make it
work, period. I expect there a more than a
few one-color ads in magazines this month
from designers who upgraded only to discover what being on the bleeding edge is all
about. It is unfortunate for these users that
CorelDRAW 4.0 does not have a "deinstall"
option, nor instructions on the undoubted-

ly complex procedure.
Other users detail problems with CorelDRAW's OLE (object linking and embedding) implementation. Corel, in turn,
blames Microsoft, saying that a "maintenance release" of OLE 2.0, expected later
this year, should address the bugs.
Other reports describe various problems
with line spacing in paragraph text, PostScript output and the EPS (encapsulated
PostScript) export option. There is a fairly
detailed list of bugs and, in some cases,
possible workarounds posted in CompuServe's CorelDRAW 4 f i l e l i brary.
Although unduly alarming to read (some of
the bugs described in this list, such as a purported problem with the program's "conical
fills," did not occur in my tests), it gives
some idea of what to expect or at least be
wary of.
A few of the problem reports, such as
complaints about the program being even
slower than version 3, are not bugs, per se,
but are valuable to know about before buy-

all other users should use 3.55. (Microsoft

technical support apparently reports that
v3.56 has problems.) Unfortunately, the
only driver supported by Aldus is 3.56,
which Aldus developed especially for PageMaker.
Some CorelDRAW 4.0 users report that
they cannot change the page source or orientation with the 3.56 driver. I did not
experience this problem, although I found
some of the others mentioned earlier.
As mentioned earlier, importing EPS
files from CorelDRAW into PageMaker
caused a checksum error. Aldus also advises
against trying to load a CorelDRAW EPS file

into FreeHand, claiming it causes a general

protection fault. Ouch.
I called Aldus tech support to find out
whether the problem was theirs or Corel's.
(Users of previous versions may recall that
CorelDRAW 3.0a broke TIFF and EPS import
functions that had worked correctly in version 2 01 of the program )
After a lengthy delay (and the mandato-

ry opening of a new limited-period support

session by Aldus' unusually strict support
staff), an Aldus technician informed me
that Corel has a new import filter, which
corrects this problem. After another lengthy
wait in Corel's tech support queue (what we

go through for our readers!), a Corel technician told me the patch is available on CompuServe in the Corel forum (GO COREL; the
file is in area 4, called EPSFIX.COM). It is

also on Corel's own BBS. Apparently, currently shipping versions of CorelDRAW 4.0
do not include this fix, although future

manufacturing runs are expected to.

He also told me that all other import
and export functions worked well in 4.0,
with the possible exception of the CGM

(computer graphics metafile, a common PC

image format), which apparently has some
problems (on CompuServe, some users
report images are displayed upside-down!)

ing or upgrading. Corel's CompuServe

forum also contains a large number of technical support documents and other helpful
tips a boon for modem users.
Although the majority of the bug
reports are true, the problems are (dare I say
it?) relatively minor, other than the problem with color separations, Aside from
attempting to place a CorelDRAW EPS file
in PageMaker, FreeHand or QuarkXPress, I
couldn't find any that crashed or locked up
the system, and Corel has released a fix for
this serious gaffe. After all, you don't have
to use OLE 2.0's "edit in place" functions,
and you can export files in many formats

other than CorelDRAW EPS (including

Adobe Illustrator EPS, which does work correctly), Nevertheless, Corel needs to hear a
clear message from its users: it should concentrate on getting existing features to work
properly, before adding a bunch of new
ones. As a matter of fact, all developers
would do well to heed this point.

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The company must surely be unaware of

how awful its automatic technical support
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of instructions and dutifully making several
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least on the day I called, the system only
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"real world" bitmaps have obsoleted the

dinical sterility of the graduated fill.

00

One amusing side effect of this new fascination with the scanner is a visual anom-

aly I'm sure will gain the same sort of noto-

B Y G R A E M E B E N N ET T
s there a look that characterizes-this
particular point in h i story? I think
there is, just as there was a "look" that
characterized every era.

Of course, our perception of any observable phenomenon is derived from our perspective of it. Our visual history is culled
from larger sodal and cultural movements.

The "Roaring Twenties" emphasized

the new industrialism in its Art
D eco an d f a s c i natio n w i t h

Nevertheless, the '80s was the decade

where computers made massive inroads in
the areas of typesetting and publishing. At
the low end, the ubiquitous "Print Shop

Look" started appearing on laundromat signs

and "Happy Birthday" banners across the
nation, while the swelling ranks of Mac and
IBM owners with a floppy disk full of
fonts seemed intent on putting every

machines, geometry and the conquest of

nature. The "Golden Age of Hollywood"
showed the young American (and by cultural osmosis, Canadian) adults of the thirties
and forties "the look" of that era in everything from fashion to social behavior. And
who can forget the "Psychedelic Sixties" as
popularized by film, fashion and print
medias? It hardly matters that the Sixties'

computer equivalent of clip-art. At first,

stream until the Seventies.

Although it now seems hard to believe,

that ten-year period from the late seventies to
the late eighties was the dawn of the era of

personal computers, when early machines

from Apple,
Commodore, Radio Shack and
IBM (and others, of course) brought the
promise of increased productivity and personal empowerment to an eager new market.
This was also the time when many people

were discovering the growing power and influence of the media on a nation of tube-fixated
Americans. It didn't take long for media-savvy

PC pioneers to take the words of A.J. Liebling to

heart when he said, "the power of the

press belongs to those who own one."

Desktop publishing was born into
a world of Gestetner machines and
"wet" photocopiers; a world of Selec-

tric typewriters and acetate sheets of "ruin"

type. It promised so much that it didn't matter
that those early efforts were realized on dotmatrix printers and monochrome screens.

As always, the consumer and small

office markets had the high end to look to
- for directions and guidance. "Real" publishers were already intimately familiar with
digital typography and looked at the crude
halftones and typography of the first gener-

cards.
The look I am referring to is the quasi-pho- The last few y ears have
torealistic "sharPening" ln t goduced awhole new
one sees on just about

these were blocky bitmapped images which

were invariably stretched wider and/or
taller than they ought to be. Later, vector or
object-oriented graphics (" outline art")
became derigeur. the sort of too-perfect clip
art that could only come from a computer.

Professional typographers and artists alike

shuddered then, and we should all pause
and shudder now.
Now that fonts sell for about a buck

apiece, thanks largely to Microsoft (and

much to the chagrin of nearly everybody
else in or out of the font business), people
are starting to realize that having fifty fonts
doesn't mean you have to use them all on

the same page. With the mainstream business

community's gradual assimilation of the

desktop publisher's vocabulary has come a

better understanding of what makes a page
look good. Of course, there are still plenty of
hideous layouts, fonts and dipshit collections
out there, but at least there are a few exam-

ples of what's good, too. And my prayers

have been answered! I hardly ever see any-

body trying to pass off dot-matrix output in

resumes or business correspondence.

Although we' re seeing a general improvement in the quality of desktop typogra-

phy, the last few years have introduced a

whole new set of technologies to the desktop, and with them, a new set of caveats.
One of the most obvious current trends
is probably a backlash against sterile clipart. Instead of a plain shaded box, the look
du jour is a scanned texture: perhaps mar-

Some of these are utilities

designed for a specific purpose. Adobe's Dimensions
and Ray Dream's Add
Depth, for example, are

oyies to the
been scanned and de sktop, andwith them,
touched on the desk- a sew set of caveats.

one of them onto each tractor-fed page.

Along with these endless pages of badly kerned type Times (Dutch), Helvetica
(Swiss) and Courier, mostly came the

"Avant Garde" look didn't become main-

r iety that Ektachrome color did in t h e

home movies and feature films of our childhoods. It's not so different from the exaggerated colors one gets from a Canon Color
Laser copier. Oh, sure, it's good, but so were
h and-colored p o s t -

Compugraphic typesetters of their domain.

in /arossic Pork, "Just because ~

w e can d o esn't m e a n w e
should."
Looking into my crystal ball, I
predict that 3-D imaging, coinplex lighting
effects and/or animation will be the next
areas of fascination for many computer
graphics buffs. In the first category, I am
noticing significant movement in the low
end of the 3-D market, which may finally
give the over-$1000 modellers some competition.

a ny photo t h a t

has

top. It's visible on the .

covers of a surprising

artwork into 3-D. Both programs output PostScript

files for use with object-oriented drawing (Illustrator, Free-

number of magazines.
Look for it next time you' re in the supermarket checkout line. After you know what to
look for, you can spot it almost immediately:
artificially high contrast between foreground

and background images, halos of dark or

light around the denizens of this photographically altered world.
Naturally, everyone has a good reason
why they use this sharpening (more specifically, it is usually a type of sharpening
called "Unsharp Masking" ) It makes the
image look better when printed. Images are
better-defined; resolution appears higher.
Why the sudden emphasis on unnaturally
sharpened images? Simple the programs
(Photoshop, for example) which create this
effect didn't exist on desktop PCs five years

ago. Hopefully, would-be photo retouchers

will soon realize that the effect looks crummy when toomuch has been applied and
unsharp mask fringes won't be the look of
next year, too.
The way the computer industry moves,
we need no longer wait a decade or even a

Hand, etc.) or desktop publishing

applications. We' ll be looking at 3-D

graphics more closely in our October. issue.

For lighting effects, you need look no
further than programs such as Photoshop
and/or Fractal Painter both available on
both Macs and PCs. The former can simu-

late such phenomena as the lens glare of a

35 mm camera refracting the sun right out

of the package and with add-ons like the

KPT Lens Bright filter in Kai's Power Tools,
you can make objects look as though they

are being viewed through a 3-D sphere.

Painter takes the idea of lighting a 2-D
image further still. You can set up a pseudotextured surface as your picture's "canvas"
and shine simulated light onto this "virtual
texture" at any angle. You can light a scene
with an unlimited number of virtual spotlights, of any color, with or without ambi-

ent background lighting. You can make

your "brush strokes" catch the lighting
and/or be affected by the "canvas" texture.

It's a wonderful program no aspiring com-

year to observe new trends. Every six

months, it seems, a new graphics

puter artist should be without.

technology filters down from

the big iron (larger, more powerful computers) and hits "the
desktop," Morphing is all the rage
since Terminator 2 (although, special-effects
buffs may know, it was first used in the film
Willow) will it be passe tomorrow?

Macintosh utilities specifi-

cally designed to turn 2-D

As numerous 3-D rendering programs

(not to mention the Movie of the Week

intro on your favorite TV station) have

shown, complex lighting effects add a sense
of drama and dynamism that are worth all
the time the effects take to create.

Remember when type manipulation

utilities (LetraStudio, TypeStyler, Corel-

Someday, I hope that computer graphicswill have the subtlty and depth that will
earn them the ultimate compliment: we

ation of laser printers with disdain. And

ble ora weave pattern. A few years ago,

rightly so. A 300-dpi LaserWriter with 16or-so shades of gray and a sparse collection

when CorelDRAW and FreeHand were the

DRAW, etc.), first hit the market? Soon, the

won't know they were created on a comput-

latest rage in graphics software, the "design-

world was besieged by an onslaught of

er. Already, there are a few programs (Frac-

extruded and warped type. Words were

pulled like taffy even if they never
should have been. It's as Ian Malcom said

tal Painter for the Mac and Windows is one

of the most promising) that suggest we
won't have to wait long.

of fonts many of them bitmapped or

unhinted was (and, some would argue, is
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er look" was to fill everything with gradient

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appears to be a software glitch. Areas of

intensely dark blue repeatedly come out

balance was fairly accurate, with only a tiny

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The Color-It application has a AutoContrast option which did a reasonable job
at correcting the brightness problem with
just one click. "Sharpening" the resulting
image another Color-It option, produced
a scan that was not half bad although
not quite equal to that of the close-to-

$2,000 HP ScanJet Ilc scanner it emulates.

read or heard that handheld

I noticed a few minor problems in my

tests of the unit. Although the unit is adver-

tised as "600-dpi color," it can only scan at

300 dots per inch in black-and-white. A
workaround to this odd limitation is to scan

with red speckles apparently some sort of

clipping is occuring. Also, the rollers that
transport the page through the scanner very
occasionally exhibited minor slippagevisible as an unusual line or tiny stretched
area in the resulting scan. Certainly, these
problems are nothing compared to the hassles of a handheld scanner, but were disappointing, nevertheless.

units are too l i m i t i n g and

found flatbed models too expensive. Many

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a scanner that could do OCR (optical character recognition) attractive; that ishaving
the machine automatically retype previous-

ly printed documents and save the text as a

word processor file what a timesaver!
And who doesn't like the idea of scanning

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days have color displays. Wouldn't it be

great if there was a less expensive alternative to the $1,000-$2,000 prices command-

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that would still allow you to scan a full
page at once? Well, The Computer Paper
just received the first full-page scanner that
daims to do all of these things at a price of
C$1,099. Let's see how well it does....
My initial impressions were very favorable. I received a Macintosh version of the
product for review (a PC model is also available). The box contains SCSI and power
cables, WordScan OCR software, Color-it
Image editing and paint software, a software "plug-in" compatible with Photoshop,
Color Studio and Color-lt, manuals, a dust
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b efore emerging from the back of t h e
unit. Th e p a per p at h i s c o m p l e t ely
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the ScanPlus Color 6000 em u l ates a
Hewlett-Packard ScanJet Iic scanner. This
means that any software that works with
an HP ScanJet or ScanJet Pius should work
with the Plustek unit. Sure enough, I
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list of supported scanners in Caere's
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flawlessly. The only observable difference
between a genuine ScanJet Ilc and the
Plustek's emulation is the latter's inability
to support automatic brightness control
(HP calls this feature "AccuPage") in applications such as OmniPage.

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OCR. At least I could make sense of the

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Workgroup server, the AWS 95, not to mention the many thi rd-party accelerator
options for other Macs.) Worse, the Calera
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me? A Calera spokesman later called back

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Scanners are alluring to many users. They
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The UUCP/Connect package allows the
connection to be requested manually via a
menu selection or connection may be automated in several ways. For systems which
are left running, a cron type function is
built into UUCP/Connect. This allows
UUCP log-ins to be scheduled, every hour,
once a day or some regular schedule. For
example, every night at midnight is economical when the mail server is not in the
user's local calling area. The package can
also be configured to answer incoming calls
from the mail server. It is also possible to
configure for a mail call after each message
is composed, a mode which might be
favored when connect time and call costs
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mail and Usenet article submissions, all
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messageswaiting at the mail server.
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Many systems are not user friendly when
it comes to configuring UUCP. However, this

product is an example of howeasysuch atask

may be made with the intelligent use of
menus, dialogs and defaults. Separate mail and

news servers or other servers are supported.

Defaults provided will work fine with standard
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users whohavespecialized demands.

Mailboxes for Organization
UUCP/Connect allows the user to create
any number of mail boxes. A mail box is a

collection of messagesmuch the same as a

folder is a collection of files. A mail box is
defined with the same name as the E-mail
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to it. The package facilitates easy move-

ment of messagesbetween mailboxes, copying and import or export of messages/files.

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are possible. Additional functions such as
split, join and binhex are alsoprovided.

multi-location organization with unconnected AppleTalk LANscould use UUCP/Connect

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memory and a hard disk, but a faster Mac
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run in' the background but the faster
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processing, news reading or similar functions in the foreground. A component called

One of the more resource-demanding

functions of UUCP/Connect is the opening
and closing of mailboxes and newsgroups.
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newsgroup as a single Macintosh text file.
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consuming to open as
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when several items are being deleted. If the
mailbox was kept as a Madntosh folder with
each item as asingle file it could be faster and
more convenient in some other ways. But
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each in the Macintosh file system. For users
who have the diskspaceand would like to use

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any editor or tool directly on the message,

friendly about running in the background.

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day of UUCP connection at 2400 baud will
transfer enough news and mail to keep
someone quite busy reading and replying. If
several busy Usenet newsgroups are being
spooled, newscan be a big connect time and
disk spaceconsumer. However, the ability to
accumulate a backlog of news is one reason
some people prefer running their own

this would be anice option.

a LAN are provided with local e-mail system

and internal conferencing via local Usenet
newsgroups. This feature allows the complete implementation of an internal e-mail
system for an organization using Macs on a
LAN. Such a LAN setup may use one Mac
with a modem as a gateway to external email and news. An aliasing feature of
UUCP/Connect allows e-mail addresses anywhere on the LAN to appear externally as if

UUCP over on-line news reading. On-line

services can't always keep all the news that

Overall

they were on the single-gateway machine.

An e-mail system internal to an organization

will find a 9600 baud or better modem useful. The long-distance user can find that a

doesnot have to have any external access.A

fast modem quickly paysfor itself.

Communications Options
UUCP/Connect works with the Macintosh Communications Toolbox to provide
several options in serial communications. It
can also run UUCP through AppleTalk.
UUCP/Connect does not restrict the Mac to
being a leaf node in the UUCP network. It
allows a Macintosh to do mail and news for-

warding for other nodes. This can be particularly useful for an AppleTalk LAN. Macson

and modems to bridge their LANs. This allows

basic file exchange and mall across a wider

network than just the co-locatedMars.

goes by over a period where the user may

temporarily be unable to keep up, Someone
watching a busy group who get behind in
reading will find collecting their own news
is a means of ensuring that nothing in some

newsgroup is missed. Heavy Usenet news

consumers should be prepared to allocate
tens of megabytes of hard disk to news and

Documentation
The weakest part of the UUCP/Connect
package is its documentation. This consists
of a manual and two addenda. All the basic
necessary information for installation and

use of the package is there. However, it is

not fully indexed and has not been re-organized and fully synchronized with the lat-

est changes to the actual package.

All in all, even with the weak documentation, UUCP/Connect is a very usable and

useful package, and a good buy at its current price.

Philip Fleischer is a communications considtant and sofhrare designercunently working in
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31

Winnipeg BBSesBusted for X-Rated Images

B Y GORD T V L L O C H
i nce the dawn of th e

personal computer revolution, the sins that

a fflict s o c i ety a s a
whole have not spared computer users. Early on, it was
ASCII images of scantily clad
ladies laboriously keyed by

hand by computer nerds with plenty

of time on their hands and a underdeveloped social life. Now, sophisti-

animated feature thrown in for the more

sophisticated "taste."

cated scanning and graphics devices

lated through government agendes, no such

regulation exists on electronic pornography.
Materials that would have been stopped at
our borders are transmitted with impunity
and distributed on disk and through elec-

While normally such materials are regu-

can display photographic quality

images of the same materials which
reside behind the counter in your
local drugstore, with the occasional

In the latter days of May, eight Winnipeg

BBS systems were confiscated by Winnipeg
Police officers, who alleged that they contained obscene material. In many cases the
materials cited in the warrants were simply
part of CD-ROM distributions and the operamaterials were not legal in Canada.
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pornography laws are far less strict.

tors were simply unaware that some of the

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tronic BBS systems catering to "adult" tastes.

In many cases such distribution is done via
CD-ROM from American companies, where

pices of a search warrant, utilizing the services of a locksmith if the unfortunate

sysop (system operator) was not at home.
All computer equipment was confiscated, as

well as peripherals, manuals, and seemingly

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whatever else was at hand. While nothing

has been returned, as yet no charges have
been laid. It is evident from the handling of
this case that these seizures are intended to
warn other computerized systems that
material of this nature will not be tolerated.
This is the first such seizure in Canada it
will likely not be the last.
Several sources have implied that the
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not independently wealthy, and cannot

afford to challenge the authorities even if
the authorities can easily be proven to be in
error. Considering the lack of knowledge

commonly exhibited by the judiciary, it is

not a certain matter whether an ironclad
defense will make a difference, particularly
if it relies on anything related to computers.
One BBS sysop whose system in still in the
hands of police indicated that it would cost
$30,000 to mount a defense, so risking this

sort of game is beyond any BBS sysop.

32 S EPTEMBER '93 THE COMPUTERPAPER ONTARIO EDITION

The final resolution of these matters will

not occur until August (and in fact may

Message bases will have to be monitored so

that no message which may offend some-

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Letters Continued from page 8
to the library, school or park. My kids roam
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Do our kids need a computer of their
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pocket video game and took it apart to
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library computer to find books by her

favorite authors. I considered their current
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summer was to get our son a dip net ($2.99),

our daughter some plasticine ($3.99) and to
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on my ADAM word processor. When I get a

new system (many $$) I will hand the
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game cartridges. For us, that's the appropriate way to invest this year.

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now enjoy in a blanket of fear and

paranoia. Perhaps, of course, that
was the intent from the beginning.
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Distribution and Manufacturing Systems in
Winnipeg. He is also active in the BBS community, acting as a Co-sysop on the Muddy Waters
Computer Society BBS. He can be reached via
the Internet as gordtAnuug.mb.ca.
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Enterthe Internet
A catalog of thought

nter the Internet a domain of the

networked thoughts, ideas and work
of over ten million people around
the planet. No other technology
rings truer to the notion of the global village than the Internet. Many of us have
heard about the Internet and some of the
interesting stories surrounding its use, but
many people are either afraid to check it
out, or are simply having a hard time getting more information about it.
I' ve been using various aspects of the
Internet for years, but I still never knew
that much about it like who runs it, who
pays for it and what nifty resources are out
there until I was sent a copy of The

Whole Internet User's Guideaud Catalog.

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What's interesting about this book

about the Internet is the way I used the
Internet to get it. I saw the book listed in a
newsletter that was sent to me by the publisher, O'Reilly and Associates. In the
newsletter was an Internet e-mail address:
nuts(<ora.corn. I logged on to a local BBS
and fired oft a request for a review copy.
A few hours later a message appeared in
my Internet mailbox confirming that the
book was on its way. Two days later it was
in my lap. This demonstrates one very powerful thing about the Internet you can
send mail almost anywhere in the world,
virtually for free, within a matter of minutes. All you need is the person's address
(The Computer P a per's a ddress i s
TCP(n'mindlink.bc.ca).
When you don't need to talk to someone in real-tilne, Internet E-mail is one of
the most inexpensive, convenient and
effective ways to communicate with anyone, anywhere.

Another example: I'm a follower of the

alternative music scene and culture. I frequent an i n t e r net n e wsgroup called
ALT.GOTHIC, which, if you' re interested in
bands like Bauhaus or The Sisters of Mercy,
is the place to be. I was on my way to Germany to attend CeBIT. I was going to be
spending a few days in Berlin and knew
this would be a fine opportunity to find

some groovin' night clubs. I dropped a note

in ALT.GOTH and twopeople sent me back
E-mail with their phone numbers. They
told me about a few places to go and
instructed me to call them when I arrived
they'd be happy to take me out on the
town.
Not only did I have a great time, I really
felt the impact of the whole concept of the
global village and how it was changing
society. (If you really dig this, pick up PowershifI by Alvin Toffler [Bantam books] and
he' ll tell you the whole story).
ALT.GOTHIC isn't the only newsgroup
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t hem, d i s cussing e v e r y t h in g f r o m
BIONET.NEUROSCIENCE to REC.MOTORCYCLES.HARLEY and, of course, ALT.
ENSIGN. CRUSHER.DIE.DIE,DIE. It's a
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and fringe culture that's catalogued in
something akin to a verbose form of the
Dewey Decimal System used to catalog
books in libraries.

If you recorded every conversation that

took place in any given newsgroup for a
few months, you would probably have
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documented in any book in any library.
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Berlin, I found that someone at a place
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Internet that I never knew, Not only does it

groups, telnet, FTP, Archie, etc.

ment into designing networks that could

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that is a must for both using and understanding the Internet.

the various services available: E-mail, newsHow much you pay to get on the Inter-

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explained, is probably the most popular.
They' re not expensive to provide since they
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the Internet for a live session (the moving

of mail and news is done in batches during

off-peak hours when it's less expensive).
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What happens is that you log on to the
system over the Internet, live. You can
then browse through their file listings and
download whatever catches your fancy.
Files are moved from site to site very quickly usually 64kbps per second or faster.
You stand there, bucket in hand, staring
at the ocean of files. You want to download
something but don't know where to find it.
Where to start? As the guide says: "This
sounds like a good job for a computer,
actually for a program one called Archie
located at McGill University in Montreal."
Archie is like the Yellow Pages of networked file directories. Archie was created

useful, commands that you' ll encounter

when using things like advanced threading

where to cycle around Nova Scotia.

Telnet:connecting to otherrvlces
Telnet is an Internet utility that allows
you to log on to another system that's also
on the net. Just as you'd call up a BBS over
the telephone, Telnet allows you to call up
a BBS or similar service via Internet.
Telnetting to other places is something
The Whole Internet Guide is really useful
for. It lists hundreds of sites you can link
up to and what they offer. While most of
them are academic organizations there are
a lot that are just plain fun, like the online
collection of Monty Python sketches at
U.C. Berkeley, or Biking Information Canada, where you can download GIF maps of

Just like calling up BBSes there are

mail readers and other Internet utilities.

Sources: I'd like to thank David Mason
and the gang at Internex Online (voice

membership requirements, such as yearly

fees, to use some of the services at other
sites.

363-8676) for demonstrating how easy and

fun the Internet can be. I'd also like to
thank Rick Broadhead for providing the
following list of public Internet sites. If you
have any comments, or would like to add
your system to the list, you can contact
Rick at YSAR1111CaVMI.YorkU.CA and you
can reach me at DIGITAR(alO.ORG.

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After reading the book you might still
feel a little uneasy with using the Internet
(don't worry, I did when I started too). The
best thing to do is to capture everything to
disk as you go, then make up cheat-sheets
and hang them on the wall behind your
monitor. You' ll soon begin to feel more
familiar with many of the complex, and

to allow people to find things by providing

keywords. Every month Archie logs onto
every major system on the net and downloads every publicly available file listing,
then updates its own database using this
information. If you want to know where
something is, just ask Archie.

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The world's largest live chat

On the Internet is something called IRC
Internet Relay Chat. It's a chat program
that has thousands of "channels" and
allows anyone on the internet to join in.
Unlike chats that are on BBSes, this one
doesn't really exist, i.e., it doesn't run on
one particular machine somewhere it
runs everywhere. IRC is like CB radio. It' s
just "there" and all you have to do is tune
in to use it.
Also unlike most BBS chats, this one
includes members all over the planet and
has a much wider scope. Another good
point: since it doesn't really exist anywhere
except in the connections of the network
itself nobody charges you for it. Once you
have the ability to connect to the Internet
it's FREE!

Ilultl-user games for freel

If everything I' ve said doesn't make you
want to gct onto the Internet, this will.
There are programs called Multi-User Dungeons (or MUDs), and they' re very sophisticated multiplayer real-time online adventure games.
These games resemble the text-based
infocom-style adventure games except
you' re not the only one playing. While
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for Mac and Atari (a Windows

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Unfortunately, Notator is not without

its share of quirks and interface oddities.

humble beginnings.
In 1986, Gerhard Lengeling released

One of its most galling design flaws: you

have to quit the score editor every time you
want to save a song to disk.

"ScoreTrack" for the C-64, the included

dongle had an IC and several resistors tk

capacitors. It displayed a split screen hi-rez

Just Illte starting over
Notator Logic, for those readers who

Grand Staff/Event list. Several early MIDI

albums were released using only this program. About a year later Mr. Lengeling
switched to the Atari ST and Notator {the
precursor to Logic) was born.
N ow at r evision 3 .2, N otator h a s

missed my April 93 article "Desktop Music

Publishing," is Emagic's successor to Notator SL. Billed as a new sequencing environment, it is currently available for the Mac

spawned a considerable collection of add-

and ST. Virtually everyone who has seen it

agrees: it's totally different from any other

ons, including HUMAN TOUCH (a device

which allows a human drummer to control
the sequencer's tempo), built-in SMPTE boxes like UNITOR (a plug-in SMPTE box) and
UNITORII, EXPORT (additional MIDI ports),
and STEADY EYE, which allows Notator to
sync SMPTE 'frames" to video frames.

sequencer they' ve ever seen.

Those who are expecting or hoping for
Notator for the Mac will be disappointed.
Instead of being Notator re-born, Logic is a
completely new program. None of the editing
screens look even remotely the same. It takes
a completely different "top4own" approach
to sequencing. It is extremely graphic in its
approach there are icons for everything.
First you create a song folder. Within
this might be several other part folders,
inside this might be the sections of your

SMPTK iwarvelous
If you' re an audio-for-video guy or gal,
SMPTE is crucial.
There are a n u m be r o f e x t e r nal
SMPTE/MTC boxes that will read/write
SMPTE and feed a computer MIDI time

songs, and inside this (or any number of

nested folders) might be your sequences,

code timing information, thereby giving

SMPTE lock. Such external SMPTE/MIDI
converters will work with most (but not

which actually contain the MIDI data,

instrument "objects," and notes. Each of

all!) sequencers. Although Notator has a

these folders or objects can exist anywhere

"Clock In" function, it doesn't support

Midi Time Code just Midi clocks 6r Song

on the timeline of the song. You can change

sequence or folder lengths, and can drag

thin drag things around to where you want

them, anywhere on the bar ruler. There are
unlimited tracks available, and you can set
up as many faderobjects as you want and
have them transmit or modify any instrument object, track object, or other processing objects in the environment window.
In the Environment window, you use virtual cables to connect this instrument object
to various MIDI processors and other instruments for virtual layers, splits, delays, etc. All
this is then routed to the real MIDI outputs by
more virtual cables, as well as connected to
real MIDI inputs for devices like keyboards,
etc. Virtual spaghet ti anyone?
Unfortunately, more than a few Logic
users find its user interface confusing. Paul

Garay of Simply Computing, who characterizes himself as a Notator expert, says he' s
still baffled by the Logic look and feel.
GEnie user MITCH G. writes, "even after

being a Creator/Notator user for five years, I

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coes, or how to use it."
Part of the problem is Logic's manual. It
is vhat I call a "feature manual." It lists all
th4 features and tools you have with a
des;ription. Unfortunately, it doesn't tell

you anythingabout how orwhy you would

use these things. This program really needs
a tQtorial manual.
For example, the first couple of times I
worked with it, I recorded notes, and could
play them back, but I c ouldn't find the
data for editing or viewing...it was lost
somewhere in a 3-dimensional maze of

nested folders and objects.

What did I like best? The fact that every
thing is an object with an associated icon
(of your choosing) is very cool and flexible.

The built-in arpeggiator, delay and other

processing objects are very cool. Unlimited
tracks, unlimited faders....
What did I dislike most? I really had trouble grasping the way that the folders/instru-

B,C,and D effectively replace C-Labs's

EXPORT hardware). Unitor ll owners can
just plug into this new Logic dongle.

ou t p u ts. This is the first copy protection ab i l i ty to store different midi set-ups... Well
s c h eme I' ve seen that proves to be a benefit t he s e Anatek boxes will store a bunch of
rather than a drawback."
different situations, editable in the software!

Here'sa quote from the May 1993

Other MIDI Mews

issue of KEYBOARD
"Emagic's new sequencing program,
Notator Logic, includes a new copy protection key that provides three discrete MIDI

Have you heard about the cool programmable MIDI+audio patchbays from Creation Technologies (formerly Anatek, the
company can be reached at 604-980-6850).

outputs, plus an additional out port for

They' re "Made in Canada" and have an Bxg

w/o audio for around $500 and a 16x16
with both midi and audio progammable

This isn't as bad as things were for one Power-

switching for under $800. Both come with

Atari 87 Mac software (yesw62w!)

RAM board. Now that's a finale.

MIDI out 3. A pass through ROM port lets

you connect additional devices such as Unitor II or MIDIEX + and take advantage of
their Midi outs and SMPTE capabilities. By
Export, you can have nine discrete midi

's St o r a g e

up I start with the notes. Logic works the

other way. The notes are buried away inside a
hierarchy of folders. What you see in the
event list (when you can get deep enough to
find it) may have no relationship to what
MIDI data is being outputted. In some ways,
Logic seems anything but logical.
Also, the lack of a directly related and
interacting universal editor/librarian is a big
minus in my mind. Those who have used a
sequencer
i n t e r a ctivel y wi t h an
editor/librarian will understand how the
dynamic reprogramming of your synthesizer(s) can add greatly to the "humanness" of
a composition. ( U n i syn/Performer or
Galaxy/Vision are the best examples of this
synergy on the Mac.)
So, how does Logic compare with Notator
SL? One user's comment about the two programs was that he felt that SL did the notation better, at least compared to Logic version
1.2 (they have already released one upgrade
and are about to release 1.5 for the Mac).
Perhaps the best solution is to use each
program for what it's best at. Make the basic
sequences with Notator and a universal
ed/lib in the other partition of Softlink and
then when things are coming together load
it into Logic and make the arrangement. It
seems like the "top down" approach of Logic may be well suited for setting up big
chunks of data into meaningful form.
Its learning curve aside, everyone agrees
on one thing. The coolness factor of the
program is very high."
(A free demo disk of Logic is available.
Contact your local music retailer or contact
MusicWare at 416-785-3311.)
logic forthe ST
More fun and a bigger dongle, too.
Here's some interesting information
from Musicware, the Canadian distributors
of Emagic.
Logic for the ST ships with Notator 3.2
included! You get two programs in one. When
you upgrade, you trade your dongle in for a
new one that will run both the new (and
final) Notator and Logic as well. That has got

many users thinking about doing the upgrade.

Current SL owners can upgrade from
Notator for C$399. The upgrade package
includes Logic, its documentation, Notator

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For communications software, students
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the teacher's role "from a sage on

the stage, to a guide at the side,"

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/ Active, hands-on learning promotes high retention

/ No rushing out to class

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of River Oaks Elementary School in Halton.

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Macintosh computers and multimedia
peripherals like MIDI (musical instrument
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and interactive video disc equipment for
650 students from kindergarten to grade
eight. This lavish display of technology raises the question: How can they afford it?
"We budget our money differently than
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ONTARIO EDITION THE COMPUTERPAPER SEPTEMBER '93 41

information for re-adapting their skills to a
mercurial job market.
Computers are crucial to that process,
but they' ll never make teachers obsolete,
says Smith. Computers are just a tool. The
role of the teacher is to get students started
with technology and coach them in achieving skills with new soft/hardware.
"We also have some specialized technol-

with multimedia technology because it' s

interactive, whether the technological
device is a video disc or CD-ROM. A piece of
paper doesn't interact with you.
"As a case in point," Smith says, "during
our first year open, there was a child who
couldn't put anything down on paper whatsoever a learning disability." When introduced to a word processor, for the first time

nal text and graphics and some picture files

for photos of the student authors.
The students also used HyperCard to make
key words active for further hypertext definitions, graphics and in some cases QuickTime
movies, which were edited in Adobe Premiere
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technology," Smith says. "They' re used to it

ogy coaches on staff," Smith adds. "It is

she was able to produce a printed page of

and we aren' t. We can get in the way of

such a high priority that we' ve committed

text, Smith recalls. A very simple word

internal resources by freeing people to be

processor met her needs.

computer coaches." When that coach

comes into the classroom and takes over the
dass, the teacher becomes a student.
"Boy, does it work," Smith exclaims. "And
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twos taught the kindergarteners how to use

A study of this learning phenomena,

conducted in 1989 at Smith's previous
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of a composition written with a computer
was better than the final draft done with
pencil and paper in all cases.
Gifted students can take that same word
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capability. Smith says, "They' re into justification, fonts, style and the rest...."
An example of "the rest" was recently
demonstrated by River Oaks' grades 7/8

what a lot of our kids can do."

Children leam to use multimedia easily
with the correct curriculum, according to
Smith. In Milton, he had about 150 comput-

computers." A group of grade eights worked

with a group of grade threes giving one-onone HyperCard training. It's a lot better than
any one teacher can do with 30 kids.
"The computer buddy system is fantastic
because it helps to enhance all three E'sto Engage, Enable and Empower," Smith
says. But computer coaching works best

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alleged rough business practices and '

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young children (see the review of David

systems (about 7096 of North American

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the addictive effects of its games on

moving its popular characters onto other

Sheff's book, Game Over, in the July '93

issue of The Computer Paper).
Timed to coincide with the release of
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computing platforms. Nintendo has come

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Installation
The game requires a minimum configuration of an IBM AT or 1009 compatible
640K of RAM, VGA graphics, and hard disk.
The game was tested on a 286-compatible
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and faster on the Bondwell 486. The game
is a bit unusual in that the version tested

came with a sound card and speakers. Both

the software and the sound card installed
easily as per the instructions included, and
the sound card performed well. It has been
tested with other games, including Lem-

mings! from Psygnosis and Eco-Quest from

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In some ways, the game resembles
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out where he or she has turned up in the

world by asking passersby and collecting

clues. The game is also a typical Nintendo
game, in that there are plenty of whimsical
characters, unpredictable events, and the
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The play is absorbing, with colorful animated action and simple but appealing
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and using it to help solve the puzzle. Unlike
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the kids to read and do research to help solve
the puzzle. The documentation is sparse, consisting of a large fold-out map that has a picture of the continents on one side and
instructions on the other. A single paragraph
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er sources.
Overall, this game is worth the price of .
admission. It mixes a little learning along
with a lot of fun. It would be nice if, in
future titles, there was more depth to the

research and learning aspects of the game.

In the meantime, this is a respectable
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ferent types of Unix that are available. Its

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to all but the most expert Unix user. In
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approach in this book annoying, but any-

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wrong. Take it from somebody who fits the

book's characterization of "computer nerd"
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body who buys this book will find it a

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with that clunky old mainframe in universi-

his book assumes you know nothing about Windows operations-

eading this book brought back not-

ty. It's too late for me, but it may not be too

late for you. Highly recommended.

in fact it goes to some pains to

so-fond memories of the time I had

to use a mainframe computer at a
university. It ran on Unix, and so I
can fully appreciate the author's subtitle for
this book: "Your First Aid Kit for Dealing
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attitude. The attitude translates roughly as:
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The book comes with many useful illustrafions of Windows operating on a computer screen, and manages to cover just
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MISSISSAUGA (TCP) Silicon Graphics
unveiled its new Indy system, a computer
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capabilities at a relatively competitive price.
The Indy comes standard with a color digitail video camera, which can capture both
still and full-motion video images. The
Indy delivers the type of impressive graphics that has come to be associated with Silicon Graphics computers.
The Indy is aimed at taking away some of
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database management and publishing.
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PC Expo: Low-cost,

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK, (NB) At PC

Expo in July, UMax rolled out a low-cost,

high resolution scanner.
Priced at $2,495 for the Windows and
Mac models and $2,645 for Unix, the new
UC1260 flatbed scanner is designed for use

in desktop publishing, computer graphics,

and other applications requiring resolution

the image is enlarged. But

to most eyes, the results
are indistinguishable,"
she said.
The UC1260 is also
noteworthy for its high-

speed scanning, amounting to 135 seconds-perpage (spp) for color and 12

spp for line art, according
to the marketing director.

The new scanner joins a

family that also includes
the UMax UC630 for low-

end desktop publishing.

Yang told Newsbytes that

all UMax scanners feature drivers are fully

TWAINwompatible, meaning that users can

scan images from any application that supports the TWAIN standard.
The Windows and Mac versions of the

one pass UC1200S flatbed scanner,

the new 24-bit, three-pass UC1260

UC120 are bundled with Photoshop, and

the Unix model with Core software for
image editing and retouching. The Unix
model operates with Sun SPARCstations,
IBM RS/6000, and DEC Ultrix.
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reaches an optical resolution of

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Sales Of "P-3s"
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1998, says a new survey by Link Resources

and International Data Corp. (IDC),

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Communications will be the "killer function" for many users, according to the
study, which examined demand for a new

market segment dubbed "P-3s" (Personal

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Some of the P-3s are personal communications devices used for multiple functions
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aim at improving the productivity of executives and entrepreneurs.
"There is excitement, uncertainty and
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Where desktop extension users typically
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consumers of data, from E-mail to voice
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6.1,
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK, (NB) At PC
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with plans to provide a free upgrade in September that will supply both PC-DOS 6.0
and 6.1 with the disk compression capabilities of Microsoft's competing MS DOS 6.0.
In a press conference where the product
was announced, IBM officials said that PCDOS 6.1 will be the only DOS to ship with

pen extensions and PhoenixCard Manager

Plus, software that provides advanced management of PCMCIA cards. PC-DOS 6.1 will
also include utilities from Central Point

Software for backup, memory management

and scheduling, as well as newly developed
anti-virus technology from IBM.

Lee Reiswig, president of IBM's PSP (Per-

DOS system, even if compression software

is not installed.
SuperStor/DS will run with DoubleSpace
and the Microsoft Real-time Compression
Interface specification, allowing users to
migrate from the Microsoft disk-doubling
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The PenDOS extensions included in PCDOS 6.1 are designed to let users navigate
most mouse41ased DOS applications using a

pen. PhoenixCard Manager Plus, a technolo-.

gy from Phoenix Technologies, includes the
Ezlnstall feature for simplified installation
and configuration, Advanced Power Man-

sonal Software Products) Division, stated

that IBM will be offering an upgrade that
integrates a complete version of Addstor's
SuperStor/DS into PC-DOS 6.1 or 6.0.
Speaking with Newsbytes after the press
conference, a spokesperson said that the
SuperStor/DS upgrade will become available in mid to late September.
According to Reiswig, Super Stor/DS will
provide real-time data compression that
can up to double the capacity of fixed and

agement (APM), support for hot insertion

and removal of PCMCIA cards without
rebooting, and several DOS and Windows
utilities geared to ease of use, including display of PC card slot configuration status.
The new Antivirus utility is designed to
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computer viruses, Reiswig told the reporters.
The tool also offers such features as a small

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IBM's PC-DOS 6.1, Ollvetti's Quaderno 33

subnotebook and M6 Suprema desktop PCs,

and Xerox's 4700 II' laser printer.
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the DOS operating system, PC-DOS 6.1, will

be available this week. The Canadian list
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Canada also has a 90-day introductory offer,

which says that by calling the company at

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Olivetti Canada announced the Quaderno 33, a new version of its subnotebook
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list price of C$3,269.
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The First Apple

Newton is Launched
Apple Canada has announced the first of its
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(PDA) products the Newton MessagePad.

Expected to be in wide distribution
throughout Canada in September, the
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large paper notepad, it comes with a large

LCD display and pen and weighs just
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messages on its screen, which the Newton

can decipher and transform into formatted
text. It can also clean up rough sketches

entered into it, by straightening out lines

and recognizing the symmetry of objects.

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people have non-MIDI instruments. With

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Soloist retails for US$59.95.
There are 36 different skill levels to
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screen messages, of the accuracy of what

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he/she has just played. Soloist is the first

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Soloist in conjunction with a Sound Blaster

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SPECIAL INTERESTGROUPA special interest groupor SIG
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The cost of software for the Amiga tends to be considerably lower than for other computers
This is largely as a result of the Amiga's computer architecture. Custom cooprocessors
which work in parallel with the main CPIJ require less complex programming, resulting in
more compactand efficientsoftware which is easierand therefore,cheaper,to develop.

INVESTING IN AN AMIGA FOR YOUR CHILDREN

Amsoff Computer Systems is an Amiga specific computer dealer. The owner taught with
the Toronto Board of Education for nine years and being a proud parent of two quite
computer literate children, has a vested interest in Computer Education.
Purchasing a computer for your children is an important decision, requiring considerable
consideration. We invite you to visit our store to see and discuss the merits of the Amiga
first band.

EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE FOR THE AMIGA

Modem Amiga wordprocessors mirror your child's thoughts. They vary the text to suit the
story. They change the size of the words, or tilt them, or change letterfaces to suit the
message. They wrap around pictures. They change colours. They print in near laser quality
output on an ordinary dot matrix printer. Some wordproceasors can even read your child' s
story back. And they do all this with a child's intuitive band on a mouse and keyboard.

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Amiga graphics software intuitively puts an electronic canvas at your child's hands to
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plethora of colours and tools in creative ways which no other computer can begin to offer.
Amiga music and sound software challenge your child to compose, to listen, to jam, or to
createand modify sound samples.
Authoring software is available to create anything Rom a short sequence of text, sound and
graphics to an entire interactive adventure story or a multimedia presentation.

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Computer Software Skills

Training: A Note To TheBusinessCommunity On The Purpose And Use
he computer in a contemporary
office must be thought of as a tool
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A recent study performed by Nolan, Norton and Co., the information technology
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of doing a job efficiently and accurately.

Modem software is not designed for specific
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you are inviting an atmosphere where bad

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inter-office memoranda, and if your organization publishes an in-house newsletter,

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When and Who

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