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LAPTOP CF-170 at 6.1 Ibs 410MHz CMOS V20 640K Sens co ome to 64K ROM Blue Backlit SuperTwist LCD 4 Levels Grayscale » 640x200 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disk 20 MB 25ms Hard Disk Serial/Parallel Ports MS DOS 3.3/GW Basic FREQUENCY VGA COLOR MONITOR SVGA/VGA/ IBM 8514/A Compatible Mac Il Compatible* {* requires optional adapter cable] 1024 X 768 Interlaced 800 X 600 Non-interiaced Non-Glare Screen Tilt ‘n’ Swivel Stand #4544109 ee Home of Fast, Friendly, Courteous Service VISA ee ‘ AND mx | é ere MasterCard ACCEPTED on mae | I Ma sterCard} y Limit Rights Reserved KX-P4455 #1542910 PRINTER 80 Columns 192 CPS Draft « 63 CPS LQ § 5 Built-in LQ Fonts 2 Year Warranty Built-in Tractor Feed 132 Columns 192 CPS Draft « 63 CPS LG 5 Built-in LQ Forits 2 Year wWarranty Built-in Tractor Feed KX-P1624 #1542873 HOURS: ~ MON-FRI 8AM-9PM | SATURDAY | 9AM-8PM SUNDAY ~ SAM-7PM POSTSCRIPT = e 11 Pages Per Minute e 2MB Expandable to 4MB © Serial, Parallel & Appletalk Interfaces e 39 Adobe Postscript Fonts KX Cut Sheet Feeder $129 w/ eo 123 Purchase — . = é 5 Bikes Soe uy Teal. + emery ae ren LASER KX-P4450/ #1556098 Legal Tray/#1542943 Envelope Tray/#1542976 Toner/#1543025 Drum Unit/#1543117 Developer/#1543106 GREAT PRINTER VALUE! 9-PIN PRINTER | 192 CPS Draft ¢ 38 CPS NLOQ “KXPA 180 240 x 216 DPI resolution 80 Column e 2 Year Warranty P1123 EZ Set control panel 330 CPS Draft 66 CPS NLQ ; 8 resident fonts @ 16.5" wide carriage and Rear, bottom and front SUNNYVALE FREMONT PALOALTO § 1177 Kern Ave. 440 Mission Ct. 340 Portage Ave. § ia 733-1770 (415) 770-FRYS (3797) (415) 496-6000 & Brices good | thru May 7, 1: 7, 1991 ase EBA fa eg deine Notebook Laptop |. 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Qty. 50 C) Buea ive ei (H) a el at stores - (D) Not i bitten “si typo error (I) T : (E) Installation Extra (J) Visa, Be ctoecand 4 MICROTIMES - APRIL 15, 1991 Used By AT&T To Demonstrate Their Unix Systems, Release 4 At Unix Symposium Dallas, New York & London Used By Oracle Software Company to Exhibit Their Software at Exhibition °90 San Jose, California SCO =| Used by TENNER ~Santa Cruz Operation— the world’s largest UNIX software developer—to exhibit their software at UNIXFORUM 1990, Washington DC THAT IS HOW GOOD OUR COMPUTERS ARE! Since 1983 1983 Advance Computers established. 1984 1983 to 1990 being presented to you. The most quality conscious people, the Japanese and Swiss, buy our workstations. We have ‘built them in such a way that you can grow with them. You can add memory, drives, networking (Novell has given us the Gold Medal for two years) on the workstations. They are engineered like no other workstations in the world. These workstations are good for fileservers, engineering, simulation, networking, THE ADVANCE COMPUTER HISTORY Computers are not a “commodity” as expressed by $. Mastan and rep rted in the San Francisco Chronicle. They need constant service and support. Proof: 98% to 99% of computers sold since 1983 are still in use. Thousands of computers sold. Did testing on thousands of computers: software, hardware, networking, UNIX, CAD, engineering software, artificial intelligence software. Gave workstations to software houses like Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) to exhibit their UNIX software at international shows such as Uniforum in Washington, CD. Software developers in UNIX, such as Tolerant Systems, who write software for AT&T, have workstations from us. After thousands of hours in research and development, we have come up with the ultimate workstation, which has been tested and tried out for both hardware and software before Compatible with: Multiuser OS CUNIX, XENIX), Networking (NOVELL), CAD Programs (Autocad), Multitasking (Windows, Desqview, OS/2) and interactive UNIX. Sam 486 Workstation 486 (EISA) 20” Monitor 256K Cache 1289x1024 TIGA Hi-Resolution Card 32 MB Memory. 600 MB Drive Novell Software — E size Plotter Unix 32 Bit Network Card AutoCAD 2.2 Gigabyte Tape Back-Up Complete Package b 3 CAD, desktop publishing, database, intensive calculations, software development in UNIX, O/S, DOS, CAD, C, X, Windows, and artificial intelligence. ADVANCE COVPUTER SISTEVS SAN FRANCISCO 1231 Market St. (415) 552-2902 (415) 552-2904 FAX Inside San Francisco Hotel main floor Market & 8th Mezz Not responsible for typographic errors Subject to stock on hand. Prices subject to change SUNNYVALE 665 Grape Ave. (408) 732-6200 (408) 749-9449 FAX WALNUT CREEK 1987 N. Main St. (415) 945-8011 (415) 945-4941 FAX 3 LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU Leasing & Financing Available MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 & M APR. 15, 1991 ICROM ISSUE #81 MES. TABLE OF CONTENTS A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: In spite of the current popularity of keyboard-based portable computers, not everybody finds the keyboard an ideal input device, and recently we've been hearing more about handwriting- based computing. The Sony Palmtop, which accepts handwritten Japa- nese and Roman- character input, has attracted attention on both sides of the Pacific. GRiD, which pioneered the laptop, has opened new vertical mar- kets with its MS- DOS GRiIDPAD computer (see story on page 42), and more recently Microsoft’s Bill Gates has been encouraging Windows develop- ers to add pen-input capabilities to their applications. Our cover story features GO Corporation, which recently announced its PenWindows op- erating system, op- timized for this new computing environ- ment. Founded by co-authors of Lotus Agenda and Ashton-Tate’s Framework, GO offers an integrated, easy-to-use envi- ronment with seamless connec- tivity to existing standards from Mac and DOS to mainframes. It remains to be seen, of course, whether. fledgling GO will prevail against Microsoft in the standards wars to come, but it’s certain that we'll be seeing some innovative and useful technology in months to come. | COVER STORY The Pen: Mightier Than The Keyboar d? By Mary Eisenhart .......s..scssssecssossceseees 60 Cover and contents photos: Susana Millman GO Corporation's Jerry Kaplan, Robert Carr, and Bill Campbell explain the company’s vision and practical implementation of handwriting-based computing. ESELEOTS ofcesi lec ckuaccntcccnesueicenteatensscsecccavavecnsae tae Industry Insight By Paul Hoffimat...cssccsssessssesnesee 16 Apple/Microsoft LOOK-ANG-Feel .........ssssssscrsscesseesesesoesseercecsecses 16 FTC Investigates Microsoft ...........sssesssscerssscessesressessessesssesoeeves 1G Mergers, ACQUISTIIONIS 3. cvccstessccssecuossonsevtvapacseusceabsasesceascenyoeruscers 20 High Tech News From JAPA ........scssessssscceosesscsesssossessscssceseeses 184 Realizable Fantasies By Jim Warren ...-sccsscose je Ethereal billboards, quakeproof equipment, disk-based promo- — tions, and DOS alternatives. Dvorak’s Last Column By John c. Dvorak........246 Reader disputes Dvorak’s views on patent law. BUSINESS SOLUTIONS , Spectrum 2000: Human Resources Information Without The Mainframe By Wood y Lisw00d...........cssssesseorsssees 25 If you've despaired of finding a PC-based human resources system that’s sophisticated enough for your company’s needs, this may be the package for you. Laptop SOftWare By Ed Kahn ..cccccsssssssesssssnsssseenssee 32 Display and battery monitoring products for the portable com- puter user. Handwriting Input In The Real World. By Michael Robin ...cssssssssssssooose 42 GRiDPAD users report their experiences in the field. LANs BY WTO: A, VOCED: cc cesnscasustionssepeennontteusslasiessvesestubsssases 49 PageMaker 4—network-aware publishing. UNIX By Bennett Falke ctsccssssssssscssssssssssssssssssssnssssssscssesssnsseeees 50 Baba Reboot explains inodes, file size, and other wonders. FEATURES Buying A Laptop PC By Paul Hoffmarn...scsocssscsnse 92 If you're shopping for a laptop, you'll be dealing with many of the same questions as the desktop-PC shopper, and a few other issues as well. Database And Change By Brock N. Meeks... 96 Efficient information retrieval for researchers on a budget. The Road Mac COMMUNICALEES By Mary Eisenhart corcvevevrereeseeve0n 105 A portable printer and internal faxmodem to increase your Mac Portable’s usefulness. 6 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT ay Product Updates ...............sccccssscsrseeeee L L4 New Prodictt —>>E>E>E>E>EE=E=EeEeEyyyEEEEEEEEEEEE PC Software cade ewSURCe ieee sateupebes sac ieeeeee aaa 110, 114 PC Hardware ger POLYWELL ...sessesvesserversesnerseesersesseessenrenseneenssnsesoossonssasonssennenncensenes 114 JDR Staper Hi ROS ...costscasctesssasssesssaasstherseoiatonrsveg iin aierasessose 114 Micro Express CD-ROM PC ......sc.cssssossessesosssenssscensnsncensncosecees 116 Laptops SOS SSL CO CEREMER SSE ECRO HOSED SLO RESO 0 90008 ter ae ] 16, 122 Books Running WordPerfect On Netware ..........srecrsssscsssssrssessseesess 122 Microsoft Word For Windows Made E@sy ...........c.cssssesssereeeee 122 PrOocomm PLUS 2.0 At WOK ....ccscccccccccccsvsscssssscnscsessccssseccccccscess 137 Reviews (PRS Games By Mike Markowitz . TOSSOTGE ooo ciccecinasssvduetesasagnsdesesbessosscasestesieeste tein ene emer iakesieees 137 WOPIOKES chi. lisccciceiisecsccccuascescoboatsncesenseDecs ee ee ei tensdctaee 137 Crh Lewis cc iicigasticecesaccasleebensucasecs tere eR tat ascescee 138 NewS: ANG RUMIOMS \s.55.50scssecsesccisiscsceceacdscuvonteenetteae eteteaeteesesecex 138 Windows Software .........+..sse+e:s0esseee0 138,140,148 "PC SOftWALE ooocesessecesacecosssectescecsrsuseeenie 154,156 Macintosh Softwate...............ssecsssseeee 162,168,172 Books a The Mac Is Not A Typewriter ..........cseccecssssersssserssesonsosees Oe 172 PC Hardware SOTA Express Card 3. sists. ccicisteosssccstbelssensasaesosstarsstiseaesiee wesinseeos 176 CREATIVE TOOLS BMUG By David MOrgenste? .............srsssssscesersersesseseseoses 198 BMUG awaits the arrival of Bill Gates, slated to speak this month. AINIQA By Matthew Leeds cessssesssssssssssnnesessessssessnsesessne 208 Professional graphics tools. Atari ST By David HAWKINS ..........scsssseosesssssoscsnssasesveoeoasees 212 Good news/bad news Calendar Of Event .........ssscrserseessrreees217 | Software Support Conference .......:.s....0.0+0 lL ae 217 SYMP TO University scrvrecennsncessovsasecseusnosesechath is teetabtmantonssoeeseaconsn 218 User Group Network .........ssssssssseeeeeee 223 4 : Classifeds ..c:.0.s.csssesceospocopapbatemteeressesese 240 Index Of Advertisers sccdec MMM. 244 Get More Power AND Spend Less Money Macintosh computers, through superior design, will function longer with fewer repairs than your car. By investing in a slightly used Macintosh surrounded by new peripherals, you are assured a more powerful computer for less money! The Elite Advantage: *LOWEST PRICE GUARANTEED !!! 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Clock Speed. e20 Mb Hard Drive . e¢40 Mb Quantum Hard Drive e] Mb of Ram. e] Mb of Ram. eOne SE expansion slots for sys ero e Three NuBus expansion slots for accelerators or large ———— Soa ~«2—- Custom configuration. monochrome monitors. — . : <> eSuppports 8, 24 and 32 bit Quick Draw , for high quality graphics. $2599 Tif0rtl” “WV LaserWriter | Macintosh sE/s0 [40/1 e] Mb of Ram. e 1.4 Mb High Density Floppy Drive. eMC68020 Microprocessor. @MC68030 Microprocessor. e@ 16 MHz Clock Speed. e 16 MHz Clock Speed. eSix NuBus expansion slots for 40 Mb Quantum Hard Drive custom configuration, (19 ms access time). e] Mbs of Ram e¢ One NuBus expansion slots for custom configuration, eSupports 8, 24 and 32 bit Quick Draw for high quality colors graphics. fi Macintosh II fx [80/4] OMS | os $2099 °80 Mb. Hard Drive Macintosh Portable 40/1 e 1.4 Meg Floppy Drive. ¢4 Mb of Ram, MC68030 Microprocessor. 340 MHz Cock Sook PS 4 1 () e 1.4 Mb High Density Floppy Drive. i ¢MC68000 Microprocessor. vol uae aban be sige ¢40 Mb Quantum Hard Drive custom configuration, j iP ae ask S “ O ¢6 to 12 hours on single battery 9 charge. e LCD Display * Price does not include keyboard, video board or monitor. +Price does not include keyboard. MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 7 PRODUCT-ORIENTED TABLE OF CONTENTS As a service to our readers, we offer this alternative table of contents, with the information organized by product and machine type. LAPTOPS/PORTABLES Fora NBS 3068S 5.0 Ee 122 Hyper lish... cscecsencsseasaetea lacy atasénsonnee 156 SHACK 55.0.:.-0eccesscevce ae 162 || MACINTOSH Se: 162 The Pen: Mightier peepee pesamraniaemn ENTE i os SOTA Excprress Card .sssssssssseensensecssessnnsssesssseees 176 Than The Keyboard? .............. 60... BMUG ..........0.cccres cece eee 198 Windows Product Reviews : David M te PowerPoint For Windows ............0.000crccesserveeee 138° oo “demesne! PYRE net Warf snscssid peat so sennincesscoeuliehccteco 140 Lapto Software Lele aa et ei 32 f Intermission/Curtain Call ........cccccccccccccseeeeeees 148 |} er MS DOS 7 MARIC CUT SOF ocr cesvoocessccenscssteteninathesteie nie eien 148 | By Ed Kahn PrintCache 2.3 .siccicsicintnidscepeeee 148 Handwriting Input Spectrum 2000: Human LANS In The Real World ............0+++-- 42 Resources Information By Michael Robin Without The Mainframe........ = LAN Column ...............cccescseseee 49 : Woody Liswood Buying A Laptop PC ............... 92.7 By Wayne A. Yacco yl ptop ayne By Paul Hoffman - PC Product Announcements AMIGA Tree Based Financial .........0...0100ssessesssserseseseeee 110 Mi A ae Road Mac 105 TOPS Client Software For PenPoint............... 110 OMMUNICATES fes.i5s Hansen Software For PenPoint ......2...-0.0000.0-0 110 : Sie bepernb WondSear Laptop Collection wt ff uo Amiga Column ..................... 208 © As Pr Aopen? Sencecesecananoeossesooseeasasiseqececscescnsuncesuceos 110 By Matthew Leeds Product Announcements Pe se aga! Re ee is IBM PSI2 Laptop 2 ea 116” yor Supert Ree 2) ite ATARI ST NBCC 386SX NotebO0k «......----co-eeeseeeersnneeeeones 116 Micro Express CD-ROM PC ....ssessvssssssvssessoeees 116 Librex Notebooks 22....2... oe: 116 S ALR Notebooks ssi. c2ii2 oases haya, 122 PC Product Reviews Atari ST Column................... 212 — Ogivar Internote 286 .....-..--necceererceecnerersnesnesnes 122 Sidekick 2.012.000. eee Soh 154 By David Hawkins Convex Resources, Inc. 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According to VME’s Team Manager, Fred Collins “We’ve stacked our starting line-up with quality, speed and top performers such as the AST Premium Executive 386SX/20MHz Notebook and the Twinhead Supernote 386SX/16MHz.” VME TECHNOLOGY CENTER is projecting record attendance figures for the 1991 season due to “very reasonable ticket prices, great location and Super Fan Benefits” During the off-season, VME signed the TWINSTATION, manufactured by Twinhead Corporation. This risc-based workstation can throw fastball at 12.5 MIPS. TWINSTATION is expected _ to be called up from the R & D Minor League in June. The Bad Boy stopper out of the bullpen is the AST Bravo 486, throwing fastballs at 17.84 MIPS. _ “With this combo, VME can’t be beat,” pitching coach Phil Zissis said. “Going into this season with the new talent that we have, fans can feel confident __ that they are getting more value for their money when they come to the VME ballpark”. The _ Twinhead and AST Notebooks, VME’s first round _ draft choices, arrived at training camp late last month and are ready for an incredible season. Both AST _and Twinhead are rapidly winning the hearts of fans around the Bay Area and across the nation with their size, speed and quality. The VME TECHNOLOGY CENTER TEAM is looking forward to playing at their new ball park, located at 760 Harrison Street just one block from the Moscone Convention Center in downtown San __ Francisco. VME is seeking software fans to take advantage of the new training facility. With easy access and plenty of parking, the VME Technology Center boasts a showroom and soon to be authorized Novell Training Center. There are still 25 Executive Luxury Suites available, all completely furnished with all the amenities. Everyone at VME is very excited about the Home Opener for 1991. For season ticket information call the VME TECHNOLOGY CENTER stadium box office at 800-339-1 VME. =Vite— Technology, Inc. VME Technology, Inc. 760 Harrison Street (Between 3rd & 4th Streets) San Francisco, CA 94107 SEC ROW SEAT (800) 339-1VME | Odds Makers are Betting on this Line-up Premium Executive 386SX/20MHz $2,972 Twinhead Corporation SS-590/16 386SX Syste 4OMB HD, 1 Meg, IDE VGA Monitor 1.2 & 1.44 Floppies : $1,787 AST RESEARCH Season Home Opener OS — Ap a a © =o < Ow ie O} anal ia cS) © Fe oo Qa. QW Q 486/33TE MOD5 398SX NOTE/20 486/25TE MOD5 386/33TE MOD5 486/33E MOD115 486/33 MOD5V 486/25E MOD5 BRAV0486/25/3V BRAV0386SX/163V S 7) col a > ” = r=) =) t a? ® o hen ® 2. = W”) Superlap 386SX/20MHz $2,535 AST Premium AST Premium 386SX/16MHz 386SX/20MHz $1,571 $1,664 AST Premium 486/25MHz $5,073 286/16MHz $1,943 AST Premium 386/25MHz $3,258 AST Bravo System 486/25MHz 200MB HD, 4 Megs SVGA Monitor 1.2 & 1.44 Floppies $4,706 TODAY’S LINE-UP This ticket will permit the winner of the drawing to take home a brand new system complete with 4Omb hard drive BAT AVG TWINHEAD CORPORATION BAT AVG $6884 $S/400/12/286/VGA $543 $2972 SS/590/16/386SX/VGA $987 $5797 SS/590/20/386SX/VGA $1062 $4708 | SUPERNOTE/386SX/16V $2593 $7027 SUPERLAP/386SX/20V $2535 $6159 SS/600/25/386/VGA $1553 $5433 SS/800/33C/386VGA $2255 $3495 SS/600/25/486/VGA $3107 $1583 SS/800/33E/486/VGA $5070 and VGA monitor. 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Walker reiterated Schwarzer’s comment that this line of argument “defied common sense.” He said “...the court concludes that the 1985 Agreement did not license visual displays which are generated by calls from the Microsoft application programs to the Macintosh operating system.” *HP’s motion to limit the number of items that it uses in its New Wave environment did not get it very far. Judge Walker said fifty-five items of the New Wave user interface are not covered by the 1985 agreement and are thus still open to dispute. eHewlett-Packard’s argument that Apple tried to defraud the US Copyright Office by not telling them that the Lisa and Macintosh user interfaces were influenced by Xerox’s Star and Smalltalk systems was struck down. “To require the designer of a computer graphic user interface to acknowledge sources of artistic influence would be similar to expecting Roy Lichtenstein to declare in a copyright registration that a particular work is derivative of anamed comic strip.” eThe ruling went on to say that all parties had sent briefs about the recent Ashton-Tate vs. Fox Software ruling, in which Ashton-Tate lost its copyright.to the dBASE line. 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At that time, Judge Walker will proba- bly set aschedule for when the case will begin in court. Unless the parties come to an out- of-court settlement, the case will be heard and, hopefully, decided in a fashion that makes sense to computer users. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION INVESTIGATES MICROSOFT Although no charges have been filed, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investi- gating the methods Microsoft usedtocontrol _ the development of OS/2 and Windows, its two flagship environments. The story of the investigation broke when software manufacturers reported that the FTC had been asking what they knew about features Microsoft intended to add to future versions of the two systems. Bill Gates, chair- man of Microsoft, downplayed the investiga- tion, while at the same time indicating that the FTC was asking for a large amount of documentation on their development. According to Microsoft, the investigation began last June and involves the COMDEX 1989 joint announcement with IBM about the future of Windows and OS/2. In that announcement, the companies announced ~ that they intended to emphasize OS/2 over Windows, both in development of the plat- forms and in release of applications. At the time, many developers complained loudly that Microsoft was double-crossing them by luring them toward Windows, then pulling the rug out from under them. As it turns out, Microsoft did not follow through with the plans in the announce- ment. For example, the announcement said “Beginning in the second half of 1990, IBM and Microsoft plan to make their graphical applications available first on OS/2.” Fortu- nately for Word and Excel users, that turned out not to be true. The announcement also emphasized that Windows would only be promoted for PCs with less than 2MB of RAM. As many people will tell you, 2MB is the minimum (not the maximum) to run Win- dows 3.0 in a useful fashion. . : Since the investigation is not public yet, it is not clear what triggered the FTC to step in. Gates is quoted in the Wall Street Journalas saying that the investigation is only about whether Microsoft made an attempt at re- | stricting the functionality and features of Windows. 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MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS, AND SPIN-OUTS *Joint development deals are usually not too exciting in this industry—you can never tell _ howlong they’ll last and whether anything of value to the end-user will come out of them. Look at the Apple-DEC liaison or Microsoft’s and IBM’s on-again-off-again relationship. A recent announcement that hardware heavyweight Hewlett-Packard and database powerhouse Informix would pursue a five- year joint development was accompanied by a rare ingredient that might make it a little more believable: money. Cash-rich HP will buy up to ten percent of Informix’s common stock, linking their fates much more closely. The relationship means that HP customers will get better access to CASE (computer- aided software engineering) tools as well as on-line transaction processing software that has become a very important part of HP’s contract business in the last five years. In addition, new versions of Informix software will appear on HP 9000 hardware before that of HP’s competitors. * Hewlett-Packard will acquire 5% of In- formix stock from outstanding shares and5% from stock that Informix might issue in the next year. eSun Microsystems recently made the un- usual move of spinning out its software into two wholly owned subsidiaries that operate separately from the hardware part of the — company. SunSoft will sell UNIX and UNIX tools for both SPARC-based systems as well as other hardware platforms. 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Jim Warren founded In- foWorld, the DataCast pro- posal for broadcasting pa- perless newspapers, Video Initiative, Wireless Digital and one of the nation’s largest public microcom- puter conventions. He was founding host of PBS’ “Computer Chronicles,” founding editor of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, founding President of the Microcom- puter Industry Trade Assn. and has chaired various computer professionals’ organizations. He holds graduate degrees in com- puting (Stanford), medical information science (UC Medical Center), and mathematics. Most re- cently, he organized and chaired the First Confer- ence on Computers, Free- dom & Privacy in March of this year, co-sponsored by more than a dozen diverse nonprofit organizations. rich hunting grounds for property rights attorneys—to say nothing of zealous social engineers in local planning bureaucracies. THE MISSING WP COMMAND In the ol’ daze of traditional [expensive!] phototypesetting, some systems had a useful command that is missing in most of microcomputing’s desktop publishing (DTP) and word-processing (WP) programs. Most have left-justify, right-justify, center and full-justify. But they lack the “push-apart command” available on some old typesetters. It dumped all of a line’s spare space into the command’s insertion point. The alternative is to left-justify the left part of the text, then set aright-justify tab for the remainder of the text, then tab where all the space is to go. Oh!, the intolerable pain of it all! SHAKER SAFETY Equipment manufacturers interested in the California market should make sure they provide tie-down holes or handles for gadgets likely to gallivant during an earthquake. They should do so, then advertise the feature—and probably advertise it in Washington State and the Mid- west, as well. My old TV had handles—or at least protrusions through which I could safely drill holes for tie-downs or eye-bolts. When replacing one with a large Sony tabletop unit, I discovered that it was so sleek-‘n’- smooth, there was no place to attach a strap and no obvious place to easily drill holes. Also: Here’s an earthquake alternative for monitors and the like: Put ’em on those swing-arm monitor racks, like Curtis and Micro- computer Accessories offer. They'll swing and sway, but stuff Il likely stay in the saddle during a quake (my kitchen cabinet shelves, on sliders, all jiggled part-way open in the ’89 quake, but not a single plate or bottle jumped off). And, restrain your PC’s power cord, or attach a small bunge-strap 22 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 to the computer to keep it from galloping off the desk or shelf in the next shaker. The computer might survive a thirty-inch drop to the floor, but its disk will certainly dislike the fall—or at least the sudden stop. INTERESTING POTENTIAL The Canadian British Columbia tourist agency distributed a Mac disk for free a few months ago. It had great potential, but left most of it unrealized. Nonetheless, it’s worth applause as a first effort, and worth examining for pursuit of follow-up efforts. Get one from 800- 663-6000. It was animated, but had no color. It was cute, but had no inkaraak tion. Redone, it could be a potent tourist tool. It could have listed hotels and motels, their ratings, rates, phones and addresses. It could © have listed eateries and their menus; sites and their routes; events and their contacts. It could have had maps—big maps and little maps, road maps, topo maps, hiking maps and boating maps. It could have given the ferry _ routes and their seasonal schedules. It coulda been a contender! 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If you’re one of the fortunate few among them, your HRIS works the way you want it to. It’s com- puterized where it makes sense, has an ex- ceptional audit trail where necessary, stores the history you always need where you can get it instantly and accurately, and generally does what you want, when you want, with a minimum of effort and cost. If you're one of those folks, write us a letter about it. On the other hand, as I travel through Human Resource land, talking and consult- ing about computers and HRIS systems, I almost invariably hear from HR professionals that their system doesn’twork, that theycan’t get reports from it, that it is unresponsive to their needs, that the DP folks stilldon’t coop- _ erate in developing reports in the mainframe environment, and that the system is either too large or too small. There also seems to be general dissatisfaction about what an HRIS really is and what it could or should be doing. WHAT IS A HUMAN RESOURCE INFORMATION SYSTEM? One definition I particularly like to use is that an HRIS is a system, normally thought of as computer driven, which is used to acquire, store, retrieve, manipulate, analyze, and dis- tribute information regarding an organization’s human resources. A turn- around document should beas easy to design and produce as a Salary Plan. An employee benefit statement should come rolling off the system as easily as a word processed job de- scription. There are multitudes of items to worry about if you are considering purchasing, developing, or changing your HRIS. One popular criterion is the number of successful installations for that software package—al- though, of course, if this were universal, no new product would ever make it to market. Spectrum 2000, a PC-based HRIS package, has over 1,500 direct installations. FEATURES AND INSTALLATION Spectrum 2000 is easy to install. Put the first floppy in your A drive, type install, hit a car- riage return, then follow instructions. Lots of disks, but no big deal considering the twenty orso disks younowneed to install, say, Word- Star. As you’d expect and require from a robust HRIS, there is multilevel password protec- tion, both for system entry and within the system itself. Spectrum 2000 works from multiple windows and popup menus. If you have any experience with micro or main- frame computers, all will be rather obvious. Without this background, the instruction manuals and training. you receive during installation will get you up to speed, so you’re quickly acting as if you had been a computer maven all your career. Spectrum 2000 has two levels of menus. The designated system administrator has The system administrator can change or create sequences as necessary, as well as customize almost every field and table so that the system will be your system. MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 25 BUSINESS SOLUTIONS complete access to the entire system and can make modifications as desired. Touse these areas most effectively, you will need to understand the database which underlies much of Spectrum 2000. To do extensive modifications, you will need to learn R-BASIC and Revelation (the underly- ing database engine) or hire someone who provides customization services as part of their agreements with their clients, so you always have technical support quickly at hand. From the Master Menu, you can ADD new employees, UPDATE existing Employee data, CREATE or RUN reports, and UPDATE or MODIFY tables, among other things. Entering employee data into the system is already has those skills. Spectrum 2000 also Hassle-Free Printer Sharing Low-cost, modular printing network for up to 16 computers SNAP transmitter - $59 Here’s how your printer sharing network can grow with your office. It's called SimpLAN SNAP. Simply plug a transmitter to the parallel port. of each computer, a receiver to the printer and connect with up to 1200 feet of modular phone cable. As you add computers to your office, you simply "snap" them in anywhere along your existing SNAP network. SNAP lets you connect up to 16 computers to a printer or "printer sharing device. 3-way couplers:provided by ASP let you connect the computers in any configuration. Installation is a snap. SNAP requires no software and no training! What could be easier? Everyone prints as they did before. No one has to move his or her furniture. In other words, SNAP is an instant network! ASP offers a complete line of printer sharing solutions. To order your SNAP or for a dealer near you call: 800-445-6190 Call for your FREE Catalog SNAP receiver - $69 ASP COMPUTER PRODUCTS, INC. 1026 W. Maude Ave., Suite 305 Sunnyvale, California 94086 Tel: 408-746-2965, FAX: 408-746-2803 26 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 as easy as going through a number of screens and filling in the blanks. The main entry screens are: Personal Data EEO Organization/Location Status f Job and Pay Data Spouse and Dependent Data Previous Employment Data Military Service Continuing Education, Training . & Licenses Emergency & Medical Informatio Formal Education Performance Review While the sequence might not be to your personal taste, the menu covers the standard information that any company might like to keep about employees. I could not find any significant Human Resource categories that were left out of Spectrum 2000. Another set of screens exists behind this first set. Spectrum 2000 calls this the Em- ployee Update Page 2. Here you can add: . Employee Termination Credit Card Records Language Skills Information Individual Information Test & Interview Results Payroll Related Benefits Section 89 Union Earnings History OSHA Accident Grievance Job Seniority Spectrum 2000 looks at “individual data” as Carpool Number, Locker Number, Security Pass Number, Parking Number, Transporta- tion, Clearance Level, Clearance Date, Com- pany Car; an additional sixty-seven fields are available for your own particular company use. While this might seem a somewhat frag- mented approach to getting data into the HRIS, in practice, it makes a lot of sense. When you set up Spectrum 2000, you can automate the screen sequence so that as you enter data, the screens flow in the order you prefer. As you complete entering data into a screen, pressing the F9 key will automatically _ ; pull up the next screen in sequence. 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In fact, the system administrator can change or create sequences as necessary, as well as customize almost every field and table so that the system will be your system, not Spectrum’s system. You can purchase up to ten additional modules to work along with Spectrum 2000. These include: Applicant Tracking Manpower & Succession Planning Executive Compensation Pay Planning Extended Benefits Job Evaluation Attendance Tracking Position Control Industrial Health & Safety Flexible Benefits COBRA Installation of the additional modules is also simple. Copy the appropriate files into the directory that contains Spectrum 2000, run Spectrum 2000, press the F6 key and follow Graphics and mumbers im the text of this report are linked to spreadsheet cells in the tables for automatic updates. Call us at 1-800-875-9632 28 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 Keficr & Johnson ts proud to announce the sales figures for 1990. ‘The growth of the company instructions. REPORT GENERATION: A MAJOR PLUS Dee MacKenzie, a system administrator at Applause, says her company loves the pack- age, which is running under DOS 4.0 on a four-user PS/2 based network. Report generation is something MacKenzie’s especially pleased with: “We love the reports we can get off of it, and how easy it is to customize our own reports.” Applause doesn’t do all of its reports within Spectrum 2000, she adds: “We export data to a Lotus file to do calculations.” Kyle Smith, Systems Administrator, is a Spectrum 2000 user from Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, which has the system up and running. Their system covers six thousand employees and one of the first modules they had up and running was Applicant Tracking. Smith finds the product “very accommodat- ing for solving problems,” adding, “we dolots of customizing ourselves.” Jeanine Huey, a Compensation and Bene- 12 The economy has grown the fastest in the countries with the lowest GDP, such as Greece, Spain and Portugal. where annual Annual Report 1990 with a remarkable 44.7% compared wo last year. The ncw RagTime documents fits Specialist from Alta Bates, is a user in a30 drop LAN. She says that she’s able to produce reports “instantly.” Among other things, she uses the system for “diagnostics for our per- formance evaluation system.” At Alta Bates, Smith would like to see local printing added to the system; Huey would like “more history on more different items.” Getting data into the system is one thing. Gettingit outin usable formis something else again. Spectrum 2000 comes with a multi- tude of standard reports—over one hundred reportsin the system I tested. All the standard EEO and Compensation reports are there as well as a wide variety of lists and consolida- tions based on the various screens and tables. The problem with having a hundred or more predefined reports is that these reports may not be set up the way you want to do business. To the extent that you think like the Spectrum 2000 report writers, you'll have instantly usable reports. I suspect that if you printed each of those hundred reports, they'd give you lots of ideas for reports which may be really useful in your own work. _ The Spectrum 2000 AD HOC report writer Apple Macintosh that will boost your productivity! RagTime offers you powerful ievie arana i al fram one EEC Member Sat dhe set For word processing, spreadsheet, and servises at his desposal in 1983 asin and services expressed business graphic and picture capability. Frames and documents can be hot linked to each other. You can even refer to spreadsheet information from within the word processor. 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World Trade Center 1625 Broadway Suite 2800 Denver, CO 80202 (303)534-8813 Minimum Environment: IBM PC or clone DOS 2.1 or greater 640K RAM 20MB hard drive Specifications Maximum files: Unlim- ited Maximum records per file: 2.4 billion Maximum fields per rec- ord: 65,000 Maximum characters per field: 65,000 Network Compatibility IBM PC-LAN Novell NetWare 3Coms - (Netbios) Banyan Vines release 2.1 Advanced Netware (Ex- cluding ELS) HP OfficeShare AT&T Star LAN is relatively easy to use. You'll need to understand how computers work, and _ particularly how Spectrum 2000 uses report logic and mathematics, but after a few lessons, or working through a workbook, you should be able to create most of the reports you need. If not, you can always custom code a re- port or have Spec- trum (the corpora- tion) do it for you. In either case, the rela- tional capabilities of the Spectrum 2000 system will make most of your report- ing requirements rather easy to solve. I also ran a good number of reports using the HP Laser- Jet II printer driver which accompanied my copy of Spec- trum 2000. I found no problems. When I specified a report larger than eighty columns, I found that the driver was already selected for landscape printing and that the appro- priate fonts were also selected. There was no capability to use proportional fonts and printing through the system, although one of the areas did produce letters and benefit statements. If you do need fancy fonts and all that, you might want to print the report to disk, then use your favor- _ iteword processor to edit the document, add the fonts and graphics you want, then do the printing. When visiting Spectrum’s headquarters in 30 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 Denver, CO, I was shown the new matrix re- port writer slated for the next Spectrum 2000 update. From within the Spectrum 2000 sys- tem you will be able to do crosstabs in any numeric field in the database. That may make your life quite a bit easier. I know that I would’ve given anything for a matrix report writer when I had to live with the day-to-day ad hoc requests I used to get from my man- agement. In my opinion, the next step should be to add a statistics module to the database. You should beable torunacorrelation coefficient between any two fields, based on any type of select criteria at any time. For example, ifyou want to test your performance appraisal sys- tem, you might want to run a correlation co- efficient between percent of increase and performance appraisal score, hoping that there is some relationship. You can start to get there with the matrix report writer, since itis easy to break out performance scores and then calculate percent increases. It would be better to get that as well as the statistical sig- nificance between those to items. That as- sumes, of course, that you doenter anumeri- cal score into the database for performance appraisal results. NOTHING’S PERFECT... As with all systems; I do have some nits to pick. The first two revolve around Compara- tio. It is one word. Spectrum 2000 uses two. Also, Comparatio should be displayed as a whole number, not as a decimal. Meaning is the same, but the American Compensation Association (ACA) standard practice is to display it as a 90 rather than .90. A number of table fields display on the screen as a two-character field when you can actually type in four, five, or even more char- acters. This is actually a design feature of the underlying database, and in some cases may turn out to be a great help rather than a hin- drance, but I find it disconcerting. Spectrum 2000 uses variable length fields to store the data in. That means that each field contains only the data keyed into it by the operator— you might designate only fifteen characters for alast name, but if you need to key ina last name of more than fifteen characters, Spec- trum 2000 will handle it. The system admin- istrator can also set up the fields to only allow input as displayed on the screen. An extensive help system purports to give context-sensitive help. I found the help screens rather cryptic and not especially helpful. I would have designed some of the system differently—for instance, I would As | travel through Human Resource land, talking and consulting about computers and HRIS systems, | almost invariably hear from HR professionals that their system doesn’t work. have packed most of the sensitive and un- changeable data about an employee in a single screen rather than across several sepa- rate screens—things like history and EEO data. As mentioned earlier, I would also add a statistics module to the report writer. If had regression equations available within the database, I could then create a salary survey . database, drop the salary survey informa- tion, aged appropriately, into a salary plan- ning report which used the appropriate re- gression results to predict next year’s salary line. Then I would take the merit budget indicated by the salary plan and automati- cally develop a payout matrix based on that predicted and needed budget. (Actually, if you want to develop the skills, you can pro- gram that yourself using the RBASIC lan- guage which is part of the database.) From users, I heard very little criticism. MacKenzie found that exporting dates was a problem since Spectrum 2000 normally wrote the day before the month. However, it was rather easy, she said, to just write a spe- cial routine so that month would come be- fore the day. Lastly, I worked with Spectrum 2000 on an ALR386 20MHz computer with 4MB ofmem- ory, a 135MB hard disk, and an NEC VGA Engine display card. 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In the future we will have note- Battery « —Battery Watch: Sharp PC-6220 at your current — level, » Battery-Hatch ¢ 1 tr Zo min a | Fenaining: | lee book computers far more powerful than today’s most powerful desktop units. Despite the size of the market, there is a serious lack of software designed specifically for laptops. This month, I’ve found a couple of products designed specifically for port- ables. In general, laptop computers rely on soft- ware that works on desktop units. This, fortu- nately, provides the compatibility we want between our desktop and laptop computers. However, laptop computers are completely different from desktop machines in at least two respects. The first is that most laptops rely on a radically different kind of display device than our desktops; the second is that most laptops have the capability to run on batteries. Our specialized software addresses these two areas. LAPTOP ULTRAVISION For years, laptop users have been plagued by displays much less clear than those available on top-quality color monitors. This is one of the _ Major reasons users want desktop computers for their primary ma- chines. One common user complaintis that it’s impossible to find the small blinking cursor on the portable units. Another is that users simply don’t have as much control over the appearance of the screen as they have’ on desktop machines. Much of that has now changed with the introduction of Laptop UltraVision ($69.95). This program lets you do just about anything you can imagine with the display of the laptop, especially if it is attached to an external color monitor. The most important single feature of the program, which is mem- ory resident and takes up just 16K on a VGA system and 9K onan EGA computer, is that you can easily make the cursor come up as a block instead of the disappearing line we’ve all come to hate. But that’s just the beginning. In addition, you can control the number of lines that 32 MICROTIMES * APRIL 15, 1991 Battery Watch Pro is a memory resident program that works like a fuel gage. will appear on the screen—34, 43, 50 or 60 lines per screen in VGA. But hold on, there’s more. If you’re tired of the typeface that dis- plays on your screen, Laptop UltraVision allows you a wide range of alternatives. These are easily selected and will give you just the look you want—if you want a display that gives you 50 lines per screen and a Roman typeface, no problem. You can also get samples of the many typefaces that are available, and can even change these from applica- — i tion to application. I played around with some very thin-lined and delicate typefaces that made the screen much more readable to my tired eyes. Allin all, this is a really flexible software package that offers _ features not normally available even on a desktop. A final area that Laptop UltraVision covers is the color or grayscale | | renditions in the display. This program gives full control over how colors are handled by thelaptop display or an attached colormonitor. _ Asignificant advantage of this kind of color control is that youcan get | true underlining—which sounds like a little thing, but if we are trying ¢ to control the display to give us what we want, we may as well see _ underlined text on our display when we specify it. Getting true under- _ lining is fairly complex, but the task is made simple with this software =e ide DOMINO COMPUTER SPECIAL !!! SUPER VGA DEAL !!! WE OFFER ONLY THE BEST COMPATIBILITY, RELIABILITY, AND AFFORDABILITY Domino Computer Has 4'Service Centers Near Your Home And Business. 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The computer is powered by an 80386SX central processor unit running at 16MHz. It comes with 1MBof RAM, expandable to4MB at a cost of $100 per megabyte. The most unusual aspect of this portable — is that it has a wonderful gas plasma display. I usually don’t like gas plasma displays, but this one is exceptional. It measures 10” di- agonally and displays bright red letters ona black background. It offers VGA resolution, but is downwardly compatible. A brightness control on the side of the screen allows you to set the display to your taste; an intensity switch in the setup routines allows you to further modify the appearance of the dis- play. An external VGA port allows you to use a color monitor of your choice. The basic machine comes with an internal 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive. Micro Express can provide you with an external 1.2MB 5.25" drive ($120) if you need it. The computer comes with a 40MB internal floppy drive, which can be upgraded to either an 80MB drive ($200 extra), 100MB drive ($300 extra) or a gigantic 200MB drive ($400 extra). The keyboard is also a pleasure. It’s laid out in a conventional manner; what sets it apart is the inclusion of an external numeric keypad that gives you full keyboard capabili- ties. If you're still dissatisfied, you can easily attach any external keyboard. While the ex- ternal keyboard portis set up to accept OS/2 plugs, an adapter is included so you can use any AT keyboard as well. The designers of this machine had their act together. Unlike most of the other portables with gas plasma displays, this machine is oper- able from a NiCd battery pack, included with the machine. A fully charged battery is sup- posed to last up to four hours, depending upon your use patterns. The battery pack will recharge in as little as two hours. This makes for a really usable battery system. If battery operation is not important to you, the machine is available without battery for $200 less. This computer has a wide array of ports, including two serial and one parallel port. Peet ve No internal modem is available, butthere’sa single slot which will take a short card for either an XT or AT. This allows you to easily | fit the computer with either a modem or a network card. A few final pluses are a soft carrying case anda 15-month warranty, as well as a30-day money-back guarantee. 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For too long, the talk about pen-based, “people literate” computers has been just that— talk—until the GRIDPAD was introduced in 1989. The GRiDPAD is a clipboard-sized com- puter designed for situations where the lap- top is not a practical option. Rather than having a standard display screen and a key- board, the GRiDPAD incorporates a single, 10”, 640 x 400 pixel display, utilizing an elec- tronic pen for data and command input. It is built around a 10MHz, 80C86 processor run- ning MS-DOS v3.3. Usually equipped with LapLink III file-transfer software and an in- ternal 2400 bps modem, GRiDPAD easily communicates with the desktop or main- frame computer back at the office. The GRiDPAD can run MS-DOS programs using a pop-up on-screen keyboard, or the serial ports for connections to a printer, keypad, or another PC. Companies providing the GRiDPAD to non-technical people working in the field have achieved successful results. Bringing technology to new sectors of the population has not only made the entire process of infor- mation-gathering more efficient, but has fa- cilitated better communication and higher accuracy. The experiences of territory man- agers for Kellogg, Inc., who survey stores to gather product information, and market re- search done by Research Data Analysis, Inc. help illustrate some of these benefits. KELLOGG MANAGES SKUS “The obvious advantage of having the GRiDPAD is that it is interactive. At night, you 42 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 plug your phone line in and you can interact back to New Jersey into the mainframe with all the information you have collected that day. Then anyone else in the company who wants to find out anything specific about a certain product, or how many stores have a particular product, can retrieve that from the mainframe from their own house.” —Steve Poppy, Kellogg Territorial Manager Many consumer products are characterized by thin profit margins based on high unit sales volume. Profitability is determined by price, availability, and delivery. To monitor and evaluate product success, companies conduct store surveys for a vari- ety of factors, including shelf space, product positioning, inventory, and promotions. Traditionally, the findings are gathered using paper forms, and mailed back to company headquarters, where they are entered into the computer system, and tabulated to gen- erate reports. This process takes several weeks. Paper forms have advantages: most people Collecting inventory information is now easier and quicker with the GRiDPAD. Pi are familiar with them; they are lightweight and relatively easy to transport. The disad- vantages are the cost and time associated with printing, high error rates, illegible hand- writing, difficult modification and delays associated with shipping. There is extra time and labor involved to keypunch the informa- tion and make the data usable. Last year, cereal giant Kellogg began to equip territory managers—retail sales reps— with the GRIDPAD to save time and money. New products, for example, only have about ninety days to prove their worth to retailers; thus the key to success is a rapid turnaround of accurate information gathered in the field. Prior to the GRiDPAD, territory managers carried blank forms as well as copies of com- ¥ ; pleted forms as a reference to past records. _ Using the GRiDPAD, they now enter product — information directly on site into a machine readable form. 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YACCO PageMaker On A Network Plus: Better Switches And Other Useful Devices I’m going to begin this column by updating a couple of recent items. LAN READY PUBLISHING FROM ALDUS First on the list isa development in desktop publishing that relates to the column I wrote just after the Seybold Electronic Publishing Con- ference in San Jose last year. Faithful readers will recall that the principal difference between desktop publishing and traditional prepress systems was defined in terms of support for cooperative processing. Aldus has taken a small step (small for the publishing business, large for PageMaker) in the right direction with the introduction of PageMaker 4.0 for Windows. The program is network ready from the get-go. Add a box full of licenses, and everyone can start sharing a single copy of the software on a publishing server. OK, that’s just file locking, but there’s more. Aldus has built in some very sophisticated import and hot-linking features. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS "1991 by Wayne A. Yacco. Allrights reserved. An editor, writer, and consultant _ specializing in microcom- puters and their business Copyright applications, Wayne Yacco writes articles, col- umns, and reviews for many trade and business publications. He can be reached at Box 269, Bur- _bank, CA 91503. A built-in Link Manager can maintain a connection to all file imports including text, charts, and art—over a network. Charts can be imported from Excel, for example, and while document composition proceeds, a second workstation can be used to continue develop- ment of the charts. They are then automatically updated in the publication. That’s pretty damn cooperative! The same applies to text or database files. There are other tricks as well. If you import from an XLC file, PageMaker transparently opens Excel to create the chart. And there’s support for plenty of applications, including Lotus 1-2-3 and Ashton- Tate’s dBASE (or file-compatible xBASE products). Links also work with data imported into the program’s new table editor. ; Aldus has taken the first steps toward reinventing the proprietary publishing system. What’s still missing is work-flow management and production tracking. Third-party developers could pick up the ball in this area—building on what Aldus has started—just as Manag- ing Editor has developed Page Director as a Quark Extension on the Mac. . There are lots of other new features in the Windows version of PageMaker besides networking, even—at least for now—more than in the Mac version. It’s still relatively easy to use, and the longer I work with it, the more I like it. TURNED ON Some time back I suggested the possibility of using combination keyboard-monitor switches for convenient testing of several systems at asingle test station. Unfortunately, the only switch of that type that Iwas able to find didn’t quite work. Ittended to hang up the keyboard. I subsequently discovered the cause of the problem and redesigned the switch so it would work. I planned to provide the simple instruc- tions here as well as details ofa high-end electronic switch that would elegantly do the job for right around $1,200. Fortunately, that’s no longer necessary. Roger Specialist has anew shipment of switches that work perfectly, and also correct a second, and more troubling, problem with the older switch. The ABCD models are now available for 15-pin VGA video as well. Small network installations are a fresh breeze. Furthermore, I occasionally find it necessary to work with several machines at a time—even with Win- dows on every machine. This new switch does the trick there too, and it costs about $1,175 less than the sophisticated electronic version. If you have trouble locating switches or any of the parts needed to make connections, just about anything can be obtained from Roger Specialist. It is a good source of many hard-to-find switches, connec- tors, and cables of all types. RESOURCE SHARING WITHOUT A NET This column always presumes one thing about the solutions it sug- gests: a network. However, there are situations where you shouldn't use a full-blown network to achieve a simple goal—remote printer access, or sharing, forexample. ASP Computer Products offers several solutions for printer sharing and remote access that are both inex- pensive and simple to install and use. The simplest of these is LongLine. It consists of a transmitter that attaches to the computer’s parallel port and a receiver for the Cen- tronics port on the printer. Instead of the twenty-foot limit of a parallel cable, you can easily go fifty feet over flat modular telephone cable. There is also provision for additional external power to both receiver and transmitter. If you want a similar solution for hooking up to sixteen computers to a printer, ASP offers SNAP, which is similar to LongLine with the addition ofan extra RJ-11 port on the transmitters. The extra port lets you daisy-chain computers. SNAP handles up to 1,200 feet of modular cable. Two-way and three-way couplers let you design a variety of configurations. Both SNAP and LongLine cost about $50 for each transmitter and $55 for a receiver. ASP offers alternatives in the $700-$1,000 range that connect multiple computers and printers. Maestro models connect up to ten computers to two printers and provide up to 1MB of buffering for simul- taneous document transmis- sion. ServerJet offers similar capacities, but plugs right into an HP LaserJet’s Optional 1/O slot. RESOURCES: Roger Specialist 27712 Pinehills Santa Clarita, CA 91351 (800)366-0579 (805)251-2520 ASP 1026 W. Maude Ave Ste. 305 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408) 746-2803 MICROTIMES * APRIL 15, 1991 49 DE eee en a BUSINESS SOLUTIONS The Largest Imaginable File © Baba Reboot Explains Inode And Other Delights BY BENNETT ur friend Hapless User, having jumped through the requisite FALK number of hoops, recently set up his independent UNIX consulting practice from the spare window of a falafel cart on Sproul Plaza. These days he shaves his head, calls himself Baba Re- boot, and tirelessly repeats a mantra to dispel confusion: “Ganoysh is not UNIX”. Amid queries about obscure command line arguments for “who”, “Is”, and “cat”, Baba Reboot occasionally fields an interesting ques- tion. The question he showed me was scrawled with a blunt pencil in a childish hand on a piece of yellow paper from a Big Chief tablet and wrapped around a rock: Is there a maximum file size in UNIX? Why? INODES AND DISK BLOCKS “Trick question,” Baba said. “The superficial answer has to do with inodes and disk blocks. You know inodes?” “Refresh my memory.” Baba Reboot sighed heavily and ran his fingers through the stubble on the top of his head. “Well, you really ought to read one of those books about UNIX like The Design of the UNIX Operating System by Maurice J. UNI he Bach, Prentice Hall. But the short version goes like this. : “An inode is an administrative structure maintained by Copyright © 1991 by Ben- nett Falk. All rights re- served. Bennett Falk lives in the Bay Area, writes when he can, and hopes for the best. He works for Sybase, but the opinions and attitudes expressed are his own. UNIX that contains information about a file. The inode has fields for owner, permissions, file type, access times, file size, and of course, addresses where the contents of the file can be found. “Now the addresses in the inode that point to a file’s data are just disk block numbers. Disk blocks are commonly one kilobyte (1024 bytes). If you know how many disk blocks an inode can point to, you can calculate the maximum file size on a UNIX system.” mea seg ““Oh,’ indeed. Each inode has space for thirteen disk block ad- dresses.” “But wait—if each inode can point to thirteen disk blocks and if a block is 1K, then the maximum file size is only 13K. That can’t be right.” “Very true, that cannot be right,” Baba Reboot replied smugly. “In an inode, only the first ten addresses point to disk blocks that contain a file’s data, so the inode can point directly to as much as 10K worth of data. The eleventh address doesn’t point directly to the file’s data. It points instead to a disk block that contains more addresses. Each address takes four bytes, so a 1K disk block can hold up to 256 addresses of disk blocks that hold data. The entry in an inode that points to a disk block of addresses that in turn point to afile’s contents is called a ‘single indirect’ address. This address controls up to 256K of a file’s contents. “The twelfth inode address is doubly indirect: the inode points toa disk block with 256 addresses, each of which points to asingleindirect block. The double indirect address in the inode can address up to sixty-four megabytes of a data in a file. 50 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 “Finally, the thirteenth inode address is triply indirect: the inode _ points to a disk block with the addresses of up to 256 double indirect blocks. The triple indirect block can address up to sixteen gigabytes of data in a file.” “So the maximum file size in UNIX is 10K plus 256K plus 64MB 16GB. Wow.” “Don’t get excited. After all, it is a trick question.” “What do you mean?” “Well, an inode can point to alittle more than sixteen gigabytes of data in a single file, but the inode has a field to record file size and that’s basically a 32-bit field. The largest number you can record ina 32-bit field is only four gigabytes.” “Ah.” “In fact, it gets worse. The standard means of accessing files in a program are the system calls ‘open,’ ‘close,’ ‘read,’ ‘write, and _ ‘Iseek.’ Iseek is particularly interesting since it allows you to specify where in a file the next read or write operation will take place.” = Baba Reboot hastily scribbled out a small C program illustrating » the use of these calls. A listing of the program appears in Fig. 1. “This program can be used to exercise these system calls. You — specify a file (or a device), a number of blocks to be written, and the offset into the file or device where the writing should begin. I’ve arbitrarily made the block size 1024 bytes, but you could make it any size that’s convenient. “The standard means of accessing files in a program are the system calls ‘open,’ ‘close,’ ‘read,’ ‘write’ and ‘Iseek.’ iseek is particularly interesting since it allows you to specify where ina file the next read or write operation will take place.” — ee rr ne DYNAMAX offers distributors, VAR and OEM customers “mix or match” volume discounts on a gowurtet selection of reliable, high performance motherboards. 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DataLinks are independent of the operating system and work in any computer environment. It is entirely self-contained; all software needed to operate the Data- Link is housed inside inherent microchips. DataLinks communicate at speeds up to 800 characters per sec- ond, about one page every 3 seconds. Encode sensi- tive data with the built in 22 bit encryption as well as the 12 bit address forcing eavesdroppers to sort through over four million possible combinations! An accessory unit called the Verran AC DataLink DPS (Dedicated Printer Sharer) is designed to handle print spooling jobs from as many as seven computers. Its 32K buffer holds the equivalent of 16 pages of text. 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Power — Read On! “The program opens the specified file, ~ seeks to the given offset, and loops - through calls to ‘write’ until it has written all the blocks you asked it to write or until the write fails.” PITFALLS “There are a couple of pitfalls. You see, lseek takes three arguments: a file descrip- tor, an offset, and a flag that tells how the offset is to be interpreted. The offset is a. long, that is, 32-bit integer. “In the best of all possible worlds, that number could be as large as four gigaby- tes. However, the largest offset Iseek will accept without error is 2147483647, which happens to be the two-gigabyte bound- ary. If you try to specify 2147483648, lseek fails. Apparently, the ‘offset’ argument to lseekis taken to be a signed integer, which makes its maximum value two gigabytes. Values beyond the two-gigabyte bound- ary are expressed as negative numbers, and these are invalid arguments for the lseek, read, and write system calls.” “Can we talk a little bit about these numbers? “Sure.” “Why is the number of bytes in a giga- byte so weird?” “I don’t see anything weird about - 1073741824. It’s a power of 2, you know.” “Well, ah, no, I didn’t know. I thought a megabyte was a million bytes.” “No, no, no, no. The number of bytes in amegabyte is 1024 times 1024, or 1048576. A gigabyte is that number multiplied by 1024 again or 1073741824 bytes. Forget this silly fixation that everything has to end in zeros, or at least work this stuff out in hexadecimal.” “Uh, okay. What about other pitfalls?” “The test program uses /dev/null as the default device, and that’s fine for Iseek, but it won’t work for testing read and write: reads and writes to /dev/null virtu- ally always succeed. If you want to test the limits of the read or write system calls, you need either a very large disk or a very high volume tape drive that you can treat like a file.” “I see, “So the maximum file size is really lim- ited by what the system calls can handle, and that’s about two gigabytes?” “Yup, that’s about it.” “Do people really need files that large?” “You'd be surprised.” He wrapped the yellow paper around therock and tossed it out the window without looking. “You hungry? How about a knish?” @ res thet EE BH chit» ys cia san nee eal ie pin as ape te ee TU | ei Computerland of 4onumawred Serving you for over 14 years! The purchase of your computer is just the beginning of our relationship. We offer complete service to each sale. IBM” PS/2° Mode! 30- IBM” LaserPrinter E v Compact, versatile and inexpensive. —— og W 5 pages per minute. 512K RAM. _@e™ | SPECIAL | IBM Is a registered trademark of IBM Corp Monitor extra. 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In San Francisco Phone: 415/922-9115 FAX: 415/922-0858 54 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 BUSINESS SOLUTIONS — FIGURE 1: /* test.c: compile with cc -o test test.c run with test-n #-o #-d devicename -n# the number of 2K blocks to write -o# — the offset at which to begin writing -d devicename the name of the.device or file to write to. /dev/null will be used for the device if none is specified. if the -n or -o flags are omitted, the default is 1 block. nt #include _ #include #include #include #include main(argc,argv) int argc; ‘char *argv[]; f extern int optind; extern char *optarg; int file_desc; int len; int count; int i; int - dflag; unsigned long n; unsigned long 0; char C; char file_name[30]; ~ char cp[1024]; while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, “o:n:d:”)) != EOF) switch (c) { case ‘d’: -_ strcpy(file_name, optarg); dflag++; break; case ‘n’: n = atol(optarg); break; case ‘0’: o = atol(optarg); break; eoy if (dflag == 0) strepy(file_name; “/dev/null”); printf(“Using %s\n”, file_name); ieee cago A aN RIC Tell ori jietho aetna 386-SX 16 MHz VGA Notebook -486- 25 MHz ann 386-33 MHz 64K Cache System e Intel 33 MHz CPU e | MB Expandable to 32 MB on Board © C &T Chip Set e 64K Cache Memory © TEAC 1.2 MB or 1.44 MB Floppy Drive e ]:] Interleave FD/HD Controller ° Serial, Parallel, Game Port e 10] Keyboard ¢ Case w/Power Supply 1030 286-12 MHz System e | MB Expandable to 16 MB e Landmark=115 ¢ BIO Shadow RAM © Supports External Weitek e Teac 1.2 MB or 1.44 MB Floppy Drive e] fe expandable to 5 MB e 2] MB IDE Hard Disk (25ms) © 10” woes onal LCD with CDF Backlight © VGA 640x480 (16 Gray Shades) e External VGA Port ® | Serial, 1 Paraliel Port @ Size: 2” x 12” x 10” e Weighs less than 7 Ibs including battery * Supports: DOS, Windows 3.0, OS/2, Xenix *2095 386-25 MHz System e Intel 25 MHz CPU e ]:] Interleave FD/HD Controller e Serial, Parallel, Game Port © 10] Keyboard e Case w/Power Supply 1675 386-SX 16 MHz System e Intel 386-SX CPU ¢ 1 MB RAM on board ¢ 1 MB RAM on board, Landmark=21.6 © C &T NEAT Chip Set © C & T NEAT Chip Set oie Exp.to4MB e AMI BIOS e AMIBIOS se]: or 1.44 MB Floppy Drive e EMS-LIM 4.0 on Board e EMS-LIM 4.0 on Board e |:] Interleave HD/FD Controller e 101 Keyboard @ Choice: Regular Case, Baby Case or Small Vertical Case © Hard/Floppy Controller (1:1) Teac 1.2 MB or 1.44 MB Floppy Drive ¢ Serial, Parallel, Game Port e 101 Keyboard © Case w/Power Supply © Hard/Floppy Controller (1:1) © Teac 1.2 MB Floppy e Serial, Parallel, Game Port e 10] Keyboard e Choice: Regular Baby Case or Small Vertical Case @) etiin ale erlake mae ahs he 1 ele, eee ie CR ent las Ure Te ld CORE ian ita tee aS tr Ween yale Gent Hard Disks DEAE AOM Oy als es Toshiba 44/66MB......... 275 Panasonic KX-1180 ........ 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Hardware and software vendors have become increasingly concerned with the needs of the “mobile professional,” for whom portabil- ity is a must and the keyboard-based interface an obstacle. GRiD, a pioneer in portable computing, started shipping the MS-DOS-based GRIDPAD in 1989, and the tablet-like ma- chine has been well accepted in vertical markets (see Busi- ness Solutions story this issue). More recently, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced that the Windows environ- ment would support pen-based input and exhorted devel- opers to include PenWindows extensions in their Windows products. GO’s founders, S. Jerrold Kaplan and Robert Carr, tooka somewhat different.view of the matter. Their experience in integrated software design (Carr as co-author of Ashton- Tate’s Framework and Kaplan as co-author of Lotus . Agenda) suggested that while connectivity with existing standards was vital, the best environment for pen-based._ computing was one designed specifically for that purpose. Hence, PenPoint. However, building anew operating environment isn’tjust a formidable technical challenge. For GO to succeed, par- ticularly against an entrenched competitor like Microsoft, it needs alliances with hardware and software vendors to es- tablish itself as a standard. At the January announcement, the company appeared to have made a good start—in addi- es «BY MARY EISENHART ¢ PHOTOS BY SUSANA MILLMAN 60 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 - Software warriors = on a Mission From GO: Bill Campbell, Jerry Kaplan, and Robert Carr — Ted etre 2 a ee “Killer Price An A Terrific Warran PC Magazine4uly 1990 Warranty Policy: : Tags ees a ee Gemeesanee and : We Use American Made Motherboards Only! — ~ ears rboe Rees a oes parts (K/B, Super EISA 12 Slots 480 Best Buy _ POMag., Cache § SX : ‘ Ve Model: seen 386-3 -33EP 12/486-33SF486-25AD ge: 386- -33RD _ 386-25RD © 3865x20CB._ , > Modeis:. s, Max etc. : t: VGA Cards, Maxtor HD, etc.) ase coe - 2 eee 1-year on standard parts. | Scan 33MHz 33MHz 25MHz 33MHz | 25MHz "1-year on-site Service. Landmark PENNE Ot, DMR A) ane ot ee ores : ; BOS » Phoenix AMI AMI ..).. AMI. BMI 2 Sie MBs 2nd year on-site option. 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PenPoint developer software is currently available, along with a prototype 386-based machine; it’s expected that the first commercial products will be ready in about a year. As Kaplan and Carr chart GO’s technical course, the task of building the company has fallen to new president and CEO Bill Campbell, late of Claris. Campbell, a football coach earlier in life, is no stranger either to fervor and zeal or to making new endeavors succeed—he spearheaded Apple’s sales and marketing from 1984 to 1987, the early years of Macintosh. Then, as Claris employees told the tale in their affectionate open letter of farewell in the Wall Street Journal, “when Apple decided to get out of the software business, you volunteered to start a spin-off company. You began with a handful of nearly-free Apple software products, a few rebels, aname, ‘Claris,’ and built us into the world’s leading Mac software company.” Will this intrepid little software company succeed in changing the world, or at least the way people compute? It’s . too soon to tell in this highly unpredictable industry, but GO seems to be off to a promising start. THE VISION Esa Jerry Kaplan Co-founder and Chairman What led you to found GO? Around ’87 I was completing work on Agenda, and I was talking with Mitch Kapor. We thought about what the limitations were to the use of Agenda as a personal information manager. The key impediment, of course, was that it was tied to the desktop; at that time the smallest port- ables were fifteen pounds or something. Even if they could be very small and light, as today they are, they really weren’t suitable for use while you were en- gaged in your normal course of business, face to face with others. Fundamentally, desktop software is designed for — knowledge workers, who do their work at a desk, with the door closed, without people around, where they can concentrate their full attention on the machine. Laptops are portable desktop machines, but do not serve the needs of mobile professionals, who spend their time face to face with others, and who would like to be able to use a computer in the course of doing their business. What kinds of people? Salespeople, consultants, lawyers, managers, executives. And another group of people, those that literally are standing up and moving around, like an inspector, or a policeman, or a delivery person. None of those can use a keyboard-oriented ma- chine, because flipping up a screen and starting to type is just socially unacceptable and disruptive of that interpersonal fabric. Not to mention the fact that using a mouse on a portable is an awkward thing to do. The idea of a machine operated with a pen came up. I realized that if you could do handwriting trans- lation so you could write directly onto the screen, have the software translate that to its ASCII equiva- 64 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 “If you could write directly onto the screen, have the software translate that to its ASCII equivalent, you use of computers to a completely new group of people, who presently can’t use the computer in the course of doing their work.” lent, that you would really open up the use of com- puters to a completely new group of people, who presently-can’t use the computer in the course of doing their work. So we began to define a machine which would combine the social characteristics of a notebook with the power of a computer. We rapidly began to realize that existing software, which is designed for desktops and keyboards and the full attention of the user, would not be a good basis for a pen-based machine. You needed asystem that was designed for lightweight, portable comput- ers, that did not require the user’s full attention. That had avery simple, direct, immediate user inter- face that’s made possible by the pen, where you can manipulate things directly rather than having the indirection of a keyboard and a mouse. As we began to see the more technical issues, it became clear that a new software substrate, an operating system, was justified in order to allow the system to deliver the unique benefits ofa pen-based system, because the ultimate promise of a pen- based system is simplicity. It’s the ability to manipu- late that information with, from a user standpoint, a simple, compelling model, and use direct manipu- lation. That’s what PenPoint has been designed to deliver. So we began the company in ’87 to develop that vision, and have now released PenPoint. Funda- mental to understanding what pen-based comput- ing is about is to recognize that pen-based comput- ers are a different class of computing device, and that trying to establish a single binary-compatible standard on desktop machines and portable ma- chines compromises severely the utility and sim- plicity of the pen-based system, and the character of the portable device. ; Does that relate to the GRIDPAD, and to Microsoft’s PenWindows? Because Bill Gates is saying, “Oh, we're going to do pen-based too, and you can run all your Windows apps on it.” It seems that your vision is somewhat different. Yes. I think very much so. The fundamental issue is, is it more of the same, or is it something new and different? You don’t make a motorcycle by taking a car, removing two wheels, and trying to rebalanceit. I believe that you redesign it to deliver the unique benefits that a motorcycle can provide. The same is true of pen-based computing. PenWindows is an attempt by Microsoft to extend the reach of their desktop systems to grab a portion of this emerging pen-based market. Now I don’t mean to suggest that there’s anything wrong with that; I think that there’s utility to a pen when it’s at- tached to a desktop system. However, it makes that system more complex, not simpler. First you learn about, in their case, Windows. And the mouse and keyboard. And once you've mastered that, then you learn how a pen can be used as a layer on top to accelerate those operations. The software, of course, is designed for keyboards, so it doesn’t natu- rally accommodate, for example, space that you might wish to open up to handwrite some informa- tion. So fundamentally, Microsoft is a desktop operat- ing system company, and is attempting to take a single system, Windows, and stretch it to compete on the high end with UNIX workstations and on the low end with small portable pen-based computers. And inevitably there are significant compromises that arise as a result of that. Our vision is of pen-based computers as a new and separate category, which communicates with the rest of the computing world; it is network aware and is able to interchange data in standard formats with all different kinds of machines, but that funda- mentally is designed to exhibit the unique charac- teristics of the pen for the user. Key to the design of PenPoint is the detachable a ee a ee ee ae SUPER SALE NOW! 3012 SCOTT BLVD. 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PenPoint has been designed with this kind of detachable networking in mind, in a notion we called deferred input and output, where you can give commands like Print, say, or Move, for files that are on your machine to some foreign device when you're not connected, and when you’re next connected that action will take place. In short, connectivity is key to the PenPoint strat- egy. We can accommodate multiple network proto- tips, if you will, for these systems. The user doesn’t think of the information as being organized in files, but rather sees the information as ~ organized into a notebook. They simply turn pages to move from document to document. You could think of this as a form of object orientation, because the user doesn’t need to think about the difference . between programs and data. They simply access documents, and those documents are alive. Now furthermore, the architecture allows one document to be embedded into another, live, so that you can do things like drag and drop between applications that might be present on the same page. So to compose a graphic inside of a word processing document, you actually bring the Draft of Letter As we discussed on the phone yesterday, Iam in need of Gait) expert opinion on the historic Ars and Letters Building in San Francisco. Specifically, can you verify that the architect is in fact Clement Mokwell? I'm puzzled by the detail shown below, which does not seem consistent with his other work. : Any light you can shed on this problem will be greatly appreciated. rae yen ee oer panes arr, Kor NE Help Prfemnces Took Stafonery Dsls Keyboad Instiler In Out Help Prtewnces Took Statonery Disks Keyboed Installer In Out GO’s PenPoint operating system integrates applications seamlessly in a notebook computing environment that actually works like a notebook. col stacks, in order to talk through a variety of net- works, and through simple connections both to Macintoshes and PCs. That’s inherent in the whole design. I think we’ve paid much more attention to issues of connectivity and file compatibility than have typi- cally been done, certainly between the Macintosh and DOS today. One of the things that history seems to show that Apple did right was enforce interface guidelines in dealing with its developers. Absolutely. So that when you’ve learned MacWrite, most of that knowledge is not wasted when you go into some- thing else. It seems like you’ve gone a step further than that, even. Yes, in fact that’s true. We’ve been able to raise the level of interaction and communication between programs, through the notebook metaphor and the embedded document architecture. We are deliver- ing on the promises of information at your finger- 66 MICROTIMES «APRIL 15, 1991 graphic program inside of the word processor and do what you want to do, and then youcan turn offall the paraphernalia and borders and make it look clean with respect to the rest of the system. There’s a very high level of integration among programs, and services such as searching through- out the entire user workspace across applications. Hyperlinks and buttons are another very important aspect of this, so that the user can index across dif- ferent applications and documents, and very simply create buttons which they can tap, and pages will turn and programs will scroll in order to bring into view the item of interest. The Macintosh enforced a certain level of user interface coordination. We are enforcing beyond that a level of program cooperation that is much higher-level than is in any of the present operating systems. You’ve also done a pretty good job of lining up strategic alliances with hardware and software vendors. What is their thinking on this? IBM, forin- stance, is a pretty conservative company. Very much so. The reason those companies are reacting the way they are is not because they're being mesmerized by exciting technology. It’sreally — that the customers are demanding solutions of this kind. ; We began our marketing efforts by visiting many — of the large potential customers, and they became ~ very excited by the prospects of this technology. That’s what got the computer companies inter- ested, to make a long story short—they respond to their customers. The pen-based computing revolu- tion is not being fueled by technology push but by customer pull, because there are real, immediate, and obvious problems that a pen-based computer can solve, that no portable or laptop can solve for many of these big customers. For instance... Well, one that we showed publicly at our an- nouncement was an auto claims estimating system. An auto claims estimator goes around a car and can mark off damage and produce an estimate, and thereby pay you for the accident your car might have been in. This is a wonderful technology for that. This is an enormous market—the amount of payments that are made daily is staggering. To be able to make that even slightly more accurate, and to make those estimators slightly more efficient, is of tremendous value. For the individual in the next five years, a different set of benefits will be delivered. We will see systems incorporate cellular modems in order to communi- cate back to your office, where you will be able to send and receive faxes, pick up your phone mes- sages, look at documents and mark them up, modify contracts, get signatures on contracts right on the spot. Workonadocumentwith aclient, much as you would on paper, without turning you into a com- puter operator, if you will. These are just some ofthe ways in which pen-based computers will change the way people work and the way people think. — But clearly, it’s not going to change the way the _ legal secretary does word processing, for instance. No, not at all. This is not a substitute for a desktop machine, and it’s not intended to compete head on with desktop or laptop equipment. On the contrary, it’s complementary. It competes with that no more than desktop machines compete with minicomput- ers. For people needing to do large volumes of data entry, the keyboard’s the best way to do it. It’s also the case that virtually all pen-based computers will be capable of hooking up a keyboard and using a keyboard with those systems. But the focus ofa pen- based computer will be on the pen as the primary input device, and a keyboard will be the peripheral, which will be used occasionally for data entry. It seems also that this technology opens up com- puters to people who traditionally haven’t been able to use them or have been terrified of them. I think that’s true, because the difference between using a keyboard or a mouse and using a pen is the difference between walking on stilts and walking on firm ground. Walking on stilts is a skill that has to be practiced and learned. Using a pen is a skill that is already learned in school. — ee ee ee eee OD K NEWS” >. 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Well, there’s really a wide variety of applications that you’d expect to see that are somewhat different from what you’d find on a desktop machine, and some that overlap. Processing short, formal busi- ness documents, for example—a business letter— being able to sign it and fax it back out. Being able to modify a contract right on the spot, so youcan agree on specific wording, without having to go back and have it word-processed. Architectural drawing packages, where you can modify with your client— move the placement of things, without having to go ~ to a desktop computer. Electronic mail, where you would simply scribble or write your responses rather than type them, and have that image of your handwritten message sent. Being able to take notes and index them, and be able to review them, keeping large volumes of notes in a very small amount of space, is another key aspect of this. Being able to look up informationina database—it would be very nice if you could bring a three-pound machine with you that contains all of your inventory records for the past ten years so you can be responsive to a customer. When you begin to think about the breadth of ; applications, they are clearly as widespread and as varied as those that occur on the desktop. They’re by no means limited. I have the impression that originally you were going to do hardware as well as software, and the vision mutated at some point. That’s correct. Why? It was because we found that other large com- puter manufacturers were interested in producing PenPoint machines, and in order to build a PenPoint market, we wanted to have as many partners as possible. We felt that our strength was really in the design and delivery of systems software, and not so much as a high-volume low-cost producer of hard- ware, So when IBM stepped up and told us that they were going to build a PenPoint machine, and others were expressing strong interest, we decided not to make that a major strategic thrust of the company any further. 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MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 71 SIMM's CECEU:@wV 256x9-100 256x8-80 CMM CPC's 80486 DX-33 80486 DX-25 80386 DX-33 80386 DX-25 80386 DX-20/16 CALL FOR AMD CPU's MME f 256K character-mode PC that had floppies, a pretty different design viewpoint, but the result was very highly integrated and a fairly elegant design. But because I was doing that on top of the operat- ing system, it had to be a closed world. I couldn’t necessarily allow another application developer to write an application that an end-user could buy and run inside of Framework. Framework had five func- tions, it was built in, you got them all from our product, from Ashton-Tate. It was a very good inte- grated software package, but that’s the Achilles heel of integrated software packages, that they’re closed worlds—you can’t go out and buy your favorite packages and get that high degree of integration. — When I cofounded GO—since I did see there was 256x8-100 a need for a new operating system, which there’s very rarely a need for [laughs]—one of the things that attracted me was that I realized it was a chance to do an operating system the right way. Which, to my mind, is to really build in all the fundamentals rightinto the operating system, so you can have your cake and eat it too. You can have just as high or an 200/925 even higher degree of integration as you can achieve bee Ge in integrated software packages, but you could do that for all the hundreds or thousands of applica- tions that would be written for it, not just the five functions that maybe an Ashton-Tate or a Lotus Symphony might build into themselves. That was the promise. That’s what excited me in 1987 starting GO. The other thing that had happened as the ’80s went by is that object oriented technology was ma- turing, and I felt that we could use that in the design and building of the operating system itself, as a bet- ter software technology to help achieve the high in- tegration, yet have this high degree of modularity. 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BLVD. |-Cy LOS ANGELES, GA 90024 ; Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-—bpm, Sat 9am-5pm Call for IBM Computers | 76 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 Dla age a eer or eo ee Yes, it is. I have to give credit to the Macintosh ex- perience—they provided a toolkit with hundreds of pieces, but the developers had to learn howto piece them together. A few years later they came out with kind of a separate product called MacApp, the first real commercial application framework, a default or generic application. But they never built that in the operating system—it was something new that they kind ofknitted together above the operating system, and they sell separately, so it’s never been able to help the Mac.community much. But we took that same approach, of a generic or default application that’s kind of a complete appli- cation with just the guts missing that make your ap- plication special. We took that same approach—it’s one that’s been prevalent in the research commu- nityin the ’80s—and we built that right into the heart of the operating system so that all PenPoint applica- tions just start from this already-implemented jumping-off point. They just write what makes their application special, a grid of cells for a spreadsheet, or graphics charting for a charting package. But they get a lot of functionality already written for them. ‘Do you expect that you'll attract more developers that are at the startup level, or more established vendors? Both what we expect and what we're getting is a healthy mixture of both. We need both, and I think both are very interested. What they both like is the fact that there’s no entrenched competition. ‘The large developers sometimes, I think, are motivated by the notion ofanew market, but they’re also motivated by a defensive motivation. Every- -_ body saw that Lotus hurt themselves when they did ' not put a good spreadsheet on the Macintosh—that left Microsoft an opportunity to get a beachhead in the spreadsheet market. Now Microsoft’s brought Excel back to the PC where it can do Lotus even more harm. So I think the big guys have learned that if - there’s a hot new platform, they should put a good product there, because if they don’t somebody else might get a chance to get a good new product into that category. Small guys all like the idea that there’s no en- trenched competition here, so it’s a chance forthem to build the next Lotus or the next WordPerfect, if they believe that it’s anew high-growth market. And they do—we’re getting quite a few companies founded just to write for PenPoint. I think that’s the most significant trend over time, because that’s where most innovative software comes from. It seems to me that, especially with the forms- based applications, the usefulness of pen-based machines would be severely limited if they didn’t talk to real databases on the other end. Howareyou dealing with database vendors? The key is not so much that the database vendors are necessary, it’s the access to the databases. So, for instance, acompany called TechGnosis provides an SQL access product, and SQL gives you access to quite a few of the classical kind of minicomputer- server-based databases, Oracle included. On Janu- ary 22, TechGnosis demonstrated that product working with our system at our developer’s summit, in which you could fill out a form and that would specify a query, and data would be downloaded from a remote computer running SQL. So at GO we've designed an operating system that specializes in connectivity. All of the operating sys- tems to date didn’t even have any connectivity at all for many years, and then over the years they got networking to talk to other computers just like themselves. So DOS machines tend to talk to other DOS machines, and Macintoshes to other Macin- toshes, and that’s after some years of work. We've designed PenPoint to talk to a multiplicity of different kinds of existing standards. So we can talk directly to DOS machines, to Macintoshes, and that’s because we don’t have a single built-in file system or a single built-in networking protocol. We support multiple protocols and multiple file sys- tems, so if you talk to Macintosh you can have Pen- Point configured so it reads and writes the Macin- tosh file system as PenPoint’s own direct file system. Sol describe it as we’re very polymorphic, or chame- leon-like—we’re really designed to dock and con- nect very strongly to multiple existing standards. We're helped in that because of the object orienta- tion—it’s easy for us to replace a subsystem and put in another one. We can replace the MS-DOS FAT file system we use and put in the Macintosh HFS file system. So for instance, I have a MacWrite document. It would be highly preferable to load it into a tablet- sized machine, make additions and corrections on the road, and put it back on my Mac when I got back. Exactly, and that’s what we have working today. Right in the operating system we build in standard support for import-export, in the architecture and the user interface. We’ve written some file format translation filters, but third parties can write addi- tional ones. The result is that you can just plug in a cable to your Macintosh—in this case it would be an Ap- pleTalk cable—open up a little browser window right on your PenPoint screen with a pen, and just drag the name of that file from the browser window into our notebook table of contents. Since it’s a for- eign file, we'll pop up a list of the kinds of applica- tions in PenPoint that know how to read it—typi- cally it’ll be your word processor that’ll stand up and say, “Yeah, Iknowthat MacWrite format,” or “Iknow about RTF” or whatever. And so then it’s just sucked in. Then when you're done, if you want to put it back, you again just drag it and drop it with your pen tip. It’s direct manipulation just to move the files back and forth between the two windows. You've gotalot of graphics supportbuiltin—do you see graphics as being a particularly significant application? The creation and editing of graphics, I think. There are certain kinds of graphics, like image processing or color image processing—24-bit, where one image takes 3MB on the disk. We’re not a high-end database or image processing kind of envi- ronment, because PenPoint’s designed for small mobile machines, where you don’t have big hard disks and you don’t have color. But for graphics that you’d edit or create, like business graphics and presentation grapphics, slides, CAD/CAM, object oriented drawings, paint programs, we’re fantastic, because the pen is the world’s best tool to create and control graphics. So those all are important early markets. What are the memory and storage requirements the system needs to operate in? It requires a 386 processor, and the minimum storage requirement is 4MB of total storage. It’s important to stress that that’s total system storage. If you're comparing that against a Macintosh or DOS with Windows, you have to count howmuch space is used on disk versus memory. So for instance, when you install Windows on your hard disk, it takes 4-5MB of space on your hard disk, then you need 2-4MB of RAM, then they recom- mend that you create a 4MB swapping file in 386 enhanced mode if you want to run several applica- tions at once—which, of course, most people do. That’s the point with Windows. And so the total there might be 13MB or so. So it’s a pretty economical system. Yes. It’s very economical, and it’s designed so today it’s running on notebook computers. In a few years there'll be steno-pad and shirt-pocket-sized devices that hardware manufacturers will also be offering. You'll pick the size of computer you want, depending on what you're going to use it for. If you're using it for personal informaition, you want something very small. If you’re doing document processing or serious graphics, you probably want page-size, just so that you can have more area. Do you see your evolutionary path as being based on Intel processors? Certainly they'll be very important for us, and we're starting off with the 386, and it’s a good proc- essor. But no, not at all exclusively. Because Pen- Point is highly portable. It’s completely written in C, and it has a flat memory model—we’re not tied to the Intel segmentation. So you could conceivably have SPARC PenPoint machines, and Mac PenPoint machines? Absolutely. We’ve carefully designed it so it can be ported to RISC processors. We think that the mar- ketplace will benefit from the lowcost and great CPU power and low power consumption characteristics of those chips, including SPARC. So we're going to pursue those with hardware partners. THE COMPANY Ea? Bill Campbell President and CEO Youcome from avery different place than Jerry and Robert. To oversimplify it considerably, they’re technical wizards with a track record for break- through technologies, and what you do is build companies. How do you see that working? I’m hoping that that would make it a perfect marriage. As you Say, Jerry and Robert have a repu- tation for creating phenomenal technologies. Be- yond that, they’ve been able to turn those technolo- gies into viable products. 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A notebook PC witha traditional keyboard is not very logical for truck drivers or meter readers or insurance claim agents. So that’s a new group that we think we can bring into computing with these types of devices.” Continued from page 77 management structure for the company so that this technology can reach the market. It is a phenomenal technology, well-conceived and well-executed. It will have as much competition in the marketplace as any great technology that’s ever come into the mar- ketplace will have. So the job that I have, that all of us at the company have, is to ensure that this wonderful technology can make it to market and be judged onits quality and its merits, not just strictly by the size of the company. So what we have to do is make GO more real than life itself. Fervor and zeal! : Yeah, but it has to be really believed by the cus- tomer that it’s solid, stable, able to deliver. Able to support OEMs, able to support its customers. There’s a lot of structural things that I’ve had expe- rience with that hopefully we can put into the com- pany to enable it to be successful. This involves things like alliances with other ven- dors, software evangelism, dealer channel, all that stuff? It starts with the constituencies that will make the product successful. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? Is it the OEMs, oris it the software provid- ers? Both of them have to be there. In order to get the OEMs excited, many of the prominent software developers have to sign up. In order for software developers to sign up, many of the prominent OEMs have to sign up with the operating system. That’s one problem Apple didn’t have—Apple didn’t have to evangelize the hardware... Exactly. So we’re in a situation where we’ re work- ing with both constituencies, and I see that as my primary goal. The second is to try to put an operating structure in place that will allow the company to grow. Those are things like financial systems, operational sys- tems, processes that can allowthe company to enjoy its freedom—careful use of money is an example. Those things are coming along pretty well—they’re fairly easy to institute, and we’ve got really smart people here who really understand those things. The partnering side of it is what we really have to fo- cus our attention on. That being so, and since you're essentially going head to head with Microsoft, for which lots of devel- opers are already writing software, what’s the ad- vantage for a developer in going with PenPoint? Yes, Microsoft is the most formidable opponent. It’s formidable because, as you indicated, there’s this enormous base of code that’s being created called Windows, and the momentum over the last nine months behind Windows has been enormous. Microsoft’s basic selling proposition is that the pen extensions to Windows are very easy to do for someone that’s invested anywhere from eighteen to thirty months in development of a Windows prod- uct. Trying to spend a little bit more time and pro- vide pen extensions will really make PenWindows the optimum platform. That’s Microsoft’s selling pitch. Ours has got to be completely different. Our sys- tem has been designed from the ground up as some- thing that’s been optimized for pen on glass. What it will allow is different applications from the Win- dows applications that exist today. This will allow smaller, focused, pen-optimized or mobile-opti- mized applications. Would a mobile worker want to use a spreadsheet as we traditionally know it today, under Windows or Mac, with pull-down menus and things like that? Or would it be a different metaphor? We think two things. We think that the excitement of people creating something completely different than they’ve done before, really thinking through a mobile worker’s metaphor, how they would use computing on the go, is an exciting thing for the developer community. And that thrill of creating something new and getting in on anew and exciting operating system is a great incentive for a lot of the smaller companies. Just having come from Claris, I recognize that sig- nificant upgrades to products take eighteen months, and new applications take even more time. In contrast, PenPoint applications might have any- where from 100K of code to 400K of code. We’re thinking about exquisite applications being done in 100-200K of code, because this object-oriented op- erating system provides so much functionality and facility for developers to utilize. So we see the time to market as a big advantage. Yes, it’s not as easy as making a Windows applica- tion pen-compatible, but you could do a smaller, tighter, more focused—and therefore, we think, much more exquisite and acceptable—application under PenPoint by writing a small amount of code. Thinking through the conceptual design frame- work, the coding aspect of it should be considerably less time. We think that you could get a great product out in PenPoint in eight to twelve months. The investment that a developer would make in our platform is sig- nificantly less than it might be in another. I don’t want to make the case that it would be easier than doing a pen extension to Windows, but the fact is that I don’t believe those applications will be opti- mized for mobile workers. I go back to when we launched the Macintosh in 1984—Bill Gates stood up on a platform in Hawaii at an Apple-sales meeting and said, “In software, vol- ume is everything.” Obviously with the acceptance of our system by OEMs and, we believe, the demand created, there will be volume of PenPoint machines out there that the developers can sell to. How comparable are the challenges GO’s facing now to those the Macintosh faced in 1984? It was also going up against an entrenched standard and also trying to evangelize a radically different con- cept. I think the big-guy-versus-little guy juxtaposition exists today. Mac vs. IBM PC, GO vs. Microsoft. But the similarities end there. First of all, Apple was a company, and it had an ongoing revenue stream from that wonderful thing called Apple II. So we were able to invest the profits from Apple II into launching a new platform—you remember that first hundred days we had of Macin- tosh, enormous multimillion dollars of advertising and public relations and developer tours and things like that. Right now at GO, we are certainly much more resource-constrained. What we have to do is spend our time and effort on targeted marketing efforts. We've done a really good job with our déveloper/ press conference, the introduction on January 22. We reached a lot of the industry influencers, who MICROTIMES * APRIL 15, 1991 87 are, inour thoughts, primarily the software develop- ers and the hardware OEMs that will provide us with leverage. Since that time we ve focused alot of our attention on dealing with probably alot fewer people than Mi- crosoft would be dealing with, but trying to ap- proach them in a direct way, to see if we can't pro- vide them with a partnership that will enable them to understand our system better and provide one of the things that we feel is a big advantage to our system—hardware-differentiated products. Today if you see a PC on somebody’s desk, you’d have to get pretty close to it to know whether it was an 8088 or a 286 or a 386 or whatever. In a scalable operating system, people could have devices as small as 3x5 cards and as large as that wallboard behind your head. People could innovate, and therefore be able to differentiate themselves that way. That’s an advantage for us, we feel—that we’re providing a hardware-differentiated opportunity for our developers. But back to the similarities to the Mac—all those things that we’ve had to do we’ve had to target. We can’t do mass advertising. We can’t do mass launches or even mass mailings. Everything we’re doing right now involves trying to work with the infrastructure in microcomputing as we know it today, to try to help them understand the value of our system. And if they can get some of the religious fervor of Jerry Kaplan and Robert Carr, they’ ll under- stand what a breakthrough in thinking this is and join with us to try to change the way people view computing. That last part of it is a lot of what Steve Jobs did with the Mac. It was a new way of computing, and there are some things that are similar there. The Mac was a breakthrough in thinking about how to use a very horizontal computer. We think we're taking the next great step. We have the same task, but with alot fewer resources. How do you see yourselves relating to, say, GRiD, which already has the GRIDPAD running DOS but has committed to doing PenPoint machines? Our view is that GRiD will be a very supportive partner. I'll talk about another OEM that I visited—yes, they feel like from a customer demand standpoint, they’re going to have to fulfill those demands with a PenWindows product, and on the other hand they feel like that will be a different class machine than something PenPoint would provide them the op- portunity to create. We're hoping that that’s what happens with GRiD. If they see it that these are strictly interchangeable operating systems, let the customer vote, I think that’s fine, I thinkthat would bea good wayto go. But if they feel like they could really use the functional- ity of our OS to create a different type of hardware platform, that’s what we’d like, and that’s what we’re working to encourage them to do. Speaking as somebody who missed character- based machines entirely and went straight from the typewriter to the Mac, I think there’s some truth to the idea that the people who gravitated to the Mac were often fundamentally different from those who went for the PC. Do you see a similar 88 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 thing happening here? As far as the types of users are concerned, I don’t think there was any question that the Macintosh brought new users into the marketplace. I think that was very obvious. I think that the marketplace for GO’s technology is, maybe, a different demographic group. The pro- fessional managerial type person that you person- ally represent are the people that were attracted by Macintosh; interestingly enough, the technical community bought into it first, and then the univer- sity students, and those were the three major con- stituencies that Apple was able to target. In our case here at GO, the mobile professional has been one who has largely been ignored. I think that anotebook PC witha traditional keyboardis not something that is very logical for people that are truck drivers or meter readers or insurance claim agents or things like that to use. So that’s anewgroup that we think we can bring into computing with these types of devices. Thesecond thingis that there are many people out there who are currently mobile users, who are using notebook or portable type computers, that have been unhappy with their ability. People like, for instance, you interviewing me—rather than using a notebook and a pen, you might use a notebook computer, because it would probably not be appro- priate to sit here and type on a keyboard. With the communications architecture that we have pro- vided, you could literally believe that the machine you were using right here while you were interview- ing me could bea peripheral to your host, that when you went back you could get that information into your host, format it any way that you'd like, and outputit to your LaserWriter just as younormally do. One of the things I’d hear a lot from developers when the Mac first came out was that, in essence, the learning curve to go from the UNIX or DOS environment to the Mac environment was about a year, for an experienced programmer. You had to relearn everything from the ground up, and Apple’s evangelists had a hard time with existing DOS de- velopers for that reason. And you forgot the hardest part—you had to buya Lisa! [laughs] It sounds like at GO you're springing a totally alien operating system on developers, but it also sounds like you’re making it a lot easier for them to deal with. There’s no question. Developing in a familiar en- vironment makes it pretty easy for them. I think the biggest hurdle is still one that was a hurdle on the Mac—to do one application well. People could program on the Mac—you had to step through hoops and do Lisa, but if all you did was a straight port, you didn’t sell very many. Some of the innovative companies like Slate and PenSoft are doing some wonderful things because they’ve thought through this new mobile worker. They thought through what people want, so they can imagine the truck driver, the meter reader, the claims agent, those mobile workers, and they have provided an environment where, with some modest customization, they can have tools. Their company, no matter howsmall, can have tools that they’re able to use to be able to do these things well. Howextensive is the real-people testing of the soft- ware? We've done an enormous amount of usability testing here. It’s not an easy thing to do. We've had to work with the developers—like, for — example, with Slate. If they provide a development environment, somebody, either an in-house or : commercial developer or a VAR, really has to under- stand the utility needs of these customers. i Let’s make the assumption that today there’s an existing infrastructure called VARs. VAR, by its very nature, is vertical, so they understand the vertical needs of specific customers. What we’ve been able todo is work with the VARs, and they’ve been able to ’ give us real-world feedback as to how these people would use their systems. So we've been able to use the VARas a first link to the customer, andifthey can conceptualize the metaphor, then we with our operating system and the VAR with their application can work with the end-user customer. That brings up a further question—your distribu- tion channel. Do you envision that pen-based computers are going to bean off-the-shelf product, or they're going to be mostly VAR-channel, or mostly direct sales? I wouldn’t want to speculate on behalf of our hardware vendors, because the OEMs are going to be the ones that are going to. do that. I would say that the initial thrust will be vertical, but I think that the blade of that hockey stick is going to be pretty short, and I think it will become very horizontal. s I think even if a vertical- market worker found that the vertical application was extremely valuable, they would begin to find other things. It’sliketheold- _ days—if you go back and think about the secretary . who discovered word processing, word processing was an easy thing to learn, and then theyhad to goto the next step—mailmerge, and revision control, and output—things like that. So what will happen is thatas mobile workers become interested in vertical applications, they'll find out “Oh, I could fax this in- formation.” The original thrust of the microcomputer was the spreadsheet, VisiCalc on the Apple II, 1-2-3 on the PC. That was because it was vertical and logical—we wouldn’t consider that financial analysis vertical today, but we did then. And so immediately people would say, “Well, ifIcan do that, why can’tI do this?” Pretty soon those same people who were the spreadsheet jockeys started doing word processing. So I don’t know the distribution channel, but my guess is that it will go fairly quickly from direct sales to VARs to dealers, and it might happen instantane- ously in all three of those channels. Having seen the Sony Palmtop, I’m wondering if you're envisioning Kanji PenPoint, for instance, and other international versions. No question. As we’re preparing our release, we have been captivated by the promise of Unicode. _ Unicode is essentially an agreement among a num- ber of software vendors to write acommon standard of 16-bit code. That’s what we’re going to do, and you'll see a truly internationalized version from us in our second release. Be HAS MOVED OUR SANTA CLARA HEADQUARTERS NEXT ‘TO FRY’S IN SUNNYVALE FOR OUR GRAND SPECIALS NEW ADDRESS 1196 KERN AVE. 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Buying A Laptop PC What To Consider ew months ago I described many of NAPE MAN A« decisions you need to make when uying a PC clone. One factor was size: do you want a regular desktop PC or a laptop? Laptops, historically referred to as port- ables, are a very different breed of clone. If you're thinking about buying a laptop, you have to answer many of the same questions that you did when you were buying a desktop PC, but you need to think about a few more issues as well. LAPTOPS AND DESKTOPS: SIMILARITIES Almost all of the laptop machines available are standard PC clones. There are a few Macintosh portables and a few UNIX port- ables, but by and large any laptop youseeisa standard PC clone in a different box. They run MS-DOS software, they have disk drives, they have Intel CPUs, and they have ports. The biggest difference is that there are no - slots in most portables. Like desktop clones, laptops are available in all levels of speed and power. You can buy ‘If you intend to use it on airplanes or buses, you certainly need a laptop with batteries. On the other hand, if you will only be using it in hotel clones with 8088, 8086, 80286, 80386SX, 80386, and 80486 CPUs. You can buy laptops with as little as 512K of RAM, or as much as eight megabytes. Many laptops have one or two floppy drives, while others have hard disks. Older laptops have CGA monochrome screens, but most current laptops have VGA monochrome screens, and some even have VGA color (although this option is particu- larly expensive). Most laptops have key- boards with about eighty keys. Most laptops have lots of ports on the back or side so you can hook them to peripherals when you're not on the road. These days, an external monitor port is almost a require- ment. This lets you use areal monitor instead ofthe screen on the laptop when youareinan office. Most laptops come with a standard printer port, and some come with serial ports. Some laptops have external drive con- nectors, but most of these are non-standard and only hook to drives made by the laptop maker or a few mail order houses. Since laptops were originally marketed for use on the road, many of them come with 92 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 modems built in. In this case, there are also one or two phone jacks on the back of the system. Other manufacturers sell modems that can be installed internally in their port- ables. Many don’t have any option for an internal modem but do have a serial port, so you can always buy one of those tiny pocket modems. This is the least attractive option, but not usually that much of a bother for laptop users. DO YOU WANT A LAPTOP AT ALL? If laptops are smaller than desktop PCs and have most of the same features, you’d imag- ine that everyone would buy laptops instead of desktop PCs. Obviously, that’s not hap- pening, and there must be some drawbacks to laptops that keep them at under 10% ofthe clone market. . ’ Actually, there are many negative features, some of them fatal for most buyers who wind up with desktop machines. Don’t be dis- mayed as you read this list, though, since many laptop users swear by their systems, — and the market share of laptops is is growing every year. The most obvious problem with laptops i isg their price. A laptop can easily cost twice as _ much as a similarly powered desktop PC. That’s a hefty markup for a package that looks like a lot less. For example, a typical | laptop with an 80386SX CPU running at 20 MHz (the faster speed for these CPUs), 1MB | of RAM, one floppy drive and a 20MB hard | disk costs about $2,500. A comparable desk- "| top from the same store might cost $1,500. A | difference of $1,000 is significant for many buyers. q The price percentage difference is even bigger for lower-end laptops. An 8086-based | laptop with no hard disk costs around $1200; :f a desktop would be closer to $500. ‘At this level, you can buy two desktop PCs for the” price of one laptop. For small offices or a . department with a limited computer budget, _ this makes laptop computers look like luxu- ries. The price of laptops is coming down, of course, but only about as fast as the price of desktop PCs. ; Laptops cost much more than their | : | } j | i = you don't need batteries and can | probably save yourself weight and — money by getting an AC-only system. 2 Power. Portability. TICE. IN STOCK MICRO Now! ASST PREMIUM EXE REX TEMPO Li includes: includes: e 386SX-20 processor ¢ 386SX-16 processor e 20Mb ,40Mb, or 60Mb ¢20Mb, 40Mb, or 60Mb Hard Disk Hard Disk e Backlit VGA screen ¢ Backlit VGA screen e Battery pack e Battery pack e Carrying case 3 e Carrying case e External monitor port e External monitor port Call for pricing on other AST and Fverex computers, HP printers and other items. MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 93 equivalent desktop models for many rea- sons. First and foremost, it costs more to buy the chips that go into laptops than it does for the chips in full-sized computers. You have much less space for the chips in laptops, so the chips have to do many more things per square inch. These hyper-dense chips cost more, even though you need fewer of them per computer. You’d think that because the screen on a laptop is small and flat that it would be cheaper than a big monitor, but just the opposite is true: high-quality flat screens (usually called “flat panel screens”) cost more than most monochrome monitors. The hard disks in laptops are also more expensive than their larger brethren, since smaller de- vices cost more to make and have higher failure rates. One of the laptop’s best features is also a drawback for many people. In order to make the system small, everything has to be small. A laptop can easily cost twice as much asa similarly powered desktop PC. A laptop is only as small as all of its parts put together. All laptops have tiny, cramped key- boards, often half the size of keyboards on standard PCs. Many people find it difficult to type on alaptop. Almost every laptop has the function keys across the top of the keyboard and no numeric keypad. The cursor control keys are usually along the bottom row of keys, making them very difficult to use with- out looking at them. The keys on most laptop keyboards are smaller than standard PC keys, and the Shift and Control keys are usu- ally the size of regular keys, making them easier to miss. An additional keyboard problem with lap- tops is that the keys are usually higher than they are on standard keyboards. Even though the difference is an inch or less, it’s enough to make many people uncomfort- able when typing. If you’re going to type all day on a computer, you certainly want to be comfortable. Laptop owners can get used to the keyboard, especially if they’re using the laptop exclusively, but they usually have to hold their fingers closer together and keep their hands more tensed. The last major problem with laptops is that the screens are not nearly as easy to read as regular computer screens. The way that characters are put up on a flat panel screen is very different than on regular PC monitors. 94 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 On a standard PC, electrons are shot at a phosphor screen that glows; on a flat panel screen, dots on thescreen are turned black or clear. Most good flat panel screens use “backlighting” to make the black dots look more black, but others don’t. Even with backlighting, your angle of viewing signifi- cantly affects the contrast you see on the screen. The better the screen, the less differ- ence the angle makes, allowing you some freedom of head movement. Different screens do better or worse under different lighting conditions. A laptop that works great in an office with fluorescent lights may be almost unreadable in a hotel room with a lamp next to the computer. The same machine might be fine if the lamp is behind you, though. Orit may be unusable if the sun is coming through the window. Even the best flat panel displays are much more variable than the cheapest PC monitor, and you can be assured that the best flat panei screens can add hundreds of dollars to the price of a laptop. : The concept of “portable” is also subjec- tive with many laptops. Only two years ago, the average laptop weighed twelve pounds. This is certainly alot less than a standard PC, but many laptop owners found one arm growing longer than the other one after lug- ging their computer around from site to site. Newer laptops are in the five to seven pound range, which is much more manageable. A lot of the weight ofa laptop is in the battery if there is one: dropping the battery can dropa few pounds off the system. YOU WANT ONE. NOW WHAT? Of course, these disadvantages can’t be so overwhelming, or no one would buy a lap- top. There are many reasons why laptops are attractive even with these drawbacks. The most important reason many people buy laptops is that you can’t travel with regu- lar PCs. They are huge and bulky, and unless you are Arnold Schwarzenegger, you cannot carry both the system unit and the monitor at the same time. Lugging alaptop might not be as easy as carrying a briefcase full of papers, but it is certainly not that difficult for short stretches, e.g., from the airplane to the rental car. When people go on the road, they often need to do their work as they travel. A laptop gives them the freedom to have a word proc- essor, an electronic appointment calendar, and a spreadsheet with them at all times. They can probably log in to the company computer to get electronic mail, or at least use aremote service such as CompuServe for messages. A laptop frees them from having to do everything on paper and transcribing when they get back home. One of the most overlooked issues is where the laptop will be used. If you intend to use it on airplanes or buses, you certainly need a laptop with batteries. On the other hand, if you will only be using it in hotel rooms and other people’s offices, you don’t need batter- ies and can probably save yourself many pounds by getting an AC-only system. AC- only systems are also less expensive, since they don’t need to use chips that are power- conserving. Most laptops today come with batteries, but manufacturers are paying more attention to users who will forego the battery for less weight and cost. Another important factor to consider is speed. A floppy-only laptop is a great deal slower than one with a hard disk. It is almost impossible to use a word processor on a floppy-only laptop system—the disk drives are usually slower than those on regular sys- tems. This is unfortunate, since laptops with hard disks are much more expensive than those without. If you have a floppy-only lap- top with a megabyte of RAM, you might be able to put the program on a RAM disk to reduce demand on the floppy, but this is difficult with today’s popular word proces- sors. Appointment calendars are usually RAM-based, so this is not as much of a con- cern. If you only run lightweight programs, you can probably get away with a floppy-only system. WHAT TO BUY AND WHERE After you have looked at all your needs and decided what you can afford, you still need to pick a model and a dealer. There are lots of brand-name laptops from companies like Compaq and Toshiba, as well as no-name clones. From the tests and from many people’s comments, Compaq seems to have the highest quality and price, but after that it is catch as catch can. Most of the brand-name laptops are made in Japan or Taiwan, and some of the American-branded laptops are manufactured overseas as well. 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All rights re- served. Brock Meeks is a journalist based in Wash- ington, DC, where he's sur- rounded by informa- tion...and loving it. Database And Change Research, Online And Otherwise, For $5 Or Less ynn Eggett of Oakland recently threw me a metaphorical gauntlet in the orm of a well-reasoned letter, in which she challenged me to give her a good enough reason to use her modem. “So this is columnist hell,” I muttered. Eggett writes that she’s had her modem for eighteen months and used it ten times, tops. She’s a typical MicroTimes reader: her main criterion for using her modem (and by exten- sion, the online industry as a whole) is that it “be within the financial range of an everyday, tax-eaten American.” EMAIL AND THE SMALL BUSINESS In her self-owned business she uses the computer for sales analysis, word process- ing, etc. Her business is regionalized. For her, she says, an electronic mail service such as MCI is usually unnecessary and too expen- sive when she needs it. Eggett misses the point by looking only at the base rates for MCI Mail ($2.00 for a typical four-page business letter, laser printed and delivered by the US Post Office). Granted, when youcan send that same letter foramere 29 cents, it doesn’t seem to make much sense to spend $2 to accomplish the same task. Unless, of course, you factor in the cost of your own time. Let’s break down the cost of sending a let- ter via MCI Mail versus sending that same letter through the post office. The process of drafting the letter, spell checking, and proofreading it is the same as what it would take to send the letter.via MCI Mail. So far, the costs are equal. Now Eggett has to go through the process of inserting paper in the letter-quality printer, then printing the letter. Next, she has to insert the envelope and print it. Now she has to fold and insert the letter and place a stamp on it, and take it out to the mailbox. Total elapsed time from printer to mailbox: ten minutes. That ten minutes just cost her $3.30, assuming that her time is worth at least $20 per hour. Using MCI Mail, that letter can be uploaded and on its way in under two min- 96 MICROTIMES © APRIL 15, 1991 utes, or for about 66 cents in “real” costs in terms of her time. Bottom line: MCI Mail letter—$2.66, US Postal letter—$3.59. Score one for technol- ogy. RESEARCH AND THE AVERAGE AMERICAN Eggett’s letter (handwritten, I might add) moves quickly from her business woes to those of her children. Using the modem for _“practical uses—namely kids’ and high school reports” is “another crash-and-burn prospect,” according to Eggett. She says that her son was recently re- searching areport onthe effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. She details her son’s dismal search for information in the local li- brary. Result: a two-column spread in the encyclopedia and two novels. “Enter CompuServe, right?” she asks. “Not at $35 per search! CompuServe doesn’t even get invited in!” She then goes on to challenge me to pro- vide some “real practicality” and find her an affordable “group of information sources.” But there’s a kicker: “Do it all for five bucks or less!” Like I said, columnist hell. Actually, there’s nothing better than a good challenge. I accept. ; Some of the information sources I'll list below will be “audiotex services.” Audiotex is merely information delivered via a recorded message. True, such information sources aren’t “online” as we usually think of them here, thatis, accessible viamodem. However, by virtue of being delivered via the telephone system, they are, in fact, “online.” And though you can’t download audiotex information, it’s a rather simple matter to record that information on a portable tape recorder using a $3 suction cup recording device available at any electronics store. COMMERCIAL SERVICES A word about commercial services. They aren’t as expensive as they seem. 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As an example of how effective this “pre- selection” strategy can be, I'll use Eggett’s son’s report as an example. On CompuServe, one of the nation’s most respected researchers and “infomaniacs” is at your beck and call. His name is Matthew Lesko and he sponsors a service called the “Electronic Answer Man.” Eggett’s son need only compose his ques- tion offline and upload it to Lesko via CompuServe’s email system. (To reach Le- sko you have to enter “go infousa” at the CompuServe “!” prompt.) The uploading process should take a couple of minutes, tops, if you figure in logging in, navigation time: to the email and typing in a subject header and address. Assuming Eggett is us- ing a 2400-bps modem, sending her son’s WE PROUDLY OFFER INTELS HOTTEST SX PRODUCT INTEL 386 MICROCOMPUTER MODEL 300LPSX-16 ALL THE POWER YOU NEED IN A SMALL PACKAGE!! 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Downloading the message takes another two minutes (another 40 cents). * Total cost for the services of one of the nation’s leading experts: 80 cents. Nowthat’s a deal! Here’s how Lesko handled a research question uploaded from a student who needed to write a paper on aid to Central America: “Over three hundred PhDs on Capitol Hill produce reports on over four hundred sub- jects, each of which is updated daily. Contact your Member of Congress and ask for a copy of the following three CRS Issue Briefs: ‘Cen- - tral American & US Foreign Assistance’; “Central America: A Regional Overview’; and ‘Central America: US Economic and Military Assistance.’” I'll bet the kid gets an A. And just for future reference, should Eggett’s son want to make a dramatic impact during show and tell, he might consider this answer from Lesko to someone who wanted to get an astronaut to speak at their next meeting: “There are several hundred astronauts around the country that are available to speak to groups for free. The National Aero- nautics and Space Administration is able to fill most requests. To make the necessary arrangements contact Mrs. Tawana Clary, Public Services, Special Events Branch, NASA Headquarters (Code LFF), Washington, DC 20546, (202)453-8315.” AUDIOTEX SERVICES There are literally thousands of audiotex services available at the price of a long-dis- tance phone call. If you make that call after * the rates drop at night, it’ll cost you less than $3. Since the government is the world’s largest gatherer of information, below I’ve listed a sampling of their audiotex numbers. Just how useful are such services? 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SO it’s just as easy to bring the disk along. However, if you’re on a plane and need a quick printout, or in the office ofa client who wants it in writing, or, perhaps, in need of hard copy while miles from the nearest elec- trical outlet, these solutions are of no use to you. You need a printer. And you're about to discover what all those PC portable users have been wailing about for quite a while now—nobody’s come up with a notebook- sized LaserWriter yet. Kodak’s Diconix printers have been popu- lar in the PC world for some time, and a Macintosh version appeared last year. They're a marvel of compact design, their footprint being rather smaller than a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper, and at 3.1 pounds they’re considerably less backbreaking than the Portable. The Portable will not fit in your When it comes to printers, the mobile professional tends to have a fair number of alternatives to actually buying one and carrying it around. briefcase; this printer will. It appears, how- ever, to be just slightly too large to fit com- fortably in the Portable’s own case. The printer comes with its own AC power adapter; if you want to run it on battery power, you'll have to buy five C-size re- chargeables. The Diconix is about as unob- MICROTIMES ¢ APRIL 15, 1991 105 @ File Edit ee road mac : Chooser : User Name: Am|marye’s road mac © Active fo] alas GA @ Inactive 3.6 Sending a fax is as simple as selecting FaxPrint in the Chooser, then printing your document from inside your application. trusive as printers get—in addition to its small size, it’s very quiet. The Diconix is an inkjet printer, and you’ll improve the appear- ance of your output considerably if you use inkjet paper with it—as with all such printers, the ink tends to smear on the paper you'd use in your ImageWriter. It accepts both pinfeed and single-sheet paper. Adobe Type Manager is bundled with the printer, resulting in smoother fonts and better-looking output. Graphics come out clear and beautiful. In general, the quality of output is not as good as you'd get from a LaserWriter but, particularly in Quality mode, clearer and sharper than you’d get from an ImageWriter. The Diconix supports US Letter, US Legal, A4, and International Fanfold formats; it’s not designed for, .. say, mailing labels or envelopes. Since most portable printing seems to be oriented toward producing short memos and other ad hoc documents, this is probably not crucial for most applications, but you should be aware of this limitation if you’re planning to make it your only printer. Another limitation, for some purposes, is that there’s a definite speed/ quality tradeoff: Quality printing is noticea- bly slower than its ImageWriter counterpart, Draft roughly compa- rable. If you’re a Portable user (or any other Mac user) who needs a compact printer to take from site to site, the Diconixis a good choice, widely available and supported. _ THE COMPORT FAX/MODEM In alot of business settings, you're a lot more likely to encounter a fax machine than a modem; people who are positively phobic about email and online services use a fax dozens of times a day. Some years ago, hardware vendors decided that faxmodems, that is, modems with both data and fax capabilities, would be a versatile tool for the business user. ; And indeed they are, but I’ve yet to ruin into a faxmodem user who doesn’t burst into frustrated diatribes at the current state of technol- FREE MOUSE WITH EVERY SYSTEM PURCHASE* POWER MACHINE SPECIALS ae 486-40 MHz w/64 Cache PACIFI 3194 De La Cruz Blivd., Santa Clara, CA 95054 (US Made Motherboard) FOR CAD/GRAPHICS USERS» 486-40 MHz 64K Cache System 16" Monitor SVGA 1024x768 200 MB/18ms Hard Drive 486-33 MHz 128K Cache System 16" Monitor SVGA 1024x768 200 MB/18ms Hard Drive BASIC SYSTEM OPTIONS: HARD DRIVES — 40 MB/28 ms (IDE) 65 MB/28 ms (RLL) 100 MB/18 ms (IDE) 200 MB/18 ms (IDE) 100 MB/28 ms (SCSI) Call for other drives not listed VIDEO MONITORS/CARDS SVGA Package (14" .28 1024x768 Monitor + 16-bit card) VGA Package (14" 800x600 Monitor + 16-bit card) Nanao 9070U 16" Multi-Sync Viewsonic 4 (14" SVGA Monitor) Trident SVGA card 1024x768 Rise anieste ionarased neice fo Not responsible for typographical érrors Offer good for free mouse while supplies last 106 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 QUALITY, SERVICE, AND SUPPORT IS NUMBER ONE! 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Purchase order with approved credit. Purchase with credit card: add 3% surcharge. xy) = ke GSS [a | Mon-TH 9:00-6:00 ; Fri 9:00-5:30 Sat: 10:00-4:30 1257 Tasman Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Tel:408-745-1606 Fax:408-745-1609 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 107 Edit Font Size Style Format Spelling View | FaxPrint vy Palas Software 113 Cx )j Cae ae eS te @ All © From: | To: [Sede reencer | (cancet ) eee New Individual eee XJ Auto Delete \ MicroTimes ] Call Grouping \ MicroTimes front desk S MT dapan \, PSI integration, Inc. Print: @ All {J Reverse Order Printing () Collated Copies OLeft © Right Desktop as you otherwise would. The software dials the fax machine and gives you an ongoing report on the transmission, confirming each page as it’s sent and letting you know whether the transmission was successful. (The Activity Log tracks the results and holds the report till you delete it)| refused to answer, etc. In the course of working with PSI’s COMPORT main fax to respond to it. Never mind that the same machine would transmit to the faxmodem with beautiful clarity. Never mind that trouble connecting with the same fax machine, from faxmodems or otherwise. Never mind that the faxmodem connected happily with other office faxes and sent a MacWrite document with graphics to Japan. value-enhancing thing you can do for your Portable is get it a faxmodem, and the COMPORT from PSI is a good one. The package consists of the faxmodem itself, on a card that fits into the Portable’s modem slot, and software for creating, receiving, and tracking faxes. faxmodem, for instance, I never did succeed in getting our office's other people (including PSI’s tech support) have never had any However, that said, it’s my personal experience that the most The Portable I used had a40MB hard disk and two megabytes of RAM, and the software will probably work best with this configuration— while the FaxStatus DA that keeps you informed of a transmission’s You can switch the COMPORT from fax to data mode in the Chooser, then use it with your telecommunications packages to retrieve your email and dial up online services. ogy. Unless you have either a NeXT or a lot of OCR equipment, for instance, you’re probably not going to be able to import a faxed document into your word processor and edit it. For some purposes, that doesn’t matter; in other situations it’s crippling. Another problem that isn’t unique to computer-based faxing is that you encounter all manner of glitches in attempting to transmit or receive a message, and it’s all too rare that you ever find out the progress is not particularly memory-hungry, the larger FaxManager application (which includes an activity log, various configuration options from transmission retries to auto-shredding of old docu- - ments, and other tools to make your computer-faxing fit your particu- lar work style) wants 800K of RAM and won't settle for much less. If you plan to fax a lot of documents generated by memory-hungry applications, you might want to think about more RAM. You can send and receive faxes at speeds up to 9600 baud; the reason—e.g. the receiving machine ran out of paper, it persistently COMPORT supports both low- and high-resolution modes, depend- Continued on page 214 COMPUTER ‘BROKERS LITTLE BIG DRIVE Super Baby EXTERNAL LAPTOP HARD DISKS 40 MB or 100 MB WORKS ON ALL PC's & MAC's LOW PROFILE—1'4”” LIGHTWEIGHT—2.25 LBS CALL FOR CONFIGURATIONS & PRICES *MENTION THIS AD AND RECEIVE A FREE LEATHER CARRYING CASE wiPURCHASE OF SUPER BABY NOT JUST ANY BASEBALL CARD GIGER. 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($599) JDR Microde-_ vices, Inc., 2233 Branham Lane, San Jose, CA 95124. 1-800-538- 5000. wath et AE ea I oS, aD MICRO EXPRESS CD-ROM PC Micro Express has introduced a386SX PC thatfeaturesabuilt-in CD-ROM drive. Dubbed the ME 386-SX/20/Caching/CD-ROM, this computer easily allows access to huge databases, stored on CD-ROMs, while offering the superior performance ofa 20MHz, KRIS 14VC © 14” color, 1024x7 F 028mm fis: see 386SX personal computer. It also includes 2MB RAM, 16KRAM Sabine & interlaced cache, 80MB hard disk drive, 5.25” 1.2MB floppy disk drive, extended VGA color video card, 1024 x 768 resolution color | monitor, CD-ROM drive, and a choice of keyboards. ($2,848) | Micro Express, Inc., 1801 Carbegue Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92705, | (714)852-1400. , q Mfr Direct: $335; LAPTOPS | MultiSync Mode: $399E $ KRIS 20VC | | © 20” color, 1024x768 IBM PS/2 LAPTOP i spies sa | The IBM Personal System/2 L40 SX is a lightweight (7.7 Ibs.), durable, © Tilt & Swivel base | battery-operated 20MHz 386SX computer that gives users desktopcom- —_ © Vertical Scan: : ‘ 5 5 Auto-sync 50-90Hz — puting power on the road or in the air. It features a full-size keyboard ‘ 3136 SkKe cangs identical to that found on other IBM PS/2 PCs, 2MB RAM upgradable to © 45MHz Bandwidth 18MB, 60MB hard disk drive, a 10” VGA display, and a monitoring system E idasen = RE that displays the status of vital internal functions, such as remaining suey battery life. The PS/2 Laptop is based on an AT-bus architecture and can handle DOS, Windows, and OS/2. It also features a suspend/resume ~ function that allows users to close the unit without needing to save a current application or information. ($5995) IBM Corp., 1133 Westchester Ave., White Plains, NY 10604. © Tilt & Swivel base © Ergonomic non-glare dark tinted screen © Vertical Scan: Auto-syne §0-90H2 © Horizontal Scan: 30-36.5KHz range = Pass © 45MHz Bandwidth a eee et MirDiec: - $1,575 KRIS 15MV © 15” paper white mono © Portrait controller incl. © 800x1000 non-interlaced © 768x1024 interlaced @ Ergonomic non-glare dark tinted screen @ Tilt & Swivel base © Vertical Scan: Auto-syne 45-90Hz © Horizontal Scan: 15-70KHz range © 65MHz Bandwidth Mir Direct: $725 KRIS 14MA ¢ 14” monochrome VGA © 640x480 resolution © Paper white, gray scale © Unique & Advanced: flat screen design @ Ergonomic non-glare tinted screen © Designer-inspired contrasting bezel © Tilt & Swivel base _ Mir Direct $115 For monitors or 1024x768 VGA cards, call the KRIS experts for prompt service. KRIS monitors carry a 1-year Warranty & 45 day $-Back Guarantee. LIBREX NEW NOTEBOOKS Librex Computer Systems has announced the initial shipment of its 286 and 386SX notebook computers. Both products weigh 6 lbs. and feature a 1.44MB floppy drive, ge TECHNOLOGIES a 10” monochrome VGA display, and additional ports and slots for peripherals. Also — South San Francisco included are a carrying case and MS-DOS 4.01. Optional features include fax/ 1-800-282-KRIS (415) 875-6728 modem capabilities, extended memory and data storage capacity, and a socket for or visit your local KRIS dealer a math coprocessor. Power management features include suspend/resume and NBCC 386SX NOTEBOOK NBCC (National Business Computers & Communications) has introduced its NBCC 386SX/16MHz Notebook PC. The company has already sold several thousand OEM units, and has decided to make them available through distributors and VARs. The NBCC386SX Notebook features a23ms 20MB hard disk drive, 1MB RAM expandable to 5MB, a3.5” 1.44MB floppy disk drive, and a LCD 640 x 480 White VGA 8.5” display. Device driver software for all major operating sys- tems and popular business programs are supplied at no extra charge. The NBCC 386SX Notebook comes bundled with DR-DOS 5.0. ($2995) NBCC USA Corp., 19800 Mac Arthur Blvd., Suite 1450, Irvine, CA 92715. (714)724-4584. : Continued on page 122 116 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 Fremont _ 3381 Walnut Ave. Liberty St. ( Fremont Blvd. it cobs Stockton ia rosea PERSON To PERSON __M9-6 pm Sat. 11-5 Cash prices, subject to stock on hand at Fremont location 3381 Walnut | Av HP DeskWriter Printer ¥ Affordable laser-quality output. YY For Macintosh®. Fils on your desk. 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Microsoft compa « Answering machine hook- » » PLU SHARP FO-120.. th SHARP F0-240 SHARP F0-334 tibility S 3-button funtionality MOUSEMAN™ HIGH RESOLUTION ERGONOMIC MOUSE 769 ° nee comfort & ease of use * Microsoft ree Sam ar PLUS 3-button supetone ity * 400 dpi resolutio « MouseWare™ Utilities software Scanner MICROTIMES + APRIL 15, 1991 119 ACCESS is now BIGGER & BETTE SEE OUR LARGE NEW SHOWROOM! 3x'sS LA RG cP NEW LOCATION! 22 2. 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Pa — LASER 800 8 PPM26Res.Fonts 999 Eig slog CD a, ni ee a $4999 Disk Box-64 ep | ASER820 si2kexptoasma 1299} —2400Modem/9600 Fax cn ie ag 94° |Disk Box/Lock ASERB40 PostScript 1899 | INt/EXt.....+.-. 249/299 |p Holder-45... 39° VCR Hol | rine OEP Ef | ™ = 408-247-4444 ‘NOW thru Bae A CCE SS SERVICE MAY 1 5th | COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES £ $9 Million inventory! "A LITTLE BIT BETTER" 4¢ 800 Line Items to choose from! 2225 EL CAMINO REAL Price subject to change w/out notice SANTA CLARA.CA. 95050 “+ Rhine eo 120 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 SUPER SALE J NEW LOCATION 408-247-4444 sates =D > | MAY 15th 408- 247- 4990 SERVICE ° $2 Million Inventory! . MON-FRI 9-7 FAX 247-4448 - 800 Line Items to choose from! SAT 10-5 SUN 12-5 LAGERPARTNER ae A pe alesesras eee FREE KX-P4455 KX-P4420 CF-270 , | aes oy /CF170 PURCHASE / PostScript Laser Laser Printer 77... 286-16MHz ho J, v/20MB HDD Lawrence Expwy SanTomas Expwy — yf \V20-10MHz 7/7 ~w/20MB HDD S bie | ES iy ¢ 88compatible Ent thoct paper capacity > aM op to OME | Cac Supertwlst LCD) amp, as" EDD $ ; | | 4.01 |° B, 3.5" FD 26 internal fonts - 11PPM 512K RAM exp to 4.5MB | » Rechargeable batter pack + Backlit FOB. LCD : L h i KX-P4450i : | 300 dpi resolution 8 PPM - Weights 7Ibs wibattery 136 eae Color Monitor wSTB 1MB VGA card 256 Colors at 1024 = * 192cps, 63cps oe | + 5 built-in LQ fonts 249 © 192cps, estan: LQ" * 192cps, 38cps NLQ $ _ + 2 year warranty * 5 built-in LQ fonts * 240x216 dpi resolution | $ ¢ .3imm dot ysl pack ¢ 2 year warranty ¢ 80 column printer | 359 * 1024x768 resolution PACKARD BELL Bondwell America grew up listening to us. It still does. 80286-12MHz B lim w/ 20 MB HDD 5310 SuperSlim | need NOTEBOOK-SIZE = SS aE -w/20MB HDD ; ! ; - 2 5 WEIGHTS ONLY 6.6 LBS.! : | »), Notebook Size err: Use - Zz ce _w/20MB HOD 3 ies LCD $4399 f 09 | * IMB exp to 2MB - 3.5", 1.44MB FDD : | upe ist Dackll screen ReflectiveLCD 1 099 | Rete pet MS-DOG $.31 0 ent oe ety one RAM M EXP to, 1MB RAM exp to 8MB - Tone 79/80 keys |. 1MB RAM exp to 2MB - Serial & Parallel ports | fs 4.01 > Pull rave! keyboard wit2 F Kove: wit function keys20MB HDD & 3.5"1.44FDD_ |. 3.5", 1.44MB FDD « MS-DOS 3.3 w/GW-BASIC er LT “3 $9499 Sines 7 water eights 7lbs w/battery i sheyhs hripge A sept is heey rtd ere : Rechargeable & Removable battery pack Su 3X Version | BJ-10e portable | - 386SxX- : Bee | 16MHz L: i FINALLY, Se ea | Printer UNDER $600! * 640K RAM - 5 pages per minute Single paper bin Rene * 360x360 dpi resolution Me eD be backlit screen * HP emulation - 1 year warranty a + Optional rechargeable battery tt | - IBM Proprinter & BJ-130e 40MB HDD $4 999 RX7100PS PostScript Laser Printer emulation | _ Version MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 121 PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT Continued from page 116 automatic sleep modes to extend battery life up to three hours. All Li- brex products are backed by a com- prehensive cus- tomer support pro- gram thatincludesa 12-month warranty and product re- placement within 24 hours for the first one hundred days. (Librex 286, $3,150; Librex 386SX, $4,895) Librex Computer Systems, Inc., 1731 Technol- ogy Dr., Suite 700, San Jose, CA 95110. (408)453-5220. ALR ENTERS NOTEBOOK MARKET The ALR Venture 16 note- book weighing 7 lbs. fea- tures a 16MHz 386SX coprocessor, and 8.5” LCD backlit display sup- porting VGA, and an 82- key keyboard with 101/ 102-key functionality and inverted-T cursor pad. The Venture 16 comes standard with 1MB RAM expandable to 5MB. Drive options include a 1.44MB floppy disk drive and the choice of 20MB or 40MB hard disk drive. ($2,795 with 20MB drive, $3,295 with 40MB drive) Advanced Logic Research, Inc., 9401 Jeronimo, Irvine, CA 92718. (714)581-6770. OGIVAR INTERNOTE 286 NOTEBOOK The Internote 286 is a 12.5MHz notebook com- puter featuring a VGA-com- patible LCD display, a full- size embedded keyboard, 1MB RAM expandable to 5MB, and a 20MB hard disk drive. The high-density supertwist 10” LCD screen is easily read in any light and provides a high-quality dis- play for long term viewing. With a footprintless than one square foot, the Internote 286 measures 12.3” x 10” x 2”, easily fitting into a stan- dard briefcase. ($2,999) Ogivar Technologies, Inc., 7200 Route Trans Canada Highway, Ville Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada H4T 1A3. (514)737-3340. 122 MICROTIMES » APRIL 15, 1991 FORA NBS 386S NOTEBOOK The NBS 3868S, a 16MHz, 386SX note- book computer, includes file transfer virus detection and protection system, SafeLink. This software utilizes a virus scan and identifies any virus contami- nation of the files to be transferred. Ifa virus is detected, SafeLink will alert users so they can determine how to proceed. In addition to this anti-viral capability, SafeLinkis one of the fastest file-transfer utilities available, with transfer rates exceeding 500,000 bds. The NBS 3868S comes with IMB RAM expandable to 5MB, 64K ROM, a 3.5” 1.44MB floppy disk drive, and a choice of 2.5” 20MB ($2,995) or 40MB ($3,495) disk drive. Fora, Inc., 3081 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134. (408)944-0393. RUNNING WORDPERFECT ON NETWARE Bie Row At Nia sek Sane Tagiar RELSERY Huth Betparn BOOKS RUNNING WORDPERFECT ON NETWARE — Using WordPerfect on a network is dif- ferent from using it on a stand-alone PC. Running WordPerfect on NetWare is written for users who want to under- stand how a network operates, as well as how WordPerfect runs on Novell NetWare. For users new to networks, this book provides a basic overview ofa network, defining key components and describing how they work together to 4 enable users to share data, resources, and programs. It also contains a review of WordPerfect features and com- mands. Network supervisors will benefit from the ad- vanced information on installing and troubleshooting | WordPerfect on NetWare. ($29.95) Running WordPerfect on NetWare, Greg McMurdie, M&T Publishing, Inc., 501 - Galvenston Dr., Redwood City, CA 94063-4728. (415)366-3600. nade Ett Pau! Hottiman MICROSOFT WORD FOR WINDOWS MADE EASY This book is designed to help you master Microsoft Word for Windows. It supple- ments Word for Windows’ documenta- tion by showing you, in step-by-step fashion, how to use Word for Windows. Each chapter is divided into lessons, with illustrated pictures of the computer screen so you will know what to expect as you use the program. Examples through- out the book demonstrate the numerous ~ Continued on page 137 software that features a unique anti- _. 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It has a voice time/day stamp $0 you will always know when they Called, a digital call counter, automatic dialing and more! MODEL 1523 843922. TIME/DATE TAMP ee ee Pores % PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT Continued from page 122 Tesserae is an abstract strategy game based on the combining properties of primary colors. word processing functions thatare performed inatypi- MG Game is playable on mono- cal business office, although they are just as useful in any situation that requires advanced word processing capa- bilities. ($19.95) Microsoft Word for Windows Made Easy, Paul Hoffman, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2600 Tenth St., Berkeley, CA 94710. (415)548-2805. M PROCOMM PLUS 2.0 AT WORK PROCOMM PLUS is one of the most widely used telecommunications software packages. The current ver- sion, 2.0, contains may new features, including support for twenty-five dif- ferent terminal emulators, as well as new and enhanced features to the Dial Directory. PROCOMM PLUS 2.0 at Work offers comprehensive cover- age ranging from getting started with basic functions to using advanced functions and the PROCOMM PLUS Script Language. The appendices include a quick refer- ence, an ASPECT command reference, a guide to trou- bleshooting, and other supportive materials. ($19.95) PROCOMM PLUS 2.0 at Work, Joanne Krause, Addison- Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, MA 01867. GAMES REVIEW chrome systems because each color of tile also has a unique symbol—circle for red, cross for yellow, square for blue. game, documentation is in the form of Online help. I used a screen-dump program (called Capture) to print out a few pages I wanted for quick reference. It would have been helpfulifthe program had a function to print out the documentation, but the program disk is almost full. Tesserae’s color graphics are excellent, sound effects are used effectively, and the game is challenging and fun at many levels of difficulty. I would not recommend it for monochrome systems—color is too much a part of the game’s lookand feel. Tesserae should appeal to players of all. ages, especially those who love games like Tetris and Ishido. WARLORDS Designed By: Steve Fawkner Published By: Strategic Studies Group For: IBM PC (640 K, EGA, VGA only), and Amiga (1MB); Macintosh and Atari ST versions are also planned By Mike Markowitz List Price: $50 | Warlords is a strategy game designer’s novel approach to TESSERAE the familiar and ever popular territory of swords and Published By: Inline Designs sorcery, castles and dragons. The game can be played by For: Macintosh up to eight players, with the computer taking any posi- List Price: $49.95 tions not filled by human players. To win you have to Inline Design is a new game publisher focused on the Macintosh. The games are 32-bit clean, MultiFinder friendly, and not copy protected. Tesserae is an abstract strategy game based on the combining properties of pri- mary colors. It is also the Latin name for the multicolored cubes of stone or glass that make up a mosaic. The game is playable on monochrome systems because each color of tile also has a unique symbol—circle for red, cross for yellow, square for blue. Yellow and red, for example, combine to make orange, represented by a cross in a circle. To play the game you select one of nine boards, and the program randomly fills the board with tiles. The object of the game is to remove as many tiles as possible in the fewest moves. There are some rather complex rules gov- erning what can jump over what, and what happens when one tile lands on another. The player is helped enormously by a smart cursor, that turns into a cross whenever you move the mouse over a tile that has at least one legal move. Click the mouse, and black circles appear on every legal destination square. Click the black circle and the move is executed. Beyond a simple leaflet that explains how to install the eliminate all the other players and control all eighty cities in the land of Illuria. The game has a very functional and attractive screen layout with a strategic map, a tactical display, a series of buttons for various commands, and an information For the Dungeons and Dragons crowd, Warlords should provide hours of challenging entertainment. window. There is a pull-down menu bar across the top that provides clear and logical control of various game functions. You can raise and train sixteen different kinds of ar- mies, using your Heroes to lead them in attack and de- fense of castles. There is a good forty-page manual. The IBM version fits on three 5.25” disks, and includes a multicolor reference map. For the Dungeons and Drag- Continued PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT ons crowd, Warlords should provide hours of challenging entertainment. CARL LEWIS: GO FOR THE GOLD Developed By: Bud Pembroke Published By: GameTek For: IBM PC and compatibles (CGA and 256K or EGA and 512K) List Price: $30 This is a simulation of the Olympic Decathlon for fearless keyboard athletes who are not concerned about repeti- tive stress on their middle and index fingers. Go for the Gold is a good value for any PC user interested | in track and field. This game can be played with up to five players, it keeps detailed performance records, and can save a game in progress. There is a “practice” mode that lets you build up agility before entering competition. The game is simple enough for a four-page leaflet to provide complete documentation. The events include long jump, shotput, high jump, 110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, 100-meterand 400-meter sprints, and 1500-meter run. You “run” by alternately pressing the and keys. For shotput, the sequence is to get set, to step, to turn, to throwand to stop (but not too soon). Other events have equally clever keyboard mappings. Carl Lewis’s smiling face appears with dialog boxes full of encouragement when you fall on your face. The animation is simple but effective, and the game is packed with information about real-world rules, rec- ords, and the career of Carl Lewis. Go for the Gold is a good value for any PC user inter- ested in track and field. GameTek has also released a “Harlem Globetrotters” basketball simulation. * NEWS AND RUMORS Broderbund is about to release The Treehouse, a follow- up to their preschool blockbuster The Playroom. Soft- ware Toolworks has announced (for PCs and com- patibles) Life and Death II: The Brain, which lets the surgeon wannabe tackle a subdural hematoma, brain tumor, or aneurysm, to the accompaniment of wise- cracking morgue attendants and gossiping interns. Disney Software’s spring lineup includes Arachno- phobia (MS-DOS and Amiga), Mickey’s Jigsaw Puzzles, and Dick Tracy—The Game. Send your game news, rumors and howls of anguish to: Mike Markowitz, 550 Orange Ave., #150, Long Beach, CA 90802. Email: MOUSKOWITZ on America Online. 138 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 POWERPOINT FOR WINDOWS * Manufactured By: Microsoft List Price: $495 Reviewed By: Lenny Bailes When I started using the Macintosh version of Power- point to create a slide presentation for a graphics class, I discovered that Powerpoint is designed for the nontech- nical user who wants to make something look impressive in a hurry. The templates and sample presentations, which come with the program, are meant to be taken apart and reused. It’s easy to create slides from scratch. Also, you can point the cursor anywhere and type in bulleted sentences. Setting background, foreground, and cuppicueneee (accent) colors is a menu-driven process. Special gradi- ent shading options be chosen as you pick the color scheme. Working in color is 90% of the fun with Power- point. A Mac II with only 1MB of RAM is still able to run it in 256 colors and im- port some PICT2 graphics before getting warnings about lack of memory. My PC at home has over 5MB installed, so I got a bril- liant idea and decided to ask Microsoft for their working model of Powerpoint for Windows. Microsoftis currently offering free functional demos for all of their Windows products. _ Iwas duly impressed by this package when it arrived. The Microsoft Working Model of Powerpoint includes its own runtime version of Windows 3.0. You don’t need to own Windows 3.0 to evaluate this product. I installed Powerpoint with the full version of Windows already on my hard disk to take advantage of my pre-installed 256- color drivers. é Powerpoint for Windows requires at least 256K of ex- tended memory, andruns only in Standard or386 modes. I was pleased to find that its interface is identical to the program I learned on the Macintosh. Also, Powerpoint’s layout features are similar to PageMaker’s. A master slide template contains elements common to all slides in the show. The tools palette lets you draw lines, circles, rec- tangles, and rounded rectangles within the program. Individual paragraph styles can be defined and applied to freeform clumps of text. ; Bitmaps and Windows Metafiles can be pasted in through the clipboard. PC Paintbrush, TIFF, CGM, Micrographx Designer, and Encapsulated Postscript files can be read in from disk. An Excel or Lotus spreadsheet can be used to automatically generate a graph. Windows Powerpoint has an extra color manipulation option not included on the Mac. 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Not responsible for misprints. MICROTIMES ¢ APRIL 15, 1991 161 PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT ager and SpeedStor. The cache supports drives with up to 256 heads and 1024 cylinders or 64 heads and 4096 cylin- ders (or well over 400MB of storage space). Hyperdisk can be modified on-the-fly after installa- tion. Hot key and command line options allow the cache size to be decreased, or allow the cache to be turned off. Caching can be limited to specified hard or floppy drives. Performance can also be adjusted to conform to different controller cards. If Hyperdisk reminds you of another caching package called FAST!, that’s because author Roger Cross originally licensed his code to the people who made FAST! several years ago. That license is now discontinued, and Hyper- disk is the current version of Cross’s work. The documentation with Hyperdisk is clear and well- written. Hyperware also maintains a user bulletin board and technical support line. (Hyperware, Inc., Rt. 1, Box 91, Pal Mall, TN 38577. 615/864-6868) STACKER Manufactured By: STAC Electronics List Price: $149 software version, or $229 with hardware board Reviewed By: Birrell Walsh Stacker is a hard-disk com- pression utility, giving you up to 70% more space on every hard disk you own. The amount of compression varies. If you have more ex- ecutable files and fewer data files, you get less compres- sion. If you have more data files, you get better compres- sion, because there is more air to squeeze out of data files. The trick is to compress in- formation as it goes onto the hard disk and to decompress it as it comes off. That means that only compressed infor- mation is stored But isn’t it slow? The time lost in compressing and decompressing the file is partially made up by the fact that less information has to move on and off the disk. Ifyou buy Stacker with a hardware board, it is as fast or faster than ordinary disk access. If you buy the software only version—suitable for laptops—it is slower. Iused Stacker after having tried a rival product, Expanz! from InfoChip. The advantage of Stacker is that it stores allits information in ordinary DOS format. Youcan there- fore use some DOS file tools on a disk with Stacker in- stalled. You can not yet use unfragment utilities on the hard disk on which Stacker has been installed, although “They're working on it.” Installation is reasonably easy, and the technical sup- port people know what they are doing. The value is excel- lent. (STAC Electronics, Inc. 1-800-522-7822) 162 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 - searches of more files. _ seems endless, and the task of organizing and tracking Published By: Microlytics, Inc. ~ List Price: $79.95 Reviewed By: John Cowen Gofer, a text retrieval utility by Microlytics, isa diamond in the rough. Although it performs very well, Gofer is unfortunately hampered by its own human interface and documentation. Sheer frustration led me to write the following introductory paragraph for an imaginary document revision. “Gofer is a PC compatible utility program which dis- plays, retrieves, and searches for text in disk files. It tar- gets all text files (or only files containing selected text strings), in a directory or directory tree, using a chosen wordprocessor or application program format. Gofer can be invoked as a normal DOS program or as a memory resident utility.” Gofer is easy to install and configure, but its combina- tion of menus and hot keys is confusing. When mas- tered, however, they allow the user to: Designate directories from which to display, search, or retrieve text. *Select all files or only files containing logical combina- tions of specified text strings; e.g., only files containing both ‘France’ and ‘wine’. _ *Display, print, or write the selected files to disk. —- ¢Mark and export text. In memory resident mode, Gofer writes the marked text to the background application as if it were being entered at the keyboard. eReconfigure Gofer, change text format, or invoke autil- ity, such as compress data. Once properly instructed, Gofer performs quickly (even on a 4.77 MHz PC) and reliably. While active, it requires between 70K and 182K of memory; while qui- escent, as little as 8.3K. More memory allows faster Gofer is a far better tool for locating and accessing text from within a wordprocessor. (Microlytics, Inc., Two Tobey Village Office Park, Pittsford, NY 14534. 716/248- 9150). ot MACINTOSH SOFTWARE REVIEW MULTI-AD SEARCH | Published By: Multi-Ad Services List Price: $199.95 Reviewed By: Matthew Leeds It’s easy to accumulate graphic images when working in multimedia or desktop publishing. Scanned images, frame-grabbed video, Illustrator files, clip art, the list Continued e ANOVA MICROSYSTEMS | FREE MS WINDOWS 3.0 w/Z-NIX MOUSE WITH 486 COMPLETE SYSTEM PURCHASE! 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(408) 922-0868 : = (Formerly Elite Industries, Inc.) Fax: (408) 922-0893 1542 Montague Expwy. Taree Cash prices reflected Stee PS pect aan ote Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-6:00 Sat 9-2 MICROTIMES + APRIL 15, 1991 166 PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT files often is. Multi-Ad Search is an image cata- loging and retrieval pro- gram designed to make the job easy. Search automatically searches through your existing collection of graphic files and creates a catalog of the images it finds. It creates a thumb- nail-sized representation of each image in either/ both color and black and white. Each catalog can commercial art by expiration date. Search can be stacked to five levels, and some Boolean operators are available. Aset ofsearch criteria can be named, saved, and recalled. Images in a catalog can be previewed when they are online and can be shown enlarged or reduced from 12.5% to 3200%. Thumbnails can be viewed on color or mono- chrome Macs, and Search does an excellent job of creat- ing dithered black-and-white thumbnails of colorimages for viewing on monochrome Macs. You can print out the thumbnails or the original images and include their file name and size, location, creator, date created and modi- fied, file type, and other data. Search supports network environments, and up to 128 users can access a catalog. There are provisions for limit- ing access or editing privileges to a catalog. A Hypercard- contain up to 32,000 im- based online help stack is included. Search can place ‘ ages, and any number of images directly in some other applications, including catalogs can be created. Multi-Ad Creator and QuarkXpress. Search currently } Catalogs can be merged if supports EPSF, TIFF, RIFF, PICT, and MacPaint files. An needed, anda single cata- upgrade will soon add PhotoShop and perhaps others. ; log can span several vol- Multi-Ad makes efficient use of disk space. It doesn’t : umes, including floppy, create a duplicate of your original art, just athumbnail. In hard disk, or CD-ROM sources. one test I ran, I cataloged a folder with forty-two images, 4 Once a catalog has been created, you can enter key- each about 100K in size. Search took about three minutes words and descriptions for each file. You can search a to process the files, and the resultant catalog was about catalog by volume, file type, keyword, file name, or for 6% of the 4,2MB total. Search also gracefully handles very Continued VGA PORTABLE Tl TRAVELMATE 2000/3000 | TI Postcript Laser Printer GAS PLASMA /LCD CRT MONO/VGA 9” PORTABLE IN STOCK : 80286-12/80386SX20 VGA (LCD 640X480) * 1/2MB RAM expandable to 3/SMB 6ppm, AppleTalk optional * 20MB Hard disk, Weight 4.4/5.5lbs $ , Tl2000 $1899/TI3s000 $CALL ag Mo bas coe McTEK 386-33/486-25 McTEK 486-33/EISA * 80386-33/486-25 WITH CACHE 80486-33 WITH 128K CACHE * 1MB EXP. TO 16MB 4MB EXP. 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I ran a test by cataloging a CD-ROM disc that had some large TIFF files. Some were too large to display on my system. Search notified me that it could not create a thumbnail for those images, but it did add them to the catalog, and in the place of the thumbnail it displayed a message that the files were too large to dis- play. I’ve used other cataloging programs. Somerequire that you add each file manually. Others, based on database programs, are very slow during searches. Some create a catalog with a duplicate of each image file, requiring as much additional storage space as the original files. Search is the best image catalog and retrieval program I’ve used, andI would recommendit without reservation. Their customer support has been excellent, they con- tinue to improve the program, they offer network users a ten-pack, and prospective users can obtain a demo ver- sion to explore. Multi-Ad is a quality company, with a quality product. (Multi-Ad Services, Inc.,1720 W. Del- weiller Dr., Peoria, IL 61615. 309/692-1530) POWERKEY Published By: Sophisticated Circuits List Price: $99 Reviewed By: Matthew Leeds Convenience is a funny thing. There was a time when a hard disk was seen as a remarkable luxury. Now it is just about impossible to do productive work on a Mac with- out one. In fact, on my machine at home I’ve got two, one inside my Mac and an external unit that I used to have to remember to turn on before I turned my Mac on. The Mac is easy to turn on, just hit the power key on the key- board. To turn the drive on I had to reach around the back side of the drive for the power switch. I also had to remem- bertoturnit off. Then I added a CD-ROM drive to my setup. That gave me two devices to turn on and off each time I used my Mac. Then] gota PowerkKey. It’s asimple device. It plugs into the wall to get power, and plugs into the ADB connector ona Macso that it knows when you turn your Mac on and off. When you do that, it turns the power for up to four devices on and off as well. It’s that simple, and it works. Although it can do much more, for me that was enough to want one. Now that I’ve got it, I’ve discovered that the software that comes with PowerkKey truly does do a lot more. The PowerKey hardware has a clock built-in, and in conjunction with the included Control Panel software and macro program (QuickKeys Lite), my Mac can now 168 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 SP AP Pd ath aah Diy ee Ped SN SRS SS OR Ne turn itself on, execute a macro or set of macros, and then turn itself off. I can set it up to do a backup of my hard drive at night while I’m asleep, or to call up an online service, download or upload mail or other datawhilethe _. telephone and access charges are lower, and then shut down. It’s spooky to watch your Mac turn itself on, but it’s very useful. PowerKey also contains surge suppression and line noise protection hardware. The power switching occurs during the zero crossover of the AC cycle which saves some wear and tear on equipment and switches. Pow- erKey will work with a MacSE or above, adding the ability to turn an SE, Classic, or LC on from the keyboard, andits ADB cable includes a passthrough so that it does not hog an ADB connector. The version of QuickKeys Lite that comes with PowerKey can be upgraded to QuickKeys v2.0 for a reasonable fee. With the optional WakeUp cable (and a modem) you can turn your Mac on via a telephone call. PowerKey is a well-designed and extremely useful package. The hardware is solid and attractively styled, the software functional and flexible. If you are tired of reaching behind your stacked-up hardware each time’ you sit down to work, get a PowerKey. 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And for anyone with desktop publishing capabilities who is still dishing out large amounts of money to printshops for labels, here’s your salvation. (Avery, Inc., Commercial Products Division, 818 Oak Park Rd., Covina, CA 91724. 818/792-2102) CALCULUS Published By: Sensei,. Broderbund Software for Educa- tion List Price: $109.95 (School Edition) Reviewed By: Michael Henry I was initially a little unsure about reviewing a program that reminded me in any way of school, much less of mathematics. Three years of high school math had given me my fill of functions, equations, and trig for many lifetimes, I felt. So imagine my surprise when, after open- ing the box and starting up the disk, I found out that math could actually be interesting! What I really like about this program is the way it’s set up—essentially like a textbook, with an index, table of contents, and eleven chapters, each of which contains about 25-30 “pages” of material—tutorials, demonstra- tions (like an animated chalkboard!), and problems that test your knowledge of the material. The demonstrations and animated lessons are phenomenal. Like my high school algebra teacher, Calculus will show how you can simplify a problem by, say, combining and canceling like terms. But imagine an animated computer screen on which you actually can see the terms cancel or comple- ment each other (for example, 2 and 2 literally fusing to form a 4 on the screen). Didn’t you always wonder how you derived 2x? + 2 from 2x°+ 2% 2 Well, now you can watch the process as it goes on, instead of relying on your professor’s arcane explanation to explain how you jump from one line of an equation to the next and what hap- pens between the two steps (Wait a minute...what hap- pened to the 34 x r* 2). Thus it solves one of the most persistent problems I encountered in high school—the teacher’s assumption that everybody knew exactly how he canceled out those darned x’s. This element ofinterac- tion makes Calculus the ideal remedial program for those of us who are not too mathematically inclined. It is also excellent for reviewing or for independent study, since it allows you to workat your own pace and repeat problems until you’re sure you understand them. In the school version of the program, Broderbund emphasizes its usefulness for the educator, offering ad- vice in the teacher’s manual about methods of instruc- Sewte j<«- | Calentus User's fuide tion and inside tips on where to find the anima- tion and demonstration pages. It even gives a of the different sections within each chapter, an immense time-saver for those of us who know what we’re looking for. What can’t Calculus do? Well, it can’t take the place of a living teacher—not com- pletely. There isacertain aspect to education that computers are simply not yet intelligent enough to manifest. But educators and students alike should view Calculus with great optimism. It has the ca- pabilities that enable it to be a most powerful educational tool. I wish this type of software had existed when Iwas in high school. (NOTE: Both student and teacher editions are available. Sensei, Broderbund Software, Inc., 17 Paul Dr., San Rafael, CA 94903-2101. 415/492-3200) MACINTOSH BOOK REVIEW THE MAC IS NOT A TYPEWRITER: A STYLE MANUAL FOR CREATING PROFESSIONAL-LEVEL TYPE ON YOUR MACINTOSH By: Robin Williams Published By: PeachPit Press List Price: $9.95 Reviewed By: Michael Robin Somewhere, most of us learned a proper set of rules for typing presentable papers for school or work: e.g. always keep a double space between sentences, underline - titles, and use a double hyphen to indicate a dash. But that was in the age of the typewriter. Today we have desktop computers and desktop publishing. While computer technology and the rules guiding our use of that technology have changed, our use of those old. | typing rules have not. g The Mac Is Not a Typewriter is a great 72-page book offering “some of the secrets that have been used for centuries to make type pleasing, beautiful, readable, legible, and artistic—secrets we just weren’t taught in — Typing 1A.” Robin Williams presents a set of guidelines for using the Macintosh when you are creating text and explains why you should use them. She begins by explaining why the double space is ob- ~ Continued pictorial preview ofeach ~* NI i alg PES PEE we Sot 172 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 . 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Me Ext. 2400 Modem w/Software............ 72 Ext. 2400 MNP5 Modem................ 125 Internal 120 MB Tape Back-Up .......... 275 Mighty Cat 6400 dpi Mouse.............. 20 LULA COMEETIIORS ADVE ————— KKKKKKK PC EXCLUSIVE CTi PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER | SYSTEMS OFFERS: 5 YEAR WARRANTY ON LABOR! | 1 YEAR WARRANTY ON PARTS! ¢ WE WILL MATCH ANY LOCAL COMPETITOR'S ADVERTISED PRICE ON SYSTEMS WE CARRY PLUS: PAYMENTS: ¢ EACH CORPORATE TRIANGLE SYSTEM IS MANFACTURED IN THE U.S.A. ¢ CORPORATE PO’s WELCOME ¢ OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK SYSTEMS: MONTHLY 80286/12 NIA 1 MB 80287 IDE 1.2 MB 2 Serial 1 Parallel 6-16 Bit 2-8 Bit 101 Enhanced 15.9 15.3 Intel 80286/16 Add 70 Weitek 3167 IDE 1.2 MB 2 Serial 1 Parallel 5-16 Bit 1-8 Bit 1-32 Bit 101 Enhanced 26.1 23 Intel 80386/25 Add $125 Weitek 3167 IDE 1.2 MB 2 Serial 1 Parallel 5-16 Bit 1-8 Bit 1-32 Bit 101 Enhanced 40.5 31.6 Intel 80386/33C Add *100 7/MONTH HSC is still the place for High-Tech Variety... Do Your AT and your Laser Printer a Favor! It's back! We just got some more in! If you own an original (6 MHz) IBMAT and an older HP Laser Jet printer with non-upgradeable memory and no down-loadable font capability, you know how limiting and slow that is! And if your AT only has 512K or even 640K of RAM, you probably wish you could take full a of software packages that use the LIM EMS standard for Expanded Memory. Now youcan solve both = problems and only use up one system slot with Tall Tree Systems’ JRAM AT-3 EMS RAM Expansion boards with the JLaser Plus controller. The JRAM AT-3 Board will hold up to 2 Megabytes of 256K DRAM chips (not included), and can be configured to add the memory anywhere in your system (éven “on top” of other banks of RAM you may have installed). You can install up to four JRAM boards in a system. You also get the Tall Trees software package which includes the device drivers for the RAM board as well as RAMdisk and print-spool software. The real plus to this deal, however, is the JLaser Plus Laser Printer Controller module. This piggy-back unit assumes control of your laser printer engine and uses its JRAM memory to speed up and enhance your laser printing capabilities. ‘t even works with Bitstream Fontware downloadable fonts for an expanded font library! You need a special interface cable (not supplied, but available from TallTree Systems) which hooks up inside your Canon LBP-CX or LBP-SX engined laser printer (including the Apple Laserwriter, HP LaserJet, LaserJet Plus and Series II, and various Canon, Cordata, Imagen, NCR, Oasys, and QMS printers). It even has an input for a Canon IX-12 Scanner! Now the best part...we just received another limited supply of these boards (new in boxes with OK RAM) available at a closeout price of $35.00! Less than half of what you'd expect to pay for the RAM board alone! Does your Hard Drive need a home? How about your CD-ROM Drive? Or your Tape Back-up? Floppy Drives? Eventually, if you keep adding drives to a system, you run out of places to put the drives! External drive enclosures are the only way to go, but they have not been attractively priced until now. HSC just acquired a large shipment of two different types of external drive enclosures that will allow you to house extra computer drives without mortgaging your house! Type "A" enclosures at left are used units, measure 8" x 5 1/2"x 15", feature a 40-Watt switching power supply with two drive connectors, and room for one full-height or two half-height 5 1/4" drives. They are finished in a beige-and-grey color scheme similar to the original IBM XT or AT (and thus about 99% of all clones!), but as they are used, there may be minor blemishes. They have space for a 3" cooling fan (last month's ad featured the same box with cooling fan installed for $49.00, but we are out of those). You will need to provide your own fan, if required, and a data interconnect cable, but a standard IEC power cord is included. You have seen these types of enclosures advertised elsewhere at close to $100.00, but we're offering these at less than half that! Hurry, they won't last long! Type "B” on the right is a brand-new empty case (no power SiS ai Ie DEA eee ee ee supply or fan) that measures 7 1/2” x 2 3/4" x 14". These will accept one half- ; height drive and leave room for a small power supply, although the rear panel may need bs to be reworked for your application. (See small power supply below.) They are light beige in color. 4 Shipping weight for "A" is approximately 8 Ib., and 4 Ib. for "B" . F : Type "A" R Type "B" =| 4 $19.95 Small Disk-Drive Power Supply, Ready to Go... This little switching power supply is the perfect drop-in solution for those extra disk drive power requirements. Itis already a | cabled with a pair of 8 inch leads with standard AMP 4-pin disk drive power connectors, and is ready to connect to AC | with a built-in industry standard IEC receptacle and switch on the back ( IEC Power-cord is not included). The over-all ¢ size of its black anodized aluminum chassis is 1 7/8” x 3 1/8" x 5 3/4", and it is rated at 5 VDC @ 2 A, 12 VDC @ 3.5 A. This is plenty for a pair of floppies, or one half-height hard-disk drive. (Note: While this power supply is small enough to fit in the half-height case "B" above, it was not designed for it, so you will need to do some sheet-metal trimming to make the connector and switch accessible.) The best part is the price...$19.95! Shipping weight approx. one pound. $19.95 ...Aind now for Something Completely Different! Hefe is a good reason to keep checking in with HSC to see what's new...an image-transmitting collimated Fiber-optic rod! This is a chunk of glass 1.1" dia. x 4.1" long that has some amazing optical properties. Itis made up of millions of tiny (5 micron) glass strands fused together into one solid piece of glass, polished to an optical flat on either end. When an image is focused on one end, or when the rod is set directly onto a piece if paper with an image, it transmits the image to the other end with astounding resolution. It's as if the image just jumped to the other end of the rod! This optical marvel is from some piece of govemment contract gear (probably involving an infra-red image converter tube) that must have cost a fortune, but our price is sure to intrigue you. Each rod is held in a beautifully machined aluminum housing (2 3/4” dia. x 6 5/8" long) by means of RTV Silicone at one end, but the rod may be pushed out after carefully cutting the adhesive with a sharp blade. The more enterprising among you will then fill the housing with lead and have a beautiful executive dumbbell for your efforts! The rod is the real attraction, though, and words don't do it justice. It will make a great executive desk- top plaything, providing hours of introspective focus. Each one.comes with a Q.A. Specification Sheet, describing end- flatness, distortion, etc. If you find a clever use for one, let us know! Shipping weight approx. 2 Ib. $ 3 9 0 0 Netter? RRM OW) OR Re Le ee Flash! Justin! Too new for pictures! HSC has just received a significant quantity of space-grade (satellite quality) solar cells! These are raw cells, approximately 2 1/2” square, with solder pads on the back (use a low-wattage iron to connect). Output is approximately .46 Volts at roughly halfan Amp. We will try to get better specs on them soon, but we wanted to let you know we had these extremely popular items. The price is $15.00 for ten cells. Stop by one of our stores: HSC Electronic Supply of Sacramento, New Address! 4837 Amber Lane, Sacramento, 95841 (916) 338-2545 HSC Electronic Supply of Santa Rosa, 6819 Redwood Dr., Cotati, CA 94931 (707) 792-2277 Mail orders should be placed with the Santa Clara store below (or if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, stop in!): Toll Free (Orders Only) _, (800) 4-HALTED American : : : e« ee ‘hy | ELECTRONIC __ caiteristoscens Pope HSC Electronic R BBS 408) 732-2814 eee SUPP LY Customer pete ast 732-1854 — 3500 RYDER STREET - SANTA CLARA, CA 95051 wine | Depth of Stock _| Shipping: UPS Surface unless otherwise specified by purchaser. All items subject to prior sale. Orders shipped by means other than UPS Surface will be at the prevailing carrier rate plus $5.00 surcharge. All orders under $20 subject to $2.00 fee, our minimum order is $10 + shipping. All orders shipped FOB Santa Clara, California. 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Ithas the names and addresses of hundreds of hard- ware and software aids and resources. The -group.can be contacted by calling 1-800-732- 3131, ext. 950. Third-party developers have really gotten serious about getting the devices that dis- abled users need to operate the Mac. Here are a few of the things I saw: °The Prentke Romich Company isa leader in communication technology for people who have difficulty speaking. Their Touch Talker product is a combination speech syn- thesis, computer, and keyboard device that allows users to quickly communicate words. The device includes a special set of icon la- beled keys to access several thousand com- monly used words and phrases, without having to type each letter one at atime. What time are we going home? might be expressed by the string of Question+Time+Home sym- bols. With the use of a new interface, the Talker can be used to operate a computer, including a Macintosh. For those who can’t use a keyboard, Prentkey Romich showed a headmouse de- vice called the HeadMaster. It includes a switch that’s operated by blowing a puff of UPCOMING EVENTS: April 25 April 29 May 2 May $ May 16 May 23 May 27 May 30 Bill Gates comes to BMUG. BMUG West meeting at SF Exploratorium museum. MapInfo MapInfo, Radius Impressit (compression) & Pivot. oe TS! 68040 Accelerators, Reactor Spaceship Warlock. Computed Designs Swing Shift , Insignia Solutions Soft PC. Finals. No main meeting. Finals. No main meeting. BMUG West meeting at SF Exploratorium museum. Digital FX Video FX. Power Up Address Book Plus, Fast Forms, international. Business Software Data Club. ¢ Your Expanding Infosphere, Saturdays at noon, KALW-FM 91.7, has BMUG meeting announcements. Check it out! 262 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 Taha ae) Ae Para ie? AG at at, BAG NA AM Pp Ps PTE PE, em PoP PPPS PoP eo OOF atest air. We saw it used with a special word proc- essor that displays a dictionary of commonly used words as each letter is typed. Hit a letter, and dozens of words beginning with that let- ter are shown available for selecting. eArticulate Systems’ Voice Navigator II was also being demonstrated. It’s a little black box with a long gooseneck microphone at- tached. It digitizes spoken sound, processes the sound, and then performs a user defined command. The device doesn’t “know” Eng- lish, so any language, or sound is treated as a specified word. This is great for people who have trouble speaking clearly. As long as they can reproduce the word somewhat consis- tently, the action will be carried out. The interface to teach the Navigator is really slick. It automatically runs through an application, and gets all the commands you might need using the product. It already knows the ones you defined for other appli- cations, and the Finder—you don’t want are- dundant Open for every application on your hard drive. The early versions of the Navigator were. a little unreliable, but the latest release really works like a charm: The demonstrations of using voice commands with the mouse were very impressive. Users say it takes some get- ting used to, but really does make people more productive. ; ¢Brothers Alan and Mark Hayutin showed a great mouse hack with a BMUG twist. The - two run Venture Quest, a pre-press typeset- ting business in Berkeley. Almost ten years ago, after an accident, Alan found himself in a wheelchair, with limited control of his hands. He and his brother wanted to use a computer but, like . many of us, were driven nuts with MS-DOS computers. They knew they were on the right track when they bought a Macintosh in 1984. But Alan had trouble with the mouse. He could move the mouse, but his limited finger dexterity prevented him from clicking the button. They came up with the idea of separating the click function from the mouse. The Apple Disabilities Workshop in Cupertino came up with a special two- headed serial cable that connected a mouse | and a click switch that he could control with his other hand. Alan, who thought that he would never draw again, was back at the sketchpad. Recently the brothers upgraded their sys- tem to a Macintosh IIci, which brought some new headaches—their mouse hack was ob- solete. The new Macs use the Apple Desktop Bus mouse, instead of the serial mouse used with the original 128K-through-Plus-fla- vored Macintosh models. can be aregular mouse click, while the others _ Graphics Array (VGA)! As the dominant vide Ti I Ser De PAM PLS, Bee FP ee Fo Apple engineers were not able to come up with the answer. Mark said, “They came up — with several solutions, none of which — worked.” One of the suggestions was to use two mice at once, which will never worksince — each mouse is independent, i oe business of the other. Fortunately they hooked up with BMUG's hardware guru, Chuck Meyer of CJS syste He came up with the correct method for find-_ ing the pin-outs for the switch. The clicking o continues, and the brothers promised to 0 a {} write up the adventure, complete with dia: grams, for the next BMUG Newsletter. __ a3 7 *°A device that wasn’t at the show, but is i i | recommended by a BMUGer with a slig i} motor disability, is the new Mouselan! | three-button mouse from Logitech. The but- 7) tons are user programmable and available left- or right-handed versions. One button can be a drag-hold and release. This can give i the user extra time to get the mouse position - just right, without having to hold down the | button. It also has a nice curved eigoce shape. BITS AND BYTES eThe hardware hack is alive and well at BMUG. Previous devices that have come through the BMUG braintrust include the BMUGNet kit (now Farallon’s PhoneNet),, the MacRecorder kit (now also a Farallon’ product), the MacChimney kit (the new Macs__ have a fan built-in), and super- -longkeyboard ui cables (the BMUG member who made the cables is in prison for murder). Now come 5 the BMUG LC Video Adapter kit from lone ; time member Jay James. q Apple put in a revolutionary (for Aople) capability into the Macintosh LC—one of tk video formats supported by the LC’s on- :) board video circuitry is the ubiquitous Vid technology today, VGA benefits from th 2 | huge MS-DOS market, where intense com- petition keeps prices down and abate! ; wide array of choices. i The kit is a special hardware apiert 0 match the LC’s outgoing video signals to the VGA monitor’s incoming ones, and to switch from the Mac's two-row DA-15 connector to the VGA’s three-row high-density D- 15 con: = nector. 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But the LC is so portable you can easily take it to the . | store to test it out. \ *I often have the devil of a time fitting cable plugs into devied ports, especially the eight pin mini-circular jobs used on the ImageWriter II. Take out your permanent felt-tip pen and mark _ the plug and printer case. I like big black dots. This will not hurt the resale value (well not much) and will save youa dose of cable _ fumbling. . : eThe BMUG family lost a couple of good friends in the past couple of months. Mark Chen, amember ofourcore group ofvol- | unteers, died from a heart attack. Mark helped many members _ on the BMUG HelpLine, and at meetings, with his great Macin-— tosh knowledge, and helped everyone in the office with his — tremendous sense of humor. He was only 28 years old. Jay Hodgdon was the president of San Francisco’s GMUG (Gay | Macintosh Users Group). He was avery creative personwith alot | of spirit. He worked on the development team of HyperCard 2.0. We will all miss his energy and talent. & . What Is BMUG? BMUG is an educational, nonprofit consumer advocacy group organized to share information | and provide critical direction to users and developers in the computer community worldwide. | Like any growing organization, it is many different things to its ten thousand international | members. BMUG supports many Special Interest Groups (SIGs), an eight-line Bulletin Board | System (BBS), free HelpLine, software library, weekly meetings, publications, and much more. BMUG also puts out a semi-annual 400+ page book that we call our “newsletter.” Our motto-continues to be: We’re in the business of giving away information. a meeting held monthly in the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s science museum. Fa The BMUG Office, 2055 Center Street (a half block from the Berkeley BART Station) is open | to the public from 9 am to 5 pm. Please come by and say hello, meet other members, and hang out. The BMUG HelpLine, (415)849-HELP, and our fax number, (415)849-9026, provide technical assistance and telephonic hand-holding during business hours (11 am-5 pm). If your question can’t be answered on the spot, we try to get you in touch with someone who : can help. Of course, not every problem can have a happy ending—but we try. BMUG has one of the most up-to-date, comprehensive software libraries around, with 600+ — double-sided disks filled with the latest versions of public domain or shareware programs an HyperCard stacks. New disks are unveiled almost every week at the Thursday general meeting. BMUG also brings you the PD ROM™ Version II, our library, and more on CD-ROM. Our BBS offers many of the latest versions of files in our software library as well as new \ private mail, rumors, etc. The BMUG BBS is part of the worldwide EchoMac Network on > FlDOnet (161/444); by calling a local FIDOnet BBS in your area, you would then be able to get - in touch with us wherever you are, as well as send mail to users everywhere! BMUG is now | a part of the international USENET network (apple!bmug!user.name@sun.com) oF | (user.name@BMUG.FIDONET.ORG). With our multi-line capability you are now able to have ‘| access to BMUG almost 24 hours a day. It’s easy to use, fun, and a great resource. . To get some further information about BMUG please write to: BMUG, 1442A Walnut Stree #62, Berkeley, CA 94709. If you prefer to phone our business office call (415)549-BMUG, or FAX (415)849-9026 NETWORKS a e RENTALS ¢ Macintosh® | ® Classic Mcintosh ° 2 MB RAM mM) Classic e 40 MB Hard Disk ¢ 1.4 MB Floppy Drive ¢ Keyboard & Mouse |_ ~ 13" RGB Monitor New! 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Matthew Leeds has been involved in the high tech field since he blew up his bedroom playing with a children’s chemistry kit. He has been using Commodore computers since 1982 and has a strong interest in photography, video, graphics, and related fields. an image rendering program that can load image files from a ariety of programs, both native Amiga and otherwise, and render them on the screen with better results in many cases than the originating program. While TAD is still available, an improved ver- sion, Art Department Professional (ADPRO), promises to become one of the most widely used tools for many Amiga-based image process- ing, rendering and image conversion applications, especially in the new realm of 24-bit (16.7 million color) Amiga imaging. | ast year I reviewed The Art Department (TAD) from ASDG. It’s ADPRO ADPRO supports “compositing” of graphic elements into 24-bit im- ages, ARexx control and hundreds ofimage processing op- erations. Loader and Saver modules convert to and froma variety of Amiga and non-Amiga image formats and con- trol a growing number of imaging hardware devices. A system of Operator Modules lets ASDG make product enhancements without requiring new versions of the core product. Application areas which can immediately benefit from ADPRO include video and slide production, desktop publishing, satellite imaging and computer art. ADPRO also permits easy conversion of images to and from a number of Amiga, MS-DOS, and Mac image formats. ADPRO imports and saves images in various formats using a system of standalone runtime software modules called Loaders and Savers. These modules are not only used to convert images to and from virtually any image format; Loaders and Savers also serve as general purpose front-ends for controlling external imaging hardware, such as scanners, film recorders, and display boards. Loaders which come with ADPRO include Super-IFF, DV21, Sculpt 4D, Turbo Silver, GIF, PCX, Deluxe Paint II Enhanced, Screen Loader and Backdrop generator. Savers include Super-IFF, Sculpt 4D, Turbo Silver, GIF, PCX, Deluxe Paint II Enhanced and direct support for the Mimetics Frame Buffer. In addition, a PostScript Saver can save images in EPS (Encapsulated PostScript), PostScript, or Color Post- Script formats. ADPRO can quickly generate 12- and 24-bit electronic color separations for high quality printing. Even if you don’t have a 24-bit display board or paint program, you can use ADPRO to blend and edit images of up to 24 bitplanes of color information. With Image Compositing, you can insert bitmapped, scanned images into a ray traced scene. To this end, users can draw filled and unfilled rectangles, create gradated backgrounds, or adjust the transparency and visual mix of elements. In addition to standard image manipulations (including cropping, arbitrary scaling, 90 degree rotations, horizontal and vertical flips), ADPRO will perform color to grayscale conversions and produce negatives or line art from any color or grayscale image. It will even perform three- and four-color separations. Special effects facilities are available for “solarizing” and “posterizing” images, while other tools help you remove isolated pixels or compensate for video smear. 208 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 Professional Image Tools Processing And Storing Graphics On The Amiga ADPRO will also address the Microillusions Transport Controller. The two programs share some capability, but ADPRO is far more — powerful. In general, TAD is all you will need to make the best pos- — sible rendering of graphics for display on the Amiga. ADPRO, mean- — while, is right for professional users who require image formatcon- — version, batch processing, control of graphics peripherals, or 24 bit- plane image compositing. IMAGE FINDER The proliferation of image creation programs on the Amigahasbeen — a great asset to Amiga artists. The diversity of tools has given free rein 4 | to the creative talents of those who formerly could only dream of | owning a graphics-capable color system. One side effect of this, _ however, has been a tidal wave of images. Trying to keep track of q images, both for the individual artist and anyone else who might Application areas which can immediately benefit from ADPRO include video and slide production, desktop publishing, satellite imaging and computer art. ADPRO also - permits easy conversion ot images to and from a | number of Amiga, MS-DOS, — and Mac image formats. 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In raw 925 Stewart St Unix performance, it is roughly . ; equivalent to a 20-MHz, 386 Madison, WI system, but it is much more 53713 suited to handling the graphics requirements of a graphical user Zardoz Software SMB RAM 6 100M En crnr5o0 issue at BYTE Magazin 6114 LaSalle Ave. Under $ 4500 © McGraw-Hill, Inc., NY Suite 304 Oakland, CA 94116 at Masonic in SF (415) 563-1953 Hours: M-F 10-6 Sat. 10-5 210 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 CREATIVE TOOLS make use of them, has been difficult if not impossible. That is no longer the case. ImageFinder, a new utility program from Zardoz Soft- ware, creates an index of all IFF and ANIM imagesona _ disk. That index includes a thumbnail representation of the image, its location, size, and type. If that were all — ImageFinder did, it would be well worth its price, but it i does far more. j The program is the brainchild of Jim Goodnow, former — VP of Manx Software, and author of the Aztec C compiler 4 for the Amiga. This is clearly an Amiga program, with many wonderful touches built in that could only be done on an Amiga. For example, the program can run in back- ground, multitasking gracefully, waiting for you to create anew image with any program. It will then add that image to a catalog index automatically. Working in your favorite paint program and want to load a particular image but can’t find it? Just hotkey — ImageFinder to the front, use its index search to find the © image, preview it by double-clicking on the thumbnail, — and when you’ve made your final selection, ImageFinder will pop the directory and filename into the file requester : of your paint program. It even works with DPaint. You can sort image indexes by directory, file name, file size, image type, or even the primary or secondary color — of the image. Each thumbnail is stored with its own pal- — ette information, so that you can preview each in its correct colors. You can create multiple indexes, andsort and access any set of them as a single index. You can control the size of the thumbnails created for each index, the technique used to create the thumbnail, the number of colors used, and, for ANIM files, which frame of the ANIM is used for the thumbnail. Oh yes, the entire program can be controlled via AREXX. a Virtually every feature and function can be custom- ized. The hotkeys can be set, the amount of memory used can be controlled; in case you can’t tell, I like this pro- gram. Go out and buy it. ‘4 MISCELLANEOUS In other news, Amiga Plus magazine has given up the — ghost. AmigaWorld has taken over the subscription list ~ and will be fulfilling all outstanding subscriptions. This — essentially cuts the number of Amiga-specific magazines down to three, not counting the new tech journals from _ AW and Amazing. a Commodore has cut the price on the Amiga 2000 and 3000 product line and some of their peripherals. Reduc- j | tions range from 6% to 26% on systems, and deeper still onsome peripherals. TheAT bridgeboard wascut50%,as was the 2091 hard drive controller. This makes an ex- pandable Amiga an even better bargain. Commodore also announced a new service program for A2000 and A3000 machines purchased from authorized dealers. This provides a 24-hour toll-free helpline and next day on-site repairs for one year. The target is next- -day service, — provided that a service request is made by 4:00 p.m. local i time. @ f TEL. 415 770-9051 FAX 415 770-9060 Songtech International, Inc. 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The new TT seems to still be in the bad news area at his moment—I haven't been able to find one in the local stores, and so far haven’t received a promised review unit. So!l’mstill waiting to get my hands on one of these and report back to you. There are some rumors of STe’s being sold at certain dealers. BY DAVID HAWKINS NEOCEPT GONE Neocept is no more. They’re the people who did WordUp, which had been my favorite word processing program on the ST. If you’re a WordUp owner and didn’t get the upgrade to version 3.0, check with your local dealer, or call E. Arthur Brown at (612)762-8847. WORDFLAIR I! NOT GONE The good news is that Wordflair II, also an excellent word processor, is available. My plans are to upgrade soon and make Wordflair my word processor of choice. For more informa- tion, contact Goldleaf Publishing, Inc., 700 Larkspur Landing Circle, Suite 199, Larkspur, CA 94939, or call (415)461-5703, between 9 am and 4 pm, Pacific Time. USER GROUPS More good news: there are active user groups out there to help you get more out of your Atari. For example, the San Leandro Computer Club has started a SIG for desktop publishing. The contact person is Ray Thomas, at (415)791-9158. Other SIGs at the SLCC include telecom- munications, music, business, and Atari 8-bit interests. For more information about SLCC, write to SLCC, P.O, Box 1506, San Leandro, CA 94577-0374. If you’re not in the Bay Area, then check the listings in the back of MicroTimes for an appropriate computer club or users group near you. The February/March issue of START includes a disk that lists over 250 Atari user groups. Also note that START has now switched to a bimonthly schedule. Copyright© 1991 by David Hawkins. All rights reserved. David Hawkins is the host of the Atari conference on The WELL (415/332-6106); send email to dhawk. He has one of the first Atari ST 1040s sold in San Francisco. NEW MAGAZINE Ray Thomas also tells me that there’s now a magazine just for desktop publishing on the Atari. It’s called Radical Type. The address is PO Box 107-SLC, Lazo, BC, VOR 2KO, Canada. The subscription rate is $15.95—be sure to use the appropriate postage to get your letter to them in Canada. 212 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 GAMES More good news about games—The Fool's Errand is now available for the Atari. I had seen it a few years ago on the Macintosh and was | impressed—it’s a series of puzzles that the Fool must solve while searching for fourteen lost treasures. The list price is $49.95, and it’s — from Miles Computing, 5115 Douglas Fir Rd., Suite 1, Calabasas, CA 91302, (800)245-4525. I’ve seen a couple of editors for Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes © Back. These allow you to modify the dungeon—e.g., you can change . the doors so they’re already open or easier to open. They also will take ~ out pits, walls, and other obstacles. If you’re looking for a program _ like this, check out Cartographer from DreamPark Development, — ] 1390 So. 1100 E, Suite 104, Salt Lake City, UT 84105, or call (801)484- 9809. ; A feature I’d like to see in game editor programs is one that would © allow you to modify the characters directly. I used to use a binary — editor on the Phantasy games to increase the characters’ health and/ — i or magic capability. I couldalso give them better weapons and armor. That meant! could still go out and explore without knowing whatwas there, but that my characters were more likely to survive. I guess we all like to cheat in different ways. Editors for Dungeon Master © and Chaos Strikes Back will allow you to modify the dungeon—e.g.,youcan change the doors so they’re | already open or easierto open. You can also take out pits, walls, and other ] obstacles. Mono $859 VGAS1149 80486 Mono $1089 VGAS1489 If you need a computer for SS Fullblown MSDOS AMI word processing and r real power add $100 single tasks, this is it! fon or 20mhz/32k Cache 286/12-1MB-40 HD ae 386SX/16-1MB-40 HD We Speak Human English! 6 @ eet ee $525 Add $220 $2399 i E> Panasonic 1180=$179 Canon BJ=$375 The Amazing 1040 STE The most computer for your money-John Dvorak. 1040STE $399 520STFM $349 Mono Monitor $159 - Color Monitor $359 for 486 upgradeability add $200 for a card upgradeable system MacLink=$129 PCLink=$99 Topper-$20 Case $2: Soon to go up in price, the CAMBRIDGE Z88 is 30 Meg HD $399 | 1 Floppy:101 kb ff an ideal journalist's Calamus DTP $199 Parallel & or student’s machine Notator MIDI $500 Serial @1.8 lbs with silent Pagestream $155 keys and 22 hours of 75 Ist Word + $ batteries. For the MAC $729 complete. For IBM or Atari only $689. You'll love it! or if you want a pocket computer, take an ATARI PORTFOLIO Exciting Computer Store! systems. Let us open your eyes MSDOS-128k-5 PROGS and show you how much you Fax in and out of your computer like you would with a fax card OR Fe or ous anywhere .8 Ibs Fax as you would with a stand-alone Fax machine to paper OR 68030/VGA/ Scan into your computer to use art in Desktop Publishing PLUS $2 8 8) 32MHZ/TT030 Use the phone or use the Tefax as a thermal copier--The all in one 110-15ms HD = fax/scanner solution for MAC/IBM/or ATARI only........ $745 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 213 NEWS & VIEWS Continued from page 22 Commerce, state tour boards, and more. British Columbia showed the way. FANTASIES REALIZED, THAT YOU CAN USE Ever have things printed? You might ask your printer if they are using. soybean-based ink (degradable, though perhaps not yummy) or oil- based ink (yucky). Recycled paper's also becoming much more available—if you ask for it. Business people: Brag about using it—include the “recycled” logo and label on materials you print on it. It’s valuable education and the public relations impact justifies the slight extra cost to your bean-counters. MAGIC SLIPPERS FOR KLUNKY PCs The following two products are major launch platforms on which numerous entrepreneurs can launch modern micro products. GEOS from Berkeley’s GeoWorks is a low-cost, fast, compact multitasking operating system that runs well on any PC from an 808x or brain-damaged 286 on up. It requires nothing more than a half meg of memory and the smallest of hard disks. It offers a Mac-like windowing graphical user interface (GUD and includes an ensemble of well-designed, integrated word-processing, spreadsheet, sched- uling and communications programs—all as part of the basic pack- age. Its documentation is delightful—especially after suffering for so many years with Microsloth’s dastardly DOS documentation. The other is Digital Research’s DR DOS—a major improvement The Dicronix prints your documents wherever you are, when you need them. Continued from page 108 ing on the capabilities of the device to which it’s connected. It sup- ports the Group III standard—used, essentially, by all fax machines in the known world. A high-resolution fax received on the faxmodem and sent toa laser printeris very presentable (though useless asa text file, as noted earlier). You can fax a document directly from the application in which you're creating it, and if you’re already familiar with printing on the Macintosh, you won't find the process arcane: simply choose Fax- Print in the Chooser, then Print as you normally would. FaxPrint 214 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 over the Dumpy DOS from the North. It’s said that Microsloth’s gluttonous Windows 3.0—the memory pig that usually works, ifithas _ a fast enough 386—crashes less often under DR DOS than under MS- DOS. (And, remember, Digital Research was building microcom- ed puter operating systems when Bill was just building BASIC.) — And, did you notice 3Com founder Bob Metcalfe’s opinion-piecein the Feb. 25th ComputerWorld It laid down a sound rationale for an antitrust action against Microsoft, concluding that, “Bill’s. company...is spending too much of its considerable energy damag- _ . If Microsoft’s abuse of its monopoly | ing dependent competitors... isn’t illegal, it should be.” Well said, Robert. QUICKIES _ Hand-held wireless remote controllers should have the most-used buttons near the top, not near the bottom—allowing us fast-draw muppies to aim-‘n’-fire with one hand. (Muppies are middle-aged yuppies.) Furthermore, wireless remotes for home electronics paige shouldn’t show essential information in LCD displays, since they are often used in low-light or no-light video caverns. SHARE WHERE? SHARE HERE! Send your fantasies for realization to Jim Warren, Realizable Fanta- sies, 345 Swett Rd., Woodside, CA 94062. Published proposals will be — attributed to their authors unless anonymity is requested. spools the file to disk, dials the fax machine you've chosen, and gives — also tracks success, failure, and error messages for troubleshooting — “no fax machine answered.” seems like a bit of an oversight, the COMPORT also works just fine as pull down the Chooser, select FaxPrint, then change the Fax/Data switch to the mode you prefer (automated faxing activity goes into hibernation when you're in data mode, and resu- mes when you switch back to fax). . Using this tool, the traveling Mac professional can stay in touch with clients and the of- fice in ways that weren’t previ- ously possible. Whether it’s catching up on the email at 3 am or getting near-instantane- ous turnaround on document revisions, you'll keep finding new reasons you couldn’t live without it. 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(415)864-6430. 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 300/1200. The number one electronic source for ~ text of legislation concerning people with disabilities and cata- logs of products for people with visual impairments. [Exp. #81.] BBS Of San Francisco Apple Core. (415)563-8652. 24 hrs., 2400. Lots of fun, supports Apple land GS computers. [Exp. #82.] Beggar’s Tomb. (415)641- 5123. IBM file, msg. bases, adult areas, online games and more. Free. [Exp. #81] Bizarre Bazaar BBS. (415)821- 4832. 300/1200. WWIV 4.12 soft- ware, bilingual (Esperanto) mes- sage base and uploads. [Exp. #82.] USER GROUP NETWORK BULLETIN BOARDS Breaking Walls; Building Bridges. (415)827-0804. 24hrs., 300/1200/2400. Church, gays/ lesbians, community, AIDS. Fo- rums, news, confidential mail, care. Sysop: Deacon DVMCC. [Exp. #83.] California ConneXion Par- tyline. (415)927-2739, 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 300/1200/8400. 300Mb, 9 lines, chat, worldwide network, 25+ pubs, matchmaking, adults only. Reg required. [Exp. #82.] CIN-SF Network. (415)239- 7925. Free, files, good discus- sions, topics include: politics, social issues, ethics and rel. from a Catholic perspective Sysop: Hugh O'Regan. [Exp. #82.] Coconino County. (415)861- 8290. 12-14400. FidoNet and RBBS-Net email, QWK Door, IBM and assorted topics. [Exp. #81] Compact Disc Exchange. (415)824-7603. 24 hrs., 300/ 1200/2400. Online CD exchange network. Buy/sell used CDs and collectable discs. Voice: (415)826-9350. Sysop: Wayne Gregori. [Exp. #81.] COMPU-PAL BBS. (415)538- 2040. 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 300/1200/ 2400. Bible texts and related programs, doors, email, and public domain software. Sysop: Richard Yim. [Exp. #83.] Compufacts. (415)649-1933. 8- N-1, 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400. Device drivers, jumper, settings, hardware & software support. [Exp. #82] CWEST Color Commodore. (415)552-9320. [Exp. #83.] Diablo BBS. (415)838-7687. Home of EZ-finance. [Exp. #82.] Freedom BBS. (415)683-9560. 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400/9600. Political bulletin board. All views aired and accepted. Intelligence is a prerequisite. Sysop: Dennis H. Medley. [Exp. #83.] Goal Getters BBS. (415)383- 3208. Goal Getters Set Goals. Access Resources. Go for it! Voice: (415)389-6360, Mill Val- ley. [Exp. #82.] Guideboard. (415)864-3858. 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400. Multi- line, Cabbie's Guide to SF. Where to go for restaurants, doctors, auto repair, etc. Sysop: Dick Schwartz. [Exp. #83.] HTG/Outreach BBS. (415)572- 9594. 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 300/1200/ 2400. High tech gays/lesbian/ bisexual/transgender, 4-line, TBBS, security clearance info., activities calendar, GGBA elec- tronic dictionary, echo conf, CB chat, files, free & open access. Sysop: Sagittarius. [Exp. #83.] IDC BBS. (415)865-7115. 8-N-1, 1200/2400/9600. 100Mb, 500+ conference areas, Intelec Net, SmartNet, RIME, InterZone, V- Net. PCBoard, MarkMail, Qmail 4.0. Sysop: Mike King. [Exp. #81] Jobs-on-line. (415)324-3780. 8- N-1, 300/1200/2400. 16-line High-tech Employment/Busi- ness, opportunity search service. [Exp. #81] Just Say Yes! Freedom Of In- formation. (415)922-2008. Home of NIRVANAnet(tm). Sysop: Dr. Strangelove. [Exp. #81] KayFun Bulletin Board. (415)571-9259. 24 hrs., 300/ 1200/2400/9600. CP/M and DOS. Sysop: Bob Wallace. [Exp. #81.) Microworld BBS. (415)845- 1789. Primarily Atari, but DOS or Mac. Specializing in personal freedoms and philosophy for the future as well as Atari use and marketing. [Exp. #82.] Mt. Olympus BBS. (415)689- 6358. 100MB online, 100MB off- line. Numerous conferences & adult areas. Sysop: Zeus. [Exp. #83.) Off Broadway AutoCAD BBS. (415)547-5264. 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400/9600. Focusing on AutoCAD, over 500+ Au- toCAD files, member of ADE- NET network of AutoCAD BBSes. Sysop: Robert Schutz. [Exp. #83.] Opportunity Network BBS. (415)673-4080. Jobs/Candi- dates for computer profession- als. Voice, (415)673-0802. Sysop: Kathleen McMahon. [Exp. #81] Over My Dead Body BBS. (415)465-7739. 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400. RBBS system for mystery fans. Sysop: Cherie Jung. [Exp. # 83.] Palo Alto Writer’s Most Echoes OPUS. (415)322-6451. 6:00 pm-8:00 am. Echo areas: writ- ing, and words words. No charge. A few shareware files. Moving to 9600 bps soon. [Exp. #81] Psychic Link BBS. (415)849- 3539. 2400. 2 lines, psychic and spiritual matters demystified and brought into plain sight. Sections for Mac, Amiga, PC and Atari. Sysop: Harpreet Sandhu. [Exp. #81] Recovery BBS. (415)255-2188. 300-9600. AA, NA, Al-Anon/ ACA, SLAA. Recovery and 12 Step Echos. Fido 125/9. Sysop: Rich Gorlin (Exp. # 83.] Running Wyld. (415)368-5685 (9600); 365-9079 (2400). Graphic image center, 500Mb. [Exp. #81.] SeaHunt BBS. (415)344-4348. 2400/9600. FidoNet, Intelec Net, 650Mb, 75 conferences, 16 Doors. Sysop: Michael Neslon. [Exp. #81.] SFPCUG. (415)621-2609. 8-N- 1, 300/1200/2400/9600. Email, @ @ @ & Is Your Listing Missing? Free user group and association listings are limited to the group's name and a ten-word description, including the mailing address and contact phone number. They will be deleted at six- month intervals to ensure timeliness and accuracy of information. Free BBS listings are also limited to the board’s name, sysop’s name, and a ten-word description including parameters, baud rate and phone number. Because we have an ongoing problem of boards shutting down without telling us, much to the annoyance of would-be callers and the new phone number's owner alike, we will delete these listings after they’ve run three months. You can update or renew your listings at any time. If yours is missing, send us a new one! Send your listing information to: US Mail should go to: MicroTimes User Group, 5951 Canning St., Oakland, CA 94609. Faxes are welcome at (415)652-4618 or (213)647-5486. Email can be sent to: microx on The WELL. continued MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 223 WE BUY & SELL NEW « USED + SURPLUS ¢ COMPUTERS XT, 286, 386, 486 e PERIPHERALS ¢ PRINTERS e COMPONENTS OUR STOCK CHANGES CONSTANTLY- CALL FOR LATEST PRICES! 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Fully refundable. $15 credited toward Tree Based 1.6. Add $2.90 for postage. Send check to Tree Based, 1932 Meyer Place B-2, Costa Mesa, CA 92627. Call 1-800-669-TREE for more information. 224 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 BBSes ul/d| messages, files. Voice: (415)621-1908: [Exp. #83.] Skeptic’s Board. (415)648- 8944. Paranormal/fringe science issues, Bay Area Skeptics. Re- cording, (415)LA-TRUTH. Sysop: Rick Moen. [Exp. #81.] StarComm BBS (415)922-5628. 300/1200/2400. ANSI/NON- ANSI, MS-DOS compatibles sys- tem, online games, file sharing, 20Mb of downloadable files. [Exp: # 83.] Starnet Connections. (415)949-3133. 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 300-9600. Los Altos. Email, USENET, UNIX, and more. Sysop: Richard Mahn. [Exp. #84] SuperResume. (415)524-0416. 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 300/1200. Free features include: Software Engi- neer Resume Composition Out- line, Software Career Strategy Conf., job listings. [Exp. #82.] Telenaut BBS. (415)454-2313. 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 2400. Home of Telenaut Cartoons & Telenaut Cafe (Computer Arts’ Floating Exhibition) featuring original art from all over the world. Sysop: David Newman. [Exp. #83.] The Abyss BBS. (415)482- 5813. 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400. IBM/Mac, file & msg base, email. Sysop: Keymaster [Exp. #82.] The Micro Foundry BBS. (415)598-0498. 1200/2400/ 9600. IBM PC and compatibles, over 20,000 files.. PC-SIG CDROM Library. [Exp. #83.] The MIDI-Exchange BBS. (415)771-1788. Home of the San Francisco MIDI User Group and the Casino West Coast FZ- Shareware library. Sysop: Walt Perko. [Exp. #82.] The Network BBS. (415)795- 4268. 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400/ 9600. Over 600Mb files, also Novell, Clipper, C, dBASE, and accounting msg. areas. 9 multi- user online games. [Exp. #81.] The Private Eye. (415)378- 0627. 24 hrs., No fee. Investiga- tive info adoption searches, . criminal history, and more. [Exp. #831] Uncle “D” Directory. (415)364- 3001. 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 1200/2400. Software for educational pur- poses and the deaf, mail msgs. [Exp. #83] VA Listings. (415)744-7793. 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400. Multiline, VA-owned homes for sale. Sysop: David Piersall. [Exp. #82.] Viper 1 Premium BBS. (415)535-0231. 8-N-1, 6 pm-midnight, Mon.—Fri., all day Sat. & Sun., 1200. Online games, 42 download areas. Soon to come: online hard disk backup, fax, 2400-38400 bds, and more. [Exp. #81.] West Coast Syndicate BBS. (415)438-9387. 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400. SIGs for Atari 8- bit, ST, and IBM. Files, msgs. 30 online games. Sysop: Bill Brown. [Exp. #83.] Wetware Diversions. (415)864- 3874. 8-N-1, 24 hrs., 1200/2400. Multi-line, PC Pursuitable, San Francisco's Public Access UNIX System. (cc@wet.UUCP) Sysop: Christopher Cilley. [Exp. #83.] Window World BBS. (415)931- 0649. 24 hrs. For people who use Windows-type software. Info., shareware, chat. Sysop: Bob Cram. [Exp. #81.] Windows Online. (415)930- 8384. 1200/2400/9600/14400. PCBoard, 778Mb, everything for Windows users. Tons of new files everyday & friendly support. {Exp. #81.] Wishing Well. (415)745-7901. 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400. Email, matchmaker, files, 50+ online games, free access. Sysop; Ma- ryLou. [Exp. #82.] Writer’s Block BBS. (415)992- 2140. 24 hrs., 1-HST DS. Dedi- cated to assisting writers in get- ting published. No fee. Nation- wide conferences. Sysop: The Writer's Block BBS. [Exp. #82.] 707 The Power Station. (707)552- 0462. 300/1200/2400. Node 2, (707)554-8612; Node 3 (707)645-8780. 415Mb online, supporting IBM and Amiga. [Exp. #81.) 1-800 Drug Abuse Information (DAIMP). 1-800-825-3736. 8-N- 1, 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400. Drug ’ information, statistics, bibliogra- phies, forums, email, downloads and uploads. Free membership, reg. requested. Sysop: Greg Cason. [Exp. #81.] 813 Camelot BBS. (813)756-0714. 8-N-1, 300/1200/2400. First call- ers get a free tour, members get unlimited use, including free downloads, personal ads, mes- | . Sages and more. An X-rated i BBS. [Exp. #82] PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Artificial Intelligence Associa- tion. Individuals interested in learning about the use and appli- cation of Al. Call: Rita Zokaei, (415)574-8225. [Exp. #83.] © Association For Women In Computing. Meetings: 1st Wed., 5:30 pm, San Francisco Marriott. Call: (415)979-8450. [Exp. #86.] Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility. Meet- ings: 2nd Wed., 7:30 pm, UC Berkeley, Evans Hall, room 608- 7. Call: Judy Stern, (415)643- 7499. [Exp. #84.] Data Processing Management Association. Call: (415)978- 0868. [Exp. #84.] Independent Computer Con- sultants Association. Meet- ings: 2nd Wed., 6:00 pm. Meet- ings are open to non-members and members. Call: ICCA, (415)441-2948. [Exp. #83.] Society For Technical Commu- nication, Silicon Valley Chap- ter. Meetings: 4th Thurs. Call: September Jenner, (408)971- 2336. [Exp. #83.] Software Entrepreneurs’ Fo- rum. Call: Barbara Cass, (415)854-7219. [Exp. #83.] The Association For World- wide Software Management. Meetings: 2nd Tues., Milpitas Sheraton. Call: Mikael Blaisdell, USER GROUPS (415)865-1323. [Exp. #84,] United Sysops Association. Meetings: 2nd Wed, 7:00 pm, Coco's, 1035 S. Mary Ave., Sun- | nyvale. Assoc. for system opera- | tors and BBS users. Call: Bill Strouse, (415)453-3321. [Exp. | #84,] Women’s Computer Society. | Meetings: Last Tues. Call: Tanya #85)] Writer’s On-line Association Of Technical Communicators. _|| Meetings: Weekly, Berkeley. Call: Cynthia Kolnick, (415)673- | 5819. [Exp. #86.] ACCOUNTING Champion Accounting Sys- tems User Group. Fremont. Newsletter, BBS, ideas and help. Call: Garhart, (415)657-5880. [Exp. #84.] : San Francisco Bay Area Plati- num User Group. Call: Steve Koss, (415)562-2754, or Jim Brit- ton, (415)576-3209. [Exp. #81.] AMIGA AAA (Amiga Addicts Anony- mous). Meetings: 3rd Tues., Concord Water District Bldg., 1311 Concord Ave. Classes, — BBS, pub. dom. disks. Call: (415)935-0829. [Exp. #86.] ALF—Amiga Learners Forum. 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BBSes, newsletter, demos, men- toring, swaps, DTP and telecom sub groups. Call: (415)771-5830. [Exp. #84.] APRICOT Apricot User Group, East Bay Chapter. New members wel- come. Call: Ron, (415)828-9643. [Exp. #85.] AT&T UNIX AT&T Computer User Group- North Bay. Meetings: 1st Wed., new user education, 6:00 pm, program, 7:00 pm, San Francisco AT&T Bldg., 50 Fremont St. Call: Joe Mahoney, (415)584-6510; BBS (415)829-6027. [Exp. #84.] AT&T Computer User Group- South Bay. Meetings: 3rd Wed., new. user education, 6:00 pm, program, 7:00 pm, Sunnyvale AT&T Bldg., 1090 E. Duane Ave. Call: Joe Lipsig, (408)733-6522; BBS (408)946-7734. [Exp. #84.] AT&T Computer Users Group. Meetings: 2nd. Wed., 6:30 pm. Refreshments, technical support - and informal discussions. Also, Sunnyvale DOS and UNIX groups. Call: Jim Lansing, (415)885-6631. [Exp. #84.] AT&T UNIX Computer User Group-South Bay. Meetings: 4th Wed., new user education, 6:30 pm, program, 7:00 pm, Sunnyvale AT&T Bldg., 1090 E. Duane Ave. Call: Thad Floryan, (408)985-7100; thad@cup.portal.com. [Exp. #84, ATARI Bay Area Atari Users Group (BAAUG). Meetings: 1st Mon., 7:30 pm, Agnews Hospital Audi- torium, Palm Rd, and Circle Dr., San Jose. Call: Joe Fischer, (408)988-3065. [Exp. #86.] COAST User Group. Meetings: 3rd Wed., 1514 University Ave., Berkeley. Specializing in DTP, USENET,. CAD, and serious use, Call: Bill ~ Yerger, (415)548-8999, BBS (415)845-1789. [Exp. #85] San Leandro Computer Club. Meetings: ist Tues., 8:00 pm, - San Leandro Public Library. Atari Club, 8/16/32-bit. Call: Keith Sammons, (415)887- -2008. [Exp. #84.) Santa Clara County Atari Users Group. Meetings; 2nd Wed., 7:00 pm, San Jose Computer Showroom, 1278 Alma Court. Formerly South County. Atari Users Group. Call: Ron Reade, (408)225-7162, BBS (408)848- 6032. [Exp. #84] CAD/CAM AutoCAD DCA Engineering Software Users Group. Meet- ings: 3rd Wed. Call for location. Call: Mike Foley, (415)734-0707. [Exp. #84.] Cupertino Chapter of 64/More . Commodore User Group. Meetings: 3rd Sun., 6:00 pm, Cupertino Library... Call: (408)262-9334. [Exp. #85.] CWEST Commodore 64/128 Users. Meetings: 3rd Wed., Fort Mason. For more information write: 1564 Waller #B, San Fran- cisco, CA 94117. Call: (415)626- 9946. [Exp. #83.] Marin ACAD User Group. Meet- ings: 1st. Thurs. Call: Gigi Bollin- ger-Himes, (415)491- 4722, [Exp. #84.) S.F. AutoCAD User Group. Meetings: ist Mon., 6:30. pm, SFAIA, 130 Sutter St;, 6th fl. Call: Katie Price, (415)923-9228. [Exp. #81.] SF Bay Area C.A.S.E. Users Group. Meetings: Once per quar- ter. Call: David Plotkin, (415)842- 6706. [Exp. #84.] Textile Computer Users Group—TCUG. Meetings: Bi- monthly, 1st Sun., 10:00-noon. Bedford Hotel, San Francisco. Call: (415)284-1635. [Exp. #84.] COMMODORE CWEST Commodore: 64/128. Meetings: 3rd. Wed., 7:00 pm, Fort Mason. Forinfo: 1564 Waller #B, San Francisco, 94117. Call: (415)626-9946. BBS, (415)552- 9320. [Exp. #86.] Pea North Valley Chapter Of 64/ More Commodore User Group. Meetings: 2nd Sat, 10:00 am. Milpitas Library. Call: (408)262- 9334. [Exp. #85.] COMMUNICA- TION ~ Toastmaster International.- Meetings: Every Wed., 6:00 pm, Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco. Improve your commu- nicatio# and presentation skills. Call: Maurine Martin, (415)882- 7335 or (415)759-0634. a P #84] dBASE dBASE IV SIG. Meetings: ist ~ Guadalupe Mines Rd, San Jos - Users Group. Call: Elinor SIG of the Silicon: Valley. ¢ Language: Group. Call: King, (408)724-7024. [Ex dBASE SIG/SFPCUG. ings: 3rd Mon. (if holiday, Mon.), 6:15 pm, UCSF, < fornia St., San Franeisco..-Call Mark Webster, (415) 47-36) [Exp. #83.] East Bay. Database Us Group. Guest speakers. Ce David Chilcott, (415)653-130 BBS (415)652- 1763. [Exp. 4 SQL_Forum. “Meetings: Thurs., 6:30pm, 394 Pacific San Francisco. Topics inc client/server computing & database servers, Speaker: demos. Call: (415)695-2 SVDLG dBASE SIG. Meetings 1st Tues., 6:30 pm, ASI, ABSI: Birchwood Systems, Suite 4 W., 2001 Gateway Place, Jose. Call: Fletcher Johnso: (408)283-1333. [Exp: #85.]° SVDLG FoxPro SIG. Meetings: 2nd Thurs., 6:30 pm, ASI, ABS! Birchwood Systems, Suite W., 2001 Gateway Place, Jose. Call: Fletcher Johnsor n. (408)283-1333. [Exp. #85.] DESKTOP . PUBLISHING. Desktop Publishing SI SFPCUG. Meetings: 3rd Tues., 6:00 pm, 660 Market St. Ste. | 215, San Francisco. Call: Eric Leong, (415)635- pen [Exp. #83] : San Mateo Ventura Publi (415)366-5317. [Exp. #81.) Bay Area Epson Salts. h ings: 2nd Tues., 7:30 pm, 26 Broadway, Redwood City. Ca Joe, (415)364-9232, or | (415)992-5475. [Exp. #86.] Contra Costa County Genea logical Society/Computer Us: Group. Meetings: 1st Sat. of od numbered months. Call: Susa (415)372-6996. [Exp. #81 Se Contra Costa PAF User Grou Meetings: Last Sat., Call: Si (415)372-6996 or J (415)933-6555. [Exp. ro) IBM AND COMPATIBLE: } Desktop Publishing si i SFPCUG. 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[Exp. #81.] Napa Valley PC User Group. Meetings: 2nd Wed., 7:30 pm, 10 Chapel Hill Dr., Napa. Call: Lee Schwab, (707)257-2675. [Exp. #85.] PCjr SIG/SFPCUG. Meetings: 3rd Mon. (if holiday, 4th Mon.), 6:15 pm, UCSF, 3333 California St. Visitors $3. Call: John King, (415)472-7035. [Exp. #83.] San Francisco PC Users Group. Meetings: 3rd Mon., 7:30 pm, UCSF Laurel Heights, 333 Califronia St., San Francisco. Call: (415)221-9166, BBS (415)621-2609. [Exp. #82.] San Lorenzo User Group. Meet- ings: 2nd Tues. and the 20th, 7:00 pm, Gathering Place in Ben Loman, Santa Cruz County. Call: Chuck Schafer, (408)338-7348, BBS (408)335-4672. [Exp. #86.] WordPerfect SIG/SFPCUG. Meetings: 3rd Mon., 6:30 pm, UCSF, 3333 California St., San Francisco. Visitors $3. Call: Ken- dall Callas, (415)821-1310. [Exp. #83] KNOWLEDGE- MAN Bay Area KnowledgeMan (And Guru) User Group. Meetings: ist Tues., 6:30 pm. JNZ, Inc., Lafayette. A forum for discussion and info concerning mdbs prod- ucts, esp. KnowledgeMan and Guru. Call: (415)947-4878, BBS (415)935-4878. [Exp. #86.] AUTHORIZED TECHNICAL SERVICES 1-800-451-4057 228 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 LAPTOPS Bay HPX HP Laptops & Hand- helds. Meetings: 2nd Sat. Call: Michael Felsenstein, (415)564- 8279. [Exp. #84.] MACINTOSH North Coast Mac Users Group. Meetings: 3rd Thurs., 7:30 pm. Lark 2004, Santa Rosa Jr. Col- lege. SIGs on development, pro- gramming, and multimedia au- thoring, networking, graphics, and more. Call: Reed Hopkins, (707)542-1089, BBS (707)792- 1871. [Exp. #85.] MacSEF. Meetings: 3rd Tues., 7:00 pm, Call: Tony Meadow, (415)644-9400. [Exp. #84.] MARKETING HTEC Marketing SIG. Meetings: 4th Wed., 6:30 pm. Call: Hal Johnson, (415)441-6897. [Exp. #81] MULTIMEDIA Macromind Multimedia User Group And Video SIG. For more information, call: (415)442-6200. [Exp. #83.] The International Interactive Society—ICS. Meetings: 2nd Tues., 7:00 pm, UCSF Laurel Heights Conference Center. 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I —Jobs Offered Address Credit may be given under certain circumstances J —Reps Wanted Ci ae aT ¢ ity State Zip Check/MO TO ORDER BY PHONE with Visa or J SEND TO: MicroTimes Classifieds MasterCard only, call (415) 849-4446 j sae Street, Phone( ___) Fos es ss sso ‘a ne lst Se se iia ta tu Paar er _ DEADLINE FOR INSERTION IN THE MAY 13, 1991 ISSUE IS NOON ON MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1991 : 234, MICROTIMES » APRIL 15, 1991 adesinianettonieaniaiianetmietiieaniat diadanlibtaniaastaed eniaanammeaiie ACCESSORIES BULLETIN BOARDS BULLETIN BOARDS HARDWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE al ———e | THE HARDWARE EXPERTS -WE CARRY BRAND NAME | AND COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS | | Seric aralle én ; araille'! i oT eee pay en i = — . ’ . , aad > | € Haak 2»~ 4 ers % Sy 5 ie ww 1 AAMR Elanny Drv, * : e .44MB Floppy Drive i teneave 4 4 - 2 opts | tt Case orl 5 ase tprint Vase | DANIAT D, Pe ons y : er Suppl 200W Power Si | ‘ “ = ~ .s 4 wD ¢ . \ vy q | moniror sPeciat with | TOSHIBA | HYUNDAILAPTOP | ain, | wEWLETT | SYSTEM PURCHASE ONLY) LAPTOPS SPECIAL SALE | ALR COMPUTERS ial Oe ESD aR ae a bled Sted Veisa 386/33, $1550 | 21 -. $1649 839 | ,, o- ere eS Cee ned =} isa 486/25 489 | 094, Te eek | it ery p14 = aay of 4 949 | 186/33 ig ts 659 seeesenenees POU! peer a et MLS, sc iiess 1699. 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IDE Hard Disk Drivers 1.2 MB Floppy Drive Enhanced Keyboard Serial/Parallel Port Socket for 387 Processor $X-20 Add $120 $995 |$1395 '$1595 Come visit our factory 286 System showroom. Corporate, 12MHz—0 Wait State H eaied> (eae . Modem .......... +. public, and dealers IMB RAM, expandable to 4MB_—_—Cséi [Logitech Series 9Mouse........... welcome. Serving the Bay 1.2 MB Drive , Enhanced Keyboard iti , acid Sa Area for Dee 9 yedis. Your Parallel Port/SerialPortt =——_—l ESD Hard Disk Drive .................... satisfaction guaranteed. You have my word on it. UPGRADE YOUR NEW NORDIC SYSTEM 80 MBto IOOMBDrive ........... Mono VGA" VGA* 4OMB 4OMB 80MB $749 $1095 $1295 *.31 mm Dot Pitch on VGA monitors One year warranty on parts and labor on all systems: FOR 486 SYSTEMS PLEASE CALL! Nordic Computers 2170-T&U Commerce Avenue, Concord, CA 94520 (415) 687-3050 Prices subject to change without notice. DEALER INQUIRIES WELCOME. 236 MICROTIMES « APRIL 15, 1991 | CLASSIFIEDS HARDWARE _ Apple Ile enhanced, DuoDisk, mono, serial, parallel, joystick, keypad, music, modem, mouse, software. $450. (408) 946-6933. Apple II Plus, Duodisk, Board, Screen, Accelerator, Memory +, DOS/CPM, B/) Bradley (415) 567-1067. _ APPLE Il + (2) Disk Drives, " Monitor, Printer, # Key Pad _ Word Processor, Spreadsheet, _ Games, MUCH MORE! (415) 358-0939 $500. IBM-XT 640K monochrome 10MG HD plus Software Great Starter System $450/obo (408) 685-0706 (trade?). _ APPLE IIGS 1.2MB RAM, 3.5 _ FLOPPY, 5 1/4" FLOPPY, PRINTER, MODEM, TOO MUCH TO LIST $2300. (415) 467-3106 LV MSG. | 386-20, 6 megs, VGA, 140 megs | _HD,5.25 &3.5FDS, more! $2000 | Evening (415) 814-0801. HARDWARE SHARP LAPTOP PC4521 640K 20M HD CARRY CASE WORDPERFECT LOTUS, MSWORKD, QUICKER MORE $1200 1-800-875-4757. 386-25MHZ 64K cache 4MRAM 105M SCSI 1.2M & 1.44M 1024X768 SVGA MON & CARD 2400 MODEM 1P/25/1G ALL BRAND NEW!! MARKET AROUND $2500 + TAX ASK FOR $1800. NO TAX (415) 236- 6169. 386SX-16MHZ 2MB 230W TOWER 1-2M & 360K 100MB HD SOFTWARE LOADED 512K ATI WONDER 1024 VGA MONITOR MOUSE JOYSTICK 2400 (4800 FAX) MODEM 2G/1P/15 ALL BRAND NEW. MARKET PRICE AROUND $1700. ASKING 41400 MP TAX (415 236-6169. PANASONIC KX-P1595 PRINTER Wide carriage-15", excellent condition-240cps. $175. (415) 468-2076. COMPUTERS BOUGHT & SOLD CALIFORNIA COMPUTER EXCHANGE New, Used, Surplus/Export, Brokerage _ 1 (415) 882-4006 | | San Francisco (800) 652-1532 fax (415) 882-6180 HARD DRIVES . SUPER SALE fee ee ee | [Limited Qty = Limited Time =/ }1 Yr. Warranty’ Mon - Fri. 10A-7P, Sat 10A-5P ees Specializing in LARGE Capacity Storage 210 MB IDE/SCSI llms $ 629 1380 MB SCSI/ESDI 16ms $ 899 | 760MB SCSI 16ms Your Super Hard Drive Source MAC External Drives Available 7408 739-901 Sun Worshipers & IBM RS/6000 Users d0ak Up some Memory At A Great Price. Receive the most aggressive pricing on memory for your Sun server, workstation, SLC or new IBM RS/6000. Contact us today at: 408/883-1642 CASTLEROCK $1299 0 805 University Avenue, Suite H, Los Gatos, California 95030 HARDWARE HARD DRIVE 80MB Seagate w/ Controller Model ST 296NP BRAND NEW-ORIGINAL PKG. $340 (415) 776-9814. TOSHIBA T1200XE LAPTOP, 286/AT, MANUALS 12MHZ, 20Meg HD, BATTERY, DOS4.01 NEW! CALL DENNIS (415) 670- 0375. $1,600 MORNINGS. Buy-Sell-Trade Computer equipment and Software. (415) 982-5053 Danny. 286-16, 4MB, 72MB HD, 1.2MB FD, modem, ports, 1200x800 monitor, DOS, OS/2, software $1270 (415) 745-8553. 286 Unisys, 10MHZ, 66MB HD, 1.2MB FD, Color Monitor, Com- pact & Cute $675 (408) 371- 1079. UPGRADE YOUR 286 SYSTEM TO A STATE OF THE ART 386SX WHILE RETAINING YOUR PRESENT HARDWARE. 386SX MOTHERBOARD KITS WITH {mb RAM $495. INSTAL- LATION, INCLUDING FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY IN SOUTHBAY (408) AREA $25. OTHER OPTIONS AVAILABLE. CALL PC UPGRADERS (408) 224-1654. Composite Video Monitor $15, Closed frame supply $10, new “OK” wirewrap gun $100. (408) 235-8389. Atari 1040ST, 100MB HD, Color Monitor, printer, software. $1500 obo (408) 736-2263. LASER LINE PRINTER 24PPM $2000, DOT MATRIZ PRINTER $50, APOLLO 3000 $1750. (415) 284-7355. Metheus Hires Graphics Board 1104 w/all doc + s/w (windows, adi, etc) $600 pr BO ($1400 list) Greg (408) 429-8429. Toshiba XE. One month old. Box, Software, Eleven month warranty. 100% Perfect. $1100. (415) 428-1960. 21-Meg SCSI HD $75, Mac- ready int. 32meg $145 (415) 424-8740. 387-33MHZ New still in-box, $450/bo, Greg (4-08) 426-0403. IBM, COMPAQ + OTHER SUR- PLUS EQUIPMENT. ALL IN GOOD CONDITION. CALL FOR LIST (415) 459-6966 EXT 21. OCR System. 286-12 AT, VGA, 2M, 40HD, Image Scanner, Word Scan OCR. (415) 341-3180. TOSHIBA T3100 e/40 Laptop 1MB, 40MB HD, carrying case, mouse, Laplink, accessaries, software $1100 (415) 584-7558. 386/20, 1MB, 80MB HD, 5.25 + 3.5FD, SUGA, NEW, $1750, (415) 490-2077, EVENINGS SUN 3/60 C-8. Best offer. Jim at (408) 395-7354. 8Mb ECC Memory. 501-1102. $1000. (408) 395-7354. MEMORY - UPGRADES Upgradable Memory Boards for Laser Printers HP Laser Jet Il, IID, IP, Il & IID 1M / $99 2M / $149 4M / $239 IBM Laser Printer 4019 & 4019 1M / $119 2M / $169 3.5M / $239 Epson ept-sooo- Toshiba pagelasers -NCR 6435 - AT&T 503. Packard Bell psos00 . Mannesmann Tally 905 iM/$119 2M/$169 4M | $269 Panasonic Laser Printer Kx-4420/4450i 1M/$119 2M/$169 3M/$219 4M/$269 Okidata okilaser 400 $129/$179 | 1M/2M Also Okidata 400/800, Panasonic 4450, Cannon LBP 8il 8iIR, Ti Microlaser, QMS-PS410, Brother HL-4.... Memory ICs / SIMM / SIPP. Memory for Toshiba , Compaq LTE /286/386 Laptops. 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TAKES 25% LESS DESK SPACE!" 19.3" Length 7.9" Width STANDARD 101-KEY KEYBOARD 15.7" LENGTH 7.0” WIDTH COSTAR ADVANTAGES @ IBM PC, XT, AT and PS/2 compatible ¢ Standard 101-key layout in a compact form ¢ Frees up needed desk work space ¢ Reliable mechanical tactile key switches e Attractive appearance CALL FOR DEALER PRICE Technoland 3? Exclusive U.S. Distributor 2960 Gordon Ave. Santa Clara, CA 95051 TEL: (408) 732-2223 FAX: (408) 732-4664 238 MICROTIMES » APRIL 15, 1991 CAREER MARKETPLACE | Get a Job - in Silicon Valley! Use Your PC @Prints mailing labels. @Runs on IBM XT/ATs. $39.95 3687 Bryanvale.5 | +$2.71 Palo Alto, CA94306| CA Tax 415-493-2212 3 1/2" or 5 1/4" EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION INFORMATION The Job Xchange, Providing a new approach for Bay Area professionals to conduct their career searches, the Job Xchange operates 24hrs. as a public BBS. Jobs listings and resumes. User Friendly FREE to all! Data Line: (415) 226-6160 (1200/2400 MNP5). $5 RESUMES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE MAIL L & M RESUME SERVICE (408) 724- 6335. ony Morrow MDZ with lots of soft- ware $400 or best offer (415) 383-5531 Iv message. ° ALR Flexcache 386-25mhz computer imb, 64K cache, 150mb ESDI HD, 1.44, 1.2 FD, VGA $2,350/BO (408) 735-7316. Used 80287-10MHZ, only one. (408) 447-4766, 5 1/4" Compac 360K Drive, 1/3 Height for Portable 2-$35 Joe (415) 768-2124 days. Laptop SHARP 286 40MG HD, VGA, 1.4 Drive, 3hr. nicad battery wicarrying case, manuals, soft- ware, modem, mouse. NEW $1999. (415) 897-0130. ImegAtari520ST, Clock, IBM emulator, SpectreGCR emula- tor, Megafile30, 2DDDrives, $C1224, SM124, switcher, tons of software. $1650/BO (415) 824- 0471. ATARI 520ST, 1Meg, CLOCK, 2-3 1/2" DRIVES, SC1224 & SM124. MONITORS w/ SWITCHER, 1200 MODEM, SOFTWARE. $400 (408) 274- 3169. WYSE 60 Terminals with PC Keyboard 10 terminals-like new $1900. Moniterm Viking 1 moni- tor (Full Page Landscape) Hi-Res Graphics Monitor with PC Inter- face card Works with PCs and MACs Drivers for all Major Soft- ware 2 units available, $600 each. Toshiba 3200 Portable 1MB RAM, 40MB HD, & carrying case $700. Call (415) 397-4158 8-5 M- Fi IBM QUIETWRITER il PRINTER GREAT SHAPE $750 (415) 479-4901. FAX-FRECOM FAX 96 1-LINER W/REMOTE & SOFTWARES $150. SEND FAX MODEMS $50. MICHAEL (415) 885-3467, MACINTOSH SCANNER Brand NEW unopened box Have re- ceipt. SCSI connect $1250/BO. PAUL (415) 868-0558. 386-33 8MB, 64K cache, 150MB HD, 1024x768 SVGA, 101 key- board, 150MB tape, 2400 mo- dem, mouse, UNIX. $3400/BO (408) 475-8837. Bernouilli Cartridges 8" 10Meg Reformatted Some nearly new. $35 cash each (Org. $70+) (415) 661-3888. : Bernoulli Box, 20MB, 5.25”, IOMEGA Disk Cartridges, Low Usage, $15/ea, $40/3, RICH (415) 825-6105. Mac Ilex 5/80, Apple Color Monitor, HP Desk Writer, Mo- dem, software, extras $3950 Complete. Rick (415) 563-9754. 80386-25, 2MG, ATI w/512K, Goldstar SVGA Monitor, 65Meg RLL, 2HD drives, ZOOM-2400 FAX-Modem. Simon (408) 268- 4839, s. ; Good condition. APPLE & ~ VESTMENT SOFTWARE EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION JOBS-ON-LINE is a multiline electronic employment and business opportunity search service for the Hi-Tech commu- nity in the Bay Area. FREE FOR: EVERYONE. JOBS-ON-LINE | (415) 324-3780. modem settings: 8-N-1, 2400/1200/300. JOBS OFFERED Experience Sales Person, PC, MicroMarket. Call For An Ap- pointment (415) 444-4664. taba aN it | cag cts COMPAQ 286 DESK PRO, 1.2MB FD, 20MB HD LOTUS, Q & A, dBase Ill, WORD PER- FECT, LQ PRINTER, MUST SELL $1000 (415) 601-1408. Amiga 1000, RGB Monitor, Okimate Color Printer, 1MG, 2 diskdrives, mouse, and 20 origi- nal programs. Simon (408) 268-— 4839, aa DELL 316LT 8 MONTHS OLD 40MB HD 4MB MeM MNP5 INT. FAX MODEM, CASE, NEVER TRAVLED 1 YEAR EXTENDED WARRANTY MUST SELL $2500 Firm. (415) 389-9612 TELEVIDEO 925 TERMINALS $75 TELEVIDEO PERSONAL TERMINAL $100 DEC VAX 11 730 WITH DRIVES CALL (41 282-2303. 4 DIABLO 630 DAISS WHEEL — SERIAL PRINTER. EXCEL- © LENT CONDITION. $75 OBO. — (415) 692-5710. iB SUPERFAST MOTHER: BOARDS. Our kits for XT/ Ts range from $135 and come witt 16MHZ CPU and complete | structions. Options include fast 386s, memory and a wide range of /O cards. Call for more details 1-800-695-3627 WD Sales. _ APPLE Il+, two DRIVES, dem, EPSON PRINTER: | | / (415) 837-5674. Now The Same Quality The Fortune 1000's Use Is Available To You! “C? Micro Systems has crafted an eminently expandable, strong and price s_4| performing 386-33 MHz computer...” —PC MAGAZINE Feb. 90 “The C* 386-SX had definite Ap ge CPU processing test results... EVIE —BYTE Aug. 90 ¢ 4MB expandable to 64MB IAGACINE * HDD/FDD Controller " the C2 Saber 486 EISA's standard * 1.2 Floppy Drive configuration is reflective of most aspects of the system: good..." rower Case wi2s0W | Power Supply "A year of on-site service, provided by * 101 Maxiswitch Enhanced Keyboard Nationwide Warranty Corp. is a bonus ¢ 2 Serial/1 Parallel Port given the critical network role an EISA © 1024 x 768 VGA w/1MB unit plays in many offices..." nae —April 16, 1991 PC Magazine— 25 MHz also available | $ 3699 386SX LAPTOP 33 MHz 386 Cache 486-33MHz System System °386SX-16MHz ; : *1 MB expandable to 4 MB__| Laptop & Windows 3.0 °1 MB Memory 386 w/Monitor °4 MB Memory 486 w/Monitor 44 MB Hard Drive $1975 eHDD/FDD Controller $1809 eHDD/FDD Controller $2339 a _ *VGA LCD 640x480 Laptop & Windows 3.0 ¢105 MB Toshiba Hard Drive °1.2F loppy Drive ip 16 levels of gray scale + Serial Mouse ¢1.2 Floppy Drive e2 Serial/1 Parallel port | 1.44 Floppy Drive $] e2 Serial/1 Parallel port ¢Desktop Case w/200 Watt power supply ¢1 serial, 1 parallel port 995 ¢Desktop Case w/200 Watt power supply ¢ 1024 x 768 VGA w/512K 1 external VGA monitor connector °640 x 480 VGA ¢101 Maxiswitch Enhanced Keyboard | ___ *Removeable Keyboard ¢101 Maxiswitch Enhanced Keyboard ¢ Speed (V1.14) 151.9 ib ¢ SI. (V4.5) 52.0 : : $ | 9 l 5 $ l 529 ° MIP. (V1.15) 14.707 $ | ang | Notebook also available 25MHz 25MHz also available Special Package also available Windows 3.0 | | 1 Year Parts & Labor Free Warranty oak ey | ¢ Business Leasing Available aaa poral parce © 286, 386SX, 386-25 also available Zz 47448 Fremont Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 (415) 683-8914 M-F 8:30-5:30 SAT 9-1PM |! Fax a) ape 8893 Fremont Gateway We are an Authorized C? MicroSystems Dealer MICROTIMES ¢ APRIL 15, 1991 239 CLASSIFIEDS Almost new 386SX, 286-16 with IBM EGA monitor, SCO-V, lots of SW, AutoCAD, lotus 123. (408) 287-6978. Hard Disk Drives for Sale from $120. Maxtor, Seagate, Quan- tum, Micropolis. Hard Disk Drive HARDWARE WANTED Nuclear Guardianship Project, non-profit, for Responsible for care of nuclear wastes seeks computer donation. (415) 843- 5092. Voter Revolt’s Universal Health Care campaign needs a Mac, hard drive, and printer. Christine (415) 540-0593. AUTISTIC BOY NEEDS APPLE IlE/GS OR SIMILAR, TOUCH SCREEN; VOICE SYNTHE- SIZER & LEARNING PRO- GRAMS. CALL KEITH (415) 798- 3001 OR (707) 795-1961. WANTED: AMIGA 500/2000/ 3000/HARDWARE, BEST PAID. EVENING (415) 391-8724. BUS EXPANSION CHASIS for AT or XT (IBM, Wheatstone, etc.) at least 6 slots (415)948-2060. Donate Your PC, Apple or Mac to our children’s computer lit- eracy program in oakland. (415) 547-2917 or (415) 763-9809. SERVICES COMPUfacts. The Fact Filled Book of Knowledge on Soft- ware/Hardware Troubleshoot- ing $37.50 PO Box 8090 Berkeley Ca 94707-9991. (415) 841-5201. TECH SUPPORT DIRECTORY. Over 300 tech support and in- formation phone numbers for most of the major computer hard- ware and software companies. $9 postage paid. VISA & MAS- TERCARD. QUEST ELEC- TRONICS (303) 623-7700. MIKO-TEK REPAIR. We pick-up and deliver. 24 hourd turnaround. New, upgrades, Networks, Re- pairs. 20 years experience (408) 286-5701. ON-SITE PC REPAIR. No travel charge, in San Jose. HATCH CONCEPTS (408) 226-2625. Roman Industries Real Re- pairs By Real Technicians Most Repairs Component Level We Repair; Macintosh and IBM Compatible Computers, Moni- tors, Power Supplies, Printers, Keyboards, Mice And Trackballs, Floppy Disk drives.We Also Do Hard Disk Drive Recoveries Sys- tems Built To Fit Your Needs. All Repairs Carry A full 1 Year War- ranty Telephone Technical Sup- port Available Between 6.00am and 8.00pm. Call Rob For An Appointment At (415) 530-4430. “LASER CARTRIDGES “ RECONDITIONED LIKE NEW We use most advanced replacement — & coatings to ensure best prints quality! * Reliable Service © 100% Guaranteed ¢ Graphics Quality Toner ® Free Pickup with minimum Purchase of two or more Cartridges e 55 each/Qry. Discounts e 5 off with this ad Carols Cartridge Service (415) 945-2002 DUPLICATION ‘ IBM PS/2 - MACINTOSH - APPLE COMMODORE : ATARI 24 Hour Turnaround. Fastest in the West, No Minimums!!! Custom Printed Tyvek Sleeves & Labels Optical Text Scanning I. 0. 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The Total Mac: Repair for Macintosh, Laser writers, A.P. Laser Jets, Imagewriters. On- site and free Pick-up and delivery in SF. (415) 386-4320. COMPUTER DISK & TAPE CONVERSIONS Micros « Minis « Mainframes Wordprocessors « Typesetters | DATA CONVERSION SERVICES | 415-897-3003 Slides Overheads 4x5s Presentation Graphics Screen Grabs Bitmap Images McLain Imaging voice: (800) 457-4020 1033 Pecten Court, Milpitas, CA 95035 = 0. We support 200 laser printers and Cannon photocopy machines. New chemical process to coat the drum (extends the life of the drum to 7 recyle times). 20% more toner than the original. Free delivery (Bay area| 100% & MONITOR REPAIR All Brand names & Models - All IBM’s and Compatibles. - All Apple’s and Compatibles. - All Wyse terminals. - Power Supplies. - Floppy Disk Drives. - Keyboards. & Low flat rate fee Free estimate 180 day warranty 2 to 4 day turn-around time No hidden cost Loaner available. 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MB ¢ 2 Serial/1 Parallel ° Teac 1.2 MB or 1. rive e Teac 1.2 MB or 1.44 MB Ports Drive °1MBExpandablefolI6MB 785 Drive * Maxi-Switch 101 Keyboard ©] MB Expandable to 16 MB e 8K Byte Cache & Floating Point Unit © 80387 Socket Y ihe e 128K Second Level Cache /-* 8K Byle Cache & Floating $] 825 * Maxi-Switch 101 Keyboard $] 48 by ° 1 MB Memory $93 5 25 MHz . 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