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Reat~se artwork — it is inexpensive, and in some cases See.by Gmf Smtutonds

h the minor upgrade wotth it? If you like using a mouse, the answer is yes.by 1%yf Fanlty

Lelxaset's new page layout pregram enters the big time.4y Wmd Shnttt

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DTP Service Bureaus ..................45Imagesettets, OCR softwaxe, scanners, shde mahcrs — where you can rent them.

Compttters can't do much about dying, but they may save you money at lax time.by Lindu Seigttettett, CGA.

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The%ish List efA Desktop Publisher

It is phenomenal how far desktoppublishing technology has come in justa few short years. Equally phenomenalis the ability to quickly adapt it to ourown usage, forget that it exists, andcrave more innovation.

My ideal of desktop publishing is tobe able to create an entire publication&om a desktop computer — true desk-top publishing. In the process of doingThc C0Inpstsr Peper, I have noticed thatreality' Is still a long way &Qm this Ideal.Cutting and pasting in rea&me non-

al mode is very much required. {Translation, we still use rulers, Kx-acto knives and wax to p~ p t h e issue). When I started this pubficationthree yaws ago, I thought it would only be a matter of months before allthe minor problems that prevent total desktop publishing would bedeaned up. It turns out we may have to wait a couple of more years before

One obstacle is the need for huge, cheap hard drives to store all thescanned image files that it will take to replace a PMT camera. Anothershortfall is in the area of printerL My wish list has a low~ h g htening-fast tabloid printer that prints half<ones with very' little maintenance over-head. I want page layout sokware that has ad-management (complete witha built' expert system and linear programming to optimize space usageand then automatically index a table of contents and an advertiser list).Also needed in the softstare are the network tooh to manage the efforts ofa workgroup. My Sultasy has me pushing a few' buttons and waiting for thepublication to hry itself out. Another dick or two and it prints out ready forthe printing press.....I dream on....

This Mom|hSack in the here and now, this month we tried out the latest efFerings

&om Microsok (Word for Wendows) WordPerfect Corp (WordPetfect5.1), and Letraset (DesignStudio) Also in t¹is issue is an overview of theimagesetter options mailable today. We surveyed the service bureaus intown to give you an idea of where you can rent time on equipment to cre-ate your own desktop publishing revolution.

We give you an updated report on personal income tax software in timefor tax filing season, and ~ ng ts ¹u Climate, a disturbing article onCFC use in Silicon Valley. Special than' this month to Scott Lewis andChanging Images Productions, who did our cover on their Dicomed sys-

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Veraon 4.01 is currently being chslrib-uted aad while MSQOS version 8,$ is areliable and strcang disk operating sys-tem, N crosafit MSQOS 4.01 has signifi-cnnt eahancements that make it anequally attractive, if not supexior, prod-uct offering.

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TheenhaacementiaDOS4.0, the DOSsheS, provides fora friendlier user inter-face. Vexsiaa 4.01 provides a graphicalshell fer maanipng iles and directarieannd oqpnizing applications. It is a sig-nificant benefit to am hard disk users,whotypicallywarkwithlaxgenumbers ofiles aad directerieL In addition, theShell doesnot take up alotof xaemoxyasit collapses once aa application ishnmched,and occupiesonlyaboutSKof

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New Membersby f6mberrey Byoob(CorPon telo nd Remd ters 687-5999)

Software S.C.'s membership contin-ues to climb in leaps and bounds. Newmembers this month include: GlenCooper Sc Associates (681-2054- expertsystems consultants), Readware Tech-nologies Inc., (6624787 - documentprocessing), Boxmaster (software pack-aging), Softline Systems (689-7658-desktop publishing and accounting soft-ware), Technical Secvice Council (682-

8861 - computer professional personnelagency), CBM Consulting Inc. (662-7869-accounting), and SCAdvanced SystemsInstitute (644-1926 - financing productdevelopment).

Next month's meeting will featureIcosta Cbatzipiios from Ogivar Technol-ogyInc., who will speakon the benefits obundling software with harchvare. It willbe held at The Hermitage Reslauran,t115-1025 Robson Street.

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The Toronto ADAM convention fol-lows on the success of the Srst ADAMconvention, held in Orlando, Horida,lastOctober, which drew delegates Romas far away as Vancouver Island, S.C.

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PARIS, FRANCE, 1990 FEB 07 (NB)-Commodorecalleda topeeczetmeetmg withsoftxvszedevelopezsin Paxisfortodayto unveilnew bazdwaze. AII auendees to the confer-ence have been bound by non~ osu xeagreements until the CeBit '90 fair in Han-nover, West Germany next month.

AsNewsbyteswent to press,therewas muchspeculation on what harchrare Coxnmodorewss preparing to unveil UK pxess sources

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the Wel German computer company, hssnczw con6nned it will 1aunch its two AmigaLiptops-one with an LCD screen, the otherwith a gas plasma screenmhich have beendeveloped with Commodore UK's c~iexa-tion. With the AmigaA5000serieslined up awell, Atari w61 have a job on iti hands tosecuxe the industry's attendon.

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here with Mitch Hall Associates of Dedham,Mass,

future, promised a lmeead Madntosh andmore consissency m management, at theannual shareholder's meedng.Apple'schief toM thecxowd:"Wecanbuil

an expectation that thezewill bemoreccmsis-tency in how we xaaname our business," andassigned much of the job to newly appointedMichael Spmdler, chief operating of6cer.'With Spindler there is a better chance wecan do it with less disrupuon than in thepsst.

As Apple faces an ixaxmnentdedsion aboutlayo6s, comes to terms with a 10 percentincrease in pro6ts compared to the previ-ously anticipated 20 percent, and copes withan industxy~deslowdown, the company alsoseems to be rethinhng iis global strategy.Speci6cally, Apple is facing a battle in theprice arena where competitoxs include IBMaud compatible compaxues, whose ofkringsincreasingly have the ease of use assadatedwith Apple computers but are dropping inprice 6rr 6rster.

Scuileysold shareholders that the 6nnxuustnoteamarketwhichis chsngmgatthelawerend. Sculleyadzmtted that the 6xst~e usermarket is signi6cant, but disappointed ana-lystxata meeting the neztdayby telling themthataloreend Mac wouM notcome fxem thecompany this 6scal year, ending September

, 1990.Sculley told one xelurrter that the dray in

g products io market could not beon engineezL "h isn't getting engi-

neers so work hanlm, they work extremelyhard as itia lt'sgetdng decisions to be xnadeStater, and getdng the integration beuveenmanufacturing and what's shipped in themarketplace and what is happening with theproduct, dedsfonL

Apple is expected to introduce the high-end llxi Madntosh neat monthpbuto6ering will run in the azea of $10,000, ac-cozdhlg lo inside xepoxrs.

Apple IIITo Debut In March

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, USA„1990FEB 2 (NB) — Apple Computer is expectedto introduce a bigh~d Macintosh IIX inMatch called rhe IIxi.

The 68050-based machine is expected torun at 55 MHz, according io MacWsrki maga-zine, have a cachecaxd slot, direct memoxyaccess on the SCSI (Small Computer SystemsInterface) bus, aud special I/O processors.

Theznadune fsexpected tohavea60 to 100percent performance improvement over thellci snd will cost about $10,000.

Canada's Hrst MacWorldSlated For October

TORONTO, ONTARIO 1990 JAN 51 (NB)— Canada will become the sixth counuy tohasta MacWorld Expo this October. Lauren-tian TechnomediaofTozonrohasannouncedplans to pxoduce atlireeday MacWorld show

The three-day show will tike place atToronto's Setter Living Centre October 25-y5. Rohnd Khssm, shaw manager for Lau.randan, aiid some 400 exhibisonr axe ex-pected at the 6rst show, and the organizershope for about 10,000visiuux. Aconfexencewill be heM along@le the show. Elm saidno speikers could be named yet, but henoted thatJohn Sculley, pxesidezlt of Apple,has given a keynote speech at all past

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NBNSSYTES is written by NetktsybtoaContrlbtNInQEditot3:Wendy%tide, WayneYacco, Dana Bhnkenhorn, don Pepper,Steve Gold, Peter Vekinia, Ken Takahmhi,Naoyukl Yazxtura, Paul Zuaker, and GrantBucMer. Neteeworthy Canadian press re-.Ieaaeecanbe sant to Grant BtrcMer, CANA-DIAN BUREAU, 859 Kennedy Road, 488,Sottbototrgh,Orttario,(416) 285%844, Fax:{418) 285-5281

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MacWorld shows are held in the UnitedKingdom, Singapore, Australia aud Japan, aswell as in San Fxandsco and Bosaon in theUnited Statea (Contact: Roland Klassen,Laurentian Technomedia, 416746.7560)

Apple Canada Cuts Mces

tec virus expert Kareem Ismail tells Newsby-tes that Symantec is not preparing a specialupdate to SAM ao Sght this Tmjan.

Other major antiviral softw.ire producersaxe known tobe examining this Tmjan Hoxsepmgram, says Jeif Schuhnan, author of VirusDetective, and the company which makes

John Noxstad, author of Disinfectant, tellsNewsbytes that he is not worhng on a newvexaon ao detect this Tmjan yet, because hebelieves it is confined ao the Edmonton,Canada area"MARKIIAM,ONTARIO 1990JAN 29 (NB)

— As iscustomaxy before the introduction ofnew computexs, Apple Canada hss reducedprices on Madntosh computets by C$500 tioC$RP00 and on LaserWriter printexs by asmuch as C$2P00.

The Macintosh SE with diskette drive onlyhasbeen cuthxxmC$4,187 to$8,675. The SEI/% has been cut from C$5,058 to C$4~.The SEX/40hasbeenreducedfmm~,987tio C$4PRS. The SE/80 with diskette drivegoes fiem C$6,675 to C$5,550, the SE/80 1/408omC$7,4R5 toC$6,%50, and theSE 2/80Sum C$9,995 to C$7,695. None of these

- prices include the keyboaxtLApple dmplied the pxice of the Lssexwriter

IISC &om C$4,8% ao C$$,995 and thatof theLeexwxiter IINT fiem C$7~9 ao C$6,450.The Lasexwriter IINTX is marked down I'mmC$10 795 tio C$8,595. Contacu Apple Canada

Trojan Horse DestroysMac File Directories

EDMONTON,ALBERTA 1990FEB9 (NB)— A Tmjan Hoxse pmgxam under the nameMosaic has muck iwo Macintosh usexsin theEdmontion area,destxeying their Sledirectio.rieL One expert is calling the Tmjan "themost destructive that we've ever seen.

Peter JoBnston, senior analyst at the Uni-vexz'iay of %hens's Computing Systems of-Sce,says the Tmjan Horse pmgxam, which isdifferent fmm a virus in that it does notrepmduce by itself, Srst appeared on a localbulletin bosxd ~ The system operaaordownlosded the Sle ao test it, whexeupon itpromptly destroyed the dixectories of allavailable physicallyunlockedhard and floppydisks, induding the one on which it resided.The attacked disks were then renamed,"Goachat"

Mostof the datawas recovered with a utiTityprogram, but the Sle names were lost.Johnston tells Newsbytes such an occurrenceis like "cutting ofi' the spines, and pagenumbers of all the books in your libxaxy, thenthrowing the remains in a garbage bag foryou to sort out."

One other BBS subscriber is reported tiohave sufiered the same fate after he down-loaded the pxogram Rom the same Edmon-ton Macintosh BBS.

There is a possibility that the Trojan pro-gram may also have originated on aboard inthe Seattle, Washington area, he saysJohnston says two strains of the Tmjan

program have been found, the one above,and one in a public domain pmgxam called''Fontfinder." This one hasa trigger date oflOFebruaxy, 1990. Before that date, the pm-gnm simply displays a list of the fonts andpointsizes in tbe System Sle. Itwas posted onthe board as part of a Stufiitt archive named"FontFinderait."

'This appeaxs to be the Sist dehbexatelydesuucuvemaliciouscode that targets on theMacinaosh," says Johnston. Previous Trojansand viruses have wreaked havoc with theFinder or caused applications to crash, butthis one actually destroys data.

There are vaxiousways in which the TrojanHorse program can be fought. One is withVirusDetecuve, version 5.01 or later, a share-ware pmgxam which requires this string aodetect the current menace: Resouxce CODEand ID = 1 Sc Data 44656174685472616B.

The Intercept pmgnun of Syxxlntec's SAMvirus-Sghting application ia also capable ofdetecting the Trojan during a disk scan butitwill not destmy it. A user will be promptedwith a question as ao whether the pmgramshould be denied access to a sysaexn; ayes willxeventthe efmm do ne . an -

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VANCOUVER,BR1TlSHCOLUMBIA,1990JAN RS (NB) — Richmond Software plans aobegin shipping vexsion LOof The Maximizeron February RO. The upgraded contactman-agement softwaxe will have a number of newfeatuxes for an increased price tag accoxdmgto company spokeswoman Janeue PeterAmong the enhancements in Maximizer

R.O will be more reporting capabiTities, abuilt-in popup calculaaor, the ability so storemore addresses, a real text editor and han-dling of incoming telephone calla The local-areaneiworkvexsionwill allow access aoother

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SUNMtVALF„CALlFORNIA, U.SA., 1990JAN 24 (NB) — According to the CPUNnaxCpafidcaaal weekl newsletter, available fordownload on a growing number of US BBSs(bulletin board services),Atari may be aboutao announce the Portfolio II, an 80286-basedversion of iis popular pocket PC machine.

Accoxdhtg ao the newsletter, the Portfolio's128Kmemoxy is likely ao be boosted tio 51RKby replacing the 6RR56 chips with 62104L"Suddenlyyou have 512K with no noticeablepower consumption increase," says the news-letter. "Could these be the reasons why theoriginal device is on sale m discount housesalready'" the newsletter questionLWhen Portfolio was announced a year ago

in the UK, Newsbytca noted that the ma-chine's designers, DIP, said that future ver-sions of the Portfolio were in the pipeline.Atari, meanwhile, was licensed to producethe standaxti Portfolio. It seems logical ao

Sources close to Ataxi UKsuggest that sucha dealisin the oÃng, with a Portfolio II beingreadied for launch this Spring. The CPU

answer is yeL Watch all the denials Sy until,that is, the actual deals hit the streets." Con-tacu R F Maxiano, Tel: 904-788-8819.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.SA.,1990 FEB 6 (NB) — In a mope to strengtlienits position in the Deskaop Presentationmarket, Aldus has announced version 4.0 ofPagemaker for the Macintosh. Many of thefeatures thought tio be lachng fmm earhervmions, by usexs and indusuy obsexvers, sxenow incoxpoxated in what Aldus is callingIhe New Pagemaker."Text handhng enhancements indude full

word pmcessing capabilitieswithin the StoryEditor, text mtation, point/izes in 0.1 point(pt] increments &om 4 pt ao 650 pt, andleading in O.l-pt incxementa There is impmved control overkerning, condensed andexpanded text; an option of eleven languagedictionaries; and improved hyphenation

Enhancements in graphics han ' in-dude the ability to import color graptdcs,user selectable display mode for importedgraphics, and the ability tio tie rules audgraphics to text with fun Sow chaxactexistica

File management capalities have beenimpmved by retaining links with originalimported iles (aaxt and graphics) to enableanaomaticor prompted updatingofelementswithin a document. Also new is the "book"feature which anaws the user ao link multiplePagemaker documents (chaptexs) intio asingle publicauon. A standalone table gen-exaaor is also included with Pagemahv 4.0,an indication of thirdyartypmductsaocome.

The pmductwill ship in the second quarterof 1990 at a price of US$795 (upgradeUS$150), with PC Windows and OS/2 ver-sions "tio be announced." Recommendedconfiguration is any 68080 Mac with harddisk and RMB ofRAM. Since July,1985,Aldushas shipped in excess of 400,000 copies of allversionsofPagemaker. Contact: Roger Gulra-jani, Aldus, R06422-5500.

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The OS/2 version of Network Couxier willb e released at the show and wills~ ppin gbefore the end of February, Consumersspokesman Michael Shandxick told Newsby-tes. The Macintosh and Wmdowsvexsions arein beta testing and should be shipping mApril, Shandxick added.

The softwsxe allows people using any of theoperaung systexxN supported to commumcate with any other user over a varieqr ofcomxuunicaiionslinks, Shandxickssid. Userswill aho be able to send mail through Net-work Courier gateways to other electronicmail systems such as Professional OI6ce Sys.tern (PROFS) on an IBM maixiRsme.

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Gxaeme Hughes, president of the Informa-tion Technology Association of Canada(1TAC) in Toronto, also commended theinitiative, saying itdesetves sexious auention.He said any such program would need pre-cauuonstoensuremoneywaswellusecL "Manyof these 6rmsdo go bankrupt for vaxious rea-sces," he said. But he suggested a pilot proj-ect xnight help detexmine the plan's viability.

Brian Farimg, chief of commerdal a6airsfor the Canadian Bankers' Association, saidhis group has received the proposal and iscirculating it among its independent busi-ness committee. "It merits study," he said,"and it's on our agenda for early February."Contacts: CADAPSO, 615-25IM524; ITAC,41M98871Q;Canadian Bankers'~ tion ,4168624092; Stephen Binghaxn, Alias Re-search, 416-5624181.

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The Phoenix progxaxn, laid out by StephenBingham, president of Toronto softwaredeveloper Ahas Reseaxch, calls for govexn-m ent~ teed hank loans forstsxtup soft-ware developers. Sofuvare companies withsales between C$5 million and C$50 millionwould subiit strategic business plsxl d~signed to achieve "acceptable rates of returnover 6ve yearn."Bsxtks would lend 80 percentof the money needed, and the Canadiangovernment would guarantee 85 percent of

Corel Income JumpsOTIAWA, ONT. 1990 FEB 9 (NB) — Net

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Corel has reported net income of C$2.9million for the year ended Nov. SQ, 1989, upRom C$169,401 in the previous year. Reve-nue, as previously reported in Newsbytes,dhnbed hxmn C$6.6 xnilhon to C$21.7 mil-lion.

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TOERO, JAPAN, 1990 JAN %9 (NB) — ToSnance and hasten developmeat of highlyintegratedcomputer memoxychips, collabo.rative ventuxes among American, EuropeanandJapanesemakensxepoppingupamtmd

ThehngofonecmegabktDRAMs — Toshiba— and U ci;based Motomht will start thepmduction of Qurmegabit DRAMs at theirvenuue, Tohoku Semiconductor, in 1991.

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To create neat generatian 16.megabit andfuuue 64.megabit general puxpae memorychips, the mdustxy is eqiected to continuethe collabarszion. The couples in the DRAMrace are naw Hitachi andTexasInstruments,IBM and Siemens ofWestGermany, andMit-sublsbi Electric which is eqiected to tie upwith AT&T.

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Umx International UIImlsNear Upgrade Strategy28 (NB) — Unix Intnnauonal, Oigpnaxket-ing ann for AT&T's version of Unht, caHedSystnn V, unveiled its strategy for futureupgrades of the System V sofhvare. UnixSystemVRoschnapwassimultaneouslymtm-duced in Washingum, D.C., New York, Brus-sels, Belgium, and Tokyo, for Unix users inNorth Autnica, Eumpe and Asia

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The reduced instruction set computer, orRISC, architecture used in the new machinesis called Pex$onnance Optimization WithEnhanced RISC, or POWEL The top-ratedmachine in the pxesent line can handle 41million instructions per second and 15 mil-lion floating point calculations per second,and IBMRegional Vice President Tom Smithpredicted that many impxtnrements in the

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Vernon of Unix. AIX also runs on the highend of the company's PS/2 line. In addition,the workstations are run on lour. power com-plimentaxy metal oxide semiconductor, orCMOS, chips — the same hndsof chips usedin laptop computen. Two user interSLceswere announced for the machine: AIXwin-dows Envlxtmment/6000, which is based onthe Open SoSnraxe Foundation's Motif stan-dard, andAIXNextstep Environment/6000,which mdudesAdobe's Display PosrScript athe underlying imaging modeL

IBM's goal is to get a dominant position inthe engmeering workstauon market by1992,Som a standing start "We' re launching anear business, in a $10 billion marketpLsce,where we have demonstrated negligiblexnarket share," admitted Smith. "This Sile aneed we have yet to Sll successfuEy." He «m-phasized that, while sofhsare does need to beported to AIX hem other versions of Unix,the 9pem 6000 Sunily is based on open syn. 4terna and multHrendor compaubiliay. "We' llbleed nicely with existmg implermpntauonsof Unix," he saitL "We' re con5deut we canbring in new customexs who run Unix exdu-sively. We intend to be a complete and seri-ous Unix system pxxnrider."

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Interleaf Inc., Cambridge, MasL, hns an-nounced that its Technical Publishing So&-ware (TPS) willrunon the neurRISC System/

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Hippxcxutsx,aconsumermedical maga- (1974),aadafter the U.S.banned themzinereeeatlyrenamedlnHcakh,reports as aerosol propellents (1976-'IS). 1a-that the chances of contracting skin cr edibly, American Electronics Asso-caneer have increased fifteen-fold aad ci a t ioa (AEA) occupational and envi •are aow 1 in 100 for a Caucasian new- r o nmentaldirector CherylRussell told

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Toxouankwed Ahss Reseaxeh's Alias SDiadusuial design graphics sofnvaxe will shoruu on the new computexs. Abas's software isused m speed industrial dmigu especially inthe auxamoxive arena where it is used byVolvo, V~ en, BMW sud General Mo-toxLSany,MiisubisbiandMoaoxolaaremajorAlias usexs in the electmxues field. ContactInterleaf, 617-5774800 X5571; Cadre, 401-85M950;QuahtySystemsInc.,714-781 7l71;Xexox,715g5-1158;audAliasResearch,416.862-9181.

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The air samples were taken near sev-eral electronics firm s and analyzed by F.Sherwood Rowland, theworld-renownedatmospheric chemist. Rowlaad chseov-ered, backia 1975, thatchloro6uorocar-bons (CFCs) shred stratospheric ozone.Afteryears ofcollectiagair samples &omaround the world, Rowland found read-ings of CFG.115in SiTicon Valley tobe faraad away the highest — over ten timeshigher than any he'd measured before.

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R) Far from dabbling in CFCs„U.S. u se ofan ozonekillermorelethal thanelectronics Srms soon became leadmg CFCs: halons. The spread of computerconsumers (the biggest, after the cool- equipmentaccelexated themove towardant and foanHxse industries), designing halon-based Sre ex6nguishing systems.an estimated 58 processing technolo- Unlike water, halon puts out Sres with-gies around exclusive use of CFC Dux ou t damagingcomputerequipmentTheing the 1980s, via the Pentagon's "vixgm EPAassignbaton an ozonMeple6onCFC" military speciScation, US. elec- p o ten6al up to ten times that of CFCs.tronics encouraged microchip, corn- T h e military and computer Srms stillputer, and telecommunications Grms specify halon to protect electronics infrom Milan to Seoul to embark upon a t a nks and jets as well as in dvilian com-I'renzied CFC consumpdon and to dis- puter rooms. Itis recommended proce-pose of it in ways that maximize ozone dureto "test"halonSreextinguishersbydamage. In efFect, US. electronics engi- expelling their contents into the atmco.neexswxoaeCFCmdmethylchloxoform phere. (ThePenxagonadmitslhatonly5

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4) Computer keyboard and Pchoardaerosol demers that spxay CFCs are soldover the countn for use by computerworkersevery 'day.

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As it is, the industry could phase outmost solvent CFC and methyl chloro-form immediately, since watmendMe-texgent (an industry standard processbefore the the move to CFCs) and or-mge-pee~d~ ood~ulp cleaners haveexisted for years. These clean at least aseffectively as CFCL New approaches areemerging, mctudmg ones that ehminatethe need for Cleanin. More would fol-low quicklywith a concerted efFort. Withfew exceptions, the industry is stalling,milking its illwonsidered mvestment inCFC processes behind a showcase en-dorsement of the Montreal ProtocoL

We need, desperately, to stop usingCFCs, methyl chloroform, and halons. Acomprehensive two-year phase out ofCFCs aud methyl chloroform with tech.nology transfer to developing countriesis a good place to start. Skeptics shouldrecall the overnight retooling af U.S. in-dustry at the onset of World War II — aswell as the twtpyear CFC propellentphaseout in 19'% (most aerosol Srmsbeat this deadlmewithmonths to spare).The ban also could serve as a correctivetoashallowanddangerousconven6onalwisdom: our presumed need for ever-faster processing technology. It' s time toask ourselves which new secuxi6es trad-ingprograxn, whatenhancedmissileguid-ance system, and how many new auto-matic tellexsjus6fy our courtship of New

Such a ban would not go Su enough,though, because it would not alter theelectronics industry's historic course ofreplacing bad substances (e.g., carcino-genic TCE) with bad, or worse, ones(e.g„CFCs). When our top scientists andengineers consistently choose technolo-gies that we know to be dangerous infavor of those we know to be both safeand technically comparable, it is time toc9utnfp: the way we choose.

We must Snd ways to incorporate ecol-ogy and workplace safety into our tech-nology decision making. This requires,Gxst, transcending models that treatglobal warming and workplace injury as"external costs, and second, not relyingon government bureaucracies. Here inSilicon Valley, we have a pricelessadvan-tage: the most expansive research anddevelopmentcapabilityin theworld. Willwe choose touse ittodevelopatmospheri-cally kind, workplacesafe technologiesfor an ailing planetsDennis Hayes is the author of Behindfhe 8TIoon Curtain: The 8educlfons ofWoIfrina Lonely Era(south End Press,1989). His expose of the efectenlcsindvstry and CFCs appeared in theDecember,1989, issueof Nofher Jonesmagazine. Ihisarticie isCopyright1990by IDG CommLtnicatiore, Inc., 375 Go-ehichuate Road, Framingham, MA01701. Reprintedbypennissionof Corn-puteneo4t.

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Thecomputer termforblack~d-whiteis usumochnnea" Usually the screen hasamber textonablackbackground.Asanoption, you can have green or paper

The slow green phosphor gives thesteadiest image, but sometimes it leavesghostly oils when the screen changesrapidly. The fastwhite phosphor some-timesbuzzesorjitrersslightly-espeaallyunder fiuoreseent lights. White lookschic. Theintermediateamberphosphorisa compromise.

H cerever, amber has a dra~ I t isthe colour most suscepfible to creenburn. If you leaveyour computer show-ing thesame picbuedayafterday,gradu-ally the image burns permanently ontoyour sheen so that you will see it evenwhen the power is oK

When you stareatagreen screen feralong time, then lookaway,youwill see apink afteximage; at an amber screen, ablue afterixnage; and a white screen, adarkgrayafterimage. Somepeepleden'tsee afterimages at alL The aftn'images

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When you purchase the video part ofyour computer yen need two things: themonitor and the display adapter. ThemenitorisaboxthatlooksabitlikeaTV.Itissometixnesadledascreen or a CRT(CathodeRayTube).Thedisplayadapteris a card covered with electronic chipsthat fits inside your computer. Displayadapters axesnmetixnescalled videocardsorvideocentrellereardaThereare yddferent types of menitoxs and manydifferent~ ofcards. You mustmakesure they maticLShe of Monitor

The basic monitor is 12inches acrossdiagonally. People with vision problemsshould consider a 14-inch monitor orlarger, but even people with normaleyesight will find ihem easier te read.Whenyeugetabiggermonitor,you stillsee the same amountefmaterial on thescreen, just bl wn up. If you primarilywant te ese your computer for desktoppublishing, also check out the large-screen, high-resolution,highcostMacin-tosh gear. Sm~creen Macs are notwell~ted for DTP.

If you decide to go with AT donee,consider getting a special, large desktoppublishing monitor. A normal monitor@nil let you see only about a quarter ofprinted page on your screen at a time.Using a small monitor is fRe lookingdown acamibaard tube. It is hard to geta sense ef thewhole, and you mustwaitand wait while the computer scrolls toshow you a diFerent part of the page.Desktoppublishingmomtersletyou seethe whole printed page at once. Nearly

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Gmyseale tien shtes that the monitor hasareso-Grayscale monitors allow about 16 lut ion of 640x480, it means there are

ThuComputer Paper/Nuroh'$027 ~&omawhite screenareleastdistracting. lit t le software is truly grayscaleaware.Most people prefer amber, followed Forexample,apregrammayshowhght

by' white, followed by green. Desktop bl u e letters on a dark yellow back-publishersseemtoSrewhite.Largecom- gr ound. In grandethiscomesoutaspanies like green. The differences are pa l egrayon pale gray-notexactlythenot that great, so colour choice can be ul t imatein legibility. Usually there isasixnply' personal preference. No sden- wa y te configure each prolp t e usetific studyhas found one colou ismore mo r eauspiciouscoleurcombinations.legible than another. However, this isjust one more confue-Colour ing stepfor theuser to contend with.

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Ifyou examixxe the surface of a mono-chrome or grayscale screen with a mag-nifying ~ y o u will see no dots at aS.The screen is perfectly smooth, This isthe reason these monitoxs can produceshaxIm images than colour monitors.+pcs of Monitors

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RGS (Red,Green,Slue) monitorscandisplay only 16 cQFerent colours andagain are used mainly &r games,

TTL monitors are mexpensive, butproduce very sharp dear text, usuallywith amber letters on a bLxck back-grountL Happily, aS TTI. monitoxs areood. Expect to pay between $110 andIVO. A Sat screen reduces glare, but

Fxxed Srequency and multi4'requencyVGA (Video Graphics Array) monitorscome in two typeL colourand grayscale.The colour mtmxtoxs caxl dxsplay analmost in6nite number of colours. Thegxayscalemonitcxrsdisplayshadesofgxay.The variable fiequency VGA monitcesare the mostexpensive and produce thesllsrf lest graphxc images.Tjjyes ofDisplay Mapter Canis

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This was the original graphics caid, buttodayisonlyused torun olbetylegames.

R, Hexcules card for monochrometextandgxaphics (g5). Thisis the cardmost commonly used for word process-mg.

S. Hexcules Plus card ($RSO). Thecard can paint fimcy fonts (e.g., Italicbold) vexy quicmy. Used mainly withMicrosoft Word 5 word processor.

4. VGA (@50) fer hxgh resolutieax,colour or grayscale, text and graphics.

5. SUPER VGA ($500 to $680) ferultra-high resolution, colour orgxayscale, tiext and graphicL

6. Split Personality cards ($100 to$500) pxetend to be one kind of caxd

7. Specially cards ($1100 to $%00induding monitor) such as the ~and Genius that uae special very largemonitioxs for large mockupfor desk-top pubhshing with ultrahigh xesolu-

There axe afewother cardswhichyoumayhearaboutbutwhicharenewobso-lete. The MDA (Monochrome Data

~p t er), that could display text but nographics, was the cxriginal adapter card

Card isalcxapcostaltexnatxve to the VGAcard that never caught on. The EGA(Extended GraphicsAdaptier) wasIBM'sfirst attempt at the VGA card.CGA Colour GraphicsAdapter Card

I mention this card mainly to warnyou away fmm it. It presides SROx200pixel colour graphics and 640x200monochmme graphics suitable cmly forgames, not word processing.

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The images are fixazy. There is no textunderhning. Unless you are willing tolivewith snow, the screen painting isvexyslew. The screen has an anneyjng blink

Youwimsometimesfinditin the cheap.estdonescoupledwithablack~bwhiteNTSC monitor. This card wiji only workwith NTSC or RGB monitoxs.

Thii card is the most common videocard sold. The Hercules graphics cardpaints plain text very rapidly. It can alsopaint'7ROx$48pixelmonochmmegraph-ics. Lotus 145 does beautiful cmcreengraphs and Microsoft Word 5 uses thegraphics to show bold, underlining,superscripts etc. on the screen. Theproblem with gxaphics mode is thesechaxacters are painted dot by dot — apainfixlly sieur procesL

Thexearemanymexlmnsive Taiwanesecopies of the Hercules carcL However, ifyeu use them with Microsoft Word 5, alarge percentage of ihem do not workproperly. One brand I have found thatdoes work reliably is the $75 DiamondFlower. Hercules themselves no longermanufacture the Hercules card. Theyhave replaced it with the cheaper andbetter Hercules Plus card.

The Hercules graphics card will onlywork with TTL monochrome monitors.Hercules Plus Card

Only a few pregraxxxs, such as Micro-soft Word 5, can make MI use of thespecial features of this card. Most pm-gxaxns treat it as a plain Hercules gxap&ics card. It supporas monochrome textand graphicL It also allows you to selectf'rom a hbxaxy of fonts or te deiign yourown, so, ifyou want,you can displayyour

monochmme monitors.

The Computer PaDOS prompts in Old English. It allowsitalic and bold fonts tie display on thescreen without using the painfully slewdot-byMot paint method.

It is the ideal card for uae with Micro.soft Word. Unfortunately, ne inexpen-sive Taiwanese copies exist This is thecard I use myseK

This card will only work with TIL

VGAThe VGA offers high-resolution

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IBM xnade the fixst VGA card, andothers such as the Hercules campanymade precise donee of it. There aresome Taiwanese donee as lew as $1RSbeIpnning tie appear. The better qualityTaxwaneue donee use the Tseng chip set.I have notyethad experience with theseinexpensive donee, so I will not recom-mend them and neither win I warn youagainst them.

The VGA card is very versatile. It canrun in twelve diffexent «ssdaL For ex-ample, in onemode, the card can disphy% lines of 80 characters using 16 diFer-ent celours. In another mode the cardcan diaplay640x480pixelsin 16 colours.In another it can display $8h200 m 256colours.

The card has palette registers. Thismeans the card can smoothly dissohreIrom one colour to another. It hau spe-cial hardware for smoothly scmlling textso that the text floats across the screenrather than jerkmg by bueno Like theHercules Plus card, it supports variable

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The card conrnins 256K of its ownRAM memory for holding the image.Higher resolutions would require evenmore RAM. There is noway to add moreRAM to a plain VGA card.

This card will only work with fixed &e-quency VGA or multiscan monitors-grayscaleor colour, for example the$160Samsung SM440 14e grayscale monitoror the $8'l5 Zenith ZCM-1490 colour flatscreen monitor.

The Zenith flat screen monitor tookmy breath away when I flrst saw one at acomputer show. The colour is so richand sharp itlooks like a Cineplex Odeonmovie theatre screen. However, themonitor can handle only VGA, notSUPER VGA. Don't look at one unlessyou can afford it You will be hooked.SUPER VGA

Itis diflicult to talkabout SUPERVG.IBM has notyetbuilta SUPERVGA card.Thus there is nothing to copy. There isno standard. Every manufacturer wentoff in his own direction and built some-thing that was the VGA plus a bit more.What the bit more is, dMers with eachmanufacturer and with each modeli

The programmers of the. world threwup their hands in disgust and said '%Sowcan we possibly write prograxns that willworkon hundxeds of differentmodelsofSUPER VGA cards, all with different fea-tures?u So they threw the job back intothe laps of the makers of the Super VGA

toprovidesoftware called drivers tomake

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card itwill come with aboutfive diskettesfull of software drivers. One driver willmake Windows work, another Ventura,another Autocad, etc.

What do you do if the diskettes thatcome with your SUPER VGA card don' tcontain a driver you need? You tell theprogram you have a PLAIN VGA card.You will not need a driver for that. How-ever you wiII feel a little silly for spendinga lot of extra money for SUPER VGAwhen plain vanilla VGAwould have donejust as welLHow Much Should YouSpend on SUPER VGA'

If you buy a bargain-basement SUPERVGA card, it may come with no softwaredrivexs atalL You guessed it, you will notbe able to tap even one iota of its extrapowerl You might as well have boughtplain VGA.Much of what you buy when you get a

premium brand is the software. Don't beimpressed by a long hst. The drivers forthe proipams you will use are all that

Mor~xpensive SUPER VGA cardshave higher resolution. 'Ikey can pxo-duce more dots on your screen. A cardwith extra memory, e.g., 512K of RAM,can have flner resolution stiR-or morecolours on the screen,

Be waxnecL Granted, more dots andmore colours looknicer. Howcrsrer, moredots mean the computer has to spendmore time computing the colours foreachdot. Thisslowsdown theyainting.lf

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VGA caxd, you will get a better guaran-tee. For example, the Video Seven linecomes with a sevengear guarantee. Notonlydo theyguarantee the hardware willfunction, they guarantee the card will becompatible with the IBM VGA card.

ThepremiumSUPERVGAcardspaintthe screen faster. {An aside for the pur-ists: The VGAcard ispassive, so itis moreaccurate to say your CPU can paint theRAM.in the VGA card faster. Only veryexpensive video cards, beyond the scopeof this article, do any drawing them-selves.) You can take speed to silly ex-tremes. If you want the fitstest possiblecard — the Video Seven V-RAM — youwould pay $680. However, if you arecententwith a caxd just a tiny bit slower,the Video Seven 1024i, you would payonly $4RS.CompatibiTity

Shouldyou do likewise? First, consideribat they are also the most expensiveSUPER VGA cards. The only thing that

your software, not on some magazine'sbenchmark, or mine for that matter.%VSA

I lied a little when I said SUPER VGAhas no standards. VESA, the Video Eiec-tronics Standards Association, has de-finedaSUPKRVGAsiandardfor480x640with K6 colours and 800x600 with 16colours. However, for the myriad othermodes, you' re on your own. There are noultra-high-resolution modes such as1024x768. You cannot even count on aVESA-compliant board having all theVESA modes, since all the modes areoptionaLMonitors for Super VGASUPER VGA? It depends on what type ofSUPER VGA card you have.

In theoxy, if you use an ordinary fixed-frequency VGA monitor, it will work.However you must be very careful neverto invoke any of the SUPER VGA modesor you could damage the monitor. Inpractice, then, itwould be both wastefuland potentially dangerous to use this

Fer SUPER VGA you need a multi-frequency monitor. This means a mani-torsmartenough tobandle all the differ-ent SUPER VGA modes. Each moderequires the electron gun to trace eachline at a different speed or frequency-hence the term multi-frequency. Whenthe video card switches modes, themomtor has to quickly get in sync withthe new kequency-hence the synonym"autosync." You will see various syno-

Lastsummer one of mycustomers andI independenily tested eight difFerentbrand-name SUPER VGA cards forcompatibility with a nuxnber of softwarepackages induding Microsoft Word,WordPerfectand some Hewlett-Packardprelpaxns. We found minor problemswithnearlyevexycard,mostlyin grayscalehandling.

~ Jo ~ and buy your sojhrrarePat and then text it oa the Super VCR eaxxIbefoeeyou buy!

The two cards we liked best were theATI and Ihe Video Seven. Kent Qairk,the former editor of PC Tech magaimeand the author of a suite of VGA testingprograms, told us his favourite card wasthe Video SesmaswelL Thatclincbed it.The custiomer standardized on VideoSeven for bis company.

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Whenever you switch modes, the pic- m o des. Ifyou made apxactice of quicklyture will grow or shrink a little horizon- t u rning your monitor off whenever youtally or vertically. You can n!eiddle the in voked some mode that did not workcontrols toadjustitbacktotherightsize. p r operly,itisunbkdyyourmonitorwouldIf you buy a micropxecessormntrolled s u f fer pemxanent damage.monitor such as the NKC SD, there is atiny computer inside the moni o

Ifyou boughta$410 Princeton Max 15

1050x770. You must not use any higher

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T hose dollar a~.~ m a h ave ousucking in your breath a little. There arelowermost monitoxs, for example the$545 Samsllng Imtek 1455N multisaln Spht PerSOnahy gag~colour monitor rated at 800x560. The If you were a pregraxnmer and yourcolours are still rich, but the images are job were to write sofbIrare to work on allnot quite as shaxp, especially near tbe these differ!enf video cards induding

ges „f the screen'Ify ookat white the obsolete ones and the rare onesI didletter "A" on a screen you will see a notevenmention,imaginebowcrowdedghosting of three images, in red, green y ~ d~ ) would'be with e~pment toS~c tb ~ ~ ~ is ~ Yeumightlongforasinglecardwithaexcellent near the centre, but mushy spbt Inxsonalp that one xninute couldnear the coxnera The letters are still pr e tend tobean MDAcardand the next

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Gxaphics Solution or the Genoa Spec-thanyourmonitorcanhandle,youmust However suited these cards are forbe careful never to use them. Unbeliev' p xogxaxnmers m the bands of firs~able as it sounds, I have only seen one

768 one sweep, i s e ano xhkn r edisph! . If u buy an ultra-high-resolu-tion caxd, make sure you get a xnoniter

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Spht personality cards can sometimesattach to several different kind of moni-tors. Youmustsetswitcheson the card totell itwhidi hnd of monitoryou have. Ifyou set the switches incorrectly, you candamage your monitor. This is one morereason I do notrecommend these cardsfor flrst4mexs.

GameeWhen you buy a computer game itwill

usually tell you on the box whether itruns on each of CGA, Hercules, or VGAand whether it requires a colour mani-tor. Ifyou are a confirmed games addic,check out which hnd of video card yourfiivourite games require.

I do not hke playing computer gaxnesmyself, but I discovered they haveaveryimportant purIiose if you have children.Let me tell you a story.

A few years ago, I was chief instructorat a computer summer camp for boysand girls ages V to 15. I intexviewed each

wanted to learn. Ninety.five percent ofthe kids said, "To make my cwn com-puter game." So I designed a fivedaycuxricuhun to teach them just that "-:

One little boy wanted to have wavesunder a boatas part ofhisgame. I had toteach him a little trigonometry. Anotherwanted a cannon ball to fly realisticallythrough the air. Ibad tioteachhimalittle

I was in the lunchroom taihng with aprofessional science teacher. A gang ofkids came up tome and pleaded "Roedy;please, please teach us trigonometry; Youtold 'Rockfish' how to do it Pleasel" Asyou could imagine, the science teacher' smouth dropped open. Here were littlekids BEGGING to learn math.

The older kids were somewhat moresubtle, but they dragged out of me theintimate details of the inner worhngs ofthe computer so they could do sophisii-cated higl~eed characterwell anima.

puters in five days than most univexsitystudents absorb in a whole year. Gssisxwith colour graphics and animaxion are

Judghsg QuantyTojudge the qualityafamonitarend-

videocaxd combination, justlook at thescreen running the sofbsare you plan touse. Trust your osa two eyes to tell youwhich images are acceptable. Use yourown judgement on how much speed isnecessaxy. Takeyourtime.Agoodmoni-tor should be easy to look at for longperiods. Other exits who proofreadthis artide agreed with evcaIlrthing I saidNxsxpt which monitors produce the bestimages. You have to look for yourseK

Also, listen for a high@itched whine.Some people cannot hear the noise, butit drives others maxL Make sure themoxiifor you choose is sufficiently quiet.What To Amid

For word pxocessing and chal entry,

child and asked what he or she most

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screen TTL monitor.

avoid colour, especially CGAl If you buya highguality colour monitor, you mayfind the imageaccepts'sharp, but itcan never be as sharp as even the cheap-est monochxome system.

Avoid any other sort of "enhanced"videocard I did notmention here. Itmaywell be enhanced, but it will probablyend up confusing some of the pxograxnsyoll buy+

Avoid buying any of the obsolete cardssuch as the MDA and EGA. Avoid usingthe CGA card except for gamea%hat to Cheose

Forabasicwordprocessingoraccount-ingmachine, go for a Hercules graphicsdone caid and a plain 14" Hat screenTTL monitor. If you plan to upgraiielater to fixnwolour gxaphics, you couldget a SUPER VGA card with grayscalemonitor. Grayscale will give text imagesalmost as sharp.

If you plan to use your computer pri-marily to run Microsoft Word 5, get aHercules Plus card and a plain 14" fiat

If you want to play games, ixy one ofthese three strategies:

1. Get aseparate games computer.R.Gettaro cards — oneHerculesgxaph-

ics donewith aphin 14" fiatscreen ITLmonitor and one Hercules CGA cardwith the cheapest used RGB colourmonitor you can find.S.GetplainVGAandafixed-frequency

colour monitor. Choose a lowestmonitor if all you want to do is playgameL Choose an expensive one if youwant to do word processing as welL

If you want a general-purpose xfxsplaythat will let you dabble with just aboutanything thatwillgiveyou f'reedom to trynewprogxxixns, geta plain VGA card andgood~uality fixed-frequency colour

If you are buying an 80%6 madnneand you want the ability to use programssuch as Ventura, Windows, PresentationManager, GEM, Autocad or other CADprogxaais in high resolution, considerSUPER VGA. Make sure your video cardcomes with a driver for the sofnvaxe youwill be using or there is no point inbuying SUPER VGA.

If you want to do desktop publishingsexiously, visit shops that specialize indesktop publishing and leaxn about thevarious special- purpose desktop pub-lishing, large, full-page displays.Acknowleelgements

As usual, my friends on the BIX elec-tronic conference — Hirvey Fishman,John Downing, Jeff Kalchik, MikeSargeant, Gene Berkowitz and TomMoran and others — all helped mewrite

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Acommon complaintaboutWordPer-fect was that you couldn't run it with amouse. If you wanted xodent support,you had to write your own driver, or buya third-party mouse driver like MouaeP-exfect. Both optionsbadproblema Most

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The mouse works in a nice intuitivemanner. Reposition thecuxaoranywhereoa~eea hy moving the mouse aaddroppmg'thecuxaorwith the leftmouse

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Tables offer a powerful way of foxxnat-ting text or aumbers into rows and col-uxnnsof information... xoifhostusmg theleaotbax~tuitive Parallel Columns andMaths functions. You can dynamicallysize the cells in your table (analogous tocells in a spreadsheet), change the liaesdelineatmg the table, screen (shade) thebackground, etc., etc., etc. You can ahouse foux fimction math, writi n formu-lae that identify values by their cell loca-tion (e.g., A4; shades of Lotus) ratherthan by text column position as in stan-dard WP math. It becomes possible toturn a table into a xninispreadsheet.WordPerfectalao letsyouimportinfor-

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The Computer Paper/march'OO a7 ~Iarly user-&iendly. The rrjrntaxisn'tintui-tive, and the editor is very picky. Expectto see lots of uninfozsnative 'InconectFormat" error messages when you firsttry to uue it. (On the positive side, whenyou make a mistake, the editor does placethe cursor near where it thinks you blew

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dBase IV, Pt 1, Mar. 8, 22

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PGTI 5%4873 dBase IV $100PITMAN 1490 W. Btoadttttay 738-7648

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PageMakar, Vsntwa, ConJIDrawDOS 8 Mac PageMakar, Harvanf GraphhsVentwa $145Venbsa or Pagemaker $NVentwa or Pagemaker $149

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NAVIGATOR TRAINING, 8798427.PaoeMaker, Freehand, Xprssa, lllusbatar,

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intro to Ptogrimming in C $195 CARIBOO COLL, Kamloops 828-1916

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UBC CONTINUING ED. 222-5276

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LANGLEY SEC. SCHOOL 14227.

MICROAGE 3601 W 16th 222-'lof O.

DOPPLER 101 W. 5th 8750281

DRAKE «601 aag West Pander 18789

COMPUTER STN 2130 Bunard 7324821

ONCOURSE Suits 2N450 Burnsrd 640-7201

Spmadsh sets $150CIRRUS ENTERPRISES, Vhtorh, 38M844.

Lotus 1-24 Intro, IntermediateLotus f-2N Mactos,Quatropro Intro.Exoel intro, Excel Fast Tiack

COASTWAY 2501 Spruce, Van 73IMl39VP Phnner Plus 12 hrs, Lotus 1-2-3 12hrs

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Lotus 1-2< (call for dates) $145

Lotus 1-2-3 Intro; lntsrm, AdvMar, 14, 21, 30 $180

Excel Spreadsheets, Dahbam 6 Graphics,Mscros, Lotus 1-2-3 Basic, Adv.,a Mactos

Lotus 1-2N Lev. I 8 II $80DOUGlAS COLL, New West 52044N.

Lotus 1-24 An lotto., $105Lotus 1-2-3, Man. Dah 6 Maoos, Mar. 3

Lotus 1-2-3 Inbo, $149

Symphony, Smart, LotusIPC SYSTEMS, 228 W. 7th 8734595

Lotus 1-24 Be~ice CaI for dates $150JUMP SOFTWARE Suite 4504s50 N. 41st,Vancouver 2684867

Lotus 1-2-3, ExcelLANGLEY COLLEGE, Langlsy 530&41 I

Spmadshsets 120 hrs $300Lotus 1-2-3, $85 Sscbon I,

Lotus 1-24, Mar. 2 $175Lotus 1-2%, Mar. 13, Mar. 28Lotus 1-2%, Pt. 2, Mar.7. 21

Using Lotus 1-2-3, MatxosNORTH WEST DATA, N. Van„V7J 3EB

Lotus f-2% 6 VP Planner, Intro,Adv., private Stoup lessons, 9856408.

PBSC 1350-1 140W. Pander aas-7272Lotus 1-2-3, Excel $175

PCTI 52O4I873. Lotus f-2< $1NPITMAN 1490 W. Broadway 738-7648

Lotus 1-24 $170Eiscbonh Spteadshsets $145

PROF. TRAIN., 1185 W Gecxgh 681-5903.Lotus f-2% $175, Excel Basics $350

SOUTH GRANVILLE f652 W 7th 7%4B50 Callfor dates Lotus 1-24, 2 wks $375STM SYSTEMS CORP 884-7721

TLD COMPUTERS, Sf 504851 No. 3 Rd.Excel, $2N; Lotus 1-2%, $2N

Lotus 1-24 Intro $195,Inter., $195VANCOUVER SCHOOL BD., 736-7241

Lotus f-2% $85VP Phnnsr, MS Excel, SupsrCah 5 $85

Lotus 1-2% htro $175

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STM SYSTEMS CORP. 684-7721

VAN. SCHOOL BOARD 736-7241

PBSC™faao.f 140 W. Pander 689-7272

NORTH SHORE CONT. ED.: 98MBBB

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TLD CQMPUTIS, Richmond 273-47NTRITECH COMPUTERS Delta 597%777

UBC CONllNUING ED. 222-5276

DRAKE ft601 869 Nest Pander 669%769

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PBSC 1350-1140 N Pander 889-7272Crosstalk $175

CAI LTD., 681-0190Intro to Voice jul 6 Massaging; Private orGroup Sessions, $100

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ACCSYS Suits 203, 535 Thurlow 685-5342WordPsrfsct, Adv. $150

BCIT, Bumaby. 434-1610.

BARKEL Coquilam 464+71 7WordPerfsct, WordStar Call $80

BURNABY SCHOQL BD., 2994361.Nord Processing $150

Prince Gsorge561 4276.WordPsrfsct Adv., $%9WordPsrfsct Lev. I,II Sr III, Word

CAPILANO COLL N. Van. 986-191MS-Word L I $140

CARIBQQ COLL, Kamloops, 828-1918WotdPstfsct 5.0 Graphics $50Word Proc. $160

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COMPUTER EMPIRE, 8794162WotdPsrfsct, WordStar $145,Chinese NP $185

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DOPPLER 101 N. 5th, 875-0261Intro: Mkxos & DOS $149MS-DQIPC-DQS, intra.Mar. 10 $105Hard Disk Mgmt„Mar. 17, 8-22 $105

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JUMP SOFTWARE Suite 450450 W. 41 st,Vancouver 2631 7

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KWANTLEN COLL Suney 588441 fManattlng Your Hard Disk $75

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PITMAN 1490 W. Broadway 738-7848Using MIDOS $170

PRECEPT 735 Chrk Dr&54198Inbo to IBM $1 25; Power of MS-DQ8$125

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ORAKE 8601 880 West Pander 6606?89rite 4: Ward, Mulfimate Advan-

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GUILOFORD CONT. ED., Sump, 580-2221.Wonlpeifect5.0, Lev. I, Lev. II, $85Wardperfect 5.0: Tips, Trike, Traps, $85

JUMP SOFTWARE Suite 460450 W. 41 st,Vancouver 2886867

Wordperfeat 5.0 and 5.1, Mksosoft Ward 5KWANTLEN COLL, Suney 5884411

Wardperfect5.0 Inbo., Lev. II, $85LANGLEY COLLEGE, Langhy 58M411

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NORTH SHORE CONT. ED.: 9386888NORTH WEST DATA, 8516 Duval Rd., N. Van,V7J SE6. Wordperfect 5.0, Intro, Adv.,

Private, group lessons, 085-0408WonlPalfect, Mul5mate, WordOisphyWnh IIDisplayWrite, Word, WordPerfect $175

PITMAN 1400 W. Broadway 738-?848.WonlPerfect 5.0, Word $170, 30 hrs

Nfxxosoft Word, WordPerfect $125PROF. fRAIN. 502-1 185 W Georgia 681%003

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Apple BC Compuler Society. Pat Daley: 275.40?3.

Abbr~ ST. 1st Tues. of monS 790Comm. Cenbe. Dave 0424901.

Beaver V Commodore Cub First Tues ev-ery at Montrose School Ubiary. CallJohn Vhk 3674428

B.C. Rsghnal Users Group. Sochty of Hewlett-Packard Users. Call Terry 420-1277

B.C. Unix Users Gnxrp meets 4 fimes a year.George Pajari 025-2555, 2545 Queens Ave,West Van V7V 2Y0. Dinner meeting, March7, Bayshaie Inn, 590 pm: TOPICS UniFo-rum 1090 and UNIX in the 00s (George Pa-jari) & Highllghh af Usenix 1000 (PaulZablosh). Reserve at 73M304.

Compular Aided Minisby Society of Canada(Chrisdan Computer Users Group) meets atPaeilh Aeadmy, 516 Broahnere, Coquit-hun. (Just behind the McDonald's on NethRoad near Ihe Loughheed Mss.) FeatThursday Manlhly at 7JO pm,

Oah Processing Management AssociationOPMA). Dinner meebngs 8rd Tuesday,

lsy Park Pa%on. Contact FrancesOickson, 6606668 to register

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