Your Computer (Australian) 1991 January

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Laptop clinic: Doing without disks! 78
CONTENTS Tom Moffat has compiled a way to make your laptop
work faster and extend its battery life.
Builder 86
If you've been looking for a batch file compiler with
menu, colour and screen handling features, John
Hepworth has found it!
JANUARY 1991
Power to the PC! 88
Once the technology and potential benefits are un-
derstood, uninterruptible power supply decisions are
straightforward,
Your Computer 7
Computer Based Training with Author 94
The Windows are open: 'To the majority of users, the
The cost of training and retraining staff is a major in-
significance of an interface such as Windows is that
vestment, and many organisations now realise that
the commands are common across a number of ap-
traditional methods can no longer cope with the
plications.'
needs.
American Graffiti 8
Presenting PowerPoint 96
On desktop publishing: 'The cultures involved are
The Windows version of PowerPoint has all the power
practically polar opposites.'
features of the Mac package.
Canberra Comment 12
Amazon Chess 102
Science and technology conference: 'When you don't
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Here's a game based on a non standard chess piece.
know, even roughly, what is happening with some-
thing you use everyday, it leads to a level of aliena- Windows 3.0 gains a convert 104
tion from the practical world.' For those who are still wondering what the fuss was
Industry Updates 14 about, we asked Roy Hill to take a 'first look' .
European Cyberspace Congress; Information Tech- Don't Prosecute: Educate! 110
nology policies slammed; DVI developments; Per- The US Business Software Alliance's Neal Goldman
sonal privacy ignored; Doctor Disk now McAfee tells of the Alliance's international goals.
agent; HyperCard 2.0 update ... and more.
Release Updates 112
Tech Tips 22
Zenith i486 and SlimSport; Barcodata 800 series; In-
Share and Dos 4.0; Dos 4 installation; Microbee to dustrial 1-2-3; MS Macquarie; Fresh Lettus; From
Mac; Volume labels; Parity errors; Dos 5.0; Windows Turbo to Power.
icons; Internal or external modem? VGA on old moni-
Numerology 125
tor? Hint; QEMM crashes.
Here's a program that describes your psyche.
Personal Computer of the Year Awards 34
Your Amiga 128
The Finalists — This most diverse selection we've
seen ranges from a notebook to a workstation! 1990 in review: 'Arguably the biggest release of the
year was AmigaVision, the presentation manager we
Computer Observations 42
have all been waiting for.'
Peter Spencer takes the mystery out of things corn-
Windows Wonderland 130
puter-ish.
Adding and editing icons: 'It is quite easy to select a
Teleradiology 46
different icon, and just as easy to create your own
Neurosurgeon Brian Bennett has developed a tech-
icons.'
nique that will alter the way doctors communicate.
Assembling OuickBasic — Part 13 134
Sonic Blaster for the Apple IIGS 48
Jeff Richards has examined arrays and devoted time
The sound capabilities of the GS are now well estab-
to discussing strings in earlier tutorials. Now, he
lished, but products taking advantage of this have
shows how to put the two together.
been a long time coming.
CD-ROM 141
OS/2 Alternatives 52
Well and truly Stufflt: 'This is not a disk for beginners,
Looking for a multitasking operating system for your
but bulletin board sysops will love it.'
'386, but don't think OS/2 is the way to go?
WordPerfect 5.1 64 Your IBM 144
Version 5.1 adds new power and low end desktop From Batcom To Ed: 'Each and every user can custo-
publishing. mise Ed to meet their own special needs.'
The Forth Column 67 Your Apple IIGS 146
Temperature conversion - the solution. New products with low prices: 'In a world where
prices seem to keep rising, it's nice to report some
Archivist Database for Source Material 68
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For researchers working with printed material, here's
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and powerful customising features. PCs for Blokes: 'This discourse is strongly weighted
New Connections 70 in an effort to get me a free trip on Qantas next time I
need travel OS.'
Token Ring for Mac; AS/400 connectivity for Novell;
OTC Easifax; PS/2 internal modem; Motorola strat- Write Bytes 153
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The Windows
are open!
IT'S NOW EARLY December and the re- That point is most important to new
sponses to our 1990 Reader Survey in users of an application, of course. Of more
November's issue are still pouring in. interest to 'advanced' users is the fact
We'll have a detailed look at YC's 'aver- that a GUI, designed to be a common in-
age reader' in February — Mark noted a terface between applications running
minute ago that, so far, our average user under it, gives the programmers an oppor-
seems to have a 16.1MHz 80301 with tunity to provide for a hassle-free ex-
I .2Mb of RAM and a 34Mb hard disk. I've change of data between those applica-
been looking through the additional com- tions and — even more importantly — be-
ments we asked for and have come across tween users running different applica-
a number that express an attitude 1 cannot tions.
agree with at all. In the past, when PCs and users were
Essentially, what this group is saying is essentially islands, that wasn't usually of
'GUI? PTUI!' The comments range from much significance, but the future lies in
'what about more on new software for my 'sharing'. That's not just sharing data, but
XT?' to an outright 'who needs Windows sharing interpretations of and connec-
January 1984
anyway?' Well ... without meaning to tions between that data, allowing us to get
alienate XT users — still about one-third of on with the tasks at hand without having
all users — and those who don't yet see a While it may be better to have a special to become experts with the likes of inter-
need for a Graphical User Interface, let's Act to cover illegal copying of com- rupts and patches.
have a look at reality. puter software, it seems intuitively
For a start, at Your Computer we see our obvious — to someone who has done it Sure, this convenience has a price — it
place as guiding users towards solutions — that writing computer software is takes about ten times as long to get Win-
that will serve for at least several years not that much different from writing dows setup and running as it does to in-
into the future; that generally means re- poetry — Les Bell, Editorial, p6. stal Dos and there is about one-tenth the
number of applications currently available
porting on the latest crop of releases that
for Windows than for Dos. But, by this
are finding their way into the mainstream The chief executives of Westpac,
time next year, those numbers will have
and emphasising those that will help in- Woolworths, BP Australia and Food
changed dramatically. While the hardware
crease productivity. And, there's no doubt Plus recently announced the creation
requirements for Windows are more ex-
that a GUI — currently typified by Windows of Handyway — News, p9.
pensive and the need for more RAM and
in the clone environment — can do that
larger hard disks probably won't lessen
today and will increasingly do it in the fu-
much, the prices will.
ture. (For quantitative data, check out 'The
Benefits of GUI' in our August issue.) and the US connection, Tymnet. To log off, Not only that, but a graphical interface
To the majority of users, the signifi- the commands necessary were: Exit, Sys- is going to make the penetration of com-
cance of an interface such as Windows is tem, Quit ... or is that Quit, Off, Bye ... puters into every aspect of our lives, re-
that the commands are common across a you get the idea; hardly a command in gardless of the form they take, that much
number of applications — for example, common between them. (I know I could quicker. Many users won't even realise
most new releases now use Ctrl-S to save script the session, but I use this particular they are using a 'computer'.
and Ctrl-X to exit. Compare that to an ex- mail service so infrequently 1 don't think The Windows are open to the future,
perience I had this morning: 1 was logged about it until it's time to quit, or exit or and it's a pleasant breeze I can feel blow-
on to a US mail service, via OTC's Dialcom whatever.) ing across the PC world. CI
Future Features February 1991 Application stories — particularly those
Personal Computer of the Year — the with the same theme as our features —
Winners and the portable office. are always welcome. Material must be re-
ceived at least eight weeks prior to the
March 1991
IN ADDITION to our application stories, month of intended publication. Please
news and other informative pieces, each Desktop publishing and non-impact address editorial enquiries on our fea-
printer's.
month we present features designed to tures to Mark Cheeseman, [phone],
keep you informed about the world of April 1991 and advertising enquiries to Mark Wilde,
personal computing — Add-ons and CD-ROM. [phone].
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AMERICAN GRAFFITI
On desktop
publishing
HOWARD
KARIM
WHENEVER I think about desktop one portion of the text, and highlight an- whole thing doped out. I disconnected the
publishing, I can't help thinking other portion of the page. I wanted to use printer from the Mac, connected it to the
about some of the interesting as little of Ms. CW's time as possible (her IBM-compatible machine in. Ms. CW's of-
cultural clashes that to me are closely as- rates are high, even with a family dis- fice, and after one or two minor changes
sociated with DTP. One major one is the count), so I figured I'd format my page on to escape codes, I was off and running.
difference in style and orientation be- my IBM with my word processor, making Somehow, though, with her renewed at-
tween those who wrote the software and the columns and lines all the right width tachment to her Mac, I had the feeling that
those who use it. In simplest terms, it's a and length. To do the highlighting, I'd Ms. CW was just the tiniest bit annoyed I
classic difference of style vs. substance, or create a clear plastic overlay, with the had demonstrated that it was possible to
what is often referred to (rightly or wrong- shading in the right places, and photo- get good results on the IBM side, with its
ly) as the 'left brain/right brain' distinc- copy that onto the basic page. To get this explicit commands and without a mouse.
tion. into Ms. CW's machine, I'd upload my file I'm not trying to make the case that one
The cultural clash has to do with the dif- to a BBS I use, then download it on the type of interface, one way of using soft-
ferent personalities which are found in (or Mac. I was trading off tedium (the number ware is better than another way for every-
attracted to) different types of work. Occu- of steps involved) against the time and ef- one. That's absurd. You could probably
pational stereotypes (found in movies and fort of learning new software and con- classify DTP users (in fact, all computer
media) are familiar to most of us — 'nerdy' cepts. After all, I wanted to do one simple users) into perhaps a dozen different per-
engineers, unconventional artists, shark- task, not become a full-fledged desktop sonality types (without 'forcing' personal-
like, opportunistic lawyers and so on. publisher. ities into non-useful classifications), and
In desktop publishing, the cultures in- that for each, there is a distinct interface
volved are practically polar opposites. which is best for that user.
There are software designers, whose laser- Thus suggests an obvious future direc-
It's a classic difference of
sharp focus on substance and content tion for software. Multi-user computers
often seems to preclude attention to pack- style vs. substance. have existed for years in mainframeland,
aging and 'niceties'. There are word-ori- and are beginning to work their way into
ented folks like me, attuned to the infor- the microcomputer area. If we have multi-
mation conveyed by the words (and there- user hardware, why not multi-user soft-
fore somewhat oriented to considerations ware — such as DTP software with a user-
of style), but not at all into issues such as Useless concepts selectable interface? For novice users, it
layout, visual appeal, and so on. And then I STILL DON'T fully grasp everything Ms. could have a nice, gentle, friendly inter-
there are the folks with a high interest in CW said when I asked for her assistance in face ('Gee, we'd really appreciate it if you
graphics and aesthetics, who seem to har- getting my job done. The gist of it, how- could give us a hint of what font you'd like
bour an equally intense desire to be ever, was that the concepts I had learned to use,' ls 10 point type OK? Or would
shielded from anything remotely technical in IBM-land were just about useless in you like something a bit bigger,
or 'computer-like'. Mac-land. perhaps?'); for unstylish, techy users like
I was reminded of these ideas again re- It became even clearer that I was 'bark- me, the interface would be more direct
cently when I set out to do a small piece of ing up the wrong tree' when I asked a ('Enter font selection esc-code').
desktop publishing of my own on Ms. question about files and character counts. I also see something potentially omi-
Computer Writer's Mac and recently-ac- As a former programmer, naturally I had nous in desktop publishing. It's already
quired laser printer. a fall-back plan: I would temporarily regarded as slightly crude to send out
In part, Ms. Computer Writer talks for a switch cables to connect the laser printer hard copy with an inexpensive look, such
living. Sounds like a dream job, right? But to Ms. CW's IBM-compatible machine. as on 7-pin dot-matrix, or typed, with era-
maybe not. Like any experienced speaker, Being a programmer also means thinking sures. Thus, anyone doing a newsletter
Ms. CW knows that visuals — slides — make about the technical implications of a plan, (for example) who wants to be taken seri-
a very effective hearing aid. She recently and I realised instantly that to use the ously uses a word processor for writing
purchased a laser printer to use with her laser printer I would need to know the es- and layout. Does this mean that in the
Mac, along with about a dozen expensive cape codes the printer used to determine near future, anyone who wants to be taken
software packages to add various bells page length, orientation, character size, seriously will have to DTP their work?
and whistles. and so on. When I mentioned 'escape As for me, I've worked out my long-term
To get back to my adventures in laser codes' to Ms. CW, her eyes glazed over. solution to the perplexing moral, social,
printing, I had in mind something that When I finally did find the portion of the and technological issues revolving around
seemed fairly elementary (to me, anyway). printer manual containing the escape desktop publishing. These days, whenever
I wanted to lay out some text on a page in code listings, I was instantly back in famil- I feel like doing some desktop printing, I
a certain way, plop a picture down into iar territory and in short order, I had the lie down till the feeling passes. q
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All Olivetti equi • ment available on 12 month terms interest free ! (subject to approval)
WYSE DECISION 486/33e
OLIVETTI LAPTOPS
-33MHz i486
M316 -80386 SX Processor- 16 MHz, 40 MB Hard Disk, VGA LCD Screen, battery/mains
-2 to 96 MB RAM
M211V - 80C286 Processor - 16 MHz, 40 MB Hard Disk, VGA LCD Screen, battery/mains
-9 EISA slots
M211 - 80C286 Processor - 16 MHz, 40 OR 20 MB Hard Disk, Backlight, battery/mains
-64-bit-wide system bus
TOSHIBA LAPTOPS -128KB 20ns copy-back cache
-expandable tower chassis
T5200 - 80386 20 MHz, cache, 40 or 100 MB Hard Disk, 2 to 14 MB RAM, VGA, ... from $9190
-several configurations available
T3100SX - 80C386 16 MHz, 40 MB Hard Disk, VGA Gas Plasma, battery powered $6170
T1200XE - 80C286 12 MHz, 20 MB Hard Disk, LCD, weights only 3.6 KG, notepad size $4390 CD ROM DRIVES
T1000LE - 80086 10 MHz, 20MB Hard Disk, 1.44MB FD, 1 MB RAM, 3.0KG, battery powered NEC CD ROM internal
Limited offer: FREE Windows 3, Excell and Mouse with 3100SX or 3200SX laptops, call for details NEC CD ROM external
Special offer on Toshiba Page Laser with purchase of 3200 or 3100e laptops, call for details Philips CD ROM ext.
All other models available - Please ring for specifications and price ! Philips CD internal
PHILIPS COMPUTERS INTEL RAM BOARDS
MODEL: 3230 3345 3360 3370 Aboveboard Plus
CPU: 286/12 MHz 386/SX 386/25MHz 386/33MHz Aboveboard Plus 8
RAM ON BOARD: 1 TO 4 MB 1 TO 8 MB 1 TO 8 MB 4 TO 8 MB Aboveboard Plus I/O
H/DISK: 20/40 MB 40/100 MB 160/340 MB 340 MB Aboveboard MCA
F/DISK: 1 44 MB 1.44 MB 1 44 MB 1 44 MB Aboveboard Plus 512 Kb 99
CACHE. -- 64 KB 64 KB
CELLULAR PHONES
VIDEO: VGA VGA VGA VGA
S•ecial offer: Phili•s 386SX 3MB RAM, Windows 3, Mouse . $3990 Motorola 950 Flip Phone
Motorola 950 business classic
KAYPRO COMPUTERS Motorola 9500XL
Kaypro KC2 286 AT 12MHz, 640KB, 40MB, VGA screen ... 90 All accessories available.

Kaypro KC2 286 AT 16MHz, 1MB, 40MB, VGA screen $2390 Call ! call ! call call !
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