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April 30, 1985

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•How It Works
What It Means
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IBM Compatible tape drive Our instructions for installing
system complete for $995 your new Express Systems tape
IBM's clear, simple
drive follow
The Express Systems^" tape
drive comes complete half- — instructions.
Infroducing high tape drive, controller, and

software —
for only $995. It's
absolutely IBM compatible all —
We even
the tape cartridge
provide
60 megabytes of it.
acomi)lete internal half- You can use your tape drive in
the event your hard disk fails.
Most people don’t realize that
the tape cartridge contains most
of the critical mechanisms to in-
And if you have to replace your
highd) megabyte tape hard disk, the tape's ability to
read bad sectorswill let you re-
sure data integrity. In order to
be sure that you get the best in-
surance for your data (after all.
backu]3 system for your place your hard disk with
another even if the new one is
why you’re buying it)
isn't that
we encourage you to use Ex-
not error-free. The tape re- press Systems’ specially tested
ffilVT]PC, XT, sjnfkc quires very low power. tcK>.
And it doesn't poke along. It
tape cartridges. We’re not going
or AT for only "yyj reads and writes at 90 inches per

second (ips) and transfers data
at up to 3.75 megabytes per min-
to kid you and tell you others
won't work, but here's what’s
special about Express Systems'
tape cartridges.
Complete with tape drive, controller, and software ute in the streaming mode. You First, they are tested down
don't have to be a rocket scien- four separate tracks from end-
tist to figure that you can per-
to-end. not just down the center
form an image backup of a 20
And it works easily with all IBM megabyte hard disk in about 5
of the first 150 feet, like some
others do. We use three screws
minutes. But practically speak-
compatible operating systems. Simply tell ing. once you back up your hard
to hold the cover on instead of
four. This simple triangular
your tape drive you want to backup or disk completely for the first arrangement keeps the base-
time,you never need to do more plate flat, just like three legs
restore the entire hard disk, or any file, or than invoke the archive com- work better than four to make a
backup or restore by subdirectory, date, or mand —that convenient com- table steady. Since all tape
mand that tells your new tape drives reference everything to
everything since you last backed up. drive to back up everything since the base-
you last backed up. If you back- plate, this
up as often as you should, your alignment
Express Systems tape drive will
Noow
is critical.
finish the job virtually in We also
you won’t have to wait for seconds. use spe-
The Express Systems software cial rol-
the difficult to find hard-disk version of has additional benefits, like Icrstodis-
the IBM AT (model 99). You can buy the enabling you to use PC D()S ter- s i p a t e
a y disk IBM AT (model 68), add our

disk and tape drive system for about
what you’d pay for the AT hard disk
minology such as
and “?”. It also has a built-in
reformatter, built-in verification
(to make sure you transferred
what you thought you did), and
it's prompt driven, which means
posih e
static
electricity
buildup
thing '.u
'.u-
that
I
—
The Express Systems
tape drives come with
E.xpress Certified" 555
or f)00 '/t-inch
cartridges with
tape
upgrade alone. It’s almost like getting the it asks you exactly what you cun ruin
quadruple end-to-end
testing for extra
want to do.
tape drive free. your insurance of your data.
whole day.
Easy to install
And finally, we will sell you
Before you get intimidated tape cartridges in boxes of three
about installing our tape drive instead of the usual five. So. you
Let's face we've all heard
it, and it was so time consuming internally, you should under- get higher quality with a smaller
the horror stories of people that now you’ve convinced your- stand that IBM quantity commit-
who've lost data on their hard self nothing will go wrong? In doesn’t think it's ment. And we
disk. True, it doesn't happen other words, it can’t happen to too difficult. compound the sav-
often, but then disaster seldom you. And besides, at the prices They’re selling ings with a lower
does. With the amount of data they’re asking for tape back- IBM PC ATs with per unit price, just
you can put on a hard disk these up — $2,000 and up — you're instructions on how $35.00 instead of
days, no one in business can willing to take a chance. You’ve to add additional the usual $45.00
afford even a small disa.ster. seen some tape drives for less, hard disks in the most retailers
but you have to buy an expen- Installation and charge.
When did you last sive hard disk to go with it, and Setup manual that
backup your hard disk? you’ve already got a good hard comes with the AT. The IBM AT installation
disk. Where can you turn for re- manual shows how easily you
Oh. you did it once with floppies lief? can install internal storage
dri ves yourself.
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Need a hard disk?

Express Systems
Depending on whether you have Product Line
an IBM PC, XT, or AT you may Ex[press Systems Upgrade Kits Internal 'Bipe System
want additional hard disk stor- jdcs controller, software,
(Inclui and came w here appropriate)
Half-high tape drive. a>n-
age. We have those loo. We troller. &
software $995
offer 10. 21 and 31 megabytes of
IBM AT (model 99) to AT ExPlus '*
Tape Subsystem
formatted hard disk storage. I half-high tape drive system $995 Tape system, controller,
For the most part, our drives IBM XT to XT ExPlus power, supply. caMc. and
chassb $1195
are made with plated media,
which
1 half-high floppy and I half-high tape drive system $1095 Internal Tape & H.D. System
means IBM AT (model 68) to AT ExPlus Tape & hard di!>k inlemal xyslcms contc
ctimplele with tape nutirollcr and hard
there is 2! Megabyte upgrade $1895 disk controller, software, und cables.
less chance I half-high 21 megabyte hard disk with half- high Hard disks urc fornuilted und tested with
to damage tape drive system DOS .t.n.
them. Tape drive & 10 MB H.D. $1695

(Let's face
M Megabyte upgrade $2195 Tape drive & 21 MB H.D. $1895
1 half-high 31 megabyte hard disk with half- high Tape drive & 31 MB H.D. $2195
it. the ox-
tape drive system Hard disks Kits
ide that
most disks IBM PC to XT ExPlus Ml
includes Controller and cable)
t
megabyte hard disk*

Express Systems offers come with 2 half-high floppies. I half-high 10 megabyte $2095 21 megabyte hard disk* $995
to. 2t, and 3 is nothing hard disk with controller. 1 half-high tape 31 megabyte hard disk* $1395
meBabylts of formatted more than \%iihirack Sm fttr IBM AT which don
storage in the half-high
drive system and 130 watt power supply
form so you have extra
rust.) We mu mfuire hard disk conirollrr
space for other storage then lest Controllers
options. the drives, Hard disk controller $195
news is held in by only 4
that it's And speaking of IBM, the next
pre-format screws. Express Systems' power time you hear anyone criticize Floppy Disk Drive
them, and install DOS 3.0 so
supplies can be changed in 20 mail order as a way to buy com- Half high floppy disk $129
that you're ready to begin trans-
minutes, a small price in time puter equipment, remind them Power Supply
ferring files. We even include
for the peace of mind to convert that IBM is now in the mail 130 Walt XT replacement
DOS 3.0 documentation.
your PC to an XT-capable order business. Pt>wer Supply $99.50
And they're KK) percent IBM machine and avoid the unsightly (Price valid only nith purchase of tape
compatible. The controller we "wart-like" power supply Warranty dri\-e w hard disk. Otherwise. StPi.VS)
send you for the XT
is an up- add-ons that some companies Tape Cartridges
graded version of the con- XT We offer you a one year warran- Express Certifted 555"*
troller from the same company
Insist you paste on the back of
your PC.
ty —
on our hard disks the same (S$5 feet of speriallv tested 310 Hci tape)
$35.00
that makes the XT

controller. In
as IBM on the AT and 90 days Express Certified 600 '' $35.00
thOO feet of specicdly tested 550 Hei tape)
fact, the Express Systems con-
on the tape drives. (It's all the
But from a manufacturer gives u$.) If any-
troller is an improved controller
mail order house? thing goes wrong with your tape
which requires less power so
that it is more reliable than any We get tired of the snide re-
or disk drive or hard disk, send How lo order
it back in the box it came in.
other standard controller. marks some people make about
mail order houses. The com- However, we have found that Pick up the telephone and call
ments are usually spread by dis- we can usually solve the prob- l-80()..341.7549, lo order. Wc
We provide the power loo.
tributors and retailers who are lem over the phone. So call first accept Master Card. VISA.
for a return authorization num- American Express and Diners
If you want to upgrade your getting cut out of 15 and 35 per-
ber because we can't accept any Club. Or sena a cashier's check
IBM pc,
suppiv
there just isn't any way
around upgrading your power
—
if you want to have
true XT or better
capability. Some
cent margins, respectively.
If we went through distribu-
tion — you'd have the privilege
of paying tor large
glass windows,
returns without
We
it.
Immediate delivery
have four types of delivery:
S E OT ®
or money order (We’ll lake a
check, but you'll have to wail
companies say that rugs, salesmen, Next Flight Out"^ if you need it for it to clear) and tell us if you
their hard disks etc. —
but we’d also immediately: Next Day Ex- want one of our recommended
don't require any be selling this tape press'^'* and Day After Tomor- configurations or you want to
increase in pow- drive for $1495. row'''* if you can wait a day or mix and match yourself. Cor-
er —
and they might We're not criti- two: and our normal delivery— porations with a DUNS number
be right. But don't cizing distributors —
which we pay if you can wait a may send purchase orders for
add anything to and retailers. They few days. quantities over five.
your slots, because perform a valuable
the minute you do. Our 130 watt power will convert service. But you
you'll need more your PC to xT standards: and don't need them if
power. That's the only $99.50 with any tape
it's you know what you
drive or hard disk order.
bad news. want. And you can
The good news is that our it yourself. IBM
certainly install
power supplies are inexpensive. has proved it with their instruc-
How’s $99.50 for an XT power tions for self-installation that
Call Toll Free 1- 800 - 341-7549 Ext. 300
supply? We mean a full 130 come with the new IBM PC AT. In Illinois call (312) 882-7733 Ext. 300
watts of power. The other good Express Systems. Inc.. 1254 Remington Rd.. Schaumburg. ILftt)l%
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4 PC MAGAZINE# APRIL 30, 1985

Compare the
Hercules Color Card
to IBM’s.
Five reasons why the Hercules Color Card is better.
IBM Color Adapter $244 Hercules Color Card $245

1. Compatibility Runs hundreds of graphics Runs the same hundreds of
programs. graphics programs. “The
Hercules Color Card is so nearly
identical to the IBM Color/
Graphics Card that it’s almost
uncanny.” PC Mag.
2. Printer port. None. Standard. Our parallel port

allows you to hook up to any IBM
compatible printer.
3. Size. 13.25 inches. Limited to long 5.25 inches. Fits in a long or short
slots. slot in a PC, XT, AT or Portable.
4. Flexibility. Can’t always work with a Always works with a Hercules

Hercules Graphics Card. Graphics Card by means of a
software switch.
5. Warranty. 90 days. Two years.
Any one of these five features is enough reason to buy a Hercules Color Card. But
perhaps the most convincing reason of all is just how easy the Hercules Color Card is to
use: “Right out of the box, the Hercules Color Card goes into an empty expansion slot,
ready for you to plug in . . . and go to work — no jumpers, no software. F or most
applications, it’s just that easy.” PC Magazine.
Call 1-800-532-0600 Ext. 420 for the name of the Hercules dealer nearest you and
we’ll rush you our free info kit. tt i
Hercules.
We’re strong on graphics.
AddreH: Hercules. 2550 Ninth St, Berkeley, CA 94710 Ph: 415 540-6000 Telex: 754063 ‘Trademarks/Owneni: Hercules /Hercules Computer Technology: IBM/IBM.
CIRCLE 146 ON READER SERVICE CARD

APPLICATIONS GOLDATAhase: Truly as Good as
Computers with Heart 173 Gold? 165
Martin Porter! k Compaq portable Russell Lipro/i/With its heavy use of menus
computer along with the Jarvik-7 heart and its forms-oriented approach to data
recently made medical history in William entry. GOLDATAbase may not be
Schroeder's artihcial heart implant exciting, but it offers a cluster of
operation. reasonable database manager features
particularly well suited for novices.
HARDWARE
Printers from IBM: Traditional KALEIDOSCOPE: Beauty Is Only
and Trendy 157 Skin Deep 169
John DickinsonilBM's letter-quality John PhillipsiDBl Software’s database
Wheelprinter features excellent manager, KALEIDOSCOPE, looks pretty
paper-handling capabilities — and a sleep snazzy on the outside, but it needs
price. The Quietwriter is indeed quiet, but considerable improvements to live up to its
its thermal transfer printing quality might manufacturer's billing as “your guiding
leave you wishing for the clatter of your light to the fourth generation.”
old daisywheel.
ISSUES
SOFTWARE The Ethics of Software Piracy . . . 178
TopView: From the Bottom Up .110 A Wide Open Approach to Bruce V. LewensteiniSoftyidie piracy has
Bill MachronelTo^W^v/ is IBM's new Integrated Software 142 been steadily robbing our economy of,
windowing environment and a menu-based George HugheslOpen Access is an perhaps, hundreds of millions of dollars. In
extension of the PC’s operating system. PC integrated package with six modules good addition, some observers feel that it has
reviews this watershed product and enough to succeed as standalones. been subverting our ethics.
considers whether it does its job well
enough to endear itself to users.
TopView Enters the Fray 124

Mike Edelhart/TopWitw's success may
represent the beginning of a closed,
proprietary operating system that will turn
third-party developers into second-class
software-designing citizens. Or will it?
TopView: The Hard Facts 132

BillCafcAmgs/Prospective users need
answers to technical questions about
TopView. Here is the hard data in a
question-and-answer fonnat.
TopView: A DOS (Dis)Service. .137 .
Paul Somerson/Top\‘tew's long and

arduous menu systems and the way It
hampers DOS functions make the system
less than what it's cracked up to be.
6 PC MAGAZINE • APRIL 30. 1985

throughs in flexibility and Javelin features a full range of utilities
ormance let you upgrade your PC that allow for flexible expansion with
torage and optimize your total minimal user intervention.
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What’s Inside
Keeping on top of TopView was quite a challenge,
especially considering the deadlines involved, but our reviewers managed
to get the dope on this new multitasking package from IBM.
M ost of our readers probably as-

sume that a sense
ment pervades the
new, innovative product reaches the of-
fices of PC Magazine. Well, you
—
wouldn’t be far wrong except that the
of excite-
airwhen a
Simone prepared
cle you promised

herself for a
tense nudging (“Bill, where
me
week of in-
is that arti-
2 hours ago?
don’t forget the sidebar.”). Technical
coordinator Mike O’Cone placed himself
Toy Shop door,
And
squarely in front of the

sense of excitement is more often a sense arms folded across his chest, and swore
of pure, unadulterated panic. Why? Be- that nobody —repeat nobody— would
cause of that insidious bane known as the take any peripheral out of there unless he
deadline. signed for it in blood.
I’m sure that most of our readers are Then the IBM folks down in Boca Ra-
familiar with the problems of the dead- ton called and said there would be a slight
line. How often have you sat back com- delay.
fortable in the knowledge that you had Machrone and Edelhart immediately
until May 15 to complete a project, only got on a conference call. What was the
May 15 was about 20 hours
to realize that reason? Last-minute bugs? A heavy
away? Or suddenly discovered that your snowstorm? A flood in the warehouse?
boss had decided that the deadline could No, said the IBM representative regret-
easily bemoved up a couple of weeks fully, none of those. They were simply
without “inconveniencing” anyone? now. Peter Norton even did a prelimi- dissatisfied with the packaging of the
memory makes your head spin,
Just the nary review of it in the November 13, product and thought that PC wouldn’t
doesn’t it? 19M, issue of PC. It was obvious that mind waiting until thatjittle problem was
Well, situations like these that raise TopView would be a prime candidate for resolved.
the blood pressure are extremely familiar a PC cover story. It didn’t take long to convince IBM
to the PC staff. Not only do we have to However, we didn’t predict (though that beauty was in the eye of the behold-
investigate, evaluate, and write up the we should have) that IBM would call us er; please, please, please, send us our
usual last-minute stories that come about a week before the final editorial copies now!
—
up âfter all, we are journalists but we — deadline for this issue to tell us that it had Once TopView showed up at the of-
also labor under a special disadvantage; our copies of TopView all ready and ask fice, everyone grabbed his copy and
IBM’s penchant for coming out with new if we wanted to see them. (That’s a little went to work. O’Cone and editorial as-
products, announcements, and so on, like showing a 10-year-old a Cabbage sistant Dave Baker were totally overrun
justwhen it is most inconvenient to the Patch doll and asking if there were any as editors piled into the Toy Shop, madly
magazine. chance the child would like to have one.) searching for copies of the software
PC’s editors immediately went into packages said to be compatible with
Staff Mobilization high gear. Editor Bill Machrone recruit- TopView. Baker found himself cleaning TchenvkofT
Take TopView, for instance. We’ve ed executive editors Paul Somerson and months of dust and cobwebs off of back
known for a while that IBM’s new Mike Edelhart, associate editor Steph- shelves as editors who normally disdain Michel
multitasking E>OS shell was on its way, anie Stallings, and free-lancer Bill any type of nonkeyboard input now
and we’ve listened to speculations about Catchings and put them on a state of clamored for compatible mice. Bill
its effect on the market for several weeks alert. Assistant managing editor Luisa Machrone, like a true New Yorker, com-
PhcHogriph:
PC MAGAZINE • APRIL 30. 1985 IS

WHAT’S INSIDE
pared the ensuing scene to “Macy's the some unfortunate who was trying to use Editorial R&R
day before Christmas." TopView with a keyboard rather than a Another disadvantage to deadlines is
Eventually, of course, silence ensued, mouse. But perhaps I should stop here that once they have been passed (assum-
broken only by the occasional whir of and let the reviewers of TopView do their ing, of course, that the task involved was
disk drives and a muffled curse from own talking. completed), the staff usually needs a
short period of time to "wind down.”
For example, some of PC's staff was se-
riously worried about the emotional
health of our copy edit department. Since
OPEN FOR CLOSED FOR the copy editors are the last to receive a
manuscript before it goes to the typeset-
BUSINESS SECURITY ter, they are also usually in a state of
more or less perpetual panic.

In order to alleviate that distress, man-
agement recently presented the staff with
its own microcomputers —
ostensibly for
use as aids to the editing process. In order
to check on what effect the computers
It was obvious that

TopView would be a
prime candidate for a
PC cover story.
were having, one of our associate editors
recently strolled past the copy edit of-
fices. She was pleased to hear the babble
of excited voices vociferously debating
some abstruse point of grammar. Curi-
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‘Well after all,” explained one of the
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16 PC MAGAZINE • APRIL 30, 1985
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WILL IBM FILL GAP?

Insiders say that a new tape drive backup is on the way.
CLEVELAND—With press re- Memory Systems software. The 1 on a DC-600A tape.) controller docs not use the AT's
leases about new streaming tape QIC/60H is a standalone dedi- I
The QIC/60W20 adds a 20- expanded 16-bit data bus.
backup units cascading over the cated backup tape drive based i in the same
megabyte hard disk Tecmar does not specify its in-
transom like a waterfall after the on Wangiek's ‘/
4 -inch cartridge I chassis. And the QIC/60AT is a stallation in other IBM personal
spring thaw, few are special computers because the drive re-
enough to win PC's attention. quires peak wattage that might
However, a new trio of fast and cause disk errors in smaller sys-
sturdy tape units from Tecmar tems with flimsier power sup-
proves the exception. Teemar’s plies.
production of tape backups is PC's Cleveland-based writer.
noteworthy not only because it Winn L. Rosch. borrowed one of
represents a move into a new the first units off the assembly
field by a large PC peripheral lineand reports it to be the fastest
maker that so far has avoided tape unit he’s tested. He
tape, but because the rumors attributes its speed to the Colora-
even before the
started rolling in do Memory Systems software.
first were rolled out.
units Menu-driven with on-line
Teemar's new QIC streaming tape hai kiip system.
IBM. whose sole backup help, the units’ software allows
product has been the floppy tape transport that uses nine bare half-height Wangtek drive DOS-image backup, which
disk, was reportedly close to tracks and serpentine (back- combined with a controller de- copies to tape only the hard disk
signing (or had already inked) a and-forth) recording to store 45 signed to fit in the PC AT chas- area actually used and can re-
deal with a large aftermarket megabytes on a single 3M Com- sis under the A: floppy disk store it to the same or another
supplier for tape backup units. pany DC-300XL cartridge (60 drive. Although the QIC/60AT {continued on page 42t
Three names surfaced and

twined through the rumors like
noodles in a murky chicken
soup; Colorado Memory Sys-
tems. Wangtek, and Tecmar.
Coincidentally. Teemar's
Operating System Links
press release indicated that
Macintosh to iBM PCs

its
new drives were developed by

Colorado Memory Systems
around Wangtek's half-height
tape drive. Tecmar will do the BY STEVE ROSENTHAL
manufacturing (assembly) and
reportedly is the sole licensee of BERKELEY, Calif.— IBM and Apple’s new LaserWriter can be used to link PCs or any
the software and hardware (al- PCs and Apple Macintoshes can printer, allowing file exchange combination of PCs and Macin-
though Colorado Memory Sys- now share data on-line as easily between normally incompatible toshes to Apple’s new
tems has the right to manufac- as they can copy files from disk machines. LaserWriter laser printer.
ture the unit). to disk. Centram Systems, a The Transcendental Operat- Centram has been demonstrat-
Berkeley-based firm, has starting System (TOPS) permits ing the system since the middle
Three Models ed public demonstrations of a each computer on a network to of February, with customer
Tecmar offers three models low-cost network that connects access files on the disk drives of shipments slated for late spring.
that share the same Colorado IBM PCs. Apple Macintoshes, any other system. The network {continued on page 34)
PC MAGAZINE • APRIL 30. 1985
' k tri
. — .
PC NEWS
\M\^(continuedfrvmpafte}i) grams can be stored on one ma-
Screens Announced By According to Centram presi-
TOPS
chine and run on a second using
dent Nat Goldhabcr, is data from still another, even if
Data General, Morrow the first “transparent” network

for either PCs or Macintoshes, a
the
age
machine providing the stor-
is a different model
true distributed network, the Centram expects its version,

Improved Sales Expected lowest-cost network for linking complete with TOPS, to sell for
PCs to Macs, and possibly the under SKX) for machines such
BY CHARLES BERMANT lowest-cost network available as the Macintosh that have Ap-
for linking PCs. pleTalk hardware built in and
needs some work. By transparent. Goldhabcr for under $300 for machines
The move will not affect the explains, he means that once the like the PC that need special net-
DG/l's $2,895 base price, but network software is loaded into work cards.
the new screen carries a $350 each machine, no special proce- Centram has been wooing
cost for current users wishing to dures are needed to access re- Apple for some kind of joint
upgrade. Jeff Bartman. public mote programs or files. A direc- venture or licensing and has
relations manager for Data Gen- tory on an IBM PC, for centeredits system around the
eral’sdesktopdivision, said that example, appears as another AppleTalk network. However,

the company was taking a loss disk drive to a Macintosh. The theTOPS network can also be
by offering the upgrade at this Mac's disk drives, in turn, are used to connect solely PCs, still
The DATA GENERAUOne price. He added that dealers just other drives to the PC. at a cost of under $300 per node.
have been given the latitude to The file transfer software still
WESTBORO. Mass.— Less offer the upgrades to their cus- Easy Moving works, with each PC able to ac-
than 6 months after its introduc- tomers for less. Files can be moved between cess files stored on the drives at-
tion, Data General has upgraded computers just the way they are tached to other network ma-
and improved the liquid crystal Promises Kept moved between volumes within chines.
display (LCD) screen of its por- Upon introducing the DATA a single computer —
with the In its initial release. TOPS
table desktop computer. GENERAL/One last fall, com- COPY command on the PC or only ships files among comput-
The DATA GENERAUOne. pany spokespersons said that by pointing and dragging the ap- ers —each system is still re-
which boasts full PC power in a screen readability would soon be propriate icon on the Macin- sponsible for making use of the
near-laptop format, has been imfffoved. Scott Smith, systems tosh. Programs can access files data once it gets there. Accord-
widely criticized for its hard-to- consultant for JFM Business Sys- on other machines just the way ing to Michael Pflaumer, Cen-
read screen. At the time of the tems inChicago, says that many they access other disk drives. tram’s resident technical wiz-
screen upgrade, which en- large companies want to make a Files created on the PC are auto- ard. this should be less of a
hances the image quality and commitment to a specific porta- on the
matically assigned icons problem as time goes on.
also allows the screen’s angle to ble computer fev coqwrate use Mac. Macintosh files show up Centram’s plans are ambi-
be adjusted, fewer than 10.000 and that making the DG/1 a as ordinary text-based file- tious and far in advance of other
machines had been sold. stronger product would position names on the PC. without their announced products. The prod-
The new screen incorporates it as a top contender for these ac- associated images. uct is definitely not vaporware,
a reverse polarization process counts. The network requires no cen- but some work remains to be
that increases the contrast be- “Those who bought it needed tral hard disk for a file server or done on the user screens, man-
tween screen characters and the portability and didn’t find the dedicated controller, relying in- uals. packaging, and interface
background. In addition, the screen a big problem,” says stead on combined efforts of
the boards before the product can be
screen lens has been removed. Bartman. “We said that we’d the software and hardware dis- released. If it can ship to users
PC Magazine contacted five utilize new technology and im- tributed across the entire net- as well as it can ship files be-
Data General dealers at random provements as they became work. Both files and programs tween computers, though.
about the new screen. Those available. But the screen has can be stored on the disk drives Centram's TOPS ought to be
who had received the upgrade been the big issue.” of any machine. In fact, pro- well worth watching .
said that was a needed im-

it Across the country. Morrow
provement and that it would Computer in San Leandro,
make the unit easier to sell Calif., increased the screen
readability of its portable Pivot
Better Reviews computer in early February with
“Reaction to the new screen an improved backlit LCD. Cur-
has been very favorable,” says rent owners can upgrade for
dealer Kevin Spleid. sales man- —
$100 which spokesman John
ager of Wolf Computing in New Seamster said was “at cost”
York City. “The difference is and unit prices were cut $ 1 ,000.
like nightand day. Some of my Seamster said these actions
customers had trouble with the were paving the way for a 29-
original screen. I went right to linc Kvol system to be intro-
them with the new one and duced later this year.
turned it into sales.” Both companies’ actions
“As portables go. it’s a good came on the eve of several
screen.” says Sheila Cox. of- laptop machine product an-
fice manager of Ace Computer nouncements, possibly includ-
A screen prim showing the Mac linked with an XT.
Systems in Atlanta. “But it still ing one from IBM.
34 PC MAGAZINE* APRIL .30. 1985

.
PC NEWS
chine to market ahead of the The 286i also comes bundled
Kaypro Unveils AT Clone competition.
Kay company had no
with Microsoft’s GWBASIC.
said the the generic equivalent of IBM's
plans to offer a hard disk at any Advanced BASIC. Like the
SOLANO BEACH, Calif.— point in the future. AT, the new Kaypro will nin
They’re here! The AT clones PC-DOS versions 3.0 and 3. 1
have officially arrived. And. as More Memory Operating system software is

last issue of PC.
reported in the Standard memory on the 286i not provided with the machine.
theKaypro Corporation won the is 5 1 2K, double that of the AT. liie 2861, like the rest of the
race to produce a PC AT Users may extend their systems Kaypro line, is dressed in basic
workalike, beating its own cor- to 640K on the motherboard and black, but the company seems
porate timetable by about a to a whopping 5 megabytes by
1 to be going for a slightly sleeker
riKinth. installing third-party expansion look these days. The battleship-
Unveiled here February 25. cards. gray severity of earlier Kaypro
the Kaypro 2861. like IBM's The 286i offers eight models has given way to round-
top-of-the-line personal com- input/output slots, three of ed edges and corners, and
puter. uses an Intel 80286 which are already in use in the there's even a sexy chevron-
microprocessor running at 6 standard configuration. One of shaped grille on the front of the
MHz. includes a socket for an the standard cards is an AT- 286i's system unit.
80287 floating-point coproces- marketing and son of company compatible color/graphics The retail price for a 286i
sor. and sports an 84-key AT- founder Andrew Kay. rational- adapter with RGB output. The with standard equipment has
workalike keyboard with ized the absence of high-volume maximum resolution this card been set at $4,550. some$l,200
bidirectional interface. Like the storage by pointing out that buy- permits 640 x 200 pixels.
is below that of a comparably fur-
AT. it also offers a real-time ers of the 286i could select a Like previous Kaypro com- nished PC AT. An RGB moni-
clock/calendar with lithium bat- hard disk from a variety of third- puters, the 286i comes bundled tor, styled to match the Kaypro
tery backup. party vendors and could drive with a packet of MicroPro appli- system unit, is available at extra
Unlike the AT, the Kaypro such a disk with the 286i's on- cation software, including cost. The 286i is covered by a - 1
286i is not available with a hard board controller card. Other WordStar, MailMerge, /nfoStar year warranty. Kay said his
new machine
disk. Instead, the Kaypro personnel who asked to
. Plus, CalcStar, and MicroPro's company expects to shipping
comes standard with two .2- 1 remain unnamed, pointed out Tutors and Lessons —an inter- 400 units a month by mid
megabyte floppy drives. that the absence of the hard disk active training set for the other March.
David Kay, vice president for enabled Kaypro to get its ma- applications. —By Craig Stinson
Weststar4), beaming directly to
Stocks Go Sky High miniature 17-pound dish anten-

nas mounted on roofs, walls, or
windowsills near the IMNET
With PC-Satelllte Link customers' PCs. Each dish an-
tenna can serve up to four
IMNET workstations.
BY JAMES LANGDELL The full IMNET system is
driven by a Financial Ser\'ices

NEW YORK — You may soon television stations. To supple- System (FSS) software package
ment the PBS system. IMNET
*
find stock prices buried in 'Ses- A 2-fool dish links PCs to saielliies. that runs under IBM’s TopView
ame Street” that are more cur- also called on the satellite window environment. Through
rent than Financial News Net- broadcasting technologies of blanking interval (VBI) lines FSS, a user can specify up to
work’s televised ticker. Equatorial Communications not already used by PBS for its 300 stocks that the program will
Last year IBM and Merrill Co., a Mountain View. Calif, picture and sound transmis- automatically monitor, storing
Lynch formed International company that was the first to de- sions. IMNET plans to deliver and displaying data on their
MarketNet (IMNET), a joint velop small (2-feet wide) re- data at a rate of 15.000 bits per transactions as they occur.
venture to develop a PC-based ceive-only dish antennas. second on each VBI line. The Within TopView’s multiple
workstation for investment pro- Through its PBS connection. local PBS station's signal can be windows. FSS can display cur-
fessionals. One part of this sys- IMNET will package and picked up by a television anten- rent stock prices, the ongoing
tem that may attract brokers is encrypt stock ticker and news na attached to an IMNET cus- ticker, news reports, and other
its ability to transmit stock price data and communicate it to the tomer's PC. A special board information.
data to a user as soon as a trans- PBS headquarters in Washing- (yet to be developed by FSS be available in mid-
will
action appears on the ticker. ton. D.C. From there, the data IMNET) inside the PC will ex- 1985 on a system built around
Now IMNET has struck deals will be transmitted as part of tract and decode the received IBM’s 3270/PC. This will be
with two partners that can pro- PBS broadcasts that are fed by data to allow the financial soft- marketed to brokerage firms
vide it with channels to broad- communications satellite to its ware to display and process the (including Merrill Lynch itselO
cast stock data over the air. member stations around the latest stock prices. by branch offices of Internation-
IMNET’s first deal is with the country. IMNET's other transmission alMarketNet at Two Broad-
Public Broadcasting System, system will transmit the same way. New York, NY 10004,
which brings to the relationship Sharing the Line data via Equatorial's transceiv- (212) 510-1500. IMNET has
a conununications satellite con- IMNET’s data will be carried ers based on two communica- not set prices for any of these
nection with its 300 member on three of the 21 vertical tions satellites (Galaxy 3 and products.
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and other factors. You may also
the source and target drives are ;
restore selected elements of a
the same. With a small speed The Tecmar QlC/60 series of enough for relative novices to backup, either by way of com-
penalty, it can also back up files tape drives can store up to 256 follow without trouble. The mand-line switches or through a
individually or in groups, in- separate backups on a single 60- command-line approach, which query-and-confirm procedure.
cluding suMircctory searches. megabyte tape cartridge. A will require some study even on The disk to which you restore
backup may be either a “mirror- the part of experienced PC us- needn't have the same directory
Logical Additions image" duplication of an entire ers, permits more flexibility in one from which
structure as the
No one at IBM or at the three . floppy or Winchester, or a file- the specification of files to back you backed up. If the system
companies mentioned as suppli- by-filecopy of selected ele- up or restore. It also lets you doesn't find directories match-
ers would confirm the rumored ments on a disk. The system create batch files to carry out ing those that were backed up, it
link. However, industry ana- writes a master directory on the routine backup procedures. will create them as it restores.
lysts point out that IBM has in- tape that lists all backups by Here are just a few of the soft- When backing up, the system
creasingly been criticized for its date and lime, size, type (mir- ware’s interesting features: will — if you choose — report
failure to offer a tape backup ror-image or file-by-file). and The image-restore program how many limes it had to re-
system. With IBM hard at work user-supplied description. For performs a “smart realloca- write data following a verify er-
answering the other criticisms each file-by-file backup, it also tion" of any bad sectors found ror. This information can be
of its personal computer prod- creates a separate alphabetized on the backed-up disk. This your signal to replace an aging
ucts. and with tape backup con- directory showing file names, means that even if you back up cartridge. The system will also
sidered a necessary adjunct of sizes, and soon. from one Winchester and re- tell you how often during a
the company's networking QIC/60 series backup drives store to another, you don't need backup it had to stop the tape to
strategy, a backup system are driven either from a menu to worry about writing good allow the disk to catch up; this
would be a logical addition to tree or by DOS commands. The data onto bad sectors. information may help you de-
the company's product line. menus (which come with con- The system lets you back up cide when to “repack" your
Doug Cayne. analyst and text-relevant help screens) ap- files selectively in accordance disk to eliminate file fragmenta-
vice-president of the Gartner pear to be straightforward with date criteria, archive station . ‘—Craig Stinson
Group, reacted to this latest
spate of speculation by saying.
‘
It's more logical good sense to
' drive. Strange adds that the only
expect that
something because
growing problem. The only
IBM will
it's
provide
such a Quadram Joins limitation with the one-drive
is that a program
configuration
up a lot of memory,
that uses
question whether it
is will be a such as Lotus's Symphony,
separate unit, be one
the chassis like the hard disk
the XT. or be
built into
on
of the net-
Portable Mailcet would require additional disk
drive support. In addition, the
part system allows for flexibility in
work system. BY VIRGINIA DUDEK labeling the disk drives.
Given the sturdy, almost The system weighs in at 14
over-built construction of the ATLANTA—IBM compatibil- pounds, somewhere between
new tape units, the reputations ity has found its way to portabil- luggable and ideal. Power is
of the manufacturers, and the ity through Quadram Corp.'s supplied by an AC adapter or
immediate need for fast, large- recently announced Datavue rechargeable battery pack, al-
capacity backup that the AT is 25. lowing the system to run for 1 Vj
certain to create, it's likely that The Datavue 25 is billed as to 3 hours without being re-
you may find the new Tecmar handling “everything you use a charged. A RS-232C interface
drives in your IBM product cen- desktop PC for." according to and a Centronics parallel port
ter very soon —
either under Leland Strange, president and arc standard. A second floppy
their maker's name or a label chief operating officer of Intelli- drive can be added, and
that matches the sign in the win- gent Systems. Quadram's par- Quadram will be able to config-
dow of the store ent company. Datavue 25 runs ure the system with 3.5-inch
For now, the Q1C/60AT 60- MS-DOS and includes a 360K drives as they become more
megabyte streaming tape drive floppy disk drive, an LCD dis-
Quadram's Datavue 25
widely used. Strange also stated
for the AT lists for $1 .695; the play, and128K bytes of user that Quadram will be shipping a
QIC/60W20 60-megabytc tape memory expandable to 640K disk drive with a formatted ca- modem for the Datavue 25
drive with a 20-megabytc Win- The screen is a full-sized. 80- pacity of 360K. It also comes sometime in May.
chester drive costs S3, 495: and X •25-linc monochrome display with RAM drive software for The 83-key keyboard is cord-
the QIC/60H external 60- with a graphics mode that uses floppy drive emulation. “With less. has ten function keys, and
megabytc tape drive with con- four shades of gray. The screen the RAM drive you do not need operates with infrared technol-
troller is priced at $1,995. All tilts to six different positions. a second drive for most soft- ogy. The 128K version costs
QIC drives are designed around Resolution is 640 x 2(X) pixels, ware." says Strange. “It can $2,195. and the 640K version is
the OIC-24 format. or 320 X 400 when the graphics run 1-2-3 faster with one drive $2,795. Quadram began ship-
—-cofUribtOors to this report: mode is used. Strange noted that than with two." ping the Datavue 25 in early
Don Kennedy James Langdeil,
y revised display screens would An expansion chassis is February and is distributing it
Winn L. Rosch, and 1 be available by late summer. available fôr full-sized IBM ex- through retail, OEM. and VAR
Craig Stinson \
The system has one 5. 25-inch pansion cards and a Winchester channels.
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Word. Unless you have the ex- Document formatting and
memory options for the
tra printing have always been one
EGA/EGM. the new screen's of Word's strong points, and
A Better Word characters are about the

resolution as those on the older
screens.While italic, boldface,
same new features in version 2.0
make them even easier. You can
now control page breaks during
From Microsoft and underlined characters are

displayed, proportionally-
spaced characters arc not.
the pagination process, while
previous versions required you
page breaks where
to insert hard
Version 2.0 corrects earlier problems. My own choice for screen needed. Another feature that
configuration was the EGA/ helps formatting is a built-in hy-
EGM set in text mode, where phenation program. The pro-
BY JOHN DICKINSON the new Word offers the same gram uses Knuth's algorithm to
15 colors for background and perform hyphenation, and it
Microsoft's new version of its 2.0 is swift compared to its ear- uses color and intensity to dis- works more quickly than dictio-
best-selling Word word-pro- lier relea.ses. play italic, boldface, and under- nary-based programs. The pro-
cessing program offers im- I ran the new Word on an AT lined characters. This configu- gram gives you the opportunity
proved speed, an array of new equipped with IBM's new En- ration also operates faster toconfirm or change each pro-
features and options, improved hanced Graphics Adapter and (although it still bumps when posed hyphen position.
documentation, and a 30-duy Monitor {EGA/EGMl. and my scrolling), and it is easier on the Another new feature is a re-
money-back customer-satisfac- only screen-speed complaint eyes. You can sec exactly what vised spelling checker. The
tion program perhaps unique in came when 1 scrolled through you're getting by exiting the 80.000-word checker works on
the software industry. Best of large documents; the screen mo- program and returning in graph- the currentdiKument or on one
alt,the 2.0 version costs no tion became “bumpy." This is ics mode (Word's ability to re- from your disk and you can run
.
more than the original Word's partly because Wori/’s file-man- member the last document you it outside of the Word environ-
$375 price. agement scheme leaves parts of were editing is handy for this ment. Both new features, and a
Improved speed is the new the document on disk. purpose). word counter included on the
version's most noticeable ad- A common complaint about utility disk, arc based on Oasis
vancement. Screen speed is the Colorful Choices older versions of Word was the Systems' The Word Plus pack-
key for many word processing A pleasant addition in Word constant presence of the menu at age. A “library run" facility
users, and older versions of 2.0 was the graphics support of the bottom of the screen. Word can be used to run any external
were lackadaisical at best, the EGA/HGM setup. THC pro- 2.0 lets you remove the menu, program, including batch files.
particularly when run in the gram u.ses the new screen to freeing two additional lines for Word's new style sheets con-
“what you sec is what you get" give you a color background in text. The only serious reserva- tain standard formatting scenar-
graphics mode that displays ital- graphics mode (with 15 tion I have about Word's new ios for one or more documents.
ics. underline, and bold on a choices), which makes the screen is that 1 couldn't find a You arc free to modify them,
color graphics screen. While screen much easier to read than way to get a single-spaced dis- make your own. or avoid style
not the faste.st word processing the “black only" background play of a double-spaced page sheets altogether. They're a bit
program in the industry. Word favored by older versions of format. difficult to get used to. so you
Microsoft’s Word: Just My Type nical manuals, newsletters, or more of my document at once.
Microsoft's Word is a powerful word processing pair than the in-house reports are ideal jobs Alternatively, I could have en-
word processor, but can it type- new Word and an HP LaserJet. for the Word/Lasa}et duo. tered the text in single-column
set? In the PC marketplace, the People who produce slick peri- I spent about half an hour mode and then invoked the
closest thing to an affordable odicals or professional books learning to produce a multi- multicolumn mode just before
typesetter is the Hewlett-Pack- printing.
ard LaserJet printer. The HP onal font cartridge. 1 There are several important
LaserJet has a built-in 10-pitch
Roman font that makes it a fast,
quiet replacement for common
:nts the built-in font
n point proportion:
Times Roman plait
spacei capabilities that the Word!
LaserJet combo can't deliver.
Type-size changes are impossi-
impact printers such as the Dia- ble because the Times Roman
blo 630. However, optional
plug-in font cartridges enable
the LaserJet to do much more
supplements the built-in fonts
with 10-point proportionally
. It
and small caf
ftaliCy
^Helvetica BOLI
onospaced Courier
Left, type formed by Word with a LaserJet.
BOLI
Riftht, magniped 400 percent.
font in the 92286B
one size: 10 point.
tridge is just
(True typesetting would require
point sizes from about 6 to 24
points,
font car-
depending upon the ap-

spaced Times Roman plain, plication.) Another missing ele-
bold, italic, and small caps really need typeset quality, and column, proportionally spaced ment is microjustification (mi-
plus Helvetica bold and a mono- they won't get it using Word and document. When you enter crospaces between the letters of
spaced Courier font. a LaserJet. However, many oth- multicolumn text, Word dis- the words). Although the
The answer to the question ers have in-between require- plays just one column cm-screen Word/LaserJet twosome may
"Is the LaserJet truly a typeset- ments that demand more than an even though the printed output not be a true typesetter, it's one
ter?” has to be "No,” but it’s ordinary printer, yet less than a will be multicolumn. 1 used ver- of the best duets in the business.
hard to think of a more powerful full typesetter. Piûcing tech- tical windows so I could see —Kaare Christian

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doesn’t have any built-in erybody to be able to use Word

A Word on the MacintostiWord management commands. Al-
file-
fluently on both machines

Microsoft’s Word for the Mac- screen is sharper (but smaller) though Macintosh Word does their layouts are too different.
intosh is surprisingly tame. It than most PC displays, and have keyboard commands to I’m an experienced PC Word
has several deficiencies com- Word's pull-down menus are perform most of its operations . 1 user, and 1 was surprised at how
pared to the version of Word snappier and better organized found them hard to use. and 1 long it took me to to adapt to
PC and only a
available for the on the Mac than arc the menus ended up relying too heavily on Macintosh Word. I understood
few advantages over Apple's on the PC. The Macintosh is the mouse. On the PC. used 1 the Apple version of the pro-
own MavWrite. Some think that also better able to show various the mouse less because more gram immediately, but it took
Word for the Macintosh might sizes and styles of characters on commands (especially for an hour or two to leam to use it
serve as a symbol of Apple's the screen, and it has the ability cursor movement and scrolling) fluently.
power. think it confirms a
1 to include pictures in a docu- were easily accessible from the I've admired and used Word
gloomier suspicion Apple's — ment. keyboard. on the PC
because of the way it
innovative Macintosh computer However, Word on the Mac- helps to manage and control the
works as an applications funnel. intosh lacks many features that Differences in Operation style of my documents. It is im-
There are very few unique ways contribute to the PC version's Although the underlying phi- portant to me to be able to refor-
to approach a project on the success. The Macintosh version losophy of Macintosh Word is mat my documents without
Macintosh. All of the applica- lacks style sheets, it lacks a similartoPC Word, the detailed spending hours doing Word-
tions look and act much the spelling checker,and it has to operation and organization of Star's Ctrl-B jig.Word works
same. contend with the Macintosh's the two programs are very dif- well on the Mac. but not much
The Macintosh version of meager keyboard and slow ferent. I wouldn't recommend better than MaeWrite does, and
Word seems easier to use than speed. Macintosh Word has mixing PCs and Macs in one en- not as well as Word on the PC
thePC flavor. The Macintosh fewer printing options, and it vironment while expecting ev- docs. —
Kaare Christian
may not want to use them, but acts to you. telling you when be confused. When you've fin- As a result, if you liked the orig-
they do help you pa>ducc con- you've pressed an incorrect ished the tutorial, you're all set inal product, you’ll love Word
sistently formatted documents. key, what key you should be to boot up Word and get going. 2.0. And even if you didn’t care
pressing, and why you should Word's new speed and fea- new
for the original, give the
Contemporary Support be pressing it. It also notices tures haven't changed its style Word a look anyway. Its im-
Wtfri/ supports several new when you haven't pressed a key from Microsoft's ubiquitous proved performance might
printers, including the Hewlett- lately, as if it assumes you must menu-and-mouse orientation. change your mind.
Packard LaserJet, Apple’s new
laser, and IBM's latest thermal
and daisywheel offerings. Print-
ing is generally excellent and
trouble-free using Word. The
Sold IBM-EuraipeNetwoiX signed any of five rcad/write
protection levels. Tapestry also
program ran my Diablo-com- offers file and record lockout for
patiblc Primages 90 and a Ready for Aimirican Users multiuser file access.
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet as if Company officials say Torus
it knew every last thing about REDWOOD CITY. Calif.- tryappeal for inexperienced Systems Ltd., in the United
the machines. Word can pro- Local area networking-software officenetwork users. The tele- Kingdom, has signed a distribu-
duce proportionally spaced, jus- previously available only from phone management consists of a tion agreement with IBM Inter-
tified column formats whether IBM's European dealers is now “Rolodex" feature and auto- national Products Ltd., also in
you’ve used multiple-column for sale in America. matic dialing. The electronic Great Britain. IBM will sell Tap-
page formats or typed-in tables Torus Systems. Inc., an- mail system contains a full text estry' through its dealers in Brit-
using the tab stops. nounced here that Tapestry, its editor that you access through ain.Europe, the Middle East,
The only complaint have 1 local area networking software pop-up menus. Files are pass- and Africa. Torus U.S.A.. in
with Word\ print formatting is IBM PC Network and
for the word protected, and may as- Redwood, will distribute the
that it doesn't put microspaces 3Com’s Ethernet hardware, is product in this country.
between characters inside available from dealers in the Tapestry runs PC-DOS 2.0,
words when justifying text (in United States. The icon-based 2.1. and 3.0, and supports the
Word 2.0. all microspaces arc operating environment inte- IBM PC. XT. AT, and Portable
placed between words, which grates file sharing, electronic computers. It requires 256K of
can result in “rivers" of white mail, a system that ties network RAM per workstation, while
space dow’n the page). Micro- users's names to the interoffice server stations require 320K.
soft should offer you choice electronic mail, and printer Server stations can be XTs,
rather than forcing you to accept sharing. In addition. Tapestry ATs, or PCs with hard disks.
its own microspacing method. offers gateways to mainframes, Tapestry consists of a Network
Also new to Word 2.0 is an telephone management, and an Manager Pack for the network
on-screen tutorial that easily application library from which manager/server, and a Tapestry
ranks with the one supplied with you can download PC-DOS ap- Workstation Pack for each PC
Lotus’s I-2'3. The tutorial plications. on the network. The Network
doesn't actually use the Word The icon interface has an ex- Manager Pack and the Worksta-
program, but it simulates it so tensive multi-level help function Pack together retail for
well you'd never know it. It re- tion. a feature that gives Tapes- Tapestry uses multi-level irons. $400. —By Virginia Dudek
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the PC-specific Users' Guide in
PRODUCT REVIEW favor of WATCOM's 271-page
BASIC Primer and Reference
Manual. This manual is divided
BASIC Meets Its Waterioo into three sections. Although

the manual’s index doesn’t
mention it, several convenient
Flexibility and speed are fortes of this Canadian import. sorting statements can be found
in Chapter 5 in the Program-
ming Language section. Forex-
BYJOHNM. WORAM ample. the following little pro-
gram sorts and displays 50
Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series of reviews exploring the Something random numbers in the A(X)
many versions ofBASIC that are now available to the personal com- 6 120 print matrix, with the sort and display
puter consumer. "Line 3" taking less than 6 seconds:
3 200 proc
Something 200 mat B=aidx(A)
For example, the following 4 210 print !use didx to sort
WATCOM BASIC V2.I program shows how to execute "Line 2=the in descending order
WATCOM Products, Inc. a loop: Something 210 for X=1 to 50
4I5Iîllip Street procedure" 220 print X, A(X).
Waterloo. Ontario
10 X=10 5 220 endproc A(B(X))
Canada N2L 3X2 20 loop 7 300 print 230 next X
(519)886-3700 print X "Line 4"
30 240 A(X) =unsorted
!
List price: $250 (US or

40 X=x +3.7 list, already
Canadian)
50 if X>15 then Although WATCOM has both stored in memory
Requires: No memory require-
quit STOP and END statements, in 250 A(B(X))=
!
ments listed, one disk drive. 60 endloop their absence, program execu- sorted list
70 execution
! tion still does not fall into the
The University of Waterloo In- jumps here when procedure beginning at line Like PC BASIC, WATCOM
stitute for Computer Research X=15 200. As this example shows, the BASIC has two precisions.
in Ontario, Canada, is a north- 80 use ! and not !
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procedure can go just about any- They are called short (4 bytes)
of-the-border mecca for com- before a remark where you like. The numbers in and long (8 bytes) and are se-
puter science. Its business arm. the left margin beside the pro- lected with an OPTION SPREC
WATCOM Products. Inc., has As written here, this program gram indicate the sequence in (or LPREC) statement. The
number of
recently released a produces an infinite loop dis- which these lines are executed. maximum and minimum num-
new PC language packages, in- playing the value 3.7 since In the Users’ Guide, the rath- bers for any computer can be
cluding WATCOM BASIC. there's a lower-case x lurking in on graphics will
er brief chapter seen by typing:
The language is divided into line 40. Unlike PC BASIC and confuse many beginners. It
several modules on the disk, many others, WATCOM makes mentions that you can select print inf, eps
one or more of which can be a distinction between upper- text, medium- and high-resolu-
omitted if your system is short and lower-case variable names. tion graphics modes, but In addition to the usual trigo-
of memory space and you don't Thus, xy, xY, Xy, and XY do not doesn’t mention how. You’re nometric functions, WATCOM
need their specific features (for represent the same value (fast- out of luck unless you already BASIC will also return hyper-
example, graphics, matrix func- and-sloppy typists please take know all about intrinsic func- bolic functions, arc sines and
tions, and the separate note). Statements and com- tions as well as how to read be- cosines. And although it also
WATCOM editor). mands also appear in lower-case tween the lines. The following does natural, common, or base-
Of course, there are many letters. line will set the graphics mode: 2 logarithms, the following
differences between WATCOM lines are incorrect:
BASIC and Microsoft’s PC BA- Subbing 100x=mode( n)
SIC, but making the transition The Users' Guide also intro- print log( 1)
from one to the other is reason- duces procedures and calls as al- The n argument may be 0. . or I loglO(l)
ably painless. With a few minor ternatives to subroutines, as 2 for text, medium- or high- res- 2 2388E-
.
changes, almost any BASIC seen here: olution. In the text mode, a sim- 17 9.7233E-18
program saved in ASCII format ilar function can be used to
should run under WATCOM. 1 100 print change the width between 40 Actually, 16 digits are seen, but
WATCOM BASIC comes "Line 1" and 80 characters. in each case, the correct answer
with three separate manuals. 2 110 call In time, you may put aside should be zero.
The Users' Guide contains in-
troductory information, system- Better Editor
IBM PC.
specific details for the
A Slip of the Lip Sank the Chip Although WATCOM pro-
and sample programs. Many of grams can be screen-edited Just
these sample programs are ”A mustache hair across a chip is like a redwood tree falling as PC BASIC programs can, you
stored on the accompanying through a housing project.
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the other WATCOM languages. distance to be run. and the
At least one of
features deserves special
this editor's
men- A Day at the Races amount of the purse.
Next, you enter information
tion. Assume you have a library for each horse in that race. The
of procedures already saved on
Odds are, this handicapping program may first six entries: name of horse,
disk, and between lines 325 and be your best bet before you go to the track. starts, wins, total earnings, days
330 of your current program since last race, and pace, seem
you discover a need for a BY RICHARD POWELL fine. The seventh entry, track
PROC-X followed by a PROC- category, needs updating. Some
Y statement. These procedure Editor's Note: The first Saturday in May means only one thing to of the tracks listed no longer run
sporting Americans. It’s the traditional day for the running of the
statements were saved with line thoroughbred races and some
numbers 2000—3205 and 175- Kentucky Derby. In recognition of that, PC asked horse-racing ex- tracks that do currently race
-523 respectively. No problem. pert Richard Powell to review a program that just may give you a
‘
thoroughbreds arc missing from
Type GET PROC-X and then leg up when it comes to picking the winner of this year's 'Run for the list. Also. 1 feel that the nu-
the Roses.”
GET PROC-Y, and you'll have merical rating assigned to each
something that looks like this: track (1.2. or 3) is too narrow
tempt to measure the past per- and should be expanded.
Thoroughbred HancScxtpping
325 whatever
! formances of each horse in a The eighth entry in the sys-
System 1
2000 first ! race according to a predeter- tem requires you to determine
PDS Sports
line of PROC-X mined set of standards. In the- the distance of each horse's best
P.O. BoxE
3205 last line
! ory. the higher the rating, the race. The problem here is that a
of PROC-X
Torrance, CA 90507 better the horse’s statistical horse’s best race may have been
(213)516-6688
175 first line
! chances of winning the race in under significantly different
List price: $129
of PROC-Y question. conditions than the race being
Requires: 16KRAM.
523 last line
! The program instructs you to handicapped, and the PDS doc-
of PROC-Y choose among the top three selec- umentation gives no advice on
330 the ! A scientific system for picking tions for the horse that oêrs the just what to look for when
remainder of the winners? Damon Runyon’s greatest overlay. If that’s Race- choosing the best race.
current program characters would have shunned track-Greek to you, it means you
it. After all. hot tips and inside should bet on whichever of the Speed Ratings
If you list the program (you can information were prized com- top three horses has the longest The ninth and tenth entries
do so simply by typing L), the modities to those guys and odds. Also. PDS advises you to are the highest speed rating of
lines remain as you see them dolls. However, others may watch for any obvious trainer or the horse's last three races in the
here. Now just use the RE- want to ease the task of picking jockey changes after you have same distance category as to-
NUMBER command, and the horse race winners through a compiled your ratings. day's race and on a track with
complete program is properly system based on probabilities. the same rating as today's field.
numbered with the two proce- And what better way to do that Rating the Contenders The last two entries save
dures remaining where you than on a PC? The program starts by analyz- Thoroughbred Handicapping
want them. Just try to do that in PDS Sports’ Thoroughbred ing data concerning the race it- System 1 from being just anoth-
PC BASIC. Handicapping System I is an at- self: the number of the race, the er routine-computerized handi-
WATCOM BASIC has many capping system. It is one of the
other attractive features. Here's few systems I have seen that
just one more: After entering a factors in the ability of the jock-
few names into a file, just use ey and trainer.
the DOS-like TYPE command The program, however, ig-
to read the file back onto the nores several factors most
screen. No frills, but it gives the handicapp>ers consider crucial to
insecure an instant look at understanding a race. Weight,
what's really there. age, and sex are crucial factors
And here's a quick rundown in handicapping thoroughbreds
of a few of the language's and should be included in any

not-so-attractive features. handicapping program.
WATCOM’s editor makes use Thoroughbred Handicapping
of the PC's function keys, while System I succeeds as a tool for
its BASIC does not. The edi- novice-to average handicap-
tor’s manual has no index. The pers. A nine-race card can be
DIRECTORY command lists computed in about half an hour,
the disk’s contents but does not leaving you plenty of time to
say how much space is left. The look for betting trends, track bi-
date, but not the time, is given ases. tips, and all the other
in the listing. The INPUT state- things sophisticated handicap- Bendcll
ment will not accept a null nu- pers arc supposed to watch out
meric or string input. And. fi- And. if you're
for at the track. Nonn
nally. short-and long-precision lucky, you just might win

by
I
numbers cannot be mixed with- enough cash to cover the cost of
in one program. the software.

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People in the News: Phoenix Software

Neil Colvin, Rich Levandov, and Lance Hansche help set the standard for PC compatibility.
BY JOHN DICKINSON
BOSTON — If you have plans to AT&T, Tandy, Kaypro. and compatible. “The PC dynam- has been out there for a year, we
build anIBM PC-. XT-, or AT- Wysc. Other products and con- ic,” summarized Hansche, have a large library of programs
compatible computer, you'll sulting services have gone to “has set forth.” and a body of experience to
probably visit Phoenix sooner companies such as Compaq. How can a small company draw on every time a major
or later —not the city in Arizo- Texas Instruments. Wang, Vic- (Phoenix employs about 45 peo- change, such as the AT, comes
na. but the software engineering tor Technologies, and ple) keep up with the fast-paced along.”
firm in Norwood, Mass. You’ll Microsoft. roll of the IBM PC marketplace
go there to see the latest items in Many of Phoenix’s BIOS and technology? “Phoenix has Apple Not Tempting
the Phoenix Software Asso- customers cannot be mentioned a nice view of all areas of the in- From the start. Phoenix
ciates collection of IBM PC- founder and president Neil
compatible ROM BIOS soft- Colvin has been the company’s
ware. the basic input/output technical and spiritual leader.
software stored in a PC's ROM Like the rest of (he principals in
chips. And. if the firm’s track the company, he has an engi-
record is any indication, you'll neering backgound steeped in
probably buy the latest edition. computer technology, and he
"A Phoenix ROMBIOS cus- shared some of his viewpoints
tomer will always get its prod- on operating systems software.
uct to market faster,” according “User-friendly means icons
to marketing vice president. and all that mushy stuff.”
Rich Levandov. “because the Colvin says, “and the future is
BIOS is the toughest part of PC not so much in visual techniques
compatibility, and it's solved Neil Colvin Rich Levandov Lance Hansche as in systems (hat are more
and licensable from us.” That, knowledgeable about the user.
continues Levandov, leaves the by name, at least not yet. dustry.” answers Levandov. Pictures take just as long to
compatible manufacturer’s en- “Announcements of new AT “We stay close to Microsoft learn aswords, and (hey take
gineers and programmers free to compatibles are being held up wc even alpha and beta test its more time to use.” He doesn’t
make sure the computer's sys- because Microsoft isn’t ready to new MS-DOS releases and — think icons are the solution to
tem board and other compo- release MS-DOS 3.1. and we’re close to about 80 to 90 the man-machine interface
nents work and to pursue other Western Digital isn’t ready with percent of the software vendors problem in (he corporate mar-
objectives that make the product its new disk controllers,” ac- who use us as consultants and ketplace. “Computers should
more competitive with IBM’s. cording to Phoenix’s executive use Phoenix Computer Products employ heuristic technologies
”
Purchasing a Rioenix BIOS vice president. Lance Hansche. software development tools. that let (he computer relate back
has other advantages as well. But even as he was being inter- Keeping up with most of the to the user.”
"The public needs to know just viewed, David Kay called to industry is one thing, but keep- I asked Phoenix’s three prin-
how compatible a PC-compati- give permission to release the ing up with IBM is another mat- cipals about other directions for
blecomputer is.” according to information that his company’s ter. “Mostly it means moving the company, particularly Ap-
Levandov. “and we’re becom- new Kaypro 286i includes the fast.” according to Levandov. ple’s Macintosh computer.
ing the standard of PC compati- Phoenix AT BIOS software and who adds that Phoenix puts “We’ve had requests for a Mac-
bility.” Phoenix guarantees the a Rioenix-modificd version of small teams of crack engineers compatible BIOS, but we're not
compatibility of its BIOS pro- MS-DOS 2.1 1. on any new IBM developments. sure it would be viable for Phoe-
grams. and it even insures its ’’Paying attention to rumors nix,” answered Levandov.
customers against potential Life in the Fast Lane does no good,” he says. “Even Hansche added, “We under-
copyright suits from IBM (none New PC- and AT-compatible if you listen to the best stand the PC market and where
of Phoenix’s BIOS customers desktop computers are only part —
sources people who have had it's going. Apple has not solidi-
has ever been sued for copyright of the compatibility story at their hands on the machine (he — fied a standard.”
infringement). Phoenix. “The PC standard is next PC may be any one of three Colvin said that a Mac BIOS
’ ’
rolling,” says Levandov. “and totally different animals. would be a big undertaking, and
A Veritable Who’s Who it’s getting into all sorts of new Staying on top of IBM isn’t not necessarily a profitable one.
Phoenix’s track record, and areas.” He displayed an expan- quite as tough as it used to be for “It would take 12 to 15 man-
that of its customers, speaks for sion card Phoenix designed to Phoenix, but the company did years, and I don’t know how of-
itself. The company’s software fit into a UNIX workstation to have to play catch-up once. ten we could sell it.”
engineering sales have grown give it PC compatibility, and “We admit we were late to get ”We have, on the other
by over 350 percent in the last 6 talked about turnkey self-ser- started in this business,” says hand,’’ said Levandov. “had
months, primarily from selling vice gas station and dairy farm Levandov. “but now that the requests for a PC-compatible
BIOS software to the likes of computers that will soon be PC Phoenix BIOS product
original Mac product.”

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PC Communique
EDITED BY JAMES LANGDELL
have a friend com-

I
Does XCOMP Make lizard in the
puter business, or perhaps she
;
V-Disks? posed before her rise to small-
screen stardom and planetary
The Romans would be confused domination?
if they saw X plus X plus X add No, an XCOMP spokesper-
up to V. son explained, she wasn’t r^ly
XCOMP, a San Diego, Badler. But, they noted that we
White Lines at Big Blue?
Calif., manufacturer of remov- were far from the first to ask this
able-car-tridge hard disks, ran question —
the model’s resem- IBM seems to have more clout sis. but IBM views any drug use
this ad showing its PC expan- blance to the lizard queen is than the Los Angeles Dodgers as a negative element in the
sion chassis, model lO-n-IO, quite striking. when it comes to enforcing its whole picture of the applicant.
which contains a pair of 10 We here in the PC offices sin- team’s clean-cut, drug-free im- Job applicants are told in ad-
megabyte drives, or, as cerely hope XCOMP is telling age. Since late 1984, IBM has vance about the urinalysis and
XCOMP puts it, “Two 10s.” the truth. We’d hate to think that required urinalysis of all domes- its purpose. The test is per-
this ad was part of a plot to use tic job candidates to detect drug formed as part of IBM's stan-
XCOMP’s add-on units to infil- use. dard medical exam for potential
trate an alien force into our true A positive result on the two- employees. Applicants must
blue PCs! stage urine chromatography lab alsoanswer a questionnaire re-
test won’t automatically dis- garding drug use.
qualify a person from working IBM doesn't use the chroma-
Saved by a for IBM, according to an IBM tography test to detect marijua-
spokesperson. Candidates are na use. as it considers the test
Computer Chorale considered on an individual ba- unreliable for that purpose .
Mormonism, generally consid-

ered a conservative religion, at-
Computer Sheikh
tempts to harken back to a sim-
pler, more personal era. But This summer thousands will Mo-
hijrah, the emigration of
Personal Software Company in flock to Chicago for the Nation- hammed from Mecca to Medina
Salt Lake City (where else?) is al Computer Conference. Lest that occurred in A.D. 622. (By
trying to bring Mormonism into we become too nationalistic, the way —does anyone know of
thecomputer age. Its $29,957/1- however, it wouldn’t be a bad a program that converts the Is-
troductwn to Mormonism pro- idea to note on your calendar lamic calendar to our Gregorian
You may notice a third “ 10” gram comes with a slide show a , that there is another National dating system? It’s trickier than
gazing back at you — a beautiful beliefs guide, a doctrines guide, Computer Conference sched- you might imagine.)
woman with one arm resting on and an electronic hymnal. uled this year. Only this NCC, If you want to catch absolute-
the XCOMP chassis. What’s Granted, the PC’s puny completely unrelated to the one of this year’s
ly all NCC
action,
more, she's the spitting image sound system is no match for the held in Chicago, is scheduled for you can obtain further informa-
of Jane Badler, the actress who mighty organ in Salt Lake the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. tion about the Mideast version
played Diana, leader of the rep- City’s Mormon Temple, but if The Saudi NCC wilt be held from its sponsor, ARAMCO,
tilian invaders on NBC’s recent- you have access to a number of in A1 Khobar on October 1 P.O. Box 1748, Dhahran
ly canceled television series PCs, the program could help 1985, or as the press announce- 3131 1, Saudi Arabia.
“V.” you create a new kind of singing ment listed the date, 17 Muhar- (ARAMCO’s phone numbers
We asked XCOMP how it —
group in your office The Mor- ram 1406H. No. Islamic years are (966) 3-875-5935 in Dhah-
managed to get Badler to pose mon Tabernacle Computer aren’t numbered in hexadecimal ran or (966) 2-653-4655 in
for a computer ad. Did the chief Choir. —FredricPaul — the H in the date stands for Jeddah.)
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PC NEWS
Foolish Moves neapolis —while Levy played Get Smaller
out of London.
Confuse Computers
Levy explained, in Abacus In the electronic age, small is
How can a chess master beat a magazine, that the strategy he beautiful.When computers
chess-playing computer? One uses against his software oppo- smaller than room-sizedmon-
way is to make moves that nents is to create board arrange- stersappeared, they were
would land you in hot water ments that confuse the comput- dubbed minicomputers. When
against ahuman opponent. er. Levy makes unorthodox the desk-sized personal comput-
David Levy bet that he could moves unknown to the computer came along, jargonizers
beat any computer in a game of er’sprogramming, even though coined a further diminutive
chess. The Londoner proved his his positionssometimes have microcomputer.
point recently by beating the weaknesses a human opponent Now Wayne Green is threat-
World Computer Chess cham- might be able to exploit. ening to devalue diminutive
pion, a program called CRAY think I can probably sur- computer terms even further. / / / /
BUTZ, games.
in four straight vive another 2 or 3 years before He’s launched a newsletter that
According to a report in the paying out the prize money,” iswritten for people who own
February 16, 1985, issue of 5a- said Levy. computers that can fit inside a
briefcase. Its subtitle is The
Briefcase Computer Report, a
dandy term for that genre of ma-
chine.
But Green had to go one jar-
gon-laden step too far and is re-
ferring to these machines as Now The Mac’s Can
picocomputers, and to his news-
letter as A pico means one
Pico.
Can Do
and a 4-pound Tandy
trillionth, Here at PC Magazine,it’s none
Model 100 would be a true of our business, but we hear ru-

picocomputer only if a typical mors of new Macintosh pro-
a
micro, such as an IBM PC, gram thatenhances the file de-
weighed about 2000 tons. We lete functions represented by the
really ought to wait for the ad- Mac’s garbage can icon. This
vent of 1^-miIligram computers software package is called The
before we break out the picos. EdSortonVtilities.
ence News, a trans-Atlantic

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tween Levy and BUTZ. The Tandy keeps trying to clean up Shack, it's a model that's been
chess-playing program, created the *‘Trash-80” image that abandoned by its manufacturer,
by Robert Hyatt of the Universi- clings to its computers. Last or whose manufacturer is dead.
ty of Southern Mississippi in year Tandy eliminated the TRS- The ad lists over a dozen or-
Hattiesburg, was run for the 80 and Radio Shack names on phan machines, Including the
match on a Cray X-MP in Min- its freshest products. Now the Timex-Sinclair 1000, the TI
company is trying to pin the 99/4A, the Adam, the Osborne,
“trash” label on other com jHit- and several IBM PC compati-
er makers. bles —including those made by
“Clean Up, America!” com- Columbia and Eagle. But
mands a recent Radio Shack wait . those two companies
. .
newspaper ad. “Throw your or- may be ailing, but they and their
phaned computer or TV game machines are far from having
on the junk pile,” and Radio vanished from this earth. An
Shack will give you $75 to $ 150 owner of any IBM compatible
credit toward buying one of its would be a fool to swap it for
new, fully parented computers. —
only $150 unless it had acci-
But what is an orphan com- dently fallen into a trash com-
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Parity Check
A computer packed with a tating if the field ever really ple dedicated machines may just
huge array of free, easy-to-use took off. About the only thing in win out over units that apparent-
software would be very attrac- favor of on-line services is that ly require endless infusions of
tive indeed.Given a disk con- users have no idea how much cash for expensive programs.
taining a dozen first-rate pro- they'll shell out until they get Profit margins are already so
ductivity programs, a few the bill, at which point, aghast, brutally thin on low-end multi-
high-level languages, a hundred many simply cancel. purpose machines that only a
games, and full documentation, couple of companies remain in
most users would never need to • Copy protection schemes are the fray, and those companies
buy any extras. The all-in-one doomed to failure. have demonstrated no talent for
concept is so seductive that a The horse is out; it's too late developing anything but expen-
very rinky-dink version of it to lock the bam door. The exis- sive toys.
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What stopped Coleco cold was theft schemes out cold. As long For one thing, a “free” com-
As I pointed out in my last col- that it couldn’t deliver decent as unprotected old reliables are would solve
puter in a television
umn. Americans just don't hardware or software. IBM may why bother with new-
available, the kinds of hookup and wiring
think that software is worth have earned a stellar reputation comers that insist you install problems that long kept hi-fi
much. Information, entertain- for its machines, but its off-the- some weird “hardware key," components from reaching truly
ment, telephone calls, you shelf program offerings have threaten to destroy your data, mammoth sales levels. Still, un-
name it: $4.95 is where price re- been decidedly earthbound. and keep you twiddling your less cheap software is available,
sistance sets in. That cidd phe- And it still has visions of mak- thumbs until the company gets home computers will simply
nomenon creates even odder ing big bucks in the add-on soft- around to sending you a replace- languish, unused, in next-gen-
implications for the future. ware biz. ment disk? eration television cabinets in-
With the help of See-All (Wool- Illicit copies have probably stead of today's warehouses and
worth Software, two for $3 .99). • Expensive substitutes for ex- provided more useful demon- closets.
my 576K crystal ball came up isting free services don't stand a strations than all the nation's
with these forecasts: chance. computer salespeople put to- • Subsidized software might
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This lowball strategy has it. Prognosticators always seem All the software comes built in. couple of dog food commer-
helped Borland maintain cus- to ignore all the busy signals and For many people it's simpler cials?
tomer goodwill despite buggy computer timeouts that plague to buy tiny phoneputers. calc- Well. yes. You just might.
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if the one you take home will be 1980, Pet Rocks. 1998, Pet
nasty or nice. “If they were all Rockcttes?
From Pong to Petsters: thesame.” says Bushnell. “it
would be boring. If we mass-
Bushnell says that
missed some real opportuni-
IBM
we lose our
Bushnell Keeps on Trying produce pets then
variability.” He goes on to say.
ties” in the
feels the
home
PCjr is outclassed by
market. He
“we’re not trying to knock off the Apple’s home machines.

The founder of Atari has a pet idea. the cat, but a Petster is funda- Nevertheless, an IBM-compati-
mentally better than a cat.” ble version of Andy, Axlon’s
BY CHARLES BERMANT Again, he is saying this with a home robot, will be on the mar-
straight face. ket this year. And he thinks that
NEW YORK— Forget what ‘‘I’ll bet you money,” he current computer users have it
they say about “Star Trek.” If says. “We will change the mar- Users Wanna Have Fun all wrong. ”What are we here
”
Petsters catch on, the most pro- ket for domestic animals. What about the future? Will for? To paint contrails on the
phetic TV show of the 1960s Petsters were created, he people who have trouble getting screen or to make money? The
’ ’
willhave been The Jetsons.

‘
says, because the relationship dates be able to buy an artificial idea is to have fun.
In the early 1970s, Nolan between man and pet is not cost mate to help them ”The personal computer is
Bushnell invented Pong, the effective. Batteries cost less through the still a solution looking for a
firstcommercially successful than pet food, and a technician's night? problem.” he says. “It’s too
electronic game. From Pong, hourly rate is significantly low- “Surro- hard to use. I might have
came Atari, which Bushnell screwed things up, who knows?
founded and then sold to ”But I would have gotten rid
Warner Communications. A of keyboards, not that big a per-
noncompetition clause kept him centage of the population knows
out of the computer fray for 7 how to touch type. would have I
years, but now he's back with a worked with the mouse and the
simulated roar. touchscreen and maybe speech
He now heads Axlon, which recognition; the kinds of things
manufactures droning bears, a Atari should have been doing 4
simple robot, a set of trivia or 5 years ago.”
games, and Petsters. furry ma- Bushnell has definite ideas
chines meant to simulate and — about computers and how they
replace —
house pets. They look should be sold. The package, he
about as much like real cats as says, is as important as what's
Garfield does, but then the fo- inside. He doesn’t act humble
cus is admittedly “low-tech.” when he is called an expert
Bushnell envisions people go- Nofan Bushnell fiwling around with one of his chip-fueled, furry friends. about one aspect of the market
ing into pet stores to buy a dog or or another.
cat and walking out with a Petster er than that of a veterinarian. gate people won’t be very re- What is his response, then, to
instead. He says this with a Last but not least, a Petster warding,” says Bushnell. “It the notion that some industry
straight face. Petsters, after all. doesn’t fill up a litterbox. will always be easier to simulate observers might see his involve-
can do anything that a cat can One of 256 different “per- an animal.” He quickly adds, ment with trivia games, auto-
do —meow, purr, turn, walk, and sonalities” have been pro- “People always confuse frivol- matic pets, and droning bears
sleep; courtesy of a chip-driven grammed into each Petster. ity of product with frivolity of as, well, lightweight? Suffice it
infrared transmitter. Like a real cat, you never know concept.” to say. it is unprintable.
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CITY, N.Y. Logicsoft, Inc. has indicated that
their long time policy of guaranteeing the lowest prices in the
distributor, has announced the inception of a unique new
mail order market is still being offered and will not be affected
customer service
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policy. .free
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^ to beat any price by $10” a company spokesman said. “We’d
overnight courier
be crazy to fool with success”, he stated; “since the inception
delivery on their en-
of our lowest price guarantee, sales have skyrocketed.”
tire product line.
In a recent inter-
When asked how Logicsoft could afford to give their
customers free overnight delivery plus beat any price by $10,
view, Mr. Paster-
they replied “Buying Power”. “Very simply”, they said, we
nack stated that
buy at the best possible prices and pass those savings along to
“We feel our new
our customers”.
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delivery service will set a new
LOGCTP OF THE MONTH
Choosing software can be
CONTMUOUS STATIONERY: BIG BUSINESS,
standard in the computer
mind-boggling. With the But “Where’s The Class?”
software mail order industry.
In a study we conducted, we proliferation of publishers, NEW YORK —The growth of Logicforms, Inc., a member of
found that in addition to how do you choose. the Logic Group, has been phenominal. Mr. Ralph Corso,
competitive pricing, expe- Analyze your needs. . . President of Logicforms explains why. “Up until now, buying
dience was a factor utmost in what specific tasks do you continuous stationery through the mail has been a take what’s
our customer’s minds. want to perform. Read the available situation”. “First off’, he said, “almost all mail
Whether their order was $300 software reviews; an ex- order firms offer only stock letterheads & envelopes with
or $3000, the need to get their cellentway to evaluate a limited typestyles, colors and stock logos from which to
package as soon as possible package. Ask around. . . choose, but, ‘where’s the class’?”
was the same. Under our old you’d be surprised how “The individual style and design of a letterhead”, said Mr.
procedures, between process- many associates may be us- Corso, “reflects the professionalism and personality of a com-
ing and shipping time, it ing a package similar to pany and should not have to change because they now have a
could take up to a week and a your application. Finally, printer and the need for continuous stationery. While other
half to two weeks for an choose the best package mail order firms are limited in the variety they can offer,
order to arrive. With our new (not always the most expen- Logicforms specializes in custom stationery. Logicforms of-
courier service, an order can sive). Upgrading will end up fers a large selection of quality paper, ink colors and special ef-
be processed, shipped,and costing you more. Remem- fects such as thermography, blind embossing, foil stamping
arrive in our customer’s ber the key word is research. tmd multi-color printing.” Mr. Corso went on to say that
hands in only 3 working “whether a customer chooses

days. ..at no additional
TOLL-FREE SUPPORT A Smashing Success to supply hisown artwork or
charge!” GARDEN CITY, N.Y. —A survey of Logicsoft’s toll-free printed letterhead, or wishes
The company is using technical support policy was done to see if it warranted the to selert from our vast array
Emery Worldwide to handle continued costs of the number, personnel costs,
8(X) toll-free of stock designs. .We are.
the large number of packages etc. After careful monitoring of these calls (both pre-sale and the Logical Choice”.
being shipped each evening after sale) it was found that 92% were for legiti-
of the calls For a free sample/pricing
for next day delivery. “We mate technical support questions rather than for answers al- kit and a handy re-usable
chose Emery for their com- ready contained in the softwares’ operations manual. As a re- shipping envelope for art-
petitive pricing structure and sult of the survey, the decision has been made to continue toll- work, simply call toll-free
excellent delivery record”, free support as an important part of their customer service. 1-800-645-3491 or send a
saidMr. Pasternack. Emery This service consists of assisting with: • Hardware re- sample of your current sta-
was quoted as saying, “This quirements • Initial boot-up procedures • Initial software con- tionery for a free firm price
makes Logicsoft the largest figuration (printers, disc drive, etc.) • Back-up procedures quote. Mail to Logicforms,
single Emery account in the • Defective program determination • Alternative program Inc., 300 Garden City Plaza,
New York Metro area. recommendation • Return policy Garden City, N.Y. 11530

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the BSRX- 10 control system. form exactly as you would controller, and you won't see it
The X-10 system is readily On the other hand, the

expect. by listing the supplied BASIC
available (both Scars and Radio X-10 controller and “real program. It's hidden some-
Shack carry it). It requires mini- world" interface should give where in the machine language
mal electronic abilities you — the ardent hobbyist hours of de- routine.
need only set thumbwheel light and frustration.
switches. And because it issues Master of the Universe
commands over your home's Short Slighted As an added means of putting
electrical lines using carrier- I felt shortchanged by mr. the universe at your command,
current signals, you not only Chips not because of anything it mr. Chips’ "real world" inter-
save design time but also the ef- is. but because of what it could face allows a convenient way of
fortof stringing wires through have been. It has so much po- sending and receiving raw digi-
your domicile. The only prob- tential. which is why I felt tal information—on-or-off sig-
lem in linking the X-10 to your slighted that its manufacturer nals and pulses. In essence.the
BY WINN L. ROSCH PC is expense. didn't take the last step neces- real world interface is a parallel
Assuming you already have a sary to make the product truly printer port that works in both
When it's not handling business PC. even the marginal cost of useful. directions —
sending and receiv-
matters, the personal computer adding an X- 10 link to your sys- The product's shortfall is ing information. (The IBM phi-
in the average American home tem runs badly behind that of software and. to a lesser extent, losophy of parallel ports ap-
often suffers from the same ex- BSR's own bargain basement documentation. The only aid to pears to be that it’s belter to give
istential dilemma as its control modules. Dedicated X- using mr. Chips is a BASIC pro- than receive.)
owners —
lack of purpose in to- 10 controller cards for your PC gram that loads a short piece of Even using the real world in-
day's world. Although invalu- cost$200 or more, while BSR machine language code. This terface. you’re still stuck with
able in the office, at home the charges just $20-570 for its allows you to switch appliances designing the circuitry to send
PC is a refined thinking ma- standalone control devices. on and off, dim the lights, and data to it from the universe be-
chine in a rough and tumble Moreover, each PC card robs soon. Unfortunately, it focuses yond or circuitry to turn its tiny
physical world, a brain expect- your PC of an expansion slot. all of your PC's energies and ef- digital output signals into elec-
ed to move boulders. To earn its The toll is too heavy to make forts on those tasks, turning trical motivation capable of do-
keep, the PC at home has to do economic sense. your $3,000 computer into a ing genuine work. And alas,
something physical in the real dedicated tight dimmer for the mr. Chips’ real world interface,
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world like the dishes. Orange You Glad? duration of the program. Conse- too, suffers from the poor pro-
Its greatest promise is in Orange Micro of Anaheim. quently. that "free" BSR X-10 gram problem that forces you to
home control; taking charge of a upon a nifty solu-
Calif., has hit interface doesn’t come so free devote your PC to trivial pur-
whole residence and keeping it tion: free (or nearly free)BSR after all. suits.
on an even kilter: cutting utility interfacing. The company The control abilities could be If you want to play Mr. Wiz-
bills, opening doors, vacuum- tosses in a link to the BSR sys- genuinely useful if only the con- ard without mr. Chips, howev-
ing the cat. To date, however, tem as one of the features of its trollingprogram ran in the back- er, you’ve probably got a one-
the average home computer cre- mr. Chips multifunction card. ground invisibly, continuously way real world interface already
ates more garbage than it elimi- At the very least, the control- stealing a tiny fraction of your built into your PC — in the guise
nates. ler distinguishes the product PC’s brain while you mash of an extra parallel port. If you
The homebound PC’s prima- from the other 10.000 almost- words or crunch numbers with can solder together a logic buff-
ry problem is not too little pow- interchangeablc multifunction other software. Like Sidekick ox er and a solid state relay, you
er (as some writers believe), but cards on the market. However, similar programs, you'd need can make your extra parallel
that its S-volt lifeblood is awed mr. Chips’s BSR X-IO feature only touch a couple keys to dim port switch the world on and off
and overwhelmed by the 120- fails to live up fully to its poten- the lights in the l^droom or turn as easily as using BASIC to
volt current coursing through tial. on the aircraft beacon at your POKE the proper bit patterns to
your walls. To take control, First adisclaimer: I find noth- heliport. Using it's system the port.
your PC needs an interface. ing wrong with mr. Chips as a clock, your PC could even take With eight data lines at your
As electronic projects go. multifunction product. It will automatic control. command, you might even be
building the interface circuitry neatly add up to 256K RAM, a Such home control software able to make a robot arm abide
required to give your PC electri- battery-backed-up clock, a seri- wouldn’t be hard to write. If you your bidding.
cal command of your household al port, a parallel port, an un- have a reasonable knowledge of
is relatively simple, but it re- usual "real world" interface, DOS’s function call 27. you
mr. Chips
quires some hardware engineer- and the BSR X-10 interface to could probably do it yourself
Orange Micro, Inc.
ing expertise, a source of parts your PC system. Furthermore, withoutmuch trouble.
1400 N. Lakeview Ave.
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FROM THE EDITOR’S SCREEN • BARRY OWEN
At PC, Data Is
A love of words and language
permeates the editorial process at PC Magazine.
But, like or not, language changes,
it
and in this case our editors and writers will change with it.
we discovered that Webster says,
L
ong ago, Middle His-
in the Late in ef- reserved for the worst class of offenses
torical Period, First Digital fect, “Treat the word data either way.” only: “We’ll print a correction.”
Era —September 1983 by analog Gentle reader, I want you to know that Whether we’re testing disk drives,
measure PC Magazine printed a letter PC Magazine welcomes your interest in evaluating 66 databases and 123 printers,
from Chip Clarke of Stony Brook, New our treatment of English. Sometimes, it or making contact with PC users in Na-
York, excoriating us for treating the pains me to admit, we’re wrong —embar- mibia in search of exotic applications,
word data as a singular noun.“Data is we take great cate with words, with lan-
the plural of datum,” he “Data
ranted. guage. That’s why we suffer so when we
are! Datum is!” He concluded by pontif- lapse.
icating that “it is a shame we don’t pay
more attention to our English.” High Standards
The reason I bring this up is that we Our former manager of copy editing,
continue to receive letters about our Anne Freed (who, pursuing mote bucolic
treatment of the English language. A re- surroundings, recently moved to New
cent missive from Joe Eugene Lepo of England) brought the highest ideals and
the University of Mississippi also took extraordinary abilities to the job of devel-
issue with our handling of data. He rec- oping copy edit standards. Because of
ommended that we “investigate the use her indelible influence, William "The
of the word data in Science, Journal of Elements of Style" Strunk is our god.
Bacteriology, or any of the many profes- Our bible is the Chicago Manual of Style.
sional scientific publications that have “What does Chicago say?” has become
been dealing with data and have been us- the most common question heard on
ing the word correctly for about a hun- Copy Edit Row.
Barry Owen
dred years before the existence of PC Our staff editors are editors to the hilt.
Magazine." Mr. Lepo concludes, “Al- rassingly wrong. In fact, we spot errors in We like word games. We have favorite
ternatively, I suggest you lookup in ait print all too often. The result is not pretty. poets (chief editor Bill Machrone’s is
dictionary.” Well, that’s exactly what Gnashing of teeth and convulsive howls ate John Donne). We study the difference
we did originally in response to Mr. not unusual. Wretched, rhythmic keening between restrictive and nonrestrictive
Clarke. Our September 1983 reply: sometimes ensues. But worse than any- clauses. We aim to avoid passive con-
“Data are. You’re right. Sort of. Your thing is the mute paralysis, a momentary structions, though not to eliminate them.
letter is a salvo in the unending conflict catatonia that afflicts a PC editor when he “Use passive verbs consciously” we im-
over the mutability of English. We or she discovers grammatical , orthographi- We read all manner of
plore our writers.
know, of course that the word data is the cal, or stylistic dereliction. extraneous material because to an editor,
plural of datum. . However, inas-
. . On-the-spot counseling usually proves nothing is extraneous; everything is in-
much as English lacks a central author- effective. If I may say so, I pride myself formation. We constantly debate gender,
ity, we take refuge in the pronounce- on my soothing deskside manner. A hand perhaps the most explosive editorial top-
ments of Webster, who, regarding the on the offender’s shoulder, an admoni- ic in English these days (I favor the care-
word data, rather cryptically notes, ‘pi tion to take more cate next time, a homi- fully applied generic he). Significantly,
but sing or pi in const.’ Data . . . ly, usually something timeworn but ef- we conduct all of our edits on paper ex-
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is Ed” Following Mr. Lepo’s advice. fective. And then the reliable old balm. cept for “PC News.” Naturally, we call
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EDITOR’S SCREEN
these “hard copy edits.” This practice is selves that spoken English is a different activity, every cover package project,
more expensive than on-screen edits, but language than written English. We read and the production of every page of type
it allows for greater control and account- language columnists like William Safire is a passionate love and respect for the
ability. We constantly correct each oth- and John Simon. We collect words and language. And we still make mistakes
er’s grammar but hasten to remind our- wear out dictionaries. Pervading every that find their way into the magazine.
The Ultimate Metaphor

Sometimes our mistakes are not really
mistakes. As with the troublesome word
Everything data. While I encourage you to write

when you discover a linguistic transgres-
you ever wanted to do sion, I think it's time for the Great Data
Debate to end. So 1 asked assistant editor
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with your printer . . . the Salami.
You speak of a stick of salami You .
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Now you can take full advantage of the Printers:

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printer. Printer Boss software gives you virtually
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Epson FX-80
Epson FX-100
Epson RX-80
an omelette —each strip is still a
on one plain-English menu, at the touch of a piece of salami. And at every stage
Epson RX-100
few keys. Epson JX-80 of the process, no matter where you
Epson LO-1500 cut it, it's still called salami.
Features: Letter quality printing, sideways IBM Graphics
up to 64k, RAM printer buffer up
printing of files
OKidata ML-92 Note that during this slicing pro-
OkiOata ML-93
to 64k,custom character font design download- Okidaia 2410 cess, atno point did you produce a
able from menu. 5 alternate IBM character sets Panasonic KX-P1090 piece of salami so small that it
with screen dump set. block and line graphics, Panasonic KX-P1091
Panasonic KX-P1092 couldn’t be cut finer and still be sa-
Greek and math symbols, high-speed character- Panasonic KX-P1093
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Panasonic KX-P1160
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Fast sample print routine and help screens for H-P Thinkjei 2225
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Unprotected copyable version available. NEC P3 Pinwriter
Star Oeita-lO
I think of it much like salami. Data
System: Printer Boss runs on the IBM-PC. PCjr,
Star Deiia-15 is a whole disk’s contents. Or data
Star Gemini-lOX
XT. AT and all compatibles with 128k RAM and Star Gemin»-i5X is a file. Data is a record in the file
one double-sided drive using PC-DOS 2,0. 2,1 Star Radix-10 or is a field in the record. Data is a
Star Radix-15
3 0. or MS-DOS equivalent.
Tandy DMP-2100 word in the field, is a character in
Toshiba P1340
the word, an attribute bit that’s
is
Prices: Printer Boss $59.95. With letter-quality Toshiba P1350
option $99.90. With sideways printing option Toshiba P1351 part of the character. Data even is
Centronics GLP
$99.90. With both options $139.85. Demo disk Centronics H-80 the voltage level on one of the lines
$ 10 00
. .
Cai-Abco 1200 that sets the state of that bit within
Diablo P10 I
Diablo Pi2 the computer. As you can see,

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outside USA and Canada $15.00. Dealers Riteman 15
Riteman Plus
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welcome. Free brochure. Riteman Blue Plus
Facit 451 My point is that information hounds
Siemens PT-88 and applications aficionados that we may
Connecticut Software Mannesmann MT-180
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Letters to
DOORS Modifications
PC
John Dickinson replies: Apple Users Bite Back
I would be quite content if PC contained From your letter I gather that you have I’m not sure if I should thank Paul
nothing but Programming, The Norton Version 2.0 of IBM’s Macro Assembler, Somerson for his thought-provoking edi-
Chronicles, User-to-User, and PC Tutor. which I didn’t have when DOORS was (“Manual Labor,” Volume 4
torial
However, I do read each issue from cov- originally written. Several bugs have Number 4) or lambaste him.
er to cover. been fixed in the new release, and the as- A year ago, I started a subscription to
Within minutes of receiving the Feb- sembler allows less ambiguity in the PC Magazine because I planned to re-
ruary 5, 1985, issue 1 began to enter the source code as a result. place my vintage Apple II computer with
DOORS assembler routine described in Version 2.0 is very picky about treat- an IBM PC-XT. Somewhere along the
the Programming column (“Try a Door, ing labels directly as pointers. When I line, I got sidetracked and ended up buy-
Not a Window,” Volume 4 Number 3). tried the DOORS assembler routine in ing a “toy” instead. I don’t think that the
When I assembled the program, I was the new assembler, I got the same errors lack of copious documentation had any-
greeted with six error 57 messages (ille- you did. The assembler also complained thing to do with my decision, nor do I
gal size for item). The errors were associ- about the ROMJCBJNT variable’s not think that my experience installing Lo-
ated with the section of code that being initialized. tus’s 1-2-3 on an XT
necessarily had an
swapped the double-word vectors for the There’s no need to worry. Your cor- impact (which manual was that driver in-
new keyboard interrupt routine. 1 think rectly modified program generates the stallation sequence in, anyway?). I do
the program was trying to load a 4-byte same machine code in either version of think that the Macintosh documentation
address into a 2-byte register pair, which the assembler: the same code that’s gen- is great. Maybe the standardization that
resulted in the illegal size error. erated using the source printed here with you think is a pipe dream exists in the
By including the assembler operator the old assembler. I haven’t tried it, but! Macintosh user interface. With all that
“WORD PTR” just before each vector think Microsoft’s new assembler will be- front end in ROM, it’s hard to develop a
label, I could assemble the program have the same way as IBM’s will. Stay program that doesn’t seem standard.
without error. I replaced the code in the —
tuned PC Magazine will have reviews The machine does have its limitations,
“SWAP.VECTORS” procedure, locat- of both. but I will not concede that they are indi-
ed between the “CLI” and “STI” in- cations of “skimpy computing ability.”
structions, with the code shown below: If the machine is such a toy, why are peo-
BASIC CAPS ple trying to imitate it?
CLI DISABLE ; I would like to pose the following ques-
I agree with your observation that ad-
INTERUPTS tion in the Letters to PC column. Is there
vertising can sometimes take cheap
MOV AX, WORD PTR KB.INT-VECTOR a statement that I can place in my shots, but a cheap shot probably feels
MOV WORD PTR ROM-KB-INT, AX AUTOEXEC.BAT file that will cause all like a mosquito bite to Big Blue. In a
MOV AX, WORD PTR KB-INT. letters that are typed to be capital letters?
world of “me too” clones, I give Apple
VECT0R-(-2 Ray Battalora
credit for producing the Macintosh.
MOV WORD PTR R0MJ(B-INT-H2 AX , Covington, Louisiana
Gary Smith
MOV WORD PTR KB-INT.VECTOR,
Madison, Alabama
OFFSET
There are many ways to force the Caps-
DOORS-INT
Lock on. The easiest is to write a tiny BA - too bad that I was riding a train
It’s really
MOV WORD PTR KB-INT-
SIC program: when I read Paul Somerson’s Editor’s
VECT0R-h2,CS
Screen (Volume 4 Number 4). Some of
STI ENABLE ; 10 DEF SEG=0
the best invectives I created for my reply
INTERUPTS 20 POKE 1047, PEEK (1047)
were lost because I didn’t have a pencil
OR 64
With these modifications the program and paper or portable computer. My,
works as advertised and has proved to be arul call it CAPS.BAS. Then, in your what colorful writing Somerson uses:
very useful. I often keep a directory list- AUTOEXEC. BATfile, include aline: ”... fouling the airwaves . . . cheap
ing on one screen while I use the other shot commercial . . . toy compu-
BASIC CAPS
screen for file housekeeping chores. ters . . . lumpen chowderheads . . .
.”
Michael Rose Be sure both the CAPS.BAS program deceit . . .Cupertino con job . . .
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to menu selections, edits and 450 W. California Avenue, Vista, Somerson's thesis is that the beginner
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I read PC regularly and usually regard it
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Somerson’s comments aimed at Apple
You’ll Choose Tripp Lite. computers and users. I am an experi-
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Automatically adjusts varying input voltages up or down to protect and I disagree with his remarks.
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• Maintains load voltage 120V Personal Computer 6300” (Volume 3
AC (±5%) from 96V AC to Number 24), Somerson implies that Ap-
138V AC input range. ple users are not serious computer users.
I am sure that the myriad of people who
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run their labs, control large-scale mail-
filters.
sorting operations, run their businesses,
• 98% efficient. Load regula- and perform other highly complex tasks
tion is 2% for no load to full with their Apples all think they are seri-
load.
ous users. What are Somerson’s criteria
• Indicator light for monitoring for determining who is a serious user? Is
high and low voltage condi- it based on knowledge of the machine
tions. and the ability to make it perform or sim-

ply on salary and software budget?
These stepped transformer systems are higher in efficiency, lower in
Somerson reviled Apple II’s renum-
wave form distortion, and lower in cost than C.V.T.’s (constant voltage
bering system in the User-to-User col-
transformers).
umn in the same issue; however, “truly
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It serves no purpose to slur Apple.

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This past year I had the misfortune to co- without the system diskette in drive A. utilization of pathnames, file handles,
HardRunner is the authentic self- hidden files, device independence, variable

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ious Apple products, and was I glad to
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get my hands back on a PC when / was
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done. All I can say is. put a PC (or an AT) without the Lotus or Symphony system a flash Instant Text Display
. is much f^ter
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LotusorSymphmiyprc^rams. In addition, hardware required
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THE NORTON CHRONICLES PETER NORTON '
The Good News

About DOS 3.x
Although response to the new DOS hasn’t been particularly
—
overwhelming except from AT owners Norton still finds a few added —
goodies that can make a system change worthwhile.
D o you have DOS 3.0 (or 3.1)?

Chances are you don’t. Once you
settle into using a version of
DOS, there isn't much motivation to
switch to a new one, unless you just must
disk labels (which helps keep track of
disks).
grams as
With Version 3.1, you can
subdirectory so that it
alias a
appears to pro-
a separate disk drive.
aliasing ability is very nice, but it
The
also il-
discuss some more subtle benefits of the
new series.
One of the best benefits of DOS 3.x is
that it’s much more wary about destroy-
ing data. The most obvious evidence of
have the latest and greatest operating sys- lustrates an ironic quality of many im- this is the changes in how the FORMAT
tem, or unless a new version is command is set into motion. Say you’ve
necessary —like getting DOS 3.0 be- asked DOS to format a disk; IX)S 3.x re-
cause you have an AT. sponds:
In this column. I’ll discuss some little-
Insert new diskette for
known virtues of the new DOS series and
drive A:
talk a bit about the practical details of
and strike ENTER when ready
switching your operating system from
one version of DOS to another. In previous versions of IX)S “Strike EN-
As you’ve probably gathered by TER” used to be “Strike any key.” This
—
now since it’s been quite a few months could make a big difference in data safe-
since DOS 3.0 was introduced last ty, especially if youwant to abort format-
—
September for most people, there ting because you’ve specified the wrong
aren’t many thrills to the new version of drive. When it’s “Strike any key,” only
EKDS. The most obvious enhancement is the Ctrl-Break key combination will stop
thatit includes whatever special support things. But when it’s “Strike ENTER,”
the high-powered PC AT requires (most- you can accidentally hit any other key
ly coping with the complexities of the Peter Norton without setting the wheels in motion.
dual-mode, high-capacity disk drive You may see little difference between
which makes DOS 3.0 essential to AT provements to DOS. When disk the two instructions. But if you are as
users). The other major change is the in- subdirectories were introduced along butterfingered as I am, or if you have
troduction of internal networking fea- with DOS 2.0 and the PC-XT in the turned your computer over to an easily
tures such as file sharing and data locking spring of 1983, there were lots and lots of flustered assistant, this change could
(a technique that prevents the data from programs that were firmly married to us- mean the difference between a brief scare
being shared by one program while it’s ing the A: and B: drives, and we really and permanent data loss.
being changed by another). needed to be able to alias them then to Now let’s consider the same scenario,
help adapt old programs to new disks. but this time the data at risk isn’t an A:
Something for Everyone Now, 2 years later, when programs that drive floppy; it’s the C: drive hard disk
For network and AT users, DOS 3.x is can’t adjust to subdirectories are rare, we that holds every byte of data you possess.
important, but it doesn’t seem so impor- finally get the tool we needed then and This time, DOS tells you;
tant to the restof us. Yet there are some hardly need now.
WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-
new and useful goodies for everybody in
REMOVABLE DISK
thelatestDOS. Version3.0givesyouthe A Change in FORMAT DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST!
ability to make read-only files (which For those of you who still aren’t moti-
Proceed with Format (Y/N)7
helps protect your data) and to control vated to switch to DOS 3.0 or 3.1, I’ll

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Glory be! Even 1 might notice that habit of pressing Enter in response to a keystroke. I’m not claiming it’s totally
warning. It’s pretty explicit. What more FORMAT message. I’m still OK. In this foolproof, but it does reduce the risk of
could it do except ask for a note from my more-dangerous situation, the response some nasty mistakes.
mother? Best of ail, if I’ve gotten into the requires both the letter Y and an Enter
Easier Unerasing
DOS 3.x has a variety of changes that
makes it less likely that you’ll lose your
data,and the best one of tdl is completely

invisible. This change in DOS makes it
easier to “unerase,” or recover data
from a file that was unintentionally
erased.
Let me give you a little background in-
formation. When data is written to a
disk, DOS finds room for itfrom a pool
of available space on the disk. When a
file is erased from a disk, the file’s data
destroyed it’s simply
isn’t actually —
“thrown away’’ by assigning its disk
space to the pool of available space. If
that space is later reused by another file,
then the erased file will, of course, be

overwritten.
But suppose that the erased and aban-
doned data hasn’t been overwritten.
With the appropriate clever moves, you
can get your erased data back. This is
what “unerasing” is all about, and you
can do it though the magic of programs
such as my Norton Utilities or IBM’s
Disk Repair Facility. The potential suc-
cess of unerasing hinges on whether or
not the erased data’s space has been re-
used.
The DOS 3 Difference

Here’s the part where DOS 3.x is dif-
ferent. In previous versions of DOS,

when you wrote new data on the disk, the
flrst available chunk of disk space was
used. It was very likely that this first

available space was occupied by the file
most recently erased. If you had done
anything with your disks between eras-
ing a file and realizing that you needed to
unerase it, your data was gone for good.
If, thankfully, you realized your mistake
immediately after erasing some data, you

still had a very good chance of getting it
back unharmed.
DOS 3.x to the rescue. I don’t know if
this was intentional or just the happy by-

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finding space for newly entered data. disk. But it does increase the flexibility provements that are made to DOS, re-
of disk use. lease after release. In gradual but signifi-
Other Goodies That, in fact, one of the main themes
is cant ways, the flexibility and usefulness
Under the old rules, when DOS went that we see mnning though all the im- of DOS is being expanded.
looking for disk space, it would use the
space most recently surrendered — the
very disk space you mostly likely want
back. But under the
DOS
new
3.J goes looking for space,
after the
it goes
space that was discarded the

rules, when
match
longest time ago —
space you’re least
^the
likely to want back. In other words, DOS

now aids data recovery
your erased data as long as
by preserving
it can.
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COVER STORY BILL MACHRONE
TOPVIEW IS HERE— THE FIRST OF THE MULTITASKING, WIN-

DOWING SYSTEMS FROM BIG-NAME MAKERS. PC MAGAZINE HAS FROM
TESTED ITS PERFORMANCE AND SPECULATED ON
KETING STRATEGY. OUR EXPERTS DISCUSSED IT AMONG THEM-
IBM’S MAR-
THE
SELVES AND WITH TOPVIEW’S LIKELY COMPETITORS. THERE’S
A GREAT DEAL TO ADMIRE IN THE PROGRAM, BUT PERHAPS
BOTTOM
EVEN MORE TO QUESTION. WE WONDER:
ESSARILY BEST?
IS BEING FIRST NEC- UP
“Well, I’d like to love you
. . . that is, I mean,I know /
TOPVIEW IS FOR NOVICES: IT GIVES THEM A MENU-BASED should, but. ...”
SS operating shell that shields them from the complexities
of DOS. TopView is for software developers: It lets them do

multiple things simultaneously, saving time and effort. Top-
View is for advanced users: It allows them to cut and paste
among applications as well as run concurrent programs. Top-
View is for the birds: It’s prevented from doing any of the
above well enough to endear itself to users. Not that TopView
isn’t a significant program. It’s a watershed product, even if
no one buys it. Here’s why.
Concurrency is an idea whose time has come to personal

computers. So is windowing. Most minicomputers and main- Tctaerevkoff
frames can run multiple tasks from a single terminal, increas-

Micbel
ing productivity and utility. Personal computers haven’t, until i:
now, had the horsepower to do more than one thing at a time.

—
COVER STORY
Smart programmers have, however, man- grams (see PC, Volume 4 Number 2, page consuming tasks such as large spreadsheet
aged to harness unused processor time to 204). They window onto your screen, dial recalculations and database sorts need no
conduct a second activity in the back- the phone, take a note, or whatever, and longer tie up your machine. You just call
ground. A common example is a word then disappear. Even though your main up TopView, switch processes, and start
processing package’s ability to edit and application appears to have been operating something new. At least that’s how the
print simultaneously. Likewise, print the whole time, it actually stops while the theory goes.
spooling programs allow printing while desk manager is operating. Horsepower is still the big issue. As
you use the machine for other tasks. Systems that offer tme concurrency, you’d expect, concurrency exacts a perfor-
Desk managers such as Sidekick, Spot- such as TopView and Concurrent PC- mance penalty. The degree to which it is
light, and PolyWindows offer the illusion DOS, actually do what desk managers obtrusive depends on how fast your
of concurrency by making themselves —
only pretend to do they keep multiple machine is and the number and kind of
available while you are using other pro- programs running at the same time. Time- applications you are running.
So why is TopView even worth a sec-
ond look? One of the obstacles to concur-
rency and windowing has been the relative
TopView’s Performance amount of freedom enjoyed by program-
mers in adapting their products to DOS.
WordStar scroll 1(X)K file dBASE II index 7(X) records^ Of course, any programmer will argue that
40- taking liberties with DOS is necessary to
Time in seconds Timc in minulcs achieve the performance that users want
COMPAQ COMPAQ on the PC. However, the increased perfor-
35
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IBM PC AT IBM PC AT
mance of the new machines the ft AT, —
Deskpro, AT&T, and Eagle Turbo
opens the door for disciplined programs
30-
that allow multitasking while overcoming
much of the slowness associated with the
origiruil PC.
25-
TopView defines a way in which pro-
grams can be written to ftuKtion well in a
is some
multitasking environment. There
top-quality TopView,
programming in
especially in the areas of window
manage-
ment and memory management. Even if it
fails in the marketplace, TopView will
have done a service to the industry by
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common background task. The background task behind WordStar was a dBASE
recommended, 1 floppy drive and 1
IIprogram that ran entirely In memory. The background task behind dBASE II
was a BASIC program with a complex inner loop that took just over a second to fixed disk, or 2 double sided floppy
execute on the Compaq Plus. There was no contention for disk access. drives, DOS 2.0 or higher.
112 PC MAGAZINE e APRIL 30. 1985

establishing and promulgating standards
for all application programs.
Haute Computure
Here’s my idea of what the well
dressed personal computer is wearing in
the office this season: maximum RAM, a
spreadsheet, a word processor, a database
manager, and a desk manager. If the data
files are large enough, it has a hard disk.
Other programs and accessories are avail-

able as needed.
Chances are your own machine beats
more than a passing resemblance to the
above. If so, you’ve come to accept the
delays as you switch fiom one application
to another, or you’ve overcome the occa-
sional need to get out of your spreadsheet
and into the word processor with the note-
pad function in the desk manager. Okay,
TopVlew’s Start-a-Program
you have to exit to use the database or the aeraen: Where It all begins. TopView presents all of
communications program, but the time it the programs It ktraara atMut tar your patuaal. A squars buHsI to the latt ol
takes doesn’t really cramp your style. ths program nams Indlcalsa tharo Is suffletant memory to run the application.
To accomplish the same thing under M tharo Is not aiwugh space, TopVIsw will not allow you to salset the Ham
with the mouse.
TopView, you must first have enough
memory to accommodate all your applica-
tions, or at least the ones you want to exe-
cute simultaneously. You will also need a
mouse; TopView is unsuited for use with-
out one. You can install it for use with just
the keyboard, but it’s slow, ungainly, and
annoying. Mouse buttons 1, 2, and 3

become the (numeric keypad) 7, 9, and Alt
keys on your PC. The Ctrl key toggles you
in and out of TopView keyboard mode.
Using the keyboard is irritating compared
with using a mouse, especially since it’s
accompanied by a cacophony of beeps,
boops, and squacks.
Lights, Windows, Action!

To do anything with TopView, you
have to build a menu of programs that it
can mn. It comes with an extensive list of
IBM software and other products sold Two programs running:

WordStar and dBASE II are running concurrently.
through IBM and its distribution chatuiels WordStar 3.3 cannot bs windowad bacauaa It writes dhoctly to tho PC's a c raan
stored in .PIF (Program Information) files. rnsmory. WordStar's proaanca In the background has little attact on dBASE Ifa
IBM also includes a book of popular non- partarmanca sbica H Is not receiving keystrokss. Ha praaanca would be noUcaabla
IBM applications, word processors, and If It wars printing.
database managers, giving the settings that
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MORE THAN A MANUAL

The TopView Programmer' s Toolkit starts with the basic concepts to elucidate
TopView’s inner workings and provides some sparkling software of its own.
O ne of the keys to the eventual suc-

cess of a concurrent task manager is
a sufficiency of applications that run well
interact.
No more
This is not for the faint of heart:
than 38 pages into the manual,
you are plowing through register-by-reg-
whether it will allow the u.ser to
size, scroll, cut, pa.ste,
will also notily
copy, or quit. It
your program if the user
move,
with To that end, IBM has provided

it. ister descriptions of intermpt handlers. has sized, moved, zoomed, scrolled,
the TopView Programmer’s ToolKit, a But there’s gold in them thar subrou- asked for help, requested copy or cut/
weighty tome that comes with two disks tines. For instance, you find that Top- above
paste, or tried to quit. All of the
full of utilities and sample programs. View manages both logical and physical are accomplished through straightfor-
Describing how to interface applica- windows for programs. The logical win- ward calls, with a macro library provided
tionprograms to a multitasking operating dow measures 90 columns by 30 lines, on one of the ToolKit disks. This may
system extension can be tedious at best. while the physical window can be any not sound like much, but user interface
IBM has gone to great lengths to make subportion that fits on the screen. Top- routines are among the most difficult to
the ToolKit manual readable and infor- View is also fully capable of managing write. The prospect of having it all there
mative. It starts with the basic concepts multiple windows for each task or appli- in a standard format is very attractive.
of TopView’s operation, how programs cation program. The applications can use Yes, it limits the programmer’s personal
interact with it, and how the machine’s queues in the form of data streams or expression of how a user interface should
resources are shared. It fully defines all messages to communicate with one be designed, but then users have had
the terms that a programmer needs to another. An example is TopView’s cut- about all the personal expression they
know to speak TopView’s language. and-paste capability. 'You ^so find that can stand.
As a prograrruner, your linguistic TopView provides such nifties as trans- The jewel in the ToolKit’s crown is
skillshad bener encompass assembler if parent and translucent fields within win- the Window Design Aid, or WDA. This
you are to make heads or tails of the doc- dows. These let the user “see through" set of programs mns under TopView and
umentation. Oh, there is an appendix on the current window to the one below. allows you to design screens with an ease
using Pascal with the ToolKit. but the You can u.se such capabilities for imple- short of intuitive. It has a
that’s just
implication is clear that real program- menting cut/pa.ste or copy features in mouse-driven full-screen editor that lets
mers don’t use high-level languages. If your application or Just for visual you position prompts, input fields, and
you persevere, you are rewarded with enhancement. output fields wherever you like, move
deeper knowledge of how TopView TopView smart enough to know
is them around singly or in chunks, and
works and gain an appreciation for its about data fields within windows and can then assign field numbers and I/O attri-
simply managed complexities. interact with the user on a character-by- butes to the data areas. This last function
TopView’s functions are divided into character, field, or full-screen basis. It is easier to use than the screen builders
classes (as in categories, not lessons). can convert to uppercase, hand data off built into most of the databa.se manage-
The cla.s.ses that TopView knows about to validation routines, route error mes- ment systems currently available. The
are the keyboard, mailboxes, object sages back to the user, and control the best part is that you can test every field
queues, panels, pointers, and windows. mouse buttons.
interpretation of the on the screen for proper function without
Whole chapters are devoted to each cat- The window manager is wonderfully having written a line of supporting code.
egory, complete with assembler exam- flexible and takes its cues from your The data test mode allows you to enter
ples of how your program and TopView application program in determining data, then, in a separate window, shows

.
will allow the products to work best with

TopView. Even if your favorite package is
not among the ones mentioned, it
you what was entered and what its attri- tions. Programs written for TopView are shouldn’t take you more than a few tries to
butes were. It even works for point-and- sufficiently well mannered to politely get it running properly.
click menus. pause and allow other programs to tun, Installing a program by Top-
for use
The WDA is flexible and powerful. It and then automatically resume. Or they View is simple. You click Add A Program
uses color to great advantage, right down can request the machines undivided and then teU TopView the path in which
to the soothing greenof the context-sen- attention during a critical operation with- the program resides, the name you want to
sitive help menus. A plethora of options out having to resort to the impoli- appear in the selection menu, and the for-
lies just a mouse click away. You can lesse of disabling interrupts. mi name of the program. If a .PIF file is
even change your mind: WDA

lets you If the screen-handling functions that present. TopView extracts the necessary
reorder and renumber the fields. Y ou can TopView provides had been built into information. Otherwise, TopView in-
from
link the output WDA
to your pro- DOS — if, through a miracle of foresight. quires about the relative politeness of the
grams. You can make the code memory Version 1.0 had come with the Tool- —
program it wants to know whether the
resident for speed or disk resident for Kit— would be a better world for PC
this program writes directly to the screen, if it
compactness. users. Concurrency would be just a wel- reads the keyboard buffer directly, wheth-
One of the most intriguing things come enhancement to a repertory of pro- er it tuns only in the foreground, and if it
about perusing the ToolKit is the appre- grams that all work pretty much the same uses the math coprocessor.
ciation its gives you for TopView’s per- way. But now it’s a political football sub- Programs that write through DOS calls
formance potential. While there’s no ject to acrimony, envy, and competition. rather than directly to the screen can be
way to overcome slow machines or the A fine tool such as WDA may never gain windowed. You can startthem at the
640K barrier, it’s clear that most existing wide acceptance because we’re too set in default full-screen size and then use Top-
applications tun under worst-case condi- our disparate ways. B.M. — View’s window functions to reduce the
size and move the windows around on the
screen. TopView also provides zoom and
unzoom capability for switching between
full screens and windows. You can specify
a default window size other than 25 by 80

and a starting location other than the upper
left comer of the screen.
You also tell TopView the minimum
and maximum amounts of memory that
the program will use. Once you click out
of the Add menu, TopView adds the new
program to the list under the Start A Pro-
gram menu. A square bullet next to the
program name means that enough memory
is available for TopView to run the appli-
cation.
To begin a program you simply point at
its name on the Start A Program menu and
click button 1. To begin another process,
you press button 3 (or both buttons on a
The Window Design Aid Is a power- two-button mouse), which brings up Top-
designing TopVlew-
ful full-screen editor for
View’s main menu. You select Programs
compatlble windows, called panels. It has extensive options
with the mouse and then click button 1
to control type and numbering of fields, editing, and method of Input.
and TopView overlays the Start A Pro-
gram menu onto your screen. You .select
the one you want to tun and then click
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button 1 The new application starts, and

.
you can use it normally. To switch back to

your original application, you click button
3 to get the TopView main menu and
select Switch from the available options.
This brings up a submenu that lists all the
active programs. You select your previous
application via mouse and click button 1 to
return to it. When you end an application,
TopView intercepts the call that would
normally return you to [X)S and asks you
to click button 2. At that point you are
returned to the last application that Top-
View was running or to the Start A Prr>
gram menu if no processes are left.
As with all purely menu-driven sys-
tems, this takes just as long to do as it does
to tell about it. TopView gives little con-
sideration to the proficient user who can
type faster than point and click. The only
TopView menu: TopView
convenience is that a double click of but-
laMserts Its presence whenever you press
mouse button 3. You can use ths yellow menu lo switch ton 3 will cause TopView to switch among
teaks but Is most ollen used to control wIikIows. Double-cllcMng button 3 Is tasks without recourse to the Switch menu.
a more eonvsniant way of swttchlng tasks. The missing bullets Indicate The GEM/Macintosh interface is better
requ ests that are Inappropriate or lllagtf TopVlaw will not allow you to exit
.
there is less clicking, fewer pull-down
untH you have exitsd an application programs.
menus, more dependency on where you
are when you click. Both could be
improved by the addition of mnemonic
keystrokes as with Framework. Neverthe-
less, there’s a ton of good code in Top-
View.
It’s not really TopView’s fault that
multitasking slows things down. In fact,

TopView’s task manager does an excellent
job of keeping everydiing running while
minimizing the impact on the performance
of any single task. More tasks, of course,
requite more slices of the processor’s
time.
TopView Does Windows

TopView does an excellent job of man-
aging the programs running within its win-
dows. A typical program expects to be
Add a Program TopView leams
about the programs it can execute from the
writing to the full screen. TopView mon-
Add.a.Program menu. If a Program Information File Is found In the directory you itors the program’s cursor positioning
spai^, TopView scans It for Information about the file. If multiple files are instructions and shifts the entire image
avallabis, It puts up a menu for you to s sls ct programs for Installation. If no PIF within the window so that the cursor is
Is present, the next screen prompts you for the program's full title.
always visible. There appears to be a brief,
built-in time delay, so the screen doesn’t

go crazy trying to update off-screen things
such as line counters in word processing
programs.
In testing TopView, I dug out my old
copy of WordStar 3. 2A, the predecessor to
the current version. This version is widely
known to be slow as molasses, primarily
It’s not really

TopView’s fault that
multitasking slows
things down.
because it addresses the screen through

DOS calls. Speed considerations aside,
this makes it ideal for use in TopView.
You can patch WordStar for virtually any Change a File TopView gives
screen size, so have two
it is feasible to full control over the default conditions under
versions ofWS.COM on your system, one which a program operates. Setting minimum and maximum memory
for full-screen operations, the other for a
requirements allows TopView to squeeze a program Into memory with less than
you would normally use but with enough for a smaller |ob. It will allocate
predetermined wirulow size. You can call
the maximum memory if It is available. If a program can be windowed, you can
one from TopView’s Start A Pro-
either set a size smaller than 80 x 25 at locations other than the upper-left corner.
gram menu, and you can run both at the
same time. Another program that writes
“politely” to the screen is dBASE II. It
also lets you configure it for screens small-

er than 25 by 80.
In use, both packages functioned nor-
mally, albeit a tick slower than normal.
When dBASE was performing background
sorts or indexes or ranning any kind of
program, the effect on Wor^tar was
immediately visible. Scrolling, help me-
nus, and anything that updated the screen
became ponderously slow. The PC AT, of
course, was much mote tolerant of all this
activitythan my other test machine, a
Compaq Plus. You can see the rest of our
performance results in the chart that
accompanies this article.
TopView with Sidekick:
Memory Maven Impossible? Not really. Sidekick runs with
It’s TopView keeps
a good thing that TopView but not concurrently. When you Invoke
memory usage, because it sure
track of the Sidekick, all activities under TopView come to a halt. When you leave
Sidekick, they resume again. Borland International promises that the next
makes it tough for you to see how much is
version of Sidekick will be fully compatible with TopView.
free. For one thing, it forbids use of
CHKDSK. To get around this, I installed
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MOUSKETUTOR
When teamed up with a mouse, TopView’s tutorial can offer the
middle-of-the-road PC user a good taste of the program's capabilities.
W hether you
knowledgeable about
a relatively new PC
are
user,
already
DOS
very
or are
you shouldn't
sponds to button 2, and the Alt key. on
the other side of the keyboard, brings up
the main menu.
start
But the tutorial doesn't
TopView. either.
user's guide gives a hint, referring the
tell you how to
Page 2-13 of the
miss the opportunity to experiment with For starters, this setup is confusing. It reader to Appendix B for information on
the new level of operating-system doesn't resemble the arrangement of the starting TopView with option codes.
sophistication that integrators such as mouse buttons, nor does it follow the And sure enough. Appendix B says that
TopView offer. If you choose to scale more common keyboard convention of you can start TopView from a subdirec-
these new heights with TopView, you'll using arrow keys for cursor move- tory by typing G. By this time, most
want to start on the ground fltwr by going ment. users will have discovered this by trying
thnrugh its tutorial. However, there are out all the .BAT files on the program
things to know about the tutorial that will Keyboard Disadvantages disk.
make the learning proce.ss more like Using a keyboard instead of a mouse If you want key
to use the Shift-PrtSc
riding an escalator than climbing a steep engenders small, nagging inconve- combination to print any of the tutorial
flightof stairs. niences as well. You'll have to remem- screens so that you'll print the extended
FirstofalKdon'ruseakeyboard. You ber to press the Ctrl key to toggle the graphics characters instead of extra num-
should accept the fact that you will help cursor between its normal use for mov- bers, you'll need a completely IBM-
to increase the electronic nxlent popula- ing through text and its TopView use for compatible printer; the DOS Graphics
tion;go out and buy a mouse. Attempt- moving between menus. IBM should Command won't do it.
ing to replace the mouse with a key- have either required a mouse or And one last thing before starting
board, even in the tutorial, will create a improved the use of the keybtrard. SETUP. Make sure the tutorial floppy is
sense of disorderliness about the pro- Once you're convinced to use a in the A: drive; if it isn't, you'll hang up
gram's processes that is unfair to "Top- mouse and have it set up, you should the .system and have to rebrxrt.
View and to you. read Chapter 2 in the u.scr's guide. This
Page vi of the TopView user's guide brief chapter clearly explains how to start Tutor Windows
states, "A mouse is recommended, but the disk tutorial from a floppy or hard The main portion of each tutorial
not required.” This is merely IBM disk and summarizes what you'll Icam screen is taken up by either explanatory
understatement. The three-button from it. (The information conveyed in information or a sample document in a
mou.se, the ideal pointing tool to use with the disk tutorial is also presented fully in window. On every screen, a window in
TopView, is given the following button Chapter 3 and is reviewed in short form the lower right-hand comer contains
assignments: pressing the button nearest in "ropView’s quick reference pam- directions for the tutorial user. If you
the thumb (button 1 ) selects menu phlet.) make a mistake, a guiding comment will
choices, the middle button (button 2) Starting the tutorial is not so simple as appear here. The tutorial is rigged so that
moves back one level on a menu, and the typing in ''Tutorial” — Chapter 2 directs the options actually available to you are
outside button, (button 3) always selects you to acce,ss it through the SETUP batch limited, and the menu options you are
the main TopView menu. If you u.se a file. Once you start using TopView suppo.sed to choo.se ate highlighted.
keyboard, the Home key is equivalent to itself, you'll find that the tutorial is also Tlie tutorial first explains how to use
mouse button 1, the PgUp key corre- available Irom the welcome screen. the mouse or keyboard, then steps you
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the Norton Utilities SI (System Informa-
tion) program, which tells you how much
thniuiih each function in the main Top- experimenting on a couple of sample

RAM you have overall and how much is
View menu. Most of these main func- documents, with short definitions and
roped off as system memory. RAM allo-
cated by TopView appears as reserved
tions have several subfunctions that arc pointers appearing in a box on the
system memory to SI, so you can see how
represented on a secondarv' menu. For side.
much is left.
instance, the main function Scissors is an On the other hand, the relatively new
If you start an application that gloms
umbrella for three subfunelions. Cut. or casual user may find that the tutorial
most of the remaining free RAM, Top-
Copy, and Paste. doesn't explain enough about interfacing
View assaults you with a big red warning
However, the nature of an integrating with the functions. This person could use
flag telling you that you're using nearly all
pnxluet such as TopView is that the sub- a more detailed tutorial that would clarify
the available meriKxy It also suggests that
.
functions are rarely used alone but are

things may go awry and that you should
almost always used with other functions
or subfunetions. In order to move a sec-
Using a keyboard instead
start saving your files often —
hardly com-
forting.
tion of text from one dixtument to anoth-
of a mouse with the If you’re really intent on tunning Top-
er. for example, you must use the Pro-
gram first dtKu-
function to access the
View-illegal programs such as CHKDSK
tutorial engenders small, and FORMAT, you can get away with
ment. the Cut subfunetion to pull out the
text, theSwitch function to go to the oth- nagging inconveniences. installing COMMAND.COM to run un-
der TopView. The screen clears, and you
er dixrument. and the Paste subfunction
to move the portion of text to the new
see the good old DOS prompt. You can
how to combine the functions to perfomi
then run any utility or program that you
dtxtunienl.
increasingly elaborate tasks. Perhaps this would normally run under DOS—if
could be accomplished by using mote you’ve reserved enough memory. Inciden-
Limited Scenarios scenarios in the tutorial, or by using a tally, CHKDSK running under COM-
The tutorial creates a couple of sce- series of related scenarios to make it
MAND.COM in this manner reports on
narios in which you can try out these clearer how the different functions relate the amount of memory reserved, not the
multistep pitKcduies. These scenarios to one another. amount left in the system. When you type
cover just a few examples rather than If you consider yourself to be a mid-
EXIT, you are retumed to TopView’s Pn>
demonstrating every possible combina- dle-of-the-road PC user —
and if you use gram l^ded window. A tap on button 2
tion of functions and subfunelions. Top- a mouse —
TopView 's tutorial should be gets you back to the previous window or to
View has so many alternative routes and just tine for you. Start A Program.
uses that a single tutorial can't include all In the final analysis, though, learning
of them. But this is also what makes Top- to use TopView is like learning to use How About XyWrite and Friends?
View's tutorial unsatisfactory , both for any software. To get started, run through You may have heard dire warnings
the relatively new computer user and the the tutorial and read over the manual. about TopView’s behavior with programs
advanced user. After that, you’ll probably need to that write directly to your screen or other-
An experienced PC user will already review how to use the DOS Services wise attempt to take over your machine.
have a gixxl idea of how an application menu, since you may finish the tutorial Well , none of them are true. Even XyWrite
functions and what it can do. Chances and realize that you still don't have any II canbe run successfully, although it’s not
are he or she just wants to get the gist of a idea how to start one of your usual appli-
particularly fond of having tasks tun
new package's commands and prtxe-
dures and take it from there. For this kind
cations. such as 1-2-3 or WordStar. If
you want to look over any portion of the
behind it in background keyboard re- —
sponse is hurt. But the program does
of user. TopView’s step-by-step tutorial tutorial itself, ytxi can return to that point work. And it even does simultaneous
is l(X) pitxiding. .SonKIhing along the in the tutorial with the Topics function. printing and editing with tasks in back-
lines of an interactive disk version of But after that, you just have to start using ground. This is only true if you are using a
Chapter 3 of the user’s guide would be TopView. experimenting with it. refer- mouse. XyWrite otherwise grabs off the
more appropriate. The user could run ring to the manual, and making it your keyboard interrupt so that you can’t get
through the functions in any order. —
own. Stephanie Stallings back to TopView without exiting. Pro-
grams that permit a DOS exit and return
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work properly, but once in DOS you have as disk access or printing can change the
only as much memory as was allocated to balance.
the calling programs, minus the amount it
has already used.

Along these lines, I found that you can
even run Boriand International’s Sidekick
Summing Up
able
Asa practical matter, TopView is unus-
on a floppy disk PC. Nevertheless,
THE
if you load it before you execute Top-
View Invoking Sidekick halts background

.
operations, but they resume when you exit

the
that
PC-XT cannot possibly be the machine
TopView was designed
ference in performance between an
for. The dif-
XT
LIGHT
Sidekick. After
always get all
TopView runs, it
the interrupts back to their

doesn't and an AT under TopView is like
ference between driving a Chevette and
the dif-
PEN;
original values.
among them, fail
“Bad or Missing
Some programs. Sidekick
intermittently with a
COMMAND.COM"
cruising with a Corvette.
superior performance, however, doesn’t
overcome the 640K memory barrier.
Even the AT’s
MIGHTY
error
exiting
for the Big
message if you don’t reboot after
TopView. At this point, it’s time

Red Switch.
What’s needed to overcome this limitation
is a virtual memory version of
and about 2 megabytes of RAM. Then all
TopView AS A
self,
In an effort to protect
ification. DEBUG,
you from your-
TopView won’t allow directory
The Norton
mrxi-
Utilities,
your favorite applications could be resi-
dent without practical
tions,
memory
and task switching would be instan-
restric- MOUSE?
taneous. Unfortunately, DOS would have Although IBM recommends
to understand virtual memory as well, and using a mouse to .sprint
In an effort to protect you would need either RAM cards
equipped with memory management hard-
through TopView' s menu
you from yourself, ware or an 80286 processor. and windowing operations,
TopView won't allow Another strong 'TopView feature worth
FTG’s light pen
mentioning is its use of color. You can
directory nnxlification. change the default colors, but the ones it may be the ideal TopView
comes with are well chosen. Most of the pointing device.
and some public-domain programs that screens are an unobtrusive blue and white.
sort or modify directory entries will not The TopView menus are yellow. Top-
run. It only permits orderly I/O that it can View displays red only when something is
control. wrong or requires your attention. This
One of the selling points of concurren- scheme matches IBM’s new approach as
cy is that you can theoretically do things seen in the Personal Decision Series and
faster in parallel than you can the Business Management Series of soft- opView
T
.serially. I is one of the first soft-
put this proposition to the test by sorting ware products. This point may sound triv- ware prcxlucts that works better
two dBASE II files at the same time. It ial, but it’s in keeping with IBM’s master with an input mechanism other
takes longer to do two at once than one plan. than a keyboard. While users laeking
after the other. The interesting thing is that TopView in the largest sense is clearly such a device won’t have much trouble
some background tasks run faster when a part of IBM’s master plan. It presages making menu selections, they’ll proba-
the disk is being used heavily than when ever more powerful machines and operat- bly find it tough to scoot around the
the majority of the action is in memory. I ing systems. I find it particularly fmstrat- screen — and deft use of TopView
verified this by creating two BASIC pro- ing that there is so much to like here but so requires much scooting.
grams, BEEP and BOOP (you can figure many obstacles to its use. You need a hard IBM recommends installing a third-
out what they do by their titles). Running disk, a fast machine, a mouse, and better party pointing device and endorses opti-
various programs in the foreground caused software, and TopView’s user interface caland mechanical mice stamped out by
them sound off at different rates. Top-
to itself needs to be streamlined. Is TopView Microsoft and Mouse Systems. (It also
View manages tasks by giving them equal ready for the big time? Not until we get the gives a grudging sanction to devices sold
time slices, but interrupt-driven tasks such big machines.
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by Kraft, Summagraphics. Maynard, can stack manuals and phones and mon- where on my desk. 1 can tell, since its tail
and Tonington.) PC tested several types, itors and .system units atop one another in is protruding from a teetering midden of
and all worked fairly well. Three-button a dizzying pyramid and still have room to mail and manuals. I can extract it care-
mice have an edge over those sporting pour through the daily bags of press fully from the pile, but it will just burrow
only two, since users of the latter have to releases, letters to the editor, and crank into a new one in minutes. I’ve heard
click both buttons simultaneously to sim- mail. (probably apocryphal) tales of users who
ulate pressing button 3. I’ve been testing a two-button Micro- ran optical mice on their pants legs; the
The problem with mice is that
teal soft “bus mouse” on my AT. It actually story goes that the white warp and blue
they need a surface on which to roll. worked quite well once Microsoft sent us weft of the jeans simulate the two-tone
Users of optical mice can balance the revision 3.0 of the software driver, grid of a mouse pad. Somehow, sliding a
metal mousepads on their laps or atop which supports the PC AT, the IBM plastic rodent up and down my thigh
piles of clutter on their desks. Editor Bill enhanced graphics adapter, and IBM’s doesn’t seem like the answer either.
Machrone perched his eminently usable 3270 PC graphics mode. The mouse While perusing the thorny TopView
Mouse Systems mouse on a pad between comes with its own interface board, Applications Guides, 1 stumbled on a
the rear of his AT keyboard and a handy which fills one expansion slot. Microsoft terse reference to using FTG Data Sys-
IBM manual. Of course, it helped that also sells a serial mouse, but the AT’s tems’ light-pen as a pointing device. This
his AT was nestled in a stand on the floor peculiar serial port requires a gender seemed like the perfect solution. 1 could
beside him, giving him the necessary changer and a hard-to-find 9-pin serial house a light-pen on the shoulders of my
desk space. cable. (Incidentally, the Microsoft mice AT adjacent to the monitor or above the
My desk is a different story. Some- manuals are as good as I’ve seen in pencil ledge of the keyboard. 1 wouldn’t
how in the many office moves since PC ages.) have to yield any precious desk sur-
burst its seams, I ended up with a huge, But while mice may work on bare face.
monolithic work surface faintly resem- executive desks, they don’t stand a And light-pens ate superb pointing
bling a morgue slab. It’s the only way 1 chance on mine. My bus mouse is .some- devices. Using a mouse with precision is
tough; it always reminds me of handling

plutonium clumsily from the next rixrm
with long, remote-control metal arms.
Light-pens are simple and direct. You
want something moved halfway across
and down the screen? Touch the glass at
that precise location and it’s there. Ifyou
have to hold the pen against the screen all
day long your arms can get tired, but few
users work that way. And repeatedly
picking up a pen and putting it down can
be a nuisance, but so is groping for a

mouse on its square foot of clean turf and
banging it into the surrounding piles of
paper.
After test-driving FTG’s light-pen.
I’m sold. It isn’t perfect, but it sure beats
the tyranny of roping off a mousy lebens-
raum and then flailing away at your cur-
sor in an awkward mouse-eye feedback
loop.
A light-pen makes menu selection a
breeze. And for moving and sizing win-

1
COVER STORY
dows, nothing comes close. But while 6.(XX) pens in the field and notes that around the screen. We fixed this easily
FTG's light-pen works nearly flawless- IBM is now selling the device. While by restarting TopView. At times the pen
ly, it isn’t the ideal solution to Top- Bill Machrone and 1 had few complaints had trouble with black or dark back-
View’s pointer problem. TopView was with ours — the very first one off FTG’s grounds, but subsequent passes of the
designed for a three-button mou.se. The production line — it once (and only once) pen would resnare the pointer. And when
contact ring on the front of the light-pen miscalibrated itself, which was fairly TopView toggled its pointer off or began
works as button But you have to bang
1 . unnerving since the pen would chase the acting flaky, we regained control by
the Ctrl key in conjunction with pen TopView pointer rather than pull it holding down the Ctrl and Alt keys.
movements to simulate button 2 and the One of the more interesting aspects of
Alt key to summon the TopView menu the light-pen was that we didn’t have to
(button 3). While this technique is easily Microsoft Mouse touch the pen to the screen to move Top-
mastered (at least for right-handed Model 037-099 parallel View's pointer. We could hold the
users), it would be far handier if there (“bus”) mouse device almost half-a-foot away and
were three FTG-installed dots in a comer Model 039-099 serial mouse watch the pointer scamper from comer to
of the screen or on a pop-up menu to Microsoft Cotp. comer. Having seen films about F-14
control button clicking. 10700 Northup Way pilots who could aim and fire their dog-
To use a light-pen with TopView you Box 97200 fight weaponry simply by looking at
need a slot-filling interface board. This is Bellevue, WA 98009 their targets, we wondered half-seriously
because the standard IBM light-pen cir- (206) 828-8080 whether it would be possible to mount a
cuitry treats the pen as a poll device, List Price: $195 for either mouse and light-pen on a pair of eyeglas.ses or even
which means that a program reads it at software on a headband so users could move the
the program’s convenience. TopView is Requires: (Model 039-099) Serial cursor just by staring at the menu.
designed to mn .several programs at once port. FTC} president Douglas Lippincott
and can’t afford this luxury. It demands reported that he knows of a head-
that pointer devices generate interrupts. mounted light-pen that uses telescopic
One of the two primary functions of Mouse Systems PC Mou.se optics. While it was designed for handi-
FTG’s Universal Light Pen Board is to Mouse Systems capped users and is available only for the
generate such interrupts for TopView. 2336H Walsh Avenue Commodore 64, Lippincott offered to
(The other is to provide single-pixel res- Santa Clara, CA 95051 adapt such a device for PC users who
olution to make the light-pen useful for (408) 988-021 contact him directly.
graphics programs. IBM's color graph- List Price: $195 for serial mouse and The price of the top-of-the-line FT-
ics adapter treats all light-pens essential- software 156 light-pen $195, plus $149 for
is
ly as character devices for a 2-line-high. Requires: Serial Port. FTG’s Universal Light Pen Board and
1 6-dot-wide character, which limits their CIRCLE 663 ON READER SERVICE CARD software package, which will include the
applicability for standard graphics pro- necessary TopView and single-pixel
FT-156 Light Pen and Universal
grams. FT(3 added additional single-pix- software. FTG will also offer a sophisti-
Light Pen Interface Board
el counters to provide a full 640 by 200 cated MacPaint-like graphics program
FTG Data Systems
resolution.) Software supplied with the optimized for its new board.
10801 Dale Street, Suite J-2
board translates the interrupts into a form Light-pens aren’t for everyone, and
PO Box 615
TopView will understand. TopView’s some users may prefer the convenience
Stanton. CA 90680
SETUP program permanenUy loads of mou.se buttons. But for clicking off
(714) 995-3900
FTG’s software driver, using option 6 of menu selections and manipulating win-
List Price: Light pen and software
the installation menu. The user calibrates dows and blocks of text, they’re hard to
$195; Universal Light Pen Interface
the pen once each session by touching it beat. For users with terminal clutter on
Board and software $149
again.st a dot on TopView’s opening their desks, they’re the ideal solution to
Requires: Color monitor.
screen. TopView’s pointer needs.
FTG claims that it has more than CIRCLE 664 ON READER SERVICE CARD — Paul Somerson

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COVER STORY • MIKE EDELHART
aas topview had come through the door in a brown

SSS
IF
paper wrapper, it would have been merely another ENTERS

clever utility for DOS, worth
certainly, but not an event of epochal proportions.
mentioning in this magazine,
THE
However,
View’s importance resides more
like the small boy who has become king, Top-
in the prestige of its station
FRAY
TopView’s introduction may
than in its inherent impressiveness. This, of course, is because presage IBM’s move toward a
TopView is being hailed as the heir apparent to IBM’s micro- closed, proprietary operating
system whose acceptance
computer operating system empire.
could hamper third-party
Whether TopView performs faultlessly or foolishly as a development. But will users
software program (see the accompanying review) may have swallow the bait?
little to do with its true meaning and They were obliged to lease.
importance. TopView is the subject of When other companies attempted to
fevered whispers throughout the comput- compete against IBM in this closed world,
er industry not because of what it docs, IBM would sometimes counter by making
but because of what it means. small but cmcial changes in operating sys-
tems or communications. While IBM
A Trip Down Memory Lane serenely retooled its machines to handle
Understanding TopView’s unique role the new wrinkles, competitors .scrambled
in the scheme of IBM microcomputing to find out what the wrinkles were. As a
requires a quick trip down mainframe result, they were constantly chasing
memory From its earliest days as a
lane. behind IBM, disappointing customers
company, IBM was a stem, secretive with their inability to provide the compat-
dowager with big skirts. The company ibility they had promised.
developed and built eveiy part of every IBM’s release of the PC was a corpo-
machine itself. Part of corporate policy rate watershed because it changed all of TcherevkofT
was a visceral revulsion toward becoming these long-cherished traditions. Virtually

dependent upon any ideas or technology all of the PC's components were devel- Michel
outside its control. And the corporation oped outside of IBM. Most important, the
was so proprietary toward its products that operating system was licensed from Mi-
it often refused to sell them to customers: crosoft. And, to widespread amazement. Phoiognph;

—
COVER STORY
dowager IBM lifted her skirts all the way Speculation

up to her knees, providing complete tech This in itself is a major development,
specs on the machine to anyone who but there may be mote to TopView than it
wanted them. The world was invited under expresses. Many experts think, and some
those imposing crinolines to Join in the ftin fear, that TopView is the first step in
and do what they would in tandem with the IBM’s lowering of the skirt over the PC
suddenly frisky grand dame. the begitming of a closed, proprietary
operating system that will force third-party
Third-Party Fever developers into the unenviable second-
For the past 4 years, IBM’s complete class status long suffered by Big Blue’s
openness alx)ut the PC has spurted a fren- mainframe competitors.
zy of third-party development that has Is it? A look at TopView’s code (see
impelled the machine far beyond all com- “TopView: The Hard Facts,” in this
petitors in terms of software availability issue) can give some clues, but no one can
and popularity. And, to IBM's surprise, be certain of IBM’s motives. The futiue of
the PC has become a favorite among the TopView depends largely upon how
big companies that have always formed quickly and widely it is acceptkl by PC
the backbone of Big Blue’s mainframe users.
business.
TopView is the subject TopView has competitors, including
Therein lies the tub. The last thing IBM of fevered whispers DESQ from Quarterdeck. Windows from
wants is for the PC to wean its loyal cus- Microsoft (attempting to retain control of
tomers away from their overwhelming throughout the computer its operating environment in today’s user
dependence upon true Blue products. The industry not because of interface phase), and GEM from Digital
freewheeling spirit of the PC, many IBM- Research (trying to get back into the ball-
watchers feel, may represent a kind of Tro- what it does, but game after CP/M was spumed in favor of
jan horse threat to the Armonk Armada’s because of what it
DOS when the PC came out). If these
authority with its customers. products give TopView a serious run for
It is extremely important to IBM to link means. its market, IBM would probably not risk
the PCs in big corporations to the larger putting itself at a serious competitive dis-
IBM systems already in place there. That operating system is invisible. advantage by closing the PC to outside
is why 3270-PCs, CT-370s, and Display- Here is where TopView comes into the development.
write software have been announced over picture. At the simplest level, TopView is However, if TopView dominates clear-
the past few months. an attempt by IBM to create, on the PC, ly and quickly, IBM might be tempted to
But IBM has problems with the idea of the kind of buffering, graphic user inter- strengthen its control by taking TopView
linking DOS, a system it doesn’t control, face that is common on its larger systems. users even further away from native DOS,
with entirely proprietary IBM arrange- This approach has two big advantages for deeper into uncharted Big Blue territory.
ments. Partly, this stems from technical Big Blue: First, it will allow current IBM Only the months ahead will reveal the
considerations. DOS is an operating sys- customers to feel mote comfortable with troth of any of these speculations. But the
tem designed entirely for use by a single the PC. Second, and more important, it fact that people are considering such
user at a solitary, unlinked computer. It lets IBM put a layer on top of DOS that is notions has sent shivers through the PC
doesn’t buffer the user from the machine much more conducive to linking PCs with universe and generated a level of watch-
very much at all. In fact, a DOS user bigger computers. If IBM
can convince fulness, possibly even paranoia, that may
spends a good deal of time “talking" the majority of software makers to write to even surpass the pte-jr jitters of last
directly to the PC through the many DOS TopView as a standard, rather than to year.
commands and routines. By comparison, unmodified DOS, it can make mote PC TopView may or may not be the most
a typical office system or mainframe envi- on office and corpo-
applications available interesting software product around today,
ronment separates the user and machine rate machines and vice versa. This makes but it the most impor-
almost certainly is
rather widely. The user works in an all IBM computers worth mote to their tant story. of the struggle for
It is the tale
opaque operating environment or an inter- customers —
an obvious advantage for the the hearts and minds of PC users and —
face —for all intents and purposes, the Westchester Wizards. that means you.

he feels. GEM brings a user environment been unreachable before. does” GEM
DIGITAL’S from the family of Macintosh and earlier
software products that ran on the Xerox
STAR to the PC and other computers. to
Byers uses Digital’s own office staff,
possibly not the most unbiased audience,
illustrate GEM’s appeal. “In the
SHINING The roots of GEM lie back in the sev-

enties when, at Xerox's Palo Alto
Research Center, a machine called the
office here we’re nothing but a micro-
cosm of the typical corporation.
6(X) people working, and they’re not par-
We have
Tom
GEM
Byers of Digital
STAR was created. Many of the con-
cepts accepted ttxlay as making personal
computers —
or any computer easier
for humans to use were pioneered in this
—
ticularly well versed in the uses
sonal computers.
very interesting.
Everyone
GEM — from clerks to programmers. It’s
Many
is
people would
of per-
using
rather deal just with personal computers

Research places GEM out of
machine.
Those concepts first made their way that have icons; so would 1.”
direct competition with into Apple computers —
the Lisa and the
TopView. GEM, he says, Macintosh. And now they have started
designed to reach a
is
cropping up outside Apple’s orchard. Essentially, GEM brings
GEM is the first prixJuct to make Mac- to the PC and other
wider market. like IBM
concepts available not only for
personal computers but for any MS-DOS computers a user
machine, and many smaller computers,
environment from the
So
as well. GEM
is part of a long line of
evolutionary human interface .software. family of Macintosh and

The audience for STAR-based sys-
earlier software products
tems like GEM. Byers feels, is inexperi-
enced. casual users of personal comput- that ran on the Xerox Star.
And while may seem Top-
W
ers. it as if
henever TopView is mentioned View’s creators are trying to make their Beyond the graphic nature of the
among computer professionals. prtxiucts easy for casual users too. Byers interface. Byers explains. GEM and
Digital Research’s new Graphics Envi- believes that the crucial fact is that Top- TopView have other significant perfor-
ronment Manager (GEM) is heard in the View is from IBM. This means. Byers mance differences. TopView doesn’t
next breath. GEM is often held up as the says, that TopView's role is strategic for support graphics applications, including
great non-IBM hope in the user interface IBM. It will have wide exposure — press 1 - 2-3 graphics; GEM does. More impor-
arena. But Tom Byers. GEM marketing coverage, awareness in the marketplace, tantly. GEM is not currently a mobile
manager at Digital Research, doesn’t and retail shelf space. windowing system; TopView is. At this
feel the two systems ever meet head-on. IBM’s marketing strategy, which point GEM extremely small, roughly
is
“We really don’t sec GEM and Top- centers on large corprrratc customers, lOOK (ab<rut onc-half the size of Top-
View in competition witli each other, leads Byers to believe that the product is view). and it allows only one task to run
and I think that’s a point we want to aimed at experienced, frequent users. or to be viewed at a time.
make sure to explain If you take a quick-

. “TopView will make these users more “The point.” says Byers, “is that
and-dirty overview, you might put them productive by giving them more than one GEM is not a memory switcher. With
in the same category of software as appli- application on the screen at any given TopView you are essentially talking
cation environments. Other than that, time,” he says. “But those applications about a metmiry switcher. You can have
they really aren't in competition." arc what we call character based. Top- several things in memoty at one time.
The Apple Macintosh. Byers ex- View does not run graphics applications. What you can do with GEM is look at
plains. uses graphics, pull-down menus, So TopView has nothing to do with this your disk drive files. The files are repre-
and screen icons to establish its unique bold new world of attracting and expand- sented by icons, pictures that will jog
user interface environment. Essentially. ing the marketplace to people who have your memory as to what they will do.

GOp’yr::^:hted P’’
—
COVER STORY
Once an application starts, then that

application takes over the machine. And
th^'s what GEM .does, not only for
existing applications like 1 -2 -3 , but for
applications that would be built specifi-
cally for GEM and that would take
advantage of such GEM features as pull-
down menus, windows, and icons.
We’re not in the situation of having sev-
eral applications in memoiy and being
able to jog back and forth.”
As with TopView, Byers notes, GEM
works best with software that is custom-
ized for it, and Digital Research is work-
ing with a number of software develop*
ers on GEM-oriented releases. But,
unlike TopView, GEM proves readily
At this point, GEM is

extremely small
concepts developed by Apple for the Macintosh.
roughly lOOK, and it
allows only one task to

run at a time.
hospitable to nx>st unmodified pro-
grams. “There's no need for IBM, on
the other hand, to do this unless they
want to reach new markets,” Byers
asserts.
The Byers is that
critical point for
GEM and TopView are not mutually

exclusive. “TopView has a purpose in
life: to window character-oriented appli-
cations. You need a hard disk and S12K
memory to really get much use fixxn it.
That’s fine for a certain marketplace.
What GEM does, by contrast, is lay the
foundation for anew wave of applica-
tions based on program menus, win-
dows, icons, and other easy-to-under-
While both GEM and TopViaw
stand graphic elements.” TopView, employ pull-down menus and windows to
Byers feels, reaches only computing’s present Information,GEM uses Icons as well as text to
high end; GEM reaches “the entire gal Ks messages across.
WOTld.” —M.E.
128 PC MAGAZINE e APRIL 30, 1985
•
ARimL PIF files (program information files).

Both have the same capability to swap
video RAMs of old applications, which
move
tinues.
or size a
"Windows was
window."
signed for use with a mouse.

we
But, he con-
definitely de-
And since
TO
is very crucial, because people have their integrate a lot of the features that you
favorite packages now. Until software see in other windowing environments,
vendors come out with pnxlucts that use such as the Macintosh, using the mouse
the enhancements of a particular envi- be a much more natural way to work
WATCH
will
ronment. people certainly don't want to with it."
throw their old software away."
Microsoft's long-awaited integrator is TopView Limitations
Microsoft’s Tandy Trower slated for shipment this summer. But Trower uses the Macintosh as exam-
says Windows opens the best Trower sees its long development period ple of what people are looking for in an
as a distinct advantage. “In some sense, interlace, and he measures both Win-
of two worlds — graphics and IBM developed TopView in an isolated dows and TopView against it. "I think a
multitasking — PC users.
to situation, Windows has taken a little lon- lot of people who own PCs look at the
ger in getting out. but we've learned a lot Macintosh and think that it's really neat
from both our independent software ven- and wish they had that sort of thing. Top-
dors and our OEM customers in terms of View moves them in that direction, but it
things that we've been able to put in doesn't really have the features that you
before we put out the prtxluct. I think that would find in the Macintosh, whereas
the feedback we've gotten has been sig- Windows does. I think TopView is lack-
nificant in helping us produce a belter ing in one very important aspect —
product. graphics — and graphics are a very
important part of an interface for com-
Best of Two Worlds municating with people.
“What you are really seeing is Win- "TopView is also limited by the fact
M icrosoft's Windows
compete with
and almost ready,
IBM's TopView, says Tandy Trower,
to
is willing, dows taking TopView and some of the
features you see in the Macintosh and
rolling them together so that you get the
that it
that folks
will not
is an
who
IBM product. That
are not using strict clones
be able to run the TopView
means
type
Microsoft's director of retail marketing best of two worlds. You don't have the of interface. TopView doesn't help in
for systems software prrxiucts. "I think limitations of the Macintosh in being sin- that situation. And TopView drttsn't
the fact that it's out there at the present gle-tasking, because Windows is multi- help ifyou want to do different fonts.”
lime and it's a product from IBM means tasking like TopView. Also, you don't Trower sees the differences in Win-
that it carries a great deal of influence in sacrifice the graphics as TopView does. dows as advantages that will ultimately
the PC community. In one respect that's You are allowed to do a lot of graphic give it a competitive edge. "I think that
good Windows, because it will help
for interaction, using icons and pictorial rep- what TopView willdo is whet people's
introduce and educate the community on resentation like the Macintosh's." appetites for a Windows-type environ-
concepts such as windowing and using Microsoft recognizes that some users ment. If Windows were a character-
the mouse to point at things, as well as on using a keyboard, no matter
will insist based system, we'd have a devil of a time
the idea of multitasking. how well
the mouse interface is trying to compete with IBM, but the fact
"Obviously," Trower continued, designed, and it is making plans to that we build on a foundation of graphics
"we'll have to educate folks on the dif- accommodate this group. Trower ex- means that we have a significant advan-
ferences between TopView and Win- plains, “We have a keyboard interface tage to show people. With its super set of
dows and why someone would choose that will be going into Windows. It features. Windows will look so signifi-
Windows over TopView. Both have essentially will be an interface that cantly different that people will distin-
pretty much the same capabilities; in allows you to select for system.-level guish it as being better than Top-
fact. Windows can even read TopView's functions, for instance, if you need to View.” — Stephanie Stallings
PC MAGAZINE • APRIL .10. 1985 129

COVER STORY
View, Myers can do original assumption was. Who would
DESQ-
believes, because it
moteforusers. “When I compare DESQ rewrite their software for Quarterdeck?

with TopView, I use the analogy that We believed that no one would devote
DESQ like a 1-2-3 and TopView is a resources to offering another unit or an
SErrai
is
VisiCaic. What 1-2-3 has is mote power, update for their prrxluct to mn in DESQ.
more ability to use the PC’s capabilities, So we don’t requite that. We spent a lot
of time trying to ensure that we run
EOTLE
and fuller features. Lotus’s product has a soft-
customization and macro capability; so ware without modification.”
do we. Topview doesn’t. Our data trans- For all her confidence, Myers admits
fer is more extensive than TopView’s that preparing todo battle with Big Blue
Quarterdeck’s president capability; so is our ability to run pro- can have its unsettling moments. “The
welcomes the entry at — grams. We use virtual memory, which

memory
worst time in our whole history, was
when IBM first aruiounced TopView.

last —of competitor TopView.
means if there’s not enough
your system, we’ll swap the programs
in
Everyone was saying, IBM is going to
DESQ, she claims, will hold off the disk and manage it so you can have 100 percent of the market ^why —
its own. open up mote programs than would fit in would we want you? But soon people
memory. With TopView, you’re limited began to say, there’s nothing like that in
to what is actually there.” TopView; there are differences.
For users, perhaps the biggest imme- “Now things have settled down. We
diate difference between TopView and know we can compete.” The native
DESQ is that most existing programs enthusiasm of the young entrepreneur
will run under DESQ but will requite takes over. “Isn’t it wonderful to get
major updates to use TopView fully. these programs out there — to be able to
Myers feels TopView’s requirements compete against a competitor feature by
may be unrealistic, even for IBM. “Our feature in performance.” M.E.—
W hen Terry Myers, president of
Quarterdeck, manufacturer of the
software-integrating product DESQ,
heard that TopView had been released,
she said, “Thiuik God, it's finally here!”
Why would a small company be glad
to see significantnew competition from
the King of the Hill? “Because,” states
Myers, “otherwise we’re just waiting for
something that’s coming from IBM.”
Myers believes that DESQ, which
integrates many existing software pack-
ages, will hold its own with TopView,
with one large caveat: “If people com-
pare them.” But, Myers continues, “the
worse problem is waiting for something
that’s ‘vaporware.’ Everyone says,
‘Gee, we’d like to standardize on you,
but we won’t make our final decision
”
until we see TopView!’
DESQ will hold its own against Top-

—
AVIEW
spread use and consistent sales of Top- it offers will be copied or emulated by
View. As Spindel explains, "Because other people. And TopView itself emu-
TopView is an IBM-sponsored prixlucl. lates functions that were developed first
most developers already have versions of by independents. To the extent that
FROM
it is
it. and they are beginning to til their IBM. people will try IBM's tools first,
application programs to the TopView and so they'll try TopView first. But the
system. You will lind that nearly every major independents Microsoft will
THE TOP
like
major application developer will release each continue to come up with a best-
its application to run under TopView. seller. and the best-seller will sell on its
The user will develop an intuitive feel of own merits, whether or not it runs under
Inchistiy watcher Paul how to go from application to application TopView. Ultimately somebody will
Spiiulel .vk^.v TopView because IBM will be providing those move that product under TopView."
l(X)ls through the TopView system. The general consensus seems to be
claiming a larf>e market "What's nrore important is that once that users arc eager for integrating pnxl-
among developers and the programs are written under Top- ucts like TopView. But Spindel looks
View. IBM will be able to take the Top- beyond that perception to what u.sers ulti-
users but not
View system and move it from machine mately will do. "Users aren't Uxiking for
eliminating competitors to machine. So they are giving the appli-
from the fray. cation programmers some portability."

With TopView, IBM is also giving “Users aren't looking
users the capability they have been clam-
for TopView, they’re
oring for — multitasking, the ability to
run several applications simultaneously looking for the
through windows. But Spindel points out
application that runs
that multitasking now has human, rather
than technological, limitations. People on their machines.”
of con- can only on one or two or three
P aul Spindcl. vice president
sulting at the Gartner
Stamford. Connecticut,
Group. Inc in
is a
.
highly
things at the
machine
fix-us
same time. There are also
limitations — the of the
size
TopView:
cation that runs
they're kxrking for the appli-
on their machines. If a
respected industry watcher. As such. screen, primarily. It will be a while user is kxrking for a word prixessor. or
Spindcl can offer an infomied insight before we get bigger screens. Sometimes some other application, and the applica-
into IBM's strategy for designing and you want to compare one set of numbers tion comfortably designed and inte-
is
marketing TopView. with the text; it's nice to put them both on grated with enough other functions to
"TopVicw addresses a number of the screen and then merge them. But satisfy his needs, he'll go for an indepen-
problems. It gives the user a common when you are running two or three things dent applicatiiin. If a developer has used
interlace, a common way ol addressing simultaneously, there ju.st isn't rixrm on TopView as fhe skeleton on which to
the machine. One of the pmblems we the screen — or in your mind. So I think hang an application, then the user will
have is that everyone who develops soft- the computer people are pushing multi- take TopView,"
ware has his own way of letting the user tasking further than the user's ability." Spindel points out an additional factor
use the software. Some use mice, some Though he expects w idespread usage that may work in IBM's favor. "I'm sure
use menus, and some use eixle work. of TopView by developers and end this isn't a conscious decision on IBM's
TopView gives the developer a consis- users, Spindel dexsn't anticipate that this part, but if the tixil works as well as we
tent, unifonii way of developing soft- prixluct will push its competitors out of arc told it will (I have a question mark in
ware. This ultimately gives the user a the market. On the contrary, he says, "It my mind here), then it's going to con-
consi.steni way of accessing the programs will probably stimulate competition, sume hardware resources in memory and
he will be using." rather than inhibit it. since the technolog- prcxiessing time. That in turn will justify
This situation will also ensure wide- ical innovations — the new functions that larger machines." — Stephanie .Stallings
PC MAGAZINE • APRIL .30, lOX.S 131

C0(, jhs
COVER STORY • BILL CATGHINGS
as WE'VE RUN TOPVIEW ON OUR PC'S, DELVED INTO ITS INTERI-
MS or, evaluated its performance, and tallied its costs. We’ve THE
asked what
tial
its announcement means, and we’ve looked
competitors. Obviously, the arrival of IBM’s long-awaited

at its poten-
offi-
HARD
cial true-blue
operating system for the

windowing environment and extension of
PC raises a host of questions —
the current
not the least

FACTS
Prospective users need answers
of which are the technical ones. Here, in a question-and-answer
to technical questions
format, is a look at how the program works. about TopView.
What is the relationiship between DOS TopView needs to place each program's
and TopView? output in its own window and ensure that
Conceptually, TopView is a program that the program currently in the foreground
interposes itself between DOS and your gets the keyboard input.
applications programs. TopView attempts TopView explicitly forbids the use of
to provide a multitasking, windowed envi- function call 31 H, as well as Int 27H, both
ronment that enables you to run more than of which cause a program to remain resi-
one program at a time and even move data dent. TopView also does srtme additional
between them. It accomplishes this pri- processing of the new DOS 3.0 calls, 58H
marily by acting as a scheduler for the indi- to 62H, before passing them onto DOS to
vidual programs and by manipulating the handle. This indicates that it does some
relatively slow input/output (keyboard, special handling of DOS 3.0's network-
screen, and printer routines) with which ing. file-locking calls.
you directly interact.
TopView intercepts some of the DOS Does this mean that TopView is an
and BIOS calls that applications programs operating system in itself, an extension
make while they are running. Specifically, of DOS, or something else entirely?
it replaces the interrupt vectors for the key- TopView possesses some of the atuibutes
board (9H, I6H, IBM), the screen (lOH). of an operating system. For example, it
the printer (OSH, 17H), the timer (ICH), provides scheduling for multiple tasks and
and seven of the eight DOS vectors (20H does some I/O on its own. But it relies on
to 24H, 26H, and 27H). Of the individual DOS to do much of the usual work of an
DOS calls that are accessed via Int 21H, operating system, such as file I/O. Though
TopView mainly concerns itself with it provides more functionality, in many
those less than ODH, that is, with the key- ways it is similar to COMMAND.COM.
board and screen calls. This is because TopView and COMMAND.COM both
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BASICA WordStar
r Updating
screen during j>'
text entry
Alarm Word Proof

clock
TopView
TopView's multitasking Is accomplished interrupted, TopView hoids off the
by time slicing. Barring any Interrupts, a clock rotation of tasks so that there is no chance
within TopView allocates the same amount of time to each for programs to mix data or get confused. Oniy the program
program. Before going on to the next task. It stores all the in the foreground can accept characters from the keyboard,
interrupts that the program was using plus all of the but aii programs can take turns using the disk. Newiy written
processor registers. When TopView returns to the task, all of programs can take advantage of TopView instructions that
the original values are restored, and It picks up where It left identify a section of code as “criticai" so that timing-sensitive
off. When a program uses a disk or otherwise can't be or i/O-sensitive sections will run properly.
provide an interface between you and lation or change procedures. TopView has the program been optimized for
DOS. But TopView's windows are a fan- will only allow you to mn programs whose or is it in any way dependent on the —
cier interface, and it is more flexible than minimum memory requirement will fit AT?
COMMAND.COM in that it permits mul- within the space currently available in This was my initial impression. However,
titasking. your PC's RAM. If— perhaps because the AT didn't seem to run three times as
you have already loaded in several appli- a PC while using TopView, though
fast as
How does TopView manage the memo- cations —a given program will no longer was somewhat faster. A quick perusal of
it
ry available to it? fit, there is no bullet for that program on the codeshowed that TopView doesn't
TopView loads itself into low memory, TopView's program menu. On the other relyon any 80286-specific instructions.
just as other programs do. It manages the hand, as might happen in the case of However, since large amounts of memory
remaining memory by partitioning it spreadsheet or database applications, if are essential for TopView (with less than
among the several applications programs your program does not require the full 5 1 2K it's almost unusable), the AT's abil-
for which it has been set up. This tech- maximum memory you have indicated in ity to utilize more than 640K will be a big
nique was first used in some of the original the TopView installation process, you can assetwhen a protected-mode version of
timesharing mainframe computers. Before still run it — up to the limit of the memory TopView is introduced.
you can run an application under Top- that you have left.
View. you mujit specify the program's What problems might TopView cause
minimum and maximum memory require- Since TopView seems like such a natu- for applications not specifi^ly written
ments through TopView's program instal- ral for the AT, with its faster processor, for it?

The hist problem is for applications that Will these proUems force users of Top- In light of all that has been said so far,
usurp the keyboard intemipts. If a pro- View to use only programs written for under what circumstances would Top-
gram does this, TopView can’t know, for push people to be more
it? If so, will this View be useful, and when would it be
example, when to toggle between win- dependent on IBM for software? not usefid or, worse, detrimental?
dows or when to give you a menu. Some, Programs that are well supported by Top- Obviously, if your use of the PC consists
but not all, of these limitations can be View make it that much more useful, principally of using "take-over-the-
overcome with a mouse. If your system is because they facilitate full use of its cut- machine” programs such as Xy Write, with
not equipped with a mouse, programs such and-paste operations, for example. This occasional forays into Sidekick, this is not
as XyWrite ll-Plus can be used only in the does not mean, however, that applications the product for you. Likewise, if you don’t
foreground and can be left only by exiting not explicitly written for TopView are need to run multiple applications simulta-
completely. Certainly this limits the use- unusable. With the exceptions stated neously (beyond print spooling) or move
fulness of TopView with this kind of appli- above, most programs can run with Top- data from one application to another (cut-
cation. Furthermore, TopView explicitly View and derive some benefit from doing ting and pasting), TopView will be of lim-
prohibits programs that need to remain res- so. In general, when data is transported ited value. If these capabilities are useful
ident. Sidekick, for example, probably from one program to another, it is sent in to you and if TopView can help you per-
caimol be used hilly with TopView, the form of straight ASCII codes, which form them with the applications in which
though by loading it before invoking Top- TopView loads through the keyboard buff- you have already invested both your time
View I managed to use some of its func- er. Most database and spre^sheet files and money, then TopView can be a real
tions, despite IBM’s prohibition. can be handled in this manner. boon.

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SS WHAT ARE THE THREE

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SERVICE
Although it’s heralded as the
your life a whole lot easier.
operating system of the future,
Listen, I’m about the biggest cheerleader IBM has. Unless the and arduous
the system’s long
company deliberately shoots itself in the foot (as it did with its
menu sequence and
DOS-crippling features are just
limping PQ>), IBM is without a doubt the premier microcom-
two of the reasons why IBM’s
puter hardware crafter in the galaxy Nothing even comes close. .
TopView just doesn’t cut the
While for short periods of time they may leapt onto dealers’ shelves and stayed mustard.
buy a few lemon components from hapless there.
suppliers, those guys in starched white IBM's touts and flacks have heralded
shirts down in Boca Raton sure do know TopView as the operating system of the
all their crgonometrics, micro-electronics, future. Their theory is that computer ven-
styling, and cabinetry. dors have already creamed the market of
Software is another matter. IBM's PC- intelligent, dedicated users who are will-
DOS isn't bad, but it could sure use mote ing to put up with the abstruse and unfor-
powerful batch abilities and slicker file givingly precise command language of
handling. IBM has released or endorsed today’s systems. The next — and far larg-
more than half a dozen undistinguished er —audience is presumably the great

word processors for the PC; presumably mass of yokels who have trouble coping
they'll keep going until they get it right. even with the controls on their television
Some of its more popular programs are sets. This is clearly the target of the Appro-
just relabeled products from pfs that are letariat Macintosh, a sort of glitzy auto-
very easy to learn and u,se, but not exactly matic bank teller machine with great
what you’d call world-class stuff. And graphics.
IBM’s recent blitz of Business Manage- Removing users from the thick of the
ment/Personal Decision Software is just action isn’t entirely bad; all operating sys-
old (nonvintage) wine in new bottles that tems do it to a degree. Instead of forcing us

COVER STORY
to specify sector locations and head-set- Norton Utilities' popular Unerase soft- as TopView does not give its full attention
tling times and memory addresses when ware). But to erase a hie, a TopView vic- to any program even when it’s not execut-
loading or copying hies, DOS takes care tim has to slog through a series of menus, ing anything else. But worst of all, the
of the drudgework by accepting terse mne- ticking off the proper choice each time. whole house of cards crashes down if I try
monic English commands. But there's a One slip and the user ends up in a Never- to exit while anything is askew; if the Ctrl
big difference between the guts-level guid- Never-Land somewhere far away, with key is toggled wrong, or the TopView cur-
ance of DOS and the silly Romper Room the glum prospect of a long and arduous sor — which IBM calls the pointer is on —
ministrations of the Mac. menu-hopping trip back. the wrong side of a window border, all I
When I'm deleting an unwanted hie I get is the deep freeze; I can’t even quit
DOS to delete or erase by entering
tell it Border Wars TopView. Okay, so users have to learn the
ERASE FILEOLD. Ask a Mac user how I’m now struggling to write this in drill with any new program, but this is
he or she does this? "Oh, easy, hrst you WordStar, albeit a black-bordered, unduly complex and clunky.
drag it down to the trashcan with the slowed-down, hckle TopView implemen- The one feature that most users scream
mouse and then you empty it.” Give me a taUon of WordStar. First, TopView stole for is the ability to execute DOS com-
break. my border color. I can run all sorts of pro- mands from within an application. How
While TopView hasn’t gotten this silly, grams to get the color momentarily back, often would you like to see how many
it is moving in the Mac’s numbing direc- but then TopView just up and steals it bytes are unoccupied on a floppy, or how
tion. PC users are spared the learning-dis- again. Second, I have to toggle the Ctrl much memory is free? Or be able to format
ability icons; IBM respects its users key off or my AT will just grunt aruioy- a new disk so you could dump the contents
enough to assume they can hgure out that ingly at me
touch a cursor arrow, or
if I of memory onto something permanent?
the ERASE command erases hies. And will ping insanely like a freneUc video Unfortunately, TopView can’t handle
TopView sagely asks users to verify the game if I rest my pinkie on the Ctrl key three-quarters of the available DOS com-
process (which will cut into the sale of the itself. Third, the screen action is a bit stiff. mands and is picky about the ones it
DOS Services Menu: Most DOS CHKDSK error message: TopView

Services are avaiiable from this screen, inciuding a CHKDSK or
doesn't permit operations such as
directory with user-controlied sorting. Ciicking a subdirectory FORMAT—and tells you so emphatically. You can set up
entry changes the dispiay to that subdirectory, but there is no COMMAND.COM under the Start A Program menu to overcome
quick route back to the parent directory. Your DOS-trained some of TopView's limitations. It Is more convenient for
fingers wiii find this menu inconvenient for copying and renaming and looking at other directories. COMMANO.COM can
renaming fiies and handy for selective erasing. also run In a small, unobtrusive window.

Such mainstays as CHKDSK,
allows. then reload the whole works. Some of this However, mouseless users will end up
CLS, MORE, SORT, FORMAT, may stem from TopView’s inability to relying on cursor keys to move the pointer
RMDIR, PATH, PROMPT, SET, and support operating-system functions in any and the odd combination of Home. PgUp,
ASSIGN are verboten. IBM apparently DOS version higher than 2.1. and Alt keys to select menu options. Alt
thinks you should be able to copy system (the equivalent of mouse button 3) brings
files to an already fonnatted disk via the up the main TopView action menu; hitting
SYS command TopView supports — but it TopView can’t handle it twice in succession cycles you through
won’t let you FORMAT the disk in the

three-quarters of the
all the programs currently loaded. Home
first place. Similarly, in its peculiar logic (mouse button 1) makes menu choices,
TopView you create a new direc-
will let available DOS commands while PgUp (mouse button 2) cancels
tory, but not remove it. them. The Ctrl key toggles you in and out
Users can execute any of the 17 avail-
and is picky about the ones of TopView mode, which lets you use all
able DOS commands through TopView’s it allows. Such mainstays these“TopView Action Keys” for their
DOS Services program, which comes normal functions when necessary. (Still,
already loaded into the main .Start A Pro-
as SET, CLS, SORT, the three keys many TopView tyros may
gram menu. The selection of allowable PROMPT, MORE, and find themselves using when hopelessly
commands, such as VER or VOL. seems hung up are Ctrl, Alt, and Del.)
frivolous. After all. how many timesaday ASSIGN are all verboten. The real advantage of a mouse is in
do you really need to display the volume moving large distances across the screen.
label on your disks? But to formal a flop- Ifyou happen to have a mouse attached Without a mouse you’re normally forced
py, or simply to see how much space there to your system, you can sctxrt around the to creep around one colutim or row at a
is on a disk or in memory, you have to exit screen with dispatch and rapidly click off time by machine-gunning the cursor arrow
TopView, perform the DOS command. commands using the mouse's buttons. keys. However, by holding down the Ctrl
key while lapping the cursor arrows, you
can move in bigger steps. And you can
increase the size of the steps by repeatedly
tapping the -I- key. Unfortunately, if you
like to set the step size larger than the
default, which can really rocket you
around the screen, you’ll have to reset it
each time you start TopView.
Red Light District

I can erase a file on my logged subdi-
rectory with WordStar's "KJ command,
but if I want to eradicate something some-
where else without using TopView I

would have to save what I’m doing, exit
WordStar, and spin through a few directo-
ry searches and relatively elaborate DOS
syntaxes to get the job done, then reload
WordStar and reopen the file I was edit-
ing. This sounds complicated, but I’m so

Other DOS Services menu: DOS features not
accustomed to it I can do it in my
selectable by pointing and clicking can be entered on the
sleep.
Other DOS Slices menu. TopView rejects the ones It doesn't like, executes
the utility, and returns to this menu. This menu saves the DOS utilities that you To handle the same job in TopView, I
enter and allows you to select them from the menu by clicking the bullet. You have to first hit the Alt key and then move
can enter parameters lor the commands that require them by positioning the the pointer down to the Switch option (or
mouse pointer after the command name and clicking button 1. Throughout
TopView, this action moves the active cursor to the pointer location.
cycle through to DOS Services with dou-
ble Alts). If I’ve already loaded DOS Ser-
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COVER STORY
vices I can move the pointer to it and bang to move the pointer inside the appropriate tional 1 2 commands, you have to move the
the Home key to select it. If I haven’t load- window, call up the main menu with the pointer to Other, and type them in your-
ed DOS Services, either have to switch to
I Alt key again, move its pointer up to self. The Other option also lets you per-
Start A Program, or move the pointer Scroll, and punch Home. And the scroll- form DOS operations on more than one
down one notch to Programs and hit ing isn’t exactly what you’d call speedy. In file at a time. For instance, if you want to
Home. Once I breeze into DOS Services, I fact, it’s pathetically slow. copy a single file, you can select Copy
have to wait until TopView loads and dis- Once DOS Services loads, with its from the main DOS Services quintet of
plays the default directory, which is not options and tell TopView which single file
always the one I want to be in. If I want to to copy simply by sliding the pointer down
change logged directories, I have to type in TopView reminds me of the adjacent directory listing. To copy all
the new name at the top of the directory files with a .COM extension, you’d have
window. something designed by the to select Other and then type the COPY
One of the most irritating things about
government: Ux) many
* .COMcommand in yourself.
DOS Services is that the little red light on TopView is . . . well . . . interesting.
your disk drive pops on with alarming reg- steps and inelegant It can partition off and move windows sur-
ularity; TopView always seems to be read- prisingly nimbly. You can use it to lop
execution to satisfy the
ing the directory. It automatically alpha- dollops of text off one file and slap them
betizes the list of tiles, or you can tell it to lowest common effortlessly onto another. You can jump
sort by extension, size, or date/time. This from one program to another with the fiick
is handy, but slow; you’d think TopView

denominator. of a finger. And it’s the only software I’ve
wouldn’t have to access the disk each time ever seen where a mouse might actually
you told it to sort on another held. obligatory directory read, you can COPY, come in handy, although a touch screen or
No, on .second thought, perhaps the PRINT. TYPE, RENAME, or ERASE a light pen would actually be more useful;
most galling thing about TopView is its file in the displayed directory just by mov- who has the clear desk space for a
inability to run DOS batch files. Some ing the TopView pointer to the proper mouse?
users may grouse about TopView’s failure command and hitting Home. Then you But TopView is unnatural. It’s balky
to cut-and-paste bit-mapped graphics im- have to move the pointer over to the adja- and slow and unintuitive. It didn’t take
ages, but I feel IBM is right in assuming cent directory and slide it up and down the long for me to accustom my fingers to the
this deficiency will affect a tiny minority; listing of your files until you’ve highlight- Home, PgUp, and Alt keys and to scamper
most users will simply snag paragraphs or ed the one you want to work on. If you’re effortlessly among programs, but there
1 - 2-3 bottom lines and incorporate them logged into the wrong subdirectory, of was something troublesome about the pro-
into memos and reports. But every power course, you have to first type in the name cess.It was like making love with your
user I’ve met relies on batch files to get of the correct one at the top of the screen clothes on. It worked, but it wasn’t exactly
everything done; without them tasks have where the DOS cursor sits blinking impla- right.
to be handled manually and laboriously. cably. While the solid-block TopView
And other powerful features such as redi- pointer is hard to confuse with the more Lowest Common Denominator
rection of I/O won’t work either. Do you familiar, blinking DOS underline cursor, Actually, TopView reminds me of
get the feeling that TopView is for wide- it’s tough to figure out which keys move something designed by the government;
eyed novices? which, especially when you’re trying to too many steps and inelegant execution to
learn the ropes. "To confound the problem, satisfy the lowest common denominator.
Nasty Problems each pulses at a different rate, which I’d prefer a pull-down window that would
Actually, the supremely infuriating as- makes them fairly distracting when they're let me type in DOS commands and would
pect of TopView is that it won’t scroll close to one another. then execute anything I typed. The cut-
automatically. The DOS Services directo- DOS Services will also let you use the and-paste and the bounce-between-pro-
ry holds only 19 entries at a time. If you DOS COMP, DATE, DIR,
standard grams features are keen, but who really
move the pointer down to the 19th listing DISKCOMP, DISKCOPY, FIND, spends time moving blocks of text or flit-
and lean on the down-arrow key, the MKDIR, SYS. TIME, TREE, VER, and ting from one program to another? That’s
pointer hugs the lower border and all you VOL commands and that’s it. Everything just not how most users work.
get is a droning gutteral rattle. To see what else summons a nasty “ . . .not support- TopView creates, scales, moves, and
other files are on your directory, you have ed" error window. And to use these addi- hides windows with agility, but windows

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somber black). But TopView refuses to let
you execute batch files or some of the
more fundamental DOS commands. It
won’t let you create macros to save repet-
itive keystroking, and while it seems
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With memory so cheap these days, and
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sense. In fact, they’re almost necessary.
No one
check the
likes to quit an application just to
free space on a disk. (To leam
PRINTER SWITCH
how to do this under TopView, see editor
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grams in memory without having to quit
patible with all Centronics Parallel type inter-
one and wait for the second to load and — faces, the Printer Switch is styled to match
better still to move data freely back and
forth, (although TopView is picky about computer hardware in
which programs it will paste text into).
But TopView doesn’t cut the mustard. iNcludiNq the Home or Office.
While it’s a step in the right direction, it’s
far too primitive, awkward, and restric-
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siderable trouble to make Open Access a records for display or reporting in several to preselect data entry into a previously
classy product: except for a couple of ways. The “change" function will work designed spreadsheet model or template.
bugs, its efforts have succeeded. on single or multiple records in a file. This mode allows other people to use your
Open Access is entirely menu driven. The information management system model for calculations: the program stops
From the main menu you can enter any of includes a SIF (Standard Interface File) at specific matrix locations in a specific
the modules, access the program's utilities interchange utility that translates DIF, order. You can also “lock” the first row
section, or exit to the operating system. Text, and dBASE II (DBF) data files into or column of your table when scrolling so
you enter the current date to permit
First the Open Access format. It can also trans- that your tow and column titles remain on
your be date stamped and the time
files to late SIF files into DIF format. The infor- the screen as you scan the model.
management module to work properly. You can open up to six windows into
your matrix to view different sections at
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The information management module International has obviously to others so that when one window is
the heart of theOpen Access system; its scrolled in a particular direction, the linked
is
files can be used by any other module. It is

gone to consiijerable
window scrolls in the same direction at the
a relational database that allows SS fields trouble to make Open same time. You can use several spread-
per record and a maximum of 1 5 key fields
Access a classy product; sheets together for large or consolidated
for fast sorting and searching. Its maxi- applications. Using Open Access’s “chan-
mum number of characters per record, except for a couple of nelling” feature, you can even reference
small, but adequate for mo.st have data in one model to use in another without
1,024, is
bugs, its efforts
applications. It permits up to 32,000 having them both on the screen at the same
records per database file. As in other rela- succeeded. time.
tional databases. Open Access allows you One of Open Access’s best features is
to join two or more files by choosing com- mation management module has its own its sort function. When you use it to sort
mon key fields from each file. You can query language that can retrieve and report columns in descending or ascending order,
select only the fields you want to go in the information under a wide range of condi- the unsorted columns change accordingly.
Joined file. its features make the information
tions. All This feature is helpful, for example,
You create a new Open Access data- management module more capable than should you want to view all your employee
base by specifying all the fields and their most standalone database packages. records alphabetically and then re-sort the
attributes (see Figure 1 ). You can then dis- columns to view them in descending order
playall the fields by using the “search" Spreadsheet by salary.
key (F4). You enter information into the Open Access's spreadsheet, like the The “goal seeking” function is one of
new database file by using either the Open database, includes most standard features the more popular features in many spread-
Access standard input form or a “mask,” a made popular by the market leaders (see sheets and is included in Open Access. It
form you create. (You can also create Figures 2 and 3). Its maximum size is allows you to do “what if’ analysis on a
ma.sks for reporting.) Open Access in- 3,000 rows by 216 columns. You can table by vaiying one or many variables or
cludes the standard database commands insert and delete rows anywhere within thie constants. You can work with tax tables or
for browsing, retrieving, sorting, chang- matrix and quickly access individual cells other, similar applications using the “ta-
ing, deleting, or entering new records in a or groups of cells and edit, blank, copy, or ble” function. This feature references data
database. Reporting can be both quick and move them with ease. According to the in other sections of the model according to
extensive. The retrieve (or query) function manual, relative copies are also possible, a formula you build in. Conditional formu-
but 1 could not get this feature to work las are also possible. Open Access includes
correctly. When I tried it, 1 got an absolute a host of special financial and other func-
copy ( -t- 2/ A copied intact from column B
1 tions to help you with many situations:
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graphics,
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eters. Word Processing
SPl also included some more sophisti- The Open Access word processing
cated functions. An “automatic form module is not as strong as the other mod-

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ules, but it is still quite capable. It looks

even better when you see what it can do in
concert with the database, spreadsheet, or
Name: Any alphanumeric name up to ten characters
in length.
graphics modules. When 1 compare it to
other standalone word processors I have
seen,I would rate the Open Accesi module
Unique key: You can specify a maximum of 15 key fields
Key per record.
as average. Although it has most of the Non-Key
needed functions, it does not work as
smoothly as I would have liked: You have Type: Text You can specify whether or not to allow
to use several keystrokes to select many of uppercase and/or lowercase letters, blanks,
the options or features instead of just one numbers, punetuation, decimals. You can also
or two (see Figure 4), specify the actual size of field, which can be
Open Access includes the standard different from display size.
word processing commands and modes. Date MM-DD-YY or format that user specifies.
You can create, edit, save, and print doc- Number Integers in the range from —32,000 to
uments; insert, delete, copy, move, -1-32.000.
exchange, and format text. You can set Decimal Any whole numbers or numbers with decimal
margins, set spacing (both line and char- points.
acter), specify bold type, underlining, ital-
True/False
ics,page numbering, headets, footers, and
wordwrap. These features are available if Justify: Left
you are creating or editing a document file Center
such as a letter or report, but not with a text Right
file such as a program. When you create a Repeat Repeated across the entire field display.
word processing file, you must choose
between these two options. Since many Evaluated: Normal No automatic features or qualifications.
programs and standard DOS files can't tol- Autodate Automatically places system date in field, and
erate the special control codes and non-
the user cannot modify that date.
ASCII characters normally found in a
Form The cursor is allowed to jump to this field for
word-processed document, it is important
quick changes
to specify the Text option for these
Skip Once this field is entered the first time, the
files.
user cannot modify the entry.
Open Access allows you to set special Dependent The value of this field is dependent on another
markers throughout the text that help you field's value.
find the marked You can
sections quickly.
Autoincrement- A sequence number is automatically inserted
also do a search-and-replace operation on ally in this field.
any text. The search function prompts you Range An entered value in this field must fall within a
to enter the number of times you want the
specified range.
“search-text” to be found before it stops,
a feature that enables you to find, say, the Video Mode: Normal
third occurrence of the word computer. Each of these modes sets up special screen
Mode-1
The function can find either whole words attributes of the displayed data and field names
Mode-2
or parts of words. for offsetting important information.
Mode-3
Open Access’s ability to insert data into
word-processed text gives the module Must FUI: Yes/No
You can, for example,
extra versatility.
“include” a graphics image from the
DispUy Width: Width of field as displayed on screen.
graphics module in a word-processed doc-
ument. During the printing process, the
Duplicate: Yes/No The value from the last entered record remains
include function finds the specified graph-
in the current field initially.
ics image and prints it right below the
file
word-processed text. The program then

Must match: Yes Specifies that any entered value must match
continues printing the rest of the text,
with value in a second file.
interleaving text and graphics. Tables of
data created from the spreadsheet or data-
base modules can also go into text. This Figure 1: Field parameters for the Open Access information maiwgement system.
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capability is a real timesaver for reports: Graphics keyboard. You have your choice of a sim-
You can create financial tables in the Most people would rather look at a ple, three-dimensional, windowed, or
spreadsheet and then import the data into graph than struggle to extract a trend or overlaid graph. (See Figure 5.) The simple
the word Mass mailings are
processor. resultfrom a text full of numbers. A table graph can be a bar, line, or pie chart; the
also easy; just combine the word processor of numbers is better than the same num- thr^-dimensional graph is always a bar
with the spreadsheet and database mod- bers in a paragraph, but a graph is best of graph with three axes; and the windowed
ules. Although the word processing mod- all. The Open Access graphics module graph combines different graphs on the
ule is not as easy to use as WordPerfect or allows you to present information in sev- screen at one time, each in a separate win-
Benchmark, it is a solid program that per- eral forms. The module takes its data from dow. The overlaid graph places graphs on
forms well. a spreadsheet file, a database file, or the top of one another to produce some useful
graphs (such as a line graph laid over a bar
graph). Some examples of each are shown
in Figures 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
The module permits you to title the
graph itself, title the different axes, set the
desired and actual minimums and max-
imums for the data, set numerical intervals
for the axes, and choose the different col-
ors to be used. The view function allows
you to choose the size, shape, color,and
location of your different charts and
graphs. You can even design outlines and
textures for your graph by using squares,
diamonds, circles, and triangles to make
outlines, lines, endpoints, and different
patterns to fill in bar and pie chads.
One other interesting feature of the
Open Access graphics module is its ability
to create “slide shows.” You can save
many graphs in a particular order, grouped
in what Open Access calls a “carousel.”
Later, you can reorder these graphs and
then display them on the screen one at a
time with a pause between graphs. You
can also save a graph in an ASCII file that
can be included in a word-processed doc-
ument file, as 1 mentioned earlier. Open
Access is a strong package; unfortunately
it does not let you draw just anything. Its
graphs must be based upon numerical

information.
Communications
Another impodant pad of any integrat-
ed office sysfem is a communications pro-
gram. Open Access's communications
module is very good, much better than
many of the existing standalone systems
on the market today. This module, like the
others,includes all the standard com-
mands plus some nice extra features.
The module lets you configure your
system as a dumb terminal or set it up to
look like any one of many other terminals.
You have complete control over baud rate,
data word size, stop bits, parity, duplex.

break characters, stop and send characters, calendar feature makes it very easy to cre- group, or all appointments that have to do
long and short delay characters, answer ateand catKel appointments. An “auto” with a ceitain subject. This feature comes
sequences, dial sequences, hang-up se- appointment feature makes daily, weekly, in handy, forexample, when you have for-
quences, and so on. Each of these param- or monthly appointments all at once. An gotten the date of your meeting with the
eters can be saved under a different con- “hours mask” feature can create certain bank president. You merely search the
figuration filename. The module initially times that appointments should never be “With” field for “bank president.” You
offers you several configurations to use or made, such as during lunch hour or during can search both the With and Subject
modify. When I used the HAYES.LPR time reserved for your family. A search fields if you need to. You can print any
configuration file for my Hayes 1200 feature will let you display either all your day’s entire appointment schedule or any
Smartmodem, everything worked well. appointments with a particular person or single appointment. Unfortunately, Open
One of Open Access'^ extra features is
its ability to create and modify telephone
lists for automatic dialing. It also permits
you to upload files to a host computer. The
LOG.FILE command sets up a file to con-
tain all the information received over the
modem when your system is emulating a
terminal, a useful feature if you want to
record information sent from The Source
or other information network systems.
Lastly, the master/slave option sets up a
link between two or more computers using
Open Access that enables the master com-
puter to rename, delete, or copy files from
any of the modulesany other system.

to
You operate on these one at a time or
files
in groups using the batch mode. The man-

ual says a forthcoming program update
will allow you to add passwords to the
logon procedure in the master/slave mode.
This statement could hint at a forthcoming
full network capability, which is the only

thing lacking in this module. Figure 4: The menu of the Open Access word processing module.
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overlapping appointments if you wish and
later display them to review conflicts. The Figure 5: A screen from the Open Access graphics module.
PC MAGAZINE e APRIL 30, 1985 149

OPEN ACCESS
function, which closes the windows one at

a time, starting from the last one dis-
played. You could almost mn the system

without the manuals by using just the help
facility and the Open Access Pocket Ref-
erence Guide.
Another nice feature is the calculator.
At any time, pressing the “calc” key (F8)
opens a calculator window in the upper
part of the screen in which you can do
some quick calculations without leaving
the current module or interrupting your
work.
The “search” key (F4) produces
another window that contains all the files
that you can enter when a trrodule prompts
you for a filename. If you are in the grav-
ies module and are prompted for a file-
Figure 6: A sample three-dimensional bar graph. narrre, pressing the search key produces a
window in the ntiddle of the screen listing
all the graphics files. Database, word pro-
cessor, spreadsheet, and other files are not
listed since the graphics module carmot
use them. (You can, of course, generate a
graphics-compatible file fiom a database
or spreadsheet file, but a transformation
must be performed on it first.)
Utilities
The last option that is listed in the Open
Access menu is Utilities. If you select this
option, you get another menu with three

choices: Configure, FixFile, and SIF
Interchange. The Configure option allows
you to set up such system parameters as
printer identification, format for date
Figure 7: An Open Access combined line and bar graph. fields (MM-DD-YY or DD-MM-YY),
decimal character (period or comma),
Access doesn’t let you print the calendar as system-wide features is its help function. screen type, communications configura-
it appears on the screen, an option that When you press one of the function keys a , tion default file, time management default
would have been helpful. help window appears on the bottom half of user, and the order in which disk volumes
The address card system is for manag- the screen, giving assistance and informa- for files are checked. The Configure
ers who want an “automatic Rolodex” tion that pertains to what you are doing. option is also able to assign strings of char-
containing name, address, and phone For example, if you are in the spreadsheet of these param-
acters to function keys. All
number. The system allows you to add, module and want to find out the available eters can be changed and saved at any
modify, and delete any address card. You commands and their functions, you would time.
can search for any name and then display press the help key. you had
Again, if The FixFile option looks at a designat-
the information about that person or busi- entered a command that requires parame- ed file created in the information manage-
ness. For anything more complicated, you ters but did not know what the parameters ment module or time management module
would most likely want to use the infor- were, you could find out by pressing the and checks for database errors. If it finds
mation management module. help key. any, it attempts to correct them. That is all
Pressing the help key a second time it does.
Other System Features opens a second window, overlaid on the The SIF Interchange option allows you
Open Access has many small features first, that displays what each of the func- to use outside data. It changes DIF,
that are not partof any particular module tion keys does for each of the diêrent dBASE II, and text files to the Open Access
but are accessible from all. One of these modules. The Esc key accesses the undo SIF format and, conversely, transforms
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SIF files into DIF files. The option sup-

ports three text formats: Dow Jones,
Array, or Stream.
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Although the Open Access modules all
work well together and permit easy

exchange of information among them-
selves, the package unfortunately does not
work from one big database. Updating
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file types that are used for different pur-
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PRINTERS FROM IBM:
TRADITIONAL
ScTRENW
IBM’s Wheelprinter couples conventional daisywheel technology
with an exceptional paper-feeding system,
while its Quietwriter introduces moderately priced, high-quality,
thermal transfer printing.
t has always amazed me that IBM, they sacrifice some capability when com-
the company that brought out the pared to the printer-only versions. Both
Selectric typewriter, the first high- printers offer letter quality printing, and,
speed laser printers, and the legendary although IBM does not intend to discon-
1403 “Nancy-One” batch printer, tinue its standard Selectric models, the
couldn’t produce a decent printer for its new typewriter-printers can be expected to
best-selling microcomputer. Someone at cut into its sales of the famous “golf ball”
IBM apparently agreed and assigned the typewriters.
job of correcting the situation to IBM's While the Quietwriter series adds ther-
Information Systems Group, which devel- mal transfer printing to IBM’s technolog-
oped two new series of typewriters, the ical portfolio, the Wheelwriter and Wheel-
Wheelwriter and the Quietwriter, with PC printer use traditional daisywheel technol-
printer —
companions the Wheelprinter ogy. One way to view IBM’s simulta-
and Quietwriter printer. neous introduction of both printers is that it
Both series of typewriter-based printers wants to satisfy its conservative customers
are targeted at the medium-performance along with its mote technologically daring
office-printing market. The typewriter ones; another viewpoint is that IBM is not Monilb
versions can double as PC printers, but fully confident of thermal technology.

Les
iy:

IBM PRINTERS
The Wheelprinter Wheelprinter. It can print accurately on
The IBM Wheelprinter, a basic 25-cps manually fed sheets from the 1st to 66th
daisywheel printer that comes with both a line of a page. When a sheet runs out, the
forms tractor and single-bin sheet feeder as Wheelprinter takes itself off-line and
standard equipment, can handle single beeps to tell you to insert a new sheet, and
sheets more intelligently than most print- signals your PC not to send more data until
ers. But its $1,795 price tag and compat- it’s ready. Some software —
XyWrite II-
ibility problems may have you heading for Plus, Volkswriter Deluxe, and Multimate,
the competition unless an IBM logo means to name a few —
handle this situation well
everything to you. and give you an additional message that
Like most daisywheels in its perfor- your printer isn’t ready and needs atten-
mance class (effective print speed of just tion.
over 26.5 cps in PC Magazine's standard The Wheelprinter’s cut-sheet feeder is
printer spe^ test), the Wheelprinter is a model of design integiation and simplic-
mild-maimered enough for a crowded ity; the rest of the printer industry should
office work area. At a rated 59 dBA, it’s tê good look at it. To use it, all you
a
not particularly noisy (the sound cover is have to do is open an access door at the
back of the printer and inseit the paper
hopper.
The Wheelprinter has a The hopper, which looks for all the
tractor feed and a world as if it were swiped out of a copying
machine, has no moving parts of its own,
cut-sheet feeder built in,
which means there are no gears to mesh
and it’s easy to switch and no cables to connect. It’s so easy to
mount on the printer that I tried it three or
from one paper-handling
four times before convincing myself I’d
mode to another. done it correctly.
You have to load the paper into the hop-
very effective despite its lightweight per when it’s out of the printer, but this
looks), not very large (30.5 inches wide by doesn’t necessarily interrupt printing. Just
22.5 inches deep by 15.5 inches high with- slide the hopper out while a page is print-
out the sheet fêr), and not very heavy ing, reload it, and slide it back in. If you
(33 pounds). It is also attractive, in its own don’t get it back in time, the same logic
putty-colored way. that detects a lackof paper in single-sheet

Its print quality is good, but that's to be mode tells you to hurry up and put the
expected from all daisywheels, including hopper back in the printer. Unfortunately,
today's bargain-basement $300 models. the design does limit the Wheelprinter to a
What makes the Wheelprinter stand out single paper bin and the feeder to 8 '/5-inch
from the pack is its simple, flexible, and (standard width) paper.
reliable paper-feeding system. The Wheelprinter’s tractor is equally
Most daisywheel printers come easy to use. Just set the forms-type switch,
equipped with only a platen feed and can adjust the platen lever, remove the sheet
be equipped with a separate forms tractor feeder, raise the rear cover, and you’re all
that is usually available at extra cost. Some set to load paper into the Wheelprinter’s
offer a cut-sheet feeder as well, which is tractor feed.
also sold separately at extra cost. Loading paper into the tractor for the
In contrast, the Wheelprinter, which is first time can be frustrating —
not because
basically a platen printer, has both a tractor loading the paper is difficult, but because
feed and a cut-sheet feeder built in , and it’s it’s difficult to get used to the idea that
easy to switch from one paper-handling there’s no platen knob on the printer to
mode to another. All it tês is flipping adjust the paper, only little buttons on the
one switch (a large toggle, not a DIP front that move the paper up and down.
switch), opening or closing one of the var- Once you’re over this psychological hur-
ious paper-access doors, and inserting or dle, loading continuous forms into the
removing the cut-sheet paper hopper. Wheelprinter is really no more difficult
Single-sheet feeding is a real joy on the than it is on most matrix printers, and eas-
158 PC MAGAZINE* APRIL 30, 1985

PC MAGAZINE# APRIL 30. 1985 159 -
Copy
160 PC MAGAZINE • APRIL 30, 1985 ^ ,
-ilsrial
ier than with most daisywheels equipped strike printing, but not this one.
with tractors. This difference should not be a problem
My only serious objection to the tractor if your word processor knows how to
design is the rear paper-entiy opening, restrike characters or parts of a line to
accessed by raising the on the rear of
lid daiken poitions of the text. However, the
the printer. Once you open it, you have to Wheelprinter exhibited severe horizontal
be careful around the printer brcause any- and vertical character registration prob-
thing heavier than a paper clip will knock lems when I used Volkswriter Deluxe in
the lid back down and jam the paper. Find- this fashion. The registration errors made
ing the correct opening under the cover is the darkened characters look blurred and
also a little tricky at first. The tractors uneven.
themselves could cause problems down
the road. Although they functioned well
The Wheelprinter's
enough while I used the printer, they
seemed flimsy and looked as if heavy or flexiblepaper-handling
careless use might easily break them. design may give it a
A Vexing Mismatch leg up in the office
The one place where the Wheelprinter market, but its price
falls down on the job is in compatibility
with the rest of the printing worid. IBM
may kick the other leg
claims that its new printer is fully compat- out from under it.
ible with the IBM PC Graphics Printer,

which is made for IBM’s Entry Systems Other differences are minor and are due
Division by Epson America. Scratch out For
to the printer’s special capabilities.
“fully” and you’ll have a more accurate example, the Wheelprinter features pro-
description of the relationship between the portional spacing, has a setup command
Wheelprinter and the rest of IBM’s PC sequence, requires both left and right mar-
printer line. gin settings, and allows you to download a
Like most daisywheels, the Wheel- printwheel table. You must use the margin
printer can’t produce the full IBM PC settings to properly align the margins
character set. Unlike most, it prints minus when using the cut-sheet feeder if you plan
signs in the high-order character positions to center your documents on tractor-form
instead of repeating the low-order charac- paper.
ter set. But the major incompatibilities The Wheelprinter is good, but not
with other IBM PC printers have nothing great. Its flexible paper-handling design
to do with the character set. may give it a leg up in the office market,
The Wheelprinter forces you to adjust but its price may kick the other leg out
or abandon almost any software set-up for from under it. Its compatibility problems
the IBM Graphics or Color Printer. The and lack of some key word-processing fea-
biggest problem is vertical line spacing. turesmay also keep many potential buyers
Many word processors use the Graphics away.
Printer’s ability to step in 72ds of an inch. IBM can expect stiff competition for its
Unfortunately, the same printer com- new daisywheel printer and its paper-han-
mands cause the Wheelprinter to step in Look for the new, inexpen-
dling design.
48ths of an inch, resulting in line heights sive cut-sheet feeders that are expected to
SO percent higher than expected. That drop out of the Eastern skies in the near
means single spacing becomes one-and- future.
a-half spacing and double spacing be-
comes triple spacing. The Quietwriter Printer
The Wieelprinter lacks print features Everyone in the printer and typewriter
equivalent to the Graphics Printer’s em- business would like to get out of the noise-
phasized and double-strike modes, which producing business their products have put
daiken the printing. Most daisywheels them in. Several companies have intro-
have bold and/or shadow print modes to duced solutions to the printer noise prob-
approximate emphasized and double- lem in the past year, and IBM is one of the
PC MAGAZINE* APRIL 30. 1985 161

'
IBM PRINTERS
lalesl entrants. The company's new EPM-I is a $4,000 high-end machine switches can be complicated to use (one
$ 1 ,395 Quietwriter Printer uses an innova- designed for high-volume printing and switch is the “code key” that enables the
tive thermal transfer printing technology to more closely resembles a copier than a second function in the other keys). IBM
produce letter quality images without printer. put the power switch on the top left-hand
much banging. Like the new Wheelprinter. the Quiet- side of the cover, about where you might
Thermal printing is not a new tech- writer Printer feeds single sheets manually expect to find a platen-release lever.
nique, but thermal transfer printing is. Tra- but can be equipped with a forms tractor or The thermal technology allows change-
ditionalforms of thermal printing have cut-sheet feeder. Unlike the Wheelwriter, able fonts, and the (Quietwriter Printer uses
been employed for years on teletype interchangeable font cartridges (like those
machines and time-sharing terminals. in the TI 855) that cost $50 each. The
However, the older techniques use heat- The Quietwriter Printer printer holds two; however, only one can
emitting electrodes in the printhead to heat be active at a time. (You ate able to switch
is, indeed, quiet. At a
specially treated paper, forming images between them with escape sequences).
where the paper is heated, usually in a dot rated 53 dBA it makes Four cartridges ate currently available
matrix pattern. less noise than any with the full PC character set, while 19
Thermal transfer printing, on the other mote have only a standard typewriter char-
hand, uses electrodes in the printhead to
other type of printer were actually made for the
acter set (these
create an image by melting ink embedded except lasers and The
typewriter version of the Quietwriter).
in a wax ba.se carried to the paper by a (Quietwriter’s $12 ribbons yield about
pla.stic film ribbon. The character images
inkjets. But this does 160,000 characters (roughly 80 double-
are made up of dots, as with older thermal not tell you about the spaced pages).
printers or normal impact dot-matrix print-
quality of its sound.
ers, but the newer electrodes are tiny and Quiet Limitations
yield characters with higher resolution The new printer fulfills its objective of
than the older technologies will allow. The the additional forms-handling equipment offering relatively quiet, high-quality
Quietwriter Printer’s 40 electrodes form costs extra — the forms tractor goes for $75 printing, but it's not without its limitations
characters at 240 vertical by 360 horizon- and the sheet feeder for $350. IBM plans and problems. First off, it requires a
dots per inch (dpi). In contrast, the IBM
tal to relea.se the cut-sheet feeder sometime in smooth-surfaced paper, such as xero-
PC Graphics Printer prints at 56 vertical by the second quarter of 1985. A (Quietwriter graphic (copying) paper, to do its best job.
120 horizontal dpi. Printer equipped to match the Wheelwrit- Any other paper makes its output look like
er’s paper-handling abilities would cost it came from a correspondence quality dot
The Extras Cost Extra $1,820. matrix printer with a weak ribbon and will
IBM’s Quietwriter Printer is unique The Quietwriter Printer is small (19.75 leave you wishing for the clatter of your
because it is the first moderately priced, inches wide by 14.5 inches deep by 8 old daisywheel.
high-quality thermal transfer printer on the inches high) and light (20 pounds), but its You can compensate for incorrect
market.The thermal transfer printers from looks, control design, and layout leave paper (standard business-grade fabric
Apple Computer and Okidata are low-end something to be desired. It lacks a platen bond, for example) by increasing the con-
(about $300) machines, while the Diablo knob, and the front panel’s dual-function trast(controlled by an easily accessible
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The Quietwriter printer requires a smooth-surfaced paper, such as xerographic (copying) paper (see the sample) to do its
best |ob. Any other paper makes the output look like it came from a correspor>dence quality dot-matrix printer with a weak ribbon.
For example, the sample on the left was printed on fancy letterhead, the sample on the right on borKi paper.
162 PC MAGAZINE e APRIL 30. 1985

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And even so, my experience indicates that fers no high-speed draft mode. at a
increasing the contrast does not enable the The printer is highly compatible with fantastic
Quietwriter Printer to produce letter qual- IBM’s rc Graphics and Color Printers. It price!
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create themselves as you design the forms
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I liked the Quietwriter Printer more and
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• Structured language accesses
some. noisy printer problem. Under the right cir-
multiple files
The forms tractor fixes this problem but cumstances, you could reasonably call its
• Columns that scroll can be part
leaves you with the print-quality problem. output letter quality, although a discerning of any record.
(IBM did not supply a tractor f^ for test- eye can still tell However,
the difference. • Automatic calculations for
totals, taxes, etc
ing, but you plan to use
you need one if the Quietwriter’s requirement that you use
• Automatic entry checking prevents errors.
continuous-form paper and want to keep it substandard paper to achieve that quality
• Prints on your existing pre-printed forms.
aligned.) An IBM official said that most obscures its value as a business printer.
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SOFTWARE • RUSSELL LIPTON
GOLDAIAbase
Truly As Good as Gold?
G
novice
OLDATAbase
file
expert alike.
who
ant surprises.
manager
And it is
It
is
for
is
wants a minimum of unpleas-

a plain vanilla
novice
a tool for the
a tool for the expert

and
who can link it with the optional BASIC

Programmer's Interface to create a
sophisticated database system. With its
clean design and its no-nonsense approach

to data handling, GOLDATAbase gives
you easy access to the kind of quick-and-
dirty file management that many feature-
laden products stumble over.
Buying the BASIC Programmer's In-
GOLDATAbase offers PC users a cluster of
terface allows you to call on many GOL- reasonable database management features
DATAbase features from BASIC. This
interface makes GOLDATAbase a fairly
ata price that's a bit too steep.
serious data management tool, but only for tive prompts, “screen painting” of desired on the screen.
print reports directly
those who have already become expert in print reports, and form-letter generation The one break in this otherwise simple
BASIC. Novices who become proficient through the insertion of fields into free scheme is the way the function keys have
with GOLDATAbase will want to move on text. It may be unexciting, but it is useful, been assigned. Ihe designers decided to
to more feature-packed applications pack- and, in the field of database management, allow function key meanings to vary
ages rather than experiment with BASIC. “useful” is the greatest compliment you among the different modules of the pro-
Nonetheless, many will continue to can pay a product. gram. This flexibility may be one of those
reserve a small but valuable place for features that are hard for beginners to keep
GOLDATAbase in their software libraries. The User Interface straight but useful for experienced GOL-
And, while the BASIC Programmer's It is always a great pleasure to encoun- DATAbase users. Nevertheless, this sys-
Interface may be rudimentary compared to ter a user interface that, while a bit clunky, tem goes against GOLDATAbase's design
some other development products, devel- is easy to manipulate. The GOLDATAbase intent, which otherwise insists on the
opers always need to perform rapid feats of interface is simple because it uses little utmost simplicity and consistency. Unlike
code cutting to meet an occasional interim typical database jargon, a consistent and an integrated product such as Symphony
problem. They, too, will find a use for extremely easy-to-follow menu-based that spans different applications and needs
GOLDATAbase. command structure, and forms-oriented such flexibility, GOLDATAbase would be
I
GOLDATAbase offers a cluster of data entry. better off without it. H
modest, reasonable features for design of a This forms orientation extends through- In keeping with its novice orientation, I
data file, filemanagement, macro con- out GOLDATAbase and encourages you to GOLDATAbase makes heavy use of
struction mixing commands and interac- “paint” file definitions, create forms, and menus. The main menu lists the system

GOLDATABASE
functions (such as data hie design and per file with 1,022 maximum bytes per inspect the results on screen or to dump
management) that glue the program record. It requires 192K of memory (a bit them off to the printer. You can easily
together. You can access a utilities menu much, perhaps, program aimed at the
for a access the data file definition screen on the
from the main menu that forms a grab bag novice), but the number of records per file fly from other program modules — a small
for odds and ends. is only limited by the size of the disk. but valuable feature often overlooked in
These utilities enable you to import GOlDATAbase is not completely rela- more-expensive products.
data from DIF, ASCII, or mailmerge-
flat tionalThe JOIN command only shifts you
.
style flies. However, to do so, I first had to to a second file whose selected values Forms
run the data through a BASIC program I match those of the first file. Two files can, In keeping with its simple user inter-
wrote to remove delimiters. Other utilities however, be genuinely joined on a com- face, GOlDATAbase permits “screen
support creation of file indexes and permit mon field for printed report output, mak- painting” when defining field titles, field
database compression and file deletion. ing GOlDATAbase nominally fit PC's lengths, and data types. The program then
Other main menu choices permit you to “Projea: Database” Category 2 (see Vol- prompts you for a formal field name,
choose color configurations and list all ume 3 Number 14). range verification criteria, and so on, for
GOlDATAbase files on a given disk. Data files can distinguish between date, each “painted” area. This process defines
From the main menu, other menus alphanumeric, integer, and real number a file and constructs an input form in one
chart pathways through the product’s var- simple step.
ious functions. GOlDATAbase also applies this forms
The simplicity of approach to the specification of reports.
Commands GOLDATAbase’s Again, you “paint” reports onto the
The simplicity of the menus is matched screen. Since the program already knows
by the simplicity and consistency of com- menus is matched the field type for each record, you need
mand choices from within most modules. by the simplicity only type an asterisk (*) on each line. After
When creating files, constructing macros, you “paint” the form, the computer
generating reports, and building form let-
and consistency of prompts you to ensure that formal field
ters, the menus all offer you the same sim- command choices from names are matched to the field values you
ple choices. have mapped on the screen.
within most of the
The NEW command allows you to cre- Currently, you can only attach one
ate something for the first lime. The DIS- package’s modules. input screen to each data file.
PLAY command lets you look at some-

thing you've already done. The EDIT data types, and you can call for the man- Command Lines
command allows you to change something datory input of data into requested fields as Although GOlDATAbase relies heavi-
you’ve already done, and the COPY com- well as for range checks on date, integer, ly on a menu-based interface, the file man-
mand allows you to make a duplicate. and real values. It supports computed agement module wisely incorporates a
When you’re finished with one of these fields. The latest version of GOlDATA- command line approach with commands
operations and skip out of it, a menu dis- base permits verification checks of alpha- listed in abbreviate form. You don’t have
play at the bottom of the screen lists sev- numeric input against indexed values in to tortuously thread through menus when
eral command options: another file —
a nice, sophisticated fea- you need irmnediate information.
ture. Unfortunately, field names are now Data forms are, to be sure, displayed on
CONTINUE, QUIT, RESTART,
restricted to six alphabetic characters, the screen exactly as specified when you
SAVE.
although the company says this will be created the file. However, a command line
GOLDATAbase is not a database man- expanded an upcoming version.
in at the bottom of the screen lists the 20 or so
agement system but a flat, relational file- GOlDATAbase, appropriately enough available management commands (ADD,
management tool. It supports 1(X) fields for its novice audience, doesn’t ask you to FIND, NARROW, REPLACE, and so
specify data types as such for individual on). To invoke a command, you need only
fields. It just instructs you to enter the type the command plus any desirable argu-
pound sign (#) on-screen for dollar val- ments or conditions (FIND SALARY GT
GOLDATAbase
Goldata Computer Service, Inc.
ues, the percent sign (%) for alphabetic 2(X)00) onto the command input line.
characters, the ampersand (&) for dates,
2 Bryn Mawr Avenue
and so on. How long do you want your Selection Set
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
(215) 525-1036
field to be? Just type in the pound sign as GOlDATAbase organizes its file man-
many times as you need. This visual agement around the concept of the “selec-
List Price; $350
approach is less confusing than the classic you choose of the avail-
tion set,” a subset
Requires: 192K, one disk drive, DOS
data dictionary construction. able records that you can further narrow
2.0, monochrome monitor.
When the data file design is completed, for reporting and housekeeping purposes.
you are prompted, but not forc^, to You create a “selection set” by simply

using the FIND command from the file
management module’s command line.

GGLDATABASE
You also must FIND con-
specify a single Manufacturer Time to prepare standard task
FIND SAL-
dition. If the specification is Goldata Computer Service. Inc. 5 minutes
ARY GT 50000, this command would put 2 Bryn Mawr Avenue
Time to execute standard task
records for all employees who make more Bryn Mawr. PA 19010
15 minutes
than 50,000 into the selection set. Selec- (215) 525-1036
Size of database created
tion is quite rapid, and you are quickly told Price
500 records
how many records are qualified for the $350.00
subset. Space compression used?
Category
The selection set is extremely useful In .
No
2
files that span many records, the use of a Variable length of fields supported?
selection subset can speed retrieval pro- SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS No
cessing. A specified field can be globally Maximum number of record types
Number and size of ancillary files
replaced with another field value through- per databa.se
Catalog and .selection set files: user does
out the selection set. I
not have access to these.
To save results of selection set activity Maximum number of fields per
Degradation with additional indexes
to disk you use the TRANSLATE com- record
Not applicable
mand, which permits the set to be called in 100
later for further processing. But caution is Time to perform sort
Maximum record .size
3.5 minutes
necessary when naming the selection set.
1 .022 bytes
It’s easy to create many sets and subsets Time to create a standard report
with cryptic names you won’t remember Maximum number of records per
10 minutes
file
later. Indeed, you might find that files and
Limited by disk space Time to execute standard report
selection sets end up hurtling around the
30 minutes
disk in a state of disarray. It is tempting to Maximum number of records pe.r
save and play with sets and subsets without database Minimum hardware/software
Not applicable required
documenting or tracking the changes that
192K. one disk drive. DOS 2.0,
you make to them or the purpose for which Maximum field size
monochrome monitor
you created them. 80 bytes
Suggested hardware/soflware
Macro Construction PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS configuration
GOLDATAbase has a useful macro fea- Time to enter standard data I92K. two disk drives. DOS 2.0. color
20 minutes monitor
ture that lets you freely save and recall
batchlike files, employing them to capture Time to extract a random record Hardware/software configuration used
repetitive command sequences. These 4 seconds in testing
cotiunand sequences could include rou- XT. 512K. DOS 2.0. color monitor
tines that automatically select appropriate

records and then prompt data input person- from within the filemanagement module. Report Generation
nel to replace data in specified fields, or As each line of the macro file executes, the GOLDATAbase permits both 80- and
routines that call for a new sort to reflect commands it incorporates are displayed on 132-column report formats. You use the
file changes, and so on. the screen. same “screen painting” form design pro-
Macro file creation is extremely easy. Although the documentation casually cess to define reports as you use for
With the aid of the package’s simple but calls macro construction “procedure defi- files.
adequate text processor, you can type in nition,” it really isn’t. GOLDATAbase The program allows you to attach any
GOLDATAbase commands and mix them doesn’t make any use of program control number of reports to a given file and direct
with interactive prompts (signaled to the flow or branching based on logical condi- them to the screen, the printer, or to a com-
computer by embedding an asterisk in a tions. Fortunately, the BASIC Program- munications port. Since they can be dis-
macro prompt line), requests for files to be mer's Interface provides this procedural played on-screen, reports can also serve as
loaded during processing procedures, and language. Another drawback to macros, an easier way than selection sets to view
so on. A macro file is nothing more than a possibly of little significance to novices, is subsets of fields and values from the same
list, line by line, of GOLDATAbase com- that you are not allowed to modify GOL- file.
mands from the file management module, DATAbase’% menu interface. This means The BASIC Programmer s Interface
attached to desired criteria. that you can’t create your own menus and permits programmer control of data com-
After you have created and saved a merge them with the GOLDATAbase munication. This feature allows you to
macro file, you execute it by naming it stnicture. send GOLDATAbase reports off-line. This
GOLDATABASE
capability is one example of how an expe- FIND SALARY GT 20000, the NAR- Its sensibly designed features and
rienced programmer can use the BASIC ROW command, logically enough, would accessibility make GOLDATAbase almost
Interface with GOLDATAbase commands then “narrow” or further cut the subset as good as gold. I don’t, however, much
to create an application that is more than according to a second criterion. (Thus, the like documentation or its price. The
its
the sum of the program’s admittedly command FIND SALARY GT 20000 fol- documentation is, to be fair, acceptable.
pedestrian parts. lowed by NARROW AGE LT 40 will first But its aesthetics arc poor and its instruc-
assemble the selection set of all records tions too brief in some places. The manual
Form-Letter Generation with a salary field greater than 20,000 and is bound in dreary battleship gray and is
Using the simple GOLDATAbtise text then narrow that same subset to those typeset in a confusing way that makes it
editor, you can create form letters by records where the value for age is less than difficult to distinguish conceptual subsec-
embedding held names within free text. 40.) FIND NARROW has the
used with tions within chapters. And although con-
The text editor functions at the level of a effect of a Boolean AND without actually cision is normally a virtue and is in line
simple full-screen, cursor-driven facility using one. with the entire design of the product, the
with a few supplementary editing features manual should cover some subjects in
(inserts, block moves, deletes, and so on) BASIC Programmer’s Interface more depth. Surely novices in particular
that you'll quickly learn. The BASIC Programmer' s Interface would benefit from a brief written tutorial
A typical entry that a user would make option is sold separately from GOLDATA- that details the actual process of building a
might be a memo. At points in the memo base and comes with its own floppy disk small GOLDATAbase file application.
where you want to iasert held values, you and documentation. It allows you to hook Novices also need a bit more explanation
type the held name inside angle brackets. into GOLDATAbase from BASIC and of the unavoidable data processing jargon
The program associates the form letter then use retrieved data as desired. You that cannot be squeezed out of any com-
with the needed data hie and later folds the can't call BASIC code from within GOL- puter prixluct (the glossary definitions of
desired held values into the otherwise DATAbase. Not all GOLDATAbase facili- programmer and bug are not what is
standard text. ties arc accessible from BASIC. The fol- needed). Even though some well-done
Interestingly, although text editing is GOLDATAbase commands can be
lowing help screens are available on-line, they
also part of other GOLDATAbase func- ADD. BASE, EXPAND, FIND,
called: don’t go beyond the material already cov-
tions, themanual does not describe text GET, INPUT, KILL, MODIFY, NAR- ered in the manual. In sum, there is room
editing as a separate facility. Text editing ROW, OPEN, and SORT. The Interface for substantial improvement here.
is so easy to use that it requires little more also has communications routines for dial- There is also room for substantial
than a knowledge of cursor and insert key ing and exchanging data, and it provides improvement in price. GOLDATAbase'%
positions and the meaning of several func- the much-needed procedural language. capabilities put it in a category of database
tion keys assigned to block moves and With the Interface, GOLDATAbase software usually priced between $ 100 and
centering of text. can serve as a simple forms entry point, $300. While GOLDATAbase is undeni-
and data can be sent to and from main- ably useful for most file management tasks
Jargon Free frames that can do the truly sophisticated such as mailing lists and simple account-
GOLDATAbase has struck a blow in data management and analysis that GOL- ing, it does have its limits. Its $350 list
the war against jargon by incorporating DATAbase does not pretend to do. price is, in my opinion, too much — par-
Boolean logic into its query language To initiate the process, you assign a ticularly when you consider that the
without ever mentioning the term in its syntactically correct GOLDATAba.se state- BASIC Programmer's Interface costs an
manual. Although Boolean logic is criti- ment (FIND SALARY GT 200(X)) as a additional $395. Its lack of a significant
cally important in data processing, it is BASIC string to a GOLDATAbase string intermediate level of functionality might
invariably one of the most difficult con- variable. You then invoke an Interface- tempt many to look elsewhere for more
cepts for beginners to gra.sp when it is coded subroutine that routes the request serious data applications. A price drop
abstractly presented. back through GOLDATAbase for process- (say, to $225) might double sales.
Most database manager manuals are ing. You can use an ’’error string vari- Tbe developers should consider offer-
reduced to gibberish when they try to help able" to report a failure to achieve the ing "power packs” that would enhance
you understand the meaning of ANDs, specified goal. the untouched kernel of GOLDATAbase,
ORs, AND-ORs, and other ways of link- At the conclusion of this process, con- allowing intermediate users to add power
ing two selection criteria. trol returns to the BASIC program, which without learning BASIC programming.
Fortunately, only the words and not the will then go on to behave like any other Despite these criticisms, GOLDATA-
functions have been removed from GOL- piece of BASIC code. The Interface sup- base is a clean, honest product in an indus-
DATAbase. ports IBM interpreted BASIC for building try that is increasingly promising more
To perform an AND query in GOLDA- source code but includes its own custom than can deliver. Even with its limita-
it
TAbase, you choose a selection set

first compiler and link for cranking out the final tionsand at its current price, GOLDATA-
based on a single criterion. If you choose product. base is worth consideration.

SOFTWARE • JOHN R. PHILLIPS
KALEIDOSCOPE:
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
udging by appearances, KALEIDO-
J
snazzy:
SCOPE, DBI
base manager,
it comes
Software’s
is
in a plastic
new data-
impressive, even
snapcase with
a hard-bound manual and a set of tutorial
booklets liberally sprinkled with screen
displays and examples of input dialog. But
the packaging is deceptive. Once I dug
through this surface layer into the data-
base, I found it came up far shoit of wbat 1
expected.
DBI markets KALEIDOSCOPE as "a
shining new software concept that is your
guiding light to the fourth generation,” but
I found little in the program to substantiate
that claim. To me, the term “fourth gen-
eration,” a current industry buzzword,
means a powerful program with state-of-
the-art features and an advanced user inter-
face that perrrrits nonprogrammers to use
the package to the fullest. In a database
manager, “fourth generation” would
mean a free-fotm, ^glish-like, ad hoc
inquiry language of considerable power, a
data dictionary to support it, multiple
index keys for high-spe^ access to data,
complete full-screen support, and auto-
matic storage of frequently used ad boc
command sequences. Such a system
should give the novice user the ability and
confidence to push the system to its limits.
By these measures, KALEIDOSCOPE
completely misses the boat.
KALEIDOSCOPE' ^ documentation is KALEIDOSCOPE live up to its billing as a
doesn’t
as well done as the packaging. Separate
tutorial booklets and color-coded disks are
“fourth generation” database manager. The only
enclosed for the major components of the I bright spot in this program is its snazzy packaging.
—
KALEIDOSCOPE
system: the Editor, DBI Language, Calc- ual when you run into trouble. the caret keyC) to signal that you wish to
Merge, Data-Merge, and the Systems The main manual includes warranty back up to the previous field. Scope spec-
Designer. Each manual is tastefully type- information and a hot-line phone number ification (either a specific record or range
set, except for the most important one of in an envelope at the back of the book, but of records) is by absolute record number,
all —the Editor book, which looks like I believe the text would be more reassuring not by key value. When you do request a
something out of a grammar school to the novice user if it didn’t include record by key value, the system resorts the
library. The pages of the Editor manual are phrases such as “the disks or programs current index first since index mainte-
covered with arrows, handwritten nota- will occasionally fail.”Another problem nance is not automatic in KALEIDO-
tions incomic balloons, and other useful for both novice and experienced users is SCOPE.
symbols, including a "STOP” sign and that themanual redefines some terminolo- While the CHANGE command allows
pictures of blackboards, pencils, and gy that has been around for years. For for replacement of a field (either character
chalk. Disregarding the distracting graph- example, in describing files, the manual or numeric) and addition or subtraction of
ics, I discovered it is well written and numeric fields, addition and subtraction
accurately describes the Editor.
Far from a fourth
for a reason that defies logic are speci- —
The method of presentation in all of the fied by typing “%” and “%=”, respec-
manuals assumes a low level of computer generation product, tively,followed by the value to be added
knowledge. For example, the main manu- or subtracted.
al covers the basics of loading the soft-
KALEIDOSCOPE is not as The LIST command displays records
ware, the differences between MS-DOS advanced as dBASE II, (specified by absolute key number) or a
and CP/M, and the steps required to get single record (specified by index key, after
the accepted standard for
from the master disks to a “working" set a sort is executed).The normal display
of disks. On my PC-XT, all that was database managers. looks like the edit mode screen, with the
required was to create a subdirectory and field names in a vertical colurtm at the left
then a COPY A:*.* command to transfer misstates the phra.se for which ISAM is the and the data content of each field displayed
each of the masters onto my hard disk. acronym. Also, the DBI “Editor” is not in a matching column to the right. KALEI-
A brief note in one of Ae pamphlets an editor at all but rather a command inter- DOSCOPE offers you the option of direct-
reminds you that ANSI, SYS must be preter, which has no text-editing capabili- ing the output to the printer and using a
installed as a driver before this system will ty. And the DBI “Compiler” does not very elementary report writer, called the
run. Otherwise, KALEIDOSCOPE'S ini- appear to compile anything it —
simply forms option, which organizes the data in a
tial installation is as simple as they come. produces BASIC source code, which is more conventional format with column
then fed directly to BASIC for interpretive headings across the top and the data in
A BASIC Surprise execution. multiple columns below. This function
My first came when
surprise the man- Far from a “fourth generation” prod- does not permit display of literal values,
ual reminded me that I had to have uct, KALEIDOSCOPE, is not even as customized column headings, computa-
BAS1C.COM in the working directory. advanced as dBASE II, the accepted indus- tion, or variable column spacing. I could
BASIC? Surely a product that bills itself as try standard for database managers. For not find a way to get the system to remem-
“fourth generation” doesn’t depend on instance, dBASE II has been much criti- ber a listing form once 1 had answered the
Microsoft’s BASIC to get the job done! cized for its 32 fields and l,0(X)-byte questions. To repeat the same form later,
Alas, it does. I then added BAS1C.COM record limit. KALEIDOSCOPE only al- you must rekey the entire thing. Compared
to my subdirectory and forged ahead into lows 20 fields and 255 bytes per record. to the listing functions of packages at half
the main manual. My next discovery was Also, each file must contain a unique, the price of KALEIDOSCOPE, this LIST
that you really need a BASIC manual to nonrepeating key, and alternate key index command is not impressive.
use KALEIDOSCOPE. DB.I states that files are not automatically maintained and Moreover, although KALEIDO-
KALEIDOSCOPE uses BASIC, and you thus must be resorted before use. SCOPE'S Editor module processes com-
are instructed to refer to the BASIC man- Also, the Editor offers a very limited mands that create filesand manipulate
subset of the commands available to a data, the actual entry and editing of your
dBASE II user. The SEARCH command pseudo-BASIC program are done using
can use only a single-field comparison; BASIC’s line editor, which should have
KALEIDOSCOPE, Version 7.1
you create temporary files and do it over been buried years ago. don't know any- 1
DBI Software Products
and over if you need to select on multiple one who still uses it now that full-screen
5805 E. Pickard Rd,
fields. The ADD and CHANGE com- editing packages ate readily available. The
Mount Ml 48858
(517) 772-5055
Pleasant,
—
mands roughly similar to APPEND and DBI Editor’s vocabulary contains 16 com-
List Price: $695

EDIT in dBASE —do not use cursor keys mands covering record creation and mod-
RAM, two disk or interfield movement. You must indicate ification, deletion and recovery, sotting,
Requires: 128K drives.
the field to be altered by typing its full searching, and listing.
name or, in the case of an error, you use The Editor’s implementation is clearly

.
rooted in antiquated teletype technology

and barely compares to other modem data-
KALEIDOSCOPE
base products. • Manufacturer Time to prepare standard task
Once you pass the Editor, you are intro- DBI Software Products 2 minutes
duced to the processing language called One Energy Place
5805 East Pickard Road
Time to execute standard task as
DATA BASic. This capability means indicated on specifications sheet
Mount Pleasant, Ml 48858
KALEIDOSCOPE fits into PC’s Project: I minute
(517) 772-5055
Database Category 3 (see "Project: Data-
Size of database created
base, Part 5,” PC, Volume 3 Number 15, • Price
25 records
for a definition of Category 3 packages), $695.00
since it makes it programmable. « Calegorv
Space compres.sion used?
To write a process routine for KALEI- 3
No
DOSCOPE, you use the primitive line edi- Variable length of fields supported?
tor of Microsoft's BASIC interpreter. SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS No
What you do then is write your commands Maximum number of record types
• Number and size of ancillary files
in a language that is made up of 30 macro per database 3 index “Altkcy" files
statements, which are each represented in Nine at a time
Degradation with additional indexes
the output file comment line contain-
as a
• Maximum number of Helds per Only handles one index at a time.
ing a 3<haracter command. You assign
record
line numbers to each statement, start each Time to perform sort as indicated on
20
line with a single quote, and then terminate spec sheet
the line with a semicolon. Then you enter • Maximum record size < 1 minute
255 bytes
your program with its KALEIDOSCOPE Time to create a standard report
macros through the DBI compiler, which • Maximum number of records per 25 minutes
expands the macros into BASIC source file
Time to execute standard report
code of considerable volume. 32,767
2.5 minutes
These macro commands lack the power • Maximum number of records per
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APPLICATIONS MARTIN PORTER
COMPUTERS
WITH HEART The Compaq shares credit with the Jarvik-7
heart for the success of William Schroeder’s
historic artificial heart implant operation.
ver since Wil- or not the valves are clos-
E
vember
liam Schroeder
made
lines
as
person to receive an
the
head-
last
second
No-
arti-
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surgery
going on.
rate all this is
During the 6 '/2 -hour
performed by
William DeVries, M.D.,
ficial heart, a Compaq Humana assistant techni-
portable computer has cal director Brent Mays
been quietly sharing the connected the huge
spodight. Throughout heart-drive console to
Schroeder’s operation Schroeder’s chest. In
and his lecoveiy, the that procedure, the Com-
computer, via an assort- paq replaced an entire
ment of tubes and wires, second console that had
has provided doctors originally been used by
with the crucial link to the first mechanical heart
the inner workings of the recipient, Barney Clark;
mechanical heart. Physicians attest to the Compaq’s contribution to the success of the operation.
the console carried an
The physicians and Apple He, a hard disk, a
technicians involved in this historic oper- lines representing the air exhausted from monitor, and a printer.
ation at the Humana Hospital Audubon in the right and left chambers of the Jarvik-7 “When Barney Clark walked around,
Louisville, Kentucky, admit that the fresh- heart. The software records the graphs in it was like he was pulling a train of hard-
from-the-box 256K Compaq was as much real time and dumps them into memory ware," recalls Bennett, who explains that i
responsible for the successful implant as once every IS minutes; it averages the left the Compaq’s small size was one of the |
the Jarvik-7 heart itself. and right heart functions every minute. reasons why the original Apple program z
The Compaq serves several bedside Symbion’s artificial heart project man- was rewritten for an MS-DOS machine. |
roles as a peripheral nursemaid to the driv- ager, Laurence Bennett, refers to the soft- Symbion decided to transfer the soft-
|
er that keeps Schroeder's aluminum and ware program as the “heart's thermome- ware to an IBM compatible because of the |
polyurethane heart thumping. But its most ter" and says that the Compaq’s primary limitations of the Apple. The original pro- «
important function is as a diagnostic tool. responsibility is to measure the airflow gram was written in BASIC, and the team &
The software used for this application was coming from the heart to determine how of programmers wanted to rewrite it in C |
developed by the manufacturer of the Jar- much blood actually fills it. The wave- language to increase its efficiency and *
vik-7 heart, Symbion, in Salt Lake City, form of the airflow also indicates how the future flexibility. To this day, however, i
Utah. It displays a two-axis plot, with the valves and heart are performing, whether the Apple He remains the backup machine
|
HEART
for the Compaq. In fact, it has performed

flawlessly compared to the newer pro-
gram. which is still being tweaked.
Data Acquisition
The move toward IBM compatibility
was a reflection of an overall trend at Sym-
bion. In 1982. Symbion researchers used
IBM PCs for the development of an arti-
ficial ear and in the CAD/CAM develop-
ment of this earlier mechanical organ.
"Otherwise." Bennett explains. "IBM
computers are extensively used for data
acquisition in the medical device business
these days."
As in all experimental procedures such
as heart transplants, the teams have to keep
exhaustive notes to satisfy the watchdogs
in Washington. D.C.. orattheF.D.A. For
this reason, the Humana Heart Institute To handle the overabundance of data, staff of the nature of the emergency before
administration went IBM last year and Symbion developed a way
the scientists at they even get into the room.
then explicitly purchased an AT for the to download the information directly from Other changes to the system are also in
artificial heart project last fall. the Compaq to a database management .store.The programmers are near comple-
The AT currently sits down the hall program on the AT. But first, they had to tion of a pressure waveform graphic for the
from Schroeder's hospital room at a connect the Compaq to a number of Hew- pumping cycle. Rather than charting the
nurse’s station and logs in laboratory data lett-Packard (HP) gauges that monitor airflow coming back from the heart, sci-
records. The researchers specifically de- everything from Schroeder's pulse rate to soon be able to look at the air-
entists will
signed a databa.se management program his blood pressure. flow going to the heart. This procedural
for the Schroeder experiment. "You have The Compaq’s role isn’t strictly that of change is important because it will allow
no idea of all the data we have to collect.” a bean counter. The Symbion program- them to monitor the performance of the
Bennett notes. "By the time this experi- mers built several alarm functions into the drive system that is responsible for keep-
ment becomes a recognized procedure, Compaq program. The four different ing Schroeder’s “tin man ticker" ticking
we'll have books and books of data." alarms automatically inform the nursing at 70 beats per minute.
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The Ethics of
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Copying software, beyond the requisite backup, is
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common practice also endangering our ethics?
this
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S
the
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programs, has been steadily robbing
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copy of a program. Jerry Dreyer,
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lions of dollars. A few observers think it cessing Service Organizations (ADAP-
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software market is lost to pirates. Based on because copying software is a simple, able program; you need a back-up copy to
estimates of the current market, that almost automatic procedure —
in fact, it's ensure that you don't lose your investment
amounts to several billion dollars of lost one of the first operations new users learn. if the computer suddenly destroys your
Experienced computer users consider it program or data.

Some software publishers copy-protect
their programs, making it difficult if not
impossible to copy them. But these pub-
lishers alienate customers, who consider
back-up copies a critical element of proper
computer use.
Unlawful copying and

distribution of computer
programs has been
steadily robbing the
economy of what may add
up to billions of dollars.
“Copying is the first thing you should

do with any of your programs,” says a
West Coast journalist who covers comput-
ers. “And the act of stealing is the same as
the act of copying. If copying were more
difficult, it might be less common. But the
act is so simple.”
It is also illegal, according to software
publishers. When you buy personal com-
puter software, you receive a license to use
the program on only one computer. If you
own two PCs, you're supposed to buy two
copies of the program. “But I don't think
the fine print on the disks or in the manuals
is stopping people,” says the journalist.
“It's as easy to copy software as to
copy a cassette,” he continues. “But
there's a greater ethical sense involved.”
It's precisely the ethical issues however
that many pirates do not recognize. One
New England mathematician recently re-
jected a “tainted” research grant from the
Air Force, but he actively encourages his
colleagues to trade software with him.
The Size of the Prohlem

“Wholesale copying for profit is not a
problem,” says Dr. Edward H. Currie,
president and CEO of Lifeboat Associates,
one of the largest publishers of microcom-
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Currie attributes the piracy that does and customer support that publishers pro- sued Rixon, Inc.,for $10 million for
exist to newcomers in the personal com- vide to their legitimate customers. actively copying and distributing copies of
puter world. They don't understand the The problem does, however, extend to Lotus’s /-2-i to branch offices. Rixon set-
difference between having just a physical larger companies. In one highly publicized tled out of court. More recently, Lotus
copy of a program and having the manuals case, Lotus Development Corporation sued a Nashville, Tennessee, company for
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Jerry Dreyer, president of ADAPSO,
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Programmers absorb much of the cost says Edward Currie. "It’s sad that these uitable. Most people who copy software
of piracy. Everyillegal copy of a program people are being denied their due compen- illegally actually think they are the ones
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“Most program authors

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sive {Kxxlucts cheaply. Andrew Fluegel- Perhaps Fluegelman and Button are software so difficult that piracy will die
man, the author of the popular communi- right in trying a new approach to econom- out. Most likely, the truth lies somewhere
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PROGRAMMING • STEVEN HOLZNER 7,500 WORDS

MORE THAN ANY BOOK! *
VOCABULARY
• r
BUILDER
500 WORDS
OF THE MOST COMMON
< SHOWS WORDS CORRECT AND WORDS MISSED
• WILL NOT REPEAT WORDS YOU VE LEARNED
• VOCABULARY FROM GRADE 6 TO ADULT
• PRINTS OUT WORDS TO TAKE WITH YOU AND STUDY
Making ¥)ur ANYWHERE
FLASH CARDS
«
•
ALLOWS YOU TO CREATE A OUlCK STUDY AID
SET UP THE CARDS TO YOUR BEST ADVANTAGE
Own Macros
• CHOOSE YOUR OWN TOPIC
AHO • MULTIPLE CHOICE OR FLASH CARDS
SPELLING
ONEKEY is a program that can simplify your life.
•
TEACHER
LEARN TO SPELL EVERYDAY WORDS CORRECTLY
A single keystroke can be made •
•
KEEPS TRACK OF CORRECT WORDS
WILL REPEAT MISSPELLED WORDS
to signify a complex command to your PC. • BASIC SOURCE CODE S COMPILED VERSION
INCLUDED
ype F5 Alt Esc"A
T
n. If that’s the
kind of command
PurpleProse word fffocessor
sequence your
re- 1985/No. 9 TYPING
quires in Older to shift the cursor n spaces
to the right, or if you’re just plain tired of • LEARN TO TOUCH TYPE
TEACHER
com- • REPEATS MISSED LETTERS
entering long, repetitious strings of • INCREASE TYPING SPEED
mands in 1-2-3 or dBASE, then ONE- • INCREASE ACCURACY
KEY. COM is the program for you.

As its name suggests, ONEKEY con-
denses intricate and frequently used com-
’math teacher
• SAT & GRE LEVEL PROBLEMS
< USES RANDOM NUMBERS TO REPEAT PROBLEMS
mands into just one key. It can be used at • TEACHES NUMEROUS TYPES OF PROBLEMS
• ALLOWS USER TO CHOOSE DIFFICULTY
any time, with any program I’ve tried, so
SUPERIOR IN SEVERAL AREAS
all you have to do is enter either the Thii program will Allow you 10 incroAw your hnowlAaga 0* Ibo
EngiiiP languAgo. Tbia program can Da uaaO for paraonai tM
B ASIC (Figure 1) or the assembler (Figure aOueamnal irnprovainaf>|«
’ boip t ) racarve Da«ar gradaa. nigttar SAT aeoraa ana
2) version, and you’ll be ready to start sim-

It la HaaiM ago groupa Any paraon of any aga can maka uaa
lor all
plifying your life. [The program is also ol ihia to advwica thoir vocaDuiary ana tiMmaaivaa
Thia eompulor program will anatHa you to ralum your proDlom noroa
automatically, ovar andovar. A book may waar out. rip. or bacoma loo
available via modem from the PC Interac- markac up to ba iWolui Tbia program will laoi lor oa long aa you naad
and with tba fiaah corOa. you can continually mcraaaa ina lavaia of
tive Reader System, whose telephone dillieuily and your comprarrana ion
number is (212) 696-0360. Ed.] — Thia program will aid you m advartcing your maibmatic aaiHs it
can help yOu with anything from daily hguraa to mora inirtcaia
probiams It can advanca your knowledge m ciasa and leatmg
Admittedly, keyboard entry is no small aituaiiona
copy B:*.OLD A:*.BAS<cr> IBM AT with t28K
task, but despite its size, the ONEKEY DIR B:*.BAS<cr>
• lor PC. XT. JR.
• Manual la on diak
• Compatibiea with 128K
code was written as compactly as 1 could
manage. All the numbers you see in the Make sure to include all carriage
NO STRINGS ATTACHED
You do not have to Duy anything aiae to uaa the ayatam Wa don't
tvan aaii any aoUwara leacapt lor ina coal ol the diaka & haiMiingi We
data statements of the BASIC version are returns and control characters when you’re devaiopad the prograrra in nouea lor our own uia Wa are nol aeliing
the pregrama pacauae we do not went to be in the aoltwara pubiiahing
the decimal equivalents of the binary typing the cotrunands in, since ONEKEY buaineas We are giving the programa eway aa a publ« aervica & lor
the good publ«itv The S20 lae covera trte coal of the 4 diaka and iha
machine code that actually makes up can only supply the keystrokes you have adverliaing aa w« are not loeing any money on thia otter
ONEKEY.COM. given it. For instance, if you wanted "N to MORE FREE SOFTWARE ON
ONEKEY, of course, needs to know start your favorite PC game, Star Peril,
PAGE FOUR
just what command sequences are being you might use it to replace:
POTOMAC PACIFIC ENGINEERING INC.
replaced by which keys. Thus, the BASIC BorKUf QaiinefUw'g MD JOera l30l l9rr 1409
program in Figure 1 asks you, command

B-.BASIC STRPERIL<cr> .^•p Copy the ayaiam trem aomaorte who airaady hea one OR
• For the laleit meal powartul edition aend $21 to cover the coela
by command, first for the “trigger” key ONEKEY can accept a total of 30 new Ol 5 OSOO diaka lat ciaaa mail, anvetope. copying A handling
• Available on 10 SSDO diaka. $I0 extra
• Ouiaide USA add $3 MO

raaidanta add i\ lai
you want to use hereafter for a given com- each of which can replace up
.
trigger keys, • Allow 2 to 3 weeka lor delivery
Pleaae aend Polomac Pacil< Enginaanng a EOucatiortal Software

mand and then for the keystroke sequence to 50 characters. Package to
to be replaced by that key. You could, for The manuals for DOS versions 2.0 and Name
example, use function key FIO to execute 2. 10 indicate that, under DOS itself, you
the following commands; can reassign entire strings to a single key. CiiyiSiaieiZip

SAVE
MONEY with Flexforms.
PROGRAMMING
Flex/orms are pre-wrinen. ready to use contracts,

agreements and letters designed to save your company
which certainly sounds like what ONE- been typed.
time and money. Flexforms work wi fA any word pro-
cessor. You literally "fill in the blanks" and create KEY does. Under the promising title of Unfortunately, however, DOS’s prom-
customized, professional and legally-binding docu- “Keyboard Key Reassignment," IBM ise is an empty one; many programs do not
ments for every situation.
Each of the forms can be quickly tailored to suit
if your program prints out the
suggests that use DOS to read what you’ve typed.
your individual needs without wading through confus- command Indeed, almost no word processors do.
ing manuals.
Flexforms help protect your legal rights, avoid tax ESC [0;68;"dir";13p
Nor will the DOS reassignment work for
problems, dramatically improve efficiency, increase 1-2-3 ordBASE. It is routine today instead
profits and eliminate costly misunderstandings. (acommand that would be very much at to use the BIOS services to read characters
Four Popular Series-
home in the PurpleProse manual), it will from the keyboard, and the BIOS is immu-
instruct DOS to reassign the FIO key to the tably set in ROM and not open to key teas-
BUSINESS string dir<catriage
approach does work, of course, and these
retum>. The IBM sigrunents.
A number of intrepid programs even go
Ideal for expanding businesses'
Employee Agreements A Letters, Credit d Collection reassignments can be very useful. The so far as to read character input directly
Letters. Subcontractor Agreements, Lease Forms d trouble with them, however, is that only from the keyboard buffer,in low metiKny.
Amendments, Buying d Selling Forms. Credit Forms
d Apphcations, Guaranties, Loan d Debt .Notices d DOS’s definition of the FIO key is This is which a charac-
the lowest level at
Letters. Assignments d Transfers, Affidavits d changed. If your program, after it’s been ter if ONEKEY is to be
can be read, so
Notices, Promissory Notes d 83 more!
compiled, uses DOS to read the characters all-purpose, here where it must operate.
is
from the keyboard, then all is well: every This buffer is what the BIOS or DOS
REAL ESTATE
Designed for investors, developers, and property
time FIO is struck,
inform your program that dir<cr> has

DOS will obediently reads, and by working here we’ll get to
what’s been typed before either of them.
managers:
Residentiald Commercial Forms, Purchase d Sales
Forms, Broker d Agent Contracts d Forms, Partner-
ship Agreements, Rental Forms, Lease Forms, Tenan-
cy Agreements d Applications, Illegal Detainer
Locking Up the Keystrokes
Forms, Loan Agreements, Financing Agreements, Ex-
change Forms d Contracts, Disclaimers d Dis-
closures, Contractor Agreements and 7S more!
W hile
(Figure
most readers will find it far easier to enter the
BASIC ask them for the key-command substitutions, and
1), let
turn the entire program into ONEKEY.CXDM automatically, inveterate assembly
ONEKEY.BAS listing
CORPORATE
Exceeds State and Federal Corporate Law require-
language buffs will prefer their customary approach. If you simply type in the
listing of ONEKEY.ASM (Figure 2) and assemble it, however, you’ll produce a
ments: ONEKEY.COM file with no keys substituted for any command strings. This
Articles of Incorporation, Shareholder d Director sidebar will explain how to insert the desired characters into the .ASM file.
.Meeting Minutes, Corporate By-Laws, By-Law
Amendments, Shareholder d Director Resolutions,
Merger Resolutions, Compensation Resolutions. Divi- Entering Characters in ONEKEY.ASM
dend Resolutions, Loan Resolutions, Fringe Benefit
Resolutions, Employee Benefit Resolutions and 86
If you’re rugged enough to want to put your own characters into the assembler
more! version of ONEKEY, the first things you need to determine are the proper scan
and ASCn key codes to enter. The easiest way to do this is with the very short
PERSONNEL
Created for growing organizations:
BASIC program
la
listed
FOR I-l TO ItiREY I,"*:NEXT I

below.
Personnel Policy .Manual. Employee Safety .Manual. 2a DEF SEG • SB4a

Employment Agreements d Apphcations, Secrecy d 3$ FXEY$-rNKEY$;rF FKEYS-" GOTO 3a
Indention Forms, Confidentiality Agreements, Non-
4a TAIL-FEEK(2e) :TArL>TArL-2:IF TAtL < 3a THEN TAtL - Sa
sa CODEl-FEEK (TAtL) tC0DE2-FEEK (TAIL-fl)
Compete Agreements, 25 Job Descriptions, Consul-
tant Agreements, Agency Agreements, Personnel Let-
sa PRINT BEXStCODEl) SPC(l) HEX$(C0DE2) SFC(2);:G0T0 EBiEND
ters, Performance Reviews and 25 more!
Flexforms have been prepared under legal counsel.

By way of example, suppose you want to replace F9 with DIR<cr> and FIO
Unlike forms written by lawyers for lawyers, they are withDIR B:<cr>. To find the scan and ASCII codes for these characters, run the
concise and easy to understand without needless legal-
BASIC program and type F9. These numbers should appear 0 43.
ese. Available in IBM, Apple, or Mac disk formats.
Each series only Together, these two hex numbers make up the hex word 4300H, since the PC
stores the two bytes of a word with the lower byte first. Thus, the number
corresponding to F9 is 4300H, which you’ll be putting into ONEKEY.ASM.
$34.95
(plus S5 shipping), includes hard copy. All
this:
44 20
Next, type the
49 17
command this key will replace. The BASIC program gives us
52 13 D 1C
four for $120 and we pay the shipping! Visa 1 1 1 1 1 1 |_|
and Mastercard accepted. •D* 'I '
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<cr>
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no. Box 781 • .Santa Cruz. CA 9506!
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—
PROGRAMMING
The Keyboard Buffer preted, and the apposite code for that key and overlaps the head, it means that the
Whenever you strike a key on the PC, a is put into the keyboard buffer. buffer is full —
and you’ll get beeped.
signal is sent directly to the 8088, indicat- The keyboard buffer consists of a group
ing that fact. This particular signal of 16 wor^ in memory. One of these posi- ONEKEY
called interrupt 9 —does as its name sug- tions holds the next character that will be ONEKEY intercepts the keyboard in-
gests and interrupts the PC to read the read from the buffer and is called the terrupt subroutine right before the BIOS
character you’ve typed. “head.” Correspondingly, the “tail” is read routine has placed the character into
When the keyboard sends an interrupt the position where the next character writ- the keyboard buffer. ONEKEY immedi-
to the PC, the rc does not have to stop ten will be placed. When you type a char- ately reads that character and consults the
instantly. It might instead temporarily dis- acter, the tail advances. When the PC little table of keys you’ve supplied, to
regard the interrupt if it is in the middle of reads one, so does the head. Since both the determine whether or not it should spring
sonrething critical. (This is why Control-C head and the tail wrap around when they into action.
and Control-Alt-Del don’t always work.) come to the end of the buffer, the whole If it recognizes a key, “N, for example,
When it can take the interrupt, however, buffer is most usefully thought of as a ring it puts your corresponding command,
the PC executes its special keyboard inter- of 16 words, and it presents the rather pic- B:BAS1CA STRPEWL<cr>, into the
rupt subroutine, which is located in turesque image of an eager head forever keyboard buffer. Before doing so, howev-
ROM. chasing its reluctant tail. er, it must first erase the actually typed key
The number generated from the key- When the head catches the tail and the ("N) from the buffer. It does this simply by
board is, as you might expect, different for two are at the same position, the buffer is moving the tail (which advances for each
every key. This number is quickly inter- empty. If the tail comes up from behind new character) back one space. ONEKEY
then systematically loads letter after letter
of the command (B:BASICA STRPER-

ilarly, FlO’s numbers become 0 44 (4400H), and the DIR B:<cr> string to be IL<cr>) into the waiting keyboard buff-
replaced is; er.
44 20 49 17 52 13 20 39 42 30 3A 27 D IC
I I I I I I l_l I I I I 1—1 If you’ve been counting, however, you
D' 'I '
'R ' '
'B' *!' <cr>
will have noticed that this exemplary com-
These become the words 2044H, 1749H, 1352H, 3920H, 3042H. 273AH, mand is 18 characters long, and you’ll
ICODH, which you will pack into the .ASM code. The keys go in order into the remember that IBM has blessed us with a
little bank named KEYS. There are 30 words in KEYS to allow for 30 commands, keyboard buffer that is only 16 characters
and this total must be kept at 30, Thus, starting from in length. That means that we will not be
KEYS DK 30 DUP(0) able to stuff the entire command into the

buffer at one go but must wait to finish
you put in your two, 43(X)H and 44(X)H, leaving 28 DUP (0). Thus, the .ASM line
until some of the letters have been read
becomes:
from it. In order to do this we make use of
KEYS DW 4300H,4400U,28 DDP(0) a second hardware interrupt in the PC: the
Entering the COMMAND definitions is only slighdy more difficult. Each timer interrupt.
command given exactly 5 1 words (50 words of command and at least one word
is
of 0 to serve as an end mark). To preserve this, you give the first command, The Timer Interrupt
DlR<cr> 4 words of characters (as above), and 47 words (equals 5 1 total) of Os,
,
Among the PC’s small army of chips,
thus: there is one mote rhythmic than most, and
it sends out a regular pulse 18.2 times a
COMMANDS DW 2044H, 1749H, 1352H, 1C0DH, 47 DUP(0)
second. This timer is used to interrupt the
From there you add the next command, which is also allocated a total of 5 1 words. PC at that same rate. It may come as news
Thus, while the old COMMANDS
line read simply to many readers to leam that 18.2 times
COMMANDS DW 1530 Dup(0) ): every second the PC stops whatever it is

doing and executes a timer interrupt.
using the examples above, the new COMMANDS area of ONEKEY would
Every program that you run, unless it
become:
makes special arrangements, is interrupted
COMMANDS DW 2044H 17 49H 13 52H, 1C0DH , 47 DUP(0)
, , this way while the PC updates the internal
DW 2044H,1749H,1352H,3920H,3042H,273AH,1C0DH,44 DUP(0) time of day and checks to see if the date
1428 DUP(0) jl428 = 1530-2*(51)
DW
has changed. This interrupt — number
All that remains to be done is
and EXE2BIN. It’s easy to make a mistake this way. though, and if you do, you
to mn ONEKEY. ASM through MASM, LINK, 28 — is issued every .0549254 seconds,
which may seem an oddly chosen interval
might use the BASIC program and leave the driving to it. S.H. — until you realize that it works out to pre-
cisely 65,536 or 2'* counts per hour. This

)
PROGRAMMING
allows the PC to calculate the hours that that was being fed into the keyboard buff- To the eye the process looks quite con-
have passed with exceptional ease. er. The second half of ONEKEY inter- tinuous, and 5 characters appear on the
cepts the timer intermpt, and so 18.2 times screen as smoothly as 50. Since we’ve
ONEKEY’s Second Half a second it checks to see if we can pack the now packed our command into the most
Therefore, when we first tried to stuff remaining characters into the buffer. fundamental link of the input chain, any
the buffer and didn't quite finish, ONE- When space is available, it takes up exact- program, DOS or BIOS included, will
KEY made a note of the fact in memory ly where it left off aixl blithely finishes the read what we have told it. Even Purple-
and saved its place in the command string job for us, the perfect stenographer. Prose. I
10 DIM KEyS(60), COMMANDS (30,102)

20 FOR I«1 TO 10:KEy I,*":NEXT I ;CLS:KINDEX-1 :CINDEX*1
200 FOR 1*1 TO 30
220 LOCATE 10,15:PRINT" Type the single, trigger key.*
230 LOCATE 11, 15! PRINT" (Ose Control End if there are no more keys).*
240 DEF SEG - 6B40
250 FKEy$-INKEy$:IF FKEy$-"" GOTO 250
260 LOCATE 10,15:PRINT SPC (50) : LOCATE 11,15!PRINT SPC(50)
280 TAIL-PEEK(26) !TAIL-TAIL-2iIF TAIL < 30 THEN TAIL = 60
310 C0DE1>PEEK (TAIL) :C0DE2>FEEK (TAIL+1
340 IF CODEl°0 AND CODE2>117 THEN GOTO 860
350 KEyS(KINDEX) < CODEl:KEyS(KINDEX+l) > CODE2:KINDEX - KINDEX'f2
390 LOCATE ll,23:FRINT*The command that this key replaces is:'
400 LOCATE 12,23:FRINT* (Use Control End when done).'
410 LOCATE 13,17:PRINT CHR$ (218) ; :FOR IND-1 TO 50:PRINT CHR$(196);
411 NEXT INDiPRINT CHR$(191)
420 LOCATE 15,17!PRINT CHR$ (192 ) ; : FOR IND-1 TO 50:PRINT CBR$(196);
421 NEXT IND: PRINT CHR$(217)
430 LOCATE 14,17iPRINT CBR$(179) ; tGOSUB 1 07 0i PLACE-1 9 i LOCATE 14,18
460 FOR J-1 TO 100 STEF 2
470 PLACE- PLACE+1
490 FKEy$-INKEy$:IF FKEy$-" GOTO 490
500 TAIL-PEEK(26) :TAIL-TAIL-2iIF TAIL < 30 THEN TAIL - 60 ELSE GOTO 530
530 CODEl-PEEK (TAIL) :C0DE2-PEEK (TAIL+1)
550 IF CODEl-0 AND CODE2-117 THEN GOTO 650
560 IF CODEl-13 AND CODE2-28 THEN FKEy$-"/'
570 IF C0DE1O8 OR C0DE2O14 THEN GOTO 610
580 IF J <-l GOTO 490
590 J- J-2 rCOMHANDS ( I , J) -0 : COMMANDS ( I , J+1 ) -0 : PLACE-PLACE-2 :LOCATE 14 , PLACE-1
600 PRINT SPC(l)>iGOSUB 1070:LOCATE 14,PLACE-l!GOTO 470
610 COMMANDS ( I, J)-CODEli COMMANDS (I, J+1 )-C0DB2t PRINT FKEy$; :GOSOB 1070INEXT J
650 FOR EIO - 11 TO 15tL0CATE EI0,15!PRINT SPC(70 )iNEXT EI0:NEXT I:DEF SEG
860 OPEN 'ONEKSy.COH' AS t 1 LEN - 1 'Open Onekey.com
'
870 LOCATE 2,30:PRINT' Creating ONEKEy.COH
880 FIELD tl,l AS ByTE.$:FOR N - 1 TO 406
900 READ ByTE.«:IF ByTE.% <> -1 THEN GOTO 940 .
920 FOR III-l TO 60:LSET ByTE. $-CHR$ (KETS (III) ) iPllT tltNEXT IIIiGOTO 1020
940 IF ByTE.» <> -2 THEN GOTO 1010
950 FOR II-l TO 30:FOR JJ-1 TO 102
960 LSET ByTE.$-CBR$(COHHANDS(II,JJ)) :POT tl
970 NEXT JJ:NEXT II:GOTO 1020
1010 LSET BTTE.S = CHR$ (ByTE. %) iPOT #1
1020 NEXT N:CLOSE tl
"
1050 LOCATE 19,15:FRINT SPC (10) ' ONEKEy.COH Created.
1060 END
1070 y-CSRLIN:X-POS(0) iLOCATE 14,67:PRINT SPC(l) CHR$(179) SPC(1)>
1080 LOCATE y,X: RETURN
2010 DATA 233, 116 13, 40, 67, 41 32, 49, 57, 56
2020 DATA 52, 32 83, 46, 32, 72 111. 108, 122, 110
2030 DATA 101, 114 -1, 1, -2, 1 0, 1, 0, 0
2040 DATA 0, 1 0, 0, 0, 30 86, 87, 82, 81
2050 DATA 83, 80 156, 46, 255, 30 73, 13, 184, 64
(eemtimm)
Figure 1 : A BASIC program to create ONEKEY.COM.

PROGRAMMING
(Fig^n I continues)
2060 DATA 0, 142, 216, 139, 30, 28, 0, 59, 30, 26

2070 DATA 0, 117, 3, 233, 140, 0, 131, 235, 2, 131
2080 DATA 251, 30, 115, 6, 187, 62, 0, 131, 235, 2
2090 DATA 139, 7, 46, 128, 62, 82, 1, 1, 116, 3
2100 DATA 235, 114, 144, 46, 198, 6, 82, 1, 1, 46
2110 DATA 141, 54, 22, 1, 185, 30, 0, 46, 59, 4
2120 DATA 116, 8, 131, 198, 2, 226, 246, 235, 87, 144
2130 DATA 250, 46, 141, 54, 83, 1, 247, 217, 131, 193
2140 DATA 30, 139, 193, 185, 102, 0, 246, 225, 3, 240
2150 DATA 46, 137, 54, 71, 13, 46, 139, 4, 131, 198
2160 DATA 2, 61, 0, 0, 116, 50, 139, 211, 131, 194
2170 DATA 2, 131, 250, 62, 124, 3, 186, 30, 0, 59
2180 DATA 22, 26, 0. 116, 25, 46, 131, 6, 71, 13
2190 DATA 2, 137, 7, 131, 195, 2, 131, 251, 62, 124
2200 DATA 3, 187, 30, 0, 137, 30, 28, 0, 235, 201
2210 DATA 46, 198, 6, 82, 1, 0, 88, 91, 89, 90
2220 DATA 95, 94, 31, 251, 207, 156, 30, 14, 31, 255
2230 DATA 30, 77, 13, 156, 128, 62, 82, 1, 1, 116
2240 DATA 95, 250, 30, 86, 82, 83, 80, 184, 64, 0
2250 DATA 142, 216, 139, 30, 28, 0, 46, 198, 6, 82
2260 DATA 1, 1, 46, 139, 54, 71, 13, 46, 139, 4
2270 DATA 131, 198, 2, 61, 0, 0, 117, 3, 235, 51
2280 DATA 144, 139, 211, 131, 194, 2, 131, 250, 62, 124
2290 DATA 3, 186, 30, 0, 59, 22, 26, 0, 116, 25
2300 DATA 46, 131, 6, 71, 13, 2, 137, 7, 131, 195
2310 DATA 2, 131, 251, 62, 124, 3, 187, 30, 0, 137
2320 DATA 30, 28, 0, 235, 198, 46, 198, 6, 82, 1
2330 DATA 0, 88, 91, 90, 94, 31, 157, 31, 207, 30
2340 DATA 184, 0, 0, 142, 216, 250, 161, 36, 0, 46
2350 DATA 163, 73, 13, 161, 38. 0, 46, 163, 75, 13
2360 DATA 199, 6, 36, 0, 81, 13, 140, 14, 38, 0
2370 DATA 161, 112, 0, 46, 163, 77, 13, 161, 114, 0
2380 DATA 46, 163, 79, 13, 199, 6, 112, 0, 5, 14
23 90 DATA 140, 14, 114, 0, 251, 184, 64, 0, 142, 216
2400 DATA 187, 30, 0, 137, 30, 26, 0, 137, 30, 28
2410 DATA 0, 186, 119, 14, 205, 39 (Figure I ends)
VECTORS SEGMENT AT 0H ;Set up segment to intercept Interrupts

ORG 9H*4 ;The keyboard Interrupt
KEYBOARD INT VECTOR LABEL DWORD
ORG 1CH*4 ;Timer Interrupt
TIMER_VECTOR LABEL DWORD
VECTORS ENDS
ROM_BIOS_DATA SEGMENT AT 40H ;The ROM BIOS data area in low memory
ORG lAR ;This is where the keyboard buffer is.
ROM_BUFFER_HEAD DW ? ;The position of the buffer's head
ROM_BUFFER_TAIL DW ? ;And tail.
KB_BUFFER DW 16 DUP (?) ;Reserve space for the buffer itself
KB BUFFER_END LABEL WORD ;Buffer's end is stored here.
ROM_BIOS_DATA ENDS
CODE_SEG SEGMENT ;Begin the Code segment holding the programs

ASSUME CStCODE..SEG
ORG 100H ;Coinfiles start at ORG 100H
BEGIN: JMP INIT_VECTORS ;Skip over data area .
COPy_RIGHT DB '(C) 1984 S. Holzner' ;The Author's signature

(continues)
Figure 2: Assembler listing for ONEKEY.COM. See the sidebar for instructions on inserting
the codes for KEYS and COMMANDS.
: 2 L
PROGRAMMING
( Figure 2 conUnues)
KEYS DW 30 DUP(0) ;The keys we replace
; See Box at end of article
FINISHED FLAG DB 1 ;If not finished, timer will stuff buffer
COMMANDS DW 1530 )UP(0) ;Scan and ASCII codes of commands
;See Box at end of article
COMMAND..INDEX DW 1 ; Stores position in command (for timer)
ROM_KEYBOARD_INT DD 1 ;Called to interpret keyboard signals
ROM_TIMER DD 1 ;The Timer interrupt's address
INTERCEPT_KEYBOARD INT PROC NEAR ;Here it is.

ASSUME DS:NOTHING ;Free DS
PUSH DS ;Save all used registers
PUSH SI
PUSH DI
PUSH DX
PUSH CX
PUSH BX
PUSH AX
PUSHF ;Pu8hf for Keyboard lot's IRET
CALL ROM_KEYBOARD_INT ;Hdve new key put into keyboard buffer
ASSUME DS:ROM_BIOS_DATA ;Set up to point at keyboard buffer.
MOV AX,ROM_BIOS DATA
MOV DSrAX
MOV B X , ROM_BU FFER_TA I ;Was there a character? If Tail equals
CMP BX , ROM>.BUFFER_HEAD ; Head then no real character typed.
JNE NEWCHAR
JMP NO NEW CHARACTERS ;Jump out, no new characters.
NEWCHAR SUB BX,2 ;Move back two bytes from tail;
CMP BX, OFFSET KB.BUFFER ;Do we have to wrap?
JAB NO WRAP ;No
MOV BX, OFFSET KB BUFFER_END ;Wrap by moving two bytes
SUB BX,2 ; before buffer end.
NO_WRAP MOV AX, [BX] ;Get the character into AX
CMP FINISHED FLAG,1 fDone stuffing the buffet with last command?
JE FIN ;Yes, proceed
JMP NO_NEW_CHARACTERS ;No, leave.
FIN: MOV FINISHED_FLAG,1 ;Assume we'll finish
LEA SI, KEYS ;Point source index at keys to replace

MOV CX,30 ;Loop over all of them
LOO PER CMP AX,CS: [SI] .Hatch to given key (in AX)?
JE FOUND ;yes, key found, continue on.
ADD SI, .•Point to next key to check it.
LOOP LOOPER ;Go back for next one.
JMP NO_NEW_CHARACTERS ;Loop finished without match - leave.
FOUND: CL I ;Turn off hardware (timer, keyboard) Interrupts

LEA SI, COMMANDS ;Set up to read command
NEG CX ;Find the location of first word of command
ADD CX,30
MOV AX,CX
MOV CX,102
MUL CL
ADD SI, AX
MOV COMMAND_INDEX,SI ;And move it into Command_Index
STUFF: MOV AX,CS: [SI] ;Here we go - get ready to stuff word in buffer.
ADD SI, ; Point to the command's next character
(contmuts)

: ; 2 .
PROGRAMMING
(Figim 2 continues)
CMP AX,0 ;Is it a zero? (End of command)
JE NO NEW CHARACTERS jYes, leave with Finished Flagyl
MOV DX,BX ;Find position in buffer from BX
ADD DX,2 ;Move to next position for this word
CMP DX, OFFSET KB BUFFER END ;Are we past the end?
JL NO_WRAP2 ;No, don't wrap
MOV DX, OFFSET KB_BUFFER ;Wrap
NO HRAP2:
CMP DX , ROM_BUFFER_HEAD ;Buffer full but not yet done?
JE BUFFER_FULL ;Tiroe to leave, set Finished_Flag=0
ADD COMHAND_INDEX,2 ;Move to next word in command
MOV [BX] ,AX ;Put it into the buffer right here.
ADD BX,2 ;Point to next space in buffer
CMP BX, OFFSET KB BUFFER END ;Wrap here?
JL NO_WRAP3 ;No, readjust buffer tail
MOV BX, OFFSET KB BUFFER ;Yes, wrap
N0_WRAP3
MOV rom_buffer_tail , BX ;Reset buffer tail
JMP STUFF ;Back to stuff in another character.
BUFFER^FULL ;If buffer is full, let timer take over
MOV FINISHED_FLAG,0 } by setting Finished_Flag to 0.
NO^NEW CHARACTERS:
POP AX ;Restore everything before departure.
POP BX
POP CX
POP DX
POP DI
POP SI
POP DS
STI
IRET ;An interrupt deserves an IRET
INTERCEPT_KEyBOARD INT ENDP
ASSUME DS:CODE SEG
INTERCEPT TIMER PROC NEAR ;This completes filling the buffer
PUSHF ;Store used flags
PUSH DS ;Save DS since we'll change it
PUSH CS jPut current value of CS into DS
POP DS
CALL ROM TIMER ;Make obligatory call
PUSHF
CMP FINISHED FLAG,1 ;Do we have to do anything?
JE OUT ;No, leave
CL I ;Yes, start by clearing interrupts
PUSH DS ;Save these.
PUSH SI
PUSH DX
PUSH BX
PUSH AX
ASSUME DS : ROM_B IOS_DATA ; Point to the keyboard buffer again.
MOV AX , ROM_B IOS_DATA
MOV DS,AX
MOV BX , ROM_BUFFER_TAIL ;Prepare to put charaters in at tail
MOV FINISHED FLAG.l ;Assume we'll finish
MOV SI , COMMANDÎNDEX ;Find where we left ourselves
STUFF2: MOV AX,CS: [SI] ;The same stuff loop as above.

ADD SI, ; Point to next command character.
CMP AX,0 ;Is it zero? (end of command)
JNE OVER ;No, continue.
JMP NO_NEW_CHARACTERS2 ?Yes, leave with Finished_Flag®l
(cmitinues)

2 ] .
PROGRAMMING
(Figure 2 continues)
OVER: MOV DX,BX ;Find position in buffer from BX
ADD DX,2 ;Move to next position for this word
CMP DX, OFFSET KB BUFFEPÊND ;Are we past the end?
JL NO_WRAP4 ;No, don't wrap
MOV DX, OFFSET KB_BUFFER ;Do the Wrap rap.
NO WRAP4:
CMP DX,ROM_BUFFER HEAD ;Buffer full but not yet done?
JE BUFFER FULL2 ;Time to leave, come back later.
ADD COMMAND INDEX, ; Point to next word of command.
MOV [BX) ,AX ;Put into buffer
ADD BX,2 /•Point to next space in buffer
CMP BX, OFFSET KB_BUFFER_END ;Wrap here?
JL NO WRAPS ;No, readjust buffer tail
MOV BX, OFFSET KB_BUFFER ;Yes, wrap
NO WRAPS:
MOV ROM BUFFER TAIL,BX :Reset buffer tail
JMP STUFF2 [Back to stuff in another character
BUFFER FULL2:
MOV FINISHED_FLAG,0 [Set flag to not-done-yet
NO NEW CHARACTERS2:
POP AX [Restore these.
POP BX
POP DX
POP SI
POP DS
OUT; POPE ;And Exit.
POP DS
IRET [With customary IRET
INTERCEPT^TIMER ENDP
INIT_VECTORS PROC NEAR ;Rest Interrupt vectors here

ASSUME DS: VECTORS
PUSH DS
MOV AX, VECTORS
MOV DS,AX
CLI ;Don't allow interrupts
MOV AX, KEyBOARD_INT_VECTOR [Get and store old interrupt address
MOV ROM KEYBOARD INT,AX
MOV AX, KEYBOARD INT VECTOR(2]
MOV ROM_KEyBOARD_INTl2] ,AX
MOV KEYBOARD INT VECTOR, OFFSET INTERCEPT_KEYBOARD_INT

MOV KEYBOARD_INT_ VECTOR 12] , CS [And put ours in place.
MOV AX,TIMER_VECTOR ;Now same for timer
MOV ROM_TIMER,AX
MOV AX , TIHER_ VECTOR [ 2
MOV ROM_TIMER[2] ,AX
MOV TIMER_ VECTOR, OFFSET INTERCEPT TIMER

MOV TIMER_ VECTOR [2] ,CS [And Intercept that too.
STI
ASSUME DS : ROM_BIOS_DATA
MOV AX , ROM_BIOS_DATA
MOV DS,AX
MOV BX, OFFSET KB.BUFFER [Clear the keyboard buffer.
MOV ROM_BUFFER_HEAD , BX
MOV ROM_BUFFER_TAIL , BX
MOV DX, OFFSET INIT VECTORS [Prepare to attach in memory
I NT 27H ;And do so.
INIT_VECTORS ENDP
CODE_SEG ENDS
END BEGIN ;End Begin so that we jump there first.
(Figure 2 ends)

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chip on the Compaq mothetboard that or CHKDSK. The WHERE.BAS BASIC (800) 321-3324
addresses the four rows of 64K memory. program in Figure 1 will create a file called
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replaceable parameter, for example,
550 DATA C3, 8B, EA, 80, 7E, IE, 2E, 74
560 DATA 22, BA, 27, 02, 32, C0, A2, 86
WHERE %l I MORE 570 DATA 02, 86, 07, 97, E8, 15, 00, 97
580 DATA 88, 07, 8B, D5, 83, C2, IE, E8
Then just type SEEK [drive:! filename. ext 590 DATA 0A, 00, B4 , 09, BA, 9F, 02, CD
to locate the file. Remember to make sure 600 DATA 21, 8B, D5, C3, 8B, F2, B4, 02
MORE.COM is the subdirectory you’re
610 DATA AC, 8A, D0, CD, 21, AC, 0A, C0
620 DATA 75, F7, C3, 2A, 2E, 2A, 00, 40
logged into, or that it is properly PATHed 630 DATA 3A, 00
5C, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00,
to. 640 DATA 00
00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00,
650 DATA 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00
Model 100 WordStar 660 DATA 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00
Reader Ta-Chang Lin’s letter and your 670 DATA 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00
680 DATA 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00
response in PC, Volume 4 Issue 3, unfor-
690 DATA 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00
tunately lead readers to believe that none 700 DATA 00
00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00,
of the WordStar FIND or FIND AND 710 DATA 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00
REPLACE commands can work directly 720 DATA 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00
with the Ctrl-P printer control characters. 730 DATA 00, 2A, 2E, 2A, 00, 00, 00, 00
This in fact is not true. Only the underline
740 DATA 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, FF, 4E
750 DATA 6F, 20, 6D, 61, 74, 63, 68, 69
("S), non-break space ("0), overprint ("H),
760 DATA 6E, 67, 20, 66, 69, 6C, 65, 73
alternate pitch ("A), and standard pitch 770 DATA 20, 66, 6F, 75, 6E, 64, 2E, 0D
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any of the others, at the “FIND?” prompt to the Alt key sequences. be entered directly into the file with the
simply type Ctrl-P followed by Ctrl-faiid As an added tip, for those readers who Model 100. Simply add 128 to the decimal
whatever key is appropriate), and that con- might be using a TRS-80 Model 100 lap ASCII value of the control character in
trol symbol will appear on the screen and computer to create text for later transfer to question and put that symbol into the Mod-
be found by the program without resorting WordStar, the print control symbols can el 100 file. For example, bold print (“B)
becomes character 130 (2 -l- 128), or
<Graph>f —
a lower case “f ’ and —
Printing effect ASCII PIND/REPLACE coaosand Model Iff keys underline (‘S) becomes character 147 (19
1
1 Underline *P8 147 Only AI.T-147 <6raph>q

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1 Strikeout *PX 152 <“P><“S> or ALT-1 52 <Graph>o The ALT sequences, WordStar FIND/
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1 Superscript PT 148 <“P><“I> or ALT-148 <Gra|^>w
1 Overprint •pH 134 Only ALT-136 <6raph>l characters are summarized in the table in
1 Hon-break apace •po 143 Only ALT-143 <Graph>e
PhantOM apace “PP 134 <“P><“P> or ALT-134 <Gra^>h Figure 2.
1
1 PhantOB rubout ^PC 135 <“P><“C> or ALT-135 <6raph>t Tom Simondi

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I Daer area 4 “PR 146 <“P><“R> or ALT-146 <Gra^>} it. But thanksfor the reminder many oth- —
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204 CIRCLE 142 ON READER SERVICE CARD PC MAGAZINE* APRIL 30, 1985
MARK ZACHMANN
PC Tutor
Beyond the 64K Barrier switch to a different language entirely.
Q:We purchased an IBM PC intending to Let's examine each of these choices.

program the software we needed for our (!) Switching to a different BASIC.
particular office requirements. We knew While there are undoubtedly others, the
the IBM BASIC interpreter could only only large-mode! BASIC with which I have
access 64K of memory. After being had personal experience is Morgan Com-
puting's Professional BASIC. It has no
PLAY command, no VARPTR, and a few
otherfeatures ofIBM PC-BASIC are miss-
ing, would hesitate to recommend it
so I
without a thorough test. On the other

hand, it does offer semicompilation, win-
dow-based debugging, and (cf course)
support for a full megabyte of memory.
Given a retail price of only $99, this is THE MANUAL IS DESIGNED UKE A j
certainly a package you might well want to POCKET DICTIONARY.

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check out. THE MANUAL COVERS AU THE

(2) Using a paging scheme. This is an PROGRAM S COMMANDS. FUNC-
awkward approach, but it is workable TIONS. AND FEATURES IN
with the current IBM BASICs. There are i ALPHABETICAL ORDER.

three possible ways to page your memory I
THE MANUAL IS A COMPACT AND
so as to access more than 64K. PORTABLE REFERENCE FOR
Use files to hold data variables.
(a)
PEOPU ON THE GO.
assured that the IBM BASIC compiler This is the most robust approach, though it GIVE EVERYONE IN YOUR FIRM A
could utilize the full memory capabilities is also the slowest of the three. By reading! COPY OF THE MANUAL
of the computer (we have 320K), we pur- writing data into files,you can use as LOTUS 14-3 SYMPHONY
chased it. much memory as on a hard disk.
will fit FRAMEWORK dBASE II
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number greater than 65,535 we still get an unaccessible portions of memory. This
overflow error. Is there any way to force method is likely to be a bit quicker than Card No. Exp. Date
the compiler to utilize more string space in method (a), but it is much less robust. Let
Name i
memory? me give you an example.

Address
Jesse Underwood The first step is to decide where your
El Paso, Texas BASIC program will end. Let's suppose City State
this is at 3(XX):(XXX) hex. You could then Zip Totals

A; As you've sadly realized, both IBM swap a fixed-length character vector Signature
BASIC systems (interpreted and compiled) VEC$ as follows; VISA DMasterCharge i
are more or less restricted to 64K of code 100 'swap vector VEC$ out to memory AMEX D Check
110 DEF SEG 6h3000 'set up se9ment
and data. l-M • irManivk at LMut Davaiepwnt Corp SyotanoAy
120 FOR I«0 to LEN(VEC$) 1«|<M
na Jan sra iraMmart* at Colwa Pavaropi"#"! Cotp rramaarora
Ifyou absolutely need to use additional 130 POKE IrVEC${I) 'save vector(X) Ita traaatnata a* Att>ian-Tait ^Sata ii it a iraaamatt at
AtMati-Taia •WarOttl' it a iraMmtni o) Mierapre Carp Mppit
memory, you have the following options: 140 NEXT I Warki It a Iraaamart at Appia Caitipult' Ca«a Uun.piaa it i
200 'swap vector VEC$ in from memory inataitni at Mieiataft Catwatiaa .Thc manual ii a
(I ) switch to a different (non-IBM/Micro- 210 DEF SEG sh3000 'set up segment tradamark al Managatnani inlamaiian 8a«rea. tne
220 FOR 1-0 to LEN(VEC$)

soft) BASIC; (2) use a paging scheme to 230 VEC$(I) - PEEKd) 'save vector (I)
swap additional strings in and out; or (3) 240 NEXT I 1-800- MANUALS
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EXPANDED QUADBOARD
BYQUADRAM $209 This approach is less robust because it that weren’t originally written to support
One parallel port, one requires calculating the end of the BASIC it. According to the IBM Technical Refer-
serial port, clock/calen- know of no

and data area in memory. I ence manual, it seems that I should write
dar, OK, memory ex-
384K.
completely reliable way to do this. With an I/O Out command to port address 3D9.
pension to
game the BASIC compiler, you have a bit easier How do I do it?
and
port, I/O bracket
Quadmaster
<SSSM job, however, since the segment registers Dominic Songco
software. are directly accessible from within the New York, New York
64K $245
compiler.
AST SIXPACK PLUS. 64K $249
(Another way to allocate the storage A: The port you mention is the Color
TANDON TM 100-2 $139 would be to run a RAMdisk and use the Select Register for the IBM color card.
5 1/4" full height drive. DS RAMdisk-allocated memory directly). While it does allow you to set a border
DD. Specify drive A or B.
color in alphanumeric modes, that's about
Comes with step-by-step
installation instructions. all you can do with it. The function of the
TANDON TM 65-2L $139
Personally, many years bits addressed by this port is as follows:
Same as TM 100-2 but half height. of programming have Bits 0-2 —BIGIR select the border col-
or
OKIDATA ML92/P PRINTER WITH PLUG taught me that an Bit 3 —
AND PLAY INSTALLED $349 intensify border color
160 CPS. 60 columns, all points unstructured BASIC These 4 bits select the border color in
addressable graph- alphanumeric modes. (In graphics mode
ics. correspondence (e,g,, IBM’s) is the
these bits set the background color).
quality printing
capability. Full IBM worst language to use Bit 4 —
select alternate background col-
PC compatibility. or set
when creating a robust
This selects an intensified set of back-
OKIDATA ML 93/P PRINTER $569
Same as ML92'P but with wide carriage program. ground colors in alphanumeric and graph-
and tractor. ics modes.
EPSON FX 80/FX 1 00 + CALL (c) You will probably find that the Bit 5 — color palette select (graphics
TURBO 10 HARD DISK $779 approach given in (b) is still very slow, only)
10MB Internal hard disk, three times faster
since you have to peek and poke each indi- This selects the set of screen colors (cyan/
than XT, 13 months warranty. Controller
and cable included. vidual character in the string. However, magenta/white) or (greenired/yellow).
you could develop a simple assembly lan- As I have indicated, the 3D9 port is not
guage routine that would significantly going to be ofmuch use to you in character
speed up the process. modes, except to set up a border color. If
(3) Switching to a new language. Ifyou you need, the following pro-
that is all
are planning on doing a lot of program- gram, which you can enter with DE-
ming and desperately need to use more BUG.COM, will create a dark-blue bor-
memory, I would seriously suggest inves- der when used with the normal IBM color
tigating other languages. Three languages monitor and color board, but I must warn
Mon.-Fri. 9AMto9PM and implementations I would particularly that with other monitors or boards it could
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STSC, Inc., C: Lattice C (sold by Lifeboat

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(Borlarul International). the underlined words below.
H P LaserJet
NEC 20503550 $679/1389 Even if you feel comfortable with
0kidataML92.93 $349569 A> DEBUG BORDEK.COM
Rrtetnan Blue Plus S349 BASIC, I think you may find that the time file not found
investment required to learn a new lan- -AIM
BOMOS 6 ACCESSORIES xxxx:0100 mov AL.l
AST SixPackPlus, 64K S249 guage will be well repaid in ease of use, xxxx:0102 tnov DX.3D9
Kamerman Labs PC Supercharger $799
ability to talk to additional memory, and xxxx:010S out DX.AL
Kensington Masterpiece $99 xxxx:0106 mov AX.4C00
0rchidTurbo186 $839 transportability. Personally, many years xxxx:0109 int 21
K Jr Impulse, p. port, clock. OK $189 xxxxt010B <carriage return>
Persyst time Spectrum. 64K $269 of programming have taught me that an
Ouadboard. expanded. OK,'64K $209245 unsauctured BASIC (e.g. IBM’s) is the CX 0000
STB RIO PIUSII.64K $259 0012
worst language to use when creating a
;
tecmar Captain. OK $235
-M
Titan Accelerator (or Xt $609
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Adding a Bit of Color More-satirfactory methods of achiev-
COD No Surcharge: VISA & MC Add 3% Q: I’ve been trying to add some much- ing color output can range from simple to
needed color output to software packages complex. The simplest answer is to just
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soft sector. 5V4
1E9F:0100 mov AX, 600 ;scroll up full window OS DO BULK PACKAGED
1E9F:0103 mov CX,0 jupper left is 0,0
$i.39ea $i.49ea $i.59ea
1E9F: 0106 mov DX,183F ;lower right is 24,79 OTT 2S0 QTV tOO QTT SO
1E9F:0109 mov BH, 03 ; here you are:
;BH is the attribute, a two digit number
;top digit (0) is background color
;next digit (3) is foreground color
BMC BX-80 PRINTER
80 CPS DOT MATRIX PRINTER
;set this as you like, try it out • BI-DIRECTIONAL
1E9F:010B • SUPERB GRAPHICS
int 10 ;call IBM video BIOS • CENTTIONICS INTERFACE
1E9F: 010D mov AX,4C00 ;prepare to exit CLOSE-OUT SPECIAL QUANTITIES LIMITED
1E9F: 0110 int 21 ;exit, no error
-rCX jehange CX to length of program
CX 0000 ORDER TOLL FREE
:0020
-w
; approx. 20hex
;write the file
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Nfedical Diagnosis
With a PC 'Evist
With PKC’s software system, you make diagnoses based on current
data from medical journals and textbooks. The programs rule out
premature guessing by matching symptoms with probable causes.
M ost people believe that an ex-

pert clinician is a sort of medi-
cal detective, who combines
an extraordinary command of some do-
main of clinical medicine with an uncan-
shows them to you right
This procedure circumvents premature
on
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rely on
the screen.
probabilities instead of actual-

ities. Finally, the coupler prints a record
ny ability to make the right decision on of the whole “coupling session.”

the basis of limited data. The simple
truth, however, is that no physician re- The Acute Abdomen Module
members and uses all the information she Typically, you might use two moni-
or he learned in medical school. tors during an examination to run
The Problem Knowledge Couplers through a pro 'ram along with a patient,
and its related series of packages, the or patients couldfill out the preliminary
PKC Development System, the PKC Net- questionnaire on-screen or in printed

work & Documentation Maintenance form in the waiting room. The Acute Ab-
System, and the PKC Medical Records domen coupler asks, “Where is your
System help physicians overcome limita- pain?” and several choices appear: right
tions imposed by their memories. This upper quadrant, right lower quadrant;
series of packages, from the Vermont- left upper quadrant; left lower quadrant;
based PKC Corporation, arose from the epigastric and/or periumbilical; perium-
research of Lawrence L. Weed, M.D., and Physical Examinations, Acute Abdo- bilical combined with pain in limbs or
the company’s founder and sole propri- men, Headache, Hypertensions, Stepped back; generalized/poorly localized; hy-
etor, widi the Problem-Oriented Medical Management of Essential Hypertension, pogastric; suprapubic and/or presacral.
Information System (PROMIS) at the Upper & Lower Respiratory and Other Then the program asks such questions
University of Vermont’s College of ENT Complaints, Hypercalcemia, and as: “When does it hurt?” and “What
Medicine. Chest Pain I and II. Five new couplers makes it better/worse?” After you type
are due soon: Vertigo. MemorLoss/Con- in the numbers of the appropriate
Forming Diagnoses fusion. Jaundice, Knee Problems, and choices, a constellation of diagnoses,
The Problem Knowledge Couplers re- Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding. treatments, and symptoms that fit your
lates the condition of a particular patient Initially, a coupler helps you collect patient can be arrayed.
to a large body of relevant medical clinical data. The coupler module disci- After mobilizing the relevant data, the
knowledge to help you arrive at a diagno- plines you to be thorough in your exami- Acute Abdomen Module presents a list of
sis and determine treatment. The other nation by giving you a detailed question- possible causes. At this point, you match
programs in the series all support the naire. It then calls up from its database all a suggested cause to the findings at hand
couplers by helping you modify and de- the known causes for a certain condition, and learn which findings point to that
sign your own couplers or organize and both the common and obscure alike. By particular cause and which counterindi-
analyze the data obtained from the cou- electronically relating your findings to cate it. For instance, if after examining
^
plers. relevant information culled from medical your patient, you choose mesenteric vas- |
The Problem Knowledge Couplers textbooks and journals, the coupler re- cular insufficiency as the cause, the pro-
|
program consists of ten modules: History stricts the range of possible solutions and gram might then alert you that although |

MEDICINE
eight findings for that potential cause A Memory Jogger and work than can be performed or
were present, two—distension of the ab- Feedback from doctors who have pur- grasped by any one individual.”
domen and epigastric and/or periumbili- chased the PKC software systems has
cal pain —were not. Further explanation been positive. Grattan C. Woodson, Jr., Coupler Drawbacks
would then follow. M.D., an internist in Atlanta, Georgia, One limitation of the PKC system is
‘
says the ‘couplers reduce the likely pos- that the couplers don’t address drug in-
sibilities to a manageable number and en- teraction. Another drawback, according
PKC Software Products sure that you don’t miss the one rare to Richard Gibson, M.D.. a general
PKCCorp. cause that you may not have seen or at — practitioner in family practice in Forks,
10 Mary St. least don't think about every day. Washington, who helped develop the
’ ’
South Burlington, VT 05401 They’re a memory jogger. Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding coupler, is
(802) 658-5351
However, Leonard R. Kowalski, the cumbersome and time-consuming
List Price: Problem Knowledge Cou- M.D., medical director of Health Ser- updating process. He suggests that the
vices for Martin Marietta Corporation in couplers should be continuously updated
plers, $95 each; PKC Development Sys-
tem, $495; PKC Knowledge Network Denver, Colorado, explains why the by experts and sent out on disks so that
and Documentation System, $395; PKC couplers, more than just mnemonic de- doctors don’t have to worry about read-
vices are akin to having a specialized, ing current journals and entering data.
Medical Records System, $695; four user
manuals, $50; special group price, on-line consultation service. “You’re Weed plans to revise the couplers period-
talking about the equivalent of 1(X) doc- ically, but doctors “can’t expect regular
$1,495.
Requires: 128K RAM, two double-sided tors looking at a case simultaneously. updates.”
disk drives. You can’t do that in reality.” Weed
claims that each coupler “is the product Customizing Couplers
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also useful to physicians. The PKC De- helps him retrieve and analyze clinical role toone of a mere keypunch operator.
velopment System allows you to modify records and pursue hypotheses generated by Defending the system, Woodson says
and customize existing couplers and the couplets. “The Medical Records Sys- that “These days most people recognize
even build your own from scratch. For remisinitsinfancy,”hesays. “Theproduct that doctors are human. Patients realize
. '’
example, Louis M. Abbey, D.D.S., of needs to be adapt^ to actual practice that medicine is complicated, and they
the School of Dentistry’s Department of would like to see us get all the help we can.
Oral Pathology at Virginia Common-
’
Keypunch Doctors I have yet to have a patient object to it.
wealth University in Richmond, Virgin- Some people may question whether The PKC software system supple-
ia, could streamline his ENT {ears, nose, the use of a computerized system in such ments a doctor’s experience and will
and throat) coupler to make it more appli- never replace the human element in pa-
cable for dentists, deleting some details tient diagnosis. “The package doesn’t
and adding such common radiographic The PKC system pretend to make decisions for the practi-
findings as periapical radiolucency. organizes medical tioner,” Abbey notes. “It just sets forth
The PKC
Network and Documenta- the options .” And the constant repetition
tion Maintenance System organizes med-
information into causal of symptoms that a doctor would rarely
ical information into causal connections connections between encounter would mean memory rein-
between symptoms, diagnoses, and forcement and make physicians more
treatments. This structured database cre-
symptoms, diagnoses, learned. Gibson adds: “It’s a tool, just
ates the building blocks for couplers for and treatment. like an X-ray or a stethoscope. It won’t
the various medical specialties. replace talking to people or being sympa-
Using the Medical Records System, human processes as diagnosis and treat- thetic, but it does free my mind from re-
Gibson has painstakingly coded 2,300 ment might undermine the doctor/patient membering minutial and allows more
medical entities so far. Tlie system then relationship and reduce the physician's room for compassion.”
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Peace of Mind
If you’re not worried about the security of your nnicrocomputer,
perhaps you should be. PCs and peripherals are prime targets of
thieves, but a variety of products can help reduce the risk.
D
easy to
uring the 1970s, the ubiquitous
IBM Selectric typewriter was the
prime office-theft target. It was
easy to sell, and command-
steal,
ed top dollar in almost any condition.
Thieves were brazen. A receptionist
might swivel around to the file cabinet to
answer a request from a visitor and, upon
turning back, find that both the visitor
and the typewriter had disappeared.
Criminals posing as repairmen carried
them out through the front door, and dis-
honest employees popped them into
shopping bags at day’s end.
This decade may see the same phe-
nomenon with the IBM PC. Lessons
have been learned from the Selectric ex-
perience, and a vast array of protective
devices for microcomputers is already on
the market. All offer various degrees of end allows quicker removal by autho- Cable systems have two more weak
protection but generally compromise rized personnel when necessary. points. First,most cable sets come with a
user flexibility to some extent. And, of More complex immobilizers use a cheap lock that’s even flimsier than the
course, no device is a complete defense locking base. Here, a plate fastened to eable. (On the other hand, if you ever
against a determined thief. the work surface locks into another plate lose the key or forget the combination
attached to the equipment. One version and have to force it open, you’ll find it is
The Immobilizers replaces the lock with a maze-like lower much easier and cheaper to replace the
One family of PC-keepers might be plate that requires specific directional lock than ruin the cable.) The second
called "the immobilizers.” These hold- movements of the equipment to detach it drawback is that cable sets designed for
overs from the Selectric era simply fasten from the desk. user installation generally rely upon plas-
the equipment to the work surface to tic adhesive-coated mounts to fasten the
make theft more difficult. More Flexibility cable. These mounts are neat, quick, and
The simplest immobilizer is merely a To provide more flexibility of place- don’t marthe PC’s case or the furniture,
pair of screws or carriage bolts that fasten ment and adjustment, “semi-immobiliz- but despite the claims of vendors and
eaeh component onto the desk, generally ers’ ’ use twisted steel cables, generally manufacturers, they are not very strong.
from inside the unit. This works well covered with colored vinyl, to attach PCs Think about how easily you would re-
with metal-framed typewriters, but it’s to work surfaces. Many of these cables move the adhesive pad when a new desk
less effective with today’s lighter, plastic are less than '/4 -inch in diameter and can is delivered, and remember that a thief “
housings. It is also rather permanent. A be cut with an easily concealed hand wouldn’t be nearly as interested in neat- I
variation using a pair of bolts with a tool. Still, they will deter an unprepared ness. These cable systems will stop only .1
small barrel lock replacing the nut at the hit-and-run thief. the most casual thieves. 1

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keys do it all. “. . . extremely powerful Some cable sets employ fairly heavy-
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priced, and you may need three or more
for your PC's various components. Still,
heavy-duty cable sets can be a viable so-
lution for high-risk situations where day-
time theft is a concern and the tangled ap-
pearance of heavy cables is not.
Power Cord Alarms

Other systems use the power cord as
the security cable, locking it to the desk
ortothe wall outlet. Of course, it's easier

to cut a power cord than a cable, but that
means disfiguring the machine and low-
ering its underground resale value.
Several manufacturers have added de-
Thousands of Business vices to sound a self-contained alarm if
& Professional People the power cord is removed or cut. Some
use INTUIT for: of these accommodate several cords at
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^ WORD PROCESSING - letters.
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reports, proposals, full length novels
to hear the alarm, and this system com-
SPREADSHEETS - financial modeling,
plicates moving the PC from desk to
P&L's, cash flows, goal seeking desk. Worse, these systems don’t protect
DATABASE, REPORTS & FORMS - mailing lists, records filing, order tracking the keyboard.
MAIL MERGE - form letters, bills, invoices, customer correspondence Other alarm systems use wire loops to
CALCULATOR - casual computations any time, anywhere connect each component to a small con-
DIRECTORY & FILE MGMT. - 67 character file names, nested directories trol box housing a siren. The alarm
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itadds to the spaghetti factory of wires
WHAT THE EXPERTS HAVE TO SAY. . .
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Shock Sensors
INFOWORLO: ". . .well protected against user mistakes. . .first rate on line documentation." Sophisticated building alarm systems
WHOLE EARTH SOFTWARE REVIEW: "At $90, INTUIT is the steal of the year." oftenemploy shock sensors to detect
UST: "INTUIT is for the person with amodest floppy disk system Invited
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BLUE HAWAII-U. OF HAWAII PC USER'S GROUP: "As it is, the,'j
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circuitwhen something jars, tilts, or
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tion sensor to the back of your CPU with , less, of course, everyone goes out to compromises. Try to select the security
the power cords from the other compo- lunch at the same time. device that suits your situation and your
nents enclosed within its locked housing. The point is not that you cannot protect budget. You might find that investing in
This motion sensor/power cord lock your equipment, but that such protection a good door lock or alarm system offers
combination detects movement of the is at best imperfect and involves some the best protection for the money.
CPU but allows you to move the monitor
and keyboard and forces a thief to cut
some cords to steal pieces of the system.
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sion Chassis is connected with each board.
to the user's system with (List Price: $595)
two Action bus expansion Qua Tech, Inc.
cards, available as the 478 E. Exchange St.
Model BI20 IBM-PC Bus Akron, OH 44304
Interface Kit. One expan- (216) 434-3154
sion card plugged into a Aedex BCS-lOO Bar Codabar, Code 39, and In-
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the other in the card cage. A bar ctxle reading system a proprietary IC decoder.
consisting of a single, half- It also permits the user to
Model BI06,
(List Price:
$795: Mdl. BI20 Kit,
H 10MB DiskSystem sized board with attachable two of the code types
print
$195)
A half-height 5!4-inch hand-held wand. Unlike (UPC and Code 39) using
Winchester drive compati- similar systems that are in- a graphics printer.
Action Instruments, Inc.
ble with PC-DOS 2.0. stalled on the PC's key- The board includes a
8601 Aero Dr.
This internal hard disk fea- board line, the BCS-lOO connector for the hand-held
San Diego, CA 92123
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(619) 279-5726
5 megabits per second and without modification to pin connector that accepts
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of 18 msec. Included with allows the board to work rent loop protocol input de-
WSB-10 Arbitrary the P drive is a with such systems as the vices. Multiple inputs can
Waveform Generator full-height face- plate. Compaq or the IBM AT, be obtained through chain-
A plug-in board that gener- (List Price: S/.0951 which have keyboards that ing or multiplexing boards.
ates single-cycle, periodic, P Interface, Inc. preclude the use of on-line This provides the user with
or burst waveforms in ei- 2II0I Osborne St. attachments. virtu^ly unlimited input
ther single-cycle or contin- Canoga Park, CA 91304 The bar code reader options.
uous modes from as many (818) 34I-79I4 automatically discriminates (List Price: Board only,
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GPIB-PCjr
An IEEE-488 interface for
the IBM PCjr, allowing the
small IBM system to be
used in test and measure-
ment applications, instru-

ment control, and scientific PhotoBase. At the present Chorus Data Systems
data acquisition. The SOFTWARE time, the software supports 6 Continent Blvd.
GPIB-PCjr performs soft- only the Tecmar P.O. Box 370
ware installation and veri- PhotoBase GraphicsMaster high-reso- Merrimack, NH 03054
fication; it also runs a A program capable of lution graphics adapter. (603) 424-2900
hardware diagnostic to ver- merging visual images, Each picture is stored CIRCLE 643 ON
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An included utility allows the database files created and 16 levels of
lution
users to edit the definitions by such software as dBASE gray scale. Pictures are re-
of devices and boards in II, R:Base 4000, and The called as a '/4 -screen image TYPMATH
the system, including each IBM Filing Assistant. in an upper quadrant of the Print software allowing
device’s GPIB address, PhotoBase allows images screen and can be expand- WordStar users to obtain
read/write termination stored in a separate “photo ed with a keystroke to fill hard copy of files with
mode, and I/O timeout album” file to be selected the entire screen. Data and Greek and technical sym-
limits. and recalled by the user’s text are merged around the bols on any NEC Spin-
Since built-in device database management pro- picture to provide an inte- writer with a Technical
drivers perform all the nec- gram using standard grated display. Math thimble.
essary data routing, appli- database file descriptors. Printer support is includ- The Greek and technical
cation programs can refer Pictures may be captured ed for the Epson FX series, symbols are flagged in the
to installed devices by before, during, or after a the IBM Graphics Printer, WordStar text file with un-
symbolic names. Also, data file is established, and and the H-P ThinkJet. used control symbols. The
printers and plotters linked may be accessed directly Printed output can be pic- program also interprets all
through the interface can from PC-DOS. ture only, text only, or of the word processor’s
be accessed with standard The photo image files both. standard print commands,
DOS calls. are created with pictures (List Price: With PC-EYE and buffers output to elimi-
The GPIB-PCjr permits captured from a VCR or Video Capture System, nate reverse line feeds (im-
both synchronous and video camera by the $690; software alone, proving character align-
asynchronous I/O func- PhotoBase image manager $235) ment on the printout).
tions, with automatic serial and the PC-EYE Video Requires; 64K RAM Special features of
polling. Integer array func- Capture Board (available above that required by the TYPMATH —which do not
tions built into the software with the software). Any user’s DBMS; two disk require a Technical Math
eliminates the usual I/O database management sys- drives, PC-DOS 2.x, PC- thimble —^permit the print-
limitation of strings less tem that writes to the dis- EYE board, Tecmar ing of multiple-line head-
than 255 bytes; the system play using the system GraphicsMaster, high-reso- ings and footings, and the
can work with arrays of up BIOS will work with lution color monitor. placement of a vertical bar
to 64K bytes. The auto- in the margin to denote
matic polling feature can document updates. Also
poll the entire bus without provided in the software’s
custom programming by manuals are techniques for
the user, providing status developing and printing
responses from polled in- complex equations using
struments as required by WordStar.
an application program. (List Price:$33)
(List Price: GPIB-PCjr, Requires: 128K RAM,
$385; software, $75) one disk drive, PC-DOS,
National Instruments WordStar, Spinwriter.
12109 Technology Blvd. Sunol Sciences Corp.
Austin, TX 78729 11887 Dublin Blvd.
(800) 531-5066 Dublin, CA 94568
(512) 250-91 19 (415) 462-8209
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SOFTWARE
Equate ASCII word processor for

A professional mathemati- further formaning before
cal equation processor printing.
geared for non- accounting (List Price: $195)
business and technical ap- Requires: 128K RAM,
plications. Equate allows one disk drive, PC-DOS.
up 799 equations to be
to Banyan Systems Carp.
entered anywhere on the 5632 E. Third St.
display screen, through the Tucson, AZ 85711
use of standard algebraic (602) 745-8086
notation. When a function
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gram evaluates the equa-
tions, prompts for unde- SMART-BASE
fined variables, and solves A menu-driven database
equations with double-pre- management system with
cision results. Equate inter- custom data-entry screen
prets standard arithmetic creation, report formatting,
operators, numeric opera- and extensive sorting/
tors (Sin, Cos, Tan, Log, indexing features. SMART-
Ln, Am, and so forth), re- BASE allows data screens
lational operators (<,>, to be designed with up to
< = <>),, and logical op- 40 fields. It can sort data
erators (AND, OR, NOT, files using up to ten key
XOR). fields simultaneously, and

An included data file, up to six fields can be in-
called the ConstantsWin- dexed.
dow, contains over 400 The program can handle Keyswap, Rickerdata, Inc.
physical constants and up to II data sets, each set
measurement conversion consisting of up to II data Keyswap can be easily accessed
factors. These constants files with more than A RAM-resident macro key from within any applica-
can be easily selected and 32,(X)0 records in each utility that operates in the tions program.
inserted by the user any- file. A record can have two background, allowing the Command functions al-
where within equations. screens of information, user to redefine the output low the macro keys to be
The user can also add plus a listing of up to 5(X) of any key on the IBM PC defined with either fixed or
equations, monetary con- items that may be common keyboard at any time. variable field data, and
version factors, and other toany record inany file in Keyswap allows as many windows can be estab-
frequently used constants any set. as 100 different user-defin^ lished for customized ac-
to this data file. In addition to the above, macros to exist at one time. cess from an application. It
A forms feature allows more than 50 items can be Defined macros can be is also possible to define a
the user to create applica- used as search criteria on stored as a disk file for later macro buffer with up to
tion worksheets that one pass of the files. reuse; these stored macros 384K RAM dedicat^ to
prompt for data or arrange (List Price:
$150) can be called by a batch file the macro keys.
the results of calculations Requires: 128K RAM, routine. (List Price: $119)
into tables. Data cells may two disk drives, PC-DOS. Keyswapoffers 24 func- Requires: 64K RAM, one
be placed anywhere on a Intelligent Software tionsfrom its main menu. disk drive, PC-DOS.
screen without resorting to Products, Inc. Macros can be created/ Rickerdata, Inc.
rows and columns. Equa- 19 Virginia Ave. edited With its built-in edi- P.O. Box 998
tions, results, and text can Rockville Ctr., NY 11570 tor, and defined macros Melrose, MA 02176
be saved as worksheets, (516) 766-2867 can be listed at any time (617) 662-0856
which can be printed di- CIRCLE 658 ON READER for reference. On-line help
CIRCLE 654 ON READER
rectly or transferred to any SERVICE CARD screens and status displays SERVICE CARD

SOFTWARE
MagLock In these cases, only the Disk-Zip tion Program allows user-
A hard-disk data-security root program is made A hard-disk directory-man- created suggestions to flash
system with passwords, RAM-resident. agement program that alon a computer screen at 30
permitting the user to se- • Copy-protected pro- lows the user to rapidly thousandths of a second in
cure single files, an entire grams that require a specif- move from subdirectory to the background while an-
directory (with or without ic disk to be in drive A;. subdirectory with single other application, such as a
subdirectories), or a com- To make these programs keystrokes. Disk-Zip gener- word processor or other
plete hard disk in one op- resident, the proper disk ates a series of menus that software, runs in the fore-
eration. The user can as- must be in place during show all levels of ground. The user can set
sign an unlimited number initialization. subdirectories on a hard the duration of each flash
of passwords to secure data A version of Res is also disk, indicating which and the interval between
on the hard disk. available without the key- subdirectories contain addi- flashes; subliminal mes-
(List Price: $89) board macro facility. tional embedded levels. sages can be up to 34 char-
Requires: 128KRAM, 10- (List Price: With macro The user can freely move acters long. Suggestions
MB hard disk, PC-DOS2.J. $90; without
facility, through the hard disk hier- are removed ftom the sys-
Michael Flinder & macros, $60) archy, exit to DOS or any tem’s memory when the
Assocs. Inc. Requires: 2S6K RAM, executable program, or computer is turned off.
169 Burnside one disk drive, PC-DOS. produce a scrolled listing The Self-Hypnosis Pro-
Tonawanda, NY 14150 SoJLabs of files. gram displays a series of
(716) 693-0584 400 E. Anderson Ln., #306 Disk-Zip can handle six moving graphics beginning
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READER SERVICE CARD with up to 36 embedded frequency as it starts an In-
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SERVICE CARD subdirectories for each lev- duction Count set by the
Res: The Program el. It also simplifies file user. The Induction Count
Residency Manager CURSER-Prompt transfers between ends at the “theta” brain
A program to make other A utility that changes the subdirectories. wave level, at which point
programs RAM-resident shape of the DOS cursor to (Suggested Contribution: a user-created message ap-
and to assign character indicatekeyboard shift and $35) pears at the center of the
string macros to keys. Up toggle key status. Toggles Requires: 64K RAM, hard graphics display. The dura-
to nine programs can be that affect the cursor in- disk, PC-DOS 2.x. tion of the session can be
made concurrently resident; clude the CapsLock, Applied Programming set from 1 to 90 minutes
up to S6 keys can be NumLock, Ctrl, Alt, and Technology long; at the end of the ses-
redefined. Ins keys. 19485 Vista Plz. computer begins a
sion, the
The user can configure A second utility allows Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 countdown from 5 to 1,
Res with the included the user to create custom (714) 831-8047 then beeps.
Conres utility to make a cursor shapes, including (714) 495-3013 A Relaxation Program
set of programs memory- block, split-block, and in- MCI Mail: MJ. Mazurowski isalso included in the
resident automatically for visible cursors for each of CIRCLE 617 ON package, similar to Self-
specific applications. Otf- the shift/toggle key states. READER SERVICE CARD Hypnosis but for a different
ferently configured copies The utilities also allow any graphics display designed
of Res can automatically toggle key's cursor reshap- Subliminal Suggestion to induce a state of deep
create integrated multiple- ing to be turned off inde- and Self-Hypnosis relaxation very quickly.
program environments, pendently. Programs (List Price: All three
each with its own set of (List Price: $24.95) A package of three pro- programs, $68.95)
assigned keyboard macros. Requires: 64K RAM, one grams allowing the user to Requires: 64K, one disk
Any applications pro- disk drive, PC-DOS. treata range of personal drive, PC-DOS.
gram can be made memo- TadAleX Software problems with hypnosis. Greentree Publishers
ry-resident with the follow- 10834 Dixon Dr. So. The software can be used 5364 Ashwood
ing two exceptions; WA 98178
Seattle. alone or in conjunction Camarillo, CA 93010
• Applications programs (206) 772-2059 with any other self-im- (805) 483-5375
in which the root program CIRCLE 651 ON READER provement software. CIRCLE 644 ON
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Compaq, and similar porta- These NTT-type disks fea- ian provides additional
ACCESSORIES ble computers. The Porta- ture a particularly thin protection against theft of a
PC Mate offejs built-in coating of magnetic medi- system by linking all com-
surge suppression and con- um: SO microinches, about ponents of the PC with a
Lotus 1-2-3 half the thickness of the
venient electrical control steel cable that can be at-
Command Path through the use of illumi- coating for normal disks. tached to the PC’s desk
Reference
nated front panel switches. This thinness, as well as a base. No tools are requited
A set of six printed refer-
The stand’s other fea- high coercivity factor, give for installation. A plastic-
ence charts outlining the
tures include easily adjust- each disk a reliable storage coated steel cable is avail-
proper command sequences
able tilt for a proper screen capacity of 1 .6 megabytes able separately in 4- or 6-
for Lotus’s 1-2-3. Avail-
viewing angle and space to when used with the appro- foot lengths.
able in three formats (full-
hold disk library cases, priate drives. (List Price: $34.95;
sized wall charts, fold-out
each capable of storing 10 The TDK M2HD-S 6-ft. plastic cable, $10)
reference card, and over-
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head transparencies), the
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Palo Alto, CA 94303
Suppressors A security device that atta- single RS-232 serial port.
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featuring master power er switch, permitting a sys- switches, though, the
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sorbing pad for use with nection to a wall outlet or
most desktop printers. The remote use.
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Logic circuitry within
the device allows the unit 1. Please include the retail infoimation about a product Financial Analysis
to determine and make the price, distribution methods, than is typically included in on the IBM PC
correct RS-232 line inter- and details of both hardware an ad. A handbook of techniques
connections between virtu- and software requirements 3. Include telephone contacts and programs for business
ally any computer and pe- needed for an end-user to for marketing and technical analysis, slock evaluation,
ripheral devices. The properly use your new prod- questions. and personal investment se-
computer and peripherals uct. For software especially, 4. If available, include black- lections. Each topic cov-
connected to the device this includes required amount and-white glossy photos of ered in the book includes
can be changed as needed, of RAM, number and type of the product, 4x5 inches or analysis of the processes
since the logic circuitry disk drives, operating sys- larger. used, relevant formulas,
will reconfigure the inter- tem(s) support^, and any Please note that all prod- and program listings.
connection pattern each peripheral equipment ucts are run on a space-avail- Programs that make up
time a different device is needed. able basis. It is impossible to
connected to any of the 2. Releases should be type- guarantee publication of a
four ports. written double-spaced on one product announcement for
In addition to its univer- side of the paper. Copies of any particular issue.
sal interfacing capability, advertisements for the prod- Inclusion in New on the
the SSBIOOO also indicates uct may be included, but in Market is at the exclusive
which device connected to most instances we need more discretion of the editor.
its four ports is disabling
data transfer. Included with
the Smart Switch Box are Structured Program- gramming languages in
two 6-foot ribbon cables ming in BASIC general, then proceeds step
with both male and female A self-study course in BA- by step through the structure
DB2S terminals. SIC programming suitable and development of BASIC
(List Price: $159.95) for university-level students. algorithms, arrays, rmdularity
IQ Technologies, Inc. The tutorial consists of 36 concepts, disk I/O, and pro-
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527 Free Ihiblic Domiansw Public Domain Software 216 1
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127 Intniit Noumenon Corp
147 Turtw Pascal Borland Imcmational .

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139 Rexidisks BASF 62

244 Mail Order Diskettes Disk World! 249
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141 Foot Mouse Versairon
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182 SPF/PC Command Technology Corp 203
107 Flexforms Atkins Associates

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Pioneer Valley PC User Group

MARYLAND c/o Jeffrey Kane
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Baltimore IBM PC Users Group
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North Amherst, MA 01059
1910 Trout Farm Rd. (413) 549-6409
Jairettsville, MD
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Birmingham Bloomfield IBM PC
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P.O. Box 3189
c/o Kenneth A.E. Kemen
Gaithersburg, MD 20878 534 S. Woodward
(703) 978-1530
Birmingham, MI 4101
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SIG/86 c/o R. K. Schmitt
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Users Group, Inc. IBM PC Users Group 6441 28th St. SE
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Towson, MD 21204 One Center Plaza (616) 972-2178
Boston. MA 01059
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P.O. Box 02426
Detroit, Ml 48202
(313) 532-1390
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS • M. DAVID STONE
T^ng Notice of
BuUetin Boards
Once starkly utilitarian, many bulletin boards now sparkle with color,
graphics, and music. Along with this shift has come the emergence of
a fledgling on-line graphics standard.
ulletin board systems, or BBSs, add
B
erator, or sysop, the capability to
are the computerized equivalent color, music, and graphics to the bulletin
of the bulletin board in your local board. Not all bulletin boards take ad-
supermarket. Most are open for anyone vantage of this, but the user has the op-
to use, and except for the cost of the tion of turning the features on or off on
phone call, most are free. the ones thatdo .
Virtually all BBSs have a message area Typically, when you sign on to a sys-
for exchanging messages, asking ques- tem that uses these features, it will ask
tions, or posting ‘‘for sale” notices. Most you whether you want graphics. If you
also have libraries of public-domain and answer yes and if you have the right com-
freeware programs that you can have for munications program, you get color, mu-
the asking. On IBM-bas^ BBSs, these li- sic, and graphics. If you don't have the
braries almost always include PC -Talk III right program, the commands for these
and its various merge files. (For a review functions show up as meaningless gar-
of PC-Talklll and merge files, see “The bage on your screen.
Uige to Merge,” Volume 4 Number 5.) The right program, in this case, is a
As you probably know, PC -Talk III suitably modified PC-Talk III. If you
has become a standard in communica- don’t already have PC-Talk III, you can
tions programs. There are any number of get it from a users’ group. Another
merge files available that modify PC- ment, most communications pro- choice is to get it from a bulletin board
Talk III to give it additional features. grams —including unmodified PC-
the with a communications program that in-
Three of the more interesting files in the Talk III— designed make your PC
are to cludes the XMODEM error-checking
group add IBM 3101 terminal emulation act like a teletypewriter. Even if a BBS protocol (such as Crosstalk XVI; Hayes
and ^so open up the possibility for using were to send commands for color, music, Smartcom //, Version 2; ASCOM; and
color, music, and graphics with an on- or graphics, your system wouldn’t re- Omniterm 2.) If all else fails, you can
line system. However, you can take ad- spond correctly unless it were running a send $35 to Headlands Press, Inc., P.O.
vantage of these features only if the sys- program that Imows how to interpret the Box 862, Tiburon, CA 94920; phone
tem you’re talking to is set up to mê incoming information. (415) 435-9775 (Visa or Mastercharge
use of them. It works the other way, too. If your accepted with phone orders).
Until about a year ago, all BBSs were communications program is designed to Once you have PC-Talk, there are sev-
starkly utilitarian. This was not a matter interpret the incoming information, you eral merge files available that will make
of choice. Like most on-line systems, can use color, music, and graphics. the appropriate modification. The pre-
BBSs are designed to talk with the maxi- RBBS is one of several programs that ferred file is the latest version of BBS-
mum number of computers and termi- will let you run a bulletin board system TALK. This program, written by Dom
nals. This means limiting output to on an IBM PC. It is one of the more pop- Stickle, combines a number of features
text —the one thing that remains standard ular programs for PC-based bulletin from PC-Talk files written by others, Hanund
from system to system. BBSs are de- boards, largely because of its status as (See “The Urge to Merge,” PC. Vol-
signed, in short, for the lowest common freeware. As with PC -Talk III, RBBS is ume 4 Number 5.) Bred
denominator: a teletypewriter. freeand is on many bulletin boards. According to Stickle, BBS-

In a vaguely symmetrical arrange- Moreover, RBBS gives the system op- TALK6.MRG, the most recent ver- Illiistntion:
PC MAGAZINE • APRIL 30, 1985 2«I

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
sion of BBS-TALK, gives bulletin menu displays. These are less spectacu- ors or a complex layout, the Invention
boards several new capabilities. For in- lar than PC Manhattan’s; however, the Factory uses a slightly modified menu
stance, assuming you have a graphics sign-on routine includes a short rendition advantage of the PC’s charac-
that takes
card and color monitor, it lets bulletin of the theme song from Star Wars. ter graphics.White lettering on a blue
boards both draw figures on your screen And if you like music, try the bulletins background helps on color monitors, but
and fill them in with colors. on Pardue’s BBS. As of this writing, the the layout is extremely readable even on
BBSTALK6.MRG wiU probably be bulletin labeled No. 5 isn’t a bulletin a monochrome monitor. More impor-
available on most PC-based bulletin it’s well over a minute’s worth of com- no apparent loss
tantly, there is in speed
boards by the time you read this. Accord- puterized Bach. when you turn the graphics on.
ing to Stickle, though, it is available on at Still another board worth looking at is Another good example is the EXEC-
least four systems as of this writing. The Eclectic IBM BBS run by Dave Hunter at PC BBS run by Bob Mahoney at (414)
systems are: D.A.T.A. RBBS, (914) (914) 221-2248. Eclectic BBS special- 964-5160. This is not an RBBS system
634-8385 (sysop; Dennis Friedman); PC izes in color graphics for the PC and has but has similar capabilities. Mahoney is
Manhattan, (212) 819-7942 (sysop: Greg an extensive library of on-line demon- experimenting with a Lotus-like ap-
Rismoen); The Capital PC ^blic Do- programs.
stration proach to menu choices. This lets you
main Software Library, (301) 949-8848 Unfortunately, you may find that designate a selection either by moving
(password is IBMPC; sysop: Rich much of this is interesting for its novelty. the cursor to it with the space bar or by
Schinnell); and an unnamed board at After a while, you’re more likely to be typing the first letter of the selection
(615) 385-9919 (sysop: David Pardue). bored than amused by a lengthy graphics name. This trick, which makes use of the
and music sign-on message. 3101 emulation in BBS-TALK, can be
Modifying PC-Talk III You’ll also find that you have to pay a used with any program with 3101 emula-
To modify PC-Talk III with price for colorful menus on a bulletin tion (Crosstalk, for one).
BBSTALK6.MRG, use the MERGE board such as PC Manhattan. Turn the By the time you read this, there should
command in BASIC to join the two files. graphics off, and you’ll immediately no- be a new modification of PC-Talk III,
(See your BASIC manual or "The Urge tice two things:The menus become less called EXECPCT, available on
to Merge,” PC, Volume 4 Number 5.) readable, and they appear on the screen Mahoney’s and other BBSs. EXECPCT
Then, with the modified version of PC- much more quickly. The question is is similar to BBS-TALK, with some ad-
Talk lU in hand, you’re ready to explore. whether the loss in readability is worth ditional features added specifically for
A good place to start is with the PC the gain in speed. the EXEC-PC BBS. Be aware, also, that
Manhattan RBBS. If you have a color you need EXECPCT Version 2 or later.
monitor and tell the system you want Fine Tuning There is a Version 1 1 floating around,
.
graphics, you'll be treated to one of the Some systems bypass that question by but according to Mahoney, the graphics
more colorful menu displays I’ve ever improving readability in more subtle feature in Version 1 1 will not work with
.
seen. Even with a monochrome monitor, ways. A good example is the Invention any known BBS.
you'll see a highly readable layout. Factory, run by Mike Sussel at (212) It would be nice to wrap up this whirl-
D.A.T.A. RBBS also has colorful 431-1194. Rather thanusingariotofcol- wind tour with a prediction about the fu-
ture of color, graphics, and music on
BBSs. Unfortunately, the best 1 can offer
is an observation or two.
Systems like the Invention Factory

and EXEC PC show that even relatively
subtle use of graphics and color on bulle-
tin boards can translate to major im-
provements in usability. Keep in mind,
also, that the accepted "standard” speed
for communications keeps increasing.
And the faster the speed, the less time
lost even when drawing complex graph-
ics on the screen.
Most importantly, the combination of
RBBS and the modified PC-Talk HI of-
fers a fledgling on-line graphics standard
for BBSs. It’s already widespread
enough to be notable, and it just may suc-
ceed in becoming the one that everyone
Th* Invandon Factory la ona of tha now razzla-dazzia bullatin boarda. chooses to match.

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2001: An Accounting Package • Commercial Software Demos
2001, the accounting software from Financial Information Systems, was designed to
• Radio Broadcast Information
give the small business owner/operator a powerful and sophisticated accounting sys-
tem that is also easy to use. Does 2001 succeed in this ambitious goal? Price Annual Service Fee . . $50.00
Waterhouse reviews the package and finds that the answer is not an easy yes or no. Cost per disk, including
postage & handling $10.00 . .
Idea Processors: MaxThink, ThinkTank and 1-2-3?

. . .
\ PC Magazine looks at several idea, or outline, processors. MaxThink belongs to the

latest generation of outline processors. The package comes with a bunch of tricks, a
programming language, and just a few bugs. ThinkTank. which preceded MaxThink Order Desk 1-800.372.4001
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If you’re a user of Lotus’s 1-2-3, however, you can emulate many of the functions
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JQ jgjyi personal computers

April 30, 1985

The NMS PC 8000 Series

National Memory Systems provides

Ideal for networking and distributed processing:

File-by-File Tape Back-up:

Laser Optical Disk:

Infroducing high tape drive, controller, and

or AT for only "yyj reads and writes at 90 inches per

a y disk IBM AT (model 68), add our

Need a hard disk?

them. Tape drive & 10 MB H.D. $1695

megabyte hard disk*

that makes the XT

• 3 Files Oean Simwitenaoueiy • 14 Ways to Cateuiaie FielOB

EXPERT SYSTEM INFERENCE ENGINE

ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Eugene Duncan

ON PAGE 189 VICE PRESn^NT. CIRCULAnON

• Allow 2 to 3 wnaks lor doiivary '

4 PC MAGAZINE# APRIL 30, 1985

IBM Color Adapter $244 Hercules Color Card $245

2. Printer port. None. Standard. Our parallel port

4. Flexibility. Can’t always work with a Always works with a Hercules

5. Warranty. 90 days. Two years.

CIRCLE 146 ON READER SERVICE CARD

TopView Enters the Fray 124

TopView: The Hard Facts 132

TopView: A DOS (Dis)Service. .137 .

Paul Somerson/Top\‘tew's long and

6 PC MAGAZINE • APRIL 30. 1985

standard that specifies the mechanical, electrical and func*

IBM PC. PC XT and PC AT are registered trademarks of International

Pop-Vp l-2-Sl Pop-Vp WardStat^, Pop-Vp dBase '. .

Preset We call it Pop-Up Anything. And with

Stopwatch/eiapsed time feature Yes No No No Pop-Up Anything is included with

Calculator with printable

CntCU 1(0 ON READER SERVICE (>RD

— all for under

Finally, the printer for all PC needs.

See for yourself today.

This printout «-u not genmted bv the Tl S35. 27M-06

Increase ^stem Quadjr. Expansion

Snap on more system

toggle switch. Even a

More PCjr expansion with

QUADRAM An Inietloe™ Srslems Comparv

CIRCLE 486 ON READER SERVICE CARD

other PCs, mainframes, and databases effortlessly.

short slots or long. That means you can

the easiest to use, whether you're a beginner

terminal on a mainframe computer with its power-

for easy switching from voice

M ost of our readers probably as-

cle you promised

squarely in front of the

PC MAGAZINE • APRIL 30. 1985 IS

more or less perpetual panic.

It was obvious that

dered into one of the copy offices to find

when not in use. Unlock the hide- where you need It —

a If you don’t have

was struck by a severe you should buy a Hercules

Graphics Card, not an extra cost option.