Contact details • Goods will be despatched, subject to availability, within 48 hours of receiving an order. Royal Mail Atomwide Limited is based at: recorded delivery is used for small items, while next day courier delivery, at a cost of £10, is Unit 7, The Metro Centre, applicable for heavier or more valuable items. Bridge Road, Orpington, Kent. Support BR5 2BE England • Atomwide offers free, unlimited technical support on all of its hardware and software Visitors by appointment only, please. products. This is available by email to [email protected], post, fax, or telephone Telephone: (01689) 814500, between 10am and between 2pm and 4pm. 5.30pm, Monday to Friday Facsimile: (01689) 814501 • All hardware supplied by Atomwide is covered Email: [email protected] by a 1 year return-to-base warranty. WWW: http://www.atomwide.co.uk/ E&OE Revision 1, October 1997 Ordering • Apple, AppleTalk and Macintosh are registered • Atomwide is pleased to accept orders by trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. telephone, fax or email. Payment is possible • Fresco is a trademark of ANT Ltd. • Intel is a registered trademark and Pentium is a by cash, cheque to 'Atomwide Ltd.', VISA or trademark of the Intel Corporation. MasterCard credit/debit card, Eurocheque, or • Microsoft and Windows NT are trademarks of the direct bank transfer. Microsoft Corporation. • Netware and Novell are registered trademarks of Novell • All quoted prices exclude VAT @ 17½% Inc. • Acorn and OmniClient are trademarks of Acorn and carriage. Computers Ltd. • All other trademarks are acknowledged. Atomwide Limited began life During 1996, Atomwide formed over ten years ago as an Acorn a division called Zero One UK, Computer dealer and developer. which operates as a distributor One of the company's first for the professional networking products was an Ethernet hardware of the Zero One interface, and the success of this Technology Corporation of has led to a complete range of Taiwan. Founded in 1980, Zero highly regarded ANT Ethernet One is a leading designer and cards for RISC OS computers, manufacturer of network used all around the world and by components, and this trading Acorn themselves. partnership enables Atomwide to offer quality network products at very affordable prices. In addition, Atomwide has been responsible for a number of other widely used Acorn-based Xemplar Education products including memory Atomwide has been an Agent for upgrades, RiscPC backplanes, Xemplar Education since it was and High Speed Serial Cards. formed, reflecting our commit- ment to supplying schools with Networking the best possible I.T. solutions. Over the last few years, This relationship has recently led Atomwide has grown sufficiently to Atomwide helping with to undertake the design and strategic planning and training in installation of complete network order to set up a nationwide solutions for schools and group of skilled Xemplar businesses around the country. Network Agents. With the release of software products such as Microsoft® The Complete Solution Windows NT™ and Acorn OmniClient®, complemented by Atomwide now has an enviable our own applications such as reputation for fulfilling and NTFiler and NTUsers, Atomwide supporting the needs of all kinds has been able to provide of customer, from non-technical customers with true multi- users wanting help and platform networks, on which upgrades, through advanced Acorn, PC-compatible and Apple users looking for highly specified Mac systems can co-exist and computer systems, to share resources. establishments wanting a top quality, expandable and reliable computer network. Partnerships In addition, Atomwide has been By approaching the requirements appointed an Acorn Centre of of each customer individually, Technology, to acknowledge its and drawing on the wide technical expertise and friendly, ranging skills of a close-knit team quality support (demonstrated of experienced staff, we are by an Acorn User magazine 'Best pleased to be able to say that we Dealer' award), an AST Associate regularly receive new business Reseller and Server Solutions thanks to Partner, plus a Netscape recommendations AffiliatePlus Partner. by previous satisfied customers. Applications such as !PocketFS, which do not support block drivers, can continue to be used through the computer's internal serial port. In addition, a driver is supplied to make the serial card's ports accessible from a PC card. High speed serial cards are available with one, two or three ports fitted. Each of these takes the shape of a 9-pin "D"-type plug, and is capable of running at up to 460,800 bits per second. Each port employs a FIFO buffer to reduce loading on the computer's Based on the original design by The Serial Port, processor, and so improve communications Atomwide's High Speed Serial Card enables users of reliability. most Acorn Archimedes computers to take full advantage of modern, fast modems. Furthermore, any The serial cards are standard single-width podules, Acorn computer user with several serial devices can and so can be fitted to any Acorn computer except keep them all simultaneously connected, so removing the A3010, A3020 and A4000. The cards are fully the need to constantly swap cables or invest in a compatible with Atomwide six- and eight-slot cumbersome manual switch box. RiscPC backplanes. A single port card costs £79, with dual and triple The extra serial ports provided by the high speed variants available for £89 and £99 respectively. It is cards are accessible from all applications that support possible to have single or dual port cards upgraded serial block drivers, including ARCterm7, ANT's with additional ports at a later date, for a cost of £30 Internet Suite, ArcBBS, ArcFax, HearSay, Termite per port. and Voyager. Ideal for bulletin board access, The Serial Port's For advanced users, ARCterm7 has a scripting ARCterm7 is a feature-packed communications language to allow the automatic execution of package which supports a wide range of terminal commands and a host mode so that other users can emulations, including TTY, VT52, VT102, PC-ANSI, dial in to your computer, then send and retrieve Minitel, Viewdata, Avatar, Campus 2000 and BBC files. In addition, debugging display modes can mode 7. show a hex dump or control codes. Many makes of modem, such as Hayes, US Robotics The latest version is fully compatible with all serial and Pace are specifically supported by ARCterm7, port-equipped Acorn computers. There is also while most others will function with generic drivers. support, of course, for original and new high speed Connecting cables wired for either Acorn or PC serial cards. 2Mb of memory is recommended for serial ports can be used. running ARCterm7, although it is possible to cope with only 1Mb. When transferring files, ARCterm7 can adopt protocols including Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem, ARCterm7 costs £49. Serial modem cables (9-pin " SEAlink, Kermit, CET and ASCII. D"-type socket to 25-pin "D"-type plug) are available for £7.50 each; remember to specify your General functionality includes a one hundred phone machine's model when ordering. number memory, call costing, numerous keyboard short-cuts including user-defined Upgrades to the latest version of ARCterm7 cost £5, macros, and the ability to save sessions or although certain bug fix upgrades are available free screenshots to disk. of charge - call for details. The ANT Internet Suite is a powerful, fully integrated the author intended. Coupled with highly refined collection of software that gives Acorn users access code to display pages on screen as rapidly as to the vast resources of the Internet. While possible and automatically correct badly-written supporting a wide range of services, from the most HTML, Fresco is surely the most advanced Web basic electronic mail to advanced World Wide Web browser available for RISC OS - a statement backed features such as frames, the ANT Internet Suite up by the fact that Acorn adopted it for use with remains easy to use, and has been thoroughly tested their range of Network Computers. Additional to be reliable and flexible. features such as a 'Hotlist' of favourite sites, the ability to save and print pages, and control over The Suite supports a wide range of Internet Service which sites can and cannot be accessed only add to Providers (ISPs), and support for more is regularly Fresco's leading position. added, so users can subscribe to the service of their • FTPclient. Used when downloading files from choice. After this has been done, software older sites, or uploading pages to a Web site, configuration is simply a case of answering a few FTPclient provides a familiar RISC OS drag-and- questions about the ISP account and the type of drop interface for file transfer. modem or local area network connection which is being used. • ANTterm. This terminal utility provides a means for logging in by Telnet to network servers such as Unix systems, and also accessing services such as France's Minitel. • Finger, along with other tools like Ping and TraceRoute, enables network connections to be tested and information about certain Internet systems and users to be determined. Once installed, the programs available include: Of course, one of the great advantages of a • Marcel, the electronic mail & news client. This commercial product such as the Internet Suite, software allows messages to be exchanged with compared with public domain alternatives, is that other Internet users, either on a private, one-to-one comprehensive support is provided. Help is basis via e-mail, or through the thousands of public available to registered users via email, phone, fax discussion forums which make up Usenet news. and post. Additional resources, including answers to Marcel also includes support for uucode and Frequently Asked Questions, are always available MIME attachments, so that users can send files to from ANT's Internet Web site.