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Memories of the Future SEPTEMBER 1986 Volume 9 Issue 9 £1.25 PRACTICAL COMPUTING FOR BUSINESS AND PROFF"InNAL MICRO USERS MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE HARDWAREApricot Xen-i Amstrad comms SOFTWAREQ&A Farsight PRD + FEATURESThe PC price plunge Laser -printer languages Quite simply, it leaves other wordprocessors lost for words. WordPerfect 4.1 includes available with a single And see how WordPerfect many features not found in keystroke. This makes learning delivers today what others are other word processors. easier than ever before and still searching for. Newspaper style columns using it a real pleasure. can be displayed on screen, What you see on the screen 120,000 word UK phonetic is what will actually print. dictionary, word -count, This makes good, professional background printing and layouts simple. automatic reformatting Documents are treated as a increase efficiency. whole and not a series of Line drawing and rulers, pages. Reformatting and sorting search and repagination after editing are 5 -function maths are automatic and very rapid. SENTINEL invaluable assets. However fast you type, you SOFTWARE The colour -coded template will never be too fast for makes using WordPerfect WordPerfect. Sentinel, Wellington House, New Zealand Avenue, simpler than you would To find out more, write to the Walton -on -Thames, Surrey, KT12 1PY. believe. Most features are address opposite. Telephone: (0932) 231164 circle 101 on enquiry card - 2 COVER FEATURE 'PRACTICAL COMPUTING SEPTEMBER 1986 CONTENTS APRICOT XEN-i At last Apricot has launched the AT -compatible Videologic MIC-2000 Video everyone wanted it to. Steve Malone finds out 48 whether it will be the company's salvation 11.1 meets micro - page 56. NEWS AMSTRAD COMMS The PCW-8256 is designed as a ready -to -use HARDWARE NEWS MEMORIES OF word processor. Glyn Moody discovers what it is 52 Upgrade for Hercules card 14 like for email and Prestel SOFTWARE NEWS THE FUTURE Presentation graphics 16 Mass -storage technology is VIDEOLOGIC MIC-2000 currently making rapid Simon Beesley looks at a plug-in card which lets advances. Where megabytes you add video images to computer -generated 56 once seemed a king's ransom, text and graphics today it is the gigabyte barrier which is being breached. In this Q&A special section we look at some of Ever wanted to talk to your software? Mike Lewis the latest developments in the tries out a database package that understands 59 field. On page 94 Carol plain English Hammond introduces the exciting world of CD-ROMS - half a gigabyte on a 5in. disc. PRD + Then Ian Stobie looks at some of The typist's friend, Productivity Plus expands 65 the alternatives to Winchester your abbreviations as you key them in hard discs on page 97. As other technologies have moved on, STELLA Low-cost integrated package. hard discs themselves have A modelling package for the Mac with a strongly 66 become smaller and are now visual approach. John Lewis reports GENERAL NEWS available on plug-in cards. Glyn Moody tries some out on page IBM's plans for PCs 21 101. Finally on page 104 Steve FARSIGHT Malone looks at the state of This cheap 1-2-3 clone comes with a complete OPEN FILE silicon memories, and how they windowing environment and a word processor 68 too are breaking 93 thrown in as well COMMS new ground Down loader for CP/M and S&S UTILITIES MS-DOS 111 Steve Malone samples a family of £10 programs 74PCW-8256 which add that little bit extra to your software More Logo programs 112 BUSINESS PC PRICING STATISTICS Prices have been tumbling over the last two Variance analysis 116 years, and show no signs of stopping. Glyn 76 CD-ROMs Data on compact Moody plots the trend REGULARS disc - page 94. EDITORIAL INSIDE SITE LICENSING Long live compatibility 5 Steve Malone on the deals being offered to those 78 FEEDBACK who use software in bulk Your letters 7 COMMS LINK ISDN World Reporter 24 You may not have heard of it yet but the chances SOFTWARE are you will soon be using it. Jack Schofield 81 explains this radical new telecomms system WORKSHOP Error checking 29 PAGE -DESCRIPTION CHIP -CHAT Maths co -processors 31 LANGUAGES ASK PC Ian Stobie reports on a vital aspect of the 84 You ask, we answer 39 personal -publishing revolution BOOKS Brave new world 41 WORD PROCESSORS INTERVIEW Xen-i Apricot goes IBM David Barlow maps out the market for WP 89 Sir Clive Sinclair compatible - page 48. packages and picks his Top 10 contenders 87 PRACTICAL COMPUTING September 1986 3 COMPUMART NEXT DAY DESPATCH MMEs. IM 10 MI.==MD 4=1 .M4MEM OR ''4111j11=1M 40 MEM1M1 =M110 =MD 1=I 4=1111=. .= compAa LOtLIS OlivettiEPSON ASHTON TA 1 E NEC ........... .~, /1s,pteMZ ofrag ... ...,.,.MIMb ..AMM ...... ... ..., .., .1= ,1=11 MID .1ff PCIXT with ..... Upgrade your PC XT (SDD) 640K RAM 2x360K Disks £1178.00 PC XT (SFD) 640K RAM 360K - 20Mb Disks £1542.00 £2382.00 HARDCARD PC AT (E) 512k RAM 1.2Mb + 20Mb Disks PLUS 20Mb single slot20Mb PC AT (X) 512K RAM 1.2Mb - 30Mb Disks £282400 -to -install, This easy will workin any £244.00 Hard Disk ona card OnlyS575.00 Mono Monitor + Adapter Colour Graphics Monitor + Adapter £435.00 IBM PC, XTorcompatible: EGA Monitor + Adapter E800.00 PREMIUM AST SIXPACK PC XT (5) Keyboard £126.00 8087 Chip COLOURMONITOR £15400 & TAXAN 640K andgo PC AT (E) Keyboard £142.00 80287 Chip £195.00 Boost yourPC/XT beyond PC AT (X) Keyboard £126.00 IBM's ColourGraphics one-up on Parallel Adapter £37.00 Display Stand £50.00 standard withthis outstanding of multifunction £799.00 Serial Adapter £54,00 AT 360k Disk £145.00 combination monitor Only AT Parallel/Serial £88.00 PC DOS 3.2 £70.00 card andhi-res colour Education AUTOCADfor currently discounts and Verysubstantial fideschools COMPAa availablefor bona Portables colleges Portable I (256k RAM 2x360k Disks) £1377.00 Portable I Plus (256k RAM 360k 10Mb Disks) £1797.00 Portable II (640k RAM 360k + 10Mb Disks) £2707.00 Portable 286 (640k RAM 1.2Mb 20Mb Disks + SOFTWARE 10Mb Tape Backup)£3442.00 Multimate Word Processor £275.00 Deskpros Wordstar 2000 Word Processor £345.00 Model 2 (256k RAM 2x360k Disks) £1447.00 Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet £275.00 Model 4 (640k RAM 360k + 20Mb Disks + Symphony Integrated £385.00 10Mb Tape Backup)£2322.00 dBase III Plus Database £415.00 286 Model 2 (512k RAM 1.2Mb + 30Mb Disks) £3127.00 GEM Collection £99.00 286 Model 4 (640k RAM 1.2Mb 70Mb Disks + 10Mb Tape Backup) £4597.00 PRINTERS All prices include Keyboard Monitor & DOS. Dot Matrix NEC P6 (180cps, 72cps NLQ 80col) £390.00 NEC P7 (180cps, 72cps NLQ, 136col) £470.00 Olivetti Mono Colour NEC P5 XL (264cps, 88cps, LQ 136col) £830.00 M24 (128k RAM 2x360k Disks) £1369.00£1605.00 Leifer Quality M24 (640k RAM 360k + 20Mb Disks) £1907.00£2143.00 NEC Spinwriter ELF (18cps) £280.00 M24SP (640k RAM 360k 20Mb Disks)£2182.00£2418.00 NEC Spinwriter 8850 (55cps) £886.00 NEW MODEL IBM Quietwriter Model 2 (45cps) £1115.00 M19 (256k RAM 360k + 10Mb Disks) £1639.00£1949.00 All prices include cable. All prices include Keyboard Monitor & DOS. Other Printers, Multifunctional Cards & Software available. Please ring for an immediate response and the latest prices. Additional discount available for educational orders. Prices exclude VAT & Delivery. All goods subject to availability. - circle 106 on enquiry card - ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED 270923 55633 4 Unit 8, Woodshots Meadow, Croxlentre, Watford, WD1 8YU EL -Af-0,flA EDITORIAL 01-661 3633 Telecom Gold 1111IET727 Editor GLYN MOODY Deputy Editor (Production) JOHN LIEBMANN Art Editor HUGH ANDERSON Assistant Editor IAN STOBIE Senior Reporter STEVE MALONE Reporter/Sub-editor CAROL HAMMOND Editorial Secretary RUTH LAZENBY ROBERTS Consultant JACK SCHOFIELD ADVERTISING 01-661 3612 Advertisement Manager NITIN JOSHI 01-661 3021 Assistant Advertisement Manager NEIL MARCHANT 01-661 8626 Advertisement Executives KATE SCALLY 01-661 8425 JANET THORPE 01-661 3468 Midlands and North: 061-872 8861 Advertisement Production Control JACKIE PERRY 01-661 8649 BRIAN BANNISTER 01-661 8648 Advertisement Secretary LYNN DAWSON 01-661 3612 Classified SUSAN PLAITS 01-661 8163 PUBLISHING DIRECTOR SIMON TIMM LONG LIVE COMPATIBILITY Recently we witnessed the end of an era in these areas. It has become necessary to test each pro- Britishmicrocomputing.Afteryearsof gramindividuallytodiscover whetheritwill trying to emulate its fellow fruit, Apple, and function properly with a particular collection of to engender its own alternative micro standard, extras.For example, you might need to know Apricot has bowed to the inevitable with the launchwhether a particular package will work with the 8087 of its Xen-i IBM compatible. Since ICL seems to be maths co -processor; with Above Board or Rampage concentrating on the multi-user market, this leavesmemory -expansion cards; with IBM's EGA colour the U.K. with no major player going it alone with aboard or Olivetti's own version. If it works with one mainstream micro. it may not work with a rival product. In other words, National pride apart, perhaps this last, reluctantyou can no longer take any package for the IBM PC defection is not such a tragedy. After all, it seems to and be sure that it will run with such systems. So be agreed that compatibility is a Good Thing. Itmuch for compatibility. Cover feature: page 93 means that software houses can write for a common Unlike manufacturers such as Apricot who con- PUBLISHEDbyElectrical -Electronic standard, and so do not have to worry about endlesscentrate purely on micros, IBM has no interest in Press, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, ports and patchings to cope with the alternatives.
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