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Practical-Computing NOVEMBER 1986 Volume 9 Issue 11 £1.25 PRACTICAL COMPUTING FOR BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MICROUSERS MACINTOSH & COMPANY HARDWAREApple II GS Amstrad PC -1512 SOFTWAREFontasy PFS First Choice FEATURESComputer crime Dirty electricity PLUSTypesetting from your micro FlexyDisk. 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Your DataSafe Information systems BASF COVER FEATURE Ma,'.5111FLM EMI le 111in 'PRACTICAL OrE SO, 103E1liga cos COMPLTING NOVEMBER 1986 CONTENTS Apple II GS Update for old- COMPAQ DESKPRO 386 timer - page 62 The first of the supermicros using the 80386 chip is here. Steve Malone tests the machine 53 Compaq hopes will hijack the DOS standard AMSTRAD PC -1512 Glyn Moody looks at the micro of the moment. 58 Can it really be worth all the fuss? MACINTOSH & CO APPLE II GS For a long time the idea of an It looks just like a colour Macintosh, but this 62 alternative to the all -conquering 16 -bit arrival will run your old Apple software IBM standard has seemed unlikely. But no longer: not only JUST TEXT is the Apple Macintosh A desk -top publishing program which gives flourishing, but its ideas are you total control over your typesetting being taken up in the world of equipment. Carol Hammond puts it to the test 66 MS-DOS. We look at where the NEWS Mac and its fellow travellers, thePFS FIRST CHOICE Atari and the Amiga, came from HARDWARE NEWS and are going. After an A low-cost integrated package from the 72 The first 80386 micros 13 introduction on page 100, lan authors of the PFS series, tested by Ian Stobie PCW SHOW Stobie reviews the state of the Who did what 14 Mac. On page 110 Steve TELEX ON A PC Malone looks at how the Atari Ian Stobie tries an add-on card that turns a PC SOFTWARE NEWS 74 Prices take a tumble micros are beginning to win a into a full -function telex machine 15 place in the business world. GENERAL NEWS Finally Glyn Moody examines Lotus user support 16 the Amiga and its CRYSTAL 100Susan Curran tries building expert systems the ANALYSIS chances for survival 76 Whither the IBM easy way standard? 21 INSIDE CONCURRENT DOS XM OPEN FILE The sequel to DOS Plus offers full multi-user 81 capabilities. Steve Malone investigates SPREADSHEET TEMPLATE FONTASY Work scheduler 119 For simple work this cheap PC -based desk -top 82BUSINESS publishing package may be just the job STATISTICS Two-way variance COMPUTER CRIME analysis 126 What is it? Who does it? Are you safe? Carol 84 Hammond asks the questions REGULARS SOFTWARE LICENSING EDITORIAL Deskpro 386 Compaq's User power 5 trailblazer - page 53 Anne Staines examines whether the fine print in 86 FEEDBACK your software packages is legally binding Your letters 7 SOFTWARE VARS WORKSHOP The next dealer you meet may be a Value 89 Make the most of DOS 23 Added Reseller. Steve Malone explains CHIP -CHAT CMOS superglue 31 POWER SUPPLIES COMMS LINK Comings and goings 36 Martin Eccles explains how you can protect 90 yourself from dirty electricity ASK PC You ask, we answer 40 BOOKS GRAPHICS CARDS Amstrad applications 47 Confused about MDAs, CGAs and EGAs? TOP 10 Amstrad 1512 Bargain PC Steve Malone casts some light on display 92 Integrated software 97 clone - page 58 technologies PRACTICAL COMPUTING November 1986 3 ELITE. THE NEW DATABASE THAT PARTNERS PEGASUS PERFECTLY... As the UK's No 1 Accounting Software Suite, Pegasus deserves a superb Database Management System. Simple to learn, immensely flexible, fast - and capable of interacting superbly with all your Pegasus figures to produce analyses, reports, mailing lists, selective invoicing, stock lists... an endless variety of tasks. With Elite, you've got it. The essential tool for every business that is serious about getting the most from Pegasus, and from its hardware investment. But that's not all... ...WITH SOMETHING EXTRA UP ITS SLEEVE Some Databases are notorious for their complexity. Elite needs no programming knowledge at all - just a couple of fingers and a clear idea of what you want. Does that mean it lacks facilities? On the contrary. If you want to plumb the furthest reaches of its immense versatility we'll lay on a short training course to show you how. But right from the word go, you'll appreciate its intelligent, user -friendliness. It readily adapts to what YOU want, not the other way. round. Fast, too - Elite doesn't keep you twiddling your thumbs while it laboriously works through a complex calculation or conditional operative. And it doesn't just stop at reading and writing to Pegasus. It can happily chat to a wide range of other MSDOS packages - spreadsheets, word processors, even less versatile databases. With ELITE, you've got one of the most conversationally -gifted Data Management systems on the market. So; if Elite is so ready to talk to you, maybe it's time you talked to us - by filling in the coupon below? We, think you'll really like what you hear. SoSoft Business Systems Ltd 300 Ashley Road, Upper Parkstone, Poole, Dorset. BH14 6AX Telephone: (0202) 735659 SoSoft Business Systems Ltd - Sister company to Pegasus Software Ltd - A Subsidiary of BRIKAT GROUP plc - circle 128 on enquiry card Please send me full details of ELITE and where I can see it at work. I am/am not a Pegasus user. Name Address Company I Position I D -rip RI A EDITORIAL 40141.0-4,X. 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 PLATT'S 01-661 8163 PUBLISHING DIRECTOR SIMON TIMM PRACTICALPOWER TO THE USER COMPUTING The launch of the Amstrad PC -1512has Telecom Gold. Lotus has just announced a semi- brought no dramatic price breakthrough. Theautonomous user club to complement its own on- only new element offered by Alan Sugar'sline service, and other software houses are doubtless latest exercise in astute bundling is respectability. looking at similar ways to encourage a closer rapport Like the three letters "I B M" on the original PC, with the user. the name Amstrad on the front of the machine Users are no longer content to be passive recipients seems, to the mind of the business user, to spellof manufacturers' products.
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