1-408-423-8580 ... NATIONAL ON-SITE SERVICE AVAILABLE FOR ONLY $100.00/YR!
We can sell you the fastest system on the market today with starter software so that you can get up and running in any application right away for as little as $1,000.00 with large and fastest harddrive, vga monitor, trackball or mouse, and customized for any business you may be in.
WE HAVE MOTHERBOARDS FOR AS LITTLE AS $300.00 PERHAPS THE BEST AND FASTEST KIND OF UPGRADE YOU CAN MAKE! We also carry a full line of software and specialize in HARD-TO-FIND SOFTWARE. Call us if you don't want to pay top dollar or you're looking for a way to do something. We have the expertise to help you. Few others can match our service.
A short list of products we carry at bargain prices.
1. MULTI MEDIA PRODUCTS SUCH AS SOUND CARDS, VIDEO CARDS,
THE BEST IS CDPC XL A SINGLE UNIT INCLUDING SPEAKERS.
2. VIDEO ACCELERATOR CARDS SUCH AS PARADISE, STB, STEALTH ETC.
3. HARD DRIVES UP TO 1.2 GIGABYTES.
4. VESA LOCAL BUS PRODUCTS INCLUDING MOTHERBOARDS, VIDEO CARDS, HARD DRIVE CONTROLLERS.
5. SCANNERS, FOTOMAN, TRACKBALLS, MOUSES, VIDEO CAPTURE BOARDS.
6. JUST ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE.
We also have the best prices on Notebooks & LapTops. You will see them advertised for $1,500 and up while we have similar systems starting at $1,000 and up.... generally you'll save around 50% of your money on a good Laptop of Notebook computer.
We have the highest quality '386 and '486 IBM compatible computers on the market today. We also have the best prices. And all of our systems come with INTEL processors and Microsoft Windows, the latest version, already installed and optimized for your system.
Call around, get your best price on any system and then call us. We guarantee to beat the price by at least 10% or we'll pay for the call. Our systems have been tested and burned in to give you the highest degree of confidence and reliability. We also mix and match components that we know are of the highest quality, such as Quantum hardrives, the only drive we sell. We use the best motherboards we can find. We use the best floppy drives and we know the best in any component category you can name because we review them all for this magazine. We can customize for any type of business, because we sell to them all and we know the key issues for your business needs. Many other mail order company uses people who are hired right off the street and who usually know very little about the computers they are selling. We are experts trained in business and computer engineering.
Furthermore, we can put together any combination of things so that your system will work properly right out of the box and do what you want it to do, or your money back. We have the technical knowledge to insure that all components work in harmoney with each other.
There is no one in the country today who knows more about the Personal Computer than we do. You may want to combine the PC and large-screen Home Entertainment System. We can put it together for you. Or maybe you want to edit your home videos on your PC. We can put that together too. Or perhaps you want a PC to run your store or business. We can do that too.
Prices fluctuate but right now, they are at an historic low.
It's a great time to buy a '486 because Intel has lowered their prices to the OEM market because of stiff competition from AMD and others.
We also carry Zenith portables and notebook computers because they are currently much better than anything else on the market. Their new battery technology, the Achilles' heel of the portables, last twice as long as any other make. They also have new systems with docking stations so that you can carry around just enough hardware to get the job done on the road and then when you get back to the office, you dock into the equivalent of a desktop monitor and hard drive. A very new and fantastic idea. Prices vary to give us a call with your needs...
IF YOU HAVE A SON, DAUGHTER, NEPHEW OR NIECE GOING OFF TO COLLEGE, A NOTEBOOK COMPUTER AND A TYPING PROGRAM, IS PROBABLY THE BEST AND MOST PRODUCTIVE GIFT YOU COULD GIVE.
We include a typing tutor program with every computer sale. Why? Because someone in your family will not know how to type and unless you know how to type, you do not get the best use out of a computer.
We also include operating system and $1,000.00 of free software to each and every new computer buyer, all great programs for entertainment, word processing, accounting, database etc. No one else gives you this much.
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<<<<<<<<<<<< ADD-ON BOARDS >>>>>>>>>>>>
Best-Add-On boards are ... Video boards with on-board processor to speed up Windows. Ethernet Network cards with Microsoft Windows for Workgroups, takes all the complexity out of Networking and brings you E-mail, groupware, printer & directory sharing. Video Blaster to capture TV or VCR signals and cut and paste pix into your Newsletter, documents whatever, even playback the Video in documents you send to others on THEIR MACHINE. All they need is Video For Windows from Microsoft.
WHEN YOU THINK OF UP-GRADING YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, PROBABLY THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND IS THE MONITOR RESOLUTION.
The best card available today is a brand new accelorator card fromPARADISE. It gives you 1024 X 768 & 16000 colors for as low as $130.00. EVEN BETTER, IT WILL ALSO ACCELORATE WINDOWS UP TO 31 TIMES FASTER THAN VGA CARDS IN ITS PRICE RANGE OR HIGHER. It's new. IT'S THE BEST BUY OF ALL THE NEW ACCELORATOR CARDS.
CALL BECAUSE PRICES ALWAYS KEEP GOING DOWN.
To give you an idea, we found it faster than the ATI ULTRA GRAPHICS PLUS card that sells for nearly $500.00! Enough said?
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You can do almost anything with a personal computer nowadays if you can find the right add-on board. You can upgrade your monitor. You can add voice recognition. You can add speech to your computer so that it will talk out loud to you and respond to your every commands. You can network with other computers and share resources. You can take in video signals. You can add memory or drives.
The most useful kind of add-on boards we can think of are:
IDE CACHE controllers. This will speed up your '286, '386 or even '486 computer more than any other single device you can buy. Your computer needs to transfer data between the system memory and the hard drive all the time you are using it. This speed of transfer is what determines how fast your computer feels. Most Quantum Hard Drives that we use transfer data over the conventional controller cable at nearly one MB per second. This is twice as fast as most other drives on the market, mainly because Quantum is the leader in building a cache memory right on board the hard drive. But even this may still seem sluggish when compared with a disk caching controller.
Why? Because a disk-caching controller can have up to 32 MB of RAM on it so that you have several time more caching and therefore several times the data transer speed.
If you already have a hard drive that you are happy with but the waiting is driving you nuts, then you should try a faster Controller Card. There are some new controller cards with diskcaches built on as big as 8MB and they transfer data faster than most main fraimes, up to 5 or even 10 MB/sec. This is an incredible transfer rate, but it's possible because of read and write memory that is dedicated to the data that passes between the hard drive and the CPU, the most intensive part of the computer and the reason why some of them seem slow. This is a small investment to get this kind of speed increase. The boards start at about $150. but you'll want to put a couple MB's of memory on them to make them do their thing.
Another great add-on is the FAX MODEM discussed in the communications section.
Probably the fastest growing area of upgrading is the video board. You might be stuck with a monochrome board or a low-resolution color card. If that's the case you want to look into HI-RES VGA or even XGA cards. The best in the field come from ATI. Ranging in price from $89.00 to over $500.00, the video card for you comes from ATI. They are reliable, fast. WE LIKE THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE THE MOST COMPATIBLE WITH ALL THE MULTI-MEDIA PRODUCTS THAT YOU MIGHT WANT IN THE FUTURE SUCH AS CD-ROMS, MONITORS, VIDEO CARDS, ETC.
THE ATI INTEGRA IS A GREAT INEXPENSIVE CARD WITH INTERLACED OR NON-INTERLACED, 1024 X 768 RESOLUTION AND EVEN 256 COLORS AT 640 X 480. THE DRIVER SUPPORTS OVER 100 SOFTWARE PACKAGES.
ONLY $89.00
THE VGA WONDER XL IS THE NEXT ONE WE REALLY LIKE AT ABOUT $150.00 1 MB OR MEMORY. VERY FAST FOR WINDOWS AND 32,000 COLORS EVEN AT 800 X 600 RESOLUTION.
Many people are adding a Network card to their computer so that they can share the laser printer at work. Of course if that's the only reason you want to network, you should consider a simple serial or parallel cabling system that will allow for several people to share the printer at one time.
If you still want to network, you want to look into Lantastic. It's the best for ease of use and you don't need to hire someone to keep the network running. With any other brand of network, you're going to have to hire someone either full time, or devote an employee to doing it part time, or to contract an outside service company. None of this is necessary with Lantastic. It's a much easier system to administer and can even be installed over the phone. We do it all the time. Novell, the other major player in this field cannot be installed by anyone less than an expert and can never be done over the phone.
If you're thinking about a Network, you had better consult us first. We are the experts. We manage hundreds of networks around the country over the phone lines. Perhaps you'd like us to do the same for you. If you hire us, you have a consulting service who can take your company anywhere you want it to go. This is not offered by any other company in the country today.
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<<<<<<< MULTIMEDIA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
BEST-BUY is the Microsoft Sound System for Windows. It has all the features of all the others, plus it includes a microphone so that you can talk to your computer and give it a few dozen commands by voice. It also has a 16 bit sound system, so that sound quality is the same as CD Audio. If you were thinking of buying a new CD Audio box and connecting it to your stereo. Stop and consider a computer upgrade that will also upgrade your stereo system. Why have two CD-Audio systems in your home or business. The main advantage, however, is the sound it gives your computer with the new multi-media programs coming out. This one included. We will add sound soon!
And now we have found a second source for all these features. It's from Mouse Systems, the people that have been making one of the best Mouse devices for years has just introduced a board with the same specs as the Microsoft Board. It has a microphone and comes with speakers and you can even translate text on screen into speech so that you can have documents read back to you by the computer for proof-reading or for just getting a sense of the sound of things. It's a terrific bargain. Will work with all sound standards and will work with any CD ROM drive. Call...
Second on your list should be the Video Blaster Board from Creative Labs. It adds a whole new dimension to your computer system. With it and a television or VCR or Camcorder, you can watch any Video or TV program or your own movies in a little Window within Windows so that you can work on your spreadsheet or letters at the same time. It's incredible resolution. Looks as good as any TV and it has a button for freezing the frame and then cutting and pasting to any Windows Application. It works great. Very easy installation. Great manual. But so easy to use you don't need one.
Only about $350.00
We also have a second source with the same features as Video Blaster as above, but it also adds a little remote control device to your screen that can pop up and allow you to change channels or even adjust the volume on your TV from your computer. How do they do that? Only about $350.00
Well, the tiny little 50 CENT SPEAKER inside your PC is not any good any more because you want to be able to hear CD quality sound from applications such as this one. And you may want to watch the news or an internal video on your computer while you work. Well, now you can do all those things with ADD-IN BOARDS and the best we've seen and tested is the Ultra Sound Spectrum 16 from Media Vision. It comes with an automatic install program that will tell you of any conflicts with any other boards in your machine. This is something that should be emulated by every board manufacturer to alleviate the headaches of installing a new product. It has the best sound around for the money and there is a beautiful Windows push-button control program for editing and altering the sounds.
THE BEST VIDEO BOARD ...
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Recently, Creative Labs has come out with a video add-in board for about $350 which allows the computer user to watch a TV window of any size on his VGA monitor. More importantly, it allows the user to capture or grab any of the pictures from his video source, could be a vcr, a laser disc, a video camera, or even a security camera and copy it quickly and easily to any other Windows application. Imagine being able to quickly view a picture of your customers with your video camera and copy it neatly and quickly to your database program so that you have a record of the customers, vital data and a picture too! That's what Multi-Media is all about. Also included is a compression program so that you can get a Megabyte file compressed down to about 50 Kilobytes, thus saving disk space. They tell us in the near future compression ratios of up to 100 to 1 will be common.
Cardinal Technologies has another great product called Snap Plus that allows for making edits to your VCR via your computer. This would be very useful to anyone interested in making Videos on their home computer system. This will be more thouroughly reviewed in future issues of this magazine. (Please subscribe by clicking on the subscribe button on the front cover.)
Microsoft has recently introduced a great product called Windows Sound System. The Microsoft board even comes with a speech recognition program so that you can command your PC with voice commands. Now, we all know that this is where the PC is headed. No other inexpensive sound board has this feature to my knowledge.
The Microsoft board even comes with a speech recognition program so that you can command your PC with voice commands. Now, we all know that this is where the PC is headed. No other inexpensive sound board has this feature to my knowledge.
In the future, Mircrosoft will come out with improvements to this board, but right now there is no other way to have CD quality sound in your PC and voice recognition for under $300.
IBM also has a new video board which sells for about $500.00 But for my money, I would rather go with the Creative Labs Board because it has the features to connect to almost any other sound board or set of speakers you might want to add later.
Another new product of theirs is a Multi-media upgrade kit that consists of their sound board, software, and a CD ROM drive. This would also be the best upgrade kit because of Creative Labs gigantic head start in this arena. Their customer support is very good and their upgrades into the future will be astounding! This is the best product on the market for a full upgrade to Multi-media and presents the best price to features ratio.
Intel and Microsoft have just announced a new Video Driver for Windows. It allows the user to run full-motion video in your computer even without an add-on board of any kind. Our magazine currently uses the MCI extensions in Windows to accomplish this, but this new driver will work with any board you might buy in the future and allows for video capture as well. We will review this product in future issues. At the time of this writing we have a copy on the way. We'll let you know. Great News for Multi-Media enthusiasts like us.
