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+ MICRO-UPDATE #23 1987 +
+ by John Brent +
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<<<<<<<<<<<< RUMOURS >>>>>>>>>>>
(1)....The 1987 Canadian Computer
Census (78 pages for $175.00)
showed DEC with 3,853 and IBM
with 3,642 far ahead of
Hewlett-Packard with 864
computers in Canada. Since they
only count computers with OVER
$1000.00 per month rental (or
purchase) value, your micro is
not likely ever going to be
counted!
(1)....The GE Computer Services
Division of CGE is now
Canada-wide distributor for Star
Micronics printers.
(1)....Prime Computer of Canada
claims they will be marketing the
highest performing interactive 3D
graphics workstation available.
It'll be called the PXCL.
(1)....CNCP Telecommunications
and Purolator Courier Ltd. will
jointly market 'LASERCOURIER', a
messaging service to major
Canadian centres. High quality
printed messages go via CNCP's
network to 28 Purolator sites for
delivery in as little as 90
minutes. Canada Post watch out!
(1)....EMJ Data Systems Inc. of
Guelph has been appointed as
national distributor of
Mannesmann Tally printers.
(1)....DEC of Canada will be
producing the new VAX 8250 and
8350 minicomputers at its Kanata,
Ont. plant. 100 new jobs will be
created by this export-oriented
production.
(1)....ESSO is connecting 450
G-CAT terminals from self-service
stations to its host computer in
Toronto. The terminals, made by
Gilbarco in Brockville, will
record pump transactions, do
credit authorization and
print-out the transaction for the
customer with the push of 1
button!
(1)....Rodime Plus Series
hard-disk drives are said to
operate at the fastest access
speed available using an SCSI
interface.
(1)....Control Data Canada is
hoping its new mini, the Cyber
930 which was designed and built
in Mississauga, will compete well
with the new VAX 8350 and 8530 as
well as IBM's 9370, models 60 &
90. The Cyber 930 sells for
'under $100,000'!
<<<<<<<<< HARDWARE >>>>>>>>>>
(1)....ZILOG Inc. has upgraded
the old Z80 eight bit CPU with
the Z280 CMOS version. The Z280
has on-chip cache, memory
management, clock oscillator,
wait state generator and support
for 'burst memory'. The current
version runs at 10 Mhz and will
run existing Z80 software with no
additional development. (A 25 Mhz
version is coming in 1988.. some
'old' CP/M systems may see a
sudden quantum leap in speed with
those installed!)
(1)....IBM has been shipping its
new Model 30 PC with 3.5in. disk
(but not the multiuser operating
system, OS/2) and it is the usual
unexciting offering we have come
to expect from 'Big Blue'. The
screen resolution IS better and
the high end (Models 50, 60 and
80) will have 'micro-channel'
architecture allowing 16 or 32
bits of data I/O to & from the
80286 (or 80386... depending on
model).
<<<<<<<<< SOFTWARE >>>>>>>>>>
(1)....MicroType, an MS-DOS
program from EPSON Canada, is
supposed to produce LASER QUALITY
text on Epson 24 pin dot-matrix
printers. It works with any
wordprocessor that produces ASCII
files.
(1)....University of Alberta
Hospitals are reaping the
benefits of developing
fully-integrated, real-time
software primarily addressing
patient reporting needs. Several
sites in Albera have licenced the
system and L'Hopital du
Sacre-Coeur in Montreal has a
French-language version.
(1)....ISAC 2200 comes on a
plug-in card for IBM PC/XT/AT and
compatible computers and is
designed to prevent unauthorized
access to (or through!) the PC.
If the PC is turned on or reset,
ISAC automatically requests and
checks the user ID and password
BEFORE booting the DOS. Since it
also automatically encrypts ALL
DATA written to disk (and
automatically decrypts data when
read), the data disks are secured
too. It allows for several users
to use the same PC, while
restricting access to those files
for which the user is authorized.
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<<<<<<<< REFERENCES >>>>>>>>>
(1) Data Product News
May 1987