April 1996




News

Pentium overdrive chips; new Compaq keyboard with inbuilt scanner and Presario 5220; HP PCs with built in colour scanners - Pavilion range; Ascentia J10 and J30; new Elonex P120; Lloyds bank facility for Psion 3a users; Ricoh Fax 880MP and the Toshiba TF461; Boza - Win 95 virus and Hot - new Word virus; Bravo MS-T 6150; ASAP for Win 95 and Win NT and ASAP as add-on for Netscape 2.0; Time Computers complaints; Fujitsu Stylus1000, Texas Micro Hardbody;, Phillips Brilliance 15in, new 15in Golstar monitor and NEC Multisync M500; Canon BJ210 and BJC4100; Compuserve Parental Control, Microsystems Cyber Patrol Internet; Chinon ES3000; Logitech Scanman Color Pro and Colordesk Photo Software; Wordperfect now owned by Corel; Umax Vista S6E and Vista S12; NEC Multispin 6X-Scsi, Phillips 6speed CD-Rom drive; Hayes Accura 288 Message Modem, Smartcom Message Centre LE, USR V34 Sportster Vi; Microvitec Proteus 26V; Comdex UK; price cuts of NEC Versa 4000, TI Extensa, Toshiba Satellite 100CS; Butterfly keyboard; Syquest Syjet; Ass. of British Insurers; Symantec Commsuite 95; Concept rugged keyboard; IMSI Stretchercise; Shamen music on Internet; Mitac pentium notebk; Dr Beth-online GP.

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Up Front reviews

Toshiba Satellite 100CS, IBM PC360 S150; Powerdesk;Mitac Pentium 75; Lexmark OptraE; IBM Thinkpad 760CD; Ray Dream Studio; Corel Photo Paint 6; Husky FC-486 Notebook PC; Ventana Internet Utilities; T I Travelmate 5200; Toplevel Fastforms; Pagewiz; Corel Print House; Serif Pageplus; PAYE Master for Windows.

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In Brief reviews

Inside Information for Win; AA Hotel and Restaurant Guide; America Online UK; Deltascan Computer to Video Converter; The Driving Test: Your License to Drive; Grey Cell Systems v34 Gold Card; Hercules Graphite Terminator 64/video; Internet Mania; Multimedia Picture Album; Onyx Filling Station; VCI Pro Publisher.

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Mac or PC?

IBM Aptiva 921; Compaq Presario 5520; Elonex PC 5133/1; Toshiba Satellite Pro 400cs; Apple Performa 630; Apple Performa 5200 Plus; Apple Power Mac 7500; Apple Powerbook 5300cs

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Spreadsheets

Lotus 123 r5; Excel 5; Cleansheet v1.53; Quattro Pro for Win 6.0; Supercalc for win 1.0.

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Personal Finance Software

Moneybox for Windows; Money Matters 1.0; MS Money for Win 95; MS Money 4.1 (for Win 95); Money Manager for Win, Personal Edition v5; Psion 3a Money; Quicken CD; Alternatives- Bestbooks 1.1, Instant Accounting 2.0, Quick Books UK3, Tas Books 1.4.

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Inkjet Printers

Mannesmann Tally T7010; Canon BJ30; Olivetti JP70; Canon BJC70; Epson Stylus 820; HP Deskjet 400; Integrex Betajet C; Lexmark 1020; Okijet 2010; Mannesmann Tally T7040; Epson Stylus Color II; HP Deskjet 600; Canon BJC 610; Integrex Colourjet Twin Master; Citizen Printiva 600C.

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Fast Modems

US Robotics Sportster Vi; Psion Dacom Meteor; Netlink Gold; Frontier Viper 28,800; Frontier XL 288E; Accura 288 Message Modem, Compaq 288 Data fax modem; SCM Fax/modem 28.8; MT2834LTI v34; Zoom v341E.

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Question Time

Connecting a CDRom drive to the same IDE cable as the hard disk slows it down?; Not able to load Win 95; MS-DOS games won't run under Win95; Atari emulator; What hardware needed to create a cheap network?; Improving RAM options?; Converting images made with Deluxe Paint III onto a PC; Dsiabling autorun feature in Win 95.

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Computer classes

Personal Finance part2

Modems part1

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After Hours

Destruction Derby; Tilt!; SFPD Homicide: Body In The Bay; Terror TRAX. FAMILY - Schwartz World Cuisine; Emergency Room. PROJECT - Storybook Weaver Deluxe. ONLINE - Wildman Rudeboy; The Times and The Sunday Times; Blade Runner; Galileo spacecraft; Stephen Fry.

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Cover CD

Duke Nukem 3D, Nitemare 3D, Speed Haste, Dogz, Paint shop Pro, Video for Windows.

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Competition

Ricoh Fax 880MP (x2); Corel Xara, Corel Flow, Corel Print House and edutainment titles.

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