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|THE COMPUTER CATALOG
|SUPPLIES TO MAKE COMPUTING EASIER & MORE FUN!
Please note: Once you have purchased this catalog, we will
automatically send you the latest upgrades to this catalog
ABSOLUTELY FREE each time we update it, approximately once every few
months. There is nothing more you have to do to get it.
We specialize in computer HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE and ACCESSORIES that
we have tested and know to be the best in their categories. You
won't find a huge number of items because, frankly, there aren't
that many products that truly offer the quality and
price/performance that we expect. Therefore, when you order a part,
a program or a system from us, you can rest assured that it will
last a long time and that it will perform as intended. If not, you
will get your money back.
IF YOU DON'T FIND WHAT YOU WANT - GIVE US A CALL! Chances are we
can find it for you at the price you want to pay, whether hardware
or software. AND WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD. WE WILL BEAT ANY
ADVERTISED PRICE - ON ANY COMPUTER PRODUCT.
CATEGORY ONE - HARDWARE
80386/25 & 33 MZ
The best configuration is with 120 MB Hard Drive (We use only
Quantum or Connor Drives, they are faster and the most reliable
of any other hard drive on the market!), VGA Color Monitor,
Trackball or Mouse, 4 MB RAM (runs Windows great), 2400 BD
Fax/Modem, (the best new communications device in years!) 1.2 MB
and 1.4 MB Floppies.
This is the best system on the market today! We use the best
drives and most compatible BIOS and supporting chipsets. We use it
for all our business and personal software. The great thing about a
'386 or '486 is that you can run several programs at once
(multi-tasking) or Network as a server. You can have up to 16
Gigabytes of storage directly accessable in one partition and 64
Megabytes of memory. The speed of these machines is astounding.
We have a 100,000 record database that we can search and/or sort
three or four different ways in less than TWO SECONDS!
We also include about $1,000.00 worth of Free Software that will
help you do just about anything you want, WORD PROCESSING,
DATABASE MANAGEMENT, SPREADSHEET, ACCOUNTING, DESKTOP
PUBLISHING, CAD, MUSIC, GAMES, EDUCATIONAL, ETC. We will even
custom configure the software or hardware so that it will be
best suited to your tasks. It will boot up to a menu system, so
it's the easiest to learn and use.
All our systems come with the latest version of DOS which now allows
us to put all our software on a simple menu that pops up when you
turn on the machine and also has ON-LINE HELP for all commands as
well as many other new features.
Total price as configured .............................. CALL
{prices change constantly}
We promise a price competitive with any other source and with the
added guarantee that our components are SIMPLY THE BEST!
{{{In fact, we GUARANTEE to beat any advertised price on a
similar configuration.}}}
80286/12 configured as above can also be purchased at great savings.
Great home system or for kids in college or Network
workstations.
80486/50 can also be purchased as configured above or customized for
your needs. This machine would be appropriate if you are going to
need it as a central file server in a network. It's way too
powerful for home use or single-user applications. At the current
time, a '386 is the best choice for any single user application
because the price performance ratio is the highest of any system on
the market today. This catalog is dated mid-1991.
We also have portables that we have designed for use as a Desktop or
portable so that you can take your work to the office or on
vacation.
We use better monitors than most of our competitors so that your
eyes don't go bananas on you. CALL if interested in portables.
Ours are styled in handsome wood cabinets and have 8 expansion slots
unlike most portables that only give you one or two. We can also
put '286, '386 or '486 motherboards in a portable and custom
configure any other devices such as light pens, fax modems, portable
mouses, even printers etc.
800-228-6324
Call now for a quote! You'll be glad you did.
LASER RE-WRITE Floppies are now available. They are great for
companies with large databases. Each laser disk holds over 100 MB
of Data and is removable providing the user with unlimited reliable
storage of information and programs. They are also very useful for
home computers because they can provide the home user with useful
information that would not normally fit on a typical hard drive. And
they can hold plenty of graphics so the products like Encyclopedias
and large multi-media packages are now available.
And the prices are extremely low FINALLY!
Custom Portables as low as $800.00
Notebook computers and laptops are also getting better and better in
the price performance ratio. Call us if you need small computing
systems. We can even put a small computer AND A PRINTER inside a
briefcase today. These are even more powerful when you consider
computing on the road and then getting information from your desktop
computer via the phone lines. This is great fun and now as easy as
eating a bag of potato chips. (Bet you can't eat just one.)
NETWORKING
As we prepared this catalog there are basically three computer
network standards developing out there. Novell is the largest
installed base, Unix or Zenix is second and peer-to-peer systems
like Lantastic is third. Each one is best-suited for different
kinds of offices. Novell or Unix is the best choice where there is
a large corporation with hundreds of computers of different makes
and where there may be a need to interface with a Mainframe or Mini
computer.
Peer-to-Peer systems are the best choice when there is a small
office of, say, attorneys or property managers, contractors,
architects, real estate people, distributers, retailers, or any
other kind of small business where there is less than 20 or 30
computers that may need to be networked. Lantastic is less
expensive than Novell and is simpler to operate and maintain and it
has a new Windows front end that makes it much more enjoyable and
productive for most people because it will be able to utilize the
all the wonderful Windows based programs on the market, whereas
Novell cannot at the present.
With all networks you can also use E-mail to communicate with
everyone in the company. You can co-ordinate your calendars,
brainstorm, plan meetings, and most importantly break the work
load down so that you use your computers more efficiently. You
can also work in teams or work groups and there will be new
software coming that helps you to work in this way. NETWORKS
ARE DEFINITELY THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE! If you network, you will
find, you are saving money on software purchases and you are
distributing the work around the office more effectively. Your
company can thrive with a Network IF THE NETWORK HARDWARE AND
SOFTWARE IS CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR USE.
Many of our customers have been able to cut their payroll by
several people and actually increase productivity by installing
a network. The key is having the right network and database
management software and communications software for your
business! We can guarantee that you will have the correct
network. We never sell something we don't think you need.
\\\ THERE ARE SEVERAL BENEFITS OF BUYING A NETWORK INSTALLATION FROM
US. ///
1. If you purchase a network from us, we will train, install,
and give you a maintenance agreement so that if anything goes
wrong, we will fix it within 24 hours. This kind of service is
very important with a network because your entire company can
become dependent on one product that might cost only 100.00 but
which has failed. We will find out what it is and fix it within
24 hours no matter what it is. No one else can offer all this.
2. All of our networks are bundled with financial software that
will pay for the system. We include a program that can show you
how to make 20% - 30% per year in the stock market with no risk.
We include a financial calculator that will help you analyze any
kind of Real Estate Investment. And we provide you with several
databases of information that will allow you to manage your
personal or business portfolio better than any broker or agent
can do for you and without commissions. We have a database of
650 government agencies that will help you find financing,
consult with you on any topic, arrange import/export licenses,
etc. We give you a database of all the AT&T toll free listings
in the country so you and anyone on the network will save money
on phone bills. Several other databases are in process. By the
time you review this catalog we will probably have added more
software that will allow your computer or computer network to
pay for itself in a few months. If you manage your retirement
funds and you want to retire a millionaire early in life, or if
you want to become financially independenet in Real Estate,
buying a computer or network from us will help get you there.
3. We also include software that will keep the information on
your network secure. Networks do much for a business, but they
can also provide you with a problem. Suddenly, everyone in your
company has access to your private files. (Some of the personal
financial information in the previous section, for instance.) To
solve this problem we include security software that makes it
impossible for anyone to read any of your private files, unless
you allow them to. And we also include Virus protection
software that will prevent any of your employees from attempting
to load software onto the Network that has not been approved by
you and which has not been virus checked.
We are the only Network consultants who do all this to ensure
that your business will run smoothly and efficiently after
installing our network.
4. We also are one of the very few companies who can customize
a database management program for your industry. There is a new
wave of database management software called CLIENT/SERVER
databases that makes your network function far more efficiently.
Most software on the market today does not utilize CLIENT/SERVER
technology which means that they use an older method of
multi-user programming which is slower and not as reliable as
CLIENT/SERVER BASED APPLICATIONS. Unless you are using
Client/server programs, you are wasting a great deal of your
companies time as people duplicate their efforts and lose files
because of the complexity of the network.
A customized database management program solves all of this
confusion as everyone has access to the same - AND MOST CURRENT
- INFORMATION.
We at THE CUTTING EDGE, specialize in customizing database
management systems that will allow your company to grow without
losing your investment in your software. With products like Oracle
and Foxpro and Q&A. So, if we develop something for
you today, it will be easy to transfer this program to any other
computer that you might buy, from Macintoshes to Mainframes.
Another advantage of customized Database management software is that
you can modify it yourself because it is so much easier today and
this means your system can grow as your knowledge grows. Also, you
can now set up these systems so that they mimic your current
paperwork so that your people are quickly and easily trained on the
new system. In other words, all the data entry screens on the
computer can look exactly like the forms that you now use.
WE CAN INSTALL, TRAIN, AND EVEN MAINTAIN YOUR NETWORK FOR YOU
OVER THE PHONE LINES. ALL FOR $100.00 / MO AND UP, DEPENDING ON
YOUR NEEDS!!!
WE ARE THE ONLY COMPUTER COMPANY THAT WE KNOW OF THAT CAN DO ALL
THIS!!!
This is what we do best at The Cutting Edge. Give us a chance to
prove that we can save you lots of money and make you more
productive! This means that everything you're now doing on paper can
be handled by the Network database system, except that you can get
information out of the system much easier than with any manual
system. This saves you sleepless nights and will make your company
more competitive. Many major corporations today are actually
getting rid of their Mainframes and going to Networks. A '386 and
especially '486 PC's are more powerful than many Mainframes costing
in the millions of dollars. So, you can imagine what can be done
when you Network them!
So, give us a call if you're interested in networks. Prices can
only be quoted when we get a better idea of what you want to
accomplish. We are the best source for networks because we use them
ourselves everyday, know how to train your people and can give
support if something goes wrong with either hardware or software -
an advantage few of our competitors can match.
Let us customize a system for you.
CATEGORY TWO - ACCESSORIES
MODEMS &
FAX/MODEM
Send and receive Faxes in your computer! AND communicate with
Compuserve or all other BBS's with a 2400 BD Modem. We include all
software necessary that makes it easy to use!
Today, there are many input devices like light pens, wireless
mouses, microphones, even video camera interfaces. Call us if you
have a need for anything like this.
FROM ONLY ABOUT $99.00 .... PRICES VARY
MOUSES & TRACKBALLS
Logitech makes the best. Our customers like it better than a mouse
because you don't have to move it around on the desk. We also
include a batch of software to make it compatible with any of your
programs. ABOUT $120.00
There is a new development in the world of faxes and
communications. Now you can use your computer to broadcast to
all your prospects either a fax or voice message, then when your
prospects respond, your PC will send them a faxed brochure thus
saving you thousands of dollars in telemarketing and mailing
costs. We know of a company that uses this method religiously
and has replaced ten telemarketing sales reps with one PC ---
and sales have TRIPLED!
If you have any product that can be mass marketed these new PC
Fax boards are for you. Prices recently dropped from about
$10,000.00 to only $795.00. Call if you have any other needs
along the lines of automated telemarketing.
SCANNERS
Logitech again makes the best. Scan pictures or magazine articles
into your documents, newsletters, flyers etc. Newer technology,
higher resolutions makes the photograph look just like a photograph.
ABOUT $299.00
Logitech has recently introduced a camera that connects to a
serial port on your computer. It uses completely new technology
to take a picture of anything you like and then translates this
picture into a digitized image that you can then import into
your newsletter, documents, letterhead or whatever. At time of
announcement, it was priced at about $800.00. This will
probably go down to the $500.00 price range within a few months.
OCR Software can read the text you scan and puts it into a format
your word processor can read. ABOUT $99.00
We've used these devices alot and it has saved us thousands of hours
in data entry.
MONITORS
If you're getting the itch to upgrade your old mono system, VGA
Color is the way to go, at the moment. We can now get resolutions
that make your computer look like a perfect photograph, with
thousands of colors.
Panasonic makes the best monitor today. It's Multisync so you will
never need another upgrade. Our experience tells us it will last
longer than any other brand. We love Panasonic products. We have
very few complaints with this brand. So, it costs a little more but
worth it.
CALL FOR PRICING.
If you're on a budget VGA Monochrome is my second choice. You get
the resolution of VGA but in a Paper White Monochrome screen. This
is similar to the look of a Macintosh monitor, but a full 14 inches.
about $159.00
We also carry books and training tapes on all major programs. We
carry most every conceivable new hardware device. If you want your
computer to talk, call us. If you want an expert system to help you
in your business decisions, call us. If you want it to read
documents like magazines and newspapers and put the contents into
your word processor, call us. If you want to automate your business
call us. If you need battery backup or a portable or a program that
will let you publish a beautiful brochure, call us. If you want to
use a pen instead of a keyboard to input your data, call us. If you
want to talk into a microphone instead of typing on a keyboard, call
us.
We at the Cutting Edge are dedicated to finding new ways of using
computers so that our lives are easier and our work more enjoyable!
Give us a chance to prove it.
CATEGORY THREE - SOFTWARE
At THE CUTTING EDGE, we operate a little differently than our
competitors. We only sell software that we have used and tested
ourselves, AND FOUND TO BE THE BEST AND MOST COST EFFECTIVE!.
We do this because we find that there is a great deal of
software that makes a good story, but when you actually look at
it and use it, it does not deliver the goods as well as another
program in the same categor. There are basically only a few
dozen categories of programs and yet there are thousands of
programs. Therefore, we have found that there are only a few
best choices in each category. These are the ones that we sell.
In the following categories, we have listed software that we
consider to be the best, not necessarily the cheapest. But for your
budget consideration we break it down into the best program in each
price range. This way you know that you're getting the best program
for the money that you can afford to spend.
WORD PROCESSING
The best currently is Wordperfect, Microsoft Word and Symantec's
Just Write. They all run under Windows, which makes it the
easiest to learn and operate and it also does most functions
traditionally found in Desktop Publishing programs.
If you just want to write a novel and nothing more, the next best is
the Norton Editor. About $100.00
DATA BASE MANAGERS
If you're going to be keeping a list of video tapes or something
like that for the home, use a simple program like Zoom-Racks or
PC-File. Only about $10.00. These produce simple rolodex cards on
the screen for easy data entry and lookup. And they do a few other
things as well. Zoomracks will even automatically dial a customer
or prospect for you if you have a modem attached to your computer.
If you need to keep track of inventory and sales and payroll and
other business information, use Q&A. It's the easiest of all
database managers on the market to learn and use. Only about
$300.00. The new version is even relational and replaces many of
the high end database managers like Ashton Tate's Dbase series.
If you need something very robust and powerful and you have some
knowledge of programming, nothing on the market today is as easy and
yet powerful as FoxPro 2.0. This is a fantastic new program that
lets anyone design a very complex database management system with
only a basic knowledge of computer logic, NOT PROGRAMMING. With
this exciting new product, all you have to have is a logical mind
and a good idea of what you want to accomplish. This product
allows you to create your own menu system and each menu choice can
do whatever you want. It's the best right now, costs a bit more
than Q&A, but does a bit more, so it's worth it. About - $600.00
If you need a corporate CLIENT SERVER application for a Network,
Oracle Server is the best because of the simplicity of designing
programs and yet the power is there to satisfy all departments of a
corporation. About $1500.00 AND YOU NEED ACCESSORY
PROGRAMS such as DDE exchange and the Windows front end. About
$300.00 each.
WE SPECIALIZE IN CUSTOMIZING DATABASE MANAGERS TO DO WHAT YOU
WANT THEM TO DO FAST, EASILY AND INEXPENSIVELY.
SPREADSHEETS
The best spreadsheet of all time is Microsoft Excel. It has some
automatic formula techniques that are dynamite. Plus, since it's a
Windows based program, it is the easiest to learn and use and MORE
IMPORTANTLY, you can cut and paste parts of your spreadsheet into
your word processor with a few clicks of the mouse or trackball.
It's also the best graphing program. Highlight a portion of your
spreadsheet, click on the graph button on the menu bar and it
produces the graph for you. It's that simple! I love this program
and use it all the time. It has no bugs, a great tutorial, and it
even outlines for you so that you can expand or collapse any portion
of your spreadsheet for presentations to customers or associates.
It's about $400.00
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
If you don't have Windows, you should get it! You need to have a
'286 or above with at least 2 MB of RAM. We prefer putting it into
a system with 4 MB RAM. This is because it actually allows you to
EASILY AND WITHOUT CONFLICTS run several programs AT THE SAME TIME.
It also lets you do things you never thought possible with just a
few clicks of your mouse or trackball. Windows is a must for people
or companies that want to get the most out of their computers.
There are now hundreds of programs written for Windows and together
they make a wonderful and very useful tool out of a PC. If you have
never seen Windows demonstrated, Call us and we'll send you a
demonstration diskette for $10.00 which tells the full story of
Windows Computing.
{THE NEWEST VERSION 3.1 TAKES CARE OF ALL THE
MINOR PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED SO FAR AND SPEEDS IT UP BY ABOUT TEN
TIMES, SOMETHING VERY NECESSARY. MICROSOFT IS THE BEST AT
KEEPING AHEAD OF THEIR CRITICS! WE WANT TO TIP OUR HATS TO THEM
AT MICROSOFT. WE'VE SEEN ALL MAJOR SOFTWARE HOUSES AND FEW HAVE
THE SAME DEDICATION, LEVEL OF EXPERTISE AND COMMITTMENT TO
EXCELLENCE THAT IS CONSTANTLY DEMONSTRATED AT MICROSOFT.
CONGRATULATIONS FOLKS.}
PROJECT MANAGERS.
THE BEST IS ON-TARGET FROM SYMANTEC. EASY AND QUICK TO LEARN
ACCOUNTING PROGRAMS
. QUICKEN, the latest version prints checks, keeps track
of all your checking accounts in a simple, single entry approach
that you do not need to be an accountant to work with. On the
screen, it looks exactly like a check and check register, so
entering the data is simple. Yet, you can get a P & L and Balance
sheet for your banker. You can do your payroll yourself and save
the money you now pay out to an accountant. You can even have your
checks printed and mailed for you via an electronic service that
charges you per checks you mail. My clients swear by this because
if you print and mail more than 20 or 30 checks per month, this
feature alone will save you lots of time and frustration.
Quicken runs on any PC and there's also a Windows version. Great
program. It wins the award for best program under $100.00 in my
book. About $50.00 NEW VERSION WITH PAYROLL.
Couple Quicken with Turbo Tax and you can actually do your taxes,
complete through to printing up the 1040, all supporting forms, as
well as whatever state you're in IN LESS THAN AN HOUR! I know this
sounds incredible, but I do my taxes in under an hour every year
with Turbo Tax and Quicken because Quicken produces a summary by
category of all my checks and Turbo Tax puts it all into a format
the IRS can accept. In the near future, you'll be sending this data
to the IRS over the phone lines which will get your refund back to
you in half the time, AND ELIMINATE ALL THE FORMS PREPARATION
COMPLETELY. Turbo Tax - About $75.00
Turbo Tax is also the only one I recommend in this category.
It is the simplest to use and the best at printing all the
government forms on either a dot matrix or laser printer.
MAILING LIST MANAGERS
If you don't think about mailing list managers as database managers,
you should. Even if you are mailing out to members of your church,
there will be times when you want to send a special letter to people
who contribute more than $1,000.00 and then you might design a
different letter for people who contribute less than $100.00 and
then another letter for those in between. A database manager sorts
this out for you and prints the labels and merges your letter with
the names and addresses in your database. This is what they do
best.
The best mailing list manager is Q&A because it has all the features
you need to keep track of this list of people, inventory items,
contacts, products, etc. and has the best mail merge utility of all
the others in this category. About $300.00
Windows and Non-windows versions available.
If you're on a tight budget Contact Plus for $10.00 does the same
thing. It's actually an electronic rolodex for ease of use and it
prints labels and handles mail merge almost as easily and
wonderfully as Q&A. I recommend it highly.
It even has an automated follow-up calendar and schedular as well as
a good word processor for mail merge and an autodialer.
EDUCATION
There are now thousands of programs that help children learn. We
have programs available for about $10.00 that will help you study
for the SAT or Graduate exams. There are programs for Math and
sciences at all levels.
There are programs for adults also who want to learn how to write a
screenplay, learn a foreign language, how to play a musical
instrument, or learn how to build a house. Prices for these kinds of
programs vary widely so, if there's something you want to learn,
give us a call and we'll find it for you.
ENTERTAINMENT
The same invitation applies to entertainment. We have arcade style
games like Space Rescue or Shooting Gallery as well as Board games
like Monopoly, Chess, Bingo as well as games that emulate the adult
games found in Las Vegas or Reno. I personally love to play with
Blackjack games because this has actually helped me learn how to
win, most of the time, at the real thing. It's true. I never lose
now, and most of the time, I go away from the Blackjack tables with
a couple hundred dollars of the casino's money. So, don't tell me
computers can't be fun and profitable!
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
If you are an investor using the stock market, commodity market,
real estate market to increase your Net Worth, you should use your
computer to help you make buying and selling decisions.
COMMUNICATIONS
The best communications program for Windows comes free with Windows.
The Windows Terminal program is even easier to use than Procomm and
has all their features with the added convenience of being a mouse
driven windows program so all the cut and paste operations and
communication with all other Windows programs is available. Windows
is about $150.00. You can find it cheaper, but in our version we
include several dozen programs that are designed for Windows that
make it even more productive.
Close up is our next favorite and is the best if you want to
work out of your home and communicate with the computer or
network at an office somewhere. With Close-Up you can actually
take over control of the other computer anywhere in the world as
long as they both have a copy of Close up installed. It's
great. Works fine and is very easy to learn. Menu driven.
Well, if you've read through our catalog, you now realize that we
provide the greatest amount of expertise of any other hardware or
software vendor. This is because we have reviewed all the major
software currently available and thoroughly tested it for
compatibility, reliability, EASE OF USE, and performance! We don't
waste your time with software that we have found to be full of bugs
or lacking in some other way, such as support or availability of
training materials.
From years of working with our customers we know that there is a
wide range of abilities out there when it comes to computer use, but
we have found that MOST PEOPLE DO NOT USE THEIR COMPUTERS AS
EFFICIENTLY as they would like. Because of lack of knowledge or
lack of confidence, many people use their computers for one or two
things and don't realize that it can be used for so many other uses
that can greatly simplify and organize their lives.
Thank you for shopping with us and AGAIN, if you DID NOT FIND what
you wanted, please don't hesitate to call. I promise you won't get
one of those automated phone systems!
The Cutting Edge
1-800-228-6324
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