Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 if Rife 5r 1385 m Micro world a a on uni Culver Ashton Tate the publisher of base ii and to unbundled that Means it will Divide this multifunction program into component White its unclear which of Wame works five functions word a faces file graphics and communicate be broken the Odd sort the word processing strongest of the cheaper word Star san of cd next addition to the Micro pro family will be a word right the company offers Standard word Star at aim word Star 2000 at unlike Ashton Tate Micro pro int intending to rope users in at a lot frer hoping graduate up to the More pricey the new product is aimed at the office that Only handles several memos or ters a and Doest do a lot of heavy duty document tiny think tank Mountain it looks As if living videotex will come out with an Popup version of think while company officials wont confirm its been said its intended i accomplish the same thing that has in mind to lower the entry Point at which a user May try the living videotex evidently will sell this Junior think tank direct to end users via an 800 rather than through Kay pro profits plunge Solana maker of a line of inexpensive portable suffered a 98 percent drop in its latest quarterly profit to from million a year analysts say Kay pros older computers Are losing their Price advantage against similar Kay pro recently introduced a Low priced desktop Model compatible with the ism pc Trand Art Paible Laptop with a disk drive built j vow i a drawl my by Brian Dallas mor Dallas nervous when Jet of hard disk hard disk which hold lists of have a reputation for requiring gentle and portable computers Arent always the free software including word Star that was thrown in with the computers made them popular working off tight the software world marching to the beat of a drummer and All the hot business software is being macintosh and ism pc Modos operating i v me Auu Caia found in the most gentle Environ Sass 2 Kay pro of this shift has been the appearance of in compatible copies the layout of the which can be Good or your Point of i Hast forgotten its history of free word prot data base communications a Basic Ming language come with the a some Arodd Lotus 123 the machine Are Good compact has been subjected to outfit own t youre considering including from a number of and one of the latest is the Opportunity to test a the Kay pro 16 looks like most for those who May not know of portable computers in its category the company Kay pro the computer holds the disk known for biecbmputetsvthaf1lis6 operating front of the the keyboard two bus a in the trunk of a car and being carried up and Down various nights of stairs and tossed onto different the hard disk continues to run without so much As a Hiccup i wont have time to try my ultimate test of leaving the computer in the hands of the baggage handlers at new Yorks la Guardia but i suspect it would sur Vive As Well As any portable com we software How did the hard disk hold up could get my hands which in the difference Between the Kay pro 16 and most portable in com Patiles becomes obvious when you look for the second disk drive there int and theres no room to add in its mounted inside the is a concerning the Kay pro height at More than 30 you dont want to Carr Chine for Long periods of any within Izard disk is going to have the same Laptop computers such As the data general the Kay pro and the Hewlett Packard portable solve the weight but none of these machines you i find this one Worth a Apple dumps macintosh Al by Carla Lazzareschi los Angeles times Apple com suffering from sluggish has abandoned its macintosh Al formerly Lisa computer and confirmed layoffs of 75 workers at two facilities in Southern the computer maker said it will close its warehouse i and consolidate West coast distribution operations at its Headquarters All 50 workers at one of six Ware houses across the will lose their in Apple acknowledged it had eliminated about 25 jobs at its Garden manufacturing Plant in late March because of increased Auto Lisa end of the line news of the layoffs came just one Day after the company said it would Stop making the macintosh its Topo theline business while Apple has not suffered in the current downturn any More than its competitors it has found prob lems gaining a foothold in the office computer Apple introduced the Lisa in it was a sophisticated but quickly earned a reputation As being too slow and too expensive to serve the general business earlier this hoping to Spur sales and erase unpleasant Apple renamed the Lisa the macintosh Al and Cut its when the changes did not Apple decided to drop the product entire that leaves the company with Only the Basic macintosh Model for the office by Apple expects to Intro Duce a series of Addon macintosh products that will allow it to handle More information in less Bonus game 1 game winners we had four people who circled All fifteen numbers on their Winnipeg free press Bingo card in Bonus game each of the winners won since they Are All Home delivered subscribers their winnings Are doubled to congratulations prof programs fun into science software by Stephen Doig Knight Ridder newspapers Miami even Indiana Jones would have fled the Temple of doom if he had to synthesize his own Nylon rope out of chemicals from cadavers or cure his headaches by making aspirin out of salicylic but those perils and More bedevil those who try synthetic adventure the flask of a new educational computer game written by Michi Gan tech chemistry professor Fred hydrocarbon Nightmare for generations of College science organic chemistry has been a mind numbing hydrocarbon Nightmare of benzene polypeptides and Aro Matic but Williams game is based on the premise that learning with computers should be i get very annoyed with a lot of educational Williams so much of it is just like a turned to the logical labyrinths familiar to computer users from games such As Zork and deadline and such games allow the with Plain English to explore imaginary worlds by using choosing directions to travel and solving one of Williams efforts was an Anatomy game for Junior High students mod eled on fantastic the movie in which a submarine run by doctors is reduced to microscopic size and injected into the body of a dying the which to Williams horror was named adventures in flesh by his pub recently was declared one of the top educational programs of in synthetic the player visits the planet whose inhabitants Are Carbo based organic Early the player finds an orwellian motto on a Temple Wall All atoms Are created equal but Carbon is More equal than the Mission is to find the origin of a spiral Helix of teachers fear police raids Calgary up some Calgary teachers Are worried that their class rooms could be raided for pirating com Puter software says the head of a teacher committee investigating computer Bob Allin says some of his colleagues Are concerned they could be held responsible for any stolen software programs found in their you would be hard pressed to find any computing teacher who has not pirated says who Heads a committee with representatives from All senior High Calgary ramp Are investigating soft Ware piracy in the City and admit there is a problem of software pirating in the but a business education teach says teachers Are caught in a Quan Dary millions of dollars Are being allocated for computer hardware this but the schools have no Money set aside specifically for you go to any High school and youll find kids who Are actively trading pirated programs Back and Forth and says Bruce Bowie of Calgary ramps commercial crime Sec along the the intrepid chemist must visit More than 50 locations with an entourage of chemical natives who can react with each other to produce necessary the Nylon for can Only be made by finding a malodorous Supply of an aptly named chemical first isolated in rotting buried in organs Boot software bestsellers 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