Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Micro world unveils pc 10 f Oronto Commodore Busi Ness machines released two new personal computers last week one aimed at Small Busin esses and the other an upgrade to the company aging c64 Home the pc commodores entry into the Small business is the company first ble incorporating ology acquired from co term of Montreal and used in that company discontinued hyperion co term will receive a Royalty on each pc 10 it will have a suggested retail Price of which includes a 256 k memory and two disk the upgrade to commodores c the Commodore will Cost it will have 128 k memory expandable to 512 k and be Able to run All the programs available for the c64 As Well As programs developed for computers using the operating online phone Book Cygnet technologies plans to go direct to sell its Little Black Cygnet lab is a subset of the phone management software contained in its Cygnet with the Little Black Cygnet is attempting to narrow the Gap Between having separate phone and computer units and hav ing an integrated one that costs at least you dont need a ecosystem to run this lab creates an online directory of names and addresses that you print out and tuck into a leather the Little Black Book comes with the desk prices Tumble Santa Monica Quarter the software House that markets a operating in is expected to announce a lowered version at Codex in desk divides your ism pc scree into windows and lets you Cut and paste data Between apply the called de sgt at one it was going to be named to better Challenge ibis Quarterdeck is dropping the Price on the original desk which requires a hard disk to oper the new desk it will Cost and will run on systems without hard Quarterdeck will sell de sgt direct As Well As through More at clones due san Calif future com the Texas Market research expects two dozen to four dozen ism a compatibles on the Market before after ism introduced its pc in two years passed before the window closed on the Many of the companies but they didst run up nearly the sales they had this the window will snap shut much f 4 1 j Commodore Aims pc 10 at Small businesses c 128 Bottom upgrades the online although theres been a shortage so far of ism ism is ramping up its manufacturing and is liable to be filling much of the demand by the end of the Yean program problems Tokyo software engineers Are in such demand in Japan that corporate headhunting of talented system designers has become com University graduates with a computer background who have taken jobs in their Rural Home towns Are tracked Down by re swamped with a backlog of lucrative software firms Are hiring shortage is an Well take anybody with a Little says a software com Pany ism offers Printer ism launched an extremely aggressive attack recently on the personal computer Printer now dominated by japanese even the do matrix under ibis Label was made by the japanese firm of Epson until ibis new Dot matrix to be made in is a Model that undercuts the Street Price of comparable Jap anese computers by to one observer described several japanese vendors As t a study by Dat quest shows that More than half of the households with computers 51 per cent purchased systems Cost ing More than in november the percentage was 29 per according to the san Jose Market research 27 per cent of the households that plan to buy computers Between March and August of this year prefer compared to 24 per cent for ism and 17 per cent for desktop broker is betting big stakes on its belief that Ander son was the first brokerage to allow mealtime Stock trading via a personal Derek Ander who associated with both is offering to any one who disproves i beginning this Apple is of Fering ranging from to to people who buy Apple he and lie peripherals from authorized t Microsoft press has published online a guide to americas leading information the Book comes with coupons that let you get free Access time on databases such As the source and the Book then serves As a step step tutorial to these schools provide key to Good programs atari launches new 520 St computer Toronto up one Day after Commodore released two new per Sonal archrival atari introduced its latest computer aimed at users in Busi Ness and Home ataris new 520 St will be Avail Able in computer specially stores by the end of said chairman Jack who came from his sunny Headquarters for the launch at a Toronto computer at a time when computer compan ies Are suffering from slumping sales and consumer atari believes its new product will meet a demand for sophisticated but inexpensive the 520 St is what the Public Tramiel this will awaken the whole the new announced earlier this incorporates technology similar to the Apple Macin Tosh in its often called the Mackintosh but is priced lower by Brian starfire Dallas morning news Dallas most Homes run on a tight budget unlike big parents cant spent hundreds of Dol Lars in software and just Hope for the theres an accurate barometer of whats Good and what int schools across the United schools do buy and lots software bestsellers top Selling computer software for week ending May compiled from a National Sample of retail store and rack sales entertainment 1 karate a a Rodermund flight simulator ii sub logic the hitchhikers Ulde to the Galaxy inf com flight simulator Microsoft Saigon Iii Hayden Kings quest Sierra Nune Iii origins systems f1 5 strike Eagle Micro prose Pruce Lee data soft Ockl inf com education new improved master Type scar Borough math Piaster Davidson associates typing Tutor Iii Simon schuster word attack Davidson associates Early games springboard software Reader Rabbit and the fab togs word fac toy the learning company Success with math mattering the sat lbs mind Prober human Edge Othelean Juns com of and school staffs operate with limited so they Are careful when spending Money on teachers form committees and spend weeks studying whats on the Market before deciding to buy particular parents can often save research time by finding out what the local schools Are word processors seem to remain near the top of schools list of prefer red in the primary Broder bunds Bank Street writer has Long been a favorite because of the programs ease of even when Young children Are Apple adds Mac works disk the Canadian press Toronto Apple Canada will Start shipping a 20megabyte hard disk this fall to help its macintosh computer fill the void left by the celled Apple Canada spokes men Apple recently announced it was abandoning the Lisa renamed the macintosh Al after two years of poor software developers decided they wanted to develop programs for the macintosh and not said Apple Canada spokesman Bill Holtz Sierra online Homework is another Well respected package if youre seeking a word processor for the other than word most software for the earlier grades is either specialized for a or is a programming language to teach the basics of the More popular software includes Reading and mat based skill builders such As Davidsons math blaster and word attack Spinnaker software Story a and Charlie Browns abcs by random management print shop Prtrt Ermund shoe Library Andrew Tobias defers and Sunee thy nehmsm w inet Worth Bank Street writer erod paperclip batteries Pfiste t software publishing a program called Mac works offers some Consolation to Lisa Holtzman since it allows Tye Lojsa u run All programs designed for the Lisa was capable of perform ing simultaneous processing that doing More than one Job it Wmk such As editing a document while receiving electronic mail put most users want to to Only one Job at a advertisement i lotto winning numbers Toronto May lotto Jackpot of was carried the six numbers drawn were the Bonus number was there were 6 winners of the second prize of 247 winners of the third prize of each and winners of the fourth prize of each and winners of the fifth prize of next weeks Jackpot is estimated at in the event of discrepancy Between this list and the official winning the latter shall pre the offices of the Manitoba lotteries foundation Are moving on May to a new location at 830 Empress Street r3g 3h3 general office Lucent Long 9494193 order retailer information than that it will retail for including one disk drive and a asked about the products introduced by Commodore one Day ear James atari Vic president of would Only say that Commodore is a major Tramiel founded com Moore and led the company until quitting a year Copland and several other Commodore executives joined Tramiel several months later when he bought Tramiel said at first there will be a shortage of programs that can run on the new but 400 software companies were develop ing programs for it which would Start appearing this he said he believes the current Industry slowdown has been caused by Consumers waiting for More pow Erful but that now people Are ready to free software Sparks concern Knight Ridder newspapers Boca International business machines has started giving retailers free soft Ware with its prompting speculation the mid priced member of the personal computer family is in you certainly dont Start freebies and rebates if your product is Selling said Steve Vic Epresi Dent of Gartner a consulting Cohen said each piece of free which includes both word processing and financial retails for and the last time ism gave away free software was last when it tried to bolster the hapless Kcjr Home ism discontinued the Kcjr last ism denied that the software give away was i at the Junior High and High school things get a Little different the emphasis begins to As classes highlight applications soft Ware such As the programs students might face in the business Low Cost spreadsheets such As i Sicalo and business related pack Ages such As of simile come into More regular also popular among the schools Are programs that teach typing the most popular Are Scarborough sys tems master Type and Simon and Schustern typing Tutor Dominion we Reserve the right 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