Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 11, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 Winnipeg free january Micro world 1000 so boosts Tandy image by Thomas Hayes times news service fort Texas if the Tandy could get enough work would never Stop at its new Plant Here that assembles the company Low Price copy of ibis it personal As it the Plant is Busy churn ing out Tandysh surprisingly successful 1000 so Model 16 hours a five Days a since it became available late the 1000 so has Reaf firmed Tandysh status As a durable contender in the personal com Puter the backlog of unfilled orders for the attractively priced computer is More than 000 units and the retail Price for a Basic 1000 so system including a a and about 000 characters of memory now averages according to a Market research con but Tandy says the Price is More often under a Compa Rable ism it system now costs about and the typical Price of the Strong Selling leading Edge Model d system made by Jaewoo of South Korea is the popularity of the 1000 so has been Way above our anti Cipa John Tandysh chairman and chief i guess that Only Means we dont make the greatest project ions in the analysts anticipate a surge in Tandysh fourth Quarter a Prospect buttressed by the Compa nys recent report that sales of its Domestic retail operations Rose 21 per to in december one of the biggest increases reported by any com Puter retailer in the crucial Christ Mas Tandy is being taken a great Deal More seriously today than a year said Eugene an analyst with Dean Witter Reyn Olds in new they Are Mak ing an amazing in addition to the 1000 Tandy also is having Success with three other in compatible since Tandysh Stock Price has jumped 49 per to a close of 6 its highest level since july and although year end figures Are not info corp estimated Tandysh share of personal computers sold in the first nine months of 1986 at 17 per or third behind the Leader with 26 per and ism with 20 per one reason for the increase in Tandysh Stock according to is the company promis ing position in the growing cellular Telephone another is the drop in the company tax to about 37 per cent from 46 per because of the new tax Law a Boon Tandy will pass on to share holders at the end of january in the form of a cents share quarterly the dividend is the first Tandy has paid since it went Public in the but buyer enthusiasm for the 1000 so is the main cause of Tandysh Stock analysts noting the importance of computers to the company computer products generated nearly or about on third of Tandysh total sales of in its last fiscal which ended june the 1000 Sis fast according to Industry under scores the advantages in Speed and graphics it has Over the ism that they could make Tandy difficult to dislodge at the Low end of the computer ism is expected to focus its new products at the higher on faster machines with larger me a drawling texan with a wry sense of said Tandy hoped to make the Low end of the computer Market unattractive for some with some apparently including analysts say they think whose profit growth has in part because of Price cutting in will not want to pick a fight with Tandy or other makers of i Mclone a the Early Success of the 1000 so demonstrates How effectively Tandysh network of radio Shack retail stores can reach firs time computer As prices for Complete systems continue to decline toward the number of budget conscious Consumers willing to buy a com Puter at a radio Shack store has become an increasingly important Factor in the geos system aids newsletters by Ranjan Bose the and win do based graphic operating system for Commodore was a significant step but its potential and the Promise of further improve ments were even More less than a year after its Berkeley soft works has indeed kept its and their Are other signs of geos activity Berkeley has released a version of geos for the c128 it also has issued a font Library Fontak which adds 20 fonts to the six which come with geos and a disk with utilities which has an icon a Utility for converting High Resolution graphic images produced by other programs to geos a Calen and a Blackjack Berkeley first major program writers is now it expands the word processing capabilities of geos and supports super search and replace keyboard Short and More flexible and sophisticated placing of pictures amidst the these features make it Ideal for publishing newsletters and term it also supports the la ser writer All it needs now is a spelling More packages More packages such As a database manager spreadsheet telecommunication pro Gram and a graph program Geo Chart have been announced and should be appearing on the Market two programmers reference manuals entitled geos from in Side out Abacus and How to get the most out of geos mid night press already Are available and another manual is due soon from Bantam the Bantam manual has been written by the programmers of geos themselves and is Likely to be the most so far As the memory maps and other Decuir Ela Tion most geos users have he w be satisfied in using crack and an upside Down trackball posing As a mouse 1350 s Commodore recently has released a True proportional mouse 1351 which also can work As a Joystick and definitely will be of great use to artists Geo forum Berkeley soft works has Bren sup porting a geos forum of he new quantum link information service and a decent Library of Drivers for printers and input such As Koala pad and and other files submitted by Berke Ley and Geo users can be found quantum link also supports an live Confer ence Between programmers and users of geos for discussing technical issues and for making new a huge programmers manual with memory maps and other information compiled by Joyce s offered As shareware in the data Library of this service and in tiie libraries of Delphi and comp in the Micro Man ill Letin Board system 5894742 also has several of the Geo utilities i its they can be downloaded by a unique and reasonably priced laser writer printing service also is provided by quantum one c n upload a document or Grannie Ere i Tion which is then printed Printer and mailed copies be ordered at the same time of a fraction of the there is considerable amount of activity going on in the lives of geos the next significant Advance will be when the other soft Ware companies now Gauger the popularity of geos join in Anu Start marketing their own Geo Scorpati ble Ranjan Rose is a Winnipeg freelance eos i file edit j option font j tue exquisite huge Spado Geo write permits the use of combinations of text and graphics on the Commodore 64 and ism cuts prices on at personal computers inf tit Vanl Dii Jii trim la Rovt a fill Slac new York International Busi Ness machines has announced reductions in the prices on three models in its personal computer and analysts say the announcement Means the computer giant soon May be unveiling new the Price cuts were said Jay a computer Ana Lyst for Dean Witter Reynolds i think it is significant because it would confirm to people that new products Are on their ism said last week it Cut prices on its pc it Model 286 to us from the pc it Model 089 was Cut to us from and the ism pc at Model 068 was reduced to us from the company ism said the prices Are for direct software that is freely on line distributed and paid for Only when ism card for Apple a firm aptly named the engineering department has been working on an addin Board for the Apple ii family of computers that will let Apple us run Modos the Board is scheduled for Avail ability this year from Dallas based applied which will Market the with 640k ram and an Intel 8086 the Board is basically a pc clone on an Apple no Price has been because Apple ii disk drives Are so an ism orders from the Button lauds removal Jim but author of pc file and pc has applauded the general removal of copy Protection from software in the past in a he said the real heroes in this revolution Are the users who buy any cop protected software soft Ware manufacturers who follow the cop Protection Lead and companies who developed copying its too bad All of these people Arent getting some of the Button a pseudonym for a Belle vue Programmer was one of the pioneers of use supported Type disk drive will be required to run the ism although claims of being Able to run 99 per cent of ism pc software have been bandied the Board is Only a i so its difficult to predict exactly How Well it will work when its pocket Modem due incline i gent plans to begin shipping its docket Modem next a spoke Mai for the company the Hayes com Auto dial Modem measures inches by inches by five it will run for up to 10 hours on an internal nine Volt transistor the spokes Man an a adapter is included in the us Laptop has hard disk Toronto Wang Canada is offering its new Modos Laptop computer with a Builtin 10mega byte hard disk and Thermal the machine comes with 512k Modos and a super twist liquid Crystal display the company also Standard is a Small computer systems interface or Scuzzy port for the machine has no other Builtin disk external floppy drives or Are option other options include or baud 512k expansion and a numeric the base retail is chinese intrigue researchers today run needed for Good test by Brian starfire Dallas morning news Dallas if 1987 finds you own ing a new theres More to using it than unpacking the boxes and throwing away the wrapping give some thought to making sure your system works and will continue to do so in the Many people get a new unpack hurriedly set the machine up and try out a program or then turn it planning to come Back to it in a few Days or fall into this computers and other gear that depends primarily on microelectronics tend to be very reliable once any initial problems Are taken care the Industry has a sad term for this behind the computer engineers refer to it As infant the term recognizes the fact that a Small percent age of new computer hardware will break soon after it is turned if you dont have that new com Puter turned on for you May not discover such a prob Lem until after the 90day warranty has and youre faced with an expensive repair one suggestion to any new com Puter owner is to turn the machine and leave it for two Days or computers Are made to run for Days without any and one that wont deserves to be returned to the manufacturer if your machine comes with any sort of diagnostic test try loading it and seeing if there is any option that lets you run that test Over and owners of ism compatibles in lieu of a diagnostic Load Basic its on one of the disks that came with your once you Are at the Basic re move the Basic insert a formatted disk in the and Type in the following program 10 for x 1 to 2s5 30 next x 40 save 50 run ail this program will do is to place the entire character set on your and then save and rerun the program from doing so will test if not of your pc the processor and screen display circuits will get a and the disk drive will be going most of the time the program after it has run for a few Stop it with the break key and retype lines 40 and 50 As 40 save 50 run then place the disk in drive b assuming your pc has two disk drives and run the program for a few Stop the program and leave your machine on for an other Day or if your computer cant run this sort of program and you cant find any kind of diagnostic disk with the at least leave the machine on for a few if try some operation that results in read ing and writing to the disks every few hours or in computer makers this kind of testing is known As some computer makers dont Burn in machines As Well As doing your own testing May just save you a lot of time and frustration by Walter Sullivan times news service new York scientists in Pek ing say they have produced an Alloy that becomes los ing All resistance to at a temperature so High it would revolutionize the electrical if it would Betow second major superconductivity Advance in a if the peking results can be Duple Robert Cava of Bell laboratories said the world is not going to be the he added it was not yet Clear whether the chinese had demonstrated total loss of electrical on 31 his group and one from the University of Houston both said they have produced alloys that Al most doubled the extremely Low temperatures at which some Materi als become the chinese claim would raise the temperature far close to the level nitrogen could be used achieve the i id bring superconductive reach of numerous pro is involving the transmission of ctr City and the generation of magnetic Energy is lost As electric y through a wire or other f Inductor such losses limit the in Tensity of magnetic Fields that can be generated and increase Energy superconducting materials Al ready Are widely used in com in efforts to harness the fusion reactions of the and in Many other they require far More costly refrigeration systems than those that would be made possible if the chinese report proves if it it could rank As modern chivas first major achievement in experimental superconductivity occurs when one among a variety of materials is cooled almost to absolute Zero the total absence of heat at minus 460 degrees or minus 273 degrees electrical Resis Tance occurs at All but very Low temperatures because atoms in the conducting materials oscillate Over wider and wider thus interfering with the flow of an electrical extremely Low temperatures Are normally expressed in degrees with Zero degrees equal to absolute degree increments in the Kelvin scale Are the same As in the celsius in the the Zero Point is the freezing tempera Ture of water 10 degrees Kel Vin is minus 263 degrees last the ism Zurich re search Laboratory in Switzerland said it had achieved superconductivity at 30 degrees Kelvin m a mixture of Lanthanum and it was the f r v substantial Advance in More thai a dozen years of worldwide since then the University of using the same of has con ii neu1 ism last week Bell laboratories in new Jersey and the University of following up on this new line of reported superconductivity at temperature t 1j and 40 degrees resp v the official i inn news Agency now has that at the Institute of chinese Academy of in peking re searchers have superconductivity at 71 Kelvin minus 203 Degny ct1 s or minus 333 degrees Fah reihe rent it roubles by week no it rent e conf a applicable to up Gure our equips prompt delivery National office 272 main Street my v of i j i ;