More for less: recession-time guide to upgrading your computer
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When upgrading a computer system, users should consider whether they need more speed, capacity, or functionality and whether separate components are less expensive in the long run than a whole new system. Installation of equipment is not terribly difficult but can be performed by a good service department for between $50 and $100 per hour. When planning to work with System 7.0 on the Apple Macintoshes or Windows 3.0 on the IBM PC, users will want better disk drives and random access memory. Replacement of the hard drive may boost performance, as will an improved SCSI controller with a larger memory cache. In the IBM PC market, motherboards can be replaced, but companies offering this service should be investigated prior to installation. In the Mac world, only Apple offers new motherboards, and the prices may turn users toward purchasing a whole new computer. Accelerators can add speed to a system, while coprocessors and graphics accelerators will help improve performance depending on what applications are being run. Floppy disk drives can be made much more powerful with modest investment by quadrupling drive capacity.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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A stellar performance: Per:Form
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Delrina Technology Inc's $259.95 forms program for the PC, Per:Form, is highly recommended for its sophisticated features, excellent forms templates and easy operation. Per:Form allows the user to import and export data saved in comma-delimited format. Forms can be created by tracing a scanned form, using one of the 29 templates or designing from scratch. A 'comb' data area can be created with one command, and a Fill option can be used to designate text fields to be automatically filled in. Objects can be positioned with a mouse or by using menu options, and a single command will line up selected objects. Bit-mapped graphics can be imported in IMG, TIFF, Macpaint and PC Paintbrush formats. The program requires 640K of RAM, one floppy drive and one hard drive, and a graphics card.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1989
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Resolved: that the PC is a better computer than the Mac for desktop publishing
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The PC microcomputer, says this writer, is better than Apple's Macintosh, for desktop publishing. More software packages are available for the PC, for one thing. And for graphics applications, PCs are 'definitely better'. (The writer qualifies his judgement, saying that he is speaking about the old bus - not the new PS-2 models - which he says suffer because they are not compatible with earlier models). Working with PC Pagemaker on an 80386-based machine is comparatively fast. And PC's are advantageous simply because so many people use them, so that publishers can accept files created on them. PC publishing software - Ventura Publisher, for an example - tends to have more features, compared to Mac programs.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1988
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