Oct 1996




News

Netscape Navigator 3 vs MS Internet Explorer 3; Psion 3c and Siena; Hare virus; new MS home titles; new Presarios; new Performas; IBM PC's 15th birthday Up Front: Psion Series 3c & Siena; Packard Bell Executive 916D; Goldmine Win 95; HP Omnibook 5500CT; Paint Shop Pro 4; Toshiba Portege 620CT; IMSI Windelete 3; Kodak DC20; Dell Dimension XPS 200S; Autoroute Express for 3a vs Philips Routefinder; ModemBlaster Voice; Xerox Textbridge Pro 96

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Up Front reviews

US Robotics Pilot 1000 and 5000;Sound Blaster Multimedia Family 32 8X; Casio QV-10A; Diamond Stealth 3D 2000; Number 9FX Reality 332; Helix Hurricane 2.0; Corel WordPerfect Suite for Windows 3.1x; Mitac 5024; Hotmetal Pro 3.0; ImagePals 2.0; Epson Stylus Colour 500; Plasmon CDR4240; HP Pavilion 7130P; Dotlink Ruby-133; Miromedia View.

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In Brief reviews

NEC Multisync M500; Norton PC Anywhere 7.5; Panasonic KXL-D740; Comswitch 350e; Xyratek MaxIT; ATI 3D Xpression with TV tuner; Goldstar Studioworks 78i; Grey Cell 3400 V34 modem/ethernet PC card; Tel-Me v3; Agent 95; Roland PMA-5

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Reference Software

British Encyclopaedia; Compton's; Encarta; Britannica; Grolier; Hutchinson; Webster's; 3D Atlas; All-Movie Guide; Art Gallery; Autoroute; Chambers; Cinemania; Collins Cobuild etc; Corel Super 10 Ref; Oxford Compendium etc; etc [PW]

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Family PCs

Carrera Panther; Gateway P5-133[R]; Mesh Genius 133 Connect [BB]; Olivetti Xana; PC Science MM Workstation; Tag Technology Tag Media P5-133; Tatung TCS-5900; Viglen Contender ES P5/133 [JP]

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Mid-price notebooks

Opti Calibre 753; CTX ExBook Gold; Olivetti Echos P100E [R]; NEC Versa 4000C; Pico Mobile Professional; Rock Virtuoso; Ergo Triathlon [BB] [DB]

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Budget lasers

Brother HL-730 [BB]; Canon LBP460; Epson EPL5500W; Fujitsu Print Partner 10 [R]; HE Laserjet 5L; Kyocera FS-400; MT T9108; Oki OL600EX; Panasonic KX-P6500; Xerox Docuprint 4508 [SC]

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CD-Rom drives (mostly 8x)

Aztech Zeta 8x; Creative CD820E [BB]; Goldstar GCD-R580B [R]; Hitachi CDR-7930; Mitsumi FX810; Samsung SCR-830; Teac CD-58E-002; Wearnes CDD-820; Chase DISQ; NEC CDR-512; Sony Discman [PW]

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Computer Class

Upgrading to multimedia [PW]

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Question Time

File Manager problems; curtailed icon names; zooming in Excel; summing rows or columns in Word; how to get a pound sign in Win 95

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After Hours

Monty Python & the Holy Grail; Return of Arcade; Baku Baku; Catz; Pooh & the Honey Tree; Dracula's Sectret; The Times; After Hours On-Line Special: the best way to search the web

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Cover CD

Oxford Children's Encycl; Print Shop Deluxe; 3 Skulls of the Toltecs; Fire Fight; Quake v1.01; 3 novels; etc

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Competition

3 Canon Multipass 10 fax-scanner-copiers; 15 Print Shop Deluxe .

Books


Competition

Net-Head Handbook; Idiot's Guide to PCs; Using WordPerfect 6.1 Win .


Comment

Wendy Grossman on net PCs .

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