Issue 5.7 (April 1987)

Issue scanned by Richard Goulstone
(Many thanks Richard!)

In Volume 5, Issue 7 along with letters, Q+As and classifieds you will find...

• News, gossip and snippets from the industry
• Desktop publishing part 2
  • The cold reality
  • What to look for in a laser printer
• EFTPOS and the evolution of banking
• Lotus lawsuits discussed
• A review of the DEC Vaxmate, a PC-compatible for Decnet networking
• The BBC doomsday project; its New Zealand potential
• A review of the Bondwell 8 laptop
• A review of Dick Smith's Typewrite, a hardware/software combo for teaching keyboard skills
• A review of Ready, Set, Go, a desktop publishing package for the Macintosh
• A review of The Twin. An integrated Lotus 1-2-3-like office package
• A review of MLS Junior, a PC-based version of MLS Professional Accounting System package
• A review of The Apple Macintosh Book
• Musings on notebook sized laptop computers, like the Tandy Model 100 and Brother Portable EP 44
• Uninterruptable power supplies
• Reflections on planning the New Zealand Computer Education Society's National Conference
• Rural Computing - Goat breeding recordkeeping
• Modems explained
• Columns for
  • Apple Macintosh - Regaining market dominance?
  • Spectrovideo - Creating new styles of text
  • Commodore - Adventure games (pt 1)
  • Atari - Speech recognition
  • BBC - Statistical packages
  • MS-DOS - Conditional branching in BATCH files
  • Sanyo - Differences to GW-BASIC
  • Machine language
  • Games

...and the usual collection of classic computer advertisements!

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