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Volume I, Issue No.4 June 28, 1995
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_PC Specs._Basic System Necessities_ System#
I II III
BUS VLB VLB/PCI PCI 486 DX 33 486 DX4-100
Pentium 100 MHzCPU Intel AMD Intel RAM Memory & Hard Drive capacity, respectively 8 megs 8 / 16 megs 16 megs 540 HD 1.2 Gig. 1.2 Gig
Video_ Graphics accelerator card memory capacity 1 meg 2 / 4 megs. 4 megs & up
Floppy drives 3.5 & 5.25 drives
Monitor vertical measurement 14 inch 15 / 17 inch 17 / 21 inch Beyond the basics
CD ROM Drives _ speed of drive 2x 4x 4x / 6x
MultiMedia Telephony cards_fax/modem voice mail , all FM synthesis. ACE 5000 by Best Data Currently 14.4, DSP, softwareupgradeable. Boca Sound Expression 14.4 Great card if you get it towork! FM synthesis. Will accept wavetable upgrade. Phone Blaster by Creative Labs 14.4 upgradeable to 28.8! FM synthesis. Will accept wavetable upgrade.
Wave Table Sound cards Turtle Beach: Montery_Excellent midi, Windows only! Tropez_ Does it all! 717-767-0200 Roland: Roland RAP-10 or Sound Canvas midi sound card.
Speakers _Listen before you leap! Altec Lansing_ Best value & quality! Get the ACS-300,three-way amplified speakers with a subwoofer. 800-258-3288 Acoustic Research Powered Partners #570. Best high-end PCsound, excellent performance, higher price! Bose RoomMates_expensive!
Personal Scanners & OCR Plustek: Page Reader 800 Delrina: WinFax Scanner Visioneer Umax Optical
Character Recognition: Caerre: Omni Page Pro Xerox: TextBridge Calera: WordScan Plus Upcoming
Topics: Computer Select CD by Ziff-DavisPhone Blaster by Creative Labs Plustek: Page Reader 800Delrina: WinFax ScannerWebbing on the InterNet
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