Buying your first computer in the holiday guide
TechnoFile guides first time buyers through choosing between PC and Macintosh, stressing local shopping, avoiding low quality brands, and balancing use, speed, memory, monitor size, and modem features with price ranges from 1400 to 1800 dollars. It advises at least 16MB RAM, 2MB video RAM, 15–17 inch monitors, 4X–6X CD-ROMs, and 28.8kbps modems, with future topics on printers to follow.
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AutoClock Mac shareware improves time drift and DST fixes
A reader praises AutoClock for Mac as a better setting tool that not only corrects the clock but also displays correction readings, compensates for drift, and adjusts for daylight saving twice a year. The feature set and accessibility via Mac file servers are noted, with latest version autoclock144.cpthqx mentioned. Another letter asks about an older VCR causing dark video on a Zenith TV input. expert reply blames the old VCR’s video output jack with a repair cost around half a new unit. See DA. GIZMO PAGE 15
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