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Show Business. A-15 WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1997 BUSINESS EDITOR Bruce Lewis 649-9014 ext 1 1 3 mmmm THE PARK RECORD chip shots Shoulder season's busy for PCMR . .1 V.V by Bruce Lewis OF THE RECORD STAFF Standard computer advice: "It depends" It's inevitable. Just as physicians field "Doc, I've got this pain. What should I do..?" questions on the golf course and attorneys get hit with "I'm having this problem with..." queries at social gatherings, I'm a target for advice questions whenever the subject sub-ject of computers arises. Most popular is the "What computer should I buy?" question. It's like asking what kind of car they should purchase. I have borrowed from the attorneys and now start my stock reply with "It depends..." What kind of computer you should buy depends entirely upon what you want to do with it Up until the debut of Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system and a number of updated programs, the first branch in the decision tree was easy. It used to be that Macintosh was the system to buy for graphics and publishing work, or if your child is in school. When the kids graduated, most entered the business world and ran head-on into the IBM-compatible world in offices, warehouses ware-houses and commerce. PC compatibles were the systems to buy if you were doing business work at home. Now the decision is based more upon who you need to connect with rather than what you need to do. Microsoft and other software publishers publish-ers have blurred the line that used to run between the world of graphics and the rest of the computing world. - Versions of what used to be Mac-only programs have arrived in PC form, and they run every bit as well as their Mac counterparts. Adobe Photoshop, PageMaker and Illustrator, Quark XPress, and others have all released PC versions of their software. In nearly all cases, files created on a PC machine can be transferred seamlessly to the same software running on a Mac. That raises the connection issue. Macintosh Power PCs (which aren't PCs, despite the name) can read from and write to PC diskettes, but that doesn't get around the fact that many software programs pro-grams still exist which cannot use the other system's data files. Utilities are available which enable PCs to read and write Mac diskettes. Please see Advice A-1 6 Preparations for upcoming summer and winter activities make for demanding work by Bruce Lewis OF THE RECORD STAFF It's shoulder season in Park City. The number of tourists in town is at a low and traffic is lighter, yet activity at Park City Mountain Resort is at one of its seasonal peaks. "We're opening our Alpine Slide and Little Miners' Park on Memorial Day weekend," week-end," said Stacey Zerrenner, spokesperson for Park City Mountain Resort. "That doesn't does-n't leave much time to prepare between seasons." sea-sons." She said that the Alpine Slide track must be set into place, and the train, carousel, Ferris wheel and Big Air Tramp must be brought out and prepared for the summer's operation. The miniature golf course will also be spruced up before the public gets a chance to play on it. In addition to setting up the summer attractions for PCMR, the resort is busy making changes and performing maintenance mainte-nance for the next ski season. "We focus on lift maintenance through the summer," said Carl Jackson, lift manager manag-er for PCMR. "When you run every day for six months, there's a lot to do during the offseason off-season to make sure everything's well-maintained and ready to start up again next fall." Jackson and his crew will work on the lifts throughout the summer, inspecting and maintaining the ski lifts. At the same time, several new ski runs will be gladed, and other crews will be on the mountain installing new lifts. "The Gondola will be coming down, and two six-passenger lifts will take its place," Jackson said. The new lifts will be installed by CTEC, a ski lift company which has offices in Salt Lake City and Switzerland, Jackson said. "We contract for a turn-key installation." he said. "There's so much for our lift crew to get done in the summer that we can't add the installation of lifts to our workload." The two six-passenger lifts will take a slightly different course to the top of the mountain near the Summit House restaurant. restau-rant. "The new Payday lift will start closer to Steeps than the current lift does," Jackson said, adding that the top of the lift will be very close to Payday's current upper terminus. termi-nus. "The base will be about 150 feet closer to the outdoor barbecue at Steeps, and the skier thoroughfare will be on the far side of the lift's base," he said. The move will be more convenient for skiers in the Resort Center area. Skiers headed further north, toward the Three Kings and First Time lifts will no longer need to pick their way through other skiers who are trying to cross over to the new Payday lift's base. The offset of the new run from the old Payday lift's course will allow PCMR to run the old lift for Alpine Sliders until the fall. The second leg of the upward trip for skiers will be another six-passenger detachable detach-able lift, Jackson said, to be named the Bonanza lift. While the upper end of the Bonanza lift will be very close to where the Gondola ended, the bottom location hasn't quite been determined, according to Jackson. "We do know the upper end of the new Payday lift and the lower end of the new Bonanza lift will be fairly close," Zerrenner said. "It will be a minute or two for skiers to transfer from one lift to the other." The uphill trip will take a total of 12 minutes min-utes on the two lifts, Zerrenner said, as opposed to the Gondola's former 22-minute ride. Jackson said that the process of taking down the Gondola will make for some interesting inter-esting work, especially taking down the cables on which it traveled. About two miles of steel wire cable will be removed from the lower Gondola run, and slightly less from the upper portion. "The Gondola ran on about 11,000 feet of 1-14-inch cable, which weighs three pounds per foot," Jackson explained. That makes for about 33,000 lbs., spread out over two miles. "We'll affix a lighter 'traveling cable' then spool the heavy cable down to the bottom." he said. The traveling cable holds back the heavier cable and prevents it from running into what Jackson called "a giant ball of spaghetti." "Then we'll spool-up the lighter cable and be done with it. After that, the towers will be taken down and the upper and lower machinery can be removed," he said. The ordering process for the two lifts that will replace the Gondola began last winter, Jackson said. "The lift company can make many of their calculations from looking at our topo- !. ml s BRUCE LEWIS PARK RECORD A crew from Salt Lake City-based CTEC, Inc. unloads components for the new Payday lift at Park City Mountain Resort. The six-passenger detachable unit will replace the current fixed-grip Payday lift and will be half of the replacement for the Gondola. Another six-passenger lift, the Bonanza, will take skiers from the top of Payday to near the Summit House restaurant. graphical maps of the area," Jackson said, ers needed to support it and the size of The information on the maps gives them the motors needed to move the lift. length and the amount of rise on the lift. From that, they can calculate the number of chairs, the total weight, the number of tow- a course for deleave flinuing The project to install a larger sewer line under Park Avenue has turned the corner onto Deer Valley Drive this week, meaning that local businesses will soon see Park Ave. traffic return to normal. One manager man-ager reflected the response of many of the merchants in the area when he said, "If it must be done, this is the time to do it. Shoulder season is the lowest-impact period for us." SCOTT SINEPARK RECORD The lift arrives in pieces, "much like an Erector set," Jackson said. CTEC crews will contract for concrete footings, erect the towers, run the cable and assemble the lift. Jackson said. The bottom and top terminals for each lift will require about 20 cubic yards of concrete, much of which will be airlifted by helicopter later during the summer. "It's a complete, turn-key operation," he said. Jackson said that the slightly offset run for the new Payday lift will require some glading of trees for clearance. Tree removal will also be required for the Bonanza lift, but the exact amount needed won't be known until the exact final course of the lift is known. Zerrenner added that tour new ski runs will be gladed, ranging from "easier" to "morst difficult," between the Silver Skis and Silver King runs, near the Ski Team lift's course. A new Mountain Patrol building is planned for near the Summit House, and a terrain park will be added for snowboarders and skiers. Stock Performance Utah company stock performance for May 8-12, 1997 Name Close 512 Close 508 Name Close 512 Close 508 Name Close 512 Close 508 Name Close 512 Close 5 ALTAGLD 3.06 2.69 DYNATEC 6.75 6.75 IONLASER 8.44 8.12 SIMONTRK 17.50 17.25 AMSTORES 46.37 47.50 EFIELEC 1.56 1.56 LARDAVIS 9.87 9.87 SKYWEST 12.88 12.50 ANESTACP 17.25 14.00 EQUITYOL 3.00 2.81 MARKERIN 4.12 4.25 SMITHSFD 44.00 38.62 BALLARDM 19.00 19.25 EVANSSUT 24.50 23.75 MERITMED 7.50 7.00 SOSSTAFF 12.12 11.50 BIOMUNE .69 .75 FIRSECCP 35.62 36.37 MITYUTE 12.50 11.87 SOWSTAIR 26.87 27.50 CENTMINE .44 .50 FRNKQUST 21.75 21.37 MONROC 7.37 7.50 SUMITFAM 4.62 4.62 CROWNENG .84 .84 GENVSTL 2.25 2.37 NATRSUN 14.13 14.00 4HEALTH 5.75 5.75 COVOLTEC 8.19 8.50 GULLLABS 10.00 9.87 NOVELL 8.47 8.53 TELSCORP .38 .41 CYCL03PS 1.09 1.06 INTRLNRE .63 .56 PSTVANS 2.00 2.12 THERATEC 9.37 9.50 DAWTECH 2.44 2.62 INTLAUTS 6.00 6.00 QUESTAR 39.37 39.00 THIOKOL 65.25 65.00 DELTAAIR 95.38 95.75 IOMEGACP 18.37 18.87 BAXTER 48.50 47.37 UTDPKMIN 13.00 12.88 Close 5 1 2 Close 508 UTAHMED ZIONBKCP 7.62 134.25 8.00 134.25 f Dow Jones Averages A 30 INDUS 7292.75 7136.62 20 TRANS 2634.80 2617.07 15UTILS 224.54 223.93 This Utah stock report is provided by Derrell Reeves of Paulson Investment Co., Park City. htmii lii $mkat Mk to tmm (m$8$iM& teiL 1 Bil. $900 $800 $700 $600 $500 $400 $300 $200 $100 $0 9192 '9293 '9394 '9495 '9596 '9697 '9798 WiTh no Eisd irt siqhi, iUe toiaI worldwide MAitkET tor SNOwboARds ANd RELuEd hAid-ANd sofrqoods SURpASSEd Tk $800 MilllON lEVEl iN ThE '9697 SEASON, CONTiNUilMq A TRENd of coivipouNd annuaI qROwrh iN excess of 50 percent sInce tNe '9192 season. 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