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Show Little Demand:Few applications available today Technology: Hill Richardson Hutchinson Fonnesbeck Neddo named to the board ofdirectors at Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah. His first position with the ao Companion Technologies, Salt Lake City, has hired Trent Richardson as an account representative. Prior to joining Companion, a companythatoffers a suite of medical-management software, Richardson was the marketing manager at Utah Health Information Net- work for three years. Martha (with 128 megabytes of memory and an ample 10gigabyte hard drive) will be on the market next year for less than $1,000. Pentium IIs and the high end. That’s a whole differ- Hutchinson has been hired as a ent story.” Neighbours has a client who has spent thousands on upgrades overthe years simply to playinteractive gameson a local networkat his home. “He and his son play each otherin interactive Quakeconstantly,” Neighbours says. “He's the kind of person who needs and wants to upgradeall the ing the firm, he worked in buying and selling positions at R.C. Willey software trainer. She previously worked at Intermountain Health in Murrayand for Central Garden, time.” Typical homeusers are blessed with the knowl- network-consulting company. edge that most Mac and Windowsoperating systems aren't changing that much anymore. And most software being written today for either platform isn’t so radically different thatit will tax a lower speed pro- a distributor in Denver. NEI is a Careasa billing specialist. Oo university was as a graduateassis- tant basketball coach in 1973-74. @ Continued from D-10 puters in Arlington. “They'll play about 90 percent of the games out there now. “It's the gameindustry that’s actually pushing the Compiled by Steven Oberbeck Athletics Chris P. Hill has been WhenIs Enough Enough? demandthe speed of a 450 processor. And remember:Industry analysts predict the Pentium IT, 450 MHz machineyou buy today for $2,500 ing, that sort of thing very, very efficiently,” says Ronnie Neighbours, owner of Take It Home Com- TRADEWINDS University of Utah Director of can take advantage of a 100 MHz bus, just as few Al Walter has been hired as a senior Tyler W. Fonnesbeckhas joined First Security Bank asa relationship manager at its Tremonton branch. He formerly wasa loan officer at Zions Bank. Christopher Neddo hasjoined First Security as an investment officer. He formerly was employed by Sandy City. network consultant. He previously worked as a systems manager for American Stores Properties Inc. in its Payson manufacturingfacility. o Development Office at the Utah Department of Community and Economic Development. He will help Utah companies enter mar- cessor. Same Workload: Windows 98 creates about the Oo same workloadas its predecessor, Windows 95. And the same holds for the Mac 8.5 OS upgradefrom 8.0. “Processor speeds generally have outpaced the Patrick Didier has joined the staff of the International Business Network Engineering Inc., Bountiful, has hired Keith Evans as a sales consultant. Prior to join- needs of software,” says Compaq’s Rubin. “But I wouldn't expect the rapid rate of technological ad- vancement to slow down. Peopie should expect the rate at which this industry moves to continue. “With a 450, you should keep pace with the software this year and into the year 2000.” kets in Latin America and Canada. Tobesure,a high-end processorwill help surf the Genealogy, said. Technology at The Crossroads noted. Researchersare also tack- @ Continued from D-10 Churchof Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, said digitizing docu- ment is two kilobytes; the image of that document is 50 kilobytes. The LDS Church’s vault of fam- ing on algorithms to help comput- ers distinguish between stains and writing to restore documents. “We believe we can bring this record backtoits original state,” he said. During a demonstration Friday, he showed how hard-to-read Cottonwood Canyon contains 2.2 million rolls of microfilm, White said. Digitizing each page on the of data — which would require the paper of almost 33 million treesif it were printed out in AS- ten and water-stained letter, White said researchers are work- store and enhance them, Laxman ily history documents in Little Imaging technology, so far, has buying scanners, but libraries and archives seeking to preserve older or damaged documents are poor by comparison. Displaying an aged, handwrit- But existing digital cameras andscanners can help a genealogist capture imagesof documents, file of an average business docu- films would create 770 terabytes world for us.” said. ling the storage problemsthat accompany digitization. The text ments “opens up a whole new focused on business documents, White explained. Businesses are who oversees the library's microfilm equipment and hasbeen testing digital technology. ‘We're very muchin testing mode,” he But that restoration technology is still being developed, White CII text, he said. “If you want speed there, buy a cable modemor ISDN,” Neighbourssays. “The real answer to upgradeslies in what you're doing with the computer,” Staples adds. “If you're personally happywith the speedof it, take it once a year to a shop and have them suggest where you might improve.” Most of the 450 packages marketed todayfeature the “100 MHz bus.” Thebus is a computer term for documents can be enhanced with the hardwarethat accesses the processor.It’s like a software and filters — and specific areas can be enlarged to help decipher writing. Other predictions from Laxman and White: CD-ROM technology is on its way out, to be re- highway. More lanes equal moreability to handle traffic. The wider the highway, the faster the traffic placed by DVD. The data from 20 CD-ROM diskscanfit on one DVD. disk. However, microfilm will re- Also, images cannot be searched by a computerlike a text file. Researchers are working on techniques to allow a computer to learn to “read” handwriting by discerning patterns or optical character recognition. Such technology will allow indexes of imaged documents to be generated. Internet by decoding and displaying images faster. But the realbottleneck for Internet download speeds continuesto be at its access points. main Also s . in use for years to come. on thehorizon: digital camusing CMOS array technolWhich will improve images moves. Ultimate gamersare virtually the only home users who would appreciate the difference between a 100 MHz bus and the slower speeds of older motherboards. menis, said Richard J. Laxman. aan tration fee. 3 e = A ZS Save Storewide during ourEnjoy 90 Days Same as Cash! wareto edit big pictures, play new games andedit digital photography, then it will come down to the question: Do you mindwatching the hourglass as the computerworks, or not?’ “That's when they'll feel the need.” Back in the ancient days of 1992, operating systems were content with 500 megabytesof hard drive. ThenBill Gates and Microsoft began adding so many lines of codeto their operating system that the hard drives quickly becameworthless. “Four years ago, I didn’t know why I would ever need over 450 megs on mydrive,” Ritter says. “I recently upgraded myfolks’ computer from an old DOS and 3.1 Windowswith 19 megs.” Today, hard drives of 10 or more gigabytes are common offerings in the 450 packages, and no one can imagine using that kind of space either, Ritter says. But as digital image processing, video editing and game programs progress over the next two years chancesare the spacewill be welcomed. ““Phese big gameslike QuakeII take up 450 megabytes by themselves,” Neighbours says. ‘They're getting very popular. You put that on a 6.4-gig hard drive, and watch what happens.” Hard disk space gives the user flexibility for fu- ture digital applications and modern gaming. If those aren’t anticipated needs, hard drive space shouldn't be a priority when considering an upgrade. Manyof the 450 packages are designed to take advantage of technologies that are just emerging. DVD drives and decoder cards makeit possible to watch full-length movies on a PC. DVD Coming to TV: But DVD players, just like videocassettes before them, are comingtotelevision. “T just don’t foresee that many pecple watching movies on the computer,” Neighbours says. “And you can run DVD all day long on a 200 or 233 machine with no problem.” ” Future high-end games mayuse the technology, but they are not yet prevalent in the marketplace. Somecompanies such as Compaqalso areoutfitting their hardware packages to accept special adapters necessary to plug in flat panel monitors. Nextyear, as prices begin droppingfrom the current $900 for 17-inch viewable screens, that could be- comeanissue for homeusers. F 8); || — NES. L WOULD BE THOROUGHLY DISGUSTED 2|| FOREVER. E]| Vendors are displaying software, books and other products to the public today at the Hilton. Gentech sessions require a regis- braryis not yet digitizing docu- eye, or a fraction of a blink, really.” In other words, if money’s an issue, you can wait. 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