| Show 14ANt rze 0-- 4 1 1 I 11: 14D The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday September 30 1990 New Product Can 'Expanz!' Capacity of Hard Disk Chicago Execs Have Visions Of Recession CHICAGO (UPI) — time not 17 minutes of installing time The card like most computer slot cards installs in about 20 min- utes unless you're extremely clum- sy The Expanz! card from InfoChips Systems Inc of Santa Clara Calif costs $199 Compare that to th e cost of a hard disk — a device that most average computer users would find quite daunting to install if they were going to make it work right InfoChips says the Expanz! card By Joe Fasbinder United Press International Squish compact or crush whatever it is Dwane does it does it well slot Plug the device into a half-caron your IBM compatible computer and it compresses data so you can fit more of it on your hard disk It works quite well The hard disk I started out with had 7 megabytes of free space when I started Seventeen minutes with Expanz! and it had 11 megabytes That's 17 minutes of crunching d Eighty-seve- n executives in percent of the Chicago area say the United States either is headed for or already in recession according to a survey The survey by Ernst & Young an accounting firm examined the US economic outlook through the eyes of more than 180 of the area's top executives Forty-nin- e percent believe the United States is headed for a recession and another 38 percent think the recession already is here said spokesman William Church Top officials had different views depending on whether they were in the financial or manufacturing sectors "More than half of those responding from manufacturing companies think the recession is already here compared to just 28 percent of the financial respondents "More than 80 percent of the responding manufacturing executives say the national recession will last from 2 years compared to just 57 percent of the financial executives Almost a third of the financial respondents predict a recession of a year or less" the survey said "But the bright side for the Chicago area is that they believe it will be less severe both in duration and effect here" said Church Those who believe the recession will be less severe in the Chicago area cited its diversity of industries companies and strong service-basea lower rate of distress in the real estate industry Stephen C Mack partner-incharg- e of Ernst & Young's Financial Services practice said the different viewpoints are understandable "Many manufacturers are undoubtedly beginning to see a cash crunch as expenses rise and revenues fall while financial institutions will not feel the pinch until their loan portfolios are impacted possibly by such signals as missed payments by borrowers" Mack said Executives listed four main factors as being most likely to impact business in the next six to 12 months They were recession reduced consumer confidence higher oil prices and the Persian Gulf crisis Higher interest rates were of lesser concern In terms of consumer confidence Duff & Phelps Investment Research Co said separately that consumers could make recessionary fears top-ranki- d self-fulfilli- "To a large extent the fate of the economy rests in the hands of consumers" said Wayne C Stevens president and CEO "Despite a sharp drop in consumer confidence following the Iraqi invasion anecdotal evidence and incomplete data for August indicate that as yet there appears to have been no major disruption in consumer spending patterns" Paychecks to By Jim Lynch ar Newspapers For the first time in a decade the typical paycheck will lose its battle with inflation this year Pay raises for workers nationwide will average about 55 percent in 1991 virtually the same as this year a pair of recent surveys indicate But prices this year and next will rise at least that fast economists predict and probably faster According to an American Compensation Association survey exempt employees (those who aren't paid hourly) will enjoy 55 percent increases on average next year the same as in 1990 Salaries will rise 54 percent next year according to a survey by the consulting firm of William M Mercer Inc off slightly from the typical 1990 raise 55 percent Average two-yesalary increase: 111 percent Meanwhile prices will rise 56 percent this year estimates the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University in Atlanta (That's up from a 54 estimate a few weeks ar ago) Next year prices will go up between 49 and 5 percent said Stacy Kottman assistant director of the center — "under the optimistic presumption that oil prices come back four-tenth- down" Analyst Predicts Market Panic recurring pattern called a By Andrew M Gluck New York Daily News "hyper-wave- " discovered by Tyler Jenks a colleague at his firm is sweeping the national economy It will cause the Dow to slowly sink to 1000 or lower in the next few years he believes Here's a bold prediction: Walter technical anaStone the & Co says Bloch Kanon at Carre lyst Dow Jones Inthe already-battere- d dustrial Average will fall to the 0 range by the end of October "We're in the early stages of a developing panic that will hit before the end of October" says Stone On the big panic day trading volume will rise to 600 million shares says Stone who has spent his entire career studying the stock market After the dip a rally will carry the market barometer back to the 2200- level Stone believes that a sporadically AND BEYOND And there's more bear news — this coming from Charles LaLoggia's Special Situation Report a Rochesd newsletter ter "To us the situation is clear: This is a major bear market and the ultimate bottom may be a long way off in terms of both time and price" says LaLoggia The Persian Gulf crisis has been merely the catalyst in a stock plunge that was waiting to happen LaLoggia says we were in a bear market long before Saddam Hussein's tanks rolled into Kuwait 1800-to-200- to-1- lf one-thir- tioe Battle With Inflation Total two-yeinflation: 111 percent That's easily the worst performance of the decade far worse than 1986 Then the average pay increase was almost 6 percent three times the 19 percent inflation rate Although last month's oil shock is driving prices up employers are unlikely to increase the size of raises they'll be handing out said Jesse M Smith Jr executive director of the compensation association in Scottsdale Ariz He cited two reasons: Most large employers already have set their budgets for 1991 and salaries are only indirectly linked to inflation The law of supply and demand drives salaries foremost Smith said Workers in greatest demand come from these sectors: pharmaceuticals (65 percent increases next year) consulting (61 percent) computer services and software (60 percent) and hospitals and health care (58 percent) Supply and demand also will drive Floridians' salaries up faster than the national average said Curtis H Engelmann a compensation expert in the Tampa office of William M Mercer Inc The difference will be slight about s of a percentage point for hourly workers — enough to put r Knight-Ridde- "can increase total data storage ea- pacity of PCs and workstations by 1- 5 times or more" It depends on what kind of data you're storing If you're storing text files in pure ASCII you can expect an apprecia- ble increase in available storage If you're storing graphics or a big data- -base the benefits will be considerably more impressive In real terms you can expect to get more hard disk d to one-ha- e full-tim- mid-199- tistics) skilled workers Engelmann said so each can command a bigger pay raise Further the shortage can force employers to recruit outside the state where salaries are higher When recruits arrive somein Florida their times get raises too to keep them from grumbling "But that's not going to help the wages of people who clean motel rooms" Engelmann said Unskilled workers aren't recruited from outside the state Their salaries w6n't rise to national averages as easily PC-DO- point-somethi- bDe0 Sr 4lexa about only a couple of extra dollars a week into the average pocketbook e worker made (The typical 0 accord$413 a week as of ing to the US Bureau of Labor Sta- Florida doesn't have enough word processing spreadsheet and image files you can probably double your hard disk space — that means you can store as much on a 40 meg hard disk using Expanz! ' as you could on an 80 meg drive without Ex- name You can use E xpanz t if your PC S S or uses version 3- It won't work on anything lower than version 30 and it won't run on DOS 40 or better — though an Expanzl card for use with MS-DO- sise di ne etmhee workt s an dthe first quarter of next year If you use Compaq's proprietary in — cony Iters Only Expanz-equippe- d can read the compressed files evAnd once Expanz! is install d on hard stored you erything being disk is automatically compressedl But data being stored to floppy diskS is not compressed unless you speciftcally instruct the computer to cook press it gni That means you can store someon it oh thing on a floppy and work another computer — not equippq0 with Expanz! — without worrymg about decompressing the file uo As part tructi:dstatoll incrroeuatteaeussaci also are ty diskette" that will let them decompress the compressed data on the hard disk and store it in uncompressed form on normal diskettes Nonetheless it is very very wiselb keep backups of everything The documentation is emphatic aboirt backing up the information on yout hard disk before you install "t4 space if you plug in an Expanz! If you deal with an average mix of version of the DOS operating system or OS2 you can't use Expanzl at all You also can't use Expanzl with some expanded memory systems but most memory expansions are OK Still it is well worth the time to make a phone call to the company at 0 before opening the (800) case on your computer and launch- ing into this project If your system is compatible Ex- pane is worth the effort and the 5 is money Its quick and silent working for all effects and purposes transparently chip handles input data at rates as high as 2 megabytes per second for compression and 5 megs per sec- ond for decompression The documentation that comes with the card is full of bold-face- d warnings and exclamation points but isn't really clear board 447-020- a 4 - - ( - Once the &pane card is insiat and the last screw is be tightened device takes about one minute :'p'Et megabyte of hard disk space to comr t press data IC-10- HARDWARE: Expanzl data pression card suggested retail $199 from InfoChips Systems Inc 284P San Thomas Expressway Suite 20Q Santa Clara Calif 95054 (800) 447r 0200 Reviewers rating on a scalnf 0 to 5: 4 — Performs brilliantly once you get past the installation instruqtions ti yrril - :- It 091 r19 THE GOOD NEWS IS ri ) First Federal Has Acquired CrossLand Savings' Utah Deposits lqd :11 A -1 t 1- 1611 SW n VIP Jki I 110 We're excited to have new First Federal offices in Cottonwood Sugarhouse and Fashion Place where you will receive The Human Touch® service on a full line of financial products iii r La' rs71 11 ) NY-base- "3- -I THE GOOD NEWS IS 11 fr You Can Win I ci t Fabulous Prizes 111 - 111 Absolutely The Beet Salt Lake Office Ta1 I've Seen In 15 Years! r ' r- A - t 3 2 mils 11 — 4 '1a1444 i44-"'- " ' r7 i r IN t' - IW- : kT4(4N4 i 1 1114111 NIk‘ - --- 'A- - k ! - '' 4 1110411111w - iAt 1 OM A 41 down to location image parking and rates It is absolutely CD 805 in!) 1t t 711 'I) mix of these elements That's why the 257 the best downtown office value I've seen in the last 15 years The owner is serious about leasing space immediately and this creates a rare ! !:(1 4P” cl Time Is Running Out! 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