********************************************************* COMPUTER SYSTEMS ********************************************************* THOSE GENERIC IBM COMPATIBLES ARE STILL THE BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK! VESA LOCAL BUS IS THE NEW STANDARD AND THE FASTEST TYPE OF SYSTEM. ALSO LOOK FOR THE NEW CLOCK-TRIPLED CPU'S THAT GO AS FAST AS 99 MHZ. We can sell you the fastest system on the market today with starter software so that you can get up and running in any application right away for as little as $1,000.00 with large and fastest hard drive, vga monitor, trackball or mouse, and customized for any business you may be in. We also have VESA LOCAL BUS MOTHERBOARDS, HARD DISK CONTROLLERS, VIDEO ACCELERATORS AND WILL BE REVIEWING MORE OF THESE IN OUR NEXT ISSUE. SO STAY TUNED. We also have the best prices on Notebooks & LapTops. You will see them advertised for $1,500 and up while we have similar systems starting at $1,000 and up.... generally you'll save around 50% of your money on a good Laptop of Notebook computer. We have the highest quality '386 and '486 IBM compatible computers on the market today. We also have the best prices. And all of our systems come with INTEL processors and Microsoft Windows, the latest version, already installed and optimized for your system. Call around, get your best price on any system and then call us. We guarantee to beat the price by at least 10% or we'll pay for the call. Our systems have been tested and burned in to give you the highest degree of confidence and reliability. We also mix and match components that we know are of the highest quality, such as Quantum hard drives, the only drive we sell. We use the best motherboards we can find. We use the best floppy drives and we know the best in any component category you can name because we review them all for this magazine. We can customize for any type of business, because we sell to them all and we know the key issues for your business needs. Many other mail order company uses people who are hired right off the street and who usually know very little about the computers they are selling. We are experts trained in business and computer engineering. Furthermore, we can put together any combination of things so that your system will work properly right out of the box and do what you want it to do, or your money back. We have the technical knowledge to insure that all components work in harmony with each other. There is no one in the country today who knows more about the Personal Computer than we do. You may want to combine the PC and large-screen Home Entertainment System. We can put it together for you. Or maybe you want to edit your home videos on your PC. We can put that together too. Or perhaps you want a PC to run your store or business. We can do that too. Prices fluctuate but right now, they are at an historic low. It's a great time to buy a '486 because Intel has lowered their prices to the OEM market because of stiff competition from AMD and others. If you have an older system, you might be thinking about upgrading to something faster and sportier, but you don't want to re-invest a ton of money. The best thing to do in this case is to change out the Motherboard on your computer for a new '486 or '586 system. This means you can keep your monitor, if you're happy with it. Keep your floppy drives, they haven't been improved significantly in the last ten years anyway and they last forever. Keep your hard drive if you're happy with it, or think about adding a new faster, bigger one at the same time. Keep your printer if it does the job well why buy a new one. But the Motherboard is where your upgrade dollars are best spent because that's where the CPU resides and is the place where you will see your greatest speed and efficiency improvements. If you're going to replace your Motherboard, the best way to go is with the new VESA LOCAL BUS STANDARD. This means that you will have at least two slots in your system for true 32 bit throughput. The ordinary ISA standard 486 systems today, still use 16 bit slots which means things like your monitor and hard drive can only go as fast as 16 bit transfer will allow and the data is also slowed by the Clock speed of your motherboard which is still only 8 or 10 MHZ even though the CPU speed may be 50 or 66 MHZ, so you don't actually get to utilize the speed and power of a 486 CPU until you have a VESA LOCAL BUS MOTHERBOARD that takes the data and ships it through the speed of your CPU and not the motherboard. It's all very complicated, I know, but the bottom line is that you get about a 5 times increase in speed on screen refresh, something very important if you use Windows, and a 5 times speed increase in hard drive performance and even more like 10 times increase if you use a Disk Controller that is also designed for VESA LOCAL BUS SLOTS. This is why you only need two VESA LOCAL BUS SLOTS in your next machine. The only place where speed is of the essence is in your input and output to the monitor especially since Windows is throwing megabytes of data up on the screen every time you change a window. And it also takes data from your hard drive and to your hard drive via the controller. If the controller and video card information is going through VESA LOCAL BUS SLOTTED CARDS, then you are going as fast as you're going to be able to go in the next several years. Even with the new Pentium Chip, if you don't use a VESA LOCAL BUS MOTHERBOARD, you're still stuck with yesterdays speed standards. The VESA LOCAL BUS slots mean that there is really no waiting anymore for your programs to load or to change screens even if you're a heavy Windows User, like we are. Now, having said that. You want to look into the newest of new Vesa local Bus standards if you don't already have one. If you have one. It's OK, any VESA LOCAL BUS MOTHERBOARD is better than not having one. HOWEVER, if you haven't bought one yet, you will want to subscribe to this magazine because in our next issue we will be reviewing the new INTEL VESA BUS STANDARD. It's slightly different than the VESA LOCAL BUS STANDARD AVAILABLE now and probably will be better and faster. We don't know yet, but will give you our honest opinion in the next issue. This is something you'll want to know about because the future of computing lies in the VESA STANDARD. Don't let anyone tell you differently. IF YOU HAVE A SON, DAUGHTER, NEPHEW OR NIECE GOING OFF TO COLLEGE, A NOTEBOOK COMPUTER AND A TYPING PROGRAM, IS PROBABLY THE BEST AND MOST PRODUCTIVE GIFT YOU COULD GIVE. We include a typing tutor program with every computer sale. Why? Because someone in your family will not know how to type and unless you know how to type, you do not get the best use out of a computer. We also include operating system and $1,000.00 of free software to each and every new computer buyer, all great programs for entertainment, word processing, accounting, database etc. No one else gives you this much. Call us..... 1-408-423-8580