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Prepress Progress Report. . . 168 By Joe Matazzoni Whatare the risks and benefits of color publishing on the Mac? Get the answers from a wide range of publishing pros who find the an essential production tool. Text without Typing . . By Brita Meng What will optical character recognition do for the M: lisher? Find out as we put seven OCR programs to the test. Page Printers Revisited .....184 By Jim Heid Cheaper, faster, sharper—the newest generation of monochrome page print- ers has a lot to offer everyone from large corpo- rations to home users. 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Initially funded by private contributions from Kapor and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the EFF will support public education and legal efforts to pro- vide First Amendment protection for electronic medi such as bulletin boards, online information service. and computer networks. For two years the United States Secret Service has been pursuing an inyestiga- tion called Operation Sun Devil that has resulted in 7 arrests and seizure of 40 computers and 23,000 floppy disks in 14 cities. For more information, contact EFF at 617/577-1385 or on Internet at eff@Well.sf.ca.\ Apple Computer has purchased rights to the design of Outbound Systems’ Mac-compatible docking lap- top and licensed the design back to Outbound, ac- cording to sources close to the companies. Apple reportedly threatened to sue Outbound for infring- ing on Apple’s intellectual property, and simultane- ously offered a considerable sum of cash for the rights to part or all of Outbound’s design. The rela- tively lightweight Outbound laptop requires the ROM chips from a desktop Mac, but can attach to and drive the desktop system when the user is in the office. Several sources cited $3 million as the sum paid for the technology, but Apple refused to confirm the amount. In any case, Apple no longer considers Outbound to be in violation of Apple's intellectual property rights. Apple says it will not manufacture the Outbound design under the Apple label Now, 3-D Numbers current Apple employees are packing their bags and taking their show on the road—but with Apple’s support. Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, and Mare Porat have founded General Magic, with Apple as the largest shareholder. Gen- eral Magic plans to design what the founders call Personal Intelligent Communicator products. Apple has the first nonexclusive license to manufacture and market General Magic’s technologies, and Apple CEO John Sculley is a director. Tri-Millennium Software i sheet, called Equator, that is the first three-dimensional spreadsheet available on the Macintosh, and it is being written to take ad- vantage of the Leveo 3 Transputer parallel process- ing board. Equator has a 1000-by-1000-by-1000-cell cube-shaped grid; supports complex numbers and unusual operations such as rotate; and will provide 2-D and 3-D graphing, and a macro language. Tri- Millennium plans to sell Equator in a beta version at $129; at $439 for the final product; and bundled with a Levco 3 Transputer for $1895. Equator re- quires 3/30 or Mac Ii-family machine but does not require a Transputer board. For more informa- tion call Tri-Millennium at 617/789-3996. developing a new spread- s unique in two ways: Macro Changes at Microlytics “Microlyties is developing a unified compression scheme and search engine for all of its products. The company is introducing the Random House Eneyclopedia, which takes advantage of the improved compression and searching capabilities and provides the same features as Microlytics’ Inside Information, including the ability to find a word from a rough definition. Microlytics is also developing a grammar and style checker called Writers Suggestions and Re- minders (WSR), which the company may license to stead of publishing, WSR checks punc- tuation, abbreviations, grammar, and context: In- side Information 1.1 takes up less disk space than version 1.0, can store its dictionaries anywhere on a hard disk (previously they had to be in the System Folder), and searches faster. Microlyties hi long-term plans to develop user-modifiable diction- aries. Inside Information 1.1 and the Random House (continues) MACWORLD + OCTOBER 1990 17 \) ———mn mmm VA CBU) LL E | Neem Encyclopedia will list for $119 each with the search engine or $59 for each database alone. For more information, contact Microlytics at 716/248-3868, Grystal Ball on Tima Market Engineering is developing vertical risk-analy- sis models for its Monte Carlo simulator Crystal Ball. The first package, the Constructive Cost Model (CoCoMo), is for estimating software-development costs and schedules. Other vertical models under development include an. inventory-management model and an oil-and-gas financial model. Crystal Ball version 1.04 lists for $395 and requires a spread- sheet that can save in SYLK format. The CoCoMo module lists for $299, or $499 bundled with a copy of Crystal Ball. Pricing on other models was unde- cided at press time. Market Engineering is also de- veloping a generic project-management analysis pack- age that will take advantage of an upcoming version of Crystal Ball that will have greatly improved time- analysis capabilities. For more information, call Mar- ket Engineering at 303/298-0020, The Posters with the Mostest The Qume Unveils 12-ppr The new version of PosterWorks adds a pasteboard- like layout environment for arranging, scaling, stretching, and cropping text and graphics. It dis- plays page breaks; has a virtual-ememory scheme for working with large 24-bit color files; reads TIFF, EPS, and Scitex format; prints in color and generates separations in OPI and DCS format as well as its own PostScript separations; proyides color-correc- tion tools; and supports plug-in halftone screens (several will ship with the package). Version 2.0 will list for $295. For more information, call S. H. 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It can print at either 300 by 300 dpi or 600 by 300 dpi. ‘The printer carries a sug RasterOps Downsizes Color Boards gested list price of $5595 including 3MB of RAM. ‘The company expects to begin shipping CrystalPrint Express in August. For more information, call Qume at 408/942-4000, At Macworld Expo in Boston, in August, RasterOps Corporation announced two color graphics boards for 13-inch monitors, The 24-bit RasterOps 248 and 8-bit RasterOps 8S are less expensive versions of the existing RasterOps 24L and 81. boards, both of which support displays up to 19 inches. Both new boards support NuBus block-mode transfer and both work with the recently shipped RasterOps Accelera- tor board. The company expected the RasterOps 248 and RasterOps 88 to be ayailable beginning in September. Prices had not been finalized at press time. For further information, contact RasterOps at 408/562-4200. Paint Under Pressure SuperMac Announces TekColor-Compatible Calibration Creative Software's version 2.0 of Easy Color Paint will join the ranks of those programs that can use the Wacom pressure-sensitive tablet. Easy Color Paint also features gradient fills; a bucket tool that can be used for selecting as well as painting; boundary fills that are intelligent about surrounding colors; and complete undo and redo. For kids, version 2.0 can lock windows to keep them from being dragged off screen; can display paint colors in 16 extra-big swatches; and can turn off hierarchical menus. The new version will list for $89, For more information, contact Creative Software at 201/665-9361. Ip a color-calibration system that uses Tektron! ‘TekColor color-matching software. SuperMatch in- cludes monitor-calibration hardware and the Super- Match Color Picker, software that helps you choose colors that both your monitor and your output de- vice can both produce, SuperMatch is slated to ship on October 1 at a list price of $699. For more infor- mation, contact SuperMac at 408/245-2202. Changes Ashton-Tate has sold dBase/Mac to New Era Software (305/670-4844), where dBase/Mac’s original devel- oper, Michael Rosetti, is now employed. Meanwhile, A-T admits plans for a true dBase-compatible Mac product. SuperMac has sold SuperlaserSpool to utili- ties marketer Fifth Generation Systems (504/291- 7221). Infosphere has sold Liaison to Farallon and plans to release a final version of MacServe before discontinuing support for that network file server. Infosphere president and communications program- mer extraordinaire Evan Solley will follow Liaison to. become a Farallon employee. Peachtree Software, of Atlanta, Georgia, has acquired Layered Software. 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A COMPUTER CALLED MACINTOSH SHOWS THAT AMERICA CAN STILL LEAD BY JERRY BORRELL e all hear or read about the problems the United States faces when it competes in the Japanese market: language barrier: cultural barriers; a closely held and inefficient distribution system and retail channel; copyright and patent problems; close ties between govern- ment and business, creating collusion that favors products manufactured in Japan; and a growing the rigidly formal and frustrating ways of doing business in Japan are actually a smug clubbiness used to great ad- vantage by Japanese businessmen. Despite all that, Apple Computer and the Macintosh are succeeding in Japan. Apple has become one of Ja- pan’s five largest sellers of personal computers. This success comes in the wake of IBM's falling market share and unsuccessful efforts by Microsoft to make it there, Apple's success is largely due to insight shown in the Macin- tosh Operating System. The Mac’s developers recognized the need to localize the Mac OS for local markets. Apple has improved the ability to lo- calize over the last several_years with the ability to modify the Mac OS for foreign character sets. There are other factors such as prescient international marketing, and the establishment of subsidiaries in foreign countries, but it is truly astonishing that Apple has been so successful in Japan over the past year, Which brings me to the question of whether or not Apple can succeed in other Asian markets. On recent vis- its to our sister publications in China and Taiwan I have come to understand something more of how Apple’s over- Charlie Chang, eiitor-in-chief of PC World Taiwan (standing), watches as Jeff Wu, ofthe Taiwan AppleCenter, demonstrates PageMaker for Jerry Borrell, all strategy will take it into the 1990s. Taiwan is the most computerized mar- ket in Asia (outside Japan), while China is the most populous market in Asia. Taiwan has a population of about 20 million people and about 1 million computers. About 10,000 of these are Macintoshes. China’s latest census due later this year, and the popula- MACWORLD + OCTOBER 1990 tion of the country—which has 500,000 personal comput pected to pass the 1.1 billion mark. About 2000 of these computers are Macintoshes. How does Apple fare in these two countries and what prob- lems does it face? Little Trouble in Big Why isn’t the Mac doing better in China? Part of the sad truth is that China is not what economi industrialized econ- omy. Rather it is in- dustrializing, a step above the ethno- centric sobriquet of Third World. And as such China dis- courages the im- port of foreign manufactured goods, When I asked why there aren't more Macs in China, my Chines colleagues raised their brows and ex- claimed that “Apple won't sell its tech- nology not-un- familiar refrain. 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So to understand why PCs our- number Macs I went computer shop- ping in Beijing. Tang Baoxing, the edi- tor-in-chief of Computerworld China, and I trudged along in the heat and dust of a hot July day, visiting one store after another. The first place we visited, the Computing Technology Corporation of the Institute of Computing Tech- nology, sold AST, Compaq, and Chi- nese-produced IBM-clone computers. Most of the 30-odd computers in the store were being used. We asked for a demonstration and were shown a lo- cally developed Chinese word proces- sor, written for DOS. It was connected to a Canon laser printer and 1 was dutifully shown a copy of a la printed document. I looked at a nearby computer, saw the familiar English language of DOS, and typed ina few commands. Syntax error. Yep. It was DOS. “What about that one?” I asked, pointing to a machine connected to a 19-inch Moniterm portrait monitor. ‘That machine was running Windows 2.0 for desktop publishing. And there, in fact, was PageMaker. I asked about fonts and graphi there are four of the former and none of the latter. 1 was shown another laser-printed sheet as proof that desktop publish- ing ex Next we were off to Legend and Stone, which together with Great Wall are the three leading computer pro- ducers in China. Stone's origin lay in its development of a board set for DOS computers thatallows these machines to convert ASCII Latin characters into Chinese characters. The boards also support several input techniques that allow Chinese characters to be created with English-language keyboards. (I was also surprised to learn that profi- hinese chai on an Engl keyboard than an English-s typist can enter English words—a statement often repeated to me.) No mean feat—opening up the Chinese MACWORLD + OCTOBER 1990 is exactly what ChinaTalk, the Chine: language version of the Mac OS, does for the Macintosh. So again, why isn’t the Mac successful here? Low-Cost Macs? Price leapt to mind, Macs face a host of issues that make their cost higher abroad than when sold in the United States, These include freight (they are not assembled in host countries), localization, production of collateral sales and advertising materials, sup- port of local Apple staff or Apple deal- ers, import taxes, higher cost of distri- bution due to smaller local markets, and the need to make a profit. So 1 asked what a Legend clone with DOS would cost. The answer, to my sur- prise, was about 10 percent higher than the price fora Compaq computer in Stone’s own store! The reason is that despite production of its own PC clone, in reality Stone is assembling parts imported from Japan, Taiwan, or Hong Kong. Most buyers in the Chinese market are universities or government agencies required to buy the higher priced local compute: Software might be a factor for the popularity of DOS machines, but the selection of documentation and soft- ware for PC clones I saw in stores was dismal. There were perhaps 50 diff ent products, a large portion of which were translations of operating system. information and languages and Micro- soft and Ashton-Tate applications, Not really compelling reasons to buy PCs or clones (yes, I know I'm biased). Then it occurred to me that sheer momentum might be the crucial tor, PCs were sold there years before the Mac and they've made the most progress, as in another industrializing economy, that of the USSR. But in the Soviet Union, government and busi- ness alike are shedding their PCs for the Mac as fast as possible because of the need for non-Latin characters. 1 heard no such sentiment in China. 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That pretty much seals the case for DTP on the Mac at present, Taiwan Taiwan is both similar to and different from the Chinese market. It’s a much bigger market, dominated by PC clones with names like ACER and Mi- tac. But in Taiwan Apple has a 10-year history of selling computers and a base of more than 500,000 Apple Ils, mostly in schools, Apple has eight dealers in Taiwan and two sparkling new Apple- Centers with Apple’s latest hardware, I should add that there is (like in Bei- jing) a dismal shortage of thir software in the AppleCenters. Cl products and an ancient copy of WriteNow were visible on the shelf in Taipei, actually more products than were in the Beijing center. AppleCen- ters are, after all, showcases for Apple, not third parties. When I remarked about the no- table absence of Microsoft software in both centers I was told a remarkable story abouta historic visit by Bill Gates to the Far East to make a speech at a major computer conference. 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D Cc Circle 241 on reader service card has not been proactive in having its applications translated into Chinese, due, I assume, to this lack of enlight- ened attitudes with regard to the prin- ciple of copyright. In determining Apple’s success in Taiwan, the largest factors appear to be aggressive marketing, the need for ac rompetitive Mac (note how I avoid mentioning Apple’s upcoming low-cost machine), and the need for localization of more applications. The Character Conundrum ue of representing Chinese characters is often discussed, although, as I pointed out, the keyboard-entry issue appears less important than I thought. The need to develop Korean, Chinese, and Japanese character sets is also problematic. One problem I was not aware of is the fact that Taiwan and Hong Kong use traditional Chi- nese characters (14,000 or so) while China has shifted to a simpler, mod- ern character set of some 7000 char- acters. Aldus’s Chinese version of Page- COMMENTARY Maker for Taiwan is yet to be released, for example, so the market is compli- cated in ways I had not foreseen. Still, ‘Taiwan appears to be a market where Apple will do well. The company even appears to have the illegal clone market under control. Akkord, the company said to. have reverse engineered the Mac’s ROMs (but never proved to have done so), has become a much more benign reseller of Mac Portables that use ROM chips from 512KEs and Mac Pluses. If Apple can get something more on the dealer shelves than MacroMind Di: tor it will be a leader. Can Apple Compete? Claris Holds An Answer. Apple can, and clearly will, more ef- fectively compete. It has localized the Mac OS for Korea (HangulTalk), Thai- land (ThaiTalk), China (ChinaTalk), Pakistan (UrduTalk), and India (Deva- nagari). Its upcoming low-cost ma- chines will effectively open the Third World market to the company. Its new regional headquarters in Hong Kong for China and the rest of Asia is grow- ing (Japan is a separate market from the rest of Asia and has its own head- quarters). Apple’s biggest problem (outside of broader local economic issues) appears to be a lack of local- ized application software, There is little incentive for Apple’s third-party de- velopers to make the expensive inve: ment in these developing markets. So if I were a planner at Apple, I would be thinking of how I could in- sure that demonstration applications for the Macintosh such as MacPaint, MacDraw, Claris CAD, MacWrite, and so forth would be localized for inter- national markets. It seems clear to me in hindsight that in large part the move to return Claris to Apple has been done to help Apple compete in world markets where only Apple is in a posi- tion to compete, By that interpreta- tion, Apple is planning to do what no other American personal computer manufacturer has been able to do in international markets—make the United States a global leader. (©1989 Sharp Elecironics Corp. Quick Draw, LaserWriter Plus and Macintosh ae registered trademarks of Apple Compute, Inc, Actual printer output shown. Circle 327 on reader service card, MACWORLD + OCTOBER 1990 HOW TO PRINT COLOR THAT'S PRESENTATION PERFECT. INTRODUCING SHARP'S JX-730 PRINTER WITH CHOOSER-LEVEL DRIVER. Thanks to powerful new driver software, Sharp’s JX-730 Color Ink-Jet Printer now supports 32-bit QuickDraw,’ prints 167 mil- lion colors, and uses scaleable outline fonts (35 LaserWriter Plus® fonts included). It offers a choice of 7 dithering pat- terns to maximize smoothness and create effects. 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D7 or contact your ~ rersion Circle 417 on reader service card STOELYONS Monitoring Emissions ee article “The Mag- netic-Field Menace” (July 1990] was well re- searched, evenhanded, and contained much-needed information that has been lacking in the media. We can expect to receive the usual denials and dis- claimers from computer manufacturers. They will tell us that there is no con- clusive “proof” of any con- nection between magnetic- field radiation and certain illnesses, and they will dis- count or ignore studies that establish strong statistical links between the two, Do the same problems apply to television sets? While my computer screen is dimmed—either using the hardware dimmer or a screen saver- the mag- netic-field radiation level the same as when it’s not dimmed? Kenneth J. Cohen Toronto, Canada Televisions, like most computer monitors, contain cathode-ray tubes (CATs) that emit low-fre- quency electromagnetic fields. Computer monitors are consid- ered a greater health hazard because users generally sit closer to the screen. In tests conducted at Macworld, dim- ming the computer screen did not mitigate the emissions—Ed. Alarmist Views y ou have used Macworld to communicate unrea- sonably alarmist views. The cover of your July issue pic- Ca) LETTERS tured—atop a VDT—the universal symbol for ion ing radiation, an explicitly illegal use where nonion- izing radiation is present. Don’t you or your invited expert know the difference? Why doesn’t the author dis- cuss exposure of the public to the electric and magnetic fields around electric -ra- zors, hair dryers, and elec- tric blankets? Should medi- cine abandon magnetic resonance imaging (where the fields are measured in gauss, not milligauss)? T suspect Brodeur’s epi- demiology is more hazard- ous than the electromag- netic fields around any computer. David E. Drum, M.D. Department of Radiology Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts Our July cover art included the symbols for ionizing radiation and toxic waste to support our belief that monitor emissions should be viewed with the same de- gree of seriousness as estab- lished health hazards. In his books and his series of articles for the New Yorker, Paul Brodeur details the possible dangers in- herent in all appliances run with GOHz electric power; at our re- quest, Brodeur focused on CRT monitors. Other sources of emis- sions—such as high-power lines and magnetic resonance imag- ing—may produce fields more intense than those generated by computer monitors, but until comprehensive research proves otherwise, we cannot assume that exposure to any emission level is innocuous.—Ed. ELF Power Frequency Meter n “The Magnetic-Field Menace,” you mentioned a piece of test equipment used to measure ELF—a Holaday HI1-3600-02 ELF/ Power Frequency EMF Sur- vey Meter. We would like to run some tests of our own but cannot locate this (continues) MACWORLD + OCTOBER 1990 Corrections In the sidebar “Speed Tests: Life at a Blur” (“Power ata Price," May 1990), Super- Mac’s Spectrum/24 with Graphics Accelerator should have read Color- Card!24 with Graphics Ac- celerator. The video board tests (page 289) should have been conducted in 24- bit, not 8-bit mode. Super- Mac did not claim superior speed in 8-bit mode. Survivor Software's MacMoney allows multi- ple bank accounts, credit cards, and cash categories for a complete accounting system (‘Automating Your Small Business,” May 1990). RagTime was developed by BGE Software (Reviews, August 1990). RagTime USA markets the program in the United States and Canada; MacVonk publishes and markets it elsewhere, The correct phone num- ber for TeleTypesetting, maker of T-Script, is 617/ 734-9700 (New Products, August 1990), The file-transfer utility Mac-to-Mac is manufac- tured by Caravelle Net- works Corporation (“File Services,” August 1990). Upbeat 2.01 and Jam Factory (Reviews, August 1990) are now available from Dr. T’s Music Sofi- ware, 617/244-0954, HyperCard can print mailing labels (“Rolodex Roll Call” table, Roll Over Rolodex, May 1990). a7 type of equipment from any of our normal vendor chan- nels. Could you help us to locate Holaday or another vendor that markets a simi- lar device? Paul H. Mitchell Pitney Bowes Shelton, Connecticut The following vendors sell meters for measuring low-frequency electromagnetic emissions: « Combinova AB, Ergonomics Inc. (U.S. agent), P.O. Box 964, Southampton, PA 18966; 215/357-5124. = Electric Field Measurements, P.O. Box 326, Rte. 183, West Stockbridge, MA 01266; 413/637-1929. = Holaday Industries, Inc., 14825 Martin Dr., Eden Prairie, MN 55344; 612/934-4920. = Safe Computing, 368 Hillside Ave., Needham, MA 02194; 617/ 444-7778, 800/222-3003. —Ed. Do Monitor Filters Work? paw Brodeur states in “The Magnetic-Field Men- ace” that both extremely- low-frequency (ELF) and very-low-frequency (VLF) electromagnetic waves pene- trate everything. On your back cover, Kensington Mi- croware advertises a moni- tor filter that it claims will filter out ELF and VLF radia- tion as well as dissipate static, Have these claims been con- firmed? If the filter does work, could internal shield- ing to eliminate ELF and VLF emissions be installed with- out interfering with the monitor's performance? Is Macworld going to do similar tests of other moni- tors and print the result: Can it be assumed that monitors with higher scan rates (70Hz or greater) will always have a larger electro- C) mmm | ET TE Steinem magnetic field? Joseph F. Reinke Mounds View, Minnesota Screen filters do shield against static and electric fields but not against magnetic fields in the ELF or VLF ranges discussed in Brodeur's article. (For a thorough discussion of the claims made by screen-filter makers, see Con- spicuous Consumer, July 1990.) Higher scan rates generally do increase field intensity, but be- cause component placement within the monitor casing greatly affects emissions, there are ex- ceptions. We do plan to publish emission levels for other monitors in future articles. Our recent test subjects included a number of IBM, Compaq, and NEC models for which we measured ELF lev- els comparable to those emitted by Macintosh monitors. No Macin- tosh monitors currently reduce ELF magnetic-field emissions, al- though several vendors are work- ing on designs for such products, including Sigma Designs, which recently began selling monitors for both Macs and IBM compatibles that it claims will meet the VLF emissions standards set in Swe- den. Sigma expects to introduce low-VLF and low-ELF monochrome and gray-scale monitors in the first quarter of 1991.—Ed. Shielding Against Emissions W hat was clearly intended to be a comprehensive sis of emissions from various displays and the po- tential risks involved has sev- eral important flaws: 1. The range of emis- sions—both electric and magnetic—emitted by a dis- play is enormous, with vastly differing waveforms and power levels, and is not sim- ply limited to the ELF and (Continues) THE BEGINNING OF SWIVELIZATION. "With Swivel 3D, I designed an elephant-shaped rattle forDiscovery Toys. 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Your commentary “Is Your Computer Killing You?,” the sidebar “Rating Radiation Screens” [Con- spicuous Consumer], and the article by Paul Brodeur appear to take the position that the electromagnetic radiation issue is restricted to the ELF range of frequen- cies and limited to the mag- netic fields of that narrow range. Substantial research has implicated a wide range of frequencies, waveforms, and power levels with health risks of various types. Given the compl and the uncertainty of the data, NoRad's view is that all LETTERS om nonionizing radiation is sus- pect, and exposure should be reduced or avoided, The existing NoRad shield does protect against magnetic fields at higher frequencies. It has been tested and shown to attenuate ata rate greater than 50 percent above 30kHz. No other product provides any protection against magnetic fields. Michael Hiles NoRad Corporation Santa Monica, California The weight of the literature impli- cating 60Hz magnetic fields de- mands that we emphasize these emissions. As verified by an out- side testing facility, our test re- sults are accurate for ELF mag- netic-field emission levels —Ed. Health and Profits hank you for the excel- lent exposé of the radia- tion hazards produced by computer monitors, As you state in your editorial [“Is Your Computer Killing You?,” Commentary, July 1990], corporations would be better off in the long run, to take the potential health associated with ELF LF radiation seriously. Although manufacturers’ short-term profits may be squeezed by developing and implementing new cathode- ray-tube technology that is fer to users, long-term profits and public relations will be greatly enhanced, As you indicate, class- action suits are often the re- sult when manufacturers become aware of health haz- ards but do nothing to pro- tect consumers or users from, ously undermine public con- fidence in the manufacturers and drain corporate earn- ings. As with most large busi- , Management would be wise to realize that envi- ronmental and health con- cerns are not contrary’ to profits and growth. 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