: ; aes BUSINESS BRIEFS CAPILANO COLLEGE president Dx. Douglas Jardine will speak to the West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. Jardine, who in his private life is a member of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association and a contributing editor of the Canadian Aviation News, will speak to the chamber’s breakfast meeting on how business people can benefit from their association with the education process and with Capilano College in par- ticular, For more information, call the chamber at 926-6614. ad PETER LEGGE, president of Canada Wide Magazines Ltd. and publisher of 17 consumer and trade magazines across Canada, will be the guest speaker at the general meeting of the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce on Sept. 20. Legge advocates three casy principles in life in order to suc- ceed: persistence, patience and a positive atritude. “Nothing will take the place of these three factors...talent will not, education will not, genius will not,’’ says Legge. ear LONGTIME North Vancouver resident Doug Vincent is leaving the B.C. Chamber of Commerce after serving as its executive direc- tor for 13 months. He is leaving to take over the post of manager of the Vernon Chamber of Commerce. ee A BUSINESS After Hours even- ing will be held between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Park Royal Hotel in West Vancouver. nae ISSUES THAT affect women in the 1990s will be the focus of an upcoming lecture series at Capilano College. Six dynamic speakers will discuss topics such as the mother-daughter relationship, women in politics and the female perspective on the environment. For more information call 986- 1813. . eee THE PUBLIC Legal Education Society will sponsor a iree law class called ‘Power of Attorney: What To Do Before You Can No Longer Manage Your Affairs’” Sept. 21 between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. at the Lucas Centre in North Vancouver. Call 986-8888 to register. Business computers in the home help develop skills Compuiers are useful for bookkeeping, catalogues AS RECENTLY as five years ago, there were ‘“thome’’ computers — most of them designed te run games — and ‘‘real’’ computers for use in business. No more. The cost of “real” computers for business has come down at the same time as their reliability has gone up. They have quickly become a fixture in the workplace. At home, meanwhile, parents decided that a ‘thome’’ computer was an expensive toy that the kids didn't use after a few months. These two trends pretty well ended the single-purpose ‘‘home’’ com- puter because the ‘‘real’’ com- puter can be used at home as well. In companies in which a higher level of computer literacy is valued, corporate policies have been devised to help employees buy machines for home. Such policies pay big dividends as employees become more satisfied computer users. Financial help to buy a computer for home use not only means the employee pays the lowest price, but also gets the op- portunity to develop new skills that can lead to promotions. Even in cases where parents do not take immediately to computers if they do not use them at work, the machines quickly become as familiar to youngsters as a tele- phone. What can you use a computer for at home in addition to . finishing work from the office? Start with keeping your books, your record of expenses and in- come, so that you can do a real budget. The computer does the dog work; the chore becomes fun. You can also keep telephone and address lists; catalogue your music, collectibles, books and videos; store recipes; write letters and articles. For the children, there are essays to write and com- puter tutorials in many skills. In most cases, the computer choice falls into two categories: The Apple Macintosh, in several versions of sophistication; and IBM-type machines, either the real McCoy from International Business Machines Corp. or a ‘tclone,’’ so named because they’re less expensive copies of IBM machines. A basic computer is made up of the central processor, a keyboard, a screen/monitor and a_ printer. You need an operating system, then applications programs to do word processing, budgeting or whatever, The applications pro- grams, or software, are as varied these days as human imagination. The cost of a computer system varies widely because of such features as storagve capacity and speed of operation. A ball park figure would be $2,006 for a good medium-range machine. Anything over $4,000 these days is getting into the Cadillac class. 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