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What's new in the Guide

• Nov 9 1994: We resume publication after a long hiatus.
• Dec 1 1994: More about Pentiums, laptops, and dual-bus boards.
• Dec 13 1994: Pre-Christmas roundup.
• Jun 29 1995: More about E-IDE and SCSI disks.
• Jul 22 1995: More about printers for Unix.
• Jan 20 1996: Major update, with new material on Trends in Disk Capacity, Modems, CD-ROMs, and many other topics.
• Mar 7 1996: Major update: Buying a Large Monitor. Also, new material on backup hardware, modems, printers.
• Jun 26 1996: More on caches and SCSI vs. IDE. Also a handy glossary of RAM-packaging terms.
• Oct 16 1996: Major Fall '96 update. New stuff on the bus wars, modems, benchmarks, lots of other topics.
• Dec 2 1996: New material on tape drives.
• Dec 10 1996: Reorganized and rewrote the `How To Buy' section.
• Dec 16 1996: Added material on GDI printers and a new `Links' section. Also more on RAM, ATX boards, video, and sound cards, 33.6 modems.
• Jan 8 1997: Minor update on ATX, printers, keyboards.
• Mar 12 1997: Minor update on multimedia.
• Apr 5 1997: Minor update on SCSI cables, Exabyte, keyboards.
• Aug 7 1997: Minor upgrade of power section.
• Aug 12 1997: Major update: new stuff on the processor market, memory, disk drives.
• Sep 12 1997: More good links.
• Sep 18 1997: Minor update on modems, keyboards, overall system prices.
• Dec 14 1997: Minor update on SCSI drives, and more resource links.
• Apr 21 1998: General update. Modem section still needs work.
• Jun 7 1998: More on modems -- V.90, ADSL, K2, 56Flex.
• Jul 24 1998: More on DAT drives. Retired the 486 section and QIC material. Updated section on processors and motherboards.
• Aug 24 1998: New section on tuning your I/O subsystem.
• Aug 28 1998: More stuff on modems thanks to Frederic Joly.
• Sep 9 1998: Yet more on modems and I/O tuning. Fax section removed, apparently it was obsolete and incorrect.
• Dec 20 1998: Christmas update, various small fixes.
• Jun 11 1999: V90 modems have taken over.
• Jun 18 1999: Major Summer 1999 update. We're actually current now.
• Jun 23 1999: Minor update based on suggestions from Andrew Comech.
• Jun 26 1999: Minor update on How To Buy.
• Jul 9 1999: Added link to a humongous disk database.