CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesdav. August 29.1995
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Microsoft Windows 95 receives mixed reviews
By Craig Lang Kansan staff writer
After a $200 million advertising campaign, Microsoft's Windows 95 program did not exactly fly off the shelves Thursday when it was finally released in stores.
That was the opinion of Mike Swalm, computer hardware and software buyer for Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road. He said the store sold only about 40 of the 138 copies that had been on sale since Thursday. Swalm said he thought most people were not ready to give it a try until they had heard the reactions of other users.
Charles Jones, owner of Uml Computers, 2449 S. Iowa St., said he recommended that his customers stay away from Windows 95. He said the program was a memory hog, and most users had older computers that did not have sufficient memory capacity to run the new program.
Jones said most of the users who bought Windows 95 would have to buy hardware to upgrade their computers so they could provide the memory capacity needed to run the program. He said the cost of upgrading some
computers could be more than the price of a new one.
Jeff Bangert, Computer Center graphics supervisor, said he had a test copy of Windows 95 for several months, and he liked it a lot.
"I don't know what I'd do without it." he said.
Bangert said Windows 95 was, much easier to use than the previous versions of Windows software. He said that in Windows versions 3.0 and 3.1, users could lose track of files very easily while they were running more than one program.
"It's a lot harder to lose things with Windows 95," he said. "You can see what you've got running."
Bangert said a new feature of Windows 95 was that when more than one program was running at the same time, the names of the programs were indicated at the top of the screen. That way users could access the program they wanted at any time simply by clicking the mouse on the file name.
Because the policy of the computer center is not to change the computer system in the middle of a semester, Bangert said Windows 95 could not be installed into the computer labs until the end of the fall semester.
Where to buy it
Windows 95 is offered at the following stores in Lawrence:
Hastings Books Music and Video, 23rd and Iowa streets, $89.95
Wal-Mart, 3300 Iowa St.,
$79.96
Kmart, 3106 Iowa St., $90
Central Data Computer Systems, 745 New Hampshire St. $92.50
Uni Computers, 2449 S. Iowa St. $92.95
Jayhawk Bookstores, 1420 Crescent Road. $99.95
Jeree Caitlin, supervisor of training at the Computer Center, said Windows 95 would be installed into two computers at the computer work area. She said one of the computers would have a sign-up sheet to allow students to select a time to try the new program.
"Depending on funds, it should be available on all PC machines by next semester," she said.
The first phase of expansion at Watkins Memorial Health Center is underway, causing minor inconveniences to both physicians and patients.
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Watkins adjusts to construction
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A touch of Irish in downtown Lawrence
Administrators agree that the distractions are a necessary evil
By Joann Birk
Kansan staff writer
Jim Strobl, director of student health services, said that while some staff and students already seemed frustrated with the noise, most people knew the advantages of the expansion would outweigh the inconveniences. The expansion will add 20 exam rooms in general medicine and five in gynecology, which will allow doctors to move from one patient to the next more quickly.
The noise, dirt and dust will only increase as the construction progresses, but Yockey said that patient confidentiality and quality of care would be maintained.
Doctors at Watkins Memorial Health Center cannot always hear their patients' heartbeat over the rattle of jackhammers and the roar of bulldozers. And the problems caused by the expansion's construction have just begun.
or distracting noises.
Amy Mack, St. Louis senior, said she had been to Watkins this year but did not hear any unusual
"So far, the noise has been a minor nuisance," said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins. "But there have been times when I was trying to talk to patients, and the noise got really distracting. When that jackhammer gets going it is hard to hear yourself think."
But eventually the construction will have to move inside, and an increasing number of patients and staff will be affected.
While the staff attempts to work around the challenges created by the construction, patients seem to be relatively unaffected.
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"I hardly noticed that anything was going on," said Mack.
"The whole reason we are doing all this construction is to get more exam rooms and increase privacy," he said. "But for a while we are going to have to lose the use of a few rooms and move some doctors around to accommodate the expansion."
"We have been so cramped that it really slowed us down," Strobi said. "With the new exam rooms, we will be able to move students through much quicker."
Yockey said that doctors were now seeing patients between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., when the construction had ended for the day.
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