CheckIt 98 Diagnostic Suite Earns Windows Magazine Award.HUNTINGTON BEACH Huntington Beach, city (1990 pop. 181,519), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast, across from Santa Catalina Island, in an oil-producing area; inc. 1909. It manufactures aerospace vehicles, aircraft parts, optical instruments, and heat transfer equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 1998-- TouchStone Software Corp. (Nasdaq: TSSW TSSW Technical Support Software ) Wednesday announced that the CheckIt(R) 98 Diagnostic Suite has been added to WINDOWS Magazine's prestigious WinList. The WinList represents WINDOWS Magazine's designation that CheckIt 98 Diagnostic Suite is "best-in-class" within its product category. The Jan. 5, 1999, WINDOWS Magazine review says, "CheckIt 98 Diagnostic Suite earns a place on our WinList for its ability to survey your system for problems." It noted that the program will "conduct a brutally thorough battery of hardware-level tests," and that it also checks and fixes Year 2000 problems Year 2000 problem, Y2K problem, or millennium bug, in computer science, a design flaw in the hardware or software of a computer that caused erroneous results when working with dates beyond Dec. 31, 1999. . In conclusion, Windows Magazine states "CheckIt 98 Diagnostic Suite has what you need to keep your hardware in shape." Numerous publications are touting CheckIt 98 Diagnostic Suite's benefits. In the Sept. 17, 1998, online article from PC World, Warren Ernst calls the product "first rate," and indicates "when it comes to hard-core hardware checking, CheckIt 98 does the job." PC Magazine's January 1999 issue also contains a review recommending that "anyone who diagnoses and repairs PCs for a living should seriously consider this suite of tools." PC/Computing selected CheckIt 98 Diagnostic Suite as a finalist for their MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. award in the systems utility category. About CheckIt 98 Diagnostic Suite Providing advanced tools for PC technicians and power users, CheckIt 98 Diagnostic Suite combines five quality TouchStone utility products. The suite comes with CheckIt 98 diagnostics, which includes extensive hardware tests, system information, Windows tools and crash recovery and CheckIt Portable Diagnostics for use when Windows will not boot. CheckIt NetOptimizer(TM) utility, the best-selling, award winning Internet performance maximizer, and FastMove!(R) file transfer and synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. utility, are also included, along with the CheckIt Year 2000 program to test and fix your PC hardware for the year 2000 compliance. Finally, CheckIt 98 Diagnostic Suite furnishes Bigelow's PC Technician Troubleshooting Pocket Reference. CheckIt 98 Diagnostic Suite is available at major retail chains, including Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry's Electronics Fry's Electronics is a specialty retailer of software, consumer electronics, computer hardware and household appliances with a chain of superstores headquartered in Silicon Valley. Starting with one store located in Sunnyvale, California, USA, the chain now boasts sales of $2. and MicroCenter or through TouchStone's Web site at www.touchstonesoftware.com. About TouchStone TouchStone Software is a leading developer of innovative software designed to help people use complex technologies. The company's products, which include CheckIt 98 diagnostics, CheckIt 98 Diagnostic Suite bundle, CheckIt NetOptimizer Internet utility Software used to search the Internet. See Archie, Gopher, Veronica, WAIS and Web browser. and FastMove! file transfer program, are distributed worldwide through the retail, VAR, distributor, direct and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and sales channels. TouchStone's corporate headquarters are located at 2124 Main Street, Huntington Beach, Calif. 92648. Additional information about TouchStone Software is available at www.touchstonesoftware. |
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