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14 March 1989 Vol. 3 No. Low-profile debuts for two Mac clones Salt Lake City — While Apple was busy with its glitzy Macintosh IIex introduction last week, two Macintosh clone manufacturers made low-tech debuts here and in Hanover, West Germany. Clone maker Powder Blue Com- puters of Salt Lake City advertised its Mac II and IIx clone, the Blue- MAQ, in the classified section of The New York Times on Sunday, Feb. 26. Under the heading ~Busi- hess opportunities,” the ad sought dealers for a line of “MacINTOSH compatables” (sic). See Clones, Page 8 Adobe will license its font technology San Francisco — Adobe Systems Inc. said it will announce its inten- tion to license its font technology, inchiding encryption and hints, to third-party type manufacturers. Chuck Geschke, Adobe execu- tive vice president and chief aper- ating Alico hwill make the announcement at Seybold Semi- nars ‘89 here this week and will Teveal the names of companies that am cre $0 far have signed agreements The move makes it possible for other companies to market fonts that work with Adobe interpreters. MWe have been listening to users | and have taken a lot of hits for not taking our technology available The announcement comes a Week after Sun Microsystems @nnounced that it was licensing its font technology to five type foundries (see story, Page 57 "We think the announcements to be made at Seybold are strategic in that they provide a much broader base of type availability for users,” | Said Clint Nagy, Adobe national sales manager. Ajit Kapoor, senior vice president at CAP International, a Norwell, | Mass., market research company Sees the announcement as a “win. Win situation for Adobe and users. “Users get the Ppeeauty to use fonts from other {c without | Having to sacrifice quality, Said. “For Adobe it’s an offensive position that broadens the base of its technology and protects its eco nomic interests.” — By Cliff Lehman Said an Adobe representative | The Mac market’s sleeping giant awakes see Poge 57. | After a sluggish start, Ashton-Tate aims to make up for lost time. Apple stalks aia market with Mac Ilex Sculley touts new Mac as ‘Apple at its best’ By Renee Mathews and Jon Swart San Francisco — When Apple announced its '030-based Macin- tosh Icx last week, it not only gave corporate buyers a machine they had been asking for but also set the direction for a new product strategy The Mac Ilex is expected to pro- pel Apple into the lucrativ midrange business markets cur- rently dominated by IBM AT-com- patible computers, Apple CEO John Sculley said at last week's product launch “This is Apple at its best,” said Sculley. “In many ways [the [cx] will shape the destiny of Apple and personal computing as we head into the 1990s.” Volume buyers lysts were impre: tem’s modular design, small foot- print and performance capabilities “The product is ideal because 80 percent of Mac customers don’t See Ilcx, Page 8 Partners and adversaries, | Apple and Microsoft weather stormy romance | By Rusty Westoa San Francisco — Later this week, a San Francisco federal judge will hear the latest round in the legal battle that has become the world’s version of a Tracy and Hepbum movie computer romance. Locus, not lawsuits: Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bil Gates (let) and Apple CEO John Sculley in pre-ltigation times at Apple's 1984 soles meeting in Hawail. Apple and Microsoft Corp. may not have the marquee value of the two film stars of yore, but their longtime alliance for just as strong a loy relationship It's a relationship that’s thriving in computer stores, but it appears to be hanging by a thread in the courts. It's a relationship in which See Microsoft, Page willl" More on Ilex intro > Behind the scenes ot debut, Page 3. > Apple's new monitors, Page 6. > Gallery of reactions, Page 8. > Editorial: Apple repositions, Poge 22 The Mac Ilcx and Apple’s two new large-screen monitors (I pple CEO John Sculley positions the new model among the full Mac line at the premiere in San Francisco; Apple Products President Jeon- Louis Gassée demon- strates quick assembly of the modular licx. a Sar Spindler hints at new directions By Heary Norr Hanover, West Germany — The Mae Hex rollout, held here on the eve of CeBIT, Europe's largest computer show, had little of the high-tech showmanship of the U.S introductions a few hours later. But Ilex: Step ahead in design but not technology By Becky Waring Users looking for breakthrough innovations in Apple's new Mac Ilex may be disappointed, but the computer offers a host of ergonom- ic and design refinements that together constitute a significant technical achievement The newest member of the mod- ular Macintosh family neatly scales down and improves upon the tech- nology of the Mac Ix The most obvious difference between the Hex and its Mae II See Analysis, Page 14 Michael Spindler, president of, Apple Europe, livened up the event by confirming that Apple is at work on a lower-cost entry-level Mac and by dropping other hints about the company’s technology directions, Later, in San Francisco, John Sculley also commented on Apple’ plans, including mentions of RIS! (reduced instruction set comput- ing) development and a 1989 sys- tem software upgrade, but Spindler went into much more detail > Low-cost Mac. “We do not at the moment,” Spindler acknowl- edged, “have something that responds to the public at large for an entry price that is affordable — in the area of a videotape recorder or something like that — where people can experience the Mac “L think,” the ar-old Ger- man-born executive added, “that in the not-so-distant future — with out making this another product announcement session — we can answer specifically, «with non-clon- able technology, that position in the marketplace.” The problem, Spindler said after the meeting, “is not solvable by See Spindler, Page 9 0 or offers the biggest viewing spread including rulers ae Besides black and white, there are SilverView models offering 16 or all 256 different shades of gray. So what you used to leave up to the imagination can now be in all your work. Like subtle halftones or delicate shadings. SilverView’s also remarkably comfortable to work with. z Its high contrast flat-screen virtually eliminates glare and > distortion. And its unusually high refresh rate delivers rock solid images that never flicker. To find out just how much better your work can look, call Sigma Designs at (415) 770-0100 today. Then never scale down your ideas. The Silver View™ family of high resolution 217 display systems offers the largest viewing area available any- where. SilverView’s full size two page display is achieved with a new 21” flat screen moni- tor, which provides nearly 16" x 12° of ac- tive display area The Silver View two page display allows you to display two full pages simultane- ously, in actual size at 1152 x 670 pixels, 72 DPI because we are not r a only big but we are | ~~ Dsl J also 72 dpi. 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SILVERVIEW tes Pageview SverView 2nd ColoOMAX are trademarks of Sena Despre ne MAC SE and Mac Hl are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, inc HacWEEK 14 March 1989 Apple pulls out the stops for Ilcx intro By Connie Guglielmo San Francisco — Apple's launch of the machine code-named Cobra was one of the glitziest productions ever staged by the company famous for its event marketing, In addition to the usual gather- ing of industry press and analysts the unveiling of the Mac cx played via satellite to an estimated audience of 6,000 Apple customers and resellers in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas Washington, Toronto and Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif The broadcast was also picked up for showing at the CeBIT Com puter Show in Hanover, West Ger- many, as well as by Apple Australia in Sydney, Businessland, Comput- erLand and several universities. The world is full of clutter,” said David Hancock, vice president of marketing for Apple USA. “Great marketing lifts you above the clutter for the world to see you clearly.” © The event was staged as though it was a TV show, said Scott Holmes, executive producer. Regional vice presidents opened the event at each site “all then Switched to the San Francisco based main event, starring Apple CEO John Sculley and Apple Prod ucts President Jean-Louis Gassée | Cameramen followed their Movements on the stage. Mono- | logues were interspersed with fast | paced videos projected on two ceil ing-high screens and accompanied by an upbeat musical score written for the event. The opening video, showing the day before setup at the Seven primary sites, was in the edit- } ing room until minutes before air } time, Holmes said Act 1 featured Gussée assembling @ Mac Hex from scratch on stage The computer then launched into a flashy animated show created with a beta of FilmMaker from French developer Symbiotic France. “It's ;” Holmes said, Executive Producer Scot! Holmes estimoted that about 20 miles of ‘coble were used in San Francisco as part of the satellite broodcast. le CaM eo Professional video technicians monitored Apple CEO John Sculley’s every movement doring o rehearsal of the show-biz extrava- ganze for the new modular Macintosh. Tt was also very risky. The day before the unveiling, Holmes joked that only weird weather could disrupt the live satellite broadcast. Then, less than 24 hours before the event, the largest solar flare of this decade erupted. Solar flares are known to scramble radio, TV and satellite transmissions. The Apple signal was not affected, though, and except for an ice storm | that hit Dallas moments before the show, all went well, Holmes said Behind the scenes in San Francisco, Apple staff manned computers und video projectors. Although all on-stage product demos were Mac- generated, Mac sig- nals were sent via cable to two large mobile video trucks parked outside. The Mac's RGB (red, green, blue) signals were converted to National Television Systems Code (NTSC), the U.S video standard, and returned via cable for display using two rear-screen video projectors set up behind the stage. he NTSC signal was also sent out over two bandwidths and four satellites to each site, Holmes esti- mated that 20 miles of cable were used in San Francisco. About 400 Mae Icx machines were sent out to the field for the launch, he said “We took a lot of risks with this show,” he added. “It was the riski- est thing we've done in a while From my point of view, it went off just fine Holmes hinted that an even big- ger extravaganza was in the works for Apple’s introduction of its lap- top sometime this summer. ¢ 20 21 24 24 4 62 28 News 28 34 36 36 38 Can’t live with “em, can’t live without ‘em: = —— Alook at the Apple, Microsoft love-hate relation- ship as ruling date on lawsvit approaches. Seybold’s the site for hot Mac publishing Apple to unveil OASIS, a strategy of Mac technology Intro of Apple monitors shake up market Congress considers anti-virus bill Microrim plans multiplatform Atlas DBMS MaclnTouch Hihdensty dscssios, poles PostScrp. 40 Micronet releases hard drives for Ilcx Apple expected to launch next-generation LCD Telesystems SW upgrades wireless AppleTalk bridge 40 Opcode’s new musical sequencer receives applause The Mac Manager Hoge opplictions won't face the Mac o evo 42 HyperHIT database engine readied for HyperCard 4D application tasks simplified with ArcheTyper aS Opinion 37 Editorial The Moc Ilex defines Apple's peoduct direction; 1! may be eased out, mi Letters 60 Mac Soapbox Fronk Catalano Too much of 0 good thing: Plethora of OS choices confuses users. Mac the Knife i 45 Window On 47 48 50 55 A form of expression: Using a variety of software, designers create innovative type faces. Current typefaces get a face lift Bending the curve: Digitizing type Window On Spreadsheets lailored to fit specialized functions Excel loyalty may be blinding users to alternatives Tech Files Joel West Engineering more thon just CAD. Reviews Wingz soars out of the vapor: Informix’s powerful new spreadsheet program may lead to a mass migration of Excel users. The Week in Reviews Expressitiite has the most useful combination of features in aaletter desk occessory so for Oracle Mac falks SQL to mainframes Business Watch Sun licenses outline font technology to vendors Industry Profile Ashton Tote VP Terry Garnett has highfiying ideas for his company. SPA cracks down on software pirates MarketWEEK Apple stocks contave to shther downivard despite this month's inodaction of the Mac ttcx Mail Order Ad Index Ad Showcase Classified Career Opportunities Moc EEX paducd ving on ntawse sytem ot: hypo Mactach SEs end Max Ui; ects, Vntyper YEO ond VGOQW, end QMS ColeScrg 100 pts netwoded on Foraon FPanalt; « Lnctran 300; ox hbaton camer; Estes, [Machines ond Supartc montor; end sftwar aciteg QuciXPres, Ads Papel, Adobe ttt, his Feetond, Septet, Micra Wor, LoarPoct cad Puxord News ‘Fourth Wave’ builds at Seybold Seminars Color for PageMaker, Linotype RIP 3 top list By Cliff Lohmon and Connie Guglielmo San Francisco — Several announcements at Seybold Seminars “89 here this week will help fulfill the vision of a “Fourth Wave” in publishing systems As defined by Jonathan Seybold, president of Seybold Publications Inc., the Fourth Wave is the move away from proprietary integrated publishing systems to off-the-shelf personal computer-based solutions. Here are some of the Mac-based develop- ments that are expected to be introduced in San Francisco this week: > While type vendors and font technology companies continue to jockey for market position, Adobe is expected to announce [uae agreements for its font hinting and encryption technology (sec story, Page 1). » Aldus Corp. is expected to announce new color capabilities for PageMaker 3.0 PageMaker Color Extensions allows users of the page-layout program to display and out- put process-color images. The Seattle-based company will also announce a new open standard, based on the PostScript page-description language, for linking Macintosh desktop publishing pro- grams to high-end pre-press. publishing sys- " March 7) > Linotype Inc. of Hauppauge, N.Y., will introduce RIP 3, the newest in its series of PostScript controllers for the Linotronic family of typesetters. RIP 3 is based on a Motorola 68030 chip and comes with 8 Mbytes of RAM, which will result in speed improvements of 80 pet on graphics and 20 percent on text, the company said. RIP 3 will be priced at approximately $26,000, the same as Lino’s RIP 2 > Letraset US.A. of Paramus, N.J., will officially unveil ColorStudio, a 32-bit color photo-retouching program. To ship this sum- mer, ColorStudio lets users manipulate full 24-bit color images and provides an addition- al eight bits for a mixing channel to handle masking effects such as transparency and mapping, Pricing has not been determined. > Electronic Publisher International of Excelsior Springs, Mo., will demonstrate DataPage, a new page-production system that lets networked Macs keep track of page Layouts created with QuarkXPress. DataPage contains database functions, built using Color board for SE/30 Hanover, West Germany — RasterOps last week shipped the ColorBoard 108+/SE30, the first color solution for Apple’s new Mac- intosh SE/30. The eight-bit ColorBoard 108+/SE30, shipped at the CeBIT computer show here, displays 256 colors or 256 levels of gray with 640-by-480 (13-inch), 800-by-600 (16-inch) or 1,0; 768 (19-inch) pixel resolutions The ColorBoard 108+/SE30 includes extended desktop (8,192 pixels by 765 pixels) d panning area (19 inches from a 16- or 13-inch sercen) features. The board also includes pop-up menu software and a fourfold hardware pan-and-zoom feature The ColorBoard 105+/SE30 lists for $1,595 and is available immediately RasterOps is located at 10161 Bubb Road, Cupertino Calif, 95014; (408) 446-4090. 5 and 1 ACIUS' 4th Dimension database, for pro- duction tra archiving and editing stories. > The Font Company will demonstrate downloadable PostScript-version typefaces from the URW type Ii tosh. The Phoenix, Ariz., company will show samples of more than 200 typefaces from its ‘A completewline"of” ‘products forthe Macthaty <allworktogethier. ; ‘which hit me like a ton " MicrosoftsExcel/updated frommwithiny Microsoft revision tracking, and for the Macin- will produce hig! Fasten your seatbelts, Mac®fans. You’re about to enter the Microsoft Zone. Earlier this week I witnessed a demo of Microsoft's products that left me feeling as enlightened as the day I first set my eyes on a Macintosh® Here’s acompany with areputation for singularly superior products. But what they showed me pushed the envelope of software productivity: The significance of of bricks when I saw them in action. f For instance, I saw a ichart in your very fayor- itespreadsheet and mine, complete line strokes. And then pasted into PowerPoint for an in- credible looking presentation. And with just as little effort, the ever- capable Microsoft’ Word '4.0.was merged: with»Microsoft’s»databaseyapplication, File;fora mass mailin As if that wasn’t enough, I saw their versatile integrated program Works share files with Microsoft Excel and Word, What really blew me away is Micro- AiO mpl irs erica nets (cerstaliost phar ny Typography and Display series. > Bitstream Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., will demonstrate a prototype of a new font tech- nology for on-the-fly font rendering that is three times faster than its nearest competi- tor, according to the company Speedo, as the product is called fquality output and will Here’s a company with a reputation for singularly superior products. But what they showed me pushed the envelope of software productivity: A that all work together. WEST SIDE USERS GROUP MocWEK 14 Hach 1969 support arbitrary rotation and mirror {ms ing over a wide range of resolution and point sizes. An OEM and independent so! vendor product, Speedo can support a ety of output devices and screens and handle kerning and tracking functions, > Concept Fults Systems Ine. Beaver Dam, Wis., will show the col sion of its ad-layout and design AdWorks 2.0 will support 256 col gray-scale images in TIFF (tag im format). The $3,000 package is sch ernally soft Mail. You can Ci and receive infor- mation between members in your work- group even if they’re on a PC. Nice. But the real beauty is that you can 4: 0: No Bier company can offer that kind of integration. Or this kind: A product line that all works together. With other applications on the Mac. And even with such PC standards like Lotus® 1-2-3°, Mi- crosoft Word 5.0 and WordPerfect®. What’s more, every product is supported by on-line:help:and:a'com- prehensivesmanual. Or you can call one number for unlimited technical support. Obviously, I’mimpressed. So muchso, that I’ve asked Microsoft to send copies of their Macintosh product line brochure in time for our next meeting. If you can’t make it, you can always getafreecopy by calling (800)'541-1261,:Depts1929 Fellow Macphiles, man your Macs. Because we're entering anew age of com- patibility—or at least Microsoft is. And I don’t know about you, but I plan on going along for the ride. of products MocWEEK 14 March 1989 OASIS charts Apple’s future By Doniel Farber Cupertino, Calif, — At the introduction of the Mac Ilex last week, Apple CEO John Sculley said the company would soon issue a technology strategy statement called OASIS that “will define in a very good technical description exactly what Macintosh technology is, has been and what it will continue to be in the future.” OASIS, which stands for open architecture systems integration strategy, is designed to enlighten Apple employees, dealers and customers who may be puzzled about the company’s current and future architectural framework and tech- nology directions. OASIS employs a five-layer model to describe the Mac architecture and explain the way the components in each layer sup- port the design principles and goals ina attributes to the machine. The five layers are application, desktop, toolbox, operating system and hardware According to Jean-Louis Gassée, a chief architect of OASIS and president of Apple products, “{OASIS] explains how the various lee play together, how we will evolve, and how we offer integration in a multivendor environment.” A person orgieed vision will come into your life. pene c traders 4f Micrigate News Transparent mapping o bwerievel inctons The OASIS model describes bow the Mac architecture supports the machine's design principles. Apple recommits to federal market By Jeffrey Uboi Washington — Apple reiterated its sup- port for major federal government computer standards as it unveiled the [cx and new monitors here at the important Federal Office Systems Expo (FOSE) last week. The federal government is one of Apple's fastest-growing markets, and it was either a stroke of luck or good planning that the announcement tancidall with the annual gathering of more than 2,000 mostly federal managers and government contractors. “The government market is almost as big as the private business market,” said CG Lloyd Mahaffey, director of Apple's Federal Systems Group. “Apple is now bid- ding on almost a billion Paseo ob federal contracts. “Now we are laying in a price/perfor- mance range from which, historically, Apple has been absent,” Mahaffey said. “To the Coast Guard, connectivity is every- thing,” said Stephen Plusch, commanding officer of the Coast Guard Information Sys- tems Center, which manages 9,000 micros. “The attraction of the Mac depends on its ability to integrate into our existing network. “For the Coast Guard to take advantage of Apple products, we need TCP/IP, a full set of OSI (open systems interconnect) protocol products, A/UX and eventually Posix (portable operating system interface),” he said. “The more connectivity, the better,” said William Ferguson, director of technical com- munications for Planning Research Corp.'s Government Information Systems Division, 4 major player in many federal computer contracts. Ferguson manages an Apple pro- tocol-based network of 1,500 computers, more than half of which are Macs. Apple’s Mahaffey emphasized that Apple was working on both the standards and connectivity issues. “We haye a commitment to three stan- dards,” Mahaffey said. "We Intend to be fully compliant with Posix as it evolves, and we are currently compliant with both IEEE (Inter- national Society of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Posix Draft 12, and the Posix fed- eral information processing standard 151 We are comuilted | to the evolution of Gosip (the government's subset of the OSI stan- dard), both in the Mac operating system and in A/UX. And finally, we are committed to trusted systems, and we have a CMW and CYB] (security standards) certification.” The response to the Icx and monitors was, for the most part, favorable. “The Icx is impressive for CAD and mod- cling, especially with the idea of a seamless interface between the document space and the desktop space,” said Plusch. “ih buy the full-page monitor as soon as I can arrange the litinn “oO By Jobn Battelle Cupertino, Calif, — For third- party monitor vendors, Apple's introduction of two large-screen displays is both good news and bad. The good news is that the new monitors from Apple signal a robust market for Macintosh dis- play devices. The bad news is that vendors now must compete with a company that automatically takes a sizable portion of the market when it enters a new category The ultimate winners, however, will be Mac users, who will benefit from the increased competition. “Apple will make the pie bigger and then take a slice of it,” said Mike Boich, president of San Jose, Calif.-based Radius Inc. Radius now commands more than half of the large-screen market, Boich said. On the day before Apple's intro- duction, Radius announced price cuts on its Full Page Display and Two Page Display systems (see story, Page 16) Apple monitors shake up market How Apple’s Portrait = . FULL PAGE DISPLAY Apple’s Por- Pree: 51,698 trait Display Dats pr inch: 80 monitor, which * is priced at Seonrote: 75 Hz $1,099, will ship in May. The Two-Page Display is avail- able now for $2,149. Display cards for each cost $599. Both monitors can be conti; for eight bits, or 256 levels of gray. Apple provides for expansion to 16 levels of gray in the form of a two- bit (expandable to four) NuBus video card for each of the new monitors, but for now third parties will have to provide cards for 256 levels of gray. “This is the product I’m most excited about,” said Apple CEO John Sculley when introducing the 15-inch Portrait Display. Steve Kolb, public information officer with the California Depart- ‘gray scole: Rep. Robert Carr: “A normed jory isn’t Ukely to think someone misdirectng an electron is a thief.” Price: $1,490: Dots per inch: 77 Sconrole: 69 Hz Expandoble gray sole: No 1 year ment of Consumer Affairs in Sacra- mento expressed an attitude that demonstrates the impact of Apple's new monitors. “We have the Radius Full Page Display and the Two Page Display on order,” Kolb said. “If Apple's monitors had been ready, we would have gone with them.” “As time goes by we will do some price and channel adjustments,” said Bob Sherwood, vice president of sales and marketing at Raster- Ops Corp. of Cupertino, Calif. Ras- terOps recently introduced the 19- inch monochrome ClearVue II for House considers tougher laws to combat computer viruses By Emily Brower Washington — Heightened pub- lic awareness of computer viruses and their intrusion into Capitol Hill computers has prompted a group of U.S. congressmen to hiceee an amendment that would make virus programming a federal crime. Originally sponsored by Rep. Paul Herger, R-Calif,, the Comput- er Virus Eradication Act of 1989, or H.R. 55, would amend the Com- puter Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 with a new section covering com- puter viruses Now under consideration by the House Judiciary Committee, H.R Apple and Aldus Corp. of Seat- Ue are still investigating two virus cases and hope to nab the perpe- trators under current state and federal computer tampering and fraud laws, Apple is investigating the source of the SCORES virus that swept through Washington, D.C., last spring, according to company representative Cynthia Macon. Dave Lavery of NASA‘ Office of Aeronautics and Space Technol- ogy said the FBI is also inves- ligating the case, Lavery, who had the dul distinction of discover- ing the SCORES virus, said the infection was so widespread that boundaries for jurisdiction are not clear. “We could prosecute under ille- | and unauthorized access to federal computers, but the ques- tion is whether a virus can be con- sidered to act in proxy for a human being,” Lavery said. In Seattle, Aldus has handed the investigation into last spring's infection of Aldus’ FreeHand demonstration disk with the infa- mous MACMAG virus over to the King County, Wash,, Prosecutors Office. A Seattle attorney said the office could prosecute under tam- pering and interference laws relat- ed to computers. Apple and Aldus may eventual- Virus prosecution walks unclear line ly succeed in prosecuting, using computer tampering laws, but the difficulty of building their cases points to the need for an amend- ment like H.R. 55, according to Rep. Robert Carr, D-Mich. “It’s still criminal to write virus- ¢s, but the trouble is you need to synthesize a crime out of other laws,” Carr said. For example, a case could be made against a virus programmer who has stolen or damaged com- | puter data using an ordinary theft statute, “But a normal jury is not likely to think someone misdirectin; electron is a thief," Carr said. — By Emily Brower $2,495. “I think the Portrait Dis- play is a Radius killer,” he said According to analysts, Apple’s entry into the monitor market was inevitable. “Apple had to [intro- duce the monitors] to be known as a provider of business systems, not just CPUs,” said André bold, publisher of Andrew Seybold’s Outlook on Professional Comput- ing. “Apple has given the other | vendors targets to shoot at. Becky Waring contributed to this report 55 would make the creation and insertion of “information or com- mands” that may cause “loss, expense or risk to health or wel- fare,” punishable under civil and criminal codes. The bill is worded to cover infections incurred by the spread of a virus from one computer to another and entitles individuals to relief from virus d “This bill is aimed at the classic case of someone writing a virus with criminal intent,” said Rep Robert Carr, D-Mich., the primary co-sponsor of the bill “The role of computers is becoming so pervasive and the damage of viruses can be so insidi- ‘ous, it relates to the very integrity of our society,” he said But Carr said he would like to see the Computer Virus Eradica- tion Act arn tougher on virus programmers. “In my judgment H.R. 55 has insufficient deterrents for virus programmers,” he said Lawyers agreed that the law could be improved by adding more detail to the amendment. “Some other more extensive liability should be included, such as o minimum statutory damages payable to the aggrieved party,” said Jack Russo, an attorney with Nelson and Russo of Palo Alto, Calif, Carr predicted that the bill will pass once these improye- ments are added, H.R. 55 is the only law that “hits the nail on the head” for prosecuting virus ages. 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Mf ls a trademark of Coastal “Two or three years from now, the typical laser printer will be a lot like | the Business LaserPrinter™. small, light, with a SCSI connector fora hard disk, and inexpensive” That$ how Publish! magazine characterized our Business LaserPrinter (BLP), a Postscript® printer for Mac- THE FUTU RE OF | intoshes; IBMs” and IBM clones. Wed only add that the future has arrived ahead of schedule. POSTSCRIPT. Simply stated, the BLPis a bet- a ter way to translate the language called Postscript into the graphics, words and numbers people use to communicate in business. T Better because the BLP lets you—or anyone else on yourApple- Talk® network—produce superior TAKE IT THERE text with the aid of 39 fonts (four ™ more thanournearest competitor). Better because the BLP comes with expandable RAM (two megabytes expand- able to four), which lets you increase print speed. And Kents ithas a SCSI port, which lets desktop publishers extend the font storage capacity of the BLP via a hard disk. Finally, the BLP even takes better care of your bottom line. In fact, you can buy a BLP and a dedicated hard disk for less than the price of a LaserWriter® II NT alone. Someday, if Publish! magazine is right, other printers. |_ will offer all this. But if you prefer not to wait, just visit YOUU — i authorized GCC Technologies dealer for a BLP demon- stration. For more information, or the name of a dealer near === TECHNOLOGIES you phone (617)890-0880" Peripherals Vvith Vision. Technologies, Peripherals With Vision, Business LaserPrinies and the GCC Technologes rademarks of GCC Technologies. inc All other product and | Ilex need or use all six slots on their Mac IIs anyway,” said Richard LaPierre, workstation group head at Lawrence Berkeley Lab in | Berkeley, Calif “Apple's nght on the money with this one,” said Andrew Seybold publisher of Andrew Seybold’s Outlook on Professional Comput ing in Santa Clara, Calif. “I think the Ilex is going to be the hottest Mac of the entire product line.” The new system is available in four configurations: >1 Mbyte of RAM without a hard disk for $4,669. > 1 Mbyte of RAM/40-Mbyte hard disk for $5,369. >4 Mbytes of RAM/80-Mbyte hard disk for $7,069. > 4 Mbytes of RAM/S0-Mbyte hard disk with A/UX installed for $7,552 52 Continued from Page 1 The company also introduced two new high-resolution displays d story, Page 6) and an internal 5.25-inch, 160-Mbyte hard drive for the Mac II and Ix, priced 599. An external version of the drive, compatible with the entire Mac line, will be available later this summer for $2,699, said Jean-Louis Gassée, Apple Products president Gassée also said that a 68030 logic board upgrade for the Mac SE would be available by the end of March for $1,699. A SuperDrive will be available at the same time for $499. The Mac Ilex and the Mac SE/30, announced in January, sig: nal a significant shift in Apple’s marketing focus from the high: and low-end IBM PC markets to midrange computing, a market seg- ment the company has overlooked in the past “We've had the Mac SE and Plus as good representatives for us in the low end, less than $3,000; and the Mac I is doing very well in the high end, [$6,000 to $12,000],” said Sculley. “But where we haven't been well-represented is in the midrange, [$3,000 to $6,000]. According to InfoCorp., a Cupertino, Calif.-based market research company, personal com- puters priced between $3,000 and $6,000 accounted for half of the $126 billion in personal computer sales last year Apple doubled its revenues to $4 a 7 CO John Scalley: “We're trying not fo set oor expectotions 100 high, but ry guess Is the Mac licx is going fe knock ove right out of the pork.” First impressions of Apple’s rollout billion in the past two years primar- ily by taking the high fin the CPU market, said John Wardley, a senior analyst with International Data Corp. of Framingham, Mass “It sounds like Apple wants to increase its installed base with lower margins and higher volar Wardley said. “Apple had an oppor- tunity to take Hhoweg of user confusion over EISA, MCA, Pre- sentation Manager and OS/2 last year, but [it) didn’t have the manu- facturing capacity to do it. This year, it's shifting market focus from the high end to the midrange.” That isn’t to say that Apple has turned its back on the high-end market. Sculley said that while the company’s major focus would be on midrange computers, Apple would continue R&D efforts on high-end systems, including future products based on RISC (reduced instrue- tion set computing) technology. Apple officials denied immediate plans to discontinue the Mac II, ut users agreed that the new machine would “cannibalize” Mac II sales, “What Apple has done with the Ilex is smart, but in the pro cess they may have hanged the Mac II,” said Paul Morin, a pro- grammer at the Minnesota Super- compet Institute at the Universi- ty of Minnesota in Minneapolis “When Apple first put out the II, it didn’t know what the market want- ed. The IIcx is a more refined machine.” While acknowledging that the Hex would plug a hole in the cur- rent Mac product line, one Mac I user said he hopes the company intends to offer an ‘030 upgrade for the Mac II.” While the Hex is 15 percent to 30 percent faster than the Mac I, Saulley said that Apple is a person- al computer company and not in a race for speed with the workstation market. “We're trying not to set our expectations too high, but my guess is the Mac Ilex fs going to knock ‘one right out of the park,” Sculley said. 0 Clones Ranging in price from $3,695 to $5,995, the BlueMAQ is housed in a PC case and incorporates a “multistage logic board” design that uses the Mae Plus logic board as its foundation. “All we're doing with [Apple's] board is using the circuit- ty to control the ports,” said engi- neer Mike Taylor, The BlueMAQ base model also includes 4 Mbytes of RAM, a 65-Mbyte hard drive and a 12-inch amber Samsung monitor. The BlueMAQ will operate only with Apple’s Mac 128-Kbyte ROMs. Ted Woods, president of Powder Blue, said supplies of these components are “quite substantial,” adding that Apple would “plug the leaks if we talk about where they are coming from.” Me file, in an isolated comer of the CeBIT computer show in Hanover, not far from Apple's booth, Akkord Technology demon- strated its previously announced Macintosh clone (see MacWEEK Jan. 1), now called Jonathan. Jonathan uses a 68000 micropro- cessor housed in a case about the size and shape of an external hard drive, renee to observers. Like other Mac emulators, Jonathan requires Mac 128-Kbyte ROMs for operation, Akkord’s clone, which will be sold only through European OEMs for about 30 percent below Euro- pean prices for the Mac Plus, will ship with a 14-inch black-and- white Philips monitor, built-in errictals connector, and external and internal SCSI ports Both companies emphasized the legitimacy of the 128-Kbyte ROMs included in their hardware and expressed concern about the re tion of Apple's legal muscle to their products Akkord, whose founders have already been through one legal round with Apple over Apple IL clones, requires its European OEMs to sign an agreement saying they will install only legal Mac ROMs in the Jonathans they sell. Continued from Page 1 MOcWIEEK 14 March 1989 (OE PL Powder Blue Computers’ Mac done, called BlveMAQ, uses legitimate Apple ROM and sells for from $3,695 to $5,995, The company’s brochure also advertises the product as a “tomate compatible” in an apparent attempt to avoid any reference to Apple, Powder Blue is also anxious not to be regarded as “opposed to Apple,” Taylor said. The compa: ny said it will continue to purchase: the Mac operating system and ROMs through legitimate third party dealers and that it recognizes the “full legality of Apple's copy- right on the ROM and BIOS (basic eat system).” Akkord said it plans to enter the U'S. market with a $3,000 Mac lap= top kit at the Chicago MacDex in April. According to the company, purchasers can construct a 12- pound laptop with the kit by adding a logic Board and ROMs Akkord will also introduce a ROMless, diskless, AppleTalk-com- patible network station with a 14 inch flat-screen monitor and inter- nal SCSI port at MacDex. Akkord Technology is located at Cheng-Teh Road, No. 1160, Sec ond Floor, Taipei, Taiwan; §86-2- 852-1538, Powder Blue Computers is located at 3760 Highland Drive, Suite 234, Salt Lake City, Utah 84106; (801) 273-3993. — By Emily Brower “After this, | don’t see “The NuBus is importont “In the ‘60s and ‘70s, Detroit “The monitors should help cre- “The Ilcx is the machine onyone buying the Mac I! becouse there is room for brought out the Grand Am ond ate competitive pricing. There I'd buy, at least until the in the future.” token-ing cords.” Mustong. The llcx is the small won't be the some laptop comes.” | ‘muscle cor of the Mac line.” logjam we've experienced.” (AN HOBSON CUFF HODGES BILL LANGENES PEGGY POGGIO GUY KAMASAKI anohyst, Hambrecht & Quist, San Francisco manager of consulting services, Technical onchyst, Crvative Strategies Research manager of smell sysiems support, president, ACIUS loc., Cupertino, Calif, Services Dien, Chevron lnc, San lcterasnal, Senta Cre, Ca Lowrance Uvermace National Labecatry, Rarer, (ol irae, Col “I think it wil sell well. It looks ike a good machine for business users.” JOHN FINKAN systems engineer and Apple products specialist, Microdge Computer Stores inc, Tempe, Ariz much more aggressive in filling out the prod- uct line from a GPU standpoint than in the: past two to four years.” > RISC chips. Spindler said that Apple is testing a variety of RISC (reduced instruc- tion set computing) chips, including some proprietary designs of its own. He said that some ASICs in future Macs might have a RISC architecture. > Supplementary processors. “You will see a lot more use of processors inside the Mac hardware architecture,” Spindler said, to give future machines enhanced capabili- ties in such areas as graphics and networking Apple will “get away a Tite bit from the von Neumann model that says CPU, /O and memory,” he said > Imaging software model. Later this year, Spindler said, Apple will introduce a new software model that will give developers an integrated framework for Natalie imag- “whether it's print, scan, fax, OCR aracter recognition), laser, whatev- er” He described the new model, which he said was the fruit of “an immense amount of investment,” as “outstanding” and “unique.” Adding that “over time” such software would require faster processors, he remind ed the audience that “along the line there is something called the [Motorola 68040], which is immensely more powerful” than the chips running current Mac models. Continued from Page 1 Shing prices of existing models and ending ‘With intolerable mangins.” The answer, he ies in changes in product design, prob- involving large-scale use of custom SIC (application specific integrated circuit) ps to reduce costs. “We will be much. Europe President Michoel Spindler: Apple is testing o ty of RISC chips, indding some ofits own designs. systems. He also looked at the relative incre- mental costs of moving from MS-DOS plat- forms to OS/2 PM vs. moving to Macs. In all cases, Allison found that Apple's products had a clear price advantage, ranging from 7 percent to more than 26 percent, based on pre-Jan. 17 prices In addition to the Mac's lower prices, “it must be noted that the OS/2 PM operating system takes up so much more memory than. Apple's operating system that the useable memory available to a Macintosh user is con- sistently greater than that available to a PS/2: user for similarly configured machines,” Alli- son said. ce the first Macintosh factory more than five ago, the machines have had a reputa- for carrying BMW-like prices. The Icx tion last week has done little to alter perception. , however, a New York analyst has d Mac prices with those of IBM PS/2 machines running the Big Blue- Microsoft graphical user interface, Presenta- Manager. surprising conclusion is that Macs in ponfigurations are bargains compared IBM’s machines. ice companson between the Mac- Allison said he stuck with list prices to h IIx and IBM PS/2 Model 70 running make yalid research comparisons, but if dis- and Presentation Manager shows that counted street prices were used, Macs would %s offerings are up to 23 percent cheap- still be less sspansive, he said. What he did not try to compare is the price of Macs and IBM clones, most of which are considerably cheaper than Big Blue's boxes. He said he chose to ignore the clones because none currently offer Presen- tation Manager running under OS/2. 5 fhe study by Harvey Allison, vice presi- for research at New York's Wertheim & Co., may surprise many industry , who are accustomed to thinking of as the premium-price choice. Thad a very simple point to make,” Alli- pi said. Starting by jotting down some num- ‘on the back of an envelope during a ride, “I just tripped over the fact that prices were lower.” research shows that all Mac models always cheaper than IBM PS/2 machines ning software Mac interface. t Allison's study, completed in Jan- iy, docs not reflect, howev ¢ the price Apple announced Jan. 17. When these Ages are cranked into his comparisons, lacintoshes are an even better deal, he said. for does the study take into account the Promotional Mac rebates that Apple pnounced last month. The cash-back deal throughthe end of this month. ison compared a variety of configurations if the two computer lines, including entry- packages, high-end systems and multiple Toshiba exec appointed president of Apple Japan ‘Tokyo — Apple last week named a 20-year pelaran ones Corp. as the new presi- dent of Apple Japan. Shigeckaka Takeuchi was most ri senior vice president of Toshiba Europe, where he was responsible for overall strate- gic planning and product and market strate- gies, according to Apple. Apple commands less than 2 percent of the Japanese computer market “frikeuchis} solid knowledge of the pee: anese market will guide Apple Japan [to} re- spond to t market's specific needs,” said Del Yocam, Apple Pacific president. ntended to compete with > Electronic mail. Apple's European 100 people over the coming year to help ful- R&D Center in Paris is developing software fill a “world mandate” to develop new that could provide a platform on which devel- _ modems for Apple. opers ould bulld ners applications Apple public relations officials said the “My personal opinion,” Spindler said, “is press tiiehaes were designed as much to edu- that electronic mail is where publishing was cate the continental press about the Mac and five years ago: not good enough. We have to Apple Europe as to introduce new hardware. make a eachroael : “The European market is very serious and He also confirmed that the 9-month-old very businesslike,” said Anthony Cagle, Paris center is working on software to sup- Apple marketing manager for networking port the X.400 standard for packet-switching and communications predic for Europe. communications networks. 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It's clearly the thing to do. radus Intelligent Hardware™ News Mac version due a year from now By John Battelle Redmond, Wash. — Microrim announced plans last week for its Atlas database management system (DBMS), but users eager to experi- ence “seamless data connectivity” will have to wait at least a year before they see a Mac version of the multiplatform SQL solution. Microrim officials said Atlas, already in development for almost two years, will allow users to trans- parently share data across a wide variety of hardware platforms and DBMS software. A unique feature of Atlas, according to Marco Hegyi, Micro- rim’s vice president of product planning, is its front-end engine, which includes an object-oriented user interface tool kit. The tool kit will allow users to create applica- tions that will run on any of the machines and operating systems supported by the program with the interface appropriate to each ine. An application created on the Mac that provides the Mac user interface, for example, would automatically run under IBM's OS/2 and Presentation Manager and would give users the Presenta- tion Manager interface, said Thom Kozik, Microrim’s Atlas evangelist The first platform to be support- ed by Atlas version, Presentation Manager, is due in December, and a BUGS & TIPS FDHD caveats. Reports on CompuServe and experimentation ‘on our own reveal a few things to watch for when using the FDHD (floppy drive, high density) found fn the Mac IIx, Hex and SE/30. High-density disks used with the FDHD can only be formatted and read as L4-Mbyte floppies, which can cause some problems when going back and forth between older Macs and FDHD-equij Macs. The drive uses pie in the floppy casing opposite the write-protect slot to determine whether a floppy is standard or high density, Older Macs do not have a mechanism to check for the additional slot on a high-density disk, so inserting a formatted 1.4- Mbyte floppy into those machines will give a “disk is unreadable” message, with an offer to initialize it in 400- or 800-Kbyte format. Reformatting the disk at this Microrim plans multiplatform Mae version is due by mid-1990, said Hegyi. Besides the Mac and Presenta- tion Manager, Atlas is slated to support DOS Windows, MS DOS, several Unix platforms, DEC VAX/VMS and DEC Windows, and IBM mainframes (MVS and VM) over the next 1§ months. Atlas is based on a client/server architecture and in- cludes a full im- plementation of American National Standards Institute Standard Level 2 SQL. Through a back-end engine, the company said Atlas will be able to query, retrieve and update data Etec not only on disparate platforms but on dis- parate aiaasen Among other DBMS applica- tions, Microrim plans to support its own R:BASE, as well as Oracle, Ingres, dBASE III Plus and IV, DEC Rdb and IBM’s DB2. “Com- panies can maintain their invest- ment in their present database sys- tem,” said Kozik. Pricing for Atlas was unavailable at press time. David Hull, Micro- rim president, said that the compa- ny would continue to develop and market improved versions of R:BASE, which has an installed base of more than 600,000 users, “until the current generation of Touch RICK LEPAGE AND RIC point will not only erase any data you might have on it, but it will also unreadable when you try to re- insert it into your SE/30 or IIx. It is fae to trick the FDHD into floy tape over prs lipes bawatr tyme This should be used only as a last resort, however, because it could ruin the drive if the tape comes off inside the unit. A discussion on CompuServe'’s MacPro section centered around the inability of the FDHD to refor- mat a high-density disk for 14 Mbytes once it had been formatted as either a 400- or 800-Kbyte disk. Although we didn’t experience this, 1 few people indicated th seen instances of the problem. The expense of the new floppies is reason enough to make sure you have a selection of standard-density disks on hand should they be need- ed to pass data to Macs without the FDHD drive. In addition, keep any high-density disks clearly marked The Atlas dete entry form can incorporate picture elements as well as information rom diverse datebases, computing yields to the next.” Microrim is at 3925 159th Ave. N.E., P.O. Box 97022, Redmond, Wash. 98073; (206) 885-2000. 0 Doubles speed of some applications By Jon Swart Santa Clara, Calif, — National Semiconductor Corp. chose the UniForum trade show in San Francisco last month to introduce Maccelerate, a SCSI bus controller card for the Mac II and IIx. According to the company, the $595 board stores and retrieves data through a direct memory DBMS Scaled-down version — By Giff Lehman Huntington Beach, Calif. — Ver- sacad Corp. has begun shipping VersaCAD Drafter, a downscale version of VersaCAD/Macintosh Edition, its popular CAD package. Priced at $995, VersaCAD Drafter is aimed at mechanical and architectural designers who are more likely to require only the two- dimensional drafting capabilities of the $1,995 VersaCAD/Macintosh. VersaCAD/Macintosh Edition and VersaCAD Drafter are fully compatible and will remain fully compatible in future releases, the company said Features in VersaCAD Drafter include editing, grouping, dimen- access, or DMA, technique that can improve overall system per- formance by as much as two-and- a-half times, depending on the application. Maccelerate is the first NuBus- compatible product based on National Semi’s HPC microcon- troller family, which allows the software package to adapt DMA techniques previously used only in minicomputers and mainframe computers, said Dave Jorgensen, director of National Semi’s Com- patible Products Group. sioning, pan and zoom, snap, as well as up to 250 levels and 10 units of mé capabilities, VersaGAD does not have Mac Edition’ to transfer files to and fron frames and minicomput Edition’s HyperCard stacks, si Bill of Materials, Door and, dow Scheduling and CAD Processor. = VersaCAD Drafter works 6 Macintosh II and [1x with 2) of RAM and on the Mae S| Plus with 1 Mbyte. Versacad Corp. is located Main St., Huntington B 92648; (714) 960-7720. 6 By using DMA techni store and retrieve data, Jor said, Maccelerate not on! much faster I/O operations t provides dramatic ini overall system performance, Scheduled to ship in Api celerate includes software for both A/UX and the Maco ing system. i! National Semiconductor is local ed at 2900 Semiconductor Dr Santa Clara, Calif, 95052; (4 721-5000; (800) 345-4006; (80 538-8510 outside California. High-density discussions, painless PostScript so that they are not picked up and reformatted by nt. — PRODUCTS Playing with text. Smart Art is an impressive new desk accesso- ty from Emerald City Software that gives you the power to create flashy PostScript text effects without hav- ing to descend into the mystical netherworld of PostScript pro- gramming. Not only does Smart Art strip away some of the myster- ies of PostScript, it does it with a straightforward, intuitive interface, On the surface, Smart Art Is deceptively simple, The proj comes with 17 Encapsulat PostScript (EPS) effect files that are modified to create custom effects like rotated, angled, dro) shadow, boxed, faded and raiser text, You can also fit text to an arc or a specified width, Within each type of effect, you set different parameters to achieve the look you want. These controls include setting the text to be print- ed, its size a style characteristics, rotation angle of text and shadows, gray-scale information and more. ‘The controls are easy to under- stand and use, and the DA isn't cluttered with icons or buttons. When you're done manipulating an effect, a Re-image command psereies a picture of the image by lownloading the PostScript to your printer and pulling a preview of the graphic back to the Mac. The final image can then be copied to the Clipboard and pasted into any Mac program that accepts graphics. Because what gets pasted is an EPS image, it will print cert and cleanly on any PostScript device Smart Art can save your effects as EPS files, and it can open stan- dard EPS graphics. i cannot edit them, but they can be previewed and copied to the Clipboard. What sets Smart Art apart is that its interface shields you from ever having to deal with PostScript code, allowing you to cone on the graphics, Priced at $1 it makes it easy to create $ PostScript effects without become a part-time pi — REFERENCE Emerald City Software, Menlo Ave., Suite 102, Me Park, Calif. 94025, (415) We welcome comments at WEEK, 4 Cambridge C Floor, Cambridge, Mass. 021 (617) 497-2600, E-mail: MCI M MACWEEKBOSTON, phi/PAN: MACWEEKB Page); GEnle: MACY AppleLink (Address t Touch” in Subject); MAC MacNET: RICKLEPA\ RICFORD; Internet: By ie flexibility, and speed, “ the 45MB removable, co is the clear winner,’ —MACWORLD, November 1988 7, & |. Whichever we oe) / DataPak you choose, you get unlimited storage Capacity take-it-bome portability lock-it-up, security, quick back-up, instant accesstoarchived data—plusa 45 MBreal hard disk inside the : cartridge With an average © 5 For a FREE MACWORLD repyint or the location of your nedrest dealer, call 800522-7979 (9:00- Inside the compact lcx Plosic dual-drive chassis ‘eccommodates 0 single inter- ‘nol floppy and on opSondl 3.Sinch hard deve. Nox fhe enhanced speaker has down the motherhood Stondord motherboard sop into ple without sews. The mochine has, three NuBus slots. Connection ports indude (from lef) one flop: | py dave, one SCSI, ‘Wo serial, one stereo oudio output jock ond two ope Desktop Bus (ADB). 4 Analysis Continued from Page 1 predecessors is its footprint. By reducing the number of slots from six to three and using a smaller 90- watt power supply, the 14-pound Ilex reise less than two-thirds surface area of the Mac II or IIx. The Hex measures 11.9 by 14.4 by 55 inches The new 15-inch Portrait Dis- play monitor fits neatly on top of the box. The CPU can also be pees sideways on moveable nub- ber feet. The vent is on the front, with a quiet fan at the back. so there is no airflow blockage in a sideways con- figuration. Apple has even put beveled edges on the back of the case, so the Hex box can slide easily into a mounting bracke The loge board of the Hex uses the same Motorola 16-MI1z 68030 processor and 68882 math copro- cessor as the IIx and SE/30. The machines also share the same 256- | Kbyte ROM chip, which supports ‘olor QuickDraw, and requires System Release 6.0.3. As expected, the performance of the Hex is equivalent to the [x and the SE/30, and about four t faster than a Mac SE The Ilex comes with Apple’s 1.44-Mbyte FDHD (floppy drive, high-density) and has space for a 35-inch hard disk. available from Apple in 40- or 80-Mbyte capaci- ties. At the same time as the Hex | announcement, Apple also exhibit- ed @ 160-Mbyte internal hard disk with an 18-millisecond access time. llowever, the new drive can be used only in the J] and Tx, since it is a Control Data 5.25-inch div The Hex comes with 1 Mi te of RAM, but it is expandable to 8 Mbytes using 1-Mbyte SIMMs emory modules), ye (single in-line and to 32 Mbytes when des Mbyte SIMMs become availa The Icx also includes a front-fae- ing speaker that is larger than the | one built into previous Macintosh IL models. Seven ports line the back of the > Two serial ports for modems and printers > Two Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) ports for keyboard, mouse and other input devices > One SCSI port for hard disks, CD-ROM players and other penpherals. > One stereo sound outlet. > One DB-19 floppy dnve port, which supports 400-Kbyte, 800- Kbyte and FDHD flo pies. The Icx does not, however, sup- rt the old Apple serial 11D20 hard disk An innovation in the Hex is the addition of a SIMM ROM socket for upgrade and service purposes. To switch from the soldered-in ROM chip to a socketed ROM chip simply involves changing a jumper on the motherbo: The Mex’s NuBus slots and memory are accessible by simply removing the cover of the machin It is not necessary to move hard- ware to add memory or boards, In fact, the entire Hex design is an exemplar of serviceability and modularity. It consists of four snap- Apple’s laptop screen technology on cutting edge By Renee Mathews San Francisco — Provided IBM, Toshiba and other laptop computer vendors don't beat it to the punch Apple is expected to be the U.S. manufacturer that launches the next generation of LCDs by incor- porating an active matrix screen in its laptop design Current models of IBM PC- compatilile laptops use an array of flat pane! displays based on light- ing technologies, such as gas plasina or electroluminescent dis- plays, or non-light-emitting t nologies, like supertwist LCDs. One of the major advantages to active matrix, another non-light- emitting technology, is that the dis. play has lower power requirements and operates easily on batteries, Tacorting to Dick Flascls, president of Fremont, Calif-based Alphasil Inc, a manufacturer of active matrix LEDs. Active matrix LCDs offer the maximum contrast ratio and brightness, with broader viewing angles, and provide outstanding Pe PTL CRC out sections: speaker, hard and floppy drive mounting bracket, power supply and motherboard There are only two screws to take out: one holding the cover in place and one inside. While there is no power switch (you turn on the machine via the Keyboard and off via a menu com- mand), a locking restart switch automatically reboots the system ‘on shut down, even if the internal battery that backs up the Parame: ter RAM fails. This feature is meant for Macs used as file servers, or other machines that must be kept operating at all times However, the lack of a power switch requires you to use the pro- grammer’s switch in case of system. crashes, the only alternative being, to pull the plug, Installing the pro- grammer’s switch can be dau however, since it is now Ic the front of the machin easily be pushed accidentally, caus- ing the Mac to reboot. 6 image srl by dedicating at least one individual transistor to each pixel on the screen. So even a sim- ple ECA-quality active matrix dis- play, with a resolution of 640 by 400 pixels, requires a minimum of Fast, high-resolutior Full color on t Micronet releases hard drives, dual-drive systems for IIcx By Henry Nerr Invine, if, — MicroNet Tech- nology Inc. this week rolled out the first third-party hard drives designed specifically for the N Ilex, as well as a new line of exter- nal dual-drive storage systems that match the footprint of the latest member of the Mae family. MicroNet’s Micro/IIcx internal 9 h drives come with a snap-in bracket that installs in the [Hex without screws. The company offers 40- and 80-Mbyte drives with Quantum mechanisms, priced at $1,045 and $1,595, respectively, and a 165-Mbyte version, priced at $2,595, that uses a Swift drive from Control Data Corp.'s Imprimis Technology subsidiary. The drives are aida immediately, the com- pany said The Micro/Stack Combo, an external mix-and- match unit with bays for two drives, will be released early next month. MicroNet offers Imprimis Wren drives in 88- and 165-Mbyte capacities, 45- Mbyte removable- cartridge Syquest drives and a 150- Mbyte Tandberg streaming tape backup unit Prices range from $1,795 to $4,795, depending — on configuration To save desk space, the “zero- 256,000 transistors, said Joe Castel- lano, president of Stanford Resources Inc, a San Jose, Calif - ket research and consult- pany cereniaiStitterhncloegls Costing between $1,795 and $4,795, Micronet’s external “zerg- footprint” Micro/Stock Combo fits neatly under the Mac llcx. footprint” Combo, about the same width and length as the Tex, can he located under the Ilex or between the monitor and a Macin- tosh IT or IIx Thanks to a universal power supply that can accept inputs ranging from 90 to 260 volts and 47 to 63 Hz, the drives can be used anywhere in the world, said Charles McConathy, MicroNet president McConmathy said that MicroNet recommends 5.25-inch drives for optimal performance with the Mae II line. The Hex has room only for 35-inch hard drives internally, but it can use the larger drives through: the SCSI port. MicroNet Technology Ine is located Is A Alton Park- way, Irvine, Calif. 92718; (714) §37-6033. £ its transistor-dependency, meanh that if a transistor dies it renders ity, assigned pixel unusable. 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When connecting to AppleTalk. however, ARLAN 130 needs Liaison, a $195 AppleTalk networking software bridge from Infosphere Inc. of Portland, Ore., said Telesystems President Wence Zenko. The upgrade, which will be called ARLAN 510, is due in the fall for about $3,000. It will increase throughput to 230 Kbps and will not require an RS- 232 port or Liaison software, Zenko said. Apple officials declined to comment on the wireless Apple- Talk product. Because it provides wireless con- nections between computers up to six miles apart, the product is dranw- By Jon Swartz San Francisco — Macintosh yol- ume buyers are building quicker, more complex networks as fast as Apple can deliver communications products Those are just some of the find- | ings of a recently completed MacWEEK survey, wire salgo revealed that > AppleShare (86 percent) and TOPS (64 percent) are the most commonly used networking soft- ware progr >» Ethernet networks are in use al 78 percent of the sites surveyed. > Half of the Macintosh buyers contacted link their Macs to [BM frame computers The survey, which was conduct- Dicne Foster, who manoges o 300-Moc network {or Bechtel, wants to see more Mac-to-DOS connectivity products. = News Wireless AppleTalk bridge upgraded ARLAN wireless AppleTalk bridge ing interest among companies that can't use wires easily, such as those located in offices that have asbestos in the walls or companies that are housed in historical buildings that can't be renovated. “For the university market, this represents good ne Shafer, a computer a University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ~Now we don’t haye to devote a chunk of our budgets to buying and installing wire between buildings. We can just buy the boxes and plug them in.” ARLAN uses a technology called spread spectrum, which employs a ed last December, contains a sam- pling of the largest Mac sites with MacWEEK subscribers who have “purchase influence” for connectiv- ity products. Two hundred and sixty-nine company officials were interviewed. An average of 1,049 Macs were used at each respon- dent's location. Buyers contacted said their inte in the Mac would be even greater if it didn’t have cert communications limitations. Apple last r announced a number of DOS connectivity products but has been slow in shipping them “Our top priority is to improve Mac-to-DOS connectivity,” said Diana Foster, who as information services manager at Bechtel National Inc, of San Francisco, oversees 300 Macs, “We're very inter- ested in optimizing our Noyell networks.” “We're definitely wait- ing for IBM connectivity products that support token ring and 3270 terminal esnulation,” said survey participant Dan Mallin, who is involved in all Mac purchasing decisions at 3M Co. of St, Paul, Minn. “We want to eventually meld all of our [40,000] comput- ers, including 2,500 low-power signal over a broad radio band to avoid detection by unauthorized users and to over- come interfering signals The ARLAN line provides error free transmission and fast user response time, and it is transparent to the user, Zenko said Spread spectrum is extensively used by the military and was in ly used by the British government during World War II to send secret radio signals. Telesystems SLW is located at 85 Scarsdale Road, Suite 201, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada M3B 2R2; (416) 441-9966. 9 Survey shows Mac networks growing Macs, into our 3M global network” While other companies want more Mac-to-IBM networking products, survey respondent Robert Spector, facilities adminis- trator at Hughes = ft Co. of El Segundo, st trying to keep the company’s 3.000 Macs in order, The constant reshuffling of personnel and machines have “made it almost impossible for us to maintain our network, much less renovate it,” Spector suid. 9 Consultant group to hold convention Bellevue, Wash. — Th profit Macintosh Consultants Ne work will hold its second national conference at the Sheraton San Mareos Resort in Chandler, Anz, April 21 through 23 About 35 vendors, including Apple, ACIUS, Microsoft and Ora- cle, have been invited to make presentations and provide one-on- one demonstrations. Fees for the conference are $595 for Network members, $695. for non-members who register by March 17 and $795 for allo others. Macintosh Consultants Network {s located at 826 102nd Ave. N.E., Suite 700, Belleyue, Wash, 95004; (206) 453-2729. 6 MocWEEK 14 March 1989 News BRI EFS Radius battles Apple’s new monitors with price cuts Son Jose, Clif. — Radius Inc. couldn't stop Apple from introducing a new line of fulkpage and two-page monitors last week, so the monitor moker did the next best thing. It lowered its prices. One day before the introduction of Apple's Portrait Display and Two-Page Display monitors (see story, Poge 6), Radius announced price cuts of 12 percent fo 18 per- cent on its display systems. The Rodius Two Page Display, originally $2,390, wil now. cost $2,190 for both the display card ond monitor. The Radius Full Page Display, orig- inolly $1,690 for the Plus and SE and $1,790 for the Mac II, now costs $1,490 for both display cord ond monitor for oll machines. All new prices are now in effect. Rodius also announced cuts of 14 percent to 20 percent on its Radius 16 ond fe Rodius 25 family of accelerators for the Mac Plus and SE. Radius is ot 1710 Fortune Drive, Son Jose, Colif. 95131; (408) 434-101] RasterOps ships ClearVue/II two-page display Cupertino, Calif. — RasterOps Corp. is now shipping ClearVue/1I, a 194nch monochrome display system for ti Macintosh I fomily. has previously concentrated on eight- and 24-bit color solutions for the Moc I, RosterOps is positioning the CleorVue//l os o reliable display in what the company loims is on unveliable field. RasterOps is also providing a package of incentives to iis deolers in the hope of capturing o lorge portion of the newly emerging market. The CleorVue/|l displays the Mocintosh’s stondard 72 dpi ot a scon rote of 72 Hz, providing 1,024 vertical pixels by 768 horizontal pixels. 3 The $2,495 ClearVue/Il is priced to compete on a price/performance basis with the new Apple Two- Page Display (see story, Poge 6) ond the Two Page Display from San Jose, Colf -bosed Rodius (see story above), among others. RosterOps Corp. is locat- ed at 10161 Bubb Road, Cupertino, Coli. 95014; (408) 446-4090 RosterOps’ new $2,495 ClearVve/II monitor will compete directly with dval-poge mositors from Redivs and Apple, Connect to produce 9,600-bps modem Cupertino, Calf, — Connect Inc. this month announced a 9,600-bps modem priced ot $999. Colled Connect V.32 Service, the stand-alone modem will include communications software, both asynchronous ond synchronous links, AppleTalk dick ing commands, dato compression thot boosts throughput up to 19.2 bps, five front panel switches providing one-touch access to manual and autoconswer, diognostics, dota rote as well as voice/data ond data format. Y Connea 37s compotbl with the CIT (Consulate Commits Ina Telegioph ond Telephone) V.32 industry stondard for modems ond works with i V.32 modems. It also automatically shifts to 0 speed of 4,800 bps if line co f become impcired or slightly degraded. 9730110. Over twice as fast 68030: Step a Generation Ahead Powerful new Macintosh™ software needs a new generation of hardware. Advanced graphics and engineering software now has the potential to make your Mac Il or Mac Ilx perform better than high-end workstations costing $25,000 or more. 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Other new products include > Studio 3, a new MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) and SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) interface. > The newest version of CUE — The Film Music System. » Five new Editor/Librarians for popular synthesizers. > Librarian, a librarian desk accessory for the musician. Evolution of the Mac computing paradigm I was using MORE II the other ne when it hit me. Symantec has n the best outlining program for the Mac (MORE L Ic) and repositioned it as a desktop presen- tation program. Where MORE used to compete with Acta and MindWrite, MORE II competes against Letraset’s StandOut! (née ReadySetShow), Aldus Persuasion, Microsoft PowerPoint and Cricket Software's Cricket Present It's too bad, because MORE II isn’t as good an outliner as the pre- vious version. It's now too easy to trip over all the aioe tures, when all you really want to do is organize your thoughts. In fact, I gave upon MORE II when outlining this column because it ‘was ust too confusing and unwieldy. I've switched back to Acta and MORE Llc. Although the desk accessory version of Acta is not nearly as powerful as MORE, it does not lead me down the desk- oe presentation side streets where: I don't want to be, For my money, outliners are a separate class of software from desktop presentation aids, Sure, it's nice if file formats are compatible So you can import an outline into a presentation tool. But do you really need to create a giant “be-all, end- all” program that tries to be the best outliner and the best presenta- | tion aid? 1 don't think so, | The gets problem MORE II | has, unfortunately, becomes a gen- | eral problem in the Macintosh soft- | ware industry. Although ambitious | integrated programs have largely News Opcode bills Vision as a major advance in computer-based se- quencers. It includes a sophisticat- ed visual editing system with both list and graphic editing capabilities. Vision now also has the ability to synchronize to SMPTE time code tracks on audio or video tape using MIDI Time Code. “If you look at all the really good sequencers on the Mac, Visions is the sum total and more than the sum total of those sequencers,” said Grammy award winning composer and pro- ducer Jan Hammer. Major features of Vision are: > Flexible mapping of MIDI channels and remote control of sequencer functions through MIDI > Thirty-two instruments can be played on single or multiple MIDI channels. > Midikeys, which allow users to create settings that allow any MIDI event to trigger commands on the Mac keyboard > Transcription links to several Nine new music programs from Opcode popular music notation programs > Generated sequences for algorithmic computer-aided composition Vision's other features include system-exclusive data recording and playback, tempo and meter tracks with any number of varia- tions, 26 sequences per file with the ability to chain up to 99 tracks per sequence, and modal transposi- tion using customizable scales. Opcode’s new sequencer, Studio 3, brings together the functionality of the company’s Studio Plus Two MIDI interface with Time- code Machine, its SMPTE-to- MIDI converter. Studio 3, a one-space, rack- mount box, is priced at $459 and is scheduled to ship this month The latest version of CUE — The Film Music System now includes the ability to overlay col- ored streamers onto video, using an NTSC board in the Macin- tosh II. Priced at $595, CUE will failed on the Mac (remember Jazz and Modem Jazz?), the push toward more features is getting out of hand. In this development envi- ronment, we've seen vendors try to add capabilities that seem to have little to do with the original pur- pose of the software. Do we really need word processors that also double desk ublishers: (Uke Ashton: Tate's FullWrite Professional) or readsheets that include fancy presenta- tion graphics sy (like Informix’s Wingz)? Not in DON CRABB myopinion. But even if we do, such packages have been created for the wrong reasons; They are attempts to force the evolution of the Maclnies sue paradigm from the outsi This attempt is doomed to fail- ure. And the result Saat with bloated programs: high Herat somber ae and mang cea, sions: such programs often per- Sirinasce Wits bal thes the rograms are supposed to perform. titwe you ever scrolled through even a smnallish file with FullWrite?) One reason why the Finder and MultiFinder are so popular and have been imitated by Microsoft's Windows, Hewlett-Packard's NewWave and IBM's OS with Presentation Manager is because they provide a simple metaphor for crossing application interface boundaries. The Macintosh’s unify- ing computing paradigm has been its operating system. The operating system has made it easy for applica- tion developers to provide a consis- tent look. For the past three years, this paradigm has been sufficient to the Mac software market its jas as “state ott art ish his computin; ne to be til sone software ven- dors are see, to make the extensions unilaterally, by embel- lishing existing software with what they consider to be “allied” features. In this environment, MORE II was a natural evolution, Unfortinatey it's the wrong approach for stretch- ing the Mac’s computing igm. Only Apple can extend that paradigm by accommodating our needs in future releases of the sys- tem. The fact is that Apple has repeatedly promised us that such extensions are on the way: full mul- titasking, virtual memory, interpro- cess communications, better font management — the list goes on. Taken separately, none of these improvements constitutes a change in tie Macintosh ends “i ligm, But together, they do, Fe software developers the needed tools to better differentiate their products and to build families of products that work together seamlessly, Claris’ Bill Campbell calls this “Improving the overall accessibility” of software, It’s the direction the Mac must take in its next five years. be available this month. The five new editor/ibrarians from Opcode are billed as sample players rather than sample player/recorders, but the company said the ms can still be used to Remsen without the sam- ple recording process. ‘Two of the new editor/librarians, the Kawai K-1, priced at $179, and the Oberheim Matrix-1000, priced at $199, are shipping now. Prices CAD ESL Opcode’s Vision, scheduled to ship this month, is based on Opcode Sequencer Version 2.6 and accommodates up 0 32 instruments on single or multiple MIDI channels. have not been set on new programs for the Kurzweil 1000 series, the E-mu Proteus and the Korg M1, which will ship later this year. The Librarian desk accessory, which allows users to send patches while Vision plays a sequence, will also be priced and shipped later this year. Opcode is located at 1024 Hamilton Court, Menlo Park, Calif, 94025; (415) 321-8977. 5 Lower-priced SoftPC is SuperDrive-compatible By John Battelle Sunnyvale, Calif. — Insignia Solutions has cut the price on its latest version of SoftPC, its IBM PC emulation software, and has added several new features, includ- ing compatibility with SuperDrive, Apple's high-density floppy drive that ships with every Mac Ix, Ilex and SE/30, Insignia has dropped the price of SoftPC Version 1.3 from $599 to $399. “We wanted to open the product to a larger market,” said Don Gallagher, vice president of marketing. Upgrades are available for $50, SoftPC loads and runs MS-DOS programs straight from a “virtual” PC hard disk that it creates from available Mac storage, The pro- gram then opens a window that emulates an 8088-based PC, com- plete with the standard MS-DOS command line prompt The {improved features of SoftPC 1.3 include: > Two-way cut and paste between Macintosh and PC appli- cations. (The previous version sup- HyperCard stack bundled with Toolkit Palo Alto, Calif, Palo Alto Software is now bundling a HyperCard stack with Tim Berry's Business Plan Toolkit, a $99.95 package for business plan- ning and analysis The stack adds new text and analysis capabilities to the spread- ported only PC-to-Macintosh transfer.) > Automatic background opera- tion under MultiFinder > Less-taxing memory require- ments. (Insignia now asserts that SoftPC can run under MultiFinder ‘on a 2-Mbyte Mac.) > Easier installation as well as improved QuickDraw and PostScript printing, Users without SuperDrive can use a Mac-to-PC drive such as Apple's PC 5.25 drive or DaynaFile from Dayna Communications of Salt Lake City, according to PY Cotton, a technical support repre- sentative with Insignia. Another solution is a multiplatform network such as TOPS from TOPS of Alameda, Calif,, Cotton said. 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A reports generator is in the works, according to Hannaford By John Battelle database engme for Hypert ard developed by key structure used by mainframes and mini Answer Software of Cupertino, Cafif,, last ; week debuted HyBase Version 1.1, a database M L NJ HyperCard « | Griffin Software of Elk Grove, Il computers, he said. s wh t rcorporate database The $195.95 set of external functions Look-up speeds on a 10,000-record engine that also uses a HyperCard front end bilities into their stack will soon (XFCNs) uses database keys to create struc- database with a Mac II are about one-third The $149 HyBase will ship by mid-March, } i 1 coord: tured files that can be randomly accessed in of a second, according to Hannaford. said Answer (see MacWEEK, Feb. 25) tStr Inte nal a f y software ib: Hyper TMON debugs scripts Hyper XFCN XCMD: TMON Monotype Typography debuts PostScript fonts i M ti I I I i J M I r M View, Calif, t Folio’s t tecl hicl allow M. t ‘ 5 puter l M pe Typography 1 located at 40 S. Dearborn, Suite 411, Ch u 60% 12) 855-1440 ction of the time take said Dotti D’Attoma, SoftStream HyperHIT tums Hyper SoftStream International Ine. is at 19 White Chapel Drive, Mount Laurel, NJ. | 08054, (609) 886-1187; (S00) 262-6610. | | HyperCard developers can incorporate HyperllIT into their stacks for its straight look-up speed, but it can also be used to cre by HyperCur president rd into INTRODUCING THE SHORTEST DISTA nology, all you have to do is select a design, type your ideas into the text outliner, and you're done, Aldus Persuasion automatically formats your outline into professional-looking slides or overheads, using one of the pro. gram's pre-formatted designs or one of your own. You can literally create and change a presentation as fast as you can type your ideas into an outline. If you want to embellish your presentation, feel free. Persuasion lets you be more creative with text for mats, styles, and colors than any other presentation program Most presentation software seems to be for people with lots of time and a degree in graphic design. But if you're like most business professionals, you probably have neither So we borrowed a page from our PageMaker® experience, and developed a new technology for automating the process of crealing presentations. The technology is AutcTemplate!* The program is Aldus” Persuasion’ And it's the most streamlined way to create great presentations with your Macintosh? Here's why Using the AutoTemplate tech MocWEEK 14 Morch 1989 News ArcheTyper simplifies 4D programming By Joba Battelle 4th Dimension-based applications, said designers to include in end user applications. Eugene, Ore. — Claiming to have over- Lawrence Page, designer of ArcheTyper and > Incorporating import and export dialogs come several limitations of 4th Dimensions CEO of Laser Digital. Its capabilities include: that manipulate data Eeereen applications as programming language, Laser Digital Corp. > Simplifying the inclusion of custom well as betwe ac and MS-DOS systems jast week shipped ArcheTyper 1.0, an appli menus in final applications. ArcheTyper 1.0 requires 4th Dimension | cation development shell for ACIUS’ popular > A set of fully functional menu commands, _ and sells for $195. 2 3 | relational database. buttons and other features, as well as a library Laser Digital can be reached at PO. Box Archetyper indodes o window editor, giving 4D developers I ArcheTyper simplifies the task of creating of dialog and window options for program 11169, Eugene, Ore. 97440; (503) 689-9918. 0 inston! foedbock on window sizo, type and positioning. FWB ships erasable drive By Renee Mathews San Francisco — Augmenting its extensive list of mass storage systems for the Mac, FWB Inc. recently added a 600-Mbyte erasable optical drive to its Hammer product family. Called the HammerDisk600, the system uses a Ricoh drive mechanism and features an average access time of 61 milliseconds. The drive is targeted at Macintosh work users for on-line backup and as a high- capacity archiving tool. The shelf life of the media is 10 years, the company said. FWB joins the ranks of several Macintosh mass storage vendors offering rewritable magneto-optical drives, including Personal Computers Peripherals Corp. of Tampa, Fla; Sumo Systems of San Jose, Calif.; Jasmine Technologies Inc. of San Francisco; and Pin- nacle Micro Inc. of Irvine, C The HammerDisk600 automatically recog- © Pacific Coast demand nizes the Macintosh system it is connected to remains high Seve and is bundled with proprietary system soft- @ East Coast demand growing. ware that allows it to function as a floppy © Expand inland through disk. FWB also includes three utility pro- franchises grums with the system: Hard Disk DeadBolt, © Advertise in Midwest Hard Disk Partition and Hard Disk Util The HammerDisk600 is priced at $4,995 and is available immediately, Individual 600- Mbyte cartridges are sold separately and priced at $349 each. FWB is also offering a series of host adapter kits to allow for data interchangeabili- ty with other computer systems, includ Amiga, Apple IIGS, IBM PC, IBM PS/2 NeXT and workstations from Sun Microsys. tems. The adapter kits are priced between $195 and $595, depending on the system FWB Inc. is at 2040 Polk St , Suite 215, San Francisco, Calif 94109, (415) 474-8055, ZL Long Term Directions Ready Set,Go! supports kerned-pair programs Paramus, N,J. — Letraset USA said that the current version of its ayout pro- gram will support recently released type con- CE BETWEEN THESE TWO POINTS, st are grams that allow users to Fables and craphaare ceed anion feature. 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