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| | ] sf | L | ay ) Bee] 9 May 1989 Vol. 3 No. Apple & Adobe face off Adobe’s outline font technology may find its way onto Mac screens despite Apple’s efforts | to develop its own. By John Battelle and Jon Swartz San Jose, Calif. — Apple this week will disclose its plans for the next major release of the Macin- tosh system software to more than 2,000 developers at the Worldwide Developer's Conference here. The new software, System Ver- sion 7.0, will add sophisticated “Unix-like” features to the Macin- tosh operating system, including interprocess communications IPC), built-in electronic mail and virtual memory capabilities (see story at right). System 7.0 is expected to be available in early 1990, according to industry sources. “In terms of significance to the Maze, [the conference] is compara- ble to the announcement of the Mac II,” said Yogen Dalal, vice president of product development at Claris Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif. “It adds another dimension that wasn’t available before. Now, structurally, the Mac OS will be similar to Unix and OS/2 “For the first time,” he added, Adobe defies Apple on fonts | By Giff Lekmen | Mountain View, Calif. — Firing | | a warning shot across Apples bow, Adobe Systems Inc. last week announced an outline screen font product that will be sold at retail | prices to Mac users. The announcement comes just a week before Apple is expected to | disclose details of its own scalable | font technology. This month’s See Adobe, Page 8 Developers get glimpse of future Mac system “the Mac will be able to exploit the full power of the 030.” The new system will also have a hearty appetite for memory, requir- ing at least 2 Mbytes of on-board RAM for full operation. Unix oper- ating systems, however, require approximately 5 Mbytes, and OS/2 needs nearly as much IPC software technology will let users take better advantage of MultiFinder and future multitask- ing systems, providing ways to exchange data among separate pro- grams automatically and to inte- grate their features into what Dalal called “a community of closely linked applications.” “We've been after Apple for 36 months to come up with IPC,” said Mike Slade, group product manager for Macintoch ee at Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash. “It fits in nicely with our system software strategy [for Windows and OS/2],” However, true Mac multitasking, which would allow multiple appli- cations to run simultaneously, isn’t See System 7, Page 8 System 8 under construction Completion date: 1991 Fs! Coming soon: System 7/ System 7 dangles ‘hooks’ By John Bottelle San Jose, Calif. — In announe- ing specifications for new System- level functionality and promoting object-oriented programming, Apple is attempting to ensure that when it releases its new System, developers won't lag too far behind with supporting applications Many of System 7.0's innovations will take the form of “hooks” that by themselves add no functionality but can be utilized by developers to extend the capabilities of Macin- tosh software. Apple will rely heav- ily on third-party developers to bring new software to market See Features, Page 8 David Bohrman, executive producer of ABC News Interactive, demonstrates “In the Holy Lond,” an interoctive preseatotion of video, avdio and print materials, at Macworld Expo. ABC brings ‘Holy Land’ to Mac By Emily Brower complex history behind the on- Stay tuned: Apple TV will broadcast to users By Emily Brower Cupertino, Calif. — Apple cus- tomers and employees wil soon turning on their TV sets and tuning in to a modern-day version of the fireside chat starring John Sculley — courtesy of Apple TV. Ramping up to become Cuperti- no’s communications link to the in-house broadcast networks of its corporate customers and to Apple’s own field offices, the company’s new TV production group will beam training informa- tion, product announcements and personal messages from Sculley to locations all over the country. Apple TV made a behind-the- scenes debut at the Mac Ilex intro- duction in March, which was broadcast to sites in eight cities. The group will also play a large part in product introductions slated See Apple TV, Page 9 Le dA scale Polaroid ships high-res digital film recorder Cambridge, Mass, — Polaroid Corp. last week began shipping its first digital film recorder, which will be available either in a Mac-com- patible SCSI version or with a parallel connector for IBM PCs. The $5,995 Bravo Computer Slide Maker is capable of generating board- | room-quality images with a resolution of up to 8,000 lines, but {t also No ERE) Washington — ABC News showed up at Macworld Expo last month, but the producers came equipped with Macs, not cameras, to demonstrate a new title from the TV news operation's line of interactive vic cs, “In the Holy Land” is an inter- active presentation of video, audio and print materials covering the going Arub-Israeli conflict. View- ers we a HyperCard stack to nayi- te through sections on \- Py religious background poll caf history and current events, ABC News Interactive, a new division of the news organization, is the developer and publisher of the stack and disc combination. See ABC, Page 9 | offers fister 4,000. and 2,000-line options, 9 New Apple IIGS system software unveiled Boston — New software for the Apple IIGS that offers improved performance and networking will be released this summer, Apple's Jean- Louis Gassée said that System Software 5.0 demonstrates “Apple's continued commitment to providing evolutionary improvements that add functionality and richness to the Apple II computing experience.” CLASS SECOND NEWSPAPER The Silver View™ you with a high cont family of high rock solid image. resolution 217 display systems Finally, with your choice of offers the largest three models offering 2, 16 viewing area or 256 grey levels, Silver View f available any- where. 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Macs battle paper warrior syndrome on USS Missouri By Giff Lehmen Aboard the USS Missouri — Damn the viruses, full network ahead! The Mac, with its smiling start-up screen, has wormed its way into the heart of one of the United States’ most celebrated and power- ful battleships, the USS Missouri The Macs friendly interface is a big reason for its presence on the old warship, according to Capt. John Chernesky, a longtime Mac enthusiast. But the underlying goal, he said. is to “increase admin- istrative efficiency so we can take available hours and put them into our main’ mission — honing our fighting skills.” “We want to get away from the paper warrior syndrome,” he said Built in 1944 at the height of World War II, the Missouri was the site of the Japanese surrender at the end of the war. Known as Big Mo, the ship spent 29 years in mothballs before being recom: sioned in San Francisco three ago. It is still powered by its origi- nal engines and is armed with the same 16-inch guns that it used to blast its way across the Pacific 45 years ago But Big Mo has been outfitted with so of the most modern technology on the horizon. Over a period of seven months Chernesky and his crew have installed an AppleShare network, dubbed MOnet, with 13 Mac SEs and IIs and five LaserWnters. The ship also has 18 Navy-standard Zenith personal computers. An SE/30 with a 100-Mbyte hard disk stands watch as the file server, re- enforced by another 100-Mbyte drive as a backup The captain swears by Apple- Share, with its flexible access privi- leges and PC compatibility. He said he is also impressed by the ability of CE Software's QuickMail 2.0 to speedily move “issue-specific mes- sages to the appropriate parties.” Last month Dick Skele, presi- dent of the West Des Moines, Iowa, developer, spent several days aboard the hie which is currently in dry dock at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, training the crew on the mail program In addition to combat-rea planning and training, the crew uses the Macs to publish a monthly magazine for enagdents and friends of the Missouri. “We are stimulating the interest of the upper echelons in the Mac,” Chernesky said, “I think there's great room in the Navy for the Mac”o SS Internal drives for Plus By Pomels Pliffner San Jose, Calif. — Integrated Data Storage Systems Ine. (iDS) is offering Mac Plus owners a way to retrofit their machines with inter- nal hard drives with capacities ranging from 20 to 100 Mbytes. Shipped with mounting brackets and specially designed power and SCSI cables, the iDS Series II Plus Internal drives can be installed in less than 10 minutes, IDS said. Dayid Guo, company president, said they consume 7 to 9 watts and raise internal temperature 1 to 2 degrees. These figures, Guo said, are well within allowable margins The drives are available now in 20-, 30-, 40-, 50- and 100-Mbyte configurations at prices ranging from $549 to $1,595. The 40- and 100-Mbyte units, using Conner mechanisms, carry five-year war- ranties; the others, with MiniSeribe and Seagate drives, have two-year warranties, (DS also offers standard internal and external SCSI drives IDS Systems Ine. is at 2107 N, First St., Suite 280, San Jose, Calif. 95131; (408) 441-0500. 0 16 18 2B 26 26 6 70 30 News German developer introduces NuBus OCR board Apple-backed IS group to get off the ground in June Interactive patient info system offers second opinion Stock-quote program puts Macs on traders’ desks MacInTouch Forums like this week’s Developer's Conference, where the limito- tions of the Mac ore addressed from the outside ond not just from Apple's ivory tower, ore essential to the Mac's continued success. Bridges link QuickMail to mainframes, databases New Media Steve Rosenthal At this stoge the Mac con't be 0 ane-mon show in developing mult media projects. Sometimes traditional tools work better or faster. Stiff competition in SE/30, true-color video markets Demand for high-security Macs brings products Mirror adds two more removable-media options For hackers, breaking in is its own reward: Not Goldhaber, founder of TOPS, says hackers should be encouraged since ultimately they could protect a system from real spies or thieves. Editorial If Apple wonts users to think its customer sotstoction talk is more than lip service, irs time to extend its warranties fo one year. Letters Mac the Knife Organizational Mac NAN Encouraging design for manufacture: Engineers often design products with only the functions in mind. But vendors ore learning that it pays fo consider manufacturing from the outset. 32 44 38 38 44 46 50 65 66 67 68 53 54 55 56 62 Mac Manager Don Crabb ‘A good corporate training system encompasses 0 ronge of medio. Window On Making the Mac-to-IBM mainframe connection Tech Files Joel West Pixar's RendorMan could become fo 3-D grophics what PastSaipt J to desktop publishing. Program interfaces aid access to mainframe data Reviews PEGASYS CAD really starting to fly: Full- featured 2-D CAD program is fast, with on effi- cient interface and o well-integrated 3-D section. The odds favor easy-to-use Fastat stats program Microllet Ili-173 internal hard disk gets tops marks Business Watch Where’s George?: Industry analysts say that George Bush must address key technology issues or risk putting the U.S. electronics industry at a worldwide disadvantage. Genrad acquires Rebus’ Parameter Manager Plus Mitch Hall leads expo promo bandwagon MarketWEEK ‘Mac lhox machines are a hot purchase for the majority of the 400 MocWEEK subscribers surveyed. Mail Order Ad Showcase Ad Index Classified Coreer Opportunities MacWEEX 6 prodced wang on race ys cf. Aple Macoash SEs cad Max Us: Leva abs, Voxtypr VHEOD cad VFCCOW, cad QMS ColsScpt 100 peters eatwacted on Frafon Poneto Linc 200, Kon LS 3500 Side Scanner RsmeOss, f echines rd Soph mentor; nd safware icing Ques, As PogaNche, Adobe Use, Ais Frctond,Sepattont, Manzct Wer, Levert oa Plot News Speedy, multilingual OCR By Cliff Lehmon West Berlin — A West German company has introduced a combination software-hard- ware optical character recognition package | designed to read text speedily and accurately in several languages. HSD GmbH, based in West Berlin, made its U.S. announcement of the OCR Express System at the Macworld Expo in Washington last month. OCR Express is scheduled to be available Ist of MacBravo! high-end CAD programs ship By Cliff Lehman Ann Arbor, Mich. — Schlumberger’s CAD/CAM Division last month began ship- ping the first two programs in a series of high-end MacBravo! CAD applications The publisher, a division of international giant Schlumberger Technologies, released a 3-D mechanical design application and a mechanical detail drafting program. Mac- Bravo! files can be shared with Schlumberger's Bravo3 CAD packages, which run on Digital Equipment Corp.'s VAXes and VAXstations MacBravo! Modeler, priced at $1,495, is billed as the centerpiece of the MacBravo! CAD/CAM system. Features of Modeler include warped, swept, ruled and offset surfaces; surface intersections; multiple-model referencing and automatic updates; and up to eight active windows, MacBravo! Detailer, priced at $1,995, is meant for engineering, manufacturing and MIL spec drawings and can be used with Modeler for detailing 3-D drawings. Detailer’s features include automatic base- line dimensioning, extensions, fillets and chamfers as well as the ability to create iso- metrics from two-dimensional views and to use a drawing as a template. Detailer auto- matically updates shapes and templates in all drawings if the master is changed. “MacBravo! fits the Mac interface really well,” said Dennis Redies, data processing | and CAD systems manager at R&B Machine Tool Co., a manufacturer of assembly line machines for the automotive industry in Saline, Mich. “1 was able to learn the product myself without training or documentation in about one week,” Redies said. R&B will use MacBravo! alongside CADDS 4X, a Unix- based design system from Computer Vision of Bedford, Mass. R&B has used CADDS 4X for the past five years, Redies said, “but we won't buy any more because the MacBravo! system on a Mac IIx with 8 Mbytes of RAM and an 80- Mbyte hard disk is one-third the cost of the Computer Vision system and stil] delivers 90 percent of the functionality.” Schlumberger is also shipping IGES, a translation utility, for $495. Modeler, Detail- er and IGES can be purchased as a package for $3,295, a savings of $700. MacBravol requires a Mac II with 4 Mbytes of RAM and a 40-Mbyte hard disk Schlumberger Technologies’ CAD/CAM Division is located at 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, Mich, 45106; (313) 995-6000, 0 in August, with both a NuBus version for the Mac II, IIx and IIcx and a Direct Slot version for the SE/30 planned. The board includes a dedicated coprocessor and OCR firmware. OCR Express software includes spelling sain eight European languages and a library of more than 200 pre-defined fonts. Its price has not been set but will be approxi- mately $3,000, according to Wilfried Gast, vice president of HSD. Spell checking in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish and Dutch is done on the fly as the program reads text. OCR Express supports tag image file for- mat (TIFF) and PICT format, allowing nearly all Mac scanners to be used as the input device. It can be operated directly with Apple and Siemens scanners, and the company plans to add direct support for other scanners HSD claims that OCR Express will recog- nize up to 80 characters per second (cps) with a high degree of accuracy. This puts OCR Express between Calera Recognition Systems’ TopScan/Macintosh, which reaches speeds up to 250 cps but costs $29,950, and Xerox Imaging Systems’ AccuText, which reads text at about 40 eps and costs $995. The company plans to add three more lan- guages to its library of dictionaries. A version of the product for the NeXT workstation is also planned HSD GmbH is located at Kurfiirsten- damm 66, D-1000 Berlin 15, West Germany 49-30-88-1081. 5 Forhea the Englis without having fo worry about tabs. the tesa boasts 2201000 of them. Our forma typesetting feature can handle ‘you technical vriters won’ have to od lations 30 ypeseter language. Absolite positioning FP ‘nvobved wth page layond ersol — Documents 10,000 pages and longer wont intimidate Word. And Word Count ‘Fives authors an exact count of characters, words, lines and paragraphs. cs aid text ts the absolute best if youre {ext raps around ay object as You ype. MacWEEK 9 May 1989 Orange adds peripheral-sharing unit Anaheim, Calif. — Just weeks after acquir- ing the Mac division of AST Research, Orange Micro Inc. has further extended its product line with the announcement of OrangePort, a peripheral-sharing device for AppleTalk networks Due in July, OrangePort will give net- worked users access to any standard serial peripheral, including modems, fax modems, many leading nine- and 24-pin dot-matrix apes and Hewlett-Packard’s popular 300- ipi DeskJet inkjet printer. Priced at $249, OrangePort could be major competition for the current leaders in the serial-sharing field, including the $399 NetSerial from Shiva Corp. and Solana Electronics’ $695 C-Server, which has three serial ports. OrangePort grew out of the compa- ny’s Grappler line of single-user interfaces, which provide Mac compatibility for many widely used IBM PC dot-matrix and laser printers. OrangePort software will let users config- ure the device by selecting the peripheral they want to use from a menu. Orange Micro is located at 1400 N. Lake- view Ave., Anaheim, Calif, 92807; (714) 779- 2772; (800) 223-8029. 0 Anew Word. The expression that you cant please all of the people all of the time just got redefined. Indeveloping Microsoft® Word version 4.0, we took input from the over 400,000 Word users who made Word the best-selling Macintosh* product in history. Added startling, cutting- edge technology. And the result is a gracious, easy-to-use word processing program with features as dynamic and diverse as its users. Unleash those features, and you push the envelope of word processing, You can set up tables automatically, without worrying about tabs. Reformat an entire document with one command. And choose from four editing views—including one that shows you exactly what your document looks like, so you can organize and revise your docu- ments without any guesswork. What’ more, Word is completely custom- (© 1958 Microw Corporation Microsoft and the Micresef leg or ‘SiperPonat by Silica Beach Software ta trademark of Sion Be Beach Software’ for you. Yet. izable—any command can be placed on any menu or assigned any keyboard command. And, software fans, the best-selling word processing program for the Macintosh now comes with the best-selling paint and draw program for the Mac- intosh—SuperPaint by Silicon And keep in mind Microsoft Word is part of an entire line of Microsoft products that work seamlessly together, so you can do more with your Macintosh. Microsoft Word 4.0 can emphasize, articu- late, clarify and organize your words, In fact, practically the only thing it cant do is think Making it all make sense: (raSemarks and Maing i all make ese i trademark of Micrsef! Corporation. Tc. For mare information cal (900) 5411261, Dep 171 Caterers in Cana cal © Macalester roma of Ap Compu (416) 673-9811, ndside North America, (206) BA2-866L Apple-backed IS managers group formed }y Pamela Piffner Chicago — An Apple-sponsored users group of high-level information systems man- agers called MaclS will be officially launched with a three-day conference in June. ‘The MacIS (Managing Apple Computers in Information Systems) conference will explore Macintosh connectivity and network- ing issues and feature speeches by Apple CEO John Sculley, int USA President Allan Loren and industry analyst Stewart Alsop. The event will be held June 11-13 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, where MacIS is headquartered. Although Apple maintains that the group is an independent association, according to Raymond Palkovic, acting president of MaclI$ and group spokesman, the company played a fundamental role in establishing MaclS. “A group of us were asked by Apple if we were interested in forming such an ani- mal,” he said. The organization, composed of information systems executives from corporations, govern- ment agencies and educational institutions that have 100 or more Macs, will influence Apple's strategy for large corporate installations. The group includes representatives from such heavy-hitting corporations as Procter & Gamble, GTE Services Corp., Peat Marwick Main & Co., Union Carbide Corp. and Motorola Semiconductor Products Inc- According to Palkovic, director of informa- tion system technologies at GTE, member- ship in MaclS is contingent upon the num- ber of installed Macs because high volume shows a commitment to the Mac interface. Smaller companies using the Mac in unique ways may be able to join on appeal. Apple will continue to provide financial siehcr and organizational guidance, although Palkovic said the non-profit group should be able to support itself with mem- bership dues by fiscal 1990. “If we can't be self-sustaining within a year, then the group just isn't working,” Palkovie said Apple contributed in the past to the start- up costs of a similar group, Apple Profession- Exchange (APX), an independent network of MIS directors, microcomputer managers and developers that has remained staunchly independent. Apple said that it sees no con- flict between the two groups. Ten board members were appointed to MaclS in April, and a formal vote on the de facto board will be held at the Chicago con- ference, James F. Young, assistant to the president at EDS, is scheduled to take over as MacIS president. Palkovic said that the goals of MaclS are twofold: exchanging information and leverag- ing vendors, including Apple, “IS managers share a common set of prob- lems; we speak the same language,” Palkovic said, “Given that commonality, we should be able to cut et information barriers.” The June conference, which is the first of two slated for this year, is limited to 225 regis- trants, Palkovie said that preliminary response to the conference is slightly higher than antic- irate He estimated that eventual member- ship in MacIS could reach 1,000. The cost of the event is $590 before May 15 and $640 thereafter. MaclS is at 111 E, Wacker Drive, Suite 600, Chicago, Ill. 60601; (312) 644-6610. 0 News A second opinion from Dr. Mac | Interactive system lets patients choose By Pamela Pfiffner Washington — Members of the President's Council on Health gathered at the White House last month to preview a Mac-based sys- tem that functions as an electronic “second opinion” for patients fac- ing certain types of surgery. If the system wins approval from the medical establishment, the Mac- intosh may take its place next to the stethoscope as a tool of the physician's au Developed under the direction of Dr. John Wennberg at the Dart- mouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H., Informed Patient Decision- making Procedure (IPDP) is an interactive system that uses a Mac II running HyperCard, Macro- Mind's VideoWorks II, a videodisc player and a video monitor. IPDP combines video footage with Mac graphics and animation to describe the options, risks and benefits facing candidates for spe- cific surgical procedures. Offering videotaped testimony from former patients who elected surgery and others who chose to wait or decline the procedure, the program is designed to help patients decide for themselves what course of action to take. The IPDP system will be set up in a doctor's office. After a nurse enters the patient's detailed medi- cal history and risk factors, the patient clicks the mouse to start a 28-minute video. At the conclusion of the video, the patient can explore individual concerns by clicking the pertinent HyperCard buttons. The Macintosh sorts through data culled from research | statistics and pre- and post-opera- tive interviews, branching out when it encounters risks specific to the patient. The IPDP prototype shown last month examines prostatectomy, an operation that accounts for more than $4 billion in medical costs annually in the United States, according to Dartmouth re- searchers, Side-effects that may concern the patient, such as incon- tinence or sexual dysfunction, are discussed in bright and detail- ed screen graphics based on data taken from 56 major and 672 minor subgroups. The Dartmouth deyelopment team hypothesizes that incidents The April 18 issue of Mac- WEEK incorrectly listed the pub- lisher of Stufflt Deluxe, a forth- coming commercial file compres- sion utility, The correct name of the company is Aladdin Systems Ine. of New York. Cc a BUCK SAR Harold Lyon (pictured at left) watches as patient Adrian Conrad uses the Mc-bosed IPDP infor- mation system at the Veterans Administration hospital in White River Junction, V1. of unnecessary surgery will decrease as the informed consent of patients increases. “Ethically it empowers the pasent to make a decision about is whole life,” said Harold C. Lyon, professor of pathology and community medicine at Dartmouth and project manager of IPDP. Lyon worked on IPDP with a Bull market Stock-quotation program arises By Pamela Pfiffner San Francisco — Arising out of the ashes of its original developer's near-demise, a stock-quotation program now called Phoenix may yet make the Macintosh a hot commodity on Wall Street trad- ing floors. The program is now displaying stock quotations directly on the screens of 80 Mac IIs at Ham- brecht & Quist (H&Q), a venture capital firm here that specializes in corporate financing. H&Q took over the software last December when the developer, Aria Interna- tional, shut down operations just weeks before the system was due to go on-line. The investment firm then contracted with four Aria programmers to finish the project. In January it began streamlining its trading-floor operations by rola ing its older Quotron system with Mac II workstations. “We now have a consistent cor- porate network that allows an easy exchange of information,” said Tan Hobson, H&Q's information ser- vices manager, who helped develop the system. By June H&Q hopes to have half of its 320 Mac II workstations receiving stock quotations, Eventu- ally the system will give all of H&Q's 350 employees, from high- powered traders to clerical work- ers, access to the same information on the same system, slew of collaborators, ranging from a HyperCard programmer to a video designer and a psychiatrist. Eric Baumgartner, a senior pro- grammer for the IPDP project, said that HyperCard’s ability to drive a laserdise made it a fast and easy development tool. He over- came HyperCard’s limitations on color and screen size by using overlays generated in VideoWorks. To put Mac graphics on the low- resolution monitor, the Dartmouth team used a Mass Micro Color Space IT video board. A Kodak SV 1300 13-inch RGB/NTSC monitor displays video images from a Pio- neer 4200 videodisc player. IPDP requires a Mac II with 2 Mbytes of RAM and at least a 20- Mbyte hard disk. A physician would have to spend a minimum of $8,000 to set up the necessary hardware in the office. As a result, the Dartmouth developers are tar- geting ae group practices, Three health maintenance orga- nizations (HMOs) will begin to field-test the system this month: Heritage National Health Plan in Davenport, Iowa; Puget Sound National Health Plan in Seattle; and Kaiser Permanente in Denver. Over the next six years the Dart- mouth group plans videodiscs examining 47 different medical procedures, including heart by- pass surgery, hysterectomy and cataract surgery. Despite the high start-up cost Lyon said the system would prove cost-effective in the long run by reducing unnecessary surgery and related medical costs. And informed consent protects physi- cians from malpractice. “Every- body wins,” said Lyon, © for Macs on trading floor ee On the trading floor at venture copital firm Hombrecht & Quist, ull up stock quotes in real time. stockbrokers use Mac Ils 1 In standard trading floor enyi- ronments, brokerages contract for financial information from vendors who supply hardware and software for the desired stock exchanges. As many as five terminals and line feeds might clutter a trader's desk- top, but information cannot be cut and pasted from one system to another system or application. Telerate Inc. supplies real- time stock quotations for he the new Mac system via its MarketFeed consolidated data stream. MarketFeed integrates stock information and re-formats it for the Mac and Phoenix software, While other terminals are still needed to report transactions, one Mac monitor displays financial information from several exchanges and at the same time provides access to H&Q's internal systems and local applications such as spreadsheets and word processing. With the new system H&Q traders have typically eliminated two out of four ter- minals and brokers have eliminated one, Hobson said. MarketFeed can transmit financial information from more than 30 international exchanges, and Telerate plans to offer as many as 65. Customers can choose to receive data from any or all of the ex- changes on Mar- ketFeed, according to Mei Ang, marketing services manager for CMQ Communications Inc., the Toronto-based subsidiary of Teler- ate that developed MarketFeed. Meanwhile, sources close to San Francisco-based Aria said the company is in the midst of a “sig- nificant retrenchment” and is “try- ing to establish a plan as to how to proceed,” The company declined to comment. Joseph Schoendorf, a well- known computer industry execu- tive who resigned as vice president of marketing and customer support at Apple in July 1988, was named Aria’s CEO in January. H&Q showed off its new system at the SIA Information Confer- ence held in New York in April, and the investment firm is aware of its potential for other financial institutions. “We are talking with Aria so that the product will go beyond the boundaries of H&Q,” Hobson said, 0 Fewnder & Peblisher Michael Tehong EDITORIAL Eater Daniel Ruby ! 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Mac\WEEK “Two or three years from now, the typical laser printer wvill be a lot like the Business LaserPrinter™: small, light, with a SCSI connector fora hard disk, and inexpensive”’ Thats how Publish! magazine characterized our Business LaserPrinter (BLP), a Postscript® printer for Mac- THE FUTURE OF: intoshes® IBMs? and IBM clones. Wed only add that the future has arrived ahead of schedule. ee STS REPT. Simply stated, the BLPis a bet- Qo ter way to translate the language called Postscript into the graphics, words and numbers people use to communicate in business. T AT Better because the BLP lets you—oranyone else on yourApple- Talk® network—produce superior TAKE IT THERE text with the aid of 39 fonts (four @ more than our nearest competitor). Better because the BLP comes with expandable RAM (two megabytes expand- able to four), which lets you increase print speed. And ne ithas a SCSI port, which lets desktop publishers extend the font storage capacity of the BLP via a hard disk. Finally, the BLPeven 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 your — — 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: and the GCC Technologie of GCC Technologies, Inc All Adobe continued from Page 1 developments could spell a confus- ing and costly font compatibility problems for users, industry observers said. Adobe Type Manager (ATM), which the company sa it plans to start distributing this fall, uses pro- prietary technology to generate smooth characters on screen in any int size. Until now users have ad access to the technology only as part of Adobe's PostScript inter- preters for output devices. ATM will be distributed with Adobe type packages for the Mac as well as separately for le who already have Rae fan far ths Mac. The technology will also be available as an OEM product for use on printers and workstations. Using ATM for screen fonts and then printing to an Adobe Post- Script output device would give users the highest degree of fidelity between screen and hard copy offered on the Mac. Apple's technology, to be an- nounced at the Apple Developer's Conference in San Jose, Calif, this week, is to provide a com- parable level of WYSIWYG fidelity using only QuickDraw for both screen display and printer output. Although ATM will give users outline screen fonts, many special text, are it on support from system "software or a plications Some sources said Apple's improve- ments to QuickDraw will not include for rotation of type. Introduced by John Warnock, chairman and CEO of Adobe, ATM has been under development for the past year. The type genera- tor will be a “fast, efficient, small News code segment,” Warnock said. The project development has not been completed enough to determine if it will work on 1-Mbyte computers, but it almost certainly will run on 2-Mbyte machines, he said. Apple’s outline font code will probably also require more than 1 Mbyte to run, according to an industry source. ATM will be treated as a screen font in terms of licensing by users, so it could be used on any number of screens at the same time, Warnock said. It is feasible that ATM could be used to provide higher-quality output on QuickDraw printers such as Apple's ImageWnit- er, but licensing issues have not been worked out yet, he said. With Apple, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft developing their own font technologies, Warnock cast ATM as an attempt to head off “chaos” in type standards. “Type is the blood that circulates in the com- puter system,” he said. “We want one kind of blood in computers because there is a need to commu- nicate type across all platforms.” Some observers see it as a defen- Notis demonstrates Mac development environment By Ric Ford Washington — Notis Corp. demonstrated a pro- totype version of Notis89, a development environment for the Mac that provides capabilities similar to those of NeXT Interface Builder. Notis89 is scheduled for a mid-August release in two versions: Notis89 Develop- er at $695 and Notis89 Pro- grammer at $295, Notis89 Programmer is designed to allow non-pro- grammers to assemble stand-alone applications from libraries of objects, functions and “signals.” Instead of writing scripts or pro- (dee the user employs menus, buttons and the mouse to organize components into an Srletion Notis89 is not based on a tradi- tional object-oriented language like NeXT’ Interface Builder, but on an Object Interaction Protocol (OTP) developed by Joseph Firmage, pres- ident of Notis. Objects and i tions are created in advance by pro- grammers working in standard Mac With Notis89, noe-programmers tiows from libraries of ebjecs, Functions ond “signals.” con assemble opplica- languages like C, Pascal and assem- bly. Firmage expects to have about 12 objects available at the initial release of the product Notis89 Developer provides ex- pr nced programmers with lower- level access to the environment's building blocks and with detailed documentation on OIP. Notis plans a developer support program mod- eled on the Apple Programmer's & Developer's Association. Notis is located at 1805 Severn it Lake City, Utah 84124; (801) 272-7788; (800) 876-6847. 6 0 BC ‘Adobe's John Warnock: “Type is the bloed that circulates inthe computer system. We want one kind of blood in computers.” sive move on Adobe's part that itself could cloud the already confus- ing typeface outlook. “If you presume that Apple is doing outline fonts, that is a direct threat to Adobe, and Adobe had to respond,” said Jonathan Sey- bold, publisher of the Seybold Re- port on Desktop Publishing. Together, Adobe's announcement last week and the news expected from Apple this week raise the specter of inconsis- tencies, if not outright incompatibil- ity. Because the two companies are using different font technologies, users trying to print from Macs using Apple's fonts to printers with PostScript controllers may run into serious problems, analysts warned. “Suddenly we would have a real barrier to using Adobe output devices with Macs,” Seybold said “It's a good move by Adobe, but at the same time it's going to con- fuse the users and put tremendous financial burden on them in what I call the junkyard of fonts,” said Ajit Kapoor, senior vice president of computer publishing systems at BIS CAP International, a market research firm in Norwell, Mass. “In a network environment you'll have to decide which Times works with which printer,” Kapoor said. The It of the lack of Ta- tion between Apple and Adobe, Kapoor said, is that “end users are put in the unduly difficult position of being forced to choose between the two.” Features continued from Page 1 quickly. “Apple is building the latform, and [developers] will Ihe to stand on it and reach a little higher,” said Tom Evslin, president of Solutions Inc. in Williston, Vt. That platform is composed of many elements, including: » Electronic-mail functions, permitting developers to build messaging features directly into their applications and providing the foundations for a store-and-for- ward server. >A low-level IPC (interpro- cess communications) protocol that allows for sharing data among applications either on the same machine or over a network. Apple is also expected to supply an interapplication communications (IAC) module, essentially a front end to IPC that will allow for “hot links” among applications. Accord ing to sources close to Apple, IAC uses a “publication” and “sub- scribe” metaphor, where one application is the “publisher” of data and another is updated as a “subscriber.” Applications will have to be modified to use this new feature, > Virtual memory capabilities, allowing use of up to 4 Gbytes of System 7 Continued from Page 1 expected until System 8.0 is announced sometime in 1991 Some users were disappointed that such capabilities wil not be forthcoming yet. “I don't think anyone is interest- ed in upgrading the hardware and software platform of the Mac with- out an immediate major benefit like multitasking,” said Steve Heinz, manager of office automa- tion in the MIS group at a Motoro- la Corp. facility in Phoenix, Ariz. Still, most users were enthusias- tic about new system features like IPC and virtual memory. “IPC pro- vides tighter and tighter integration between applications,” said Peggy Cole, supervisor of sls systems development at Gener: Dynamics’ Data Systems Division in Pomona, Calif. “And virtual memory is easier to maintain and less costly than real memory, although, of course, we want both.” The conference, which runs through the end of this week, will feature sessions on C++, AT&T's object-oriented extension to the C programming language. Apple, which is developing a C++ imple- mentation for the Macintosh Pro- grammers Workshop, last month told Mac developers that object-ori- ented programming will become the standard means of writing Mac software. The company also said its development tools and systems soft- ware will eventually be merged in a unified object-oriented environ- ment (see MacWEEK, April 18). Sources close to fenle said the com, announce pricing and availability for CL/1, the SQL- based connectivity language devel- oped by Network Innovations, now an Apple subsidiary, to link Maes to DEC VAX eine databases, _ Industry sources familiar with System 7.0 said that machines cout at least an 020 chip — includ- ing the Plus, SE and, according to | most reports, Apple's first and Mac Ils that have not upgraded with a Paged Memo Management Unit (PMMU) w not be able to take advantage of all | features of System 7.0. q ‘According to developers, the ‘em will provide a founda- | tion for a new wave of powerful applications. “These new gies will allow us to break bound- aries and create software that will developer in Fairfield, Towa. “Ri now we're bound by the curren system software.” Developers and users expect | Apple to provide a seamless the new system. “The D Conference is a good place tc introduce tools, but I hope the | things pple is darouncting HS definite schedule” for del 7 Tom Evslin, president of Inc. of Williston, Vt. ait If the new system cannot be run on older machines, Evslin sai he'd like to see Apple provide means of ensuring that applications that take advantage of System 7.0 are compatible with previous tem versions. From the business poin Claris’ Dalal said, it will be * to develop applications that ve the transition from System 6 to System 7, since the features of the new system are expected to bi implemented in segments over th next sixto nine months. magnetic storage space as system memory to run multiple applica- tions and manipulate larger files. To use virtual memory, machines will require a Paged Memory Man- agement Unit (PMMU) and at Teast a 68020 chip. > Outline fonts. A new Quick- Draw scalable-font technology will offer some features similar to those of PostScript. Apple will reportedly provide several outline fonts, giving users smooth at any size for screen display and QuickDraw printers, The task for Apple, said ‘one observer, is to get font manu- facturers to quickly adopt its new standard. A competing typeface announcement from Adobe (see story, Be 1) adds a new twist to the unfolding font wars. > A new printer architecture that will make it easier for develop- ers to produce custom drivers for output devices, >A forei file item man- ager that will display files on MS- DOS, OS/2 and ProDos disks as icons on the desktop. » A Toolbox-level Data Access Manager offering access to CL/L and other SQL database servers, > An integrated low-level flat- file manager, that provides sys- tem hooks for applications to per- form basic B-tree database look- ups (a technique that allows rapid searches and indexing). >A rewritten Finder an emphasis on more user config- urability (see MacWEEK, April 25). Font/DA Mover, for exa will yield to the more elegant sol tion of simply draggin, ont desk accessories into the Sys folder. Improvements are slated { the Find File DA and for Macro Maker, and file management will be vastly improved. Third- party developers may also be able | rogram added functionality in > The Communications Tool- box (see MacWEEK, Oct. 25, 1988), a comprehensive communi- | cations architecture for file trans- lation, Manager modules in the new toolbox will provide for the first time a standard way to use more than two serial ports under the Macintosh operating system. > Internationalization fea- | tures, including a new Serij Manager and Line Layout M: er for more accurate type itioning. ms tem 70 will also incos installed as a patch to the System 6.0.3.0 MacWEEK 9 May 1989 Truevision, Mac promote HDTV to broadcasters By John Battelle Las Vegas — When Zenith and AT&T wanted to promote a newly developed high- definition TV transmission standard at the National Association of Broadcasters conven- tion here last week, they tumed to True. vision Inc. and the Macintosh. Two screens demonstrated larger-than life still images at the Zenith booth here, one image in the NTSC National Television Standards Committee) synchronized standard of 756 by 485 pixels, the other a strikingly clear duplicate of the image using Zenith’s proposed true-color HDTV (bh definition television) standard of 1,360 by 720 pixels Coordinating the display of the images two Mac Ils, one fitted with a proto: type HDTV frame buffer from Truevision, the other with the NuVista, Truevision’s stan dard Mac NTSC frau Zenith is not the only vendor proposing a HDTV standard preparing for a lengthy standards war in what many analysts have proclaimed to be the hottest and most lucrative new consumer elec e grabber. As many as 20 groups are tronics market since the personal computer. We've been experimenting with HDTV for said Carl Calabria, director of en- g for Truevision. Th gineeri company has no immediate plans to commercialize its HDTV technology, he said, but pointing to an eventu- al blending of television and the computer, he added that Truevision expects to support the HDTV standard that finally emerges, Truevision is located at 7531 Shadeland Station, Suite 100, Indianapolis, Ind. 46256, 576-7700. ABC Optical Data of Warren, N_J., will distribute the product and is developing a set of hard copy teaching materials to accompany it. The first videodisc package from the two compa- nies, “The ‘85 Vote,” appeared in January (see MacWEEK, Jan. 24) In the Holy Land tives, Continued from Page 1 includes “perspec or commentary, from leading Israelis and Palestinians; analyses by ABC anchors and documents such as the text of the Camp David accords and selections from the Book of Genesis. ABC plans to produc nine more titles this ye and publish eight or targeted primarily at the education market “We want to give teachers and students access to some of the wonderful uses of mul timedia,” said David Bohrman, ABC execu tive producer. “In the Holy Land” is the first in a series called “Understanding Our World.” The next disc, about the civil rights movement and the Rey. Martin Luther King Jr., will be part of the “Instant Replay of History” series, along with “The ‘88 Vote.” Optical Data plans to release “In the Holy Land” Sept. 1, but a price has not yet been set. “The '88 Vote” is currently priced at $295, but will go up to $395 when Optical Data adds teaching materials, Optical Data can be reached at 30 Tech- nology Drive, P.O. Box 4919, Warren, N.J 07060; (201) 668-0022. Apple TV for June, according to several sources 1 am projecting that 50 percent of my large events for fiscal year '89 will involve TY,” said Scott Holmes, executive producer of live shows at Apple. 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But the company has ambitious plans to hook up with other corporate TV networks and add some interactive technology ‘We're definitely working to connect with as many of our customers’ TV networks as possible. It's a very effective way of dissemi- studies and base your decisions. on a realistic 3D representation sultants. Architrion allows you to communicate your ideas effectively. Walk throughs, details, modifications or enhancements take shape in a few minutes as you easily produce any interior or exterior perspective, axono or isometric, News nating information,” said Gaylynn Firth, pro- duction manag. the network. It’s no surprise that Apple TV will a be pushing the use of Macintosh in TV production, testing new products and encouraging their development. “They're going to use the Mac to the maximum. 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Accountants, dealers, MIS executives and others may be involved in the development of the computer in various ways, but none as directly as developers. Apple and the Macface tough competition from Digital Equip- ment Corp., IBM, Sun, NeXT and others. Good graphical user inter- faces, powerful, low-cost hard- ware, and effective software for both developers and users are appearing on the market every day. If we're going to make the mést of all the development and | effort that have been invested in | the Macintosh so far, the people in San Jose this week must attack News the limitations of the current Macintosh aggressively and wisely. One important point is that users and developers are not such different groups of people. The real issues are the same, regard- less of the level oftechnical deta and they can be discussed in sim- ple language without resorting to buzzwords like IPC, IAC, virtual memory and multitasking. Performance. Computers have not begun to approach the performance necessary to work well with people. The more human the user interface, the more power it needs. The Mac is an adequate microcomputer by today’s standards, but to stay competitive over the next 10 years Beals must have an architecture that can handle 10 times the pro- cessing power. The crucial issue here is provid- ing new support for multiple processors to effectively work together. This includes basic RIC FOR direct memory access, in which extra processors move data between memory and disks, net- works or displays without drag- ging down the main processor. Functionality. There are plenty of holes in the Mac's capa- ilities from both the developer and user viewpoints. The limita- tions are not created by its tech- nology, but by insufficient time: and resources. The 5-year-old Mac is competing against down- sized versions of IBM, VAX/VMS and Unix systems that incorporate rill or maneNCarS of develop- ment over decades. To stand above its desktop, the Mac needs file systems that can manage large disks effectively and securely, a user interface shell that can be customized like HyperCard, the ability to handle multiple appli- cations and ports iinelncctsly without slowdowns, a user-periph- erals bus that is orders of magni- tude faster than the Apple Desktop Bus, error recovery beyond bomb dialogs, improved wide-area net- working support and more. Developers also need basics like acore text-editing package, vastly improved memory and resource management mechanisms, many networking enhancements, ways to handle large graphic pees (coordinate systems) and a slew of other capabilities. Tools and does. To compete with advanced designs like the NeXT Computer System, Apple must do much more in supplying tools and information. Apple’s Macintosh Programmer's Workshop is positively old-fash- ioned in its user interface, perfor- mance and approach when com- pared with NextStep, Think’s LightspeedC and advanced systems like TGS Systems’ graphical, object-oriented ProGraph develop- ment environment. Inside Macintosh, Apple’s ency- clopedia of Mac technical infor- mation, is laden with errors and ‘omissions. It is truly embarrassing — that Apple has not yet released a full-fledged developers’ informa- tion syren on CD-ROM, with monthly updates systems. With the limitations of even Apple’s moun- tain of resources, open confer- ences like the one in San Jose this week are crucial for balancing priorities and creating engineering | solutions that push the envelope. | Apple cannot doit alone orin secretive isolation; it must contin= ue to nourish growth outside the — company as well as on the inside, We welcome comments at MacWEEK. 4 Cambridge Genter, Third Floor, Cambridge, ‘Mass. 02142, (617) 497-2600. 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The new offerings include the QM-Database Bridge, QM-Serial Bridge and QM-Connect Bridge. > The QM-Connect Bridge pro- vides a link from QuickMail to MacNET, Connect Inc.'s on-line information and communications network. The Telecom Bridge already included with QuickMail links the E-mail system, via special scripts, to MCI Mail, GEnie, CompuServe, The Source, INET and other electronic services. Through the new QM-Connect Bridge, QuickMail users can address messages with up to 16 files enclosed to MacNET users. Users can also download financial infor- mation from Standard and Poor's on-line financial information database using special QuickMail forms. QuicKeys upgrade ships West Des Moines, lowa — CE Software last month announced an upgrade to QuicKeys, its popular keyboard enhancemet and macro Version 1.2 includes a new utility called QuickTimer that will run a QuicKeys routine at a specified time, at periodic inter- vals, on start-up or when a particx lar application is launched. Quick- software Timer can even open a desk acces- sory or run a backup program Among other enhancements, the new version gives users easier con trol over keyboard equivalents for dialog box buttons and allows docu- ments created in one application to be opened automatically by another. QuicKeys 1.2 is available now for $99.95. Upgrades are $15. >The QM-Database Bridge enables QuickMail users to build and store a database on a Quick- Mail server. Special mail forms, created with QM Forms, the forms-design utility included with QuickMail, can be used to enter and retrieve data from within any application via the QuickMail desk accessory. The Database Bridge extracts data from the fields, stores it in tab-delimited format and on request sends it back as an ASCII file for easy import to HyperCard stacks, mail-merge files, spread- sheets or database applications. > QM-Serial Bridge provides QuickMail connectivity through serial connections rather than modems. The new bridge, designed for direct links to local mainframes, operates at speeds up to 9,600 bps. The QM-Connect Bridge will ship this month for $99.95 per server. The QM-Database Bridge and the QM-Serial Bridge, also due this month, will sell for $149.95 and $99.95 per server, respectively. CE Software Inc. is located at 1854 Fuller Road, P.O. Box 65580, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265; 4-1995. 3 MocWEEK 9 May 1989. a Ek Community news kiosk gets great response ‘Mountain View, Calif. — Initial response to the Mac IIcx-based Community Infor mation Kiosk installed fast month in a public library here has been so enthusiastic that this Silicon Valley city now plans to add up to 18 more such systems over the next two years, according to Jackie Nagy, Mountain View's director of information services. A HyperCord stack provides information about local entertainment, eateries, public works and city management. News about a downtown renovation project and drought updates will be added by late summer. Eventually, according to Nagy, residents will be able to opply for licenses and building permits directly from the kiosks. New Media sTEVE ROSENTHAL Mac's great, but don’t throw away traditional fools Although some multimedia pro- jects can be done from start to fin- ish on the Macintosh’s electronic desktop, it may be a bit early for most of us to give away the rest of our work space. The majority of people with multimedia projects actually in progress say t combining Macinto: hey are ased ele- ments with portions and processes done outside of the Mac. Perhaps, to adapt a term from the world of simulation, what we're seeing is a kind of “synthetic real For many people, extra Mac elements play a role from the very start of a project. Even a full-time professional developer like Rob Fulop, president of Interactive Productions Ine. of Foster City, Calif, told me that “paper is a wonderful tool; there is no reason to replace what it’s good at.” Fulop said he often brainstorms on paper, and he freq ently sketches ideas with a pen to com- municate to an artist who executes the design on the Macintosh. There's no quicker way for me to communicate with my art diree- tor,” he said. “In three seconds, I can show him what I'm thinking.” It's a question of appropriate technology. Fulop certainly knows how to use the Mac, but he knows when to turn to other tools as well. Take an example at the other end of the process. When San Jose, screen-based point-of-sale system, Calif., developer IntelliChoice pro- duced The CarCenter, a Mac-based multimedia system that allows potential car buyers to pick out models that meet their preferences and requirements, the company used Mac-based tools such as HyperCard for the rough version of the project. But the finished ver- Beat ich should ship iy ey tomers like credit unions and banks in the next few months, uses custom programming and scanned, rather than drawn, images, HyperCard is a wonderful prototyping tool, and drawing on a Mac Is relatively € according to Peter Levy, Intelli- Choice president, but for the final product he wanted a polished look that was easier to get by using cus- tom tools and photographs The same goes for moving Y, images, I checked in with Lynda Weinman, a multimedia artist in Hollywood, Calif, who does work for large commercial companies, the film industry and ae itself. For one of her latest Mac-based productions, she said, she wanted to animate some realistic images. ‘That part of the project had to be apse more traditional methods, “There is still no way [on the Mac] to do cell animation the way a volvo Please click one of the topic buttons Volvo 780 Turbo cost sarc gf ae Wl So y r Prat on COMEOnY options on the left to evaluate this c IntelliChoice’s CarCenter combines digital sound, animation, photes and a datebase into a touch- wing car buyers to choose models that meet their preferences. traditional animator works, where you can see through lay- ers so you can understand the relationship of one drawing to the next.” Until the Mac gets tools like that, she said, she'll still use her animation stand. The question, then, is one of balance. Keeping a project entirely on the internal Mac desktop has a number of advantages, such as ease of integration, flexibility, security and often a cost savings, Out- side elements such as special photography, traditional ani- mation and video editing take a lot of skilled labor and conse~ quently tend to be expensive. But there are also times when an outside tool works better or faster, and still many instances where alternatives ‘on the Mac simply aren’t yet available, The number of successful projects produced entirely on the Mac is indeed growing. But if you're producing a Mac-based multimedia project with the cur- rent state of the art, don't forget that more traditional tools also have their virtues. Ifyou plan to use MacroMind’s — new Director animation and i presentation program, early adopters say there’s good news and bad news. On the plus a side, reports are that the added | features are well worth the 5 upgrade. The downside is that | the current version of Macro- +i Mind Accelerator (the accessory Psy that allows showing = ull-spee ations by pre- processing objects into bit maps) ‘i only works with the older Video- | Works I and not with Director A | version of Accelerator for Direc- | tor is apparently still a few months away. One work-around for recorded presentations, at least for those who have access to high-end video equipment, is to collect Director images on a recorder that has frame-by-frame: record capability. | * If you have comments, applications, expe- riences (o share or tips, please send a note to me at New Media, c/o MacWEEK, 301 Howard St., 15th Floor, San Francisco, Calif. 94105. 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The Viking 2 G/S is available $3,090, according to Evangelist MegaGraphics announced shipment of the SE/30 eight-bit color board that it first unveiled at January’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The $1,895 MegaScreen 3008 card drives a 19-inch color o1 play at a 1,024-by-826-pixel, 75-dpi resolu- tion and a 69-Hz refresh rate. The card now for ay-scale dis lows for simultaneous use of the SE/30's internal 9-inch screen and can be toggled between one- and eight bit modes: Radius is focusing its SE/30 efforts on monochrome systems, targeting in particular first-time buyers looking for a lower-cost solution,” according to Ed Colligan, the com: pany’s marketing vice president. Priced at $695, the SE/30 board it unveiled here pro. duces a 1,152-by-882-pixel, $2-dpi im with a 72-Hz refresh rate on a Radius 19- » Page Display. A full system with inch T board, monitor and RadiusWare software lists for $2,190 and is available now Radius also said its DirectColor/16, a $3,695 Mac II board that offers 16-bit color and its $4,995 DirectColor/24 board will be released later this month. SuperMae promoted its new $3,999 Spec trum/24 true-color card with an upgrade pro- gram that offers a $1,500 rebate to users turning in eight-bit cards from SuperMac itself or from Apple and RasterOps (sec MacWEEK, April 2 In response, RasterOps lowered the price of its 32-bit product, the ColorBoard 232, to $2,995 from $3,495, it, too, hi Path, for owners of its older display cards. id reminded users that trade-up program, called The RasterOps also advised dealers to reduce margins on trade-ups to undercut Super- Mac’s program. At the same time RasterOps said that the SFX Video Option daughterboard for its ColorBoard 224 and 232, which will provide NTSC (National Television Standards Com: mittee) video in and out ailable within 90 days. The company also announced that its ClearVue/SE, a $1,995 package that com bines an accelerator and display card with a d genlocking, will | large-screen monitor for the Mac SE, is ship ping now. The board uses a 16-MHz 68000 and other acceleration techniques to deliver a threefold performance improvement, Ras terOps said. 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At the Mac- world Europe Expo here last month several European companies showed new monitors with what they said were re- fresh rates and formats suited for Euro- pean applications, Formac GmbH of Berlin introduced the ProNitro80, a 19-inch Trinitron-based monitor that repaints the screen 80 times: per second. Company officials said it has one of the highest commercially available refresh rates of any personal computer display. The unit lists fe the equivalent of about $6,500 in West Germany. Miro Datensysteme GmbH, a Braun- schweig, West Germany-based company with an office in Mission Viejo, Galif., brought two new 24-bit color systems to the expo. The company’s microGRAPH Chroma-20 $ and DF models feature 20- inch displays with 1,024-by-768 pixel res- olution, a single slot controller and a built-in 2-to-1 zoom function that lets users toggle between a 72-dpi and a 36- dpi display: The $ model uses a Sony Trinitron dis- play tube, but the DF model uses the Barco Calibrator display, said Miro Presi- dent Rolf Richter, The Barco unit, which features a hardware calibration unit that selects the right color balance for exact matching to standards despite changes in ppagphar output, is penis particularly for applications such as color printing or fabric design where exact color matching is required Torch Technology of Cambridge, England, announced at the Macworld Europe Expo that it is now offering a frame-grabber board, the RSVP. along with its PAL/NTSG (National Television Standards Committee) video encoder/decoder. Torch’s two-board set can digitize a composite (normal video) signal in real time. Chris Childs, product development director, said the company intends to bring the $3,000 product to the United States and already has had discussions with distribu- tors. — By Steve Rosenthal le aes. News Slew of security products at D.C. | | Sanitizing software, secure Macs at expo By Rochelle Garner Washington — The announce- ment that Apple and SecureWare Inc. of Atlanta plan to develop spe- cial system software that will quali- fy the Mac for top-secret govern ment work led the news on the security front at last month's Mac- world Expo here (see MacWEEK, May 2), but it wasn’t the only expo Camouflage Seattle — Camouflage, a recent- ly released entrant in the increas- | ingly crowded data security field. offers encryption/decryption speeds unmatched by its competi- tors, according to the developer, asrEZ Software Inc Like other products in the field, the $349 package offers a choice between an encryption development in the emerging “trusted Mac” market Other hardware and software products introduced at the show include: > Ft. Knox from Transfinite Systems Company Inc. of Cam- bridge, Mass. The $195 software program ($139 to government agencies) addresses the need to “sanitize” disks that previously con- tained classified information Under federal regulations a disk that once held classified data remains classified even after it has been erased because magnetic par- ticles remain between data tracks, To sanitize the disk, Ft. Knox per forms six write routines over the entire platter. » Cav-Mae, Mac FSS and Com- puter Escort 130 kits for the Mac SE, HU, IIx and Ilex from FMJ Security Systems of Compton, lif. The kits, which lock the ntosh directly onto the user's completely enclose the CPU casing to prevent unauthorized access to internal components such See Security, Page 21 speedily encrypts data method that meets the federal government's DES standard and a faster proprietary technique. But Bryan Born, usrEZ’s presi- dent, said that Camouflage’s DES algorithm works at five times the speed of Sentinel, the encryption program from Super- Mac Technology that is often con- sidered the market leader, and 150 [the Gettysburg Address: [C= The Gettysburg Address == | Four score and seven years ago our fathers | Kemet tee eager nee mabon, couceived in Liberty, and dedicated | Si pan a oad | eel Now we are os Joa great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, socemcrived and so dedbeuted. can lang, fcndure. We are tet bere on a great battle field of that war’ We have come dechcate a portion oft as a final rest (plac for those who here gave the that the nation might lve It is akogether | | fitting and proper that we should do this. LUNES” CE WNBN x IgA SIA [657 (dM KCACEBWRS.— Is be OX Er aseiGc1AD-Yl wlye-6200 hl VSL silat fh) sor Nx Sup A° J STEY 3 .» Ou ALTo{ Aa NsejuS “If KOMAGIK ip ABU zmoke7)P SEK duvns 2. 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Version 2.0, which is due this | summer, will add custom plot lay- outs, cubic spline and general | curve fits, multiple plot windows, and a new procedure that makes it | easy to combine symbol and | alphanumeric fonts with subscripts and superscripts in a formula | Algorithms added to the new ver sion will display, print and export special line styles properly, even on a curve or diagonal and regardless | of the number of points plotted, the company said. Other new features include posted notes, time-series data formats and full undo in data | windows. Enhancements to the pro- [ane Gey me es users precise control of the align- ment of multiple graphs The program's price will rise from $179 to $249 when Version 2.0 is released. Registered users will be able to upgrade by sending $20 and their old manual cover, times as fast as other competitors A feature called Metamorph allows users to encrypt files in a format that can be decrypted by any other user with the proper password on any Mac — even without Camouflage. The pro- gram incorporates the encrypted data into a stand-alone Meta- morph application, which can be transmitted electronically or on disk to users at a branch office, for instance, or a home computer. Once the recipient enters the password, Metamorph decrypts the data and then destroys itself. Camouflage also offers double encryption using one or both of its algorithms, passwords up to 16,384 uindciere longietea eee mentation and on-line help. usrEZ Software is at 1206 E Pike St., Suite 588, Seattle, Wash. 98122-3918; (206) 353-0181. 3 Synergy Software is a division of Peripherals, Computers and Sup- which first released ph in Februayy 1988. 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MicroMops also sells maps in ‘MocPaint ond Encop- sulated PostScript (EPS) format as well as Hyperdtlas, a $99 set of stacks with mops and geographi- col data, and Users con enhance MacAtlas mops with clr, grophis, text or QuickMap, another numbers, using most popular graphics packages. $99 HyperCard product for analyzing and mapping geographically organized data. ‘MicroMaps Software Inc. can be reached at PO. Box 757, Lambertville, NJ. 08530; (609) 397-1611; (800) 334-4291. Genesis graphical outliner set for June release New York — Futuresoft System Designs plans a June release for Genesis, its $149.95 grophics-based presentation and outlining program. Presentations and out- lines are built around linked symbols such as boxes ond circles, created using Mac Drowlike drawing tools. Each symbol may contain up to 32 Kbytes of text. 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Seminar Schedule Chicago 5/4 Fairmont Hotel Toronto 5/5 Harbour Castle Westin Long Beach, CA 5/17 Hyatt Regency San Francisco 5/18 Hyatt Regency Boston 6/14 Boston Marriot Hotel Washington, DC 6/15 Mayflower Hotel AGFA @ COMPUGRAPHIC DIVISION AGFA and the Agfa rhombus are resputered trademarks of Apla-Gevacrt, AG. Compugraphic is 2 registered trademark of Agla Corporation. PosTScairt is a repisered trademark and Dusyiay PostScuirr isa trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc MocWEEK 9 May 1989 Low-cost color scanning introduced By Becky Wring Washington — Low-cost color scanning made its Sebut at Macworld Expo here last month. Microtek, best known for its line of gray-scale scanners, introduced the MSF- 300Z, a 24-bit color flatbed scanner, and Discovery Software introduced ColorScan, a software-only color scanning utility. The Microtek MSF-300Z has a top resolu- tion of 300 by 300 dpi and can scale from 25 pecent to 400 percent. Scanning an 8.5-by- 11-inch page takes a maximum of a minute and 50 seconds. In gray-scale and single-bit modes, it offers the same resolution but much faster scanning, with a 9.9-second maximum wait per 8.5-by-11-inch page. A SCSI interface is built in. The 300Z will be available in July for less Security Continued from Page 18 as the hard disk and, in the case of the Mac FSS, the keyboard as well. Prices start at $89, varying by configuration. > New additions to the TEMPEST Mac line from Atlantic Research Corp. The Alexandria, Va, company is now offering a Macintosh IIx and a 19-inch monochrome monitor that meet the government's hard- ware security specification. The TEMPEST- compliant Mac IIx will sell for $12,749 with a 40-Mbyte removable disk drive from Quan- tum or $13,499 for an 80-Mbyte version. The | monitor, offering a 1,280-by-960 resolution, will be priced at $5,995. Both products are scheduled for July delivery. » Access Control Environment (ACE) from Casady & Greene Inc. of Carmel, Calif. According to the company, ACE will allow different levels of application, hardware and document access for different users. Admin- istrators can assign password and key-disk security privileges, encrypt and deerypt doc- uments as well as applications, prevent unau- thorized applications and desk accessories from being installed, and assign hard disk ini-