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23 May 1989 Vol. 3 No. 21 ] ana ‘a IU t ! Jz Built-in color video due on | 25-MHz Mac By Jonathon Perrow San Francisco — Apple is gear- ing up for the introduction of the next-generation Mac II], a 25-MHz version of the IIcx that has color display capabilities built into the motherboard. The new machine will deliver eight-bit color or gray-scale images at a resolution of 640 by 450 pixels on a standard 13-inch monitor. Together with the long-awaited portable Mac, the new Ilcx is expected to be announced at Mac- world Expo in Boston this August. But sources said delays in System 6.0.4, which is required to operate both machines, may postpone the announcement until fall. The built-in video is a no-frills implementation that uses a custom ASIC (application-specific integrat- ed circuit), sources said. The 25-MHz clock speed of the 68030 will speed up some applica- tions two to three times over the 16- MHz 68030 and will provide enough processing power to run See 25-MH=, Page 9 See * {Al a 5 12} Sy ISI A ca ps] By Pamela Pfiffner San Diego — SuperCard, the Silicon Beach Software program that builds on Apple's HyperCard personal database, will b reaching eager users this week. Silicon Beach, whose SuperPaint program leapfrogged Apple's Mac- IIGS inches By Elinor Craig Boston — The Apple IIGS took another step toward the Macintosh with the introduction of a new Operating system for the popular home and schoo! machine here at this month's AppleFest System 5.0 for the IICS not only improves connectivity with the Mac, but also adds interface enhance- ments that Mac users won't see until next year's System 7.0 release Com oo tri (ar a kos Tia Jerface enhancements tha! Mac users won't get System 5.0 for the Apple lIGS indudes « new Finder with some in- toward Mac Besides a Mac-style Control Panel, the latest CS system, due for release this summer, provides; » A Get Icon window that com- bines the functions of the Mac’s Get Info and Get Privileges windows into a HyperCard-like note card. Desk accessories, Control Panel devices (cdevs), Startup documents (INITs) and file-system translators can be activated or deactivated from within the Get Icon window. >A Finder that integrates functions of Apple’s Font/ DA Mover and the Chooser. Fonts, DAs, cdevs, INITs and various drivers are represented as icons that can be moved in and out of the System fold- er for installation or removal. System 5.0 also delivers improved performance, but a network-aware # IIGS, Page 10 contl System 7.0. \Py jons @ 1D = 146 ] (ANN INTRO Vail Larger cards, full-color support, enhanced graphics and new text-formatting options could moke Silicon Beach Software's SuperCard a major player in the presentation market, SuperCard opens windows on full-color, graphic world Paint into the forefront of Mac Geer said that supa again loes an Apple original one better. “If HyperCard opened a window onto a new world, Supertad lets you open many windows on the ” said Clay Nixon, a Louis- film maker and Super- Card beta tester. SuperCard promises to deliver the features most desired by HyperCard users: full color, larger | cards, custom menus, mixed fonts and sizes in text, multiple stacks open simultaneously, Teh a variety of window types. Buttons can have any shape, and any bit-mapped or object-oriented graphic can ites a script attached. The program | See SuperCard, Page 9 Some still wishing for true multitasking By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. — Corporate buyers and network managers will not be making major revisions to purchasing plans on the basis of the forthcoming System 7.0. according to an informal MacWE Buyers, however, pleased with the new system tech- nologies announced by Apple this month, and many said that System 7.0 provides a strong reassurance that their Macintosh purchasing plans are on track. While most of those contacted said they see the forthcoming sys- tem as evolutionary rather than revolutionary, they agreed that, taken together, the new technolo- gies will advance Apple's goal of winning the corporate desktop away from IBM and Unix operating systems. Future systems incorpo- rating true multitasking will herald By Jonathan Perrow San Francisco — Squelching rumors that desk accessories would not be supported in System 7.0, Apple has assured users and devel- opers that the handy miniprograms are here to stay — at least until System 8.0. Word 4.0: Bigger. Better. Best? See Reviews, Page 76 mer : >\ < Ghon corporate art departments. See Page 37 ‘Managers upbeat on 7.0 but hold steady on buying antost 6 Mach sysen® Buyers react to System 7 © “Our grandiose plans might be practical under System 7.” | © “In justifying Mac | purchases, System 7 will be persuasive.” the real revolution, many said “System 7.0 won't cause any more Mac sales {in my company],” said Bill Cook, technical adviser for microcomputing strategies at Pit- ney Bowes in Norwalk, Conn “We're already moving as fast as we See Buyers, Page 10 DAs get reprieve with new system System 7.0, however, will radi- cally alter the way DAs are imple- mented and installed and may even change the functions they perform The new system software, which is expected early next year, will give users several ways to access DAs: See DAs, Page 9 Loe ATs San Jose, Calif: — Ni AppleTulk 2.0, NRC routers will reading the protocol it to the proper location. NRC routers speed Macs on backbones etwork Resources Corp. last week announced shipment of the NRC Series 2000, a set of panne internetworking, router boxes that will allow Macs and LocalTal mation over high-speed network backbones. The routers range in price from $999 for a unit supporting a single Mac-to-backbone connection to $1,995 for a LocalTalk or PhoneNET LAN link. All models are available for Ethernet, broad-band and fiber-optic cabling. In conjunction with Apple's forthcoming TokenTulk ans Lotter Maes seamless communication with token-ring networks, sources said. 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Adams Sacramento, Calif. — Apple and Tandem Comput- ers have joined forces in a proto- type project that uses Macs with a erCard front Beli e portion f the state of Califor- nia’s SQL database ‘running on Tandem mainframes. “The system, Cali- fornia Navigator, was — showcased here last week at the Government Technology Con- nce, a three-day event that pro- moters said drew 150 vendors and nearly 12,000 local and state offi- cials from 29 Western states. The Navigator provides mail, an lon-line executive calendar, a catalog and ordering system and reporting capabilities. Other databases and functions may be added The Navigator is now up and running here at the Stephen P. Teale Data Center, the state's largest data processing center. The ‘Cal state officials eye Macintosh-Tandem link Dc Sa Dovid Lema of the Teole Data Center was key in bringing together Apple and Tandem to create the prototype of California Navigator. system will be offered to the 166 state agencies that depend on the center for information services, including the departments of High- ways and Motor Vehicles. The state of California has an annual information services budget of $1 billion, one-third of which is earmarked for hardware purchases, said David Lema, director of the Teale Center. The state now has about 2,500 Macs. “I can’t make endorsements, but this could mean many more,” he said. 0 Tycho eases table conversion By Henry Norr Pacifica, Calif. — Pte. a new application turns numerical data into presentation-quality tables, is Re to ship next month. A “stand-between application,” according to publisher Macreations Inc., Tycho is designed primarily for formatting spreadsheet or database information into tables that can be placed in Meviop publishingor word processing applica- tions. The $149 program reads SYLK files, reads and writes tab- and comma-delimited text files, and saves in PICT or its own format. Taking advantage of its style- sheet-like “settings” function, a user could read in data from a mainframe-generated text file; choose a style for titles, borders, lines and other table elements; then save it as a PICT file to be placed in PageMaker — all with just three commands, according to Thom Hogan, Macreations’ presi- To our readers Because of the Memorial Day holiday, MacWEEK will not publish next week. The next | issue will be June 6. Macreations’ $149 Tycho program indudes special ding- bots and a variety of formatting options fo jabulor data. dent and Tycho’s chief architect Data can also be entered directly in Tycho, which offers a sparse- matrix database under its styling engine The program bas built-in chart- oriented dingbats, including check masks, full and partial circles, trian- gles, arrows and Xes. Other are multiline cells, multilevel head- ers, footnoting, a single command for switching rows and columns and row or column shading in any of 10 gray sbudes ycho joins Mansfield Systems" TableTools, « $395 Excel-linked program shipped last month, in the table-generation field. Microsoft's Word 4.0 also offers table-building capabilities Macreations Ine. is located at 329 Horizon Way, Pacifica, Calif. 94044; (415) 359-7649. 0 Reuse 23 24 25 28 30 34 34 34 98 39 40 46 52 54 59 65 In this Issue News Baytec 2000 allows Mac data transfer at 96 Mbps DaynaTalk network accelerators ship Spectral offers higher-powered DSP boards Temporary Mac-based networks dash into future MaclnTouch Apple emphasized System 7.0's advantages over 05/2 and MS- OS, but avoided comparison with the real multitasking copobilitias of Unix workstations. ‘Aox accelerator board for the SE supports SANE Heart Dota ships its first internal, external drives FWB reduces prices on its Hammer hard drives New Media Steve Rosenthal Although multimedia is still in the early stoges ond making precise budget predictions can be difficult, some guidelines are available. Tech Files Joe! West Apple's System 7.0 announcement showed that it is becoming ‘more responsive to the needs of its thied party developers. Opinion Editorial In attempting to make itself into 0 supplier of sophisticated operating system software, Apple has set off down a difficult road. Letters Mac Soapbox Steve Hannaford The key players in the desktop publishing market ore lasing well- established ground by ignoring the professional publishing market. Mac the Knife MacWEEK Graphic Arts Mixed media ‘Macs, corporate art departments: Partners in success Charting the page-layout template potential New PostScript imagesetter entries change market Boldface Ezra Shapiro Looking into the desktop publishing crystal ball. Swiss designer lets his art do the talking Organizational Mac Health and the work place: Computer-related health problems are increasing, and managers need to foke measures to address employees’ concerns. 68 70 70 76 79 %5 95 % 83 84 86 87 93 The Mac Manager Don Crabb Cobb offers some advice on how to stay on top of the ‘Apple “reorganization of the month® club, Window On Many ways to grays: Choosing ascanner that meets your work requirements involves weighing your needs against the many options for resolu- tion, time, cost and memory. Has OCR technology reached a practical level? Reviews Word 4.0: Bigger, better, best? MiniCad+: Back to drafting basics. Business Watch Paracomp turns heads: The publisher of Swivel 3D and Milo math processor advances ils products through a flair for design and financing. Hard drive makers rebound financially after 1988 MarketWEEK ‘Mac worldwide installed base to grow 35 percent in 1989. Mail Order Ad Showcase Ad Index Classified Career Opportunities MocHELX s pode wing on rica stem of Apple Maintos SEs ond Mac Us Lasers, Vuxbyper VHLD ond VHLOQM, ond QMS ColoSctgt 100 giles netwotked on Foxoon Phones; « Lnctran: 30), hon 153500 Side Sonne, RasterOps, [Machines oud SupeMoc mans ad softwar inc Froetind, Supe, Wacnsch Word, LesetPont ond Posen Quatdress, Ads PogeMaler, Adobe Isis, ds News Baytec speeds data transfer up to 200 Mbps By Richord Rewles Livonia, Mich. — Baytec Inc. has intro- duced a networking device that it claims allows data transfer at 20 to 30 times Ether- net speeds among Macs, minis, mainframes and LANs linked with twisted-pair, dual- coaxial or fiber-optic cable Called the Baytec 2000, the machine uses a SCSI interface, a special chip set and pro- prietary software drivers to achieve through- puts of up to 96 Mbits per second on the Mac and up to 200 Mbps on other platforms, including machines running Xenix, Unix, MS-DOS and OS/2. Positioning the device as a “next-genera- tion product” for high-volume CAD/CAM/ CAE shops, John Brunk, Baytec president and developer, said, “All [the operating sys- tems] will have to learn to coexist. I think this is the platform on which it will happen.” Each Baytec 2000 unit provides up to 9 Gbytes of storage capacity on high-speed 8-inch disks, along with a tape backup option and printer and plotter spooling. Prices begin at $16,995, depending on configuration. On multiplatform networks the Baytec is divided into “libraries,” or partitions, reserved for different operating systems. A Maz library on the Baytec appears to net- worked users as a standard hard disk volume from which they can open and save files or run applications. To exchange files with a non-Mac library, software such as Sun Microsystems’ TOPS is required The Baytec 2000 comes configured with a controller for seven nodes, but with the addi- tion of extra seven-node controllers, priced at $1,495 each, the device can support up to 56 nodes. Units can be chained together to support up to 3,136 nodes, and the system overcomes the SCSI standard’s distance limi- tation to allow connections up to 1.125 miles apart with minimal performance degrada- tion, according to Brunk. Transfer rates are slower on the Mac than on many higher-end systems, he said, because Apple implemented the “single- ended” version of the SCSI standard rather than the “differential” version, which pro- vides greater performance by supporting simultaneous bidirectional transfers over sep- arate lines. To compensate without bogging down the system, Baytec’s Mac driver sets up a special RAM cache, which is configured by the user via the Chooser desk accessory, The Baytec 2000 evolved from an auto- Orchid upgrades MacSprint card Fremont, Calif, — Orchid Technology will announce a free upgrade for its MacSprint IT ache Card this week, ensuring that the $299 Mac II performance-booster will be compati- ble with Apple's forthcoming Syst 0. To overcome conflicts with Motorola’s 68851 Paged Memory Management Unit chip, which Mac IJ users will need to install to take full advantage of System 7.0, the upgrade requires replacement of three PAL (programmable array logic) chips on the Orchid 32-Kbyte static-RAM daughterboard The new PALs and instructions for installing them will be sent automatically to registered users. Orchid is at 45365 Northport Loop W., Fremont, Calif. 94538; (415) 683-0300. 0 motive industry just-in-time inventory man- agement system developed by Baytec. It incorporates a parila processor bus that can handle requests from up to eight nodes simultaneously, according to Brunk Security “is almost like out of a main- frame,” he said. It is possible to password- protect volumes in firmware as well as make up for file- and record-locking deficiencies in applications by controlling read-write privi- leges on individual folders and volumes. While acknowledging that 200 Mbps throughput was theoretically possible, some experts questioned whether such radical speed was necessary or desirable. “Speed does not equal performance, You have to look at your slowest link,” said Peter Lis] network consultant in Oakland, Calif. “Everything they're attaching to the net- work is going to be very slow,” a Kee Nethery, a consultant in Berkeley, Calif “The backplane of a Mac isn’t even st.” “That's why we have the caching,” said Brunk. “The point is that we will match or | — surpass the performance of your local disk drive, even with many nodes attached.” ¥ Baytec Inc. is located at 32425 School- craft, Livonia, Mich. 48150; (313) 427-1250, (313) 580-3146, 0 « Forhea withoud having thesaxers Ota formula typesetting feature can handle ou helical wrest have 10 worry about tabs. boasts 220,000 of them, and notations $0 0 a typesetter users Of Documents 10,000 pages and lo ‘ives authors an exact cout of characters, words, lines and paragraphs. ger wont intimidate Word. And Word Count pics and text is the absolute best if youre {ext weraps around any object as you ype MacWEEK 23 May 1989 DaynaTalk accelerators ship By John Battelle Salt Lake City — Dayna Communications last week began shipping its line of Dayna- Talk network accelerators. Dayna also announced the SpeedGuard Collision Avoidance System, which prevents collisions between data packets traveling at different speeds on a LocalTalk network LocalTalk networks, usually limited to a data transfer speed of 230 Kbps, can be boosted to a maximum speed of 850 Kbps using DaynaTulk, according to the company. The product takes the form of a small box connected to each computer. According to users and analysts, DaynaTalk will give LocalTalk a needed performance boost with- out an expensive rewiring of the network. “It's a good way to get increased perfor- mance without the cost of Ethernet,” said Craig Bennion, manager of the computer testing lab at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. LocalTalk devices without DaynaTalk, such as printers or non-accelerated Macs, can create collisions on a network running at various speeds, according to Dayna. The SpeedGuard Collision Avoidance System consists of SpeedGuard Timing, which ships with each DaynaTalk box, and the Speed- Anew Word. The expression that you cant please all of the people all of the time just got redefined. In developing 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 y, 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- up tables automati ments without any guesswork. What’ more, Word is completely custom- ©1988 bicraw/t Corporation Microw and the Micros! og av regutered rademarks und Making tl make sense u @ trademark ef Miers Corporation. Macintosh rested inulemark of Apple Compute, Ie ‘SuperP! by Silicon Beach Sofacar 10 trademark of Stam Beach Softcare. fre Ror were rfarmaion cal (S00) S41 426, Dep. 171. Comer ta Canada call 116) 673 9811 outside North America, 206) 882 BOL 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 can't do is think Making it all make sense: Isitcon Brac © Guard Collision Filter, a separate $69.95 box. While SpeedGuard Timing is sufficient to protect Mac Pluses and SEs, Dayna said, the Collision Filter is required for newer Macs and LaserWriter IIs. DaynaTalk is available now for $189 per node. The SpeedGuard Collision Avoidance System will ship in July. Dayna is also ship- ping an MS-DOS version of DaynaTalk, which takes the form of a network interface card, for $289 per node Dayna is at 50 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah 84144; (801) 531-0600. 0 SmartLink emulates midrange terminals By John Battelle Calabasas, Calif. — Protocol Computers Inc. last week announced SmartLink 5250/ MacCOM, emulation software that will con- nect Macs to IBM System/3X and AS/400 midrange computers. The SmartLink 5250/MacCOM applica- tion, working with code added to the 3X or AS/400, emulates several IBM midrange ter- minals, including the 5291. Capabilities of the software include bidirectional file transfer, built-in macros and support for the Clipboard and Mac printing, according to Bruce Enzer, product manager for PCI. Because SmartLink will work with HyperCard, Enzer said, users can easily create custom interfaces. In conjunction with SmartNet 5250/T, PCI's twinax protocol converter, up to seven Macs can be simultaneously connected to the host. SmartLink 5250/MacCOM can also be used with direct twinax links or through an asynchronous gateway on a LAN, Enzer said. “It sounds like it could answer some of our concems, but we would like to see a product that does file transfer through PC Support,” said W.S. Paxton, information systems analyst at Rogers Corp. in Mesa, Ariz. PC Support, software that IBM provides with its Sys- tem/3X and AS/400 computers, is used by DOS-based computers for file transfer and other functions. Paxton added that many data processing managers are leery of putting new code on midrange computers. “You can buy a PC if you want,” Enzer responded, “but if you like the Mac, we have a tested solution that lets it become an ‘AS/400 or Systenv3X workstation.” Due in July, SmartLink 5250/MacCOM will be teed at $1,200 and up, depending on the host. The SmartNet 5250/T is ship- ping now for $2,925. Protocol is at 26630 Agoura Road, Cal- abasas, Calif. 91302; (818) 880-4900. 0 Wingz woos Excel users Lenexa, Kan. — Informix Software, pub- lisher of Wingy, last week launched a new program designed to win over users of the champion in the Mac spreadsheet market, Microsoft Excel Until June 30 Informix will allow Excel users to “upgrade” to Wingz, which has a suggested retail price of $399, for $99 Microsoft last month announced a new release of Excel, Version 2.2, which will also cost registered owners $99. To take advantage of the Informix offer, users will need to obtain a form from an authorized Wingz dealer, then send a valid Excel serial number or disk plus $99 to the publisher. Informix will ShIE a shrink- | wrapped copy of its program directly to the customer and rebate $20 to the dealer. 0 Routines simplify DSP programming By Jonathon Perrow Santa Clara, Calif. — Spectral Innovations is shipping what it calls the fastest floating-point accelera- tor and the fastest analog-to-digital converter available on the Mac, along with a library of routines that make its digital signal processor (DSP) boards easier to program DSP is used in fields such as image, speech and signal processing robotics, telecommunications, music, and by engineers performing spectral analysis and other real-time floating-point calculations like Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs), Spectral’s software offers built-in windowing, filtering and spectral analysis tools. The newest MacDSP board is rated at 24 megaflops (Mflops) and comes in versions with 128 Kbytes, 256 Kbytes or 2 Mbytes of zero- wait-state static RAM, priced at $3,995, $5,995 and $8,995 respec- tively. The board runs twice as fast as the company’s two other DSP boards, a $2,995 12-Mflop Mac- DSP and a $2,295 8-Mflop version. A 12-bit analog-to-digital (A/D) daughter card, called the SIADIM. iggybacks onto the MacDSP bos bypassing the NuBus for greater speed. The board can oper- ate at sampling rates up to 1 MHz, making it the fastest data acquisi- tion board for the Mac, said Bryan Finkel, Spectral vice president. DSP chips, such as the AT&T pit floating-point WE DSP32 used in Spectral’s boards, are microprocessors specially designed | to manipulate rapidly changing dig- ital data in real time Gary Kenworthy, an engineer at Signal Science Inc. who uses MacDSP boards for spectral analy- sis research and development, said that the speed increase is less important to him than the fact that By Pomele Pfiffaer Houston — Summus Computer Systems’ 125-Gbyte “jukebox” tape drive is now shipping to beta sites and should be fly available in two months, the compa- ny said last week. One carousel of the JukeBoxLibrary holds 54 5mm heli- cal-scan tape car each with a 3-Gbyte capacity, The $49,995 juke- box is equipped with drives from Exabyte of Boulder, Colo “With two drives the carousel rotates either clockwise or Accelerator, converter zoom to market er me Array LIDrary avaon: | ne = | AUR Satelite] inputiosertet,512, (Couect 512 samples) B_Hammownsrrirt.S12): Warne Ata C(OsPPirs, OSPPIr, 512%; Carnnsrrict S12}, Spectral Innovations’ array library contains more than 100 subroutines accessible from C, Pascal or BASIC used for a range of opplications,induding signal and imoge processing. he can now access up to 2 Mbytes of static RAM on the board. “We had been using VAX-based development tools, but now we're hasing in the Mac IIx. With the r memory capabilities [of the MacDSP board] we can do much larger FFTs than before,” he said. Spectral Innovations has also enhanced its development environ- ment, adding a real-time array pro- cessor library accessible from C, Pascal or BASIC. Finkel said he hopes the $295 software will encourage Mac users with no expe- rience in signal processing to try the board. The library offers more than 100 subroutines. Spectral Innovations is located at 4633 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 450, Santa Clara, Calif., 95054; (408) 727-1314. 0 Berkeley Heights, N.J. — Call- ing the Mac “one of the most workstations among soft- ware and hardware designers,” AT&T has announced a C-lan- guage compiler for Spectral Inno- vations’ cone board. Jointly developed with Spectral Innovations, the AT&T com is the first compiler written for a DSP chip on the Macintosh, allowing Macintosh © program- AT&T C-language compiler — mers to customize software for Spectral’s MacDSP board. ‘The compiler will be officially announced this week at the Inter- in Glasgow, Scotland. The entire , Which includes the com- piler and a library of floating- point functions that can be cut and pasted into Mac applications, will sell for $1,500. — By Jonathan Perrow counterclockwise to access data, keeping transfer times low said Dave Meitzen, vice presi- dent of sales, “Worst-case” transfer One carousel of the $49,995 JukeBoxLibrary holds 54 8mm helical-scan tope cartridges, each with w capacity of 2.3 Gbytes. ‘Jukebox’ puts a new spin on tape drives time is 3.5 seconds, he said. Time required to access a file on tape ranges from less than two minutes up to 12 minutes. The two 5.25-inch drive assem: blies fit in a 10.5-inch rack mount, making the jukebox a small and rel- atively inexpensive alternative to optical jukeboxes, Meitzen said. With Summus’ GigaSAFE, soft- ware users can back up large amounts of data at specified inter- vals, leaving the system unattended for up toa month, if necess: ‘The system has both a SCSI port for data transfers and an RS- 232 port for controlling the juke- box’s robotics. Summus Computer Systems is at 177171 Park Row, Suite 300, Hous- ton, Texas 77084; (713) 492-6611, 0 EndNote compatible with MS Word 4.0 By Emily Brower Emeryville, Calif. — EndNote, Niles & Associates’ bibliographic database and citation-formatting program, is now compatible with Word 4.0, Version 1.2, a free upgrade to the $129 application and desk accessory canbanaeaes allows users to enter references from an End- Note database and add biblio- graphies to Word 4.0 documents. EndNote automates in-text cita- tions and bibliography building for authors of academic papers Users can paste citations from EndNote databases, accessed via the DA, into documents written in Microsoft Word, MacWrite, WriteNow or WordPerfect. The EndNotes application can be used later to scan the document, refor- mat the citations in any of several standard styles and add a bibliogra- phy of works cited at the end of the file In addition to support for Word 4.0, the new release also lets users paste references into Word's foot- note area without losing font and style choices. “Now you can add a footnote with superscript, subscript, sym- bols “ae italics without doing a lot of re-formatting,” said Emanuel Rosen, the company’s marketing manager. The company has also an- nounced an upgrade for EndLink, a $99 companion program that imports citations from on-line databases into EndNote records. In addition to services previously supported, EndLink 1.1 will now iesport citations from Knowledge Index, Current Contents on Disk, PaperChase, Inspec, PsycInfo and SciSearch. Niles & Associates Inc. is loc ed at 2200 Powell, Suite Emeryville, Calif. 94608-1809; (415) 655-6666. c Last week's MacWE article about Computer Accessories Corp.'s new Proxima Data Display MultiMode, an LCD overhead proletion panel, was accompanied by the wrong photo. The Comput- er Accessories unit, pictured above, maps colors on the Mac II screen to as many as 16 shades of simulat- ed color on the LCD, but does not project in full color, MocWEEK 23 Moy 1989 emda & Pablaher Michoel Tehong. i eniroriat Etec Daniel Ruby x Exeattve tor Daniel Farber Monoging Editor Brencla Benner Section Edters Henry Norr (News), Berman (Ohanlan (Opinion, Features), Rochelle Garper (Organizational Mac, Window On), Rebecsa Waring (Reviews), Anita Malnig, (GA) Editor at large Dale Coleman Tadic Edter Ric Ford (Boston) Sexier Witters Connie Guglielmo, Rick LePage (Boston) Assedate Editors Eric J Adams (News) Richard Rawles (Window On) Information Deector Emily Brower Stoll Reperters John Battelle, Elinor Crug ‘Cliff Lehman, Jonathan Perrow, Paela Pifines Jonathan Swartz Assistant Editors. Stephen Howard (Reviews), Suzanne Weber (Features) opy Ete Charles Lenatt (Copy Chief), Carols Said (Desktop Publishing Chief), Janice Maloney, Sue Troy, Mitzi Waltz Goatrboting Ets. 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Director is a trademark of MacroMind, Inc, it PE "ieee dle NocWEEK 23 May 1989 DAs Continued from Page 1 > Up to 15 DAs can be installed in the sys- tem by dragging their icons into the icon of the System file, then re-booting. > Additional DAs, as well as applications, can be listed in the Apple menu by dragging their icons into a special folder, then re- booting, Thereafter tes can be launched in the same way that DAs are launched today. > Any DA can be launched as if it were an ‘application by double-clicking on its icon, This eliminates any outward distinction between the two types of programs, but according to Apple, DAs are more difficult to Write than applications and more limited in the functionality they can provide. DAs are ostensibly restricted to 32 Kbytes, although many programmers have been able Macs heavily accessorized SSS The average Mac exer hes 11.4 DAs installed, occording to 6 vey. Less than 0.5 percest of the 6,092 wsers surveyed used no DAs at all. 7.0 release. © MacWEEK sur- middle road” wit! News to get around that limit. On the other hand, ee are limited only by the amount of RAM available. “Developers will be able to spend less time fighting the structure of a DA and more time on the content,” said Don Brown, director of programming at CE Software, adding that he was “happy to see that all our products will not be made obsolete with the new system.” Because DAs originally were designed to be run in the same memory space as an spelcstien, they are limited in the number of things they can do, Charlie Oppenheimer, manager of system software product marketing at Apple, said that the company has not yet resolved all the issues about how System 7.0 will handle DAs. He said, however, that when System 7.0 hits the streets, users can expect to see even better DAs, especially with the new system's Interapplica- tion Communications (IAC) architecture “When DAs are integrated under MultiFinder with IAC, we'll be seeing some really neat stuff,” Oppenheimer predicted. “Apple doesn’t want users to know the difference between applications and DAs,” said Steve Brecher of Software Sup- ply, the author of Fifth Genera- tion Systems’ Suitcase II utility. “Basically, the Apple menu is just a place to access programs quickly.” Although the current limit of 15 DAs installed directly into the system will remain, it will lose much of its significance because users will be able to run. additional DAs in other ways. The desk accessory concept may eventually disappear in another incarnation of Apple's system software, but Brown said scam he is happy that Apel “trod the the System 25-MHz Continued from Page 1 ications in eight-bit color mode. Some of those who have seen prototypes, however, reported that it is slow when running graphics applications in eight-bit mode. “If the release model is that slow, you have to hope the on-board video is practically free,” said a source who had seen the machine. But a micro manager at one Maz site said, “If you want higher performance, you can still run out and buy a regular video card.” The new machine reportedly is easier and cheaper to manufacture than the current version of the Ilcx, and sources said that Apple may offer it at only a slight premium over the current Hex One corporate buyer said he is considering a large purchase of the new IIcx. “What sells it for me is that it saves installing a card in each machine,” he said. In addition to the new model with eight- bit color, prototypes of a Iex with built-in support for one-bit black-and-white video have been shown to key national accounts Sources said, however, that Apple is unlikely to release the one-bit version. Increasing the clock speed and adding more built-in hardware features comes in part as response to customer demands, but it is also a response to pressure from IBM, ana- lysts said. IBM’s PS/2 line offers built-in color VGA (video graphics array) circuitry on the motherboard. “Low-end hardware is being increasingly built into the base computer by Apple and other vendors,” said Ash Jain, pin aher of Macintosh Market Report in Irvine, Calif. “It has become a point of competition along with price, performance, service and system software.” 0 SuperCard Coniinted fomlr oe imports TIFF, PICT, MacPaint and Hyper- Card graphics, and imports and exports PICS animation sequences. But Silicon Beach acknowledges trade- offs, “There is some performance penalty relative to HyperCard,” said Stuart Henig- son, the company’s public relations manager. 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Developers at AppleFest were excite about the possibilities for the new syste offers a platform for developers to get excl ed about,” said William Low, president PBI Software Inc. of San Francisco. “1 now, they are developing just to money.” 0 Buyers Continued from Page can (in purchasing new Macintoshes].” Well-received features of System 7.0 | include the rewritten Finder, virtual mem« and the Interapplication Communicatio (IAC) architecture, but many use expressed confusion regarding Apple's new | outline fonts and the role PostScript will p! in future Mac systems. Most managers view System 7.0 as a f age of enabling technologies that could make computing easier and more powerful. “We have plans for an international E-mail sys- tem,” said Diana Foster, Mac specialist in in- formation systems at Bechtel National in San Francisco. “The plan is very grandiose now, but it might be practical under System 7.0.” Managers with large numbers of older machines were grappling with the auestion of whether an upgrade to the 2 Mbytes of RAM required to run System 7.0 will be worth the cost. Many of those contacted said that the new system creates two classes of Macintoshes, those with Motorola’s powerful 68030 chip and those without it. “To a great degree, those {older] machines will always be functional,” said Jeff Chasick, microcomputer coordinator at Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena, Calif. He said the new system's RAM requirements would not be a problem, since most users at his site shod have 2 Mbytes. But Bob Spargo, vice president and area manager at Motorola in Schaumburg, Ill, said, “I'm not going to convert a of machines to 2 Mbytes. I've got a lot of peo- ple here who are perfectly happy running Works or Word in 1 Mbyte.” Many managers, especially at engineeri and technical sites, es diseppolacaend that System 7.0 will not include true multi- tasking. “Apple is flirting with multitasking, with the combination of virtual memory and MultiFinder,” said Paul Carr, system adminis- trator at the Astro Space Division of General Electric in East Windsor, N.J. Many of those contacted said that compar- ing OS/2 and System 7.0 is like comparin apples and oranges. “Not everyone peat multitasking,” said F.A. 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Spreadsheet 1989 MacUser \ A ASHTON “TATE” CINTOSH DIVISION ‘Temporary Mac-based networks jean hurdles, dash into future By Elinor Craig Provo, Utah — As college track and field stars streak across the finish line, leap over the highest bar and throw the far- thest shot put next week at the 1989 NCAA Track and Field championships here at Brigham Young University (BYU), fans following the meet in the stands and over the airwaves will leam the final results in moments rather than after the usual 15- minute lag, thanks to a Macintosh- based network. Ta RPC SP Network edministrators will watch the 1989 NCAA Trock and Field chompionships ot Brigham Young University very dosely to see how its network system performs under pressure. For Mac network developers and administrators, the NCAA champi- onships are more than a track and field event. The network, and those used at other temporary events, represents the growing maturity in Mac-based network systems, The system here is designed to handle substantial challenges: scheduling the heat and flight assignments for more than 850 athletes in a total of 89 different qualifying and final events; verifying and publishing timely results for more than 100 media representatives; and provid. ing results for athletes, coaches and an expected 12,000 fans. Apple donated $84,000 worth of hardware for the network, and Nov- ell donated $35,000 worth of hard- ware and software products, The system — 20 Mac SE and Ils, two LaserWriters, Noyell’s NetWare file server, two 150-Mbyte hard disks and Scoreboard, an interactive multi-user database program writ- ten at BYU — will also enable meet managers to provide official, bound results within an hour of the com- pletion of a meets last event MocWEEK 23 Moy 1989 Pres fri teeters ie mes offsite resources, Cee ¢ Australia Twenty networking vendors banded together to form ShowNet, a network used af January's ‘Macworld Expo in San Francisco. ShowNet, the largest Mac-based trade show network ever, used 12,800 feet of unshielded twisted-poir cabling and four PhoneNET StarControllers. Quick and easy networking. 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WordPerfect® etc, — on the Mac And those PC programs developed in-house for special purposes You can even use PC and Mac programs at the same time, thanks to SoftPC and Apple's MultiFinder™ Copy and paste between PC to Macintosh applications. upgrade. Just like you'd expect from any Macintosh application. Double-click. That's it j dBASEIII PLUS MocWEEK 23 May 1989 demos under real-world conditions, “At the January show, demos were based ona stable network,” said Nethery. “The cus- tomers could see if a product would really work in a big, complex network.” The network for January's Macworld Expo, which was spread over two exhibit halls, took two days to install and used 12,800 feet of un- shielded twisted-pair cabling and four Phone- NET StarControllers from Farallon Comput- ing, also of Berkeley. It hooked up 89 Macs, 22 MS-DOS machines, 11 OS/2 machines, 12 Unix workstations and three VAXes The network, in which 20 vendors partici- pated, was the largest Mac-based trade show network ever, according to Nethery. The vendors paid an average of $1,000 each to participate — a figure that may have been artificially low because of donated hardware and labor. Nethery, who said his two major concerns when setting up a temporary network are “getting enough time to set up and coordi- nating all the products and people,” used Farallon’s TrafficWatch to diagnose network problems. The product, a network-analysis utility, is designed to aid network managers in optimizing AppleTalk loads To further troubleshoot the network, Nethery used Farallon’s CheckNET, a desk accessory that searches an AppleTalk net- work for devices and displays the name, type and AppleTalk address of each device Liaison, a software bridge from Infosphere Inc. of Portland, Ore., was used to tie the networks in the two halls together, and MockWrite, a DA from CE Software of Des Moines, Iowa, was used by the crew as a word processor Scoreboard results. At the NCAA championships, which are scheduled for May 3l-June 3, network organizers have an advantage available to few other event pro- ducers: The university's brand-new patie, is equipped with underground Ethernet cab which will be used to connect the NetWare file server software and hardware. Heat officials, event managers, reporters and announcers will be able to access event details through Scoreboard, a customized database written by BYU student Rick Rose in 4th Dimension from ACIUS Inc. of Cupertino, Calif. Scoreboard will be used to organize pre-meet activities, such as event scheduling: meet management, such as the display of results; and post-meet analysis, such as athlete placement. The university plans to market Scoreboard commercially for about $300 “We'll have a computer at every site of the meet,” said Bruce Holley, chairman of physi- cal education services at BYU. “We'll have 20 Macs running at once, all of them inputting into the server at the same time.” And, Holley said, “when information goes to the server, it is instantly writing to two hard disk backups,” a process known as mir- ror imaging. “If one disk goes down,” he explained, “the other automatically kicks in.” The server is located in a building desig- nated as the data center, with workstations placed on event sidelines for officials, in the announcers box and press boxes, and avail- able for general public access. R Testing the limits. Although the system was designed for the NCAA championships, its initial test came at a meet he id May 5-6 when 4,700 athletes, five times the number expected at the championship, converged on BYU for its annual high-school invitational, the nation’s largest high-school meet. “Scoreboard didn’t bomb once,” said Holl but the NetWare for the Mac was a little slow. Novell is working on the nee now, and I expect it to be better by the NCAA meet.” From track meets to the trade show floor, networking products are movin into previously uncharted territory el the two reasons Nethery put’ forth for the maturity of the industry — better product compatibility and more informed industry players — have eased the pain of his two biggest concerns, time and coordina- tion. Temporary event networks, you might say, have made the long jump, and are dashing into the future. 5 La Cie adds PostScript-compatible printer | Tigard, Ore. — With the announcement of a PostScript-compatible printer last week, La Cie Ltd. has begun to diversify its hardware line from a base of hard disk offerings The 300-dpi Panther PDX is based on a Casio liquid crystal shutter (LCS) engine and run by a controller with a 32-bit RISC (reduced instruction set computing) chip from Weitek Corp. It offers faster throughput and a smaller footprint than Apple's Laser- Writer IINTX, La Cie said. La Cie is marketing Panther, of which | Qume Corp. is the OEM, for $3,499. Panther includes 35 typefaces in ROM, and La Cie is bundling a $1,000 package of 84 additional fonts from Casady and Greene La Cie Ltd. is at 16285 S.W. 85th, Suite 306, Tigard, Ore, 97224, (503) 634-0143. 0 3D Interior Design and Space Planning for the rest of us. 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It encom- a smart set of tactical moves that | should carve out even more market share in ‘the mainstream personal computing market. | The immediate problems that faced Mac- | intosh users and developers now fall under “an Apple plan. Big memory models, fixed- | up Finder and fle systems, and leading- edge graphics will gamer new friends and Fencourage old ones. The System 7 “core technologies” are just sufficient to support exciting new uses while remaining conserva~ tive enough to be completed on a realistic schedule. Developers seem to be happy with the functionality of the new software } and the timing of its testing and release. | Macintosh compatibility monsters remain safely caged for the forseeable future, while the IBM/Microsoft equivalents ran wild. Sys- tem 7, code-named “big bang~ might have been more appropriately called “big sigh.” The original Mac architecture is evolving remarkably far, but a new generation — the big bang that breaks applications — has yet || to be whispered of in public circles. Apple's approach makes sense for a com- y that has watched OS/2 develop from a Beastiful duckling into an ugly swan. Apple's age has grown substantially over the Pet ieyesn, and it is now pitching well- honed personal computing concepts to busi- nesses that must take them seriously, After all, Apple sold more personal computers last year than IBM did, according to a recent Dataquest estimate Where's the workstation? The invisi- ble issue is Apple vs. the Unix workstation vendors. A/UX has made little progress in the Unix market, and the Macintosh has made few technica] points against the latest workstation hardware. The workstation market may be much smaller than the PC market, but Apple is in it. High-end Macintoshes and low-end work- Stations are at the same price points. Why were there no comparisons in San Jose of Macs vs. SPARCstations or Macs vs. NeXT machines? Perhaps such charts would not pitch as easily as MS-DOS comparisons. In the workstation wars, Apple has the Bpplications No workstation vendor has he range of mass-market software at mass- market prices that Apple has, The vendors’ counter-weapon is core technology i Sen babe support for the graphics | coprocessors that are standard issue in the workstation world, Generalized multipro- cessing like that of NeXT’s Mach operating system is not visible on the Mac horizon. System 7s 32-bit memory management and virtual memory are a great advance over the capabilities of the Mac Plus, but they fall short of the workstation model in which sep- arate memory spaces prevent bugs in appli- cations from crashing other applications and the user's whole system environment MacinTouch RICK LEPAGE AND RIC FORD ‘System 7 and the disappearing workstation MultiFinder is being touted as multitask- ing, but it’s not multitasking as workstation users define it. Only well-behaved, coopera- tive Mac applications can work simultaneous- ly, and a Mac user still has no control over which operations get priority over others. We understand the decisions that Apple made in laying out System 7, and we agree with them. If the implementation is carried out as well as the planning, we'll have a lot of fun in the last half of 1990. But we hope that the invisible, next-generation Apple machine is getting a lot more attention inside the labs than it is on the outside. In 1992, when today’s workstations are tomorrow's PCs, the system we know today as the Mac will not be ood enough. We're still quite curious about how Apple will reach that next level. We welcome comments at Mac WEEK, 4 Cambridgy Center, Third Floor, Cambridge, Mass 02142, (617) 497- 2600 Electronic mail. CompuServe: (Ric Ford) 75056,1225, (Rick LePage) 75016,350, Delphi/PAN- MACWEEKBOS, MCI Mail. RICFORD, RLEPAGE. MACWEEKBOSTON, Apple Link (address “MacIn- Touch’ in Subject), MACWEEK; MacNET. RICFORD, RICKLEPAGE. CEnie: MACWEE. s, Internet. RIC~ FORD@CUP PORTAL COM. TurboFloppy 1.4 A NEW GENERATION IN FLOPPY DISK DRIVES The TurboFloppy from PLI breaks the 800k barrier to give all Macintosh users access to high-capacity floppy disk technology. The TurboFloppy is the only drive that offers 1.44Mb capacity, IBM compatibility, high- speed and floppy disk convenience for the MacPlus and up. Peripheral Land Incorporated * 47800 Westinghouse Drive Fremont, CA 94539 * (800)-288-8754 » (415) 657-2211 AppleLink D0495 * Telex 650305 « FAX (415) 683-9713 flat PLI Warning: You do not havea ‘Seagate drive in your computer. Dont take chances. Ask for Seagate SS Seagate The first name in dise drives MocWEEK 23 May 1989 AT&T shows AppleTalk-speed remote network By Emily Brower Washington — AT&T is porting its tele phone know-how to Mac networks. At last month’s Macworld Expo here, the company demonstrated a new technology modeled on telephone network switching that can send data over wide-area Mac net Avorks at regular AppleTalk speeds Jsing a combination of proprietary soft ware and hardware, AT&T representatives demonstrated Macs accessing remote net work devices without network bridges. The hardware used in the demonstration included AT&T's Datakit I] VMS and an accompanying LocalTalk Access Module (LAM) card The LAM has an AppleTalk port, provid- ing a direct interface to the Datalat. In com- bination with AppleTalk Manager, AT&T routing software that runs on Unix, a Datakit equipped with sages and files directly to file servers or other Macs over the network “The LAM was engineered to be com pletely compatible with AFP (the Apple Fil fing Protocol) for wide-area direct Local Talk an AT&T representat A ty two rem iin! tosh user ope modems or remote a LAM card can transfer mes- ration might include e networks, each with a Datakit g. When a Macin: remotely ed by fiber-optic cal s the chooser, the located server appears just as a local server would Alth xe LAM is not yet an official AT&T product, the company said it has been talking at various levels with Apple and other comp. bout the technology Dove cuts prices on boards and memory upgrades Wilmington declinin Computer Corp. N« e of dyn Responding to the RAM, Dove t month announced price reductions on several of its MacSnap, Fast Net and M Effective an avera accelerator board line, more than $200 for certain MacSnap r y upgrades and $200 on selected models of the FastNet LAN 020 Multifunction Ethernet board. The price of the 16-MHz FL2 Ethernet board, which includes a 68020 accelerator with 1 Mbyte of memory and a FastNet SE Ethemet adapter, will drop from $2,199 to $1,999. The price of the FLA multifunction board, which includes a 6881 math copro- dition to the LE2's features, has been reduced from $2,499 to $2,299. The MacSnap 5245, which expands the Mac 512K’s memory to 1 Mbyte and adds a SCSI i will be reduced from $479 to $299. The MacSnap 1024, a 1-Mbyte expan: sion kit for newer Macs that is composed of four 256-Kbyte SIMMs, is reduced to $499 from $729. Dove's MSE6 MaraThon acceler ator board, which includes 4 Mbytes of RAM, a 68020 chip and a 6388] math copro- cessor, will drop to $2,399 from $2,998. Dove Computer Corp. is located at 1200 N. 23rd St., Wilmington, N.C. 28405, (919) 763-7918. Thon products ately of $400 for the immec prices will be cut MaraThon 020 cessor erface Aox SE board speeds up SANE By Jonathan Perrow Waltham, Mass — Aox Inc. has added sup- port for the Mac II's Standard Apple Numer- ic Environment, or SANE, to its Double Time-16 accelerator board for the SE The software, included with the $395 16. MHz 68000-based accelerator board, boosts the speed of the SE’s math operations between two and seven times, the company said. The software requires a Motorola 68881 math coprocessor that plugs into a slot on the DoubleTime-16 board. AOX sells the chip for $250. It is available from Apple, Motorola and clectronic parts distributors SANE is a toolbox of mathe tines that is built into every Macintosh and atical rou- A A aa y is The Infinity 40 Turbo sets the All the benefits of Winchester Infinity 40 Turbo the obvious choice. standards for reliable removables. drive technology plus unlimited capacity and PLI reliability make 23 News used by applications, including many spread- sheets, graphics and statistical packages. In the Mac IT, IIx and Tex, the SANE routines are optimized to take advantage of the 68881 math coprocessor iP “We've licensed Apple’s Mac I S code and modified it to run with the Double- Time board,” said Brian Matthews, senior programmer. “This way, math-intensive applications will run as fast on the SE as they do on the Mae II.” Aox is located at 486 Totten Pond Road, Waltham, Mass. 02154; (617) §90-4402.9 | Standard with every Infinity 40 Turbo are a space-saving portable design and time-saving software, including TurboCache, TurboOptimizer, TurboBack, and TurboSpool. Peripheral Land Incorporated * 47800 Westinghouse Drive Fremont, CA 94539 ® (800)-288-8754 ® (415) 657-2211 AppleLink 0495 * Telex 650305 * FAX (415) 683-9713 y PLI PU MWKAO-11 Heart Data rolls out drives By Pomele Piffner Canoga Park, Calif. — Three-month-old Heart Data Corp. is shipping its first internal and extemal drives for the Mac to resellers and distnbutors. The lineup includes a 668- Mbyte internal drive for the Mac II and Ix Heart Data's HD 1000/3000 series of exter. nal drives offer access times ranging from 16 to 19 milliseconds. Heart Data's subsystem features a vanable two-speed fan that adjusts its air flow to the speed of the drive. The HD1040 42-Mbyte ($1,190) HD1085 84-Mbyte ($1,695) are and the based on anisms. Quantum mec The 115-Mbyte HD. 1120 ($1,970), the 160-Mbyte HD1160 $2,329) and the 347-Mbyte HD-3350 TotalTools speed stack management By Pomele Pfifiner Minneapolis — Tabularium and Fusion the first two releases in All-American Soft- ware Development Corp.'s TotalTools product line, promise to boost productivity for Hyper Card users managing large database stacks > Tabularium imports and exports data to and from HyperCard and other databases such as Excel, FoxBASE and FileMaker, in tab-delimited format. Jeff Iverson, president of rican, said the program works up to7 ent faster than other importing nd even faster for exporting a high-speed card and stack mar stion, selects cards from many ¢s them into one stack o1 stack d me tes a series of cards from a stack m Davies, librarian for MacNexus, a Sacramento, Calif.-based users group, used Tabular m to move information about pro- 400-member group's shareware library from Reflex Plus into HyperCard. “It took four hours to import the tab-delimited data into HyperCard. With Tabularium it took 80 minutes,” he said. Scot Townsend, community development director of the city of Lindsay, Calif HyperCard as a front end for a city mapping stem showing parcels of land, zoning water and sewer lines. Tabulari um outputs the information from the Hyper Card fields into a text file that he then imports into MapGraphix, ah restrictions end “intel ligent mapping” program for the Mac from ComGrafix Ine. of Clearwater, Fla While he is generally pleased with the All American products, Townsend said that he'd like a little more flexibility in Tabularium. Td like to be able to output text more selec tively,” he said. “Right now I have 51 fields for each parcel. Sometimes I'd like to look at just 10 of those, for example.” All-American’s Iverson said that future releases of Tabularium will address Town. send's concems, “These are grunt applications that do the work without a lot of finesse,” he We're adding the sexy features later Each stack is less than 30 Kbytes and will be compatible with the next generation of HyperCard products, including Format Soft ware’s Plus and Silicon Beach's SuperCard Iverson said. Tabularium sells for $49,95 and Fusion for $24.95. All-American Software Development Corp. is at 5612 International Parkway, Min neapolis, Minn. 55428; (612) 537-8910. said ($3,785) use MiniScribe mechanisms. The Micropolis-based 11D3670 668-Mbyte exter nal is listed at $5,495. The HD5000 Series of internal drives for the SE, II and IIx have access speeds from 19 to 27 milliseconds, The HD5040 42- Mbyte and HD5085 84-Mbyte internals priced at $1,035 and $1,645, respectively, use Quantum mechanisms. The Maxtor-based 11D5100 96-Mbyte drive is $1,695. For the Macintosh II and IIx, Heart Data offers the high-performance HD6000 series. The 115-Mbyte HD6120 ($1,779), the 160-Mbyte HD6160 ($2,139) and the 347- Mbyte HD6350 ($3,595) feature MiniScribe mechanisms. The HD6670 668-Mbyte drive which has a Micropolis mechanism, will sell for $4,795. Access speeds for the HD6000 series drives range from 16 milliseconds to 17 milliseconds. Richard MacMinn, Heart Data president MocWEEK 23 May 1989 the removable media market in June with Syquest removable-cartridge ard drives, @ 20-Mbyte megafloppy and a tape drive Heart Data's new hard drives have a two year warranty on parts and labor. Last week Heart Data launched a marketing plan under which resellers who sell seven drives over 4 15-day period get one drive of equal or lesser capacity free Heart Data Corp. is located at 9009 Inde- Canoga Park, Calif, 91304: pendence Ave said that the company will be venturing into | (818) 998-1691 | | e drive; 8 percent, to $4,395, for the hammer- | 300, its best-selling 300-Mbyte external drive; | cu S ammer rices 11 percent, to $4,895, for the hammer 300FMF, another 300-Mbyte drive with an access time of 10.7 milliseconds; 9 percent, to By Pamela Pfiffner FWB specializes in marketing large- $5,895, for the 600-Mbyte hammer600; and San Francisco — For the first time in 18 capacity drives to corporations, universities 12 percent, to $7,895, for the hammer1000, a months, FWB Inc. has lowered its prices. and desktop publishers who work with large _ 1-Cbyte drive due to ship next month Cuts covering its internal and external scanned images, according to company _ Prices for the hammerSE series, a line of ‘Hammer hard drives, compact PocketHam- spokesman Lawrence Hom. internal 3.5-inch drives that work in the new mer external units, and removable-cartridge The price decreases range from $100 to Ilcx as well as the SE and SE/30, and the ammerDisk44 and 150-Mbyte hammer- $1,100. FWB cut prices 18 percent, to $2,795, _ external PocketHammer drives were cut 13 fape150 will average 12 percent. for its hammer188, its 188-Mbyte external _ percent to 20 percent. Both series are avail- Aside from being a tad easier to install than a satellite, the Hayes Smartmodem 2400M™ for the Macintosh® II and Smartcom II* for the Apple® Macintosh make up the most advanced communi- cations system you can put inside a Mac? With this modem and software package, you can set up an extensive Macintosh work group sys- tem through a feature called HayesConnect™ HayesConnect™ allows any Mac access to the Smartmodem 2400M across an AppleTalk* Network. Which means all Macintosh computers on the Network will be able to communicate with ot or without a modem of their own. This makes f for extremely efficient office communications. THE ONLY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM MORE ADVANCED THAN OURS WON'T FIT INSIDE YOUR MAC. To make them even more efficient, the sys- tem offers Smartcom II for the Macintosh, Its the only software designed to take full advantage of the power and graphics capabilities of all of the com- puters in the Macintosh family For example, you can program your own on-screen buttons to create a personalized user interface. You also get features like moveable icons, custom color selection and full support of ImageWriter* and LaserWriter® for incredible graphics. You can even run the system unattended using an Autopilot feature. Of course, there is much more you can do with a few simple clicks on standard, easily iden- tiable icons. By now it’s probably clear = that whether they're just used with the Macintosh II or shared by Mac computers on an AppleTalk Network, the Smartmodem 2400M and Smartcom II make a communications system that can't be beaten. At least not by any- thing on this planet. Hayes. For your nearest Hayes Advanced Systems Dealer. call 800-635-1225. Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc, PO. Box 105203, Atlanta,GA 30348. ple Macon Mac mgr Lane ad ALTA a meg ake Ape Comps In tus (C108 Hayes Macrovamgnster Prodkacts im bea: News able in 40-, 80-, 100- and 175-Mbyte models. Prices now range from $595 to $2,695 for the internals and from $1,125 to $2,795 for the external line. FWB uses Quantum ProDrives in its 40- and 80-Mbyte models and Imprimis Tech- nologies’ Wren and Swift mechanisms in the larger-capacity units. The hammerDisk44, a Syquest removable- cartridge unit, is now priced at $1,795, while the hammerTape150 is $1,695. FWB is at 2040 Polk St., Suite 215, San Francisco, Calif. 94109; (415) 474-8055. 0 MacLinkPlus upgrades ship Trumbull, Conn. — Users of Apple’s new 44 Mbyte multiformat SuperDrive and others who need to exchange files between Macs and MS-DOS machines can now get upgraded versions of DataViz Inc.’s popular MacLinkPlus format-translation utilities. Version 4.0 of DataViz’ original package, now renamed MacLinkPlus/PC, and its MacLinkPlus/Translators for use with the Apple File Exchange utility add the ability to convert graphics files between the Macin- tosh’s TIFF, PICT and PICT2 formats and Lotus (PIC), PC Paintbrush and TIFF for- mats from MS-DOS applications (see MacWEEK, Jan. 17). The new versions also support Microsoft Works 2.0, T/Maker’s WriteNow 2.0 and Microsoft Word 4.0. In all, the DataViz pro- ms now offer some 60 translation options eter processors and spreadsheets. MacLinkPlus/PC, priced at $195, includes file-transfer software for both the Mac and the PC, a connecting cable and a format- translation application. MacLinkPlus/Transla- tors for AFE costs $159. Upgrades for both programs are $45, but those who upgraded or purchased the previous version within the last 90 days can receive a free upgrade DataViz is located at 35 Corporate Drive, Trumbull, Conn. 06611; (203) 268-0030. 0 Micropolis offers installable drives Chatsworth, Calif. — Micropolis Corp. has introduced a new line of large-capacity inter- nal hard disk drive kits for the Mac I and Ix that will be available through retail channels. MacPAK (Macintosh Performance Advan- tage Kits) storage systems, designed to be installable even by novices, will be available in capacities ranging from 76 Mbytes to 668 Mbytes. The series includes both full-height and half-height models. Since the mounting bracket built into the Mae II and IIx is designed only for half-height drives, Microp- olis includes a special replacement bracket with its full-height models. Half-height 76-Mbyte through 150-Mbyte models, which range in price from $1,250 to $1,795, are shipping now. A 320-Mbyte full- height kit, etl at $2,995, is also available, A 340-Mbyte half-height drive and a 665- Mbyte full-height drive, priced at $2,995 and $4,495, respectively, will be released toward the end of the year, the company said. The 340- and 668-Mbyte MacPAKS have 64- Kbyte read-ahead caching, a 15-MHz transfer rate and 16-millisecond average access times Micropolis is at 21211 Nordhoff St., Chatsworth, Calif, 91311; (818) 709-3300, 9 * SDLLENIN © SWA © SDLLENIN © XINN © SOLLENDI = SO = SOLLSNIMN SOLLANIM = DVW SOILENIM © SOD © SOILENIM © XN/V © SDILANIM = XINSX © SOLLSNIM © Z/SO @ XINN XX <SWA © SOLLANIX SUSNIM © XN/V = SSILSNIM @ XINSX © SOILANIM © Z/SO = SOLLENIM = OVW © SOLLSNIM © SINA © SOILLSNIM © XINN = SOLLENIM = SOd = SOLLANDI A (OS = KINETICS UNIX = KINETICS * VMS © KINETICS = MAC © KINETICS @ OS/2 = KINETICS = XENIX © KINETICS * A/UX @ KINETICS * DOS @ KINETICS oO IMAGINE HOW CONFINED YOUR WORLD WOULD BE WITHOUT FASTPATH. 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Tel: (415) 947-0998 Fax: (415) 947-1238 KINETICS @ UNIX © KINETICS © VMS @ KINETICS @ MAC © KINETICS @ OS/2 = KINETICS @ XENIX @ KINETICS = A/UX @ KINETICS = DOS = KINETICS » Re *SWA = SDLLSNIM = XINN © SOLLSNIM © SOG = SOLLANDI = XN/W © SOLLANDI = XINSX © SDLLAINIM = Z/SO = SOLLENIM © OVW © SOLLANIN © SWA = SOLLSNIM © XINN © SOLLSNIM © SOG = SOLLSNIM © 28 News MacWEEK 23 May 1989 |New Media STEVE ROSENTHAL é : Ba) b difficult, however, because multimedia Variation. “There's a variation alllthe Watching multimedia’s bottom line development on the Maciis at such an early way from [a project using] MacroMind stage. In search of some guidance on making Director and Farallon’s ScreenRecorder, estimates, I asked a number of consultants, where things can be done in an hour or two, | _ Multimedia presentations on the Mac can approval of a corporate hierarchy or plan the designers and production house managers all the way up to $100,000 for a very nice deliver definite benefits. They also can entail budget of a tabletop enterprise, it helps to about the costs for typical multimedia interactive videodisc,” said Nick Arnett, edi- significant costs, and estimating those costs is have at least the order of magnitude decided projects. With the understanding that we tor of Multimedia Computing & Presenta- as much a part of planning a project as devel- _ before seriously dreaming of making pictures expected general rules of thumb rather tions, a newsletter, in Santa Clara, Calif. | oping a scenario and gathering audio-visual __dance on the Macintosh sereen than bids or price schedules, most were Assuming a typical rate of $35 to $50 materials. Whether you need to gain the Making precise budget predictions can be happy to explain. per hour for labor, Arnett said, it’s possible to get a small multimedia project together for less than $5,000. However, he warned, costs quickly increase if you add realistic animation or moving video. Animation, for instance, might boost the total by an amount ranging from hundreds of dollars per minute When you are looking for high-performance for ordinary work to as much as $2,000 per | video products for the Macintosh II/IIx, second for top-of-the-line results. Fora first | Relax... we have the answers. estimate, figure adding at least $1,000 per minute for moving video. We've taken the bite out of Buying a Richard Haukom, whose San Francisco Macintosh II/IIx video board with the firm of Richard Haukom Associates pro- convertible VIEW II™. Imagine being able duces video and multimedia projects, said to invest in a video board that will work that he uses $1,000 per minute as a start- pods and tomorrow! Configure the ing figure when making a rough estimate VIEW Il to your specific needs without for an all-digital production. Moving video sacrificing flexibility or forfeiting for training applications adds $500 to your initial investment. $1,500 per minute, while the polished : video needed to persuade a viewer might MAA pen board noOw compat run double that. Interactive applications also raise the rate to double or more because they need extra material for all the possible pathways. bility, outstanding color/greyscale graphics, a one year warranty, and a no-risk eUPerage from pes to 8-bit all at a very affordable price! The VIEW II is fulh arp ti- compatible and WYSIWYG. Production. Rates also go up if you frequency allows you to operate color or | need specialized skills or the use of costly yscale monitors in a full range of sizes production equipment. At Printz Electron- jabeberoretcy ic Design Services in San Francisco, Charles Wyke-Smith, a partner, said his | For monitors, the Relax series of high firm charges a $75 per hour base rate for resolution color and greyscale graphic the use of a complete production system monitors opens the aes to presentation with an 8-Mbyte Macintosh and three- graphics, CAD/CAM, and desktop quictes inch video in and out. Every job is publishing at an affordable price. ifferent, Wyke-Smith said, but he held up as an example a recently completed corpo- So if power, flexibility and value is what rate project that runs for about five min- you are looking for... Relax and enjoy the utes tad took between 60 and 70 hours view. to produce Questions. You also need answers toa | few questions you may not have thought about before you can really establish the costs, advised John B. deLorimier Jr, a graph- ic artist and animator in Novato, Calif, who's worked on several Mac-based projects. The | amount of time remaining until the deadline may seem an obvious factor, as is the degree of synchronization required among different elements, such as pictures and music But don’t forget how much synchronization is required among the people. DeLorimier | said he’s found that if the person he's working | with is not the approver but instead an assis- tant or the representative of a committee, it can take take as much as twice as many hours to get from start to finish. “I have to put that into the price as well,” he said Lastly, if you're ready to embark on a pro- ject right now and willing to take some risks, you might be able to get a bargain. “There _| are a lot of people trying to get into this busi- ness,” said Arnett. “To get established, you need examples. There are a lot of people who want to build up a portfolio, If you're dealing with someone who isn’t established and there are very few people who are— | it’s a buyer’s market | | If you have comments, applications, expertences to hare or tips, please send a note to me at New Media, elo MacWEEK, 301 Howard St., 15th Floor, San Francisco, RELAX 3101 Whipple Road #22 Union City, CA 94587 Calif. 94105. Electronic mail: AppleLink: Steve. Re MCI CA: 415/471-6112 114961 (directly oF cia gateways from MacNet oF U.S. Toll Free: 800 / 848 - 1313 ? Al registored and unregistered vademarks are the sove property of er respective companies _ Announcing the end of network protocols... News | Tech Files System 7.0: A developer's perspective At its third annual developers’ conference Apple topped all previous elforts in terms of the sheer volume of information presented. To some degree, this reflects the dramati- cally increased complexity of System 7.0, which offers (by quick count) eight new managers as well as revisions to 16 others. But among those developers I talked to, Apple won points for its unusual candor. Waming developers about changes as much as a year before the new system ships is a first, as is providing everyone at the con- ference with a 2-inch-thick binder con- taining the detailed interfaces to the system routines, Does that mean that the “not invented here” attitude and the “I'm Apple, you're just a developer” arrogance are gone from Cupertino? Hardly: It is an integral part of the élan or esprit de corps of contemporary Appledom But c