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11 July 1989 Vol. 3 No. 26 Ww ie} R K s T A T i} re) N N E Ww $ Networking across town or around the world. See fF Gateways, Edging toward Apple's ° ns to implement RISC (reduced instruction set comput- Motorola’s 88000 By Jim Forbes Cupertino, Calif. — In its quest for a RISC chip to power future CPUs, Apple may be zeroing in on Motorola's 32-bit 88000 processor, according to Apple executives. Until recently, company officials have dodged questions about ing) technology. As recently as March, at the San Francisco rollout of the Macintosh [cx, Apple CEO. John Sculley responded to a ques- tion about Apple’s RISC intentions by saying the company had not selected a vendor. Last month, however, as Motoro- la announced that it was beginning volume shipments of 20- and 25- MHz versions of the 88000, an Apple nears RISC choice Apple spokesman said in a pre- pared statement, “We have chosen the 88000 as the primary platform upon which we are basing our RISC research. Since our research efforts are only (just) beginning ... it is premature to say whether or not we will have a RISC-based per- sonal computer.” Apple-labeled RISC-based work- stations are a long way from becom- ing commercial products, according See RISC, Page 9 Multimedia competition accelerates By Connie Guglielmo San Francisco — A survey of people attending the opening day of the Multimedia & Hypermedia Expo held here late last month showed that the overwhelming majority were Macintosh users But that didn’t stop IBM from making a strong showing on the exhibit floor of the expo, a three. day event that attracted more than 3,000 people “The real significance was IBM coming into Apples backyard,” said Nick Arnett, editor of Multimedia Computing and Presentations, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based newslet ter. “I think both companies real- ized that multimedia could be the ‘ses CAO CRETE OER FUSS HyperPress Publishing's BigTime TV software, working with video-digitizing NuBus cards, puts live-action video from laser discs, VCRs or video cameras into windows on a Mac Il screen. thing that starts a real home com- puter market.” Although they may go head to head in the market, Apple and IBM did not clash on the exhibit floor. While nearly 50 vendors demon strated everything from video boards to hypertext authoring sys- tems, Apple stayed on the sidelines, in a suite off the floor that many people at the show missed. Those See Multimedia, Page 9 Apple battens down its security hatches © Apple laptop © nuPrometheus 4 in distributes source code © Future products discussed on CompuServe ‘» Recon! CPUs pre-announced in trode press By Robert Hollis Cupertino, Calif. — In the after math of the firing of programmer Dayid Ramsey, Apple appears to be tightening internal security in hopes of plugging a long-running series of embarrassing leaks of product information and source code. According to reports by outside contractors, security in some of the company’s approximately 70 leased buildings in the Cupertino, Cali area has been increased, But no changes in protective procedures have been implemented in many other buildings that house non- technical business, said outsiders and an Apple spokeswoman Sce Apple security, Page 12 S90M stock sale marks divorce of DTP pioneers Apple developing PostScript clone By Pomela Pfifiner Mountain View, Calif. — Apple last week called an end to its five-year financial rela- tionship with Adobe Systems, the company that helped it ride the desktop publish- ing wave into the offices of corpo- rate America The companies announced that Apple will sell all of its 3.4 million shares of Adobe common stock Apple also said that it is develop- ing its own PostScript-language interpreter, due in mid-1990, in order to add its own features and avoid royalty payments to Adobe. Apple said, however, that it “cur- rently intends to continue to sup- port the Adobe interpreter” for cus- tomers who need it With 16.5 percent of Adobe's outstanding common stock, Apple was the company’s largest share. holder. The shares, which Apple bought in 1984 for $2.5 million, have a current market value of about $90 million. The move did not surprise industry analysts. “Ever since the announcement of System 7.0, the question has been not if Apple would sell the stock but when,” said Dayid Schechter, an analyst Sve Apple/Adobe, Page 10 Microsoft puts apps on CD Gates pushes new-media distribution By Jim Forbes Redmond, Wash. — The reign- ing champ in the Macintosh soft- ware race, Microsoft Corp., is expected to announce a CD-ROM, Oracle upgrade enhances links to host data toward the burgeoning market of well-connected Macintoshes, Ora- cle Corp. last week shipped Oracle for Macintosh Version 1.1, the Macintosh edition of the company’s multiplatform relational database management system, Users at large sites said the new version allows the Mac to be a seri- ous contender in a corporatewide latabase connectivity strategy, “Version 1.1 gives us new access to the IBM [DB2] host,” said David Waters, business product manager at United Data Services in Over- land Park, Kan. See Oracle, Page 10 version of its four-program Microsoft Office suite at next month's Macworld Expo in Boston The new CD-ROM product will include Excel Version 2.2, Microsoft Word Version 4.0, Pow- erPoint 2.0 and Version 1.37 of Microsoft Mail, according to sources at the Redmond, Wash.- based company. Like the floppy- based version announced last See CD-ROM, Page 12 CLASS SECOND NEWSPAPER Michael Backes, film industry computer systems consultant, and Van Ling, creative and technical assistant to James director of the new 20th Century Fox film The Abyss “We i the Jasmine DirectDrive through hell, but it got us through The Abyss,” Cameron, “Fifteen months ago, we started working on a new underwater animation tests, and various files covering every aspect of the adventure movie called The Abyss. We needed a hard drive that film This took up hundreds of megabytes of disk space, because could stand up to the worst possible circumstances. So we got the storyboards that we scanned into our Macintoshes® were two Jasmine DirectDrives™ And immediately, we put them in the constantly being revised and updated, and we couldn't afford worst possible circumstances. to throw anything away during filming. “We took them down to a hot, dusty place called Gaffney, “The drives are still working great. We figure they'll probably South Carolina, where the majority of the film was shot.We put have a long career in this business! And because they held up 50 them in dirty rooms.We ran them almost 24 hours a day for well under pressure, so did we” ; over a year. They were dropped, they were covered with dust, they were bounced from location to location, they were used : and abused—and they still worked great. We put them through & Jasmine as much hell as we went through. If anybody could break a drive, we could, and we didn’t They really performed for us. ~ 1-800-347- 32 28 1 \ “Often, we wouldn't have time to back everything up, so we just had to rely on the Jasmine drives to run properly all the time. And, even when they were really put through the ringer and we thought we were going to lose everything, the Symantec™ Utilities for Macintosh that come with the drives really saved us, “We basically had the entire movie on those Jasmine drives. They were used to store storyboard scans, script changes, \ © 1985 Jasmine Technologies, nc: 1740 Arty Suet, San Francisco, CA 94124, Phone 1-15-2821) in US. DirecDrive sa rademark of Jasmine Technologies Inc Symaniec™ Uulies fr Macinish sa ademark cf Symantec Corporation Nacinosh is a registered trademark cf Apple Computer, le MacWEEK 11 July 1989 By Henry Nor Cupertino, Calif. — A disk that Apple sent to dealers and field per- sonnel beginning (Be 19 may have infected part of the company’s dis- tribution network, as well as cus- tomers who recently got disks from their dealers, with the nVIR virus. According to an AppleLink alert sent to dealers eight days later, a floppy disk distributed with a new multimedia promotional package the Apple DeskTop Media Kit included a copy of HyperCard 1.2.2 that had been infected with one of the pesky virus’ variants Running the infected program would allow the virus to replicate itself in applications on the dealer's hard disk From there it could jump to other programs on floppies used in the machine in question While nVIR does not cause any direct destruction of data, it can produce a variety of problems, including system errors and freezes. Floppies used at a dealer where the multimedia demonstra- By Roger Karraker Paris — A Mac CD-ROM called Revolutions! will debut here on July 14, the day the infamous Bastille prison fell and the French Revolution began 200 years ago Developer Vincent Roques, a former video producer, sold Revo- lutions! is Europe's first major com- mercial Mac CD-ROM project. It ludes a 1,000-word bilingual dic- tionary; 404 black-and-white and color images, including famous period paintings from French museums; 20 minutes of CD- ality music with 56 songs and their lyrics on screen; and five color VideoWorks II animations depict- ing military developments such as Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. The CD-ROM is bilingual; at start-up users choose French or English versions of the text, includ- ing day-by-day accounts of historic events during the 2,500 days of the revolution, Daily entries are linked to the dictionary and to the sound, art and animation libraries. The songs can also be played on standard, non-Macintosh audio CD players Roques, who bought his first Apple dealers get virus tion has been run should be con- sidered suspect and should be checked with a commercial anti- | viral program such as HJC’s Virex, Mainstay’s Anti-Toxin and Syman- tec’s SAM, or with any of several reliable non-commercial utilities, including Apple's Virus Rx, Disin- fectant 1.1 or VirusDetective 3.0. While several of these programs repair infected applications, virus experts recommend replacing the tainted programs with clean copies, then rechecking the entire system, A CD-ROM included in the mul- timedia kit did not carry the virus. 0 | To our readers | MacWEEK will not be pub- | lished next week, July 18. We will return with an issue on July 25 that will include a Graphic Arts section on animation and rendering Bastille Day brings CD debut Macintosh, an SE, on July 4,1988, designed the dise so that all of its functions are available with the mouse and on-screen buttons. Revolutions! was created by Roques’ firm, Bord Cadre, and will be marketed by CEDROM Tech- nologies of Paris. With just 10 employees, CEDROM is also co- producing seven other Macintosh CD-ROM projects and has another half-dozen in early development. All of the CD-ROMs that CEDROM markets are also able for MS-DOS machines, usual- ly with both MS-DOS and Mac versions on the same disc. The two versions of Revolutions!, however, have been pressed separately. The dise requires a Mac Il with 2 Mbytes of memory, 256-color dis- play and AppleCD SC. It will sell in France for 3,000 Franes (about $455), Distribution in the United States is pending, DROM is located at 68 Quai eine, 75019 Paris, France; 40.05.06.76; Fax: 40.38.97.74. 0 Revolutions! CD- ROM indodes reproductions off French master- works depicting tho revolutionary ero os well os information on its turbulent ovents. anus oo a 24 24 86 26 30 35 37 37 37 37 In this Issue News Reporter's Notebook on the scene at Macworld Asia PCPC’s NetStream offers automatic network backup Tri-Data ships Netwoy 2000 for AppleTalk networks PixelPaint Professional's 32-bit color is on the way Electronics design products for Mac debut NightLIFE runs applications while the user is oway HP releases DeskWriter inkjet printer for the Mac Ceres’ Inspiration 2.0 turns ideas into diagrams Showcase Systems literally puts CAD on the desktop MaclnTouch Converting PostScript images ceoted in 0 non-Moc environment into EPS format is simple with Emerald Gry Software's Smorthet New Media Steve Rosenthal June's Multimedia and HyperMedia Expo wasn’t chock full of new products, but its offerings did ilustrate the direction of multimedia development on bath the Mac and IBM platforms. Opinion Editorial Apple's recent fring of MacPoint 2.0 programmer David Ramsey was 0 shortsighted ond misdirected attempt to stop the flow of confidential information from its Cupertino headquarters. Letters Mac the Knife Organizational Mac ‘Mac monagers share remedies for network ills Net Results Peter Lisker The way you look at 0 Macintosh networking problem often determines the solution you choose. Gateways Wide area networks expand the LAN Apple faces IBM's OfficeVision of the future U.S. ond U.S.S.R. link up via E-mail network Third parties fill gaps in Apple’s connectivity line VXM to bring parallel processing networks to Mac 35 56 60 62 62 83 83 84 67 68 72 23 80 Macs and Crays together: Sometimes scientific data from Cray supercomputers, such as hurricane information, needs a finishing touch thot only the Macintosh can provide. Window On Word processors for the business user The Human Interface Dennis Klotzkin The System 7.0 feotures detailed so for by Apple hold great ‘promise for Macintosh users, but don’? expect every item under discussion to be in the final release. Reviews Rewritable optical drives from Relax and MACsetra Parameter Manager Plus, Igor and Passage II Business Watch NeXT on campus: As deals with Canon and Businessland catapult Steve Jobs’ machine into the business arena, the black box is selling briskly on the college compuses where it was first released. Apple joins Computer Systems Policy Project MarketWEEK The high cost of Macintosh grophics workstations is keeping many companies from bringing Mac technology to thair ort staf Mail Order Ad Showcase Ad Index Classified Coreer Opportunities MocWEEL is pode wag on intouse sytem of: Aye Macitosh SEs nd Mac Us; Lovee, Vontypr VT-00 nd VTEO0W, ond QMS ColaScigt 100 pate otworked co Fxatoo Fane; ¢ Lnovenx 300; Khon (53500 Side Scones, Roses, Ehires end SuperMoc motor, ond stealing Oued APs, Ads FopeNr, Ache tay, As feted, Supe, Meal Weed, Least ond FrlPot | become the next gr News First Mac Expo Asia low-key By Ezra Shapiro Singapore — As the first Macworld Expo Asia wound to a close early this month, un- official figures placed attendance in the 000 to 30,000 range, somewhat below original expectations. ndards the expo was both kiosk-style booths filled limited and quiet; On the scene in Singapore: ‘Drinking it in’ By Exra Shopiro Singapore xpo Asia was The key word for Macworld poised.” Asia is poised to at computer market; Apple is poised to become a leading vendor, and the Macintosh, with its visual interface, is poised to become the personal computer of choice in this arena Yet the threat of competition was ever pre- sent. In the Funan Center, an indoor mall two blocks from the show site, the lone Apple dealer was surrounded by dozens of small shops hawking equip- ment, software and supplies for the MS-DOS/OS: Japanese giant NEC rented the atrium area of the Raf- fles City hotel/shopping comples, directly under ban ners welcoming people to the Macintosh show, for a mini-exhibition of comput ers and peripherals with the theme “Going beyond desktop publishing.” And even Microsoft. at a show seminar promoting Mac applications, could not resist the opportunity to insert a flier into its Macintosh brochure announcing the unveiling of Word 5.0 for the PC at another venue. At a low-key cocktail reception for exhibitors and press at a small museum, world. Satjiv Chahil, Apple Pacific director of mar- keting, announced the opening of a new Apple office in Singapore. Guests toured an exhibit of imperial treasures of the Q'ing dynasty (1644-1911), on loan from the Peo- ple’s Republic of China, wondering when theyd next have a chance to see such things Expo seminars were well-attended “They're drinking it all in,” said Mark Veljkov of Western Washington University about audiences to his sessions on interactive multimedia. “But its tough to get anyone to ask questions.” Alter a trip through Apple's Singapore assembly plant, an Australian took Apple to task for using freon, thought to be a factor in damage to the ozone layer, in its manufactur- ing process, Officials replied that they were looking for a replacement. Americans on the tour were content to note the symbolic Apple pingpong table in the employee recre ation area. Waisi Boey, editor of two travel magazines with the Asian Business Press, brought along the head of her graphics depastinent to the show, hoping to find new software that would convince him to abandon traditional tech niques and move more operations to their Macs. No luck. “He’s a sweetheust, but he’s very stubborn,” she sighed. Some things never change only one ballroom and a second, smaller at the Raffles City Convention Center he: Only three companies — Apple, Hewlett- Packard and Oracle — actually brought full- size exhibits. Yet the aisles were filled with a steady stream of people, largely from Singapore and neighboring Malaysia, Indonesia and Thai- I _ theirWo land, with smaller contingents coming from other Asian countries and the United States. “All the exhibitors I've spoken to were pleased with the quality of the crowd,” said Jackie Greenwood, coordinator of the show, “and they've all expressed interest in return. ing next year.” With few exceptions, product announce- ments were of strictly regional interest Apple showcased the LaserWriter II NTX-A, a Chinese-language version of the printer that uses different character sets but the same font technology as the Japanese NYX-J, ‘MacWEEK 11 July 1989 introduced in February, and Chinese Talk, 4 rewritten System 6.0.3. In conjunction wil the Apple announcement, Aldus displayed @ Chinese version of PageMaker. None of these products will ship until later this year, and according to company representatives, it may be some time before they are available in the United States. HP used the expo for the first public showing of its new DeskWriter 300-dpi inkjet printer, and ACI, parent company ©! ACIUS, previewed Version 2.0 of 4th Dimension, scheduled to ship in August. After 10 minutes with us, most people can't keep CLARIS MocWEEK 11 July 1989 Tri-Data Systems releases Netway 2000 By Richard Rawles Sunnyvale, Calif. — Tri-Data Systems has begun shipping Netway 2000, an advanced version of its stand-alone Mac-to-mainframe solution. Combining the functions of gateway and router, Netway 2000 supports up to 64 simultaneous 3270 sessions and bridges two AppleTalk LANs. Priced at $9,995, Netway 2000 contains a SPARC (scalable processor architecture) chip capable of executing 10 million instructions per second (mips) running Tri-Data’s real- time operating system, SPARTOS. With four serial ports and two VMEbus expansion slots for future Ethemet and token ring cards, the unit can support connections to multiple hosts or up to four connections to the sare mainframe. Transmission speeds over the RS232 ports are 19.2 Kbps, and there is the option of having a V.35 56. Kb connection Tri-Data is marketing the device as a cost- effective solution for multinetwork environ- ments. “The amortized cost of a host session is about $160 on a 2000,” said Bob Johnson, It’s easy to see why. With over 50 added features, our brand new MacWrite* I software delivers all the power and performance you'll ever need from a word processor. Without any of the complexities or awkwardness of Word. We've earned ig reviews. But don’t just take our word for it. MacWEEK* commented, “MacWrite II is both sexy and effective” Don Crabb lauded MacWrite II for being fast, accessible, and powerful—without being bloated. Still, the most important review is your own. 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We give you our word. 1-800-729-2292 Ext.4 Vice president and general manager of the company’s Netway division. That's approxi- mately one-tenth the cost of equipping a Mac with a 3274 control unit, Apple's Coax/Twinax NB card and MacDFT software, Johnson said. Netway also eliminates the need for duplicate coax and LAN cabling, he noted “It’s about the hottest single box to hit the AppleTalk network since the introduction of AppleTalk itself,” said Dave Jackson, a Net- way 2000 beta tester and a network adminis- trator at Lockheed Corp. in Sunnyvale, Calif. “The exciting part is having two AppleTalk networks on the same machine. You have a bridge going as well as 3278 [emulation] Add to that the capability of hanging an Eth- ernet card and, later on, an Ethernet back- bone, and wow! What a box!” Netway comes with all the software needed to run multiple 3270 sessions (up to eight under MultiFinder) on a Mac. The Netway System 7.0 software bundled with the Netway 2000 includes a 3270 API (application pro- gramming interface) and a HyperCard 3270 API for customizing mainframe applications. In the fourth quarter Tri-Data will ship Ethernet and token ring cards for Netway 2000, priced at $2,795 and $3,695, respec- tively. A future software upgrade will permit direct Mac-PC file exchange on mixed LANs. ‘Tri-Data is at 1450 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086-5306; (408) 746-2900. PCPC’s NetStream automates backup By Henry Norr Tampa, Fla. — Mac network administrators who are tired of reminding users to back up files on their local hard disks can now tum to a program that will do it all automatically. NetStream, which began shipping last week, was “created for the purpose of per- mitting network backup to be ete without time-consuming efforts by each user,” said its publisher, Personal Computer Peripherals Corp. (PCPC), It provides unattended “set- and-forget” backups that can be scheduled days, weeks or months in advance, and it can back up any and all servers and local nodes within a zone to a single device. Brian Wink, a Chicago-based Apple sys- tem engineer for national accounts and a NetStream beta tester, called the ability to buck up files from any node “phenomenal” because “it takes care of the automatic back- up function that most people in corporate America are looking for.” Early NetStream customers include Apple, Boeing Aircraft, Dow Chemical and State Farm Insurance, POPC said. Features of the program include image. file-by-file and incremental backups; selec- tion by date, name, owner, type or combina- tion of characteristios; storage either in Finder-readable form or in a compressed archive format; and background operation on nodes being backed up. A five-user version of NetStream will be priced at $495; site licenses are also avail- able. The program will work with PCPC’s JetStream, a $5,995 device that can store 2.2 Gbytes of data on a single inexpensive 8mm video cartridge; with the company’s OER 600, a 600-Mbyte magneto-optical drive; and with any other media that can be mounted on the Finder desktop. Future versions may support other large-capacity backup media, | the company said. : PCPC is located at 4710 Eisenhower Blvd., Building A-4, Tampa, Fla. 33634; (813) 884-3092; (S00) 622-2888. 0 Electronics design products debut at DAC show © ‘Workstation-class’ capabilities on Mac By Cliff Lehman Las Vegas — The Mac made its first serious sortie into the elec- tronics design market at the 26th Design Automation Conference (DAC) here last month. Apple, aiming to duplicate its success in the cechaatcal and archi- tectural CAD arenas, sponsored an off-site exhibit of Mac-based elec~ tronics CAD (ECAD) products, including six introduced here Although little more than a drop in the 120-exhibitor DAC bucket, the products cover the range of functions needed to design integrat- ed circuits and printed circuit boards. The six new releases include: > MacABEL from Data /O Corp., a version of the company’s ABEL PLD Design Software for programmable logic devices (PLDs). Priced at $2,275, Mac- ABEL is available for both the Mac operating system and A/UX. ABEL is also available for Sun. Apollo, DEC and IBM computers. The program supports PLDs and programmable ROMs from more than 20 manufacturers, includin; Intel, Texas Instruments aid Fairchild Semiconductor. > DesignWorks 2.0, a schematic design program now shipping from Capilano Computing Systems Ltd. Major new features in DesignWorks 2.0 include the MEDA (modular electronic design application) Developer's Toollat for creating add- ‘ons to DesignWorks and a schematic editing function allowing repetition of any group of selected objects. > dw-2000 3.11, Design Work- shop's $10,500 program for the design of custorn VLSI (very large- scale integrated) chips (see Mac- WEEK, June 13). > MacBravo! Electronics De- signer, a schematics capture pack- age from Schlumberger, priced at In the June 27 issue the tele- phone number for ReroteControl Inc., developer of TeleMagic, was listed incorrectly. The correct num- ber is (619) 259-3000. The June 20 Window On Net- work Security inadvertently omit- ted Magna’s Empower 2.0.5, which sells for $395, from the accompa- nying product list. Magna is located at 2540 N. First St., Suite 302, San Jose, Calif. 95131; (408) 943-6692 The June 13 issue incorrectly included Deneba Systems on a list of vendors selling software through On Demand Systems’ CD-ROM- based in-store distribution system: Satori Software's phone number was listed incorrectly in the June 13 review of Proj Schlumberger Technologies took advantage of Apple’s ECAD push at the Design Automation Conference to show the newest releose in its MacBravol CAD series, Electronics Designer. $1,950 and scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter (see MacWEEK June 27). The company said Elec- tronics Designer provides graphical waveform editing and “worksta- tion-class” schematics capture. Simulation outputs can be edited and used as input for ensuing simu- lations. The program includes sup- port for electronics data inter- change format (EDIF). Schlumberger is also developing a $1,950 enhanced SPICE analog sim- ulator and a $495 Electronics Com- ponent Library. > MacSilos II, a $5,000 simula- tion program from Dazix Inc.'s Simucad subsidiary that provides behavioral as well as fault and logic simulation (see MacWEEK, June 27). An A/UX version is scheduled to ship this month, with a Mac OS version due in the fourth quarter. > Electric Design System from Electric Editor Inc., a program that lets engineers design and simulate VLSI chips, microwave compo- nents, computer systems and print- ed circuit boards. Both A/UX and the Mac OS versions of the soft- ware, which already runs on the DEC VAX and a variety of worksta- tions, are due in October. Contact Electric Editor for prices Data I/O Corp. is at 10525 Wil- lows Road N.E., Redmond, Wash. 98073; (206) 867-6444. Capilano Computing Systems Ltd. is at 501-1168 Hamilton St., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6B 252; (604) 669-6343. Design Workshop is at 4226 St. John’s, Suite 400, D.D.0., Quebec H9G 1X5, Canada; (514) 696-4753. Schlumberger Technologies CAD/CAM Division is located at | 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, Mich, 48106; (313) 995-6000. Simucad Inc. is located at 3801 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, Calif. 94303; (415) 966-8300. Electric Editor Inc. is at 1440 Koll Circle, Suite 110, San Jose, Calif, 95112; (408) 356-5889. 0 PixelPaint Professional gets true color By Connie Guglielmo Sunnyvale, Calif. — Making good on last year’s promise, Su Mae Technology plans to di next month a Sebit “true color” version of its popular Pixel paint program, PixelPaint Professional, at $699, will offer significant enhancements over PixelPaint 2.0, the current eight-bit color version. Support for Apple’s new 32-bit color Quick- Draw standard means that Mac users with a 24-bit graphics card will have all of the Mac’s 16.7 mil- lion colors available simultaneously. The program will work in 8-, 16-, 24- or 32-bit color modes, accord- ing to Brian McDonnell, graphics product manager at SuperMac PixelPaint Professional, an- nounced in July 1988 and originally scheduled to ship last October, sup- ports the Pantone Matching tem, as well as RGB (red, green, blue) and CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) values, The pop-down color mixer, which lets users mix and add colors with the Finger tool, also provides a selection of comple- mentary colors, tints, tones and shades based on the color theory familiar to most ustists Among other new features of- fered in PixelPaint Professional are enhanced image-processing tools, including lighten, emboss and tint effects; more-powerful merge and masking functions for manipulating scanned photographs; and improved anti-aliasing to smooth jagged edges on both text and objects Owness of any version of PixelPaint can trade up to Pix- elPaint Professional for $150. Those who bought PixelPaint between May I and Aug, 31 can upgrade for $95. SuperMac Tech- nology is at 485 Potrero Ave., Sun- nyvale, Calif, 94086; (408) 245-2202. 0 PixelPaint Professional offers image-processing tools 10 create photo- quality images like these prototype ads. mer comme apa THEY HE att rolession < MocWEEK 11 July 1989 Founder & Pobshar Michie! Tehong, EDITORIAL Eder Danie! Ruby Execathe Kor Daniel Pasber Menosiag {GN0r Bronds Benne Sedton titers Henry Norr (News, Rochelle Garner (Organizational Mac, Window On}, Rebecca Waring (Reviews), Anita Malnig (GA) {itera at Large Dale Coleman, Jim Forbes Tedhael EGter Mc Ford (Boston) Sealer Witers Connie Cuglelina, ick LePage (Boston) Astodete Edtars Eric J Adams (News) Richard Rawles (Window On) Information Diedor Emily Browor Stell Rept fl Bal, Elinor Cig Shiro, fran Pere Pamela Ae Assistant EGters Stephon Howard (Reviews), Janice Maloney (Features) Copy Editors. Charles Lenatth (Copy Chie?) 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Farallon Computing and Brown University’s Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship Apple’s Business Multimedia Group also showed off its latest marketing tool, the CD-ROM based Apple Custom Developer Directory, which contains a sam- From Page } pling of multimedia presentations created by more than 60 Mac ani mators, audio and video profession- als, and HyperTalk senpters. Robert Abel, of Hollywood-based Odyssey FilmMakers, drew crowds to an elaborate interactive project called “Guernica based on Picasso's painting of a Span ish town decimated by the cist forces du the Spanish Civil War Through video sound and text, the HyperCard-based presentation com bines historical information about the war with artistic interpretations of the painting. 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It accepts video converted using digitizing boards for the Mae II such as the soon-to-be-released Personal Vision board from Orange Micro Inc. (formerly AST Researc NuView) and the ColorSpace F) hoard from Mass Microsy “BigTime TV is the corner- stone technology for full-motion, single-screen interactive video,” said David Gewirtz, president of HyperPress. Unlike the Apple prototype, the video windows in BigTime TV are not limited to the size of a HyperCard window and may grow to the full Mac screen. 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In addition to Microsoft's four applications, the CD-ROM is expected to jchuad pro- grams from other developers, including Excel templates from Heizer Software and Microlytics’ WordFinder thesaurus, according From Page 1 to Microsoft and other industry executives Electronic versions of the documentation for the four applications, as well as HyperCard- driven user tutorials, are also included! While Microsoft offers four CD-ROM products for MS-DOS-based machines, the new dise represents the company’s first opti- cal-media product for the Mac market “This isn’t a major technological break- through for Microsoft, but it does represent a delivery mechanism that will become vei important in the future,” said Rick Sherlund, a vice president of research at New York investinent banking company Goldman Sachs. Sherlund and other analysts estimate that fewer than 20,000 Macintosh owners have CD-ROM drives, “It’s not a large number, but [CD-ROM program delivery] is some- thing (Microsoft Chairman) Bill Gates is deeply committed to,” he said Apple is expected to back Microsoft's plunge into the CD-ROM market with extensive co- marketing arrangements, but sources close to the company denied that it will lower the price of its $1,295 AppleCD SC CD-ROM ged when Microsoft introduces its product. 0 ae Free Fonts Worth A Thousand Dollars All your jobs come out crisp and Clay Andres, Mac WEEK, June 1989 The Panther PDX is an ultra high- speed PostScript-compatible printer that brings extra value to the desktop and occupies less space. Whatever they've got in them, it sure works.” Tom Elliat, Editor in Chief, Research Magazine Mac WEEK, June 1989 The advanced Casio LCS engine produces blacker blacks, finely Getailed type characters and halftones at 300 dpi resolution. IF ALL PRINTERS WERE rei a zs EXACTLY ALIKE. .. THEN HOW Frew ec tic eae WOULD YOU TELL pines MNGHe Las eee ka ‘THE DIFFERENCE? MORE PRODUCTIVITY It's rue. La Cie’s Panther PDX, “The time difference was Qume’s CrystalPrint Publisher and amazing.” Jasmine's DirectPrint are the same Len Kaufman, Avionics System Manager, = es, s ‘Nawal Aviation Depot printer. We agree that it's an = unbeatable printer for today’s shee desktop environment. That's why MORE FOR LESS we're selling it. “La Cie sells the same printer But don't take our word for it, for $1000 less.” take MacWEEK’s, MacUser's and Mac WEEK, June 13, 1989 La Cie customers. COMPANY —_— PRODUCT PRICE MORE PRINT QUALITY laCie Panther PDX $3,499" ‘ Qu CrystalPrint 4499 ‘Tom Elliot, editor in chief of hea tees Pei 345 Research Magazine, liked the ‘baton Quickstep $4,495 printer so much that be “Includes $1,000 package of fonts recommended it, Srom Casady and Green. La Gie's Panther PDX uses a high- speed Weitek RISC chip. 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Sources said the messages that precipit ed Apple's action concerned what is so times called System 8.0, a radical rewrite the Mac system software that the company reportedly working on. Ramsey's last was in a group he called “future applications and architectures.” r In a December 1988 speech, Apple CEO” John Sculley discussed a rewritten version | the Mac system that he said would appear 1991 or 1992 (see MacWEEK, Dec. 13, 1985 Apple has refused reporters’ requests comment on its action, saying that the incl dent is an “internal personnel issue.” Ra sey, too, declined to provide details. After being reported on-line and MacWEEK, the firing made headlines in Francisco and San Jose, Calif., newspap ‘The news sparked speculation in the Mae us community and elsewhere that the compan hoped to make Ramsey an example to dise age other employees from leaking informa considered sensitive or proprietary. According to Apple, the Ramsey firing had nothing to do with the theft and distr tion in May of Macintosh source code by ai individual or group calling itself nuPrometheus League. Chuck Farnham, Apple watcher and Sille con Valley gadfly, said that the source code released by nuPrometheus “was floati around [in the Apple community] since at least December.” Immediately after the nuPrometheus became public, Famham said, he put to; er a videotape of himself and a group friends rummaging through dumpste parked in front of several Apple buildings in Cupertino. Famham said he found inte! documents, printouts of source code and other items in the trash, ; “It was a complete free flow of inforn tion out there,” he said. According to Fa ham, the videotape shows an Apple pri security guard walking past the group as poked about in the dumpster, j Another example of Apple's problems leaks is a HyperCard stack circulating among Mac users groups, Called Four Blind Mice, (€ discloses details of the long-awaited Macin= tosh laptop computer, including seanne photos, exploded views of the machine a schematics. In yet another incident, an Apple emplay= | ee in Charlotte, N.C., placed information on the GEnie network's Macintosh rot bulletin board discussing Apple's retum cy for a batch of faulty 40-Mbyte hard for the Mae. A few days later, he sent an urgent message to Bart Barton, the round table's sysop, requesting that the message removed as soon as possible on orders fi his superiors, Barton said. The Apple employee involved declined discuss the matter, referring all inquiries t the company’s public relations department i 4 Cupertino. MacWEEK 11 July 1989 NightLIFE works as user snoozes Be by Beery Horr Mill Valley, Cahf — Mac users who want stock quotes downloaded, databases updated or files backed up in the dead of night can now rest peacefully while Simple Software's NightLIFE handles the job The new program can nin any application. and despite its name it works at any time of the day or night, according to Michael Odawa, president of Simple The program does not have its own macro capabilities. Users, however, can initiate a complex sequence of operations by specify ing a document from a program that pro vides scripting or automated procedures including most leading communications and spreadsheet programs and some backup util ities, or by attaching a MacroMaker or QuicKeys sequence to the selected file. Pro. grams scheduled with NightLIFE can be repeated automatically on an hourly, daily weekly or monthly basis For an introductory period, Version 1.1 of MasterJuggler has a new act By Henry Norr Spring. MasterJu learned a few new tricks. ALSoft Inc., publisher of the popular font and desk accessory-ma t utility, last week announced a new version of the product Texas — gler has ageme and began an aggressive promotional cam- paign designed to win over users of its archri- val, Fifth Generation Systems’ Suitcase IL MasterJuggler Version 1.5, priced at $89.95, adds a new capability called Font- Director, which the company said protects users from a problem that sometimes causes the Mac system to display a different screen font from the one requested. The problem can arise even with fonts using Apple’s expanded NFNT (new font numbering table) numbering scheme when fonts kept in separate resource files and not installed with Apple's Font/DA Mover. The MasterJuggler package already included a utility to resolve such conflicts, as does Suitcase If. According to ALSoft, how- ever, FontDirector is unique in that it trans: parently eliminates the problem in memory without making changes to the font file on disk, to maintain consistency with the same fonts on other machines, Version L5 also increases the number of separate resource files — DAs, fonts, Fkeys and sounds — that MasterJuggler can open from 12 in the previous release to 120 v sufficient memory is available. By default Suitease I] can open 12 files, but it lets users with sufficient memory to raise the limit as high as 99 To launch the new version, ALSoft announced a trade-in plan that will allow users of Suitcase or any of ALSoft’s Juggler s to get a complete MasterJuguler 1.5 package in exchange for a photocopy of the manual cover of their old program, along \with $25 plus $3 for shipping and handling Registered owners of MasterJuggler can upgrade their current copy to Version 1.5 for $10 plus $3 shipping and handling. ALSoft recently sent Version 1.16 of Mas- terJuggler, a maintenance release, to all reg- istered owners. ALSoft can be reached at P.O. Box 95 Spring, Texas 77383-0927; (713) 353-4090. NightLIFE, the program's first general release, is available directly from Simple . Software for $49.95. The regular price 10/10/89 7.20PM © including a 30-day money-back guarantee Yoriove9 11 20° © will be $79.95. Upgrades from Version 1.0 UA iets cal are $29.95. 10/11/89 400 AM @ Simple Software is located at 220 Red- wo/it7e9 4054n © wood Highway, Suite 42, Mill Valley, Calif Ee 94941; (415) 381-2650. 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Data Options Macro Window ss 128 | Selected Five - Year Financial Data (in thoussnds, except employee and per share data) 1988 1987 1986 19385, 19384 Revenue and Cosis Net Revenues $432,306 | $318,663] $309,266] $239,656] $207,907 Cost of Revenues 79,809} 165,570} 58,344} 40,7 10} 40,215) Rani D 79,809 52,361 33,081 21,420) 20,676 Sales/Marketing 87,680] 88,108] 62,490] 48,999] 26,409] Gen Admin 27,653} 18,537, 12,594) 7,306) 4,520) Income from Operations $157,855 | ($5,913)|$142,756 |$121,221 |$116,088 Non-op Income 7,804 6,639 3,715] 2,008) 1,387 Income Before Taxes 165,659) 726) 146,471] 123,229] ‘117,475 Provision for Taxes 67,092 294 59,321 49,908 47,577, Net Income $93,567 $432 | $87,150] $73,321 | $69,393 Assets and Liabilities Current Assets 223,579] 112,622] 79,282] 44,256 44,055} Net Property 75,468 73,937 41,209) 24,957] 19,374] Other Assets 5,643} 3,764 3,673 2,402! 1,899] Total Assets $304,690 |$190,323 |$124,164 | $71,615 | $65,327 Current Liabilities 34,423 18,319 11,599] 5,077} 9,940) Long-term Liabilities 4,578 4,114 3,602 3,293 3,146 Stockholder's Equity 265,689] _ 167,890} 108,964 63,245) $2,242] Total Liabilities and Equity | $304,690 |$190,323 |$124,164 | $71,615 | $65,327 To lear more, call for the Micrusoft Excel 22 brochure, (800) 541-1261, Dept 182. Customers in Canada, call (416) 673-9811. Outside North America, call (206) 882-8661. © Co; righ the Microsoft logoare registered trademarks and Making itall male sense isa trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh and Mac are tre All nghts reserved. Macrosoft and 1989 Microsoft Corporation. narks of Apple Computer Inc. —_——— So have we. Introduci Microsoft Excel 2.2. In 1985, not long after the Macintosh® was unveiled, Microsoft’ Excel became the most compelling reason to buy one. Within minutes, it became a standard on the Macintosh. Before we knew it, a full9 out of 10 Macintosh spreadsheet users were swearing by it. Not sur- prisingly, they still are. ut, of course, we werent satisfied to leave well enough alone—and Microsoft Excel version 2.2 has come to the small screen. Ina big way. In mathematical terms, 2.2 is greater than L5.In technical terms, your spreadsheets aren't limited to IMB of memory—version 2.2 makes the most of even 8meg machines. 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Making it all make sense: Monthly Profit By Product Line $60,000 aE $50,000 $40,000 iia SELECTED FIVE-YEAR FINANCIAL DAY (in thousands, except employee and per share data) 1988 1987 1986 1985 Revenue and Costs $30,000 + Net Revenues $432,806 $358,663 $309,266 $239,656 Cost of Revenues 79,809 65,570 58344 40,710) Rand D 79,809 52361 33,081 21,420} Sales/Marketing 87,680 88,108 62490 48,999) Gen Admin 27653 18,537 12,594 7,306) $20.00 INCOME FROM OPERATIONS | $157,855 | $134,087 $142,756 $121,221 Non-op Income 7 BOA 6639 371s 2,008) Income Before Taxes 165,659 140,726 146A71 123,229) Provision for Taxes 67,092 56,290 59,321 49,908} NET INCOME $98,567 $84,436 $87,150 $73,321 $10,000 aes Assets and Liabilities Current Assets 223579 112622 79,282 44,256) Net Property PACS. 73,937 41,209 24,957) Other Assets S643 3764 3673 2,402 $0 TOTAL ASSETS $304,690 $190,323 $124164 $71,615 Jan Current Liabilities MAB 18,319 11599 5,077] =. Long-term Liabilities 4578 4114 3,602 3,293] -B-Forecas! Stockholder's Equity 265,689 167890 108,964 63,245] TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY | $304,690 $190,323 $124,164 | $71,615 Working Capital 189642 17368 127,766 11989) Number of Employees 3456 272 1681 1,390) Common Stock Data ae Net Income per Share q $1.13, SLO SLM $1.90 Book Value per Share WS6 856 $229 $146 Cash and Investments $265 $1.60 $0.83 $0.64 Average Shares Out 87,535 83,258 44,956 38,634 Shares Out/Year-end 86,790 51,305 26,589 15,905, Key Ratios a Return on Net Revenues B% B% BI AG Return on Total Assets Jenin som: 4% 70% 102%, Return on Stock Equity [eter 50% 80% 116%) ‘Now pic from 256 fonts. Change row height. Shade. Add notes. And get used to the sod of applause. News Inspiration 2.0 lets users see Elaborate ae converts data | big picture and study parts Fron, tac Portland, Ore. — new version of Inspira- ‘ tion, Ceres Software's dia- Pepa Bonever House) i By Pomola Pfiffner and Henry Norr Hye Hewlett-Packard’s $1,195 DeskWriter is designed to gramming and outlining Me ips aetethe specializes In Annapolis, Md. — Dae Software has | print an overage of 20 to 25 pages per day. program for the Mae, is gourmet set an “early fall” rel date for Elaborate, a | due to be released later popovers, : HyperCard external command (XCMD) that | will let users turn the data in their stacks iia mailing labels, invoices, address cards or oth fancy-format reports that are difficult or impossible to produce from HyperCard itsel The $149.95 XCMD, which can be up directly from HyperCard’s message box 0 by a HyperTalk script, will feature an obj oriented layout editor that the company com pared to both Claris’ MacDraw and the Ia nvironment in ACIUS' 4th Dimension. By Cliff Lehman and Heary Norr cally in the other view. - Design options available through Elabe Cupertino, Calif. — Promising “laser-qual- __As users type their ideas rate’s floating tool palette will include a F ity printing with personal convenience and a _ into symbols such as rect- Ceres Software's Inspiration 2.0 provides standard flow-charting symbols ond sizable alignment grid, user-configarabl personal-printer price,” Hewlett-Packard this angles, squares and ovals, allows conversion of diograms into tree charts ond dster diagrams. rulers and control over the font, size, month began shipping a Mac-specific addi- the $249 program auto- alignment, line width and color of obje tion to its popular 300-dpi inkjet printer line. _ matically re-sizes and centers the symbols. comments. Outlines can be exported to other Up to 256 colors can be displayed on screen Called the DeskWriter, the new Quick- Fonts, sizes and styles can be mixed within a Mac programs, including MacWrite and _ or output to color printing devics : Draw printer combines technology from symbol; patterns and up to eight colors canbe Microsoft Word, and to outlining piven Background graphics imported via th ° e this month. muffins and HP delivers inkjet Tike tha origina BES sion of a year ago, Inspira- tion 2.0 displays ideas as designed especially :=.: "sin « in text outline form. The e program lets users flip or the Macintos ons cuatiies oaths with changes made in one view reflected automati- HP’s recently released DeskJet Plus model used for emphasis. such as Symantec’s MORE and ThinkTank. Clipboard and saved in Elaborate’s report with a logic board, a serial interface and soft- In addition to basic symbol shapes, Inspi-___ “Inspiration is a tool for people who have documents are not converted to bit maps, ware designed to optimize performance with ration 2.0 offers standard flow-charting sym- _ to see the big picture and who need to study _ but they print at full resolution, the com the Mac bols and specially designed business symbols. relationships between component parts,” said. Scrolling data fields can be enlarged for | Priced at $1,195, the DeskWriter comes Lines and arrows drawn between symbols to said Mike Lougee, who is a research scientist reporting, and total and subtotal fields can be with four outline font families: Courier, define relationships are maintained whenev- _at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor biicdet ad breakpoint. The program sup- | Times, Triumvirate (equivalent to Helvetica) _ er a symbol is moved. and an Inspiration 2.0 beta tester. “I've used ports custom paper sizes, and a WYSIWYG and Symbol. The six additional typefaces Diagrams can be converted into tree _ other outlining programs, but being able to _ preview mode lets users check the layout | built into the LaserWriter Plus, INT and charts and cluster diagrams, which can be _ flip back and forth between the outline and heroes printing, | TINTX are available for $95 each or $395 for exported as PICT files to drawing or presen- _ the diagram was a real eye-opener.” Unlike Mediagenics’ Reports, the original | all six. Compugraphic Corp 's Intellifont font tation programs. Current Inspiration users can receive Ver- _data-formatting add-on for HyperCard, | technology, incorporated into the printer _ Inspiration’ Outline mode offers full-fea- sion 2.0 for $5. The company is also offering Elaborate can work with any field in any | driver, lets users scale the outline fonts up to _ tured outlining, including sorting, show/hide a $10 demonstration version. stack without modification to the stack, 250 points. and promote/demote options; a find-and- Ceres Software Ine. is located at 9498 SW. _ according to Discovery. 2 he DeskWriter can be connected with a __ replace function; several numbering schemes; Barbur Blvd., Suite 103, Portland, Ore. Discovery Software is at 163 Conduit St, standard Mac printer cable to any Mac Plus, and a Notes feature for adding extended text 97219; (503) 245-9011. 0 Annapolis, Md. 21401; (301) 268-9877. o SE or II equipped with a hard disk. Its serial interface operates at 57.6 Kbaud — three times the speed of the previous DeskJets’ serial ports. Intended for individual rather than network use, the new printer is designed to print an average of 20 to 25 pages and a maximum of 50 pages per day, according to HP specifications. It has a one- W 1 { ‘year warranty. On a Mac SE the DeskWriter prints cal pages of text and graphics in 300-dpi mode at about one page per minute, HP said. Because the rasterizing is done on the Mac, performance is significantly better on | machines with faster processors. A 150-dpi mode spceds draft printing up to 50 percent Spooling may not be available until next year, when Apple provides background printing for all printers, a company spokeswoman said The DeskWriter's Chooser-selectable QuickDraw driver supports all features of QuickDraw, including 90-degree font rota- tion, and document reduction and enlarge- ment. It will also work with the outline font technology that Apple plans to offer with System 7.0, HP ad In contrast with HP’s DeskJet and DeskJet Plus, the DeskWriter has no parallel connec- + paToner tor, resident fonts or font-cartndge slot. The ae irones DeskJet Plus is priced at $795, while the nS original DeskJet is now available for $595. Both can be used with the Mae, but only BEFORE: Telesis clients had to visualize completed graphics. with third-party software and cable packages HP can be reached at 19310 Pruneridge Ave., Cupertino, Calif, 95014; (800) 752- 0900; from Canada (800) 387-3867. MocWEEK 11 July 1989 — Adding new meaning to aphor, Showcase Systems lier this year introduced the Show case workstation, a display processor/digitizer that shows a computer's video output on a drafting table surface The Showcase unit consists of a 2-by-3 Tho Showcase workstation merges a transparent digitizer with o table-top electronic display that is controlled by @ stylus or puck. Video output on drafting table By John Battelle foot table-top display covered by a transpar- ent glass digitizer. The display projects the computer's video feed as if it were a regular monitor. Instead of the standard Mac mouse, the user controls the cursor with a hand-held stylus or four-button puck. The Showcase table top displays up to 1.024 pixels by 1,280 pixels in full color, depending on the capabilities of the computer’ internal video card. The company is targeting the unit for CAD, advertising and other graphics- intensive markets. The Showcase can be driven by most personal computers and worksta- tions. A software Hf er must be pur- chased from Showcase Systems to use Showcase with a Mac, The display is available in three models. A black-and-white version, Model 900, is available for $15,000. Model 1100, designed for color Macs and IBM PCs, costs $28,000. Model 1130, designed for high-end worksta- tions, costs $40,000. Showease Systems Inc. 1512 Industrial W: mont, Calif. 94002; (415) is located at News (ie {ait _Winsow Operations reph Numerics race Spectro Blue Inc.’s new SS Croph iMeg8. 718) Oa Science program can per- form both surface and con- tour plots on very large data sets. The program can work with more than 220,000 data points ond offers such types of analyses as mathe- matical function evaluation; simple math, matrix algebra ‘and dota transformations; Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) ond convolutions; curve fitting, induding user-defined fonctions; and statistical functions and tests. dScience enters plotting race By Becky Waring Tucson, Ariz. — Another high-powered contender has entered the field of scientific data analysis and plotting on the Mac with the release of dScience from Spectra Blue Inc. Priced at $495, dScience can work with more than 220,000 data points in just 2 Mbytes of memory, perform complex numerical trans- SBT ships Mac successor to Series Six Plus accounting package By Eric J. Adams Sausalito, Calif, — For SBT Corp., late is better than never. Mac/Series Six Plus, a ad multi-user accounting line the jnally scheduled for re ompany in Febru see MacWEEK, Feb. 21), finally bega shipping this month The integrated package, rewritten en- trely in FoxBASE+/Mac with a full Mac- intosh interface, succeeds SBT’s Se: Six Plus, which was written in dBASE es III Plus on the IBM PC. Mac/Series Six Plus can share common data files with SBT accounting programs written for MS-DOS, UnivXenix and other systems. Users can cross environments via AppleShare, 3Com or Novell networks, according to Tom Gottheimer, SBT manager of engineering Because source code is available with the modules, users can customize the program from a tweak in,an invoice to a full fledged vertical design by a consultant or VAR. The multi-user capability of Mac/Series Six Plus allows users to modify files concur- rently from networked machines; it also offers full file and record locking All three modules (dLedger, dInyoice/ dStatements and dPayables) are available for $495 each in compiled forms or for $695 each with the source code. SBT Corp. is located at 1 Harbor Drive, Sausalito, Calif. 94965; (415) 331-9900. 0 ASTER: Color stil video prints from the KODAK $V6500 Printer show Dept 345. Telesis clients exactly what their graphics will look like. Only ninety seconds from monitor to hard copy. That's Telesis Productions’ competitive edge. With the KODAK $V6500 Color Video Printer, Telesis clients see exactly what they're getting. See how fast this video printer can get approy- als for you. Call 1 800 4KODAK (1 800 445-6325), Ext 110, for product and dealer information. In Canada, 1 800 46KODAK (1 800 465-6325), © Eastman Kodak Company, 1989 formations and plot the results in eight colors The Program reads text files for data input and has a built-in editor as well as a spread- sheet. Data can be viewed in tabular, func- tional, parametne or matrix formats, and can context-sensitive manner. hematical function evalastia ; simple math, matrix algebra and data transformations; er Transforms (FFT) and conyolutions; curve fitting, including user-defined functions; and statistical functions and tests. Amara Graps, a technical assistant in as- tronomy at NASA's Ames Research Laboratory in Mountain View, Calif., downloads very large data sets from mainframes and workstations and manipulates and plots them with dScience Graps has used several Mac graphing pro- grams, including Cricket Graph, KaleidaGraph and Parameter Manager Plus, but said dScience is superior in analysis and plotting dScience can plot multiple graphs on a page, with unlimited overlays and continuous printout over page breaks. The plotting area can be up to 53 by lee ‘Two-dimensional feeds options include log-log axes and error ars. Three-dimensional surface and contour ploting is also provided, and a zoom feature lets users enlarge any section of a plot. A macro language automates repetitive analyses, and a full programming language similar to Fortran and IDL is forthcoming, the company said. Modules for Image Pro- cessing, Advanced Statistics and Advanced Spectral Analysis will also be out by the end of the year. Spectra Blue even offers to develop specific analysis or plotting routines for customers who need them. dScience requires a Mac SE/30, UL, IIx or Mex with 2 Mbytes of memory and a hard. disk. A Mac Plus/SE version is expected soon. Spectra Blue is at 739 E. Broadway, No. 248, Tueson, Ariz, 85710; (602) 296-3899. 0 Low-cost Ehman removable Evanston, Wyo, — Setting a record low price for a removable-cartridge hard drive, Ehman Ine, last month introduced a 44- Mbyte unit with a mail-order price of $549. The Ehman 44 MB Removable Disk Drive’ price is less than half the suggested retail price of many drives from other ven- dors incorporating the same SyQuest drive mechanism. The Ehman produet is shipped with one 44-Mbyte cartridge, a two-year war- ranty and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Additional cartridges are available (or $99. Ehman Ine. is at 97 S. Red Willow Road, Evanston, Wyo, 82930; (307) 789-3830. 0 = File Edit Item Page View Utilities <P uggesti To him, it time ed him the RADIUS. THE First NAME IN MACINTOSH DISPLAYS. When we introduced the Radius Full Page Display’ it was the first time anyone had seen a full page view of a Macintosh. But we didn't stop there. We created the Radius Two Page Display” So you could see a full two-page view of your work. Then we developed the Radius Gray Scale Display” with 256 shades of gray. So you could The Radius Full Page Display pork with two full pages of photographic- quality gray scale images. nae Today, you can choose from our Full Page, | tes Two Page or Gray Scale Displays. Or, you can work in color with our eight, sixteen or twenty- four bit Radius Color Displays” And regardless of which Radius Display you select, youre always assured of an un- flinching, crisp, paper-like image. Consistently rated the best in the industry. In addition, you get all the benefits of the classic RadiusWare™ features. Including Tear-off Menus in every applica- tion. The ability to capture any portion of your image in a PICT file. Small or large menu bars. And direct control panel access. So, if you're poke et a deol for your Macintosh, the first thing to dois visit a Radius Authorized Dealer. You can find one : —= near you by calling 1-800-227-2795* ——__ Its clearly the best move you can make. PUES IED AD Style sheets Tear-off Menus radus Intelligent Hardware *If you live outside of the continental United States, call 1-408-954-6852 for the name of a Radius International Distributor This image was scanned with a Howtek Scanmaster, processed with Digital Darkroom, imported into Quark XPress and displayed by and photographed on the Radius Two Page Display with a Radius GS/C Interface. © 1959 Radius Inc. Radius, the Radius logo, Ineligent Hardware, Radius Full Page Display, Radius Two Page Display, Radius Gray Scale Display. Radius Color Display and RadiusWare are trademarks of Radius Inc. All other brand name and product names are trademarks or reyistered urademarks of their respecuve holders 20 BUGS & TIPS Displaying PostScript. We recently had a situation where someone wanted to take a PostScript file generated in a non-Mac environment and manipulate it in Aldus FreeHand. While FreeHand could import the file, there was no way to view the image ‘on screen. We were looking for a way to transform the file from PostScript to Encap- sulated PostScript (EPS) After a bit of searching, we found that Emerald City Software's well-crafted desk accessory, Smart Art (see MacinTouch, March 14), can do this easily. Smart Art can open PostScript test files, download the PostScript commands to your local Laser- Writer. pull the image back from the printer, display it on the screen and save it as an EPS file. Emerald City’s Randy Adams said that there are a few things to watch out for when dealing with PostScnpt files created on other systems. First, make sure there is a BoundingBox statement in the PostScript header. This statement defines the border coordinates of the image; Adams suggested starting with “%% BoundingBox: 0 0 700 1100". Another thing to check is that there is a carriage return at the end of the file. If you still have problems getting an image, make sure that there is no “showpage” statement at the end of the PostScript commands. Zipping with Zmodem. The file trans- fer protocol Xmodem has served a great many computer users well over the years, and it is probably the most widely supported way of exchanging binary files among per- sonal computers without errors. Unfortunately, Xmodem is not the most efficient protocol in the world, and its per- formance is especially handicapped by the delays typical of public packet-switched net- works like Telenet and Tymnet. Zmodem is an Xmodem descendant that provides very efficient transfers under a wide variety of conditions. A series of tests pub- lished in the March issue of Byte magazine showed Zinodem performing significantly better than Xmodem, Ymodem and W/Xmo- dem (windowed Xmodem) While Zrnodem still has a way to go before it achieves wide acceptance, GEnie recently announced support for the protocol, and the upcorning Version 3.0 of Software Ventures’ Microphone Il (now in beta testing) will offer Zmodem as well. If you want to take advantage of Zmodem now, check out ZTerm, a shareware program ailable on-line and from users groups. Term, a work in progress. is not overload- ed with features, The current version, 0.8, has no scripting capabilities, but it can store settings, phone numbers and simple ros. In addition to Zmodem, supports Xmodein, Ymoden rve's QuickB scheme, so you don't have to switch applications to use older protocols so MultiClip fix. Olduvai Corp. recently announced a Version 1.01 maintenance upgrade for MultiClip. The new version of the program fixes a number of glitches, including problems with SuperLaserSpool, WriteNow and Macintoshes with the Motoro- la 68030 CPU. The upgrade is free. Just send MacinTouch R1CK LEPAGE AND RIC FORD Pulling images out of PostScript your master disk to the company with “Attn: MultiClip 1.01 upgrade” on the envelope, 1-800-Who? WordPerfect ners recently changed its toll-free support number to elim- inate confusion with another company’s toll- free number. Owners of Macintosh Word- Perfect in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean can now get techni- cal support at (800) 336-3614. REFERENCE Emerald City Software, 800 Menlo Ave., Suite 102, Menlo Park, Calif. 94025; (415) 324-8080. octWEEK 11 hiy 1969 Olduvai Corp., 7520 Red Road, Suite A, South Miami, Fla. 33143; (305) 665-4665. 6 We welcome comments at Mac WEEK, 4 Cambridge Center, Third Floor, Cambridge, Mass. 02142, (617) 497- 2600. Electronic mail: CompuSerce: (Ric Ford) 75056,1225, (Rick LePage) 75016,350, Delphi/PAN. MACWEEKBOS, MCI Mail. RICFORD, RLEPAGE. MACWEEKBOSTON, AppleLink (address "Mactn- Touch” in Subject). MACWEEK, MacNET. RIGFORD. RICKLEPAGE, GEnie. MACWEEKBOS, Internet RICFORD@CUP PORTAL. COM MocWEEK 11 July 1989 New Media sTEVE ROSENTHAL Show and tell at the Multimedia Expo The closest we've had to a new-media show for the Macintosh, The Multimedia and HyperMedia Expo held in San Francisco at the end of June, brought only a few new products, but it did display some inter- esting directions. Mulling over what I saw I'd say the most important trends were the vitality of hypertext in the business market and IBM's new fervor for the whole multi. media field Hypertext. While many of us have been taken with the allure of still and moving ages on the screen, the reality is that business runs primarily on textual informa- tion. Traditional linear text, however, has some real limitations when the information involved is complex, lengthy and inter- related, as in manuals, reference books and standards. Hypertext, which is coming to mean com- puter-accessible documents with built-in Finally artificial intelligence comes to OCR. Introducing Acculext™ doc- ument scanning software by Datacopy. The first Optical Character Recognition software that truly allows you to watch your p’s & q's. Unlike other OCR products, Datacopy’s Acctilext is one of the first true applications , of artificial intelligence. It actually thinks and learns as it works. Scan thousands of typestyles and Acculext will recognize them. Scan a poor-quality photocopy or facsimile and Accufext will decipher it And when you show Acculext a document, it will reconstruct its format automatically — headlines, italics, and underlines. Spacing, linefeeds, and indents. Even justification and tabs. The built-in 50,000 word lexicon insures that your input always forms legal words...in their intended sequence. Which means amiable doesn’t become am (able. All of which means that the roofreading normally ciated with scanning is virtually eliminated. What's more, Acculext is compatible with the leading scanners—Datacopy’s full line of scanners, Hewlett-Packard’s ScanJet™ and ScanJet Plus,” the Apple Scanner, and others. A xt transfers all of your information into your current word processing, desktop publishing or spread- sheet programs. If all of this sounds too good to be true, pick up the phone and dial (800) 821-2898. We'll tell you about Acculext from AZ and where to find your nearest dealer. Give us a call. And give your current software some R & R. links among sections or phrases in the text, is just beginning to find uses as an alternative At one session on hypertext systems attended by almost a hundred people, it seemed that close to half the people in the audience raised a hand when asked if they were plan- ning to implement a hypertext system in the immediate future: In pure hypertext, there are apparently more products available for the [BM PC but the Macintosh may » edge. HyperCard can be and is being used as a hypertext engine, but other products, such as Guide from Owl Inter- national Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., and Hyper- gate from Eastgate Systems Inc. of Cam- bridge, Mass., are aimed more directly at text applications. For example, at the expo, Hyperview Sys- tems Corp. of Middletown, R.L., was show- ing a Guide-based system for navigating through the Environmental Protection Agen- cys SuperFund Amendments and Reautho- rization Act (SARA) code and regulations. It’s not an application that you'd want to browse through to while away the slow sum- mer hours, but it beats trying to find the reg- ulation you need in 1.200 pages of original EPA documents. Texas Instruments Hypermedia Systems & Services had a booth with a new service that seemed indicative of corporate interest in hypertext. HyperTRANS takes long docu- ments and uses complex LISP-based systems to add pointers and cross references auto- matically. The result can be entered into your choice of hypertext systems. It might not catch all the references a skilled indexer might put in, but you just can't find or afford the kind of human help that would put 80,000 references in a 4,000-page Eacimene in two weeks. IBM. Even though the Macintosh has been getting most of the press about multi- media, IBM has actually ieee doing quite well selling computer-based mixed media systems for truining, story boarding, anima- tion and other purposes. The company’s InfoWindows system, a laser disc-equipped PS/2 model, supports a catalog of more than 100 commercially available courses from more than 50 vendors. As usual, IBM's tactic seems to be to blan- ket the middle and upper end of the market with half a dozen uncoordinated solutions, then see which ones meet customer accep- tance. There's no direct competitor to HyperCard yet, but InfoWindows, the new Storyboard Plus 2.0, LinkWay software packages and two cards for the PS/2 that dig- itize video and voice give IBM a broader line than Apple without its third parties, Fur thermore, in an apparent indication of its views on the future of the market, IBM is changing the name of its former Advanced Educational Support operation to Multi- media Solutions. Miscellany. Among the new products, my favorites were Hyper TV from Hyper- press Publishing Corp. of Foster City, Calif, and ColarCard from MacLaboratory of Philadelphia. 1 expect to write about their implications later, but see Page 1 for some immediate details. You won't be able to get several of the best new multimedia items at the show; they were internal Apple projects for training or sales support. I oven had to promise to temporari- ly withhold details about one of them because its author is already being besieged with unfillable requests for copies. o of graphics cards and monitors for your business and your budget The first. And still champion. When Apple® introduced the first color Macintosh? — SuperMac” was first with a large display. The SuperMac 19” color monitor, combined with our 8-bit Spectrum — color graphics card, extended the performance of the new Mac* And enabled new users to work more effectively with the sophisticated new wave of color software. 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All other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective holders. | hurt many individuals Letters Software Robin Hoods SO So Congratulations on your decision not to further distribute the pur- loined Apple source code, “nuPro- metheus unbound” (MacWEEK, June 13). These self-appointed nuPrometheus League software Robin Hoods have aoe them- selves and their fellow employees serious damage by their immature and irresponsible actions. They apparently believe that the success of the Macintosh is due to ~... the genius of a few Apple employees.” Well, I have a ee news flash for them: Apple is where it is today because it has been able to provide a strong corporate environment that can afford to support top- notch software and hardware des- ign talent. One of Apple's strengths is its commitment to protecting its intellectual property. Think about how the average Apple employee must feel about this unauthorized source code dis- tribution. How many tens of thou- sands of hours of hard work, miss- ed children’s birthdays and post- poned vacations have been made meaningless by this arrogant act of theft? How about the jobs that will undoubtedly be lost if competitors now succeed in cloning the Macin- tosh and its software/firmware? Every person connected with Apple — part-time janitor, soft- ware guru, accountant, secretary, assembly worker, supplier, share- holder or executive — will lose. Theft is theft, whether it’s that new car stereo you worked so hard for or your company’s product that you and your friends struggled to develop, Both crimes have a victim: Just look in the mirror. Willard