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Sybase serves up ‘Mac front ends for SQL data ‘Libraries for MPW, HyperCard due By John Battelle New York — Sybase Inc. rolled but its latest developments in multi- platform database connectivity here last week, and heading the list are lits first-ever offerings for the Mac The Emeryville, Calif.-based felational database vendor announced Version 4.0 of its SQL Server transaction processin database and introduced a compl. mentary connectivity product, Open Server, that the company says will tie together disparate data and platforms into one fluid clienU/server-based system. The new Mac product consists of | two versions of Sybase’s Open IClient software development tool, previously available for Unix and Digital Equipment Corp. environ- ments. Hyper DB-Library uses | HyperCard to interface to SQL Server, while Mac DB-Library for MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) C can be used to inte- grate other Mac applications or to | create stand-alone front-end appli- | cations. Both are intended as tools for MIS or database programmers See Sybase, Page 9 Users: Font fallout no fun Ts it all a Royal pain in the ATMP By Connie Guglielmo San Francisco — Mac users are still trying to digest the alphabet soup served up to them by Apple, Microsoft and Adobe at the Sey- bold Computer Publishing Confer- ence & Exposition here last month. While Apple and Microsoft sort the details of their font and PostScript-clone technology exchange, Adobe is preparing to release its Adobe Type Manager, a By Pamela Pifner Cupertino, Calif. — Apple and Quantum Corp. last week unveiled complaints concerning sticking Quantum 3.5-inch 40-Mbyte and 80-Mbyte hard disk drives in Macs. Apple identified the problem as increased lubricant viscosity in the hard disk drive assembly (HDA) actuator arm, a condition Apple said was caused by high humidity As a result, Apple announced an extended repair program that will continue until October 1991. Users who paid for out-of-warranty repairs since April 1 may apply for reimbursement by Apple. The solution developed by Apple $99 program that, like Apple's outline font technology, code-named Royal, lets Mac users create outline screen fonts of any size without jagged edges (see MacWEEK, Oct. 3). “There's a difference between the willingness to compete and the abil- ity to compete,” said Adobe CEO John Warnock at a press conference last week, referring to Apple's and Microsoft's lack of availability dates for products. “ATM will ship in two weeks. All right, Apple and Microsoft, put up or shut up.” Plug-in modules let users roll own apps By Daniel Farber New Orleans — Apple's empha- sis on object-oriented programming is leading to a future in which Mac users will be able to construct their software components, according to Apple programmers attending the Fourth Annual Conference on a plan to deal with the flood of own applications from libraries of Apple in Japanese hot water? By Carolyn Seid sidiary of Canon Inc., allegedly Industry analysts do not doubt that Apple and Microsoft will do just that, but they believe Adobe has See Font analysis, Page 9 Object-Oriented Programming Sys- tems, Languages and Applications. The company took a step in that direction last week with the Qume’s — ee ON plus its four clones from Abaton, La Cie, Jasmine and Mirror See review, Page 46 a Apple bites bullet on Quantum drive failures and Quantum is to replace the PROM (programmable ROM) on the HDA controller board with a modified chip that will kick-start the actuator at boot-up and insert full-stroke cycles to keep the lubri- cant liquid. “The PROM gives it more mus- cle at start-up by changing the torque,” said Jim Porter of Disk/Trend, a Mountain View, Calif, research firm. But some users see the solution as a short-term fix. “I think it’s not in the best inter- ests of the consumers,” said Joe Galant, a technical writer and desk- top publisher with Pennsylvania See Quantum, Page 8 Objects loom large in Mac future announcement here of MPW C++ 3.1 (see related story, Page 8). Addi- tional intermediate steps include the expected release next year of inter- application communication (IAC) under System 7.0 and of the Apple- Script scripting language at a later date (see MacWEEK, Aug. 22). In the future, “we hope to come up with a more fully integrated object-oriented programming approach and component soft- ware,” said Kurt Schmucker, pro- ject manager for scientific comput- ing at Apple. “Within five years, almost all our programming will use objects,” See OOPs, Page 8 Tokyo — Apple Japan and its leading Japanese distributor have been targeted for an investigation by Japan's Fair Trade Commission, which says it suspects them of impeding importers who sell dis counted Macintoshes. Canon Sales Co. Inc a sub- pressured four computer maga- zines to refuse ads from indepen- dent importers, while Apple Japan allegedly pressured two computer service shops not to repair Macin- toshes purchased through discoun- ters, according to th The FTC searched offices of Apple Japan and Apple pawn in U.S. Japan trade dispute? Canon Sales Co last week and spoke with top offi- cials at both com- panies, Apple and Canon represen tives expressed sur- prise at the investi- gation, denied the allegations and said they are cooperat- ing with the FTC. Canon handles See Japan, Page 8 [L A T Eo ONSSEReVyems Mind your P's and Q's: New checkers due San Francisco — Two leaders in the field of electronic grammar-check- ing in the MS-DOS world — Reference Software and Lifetree Software, both based here — will soon release new Mac versions of their products, | _ Lifetree, publisher of Correct Grammar for the IBM PC, said its | new MacGrammar will be based on a Houghton-Mifflin gran checking engin » product, due this quarter and tentatively priced at $99, provides fully interactive checking of grammar and spelling. Code licensed from Working Software will allow MacGrammar to read all major Mac word processing formats, the company said, Reference, which just released Grammatik IV for MS-DOS, expects to deliver Grammatik Mac on Dec. 1. The $99 proofreading program lets users select among pre-configured style standards or customize by turning individual rules on or off, The initial release will support most Mae word processing formats only through the Rich Text Format (RTF); updates adding direct support for leading formats will be offered later. o CLASS SECOND NEWSPAPER _ Announcing The First Alternative AppleShare File Server There it sits...your Macintosh? Alone, tied to your network — utilized at only a fraction of its capability. . It's your dedicated file server —a painful but neces- sary investment... Now you can liberate that Macintosh and put it back to work as a full purpose computer. Jasmine is pleased to introduce DirectServe,” the industry’s first dedicated AppleShare“-compatible file server. For $1795, ; DirectServe replaces | your Macintosh as an AppleShare — file server. Jasmine Macintosh ¢)795 Macintosh 6 ee $1799 $4669 Plus Ticx $1795, Server Software $000 AppleShare $799 ApplcShare $ 799 Included $1795 £2598 55468 ‘Add jt all up: Jasmine DirectServe delivers Macintosh licx performance, for less than the cost of a Mac Plus. DirectServe is a combination of hard- ware and software that was designed specifically to be a high-performance, low-cost file server. Its Motorola 68010 processor and 1 MB of cache memory (expandable to 8 MB) is dedicated to fast data transfer. By eliminating the need to support a keyboard, mouse, and monitor, DirectServe provides performance comparable to a Macintosh IIcx — at a price that's less than a Mac Plus with AppleShare software! DirectServe will support up to 255 workstations and plugs right into your Local Talk™ or twisted-pair network. Plus, it's 100% AppleShare/AFP 2.0 compati- ble. So it looks and works just like an AppleShare file server. Everything you need is included for $1795. You get the DirectServe file server, plus the Installer and Administrator software. The installation and administration process is easily handled at any Macintosh on the network. And if you need storage for your file server, we'll be happy to introduce you to the Jasmine DirectDrive™ Series, our award- winning line-up of external hard drives. So whether you want to liberate an existing Macintosh, or install your first file server, DirectServe offers a cost-effective alternative to a dedicated 0 remo arma tame eng Macintosh. Why wait? To order, call (800) 347-3228 in the U.S., Jasmine repatered trademarks Apple Comput ns or (415) 282-5053 outside of the U.S., Monday through Friday, 7:30AM to SPM (Pacific Time). MasterCard, Visa -800- 4 iat 228 or American Express accepted. Special Introductory Offer For a limited time’, you can purchase a | DirectServebundledwith ourhighlyreliable(70,000- hour MTBF) DirectDrive 130 or 180 hard drive at 4 special introductory price. DirectServe $1795 with DirectDrive 130 $2499 with DirectDrive180 $2799 DirectServe, like all Jasmine products, carries 430 day money-back guarantee and a two year parts and labor warranty. | MocWEEK 10 October 1989 Applications take center stage at CD-ROM Expo By Elinor Craig and Steve Hannaford Washington — With real end- user applications outnumbering development tools for the first time, the third ann’ 2D-ROM Expo here marked another step for CD-ROM's leisurely progress into the computing mainstream. Apple's adherence to the ISO (International Standards Organiza- tion) 9660/High Sierra format for its CD-ROM drive started to bear fruit, as an increasing number of vendors ported CD-ROMs original- ly created for IBM PCs to the Mac. Among the notable products on the floor were: > Type Gallery PS, an NEC Home Electronics dise containing all 470 fonts in the Adobe type library. The dise will ship by the end of the month for $9,999. The company is also developing a pay- as-you-go scheme that will allow customers to purchase partial access to the collection at lower rates and later buy passwords to unlock addi- tional fonts as needed. The target price for three typeface families will be $399, the company said. The Wood Dale, Ill-based com- pany also introduced collections of images that can be used on either Macs or PCs. The ImageGallery disc contains nearly 3,000 clip art images, while the $399 Photo Gallery disc contains 1,500 scanned black-and-white photos in TIFF format from the Uniphoto Picture Agency's stock collection. NEC also demonstrated the Intersect CDR-35, a $599 portable drive. The battery-powered unit has an average seek time of 1,500 mil- liseconds, the company said. A $99 Mac interface is due in December. >» Authorware Inc. introduced Authorware Professional, a major upgrade of its courseware develop- ment package, The Best Course of Action. The Minneapolis company nounced a joint marketing with 3M to develop and publish CD-ROM technology for commercial and industrial educa- tion and training systems. The pair's first offering, The CD-ROM Solu- tion, bundles Authorware Profes- sional with a tape storage system, an NEC CD-ROM drive, training, technical support, and mastering for one disc, all for $9,995. > Optical Media International of Los Gatos, Calif, introduced Mac- TOPIX CD-ROM Publisher, a $4,995 pre-mastering software package that supports a variety of input devices including 8mm video- tape, 9-track tape, WORM, magne- to-optical dises and digital audio tape (DAT). OMI's MacTOPIX CD- ROM Simulator, priced at $2,995, lets users simulate the CD-ROM format on their hard disk. > Among four CD-ROMs ported to the Mac by Quanta Press of St. Paul, Minn., is The CIA World Factbook ($99) » SilverPlatter Information of Wellesley Hills, Mass., showed sev- eral Mac research databases, includ- ing MEDLINE for biomedical liter- ature, MathSci for current math publications, ERIC for educational research, the Cancer-CD, PsycLit and Peterson's College Database. The products will be updated annu- ally, the company said > Pergamon Compact Solutions of London announced a $99 multimedia version of The Guin- ness Book of Records, complete with color photos, animations and music Mac presents Lewis Carroll San Francisco — The Mac met Alice in Wonderland” last week here in a multimedia presentation designed for theater goers. Hyper- Dodgson, an interactive look at the life of Charles Dodgson, the real name of “Alice in Wonderland” author Lewis Carroll, was designed to accompany “Right Mind,” a production by San francisco-based performance artist George Coates. It was the first effort of the Sci- ence Meets Art Society (SMART), a group of technol- ogists that lends equipment and expertise to local artists. SMART Mind, Barneyscan Corp. and the Cadre Institute in San Jose HyperDodgson will be available later this year for $19.95. George Coates Performance Works is located at 110 Mcallister St, San Francisco, Calif, 94102; (415) 863-8520. 0 members include Apple, Lapis Tech- nologies, Macro- ‘A multimedia presentation on Charles Dodgson, wh.e. Lewis Cor~ roll, was created fo accompany a performance piece called “Right Mind.” It ployed on two Mac SEs in the theater lobby. 10 10 14 16 18 22 23 23 4 yh) 26 28 28 4 32 In this Issue Ss News 36 Mac Manager Don Crabb Budgetory constroints and simple realism offen dictate the choice of computers other than the Mac for specific tasks. — ProductWatch 40 Comparison: Architrion II and ArchiCAD 3.3 are Mac time in Paris: Apple Expo ‘89 displayed how the European market is driving new develop- ments, especially in the felecommunications area. Claris faces uphill battle with its XTND standard Informix beefs up Wingz’s scripting, graphics H-P releases deluxe model of its PaintJet printer 42 MacinTouch * The case of the infected stvink-wrapped disk: An update on the SuperMac cuts cost of true color with ColorCard/24 icon tia ener New tablet choices available for CAD and graphics “ es ; 46 Review: CrystalPrint is low-cost PostScript clone Credit Card DA offers desktop credit card processing : Shy 48 Reviews: THINK C 4.0 has almost-ANSI objects; Strawberry Tree improves its iconic WorkBench Inspiration 2.0 for diagramming and outlining Yarc’s NuSuper card combined with 3-D modeler 54 The Human Interface Dennis Klatzkin 3 ¥ There's help available for the INIT addict, but only Apple can Microtek ships lower-cost gray-scale/color scanner Ee he Godse prion E-Machines updates QuickView software for 221 line — BusinessWatch Xerox DA allows scanning from within DTP programs ParcPlace adds runtime kit to new Smalltalk-80 2.5 Opinion Editorial Apple's acknowledgment of Quantum drive problems i o step in the right direction, but a more active strategy is needed. Letters Mac the Knife Organizational Mac 7) Prices for 1-Mbit DRAM moving down 72 MarketWEEK ‘Macspeaic support much less common than general personal ‘computer support at large sites. 55 Mail Order 57 Ad Showcase Mac meets supercomputer: At the National 61 Ad Index Center for Supercomputer Applications, the Mac is 62 Classified not just a friendly front end — it's a serious pro- ductivity tool for supercomputing scientists. 68 similar, but each has its own strengths. Riding out the storm: When Hurricane Hugo hit Apple's East Coast distribution and service center in Charlotte, N.C, the company was prepared. 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All other brand names or trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respecuve holders. Localization key at Paris expo By Cliff Lehman Paris — Two weeks ago under the cathedral-like ceiling of the sparkling new CNIT building here, Apple Expo “89 revealed the extent to. which Apple views itself as a global company: At the four-day show, considered by Mac users to be the most important computer trade show in Europe, Apple unveiled a modem for the Macintosh Portable that will work in all Western European countries. The modem was developed in Apple Europe's new research and development center here. According to GianCarlo Zanni general director of Apple France, the decision to build up R&D here was based on the French head start in telecommunications, including an ISDN (Integrated Services Di; ital Network) communications scheme for carrying voice, data and images that is operating in parts of France. “There were no_ politics involved,” Zanni said. “The multi- national concept is obsolete for Apple. We are trying to implement a global company in which deci- sions are made on global factors, “not local factors.” Given those telecommunications advances, Apple Europe may pro- vide more than handy peripherals. “Let's dream a little,” Zanni said. “In two years [all of] France will be on ISDN, Add the culture of getting information electronically already established with Minitel (French national videotex network) along with databases of sound and of video and of data — the only limit is the imagination of the users.” Backing sought from other vendors By Jim Forbes Santa Clara, Calif. — Claris Corp.'s attempts to establish an industry-standard software archi- tecture that would simplify the exchange of data among users of different vendors’ programs may face tough sledding. Introduced last week in conjune- tion with MacWrite II 1.1, the new architecture, called XTND, has so far been endorsed by three compa- nies: Claris; DataViz Inc., the Trumbull, Conn., developer of the MacLinkPlus series of translation products; and ON Technology Inc the Cambridge, Mass., start-up Claris aims to International markets now account for 40 percent or more of sales for some U.S. vendors. Prod- uct localization is the key to suc- cess in European markets, industry watchers say. “If you ignore the European market, you're dead,” said Tom Rielly, marketing director for Faral- lon Computing Inc. of Berkele Calif, which markets its sound and networking products in Europe. “This market is also important to us technologically. For instance, ISDN is already ble here so we can try it out before doing it in the United States.” At least 12 newly translated U.S. products were shown here and will ship this month. Quark Inc.’s QuarkXPress, CE Software's QuickMail and Farallon’s Timbuktu, GianCarlo Zann, the Htalion general director of Apple France, said the international modem developed for the Portable in France is ‘evidence of Apple’s intent to become a global company. Apple branches bear global fruit ScreenRecorder and MacRecorder will be available through P- Ingenierie, a Paris-based distribu- tor specializing in the localization of American products for French- speaking markets. P-Ingenierie is the largest of sey- eral French companies competing as distributors and localizers for US. products. Caere Corp. introduced the French version of its OmniPage page recognition software with its partner SoftMart of Saint-Ouen, France. SoftMart, expecting to nearly double its revenues from $13.3 mil- lion in 1988 to $26 million in 1989, will also introduce French versions of Virtual 2.0 from Connectix and A.M.E. from Casady & Greene later this month. New products translated and being distributed by Alpha Systemes of Grenoble, France, include Visual Information Inc.’s Dimensions, SuperCard and SuperPaint from Silicon Beach Soft- ware, and Voice Navigator from Articulate Systems. ISE-CEGOS of Boulogne, France, announced it would be the exclu- sive distributor of Jasmine products in France. Jasmine products join Aldus PageMaker, Free- Hand and Persua- sion as well as Avalon Develop- ment Corp.'s Pho- toMace 1.1, Elec- tronic Arts’ Studio 8 and others in ISE’s catalog of US. products. 5 Na yi XTND file compatibility founded by Lotus 1-2-3 co-devel- oper Mitch Kapor. The XTND tool kit lets develop- ers create translators for their ow formats, ensuring that Claris’ XTND-compatible programs — the new MacWrite and eventually the company’s other applications — can read and write data the formats in question. The kit, which Claris said it will license at ‘no cost to con cial and corpo- rate developers, will also Jet other developers make their own pro- gruuns fully XTND compatible The XTND architecture will require specific translators placed in the Macintosh's System folder to transfer data between applications, said Yogen Dalal, Claris vice presi- dent of development Claris has just started to line up other developers to support XTND and has not enlisted Apple in its Dalal said ND isn't likely to get far with- out endorsement from Apple or Microsoft, said Stewart Alsop, edi- tor of PC. Letter of Redwood City, Calif, “It only becomes valuable if other developers adopt it. This type of a standard drive has been tried before, and it didn't work.” MacWrite II 1.1 includes trans- Jators that allow it to read and write in the formats of 30 DOS and Mac applications. DataViz last week announced a new Version 4,1 of both MacLinkPlus/PC and MacLinkPlus/Translators, which provide six additional translators Claris Corp. is at 5201 Patrick Henry Drive, Santa Clara, Calif. 95052; (408) 957-7000. 3 Modular modem bridges Euro telecom chaos By Carolyn S Paris — Globe-trotting Macin- tosh Portable owners are getting help from Apple in navigating the tangled circuitry of telecommuni- cations in Europe, Apple Europe last month intro- duced a 2,400-bps internal modem for the Mae Portable designed to work in almost all European coun- tries with an external, detachable module specific to each country. Phone systems differ widely across Europe, and modems must be approved by the phone companies in countries where they will be used. The Apple Data Modem Inter- national XP 2400, code-named Asterix, is a generic internal card including software configured for each country. It works with Hayes- compatible communications pro- grams. External modules, called DAAs, contain the circuitry needed to connect to the phone system in each particular country. The XP 2400 modem sells for $600 with one DAA. Additional DAAs are $100 each Error-correction and data-com- pression capabilities via the Micro- com Networking Protocol (MNP), levels 4 and 5 will be available as an option. The XP 2400 modem has received approval from authorities in France, Italy, Sweden, Holland, Luxembourg, Spain and the United Kingdom. Approval is pending in eight other countries, includ- ing Norway and Ger said Ed Colby, head of the Paris- based Apple R&D center that developed the modem. Approval in Belgium is not expected until that country changes policies that make the modem market there a monopoly, Apple Europe said. Colby emphasized that the modem will get and keep phone connec- tions even on “jittery” systems around the world, “The technology that Apple is showing is not new,” said Ken chmer, a principal at Action Consulting in Palo Alto, Calif, and « representative to CCITT, the inter- national telecommunications stan- dards-setting organization. “The portability aspect, through no fault of Apple's, is significantly reduced by the lack of a common interface in Europe. You really need a lot of those little devils (DAAs) with you [to telecommunicate from different countries}, plus you need to carry cabling and adapters.” CCITT is working to streamline telecommunications by making electrical specifications more simi- lar across Europe, he said. Apple eventually will offer the modem and DAAs for other coun- tries, including the United States, Colby said, but details are not yet available. 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TA News What's wrong with Quantum drives — and Apple’s fixes The problem: > Mechanism experiences start-up and seek errors The symptoms: > Systm etn hg kn wih quesn mer pen > Dialog box appears with “Cannot Load Finder” The solution: > Replace PROM on hard disk actuator controller board = > New PROM incest power eh elon tara, st sae ses a an The program: > Repair Extension Program throogh October 1991 for, > Customers who paid for an Quantum From Page 1 Power & Light in Allentown, Pa. “Those drives are built to very high tolerances and are not designed to start up with that torque. They're subjecting it to a lot more wear and stress, and that could shorten the life of the drive Quantum, however, said that increased current will not affect the life of the drive. “It is within Quantum’s specifications for power to the drives,” said Quantum spokeswoman Catherine Hartsog. Although reports of hard drives failures have been mounting for months (see MacWEEK, Sept. 12 and 19), Apple said in mid-September that it had been unaware of the situation. Yet an Apple internal document reveals that the company’s customer relations and customer assurance engineering groups learned of the problem in “mid-summer.” EECRS > Lubricant in actoator arm absorbs moisture and viscosity increases 5 $e wo AF ORR Se PE NY A ey ives rer o Saeies Although user complaints have focused on the SE/30 and IIcx models, the affected drives may also have been used in Mac SE, II and IIx machines as well as in external Apple drives, according to the Apple document. Users whose Quantum drives have failed should contact their dealer for PROM replacement. Users who seek reimbursement for out-of-warranty repairs should call Apple customer relations at (408) 252-2275. 0 Japan From Page 1 about 70 percent of the Mac sales in Japan, according to a Canon Sales spokesman. Canon sells the Macintosh Plus in Japan for about $2,635, while independent importers — whose operations are legal under Japanese law — offer it for about Trouble ree drives. Bigger, faster, drives are our speciality, Heart Data Products are engineered and manufactured to quality ‘assurance specifications far above industry standards. We are dedicated to trouble free performance and back it with an iron dad, two year, trouble free warranty. 20 - 668 MB to 16 ms occess times. Dealers: Call us, you'll like us. ——7 = =— — —- HEART DATA CORPORATION 800-999-8133 9009 independence Avenue, Canoga Park, CA 91304 00Ps said Steve Burbeck, product manager for MacApp, Apple's object-oriented program development framework. With software components, objects con- taining functionality could be plugged into an application. For example, users could extend the function of a word processor by dropping an optional equation editor object into a folder and re-launching the applica- tion, Schmucker said. Apple is also developing concepts for graphical programming environments com- bining HyperCard’s ease of use with the power of MacApp, according to sources. Objects that make up applications could be represented by icons; double-clicking on an icon would allow users to edit the object, similar to the way buttons are created and edited in HyperCard. Before these tools become a reality, howev- er, Apple and its third-party developers will have to overcome several technological hur- dles. Among the key issues, said developers, are establishing standard protocols for finding and linking objects, and creating a uniform object module, which would allow objects to From Page 1 be written in a variety of languages, _ Meanwhile, Apple is making su headway in other areas essential for advantage of an object-oriented enyiron- | ment, according to Mike Farr, product | ager for AppleScript. AppleScript, a universal object-o end-user scripting language under : ment at Apple, is designed to p friendly way for users to get obj and between applications to talk to other, Farr said. AppleScript will define message. in six application categories: word g, spreadsheets, graphies, Presental databases, and animation and video. “So far, the message definitions for y processing, spreadsheets and the stan Apple Events are looking good,” Farr s hope to get a more up-to-date specific to developers by the end of the moni “For the initial release of App! want it to be as compatible with Hj as possible, and some neat things hay done to make that possible.” ‘Apple offi not be introduced with System 7.0 but did not specify an availability < $1,430, according to the Wall Street Journal However, Macs sold by independent importers would lack the KanjiTalk operating system included in Macs built for the Japanese market, said Pam Miracle, corpo- rate relations manager for Apple Pacific. A Macintosh Plus costs about $1,200 at U.S discount stores, Artificially high prices of U.S.-made goods in Japan have been a bone of con- tention between the two countries for years. Recent U.S.-Japanese trade talks that focused on this issue may have spurred the FTC's actions, observers said. However, the decision to inve American company “is a beautiful slipping a knife in the ribs of the the Department of Commerce, zap those Americans who are ak mering on about [high prices].” The FTC has a reputation tiger, experts said. Its investigat to take six months to one year. If the companies are guilty of persistent tions, th could ultimately be Apple put another component in its set of object-oriented development tools last week with the introduction of Macintosh Programmer's Workshop C++. The new software was announced here at OOPSLA "89, the Fourth Annual Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications. A beta version, MPW C++ Version 3.1B1, will be available through the Apple Programmer's and Developer's Association (APDA) later this month for $175. The offi- cial release of MPW C++ 3.1 is slated for early next year, said Tim Swihart, MPW C++ product manager. “The betas are solid and usable, but not completely polished,” said Harvey Aleabes, Apple’s product manager for development environments and languages. “A lot of people just want to get their hands on the software.” According to developers, the main attrac- tions of OOP languages like C++, com- pared with procedural programming, are reduced development times, more reliable applications, easier maintenance of pro- grams and the ability to reuse code. "C++ is tremendously complex and has a substantial learning curve for beginners, but the industry is unquestionably moving toward it,” said Howard Katz of the MacApp Developers Association. Apple officials have said that C++ will be used to write future system software, ‘The new Finder that will be included in System 7.0 is being written in C++, said standard for object-¢ AT&T's C++ Lang according to S} more solid than AT&T's Version 2,” he said. "We and improved perfo Apple has enhanc extensions that take ‘Toolbox and operal the Standard App! ment (SANE) an with Apple's Symbo ging Environment | a \D) In addition, \ Object Pascal func! Since a class library Mae interface is with MacApp, Apple development frame means that devel new software immedial applications. “We w C++ to MacApp | have a mature hart said. “Creati C++ would have d MPW C++ doesn't C++, but uses AT translate C++ sour code, which is then ¢ APDA can be reaches — By Daniel Fa MOcWEEK 10 October 1989 Sybase Jooking to integrate the Mac with Sybase’s ‘on-line high-volume transaction databases. Sybase users contacted said that Mac sup- port adds a much-needed clienUserver archi- tecture to the graphical strengths of the Mac. From Page 1 Client/server topologies use personal comput ers as “client” front ends for mampulating and displaying data, while back-end workstations ‘or minicomputers store and retrieve the data. “The only way we could serve our local customers was with a database based on a clienUserver architecture,” said Steve Paschall, director of the Orient program for US West in Aurora, Colo. Paschall is overseeing the migration of US West's Yellow Pages production system — spread over 14 states and 35 locations — from a mainframe-based system to one on the Mac's publishing capabilitie: Sybase's SQL server running on Hewlett- Packard workstations. “The data must be local so we can turn layout jobs around in 24 hours. The Sybase/Mac solution was the only way to go.” “We would have had to give up our Macs if Sybase hadn't come along,” said David Baron, director of product development at August International in Orange, Calif, Baron said he had hit a wall using Mac-based databases to track large amounts of client data. Sybase’s SQL Server and Open Server run on any computer that supports TCP/IP or DECnet protocols, including Sun, Hewlett- Packard, NeXT, DEC (VMS) and 1BM. SQL Server also supports IBM's OS/2 Presenta- tion Manager, but the OS/2 version of SQL Server will not be compatible with Syhase’s new Mac software until protocol differences among the Mac, OS/2 and TCP/IP are ironed out, according to Ron Arons, product manag- er at Sybase. “There are several companies, including 3Com, Microsoft and ourselves, looking to address that,” he said. He promised a solution by the middle of next year. Both Hyper DB-Library and DB-Library for MPW will ship this month for $195 each. Sybase Inc. is located at 6475 Christie Ave., Emeryville, Calif. 94608; (415) 596- 3500.0 Font analysis time to press its advantage. “The Microsoft deal really validates Royal and makes it clear that Royal will be a standard,” said Jonathan Seybold. president of Seybold Publications Inc. in Malibu, Calif. “But Royal won't appear until next year, so Adobe has to use the inte Yening time to push ATM very aggressively.” Also helping Adobe is its decision to release carly next year the specifications for its proprietary Type 1 font format. It's font democracy,” said Chuck Bigelow, a professor of digital typography at Stanford Uni- versity in Stanford, Calif “It means more diver- sity, variety and special-purpose fonts, and increased competition means lower prices.” Apple and Microsoft believe users will get similar benefits from Royal. Bitstream, Mono- type and many other leading type vendors have announced plans to convert their libraries to the Apple format. Linotype is developing some of the Royal typefaces Apple will ship. Apple's alliance with Microsoft should also benefit users in other ways. Increased com- petition is expected to push down the cost of PostScript laser printers, and Microsoft and Apple are also saying that networked users in mixed platform environments will be able to use the same printer. On the down side, the industry and a user community that has spent five years getting used to Adobe technology as a publishing standard will now have to contend with Royal. Mac users who have a library of Adobe fonts and who then install System 7.0 will not he able to take advantage of the outline-font capabilities of the new system unless they invest in ATM. Warnock said last week that Adobe is committed to having ATM work with System 7.0 as well as with DOS, OS/2 and possibly Windows operating environments. ‘ATM is kind of a wild card,” said James Gable, manager of imaging systems for Apple “It doesn't follow our developer's guidelines and we don't know if it will work with future systems, Adobe, like all other Mac developers, will get seeded with System 7.0 and they can try to make ATM work with it” Users who go the Royal route may also have to worry if it will print on the current generation of PostScript printers. Gable said Apple will write whatever conversion soft- ware is necessary to have the Royal format print on devices using Adobe's PostScript interpreter, including Apple's LaserWriter IINT and LINTX, but he added that he could not guarantee the quality of output on devices that use PostScript-clone interpreters. Gable also said Apple doesn't know whether Adobe's ‘Type 1 fonts will print on the genera- tion of printers and output devices that will use Microsoft's PostScript-clone interpreter, “Apple has more money than it has brains,” said Terry Satterthwaite, executive director of the Professional PostScript Alliance in San Francisco. “I don't think there's a need for Royal fonts, but I don't think we're ever going to stop Royal fonts. What good is it if you get a 10 percent increase in productivity and a 50 percent decrease in compatibility?” a From Page 1 IMSL Mathematical and Statistical Subroutines... Now Available for Macintosh. Sutine Libraries and FORTRAN can provide formi- dable mathematical and statisti- cal capability for your Macintosh. With the resources of the IMSL Libraries at your command, you can achieve faster program devel- opment, greater accuracy, and more robust solutions in your FORTRAN applications programming. IMSL's MATH/LIBRARY? 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IMSE News Informix ships Wingz update Graphics, macros, manuals improved a, Kan. — Informix Soft- ware Inc. last week began shipping Version 1.1 of Wingy, its presenta- tion spreadsheet The upgrade offers expanded custom number formats and enhancements to Wingz’s 3-D graphing function, including con- tour line projections for surface graphs, the company said. In addi- tion, the program's HyperScript macro language offers developers greater flexibility in constructing dialog boxes, fields and controls for custom applications, according to Doug Edwards, Informix’s execu- tive director of brand marketing, Informix also has rewritten the program's documentation and added 2.525-page HyperScript manual. “The upgrade addresses many of the complaints users of (Microsoft) Excel had with Wingz,” said Michael Russer, president of Quadran Mort- gage Consulting Inc. of Santa Bar- bara, Calif. “The ability to put bor- ders on cells using a separate com- mand, the addition of an automatic save feature and the enhancements [_& Fite Tait Go Format sheet Graph script_window —| [RC 101 000 Wing Wings 11 Output Sheets Reid Rain R Ract a2 S1-1+]-l*l']8bd PRS ACID RAIN — as REBT ae wt 3] 1 {ONCENTRATION a f A mre Leng 90° ool 75° west meee psa ta Pree Hy ttt 6 yap st 94 Sas satan pts per ien) By felt: Bee ts Ela NBA SarEp ney 3 fi ny ae [ a |i bien 2 u Py E ; aE OEE From raw data in SYLK format, Wingz 1.1 generated the chart, 3-D surface graph and contour line projection shown above. The initial version was produced on the spot at a Macworld Expo. to HyperScript are all important.” “The new release allows me to generate programs that I couldn't do at all under Wingz 1.0,” said Paul Christensen, a Macintosh con- sultant in Moorestown, N.J., who tested the new release. Wingz 1.1 and on-line help files will be mailed this week at no charge to registered users. Owners can purchase the new documenta- tion for $37. For a limited period Informix will bundle a single-node package of CE Software's QuickMail elec- tronic-mail program with each copy of Wingz. 1.1 Informix Software Inc. is at 16011 College Blvd., Lenexa, Kan. 66219; (913) 599-7100. Powering up your address book By Jim Forbes San Mateo, Calif. — Address Book Plus, a new program due this month from Power Up Software Corp., promises Mac users a new set of tools for managing, searching and printing name and address data. The program offers a pre- designed entry screen for contact information, including three sepa- rate phone number fields and user- definable text fields. Default field values and pop-up “smart lists” that make it possible to fill in a field with just a few keystrokes speed data entry and ensure consistency. Users can assign up to 10 category codes to each entry to create sublists. The Address Book Dialer, a desk accessory that comes with the main application, lets users search and Dialing From: @ Home OWork Osis, Or. Raymond Sogn bay te Cie ‘925 North Gutter Svreet Sone 2 Santa Cure, CA 95006 ‘Sane 160. Retwond City, Ch 94065 edit Address Book Plus files or dial contacts at any time. The program's printing capabili- ties are the key to its appeal, according to beta tester Henry Lausch, president of Central Sys- tems Marketing, a manufacturers’ representative org: Hartford, Conn, “You can print address book pages, lists, cards, labels, envelopes — just about any configuration you want,” he said. “We've been looking for some- thing that will let us maintain and update our customer database and still carry the information with us in a form we're used to,” Lausch said. “I was sold on Address Book Plus when I showed [Power Up] my Day-Timer at [Macworld] Expo in August and it agreed to add a new option so I can print right on ‘Timer paper.” The program can read and write comma- and tab- delimited text files or generate mail- merge files. Address Book Plus will be priced ProeatanDester at $89.95. A spe- Pelersen, Fir. Peter cial $129.95 ver- (ean (ee sion adds a leather Sarees? ven ase binder to hold hard copy. The Address Book Dialer, a desk accessory included with Power. = er Up's Address Book Plus pockoge, lets users search and edit name and oddress files or dial contacts while using other opplications. Dynodex, anoth- name-and- address database and printing utility designed especially to comple- ment the popular Filofax and simi- lar personal organizers, is also due out this month (details in next week's MacWEEK), Power Up Software Corp. is located at 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, Calif. 94403; (415) 345-5900. 5 Henry Norr also contributed to this report. LapLink Mac opens SCSI doors to Portable Accelerator speeds Mac, PC transfers By Jim Forbes Bothell, Wash. — A new version of Traveling Software Inc.'s LapLink Mac communications and file transfer program will give Mac- intosh Portable users direct SCSI access to files on the traveling machine from their desktop Maes. LapLink Mac III also will include a new accelerator that speeds up Mac-to-Mae serial file transfers to 750,000 baud, or 3 Mbytes per minute — more than 12 times faster than previous ver- sions, according to Mark Eppley, founder of Traveling Software. The LapLink Mae Accelerator, a propri- etary controller about the size of a deck of cards, attaches to a spare H-P releases upgraded interface, deluxe version of PaintJet printer By Henry Norr Palo Alto, Calif. — Hewlett- Packard next month will begin shipping the PaintJet XL, a bigger, faster and more expensive version of its 180-dpi color inkjet printer. Along with the new printer, H-P will release the HP Color PrintKit for the Mae, an enhanced interface package that offers Mac users back- ground printing, font scaling and 32-bit color on both the new Paint- Jet XL and the original PaintJet. Designed for shared and high- volume use, the new printer is two to three times faster than the older model, according to H-P. It can print a typical 8.5-by-11-inch page of graphics in 1.5 minutes, the company said. Other new features include: > Support for 11-by-17-inch (B- size) paper. > An automatic sheet feeder that can hold up to 200 sheets of paper or 70 transparencies. > A new presentation printing mode that promises smoother grada- tions and eliminates color banding, connector on the cable and requires no external power, the company said The new version, priced at $189.95, is due by the end of the year. SCSI Disk Link, a new program included in the LapLink package, runs on both the Portable and a desktop Mac. When the machines are connected by a standard SCSI cable, users will be able to access files on the Portable’s internal drive Just as if it were a standard SCSI volume, with transfer speeds up to 14 Mbytes per minute. LapLink also includes communi- cations software, format translators and a universal serial cable for con- loshes to IBM PCs, PS/2s and compatibles. The new version will support Mac-to-DOS transfers at 115,200 baud, or about 1 Mbyte per minute, twice the rate Hewlett-Packard’s new PaintJet XL color inkjet printer is bigger, faster and more expensive than its older sibling, the PaintJet. H-P also announced a new Mac interface for both printers. > A new design that allows = to replace color cartridges one by one as they are exhausted, inst of replacing all colors when one runs dry. Both PaintJet models can output up to 16.8 million colors from @ Mac II or SE/30 and eight colors from older Macs q The new PaintJet XL is expected to ship Nov. 1 ata price of $2,495 — $1,100 more than the PaintJet, which will remain available. The Color PrintKit for Mac users, including a Chooser-selectable QuickDraw driver, a cable and a set of four scalable outline fonts from Compugraphie, will be $125. Users of the original Mac interface kit for the PaintJet will be able to upgrade to the new Color PrintKit, an H-P spokeswoman said, but details have not yet been determined. Additional outline fonts are available at $95 each or $395 for a set of seven. Hewlett-Packard is located at 19310 Pruneridge Ave., Cupertina, Calif, 95014; (800) 752-0900, of the previous release, Eppley said. A new interface for LapLink Mac's MS-DOS component, called COW (Character Oriented Win= dows), resembles IBM's Presenta- tion Manager interface for OS/2, he said. In addition to direct transfers, LapLink Mac III supports remote Mac-to-Mae and Mac-to-PG com= munications via modem, as well as background file transfers over AppleTalk networks. | “There's no other product with | similar capabilities,” said Bob Ohrbach, director of busine development at 47th Street puters in New York. “It could res boost acceptance of the Macinto Portable.” f ‘Traveling Software Ine, is I ed at 18702 North Creek 8088.5 The best color isnieht here ‘ufladk and white. BEST me eLass “INFO —woRtD 4 Macintosh Color Display Systems superac % (InfoWorld (Your £-Machines Radius Color Rasterops Spectrum/s weighting) weighting) 7 49 Display System Colorboard 108+ Series Il | Price $6,195 $6,190 $5,790 $6,095 Performance |mage Definition (200) a) Very Good Very Good Very Good Very Good Color Duplication (200) () Excellent Good Good Excellent Documentation (60) (ee) Satistactory Good Satisfactory Very Good Setup (100) (@)) Very Good Very Good Very Good Very Good Ease of use (125) ()) Good Very Good Satisfactory Very Good Support Workmanship (100) () Very Good Very Good Very Good Very Good Support policies (50) (es) Satisfactory Satisfactory Good Very Good Technical support (50) (3) Good Good Very Good Very Good (125) (a) Good Good Good Very Good 7.3 6.8 6.5 8.0 Value Final scores When InfoWorld eval a ae evaluated 19-inch color displ puters, S el edit uperMac’s Spectrum/8 Series II s Ei. ae ma é “Color duplication i the: pe had to say: a : nip ae black, and white Saree fates - ¢ i B 2 i grays, and lemon yellows are Cee sf color palette, Brilliant, clear colors that e match the Pantone color gui. r ‘ae excellent score in aes ass monitor an ‘ Not only did the Spectrunv8 rank high in e CARR very . ae r pat ee Virtual a pane 3 urs pan & zoom capabilities. So you to works area of your document, zoom in on the fine details, then pan to th up to youneedtofinish, enext area Of course we've Aki, our word for it, Call 408 ays thought the Spectrum/8 was 945-2202, a great deal, port. And once you've read se 800 fora reprint of the eta at paiete comparison for yourself it in black and white, mak color display at your authorized SuperMac dealer e the color display SUPERIMAC HNOLOGY © 1989 Superbiac Technlogy. M All Fala oor SuperMac, Spectrunv8, and Virtual Deskto ‘from InfoWorld. puter, Ine. Iceworld by Ron Cobb tfnfoWorld, fre trademarks of SuperMae Techn June 19,1988, Rep Card ogy. Card printed Be The power to be your best. Macintosh' brought the power ofa computer to everyone. Now the new Macintosh Portable lets you take it everywhere, Like all Macintosh computers, itruns thousands of] ‘powerful business programs that work in the same graphic, intuitive way, But because its a portable, itll run them on the run. Portable doesnt mean light on power. In fact, the Macintosh Portable crunches spreadsheets and draws complex graphics twice as fast as the Macintosh SE, our most popular computer: An optional adaptor lets you show your Macintosh Portable — screen on aTVscreen. Soyou can use your hotel room fora Desktop Media presentation. And with an optional internal modem, you can send or receive information anywhere in the world, As long as youre next to a phone. With up to 2 megabytes of RAM, youll have plenty of —~ | space to run the most sophisticated programs. And with up to 40 megabytes of internal hard disk storage, youll beableto take a lot of them along. In very little space. If the keyboard feels like a real Macintosh keyboard, theres a good reason, It is, Another reflection of our design philosophy: Portability, yes. Compromises, no. © 569 Ape Computer nc Even when theres no power. We don't want you knocking around without a carrying case, so one comes with every Macintosh Portable. Theres room Jor paperwork, extra disks, the battery charger, even an extra battery. We thought of everything. tosh Portable Another thing you wont find in other portables is our Active Matrix display technology. The Macintosh Portable screen ts the only battery powered screen fast enough and sharp enough to display spectacular Macintosh graphics — even animation. You could change the world in 10 hours. Thats how long a battery charge typically lasts in the Macintosh Portable. That’ 2-3 times longer than most other portables. A special Power Management System conserves power by putting the computer into a ‘sleep’ mode whenever you lake a break. It even has a handy little “fuel gauge’ that tells you when its time to start looking for a wall socket. “ihe lslalalel | fe) | Macintosh Fonable | | This polycarbonate shell is the same super-tough \ stuff used in motorcycle helmets. Appropriate je protection for a precious brain. aes ———— The trackball does everything a mouse does. In less space, eee It allows you to control the computer without complex key- me } E be } 3 board commands. You can even switch it to the other side bo ¥Y . | 8 ya xv of the keyboard if you're left-handed. Or if you still prefer ; i i: (= =e > the mouse, just plug it into the back. No other portable can 31 a give you the thoughtful details youll find in the Macintosh Portable. Simply because no other portable is a Macintosh. U The power to be your best.” ‘Portable is here. aid News SuperMac cuts cost of 24-bit color By John Battelle Sunnyvale, Calif True color on the Mac IT line got less expensive last week when SuperMac Technology introduced the ColorCard/24, an $899 NuBus video board that displays up to 16.8 million colors on an Apple or compatible 13-inch monitor. Earlier this year RasterOps Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif, shipped the ColorBoard 264, a INTRODUCING NEW DISKIOCK Unbreakable password protection for the Macintosh t's sad but true. All it takes is a few minutes with your back turned, and an intruder could walk away with your most confidential data. And you'd never even know it! Now the leader in hard disk security announces the ultimate data protection system for your Macintosh. DiskLock works with any SCSI hard disk to provide foolproof password protection for individual files, folders, or your entire hard disk. You can even protect a// three Jevels with different passwords for absolute maximum security. DiskLock $995 24-bit color board (see MacWEEK, July 25). To make the ColorCard more attractive in the face of that competition, SuperMac will take orders on its board for $899 until Noy. 1. After that date the ColorCard/24, slat- ed to ship in mid-November, will be $999. The ColorCard/24 is the first in a series of breakthrough announcements coming from SuperMac, according to Mike McConnell. SuperMae president. “We have been putting enormous resources into the development of VLSI (very large-scale integrated) chips. McConnell said. “We now have new raw materials to make the next generation of dis: play products for the Mac.” He declined to give details on future products. In addition to 24-bit color, the ColorCard supports displays of one-, two- eight-bit color SuperMace Technology is located at 485 Potrero Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif, 94086, (408) 245-2202 four- and 5. DiskLock lets you give each user password access to just the files you | choose (word processing files for your secretary, accounting files for your bookkeeper, etc.). 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MocWEEK 10 October 1989 Hey | Can Print! lets users output stack addresses By Pamela Pfiffner Boston — Users who have created address stacks in HyperCard, SuperCard or Focal Point only to be frustrated when trying t@ print the data will find relief in a new set of sorting and printing tools from R&B Software” Hey I Can Print!, priced at $99, lets users collect data from stacks and print it on form letters, envelopes, labels, cards and anything: else a Mac-compatible printer can process. The package consists of the Correspon- dent stack, containing a set of five XCMDs (external commands), and Seript Reports, a scripting tool for developers. The Correspon= dent stack lets users collect data using up to five levels of selection criteria, including an And/Or option. Extracted address informa- tion can be output in preset formats for Hey | Con Print! lets users extract data by selection cite tia or by search strings and print it in several formats. envelopes; one-, two- or three-column labels; or index and other types of cards. Data can also be merged into five preset form-letter layouts. Address information and letter text ed in any font or size When used with TENpointO Software's Focal Point or Focal Point II, Hey I Can Print! lets users print one letter or envelope ata ti At Farallon Computing in Berkeley, Calif, Tim Fredel, product manager of Timbuktu and Timbuktu Remote, uses Focal Point II to keep track of business contacts. Using an installer utility included with Hey I Can Print!, he added a Correspond menu to Focal Point. Now he can copy an address from his stack to the Correspondent stack for printing, I find it handy to be able to select and print just one person's address,” Fredel said. 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Ke pe + MacCORPORATE and MacWAREHOUSE are trademarks of MicroWAREHOUSE, inc News CAD, graphics users get new input tablet choices | 7 . | Kurta, Summagraphics, Wacom, GTCO compete San Francisco — Tablet | By Elinor Craig | continues to multiply. > The most recent entrant is the Kurta Studio for Aldus Products from Kurta Corp., ased input options for Mac CAD and graphics users a $1,295 package that includes a Kurta graphics tablet and input hardware as well as a copy of CE Software's QuicKeys keyboard- enhancement utility. Pre-programmed macros for Aldus PageMaker, FreeHand and Persuasion can be activated with a click of MocWEEK 10 Octod the cursor or pen. In addition to macros for the three Aldus applications’ basic menu commands, Kurta Studio offers 23 additional function keys that users can program with QuicKeys for fre- quently used command sequences. The hardware includes a cordless pen, a cordless four-button cursor, a corded menu- selection pen and a 12-by-17-inch graphics Users Won't Know Difference. Ehman 45 MB According to a recent article in MacWorld Magazine, “there is very little to distinguish one hard drive from another, other than speed, software, and price.” We agree. In terms of speed, only a very few milli- seconds separate the Jasmine and the Ehman hard disk drives. Both come with excellent back-up and hard drive utility software pro- grams included free. Both come with two-year warrantiesand a 30-day money back guarantee, And since both companies have been around almost since the time Macintosh was first introduced, both enjoy a reputation for manu- facturing high-quality products. That brings us to price. As you can see, the Ehman 45 MB hard ‘Goad onyan Macrtosh i mode SE ores wc xvasaone Liat soRaare nck enka on 20 MB. Al produc names menscined w/e Yacemanks of Per resonctve Neer drive is $200 less than the Jasmine 40 MB. Wacom’s Cordless Digitizer, with a paintbrush-like pres sure-sensitive stylus, helped artist John Derry this image with a pre-release copy of Time Arts’ tablet that connects to the Apple Des! Bus. The tablet offers five scale options ing up to a maximum resolution of 1,000. Kurta Studio is available now. Versions other platforms and applications will announced soon, according to the comp The tablet is covered by a lifetime warrant > Summagraphics Corp. is now shippi the SummaSketch II graphies tablet for | Mac. The product is available in two ¥ sions, both offering a resolution of 1,016 per inch: a 12-by-12-inch model listing $695 and an 18-by-12-inch Professional sion priced at $1,095. Both come with a fo button cursor, a two-button stylus, an ext nal ADB interface and a lifetime warranty includes the 1,2 is available in four size: port for greater transmission speeds, ing to the company. Prices range from for the 12-inch model to $3,195 for the” | 18-by-25-inch version. a Wacom's pressure-sensitive cordless styl mimics the effects of a paintbrush by | line as the user bears down on the tablet’ Macintosh software that supports press sensitive tools is available at this tim according to Wacom spokesman Ronald rett, but the comp: expects major paint” programs to incorporate brush strokes, color gradation and airbrush density by next Ap A standard stylus sells for $80, and a fo button cursor is $150. % > ‘Iwo other high-resolution tablets are available from GTCO Corp. The Macintizer ADB is a 12-by ch tablet offering a reso= lution of 1,280 dpi. The product uses electro- magnetic technology, allowing digitizing through materials as thick as 1 inch, the com= pany said, It includes a stylus with three: HARD DRIVE PRICES That's a difference users may not notice, but SIZE (MB) INTERNAL EXTERNAL | function buttons and an inking tip for free- buyers certainly will hand sketching or a four-button cursor for y 2 $329 539 z, The tablet cursor: inter’ Theres fir sicha dle taeto iy tn fo | ine hee our low Rocky Mountain overhead and a 45 549. 49 GTCO is also offering/an ADB Intertaee business philosophy centeredaroundcustomer + 1 me for its DIGI-PAD large-format 1,000-dpi value and service. And now, for the first time, na abe 7 Mable oe : mle Be sto 17 Bee! ve're offer | inches to 42 by 60 inches. Options incl were offering a 24-hour replacement program 43s $09 3 | backlit and rear-project designs’ end eam in the unlikely event that your Ehman drive 180 $1099 $1199 and crosshairs with up to 16 buttons. Prices should require repair. But ae Bene word on it, MacWorld Magazine called the Ehman drive “a real bargain.” Call us today and see the difference for yourself. 4 Overnight delivery via Federal Express Visa, MasterCard, American Express welcome, Quality Peripherals for Added Value range from $2,659 to $5159. Kurta Corp. is located at 3007 E. Chambers St, Phoenix, Ariz. 85040; (602) 276-5533. Summagraphies is at 60 Silvermine Road, Seymour, Conn, 06483-3907; }) 881-5400, Wacom is located at 115 Century Road, Pr jus, N.J. 07652; (210) 265-4226. ~~ GTCO Corp. is at 7125 Riverwood Drive, Columbia, Md. 21046; (301) 381-6658. 6 <¢ Ehman 1-800-257-1666 Takin care of al now bundled with every hard drive mw Nova Hard Drives External Internal N20 20MB N40 - 40MB $ 520 $ 569 Na. 40MB Neo; - 6OMB | $ 649 $ 919 N80 - 80MB 100i - 100MB $1019 $ 999 os: NI00 - 100MB N1S0i - 150MB $1099 $1399 NSO. - 1SOMB N320i - 320MB $1469 $2699 N650i - 60MB $3430 At Microtech, we make it our business to take care of your business. Our commitment is to offer you not only quality products, but real business solutions. Solutions you can count on. Because the more you demand, the more we deliver, Only top-of-the-line components are used in manufacturing Microtech products to insure product solutions worth raving about. Like our NOVA 80, which Macworld rated “the cream of the crop...the fastest and least expensive external drive...”, With unprecedented reliability, NOVA hard drives can work for any business solution. For security and unlimited storage capacity, the high performance Microtech R45 removable cartridge drive is the perfect solution. Our Tape Backup Systems provide lightning fast, reliable solutions for archiving. And only Microtech drives come with the longest warranties in the industry at no extra cost. Like five years on our external and internal hard drives and two years on our remov- able and tape backups, No one else offers that kind of confidence, No one! 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Takin’ care of your business is our business, too, Call Microtech today MICROTECH INTERNATIONAL, INC 158 Commerce St, East Haven, CT USA 06512 1-800-325-1895 in cr 203-458-6223 ©1909 Mcyouch emauonal, ne AD produc umes end logs ar inden et repsteed undennis of the respective cwnen. The $ yea led warrany iol on act dish dives sold aed debvered ae US. oF Canad Cena raurctionn and exckaocs apply Terns and comin of the S yeu warranry we aaiie upon request. Prices wl ipeciicatons wpe to change waa otce. MasterCard and Visa accepted at no extra charge New DA delivers desktop credit card processing By Henry Norr Framingham, Mass. — Merchants using the Mac for point-of-sale processing can now dear their counters of dedicated credit card terminals, thanks to a new line of software and hardware products that provides bank card authorization and processing directly from the electronic desktop. > E.E.S. Companies’ flagship product is Credit Card DA, a $249 desk accessory that records credit card information and transmits it via standard modem to a bank or process ing center for verification, authorization and deposit. The program can be used with virtu- ally any point-of Hank Szretter, E.E.S. president. It supports both individual and batch processing of transactions via most major bank standards, ile software, according to including EDC (Electronic Data and ETC (Electronic Transfer Captu Other features include password protec- 2apture) tion of management functions, on-screen transaction monitoring, and an audit log that can be searched by card number, ast name and transaction type. > Credit Card Tools offers the same capa- bilities, but as a set of external proce- wan Kodak Company, 1989 At Last, Big Digital Prints That Look Like They Came From A Camera, Not A Computer You've never seen anything like it. Because who else but Kodak could get a printer to create photographic-quality prints and transparencies up to 11” x 11” from a computer in 4 to 6 minutes. Which is why the KODAK XL 7700 Digital Continuous Tone Printer can make such a giant contribution to your digital imaging workstation, It acts like a computer-driven camera. Its image buffer allows for multiple-copy printing. And, with eight pixels/mm and 24-bit color for 16 million color combinations (256 levels per color), the re- sulting thermal dye transfer prints are hard to dis- tinguish from conventional photos. We also pro- duce a full complement of KODAK EKTATHERM. Media—ranging from high-quality electronic print paper and transparency material to black- and-white or color-dye cartridges. So see the computer printer that produces camera-quality images. Call 1800 44KODAK (1 800 445-6325), Ext 110, for additional informa- tion and full specifications, In Canada, call 1800 46KODAK, Dept 345. Electronic still photography from Kodak ‘MocWEEK 10 October 1989 When a credit card number is entered, the E.E.S. DA ‘automatically posts the appropriate logo on screen. dures for ACIUS” 4th Dimension rather than as a DA. Also priced at $249, the ex ternals are designed for developers to incor- porate into point-of-sale and accounting applications. ‘The 4D externals, which take advantage of the new features of Version 2.0 of 4D, are based on a library of Paseal routines that can also be integrated with other programs. This week E.E.S. will release a version for Blyth Software's Omnis 5. The company may add versions for Microsoft Excel, HyperCard and Fox Software's FoxBASE+/Mae if demand warrants, Szretter said. > E.E.S” Multi-Port Unit is a $795 device that incorporates a credit card stripe reader, a 300/1,200-bps modem, four serial ports and a parallel port, all in one modem-sized unit that attaches to the Mac serial port. The product includes built-in support for bar code rea ers, ticket printers and cash drawers. A 2,400- bps modem is available as an option and programmer, said he got the idea for his system while working for three years as manager of a Computer Factory store Paul Meany, a software developer and con- sultant at Astral Inc. of Marlboro, Mass., said he installed the Credit Card DA and Multi-Port Unit at Natural Sound, a high-end audio equipment store in Framingham, Mass. The system has proved so efficient and eco- nomical, according to Meany, that the store is now planning to shift all its point-of-sale pro cessing to the Macintosh. “They used to use a VAN/VMS system,” he said, “but that's now up for sale.” E.E.S, Companies is located at 2 Vernon St, Suite 404, Framingham, Mass. 01701; (508) 653-6911 DaynaTalk price cut, bundles announced Salt Lake City — Dayna Communications last week announced new pricing and a new bundling scheme for its DaynaTalk line of network acceleration products. Single units of DaynaTulk for the Mae, which consists of a small hardware box between the Mac and the network, have been reduced $50 from $189 to $139. A five-pack of DaynaTalk units will be available for $549, while a 10-pack will retail for $999. 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The reason is because we But-the whole PC LASER a ets cantatas Capron Th id ae ed ago a epi nah ich Cran Tea LASER WP aden co Carer RS i ree ale tbe Sie Lae Ser i eto de | a ae News Strawberry updates WorkBench 3.0 can now plot real-time data By Elinor Craig Sunnyvale, Calif: — Strawberry Tree Inc. is shipping Version 3.0 of WorkBench, its object oriented, icon-based programming environment for the factory floor The $995 software $50 as an upgrade available for controls and ty of digital and analog input and output signals. including temperature, pressure and flow readi measures a s. It now supports the IEEE (I of Electrical & Electronic Engineers) 488 inter face and plots real-time data as graphs and wave forms directly from disk. Previously, data had to be viewed with another program With the playback features, you can take an experiment from last week and analyze the real-time data differently,” said Ted Baker research scientist at Union Carbide in Bound Brook, N.J. “What it does, it does well. Users can create custom applica tions for process control or data by linking icon acquisition sin ere will your electronic mail sy Some people see electronic mail as a simple desktop utility for shooting messages down the hall. Period. Microsoft, however, sees it as a strategic business investment that should dramatically boost communica- Customers inside the 50 United Sta ‘= Mile Edit Window Log Special Color Demonstration With Work- Bench 3.0, creating this program to con- trol, chart ond log o test for cirplane wing congles against temperature, pressure ond wind speed took less than a doy, according to Strawberry Tree, developer of the iconic pockage. WorkBench r programming her than through a 1 Routines can be written in any compiled lan guage; newly defined functions can and attach nguage be called after creat Strawberry Tree is also shipping two versions of its high-density Digital 1/O board: a $645 model with 160 channels and a $345 model with 40 channels. Digital 1/O measures and controls discrete on/off events or pulses, When used with WorkBench 3.0 and a member of the Macintosh II family, each board can replace sev eral programmable logic con- trollers (PLCs), the company said. Both Digital I/O boards feature 24 built-in counter/tim ing and controlling frequency out- put, pulse counting and timing. Each 16-bit counter/timer operates at up to 2 MHz. A WatchDog Timer can be set up to automatical ly restart the Mae or other devices rs for measur- if the compute Strawberry Tree Inc. is located at 160 S. Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086; (408) 736-8800. MacWEEK 10 October 1989 Portable TrackPad replaces ball Seymour, Conn. — The wraps were barely off the Mac Portable when Summagraphics announced the TrackPad, an input device that may appeal to users uncomfortable with the traveling Mac’s trackball An Apple Desktop Bus module designed to fit into the Portable’s keyboard in place of the trackball, the TrackPad is a pressure-sensitive pad that lets the user control the cursor and make selections with a fingertip Because it measures only 3 by 2.5 inches, the pad has limited graphics capabilities, but it offers absolute positioning and accurate pixel-by-pixel control, according to Gary Trudeau, product manager Our product is not a graphies tablet and not a mouse — it is somewhere in between,” he said. The TrackPad, due in December, will have a list price of less than $200, Trudeau said Summagraphics Corp. is at 60 Silvermine Road, Seymour, Conn 08483-3907; (203) 881-5400. o Igor gets layout enhancements Lake Oswego, Ore. — Wave- Metrics last month shipped an updated version of Igor, adding expanded page-layout capabilities to the graphing and data analysis tool for scientists and engineers. With Version 1.1, graphs and tables can now be spruced up by adding hairline rules and text in any installed System font. Text boxes, graphs and pictures can be mixed within a layout. Changes in the data analysis are reflected in a page layout automatically. Wave Metrics also said it has tweaked the analysis algorithms for increased speed. In addition, Version 1.1 has hooks built in to support external programs written in Syman- tec’s THINK C and Apple’s Macin- tosh Programmer's Workshop C. An example C program sent with the upgrade loads a data file from Com- puter Associates’ CA-Cricket Graph into Igor The upgrade is free to registered users. Igor sells for $195. WaveMetrics can be reached at PO. Box 2088, Lake Oswego, Ore 97035; (503) 635-8849. tion and productivity five minutes after installing it. And five years after running it. Introducing Microsoft® Mail version 2.0—the only company-wide electronic mail system built so you wont outgrow it. Now you can instantly send messages and files Mac” to Mac, Mac to PC, Mac to , call (800) 5411261, Dept. J86. In Canada, call (416) 673-7638. Outside the LS. and Canada, call (206) 882-8661 © Copyright 1989 Microsoft Corporation. Alll rights reserved. Microsoft and the Mi MocWEEK 10 October 1989 News Yarc card accelerates 3-D imaging — Microtek scanner handles color gray scale for less than $2,700 uSuper gets Ist commercial app By Ben Templin La Puente, Calif. — Dimensions Presenter, the 3-D imaging and animation software from Visual Information Development Inc VIDI mercial application to work on Yare Systems Corp.'s NuSuper NuBus scessor card. has become the first com- Previously, only development packages were available for the high-speed RISC (reduced instruc tion set computing) coprocessor The Dimensions/NuSuper bundle will be marketed by VIDI under the name Presenter RP NuSuper features up to 6 Mbytes of RAM, divided between 2 Mbytes of instruction RAM and up to 4 Mbytes of data RAM. An AM29000 32-bit RISC CPU oper: ting at 25 MHz and an AM29027 recision floating-point uake the card more than s faster than a standard Mac Ul rding to Yare. NuSuper rur the background under MultiFinder and up to four stem be five years down the road? VAXS potentially Mac to whatever. And, for the first time ever, you can send and receive mail directly from boards can operate simultaneously Dimensions Pre- senter, aimed at the CAD and pre- ‘ion markets. ates 3-D color images from a vari cr ety of design pro- grams, including Claris’ MacDraw and Schlumberg- er’s MacBravo! VIDI's ray-tracing module is included in the package. The company said it hopes the Yare high-speed copro- cessor will accel- erate sales of its computation-intensive application “Photo-realistic images can take anywhere from five hours to two days, so increases in speed are the key,” said Nick Pavlovic, president of VIDI Other commercial packages operating with the NuSuper board may soon be available for optical character recognition and publish ing applies according to Trevor Marshall, president of Yare ions Yarc Systems Corp.’s NuSuper RISC-bosed coprocessor accelerates processing of complex 3-D graphics created with Visual Informa tion’s Dimensions Presenter imaging ond animation software. Presenter RP. including board and software, is available im two configurations: with 2 Mbytes of data RAM for $10,495 and with 4 Mbytes of data RAM for $12,195 VIDI is located at 16309 Dou- blegrove St., La Puente, Calif 91744; (815) 918-8534. Yare Sys- tems Corp. is located at 5655 Lin- dero Canyon Road, Suite 721, Westlake Village, Calif. 91362 S18) 589-4388 Macintosh’ programs like Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word—it’s never been this convenient. Call (800) 541-1261, Dept. J86 for an eye-opening Mail 2.0 Handbook or see your dealer for a demo. By Pomela Pfiffner Torrance, Calif Bridging the gap between gray-scale and color scanning, Microtek Lab Ine. last week began shipping a scanner that does both for less than $2,700 Microtek is positioning the scan- ner as an economical all-in-one package for users who do not yet have color but who foresee the ing to cater to the need for color s We're trying niche of people who are caught in the crossover,” said John Kozlowski director of marketing at Microtek The MSF-300Z Color/Gray ner, offering a maximum image area of 8.5 by 14 inches, provides 300-dpi scanning in monochrome eight-bit gray-scale and 24-bit color modes. In one-bit mode the scanner can simulate 64 shades of gray with halftone patterns. [mages can be scaled from 25 percent to 400 percent In addition to a desk accessory can- that supports color and mono- chrome scanning, Microtek is bundling three image-editing app