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24 October 1989 Vol. 3 No. 38 W ° Reviews of Apple’s new machines — the Mac Portable and Ici By Jim Forbes Cupertino, Calif. — Apple is reportedly re-evaluating its w: ranty policies and may offer U.S buyers a one-year warranty on new Macs and peripherals starting early next year, according to company executives and dealers. “To be competitive, we've found a personal computer maker needs to offer a one-year warranty,” said Bill Coldrick, Apple USA senior vice president of sales, last week. “We recognize our warranty poli- cies have become an issue with users and retailers, and we will deal with the issue early this fiscal year.” Apple rethinking U.S. warranty; one-year policy in the offing According to company spokes- man John Cook, however, “No decisions have been made regard- ing the warranty program. Although Apple already offers a one-year warranty in international markets, Macs and Apple peripher- als sold in the United States are currently covered by warranties of 90 days. Some resellers offer their own extended warranties, but the only way for most buyers to get addi- tional protection is to purchase Apple's AppleCare service con- tract. Typical suggested retail prices for a one-year AppleCare See Warranty, Page 9 Ungermann-Bass, 3Com add links By John Battelle Santa Clara, Calif. — Two major connectivity companies have announced plans to bring the Mac- intosh aboard as an equal partner in their enterprisewide networking solutions. 3Com Corp. and Ungermann- Bass, both based here, have announced networking schemes that integrate the Macintosh into Network giants move to Mac their existing local- and wide-area networks and topologies. » 3Com: “We plan to treat the Mac as a full and equal partner in our networks,” said Andy Gottlieb, Macintosh product manager at 3Com. The company next week will introduce 3+Open for Macin- tosh, a direct link to the OS/2- based LAN Manager networking scheme that 3Com developed with Microsoft 34+Open will provide a concen- trated set of network services, including print, file, electronic See Networking, Page 9 By Elinor Craig Ann Arbor, Mich. — Responding to user demands for network configu- rations, lower prices and improved perfor- mance, NeXT introduced a net- work server configuration and a diskless workstation that includes an “accelerator drive” to speed operations. The low-cost workstation, called the Network User System, lacks the internal 256-Mbyte optical dise drive of the standard NeXT com- puter but includes 8 Mbytes of RAM along with the accelerator NeXT unveils ‘diskless’ workstation, server and 40MB accelerator drive drive. The drive, a 40-Mbyte Quantum hard disk with an aver- age access time of 19 milliseconds, is not used for storing applications and data but for swapping applica- tion code in and out of RAM “The accelerator drive works with the virtual memory tech gy in Mach (the core of the N machines’ Unix operating system), said Curtis Sasaki, hardware prod- uct manager at NeXT. “When | applications exceed available RAM, Mach swaps code to the local hard disk rather than to the slower opti- cal dise or to a server machine at network speed.” NeXT users familiar with the See NeXT, Page8 | _ from big quake = Silicon Valley rolls with punches The Apple campus in Cupertino, 20 miles from the quake's epicen- ter, sustained mostly minor damage in the Oct. 17 temblor, company officials said (see story, this page). Mac firms recover By MacWEEK Staff San Francisco — San Francisco Bay area computer companies con- tinue to assess structural damage sustained in last week's 7.0 earthquake, the second biggest quake to strike Northern California this century Hewlett-Packard reported that one of its facilities in Palo Alto was declared structurally unsound. Quake strikes heart of Mac world ‘2 MacUser employees The San Francisco Chronide put out ight pages of quake coverage using ‘Macs after « power outoge put its main computers out of commission. seme, San Francisco dailies turn to Macintosh in crisis By Connie Guglielmo and Pamela Pliffner San Francisco — In the after- math of the major earthquake that struck Northern California last week, two San Francisco daily newspapers turned to a handful of Macintoshes to deliver the news. After the 7.0 quake rocked the See Dailies, Page 8 4] Apple's 50 Bay area buildings hod be declared safe by engineers belore employees could return. “Shards of glass the size of shoe box lids were propelled 4-inches deep into dry wall,” said H-P spokeswoman Marlene Somsak Structural damage to H-P facili- ties around the Bay area is expect- ed to total “into the millions of dol- lars,” according to the company. Hard disk manufacturer Seagate Technologies did See Quake, Page 8 Future headquarters of one of the nation’s biggest Mocintosh users, ‘American President Companies, sus- Apple escapes Shaky Tuesday with little serious damage By Daniel Farber Cupertino, Calif: — Although its Cuper- tino campus is only about 20 miles from epicenter of last week's earthquake, Apple survived with mostly minor damage and without disruption of vital business operations See Apple, Page 8 Two MacUser editors among quake casualties San Francisco — Among the fatalities of last week's earthquake were two editors of MacUser magazin EEK’s sister publication. John J. Anderson, 33, of Boulder Creek, Calif,, and Derek Van Alstyne Foster City, Calif, had just left a meeting at the ‘isco offices of MacroMind when their car was crushed by a falling building, “John was one of our most talented and respected editors,” said Paul Somerson, MacUser’s editor in chief, “They both will be sorely missed.” 0 MacWEEK moves off-site for post-quake issue Foster City, Calif, — This issue of MacW porar was produced at tem- facilities here after last week's earthquake left the newspaper's San Francisco offices without power for two days. Staff members carried equipment down 15 flights of stairs and assembled a makeshift network at offices adjacent to Applied Graphics Technology Inc., which supplied Linotronie output. Perry Printing of Baraboo, Wis., rescheduled Mac- WEEK's print run and the issue was mailed less than a day late. — CELIAI SIS: SECOND NEWSPAPER _ Announcing The First Alternative AppleShare File Server Meg it sits... your Macintosh? 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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 LocalTalk” 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. Special Introductory Offer For a limited time’, you can purchase a DirectServebundled with ourhighlyreliable(70,000- hour MTBF) DirectDrive 130 or 180 hard drive at a special introductory price. DirectServe $1795 with DirectDrive130 $2499 with DirectDrive180_ $2799 DirectServe, like all Jasmine products, carries 430 day money-back guarantee and a two year parts and labor warranty, So whether you want to liberate an existing Macintosh, or install your first 61900 moins Iecteciowes oe, 0 oa ; fend : ; ; 418) 248-7989 DirciScye and DietDrie ae file server, DirectServe offers a cost-effective alternative to a dedicated Q smn ‘pura foe ng Macintosh. Why wait? To order, call (800) 347-3228 in the U.S., ASsiT ) 1 I } e replied intemal inp Cote or (415) 282-5053 outside of the U.S., Monday through Friday, 7:30AM to 5PM (Pacific Time). MasterCard, Visa +8 () 4 or American Express accepted. Fai iv MocWEEK 24 October 1989 | Version 2.0 of 4D, | posted in the company’s on-line InterFACE, « new color onimation program from Bright Stor Technology, lets Mac users create cnimeted, tolking octors with up to 16 different fo The program ind Inter FACE images in 8-bit color, gray scale By Connie Guglielmo Bellevue, Wash. — Bright Star Technology is expected to intro- duce next month a new animation program that brings colorful, animated characters to life on the Macintosh. InterFACE, short for Interactive Facial Animation Construction Environment, builds on the capa- bilities of Bright Star's Hyper- Animator, a program that lets Mac- intosh users create lip-synched talking actors, or “agents,” using digitized sound But unlike the monochrome HyperAnimator, interFACE sup- ports eight-bit color and gray-scale images. Characters can be created using the program’s color paint Kawasaki By Henry Norr Cupertino, Calif, — Guy Kawa- saki, the well-known former Apple executive who has guided database vendor ACIUS since its founding in 1987, last week resigned as pres- ident of the company. Kawasaki will leave ACIUS, which markets 4th Dimension in the United States, in December. Maryl Delbourg-Delphis, founder and chairwoman of ACI, the French company that developed 4th Dimension and markets it internationally, will take oyer as interim chief executive of ACIUS. Kawasaki made the announce- ment, which came just two months after the long-delayed release of in a message support forum on CompuServe Having achieved his goal of making 4D a success, he said, he faced a choice between “hanging around” improved utility for synchronizing and compressing digital sound. Animated actors come to life “Sayonara, ACIUS’ ‘expressions and 120 images per actor. tools or scanned in and edited. The $499.95 program also contains a collection of facial-feature clip art — eyes, noses, mouths and other facial features that can be cut and pasted. While HyperAnimator lets users create agents with a total of 16 dif- ferent facial expressions, inter- FACE supports 120 images per agent, which results in agents with a more-realistic appearance. The program also allows any number of agents of any size on screen at the same time. It offers an improved utility for sychronizing and com- pressing digitized sound as well In addition, the company is offering a $500 drive installer to developers that allows them to dis- tribute interFACE-generated agents. Bright Star Technology is located at 1003 111th Ave. N.E., Bellevue, Wash. 98004, (206) 451-3697. 0 challenge Both Kawasaki and Delbourg Delphis described his resignation as “very amicable Kawasckl, one of Apple’s original evangelists, soid he left ACIUS fo find « new challenge, 13 13 16 16 20 22 26 26 70 28 An honest assessment: According fo Mac developers, the Macintosh Consultants Network is one tough audience. FromeMaker puts technical publishing on the Mac ‘Mac makes the U.S. Senate approved list EDUCOM conference focuses on morketing Calera readies TopScan for text/graphics recognition ParaFonts lets users customize Type } PS fonts MocPROFFS opens Mac interface to PROFS users HyperMedia posts MessageCenter stackware 24-bit QuickShot cimed at screen-capture market New DEST makes comeback with PC Scan 3000 New Media Steve Rosenthal The trick to making simple video without spending megabucks: Opinion Editorials ‘Apple's newest promotion isn't perfect in every way, but it may induce new buyers to check out the Macintosh. With the departure of ACIUS President Guy Kawasaki, Sibcon Volley will be much less entertaining. Letters Mac the Knife Organizational Mac Charting a desktop course: Yochting newspaper publisher Soundings navigates the electronic pub- lishing shoals with the Mac of the helm. 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MocWELK is «demas of Coast Assis, UP 32 44 50 67 67 68 Mac Manager Don Crobb | When it comes time fo upgrade or buy new software, the path of least resistance may not be the night one. ProductWatch Trends: There are now many security products available for Mac users, but some systems are better suited than others for certain sites. Comparisons: Camouflage, Sentinel, DiskLock and FileGuard — the four most reliable products MaclnTouch More inexpensive woys fo beet up your Macs memory with PHMUs, visual memory and accelerators Review: Mac Portable uses innovative technologies Review: Mac Ilci provides platform for the ‘90s Help Desk Dovid Ramsey The whys ond hows of memory caching on the Mac BusinessWatch Free Trial Run: Apple's “Free Trial Run” holiday promotion may be a headache for dealers. Apple takes action to appease authorized deolers MarketWEEK A survey of MocWEEK subscribers finds 70 percent use Macs both ot home ond of work. Mail Order Ad Showcase Ad Index Classified Career Opportunities (oemol), Al ders ‘gpa ond Mocmiosh 8 roderets News MCN conference gains momentum Large vendors pay heed to small group By John Battelle Southbury, Conn. — How can a small group of 90 opinionated Macintosh consultants attract vendors such as Microsoft, TOPS and Oracle to a three-day confer ence, with only the promise of a no-holds-barred critique of those companies’ products and services? That was the question on the minds of many first-time attendees of the Macintosh Consultants Net- work's third semiai al confer nd’s fall ence, held amid New E colors here two weeks a Altending vendors had a ready answer. “The Macintosh Consul tants Networ back from people who depend on our products for their livelihood,” gives us timely feed. Tarrer, vice president of Dove Computer Corp. in n, N.C {CN had its genesis back in 1957 in a loose affiliation of Omnis database developers. Blyth Software, the Foster City, Calif.- as a simple desktop utility for shooting messages down the hall. Period. strategic business investment that should dramatically boost communica- Members of the Macintosh Consultants Network tlk shop dering @ break ot the third semiannu- al conference held in Southbory, Conn. The conference focused on the needs of large networks. based publisher of Omnis, had a large presence at the MCN confer- enthusiastic group of Omnis 5 developers, “We ha lot of [Microsoft] Ex y desktop publishis said, “That is where the majority of our growth is coming from. I would ence. The company announced a new subsidiary, Blyth and Associ- ates, which promises to expand the business of many of its Omnis developers (see related story. Page 67) But Jim Sheldon-Dean, execu- tive director of MCN, emphasized that MCN is much more than an like to see more database develop ers {from different platforms} come on board. Silicon Beach, National Semi- conductor, CE Software, Casady & Greene, Dayna Communications and Symantec were among the 25 companies pitching their wares to MCN attendees. The tone of the conference's ses- sions at times sounded like a board of review, especially for those will- ing to undergo the hour-long “ven- dor spotlights. What I like about this forum is that [MCN members} won't take any marketing bullshit,” said one attending vendor “They want to implement our products effectively into the sites of their corporate clients, and they know what they need The conference focused on Mac- intosh solutions for large net- worked corporate sites. One panel, “LAN solutions on the Macintosh,” discussed concerns about the integrity of multi-user databases. The issue of read after write, an operation in which a database veri- fies a record's integrity once writ- ten, received the most attention. Other issues included the rela- live speed of Ethernet vs LocalTalk and LocalTalk accel tors, as well as the broadc serial numbers over the for purposes of stopping software piracy The Macintosh Consultants Network can be reached at RO. Box 96, Bellevue, Wash. 98009 (206) 453-2729. Some people see electronic mail Microsoft, however, sees it as a will your electronic 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 Customers inside the 50 United States, call (800) 5111261, Dept. }86. In Canada, call (416) 673-7638, Outside the US. and Canada, call (206) 882-8661. © Copyright 1989 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft and the Micrusitt MocWEEK 24 October 1967 Ether2 breaks $400 barrier Boulder, Compatible Systems last week introduced Ether2, the first Ethernet card that breaks the $400 retail price barrier The er2 card works with any Mae II and will ship by the end of the year. [t will include connectors for both thick and thin Ethemet and carry a one-year warranty, Compati- ble will ship its M tic software with eae new cards will support AppleTalk Phase 2, according to the company Analysts and users said that they expected even further price reduc tions and that for many new instal- lations, Ethernet has become a de facto standard. “We are already recommending Ethernet for almost all of our installati aid Joey Gurango, consultant with Match L Sys- tems in Bellevue, Wash. “Compati- ble’s pricing serves notice to other Ethernet yendors that they have to compete at a lower price point” Compatible Systems can be reached at P.O. Drawer 17: 5 Boulder, Colo. 80308; (303) 444- 9532. il MocWEEK 24 October 1989 ‘FrameMaker may fill Mac DTP gap Technical publishing may soon be reality By Corelyn Said San Jose, Calif, — Technical publishing, a significant gap in the Mac’s desktop publishing product | lineup, may be filled sometime next year by FrameMaker, Frame Technology Corp.'s workstation publishing program. A Macintosh version of FrameMaker is under development, according to sources testing an alpha prototype People who want to do technical publishing on the Mac platform haven't had a satisfactory product said Craig Cline, associate editor of the Seybold Report on Desktop Pub lishing of Malibu, Calif Maker has lots of features conducive to technical documentation It will do larger documents, document processing as opposed to page layout,” said one tester. Although Frame declined to comment on a possible Mac ver sion, Rick Davis, director of prod: The Mac has the power to support uct market ng at Frame, said, workstation publishing.” noting S Tile Cai Format Special View Page Grephics Debug een ee (ieaiws {Canin | Matte | Fenced The Macintosh version of FrameMaker, o technicel publishing product thet may debut next year, indudes « powerful equation generator, according to testers of « prototype version. that he has a Mac Hex with a 20- inch monitor on his desk We have versions on Sun, Apol- lo and NeXT platforms,” Davis aid. “When you look at worksta- tions of those caliber and the Mac, the differences in performance and capability start to blur” The NeXT version of Frame- Maker shipped last week at an introductory price of $999. In keeping with Frame’s corporate strategy, a Mac version of Maker would be compatible with versions on all available platforms. Like its counterpart on other News ees S| platforms, the Mac version of FrameMaker combines word pro- cessing. page-layout, graphics and book-building tools, and adds sup port for 32-bit color, according to alpha testers It's not a totally elegant pro gram, but it has the potential to get there trying hard to make the interface Mac-like, he said. “Overall, I'm in love with it. The number of things said one tester, Frame is that it can do just surpasses every- thing else out there > Word processing features include a spell checker, automatic hyphenation and justification, auto- matic numbering, tab formatting, and search and replace > Graphics features include a full set of object-oriented drawing tools and an equi > Page include iltiple and mixed-width columns, multiple master pages, the ability to tie together text and graphics frames, advanced typo. graphic features, and various page sizes and orientations. > Book-building features include automatic pagination; generation of tables of contents, inde and lists, and running headers and footers. However, according to Clin Xerox Ventura Publisher coms on the Mae platform, it would directly competitive with FrameMaker for the Mac” Still Light 3.0 goes QuickDraw Torrance, Calif’ — Availability of almost 1,000 fonts and support for 32-bit QuickDraw highlight Ver- sion 3.0 of American Liquid Light's Still Light digital film recorder. We have the largest font library lable (on film recorders] by a shot, er, director of sales and mar keting for American Liquid Light Still Light 3.0, which shipped in late August, supports the library of more than $50 PostScript-quality outline fonts from Bitstream of Cam- bridge, Mass., according to Miner It also supports the 115 font families available for Mountain View, Calif based Adobe's Adobe ‘Type Manager (ATM), which shipped last week said Lincoln Forbes Stull Light generates 35mm slides) instant prints, full-size trans parencies, negatives and 33mm motion picture film from PICT PICT2, EPS (Encapsulated Post Script), TIFF or Scrapbook files. At $3,995, the slide maker is con- siderably less expensive than com- peting models, said the company American Liquid Light Ine. is at | 2341 W. 205th St, Torrance, Calif 90501; (213) 618-0274 stem be five years down the road? logo are registered trademarks and Making tt all make sense is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh and Mac are registered trademarks of Apple C VAX; potentially Mac to whatever. And, for the first time ever, you can send and receive mail directly from Macintosh’ programs like Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word—it’s never been ¢his convenient. Call (800) 541-1261, Dept. J86 for an eye-opening Mail 2.0 Handbook or see your dealer for a demo. Either that, or get a less sophisticated mail system. And risk buyer’s remorse. Making it all make sense ter, Inc. VAX is a registered trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation. News Mac gets Senate stamp of approval Grass-roots effort makes it a standard By Carolyn Soid Washington — The Mac has been a scarce commodity in the Senate, but a grass-roots movement among its adherents may turn that around. In response to a letter signed by 10 senators, the te Rules Com- mittee last month agreed to put the Mac on its approved list of stan- dard equipment for Senate offices “It's a classic example of people sneaking in Macs through the back door, others getting intrigued and finally the administrative structure agreeing,” said Dave Garman, administrative director for Sen. Frank Murkowski of Alaska. Until now, Senate users who wanted to buy Macs have had to apply to the Rules Committee for special permission. Pioneering Mac users have been responsible for their own set-up, training and maintenance, unlike users of com- puters on the Senate’s approved list, who get full support from the Senate Computing Center. “Being on the list of supported equipment makes all the difference in the world,” said Carl Beaudry, staff assistant to Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota. “No go that far out on a limb.” wants to EDUCOM meet highlights By Elinor Crei Ann Arbor, Mich. — Networking dominated the 25th conference of EDUCOM, the educational com- puting consortium held at the Uni- versity of Michigan here last week. Among the highlights at the con- ference were NeXT’s announce- ment of a lower-cost network sys- lem (see story, Page 1), and InfoNet, a complex multivendor ler network that linked con- ference attendees, EDUCOM offi- cials 3 versity employees par- ticipating in the event. IBM PS/2s Kenneth King, president of EDUCOM, welcomed the more than 3,200 attendees to the conference held at the University of Michigan, Despite hurdles, about 170 Macs have been installed in the Senate since last November when the Rules Committee started approving them on an ad hoc basis, according to Falcon Microsystems of Land- over, Md., the principal Apple reseller for the federal market The offices of Sen. Murkowski and Sen. Daschle have led the Mac parade. Both are all-Mac installa- tions, with about 35 Maes each in Washington and several more in state offices. Informal networking has con- tributed to the Mac’s quick accep- tance. “The response has been and Mac IIcxes sitting side by side in hotel lobbies were linked over miles of fiber-optic and Ethernet cabling with other terminals in uni- versity halls. The network offered electronic mail, up-to-date infor- mation on conference eyents and tips on local restaurants “We are looking at how technolo- gy can support higher education's goals,” said Doug Van Houweling, vice provost of the tion tech- nology division at the University of Michigan. “Especially,” he added, “how to support the network infra- structure and fo in-crease infor- mation access.” One of the more controver- subjects discussed dur- ing the four-day event was oper- sial ating systems and standards. Educators were ambivalent on the question of where the Unix operating sys tem fits in. I put my bets with Unix,” said Van Hou- weling. “We've been discour- Sis SUMS 08 Corl Beaudry, staff assistant in the all-Mac office of Sen, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, said he ‘thinks Senate demand for Macs will intensify now that they are on the approved list. overwhelming,” said Beaudry “People who come by and see our Macs don’t want to use anything else. I would look for a lot more [Senate] offices to be putting in Macs over the next year.” Inspired by their colleagues’ suc- cess with the Mac, the office of Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts recently ordered $100,000 worth of Mae equipment and eventually may order up to three times that much, according to Falcon. “In a dynamic, quick-moving environment where ideas carry the day, the Mac is not a tool, it's a weapon,” Garman said. 0 networking aged with Apple. There is a lack of clear effort in A/UX and net- work protocols.” Other attendees, however, said they consider the Unix world too fragmented to be a realistic player in the 1990 network arena. “As other vendors, such as Apple and Microsoft, offer ope tems having the system tures offered by Unix, the privi- leged place of Unix in higher-edu- cation hearts and minds may well erode further,” said Ronald Weiss- man, assistant vice president for academic computing at Brown Uni- versity in Providence, R.L ‘eynote speaker John Akers, 20 of IBM, emphasized another kind of networking, focusing on the importance of partnerships between people in education and business to battle the “crisis” in education NeXT CEO Steve Jobs also expressed concern, challenging people in higher education to develop creative ning systems for the K-12 market However, he said, “I think our problems go far beyond what tech- nology ean do for schools. When the Secretary of Commerce, Robert Mosbacher, asked me my thoughts on higher education, | answered, “The Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Education should be the same person White Knight 11 assumes mantle of Red Ryder 11 Norr Falls, Pa. — It won't be Red Ryder anymore, but the latest version of The FreeSoft Co.'s telecommunications software will begin shipping early next month, the company said. The new release, which was to be called Red Ryder Version 11, will instead be titled White Knight Version 11. Scott Watson, develop- er of the program, said that FreeSoft’s license to use the trade- marked Red Ryder name is due to expire on Jan. 1. Although renewal negotiations had been proceeding uneventfully, the trademark owners last month — two days before the new manual was to go to print — demanded a major increase in the license fee, according to Watson. The increase, Watson said in an on-line release to Red Ryder users, was “significant to the degree that we would either have to double the proposed price of the product or eliminate several jobs.” Instead, the company decided on the last- minute name change. The product (see MacWEEK, Aug. 22) comes with a 270-page manual with indexes and step-by- step instructions aimed at telecom beginners. New features include a reorga- nized menu structure complete with keyboard shortcuts even for hierarchical submenus, VT102 ter- minal emulation; support for addi- tional protocols, including YMo- dem, ZModem and a proprietary ash Protocol” for use with error- correcting modems; support for external code modules (RCMDs); and numerous additions to the pro- gram’s scripting language. Performance enhancements overall character throughput by an order of magni- tude,” according to Watson, White Knight 1) will be priced at $139. The company is now accepting orders for upgrades, which are $35 for owners of Ver- sion 10x and $50 for owners of earlier releases. Upgrade orders must include the original master disk. For those who bought Red Ryder 10.3 after Oct. 1, White Knight 11 will be available for a $5 harge Soft Co. is at 150 Hick- ory Drive, Beaver Falls, Pa, 15010; (412) 846-2700. Upgrade orders should be addressed to White Knight Update Department. increase For the Record The phone number listed for Graphisoft in MacWEEK’s Oct. 10 ProductWatch Comparison was incorrect. The correct numbers are MacWEEK 24 October 1989 Founder & Pobisher Miche! Tehong EDITORIAL Editor Daniel Rul Exeative Editor Daniel Farber ‘Managing Editor Brenda Benner News Group Grovp Editor Henry Norr Senior Editor Rochelle Garner Associate Editor Connie Guglielmo Editors at Large Dale Coleman, Jim Forbes Staff Reporters John Battelle, Elinor Craig, Pamela Phiffuer, Carolyn Said Technology Group Grovp Editor Anita Malni. Senior Editor/Reviews. Becky Waring Senior Writer Rick LePage (Boston) Technical Editor Ric Ford (Boston) Assodate Editor. Cliff Lehman Assistant Editors Stephen Howard, Janice Maloney Information Specialist Nathalie Welch Copy Editors Sue Troy (Desktop Publishing Chief), David Schneider, Mitzi Waltz Contributing Editors Clay Andres, Don Crabb, Steve Hannaford, Vernon Keenan, Dennis Klatzkin, Jonathan Littman, Steve Michel, Steve Rosenthal, Ezra Shapiro, Laslo Vespremi, Joel West ART AND PRODUCTION Associate Publisher Barri Klingaman Art Director Eleanor Leishman Assodate Art Director Laura Stoll Designer Gary Suen, Photo Editor Jonathan Hornstein Infogrephic Specialist Nevin Berger Production Supervisor Carolyn Beaham West Technical Manager Henri Froissart Grophics Tecnico Mick Valdez Grophic Artist Tamara Gargus ‘Ad Production Manager Debra Di Blasi ‘Ad Coordinator. Michelle Gargus MARKETING Associate Publisher Tel Welch Advertising Managers. 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News | Quake not experience From Page 1 any structural dam- age despite being located in Scotts Valley, practically at the epicenter of the quake, said spokeswoman Julie Still. Filing cabinets toppled paintings slid off walls and comput- ers fell off desks, she said The offices of Working Software reportedly were heavily damaged in the quake. The company’s head- quarters are in Santa Cru the street from the Ps Mall, which collapsed during the quake, killing three people. Most other local Mac developers survived the quake with little struc- tural or operational damage. While Symantec, Claris, Adobe Systems, Relational Technologies, Quantum, Oracle and Farallon reported some cosmetic damage to their offices, the companies said they were open for “business as usual” within two days of the quake. A NeXT spokeswoman said the company s factory in Fremont met quota the day after the quake. One of the nations largest Ma intosh sites, American President Cos. had only cosmetic damage to its East Bay offices, although the quake disrupted construction on its new headquarters in downtown Oakland. Computer professionals nation- wide are coming to the aid of earth- quake victims. Hewlett-Packard said it will donate $100,000 to the American Red Cross, while Fujitsu America of San Jose donated 200 cellular telephones and $100,000 for use in relief and rescue efforts. Cayman Systems, Symantec Corp., and Lotus Development have organized the Silicon Valley Relief Effort, a Boston- raising organization concerned computer professionals. In cooperation with the Red Cross, the group also has set up “high- tech nights” for those interested in donating blood For information about the Silicon Valley Relief Effort, contact Carol McGarry at Cayman Systems, (617) 494-1999. 0 Apple From Fuged According to Apple spokeswom- an Barbara Krause, the company’s 50 buildings in the San Francisco Bay a the majority in Cuperti- no, sustained damage in the form of broken plate glass windows, over- turned file cabinets and equipment thrown off desks, Only one build- ing on the Cupertino campus, which housed the networking and communications products group, sustained major damage and will ire substantial repairs and tion of the occupants. “We anticipate some minor dis- ruptions, but overall we fared quite well,” Krause said. Apple's factory in Fremont, Calif., and its U.S. distribution facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., were closed the day following the quake to assess structural dam- age, but operations resumed last Thursday, Most of Apple's 5,500 employees were expected back at work by the end of last week, with 75 percent to Dailies San Francisco Bay area on Tuesday: Oct. 17, electric power to run lights, telephone lines, mainframe computer systems and presses went out at both the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner. Lacking a contingency plan for producing editions during a black- out, both papers borrowed genera- tors to power the dozen or so Macs on hand — normally used in both papers’ art departments for produc- ing graphics “There would have been no Examiner or Chronicle without the Mac,” said George Powell, a ember of the systems offices team at the Examiner, “I don't know how any camera-ready type would have been produced without it.” The Chronicle was working on ils morning edition when the power failed shortly after the tem- blor struck at 5:04 p.m “Speculation as to what the Mac could do became a reality,” said Matthew Wilson, managing editor. mi most high-tech paper we ever produced. But it was also like the 17th century — very few phones, no wire services, no electricity.” The Chronicle set up an ad hoe newsroom, hooking the gener- ators to six Macs, an imagesetter From Page 1 and a copy machine where pho- tographs of the disaster were halftoned. Reporters wrote stories on bat- tery-powered Tandy MS-DOS lap- tops. The stories were sent as text via modem to a Mac and formatted in QuarkXPress. Pages were then sent electronically to a nearby printing facility. The 600,000 copies of the 16- page edition were snapped up so quickly by news-hungry Bay area residents Wednesday morning that the “Earthquake Extra” ady a collector's edition. “It's reassuring to people that if we can put out a paper, then every- thing's going to work out,” Wilson said, adding that the Macs were used again to produce the Thurs- day edition before power was restored later that night The same scenario was played out at the Exan ; an afternoon daily. Stories written on laptops, TRA EXTRA EXTRA | San Francisco € Ghroniete HUNDREDS DEAD IN HUGE QUAKE pp generator to power six Mocs and an imagesetter for this “Earth- ‘quake Extro.” Stories were written on battery-powered laptops and flowed into QuarkXPress. 80 percent of the buildings fully operational, according to Glenn Barber, director of real estate and facilities for Apple worldwide Barber cited “part building design and part good luck” to explain the lack of serious damage to personnel and property. When the earthquake hit on Oct. 17, Apple's fail-safe mechanisms kicked into action. A back-up diesel power generator provided power to keep the corporate data center and phone system operational for sev- eral hours until normal power could be restored, said Jane Par- adise, manager of worldwide asset protection at Apple. “We never lost any information, although there was some damage inside the corporate data center. We had the floors seismically upgraded a year ago,” Paradise said. “In addition, we always have a backup stored out of Silicon Valley, and we have a hot-site contingency plan that would allow us to run our operations on computers located out of the state.” a manual typewriters and in long- hand were rekeyed into Microsoft Word and MacWrite on seven Macs the night of the quake, according to Pamela Brunger Scott, the paper's deputy managing editor The text was formatted with QuarkXPress and printed on a LaserWriter on coated paper designed for paste-up purposes. About 315,000 copies of the 16- page Wednesday edition were printed at an off-site press. A dozen Macs also were used to print the Thursday edition “We were very fortunate to have the Maes,” Scott said. Apple sales jop $5 billion in’89 Cupertino, Calif — Apple las! week reported sales of $5.284 bi lion for the 1989 fiscal year, a percent increase over 1988. Net income for the year, which ended Sept. 29, was $454 mill up from $400.3 million last year. Income from operations was up only | marginally, however; $48 million o the 1989 net income came from the | company’s July sale ofits stock hold | ings in Adobe Systems Inc. Earnings per share for the ye reached $3.53, of which 37 cents come from the sale of Adobe shares. The company earned $3.08 | per share in fiscal 1988. For the fourth fiscal quarter sales were up 18 percent, compared | with the year before, to $1.384 bil- | lion. Net income from operations} climbed from $107.9 million a year | ago to $113.1 million, but the | Adobe sale pushed total net income | to $161.1 million. | Apple CEO John Sculley said the Mac SE/30 and Ilcx were largely responsible for the sales gains. o NeXT announcements, made at the EDUCOM conference here, said that the accelerator drive would minimize speed degradation across the network and improve the slug- gish performance offered by the optical drive, “Swapping applications from RAM to the local 40-Mbyte drive is twice as fast as swapping over Eth- ernet to a server or from RAM to the opti drive,” said Carmi Weinzweig, a research computist at the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill The 40-Mbyte hard disk, which will be available Noy. 1, also will become a standard feature on NeXT systems equipped with the optical disc, according to company officials, The existing base of users with that configuration will be retrofitted with the drive at no extra charge. “The installed base of NeXT users is mostly developers who have hard disks. The entire base [to be retrofitted) is under 1,000 machines,” Sasaki suid. Customers who order optical drive systems configured with a 330-Mbyte or 660-Mbyte Winch- ester drive will get a $500 credit From Page 1 The user system costs $4,995 for higher-education buyers direct from NeXT and is available to: other users for $7,995 through Businessland. The standard NeXT machine, configured with the opti- market and $9, 995 “hroueh Busi- nessland. Ap, adatiay ae with 16 Mbytes of RAM, te | internal optical drive and a 6 Mbyte Winchester drive. According to NeXT officials, Network Server System can support up to 10 users, bi observers said four to six workst tions per server was a more tic scenario, The network server is priced at $11,595 for higher-education us through Businessland, NeXT also reduced the pri of its 4-Mbyte memory modul The price for higher-education users is $800, down from. $1,500. | purch; the prices is $1,295, down from $2,295. NeXT is located at 900 Ches peake Drive, Redwood City, 94063; (415) 366-0900, 6 MocWEEK 24 October 1989 Warranty From Page 1 policy are $348 for a Mac SE with 2 Mbytes of RAM and an internal 40-Mbyte hard drive and $432 for a 1-Mbyte Mac Hex with a 40- Mbyte drive News of Apple's re-evaluation of its war- ranty comes on the heels of multiple reports about glitches in hard drives marketed by Apple. The company responded to those problems with ad hoc repair extension programs. Dealers and corporate buyers welcomed the news but questioned whether it would have any impact on Mac sales. Dan Neesley, owner of North Shore Computers Inc. in Milwaukee, said that while customers, par- ticularly first-time Mac buyers, often find Apple's three-month warranty distressing, few sales are lost because of it. “Once they decide they want the Mac interface, they'd buy it even if it had only a two-week warran- ty,” he said. “I've heard a lot of people moan about warranties, but I've never lost a customer because the Mac carries only a 90-day war- ranty,” agreed Richard Silver, owner of Cam- bridge Computers in Somerville, Mass. “Nevertheless, it's reasonable to expect that Apple will come up with a stronger warranty.” Price Collins, manager of corporate cam- pus networks at General Electric Co. in Bridgeport, Conn., said “Apple's 90-day war- ranty policy hasn't hurt Macintosh prolifera- tion a whit.” Dealer unhappiness about the loss of revenues from sales of AppleCare has long been considered one of the principal reasons for Apple's reluctance to move to a longer warranty. But retailers said last week that they may be able to make up the difference under the new warranty policy. “We make as much, maybe even more, on warranty work,” Neesley said. In addition to the compensation dealers receive from Apple for warranty repairs, he said, the extended warranty is likely to bring buyers back to the store, and each customer visit is a sales opportunity: “Service is a sales tool,” he said. 3 Networking From Page 1 mail, and internetwork and AppleTalk rout- ing, on one server. Unlike 3Com’s previous Macintosh networking support, 3+ Open supports the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), and no 3Com software is required on the client Mac. Mac users will see an OS/2 sery- eras if it were an AppleShare volume. 3+Open for Macintosh will complement 3Com's 3+ Open server software available for OS/2 and DOS environments, according to Gottlieb. “We did not implement 3+ Open for Macintosh as a separate protocol gateway {subservient to a server-based application],” he said, comparing the product with the Macintosh networking architecture offered by Provo, Utah-based competitor Novell Inc. Instead, he explained, 3+Open for Macin- tosh runs on the server as part of 3+Open LAN Manager and accepts requests directly from Macintosh clients. As one of the first announced links to the multitasking OS/2 network platform, 3+Open for Macintosh provides links to client/server databases such as SQL Server from Sybase Inc. of Emeryville, Calif. Sybase recently announced support for the Macin- tosh from Unix and DEC platforms (see MacWEEK, Oct. 10) Macintosh applications being written or adapted to support Sybase’s SQL Server on Unix and DEC machines, such as 4th Dimension from Cupertino, Calif.-based ACIUS, also will run on Sybase’s OS/2 SQL Server when 3+Open for Macintosh ships, Gottlieb said. While 3Com officials declined to give exact pricing and ayailability for 3Com’s new Macintosh products, Gottlieb said he expects developers will receive code by the end of the year. applications based on 3+ Open for Macintosh should be available by mid-1990. Current 3+Open products for OS/2 and DOS range from $3,495 for an unlimited user version of 3+Open LAN Manager 1.1 to $1,500 for 3+ Open Internet (an internet- work router) and $1,190 for 3+Open Mail 3Com also announced the future direc- tions for its 3+Open for Macintosh products, which include support for OS/2's named pipes, the capability to do administration from a Macintosh, and enhancements to print spooling and E-mail services. > Ungermann-Bass: The company, which specializes in internetworked computer installations for very large sites, last week announced support for Macintosh through the addition of MaxTalk, a board-level LocalTalk concentrator that integrates intosh LANs into Ungermann-Bass’ Access/One internetworking platform. Access/One is an 11-slot “intelligent wiring closet” that serves as a centralized platform for delivery of network services. According to the company, MaxTalk uses spe- cial packet filtering technology that increases LocalTalk performance by as much as 500. percent. MaxTalk also provides connected devices with a link to Ethernet protocols. “Our users have made it clear that [Macs] have established their importance in today’s enterprises and that this momentum will continue in the "90s," said Michael Gardner, ‘Our users have made it clear that Macs have established their importance in today’s enterprises and that this momentum will continue in the ‘90.’ Ungermann-Bass vice president of marketing and sales. The MaxTalk concentrator supports either 16 individual LocalTalk devices or 16 LocalTalk LANs, depending on configura- tion. Ungermann-Bass also introduced MacUWS, a separate software module that runs on the Mace and, in consort with MaxTalk, provides terminal emulation and routing between LocalTulk and TCP/AP environments, The Macintosh news came as part of a comprehensive internetworking product announcement from Ungermann-Bass, The company also introduced a less-expensive five-slot version of Access/One along with more than 10 new board-level media and protocol converters. MaxTalk will cost $4,695; MacUWS will cost $350 per workstation. Shipment for all new products will begin in three months, according to Ungermann- Bass. 3Com is located at 3165 Kifer Road, Santa Clara, Calif 95052; (408) 562-6400. Unger- mann-Bass is located at 3900 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, Calif 95052; (408) 496- OlLo Workin harmony with your printer. Crile ~ spooler offers so many control best-selling ee is >) featuttes, Works faster. 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This offer isnot valid outside the MacWEEK 24 October 1989 | High-end OCR program for Calera CDP scanners By Pomela Pfiffner Santa Clara, Calif. — Calera Recognition Systems Inc. plans a mid-November release for TopScan, a high-end text and graphics recognition program for use with the com: | pany’s Compound Document Processor (CDP) scanners Calera’s CDP 6000 and CDP 9000 for the Mac are high-volume scanners that can pro- an average of 3.3 seconds and characters per second, accord- ing to the company. Average recognition time for TopScan is 20 seconds for a page with both text and images. TopScan offers two viewing options: Image Preview and Postview. In Image Preview mode users can create templates specifying which areas in a document are to be recog- nized as text, graphics or numbers only Templates are designed especially for scan- ning spreadsheets or documents on letter- head stationery where graphics are consis- tent, Calera said. 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Calera, formerly known as The Palantir Corp., is targeting law offices, personnel departments, accounting offices, forms pro- cessors and other environments where large quantities of documents must be converted Type can be used on PostScript printers By Giff Lehmon Cambridge, Mass. — Bitstream Inc, last month made its full library of nearly 1,000 faces available to Mac end users, making its collection the Jargest available for the Mac from any vendor. Previously, the Bitstream Typeface Library was marketed primarily to service bureaus and other volume buyers. The type can be used on printers and typesetters with PostSeript and PostScript- clone interpreters. 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Infra Sto MocWEEK 24 October 1989 Porafont, a $99 utility from Design Science Inc, has built-in modifications that let users create fractions, ligatures, smell cops, and stretched or compressed Aja} * |’ | «| 567] 215 chorecters, ‘mh ff | fil ff to keys in another AA Crentan | System: * S = In addition, the Decienel: 940) | Sleshitrection (Previous %P) program lets users Octol: 136 create true fractions, old-style and propor- feroe Font:[BTimes bod) ) CEeneel®) | tional numbers, sma ae OBela Ditalic (Gee tice] caps end, and “fl” ligatures. ParaFonts transforms fonts By Cerolyn Said Long Beach, Calif, — A new tool that gen- erates custom PostScript fonts from existing fonts will let artists, designers and desktop publishers create unlimited font variations, its developer said. ParaFont from Design Science Ine. is a $99 utility that modifies Adobe ‘Type 1 fonts from Adobe Systems of Mountain View, Cali, to create new PostScript Type 3 fonts with matching screen fonts. With ParaFont, users can slant characters from 45 degrees to minus 45 degrees as well as expand and compress characters horizon- tally from 20 percent to 400 percent and verti- cally from 20 percent to 200 percent. Charac- ters from any PostScript font can be assigned It allows you to make changes very simply and intuitive- said Neenie Billawala, senior designer in Apple's communications design department and a beta user. “It's quick and convenient for modifying characters.” Billawala said she also likes the program's ability to print a keyboard map. Fontographer, the $495 PostScript font- editing program from Altsys Corp. of Plano, Texas, also has the ability to modi fonts, among other features, But P: ping, president of Design Science, said that ParaFont, slated to ship Nov. 15, offers a more economical and direct way to transform char- acters and that its built-in transformations are those most common to desktop publishing. Design Science Inc. is located at 647: E. Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 392, Lon Beach, Calif. 90503; (213) 433-0685. 0 B PROFS gets Mac interface By Carolyn Soid Hopkinton, Mass. — PROFS, the clec- tronic-mail and calendar system that domi- nates the IBM mainframe world, now has a point-and-click interface for the Macintosh MacPROFF, a $195 HyperCard front end slated to ship Nov. 15, adds scroll bars, buttons, pull-down menus, mouse navi- gation and Mac word processing to the wide- ly used but cumbersome PROFS (Profes- sional Office System). MacPROFF works with Avatar Corp.'s MacMainFrame Mac-to-mainframe connec- tivity boards, which let Macs function as ter- minals for mainframes. MacMain| range from $795 for the SE to $: Mac I. MacPROFF will be c its developer, Mariette Systems International and Avatar. Other versions of MacPROFF that work with Mac-to-mainframe products from Digi- tal Communications technology consultant at Rockwell Interna- tional. His Seal Beach, Calif, installation plans to buy MacPROFF for all 300 of its Macs. “MacPROFF provides several short- cuts that everyone who uses PROFS wants,” Haines said. “Users see the screens they're used to see- ing, yet it adds the friendliness of the Mac to access the eed,” said Alan Alvaro, programmer analyst at Chevron Information Some users may drawback, Alvaro said. Mariette said a SuperCard version that would add color is not likely because SuperCard runs more slowly and makes it more difficult for users to customize the system. Marie ated at 29 E} Cerrito Ave., San Mateo, Calif 94402; (415) 344-1519. Avatar Corp. is located at 65 South St Hopkinton, Mass. 01748; (508) 435-3000. 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News Phone messages just a stack away By Carolyn Said Reading, Mass. — Those ubiqui- tous pink phone message slips will be history if HyperMedia Publish- ing Group has its way The company last month started shipping Message Center, a $49.95 HyperCard stack for entering and € File Edit Go Tools Objects (sl /Vlessage Center| @outOin @out Cin @outOin handling phone messages Targeted at corporate work groups and small businesses that do not use electronic mail, Mes- sage Center allows exporting of data to other stackware products For example, the name and phone number of a new sales prospect can Laks HyperMedia Publishiog Group's Message Center HyperCard stock provides a quick and easy ‘way for small work groups to enter and store phone messages. Boston Companies enters screen-capture utility race By Rochelle Garner and Henry Norr Sudbury, Mass. — QuickShot, a sereen-capture utility originally developed by a systems integration company to help its clients docu- ment problems, is available to the general public in a new version that adds support for 24-bit color and a variety of other enhancements. QuickShot 2.1, Professional Color Version from Boston Companies Inc Jets users capture whole screens, selected portions, the top-most win- dow or a pulled-down menu. Images can be copied to the Clipboard written to disk, printed directly or ent to any other Chooser-selectable peripheral, such as a fax modem Files saved to disk ean be named and stored in any folder in Mac- Paint, PICT or PICT2 format The $89 package includes a DA and an Fkey that can be used at any time, including when menus are down or dialog boxes open. QuickShot can attach date, ti and setup information, such as me ory size and number of Startup doc- uments (INITS) running — features designed especially to help software vendors in providing technical assis- tance, according to Tim Roberts, president of Boston Companies. Boston Companies, a systems integrator specializing in account- ing systems, originally wrote the utility for its clients’ use. Scott Weiner, vice president of develop- ment at Boston Companies, said clients back up inquiries by send- ing an image of puzzling dialogs, cither directly with a fax modem or indirectly by faxing hard copy. In addition to 24-bit color, the new version adds support for screens of any size, a 32-by-32- pixel icon and cursor grabber, an incremental numbering function that lets users generate multiple dumps with the same name and a number appended, and gray-scale printing with Version 6.0 of Apple's LaserWriter driver. Boston Companies Inc. is at 15 Wake Robin Road, Sudbury, Mass. 01776; (508) 443-0075. With QuickShot 2.1, users can choose from among « wide range of options, Induding where to store files, what portion of the image Jo copture and file format, The program will work with color of any depth screens of any size, Send To ™ == er 21 7M 40032 firea O Fullscreen Options PICT © PICT2 Fin Corners Date/Time (Clsys neport 0K Cancel | (About... be transferred to a Rolodex-like stack created in Mediagenic's FocalPoint, according to Steve Kessel, HyperMedia president Other features include an archive stack to store messages and button-defined links to any three applications, Kessel said. “The Message Center is a good way to make sure information gets to people,” said David Parr, a cap: tain and fire-prevention officer with the Wakefield Fire Depart- ment in Wakefield, Mass. site for Message Center. on different shi ever get to see each other. Notes can get lost or misplaced. You can’t misplace the computer.” HyperMedia Publishing Group, can be reached at BO. Box 300, Reading, Mass. 01867; (617) 246- 1234.0 CMS tracks job costs, estimates By Rochelle Garner Portland, Ore. — Softouch Soft- ware Inc. last month began ship- ping a new version of its Cost Man- agement System (CMS), a $495 program intended for contractors and manufacturers, Written in Fox Software's FoxBASE+/Mac, CMS offers two integrated functions: Cost Estimat- ing, designed for estimating costs when bidding on a project; and Job Costing, used for recording actual expenses during each project. In addition, CMS features a Cost Vari- ance report that pinpoints why a job may cost more than anticipated “Cost Variance can even track changes in unit cost and unit vol- ume,” said Fred W. Brock Jr, sales manager for Softouch, “That means that a builder can look at a report and know whether cost differences result from an increase in the price of the windows he used or in the number of windows.” If users choose, they can use the General Ledger function in Job Costing to enter expenses to an accounting program, CMS pro- vides direct links to two leading accounting packages, SBT Data- base Accounting Library from SBT Corp. of Sausalito, Calif, and Com- ponents Accounting System from Seattle-based Satori Software, It also supports tab-delimited files and the SDF (standard delimited format) for export to other account ing programs. In addition, CMS users can take advantage of a built-in database to store recurring costs, That informa- tion can be called up in either the Cost Estimating or Job Costing functions. Softouch Software is located at 5200 S.W. Macadam Aye., Suite Portland, Ore. 97201; (503) ‘We're all s here and hardly News PRE FS FontShare 2.0 ships with page-counting utility Miomi — Tactic Software recently shipped Version 2.0 of FontShore, its network” fontserver software, with a new utility called NetCounter that automatically counts the number of pages printed from each workstation and tracks which printer wos used, The $249 program, first marketed by Olduvai Corp., lets networked users share downloadable printer fonts stored on a file server or on any hard disk on the LAN. Ihis compatible with all network file servers, applications and spoolers, the company said. FontShore with NetCounter “is ideal for service bureaus or anyone else who must itemize print jobs,” said Joe Gonzales, sales manager at Tactic. FontShore 2.0 includes three downloadable fonts and on NENT (new font numb ing toble) utility that converts screen fonts to the NFNT format. Tactic Software is located at 13615 S. Dixie Highwoy, Suite 188, Miami, Fla. 33176; (305) 232-7467. Decathlon makes creating logos easy with design sets Cincinnati — Decothlon Corp. is shipping two new programs designed to help ‘Mac users establish an identity. LogoPawer and Logo SuperPower are collections of design elements — ind who created both applications. Al the design elements ore stored in Encopsuloted PostScript (EPS) format or elements. Logo SuperPower, which costs $495, 14-disk set with more than 400 designs. It also con toins 15 templates that can be used to create me nd presentations. Cincinnati, Ohio; (513) 421-1938; (800) 648-5646, CalComp delivers QuickDraw printer drivers a Anaheim, Colif. — Cricket Software's long-overdue QuickDraw printer driver ly mode it to market last month as ColComp brought out a version for two of its co thermal-tronsfer printers. Comp label for its ColorMaster and PlotMaster printers. 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DiskLock any SCSI hard disk to provide foolproof password protection for individual files, folders, or your entire hard disk. You can even protect al/ three Jevels with different passwords for absolute maximum security. DiskLock works Scanned images can be saved in TIFE PICT and compressed Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) formats. The unit is priced at $1,595 plus $120 for SCSI cabling In a $1,995 configuration called the Solu- tion Pac, the PE Scan 3000 and SCSI inter face are bundled with the company’s editing and OCR software, Publish Pac As an image-edit application, Publish automatically locks your files when you ‘shut down or leave your Mac unattended, and alerts you to any unauthorized access attempts. Per We Macias DISKLOGK a re, ard prom | i Pac offers four halftone patterns, 16 bright ness settings, five contrast levels and scaling from 13 percent to 200 percent For text processing, an optical character recognition board ($795) in the scanner is required. 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Call about our Introductory Offer. 1-800-873-4384 > AFT ARN SISTER 001 POOCOCCO FOOD MocWEEK 24 October 1989 Law office stacks — get early update By Carolyn Said New York — LexaFile, « $300 Hype: based information m 1. nagement system, for lawyers that debuted this summer, is already being upgraded by its developer, Xram Xpert Systems. Version 1.5, to ship by year’s end for $400, adds printing capability, an automatic backup procedure, and expanded time and billing functions. The update will be free to users who purchased Version 1.0 before Sept. 15 and $100 to later buyers LexaFile incorporates four linked compo- nents: an electronic address file, a note pad and calendar for tracking matters and cases, anotes folder, and a litigation support folder A built-in “intelligence” called LexaSmarts prompts users during data input, the company said. Customized versions are also available “LexaFile will empower lawyers to be more effective,” said David Mary, an attorney ind Macintosh consultant based in Toronto. “I like the way different parts of the product tie together. Since it's designed by a lawyer for law firms, the terminology, focus and con- nections are all specific to law practice It has some interesting functions,” said Ed Noonan, an attorney based in Williamston, Mich., “but it's not as intuitive as [the programmer] thinks It really needs a tutorial and a much better manual” Xram Xpert Systems is located at 344 W. 23rd St, Suite 7C, New York, N.Y. 10011 | (212) 989-8356. Innovative Systems ports mainframe CAD By Rochelle Garner | West Springfield, Mass. — Innovative Sys- tems Inc. this month began shipping Prec | sion, a $295 dr package that is a direct | port of a program used on Data General | mainframe computers. Based on Summagraphics’ SummaDraft mainframe software, the program features single-precision vector drawing, a symbol | library, macros and a range of construction geometry including parabolas. It supports | DXF (drawing interchange format) and | IGES (initial graphics exchange specifica: | tion) file formats The interface on the current version adheres to the spirit of the Macintosh” but does not strictly follow Mae guidelines, according to Anthony Albano, Innovative Systems vice president of marketing, The first release is expected to appeal ini tially to existing Data General users. A see ond version, planned for release in the first quarter of 1990, will more closely follow the Mae interface and will support Clipboard and PICT, Albano said We bought the Mac software after using the mainframe version of this program for about seven years,” said Tony Ngai, executive vice president and director of CAD services for Leidenfrost/Horowitz, an architectunil firm in Glendale, Calif. “Precision has all the features of the mainframe, other than multi user {support}. We want to expand into the Mac area because it's less expensive.” Innovative Systems Ine. is located at 171 Interstate Drive, West Springfield, Mass 01089, (413) 737-3993. 6 Get a FREE Subscription to MacWEEK Applicants who qualify will receive a complimentary subscrij those which request specific numbers, to be eligible for qual age to MacWEEK. All questions must be answered, including ification. Incomplete forms cannot be processed. The publisher reserves the right to limit the number of free subscriptions. 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All orders must be prepaid. *If your application for a qualified subscription is accepted during the course of your paid subscription, notify MacWEEK and you will receive a pro-rated refund | News MocWEEK 24 October 1989 22 New Media pointing a good consumer-grade camcorder, persuade and if you don't Making quick and dirty multimedia work = vrsisaussstsinrsitonst!” Sv rt your Mac monitor. type, it may do the job. Let's assume you want j | | | | | | | So this multimedia stuffs still too complex, Probably not, if all you need to produce is It’s not broadcast quality, but to get both your picture and all you want to do is make a videotape of _ the video equivalent ofa photocopied memo _ Note that the result won't be broadcast and the screen image on | your latest presentation to send off to your rather than an illustrated boardroom report. quality. With consumer tape formats, any tape because both are counterpart in the Aflanta regional office. No Ifyou're willing to settle for a quick but dirty reproductions will be noticeably muddier important to the presenta- special equipment, no outside expertise, no fix, you can make a useable copy of anything than the original tape. But if you want to tion. Ifyou have access to a hassles. Is that asking too much? you can show on the Macintosh just by share techniques or information rather than large monitor, overhead or “: | projection television that ee 2 =e ae can provide asufficiently BY STEVE ROSENTHAL bright image, use it If you have to capture both person and image in the same camera shot, you're better off having the on-screen objects as large or larger than your facial features so the viewer can read both your expressions and your charts. And stand close to the screen to keep everything in the frame and at the same dis- tance from the camera (same focal plane) for good focus ts, camera, action. The image has to be sufficiently bright because while many consumer cameras can record a useful result in candlelight, you get more video noise and less visible colors at low light. You should also have someone adjust the lighting or screen brightness to limit the contrast range between yourself and the monitor. Unless you can call on the services ofa trained camera operator, you're better off locking the camera down on a tripod rather than having your best friend at work try to follow the action. Avoid close-ups; using a midrange or telephoto setting and placing the camera farther away will decrease any apparent curving of the display screen and any magnification caused by slight forward and backward movements. Placing the camera farther away is even more important when recording only the screen image. But even with a good lens, expect some rounding or “pincushion” effects. And, remember, less-professional video equipment loses color accuracy faster than res~ olution. So if you're shooting with a VHS or Beta camera, make sure you can live with less. bright colors and a possible loss of subtle shad- ing. If your presentation depends on those effects, you'll either have to talk the viewer through the critical spots or change the colors. Don't forget the sound. Most camcorders will let you supply signal from an external q " ae microphone through a miniature phone SS. Bb pony eee | ye jack (like the kind used on the headsets for Walkman-type stereos). Ifyou mount a microphone near where you're standing or wear a lapel microphone, you'll get notice- A Clarification ably better sound than if you re corder-mounted microphone, which tends to pick up more room noise Why Ralph Volk can: fora Varityper PostSc “1 meade head-to-head (in New Jersey 201-887-8000 » 999) The Varityper advertisement reproduced above: Last, try to avoid the distracting rolling appeared in the May 16, 1989, May 23, 1989 and effect usually seen on videos displaying a June 27, 1989 issues of MacWeek. The advertisement computer monitor. Such flickering usually inaccurately portrayed the comparisons conducted by 1s from the difference in timing between standard video and the video screen. We're not talking about “genlocking,” which elec tronically controls the timing of one system by another, but merely setting the Mae video Varityper's customer, Ralph Volk, in his evaluation and purchase of a PostScript imagesetter. Mr. Volk neither had nor cancelled a purchase/license agreement for a Linotype PostScript imagesetter. He to standard image rates did not test Linotype'’s current PostScript imagesetter, Unfortunately, all the programs that do the Linotronic 300 recorder with RIP 3 processor, that job on a standard Mac monitor are unre- and he made no head-to-head comparison of that leased proprietary hacks; they work, but you imagesetter with the Varityper 4300P PostScript can't officially get them. If you can't snag one fmapescten We regral these Inacclracien and lan from someone working with video and Mac, confusion they might have caused. you'll have to either add equipment such as & Valve's inaseage, hen and now, teal Boren special ¥ is Board oF multisyne monitor or 3 A accept the rolling effect, conclude the purchase of a PostScript imagesetter, he result won't be something you want to make your own comparisons. 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