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| produce products this year. pple || avi 0.08.91 Volume 5 Number 34 x \ oll 3 NE WS W ESE) KL Yossie Our L cs MACINTOSH sical Me i. A MANAGERS i] Apple CPUs circa 1993-1994 | — Entry-level and portable Mainstream desktop High-end workstations information appliances systems and servers 680x0-based RISC-based RISC-based Enhanced Macintosh OS Taligent 05 evn et Macs in 90s: More choices PowerPC to bring RISC to mainstream By Heary Norr and Mitch Retdiffe San Francisco — Apple last week sketched the broad outlines of the Mac mid-1990s, a world in which users will have a nich world of the array of processor and operating sys. tem options. Depending on their needs, bud. gets and ambitions, by 1995 users will be able to buy Macs built around either Motorola 650x0 CPUs or the PowerPC, a new family of RISC reduced instruction set computing processors derived from IBM Corp.'s RS/6000 technology At last week's joint press confer- Mac to become ‘preferred client’ By Margie Wylie Cupertino, Calif. — After years of struggling for recognition in corpo: rations loyal to Big Blue’s Mac-blind vision, Apple last week finally got the endorsement it needs to those orga anizations see Macs as the perfect client.” In the only portion of the Gom- panies’ vast agreement that will and IBM Corp. announced that they would cooperate to cement the Macintosh more firmly into IBM networks with several new products and enhancements to existing products Token-Ring card. Apple will See Network, Page 106 ence with IBM, Apple CEO John Sculley said that RISC machines “will be the of the decade” and that Apple expects its models to be the highest-volume RISC systems on the market. Apple will continue to rely on Motorola's nainstream Mac by the middle 680x0 processors in low-cost Macs and personal-information appliances. Models based on both chip fami See Platforms, Page 108 New ventures eye the future By Andrew Gore San Francisco — ae and IBM Corp. are counting on t joint ventures to create the tech nologies that will bring their prod ucts into the next century > Taligent. One of the compa. nies, dubbed Taligent for talisman intelligent, will take over responsibility for developing a new object-oriented operating system designed to simplify the process of creating and customizing software. See Ventures, Page 106 heir two new and <= Taligent | KALEIDA. | Apple and IBMs joint-venture companies will be responsible for developing new operating system software ond multimedia standards, Apple, IBM lay groundwork for next decade of computing By Daniel Farber San Francisco — Apple and IBM Corp. signed their technology alliance here last week. It was not quite a shot heard around the world, but top executives from the two companies said the occasion marked the second decade of personal com- puting, a re of technical innovation and a dramatic change in the course of the information age. Amid the hyperbole and endorse- ments from Intel Corp. Lotus Development Corp., Novell Corp. and Borland International Inc., the nissal new partners announced the forma- tion of two independent, jointly owned companies. Taligent will evolve Pink, Apple’s object-based software project, into a new genera- tion of platform-independent sys- tem software, and Kaleida will develop and license multimedia technologies (see story, this page). As expected, IBM ‘and Motorola Ine, along with Apple, will develop a family of PowerPC RISC (reduced instruction set computing) proces: sors. The two computer companies also will collaborate on the develop- Seybold stretches publishing purview Sold or Neil McManus Calif. — The lesson of the Seybold Computer Publishing Conference & Exposition here last week may be that the definition of publishing” is expanding. The con- ference encompassed a range of ways to communicate, including multime- dia and pen-based computing, as well as traditional printed media Seybold Seminars said, in fact, that it will drop the word “publish- ing” from next year’s conference, to be called Seybold San Francisco. Reflecting its broader purview, this year’s Seybold could not be summed up by a single theme. At By Ca San Jose | least four topics held equal sway > Color. The ever-evolving dis- cussions about how to obtain precise and predictable color on the des top seemed closer than ever to some sort of resolution. Gerry Murch, Apple director of imaging software, said the company will build in sup- port for color management at the system level within a year To avoid reduced performance, support will be made through extensions, similar to QuickTime multimedia. The color extensions will offer a similarly open architecture with hooks to various color-space definitions, Eventually, the system-software color extensions . See Seybold, Page 108 system-software ment of PowerOpen, an open- system Unix platform combining elements of IBM’s AIX and Apple’s A/UX (see story, this page). According to analysts, IBM and Apple both got what they wanted Apple received a golden key to help unlock the corporate business mar- | ket and a partner to help develop and market new foundation tech- nologies. IBM found a champion for its RISC technology and got soft ware jewels from Apple and an alter- native to relying on Microsoft Corp. See Alliance, Page 108 “To paraphrase | on old ad, you'll see why 1994 won'tbelike | 1984," said | ‘Apple CEO John Sculley (far lef). With Sculley are, from left, Jack Kuehler, presi- dent of IBM; Jim Norling, presi- dent of Motoro- la’s Semiconduc- tor Product navino, IBM vice president and general manag- er, Personal Sys- tems; and Apple President Michoel Spindler. oun ate tot 25 |= CHvAtSis) SECOND 4 NEWSPAPER | Mac lisi cron » DayStar is the link With DayStar... boost productivity and keep your expansion options. Compatible with PDS video and ethernet cards. 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Come join us. 1-800-962-2077 Available through your favorite dealer DAYSTAR 7.Fax(404) 9673018 This ad was completed on a Mac with DayStar upgrades installed. oduct specilications ore subgect to change without notice OH DayStar Digital, he MAGAZIN News you Peally can use (ect ha et ee > ema Er er de erser Nake Fe cet Fre ger By Neil McManus San Jose, Calif. — The good news is that Apple’s next LaserWriter driv- erwill speed printing on all PostScript LaserWriters up to tenfold. The bad news is that this driver is not due until next spring, leavin; owners of the new LaserWriter II and Ig no immediate way to take advantage of their printers’ Post- Script Level 2 features. At the Seybold Computer Pub- lishing Conference & Exposition here last week, Apple announced that it is working with Adobe Sys- tems Inc. to rewrite the LaserWriter driver “from the ground up” to address user complaints about slow PostScript printing from the Mac. “The bottleneck is that the Mac's Print Manager has not been able to generate PostScript data fast enough to keep up with high-speed RIPs (raster image processors),” said Packard Co. last week reduced the | price of its HP DeskWriter and _| DeskJet 500, honing the printers’ | competitive edge against the Apple StyleWriter. Effective immediately, the Desk- Writer is $599, down from $729. The monochrome inkjet printer prints at speeds of up to 3 pages per ‘minute, connects to the Macintosh the serial port and ships with four scalable typefaces. __ The price cut on the DeskWriter is ‘the second since Apple introduced its ‘StyleWriter inkjet printer (see Mac- “WEEK, May 7), which is also $599, Pt New driver to speed lasers but not expected before spring Michael Hopwood, product manager for Apple's Imaging Products Group. ‘The new dnvers will allow Post- Script laser printers to print text pages up to 20 percent faster and complex eight-bit images up to 10 times as fast. The new driver will work on both PostScript Level 1 and Level 2 laser printers. Adobe will make the driver available to other PostScript printer manufacturers The new driver will let PostScript Level 2 printers, such as Apple's LaserWriter If and Ilg, take advan- tage of Level 2 features, includin image compression. Hopwood sai some Level 2 features, such as forms caching, might not be included in the new driver. In addition, the new driver will likely allow the IIf and Ig to access their built-in True’ rasterizers, which the current driver does not support, Hopwood said. a HP lightens price of DeskWriter, DeskJet The reduction also widens the price ‘p between the DeskWriter and the DeskWriter C, Hewlett- Packard's similarly confi color inkjet printer, introduced _ last month for $1,095 (see MacWEEK, Aug. 6). In addition, Hewlett-Packard also cut the price of its HP DeskJet 500 inkjet printer to $599. The company also introduced a high-capacity black-ink cartridge that holds twice as much ink as the original. Hewlett-Packard Co.'s _ sales information group is at 19310 Pruneridge Ave., Cupertino, Calif. 95014, Phone (800) 752-0900, 5 4 24 24 24 29 48 48 News PogeMaker 4.2, FreeHand 3.1 get savvy Aldus unveils raft of products at Seybold, Sony Hi-8 deck records animations from Mac EVO-9650 offers frame accuracy, built-in pre-roll More action in Pen-based market Slate, Momenta scribe new lightweight systems. Gateways Mac vendors make showing at InterOp ‘91 Apple's long-awaited ISDN NuBus card to debut DataClub, MacTOPS challenge 7.0 file sharing Makers say advantages are worth extra cost, GA Multiple Masters among new faces at Seybold Adobe releases first wo adjustable typefaces. Managing Editor lays out Ad Director New software assembles advertising dummies, News analysis: No more cloning around on Level 2 Will new generation of PostScript sound the death knell for clone printer vendors? What a great printer. Printers: Making the right choice There are several criteria to consider when deciding on ahigh-volume, midrange or low-cost printer. This section gives manogers helpful ways to wade through the endless list of options — which now includes PostScript Level 2 and color — along with a review of the latest PostScript Level 2 printers. Opinion Editorial Apple and IBM: A too too sullied deal? Letters Clarifying client-server computing, Commentary/Jean-Lovis Gassée Apple suiting up for war. Mac Manager/Don Crabb Less can be more with new Macs. MacWEEK VOL.5 NO.394 10.08.91 E] Reviews 51 RAM PowerCard improves pre-press I/O demands 63 110 68 71 90 DayStar Digital’s NuBus card offers easy-to-use RAM disk that can be used as virtual memory. Quicken upgrade helps pace managing finances Personal finance manager still lacks real features for business bookkeeping ShowPlace wins as set builder, renderer Interface helps novices get up to speed quickly. MachTen makes more Macs merrier Tenon Unix has excellent communications features. EPlanner makes planning small projects easy Gantt-chart program needs better financial tracking. In Brief: EPS Exchange Utility lets FreeHand users save in Illustrator format. ProductWatch a be & | a Keeping on schedule Scheduling programs go beyond simple bell ringing; they now help keep projects on track. MacinTouch/Ric Ford Facing up to System 7.0 design challenges. Ask David Ramsey Are hard disk icons chained to the desktop? BusinessWatch Apple boosts 1991 education unit sales by 25% Increase comes despite reseller cuts. Shareholders approve Ashton-Tate/Borland merger Analysts: Mac products may vanish when deal sealed. Mac the Knife Apple/IBM pact a sign of the times Internal documents indicate there will be few surprises this October. 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Several companies, including Radius Inc. Sigma Designs Inc., ‘Telebit QBlazer hits high speeds By Nathlie Welch Sunnyvale, Calif. Telebit Corp. this month began shipping its QBlazer V.32 modem, provi traveling Mac users with raeeeel | communications in a small, easily transportable package. Priced at $745, QBlazer measures just under 3 square inches. It can run for two hours on a 9-volt batte: or be plugged into a wall outlet wit the external AC adapter included with the modem. QBlazer supports Telebit’s extend- ed AT-command set. It includes V.42 error correction as well as V.42bis and MNP 5 data compression to provide data throughput reaching 38,400 bps, but can fall back to speeds of 300 bps. The modem stores two user- definable configurations and_ two telephone numbers in non-volatile memory. It ships with an RS-232 cable and a coupon offering Software Ventures Corp.'s MicroPhone II for $99. The software lists for $295. Also last month, Telebit shipped its T3000 V.32bis modem with V.42 error correction and V.42bis and MNP 5 compression. The $1,095 modem can transmit at up to 57,600 bps and supports remote configura- tion and diagnostics, as well as pass- word and callback security. Telebit Corp. is at 1315 Chesa- peake Terrace, Sunnyvale, Calif. 94089. Phone (408) 734-4333; fax (408) 734-3333, 0 . ae Telebit provides a custom travel pooch for its very small-footprint QBlazer modem. RasterOps Corp. and Aura Systems, are planning external SCSI display interfaces for the PowerBooks (see MacWEEK, Sept. 10). The SCSI port's speed can be a bottleneck, how- ever, that limits display performance. Envisio is expected to announce two adapters as part of Apple's PowerBook introduction this month at Comdex/Fall "91, sources said. » Notebook Display Adaptor plugs into the RAM slot of the 68000-based PowerBook 100. It drives 13-, 15-, 19- and 21-inch monochrome displays, as well as any VGA-compatible display or projec- tion device. The PowerBook’s inter- nal screen remains active while the external display is in use. The adapter will be offered with 1 or 2 Mbytes of on-board pseudo-static RAM, at $695 and $795, respectively, The added RAM expands the Power- Book's total memory to 3 or 4 Mbytes. > Notebook Display Adaptor 030, an eight-bit color adapter, fits both the 68030-based PowerBook 140 and 170. In addition to supporting monochrome 13-, 15-, 19- and 21- inch displays, it can show 256 colors on 13-inch displays, including the Apple RGB Display and VGA-compatible displays and projection devices. The adapter includes a pass- through connector that allows users to add an Apple 2- or 4-Mbyte RAM upgrade. The card will sell for $695 without memory, or $995 with 2 Mbytes of on-board RAM. Envisio Inc. is at 5365 W. Bald Eagle Blvd., White Bear Lake, Minn. 55110. Phone (612) 653-7694; fax (612) 653-7694. 5 Sony Hi-8 deck records animations By Connie Guglielmo Las Vegas — Sony Corp. of America hopes to attract an animat- ed audience among desktop video producers with a new Hi-8 deck that will let users record frame-accurate animations from the Macintosh To be introduced at Comdex/Fall "91, the new EVO-9650 is a Hi-8- format recording deck that can record Mac-generated animations frame frame. The deck has built-in pre-roll a feature that automatically queues the tape when recording to prevent pauses between frames. It will be available for less than $6,000 by April 1992, according to Stephen DiFranco, manager of new application development at Sony. Mac users will be able to control the EVO-9650 through software that sup- ports Sony's VISCA (Video System Control Architecture), a command protocol that Apple plans to support in QuickTime (its multimedia extension to System 7.0). A frame-by-frame ani- mation controller will not be required for MacroMind Inc.’s Director and Paracomp Inc.’s Swivel 3D, the only rograms for which VISCA support fas been announced Mac users still must convert the Mac's RGB (red, green, blue) signal to video with a video encoder before the signal can be transferred via a VISCA cable to the EVO-9650. While there are many encoders on the market that will work with the deck, Sony plans to sell its own RGB- to-NTSC (National Television Sys- tem Committee) encoder card that will slide into the EV0-9650. It also will offer options for converting the Mac’s RGB signal to an S-video or composite video signal Sony's encoder, which should be available when the EV0-9650 ships, has not yet been priced Also at Comdex, Sony will offer its VBOX, a $299 box thal serves as an interface between computers and Sony consumer products, with a limit- ed version of MacroMind’s $695 MediaMaker. Called MediaMaker CV, the software will import PICT files, let users arrange them in se- quence, synchronize digitized sound to the PICTs and then print to video. The VBOX/MediaMaker CV bun- dle will list for $399; the package will include a coupon allowing users to upgrade to the full version of Media- Maker for $249, Sony Corp. of America is at Sony Drive, Park Ridge, NJ. 07656. Phone (201) 930-1000. 5 PageMak By Carolyn Said San Jose, Calif. — “Multimedia PageMaker,” a technology demon- stration by Aldus Corp. President Paul Brainerd, made the biggest splash at the Seybold Computer Publishing Conference & Exposi- tion here last week (see story, Page 1), but the company also had a raft of solid product announcements. > PageMaker 4.2. As previous- ly reported (see MacWEEK, Oct. 1), Aldus is preparing a System 7- savvy update to PageMaker that fea- tures Additions, technology that lets developers and users extend the $795 program's feature set. ‘Aldus said PageMaker 4.2 will ship by year-end bundled with PrePrint 15, its color-production tool. Users who upgrade will receive 30 days of free support; new users will receive 90 days of free support. Scitex America Corp. of Bed- NEC brings out new MultiSync line By Rochelle Garner Wood Dale, Ill. — NEC Tech- nologies Inc, last week unveiled a new line of multifrequency color monitors featuring larger display areas, improved ergonomics and a new color-control system. The new MultiSync FG Series line comprises four models: the 15-inch 3FGx, at $749; the $899, 15-inch 4FG; the 17-inch 5FG, priced at $1,599; and the $3,499, 21- inch 6FG. All are compatible with the Mac LC and the Macintosh II family, NEC said. All but the 3FGx provide Accu- Color Control, which lets users match on-screen colors to different output devices, Accessed through NEC's Digital Control System, a series of buttons recessed in a front panel, AccuColor lets users ares rately adjust red, green and blue color guns to match colors they hold up to the monitor All monitors support _bezel- to-bezel Fullsean display. Fullscan gives the 15-inch 3FGx and 4FG up to 36 percent more active screen area than most 14-inch dis- plays, NEC said, All meet the strin- MultiSync 3FGx is the only model in NEC's new line that does not support AccuColor Control. gent Swedish standards governing very and extremely low-frequency (VLI d ELF) emissions. NEC additionally offers an anti- static screen lens from Optical Coat- ings Laboratory Inc. for $79. NEC Technologies Inc. is at 1255 Michael Drive, Wood Dale, Ill. 60191. Phone (708) 860-9500. 5 poeta sn lanes at Same er 4.2 folds in Additions; Aldus unveils Windows software ford, Mass., demonstrated Scitex | Visionary/A, a set of Aldus Addi- | tions that add high-end color fea~ tures to PageMaker and link it to Scitex’s pre-press system. Visionary/A will ship in the first quarter of 1992, Scitex said. Articulate Systems Inc. of Woburn Mass., said it will use Additions to cre- ate a Voice User Interface for users of PageMaker and Articulate’s Voice Navigator II. A host of other companies said they will develop Additions, includ- ing Altura Sofware Inc., AStar Technologies Inc., Compumation’ Inc., Dewar Information Systems, EDCO Services Inc., ElseWare Corp., Equilibrium, K-Talk Com- munications Inc., North Atlantic Publishing Systems Inc., Page- Ahead Software Corp., Palsoft, Par- allax Productions, Publishing Rev- enue Partners, Virginia Systems Inc. and The Utility Co. i > FreeHand 3.1. Aldus announced a System 7-sawy version of its illustration program. To ship | by: ear-end for $595, FreeHand 3.1 | will support TrueType, publish and_ cee balloon ita and 32-bi addressing, as well as hot links PageMaker 4.2. Other enhancements inclu support for _ pressure-sensitive | tablets, improved element manipu- | lation, faster editing of styles via mouse and espe shortcuts, the | ability to export files in PICT and | PICT2 formats, and new printing | options providing more control over | speed and accuracy. ; > Windows products. Aldus | ea eee 3.0 for Win- , Which will offer file ati bility with its Mac counter Tbe $595 program will ship in Te fourth quarter. Es The company also announced PhotoStyler 1.1, a full-color rocessing program for Windows. Aldus acquired the program from: U-Lead Systems Inc. of Taiwan in May and has been working o enhancements since then. The $795 program will ship in | fourth quarter. “a Aldus Corp. is at 411 First Ave. S. Seattle, Wash. 98104-2871. 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Momenta International next week DA scans during creation, editing By Henry Norr Morgantown, W.Va. — Share- | ware author Jeff Shulman last week released a major upgrade to his VirusDetective/VirusBlockade II anti-virus package The result is “a network manag- er's dream come true,” said Geoff Hartley, a Hollister, Calif.-based software and networking consultant and sysop in charge of Mac virus information on the Computer Virus Industry Association's electronic bulletin board. Along with Version 5.0 of Virus- Detective, his user-configurable desk accessory, Shulman released Version 2.0 of VirusBlockade II, a control panel for configuring how, where, when and what the DA will scan. Together, he said, they protect against a variety of “hexually trans- mitted diseases,” including worms and Trojan horses, as well as viruses. A key new feature — one current- ly offered by no other viru detection utility — is automatic scanning of files as they are created or modified. If Superfast File Scan- ning is enabled in the control panel, the DA checks files as they are downloaded, copied, uncom- pressed, created or modified. Flop- The Moments notebook system uses both a pen and keyboard orem MS-DOS, Windows and pea-based applications. will ship Momenta, a pen-based sys- tem that rans DOS, Windows and Momenta’s own pen-based operat- ing system. Momenta functions as a desktop machine that can convert to a notebook system. The $4,995 system in- cludes Momenta's system software, several _ pen- based applications (includ- inga spreadsheet, personal information manager and fax mark-up software), a fax modem, a keyboard, and a carrying case The 6.1-pound, wedge- shaped Momenta ma- chine is about the size of a three-ring notebook. It runs off-the-shelf DOS and Windows 3.0 pro- ms and can use the uilt-in stylus like a mouse. The company said it will support Windows for Pen Computing when it is released. Momenta’s system runs on a 386SX microproces- sor, assisted by two digital signal proce for pen control and voice input, and several custom chips pies and local and networked vol- umes can be checked, and the soft- ware can be run on AppleShare servers, although some restrictions apply with AppleShare 2.0.1. Depending on the settings select- ed, Virus Blockade can notify the user and delete, move or rename the file if it finds a resource that indicates infection. Another new feature, called Rook- ie Switch, freezes the system after detecting a virus and posts an admin- istrator-edited message telling the user what to do. Other new features include user- scheduled automatic scanning; auto- matic removal of infections, such as WDEF, from the desktop file; and improved screens, Capab revious versions include options to for power management and other system functions, It has one serial and one parallel port; the keyboard includes two mouse ports, The SmallTalk-based Momenta Application Development Environ- ment makes the creation of pen-based applications easier by defining more than 400 classes of objects that developers can access. Third-party applications developed specifically for the Momenta pen- based OS are expected to be announced by San Jose, Calif.-based PenWare and OoWare of Mountain View, Calif. The system runs off 10 AA batter- ies. Alkaline batteries power the sys- tem for about six hours; rechargeable batteries, which can charge while the een is in use, will keep it going for ree to four hours. Momenta said the system will attract a different type of buyer than the slate-type systems that NCR Corp. and others have developed based on the PenPoint operating system from Foster City, Calif.- based GO Corp. The company said its system is aimed at non-clerical office workers, rather than blue- collar in-the-field workers. Momenta International is at 295 N. Bernardo Ave., Mountain View, Calif. 94043. Phone (415) 969-3876; fax (415) 969-3877. 5 Upgrades boost VirusDetective, VirusBlockade II line whenever a new virus is discov- ered and notifies registered users by card “The networks that I find myself involved with are accessed by peo- ple who travel the world and as such need immediate updated protec- tion,” Hartley said. “No other updates have been faster.” VirusDetective 5.0 and Virus- Blockade II 2.0 are available now on Zmac and other on-line services. Through Dec. 31, the shareware fee for the two programs, when registered together, will be $59 for U.S. customers and $64 for those abroad. VirusDetective 5.0 alone is $40 in the United States and $45 elsewhere, The programs are covered by a 30-day money- back guarantee, and site licensing is available. 5 lock out —_ floppy drives, to scan floy (Caistor pies automatically when inserted, and to write-protect flop- pies and hard drives VirusDetective, which was the first anti-virus program that could be con- figured for new viruses, Jets users read or paste in additional search strings. Shulman posts a string on- [coma ae ones Comm) With the VirvsBlockade I! 2.0 control panel, users can configure VirusDetective 5.0 to scan files automatically as they are created. m_ Slate chalks up software to take Mac-created documents on the road By Raines Cohen rac Eales Reterorcs > Maps San Jose, Calif. — nt_Edt Page Bookroark When you've got a light, portable pen-based sys- tem, why carry pounds of paper documentation? That's what Slate Corp. asked last week here at the Seybold Computer Publishing Conference & Exposition when it intro- duced its PenBook elec- tronic book software for pen-based computers. The software comes in two parts: > PenBook Author. From any Mac applica- tion, users can print to disk and create a Post- Script file via Apple's LaserWniter driver. Then, in PenBook Author, users can create document sec- = i, Long Beach, tions or chapters and drag the PostScnpt documents 7 into them. Ab SG Hey Patrons tose thloneny Ole Ken Iwhier Cie The $695 application indexes and compresses the pieces to create a PenBook-format _docu- ment, known as a book, which can be transferred to a pen-based sys- tem, The compression and encod- ing operation reduces a 1.2-Mbyte QuarkXPress document, for exam- ple, to a manageable 100 Kbytes A typical 250-page _ procedure manual, comprising 93 percent text, will end up occupying about 300 Kbytes. A version of the authoring soft- ware will be offered for IBM PC and compatible systems as well > PenBook Reader, software running under either GO Corp.'s PenPoint or Microsoft Corp.’s Win- dows for Pen Goaptitng! Ets users browse and annotate the resulting documents, Using the pen, readers simply flick between pages with a horizontal-line gesture. Two flicks jumps to the end ofa section, and three flicks jumps to the end of a book. A slider bar lets users page directly to any point in the heals Readers can create visible book- marks and return to the page with just one click. They also can search through a book for text, mark up books, and highlight or white out selected phrases, ‘The company said the $95 reader is due to ship in the first half of next year. Slate currently offers its PenApps software for PenPoint, and promises aversion for Windows for Pen Com- puting next year. “This thay has a pretty bad habit of arguing between systems in front of our customers,” said Vern Raburn, Slate CEO, “They end up deciding that either one they choose is the wrong system.” ‘The company said the main mar- PenBook Reader users can annotate documents and can quickly navigate by making gestures with a pen. ket for the product is for corporate — publishing of reference documents. One potential customer, an airline | company, said it is considering Pen- Book to hold the 250-page reference material for its 17,000 flight atten- dants, While the current update pro-_ cess is expensive and time | consuming, PenBook documents | could be quickly and easily created from source materials redownloaded to the pen systems. Keyboard input is not suppo: in the current generation of, PenBook reader, Nor does it support indepen annotation palettes, in the of Post-it notes. It does sup handwriting recognition, to extent provided by the host operat ing system. Slate Corp. is at 15035 N, 73rd S| Scottsdale, Ariz. 85260. ( 443-7322; fax (602) incorrectly stated the prices for NetWare for 3.01. Users who do not P gurat WEEK reported last week CorrectPrint 300 color come without RAM. : The PC LocalTalk chart: Sept. 24 ProductWatch — incorrectly listed the required memory in meg; instead of kilobytes. \/ Zs. t TechWorks™ we know when it comes to Ethernet it’s important to haye choices. So we offer a wide array of Ethernet products, ranging from a single interface Nubus™ card to our exclusive triple interface TechWorks Nubus Ethernet card to sophisticated network management software. You’ll also find our cards use reliable surface mount technology, and most allow you to choose more than one interface. ae GraceLAN™ 2.0, our network management program, can evaluate your Ethernet needs before you expand your LAN or ae to System 7.0 by providing critical data on the configuration of entire networks, from total topology down to what specific applications are on each machine. 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Without giving up great black and white. Hewlett-Packard makes it all possible with the new HP DeskWriter C printer. Impressive black and white. And thousands of colors. For just $1,095? The best features of HP’s DeskWriter haven't changed. You'll still get the crisp, clean, laser-sharp output. The 300 dot-per-inch resolution. And you'll still have all the built-in, scalable fonts and graphic capa- bilities that can make sucha difference in your documents and presentations. Take all that, add a nearly end- less choice of attention-getting colors, and Macintosh users have got one very valuable partner. One that’s a pleasure to work "Suggested US. list price. tin Canada, call 1-800-187-3867, Ext 2646, **Offer valid through January 31, 1992 No purchase necessary; void where prohibited. with. With the DeskWriter C, you just plug, play, and print. On plain paper or transparency. 4 Of course, it’s Macintosh and 4 System 7 compatible. With the DeskWriter C, Hewlett- Packard introduces a colorful new generation to its family of inkjet printers. A family that stands for affordable quality. Quality that’s backed by a three- year warranty. iil Affordable color. Introducing the HP DeskWriter C printer Only $1,095. So when other Macintosh HP dealer and sign up for a _ users ask you what's new, tell chance to win a Caribbean them to get ready for a splash cruise for two** Color is what _ of color. For more interesting the business world is coming to. graphs and charts. Forimpres- yp Peripherals e cover pages and for com- When it’s i pelling overhead presentations. en eS DONCANC LO. YOU: All for under $1,095. ou’d like to see some samples | @) | HEWLETT of the DeskWriter C’s work, call PACKARD 1-800-752-0900, Ext. 26467 Or visit your nearest authorized ar De Pa ai a News MACWEEK 10.08.91 1.38x3xSin. 1.38x3xSin. 2x3x525in. — 2x3x5.25in. 188 x4x7 in 1.88x4x7 in. 1.88x4x7 in. 188x427 in ‘2x5x7in. ‘UxSx7in. UxSx7in 2xSx7in 2x5x7in. 2xSxTin. UxSx7in. 187x638 x9 in. 1.87 x6.38x9 in 1.87 x 6.38 x9 in. 1.87 x6.38 x9 in. 1.87 x6.38 x9 in. 6.87 x8.38x5.63in, 6.87 x8.38x5.63i0. 6.87 x8.38x5.63in. 6.87 x 8.38 x 5.63 in. “Expandable by adding piggyback cartridges. Removables join little Liberty line Opticals, flopticals and batteries due By Heary Norr Santa Clara, Calif — In the crowded Mac storage market, Lib- erty Systems Inc.'s niche is small — perhaps in unit sales and certainly in unit size. The 5-year-old company has ieneaicedie peated Merl drives into tiny, lightweight cases (see MacWEEK, Sept. 27, 1988, and Feb. 6, 1990). Now Liberty has extended that philosophy to a full line of storage media, tossed in a touch of IBM PC compatibility and developed a battery-power option for several of its pat F The Liberty line is divided into several series, defined by the num- ber of cubic inches their cases fill. The smallest products, using 25-inch mechanisms, require only 20 cubic inches and ver less than a pound, including built-in power supply. The system attaches directly to the SCSI port and provides a 25-pin SCSI port for additional peripherals; the only cable required isa standard power cord Liberty's 30 Series is similar but features a connector that lets sed user and capacity by “piggy ing” iia With addtional hard disk mechanisms. Later this month the company will offer a battery-power option for the 30 Series, as well as for the larger 50 and 70 Series The latest additions to the line 6.87 18.38 x5.63in. (see chart, above) support a variety of removable media, including streaming-tape cassettes, CD-ROM, icals, 35- and 5.25-inch eras- able optical disks, and SyQuest and Bernoulli cartridges. Most of the Liberty units are also available, at slightly higher prices, with a built-in parallel-to-SCSI con- verter that allows owners of IBM PCs and compatibles to attach the drives to their systems’ apa printer port. For other models the converter is available as a separate accessory, priced at $179. All Liber- ty drives are available with Format- ter Five from Software Architects Inc. and Dayna Communications Inc.'s DOS Mounter. The $190 package allows users to create and mount both Mac and DOS parti- tions on the same drive. All systems are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee and a one-year warranty; two-year war- ranties are available on some models. Liberty Systems Inc. is at 160 Saratoga Ave., Suite 38, Santa Clara, Calif. 95051. Phone (408) 983-1127; fax (408) 243-2885. 9 Radius cuts Rocket prices, adds cards By Raines Cohen San Jose, Calif. — Radius Inc. cut prices on its Rocket 68040 accelera- tor and PrecisionColor 8 graphics card and introduced two accelerat- ed color cards at last week’s Seybold Computer Publishing Conference & Exposition here » Price cuts. The company’s top- of-the-line accelerator, the Rocket, now lists for $2,499, down from $3,495. PrecisionColor 8, Radius’ eight-bit unaccelerated color card, now costs $599, down from $795. » Accelerated color. Radius also announced last week its PrecisionColor 8X and Precision- Color 24X, two new accelerated eight- and 24-bit video cards. As pre- viously reported (see MacWEEK, Sept. 17), both color cards for large- screen monitors drive many different displays at a variety of resolutions, from 640 by 480 pixels to 1,152 by 882 pixels. The cards are expected to ship next week. Supported monitors include all Radius large-format color and gray- scale displays; all Apple color dis- plays; and selected displays from E-Machines Inc., RasterOps Corp. and SuperMae Technology The $899 PrecisionColor 8X can be upgraded to 16- or 24-bit color, for $599 and $1,198, respectively. The PrecisionColor 24X is $1,999. Either card can be combined with the Rocket for greater perfor- mance, the company said. Both come with a Mac Isi NuBus adapter and a one-year warranty. Radius Ine. is at 1710 Fortune Drive, San Jose, Calif, 95131. Phone (408) 434-1010; fax (408) 434-0127. 0 News Be RWIleE ghato Orange Micro upgrades, cuts price on DOS cop Anaheim, Calif. — Orange Micro Inc. has upgraded the sc cut the price on its Orange386 MS-DOS coprocessor for Nu! Version 1.2 of the card’s software offers a major new allows Mac applications and DOS programs running on the based coprocessor to read and write files to the same folder. OrangeShare, the new feature lets users define up to 23 Mac MS-DOS volumes D: through Z:. ? Orange also cut the list price of the 16-MHz version ofthe percent, to $1,999. The company offers a 20-MHz version for Orange Micro Inc. is at 1400 N. Lakeview Ave., Anah 92807. Phone (714) 779-2772; fax (714) 779-9332. ing may appreciate a new deal from Microsoft Corp. Begii month and lasting until Jan. 31, 1992, each package of th Park, Calif. Quicken, which lists separately for $69.95, lets users manage transfer funds between accounts. It also can be used for bookkeepi tasks and for electronic bill paying. Users who want fo receive Quicken must mail the coupon, plus $5.50 for shipping and handling, to Microsoft. Customers who bought Works after Sept. 16 can obtain Quicken by calling Microsoft Customer Sales at (800) 426-9400. Microsoft Corp. is at 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, Wash. 98052- 6399. Phone (206) 882-8080; fax (206) 883-8101. Macmillan offers guides to System 7, telecom, Quicken Carmel, Ind. —Two divisions of Macmillan Computer Publishing have released three books to help get users up to speed. The new “10 Minute Guide to System 7” by Harry McQuillen IV, from Macmillan’s Sams division, offers quick tips for navigating the System 7.0 desktop and customizing the Mac. The $9.95 book also covers TrueType, ali es, and publish and subscribe and includes timesaving and trou- bleshooting advice. i comfortable with telecommunications software and transmi: ‘ including modem setup. ie: Mamillan's Que Division offers “Using Quicken 3 for the Moc” ee Stephen Nelson with Greg Shultz, a $19.95 guide for beginningand intermediate users. It includes instructions on setting up financial ‘accounts with Quicken (the personal financial-management program from Intuil Inc.), writing computerized checks and making electronic payments, Macmillan Computer Publishing is at 11711 N. College Ave., Carmel, Ind. 46032. Phone (317) 573-2500 or (800) 428-5331; fax (317) 573-2583. oo What do you want in a monitor? Made for Macs. Not only are the new FG series of monitors made specifically for Apple Computers, we also make many other Apple compatible peripherals, from CD-ROM devices and PC-VCRs toa full line of printers CsC Computers and Communications How about The new MultiSync’ monitors from NEC. Announcing the new FG™ series of MultiSync monitors. Completely redesigned from the inside out to give your Mac brighter, sharper, more accurate images. For example, the FG series features our AccuColor™ Control System? An amazing advance in computer monitors that provides unprecedented color accuracy. Now you can easily match on-screen colors to printer output, other monitors, process color standards such as Pantone” or even your personal preferences. Advanced flat square screen technology gives you a flatter screen, both horizontally and verti- cally, with a high-contrast surface for exceptionally sharp text and crisp graphics. Larger screens combined with our FullScan™ capability provide an edge-to-edge display with up to 36% greater Call 1-800-NEC-INFO. (In Canada: 1-800-343-4418.) For immediate information, call NEC FAST FAX, 1-800-366-0476. Request #1521. everything? Not an introduction. A revolution. active screen area** than most conventional monitors. New generation electronics with Invar shadow mask produce tight convergence, less distortion and higher brightness. ErgoDesign™ elements enhance comfort and safety. An antistatic screen coating eliminates dust attraction. And all the controls are in the front where they’re easier to use. Plus, our Reduced Magnetic Field™ technology lowers ELF and VLF emissions. In fact, they even meet the strict Swedish MPR II guidelines. MultiSync monitors are compatible with the Mac II family and most Mac cards, and support a range of video standards from 640 x 480 to high resolution 24 bit color. The all new FG series from NEC. For an image as clear as the one in your mind. y A gL Because 4f is the way you want to go. & PP NN, y News MACWEEK ‘PatchWorks developer tool creates, Claris CAD does tricks with designPower 10.08.91 compresses updater apps quickly By Roines Cohen Princeton, N.J. — SNA Inc. last month released a developer tool that could help users get faster updates and help publishers cut the cost of maintenance releases. Called PatchWorks, the new pro- gram lets developers create custom updater applications in minutes, with no programming required, according to SNA. The developer can specify which versions of the tar- get software — application, system extension or even font — will be rec- ognized and brought up to date. PatchWorks uses a proprietary compression technique to reduce the size of updater applications so lhey camiberiataloeis| ceetiort cally from on-line services and ven- dor bulletin boards, the company said. PatchWorks costs $500 for the first copy, $200 for the second copy and $800 for a site license. The updater applications it creates may be distributed royalty-free. SNA Ine. is at P.O. Box 3662, Princeton, N.J. 08543. Phone (609) 799-9605; fax (609) 799-9639. 0 Newton clips out its GEOvista U.S. maps Newton, Mass. — Newton Tech- nology Inc. last month shipped GEOvista ClipArt USA Maps, a col- lection of publication-quality maps of the United States. The clip-art maps, which can be placed in presentations, newslet- ters and brochures, originally shipped earlier this year wit GEOvista, a $249 application designed to help users create maps based on user data (see Mac- WEEK, April 30) The collection, now available sep- arately for use with any graphics application, is $49 in PICT format $39 in Paint (bit-map) format and $69 in both formats. Newton Technology Inc. is at 73 Lexington St, Newton, Mass. 02166 Phone (617) 630-0145 or ($00) 835- 3031, fax (617) 630-0116. New add-on handles parametric modeling By Rochelle Garner Santa Clara, Calif. — Looking for away to get more capabilities out of Claris CAD? A new add-on called designPower from Vision Software adds parametric modeling, object linking and animation features to Claris Corp.'s popular 2-D CAD program. Available for $299 until Oct. 31 and $399 thereafter, designPower lets Claris CAD users rapidly change drawing geometry by enter- ing formulas, values in a spread- sheet or variables. In addition, designPower lets users pin down certain parts of a drawing while manipulating others. The program lets users perform what-if analyses on a part's clear- ance or movement by stepping through values in a spreadsheet col- umn or by running a range of values for a particular variable, such as degrees of an angle; designPower will animate the results at user- defined speeds Users can stop the sequence at any time, saving files in Claris CAD format to reveal exact dimensions. The program offers two methods for dealing with complex shapes: Users can either group objects with- in layers that have relational depen- dencies with other layers or take advantage of a feature called object linking, which ensures that objects maintain specific relationships to other objects. For example, a user can specify that a circle will always be attached to the end of aline, then manipulate that line. Vision said engineers tend to use relational layers while architects _ prefer object linking. Vision Software is at 3160 De La Cruz Blvd., Santa Clara, Calif 95054, Phone (408) 748-8411 or (800) 800- 8476; fax (408) 748-9584, 5 With designPower, users can group objects in interrelated layers. The robot arm created with three layers that, when moved, show the imoge in motion. VipeO FRAME CAPTURE QUICKTIME CoMPATIBIL — 2 call Scientists navigate a sea of data with Arctic Data Interactive CD-ROM By Matthew Rothenberg Del Mar, Calif. — InterNetwork Tne, is exploring new multimedia terrain with a prototype CD-ROM- based science journal created in cooperation with the U.S. Geologi- cal Survey Arctic Data Interactive, which will be distributed free to 500 key scien- tists and policy-makers, uses a graphi- cal interface to help users navigate through the disc’s contents. ADI's resources include complete scientific texts on the region; satellite imagery; statistical information; and NIH This display of satellite data occompanies on article on sea ice in Arctic Data Image, public-domain _image-pro- cessing software from the National Institutes of Health. ADI topics include Arctic environment, oceanog- raphy, global change and anthropolo- gy, and policy-making for the region. InterNetwork won support for the project from 13 U.S. government sci- ence agencies. The prototype was created on the Mac; the USGS has developed an MS-DOS version InterNetwork Inc. is at 411 Sey- enth St, Del Mar, Calif. 92014 Phone (619) 755-0439; fax (619) 481-8181.5 PBS updates Pro-Cite bibliographic database Operations now three times faster By Henry Norr Ann Arbor, Mich. — Personal Bibliographic Software Inc. last week delivered Version 2.0 of its Macintosh bibliographic database package, Pro-Cite for the Miclatoath The new release of the $395 application makes most operations three times faster than in previous releases, according to the compa- ny. A new quick-search function makes it possible to search selected fields in seconds, regardless of database size, PBS said. In addi- tion, the program now allows up to 100,000 records, compared with 30,000 previously. It can generate a bibliography from references within the body of a document in text, MacWrite and Microsoft Word 3.0 or 4.0 formats; previous versions worked only with text files Users can output bibliographies, in any of 28 standard styles, in the same file formats, A new preview function shows the document on screen as it will appear on paper. MACWEEK Other improvements include commands for making global changes to a set of selected records, support for superscript and sub: script, a new menu arrangement, and a rewritten manual Upgrades are $95. Recent purchasers of Version 1.3 can get the new release free by taking advantage of the company’s 30- News 10.08.91 day money-back guarantee. Through Oct. 31, customers who upgrade are entitled to a 25 percent discount on other PBS products including Biblio-Links, an on-line search tool Personal Bibliographic Software Inc. is at P.O. Box 4250, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106. 1580, fax (313) 996-4672. Niles adds support for WordPerfect 2.0, MacWrite II to EndNote reference tools Berkeley, Calif. — Niles Associates. Inc., publisher _ of the EndNote and EndNote Plus bibliographical database and for- matting packages, last month shipped updated versions of both programs. Version 1.4 of EndNote and Ver- sion 1.1 of EndNote Plus add sup- port for WordPerfect 2.0 and 2.0.1 and, via Apple's XTND system soft ware, support for Claris Corp.'s MaeWrite II Users can now direct either of the Niles programs to scan a Word Perfect or MacWrite II document and automatically generate a for and CRS. COMPRESSION ACCELERATION matted bibliography from citations in the text EndNote and EndNote both of which include an appl and a reference desk accessory, are priced at $149 and $249, respective- ly. Through Nov. 15 they are avail- able directly from Niles at a 35 per- cent discount. Updates are free to owners of EndNote Plus and EndNote 13 with proof of ownership of Word- Perfect or MacWrite II Niles and Associates Inc. is at 2000 Hearst St, Berkeley, Calif. 94709. Phot 510) 649-8179 Plus, MULTIPLE Monttor SupPoRT Phone (313) 996- | (510) 655-6666; fax | News MACWEEK 10.08.91 Tactic’s StereoRecorder gives Macs. Interface design added to MacAnalyst two channels of sound input, output By Dertenyan L Brown and Rochelle Garner Miami — Tactic Software Corp. is now distributing a new device from Mitshiba Corp. of Taiwan that lets Mac users record and play back stereo sound. With the new $249 Mitshiba StereoRecorder hardware and soft- ware package, users can record right and left sound through the Mac's serial ports Stereo playback is limited to members of the Mac II family, which have built-in stereo sound output. The package requires Sys- tem 6.07 and above. StereoRecorder includes Tactic’s Sound Clipper utility software, which records and edits stereo sound as well as converts amon; sound formats; the Mitshiba | driver, which records stereo through Apple's Sound control panel; cables; and an omnidirection- al clip-on microphone Two push buttons on the front of the unit let users switch between the recorder and other peripherals connected to the StereoRecorder's pass-through serial ports Tactic said it expects to offer in December Mitshiba’s Soundman software, which will record sounds directly to disk, permitting sound files to be larger than available RAM With Soundman, users will be able to synchronize recordings to both Musical Instrument Digital Inter- face and video output The software also will support overdubbing. Tactic said it will offer Soundman free to StereoRecorder users. The software will be available separately for $99. Tactic Software Corp. is at 11925 S.W. 128 St, Miami, Fla. 33186. Phone (305) 378-4110 or (800) 344- 4818; fax (305) 232-7467. 0 Version 3.1 speeds prototyping efforts By Mitch Ratcliffe Marshalltown, Towa — Excel Software Inc, last month began shipping Version 3.1 of MacAnalyst, adding interface-design capabilities to its computer-aided software engi- neering program. Priced at $995, MacAnalyst/ Combo 3.1 is a full-featured CASE package that lets software designers build a prototype of an application before they begin to generate code. Site licenses are available for $2,985. The new version includes proto- Decisioneering reduces price of Crystal Ball Boulder, Colo. — Decisioneering Inc., the recently renamed publish- er of Crystal Ball, last week cut the price of its financial risk analysis package from $395 to $195. The program is an add-on for Microsoft Corp.'s Excel and other spreadsheets. Designed to aid fore- casting and decision making, it uses Monte Carlo simulation techniques to generate a range of possible out- comes, rather than a single number (see Mac WEEK, May 21) Decisioneering Inc., Market Engineering Inc., recently moved to 1727 Conestoga St., Boul der, Colo. 80301, Phone (303) 447- 6464; fax (303) 441-2487 formerly Foie tat_ wept Window Format option With Mac- typing tools that let designers build a sample environment with dialog boxes, menus, tables and radio but- tons that can be linked to simulate the final design. A new Field tool provides an attributes dialog each time develop- ers create a new screen element. Attribute data is stored directly in the CASE data dictionary for easy retrieval during the project. Additionally, a new Dictionary dialog lets. designers choose elements that have already been defined by selecting from a dialog menu. MacAnalyst 3.1 also includes a new capability to import PICT images for use as screen elements, such as icons, PICT icons can be dragged to new locations after past- ing them into the design. MacAnalyst/Expert, a $1,595 extended version of MacAnalyst/ Combo with real-time control flow, object-oriented and requirements analyses capabilities, now ships with screen prototyping. Site licenses for this version are $4,785. Excel Software Ine. is at P.O. Box 1414, Marshalltown, Iowa 50158. Phone (515) 752-5359; fax (515) 752-2435. 3 24-Brr COLOR MediaGrabber™ REAL-TIME COMPRESSION’ EDITING SOFTWARE oQukbrak rake compression w optional © 1991 KasterCye Coporuinon. Brands and proc} name are tnademarts or reyitered trademsrts oftheir repectie bids MACWEEK News 10.08.91 Draw up legal papers without using Cliché, slang stacks add spice to writing an attorney with Desktop Lawyer 3.0 By Wade Willioms Orlando, Fla. — An ‘updated pro- gram due this month from The Legal Institute of America will put 4 Mbytes of legal forms on the desk- tops of Mac-based legal eagles. The Desktop Lawyer 3.0 is de- signed to let businesspeople, inves- Trackball does A/UX Fremont, Calif, — Mouse Sys- tems Corp. has released its A‘ Trackball, a three-button input device that works with A/UX, Apple's Unix implementation. The A® Trackball, priced at $129.95, invokes common menu commands and performs cursor positioning simultaneously when working in A/UX. It is compatible with the Macintosh operating sys- tem, the X Window System under Apple's MacX server software and A/UX. AY connects to the Mac’s Apple Desktop Bus. Mouse Systems Corp. is at 47505 Seabridge Drive, Fremont, Calif 94538, Phone (510) 656-1117; fax (610) 770-1924..5 tors and consumers draw up legal papers without consulting an attor- ney. The $99.95 package contains 43 legal checklists and more than 300 legal forms in such categories as real estate, personal finance, estate plan- ning and asset protection. In the Mac version of the prod- uct, the forms are shipped in Microsoft Word 3.0 format, so they can be opened and customized in a variety of word processors. The Desktop Lawyer has been available for MS-DOS computers since 1983. The Legal Institute, a publishing arm of Open Uni- versity Inc,, released the first Mac- intosh version in August. With Ver- sion 3.0, the manual, which provides explanations of each form, has been nearly doubled in size to more than 300 pages. he forms, assembled by Orlando attorney and lecturer Laurence J. Pino, have been certified to meet legal requirements in all 50 states, the company said. The Legal Institute of Americais at 24 S. Orange Ave, Orlando, Fla. 32802. Phone (407) 649-8485 or (800) 874-0388; fax (407) 422-7425. 5 By Roines Cohen Los Angeles — Slippery Disks, a division of Slippery Enterprises Ine., last month shipped Writer's Dreamtools 2.0, a new version of its collection of HyperCard-based stacks for writers. The stacks include lists of events and phrases the company said are useful in writing, ‘The stacks include: » Clichés and Catch Phrases, which has 12,500 clichés and phrases intended to inspire writers of adver- tising copy and newspaper headlines. > Slang, a stack that provides more than 20,000 slang expressions, indexed with keywords for quick searching, The new version includes numer- Australian, Yiddish, surfing, skateboarding and cockney rhyming phrases, as well as explicit terminol. ogy included “for completeness,” the company said. > Stack of Events, which lists 4,000 historical events, sorted by the day of the year. Users can enter per- sonal information for later retrieval along with famous birthdays and ous Task Monitor planner gets price cut Los Altos, Calif. — In an attempt to stay one step ahead of the project- management competition, Monitor Systems Inc. last week reduced the price of Task Monitor 4.2, software intended for scheduling large, com- plex projects. Now priced at $349, down from $695, Task Monitor can schedule thousands of activities and relation- ships, and supports five work break- down structure fields (see Mac- WEEK, June 4) Version 4.2 is compatible with System 7.0. The company also said it has recently improved the program’s ease of use to make it more attractive to a broader audience. Also last week, Monitor Systems announced Task Monitor will be available for $99 to users of Claris Corp.’s MacProject II who send in the front page of their manual. Monitor Systems Inc- is at 960 N San Antonio Road, Suite 210, Los Altos, Calif. 94022. Phone (415) 949-1688; fax (415) 949-4688, occurrences back to 1184. Another file, the Stack of Decades, speeds research by placing events, hap- penings and progress, by decade, in easy reach > Stack of Lists, which includes 600 lists of people, places and things around the world. It lists famous people, household items, art, health and geography Version 2.0 includes new stacks, more lists and more entries per stack than previous versions. The stacks now take advantage of and include HyperCard 2.1 Writer's Dreamtools sells for $149; a student version, excluding Slang and Clichés, is $89. The Events, Decades, Slang and Clichés stacks sell for $35 each; the Stack of Lists sells for $49. Users of Version 1.0 can get both the Stack of Decades and Stack of Lists for $69. Slippery Disks is at P.O. Box 1126, Los Angeles, Calif. 90069 Phone (213) 274-3600; fax (213) 274-7947. Heizer Software, which is handling sales of the stacks, is at P.O. Box 232019, Pleasant Hill, Calif. 94523. 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RASTEROPS THE ART & SCIE NCE OF COLOR™ ateways InterOp 91 attracts Mac vendors | Apple to unveil ISDN NuBus card By Mitch Retcliffe and Margie Wylie San Jose, Calif. — Apple and third- party Mac vendors will their pocket protectors and south to InterOp 91, held here this week. Once associated primarily with Unix and TCP/IP, the twice-yearly gathering of network gurus now showcases technology and products based on many different interna- tional networking standards. This year Apple has chosen the venue to unveil its long-awaited ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) NuBus card for the Mac (see MacWEEK, Sept. 17). The com- pany also will show new versions of MacTCP (see story, Page 20) and MacX 25 (see MacWEEK, L 24). Tenon Intersystems Ine. will show MachTen 10.1, a Unix kernel that will run on any Mac (see review, P: 58). Also on display will be a Mach- Ten compiler, due later this month. This plotter, made of Lego blocks and controlled through remote procedure calls, will join other offbeat applications of network standards on display ot InterOp ’91 this week. Multiaccess Computing Corp. will provide Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS) connectivity for Macs through its $2,999 SMDSTalk card as of InterOp’s SMDS eooe “eB Dispatcher/SMTP for QuickMail, InterCon Dispatches gateways By Nathalie Welch San Jose, Calif. — InterCon Sys- tems Corp. this week will make the first public showing of its Dispatch- ex line of electronic-mail gateways for QuickMail here at InterOp '91 » Dispatcher/SMTP for Quick- SMTP is E-mail for the masses SMTP may sound like a motor oil to many Mac users, but to millions of users on TCP/IP net- for TCP/IP has become closely associated with Unix, and some implementation of SMTP (Sim- ple Mail Transfer Protocol) exists for nearly every flavor of Unix, as well as other platforms. The protocol also is often used as an E-mail backbone in TCP/AP networks, Like na Os SMTP is being challenged by Open System Inter- connection standards, SMTP will give way to OSI's X400, which is aici more popular in Europe and Asia than in the United States. Mail, shipping since last month for $999, lets users of CE Software Inc.’s QuickMail exchange mail with TCPAP-based E-mail systems built around the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) standai The package works with an unlim- ited number of users and includes an SNMP (Simple Network Manage- ment Protocol) agent and MacTCP, a TCP/AP communications stack from Apple that must reside on the same QuickMail server as the gatewa Dispatcher/SMTP for Quick- Mail, which also runs on the same Mac as the QuickMail server, requires an Ethernet card or a LocalTalk-to-Ethemet gateway, File enclosure formats supported include BinHex, Aladdin Systems Inc.’s Stuffit and Packlt (an older shareware format), Unix's UUen- code, Apple’s AppleSingle, and Cay- man Systems Inc.'s GatorMail-Q. To avoid typing long Internet addresses, users can rely on address book aliases to address outgoing messages. > Dispatcher/X.400 for Quick- Mail, due in November for $1,995 per server, will link QuickMail users to X.400 messaging systems. Both gateways let the user take adyantage of all QuickMail features, according to InterCon. InterCon Systems Corp. is at 950 Herndon Parkway, Suite 420, Hern- don, Ya. 22070. Phone (703) 709- 9890; fax (703) 709-9596, 3 ca oer a new $995 SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) gateway (see story, this page), and an interim upgrade to NFS/Share, a Mac-based Network | File System client, will be highlights | at InterCon Systems Corp.'s booth. InterCon also will announce a Mac front end for Performance Systems International Inc.’s new PSILink, which provides low-cost commercial access to the Internet mail service. The Wollongong Group Inc. will be on hand with Pathway Access 2.0 for Macintosh. The new version of its multiplatform graphical front end to TCPIP services shipped last week. In the show's sometimes offbeat spirit of experimentation, several ven- lors have sponsored technology dem- onstrations that use standard proto- cols to control such unlikely devices as a toaster, a mechanical arm made of Legos and a plotter constructed from the same children’s blocks. Ethernet-based telephones with a Mac interface also will be on hand. o > Communicatio New MacTOPS, DataClub joust with free System 7.0 file sharing By Margie Wylie San Francisco — Two flavors of file-sharing software that became available last week are set to chal- lenge System 7.0's free, built-in file sharing with advantages their cre- ators think make them worth the extra investment. > DataClub. International Busi- ness Software Inc.’s peer-to-peer file-sharing system now comes in two System 7.0-compatible ver- sions: the $795, 10-user DataClub Classic and the 200-user, $1,395 DataClub Elite. Both versions are still built on the concept of a “virtual server,” which represents disk space scattered over the networkas though it were a single volume (see MacWEEK, June 25). The virtual-server concept lets administrators treat all the peer- to-peer services on the network like one dedicated server, backing it up and managing it without changing how network resources appear to users. System 7.0's file sharing, on the other hand, “makes every user on the network a manager,” said IBS President Nick Powell DataClub Elite adds a higher limit on users and the capability to dedicate a Mac's CPU entirely to the virtual server. DataClub Clas- sic and Elite support virtual memory and aliases and allow a mix of systems 6 and 7. Up- grades are free to those registered after June 1. Others cost $59 or $99, depending on the number of users. > MacTOPS 3.1. According to Sitka Corp, the Sys- tem 7.0-compatible so! cost ing $299 per user, offers features not found in Macintosh file sharing= server, as well as client, capabilities for DOS computers, Sun SPARC- stations and System 6 Maes. Farallon Computing Inc’s Phone NET Talk lets DOS machines become clients but not servers. Under System 7.0’s sharing scheme, System 6 Macs also work under that limitation. Mac file sharing doesn’t support SPARCstations. MacTOPS 3.1 also comes bun- dled with — MacLinkPlus/TOPS, Mac-to-PC file format translators from DataViz Inc., anda coupon for a free copy of Sitka’s InBox Plus electronic-mail software. It ports aliases and publish and ae scribe. Upgrades cost $75 per site. International Business Software is at 1270 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 314, Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086. Phone (408) 522-8000; fax (408) 720-0289. Sitka Corp. is at 950 Marina Vil- lage Parkway, Alameda, Calif, 94501. Phone (510) 769-9669 or (800) 845- 7677; fax (510) 769-8772, 3 What's new in file sharing? Network File System offers services across platforms By Sharon Fisher San Francisco — Mae network man- agers who tum to TCP/IP to link mul- tiplatform, — wide- area networks are finding that other services associated with the network standard can ease the confusion often associated with mixed environments, One such standard, Network File System, lets a mix of users share a single file server. TECH ANALYSIS Not just another standard. NFS was developed by Sun Micro- systems Ine,, and the specification for the services was put into the public domain so that it Aaa implemented by other vendors, too, Tt consists of two parts: a “client,” which runs on the user’s system and requests files from the “server,” on which they're stored. An NFS server stores files in a format that transcends hardware boundaries and allows many kinds of computers to read files no matter where they are kept, whether on a Unix workstation or even an IBM mainframe. NFS allows files to be stored in a central location — perhaps a mini- computer with many shared disk drives — but accessed from any other system on the network. NFS services are available for more than a hundred types of com- puters, many of them Unix-based. But the standard is also Coed ground outside the Unix Klatch. Novell Inc., the Provo, Utah-based maker of NetWare network servers, has created an NFS server for its NetWare v3.11. Even 1BM Corp., which traditionally supports only its own communications stan- dards, supports NFS on its main- frames. So what does it mean to you? There are no NFS server imple- mentations for the Macintosh, See NFS, Page 20 eh ‘Macintosh networking company, time after time after time. [ASANTE'S NEW EN/SC ETHERNET SCSI. ANY MAC. ANY MEDIA. 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As with many other imple- mentations of the Unix operating system both components of NFS — server and client — are built into Apple's Unix for the Mac, A/UX The Wollongong Group Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif, this week shipped its $295 PathWay Access 2.0 software: InterCon Systems Corp. of Herndon, Va., is shipping its $295 NFS/Share 1.1 (see related story Page 18). Both of these software packages let Macs that are networked to NFS servers see the files stored there as if they were Mac files. Users select the NFS server through Apple: Share extensions in the Mac’s Chooser, and files and directories stored on the server in addition, appear as icons to Macintosh users Cayman Systems Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., lets an entire network of Mac users read NFS files off an NFS host through a software way installed on its GatorBox, a LocalT to-Ethernet router. But it doesn’t let users view and manipulate the NFS server like an AppleShare server. The GatorBox costs $2,795, and with GatorShare software, the NFS gateway, priced at $1 Apple has never sold an NFS product of its own. According to sources, Apple had WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER Join us for the Managing Apple Computers in Information Systems (MacIS) 1991 Fall Conference, “Macintosh in the Millennium,” November 10-13 at The Pointe at Tapatio Cliffs and expand your Macintosh capabilities! For registration information, contact Jack Thompson at MaclS Headquarters, 312/644-6610; fax: 312/321-6869. MaclIS 1991 FALL CONFERENCE November 10-13, 1991 » The Pointe at patio Cliffs » Phoenix, Arizona planned an NFS implementation developed by the Center for Information Technology Integration at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, but the company pulled the product before its anticipated announce- ment in June 1989. Its status remains unknown. Who really uses this stuff? Not surpris- ingly, NF'S users tend to be found at sites with a mixture of different types of computers or those that need extra storage capacity. “Here in the lab, we use it to move large documents — such as GIF [Graphic Inter- change Format] files, sequences of images and audio files — between Maes and Suns,” said Eric Anderson, a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego who is researching operating systems for multime- dia. “Also, the Mac had only an 80-Mbyte hard drive, so we've moved off large [data] objects to the file server,” he said. “One of the reasons we got [NFS] was to let us use data without having to move it or have it in two places,” said Eric Frey, a research associate in biomedical engineer- ing at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill Both users say that without NFS, they would be forced to copy the files from the Unix systems to the Macintoshes. “With NFS, we can see icons,” Anderson said ‘Files on the Sun still look like Mae files, and they can be double-clicked. To the user, it's just like AppleShare; they see another volume there, open it up and treat it the same way As organizations continue to integrate their Macs into the corporate network even more tightly, it’s likely that interest in NFS for the Mac will rise. “We believe very strongly that as Apple continues to try to push the Macintosh as one of the standard business desktops, we're going to see interest continue to grow even more,” said David Langlais, director of prod- uct marketing for Wollongong. System 7.0-compatible MacTCP ready at last By Mitch Ratcliffe Cupertino, Calif. — Internet users and others who rely on TCP/IP networks for file transfers and electronic mail will breathe a sigh of relief since Apple started shipping its System 7.0-compatible MacTCP 11 last week. 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Users can quickly modify a Multiple Master typeface’s weight, width, visual scale and style. » Copyfitting. Adobe predicts word processors and spreadsheet spplications soon will kavalantte matic Fit To Page commands to take advantage of Multiple Master SCREEN TEST Mac rendering powers nuclear blast for Terminator II’ Los Angeles — Robert and Dennis Skotak, founders of ‘4-Ward Productions Inc. here, usually take a traditional approach when they create special effects for movies. But when the Skotaks were hired to simulate downtown Los Angeles being decimated by a nuclear bomb for the movie “Terminator Il,” they put their model-building tools away ‘and turned fo the Mac. Without graphics, Dennis Skotok said, “we would have had to do the shot a half-dozen fimes and rebuild the models each fime.” The Skotaks contacted Jay Roth, president of Pasade- na, Calif.-based Electric Image Inc. Within weeks, Roth’s staff produced a computer model of Los Angeles > Graphics applications > Multimedia Adobe serves Multiple Master faces Multiple Master typefaces come with Adobe's new Font Cre- ator extension that lets users odjust the weight and width of a type- face while working in ony Moc application. fonts. Until then, users can con- dense or expand headlines or para- graphs with Font Creator, an Adobe extension bundled with Multiple Master fonts In addition to Font Creator, Adobe’s typefaces will come with a specimen book and a new version of Adobe Type Manager that recog- nizes Multiple Master fonts Myriad and Myriad Italic come with two design axes: weight and width. Users can adjust the fonts between light condensed and black extended. Minion and Minion Italic have three design axes: weight, width and optical scale. Adobe is making its new technolo- gy available to other type companies. Executives from Intemational Type Corp., Agfa Compugraphic, Bit- stream Corp., Monotype Typogra- phy Inc. and Linotype-Hell Co. said their companies will manufacture their own Multiple Master fonts. Adobe Systems Inc. is at 1585 Charleston Road, Mountain View, Calif. 94039. Phone (415) 961-4400, o and obliterated it on a host of Iifx machines, Electric Image cropped a scanned photo of Los Angeles in Adobe Systems Inc.’s Photoshop and brought it into the Electric Image Animation System. Using a detailed street map and dimensions from the city planner, the team spent about three days creating 3-D models of each building with a Truevision NuVista card and a high- resolution Sony monitor. The nuclear blast, followed by a wave of collapsing buildings and a fireball, was created with a custom pro- gram called Miniwarp, which Electric Image will include in @ future version of EIAS. The staff rendered the scene four fimes, varying the lighting and shading, for professional- quality film at 2,048 by 898 pixels. They used a likx with 32 Mbytes of RAM, which took 18 min- utes per frame for 144 frames. The Skotaks converted the files to registered film prints and integrated them with the original Photo of Los Angeles ‘and a painting of the city in ruins. “It's really an anti-nuke statement,” Dennis Skotak ‘seems to be struck with it.” —By Allison de Laveaga By Carolyn Soid San Jose, Calif. — Managing Editor Software Inc. has added ad- dummying capabilities to its port- folio with Ad Director, which made | its debut here last week at the Sey- bold Computer Publishing Confer- ence & Exposition. The com- pany also unveiled an update to Page Director, its page-dummying application Both programs can function as stand-alone applications or as Quark- XTensions, add-ons to QuarkXPress from Quark Inc. of Denver. » Ad Director can assemble advertising dummies based on user- defined rules and multiple inputs. Tt outputs standard advertising reports, annotated hard-copy ad dummies, files that can be read by Page Director and exported to XPress, and a publication output file linked to the onginating in- put system. Scheduled to ship this week, Ad Director will sell for $4,995 and will include a copy of Page Direc- tor 1.5. Users who want only print- ed dummies (without electronic links to Page Director or XPress) can purchase Ad Director for $3,995, > Page Director 1.5, an up- grade to the publications manage- Agfa puts new faces on Truelype CD-ROM By Neil McManus Wilmington, Mass. — Agfa Com- pugraphic this month will boost its AgfaType CD-ROM collection by adding 257 typefaces, bringing the total number of fonts to 1,907 Version 3.0 of the Agfa library includes 20 TrueType fonts; the rest are in Type 1 format, including the complete Adobe Type Library of more than 1,000 fonts The AgfaType CD-ROM, available at an initial price of $99, includes 20 free headline typefaces, such as Metropolis. Berntandige (cea Roman, PL Futura Maxi Demi, Strat- ford Bold, Section Bold Condensed and PL Benguit Frisky, as well as the choice of one Pi or Symbol font Agfa also is offering a $695 bundle that includes the same fonts and a Toshiba TXM3301 CD-ROM drive. The remaining typefaces are encoded on the CD-ROM, Users access individual font families by pur- chasing “key” codes by phone or fax Utility applications and type- See Agfa, Page 26 Managing Editor hires Ad Director: Program offers smarter dummies ment system, adds style-tag suy program-to-program comm tions, easy cropping of art elemen| page gridding, locking of individual elements, and element alignment and justification. The program is now System 7- savy with support for core Apple events, hooks for publish and sub- scribe, aliases, and balloon help, according to Managing Editor. Page Director 1.5 will sell for $1,495, up from $895. Managing Editor Software Inc. is at 8208 Brookside Road, Elkins Park, Pa. 19117. Phone (215) 635- 5074; fax (215) 635-5046. 0 Is PS Level 2 leaving clones out on a limb? By Mitzi Waltz Wilsonville, Ore. The halls of Tektronix Inc. area good place to inquire about the status of the PostScript-clone ANALYSIS printer, ARSE Tektronix’s Phaser series of clones have consistently been near the top of ssles Guna aetee PostScript clones. And a recent cut in the price of the Phaser II PX, a thermal-wax color printer that uses a Level 1 clone interpreter, to $5,995 should give sales a lift But the company also has recently signed a technology-exchange deal with Adobe Systems Inc. of Moun- tain View, Calif., to put an Adobe PostScript Level 2 interpreter into Tektronix’s new Phaser IL. “It's not going to be easy to clone Level 2,” said A.J. Rogers, strategic marketing manager at Tektronix’s Graphics, Printing and Imaging Division here. “We probably would have been in the best posi- tion to do it if anyone did, [but] with our new relationship with Adobe, we were able to implement all our best features, as well as have Level 2.” Analysts agree that Level 2 has raised the bar forclone makers. 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You can count on SuperMac to engineer products that are a generation ahead — or more — in performance and functionality. You can count on SuperMac to enhance your applications with unsurpassed color-fidelity solutions. And you RasterOps can count on SuperMac to manufacture products that are exceptional for their quality and reliability. You may never have a problem. But if you do, you can count on us — for easy access to the right people, SS SUPERMIAC. The SuperSource for Color a willingness to work with our cus- tomers and resellers to get things right, and the longest warranty in the industry. And It's Extendable. What's more, we have an excep- tional extended warranty program for additional coverage. It’s called SuperCare: > In fact, it offers the most rea- sonably priced extended care of any Macintosh vendor. Starting September 1, 1991, any SuperMac graphics card that you purchase is covered for a full five years. (And now, SuperMac has extended its limited display warranty from one to three years.) For more details about our five-year warranty or SuperCare extended warranty programs, call us at 1 (800) 334-3005. Or contact your Authorized SuperMac Reseller. | eight-bit gray-sc | GA MACWEEK 10.08.91 HSD rounds out flatbed line: Software improves resolution By Matthew Rothenberg Mountain View, Calif. — HSD Microcomputer U.S. Inc. is ship- ping software that improves the res- olution of its color and gray-scale Scan-X flatbed scanners Now included with the $1,995 e Scan-X Profes- sional and the $2,795 24-bit Scan-X Color, the new software is a plug-in module for Adobe Photoshop 2.0 from Adobe Systems Inc. The module uses interpolation to increase line-art resolutions from 1,500 dpi to 2,400 dpi and color and gray-scale images from 300 dpi to 600 dpi, according to the company The Photoshop plug-in includes a new version of HSD's Spectrum Enhancement technology that lets users finely adjust color or gray-scale images across an eight-bit range. HSD also announced that Scan-X Color now sports an improved step- per motor that increases vertical res- olution to 600 dpi, up from 300 dpi Current users of Scan-X Profes- sional or Scan-X Color can upgrade to the new software for $99, accord- ing to HSD. Both Scan-X models include a SCSI interface and capture images up to 8.5 by 14 inches. The scanners are bundled with the complete ver- sion of the $895 Photoshop 2.0. HSD Microcomputer U.S. Inc. is at 1350 Pear Ave., Suite C, Moun- tain View, Calif. 94043. Phone (415) 964-1400; fax (415) 964-1538. a Agfa related programs such as Letraset’s LetraStudio 2.0 ($249) also can be purchased from the disc Version 3.0 of the AgfaType CD- ROM has a “public section” that con- tains 7 Mbytes of shareware applica- tions. A new stand-alone SuperCard stack featuring educational screens and an interactive font catalog also is included. Screen fonts for all Type 1 fonts also are included in the public section, allowing users to try out fonts before they buy them. Registered users of the AgfaType CD-ROM Series 2.1 will receive a free upgrade to Version 3.0. Ata Compugraphic is at 200 Bal- lardvale St, Wilmington, Mass. 01887. Phone (508) 658-5600. a From Page 24 Authorware update opens Windows to Mac connection Redwood City, Calif. — Author- ware Inc. last’ month shipped Authorware Professional for Win- dows. The $8,000 application will allow users of Authorware Profes- sional for Macintosh to deliver their presentations on both Mae and Microsoft Windows platforms In converting Mac files to Win- dows files, the program provides almost 100 percent conversion fidelity, in most cases even taking care of details such as Mac-to- PC font mapping, according to Authorware. Designed to create interactive learning and communication appli- cations, Authorware features an Object Authoring interface to guide non-technical users. The Windows application includes authoring soft- ware; delivery software; controllers for media devices; file importers; a library of examples and models, and graphics, sound and animation files. Authorware Inc. is at 275 Shore- line Drive, Suite 535, Redwood City, Calif. 94065. Phone (415) 595- 3101; fax (415) 595-3077. 0 D’pix opens texture library of medium-, high-res images By Matthew Rothenberg San Jose, Calif, — D'pix this week will add new contours to Mac graphics with Folio 1, a software collection of photo- graphic textures and patterns. Introduced at last week’s Seybold Com- puter Publishing Con- ference & Exposition here, the $399.95 package will be avail- able on CD-ROM or 35-inch floppy disks Folio 1 features 100 compressed 75-dpi TIFF files in 24-bit color, each measuring 9 by 12 inches The Folio 1 images also are avail- able at a resolution of 266 dpi; the CD-ROM package — a set of three diss — includes encrypted versions of all the files. Each package will include a credit for one 266-<pi file, and D’pix will provide the password to unlock additional high-resolution images on the CD for $75 each. Users of both the CD-ROM package and the disk package can This marble surface is one of 100 photographic textures avail- a