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E wa | | ee. P| | Vy lau 10.15.91 Volume 5 Number 35 NEWSWEEKLY FOR ~ ‘pibes ind | | | | | oe 7 \ aad ta Quadra buyers face compatibility issues By Andrew Gore Cupertino, Calif. — Next week's debut of the Quadra 700 and 900 will demonstrate exactly what a deli- cate balancing act is required to give Macintosh performance a signifi- cant boost while maintaining com- patibility with the majority of exist- ing Mac products. Thanks to the Quadras’ 68040 processors, faster SCSI controllers See Quadras, Page 102 = (CISA 1 a PowerBook, Quadra designs mean trade-offs for users PowerBook RAM to be scarce, pricey By Roines Cohen ond Henry Norr San Francisco — Users of Apple's new PowerBooks will find add-on memory scarce and expensive for months to come, developers said All three of the laptops to be announced at next —_ week's Comdew/Fall '91 show in Las Vegas will come with 2 Mbytes soldered on their logic boards, and the PowerBook 170 will ship with an additional 2 Mbytes — installed. Because System 7.0.1, which the machines require, typically con- See PowerBooks, Page 103, By Rochelle Garner Sunnyvale, Calif. — Ashlar Inc. is preparing a version of its Vellum CAD application that enthusiastic users say makes precise 3-D design as easy as sketching. Due in Novem! a stand-alone app! on the original 2-D version, called Vellum, and its groundbreaking Vellum 3D is Ashlar propels Vellum into 3-D Drafting Assistant interface, which provides instant feedback on the cursors position relative to on- screen objects. “With (CAD), it’s important that the computer be precise, so the user doesn’t have to be,” said Bruce Tognazzini, Apple's human inter- face evangelist. “With Vellum 3D, Sce Vellum, Page 104 BOO al Lal Efe Tall Layout_nvrange_Fen_foxi_Dinansian Dimwn 30 The Z-Drafting Assistant in Vel- Jum 30 helps users precisely place and align lines, cirdes aod other primi- tives in 3-D. With the on- screen trackball, ‘seen at lower right, users can rotate models in real timo, MACINTOSH MANAGERS This week in Reviews NetWare for Macintosh 3.0 ColorStudio 1.5 Minitab Release 8 “a See Page 45 Taligent plays on Personalities By Andrew Gore Cupertino, Calif. — Last week's AppleBM Corp. announcements may have redefined the future of corporate computing, but many information-systems managers were left confused about just what it all means. “All this stuff is very interesting, but there aren't enough solid facts for us to make sense of it,” said Tom Mullaney, manager of systems and administration for ARCO Products Co. in Los Angeles. “We know that something's coming and that it’s big, but the information about what it is and how it'll work is vague and contradictory.” Ed Birss, senior vice president of Apple's object-based systems divi- sion and expected future chief oper ating officer of Taligent Inc., last week helped untangle parts of the puzzle in an interview with MacWEEK. In particular, Mullaney and other corporate managers said they were uncertain about how the new Tali- gent object-based operating system will work with their current software and what it will offer that they don’t have now. Their first concern, they said, is protecting their current software investments. > Personalities, Apple and IBM, Birss said, will address the problem through a special set of Taligent objects called Personali- ties. The objects, running under the Nets to dial into telecom future By Mitch Rotdiffe San Jose, Calif. — InterOy attendees last week saw the future of wide-area networking and it was their telephones. In just two or three years, highly versatile and high-speed digital | communications will be available, mainly via the public telephone net- works. And this is what held center stage at InterOp. Enthusiasm for digital communications was running high, fueled by last Monday’s court decision allowing regional Bell operating companies to offer infor- mation services (see story, Page 99). Apple used InterOp us a spring- Peet Inte the digital communica- Sve Interop, Page 104 | dividing line Taligent OS, will provide full emula- tions of other operating systems. “We want to make sure that cus- tomers who have invested in a suite of application programs can protect their investment when they move to the Taligent platform,” Birss said “Let's assume that a customer cur rently uses a Mac. They will be able to buy a Personality that will allow all their Mac software to run under See Taligent, Page 104 VNB New horizons for networking Apple, Microsoft to outline strategies By Margie Wylie Dallas — If Microsoft Corp. and the Apple/IBM Corp. gang have their way, operating systems and networking software will be indis- tinguishable in a few years. Both camps will be out in force at NetWorld ‘91, the semiannual networking show here this week, preaching that the future of connec- tivity lies not in traditional network- ing software, but in their upcoming operating systems. “Windows/NT and LAN Manag- er eventually will converge, and when that happens there will be no between network services and the operating system,” sald Mike Murray, general mana- ger for Microsoft's network busi- ness unit. Like Pink, the portable operating system kemel due from Apple an IBM, Microsoft's NT keel will let a graphical operating system, in this case Windows, run on many differ- ent platforms. Microsoft will fold network capa- bilities, such as electronic mail, global directory, management, and file and print services, into Windows as it prepares the system to run on | top of the NT kernel, which is due sometime next year, Murray said. Taligent, Apple and IBM’s joint OS venture, may still be three years from producing its portable kernel But System 7.0 already has built-in file and print services and will soon have management, E-mail and directory services, which Windows still lacks. See NetWorld, Page 102 CLASS S ELCLOUHID, NEWSPAPER A SCANNED ON me TON SCAN 300/ COLOR Proof that Abaton’s color scanner can make anything look attractive. See for yourself. Everything looks better with Abaton’s 24-bit Scan 300/Color scanner. Just.ask Slash. Scanning colorful figures like Slash brings your monitor to life. You can size color pictures and see their relationship to other text and graphics — right on the screen. More than that, you can produce a variety of colorful images. Like stunning comps and presentations from a 300-dpi color printer. Or how about impressive 35mm or overhead slide shows with actual color photos. Even high quality proofs of four-color film for a national ad. 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So if you want to look as good as Slash, call Abaton at 1-800- 444-5321 or (415) 683-2226 for the dealer nearest you. Abaton We Blake Your Kens Easter 8 Pusat Seiko raises thermal-wax ante | Mil with low-cost PostScript printer By Neil McManus San Jose, Calif, — Seiko Instru- ments USA Inc. next month will | shake up the printer market with the release of the first PostScript- compatible color _ thermal-wax | transfer printer to retail for $2,000 less than most of its competitors, To be unveiled next week at Comdex/Fall "91, Seiko's $4,999 Personal ColorPoint PS offers a res- olution of 300 dpi on plain paper. The printer is built around a 16-MHz Intel 80960 RISC (re- duced instruction set computing) processor. It comes standard vith 6 Mbytes of RAM, expandable to 22 Mbytes, and 39 Type 1 fonts The Seiko printer uses the PhoenixPage PostScript-compatible interpreter from Phoenix Technolo- gies of Norwell, Mass. The printer also includes HP- GL 74754 emulation in ROM. Paracomp merger with MacroMind nears completion By Andrew Gore San Francisco — The merger slated to create the largest Macin- tosh multimedia developer was all but completed last week. MacroMind Inc., developer of MacroMind Director and Media- Maker, and Paracomp Inc., which offers Swivel 3D Professional and Filmmaker, are already pooling their forces as the formalities of the merger are completed. “We started combining business operations [last) week,” said Tim Mott, president and CEO of the combined company to be called MacroMind/Paracomp Inc. “We just finished moving all the Para- comp people into our new build- ing. @ business issues have been covered. “Now we're just waiting for approval from the state, and we dont expect any problems with that,” Mott said. The two companies last week fin- ished cost-cutting measures related to the merger, primarily involving the layoffs of employees performing similar jobs. “We've made all the cuts we have planned,” Mott said. The combined company will have about 90 employees. According to Matt, it will continue the two com- panies’ efforts to supply multimedia products across Mac, Windows and Unix platforms. MacroMind/Paracomp —_Ine.’s new offices are at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, Calif. 94103, Phone (415) 442-0200; fax (415) 442-0190. 0 The Personal ColorPoint PS offers automatic switching among, its AppleTalk, RS-232 serial and Centronics parallel ports. An optional SCSI port is available for an additional $499, ‘The printer accepts a variety of paper sizes, including letter, legal, Ad, B4 and postcard. It prints on both cut-sheet plain paper and transparencies. The Seiko printer will compete Cae printers such as Mobile, Ala.-based QMS Ine.’s ColorScript 100 Model 10p, a 300-dpi thermal- transfer printer that retails for $6,995. The QMS printer uses Adobe PostScript and comes with 4 Mbytes of RAM. “Seiko is getting very aggressive in its pricing,” said Bill Gott, senior industry analyst at InfoCorp of Santa Clara, Calif. Gott said Info- Corp predicts plummeting prices will help TSvaleter color there pnnters to increase from 37,000 units in 1990 to 45,000 in 1991] to 57,000 units in 1992. In addition to the new PostScript- compatible model, Seiko recently started shipping the Personal Color- Point, a non-PostScript thermal-wax transfer printer. This 300-dpi printer retails for $4,598 with a QuickDraw driver and a parallel interface on a NuBus card for connection to the Mac. Seiko Instruments USA Inc’s | Graphic Devices and Systems Divi- sion is at 1130 Ringwood Court, San Jose, Calif. 95131. Phone (408) 922- 5800; fax (408) 922-5840. 0 Apples work it out in Beatles lawsuit By Carolyn Said San Francisco — At least they won't have to change the name to Banana Computer. Apple and Apple Corps, the Beat- les’ management company, have reached an agreement over Apple Corps’ 1989 lawsuit against the computer maker. The suit charged Apple with violating a 1981 agree- ment not to use its logo on music- related products. eppe reportedly will pay the British Apple an amount somewhat less than the $30 million it set aside last quarter to cover pending litiga- tion. The High Court in London, which had been hearing the suit since February, agreed to dismiss the case, “The Beatles are very pleased with the outcome,” said Wayne Cooper, a San Francisco attorney representing Apple Corps. “Now that the case is at long last over, everyone involved can get back to things they'd rather do, It’s been, as they say, along and winding road,” 20 20 23 28 28 28 34 38 40 40 News Apple acquires handwriting technology from Soviets Cursive-recognition system may be in future Macs. Pastel ships personal organizational tool DayMaker helps users stay on schedule Quantum leaps chead in capacity race Pushes limits on 2.5-, 3.5-inch designs. Gateways Phoning home with AppleTalk Remote Access MacWEEK previews Apple’s new software thot lets users dial into AppleTalk networks LAN Manager makes the Mac connection Microsoft will show off its newly acquired link at Ne!World ’91 in Dallas this week Is ISDN the Johnny-come-lately of telecom standards? ‘Once the standard chead ofits time, ISDN may be approaching obsolescence as the first apps ship. GA Will PhotoGrade fill documents with halftones? New technologies from Apple and LaserMaster increase gray levels in laser output ETeser ation Teal Chana rates Caras Euro graphics programs to wash up on U.S. shores image-editing, 3-D rendering and image-cataloging programs from France waiting to cross Atlantic. News analysis: High-resolution printers High-res printers nipping at imagesetters’ heels. Boldface/Ezra Shapiro Publishers getting on track. Opinion Editorial When will Apple join open season? Letters Reader adds two cents to math applications review. Commentary /Jean-Louis Gassée Truelype and Type } ironies. Mac Manager/Don Crabb Managers optimistic about Apple/IBM alliance. VOL.5 NO.35 MacWEEK 10.15.91 | Reviews ColorStudio 1.5 boosts power for pre-press apps Letraset packs this upgrade with powerful tools for correction, manipulation, separation of color scans. NetWare for Mac 3.0 puts PCs, Macs in the mix This add-on to NetWare 3.111 gives you a sophisticated bridge between platforms, but it's sfill tough to install In Brief: Symantec’s THINK Reference Cross-referenced database to help developers. Minitab Release 8 adds editing, spreadsheet features Mainframe-based package sfll relies on time-worn command language, fails to ufilize Mac interface. Architrion, ArchiCAD: New CADs on the block Upgraded apps do architectural design in similar way. Spectra* Star color thermal printer modestly priced Offers solid performance in a quick PostScript clone. om ProductWatch 59 62 62 Netting the right consultant Many independent consultants can help with your networking problems; you just have fo look for them. MacinTouch/Ric Ford NuBus and PDS cards can have lurking 32-bit bugs, foo Ask David Ramsey When your hard disk keeps getting busy. B BusinessWatch 99 Bell companies can ring up charges for on-line services 99 Appeals Court rules seven regional phone companies can sell stock quotes, news reports and more. Revenue shortfall prompts RasterOps stock to drop Slow European sales cause first-quarter revenues to slip. 106 63 66 86 Dealers surprised by PowerBook allocations “Meanwhile, we have this nice, safe Classic Il.” Ad Showcase 97 Careers Mail Order 105 Product Index Classified 105 Advertiser Index MacWEEK (ISSN 0892-8118) s published weckly, withthe exception ef Jan 1, May 28, hy 2, Jy 9, lly 23, Aug. 27, Sept. 3, Nov, 26, and Dec. 24 and 31 by Coastal Assoctes Publishing, LP., One Pack Ave, New York, WY. 10016 Single copy price cluding postage: $6. Oneyear subscription rate: U.S. $99, Conoda/Mexic U.S. $150, Intematonal: U.S. $300 (aii). orders mus be prepaid Direct subscription inquis to Customer Service Department, MecWEEK, </0 JC) .0. Box 1766, Riverton, N1.06077-7366; (609) 441-2100. Cunges of address require thot a new application be lad ‘ot complotly ond incuda both new ond old addres, low 4-6 weeks lor processing. Postmastr Send addess changes to MacWEEK,P 0. 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It provides a Developers can now get Serius with Apple events By Motthew Rothenberg Salt Lake City — Serius Corp. this week released AppEvent Object, a programming object that promises Macintosh developers an easy route to support for System 7.0's Apple events Available now for $49.95, AppEvent Object is designed for use under System 7.0 with the Serius Programmer and Serius Developer object-onented programming environments The new object can send and receive core Apple events, according to Serius, and allows developers to define their own events and subscribe to the events of other programs In addition, AppEvent can send and receive arbitrary objects from the Serius Object Library, which includes 45 prefabricated components, such as file transfer and page- layout objects Developers can use Serius’ object-oriented programming environment to add support for Apple events, even if they do not understand how the events are implemented within their application's code, the company said Serius said it will introduce additional objects that implement other System 7.0 fea- tures in the next few months, Serius Corp. is at 1981 East 4800 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84117. Phone (801) 272. 7788; fax (801) 277-2440. Mass Micro ships Rival line of big-screen displays Sunnyvale, Calif. — Mass Microsystems Inc. recently started shipping 19-inch mnonochrome, gray-scale and color display sys- tems it picked up with the acquisition of MegaGraphies Inc. in August. Called the Rival series, the display systems include a 19-inch monitor and a graphics board. All Rival systems offer a resolution of 1,024 by 826 pixels at 75 dpi and have tilt-and-swivel bases built in. The line includes: > Monochrome. Retailing for $1,698, this 5 is available for the Mac SE/30, LC, SE and NuBus-based Maes. > Gray scale, This system, which offers 256 levels of gray, is available for NuBus-based Macs for $2,548 and for the SE/30 for $2,598 > Color. This cight-bit system, which includes a Sony Trinitron monitor, is offered for NuBus-based Macs and the SE/30 for $5,948 and $5,998, respectively Mass Microsystems Inc. is at 810 W. Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086. Phone (408) 522-1200; fax (408) 733-5499. c foundation for recognition of formulas, sym- bols and simple graphics, as well as optical character recognition and fax file and scanned handwriting recognition. Other pen-based systems announced to date limited to dependent recognition ParaGraph International, the exclusive dis- are block-letter, writer tributor of JV technology based here, announced the agreement, which reportedly is the first commercially significant technolo- gy exchange from the Soviet Union to a major U.S, computer company The agreement gives Apple access to the technology for installation on current and future Mac operating systems Apple did not comment on how it plans to use the software. Under development since 1989, the soft- ware originally was created through another joint venture affiliated with two departments of the Soviet Academy of Science. 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It supports file sharing and access privileges, bs il help and virtual memory Dantz Development Cor tuck Ave., Suite 1, Berke Phone (510) 849-0293; fax HP readies big drives to go inside Quadra 900 By Carolyn Said Palo Alto, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard Co., having captured a substantial share of the Mac and . is hoping to repeat its success in the storage arena The company reportedly next week will amounce four high-capacity SCSI-2 internal disk drives for the Quadra 900, two with capacities of more than I Gbyte: The family ‘full-height 5.25- inch mechanisms with average seek times of 13.5 milliseconds and formatted capacities of 1.35 Gbytes ($5,095), 1.07 Gbytes ($4,545) and 677 Mbytes ($3,395). A 3.5-inch drive, priced at $2,695, will have a capacity of 422 Mbytes and an average seek time of 12.6 mil- seconds. All four units have an MTBF (mean time between failure) rating of more than 150,000 hours Due Nov. 1. the drives will ship with soft- ware, cables and trays to facilitate installation. The Quadra products will be FIP’s second fferi ora loon at 1400 Shat- Calif. 94709. 510) 849-1708. printer and scanner marke will include storage ¢ for the Mac in recent months In August unveiled a Linch cabinet that can be fitted with up to seven SCSI devices, including hard ies and rewnteable optical, CD-ROM or digital andio tape mechanisms (si Hs wwlett-Packard Co. is at 193 » Ave., Cupertino, C. alif. 95014. Phone 2-0900. PLI frst to ship new Sony 3.5" opticals Calif PLI Inc. this month became the first vendor to announce ship- ments of drives with a3.5-inch Sony magneto. optical me technology remain tightly limited PLI, one of at least half a dozen Mac vendors that have adopted the Sony technology, said it of its $2,199 Infinity Optical 3.5" drive and is wai more mechanisms from the manufacturer The Sony drive optical drives with a capacity of 128 M but also can read O-ROM disks. CD-ROM-like read-only optical format company Fremont. nism, but supplies of the new has shipped “a small number for uses 3.5-inch erasable. a new The drive has an average seek time of 40 milliseconds, a rotational speed of 3,000 rpm and a sustained data transfer rate of 625 Kbytes per second. It has external SCSI ID. and termination switches. PLI Inc. is at 47421 Bayside Parkway, Fre mont, Calif. 94538. Phone (S10) 657-2211 or $00) 288-8754; fax (510) 683-9713. technology developed for | News MACWEEK WORa1 52091 Pilot ushers in new EIS strategy Offers host, LAN access to data By Rochelle Garner Boston — Pilot Executive Soft- ware, a heavyweight provider of tumkey executive information systems, last month unveiled a range of cooperative-processing and client-server products for the Mac, Windows-using IBM PCs and com- patibles, and LANs, The three new products are: > Command Center 4A. Avail- able for Windows 3.0 and the Mac, the new 4A version of Command Center uses the — cooperative-processing approach to computing, in which most of the computing occurs on the host system. The software com- prises two components. The host soft- ware supports IBM. re VM/CMS and MVS/TSO, Digital Equipment Corp’s VAX/VMS, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s HP-UX Unix, AT&T Go.’s Unix, and Santa Cruz Operation’s Unix. The jhical front-end software runs on either Windows or the Mac, According to Pilot, executive information system applications can be created and used across environ- ments. Either package can access Oracle under VM/CMS and Sybase under VAX/VMS in real time, Pilot said. wes — Ewa The Mac client ‘component of Pilot’s Command Center 4A octs as ‘graphical front end to executive information sys- Due in the fourth quarter, Com- mand Center will cost $20,000 to $150,000, depending on configura- tion and platform. » Pilot EIS for LANs. Running on any LAN supported by Windows 3.0, the new system offers “the first open-architecture EIS for LANs,” according to the company. The client- server system, which does not require a host, comprises three components. LightShip, the system's front end, is a Windows EIS client. LightShip Lens, which acts as the middle layer, uses Windows’ Dynamic Data Ex- change (DDE) to access data from a variety of sources on the net. It will then load data into the client PC's RAM cache, allowing users to view information in a variety of ways. Quadram pushes Mac floppy limits By Henry Norr Norcross, Ga. — Quadram last week brought its 20-Mbyte floppy drive system to the Mac. ‘The QuadFlextra, an external SCSI device priced at $895, uses disks pack aged in the same 3.5-inch plastic shell as standard 800-Kbyte or 1.4-Mbyte disks, but special factory formatting boosts ity to 20.4 Mbytes. The dive, which Quadram has marketed for IBM PCs and compati- bles since May 1990, offers an average seek time of 35 milliseconds and a sustained transfer rate of 1.25 Mbytes per second, performance rates com- parable to older hard drives. The Flextra VHDF (very high den- sity floppy) technology was developed by Brier Technology Inc. of San Jose, Calif. Flextra disks are made of stan- dard barium ferrite the upper surface, or data tier, is left com free to store data. The dis! alifetime warranty, and they will be able to hold 50 and then 100 Mbytes as read-write tech- nologies improve, Quadram said. Four disks are included with the QuadFlextra; additional disks are $30 each or $250 for a 10-pack. The Quadram announcement comes as several Mac vendors are preparing to introduce drives based ‘on a competing 20-Mbyte floppy technology, Insite Peripherals Inc.'s floptical system. Quadram is at 1 Quad Way, Nor- cross, Ga. 30093, Phone (404) 923- 6666; fax (404) 564-5528. 0 Flextra’s two-tier disk media, but — Brier's Data storage pesitel Ze. Tier positioning racking process cre- ALAR paas) ates two distinct hori- zontal magnetic layers on either side of the disk’s mylar substrate. The lower layer, called the positioning _ tier, consists of thousands of prerecorded tracks used to guide the drive's read-write head; Mylor substrate Cross-section shows cone side of a dual-sided, 25-Mbyte Flextra disk Finally, the back-end server, called TimeBase, is Pilot’s database espe- cially geared to viewing data trends over time. A $40,000 starter kit for Pilot EIS for LANs includes 15-user and three-developer licenses. It is due late this year. “Pilot's Mac [Command Center 4A] is very different from LightShip ‘on Windows,” said Cliff Conneighton, vice president of office information systems with the Gartner Group, a market research company in Stam- ford, Conn. “The Mae product is a front end to a server-based system, while LightShip is a bottom-up implementation of a product that can stand alone and reach out to data on LANs, mainframes or any host.” > FCS 3.0. Available now, Pilot's FCS (financial control system) deci- sion support system software resides on the customer's mainframe. FCS calculates all financial data on the host, sharing data and variables with Pilot’s other client software, including Command Center 4A. It costs $50,000 to $100,000, depending on platform and configuration. The com- pany also offers FCS for LANs, a decision support system engine for Pilot EIS for LANs, priced at $1,295. Pilot Executive Software is at 40 Broad St., Boston, Mass. 02109. Phone (617) 350-7035; fax (617) 695-1265. 0 Pastel hopes to make users’ day with personal organization tool — By Dortanyan New York — Pastel Develop- ment Corp. last week began ship- ping DayMaker, its long-awaited personal organization tool. Priced at $99.95, the application tracks eppeintinents and schedul- ing, to-do lists, notes, olson and priorities, and name and address information. DayMaker allows users to orga- nize and view personal information through a variety of predefined and user-defined views (see Mac- WEEK, July31, 1990, and Aug. 13). “I can quickly create a calendar with separate views of both busi- ness and personal information,” said Paul Bandrowski, senior advanced technology analyst at Sara Lee Corp. in Chicago. “One of its major advan- tages is the unlim- ited search capa- bility. 1 can use any keyword to find what I'm looking for.” DayMaker sup- plies a full range of time- and project- DayMaker uses prioritization tags, custom views, Gantt charting and alarms to help users manage their time and appointments. management tools, _includin; alarms, reminders, Gantt charts extensive calendar output. : “The ability to see hierarchical clas sification of items is very nice,” said Clark Roberts, Mac coordi- nator for Midland, based Dow Chemical Co. “Networking would make it ideal, butit's the best program ofits type that I've seen.” DayMaker’s printing options sup- rt most popular appointment ook formats ; 1 Pastel Development . is at 81 Franklin St SaEERBN aoe i N.Y. 10013. 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The white paper: > Recommended concurrent software licenses as the most work- able arrangement for vendors and managers, >» Recognized that metering soft- ware is required for concurrent licenses and urged its integration in all networking operating systems > Called for clear, concise lan- guage and truth in licensing informa- tion in all shrink-wrapped packages. > Urged vendors to separate doc- umentation from the license or the media that managers purchase, “We feel that we ought to be able to buy usage rights without having to buy the documentation,” said Priscilla Tate, MMA executive director. “Managers are not as con- cerned with pricing as we are with the value of the product.” Tate said MMA's members can- not be software police but do recog- nize vendors’ concerns. As a result, MMA encourages its members to adopt employee copying policies and regular software audits, The Microcomputer Managers Associ is at P.O. Box 4615, Warren, N.J. 07059. 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The higher-capacity version, with a for- matted capacity of 130 Mbytes, will be the first 25-inch drive available with room for more than 60 Mbytes, company officials said. Targeted at the notebook market, the drives weigh just 6.2 ounces, spin up in less than 2.5 seconds, Suitcase Il, Fastback updates pack By Heary Norr Baton Rouge, La. — Suitcase I and Fastback, two popular utilities from Fifth Generation Systems Inc., are due for major upgrades within the next few weeks, according to the company, > Suitcase II 2.0. Highlighting the new release of the $79 font- and desk accessory-management program are features designed to alleviate font ID conflicts, which can wreak havoc with documents created on one Mac and printed from another. A new command will generate a special file containing ID informa- tion about installed fonts. When a document is transferred from one system running Suitcase II to anoth- er, the user also can transfer the font ID file and instruct Suitcase to use it; the program will then automati- cally resolve any conflicts by tem- porarily harmonizing (renumber- ing) installed fonts, ensuring that the intended fonts are used when the document is printed. Other enhancements include an improved interface with non-modal windows and an option to save and load user-defined sets of suitcase files that can contain fonts, DAs, sounds and Fkeys, Under System 7.0 the program offers balloon help and lets users create empty suitcase files — a capability the system itself does not provide. Suitcase I upgrades will be $25. > Fastback Plus 2.6. Currently known as Fastback II Version 2.5, MO RlsSiag9') Aworker assembles a hard drive ot Quan- tum's new Milpitas, Calif., plant, where the ProDrive 1050 and LPS 450 will be built. offer multiple power-saving modes and consume only 2 watts in operat- ing mode. Average seek time is rated at 17 milliseconds, maximum transfer rate at 2.1 Mbytes and MTBF (mean time between failure) at more than 150,000 hours. > ProDrive LPS 120 and 240. Fifth Generation’s backup utility will be renamed to match its MS- DOS equivalent. Enhancements include interface improvements and a Data Encryption Standard (DES) option that will let users secure backed up files; encryption will brcatciscblsthe tie required for backups, according to the company. si System 7.0 the new ver- sion will offer balloon help and sup- port for virtual memory. Users can execute a macro file or open a histo- ty file by dragging it to the Fastback Plus icon. The new release also will offer MasterJuggler tosses in 7.0 By Heary Norr Spring, Texas — MasterJuggler has taken its act to System 7.0, and publisher ALSoft Inc. has cut the price of admission almost in half. The company this month began shipping Version 1.57 of the popular oily 72 managing fonts and desk accessories, From the user's perspec- tive, the update offers new features, and the program looks and functions just as previous versions did under System 6, ALSoft said. palemaly, however, the program has been su stantially modified to handle True- ‘Type, System 7.0 sounds and other features of the new operating system, according to the company. In addition to letting users install fonts, DAs, sounds and Fkeys stored Already shipping to OEM cus- tomers, the new LPS models are the first production-volume 1-inch-high drives with capacities exceeding 100 Mbytes, the company said. The drives offer average seek times of 16 milliseconds, support for Fast SCSI- 2 transfers at up to 10 Mbytes per second and an MTBF rating of 250,000 hours. The new LPS drives, however, currently exceed the power budget of the Mac Classic, company offi- cials said. The 240-Mbyte LPS model will gradually replace Quantum’s cur- | rent 210-Mbyte ProDrive model, | the company said. > ProDrive LPS 450 and 1050. Scheduled for mass production in April 1992, the ProDrive LPS 450 will offer a capacity of 450 Mbytes in a Linch-high package, while the 1.6- inch-high ProDrive 1050, due in vol- ume in March, will be Quantum's largest 3.5-inch drive. Both will offer average seek times of 10 milliseconds and an MTBF of 250,000 hours. Aimed at the workstation and disk- array market, the drives incorporate | support for several advanced perfor- mance features, including Fast SCSI | and synchronized spindles. 0 in new features simplified cross-platform transfer capabilities. Users with Super- Drives will be able to choose DOS 720-Kbyte and 1.44-Mbyte floppy formats directly from Fastback’s Backup window; Fastback Plus users on an IBM PC or compatible will then be able to restore the files. The program's price remains $189. Upgrades are $30 but free to customers who bought the previous version after May 1. Fifth Generation Systems Ine, is at 10049 N. Reiger Road, Baton Rouge, La. 70809. Phone (504) 291- 7221; fax (504) 295-3268. 0 in any folder, MasterJuggler offers automatic resolution of __font- numbering conflicts without changes to the font, compression and on-the- fly decompression of fonts and sounds, and a pop-up menu for switching among applications. In an effort to attract buyers of low-cost Maes, the company said it has slashed the product's price from $89.95 to $49. For owners of previ- ous versions of MasterJuggler, upgrades are $15 plus $4 shipping and handling; owners of two earlier utilities, Juggler and Juggler Plus, can get pester) peuae 1.57 for $18 plus shipping and handling, ALSoft Ine. is at P.O, Box 927, Spring, Texas 77383, Phone (713) 353-4090; fax (713) 353-9868. 0 News Be RISE bess Insignia bows to users over SoftPC pricing Mountain View, Calif. — Insignia Solutions Inc. shipped its new ly of IBM PC-emulation software this month, but bowing fo user com- plaints, it reduced the prices it had announced in August. Hie SoftAT 2.5, the new high-end version for Macs with 68020, — 68030 and 68040 CPUs is $499, down from the planned $542 tag (see MacWEEK, Aug. 13). a Universal SoftPC 2.5, which runs on all Mac models, is down from $399. Entry Level SoftPC 2.5, for 68000-based the LC, is priced as planned at $199.95. The company also reduced the upgrade price for SofAT, from to $79, for owners of SoftPC who have the company’s EGA/AT: Universal SoftPC is available to owners of the old basic SoftPC for $ instead of $99; upgrades to the Entry Level version from SoftPC Classic are $29, instead of $49. The company also said it will off AT for $175 to owners of older versions of SoffPC who do not have EGA/AT module. “ Users who have ordered the new versions will receive a rebate Mifference|iha comeany said) Insignia Solutions Inc. is at 526 Clyde Ave., Mountain View, — Calif. 94043. Phone (415) 694-7600 or (800) 848-7677; fax | 964-5434. Microsoft places refurbished Office on CD-ROM Redmond, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. recently shipped the CD-R version of The Microsoft Office 1.5, a product that combines busine applications and their documentation on one compact disc. Microsoft Office 1.5 includes Excel 3.0, Mail 3.0, Word 4.0 and PowerPoint 2.01. Installation of the four programs is simplified by their delivery on CD, Microsoft said. 4 The package is available now for $750. Users of Version 1.0 can: upgrade for $129. Hard copies of documentation are available for $15.50 plus tax. : Microsoft Corp. is at 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, Wash. 980: 6399, Phone (206) 882-8080; fax (206) 883-8101. Visionary alerts users to damaged copies of PIM Portland, Ore. — When Visionary Software Inc. began shi its personal information manager First Things First this month, vertently made some copies of a damaged version. As a result, not connected to an AppleTalk network may find the software c their system. P Visionary recommends that all users of Version 1.01 fax the company at (503) 452-1198 with their serial number to receive Version 1.02, or download the maintenance upgrade from the Utilities/Desk Accessories section of America Online's Soft- ware Library, Visionary Software Inc. is at P.O. Box 69447, Portland, Ore. 97201. Phone (503) 246-6200 or (800) 877-1832; fax (503) 452-1198. — Package gets lawyers Ready for Trial! By Henry Norr St. Paul, Minn, — Trial lawyers and litigation-support stafls can now get Ready for Trial! on their Macs. The $995 package is “the first Macintosh software designed specifically for the management and analysis of deposition and trial tran- scripts,” according to its publisher, Robins Analytics Inc. “There are going to be Inwyers buy- ing Macs just to run this program,” said Mark Johnson, a partner and spe- cialist in major personal-injury cases at Shamberg, Johnson, Bergman & Mor- ris, a legal firm in Overland Park, Kan. “There are lots of DOS programs out there that are supposed! i for liti- gation support, but te really just do text searching,” Johnson said. “What they don’t provide are the organiza- tional tools Ready for Trial! has.” Incorporating a database engine as well as a text-retrieval engine, Ready Robins Analytics Inc's Ready for Trial! is only the latest Mac pro- gram in the desktop arsenal of attorney Mark Johnson, a partner at Shamberg, Johnson, Bergman & Morris in Overland Park, Kan. Johnson said he has been “wildly successful” — once to the tune of $3 million — in using the Mac to help him win favorable settlements in catastrophic-injury cases. Using such programs as Aldus PageMaker, Adobe _ [Ilustrator, MacroMind Director and Para- comp Inc.'s Swivel 3D Pro, he ere- ates what he calls “settlement bro- chures,” in print or on videotape, that dramatically present his case through scanned photos, docu- Law firm reaps rich rewards from move to Mac ments, tables, text and pull quotes He sends these presentations to opposing attorneys, expecting that they will fonvard the items to their clients. One of his cases involved the death of a 10-month-old baby from burns suffered when a heater hose in a Toyota pickup truck burst. Johnson, representing the parents in a suit against the manufacturer, created a two- volume, 1.3-inch-thick PageMaker document about the case, high- lighted by photos scanned from the family scrapbook, excerpts from medical records and quotes from the victim's parents emotion- ally describing their grief. The document, he said, quickly made its way through Toyota's corporate ladder, and within weeks a company representative showed up at his office bearing a check for $2.6 million, the full amount his clients sought. Seeing the effect of the presentation, Johnson said, he turned down the offer and eventually settled for $3 million Johnson said he’s disappointed that “Apple's been so apathetic in pursuing the legal market.” When he wrote to the compan’ about the Toyota case, he said, “I never received so much as a ‘thank you’ or acknowledgment.” — By Henry Norr MACWEEK for Trial! lets users “slice” a transcript into segments categorized according to the issue addressed. Notes, a sum- mary and references to relevant exhibits can be attached to each seg- ment, and the date and time of the facts presented can be recorded in a special window. The user can then sort and combine segments from any number of witnesses by issue, exhibit orchronology. Ready for Trial! provides 16 analytical and administrative report formats. It comes with a utility called TransFIX, which converts MS-DOS or ASCII files generated by court reporters into its own format, Johnson said when he tries cases, he keeps a Macintosh Portable. attached to a Write Move printer from GCC Technologies Inc., outside the courtroom. During breaks he uses Ready for Triall to search depositions for material to use during cross- examination. Search capabilities include Boolean operations, proximi- ty searching, and disslay and printing of up to 350 lines of context around each reference found. The program was first shipped in August. Version Ll, sent free to users last month, adds a new inte- grated help system, user control of fonts and improvements to TransFIX. Robins Analytics Inc. is at 245 E. Sixth St., St. Paul, Minn. 55101 Phone (612) 224-1289 or (800) 767 News 10.15.91 PCGlobe ships Macversion of atlas software Tempe, Ariz. — PC Clobe Inc., a leading developer of map software for IBM PCs and compatibles, this month shipped the Mac version of its electronic atlas, MacGlobe. The $79.95 application, which was announced this summer (see MacWEEK, Aug. 6), displays ane files of 190 countries and dependen- cies. For each country, it can show detailed maps, color graphics, and annually updated socioeconomic and cultural information. Data about population, age dis- tribution, ethnic groups, health statistics, economics and currency conversions is supplied with the program. From the data, it can create bar charts comparing countries and | save them to PICT files. 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KanjiSama runs on KanjiTalk Apple's Japanese-language system software SANBI also has released Kunren, a HyperCard stack that provides flashcard recognition drills. Each | card contains a kanji compound or | phrase, the hiragana version and the English translation; users can add an unlimited number of cards to the drill, according to SANBL. The Kun- ren stack is $15 alone or $10 when purchased with KanjiSama. SANBI Software Co. is at 3594 Crowell Ave., Riverside, Calif. 92504. Phone (714) 352-0276; fax (714) 352-0276. a SatView gives Macs an eye on the weather By Raines Cohen Delray Beach, Fla. — The latest worldwide weather conditions can be continuously fed to Macs with SatView, a new weather-satellite data- receiving system from Marisys Inc, The $3,950 system includes a satellite receiver, NuBus card and software. It can receive data any- where in the world from. polar- orbiting meteorological satellites launched by the U.S. National AntiToxin, Rival get upgrade By Henry Norr Agoura Hills, Calif. — Two com- mercial anti-virus programs with loyal followings got updates last month. > AntiToxin. Mainstay released AntiToxin 2.0, a new version of its $99.95 utility. The new release adds no new features, but protects against all known viruses and is fully compatible with System 7.0. In the previous version, 1.4, the virus- scanning application worked under the new system, but the system extension did not Upgrades are $15; they are free to customers who bought an older ver. sion after Aug. 1; shipping is $5. (LY ONE OLOK > Rival. Microseeds Publishing Inc. released Version 1.1.8 of Rival. The maintenance update is de- signed to fix several problems with the previous version under System 7.0. A free updater called Rival Refresh 1.1.8 has been sent to reg- istered owners and is available through on-line services. Mainstay is at 5311-B Derry Ave., Agoura Hills, Calif. 91301. Phone (818) 991-6540; fax (818) 991-4587. Microseeds Publishing Inc. is at 5801 Benjamm Center Drive, Suite 103, Tampa, Fla. 33634. Phone (813) 882-8635; fax (813) 884-5941.0 Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin- istration, the European Space Agency, the Soviet Union, Japan and China SatView’s software translates the satellites’ formats and stores received images on the Mac's hard disk in the background, using the Apple Real- time Operating System Executive (A/ROSE) system extension. It can view multiple images; adjust color settings to enhance par- ticular features; and combine the infrared and visible images the satel- lites send to mask out cloud-cover, tevealing surface temperature con- ditions without interference. It can export images in PICT format for use in other applications. Marisys, formerly an Apple value- added reseller, also sells repackaged Macs designed for nautical use. The Marisys 5106, priced at $4,980, includes a Mac Ilci with 5 Mbytes of RAM, a 100-Mbyte hard drive and a 200-watt power supply in a salt- proof and vibration-resistant case. ‘The company also sells Systems- Watch, an electronic shipboard monitoring system. Marisys Inc. is at 2905 S. Federal Highway, C-10, Delray Beach, Fla. 33483. Phone (407) 272-3490; fax (407) 272-3485. a Marisys’” SatView NuBus card receives in the background temperature and doud-cover data from weather satellites. The Included soft- ware helps users manipu- late and process the received images. >> nies MACWEEK News 10.15.91 Bowers adds THINK C5.0 support Spyglass offers scientists new Format Lincoln Center, Mass. — Bowers Development Corp. last month announced a free upgrade to App- Maker, its interface-building and code-generation tool. Version 1.1.2 provides support for Symantec Corp.'s THINK C 5.0 and THINK Pi 4.0, Procedural pro- mmers can download the update Fai AppleLink, America Online or Symantec Corp.'s CompuServe forum. For object-oriented pro- grammers Bowers also offers patch- es that make it possible to use the original THINK Class Library (TCL) 1.0 with the new Symantec compilers, but because of the patch- es’ size, Bowers said, customers must request the update on disk. AppMaker 1.2, a version that sup- ports Apple’s MacApp, is not affected iS the new release. A Version 1.5, which will support MacApp and the new TCL L1, is under development. Bowers Development Corp, is at P.O. Box 9, Lincoln Center, Mass. 01773. Phone (508) 369-8175; fax (508) 369-8224. Now patches up Utilities collection Portland, Ore. — Now Software Inc. last week released Version 3.0.1 of Now Utilities, its eee collection of system cements. The new release adds no new features to the $129 package, but it fixes bugs in Version 3.0, a major upgrade shipped in August. Anu ze ion and sepa- rate patches for each of the 11 utili- ties in the collection have been posted on major on-line services and distributed to user groups. Registered owners also can order Version 3.0.1 directly from Now for $5 shipping and handling fee. Highlights of the System 7-savvy Now collection include Super- Boomerang, a navigational and search aid; Startup Manager, an extension manager; MultiMaster, a launching utility; and NowMenus, which adds hierarchical submenus to the Apple menu (see Mac- WEEK, Sept. 24) Now Software Inc. is at 520 S.W. Harrison St., Suite 435, Portland, Ore. 97209, Phone (503) 274-2800; fax (503) 274-0670. 5 Layout, animation package fine-tuned By Roines Cohen Champaign, Ill. — Spyglass Inc. shipped a new version of Spyglass Format, its graphics layout and sequence-animation application, this month. Enhanced graphics presen- tation features include annotation and improved animation processing Format, introduced last year (see MacWEEK, Jan. 15), produces lay- out canvases and animations of images created in other applica- tions. The program is designed for use with the company’s suite of visualization programs, Spyglass Transform, Dicer and View. The new release of Format, Version 1.1, lets users annotate and resize all objects. Graphics saved in PICT format can be used as overlays. Users now can specify the range of the color bar, lowing them to fine-tune the display of the unique color tables created in Spyglass Dicer. Text formatting also has been improved. The new version also offers sim- plified animation processing. It can Format Lt Accretion Menon Start Mee Creat Pom ar arn ha meer Parmer et hr a = 908 | ea “tear Legends, titles, and other anne- lotion output into presentation overheods and Gj 35mm shdes. create a preview before printing and black out the desktop for film recording or photographing the screen “The new features are absolutely crucial,” said Dr. Bob Meade, research scientist at the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. “I create sim- ulations of the physical properties of matter on a Cray supercomput- er, dump them into a 4-Mbyte HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) file, send it back to the Mac and I'm ready to fly.” Meade said he uses other Spy- glass applications to render images of data, then manipulates those images in Format. “It's head-and- shoulders above the other 2-D visualization applications. There's some nice software for IBM RS/6000 systems, but it requires a $15,000 CPU and costs much more (than Format].” The list price for Spyglass For- mat 1.1 remains $195; current users can upgrade for free. Educa- tional, government and volume dis- counts are available Spyglass Inc. is at 701 Devon- shire Drive, C-1 paign, Ill 61820. Phone (217) 355-6000: fax MUurTIPLe MontTor SUPPORT News MACWEEK 10.15.91 to modem users with CheckFree By Nethalie Welch Westlake Village, Calif, — To help users accomplish more with their modems, Practical Peripher- als Inc. last month began bundling CheckFree bill-payment software, ‘Tax help from ChipSoft San Diego — It's never too soon to think about taxes, which is why ChipSoft Inc. this month an- nounced its ShortForm tax prepara- tion software for users filing 1040A or 1040EZ forms Due in December for $39.95 for the Mac and Windows, and $29.95 for DOS systems, ShortForm includes a brief manual and information to help users decide if they need ChipSoft’s MaclnTax software for more-elaborate forms. ShortForm users can transfer data to MacInTax State products for filing state forms, or to MacInTax Personal/1040 for itemized returns. ChipSoft Inc. Personal Order Department is at 6330 Nancy Ridge Road, Suite 103, San Diego, Calif. 92121. Phone (619) 453-87: including one month of free ser- vice, with its modems. Practical Peripherals’ modems include internal and external 14,400-, 9,600-, 2,400- and 1,200- bps models. CheckFree, an electronic bill- payment service offered by Check- Free Corp. of Westerville, Ohio, Jets users write checks electronical- ly to any individual or company. It can be programmed to pay recurring payments. The service uses the U.S. Federal Reserve Sys- tem to post payments. ‘After the Tint month, the service is $9.95 per month for up to 20 pay- ments and $3.50 for an additional 10 or fewer payments. CheckFree, which is safeguard- ed by a four-digit personal security code, provides expense and budget reports, as well as legal hard-copy receipts for all payments. CheckFree exports to ChipSoft Inc.'s MacInTax and Microsoft Corp.'s Excel. Practical Peripherals Inc. is at 31245 La Baya Drive, Westlake Vil- lage, Calif. 91362. Phone (818) 706-0333; fax ($18) 706-2474. 0 By Shawn Tomlinson Jacksonville, Ore. — What do you get when you give free Macs to busi- nesses in a small, rural community? According to results from an Apple- marl study, you get a dramatic increase in business productivity, Ayear ago, Apple gave Macs to 31 small businesses, the public library, elementary school, and police and fire departments of Jacksonville, a town in southern Oregon, Called Operation Inspiration, the Apple project was tracked by Diagnostic Research Inc., an independent research company based in Los Angeles The study, released late last month, reports that Jacksonville users’ productivity rose 55 percent, and customer satisfaction rose 68 percent. Among the productivity improve- ments cited by the study: > A service business reduced general-ledger tasks from 20 hours to four hours a month > A non-profit group saved $1,000 and halved the time needed to produce its annual brochure. > A tax preparer doubled his business by being able to work on customers’ returns right up to the Internal Revenue Service's April 15 deadline. Practical Peripherals lending help Apple study: Macs aid small businesses — “Using the Mac made everything so easy,” said Ladena Romero, co- owner of the Silver Lining jewelry store here. “We couldn't get along without it now. And we had never touched a computer in our lives before this experiment.” Romero said the store she owns with her husband uses the Mae for checking, billing and word: Apple is starting other Opera tion Inspiration experiments in Japan and Westem Europe, the company said. a MicroSpeed trackball thinks small By Natholie Welch Fremont, Calif. — Looking for a small trackball with full functionali- ty? MicroSpeed Inc. this week will begin shipping MicroTRAC, its three-button trackball that can fit in the palm of your hand Priced at $89.95, MicroTRAC measures 2 inches wide and just under 3 inches long — small enough to appeal to notebook users, the company said. It plugs into the Mac's Apple Desktop Bus. Users can define up to eight key- board commands, adjust tracking and double-click speed, and switch buttons for nght- or left-handed operation. Trackball buttons can invoke click, Shift-click and click-lock commands. The trackball can be attached to portable computers. MicroTRAC is a three-button trackball that = | measures 2 inches wide by about 3 inches. MicroSpeed Inc. is at 4400 Old Warm Springs Blvd., Fremont, | Calif. 94538. Phone (510) 490- 1403 or (800) 232-7888; fax (510) 490-1665. 0 24-Brr COLOR REAL-TIME COMPRESSION’ EDITING SOFTWARE. "QuichPah den compreston ti oeonal ©1981 harps Coporarion. Brands and product names ar trademurts or retrad tnademarts of bir rept bos Xerox’s Acculext 3.0 trains itself fo scan faster, more accurately By Matthew Rothenberg Peabody, Mass. Xerox Imaging Systems Tne, has taught its Mac optical character recogni- tion software some new tricks, including text-train- ing and background-pro- cessing features. Unveiled at __ this month's Seybold Com- puter Publishing Confer- ence & ition in San jose, j,, and shippin, iis week, the meee System _7.0-compatible Version 3.0 of AccuText is priced at $995, up from $799 for Version 2.0. The new version includes XIS’ Text Verifier software that, when activated, queries characters that may be misprinted or unfamiliar. As users verify or correct AccuText’s interpretation, the system learns to read scanned text faster and can increase OCR accuracy by as much as 100 percent, the company said. AccuText 3.0 also speeds OCR by users to scan as many as 50 queued TIFF files for later recogni- tion; this OCR processing can run in As iit queries unfamilior characters, AccuText 3.0’s Text Vor- tier learns to reod scanned text faster and more ocurately. the background under MultiFinder or System 7.0. In addition, the new version has a preprocessing filter that connects the bit-mapped dots of dot-matrix documents to create continuous- tone characters, so the OCR pro- gram can read more accurately. Users of any previous version can upgrade for $150. Xerox Imaging Systems Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corp., is at 9 Centennial Drive, Peabody, Mass. 01960. Phone (508) 977-2000; fax (508) 977-5307. 0 MACWEEK News NOnaesra9it Archive boosts quarter-inch tape capacity Anaconda drives will store 2.1GBs By Henry Norr Costa Mesa, Calif, — Archive Technology Inc. last month intro- duced a pair of new backup mecha- nisms that push the capacity of the quarter-inch tape format into the multigigabyte range. Slated to ship in volume in mid- 1992, the new Anaconda 2800 and 2850 drives will deliver a formatted, uncompressed capacity of 2.1 Gbytes, the company said. Like the previously announced 1,6-Gbyte Anaconda 2750, the new drives promise a sustained data transfer rate of at least 600 Kbytes per second, or 36 Mbytes per minute — more than 2.5 times the transfer rate of previous-generation cartridge tape drives, according to Archive. Both new drives have an MTBF (mean time between failure) rating of 80,000 hours, based on a 20 percent duty cycle. Advanced features of the Model 2850 include a 2-Mbyte memory buffer to boost transfer rates, Flash EPROMSs that make possible field firmware upgrades from tape and a hardware data-compression option that dou- bles capacity to 4.2 Gbytes Archive said it expects to ship evaluation units to its Maynard Electronics Division and to OEM customers early next year. OEM pricing of the 2800 will be about $750 in small quantities, the com- pany said, while the 2850 will be about $900. The model 2750, origi- nally called the Viper, is expected to ship in volume by the end of the year The models introduced last month owe their expanded capacity | to higher linear density and a new extended-length QIC-2100C car- tridge, developed by 3M Corp. of St. Paul, Minn. : a MacProducts takes opticals to low price By Dartanyon L. Brown Austin, Texas — Signaling what could be the beginning of a magneto-optical drive price war, MacProducts USA Inc. last week began shipping a 128-Mbyte drive priced at less than $1,500. Called the Magic REO128, the $1,499 drive is based on a mecha- nism from Mass Optical Storage Technologies Inc. that has an aver- age seek time of 35 milliseconds. The drive offers a sustained data transfer rate of 512 Kbytes per second and a MTBF (mean time between failure: rating of 30,000 hours, according to the company The drive comes with external ter- mination and SCSI ID selection, two AC outlets, cables and software. It is | covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee and a one-year warranty; an extended warranty is available for $149 per year. If the unit fails within the warranty period, MacProducts promises free replacement. Optical cartridges for the drive, which the company said have a shelf life of 10 years, are sold separately for $99 each The company offers free data recov- ery service on its media The company said it also will offer an internal version for future Macs and for IBM PCs and compatibles. MacProducts USA Inc. is at 608 W. 22nd St., Austin, Texas 78705. Phone (512) 472-8881 or (800) 622- 3475; fax (512) 499-0888, 0 PS RealTime Vingo 3YearWiRrwvry PRESENT ING THE ULTIMATE 24-8 OnLy FRoM CoLOR BOARD. RASTEROPS, Never before have so many features been combined to create such a powerful product. The 24XLTV is the ultimate Macintosh single-slot display board. It features on-board QuickDraw™ acceleration, integrated full-motion video in a window and real-time frame capture. The 24XLTV puts advanced layout, animation and video at your fingertips. 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Apple- Talk Remote Access allows one Mac to call another and access its files and ser- vices. Connections can be restricted to just the “host” RY Modem setup Laie Modem Speaker: @ On Corr Poet Mac — the one you are calling — or to the Apple- Talk network on which it resides. Unlike similar products from both Farallon Com- Remote Access Answering Setup Di berwer sate Da rexinan comrstin te: SEY mies Anew acess: @ entre netvart © Wie Macotonh coy puting Inc. and Shiva Corp. (see story, Page 24), AppleTalk Remote Ac- cess does not allow users. to link two entire net- works together. Services on the remote network are accessible only to the Mac that initiates the Remote Access connection. System 7.0 integration. Apple- Talk Remote Access will require Sys- tem 7.0. Apple also recommends 4 By Mitch Ratdiffe Sausalito, Calif. — Now your LocalTalk packets can go where only eagles dared. Nuvotech Inc. last week announced RadioBridge, a half-router that connects LocalTalk networks, even those in different buildings, with radio transmissions. Due in December for $1,595, RadioBridge will ship in a stand- alone wall or rack-mount model and as an add-in card for Nuvotech’s NuvoStar 24-port n Architec- ture Management Hub. It is the first network router to use radio frequen- cies rather than network cabling. Spread-spectrum __ technology, which involves spreading data over available eet e lets RadioBridge | broadcast reliably at relatively low power, the company said. Transmit- ting at 121 Kbps on four bands between 902 and 928 MHz, about Nuvotech unleashes RadioBridge the same bands used by cellular telephones, the router's total throughput depends on operating conditions, the company said. Users can choose either a 500- foot or 1,000-foot broadcast range. RadioBridge does not require a Federal Communications Commis- sion site license because it uses channels available to the public. Floor-to-floor or building-to- building AppleTalk Phase 1 and 2 routing is supported by Radio- Bridge. It ships with Mac software that allows users to configure their network, make zones visible or invisible, and record error rates and dropped packets across radio connections. Nuvotech Inc, is at 2015 Bridge- way, Suite 204, Sausalito, Calif 94965. Phone (415) 331-7815; fax (415) 331-6445.0 Setting vp AppleTalk Remote Access can be done with either the Remote Access application or directly with the Remote Access Setup control panel. Mbytes of RAM, although 2 Mbytes should work. Once installed, configuration through a control panel is easy. The Remote Access application, used to initiate a connection, also can be used to configure the product Using the control panel, you can tur call answering on or off, specify the maximum length of any connec- tion, set access to just the host or the entire network, and specify the type of modem attached to your m or printer port. Apple will support an extensive list of both 2,400-bps/V.22bis and 9,600-bps/V.32 modems in the soft- ware. Users also will be able to write initialization and control scripts for other modems in CCL (Command Control Language), described in separate documents that will be available through APDA. Access control. In some ways, AppleTalk Remote Access operates as a natural extension to current sys- See Remote, Page 24 AlisaTalk gets Unix, terminal emulators By Roines Cohen Pasadena, Calif, — Alisa Systems Inc. this week is expected to announce several new products that help connect Macs to Unix hosts, The new offerings include: » Unix network services. Alisa has ported its AlisaTalk connectivity offerings, originally just for DEC VAX hosts, to several other plat- forms. AlisaTalk for Unix will run on Unix, Ultrix and AIX operating systems on Sun, DEC, and IBM workstations. The program provides AFP (AppleTalk Filing Protocol)-com- atible file sharing and high-speed ile transfer between Mac and Unix users; access to all networked print- See Alisa, Page 25 By Margie Wylie Dallas — For the first time in its uphill climb to compete against Nov- al Inc.’s NetWare, Microsoft Corp.'s LAN Manager network will get its own AppleTalk connections by year’s end, the company announced here at NetWorld '91 this week. The 50-user, $995 Microsoft LAN Manager Services for Macin- tosh is Microsoft's first release of software it bought from 3Com Corp. earlier this year Microsoft's former development partner halted work on its version of the software, called 3+Open, last year. In January, it sold to Microsoft the extensions it had created for the IBM PC or compatible network, including its 3+Open for the Mac (see MacWEEK, Jan. 15). The 3Com Mac services have been adapted to work with Microsoft's top-of-the-line LAN Manager 2.1 but won't offer any other substantial improvements. Like 3+Open for Mac, the new version of the software lets Macs access a LAN Manager network's file and print services through an By Nathalie Welch San Jose, Calif. — Cypress. | Research Corp. has tapped into App les. new ISDN technology for the first release of its tele- phone interface soft- ware, the company said here at InterOp "91 last week. Originally slated to be released last sum- mer with hardware developed by Cypress (see MacWEEK, Feb 5), PhonePro, at about $600 per copy, won't show up until Apple’s $1,099 NuBus ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) card does next month. The integrated icon- based — programming language and multi- format database lets users create customized _ telecommunications applications by connecting icons in a lowchart. “It's sort of like a HyperCard stack for an answering machine,” LAN Manager to get AppleTalk connection by end of the year AFP rpletely Filing Protocol)- compatible server volume. The vol- ume, which is mounted through the Chooser and appears as a standard AppleShare server, lets Macs share files with DOS and OS/2 clients. Macs also can print to P - based printers attached directly to LAN Manager server, and DOS and OS/2 clients can print to LaserWniters attached to the AppleTalk network. Other serene amenities, such as remote access, network instal- lation and wide-area gateways, are unavailable to Mac clients. Mac users also cannot create or delete users, set access privileges, or otherwise man- age the LAN Manager network. LAN Manager Services for the Mac works with LocalTalk, token ring or Ethernet. 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Anbe., COMPUTER WORKS 1195 Park Avenue, juille, CA 94608. Fax: 510-547-3928. AppleLink: TRIBE, LocalSwitch, Tribe Computer Works and the Tribe logo are trademarks of Computer Works, Inc. All trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners, Some companies leery about investing By Mitch Ratdiffe San Jose, Calif, — Apple might see ita rollout of its 2 ISDN NuBus card here at InterOp 91 NEWS re tied OUR fillment of its long- ANALYSIS attiinelapromiss of digital connectivity, but many users believe ISDN has arrived too late and too slow to win the telecom- munications race. ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) is a digital communications protocol that works over ordinary Copper phone lines, First proposed in Sheer 1050 has eee ae a the technology n to realize a data-communications revolution, But with the slow emergence of applica- tions and newer, faster stan aris- ing to challenge ISDN, many corpo- rations are examining the technology carefully before investing. ~ AInits current guise, with only 64 Kbps, we probably won't go with ISDN,” said Gerry Nadeau, manag- er of systems planning and manage- ment at GTE Co.'s Government Systems division in Newton, Mass. _ Nadeau said GTE is using dedi- fated T-ltelephonelines capable of pe aemiiting ita at 1.544 Mbps for its more demanding applications. “Our bandwidth requirements are a lot higher and we need a lot more horsepower [than ISDN can deliv- er],” he said. During the decade since the ISDN standard was proposed, a number of faster technologies haye come to market. One of these is Switched Multimegabit Data Ser- | vice (SMDS), which uses cealcated digital telephone switches as if they are Rigas routers (see Mac- WEEK, Sept. 17). Another is Fiber Distributed Data Interface FDDI), a metropolitan-area_net- technology that uses fiber- cabling. Both are capable of ansmitting data at multiples of the bandwidth offered by ISDN. jroadband ISDN (B-ISDN) is also as a challenge. The 1.544- , which requires tantial upgrading of the U.S. ications infrastructure, late in the 1990s. can live with the T-1 system in place for a long time, but I gine we'll consider B-ISDN when along,” GTE’s Nadeau said. ally, user interest in I because very few pers have introduced applica- take advantage of its speed availability of carrier channels rovide caller identification data. Ve don’t see many applications need 64-Kbps ths transmis- said Jim Dolezal, chief of the cations systems division at the U.S. Department of the Interi- or in Washington, D.C, “It’s difficult to justify for the added cost without some practical applications.” ‘As computing and telecommuni- cations draw closer together, a lack of common experiences has pre- vented the two industries from mak- ing an easy collaboration. “We know the first applications Mac users will see are going to use the phone and the Mac for call manage- mentand desktop conferencing,” said Jim Grivage, ISDN product manager for Pacific Bell of San Francisco, “At this point, we're working hard to understand Apple ISDN developers.” "Phone and computer people have both tended to want a cabaret package from the other,” said Paul ISDN may be too little, too late Hurley, chairman and CEO. of Cypress Research Inc, of San Jose, Calif., whose PhonePro telephone- management software, due next month, will support ISDN. “But that is nearly impossible because telecom is where the computer industry was in 1979. No one has any idea what it will be in five years, but they know it will be huge.” In the meantime, users are having difficulties selling their companies on ISDN investments. “ISDN isn’t cheap, and it will be difficult to justify because it’s only a money saver,” said a ager with a large financial company who wished to remain anonymous “Investment these days is going only to moneymaking projects.” 0 Mac users have three choices for ISDN connections. > Cards. Apple last week intro- duced its $1,099 ISDN card for the NuBus, which already faces competition from European third- party cards, such as the $995 Plan- et card from Euronis, distributed by Technologists in Interactive Communication of Montreal. > Terminal adapter. Atlanta- based Hayes Microcomputing Prod- ucts Inc.’s $1,600 ISDN System Adapter, an external interface that Making the Mac work with ISDN connects to the modem port, lets users control ISDN lines through the Hayes AT-command set. > Network devices. ISDN- capable routers can provide net- work users access to wide-area net- work services through dedicated ISDN lines. Among the routers now available are the $2,195 H-Server from San Diego-based Solana Electronies, and Syn- crouters, priced between $1,895 and $2,495, from Engage Commu- nications Inc, of Aptos, Calif, GlobalGATE: Novel E-mail options By Nathalie Welch Williston, Vt. — Shore-to-ship electronic mail? With Solutions Inc.'s new GlobalGATE gateway, Microsoft Mail and QuickMail users can send messages over nearly any medium through AT&T EasyLink Services, The $395 GlobalGATE, due by month's end, will enable five users of these E-mail packages to send messages via EasyLink's wide range of delivery options, including fax, worldwide telex and Mailgram, Pri- ority Letter, telegram, cablegram, and even shore-to-ship. Global- GATE via AT&T EasyLink also pro- vides access to X.400 messaging sys- tems, enabling E-mail transmissions with enclosures. GlobalGATE operates in the back- ground and resides on the same Mac that runs either the QuickMail or Microsoft Mail mail server. To Quick- Mail users, access to AT&T EasyLink services appears as a selectable mail center, while Microsoft Mail users will see an icon that leads to the pro- gram’s addressing window. Extra clients are $195 for five, $345 for 10, $595 for 20 and $1,250 for 50. AT&T EasyLink services were established in late 1990 when AT&T acquired Western Union's Business Services, which included the EasyLink Stes serene oa E-mail services. AT&T — added its electronic data- = eS interchange —_ capabilities a) and X.400 support [x] The gateway requires ) an AT&T — EasyLink = od Services account and ema Microsoft Mail 3.0 or CE reread Software Inc.’s Quick- Serta te Mail 2.5. seiisin Solutions Inc. is at P.O. Solutions’ GlobolGATE gateway kinks Microsoft Mail or vical users tothe many delivery options of ATT Easy- Link Services, os well as to X.400-based mail systems. Box 783, 30 Commerce St., Williston, Vt. 05495. Phone (802) 865-9220; fax (802) 865-9224. 0 Gateways MACWEEK 10.15.91 Gateways [sie IX hed Bel ees) Port Authority lets all share LaserJet Sunnyvale, Calif, — ASP Computer Products Inc. is shipping a device that allows up to 15 Macs, IBM PCs and compatibles, and VAX or HP3000 workstations to share a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer. Port Authority provides eight, 10 or 16 protocol-independent ports that can be configured for input from or output to stand-alone devices. For instance, a single output port can connect fo input ports from several kinds of computers. MacPrint, an ASP driver, provides HP interface emulation on the hardware level, so Mac users must configure Port Authority and the HP LaserJet using line commands from a text editor. Port Authority with eight ports sells for $695, the 10-port model is $875 and the 16-port is $1,375. ASP Computer Products Inc. is at 1026 W. Maude Ave., Suite 305, Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086. Phone (408) 746-2965; fax (408) 746-2803. Helios USA cuts price of EtherShare 2.0 Cupertino, Calif. — Helios USA has announced a substantial price reduction for its Mac-to-Unix network integration software, Ether- Share 2.0. A collection of Unix applications, EtherShare provides Mac- intosh file and print server services that reside on a Unix workstation or mainframe. EtherShare servers now sell for $4,995 for a version that runs on a Unix workstation and $5,995 for the mainframe version. Both versions include support for 245 users. Previously, EtherShare was priced from $3,200 to $27,500, depending on the number of users the server would support. Helios USA is at 998 W. Lynn Way, Suite 4, Cupertino, Calif 95014. Phone (408) 255-2503; fax (408) 255-3298. Forval angles modems at Macs Midvale, Utah — Forval America Inc., a manufacturer of modems for the IBM PC and compatible market, has begun targeting the Mac market with its high-speed 14.4 Kbps Forval SA14400 modem. Priced at $1,245, the V.42bis modem now comes bundled with a coupon that lets owners purchase MicroPhone Il communications soft- ware and a Mac-to-modem cable for $195. Forval America Inc.’s Modem Division is at 6985 Union Park Center, Suite 425, Midvale, Utah 84047. Phone (801) 561-8080 or (800) 367- 8251; fax (801) 561-8777. Allied Telesis offers two 10BASE T micro repeaters Mountain View, Calif, — Allied Telesis Inc. last month shipped two 1OBASE T micro repeaters with internal power supplies. Available now, Allied’s $549 eight-port AT-MR820T and $449 four- port AT-MR420T allow users to connect workgroups to fiber-optic, coax- ial or twisted-pair backbones. The repeaters also can provide stand- alone connectivity for small networks. Allied Telesis Inc. is at 575 E. Middlefield Road, Mountain View, Calif. 94043, Phone (415) 964-2771; (415) 964-0944. Gateways MACWEEK 10.15.91 Remote From Page 20 tem software. Client access is controlled with the same User & Groups control panel used in System 7.0's file sharing, Installing AppleTalk Remote Access adds options to users’ configu- ration panels. Each user, except Guest, can be allowed to call in, and, optionally, can have a call-back number assigned. The call-back | option offers better security and allows the host side to absorb most of the costs of the connec- | tion. It will be great for workers at home but not as useful for portable users on the road. To help managers maintain control over access to their networks, Apple has created a utility that requires a password before allow- ing users to set up their Macs for dial-in callers. This utility should be available sepa rately through APDA. Users can check a connection activity log on each host Mac to monitor access, Eeudine caller’s name and connection duration. The log also can be set to record unauthorized log- in attempts, Just like being there? Remote connec- tions are based on connection documents, The document specifies your user name, pass- word and the phone number you want to dial You can save your password to simplify con- nections if you wish. Remote Access also can be configured to Me riodically remind you that you are connected. Connections also can be initiated in three other ways: You can drag and drop a connection document on the Remote Access application icon; hold down the Option key and double- MACS ARE SHOWING UP IN THE LEAST X PECTED PLACES. Yes, that is a Macintosh desktop you are looking at. And, yes, that isa UNIX workstation. Now you can use software like Micro- soft Word, Aldus Persuasion and Infor- mix WingZ from a standard X window on any Sun, Digital, Hewlett-Packard or IBM workstation or X terminal. In fact, any application for the Macintosh is now available for your X server platform. With XGator. An extraordinarily ele gant and versatile X Window client for the Macintosh operating system that lets you remotely operate any Macintosh from anywhere on the network. From down the hall or across the country. With XGator, you get a full bit-mapped representation of the entire Macintosh desktop. You control the desktop with your workstation mouse and keyboard. If a Macintosh user sees it, you see it, too. With XGator installed on a Macintosh, any X workstation user can access the Macintosh from anywhere on the net- work. No additional workstation soft- ware is required. As a user, XGator lets you do things like cut text from a document in your X terminal window and paste it into a Macintosh application document via the Supported X Server Platforms XGator 1.0 has been tested for compatibility with most models from the following vendors: Sun NCD Visual HP NeXT Sony DEC MIPS — SiliconGraphics IBM Wyse_—Stardent XGatorwindow,usingstandard X window clipboard space. Nocomplex filetransfers. Tf you're managing Macintosh net- works, XGator lets you remotely check, reconfigure and even reboot any XGator equipped Macintosh on your LocalTalk or Ethernet network. You can reconfig- ure AppleTalk hubs, bridges and routers. XGator Requirements ™ Macintosh System 6.0.x or 70. ™ MacICP = Conforms to X Windows X11 (R4 or earlier) ‘system software = Supports OSF/Motif, DECwindows, and Open Look window managers You can even run AppléIalk network analysis or network management soft- ware. In short, XGator gives you com- plete control of remote AppleTalk nodes, without ever leaving your workstation. And if youre a technical support spe- cialist, you can log on to users’ Macin- toshes and solve problems while they watch. Right from the workstation. Naturally, XGator works with all the most popular window managers for UNIX workstations including OSF/ Motif, Open Look and DEGwindows. Plus it comes fully supported by what is widely acknowledged to be the most experienced customer support team in the business. And best of all, you can put XGator to work for you right away. It’s simple. To find out how, just call 800-473-4776, 617-494-1999 or fax 617-494-9270, 2% Landsdo