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01.04.93 Volume 7 Number 1 THE NEWSWEEKLY FOR MACTNTOSH MANAGERS SPECIAL EXPO ISSUE The State of MAC MANAGEMENT MacWEEKR° annual survey of Mac managers and their top concerns System 7 status report Are Budgets up, down or the same? Cross-platform compatibility The workload of support personnel Plus: PowerBook QuickPoll Expo highlights ° Year in review 4.93 Volume 7 Num THE INGLE WeS W ESE Ke inY = FeO°R MACINTOSH MANAGERS INSIDE PowerBook purchase plans See Page 40 A look back, a look forward See Page 28 olor sets tone for 93 Apple line Spring crop of 68030-based Classics Portable Macs make move to color = Color-matching Passive-matrix 165¢ expected next month By Raines Cohen Cupertino, Calif. — What do you call a PowerBook 180 with a color passive-matrix screen? As of next month, a PowerBook 165c. The 165c will be followed this summer by a 33-MHz PowerBook Duo with an active-matrix gray- scale LCD and by an active-matrix Apple brin PowerBook Winter/Spring 165¢ (passive-matrix color) ‘2xx (active-matrix gray) Tx (active-matrix color) 2x (active-matrix color) g color to PowerBook color LCD version of the 180. Duos won't gain color before this fall, when an active-matrix color system may hit the streets, sources said. 165c. While the PowerBook 160 and 180 support color video output, some users have been clam- oring for color in the main display. The high cost, large size, power requirements and limited availabili- ty of color LCD screens have ham- pered Apple’s efforts to deliver a color portable. See PowerBook, Page 224 Summer Fall Apple architecture promises mix-and-match networking By Mitch Ratcliffe San Francisco — Apple this year plans to release a stream of developer and end-user tools that will add more network sophistication and support for mobile clients of the PowerBook and Newton ilk. As it makes its connectivity plans for the rest of the decade, the com- pany is apparently paying equal attention to the Mac, the upcoming Newton personal digital assistants (PDAs) and future Apple servers based on both the 68000 and Power- PC chip families. “The value-added services that we can deliver are support for mobile, anytime-anywhere computing so that our customers can use PowerBooks or personal digital assistants from wherever they are,” said Morris ‘Taradalsky, vice president and gener- al manager of Apple’s Enterprise Sys- tems Division. At a briefing last month, he outlined an umbrella tech- nology, called the Apple Integrated Architecture, which will include con- nectivity, integration and service- access tools for use in the client- client-server network environment Apple has been touting of late. Taradalsky also said Dylan, a dynamic programming language under development at Apple, is just one of several cross-platform appli- See Enterprise, Page 226 | apps hook up with ColorSync By Matthew Rothenberg San Francisco — Third-party color-management systems are get- ting their hooks into Apple’s new ColorSync extension to QuickDraw. ColorSync will make its debut at this week’s Macworld Expo here as part of Apple’s rollout of imaging software will be available immediately through third parties and with Apple’s new color flatbed scanner and inkjet printer. It also reportedly will ship with a future version of System 7. ColorSync ships with a limited default color-matching method (CMM) that uses eight calibration algorithms to reduce color inconsis- tencies among peripherals such as printers, monitors and scanners. ColorSyne reads software profiles of each device to discover their color characteristics. Vendors of higher-end color- management products can take ad- vantage of ColorSync’s system-level architecture by providing their own CMMs and device profiles. Compa- nies demonstrating their support for See Imaging, Page 225 shoes is écks What to look for at this week’s Macworld Expo See Page 10 devices (see story, Page 225). The | will lower the cost of entry-level color By Carolyn Said Cupertino, Calif. — Apple next month will ship its Color Classic, a compact color Mac priced at less than $1,400, sources said. Later this spring, the company reportedly will deliver a more powerful Color Clas- sic that eventually can be upgraded by adding a PowerPC processor. Color Classic. Slated to debut at Apple’s Feb. 10 rollout, the Color Classic is essentially an LC II with a built-in Sony monitor, sources said. The LC Il starts at $1,239 without a monitor. Like the LC II, the Color Classic will be based on a 16-MHz 68030 with a processor direct slot for expansion. It will come with a 10- inch Trinitron display that offers 512-by-384-pixel resolution at 76 dpi (the equivalent of Apple’s 12- inch monitor); 4 Mbytes of RAM, expandable to 10 Mbytes; and an 80-Mbyte or 160-Mbyte hard drive. The new CPU will provide built- \ De The Color Classic is based on a 16-MHz 68030 with a PDS slot; it supports eight- bit color on its 10-inch Trinitron display. in support for eight-bit color, upgradable via video RAM to sup- port 16-bit color. The machine will include a built-in microphone and will have sound and brightness con- trols on the case. The Color Classic will sport a See Color Classic, Page 225 Attaché packs up PB files ‘Bags’ will automate travel preparations By Henry Norr San Francisco — An Attaché from Santorini soon could send PowerBook users packing. An innovative “travelware” pack- age due late this quarter from San- torini Consulting & Design Inc., Attaché uses the metaphor of pack- ing and unpacking bags to help users prepare their PowerBooks — or other mobile Macs, removable cartridges or transportable hard dri- ves — for trips and to clean up on return. Bags are reusable docu- ments that specify how the target disk is to be configured for a partic- | ular user, project or destination. ‘The program, tentatively priced at $199, takes a broader view of mobile- computing requirements than previ- ous PowerBook packages, which have focused primarily on file synchroniza- tion and power management. In addi- tion to its file-management capabili- ties, the Santorini package includes some 10 other utilities specifically designed for travelers. Bag building. Among the functions that can be performed automatically by an Attaché bag are copying specific files or files that meet user-defined criteria (such as “all Excel spreadsheets modified in the last week on the server”) from other disks and net- work volumes; synchronizing fold- ers; offloading unneeded files and restoring them on return; and See Attaché, Page 225 The NEC MultiSync 4FG™ The ultimate monitor for your Macintosh: At NEC, we've developed hundreds of computer products expressly for Mac systems: ‘from our highly- acclaimed MultiSync monitors, MultiSpin™ CD-ROM readers and Silenewriter* laser printers, to our Professional Graphics Series, which includes our new 27" MultiSync 3PG data monitor and MultiSync 6PG and 9PG Projection Moni- tors for images as large as 25 feet. BS t % —MacUser, Magazine Aug.’92 The NEC MultiSync’ 3FGx™ monitor. In 1992, the only monitor to snag the coveted five-mice rating was an NEC monitor: the MultiSync 4FG. After running it and 13 others through the most rigorous technical evaluation they’d ever used for testing monitors, MacUser magazine concluded, “If you’re looking for the sharpest display, the NEC MultiSync 4FG should be your top choice” What more can we say? Glad you asked. Our AccuColor™ Control System prompted MacUser to make special mention of the “easy color adjustments” AccuColor lets you adjust on-screen colors, so if you’re looking for mouse-tail pink, that’s what you'll get. If, however, color control is not a priority for you, you'll be very happy with NEC’s MultiSync 3FGx monitor, which shares almost all of the 4FG’s award-winning features. Both monitors produce sharp, bright images, crisp graph- ics and vibrant colors. An Invar shadow mask provides increased brightness without loss of focus. Another big idea—the display area. The large 15” screen (13.8" active display area) coupled with FullScan™ capability for edge-to-edge images gives you a larger display area than typical 13” or 14” RGB monitors. How do you make an NEC MultiSync monitor work with your Mac? Just plug it in, using NEC’s free FG/Mac cable adapter. It works with the Mac’s on-board video, : The least you should do for your Mac: so you won’t ‘need an add-in video board? Both monitors are compatible with the Mac’ II family, Quadra™ series, LC’s, PowerBooks™ and PC systems. So you can use just one monitor for both types of platforms. MacUser noted the “powerful and versatile controls make switch- ing from a Mac to a PC a snap” And to make these monitors as user-friendly as possible, we've included ergonomic features such as a tilt/swivel base and up-front user controls. Plus, our Reduced Magnetic Field™ technology meets the strict Swedish MPR II guidelines for magnetic field emissions. There are lots of reasons for considering an NEC MultiSync monitor for your Mac—the sharp, bright images, the vibrant colors, the large display area, the flexibility, the compatibility—to name five. And the Pea S&F to name five more. For more information on our award-winning monitors, call 1-800-NEC-INFO (in Canada: 1-800-343-4418). Or for a complete brochure via fax, call NEC FastFacts™ at 1-800-366-0476, request #62234. *For Macintosh 640 x 480 resolution, just attach NEC's FG/Mac cable adapter and plug into: Macintosh isi, ci, LC, LCI, vx, vi, Quadra™ 700, Quadra 900, Quadra 950, Performa” 400, Performa 600, PowerBook" 160, PowerBook 180, and the PowerBook 210 and PowerBook 230 with either the DuoDock™ or Miniock™ Or with an addin video ccard: Macintosh I, Ih, cx, life, PowerBook 140, PowerBook 145, and PowerBook 170. Get the 640 x 480 FG/Mac adapter free by calling NEC at (312) 622-7427 8:30AM5PM CST. 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RESELLERS: GRACELAN UPDATE MANAGER IS AVAILABLE THROUGH INGRAM MICRO, MERISEL, AND TECHDATA TECHNOLOGY WORKS, INC, 4030 BRAKER LANE WEST, SUITE 350, AUSTIN, IX 78759, (512) 794-8533 (© COPYRIGHT 1992 TECHNOLOGY WORKS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TECHIORKS, GRACELAN UPDATE MANAGER AND TECHNOLOGY WORKS ARE ALL TRADEMARKS BELONGING TO TECHNOLOGY WORKS, INC_ALL OTHER TRADEMARKS MENTIONED BELONG TO THER RESPECTIVE 0 New Apple software is key to third-party translators Easy Open unlocks formats, platforms By Raines Cohen San Francisco — Third-party developers will use this week’s Mac- world Expo here to exhibit a number of document-translation products that work with anew Apple technology. Apple officially will unveil Mac- intosh Easy Open, a set of system extensions and applications that manage the conversion of docu- ments to other formats and plat- forms. The system will be licensed to developers who write translators and applications compliant with the Translation Manager application programming interface (see Mac- WEEK, Dec. 7, 1992). These third-party vendors have tapped into Easy Open: > Mastersoft Inc. will upgrade its Word for Word/Macintosh translators. Version 5.2 of the $149 document-conversion package will let many applications directly open dozens of standard PC-compatible formats and several Mac document formats. The product supports bi- directional translations among all its supported document types, for a total of 2,500 translation combina- tions. Users can upgrade for $39.95. > DataViz Corp. will include Easy Open in Version 7.02 of its $199 MacLinkPlus/PC and $169 MacLinkPlus/Translators. The com- pany said it modified its file-transla- tion library to conform to Easy Open standards, letting users open PC and Mac files directly in many formats. Both packages now also include Apple’s $79 Macintosh PC Exchange DOS disk-mounting utility. Previous versions came with Dayna Commu- nications Inc.’s DOS Mounter > Equilibrium Inc. this month will release a Easy Open-aware update to its $299 DeBabelizer graphics-translation application. De- Babelizer will appear in the lists of suggested applications that Easy Open presents when users double- click on documents in any of the 90 formats it now supports, according to the company. DataViz Corp. is at 55 Corporate Drive, Trumbull, Conn. 06611. Phone (203) 268-0030; fax (203) 268-4345. Equilibrium Inc. is at 475 Gate Five Road, Suite 225, Sausali- to, Calif. 94965. Phone (415) 332- 4343 or (800) 524-8651; fax (415) 332-4433, Mastersoft Inc. is at 6991 E. Camelback Road, Suite A320, Scottsdale, Ariz. 85251. Phone (602) 277-0900; fax (602) 970-0706. a No Hands finds Common Ground By Carolyn Said Palo Alto, Calif, — No Hands Software this week will introduce Common Ground, a package that can transform any Mac document into “digital paper” that can be viewed and printed without the application that created it. The $189.95 utility, slated to ship this month, will be followed in a few months by a Windows version, allowing cross-platform distribution. Common Ground comprises: > Common Ground Maker, a driver that prints documents to disk, substituting bit-mapped document representations for missing fonts. The bit maps are stored in three res- olutions: 72 dpi for Mac screens, 100 dpi for Windows screens and 300 dpi for printing. Because it uses bit maps, No Hands said, Common Ground will deliver a more exact rendering of the original document than Adobe Systems Inc.’s upcoming Acrobat, which instead relies on mimicking font metrics. > Common Ground Viewer, an application that lets users read, search, print and copy from Com- mon Ground documents. Freely distributable miniviewers willlet users read butnot search, print or copy Common Ground docu- ments. A drag-and-drop utility will let System 7 users produce “digital paper” from existing documents. Documents consume about 7 Kbytes per page and can appear in color. Randall Hull, owner of Design Consultancy in Sunnyvale, Calif., said he used Common Ground to send electronic copies of ads and copy to clients of his advertising agency. “Before, I'd spend a lot of money getting color prints done,” he said. “Clients like that they can look at [comps] on screen — it’s more interactive than paper.” No Hands said future versions will add features such as annotation, hypertext links between documents, and a table of contents or index. No Hands Software is at 200 Page Mill Road, Suite 260, Palo Alto, Calif. 94306. Phone (415) 321-7340 or (800) 598-3821; fax (415) 321-2209.0 4 28 40 62 62 76 76 82 82 83 83 84 Portable printer has PS interpreter, LocalTalk interface MobileWriterPS to debut at Macworld Expo. 1992: The year in retrospect MacWEEK editors take you back to the good and not so good and look ahead to what's in store this year. MacWEEK QuickPoll Our latest survey shows PowerBooks are leading the way at the high end of purchasing decisions. Gateways QuickMail 2.6 addresses reliability Server, administrative changes stressed in upgrade. Video teleconferencing system helps users share ShareView Plus sends, receives color images, voice. aa ap perryyirii GA PageMaker 5.0 moves up pre-press ladder Aldus program adds built-in color seps. RasterOps screens MoviePak Board takes QuickTime to full screen, full motion. BusinessWatch Radius expects quarterly loss Company cites product delays, Mac shortages. Apple’s stock remains undervalued Price/earnings ratio falls short of rivals’. Opinion Editorial ‘Apple should proceed with caution on third-party turf. ‘Commentary /Jean-Louis Gassée A\little adversity could carry Apple a long way. Letters MacTemps is the No. 1 agency. ‘Mac Manager/Don Crabb Apple’s Newtons will be all business. 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A gh sone. ati in hs pblcatan may rot beer in ry fom without peso, VOL.7 NO.1 88 107 107 122 126 126 132 139 148 148 228 153 160 199 MacWEEK 01.04.93 State of Mac Management MacWEEK’s annual survey finds Mac managers are forced to make buying decisions in a fast-changing market under increasing budget constraints. Survey results also show more use of System 7 and increasing demand for interoperability. Reviews ‘Making a case for the best CAD Intergraph's MicroStation Mac 4.2 adds good graph- ical interface, powerful but complex array of tools. NEP is one for the PowerBooks Symantec's utility package gives new level of control to PowerBook users without overkill. Cool your inkjets New Lexmark Color JetPrint PS 4079 and HP PaintWriter XL300PS improve on inkjets’ reputation. Scheduler puts managers on the FastTrack AEC’s project manager has capable chart-creation tools that make it great for small projects. Software International gets Mac ACT! together Mac version of venerable DOS contact manager flexible and powerful but marred by interface. Index to 1992 MacWEEK reviews ProductWatch Adding power to DTP programs XTensions and Additions technologies give XPress and PageMaker more muscle. MaclnTouch/Ric Ford Analyzing Apple's Photo CD illusion. Ask David Ramsey Unpacking the fonts from your System suitcase. Mac the Knife PB 145 production soon to be in Acer’s court Subcontracting deal is as good os done. Ad Showcase 222 Careers Mail Order 226 Advertiser Index Classified 227 Product Index Requests for permission should be directed to Chontol Lvelanet, 1 Pork Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. For information on reprints in quantities of 500 or more, write Claudia Crichlow, ZfDovis Publishing Co., 1 Park Ave, New York, N.Y. 10016. MocWEEK isa registered trademark of Coastol Associates Publishing, LP. News MACWEEK 01.04.93 4 Portable printer pumps out PS By Matthew Rothenberg Kent, Wash. — Mannesmann Tally Corp. this week will introduce a portable thermal printer that packs a PostScript interpreter and a Local Talk interface. The MobileWriterPS, slated to ship in April for about $1,000, will make its debut at Macworld Expo this week. The 8-pound device is based on a proprietary 6-page-per- minute thermal-transfer engine and prints to letter-, legal- or A4-size plain paper or trans- parencies ata resolution of 300 dpi. ‘The printer includes a PostScript Level 1- compatible interpreter licensed from Microsoft Corp., plus 35 Type | fonts, and itis compatible with Apple’s LaserWriter driver, according to Mannesmann Tally. A PCL 4 interpreter and a GlobalFax 2.1 to add OCR, support for Duo By Nathalie Welch Mountain View, Calif. — Global Village Communication Inc. this month will upgrade its GlobalFax software with optical character recognition and release a special version for PowerBook Duos. The company also will | announce a new volume purchase plan for some modems. GlobalFax 2.1. The software, which will be bundled with Global Village’s external TelePort and internal PowerPort fax modems, will use OCR technology from Calera Recog- nition Systems Inc. to convert incoming faxes into ASCII text. The OCR option will be bun- dled during January with all TelePort/Gold and PowerPort/Gold fax modems and offered to purchasers of other models for $75. Version. 2.0 users will be able to upgrade to 2.1 without the OCR software for free. In addition, GlobalFax 2.1 will feature full rotation of received faxes and a new screen that provides space for calling-card numbers. The software also includes smart-page and smart-group resend, GlobalFax Duo 2.1. The $179 package, which will offer the same features as Global- Fax 2.1, including the OCR option, works | with Apple’s new PowerBook Duo 210 and 230. It was written to be compatible with ’s forthcoming $319 Express Modem, hich offloads most functions to the Duo CPU. Global Village hopes users will pur- chase its software as an alternative to Apple’s new Express Fax, 9,600-bps send-and-receive fax software to be bundled with the Express | Modem (see MacWEEK, Oct. 12, 1992). Volume discounts. The company will announce a $500 discount on 10-packs of TelePort/Gold or PowerPort/Gold fax modems, both of which regularly cost $499 each. PowerPort/Gold transmits faxes and data at 14.4 Kbps, while TelePort/Gold transmits data at 14.4 Kbps and sends and receives faxes at 9,600 bps. The 10-pack offer will not include the OCR option. Global Village Communication Inc. is 685-B E. Middlefield Road, Mountain View, Calif. 94043. Phone (415) 390-8200; fax (415) 390-8361.0 Centronics parallel interface are also included. The MobileWriterPS has a 16-MHz 68000 processor and 2 Mbytes of RAM; memory can- not be expanded. The printer’s rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery can print 150 pages per charge, the company said. Each wax-transfer ribbon also is good for 150 pages. The device, which has an 80-sheet feeder built in, measures 11.4 by 8.7 by 2.3 inches. It comes with an AC adapter and printer cable. A carrying case costs $60. “That’s a great deal,” said Marc Boer, senior analyst with International Data Corp. of Fram- ingham, Mass. At less than $1,000, he said, the MobileWriterPS will be “the cheapest Post- Script on the market. The print quality may not rival lasers, but for the price, you can’t beat it.” In other portable-printer news, Eastman Kodak Co. this week will ship a $79 Quick- Draw interface kit for its $549 Diconix 701, a 300-dpi, 3-ppm inkjet model that weighs in at 5.6 pounds. Eastman Kodak Co. is at 901 Elmgrove Road, Rochester, N.Y. 14653. Phone (716) 724- 4000 or (800) 344-0006; fax (716) 726-3758. Mannesmann Tally Corp. is at 8301 S. | 180th St., P.O. Box 97018, Kent, Wash. 98064-9718. Phone (206) 251-5524 or (800) 843-1347; fax (206) 251-5520. 0 They come in the most useful sizes: 14," 17, right for nearly every application. design that accurately aligns the three color bi Sony Trinitron® monitors. Now in assorted sizes. There are a lot of good reasons to buy a Sony monitor. and 20." One just They all have a Trinitron CRT with the unique one gun/one lens ns for a crisp ALSoft, Inline enter PB-util race By Henry Norr San Francisco — Two more utility vendors this week will jump into the PowerBook market with packages that provide improved power management, security and other conveniences. ALSoft Inc. and Inline Design both plan to begin selling their just-completed programs, minus final packaging, at Macworld Expo here. Both packages consist of multiple modules con- figured through a single control panel. ALSoft’s UP, which will list for $129 but sell at the expo for $59, has 10 modules. The PowerBar module provides a customizable floating bar displaying estimated time remain- ing on a battery charge and other status infor- mation. The Security module provides pass- word protection at start-up, at wake-up after an interval of inactivity or on command. Other modules offer an array of sleep and backlight- dimming settings, menu bar indicators for disk and modem activity, no-click menu access, instant screen blanking or system sleep, and animated routines to highlight cursor location. Inline’s PB Tools, written by Compu- Serve sysop Bill Steinberg, will list for $99.95 but sharp imag colors. And a vertically flat sc squa ner image. Theyre Multiscan with all the current major gi the quality and sur port Sony is known for. >. Plus a Super Fine Pitch" Aperture Grille for bright. rich monitors, which means theyre compatible raphics standards. And they're backed by Macworld and PC Magazine liked our 14" monitor so much they awarded it their Editor So whether youre buy ; Choice* entire department, dont settle for anything less than T monitors by Sony. No matter how & just call 1-800-352-7669. g they are. | n for reduced distortion and a full, g one for yourself or enough for the itron The ones that make all your projects look better. For more information and the name of a Sony dealer near you, News MACWEEK 01.04.93 sell at the expo for $25. The program, described by Inline as offering “essentials without the frills,” has four modules. PowerWatch provides a menu bar battery- and drive-status indicator; a menu with sleep commands and an asynchronous Drive Wake option, which lets users continue working as the internal drive spins up; and logging of detailed statistics about battery usage, with a built-in graphing function and export option. PowerControl offers sleep and backlight controls and a Deep Discharge button for reconditioning nickel-cadmium batteries. SafeSleep’s functions include screen blanking and basic password protection on start-up or wake-up, with optional display of custom text. (Users can bypass security by starting up with extensions turned off.) The PBKeys module lets users set hot keys and combine the arrow keys with the Control key so they function as Page- Up, PageDown, Home and End keys. ALSoft is at RO. Box 927, Spring, ‘Texas 77383. Phone (713) 353-4090 or (800) 257-6381; fax (713) 353-9868. Inline Design is at 308 Main St, Lakeville, Conn. 06039. Phone (203) 435- 4995 or (800) 453-7671; fax (203) 435-1091. 0 RasterOps DuoMate will drive big screens Santa Clara, Calif. — A new PowerBook Duo dock from RasterOps Corp. promises to help users take advantage of large color moni- tors and displays as they roam the road. The DuoMate, to debut at Macworld Expo this week and ship by March for $599, includes 1 Mbyte of video RAM, soit will be able to drive displays as large as 12 inches in 24-bit color, 16 inches in 16-bit color and 21 inches in eight-bit color. It also will support VGA video output, composite video with convolution, and NTSC or PAL (European) output. The dock includes a stereo audio-out port and an Apple Desktop Bus port, as well as a pass- through button for the Duo’ power switch. Unlike some other docks, it does not block the Duo’ ports. It sports a 32-bit bus design. The DuoMate can run on the Duo’ battery | power alone, without an external power source, todrive NTSC, PAL, or 12- or 13-inch screens. RasterOps Corp. is at 2500 Walsh Ave., Santa Clara, Calif, 95051. Phone (408) 562- 4200; fax (408) 562-4066. Ra ps DuoMate Side view Ne eee News PowerBook drive holds 250 Mbytes By Kirsten L. Parkinson Irvine, Calif. — MicroNet Tech- nology Inc. will unveil a host of advanced storage systems at Mac- world Expo this week. > PowerBook internal drive. ‘The PBi-250, a 2.5-inch mechanism with a capacity of 250 Mbytes and an average seek time of 16 milliseconds, is due next month for $1,495. The company declined to identify the mechanism’s manufacturer. > New SyQuest. The MR-90c, available now for $995, is based on a new SyQuest 88-Mbyte mechanism that can write as well as read 44- Mbyte cartridges. Owners of the MR- 90, MicroNet’s original 88-Mbyte SyQuest unit, can upgrade for $215. > Duo Dock drives. A trio of 1-inch-high, 3.5-inch internal drives for Apple’s Duo Docks is slated to SyQuest Technology Inc. this week will move to address a compat- ibility issue that has kept some users away from its 88-Mbyte removable- media drives by announcing a new model that can write as well as read 44-Mbyte cartridges. Called the SyQuest SQ5110C, the new mechanism will be available through OEMs at prices expected to be about 5 percent to 10 percent higher than those of the original 88- Mbyte unit, the SQ5110. Because the tracks on a 44- By Neil McManus Sunnyvale, Calif. — SuperMac Technology this week will intro- duce a new line of 24-bit-color dis- play cards with built-in DSP accel- eration for graphics programs. SuperMac’s new Thunder II line, to be unveiled at Macworld Expo in San Francisco and to ship in March, promises higher resolutions and faster QuickDraw acceleration than the company’s existing Thunder cards. SuperMac will offer three NuBus- based models of the new boards: > Thunder II Light, priced at $3,699, accelerates 24-bit color at res- olutions of up to 1,152 by 870 pixels. > Thunder II, $4,999, acceler- ates 24-bit color at resolutions up to 1,360 by 1,024 pixels, MACWEEK 01.04.93 ship next month. The 240-Mbyte DDi-240 and the 515-Mbyte DDi- 515, priced at $1,145 and $2,095, respectively, will be based on Seagate mechanisms; the 340-Mbyte DDi- 340, $1,445, will incorporate a Con- ner Peripherals mechanism. Average seek times are 12 milli- seconds for the 240- and 340- Mbyte units and 10.5 milliseconds for the high-capacity drive. > Barracuda drives. In March MicroNet expects to ship systems based on the Barracuda-1, a new 3.5-inch Seagate mechanism with a capacity of 1.4 Gbytes, an average seek time of 9 milliseconds, a spin- dle speed of 7,200 rpm and a sus- tained transfer rate of 4.8 Mbytes per second. An external version, the SS-1400, will list for $5,095; an internal Quadra version, the Q9i-1400, will be $4,995; and the Q9i/i-2800R, a two-drive, 2.8-Gbyte Ravens040 array for the Quadra 900/950, will be $9,990. > New DEC drive. The Q9i- New SyQuest 88s write 44MB cartridges Mbyte cartridge are wider than the read-write head of the 88- Mbyte mechanism, the new unit must make two erase passes before it can write new data to the disk. As a result, writes to a 44-Mbyte cartridge take about three times as long as to an 88-Mbyte cartridge. The SQ5110C has an average seek time of 19 milliseconds, an average transfer rate of 1.25 Mbytes per second and an MTBF (mean time between failure) rating of 80,000 hours. > Thunder II HDTY, $9,999, accelerates 24-bit color at up to 1,920-by-1,080-pixel resolution (see MacWEEK, Dec. 14, 1992). SuperMac will continue to offer its eight-bit Thunder/8 ($1,499) and 24-bit Thunder/24 ($2,999) NuBus cards, which accelerate at resolutions of up to 1,152 by 870 pixels. All Thunder boards accelerate QuickDraw commands with a pro- prietary application-specific integrat- ed circuit. The older Thunder cards and Thunder II Light speed Quick- Draw by 2,300 percent, while the ‘Thunder II and Thunder If HDTV speed it by 2,600 percent. The Thunder II cards adda daugh- terboard with two programmable AT&T 16A digital signal process- MicroNet lines up new storage 1600, a 1.6-Gbyte internal drive for Quadras, is due at the end of the quarter for $3,895. It will be based on Digital Equipment Corp.’s DSP-3160s, a new 3.5-inch mecha- nism with an average seek time of 8 milliseconds, a sustained transfer rate of 3.3 Mbytes per second and a spindle speed of 5,400 rpm. > NuPort-I. MicroNet will show the NuPort-III, an improved high-speed SCSI adapter for NuBus Macs. The 7-inch-long card, sold only with selected MicroNet storage systems, will list for $300, half the price of the NuPort-II. > Finder-mountable DAT drive. The DATdisk-1000, a $3,395 digital audio tape drive, will ship with soft- ware that lets users mount a 60-meter tape on the desktop as a 1-Gbyte vol- ume. The Data DAT-format system, which features 20-second access times and automatic write verifica- tion, is based on a JVC mechanism. > DAT autoloader. The SB- D16-4, a $5,995 autoloader due in March, is based on Ardat’s new Turbo Python DAT drive and DiamondBack autoloader. The full- height unit holds four cassettes, or about 16 Mbytes of data using the drive’s on-board compression capa- bilities and 90-meter tape. ‘The autoloader, as well as other MicroNet DAT and streaming-tape drives, will be bundled with Version 2.0 of Dantz Development Corp.’s Retrospect Remote. Dantz’s $129 DiskFit Direct will ship with MicroNet’s SyQuest and magneto- optical systems as well as disk drives with capacities up to 240 Mbytes. MicroNet Technology Inc. is at 20 Mason, Irvine, Calif. 92718. Phone (714) 581-1540; fax (714) 837-1164. 0 ing chips to speed graphics software. The DSP daughtercard, devel- oped by Storm Technology Inc., also accelerates JPEG (Joint Photo- graphic Experts Group) compres- sion and decompression up to 600 percent faster than software-only methods, according to SuperMac. The Thunder II cards will come bundled with software that will tap the DSP to speed Adobe Photoshop 2.5 functions, such as Resize, Rotate and RGB-to-CMYK color trans- forms. It also will ship with DSP- capable Photoshop filters, including Sharpen Edges, Sharpen More, Unsharp Mask, Blur More, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur and Despeckle. The boards also will include free copies of Eastman Kodak Co.’s $39 Attain’s In Con- trol 2.0 sports anew calendar view (bottom) 20,1998 mstne Caan Aloe tt oa and lets users check off com- pleted activi- ties. An included extension can sound alarms even without In Control open. In Control 2.0's calendar feature tells users when to-dos are due By Henry Norr Somerville, Mass. — In Control originally was designed to tell users what to do, but starting this week it also will remind them when to do it. Version 2.0 of Attain Corp’s $129.95 to-do list manager is slated for release at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. It features a new date view, a customizable calendar that shares the screen with the pro- gram’s main multicolumn outline view. Outline entries with a date or time attached can be dragged into the calendar directly, and users can attach pop-up and audio reminders that are activated either by a reminder function built into the application or by an optional notifi- cation extension that works even when In Control is not open. Portfolio Software Inc.’s Dyno- Page Lite utility, bundled with In Control 2.0, lets users preview and print calendars and outlines in popu- lar personal-organizer page formats. Other new features include: > Scripting. Users can create scripts that automatically apply pre- SuperMac Thunder II cards pack 2 DSPs to speed apps Photo CD Access utility, HSC Soft- ware’s $149 Kai’s Power Fools Photo- shop filters and Storm’s $199 Picture- Press JPEG compression software. ‘Thunder/24 users can upgrade to ‘Thunder II Light performance for $999, SuperMac said. SuperMac this week will introduce the SuperMatch High-Res 20 Trini- tron Display. Scheduled to ship in March for $3,999, the 20-inch moni- tor will offer resolutions of up to 1,360 by 1,024 pixels. SuperMac will contin- ue to offer its 20-inch SuperMatch 20T, a $2,999 Trinitron with resolu- tions of up to 1,024 by 768 pixels. SuperMac Technology is at 485 Potrero Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086. Phone (408) 245-2202; fax (408) 735-7250. viously set formats, sort orders and display criteria to other documents. ‘The feature can be used, for exam- ple, to limit the display to high- priority entries or to items associat- ed with a specific project. > Check boxes for completed items. New commands let users show and hide checked topics. > Automatic default values. Users can specify the text to be entered in any column or have the program fill in the current date and time, tomorrow’s date, the value of the cell above, or a sequence number. > Document linking. System 7 users can attach a document or appli- cation to any item and open it auto- matically from within In Control. > Formatting options. In Con- trol now has more formatting options, including grid lines between topics or columns and a selection of outline-topic labeling systems. Beta-tester Todd Weiner, a fund-raiser at the Museum of Nat- ural History in New York, said the program helps him “keep track of hundreds of project proposals and grant applications without going through the formalities of setting up a database.” With the new link- ing function, he and colleagues can go directly from abstracts of pro- posals, kept in an outline, to the full documents. Upgrades are $30, or $10 to users who purchased in the past 60 days. Attain Corp. is at 48 Grove St, Somerville, Mass. 02144. Phone (617) 776-1110; fax (617) 776-1626. 0. For the record In the Dec. 7 issue, Peter M. Fine’s name was misspelled. 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HP gives $100 or $50 rebates on award-winning ScanJets and DeskWriters. HP’s Mac-compatible scanners and printers seem torun forever. But our rebate program won't. Now through January 31, 1993, you can enjoy the famous perfor- mance of HP's products for the Macintosh. And save a modest fortune in the bargain. We're giving $50 rebates on the enormously popular HP DeskWriter printer, providing laser-quality out- put at a dot-matrix price. $50 on the HP DeskWriter C, so you can add a splash of color. And $50 off the already low price of the HP ScanJet IIp grayscale scanner. We're also offering a $100 rebate on the HP ScanJet IIc color scanner. magazine's World-Class Awards* Voted on by Macintosh enthusiasts who subscribe to Macworld. So call 1-800-35HPMAG, Ext.7037 for more details and the name of your local authorized HP dealer. You'll find that the price of fame With its superior scanning capabil- is very reasonable. ities, it meets all your imaging and text needs. HP DeskWriters and ScanJets won landslide victories in Macworld HEWLETT PACKARD iG News MACWEEK 01.04 o93 The votes are in on the best and brightest new wares to be displayed at Macworld Expo this week. PowerBooks and their accessories continue to be the hottest ticket. Overall, while the country is about to take anew direction, the Mac is holding a steady course. powerbecks With about half a million Power- Books now in the world, expect to see plenty of companies providing accessories for computers on the go. Motorola Inc. will offer expo goers a free, 30-day trial offer of Embarc software and a NewsStream pager, which will let roving users receive wireless messaging and daily USA Today news and weather briefs. Tell be docks aplenty for Duo owners at the show. In addition to Apple’s own offerings, you'll be able to see RasterOps Corp.’s DuoMate and E-Machines Inc.’s PowerLink DeskNet, along with tiny docks: Envisio Inc.’s Dynamic Duo, E- Machines’ Powerlink Presentor and Computer Care Inc.’s new micro- docks, including a SCSI adapter. Applied Engineering will show its unique cellular modem-voice-fax solutions, now shipping. Mean- while, if you want to connect a PowerBook to an Ethernet network without an adapter, check out Sonic Systems Inc.’s PowerBridge. Strategic Mapping Inc. will unveil Local Expert, a “personal navigator” application that includes maps and information about attractions, restau- rants, hotels and current events in major cities. And Global Village Communication Inc. will introduce GlobalFax Version 2.1, which will support optical character recognition. PowerBooks also are the rage in the utilities arena this season. Two new collections for notebook users Strategic E Mapping’s Local [QQ Expert conhelp — PowerBook- (6 wielding expo al attendees find = their way i downtown San Francisco. — UP from ALSoft Inc. and Bill Steinberg’s PB Tools, published by InLine Design — will make their debuts; Palomar Software Ine. will ship On the Road, an extension that automatically carries out deferred printing and fax transmissions and remounts server volumes when connections are available; Symantec Corp. will bring its Norton Essen- tials for PowerBook (nee GUM); a slew of recently released synchro- nization packages will be on display; and insiders will get sneak peeks at a couple of upcoming packages that break the sync-your-files and save- your-battery mold. ACIUS Inc., having finally served up shipping versions of 4th Dimen- sion 3.0 and 4D Server 1.0, the client-server implementation of its relational database, will put them on display atits booth. For flat-file fiends, Claris Corp. will showcase the cross-platform capabilities of FileMaker Pro 2.0 for the Macand Windows. Meanwhile, Claris’ new publish- ing division, Claris Clear Choice, will tout two of its newly acquired products: BrushStrokes, a color painting program, and Retrieve It!, a text-search program. Mainstay will launch a new object- oriented database called _Phyla. Objective Software Inc.’s Spread- Base, which wraps a spreadsheet ‘Stipm AE Da ME, WCB. 2)PUNCHLNE: ‘rey Sit eC interface over a database engine, is finally shipping and will be on display. Lotus Development Corp. will show off Version 1.1 of Lotus 1-2-3 for the Mac, and Microsoft Corp. will introduce the Mac version of its Open EIS Pak, a set of tools to build custom enterprise information sys- tems using Microsoft Excel and other applications. And those who haven’t yet seen Microsoft Word 5.1 will have a chance to try out the new version’s customizable tool bar. WordPerfect Corp. will show WordPerfect Works 1.2, its version of the BeagleWorks integrated package. Business users have some fresh choices for creating presentations, including Microsoft PowerPoint 3.0 and Gold Disk Inc.’s Astound!. connectivity Several vendors are offering pack- et sleuths new network-management tools. Caravelle Networks Corp. will display the latest version of its network-management software, NetWorks 3.0, which includes sup- port for SNMP and Novell IPX. Dayna Communications Inc. has extended the capabilities of Network Vital Signs, and The AG Group Inc. will show offa new packet-decoding technology called “thread intelli- gence” in the final beta version of TokenPeek. Farallon Computing Inc. will show away to make a Mac look and act like a Windows-equipped machine (or vice versa) with its cross-platform- compatible versions of Timbuktu. puns From funky floating clocks to applications that try to doit all, show goers can view a host of new options for managing their information. ProVUE Development Corp. is suiting up Power Team, a low-cost package that integrates a full lineup of personal-management —_ functions, including a Quicken-like checkbook. For users who just need to know where to be and when, Now Software Inc,’s networkable Up-To-Date 2.0, Pastel Development Corp.’s Day- Maker 2.0 (now networkable) and Visionary Software Inc.’s First Things First 3.0 offer three approaches to scheduling. And Attain Corp. will be on hand with In Control 2.0, which adds a calendar and other enhance- ments to the to-do list manager. On the contact-management front, check out Contact Software International Inc.’s ACT! for Mac and new versions of Advanced Soft- ware Inc.’s InTouch and Portfolio Systems Inc.’s Dynodex. Envisio Inc. will unleash its RAGE. (Radically Accelerated Graphics Engine) 24-bit graphics board on expo attendees. Truevision Inc. will debut Bravado24, a full-color video digitizer with optional compression. Full-screen, full-motion _video- editing systems will be on display from RasterOps, SuperMac Technology and Radius Inc. SuperMac will roll out its PhotoSpeed system for Eastman Kodak Co.’s Photo CD. Itincludes an accelerated color graphics card, a CD- ROM drive and a pile of software. SuperMae also will debut Touch- screen display systems and its Thun- der II line of graphics acceleration and display boards. Radius will show its latest Color Pivot display systems. printers/ Color imaging will set the tone at Apple’s booth when the company finally takes the wraps off its color flatbed scanner and inkjet printer, both expected to ship with Color- Sync, new system software for device-independent color matching. A spectrum of color luminaries will jump aboard the ColorSync bandwagon with solutions, includ- ing scan optimization, color man- agement and acceleration. They include Light Source Inc., Elec- tronics for Imaging Inc., Kodak, Savitar Inc., RasterOps and Com- pumation Inc. Other new color devices include ‘Tektronix Inc.’s Phaser 200 series of fast, plain-paper thermal-wax print- ers; LaserMaster Corp.’s upcoming thermal-wax model, expected to set new price lows; and Mustek Inc.’s Paragon 1200 color scanner. On the monochrome front, Apple is expected to present its challenges to Hewlett-Packard Co.’s LaserJet 4M: the LaserWriter Pro 630 and 600, both of which use the same true- 600-dpi, 8-page-per-minute Canon engine as HP’s new laser printer. The company also will introduce a faster RasterOps will show its Editi Aces Suite, anew full- screen, full- motion video- production system. It includes a digitizer, a 24-bit graphics card, an encoder and Adobe Pre- miere 2.0. version of its StyleWriter inkjet. GCC_ Technologies Inc. will unveil SelectPress, a 600-dpi, 8- ppm laser printer, and NewGen Systems Corp. will roll out the TurboPS/880p, a low-cost addition to its Personal Series laser line. In portable-printer news, Mannes- mann Tally Corp. will announce the MobileWriter, a 6-ppm PostScript- compatible model for about $1,000, and Kodak will introduce a $79 Mac adapter kit for its $549 Diconix 701. mrayhics Aldus Corp. will make a full-scale frontal assault on “professional” desk- top publishers with Version 5.0 of PageMaker. Meanwhile, Quark Inc. will sell a new $45 disk of XTensions called Red Hot & Publish; all pro- ceeds will benefit the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Computer artists will find plenty to get excited about at the show, including lots of cataloging pro- grams: DeltaPoint Inc.’s new Freeze- Frame, Aldus’ Fetch and Version 2.0 of Multi-Ad Services Inc.’s Search. Multi-Ad also will showcase Ver- sion 3.5 of its Multi-Ad Creator, and Timeworks Inc. will sell the CD- ROM version of Publish-It! Easy 3.0. Both budding and accomplished designers should check out the tear- off palettes, magic wand, and record and playback features of Fractal Design Corps Painter 2.0. Adobe Systems Inc. will tout Dimensions, a utility that turns 2-D art into 3-D; Photoshop 2.5, the speedy upgrade to its image-editing program; and SuperATM, which simulates document fonts if the user does not have them installed. For low-end painting and drawing capabilities, look into Deneba Soft- ware’s artWorks and Expert Software Inc.’s Expert Draw. Deneba also will show three ToolPAK add-ons for Canvas. And two old-time graphics programs — SuperPaint from Aldus and CA-Cricket Draw II from Com- puter Associates International Inc. — will show up in fresh versions. Computer tots may like David- son and Associates Inc.’s $29 Kid See Show picks, Page 12 We COMPARED OMNIPAGE To TYPEREADER, “We don’t have a great deal of time to waste at my firm. 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News 12 MACWEEK 01.04.93 From Page 10 Show picks Pictures, which includes a slew of busy activities for children age 4 and older, including paint-by-number, connect-the-dots and mazes. Font fans should check out Ares Software Corp.’s booth where the company will show FontMonger 1.5 and the new FontHopper and FontChameleon. For multimedia software, stop by Passport Designs Inc.’s booth and ‘SIONS +e Re VONPP onousew onsets Bows | Seaton SPOPUUEDH, euouinnsu weeossOnEN, ‘aWtt “ante I | : a I ki Sancisisesneo an 720U) QPP <r aan SPAT IAUSN QWP P8228 SPE TE Why Seer ex Nh Renoir and Warhol wannabes should check out the host of new tools in Painter 2.0, including a magic wand, liquid media and tear-off palettes. take a look at its Passport Producer presentation program. The Compa- ny of Science & Art will show After Effects, its new QuickTime special- effects software. And Macromedia Inc. will take the wraps off Author- ware 2.0, its cross-platform multi- media authoring software, now with QuickTime capability. Specular International will intro- duce Infini-D 2.5, an upgrade that adds Type 1 font support to the 3-D animation package. utilities Apple this week will announce the Macintosh Easy Open system exten- sion (based on Translation Manager technology) and show it working with several third-party translation exten- sions from DataViz Inc. to seamlessly convert document formats. At the Connectix Corp. booth, Virtual 3.0 and a new paper-tracking application called InfoLog will be on sale at discounted show prices. Meanwhile, Mainstay will finally ship MarcoPolo 2.0, turning it into a low- cost document-imaging solution. Central Point Software will offer to keep Mac users Safe & Sound with its low-cost, entry-level “emergency disk” utility. No Hands Software of Magnet fame will deliver Common Ground, a new print-to-disk utility. On the data-recovery front, Fifth Genera- tion Systems Inc. hopes to electrify the crowds with its recently released Public Utilities, while Central Point Software Inc. will introduce Safe & Sound, a low-cost, “emergency disk” utility. Dantz Development Corp. will debut Retrospect 2.0, the long- awaited rewrite of its high-end back- up tool. Now Software will unveil two brand-new programs: a package of desktop-beautification tools called Now Fun and an all-in-one com- pression package named — you guessed it — Now Compress. Insignia Solutions Inc. will again reorganize its SoftPC line, cutting prices, adding features and deliver- ing a Windows-capable version. e-avecl ShareVision Technology Inc.’s ShareView Plus, an integrated video telephony and collaboration system that works over standard phone lines, will be on display. Users of the system can dial up a co- worker and interactively work on the same documents while making faces at each other. Casady & Greene Inc. will show Snap Mail, a messaging system that provides AppleTalk Macs with electronic mail sans mail server and administrator. CE Software Inc. will demonstrate its new QuickMail 2.6, which boasts server and admin- | istration enhancements. And Mac- world attendees will get their first peek at WordPerfect Office 4.0, an integrated set of workgroup | technologies with beefed-up cross- | platform scheduling and E-mail. titles Beatles buffs should look at A Hard Day's Night on CD-ROM at ‘The Voyager Company booth. ‘The Iso will debut five new electronic-books collec- tion, including Moby Dick, The Tao | of Pooh and The Te of Piglet, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. For a break from high-end print- ers and networking applications, check out Who Killed Sam Rupert, an interactive CD-ROM mystery from Creative Multimedia Corp. showing in the Educorp booth. a BanHi 2 Es uorjoedsuy g aoueinssy anh 7 BUNLDaLIUHOY. aunty ese SS ewn BOY DMD, Bas ie) ea auth Serer na 7) 1402 aun nepnen Feed TSWbh S742 14d Y BAP vee — SOY Gare [eatin aR squao a1g70u) WSS NaWe S27°Ae7-0129 ‘ahh ‘ahh OA: AHN rag nay ents [ i jsonoks © as AWbP sawnos “Hinas auth rs {) AWb) szeay -anucsy GWPP se=o0 =| Vs 'D SIEI2H 10 Buluior ewieuy 9S Day Ea Noe ‘aNtD aN ES eeerreennet GOS LINE seer TT SD ‘laWee | ares) hom Ea 5 ‘suoday, Bubeuy jevouy Spox ai0FC awunloauiouY ce Wop ahh Virtual 3.0 set to outrun System 7 VM | InfoLog utility tracks hard-copy documents By Henry Norr San Mateo, Calif. — Connectix Corp. this week will release a long- awaited upgrade to the original Mac virtual-memory software, plus a new application designed to let users keep track of the location of hard-copy documents from their Macs. Both Virtual 3.0 and the new pro- gram, InfoLog, will go on sale at sharp discounts at the company’s booth at this week’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Virtual 3.0 offers several advantages over the virtual-memory routines built into System 7, accord- ing to the company. The program’s patented swapping algorithms work much faster than Apple’s, Connectix said, and an option called DiskSaver lets users reduce disk-space require- ments to only the difference be- tween physical RAM available and total memory desired; Apple’s soft- ware requires disk space equivalent to total memory. ‘ers © cy ae sSenoks' | Ce ot Sb Barty ANaWAD0G VOINHD aL 0 =] i § 3 Ss if § is G = = Se | | — sto) SWPP sPiow wouewiog 949 ii Because DiskSaver slows the operation of Virtual, Connectix rec- ommends it for situations only where physical RAM is approxi- mately equal to the memory requirements of open applications and minimal swapping is required. But even with the DiskSaver option enabled, Virtual 3.0 remains faster than Apple’s virtual memory, according to Connectix. ‘The software runs on any Mac with a memory-management unit — including some 68020-based sys- tems and all 68030 and 68040 Macs — but Connectix particularly is tar- geting users of PowerBooks, which often have more limited physical memory than desktop Macs. The program by default disables itself when users start up running on bat- tery power, but it automatically reactivates itself when the notebook is restarted on AC power. Connectix has reduced Virtual’s list price to $99, down from $199, for the previous version. It will be on sale at the expo for $49. Up- grades are $19, including shipping and handling, and will be available at the show. “GWeh spe HaenerD he i Sap SOse? ied W xt SNP Araoueqecuy GWbb sensriuzamo ap A SWPP dednoa <ontosh INVESTMENT A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH N REMOVABLE MASS STORAGE. nangag InfoLog is a customizable database targeted at executives, lawyers, researchers and others who need to track large numbers of hard-copy documents. Users will be able to create records with any number of k words and other background infor- mation for each document, while the program generates a unique identifying number for the record and prints a sticker with the same number. Instead of trying to create MACWEEK 01.04.93 and maintain an elaborate filing sys- tem by subject, author or date, users can simply paste the sticker on the document and file it by code num- ber, then search the database to find the code and thus the location when they wish to retrieve the item. “Tt’s like an On Location [from ON Technology Inc. for your paper files,” said beta-tester Kee Nethery, a Berkeley, Calif.-based networking consultant. “I scan a lot of magazines and rip out articles I think I might want to read someday. used to try to organize them by topic, but I ended up with a cabinet filled with folders, and often when I News 13 went looking for something I knew T had, I couldn’t remember where I'd filed it.” With InfoLog, Nethery said, “Pm using less file space, and I can find what I need.” InfoL.og lists for $149 but will be available from Connectix at the expo for $79. The initial release is for individual users, but a multi-user version incorporating a distributed | database is due later this year, according to the company. Connectix Corp. is at 2655 Campus Drive, San Mateo, Calif. Phone (415) 571-5100; fax (415) 571-5195.0 Safe & Sound helps novices through troubled waters By Henry Norr Beaverton, Ore. — Central Point Software Inc. this week will release a low-cost utility designed to give no- vice users an easy way out of jams that could otherwise cost them their data. Called Safe & Sound, the $49.95 program is intended for use as an emergency disk. The package will include two bootable floppies: an 800-Kbyte disk with System 6.0.8 and a 1.4-Mbyte disk with System 7.1 and all current system enablers. SIME EINE. Bag ‘aWth Eman WNL SWPP sok Saye Ib, - in H Pon i SHU0y “ad “aMN RIO Ta, | sis EOS GUY Znlesep ayes Wh soueunns is09 app ath Ee) | Has LE jSenoks, Each opens into the Safe & Sound application automatically, which immediately begins scanning all mounted disks for such problems as corrupted files, directory dam- age, virus infection or missing files and folders. Dialogs designed to be simple and unintimidating report any problems found and ask permis- sion to repair the damage. The new program is based on DiskFix, the core application in Central Point’s MacTools 2.0 col- ih) 2 ae GND SHosel 401 Hg SWPP steaot Hd e pend AWE Scan eu Wy) S374 y 22720) lection. It will provide all of Disk- Fix’s repair capabilities and more, | the company said, but confusing options have been removed and dialogs reworded. Central Point will distribute the program with dis- plays aimed at mass-market outlets. Central Point Software Inc. is at 15220 N.W. Greenbrier Parkway, No. 200, Beaverton, Ore. 97006. Phone (503) 690-8090 or (800) 825- 2504; fax (503) 690-8083 or (800) 626-2778.0 | DT WwaIeIS Ved eo NZCENIS Joauog Auadosa \OWph 2g cram att Bas 8) Ee | WEE S749 OF Benpss, Lal Dy SD. RW ous Boiss) MBE ce : é i = S| News MACWEEK 01.0 14 4.93 Local Expert is your guidebook to cities By Raines Cohen anta Clara, Calif. — A personal- avigation application for Macs and PowerBooks is slated to hit the streets this week at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Strategic Mapping Inc. will release Local Expert, a map and database system designed as an elec- tronic guidebook to unfamiliar cities. Unlike printed city guides, the software helps users search for information and lets them update data on current local activities, such as sports and entertainment events. The $99 package includes a core set of regional maps for the world. The core maps, which are supplied by GeoSystems (see story, this page), document major U/S. and European highways. Users can select from 100 City MapSets, which contain maps and | as many as 140 categories of infor- mation about a particular urban area. The MapSets include infor- mation on events up to three months ahead and are updated monthly. One free MapSet order is included with the package; addi- tional MapSets are $25 each, and Inan = 2 VALNaWND0q WOINHOaL Why Wey 7616 -wad0ag Bony! Y aN @ AAnIS SIS Sante WE | Ee | LJ =eucy (ELE iSenHAs Senos users can order them directly from Strategic via mail or modem. Within a city, the program can calculate distances, locate places by ZIP and area code, and import ZIP code data onto a map. Local Expert includes a list of recommended restaurants, shopping districts and recreational activities. The program and maps are compressed to use just 500 Kbytes of RAM and 750 Kbytes of disk space for the core product, plus 500 Kbytes to 1 Mbyte of disk space for each additional city. A Windows version that uses the same interface and data files will be released later this month. Future versions will include street-navigation information to help users find their way between locations. The current version includes only simple directions from nearby landmarks. Strategic Mapping Inc. is at 3135 Kifer Road, Santa Clara, Calif. 95051. Phone (408) 970-9600; fax (408) 970-9999. 3 GeoSystems to provide map data When Strategic Mapping Inc. wanted to incorporate map data into Local Expert, it looked for an established map vendor. Last month Strategic turned to GeoSystems, a unit of map maker R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. of Lancaster, Pa. Strategic licensed detailed raster-based city maps used in the initial release of Local Expert, along with navigation technology jal oF eee eal aps 149 9SOT. Us WYP Bes [ Eo | j ‘Usty92d5u} DUAN SWPP aex-saa aad (auyy AINE steusien snoprezeyy eee] Eton ENP eHumsopensqary auth §=Sovane ANPP HenviavArHoy ig ANDY 29s ca that will appear in a subsequent release later this year. GeoSystems is aiming to become a major supplier of digital map information and systems for personal navigators. The compa- ny last year announced an agree- ment with Apple to supply con- tent for Apple’s Newton personal digital assistants (see MacWEEK, Nov. 16, 1992). GeoPoint’s BaseMap gives users more-flexible mapping method | Low-cost app ‘dials around the planet’ By Raines Cohen San Francisco — A new map- ping application to be released at this week’s Macworld Expo aims to help users create maps via a method more flexible than clip art yet less expensive than existing mapping applications. BaseMap, a $149 application from start-up GeoPoint Software Inc., lets users quickly generate land-form maps of any location at any size. Users can toggle between rapidly drawn low-resolution out- lines and detailed outlines, includ- ing inland waterways and political boundaries. BaseMap users zoom in on areas of a world map to create images for export or printing. The program dis- plays land-boundary data supplied by the U.S. Geological Survey. BaseMap can import city location information from the Apple- supplied Map control panel, as well as other location data from user files. It can search for and highlight specific locations, and select by cat- egories or distance. Users can drag between points or enter exact locations to create dis- tance contours showing radii froma location or paths showing the dis- tance between points. The company will sell add-on files with location data. A sample file of U.S. airports is included with BaseMap. “You can kind of dial around the | planet,” said Dan Mapes, president of multimedia development com- pany Reality Labs Inc. of Santa Cruz, Calif. Mapes said his compa- ny is considering development of CD-ROM titles based on a Base- Map interface. “You can go as deep as you want,” he said. GeoPoint So! China Basin cisco, Calif. 94107. Phone (415) 957- 1560; fax (415) 957-1644. erbts (7) , aa sou] Ses St FONbb a2 avez ath ‘anh any -—— O ij aitY BenBAs[" ers) orn QW 9 seus sou! wrons Sanphs melon Sey saeeeoes| ‘ary VaNe /e,— ea hon fee 40) 0104) 18,28 Serene s/c) Wey e125 usisoq fem “aN: aut? anor Ee | as sl 4 | Idan Cesare GNP <sorycroncaz0y aNey CEO Wh) seanHscaun> Wp aesoG aNey a | \aWee jem Lad ‘GNbh 33v222) A in espe te wen 4s ( wre] ‘S233 oneuberi 0110913 NIaAL| ‘SdOHL3IN an (oss NON GNP wos wide ‘Wh av oa5 att “ah ete SNtb cS | v ? § = = 2 = AE to show full deck of cards at expo Accelerator cards, modem will debut By Nathalie Welch and Raines Cohen Dallas — Applied Engineering plans a flurry of activity at Mac- world Expo this week. The compa- ny will show off several new accel- erator cards, its recently shipped PowerBook modem, a cellular- phone adapter and a PowerBook display card. Accelerators. Applied will announce several new high-speed, low-cost CPU accelerator cards for a variety of Macs. The processor direct slot cards, which will sell for as low as $300, will include 20- to 33-MHz 68030 CPUs or 25-MHz 68040s. The new cards initially will be offered for the Macintosh IIvx, TIvi and Ilsi and later this quar- ter for compact Macs. They will be able to accommodate daugh- terboards that add large-screen 16-bit color, Ethernet connectivi- ty or both. Modem. Applied Engineering last month began shipping Data- Link PB, the first PowerBook inter- nal fax-data modem with two-way voice support. The $619 internal V.32bis modem is capable of data transmission and supports send- and-receive fax at 14.4 Kbps. ‘The system can digitize incoming speech, allowing it to act as an answering machine, and play back prerecorded responses to selections callers make using a touch-tone phone. It also can act as a speaker- phone, using the PowerBook’s microphone and speaker. The modem, which fits all PowerBooks except the Duos, supports Caller ID, where avail- able, so it can customize voice, fax and data responses based on who is calling. It also can respond to user identification using touch-tone code entry. ‘The included FAXstf fax soft- ware from STF Technologies Inc. of Concordia, Mo., has an optional optical character recognition fea- ture that enables users to translate fax messages into word processing files. Applied said the OCR option is expected to sell for about $400. NEE F772) Hower “OBS WINN ‘auyy ae 5079 ah UU] i ‘aWtt QWyp Arora mesa any germ err" Fy WP Seung ou07 poo The company in November shipped Axcell, a $299 cellular- telephone interface that lets users connect the DataLink PB or other modem, fax or phone devices to several brands of mobile cellular phones through a standard phone cord. Users have to specify the brand of cellular phone they own when ordering Axcell. MACWEEK 01.04.93 Axcell weighs 3.5 ounces with a 9-volt battery installed and includes standard and cellular phone cables. Axcell and DataLink PB will sell together for $849. > Display adapter. Applied last month became a distributor and co- marketer for the BookView Imperi- al video card and RAM adapter for PowerBooks. The card, developed by Compu- ter Care Inc. of Minneapolis, adds RAM and video-output func- tions to the PowerBook 140, 145 News 15 and 170. It includes 6 Mbytes of RAM and supports standard and full-page VGA, Apple moni- tors, NTSC and overhead projec- tors with eight-bit and gray-scale output. ‘The card carries a $1,399 retail price, but Applied will sell it for $1,116. Applied Engineering is at 3210 Beltline Road, Dallas, Texas 75234. Phone (214) 241-6060 or (800) 554-6227; fax (214) 484- 1365.0 Casady & Greene security package now System 7-aware By Leonard Heymann Salinas, Calif. —Casady & Greene Inc. last month shipped a long- awaited upgrade to Access Managed Environment, its multifunction secu- rity package. The program is now System 7.1-compatible and adds security to several aspects of System 7. AME 2.1 is priced at $279. Like previous versions, the package of interlocking extensions, a desk acces- sory and an administration applica- tion offers a variety of customizable access controls, configuration pro- tection, data encryption and secure deletion, as well as virus protection “SyquestDrives. .-- Sy Quest is clearly the best choice [for removable storage] for most users... Widely available from dealers and heavily used by service bureaus, SyQuest drives can be counted on for the long term and are reasonably priced. And with the new generation of SyQuest drives just announced, these strengths should only grow” —Macworld, November 1992 EDITORS’ CHOICE performance and still have complete access to all the hard work you've invested. It's one of a series of products resulting from our on-going development of the 5.25" form factor. With more to'eome. SyQuest Look for this logo when buying removable storage products. ‘Sy Quest Technology and the SyQuest Logs are registered ad products or names ae registered trademarks of thet respeci and activity logging. New features include: System protection. Version 2.1 can prevent System folders under System 7 from being modi- fied and make System folders under System 6 invisible. > SafeWord support. AME 2.1 supports the SafeWord MultiSync card, an electronic _password- generation device from Enigma Logic Inc. of Concord, Calif. > Password change. A new option lets a remote administrator verify the identity of a user claim- ing to have forgotten a password and then provide a new password. Instant trash utility. Protected items can be deleted by authorized users without having to remove AME’s protection from the item. Users updating to Version 2.1 must fully remove the previous ver- sion before updating. In addition, Version 2.1 users will have to remove the program before upgrad- ing their system software. Upgrades are $49.95. Casady & Greene Inc. is at 22734 Portola Drive, Salinas, Calif. 93908. Phone (408) 484-9228; fax (408) 484-9218.0 Over 4 million cartridges sold. Protecting your enormous investment in SyQuest cartridges was the inspiration for our new 88MB drive. It reads and writes to all your 44MB cartridges. So you can move to higher capacity and higher Osvous Removing The Limits Without Compromise. Syquest Technology, 47071 Bayside Parkway, Fremont, CA 94538 1-800-245-2278 rks of SyQuesC panies. © 1993 Sy Quest Technology. ration. Quote reprinted courtesy of Macworll Communica Second Street, San Francisco, CA 9407 News MACWEEK 01.04.93 By Henry Norr St. Paul, Minn, — Envisio Inc., a company previously known for its display products, will enter the storage market at this week’s Mac- world Expo in San Francisco with an innova- tive modular expansion system. Called the Envisio SmartStack, the system is designed to allow users to pack multiple storage mechanisms into a single external box, without the clutter, expense and hassle that come with adding separate peripherals with their own cables, fans and power supplies. Due later this month, the system consists ofa base unit and top, sold together for $249, and up to seven specially designed half-height or l-inch-high drive modules. The base unit, called the SmartSource, includes a 120-watt power supply, two 50-pin SCSI connectors, a fan and a proprietary internal connector called the Pass-Through Bus (PTB); the top containsa second fan and a loop-back bus connector. ‘The storage modules, stacked between the base and top, have their own SCSI IDs but draw power from the base and need no separate cable because they transfer data to main con- nectors via the bus. Envisio initially will offer a $699 module containing a 127-Mbyte Quan- tum ELS drive and a $2,649 module with a 1-Gbyte drive from Hewlett-Packard Co. In the future, the company said, it will offer a variety of other modules, including other hard Envisio stacking up storage modules The SmartStack includes a single SCSI connector for multiple devices connected through an internal bus. disk capacities, digital-audio-tape backup units, magneto-optical drives, and possibly modems and SCSI Ethernet connectors and display adapters. Envisio plans to release a developers kit other companies can use to build modules. Mirror Technologies Inc. in November acquired Envisio, making it Mirror’s high-end products division, While Mirror-labeled prod- ucts are sold direct, Envisio-brand products will be distributed through dealer channels. Envisio Inc. is at 2640 Patton Road, St. Paul, Minn. 55113. Phone (612) 628-6288; fax (612) 633-1083..0 One day you're on top of the world. Hummingas your fingers fly on the Mac. Life is great. Then. . The Crash! Your hard drive keels over. Gets amnesia. Goes stupid. Iseverything lost? Nope. You backed up your data with DiskFit. So lifes still great. Inno time you put your “lost” data where it used tobe. And you're back in business. Guess who didn't backup with DiskFit? Dantz Development Corporation 1400 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709 510-849-0293, Good thing DiskFit software is designed solely for the Mac. It's so smart. Friendly. Fast and efficient. Stores your precious data easily and quickly. You gasp. What if you didn't have DiskFit? DiskFit Direct™ DiskFit Pro™ To go forward, you must back up Envisio RISC card could turn out to be all the RAGE at the expo By Neil McManus St. Paul, Minn. —Envisio Inc. at Macworld Expo this week will announce RAGE, a 24-bit-color video card that uses RISC tech- nology to speed QuickDraw display and selected graphics applications. The company also recently shipped a flat-panel 24-bit- color LCD. > RAGE. Due in February for $1,995, RAGE is built around a 25-MHz LSI Logic RS-3000 RISC processor. It provides acceler- ated 24-bit color on displays as large as 21 inches. Users with multisyne monitors can switch on the fly among four screen resolutions: 640 by 480 pixels, 832 by 624 pixels, 1,024 by 768 pixels and 1,152 by 870 pixels. RAGE supports GWorld (graphics world) memory and block-mode transfer. On-board SIMM sockets can accommodate up to 16 Mbytes of user-installed video RAM. Envisio is developing add-ons, called Expert software modules, to let graphics applications tap the speed of the board’s RISC processor. Initially, RAGE will ship with a module that accelerates Adobe Photoshop fil- ters, including Sharpen, Sharpen More, Unsharp Mask, Blur and Blur More. > ColorFrame. The company last month shipped ColorFrame, a flat-panel color dis- play that works with both Macs and IBM PCs and compatibles. Priced at $5,495, ColorFrame uses a Sharp active-matrix LCD in a case measuring 9 by 12 by 2.5 inches. ColorFrame’s 10.5-inch screen refreshes fast enough to keep up with anima- tions and QuickTime movies, Envisio said. ColorFrame works with all color-capable Macs, including the PowerBook 180 and 160. Users of the PowerBook 140 or 170 will have to add a third-party video adapter. Envisio Inc. is at 2640 Patton Road, St. Paul, Minn. 55113. Phone (612) 628-6288; fax (612) 633-1083.0 MacWEEK’s top stories of '92 available on-line San Francisco — A compilation of MacWEEK’s top stories from 1992 is now available from ZiffNet/Mac, the on-line con- nection for MacWEEK readers. It includes the top 10 stories from each of last year’s 44 issues. Each issue is separated into its own text file, which can be opened in any word processor. The compilation is in Library 3 (Special Reports) of the MacWEEK Forum (GO ZMC: MACWEEK). The file name is MW92.SEA. EasyView, a shareware text reader that orga- nizes the information according to issue and story, can be downloaded out of Library 1 (Applications) of the ZiffNet/Mac Download & Support Forum (GO ZMC: DOWNTECH). ‘The filename is EASYVW. SEA. ZiffNet/Macis an on-line service hosted on CompuServe. 3 Sony to display latest in monitors line By Nathalie Welch San Jose, Calif. — Sony Corp. of America will show off three new Multiscan Trinitron Monitors at Macworld Expo in San Francisco this week. > Sony CPD-1430, due this week for $1,029.95, is a 14-inch monitor offering a variety of resolutions up to 1,024 by 768 pixels ata 72-Hz refresh rate. > Sony CPD-1730, a 17-inch display due in March for an undeter- mined price, also offers resolutions of up to 1,024 by 768 pixels with a 72-Hz refresh rate. This monitor supports nine factory-preset display modes and can store nine modes set by the user. > Sony GDM-2038, a 20-inch monitor due in February for $3,795, offers resolutions of up to 1,280 by 1,024 pixels and an 80-Hz refresh rate. This monitor supports six user-set modes, three color temperature control settings and full edge-to- edge display in all modes. All displays have both tilt-and- swivel bases and front control knobs for image adjustment, and conform to Swedish safety standards for extremely low frequency and very low fre- quency emissions. ‘The monitors, which are compatible with a variety of third-party graphics cards, require a $20 cable for attachment to the Mac. Sony Corp. of America is at 655 River Oaks Parkway, San Jose, Calif. 95134-1997. Phone (408) 432-0190; fax (408) 432-7990. 0 The Sony CPD-1430 Multiscan Trinitron Monitor offers users all-digital controls as well as high resolution. the development of solid ink technology, our JOLT is also $3000 less than the only other color solid ink Adobe” PostScript’ Level 2 printer on the market. Liquid ink bleeds, often causing unintended and inaccurate color: Solid ink does not. Even more impressive is JOI1’s flexi- bility. Because of the non-dispersing nature of solid ink, it can not only print on plain paper, but on virtually any paper surface, giving you immense latitude when creating documents, presentations, publications and color comps. And because of its solid ink tech- nology, JOLT prints more readable text, even at extremely small point sizes. Finally, JOLT is also more econom- ical since it doesn’t require any kind of special paper. —* yn thn th HP” PaintJet™ XL300) é JOLT PS™ Unlike liquid ink printers, JOLT creates crisp characters in solid, bold color. 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Dataprocixcts and its associated logomark are refistered trademarks, and the Dots in Motion design JOLT, JOLT PS, and Dataproduss tane are trademarks of Dataprixts Corporation. Alright reserved. Adobe and PostScrpc ar eistered trademarks of Adobe Systems In. Claude Monet, Clif Walk at Poureile, 1842, Oilon canvas, 66,5x82.3 cm. Mr and Mrs Lews Larned Coburn Memorial Colletion, 193.443. The Art Institute of Chicago Allright reserved. HP and Palncet are registered trademarks of Hewlett Packard. Come see JOLT PS in action at booth #137 at MacWorld Expo. News MACWEEK 01.04.93 Now to enter compression market By Robert Hess Portland, Ore. — Now Software Inc. has announced plans to join the ever-expanding file-compression market with Now Com- press, which combines background, manual and archival compression in a single product. Asin packages available from Fifth Genera- tion Systems Inc., Aladdin Systems Inc. and Alysis Software Corp., users will be able to manage files manually via a Finder menu or have Now Compress operate automatically in the background. A Now Compress extension provides a window, called the Inspector, that represents Give Mac users quick and easy access to any archived files as folders. Opening an archive in the Inspector makes its contents available for Finder operations, including copying and opening files. Like other Finder windows, the Inspector is modeless, movable and can be sorted by a variety of criteria. Files can be extracted from archives indi- vidually without expanding the archive’s entire contents. Now Compress will work with its own files as well as Stufflt, Disk- Doubler and Compact Pro archives. network printer... ..0n Ethernet. our new SprintTALK™/25E print server economically supports up to eight printers or other LocalTalk devices on popular 802.3 Ethernet networks. It features plug-and- play installation, requires no power-up sequences or software and comes standard with both 10BaseT and coax connectors. You can locate devices anywhere on the network and a convenient status light lets you troubleshoot at a glance. ..on Token Ring. until now, it couldn't be done without routers, time and expertise. But our new SprintTALK™/25T print server makes LocalTalk to TokenTalk easy. It supports up to eight = LocalTalk devices, including printers, Macs, Powerbooks and compatibles on any 802.5 Token Ring network. Just like our Ethernet version, it configures in seconds, works with all popular Mac applications and displays ‘the selected printers in the familiar Chooser” window. Sprint TALK/25 connects up to eight LocalTaik devices to high-speed corporate LANs. ..On Novell and Mac. sprintTALk™/200 print servers give Novell and Mac users simultaneous access to the same printers on both Ethemet or Token Ring networks. A built-in high- speed parallel port gives Mac and PC Windows users access to the latest high-speed printers and high-resolution LaserWriters. Even Powerbook users can directly connect to industry-standard corporate LANs. Moan! Tree! Price rs seo 6 gecirunza |= e- neh eee tte] «+ «+. eli ane lea een ee snes oa 0 Sour oc samen | tng | ee 2 Loathing <2 nef ences 4s scene mae Oe ae leeetenel cr vem ove. sana | saunhey | Meela | Meat sis a a es ‘SprintTALK gives Mac users the ability to access all network printers. SprintTALK. It's the LAN printing solution Mac users have been waiting for. For complete product details, worldwide distribution fe id thi i neaest you cal To Faée. 1-800-243-2333 Sprint¥TALK Whatare you waiting for. Digital Products, Inc. the leader in networked printing and peripheral sharing 411 Waverley Oaks Road, Waltham, MA 02154 (617) 647-1236 (800) 243-2333 / FAX (617) 647-4474 ‘SprinALX and se Oita Prosi rame a lg re waders of Dita Ross, Ie. Alter carpary nares an gps ae aera of hs especive copoctions Now Software said it will make available a freely distributable decompressor so users without Now Compress can open its archives. The company is still finalizing the compression algorithms to be used in the product but said it expects the program to create smaller compressed files and work faster, especially at decompression, than any competing product. Now Compress users will have extensive control over aspects of the product's opera- tion. Users can choose to compress files either space efficiently (more compression) or time efficiently (less compression). RAM cache- sizing, menu command keys, idle-time com- pression and battery-based operation all are configurable. Now Compress will ship in March for $99; multi-user discounts will also be offered. The company also announced Now Fun, a collection of extensions to customize the | Mac. Now Fun includes rewrites of Screen Locker and DeskPicture, previously avail- able as parts of Now Utilities. A cursor ani- mator, sound manager and interface coloriz- er also are included. Now Fun will ship in March for $79. Now Software Inc. is at 319 S.W. Washing- ton St. 11th Floor, Portland, Ore. 97204. Phone (503) 274-2800; fax (503) 274-0670. 0 Focus debuts low-cost, high-capacity drives By Kirsten L. Parkinson Woburn, Mass. — Focus Enhancements Inc. is pushing down the prices for high- capacity drives with its new line of XXL stor- age subsystems to be introduced at Macworld Expo in San Francisco this week. ‘The XXL drives, available now, come in three models: a $1,199 560-Mbyte drive, a $1,799 1-Gbyte drive and a $2,749 2.1-Gbyte drive. The costs of the drives, which the compa- ny sells direct to users, range from 41 percent to 55 percent less than the suggested retail price of competing products sold through dealer channels. Both the 560-Mbyte and 1-Gbyte XXL drives are based on a 3.5-inch Micropolis mech- anism. They have average seek times of 10 milliseconds and transfer rates up to 10 Mbytes per second on Macs that support Fast SCSI. Focus’ 2.1-Gbyte drive has an average seek time of less than 11.5 milliseconds and a maxi- mum transfer rate of 10 Mbytes per second. It is based ona 5.25-inch Micropolis mechanism. The drives are bundled with Virex, Citadel and Complete Undelete utilities from Data- Watch Corp. of Wilmington, Mass. (formerly from Microcom Inc.), and Disk Maker for- matting software from Golden Triangle Computers Inc. of San Diego. All the XXL drives come with a five-year | warranty. Users can choose between black and platinum cases, and vertical and horizon- tal models. The company this week also will announce sharp price cuts on its Ethernet adapter cards (see story, Page 44). Focus Enhancements Inc. is at 800 W. Cummings Park, Suite 4500, Woburn, Mass. 01801. Phone (617) 938-8088; fax (617) 938-7741.0 WordPerfect releases the Works By Lisa Picarille Orem, Utah — WordPerfect Corp. this week will release a renamed version of Beagle- Works, the integrated package it acquired from Beagle Bros. Inc. two months ago. Now called WordPerfect Works 1.2, the program offers integrated word processor, spreadsheet, charting, database, drawing, painting and communications modules. It is targeted at the education, small-business and home-user markets. The $249 application supports in-place edit- ing, which switches tool palettes when users select different components of complex docu- ments. For example, double-clicking on a graph- ical element brings up the package's paint tools. WordPerfect has added an XTND transla- tor licensed from Mastersoft Inc. of Scotts- dale, Calif, that imports and exports Word- Perfect 5.1 for the Mac and LetterPerfect 2.1 for the Mac files. The company offers multi-user licenses for WordPerfect Works. Additional license pack- Component introduces FileFlex for databases By Lisa Picarille Princeton, NJ. — Component Software press FileFlex, a $195 relational-database exter- nal capable of creating, reading and writing the standard xBase files created by other databases. Programmers can develop FileFlex applica- tions using the scripting language of pro- grams that support externals, including Soft- ware Ventures Corp.’s MicroPhone II, UserLand Software Inc.’s Frontier 2.0, Claris Corp.'s HyperCard, Aldus Corp.’s Super- Card, Spinnaker Software Corp.’s PLUS and Microsoft Corp.’s FoxBASE+/Mac. A parallel version for Microsoft Windows works with applications that support Dynamic Link Libraries. FileFlex for the Mac shares a common interface with its Windows sibling but not the same native file format; a conver- sion application is included. Component Software recently acquired the product from Graphic User Interfaces Inc. of Redwood City, Calif., which was formed by the product’s original developer, HyperCard expert Dan Shafer, after his publishing arrangement with Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Symmetry Software Corp. collapsed. Symmetry announced both the Mac and Windows products under the name Dash- board DB in 1991 but never shipped them. Likewise, GUI shipped only a few copies after renaming the product Hyperpress FileFlex. Runtime versions are priced at $300 for 10 copies, $1,200 for 100 copies and $3,750 for 1,000 copies. Members of Apple, Microsoft Corp., Aldus Corp. and Spinnaker developer programs, as well as universities, can purchase FileFlex for $119 and runtime packages at sig- nificant discounts. Component Software Industries Corp. is at 1377 U.S. Route 206, P.O. Box 201, Rocky Hill, NJ. 08553. Phone (609) 497-4501 or (800) 633-4252; fax (609) 497-4008. 0 ages without documentation sell for $149 per user. Additional reference manuals cost $29.95 each. Education users can purchase the program for $99 per copy, and classroom workbooks are $19.95 each. Upgrades are $8 for users who bought BeagleWorks before Oct. 16, 1992, and free to those who boughtit thereafter. computers. Kensington NoteBook KeyPad Want to enter numbers fast and accurately? The Kensington NoteBook KeyPad is the answer. Features include a calculatorstyle layout, mathematical | function keys and an oversized Enter key. All keys are | full-size. We even added the “5 Dot Home i} | Want to add full keyboard performance to your PowerBook? | | Key” for touch users. What’s more, 15 | key | VAX/mainframe communication. - Great | entries. 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