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MAacWEEK: 93 Volume 7 Number 2 By MacWEEK staff San Francisco — From wireless modems to 600-dpi laser printers, last week’s Macworld Expo gave the power hungry something to chew on. Braving the rain, upward of 50,000 people streamed into Mos- cone Center here over four days last week to see a range of products that Macworld Expo last week drew hordes of users to check out the latest and greatest in Mac wares. For more expo photos and a reporter's view of the show, see Page 10. Mac fans slog through flood of new products iieH ‘ETA, reflected the sprawling reach of the Macintosh. > Teleconferencing. Attendees had plenty of ways to participate in video teleconferences, including Northern Telecom Inc.’s Visit Video, Compression Labs Inc.’s Cameo Personal Video System, ShareVision Technology Inc.’s See Expo, Page 132 |News Analysis ColorSync opens Pandora's box By Matthew Rothenberg San Francisco — At its Macworld Expo rollout of imaging products last week, Apple unveiled hardware and software to standardize Mac color matching. But industry sources said some gaps remain in the picture. The company unveiled the Apple Color Printer, a $2,349 inkjet device, and the Apple Color OneScanner, a $1,349 one-pass flatbed model. Italso introduced the LaserWriter Pro 630 and 600, 600-dpi laser printers priced at $2,529 and $2,099, respectively, and the $359 StyleWriter II, a faster | version ofits QuickDraw inkjerprint- | er (see MacWEEK, Jan. 4). | In addition, the company official ly introduced ColorSyne, its new system extension for device- independent color matching, which ble with Apple's new color and a variety of third-party See Color, Page 131 | cOND ¢ NOEOW SW EsEK EY FO MACINTOSH MANAGERS IN REVIEWS o@ File synchronization Six ways to keep your docs in sync STATUS*Mac 3.0 New release adds software distribution ColorAccess Convert RGB to high-quality CMYK | SeePage63 | SeePage63 63 Apple casting nets for diskless Macs with Startup utility By Robert Hess San Francisco — While many vendors here at Macworld Expo tried to convince users to buy more gadgets for their Macs, Apple was making another suggestion off the show floor: Get rid of your hard disk and let the network be your guide. Using Network Startup for Mac- intosh, a utility under development at Apple, system administrators can create System-folder images from which diskless or System-less Macs on the network can start up. “We're trying to facilitate the | management of Mac networks,” said Dan Torres, Apple system-software networking product manager. A standard system from which all Macs start up considerably enhances secu- rity, Torres said, making it easier for | administrators to maintain a consis- tent and virus-free operating system. Torres demonstrated the tech- nology by restarting a specially con- figured Mac Ilsi without a hard disk or floppy drives. The Mac reached over the network and connected to another Mac running the Network Startup Server software, which dis- patched a complete System-folder image. The usual “happy Mac” icon, minus a mouth, indicated the process was under way. See Startup, Page 132 MOoBILE COMPUTING Special Report Apple’s “rapid turns” PowerBook strategy, Global Village’s dial-in server, ARA case studies, and problems with mobile support See Page 49 By Andrew Gore San Francisco — One slogan for Apple’s new line of low-cost, high- performance 68040-based systems could be “dangerous curves ahead.” ‘Two of the three new ’040 mod- els expected to debut Feb. 10 at Maeworld Expo in Tokyo — the Quadra 800 and the Centris 610 — will bring a face lift to Apple’s main- stream offerings for _ business, sources said. Each will come in newly designed cases that reflect Removable storage drive bay 1 NuBus slot Floppy drive Centris 610 New Quadras to throw fast curves at high end Apple’s new curvaceous design phi- losophy: The company has stated publicly that it would be adding curves to all future designs. The other new model, the Cen- tris 650, will come in the same case as the Mac Ilvx. > Quadra 800. Apple’s new “mini-tower” reportedly will deliver slightly better performance than a Quadra 950. The system features a 33-MHz 7040, three NuBus slots See Feb. 10, Page 131 Two new designs to 040 Mac line Hard drive Floppy drive Removable storage drive bay 3 hal-height 3.5- inch drive 3 NuBus slots 1 PDS slot Quadra 800 ‘Apple's Heinen goes to Microsoft Top Mac OS executive to head database unit By Lisa Picarille and Henry Norr Cupertino, — Calif. Roger Heinen, the man who may know more than anyone else on earth about Apple’s software plans, last week defected to the company’s operating | system archrival, Microsoft Corp. Heinen (intil last Monday was senior vice president and general | manager of Apple’s Macintosh Soft- ware “Architecture Division, which encompasses both system-software | development and developer tools and support. Starting Feb. 1 he will | become vice president of database and development tools at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., headquarters. Michael H. Spindler, Apple pres- ident and chief operating officer, will act as general manager of MSAD until a replacement is named, the company said. The move, which both Apple insiders and industry analysts described as a “total surprise,” came just three days before Heinen was to give a keynote speech at Macworld Expoin San Francisco. Kirk Loevner, who as vice president of the Apple Developer Group had reported to Heinen, filled in at the podium. Heinen offered no explanation for his decision and was not avail- able for comment, but surprised See Heinen, Page 131 POWER 100% Compatibility LOWER PRICE Save big with new low prices from the leader in Macintosh acceleration! Get the best for a whole lot less. Beginning this month, the Universal PowerCache™ and New Turbo 040" are even more affordable than before - up to 33% more affordable! 33 MHz PowerCache — Double the speed of a Macintosh II. 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NuTek said it will ship its prod- uct, a 33-MHz 68030 logic board and system software, this quarter for about $1,000 to Apple value-added resellers and dealers, who could then build Mac clones. The 30-person company already has shipped a limited number of units to European dealers but declined to name them. NuTek, which is financed by Taiwanese venture capitalists, said it has gone to great lengths to reverse-engineer the Mac and has worked closely with a prominent intellectual-prop- erty attorney to ensure it hasn’t vio- lated Apple patents and copyrights. A company spokesman said NuTek relies on Mac-compatible ROM code written from scratch. Mac applications running on NuTek’s hardware will be displayed with OSF’s Open Software Founda- tion’s) Motif user interface instead of the Mac interface. NuTek said it has spent the past few months testing software and hardware compatibility on initial systems. Nevertheless, industry observers said it is almost a certainty that Apple will take legal action as soon as NuTek ships its systems. “Apple will sue them. No ques- tion,” said Ronald Laurie, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based copyright attorney. An Apple spokesman said the com- pany does not think it is possible to produce a clone of the Mac without violating Apple copyrights, and it will “continue to defend aggressively our intellectual property.” Butsources said NuTek has “war chest” of several million dollars and is willing to defend itself in court. 0 Apple ergonomic keyboard may hit snag By Nathalie Welch San Francisco — Apple officially announced its ergonomic keyboard and mouse at Macworld Expo here last week and immediately ran into flak from an inventor who said he will sue the company over the keyboard. The Apple Adjustable Keyboard will ship next month for $219. Also starting next month, the Apple Desktop Bus Mouse TI will be bun- dled with Apple CPUs or sold sepa- rately for $79. Ina radical break from traditional keyboard design, the new Apple key- board lets users find a more comfort- able typing position by adjusting its two sections up toa 30-degree angle. Tony Hodges, an inventor based in Mountain View, Calif., said he has a 1986 patent on split-keyboard design and plans to sue Apple, as well as dealers, distributors and pur- chasers of the new keyboard. Apple said it developed the key- board through independent R&D and does not believe it infringes any patents. ‘The 111-key keyboard has detach- able palm rests, slope-adjustable feet, and front-mounted volume and record keys. It comes with a separate extended keypad. ‘The Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II features a rounded shape with a large button occupying the front part of the device. The tracking ball is located at the front of the device, giving users better cursor control with fewer arm movements. 0 The new Apple keyboard can be angled to help typists keep their wrists ina comfortable position. Inven- tor Tony Hodges says he has a patent on this design and intends to sue Apple, 4 22 28 28 34 34 46 46 47 47 News Mainstay unveils Phyla, updates MarcoPolo New object-oriented database app lets users specify relationships between stored data and build forms. Palomar helps PowerBooks On The Road Utility automatically connects fo servers and selects printers based on PB network connections. Mail order delivers for IS managers Managers find that buying by mail can save them money and a trip to the dealer. = Gateways Banyan ships Vines 5.5, ENS NetWare bundle Mac users won't be able to take advantage of new Vines or ENS features until later this year. Windows, DOS, Unix to join Mac DataClub Cross-platform connectivity in works for Novell’s virtual file-server software. GA Quark publishes newspaper system Database keeps track of articles in workgroups and integrates them with QuarkXPress. Cricket Draw Ill leaps ahead with new PS tools Version 2.0 lets users view bound text on curved paths. BusinessWatch Macromedia rolls with executive changes But pressure to go public remains. ITC to reconsider display tariff Federal court says 62.7 percent levy was based ‘on ‘misreading’ of law. Editorial Heinen defection a victory for Microsoft. Commentary /Jean-Louis Gassée Apple needs to make move to IS dimension. Letters The hidden cost of Adobe's free offer. Mac Manager/Don Crabb The file syne or sink dilemma. VOL 7 NtORe 2 49 63 63 70 71 75 80 80 134 83 85 114 MacWEEK 01.11.93 Mobile computing MacWEEK examines large-scale ARA installations and support of PowerBooks in the field, and reports con Global Village's move to dial-in servers. 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Two extensions also to be unveiled, the X.25 Wide Area Extension and the IP Wide Area Extension, will work with the Internet Router to allow AppleTalk networks to communicate over X.25 or Internet Protocol links. Banyan Systems Inc. will make a double splash at the show by ship- ping Version 5.5 of the Vines oper- ating system and a bundle of Vines network services for Novell Inc.’s NetWare (see story, Page 28). NetWorld won’t be the venue for Novell’s long-awaited an- nouncement of its next operating system release, NetWare 4.0, how- ever, and after this year Novell By Matthew Rothenberg San Francisco — GCC Tech- nologies Inc. last week extended its output horizons with a new tabloid- size, true 600-dpi laser printer as well as enhancements to its wide- format bubblejet model. > SelectPress 600. The compa- ny unveiled the $4,499 SelectPress, 600 at Macworld Expo here. The new laser printer, due later this month, can output full-bleed 11-by- 17-inch pages. The SelectPress 600 prints 8 letter-size or 4 tabloid-size pages per minute. Tt will ship with PhoenixPage PostScript Level 2 emulation from Phoenix Technologies Ltd. of Cam- bridge, Mass., and 39 Type 1 fonts, as well as a PCL 5 interpreter, and it switches automatically among emula- tions. The printer comes with simul- taneously active LocalTalk, RS-232 serial and Centronics parallel ports; an Ethernet interface is $399. The SelectPress 600 is based on a Toshiba TN-7270 engine and includes a 25-MHz AMD 29030 RISC chip with 8 Mbytes of RAM, which can be expanded to 40 Mbytes. It also comes with a 40- A Macintosh dient for Powercore’s Network Sched- uler 3 lets users schedule meetings and share calendar information with their DOS cand Windows colleagues. Mbyte internal hard disk and a 250- sheet paper tray. A 250-sheet paper- tray assembly that fits under the printer and a 150-sheet multipur- pose feeder are $499 and $299, respectively. > WideWriter 360 enhance- ments. GCC also announced sev- eral new hardware and software features available to users of its $1,699 WideWriter 360 bubblejet printer, which outputs 360-dpi images to pages measuring up to 17 by 22 inches. The company unveiled a C-size sheet feeder that accommodates 100 pages and will be available by April as a $499 option. Software enhancements include a gray-scale printing feature for color files, more-accurate vertical scaling of images, and the ability to print to translucent media that may not be detected by the printer’s optical paper sensor. Software upgrades are free. GCC is offering a $100 rebate on the WideWriter 360 through March 31. > ColorSync profiles. GCC announced device profiles that Connections to debut at NetWorld App Wa Intern et Router Routing Protocol and an SNMP will no longer sponsor NetWorld shows. For the hardware-happy, Cayman Systems Inc. will take the wraps off GatorBox EX, a two-port $3,495 Ethernet-to-Ethernet router for the Macintosh market. At the larger end of the router scale, Andrew Corp. will show the $12,400 Path- Wise/6500, a backbone router with support for as many as 28 ports. It is expected to ship at the end of this month. From among the grab bag of new software products, Powercore Inc. of Manteno, IIl., will introduce a Mac client for its time-management software, Network Scheduler 3. Expected in April for about $50 per user, the client allows Mac users in a heterogenous network to share scheduling information with their DOS and Windows counterparts via an AppleShare, AFP (AppleTalk Filing Protocol)-compatible or Novell NetWare server. CE Software Inc. will show a Mac client for Novell’s Message Han- dling Service transport mechanism. Due in the second quarter, it will have an interface similar to that of QuickMail and will sell for about the same price per node (QuickMail is $649 for a 10-pack). DOS and Windows versions of the client reportedly are also in the works. 0 GCC ships tab-size printer, betters wide bubblejet make its ColorFast film recorder and ColorTone dye-sublimation printer compatible with ColorSync, Apple’s device-independent color technology (see story, Page 1). GCC Technologies Inc. is at 209 Burlington Road, Bedford, Mass. 01730-9143. Phone (617) 275- 5800; fax (617) 275-1115.0 % file Eat_Gocument Page Windows MarcoPolo 2.0, which can act as a low-cost document- imaging system, has expanded search options. Search results eprint are shown in list view (active window). Docu- Proce ments from the snares weed yet wy Ta Prater od a reo yoy aa a list can be opened as Mini- Gare) (toot) Cot) (Geer) Pages for visual recognition. Mainstay upgrades MarcoPolo, readies object-oriented database By Mitch Ratcliffe and Carolyn Said San Francisco — Mainstay last week introduced an object-oriented database application called Phyla and said it will ship an upgrade to its MarcoPolo document-management program later this month. > Phyla, due in midyear, will let users specify relationships between attributes of stored data and build forms and queries in a drag-and- drop interface, Mainstay said. “This is not a programming envi- ronment, it’s an end-user applica- tion,” said Tom Nalevanko, the com- pany’s president. He said Phyla will offer all the data integrity features of a high-end relational database. Phyla users will be able to create records that can be treated as objects, which they can link to other objects or classes of objects simply by drag- ging. Once these relationships have been defined, users will be able to query and analyze the data. Phyla users will be able to view the same data in multiple ways. For example, a list of drunken drivers could be viewed by amount of the fines or by arresting officer. Phyla initially will support only single-user data access. Users will be able to share data via electronicmail or on floppy disks. The next release, scheduled for late this year, will tap the messaging services of Apple’s AOCE (Apple Open Collaboration Environ- ment) to deliver distributed database capabilities, which will let users query data residing on multiple Macs. Pricing has not been determined. > MarcoPolo 2.0, priced at $395, images documents and then compresses and archives them into databases called document centers. ‘The upgrade adds support for mul- tiple local or networked document centers, a built-in scanner interface, improved search features, and sound and QuickTime support. Upgrades are $75; they are free to users who purchased after Oct. 1, 1992. In other news, Mainstay said it plans to ship Windows flowcharting and scheduling applications, which will offer file compatibility with future releases of the company’s MacFlow and MacSchedule, later this quarter. Mainstay is at 5311-B Derry Ave., Agoura Hills, Calif. 91301. Phone (818) 991-6540; fax (818) 991-4587. IBM keeps slim lead over Apple in PC market By Kathy White San Jose, Calif. — It came down to the wire, but a solid performance by IBM Corp. in the last quarter of 1992 left it atop the worldwide per- sonal computer market again, just edging out Apple, according to two market research companies. Boosted by solid sales in Europe of its ValuePoint PCs, IBM garnered 12.4 percent of worldwide unit sales last year, compared with Apple’s 11.9 percent, according to a survey by Dataquest Inc., based here. A separate survey by Internation- al Data Corp. of Framingham, Mass., gave IBM a slightly larger lead. According to IDC, IBM shipped 12 percent of the personal computers worldwide in 1992, compared with Apple’s 10 percent. Brad Smith, chief PC analyst for Dataquest, said Apple’s market share continues to inch up, while the financially troubled IBM continues to lose market share. In 1991 Big Blue had 16.3 percent of the person- al computer market worldwide, compared with Apple’s 11.2 percent. Through nine months of 1992, Apple had shipped 2.03 million units, and IBM had shipped 1.85 million, according to IDC estimates (see MacWEEK, Nov. 2, 1992). “The results swing back and forth depending on where each company is in the life cycle ofa product line,” said Bruce Stevens, director of PC hardware research for IDC. “IBM was ramping up in the last quarter with ValuePoint PC.” ‘The biggest winner in the 1992 PC rankings was Dell Computer Corp., which jumped from No. 11 to No. 5. The Austin, Texas, com- pany’s market share more than dou- bled, from 1.7 percent to 3.5 per- cent. 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The $99 program provides deferred printing and faxing of doc- | uments created when the notebook is not connected to a printer or By Kirsten L, Parkinson San Francisco — Procom Technology Inc. last week unveiled ahost of new products, including PowerBook hard disks, CD-ROM drives and a new Sy- Quest drive, at Mac- world Expo here. > Small drives. ‘The company, which introduced a 200- Mbyte PowerBook internal drive last November, added three more capacities, plus external versions of the 2.5-inch sys- tems. Prices range from $795 to $1,695 (see chart). The MicroMD external models measure 5.5 by 3 by 1.5 inch- es and weigh 1.5 pounds. The 80-Mbyte, 120-Mbyte and 160-Mbyte models have average access times of 16 milliseconds and sustained data transfer rates of 2 Mbytes per second, according to the company. The 200-Mbyte drive offers an average access time of 12 milliseconds and a sustained data transfer rate of 3.2 Mbytes per sec- ond. The 80-Mbyte and 120-Mbyte drives are available now; the 160- Mbyte models and 200-Mbyte exter- nal model will ship later this month. >» CD-ROM drives. Procom announced shipment of _ the macCD/MX, a $795 CD-ROM player offering multisession Kodak Photo CD support. Based on a dual- speed Toshiba mechanism, the drive offers an average access time of 200 milliseconds and a sustained data transfer rate of 330 Kbytes per second (see MacWEEK, Nov. 16, 1992). It is also available, along with headphones, speakers and seven CD-ROM titles, in a $995 MACWEEK 01.11.93 phone line. When connections are re-established, the software can automatically mount server vol- umes, select printers and output waiting documents (see Mac- WEEK, Nov. 2, 1992). ‘The program determines whether the user is at home, work or some other location by looking at what network devices are connected whenever users wake up or restart their PowerBooks. It can launch applications preselected by the user when it is at a particular location. It Procom fills out storage offerings with PB, CD-ROM drives, SCSI card Procom’s new PB drives MECHANISM. bundle called macCD Station II. Procom also unveiled the macCD Player, a $399 drive based on an NEC mechanism with — single- session Photo CD support, an aver- age access time of 650 milliseconds and a sustained transfer rate of 150 Kbytes per second. Due next month, the drive will ship with stereo head- phones and a shareware CD-ROM. >» New SyQuest drive. Pro- com’s MRD-80C, based on SyQuest Technology Inc.’s new $Q5110C, can read and write both 44- and 88-Mbyte removable car- tridges. The new drive lists for $995. > SCSI-2 card. — Procom announced shipment of the Nu32 SCSI Enabler, a $995 NuBus co- processor card. Based on the Silicon- Express II from ATTO Technology Inc., the bus-master card supports disk mirroring, data striping and 10- Mbyte-per-second burst transfers when connected to a Fast SCSI drive. Procom Technology Inc. isat2181 Dupont Drive, Irvine, Calif. 92715. Phone (714) 852-1000 or (800) 800- 8600; fax (714) 852-1221. can, for example, automatically runa groupware program only when the system is at work. When a user is not connected to any network devices, the utility changes the Print button in print dialogs to Defer and queues up doc- uments for printing later when a printer is connected. The package consists of a back- ground application and a system extension that adds a small icon to the right-hand corner of the menu bar, just to the left of the help menu. According to the company, the program is compatible with all PowerBooks and supports a variety of printers and fax modems. It works with LocalTalk, EtherTalk and AppleTalk Remote Access networks. Palomar Software Inc. is at 2964 Oceanside Blvd., Suite D, Ocean- side, Calif. 92054. Phone (619) 721- 7000; fax (619) 721-4758. 0 On The Road keeps PBs connected Spyglass sharpens up Dicer; adds better data slicing, manipulation By Raines Cohen Savoy, Ill. — A new ver- sion of the Dicer visualiza- tion application due this month from Spyglass Inc. will letusers go deeper into 3-D data than before. Version 2.0 will add oblique slicing, isosurfac- ing and labeling, as well as improved data manipula- tion and import routines, to the $695 scientific | application. Other new features will include: > Arbitrary slices. Users will be able to slice through 3-D data sets at any angle, not just right angles. > Isosurfaces. Data cubes, nor- mally opaque, can be made trans- parent to render data as isosurfaces. SuperMac develops Photo CD kit By Neil McManus San Francisco — SuperMac Technology wants to offer a one- stop shop for users of the Kodak Photo CD image system. In March the company will release a kit for Photo CD users that will include an accelerated 24-bit graphics card, a CD-ROM drive and bundled graphics applications. The new SuperMac package, introduced at Macworld Expo here last week, will come in two versions: > PhotoSpeed, priced at $3,999, will include a NuBus graphics card with 450 percent QuickDraw accel- eration at resolutions up to 1,024 by 768 pixels. > PhotoSpeed Pro, at $4,999, will come with a card that provides 1,700 percent acceleration at reso- lutions up to 1,152 by 870 pixels. The graphics cards use SuperMac’s Thunder technology, which acceler- IMAGE ACCESS ates QuickDraw commands through a proprietary application-specific integrated circuit, and a daughter- card, developed by Storm Technolo- gy Inc, with two programmable AT&T 16-bit digital signal proces- sors (DSPs) to speed up graphics applications by up to 2,300 percent. Both PhotoSpeed kits will come bundled with a Toshiba TXN-3401E multisession CD-ROM drive, which retails for $895 from Toshiba Ameri- ca Information Systems Inc. The kits also will come with more than $2,500 worth of image access, manipulation and retrieval software (see chart). Applications that tap the DSP to speed operations include Storm Technology’s PicturePress and Adobe Photoshop 2.5. SuperMac Technology is at 485 Potrero Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086. Phone (408) 245-2202; fax (408) 735-7250. 5 Software bundled with PhotoSpeed > Kodak Photo CD Access > Storm PicturePress > QuickTime 1.5 > Photo CD Photoshop plug-in (with Pro version) > Photo CD QuarkXPress XTension CONTENT > Kodak PhotoEdge (with standard version) » HSC Software’s Kai’s Power Tools > EFI Cachet Starter Kit IMAGE RETRIEVAL > Form and Function’s Wraptures, Vol. 1 > PhotoDisc’s Multimedia Sampler » Color Byte’s Stock Photos » Adobe Type-on-Call » Kodak Shoebox Image Manager » Aldus Fetch © Fie Gan objects Tables Options windows Dicer 2.0 adds oblique slicing (with interactive rota- tion of slices), isosurfacing and labeling of 3-D data, > Data manipulation. Users will be able to scale, annotate and label data for display or publishing. > Enhanced importing. A new utility in the package will let users create volumetric data sets from text files with columns and matrices, as well as generic byte, PICT, PICS, TIFF, GIF (Graphic Interchange Format), MatLab, X Window and other file formats. Previous versions supported only Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) files. “Tt’s really hard to get a handle on atmospheric data if you're looking at itas a whole bunch of numbers,” said Kurt Christensen, chief technical officer of Apeiron, a Dallas developer of custom applications. “Most graph- ics applications can’t read HDF files, so I process the data with Dicer for import into other programs.” Current Dicer users can upgrade for $149, or for free if they purchased an earlier version after Nov. 1, 1992. Spyglass Inc. is at 1800 Woodfield Drive, Savoy, Ill. 61874. Phone (217) 355-6000; fax (217) 355-8925.0 For the record Several facts were incorrect in last week’s story on Component Software Industries Corp.’s File- Flex database. FileFlex can build and create its own files, not just read files created in other databases. The Windows and Mac versions use the same industry-standard xBase format. The runtime quantity prices listed in the story are for devel- opers and educational institu- tions. Runtime licenses can be split across platforms and still receive quantity discounts. Tn addition, the Dec. 7 issue incorrectly stated that U.S. Robotics Inc. was offering a free Courier modem upgrade to 28.8 Kbps. The upgrade is $299. ‘© 1992 Hewlett Packard Company PE1221¢ ‘Suggested US. list price. fin Canada call 16 1-800 987.3867, Ext. 719. The HP DeskWriter 550C for the Mac. *1,099. Great things happen when you have a DeskWriter 550C printer from Hewlett- Packard. Because its never been so easy to print high-quality black and white. And brilliant color. The DeskWriter 550C prints true black at 300 dots per inch. Clean, crisp and sharp, for the kind of professional print quality you expect from HP. For added impact, the DeskWriter 550C makes it easy to add color to your work. The black and color cartridges are built in and work together. Giving you access to millions of colors. You can get an HP DeskWriter 550C, or the DeskJet 550C for PCs, for a suggested list price of only $1,099* So if you’re looking for an affordable way to make a powerful impression, get a DeskWriter 550C printer. Then see what happens. For another cost-effective way to get great- looking black and white and color, the HP. DeskWriter C and DeskJet 500C are now available for a low price of just $779" Call 1-800-552-8500, Ext. 7119 for the name of the authorized HP dealer nearest yout To get information by fax call 1-800-333-1917, choose HP FIRST, document *9607. DeskJet Printers Make it happen. ©) packano By Raines Cohen Andover, Mass. — Tactics Inter- national Ltd. last month announced a major upgrade to its Tactician Geographic Information System, a new three-tiered pricing structure, and a new tool that will help users create large, rapidly searchable databases on CD-ROM. ‘Tactician, aimed at corporate plan- ning departments, can perform SQL queries on host databases, map data and analyze the data geographically. Tactician was formerly priced at $2,495, with cartographic data sold separately. Version 3.0, due in March, will come in three forms: > Tactician 3.0, priced at $995, will include desktop mapping, deci- sion support system and executive information system functions with applications for territory balancing and retail analysis. The basic prod- uct includes state, highway and city map information. > Tactician with Buttons, priced at $2,495, will add a develop- ment environment and scripting system, as well as county bound- aries. Tactician can run scripts cre- ated by Tactician with Buttons. > Heavy Duty Tactician, priced at $9,995, will include Selling Machine and Micro-Marketing Machine, models that automate analysis and decision support. The By Kirsten L, Parkinson Roy, Utah — Iomega Corp. last week shipped two 150-Mbyte Bernoulli drives and its first floptical drive for the Mac. > High-capacity Bernoullis. The new MultiDisk 150 line lets users store data on removable car- tridges with capacities of 150, 105, 88, 65 and 35 Mbytes; it also reads but does not write older 44-Mbyte cartridges (see MacWEEK, Nov. 16, 1992). The drives offer an “effective access time” of 18 milliseconds, according to the company. Two models are now available: The external Bernoulli MultiDisk 150 MacTransportable is expected to carry a street price of about $800. The MaclInsider, an internal version for the Quadra 900 and 950 will sell for about $770. The company did not release suggested retail prices. ‘The drives come with a 150-Mbyte cartridge of shareware programs. > The Bernoulli Mac Floptical stores up to 21 Mbytes of data on special floppy disks. The drive, which Iomega developed on the basis of technology originally invented by Insite Peripherals Inc., uses a proprietary holographic opti- MACWEEK 01.11.93 Tactics maps update for GIS system Heavy Duty Tactician includes a drive-time model that can be used to define efficient sales or deliv- ery territories. high-end product also will offer ZIP- code map data and a choice of more- detailed marketing data. The Heavy Duty version also will include Tactician Data Ware- house, a utility that can index and compress Tactician data for pub- lishing on CD-ROM. Any version of Tactician can access the data via aSQL query. “We have a lot of data that people need to access, but people may not know in advance what they need,” said Tom Swiontek, planning man- ager for Sears Roebuck & Co. of Chicago. “Rather than have the data on-line, we can putitona CD-ROM [with Data Warehouse], and it loads itin in avery efficient manner.” Users can upgrade between ver- lomega ships Bernoulli, floptical drives cal tracking technology to improve performance and reliability over first-generation floptical systems from other vendors, Iomega said. It offers an average seek time of 65 milliseconds, the company said. The company estimates a street price for the Bernoulli Mac Flopti- cal of about $400, which includes one floptical disk with System 7.0 and shareware. Additional disks range from $20 to $22 each. Tomega Corp. is at 1821 West 4000 South, Roy, Utah 84067. Phone (801) 778-3000 or (800) 777- 6179; fax (801) 778-3450.5 sions for the difference in prices. Current users covered by a mainte- nance contract will receive Tacti- cian with Buttons free. File-compatible versions of Tac- tician for Windows, DOS and OS/2 also are available. Tactics International Ltd. is at P.O. Box 4016 BV, 16 Haverhill St., Andover, Mass. 01810. Phone (508) 475-4475 or (800) 927-7666; fax (508) 475-2136. Brainstorm Accelerator lets SE break Mac Il performance levels User-installable card doubles CPU speed By Carolyn Said San Francisco — Brainstorm Products last week showed a $289 accelerator that it said will double speed for both CPU and I/O on the Macintosh SE, boosting perfor- mance above Mac II levels. The user-installable Brainstorm Accelerator for the SE, due in March, will have two components. A card for the SE’s expansion slot will have a 68000 processor clocked at 16 MHz, twice the SE’s built-in 8-MHz 68000. A proprietary application-specific integrated circuit, which replaces a clip on the SE logic board, doubles the timing of other system functions. Brainstorm said other SE acceler- ators increase only the processor speed, leaving memory and I/O functions at the original slower rate. According to the company, the Brainstorm Accelerator lets an SE run 28 percent faster than a Mac II. It triples the speed of graphics opera- tions; increases SCSI hard drive transfer rates up to fivefold; and accel- erates computation-intensive tasks, such as spreadsheet recalculations, by 250 percent, Brainstorm said. The accelerator’s firmware is stored in erasable memory, allowing user updates of the board with new Brainstorm software. Brainstorm said it will offer plug- in options to upgrade the card to a 68030 CPU and to add a 68882 math coprocessor. ‘The company also plans aversion for the Mac Classic. Brainstorm already offers a similar accelerator for the Mac Plus (see MacWEEK, Feb. 5, 1991). Brainstorm Products is at 1145 Terra Bella Ave., Mountain View, Calif. 94043. Phone (415) 964- 2131; fax (415) 964-2135.0 Field Assistant will link, track contacts By Kirsten L. Parkinson San Jose, Calif. — Field Integra- tion Technology Inc. last week announced Field Assistant, its first product in a forthcoming line of three contact-management and sales-automation applications. Based on a proprietary relational database, the $249 Field Assistant lets users link and track contacts, companies and activities, then view them in either list or detailed form. Features of Field Assistant, due to ship in March, include: > Contact management. Users can store unlimited addresses, phone numbers, activities and notes fora par- ticular company or contact. Ten user- definable fields also are available for assigning sort categories to entries. > Scheduling. Field Assistant includes daily, weekly and month- ly views of users’ schedules, as well so) Field Assistant is a relational database that lets users track and link contacts, com- panies and activities. as an integrated to-do list. Users can choose to view all activities or only certain types of activities, such as meetings or phone calls, on their calendars. > Word processing. A built-in word processor includes basic for- Dayna fuses DOS Mounter, NetMounter into | extension By Robert Hess San Francisco — Dayna Commu- nications Inc. plans to combine its DOS Mounter and NetMounter util- ities into a single system extension. DOS Mounter Plus, due next month for $99.95, will let Mac users mount and format DOS disks on their Mac. With the control panel, NetWare servers can be mounted as easily as AppleShare servers without users having to install Novell’s NetWare client. ‘The Plus version also will provide a new interface and easier installation. ‘The new package, like Insignia Solu- tions Inc.’s rival AccessPC utility, also will include software from MacPeak Research that lets users mount and format DOS removable media, such as magneto-optical cartridges. DOS Mounter will remain avail- able at $89.95. Owners of any DOS disk-mounting utility can purchase DOS Mounter Plus for $24.95. Users who purchased DOS Mounter 3.x after Jan. 1 can upgrade free. NetMounter will con- tinue to sell for $99.95. Dayna Communications Inc. is at 50 S. Main St, Fifth Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84144-0402. Phone (801) 535-4273; fax (801) 535-4207. 0 matting features, such as font, style and margins, to let users print mail- merged letters and envelopes. > Communications. Field Assistant offers basic telecommuni- cations, allowing users to access on- line services and bulletin board sys- tems from within the program. The company’s two other prod- ucts, Field Professional and Field Executive, due later this year, will add features to Field Assistant, it said. Field Integration will offer an upgrade path ata price not yet set. Field Professional will offer pro- ject-management, expense-tracking and sales-forecasting features. Field Executive will let users share informa- tion remotely or on a network. Field Integration Technology Inc. is at 4960 Almaden Expressway, Suite 327, San Jose, Calif. 95118. Phone (408) 927-6404; fax (408) 927-6312.0 the Ethernet supermarket. Satisfy all your Ethernet needs with our EtherMac and Ether10-T products. 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They're based on 2 National Semiconductor's proven Ethernet archi- “: Farallon Power to the network” tectures, and all are compatible with System 7 and the Apple Ethernet driver* For workgroups, the Starlet easily connects up to nine Ethernet devices and features a series of diagnostic LEDs. A step up, the StarController EN intel- ligent hub helps you build reliable larger networks with integrated management. It also mounts in our new Concentrator, preserving your investment as you grow. Need more infor- mation? Call for our free guide, “Building a Macintosh Network’ 1-800-998-7761. ©1992 Farallon Computing, Inc. All rights reserved. *The Mac SE cannot use Apple's standard System 7 Ethemet driver. StarController and the Farallon logo design are registered trademarks, and EtherMac, Starlet, Ether10-T and “Power to the network” are trademarks of Farallon Computing, Inc. For customer service, call (510) 596-9000. Or contact us on America Online® AppleLink,or MCI Mail® ID: Farallon. CompuServe® ID: 75410, 2702. Internet ID farallon@faralion.com. News By MacWEEK Staff MACWEEK 01.11.93 San Francisco — Macworld Expo attendees sailed into Baghdad-by-the-Bay last week and were later carried out on the rising tides of the city’s flooded sewers as nature reminded Northern California of what winter is really like. But adverse weather did little to dampen the enthusiasm of the Mac- intosh faithful. Even if the longest lines were at the coat-check sta- tions, and there was a noticeable drought of knock-out new prod- ucts, the economy was definitely raining pennies from heaven. The aisles were packed with users who, although they were lit- erally wet behind the ears, were ready to buy the products they’d moved down on the shopping list during the past couple of years. Hundreds of PowerBooks, utilities and accessories rolled out the door with happy new owners. For the first time, the buses to Brooks Hall didn’t run, as the show moved its second leg into the huge new pavilion added this year to the Moscone Center. The convenience and extra space — the new north hall wasn’t even full — were wel- come, at least to those who didn’t mind the aroma of freshly installed carpeting. However, show goers didn’t have to forgo the traditional pleasure of long shuttle bus rides: The expo’s official parking lot was at the Cow Palace, seven miles from Moscone, and quite a trek through traffic- clogged streets. This year’s emphasis on the con- sumer market was reflected in the large number of booths selling edu- cational software, games and other products for high-tech kids. For those less enamored of fami- ly values, Macworld featured at least five vendors hawking multi- media pornography; the sight of virtual playmates stripping drew a slew of gawkers. while, Marilyns melted and Elvises evaporated to the sound of computer-generated music on a huge screen showing off Gryphon Soft- ware Corp.’s Morph. When the flash and pop of color- corrected cameras over Apple’s range of imaging announcements died down, the company provided little else in the way of excitement. In a separate demo room, Apple once again showed its glitzy but still unavailable system extensions: QuickDraw GX; AppleScript; and its messaging system, now officially renamed Apple Open Collabora- tion Environment (AOCE). Anxious to learn about the RISCs they'll soon be running, users and developers flocked to both public and private briefings about the PowerPC. Apple’s message: “It’s gonna be great but don’t let that stop you from buying Macs now.” 5 amnduop addy lan Diery, execu- tive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, officially rolled out Apple’s narrow spectrum of imag- ing products at a keynote address (right). Meanwhile, third parties such as Electronics for Imaging (bottom, left) lined up to show how their color products stack up. DWE Me UN | Like gag gifts and fire alarms, Apple’s Newton personal digital assistant was shielded under glass; nevertheless, it drew hordes of interested onlookers (above). Although Apple and Microsoft are at loggerheads much of the time, on the show floor they were nestled cheek by jowl (left). ‘UMEDA To the delight of cabdrivers and dry cleaners, San Francisco was flooded with more than 50,000 | expo goers andaseries | of the biggest downpours | in years. There was also @ flood of low-cost educa- tion and entertainment products. 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ExperVision.3590N. First Street, San Jose, CA95134 (408) 428-9988. Made for Macs. We’ve designed our new FG series of monitors specifically for the Macintosh? We also make many other Mac compatible peripherals, from CD-ROM readers to a full line of printers. Matisyme 6G NEC and Radius have designed a display Presenting NEC’s 15", 17” and 21" MultiSync’ FG™ display systems*—a colorful combination of our award-winning monitor technology and a display interface card designed specially for NEC FG monitors by Radius™ Multiple viewing modes give you more flexibility than you’ve ever had before and allow you to use all your applications more effectively. For instance, condensed modes let you increase resolution and desktop size. So you can aieaiay more on-screen information and do everything from putting two § documents side by side, for easy cutting and pasting, to displaying more cells in your spread sheets. There’s alsoa & : 72 DPI mode which gives you a WYSIWYG view of your eal o output. While expanded modes let you enlarge images and get a closer look at your work. “15, 17" and 21" CRTs yikd 13.8", 15.6" and 19.7" active diaplay aroas. MultiSync isa registered trademark and MacFG, FG, FullScan, AccuColor and FasiFacts are trademarks of NEC Technologie, Inc. Al other trademarks are the property oftheir respective owners. ©1092 NEC Technologie, Inc. i ae of a scording to tha, = first fru Sani Le * But the best part is, as you change applications, you can switch to any of these modes on the fly. Right from the control panel. You don’t even have to restart the computer. Our MultiSync FG monitors also feature FullScan™ capability, for edge-to-edge images. And our exclusive AccuColor™ Control System lets you adjust your on-screen color to match your printed output. The MacFG™ Board is NuBus™ compatible and includes QuickDraw™ acceleration. And it’s available in two versions. The MacFG 8X supports 8-bit color and the MacFG 24X supports 24-bit color. So take a look at these display systems. We’re sure you'll see things our way. For more information, call 1-800-NEC-INFO. (In Canada, 1-800-343-4418.) Or for information via fax, call NEC FastFacts™ at 1-800-366-0476, request #62234. Because t is the way you want to go. Rl EC News Supports System 7, reference handbooks By Raines Cohen San Francisco — MathSoft Inc. released a major upgrade to its numer- ic and symbolic calculation applica- tion last week at Macworld Expo here. The $495 program now supports Electronic Handbooks and includes several interface enhancements. Mathcad 3.1 is based on the Maple V engine from Waterloo Maple Software and the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. It can handle complex symbolic problems, fast Fourier transforms, factoring of polynomials, Bessel functions, matrices, and simultane- ous linear and nonlinear equations. By Lisa Picarille San Francisco — Microsoft Corp. last week demonstrated The Microsoft Open EIS Pak for the Macintosh, a set of Excel-based development tools. The Open EIS Pak aims to help users create corpo- rate information systems based on the popular spreadsheet, without writing code. The $99 package will include a variety of tools for creating custom menus, user-prompt dialogs, navi- gation controls and links to other applications. A videotape and sam- ple applications will be included. Unveiled at Macworld Expo here, The Open EIS Pak will go into beta testing this month andis slated to ship later this quarter. It will be nearly identical to a Windows-based version that Microsoft released in November, according to the company. By Robert Hess New York — 4th Dimension database developers dissatisfied with ACI US Inc.’s debugging tool, 4D xREF, will be able to turn to a third-party alternative. adInfinitum Development _ last month announced objX, which will use 4D xREF text files to give pro- grammers increased control over their code. The application, due later this month, will letusers view all objects in a database and explore their relation- ships to other database objects. In the $395 application, an out- line view will graphically display the hierarchy of procedures and vari- ables called by objects the user MACWEEK 01.11.93 Mathcad 3.1 adds up new feature file Edit Tont_Math Graphics symboiie Window vee (OE | MathSoft’s as Mathcad: Models EJ The rit with two different models shows exponential behavior below about 5.4 and quadratic behavior above this value. The two functions used to fit the date are: Mathcad 3.1 supports inter- active Electronic Exponentiel model: 1) = Quadratic model: er Cx) = Fx? + fOOIE x - 05 Handbooks with formulas and reference mate- tial for users to copy into their worksheets. Zi SWeBGene New features include: > Electronic Handbooks. Math- cad 3.1 can read MathSoft’s $99 doc- uments containing technical infor- mation, formulas, graphs, equa- tions and reference values. Current titles include chemical, physics and Microsoft builds Excel-based EIS Pak An international version of the product that will let users develop custom applications in non-English languages also is due this quarter. Any application created using either platform’s version of Open EIS Pak will be able to run on the other platform, as long as the end user has Excel 4.0 or higher. Users will be able to freely distribute appli- cations developed with the system. Because applications built with EIS Pak require Excel, they will be able to support all Excel functions, including charting and graphing, as well as System 7 features such as publish and subscribe, Apple events, and the Data Access Manager. Microsoft Corp. is at 1 Micro- soft Way, Redmond, Wash. 98052-6399. Phone (206) 882- 8080 or (800) 227-4679; fax (206) 936-7329.0 XREF uncovers enhanced 4D debugging selects. Objects will appear in the outline wherever they are used so programmers can more easily move the necessary objects when creating a new application that is a subset of the original database. objX users will be able to attach comments to all objects. The pro- gram will export outlines in RTF files, for import into a word proces- sor when creating documentation, as well as in a format compatible with Kaetron Software’s TopDown flowchart-creation application. adInfinitum Development is at 412 Seventh Ave., Suite 1R, New York, N-Y. 11215. Phone (718) 788-7092; fax (718) 788-8438. 0 electrical engineering references. > Interface improvements. The program’s equation editor has been improved. Users now can open as many as nine documents at one time. ‘The new version supports axis labels, tick marks, user-defined grid lines and legends in charts. > System 7 compatibility. Math- cad 3.1 includes balloon help and now works with virtual memory and True- Type fonts. Macintosh Mathcad 3.1 com- pletes the company’s range of plat- form offerings; MathSoft last year released Version 3.1 for Windows, MS-DOS, Unix Open Look and Motif platforms. Mathcad files are compatible across platforms. Upgrades are $49.95. MathSoft Inc. is at 201 Broadway, Cambridge, Mass. 02139-1901. Phone (617) 577-1017 or (800) 628- 4223; fax (617) 577-8829. 5 Spreadware app does forecasting Palm Desert, Calif. — Spread- ware is now shipping pro forma, an application that simplifies the task of creating, manipulating and ana- lyzing financial forecasts. With pro forma, which requires Microsoft Excel 4.0, users can quickly forecast financial conditions by automatically building new spreadsheet models based on user- defined parameters. Data can be entered manually or imported from spreadsheet, data- base and accounting programs. Users also can automatically per- form “what-if” analyses, and pro forma lets users change all the ele- ments of their spreadsheet model to generate multiple “what-if” scenarios. Spreadware’s pro forma is avail- able at an introductory price of $189 through Jan. 31, after which it will sell for $389. Spreadware is at P.O. Box 4552, Palm Desert, Calif. 92261. Phone (619) 347-2365; fax (619) 347-6045. s Chinon spins out magneto-optical, Photo CD-compatible CD drive By Kirsten L, Parkinson San Francisco — Chinon Ameri- ca Inc.’s Information Equipment Division last week showed off two new magneto-optical drives and a new Kodak Photo CD-compatible CD-ROM drive at the Macworld Expo here. ‘The company announced: > Series 300, a 128-Mbyte magneto-optical drive due by the end of the first quarter, is based ona 3.5-inch Chinon mechanism. The $1,695 drive will offer an average seek time of 45 milliseconds and a sustained data transfer rate of 625 Kbytes per second. > Series 100, also due by the end of March, will have a 60-millisecond average seek time and a sustained data transfer rate of 384 Kbytes per second. The $1,495 drive is also based on a3.5-inch Chinon mechanism. The prices of the drives do not include any 128-Mbyte cartridges. > CDA-535, a multisession Kodak Photo CD-compatible CD- ROM drive, is due later this quarter for $795. Using the company’s own mech- anism, the CDA-535 drive will have an average access time of 280 mil- liseconds. It will offer transfer rates of 150 Kbytes per second for audio data and 300 Kbytes per second for nonaudio data. Chinon America Inc.’s Informa- tion Equipment Division is at 615 Hawaii Ave. Torrance, Calif. 90503-9747. Phone (310) 533-0274 or (800) 441-0222; fax (310) 533- 1727.0 ACI shows developers new 4D tools By Robert Hess San Francisco — As an encore to its recent delivery of 4th Dimension 3.0 and 4D Server, ACI showed off new tools and discussed product directions at its Sixth Annual Devel- opers Convention here last week. Maryléne —_ Delbourg-Delphis, president of Paris-based ACI, said the company is “seriously progress- ing toward cross-platform function- ality at year’s end,” moving the Mac relational database to Windows and RISC platforms. ACT said it is already enhancing the communications support in 4D, adding TCP/IP and a proprietary serial communications method so 4D Server clients eventually may run on MS-DOS and Windows platforms. Dominique Hermsdorff, ACI vice president of engineering, explained the 4D application pro- gramming interface that will allow programmers on any platform to access 4D Servers. To demonstrate how easily developers can access 4D Server data, Hermsdorff showed Deneba Software’s Canvas drawing appli- cation accessing a 4D Server through a Canvas plug-in module developed by ACT. ACT also unveiled a new product, 4D Insider. Intended to replace its 4D xREF, Insider will include a new interface that aims to make it easier for users to inspect 4D databases. Users will be able to view the content of all objects in the database, along with the objects they call and those that call them. Insider is due next month at an undetermined price. ACT said it soon will introduce 4D Backup, a module allowing 4D Serv- er users to perform customized backups of databases based on the transaction logs 4D Server creates. The company also said it shipped 4D Compiler 2.0 and soon will update its 4D Calc, Write, Draw and Graph modules, and add a Chart module. ACI US Inc., the company’s US. division, is at 10351 Bubb Road, Cupertino, Calif. 95014. Phone (408) 252-4444; fax (408) 252-0831.0 (ESF tat Tomt_objoct_toyout_trrects_ocro_unndours This Canvas TonvoriDeme 40 server ry bout this Caavas™ Toot plug-in module Find from 40 PCTS" cI | 2 developed by AC lets Canvas De oou + Fe (iigures ) | - Cee users query 4D Servers and retrieve images from databases. When a company reaches maturity, it tends to fill out a bit. ‘The Panther P3-175 5.25- Inch SCSI drive features 1.5 GB capacity and is Novell NetWare Ready” Its inevitable. When you hit a certain age, is simple. 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The reason _5.25-inch ¥s that set new levels of SCSI WG Eh SS ity seer Insignia cuts prices, updates products By Henry Norr San Francisco — Insignia Solu- tions Inc. this week will reduce prices on its family of PC-emulation products as it introduces a Windows version at the high end and reorga- nizes the rest of the line. The SoftPC 3.0 series, slated to ship this month, will include: > SoftPC with Windows. A new $499 version, for which a 68040-based Mac is recommended, will come with MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 preinstalled. The program adds support for VGA graphics, along with EGA and CGA, and it is the first in the Insignia line to emulate the 80286 processor’s protected mode and extended memory, a feature required for use of Windows 3.1 and many recent MS-DOS applications. The new version also uses the Mac Clipboard as the Windows Clipboard, enabling users to copy and paste all kinds of data between the two platforms. To improve per- formance, the software includes new display and mouse drivers that look to Windows applications like the drivers that come with Windows 3.1 but map the Windows calls to QuickDraw and the Mac mouse. Still, even when running on a 33-MHz 7040, the software offers only about the performance of a 20-MHz 386SX, and some less- By Robert Hess Cupertino, Calif. — Nearly two years after the release of System 7, Symantec Corp. has released a version of its THINK Reference incorporat- ing System 7-related information. By Raines Cohen San Francisco — Xplain Corp. last week changed the name of the longtime Mac programming jour- nal, MacTutor, and issued an update to its companion CD-ROM. > MacTech. The company said it renamed the magazine in part because MacTutor didn’t sound technical enough. Annual subscrip- tions remain $47. > CD-ROM. Xplain released a new version of its $299 CD-ROM of developer tools and articles last week at Macworld Expo here. MACWEEK 01.11 2 HRS common functions, such as in- stalling and opening applications, are considerably slower, an Insignia spokesman said. ‘The software is designed not for high-end Windows users or those who run the Microsoft operating system eight hours a day, he said, but for those who need occasional access to custom applications or corporate data that are not available on the Mac. The software requires 6 Mbytes of Mac RAM to get 640 Kbytes of DOS memory. Insignia recom- mends using 16 Mbytes of Mac RAM, which provides 8 Mbytes of extended memory for Windows. > SoftPC Professional 3.0. The new Professional version replaces the former SoftAT 2.5. New fea- tures include a lower price — $325 compared with $499 — plus support for VGA graphics and ’286 protect- ed mode and extended memory. A 68020 or better is required. > Universal SoftPC 3.0. Priced at $165, compared with $325 for Version 2.5, the new Universal release runs on any Mac. New fea- tures include support for EGA graphics and emulation of the 80287 math coprocessor. It can deliver 640 Kbytes of DOS memory and EGA graphics in only 1.4 Mbytes of Mac memory, according to the company. All members of the SoftPC 3.0 family include extensions that let users run CD-ROMs designed for DOS. Entry-Level SoftPC, formerly Insignia’s low-end emulation prod- uct, has been eliminated. Upgrades from SoftAT 2.5 to the Windows version are $129, and upgrades to the new Universal ver- sion from its predecessor or the Entry-Level version are $49. Insignia also offers a variety of other upgrade options, depending on ver- sions owned and desired. Insignia Solutions Ine. is at 526 Clyde Ave., Mountain View, Calif. 94043. Phone (415) 694-7600; fax (415) 964-5434..0 SoftNode 2.0 extends network links With the introduction of the SoftPC 3.0 line, Insignia Solutions Inc. is upgrading SoftNode, an add- on that lets a Mac running any of the emulators operate as a PC client on Novell NetWare networks. Version 2.0 of the $149 module adds direct support for token-ring networking and TCP/IP access to Version 2.0 of the widely used electronic reference tool for pro- grammers includes the contents of all six volumes of Apple’s “Inside Macintosh,” as well as technical notes, programmers tips and code MacTutor gets new name, CD-ROM update All of MacTech CD-ROM Vol- ume I-VI includes Symantec Corp.’s THINK Reference 2.0 (see story above) and ON Technology Inc.’s On Location 2.0 file- searching desk accessory. The disc also includes all the source code and articles that have appeared in MacTech and MacTutor. Current MacTutor CD-ROM users can upgrade for $150. Xplain Corp. is at P.O. Box 250055, Los Angeles, Calif. 90025- 9555. Phone (310) 575-4343; fax (310) 575-0925.0 Unix file servers via Novell Inc.’s LAN Workplace for DOS. The package also includes gateways that let Mac users without their own Ethernet or token-ring card access NetWare servers over Local Talk. SoftNode 2.0 requires a ver- sion of SoftPC 3.0. A 10-pack is $1,150. Upgrades are $29. THINK Reference tool tuned up for System 7 examples created by Symantec. Users can cut code examples from the Reference and paste them directly into their projects. ‘The new version, priced at $129, can search for information in sever- al ways. Users can jump directly to any page, search the database for particular words as they are typed, and follow links from items to relat- ed topics. Version 2.0 users can choose to selectively install the program, adding only the desired reference material, to save disk space. Programmers also can save money, according to Symantec, by purchas- ing the THINK Reference instead of the $140 “Inside Macintosh” set. THINK Reference 1.0 users can upgrade by paying an $8 handling fee. Symantec Corp. is at 10201 Torre Ave., Cupertino, Calif. 95014-2132. Phone (408) 252-3570 or (800) 441- 7234; fax (408) 253-3968. SoftPC series opens to Windows Drange Micro delivers new crop of 386, 486 coprocessor cards By Henry Norr Anaheim, Calif.— Orange Micro Inc. this month will deliver a trio of new MS-DOS coprocessor cards for NuBus Macs, featuring on- board VGA controllers and, at the top of the line, a 486 processor. The new OrangePC cards are derived from the Orange386, the company’s previous coprocessor card, but offer up to twice the processing power of the older model, according to Orange Micro. All three new ver- sions are Windows 3.1-capable, all have math coprocessor sockets and all can display VGA graphics either in a resizable window or in full-screen mode ona 13-inch monitor. ‘The OrangePC series will include: > Entry level. Priced at $1,099, the base card will have a 16-MHz 386SX processor and four SIMM slots with 1 Mbyte of RAM (expandable to 16 Mbytes), but no ports or card slots. > Midrange. At $1,499, the sec- ond card will have a 25-MHz 386SX; IBM PC-compatible serial and par- allel ports; and 2 Mbytes of RAM, expandable to 16 Mbytes. A built-in expansion slot, intended mainly for network adapters, can accept up to three-quarter-length AT cards, depending on the size of the Mac. > Top of the line. The third model, priced at $1,799, offers all the features of the second but incor- porates a 25-MHz 486SLC in place of the 386. The cards are all considerably more expensive than Insignia Solu- tions Inc.’s SoftPC software emulators, which now range in price from $165 to $495 (see story at left). But Orange Micro said its prod- ucts, designed for serious corporate users, offer commensurately better performance and compatibility. All three versions support protected mode and extended memory, which are required for Windows 3.1, and which Insignia supports only in its new version for Quadras. OrangePC users will be able to copy text between platforms in either direction, but graphics only from the PC to the Mac, according to the company. The OrangePC cards will come with MS-DOS Version 5.0 but not with Windows. Orange386 owners can upgrade to the 486-based OrangePC for $1,199. Orange Micro Inc. is at 1400 N. Lakeview Ave., Anaheim, Calif. 92807. Phone (714) 779-2772; fax (714) 779-9332. Pantone matches presentation colors By Lisa Picarille San Francisco — While Pantone Inc.’s ColorUP can’t stop you from wearing a plaid jacket with polka-dot pants, the new graphics utility can help business users ensure that their presentations are color-coordinated. ‘The $99 tool, which aims to help users manage color in business pre- sentations and reports, was announced at last week’s Macworld Expo and is slated to ship in the sec- ond quarter. ColorUP includes a library of more than 200 color palettes created by professional designers. Each palette offers up to 16 colors, which are preassigned to specific presenta- tion elements, such as the title bar, subheads and bullets. ColorUP palettes can be exported for use in most Mac presentation and graphics packages, including Adobe Illustra- tor, Aldus FreeHand and Persuasion, DeltaPoint Inc.’s DeltaGraph Pro- fessional, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Users can preview palettes before applying them to presentations. ColorUP also includes an electron- ic encyclopedia of color terms, tips and information. Called the ColorUP Explorer, the interactive reference material gives visual demonstrations of color concepts such as dithering. Pantone Inc. is at 55 Knickerbock- er Road, Moonachie, N.J. 07074. Phone (201) 935-5500 or (800) 222- 1149; fax (201) 896-0242.0 Pantone’s ColorUP lets users preview | palettes before applying them to presentations, Palettes contain up to 16 colors preassigned to elements. This is one color printer you Can gang up on. Only one color printer can output anything your department dishes up. The ColorPoint PSX from Seiko Instruments. Come on, everybody. Send your 50-page presentations, font-laden color layouts, artistic illustrations, whatever. The ColorPoint PSX cranks them out. With its multi-tasking print server, the PSX can accept files from many sources at the same time, manage a large job queue, and process one job while printing another. All at the same time. And, thanks to its 25 MHz RISC microprocessor, it prints blazing color at blazing speeds. The ColorPoint PSX is ideal for network use. This workhorse prints from a full spectrum of computers, including PCs, Macs, and UNIX workstations in any combination on a network. As you can see, we're pretty confident about the ColorPoint PSX’s ability to take on your entire department. But don't take our word on it. Make us prove to you how easy it is to color coordinate your whole gang. Call 1-800-888-0817. The ColorPoint PSX Multi-User Color Printer. SIT e Inc Abrightsreserved. News MACWEEK 01 ike Ws Logical Solutions breaks out pattern editor Fifth Generation’s CopyDoubler Finder accelerator set to fly solo | By Henry Norr St. Paul, Minn. — Logical Solutions Inc., which developed a desktop-pattern editor as part of its 7th Heaven utilities collection, this month will begin offering the program on a stand-alone basis. Called Chameleon, the program gives users instant access to up to 256 patterns, which can be as large as 128 by 128 pixels. Users can cre- ate new patterns with the program’s built-in painting tools or by pasting in PICT images; import and export functions make it possible to share patterns, in ppat format, with other users. To avoid compatibility problems and min- imize memory requirements, the company said it made Chameleon an application rather than a system extension. The first commer- cial Mac desktop-pattern editor, Thought | Logical Solutions’ desktop-pattern editor applica- | tion, Chameleon, includes a unique color picker. 1 Could’s Wallpaper, isa control panel. While 7th Heaven lists for $99.95, Cha- meleon will sell separately at $59.95. Through March 31, the program will come with more than 120 patterns from ArtBeats’ Marble and Granite CD-ROM pattern collection; there- after Logical Solutions will offer the same pat- terns at $19.95. Wallpaper owners with proof of purchase can get Chameleon for $29.95. ‘The program will require System 7. Logical Solutions Inc. is at 2124 University Ave., Suite 102, St. Paul, Minn. 55114. Phone (612) 659-2495; fax (612) 659-2498. By Henry Norr Baton Rouge, La. — Fifth Generation Sys- tems Inc. last month released the first separate- ly packaged version of CopyDoubler, a utility that brings speed and smarts to Finder copying. The software bypasses the System 7 Find- er’s copying routines in favor of a new code that works two to 30 times faster, according to the company. It also makes emptying the Trash up to 10 times faster. CameraMan 2.0 now lets users do the talking By Kirsten L. Parkinson Santa Clara, Calif. — Vision Software International last month announced Camera- Man 2.0, an upgrade that adds live voice- annotation capabilities. CameraMan records screen activity, including cursor movements and menu selections, and saves them as QuickTime, PICT or PICS files. Version 2.0 is due to ship for $149 this spring. Its new features will include: Live voice annotation. The new ver- sion will be able to record sound while a QuickTime movie is being recorded. With Version 1.1, users could add voice-overs but only after the movie was recorded. Small-screen emulation. Users will be able to configure their screen to emulate a smaller screen so that movies can be recorded at the same size as the screen on which they will be played. Smoother panning. In the Follow-the- Cursor mode, the panning feature has been improved to make the screen movements in the final movie less jerky. Upgrades from Version 1.1 will be $25; users who bought the previous version after Dec. 1, 1992, will be able to upgrade free. The company last week shipped a $149 Windows version of CameraMan that captures screen activity in Windows graphics formats. A forthcoming version will add sup- port for QuickTime for Windows, the com- pany said. Vision Software International is at 4633 Old Tronsides, Suite 250, Santa Clara, Calif. 95054. Phone (408) 748-8411 or (800) 800- 8476; fax (408) 748-9584. 0 Program aids job seekers By lan G. Jacobs San Francisco — Unemployed people will soon be able to laugh their way through the job-search process with a new application from Up Software Inc. Achieving Your Career, released last week at Macworld Expo, combines music, graphics and digitized voices to help motivate job seek- ers during a long search for employment. The $99 program includes a calendar, résumé and cover-letter templates, and a data- base of 500 companies. The company said third-party developers can enhance the prod- uct with their own custom regional databases of potential employers. Achieving Your Career uses digitized tele- phone and interview audio segments to teach users interview and contact skills. “Ttadds a new dimension to the process,” said Alan Barsky, a beta tester at Lord and Bentley Marketing in San Francisco. “Since it is so much more involving, the program made me change my entire strategy [for] finding a job.” Up Software Ine. is at 722 Lombard St, Suite 204, San Francisco, Calif. 94133. Phone (415) 921-4691; fax (415) 921-0939. 5 The control panel now is available in stand- alone form for $59.95. Fifth Generation also continues to bundle it with AutoDoubler 2.0, the company’s $79.95 idle-time compression prod- uct, where it was first released last September. Besides the performance boost, Copy- Doubler capabilities include: Smart Replace, or copying only of files that differ when one group of files is copied into a folder with identically named items. Optional verification of files copied to removable cartridges or hard disks as well as floppies. The Finder normally verifies copies only when writing to floppies. Security Erase, or overwriting of delet- ed files to prevent their recovery. AutoDoubler copy options, which let users configure CopyDoubler either to expand AutoDoubler-compressed files or to leave them compressed as they are copied, depending on the destination media. Demonstration versions are available from on-line services. Fifth Generation Systems Inc. is at 10049 N. Reiger Road, Baton Rouge, La. 70809. Phone (504) 291-7221 or (800) 873-4384; fax (504) 295-3268..0 MakeTest 2.0 gets new formatting tools San Francisco — Mountain Lake Software last month updated its test-creation applica- tion with enhancements to its printing and formatting capabilities. MakeTest 2.0, priced at $149, lets users create tests with questions that include graph- ics. The order of the questions and the answers can be jumbled to give each student a different form of the test. Users now can reformat questions and pre- view tests before printing them. Version 2.0 also can print color images. Fonts can be altered en | masse with a new Replace Formats command. Upgrades are $25. An unlimited-user site license is $699. Mountain Lake Software is at 298 Fourth Ave., San Francisco, Calif. 94118. Phone (415) 752-6515; fax (415) 752-6506. 0 Dutt = B [Esch ofthe ftiowing parks ofthe eye ts numbered inthe diagram below. fiotaeretbncea eee ue (Frew) (Rent) (wadiro rest) 2 r I Mountain Lake Software’s MakeTest 2.0 can incor- | porate graphics into test questions. Mitch Krayton, President Digital Resources - Van Nuys, California Telephone: (818) 901-4848 Real World Tests Show MicroNet’s Raven-040 Disk Array Continues as the Performance Winner! Mitch Krayton, President of Digital Resources, knows that to compete in the real world of graphics and pre-press, he has to sell the best performing, and most cost effective systems to his clients. “It's easy to claim your system is the fastest, a simplest to use, or the most cost effective, but to convince my clients in this competitive field, I need to know the truth behind the claims, so I decided to run my own tests.” Time to OPEN File Time to OPEN File In head-to-head competition Time to ROTATE 90 Degrees Time to SAVE File Time to SAVE File “We found that the Raven-040 outperformed a similar capacity SCSI-II Wide Disk Array by at least one-third in real world tests. The Raven-040 was directly bootable out of the box, requiring no special INITs or mounting software. “By using both internal SCSI ports of a Quadra 950, MicroNet’s disk array left the PDS and all NuBus slots open for further expansion. 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You can manage and retrieve files from your hard disk across a network, even from CD’s and volumes that are organizing of files, folders and volumes of images. What’s more, Aldus Fetch only stores thumbnails and “pointers” to the original files, which help to keep the catalogs small. In short, it gives you instant access to all of your digital media, so you can spend your time creating instead of hunting for images. Aldus Fetch is designed to allow several users currently “off line.” to access a shared cat- Simply type in a keyword, and in seconds Aldus Fetch can find just the image or images you want. alog simultaneously. At any moment you can browse, catalog, and retrieve up to 32,000 images, Once you've found the thumbnail, you can copy, print or quickly preview the item at full resolution, even without the originating application. And Aldus Fetch can launch an application to edit an image without ever having to leave the catalog. Not only that, Aldus Fetch features “drag and drop” cataloging for quick and easy (iste A R T “Oe ademark of Aldus Corporation. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc.© 1992 Aldus Corporation. All rights reserved P 10 WE RewueD QuickTime movies, clip art, presentations, sound files, and so on. For a free trial version and a brochure, call 1-800-685-3507 toll free. We're eager to tell you all about new Aldus Fetch, the visual database program that finally answers the question that’s = ss == ALDUS | haunted you for years, “Hmm. Now where the heck is that file?” I Dore Ace News MACWEEK 01.11.93 Management Being savvy about mail order can save your company cash Mail order is a viable alternative | | to computer dealers. Knowing the ins and outs can help managers save time and money. By Jeff Ubois Payments are by credit card and shipping is overnight, but it’s still called mail order. Many information-systems man- agers have found that the benefits of mail order — fast, convenient delivery; large savings; money-back guarantees; and quality technical support — match or surpass those of local outlets. “Tf it’s notneeded right away, then we usually buy mail order,” said Bruce Saltzman, senior electronic production specialist at Addison- Wesley Publishing Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif. “It’s a productivity issue: Ican order what I wantin five min- utes by phone and have it the next day, as opposed to taking a couple of hours to go toa retail outlet.” Advantages of buying direct. Mail order got its start as the source of bargain prices, butit Questions to ask when buying by mail Checking the details is important. Before you whisper your credit card number into the phone, ask: 1. Is the product in stock? When will it be shipped? When will i arrive, and how much does shipping cost? | 2. Are there any hidden charges for packing, handling, insur- ‘ance, credit card processing or anything else? (You shouldn't poy for insurance; it’s the ship- per’s responsibility to see that your product arrives intact.) 3. Is the price the same as in the advertisement, and is the model number the one you want? Is it compatible with your system? Are any extra parts required? 4. What is the warranty on the product, and who provides it? What is the policy for returns? Is there a possibility you will be given a substitute product? Sellers are supposed to obtain your consent before shipping a substitute, but if substitutes aren’t acceptable, say so. 7. What is the name of the per- son taking your order? also offers some hidden cost savings, such as guaranteed availability. “When we are in the middle ofa major project, a lot of times the dol- lar doesn’t make the decision,” Saltz- man said, “It’s sometimes a matter of who has the product in stock.” For buyers far from urban areas and well-stocked dealers, mail order isa link to civilization. “The proliferation of so-called mail- order outlets has made the ad pages of computer magazines into the superstores of today’s rural con- sumer,” said Thomas Seibold, a fre- quent mail-order buyer and a con- sultant in Berrien Springs, Mich. Bob Creager, owner of Creager Associates, a Waterville, Ohio- based design firm, agreed. “Our local software store is a discount supplier — but not consistently,” he said. “Also, it doesn’t have the range of product selection. Very often they'll say, ‘We can order that for you,’ but I can call myself and get itas cheap, or cheaper, the next morning.” Buying considerations. Two-thirds of Macintosh software sold in the United States is through mail-order houses or comes direct- ly from the manufacturer, accord- ing to Jeffrey Henning, editor of the PC Market Letter, published by BIS Strategic Decisions Inc. of Norwell, Mass. Buying software by mail has few risks — technical support comes directly from the software publisher, substitutions are out of the question, and ship- ping damage is never a problem. But for hardware purchases, all those issues are potential problems. Hardware failures require physical- ly returning the item to the vendor or manufacturer. Unfortunately, mail-order companies have less room for flexible return policies when dealing with hardware — replacing defective software or accepting a return has a relatively low cost, while hardware returns are more expensive. Many peripherals and add-ons such as memory chips are essen- tially commodity products with lit- tle backing from the manufacturer. Moreover, the temptation to go for the lowest price can result in getting hardware that is marginal at best — whether SIMMs come from one supplier or another, or whether they run at 70 instead of 100 nanoseconds are subtleties that don’t tend to make it into most advertisements. The modularity of computer components has led more people to buy parts by mail and do the pop- and-swap installations themselves. “For many Mac models, you only need a screwdriver to easily replace or install major components,” Sei- bold said. “Ifyou have to drive toa dealer and leave your machine there just to put in some SIMMs, many people prefer to do it themselves.” And for more-complicated installations, many of the better hardware specialty companies offer sophisticated technical support by phone. Picking a company. Finding the right company is key to success- ful direct buying. A stable company with a long history, good prices, stock on hand, a reasonable return policy, technical support and a complete selection of products is the ideal, managers said. “T go by how long I have been seeing their ads and how the ads are put together,” Seibold said. “T’'m looking for a company that is sophisticated and reasonable and nonhypish; if it looks fly-by- night or if I see any hype, I will shy away.” Return policies vary widely and need to be investigated in advance. Some companies will take products back with no ques- tions asked, while others may charge restocking fees, or delay refunds. “I always look for a money-back guarantee,” Saltz- man said. Computer literacy is another quality to look for. “One thing that will attract me to a place isa high level of technical knowledge,” Saltzman said. “Dealing with someone who knows what they are talking about feels better than dealing with people who are just order takers.” Saltzman said he added technical support to his buying criteria after one company was able to tell him how to reposition jumpers on a hard disk. “Tech support was not See Mail order, Page 24 Bruce Saltzman, senior electronic production special- ist at Addison- Wesley Publishing, said he uses mail order to avoid spending time traveling toa local dealer for products. He looks for mail-order com- panies that provide good support. DAHL, Calendar of Events JANUARY 12-14 NetWorld, Boston. More than 365 exhibitors showing networking hardware, software and services. Contact Bruno Blenheim Inc. at (201) 346-1400 or (800) 829- 3976; fax (201) 346-1602. 21-23 MacShow, Atlanta. Regional trade show focusing on local Mac-related companies. Contact The Show Management Co. Inc. at (215) 957-9111; fax (215) 957-9798. 25-29 Penkxpo, San Francisco. Co-sponsored by Boston Uni- versity Corporate Education Center and PenWorld. Con- tact Tom Zaralides at (508) 649-9731 or (800) 733- 3593; fox (508) 649-6926. Thermal Printing Conference, Monterey, Calif. The ninth annual conference will cover thermal technology, including bar coding and color dye sublimation, Contact BIS Strategic Decisions Inc. at (617) 982-9500 ‘or (800) 874-9980; fax (617) 982-1724. FEBRUARY 1-4 ComNet '93, Washington, D.C. Voice and data confer- ence and exposition. Contact World Expo at (508) 879- 6700 or (800) 225-4698; fax (508) 872-8237. Object World, Boston. Conference and exposition focus- ing on the business and technical aspects of object tech- nology. Contact World Expo at (508) 879-6700 or (800) 225-4698; fax (508) 872-8237. 7=1O Document and Image Management Systems Confer- ence, Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Lectures, workshops and panel discussions on the latest imaging systems. Contact BIS Strategic Decisions Inc. at (617) 982-9500 or (800) 874-9980; fax (617) 982-1724. Mobile 93, San Jose, Calif. Portable-systems show covering personal communicators, digital assistants, wireless messaging and pen-based computers. Contact Technologic Partners at (212) 696-9330; fax (212) 696-9793. ATXPO 93, Santa Clara, Calif. The theme of this confer- ence and exhibition is “PostScript Language Technolo- gy and Beyond.” Contact Adobe Technology Exchange (ATX) at (408) 562-6104 or (800) 446-5622; fox (408) 562-6381. 16-18 Please submit notices of conferences, trade shows and other Mac-related events to Calendar, MacWEEK, 301 Howard St., 15th Floor, San Francisco, Calif. 94105, or fax to (415) 243-3650. No training or educational seminars please. 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