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02.01.93 Volume 7 Number 5 HyperCard long, strange THE P Aug. 87 Sept.90 May 91 Nov. 92 Apple introduces Apple Claris ships Claris ships HyperCard announces HyperCard 2.1 HyperCard HyperCard with System 7 _ Developer's Sept. 88 will be sold support Licensing Kit Apple ships by Claris HyperCard 1.2.5 with CD-ROM. Support ~ Jan. 91 Sept. 92 Jan. 93 June 90. | “laris ships | Claris releases | HyperCard ae HyperCard | HyperCard | returns Nie 2.002 Player; Apple | from Claris ships it to Apple nants vith Macs Lag | 19871988 1990 (1991 1992 — 1993 HyperCard goes home, to link with AppleScript Apple will take over development, support By Raines Cohen Santa Clara, Calif. — HyperCard is on the way home again. Claris Corp. and Apple last week announced that responsibility for development, marketing and sup- port of the user-programming tool will return to Apple. Apple said it will integrate Hyper- Card with AppleScript, its user- scripting technology, and will work closely with Claris to ensure a smooth transition and an upgrade path for current users. Claris will continue to sell and | support HyperCard until Apple | ships a new release, probably in the summer or fall. AppleScript is due in the first half of the year. “As our tools strategy has evolved | and things ‘like AppleScript have | come closer to being an end-user ‘See HyperCard, Page 111 Aldus FreeHand, Adobe Illustrator sequels look alike By Carolyn Said San Francisco — Aldus Free- Hand and Adobe Illustrator are both in line for upgrades that will increase the similarities between the two premiere PostScript illustration programs, according to sources. New versions of FreeHand from MACINTOSH Aldus Corp. of Seattle and Tllustra- | tor from Adobe Systems Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., are in pre- beta, sources said. Upgrades to both $595 programs reportedly will ship by spring. Aldus and Adobe declined to comment. > FreeHand. Version 4.0 features a streamlined interface that reduces the use of dialog boxes, sources said. The upgrade will address user complaints about text entry and edit- ing. These functions will be available on screen within a drawing, rather than requiring the user to go to sepa- rate dialog boxes to type text and set parameters. Illustrator already han- dles text in this way. FreeHand users will be able to set text attributes with a new floating | palette. Text will be more flexible, sources said. For example, users will be able to flow editable text from body copy to a curved line back to body copy. A zoom text feature will See Illustration, Page 112 HEWS WEE. LT F R MANAGERS IN REVIEWS formeZ 2.1.2 The best solid-ond-surface modeler SuperATM Document portability becomes reality ld Sound-editing software Audioshop 1.03 vs. SoundEdit Pro 1.0 See Page 43 New Macs’ offer hefty competition Models may take on Compaq, Dell CPUs By Jon Swartz Cupertino, Calif — Apple’s new CPUs, to be announced next week at Macworld Expo in Tokyo, are among its most aggressively priced to date. ‘The new low-end and midrange Macs, which are priced competitive- ly to grab market share from person- al computer rivals Compaq Com- puter Corp. of Houston and Dell Computer Corp. of Austin, Texas, start from $1,389 for the Macintosh Color Classic 4/80 (see chart). The full lineup, with prices, includes: > Mac LC I. This CPU includes a 25-MHz Motorola 68030 processor, a 32-bit data bus, 4 Mbytes of RAM anda processor direct slot. It will be priced at $1,379 in a 4/80 con- figuration and $1,499 for the 4/160 model, according to sources. > Centris 610. Apple’s lowest- cost 68040-based system lets users choose either a 20-MHz 68LC040 — aversion of the 040 withouta built-in FPU (floating-point unit) — or a full- fledged 20-MHz ’040. Users will be able to add as much as 68 Mbytes of See Pricing, Page 112 lean prices New Mac pricing MODEL CONFIG. PRICE LCi 4/80 $1,379 4/160 $1,499 Color Classic 4/80 $1,389 Centris610 4/80* $1,859 8/80 E* $2,149 8/230 E* $2,519 8/230E(D" $2,959 Centris 650 4/80" $2,699 8/80 EFPU $3,189 8/230EFPU $3,559 8/230EFPUCD $3,999 8/SO0EFPU $4,379 Quadra 800 8/230 $4,679 8/500 $5,429 8/500 CD $5,869 8/1000 $6,399 *Optional 040 w/FPU can be added at time of purchase. FPU = Includes "040 w/FPU. E-=Ethernet. CD = AppleCD 300i. Business users take Mac CD-ROM for a spin By April Streeter San Francisco — Apple is busy putting a CD-ROM drive into cur- rent and upcoming Macs and hand- held devices, and corporate cus- tomers seem ready to go along for the drive. Many businesses are embracing CD-ROM, producing their own discs on in-house recording systems and using them along with proliferat- ing new titles for key business tasks. American Airlines Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., is putting its maintenance manuals on CD-ROM and training mechanics and other employees to use them. “There’s a lot of hype out there,” said Mike Conley, Ameri- can’s CD-ROM project manager. “User acceptance of the technology €ON D CLA S35 isanissue, and access speed is still an issue. Overall, though, for large- | scale [organizations], it still wins.” Users have demonstrated that built-in drives are a hot commodity. Apple has a backlog of orders for its Performa 600 because it is having trouble obtaining enough CD- ROM drives to put into that popular configuration, Apple said. The 600’s success also may buoy its hopes for the success of the 68040 Macs to be unveiled later this month. The Cen- tris 610 and 650 and the Quadra 800 reportedly will offer optional built-in | CD-ROM drives. Handheld and consumer CD- See CD-ROM, Page 111 Performa sales exceed projections By Andrew Gore Cupertino, Calif. — The Macin- tosh Performas put on quite a show last Christmas, exceeding projected sales. The new con- sumer Macs sold so well that Apple will offer new configura- tions this spring and may add some new models by year-end. Keith Fox, general manager of Apple USA’s consumer division, said the Performa 400 was the best seller, garnering 60 percent of the line’s sales. The Performa 600 and 600 CD, with 25 percent of total Performa sales, did surprisingly well, considering it was the most expensive of the three consumer Macs. In fact, the CD-ROM-equipped 600 sold so fast that Apple couldn’t keep up with demand, he said. “The CD phe- nomenon in the Mac industry is amazing. The CD is the gating factor fin Performa 600 CD shipments},” Foxsaid. one the Performa 200 failed to sell as well as projected, represent- ing about 15 percent of total Perfor- ma sales, according to Fox. ‘The sales figures taught Apple that See Performa, Page 112 — ‘GIMME FIVE Z Distribution Progres: JA vsruting ores upaete 2of 10 distributions done YH ovsnoterecre (Gar) Advertising Pa ‘Status of recipients: bor ursday, September 10,1992 5:30. REDUCE NETWORK TRAFFIC EUMINATE NETWORK TRAFFIC CAUSED BY SENDING UPDATES VIA E-MAIL SYSTEMS OR COPYING NEW VERSIONS FROM THE SERVERS. REDUCE. a ELIMINATE PAPER FLOW i WITH GRACELAN UPDATE MANAGER, UPOATE PACKAGES ARE WITH AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION, YOU CAN SEND REGULAR YOU GET TH AUTOMATICALLY COMPRESSED AND CAN BE SENT FROM YOUR REPORTS AND INFORMATION TO MANY PEOPLE AT ONCE, RIGHT WHEN SOFTWARE MACAT ANY TIME—YOU CAN SEND THEM DURING “OFF” YOU NEED TO. 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It fea- tures an intu- itive, almost modeless inter- face based on the paradigm “just touch it to change it.” Words&Beyond goes beyond standard word processing By Carolyn Said Alameda, Calif. — Lundeen & Associates this week will introduce a word processor that it said will fea- ture an intuitive interface and fluid integration of text and graphics. Words&Beyond, which the com- pany will unveil at Demo °93 in Indian Springs, Calif, will incorpo- rate page layout, drawing and struc- tured outlining, as well as standard word processing features. Lundeen & Associates said the program’s interface is almost modeless. Rather than require the user to click on tools or access dialog boxes, the cursor in Words&Beyond will change shape as it moves to show what will hap- pen when the mouse is clicked. Users will be able to create new objects and edit both text and graphics without changing modes. Word processing features will include tables, lists, drop caps, style sheets, tables of contents, indexing, footnotes, bibliographies and mail merge. Page-layout features will include multiple columns, multiple master pages, full text rotation, tracking and kerning. The integrat- ed drawing will offer anchored, overlapping or embedded drawings in text; text wrap around objects; and user-definable colors and patterns. Other features will include multi- ple levels of undo, pattern-matching search and replace, and simultane- ous multiple views of the same data. Words&Beyond is based on a new object-oriented development environment called Author. Both the environment and the program are the creation of Tim Lundeen, a principal author of the original Microsoft Works. Author is a set of platform- independent software tools and ser- vices that provide for sophisticated text and graphics handling, Lun- deen said. With Author, the compa- ny will be able to create products that ordinarily would require 25 person-years of development in about five person-years, he said. He declined to specify future products other than a Windows version of Words&Beyond. Words&Beyond will ship in the third quarter. Pricing has not been determined but will be less than $400, Lundeen said. Lundeen & Associates is at 1000 Atlantic Ave., Suite 107, Alameda, Calif. 94501. Phone (510) 769- 7701; fax (510) 769-2078. 0 Claris adds ALSoft PB package to lineup By Andrew Gore Santa Clara, Calif. — Claris Corp.’s Clear Choice division last week signed an agreement to add ALSoft Inc.’s UP PowerBook utilities to its stable of low-cost software. The package, which debuted last month (see MacWEEK, Jan. 4), includes a broad collection of utili- ties for PowerBook power manage- ment, security, hot keys and travel. Claris plans to ship the product by March for less than $100. The collection is geared to users of all skill levels and allows for easy setup of screen brightness and dim- ming, processor speed, and hard drive and system sleep. It also includes sleep-savvy password pro- tection, a selection of more visible cursors, configurable “sticky” menus and a start-up shortcut for airport security checks. Clear Choice will market, distrib- ute and provide technical support for the product, which will be renamed before it ships. Spring, Texas-based ALSoft will continue to develop the product. Claris Corp. is at 5201 Patrick Henry Drive, Santa Clara, Calif. 95052-8168. Phone (408) 727- 8227.0 22 28 28 34 34 40 40 4) Al ATTO unveils disk-striping software, SCSI-2 card New NuBus card will support cables up to 81 feet long. CalScan 3.0 adds privacy protection Upgrade of scheduling application also improves group-meeting features. Gateways Oracle to offer multimedia tools Mac Oracle Card supports QuickTime. Coactive links PCs with Macs $149 device gives PCs AppleTalk capability. All-Mac nets no longer the norm MacWEEK’s latest networking survey finds most sites have multiplatform setups, few stand-alone CPUs. GA Mitsubishi moves color printer line to Level 2 All 24-bit-color printers, including new thermal tab-size model, come with PostScript Level 2. Mirror polishes scanners with JPEG New scanner line offers NuBus board to speed JPEG. BusinessWatch Apple leaders turn eye toward the future Regional heads outline 1993 business plans. Demos move quickly on information network project Senate bill would mean $120 million in funding during 1994. Opinion Editorial Wonders of multimedia still demand a heavy price. Commentary/Jean-Louis Gassée Digital celular will make nomadic computing a reality. Letters There's no additional safety in compression. Mac Manager/Don Crabb The PowerPC Mac future is smart, very smart. VOL.7 NOS 43 43 45 48 53 60 114 62 65 93 MacWEEK 02.01.93 Reviews formeZ shapes up with surface modeling autoedesesys rounds out its solid-modeling package with excellent tools for creating and editing surfaces. SuperATM comes to the rescue of missing fonts Adobe's latest release uses multiple-master technology to smoothly simulate fonts not installed on your system. Kingsland Electronics OrgChart Express gets data in line Kaetron goes beyond drawing programs with its ‘organizational charting application. Cueing up sound-editing software Opcode’s Audioshop, Macromedia's SoundEdit Pro offer low-cost sound tools with some glitches. ProductWatch Mac CAD/CAM software sets up shop Packages take designs from the drawing board to the shop floor and save time, money along the way. MaclnTouch/Ric Ford 128-Mbyte magneto-opticals mellow with age. Ask David Ramsey PowerBook Duo batteries can go bonkers. 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Mac and More also said it has received authorization from DEC to integrate Macs with DEC VAXes and printers. Company President Gabe Calvo said IBM AS/400 models 9402 and 9404 will be bundled with MacMidrange, a Mac-to-IBM midrange interface card from Andrew Corp.’s Bothell, Wash., office, and one of two high- end accounting and inventory software pack- ages — System 2000 from Vormittag Associ- ates Inc. of Islandia, N.Y., or Para Research What Makes Our 11x17 Printer Bette Upgradability and Support... oh yeah, Price. When shoppin, prefers to le Writer 8100, you'll get... 11x17/A3 Printing - The large page size support, will give you a new level of flexibility in page layout and printing True High Resolution - The Acce/-a-W1 supports true 600 x 600 dpi for incredibly and graphics. 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Mac and More Ine. is at 5414 Beaumont Blvd., Suite 210, Tampa, Fla. 33634. Phone (813) 886-9534 or (800) 846-4622; fax (813) 888-9535. Apple app to emulate AS/400 5250 terminals By Mitch Ratcliffe San Jose, Calif. — Apple last week at the Client/Server ’93 conference here introduced an application that adds support for AS/400 5250 terminal emulation on Macs running the company’s SNA®ps Gateway. SNAeps 5250, due in the second quarter, will let Macs with Synchronous Data-Link Control (SDLO) or token-ring connections to an AS/400 server access minicomputer services available to 5250 terminals through a command-line inter- face. Mac clients on an Ethernet network also can access the AS/400 via the $1,495 SNAsps Gateway, which must run on a Mac with an SDLC or token-ring interface card. The SNA*ps 5250 interface includes a tear-off key pad for controlling AS/400 func- tions, as well as a macro utility that can watch users and assemble a script based on their actions. Macros also can be attached to keys on the tear-off key pad. ‘Apple and IBM Corp. have not provided complete 5250 emulation because the AS/400 cannot yet support shared folders on the serv- er or file transfers between the minicomputer and a Mac client. These capabilities, which are available for IBM PC and compatible clients, would allow Mac users to save files to the server. Andrew Corp.s ‘Torrance, Calif, office reportedly will ship an AS/400-to-Mac print- ing utility that will allow IBM minis to print to a LaserWriter or ImageWriter. Pricing for SNA*ps 5250 has not been set, but sources said the product will be priced similarly to Apple’s $345 SNA*ps 3270. Major upgrade for Data Desk Ithaca, N.Y. — Data Description Inc. recently shipped Data Desk 4.0, a major upgrade to its $595 statistics program with dynamic graphics and linked windows. Data Desk now includes multivariate gener- al linear-model analysis, new analysis tools that can cut out random “noise” by removing out- lines to improve trend detection, and an inter- nal virtual-memory scheme that can handle an unlimited number of cases with as little as 1 Mbyte of RAM available. Upgrades are $99 until March 31, $135 thereafter or free to users who purchased Version 3.0 after Oct. 15, 1992. Data Description Inc. is at P.O. Box 4555, Ithaca, N.Y. 14852. Phone (607) 257-1000; fax (607) 257-4146.0 Print devices handle multipart forms By Matthew Rothenberg Camarillo, Calif. — Advanced Matrix Technology Inc. will hit the Mac impact- printer market next month with a line of dot- matrix devices that handle multipart forms. The AMT FormsWriter series comprises eight configurations ranging from $529 to $1,190. The four FormsWriter-240 models use 24- pin print heads that provide a maximum print speed of 240 characters per second and ship with a Mac printer driver that emulates the driver for Apple’s ImageWriter LQ, which was discontin- ued in November 1990. The FormsWriter-290 printers include two nine-pin print heads, can output up to 540 cps and include a driver that emulates the ImageWriter I driver. The devices also are divided between 85- and 136-column models that offer maximum print widths of 8.5 inches and 13.6 inches, respectively. Each includes a two-position tractor feed for pin-fed paper and comes with top, rear and bottom paper paths. Mac users can connect to the Forms- Writers via an RS-232C serial interface, and each printer also includes a Centronics paral- lel port. The devices alert users when they are jammed or out of paper, and some models include a demand-document feeder that tears off finished forms automatically. Users of either the 85- or 136-column Forms- Writers can purchase one-, two- or three-bin sheet feeders as well as a roll-feed device. (ICintroduces PenMac at Pen 93 conference By Raines Cohen San Francisco — If the writing was on the wall at the Pen ’93 conference held here last week, pen-based Macs are not in the near- term future. The only Macintosh at the show could be found in the booth of Communication Intelli- gence Corp., the Redwood Shores, Calif, developer showing MacHandwriter II — its Mac-compatible tablet — and companion PenMac software. The device, due in Japan next month, adds handwriting recognition and gesture control to Mac applications and system software. CIC plans a U.S. debut for the Pen- Mac extension later this year (see MacWEEK, Jan. 18). PenMac, priced at less than $100, will work with a variety of third-party tablets. Users said they were impressed with the speed of kanji character entry possible with the tablet. “It’s a lot faster than using a front-end processor,” said Jerry Lander, owner of Azuma Lander International, based here. “With [non- pen] entry methods, you have to go kanji by kanji and post which one you want.” Also at the show, IBM Corp. of Armonk, N,Y., shipped PenDOS 2.0, an upgrade to its DOS extensions developed by CIC that add pen support to mouse-aware DOS applications. Other companies showed off various desk- top and notebook pen systems and applications for both PenPoint from GO Corp. of Foster City, Calif, and Windows for Pen Computing from Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash. 0 According to Charles LeCompte, editor of the Hard Copy Observer in Burlington, Mass., the arrival of the FormsWriters will be welcome news to Mac users frustrated by Apple’s dwindling support for impact print- ers. “It’s obviously a serious issue,” LeCompte said. “You can’t just forget about dot-matrix printers. Even though it’s a fading technolo- gy, it’s certainly not dead, and for some applications (such as forms printing), it’s still the best technology out there.” AMT printers will compete against Mac- compatible wide-carriage dot-matrix printers from GCC Technologies Inc., Epson America Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. Advanced Matrix Technology Inc. is at 765 Flynn Road, Camarillo, Calif. 93010. 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Due later this month, Express- Stripe also offers a selectable block- size option that lets users choose how much data will be written to By Kirsten L. Parkinson Beverly Hills, Calif — Mega Drive Systems Inc. last month went wide with its shipment of disk arrays that support Wide SCSI. The company also announced that it will ship 1.6-Gbyte and 2- Gbyte models of its Millennium-X removable drives this spring. > Disk arrays. The company’s five-drive MR/5 RAID systems provide total capacities ranging from 2.8 Gbytes to 10 Gbytes (see chart). The drives offer access times as low as nine milliseconds and Wide SCSI burst data transfer rates up to 20 Mbytes per second. ‘The drives support RAID (redun- dant array of inexpensive disks) lev- | els 3 and 5, which provide fault tol- For the record After the Jan. 25 issue of MacWEEK went to press, Nikon Inc. changed the projected retail price of the external version of CoolScan, its transparency scan- ner. The new price is $2,495. The Jan. 18 story on TeleMagic contained several inaccuracies. TeleMagic now is published, developed and mar- keted by Remote Control Inter- national. TeleMagic upgrade pricing is not determined. The Developers’ Kit sells for $4,995. RST is at 5928 Pascal Court, No. 150, Carlsbad, Calif. 92008. Phone (619) 431-4000 or (800) 992-9952; fax (619) 431-4006. The Jan. 18 issue incorrectly stated that StatView 5.2 from Abacus Concepts Inc. supports QuickTime. MACWEEK 02.01.93 each disk at once. This means that users can optimize performance by configuring block sizes to corre- spond to the sizes for data transfers built into the applications they use. The ExpressStripe software is de- signed to be used with ATTO’s SiliconExpress or compatible NuBus SCSI adapter cards. It can be linked to as many as four SiliconExpress cards, ATTO said. > SiliconExpress 3D. ATTO’s newest NuBus card, due in March, adds differential SCSI capabilities, which support cable lengths of up to 81 feet and improve reliability by reducing electrical noise on the SCSI bus, the company said. Previous incarnations of the card, the SiliconExpress I and II, limit erance by writing parity information so that it is possible to reconstruct data on a failed drive in the system. In RAID 5, parity informa- tion is distributed across all five disks; in RAID 3, one disk is devoted to storing parity information. Levels 3 and 5 also cut access times and boost transfer rates by striping data across all five drives simultaneously. Users also can configure the arrays as Level 0, which provides disk strip- ing only, and Level 1, in which duplicate copies of data are written to different disks. The MR/5 also supports swap- pable drives and power supplies, allowing users to replace a failed part without shutting down the system. The company also plans to ship other RAID configurations, includ- ing a 10-disk array this month and 20- and 35-disk arrays later this year. > Removable drives. Mega Drive Systems’ Millennium-X line will gain two new members with the addition of 1.6-Gbyte and 2-Gbyte drives. The 1.6-Gbyte model will ship in March for $4,059.95; the 2- Gbyte model will be available in April for $5,130.95. The Millennium-X drives, offered in capacities ranging from 42 Mbytes to 2 Gbytes, have access times as low as nine milliseconds and sustained transfer rates of 2 Mbytes per second. The Millennium-X models are identical to the company’s older Mil- lennium drives, except that a number of moving parts, such as those com- Mega Drive’s MR/5 ATTO software speeds up striping cable lengths to the standard SCSI limit of about 20 feet. Like the SiliconExpress II, the $995 SiliconExpress 3D supports Fast SCSI, enabling burst transfer rates of 10 Mbytes per second, and works as a bus master to exchange data directly between the CPU’s RAM and the SCSI bus. Users can attach up to seven SCSI devices through the Silicon- Express 3D without disabling the Mac’s built-in SCSI port. The company also cut the price of the SiliconExpress II card by $200, to $795. ATTO Technology Inc. is at Baird Research Park, 1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, N.Y. 14228. Phone (716) 688-4259; fax (716) 636-3630. Mega Drive ships Wide SCSI arrays, removables isk arrays MEANS Ca ol ae prising motorized eject, have been removed, the company said. Mega Drive Systems Inc. is at 489 S. Robertson Blvd., Beverly Hills, Calif. 90211. Phone (310) 247- 0006; fax (310) 247-1667. File fait Views Actions Prete _tvertioak Group TH | CalScaniets Monday, February 1, 1993 (er Saran users of Macs ae Te sonws and IBM PC and = gees] 2224227 ff] compatibles 10:00a Greet clients at Gate 1? eo A EES Goa | FEES TB] ce pixednet: is rom SPLLATTLE TS 1)! oth malate ‘es res colendors and 28 a share schedul- 3:00 12:00» ing information. iz tom ae 3:00 Sep 400 sa 5-009 33 6:08 laran's Hos tation | (Weekig) (Geary) (rrint_) (Group) (Tesey ) RBC’s CalScan scheduler will off enhanced group-meeting features By Kirsten L. Parkinson Arlington, Va. — RBC Ine. this month will add privacy protection and improved group-meeting fea- tures to CalScan, its multiplatform scheduling application. CalScan is a client-server package that lets Mac and DOS users share calendars over Novell, TOPS, 3COM and AppleShare networks. Version 3.0, due this month, will add: > Privacy. CalScan 3.0 will offer three levels of access to events on calendars. Users will be able to set events so only they, selected others or everyone can see the event. > Recurring group events. Cal- Scan 3.0 will support recurring events for group activities, such as weekly department meetings. The previous version let users schedule only private appointments as recurring events. > Definable groups. System administrators will be able to define and save groups of users, such as a particular department or division. Users then will be able to select the group instead of each user individu- ally when scheduling meetings. > Support for larger groups. With CalScan 3.0, users will be able to view the schedules of and set up meetings for up to 64 users at once. Version 2.0 supported scheduling of 12 users simultaneously. Other new features will include improved printing options and the ability to run on a Mac Classic and SE/30, although the company still recommends using higher-end Mac ora DOS machine asa server. Prices for CalScan 3.0 will range from $399 for a five-user package, up from the previous version’s price 0f $269, to $899 for a 100-user pack- age, a $130 increase. The packages will be available in Mac-only, DOS- only or combined configurations. RBC Inc. is at 2 Colonial Place, 2101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 801, Arling- ton, Va. 22201-3008. Phone (703) 243-9550; fax (703) 243-7854. 0 Three applications aid money-minded users By Jon Swartz San Francisco — A trio of accounting developers last month shipped Mac business programs. > ChipSoft Inc. released its final 1992 version of MacInTax, featur- ing EasyStep, a new graphical step- by-step guide through Internal Revenue Service tax forms. The tax-preparation software, which retails at $79.95 for the 1040 version and $49.95 each for 15 state packages, also includes a feature that checks tax returns for omissions and mistakes, warns of potential IRS audit problems, and informs users where to send their returns. > Great Plains Software shipped Dynamics, a modular accounting and business-management program that gives Macintosh and Windows clients simultaneous access to host data on a variety of platforms (see MacWEEK, Sept. 21, 1992). Priced from $500 to $1,500 per module, Dynamics can use file servers from Novell Inc. and FairCom Corp. It eventually will support SQL rela- tional databases and Microsoft Corp.’s Windows NT as servers. > Aatrix Software Inc. shipped what it said is the first personal finance program supporting Quick- Time. The $129 Hi! Finance in- cludes a personal and small-business inventory manager that lets users store information as pictures, sound files, QuickTime movies and text. Hi! Finance auto- matically downloads and tracks stocks, bonds, mutual and money-market funds, and other ChipSoft’s final 1992 version of MaclnTax features Easy- Step, which provides a step-by-step guide through tax forms. information via modem. ChipSoft Inc. is at 6330 Nancy Ridge Drive, Suite 103, San Diego, Calif. 92121. Phone (619) 453- 4446; fax (800) 756-1040. Great Plains Software is at 1701 S.W. 38th St, Fargo, N.D. 58103. Phone (701) 281-0550 or (800) 456- 0025; fax (701) 281-3700. Aatrix Software Inc. is at 523 N. Washington St., Grand Forks, N.D. 58203. Phone (701) 746- 6801; fax (701) 746-4249. a _ Hold everything! lomega introduces sizeable improvements in removable stora Bernoulli’ MultiDisk” 150. Handles like a floppy, performs like a hard disk. * 150MB capacity. + 18:msec effective access time + Rugged Bemoulli Technology, * Disks also available in 105, 65, and 35MB capacities. * Reads/writes 90MB Bernoulli Disks, reads 44MB Bernoulli Disks. 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The $295 program, which shipped in January, lets English speakers compose correspondence in Japanese by selecting menu items and typing information in an Eng- lish document. Ambassador contains 200 letters and 450 templates, or letter elements, that it can translate into Japanese. A dictionary can translate often-used phrases, such as place names, prod- ucts and businesses. Users who know some Japanese can add their own entries to the dictionary. The program includes letters for many types of business correspon- dence, including complaints, billing, travel arrangements and orders. “Before this, we had Japanese- literate employees translate every- thing,” said Gary Rust, president of Concord International in St. Louis. “Tt makes a very good impression to send documents in Japanese, even if the recipient can read English.” ee T1201 Plas (Engiisn) ‘Tot¥e, youcan reach lnephonenunberis 03-2072.3890, 00, | seeng you so (Dock nvarstopeatnGTE VOID ourmeeting iG@)ptn to vem -Téiyo, [on (FearaR| [TIO , FSF] Please wt Re) know tyou canmeet win fre] uring [my stay. twnie lama} [elatine Mating Hotes, 12 The Tearingtram you soon hearingtrem youagain soon ‘speaking toyouagan soon =Z=| Language Engineering's j| Ambassador gives businesses a way to translate simple corre- spondence, such as this travel arrangement, “| into Japanese. The pro- | gram contains pull- i down menus that allow B25, Geese. 0332723630, ct, IB tk, 27 o> ABS@. ,03-3267-3600, 04. | TESOERUACLCHOFS). | (SRaw_yous, 1 mene 5] users to insert common i I k Talal Pare span phrases into a letter BEVeTLTET. template. Users can ec. ie. Be draw on the 200 pre- formatted letters or build their own letters with the system. Ambassador can be viewed in either English or Japanese; it comes with manuals in both languages. This allows Japanese users to utilize the same software to translate cor- respondence into English, the com- pany said. The software requires Version 6.0.5 or later of KanjiTalk, Apple’s Japanese operating system, to print and display Japanese. The company said it is develop- ing English-French and English- Spanish versions as well. Language Engineering Corp. is at 385 Concord Ave., Belmont, Mass. 02178. Phone (617) 489- 4000; fax (617) 489-3850. a M.O.S.T. discs work with multiple OSes By Kirsten L, Parkinson Carlsbad, Calif. — Compton’s NewMedia Inc. last month announced that it will consolidate the Mac, DOS, Windows and Sony multimedia-player versions of its CD-ROM titles into single discs that can be read on all four platforms. The company’s Multiple Opera- tion System Technology (MLO.S.T_) will include four separate browsing applications, one for each platform, that automatically access those files that are compatible with the plat- form’s operating system. Data that can be read universal- ly by all four platforms, such as text and retrieval information, will be included only once on each disc. Information types that require a platform-dependent for- mat, such as sounds, pictures and animation, will be included on the CD-ROM in all four formats; each platform’s browser will auto- matically load the correct format for that environment. The company said it is aiming M.O.S.T. at both vendors and users. With four formats on a sin- gle disc, vendors will have space to stock more titles, and users will not have to worry about purchasing the right version of a disc for their systems. The first M.O.S.T. discs, to be released this month, will work on only DOS, Windows and Sony sys- tems; Mac compatibility will be added to selected titles in April. The four-format discs will be priced similarly to the previous versions, which contained only one format per disc. The compa- ny’s CD-ROM prices range from $24.95 to $395. Compton’s NewMedia Inc. is at 2320 Camino Vida Roble, Carls- bad, Calif. 92009. Phone (619) 929- 2500; fax (619) 929-2577. Remote, 14.4K bps, laptop to desktop. POWERPORT/ GOLD INTERNAL FAX/MODEM PowerPort/Gold, the first 14.4K bps internal fax/modem’ for the PowerBook, is the product of choice for mobile computing. 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It uses high-level, object- oriented tools to implement the interface elements created with the DeeMaker resource editor. “Dee”- type resources generated by DeeMaker can include such diverse data types as dialogs, interactive windows, help balloons, PICT graphics and text. According to n Dimensions, Dee- Manager supersedes much of the Mac Toolbox by providing faster, easier resource management. It also offers new interface tools such as ShineThrough, a feature that lets programmers swap up to 32 layers of interface elements. Developers also can create style sheets and apply them quickly to interface elements. DeeMaker for DeeManager 1.2, available now for $299, extends the software’s resource-creation tools @ =| DeeMaker for with new enhancements such as scrolling frames, multiple styles per text item, support for any type of list structure and three new windoid frames. Styles now can include more attributes, and the style sheet sup- ports 16 additional styles. Version 1.2 also includes a preview mode for viewing and testing resources. Joe Zuffoletto, president of Zuf- foletto & Co. of San Francisco, said he has used DeeMaker for Dee- Manager with Apple’s MacApp, ACI US Inc.’s 4th Dimension and Symantec Corp.'s THINK Pascal A DeeManager jo} provides high- al ™ |) level object- oriented tools designed to Comise oper Cnim oper a) simplify the ce | Se es recta creation and || Onevere Oneserd 2H tne management of H one a Mac interface Oneunect Tesources. s 001 3 Otic : Onesource 5) Pele = to create data-entry screens for his company’s client-server applica- tions. The Dee resource format is “very rich,” he said. “It pulls togeth- er a lot of elements of the Mac Toolbox into one convenient place. “DeeMaker has a really nice palette of interface features,” Zuffoletto said. “Tcan put together a human interface faster than I can using MacApp’s tools, for example, and it'll be nicer.” n Dimensions is at 7000 Soquel Drive, Suite 403, Aptos, Calif. 95003. Phone and fax (408) 662- 9703 or (800) 462-9777.0 MACWEEK 02.01. News 93 Aperion eases creation of 4D add-ons: X-Step writes, ests in same environment By Robert Hess Mission Viejo, Calif. — Develop- ment of add-ons for ACI US Inc.’s 4th Dimension may be easier with a new tool from Aperion Inc. With X-Step for 4D, announced last month, developers write exter- nals using Symantec Corp.’s THINK C programming environment and test the externals using both 4D’s and THINK’s debuggers in tandem. This permits source-level debugging with shared variable names and con- tents. Previously, developers had to switch between the THINK shell, where they wrote code, and the 4D environment, where they tested it. The $229 package comes with a | shell for development of externals as well as a new 4D external header file. Examples for passing data between 4D and Care included. ACI US’ 4D External Kits not required. Aperion said Version 2.0, due this month, will fully support 4D 3.0 callbacks and THINK Pascal. Aperion Inc. is at 23332 Madero Road, Suite J, Mission Viejo, Calif 92691. Phone (714) 458-7000. or (800) 727-6347; fax (714) 583-1249.0 Relax to ship optical drive for less than $1,000 Union City, Calif, — Relax Tech- nology Inc. this week will shipan opti- cal drive priced at less than $1,000. The Sierra MO, a 3.5-inch 128- Mbyte rewriteable optical disk drive, sells for $999. Relax is bundling the drive with On Location, a $129.95 file-finding utility from ON Tech- nology Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. ‘The Sierra MO is based on a Pana- Access. 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Phone (510) 471-6112; fax (510) 471-6267.0 News MACWEEK 02.01.93 Scanner vendors bundle text-management apps By Matthew Rothenberg Irvine, Calif. — Software bundles from Mustek Inc. and Fujitsu Com- puter Products of America Ine. will help users of their desktop scanners get a handle on optical character recognition and document-image management. > Mustek Inc. last month start- ed shipping Mac optical character recognition software with the MFS-6000CS, its $1,295 flatbed scanner, as well as with its $599, 18-bit-color Langelo Color and $359, eight-bit gray-scale Langelo Gray handheld models. The MFS-6000CS comes with TextPert 3.5 from CTA Inc. of New Haven, Conn. The MFS-6000CS, based on a Microtek engine, captures color images at600 dpiin three passes. The Langelo handheld line now comes with CTA’s ScanReader, a lower-end OCR package that jux- taposes successive scanner passes when reading text; ScanReader is no longer available as a retail pack- age. The Langelo Color and Lan- gelo Gray have maximum resolu- tions of 400 dpi and 800 dpi, respectively; both feature a scan- ning width of 4.13 inches. > Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. this week will ship a $2,495 bundle comprised of its $2,095 ScanPartner 10 and Optix 4.0, a $695 document-image- management program from Blue- ridge Technologies Inc. of Flint Hill, Va. Optix stores and retrieves scanned documents using OCR and auto-indexing; it supports multi-user access to image databases stored on an AppleShare server. ScanPartner 10 is a 300-dpi mono- chrome flatbed device based on an AVision engine; it can capture an 11- by-14-inch image in five seconds. Mustek Inc. is at 15225 Alton Parkway, Irvine, Calif. 92718. Phone (714) 833-7740; fax (714) 833-7813. Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. is at 2904 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, Calif. 95134. Phone (408) 432-6333 or (800) 626- 4686; fax (408) 894-1706. 0 MicroCode ships circuit-simulation program By Raines Cohen Orem, Utah — MicroCode Engineering last month shipped CircuitMaker 3.0, a new version of its schematic capture and digital- simulation program. The $200 application includes a library of electronic devices, includ- ing TTL and CMOS devices, gates, flip-flops, display devices, a pulse generator, resistors, capacitors and inductors. Users can create their own devices, add them to the library and use them in their circuits. Users draw lines between circuit components and use tools to trace cir- cuit operation, simulate an oscillo- scope or perform other analyses. Users can save the circuit and wav forms as PICT files or print them. Version 3.0 adds a redesigned user interface. Other new features include unlimited-length styled text in labels, Clipboard support, an undo com- mand and some new devices. “Tjustuse [CircuitMaker] to lay out circuits and run some simulations for personal use,” said John McDaniel, software engineer at Phillips Semi- conductor, a division of Phillips Corp. in Albuquerque, N.M. “The interface [in Version 3.0] is much more consistent with the Mac than in earlier versions, the simulation is bet- ter, and I can set break points.” An upcoming version, due later this quarter, will add the ability to export schematic data in net list for- mat, for import into third-party printed circuit-board design and analog simulation applications. DOS and Windows versions are also under development for release this spring, the company said. Current users can upgrade for $50. Educational pricing and site licenses are available. MicroCode Engineering is at 1943 North 205 West, Orem, Utah 84057. Phone (801) 226-4470; fax (801) 226-6532. 0 PLI CD-ROM can run Apple Photo Access By April Streeter Fremont, Calif. — PLI last month shipped an external CD- ROM drive that has a speedier spin rate for nonaudio data and is com- patible with Eastman Kodak Co.’s Photo CD disks. The $969 PLICD ROM MS 200 sports a Toshiba mechanism and ships with PlayCD, HyperCard software that lets users play audio CDs from desktop Macs equipped with external speakers. Dual-speed drives such as PLI’s are currently the industry’s fastest. They read data at a rate of about 330 Kbps but have an automatic PC TO VAX MAC TO VAX CLIENT NFS. SO PC TO NETWARE PATHWAY COMPATIBLE IT EVEN WORKS PC TO UNIX PC TO NETWARE MAC TO VAX switching mechanism to audio data signals. PLI said its player averages a 200- millisecond access time. In addition to Photo CD and audio discs, the player reads discs that use the IBM PC and compatible ISO 9660 and High Sierra standards. 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Previously, the SE line ranged from $412 to $1,244. ‘The price of the recently introduced Trans- Warp 040 card remains the same. Applied Engineering is at 3210 Beltline Road, Dallas, Texas 75234. Phone (214) 241- 6060 or (800) 554-6227; fax (214) 484-1365.0 OEM drive from Toshiba Irvine, Calif. — Toshiba America Informa- tion Systems Inc. last month announced its first 2.5-inch SCSI-compatible OEM drive. The MK-2326F, based on a 2.5-inch Toshi- ba mechanism, will offer a 12-millisecond aver- age seek time, maximum sustained data transfer rates of 3.8 Mbytes per second and an MTBF (mean time between failure) of 150,000 hours. Designed as a portable drive for notebook users, the drive will offer three low-power modes: an idle mode in which the motor will spin but the read-write head will remain still; a standby mode in which the drive automatically will spin down after a set idle time; and a sleep mode that has not been configured. ‘The SCSI model of the drive will ship with OEM pricing of $675 in the third quarter; a ver- sion with a PC interface will ship this month. 3 GULF CD-ROM UPDATE Minneapolis — Quanta Press Inc. last month released a Mac version of its Persian Gulf war CD-ROM. The $69.95 USA WAR: Desert Storm includes text, images and sounds describing U.S. forces and the war. Users can copy materials into their own doc- uments and print pictures and text directly from the disc. Quanta Press Inc. is at 1313 Fifth St. S.E., Suite 223A, Minneapolis, Minn. 55414, Phone (612) 379-3956; fax (612) 623-4570. By Raines Cohen Aptos, Calif, — Semaphore Corp. last month made it easier for FileMaker users to tap into ZP4, its CD-ROM-based application that standardizes mailing lists and adds postal ZIP+4 codes to addresses. The CD-ROM can reparse addresses to resolve ambiguities. Users can interactively check addresses, run ZP4 in batch mode or integrate the program with their externals to perform the interapplication communications. ZP4 sells for $125 per quarter. Each $125 disc is valid for a three-month period, which satisfies U.S. Postal Service requirements that address data be current. Semaphore Corp. is at 207 Granada Ave., Aptos, Calif. 95003-5007. 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Previously, the Apple event-based | _ interactive — won ET checking capabilities were available only with high-end databases, such as ACI US Inc.’s 4th Dimension, that supported custom Semaphore’s FileMaker Pro templates communicate with ZP4 through Apple events to automatically clean up addresses and add ZIP+4 codes as records are entered. Sum Total to include color-calculation features By lan G. Jacobs Mesa, Ariz. — Concurrent Engineering Tools Inc. next month will ship a technical- calculator program called Sum ‘Total that has features aimed at programmers, engineers, scientists and graphic designers. Users will be able to activate the floating palette, a system extension, with the press of a user-defined key from within any application. The $99.95 calculator will include color- calculation features, with an eyedropper tool that can analyze on-screen colors and mix values. Programmers will be able to take advantage of the calculator’s ability to dis- play values in two formats at once, including binary, octal, hexadecimal and ASCII text. Sum Total users will be able to create sym- bolic register names, so, for instance, a sales- tax rate could be referred to as “TaxRate” rather than as a cryptic memory register- number code. Users will be able to choose between reverse-polish and standard notation for com- mand entry. Other applications will be able to control Sum Total’s functions through core Apple events. Concurrent Engineering Tools Inc. is at 1115 N. Delmar St. Suite B, Mesa, Ariz. 85203. Phone (602) 464-8208; fax (602) 898-3844. 0 Hitachi color monitors offer auto-scan By Nathalie Welch Montvale, NJ. — Hitachi America Ltd. this month shipped the Acuvue Premier Series, a line of color auto-scan monitors. ‘The line includes three 21-inch monitors, each of which offer a flat screen for reduced glare and a 0.28-millimeter dot pitch. They include the $3,395 Accuvue PS-21AM, the $3,295 Accuvue PS-21A and the $2,995 Accu- vue PS-21. The line’s 20-inch monitor, the Accuvue PS-20, has a 0.31-millimeter dot pitch and sells for $2,495. All monitors conform to Swedish safety stan- dards for extremely low frequency and very low frequency emissions, the company said. While the PS-20 and PS-21 feature Hitachi’s Accufine screen coating, the PS-21A features an anti- reflective panel, and the PS-21AM boasts anti- static coating compliant with both magnetic- and electric-field standards. The displays sport front-panel controls for avariety of image adjustments, as well as seven factory presets and 13 programmable presets for ease of switching between graphic modes anda three-color temperature selector. All monitors offer Mac-supported pixel resolutions ranging from 640 by 480 pixels with a screen refresh of 60 Hz to 1,152 by 870 pixels with a screen refresh of 75 Hz. The highest possible resolution supported is 1,600 by 1,280 pixels, with a screen-refresh rate of 60 Hz. Hitachi America Ltd.’s Office Automation Systems Division is at 110 Summit Ave., Montvale, N.J. 07645. Phone (201) 573-0774; fax (201) 573-7660. 0 Optiquest lowers prices on noninterlaced monitors By Nathalie Welch Walnut, Calif. — Optiquest Inc. this month dropped prices on its entire line of noninter- laced monitors, with cuts as high as $296. All of the displays have 1,024-by-768-pixel resolution and tilt-and-swivel bases. All have a 72-Hz screen-refresh rate except the model 4000DX, which has a refresh rate of 76 Hz. The price changes cover: > 14-inch. The Optiquest 1000S, with a Working Software adds speller to 4D apps By Robert Hess Santa Cruz, Calif. — Users of ACI US Inc.’s 4th Dimension database finally can dot their i’s and end the tease with the release of Working Software Inc.’s OEM Spellswell External for 4D Developers. Working Software's external package adds a spell-check command to 4D’s programming language. The command interactively checks a field’s contents. Spellswell also checks proof- reading errors, including double words, punctu- ation, a/an usage and improper hyphenation. The spelling checker is the same as that built into Working Software’s QuickLetter, ExpertWriter and Resume Maker. ‘The external package is licensed to devel- opers for $250 per application, which allows an unlimited number of sites and users. ACT has sold in France for some time a spell-checking module for 4D and was preparing to release one in the United States this quarter. However, the company said it will evaluate the reception Working Soft- ware’s product receives before proceeding. Working Software Inc. is at P.O. Box 1844, Santa Cruz, Calif. 95061-1844. Phone (408) 423-5696 or (800) 229-9675; fax (408) 423-5699. CD-ROM teaches leadership skills Duluth, Ga. — PERC Macromedia Group Inc. is attempting to impart the same leader- ship skills taught at business seminars with an interactive CD-ROM for the Mac. The $195 People Who Lead People CD- ROM contains eight hours of simula- tions, training materials, exercises, tests and management-education programs aimed at executives, managers and business owners. Topics include improving employees’ work habits, holding effective meetings and main- taining improved performance. Other sections teach labor law, how to deal with government regulations and safety observation techniques. The CD-ROM includes business-decision simulations, on which users are scored, and a database to compare those scores with nation- lacromedia Consulting Group Inc. is at 4774 Bogie Road, Duluth, Ga. 30136. Phone (404) 447-1876; fax (404) 416-6567.0 0.28-millimeter dot pitch, was reduced by $86, to $409; the Optiquest 1000D, with a 0.26-millimeter dot pitch, was reduced by $96, to $449; and the Optiquest 1500D, also with a 0.26-millimeter dot pitch, was reduced $96, to $499. > 15-inch. Both flat square-screen moni- Graphic evidence of Andrew exper ~ with Mac-to-IBM midrange connectivity. United States (800) 328-2696 ext.43 (44) 734 894689 International | (708) 349-5440 See the benefits of Mac ease and IBM midrange power for yourself Call for your free MacMidrange™ tour demo diskette. tors, the Optiquest 2000D and the Optiquest 2000DX, were reduced by $246, to $649. > 17-inch. Also featuring a flat square screen, the Optiquest 4000D, with a 0.28- millimeter dot pitch and a 76-Hz refresh rate, was dropped $296, to $1,199, while the Opti- quest 4000DX, with a 0.31-millimeter dot From aerospace to city finance to education, Mac-to-IBM midrange solutions from Andrew are helping organizations make fast, smooth, versatile network connections. u Using NetAxcess™ our AppleTalk-to-IBM midrange gateway, the City of Oakland can remotely access data on budget develop- Ment, project planning, financial manage- ment, taxes, and executive MIS from three midrange hosts. u Grimes Aerospace is using TCPAxcess” 5250 emulation software to link Macintosh to the AS/400® through a TCP/IP network for terminal services and file transfer. The result is accessible IBM data with point-and-click ease using Mac spreadsheet and desktop publishing programs. m Grand Forks Public Schools consider Andrew a class act—we helped link its Mac network to the AS/400 using Token Axcess-Client™ Now 13 schools achieve 5250 terminal emulation through an AS/400 News MACWEEK 02.01.93 pitch and a 72-Hz screen refresh, was reduced | $246, to $949. | All but the Optiquest 1000S have | microprocessor-based controls, and all but | the 1000S, 1500D and 4000DX conform to | Swedish safety standards for extremely low | frequency and very low frequency emissions, | according to the company. Optiquest Inc. is at 20490 E. Business Park- way, Walnut, Calif. 91789. Phone (909) 468- 3750; fax (909) 468-3770. 3 SC token ring LAN utilizing Apple® Computer's SNAsps™ software. Andrew backs you every step of the way with knowledgeable support gained from hands- on experience with hundreds of Mac-to-IBM midrange applications. So call Andrew today—and get it right the first time. Complete Communications™ » ANDREW Fax: (708) 349-5673 Copyright 1983 Andrew Corporation. TCPAxcess, Token Axcess-Ciient, NetAxcess are trademarks of Andrew Corp. Al ther ademarks are property o her respectve companies. isa; ‘Dataliz and Apple Have the Most Powerful Solution for It takes real teamwork to get any job done these days, especially if you're dealing with incompatible Macintosh and PC files. That's why DataViz has teamed up with Apple to add even more utility to MacLinkPlus” It’s the most muscle ever assembled to overcome your toughest file translation problems between Macs and PCs. For years, MacLinkPlus has set the standard for ease of use. And thanks to two new Apple products, what was once ee easy is now practically effortless. We now include Macintosh PC moe Exchange and Macintosh Easy Open with every package of MacLinkPlus MacLinkPlus : : Fodbiil we ship. Macintosh PC Exchange makes DOS disks appear on the Mac Macintosh PC desktop and shows their contents as Macintosh files and folders. New Exchange | | OP Macintosh Easy Open is a System 7” extension that helps you open Mac or and Macintosh PC fil | A ligationteh fl chemlasnt TH Easy Open. iles when the application that created them isn’t on your Mac. These technologies from Apple teamed with our translators offer the most com- plete solution to file transfer and translation available in a single package. MacLinkPlus contains over 700 conversion paths to and fot all popular word processing, spreadsheet, database and graphics applications. Files are converted quickly and easily, with all of their original formatting intact. In addition to providing you with transfer capability, MacLinkPlus also translates files transferred via other methods. Such as disk mounting utilities like DOS Mounter and AccessPC, MS-DOS emulators such as SoftPC, and network software such as NetWare and LANtastic. 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THE DATABRIDGE SPECIALISTS ™ All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. ©1993 DataViz, Inc. 55 Corporate Drive, Trumbull, CT 06611 (203) 268-0030 FAX (203) 268-4345, Gateways > Networking > Communications Mac Oracle Card _ supports QuickTime By Mitch Ratcliffe San Francisco— Oracle Corp. next month will introduce development tools and extensions for its Oracle7 relational database that will allow Mac users to build multimedia database front ends on several platforms. ‘The company last week shipped a QuickTime-compatible version of its Oracle Card for Macintosh front end. | The company said the product will be | the first in a series of new tools and extensions known as Cooperative Development 7 (CDE7). Applications built with CDE7 tools will be portable across Mac, Windows and X Window system platforms. Lawrence Ellison, Oracle Oracle7 to offer multimedia tools SalesPeople HE] Oracle Card for Macintosh 1.1 adds support for QuickTime- movie objects within Oracle database clients. president and CEO, said at a meet- ing here that the company will deliv- er the new CDE7 tools by June. Multimedia extensions that will let Oracle7 database client applica- tions play QuickTime and other video clips, as well as audio files, are also due in the spring, Ellison said. He said Oracle’s distributed- server capabilities, combined with the CDE7 tools and extensions, will help support desktop and mobile- computer access to massive libraries See Oracle, Page 18 By Leonard Heymann San Francisco — Network administrators frustrated by the dearth of AppleShare remote- management capabilities may find relief in a new product from San- torini Consulting & Design Inc. Server Manager, which shipped last week for a single-server price of $395, lets administrators monitor and control multiple AppleShare 3 servers from a single location. Through software extensions that run on server machines, users can perform AppleShare Admin func- tions remotely, receive alerts and record server activity. Server Manager lets administrators configure the accounts of any Apple- Share file server, among other Admin activities, from their own Macs. Italso can detect problems such as backup failures, excessive server activity and impending disk-space shortages. Administrators can receive alerts via dialog boxes, sounds or Notify! paging messages from Ex Machina Inc. of New York. Server Manager [& File Edit Monitor @ Control (0) 9 pdmiitrstor D [Oy Test Group (12) Santorini’s Server Manager lets administrators add, delete and modify user accounts ‘on multiple AppleShare 3 servers from a single desktop. Santorini adds management muscle to AppleShare also was slated to check for viruses on servers via Symantec Corp.’s Syman- tec AntiVirus for Macintosh 3.0; that capability will now come in a later release, according to Santorini. “T think it’s great because it let me take off [Farallon Computing Inc.’s] Timbuktu and keep the server locked up,” said Warren Strand, MIS manager for Microwave Appli- cations Group, an electronics man- ufacturer in Santa Maria, Calif. Strand said the added manage- ment capabilities, such as the alerts and activity log, have been particu- larly useful. “With normal Apple- Share software, there’s almost no way of finding out who’s logged onto the system,” which poses a challenge in maintaining security, he said. Peter Haase, network manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., said he’s so confi- dent in Server Manager’s capabilities that he will remove the monitors and keyboards from his two Quadra 950 servers. He has also added users to the network from home because Server Manager works across AppleTalk Remote Access connections. Server Manager costs $695 for a five-server pack, $995 for 10 servers and $1,495 for 20 servers. Santorini Consulting & Design is at 2147 Union St., Second Floor, San Francisco, Calif. 94123. Phone (415) 563-6398; fax (415) 563-0332. 0 Coactive devices allow Macs, PCs to communicate via AppleTalk By April Streeter Belmont, Calif. — Coactive Computing Corp. wants to make Mac-style networking for small, heterogeneous workgroups as sim- ple as, well, Mac-style networking. In April, Coactive plans to ship two $149 boxes, Connector for DOS and Connector for Windows, which let IBM PCs and compatibles com- municate with Macs via LocalTalk. Each two-port box has its own 32-bit processor and enough ROM to hold the AppleTalk protocol stack. For the Mac and other LocalTalk devices, Coactive will sell a small, $29 v-shaped connector similar in function to Farallon Computing Inc.’s PhoneNET adapter but with two terminated ports. To set up a PC and Macintosh network, PhoneNET or Coactive Connectors must be hooked to the LocalTalk ports of the Macs, while the parallel ports of the PCs receive the larger Coactive Connectors. Nodes are wired together with unshielded twisted-pair cabling, like PhoneNET. Coactive networks can have up to 32 nodes in any combina- tion. Additional printers may be added through the large Connector’s parallel port. Coactive’s PC software has a bare- bones three-step installation process and is compatible with DOS 3.1 and above, as well as all incarnations of Windows. Macs access shared files through the Chooser. PCs see shared files in volume directories, and Windows users access them through the File Manager. “With file and print services simi- lar to [Novell Inc.’s] NetWare Lite, See Coactive, Page 18 Coactive Computing’s Connector for DOS and Windows computers has two LocalTalk ports (A); an external power supply (B); and two parallel ports (CQ, one to hook into the PC and another for a printer. Mac LAN Server client ships By April Streeter Armonk, N.Y. — IBM Corp. planned to ship late last week a Mac client for its OS/2-based file server. The $995 LAN Server for Mac- intosh makes Macs capable of shar- ing files and printers on an OS/2 server running Version 3.0 of LAN Server. IBM developed the client software with Miramar Systems Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif. LAN Server for Macintosh turns the OS/2 server into an AFP (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) server. A server administrator can assign eight-character encrypted or non- encrypted passwords. Aside from file sharing, Mac and IBM PC and compatible clients spool print files to the server, which redirects jobs to as many as nine laser printers attached to the network. IBM’s other Mac client software offering is the $995 Workstation One for Macintosh, a file- and printer- server client with additional terminal- emulation features, which runs over TCP/IP networks. The software requires Apple’s MacT'CP to connect Macs to LANs served by Novell Inc.’s NetWare, Microsoft Corp.’s LAN Manager or IBM’s LAN Server using their respective TCP/IP add-ons. Workstation One lets Mac and Windows users share files as well as run terminal emulation of Digital Equipment Corp.’s VT series, Tek- tronix Inc. terminals and IBM’s 3270 series. IBM Corp. is at Old Orchard Road, Armonk, N.Y. 10504. Phone (800) 967-5663 for Workstation One and (800) 342-6672 for LAN Server. 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The system gives you even greater control with unique alarm thresholds to warn you when unacceptable traffic or error levels occur. And can even trigger your pager before a problem arises on your network so you can administer a little preventive medicine. AsantéView in-band network man- agement software supports the widely TN ASANIE accepted Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and can automatically draw a map of your network which simplifies the learning and administering of IP addressing. AsantéView out-of-band management software is just as powerful as the in-band software, and uses the same GUI. By plugging your network management station directly into the RS-232 port, or by using a dial-up modem, you can simultaneously manage up to 12 AsantéHubs from any- where you have access to a telephone. No one takes care of networking like Asanté. The Asanté network management system is the heart of our complete family of networking products. So if you're looking for a single source for all your departmental net- working solutions, Asanté is just what the doctor ordered. Call us today for your free AsantéView demo disk*, 1-800-662-9686, extension 101. Clad Resellers: Asanté products are available from Ingram Micro, Tech Data, and Merisel. ALL THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS™ [ Asanté Technologies, 821 Fox Lane, San Jose, CA 95131, 408-435-8388 ] Gateways MACWEEK 02.01.93 Spider Island expands TeleFinder BBS Version 3.0 features based on Apple events By Nathalie Welch Irvine, Calif. — Spider Island Software is shipping an upgrade of its bulletin board system featuring expanded support for Apple events and a new multiserver architecture. TeleFinder is a Mac-based graphi- cal bulletin board system with its own client software. TeleFinder Group Edition 3.0, priced at $425 and avail- able now, includes a BBS host pro- gram and unlimited client software. Upgrades from previous versions are $65 or free if downloaded from Spi- der Island’s own BBS. Expanded compatibility with | Apple events lets the BBS’ four application programs, the Node Server, User Manager, Caller Log and Transfer Log, work together to provide features such as automatic on-line registration and remote management of user accounts. Remote management can occur over the LAN using Spider Island’s $149 ‘NetConnect software, needed to set % flie Cait Special Mail Windows TeleFinder Session Time SE Group Edition’s acces | e-sneoting 3 upgraded client irene le software now ane lets users view PICT files and bit-mapped images. up an in-house AppleTalk-based BBS, or by dialing in over a modem. “Tt was always 32-bit-clean, but now it supports more Apple events for increased functionality,” said Mike Skultety, system manager at Types Inc., a service bureau in Greensboro, N.C. Skultety uses the TeleFinder to provide share- ware, font libraries and updates to his customers. Administrators also now can con- trol host program modules through any AppleScript-compatible system Apple ships DAL client software By Leonard Heymann Cupertino, Calif, — Apple this week will ship a retail version of its Data Access Language client soft- ware, though without the expected support for Microsoft Corp.’s Open Database Connectivity scheme. DAL Client for Macintosh, priced at $149, will be available from Apple dealers; previously, the Data Access Language (DAL) extension was bun- dled with System 7.0 and third-party database access products. Apple unbundled the DAL extension from System 7.1 last fall. In an effort to increase sales of its DAL products, Apple will soon begin selling retail versions of its DAL servers, the company said. Currently, DAL serversare available from APDA and third parties such as Pacer Soft- ware Inc. of Westborough, Mass. Support for Open Database Con- nectivity (ODBQ), which will let users access DAL databases directly from applications that comply with the ODBC specification, is due later this year, according to Apple. The DAL Client for Macintosh is available in a 10-user version for $1,043. Users also can pay $119 for the right to make one copy. 0 Oracle of public information that will include text, faxes, graphics and video files. Version 1.1 of Oracle Card is the first Oracle front end to support System 7 and QuickTime movies. When CDE7 QuickTime exten- sions ship, Oracle Card will be able to play a QuickTime movie that resides on an Oracle7 server. But in the meantime, the front end can be scripted to play a movie that can be stored on the client Mac or an AppleShare server. ‘When developers create a new QuickTime window in an Oracle Card front end, a database access From Page 16 script is generated automatically. That script can be modified by developers to support front ends that display different movies, or text, depending upon the outcome ofa query. The $699 application requires Oracle’s. SQL*Net connectivity extension. Runtime versions will ‘operate on Macs or Windows work- stations, but QuickTime support will not be added to Oracle Card for Win- dows until later this year. The run- time versions will cost between $100 and $300, depending on quantity. Oracle Corp. is at 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, Calif. 94065. Phone (415) 506-7000; fax (415) 506-7200. utility such as UserLand Software Inc.’s Frontier. TeleFinder 3.0’s multiserver archi- tecture allows a single BBS to run on separate networked Macs, greatly increasing the number of telephone lines the BBS can support. TeleFinder 3.0 also provides users with a menu-driven terminal inter- face containing unlimited levels of user access, customizable color icons and separate user privileges. TeleFinder User, the bundled client program, now can be used to view PICT files in addition to bit- mapped files and has an improved auto-dial feature. Spider Island Software is at 4790 Irvine Blvd., Suite 105-347, Irvine, Calif. 92720. Phone (714) 669- 9260; fax (714) 669- 1383.0 Coactive the cost of this product is the clinch- er,” said Devin Doherty, a Mac net- work consultant based in Newport Beach, Calif, who is considering Coactive’s solution for some clients. “PC people definitely want that same easy-to-network environment already available to the Mac.” According to BIS Strategic Deci- sions Inc. of Norwell, Mass., the top three inhibitors to the growth of networks at small, mixed Mac and PC or PC-only sites is price, ease of installation and ease of use. Coac- tive said LocalTalk, despite its speed inferiority compared with Ethernet or token ring, is the right choice for these users. Coactive decided to forgo pass- word protection. Instead, each user is assigned a read-only folder that oth- ers can drop files into but not open. Printers hooked directly to the network are available to all; a user with a printer connected through the large Connector’s parallel port can choose to share or hide it. Coactive Computing Corp. is at 1301 Shoreway Road, Suite 221, Belmont, Calif. 94002. Phone (415) 802-1080; fax (415) 593-9304. 0 From Page 16 Gateways Bae ReelE TE S EclecTec beefs up network simulator Scotts Valley, Calif. — EclecTec Software Inc. this week is ship- ping a renamed and revamped version of its network simulation software. NetVirtual Il 2.1 adds more than 50 routers to the library of devices that can be modeled in a simulated AppleTalk network. The initial version, called NetVantage II, supported only two soft- ware routers. EclecTec dropped the original name after discover- ing that another company already was using it. NetVirtual II lets users create and test simulated network configu- rations to evaluate potential performance before actually laying cable. In addition to routers, the list of devices users can test includes servers, bridges, printers and workstations. Under a new pricing structure, a base unit to construct models of up to 100 nodes costs $995. Expanded capability can be added with 50-node packages priced at $399. EclecTec Software Inc. is at 269 Mount Herman Road, Suite 202, Scotts Valley, Calif. 95066. Phone (408) 461-2040; fax (408) 461.2044. Digital Products gives SprintTALK/25E eight ports Waltham, Mass. — Digital Products Inc. last week doubled the ports and dropped the price on its LocalTalk-to-Ethernet print server. SprintTALK/25E now has eight ports for connecting AppleTalk printers or other devices, such as PowerBooks, to an Ethernet net- work via either a thin-net or 1OBASE T connector. Based on a Motorola 68340 processor, the 25E runs at 16 MHz and is priced at $545, a reduction of $150. Another version of the product, the SprintTALK/25T, provides the same eight LocalTalk ports for a token-ring network for $995. Digital Products Inc. is at 411 Waverly Oaks Road, Waltham, Mass. 02154. Phone (617) 647-1234 or (800) 243-2333; fax (617) 647-4474. APS drops PowerBook modem price to $69 Independence, Mo. — Seemingly intent on putting telecommuni- cations in every PowerBook, APS Technologies Inc. last month fur- ther reduced the price on its APS PowerModem. Now $69, the 2,400-bps data modem lets users send and receive faxes at 9,600 bps. The device, which is compatible with the new PowerBook 160 and 180 models, originally shipped in December for $129. FAXstf fax software from STF Technologies Inc. and FreeTerm share- ware data-communications software will be bundled with the modem. APS Technologies Inc. is at 2900 S. 291 Highway, Indepen- dence, Mo. 64057. 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AppleShare, NetWare or TCP/IP. send a real-time, full-color picture Since it’s based on standards, It’s everything you’d expect from a of your screen over the network Microsors Timbuktu works with what you’ve got. company with more than seven years of so you can control and view it CoE Including more than 25 ODI compati- experience and four million users. from another Mac or Windows PC. ble network interface cards for See for yourself why Timbuktu is the That means you can use your S a = Ethernet, LocalTalk and Token Ring. easiest way to network Macs and PCs. network for new things. Like col- (sky And it’s the only Call today. We'll send laboration and user support. Itrunswith — cross-platform you a free full-color Of course, Timbuktu is easy to pees peer-to-peer Fi aralion copy of our product use and install. All you need is a copy solution that can guide. It’s that easy. of the software on each machine. co-exist with other Power tothe network” 1-800-949-7761. ‘The Farallon logo design, Timbuktu and PhoneNET are registered trademarks, and Liaison and “Power to the network” are trademarks of Faralion Computing, Inc. ©1992 All rights reserved. The Microsoft Windows logo is a trademark of Microsoft Corp. All other trademarks are property oftheir respective holders. For customer service, call (510) 814.5000. Or contact us on America Online* or AppleLink* ID: Farallon. CompuServe” ID: 75410, 2702. intemet ID: Farallon@faralion.com. Gateways MACWEEK 02.01.93 Research Report Sites with networked Macintoshes Macs networked per site Mac networks take all kinds 95% MacWEEK’s Networks composedsolely of athalf the sites that also house HaoMe 83% Macintoshes are the exception not _ some heterogenous networks. networks Networked Macs networking the rule, according to the results of the latest MacWEEK survey of Network media. LocalTalk survey found large Macsites. The poll explored and Ethernet are by far the most networking hardware and software _ widely used networking media, fol- 17% most sites usage, including file servers, multi- lowed distantly by token ring and Stand-alone user databases, media and proto- Fiber Distributed Data Interface Macs had mixed cols, among 667 MacWEEK (FDDD.. Sites where Macs are net- readers who had at least 50 worked with other types of com- 5% platforms Macs on-site. puters, however, are more than Don’t have twice as likely to use Ethernet than Base: Total respondents Base: Have Mac networks running a Network profile. Ofthose sites where Macs are wired only to diverse set of protocols. surveyed, 95 percent said their organizations have networked Macs. On average, 83 percent of the total installed base of Macs are on networks, totaling on aver- age 400 networked Macs at each location. Nine in 10 respondents’ organi- zations have Macs on multiplat- form networks, either on- or off- site. The most common cross- platform connection is to main- other Macs. Token ring and FDDI also are much more common at multiplatform sites than at the Mac-exclusive sites. More than half of the Mac- exclusive sites (54 percent) have only one type of network cabling in place, primarily Local Talk. In contrast, nine in 10 sites where Macs are wired to Intel-standard micros use two or more different network media for their networks Sites with multiplatform networks 1% Macs networked with other platforms 8% frames: Sixin 10 respondents have _that contain Macs. Macs tied to these large computers. aruk Daley o About the same percentage report Network protocols. Multi- Mac-to-minicomputer links. Net- works connecting Macs with IBM PCs and compatibles are found at 55 percent of the surveyed organi- zations; 53 percent use Macs wired to workstations. Only 8 percent of the large sites surveyed report Macs con- nected exclusively on all-Mac net- works. However, some isolated Mac-only networks are present platform networks usually spawn, diverse protocols. While AppleTalk isused at nine out of 10 sites that have networked Macs, 56 percent of the organizations surveyed also use TCP/IP. Thirty-six percent employ DECnet and 17 percent use IPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange), the protocol underlying Novell Inc.’s NetWare. The use of IPX is likely to grow in 1993, since Types of Mac networks Mac networks are connected to ... Base: Have Mac networks Novell plans to begin selling an IPX protocol stack specifically for Mac NetWare clients. Not surprisingly, sites where Macs are networked only to other Macs are much more likely to run under one protocol (79 percent) than sites with Mac-to-Intel or Mac-to-mainframe connections (17 percent). 1% No answer om ay Ne GER based workstations or minicom- puters. Nine percent use IBM Corp. AS/400s as Mac file servers. Multi-user databases. Six in 10 respondents report the use of multi-user databases with Macs at their work locations. A wide vari- ety of computers are used as hosts: The Macintosh is most common Maiiframpes! [a ee 61% and is used at 69 percent of net- File servers. Almost all worked sites, followed by DEC Minis QUI 50% cespondentshave file servers. Nine VAXes (50 percent) and main- in 10 use Macs as file servers for frames (45 percent). Workstations a 53% Mac clients, and 15 percent use Survey respondents report that , ‘Macs exclusively for this purpose. Claris Corp.’s FileMaker is the ite stander nies TT ser eecomputersaretsed most common mulcuser database Other Macs Other Macintoshes exclusively & 8% Base: Have Mac networks 48% The MacWEEK 1993 Networking Study was sent by mail to 1,200 MacWEEK sub- soribers, selected on an nth-name random basis from among those who work at sites with 50 or more Macs installed. All sites were located within the contiguous United States. Value- added resellers, resellers and consultants were excluded from the sample. Market Probe International, an independent New York-based market research company, was responsible for all survey operations. Research procedures followed established market research standards, Each sample member received an eight-page questionnaire accompanied by a cover letter, a $1 incentive and a stamped, self-addressed return envelope. Fieldwork was conducted from October to December 1992, yielding a total of 667 com- pleted questionnaires, for a 56 percent net response rate. by two out of three organizations, followed in frequency by Mac SE/30s (35 percent) and Quadras (27 percent). But most of the organizations surveyed use a variety of server platforms: Three-fourths have more than one computing plat- form as a server for Macs. On average, respondents have between two and three types. Sixty percent use PCs as servers for Macs; 486-based PCs are used most often (at 44 percent of sites with networks), followed closely by 386-based PCs (40 percent). More than four in 10 use Digital Equipment Corp. VAXes, while the same proportion use Unix- software used by Mac clients — 47 percent of networked sites have it in service. With just under half of sites using mainframe hosts, it is not surprising that Oracle Corp.’s databases showed strongly; 32 percent of the respondents have multi-user Oracle servers set up for Mac users. ACI US Inc.’s 4th Dimension tied Oracle’s showing, and Microsoft Corp.’s FoxBASE is the third most popular shared database, with 24 percent of sites. Where Macs currently do not tap multi-user databases, about one-third said itis “likely or very likely” that such access will be implemented at their sites within the next 12 months. o Large Mac sites make heavy use of non-Mac multi-user databases Multi-user The results froma recent MacWEEK survey of large Macin- databases are _ toshsites appear to debunk the lingering condemnation that used widely, _ Macs aren’t good database machines. On the contrary, with both Macs serve as hosts for multi- user databases in almost seven Macs and out of 10 sites that have any multi- user databases at all. Indeed, ACI mainframes US Inc.’s 4th Dimension is as com- mon at large, networked Mac sites as hosts. as Oracle Corp.’s Oracle. Almost two-thirds of the sites surveyed have Mac clients accessing Network media usage by type of site WH Mac-to-Mac networks only BE Mac to minis/mainframes HM Mac-to-Intel networks LocalTalk Ethernet Token ring 21% 2% FDDI 13% 13% 6% Other BB 50% 7% Base: Have specified type of network installed Base: Have specified type of network installed multi-user databases somewhere on their networks. Many of these databases reside on non-Mac hosts, and the most common interface seen by these Mac- using database clients is that ofa terminal emulator. Sites where Macs share a net- worked database span the spec- trum. They include those taking the easy way out with Claris Corp.’s FileMaker and those attending to Oracle Corp.’s self-named relation- al database-management system. There are more of the former than the latter, but the survey results indicate a lot of overlap between high-end and low-end database sharing. Half the sites that have any kind of multi-user database accessed by Macsare using Digital Equipment Corp. VAXes as hosts. Forty-five percent are using mainframes, and almost the same number are run- ning Claris Corp.’s FileMaker in multi-user mode on Macs some- where in the organization. IBM PCs and compatibles and Unix workstations are used as database hosts at 30 percent and 34 percent of sit