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02.08.93 Volume 7 Number 6 TSH Telescript will make magic with E-mail NNR General Magic will do its trick on Macs, PDAs Telescript agents sort users’ E-mail By Mitch Ratcliffe New York — General Magic Inc.’s_ Telescript programming language will find its first home early next year on the Macintosh and Apple’s forthcoming Newton personal digital assistants. A flurry of Magic-powered handheld devices will follow soon afterward. At a news event here this week, General Magic will announce script and Magic Cap, an operating system and graphical user interface for handheld devices, previously known as Magic Mail (see Mac- WEEK, Jan. 25). The technologies will let users create agents to man- age their communications. The company also will announce that Sony Corp., Motorola Inc., See General Magic, Page 119 Apple to serve up multiport ARA By Mitch Ratcliffe San Francisco — Apple is aiming to seize an advantage over third-party AppleTalk Remote Access server vendors with new Mac-based soft- ware that offers enhanced security | and support for multiple phone lines. The new version of AppleTalk Remote Access (ARA) reportedly will be unveiled next month. When used on a NuBus-equipped Macin- tosh with Apple’s $1,019 Serial NB Card, it will support up to four external modems. Apple also may unveil a version of the serial card that provides eight or more ports for ARA connections, sources said. The current ARA 1.0 can handle only one modem connection at a time and offers a single password per account with dial-back security. The new server software report- edly will offer as an option the See ARA, Page 120 NE WieSee ARP £ RS COND CLAS 5 NEE WS Wr Beek ol “Y. MACINTOSH MANAGERS IN REVIEWS In Control 2.0 Best choice for managing to-do lists v WordPerfect Works Integrated package has rough spots Network Management Sys. Dayna’s system keeps an eye on the net See Page 55 Mac Ill: The next generation DSPs will add voice, telephony, video By MacWEEK staff Cupertino, Calif. — Finally, there’s going to be a Macintosh even Scotty could use. As previously reported (see Mac- WEEK, May 25, 1992), a new line of 68040-based Macs Apple plans to introduce this summer will incorpo- rate a totally new, true 32-bit archi- tecture, the company’s Casper voice-recognition technology and a host of other innovations. Code-named Cyclone, the new | models will be the first Macintoshes witha built-in digital signal processor (DSP), full direct memory access on all peripheral buses, a new high-speed serial port, and integrated digital and analog video-in and video-out. The line, sources said, include two desktop designs. will > Two storms. The high-end Cyclone reportedly will come with the fastest "040 a time, most likely will have three enhanced NuBus slots and 8 Mbytes of RAM, expandable to 128 Mbytes. With an optional 2 Mbytes of video RAM, it will display up to 24-bit color on a 16-inch monitor. The low-end Cyclone designs that it has been dubbed the Macintosh III. First, the new models will sup- port direct memory access on all peripheral buses, including the SCSI bus. The last time Apple See Cyclone, Page 120 New ‘040 systems > True 32-bit architecture will be powered by a 25- DMA for peripherals MHz. 7040 and will come with 4 Mbytes of RAM, expandable to 68 Mbytes. High-performance NuBus slot It will accept only one aie z NuBuscard, and its display > High-speed serial port viviviviy capabilities will be limited to 16-bit color on moni- tors up to 16 inches. > Mac III. What makes AT&T 3210 digital signal processor — 16-bit digital sound — Voice recognition — Built-in telephony the Cyclone special, sources said, is a system > Digital and analog video-in and video-out architecture so different > from current Macintosh Digital video expansion slot Update for 7.1 coming soon By Robert Hess Cupertino — Apple reportedly is | preparing to release an extension much like its System 7 Tune-Up that | is designed to improve the perfor- mance and reliability of Macs run- ning System 7.1. In addition, sources said, the company soon will deliver a separate System Enabler to support Special report CROSS-PLATFORM Buying, support strategies Interoperability testing See Page 42 32-bitaddressing on older Macs. Apple released the update inter- nally to all its employees last week. Historically, public releases follow internal releases by about one week. Apple declined to comment. | > System update. The Macin- | tosh Hardware System Update 1.0 is a 6-Kbyte system extension and comes with an updated Memory control panel, Version 7.1.1. Together, sources said, they address problems in four areas: high-speed serial communications, system- clock accuracy, floppy ejection dur ing shutdown and overall system performance during low-memory conditions. The update is recommended for most Mac models, including all PowerBooks, all Quadras, the LC. LCI, Isi, Ici, Ivi, vx and Classic IL. The update is not intended for the Performas, and Apple strongly | advises against installing it on those | models, sources said. | Inrecent weeks, Apple has updat- See System update, Page 119 | | Tokyo rollout set for cheap ‘040s, new color Macs By Raines Cohen Tokyo — Mac users concerned about cost and color will havea field | day this week as Apple ships a range of new products. The introductions, to be held at Macworld Tokyo here, include 68040 machines at midrange prices, the first color PowerBook, a low cost color sic, inexpensive printers and a VGA monitor. Apple will announce: > Centris line. Apple will offer a vast array of midrange options in its new line. The Centris 610 and 650 will sell for $1,859 to $4,379 in con- | figurations with and without FPUs (floating-point units) in the on- board 20- or 25-MHz 040s (see MacWEEK, Feb. 1). > Quadra 800. The newest Quadra will include a 33-MHz’040 and three NuBus slots, as well as See New Maes, Page 119 oducing DayStar’s Turbo 040... nly 68040 accelerator that does it right! wats | DAYSTAR’S TURBO 040 NO} YES Plug In and Startup (No System Install) NO | YES — Saves NuBus Slots For Other Soards NO | YES — Compatible With All Video Cards DayStar’s PowerCache ‘030 “NO = a YES Supports Non-NuBus Macs - al maine 20 | YS Canin Own ests NO YES Optional 128K Cache For More Speed USA, Europe and Japan. 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Take the difference, and that’s your PowerCache, plugs directly into the Mac upgrade price! Ay hes through the processor direct slot. Therefore, There are no penalties with < ~ it’s faster, you don’t waste any NuBus slots, DayStar, just speed that’s <— Va and you don’t have to buy or move your smooth assillcand memory. The Turbo 040 is a breeze to problem free. install and operate - just plug it in and turn it on! No installation or “system patches” that create incompatibilities. 5556 Atlanta Highway, Flowery Branch, GA 30542 - Int'l: (404) 967-2077, Fax: (404) 967-3018 - All DayStar accelerators are SNOOPER ‘tested. Other brand d product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders Provtct specificationsare subject to change withett notice. C1983 yStar Digétal Ine Bedrock development solid; app set for year-end delivery By Andrew Gore Indian Wells, Calif. — By year- end, the Flintstones won’t be the only ones living in Bedrock. The cross-platform, object-ori- ented application framework being co-developed by Symantec Corp. and Apple is on schedule for delivery by the end of this year, according to both companies. A few developers will be seeded with Windows and Mac versions of Bedrock in May, said Steve Levine, Symantec market- ing manager for core technologies, at the Demo ’93 conference here last week. The framework should go beta sometime this fall, he said. Bedrock, like Apple’s develop- ment framework MacApp, helps speed the creation and maintenance of applications with a library of reusable component code. Unlike MacApp, a program created in Bedrock can be moved easily between the Mac and Windows. “IS managers deal with heteroge- neous environments, and the response we see from the Mac side has been tremendous,” said Laura Hamersley, Apple product manager for develop- ment tools. “There’s definitely a need [for Bedrock] from those customers.” Bedrock also will allow develop- ers faster access to new Apple tool- boxes as they come along, she said. Apple and Symantec plan ver- sions of Bedrock for other leading operating systems, including Unix, and perhaps even for personal digi- tal assistants. 0 E-Machines Duo dock hits the streets By Carolyn Said Beaverton, Ore. — E-Machines Inc. this month became the first third-party developer to ship docks for Apple’s PowerBook Duos. The company shipped Power- Link Presentor, a “traveling dock” that lets Duo users give color pre- sentations on the road. Later this month, E-Machines said, it will release PowerLink DeskNet, which will offer built-in Ethernet and other ports to turn Duos into desk- top machines (see MacWEEK, Oct. 19, 1992). > PowerLink Presentor. This $499 dock adds support for eight- bit video-out on large-screen dis- plays, television sets, LCDs and projectors. The 10-ounce device also offers ports for Apple Desktop Bus, floppy drive and stereo output. Presentor users can run the sys- tem from the Duo’s internal battery or plug the Duo’s AC adapter directly into the Presentor itself. > PowerLink DeskNet. The $699 dock will include built-in twisted-pair (IOBASE T) and thin (LOBASE 2) Ethernet. It will let Duos display eight-bit color on RGB (red, green, blue) monitors. The 19-ounce DeskNet also will offer ports for a floppy drive; stereo input and output; security; and SCSI, ADB and serial devices. E-Machines Inc. is at 9305 S.W. Gemini Drive, Beaverton, Ore. 97005. Phone (503) 646-6699; fax (503) 641-0946. 0 SuperMac readies bug fix to DigitalFilm By Neil McManus Sunnyvale, Calif. — Admitting that some users of its DigitalFilm video-production system have had serious problems, SuperMac Tech- nology Inc. last week promised a prompt bug-fix upgrade and offered dissatisfied users their money back. The $5,999 NuBus board can capture, display and output full- screen, full-motion video. Version 1.1, a free hardware or software upgrade due next month, will fix bugs such as uneven audio-video lip synchronization, dropped frames during playback, system crashes during compression of noisy source material and restart problems when using settings for 17-inch displays, the company said. SuperMac officials acknowledged that its marketing claims unrealisti- cally raised expectations that DigitalFilm can replace profession- al video equipment. SuperMac is hiring at least four regional sales engineers who will offer free on-site support to Digital- Film customers. The company has raised the rec- ommended configuration to a Quadra 950 with 64 Mbytes of RAM and a 4-Mbyte-per-second drive array. SuperMac also offered Digital- Film owners an “unconditional,” unlimited money-back guarantee and a free copy of CoSA After Effects, a $1,295 digital-compositing package. SuperMac Technology Inc. is at 485 Potrero Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086. Phone (408) 245-2202; fax (408) 735-7250. 0 4 20 20 26 26 32 36 36 40 Al 4) Apple to offer troubleshooting software Consumer version of MacTest Pro may be bundled with all new Macs. SyQuest aims to set drive-software standard Seeks SCSI Probe compliance to solve incompatibiltes. Gateways Biscom to embrace Macs into fax network Inbound fax-routing support due in summer upgrade to Faxcom. Modem speed battle accelerates 19.2-Kbps specification splits industry. GA NewTek plugs Macs into Toaster Toasterlink connection lets Macs control, transfer images to Video Toaster Workstation. Expert Draw lowers cost of 24-bit Low-cost application offers blend of 24-bit tools, including object libraries, complex text paths. Ba Process Seperation Screen Values: Getting in sync with ColorSyne An array of color-management systems are in line to work with ColorSyne, but many issues are still gray. BusinessWatch Aldus profits hit six-year low Software developer is also a victim of executive mass exodus over the past year. ‘Apple to revamp higher-education sales strategy Dealers are big losers in realignment. Editorial HyperCard move is a step in the right direction. Commentary /Jean-Lovis Gassée ISDN offers cheaper, more accessible data highway. Letters A lean, well-lighted place for MacPorn? Mac Manager/Don Crabb HyperCard: Both users and Apple can now win. VOLE WO 42 55 55 60 67 oF 69 122 71 74 100 MacWEEK 02.08.93 Putting the cross-platform promise to the test Do versions of the same applications for Macs, DOS and Windows really work the same? MacWEEK examines the issues and conflicts with crossing platforms. Special Report Reviews Attain’s In Control expands feature list To-do list manager gets calendar reminders, improved printing and linking via Apple events. Respun Helix Express still good value Relational database lacks high-end speed, power but offers inexpensive multi-user, client-server solution. WordPerfect Works needs more work Poor speed, bugs undermine innovative features in integrated package. Dayna keeps an eye on each LAN segment Network Management System monitors nets effectively. ProductWatch Plotting a new course Newer technologies are creating plotters for variety of new tasks. MacinTouch/Ric Ford Diagnosing Duo disk damage. Ask David Ramsey APPLE.BUGS address squashed. 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The program, which is designed to operate with any Mac lou may have about problems Dlesse cat -800-50S-AK PowerBook 180 Macs and test various functions. Updates fix bugs, add new functions By Robert Hess Cupertino — Apple has updated the System Enablers for several Mac models, correcting bugs and imple- menting new functionality. Enablers are system extensions designed to eliminate the need for Apple to revise system software to accommodate new CPUs. Previous- By Henry Norr Sunnyvale, Calif. Mass Microsystems Inc. next month will add a 160-Mbyte model to its line of pocketsize 10-ounce drives. The HitchHiker 160, like previ- ous 80- and 120-Mbyte models, clips directly to the SCSI port on the back ofa desktop Mac and draws power from the Apple Desktop Bus port. The new version will use a Quantum GO mechanism with an average seek time of 17 milliseconds and a sustained transfer rate of 1.9 Mbytes per second. The company will offer both a standard platinum version for $1,099 and a granite-colored ver- Select Test to test your computer's harewar land check your system files Hu let “System info’ to view information ut your Rerewere ang sortwarecontigurat Select Hep’ to find answers to questions MacCheck’s simple interface lets users profile their MACWEEK 02.08.93 running System 7, eventually may be bundled with all new Mac mod- els, sources said. Created by the Apple Service Tools Diagnostic Team, Mac- Checks based on the same modular technology as MacTest Pro and can use its modules for more in-depth testing of specific CPU functions. MacTest Pro is available only to Apple-authorized service providers. MacWEEK’s examination of MacCheck shows a more user- friendly interface than MacTest Pro. Users access functions through one of two buttons: > System Info. Upon launch, MacCheck profiles the user’s Mac, checking hardware and_ software versions and configura- tions and scanning for multiple System folders, which can cause crashes. > Test. A brief series of tests verifies the proper functioning of the Mac’s parameter RAM, ROM, SCSI and Apple Desktop Bus managers, as well as timing and FPU (floating- ly, an incremental system update accompanied every new Mac model. These updates often contained bug fixes unrelated to the new model, cre- ating confusion among managers who were unsure if they should update all their users’ systems. Apple has updated two Enablers, leaving the PowerBook Duo En- ablers unchanged: > Macintosh IIvx and Performa 600. These models use System Enabler 001, now updated to Version 1.0.1. According to Apple, the new Mass Micro to add 160-Mbyte pocket drive sion, including an HDI-30 cable, for $1,149. Both will carry one-year ‘warranties, come preformatted with System 7.0.1 and include a copy of Logical Solutions Inc.’s 7th Heaven utilities collection. According to Mass Micro, the drives also work with Eastman Kodak Co.’s DCS200 digital camera. Early in the second quarter Mass Micro plans to add a 205-Mbyte HitchHiker based on a Seagate mechanism. Mass Microsystems Inc. is at 810 W. Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086. Phone (408) 522-1200; fax (408) 733-5499. 5 MacCheck to monitor Performas point unit); confirms the integrity of the system, Finder and Enablers; and checks the directory structure of all mounted hard disks. Apple pro- grammers reportedly were unable to implement some planned features, such as expanded RAM checks, in time for MacCheck’s release. When it finds minor problems, MacCheck offers brief solutions. For example, when it discovers directo- ry damage, it offers instructions on running Disk First Aid. When more-severe problems are uncov- ered, users are directed to Apple’s Assistance Center and given a spe- cific extension to call and a specific type of problem to report. Since MacCheck already has performed a system profile, the user can quickly supply support personnel with important information. Sources said MacCheck can uncover directory damage missed by other utilities. Apple’s own Disk First Aid, in fact, misses or cannot correct some errors MacCheck can find, sources said. Apple reportedly will release a new version of Disk First Aid to bring it into parity with MacCheck. 5 Apple revises Enablers for llvx, 160, 180 Enabler improves support for high- speed serial communications, makes ofthe system clock more accurate and addresses a rare problem where flop- pies might not be ejected properly during shutdown or restart. > PowerBook 160 and 180. Version 1.0.2 of System Enabler 111 offers support for the Express Modem 160/180, which is sched- uled for release this month. Only users who have experi- enced problems or plan to use the Express Modem require the new versions. The updates are available on AppleLink, from Apple’s Assis- tance Center at (800) 767-2775 and from user groups. In related news, Connectix Corp. of San Mateo, Calif, last week released an Enabler Patch that fixes a bug present in all Enablers. The bug causes inaccurate information to be stored in a Mac’s reference tables. When this happens, programs that attempt to access the System file could be misdirected to the Enabler, result- ing in a possible crash or corrup- tion. Connectix said Fifth Genera- tion Systems Inc.’s Suitcase was one program affected. Apple confirmed that the bug exists and that Connectix’s patch cor- rects the problem. The patch is avail- able on all major on-line services. 0 @ File Edit Phone share Windows (SSS 1992 Sales History Report* 1990, 1991, 1992 East Central West 32| 48) 50} Whiteboard #1 integrated microphone 0 speaker to standard telephone cable ShareVision’s Share View lets users collaborate using third-party applications and share ideas on a “whiteboard,” while talking over a single phone line. New ShareVision package provides teleconferencing minus the video By Nathalie Welch Indian Wells, Calif. — Share- Vision Technology Inc. last week announced a stripped-down version of its ShareView Plus desktop videoconferencing system that will let users collaborate on projects but not actually see their collaborators. ShareView, slated to ship for $1,199 later this month, will let users share ideas on a common “whiteboard,” collaborate using third-party applications and engage in a screen-based phone call via a single analog telephone line. Unveiled at the Demo ’93 confer- ence here, the system will include ShareVision’s OnSight collaboration software, a 14.4-Kbps V.32.bis fax- modem card, a whiteboard applica- tion, a screen-based telephone and telephone-management software, and a telephone headset and handset. “ShareView Plus is the sizzle but Share View is the steak,” a company spokesman said. “We think Share- View will be [successful] because people want interactive capabilities atan affordable price.” ShareView will compete with screen-sharing software such as Tim- buktu Remote from Farallon Com- puting Inc. and ScreenLink from Datawatch Corp. (see story, Page 12). Those programs do not offer built-in telephone communication. ShareView owners will be able to upgrade to the $4,499 ShareView Plus by purchasing a $3,300 kit that includes a video-capture and video compressor-decompressor card and color video camera. ShareView Plus provides full-motion color-video and video-capture capabilities. ShareVision Technology Inc. is at 2951 Zanker Road, San Jose, Calif. 95134. Phone (408) 428- 0330; fax (408) 428-9871..0 Update! routes data via pager By April Streeter New York — Ex Machina Inc. last week shipped software that can transfer incoming pager messages to spreadsheet, database or other files created by Apple events-aware applications. The $149 Update! software cre- ates a mailbox on a mobile user’s machine into which electronic mail or other files incoming from a Motorola Inc. NewsStream pager are dropped automatically (see Mac- WEEK, Oct. 19, 1992). NewsStream pagers can receive data from a variety of paging ser- vices, including SkyTel Corp.'s. The company leases NewsStream pagers for $20 per month. Monthly charges for sending messages aver- age about $60 to $90, SkyTel said. 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Canvas” is a trademark of Deneba Systems, Inc. llustrator® is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated. Freehand” isa trademark of Ads Corporation. MacDraw® ia registered trademark of Claris Corporation. This entire ad wes created and separated in Canvas. News By Henry Norr Fremont, Calif. — Five years after it began selling its removable-cartridge hard drives in the Mac market, SyQuest Technology Inc. is moving to set a standard to guarantee inter- changeability of cartridges formatted with different vendors’ software. ‘The company, which markets its 44- and 88-Mbyte drives and media through dozens of third-party inte- grators, last month released a set of guidelines and a test program embodying its proposed standard. Atleast one well-known drive ven- dor, however, is resisting SyQuest’s initiative (see story below). One drive and driver vendor that isn’t happy with SyQuest Technol- ogy Inc.’s proposed interchange- ability standard is FWB Inc. “They're trying to solve the right problem, but they’re taking an absolutely lame, _ lowest- common-denominator approach,” said Steve Goodman, vice presi- dent of sales and marketing for the San Francisco-based company that publishes the Hard Disk ToolKit formatter series. To comply with the proposed standard, he said, FWB as well as other companies would have to remove useful features that their software now supports and that By Kirsten L. Parkinson Palo Alto, Calif. — Metropolis Software Inc. now is shipping Ver- sion 1.6 of MSI Access for 4th Dimension, an upgrade that adds compatibility with 4D 3.0. MSI Access offers developers and consultants software tools that make ACI US Inc.’s 4D database engine into a server. The package also includes externals that let developers create client applications in 4D, C, Pascal, HyperCard and TGS Systems Ltd.’s Prograph. Metropolis said that its product offers substantial benefits and addi- tional features over ACI US’ recent- ly shipped 4D Server in some cases. For example, MSI Access sup- ports development of applications that require data storage on both the server and local hard disks, messag- ing capabilities, simultaneous access of multiple databases and/or access MACWEEK 02.08.93 The problem the new standard is designed to address chiefly affects service bureaus and other sites where cartridges are exchanged among drives from different vendors. When users start up with a cartridge in place, the Mac automatically loads the driver on that cartridge into memory. If later in the same session, the user ejects that cartridge and attempts to mount one formatted with different software, the driver in memory may not be able to handle the new cartridge. Problems such as the inability to mount the new disk, crashes and corruption may result. Ina letter to its OEM customers FWB questions SyQuest's proposal fully meet Apple guidelines. Specifically, he said SCSTProbe’s technique for closing drivers could cause serious problems if a cartridge with nonautomounting partitions mounted is ejected. But Pat Allen, head of technical support at SyQuest, said FWB had misunderstood the proposal. SCsIProbe will not close the driver if any partitions on a car- tridge remain mounted, he said. He added that he knew of no reason why FWB's software couldn’t qualify as compliant, even though SCSIProbe will not mount specially configured volumes or partitions. — By Henry Norr Update to Metropolis’ MSI Access lets developers turn 4D 3.0 into a server of databases on multiple servers. It also lets developers choose whether processing takes place on the client or the server, allowing faster performance than the 4D Server on slower networks such as LocalTalk and during AppleTalk Remote Access connections, Metropolis said. MSI Access is $495 per server; a development version that cannot be used in production applications is $95. Upgrades are $29; or free to users who purchased after Sept. 1, 1992. MSI Access can use the run- time version of 4D 3.0, due this month for $195, for both the server and the client, if the client is written in 4D; the $895 stand-alone version of 4D 3.0 is necessary only for data- base development. ‘Metropolis Software Inc. is at 505 Hamilton Ave., Suite 305, Palo Alto, Calif. 94301. Phone (415) 322-2001; fax (415) 327-5579.0 SyQuest: Standardize formatting last month, SyQuest acknowledged that the problem is “common” and “has led to user dissatisfaction and negative press coverage.” The company’s proposed solu- tion revolves around SCSIProbe, a freeware utility it began distributing last year. Written by Robert Polic, an engineer now at Apple, the con- trol panel lets users scan the SCSI bus and mount devices. To solve the problem of conflicting drivers, recent versions offer options to close the current driver when a car- tridge is ejected and load a driver from newly inserted media at the press ofa hot key. SyQuest’s guidelines and its test application, Validator, are designed to ensure compatibility with SCSI- Probe’s approach. The company last month released Version 3.5 of the free utility, improving mounting and driver-closing routines. A SyQuest-led consortium supporting the new standard includes several leading hardware vendors and driver developers. Over the next two months, SyQuest said, it will expand the consortium and publish a list of compliant drivers. ‘The company reportedly told ven- dors that it will not ship them its upcoming 3.5-inch drives unless their drivers comply with the standard. c } EndPoint!’s Leads! 2.5 includes an inte- grated calendar Jowation: 1:00 Dene [] module in which activities can be associated with contact records. | in oe, Robert yet HR, | Janta (Acts re to faze pane Leads! contact manager merges files over LAN or ARA connections By Raines Cohen San Jose, Calif. — Endpoint! Mar- keting Information Systems Inc. last month shipped a new version of its sales-automation application, adding automatic lead-merging functions and an integrated calendar. Leads! 2.5, based on ACI US’ 4th Dimension, builds on the contact- reconciliation features in previous versions. Contacts can be merged at preset times on a network or remotely using AppleTalk Remote Access. An integrated calendar shows to- do items and activities linked to contact records. A change made in the calendar is reflected in the data- base, and vice versa. Other new features include more- sophisticated duplicate-record detec- tion (including phonetic compar- isons) and deletion, as well as an event manager that can track event histories across multiple leads and accounts. Leads! sells for $595 to $1,795 in single-user configurations, and $5,495 to $50,000 in multi-user packages. Users can upgrade for $95 per copy (or apply their purchase price toward the price ofa multi-user version) or for free if they purchased an earlier ver- sion after June 1, 1992. A 60-day money-back guarantee is included. Endpoint! Marketing Informa- tion Systems Inc. is at 1230 Oak- mead Parkway, Suite 210, Sunny- vale, Calif, 94086. Phone (408) 737-3831; fax (408) 738-5979. 0 Course Builder gets QuickTime extension By Neil McManus Knoxville, Tenn. — Users now can add QuickTime movies to cus- tom applications created in the Course Builder authoring program. Discovery Systems International Inc. is shipping its Course Builder QuickTime Extension for $120. ‘The software add-on gives Course Builder users movie controls such as auto start, loop until user input, play sound only and hide movie controls. DSI also has upgraded Course For the record Our Jan. 11 review of Kai’s Power Tools, HSC Software’s Adobe Photoshop add-on prod- uct gave the wrong price. The list price is $149, but HSC is offering a limited-time intro- ductory price of $99. The pro- gram does ship with a users’ guide, which is basically a reprint of the contents of the on-line help, but the company plans to offer a more-extensive manual in the near future. Builder to Version 4.1 to accommodate extensions. The program retails for $1,495 or $995 for education users. Upgrades to Version 4.1 are free to 4.0 users and $125 for other regis- tered users. Course Builder, which can control a variety of VCRs and videodisc players, is designed for users creating custom interactive training applications. DSI, a new company started by the program’s develop- ment team, recently took over dis- tribution of Course Builder from TeleRobotics International Inc., located here. Kristi Lozano, multimedia spe- cialist at Miami-Dade Community College in Miami, said she plans to use the Course Builder QuickTime extension to add movies to a custom landscape-design application. “QuickTime brings up endless possibilities for us,” Lozano said. Saas fonts Fe Course Builder’s new QuickTime extension lets users incorporate movies into their custom applications. “We could have a time-lapse movie of flowers blooming or we could have a movie that takes people down the path ofa garden.” Lozano said she also is planning to use an upcoming DSI database extension for Course Builder to add a database of the plants of South Florida to her landscape design application. Discovery Systems International Inc. is at 7325 Oak Ridge Highway, Suite 100, Knoxville, Tenn. 37931. Phone (615) 690-8829; fax (615) 690-2913.0 Satisfy all your Ethernet needs with our EtherMac and Ether10-T products. New Macll (NuBus) Forwarding Software Thick+Thin $249 PowerPath 14g Thick+40T ae LocalPath $199 SY Bee? 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The large 15” screen (13.8" active display area) coupled with FullScan™ capability for edge-to-edge images gives you a larger display area than typical 13” or 14" RGB monitors. How do you make an NEC MultiSync monitor work with your Mac? Just plug it in, using NEC’s free FG/Mac cable adapter. It works with the Mac’s on-board video, so you won’t need an add-in video board? Both monitors are compatible with the Mac’ II family, Quadra™ series, LC’s, PowerBooks™ and PC systems. So you can use just one monitor for both types of platforms. MacUser noted the “powerful and versatile controls make switching from a Mac to a PC a snap” And to make these monitors as user-friendly as possible, we’ve included ergonomic features such as a tilt/swivel base and up-front user controls. Plus, our Reduced Magnetic Field™ technology meets the strict Swedish MPR II guidelines for magnetic field emissions. 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Prices range from $795 to ATOM/LW drives By Kirsten L, Parkinson San Francisco — Users who want to rock the day away and stay organized at the same time can turn to two new calendar programs from LizardTech and BrainDance Development. > LizardTech last month announced the Rock History Elec- tronic Day-Planner and Personal Journal, which combines rock anec- dotes and trivia with scheduling features. The $49 calendar program, due in April, will offer a split-screen for- mat, allowing users to enter appointments and other activities in the top half and free-form notes in the bottom half. Users can click on a button to move to the current date automati- cally and double-click on a MACWEEK 02.08.93 $1,495 (see chart, below). The ATOM/LW modelsare iden- tical in mechanism and performance to the company’s ATOM internal drives for the PowerBook but ship with special mounting brackets and installation instructions for the Laser- Writer Pro 630, Procom said. Adding a hard drive to a printer allows users to store downloadable fonts on the printer instead of on the Mac, speeding performance. The 80-, 120- and 160-Mbyte Quantum mechanism-based drives offer a 16-millisecond average access time and a sustained data transfer rate of2 Mbytes per second. The 200-Mbyte model, based on a Toshiba mechanism, provides an average access time of 12 millisec- onds and a sustained data transfer rate of 3.2 Mbytes per second. Procom Technology Inc. is at2181 Dupont Drive, Irvine, Calif. 92715. Phone (714) 852-1000 or (800) 800- 8600; fax (714) 852-1221.0 Apps put musical twist on calendaring er that includes pictures, Quick- Time movies and animations of The Grateful Dead. Written in Claris Corp.’s File- Maker Pro, Daily Tripper opens to a daily view, in which users can enter up to 10 to-do items, nine appointments and nine phone calls to make. Users can view their schedules in daily, weekly and yearly views, as well as monthly lists. FileMaker Pro is required and not included. LizardTech, a division of Para- digm Concepts Inc., is at P.O. Box 2129, Santa Fe, N.M. 87504. Phone (505) 989-7117; fax (505) 989-9292. BrainDance Development is at 70-U Woodland Ave., San Rafael, Calif. 94901. Phone (415) 454- 9876; fax (415) 457-0264. 0 monthly calendar at the [i_Milestones in Rock—1955to01975 top of the screen to access other days and months. Another button takes users to the rock-history January Friday 1 2 sasc7g3 Bt dS same fila 320 sees WH s5d229 30.2520 E portion of the program, which includes anecdotes, trivia and quizzes for each Breakfast with Hax Neuman, 7:45 [s} ‘Squash with Ed, 8:00 Downtown Athletic Club capabilities and can export ea day of the year. The planner also. || sefore tunch: Finish susiness Puan i includes _ text-searching ! a is tab-delimited ASCII text. > BrainDance Devel- [Mark this day on mini-calendar opment last week released Daily Tripper, a $69 per- sonal information manag- The Rock History Electronic Day-Planner includes sections for appointments, activities and notes. Procom preps hard drives _Telelypesetting for LaserWriter Pro 630 sharpens up graphics converter By Robert Hess Boston — TeleTypesetting Co. has added compression and improved the resolution of its Post- Script-to-TIFF converter. T-Script Deluxe, a new version of the program previously called T- Script, translates PostScript files saved on Mac, VAX or IBM PC and compatible computers to TIFF or PICT formats, allowing these docu- ments to be printed on non-Post- Script printers, modified in non- PostScript applications or interchanged across platforms. T-Script Deluxe can render images at 1,600 dpi in color or 2,400 dpi in black and white. Previously, the utility’s maximum resolution was 300 dpi. Rendered images can be printed or saved as TIFF files or as lower-resolution PICT files. The program now offers TIFF compression using LZW and PackBit methods. Products such as Aldus PageMaker can decompress these files as they are imported. A new batch-processing feature automates the conversion of a large number of images. Multiple Macs on a network now can use a single copy of T-Script Deluxe. When one user runs the program, other users can “print” to that copy over the network. T-Script Deluxe sells for $495, a $350 increase from T-Script. Users who have purchased T-Script in the last 60 days can receive free upgrade. Other users can upgrade for $195. TeleTypesetting Co. is at 311 Harvard St. Brookline, Mass. 02146. Phone (617) 734-9700; fax (617) 734-3974.0 MediAlive offers travel tips on disk Sunnyvale, Calif. — MediAlive this month released a travel-guide disk to help PowerBook business users explore unknown territories. NavigaTour includes maps, modem and fax dialing directories of hotels, and other road necessities, slides and text that attempt to make business travelers feel at home on the road. Users can customize the $129 program by inserting their own sounds, slides and movies. MediAlive is at 766 San Aleso Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086. Phone (408) 752-8500; fax (408) 752-8501.0 News Baska E bes PLI delivers internal CD-ROM drives Fremont, Calif. — Aiming to fill the hole left by Apple’s CD-ROM drive shortage, PLI last week shipped an internal drive that fits the Performa 600, Mac llvx, and Quadra 900 and 950. The $843 PLI CD ROM MS Internal is based on a Toshiba mech- anism and offers an average access time of 200 milliseconds, 95 milliseconds faster than Apple’s Sony-based drive. It has a sus- tained data transfer rate of 330 Kbytes per second for nonaudio data and 150 Kbytes per second for audio data. PLI’s drive supports common CD formats, including multisession Kodak Photo CD, and comes with PlayCD, a HyperCard program for playing audio CDs on a Mac hooked up to speakers. PLI is at 47421 Bayside Parkway, Fremont, Calif. 94538. Phone (510) 657-2211 or (800) 288-8754; fax (510) 683-9713. Mobius 030 accelerator for SE speeds up to 33 MHz Emeryville, Calif. — Mobius Technologies Inc. this month will release a 33-MHz version of its Mobius 030 Accelerator for Mac SE. The card, which also delivers monochrome graphics at resolutions of up to 1,024 by 826 pixels, will be priced at $599. Mobius will continue to offer a 25-MHz version of the board for $399; users of the 25-MHz model can upgrade to the 33-MHz version for $249. A33-MHz 68882 math coprocessor is a $149 option; a 25-MHz version is $99. The boards feature four SIMM sockets. With Connectix Corp.'s $99 Virtual 3.02 software, users can access up to 16 Mbytes of RAM or use a mix of SE logic-board and card-based RAM. Mobius Technologies Inc. is at 5835 Doyle St., Emeryville, Calif. 94608. Phone (510} 654-0556 or (800) 669-0556; fax (510) 654-2834. 4D Toolkit 1.1 includes automatic record selection New York — OPtions Computer Consulting is aiming to make it easier for application developers to create custom databases using 4th Dimension. The company last month shipped Version 1.1 of 4D Toolkit, its user-interface tool kit for ACI US Inc.’s 4D. The $295 application- development shell is compatible with both 4D 2.2.3 and 3.0. New features of 4D Toolkit include automatic selection of records in one file based on another and automatic set creation when searches are performed to help users do complex searches. Upgrades are $99, or $15 if Version 1.0 was purchased after May 30, 1992. OPtions Computer Consulting is at 228 Bleecker St., No. 19, New York, N.Y. 10014. Phone (212) 645-3577 or (800) 736- 3577; fax (212) 633-0336. _ Hold everything! lomega introduces sizeable improvement in removable storage. 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How about transporting data? You can mail it or take it to service bureaus without worry. And our disks are more convenient than networks for sharing very large documents. A company you can trust. Iomega has won more awards than any other removable storage maker. And we've been doing it for nearly 13 years with a 99% satisfaction rate. Call 1-800-926-4929 for a free brochure. Call us today. We'll send you all you need to know about our sizeable line of products. (“MEGA ‘Awards won for products using Bernoulli Technology. ©1993 lomega Corp. lomega, the lomega logo, Bernoulli, and Bernoulli Technology are registered trademarks, and MultiDisk is a trademark of lomega Corp. Floptical is a registered trademark of INSITE Peripherals, Inc. All other products are trademarks of their holders. For customer service in U.S.A. and Canada, call 1-800-456-5522. In Europe, call 49-761-45040, For worldwide customer service, call 1-801-778-3000. For accessory items, call |OMART at 1-800-723-3770. News Report writer shares engine with original By Lisa Picarille Clearwater, Fla. — Snow Devel- opment Group is adding a new level to its report-writing program. The company recently an- nounced Atlantis, a high-end data- publishing product based on Snow Report Writer . Atlantis will use the same engine as Snow Report Writer, a Macin- tosh stand-alone report generator released last year, but it will go fur- ther, allowing users to import graphics and logos, as well as modify text attributes. Like Snow Report Writer, Atlantis will let users import data in By Henry Norr New York — Thought 1 Could, the company that thought it could build a business by offering Mac users a way to decorate their desktops, now thinks it can market a wider line of Wallpaper-related products. The company _ last month announced three new products _ based on Wallpaper, a control panel that lets users import, create, edit, pre- view and install colorful desktop patterns up to 128 by 128 pixels in. size. According to the compa- ny, the product requires a maximum of 21 Kbytes to display a color pattern. > Wallpaper/Zebra Edition, due next month, is a spe- cial version designed for users of color-capable Macs with mono- chrome monitors, including Power- Books (except the PowerBook 100), the Classic II and the SE/30. Priced the same as the standard version at $59.99, it will come with several hundred black-and-white patterns, the company said; current Wall- paper owners can purchase the new patterns from Thought I Could for $15. > More Wallpaper, available now at $39.99, is a collection of addi- tional patterns that can be installed and modified with Wallpaper. The patterns, which include Egyptian tomb-painting and Navajo-blanket designs and images of dinosaurs, ye &, Wallpaper vy Thought I Could ¢ a MACWEEK 02.08.93 a variety of file formats, including those created with word proces- sors, databases, spreadsheets and accounting programs. Atlantis, however, also will let users import a variety of graphics file types, including PICT and TIFF. Graphics brought into Atlantis will be resizable, and users will be able to create simple shapes, such as circles and boxes, as well as add fills and patterns to graphic ele- ments, within the program. The $895 program, due to ship by the end of the first quarter, also will let users combine multiple data formats into a single report and combine data from two reports. Users who purchase Snow Report Writer 4.0 for $595 before the end of the quarter ($695 there- New Wallpaper patterns help users redecorate desktops, PBs a ter eee New add-on packages from Thought | Could will let Wallpaper users install such patterns as these jelly beans, from the Wallpaper Wraptures Two disk. penguins and spaceships, were pre- viously available on the company’s subscription and bonus disks. > Wallpaper Wraptures Two, a $19.95 floppy disk available only to registered Wallpaper owners, contains hundreds of patterns drawn from Wraptures Two, a CD-ROM recently released by Form and Function of San Francis- co. The patterns represent natural textures, such as stones, wood, paper and foods. Wallpaper requires a color- capable Mac and System 6.0.5 or higher. ‘Thought I Could is at 107 Uni- versity Place, Suite 4D, New York, N.Y. 10003. Phone (212) 673-9724; fax (212) 260-1194.0 Snow’s Atlantis to import graphics files after) will receive a free upgrade to Atlantis. The company said it also is planning an upgrade path for cur- rent users of the Snow Report Writer, although upgrade pricing is not yet set. The Snow Report Writer is being sold as the Report Writer module for Great Plains Software’s accounting suite. Softsyne Inc. of Coral Gables, Fla., also includes a version of Snow Report Writer in Accountant Inc., its integrated accounting package. Snow Development Group is at 2360 Congress Ave., Clearwater, Fla. 34623. Phone (813) 784-1845; fax (813) 787-1904.0 Datawatch repacks Microcom wares By Henry Norr Durham, N.C. — Datawatch Corp., new owner of the Mac utili- ties previously marketed by Micro- com Inc., has renamed, repriced and reconfigured its products. > Screen-sharing utility. The remote-control and file transfer package formerly known as Carbon Copy Macis now called ScreenLink. It is available in two packages; the Twin Pak, priced at $99, includes software for two Macs, which can be connected over a LAN or via modem; the Zone Pak, priced at $299, provides a ScreenLink license for any number of Macs on a single zone of an AppleTalk network. > Data-protection collection. A new package called Datawatch SuperSet Utilities has replaced the former Microcom Value Pak. The package, reduced to $149, includes two copies of ScreenLink; the 911 Utilities, a package of file-recovery, disk-repair and defragmentation tools; Complete Undelete, a control panel that lets users recover accidentally deleted files without leaving their applica- tion; the company’s Virex anti-virus package, now including the Virex detection and repair application as well as the Virex INIT protection extension; Citadel with Shredder, a set of security tools that provides access control, file encryption, screen locking, password protection or disabling of floppy drives, and secure erasing of confidential data. ‘The 911 Utilities and Complete Undelete no longer will be offered separately, Datawatch said. Datawatch Corp.’s Triangle Software Division is at P.O. Box 51489, Durham, N.C. 27717. Phone (919) 490-1277; fax (919) 490-6672. FROM THE Bookshelf In this new occasional feature, MacWEEK will present thumbnail descriptions of selected books of interest to Mac managers and users. The titles listed here are not necessarily recommended by MacWEEK, but we think you may find them helpful. Gates: How Microsoft’s Mogul Reinvented an Industry — and Made Himself the Richest Man in America By Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews A biography of Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates. Based on extensive interviews with Gates and many others, including Ross Perot. $25; 534 pages Doubleday & Co. ISBN 0-385-42075-7 666 Fifth Ave, New York, N.Y. 10103 Phone (212) 765-6500, Ext. 9479 or (800) 223-6834, Ext. 9479 Fax (212) 492-8903 The Little System 7.1 Book By Kay Yarborough Nelson Aimed at beginning Mac users, this book offers step-by-step instructions for a variety of functions, including using the Finder, working with icons, installing fonts, and printing and setting up a hard disk. Also covers customizing the desktop, starting programs, opening documents and networking. $12; 150 pages Peachpit Press Inc. Phone (510) 548-4393 ISBN 1-56609-031-8 2414 Sixth St. or (800) 283-9444 Berkeley, Calif. 94710 Fox (510) 548-5991 MacinTax Made Easy By Scott Beamer Offers basic instructions for the MacInTax income-tax calculation program, as well as tips on how best to organize data in MaxInTax and take advantage of its entry methods. Also contains advice on importing tax data from money-management programs. $19.95; 338 pages Osborne/McGraw-Hill Phone (510) 549-6600 ISBN 0-07-881886-9 2600 10th St. or (800) 227-0900 Berkeley, Calif. 94710 Fox (510) 549-6603 PowerBook: The Digital Nomad’s Guide By Andrew Gore and Mitch Ratcliffe This guide to Apple’s PowerBook line, includ- POWERBOOK ing the 160, 180 and Duo models, covers net working, optimizing battery life, computing in foreign countries, faxing and memory expan- sion. Comes with a disk of utilities, demonstrations and freeware. $24; 348 pages Phone (800) 733-3000 ISBN 0-679-74588-2 Fax (800) 649-2436 Random House Inc. 400 Hohn Road Westminster, Md. 21157 Why 8 out of 10 professionals choose OmniPage Professional. Weekly Report Only OmniPage accurately scans words and images up Only OmniPage gets the read on the most unusual charac- ters with OmniTrain™ When it comes to OCR (optical character recogni- tion), no other product can match the overall performance of OmniPage Professional. That’s why 8 out of 10 business professionals consistently choose OmniPage Professional over all other options. Only OmniPage Gaere, the Caere logo and OmniPage are registered trademarks of Caere Corporation. The Graphi Only OmniPage reaches scanning speeds of up to 2000 words per minute with Caere’s 32-bit OCR. Only OmniPage reads 11 different languages, including French (oui!). German (ja!), and Italian (si!). Only OmniPage features Any HP AccuPage;‘and Caere AnyPage™ technologi > it handles any page of text even when your coffee cup gets in the way. Professional has the full capabili- ties to accurately scan virtually any document into almost any word processor, spreadsheet, or database file. So you can use OmniPage Professional to accu- rately scan newspaper articles, business reports, journals or legal documents. It’s not surprising then that 8 out of 10 scanners in the world have shipped with a Editor, OmniTrain and AnyPage are trademarks of Caere Corporation. Epson is a registered trademark of Seiko Epson Corporation. All other © registermarks and ™ trademarks are of their respective corporations. ©1992 Caere Corporation. Only OmniPage features direct input through DDE or Apple E . enabling you to scan directly into popular business applications. trial version of OmniPage, includ- ing those from Hewlett-Packard, Epson, Microtek}‘and Apple. Why would they be any different than the rest of us? For a few more reasons why you should consider OmniPage Professional, call us now at 1-800-535-SCAN. News MACWEEK 02.08.93 Business Management Toolkit keeps track of plans By Jon Swartz Eugene, Ore. — Palo Alto Software Inc. last month shipped Mac and DOS versions of Business Management Toolkit 2.0, its business-planning software. The $149.95 product is a template that imports files from Microsoft Excel or Lotus Development Corp.’ Lotus 1-2-3, either of which is required to run the program. Business Management Toolkit offers a simple way to keep track of a plan from conception to implementation, a company spokesman said. Tt features business budgeting, milestone tracking, management and follow-up. Business Management Toolkit assigns an “owner” for each budget item, and that user is responsible for implementing specific programs and budgets by certain dates. 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Palo Alto Software has dubbed this Version 2.0; a previous version was developed for Apple for its internal use, according to the company. Palo Alto Software Inc, is at 2641 Columbia St. Eugene, Ore. 97403. Phone (503) 683- 6162; fax (503) 683-6250. 0 | Ellipsis connecting LabVIEW to Oracle DBs By Raines Cohen Boston — Instrumentation control systems now can tap into host SQL databases with a new Virtual Instrument library. Ellipsis Inc. last month announced Medium, an add-on for LabVIEW, the $1,995 scientific programming environment from National Instruments Corp. of Austin, Texas. The $495 library includes LabVIEW VIs that embed the Oracle Call Interface com- mand set within LabVIEW packets for trans- mission to Oracle host databases. Ttalso includes Database Manager, which lets users interactively log in to an Oracle database, create and delete tables, determine the names and data types of table columns, perform ad-hoc database queries, and maintain host databases. Detailed examples also are included. Medium originally was developed as an in- house tool at C.S. Draper Laboratory Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., research laboratory. Ellipsis said the package is aimed at devel- opers of information-intensive applications such as computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory-information management, quality- control systems, and distributed processing and control. Medium requires 10 Mbytes of RAM, LabVIEW 2.2, and Oracle’s SQL*Net 1.5 (with appropriate networking extensions) or Oracle 2.0. Ellipsis Inc. is at 92 Worcester St., Boston, Mass. 02118. Phone and fax (617) 236-0141.0 MECA gets TaxCut out in time for tax season Fairfield, Conn. — MECA Software Inc. last week shipped final editions of Andrew Tobias’ TaxCut for the Macintosh The $79.95 program, which sells for less than $40 in most stores, according to the company, was released last November in a version that allowed data entry but couldn’t print final forms. TaxCut generates Internal Revenue Service-approved federal income-tax forms, schedules and worksheets. An Interview feature poses questions to the user; on the basis of the answers, the program automatically selects and completes all required forms. The Audit function checks information and alerts users to answers that could trigger an IRS audit. MECA Software Inc. is at 55 Walls Drive, Fairfield, Conn. 06430. Phone (203) 256- 5000 or (800) 288-6322; fax (203) 255-6300.0 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. 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While the Mac has never strategicand _ beenaneasy sell to corporate man- agement, the platform had distinct technical advantages over the IBM PC and compatible alternative, justifying the advantage. additional expense. Butis that still true today? Faced | Are they with tightened budgets and encroachment by the Windows and succeeding? _ OS/2 platforms, Mac managers are being forced to take a new approach to justifying the Mac. They must defend the Mac asa strategic and tac- tical advantage for their companies. And according to Mac managers we spoke with, their efforts are meeting with varying degrees of success. “We've never had too hard a time selling the Mac because upper man- agement believes in the right tool for the right job,” said Bill Cook, technical adviser in the technical resources division of Pitney Bowes Inc., based in Stamford, Conn. “The argument is that the Mac is more expensive, but it’s not more expensive. Once you’ve taught users one program, they have 80 percent of what they need to know how to run other programs,” Cook said. Reiterating that need. While the argumentis as old as the Mac itself, it’s still true and needs to be repeated to upper management, according to Ray Craft, manager of strategic planning at Weyerhauser Co. of Federal Way, Wash. “We've seen a significant savings in the training area. We don’t have to send people off to Windows classes just so they can use their comput- ers,” Craft said, Craft’s long list of superior fea- tures found on the Mac includes out-of-the-box network capability, compatibility among programs and messaging. And the old knock against the Mac — that it doesn’t fit well in the PC environment — slowly is fading away. “We're installing quite a few LAN Manag- er 2.1s, and the Mac fits in very nicely,” Craft said. “The Macis part of our very aggressive strategic planning because it enables us to do what we wantin a relatively short time,” he said. “It’s not difficult to sell thatidea.” Strategic integration ease. For Eastman Chemical Co., the strategic importance of the Mac comes from its ease at integrating data, according to Roger Todd, advanced information technology analyst in Kingsport, Tenn. “Peo- ple at our company choose the Mac because of the need to integrate information from a variety of sources: statistics, word processors, Calendar of Events FEBRUARY 15-19 MADACON ‘93, San Diego. Fourth annual object-oriented developers conference. Contact MADA at (408) 253-2765; fax (408) 253-2767. 16-18 Mobile93, San Jose, Calif. Portable- systems show covering personal communica- tors, digital assistants, wireless messaging and pen-based computers. Contact Technologic Part- ners at (212) 696-9330; fax (212) 696-9793. 16-19 ATXPO 93, Santa Clara, Calif. The theme of this conference and exhibition is “PostScript Language Technology and Beyond.” Contact Adobe Technology Exchange (ATX) at (408) 562-6104 or (800) 446-5622; fax (408) 562-6381. 18-19 Media ‘93, Los Angeles. Multimedia conference and exposition. Contact World Expo Corp. at (508) 879-6700 or (800) 225- 4698; fax (508) 872-8237. ‘Macintosh Marketing Conference, San Francisco. Co-sponsored by Apple, this will cover marketing issues for salespeople, managers and marketing jionals. Contact Sumeria Inc. at (415) 904-0811; fax (415) 904-0888. 24-26 Electronic Photography and the Macin- tosh, Rochester, N.Y. Seminar covering electronic cameras, desktop scanners and editing process- es. Contact the Rochester Institute of Technology at (716) 475-5000; fax (716) 475-7000. 25-27 Digital 93, Washington, D.C. Digital imaging conference and training sessions with speakers David Nagel of Apple and Walter Bender of MIT Media Lab. Contact the National Press Photographers Association at (202) 861- 8553 or (800) 289-6772; fax (202) 786-2756. Please submit notices of conferences, trade shows and other Mac-related events to Calendar, Mac- WEEK, 301 Howard St., 15th Floor, San Fran- cisco, Calif. 94105, or fax to (415) 243-3651. No training or educational seminars please. spreadsheets,” he said. Integration isn’t nearly as seamless on the Win- dows platform, despite Windows’ features such as OLE (Object Link- ing and Embedding) and Dynamic Data Exchange, Todd said. Eastman Chemical’s big strategic push is toward PowerOpen and PowerPC, for even greater integra- tion, he said. Other advantages abound. Todd, as well as other Mac man- agers, also cite the Mac’s cross- application compatibility, ease of system management and, of course, its graphical user interface, as advantages when arguing in the Mac’s favor. “When you install something on the Mac, it works,” Cook said. While these are important fea- tures, are they strategic advantages? Notall Mac managers are con- vinced they are. David Gutierrez, programmer at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Hous- ton, concedes that Macs are playing an indispensable role in his enter- prise; programmers have developed a custom application delivering X-rays, MRIs, EKGs and other visual med- ical test results to Macs in doctors’ offices. “We couldn’t do it without the Mac,” Gutierrez said. And the center’s Instruction Development Department uses the Mac to author presentations and training materials. “But we're starting to have some reservations about the Mac for the long term,” Gutierrez said. His reservations are not based on the Mac’s capability but on Apple and its policies. “We've had real prob- lems physically getting the Macs we need. And we're not getting answers from Apple on site licenses for System 7.1, TCP/IP and other necessities,” he said. ‘These factors make it difficult for Gutierrez to defend the Mac when the center drafts its long-term strat- egy. “It’s hard to argue for a plat- form when you're not sure if you can get boxes.” No go at Esso. At Esso, the Calgary, Alberta, subsidiary of Imperial Oil, analysts couldn’t find a strategic advantage sufficient enough to continue justifying the Mac, according to Steve Suche, senior systems analyst. “We like the Mac. MultiFinder is a far better system than Windows. Welike [the Mac’s] color and sound capabilities. We've been doing voice annotation since 1988,” Suche said. “But these are not strategically advantageous features. When you compare the Mac to the Windows platform, what you’re left with is built-in networking as the Mac advantage. But the biggest com- plaint we have from our users is how slow Local Talkis.” ‘The inability to isolate a strategic advantage has prompted Esso to “Jet the Mac die of attrition,” Suche said. “The strategic advantages are growing fewer, and it’s getting more expensive to maintain two platforms. It’s hard to justify it.” Meanwhile, Suche said, Win- dows and OS/2 have gained some strategic advantages over the Mac. “We have centrally stored and managed facilities. Windows NT and OS/2 support that better.” When Esso ran the figures for updating the company’s 13,000 ‘Macs or going with newer, cheaper PCs, the company had no choice but to go with PCs. It was strictly a numbers decision. A decision for all? So can Mac managers effectively argue “strategic advantage” to justify Mac purchasing? “Tf you consider ease of use, com- patibility, messaging and consistency strategically important,” Cook said, “then the answer isyes.” 0 NEC PERSTEN David Gutierrez, programmer at the University of Texas, M.D. Ander- son Cancer Center, said that while Macs play an indis- pensable role in his enterprise, he and his colleagues have some growing reservations about the long-range use of Macs based largely on some specific Apple policies. Introducing SuperATM. Now You Can Move It Without Losing It. Bang Riding Pintmen, L9S/fiest ae B the Rails 3. Zine, nota repo , bags P Plastig Wheg — erovarenbyeain Towser most ete S © top 29 = Bs e i ane ma] lq : bag is ¢ 5) a . 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The fax server appears in the Chooser as a network laser printer, and users can simply invoke the Print command to send faxes. simileFAX for Faxcom, developed by Simile Software Co. of Ipswich, Mass., costs $1,995 per server, plus $200 for 10 users. Biscom fax servers that include a PostScript option range in price from the single-line $7,495 Faxcom Publisher to the $22,495 Faxcom 5000, which can support up to 16 phone lines. The server portion of simileFAX for Faxcom, simileAdministrator, resides on a nondedicated Mac on the network and lets an administra- Biscom’s plan for Mac fax delivery Telco transmits fax vio DID trunk line Ly Send fax ~og Document is printed directly or is read ‘on Mac running simileMonitor * LAN transport method still to be determined. tor control the Faxcom for the Mac- intosh environment. The client portion, simileMonitor, offers a variety of standard faxing features such as background operation and scheduling of transmissions. Distribution of incoming faxes is handled by the network administra- tor, who must bring up a received fax from a queue and append the intended receiver's name to the Biscom DID Module converts extension number fo dual-tone multifrequency signal Foxcom server builds fox data file that directs the fox to appropriate LAN server LAN server running simileAdministrator directs fax using routing codes to Mac users” body of the fax. The user then runs the simileMonitor application to receive the fax over the network. ‘An upcoming software release planned for this summer will take advantage of the DID (Direct Inward Dial) option already avail- able as an add-on to Biscom’s Fax- com 3000 and above servers. Inbound routing will deliver incom- See Biscom, Page 22 By Nathalie Welch Middletown, Ohio — Bearing a new name and added features, ARA- Connect, an ARA client add-on, this month will make the leap from share- ware to the commercial market. Priced at $29.95 from Trilobyte Software, ARAConnect is a control panel document that creates mini- applications called Connectors, which can be used to connect to spe- cific AppleTalk Remote Access (ARA) servers when launched. Formerly called ARAClient and available on-line since September, the new program can create Con- nectors capable of opening an unlimited number of items at con- nect time, including documents, applications, folders and volumes. ARAConnect is intended to be used in place of the remote-access application provided by Apple. It does require Apple’s $199 ARA 'ARAClient back as ARAConnect, offers direct access fo documents Apple’s package requires 230 Kbytes of RAM, while ARAConnect performs the same functions via a control panel using just 60 Kbytes, according to Trilobyte President Ron Duritsch. Other enhancements to the Con- nector miniapplications include the capability to get a sound alert signify- ing a connection, as well as the capa- bility to promptusers for phone num- ber prefixes at launch time. Users still can select an alias for each Connector from within the ARAConnector con- trol panel and run the ConnectNot miniapplication to disconnect from any remote network. Trilobyte is offering an introduc- tory price of $19.95 through March 31. Group pricing starts at $149.95 for a 10-pack. Registered users of ARAClient can upgrade free. Trilobyte Software is at 6982 Devon Drive, Middletown, Ohio By April Streeter Austin, Texas — TechWorks Inc. last week shipped a NuBus card that lets a Macintosh double as a 12- port Ethernet hub. The $749 HubWorks 12 includes an Ethernet adapter board that plugs into any NuBus- compatible Mac and an external box that has 12 RJ-45 ports and a The HubWorks 12 Ethernet card from TechWorks turns any Mac into a 12-port network hub. Expansion boxes can be daisychained to expand the hub’s capacity to 36 ports. thin-net connector to plug into an Ethernet network. The card’s controller lets the host Mac bea 13thnode, and Mac-based software provides basic port man- agement. The card can be installed in server or client machines and should not affect performance, according to the company. TechWorks also shipped a $545 ‘TechWorks NuBus card turns Macs into 12-port hub expansion box that daisychains to the HubWorks system and provides 12 extra ports. A total of 36 ports can be fastened to each Mac. Later this month, PCon Inc. of San Jose, Calif, will ship a similar hub card, the $595 Network Con- troller. PCon said it also will provide Micro Channel and AT-compatible hub cards to support IBM PCs and compatibles. One beta tester had a mixed reac- tion to the TechWorks card. “Te works perfectly. And if you | have PowerBooks that need to have an easy place to plugin, this product | has advantages,” said David Kamin- sky, a network administrator at Savannah Color Separation in | Savannah, Ga. “In the end it just made me too nervous, however, to have something connected to the [Mac] that could be separate.” TechWorks Inc. is at 4030 Brak- er Lane W., Suite 350, Austin, Texas. Phone (512) 704-8533; fax (512) 794-8520. 0 | software and System 7. 45044. Phone (513) 777-6641. : = AMACOnnect 1.0b2 ARAConnect, ie | ‘After connection: which can be Port: Cray this sound used in place Revie er =) (CSimnpie Beep) of Apple's [Resere Sue] Bal open ten tan: AppleTalk [eeeeee __] Ci save password (Ciieese tems >) Remote Access 44-0902 dient program, Connect as: © Registered User can create Con- Dil emind me of my connection every nectors capable Dalresianitbusy [2 _]times every onds of opening ‘Status bppieTak Remote hoses driver fs not adel any number of items at connect time. By Nathalie Welch Washington — A speed war has broken out in the modem industry, and Mac users will have to choose sides. ‘A group of 18 telecommunica- tions vendors, including Global Vil- | lage Communication Inc., last | month formed a consortium to pro- mote a new high-speed modem modulation scheme, V.32terbo, to let modems operate at 19.2 Kbps. | V.32terbo breaks the current limi- tation of data-transmission speed, 144 Kbps, offered by devices supporting the CCITT V.32bis standard. ‘Modems supporting the new speed Go fast now or V.FAST later? already have been announced and will be available as soon as next month. The consortium is pitching the fledgling specification as an interim step until the Consultative Com- mittee International Telegraph and Telephone approves the long- awaited 28.8-Kbps V.FAST stan- dard. CCITT has been reviewing the V.FAST proposal for two years and doesn’t expect to complete work before the end of the year. More than 60 vendors last week here re-emphasized their support of V.FAST, including Dove Computer Corp., Supra Corp., PSI Integration Inc. and Hayes See Terbo, Page 22 5015: ‘All Port Monitor (192.1 = [INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT SysTEM For Mac AnD PC Networks. ] AsantéView management software. The most affordable health care Asanté Technologies™ offers the most cost-effective way to take care of your departmental Ethernet network. Present- ing AsantéView”, the management software that works with the AsantéHub™ to help you effectively monitor and control your network. AsantéHub & AsantéView. The cure for networking headaches. Together they give you a network management system offering 16 performance-monitoring sta- tistics, network health meters, and direct control at the hub and port levels. All from your choice of a Windows® PC or The system gives you even greater control with unique alarm thresholds to warn you when unacceptable traffic or error levels occur. 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Call us today for your free AsantéView demo disk*, 1-800-662-9686, extension 101. 2 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 By Nathalie Welch Tualatin, Ore. — Prometheus Products Inc. next month will ship an internal fax modem that lets PowerBook users manage fax, data and voice-mail traffic over a single phone line. The Ultima Home Office for PowerBook consists of an internal ProModem 144i modem; MAc- Knowledge data communications By April Streeter Santa Barbara, Calif, — Miramar Systems Inc. next month will release software that lets Macs share files with Windows users. Personal MacLAN Connect, due in March for $199, makes the drive ofa Windows computer available to Macs ona Local Talk, Ether'Talk or TokenTalk network. A network interface card is required, and Mira- mar said it will support Local Talk boards from Farallon Computing Inc., Dayna Communications Inc. and DayStar Digital Inc; Ethernet adapters from 3Com Corp; and token-ring cards from IBM Corp. or those compatible with IBM’s. By Henry Norr Nashua, N.H.— Circuit Research Corp., developer of the FlexFAX line of network fax modems, is readying an add-on package that can automat- ically route incoming faxes directly to the intended recipient’s Mac. FlexFAX DID (Direct Inward Dial) interface will work with the FlexFAX modems and the software bundled with them, 4-Sight FAX from British vendor 4-Sight Inter- national Ltd. Arack-mountable hardware mod- ule attached to the phone line will intercept the unique digits identify- ing each user on a DID system and forward them to the Mac function- ing as the 4-Sight FAX server; a new system extension and application running on the server will receive the number, check it against a database of users and then forward the mes- sage across the LAN. The DID interface units can be expanded to support multiple- modem fax servers. The software will allow users to add password protec- tion to limit access to incoming faxes. The DID interface package is due next month. FlexFAX modems start at $799; the 4-Sight FAX software starts at $749 for a five- user system. The products are cov- MACWEEK 02.08.93 software; and MaxFax voice and fax software, which also provides line switching. The package is available at $399 until June 30, when the price will rise to $499. > Voice. The device turns the PowerBook into a digital answering machine, letting callers dial into a main mailbox containing an initial greeting. Touch-tone options direct callers to up to 999 password- Miramar connects Mac, Windows Unlike Miramar’s $695 MacLAN Connect Gold server software, which supports unlimited users connected toasingle server, the Personal version is designed for small workgroups that want to make the file resources of a single or a handful of Windows machines available to a Mac network. ‘The software also lets Mac users access PostScript printers attached to IBM PCs and compatibles run- ning Personal MaclAN Connect, while Windows users can print to PostScript printers on the Mac side. Miramar Systems Inc. is at 201 N. Salsipuedes, Suite 204, Santa Barbara, Calif, 93103. Phone (805) 966-2432; fax (805) 965-1824. 0 Circuit plans DID for FlexFAX ered by a two-year warranty, including free software updates. The company also said it will offer a $250 tool kit, developed by 4-Sight, that allows developers to build fax capabilities into databases and other applications. Circuit Research Corp. is at 2 Townsend W., Suite 6, Nashua, N.H. 03063. Phone (603) 880- 4000; fax (603) 880-8297. 0 Biscom From Page 20 ing faxes directly to the intended receiver’s desktop without interven- tion from an administrator. The DID option will start at $7,995. Simile Software has not deter- mined how itwill transport faxes from. a LAN server to end users. Possibili- ties include an editable protocol router or an electronic-mail facility. A Faxcom server can be physical- ly connected to Ethernet and token- ring networks or directly attached to the Mac’s serial port. Supported network protocols include Apple- Talk, TCP/IP and X.25. Biscom Inc. is at Forest Research Park, 85 Rangeway Road, Billerica, Mass. 01862. Phone (508) 670- 5521; fax (508) 671-0095.0 Prometheus brings voice to PowerBooks protected mailboxes, each with its individual outgoing message. > Fax. Capable of sending and receiving faxes at 14.4 Kbps, the Ultima Home Office responds to the standard fax calling tone or a caller’s fax access code to receive faxes and can wake a sleeping PowerBook to receive. Other fax features include smart resend, which restores transmissions at the point they were interrupted, and gray-scale and color output. > Data. The Ultima Home Office for PowerBook incorporates Prometheus’ ProModem 144i, a Hayes-compatible V.32bis. modem capable of 14.4 Kbps. The modem, without voice capabilities, is available separately for $349. A voice upgrade will be available next month for $25. The Ultima Home Office for PowerBook is compatible with all 100-series PowerBooks. Prometheus Products Inc. is at 9524 S.W. Tualatin Sherwood Road, Tualatin, Ore. 97062. Phone (503) 692-9600; fax (503) 691-1101.0 Tero From Page 20 Microcomputer Products Inc. Some V.FAST supporters may still offer 19.2-Kbps modems. Oth- ers, such as PST, will not. “I think the window of opportunity to mar- ket 19.2 modems will be very small,” said PSI President Bill Lauer. V.FAST proponents also said the V.32terbo standard stretch- es the capabilities of V.32 technolo- gy beyond its design limits. But one of V.FAST’s most ardent support- ers disagreed. “I think that vendors rallying around an interim standard is a very fair thing to do, and V.32terbo is a good approach to doing it,” said Dick Stuart, vice president of tech- nology for Penril Datacomm Net- works in Gaithersburg, Md. Stuart, also chairman of the V.FAST Rap- porteur Group for CCITT, said his company will develop a device capa- ble of 19.2 Kbps. Current 14.4-Kbps modems would require a chip swap to upgrade to V.32terbo. It is still unclear, how- ever, whether another board swap or just a software upgrade would be needed to then move to V.FAST. Multi-Tech Systems Inc. of Mounds View, Minn., expects to ship its MT1932BL modem capable of 19.2-Kbps data transmission near the end of the first quarter for $1,199. ‘The device will require Mac cables. Zypcom Inc. of Hayward, Calif, last_ week announced a $749 V.32terbo modem due to ship in May. Mac software will be included. 0 Gateways CY Ruel [28S Ericsson cuts price of wireless modem Paramus, N.J. — Ericsson GE Mobile Communications Inc. last month slashed the price of its wireless modem. Ericsson’s Mobidem now costs $775, a 44 percent cut from $1,395. Despite Ericsson’s move, competitor Motorola Inc. said it has no plans to adjust the price of its $1,350 two-way wireless modem, the InfoTac. Roaming Mac users will not be able to take advantage of the less- expensive Mobidem until later this spring when RadioMail Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif., and Performance Systems Inc. of Reston, Va., sepa- rately introduce Mac software to connect wireless modems to Ardis Co.’s Ardis or RAM Mobile Data Inc.’s wireless networks. Ericsson GE Mobile Communications Inc. is at 15 E. Midland Ave., Paramus, NJ. 07652. Phone (201) 265-6600; fax (201) 265-9115. PATHtracker monitors, evaluates Pathworks Waltham, Mass. — Distributed Technologies Corp. last week shipped a network-management package to help administrators monitor Macs and other computers that reside on Digital Equip- ment Corp.'s Pathworks network operating system. PATHtracker is a line of products that evaluate Pathworks servers, as well as Mac, OS/2 and DOS clients. The $99 client package periodically provides reports on hardware and software configura- tion, as well as the amount of time a program is resident in memory. PATHtracker Server, priced at $495, provides information on how many connections are made to the Pathworks server and which clients are using the server. PATHtracker-Mac is available in a 10-user pack for $595 and a 100-user pack for $3,995. Distributed Technologies Corp. is at 275 Wyman St., Waltham, Mass. 02154. Phone (617) 684-0060; fax (617) 684-0072. Cayman offers new 24-hour support plan Cambridge, Mass. — Cayman Systems Inc. last week announced a new 24-hour support plan and enhancements to its software maintenance program. Under Cayman's “7 by 24” Support Plan, customers gain access to the company’s technical support staff around the clock, seven days a week. After-hours calls will be directed to staffers with beep- ers. Pricing is based on the size of a customer's network and num- ber of Cayman products. 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