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Now Up-to-Date 2.0 Better net capabilities in = premier calendar app i Mapinfo 2.0 Upgrade makes desktop —_( mapping program a leader Kurta XGT/ADB Digitizing tablet has lots of features but lacks sensitivity = 03.29.93 Volume 7Number13 THE NEWSWEEKLY FOR MACINTOSH MANAGERS boas 29 | HP readies RISC-based color inkjet; Apple sets low-cost Fantasia for fall New DeskJet offers PostScript Level 2 By Matthew Rothenberg | Cupertino, Calif. — New output devices from Hewlett-Packard Co. | and Apple will raise the tone of | color inkjet printing for Mac users, | according to sources. HP DeskJet 1200C/PS Ship date: May | List price: $2,399 Resolution: 600 by 300 dpi, monochrome; 300 by 300 dpi, CMYK Print speeds: 4 to 6 ppm, monochrome; | to 2.minutes per page, CMYK Languages: Adobe PostScript Level 2, ae mS HP-GL/2 Interfaces: LocalTalk, Centronics parallel stondard;1 0BASE T, token ring optional Processor: 11-MHzi960SA RISC chip HP in May will unveil and ship the DeskJet 1200C/PS, a $2,399 RISC-based inkjet printer that fea- tures Adobe PostScript Level 2 and a maximum resolution of 600 by 300 dpi. The device reportedly uses new higher-quality inks and print car- tridges to print black text or 24-bit- color graphics to letter-, legal- and | ‘A4-size plain or coated paper as well as transparencies. It offers three print modes; output speeds range from 4 pages per minute to 7 ppm for text and from 1 to 2 minutes per page for color images. The DeskJet 1200C/PS will come with 35 Type 1 and 10 TrueType fonts as well as Adobe Type Manag- er, sources said. It switches automat- ically among Level 2, color PCL 5 and HP-GL/2 and includes a font- card slot. ‘The printer will ship stan- dard with LocalTalk and Centronics parallel interfaces as well as an MIO. slot for HP’s new JetDirect interface cards (see story, Page 115). See Printers, Page 115 By Andrew Gore Antwerp, Belgium — Wave Research Ltd., a start-up company partially funded by Apple, this week is expected to ship FileWave, a set of Finder-integrated software agents that transparently manage files on both desktop and mobile Macs. The product, which works with both System 6 and 7 clients, is designed to automate software dis- tribution, version synchronization and usage monitoring networkwide. FileWave’s Administrator Agent lets system managers create user groups and assign them sets of applications and data files by click- ing and dragging objects in Finder FileWave agents cross Atlantic windows, as in System 7’s Users & Groups control panel. The files, which are stored in a back-end database, are then copied in the background to each user’s local hard disk, although they appear on the user desktop as part of a separate, password-protected virtual volume. When the administrator changes a file set — updating a report or adding a new application, for exam- ple — the system transparently makes the corresponding changes on the designated users’ desktops. Groups and sets. The system is intended to make it easy for administrators to deliver the right See FileWave, Page 115 NEWSPAPER SECOND or ss Apple’s master plan for CD-ROM Document Graphic — ‘t CD mastering device : Lic = Sound (D-ROM en eRe Multiformat CD player first piece of Apple PIE PowerCD sets table ‘for mastering unit By Matthew Rothenberg and Neil McManus Hanover, Germany — Apple’s PIE division bore its first fruit last week when the company unveiled PowerCD, a portable device that plays CD-ROM, Photo CD and audio compact discs. To complement the new device, Apple reportedly is working on a desktop CD authoring system that will let users create their own discs containing multimedia business presentations. PowerCD. Apple debuted Special Report Scripting today and tomorrow users PowerCD, due this summer, at CeBIT ’93 here. The 3.1-pound device, which can run off AC power or four C batteries, will cost less than $500, sources said. “With PowerCD, Apple is making a bridge between the business market and the home market,” said Denise Caruso, editor of San Francisco- based Digital Media: A Seybold Report. “Business users can take it along as a presentation player box, and home users can use it to play Photo CDsand music CDs.” PowerCD will come with a SCST interface and cable to connect to the Mac and an audio-video cable to connect to television sets. It features an average data-access See PowerCD, Page 115 ESD, PIE emerge on global stage with CeBIT rollouts By Andrew Gore Hanover, Germany —Just weeks after staging its first worldwide product launch on foreign soil, Apple last week went to the oppo- site side of the planet for another international introduction. While last month’s Tokyo rollout featured mainstream Macs and printers, Apple’s announcements here at CeBIT °93, the world’s | largest computer trade show, put the company’s new Enterprise Systems and Personal Interactive Electronics | divisions in the spotlight. At the top of Apple’s agenda was the formal debut of ESD’s Apple Workgroup Servers and Apple- Search text-retrieval software (see MacWEEK, March 22) and PIE’s portable CD player (see story, left). But a flurry of Newton-related disclosures, focusing on Apple’s efforts to convince other developers to adoptits personal digital assistant (PDA) technology, all but upstaged the product introductions. The company announced that it has licensed the Newton operating system to Motorola Inc., Kyushu Matsushita Electric Co. Ltd. and Siemens Private Communications Systems Group. According to Gas- ton Bastiaens, general manager of PIE, the agreements are intended to keep PDAs out of the mire of incompatible standards that have held multimedia back. See CeBIT, Page 116 SkyLab liftoff now slated for June By Lisa Picarille San Jose, Calif. — Radius Inc. is counting down for the June launch of SkyLab, a “media server” for pre- press and multimedia users. Set to be unveiled at Digital World in June and to ship by the end of the summer, SkyLab is a Radius- designed box that incorporates Mac ROM code licensed from Apple and Radius’ 68040 Rocket accelerators. Radius and Apple officials met two weeks ago to discuss the possi- bility of Apple selling SkyLab, according to sources. The server, which has a 68030 processor on the motherboard, has two bays with six slots each. The 12 NuBus 90 slots can support a variety of cards, including Rockets, net- working and video boards. A fully loaded SkyLab can deliver up to 300 mips of processing power | and support up to 20 Gbytes of stor- age, sources said. A base configura See SkyLab, Page 115 POWER Get the best for a whole lot less. Beginning this month, the Universal PowerCache” and New Turbo 040" are even more affordable than before - and supports 16 different Macs. 33 MHz PowerCache — Double the speed of a Macintosh Il. Our lowest cost PowerCache deliv- ers up to double the performance for less money than most memory upgrades! 40 MHz PowerCache — Mac Ilfx perfor= mance for almost any Mac. The mid-line PowerCache delivers the performance of a Mac IIfx and more. The PowerCache is fully upgradable to even faster speeds. 50 MHz PowerCache — Quadra level performance for even the slowest. 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We have a complete range of upgrade options that keep you up to date. & file Fait view Me Compose Tent_Te The Mac client for Notes, due next month as part of Version 3.0, offers the same functionality as the current 0S/2 and Windows clients, according to Lotus. Mac Notes client to ship next month with Version 3 Lotus adds new tools for administration By Leonard Heymann New York— Macusers can final- lystart taking Notes next month. Lotus Development Corp. last week said Version 3.0 of Notes, replete with a long-awaited Mac client and a host of enhancements for users, developers and administrators, will ship within 30 days. Priced at $495 per client and $495 per server, Notes combines multi-user databases and electronic mail to provide a plat- form for workgroup applications. The system is popular among sites with large networks of IBM PCs and compatibles because it automatically replicates data between site or depart- mental servers, linking users with E- mail and other workgroup functions. Lotus officials, who made the announcement at a news conference here, vowed the Mac client will offer functionality equal to that of the OS/2 and Windows clients. The Mac version supports a few Mac-specific System 7 features, including publish and subscribe, but just the required Apple events. The program will run under both System 6 and 7. Although Notes requires a minimum of 2.5 Mbytes of RAM, Lotus recommends at least 5 Mbytes. The Mac client communicates with Notes servers running on OS/2 via AppleTalk. But John Bartlett, Lotus Mac Notes product manager, said the company may also support Novell’s forthcoming MacIPX, which would let Macs communicate via Novell’s IPX (Internetwork Pack- et Exchange) protocol. One Mac Notes beta user said he believes a key factor in the success of Lotus’ cross-platform strategy will be the number of Mac application developers supporting OLE (Object Linking and Embedding), the inter- application communications proto- col developed by Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash. Notes’ implementation of OLE, called Seamless Objects, allows developers to embed in forms docu- ments and objects from other appli- cations that support OLE and launch the original application when the form is accessed. Although the standard is widely used under Win- dows 3.1, only Microsoft's own applications and a few related prod- ucts support it on the Macso far. “A great deal of responsibility [for the success of Notes on PCs] relies on [documents] we embed in Notes documents,” said beta-tester Lou Clark, a systems technologist at chemicals maker Monsanto Co. in St. Louis. “Lotus will have a hard time covering that over.” Clark, who has been working with Lotus on the Mac Notes client for more than a year, has deployed beta software on about 60 of the more than 1,000 Macs his group supports. “People have been screaming” for Mac support for Notes, he said. “We're going to feel very good when we can start putting Notes on every desktop.” Clark urged Mac managers not to “be scared off by the requirement of running an OS/2 machine in your shop to take advantage of the Notes technology.” Lotus also unveiled a Windows- based Notes server aimed at small workgroups. The company said this year it will ship versions for Win- dows NT, a 32-bit version for OS/2 and an NLM (NetWare Loadable Module) for Novell Inc.’s NetWare. New systems-management tools let administrators remotely manage a Notes Server, chart performance and receive alarms. CompuServe also announced that it will join the Notes bandwagon by initially offering a private service for Notes users, developers and resellers, and later developing public services for Notes. Lotus Development Corp. is at 55 Cambridge Parkway, Cam- bridge, Mass. 02142. Phone (617) 577-8500; fax (617) 693-4663.0 VOL.7 NO.13 Ml News ied 4 Print Central upgrade doubles print queues 38 Print management system gives users graphical control. 6 CalendarMaker 4.0 adds layouts, colors, formats 38 CE update offers multipage printing, Find feature. 12. Finding the right hardware support 39 A company must weigh cost and importance of equipment when choosing outside tech support. a a Gateways pine OM w Novell details plan to support Macs without an NUM. yi 16 Synergy puts Mac face on Internet Versatilities adds interface for Internet mail, news and directories. 49 16 Getting out of the meeting Computer conferencing products offer real-time alternatives to meetings. 49 Bi ca 24 MacroModel to get makeover 56 Version 1.5 will sport Bezier pen, deformation tools, compatibility with new Windows version. a 24 Cricket Draw leaps into bound-text editing New version lets users edit text along a curved path, adds new color models. a7) 30 Just your type The evolution of fonts to the desktop gives users more access fo fype and companies more legal worries. 63 63 P| BusinessWatch 7 34 Westinghouse, Boeing stop buying Macs Some 30,000 Macs could eventually be phased out as companies plan switch to|BMand HP computers. 65 34 Apple, DEC ink sales agreement o7 DEC to sell Apple products directly to large sites. 95 MacWEEK 03.29.93 Opinion Editorial Apple should be proactive on customer communications. Commentary/Jean-Lovis Gassée PowerPC can fend off Pentium, Windows. Letters Do Works numbers tell the whole story? ‘Mac Manager/Don Crabb No special rights for faux Macs. Application Development Operating system-level scripting tools are the quick-and-dirty tools of in-house developers. Reviews Up-to-Date Now on schedule Version 2.0 of Now's calendar utility supports workgroups, multiple categories. MapInfo adds BASIC and advanced features Mac mapping package approaches high-end GIS, supports programming language. ‘Avid system only semi “suite” Media Suite Pro a fast editor but needs work. XGT/ADB needs to be more sensitive Kurta tablet has solid features, lacks responsiveness. ProductWatch Technologies help Macs acquire image, sound data Newer devices, more-powerful machines, innovative systems help bring data acquisition to Macs. MacinTouch/Ric Ford Rounding up bugs and tips. Ask David Ramsey Teaching your Centris how to do math. 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Each queue can handle up to six output devices, including laser and thermal printers, imagesetters, and slide recorders. The program’s new interface lets users click on a queue’s icon and drag connecting lines to targeted printers. The software sends the job to the first available printer on a queue. Anew bundled application called Remote Administrator lets man- agers intervene from any Mac on the network to reprioritize jobs, S file cat Admin Windows Light Source polishes Ofoto for retail sales By Matthew Rothenberg Larkspur, Calif. — Light Source Computer Images Inc. last week recast Ofoto 2.0 asa retail package and released an interim upgrade to the 24- bit-color scan-optimization program. Ofoto 2.0.1, available now for $395, fixes several bugs in the previous ver- sion, which made its debut bundled with Apple’s $1,349 Color One- Scanner at January's Macworld Expo. Version 2.0.1 adds support for scanners from Hewlett-Packard Co., Microtek Inc., Epson America Inc., La Cie Ltd., Agfa and UMAX Technologies Inc. The update eliminates some bugs and corrects the program’s monitor calibration controls, which were off by about 30 percent. Upgrades are free to users who received Ofoto 2.0 with the Color OneScanner. Retail buyers of the $195 gray-scale version of Ofoto can get Version 2.0.1 for $95; those who received the gray-scale soft- ware with the monochrome One- Scanner can upgrade for $75. Light Source is at 17 E. Sir Fran- cis Drake Blvd., Suite 100, Lark- spur, Calif, 94939. Phone (415) 461-8000; fax (415) 461-8011. Compumation’s Print Central 3.0 lets users dick ona queve’s icon and drag con- necting lines to targeted printers. place them on hold or redirect them to another queue. Remote Users, another bundled program, tells users where their job stands in a queue, when it has been printed and at which printer. Print Central keeps a log of all jobs printed as well as their size, print time and who printed them. It can sort this information by attribute or export logs to spreadsheets or text editors. Version 3.0 also works with Radius Inc.’s $499 RocketShare sys- tem extension to divide large print- ing tasks among multiple Radius Rocket 68040-based accelerators. Compumation said Print Cen- tral’s throughput is 40 percent faster on an Apple Workgroup Server 95 than on a Quadra 950. Apple’s new workgroup servers, like the current version of AppleShare, provide print spooling, but at the introduction of the new servers, Apple cited Print Central as an alternative for sites that need heavy-duty print services. Compumation Inc. is at 820 N. University Drive, State College, Pa. 16803. Phone (814) 238-2120; fax (814) 238-2246.0 Olduvai raises bar on Icon-It!; util builds more colorful tool bars By Henry Norr Miami — Users who have come to appreciate the benefits of the Toolbar in recent versions of Microsoft Word and Excel can now put similar icon bars in any applica- tion with the latest release of Oldu- vai Corp.’s Icon-It! utility. Icon-It! Pro 3.0 is a system exten- sion that creates customizable bars with icons representing program functions; users can choose a com- mand by clicking on the icon instead of pulling down a menu or typing a Command-key sequence. New features in the latest release include an icon editor with painting tools, a library with hundreds of standard icons, a choice between color and black-and-white buttons, and pop-up comments that explain each icon’s function. The program lets users define the size, design and spacing of but- tons, and the number of rows in each icon bar. Icon-It! Pro 3.0 lists for $129, but through April 30 users can order it directly from Olduvai for $79 plus $8 shipping and handling. Users of previous versions can upgrade for $29 plus $8 shipping and handling. Olduvai Corp. is at Dadeland Towers, 9200 S. Dadeland Blvd., Suite 725, Miami, Fla. 33156. Phone (305) 670-1112; fax (305) 670-1992. Alibrary of icons in various sizes and on © file Edit Text Colors Library Windows QuarkHpress tcon Bar array of layout eon Bar Layout ces 5 © vam: 32 Yeon Gap ccs [oneness al con Library options allow Boy 1 Glen users of or Olduvai’s Icon-It! Pro 3.0 @ to design icon : ae bors that suit i their own : suse Saas S252 Se habits and £ ai ae POR Yo Sake 4282 32.32 352 preferences. aon i 9 +@ « Swe [ses 1et6 163 32 32452 32 [| [Fie tat image Nerbers Mecros Tables Windwws fel Spyglass Transform 3.0 gives users more control over labeling the axes of graphs. Fanciers [B80 Spyglass Transform gets new focus; update uses Mathematica functions By Raines Cohen Savoy, Ill. — Spyglass Transform will get its own transformation this week when Spyglass Inc. ships Ver- sion 3.0 of the $595 data-analysis and presentation tool. New features include: > MathLink. Users of Wolfram Research Inc.’s $595 Mathematica can install a Package (external) sup- plied by Spyglass and then take advantage of Transform’s functions and scripting language from within Mathematica. Conversely, Trans- form users can tap Mathematica’s language, numeric calculation func- tions and PostScript-based graphics. The programs communicate using the MathLink multiplatform inter- application communications pro- tocols developed by Wolfram. > Import. Version 3.0 can read MatLab, GIF (Graphic Interchange Format), PBM and XWD files, in addition to the PICT, PICS, FITS, HDF and TIFF files supported by earlier versions. > Scripting. The template func- tions in Transform 2.1 have evolved into a full scripting language in Ver- sion 3.0. The language helps users automate repetitive tasks, such as importing data, manipulating arrays, creating plots, adding labels, and exporting images and data. “T used it to analyze some recent astronomical data,” said beta-tester Robert Brown, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Balti- more. “The ability to write scripts that address whole folders of data at once is essential. We're taking thousands of exposures of pictures of nearby stars, looking for planets. I wouldn’t know how to do itanother way.” > Annotation. Transform 3.0 users can add floating-point annota- tions, titles, axis labels, numerical scales and tick marks to raster images; line graphs; color bars; and contour, surface and vector plots. Version 1.0 and 2.0 users can upgrade for $129; Version 2.1 users can upgrade for $99, or free if they purchased Transform this year. Members of the Spyglass Automatic Update Plan, priced at $69 a year for ‘Transform, can also upgrade free. Spyglass Inc. is at 1800 Woodfield Drive, Savoy, Ill. 61874. Phone (217) 355-6000; fax (217) 355-8925.0 Conley array passes Apple server test By Henry Norr Hanover, Germany — Conley Corp., a high-end storage-system vendor that is less than a year old, got a moment in the limelight here last week. Morris Taradalsky, vice president and general manager of Apple’s Enterprise Systems Division, showed Conley’s SRI disk array attached to an Apple Workgroup Server 95 dur- ing the official rollout of Apple’s new server products. He used the Conley system, which allows “hot swapping” of failed drive mechanisms and power supplies, to demonstrate that the Apple servers are suitable to mission- critical applications. The SRI can contain up to 10 3.5-inch drives or five 5.25-inch mechanisms. A base configuration with three 1-Gbyte drives lists for $16,995. On the AWS 95 it attaches directly to Apple’s processor direct slot card; for the AWS 60 and 80 Conley offers its own Fast SCSI PDS card for $995 (see Mac- ‘WEEK, March 8). The SRI can be configured for RAID (redundant array of inexpen- sive disks) levels 0, 1, 3 or 5; multiple levels can coexist on the same device. Conley’s configuration and management utilities now come in both A/UX and standard Mac ver- sions. Options include remote mon- itoring and broadcast of problem alerts across a network. Conley Corp. is at 16 W. 22nd St, 11th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10010. Phone (212) 741-9480; fax (212) 741-9296.0 The Smartest Way to Migrate From LocaltTalk to Ethernet TribeStar What is TribeStar? An AppleTalk network hub with eight LocalTalk ports and one Ethernet port. TribeStar™ can handle eight simultaneous full- speed connections between Local Talk and Ethernet. A router or hub-router combination can only handle one at a time. What makes it so smart for Ethernet migration? Because in one box you get both packet-switched Local Talk and high-speed Ethernet connectivity. You can mix Local Talk and Ethernet in the most sensible way—and get eight times the through- put ofa router. How does it work? With a router, the packet stream between Local Talk and Ether- net looks like this: @34000000000 With five microprocessors and an 80 Mbps backplane, TribeStar builds a roadway between Local Talk and Ethernet that is eight times wider: Question: ‘TribeStar can process eight times more packets per second than a router. TribexStar LOCALTALK How much will TribeStar speed up my Local Talk? Ina LocalTalk network of 15 to 30 users, it’s not unusual to have eight people concurrently accessing Ethernet-based network services. In this case, TribeStar is about four times faster than a hub-router combination. (See graph.) All Ethernet {J 12 sec. TribeStar M22 sec. Hub+router lass .: sec. Time to complete eight simultaneous downloads of a 200 KB file from a Macintosh Isi running AppleShare. feltcenm Impressive. Where should I use TribeStar? Use TribeStar whenever you want to integrate LocalTalk and Ethernet. And use it to give LocalTalk users fast access to network services. ‘TribeStar requires virtually no configuration and comes with SwitchMonitor management software. The simplest, most powerful solution, it’s a great way to get started with Ethernet. ETHERNET Ethernet LocalTalk COlicsstonme §=bfow much is it? ‘TribeStar lists for $1795. Compare the alternatives: TribeStar (J $1795 Hubsrouter EJ $3290 Al Ethernet TY sss40 Approximate cost for a 25-node network. All prices are list. Wow. Why should I ever buy a router or a StarController? Hmmm. Can’t think of any reasons. OK, must be about time for the phone number. 510-547-7800 Call us. We're happy to discuss your network situation. We’ll also send further information, including a disk that demon- strates how TribeStar works. Aeibe.. COMPUTER WORKS ©1993 Tribe Computer Works, Inc., 1195 Park Avenue, Emeryville, CA 94608. FAX: 510-547-3928. AppleLink: TRIBE. All trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. News MACWEEK 03.29.93 CE advances CalendarMaker to 4.0 Update adds layouts, colors, Find feature By Kirsten L. Parkinson West Des Moines, lowa — Let- ting users create bigger, brighter and more-flexible calendars, CE Software Inc. last week shipped Version 4.0 of its schedule printing and designing application. CalendarMaker 4.0, priced at $59.95, adds new layouts, includ- ing daily, weekly, biweekly and year views, to the previous ver- sion’s month layout. Other new features of Version 4.0 include: > Multipage printing. With CalendarMaker 4.0, users can cre- ate calendars as large as 113 by 113 inches. The program tiles calendars into separate pages, which users can then paste or tape together to make a single calendar. > Color and formatting en- hancements. The application now supports 256 colors, instead of the eight in previous versions. Users can assign colors and text styles to all calendar components, including headings and borders. is Payment ner with Boss use eekly report due A [reting with Boss. [Bimmer with tiaws] ht. Sie) [Work on White Paper all week | 15 16 ColendarMaker 4.0 supports 256 colors and adds daily, weekly, biweekly and yearly 47 18 19] | views. Its Find feature lets users search calendars for any text in a floating note or event. > Find function. Version 4.0 includes a Find feature, allowing users to search calendars for any text ina floating note or event. > Improved headings. Users can create calendar headings that include dates formatted either as words (March 29, 1993) or num- bers (3/29/93), which can be edit- ed in sections; previous versions supported only straight-text head- ers. The upgrade also supports headers in foreign languages that use multibyte character sets, such as kanji. > Recurring events. Calendar- Maker 4.0 allows users to create exceptions to recurring events, such as a weekly meeting rescheduled because of a holiday. > Icon editor. In place of the Icon Mover utility bundled with previous versions, the program now incorporates an icon editor that lets users edit and import color icons as well as PICT and Paint files. Users of any previous version of CalendarMaker can upgrade for $25, or free if they purchased Ver- sion 3.0 this calendar year. CE Software Inc. is at P.O. Box 65580, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265. Phone (515) 224-1995 or (800) 523-7638; fax (515) 224- 4534.0 Ricoh rolls out magneto-optical direct to end users By Kirsten L. Parkinson San Jose, Calif. — Ricoh Corp.’s File Products Division will break into the Mac end-user market this week with the introduction of two magneto-optical drives. Traditionally an OEM company, Ricoh will unveil both a 3.5-inch opti- cal drive and a 5.25-inch optical model for direct sale to end users. The 3.5-inch Transporter Mac, which provides a capacity of 128 Mbytes per cartridge, will be avail- able in a $1,995 external model next month and a $1,795 internal model for the Quadras, Centris 650 and Mac Ilvx in May. The 5.25-inch external Hyper- Claris Clear Choice charges up Power To Go package for PBs By Lisa Picarille Santa Clara, Calif. — Claris Clear Choice last week shipped Power To Go, a collection of utili- ties for PowerBook security, power management, hot keys and travel. Developed by ALSoft Inc. of Houston, the $89 package made its debut in January as UP (Utilities for the PowerBook). The program offers a single slide bar for users to select power- consumption levels. This setting then controls screen brightness, processor speed and sleep options. ‘The utility includes password pro- tection, a selection of highly visible cursors, an automatic screen saver and a start-up shortcut for airport security checks. Optical “sticky menu” settings hold down menus until a selection is made, eliminating the need to simul- taneously click and drag. Power To Go isthe second product under the CCC label. CCC, formed in November 1992, is a division of Claris Corp. that markets and distrib- utes low-cost third-party software. CCC is at 5201 Patrick Henry Drive, P.O. Box 58168, Santa Clara, Calif. 95052-8168. Phone (408) 987-8227 or (800) 325-2747.5 Space Mac drive, with a capacity of 600 Mbytes per cartridge, will ship next month for $3,995. The Transporter Mac and Hyper- Space Mac drives will ship with Insignia Solutions Inc.’s RapidTrak driver software and AccessPC, which allows the drives to read DOS- formatted cartridges. With caching provided by Rapid- Trak, the Transporter Mac models will offer an “effective” access time of 12.4 milliseconds and an average effective data transfer rate of 1.6 Mbytes per second, according to Ricoh. The HyperSpace Mac drive will have an effective access time of 13.8 milliseconds and an average effective data transfer rate of 2 ‘Mbytes per second with caching, the company said. Users who purchase either drive before July 1 will receive one for- matted cartridge with the drive. Additional formatted media will be $74 for the 3.5-inch cartridge and $240 for a 5.25-inch size. Ricoh Corp.'s File Products Divi- sion is at 3001 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, Calif. 95134-2088. Phone (408) 432-8800 or (800) 955-3453; fax (408) 943-9364..0 DeltaGraph Professional for the Macintosh | Version 2.0.3 | now directly imports files from Microsoft | Excel 4.0 for the | Mac, Users of | the Mac version ‘can now open files created with the Win- dows version. DeltaGraph charts new features; opens to Windows, Excel 4 files By Lisa Picarille Monterey, Calif. — DeltaPoint Inc. this month updated its Delta- Graph Professional for the Macin- tosh, which combines data-analysis tools with charting, graphing and presentation graphics. Version 2.0.3 lets Mac users open files created in the Windows ver- sion. The Windows version could already read files generated from the Mac release. DeltaGraph Professional 2.0.3 now directly imports files from the latest version of Microsoft Corp.’s Macspreadsheet, Excel 4.0. A new Pause/Stop/Redraw fea- ture lets users pause screen redraws with a single mouse click to continue making formatting changes. Users also have the option to completely suspend screen redrawing until a change is made that forces a redraw. ‘The new release of the $295 pro- gram also adds a variety of new charting options, including the capability to clip data and switch axes when creating bubble charts. A new Rotate Boxes feature can be used with orientation setting to allow organizational charts to be reversed. In addition, users can now save and load custom curve fits. Current users can upgrade free by contacting DeltaPoint technical support at (408) 375-4700. DeltaPoint Inc. is at 2 Harris Court, Suite B-1, Monterey, Calif. 93940. Phone (408) 648-4000; fax (408) 648-4020. 5 Philips masters Mac version of CD-ROM authoring system By Kirsten L. Parkinson Knowville, Tenn. — Philips Consumer Electronics Co. this week will bring its desktop CD- authoring technology to the Mac- intosh market. The $8,995 CDD 521MR Desk- top CD-recorder System, due to ship next month, will include the company’s CD-ROM recorder and MacOnCD software. The system will initially record discs in ISO 9660, hierarchical file system and CD-Audio formats. Philips plans to offer plug-in mod- ules that add support for Compact Disc-Interactive and CD-ROM- XA formats. Price and release date have not been determined. ‘The authoring system will be able to record a single disc in 37 minutes, about half the time of existing recorders, and will support both single-session and multisession recording, the company said. ‘The recorder will offer an aver- age access time of 1,000 milli- seconds and a sustained data trans- fer rate of 352 Kbytes per second. Blank discs for recording will be available from Philips for $40 each. Philips Consumer Electronics Co. is at 1 Philips Drive, P.O. Box 14810, Knoxville, Tenn. 37914. Phone (310) 217-1300 or (800) 835- 3504; fax (310) 217-1883.0 For the record The March 22 article on Microtek Lab Inc.’s ScanMaker 45t slide scanner included an incorrect price for Leaf Systems Inc.’s Leafscan 45. The Leafscan 45 costs $17,000. The March 22 issue reported an incorrect price for upgrades to QuickMail 2.6. Users of QuickMail 2.5 can upgrade to Version 2.6 for $40 per site. MACWEEK 03.29.93 News Mac technology aids disabled users Casa Blanca reformats Drive7 for new SyQuests, other media Conference features range of interfaces By Reese Erlich Los Angeles — An estimated 35 million Americans have disabilities and increasing numbers are using Macs, as last week’s Technology and Persons with Disabilities Con- ference here demonstrated. Susan Haase, who works in Still- water, Okla., with an agency help- ing the disabled, said Apple’s indus- trial design is one selling point for disabled people using Macs. As a result of childhood polio, she uses a wheelchair and has partial paralysis in her hands. “I don’t have to bend my fingers to reach the PowerBook keys,” she said. “The controls are well-positioned.” Dr. Alan Brightman, manager of Apple’s Worldwide Disability Solutions Group, said the confer- ence “shows how bubbling and siz- aling [the technology] is in the real world. It’s not just the same old issues every year.” Several vendors displayed new products for Mac users with disabil- ities, including: > Write:OutLoud, a $125 “talk- ing word processor” released this month by Don Johnston Develop- mental Equipment Inc,, allows visu- ally impaired people to hear words as they type or edit text. It offers a talking spelling checker; high- Arts and Crafts Twant _paintsand a paintbrush 7) a Clear aol ZNE fl Ma) -. Bs be ia This screen demonstrates the picture display feature which allows the user to combine symbols into picture sentences. HOME With Boardmaker and a Mac drawing program, users can build a display for nonspeak- ers to communicate by clicking on the appropriate symbol. contrast text colors; and easy naviga- tion tools to quickly review a docu- ment, select and speak text. > Ke:nx, an interface that emulates the Mac keyboard and mouse, allows use of alternative input devices such as membrane boards and sip-and-puff switches. It was recently updated to Version 2.0 by Don Johnston. ‘The $780 Apple Desktop Bus device now aecepts ASCII input over a serial con- nection. Upgrades are free. > Boardmaker, which Mayer- Johnson Co. updated this month, is a $399 database of 3,000 black-and- white pictures for use by people who cannot speak. The database can be expanded with imported color and black-and-white images. The new version works in 10 languages. Users can select images from the Lind ships new and updated chargers, adapters for PowerBooks and batteries By Raines Cohen Minneapolis — Lind Electronic Design Inc. this month updated its line of PowerBook power adapters and battery chargers and condition- ers, and shipped an automotive adapter for the Duo. > Faster charger and condi- tioner. The company shipped the SBC-1, a combination fast-charger and battery conditioner for Power- Book 1xx nickel-cadmium batteries. The $89.95 SuperCharger fully charges batteries in two hours or less, compared with the five or more hours other chargers require; it can also deeply discharge batteries to eliminate the memory effect when a battery gets partially discharged and will not fully charge. An automotive- power cable adapter sells for $10.95. > Rechargeable power pack. A new 5-pound external box, the APP- 2, can run a non-Duo PowerBook for about four times as long as the internal battery, according to the company. The $169.95 device includes cables allowing it to be charged either using Apple’s stan- dard PowerBook AC adapter or from an automotive cigarette lighter. > Duo auto adapter. The $99.95 PB-3 Automobile Power Adapter can recharge and power Mac Duos. > Double charger. The BC2- 100, which shipped this month for $89.95, can charge two PowerBook 1x batteries at once and simultane- ously supply power to a PowerBook. The lightweight $89.95 device draws power from Apple’s AC adapter. The company also reduced prices on its PowerBook 1xx auto adapters from $99.95 to $79.95. Lind Electronic Design Inc. is at 6414 Cambridge St., Minneapolis, Minn. 55426. Phone (612) 927- 6303 or (800) 659-5956; fax (612) 927-7740.0 database and build a display in any Mac drawing program. Displays can be printed out and carried as a com- munications board or spoken by the Mac with a companion program, Speaking Dynamically. > Speaking ically, due in April for $299 from Mayer-Johnson, is an authoring program with speech output. Selecting an on-screen button can make the Mac talk, type, play a recorded message, change screens or do several actions simultaneously. Pictures are imported from Board- maker to create communications dis- plays. Other features include word processing, word prediction and abbreviation expansion. The pro- gram can be accessed by mouse input, touchscreen ora single switch. > MIKE (Mouse Interface and Keyboard Emulation) software, which shipped this month from Prentke Romich Co., connects the Mac to the company’s Liberator, a $7,000 portable voice output com- munication aid. With the $195 MIKE software and a $415 keyboard emulator, Liberator can be used as an input device to the Mac, replacing both the keyboard and mouse. Liberator has a light-touch key switch surface for people with lim- ited upper limb mobility. It can also accept optical input from an infrared sensor that users wear on their head. Tn addition, the software can trans- mitto the Mac for word processing all the vocabulary that users have stored in their Liberator for vocalization. Don Johnston Developmental Equipment Inc. is at 1000 N. Rand Road, Building 115, Wauconda, Ill. 60084-0639. Phone (800) 999-4660; fax (708) 526-4177. Mayer-Johnson Co. is at P.O. Box 1579, Solana Beach, Calif. 92075-1579. Phone (619) 481- 2489; fax (619) 259-5726. Prentke Romich Co. is at 1022 Heyl Road, Wooster, Ohio 44691. Phone (216) 262-1984 or (800) 262- 1984; fax (216) 263-4829. 5 By Robert Hess Greenbrae, Calif. — Casa Blan- ca Works Inc. this month updated its Drive7 universal hard drive for- matting application. Version 2.3.4 of the $79.95 utili- ty adds support for SyQuest Tech- nology Inc.’s SQ5110C, an 88- Mbyte mechanism that can write as well as read 44-Mbyte cartridges. In addition, the new release con- tains a revised version of Drive7rem, a control panel that lets users mount and manage cartridges formatted with software from a variety of vendors. Casa Blanca Works said its control panel now complies with compatibili- ty guidelines recently proposed by SyQuest Technology Inc. SyQuest is attempting to establish a standard for removable-media drivers based on SCSIProbe 3.5, a freeware mounting utility (see MacWEEK, Feb. 8). Upgrades are $10. Casa Blanca Works Inc. is at 148 Bon Air Center, Greenbrae, Calif. 94904. Phone (415) 461-2227; fax (415) 461-2249. Aladdin fixes Stufflt Deluxe bugs Watsonville, Calif. — Aladdin Systems Inc. this month updated Stufflt Deluxe, fixing some bugs and adding functions. Version 3.0.5 of the $120 file- compression utility can now more reliably execute scripts and decom- press files stored in older-format archives, Aladdin said. The company also fixed bugs in the bundled Space- Saver extension and in Stuffit Lite, a shareware version of Stufflt Deluxe. Users can now rearrange the order of encrypted items in an archive and create fixed-size, multisegment, self- extracting archives in one operation. Stufflt’s UnZip translator is now compatible with the ZIP 2.0 standard used on IBM PCs and compatibles. Updaters for Version 3.0.1 or later are available free on-line or from Aladdin. Aladdin Systems Inc. is at 165 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, Calif. 95076. Phone (408) 761-6200; fax (408) 761-6206.0 SafeDeposit walks users through backups By Robert Hess Salt Lake City — Dayna Com- munications Inc. this week shipped its SafeDeposit automated backup system. SafeDeposit backs up to and from any media that can be mounted on the desktop (see MacWEEK, Jan. 25). ‘The application walks users through the process of setting up which files to back up, where to place the backups, when to perform backups and how to handle conflicts. Backups can be automated to run continuously, on command when volumes are mount- ed or at preset times. Files are backed up in Finder for- mat so they can be recovered with- out SafeDeposit, or SafeDeposit can be used to automate the process. For the next four months, SafeDeposit will sell for $99; after that, the list price will be $189. Multi-user licensing and a free expiring demo version are available. SafeDeposit Server, an automat- ed backup program for AppleShare servers, will ship next week, Dayna said. It will list at $229 for four months, after which it will be $449. Dayna Communications Inc. is at 849 W. Levoy Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84123. Phone (801) 269- 7394; fax (801) 269-7363.0 Backup Schedule @in Present Date: 03/24/93 Oorr OSuspena Present Time; 10:46:49 At Shutdown Backup QueueNeme [@9. 218, 24IEIG|EO] Todo] Last Backup TD 4 scott | 160/03/12/93 [oI © 00° disk . + 199 never FB Dayne NHS ° Olio44 Grants Folder . 1 [never + 2 never tial ° 2 never ks (Back Up Now ) (Restore } (options) (view) (Remove) (New) SafeDeposit backs up users’ files in the background; backups can be automated to run continuously, on command when volumes are mounted or at preset times. a higher Introducing the LaserWriter’Pro 600 and 630 printers from Apple. Never before have workgroup printers this affordable produced this level of output. Offering you true 600-dot-per-inch resolution, they deliver more than four times = the definition of _ comparably priced 300-dpi printers. oe Both models De Polen, Po 00 and 130 featt jotoGrade, an fs re a allowing breakthrough in you to print up to 91 levels of gray-scale printing ray —that’s 35% more grays than with our award-winning . Laserriter Il A process that intel- ligently adjusts the size and position of every dot in relation to neighboring dots, allowing plez standard incorporate an Apple called PhotoGrade” you to print up to 91 levels of gray at 300 dpi. That’ equivalent to a 1,000-dpi printer costing mountains more. The result is noticeably sharper details and the ability to reproduce the subtle tones of gray in black-and-white photographs. But even when you dont integrate photos into your documents, you'll still notice the difference. Because p= jae s° Both LaserWriter Pro models come with two paper trays and a bost of paper-handling options, including 4 500-sheet feeder and a 75-envelope feeder. Apples FinePrint” technology gives your text and line art cleaner edges and smoother curves. So your Truelype"and PostScript” ‘Type One fonts have never had more impact. Any way you look at it, your work looks better coming out of a LaserWriter Pro. ‘Two paper trays come standard, along with an array of options including a 500- sheet feeder and a 75-envelope feeder for a total paper-handling capacity of 850 sheets, ares 01993 4ple Compre tne. ll righ reserved Apple the Aple oo, Laer, Macias and The power tobe your best" are regiered ademars, and FinePrint, PhloGrade and Tui perioral babe ikem ieee Windows sa tte ehcaat sloop cor “.D. Power and Associales® 1992 Computer End User Satisfaction Study, Printers. 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"Manfred al pric Al upud eB I Tad ed ek personal computers and Apple Laser rinks. “= MACWEEK 03.29.93 BestBooks combines finance, accounting Teleware app aimed at small businesses By Jon Swartz Rockaway, N.J. —Teleware Inc. this month shipped a bookkeeping software program for small busi- nesses that combines personal finance and accounting features. BestBooks provides small-business users with a simple nonaccounting program to automate their books, according to the company. The pack- age, which shipped in a Microsoft Windows-compatible version earlier this year, borrows the graphical interface of Teleware’s M.Y.O.B. accounting software. ‘The $99 application features: > Data-entry helpers. Every data-entry screen resembles its real-world counterpart. Checks, deposits, invoices and purchases can be memorized for recurring entry singly or in batches. > Customizable forms. Users can work with the integrated draw- ing module to customize checks, invoices and mailing labels. Users can move and resize fields, import graphics such as company logos from other applications, and draw lines and boxes. > Invoicing. The program fea- tures both item invoices for resellers and service invoices for profession- als such as lawyers and accountants. Original invoice detail can be re- created using the company’s trace- back technology. Many elements are interlinked; for example, click- ing on a customer’s name displays the customer’s profile. As a result, users can skip printing hard copies of individual invoices to save paper. “Most [accounting] packages are either too complex or oversimpli- fied,” said beta-tester Bill Vick, owner of Vick & Associates, an executive-recruiting company based in Plano, Texas. “BestBooks was easy to navigate around, and its ability to import from [Intuit Inc.’s] Quicken is particularly useful.” Teleware said it will offer an upgrade path from BestBooks to M.Y.O.B. Teleware Inc. is at 300 Roundhill Drive, Rockaway, NJ. 07866. Phone (201) 586-2200 or (800) 322- 6962; fax (201) 586-8885. 0 FWB ships new 3.5-inch SyQuest, internal hard drives for Duo Docks By Kirsten L. Parkinson San Francisco — FWB Inc. last week rolled out five new storage devices, including a 3.5-inch Sy- Quest drive and internal drives for the Duo Dock. > New SyQuest. The hammer- Disk105, due next month for $1,299, will offer a capacity of 105 Mbytes per cartridge. It will have an average seek time of 14.5 millisec- onds and a sustained data transfer rate of 1.75 Mbytes per second. ‘The drive will ship with one car- tridge and a copy of Hard Disk ToolKit, FWB’s universal format- ting and SCSI utility package, which lists separately for $199.95. Additional cartridges will be $125. > Duo Dock drives. The compa- ny is now shipping four 3.5-inch internal drives that fit the Duo Docks. Based on a Quantum mechanism, the $779 hammer240is offers a capac- ity of 240 Mbytes and an average seek time of 14 milliseconds. When con- nected to a SCSI-2 adapter, such as FWB’s SCSI JackHammer, the drive supports burst-mode transfers at up to 10 Mbytes per second. The Duo Dock drive is also avail- able in 80-Mbyte, 120-Mbyte and 170-Mbyte models for $399, $529 and $599, respectively. Also based on Quantum mechanisms, these three drives offer average seek times of 17 milliseconds and data transfer rates of up to 3 Mbytes per second. The Duo Dock drives ship with Hard Disk ToolKit Version 1.3, an update released last month. FWB plans a further update next month to Version 1.3.1, which will be required for the hammerDisk105 and other vendors’ implementa- tions of the 3.5-inch SyQuestmech- anism. Upgrades are $10 or free with return of the original disk. FWB Inc. is at 2040 Polk St, Suite 215, San Francisco, Calif. 94109. Phone (415) 474-8055; fax (415) 775-2125.0 MacPalette puts color printing in background Microspot driver uses dither patterns By Matthew Rothenberg Cupertino, Calif — Image- Writer II owners this month advanced to background printing of color images when Microspot USA Inc. shipped an update to its Mac- Palette II driver. Like earlier versions, MacPalette IL 2.3 costs $69 and replaces Apple’s ImageWriter II driver. Microspot’s software uses dither patterns to image more than 250,000 colors with the standard four-color ribbon, compared with the Apple driver’s eight-color limit. Besides back- ground printing, Version 2.3 adds two spiral dither patterns, bringing the total number of patterns to four. According to Microspot, its Chooser-level driver supports nearly all applications; it runs only on Macs with Color QuickDraw in ROM. MacPalette II is compatible with Adobe Type Manager as well as TrueType fonts, the company said. Current users can upgrade for $15. Microspot also offers a $249 AppleTalk version of the driver that lets multiple Macin- toshes print to one ImageWriter II. In addition, Microspot sells Mac- Plot pen plotter drivers, which let Mac applications print on a number of different plotters. Microspot USA Inc. is at 20421 Stevens Creek Blvd. Suite 240, Cupertino, Calif, 95014. Phone (408) 253-2000; fax (408) 253-2055.0 Version 2.3 of Zwonderrrint —-@ nalttone Slides: Print Sides _O Print Hondouts [Reverse order Printing lerint Notes on Orr Onither Microspot’s MacPalette I! driver lets ImageWriter Il [| users print color | images in the background. a| OPrint goth | includes exercises and step-by-step instructions FROM THE Bookshelf This week we focus on books about the latest versions of the word processors from Microsoft Corp. and Claris Corp.: Microsoft Word 5.1 and MacWrite Pro. Word 5.1 Companion By the Cobb Group This officially sanctioned guide to Microsoft Word 5.0 and 5.1 covers the basics of work- ing with the program and offers extended dis- cussion of the new features. A section covers the use of Apple’s QuickTime to enliven documents. $29.95 / 687 pages / ISBN 1-55615-544-1 Microsoft Press, a division of Microsoft Corp. 1 Microsoft Way / Redmond, Wash. 98052-6399 Phone (206) 882-8080 or (800) 677-7377 / Fax (615) 793-3915 Word 5.1 for the Mac at Your Fingertips By David Krassner This updated edition of a guide to the word processing program includes essays on tricks and examples. The book details new fea- tures of Version 5.1 and includes SnapGuides, which are brief essays on user topics. $9.95 / 275 pages / ISBN 0-7821-1230-7 Sybex Inc. 2021 Challenger Drive / Alameda, Calif. 94501 Phone (510) 523-8233 / Fax (510) 523-2373 -| Microsoft Word 5.1 for the Macintosh Made Easy By Paul Hoffman Set up as a beginner's guide, this book gives specific instruction on the new features of Version 5.1. Numbered lessons are aided by examples and illustrations. Sections on style sheets and outlining offer tips to stay organized. $19.95 / 354 pages / ISBN 0-07-881949-0 Osborne McGraw-Hill, a division of McGraw-Hill Inc. 2600 10th St. / Berkeley, Calif. 94710 Phone (510) 549-6600 or (800) 227-0900 / Fax (510) 549-6603 MacWrite Pro Inside & Out By Steve Michel and Dale Coleman Written by two MacWEEK editors, this book for using all the features of the newest version of Claris’ word processor. Sections cover tables and the desktop publishing features as well as System 7 support. $24.95 / 239 pages / ISBN 0-07-88 1864-8 Osborne McGraw-Hill, a division of McGraw-Hill Inc. 2600 10th St. / Berkeley, Calif. 94710 Phone (510) 549-6600 or (800) 227-0900 / Fax (510) 549-6603 Envisio kit to let users stack drives By lan G. Jacobs St. Paul, Minn. — After shipping its Smart- Stack modular storage system this month, Envisio Inc. is preparing a kit that will allow do- it-yourselfers to add their own hard drives to the boxes. The $89 SmartKit, due next month, Mass Micro drives down prices on storage line By Kirsten L. Parkinson Sunnyvale, Calif. — Mass Microsystems Inc. st week cut the prices on its standard hard , Fast 2 drives and removable- media drives by up to 24 percent. The company’s DiamondDrives, with capacities ranging from 120 Mbytes to 1.8 Gbytes, dropped 4 percent to 18 percent. For example, the 1-Gbyte external Diamond- Drive is now $2,999, down from $3,395. Cuts to the high-capacity Fast SCSI-2 MASSterDrives ranged from 3 percent to 13 percent. The 2.8-Gbyte external model dropped $836, to $7,359, while the 2.8-Gbyte internal drive fell $746, to $6,949. In its DataPak line of removable-cartridge drives, Mass Microsystems reduced the price of its 44-Mbyte external SyQuest drive $20, to $749, while the 88-Mbyte DataPak 88c dropped to $799, a $100 cut. ‘The company’s 128-Mbyte external optical drive is now $1,499, down from $1,799, while its internal model fell to $1,419, a $280 drop. The HitchHiker line of external pocket- size drives saw cuts of 8 percent to 24 percent. Mass Microsystems Inc. is at 810 W. Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086. Phone (408) 522-1200; fax (408) 733-5499. 0 Bear Rock delivers new sets of bar codes By lan G. Jacobs Shingle Springs, Calif. — Bear Rock Tech- nologies Corp. this month shipped an upgrade to its family of bar-code fonts and bundled the fonts with a label-design program. New volumes of PrintBar 4.0 create Post- net and Bookland EAN bar codes, as well as the Code 39, UPC, Interleaved 2 of 5 and FIM (Facing Identification Mark) codes already available. All the fonts are supplied in PostScript’ Type 1 format; the Code 39 and Interleaved 2 of 5 fonts also are available in a bit-mapped version. Each of the five $225 volumes ships with Williams and Macias Inc.’s StickyBusiness Plus Special Edition, which contains more than 160 label templates. The label-making program sells separately for $140. Upgrades to Version 4.0 are $45. Users who purchased in the past 90 days can upgrade free. Bear Rock Technologies Corp. is at 4140 Mother Lode Drive, Suite 100, Shingle Springs, Calif. 95682. Phone (916) 672-0244 or (800) 232-7625; fax (916) 672-1103.0 includes all the components required to install a half-height or 1-inch-high hard disk drive into the $249 SmartStack base unit, called a SmartSource (see MacWEEK, Jan. 4). The SmartStack system allows users to add as many as seven drives while using only one power source and SCSI connector. All the How TO BE NEAT, drives have individual SCSI IDs, but they transfer data through the stack’s unique Pass- ‘Through Bus connector. This lets users avoid the hassle of dealing with separate power cables and SCSI daisychaining problems. The SmartSource base also contains a 120- watt power supply, a fan and two 50-pin SCSI connectors. The SmartKit includes an enclosure holding the drive, hardware for mounting the enclosure, and all the cables and internal connectors. News MACWEEK 03.29.93 iardldiedrivestiom Seapateaiechigleal prleeiGenner Periplicrak Inc and @ aa fat Goree Wel becupporied cece ny said. Envisio’s technical-support staff | call aga a ihat ie adedietraeatatal her evra, | SmartKit users will also be able to add opti- cal drives and digital audio tape systems. Envisio Ine. is at 2640 Patton Road, St. Paul, Minn, 55113. 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Step 6: Pick up Now Up-to-Date 2.0. Or, for more info, call us at 1-800-237-3611. Step 7: Quit goofing around reading soft- ware ads and get back to work. Software 1 fax 716-873-0906. News MACWEEK 03.29.93 Choosing hardware support means weighing trade-offs Hardware By Larry Stevens Hiring a company to provide service hardware-support services may be one of the most complex purchasing companies decisions a manager will ever have tomake. Virtually all companies offer many _ thatprovide the service offer a large menu of choices, each of which has options. to be weighed to determine its cost- benefit ratio. However, most man- Selecting agers said the decision making one requires becomes simpler when they pay close attention to their computer availability requirements. balancing Lee Rizio, vice president of infor- mation systems for Jenny Craig cost vs. International Inc. in Del Mar, Calif., said the importance of the equipment equipment — —notcost—has tobe the most significant factor. “We chose four- redundancy. _ hourservice {from ComputerLand Corp.], even though it was expensive, because when we analyzed our situa- tion, we discovered we needed that kind of response,” he said. “We had enough redundancy in our equip- mentso that people can jump on another system if a computer goes down. But we don’t have as much redundancy in our LAN servers. We depend heavily on the network, and we didn’t wantit to be out for more than halfa day.” What vendors can offer. ComputerLand, based in Concord, Calif; JWP Inc. of Rye Brook, N.Y.; and Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif, for example, all offer either carry-in or on-site ser- vice on an annual contractual basis. The on-site service can have a guar- anteed response time of four hours, eight hours, the next day or two- day service. And that time period can refer to business hours only, or 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Another option is once-a-w vice, in which a service team v on the same day each week and solves any problems at that time. Cost not the prime driver. Obviously, the quicker the response, the more expensive the contract. But while price is certain- ly an issue, Al Andrus, senior vice president of service and support for ComputerLand, said: “Costisn’t the prime driver. The two main fac- tors determining the level of service acompany chooses are how much downtime it can afford and how much hardware redundancy it has.” Taia Ergueta, product marketing manager for open systems support at Hewlett-Packard, agreed. She said: “Those who opt for one-day service typically have no redundan- cy in critical areas of the enterprise. Those who sign up for once-a-week service have two of everything that’s critical, such as network servers.” Toward the other side of the spectrum is a manufacturing com- pany that opted for JWP’s two-day response time. The company, which declined to be named, ties manufacturing and business processes — most running on VAXes— through a DECnet net- work. Sparing no expense, ithired an in-house staff to respond to problems with the DEC machines. However, the company’s 25 Macs and 30 DOS machines are in the hands of sales, marketing, human resources and executives running standard off-the-shelf applications. ‘The company’s information sys- tems manager said: “If one of those machines goes down, someone may be upset, but our business will go on. We can stand someone being a little upset for two days.” Keeping prices low. Besides accepting slower response time, ser- vice providers said there are other ways that companies may be able to keep prices low. See Support, next page In away, third-party help-desk services are to software publishers’ technical- support lines what personal cars are to public transportation. The former are extremely convenient but expensive; the latter is cheaper or free but impersonal and offers spotty levels of service. However, most users, even those who opt to contract third-party help-desk providers, seem satisfied with the service offered by publishers’ technical-support lines. After all, although the cost of pro- viding technical support is buried in the price of the software, the service appears to be free. And in most cases, it is entirely adequate. 18 COND Dave Slifer of Booz-Allen & Hamilton said he’s fairly satisfied with software publishers’ technical-support lines. But the company is considering using a third-party help desk. Software publishers’ technical-support lines vs. third-party help desks The main problem, some said, is that the quality of service isn’t always level. Dave Slifer, hot line support manager at Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc. in McLean, Va., said: “Some publishers have excellent technical-support lines that are operated by people who know what they’re doing ‘and who pick up on the first few rings. But there are others that will take you a half- hour to get through, and the person you finally get doesn’t fully understand the problem.” Despite this, Slifer believes that when Booz-Allen & Hamilton users are asked to call a publisher's technical-support line instead of the company’s internal hot line, they are generally satisfied, But to even out the level of service users receive, the company is now considering signing up with a third-party help- desk service. Greg Mefford, an editor at the Galveston {Texas) Daily News, said he has had good luck with his publishers’ hot lines when asking questions specifically about the publisher's own products. But he hasn’t fared as well when the question involved moving data from one package to another. “If you want to know how to export or import data to or from another program,” he said, “the technician sometimes can help, or sometimes he just reads the names of the formats the software supports and sends me to the tech line of the other soft- ware company to see about exporting in that format. | could go back and forth two or three times before I get my question answered.” To solve this problem, Mefford recently signed up with ComputerLand Corp.’s Help Desk service, whose technicians are trained on all the packages Mefford uses. | Frances Hernandez, production assistant at the National Association of Purchasing Management Inc. in Tempe, Ariz., said the main advantage of using third-party help-desk services is that “I have one 800 number to call to get help on any of my packages.” Hernandez, a relatively new Mac user who recently purchased seven software packages, said she didn’t want to “keep track of a different number and speak to a different person for each package.” Finally, Mefford said there is an advan- tage to using a service where technicians are familiar with him and his Mac’s config- uration. “When | reach someone who knows my name and who is familiar with my setup, | don’t have to spend time explaining what system and INITs | have installed,” he said. — By Larry Stevens ‘INES RONOSAY Lee Rizio of Jenny Craig International chose a support ser- vice that offers a four-hour turn- around because equipment availabil- ity was of critical importance to him. Calendar of Events APRIL 1-2: Wireless/PCS V, Washington, D.C. Wireless, voice and data technologies confer- ence. Contact Telecommunications Reports at (202) 842-3022 or (800) 822-6338; fax (202) 842-3023. 2-4: National Apple User Group Symposium and Workshop '93, Ypsilanti, Mich. User group management and issues conference. Contact NAUGSAW ’93 at (313) 482-0501; fax (313) 426-8481. 3: Northern California Mac Users Confer- ence. Regional user-focused trade show. Con- tact Stanislaus Macintosh Computer Club at (209) 599-3082. 5-7: Apple Enterprise Computing Confer- ence, San Francisco. Products and technolo- gies to integrate client-server, mobile and workgroup computing into your network. Contact Apple at (415) 966-8978 or (800) 841-2322; fax (415) 966-8934. 12-14: Silicon Valley Networking Confer- ence & Exposition, Santa Clara, Calif. Panel discussions, tutorials and exhibits focusing on network-management issues. Contact Sys- Tech Research at (408) 924-3930; fax (408) 997-8265. 12-15: FOSE’93, Washington, D.C. Federal Office Systems Exhibition. Contact National Trade Productions Inc. at (703) 683-8500 or (800) 638-8510; fax (703) 836-4486. 13-16: Seybold Boston ‘93, Boston. Seminar focusing on publishing technologies. Contact Seybold Seminars at (310) 457-8500 or (800) 433-5200; fax (310) 457-8510. 14-16: SIM Institutional Member Conference, Rancho Mirage, Calif. Information technology leadership and management issues discussed. Contact the Society for Information Manage- ment at (312) 644-6610; fax (312) 245-1081. 18-22; CDISC-4, Newport Beach, Calif. Fourth-annual Compact Disc-Interactive Soft- ware Conference. Contact Philips Interactive Media of America at (310) 444-6519; fax (310) 477-4953. 19-22: Object Expo, New York. National conference and exhibition on object-oriented technology. Contact SIGS Conferences at (212) 274-9135; fax (212) 274-0899. 21-23: Aldus Developers Conference, Seat- tle. For retail, hardware and software devel- ‘opers who want to make their products com- patible with Aldus products or write Aldus Additions. Contact Aldus Corp. at (206) 343- 4249; fax (206) 343-4240. Please submit notices of conferences, trade shows and other Mac-related events to Calendar, MacWEEK, 301 Howard St., 15th Floor, San Francisco, Calif. 94105, or fax (415) 243-3650. No training or educational seminars please. Support For example, Mike Turner, JWP director of services marketing, said that if client com- pany is willing to buy and store its own spare parts, he might be able to provide one-day service while billing the company fot two-day service. This is because much of the extra cost of one-day vs. two-day service results from JWP?’s expenses for stocking parts. Besides varying levels of service, support From previous page companies offer a number of billing options. ‘The standard policy charges an annual fixed fee for all services performed, but other options include actual cost of time and mate- rials and a fixed price per each incident. While the billing options vary in the way customers pay for the service, they are all based on the same statistical figure: the aver- age failure rate of the installed equipment. Accordingly, any company whose hardware fails ata rate close to average — obviously the News MACWEEK 03.29.93 vast majority —will find its annual bill the same no matter which billing option it selects. 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The first piece of the system, MacIPX, will deliver native IPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange) sup- port for the Mac. Due next month, MacIPX will be offered to users under a site license, and developers will be able to bundle the stack with applications. How Macs go native on NetWare MaclPX ue next month) | Due within 12 months Source: Novell Inc. While the forthcoming MacIPX does not provide file and print ser- vices, developers can use it to write the applications that will run on Macs and other clients in IPX networks. “Right now, we want to get MacIPX on as many Macs as possi- ble,” said Steven Ethier, principal Tech Analysis Meeting face to interface By Michael Miley The word “meeting” is a dirty word at many organizations. While group discussions are aimed at increasing productivity, too often their result is exactly the opposite: Travel requirements, delays and wayward discussions are just a few of the well-known reasons why meet- ings have such a bad reputation. Increasingly, however, organiza- tions are eschewing face-to-face gath- erings in favor of face-to-interface meetings. Computer conferencing prod- ucts offer real-time alternatives to meetings, while bulletin boards, with their forums and threads, let people collaborate over time. Both allow forms of group work that ordinary electronic mail is simply not equipped to handle. Both also can encourage deep changes in the way people conduct their business. Real-time collaboration gotits first big boost with products such as Tim- buktu from Farallon Computing Inc. of Alameda, Calif, and ScreenLink (formerly CarbonCopy Mac) from Datawatch Corp. of Durham, N.C. Both products allow remote control of one Mac by another, with full access to the files and programs on that Mac, and both can extend them- selves to groups and work over tele- phone lines. Collaborative use of these products includes remote train- ing and customer service. control of the other Mac’s Finder; hence, groups work serially with such programs. By contrast, true interactive group conferencing is enabled using Vis-A-Vis from WorldLinx Telecommunications Inc. of Mississauga, Ontario, or Aspects Document Collaboration See Meetings, Page 22 if wna | ’ | t | engineer of the MacIPX stack for Novell. “It’s going to be a big win for cross-platform solutions.” While Novell assured Macnetwork managers at BrainShare ’93 that the NetWare for Macintosh NLM is “not going away any time soon,” the com- pany said NSSM and native IPX sup- port for the Mac can benefit network managers trying to contain the prolif- eration of protocols on the network. “AppleTalk is a real thorn in our side,” said Richard Hornbaker, a net- work engineer who preferred that his company name be withheld. “If we can get rid of AppleTalk and do it cleanly with IPX, we will,” he said. In addition to allowing Mac applications to make calls to Net- Ware 4.0’s file and print services, See Novell, Page 18 > Networking ® > Communicati ° By Nathalie Welch Reading, Pa. — An upcoming upgrade to Synergy Software’s VersaTilities TCP/IP connectivity tools will give users a graphical interface to Internet mail, news and directory services. The Internet interface, called VersaTerm-Link, will be included in VersaTilities 1.1, which is due in June for $145. VersaTerm-Link will offer a point-and-click address book and the ability to read and compose mail off-line. VersaTilities, developed by Abel- beck Software, also based here, is bun- dled with Synergy’s VersaTerm ter- minal emulator, which will rise from $149 to $195 when VersaTerm-Link ships, and the $295 VersaTerm Pro. VersaTilities can also be used with other programs that are compatible with the Macintosh Communications Toolbox or MacTCP. Users will be able to access Internet services via a palette of icons. Versa- Term-Link will send mail via SMTP Synergy’s Versalerm-Link puts friendly face on Internet services (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), while the POP3 (Post Office Proto- col) will be used to retrieve mail. The Network News Transfer Protocol | will be built into the application to let users post and read network news messages, while Finger, Whois and Ph protocols will be incorporated for retrieval of directory information. Aladdin Systems Inc.’s Stufflt is incorporated into VersaTerm-Link to provide automatic compression of files. Recipients must have Versa- Term-Link Stufflt or Stufflt Ex- pander, a free utility notincluded with the package, installed on their Mac. VersaTilities includes the Telnet (Terminal Session Protocol for TCP/IP) tool; the FTP (File Trans- fer Protocol) Client; and a Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) extension, which lets users log onto a SLIP server from VersaTerm-Link. Synergy Software is at 2457 Perkiomen Ave., Reading, Pa. 19606. Phone (215) 779-0522 or (800) 876- 8376; fax (215) 370-0548.0 [CS Fie tan Mait_NeursUirectory FIP Network Tools Synergy Dersererm Line Tersaiorm-Link Status fron: Rite Rlexender Tike Tor Fritz Benedict <fritzn der Software’s VersaTerm-Link provides users with a palette of icons to ‘access Internet “nike (BA connecting sur. i Tebu eb news, mail Kscteise and directory services. al tUlensejone.net> itisen, kno. this 12 @ short bit of Info that the pre-release UersaTere-Link users should a eer StarNine smooths route from QM to Vines, Unix By Nathalie Welch Berkeley, Calif. — StarNine Technologies Inc. this week will | ship a new gateway between CE Real-time interaction. Tim- | buktu and ScreenLink take remote | Software Inc.’s QuickMail and Banyan Systems Inc.’s Vines Mail and unveil a new version of its Mac- to-Unix gateway. > Mail*Link for Vines/QM. The gateway will reside on a Quick- Mail server with direct or bridged connection to a Banyan Vines net- work to let QuickMail users exchange mail with Vines users. Banyan’s Vines Mail server sup- ports direct AppleTalk connections. The StarNine gateway is com- patible with Vines 5.0 and will con- vert QuickMail addresses for use by StreetTalk, the distributed naming utility in Vines. Administrators can configure the gateway to send Mac files as enclo- sures via the Applesingle file- enclosure format or by sending only the data fork of the file. > Mail*Link SMTP 2.2 for QuickMail. Due next month, this provides SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) connectivity for QuickMail users needing to send mail over TCP/IP networks. 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TV ASANTE ALL THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS™ [ Asanté Technologies, 821 Fox Lane, San Jose, CA 95131, 408-435-8388 ]_—$_ Gateways MACWEEK 03.29.93 Cameo calls up file transfer capabilities Teleconferencing app adds screen capture By Nathalie Welch San Jose, Calif. — Compression Labs Inc. has shipped a software upgrade for its Cameo desktop video teleconferencing system that lets users transfer files and capture screens during a conference call. Cameo 2.0, available now, lets the $2,095 Cameo Personal Video System Model 2001 send and receive Mac files at 56 Kbps over digital telephone lines. The Model 2001 requires that users install an ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) card, such as the $1,695 Planet-ISDN card from Euronis of France, and a video display card to provide 15-frame-per-second, 24- bit-color video. “Adding the ability to transfer files ‘was a major improvement,” said Craig Hansen, a faculty member at the Uni- versity of Minnesota in St. Paul, who runs a program that lets college stu- dents tutor area high school students via video desktop teleconferencing. “We were using an Ethernet network to move files around separately from the video application, but it is much more convenient to have {that capability} in Cameo.” The new software lets users capture a still-frame image of a portion ofa screen or take a snapshot using the video camera ora presentation graph- ics stand. The cap- tured image can then be transmitted and displayed on a remote Mac. Cameo 2.0 can be used with third-party video applications, such as RasterOps Corp.'s Media Grab- ber, to capture and record video images to disk. In addition to sup- porting RasterOps’ $999 24STV and $3,499 24XLTV video cards, the system now supports SuperMac Send File Sending: Cameo Marketing Plan Cameo fsxzazz91 tayis-402-454-2291 | ‘Compression Labs’ upgraded software lets users capture screen or camera images and transmit them to remote Macs. Technology Inc’s Video Spigot, Fast Electronics U.S. Inc.’s Screen Machine Card and RasterOps’ MediaTime cards. Upgrades are free. Compression Labs Inc. is at 2860 Junction Ave., San Jose, Calif. 95134. Phone (408) 435-3000; fax (408) 922-4608. 0 Multi-Tech lets loose modem-escape technology By Nathalie Welch Mounds View, Minn. — Mult- Tech Systems Inc. is offering a new modem-escape technology it claims is more reliable than the patented method from Hayes Microcomput- er Products Inc. The technology, which Multi-Tech will offer free to other modem developers, is the lat- est shot in an ongoing feud between Hayes and other vendors. An escape sequence tells a modem to leave the on-line state, where it Novell NSSM will support directory ser- vices and user log-on security. A network browser, which Novell will call NetWare Chooser, will super- sede the Mac’s own Chooser to let users view and access services on NetWare 4.0 networks. Novell is developing drop-in mod- ules that will add support for AOCE (Apple Open Collaboration Environ- ment) directory, messaging and secu- rity services. A responder module that will give Mac, Windows, OS/2 and Unix clients in IPX networks peer-to- peer file sharingiis also planned. Also within the next year, Novell said it will port pieces of the NSSM architecture to the NetWare for Macintosh NLM to give AppleTalk networks access to 4.0’s directory and messaging services. 0 From Page 16 sends and receives data, and enter the command mode, where it receives commands and sends confirmation or error messages from the compiler. The techniques used to signal escapes are the heart of a legal and technical battle that was triggered several years ago by Hayes success- fully forcing competitors to license its patented technique, called the Heatherington 302 sequence. Multi-Tech originally developed an alternative technique called TIES (Time Independent Escape Se- quence), which was implemented in 1991 by several modem vendors in response to Hayes’ patent litigation. Recently, Atlanta-based Hayes waged a negative advertising campaign to convince users of TIES-based modems they were in danger oflosing data during transmissions. Last month Multi-Tech began supporting a new escape sequence, <BREAK> AT <CR>, in all its modems in addition to TIES. Multi-Tech said its new escape sequence, which uses the out-of band “break” signal, makes it impos- sible for a file transfer to accidentally trigger an escape to command mode. Both TIES and Hayes’ technologies use an in-band escape sequence. “Hayes continues to throw fear, uncertainty and doubt about escape sequences when there was never a problem,” said Tom Hiemerman, Multi-Tech Systems vice president of sales and marketing. “We are provid- ing something free to other modem makers that Hayes admitted doesn’t infringe but works a lot better.” Multi-Tech Systems Inc. is at 2205 Woodale Drive, Mounds View, Minn. 55112. Phone (612) 785-3500; fax (612) 785-9874. 0 GDT gives Macs NetWare print links Burnaby, British Columbia — GDT Softworks Inc. is expanding its PowerPrint line to give Macintosh users on NetWare networks access to IBM PC and compatible printers. PowerPrint/NW, due in May and priced at $499 for up to 50 users, lets Macs share a variety of dot-matrix, inkjet and laser printers via the Novell network. Featuring Chooser-level printer drivers, PowerPrint/NW gives Mac users control over printer functions, including image resolution, bin and tray selection, and double-sided printing. GDT Softworks Inc. is at 4664 Lougheed Highway, Suite 188, Burnaby, British Columbia V5C 6B7, Canada. Phone (604) 291- 9121 or (800) 630-6222; fax (604) 291-9689. 0 Gateways Bak | ER S Compatible boosts router throughput Boulder, Colo. — Compatible Systems Corp. this month released an upgrade to its RISC*Router 3000E software that push- es the router's Ethernet throughput to the limit. Version 1.1 of Compatible’s router software provides throughput of 14,800 packets per second, the maximum possible with current Ethernet technology, according to the company. The upgrade is now shipping with all RISC*Router 3000E Ethernetto-Ethernet routers. Upgrades for current users are free from Compatible, or users can download the software on the Internet and AppleLink. The $2,995 RISC*Router 3000E also includes two LocalTalk ports; support for AppleTalk, TCP/IP and DECnet protocols; built- in security; and Mac router-management software. Compatible Systems Corp. is at P.O. Box 17220, Boulder, Colo. 80308. Phone (303) 444-9532 or (800) 356-0283; fax (303) 444.9595. AST delivers expandable LocalTalk-to-Ethernet router liamsville, Md. — AST Communications Inc. is shipping a LocalTalk-to-Ethernet router with expandable LocalTalk support. The $2,500 ComTalk H200 includes two Ethernet ports. As many as six LocalTalk ports may be added by installing expansion cards. The first two LocalTalk cards cost $200 each; additional cards are $750. AST bundles AppleTalk-to TCP/IP gateway software with the H200. The company said users of its single-port Ethernet routers can now add an Ethernet expansion card for $1,100. 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