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68040 accelerators DayStar Turbo 040, Fusion [> TokaMac 33c bring older. = — Macs to Quadra level = Lane La Cie Silverscanner Il _( New scanner engine a big improvement Map-making software A comparison of Geocart = ¢— and Azimuth 05.17.93 Volume 7 Number 20 THE NEWSWEEKLY FOR MACINTOSH MANAGERS ‘High-performance Apple port fo take Mac connectivity by storm By Robert Hess Cupertino, Calif. — Apple will | bring a new world of connectivity possibilities to the Mac with a high- performance digital communications port to be introduced this summer. Dubbed GeoPort, the technolo- gy will be included in the Cyclone and Tempest Macs due this summer, as well as in PowerPC-based Macs next year. Products in Apple’s personal-electronics line, such as Newton, will also | eventually use GeoPort technology. GeoPort consists of several hard- ware and software components: a new physical connection, an appli- cation programming interface (API) and other software that takes advan- tage of digital signal processing (DSP) chips, hardware and third- party external interface boxes that connect toa GeoPortand expand its connectivity. While current Mac serial ports serve one function at a time, the GeoPort supports such high throughput that, when it is com- bined with the multiplexing tech- nology, it can maintain multiple connections. ‘Theoretically, users could simul- taneously print to a high-speed serial printer, download data from an on-line ser- vice at 144 Kbps and maintain a high-bandwidth network connection — all through a single GeoPort. Sources said Apple believes a GeoPort can deliver as much as 2 | Mbits per second throughput, about 10 times faster than current Local Talk ports. Apple is most excited about | GeoPort’s telephony possibilities, according to sources. The company is encouraging the development of external interface boxes that can be hooked up to GeoPort to inexpensively connect the Macintosh to ISDN (Integrated See GeoPort, Page 128 Amber: Apple’s answer to OLE Open doc architecture | Building a compound document =f unveiled at WWDC By Raines Cohen and Henry Norr San Jose, Calif. — Apple last week unveiled a new cross-platform open- document architecture intended to redefine the relationship between documents, applications and users — and, not incidentally, to offer applica- tion developers an alternative to a comparable specification from Microsoft Corp. The Apple-developed technolo- gy, called Amber, is designed to bring about a gradual shift from the application-centered approach that characterizes desktop computing toward a more document-centered approach. Announcing the technology at its Worldwide Developers Conference here last week, Apple said it will make the Amber specification and source code available without restriction and work with other vendors to bring the architecture to Windows and Unix. Now > Document tied to one ‘application > Applications bloated and complex > Limited support for other data types via Clipboard, publish and Single document Editing in place Smaller tools Support for any data type subscribe, etc. Mac and Windows implementations will be available within a year, with the Unix code to follow, according to company officials. Documents created by future Amber-compatible applications will be capable of storing and displaying any kind of data, and users will be able to edit any data type directly from within such documents; provided that an application capable of editing the WIDE-AREA | NETWORKS MacWEEK examines high-bandwidth technologies Mac apps to find new home on Unix turf Current software will run on workstations By Henry Nort and April Streeter San Jose, Calif. — Apple last week announced plans to bring the long-proprietary look and feel of the Mac to users of high-powered Unix workstations from Sun Micro- systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and possibly other open-systems vendors. With representatives of the work- station vendors on hand to endorse the move, Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference here that its Enterprise Systems SOND CLAS 5 Division will provide a set of soft- ware modules, tentatively called Apple Services for Open Systems, that will enable existing Macintosh applications to run without modifi- cation in an X Window on the Unix systems. Eventually, Apple said, it will also offer native versions of the Mac Tool- box and application programming interfaces for such Unix variants as AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Unix Sys- tems Laboratories Inc.’s Unixware. See Open Systems, Page 127 IL CEO John Sculley addressed developers at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, where Apple outlined its strategy to bring Mac software to a number of Unix platforms. Mie ve Be data is available in the user’s environ- ment, double-clicking on the data will cause that application’s menus to take over the tool bar; clicking on another type of data will in turn bring up a dif- ferent set of menus and tools. See Amber, Page 127 | ‘Apple unlatches ‘object-oriented Newton Toolkit By Carolyn Said San Jose, Calif. — Apple went to town last week to urge developers to write applications for its forthcom- | ing family of Newton products. At the Apple Worldwide Develop- ers Conference here, the company’s Personal Interactive Electronics Divi- sion rolled out the Newton Toolkit, a Mac-based set of developer tools for | its personal digital assistants. Devel- opers said they were impressed by the tools but remained cautious about the market possibilities. NewtonScript, an object-oriented dynamic language, is at the heart of Newton programming. | “NewtonScript is vastly superior to HyperCard,” said Scott Wiener, CEO of Common Knowledge Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif. “It’s a real lan- guage, with real objects under it.” Wiener added: “All the capabilities of the platform are open to develop- ers. There’s no secret behavior that See Newton, Page 128 ANY TECHWORKS POWERRAM™ MEMORY UPGRADE Ino Your PowetBooK AND CONNECTIX POWERBOOK UTILITIES SPIRAL™, THE ELECTRONIC NOTE-TAKING TOOL FOR THE POWERBOOK, A $129 VALUE! CPU FROM CONNECTIX, 5 GREAT POWERBOOK UTILITIES, A $99 VALUE! ‘& File Edit Seorch Project Source Windows WC tolor = inite> clentond Ie = Gini teB shopClenHandle; *ctentondle * gBlackB|shopCierHondle; chest left = rankto; chest bot ton Protciconctafect, cl , Geordie C8 shop: if coecremvelte> rarkel ta = abe Symantec C++ for Macintosh brings a native compiler for the object-oriented language. Shown here is a sample application called Chess++. Apple turns to Symantec for new development tools By Henry Norr San Jose, Calif. — Apple may be setting the direction, but increas- ingly, it will be Symantec Corp. providing the tools that take Mac developers to new platforms. ‘As Symantec last week shipped new C++ and C compilers for the Mac and offered developers their first detailed glimpse at the Bedrock cross- platform application framework, Apple announced that it is turning to its Cupertino, Calif-based neighbor to create a new development environ- ment to succeed the Macintosh Pro- grammer’s Workshop. Designed to run on PowerPC- based Macs, the new product will incorporate features and technologies from MPW but will be derived pri- marily from Symantec’s Think series, officials said. Unlike Symantec's cur- rent Think products, however, the environment will have an open archi- tecture, allowing developers to plug in compilers for other languages and their favorite third-party tools. The product will be owned by Symantec but marketed by both com- panies. Apple and Symantec said they hope to release it soon after Apple delivers its first PowerPC-based Macs early nextyear. Nameand pricing have not been set. Apple said it will continue to support MPW but won’t make additional major investments in it. ‘The new environment, accompa- nied by PowerPC C++ and C compil- ers, is intended to simplify the devel- opment of native-mode applications for the new RISC Macs. Mac devel- opers have to turn to an RS/6000 workstation from IBM Corp. to com- pile code for the RISC Macs. Plans for the new environment were announced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference here, where Symantec also distrib- uted a free CD-ROM called the Bedrock Architecture CD. De- signed to help developers become familiar with the upcoming applica- tion framework for Mac and Win- dows, the disc includes Bedrock header files, documentation and sample programs. The company said it will deliver an initial version of Bedrock to developers in the fourth quarter and a second developer version in early 1994; general release will come later next year. In the here and now, Symantec has released three new products: > Symantec C++ 6.0 for Mac- intosh is the first Mac development environment with an integrated, native C++ compiler, which compa- ny officials described as “the fastest C++ compiler in the universe.” Positioned as the successor to Think C 6.0, the package also includes an improved C compiler; new versions of the Think browser, incremental linker and Project Man- ager; and Apple’s SourceServer, a code-control system intended to facilitate team programming. The package lists for $499; upgrades for Think C 5.0 users are $149.95. > Think C 6.0, priced at $299, does not include C++ but offers the other enhancements of Symantec C++ 6.0. Upgrades are $89.95. > Symantec C++ for MPW, priced at $499, offers MPW users a native C++ compiler that works, according to the company, 50 per- cent faster than Apple’s current C++ preprocessor for MPW. Symantec Corp. is at 10201 Torre Ave., Cupertino, Calif. 95014. Phone (408) 253-9600; fax (408) 253-4092.0 MacWEEK VOL.7.N0.20 05.17.93 4 NoHands, Frame polish electronic distribution 52 Common Ground ships ahead of Acrobat; Windows version slated for release this summer. Editorial Apple biting off more than it can chew with Unix. 52 Commentary/Jean-Louis Gassée 6 Synergy retools KaleidaGraph Microsoft taking telephony by the horns. Mathematical functions beefed up in Version 3.0 of technical-graphing and analysis program. 53 Letters Wherein Ramsey learns about caffeine and RAID. 18 MUGs support managers, employees Corporate user groups provide valuable resources for support, training and communications. 53. Mac Manager/Don Crabb Prepare for scripting revolution now and save! Reviews 57 Accelerators boost old Macs into the ‘040 zone DayStar’s 33-MHz Turbo 040 has slight edge over Fusion’s TokaMac 33c, but both make Macs fly. Gateways 24 Apple, Shiva to streamline remote access Companies will develop Point-to-Point Protocol technology for the Mac, Windows and Unix. Silverscanner II has all the elements for success 24 AppleShare patch to be released a La Cie scanner shines with improved software, engine. Version 3.0.2 fixes archiving bug and server-manager problems; speeds performance on some setups. Dialing into wide-area networks MacWEEK examines the world of high-bandwidth technology, including such issues as switching from analog to digital communications, public switched systems and Apple's foray into ISDN. 62 Software with a world view Professional map makers on solid ground with Graphsoft’s Azimuth and Terra Data’s Geocart. ProductWatch GA 40 _ DeltaPoint preparing versatile pack of Graphics Tools! Ufilties help users manipulate and organize images Sellen ah mle meneame Cem \Preseptos het the.calloh INDI MIDI products make music viable addition to 40 LaserMaster rolls out full-bleed tabloid-size printer corporate presentations. Unity 1200XL-O delivers 8 pages per minute at 1,200 dpi. 74 MaclnTouch/Ric Ford Waiting on the Finder. 44 Tablets give Mac artists good impression Pressure-sensitive tablets have gained wide appeal, though users still hope for improvements. 74 Ask David Ramsey Getting what you want out of APDA isn’t easy. Developers give Apple's plan a thumbs up Now all they need is the tools ofthe trade. 130 BusinessWatch 48 Despite recession, high-tech execs made big bucks Five Apple officials rank among top 20 in annual survey. 128 Advertiser Index 129 Product Index 77 Ad Showcase 79 Mail Order 109 Classified 48 Apple Europe undergoes major reorganization Division scraps centralized model, adopts regional plan. ‘MocWEEK (ISSN 0892-81 18) is published weekly, wit the exception of Aug. 30, Nv. 22, and Dec. 20 and 27 by ZftDavs Publishing Co, 1 Pork Ave., New Yor, N.Y. 10016. Single copy rice induding postage: $6. One-year subscription ate: U.S. $99, Canoda/Mexco U.S. $200, International: U.S. $325 (arma. All odes mus be prepaid Direc subscription inguites to Customer Service Department, MacWEEK, c/o JCI, P.O. Box 1766, Riverton, N.J. 08077-7366; (609) 461-2100. 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News MACWEEK 05.17.93 MacProject Pro learns to share Version 1.5 reads Microsoft MPX files By Lisa Picarille Santa Clara, Calif. — Claris Corp. this week will ship an upgrade to MacProject Pro designed to sim- plify data sharing and streamline productivity for users of the project manager. MacProject Pro 1.5 lets users exchange files with Mac and Win- dows versions of Microsoft Project, as well as other project-management applications that support the Micro- soft Project MPX format. The $599 program now has AppleScript support to help auto- | mate tasks such as batch printing. It comes with sample AppleScripts for batch printing and generating time lines from FileMaker Pro 2.0. Anew context-sensitive floating tools palette has 18 buttons for frequently used functions such Claris’ Mac- “GTi Et Cheri Lageet rane tnaigan Grpenta_inew’ Project Pro 1.5 “ a = = di 7 leadquarters ene Expansion Olmia) simultaneously Project in various time z increments, SS such as day, week, month = ee | | and year. a — | | comers 7 | | — a | as search, sort, print, column set- up and resource leveling. ‘A button called Perspective lets users save different views of charts with complete settings for chart positions, sort order and zoom. Views can be named and used in reports or presentations. “(Perspective] lets you give a view for anyone who needs a report for a specific time period,” said Randolph API fo open FrameViewer to more apps By Carolyn Said San Jose, Calif. — Frame Tech- nology Corp. is extending the scope of its FrameViewer cross-platform electronic document distribution program. Frame said the next version of FrameViewer will offer an applica- tion programming interface (API) to let developers integrate document viewing with other applications. FrameViewer now works only with documents created in Frame’s FrameMaker publishing application. FrameViewer, which runs on Mac, Windows and Unix platforms, lets networked users view, print, navigate and distribute electronic documents. Frame said outside developers will beable to customize the new version’s interface. For example, a developer could add or remove menu items fora particular installation. The updated FrameViewer will provide text search and retrieval through Verity Inc.’s retrieval engine, which supports Boolean and proximity searches. Adobe Systems Inc. has also licensed the Verity technology for its Acrobat document distribution scheme. With the new FrameViewer, users will be able to annotate docu- ments with electronic bookmarks and comments. The new Mac and Windows ver- sions will ship by year-end at about $90, the same price as the current ver- sion. The company said it has not set pricing for the developers kit that gives access to the FrameViewer API. Frame Technology Corp. is at 1010 Rincon Circle, San Jose, Calif. 95131. Phone (408) 433-3311, fax (408) 433-1928. 0 FIC lawyers to call for Microsoft injunction Washington — The Federal Trade Commission has decided to take another crack at Microsoft Corp. in its ongoing antitrust investigation. Staff lawyers in the FTC’s Bureau of Competition are expected to pre- sent a new set of recommendations to the FTC commissioners next month in their latest effort to file a federal injunction against the soft- ware giant, sources said. A final vote on the new recommendations is expected within 60 days. Industry sources said the com- plaint will allege that Microsoft has maintained its dominance of the personal computer industry by vio- lating antitrust laws. For almost three years, the FTC has been probing Microsoft’s meth- ods of licensing its MS-DOS oper- ating system software to computer manufacturers. FTC lawyers had strongly urged antitrust action in February, but the commission was unable to reach a decision (see MacWEEK, Feb. 15). Microsoft declined to comment. 3 Craft, president of Advanced Man- agement and Planning, a project consultancy in Honolulu. Users can now display project time lines simultaneously in varying time increments, such as day, week, month and year. Upgrades are $29, or free to users who purchased MacProject Pro 1.0 after April 1. Users of competitive project-management packages can move to MacProject Pro 1.5 for $199. Claris Corp. is at 5201 Patrick Henry Drive, P.O. Box 58168, Santa Clara, Calif. 95052-8168. Phone (408) 727-8227 or (800) 544-8554. c Oracle, U.S. West to develop multimedia database servers By April Streeter San Francisco — Oracle Corp. last week announced it will team up with U.S. West Inc. to develop high-powered database servers to manage the plethora of multimedia information traveling along data highways to end users. Oracle will offer versions of Oracle 7.1, slated to ship in Octo- ber, and Oracle 8, due next year, that manage multiple data types stored on massively parallel com- puters, such as those from nCube Inc. of Beaverton, Ore. Massively parallel computers can process thousands of transactions at a lower cost per mips than main- frames. Oracle’s multimedia information servers, which will be sold to service providers such as U.S. West, will manage back-end SQL data, text, images, audio and video that hail from information providers such as Time Warner Inc. and Dow Jones & Co. Oracle said a common way to package data is the missing link in delivering services such as video on demand to users of Macs, IBM PCs or compatibles, or per- sonal digital assistants such as Apple’s Newton. U.S. West will offer business and home users in its 14-state Western service area both broad- band connections to the data high- way and multimedia messaging services that access data through the servers. Prices have not been determined. Oracle said it has not decided whether it will develop end-user clients for the new server software itself or team up with third parties. Oracle’s Glue application program- ming interface, which is due for the Macintosh this year for $2,995, will let developers put database, messag- ing, file-system and communica- tions hooks into cross-platform Oracle applications. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison saida similar partnership with McCaw Cellular, which had been aimed at obtaining spectrum from the Federal Communications Com- mission for point-to-multipoint data broadcasts, was currently “not atall active.” No Hands delivers electronic document system Common Ground out ahead of Acrobat By Neil McManus Belmont, Calif. — No Hands Software Inc. got a jump on Adobe Acrobat last week by shipping Common Ground, its electronic document distribution system. Common Ground lets users save documents in a format that others can view, navigate, search and print without having the creating applica- tions or fonts in their systems. No Hands said this summer it will release a Windows version of the program that will permit cross- platform document distribution. Common Ground for the Macin- tosh, available now for $189.95, includes: > Common Ground Maker, a Chooser-selectable driver that prints documents to disk in Digital- Paper format from any application. The driver creates a file containing bit-mapped representations of Type 1 and TrueType fonts in four resolutions: 72 dpi for Mac screens, 100 dpi for Windows screens, 200 dpi for fax transmission and 300 dpi for laser printing. The converted file also contains ASCII text. For- matted text requires about 6 Kbytes of hard disk space per page, No Hands said. Document layout and colors are preserved in Common Ground, and all images are converted to a pro- prietary cross-platform graphics format. > Common Ground Viewer, a program that lets users read, search and print Common Ground docu- ments. Users can zoom in on docu- ments up to 400 percent while maintaining resolution and anti- aliasing. Text can be copied to the Clipboard, and selections or entire pages can be copied and pasted into other programs in PICT format. > Mini-Viewer, a 62-Kbyte program that can be embedded into Common Ground documents to make them self-running. It lets users view and print but not search or zoom files. Mini-Viewer can be distributed to as many as 100 users without paying a licensing fee. Common Ground will compete with Acrobat, a forthcoming cross- platform electronic document dis- tribution system from Adobe Sys- tems Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., as well as Frame Technol- ogy Corp.’s FrameViewer (see story, left). No Hands Software Inc. is at 1301 Shoreway Road, Suite 220, Belmont, Calif. 94002. Phone (415) 802-5800; fax (415) 593-6868. 0 ‘re those guys in the shades? ESTER] winning guess could get you a 1a spacial dekne set of Widgets. Imagine that. Your very own widgets! Could it be Bill or Hillary? Colvin or Hobbs? Homer or Marge? Make ‘your guess. It could be the winner! AWARDS FIRST PLACE No Hands’ Common Ground Viewer lets users read, zoom, search and print docu- ments created in any Mac pro- | gram. This file | was created in | QuarkXPress. SPECIAL DELUXE WIDGET Looks like their very The new generation HP LaserJet 4M printer. At last. 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All for only $2,399* So call 1-800- LASERJET (1-800-527-3753) Ext. 7340** for print samplet and comparison disk. Or visit your nearest authorized HP dealer. iG HEWLETT LB PACKARD News | Version 3.0 improves interface, math By Lisa Picarille Reading. Pa, — Synergy Soft- ware this month updated its KaleidaGraph technical graphing and analysis program with a sim- pler interface, beefed-up mathe- matical functions and enhanced System 7 support. KaleidaGraph 3.0, available now for $249, adds new drawing tools, such as copy, duplicate, group, align and layer; an editable palette that supports 64 colors, increased from eight; support for 16 user-defined curve fits on a single plot, up from one fit per plot; and 12 formats for displaying date and time data. Users can now interrupt screen redraw when displaying multiple By Robert Hess Watsonville, Calif. — Raymond Lau, creator of the Stufflt compres- sion utility, has returned to Mac development with Stufflt Installer- Maker, which Aladdin Systems Inc. claims represents the next genera- tion in software installation utilities. ‘The current standard, Apple’s Installer, requires publishers to pre- pare installation packages using Mac- intosh Programmer’s Workshop, and the process is often time-consuming and difficult, according to developers. Aladdin said developers can use Stufflt InstallerMaker’s point-and- click interface to prepare installa- tion packages in a matter of minutes instead of days. A package can be a single application incorporating all components to be installed, or an application and several disks of components. Not surprisingly, InstallerMaker packages and the installer applica- tion it creates are precompressed using the Stufflt technology. InstallerMaker, due next month at a price not yet set, offers develop- MACWEEK 05.17.93 KaleidaGraph gets broader scope Synergy Soft- ware’s Kaleida- Graph 3.0 lets Forms Doject Curve FN Windows sided Error Plot users display the percentage of error both above and below the plotted line simultaneously or separately. graphs on screen. Enhanced data- manipulation features _ include multilevel sorts, double-precision data format, and user-selectable error bars with independent upper and lower error types. The formula entry offers additional statistical functions. KaleidaGraph 3.0 can directly Aladdin launches InstallerMaker ers considerable control over the at installation process, letting them require that users have specific hard- ware and software present to per- form installation. InstallerMaker can check system versions, color capabilities, CPU models and more. Developers can expand on InstallerMaker’s capabilities through the use of external resources to detect a hardware copy-protection key, for example. Authors can customize Installer- Maker with splash screens and help files. The program supports several custom Apple events, so MPW die- hards could use that system to script InstallerMaker to prepare installa- tion packages. Aladdin plans to license Installer- Maker to developers on a volume basis. The company said it may later offer the program to network admin- istrators who need to create installa- tion packages for in-house software. Aladdin Systems Inc. is at 165 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, Calif, 95076. Phone (408) 761- 6200; fax (408) 761-6206. © G Scenarios Contin | Package | items Seana” is 285K 2,146K fre on “Sylvester” |Dest ers Exist Sys Colr 210 SABCDEFO) & Name Kind Expanded Stuffed Saved OL DR er Gi rireaet piety, SSC] ©) @ D4; Bp --- vv------ Bi mpotetreirmes stunt deve. 3K under 1k 9385 G&D, BR --- van----- Gti fit size Ik 19K BI @eOyh--v BB evtouers0re Teen te ak 38 ty sik 220K 3188) Stufflt’s interface is enhanced in Aladdin's InstallerMaker, which developers can use to produce software installation packages. This screen gives developers access to almost all configuration details of an installation package. import Microsoft Excel and Encap- sulated PostScript files. It now sup- ports publish and subscribe, Apple events, and AppleScript. Beta-tester Peter Rauenbuehler, a section head in quality control at Genentech Inc., a South San Fran- cisco, Calif., biotechnology compa- ny, uses KaleidaGraph’s macro lan- guage and AppleScript to write routines that automate the analysis of pharmaceutical-compound activ- ity. “There is no data-analysis pack- age that is more automated and takes better advantage of the Mac,” he said. Upgrades are $35 plus shipping. Synergy Software is at 2457 Perkiomen Ave., Reading, Pa. 19606. Phone (215) 779-0522; fax (215) 370-0548. 0 Quorum to release its solution for running Mac apps on Unix By Robert Hess Menlo Park, Calif. — The tidal wave pushing Mac applications onto Unix moves forward with the release next month of two software packages from Quorum Software Systems Inc. The products allow Mac software toberun on SPARCstations from Sun ‘Microsystems Inc. and Indigo work- stations from Silicon Graphics Inc. > Equal 1.0. Quorum will ship a $695 package that will let Unix users run Microsoft Word and Excel Mac applications. Quorum plans to release an update to Equal late this year that it said will run the top-10 personal-pro- ductivity Mac applications. Quorum said that Equal works at the operating system level, resulting in better performance than emula- tors that translate individual instruc- tions; for example, the company said, Excel on a SPARCstation 10 is slightly faster than on a 68040 Mac. ‘Mac applications running under Equal adopt the interface of the host platform. All graphical components are converted to the corresponding Motif or X Window component. > Latitude 1.5. Quorum will update its kit that lets developers port Mac applications to Unix with- out rewriting code. The company said Version 1.5 improves display performance by as much as 300 per- cent on SPARCstations, lets Unix workstations read and write Mac floppy disks, adds support for Motif, and allows Unix compiling of appli- cations written in MacApp. Applications ported with Lati- tude run at native speed on Unix platforms, according to Quorum. Latitude sells for $5,995 plus roy- alties; upgrades are free. Atits Worldwide Developers Con- ference last week, Apple showed tech- nology that lets Mac applications run under Unix on platforms from IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun. In all three instances, applica- tions ran inside an independent win- dow and used the Mac interface. Nick Sturiale, Quorum director of marketing, said: “It’s difficult to compare our technology with Apple’s because it’s hard to evaluate a press release. Our developers indi- cate they want to develop an applica- tion stripped of its GUI (graphical user interface). They want to devel- op applications that run native on Unix with all the performance possi- ble; they don’t want an emulator.” Quorum Software Systems Inc. is at 4700 Bohannon Drive, No. 125, Menlo Park, Calif. 94025. Phone (415) 323-3111; fax (415) 323-3113. Lexmark puts 600-dpi printing on the network By Matthew Rothenberg Lexington, Ky. — Lexmark Inter- national Inc. has unveiled a new line of speedy network laser printers. The IBM LaserPrinter 4039 family, available now, comprises five models ranging in price from $1,599 to $3,399. ‘The 16-page-per-minute Laser- Printer 4039 16L and 12-ppm 4039 12L ship with support for 500-sheet paper input and handle a maximum paper input of 1,100 sheets; the 12-ppm 4039 12R and 10-ppm 4039 10R support 200-sheet paper input and can be expanded to sup- port 800-sheet input; and the 10- ppm 4039 10D supports 130-sheet input standard, which can be upgraded to 730 sheets with an For the record Last week’s story on Reports 2.9 gave an out-of-date address for Nine to Five Software Co. Inc. The company is at 1790 30th St., Suite 400, Boulder, Colo. 80301. optional duplexing unit. In addition to 300-dpi output at their top engine speeds, each of the new printers offers true 600-dpi output to letter- or legal- size paper or transparen- cies ata rate of 8 ppm. The printers include an implementation of the Level 1 version of Phoenix- Page, the PostScript inter- preter from Phoenix Tech- nologies Ltd. of Norwood, Mass., as well as PCL-5 emulation. Each printer ships with 39 Type 1 fonts. They also include pro- prietary resolution- and halftone-enhancement software. Each device ships with parallel and serial interfaces; LocalTalk, Ethernet and token-ring options range from $299 to $649. The printers support flash- memory cards for storing printer software and fonts. Flash-memory cards holding 1 and 2 Mbytes cost $289 and $469, respectively. The 4039 16L includes a 20- At the top of Lexmark’s IBM LaserPrinter 4039 fami- ly, the 16-page-per-minute 4039 16L includes a 20- MHz RISC chip and supports 500-sheet paper input. MHz AMD 29000 RISC processor, while the other models ship with a 16-MHz AMD 29200 chip. The printers ship with either 2 Mbytes or 4 Mbytes of RAM, and each can be expanded to 16 Mbytes. Lexmark International Inc. is at 740 New Circle Road N.W., Lexing- ton, Ky. 40511-1876. Phone (606) 232-2000; fax (606) 232-2403. 0 ColorLink Interface Carl HorLi t STEVEN G. BLANK Vice-President of Marketing See SuperMac Technology, Inc. We love E-Machines”. We love them so much we licensed the And the PowerLink” Presentor, a presentation dock for the rights to manufacture, and distribute all E-Machines products. | Apple’ PowerBook Dus; easily connects directly to Macintosh’ E-Machines’ reputation for high-quality, low-cost and SVGA displays, LCD panels, and televisions for color displays and graphics cards continues stronger than ever. output anywhere you need it. 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The SuperSource for Color rand PowerLink are trademarks of SupesMae Technolog, Ine At NEC, we've developed hundreds of computer products expressly for Mac systems: ‘from our highly- acclaimed MultiSyne monitors, MultiSpin™ CD-ROM readers and Silentwriter® laser printers, to our Professional Graphics Series, which includes our new 27" MultiSync 3PG data monitor and MultiSync 6PG and 9PG Projection Moni- tors for images as large as 25 feet. + Announcing a The ultimate monitor for your Macintosh: The NEC MultiSync 4FG™ “eeeee —MacUser Magazine Aug.’92 better mousetrap. do for your Mac: The NEC MultiSync’ 3FGx™ monitor. The least you should In 1992, the only monitor to snag the coveted five- mice rating was an NEC monitor: the MultiSync 4FG. After running it and 13 others through the most rigorous technical evaluation they’d ever used for testing monitors, MacUser magazine concluded, “If you’re looking for the sharpest dis- play, the NEC MultiSync 4FG should be your top choice” What more can we say? Glad you asked. Our AccuColor™ Control System prompted MacUser to make special mention of the “easy color adjustments” AccuColor lets you adjust on-screen colors, so if you’re looking for mouse-tail pink, that’s what you’ll get. If, however, color control is not a priority for you, you'll be very happy with NEC’s MultiSync 3FGx monitor, which shares almost all of the 4FG’s award-winning features. Both monitors pro- duce sharp, bright images, crisp graphics and vibrant colors. An Invar shadow mask provides increased brightness without loss of focus. Another big idea—the display area. The large 15” screen (13.8” active display area) coupled with FullScan™ capability for edge-to-edge images gives you a larger display area than typical 13” or 14” RGB monitors. How do you make an NEC MultiSync monitor work with your Mac? Just plug it in, using NEC’s free FG/Mac cable adapter. It works with the Mac’s on-board video, 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. There are lots of reasons for considering an NEC MultiSync monitor for your Mac—the sharp, bright images, the vibrant colors, the large display area, the flexibility, the compatibility—to name five. And the i t t t { to name five more. For more information on our award-winning monitors, call 1-800-NEC-INFO (in Canada: 1-800-343-4418). Or for a complete brochure via fax, call NEC FastFacts™ at 1-800-366-0476, request #62234. *For Macintosh 640 x 480 resolution, just attach NEC's FG/Mac cable adapter and plug into: Macintosh Is, llci, LC, LCIl,livx, llvi, Quadra™ 700, Quadra 900, Quadra 950, Performa™ 400, Performa 600, PowerBook™ 160, PowerBook 180, and the PowerBook 210 and PowerBook 230 with either the DuoDock™ or MiniDock™ Or with an addin video card: Macintosh I, ix, lx, lif, PowerBook 140, PowerBook 145, and PowerBook 170. Get the 640 x 480 FG/Mac adapter free by calling NEC at (312) 622-7427 8:30AM-5PM CST. 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When users enter a new listing, Contact Pro automatically pops up a customizable list of related activities to schedule, such as taking pho- tos of the house and visiting the title company. Users can also import photographs in a variety of formats, including PICT, TIFF and several proprietary digital-camera formats, and link them to specific listings. A multiple listing service (MLS) feature automatically connects users to a terminal pro- gram to log into the local MLS board, which lists all the houses for sale in the area. Users can store property statistics for their area, which are used by the program’s option for comparative market-analysis reports. Other features include the capability to track income and expenses; alarms; and buyer- seller net sheets, which automatically deter- mine the required down payment and various fees for a particular house. A client-server ver- sion of Contact Pro will also ship next month, although pricing has not yet been determined. Actoris Software Corp. is at 1100 Centen- nial Blvd., Suite 248, Richardson, ‘Texas 75081. Phone (214) 231-7588 or (800) 964- 2792; fax (214) 231-6290. 0 NoteTaker helps users put their notes in order By Kirsten L. Parkinson ‘Truckee, Calif. — NoteTaker Software this month released a $69 application designed to help users take notes and organize them. NoteTaker users can create and access note topics from an outline. When a topic is opened, any notes linked to that subject are displayed automatically. ‘The program lets users divide their notes screens into two sections: one for the main notes and another for extra information, such as bibliographic data from a book they are using. Each section also includes a reminder box where users can keep checklists of items to include in notes on a topic or questions to ask in an interview, for example. Once a set of notes is complete, users can combine multiple note cards into a single file, called a Narrative. Users can also export NoteTaker files as ASCII text. NoteTaker is available through June 30 at an introductory price of $34.50. It includes a sample notes file for a tourist guide as well as a book produced from those notes. NoteTaker Software is at P.O. Box 10270, Truckee, Calif. 96162. Phone and fax (916) 587-7450. 0 Tool bar can speed O=Z script writing sto oncriaied By Robert Hess If (Size of array(OarFlights)20) Cambridge, Mass. —The pro- |_e"™**"" cedure editor in ACI US Inc. 4th [2 Phns=0 * UpdateCheckin global procedure | Cut [SE ARCH(IFights] [Flights Flight Dates} — SEARCHKIFights]; & (Fights Destna SELECTION TO ARRAY (lights Nord Copy Paste Paste With Macros Convert to 4D Clipboard Convert from 4D Clipboard Esit/View QuikClipboara Empty QuickClipboard Keywords Dialogs 31 Dimension might feel like a | favorite pair of well-worn shoes to. |", database developers, but Natural End i¢ Intelligence Inc. hopes to sell those developers a shine and some new laces with its QuickCode Pro. QuickCode Pro's externals enhance 4D’s procedure editor windows by adding tool bars containing functions to sim- plify and accelerate script writing. ‘The program will let developers move text within a document by dragging it, automati- cally comment multiple lines of code with a single keystroke, set default headers for pro- cedures, quickly navigate documents by set- ting markers, and search and replace text across multiple windows. It can verify that parentheses, brackets, braces and quotes are balanced. QuickCode Pro will let users save and load procedures to and from a disk. Without it, 4D users can import code only via the Mac Clipboard. The program adds five clipboards that maintain their contents between development sessions. It also adds macros that let program- mers insert their user name, date, time, or a window or procedure name into a procedure. Due to ship next month, QuickCode Pro Whoever Said You Can't Have It All Didn't Have PacerTerm 2.0. Get Serious. Get PacerTerm. 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Natural Intelligence’s QuickCode Pro appends a tool bar to 4D’s procedure editor, adding multiple clipboards and a macro capability. will be $99.95 until Aug. 15 and $149.95 thereafter. Natural Intelligence Inc. is at 2067 Massa- chusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass. 02140. Phone (617) 876-4876 or (800) 999-4649; fax (617) 492-7425..0 ACI updates 4D Calc, Draw, Write add-ons By Lisa Picarille Cupertino, Calif. — ACI US Inc. is now shipping updates of its word processor, draw and spreadsheet add-ons for 4th Dimension. 4D Write 2.1, 4D Draw 1.1 and 4D Cale 1.2 now support Version 3.0 of 4D, as well as the multitasking, client-server architecture of 4D Server. Under 4D Server, multiple appli- cation modules can run in their own windows; each module can be accessed simultaneously by multiple users. > 4D Write 2.1 supports Claris XTND technology, adding 14 new translators for read- ing and writing additional file formats, includ- ing Microsoft Word, RTF and FrameMaker. Version 2.1 lets users set document prefer- ences, including ruler units and document mode. Users can now create style sheets, head- ers and footers. The upgrade lets users search and replace by attributes as well as by content, and itadds a new page-preview facility. > 4D Draw 1.1 offers enhanced speed when opening and saving documents. The object-oriented drawing application now sports a redesigned interface. It adds a back- ground layer and the capability to hide and show objects. ‘Users can also create and edit 4D layouts, forms and views from within the drawing module. Users previously had to go into 4D to modify layouts. > 4D Calc 1.2 now lets users include refer- ences from database components within cell formulas, as well as create entire spreadsheets directly from information in the database. The modules are $295 each. The upgrade for 4D Write is $25 without documentation and $50 with documentation. 4D Draw and 4D Calc upgrades are free. 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All prices, specification descitions, products, ‘and serviges herein are subject to change without notice or recourse. © Copyright 1993 La Cie, Lid. 8700 SW Creekside Place, Beaverton, OR 97008. Phone: (503) 520-9000, Fax: (503) 520-9100. Al ved. Printed in U.S.A. If the stories you've heard about Thunder/24” led you to believe it’s the fastest color graphics card, the results of a new, independent lab test will leave you thunderstruck. In a Hydra QuickDraw” perfor- e mance test, Ingram Laboratories found PrecisionColor 24X™ was up to 0 Ke 19% faster. That’ surprising, especially since the makers e un er of Thunder/24 want you to pay $1,250 more for their card. ® PrecisionColor 24X isn’t just faster and less er O ° expensive. It’s also available in 7" and 9" versions. So it will fit in all of Apple’s newly-announced systems, as well as current models. 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Radius, the Radiu: Other brand and product names are ti and all Radius product names are trademarks of Radius In¢ of their respective holders News MACWEEK 05.17.93 MicroTouch puts new touchscreen, 14-inch monitor at your fingertips By Nathalie Welch Methuen, Mass. — Developers of touch- screen-driven applications can easily marry their programs to MicroTouch Systems Inc.’s new touchscreen monitor for the Mac. Available now, the $1,495 Mac’n Touch SA- 14 Monitor is aimed at value-added resellers who need a touchscreen to implement multime- dia, business or computer-training applications. MicroTouch said the monitor offers a complete plug-and-play developers package rather than a touchscreen kit that would require assembly. ‘The system is built around the Sampo Alpha Scan II, a 14-inch color monitor with an integrated capacitive touchscreen. The dis- play, which offers a dot pitch of 0.28 mm anda maximum resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels, is compatible with Apple and other third-party graphics cards. Mac ’n Touch has front-accessible image controls and ships with a Mac operating system driver. The display will be distributed by Ingram Micro Inc. of Santa Ana, Calif.; accord- ing to MicroTouch, previous Mac touch- Ben & Jerry’s ice cream plant uses the Mac ‘n Touch monitor for its visitor information system. screens were available only to the OEM mar- ket. Volume and dealer discounts are available. MicroTouch Systems Inc. is at 300 Griffin Park, Methuen, Mass. 01844. Phone (508) 659-9000; fax (508) 659-9100. 0 Mass Micro cuts prices on selected drives By Kirsten L. Parkinson Sunnyvale, Calif. — Mass Microsystems Inc. this month reduced prices on many of its storage devices, including its Fast SCSI-2 sys- tems and SyQuest drives, by amounts ranging from | percent to 16 percent. ‘The company, which was recently acquired by Ramtek Corp. of San Jose, Calif. (see MacWEEK, Jan. 4), cut the prices of some of its DiamondDrive hard drives by up to $500. For instance, the 320-Mbyte zero-footprint model now lists for $1,279, down from $1,359. The 210-Mbyte DiamondDrive Portable model fell $40 to $719. Prices on Fast SCSI-2 MASSterDrive systems dropped from 6 percent to 14 percent. The external 2-Gbyte model is now $4,999, a $600 cut, while the 2.8- Gbyte internal drive for the Quadra 900 and 950 was reduced to $5,999 from $6,949. Selected drives in Mass Microsystems’ DataPak removable-media line, which in- cludes both SyQuest and magneto-optical systems, were cut by up to 16 percent. ‘The 5.25-inch DataPak optical drive, with a capacity of 650 Mbytes per cartridge, now lists for $4,099, a $200 cut. The company’s external 88c SyQuest, which reads and writes both 44- and 88-Mbyte cartridges, dropped $50 to $909, while the 44-Mbyte internal SyQuest for the Quadras was reduced 12 percent to $499. At the same time, the company also length- ened the warranty on all its SyQuest drives from one year to three years. Mass Microsystems Inc., a subsidiary of Ramtek Corp., is at 810 W. Maude Ave., Sun- nyvale, Calif. 94086. Phone (408) 522-1200 or (800) 522-7979; fax (408) 733-5499. 0 Orphan Finder hunts down leftover docs By Raines Cohen Santa Barbara, Calif. — Have your docu- ments been orphaned by the untimely loss of their parent applications? A program from Tuesday Software can help you track down the leftover files floating around your hard disk and evict them or put them up for adoption. Orphan Finder, available now at $69.95, scans disks and makes a list of documents, preference files, dictionaries and temporary files created by applications, system extensions, control panels and desk accessories no longer installed. When it finds an orphan, it lets the user either delete the file or select another application to adopt it, changing the creator code. ‘The program can be run in batch mode on a network or interactively on a single Mac. In network mode, it can run at a preset time and date. Administrators can also see lists of unap- proved files, “T evaluate a lot of programs, and they cre- ate a lot of preferences and other files,” said Alex Andreatta, senior research scientist and network manager at Uniax Corp., an engi- neering research company here. “Orphan Finder is very good at pointing out [orphaned documents] and letting you choose whether to delete them or not.” Tuesday offers a 30-day money-back guar- antee. Orphan Finder takes advantage of Sys- tem 7’s aliases but also runs under System 6.0.x. Tuesday Software is at 215 Via Sevilla, Santa Barbara, Calif, 93109. Phone (805) 962- 7889 or (800) 945-7889; fax (805) 564-8955.a New Poli Guarantees Overnight Success. 1-YEAR WORRY-FREE WARRANTY radus Radius products are engineered to never, ever fail. But should the impossible ever happen, we'll make it right, overnight. Just call our customer service department, (408) 434-1012 by 9:00 p.m. EST and we'll deliver a Radius replacement product to you overnight. Within hours after that, a Radius representative will also be there to pick up your failed product. If its a monitor we're replacing, our representative will even unpack and install it for you. You pay nothing extra for this extra service. That’ right, absolutely nothing. It’s all part of our new 1-year Worry-Free Warranty. Call 1-800-227-2795 Ext. 8A for more informa- tion about this great new service. Or to receive faxed information about our prod- ucts call 1-800-966-7360. Because we'll never let anything come between you and success. Guaranteed. ©1993 Radius Ine. Roius andthe Radius logo are trademarks of Radius Ine. News MACWEEK 05.17.93 TorqueWare draws on Indigo, AWS By Robert Hess Palo Alto, Calif. — Torque Systems Inc. this month released an update to its “compute server” software, expanding the options of the most power-hungry power users. TorqueWare is a collection of tools for developers who want to draw on the computa- tional power of RISC and digital signal pro- cessing hardware available on systems based on MIPS processors. Once a programmer has implemented support for TorqueWare in an application, it can hand off compute-intensive functions to other computers on the network. TorqueWare insulates developers from concern over what kind of computer will act as a compute server in the user’s network. ‘TorqueWare 2.0 now supports the Silicon Graphics Inc. Indigo family of workstations, as well as the forthcoming Apple Workgroup Server 95 and the CZAR NuBus accelerators from Integrated Device Technology Inc., a $5,995 NuBus board based on a 25-MHz MIPS R3000 RISC chip. TorqueWare 2.0 users select TorqueWare servers from the Chooser in a process similar Thinking of Buying Norton Utilities or MacTools? 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Torque Systems Inc. is at 825 Emerson St., Palo Alto, Calif. 94301. Phone (415) 321- 1200; fax (415) 321-1298. 0 Toolworks World Atlas keeps up with the times By lan G. Jacobs Novato, Calif. — As the world keeps changing, so must computer maps and atlases. A new updated version of The Software Toolworks Inc.'s World Atlas reflects the changes of borders and political makeup of Eastern Europe and adds new features. The program, which includes political and topographical maps and data for more than 200 countries, now allows users to add notes to any map. Users of Version 3.0 can also copy items to the Mac Clipboard and print maps and charts. In addition, users can add information to the database of facts while viewing a country’s flag and listening to its national anthem. A new Map Trail lets users scroll through the previous 50 maps viewed and mark with icons points of interest. World Atlas is available on either a CD- ROM for $89.95 or a set of 10 disks for $79.95. 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Users can select a test mode in which scores, along with program activity records, are stored in a log file. ‘Board gives Mac Classic presentation power Seattle — Power R Inc. this month shipped | avideo board that makes it possible to use the Macintosh Color Classic to drive conference- or classroom-projection systems. The Power R CC-10, priced at $129, sup- ports a variety of LCD panels offering color or monochrome VGA graphics. The board does not require software drivers. ‘The system includes a small unit that clips to the video-output chip on the Color Classic logic board. A ribbon cable runs from the clipped unit toa connector protruding from the back of the computer; users can attach an LCD panel to that connector, the company said. The Power R video board delivers 256 colors and a resolution of 512 by 384 pixels. It has a one-year warranty. Power R Inc. is at 1606 Dexter Ave. N., | Seattle, Wash. 98109. Phone (206) 547-8000; | — fax (206) 285-0260. 0 2 THIS SHOULD GIVE YOL OF WHY WE CREATED A! The image you see over there started out attached _ paper trays, these print- to the image you see over here. But as this document ers also let you switch made its way down to the printer, the Macintosh _ between paper sizes it was created on recognized asmall problem: _ without ever leaving 11x17 pages can’t fit through 8% x 11 printers. your desk. $o you don't And so, out came the © COMPAQPAGEMARQ have to pull one paper electronic scissors. Laser Printers. A line of tray out and replace it Now, if you're like many Macintosh users, you know all about this routine. And you know how it feels to walk into a meeting with a layout that contains hours of blood, sweat and tears, Prosonus adds sounds North Hollywood, Calif. — Users looking for funky sounds to enhance presentations or just jazz up their desktop have a host of new options, including Ed McMahon and a sick Chihuahua, in Mr. Sound FX. Developed by Prosonus, the $29.95 Mr. Sound FX incorporates 159 different sounds, some created by Michael Winslow of the “Police Academy” movies, in Sound Edit format. A customized version of Sound Master, a shareware application, lets users play sounds and link them to Mac functions such as disk | eject and shutdown. Users can also convert sound effects into Sound Resource files. | Prosonus is at 11126 Weddington St, | North Hollywood, Calif. 91601. Phone (818) | 766-5221; fax (818) 766-6098. anda fat strip of tape machines that can print with another, only to right down the middle. 11x17 pages ina single have your neighbor re- Enough said. pass. And because they _ peat the process two Introducing the new come with up to three —_ minutes later. And for aces ta oy rience rl pg Db rtd desert anomaly ta Cake Sun Clock: World times on desktop By lan G. Jacobs Eugene, Ore. — Businesses that deal with ‘overseas companies can consult a new utility to help them keep track of times and dates anywhere in the world. Palo Alto Software Inc. this month shipped Sun Clock 4.0, an update of a program developed and previously sold by MLT Soft- ware Inc. of Tigard, Ore. The $39.95 program displays an eight-bit- color map of the world with an accurate rep- resentation of the sun’ shadow updated every 11 minutes. Users can attach resizable note pads contain- ing the correct local time and date atas many as 20 locations. Each note pad can contain phone numbers and addresses of frequent contacts. Sun Clock can also calculate the distance between any two points on the globe. A new feature called Different Date allows the sun shadow to be changed to reflect the actual shadow at any date and time. ‘The program ships with screen-saver mod- ules for Fifth Generation Systems Inc.$ Pyro! and Berkeley Systems Inc.s After Dark. 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Of course, not all of us dream about type. In which case, the 35 fonts that come standard are more than adequate. Which includes a one- year, on-site’ limited warranty as well as un- limited phone support. All at no additional Add an Internal FAX Modem and you can turn your Mac into.a personal fax machine. One that will send and receive PostScript quality faxes in any: size up to Is17. charge whatsoever. If you're interested in learning more, sim- ply call 1-800-345-1518 in either the United States or Canada. We'll show you how LOMPAA to keep your big ideas in one piece. At least until your client sees them. trademarks of Compaq Computer learks of tir respecting companiee News MACWEEK 05.17.93 17 Fe, Mou 7, 1995, 12358 9M Sun Clock displays up to 20 resizable note pads with the accurate time and date of any location in the world. screen-saver modules rotate a globe image under the sun shadow to preventscreen burn-in. Upgrades from the MLT version are $20. Palo Alto Software Inc. is at 2641 Columbia St., Eugene, Ore. 97403. Phone (503) 683- 6162 or (800) 229-7526; fax (503) 683-6250.0 Smaller JVC models cut CD-ROM recording cost By Kirsten L. Parkinson Huntington Beach, Calif. —JVC Informa- tion Products Co. of America last month unveiled two low-cost versions of its Personal Archiver CD-ROM recording system. A half-height internal model for Macs with accessible drive bays is available for $3,995; an external model will ship next month for $4,495. Both systems include JVC’ recorder and mastering software but lack the 680-Mbyte hard drive of the company’ external tower model, which now sells for $7,995, down from $9,950. ‘The system supports three recording modes: standard CD-ROM, multisession and incre- mental. The latter isa JVC process that creates a single table of contents for multiple recording sessions, allowing the disc to be read by CD drives that are not multisession-compatible. The Personal Archiver for the Mac sup- ports recording only in Apple’s hierarchical file system format. Other configurations of the system are available that record in the International Standards Organization’s 9660 and Unix file system formats. JVC Information Products Co. of America is at 19900 Beach Blvd., Suite I, Huntington Beach, Calif. 92648. Phone (714) 965-2610; fax (714) 968-9071. MacTech source code now available on-line Los Angeles — Xplain Corp. last month launched forums containing extensive Mac source-code libraries on several on-line services. The company publishes MacTech (former- ly known as MacTutor), a monthly developers magazine that includes technical articles and code examples. The companion source code to articles is now available free on the Mac- Tech forums on America Online, AppleLink and CompuServe; previously, users had to subscribe to a monthly disk or purchase a $299 CD-ROM with code and tools. Xplain Corp. is at PO. Box 250055, Los Angeles, Calif. 90025-9555. Phone (310) 575- 4343; fax (310) 575-0925.0 News MACWEEK 05.17.93 |Management training, and In-house By Mary Ann Reese An integral part of the corporate MUGs offer _ landscape, in-house Macintosh user groups win popularity contests with help with employees and bosses alike. Bosses like them because they’re tech support, _ aninexpensive way for employees to solve a host of technical prob- lems, to help them know what data exists where within large exchange of companies, to reinforce or even supplement training, and to gain information _ proficiency. Employees like them for those and ideas. reasons and because they add fun and a human dimension to what can be isolating jobs. “Like a lonely-hearts club, we come together once a month to share gripes and problems,” said Ladell Thomason, president of HallMackers, a 2-year-old Macin- tosh users group (MUG) at Hall- mark Cards Inc.’s headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. “We go away feeling lighter because we know we're not the only one struggling with a problem. We learn who the in-house experts are, where the information is and who to call in the company when the next prob- lem comes up.” In-house groups are multiplying rapidly. Some 225 corporate MUGsare registered with Apple’s User Group Connection. “L wish every corporation had one,” said William F. Monteith, executive director of MacIS (Man- aging Apple Computers in Infor- mation Systems) in Mason, Ohio. Corporate Mac user groups can supplement IS functions Monteith said he estimates 25 percent of his 400 members (most of them Fortune 500 companies) have lunch-time brown-bag-type user groups. “You are leveraging your army when you can geta good relationship between a user group and the paid corporate IS support group.” Most corporate MUGs meet monthly, produce monthly newslet- ters and offer daily electronic-mail help —all on a volunteer basis. Most MUG activities focus on improving employee job perfor- mance, bridging information gaps and reinforcing training offered by the corporate IS staff. Companies recognize the value of in-house MUGs, and they often can be enlisted to help sup- port start-up and operation of one (see story below). Backup technical support. Question-and-answer sessions are standard fare at MUG meetings. An employee airs a problem; anoth- er with an answer offers help. In the process everyone learns who the experts are. “We get everyone from begin- ners to gurus at our meetings,” said John Beilock, a founder of Disney Co.’s The MacClub in Glendale, Calif, which draws 70 to 100 mem- bers at evening meetings every six weeks. “Our user group every once ina while publishes a list of in-house experts, people who agree to answer questions by phone,” he added. ves Ladell Thomason and Betsy Rosetti are involved in HallMackers, a Mac user group at Hallmark Cards. Macs are in the minority among the headquarters’ 8,000 computers; Thomason said the user group has provided user fi “Gurus” at corporations can often quickly answer a question that an IS person may have neither the time nor expertise to answer. “An employee may have a ques- tion on a piece of software that is important but isn’t a supported software,” said John Grabrick of 3M’s Macintosh Special Interest Group (SIG) in Minneapolis. “Our corporate IS may offer standard support for 10 packages. But our user group has in-house experts for five dozen software packages — everything from databases to multimedia to spreadsheet pro- gramming and graphics design. Employees call the official support first, of course. But when they can’t help, someone in the user group usually can.” At3M, a directory of willing, lay in-house experts is published in monthly newsletters. “These in- house volunteer technical wizards Interested in forming your own corporate The do’s and don’ts of starting a corporate MUG Water) workplace-edition registration kit. It and the work is spread out among many people from several companies. > Meet on a consistent schedule, ig and support beyond what the corporation could offer. save the company a lot of money,” Grabrick said. E-mail or user-group electronic bulletin boards offer day-to-day help for technical questions. Although Amdahl Corp.’s MUG in Cupertino, Calif, meets infre- quently, “we havea large electronic bulletin board with questions and answers,” said Audrey Meyers, the group’s ambassador. “How do Ido tables in Word?” or “Tjust bought a great product; here’s a review of it,” are typical exchanges. She figures that more than 100 messages, comments, questions, answers and announce- ments are posted every month. Aiding communications. Instant dissemination of informa- tion is another benefit of MUGs and their bulletin boards. Meyers said: “When a corpora- tion or a nearby vendor offers train- ing programs, I’m able to send out an immediate notice to all users — 400 plus. We also use [the BBS] to share resources. If one depart- ment gets new computers, their old ones might be just the ticket for | another department, saving the company money.” user group? Here are some suggestions from leaders of existing corporate MUGs: > Start one! Your company needs you, even if it has a corporate Macintosh IS department with paid employees to answer questions and solve problems. The MUG can help disperse the support load and dis- tribute unofficial information the department cannot provide. You should also investigate affiliating with a community group in your area or a national group; many support a number of corporate chapters and can give you a plat- form of basic services, such as meetings and | | newsletters, that you can build on with company-specific items. > Call Apple’s User Group Connection for «a free copy of its user-group start-up kit, which includes the 30-page JAWs (Just Add offers everything from sample bylaws to advice on determining the right focus for your group. Call (800) 538-9696, Ext. 500. After you form a group and register it with Apple, the company will send you bimonthly newsletters; twice-a-year videos demonstrating new developments; and sam- plers of Apple CD-ROMs, technical notes and data sheets. > Spread the workload. If you're going to be the one who makes it happen, try to identify other people to share your work- load so you don’t burn out. Group leaders at a number of Mac-using companies in San Francisco last year band- ed together to form SanFAUG, a multi- company corporate user group. The combined group draws large crowds, which helps attract high-quality speakers, with meetings at the same time and, if possi- ble, the same location, each week, month or | MaclS Director Monteith said quarter. | > Advertise meetings via newsletters, | user groups also help in sharing electronic mail and posters. information about corporate data. > Make meetings informative and fun. “You have to use people-to- For example, hold raffles, an annual fair,an | people relationships to spread news about what data exists where, so annual game day or a monthly “game pre- view”; or negotiate discounts for members people in the corporation can make the proper, best-informed deci- with local outlets. > Consult your company’s legal counsel sions,” he said. “User groups are before doing things such as offering free the best way to do this, period.” Monteith, who encouraged user software or other giveaways. Some corpo- rations have strict rules forbidding such groups when he was CEO of Armco Inc. of Middletown, Ohio, activities. > Seek corporate cooperation for MUG offered this example: “In a manu- meetings. Explain how meetings will benefit | facturing company, people respon- the company so you can win the best possi-. | sible for sales might not have ble support. — By Mary Ann Reese access in a simple form to what's See Management, Page 20 AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA ft 108 Turbo §- “Sed MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 00 288 ATS gq ee VVVVVVVVVY femovable cartridge drive The Infinity Turbo 105S sets & new standard in Winchester, removable : storage. tis the smallest, yet fastest removable drive around, allowing tou Unlimited storage capabilites by simply adding additional 1OSMB cartridges. 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Artists from the Smithsonian Natural History Museum recently showed NASA MUG members how they create animal drawings or map the Peru- vian rain forest on their Macs. Pen- tagon MUGers shared uses in the military environment. “Getting perspectives from dif- ferent disciplines and seeing how neighboring colleagues look at and solve problems expands our own visions of what's possible,” said NASA’s Dave Lavery, a telerobot- ics program manager and chairman | of the NASA Headquarters Macin- | tosh Users Group. | At Motorola Inc., which is so big that divisions are spread throughout the Phoenix Valley in nine major facilities, interplant communications take ona special relevance. Dan Griffith, founder and director of MACS (Motorola Advanced Com- puter Society), said: “Because we have several divisions and each divi- sion has several plants, the puzzle is who in another division might have already solved a problem that some- body ina plant across town is strug- gling with today. Our user group often knows — because of the net- working that goes on at meetings, because of the question-and-answer sessions, and because of the demon- strations and talks at meetings by in- house experts. It’s a tremendous resource for the company.” Vendor demos. Another rou- tine of user-group meetings are demonstrations of upgrades or new products by vendors. While an obvious benefit is that this keeps employees more up-to-date on advances that may help them in the workplace, there’s a spin-off benefit as well. “Vendor-led meetings put users directly in contact with vendor rep- resentatives who can help them and give them technical support in the future,” said Motorola’s Griffith. “Business cards are exchanged, and when a problem comes up, the employee knows where to go for help. He has a number that is more specifically useful than a generic 800 number.” Vendor fairs, also popular with corporate user groups, often feature 30 or more vendors for one or more platforms at a one-day gathering. “Fairs offer more one-on-one opportunity than the single-vendor demo,” Griffith said. “Employees can ask individual questions of vendors, specific to their needs, and can get hands-on use of products new on the market. Here, again, business cards get exchanged, and an employee adds yet another back- ‘Mac users in technical fields have specialized concerns that aren't always addressed by either in-house information systems departments or corporate MUGs. MacSciTech, a 2-year-old Mac user group for scientists and engineers, was created to fill that breach. At last count, ithas 1,500 mem- bers hailing from 12 nations. “Nobody else was meeting our needs,” said Executive Director Shari Worthington. “At typi- cal user groups, you find people who tend to use business applications, spreadsheets, word processing, general-purpose stuff. I's hard to find anybody covering data acquisition and control, digital signal processing, or CAD/CAM. "So we started MacSciTech to swap war sto- ries and share information on what kinds of A user group for scientists and engineers The SciTech Journal, a 32-page bimonthly newsletter. The journal includes technical articles and application stories about how people use Macs for machine-tooling applications, chemical processing and other technical applications. Members include Mac users from the aero- space, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, univer- sity and government-research sectors. MacSciTech hosts annual technical conferences; this year’s will coincide with Boston’s Macworld Expo in August. The $50 annual membership includes newsletters and a list of specialists avail- able to solve problems with members on the phone. It also offers a reduced price on a CD-ROM containing abstracts and QuickTime videos from the annual technical conference. products are available.” The resulting far-flung user group publishes MacSciTech is at 49 Midgley Lane, Worces- ter, Mass. 01604. Phone (508) 755-5242, —By Mary Ann Reese up to his Rolodex for when a prob- lem surfaces.” Help for minority Macs. In corporations where Macintosh computers are a minority, user groups, aided by vendor speakers, can provide training and support that wouldn’t make sense in corpo- rate budgets. ‘That is why Hallmark’s Hall- Mackers got started. MUG Presi- dent Thomason said Hallmark has about 500 to 1,000 Macs amid a corporate headquarters computer population of 8,000. “We needed additional user training and education beyond what we could get here at Hall- mark,” Thomason said. “There wasn’t a formal program to equip Mac users across the company. So we formed a group as a stopgap measure, to help people who want- ed Mac training and who needed help beyond what our MIS division could give. “Our 90-minute lunch-and-learn monthly meetings provide as much education and support as we can organize. Usually a vendor comes in to demonstrate a product. Then someone from within the company shows how they use the same pro- gram, so other employees can see how a program is, being just down the hall. That works pretty well.” Having fun. And finally, cor- porate user groups help remind users that a Macintosh can be fun. “We make sure one meeting a year is entertainment-related,” said 3M’s Grabrick. “After all, clubs started for at-home activities and then migrated to take care of things atwork. Definitely, having fun is part of getting the job done.” 0 MAY 22: MacFair, New York. General Macintosh show with art exhibition of computer-created art. Full exposition room devoted to software demonstra- tions. Contact New York MacUsers’ Group at (212) 473-1600; fax (212) 473-1745. 24-27: Comdex/Spring 93, Atlanta. Smalleewersdon ob weed s kecgedlounr puter show. Expo and conference are combined with Windows World. Contact Interface Group at (617) 449-6600; fax (617) 449-2674, 24-28: ESRI’s Annual Conference, Palm Springs, Calif. The 13th annual | | conference for users of ESRI’s geographic information systems software will include | | minitraining workshops and vendor exhibits. Contact ESRI at (909) 793-2853; fax (909) 793-5953. 25-27: NeXTWORLD Expo, San Francis- co. Developer and user conference for the NeXTstep operating system with an end-user product showcase. Contact User Group Services at (508) 470-3880 or (800) 767-2336; fax (508) 470-0526. 25-27: NetWorld, Frankfurt, Germany. Show on networking and interoperability. Contact National Blenheim Expos Inc. at (201) 346-1400, Ext. 473 or (800) 829- 3976, Ext. 473; fax (201) 346-1602. JUNE 1-5: Seybold Paris. Showcase and conference on electronic publishing, including multimedia, video and graph- ics. Contact Seybold Seminars at 44- 32-341-0561 or (800) 777-6650; fax (310) 457-8500. 3-6: Consumer Electronics Show, Chicago. The ultimate expo for home electronics, gadgets and computers. Last year Apple introduced Newton here. Contact the Elec- tronic Industries Association at (202) 457- 8700; fax (708) 344-9018. 5-11: DECUS’93, Atlanta, Semiannual Digital Equipment Corp. show consisting of trade show, national seminars and symposia. Contact DECUS U.S. at (508) 841-3341 or (800) 332-8755; fax (508) 841-3373. 7-9: PageMaker Conference and Exhibi- tion, Seattle. Show focusing on graphics and multimedia in computer publishing with special focus on Aldus PageMaker. Contact Open House at (206) 633-3431; fax (206) 633-0153. 7-11: DIDOT Works Il, Rochester, N.Y. Workshops and lectures on digital type production, marketing and applications. Contact Goudy International Center at (716) 475-2052; fax (716) 475-7029. 8-10: A/E/C SYSTEMS ‘93, Anaheim, Calif. Trade show for the design and con- struction industry with special area for software demos of AutoCAD-compatible software. Conference will also cover Geo- graphic Information Systems applications. 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PowerBook Duo from Apple. Gateways By Robert Hess Cupertino, Calif, — Apple is preparing to release an update to its | AppleShare file-server software to fix a few bugs and improve perfor- mance on some servers. The new version is expected by mid-June. AppleShare Server 3.0.2 is a new version of the File Server Extension. The AppleShare Server application isnot modified. Apple will distribute a patcher to install the new version. The patcher will be available on AppleLink, through Apple’s support organiza- tion and via third-party developers whose products will benefit from the revision. Version 3.0.2 fixes a bug in prior versions that prevented some backup software from properly archiving the Users and Groups file, which stores server security information. AppleShare 3.0.2 patch to correct archiving bug Version 3.0.2 also resolves possible incompatibilities with third-party AppleShare server-management soft- ware, such as Sonic Systems Inc.’s Server Sentry and Technology Works Inc.’s GraceLAN Server Manager. Performance of some servers may improve with the new version because of an increase in the number of simultaneous user requests the server will handle. The new version can improve performance on servers with a large number of users and considerable traffic, as well as servers accessed by users via slow network connec- tions, such as AppleTalk Remote Access. Tn both situations, when the serv- er is handling its maximum number of requests, it appears to users to be frozen. > Networking > Communications Apple, Shiva to develop remote-access technology New products will use PPP standard By April Streeter Cupertino, Calif, — Apple and Shiva Corp. this month announced a partnership aimed at implement- ing a remote-access transport method that will treat Mac, Unix and Windows users as equals. The two companies will develop technology based on the Point-to- Point Protocol (PPP), an industry standard for serial-line communica- tions, and will incorporate the advancements in separate products. Apple plans to offer a PPP client for AppleTalk Remote Access (ARA) at an unspecified date, while Shiva later this year expects to roll outa multiport, remote-access serv- er that supports the ARA PPP client as well as Windows and Unix users with Shiva client software. The combination of PPP clients and a PPP-supported server would By April Streeter San Jose, Calif. — Novell Inc. last week delivered an IPX protocol stack for the Macintosh that will let network managers integrate Macs into NetWare networks without using AppleTalk. The MacIPX Software Develop- er Kit, introduced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Confer- ence, is available for $295. It allows developers to write cross-platform applications that will use Novell’s IPX (Internetwork Packet Ex- change) protocol as their transport rather than AppleTalk or TCP/IP. Developers may include IPX in their end-user applications without paying royalties to Novell. Novell cited a number of Macin- tosh applications that will soon emerge in IPX incarnations, includ- ing Claris Corp’s FileMaker Pro and CE Software Inc.’s QuickMail. Caravelle Networks Corp.’s Net- ‘WORKS 3.0 network-management platform already includes MacIPX support. “A Mac user can buy this copy of FileMaker and get everything he needs to show up on a Novell [NetWare] network,” said Dennis Marshall, Claris database product manager. “{IPX] is by far the dominant network _ protocol, and with it network managers don’t have to run separate [AppleTalk and IPX] networks. It won't supplant AppleTalk, but it lets corporate accounts standard- ize, which they love todo.” The MacIPX package includes a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) necessary for Macintosh programs to use IPX and SPX, the Sequence Packet Exchange, as their transport method. For NetWare 2.x and 3.x, APIs that allow Mac applications to query the NetWare bindery are included with the stack; for 4.x environments, the bindery emula- tion provided in NetWare for Mac- intosh 4.0 will be required. Novell’s delivery of the protocol is the first in a four-step strategy to give the Mac equal footing with DOS, Windows and Unix clients IPX stack to allow NetWare integration sans AppleTalk Mac apps with IPX support NetWORKS 3.0 Irma Workstation Macintosh 3.0 in NetWare environments. Later this year, the company will deliver a further set of APIs that allow development of richer Mac client access to 4.x services as well as Mac clients for the forthcoming Person- al NetWare. Personal NetWare, a new incarna- tion of NetWare Lite with the addi- tion of virtual server technology, will be delivered in 1994, Novell said. Novell Inc. is at 122 East 1700 South, Provo, Utah 84606. Phone (801) 429-7000 or (800) 453-1267; fax (801) 429-5155.0 Remote access crosses platforms ‘ARA PPP client _ on PowerBook. Shiva client on DOS/Windows, “Shiva dient on NK eliminate the need for network man- agers to maintain different devices for Mac, Windows and Unix users dialing into mixed AppleTalk, IPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange) and TCP/IP networks. In contrast to the proprietary AppleTalk Control Protocol that functions as ARA’s transport mech- anism, PPP is an Internet Engineer- ing Task Force standard that uses encapsulation to transport