MacWEEK articles from April 1992

MacWEEK archives from April 1992

Multimedia Mac and color Classic to bolster low end. (Apple Macintosh Classic) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... By Neil McManus Cupertino, Calif. -- The familiar blue face of the Mac Classic will get some color on its cheeks when Apple introduces two low-cost color Macs early next year, sources said. One of the new Macs will come in a chassis...

Apple to get personal at CES. (Personal Digital Assistant, Consumer Electronics Show) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... By Andrew Gore Chicago -- After three months of dropping hints about its consumer- electronics plans, Apple is considering introducing its first Personal Digital Assistant at the Consumer Electronics Show here next month. Although...

System 7 Tune-Up gets update; patch stops folder disappearance. (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... By Henry Norr Cupertino, Calif. -- Apple last week released a system-software patch it said will immunize users against System 7's disappearing-folders bug. The fix is incorporated in Version 1.1 of the System 7 Tune-Up package,...

Thunder cards to get RISC boost. (SuperMac Technology Inc.'s ThunderBolt) (reduced-instruction-set computer) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Andrew Gore Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Owners of SuperMac Technology's Thunder display cards who wondered what might fit the Thunder's mysterious slot soon will be able to bolt a RISC-powered graphics accelerator in it. The MIPS...

PowerBooks may light fire under users. (protective case for Apple's notebook computers' batteries) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... Cupertino, Calif. -- Here's a unique new PowerBook bug: spontaneous combustion. Apple last week said the PowerBook batteries' exposed terminals make them liable to accidental short-circuit if they come in contact with metal objects while...

PowerPoint upgrade in the works. (Microsoft Corp.'s PowerPoint 3.0 for Windows) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Carolyn Said Redmond, Wash. -- Microsoft Corp. is finally close to releasing a major overhaul of PowerPoint, more than four years after the presentation program's last extensive upgrade, sources said. At Comdex/Spring '92 in...

Norton Utilities update set to ship this month. (Symantec Corp.'s Norton Utilities for the Macintosh 2.0) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Henry Norr Cupertino, Calif. -- Symantec Corp. said last week that Version 2.0 of its Norton Utilities for Macintosh will be released this month. The program will keep its colorful interface and $149 price but will incorporate...

MacWrite Pro delayed. (Claris Corp.) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... Santa Clara, Calif. -- Almost a year after it was announced, Claris Corp.'s MacWrite Pro has slipped its ship date -- for the third time. The upgrade to the first Mac word processor, originally due in fall 1991, is now slated to ship by...

Borland eyes Taligent OS. (Borland International Inc.; operating system) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... Washington -- Borland International Inc. may stay out of the Mac market until the object-oriented Taligent operating system ships. Phillipe Kahn, president and CEO of Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Borland, told an audience at the Federal...

Apple pitches secure A/UX to feds. (Federal Office Systems Exposition '92) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... By Mitch Ratcliffe Washington -- Apple pitched security for A/UX at the Federal Office Systems Exposition '92 here last week. Nearly 80,000 people from Washington, D.C.'s public and private sectors attended FOSE '92, one of the few...

ASD's Active Memory sends schedule entries over LAN. (ASD Software Inc.'s Active Memory 2.0 personal information management system; local area network) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Henry Norr Montclair, Calif. -- Active Memory 2.0 from ASD Software Inc. brings a networked approach to personal information management The $199 program, available as a desk accessory for System 6 and in application form for...

Util watches windows, builds time sheets. (ASD Software Inc.'s WindoWatch utility program) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Henry Norr Montclair, Calif. -- ASD Software Inc. recently released a utility that logs what the Mac is up to every second it's on. Called WindoWatch, the $149 program is designed for tracking billable hours, monitoring software...

Samsung enters printer market with 8-ppm RISC-based model. (Samsung Electronics America Inc.'s Finale 8000; pages per minute; reduced-instruction-set computer) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Matthew Rothenberg Saddle Brook, N.J. -- Samsung Electronics America Inc. last week made an overture to PostScript printing with the Finale 8000, an 8-page-per-minute, RISC-based laser printer. To ship later this month for...

Fusion offers low-cost '040 for LC. (Fusion Data Systems Inc.'s TokaMac ELC Motorola Inc. 68EC040-based accelerator board) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Raines Cohen Austin, Texas -- Fusion Data Systems this week joined the throng of hardware vendors taking advaTokaMac ELC, a 25-MHz 68EC040-based accelerator card for the Mac LC, will ship next month, the company said. The new card...

68030 card for LC now available direct. (Engineering Solutions Inc.'s Impact 030 accelerator board) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... Tukwila, Wash. -- Engineering Solutions Inc., which designed the Gemini and Mercury lines of accelerator cards exclusively distributed through Total Systems Integration Inc. of Eugene, Ore., said it now will release products itself through a...

PSI unveils fax-data modems for PowerBooks. (PSI Integration Inc.'s PowerModem 96/96 and PowerModem 10/42) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Nathalie Welch Campbell, Calif. -- PSI Integration Inc. announced two new fax-data modems designed to fit completely inside Apple's PowerBook notebook systems. The two devices, unlike the PowerPort from Global Village Inc. of...

Envisio adds options to PB displayer adapter. (Notebook Display Adaptor 030) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... Minneapolis -- Envisio Inc. last month upgraded its display adapter for the PowerBook 140 and 170 to support more monitors. The Notebook Display Adaptor 030, introduced last fall (see MacWEEK, Oct. 22, 1991), now uses a DB-15 connector...

AppleScript on the way, but new apps needed. (Apple's user scripting system)
April 6, 1992... By Raines Cohen Cupertino, Calif. -- A clearer picture of what the AppleScript experience will be like is starting to emerge as selected developers experiment with prerelease versions of Apple's forthcoming user scripting system. ...

New year could bring dedicated Apple server: new '040 machine may require A/UX. (Motorola Inc. 68040 microprocessor)
April 6, 1992... New '040 machine could require A/UX By Andrew Gore Cupertino, Calif. -- When is a Macintosh not exactly a Macintosh? When it's a dedicated Mac server that requires Unix as its operating system. Apple's first-ever dedicated...

Apple makes moves on Windows: Mac OS for PCs could be in offing. (Microsoft Corp.'s Windows; operating system)
April 6, 1992... Mac OS for PCs could be in offing By Carolyn Said and Daniel Farber San Francisco -- As Microsoft Corp. ships Windows 3.1 amid $36 million worth of hoopla, Apple is moving to infiltrate the Windows market and taking other steps to...

Alysis delivers More Disk Space. (Alysis Software Corp.'s disk capacity program) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Henry Norr San Francisco -- Alysis Software Corp. last month released More Disk Space, a $99.95 program the company said expands effective disk capacity without impeding performance, introducing compatibility problems or changing...

On-line critics dissect Mac Finder: future engineer gets user feedback. (includes related article on user critiques of Open/Save dialogs)
April 6, 1992... Future engineer gets user feedback By Henry Norr Ann Arbor, Mich. -- It all started a month ago, when a 22-year-old college senior named Tom Conrad posted an on-line message asking other users what capabilities they'd like to see in...

JMP package, add-on aid in the design of experiments. (SAS Institute Inc.'s JMP Design) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Henry Norr Cary, N.C. -- JMP, until now SAS Institute Inc.'s only Mac child, is about to get a sibling called JMP Design. The new package will assist scientists and industrial researchers in the design of experiments. Slated to...

StarNine links mail directories: address server works with MHS, SMTP. (StarNine Technologies Inc.'s Mail*Link Directory Services; Message Handling Service, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... Address server works with MHS, SMTP By Dartanyan L. Brown Berkeley, Calif. -- Gateway developer StarNine Technologies Inc. has created an address server for multiplatform, multivendor mail systems. StarNine's Mail*Link...

Hedging your electronic-mail bets before the dawn of Apple's OCE. (Open Collaboration Environment)
April 6, 1992... By Don Monkerud San Francisco -- Managers considering electronic-mail application purchases face an atmosphere of uncertainty after Apple last month revealed details about the Open Collaboration Environment. OCE will provide...

Canon camera captures Mac images. (Canon U.S.A. Inc.'s RC-570 Still Video Camera and Electronic Still Presentation Kit) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Neil McManus Chicago -- Canon U.S.A. Inc. this week will unveil a new color still-video camera that transfers 24-bit- color images to and from the Mac. Canon will introduce the camera and a Mac connection kit at Comdex/Spring...

Mac video vendors to try their luck at Las Vegas broadcasters show: Avid, Digital F/X to air new wares. (National Association of Broadcasters; Avid Technology Inc.) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... Avid, Digital F/X to air new wares By Erik Holsinger Las Vegas -- As personal computers continue to gain acceptance in the industrial and professional video markets, more producers are turning to the Mac for low-cost solutions to...

Agfa goes soft on StudioSet imagesetter PostScript RIP. (StudioSet 2000SR) (raster image processor) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Matthew Rothenberg Wilmington, Mass. -- Agfa this week will announce a new version of its low-end StudioSet 2000 Plus imagesetter that comes with a software PostScript RIP and a trimmer price tag. Available immediately for...

Plummeting prices brighten market for PostScript color-printer buyers.
April 6, 1992... By Cliff Lehman San Francisco -- PostScript color printing may finally become a mainstream activity as prices continue to drop on PostScript color thermal-wax transfer printers and solid-ink printers debut at less than $10,000. ...

Vendors load features onto PowerBook RAM. (Piiceon Inc.'s flexible memory cards; TechWorks Inc.'s TouchBase desk accessory) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Raines Cohen San Francisco -- As RAM for Mac PowerBooks makes the transition from an expensive specialty product to a commodity item, companies are attempting to distinguish their offerings. >Piiceon Inc. of San Jose, Calif.,...

Generation offering 16" monitors; cards. (Generation Systems Inc.'s 16-inch Trinitron Display and 16-inch Color Display) (brief article) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... By Neil McManus St. Paul, Minn. -- Generation Systems Inc. is offering two new 16-inch color monitors and accompanying NuBus graphics cards, available in eight, 16 and 24 bits. >Trinitron. Generation Systems' 16-inch Trinitron...

Evergreen boosts MedVision scanner support. (Evergreen Technologies Inc.'s MedVision Modality Pak) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Raines Cohen Gaithersburg, Md. -- Evergreen Technologies Inc. last month upgraded its medical image-analysis system, MedVision, to support more scanners. The $895 MedVision Modality Pak, released last year (see MacWEEK, Sept....

IPLab gets neural network, frame grabber. (Signal Analytics Corp.'s NeuraLink and Pixel Buffer) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Neil McManus and Raines Cohen Vienna, Va. -- Signal Analytics Corp. recently added neural network and image-capture support to its IPLab image-processing software. The IPLab series is used for imaging applications such as video...

Samsara offers deal on accounting package. (Clerk of the Works) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... By April Streeter Sandpoint, Idaho -- Samsara Ltd. will shave $1,000 from the price of Clerk of the Works for users of other accounting programs ready to make a switch through the month of June. Targeted at architects, engineers and...

GQL 3.0 gets new database links. (Andyne Computing Ltd.'s Graphical Query Language 3.0) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Louise Fickel Kingston, Ontario -- Andyne Computing Ltd. last month announced improvements to Graphical Query Language 3.0, its Mac-based database-querying tool, and this week the company shipped its first Windows version. The...

Oracle NLMs will work with Macs on TCP/IP: version 1.1 writes 35 percent faster. (Oracle Server for NetWare 1.1; NetWare Loadable Modules; Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... Version 1.1 writes 35 percent faster By Louise Fickel Redwood Shores, Calif. -- An upgrade to Oracle Corp.'s database server for Novell Inc.'s NetWare will add Unix workstations and Macs running TCP/IP to its list of clients. ...

IBM endorses multiprotocol networks: scheme called 'extension to SNA'. (Systems Network Architecture)
April 6, 1992... Scheme called 'extension to SNA' By Louise Fickel Armonk, N.Y. -- IBM Corp. here last month unveiled a networking blueprint that adapts its existing mainframe-oriented networking technologies to client-server systems. Big Blue also...

Motorola publishes wireless specs. (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... By Louise Fickel Schaumburg, Ill. -- Motorola Inc. is putting out calls to cellular phone carriers and modem manufacturers inviting them to the wireless party. Motorola recently published protocol specifications for transmitting...

PSI drops most modem prices. (PSI Integration Inc.) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... Campbell, Calif. -- PSI Integration Inc. last month shipped the missing piece in its COMstation line of Mac modems, the 14.4-Kbps data-only COMstation Three. This week PSI reduced prices on its COMstation One, Two and Four fax-data modems, as...

Color printers enliven Mac sites.
April 6, 1992... By Harry LaRacuente Color printing has clearly made inroads into work sites with Macintoshes, according to a recent MacWEEK survey of its subscribers. Survey results show that half of MacWEEK's subscribers have color printers in use at...

Mac software sales soar but trail Windows' pace. (Microsoft Corp.'s Windows)
April 6, 1992... By Jon Swartz and April Streeter San Francisco -- For Mac vendors, it paid to sell software in 1991. Strong growth in the Mac software market, combined with surging sales for Windows products, led to record North American software...

Pocket hard drives can travel with data. (MacWEEK Special Report: Mass Storage)(includes related article on portable hard drives)
April 6, 1992... By Larry Stevens One way to look at advances in computer technology is as an increasing ability to make things smaller. After all, today's Macs aren't really any more powerful than computers available in the late 1950s; the difference...

How long will your data archives last? (MacWEEK Special Report: Mass Storage) (includes related article on computer-grade versus consumer storage media)
April 6, 1992... By Mitzi Waltz How long will my storage keep? For managers, this is an agonizing question -- the last part of the data-archiving equation. Whether you store data on 8mm tape, digital audio tape, removable hard drives, CD-ROM,...

How legal is your hard drive? (MacWEEK Special Report: Mass Storage)(includes related articles on internal and external drive certification, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) clearance for hard drives and restrictions on using portable computers on airplanes)
April 6, 1992... By Connie Guglielmo Your hard drive, like other computer equipment, can act as a radio transmitter, generating and emitting "radio-frequency energy," according to the Federal Communications Commission. That energy can cause...

Windows 3.1 gives TrueType more weight. (Commentary) (Column)
April 6, 1992... Windows 3.1 gives TrueType more weight Jean-Louis Gassee Now that Windows 3.1 has officially lifted off, we'll hear a lot about how much it will continue to erode the "Mac advantage." In one way, at least, Windows 3.1 actually...

We need a Mac guardian to watch over us. (predicting system failures) (The Mac Manager) (Column)
April 6, 1992... We need a Mac guardian to watch over us Don Crabb Naturally Mr. Murphy always visits us at the most inopportune times. The Murphy of whom I speak, of course, is that one famed in jurisprudence as the progenitor of Murphy's Law. ...

The Incubator!: a nifty if pricey utility for TrueType users. (Type Solutions Inc.) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
April 6, 1992... The Incubator! A nifty if pricey utility for TrueType users The Incubator! from Type Solutions Inc. seems at first glance like TrueType's answer to Adobe Systems Inc.'s Multiple Master font technology. But both the underlying...

Catalyzing experimental design: BBN/Catalyst sets up efficient sets of test runs that will help analyze lab and process data. (BBN Software Products' BBN/Catalyst 1.4)(includes product evaluation summary) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
April 6, 1992... BBN/Catalyst sets up efficient sets of test runs that will help analyze lab and process data. By Linda Custer Scientists often are asked to predict the effect of one factor on another in a physical process. For example, it might be...

Relisys fax software now compatible with System 7. (AutoFAX)(brief article) (Gateways Briefs) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... Relisys fax software now compatible with System 7 Milpitas, Calif. -- Relisys last month began shipping a System 7-compatible version of AutoFAX, the $39 software that lets the Mac take advantage of the fax capabilities in the company's...

Neon Software supports PowerBook SCSI Ethernet. (Neon Software Inc.'s Netminder Ethernet packet analyzer) (Small Computer Systems Interface) (Brief Article) (Gateways Briefs)
April 6, 1992... Neon software supports PowerBook SCSI Ethernet Lafayette, Calif. -- Neon Software Inc. last month shipped NetMinder Ethernet 2.1, a new version of its $595 Ethernet packet analyzer that lets users capture network traffic from a Mac...

New fax modem alerts users to received faxes. (Micro Electronic Technologies Inc.'s 9696PF)(brief article) (Gateways Briefs) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... New fax modem alerts users to received faxes Hopkinton, Mass. -- Micro Electronic Technologies Inc. last month released a pocket-size, battery-powered fax-data modem that alerts users to faxes received in the background. Available...

ElectricImage casts new shadows. (Electric Image Inc.'s ElectricImage Animation System 1.5) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Carolyn Said Las Vegas - Electric Image Inc. will roll out a new version of its animation program for film, television and video professionals at the National Association of Broadcasters convention here next week. ElectricImage...

Fast Eddie trims 24-bit images. (Paradigm Concepts Inc.'s color image reduction software) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By April Streeter Santa Fe, N.M. -- Paradigm Concepts Inc. in June will release a new program that slims the size of 24-bit-color images by two-thirds, without compression. Fast Eddie, priced at $169, selects an eight-bit-color...

Sound Tools II records stereo direct to disk. (DigiDesign Inc.'s digital audio recording system) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... Menlo Park, Calif. -- DigiDesign Inc. last week shipped Sound Tools II, a direct-to-hard disk digital audio recording system for the Mac. Designed for professional audio applications, Sound Tools II is priced at $3,495 and replaces the...

LaserMaster delivers 1,000-dpi printer: cross-platform printer switches between ports. (Unity 1000) (brief article) (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... Cross-platform printer switches between ports By Matthew Rothenberg Eden Prairie, Minn. -- LaserMaster Corp. last week announced a new 8-page-per-minute, 1,000-dpi, PostScript-compatible laser printer. Unlike previous...

Longtime reseller bows out of the Mac market: Heath/Zenith cuts 70% of work force. (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... Heath/Zenith cuts 70% of workforce By Shawn Tomlinson St. Joseph, Mich. -- One of the oldest Apple resellers has stopped selling Macs. Heath/Zenith Computers, which has sold Apple products since 1985, discontinued Mac sales...

Key WordPerfect executive resigns following a major reorganization. (Product Announcement)
April 6, 1992... By Louise Fickel Orem, Utah -- WordPerfect Corp. last month initiated a major reorganization that resulted in the resignation of one of its top executives. Pete Peterson, described by industry observers as "the face of...

PC pioneers launch institute. (Paul Allen and David Liddle announce the Interval Research Corp.) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... By Daniel Farber Palo Alto, Calif. -- Two of the personal computer industry's pioneers have teamed up to launch a technology research institute. Paul Allen, Microsoft Corp. co-founder, and David Liddle, until recently an IBM...

SuperMac, Macromedia IPOs imminent: newsletter predicts flood of offerings. (SuperMac Technology Inc., initial public offering) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... Newsletter predicts flood of offerings By Andrew Gore New York -- Initial public offerings from veteran Mac companies Macromedia Inc. of San Francisco (formerly MacroMind-Paracomp Inc.) and SuperMac Technology of Sunnyvale, Calif.,...

Spring cleaning at Apple cuts 160 manufacturing jobs. (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... By Dartanyan L. Brown Fremont, Calif. -- Picking up where it left off last summer, Apple last week issued pink slips to 160 workers at its manufacturing factory here. The layoffs, which represent 18 percent of the 9-year-old...

Sharp agrees to sell Macs in Japan. (Sharp Electronics Corp.) (Business Briefs) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... Sharp agrees to sell Macs in Japan Osaka, Japan -- Apple and Sharp Electronics Corp. executives did more than agree to develop a new generation of handheld digital information devices last month: The companies signed an agreement calling...

Proxima, In Focus Systems settle LCD copyright dispute. (liquid crystal display) (Business Briefs) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... Proxima, In Focus Systems settle LCD copyright dispute San Diego -- Proxima Corp. and In Focus Systems Inc. last week reached a settlement in their 2-year-old copyright infringement dispute over color LCD technology. Under terms of...

Uncle Sam wants QMS printers for military WAN. (wide-area network) (Business Briefs) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... Uncle Sam wants QMS printers for military WAN Mobile, Ala. -- QMS Inc. last week announced the Department of Defense has enlisted its PostScript printers for use in a wide-area network that will help the military design, catalog and...

The Learning Co. to go public. (Business Briefs) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... The Learning Co. to go public Fremont, Calif. -- The Learning Co. has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. The educational and entertainment software developer, based here, filed a...

Let OS wars begin but keep eyes on prize. (operating system)
April 6, 1992... Let OS wars begin but keep eyes on prize This month could mark a milestone in the history of personal computing -- a significant step toward a world in which users routinely mix and match hardware platforms, application programs,...

3 years ago in MacWEEK. (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... April 4, 1989: "Motorola Inc. last week moved to steal the spotlight away from arch rival Intel Corp. by releasing technical specifications for its next-generation 32-bit microprocessor, the 68040." In retrospect: The Mac community is...

Letters. (Letter to the Editor)
April 6, 1992... If it acts like a NeXT, then it must be a NeXT My consternation with the Mac community has doubled with just one issue of MacWEEK (March 9). Several stories were about the future of the Mac: One describes improvements with "Unix-grade OS...

More-instant updates and a really simple player. (The Help Desk) (brief article) (Column)
April 6, 1992... More-instant updates and a really simple player >If you're using ON Technology Inc.'s Instant Update and you want to update several documents at once, do this: Select all documents with data that have changed, hold down the Option key and...

Debugging your debugger at start-up time. (Ask David Ramsey) (Column)
April 6, 1992... Debugging your debugger at start-up time Q: For some reason I can't get Macsbug to load anymore. It's in the System folder, but the Mac never says "Debugger installed" at start-up time. Help. A: I've seen only one circumstance that...

Calera cuts OCR price, adds AccuPage. (Calera Recognition Systems Inc.'s WordScan and WordScan Plus optical character recognition software) (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... By Matthew Rothenberg Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Calera Recognition Systems Inc. has lowered the cost of its WordScan and WordScan Plus optical character recognition software packages and announced it is adding support for Hewlett-Packard...

Three hearings scheduled on Apple lawsuit motions. (Brief Article)
April 6, 1992... San Francisco -- A federal judge here has scheduled three hearings to consider 18 motions filed in Apple's copyright-infringement suit against Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker set the hearings...

Phone-in-the-Mac potential. (Mac the Knife) (Column)
April 6, 1992... Ah, springtime is in the air and the former Soviets have the worst of the bitter cold behind them. And, of course, the news of a few billion dollars coming from the West surely helped to brighten some still short and gray former-Soviet days....

Are you getting the message: graphical interfaces in TeleFinder, FirstClass bring Mac-likeness to LAN dial-in conferencing. (SoftArc Inc.'s FirstClass 1.65 and Spider Island Software's TeleFinder Group Edition Host 2.4 bulletin board conferencing systems)(includes product evaluation summary and related articles on definitions and choices of computer conferencing) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
April 6, 1992... Graphical interfaces in TeleFinder, FirstClass bring Mac-likeness to LAN dial-in conferencing. In recent months several bulletin board systems with conferencing features have come to market. Two of them, Spider Island Software's...

TurboCASE loads up on tools: electronic chalkboard tool can be valuable for developers of large software products. (StructSoft Inc.'s TurboCASE 4.0 computer-aided software engineering package; includes product evaluation summary) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
April 6, 1992... Electronic-chalkboard tool can be valuable for developers of large software projects. By Vernon Keenan Software engineers automate and control computer program development with computer-aided software and engineering applications....

TelePort dials up easy faxing: Global Village's fax-modem puts a smooth interface and solid terminal-emulation software in a small package. (Global Village Communication's TelePort/FullFax 2.0 modem and software; includes product evaluation summary) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
April 6, 1992... Global Village's fax-modem puts a smooth interface and solid terminal-emulation software in a small package. By Neil Shapiro In most offices, sending and receiving faxes is no more unusual than making a phone call. But it still can...

Pocket Fax: portable package lacks power. (MiCC Inc.'s Pocket Fax Modem; includes product evaluation summary) (Hardware Review) (Evaluation)
April 6, 1992... By Neil Shapiro Modems that offer both fax and data capabilities are becoming more common. Modems with portability features are in demand by consumers with PowerBooks and other portables. While Global Village Communication's...

OCR moves toward paperless office: Mac-based OCR solutions are not flawless, but users agree that software limits are trivial when faced with typing hundreds of documents. (includes related article on optical character recognition document feeders)
April 6, 1992... Mac-based OCR solutions are not flawless, but users agree that software limits are trivial when faced with typing in hundreds of documents. By Charles Rubin One big pothole in the road to the paperless office is what to do with all...

Laser printing issues tackled at driver level. (MacInTouch: Bugs & Tips) (Column)
April 6, 1992... Laser printing issues tackled at driver level Don Markuson dug into the depths of Mac printer drivers and came up with a neat package that documents and enhances Apple's standard stuff. Ric Ford Bugs & tips PS part II....

Apple events and communications scripting. (Script Manager) (Column)
April 6, 1992... Apple events and communications scripting Steve Michel Scripting pioneers are appearing in several categories, such as spreadsheets, page layout and utilities. However, scripting has played a major, mainstream role in...

For the record. (Correction Notice)
April 6, 1992... The March 23 issue gave an incorrect number for Working Software Inc. The correct number is (408) 423-5696. The March 2 story on Du Pont Corp.'s Scantex Plus drum scanner contained two inaccuracies. The scanner has a maximum output...

New PowerBook to get small; notebook will pack '030 in 4-pound box. (Apple developing sophisticated lightweight 68030-based Macintosh)
April 13, 1992... TITLE: NEW POWERBOOK TO GET SMALL Notebook will pack '030 in 4-pound box By Raines Cohen Cupertino, Calif. -- As Apple's next-generation PowerBook moves closer to market, more details are emerging about a machine that promises...

Tune-Up recalled after Apple finds memory glitch. (System 7 Tune-Up 1.1)
April 13, 1992... TITLE: TUNE UP RECALLED AFTER APPLE FINDS MEMORY GLITCH By Henry Norr Cupertino, Calif. -- Ten days after releasing a patch that was supposed to squash a nettlesome bug in the Mac file system, Apple last week recalled System 7...

FileMaker will get twin on Windows; Claris demos first 'ground up' port. (Claris Corp. porting FileMaker database tool to Windows environment)
April 13, 1992... TITLE: FILEMAKER PRO TO GET TWIN ON WINDOWS Claris demos first 'ground up' port By Andrew Gore Chicago -- A product considered unthinkable by Apple just two years ago is about to become a reality: Claris FileMaker Pro 2.0 for...

Sears to bring Macs to masses. (Apple authorizes Macintosh sales through Sears Roebuck and Co.)
April 13, 1992... TITLE: SEARS TO BRING MACS TO MASSES By Jon Swartz Cupertino, Calif. -- Apple last week announced a significant advance in its campaign to bring the Mac closer to the lucrative small-business and consumer markets. The company...