MacWEEK articles from January 1990

MacWEEK archives from January 1990

System 7 bonus: Mac Fileshare. (includes related article on reaction to Apple's inclusion of file sharing software in its system software)
January 9, 1990... By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- A more detailed view of System 7.0 is emerging as Apple seeds prototypes of its dramatically new system software to key Macintosh developers. As reported earlier (see MacWEEK, Dec. 12, 1989),...

Time lapse may scuttle Xerox claim. (includes related article on Xerox's Star computer's graphical user interface)
January 9, 1990... By Carolyn Said San Francisco -- Some of the murky issues surrounding intellectual-property law could finally be resolved if Xerox's belated lawsuit against Apple ever makes it to court. Legal experts cautioned, however, that the case...

Low-end lag shakes Wall Street confidence.
January 9, 1990... By Connie Guglielmo Cupertino, Calif. -- December was anything but a holiday for Apple as the company dealt with declining sales of its lower-end machines, a lawsuit challenging its copyright to the Mac interface, and investment...

Bad-news bears spoil Apple Xmas: dealers get price break on SE, SE/30.
January 9, 1990... Dealers get price break on SE, SE/30 By Pamela Pfiffner San Francisco -- In an apparent bid to boost second-quarter sales, Apple lowered prices to its dealers on Mac SE and SE/30 computers on Dec. 31. Suggested retail prices,...

Claris invests in Wingz code for future apps. (applications)
January 9, 1990... By John Battelle Santa Clara, Calif. -- Claris Corp. last month signed an agreement with Informix Software Inc. to acquire key spreadsheet and graphics technology from the Lenexa, Kan.-based company, sources close to both companies said....

Miniscribe ships bricks, seeks protection. (Miniscribe Corp files for Chapter 11)
January 9, 1990... Minscribe ships bricks, seeks protection Longmont, Colo. -- Drive manufacturer Miniscribe Corp. last week filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying its liabilities exceed its assets by $151 million. The move comes three months...

TypeStyler updated for Adobe fonts. (Broderbund Software's TypeStyler package)
January 9, 1990... San Rafael, Calif. -- Just weeks after shipping TypeStyler, its long-awaited type manipulation package, Broderbund Software is releasing an upgrade that will support Adobe Type 1 encrypted fonts. TypeStyler 1.01, priced at $199, is due at...

Aapps' MicroTV hits store shelves. (product announcement)
January 9, 1990... Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Aapps Corp. is now shipping MicroTV, a $399 board for Mac II machines that brings live video to the Mac screen. MicroTV's on-board tuner receives signals from video devices, including cameras, VCRs and TV sets, and...

Aldus offers users help options.
January 9, 1990... Seattle -- Aldus Corp. last month announced CustomerFirst, an expanded support program for owners of its products. Aldus users will now be entitled to 90 days of non-toll-free telephone technical support, up from 45 days. For...

FullWrite bundled with memory. (joint marketing strategy from Ashton-Tate Corp. and Technology Works)
January 9, 1990... Austin, Texas -- Buy 4 Mbytes of memory for $350 and get a free copy of FullWrite Professional. That's the bundle introduced this week by software publisher Ashton-Tate Corp. and Technology Works, a leading supplier of memory upgrades....

Ashton-Tate expands support plan.
January 9, 1990... Torrance, Calif. -- Ashton-Tate Corp. last week announced that users of its software can now get unlimited technical support free of charge, aside from phone-company tolls. Previously the company offered only 90 days of free support. ...

Connect increases on-line rates. (Connect Inc.)
January 9, 1990... Cupertino, Calif. -- Connect Inc. last month posted a rate increase for users of its on-line information service. Effective Jan. 1, users of the Connect Business Information Network are billed $10 per hour during peak connect time (7...

Letraset upgrades LetraStudio 1.5. (plans release of FontStudio) (product announcement)
January 9, 1990... FontStudio set for release this month By Pamela Pfiffner Paramus, N.J. -- Completing its Studio line of graphic arts software, Letraset has updated LetraStudio 1.5, its type manipulation package, and will this month release...

Ragtime 3 will offer unique mix: new U.S. company to offer support.
January 9, 1990... New US company to offer support By Clay Andres Ragtime is a uniquely integrated application that combines page-layout, word processing, spreadsheet and graphing functions. Although relatively unknown in the United States, it has...

MicroPhone II gets front-end tools. (version 3.0 upgrade available)
January 9, 1990... By Carolyn Said Berkeley, Calif. -- An array of tools to create front ends for electronic-mail and telecommunications services is featured in Version 3.0 of Software Ventures Corp.'s MicroPhone II, which shipped last month. The...

What's in the cards for '90: new versions, new platforms. (Products) (StackWeek) (column)
January 9, 1990... Steve Michel In the cards for '90: HyperCard-like programs for IBM 1990 looks to be a big year for HyperCard, multimedia and related areas. Two and a half years after the release of HyperCard, new products are appearing that will...

Developers hook into IAC future. (Interapplication Communications) (Mac Soapbox) (column)
January 9, 1990... Developers hook into IAC future As the Mac approaches its sixth anniversary, we embark on a new era -- an era of possibility. With the arrival of Apple's System 7.0 comes Interapplication Communications, a set of mechanisms that allow...

Apple: extending the Macintosh advantage. (Special Report: The Year in Review; Over the Horizon)
January 9, 1990... As the new decade dawns, the Macintosh world faces a matrix of challenges. MacWEEK's editors examine the technical, economic and social issues that will shape the future for Apple, the Mac community and Macintosh managers. Apple:...

Mac community: facing a more complex world. (Special Report: The Year in Review; Over the Horizon)
January 9, 1990... By Henry Norr By rights, the outlook for the larger Mac community -- developers, dealers and end users -- ought to be bright as the new year and the new decade begin. After all, 1989, "the year of the CPU," saw the introduction of...

Mac managers: consolidating current gains. (Special Report: The Year in Review; Over the Horizon)
January 9, 1990... By Dan Ruby Unlike their colleagues on the PC side, Macintosh managers do not face upheaval in the new decade. Instead, the '90s call fora controlled transition to an improved operating system, more-complete integration into corporate...

Data Desk 3 and JMP: exploratory data analysis. (Software Review) (includes related articles on Exploratory Data Analysis and a summary of statistics) (evaluation)
January 9, 1990... Exploratory data analysis Data analysis is moving away from formal hypothesis testing. By Clay Andres You don't need to carry a statistics package with you when you set out to walk across the South Pole. But if you were...

Spreadsheets keep the pace.
January 9, 1990... Spreadsheets keep the pace Spreadsheets hold their own in the rapidly changing world of computers. By Lawrence Stevens Rows, columns and numbers stretching as far as the screen can scroll. Basic, mundane and common as mud --...

Chasing copyrights on the legal carousel. (MacinTouch: Issues & Trends) (column)
January 9, 1990... RIC FORD AND RICK LEPAGE Chasing copyrights on the legal carousel ISSUES & TRENDS Round and round. Pump up the pipe organ, start the carousel and give Xerox Corp. the wooden steed behind Apple. Another litigant has climbed...

A Serius attempt at desktop programming. (Serius89 1.2) (Software Review) (Product Watch) (evaluation)
January 9, 1990... A Serius attempt at desktop programming Serius89 1.2 By Dennis Klatzkin Like the search for the Fountain of Youth, the quest for an ideal Mac programming system goes on. It must be intuitive, graphical and embody basic...

HyperTMON squashes HyperTalk bugs: ICOM's debugger is interactive. (Software Review) (Product Watch) (evaluation)
January 9, 1990... ICOM's debugger is interactive By Steve Michel On the positive side, HyperTalk is a language that is very easy to use. Creating simple scripts for such tasks as stack navigation is simple. On the negative side, HyperTalk has never...

Rendezvous. (PMC Telesystems Inc.'s management system software) (Software Review) (Reviews in Brief) (evaluation)
January 9, 1990... Rendezvous Hearty congratulations to PMC Telesystems Inc. for discarding copy protection with the release of Version 2.5 of Rendezvous, the company's electronic appointment diary system. Rendezvous aspires to be the complete...

GOfer 2.0. (Software Review) (Reviews in Brief) (evaluation)
January 9, 1990... GOfer 2.0 Many Macintosh utilities will help you find a misplaced file that's buried somewhere on your hard disk, based upon all or part of its name. But few can actually search by delving into the contents of documents. Microlytics...

Apple cites 'disappointing' earnings growth in '89 report. (Business Watch)
January 9, 1990... Cupertino, Calif. -- Apple last month released its 1989 annual report to shareholders. Below are excerpts from the 40-page document: It was a year of great challenges and great accomplishments. In fact, with a 30 percent increase in net...

DesignStudio, ColorStudio get high marks from users.
January 9, 1990... Early users sketched glowing portraits of DesignStudio and ColorStudio, the first two of Letraset's portfolio of electronic design tools to reach users last month. The $795 DesignStudio page-layout program offers a choice between the...

Abbott releases new CanOpener. (CanOpener 1.1) (product announcement)
January 9, 1990... Pleasantville, N.Y. -- Abbott Systems Inc. last week released a new version of CanOpener, a desk accessory and application package that lets users read and search text, view pictures and play sounds from virtually any kind of Mac file. ...

Dantz adds new SCSI capabilities to Retrospect. (Small Computer Systems Interface) (Retrospect 1.1) (product announcement)
January 9, 1990... By Henry Norr Berkeley, Calif. -- Dantz Development Corp. last week released a major update of Retrospect, its archival and backup software package. Version 1.1. of the $295 program, which already worked with a wide variety of...

For the record.
January 9, 1990... The Dec. 5 issue of MacWEEK incorrectly described Letraset's LetraFonts typefaces as copy-protected. Letraset removed copy-protection from its typefaces last March.

After Hours gives 4D users Quickhelp. (After Hours Software) (Quickhelp for 4th Dimension 2.0) (product announcement)
January 9, 1990... Van Nuys, Calif. -- After Hours Software last month released QuickHelp for 4th Dimension, a desk accessory help system for Version 2.0 of the ACIUS database. Targeted at both users and developers, the $99 program contains an entry for every...

Signal Analytics brings scientists powerful image-processing toolkit. (IPLab image processing software) (product announcement)
January 9, 1990... By Connie Guglielmo Vienna, Va. -- Signal Analytics Corp. is offering IPLab, a $499 image-processing program designed for scientific analysis. One of the key features of the program is its ability to read data in byte, integer and...

AntiToxin zaps WDEF. (WDEF virus) (Mainstay's AntiToxin virus detection and repair utility) (product announcement)
January 9, 1990... Agoura Hills, Calif. -- Mainstay last month upgraded AntiToxin, its virus detection and repair utility, to cope with the fast-spreading WDEF contagion. The company is offering Version 1.3 to registered owners for $15. The $99.95 package...

1stAid freezes Anti-Virus Kit. (anti-virus computer program discontinued)
January 9, 1990... By Henry Norr Boston -- Citing its reluctance to become engaged in a spiral of response and counter-response that "may be perceived as an exciting new challenge to virus writers and thus further contribute to the escalation," 1stAid...

Power Up delivers Address Book Plus. (Power Up Software Corp.) (product announcement)
January 9, 1990... San Mateo, Calif. -- Power Up Software Corp. last month began shipping Address Book Plus, a program designed for managing the names, addresses and phone numbers of personal and professional contacts. The program lets users print address...

TeleTypesetting updates MacRIP PS interpreter. (Postscript)
January 9, 1990... By Pamela Pfiffner Boston -- TeleTypesetting Co. will this month release an updated version of its PostScript software interpreter. Like Custom Applications Inc.'s Freedom of Press (see related story, next page), MacRIP lets users...

Shiva connects pcs to NetModem, NetSerial. (DOS Connect computer program) (product announcement)
January 9, 1990... By John Battelle Cambridge, Mass. -- Shiva Corp. last month shipped DOS Connect, a $99 program that gives MS-DOS computers access to Shiva's peripheral-sharing products for Mac networks. When installed on an IBM PC or compatible...

Freedom of Press gets Chooser driver. (Freedom of Press 2.1a interpreter from Custom Applications Inc.) (product announcement)
January 9, 1990... By Pamela Pfiffner Billerica, Mass. -- Custom Applications Inc. last month released a new version of Freedom of Press, a software package that lets users print PostScript files on non-PostScript output devices. Version 2.1a of the...

40 MHz for price of 33. (DayStar Digital Inc.'s Mac II Accelerator) (product announcement)
January 9, 1990... Flowery Branch, Ga. -- DayStar Digital Inc. is offering 40-MHz versions of its Mac II Accelerators at the price previously charged for 33-MHz boards. Through Jan. 19, the boards (which work with the Mac II, IIx and IIcx) will be...

Ehman offers 20-MB drive at $299. (Ehman Inc. reduces prices on internal and external drives)
January 9, 1990... Evanston, Wyo. -- Pushing Mac hard disk prices to an all-time low, Ehman Inc. last month reduced its 20-Mbyte internal drives for the Mac II family to $299 and its external units of the same capacity to $349. The drives use 3.5-inch...

Letters. (Opinion) (letter to the editor)
January 9, 1990... Adobe and Apple make products, not war In response to the many recent MacWEEK articles about Adobe Type Manager, I feel it is important to point out that ATM was not designed to turn an ImageWriter into a LaserWriter, nor was it designed...

We need guidelines, not lawsuits. (deals with Xerox-Apple law suit) (editorial)
January 9, 1990... We need guidelines, not lawsuits Oh, the supreme irony of Xerox's copyright lawsuit last month against Apple. Observers and players throughout the computer industry are saying that this latest case of litigation "serves Apple right."...

1990. (key issues for the 1990s) (Special Report: The Year in Review)
January 9, 1990... The times they are a changing. It is time to bid farewell to the first decade of Mac computing. The Berlin Wall between the Mac and PC has collapsed. The mirage of the appliance Macintosh is long gone. The jaggies are history. With...

He's got a new attitude. (Mac the Knife's unconventional wisdom) (attitudes of 1980s contrasted with attitudes of 1990s; Special Report: The Year in Review)
January 9, 1990... He's got a new attitude he '90s will be very different from the '80s, the Knife reports. Just take a poll at your next neighborhood Communist Party meeting. The attitudes of the '90s will reflect these changes. Here are Mac the Knife's...

Quotes of the Year. (quotes from leading figures in the computer industry) (Special Report: The Year in Review)
January 9, 1990... The CPU year of living dangerously How do you spellS-U-P-P-O-R-T "We don't have enough arms and legs to provide support directly." Morris Taradalsky, Apple vice president of customer service and information technology, June 20 ...

MacWeek's Index. (facts and figures relating to Apple Computer Inc. products and the computer industry) (Special Report: The Year in Review)
January 9, 1990... (With apologies to Harper's) Introductory price of the Macintosh, January 1984: $2,495 Of the Mac 512K, September 1984: $3,195 Of the Mac Plus, January 1986: $2,599 Of the Mac 512K Enhanced, April 1986: $1,999 Of the...

Guy Kawasaki's Christmas 2.0. (satire dealing with various luminaries of the computer industry) (Special Report: The Year in REview) (column)
January 9, 1990... 'Twas a difficult season for Santa this year With all the test-drive Macs, he could barely steer OK, so he blew it with some people's gifts, But it was tough hauling Portables he couldn't lift Rest assured he'll make good...

How did we do? 1989 Crystal Mac was a little cloudy. (Special Report: The Year in Review)
January 9, 1990... By Rochelle Garner Each new year brings with it a time of resolutions, a review of past mistakes and, as surely as the swallows return to Capistrano, predictions of what the next year will hold. Embarrassment inevitably follows when the...

Pundits Corner. (predictions by computer industry executives on the 1990s) (Special Report: The Year in Review)
January 9, 1990... By next Christmas you'll be able to buy color Mac technology for a lot less than you can today. People will discover Guy Kawasaki is really Elvis Presley. - Mike Slade, goup product manager, Microsoft Corp. The 90's will be a decade when...

The best and worst of 1989 products. (Special Report: The Year in Review)
January 9, 1990... By Becky Waring In MacWEEK's second annual guide to the best products of the year, we fiddled with the categories. Since it doesn't make sense for desk accessories and utilities to compete with full-featured applications, we have...

Quickview, Apple settle HyperCard patent lawsuit. (Quickview Systems Inc./HyperRacks Inc.) (suit over patent rights related to HyperCard)
January 9, 1990... By Raines Cohen Los Altos, Calif. -- Quickview Systems Inc./HyperRacks Inc. and its owner and president, Paul Heckel, last month reached a settlement with Apple in a dispute over patent rights related to HyperCard. Quickview holds...

Mac consultants to hold conference in San Diego. (Macintosh Consultants Network)
January 9, 1990... By John Battelle Bellevue, Wash. -- The Macintosh Consultants Network announced last month that its Fourth International Consultants Conference will be held in San Diego in April. The conference, which occurs twice a year, has...

High-density floppies lead drop in disk prices.
January 9, 1990... San Jose, Calif. -- Prices of 3.5-inch floppy disks, especially the high-density disks used by Apple's SuperDrive, have declined sharply over the past 18 months. The chart to the left shows per-disk prices for Sony bulk disks purchased in...

Apple Canada lays off 60. (Business Briefs)
January 9, 1990... B r i e f s Apple Canada lays off 60 Markham, Ontario -- Cutting its overall employment by about 14 percent, Apple Canada last month laid off 60 people from its sales and marketing staff. According to a statement issued by Norm...

Medical/education fields hold largest share of Macs in industry. (Business Briefs)
January 9, 1990... Medical/education fields hold largest share of Macs in industry La Jolla, Calif. -- Computer Intelligence, a market research firm based here, late last year released findings from a survey of 12,000 sites on the distribution of Macs among...

Judge strikes down nation's first VDT safety law. (video display terminal) (Business Briefs)
January 9, 1990... Judge strikes down nation's first VDT safety law Hauppauge, N.Y. -- In a victory for employers, a New York state judge last month struck down the nation's first VDT safety law. Passed by the Suffolk County legislature in June 1988,...

Archive subsidiary seeks control of Cipher Data Products. (CAC Corp.) (Business Briefs)
January 9, 1990... Archive subsidiary seeks control of Cipher Data Products Costa Mesa, Calif. -- In another step toward corporate consolidation in the tape backup market, Archive Corp. announced here last month that its wholly owned subsidiary, CAC Corp.,...

The making of Apple's 1989 report.
January 9, 1990... The annual report Apple issued last month was produced entirely on the Macintosh, the company said. The text was written with Microsoft Word and Claris' MacWrite II, graphs were drawn with Adobe Illustrator 88, and pages were composed with...

Stockwatch: tech stocks ring in new year with vigorous rally. (Market Week)
January 9, 1990... STOCKWATCH Tech stocks ring in new year with vigorous rally After dropping sharply earlier in December, Apple and other hightech stocks rallied in the week of Dec. 27 to Jan. 3, as investors bargain-hunted for these recently...

Macintosh market is all skewed up. (Market Watch)
January 9, 1990... Macintosh market is all skewed up Remember the "20/80" rule, which says that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of sales? Well, only 6 percent of Mac sites have 10 or more Macs, but this 6 percent has 74 percent of U.S. Macs...

Bear market for Portable. (Macintosh Portable computer) (Rumors: Mac the Knife)
January 9, 1990... Bear market for Portable While many of us spent the holidays glued to the tube, thoroughly entranced by the ongoing Central American civics lesson, Mac the Knife was keeping his ever-vigilant eye on events this side of the canal. ...

Microcom acquires anti-virus pioneer HJC. (Microcom Inc, HJC Software Inc)
January 9, 1990... By Henry Norr Durham, N.C. -- HJC Software Inc., pioneer in the marketing of anti-virus software for the Macintosh, was acquired last month by Microcom Inc., the Norwood, Mass.-based modem manufacturer. HJC released Virex, the first...

Portable sales lackluster: dealers confront price resistance.
January 16, 1990... Dealers confront price resistance By Pamela Pfiffner and Connie Guglielmo Cupertino, Calif. -- As the interest generated by the Macintosh Portable's much-publicized introduction in September fades, most dealers surveyed by MacWEEK...

Wingz' span extended to corporate databases. (Wingz spreadsheet)
January 16, 1990... By John Battelle and Edwin Garcia San Francisco -- Introducing a suite of new database and connectivity products, Informix Software Inc. last week moved to position its Wingz spreadsheet as a graphical front end for the presentation and...

Managers seek immunity from new virus threats.
January 16, 1990... By Henry Norr San Francisco -- Not long after Debbie Alsop, a desktop computer specialist at Mentor Graphics Corp. in Beaverton, Ore., took on the responsibility of supporting the company's Macs in late 1988, the nVIR virus "hit hard and...

Varityper bolsters PS imagesetter line.
January 16, 1990... Varityper bolsters PS imagesetter line East Hanover, N.J. -- Varityper Inc. last week unveiled the Series 4000 Image Controller, a configurable modular unit that works with the company's high-resolution PostScript imagesetters and film...

IDD Dreams up PictScript transfer feature. (Innovative Data Design Inc. Dreams 1.1 drafting program)
January 16, 1990... Concord, Calif. -- Innovative Data Design Inc. last week released Dreams 1.1. The new release of the $500 drafting program introduces PictScript, a feature allowing graphics transferred to word processing and publishing programs to be...

TOPS bundles InBox 3 with LAN update. (electronic mail software, local area network) (product announcement)
January 16, 1990... By John Battelle Santa Clara, Calif. -- TOPS Inc. ended months of speculation last week when it unveiled not only new versions of its networking and electronic-mail software but also preliminary details of a new relationship with its...

Outbound: have ROM, will travel. (Outbound Systems Inc. Outbound Laptop System) (product announcement)
January 16, 1990... By Raines Cohen Although there are only about 50 Outbound Laptop Systems in the world, the new machine has already become an object of interest among Mac users. Known as the Wallaby until a recent trademark search yielded a previous...

Radius adds 21-inch monitor. (product announcement)
January 16, 1990... San Jose, Calif. -- Radius Inc. last week announced a new 21-inch monochrome or eight-bit gray-scale monitor that works with the Mac SE, SE/30 and II family and with IBM PC AT compatibles. Available now for the Mac at $1,795, the new...

Apple needs courseware vendor.
January 16, 1990... Cupertino, Calif. -- Apple's selection of a new vendor to sell higher-education courseware -- a decision originally scheduled for last month -- will not be announced for at least another six weeks, the company said last week. As a...

Businessland to reduce staff.
January 16, 1990... San Jose, Calif. -- Businessland Inc. announced last week that it will reduce its worldwide staff of 3,900 by 5 percent to 7 percent, affecting between 200 and 275 people in the United States. Company CEO Dave Norman said some of...

Cube gets high-res scanner. (scanner for NeXT computer) (product announcement)
January 16, 1990... By Daniel Farber Redwood City, Calif. -- HSD Microcomputer U.S. is shipping the first high-resolution scanner for the NeXT Computer System. The flatbed Scan-X 1600 scanner recognizes up to 256 shades of gray and can scan line art at up...

Great Gantt! peps up project charts. (product announcement)
January 16, 1990... San Diego -- Varcon Systems Inc. last month released Great Gantt!, a program that lets project managers develop presentation-quality Gantt charts. The $195 program can be used as a stand-alone application or as a complement to Claris Corp.'s...

Pay shareware fees by phone.
January 16, 1990... By Henry Norr Encinitas, Calif. -- Somak Software Inc., a distributor of shareware disks as well as its own HyperCard utilities, last week announced a new service designed to make paying registration fees to shareware authors "as easy as...

Magna revamps Empower series. (security software) (product announcement)
January 16, 1990... By Henry Norr San Jose, Calif. -- Responding to increased competition in the security software market, Magna this month introduced a new, stripped-down version of its Empower package, enhanced the original Empower and announced...

A.M.E. sets new security standard: Casady & Greene ships gamma copies. (Access Managed Environment utility program)(includes related article on special A.M.E. version)
January 16, 1990... Casady & Greene ships gamma copies By Henry Norr Carmel, Calif. -- It all began in November 1987, when a group of 8-year-old children beta testing a new Mac game decided to make more room on the hard disk they were using by throwing...

In Focus Systems' PC Viewer is first LCD panel to project real color. (product announcement)
January 16, 1990... By Carolyn Said Tualatin, Ore. -- The first LCD panel that can project real color recently began shipping. The 480C PC Viewer from In Focus Systems Inc. "brings boardroom-quality color to interactive presentations at a reasonable...

SUM II disk utility, DataPak to be bundled.
January 16, 1990... Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Mass Microsystems Inc. will bundle Symantec Corp.'s SUM II disk utilities with its DataPak removable storage systems for the Mac, the two companies announced. The agreement encompasses the original DataPak 45, the DataPak...

ViewFrame RGB may display up to 27 colors at ship date. (product announcement)
January 16, 1990... By Carolyn Said Newport News, Va. -- Claiming to offer the best color translation of any LCD panel, nVIEW Corp. recently introduced the View-Frame RGB. The $3,995 ViewFrame RGB can project 16 colors, which its built-in software maps...

Deneba upgrades Canvas, Coach. (Deneba Software)
January 16, 1990... By Connie Guglielmo Miami -- Deneba Software is shipping a new version of Canvas that adds a four-color separation utility to the graphics program. In addition to the new Canvas Separator utility for generating CMYK (cyan, magenta,...

'Instamatic' of the imaging market: document scanning from First Financial. (First Financial Technology's low-cost scanning equipment) (product announcement)
January 16, 1990... Document scanning from First Financial By Carolyn Said Rolling Hills Estates, Calif. -- Reviving the old dream of the paperless office, First Financial Technology wants to put a Mac equipped with its inexpensive document-imaging...