MacWEEK articles from January 1991

MacWEEK archives from January 1991

Apple brings new simplicity to high-speed networking. (new line of Ethernet products) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Margie Wylie Cupertino, Calif. -- Declaring a new commitment to open standards, albeit combined with the Mac's traditional virtues, Apple this week will roll out its new line of Ethernet products and new versions of its X Window...

Expo brings out best of Mac: few new products, but upgrades and new Macs in spotlight. (Macworld Expo 1991)(Apple Macintosh microcomputers)
January 8, 1991... Few new products, but upgrades and new Macs in spotlight By MacWEEK staff San Francisco -- Wheeling and dealing, meeting and greeting, schmoozing and boozing, the Mac community will snub looming recession blues as it gathers for...

Apple adding power tower to Mac skyline. (high-performance Macintosh tower microcomputer in development)
January 8, 1991... By Andrew Gore Cupertino, Calif. -- Taking another jump into high-performance computing, Apple will introduce a floor-standing, 68040-based Mac this summer, according to sources close to the company. The tower unit's 25-MHz...

68040-powered accelerator cards set for Q1 launch. (Motorola's 68040 microprocessor)(first quarter) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... San Francisco -- Performance-hungry users will get their first chance to see what Motorola Inc.'s 68040 processor can do for Mac performance when at least four vendors roll out '040-powered accelerator boards at this week's Macworld Expo. ...

Radius Pivot turns to IIsi, IIci video. (Radius Pivot for Built-in Video monitor for Apple Macintosh IIci and IIsi microcomputers) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Neil McManus San Jose, Calif. -- Radius Inc. this week will begin shipping a version of its dual-mode Pivot display system that works with the built-in video capabilities of the Mac IIsi and IIci. The Pivot system lets users...

Microsoft unwraps Excel 3.0: competition due from Lotus, Claris. (spreadsheet software)(Lotus Development Corp.) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Competition due from Lotus, Claris By Andrew Gore San Francisco -- The long-awaited Microsoft Excel 3.0 will strut its stuff here this week, drawing a line that new challengers from Lotus Development Corp. and Claris Corp. are...

ACIUS promises speedy 4D Server. (relational database for the Apple Macintosh) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Andrew Gore San Francisco -- Some users have called ACIUS Inc.'s 4th Dimension the tortoise of Mac relational databases, but a new multitasking client/server product ACIUS will unveil this week could send 4D streaking past the...

Dance of the System 7.0 veils. (Apple's System 7.0 operating system) (Mac the Knife) (column)
January 8, 1991... It occurred to Mac the Knife this week that the Macworld Expo is a nearly perfect paradigm of the more crass commercial aspects of the recently completed holiday season. For Mac-obsessed adult children of the world, the opening of the doors...

Third parties move to fill gaps in Mac portable product line. (Dynamac Computer Products Inc., Colby Systems Inc., Outbound Systems Inc.) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Raines Cohen San Francisco -- Apple's upgraded Macintosh Portable won't make this week's Macworld Expo, but several other developers will be on hand with new and upgraded Mac-based portable systems. The new Mac Portable,...

Microsoft upgrades Mail: Version 3.0 awaits delivery. (Microsoft Mail 3.0 electronic mail system) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Carolyn Said San Francisco -- Perhaps inspired by the success of its latest Windows version, Microsoft Corp. seems to have chosen 3.0 as its lucky number. In addition to Excel 3.0 for the Mac, the company will show Microsoft Mail 3.0...

SuperMac to display 'true-color WYSIWYG' monitors at expo. (SuperMac Technology's SuperMatch Color Display, SuperMatch Two-Page Color Display, Dual-Mode Trinitron Display) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... San Francisco -- Hoping to take the lead in color calibration, SuperMac Technology this week will unveil two new large-screen monitors optimized for the company's SuperMatch Professional Color Matching System. SuperMac will roll out the...

ON program synchronizes schedules. (ON Technology Inc.'s Meeting Maker desktop accessory software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Henry Norr Cambridge, Mass. -- ON Technology Inc. this week will unveil a program designed to computerize one of the most time-consuming problems in business life: planning, scheduling and confirming meetings. Called Meeting...

Insignia emulator runs on new Macs. (Insignia Solutions Inc.'s SoftPC Classic/LC) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Henry Norr San Francisco -- Insignia Solutions Inc., this week will announce new low-cost emulation software that will let users run MS-DOS applications on the Mac Classic, LC, Portable and SE. Called SoftPC Classic/LC, the new...

Faster compression is in the cards: Sigma boards use dedicated chips. (Sigma Designs Inc.'s DoubleUp coprocessor and Bullet 3040 accelerator board)(includes related article on compression systems) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Sigma boards use dedicated chips By Henry Norr San Francisco -- Sigma Designs Inc. this week will announce the first hardware-based general-purpose file-compression system for the Mac. At the Macworld Expo here, the company...

RasterOps to show color accelerator, mono system. (ClearVue/XL monochrome monitor, RasterOps 24si accelerator board) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Santa Clara, Calif. -- RasterOps Corp. this week will introduce two new Mac II display products: a 21-inch monochrome system and a board that combines 24-bit color display with QuickDraw acceleration. * ClearVue/XL. Due later this month at...

Two years ago in MacWEEK.
January 8, 1991... Jan. 10, 1989: Sources close to Apple predicted that early in 1990 Apple would introduce a low-cost Mac that would break the $1,000 retail price barrier. In retrospect: The Mac Classic just made the fourth-quarter selling season, but...

For the record. (AppleTalk support)
January 8, 1991... In the Nov. 13 issue, MacWEEK incorrectly identified SynOptics Corp. as the first maker of multiprotocol hubs to incorporate AppleTalk support. Ungermann-Bass Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., and Plexcom Inc. of Simi Valley, Calif., already...

Aldus upgrade gives users FreeHand with PostScript. (Aldus FreeHand 3.0 computer graphics software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Connie Guglielmo San Francisco -- Aldus Corp. has drafted a new version of FreeHand that brings more color and text controls, and faster redraw speed to the PostScript drawing program. Version 3.0, to ship in the first quarter...

Aladdin unpacks StuffIt Deluxe 2.0. (Aladdin Systems Inc.'s compression utility) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Aptos, Calif. -- Aladdin Systems Inc., publisher of StuffIt Deluxe, last week began shipping Version 2.0 of the widely used compression utility. Enhancements to the $99.95 program include speed improvements; support for...

Kent-Marsh puts security on expansion card. (GuardCard data security equipment) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Henry Norr San Francisco -- KentuMarsh Ltd. will introduce the GuardCard, a $189.95 expansion card that promises "bulletproof" control of access to the Mac without complicated system-software patches or awkward physical obstructions,...

FolderBolt brings password protection integrated with the Mac's file system. (Kent-Marsh Ltd.'s data security software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Along with GuardCard, its first hardware product, Kent*Marsh Ltd. this week will release FolderBolt, another addition to its growing library of security utilities. FolderBolt, available now for $129.95, integrates password protection for...

Sony controller links computers, video. (Sony Corp. of America's VBOX video-equipment controller) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Connie Guglielmo San Francisco -- Sony Corp. of America this week will announce a video-equipment controller that could give multimedia development a boost. VBOX, due in the spring for $249.95, is an interface box that links...

New PIM indexes files, free-form data. (Bananafish Software's ThoughtPattern personal-information management system) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... ThoughtPattern organizes info By Raines Cohen San Francisco -- A new entry in the personal-information management market promises users the ability to organize their personal information as well their disk files. ...

MicroNet to demo 5-Gbyte DAT drive, Falcon and Raven arrays at expo. (MicroNet Technology Inc.'s Micro/DAT MD-5000 tape backup system, Falcon/414i and Falcon/414NP floppy disk drives, Raven disk arrays) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Henry Norr San Francisco -- MicroNet Technology Inc. will demonstrate three new high-capacity, high-performance storage systems for the Mac at this week's Macworld Expo here. The products, slated to ship this month, include: ...

Virex package gets booster shot: Microcom's utility now configurable. (Virex 3.0 anti-virus software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Microcom's utility now configurable By Henry Norr Durham, N.C. -- Virex, the original commercial anti-virus package for the Mac, will this week get a major upgrade designed to make it easier for users to protect themselves against...

Mobius accelerator and display card for SE uses new '030 chip. (Mobius Technologies Inc.'s 030 Accelerator board uses Motorola 68EC030 microprocessor) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Emeryville, Calif. -- Targeting Mac SE users in search of more speed and screen space, Mobius Technologies Inc. this month will ship an SE display and acceleration card built around the new 25-MHz Motorola 68EC030 processor. Called the 030...

U.S. Robotics pushes modem speed to 14.4 Kbps. (Courier V.32bis and HST Dual Standard modems) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Nathalie Welch and Henry Norr Skokie, Ill. -- Moving quickly to support the latest international telecommunications standard, U.S. Robotics Inc. last month began shipping modems capable of transferring data at 14.4 Kbps, 50 percent...

V.32bis joins CCITT standard list. (modem architecture approved by Consultative Committee International Telegraph and Telephone)
January 8, 1991... V.32bis is the latest major entry in the all-too-confusing lexicon of telecommunications jargon. Under consideration for two years, the new standard was approved in late October by a study group of the Consultative Committee International...

Satori adds 4th accounting module: Components series gets job cost, billing. (Satori Software's Components accounting software, Job Cost/Time Billing module)
January 8, 1991... Components series gets job cost, billing By Andrew Gore Seattle -- Continuing its efforts to prove that its graphical interface and flexibility can make the Mac an ideal environment for accounting, Satori Software will roll out the...

Conceptual's Copy Mac retains format in numeric data-file transfers. (Conceptual Software Inc.'s DBMS/Copy Mac and DBMS/Copy Mac With PC/Access data conversion software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Raines Cohen Houston -- Tired of saving data files as text to convert your database and spreadsheet files from one application to another? Trying to exchange files with IBM PC users in your office? Conceptual Software Inc. last...

Apple TV series enters new season. (Apple Education TV Series)
January 8, 1991... Cupertino, Calif. -- The Simpsons may not feel threatened yet, but the Apple Education TV Series, produced by the company for free satellite TV broadcast to 600 college and university sites, is headed into its second season. The series'...

Key Tronic to release new 101-key Macintosh keyboard. (MacPro Plus) (News Briefs) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... B r i e f s Key Tronic to release new 101-key Macintosh keyboard Spokane, Wash. -- Key Tronic Corp. plans to release a new 101-key Mac keyboard this month. The MacPro Plus, priced at $179, offers 15 user-definable function...

HP printer-cartridge recycling program goes national. (News Briefs)
January 8, 1991... HP printer-cartridge recycling program goes national Palo Alto, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co. this month announced plans to expand a program to encourage users of HP's LaserJet printers to recycle empty toner cartridges. The...

Samsara to upgrade accounting package for architects, engineers. (Clerk of the Works 2.0) (News Briefs) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Components series gets job cost, billing Seattle -- Continuing its efforts to prove that its graphical interface and flexibility can make the Mac an ideal environment for accounting, Satori Software will roll out the fourth module in its...

Users can bypass NuBus, hop on Intelligent Resources' VideoBahn. (Intelligent Resources Integrated Systems Inc.'s communications bus) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Connie Guglielmo Inverness, Ill. -- Getting down to the nuts and bolts of video on the Mac, Intelligent Resources Integrated Systems Inc. announced a new communications bus that lets users bypass the current bottleneck for video --...

Tempo II Plus picks up macro pace: records, plays back complex sentences. (Affinity Microsystems Ltd.'s startup document) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Records, plays back complex sequences By Henry Norr San Francisco -- Tempo II Plus, the latest incarnation of Affinity Microsystems Ltd.'s macro package, will go on sale at this week's Macworld Expo here. Tempo II, a Startup...

Night Diamonds' BiPlane to take off at expo. (Night Diamonds Software's shareware spreadsheet)(Macworld Expo) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Andrew Gore San Francisco -- Setting out to prove that it's still possible to get commercial-quality shareware on the Mac, Night Diamonds Software will launch a version of its BiPlane shareware spreadsheet at Macworld Expo here this...

Ehman has monitors for Mac Plus, Classic. (Full Page Monochrome Monitor) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Neil McManus Evanston, Wyo. -- Ehman Inc. is now offering its $499 Full Page Monochrome Monitor display system for the Macintosh Classic and Mac Plus. The 15-inch monitor provides a resolution of 640 by 870 pixels at 80 dpi and...

T/Maker ships new Phil Frank cartoon set. (ClickArt Events and Holiday Cartoons computer graphics software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... San Francisco -- A second volume in T/Maker Co.'s collection of clip art by popular syndicated cartoonist Phil Frank will go on sale at this week's Macworld Expo here. Called ClickArt Events and Holiday Cartoons, the $49.95 collection...

Altsys ships new Fontographer. (Fontographer 3.2 printer software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Neil McManus Plano, Texas -- Altsys Corp. last month began shipping a new version of Fontographer that allows type designers working on Macs to create PostScript fonts for use under Microsoft Windows 3.0. Version 3.2 of the $495...

KeyServer makes app distribution worry-free: util watches over company licenses. (Sassafras Software Inc.'s data center management software monitors application distribution) (includes related article on Proteus Technology's Quota 2.0 data center management software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Hanover, N.H. -- A network utility first developed to control software use on the 6,000 Macs at Dartmouth College, located here, is now keeping corporate users honest, too. KeyServer, available now from Sassafras Software Inc., lets...

The AG Group's LocalPeek analyzer keeps eye on LocalTalk networks. (network analyzer) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Margie Wylie San Francisco -- Managers will be able to cast a critical eye on their LocalTalk networks with LocalPeek, a software-only analyzer The AG Group will introduce at this week's Macworld Expo. Due next month for $495,...

Farallon ships AppleTalk products: first wave under new agreement. (Farallon Computing Inc.'s PhoneNET Talk communications software and PhoneNET Card PC LocalTalk communications board) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... First wave under new agreement Emeryville, Calif. -- With the ink on the agreement barely dry, Farallon Computing Inc. this week will begin shipping the first fruits of its pact with Apple. Last month, Farallon obtained rights from Apple...

STATUS*Mac adds direct profiles, System 7.0 info in new version. (Pharos Technologies Inc.'s STATUS*Mac 2.0 network analyzer)(Apple System 7.0 operating system) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Margie Wylie Cincinnati -- Mac managers will be able to keep even closer tabs on their resources with Pharos Technologies Inc.'s recently announced upgrade of its Mac management software, STATUS*Mac 2.0. STATUS*Mac lets managers...

Networks share PS printers with MacLAN Connect. (Miramar Systems Inc.'s MacLAN Connect F/P computer network software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Margie Wylie Santa Barbara, Calif. -- MacLAN Connect now offers Mac users access to printers as well as files on IBM PC and compatible networks, Miramar Systems Inc. announced last month. Starting at $695, MacLAN Connect F/P will...

Ether Route to add TCP/IP access. (Compatible Systems Corp.'s Ether Route/TCP Ethernet router supports Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Margie Wylie Boulder, Colo. -- Mac owners looking for access to wide-area networks have a new option with Compatible Systems Corp.'s Ether*Route/TCP, an Ethernet router with TCP/IP support. The $1,895 hardware router features two...

Dayna brings Ethernet to Mac through printer. (Dayna Communications Inc.'s DaynaPORT E/SC and EtherPrint Plus computer expansion chassis) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Margie Wylie San Francisco -- Dayna Communications Inc. will introduce the first external Ethernet device to connect through the Mac's printer port and several other new offerings at Macworld Expo here this week. >DaynaPORT E/SC,...

ModelShop gets faster redraw. (Paracomp Inc.'s ModelShop 2.0 computer-aided design software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Connie Guglielmo San Francisco -- With help from its installed base of architects and designers, Paracomp Inc. is working on a revision of ModelShop that it will demonstrate at the Macworld Expo here this week. ModelShop 2.0, due...

Aldus has training manuals. (Discover Aldus PageMaker educational software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Seattle -- To help desktop publishing instructors convey the ins and outs of Aldus PageMaker 4.0, Aldus Corp. recently shipped a set of hands-on training modules. "Discover Aldus PageMaker," priced at $249, has print and disk materials,...

Deneba puts final dabs on Canvas 3. (Deneba Software's computer graphics software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Connie Guglielmo San Francisco -- Deneba Software is putting the finishing touches on a new version of Canvas, its 32-bit color drawing program, and plans to display its work in progress at the Macworld Expo here this week. To...

The Ezzie envelope please.... (Third Annual Ezzie Awards for excellence and negligence in Macintosh graphic arts) (Boldface) (column)
January 8, 1991... The Ezzie envelope please... Another Super Bowl is nearly upon us, the deciduous trees are standing naked, and once again it's time to pause and reflect on the important issues of the past twelve months. Was the departure of Jean-Louis...

Claris to show off MacDraw Pro's 100 new features at expo debut. (computer graphics software is introduced at Macworld Expo) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Connie Guglielmo San Francisco -- After more than two years in development, MacDraw Pro, a major upgrade to Claris Corp.'s drawing program, will be introduced at the Macworld Expo here this week. The program is one of three...

The Warholization of Princess Diana via the Mac. (graphic artists use the Apple Macintosh to manipulate photograph)
January 8, 1991... The Warholization of Princess Diana via the Mac San Francisco -- Pop artist Andy Warhol led the way in making popular personalities larger and more colorful than life. From Marilyn Monroe to Mao Tse-tung, he colorized, posterized and...

Color Calibration Software upgraded. (Technical Publishing Services Inc.'s Color Calibration Software 2.0.3 printer software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... San Francisco -- Continuing to address the demands of users working with color, Technical Publishing Services Inc. is now shipping the first major upgrade to its Color Calibration Software. The $695 software, released last year (see...

QuarkXPress version for polyglots: lets users choose from 12 languages. (Quark Inc.'s QuarkXPress Passport desktop publishing software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Lets users choose from 12 languages By Carolyn Said San Francisco -- Polyglot desktop publishers will have a world of languages at their fingertips with a new version of Quark Inc.'s QuarkXPress. QuarkXPress Passport, to ship...

Pixar to ship 3-D picture composition program. (Showplace image processing software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... By Connie Guglielmo Richmond, Calif. -- Bringing more of its computer graphics wizardry to the Mac, Pixar said this week it will ship its photo-realistic 3-D picture composition program next month. Announced at Siggraph '90 in...

Designs seen in 3-D. (ModaCAD Inc.'s ModaVISION computer-aided design software) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... San Francisco -- ModaCAD Inc. plans to bring a new look to industrial design with ModaVISION, a modeling and rendering program that works with stereoscopic glasses to let users view their designs in 3-D. To be released at Macworld Expo...

Data Translations's VideoQuill now bundled with FontPack. (computer font generating software)
January 8, 1991... Marlboro, Mass. -- Now Data Translation Inc.'s $495 VideoQuill character-generation software can be purchased bundled with the company's FontPack for $695, a $295 savings over buying the packages separately. VideoQuill comes with nine...

Sharp adding 300-dpi PostScript laser printer to product line. (Sharp Electronics Corp.'s JX-9500PS)(dots per inch) (GA News Briefs) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Sharp adding 300-dpi PostScript laser printer to product line Mahwah, N.J. -- Sharp Electronics Corp., a consumer-products giant that manufactures everything from air conditioners to vacuum cleaners, is adding a 300-dpi PostScript laser...

Bitstream converts font library into PostScript Type 1 format. (Bitstream Typeface Library 2.0 computer fonts) (GA News Briefs)
January 8, 1991... Bitstream converts font library into PostScript Type 1 format Cambridge, Mass. -- Bitstream Inc. has retooled its entire library of more than 1,000 typefaces into PostScript Type 1 format. The company converted the fonts from Type A...

Ray Dream ships app for creating photo-realistic 24-bit color images. (Ray Dream Designer computer-aided design software) (GA News Briefs) (product announcement)
January 8, 1991... Ray Dream ships app for creating photo-realistic 24-bit color images Woodside, Calif. -- Ray Dream Inc. is shipping its first Mac graphics product, a 3-D rendering application for creating photo-realistic 24-bit color images. ...

The color-calibration spectrum. (color calibration products adhere to Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage standard) (includes related article on CIE color standard)
January 8, 1991... Mac color consistency from the monitor to output may be on the horizon as several new color-calibration products have adopted the CIE standard. By Steve Hannaford Before the Mac can become a widely accepted professional color...

MacWEEK's New Year's evolutions. (editorial)
January 8, 1991... MacWEEK's New Year's evolutions At the time of MacWEEK's birth nearly four years ago, our newspaper, like the Mac, served the needs of the intrepid few. Our readership has evolved from those first hard-core corporate zealots to...

Letters. (letter to the editor)
January 8, 1991... IIfx users get free optical mouse upgrade I want to correct the information in the letter (MacWEEK, Nov. 13, 1990) titled "Mac IIfx leaves optical mouse users behind." Presley Foster, who wrote the letter, was given incorrect information...

1991: the year of the 'MM' word? (multimedia technologies) (column)
January 8, 1991... 1991: The Year of the 'MM' Word? JEAN-LOUIS GASSEE Multimedia is not poised for success like desktop publishing was in 1985. Those who think otherwise will be in for a major disappointment. When a new year is about to begin,...

The bloating of Macintosh software. (developers are writing increasingly larger programs that demand greater amounts of memory) (The Mac Manager) (column)
January 8, 1991... The bloating of Macintosh software Don Crab Developers are writing increasingly larger programs that push the Mac's memory space. It's a trend that needs to stop. I was sitting in front of my Mac the other day, working on a...

1990: some corners turned. (Apple changes direction of product line, reorganizes management) (1990: The Year in Review)
January 8, 1991... It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. For Mac users, managers and vendors, it was the beginning of computing in the 1990s. And like any other year, 1990 was punctuated by events from the ridiculous to the sublime. In the...

How power users keep up the Tempo. (Affinity Microsystems Ltd.'s Tempo II operating system enhancement)
January 8, 1991... How power users keep up the Tempo Although it has had to compete with a free program (Apple's MacroMaker), another application that comes bundled with one of the most widely used of all Mac applications (AutoMac III, shipped with Microsoft...

The shape of years to come. (Apple's prospects for success in 1991) (1990: The Year in Review)
January 8, 1991... By Daniel Farber After making good on its promise of low-cost Macintoshes, Apple appears to be on a roll for 1991. Sales of the new Macs have zoomed so far beyond Apple's forecasts and production schedule that, officials said, the...

Omnis third parties up in arms at Blyth. (Bylth Software Inc.'s Omnis 5 data base management system)
January 8, 1991... By Andrew Gore Foster City, Calif. -- A controversy is brewing between Blyth Software Inc. and independent developers, consultants and trainers over issues related to the company's Omnis 5 relational database. According to Blyth CEO...

Ingram bets on support, expertise. (Ingram Micro Inc.)
January 8, 1991... By Andrew Gore Santa Ana, Calif. -- Having established itself as a leader in selection and fulfillment, Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest distributor of Mac products, has set its sights on becoming the channel's source for support...

Reviews highlights: editors pick the best. (MacWEEK editors choose best products reviewed in 1990) (1990: The Year in Review)
January 8, 1991... By Becky Waring Week after week throughout 1990, we brought you reviews of the latest products -- more than 400 in all. Many represented important advances or provided new solutions to existing problems. We've picked the best of these...

The state of Macintosh management: budget. (Special Report)
January 8, 1991... With each new year, Macintosh managers face a host of issues involved with connecting and supporting Apple's machines. And while problems shift over time, managers' jobs never seem to get any easier. In the following pages, MacWEEK reports...

Despite looming recession, 40% of surveyed sites plan to boost '91 Mac-related purchasing budgets. (Apple Macintosh)(Special Report)
January 8, 1991... By Griffin Dix and Sean Pfister Despite fears of an impending recession, 39 percent of MacWEEK subscribers' organizations will increase their 1991 budgets for purchasing Mac-related hardware and software. These budgets are expected to...

Network management. (The state of Macintosh management)(Special Report)
January 8, 1991... By Margie Wylie and Emily Kay Topping every network administrator's wish list is the capability to view, understand and manage an entire mixed network. While the number and variety of tools available are increasing, many are tied to...

Cooperative processing. (The state of Macintosh management)(Special Report)
January 8, 1991... In the networking of the '90s, all platforms will be equal. By John Battelle In an attempt to address the expanding demands of heterogeneous networks, many computing managers are preparing to redesign at least part of their...

Xerox to Star in Mac emulator. (Xerox Corp.'s Star graphical user interface)(Hydra Systems Inc.'s Hydra One System microcomputer board)
January 8, 1991... By Carolyn Said Cupertino, Calif. -- The granddaddy of graphical user interfaces, Xerox Corp.'s Star computer interface, could be the legal shield that lets owners of IBM PCs and compatibles run Mac software, if the innovative strategy...

Macintosh integration. (The state of Macintosh management)(Special Report)
January 8, 1991... Managers strive to integrate the Mac throughout the company. By Emily Kay In most large businesses today, the Mac is but one of several computing systems used throughout the organization. That fact, coupled with the need for...

Computer sources. (The state of Macintosh management)(Special Report)
January 8, 1991... Managers report a variety of purchasing sources for a variety of reasons. By Patricia Kinley In choosing a procurement source for Macintosh products, different buyers have different needs. While large-scale users almost always opt...

User support. (The state of Macintosh management)(Special Report)
January 8, 1991... Tighter budgets, more users complicate support issues. By Robert Hollis Life is not getting any easier for people charged with supporting company Macs and their users. On the one hand, budget and personnel reductions are...

S.F. makes waves with new VDT law. (San Francisco, CA)(video display terminal)
January 8, 1991... By Elinor Craig San Francisco -- In the last days of 1990, Mayor Art Agnos signed legislation that will make this city the first in the country to regulate the safety of workers who use VDTs. Despite intense lobbying and eleventh-hour...

Apple VP sets course for Mac channel. (vice president of channel strategy and reseller development Cliff Jenks)(Apple Macintosh)
January 8, 1991... By Andrew Gore Cupertino, Calif. -- Apple has centralized responsibility for its U.S. channel management under Cliff Jenks, who last month was named to the newly created position of vice president, channel strategy and reseller...

Microsoft Windows. (The state of Macintosh management)(how Windows 3.0 will affect Apple Macintosh purchasing and support)(Special Report)
January 8, 1991... Will Windows affect the Mac purchasing and support equation? By Eric J. Adams When Microsoft Corp. released Windows 3.0 last year, everyone predicted the end of the Mac advantage. But according to IS directors who manage both...

Developers to invade Soviet Union. (Apple Macintosh software developers)
January 8, 1991... By Stuart Silverstone San Francisco -- In an effort to expand their market horizons, major Mac software developers are picking up the banner of perestroika and preparing to invade the Soviet Union. Some 150 developers attended a...