MacWEEK articles from March 1995

MacWEEK archives from March 1995

Netscape to add tables. (Netscape Communications Corp Netscape Navigator 1.1 World Wide Web browser) (Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Netscape Communications Corp. will step up the pace this week when it unveils Netscape Navigator 1.1 for Macintosh, the latest version of the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's immensely popular World-Wide Web client software. Slated for an...

Mac servers to pack NLMs. (Apple counting on third-party vendors to add value to its Workgroup Servers)
March 6, 1995... In Apple's brave new open world, the company can no longer do everything for its customers. So while it works with Novell Corp. to bring NetWare to the PowerPC in October, Apple is counting on third-party vendors from the Intel-standard PC world...

New Tektronix Phaser 340 speeds high-quality color to plain paper. (Tektronix Inc Phaser 340 solid-ink printer) (Hardware Review) (Evaluation)
March 6, 1995... Score Card: Phaser 340, Tektronix Inc. Overall value: 4 List price: $4,995* Performance: 4 Features: 4 Configuration: 4 Compatibility: 5 Documentation/support: 4 * For base configuration. Phaser 340 Plus, $6,995....

Power Mac 8100 drought blamed on misforecasting. (Apple) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Power Mac 8100s have become as rare in the United States as parking spots in New York, liberal Republicans in Washington, D.C., and clean air in Los Angeles. A manufacturing management miscue, compounded by brisk user demand, has made the...

IBM and Compaq to test PPC servers. (PowerPC) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... IBM Corp. and Compaq Computer Corp. are developing processor-independent servers that will accommodate the PowerPC in addition to the usual Pentium CPUs -- and these mainstream server vendors could lend credibility to Apple's RISC-based strategy....

Federal court slaps restraining order on Video for Windows. (against Microsoft Corp developer's kits) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Winning an early skirmish in its lawsuit over QuickTime, Apple last week persuaded a federal court to grant a temporary restraining order against Microsoft Corp.'s Video for Windows developers kits. Microsoft immediately responded by saying it...

Intuit issues MacInTax patches. (bug fixes for tax preparation software) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Company admits it knew about the bugs Hoping to avert a MacInTax revolt, Intuit Inc. last week released three free bug fixes. But the damage may already have been done. Although a spokeswoman said she was unaware of any major bugs when...

New LaserJet expands interface options. (HP LaserJet 5MP) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Hewlett-Packard Co. this week will connect notebooks and PDAs to laser output with a low-cost Mac-compatible printer that features an infrared interface. The LaserJet 5MP, which lists for $1,299, replaces the company's LaserJet 4MP and 4ML...

The smell of failure. (Apple's pricing policies are not realistic)(MacWEEK Insider) (Column)
March 6, 1995... Click! That was the sound of the Apple reality-distortion field being turned off. Now, if we can keep the company's executives away from the switch, we might be able to have a frank discussion on one of those sensitive topics Apple invents...

DOS Mounter 5.0 climbs performance scale. (Software Architects Inc's file transfer utility) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Software Architects Inc. recently pumped up PC data transfers with DOS Mounter 5.0, a speedier version of its $89 cross-platform file transfer utility package. The company in January purchased the rights to the program from Dayna...

Next-generation SCSI connections to square off in the coming year. (International Interface Technology Conference)
March 6, 1995... Future shock emerged as the predominant theme when storage vendors, component manufacturers and computer makers faced off in February at Technology Forum Ltd.'s International Interface Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif. The annual...

NEC to aim latest low-cost monitors at small-office, home-office market. (NEC Technologies Inc MultiSync XV17, XV14) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... NEC Technologies Inc. will expand its line of low-cost monitors aimed at small- and home-office users with new 14- and 17-inch models slated to ship this month. The two new displays, both based on NEC's own tubes, feature built-in on-screen...

Tektronix expands color spectrum. (Phaser 340 color printer) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Phaser 340 may pose challenge for lasers Tektronix Inc. will add color-output options this week when it debuts the $4,995 Phaser 340, a new entry into the company's phase-change printer line. According to analysts, the new model may challenge...

Tape drive to put fast spin on QIC. (Spin Peripherals Spin Personal Tape Backup) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Spin Peripherals to ship low-cost device Spin Peripherals will turn tape storage in a new direction with its Spin Personal Tape Backup, a high-capacity, low-cost tape drive. The company said it expects to ship the drive this month. The $499...

Zoom lets fax handle scanning. (Zoom Telephonics enhances modems with HotScan feature) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... A standard fax machine will soon be able to pull double duty as a scanner when Zoom Telephonics Inc. adds its new HotScan feature to selected fax-modem models. In May, the company will begin shipping the enhanced version of its external $199...

DataPen handheld scanner to put OCR system at users' fingertips. (I.R.I.S. America DataPen) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Proposing a solution to the tedium of rekeying data from hard copy, I.R.I.S. America last month shipped a handheld scanner and OCR system for scanning individual lines of text. The DataPen, priced at $435, is a 6-inch-long scanning device with...

Price cut on SingleCharger 500; utilities bundled. (Lind Electronics Inc) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Lind Electronics Inc. in February cut the price of its SingleCharger 500 battery charger and began bundling it with Lind Battery Utilities 500. The SingleCharger 500, now priced at $59.95, down from $79.95, is a portable unit that can charge a...

HP to aid RAID arrangements. (HP to introduce AutoRAID disk-management software) (Storage Beat) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Aiming to ease the drudgery of RAID housekeeping, Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., this week will unveil HP AutoRAID, a technology that combines elements of hierarchical storage management with an array. AutoRAID examines the way files...

SunDisk swells card capacities. (170MB Type III PCMCIA disk drives) (Storage Beat) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Flash-memory cards expanded in both capacity and size in February when SunDisk Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., shipped 170-Mbyte Type III PCMCIA cards. SunDisk said the new OEM cards will ship in volume in April. Until now, the company's...

Cost slides downhill for Pinnacle MO. (Pinnacle Micro Inc) (Storage Beat) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... The price of driving magneto-optical storage slipped a gear as Pinnacle Micro Inc. of Irvine, Calif., recently discounted by 20 percent its Sierra 1.3GB MO drive. Formerly $2,995, the Sierra is now $2,495. The company also reduced the price of...

Storage bits and bytes.
March 6, 1995... Packing data like sardines, Toray Optical Storage Solutions of San Mateo, Calif., will demo in April its Phasewriter Mini 1.3, a new phase-change optical drive and media, at the Association for Information and Image Management conference in San...

PowerBuilder for Mac slips again. (PowerBuilder 4.0 delayed) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Client-server users must wait it out PowerSoft Corp. announced at the end of February that it has moved back the ship date for its Mac version of PowerBuilder 4.0. The popular tool for creating client-server databases, previously slated to ship...

NT will serve MS Mail clients. (Microsoft Mail for Mac to run on Windows NT servers) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming Exchange e-mail server and its PC clients have moved into beta testing, but Macintosh users will have to wait months after that software ships before getting a new Microsoft Mail. Sent to testers on Feb. 6,...

Engage ships LocalTalk-WAN router. (Engage Communications Inc ExpressRouter LTi) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Linking a LocalTalk LAN to a frame relay WAN used to require a shift to Ethernet -- until now. Engage Communication Inc. shipped in February the ExpressRouter LTi, its first LocalTalk-to-frame-relay router. The LTi is available with a built-in...

Apple: eWorld on track, Windows client will be delivered in 1995.
March 6, 1995... Compared with the rapid growth of its competitors, eWorld appears to be stuck in the doldrums. But Apple insists the service is sailing smoothly toward its membership goals with a cargo of new client features. Peter Friedman, vice president of...

4-Sight previews four-port ISDN card. (4-Sight L.C.) (Quatro NuBus board) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... 4-Sight L.C. in April will deliver two industry firsts: a four-port ISDN board and a leasing program for its ISDN file transfer products. The $3,495 4-Sight Quatro NuBus board will be aimed at color pre-press and publishing markets that require...

Mac servers safer from Internet hackers than Unix counterparts. (Tech Analysis)
March 6, 1995... Recent Internet security scares, from Internet Protocol spoofing to the exploits of hacker Kevin Mitnik, have sent Unix managers scrambling, while Mac administrators remain calm. A Mac Internet server, while not immune from threats, is far less...

Mac leads for multimedia authoring, but Windows trying to close the gap. (Graphics Platform Debate)(includes related article on performance of Macromedia Director on Power Mac and Intel Pentium systems)
March 6, 1995... Windows running on an Intel-standard PC now offers many of the same multimedia software tools found on the Macintosh plus a faster available bus and a wider assortment of video peripherals. Yet, say most developers, the Mac remains their...

Agfa debuts scanner, camera, RIPs. (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Announcements herald Drupa show Announcing a myriad of products in almost every area of pre-press production, Agfa last week held press briefings in Antwerp, Belgium. In anticipation of Drupa '95, the giant pre-press and printing show in...

Adobe PageMaker to debut on CD-ROM. (Adobe Systems Inc PageMaker 5.0) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Adobe Systems Inc. last week announced that when Aldus PageMaker 5.0 makes its debut as Adobe PageMaker this month, the layout program will ship on a new medium and include a slew of bundled accessories. While the $895 application will retain...

Acrobyte conversion application to launch XPress onto the Web. (BeyondPress HTML conversion software) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Publishers looking to redistribute paper-published documents on the Internet will have a new tool when Acrobyte ships its QuarkXPress-to-HTML conversion application in April. The $595 application, BeyondPress, will automate the process of...

Quark updater fixes XPress bugs. (Quark Inc's page-layout application) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Quark Inc. last week took aim at a swarm of bugs in QuarkXPress 3.31r2 for 680x0-based Macs, Power Macs and Windows when it sent out an updater disk for the page-layout application. The disk, which contains code patches and replacement...

Mac technology makes 'Forrest Gump' happen on-line. (promotional tool for movie) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... "Forrest Gump" could bring home 14 trophies this month: 13 Oscars for the Paramount motion picture and one New Media Expo award for 2-Lane Media's interactive press kit. The Los Angeles-based production company relied on the Mac's multimedia...

Macromedia Inc. (Authorware 3.0 promotion) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... San Francisco-based Macromedia Inc. will offer a major goodie to buyers of Authorware 3.0, due in April for Mac and Windows (see MacWEEK, Feb. 6, Page 16). Through September, new purchasers will receive free $3,800 worth of multimedia software:...

Adobe Plug-in Connection. (Aldus Developers Cooperative changes name due to merger) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... The Aldus Developers Cooperative of Seattle, formerly distributors of PageMaker additions, has emerged from the Aldus Corp.-Adobe Systems Inc. merger as the Adobe Plug-in Connection. Its next catalog, slated to hit mailboxes in May, will offer...

Letraset USA. (ships Letraset Envelopes Plug-In for Adobe Illustrator) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Letraset USA of Paramus, N.J., in February shipped its contribution to the growing group of Adobe Illustrator plug-ins. The $99 Letraset Envelopes Plug-In gives users access to 40 distortion envelopes from Illustrator's Filter menu. Phone (800)...

Dycam Inc. (updates software for digital cameras) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Dycam Inc. of Chatsworth, Calif., in February updated the companion software for its digital cameras. The new version, available free to all Dycam camera owners, includes new editing tools for brightness, contrast and sharpness, as well as...

HSC Software. (acquires Sree's Cool Tools package of Illustrator plug-ins from Intrepid Systems Inc) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... HSC Software of Carpinteria, Calif., has acquired the Sree's Cool Tools package of Illustrator plug-ins (see MacWEEK, Jan. 23, Page 14) from Intrepid Systems Inc. and plans to ship the tools as part of the KPT line this spring.

Fractal Design Corp. (introduces Miles of Tiles textures package) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Fractal Design Corp. of Aptos, Calif., in February added international flair to its Really Cool Textures line of paper grains and patterns for use with its Painter and Sketcher. Miles of Tiles, $29.95, is a group of tile patterns including...

Deneba Software Inc. (introduces Power Graphics Bundle) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Deneba Software Inc. of Miami has announced a $299 Power Graphics Bundle that combines Canvas 3.5, Pixar's Typestry and DeltaPoint Inc.'s DeltaGraph Pro. The bundle is available through April 1. Phone (305) 596-5644.

Optima Technology Corp. (bundling Adobe Photoshop 3.0 and Permiere 4.0 with its storage systems) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Through the end of this month, Optima Technology Corp. is bundling Adobe Photoshop 3.0 and Premiere 4.0 with its storage systems. Buyers of the $1,698 Optima Fast DAT with DeskTape 4 and the $4,998 3.6-Gbyte modular RAID system will receive...

Marcan Inc. (bundling Macromedia Director 4.0, Macromodel 1.5 with JVC RomMaker CD recorders) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Marcan Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., is bundling Macromedia Director 4.0 and Macromodel 1.5 free with its $5,495 JVC double-speed RomMaker and $7,495 quad-speed RomMaker CD-ROM recorders through March 31. Phone (800) 635-7477.

Portfolio files for Chapter 11, cites crowded market. (Porfolio Software)
March 6, 1995... Portfolio Software Inc.'s business prospects may best be summed up by the name of its flagship product: Day-to-Day. Citing a crowded personal information manager market that made it increasingly difficult to compete, the Richmond, Vt.-based...

RSI suit turns into a legal pain for Apple. (repetitive strain indjuries) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Company settles with Minnesota woman Apple has settled a lawsuit with a Minnesota high school secretary who claimed that working on keyboards caused her crippling hand and arm injuries. Indeed, the high-profile case may create a pain in the...

Dueling poison pens: Microsoft, Apple exchange angry letters. (Novell Inc, Lotus Development Corp, others) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Apple last week went on the record with what other developers have hinted at and whispered about for years: It accused Microsoft Corp. of using bullying tactics. While Novell Inc., Lotus Development Corp. and Borland International Inc. have...

Apple names new European head. (Marco Landi) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... After dealing with a vacancy for eight months, Apple has filled the top executive spot at its European division. The company last week named Marco Landi as president of Apple Europe; he succeeds Soren Olsson, who abruptly resigned last summer...

AOL, Bertelsmann team up for European services. (America Online Inc, Bertelsmann AG) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... America Online Inc. last week announced an agreement with Bertelsmann AG to create European versions of its service. Under the deal, the Guetersloh, Germany-based media giant will buy a 5 percent stake in Vienna, Va.-based AOL for $50 million...

MacWEEK index.
March 6, 1995... Pirateware About half of the software used worldwide -- worth an estimated $8.1 billion -- was illegally copied in 1994. Despite the daunting figure, software piracy was down from 1993, when about $10 billion in programs were swiped. ...

Mind hidden costs when choosing ISDN hardware. (The Second Decade) (Column)
March 6, 1995... In my previous discussions of ISDN for the home or small office, I glossed over the hardest decision and the largest expense you'll face in getting it up and running: choosing the hardware that will connect your Mac(s) to the digital line....

If the truth be known. (Microsoft Corp questions future commitment to the Macintosh) (Editorial)
March 6, 1995... Mike Maples, Microsoft Corp.'s executive vice president, was widely quoted recently as threatening that his company's future commitment to the Macintosh was in question. The reason? It could get too expensive to support two platforms in the days...

Giving customers access by spinning database Web. (The Mac Manager) (Column)
March 6, 1995... You've got information and customers who want access to it. The information is in Chicago and the customers live everywhere else. What do you do? > Build a client-server database application with a dial-in front end? > Build a client-server...

Letters. (Letter to the Editor)
March 6, 1995... What about Omnis? The article "Mac to forge links with cross-platform client-server tools" (MacWEEK, Feb. 6, Page 1) is a pitiful injustice to the Mac marketplace. For many years, Mac users have been able to enjoy a cross-platform...

PowerPC-based PowerBooks expected to debut in summer. (Apple PowerBook 500, 200 series to be retrofitted with new processors)
March 6, 1995... After much delay, Apple's laptop lineup will finally make the jump to RISC in September, completing the company's goal of bringing a RISC architecture to all of its product lines. According to sources, both the PowerBook 500 and 200 series will...

Power Mac: one year later; The Power Mac score card. (Tech Analysis)
March 6, 1995... Apple's shift from its 680x0-based Macs to PowerPC-based systems was the industry's critical story in 1994. But the transition isn't over. The company still has to push its PowerBooks into the RISC era and move its other product lines over to a...

Tsunami, TNT, Nitro to lead surge of new Power Macs. (Apple developing new systems) (Special Report: Power Mac: One Year Later) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... This summer Apple will shake up its already successful Power Macintosh line with a crop of new Macs radically different from their predecessors. For the Mac's already strong presence in the desktop publishing and digital-video markets, Apple...

Users have a taste of RISC, want more. (demand for PCI-bus Power Macs)(Special Report: Power Mac: One Year Later)
March 6, 1995... Power Macs have hit the spot, but there is a hunger for PCI In December, three months shy of the first RISC anniversary, Apple sold its 1 millionth Power Mac. To find out how these million Power Macs are faring, MacWEEK turned to some...

DayStar's ColorMatch 1.1 brings new color solutions. (DayStar Digital Inc) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
March 6, 1995... Score Card: ColorMatch DayStar Digital Inc. Version tested: 1.1 List price: $219* Overall value: 4 Performance: 4 Features: 4 Ease of use: 4 Documentation/support: 4 *Colorimeter 24, $599. Application...

Intuit QuickBooks 3.0 offers easy, inexpensive accounting. (Intuit Inc) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
March 6, 1995... Score Card: QuickBooks Performance: 4 Features: 5 Ease of use: 4 Documentation/support: 4 Version tested: 3.0 List price: $119.95* Overall value: 4 *Upgrades from previous versions, $79.95; upgrades for Quicken...

Citizen PN60. (Citizen America Corp) (portable printer) (Hardware Review) (Evaluation)
March 6, 1995... Portable printer is no lightweight in quality Overall value: 4 Road warriors are prone to wilt when faced with all the ancillary equipment and supplies necessary to turn a laptop into a functioning mobile office. "It's too heavy," they can...

DragStrip 1.0. (Natural Intelligence Inc program launcher) (Software Review) (Brief Article) (Evaluation)
March 6, 1995... Program launcher simplifies desktops, supports plug-ins Overall value: 3 Macintosh utility hounds eager to clean up the appearance of their desktops and Apple menus should take a look at Natural Intelligence Inc.'s $39.95 DragStrip. A new...

V.34 standard gives users faster modems, more choices. (includes related article on how new modem standard was adopted)
March 6, 1995... Despite the speed gain, modem makers are still working out the subtleties of V.34. With the V.34 protocol, ratified in September 1994, Mac users have the faster modem speeds they've been waiting for. Now, users are faced with a variety of...

Returning to past shows ways to future. (MacInTouch) (Column)
March 6, 1995... A high school puts Macintosh technology to effective use but runs into a gap in the Mac's capabilities. The project highlights different approaches to computing. I returned recently to my high school, 20 years after starting a computer career...

Apple's incompatibility. (Ask David Ramsey)(question-and-answer) (Column)
March 6, 1995... Q. My Compatibility Card quit working when I upgraded to System 7.5. Help! A. This is a good excuse to buy the SIMM you were planning to add to the card. The start-up routines of Apple's Macintosh DOS Compatibility Card (alias Houdini) perform...

FastTrack ships on Schedule. (AEC Software Inc introduces FastTrack Schedule 3.0) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... AEC Software Inc. in February shipped a new native Power Mac version of its scheduling application that includes several interface enhancements. FastTrack Schedule 3.0, priced at $299, is a single-user, cross-platform, Gantt chart-based...

Apple shaves 630 prices 8 percent. (Mac Quadra 630) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Last week Apple reduced prices of Mac models based on the 630-series logic boards. The price of the Quadra 630 4/250 was reduced by 8 percent to $1,039; the Performa 630 4/250 was comparably reduced to $1,299; other Performas that were reduced...

WordPerfect to add Net access. (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... WordPerfect Mac users may yet again get a head start over their Microsoft Word counterparts. Sources said WordPerfect, the Novell Applications Group, of Orem, Utah, will release an update for its software in mid-1995 that provides Internet access...

WP executive resigns. (WordPerfect VP Adrian Rietveld) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Novell Inc. of Orem, Utah, last week announced that Adrian Rietveld has left the company to pursue personal interests. Rietveld was most recently executive vice president and general manager for WordPerfect, the Novell Applications Group. He...

HyperCard release proves taxing. (Mac the Knife)(rumor) (Column)
March 6, 1995... If you're anything at all like the Knife (and surveys show you may very well be or at least think you are), you're looking forward to April with unparalleled anticipation. After all, April is the month when you can at last put away those tired...

Fractal app forms figures. (FractalDesign Corp's Poser modeling application)(Product Announcement) (Product Announcement)
March 13, 1995... Graphic designers will be able to add a little personality to their work with Poser, Fractal Design Corp.'s modeling application that simplifies creating human forms. The program will provide digital artists with an on-screen mannequin,...

Beantown to host 10BASE T party; LAN tools aplenty. (Mactivity'95 trade show in Boston)
March 13, 1995... More than 70 vendors will show their Macintosh networking and connectivity wares at this week's Mactivity'95 in Boston. The first appearance on the East Coast for the 5-year-old trade show will highlight LAN-management tools, a...

Undercover at CeBIT: Future Macs exposed. (CeBIT '95 trade show)
March 13, 1995... Hanover, Germany -- "How does MacWEEK get its stories?" asked Jan Gesmar-Larsen, general manager of Apple Germany. "With some of the things you write, I'm surprised [Apple doesn't] put the FBI on you." Ferreting out Mac prototypes at CeBIT...

Emulation opens door to ATM LANs.
March 13, 1995... With Fore Systems Inc.'s NuBus card, the Mac can now plug directly into an Asynchronous Transfer Mode LAN. But network managers running AppleTalk over that high-speed link achieve interoperability through a still-emerging technology called LAN...

Unix listens to Mac sounds and AppleTalk in faster MAE update. (Apple's Macintosh Application Environment 2.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 13, 1995... At UniForum '95 in Dallas this week Apple will release Version 2.0 of Macintosh Application Environment, the Mac-in-an-X-Window emulation software that runs on Unix workstations. The upgrade adds AppleTalk networking, improves MacTCP...

Fore banks on NuBus ATM. (Fore Systems Inc's ForeRunner NBA-200 ATM card)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 13, 1995... The Mac can now lay claim to its share of the biggest buzzword in networking. Last month, Fore Systems Inc. shipped the first Asynchronous Transfer Mode card for the Mac. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM, is a high-speed, packet-switched...

Apple's Unix genealogy. (MacWEEK Insider)(Column)
March 13, 1995... In India, a family with a newborn is visited by representatives of the eunuchs community -- called hijras -- who make a ruckus until the family pays them to go away. Apple doesn't have this problem. The Unix crowd here generally needs no...

New magicolor unravels prices for color lasers. (QMS Inc's magicolor LX)(Brief Article)
March 13, 1995... QMS Inc. this week lowered the barriers to color laser with the debut of the magicolor LX, a new model with a price of $4,999. Similar to the $8,999 magicolor Plus model, the LX offers output speeds of 3 to 6 pages per minute in color and 12...

The shape of Macs to come? (Apple computer prototype)(Brief Article)
March 13, 1995... Apple is contemplating some sweeping changes, judging from the latest designer Mac prototype that is scheduled to appear in the German Mac magazine MACup this week. According to the story, the experimental design is code-named Sweep. It...

OptiMem RAM Charger update improvescompatibility, display. (Jump Development Group Inc's memory management utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 13, 1995... Jump Development Group Inc. recently released a major update to its memory management utility, OptiMem RAM Charger, which improves ease of use, information display and compatibility. OptiMem is designed to manage the memory used by applications...

Photoshop plug-in imports medical scans. (Designed Access' ImportAccess)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 13, 1995... A recently shipped Adobe Photoshop plug-in lets medical and scientific professionals visualize, manipulate and present imaging data using the Macintosh. ImportAccess, from Designed Access and priced at $499, is a plug-in that imports...

Fujitsu ships 8-bit desktop scanner. (ScanPartner Jr. compact scanner)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 13, 1995... ScanPartner Jr. includes OCR app Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. in February shipped a Macintosh version of the ScanPartner Jr. compact scanner, complete with Xerox OCR software. The $499 device is a 300-dpi, eight-bit gray-scale...

Samsung to enhance SyncMaster with better controls. (Samsung Electronics America's SyncMaster 15GLi and 17GLi monitors)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 13, 1995... Samsung Electronics America Inc. plans to update its display line when it rolls out two new multiple resolution monitors in May. When the $560 SyncMaster 15GLi and the $849 17GLi ship this spring, they will replace Samsung's 15GL and 17GL...

APS DLT drive speeds tape backup. (APS Technologies Inc's APS DLT20 tape drive)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 13, 1995... APS Technologies Inc. last week delivered the APS DLT20, a swift new digital linear tape drive that lets users pull out all the stops when making tape backups. The high-performance drive is aimed at pre-press, digital video and large-file...

MicroNet multiplies storage options. (MicroNet Technology Inc's Master CD series)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 13, 1995... MicroNet Technology Inc. has started mixing and matching storage options with its Master CD series, a single enclosure that combines a CD-Recordable drive with a range of device configurations. The series, which shipped last week, is based on...

NEC display horizons broaden to 37 inches. (NEC Technologies Inc's MultiSync XP37 and XM37 monitors)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 13, 1995... NEC Technologies Inc. this month will expand its monitor line with two 37-inch models aimed at presentation and imaging applications. Slated to ship this month, the MultiSync XP37 and XM37 monitors feature a 35-inch-diagonal viewing area. Both...