MacWEEK articles from November 1994

MacWEEK archives from November 1994

PPC update speeds and simplifies LabVIEW instrumentation software. (National Instruments' LabVIEW 3.1 GUI builder ported to Power Macintosh) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... In December, National Instruments expects to ship Version 3.1 of LabVIEW, its instrumentation software for the Mac. The update will offer ease-of-use improvements and native Power Mac performance. LabVIEW is used to create graphical front ends...

For the record. (Correction Notice)
November 7, 1994... The Oct. 10 issue (Page 62) included an incorrect toll-free number for ExperVision Inc. The correct number is (800) 732-3897. The Oct. 31 issue (Page 4) misstated the new terms of MicroNet Technology Inc.'s warranties. MicroNet has extended its...

Disk duplication and mounting. (DiskDup+ 2.6a, DropDisk 1.0b3 and ShrinkWrap 1.1.1 shareware and freeware) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Apple's venerable DiskCopy and DART utilities, which turn floppy disks into image files to be archived for future duplication, have received some serious competition over the past several months. DiskDup+ 2.6a ($25) from Roger Bates at (503)...

Internet file location and retrieval. (Anarchie 1.4 shareware database front end) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... The Internet's resources can overwhelm even the most agile surfers without tools such as Anarchie 1.4 from Peter Lewis at peter@kagi.com. Anarchie acts as a friendly front end to databases that maintain their own lists of what files are available...

Showing your Mac to the world. (FTPd 2.3 Internet file-transfer shareware) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Not content to help users find files on the Internet, Lewis also recently completed an update to his FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software for the Mac, FTPd 2.3 ($10), which makes it easier for Mac users to put even more content on the line. FTPd...

Beating Chicago to the punch. (Malph 2.2.1 application-bar freeware) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... For some, the Application menu is a less-than-optimal way to switch among applications. More graphically oriented users can turn to utilities such as Malph 2.2.1 (free) by Nitin Ganatra at ganatra@apple.com. By displaying the icons of all...

Cyberdog to fetch Internet resources for OpenDoc apps. (Macintosh OS technology)
November 7, 1994... OpenDoc will expand beyond the desktop when Apple releases its communication and networking parts for the compound document architecture in mid-1995. Code-named Cyberdog, the first parts of the project will be for the Internet with other parts to...

Apple to sell directly to dealers: new channel plan stresses lower prices.
November 7, 1994... Apple is taking its channel strategy direct to dealers. Last week the company laid out a bold new plan that bypasses the traditional two-tier distribution model and is designed to offer resellers more products at lower prices. The program,...

MacWEEK index.
November 7, 1994... U.S. wireless hardware market The U.S. market for wireless hardware products is expected to grow by about 10 times, from $206.1 million today to $1.9 billion in the year 2000. Sales figures for 1994-2000 are projected estimates. Year ...

Rivals Microsoft, NeXT may be considering OS tools partnership. (NeXT Computer) (Brief Article)
November 7, 1994... Former friends as well as foes Bill Gates and Steve Jobs may be teaming up again. But this time their plans could create a big headache for Apple's Taligent Inc. A report in last week's The New York Times, citing anonymous sources, said that...

AOL members boycott service. (America Online users object to excessive fees) (Brief Article)
November 7, 1994... Protesting what they call excessive fees, thousands of America Online subscribers boycotted the on-line service last week, organizers said. In an e-mail message sent to most of the service's 1 million members, boycott organizers complained...

StockWatch.
November 7, 1994... 11.02.94 Weekly % close change Apple 41.38 -4.34 Software developers Adobe 35.25 -2.76 Caere 16.88 ...

Off the wire.
November 7, 1994... Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., has signed deals with its printer distributors -- Ingram Micro Inc. of Santa Ana, Calif.; Merisel Inc. of El Segundo, Calif.; and Tech Data Corp. of Clearwater, Fla. -- to carry HP's full line of personal...

Apple, IBM, Motorola to share pavilion at Comdex/Fall. (Brief Article)
November 7, 1994... Apple, IBM Corp. and Motorola Inc. will join forces for the first time in a single, vast pavilion at Comdex/Fall '94 next week in Las Vegas. The united marketing effort is designed to attract attention to the PowerPC, which might be...

System 8 may be late. (Mac OS)
November 7, 1994... With the new year approaching, Apple is reportedly undergoing some serious self examination as it realizes plans for a 1995 release of the next major Mac operating system are in jeopardy. When Apple announced Copland, code name for the...

IBM Macs won't hurt OS/2 strategy. (IBM will be able to manage OS/2 and Mac products without hurting either one) (Brief Article) (Editorial)
November 7, 1994... MacWEEK readers, as revealed in last week's QuickPoll, overwhelmingly want third-party Macintosh clones to augment their purchases of Apple-manufactured machines. Macintosh managers see the benefits of broader choice, better availability,...

Letters. (Letter to the Editor)
November 7, 1994... It wasn't worth the wait: New RISC line too limited After reading your article "Apple RISC line picks up pace" (MacWEEK, Oct. 24, Page 1) only one question came to mind: "Whose bright idea was this?" Our agency has been considering buying a...

Apple-IBM talks: guts, vision can change the world. (The Second Decade) (Column)
November 7, 1994... Let's hope Messrs Spindler, Cannavinno and Gerstner are thinking big this week, because if they aren't, they may have thrown away their best chance to reshape the personal computing market. A bold, comprehensive and detailed agreement between...

Apple's VITAL isn't solving Mac manager's problems. (desktop-oriented enterprise-integration framework) (The Mac Manager ) (Column)
November 7, 1994... What's the single biggest reason that Macs are being booted out of companies? A) Apple's lousy marketing. B) Windows' market dominance. C) Pinheaded executives who act like lemmings. D) The client-server onslaught and concomitant lack of...

Apple, HP low-cost inkjets color mainstream business. (Apple Color StyleWriter 2400, HP DeskWriter 560C) (Hardware Review) (Evaluation)
November 7, 1994... Score Card: Color inkjet printers Two color inkjet printers offer low-cost color output in easy-to-use systems. While neither printer is appropriate for higher-end needs, both serve as true four-color solutions for everyday business needs. >...

MovieTalk to cast Mac users in videoconferencing picture: QuickTime extension ready early next year. (includes related article on developer reaction)
November 7, 1994... Apple hopes MovieTalk will do for desktop videoconferencing what QuickTime did for digital video. MovieTalk, a series of QuickTime components and APIs slated for release early next year, will provide a basic architecture for developers to add...

Digital Ocean and Photonics unplug access to LocalTalk. (Digital Ocean Inc's Grouper 100LT; Photonics Corp's Cooperative adapter) (Hardware Review) (Evaluation)
November 7, 1994... Score Card: Wireless networking systems Two wireless products offer direct access to wired LocalTalk networks. While both reduce cabling demands and extend the flexibility of network topologies, price and data-security issues may make them...

Tektronix Phaser 140 enters low-cost color inkjet market. (Hardware Review) (Evaluation)
November 7, 1994... Score Card: Phaser 140 Tektronix Inc. List price: $1,695 Overall value: 4 With 360-dpi resolution, this CMYK printer does a better job of providing cost-effective, quality color output than its nearest competitor, Hewlett-Packard...

Taming the database beast with text-retrieval systems. (Buyers Guide)
November 7, 1994... Database management systems are the perfect tools for handling large amounts of structured data. Customer lists, parts inventories, product catalogs and indexes are excellent applications for databases that can be searched by predesignated...

Chasing disk, virus and naming problems. (tips for using FWB Inc's Hard Disk Toolkit 1.5 with Stac Electronics' Stacker utility) (MacInTouch) (Column)
November 7, 1994... We've got another conflict with Hard Disk ToolKit, tips on a virus that Apple reportedly distributed and more discussion of problems with Mac model names. A bit of housekeeping is in order before moving on to other topics this week: From now...

Red buttons and PB FPUs. (Ask David Ramsey) (Column)
November 7, 1994... Q. While installing RAM in my Quadra 630, I noticed a little red button on the logic board. What does it do? A. This button shows up from time to time on other Macs, such as the Quadra 840AV. It resets the ADB controller -- rather, it resets...

Apple, IBM to debut PPC platform. (plans for common PowerPC reference platform to be announced) (Brief Article)
November 7, 1994... Apple, IBM Corp. and Motorola Inc. are expected to announce at a news conference in New York this week their plans for a common PowerPC reference platform. Toshiba Corp. and Canon Inc. -- which is funding FirePower Systems Inc., a Mountain...

ACI US opening Windows to 4D; databases to run cross-platform; client and server slated for Q2 '95. (porting 4th Dimension 3.2 and 4th Dimension Server 3.2 to Windows)
November 7, 1994... ACI US Inc. is ready to crack the Microsoft Windows market with client and server software for its 4th Dimension relational database. The company said it is aiming to ship the Windows versions of 4D in the second quarter of 1995. ACI last week...

Microsoft spans platforms with Visual C++ tool kit CD. (Microsoft Visual C++ Cross Development Edition for Macintosh) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Developers looking for an easy way to deliver their products on both Mac and Windows will soon be able to get their hands on the tools Microsoft Corp. used to bring Word 6.0 to the Mac. Microsoft Visual C++ Cross Development Edition for...

What makes management work. (Mac the Knife) (Column)
November 7, 1994... Regardless of the actual results of the elections this week, we can all take comfort in the knowledge that at least this round of the ongoing assault on the body politic has finally drawn to a graceless close. That leaves us with more time for...

Apple card does DOS better. (Macintosh DOS Compatibility Card for the Power Macintosh 6100/60 add-on motherboard) (Hardware Review) (First Look) (Evaluation)
November 7, 1994... You may not see an Intel Inside logo gracing the box, but Apple's forthcoming Macintosh DOS Compatibility Card for the Power Macintosh 6100/60 will pack a solid, full-featured Windows computer into a Power Mac chassis. Apple will announce the...

Apple debuts fastest Mac ever: PPC upgrade card also due to ship. (Power Mac 8100/110) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... As expected, Apple announced last week what it called the fastest personal computer on the market, the Power Mac 8100/110. The centerpiece of the new model is a 110-MHz PowerPC 601, the chip with the fastest clock speed available for sale in a...

System 8: 1995 or bust. (Apple operating system) (MacWEEK Insider) (Column)
November 7, 1994... Senior Writer Robert Hess' story this week on the delay of System 8 to 1996, which this publication I believe has rightly identified as the most important work Apple was going to do in 1995, is going to come as quite a shock to the Macintosh...

Color lasers poised for bold moves. (analysis of color laser printer market)
November 7, 1994... As the heavy hitters of the printer industry begin to pitch their first-generation color laser printers to the business marketplace, the products will face stiff competition from color inkjet and inexpensive monochrome laser printers. But...

Conner, HP make retail moves with new storage lines, RAID. (Conner Peripherals Inc's Disk-Stor, HP's SureStore drives) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Longtime storage OEMs Conner Peripherals Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. this month focused their attention directly on the market with new retail products the companies will offer via distributors and value-added resellers. Conner is targeting...

In Control gains links to FastPace; PIM users can paste contact data to lists. (Foresight Technology Inc's FastPace Instant Contact 1.1 contact manager; Attain Corp's In Control 3.0 PIM) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Foresight Technology Inc.'s FastPace Instant Contact address-book and contact-management program can now share information with In Control 3.0, the latest version of Attain Corp.'s personal information manager. In October the two companies...

DataDesigns updates Itemizer, improves asset tracking. (version 1.7) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Managers can now not only keep track of their equipment but also log a picture and the maintenance history of each item by using the latest update to DataDesigns Inc.'s asset tracking system, which shipped in September. Itemizer maintains a...

Tools secure Mac screens from glare, jitter, spies. (NoRad Corp's JitterBox monitor protector; Avant-Guard PC Shields Inc's anti-glare filters; and 3M Optical Systems' anti-glare/privacy filters) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... NoRad Corp., Avant-Guard PC Shields Inc. and 3M Optical Systems are offering filters and guards designed to keep desktop and portable Mac monitors readable, private and jitter-free. For users whose displays jitter or swim from magnetic-field...

CreativePartner is virtual studio; users can send, view, annotate digital video. (emotion Inc's multimedia and video distribution application) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Video and multimedia producers can collaborate in a "virtual studio" with a new distribution system due this week from emotion Inc. Also this week, the company will become the first commercial vendor to ship a Mac MPEG decoder card....

Screen releases oversized dye-sub printer; can output proofs nearly 10 feet long. (Screen (USA)'s FP-600S dye sublimation printer) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Screen (USA) in October released an oversized dye-sublimation printer that can output pages up to 118 by 23.7 inches. The $65,000 FP-600S, a CMYK printer, has a resolution of 300 dpi and offers fine and draft print modes that provide eight or...

Epson plans compact multimedia projector for '95: will switch among Macs, PCs, VCRs. (Epson America Inc's ELP-3000 multimedia projector) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Epson America Inc. has early-1995 plans for a lightweight, compact LCD multimedia projector that easily switches among Macs, Intel-standard PCs and VCRs. The ELP-3000, slated to ship in February, weighs less than 17 pounds and measures 11.5 by...

Nova makes Mac sound go Kaboom! (Nova Development Corp's Kaboom! 3.0 samples and editing package) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... A noisy little $49.95 application from Nova Development Corp. may be of interest to Mac business users for more than just making their computers talk like Ricky Ricardo. Kaboom! 3.0, Nova's latest upgrade to its samples and editing package,...

PaperPower puts control on drawing pad. (Piptel's graphics tablet tools) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... New software from Piptel lets graphics tablet users control their Macs and programs without putting down the digitizing pen. PaperPower, a $149 package, provides tools that let users create and print paper template overlays for use with...

Apple cuts server models, prices: AppleShare 4 update in the works for '95. (Workgroup Server line) (Brief Article)
November 7, 1994... Apple is paring server models and tweaking the prices and performance of its products. In October the company discontinued the 68040-based servers that run the Mac operating system. Last week Apple reduced dealer prices across-the-board on the...

Atemi software mixes up AppleTalk with NightShade. (NightShade encryption software protects Apple Talk data) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... A Corn Belt start-up has created an AppleTalk utility aimed at hobbling LAN eavesdroppers. Atemi Corp. last week began shipping NightShade, a $199 control panel that encrypts all AppleTalk packets. The 680x0-based software is designed to be...

V.34 modem with LCD for $499. (E-Tech Research Inc's Bullet 100E) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... It looks more like a discus than its namesake projectile, but the Bullet 100E 28.8-Kbps modem from E-Tech Research Inc. is focused on speed, not distance. The unusual case holds a suite of deluxe features, including an LCD of settings and...

More printers catch EtherWave; Farallon moves to street pricing. (Farallon Computing Inc's EtherWave MultiPrinter Adapter Ethernet-to-LocalTalk daisychainer) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... One Ethernet port in the wall and several LocalTalk printers to be connected: That's the problem Farallon Computing Inc. intends to solve with its EtherWave MultiPrinter Adapter, due this week for an estimated street price of $349. The latest...

Multiport printer server due from Lexmark; AppleTalk over Ethernet supported. (Lexmark International Inc's MarkNet XLe) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Lexmark International Inc. in October announced that its new multiport, multiprotocol printer server, the MarkNet XLe, will support AppleTalk over Ethernet and token ring by the end of the year. MarkNet models include either two bidirectional...

Dataware plans BRS/Search for Mac; system can index millions of documents. (Macintosh client software for Dataware Technologies Inc's BRS/Search for Client/Server text retrieval software) (Brief Article)
November 7, 1994... Dataware Technologies Inc. in October announced plans to ship by the end of the year a Macintosh client to BRS/Search for Client/Server, its system for full-text searching of large amounts of text. According to Dataware, BRS/Search can index...

Network traffic.
November 7, 1994... Lotus Development Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., and Wang Laboratories Inc. of Lowell, Mass., announced they will link Lotus Notes to Wang's document imaging and archiving systems. The group of products on Notes' side is called LN:DI (for Lotus...

Developers preparing for the transition to Open Transport. (Apple's new multiprotocol networking architecture)
November 7, 1994... Multiple protocols will be the everyday environment for Mac developers when Open Transport, Apple's new networking architecture, hits the streets in the spring. Apple has been briefing developers for nearly a year on Open Transport's details,...

GDT to take mail airborne: smart messaging on Internet server. (GDT Softworks Inc's InfoWave wireless E-mail system) (Brief Article)
November 7, 1994... An intelligent wireless messaging system will come to the Mac in January from Canadian developer GDT Softworks Inc. InfoWave is a two-way Internet mail system that will use the RAM Mobile Data wireless network. It will be distributed in the...

Graphic details.
November 7, 1994... Adobe Systems Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., in January will ship a new line of simple desktop publishing programs based on its HomePublisher software. Priced at $29 each, the Adobe QuickPublish series comprises Letterheads & Forms, Brochures &...

LocalTalk hookups get smaller with Pocket Connector. (Farallon Computing Inc's PhoneNET Pocket Connector) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Farallon Computing Inc. in October continued its pursuit of more portable Mac and Newton network attachments with the release of an even smaller LocalTalk box, the PhoneNET Pocket Connector. The $12.99 Pocket Connector is designed for the...

Publishers, business managers see Internet as next frontier. (includes related article on Axcess online magazine)
November 7, 1994... Judging by this fall's Seybold San Francisco and other conferences springing up across the country, publishing on the Internet has become the latest burning concern of just about every publisher and business manager with content to disseminate --...

GEnie preparing to expand user options for Internet access. (GEnie Information Services Inc) (Brief Article)
November 7, 1994... Not to be left behind in the race to get on the information superhighway, GE Information Services Inc. recently announced plans to expand its commercial on-line service's access to the Internet. GEnie's Internet access is being deployed in two...

ETE delivers wireless options for MessagePads. (Communicator wireless adapter) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Newton users will soon be able to clip a variety of wireless and wired communications capabilities to the back of their MessagePads. ETE Inc. will roll out at Comdex/Fall '94 this month its Communicator, a device that allows Newton users to...

Screen gems: fixing scratched displays. (on Apple Newton MessagePad PDAs) (Brief Article) (Tutorial)
November 7, 1994... Apple's MessagePad 100 and 110 use a touch-sensitive screen composed of three transparent layers of film overlaid on an LCD. The combination of finger smudges and dust particles can quickly obscure, or even damage, a Newton's tactile user...

LunaMail sends Newton attachments. (LunaTech Research's freeware E-mail add-on) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... Newton users can now send notes, name cards and other items from Newton applications via e-mail with LunaMail, a freeware application released in beta form this month by LunaTech Research. LunaMail is an e-mail module that integrates with...

MoreInfo 2.0 adds new fields, allows users to enter data on Mac. (SilverWARE Computer Software's PIM add-on) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 7, 1994... The Newton PIM expander from SilverWare Computer Software, MoreInfo, will get a major upgrade this week. MoreInfo is a Newton application that adds new fields and features to the MessagePad's built-in personal information management...

On the road.
November 7, 1994... For laptop use in low-light situations, ASF Associates Inc. of Merrick, N.Y., offers the $39.98 NCL-480, a notebook computer light that mounts on top of a laptop's display and provides illumination for the screen, keyboard and documents. It is...

Web, Mosaic: building blocks for publishing on the Internet.
November 7, 1994... Right now, anyone who wants to publish on the Internet can, and it will become easier as the set of tools to do so continues to take shape. It's generally accepted that the World-Wide Web and NCSA Mosaic will be the metaphor on which Internet...

'040 laptops to survive in '95. (Apple to offer all-in-one PowerPC PowerBook line, retain one CISC model)
November 14, 1994... Next year Apple will move its all-in-one PowerBook line to PowerPC -- all but one machine, that is. Sources said this lone CISC model is intended to deliver the new line's expansion features at a midrange price. Originally scheduled to debut...

Mac sandstorm hits Vegas.
November 14, 1994... Comdex hasn't traditionally been a strong show for Apple, but the company hopes to start changing that history this week at Comdex/Fall '94 in Las Vegas. Based on the number of new product announcements, attendees should find that the attention...

Apple reincarnates Quadra Houdini for Comdex show. (DOS Compatibility Card)
November 14, 1994... A year after Apple unveiled, then later let escape, its DOS Compatible card code-named Houdini, the company has developed versions for the Power Macintosh 6100 and Quadra 630. It has also given hardware manufacturer Reply Corp. the rights to...

PPC allies unite on platform; exec reveals IBM to sell Mac OS in '96. (IBM, Motorola Inc form alliance to standardize PowerPC platform)
November 14, 1994... For the second time, executives from Apple, IBM Corp. and Motorola Inc. joined hands in New York to declare an alliance. Building on their 1991 agreement to launch a RISC alternative to Intel Corp.'s CISC microprocessor, the companies last week...

Shrink-wrapped OS to be option on clones. (PPC Allies Unite on Platform) (Macintosh-compatible systems) (News Analysis)
November 14, 1994... The new hardware reference platform has freed Apple from its formerly restrictive licensing strategy. The common PowerPC standard, announced in New York, ushers in the next phase in Apple's efforts to clone the Macintosh. "Apple is going to...

New architecture to be cornerstone of Mac print line. (Apple plans 'Cobra' color laser printer using QuickDraw GX printing architecture)
November 14, 1994... Apple is preparing to strike with its first color laser printer. Code-named Cobra, the machine will mark the introduction of a new hardware interpreter based on the QuickDraw GX printing architecture. According to sources, Cobra is slated to...

Now ships Contact, Up-to-Date: new 3.0 versions add tools and links. (Now Software Inc updates contact manager, group scheduler) (Product Announcement)
November 14, 1994... Now Software Inc.'s Contact and Up-to-Date turn 3.0 this week with upgrades that provide new coordination and collaboration tools. > Now Contact gains a server that lets users share addresses and other contact data (see MacWEEK, Sept. 26, Page...

The day the Earth stood still. (Apple agreement with IBM, Motorola) (MacWEEK Insider) (Column)
November 14, 1994... Lock the doors and hide the kids. The aliens have landed. A year ago I would have said we'd see creatures from another planet roasting space weenies on the Capitol mall before Apple, Motorola Inc. and IBM Corp. agreed to a single computer...

Fujitsu debuts additions to flatbed line. (Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc introduces new flatbed scanners) (Product Announcement)
November 14, 1994... Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. this month dramatically expanded its scanner line with a slew of new flatbed offerings, including a network-ready model as well as color and monochrome scanners optimized for high-volume work. All the new...

Technoggin warns of leaky cells in PowerPlate portable batteries. (Technoggin Inc) (Brief Article)
November 14, 1994... Technoggin Inc. has issued a dire warning to users of its PowerPlate external PowerBook batteries: Stop using them immediately. Last week, the Cincinnati-based company issued a statement saying the cells used in its PowerPlate 3, 3x, 5x and...

For the record. (Correction Notice)
November 14, 1994... The Oct. 31 issue of MacWEEK (Page 44), listed an incorrect price for Allegiant Technologies Inc.'s SuperCard 1.7. The correct price is $495.

UMAX releases dual-lens scanner: appropriate optics engage automatically. (UMAX Technologies Gemini D-16) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 14, 1994... UMAX Technologies Inc. this week will introduce a flatbed scanner featuring two lenses with different magnification factors, one of which scans small images at high resolutions. The Gemini D-16, a $1,995 color flatbed scanner, automatically...

Stacker picks up speed in Version 2.0. (Stac Electronics compression software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 14, 1994... Stac Electronics in December will release an update to its driver-level compression utility for the Mac. Version 2.0 of Stacker for the Macintosh will improve the software's speed by up to 200 percent, Stac said. Unlike file-level compression...

Updated Gear CD-R software records faster, has new interface. (Elektroson USA Gear for Macintosh 2.4) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 14, 1994... Elektroson USA in October shifted up performance of Gear for Macintosh, its cross-platform CD-Recordable production software. Gear 2.4 costs $995, the same as previous versions; according to Elektroson, Gear is the lowest-cost CD-R mastering...

CD-It!All 2.5 costs less, supports more recorders than predecessor. (OptImage Inc CD-recordable software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 14, 1994... OptImage Inc. will introduce the latest version of its disk mastering software at Comdex/Fall '94 in Las Vegas this week. CD-It!All 2.5 adds support for eight new CD recorders and is $1,000 less than its predecessor. Version 2.5, priced at...

New chip-puller eases upgrades. (Patresi introduces tool for chip removal) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 14, 1994... Is the thought of pulling a 68040 processor out of its logic-board socket a little scary? A new chip-puller from Patresi Corp. should help take the fear out of do-it-yourself CPU upgrades. For installation of socket-mounted CPU upgrades, such...

Mitsubishi to ship 17", 21" displays. (Mitsubishi Electronics America Diamond Pro 17TX, Diamond Pro 21TX) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 14, 1994... Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc. this week will roll out new 17- and 21-inch monitors. The new models feature Mitsubishi's vertically flat aperture Diamondtron grille tubes and proprietary beam-focusing technology. The Diamond Pro 17TX is a...

Microsoft answers MacIS top 10: executive responds to group's wish list. (Microsoft responds to complaints of corporate Macintosh managers)
November 14, 1994... Unlike David Letterman, when MacIS issues its top 10 list to vendors, it's no joke. And there wasn't much laughter in the audience when Microsoft Corp. reported its progress on the list it had received last year. Pete Higgins, senior vice...

Spin swirls swift spindles. (Spin Peripherals introduces 230MB removable-cartridge drive) (Storage Beat) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 14, 1994... Spin Peripherals, a division of Spirit Technologies Inc. of Newton Upper Falls, Mass., this month unveiled the Spin 230MB, a $399 removable-cartridge drive based on a high-capacity Bernoulli mechanism. The drive uses 5.25-inch, 230-Mbyte...

ProLine delivers configuration kits. (ProLine Distribution ships internal adapter kits for Mac storage drives) (Storage Beat) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 14, 1994... ProLine Distribution Inc. of Greenbrae, Calif., this month shipped new internal adapter kits for Mac storage devices. The $23.95 K6139 kit lets users mount 3.5-inch SyQuest, Fujitsu and IBM magneto-optical mechanisms into a Mac Quadra 610 or...

New lines of MO and CD-R media from TDK. (new lines of CD-ROM, magneto-optical disks) (Storage Beat) (Brief Article)
November 14, 1994... TDK Electronics Corp. of Port Washington, N.Y., this month introduced new lines of CD-Recordable and MO discs. TDK said its CD-R media is compatible with all systems, including new quadruple-speed models. The discs cost $31, $30, $28 and $27 for...

Storage trio eyes speedy interfaces. (HP, Quantum Corp, Seagate Technology announce plans to create disk drives using Ultra SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces) (Storage Beat) (Brief Article)
November 14, 1994... Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif.; Quantum Corp. of Milpitas, Calif.; and Seagate Technology Inc. of Scotts Valley, Calif., announced plans to produce drives using high-speed Ultra SCSI and Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) interfaces....