MacWEEK articles from October 1989

MacWEEK archives from October 1989

Road test: benchmarks for Mac Portable, IIci. (Hardware Review) (evaluation)
October 3, 1989... By Ric Ford The new Portable and IIci are welcome additions to Apple's Mac cast of characters. In different ways, each brings a new level of performance to the market, while avoiding major compatibility problems. The Portable is...

Claris demos IPC under System 6. (interprocess communication)
October 3, 1989... By Dan Ruby Carlsbad, Calif. -- Claris Corp. last week demonstrated interprocess communication (IPC) between two of its applications running under MultiFinder in System 6. A similar capability is one of the key features Apple will...

Photoshop opening in 1990; Adobe sheds light on image processor. (Adobe Systems Inc.) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... Adobe sheds light on image processor By Connie Guglielmo Mountain View, Calif. -- Although it won't reach the market until early next year, Photoshop, a 32-bit color image-processing program announced this week by Adobe Systems...

Users stand by for Mac Portable.
October 3, 1989... Demand strong, supply limited By Jim Forbes Cupertino, Calif. -- Macintosh Portable customers may have to wait as long as two months before hitting the road with their very own $6,500 battery-operated Mac, according to Apple...

Claris bridges programs, platforms; MacWrite update reads DOS formats.
October 3, 1989... MacWrite update reads DOS formats By Jim Forbes Santa Clara, Calif. -- Claris Corp. is expected this week to announce a new version of MacWrite II and kick off a standards drive aimed at making it easier for users to import and...

System 7.0 still on schedule - more or less. (for Apple Macintosh)
October 3, 1989... By Dan Ruby Carlsbad, Calif. -- Apple executives Randy Battat and Ed Birss gave a cautiously optimistic progress report on the development of System 7.0 in an interview here last week. "We are on target to ship substantially what we...

NetFrame server line gets high-power rollout. (NetFrame Systems Inc's NF servers) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... NetFrame server line gets high-power rollout Santa Clara, Calif. -- With event marketing rivaling even the most graandiose Apple CPU introduction, start-up NetFrame Systems Inc. last week unveiled a line of network servers that it claims will...

4D add-ins debut at Paris Expo. (ACI's 4DFWrite, 4DCalc, 4D Graph and 4DImager for the 4th Dimension data base management system) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... Paris -- New add-in modules that will give 4th Dimension integrated word processing, spreadsheet, 3-D graphing and color painting capabilities made their debut at Apple Expo '89 here last week. ACI, the French company that developed 4D,...

ATM's smooth characters hit screen. (Adobe Type Manager)
October 3, 1989... Adobe fonts to work on 1-Mbyte Macs By Bruce Fraser Rapid-fire announcements over recent months herald the first major change in Mac font display and output technology since the 1985 introduction of the LaserWriter. In May...

Radius, Control Systems plan CAD accelerators. (computer-aided design)
October 3, 1989... QuickDraw could get vector routines By Abby Christopher Detroit -- In response to complaints from Macintosh CAD users about slow screen redrawing of complex 2-D vector-based images, three companies -- Apple, Radius Inc. and Control...

For the record.
October 3, 1989... Ashton-Tate disputes the recent report in MacInTouch in the Sept. 19 issue that sampler disks of FullWrite and Full Impact are infected with a virus. MacInTouch is investigating the matter further and will report on it next week. ...

Electric Image's Spotlight on Mac. (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... High-end package renders, animates in 32-bit color By Connie Guglielmo El Monte, Calif. -- Electric Image's Spotlight could be the Mac's entry into the world of full-motion animation with 32-bit colors. The $7,495 program, set...

Apple pledges Quantum drive fix. (Quantum hard drives)
October 3, 1989... By Henry Norr Cupertino, Calif. -- Acknowl-edging an abnormally high failure rate for the Quantum 40- and 80-Mbyte hard drives it offers in the Mac SE/30 and IIcx, Apple said last week that it will soon have an answer for customers whose...

Shiva's EtherGate puts serial devices on LANs. (local area networks) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... By John Battelle Cambridge, Mass. -- Shiva Corp. this week introduced the EtherGate, a hardware-based gateway that provides serial device-sharing and wide-area networking connections between LocalTalk and Ethernet LANs. The...

Upgraded Quark, 'XTras' readied. (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... Scanner support, calibration added By Carolyn Said Denver -- Fine-tuning Quark-XPress to more closely meet designers' needs, Quark Inc. will ship an upgraded version and new add-on software modules for its page-layout program this...

Apple double standard on LQ fixes? (ImageWriter LQ printers)
October 3, 1989... Refurbished units don't end complaints By Ben Templin Cupertino, Calif. -- Apple appears to have a double standard when dealing with disgruntled users of its ImageWriter LQ printer. Major buyers are getting their money back or...

Third parties extend XPress. (Quark XPress)
October 3, 1989... From color separation to page-production management to crossword puzzling, third-party developers showed a slew of software add-ons for QuarkXPress at the Seybold Computer Publishing Conference & Exposition in San Francisco last month. ...

Mirror takes on drive repairs. (Mirror Technologies' DriveCare)
October 3, 1989... By Pamela Pfiffner Roseville, Minn. -- Responding to user dissatisfaction with service provided by hard drive vendors, Mirror Technologies has established a program to retrieve data from, and make repairs to, drives from its competitors....

HandOff makes launching easier. (from Software Innovations) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... By Henry Norr Allen, Texas -- Promising to banish the Finder's "Application Not Found" alert forever from users' screens, Software Innovations Inc. last week began shipping HandOff, a $49.95 program that makes it possible to open almost...

Varityper shows new high-res imagesetter. (Varityper 5330) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... By Cliff Lehman East Hanover, N.J. -- Varityper Inc. last month unveiled a high-resolution imagesetter and a new controller that accommodates up to five command languages, including PostScript. The Varityper 5330, priced at $39,950,...

Tools to manipulate tabular data. (Seawell MicroSystems Inc's DataMerge) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... By Henry Norr Seattle -- DataMerge, a new utility from Seawell MicroSystems Inc., offers scientists, financial analysts and other users of tabu-lar data a new set of tools for manipulating data files from a variety of platforms and...

M.Y.O.B promises simpler accounting. (accounting program from Teleware Inc.) (Manage Your Own Business) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... By Jim Forbes Parsippany, N.J. -- M.Y.O.B., a new integrated accounting program from Teleware Inc., promises to simplify small-business record-keeping at a bargain price. Slated to ship late this month, the $99 program is designed...

Emotions high at AppleFest '89.
October 3, 1989... By Elinor Craig San Francisco -- Almost 20,000 attendees at last month's AppleFest '89 show here got a chance to see heated emotions as well as new products on display. As part of his opening keynote presentation, Jean-Louis Gassee,...

Tool kits bring DTP, video to the user. (desktop publishing; Video Production Controls' VidClip and VidClip IIGS) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... By Elinor Craig San Francisco -- New tool kits introduced at AppleFest '89 here last month will let Mac and Apple IIGS developers incorporate videotape control functions into their programs. The VidClip and VidClip IIGS for...

Maxtor adds larger OEM drives. (original equipment manufacturer; Panther 2 line of hard disk drives) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... San Jose, Calif. -- Maxtor Corp. last month announced a new line of 5.25-inch hard disk mechanisms that boast capacities as high as 1.67 Gbytes. Maxtor will offer the SCSI versions of its new Panther 2 line to Mac vendors on an OEM basis....

Playing some new SuperCard tricks. (from Silicon Beach Software) (StackWEEK) (column)
October 3, 1989... Playing some new SuperCard tricks TIPs We've been gathering several undocumented tricks that we think anyone working with Silicon Beach Software's SuperCard will find useful. In fact, we've found most of these features to be...

America Online service debuts.
October 3, 1989... Replaces AppleLink Personal Edition By Carolyn Said Vienna, Va. -- After more than a year of development, several name changes and shifting corporate providers, the user information and communication service once called AppleLink...

ModaCAD design line gets upgrades, AI patterning. (PAD System, artificial intelligence) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... By Cliff Lehman Los Angeles -- ModaCAD Inc. last month added a new pattern-making system and released a series of upgrades to its line of fashion and textile design and manufacturing products. Priced at $15,000, ModaCAD's PAD...

PageMaker for OS/2. (Aldus Corp's PageMaker 3.0 for OS/2 Presentation Manager) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... Seattle -- Offering desktop publishing compatibility across Macintosh, OS/2 and MS-DOS platforms, Aldus Corp. last month began shipping PageMaker 3.0 for OS/2 Presentation Manager. The $795 OS/2 version, for which Aldus recommends a...

New H-P products promise E-mail integration. (News Briefs) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... New H-P products promise E-mail integration Palo Alto, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard recently announced several new products intended to provide electronic-mail integration between its own products and other platforms, including the...

EPS clip art from Artbeats made to stand out or take a back seat to text. (Encapsulated PostScript) (News Briefs) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... EPS clip art from Artbeats made to stand out or take a back seat to text San Bernardino, Calif. -- Artbeats wants its new collection of clip art to fade into the background. Dimensions Volume 1 is a three-disk set of 20 Encapsulated...

Algebraic Proposer builds mathematical models. (from True Basic Inc.) (product announcement)
October 3, 1989... Algebraic Proposer builds mathematical models West Lebanon, N.H. -- If Sam has 2 Mbytes of RAM and Sue has a Mac-intosh II, how soon will they crash in MultiFinder when running MacWrite 4.5 with Excel 2.2? The Algebraic Proposer...

Letters. (letter to the editor)
October 3, 1989... Better service a must if Apple wants respect My 4-month-old Mac IIcx has one of the faulty Quantum 80-Mbyte disk drives described in the Sept. 12 Mac the Knife column. Apple does a great job in the area of technical innovation, and...

Apple, Microsoft and Adobe duke it out. (editorial)
October 3, 1989... Apple, Microsoft and Adobe duke it out The announcements by Apple, Microsoft and Adobe at the recent Seybold Computer Publishing Conference & Exposition set the stage for a turf battle among computer industry heavyweights for control of...

Managing multivendor networks; the Mac's ease of use may be the very element that makes it difficult to manage on a network.
October 3, 1989... The Mac's ease of use may be the very element that makes it difficult to manage on a network. By Emily Kay The acceptance of Macintoshes into formerly all-IBM environments has thrown another ingredient into the already-complicated...

Winehouse Computer Co. holds national AppleTalk seminars. (One-minute Manager)
October 3, 1989... Winehouse Computer Co. holds national AppleTalk seminars San Jose, Calif. -- Although generally endorsed as the easiest and most widely used networking protocol, AppleTalk cannot be learned in a couple of days. Unless, of course, you...

ODMS provides proposal-writing solution for General Dynamics. (Odesta Corp's Odesta Document Management System) (One-minute Manager)
October 3, 1989... ODMS provides proposal-writing solution for General Dynamics San Diego -- Rick Brusch of General Dynamics had a problem. He was in charge of creating a microcomputer-based system for the unwieldy process of writing, managing and tracking...

Font wars on the computer front. (Tech Files ) (column)
October 3, 1989... By JOEL WEST Font wars on the computer front The font solution under development for the Mac's System 7.0 is affecting the shoot-out over the font approach for Microsoft's OS/2 Presentation Manager. Together, these two...

Reading into the Macintosh. (optical character recognition programs) (Product Watch)
October 3, 1989... Optical character recognition programs help to turn the Macintosh into 'La Letrice.' By Lawrence Stevens By translating scanned documents into ASCII text files, optical character recognition software goes a long way toward solving...

OCR update: a look at the high end. (optical character recognition software) (Software Review) (evaluation)
October 3, 1989... OmniPage again takes the crown By Scott Beamer With the introduction of OmniPage a year ago, the Macintosh's optical character recognition capabilities were widely acknowledged. Here, we look at updates of OmniPage and TextPert and...

Winning means having the most toys. (MacInTouch) (column)
October 3, 1989... RIC FORD AND RICK LEPAGE Winning means having the most toys ISSUES & TRENDS B movie blues. If a movie were to be made of the recent skirmish among Adobe, Microsoft and Apple, we think it would best be one of those B movies...

SUM II is some upgrade. (from Symantec Corp.) (Software Review) (evaluation)
October 3, 1989... Symantec adds to set of utilities, fixes problems SUM II Symantec Corp. List price: $149.95 + Only utility able to recover 1.4-Mbyte disks; easier to use than SUM 1.1; now has powerful DES encryption and back-up programs....

Calculator Construction Set. (versions 2.2 from Dubl-Click Software) (Software Review) (Reviews in Brief)
October 3, 1989... It all adds up Calculator Construction Set 2.02 is for non-programmers who have always dreamed of building their own Mac desk accessories and applications. Designing a new calculator is as simple as dragging buttons, switches and...

Fastkeys. (Hardware Review) (Reviews in Brief)
October 3, 1989... Fastkeys Once in a while a truly innovative product comes along. SoundSight Corp.'s Fastkeys, a set of six membrane-switch keys mounted on an adhesive-backed strip, is such a product. With Fastkeys, you can assign any keystroke or...

TimeMinder. (Software Review) (Reviews in Brief)
October 3, 1989... TimeMinder Aatrix Software has upgraded TimeMinder, its $299 time-tracking and -billing program. Features of Version 2.1 include: >Unlimited files (256 projects per file) and unlimited sessions per project. >Up to 100 hourly...

A comparatively good advance; Advanced Software's DocuComp compares documents. (Software Review) (evaluation)
October 3, 1989... Advanced Software program compares documents DocuComp Advanced Software Inc. List price: $159.95 + Fast, complete report of differences between documents; recognizes moved text as well as deletions and insertions. ...

DIP SIMMs vs. surface-mount SIMMs. (dual in-line package, single in-line memory modules) (Help Desk) (column)
October 3, 1989... DIP SIMMs vs. surface-mount SIMMs By DAVID RAMSEY What kind of SIMMs are best? This question is usually followed by questions such as: What's the difference between DIP SIMMs (single in-line memory modules) and surface-mount SIMMs?...

TOPS works hard to hold networking lead.
October 3, 1989... Will Sun still shine on its subsidiary? By John Batelle Alameda, Calif. -- The sign on the testing lab door at TOPS Inc. shows hundreds of in-sects forming the international "No" symbol -- a circle with a slash through it. The lab...

Lotus, Sybase announce new strategic alliance. (Lotus Development Corp.)
October 3, 1989... By John Battelle Cambridge, Mass. -- Lotus Development Corp. and Sybase Inc. last month announced a strategic alliance and an investment agreement that will give Lotus a 15 percent interest in Sybase, the Emeryville, Calif., database...

Apple, early officers face trail over Twiggy. (the Twiggy disk drive)
October 3, 1989... By Carolyn Said San Francisco -- A jury must decide whether Apple's "unqualified optimism" about its failed Twiggy disk drive deceived investors in the early 1980s, but similar Apple exuberance about the ill-fated Lisa computer was not...

Oracle revenues up a 'mere' 94 percent. (Business Briefs)
October 3, 1989... Oracle revenues up a 'mere' 94 percent Belmont, Calif. -- Oracle Corp. last week posted record revenues and earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 1990. For the quarter ended Aug. 31, Oracle's revenues jumped 94 percent to $175...

Mass Microsystems to go public. (Business Briefs)
October 3, 1989... Mass Microsystems to go public Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Mass Microsystems, developer of storage subsystems and color video boards for the Mac, last week announced its intent to go public. The 2-year-old company filed a registration...

Symmetry Corp + Teknon Corp. = Symmetry Software. (Business Briefs)
October 3, 1989... Symmetry Corp. + Teknon Corp. = Symmetry Software Scottsdale, Ariz. -- Symmetry Corp., publisher of Acta Advantage, PictureBase, HyperDA and the HyperEngine developers' tool kit, and Teknon Corp., a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based developer of...

Portable and IIci orders drive Apple stock up marginally; Adobe stock plummets. (MarketWEEK: Stockwatch)
October 3, 1989... Portable and IIci orders drive Apple stock up marginally; Adobe stock plummets A bevy of "buy" recommendations, prompted by a reported $100 million in orders for the Mac IIci and the Macintosh Portable, marginally boosted Apple's shares...

Almost half of large Mac sites give users formal training. (MarketWEEK: Marketwatch)
October 3, 1989... Almost half of large Mac sites give users formal training During the past year 45 percent of the relatively large Mac sites (defined as having at least four Macs) provided employees with formal, Mac-specific training. Paradoxically, IBM...

This week's top ten excuses.
October 3, 1989... This week's top ten excuses Everyone needs a little vacation now and then, and for the Knife it was Stewart Alsop's Agenda '90 conference -- a sort of Bohemian Grove retreat for the rest of us. Fresh from having eviscerated John Warnock...

Sybase serves up Mac front ends for SQL data. (Apple Macintosh Structured Query Language) (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... Libraries for MPW, HyperCard due By John Battelle New York -- Sybase Inc. rolled out its latest developments in multiplatform database connectivity here last week, and heading the list are its first-ever offerings for the Mac. ...

Apple bites bullet on Quantum drive failures.
October 10, 1989... By Pamela Pfiffner Cupertino, Calif. -- Apple and Quantum Corp. last week unveiled a plan to deal with the flood of complaints concerning sticking Quantum 3.5-inch 40-Mbyte and 80-Mbyte hard disk drives in Macs. Apple identified the...

Users: font fallout no fun. (Postscript-clone font technology for Apple Macintosh)
October 10, 1989... Is it all a Royal pain in the ATM? By Connie Guglielmo San Francisco -- Mac users are still trying to digest the alphabet soup served up to them by Apple, Microsoft and Adobe at the Seybold Computer Publishing Conference &...

Objects loom large in Mac future. (object oriented programming)
October 10, 1989... Plug-in modules let users roll own apps By Daniel Farber New Orleans -- Apple's emphasis on object-oriented programming is leading to a future in which Mac users will be able to construct their own applications from libraries of...

Apple in Japanese hot water? (Apple Japan)
October 10, 1989... By Carolyn Said Tokyo -- Apple Japan and its leading Japanese distributor have been targeted for an investigation by Japan's Fair Trade Commission, which says it suspects them of impeding importers who sell discounted Macintoshes. ...

Mind your P's and Q's: new checkers due. (Grammar checking software)
October 10, 1989... Mind your P's and Q's: New checkers due San Francisco -- Two leaders in the field of electronic grammar-checking in the MS-DOS world -- Reference Software and Lifetree Software, both based here -- will soon release new Mac versions of...

Applications take center stage at CD-ROM Expo.
October 10, 1989... By Elinor Craig and Steve Hannaford Washington -- With real end-user applications outnumbering development tools for the first time, the third annual CD-ROM Expo here marked another step for CD-ROM's leisurely progress into the computing...

Mac presents Lewis Carroll. (Apple Macintosh performance art)
October 10, 1989... San Francisco -- The Mac met "Alice in Wonderland" last week here in a multimedia presentation designed for theater goers. HyperDodgson, an interactive look at the life of Charles Dodgson, the real name of "Alice in Wonderland" author Lewis...

Apple branches bear global fruit: localization key at Paris expo. (Apple Computer Inc)
October 10, 1989... Localization key at Paris expo By Cliff Lehman Paris -- Two weeks ago under the cathedral-like ceiling of the sparkling new CNIT building here, Apple Expo '89 revealed the extent to which Apple views itself as a global...

Modular modem bridges Euro telecom chaos. (European telecommunications) (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... By Carolyn Said Paris -- Globe-trotting Macintosh Portable owners are getting help from Apple in navigating the tangled circuitry of telecommunications in Europe. Apple Europe last month introduced a 2,400-bps internal modem for...

Claris aims to XTND file compatibility. (XTND software architecture)
October 10, 1989... Backing sought from other vendors By Jim Forbes Santa Clara, Calif. -- Claris Corp.'s attempts to establish an industry-standard software architecture that would simplify the exchange of data among users of different vendors'...

C++ ready for Mac developers. (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop C++ object oriented development software)
October 10, 1989... Apple put another component in its set of object-oriented development tools last week with the introduction of Macintosh Programmer's Workshop C++. The new software was announced here at OOPSLA '89, the Fourth Annual Conference on...

Informix ships Wingz update. (Informix Software Inc. )
October 10, 1989... Graphics, macros, manuals improved By Jim Forbes Lenexa, Kan. -- Informix Software Inc. last week began shipping Version 1.1 of Wingz, its presentation spreadsheet. The upgrade offers expanded custom number formats and...

Powering up your address book. (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... By Jim Forbes San Mateo, Calif. -- Address Book Plus, a new program due this month from Power Up Software Corp., promises Mac users a new set of tools for managing, searching and printing name and address data. The program offers a...

H-P releases upgraded interface, deluxe version of PaintJet printer. (Hewlett-Packard Co) (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... By Henry Norr Palo Alto, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard next month will begin shipping the PaintJet XL, a bigger, faster and more expensive version of its 180-dpi color inkjet printer. Along with the new printer, H-P will release the HP...

LapLink Mac opens SCSI doors to portable. (small computer systems interface) (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... Accelerator speeds Mac, PC transfers By Jim Forbes Bothell, Wash. -- A new version of Traveling Software Inc.'s LapLink Mac communications and file transfer program will give Macintosh Portable users direct SCSI access to files on...

Supermac cuts cost of 24-bit color. (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... By John Battelle Sunnyvale, Calif. -- True color on the Mac II line got less expensive last week when SuperMac Technology introduced the ColorCard/24, an $899 NuBus video board that displays up to 16.8 million colors on an Apple or...

Hey I Can Print! lets users output stack addresses. (R and B Software Hypercard software)
October 10, 1989... By Pamela Pfiffner Boston -- Users who have created address stacks in HyperCard, SuperCard or Focal Point only to be frustrated when trying to print the data will find relief in a new set of sorting and printing tools from R&B Software....

CAD, graphics users get new input tablet choices. (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... Kurta, Summagraphics, Wacom, GTCO compete By Elinor Craig San Francisco -- Tablet-based input options for Mac CAD and graphics users continues to multiply. >The most recent entrant is the Kurta Studio for Aldus Products from...

New DA delivers desktop credit card processing. (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... By Henry Norr Framingham, Mass. -- Merchants using the Mac for point-of-sale processing can now clear their counters of dedicated credit card terminals, thanks to a new line of software and hardware products that provides bank card...

DaynaTalk price cut, bundles announced.
October 10, 1989... Salt Lake City -- Dayna Communications last week announced new pricing and a new bundling scheme for its DaynaTalk line of network acceleration products. Single units of DaynaTalk for the Mac, which consists of a small hardware box...

Strawberry updates WorkBench: 3.0 can now plot real-time data. (Strawberry Tree Inc.)
October 10, 1989... 3.0 can now plot real-time data By Elinor Craig Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Strawberry Tree Inc. is shipping Version 3.0 of WorkBench, its object-oriented, icon-based programming environment for the factory floor. The $995...

Portable TrackPad replaces ball. (Summagraphics TrackPad) (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... Seymour, Conn. -- The wraps were barely off the Mac Portable when Summagraphics announced the TrackPad, an input device that may appeal to users uncomfortable with the traveling Mac's trackball. An Apple Desktop Bus module designed to fit...

Igor gets layout enhancements. (WaveMetrics Corp scientific software) (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... Lake Oswego, Ore. -- WaveMetrics last month shipped an updated version of Igor, adding expanded page-layout capabilities to the graphing and data analysis tool for scientists and engineers. With Version 1.1, graphs and tables can now be...

Yarc card accelerates 3-D imaging. (Yarc Systems Corp 3-D graphics software) (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... NuSuper gets 1st commercial app By Ben Templin La Puente, Calif. -- Dimensions Presenter, the 3-D imaging and animation software from Visual Information Development Inc. (VIDI), has become the first commercial application to work on...

Microtek scanner handles color, gray scale for less than $2,700. (Microtek Lab Inc.) (product announcement)
October 10, 1989... By Pamela Pfiffner Torrance, Calif. -- Bridging the gap between gray-scale and color scanning, Microtek Lab Inc. last week began shipping a scanner that does both for less than $2,700. Microtek is positioning the scanner as an...

E-Machines' QuickView updated. (E-Machines' Inc.)
October 10, 1989... By John Battelle Beaverton, Ore. -- E-Machines Inc. last month announced a new version of its QuickView enhancement software for its Z21 line of large-screen displays. The company also extended its MoreCare warranty option to cover its...

Gibbs to upgrade machinist system. (Gibbs and Associates)
October 10, 1989... By Rochelle Garner Chatsworth, Calif. -- Gibbs and Associates is preparing to upgrade its Gibbs System, a complete package for machinists who program and control CNC (computer numerical controlled) machines. Version 3.2, due later...