April 1995 / What's New

Heavy On Power PowerLite 85 Notebook	Weighing 8 1/2 pounds, the base-model PowerLite 85 noteb ook offers 85-MHz MicroSparc II performance, 510 MB of disk storage (expandable to 4.4 GB), and a TGX-accelerated 640- by 480-pixel or 1024- by 760-pixel display.
Mix-And-Match Storage	The Mega Drive Enterprise, from Mega Drive Systems (Beverly Hills, CA), is an intelligent storage system that ha s the ability to handle hard drives, optical storage, CD-ROMs, removable tapes, and DAT.
Four-Way Videoconferencing	With the C-Phone Multipoint Controller ($3995), from Target Technologies (Wilmington, NC), you can use the C-Phone video PBX system ($1995) to view four other people on your screen during a videoconference call or display an alternative video source in one or more of the four windows.
Ethernet Cards For The Mac	Dayna Communications (Salt Lake City, UT) offers two DaynaPort E/CS Ethernet NICs for Macs equipped with a communications slot.
Universal Modems Konexx Modems	Unlimited Systems (San Diego, CA) offers the Konexx Konnector Model 111 ($159) and th e Konexx Koupler Model 204 ($149).
Mini-Cartridge Backup	A 3 1/2-inch tape backup device from Tandberg Data (Simi Valley, CA), the Panther Mini 1000 (from $799) comes in both internal and external models.
Serving Up Printing	The family of multiprotocol Token Ring printer servers from DPI (Waltham, MA) work with NetWare and Vines networks.
Combined Power	Designed for Mach DS plus LAN multiplexers, the Mach Terminal Server module ($2495), from Data Race (San Antonio, TX), combines the functions of a statistical multiplexer with an IP card and a LAT terminal server.
Modemless Communications Telebyte Model 234 Modem	Telebyte Technology's (Greenlawn, NY) Model 234 is an RS-232 modem eliminator designed to be placed between two asynchronous or synchronous DTEs.
Brighter Images, Clearer Sounds The Great Bedini	The Bedini Clarifier ($39.95), from Bedini Electronics (Coeur d'Alene, ID), provides a low-cost solution to removing unwanted electrical charges from the surface of CDs.
Ultralight Virtual Reality Less Filling, Works Great	Virtual i-O (Seattle, WA) offers its Virtual i-O i-glasses, which are lightweight, high-tech 3-D glasses that create the illusion of a large virtual screen floating in front of you.
Improving Remote Communications	An intelligent serial-port board for remote access, the AccelePort, from DigiBoard (Eden Prairie, MN), provides 230-Kbps unidirectional communications, 115-Kbps bidirectional communications, and a single point through which to control traffic.
High-Octane Data Transfers	The Multiport Model 6400SX, from Aurora Technologies (Waltham, MA), enables users of SPARC workstations and servers to add 64 high-speed asynchronous serial lines to their networks.
A Small, Rugged Flash Disk	From M-Systems (Santa Clara, CA), the PC/104 Flash Disk provides 1 to 32 MB of storage in a 3.6- by 3.8-inch package.
Low-Cost Monitors	Sampo Technology (Norcross, GA) offers a line of corporate-grade monitors.
Link Laptops To Desktops	An infrared device, the JetEye PC ESI-9680A, from Extended Systems (Boise, ID), lets you transfer data from a desktop to a laptop without using a cable.
Fast, True-Color Graphics Acceleration Maxmedia CX/Pro	A 24-bit true-color graphics accelerator card for PCs, the Maxmedia CX/Pro ($999) uses three 64-bit processors to give speedy performance.
Broadcast Printing If You Can't Fish, GoPrint	A wireless printer sharer that's compatible with DOS and Windows, GoPrint transmits data at speeds as high as 1 Mbps.
Fault Prevention	FiberMau-FDX ($299), a full-duplex Ethernet transceiver from MiLAN Technology (Sunnyvale, CA), uses the company's LinkSentry remote-sensing technology to search for errors on a network before releasing packets to their destinations.
Long-Distance Color Printing The ColorBlaster	The ColorBlaster, from PRDS (Fremont, CA), handles color PostScript files sent over phone lines via a modem.
Storage For PCs And Macs	The Advantage series of storage products, from MicroNet Technology (Irvine, CA), now supports PC compatibles running DOS or Windows, as well as Macs and Power Macs.
High-Capacity Tape Backup	The Legacy QIC 10 drive, from Legacy Storage Systems (Andover, MA), is a 5 1/4-inch, half-height tape unit capable of storing 10 GB of compressed data on a single quarter-inch cartridge.
Communications On The Double	The V4-ISA-650T-RJ multiport adapter, from Computone (Roswell, GA), lets you add high-speed RS-232 serial ports to an ISA-based DOS or Unix system.
High-Speed SCSI-2 Host Adapters Bigger, Better Buses	BusLogic (Santa Clara, CA) offers two Fast and Wide SCSI-2 host adapters for PCI bus systems: the BT-956C ($399) and the BT-956CD ($599).
Conserve Energy It's PowerMan!	To reduce the amount of electricity that's consumed by computer monitors, Merritt Computer Products (Dallas, TX) offers PowerMan.
For Your Eyes Only	The wraparound design of the PF50 filter ($119), from 3M Optical Systems (Roseville, MN), preserves the privacy of travelers who use their notebook computers in public places.
Recordable CD For Under $2000 RCD-1000	The RCD-1000 is a 5 1/4-inch Macintosh recordable CD system that offers double-speed reads and writes.
Get Organized Work Races Along with DragStrip	DragStrip lets you arrange Mac programs and documents on draggable strips and then launch them with a single mouse-click.
The More Data, The Merrier	capaCD Pro, from EWB (Carlsbad, CA), raises the 660-MB storage limit on CD-ROM capacity, letting you record, on average, two to three times more information per disc.
Professional CAD	Mental Automation's (Bellevue, WA) SuperCAD+ for Windows, a schematic editor, offers pull-down menus, dialog boxes, and toolbars.
All Buttoned Up All Buttoned Up	MDA (Cincinnati, OH) offers two sets of electronic buttons, from its Electronic Preview Collection, for use with any multimedia authoring program or presentation package.
Blanket Protection	Developed by Atemi (Champaign, IL) for the Mac, NightShade (from $199) encrypts all communications on LocalTalk, Ethernet, and Token Ring networks.
Group Interaction	Built on the OLE 2.0 distributed container model, Insitu Conference (from $269), from Insitu (Boston, MA), provides a means for groups to generate ideas, edit documents, and discuss an image or document displayed on a Windows desktop.
Fa ster Autocad	From Vermont Microsystems (Winooski, VT), AutoMate/Pro speeds up the graphics in releases 12 and 13 of Autodesk's AutoCAD for Windows.
In Living Color In Living Color	Color Compass ($129) from Praxisoft (Ashburn, VA) simplifies the task of creating, modifying, and blending colors on the Mac.
A New Twist On Lotus	Multi-D Lite ($249), a workstation version of the RServer multidimensional database server and RGUI graphical shell, makes it easier to extract information from a database and drop it into Lotus 1-2-3 release 4 or Lotus 1-2-3 for OS/2 spreadsheets.
Armour 3.45	Armour 3.45, Norman Data Defense Systems (Fairfax, VA), offers a scheduler and a graphical virus scanner that now looks for 5700 virus strains.
CallXpress3 3.3	CallXpr ess3 3.3, Applied Voice Technology (Kirkland, WA), for use with OS/2, features an improved telephone user interface and the ability to create voice, fax, and E-mail queues.
dbViewer 2.2	dbViewer 2.2, Bluestone (Mount Laurel, NJ), has full Motif 1.2 support, a flexible license server, a new ta ble widget for database results, better security and documentation, and an improved interface.
RoboHelp 3.0	RoboHelp 3.0, Blue Sky Software (La Jolla, CA), includes support for 256-color bit maps, a more streamlined process for testing help files, new document templates, an editor for macros used by the Windows Help engine, and an enhanced visual interface.
Network Assistant	More than a troubleshooting tool, NetReport (from $495) provides you with information critical to long-term capacity planning.
Stuck On You	StickAround Notes ($24.95) from O'Soft (Cambridge, MA) lets you put electronic notes on your Windows display.
Real-Time Programming Tools Real-Time Programming Tools	From Quinn-Curtis (Needham, MA), Real-Time Graphics Tools for Windows lets you create real-time displays in applications running under the Windows family of operating systems.
Planning Ahead	PlanMaker, from PowerSolutions for Business (St. Louis, MO), helps you prepare, formulate, and publish a marketable business plan.
Tuning In, Getting On	ICL (Reston,VA) offers Embla, a Windows application that provides access to Internet mail for PC users on Unix networks.
Low-Cost Unix CD-ROM Low-Cost Linux	A Unix operating system for 386 and 486 PCs, Linux includes complete source code, programming languages, hundreds of megabytes of utilities, and a printed installation manual.

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