May 1995 / What's New

100-MHz Pentium Systems	Micron Computer's (Nampa, ID) P100 Millennia systems (from $3699) have an Intel 100-MHz Pentium processor, a 256-KB Micron SyncBurst cache, and 16 MB of Micron extended data-out memory.
Plug And Play Wave-Table Sound Card	The NuSound audio adapters for PCs, from Orchid Technology (Fremont, CA), combine wave-table synthesis, 3-D audio, 100 percent games compatibility, and support for the Intel/Microsoft Plug and Play specification.
Keyboard For Long-Term Typing Ergo-Master Keyboard	Designed for long-duration typing duties, the Ergo-Master keyboard ($495) features independently adjustable halves that let you position the keyboard for maximum comfort and efficienc y.
Remote Radio-Controlled Data Logger	Using FreeWave wireless spread-spectrum-radio data transceivers to transmit data, the Datataker Transceiver System ($3995) can transmit through floors, walls, and ceilings.
Create MPEG Presentations	With RealMagic Producer, you can create full-screen, full-motion multimedia presentations and titles.
Raidbank For Macintosh	MicroNet Technology (Irvine, CA) offers a high-performance RAID system for Macs.
Go-Anywhere Notebook Husky FC-486 Notebook PC	Husky Computers' (Clearwater, FL) rugged Husky FC-486 notebook PC (from $2999) features a curved profile that fits snugly into the crook of your arm and a fully sealed magnesium-alloy case that incorporates screen and keyboard into a single hingeless unit.
Mac Datapen	The Mac version of the I.R.I.S. America (Boca Raton, FL) DataPen ($435), a highlighter-size OCR device, allows you to enter printed or typed text and figures directly into your Mac applications.
Wireless Messaging System For Windows PageCard Wireless Messaging System for Windows	The PageCard Wireless Messaging System for Windows ($399) includes the PageCard receiver, which is activated on the PageNet nationwide network, and the PageSoft communications software.
Electronic Personal Token	Telequip's (Hollis, NH) Crypta Plus card is a true electronic personal token, a credit-card-size device containing a secure coprocessor and up to 16 MB of flash memory.
High-Performance Fax Server	Biscom's (Chelmsford, MA) Faxcom 6000 enables users of LAN desktop systems connected to corporate mainframes to send and receive faxes and allows MIS and LAN administrators to manage fax traffic throughout an organization.
Fiery XJ Color Servers	Based on Electronics for Imaging's (San Mateo, CA) Fiery XJ architecture, the Fiery XJ170 and Fiery XJ300 Color Servers (from less than $20,000) link computer networks to digital color copiers from Canon, Kodak, Minolta, Ricoh, and Xerox.
Mac Multimedia Touch Monitor Mac n' Touch AV-14 Monitor	The $1610 Mac n' Touch AV-14, a touch monitor for the Mac, combines MicroTouch Systems' (Methuen, MA) touch technology and Apple's AudioVision 14 Display, which integrates high-quality stereo speakers, a microphone, and a high-contrast display.
Easy Internet Connection	Global Village Communication (Sunnyvale, CA) offers OneWorld Internet, an Internet connectivity package for networked PCs.
Server Sharer	Starview Server Sharer allows you to control up to six PCs or file servers with a single monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
17-Inch Pivoting Displays Portrait Displays Color Monitors	Portrait Display Labs (Fremont, CA) offers two 17-inch color multifrequency pivoting displays that combine portrait and landscape views.
Convert Documents Into Editable Text PaperPort 2.0 for Windows	PaperPort 2.0 for Windows ($399) scans at resolutions of up to 400 dpi, providing better OCR accuracy when scanning documents with small text, such as business cards.
Tape Backup Autoloaders	Two AutoLoaders from Aiwa Computer Systems (Boca Raton, FL) automate nightly tape backup operations on network servers supporting NetWare, OS/2, Windows NT, Unix, and Macs.
PCMCIA Voice/Fax Modem PCMCIA Voice/Fax Modem	A voice/fax modem for laptops, notebooks, or subnotebooks with Type II or III PCMCIA slots, the Quicktel 14V14PCM PC Card features V.32bis data transmission and V.42bis data compression and can send data and faxes at 14. 4 Kbps.
Minicartridge Data Protection	The Conner Peripherals (Costa Mesa, CA) Tape*Stor 1700 floppy interface minicartridge tape drive offers up to 1.7 GB of storage capacity, compatibility with the QIC-3020 and QIC-3010 standards, and read compatibility with the QIC-80 and AccuTrak-250 tape formats.
Network Trouble-Alert System	Net-911 ($1495) monitors an unlimited number of network file servers accessible over a LAN.
Reboot Locked-Up Systems By Remote Control	With the three-outlet TeleBoot TB-250 ($249) and the TB-450 ($449), which has five individually addressable outlets, you can remotely reboot a system via either a telephone or a modem.
Multifunction Optical-Disk Jukeboxes	Two new optical-disk jukeboxes from Plasmon Data (Milpitas, CA) offer capacities of 26 and 33 GB in a compact desktop design (single-drive systems, $6995; dual-drive systems, $9995).
Keyboard-Enhanced PDA Sharp Electronics' Zaurus	With Zaurus, Sharp Electronics' (Mahwah, NJ) pocket-size, keyboard-enhanced PDA, you can send and receive E-mail, send faxes, access on-line services, exchange information with local and remote PCs, take notes on an electronic notepad, create maps and drawings, generate documents, and manage your time and information.
Scanning For Laptops ColorMobile Office Scanner	The ColorMobile Office Parallel Col or Scanner is a combination hand-held/motorized/sheet-fed unit designed for use with laptop and notebook PCs.
Fast, Accurate OCR CharacterEyes for Windows 2.5	CharacterEyes for Windows 2.5 ($79.95) uses neural network technology to let you capture text as fast as 300 cps with an accuracy rate of 99.7 percent.
Windows-Based Speech Recognition	With OfficeTalk for Win dows (US$2045), you can use your voice to dictate, edit, and fax documents.
Manage Your Network ClickNet Professional 2.0	A network diagrammer program based on Windows, ClickNet Professional 2.0 ($795) features more than 2300 network images that you can drag and drop into on-screen diagrams.
Microstation For The Power Mac MicroStation V 5 for the Power Mac	The Power Mac version of Bentley Systems' (Exton, PA) MicroStation V5 supports the Macintosh user interface, high print resolutions, and most video output, including monochrome and 4-, 8-, 16-, and 32-bit color.
Create Mission-Scalable Applications	Digitalk's (Santa Ana, CA) Visual Smalltalk 3.0 ($1495) and Visual Smalltalk Enterprise 3.0 ($4995) feature source and binary portability between Windows and OS/2, a new binary format, improved memory management tools, and support for IBM'S SOM/DSOM.
Customer Interaction	A suite of seven customer-interaction applications, Target Enterprise (about $1000 per seat) offers a groupware module, database flexibility, hypertext research tools, an E-mail and Internet interface, scalability, and customization capabilities.
Application Modules For Business	The Ability for Windows integrated business suite consists of word processing, spreadsheet, database, forms, drawing, charting, and communications modules.
Develop VGUIS A Gooier GUI	A portable C++ development toolkit, Ilog Views 2.0 unifies graphics and widgets into one tool for designing VGUIs (very graphical user interfaces).
MKS Source Integrity 7.1	MKS Source Integrity 7.1, Mortice Kern Systems' (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) version-control system for software development, includes project management facilities; Visual Merge; new reporting capabilities; "visual differencing," which uses color coding to highlight differences in code; a customizable toolbar; event triggers; a new configuration language; and integration with Visual C++ and Borland C++.
AshWin 2.0	A Windows-based batch scheduler, AshWin 2.0 offers native support for Alpha, Mips, and PowerPC machines and heterogeneous support for Unix, AS/400, and OS/2 networking environments.
Imagenation for Macintosh 3.3	Imagenation for Macintosh 3.3, Spicer's (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) document-imaging software, includes such new features as deskew and despeckle; crop and resize; cut, copy, and paste; rubout and erase; a highlighter; bind and unbind objects; multipage TIFF and DCX capability; a measurement tool; saving and reusing of common symbols; support for Micrografx Designer DRW, Intergraph DGN, and AutoCAD DWG; vector-to-raster format conversion; and Apple Event and Apple Script integration.
Document And Work-Flow Management PowerOffice 2.0	A document and work-flow management system, PowerOffice 2.0 ($995 per concurrent user) allows users to store, retrieve, and process such information objects as scanned images, electronic documents, audio clips, and other Windows data types.
Visual Help Builder	You can create full-blown help systems with ProtoView Visual Help Builder ($395).
Paperless-Office System An Environmentally-Correct Office System	TreeSaver Plus, from Micro Telesis (Columbus, OH), is an automated paperless-office system with built-in work-flow processing, document management, and production.
Remote Control Via TCP/IP	Remotely Possible/Sockets (one host and one viewer, from $298) provides TCP/IP support via Windows Sockets for communications across computers, interconnected networks, and various operating systems.
Multimedia Management Program An Organizer to Salute	With Media Commander for Windows ($129), you can organize all types of media into catalogued thumbnail libraries.
Leadtools 4.5	Leadtools 4.5 lets you add imaging and compression technology to your C, C++, or other applications that provide a C-language interface under DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows NT, Win32s, and Windows 95.
AccuRender 2.1	AccuRender 2.1 ray-trace rendering and animation software for AutoCAD releases 12 and 13, from Robert McNeel & Associates (Seattle, WA), provides automatic reflections, refraction, transparency, and shadows; viewpoint animation tools; sunlight animation; 24-million-color output; an on-screen preview feature; a materials library and materials editor; a library of fractal-generated plants; and support for TGA, TIFF, BMP, GIF, and JPEG file formats.
Bounds-Checker for Windows 2.5	Bounds-Checker for Windows 2.5, Nu-Mega Technologies (Nashua, NH), delivers automated debugging support for the MFC library and automatic detection of memory leakage, resource leakage, and heap and data corruption in VBXes from C/C++ and Visual Basic.
Embedded Development Tools	The TNT Embedded ToolSuite ($2995) delivers a total solution for 32-bit embedded systems development on Intel 386/486 microprocessors, according to Phar Lap Software (Cambridge, MA).
NLM For Fax Communications	FaxWare, a 32-bit NLM for Novell NetWare, can send faxes on 64 lines at a rate of 14.4 Kbps while supporting up to 1000 users and 32 servers per LAN.
Natural-Language Translator For Windows	With Transcend, from Intergraph (Huntsville, AL), you can perform quality draft translations of your memos, reports, E-mail, and technical manuals while preserving the original document's format and type specifications.
Client/Server Data-Analysis Software	Cornerstone for Windows ($995 per seat) combines the power of statistical software with the familiarity and ease of a spreadsheet program, according to BBN Software Products (Cambridge, MA).
Cross-Platform GUI Builder X-Designer 4 Crosses GUI Barriers	X-Designer 4, a cross-platform GUI builder, speeds the development of user interfaces for Motif and Windows applications without relying on proprietary code.
Analyze Business Processes FlowModel Can Help Rebuild Your Business	If you're involved in business-process reengineering, total quality management, or information-systems analysis and design, then FlowModel ($495) may interest you.

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