June 1995 / What's New

Scalable Multiprotocol WAN Server	For data-communications service providers expanding their networks, the Multi-Protocol WANServer 3000 (base unit, which includes a rack-mountable 16-port Interface Distribution Module and SBus Host Interface Card, $3500; additional 16 ports, $2800) provides up to 64 high-speed WA N access ports for integration into SPARC system-based data switches, network servers, and multiline data- and voice-delivery systems.
Modem/Fax/LAN Combo PC Card	WinMax contains a 19.2-Kbps "soft" data modem, a fax card, and an Ethernet LAN interface adapter for 10Base-T LANs, all in one PCMCIA package (modem/LAN combo, $249; modem/fax only [V.32 terbo], $129; LAN interface only, $99).
SPARC-5-Compatible Workstation MicroCompstation 5/85 RISC System	Powered by an 85-MHz MicroSparc II chip, the entry-level configuration of the microCompstation 5/85 RISC system (less than $4000) comes with an SVGA/CG3 frame buffer, a 14-inch color monitor, 16 MB of memory, a 520-MB hard drive, two serial ports, one parallel port, and three SBus expansion slots.
Computer Telephony Appliance	The components of the QuadraFax fax and voice processing system (two-port systems, from $2995; four-port systems, from $3995) are the system unit and the administration software.
Multimedia Kit	The Diamond Multimedia Kit 6000 ($399) combines an IDE quad-speed CD-ROM drive, a 16-bit stereo-quality sound card, speakers, automatic installation software, and six finance and office-productivity applications.
Upgrade Your DDS Tape Drives MiniChanger 400	The MiniChanger 400 Series of auto-loaders includes two different models.
Wireless Infrared Printing The Infrared Wave of the Future	The LaserJet 5P and 5MP printers include an infrared port for wireless printing from portable PCs and PDAs.
LAN-Cable Tester LANtek Proves LAN-Cable LAN-Capable	A portable LAN-cable tester, the LANtek Pro XL ($4495) grades the reliability of network cabling by testing line mapping, Dual Next, signal attenuation, DC loop resistance, mutual capacitance, cable length, and attenuation to cross-talk radio.
Control GPIB Instruments With Your Mac	With the GPIB-232CT-A/Mac, an external RS-232-to-GPIB controller, you can control GPIB instruments from your Mac's printer/modem port.
30-Inch Trinitron Monitor	A high-resolution monitor with a 16-to-9 aspect ratio, the GWM-3000 ($21,900) incorporates a 30-inch Trinitron tube with a 28-inch-diagonal viewing area and noninterlaced resolution of 1920 dots by 1080 lines, or more than 2 million pixels.
PCI SCSI Adapter	The ABP940 SCSI host adapter connects up to seven drives to a single PCI slot in PCs, workstations, and servers.
ISDN Remote-LAN Access	KNX's three ISDN remote-LAN-access products include the KNX Access Server Basic, or ASB; the KNX Access Server as an NLM, or AS-NLM; and the KNX Remote LAN Workstation, or RLW.
Multimedia Keyboards Promise Her Anything, but Give Her Platinum Sound	The Platinum Sound Multimedia Audio and Stereo Keyboard is available in two different models.
Analog Signal-Conditioning Modules	The 5B isolated analog signal-conditioning modules ($150 to $205) are for frequency input, voltage output, four-wire RTD input, resistive input, narrow-bandwidth strain-gauge input, two-wire transmitter interfacing, and servo/motor control.
Display For SPARC Workstations Saves Space	Weighing only 17 1/2 pounds, the Integrix subsystem for SPARC-based workstations includes the 13-inch N209 true-color flat-panel display, which offers a resolution of 1280 by 1024 pixels, a refresh rate of 60 Hz, and display of 256 colors from a palette of 16.7 million.
Ethernet Adapter For Portables Pass-Through is Passport to Easy Printing	The EtherChain Network Adapter lets you connect laptop PCs anywhere on a 10Base-T Ethernet network.
Multiplatform Printer Server	Designed for Ethernet networks, NetQue Mate ($399) allows users to share one printer or plotter from up to 30 different operating environments, including Microsoft LAN Manager, Novell NetWare, IBM LAN Server, Apple EtherTalk, Windows NT, and Unix TCP/IP.
Flat-Panel Color Monitor Flat-Panel Monitor Offers Color Depth	The Model 460 ($7950; with options, $8995) flat-panel color monitor is a 14.2-inch active-matrix display that is only 3 inches deep.
Multimedia Module For PCS	The PDQ Mobile Multi-Media Module, or M4, lets you play audio and multimedia CDs on most notebook and desktop PCs via the parallel port.
Internal Surge Suppressor	Designed for installation inside your PC, the Defender/OVP ($39.95) protects your PC's voltage-sensitive hardware components against damage caused by lightning, power-line surges, switching artifacts, static discharge, and power-supply failures.
Network Faxing	FaxPress 3000 lets LAN and enterprise-wide network users send and receive faxes directly from their workstations.
Direct-Inward-Dialing Network Fax-Server Board	Faxination DID routes incoming faxes from the fax server, through the LAN, and directly to users ' workstations.
Enterprise-Wide Tape Backup	The DLT20 is a digital linear tape drive that uses half-inch cartridge streaming tape in a 5 1/4-inch full-height case.
Amplifier/Speaker Package Power Sound and Voice Recognition for Your PC	The TC 1490SP package consists of a high-power/zero-footprint amplifier and a pair of high-output speakers that enhance the audio pe rformance of most PC- or Mac-based multimedia systems.
Network-Transparent Green PCS The Preferred PCs	Two Energy Star-compliant PCs, the Preferred 5/100E PCI ESP (from $2998) and the Preferred 5/100 PCI ESP (from $2792) are based on the Intel 100-MHz Pentium P54C processor.
Windows Access For Blind PC Users	ScreenPower for Windows provides blind people with access to Windows applications.
32-Bit OS/2 Image Editor ColorWorks Enlarges Your Palette and Options	ColorWorks for OS/2 ($495), a 32-bit multitasking application with a configurable tool architecture, yields thousands of possible drawing tools and a flexible way to define floated images.
Memory Technology For The Mac OS	With OptiMem RAM Charger ($129), memory use becomes more efficient, flexible, and reliable.
Productivity Tools For Visual Basic	A set of 10 productivity tools, ToolThings ($179) takes the work out of developing Visual Basic applications.
Wordperfect Document Splitter	SplitVu allows you to simultaneously view and edit two parts of a WordPerfect document.
Incorporate Your Business	Incorporate takes you step-by-step through the process of incorporating.
Windows-Based Data Acquisition Software	When you use the Hydra Logger for Windows software with the Hydra data acquisition unit, you can control such functions as scanning, signal conditioning, sensor linearization, alarm sounding, nonvolatile memory, and trend plotting.
Engineering Visualization Photo-Realistic Engineering at Your Fingertips	MicroStation Masterpiece provides photo-realistic rendering, animation, advanced ray tracing, radiosity, engineering animation, and other visualization capabilities.
Windows Spreadsheet Version Manager Change is Painless with CCC QuikTrak	CCC QuikTrak automatically keeps track of the changes you make to a spreadsheet, why you made the changes, and how to get back to any prior version you choose.
Analyze And Manage Server Space	A server-space analysis and management tool, FileWizard 3 has a Native Windows front end, Hierarchical Storage Management, and support for NetWare file servers with PC and Mac clients.
Improve Your Ada Programs	Asta's TCMON and TBGEN software-analysis and test systems improve the quality and performance of software programs written in Ada.
Multiplatform Security For Unix	SeOs combines operating-system-level interception of security-sensitive events with an access-rules database.
So lve Equations Theorist 2 Makes Math More Concrete	Theorist 2 for Windows 3.1 and NT provides numeric and symbolic computational tools, which it displays in real mathematical notation, for equation solving and mathematical exploration.
Conversions Plus 3.0	Conversions Plus 3.0, a Windows utility that lets you use Mac disks in your PC and convert files back and forth, includes new translators, enhanced graphics capabilities, and a file-preview feature.
SafE Mail 1.02 for DOS	With SafE Mail 1.02 for DOS, you can safely encrypt or decrypt information in almost any format.
SCSI-Share 2.0	SCSI-Share 2.0, which lets you share SCSI devices over AppleTalk LANs, features completely overhauled emulation for virtual devices and full support of Apple's SCSI Manager 4.3.
ManagePro 3.0 for Windows	ManagePro 3.0 for Windows, a program that helps managers set goals and deadlines, organize work, and manage people more effectively, offers customized reporting, job-specific templates, and Software Update expanded project and action management.
Track Down 6000 Viruses Don't Let Virus Tracking Make You Sick	Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit 7 (single-user Windows ver-sion, $125; single-user OS/2 version, $149) detects more than 6000 computer viruses, including complex encrypted and polymorphic viruses.
Entry-Level Account ing First Accounting is a Good Place to Start	The Peachtree First Accounting program ($169) includes general-ledger, accounts-receivable, invoicing, accounts-payable, item-tracking, checking-account-reconciliation, job-tracking, and business-reporting features.
Develop Neural-Network Solutions	NeuralWorks Predict 1.0 ($995) uses fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, dynamic hill climbing, Kalman filtering, and conjugate-gradient methods to help you develop sophisticated neural-network solutions.
New Approach To Project Management	Artemis ResourceView (call for prices), a client/server-based resource management tool, consists of two modules: Requester and Allocator.
Gauss Applications Constrained Products Enlarge Problem Parameters	Constrained Maximum Likelihood's (Unix version, $995; PC version, $495) features include the ability to solve general maximum-likelihood problems using the sequential quadratic programming method; linear and nonlinear constraints on parameters; equality and inequality constraints on parameters; confidence limits for constrained problems; bootstrapping with histogram and surface-plot output; likelihood-profile trace plots; weight observations; and the ability to profile t plots and fix selected parameters.
StarManager Advanced 4.0	StarManager Advanced 4.0, a Windows program for sales-territory design and mapping, supports more data formats, including ODBC, and mapping and realignment down to the individual account level; it also provides up to 20 user-definable variables in the StarManager database, up to 20 layers of map detail, and a drag-and-drop feature that lets you quickly grab and realign territory geography and accounts.
Formula One	The 32-bit version of the Formula One spreadsheet component includes the ability to create and format objects on worksheets; an enhanced calculation engine; workshe et zooming; print scaling; the ability to read and write Microsoft Excel 4.0 worksheets; special classes for C++ developers to handle worksheet and window creation and manipulation, message routing, and events; and window-manager functions for C developers.
Software Sentry 2.0	Software Sentry 2.0, a network-independent license-metering and software-asset management tool, comes with a virus checker and the ability to automatically load the TSR into expanded memory.
Low-Cost Windows Publishing Suite Desktop Publishing Doesn't Have to Be Expensive to Be Good	An all-in-one desktop publishing and graphics solution, Serif Publishing Suite helps you produce professional-quality black-and-white or color-separation newsletters, ads, brochures, catalogs, and greeting cards.
Graphical Data Analysis DADiSP 4.0 for Graphical Data-Analysis	DADiSP 4.0 (PC version, $1895; workstation version, $2995), a graphical data-analysis package, includes native GUI standards; DDE and other interprogram communications; and SPL (Series Programming Language), which provides user-defined functions, looping and iteration, conditional statements, array references, and variables.
Contact Management	The OLE support in Maximizer 3.0 for Windows enables you to attach objects, such as spreadsheets and documents, to clients and contacts.
Multimedia Notes Anywhere	A Windows-based annotation utility, EGlue 2.0 lets you annotate documents and Windows applications with electronic stick-on notes that can contain text, sound, video, graphics, and animations.
English/Spanish Accounting	The Business Accountant Gold integrates receivables, payables, and payroll into one system.
Schematic Design Tool For Windows 3.1 And Nt	You can design schematics with WinDraft ($750), a 32-bit application that lets you scale components using the Plus or Minus key before placement and automatically places junctions when you end a wire on another wire.
VToolsD 1.1 for Windows 3.1	VToolsD 1.1 for Windows 3.1, a VxD (virtual device driver) toolkit for C and C++, lets you build VxDs targeted for Windows for Workgroups 3.11; supports the WFW 3.11 features that will be implemented in Windows 95; and introduces PELE, a utility that lets you create VxDs with the 32-bit Borland C++ compiler.
PICS 1.5	PICS 1.5 provides doubled speed of the hierarchical listbox, a TimeEdit control that automatically starts and stops time, international date/calendar control, and numeric edit control.
Electronics Workbench 4.0	Electronics W orkbench 4.0 lets you simulate analog, digital, and mixed-mode circuits; in addition, you can create larger and more complex circuits with components in multiple parts bins and over 350 real-world models.
Interactive On-Line Software Worldgroup Offers Unity	Worldgroup ($795) unifies messaging, workgroups, customer service, sales, support, EDI, and the Internet.

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