November 1995 / What's New

Six-Speed CD-ROM Drive	The SCSI Express CD6X (internal, $695; external, $875) offers a 900-KBps data transfer rate, an access speed of 145-ms random access, 115-ms random seek, and a 256-KB buffer.
Access Netware LANs Via ISDN Lines	The PacketBlaster/ISDN PRI ($9995) lets you connect remote sites over switched on-demand ISDN networks or a router-based backbone using ISDN.
Pentium Motherboard With PCI Fast And Wide SCSI	Available in three models -- the P54TS (fast SCSI) ($495), P54TSW (wide SCSI) ($565), and P54TSW2 (ultra-wide SCSI) ($635) -- the P54TS Pentium PCI motherboard features 128 MB of memory; 75- to 200-MHz processor speeds; five ISA and three PCI expansion slots; and 256 to 512 KB of cache.
Pentium Notebook With CD-ROM Speed and a CD	Based on Intel's 75-, 90-, or 100-MHz Pentium CPU, the 7.1-pound PowerCD features an 800- by 600-pixel or 640- by 480-pixel 9-1/2-, 10.4-, or 11.3-inch dual-scan color or active-matrix color display; a CD-ROM drive; a 3 1/2-inch floppy drive; a center-based TouchPad; a PCI local bus; a microphone and stereo speak-ers; and a PC Card Type III slot.
Intel Delivers a Better Pentium OverDrive 83-MHz Pentium OverDrive Performance An OverDrive for All Seasons	With a street price of approximately $400, Intel's first Pentium OverDrive chip, which was released earlier this year, offers a moderately appealing solution for upgrading your PC's processor from a 25-MHz 486 to a 63-MHz Pentium. - by Dave Andrews
Alpha Workstations It's the BIPS	Powered by a 266- or 300-MHz Alpha 21164 RISC microprocesso r, the AlphaStation 600 Models 5/266 and 5/300 can process more than 1 billion instructions per second.
Add Seven 32-Bit PCI Slots	With the Model 2102 PCI Expansion Unit ($995), you can transparently add seven 32-bit PCI slots to a host computer.
Alpha-Based Workstation	Based on Digital Equipment's 21064A Alpha processor, a fully configured Telluride Power Workstation ($9994 to $14,607) includes a 200- or 275-MHz Alpha 21064A CPU; 2 MB of secondary cache, upgradable to 8 MB; a double-speed CD-ROM drive; a 1-GB fast SCSI-2 hard drive; a PCI fast SCSI-2 drive controller; 32 MB of DRAM, upg radable to 1 GB; a 4-MB PCI video adapter; 1 MB of flash ROM; a 17-inch, 85-kHz monitor; a high-speed Ethernet PCI combo adapter; a 3-1/2-inch 1.44-MB floppy drive; a full-size tower case; a Keytronics AT keyboard; and a Microsoft PS/2 mouse.
30-Bit Single-Pass Flatbed Scanner	The high-performanc e 30-bit Z1-600 scanner can distinguish more than 1 billion colors and 1024 shades of gray and, with a maximum of 2400 dpi (300- by 600-dpi optical resolution), hold fine line tolerances and provide razor-sharp details for clearer images.
Two-Line Voice/Data/Fax/Audio System	A two-line voice/ data/fax and 16-bit audio system, the VoicePro+2 ($329) includes a 14.4-Kbps fax/data modem, dual-line voice-mail, fax-message forwarding, auto-paging, a speakerphone, an external fax switcher, music on hold from internal or external audio sources, and caller ID with four message formats.
Power For 3-D, Imaging Mood Indigo is Really Magenta	The Indigo2 Impact workstations' graphics subsystem generates 100 million trilinear interpolations per second and provides texture mapping, volume rendering, HDTV resolution, and digital media features.
Multimedia Pentium N otebook A SENSible Notebook	The 6-1/2-pound SENS800 ($2799 to $3799) comes with an Intel 75-MHz P54LM CPU (upgradable to 90 MHz); 8 MB of RAM (expandable to 40 MB via 8-, 16-, or 32-MB memory cards); a 10.4-inch DSTN or TFT color screen with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels; a microphone and speakers; a 340-MB to 1-GB removable hard drive; a 3-1/2-inch floppy drive; one PC Card Type II slot; one PC Card Type III slot; an 84-key AT-compatible keyboard; an Internal Tracking Ball; 1 MB of video memory; 16-bit stereo sound; local-bus video; and Microsoft Windows Sound System compatibility.
Quad-Speed Multimedia Kit	The MPC3-compliant Diamond Power Kit 7000 ($399) combines a 16-bit Wavetable Diamond sound card, a quad-speed CD-ROM drive, speakers, an ergonomic joystick, a microphone, and 22 entertainment and reference titles.
Upgrade Your SparcStation	You can increase the performance of your SparcStation 10, SparcStation 20, and SparcServer 630/670/690 machines to 90- or 125-MHz performance.
Full-Screen Video Playback	A 64-bit DRAM card, the Paradise Pipeline 64 (from $169) accelerates 8-, 16-, and 24-bit color depths at resolutions of up to 1600 by 1200 pixels.
V.34 Modems	Four V.34 fax modems, which are available in external and internal configurations, offer ITU-TSS V.34, for connect speeds up to 28.8 Kbps, and V.42bis and MNP 5 data compression, to allow throughout up to 115.2 Kbps.
Two-Way Wireless PC Card Modem Always on the Job	Designed for use with the ARDIS wireless data communications network, which provides dual 4.8-/19.2-Kbps operation, the Personal Messenger 100D (about $700 to $750) PC Card modem for Type II and III slots lets you send and receive E-mail from your office network or the Internet, send faxes, and access corporate databases.
askSam Gets Faster and Fuzzier askSam 3.0 for Windows	Version 3.0 of askSam for Windows adds numerous features that should appeal to those who publish electronic directories, policy manuals, instruction books, and other text-based products. - by Dave Andrews
Build A Database In Your Own Language	With Salsa software ($149; with starter kit, $189), you describe the things you want to track using simple drag-and-drop templates, menus, and buttons, and the program does the rest.
Manage Routers, Bridges, And Switches On WANs StonyBrook Manages WANs	An SNMP-based application, RouterManager/AutoBahn (from $1995) provides network management capabilities for multivendor, multiprotocol WANs.
Circuit Simulation Inside Microsoft Excel	Spectre/XL embeds circuit simulation inside Microsoft Excel, so you can evaluate, develop, and optimize circuit designs.
Automate E-Mail On Your Mac Claris Ea ses E-Mail Overload on Macs	Whether you subscribe to an Internet service or to America Online, CompuServe, eWorld, or RadioMail, Claris Emailer lets you send, receive, reply, forward, and store E-mail messages and files.
OS/2 And Unix Dictionary	The American Heritage Dictionary and Roget's II Thesaurus Deluxe Edition for OS/2 and Unix ($59.95) is a package that provides an up-to-date dictionary with full definitions, parts of speech, pronunciations, abbreviations, and sample sentences for more than 200,000 words.
PCB Layout For Windows 3.1	WinBoard 2.0 ($995; with WinDraft schematics, $1495) includes placement tools for x,y placement and Place File; enhanced editing, including the ability to edit net characteristics; select or exclude layers for routing and via placement; more than 400 new SMT footprints, including the complete IPC-SM-782 library; and improved memory management.
StorageManager 4.0	StorageManager 4.0, backup and storage management for NetWare 3.x and 4.x servers, combines the backup capabilities of Backup Director 4.0, the automated archiving and media management of The Network Archivist, and rules-based Hierarchical Storage Management software.
DragStrip 2.0	A desktop organizer, DragStrip 2.0 includes extensive AppleScript support; new options for icon and button styles, custom fonts, colors, and labeling; options for renaming items and editing pop-up document lists; support for Control Strip modules; the ability to apply labels and colors on a per-strip basis; and Bali, a program that lets you cancel accidental application launches with a single click.
NetTools 5.3	NetTools 5.3, Windows desktop-configuration management, incorporates HelpPlus, an ODBC-compliant trouble-ticket generator that helps you identify improperly set or altered desktop-configuration files and supports Adobe PostScript printer drivers.
Manage Contacts And Documents In Windows 95 Janna Contact 95 Organizes Your Life	Janna Contact 95 (US$99) provides contact, document, and time management; communications; and a multimedia database.
Molecular Visualizer Molecules Made Easy	ChemSite for Windows ($99) is a molecular visualizer for building, displaying, and simulating the dynamic behavior of chemical structures, which you can then incorporate into presentations, lectures, and laboratory studies.
Data Recovery For DOS And Windows	Rescue ($99) can recover data from crashed floppy disks and hard drives, even those with corrupted or deleted primary partitions, in as little as 60 seconds, according to AllMicro.
Firewall For Notebooks	EagleNomad ($99) addresses the security needs of mobile PC users by establishing a private "tunnel" between two systems, allowing users transparent, secure communication to authorized destinations in the enterprise.
ShowCase Vista 3.1	A query tool for AS/400 data access, ShowCase Vista 3.1 lets you import Query/400 and SQL/400 objects; manage and control query jobs by assigning which batch subsystem a job can run in, and at what priority; and test queries in a controlled environment before handing them over to end users.
Wabi 2.1	Software that lets you run Lotus SmartSuite, Microsoft Office, and other Windows applications on Solaris, Wabi 2.1 includes multimedia support and ODBC support, which lets you access databases such as Oracle and Sybase from your Windows productivity databases.
OnContact Enterprise 3.53	A Unix-based, multifunctional, network-ready package, OnContact Enterprise 3.53 adds enhanced security, new scheduling methods, setup features, fax integration, upgraded merging capabilities, and advanced printing functionality.
3-D Graphics And Animation Visual Reality 2.0	Now artists, designers, and multimedia developers can work in 3-D with Visual Reality 2.0 for Windows ($259).

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