December 1995 / What's New

HP Combines Color Copying with Printing Now It's a Printer, Now It's a Copier	Color images are an integral part of business documents, but for many businesses, buying both a color copier and a color printer has been too expensive. - by Martha Hicks
133-MHz Pentium Notebook	Tadpole's P1300 (from $6995) features 8 to 128 MB of RAM, a 256-KB secondary write-back cache, a 64-bit memory interface, up to 1.2 GB of removable SCSI-2 disk storage, a high-bandwidth PCI local bus, an 800- by 600-pixel 10.4-inch active-matrix TFT color screen, a PC Card slot supporting one Type III card or two Type I or II PC cards, a pointing stick, an external 3-1/2-inch floppy drive, and an internal NiMH battery.
Computer-To-TV Adapter Line	With Presenter TView ($449), you can display Mac- and PC-generated images on standard TVs and, with a VCR, record presentations directly to videotape.
300-MIPS Workstation	Powered by a 64-bit, 275-MHz Alpha 21064A microprocessor, the Viper 275 delivers 347 MIPS and runs under Windows NT, OSF/1, and VMS.
Two Flat-Panel LCD Monitors Flat is Good When It Comes to Monitors	The 10.4-inch M104 active-matrix color monitor ($2850) allows you to simultaneously access 262,144 colors for true-color display and photo-realistic full-motion video.
Windows 95 Trackball	The WinTrac 95 ($139) system combines a MicroSpeed trackball and software.
Multimedia Pentium Notebook	The ChemBook Model 5400 and 5d Model 4100 notebooks (from $3450) com e with double-speed or optional quad-speed CD-ROM drives, an 11.3-inch dual-scan or 10.3-inch TFT active-matrix screen, a touchpad, a joystick, a Microsoft Sound System- and Sound Blaster Pro- compatible 16-bit stereo sound system with a microphone and speaker, 1 MB of VRAM (expandable to 2 MB), and a 32-bit PCI video bus and Windows accelerator.
Ruggedized Hand-Held Communicator A Great Forte to Dock In	Operating on Motorola's 800-MHz Private DataTAC network using MDC or RD-LAP protocols, the Forte Wireless CommPad (about $5500) provides real-time access to information when and where you need it.
Numeric Keypads For Portables	The Micropad 627 (about $85) offers 21 keys, three of which you can assign as the Windows 95 special-access keys, and a pass-through serial interface.
Programmable Trackball For The Mac	Turbo Mouse 5.0 ($109.99) offers four programmable buttons, which you can program independently to perform common tasks and to group together frequently used commands.
Color Printers For Silicon Graphics Workstations	Two color printers provide dye-sublimation and thermal-wax printing technologies for Silicon Graphics workstations.
PC Card Hard Drives For Powerbooks	Compatible with System 7.5, two PC Card hard drives for Apple Powe rBooks offer 12-ms access times, an MTBF rating of 250,000 hours, and data transfer rates of 3.5 MBps for the MI PocketDrive 170MB ($429) and 5.7 MBps for the MI PocketDrive 260MB ($649).
Put Paper To Work	PaperPort Vx for Windows and the Macintosh offers business-card management with Corex C ardScan software, copy-machine functions with PictureWorks Copier, document editing with Caere OmniPage Lite, and auto-launch technology that configures PaperPort Vx to move scanned documents instantly into the programs you use most.
Desktop Z-Stations Z-Station VP Truly Very Important	The Z-Station VP systems support Windows 95, Plug and Play technology, and DDC1.
A Mouse/Trackball Alternative Felix Combats RSI	Designed to conquer the problem of repetitive-stress injuries, Felix ($119) is an input device that has a finger-activated handle that moves within a 1-inch-square tracking system.
Quad-Speed Seven-Disc Jukebox	The CDJ 7004 ($399) supports CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-ROM XA, and Photo CD (multisession) discs.
8-MM Tape Backup Kit For LANs	A tape-drive kit for NetWare and Windows NT users contains the EXB-8700, an external 8-mm tape drive with 14 GB of compressed capacity (7 GB native) and a transfer rate of 60 MBpm (compressed, 30 MBps native); a CD-ROM that lets you select backup software from a choice of Arcada Backup Exec for NT, Arcada Backup Exec for NLM, Cheyenne ARCserve for NetWare (Windows edition), and Palindrome Backup Director for NLM; an Adaptec SCSI-2 host-adapter card and Adaptec EZ-SCSI software; Adaptec CI/O software, which allows system administrators and network managers to remotely profile performance and diagnose problems of SCSI devices from a Windows-based client; an Exabyte 12c cleaning cartridge; Exabyte's Exatape 160mXL 8-mm data cartridge; cables; and media ($2695).
6-PPM Laser Printer Made to be Shared	Up to three users running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 can share the KX-P6500 ($595), a 2400- by 600-dpi laser printer.
Full-Motion/Full-Screen Digital Playback	Powered by S3's Trio64V+ chip, which provides GUI acceleration, video scaling, signal mixing, RGB/YUV conversion, synchronization, and DAC output to the CRT, the Powergraph 64 Video PCI controller displays video output from NTSC/PAL tuners or decompressed CD-ROM video on SVGA monitors.
Fast Ethernet Starter Kit	First-time 100Base-T users can evaluate the technology for $995.
RAID Subsystem This RAID Will Net More Than You Bargained For	Providing up to 20 GB of magnetic storage, the RAIDworks 1000 subsystem mounts its IDE drives in frame-based carriers that connect to the hardware controller through a PCB-based slot connector.
Ruggedized Rack-Mount Touch Monitor	The TruePoint IC-20 ($3850) combines MicroTouch's capacitive touchscreen technology with a 20-inch Intecolor E02154 monitor.
Data Storage And Retrieval	For simultaneous multiuser drive access to information, the HotSwap SCSI TowerDrives come in three models.
WinFax Pro 7.0 Delivers More-Reliable Faxing WinFax Sends Faxes Back Where They Belong	Windows fax programs have many advantages over stand-alone fax machines. - by Dave Andrews
Financial Forecasting For Windows	With Cashe ($1995), you can analyze common business issues, such as preparing a strategic business plan, evaluating an acquisition/merger, understanding how much debt or equity you can raise, or analyzing a price or product mix change.
Manage Work Flow Over The Internet	With Track-It and a World Wide Web browser, team members from remote sites can complete, assign, negotiate, collaborate on, communicate about, and participate in various work processes through the Internet.
Desktop-To-Unix Connectivity	Fully X Window System 11 release 6-compliant, XoftWare 4.0's ($395 for a single-user license) user interface transforms the Unix desktop into a Windows 95-like application.
Computer/Telephone Integration Kit	Show N Tel 3.0 (two-line version, $995; with support for four lines or more, $2995) helps you build voice, fax, call-processing, E-mail, speech-recognition, call-center, and multimedia-messaging applications under OS/2 and Windows NT.
Network Design Tool For Windows NetSuite for Intelligent Models	Using object-oriented technology, NetSuite::Professional Design ($495) builds intelligent models of your organization's network devices and media.
Visual Information Management For Workgroups	Vineyard 2.0 (single-user version, $295) transforms a LAN into a repository of shared information for all members of your workgroup.
Backup And Restore For Silicon Graphics Users	FalconFastBack can back up multiple file systems concurrently on 8-mm and DAT tapes at a rate of 45 MB per minute.
Enterprise-Wide Drawing And Diagramming Visio for Visionary Multitasking	Visio 4.0's ($249) and Visio Technical 4.0's ($399) optimization for Windows 95 includes Quick View previews of Visio drawings and diagrams and true preemptive multitasking.
Interface Optical Drives Under SunOS	With MO-SOL 5 and a host PC running Solaris 2.x or SunOS, you can access gigabytes of information stored on one or more optical disks using erasable media.
StatView 4.5 for the Macintosh	Available in English, French, German, and Japanese, StatView 4.5 for the Macintosh, a data-analysis program, includes survival analysis, quality control, Excel read/write capabilities, data management, more than 20 new analysis and graphing templates, criteria labels, importing and speed enhancements, and an implementation of Apple Guide.
The Boxer/DOS, Boxer/TKO, and Boxer OS/2	The Boxer/DOS, Boxer/TKO, and Boxer OS/2 text editors are now available in version 7.0.
Recognita Form 2.0	Able to read single-page forms with unlimited zones and up to 255 data fields, as well as multilingual text, handwritten numerals, bar codes, and check marks, Recognita Form 2.0 lets you scan and process/proof at separate workstations within a network, with three methods for correcting recognition results.
Help Authoring For Windows 95 Author Help Files for All Windows Versions	Whether you are creating help systems for Windows 95, 3.x, and NT or moving your current Windows 3.x help systems to Windows 95, WinHelp Office 95 may interest you.
TriTeal Enterprise Desktop	An implementation of the Common Desktop Environment, TED 4.0 ($425) has features such as TEDvision, an Internet browser; TEDsecure ($200), an optional NSA Fortezza-based security solution; TEDfax; and GWM, a graphical workspace manager.
32-Bit Distinct TCP/IP SDK	The 32-bit version of Distinct TCP/IP SDK Visual Edition contains OLE controls for Windows Sockets, telnet, FTP, TCP server, SMTP, POP2/POP3, NNTP, RCP, Rlogin, Rshell, Rexec, and VT220.
32-Bit Video Special Effects Put Your Horse Out to Pasture...Any Pasture	With PhotoMorph 2 for Windows NT, you can utilize RISC workstations to produce videos.
Collaborative Development For Windows 95 And NT	A collaborative development system for Windows 95, NT, and 3.11, StarTeam (call for price) integrates version-control, defect-tracking, electronic-conferencing, auditing, and reporting systems that include charting capabilities.
Group Connection For Network Windows Users	Multiple Windows users can share screens and keyboards across Novell LANs or WANs and still retain that same group-connection capability in DOS.
Disk Manager 7.0	The Disk Manager 7.0 disk-installation utility supports Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2 Warp; configures disk drives larger than 528 MB; eliminates the need to manually select drive models and parameters; automatically configures drives for the highest performance setting allowed by the drive controller; and enables IDE disk drives to read and write multiple sectors of data at one time.
GrabNet 2.0	A browser companion tool for Windows and the Mac, GrabNet 2.0 provides a hierarchical list of folders and objects.
Kurzweil Voice for Windows release 1.5	Kurzweil Voice for Windows release 1.5 is a voice-recognition system that allows you to run your Windows-based PC using voice.
Visual Special Effects For Windows Sentfactor Will Send You	An image-editing and visual special-effects program, Sentfactor Paint ($149.99) offers drawing, painting, and cropping tools.

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