January 1996 / What's New

Take Your Desktop with You Benchmark Results First with Firsts	Gateway 2000's 120-MHz Solo V120 represents several industry firsts. - by Selinda Chiquoine
Share Applications	Based on Rockwell's chip set and the DigiTalk standard, V.34 Boca Office Communicator and SoundExpression 28.8SVD let you talk and share applications simultaneously over a single analog telephone line.
Color Windows Terminals	The Winterm 2500, 2500T, and 2500C termin als (from $750) provide access to 16- and 32-bit applications written for Windows 3.1, 95, and NT.
75-MHz Pentium Notebook WinBook XP Packs a Lot into a Notebook	The WinBook XP packages a 75-MHz Pentium LM processor, 16 MB of RAM, an 810-MB hard drive (user-upgradable to 1 GB), a 10.4-inch active-matrix color screen, 256 KB of L2 cache memory, an internal 14.4-Kbps send/receive fax/voice/data modem, one PC Card Type III slot or two Type II slots, a 19.5-mm Lexmark keyboard, the Chips & Technologies 32-bit local-bus video accelerator, 1 MB of video memory, and 40-W-per-hour lithium-ion batteries ($2999).
Network Image Accelerator For HP Laserjet 4	By installing XipPrint II ($795) into the SIMM socket of a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4, you can print JBIG TIFF, G3/G4 TIFF, and PCX images at the rated speed of the printer while maintaining full-duplex printing, direct network connectivity, and bidirectional printer status communications.
Operate Windows By Joystick	People with disabilities that prevent them from using a mouse or a trackball can now operate Windows computers.
Portable Digitizing System A Good Rat to Have	A portable x,y digitizer with an accuracy of 0.003 inch, the Rat ($1895) can digitize most cartographic features as well as pictures and drawings.
Pentium Multimedia Super-Notebooks	Based on the PCI-bus architecture, the Eurocom 5400 Multimedia Super-Notebooks (starting at $2900) come with 75-, 90-, 100-, 120-, or 133-MHz Pentium CPUs; 256 KB of external L2 write-back cache memory (expandable to 1 MB); 8 MB of RAM (expandable to 32 MB); 2 MB of video memory; an internal quad-speed Teac CD-ROM drive; a removable 2 1/2-inch hard drive with capacities of 340 MB to 1.3 GB; 16-bit stereo sound with an FM synthesizer; a trackpad; an oversize 86-key keyboard; one PC Card Type III slot or two Type II slots; an infrared communications port; a UART 16550 serial port; an ECP/EPP-compatible parallel port; an external keyboard/mouse port; an external VGA port; a game port; and a 200-pin connector for a docking station.
Label Printer Labels Go On-Line	With the K225 On-Line Labeler ($269), you can print in a variety of fonts and type sizes; horizontal or vertical; flush top, bottom, left, or center; and bar codes on labels up to 2-1/4 inches wide.
RAID Storage System	The Renegade RAID System (with 10 4-GB 7200-rpm drive modules, about $30,000) offers 42 GB of storage and fault-tolerant data protection confi gurable to support RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 7.
Desktop PCs That Optimize Windows 95 Celebris GL	Available in low-profile and short-tower configurations, the Celebris GL desktop PCs (from $2799) feature board-level integration of audio, video, and networking.
Powerbook Expansion Cards	Three expansion cards for the Mac PowerBook 190 and 5300 include the LapisCol or MV16 ($299), a 1-MB video card that lets you display 16-bit graphics on monitors of up to 17 inches and 8-bit graphics on larger monitors; the LapisColor MV16-EN ($399), which incorporates the same video features as the MV16 but lets you plug into a 10Base-T Ethernet port via the PowerBook PDS expansion slot; and the LapisColor MV8-EN ($279), which supports 8-bit graphics on monitors of up to 17 inches and 4-bit graphics on larger displays and has the same 10Base-T Ethernet connector as the MV16-EN.
Two-In-One Drive Doubleplay Doubles Access	A plug-in device, Doubleplay (external, $299; internal, $159) lets you share, store, and access large files on QIC tape cartridges and floppy disks.
10-Mbps Wireless Ethernet Lan	Available in indoor and outdoor versions, the ET350 (call for prices) uses infrared line-of-sight transmission to link LANs and users who are up to 1500 feet apart.
Desktop-Size Network Laser Printer	Printing 12 ppm in black and white and 3 ppm in color, the Optra C (about $6400) provides photographic-quality CMYK color printing on plain paper at a resolution of 600 by 600 dpi.
Printing Forms	The OptiForm Flash SIMM is a 1-, 2-, or 3-MB module that plugs into a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4's memory slot.
ISDN Remote-Access Card	The Diva card's (ISA-bus version, $595; PC Card version, $695) ISDN BRI port lets you communicate using IP, IPX, or PPP with peer workstations, remote networks, SNA mainframes, ISDN PRI and BRI routers, fax services, on-line services, and the Internet.
Simple CD Recording Easy CDs from HP	Hewlett-Packard has bundled its SureStore CD-Writer 4020i ($1249) compact quad-speed CD reader and double-speed CD recorder; two blank HP SureStore CD-R discs; a SCSI-2 bus-mastering interface card; and cables with Easy-CD, Alchemy Personal, Magic Lantern, and Easy-CD audio software.
Desk Pad Eliminates Bulky Monitors Executive High Tech	The Modula-Executive Desk Pad ($3500) combines a 10.4-inch active-matrix color touchscreen that lies flat on your desk, a keyboard, a mouse, stereo speakers, and a microphone in a half-inch-thick, 27- by 19-inch tablet.
Unmistakably Approachable Lotus's New Approach for 1996	Loyal users of earlier versions of Lotus Approach and anyone looking for a versatile desktop database will love Lotus Approach 96. - by Alan M. Stoughton
High-Volume Web Publishing	HTML Transit ($495) reads popular word processing files in their native format and produces a single HTML file or an entire hypertext-linked library, according to the template parameters you specify.
Color Printing For Unix Workstations	Usable with stand-alone workstations or in heterogeneous networks, Flexprint (single user, from $695) lets you control such printer features as print quality, tray selection, and EasyColor color correction.
Create Forms In Windows	Visual Forms/Win ($249), a forms designer, creates complex base forms and documents that it saves as Windows metafiles.
Solaris Server For Windows	WabiServer (server license, $1000; 10-client pack, $1000) allows Wabi-certified Windows applications (e.g., Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite) to run on a server with Solaris 2.x and to display on low-end SPARC systems, X Window System terminals, or machines running Solaris 1.x.
Native PC X Server For Windows 95	Exceed 5 for Windows 95 (single-seat site license, $545), an X Window System 11 release 6-compliant Windows 95 PC X server, allows Windows 95 PCs to access and display applications from Unix/X, VMX, Ultrix, and OSF/1 systems.
Workgroup Fax Software	Running as an NLM, Faxcom/Workgroup for NetWare allows users on NetWare networks to send and receive faxes via a shared fax modem connected to a file server.
Communications For OS/2	HyperAccess for OS/2 ($129) offers telnet access to the Internet and comes with thousands of ready-to-call BBSes, Internet service providers, and other on-line systems.
Data Access And Reporting Tool	IQ/Objects introduces object-based query and reporting using SmartObjects, which can make decisions to invoke or pass information to other objects based on query results.
AS/400 Connectivity For Windows 95	Emerald Client for Windows 95 ($245) provides PCs running Windows 95 with IBM 5250 terminal and printer emulation to AS/400s.
Clarion for Windows 1.5	Clarion for Windows 1.5 adds a 32-bit compiler to the RAD environment, so you can build applications for Windows 3.x, 95, and NT from the same development environment and project files.
Dfrag 4.0	Dfrag 4.0 defragments Oracle 6 and 7 databases, tables, and indexes; improves database performance; eliminates time-consuming maintenance tasks; and maximizes performance and space usage of Oracle databases.
Track 3.1 for Windows	Track 3.1 for Windows, a LAN-based defect-tracking and technical-support system, provides integration of more choices of version control systems; additional reporting and analyzing features; a visual query builder; privileges needed for maintaining multisite databases; automatic notification capabilities via Lotus Notes, cc:Mail, and Microsoft Mail; ability to merge multiple databases and synchronize multisite databases; and additional import and export options, global search and replace, multiple indexing, and additional database-linking features.
OLE Custom Controls Combine These Four for Perfect OLE	Available as OCXes, four components enable developers working in environments such as Visual Basic 4.0, Visual C++ 4.0, Access 95, Visual FoxPro, and Borland Delphi32 to build custom applications for Windows 95, NT, and 3.1.
Virtual-Team Coordinato r	You can turn your PC into a virtual coordinator for your team's individual and group activities.
Problem-Solving Toolkit	An intuitive spreadsheet alternative, Go Figure for Windows ($99.99) has no cells, no rigid structures, and no confining rules.
Labor Management	WorkForce, a modular multiapplication software solution, automates labor management.
Windows 95 Decision Support Tool Suite	If you need to access, analyze, and integrate timely business information into reports, memorandums, and spreadsheets for electronic distribution within an organization, InfoAssistant ($495) may be for you.
Windows-Based Tool Suite	Workview Office (from $2000) combines Quad Design's Motive timing-analysis and XTK cross-talk-analysis tools; Vantage's SpeedWave VHDL simulator; and Chronologic Simulation's VCS Verilog simulator.
MerexEdit 1.5	A program that automates the manual revision of work-related instructions, documentation, and procedures, MerexEdit 1.5 provides a Check command, which applies controlled vocabulary, writing rules, and grammar to selected documents; document-tracking and reporting capabilities; an improved configuration file and a new user interface; and editor configuration options.
MDP New System Professional Edition	An advanced version of statistical-analysis software, MDP New System Professional Edition combines the BMDP New System with the BMDP Classical Library of more than 40 statistical routines, including analysis of variance, nonlinear, and stepwise regression; time series; survival analysis; maximum likelihood estimation ; and multivariate analyses.
Kai's Power Tools 3	With Kai's Power Tools 3, you can interact with your digital creations through an enlarged real-time previewing environment, drag the visual device anywhere on the screen and simultaneously view effects in real time, render custom 3-D spheres, create new textures, mix multiple textures, and graphically view and select preset functions.
Simplify Data Integration Prospero Builds From Existing Apps	A Windows-based visual software tool, Prospero ($695) integrates data from multiple sources and destinations without coding.

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