March 1996 / What's New

120-MHz Pentium TravelMate	The TravelMate 5200 (about $5199) combines an Intel 120-MHz Pentium processor with a 32-bit 30-MHz synchronous PCI bus architecture and 256-KB Level 2 cache.
High-Availability Pentium File Servers	Two file servers for LAN and WAN applications, the MaxPro 1500 and MaxPro 800, support most NOSes and differing network configurations.
Multifunction Ethernet Hub	The M208 Workgroup Print Server (US$895) lets you connect up to three printers to your workgroup.
PC Card Modem with Voice and Cellular Radish: Not Just for Salads	The DataVoice 3400 PC Card ($399) features Direct Connect Cellular support for popular cellular phones and Radish Voice View technology, which enables you to alternate quickly between talking on the telephone and using a modem during the same call.
PCI Card Accelerates Mac 3-D Graphics QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card Faster Mac Graphics from Apple	Late last year Apple introduced QuickDraw 3D, its Mac OS component that provides an API for manipulating and storing 3-D objects as well as managing how they're displayed. - by Tom Thompson
28.8 Modem/Fax/Ethernet LAN PC Card	Mariner ($599) offers connectivity to popular cellular phones and wireless messaging for one-way alphanumeric and Tango two-way paging systems, plus 10Base-T and 10Base-2 LAN connectivity.
Business-Card Reader A Great Way to Keep Track of Contacts	The Smart Card Business Reader ($299) can read business cards in landscape or portrait form at speeds up to 4 cards per minute a t a resolution of 400 dpi in 8-bit gray scale (256 shades of gray).
Multifunction Document System	The Konica 7050 (from $24,950) is a 50-copy-per-minute digital laser copier that, with the optional Konica IP-201 Image Processor and KN-101 NIC (call company for prices), becomes a copier/network pr inter capable of printing 400 or 600 dpi.
120-MHz Pentium Notebook	Combining a 120-MHz Pentium processor, multimedia capability, and modularity (with its NEC VersaBay II slot), the NEC Versa 4080H notebook ($5499) lets you design a system tailored to your needs.
3-D VR Graphics Accelerator	With 3D SymphonicVision ($299), you get a 64-bit Windows graphics accelerator, stereoscopic 3-D glasses, and Spatializer surround-sound technology.
High-End 3 1/2-Inch Disk Drives Disk Drives Get Big and Bigger	Available in 4- and 8-GB versions and in a variety of Ultra SCSI-3 and SSA configurations, the 7200-rpm Conner Filepro Performance drives offer magnetoresistive heads, PRML read-channel electronics, and Conner Peripherals' proprietary media to increase data density to more than 850 MB per disk.
1200-DPI Color Laser Printer Phaser 550 Makes Workgroup Printing Easy	At 5 ppm in color and 14 ppm in monochrome, the Phaser 550 (from $6995) provides printing at 1200 by 1200 dpi.
PC Card-Based Speech Recognition Phonetic Engine 1000 PC Card	The Phonetic Engine 1000 is a PC Card that allows mobile computers to run speech-driven applications using Speech Systems' continuous-speech, speaker-independent, speech-recognition technology.
28.8 Fax Modem for the Mac	A data communications solution that incorporates the V.34 standard to enable communications speeds up to 28.8 Kbps, the SupraExpress 288 (about $200) provides maximum throughput speeds of 115.2 Kbps, fax-transmission speeds up to 14.4 Kbps, and FAXcilitate fax software.
1700- and 2550-MB Desktop Drives	The Quantum Sirocco 1700 ($265) and 2550 ($395) drives offer 1700 and 2550 MB of storage, respectively.
6.7-Speed CD-ROM Drives	The Toshiba XM-3701 Series of 6.7-speed CD-ROM drives support a data transfer rate of 1000 KBps.
ID Card Printer Persona II is to Dye For	Using dye-sublimation technology, Fargo's Persona II ID Card Printer ($6995) prints directly onto both sides of blank PVC or polyester cards.
300-DPI Color Ink-Jet Plotter	The DesignJet 750C large-format color plotter has new modes to create smooth area fills and images for renderings or presentations with virtually no banding.
ISDN Terminal Adapter	The Sportster ISDN 128K is a PC-based terminal adapter that provides connectivity to ISDN-based services.
HP's Hand-Held Organizer Pocket the Power of Hand-Held Organization	Small enough to fit into a coat pocket, the HP OmniGo 100 (about $349) combines the convenience of a pen and the familiarity of a keyboa rd with a rotatable screen that allows horizontal or vertical display.
Efficiently Rule Your Inbox Efficiency Rules	Good news, Mac cc:Mail users: Release 3 makes your wishes for more control over the ever-increasing number of messages in your E-mail inbox come true. - by Dave Andrews
Windows 95 Desktop-Enhancement Utility	PowerDesk for Windows 95 ($49.95) combines a customizable toolbar (including eight tools) with ExplorerPlus, which is an enhanced and expanded version of the Windows 95 Explorer.
PC Messages to Pagers	PC Beep (about $39.95) sends text messages from your PC to alphanumeric pagers.
Interactive Messaging for Web Sites	Now you can add off-the-shelf interactive messaging to World Wide Web sites.
ISDN Voice Mail and Call Management	Phoneware-ISDN ($199) offers voice-mail and call management capabilities to ISDN subscribers with Windows PCs.
Surveys Over the Internet	With Decisive Survey ($495), you can develop custom surveys and send them to customers, employees, resellers, and suppliers over a network.
Enhance Excel Data-Filter Capabilities	A fuzzy-logic-based information search tool for Excel 5.0, FlexFilter ($40) lets you search and organize data records by their degree of overall fit with search criteria.
Visual Basic Toolkits	You can enhance the performance of your applications with the control-replacement functions and subroutines of Visual CodeBank 1.0 ($149).
Internet Server for Windows NT	Integrating Web-server software with an applications-deployment architecture, Durand's MindWire NT ($1495) allows you to distribute client/server applications over the Internet.
UPS Management	Liebert offers two power-monitoring packages for UPSes.
PC to Alphanumeric Paging Dispatcher	To turn your PC into an alphanumeric paging dispatch station, you simply select the pager owner's name or names from a list, type the message, click to send, and Pronto ($49.95) does the rest.
AuditTrack 2.5	With the AuditTrack 2.5 network-auditing software package, you can save report definitions, schedule report production, and combine multiple audit sets for consolidated reports and exported files.
VC Wizard 4.1	A videoconference scheduling and control tool, VC Wizard 4.1 lets you view or print the schedule of rooms, people, equipment, or ports in an hourly, daily, weekly, or customized format; manage and display the status of all confer ences; filter the conferences you wish to display by conference name, status, company, or other options; and control conferences in progress.
Look-In+ 2.0	Running on Windows PCs and Unix workstations, Look-In+ 2.0 works over LANs and WANs, including the Internet, to support visual communicati on between participants in a CAD conference.
Internet Virus Protection for Windows WebScan Prevents Incoming Viruses	Integrating a browser and E-mail capabilities, WebScan prevents you from downloading virus-infected files and E-mail from the Internet.

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