April 1996 / What's New

Quad-Interface Line-Impact Printer	Mannesmann Tally's latest mission-critical line-impact printer, the T6045 FourPlex I/O ($5225), includes IBM twinax and coax, RS-232, and IEEE 1284 parallel interfaces.
Ultrasparc Workstation	The UWS1/140 workstation from Integrix includes a 143-MHz UltraSparc-compatible processor, 32 KB of L1 cache, 512 KB of L2 external cache, a 10Base-T Ethernet interface, three SBus slots, two serial ports and one parallel port, Fast SCSI-2, and audio interfaces for a microphone, line-in/line-out, and headphones.
Keyboard With Touchpad Let's Do the Wave	The GlidePoint Wave Keyboard ($129) combines the GlidePoint stationary pointing device, which translates finger movement across a touchpad into cursor movement on the screen, and a split 108-key layout with Windows 95 keys, a built-in wrist rest, and extra backspace, tab, and mouse keys.
High-Speed RAID Subsystem	Based on Mips Computer Systems' 32-bit R3000 RISC CPU, the LANForce R2000 RAID Subsystem supports up to 512 MB of read-and-write data cache and RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, 4, and 5.
Two Drives Are Better Than One Benchmarks Performance Pro 200	Sys Technology offers a line of Pentium Pro workstations for prices that may cause Gateway to sell off some cattle. - by Selinda Chiquoi ne
SVGA LCD Panel	An active-matrix 800- by 600-pixel LCD panel, the Impact 400 ($6295) is compatible with SVGA, VGA, and XGA formats.
OS/2 Pentium Systems A Full Complement of Geniuses	The Einstein Series consists of the Ar chimedes, a desktop system; the Galileo, a mini-tower; the Pythagoras, a full tower; and the Heisenberg, a 133-MHz dual-Pentium tower.
PCI Expansion Box	A general-purpose bus expansion box, the PXB-7 ($1995) adds seven PCI slots to a PC--six wired for 32-bit DMA bus mastery and one wired as a "sl ave.
A Rugged Laptop For the Field or the North Forty	A laptop PC for applications such as field testing and diagnosis, comunications, and data acquisition, the FW7600 ($7995) includes a 100-MHz 486DX4 or Pentium CPU; 1 MB of 32-bit DRAM; a 340-MB to 1.36-GB hard drive; a 3.5-inch floppy drive; one PC Card slot; a sealed Field MousePad input device; and a color 10.4-inch dual-scan LCD.
P ersonal CD-ROM Tower	With Short Stack (three drives, $995; four drives, $1295), you get simultaneous access to up to four CD-ROM drives, allowing you to work within multiple applications.
NFS File Server NFS File Server Really Delivers	The FastFile Pro's multiprocessor architecture incorporates a 100-MHz Pentium processor fully dedicated to NFS file transfer.
Multimedia Storage Systems	With the PSS-PD series of storage devices ($699 to $999), you can read information off a CD-ROM, edit or combine it with data on a hard drive, and then write it back to a rewritable optical disk.
Multifunction Machine Scan, Fax and Copy with ScanMedia	ScanMedia ($895) integrates a flatbed color scanner, a plain-paper Group 3 fax module, and copier capabilities.
Voice/Fax Modem Card With Speakerphone	The SmartLink ConferencePal V.32 terbo voice/fax modem with speakerphone ($149) automatically distinguishes between data, fax, and voice transmissions.
Portable CD-ROM Drive	The Portable CD with Sound ($449), which combines a quad-speed CD-ROM drive and a Windows-compatible 16-bit stereo sound card, lets you add multimedia capabilities to your 386, 486, or Pentium PC.
Power Mac Image Grabber For Scientific Users	A frame grabber for Power Macs with PCI bus slots, the DT3155-PM ($995) operates as a bus master, continuously transferring unlimited consecutive frames to the system display or acquiring sequences of images up to the amount of the system's memory.
Monitor Telephone Traffic	With Whozz Calling? you can monitor four phone lines and transfer call data to a printer, computer, or on-board memory.
PC Card Data Acquisition Products	The DASCard PIO-12 ($199) features parallel digital I/O of up to 12 bits, so you can collect, output, and analyze data in the field on your notebook.
Split-Keyboard Multimedia Notebook SENS810 Makes Sense	The SENS810 (call for prices) comes with an Intel Pentium CPU running at clock speeds of up to 120 MHz; a PCI bus with bus mastering; a removable hard drive (540 MB to 1.6 GB); 16 MB of EDO memory and 256 KB of pipeline burst-mode L2-SRAM cache; an 11.3-inch color active-matrix or dual-scan display; SVGA and XGA support; a DCI full-motion-video local bus accelerator; NTSC/PAL TV presentation; stereo speakers; 16-bit stereo sound; a DSVD cellular 28.8/14.4 fax/modem; full-duplex speakerphone capability; and an IRDA-compatible infrared port.
Psion and Act!: A Marriage of Convenience Marriage of Convenience	The new version of Act! for the Psion Series 3A provides powerful contact-management capabilities for the hand-held device. - by Dave Andrews
Netscape For Solaris Sparc And X86	The Netscape family of servers and browsers are now available for Solaris Sparc and X86 environments.
Create Custom CDs	With Alchemy ($2995), you can create custom CDs from common PC files.
Flexible Security for Windows and DOS	Fortres 101 protects stand-alone and networked Windows or DOS systems from unauthorized use.
Windows Mapping and Marketing Software	A multiple CD-ROM package, ProfitZone ($35,000) combines electronic mapping software with a database of more than 10 million businesses.
Manage Your Paper	Now you can organize your paper and electronic information by putting a "file cabinet" in your Windows PC.
Network License Toolkit	A floating-license toolkit for PC and Unix applications, License-Serv helps you implement network licensing schemes over networks that use TCP/IP or IPX/SPX protocols and have multiple servers.
Internet Mail Client for TCP/IP	An Internet mail client for TCP/IP and corporate networks, Pronto Mobile ($99) allows remote users to quickly screen and prioritize large volumes of E-mail.
Gear Desktop Bundl e on CD-ROM	The Gear Multi-OS Desktop Bundle CD-ROM (English, German, and French versions, $299; Kanji version, $349) includes Gear CD-Recordable software for Windows 3.1, 95, and NT; Mac OS and Mac OS for Power Macintosh; and OS/2 Warp.
Business in a Box	A Windows-based business solution, Total Management ($395) includes general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, project and time management, order entry and invoicing, office automation, inventory control, purchase orders, check reconciliation, payroll, contact management, telemarketing, E-mail, network services, and electronic communications.
WinInstall 5.1	An electronic software distribution product, WinInstall 5.1 identifies software setup modifications made to the registry and automatically builds the appropriate instructions to properly install and uninstall 32- and 16-bit applications for Windows 95 and NT.
3D Fax 2.0	A 32-bit native Windows 95 add-on to your current fax application, 3D Fax 2.0 can encode and transmit up to 32 KB of compressed data in Standard mode or 110 KB of compressed data (up to 200 pages of text) in Professional mode on a single page; exchange binary files and send editable or executable files via PC fax; and compress and encode PC files into special digital codes.
NeuralWorks Predict 1.9	Enhancements to NeuralWorks Predict 1.9, a tool for developing and deploying on-line solutions, include support for Windows NT and 95; the option to write trained networks in FlashCode for Visual Basic and FORTRAN; an improved advanced-mode dialog, which collects the most often used settings; duplicate record compression; and revisions to the selection scheme for training, testing, and validating data sets.
Java for the Mac Roaster Heats Up Java Development on the Mac	Roaster ($299) lets Macintosh developers work in the Java language.
Drag-and-Drop Everywhere in Windows 95	With WinZip 6.0a ($29), you can drag-and-drop in order to bypass menus and dialog boxes for many common tasks.
Multiline Fax-On-Demand	A Windows 95 version of Ibex Technologies' multiline fax-on-demand and fax broadcast system, Fax-It-Back ($1495) allows callers to request documents by phone and automatically delivers them via fax.
Web Development for Business-Critical Applications	The Web Element provides a portable, custom Web browser and development capabilities for Internet and intranet developers.
Multimedia Authoring for Windows 95/NT	With MediaForge 2.0 for Windows 95/NT ($1495), you can create multimedia products using script manipulation; dynamic linking; MIDI, WAVE, and CD sound; smooth path animation; and OLE controls.
Word Processing and Translation	Accent Duo With Translation ($149) combines Accent's multilingual word processor with Globalink's Language Assistant translation software.
WGS Linux Pro 3.0	WGS Linux Pro 3.0, a 32-bit multiuser, multitasking, multimedia network operating system, includes a primary WGS Linux Pro 3.0 CD with X Window GUI, graphical administration tools for systems configuration, Web server setup, FTP setup, multiple-user account management, and three supplementary CDs with the latest Linux offerings.
TeleMagic Enterprise 2.0	TeleMagic Enterprise 2.0, a system for workgroups needing to share contact information, contains a three-level relational database; multimedia communications features, including fax software, a data-synchronization module, and telephone integration; a Write interface with mail merging; expanded reporting, labeling, and envelope support; and branch scripting and sales forecasting modules.
InContext Spider 1.1	Publishing software for the World Wide Web, InContext Spider 1.1 provides 28 quick-start templates for home pages and more than 200 images of clip art that you can use on your Web site; full support for HTML 2, HTML 3, and Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer extensions; bubble help; drag-and-drop links and images; and right-mouse-button access to common editing functions.
Integrate Fax and Contact Management Fax/Data Services Combine with Graphics Editing	01/Faxcom combines fax and data services with a contact manager, an OCR engine, and a graphics editor.

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