May 1997 / What's New

NEC's High-Quality, Low-Maintenance Laser Printer SuperScript 660Plus	Prices for high-quality laser printers continue to drop. - by Jon Pepper
Upgrade Your SparcStation 5	Based on Fujitsu Microel ectronics' 170-MHz TurboSparc processor, the Crescendo 5T ($1995) boosts your SparcStation 5's performance by as much as twofold to threefold.
DSVD Modem Cards	With the Baby Tiger-288R and Tiger-288R modem cards, you can share applications and data files while talking on the same telephone line.
Internet Access Through a LAN Team Up for Net Power	A hardware and software product, Team Internet (base model, about $1495) gives up to 60 users simultaneous access to the Internet over a single dial-up line or a dedicated line to an ISP.
PC Card 28.8-Kbps Fax Modems for Mobile Computers	MGV Memory's 28.8-Kbps ($169) and 33.6-Kbps ($198; cellular-ready version, $219) PC Card modems feature V.42bis data compression and V.42 error correction 14.4-Kbps send-and-receive fax transmission, low-power standby mode, and hot-swapping capability.
Portable Scope-Utility Systems EZ-View-SA	For applications such as real-time monitoring (oscilloscope mode), data acquisition, and rapid record (burst mode), the EZ-View-SA (12-bit version, $149; 16-bit version, $199) includes gain adjustments; bias offsets; scale selection; sampling-rate and run-time selection; and channel-labeling, triggering, auto-scaling, and remote-start options.
A/D Board for the PCI Bus	Capable of performing at sampling rates up to 500 million samples per second, the CompuScope 8500/PCI ($6995) includes up to 2 megasamples of on-board memory; streaming of A/D data to PC memory at 100 MBps; programmable input gain and coupling; and drivers for DOS, QNS, and Windows 3.1, 95, and NT.
Landscape Flat-Panel Color Display Flat-Panel Compatibility	The FP1610HBMax ($12,000) is compatible with most PCs and workstations operating at resolutions of 1280 by 1024 pixels at 60 Hz.
Workgroup Laser Printers	With the MarkVision printer-management utility, you can monitor the PrintPartner 10V ($899) and PrintPartner 14AV ($1349) workgro up printers from a remote location, including monitoring paper supplies and adjusting memory allocations and language settings.
32-bit Phone: 600-dpi Color Photo Scanner	Now you can quickly scan photographs into digital format.
Convert Your Monitor into a TV It's a Computer...No, It's TV	Now you can watch your favorite TV programs from your multimedia PC.
Removable-Cartridge Hard Drive Pack Up Your Data and Hit the Road	The 1.5-GB SyJet drive offers a 7-MBps maximum/3.7-MBps minimum sustained read/write data transfer rate, a 10-MBps SCSI burst rate, and a 12-ms seek time.
CD-Mastering and Production Systems	Based on quad-speed CD-R drives, 1-GB hard drives, and intelligent system controllers, the Crossfire CD Mastering System ($5995) and the Replicator automated CD-production system (without software, $7995) support host-independent, error-free recording and production of HyCD CDs.
CD Library for PCs	Elms Systems has added CD-R support to its Digital Versatile Library (from $6995) to enable unattended duplication of up to 100 CDs.
Alpha-Based Personal Workstations Personally Yours from DEC	The Personal Workstation 433a (from $4995) and 500a (from $9517) come with Digital's 433- and 500-MHz Alpha 21164a processors, respectively; 32 to 384 MB of synchronous DRAM with ECC support; an ultra-wide SCSI controller; a 2.1-GB hard drive; an eight-speed EIDE CD-ROM drive; integrated 10Base-T/10Base-2 Ethernet; integrated 16-bit audio; and your choice of Matrox Millennium, AccelGraphics AccelPro Series, or Digital PowerStorm 3-D graphics.
Notebook PCs with MMX Processors A Pair for MMX	Based on Intel's MMX-enabled 150- or 166-MHz Pentium processor, the TransPort XPE notebook (from $4599) offers 32 MB of EDO memory (expandable to 80 MB), 256 KB of L2 pipeline burst cache, a 12.1-inch active-matrix display, a 64-bit graphics accelerator with 2 MB of video memory, two swappable bays, an eight-speed CD-ROM drive, and an integrated card bus with zoom video capabilities.
Rugged PC Has Flash Memory Husky and Rugged	Husky's latest rugged field computer, the FS/3, is powered by a 25-MHz Intel 386 processor.
Web Information Management	Web-Recall (single user, from $189; multiuser with database, from $1475; multiuser without database, from $975) allows you to log, retrieve, and index your organization's Internet/intranet sites of interest.
Multimedia Presentations Presentations at TV Quality	Now you can create presentations with playback that makes them look just like TV productions.
Group-Productivity Software Sweet Integration	An integrated suite of groupware services for Internet/intranet and extranet environments, Crew (call company for prices) allows users to share information, schedules, and other data via a Web browser.
Toolkit for Scheduling Applications	A programming toolkit, PowerSched (from $300) includes three primary modules: daily, weekly, and monthly appointment scheduling; maintenance for defining and managing complex schedules; and report generation.
Video Editing for the Mainstream from Corel Corel Illuminates Video Editing	Slowly but surely, video editing is moving into the mainstream of desktop computing, just as desktop publishing did several years ago. - by Jon Pepper
Mechanical CAD	Available for Windows 95 and NT, CADkey 97 ($1195) combines the flexibility of wireframe modeling with Spatial Technology's ACIS solid modeling.
3-D Mechanical Design Software	SolidWorks 97 ($3995) integrates parts-modeling, assembly-modeling, sheet-metal-design, and drafting and detailing capabilities.
32-bit Fax/Telephony Product	The 32-bit version of Communicate (US$179), a stand-alone, integrated fax, voice/telephony, Internet e-mail, paging, and data-communications package for Windows 95 and NT, also integrates a contact manager, a color graphics editor, and OCR capabilities.
Windows Apps for Embedded Systems	Designed for bringing Windows-based applications to embedded systems, Willows RT (about $5000 per developer) lets you select real-time OSes and Windows applications.
ASIC Verification Tool	EagleV (node-lo cked license, $30,000; floating license, $35,000) allows embedded-systems designers to verify the ASIC-design interaction with the rest of the hardware before they build hardware prototypes.
Secure Your Data Lock Up Your Data Safely	A data-encryption program, Authentex-DataSafe (US$79) functions like a combination safe, enabling you to lock up and protect your data.
Layout, RIP, and Print Package	A 32-bit Macintosh native program, PhotoPrint for Power Macintosh ($2995) outputs full-color images to ink-jet and thermal color printers.
Network-Wide Internet Access One for All and All Through One	Now multiple network users can simultaneously access the Internet through one modem and one Internet connection.
Convert Word Documents to HTML Pages	An add-in to Word 7.0, WordToWeb ($279) automates the conversion of Word documents to linked HTML pages.
Create On-Line Multimedia Productions	Using Enliven, you can combine the elements of sight, sound, and motion to deliver full-screen multimedia productions that inform customers on-line.
Battery-Life Benchmark	The SYSmark32 for Battery Life ($995) benchmark uses real-world Windows 95 applications to measure battery-life performance for notebook computers.
PC-Xware 5.0	PC-Xware 5. 0 tightly integrates NCD's PC-X emulation software with the Windows 95 and NT user interface and features the Connection Wizard, which walks you through the steps of creating network connections.
Visio Professional 4.5	A component-based visualization tool for IT professionals, Visio Professio nal 4.5 includes Visual Basic, Applications Edition, which lets you create solutions based on ActiveX technology and integrate Visio Professional diagrams into Web browsers.
netDeploy 1.2	With netDeploy 1.2, you can deploy real-world applications, whether they are developed in conventional la nguages, 4GLs, client/server tools, Visual Basic, or Java; manage downloading, installation, and version updating; and retrieve and install the correct versions of dependent components that are not already present on users' systems.

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