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NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 3, issue 7, June 17, 1992)

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Shipping Products for NeXT - June 16, 1992

By the following categories:

    VII.  TOOLS AND LANGUAGES
    VIII. UTILITIES
    IX.   ENTERTAINMENT
    X.    PERIPHERALS
          A. Data Acquisition and Sound
          B. Fax and Data Modems
          C. Image Capture, Display, and Printing
          D. Storage
          E. Other Peripherals


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VII. TOOLS AND LANGUAGES

** 42
Album - A scrapbook for text, graphics, sound and Unix scripts.
Phone: [phone]



** Absoft Corp.
Absoft FORTRAN 77 - Object Oriented FORTRAN compiler;
fully compatible w/ NeXT's Interface Builder toolkit,
allows programmers to add a  graphical i/f to any FORTRAN
program.

Fx -  a screen oriented source level debugger designed by
and for FORTRAN programmers.

IMSL FORTRAN Libraries
Phone: [phone]



** ACUCOBOL
ACUCOBOL-85 - a complete COBOL environment.  (Currently
VT100 version, NeXTStep version TBA)
Phone: [phone].



** Adobe Systems Inc.
DisplayTalk, a development environment for Display
PostScript programming.
Phone: [phone]



** Applied Logic Systems, Inc
ALS Prolog
Phone: [phone]



** BenaTong
Serial Solutions - Unix serial drivers wrapped in an
object.
Phone: [phone]



** Black Market Technologies
GridPalette - Scrolling matrix of text cells in a scrolling
palette.
Phone: [phone] or email [e-mail]



** CACI Products
MODSIM II - object-oriented language for programming and
simulation
Phone: [phone]



** Cadence Research Systems
Chez Scheme - high performance implementation of Scheme.
Phone: [phone]



** Codex
the XEvents Software Development Kit - protocols for cross
platform interapp communication.
Phone:  [phone]  (Australia)



** Elan Computer Group, Inc.
Elan License Manager - Controls multi-user access to software
applications in a network or multi-user environment.
Phone: [phone]



** EVB Software Engineering, Inc.
GRACE - 276 reusble software components organized in
23 distinct families of abstractions that total more
than 5200 lines of Ada source code.

HERAGRAPH - a complete set of 20 and 30 graphics tools
written entirely in Ada.
Phone: [phone]



** Franz Inc.
Allegro Common Lisp - A full featured Lisp environment
which interfaces to Objective C and Interface Builder.
Phone: [phone].



** Highland Software, Inc
Flexible License Manager - A package that allows a
software application to be licensed on a concurrent
usage basis rather than a per-computer basis.
Phone: [phone]



** Impact Software
Gdb 2.1 - a GNU Debugger Font End

SpinDoctor 1.1 - for visualizing 3d experimental data

PhaseScope 2.0 - ui and graphical display program for
qualitatively analyzing the stability characteristics
of dynamical systems.
Phone: [phone]  or email [e-mail]



** Jefferson Software Corporation
Modula-2 - Programming language.
Phone: [phone]



** Liveware Corporation
KeyFamily, including KeyAccess, KeyDaemon, KeyInstall
and KeyGenerator - suite of user authentification object.
Phone: [phone]


** Marble Associates
Decision Builder - Dev kit for apps supporting real time
decision making.
Phone: [phone]



** Meridian Software
OpenAda Compiler - certified Ada compiler.
Phone: [phone]



** Motorola, Inc.
DSP56000 Family C Compiler, Macro Cross Assembler (ASM96000),
Simulator Programs (9SIM56000 and SIM96000) -
Tools for DSP programmers.
Phone: [phone].



** Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
FORTRAN 90 for NeXT - Modern Fortram ully compliant
with ISO/IEC 1539: 1991 and ANSI X3.198-1991 standards.



** OASYS
OASYS Native Compilers, OASYS Optimizing 680x0 Cross
Compliers, OASYS Optimizing 88000 Cross Compilers
(C, C++, Fortran, Pascal available for each) - Highly
optimized Fortran, Pascal.,  C and C++ compilers and
cross compilers.
Phone: [phone].



** Objective Technologies, Inc.
[OT Palettes:2.0] - Custom palettes for IB. Smartfields,
Chooser, MathPalette, and GraphPalette are currently available.
Phone: [phone]



** Ohio Supercomputer Center
apE - Scientific visualization software. (apE stands for
"animation production Environment.")
Phone: [phone] or email address:
[e-mail]



** ONyX Systems, Inc.
BugByte 2.1 - graphical debugging tool
Phone: [phone] or  email [e-mail]



** Persistent Data Systems
IDB Object Database - high performance, distributed
object database.
Phone: [phone]



** Pixar
PhotoRealistic RenderMan - a language for describing
3D scenes.
Phone: [phone]



** Professional Software, Inc.
Objective DB Toolkit - object library for use with SYBASE
in the form of two IB palettes.
Phone: [phone]



** RDR, Inc.
Power Palettes, including RDRSwitchView, RDRSound, RDR
Selector, RDRImageView, RDRGadgets - IB Palettes for using
graphics and sound in the interface.
Phone: [phone]




** Rock Solid Software
Eiffel - an implementation of the Eiffel language compatible
with Interface Builder.
Phone: [phone]
also available from Interactive Software
Engineering, Inc. 805-685-6869




** Scheiber Consulting
HexEditor - view, edit, and create binary files
Phone: [phone]



** Suite Software
SuiteTalk - Transparent communications runtime environment
for VAX/VMS and various UNIX platforms running TCP/IP or
DECnet.
Phone: [phone]



** Torque Systems
Linda - Programming language.
Phone: [phone]



** Transgraphics Systems, Inc.
TransLibrary 1.0 - transportation object library allows
rapid creation of transportation/distribution operational
inventory management applications.
Phone: [phone]



** University of Virginia
uvapc/next - Pascal; inexpensive site license for
educational institutions.
Phone:   [phone] or email [e-mail]



** Visual Understanding Systems, Inc
PaperSight Developers' Toolkit - More than 70 code and data
modules for image management.

SpeechKit - speech recognition tool for application
developers;  supports speaker independence, continuous
speech, moderate-sized vocabularies and grammars.
Phone: [phone]



** Xanthus International AF
Craftman - Multimedia NeXTSTEP authoring tool with an
object-oriented scripting language.
Phone: (Sweden) 46 8 612-89-95   or email [e-mail]



** Young Minds, Inc.
MakediscPCC-ROM formatting software for creating a CD-ROM
disc image.
Phone: [phone]








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VIII.  UTILITIES

** Agog, Inc.
Squash 1.0 - a file compression and floppy backup utility.
Phone: [phone].



** Athena Design, Inc
LabelMaster - lets you print text or EPS images on a Seiko
Smart Label Printer or a CoStar Label Printer.
Phone: [phone]



** Atherton Software Works
Engage! - a general work management utility that complements
the Dock and File Viewer.
Phone: [phone]



** Aurora Software
Quickstart - dock extender.

Tarre - graphical interface on Unix tar and compress commands.
Phone: [phone]



** Cube Technologies
Stylist - Services-based app grabs and applys styles from/to
text.
Phone: [phone] or email [e-mail]



** The CuillaMartin Company
CuillaMartin Calculator Set - Basic, scientific and
conversion calculators.
Phone: [phone] or email  cuilla![e-mail]



** d'ART Software GmbH
BarCode - reads and writes a variety of bar code formats.
Object kit available.
Phone: (Germany) ++49 40  380 23 0




** Impact Software Publishing, Inc
enTar - backup utility.

MacinDisk ToshBrowser - read 1.4 Mb Mac disks
Phone: [phone]



** Metrosoft
MetroTools - Font, compression and screen saver utilities.
Phone: [phone]



** Paget Press, Inc.
Labels - a sorting service especially useful for automating
the production of mailing labels.

Swoop'n - services for printing envelopes and selections,
compressing files and sorting and summing selections.
Phone: [phone]



** RightBrain Software
LauchPad - dock extender that lets you autolaunch documents
as well as apps.

Lockscreen - a screen saver which provides no-logout
password protection.

Portfolio - place for art files that lets you see
their contents and drag them into apps.

Rulers - horizontal and vertical rulers that float above
everything.
Phone: [phone]



** Salt Spring Technical
MindOverMail - Utility for handling mailing labels, envelopes.
Phone: [phone]  or email [e-mail]



** Taranis Design
WYSIcalcP7 in 1 Calculator.
Phone: [phone]



** Teledia, Inc 
PhrasePlayer - voice-controlled digital dictation machine.

BackupMaster - incremental backup software.
Phone: [phone]



** Triakis, Inc
T-Calc - reverse-Polish notation scientific calculator
Phone: [phone]





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IX. ENTERTAINMENT

** Athena Design, Inc
CultureShock 91 - a solitaire game for tile matchers
and 60's afficianados.
Phone: [phone]



** DavidJoerg Productions
Ragnarok:Twilight of the Gods - animated strategy game.
Phone: [phone]



** Lighthouse Design
VOID - strategy/arcade game for solo or network play.
Phone: [phone] or 301-907-4621



** Shapiro & Gilmore Studios
Curvature - generate beautiful color patterns based on a
specified number of symmetrical rotations and reflections
of Bezier curves.
Phone: [phone]







______________________________________________________________

X. PERIPHERALS

Data Acquisition and Sound

** Ariel Corp
DM-N Digital Microphone - High-fidelity stereo microphone
with lab-quality data acquisition capabilities.

ISPW (Ircam Signal Processing Workstation) - a board with
two Intel i860's (160 MFLOPs, 80 MIPS).

QuintProcessor - 5 27MHz DSP5001 's on a single board for
the cube.

ProPort Model 656 - Analog I/0 interface with 2 channels of
16 bit analog in and 20 bit analog out with programmable
sample rates.
Phone: [phone]




** Dazzl, Inc.
Model 16/12/200 Analog to Digital Converter - 16 channel 12
bit 200,000 sample per converterz.

Model 16/16/500 Analog to Digital Converter - 16 channel 16 bit
500,000 sample per second converter.

DataDisplay - realtime display software for use with Dazzl
A to D products.

Photon - NeXTcube-based Digital I/O port for Photometric CCD
camera systems.

Zydeco I - board providing commercial grade digital recording
studio for the NeXT.

Zydeco II - all the features of Zydeco I plus - 4 56000
Motorola DSP's programable for on the fly parametric
equalization, filtering, and effect processing.
Phone: [phone]





** IOtech, Inc.
SCSI1488/N - A SCSI-based IEEE interface plus software
that lets a NeXT Computer control up to 14 IEEE instruments.

The following require the SCSI 488/N:
Serial488/4 - A 4 channel IEEE to serial converter.
Digital488/80 - An 80 bit IEEE to digital I/O interface.
DAC488 - A digital to analog convertor in either 2 or 4
channel versions. ADC488 A/D Convertors - Supports 16
single ended or or 8 differential analog channels.
Phone: [phone]



** Metaresearch, Inc.
Digital Ears - Audio input device and control software
for entering and recording compact-disc quality sounds.
Phone: [phone]



** Singular Solutions
A/D64x - Hardware and software for high-quality sound
recording and capture.
Phone: [phone]



** Stealth Technologies, Inc.
ADA1800 Digital Audio Interface - 8-bit digital audio
I/O board capable of A/D and D/A functions at 32, 44.1,
and 48 kHz
AES/EBU interface Holstein-I - two-track digital audio
recording, processing  and editing software.
Phone: [phone]








FAX AND DATA MODEMS

** Dove Computer Corportation
DoveFax - 9600 baud fax modem and 2400 baud data modem.
Phone: [phone] or 919-763-7918



** HSD Microcomputer, Inc.
FaxMaxter 24/96 X - 2400 baud data and 9600 baud fax
modem bundled with OCR Servant.
Phone: [phone]



** Neuron, Inc.
Neuron Fax 1414 - 9600 baud Fax, v.32bis data (up to
38,400 bps) mode; autoswitching between fax and data.

Neuron Fax 1414+ - also supports 4 wire leased line
systems and front panel programming.
Phone: [phone].



** Visual Understanding Systems, Inc
Fax Modem VS-24 - 9600 baud fax modem that can vector
call to a fax machine if busy.
Phone: [phone]





IMAGE CAPTURE, DISPLAY, AND PRINTING

** Abaton (Everex)
Scan 300 G/S - An 8-bit scanner that scans halftones,
line art, and grayscale images.
Phone: [phone] or 415-683-2226



** AGFA Compugraphics Division
Imagesetters - a full line of NeXT-compatible
imagesetters.
Phone: [phone]



** Canon U.S.A., Inc.
IX-30F Image Scanner - An 8-bit flatbed scanner
with a maximum scan resolution of  300 dpi.
Phone: [phone]



** Extron Electronics/RGB Systems, Inc.
RGB 111, RGB 112 and RGB 63/31 Scan Board - Respectively
a NeXT video interface, a NeXT video interface for our
color machines, and a NeXT video to "normal scan rate"
converter.
Phone: [phone] or 213 802 8804.



** Graphic Enterprises
PageScan 3 - broadsheet laser printer
Phone: [phone]



** HSD Microcomputer, Inc.
Scan-X Professional - An 8-bit grayscale, desktop flatbed
scanner that supports resolutions of up to 1500 dpi.

Scan-X Color - 24 bit true color scanner supporting up to
300 dpi for grayscale 24 bit color images and up to 2400
dpi for line art.

Scan-X DP-20 - 20-page-per-minute scanner.
Phone: [phone]




** Linotype-Hell
Imagesetters - a full line of NeXT-compatible imagesetters.
Phone: [phone]



** Metaresearch, Inc.
Color Digital Eye - Video input device and control software
for capturing still and moving NTSC video images.
Phone: [phone]



** Oce Graphics
OceColor - An Adobe PostScript, color printer that uses
the latest thermal transfer technology, and supports the
full range of PANTONE colors.
Phone: [phone] or 415-964-7900



** Prism Technologies, Inc
DyCam Model 1 Digital Still Camera - will grab images and
dump them into the NeXT via one of the serial ports at a
resolution of 376 x 240 x 8 bits deep (monochrome).
Phone: [phone]



** RGB Spectrum
RGB/Vidoelink 1450 AX - High quality high-res RGB to
NTSC/PAl conversion and overlays.
Phone: [phone]



** Second Glance
ScanTastic - a scanner control application customized to
exploit the full capabilities of the particular hardware
it supports.
Phone: [phone]  or email [e-mail]



** Talus Imaging
Rio Film Recorder - 35mm camera back, Polaroid instant
film back, NeXT computer interface kit, Imager software.
Phone: [phone]



** Tektronix
Phasor IIPX - A 300dpi thermal color printer that uses a
Postscript compatible language.  It supports auto
switching between SCSI, Serial, AppleTalk and parallel ports.



** Visus, Inc.
Personal Page Scanner - up to 3 legal pages per minute scanner.

Departmental Scanner -  up to 11" by 17" at up to 12 pages
per minute.

Large Format Scanner - up to 24 by 60 inches, up to 400 dpi.

Industrial Scanner - up to 2000 dpi resoluiion, accurate to
.0002 of an inch over 24 inches.
Phone: [phone]






STORAGE

** Box Hill Systems
Various storage productsPa variety of SCSI storage devices
Phone: [phone]



** CORE International, Inc.
Various storage productsPmultiple Hot Plug drives,
controllers and power supplies wrapped into an Intelligent
Array Subsystems for network backup.
Phone: [phone]



** the Cube Route, Inc.
Cube Route Hard Drives - Seagate Wren Hard Drives. 330MB,
660MB, 1 GB.
Phone: [phone]



** Dayna Communications, Inc.
DaynaFile - External disk drive that lets NeXT Computers
read and write to MS-DOS and NeXT-formatted floppy disks.
Phone: [phone]




** Digital Instrumentation Technology, Inc.
Cube Floppy Plus - External floppy that lest NeXT users read
and write MS-DOS (720KB and 1.44 MB) disks, Mac (400K, 800K
and 1.44MB) disks and UNIX disks.

Cube Floppy 2.9 - External floppy that lest NeXT users read
and write MS-DOS (720KB and 1.44 MB) disks, Mac (1.44MB) disks
and (1.44 MB and 2.88MB) UNIX disks.
Phone: [phone]





** EMAC
Metro CD - CD-ROM drive that also plays audio CD's.

Metro DAT - 1.3 GB digital audio tape backup system.

Metro Series Hard Drives - in 170MB, 335MB and 670MB capacities.
Phone: [phone], ext 2155 or 415-683-2155.



** Epoch Systems, Incorporated
Epoch-1 InfiniteStorage Server - platform independent network
server designed to handle the need for quick access times to
large off-line storage.
Phone: [phone]



** ETC Peripherals
Various storage products - full line of storage devices
Phone: [phone]



** Liberty Systems
Portable mass storage - SyQuest, DAT tape, magneto-optical.
Phone: [phone]



** Maynard Electronics (Division of Archive Company)
ST2000E - a SCSI based DAT drive which will hold up to
2GBytes of data on one 4mm tape.

ST250E - a SCSI based cart tape drive that holds up to
250Meg on a DC6250 1/4" tape.

ST525E - a SCSI based cart tape drive that holds up to
525Meg on a DC6250 1/4" tape.
Phone: [phone]



** MicroNet
Various storage products - up to 1.35 Gb, up to 10.7 ms
access time.
Phone: [phone]



** Microtech International, Inc.
Eclipse 1.2T - 1 GB digital audio tape backup system.

Eclipse 50R - Removable hard drive.

Eclipse CD - CD-ROM drive with dual SCSI ports and a
universal input power supply.

Eclipse Serives Hard Disk Drives - ranging from 200MB to 1GB.
Phone: [phone]



** Park Systems Technology Ltd. (Canada)
Various hard disks - both fixed and removable media.
Phone: [phone]



** Personal Computer Peripherals Corporation
JETSTREAM Computer Peripherals Corporation - A tape backup
system capable of archiving up to 2.3 gigabytes of data per
tape at speeds up to 14.4 megabytes/minute.
Phone: [phone]



** Peripheral Land, Inc
PLI SuperFloppy 2.8 - External floppy that lest NeXT users
read and write.

MS-DOS (720KB and 1.44 MB) disks and UNIX (1.44MB and 2.88MB)
disks.

PLI CD-ROM - 380 ms access time with Sony's newest mechanism.

PLI Infinity 40 Turbo - Removable cartridges store up to 42 MB.

PLI turbo Drives - Very fast 300MB and 600MB hard drives.
Phone: [phone]




** TECOR
Disk drive enclosures - (1/2 height and full height),
provided with or without new and refurbished hard disk
drives from 400MByte up to 1.2GByte.
Phone: [phone]



** Ten X Technology, Inc.
Various storage products - line of storage devices including
WORM drives.
Phone: [phone]







OTHER PERIPHERALS

** CH Products
Rollermouse - A trackball that plugs directly into the
mouse port.
Phone: [phone]



** Digital Instrumentation Technology, Inc.
CubeDigital I/O NeXTbus Development Board - Plugs into the
NeXTbus Developer Kit circuit board to simplify breadboarding
for NeXTbus development.
Phone: [phone]



** Quest Inc.
Call Link- Automated phone answering system
Phone: [phone] or email [e-mail]



** Software Engineering Solutions
At the Beep 1.2 - Phone answering hardware and software.
Phone: [phone]




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