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Abstracts from files in info-mac/per/vap as of Sun Jun 5 00:52:15 PDT 1994 #### TEXT vaporware-91-02.txt **** Date: Mon, 28 Jan 1991 08:27:10 EST From: Murph Sewall <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for February 1991 VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the February 1991 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $15/year U.S. - $18/year Canadian P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739 Permission is granted redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Fearless Forecasts for 1991. Apple: System 7 (finally) of course, a true notebook Mac, a 68030 version of the LC and a 68040 replacement for the IIfx #### TEXT vaporware-91-03.txt **** Date: Mon, 25 Feb 1991 08:23:10 EST From: Murph Sewall <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for March 1991 VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the March 1991 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $15/year U.S. - $18/year Canadian P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Nutek's Macintosh Motif. Nutek Computers Inc will offer a three chip logic chip set and software that will replicate the Macintosh ROMs and #### TEXT vaporware-91-04.txt **** Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1991 12:40:18 EST From: Murph Sewall <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for April 1991 VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the April 1991 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $15/year U.S. - $18/year Canadian P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Pen-Based Portables with Keyboards. This Fall's hardware for the Go (see last September's column) and Microsoft Pen Windows (see February's column) #### TEXT vaporware-91-05.txt **** Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 20:26:12 EST From: Murph Sewall <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for May 1991 VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the May 1991 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $15/year U.S. - $18/year Canadian P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Proposed Slogan for Apple's May developers' conference "System 7 -- this time we mean it!" - PC Week 1 April #### TEXT vaporware-91-06.txt **** Date: Sat, 27 May 1991 09:42:46 EST From: Murph Sewall <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for June 1991 VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the June 1991 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $15/year U.S. - $18/year Canadian P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Significant PC Upgrades. Intel has announced a $495 "snap-in" 20 MHz 80386SX board with cache for 80286 systems. AOX Inc. of Waltham, #### TEXT vaporware-91-07.txt **** Date: Wed, 10 Jul 91 17:31:40 EST From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: [*] Murph's Vaporware Column for July 1991 Must have been a glitch somewhere. I mailed the July column the evening of 26 June (one of the last things I did before I went on vacation for two weeks :-) I know others got their copies 'cause I found email about the column - mostly from the IBMers ;-O An info-mac reader alerted me to the fact that vaporware-07-91.txt is not to be found in the archive :-( ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the July 1991 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $15/year U.S. - $18/year Canadian P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739 #### TEXT vaporware-91-08.txt **** Date: Sun, 28 July 1991 13:49:07 EST From: Murph Sewall <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for August 1991 VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the August 1991 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 <NEW!> Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Pink and Blue Fireworks. Well the seers were wrong when they opined (as reported in last month's column that it might take some time before Apple and IBM would be ready #### TEXT vaporware-91-09.txt **** Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1991 10:40:07 EST From: Murph Sewall <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for September 1991 VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the September 1991 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! "This is the closest thing to a Mac that I've ever seen." - unnamed beta tester of Word Perfect for Windows 3.0 (Gee, I coulda had a V-8!) #### TEXT vaporware-91-10.txt **** Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1991 11:06:27 EST From: Murph Sewall <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for October 1991 VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the October 1991 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Here Come the Color Notebooks. Several battery powered notebooks with color displays will be introduced at Fall Comdex. Among the brand names will be Epson, Toshiba Sharp, and #### TEXT vaporware-91-11.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the November 1991 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! No More Apple 2 CPUs? Apple will soon release an updated operating system for the 16-bit Apple IIgs. However, rumor has it that the Apple II production line will soon shut down for good leaving the //e card for the Macintosh LC as the last "Apple" still in production. Of course, the same source has erroneously forecast the demise of the Apple II line uncounted times in the past. - MacWeek 15 October #### TEXT vaporware-91-12.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the December 1991 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Larger, Less Expensive LCD. Next spring, Canon, Inc. will rollout the Japanese versions of new laptop displays based on ferro-electric liquid crystal technology. Introduction into the U.S. market will follow shortly thereafter. In addition to permitting larger display areas at lower production costs, the new displays will have lower power consumption, higher contrast, and a wider viewing angle than current LCD technology. The downside is that #### TEXT vaporware-92-01.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the January 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! New Hardware for '92. A faster (33 MHz 68040), less expensive ($3,500 monochrome; $5,000 color) NeXTStation sporting a 256 MByte magneto-optical Canon drive with a 20 millisecond access time will be announced January 23. The new CPU plus NeXTStep 3.0 should deliver twice the performance of the current model for less money. The Personal Intelligent Communicator (PIC) from General Magic (see last October's column) won't be ready until at least #### TEXT vaporware-92-02.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the February 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Apple's Consumer Products. Apple CEO John Sculley has announced Apple's intention to enter the consumer market with CD-ROM Macintosh products in time for the Christmas selling season (wasn't Apple in the consumer market once upon a time? For example, ChopLifter on an Apple ][+). Apparently, the CPU's will be based on redesigns of the Macintosh IIsi and Quadra 700. They may ship with digital signal processors but without AppleTalk, NuBus slots, or #### TEXT vaporware-92-03.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the March 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Super Bowl Revisited. Apple's marketing suits want to introduce the next generation of RISC-based Apple PowerPC's on January 20, 1994. That's the tenth anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh with the famous "1984" Super Bowl commercial. Although the advertising agencies have nearly two years to try and match that singular commercial, the engineers are dubious about their part. An actual version of proposed CPU won't be #### TEXT vaporware-92-04.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the April 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! OS Flavor of the Month. At an unusual Macintosh System Software Forum in early March, Apple revealed plans to retrofit a new "microkernel" onto System 7. The new kernel would add long sought features such as preemptive multitasking, multi-threading, protected memory, demand-paged virtual memory. and asynchronous SCSI I/O. Other options and features, such as message-based intertask communications, could be added as system #### TEXT vaporware-92-05.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the May 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! This is the 8TH ANNIVERSARY issue of the Vaporware column. The name of this column was inspired by an Atari executive quoted in a story about IBM's forever forthcoming household computer, codenamed "Peanut," which ultimately became the PCjr. Sales of home systems ground to a halt while everyone waited to see what IBM would offer and the frustrated executive said "It's hard enough competing with other hardware and software without having to compete with vaporware!" #### TEXT vaporware-92-06.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the June 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! One Gigabyte Data Cards for $20. Urshan Research Corporation of Los Angeles has applied for patents for an optical technology said to be capable of putting up to one gigabyte of data on a credit card size random access card. Reading and writing data will require a laser device about the size of current 2.5 inch disk drives. The only moving parts are the mechanics required to seat and eject data cards. While Urshan remains vague about details of the #### TEXT vaporware-92-07.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the July 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Defenestration? IBM's contract to incorporate Windows code into OS/2 expires "in about a year" according to Microsoft executive vice-president Steve Ballmer. The existing agreement allows IBM to continue using any Windows code that Microsoft releases before the agreement expires. The agreement covers Windows NT only if Microsoft ships before the agreement expires. Industry watchers already predict that NT's delivery date won't occur #### TEXT vaporware-92-08.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the August 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! New Affordable Printing Technology. Photon Imaging of Plainfield, New Jersey has announced a new printing technology that integrates laser and fiber-optics. Glass fibers arranged in a Fiber Array Network (FAN) are the secret to Laserfan printers which will deliver 900 to 1,200 dots per inch (5,000 dpi in film recorders) at a retail price of $1,000 to $3,000. Laserfan printers should begin shipping sometime next year. Even before the #### TEXT vaporware-92-09.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the September 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Coming to a Mass Merchandiser Near You. September 14 is the expected date for Apple's new line of consumer computers (see last February and March's columns) under the brand name Performa. The Performa 200 and 400 are the Mac Classic II and LC II by other names. The Performa 600 (and 600 CD) is a new three-slot model that also will be added to the Macintosh line in October (see below). The three NuBus slot Performa 600 will have a 32 MHz 68030 CPU without a #### TEXT vaporware-92-10.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the October 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 380027 East Hartford, CT 06138-0027 * * * NOTE! New P.O. Box and Zip Code * * * Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation Less Expensive Macintosh Quadras. Apple plans to follow it's October 19 introduction of new PowerBooks and the desktop IIxi and IIxv (see last month's column) with three new 68040 CPU Quadra models and a 25 MHz version of its top selling LC in January (see below). All three new Quadras will use the IIxv/Performa 600 form factor. The 20 MHz model ($3,500) will replace the current IIci, the 25 MHz version ($4,500) will take the place of the current Quadra 700, and the third ($5,500) will use the 40 MHz 68040 that Motorola will announce before the end of this year. Motorola will announce a 50 MHz 68040 #### TEXT vaporware-92-11.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the November 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 380027 East Hartford, CT 06138-0027 *** NOTE New P.O. Box and Zip Code *** Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation Someone sent me a message saying that Intel has decided to name the P5 CPU (aka the i586) the "Pentium." Does it follow that Apple will consider naming the next generation 68060-based Macintosh the "Sexiewun?" Desktop CD Authoring. Kodak will have a three component CD ROM authoring system available for Windows and the Macintosh by the end of January. The DOS version of the $7,990 system is available already. The components are a 300 KByte per #### TEXT vaporware-92-12.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the December 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 380027 East Hartford, CT 06138-0027 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation DEC Triumph. Digital Equipment's 64-bit Alpha CPU RISC PC (see the March and October columns), code-named Triumph, will ship as soon as Windows NT is ready (optimists predict Independence Day) at a price of $3,500 to $4,000 ($3,749?). The bus will be EISA and performance will come in around 30 to 60 SPECmarks. The Triumph will compete directly with hardware using Intel's new Pentium (nee 586 or P5) microprocessor. - InfoWorld 16 November WordPerfect 6.0 #### TEXT vaporware-93-01.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the January 1993 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 380027 East Hartford, CT 06138-0027 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation Feature Wars. PC prices can't go much lower, so IBM, Compaq, Gateway, NCR, Unisys and others are switching to a strategy of adding more features without raising prices. Coming soon: low-price systems with integrated graphics accelerators, faster processors, and modular upgradeability. Later this year, standard features may include sound cards, built-in CD ROM, and Ethernet. - PC Week 14 December Novell Finder. Apple and Novell have concluded a deal to bring the MacOS's Finder and #### TEXT vaporware-93-02.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the February 1993 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 380027 East Hartford, CT 06138-0027 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation Macs and More Macs. Apple appears poised to grab a large share of this year's headlines by introducing new products practically every month. MacWorld Tokyo (February 10) will see the introduction of three new 68040 models (the Centris 610 and 650 and the Quadra 800--see last December's column), the true 32-bit, 25 MHz LC III (see last October's column), the Color Classic II (see last May's column), the first color PowerBook (the 165C a model 160 with a passive matrix color display), and two new personal LaserWriters priced to sell. The QuickDraw LW Select 300 will list for $819 and the 300 dpi level 1 PostScript LW Select 310 will list for #### TEXT vaporware-93-03.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the March 1993 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 380027 East Hartford, CT 06138-0027 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation ** SPECIAL NOTICE ** Next month (April) will mark the conclusion of nine years of this column. Both my personal and professional life are undergoing substantial changes, and nine years strikes me as an appropriate end point. The April 1993 column will be the final column in the series. I really do appreciate the encouragement and support (especially the juicy rumors) that many of the regular readers of this column have offered over the years. It's been great fun, but meeting the monthly deadline has become a burden, and I've discovered new directions for personal growth. Naturally, I will continue to take an interest in forthcoming #### TEXT vaporware-93-04.txt **** VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the April 1993 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 380027 East Hartford, CT 06138-0027 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation ** SPECIAL NOTICE ** As announced last month, this column which ends nine years, will be my final one. I'd like to acknowledge the many kind messages I've received in the past month. Even though I haven't had time to answer each one individually, I really appreciate the support. I'd particularly like to thank the relatives of beta testers, former employees of developers, and occasional honest-to-goodness insiders who've been kind enough to pass me a scoop or two. Being able to accurately describe the LC III a month before MacWeek was particularly satisfying. Several people have asked whether it would be possible to find someone to continue the column.