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- Apple Ships Macintosh PC Exchange and QuickTime Starter Kit
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- Contact:
- Nancy Morrison
- Apple Public Relations
- 408-862-6200
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- Brooke Cohan
- Apple Public Relations
- 408-974-3019
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- Apple Ships Macintosh PC Exchange and QuickTime Starter Kit
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- New Macintosh System 7 Software Extensions Slated for Broad
- Availability Through Software Resellers
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- CUPERTINO,California--May 18, 1992--Apple Computer, Inc. today
- announced immediate availability of its first retail software
- products that augment the core System 7 operating-system services of
- the Apple Macintosh computer--Macintosh PC Exchange and the QuickTime
- Starter Kit. Macintosh PC Exchange allows customers to easily move
- files between a Macintosh and any PC-compatible computer. The
- QuickTime Starter Kit contains a set of utilities and a wealth of
- clip content material that allows customers to get started using
- QuickTime, the highly acclaimed extension to Macintosh System 7 that
- facilitates work with sound, video and animation.
- In addition to worldwide availability through Apple authorized
- resellers, both products are part of a new U.S. distribution
- agreement with Ingram Micro to make Apple software products available
- through a wide variety of software resellers. Apple expects to
- expand distribution even further for software products, both in the
- United States and worldwide.
- "The wide availability of software products such as Macintosh PC
- Exchange and the QuickTime Starter Kit is just the beginning of Apple
- offering customers a convenient opportunity to buy software
- extensions that meet specific needs," said Charlie Oppenheimer,
- director of marketing for the Macintosh Software Architecture
- Division. "Customers can expect easy access to a steady stream of
- system-software products that add even more value to their Macintosh
- computers."
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- Macintosh PC Exchange
- Macintosh PC Exchange enables Macintosh computers running System 7
- and equipped with an Apple SuperDrive floppy disk drive to easily
- read, write and format PC-compatible disks. Files on the PC-
- compatible disk appear on the Macintosh screen as standard Macintosh
- documents, and can be opened, saved, renamed, moved, copied or
- deleted just as with any Macintosh document. These files can also be
- imported into Macintosh-based applications. In addition, the DOS-
- formatted disk can be used to transfer Macintosh files to a DOS
- computer.
- Macintosh PC Exchange also can be customized so that a Macintosh-
- based application is automatically launched when a user double-clicks
- on a file created by the DOS or Windows version of that application
- running on a PC-compatible computer. Macintosh PC Exchange is
- compatible with all Macintosh applications and many leading DOS and
- Windows applications.
- The suggested retail price in the United States of Macintosh PC
- Exchange is U.S. $79.
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- QuickTime Starter Kit
- The QuickTime Starter Kit provides the fastest way to get started
- using sound, video, animation, and compressed still images on a
- Macintosh. When used with products that support QuickTime, customers
- can cut, copy and paste QuickTime movies into documents and
- presentations as easily as they already work with text and graphics.
- The product includes four easy-to-use utilities that allow users to
- play movies (MoviePlayer), compress still images to a fraction of
- their original size (Picture Compressor), convert existing content
- into movies (Movie Converter), and, with a video digitizer card,
- capture video movies (Movie Recorder). The QuickTime Starter Kit
- also includes QuickClips-- a CD-ROM containing over 400 MB of clip
- video, animation, and high-quality still images, all indexed for easy
- browsing; and an electronic QuickTime product catalog listing over
- 100 shipping products that are QuickTime savvy.
- The suggested retail price in the United States for the QuickTime
- Starter Kit is U.S. $169.
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- Direct Product Support
- In the United States, Macintosh PC Exchange and the QuickTime Starter
- Kit will include toll-free phone support directly through Apple for
- one year.
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- Apple, the Apple logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks and
- QuickTime, System 7, SuperDrive, MoviePlayer and QuickClips are
- trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
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