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APPLE COMPUTER, INC.
NCGA '90


Third Party Product Summary
March 19, 1990


Aldus Corporation
Ashlar Incorporated
Claris Corporation
Digidesign, Inc.
Farallon Computing, Inc.
Gimeor, Inc.
HyperPress Publishing Corporation
Intergraph Corporation
Letraset USA
MacroMind
MASS Microsystems
Microsoft Corporation
Paracomp, Incorporated
Pixar
Schlumberger CAD/CAM
Silicon Beach Software, Inc.
Spyglass, Inc.




Mention of third parties and third-party products is for informational purposes
only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation.  All product
specifications and descriptions were supplied by the respective vendor or
supplier.  We strongly encourage you to check with the companies before
publishing any information about their products.  By providing this list, Apple
Computer, Inc. assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection,
performance, or use of these vendors or products.  All understandings,
agreements, or warranties, if any, take place directly between the vendors and
the prospective users.



PRODUCT SUMMARY LISTING

Aldus Corporation
411 First Ave. South, Suite 200
Seattle,WA 98104
contact: Jane Dauber
[phone]

Aldus Freehand 2.0
Aldus Freehand 2.0 is a comprehensive drawing program for producing
high-quality graphics. It combines a wide range of drawing tools with advanced
text-handling capabilities, color support, and special effects, making them
accessible to all levels of users.

Aldus PageMaker
Aldus PageMaker desktop publishing software integrates text and graphics,
allowing you to write, design, and produce professional quality printed
communications quickly and easily. It gives you flexibility, power, and
complete control over the entire process, saving you time and money.

Aldus Persuasion
Aldus Persuasion desktop presentation software has everything you need to
create a persuasive presentation on short notice. From your presentation
outline to finished overheads, 35mm slides, speaker notes, and audience
handouts, Persuasion streamlines the entire process.

Aldus PrePrint
Aldus PrePrint allows you to quickly and easily generate four-color separations
of entire publications--including text, illustrations, and photographs--right
from your desktop. Designed specifically to work with Aldus PageMaker 4.0,
PageMaker Color Extension, and individual TIFF (tag image file format) files,
PrePrint saves you time and money by letting you separate color PageMaker and
TIFF files into the four process colors of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. By
taking advantage of the Open Prepress Interface (OPI), Preprint gives you the
flexibility to choose the best method for preparing your color publications for
commercial printing. PrePrint also lets you enhance color and grayscale TIFF
images, and fine-tune your separations to accommodate the particular press on
which your publication will be printed.

Ashlar Incorporated
1290 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 218
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
contact: Melanie King
[phone]

Ashlar Vellum
Ashlar Vellum, from Ashlar Incorporated, is a professional 2D computer-aided
design and drafting (CAD) Macintosh software package aimed at mechanical
engineers, designers and drafters. Vellum is one of the first products to offer
an intelligent user interface. It reduces the complexity of CAD software
without compromising performance. Using artificial intelligence techniques,
Vellum anticipates the user's drawing needs and responds by offering the right
options at just the right time. Other features include integrated Parametrics,
NURB Splines and complete associativity.


Claris Corporatlon
5201 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95052
contact: Renee Risch
[phone]

Claris CAD 2.0
Claris Corporation will be demonstrating the newly announced Claris CAD 2.0,
the new version of the best selling professional design and drafting package
for the Macintosh. Claris CAD 2.0 adds feature depth, productivity enhancements
and a revolutionary user interface technology that makes creating accurate
drawings simple.

Digidesign, Inc.
1360 Willow Road #101
Menlo Park, CA 94025
contact: Suz Howells
[phone]

Audiomedia
Audiomedia brings CD-quality stereo digital sound recording, editing and
playback to the Macintosh 11 platform. Key benefits are sound quality and
direct-to-disk recording and playback. The latter is critical to multimedia
producers in that a presentation sound track is played directly from the hard
disk, freeing up RAM capacity for visuals. Audiomedia includes a NuBus card,
the Audiomedia program and SoundAccess, a HyperCard stack used to synchronize
disk-based audio to HyperCard, SuperCard and Director.


Farallon Computing, Inc.
2000 Powell St. Suite 600
Emeryville, CA 94608
contact: Wendy Keough
[phone]

MacRecorder Sound System 2.0
The MacRecorder Sound System allows you to easily use the sound capabilities
built into the Macintosh. With MacRecorder, you can add voice and sound effects
to business presentations, training materials and documents. MacRecorder
compresses sound as you record, so you can make multimedia presentations small
enough to fit on floppy disks.


Gimeor, Inc.
185 Berry St. Suite 4604
San Francisco, CA 94107
contact: Matthew Boryslawski
[phone]

ArchiMovie
ArchiMovie enables users of Architrion to create animated walk-throughs or
fly-bys of their buildings. Sequential views that have previously been
generated in Architrion or any other Macintosh-based software that runs under
MultiFinder, can be captured in the background by ArchiMovie. Once this process
is done, the whole or part of the project can be viewed by the client in the
form of a film, with sound if desired, thereby maximizing the client's ability
to visualize his project at the early stages of design.


HyperPress Publishing Corporation
P.O. Box 8243
Foster City, CA 94404
contact: Mary Brown
[phone]

BigTime TV
BigTime TV puts full-motion interactive video into windows on your Macintosh
desktop. It can accept and display various sources of video input (videodisc,
VCR, or video camera) via video digitizing and overlay boards that are
installed in the Macintosh NuBus slot. Unlike most interactive video solutions,
video presentations using BigTime TV will be less costly because the system
integrates video windows along with the other Macintosh windows on a standard
Macintosh monitor, eliminating the cost and space requirements of a separate
dedicated video monitor. BigTime TV includes complete video authoring
capabilities, providing full authoring to non-programmers.


Intergraph Corporation
One Madison Industrial Park
Huntsville, AL 35807-4201
contact: Roger Woodsmall
[phone]

MicroStation Mac
MicroStation Mac is a microCADD software product that merges the power of 2D/3D
engineering design software with a full implementation of the Macintosh user
interface. MicroStation Mac provides a complete standalone interactive CADD
system for the generation, manipulation, display, and output of graphics data.
It is fully compatible with Intergraph's VAX-based Interactive Graphics Design
System (IGDS) and other versions of MicroStation for the PC and Intergraph
workstation.


Letraset USA
40 Eisenhower Drive
Paramus, NJ 07653
contact: Lisa Wellman
(201 ) 845-6100

ColorStudlo
ColorStudio Software by Letraset is a sophisticated 32-bit color imaging
program. ColorStudio is built upon the technical brilliance of Letraset's
revolutionary grayscale image software, ImageStudio. ColorStudio takes full
advantage of the Macintosh
32-Bit QuickDraw.


MacroMind
410 Townsend #408
San Francisco, CA 94107
contact: Beth Fisher
[phone]

MacroMind Director Version 2.0
MacroMind Director Version 2.0 is a leading multimedia presentation and
animation tool, which lets you present your ideas with a force beyond any
combination of words or pictures. With MacroMind Director and Macintosh you can
easily create and produce stunningly effective multimedia communications: from
animated "slide" shows and video productions to highly interactive kiosks, and
technical simulations.


MASS Microsystems
550 Del Rey Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
contact: Meredith Lyon
[phone]

ColorSpace Ili
ColorSpace Ili is a videographics overlay card that synchronizes and mixes
Macintosh-created graphics and titles, and outputs the results to videotape or
disc. ColorSpace Ili is ideal for producing training or sales tapes, animations
and presentations. When combined with ColorSpace Ili, the ColorSpace FX is a
powerful interactive video card that automatically scan-converts standard video
signals into a high-frame rate, flicker-free RGB video signal that is displayed
in a re-sizable window on the Apple color monitor.

PRODUCT SUMMARY LISTING


Microsoft Corporation
16011 NE 36th Way
Redmond, WA 98073
contact: Sarah Charf
[phone]

PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn tool for creating
professional quality presentation materials on the Macintosh. Product features
include customizable or pre-configured color schemes, over 16 million color
choices, shaded background, word processing with spelling checker, easy-to-use
drawing tools, and slide service driver free in the box.


Paracomp, Incorporated
123 Townsend Street, Suite 310
San Francisco, CA 94107
contact: Vincent Carrella
[phone]

Swivel 3D
Swivel 3D is a three-dimensional color graphics program for desktop publishing,
technical illustration, product design, scientific visualization, multimedia
presentations, and animation. The professional, as well as the novice, can use
Swivel 3D to create detailed illustrations or to conceptualize and visualize
complex products with moving parts. It is compatible with all Macintosh-based
programs and runs with just 1 MB of memory.

ModelShop
ModelShop is a 3D sketch modeler and visualization tool for three-dimensional
design and presentation. The user can start sketching from scratch or import a
2D draw or CAD view into ModelShop to be extruded into full 3D. ModelShop
currently has no limits and is compact so it will run easily on a Macintosh
Plus. ModelShop will also run on any color Macintosh supporting 256 colors. The
user can take any 3D view with or without perspective to export to any drawing,
presentation, wordprocessing or desktop publishing program. It will export PICT
or PICT2 files with color.


Pixar
3240 Kerner Blvd.
San Rafael, CA 94901
contact: Lisa MacKenzie
[phone]

MacRenderMan
MacRenderMan is the Macintosh version of Pixar's photorealistic rendering
software based on the RenderMan interface for 3-D scene description. RenderMan
accepts data in the RenderMan Interface Bytestream (RIB) format from Macintosh
3-D design applications. RIB files are spooled by applications into a folder
where they are processed by MacRenderMan in the background under MultiFinder.
Rendered images may be output to a color display or to a file. Operationally,
the rendering of an image is as straightforw#ard as the printing of a document.


Schlumberger CAD/CAM
4251 Plymouth Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
contact: Judy Evola
[phone]

MacBRAVO!
MacBravo! 2.0 features among other things shading, hidden line removal of
surfaces, and feature control block. MacBravo! Detailer is a mechanical detail
drafting product optimized for engineering, manufacturing and MIL spec
drawings. It works in conjunction with Modeler, which created 2D prototypes of
mechanical parts and assemblies. Highlights include ease of use, workstation
class functionalities and compatibility with existing systems.


Silicon Beach Software, Inc.
9770 Carroll Center Road, Suite J
San Diego, CA 92126
contact: Stuart Henigson
[phone]

Super 3D
Super 3D is a three-dimensional graphics and animation program, ideal for
modeling, visualization and graphic design. It has a user interface that is
true to the Macintosh metaphor. Familiar 2D drawing tools enable the user to
generate templates for 3D models. Automatic commands, such as Extrude, Revolve
and Sweep Surface, transform 2D templates into three-dimensional objects. In
addition, Super 3D includes animation and rendering capabilities and supports
linked objects. Unique spin wheels and "camera" controls provide the user with
an intuitive graphical metaphor for navigating in the computerized 3D world.


Spyglass, Inc.
701 Devonshire Dr. #C17
Champagne, IL 61820
contact: Melody Kean Haller
[phone]

Spyglass Transform
Spyglass Transform instantly turns data into visual images, allowing the
researcher to include research annotations, and to compare relationships
between data and corresponding images and between multiple datasets.

Spyglass View
Spyglass View presents images as color raster images, surface plots, contour
plots, dithered images or a series of cross-sections and it allows the
manipulation of the color palette to reveal previously hidden aspects of the
data.

Spyglass Format
Spyglass Format provides a graphic layout of images, annotations and text that
may be output as 35mm slides, LaserWriter or color printer hardcopy, or as an
annotated animation of images.

Spyglass Dicer
Spyglass Dicer offers visual access to 3D data, displayed as a cube of colors.
The user can display a series of horizontal, vertical or parallel slices of
data, position the slices interactively, display or remove selected cubes of
data to reveal the interior, and even render some colors transparent.





Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh, LaserWriter, HyperCard are registered
trademarks of and NuBus, MultiFinder, QuickDraw are trademarks of Apple
Computer, Inc. Ashlar is a registered trademark and Vellum is a trademark of
Ashlar, Inc. Automedia is a trademark of Digidesign, Inc. MacRecorder is a
registered trademark of Farallon Computing, Inc. SuperCard is trademark of
Silicon Beach Software, Inc. ArchiMovie is a trademark of Gimeor, Inc. BigTime
TV is a trademark of HyperPress Publishing Corp. Swivel 3D and ModelShop are
trademarks of Paracomp, Inc. MacRenderMan is a registered trademark and RIB is
a trademark of Pixar.

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