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From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS#253/21-Nov-94
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 22:22:38 PDT

TidBITS#253/21-Nov-94
=====================

TidBITS begins this week with a smattering of MailBITS, including
   information about a potentially serious problem with early
   Pentium chips and news about Apple's upcoming Multimedia Tuner.
   We then continue with a look at DeskTape, a clever program that
   lets you mount DAT tapes on the desktop. Rounding out the issue,
   Dave Reiser shares his thoughts about what's new in
   WordPerfect 3.1.

This issue of TidBITS sponsored in part by:
* APS Technologies -- 800/443-4199 -- <[e-mail]>
   Makers of hard drives, tape drives, and neat SCSI accessories.
   For APS price lists, email: <[e-mail]>
* Northwest Nexus -- 206/455-3505 -- http://www.halcyon.com
   Providing access to the global Internet. <[e-mail]>

Copyright 1990-1994 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
   Automated info: <[e-mail]> Comments: <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/21-Nov-94
    DeskTape as a TapeWORM
    WordPerfect 3.1
    Reviews/21-Nov-94

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MailBITS/21-Nov-94
------------------
  For all those who have been asking, Tonya is recovering nicely
  from her neck injury of five weeks ago. It's been a slow process,
  but luckily she has the luxury of healing properly. That means
  spending most of her time concentrating on getting better rather
  than dealing with life, and I think it's made a big difference.
  [ACE]


**APS on the Internet** -- Two weeks ago, I visited APS after
  giving an Internet presentation the night before to a great crowd
  at the Kansas City MacCORE users' group. I spent most of the day
  helping bring up their dedicated 56K Internet connection, a
  process that required merely persistence in having each party
  (Southwestern Bell, the phone company that installed the line;
  Cory Low, the consultant who set up the router and Mac server;
  Tyrell, the provider; and Sprint, Tyrell's provider) double-check
  everything and help fix problems in each part of the connection.

  The initial utility of the connection is that APS can receive
  Internet email more easily than before, when everything went
  through CompuServe and into QuickMail. Now, their QuickMail server
  also runs StarNine's <[e-mail]> Mail*Link/SMTP. You can
  find more information about the gateway at the following URL:

http://www.starnine.com/

  Using the gateway along with QuickMail, APS has created a number
  of public Internet addresses (and APS strongly encourages people
  to use these addresses rather than the old CompuServe address).
  They are: [ACE]

Domestic Sales: <[e-mail]>
International Sales: <[e-mail]>
Technical Support & Customer Service: <[e-mail]>
Repair: <[e-mail]>


**Apple to Release Multimedia Tuner** -- Rumor has it that Apple
  just completed work on Apple Multimedia Tuner 2.0, a system
  extension designed to enhance the performance of QuickTime 2.0 and
  Sound Manager 3.0 on systems 6.0.7 through 7.5. The system
  extension improves QuickTime and audio memory management and helps
  applications that do not "properly" initialize movie playback
  under QuickTime 2.0. It should also improve reliability in low
  memory conditions on the Quadra 840AV and 660AV.

  Preliminary tests indicate that the Tuner does help QuickTime and
  audio playback in low-memory situations on a variety of systems.
  One wonders if there was ever a version 1.0 of this patch, but
  sometimes it's best not to ask too many questions. Multimedia
  Tuner 2.0 will reportedly be distributed free of charge; keep an
  eye on Apple's FTP servers and appropriate Usenet newsgroups for
  an announcement. [Pythaeus]


**Math Bug Confirmed in Pentium Chips** -- Earlier this month,
  reports of a floating point division bug in Intel's Pentium chip
  began to surface on CompuServe and in Usenet newsgroups such as
  <comp.sys.intel>. Mathematics professor Thomas Nicely of Lynchburg
  College in Virginia is generally credited with the first public
  announcement of the bug, which Intel claims to have discovered as
  early as June.

  The bug - involving double-precision floating point divide
  operations - occurs once in every 9 or 10 billion divides and
  seems unlikely to affect the average user. However engineers,
  analysts, and others who bought Pentium systems as a substitute
  for high-priced workstations have expressed genuine concern.

  Intel claims to have corrected the problem in currently shipping
  Pentium chips, but there are no part-number changes or other
  markings on the corrected chip. According to the 21-Nov-94 issue
  of Electronic Engineering Times, Intel indicates they will replace
  the part if customers are concerned. However, Intel is apparently
  not planning to upgrade existing Pentiums or inform their
  customers. In the meantime, programs are circulating which
  determine if the bug is present on a given machine. Intel
  Technical Support -- 800/628-8686 [GD]

http://www.wais.com:80/techweb/eet/current/default.html


**Brady Johnson** <[e-mail]> writes to announce a new
  product that might be of interest:

  DayDoubler is a new product from Connectrix that gives you those
  extra hours in each day that we've been asking for. Using
  sophisticated time mapping and compression techniques to double
  the number of hours in the day, DayDoubler gives you access to 48
  hours each day. With the shareware hack MaxDay, you can easily
  stretch your day to 60, 72, or even 96 hours! Connectrix warns
  that at the higher numbers DayDoubler becomes less stable and that
  you run the risk of a temporal crash in which everything from the
  beginning of time to the present would come crashing down around
  you, sucking you into a black hole.

  Should this occur, be sure to reboot with the shift key down.


DeskTape as a TapeWORM
----------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  These days, people mainly use removable storage media for
  distribution, backup, and data sharing. SyQuests are perhaps the
  most common removable media, but the most frequently used SyQuests
  are limited to 44 and 88 MB of data. What if you need to send
  someone many megabytes of data but would prefer not to send
  expensive cartridges? Optima Technology's DeskTape may solve your
  problem, assuming that both you and your recipient use DAT drives
  for backup.

  DeskTape 2.0 is a one trick pony. As its lone trick, DeskTape
  mounts DAT tapes on your desktop as normal, albeit slow, Finder
  volumes. You can do most anything with a DeskTape volume that you
  can do with any Finder volume, with a few exceptions. Most
  importantly, because files on a DAT are written sequentially, you
  cannot mount a DeskTape volume and edit files stored on the
  volume. Similarly, you can't reclaim space from deleted files.
  Finally, you can't (or shouldn't) share a tape over a network
  because of the ways networks interact with tape drives. In
  addition, you'd be wasting time to launch applications from the
  tape or rebuild the desktop on the tape because you could grow old
  waiting for the process to finish. Interestingly, Optima gives
  instructions for playing QuickTime movies from tape, which
  apparently is possible if everything works just right (and there's
  a full moon).

  In other words, use DeskTape to copy files to a DAT tape and copy
  files from a DAT tape, but try to avoid other tasks. So maybe a
  DeskTape volume isn't quite as useful as a Finder volume, but how
  many Finder volumes do you have that cost $10 to $12 and can hold
  several gigabytes? Not many, I suspect, but DAT tapes fit the bill
  precisely.

  Optima ran into an interesting problem with DeskTape. DeskTape
  works well for sharing tons of data, but it's a little
  unreasonable to expect people to buy DeskTape just to read a few
  files from a colleague. As a result, DeskTape comes copy-protected
  and can only be installed three times, using a special DAT tape
  with keys on it. You can uninstall DeskTape to increment the
  counter again, but avoid reformatting your hard disk without
  uninstalling or you lose one of your three installs. I suspect it
  would be difficult, if not impossible, to copy the special DAT
  tape containing the keys. To share data, users send their
  colleagues copies of the DeskTape control panel on a floppy disk.
  Without the key, the DeskTape control panel permits the tape to be
  used only in read-only mode, turning the DAT drive into something
  of a tapeWORM.

  DeskTape supports hardware data compression features in many DAT
  drives, but make sure your recipient's drive also supports
  compression. If in doubt, leave it off - you'll still have more
  free space than you know what to do with. To increase the
  admittedly mediocre performance (hey, we're talking tape here,
  adjust your expectations), DeskTape does things like store the 5
  MB (default size) tape directory on the startup volume (in the
  Preferences folder - make sure you have space), and provide
  configurable controls for the RAM buffer that help keep the tape
  streaming during copying. The default size of the directory file
  limits the number of files you can copy to the tape to between
  8,000 and 25,000, but the manual recommends leaving the directory
  file size at the default if you plan to share tapes with other
  users.

  The DeskTape control panel includes various utilities for testing
  the tape drive and media, rewinding, retensioning, positioning,
  and ejecting the tape, and, should you need them, utilities for
  resetting the SCSI bus, and creating or repairing the end-of-data
  marker that enables the drive to locate the last block written.

  Optima should be commended for being up front about the various
  limitations surrounding DeskTape, which is good because otherwise
  you might run into problems with disk recovery programs (don't use
  them on a DeskTape volume) or Retrospect (which won't see a tape
  as a tape, but as a hard disk). If you use DeskTape and
  Retrospect, I recommend using an extension manager to link the
  DeskTape control panel and the Retro.startup extension so that
  both cannot be active at the same time. That should prevent
  Retrospect from starting up automatically while DeskTape is
  active.

  In the end, most people will use DeskTape with inexpensive DAT
  tapes for ad hoc backups and archives (I recommend Retrospect 2.1
  for real backups), and for sharing large quantities of data with
  colleagues. Someone once asked about the best way to regularly
  send a gigabyte of data to another office several hundred miles
  away via the Internet - the answer is to use DAT and an overnight
  courier and avoid bogging down the Internet.

  DeskTape is not a utility for everyone, simply because not
  everyone has the necessary DAT drive and gigabytes of data for
  DeskTape to be useful. However, if you do have a DAT drive and
  regularly work with massive quantities of data, especially if you
  send those files to other people, DeskTape could save you time,
  money, and hair. DeskTape lists for $299, and none of the big Mac
  mail order companies seem to carry it, so contact Optima directly.

    Optima Technology -- 714/476-0515 -- 714/476-0613 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


WordPerfect 3.1
---------------
  by Dave Reiser <[e-mail]>

  [I asked Dave to write this review as a follow-up to the review of
  WordPerfect 3.0 that he wrote earlier this year. Dave would like
  us all to note that his opinions do not necessarily represent
  those of his employer. Assuming my neck continues to heal nicely,
  I'll follow up in a few weeks with some thoughts about how
  WordPerfect 3.1 compares to Word 6. -Tonya]

  I recently dug up my review of WordPerfect 3.0 (from TidBITS-205_)
  and read through it, wondering what they've done for me lately. In
  WordPerfect 3.1, Novell has done quite a bit. In addition to
  enhancing the program, Novell sped up several features, did not
  slow down any part of the program that I've noticed, and did not
  create a disk storage monster.


**New Features** -- The most visible changes to 3.1 are
  QuickCorrect (an automatic typing corrector) and the new features
  for System 7.5, which include support for the Drag Manager
  (exchanging information between files and applications without
  having to copy and paste), Apple Guide (interactive help), and
  QuickDraw GX printing (see TidBITS-243_ for more about QuickDraw
  GX) .

  I haven't used Drag Manager much, but it seems to work as the
  manual says: drag a selection out to the desktop and the Mac puts
  a copy there, available to be dragged into another document (the
  document could be from WordPerfect of from or any other compliant
  application).

  I have seen the future of computer "How To" writing, and that
  future is Apple Guide or its successor. People seem to be of two
  minds about Apple Guide: some are indifferent; others are drooling
  at the thought of seeing a really good help system. Being in the
  latter category, I'll offer the defense that anyone who has done
  much computer support has run across features they have had to
  demo time and again. A help system that can walk the user through
  a process, using a real example of the user's choosing, and
  explaining the operation while it happens, is truly music to my
  soul. WordPerfect Guide (the WordPerfect specific files that run
  under Apple Guide) includes only a subset of topics in the regular
  help file, but it's a good start. If I could only get Novell to
  throw out that lousy clone of Microsoft Help they use for the
  regular help files, I'd be happier. I find Apple Guide a bit too
  slow on a IIci, but for a beginner it probably isn't too bad.

  QuickDraw GX printing makes it much easier to create a program
  that can handle landscape and portrait pages in the same document.
  I've been waiting for the ability to include a few landscape pages
  in a standard portrait document since Apple promised it two years
  before the original System 7.0 shipped. It finally works, and it's
  almost enough to justify the extra memory GX takes. People with
  lots of printer choices on a network will probably appreciate GX
  printing support. I also think that Hoefler Text (one of the GX
  fonts Apple includes with System 7.5) represents a definite
  improvement over the PostScript fonts most of us are used to
  working with. If Apple can get enough companies to create and
  support GX fonts, computer typography will take another leap
  forward. On the other hand, Hoefler Text is kind of tiring to look
  at on the screen.

  QuickCorrect is WordPerfect's name for what I call a typo catcher.
  It fixes simple things that people mis-type, such as "teh" instead
  of "the", multiple spaces between words, no capitalization at the
  beginning of a sentence, or an inadvertent second capital letter
  at the beginning of a word. QuickCorrect isn't a full spelling
  checker, or it would be way too slow. It does catch little
  mistakes quite well, in exchange for a slight hesitation in some
  screen operations.

  You can also use QuickCorrect as a mini-glossary. You can edit
  QuickCorrect's substitution list to include up to 254 characters
  for any "word" you want to be shorthand for the longer piece. For
  example, if you always want to write out "alternating current"
  instead of "ac", just edit the list appropriately.

  Native Power Mac support was added in 3.0a last March, and 3.1
  adds a fat binary install option. PowerTalk support also existed
  in a previous version, but I haven't tried it.


**Speed** -- Scrolling is only slightly faster than 3.0a, but
  screen redraw action is much quicker in normal text entry. If you
  type in tables on a 68030-based Mac, the screen redraw still gets
  jerky when the text is being entered in a cell that is right along
  the edge of the document window. It's sad to see my IIci become
  the slowpoke of the Mac family, but I still find 3.1 serviceable
  on the old machine. Novell says 3.1 will run on a Mac Plus under
  System 6.0.7 in a 2 MB memory partition. I believe it would run,
  but I'm almost positive I'd use a text editor with a mark-up
  language before I'd wait for any long document editing on a Plus.
  Maybe one of these days I'll drag out my Plus and see what it's
  like.

  If you want some numbers (all times in seconds), I'll pick on
  scrolling and word count for the WordPerfect Read Me file, which
  has 67 pages and about 19,500 words. In case you're wondering why
  the file so long, 40 pages are appendices which offer a list of
  all the command key equivalents, an Apple event dictionary, macro
  commands, and macro variables. All this information is available
  online, but not in the bound manual. Apparently Novell took so
  much heat for not printing it that they put it in the Read Me
  file.

>                          jump     jump to       jump        word
> Machine   System         to end   beginning     to end      count
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> IIci       7.0.1 (w/tuner)  19 sec     4 sec      7 sec     35 sec
> IIci       7.5              10         ?          4         19
> 7100 with  7.1.2             4        <1         <1          4
>   L2 cache

  The reason I include multiple jumps is that the first time through
  the file, WordPerfect checks some formatting information as it
  goes, after that it remembers most of what it checked. For anyone
  tempted to inject an "I can do that instantly on xxx," I'll throw
  in the additional test of using the scroll box to go part way
  through a large file. WordPerfect's times are proportional to the
  distance through the file. The "instant" jumps in other programs
  often go away when you go somewhere other than the beginning or
  end. Scrolling with the scroll arrows is much too fast to read on
  the Power Mac. On the IIci, arrow scrolling goes quickly for just
  text, but gets jumpy or slow when graphics are involved.

  In the last review I complained about text entry in a ten column
  by thirty row table. On the IIci, I can still out type the screen
  redraw by the time I'm halfway into the table, but the screen
  redraw is noticeably better than 3.0. (My work-around is to do
  heavy data entry in tab delimited form, select it all, and convert
  it to a table with the Text-to-Table function. It only takes a few
  seconds.) On the 7100, I didn't have to wait for the screen at
  all.

  I've been on a speed binge for a while, and I find myself asking
  whether this much emphasis on speed makes sense. It may, in that
  anything distracting will irritate a writer, and lack of speed is
  distracting. [Indeed! -Adam] Other things are important when
  considering power and ease of use: consistency of the interface,
  ease of access to the most often used functions, predictable
  access to infrequently used features. I've thought for a long time
  that WordPerfect's creators had a strong design vision. Most of
  the time I like their design strategy, so I like the program.


**What's Present and What's Missing?** -- The review of 3.0 gives
  a lot more information about the implementation and features.
  Almost none of that information has changed in 3.1 - except, of
  course for items mentioned here.

  I think the biggest negative surprise in 3.1 is that Outlining is
  still nothing more than flexible paragraph numbering. I guess
  Marketing figured keeping up with Apple was a bigger plus than
  waiting for other major feature additions.

  The other disappointment is the lack of character-based styles.
  The way WordPerfect handles paragraph styles pretty much requires
  that manual formatting changes be avoided if styles are ever
  edited or different styles applied to existing text. Since the
  ability to make those changes is supposed to be one of the major
  advantages of styles, I find WordPerfect's styles not useful
  enough to bother with often.

  WordPerfect now includes Macintosh Easy Open from Apple and
  Microsoft Word translators from DataViz. You can _finally_ export
  to Word format. There is also the choice of the built-in or
  DataViz version of the Word import translator. I think
  WordPerfect's converter does a better job than DataViz's (on slow
  save format files - if you have extensive fast saved Word files,
  the DataViz translator will probably be your only choice). I still
  have several complaints about the how much cleanup I have to do
  after importing files from Word. This issue is my biggest nit to
  pick with WordPerfect. If you're trying to take on the market
  gorilla, you must be prepared to swing from higher trees.

  The Document Experts and clip art that WordPerfect mailed to
  people sending in their registration cards for 3.0 now come as
  disk 6 in the upgrade package. I don't know if first time buyers
  get disk 6 with the rest, or if they still have to register first.
  The Experts, which you can think of as combining stationery and
  macros, have become smarter in some cases. The envelope macro
  (which is a Document Expert run from the Macro menu) allows better
  control of address offsets from the default margins set up the
  first time you run the macro. I still have to trick the envelope
  macro into working properly with my DeskWriter C, but I appreciate
  the improvements.


**Hardware Requirements** -- WordPerfect 3.1 takes up around 12 MB
  of disk space on a 68K based Mac, if you include all the fonts,
  Document Experts, clip art, documentation, and tutorial files
  included in the package. I use a 3,000K RAM allocation for the
  program (even on the Power Mac, as long as virtual memory is on or
  RAM Doubler is in use). Novell claims it will run in 2,000K on a
  68K Mac, but I've always found their minimums a bit optimistic.

  WordPerfect document files are not svelte. Compression programs
  can regularly squeeze 75 percent of the space out of WordPerfect
  files. The Save As dialog box offers a "WP 3 Compressed" option,
  but I haven't been able to get it to give me smaller files,
  despite taking a lot longer to save. I think there is a bug here.


**Pricing** -- Anyone can buy WordPerfect Mac 3.1 for $99 until
  31-Jan-95. Upgrades from prior WordPerfect versions are $59. After
  January 31st, the retail price goes to $395 and upgrades to $69.
  The upgrades are free to anyone who purchased 3.0a after 15-Aug-94
  and until 30-Nov-94. If you do want to take advantage of the free
  upgrade, be sure to upgrade on or before 30-Nov-94.

  All in all, I still like WordPerfect Mac a lot, and I have every
  intention of using it as my main word processor for the
  foreseeable future.

    Novell Applications Group -- 800/451-5151 -- 801/225-5000
      801/228-5077 (fax) -- <[e-mail]> (support)


Reviews/21-Nov-94
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 14-Nov-94, Vol. 8, #44
    Relational Databases -- pg. 57
      4D 3.2
      4D Server 1.2
      Omnis 7 3
      Helix Express 2.0.4
      FoxPro Professional 2.6
    RunWay, RunShare -- pg. 60
    MacDraft 4.0 -- pg. 62

* Macworld -- Sep-94
    Adobe Illustrator 5.5 -- pg. 56
    Aldus FreeHand 4.0 -- pg. 57
    Apple Color StyleWriter Pro -- pg. 58
    IntelliDraw 2.0 -- pg. 59
    Infini-D 2.6 -- pg. 59
    Macromedia Director 4.0 -- pg. 61
    DateBook & TouchBase Pro 4.0 -- pg. 63
    Persuasion 3.0 -- pg. 65
    FontChameleon 1.0.1 -- pg. 67
    PLI Infinity 270 Turbo -- pg. 69
    PowerPrint 2.5.1 -- pg. 69
    MovieWorks 2.0.2 -- pg. 71
    P-Touch PC -- pg. 73
    HyperCard 2.2 -- pg. 73
    Dynodex for Macintosh 3.5 -- pg. 75
    AccuZip6 1.8.7; Bulk Mailer CASS 1.00d; ZP4 12.1 -- pg. 77
    FastTrack Schedule 2.1 -- pg. 78
    SCSI Director Pro 3.0.6 -- pg. 83
    Creative Writer 1.0 -- pg. 85
    Mayo Clinic Family Health Book 2.0 -- pg. 87
    Mayo Clinic: The Total Heart 1.0 -- pg. 87
    SCSI Sentry -- pg. 91
    Conley SR2 RAID System -- pg. 91
    SAM-CD -- pg. 93
    TextBridge 2.0 -- pg. 93
    CD AllCache 2.0 -- pg. 95
    JMP 3.0 -- pg. 95
    Quadra 630 -- pg. 98
    Personal Printers -- pg. 116
      (too many to list)
    System 7.5 -- pg. 126

* Macworld -- Oct-94
    PowerBook 540c -- pg. 54
    PowerBook Duo 280c; PowerBook Duo Dock II -- pg. 56
    Fontographer 4.0.4 -- pg. 57
    Aldus PageMaker 5.0 -- pg. 57
    24-bit Accelerated Display Cards -- pg. 58
      Apple Macintosh Display Card 24AC
      Radius LeMansGT
      RasterOps Horizon 24
      SuperMac Spectrum Power*1152
      Tornado Graphics Card
    Power Macintosh Upgrade Card -- pg. 61
    Alacrity PM 6100 -- pg. 63
    MicroPhone Pro 2.0 -- pg. 65
    Animation Master 2.0.5 -- pg. 65
    In Control 3.0.4 -- pg. 67
    MusicTime 2.0 -- pg. 69
    ZipZapp 1.0 -- pg. 69
    Conflict Catcher II 2.1.1 -- pg. 71
    Spyglass Plot 1.0 -- pg. 71
    Maple V 3.0 -- pg. 73
    Street Atlas USA 2.0 -- pg. 73
    Stop & Go 4.0 -- pg. 75
    SuperScope II 1.25 -- pg. 75
    IDL 3.5 -- pg. 77
    Spectra-Com P192mx -- pg. 77
    FontMixer 1.0 -- pg. 1.0
    Extend+BPR 3.0 -- pg. 78
    ReadySetGo 6.0 -- pg. 82
    Crystal Ball 3.0 -- pg. 83
    Windows on a Mac -- pg. 86
      Apple DOS Compatible Card
      Timbuktu Pro 1.0
      SoftWindows 1.0
      OrangePC
    Remote Access Servers -- pg. 106
      (too many to list)

* Macworld -- Nov-94
    Quadra 630 -- pg. 52
    MiniCad 5 -- pg. 54
    Dabbler 1.0 -- pg. 55
    Apple Personal Diagnostics -- pg. 57
    ScanPrepPro 1.2 -- pg. 59
    LogoMotion 1.0 -- pg. 59
    TeamFlow 3.1 -- pg. 61
    First Things First Proactive 1.1 -- pg. 63
    Kekule 1.1 -- pg. 63
    Drive7 3.0 -- pg. 65
    OmniPage Professional 5.0 -- pg. 67
    PowerAgent 1.1 -- pg. 67
    White Knight 12.0 -- pg. 69
    ClickBook 1.1 -- pg. 70
    PowerPort Mercury/PB 500 series -- pg. 70
    Terrazzo 1.0 -- pg. 75
    CheckPost 1.3; LaserCheck 1.0 -- pg. 75
    The Multimedia Workshop 1.0 -- pg. 77
    Decision Analysis 2.5 -- pg. 77
    DaynaPort Pocket SCSI/Link; Pocket EtherTalk Adapter -- pg. 79
    MicMac 2.0v1 -- pg. 79
    MATLAB 4.1 -- pg. 81
    PhotoMatic 1.01 -- pg. 81
    Mac Keyboard Deluxe -- pg. 82
    Maxima 3.0 -- pg. 82
    Desktop Videoconferencing -- pg. 86
      Cameo Personal Video System
      Connect 918
      ShareView 3000
      Visit Video
    Two-page Color Displays -- pg. 104
      (too many to list)

* Macworld -- Dec-94
    Live Picture 1.5.5 -- pg. 52
    Adobe Premiere 4.0 -- pg. 54
    PowerBook 150 -- pg. 57
    ElectricImage Animation System 2.0 -- pg. 59
    Internet Packages -- pg. 61
      The Internet Companion
      **Internet Explorer Kit and Internet Starter Kit**
      Internet Membership Kit
    KPT Bryce 1.0 -- pg. 63
    Square One 2.0 -- pg. 65
    eDisk 2.0 -- pg. 65
    PageTools 1.0 -- pg. 67
    ErgoKnowledge 1.0 -- pg. 69
    AirNote 1.0 -- pg. 69
    Cooperative Adapter -- pg. 71
    SoundEdit 16 -- pg. 73
    Arrange 2.0 -- pg. 73
    FlexCam -- pg. 75
    CA-Cricket Graph III 1.52 -- pg. 75
    FlightStick Pro for Macintosh -- pg. 76
    Chamber Works 1.0.2 -- pg. 76
    Writing Coach 1.0 -- pg. 81
    Souvenir 2.2 -- pg. 81
    FastSwitch 10 -- pg. 83
    Crossword Wizard 1.0 -- pg. 83
    1.3 GB Optical Drives -- pg. 108
      (too many to list)

* MacUser -- Nov-94
    QMS magicolor Laser Printer; Xerox 4900 Color Laser Printer -- pg. 39
    Adobe Premiere 4.0 -- pg. 42
    PowerPort/Mercury for the PowerBook Duo -- pg. 45
    Kensington Turbo Mouse 4.0; Logitech TrackMan for Macintosh -- pg. 46
    First Things First Proactive  -- pg. 47
    Zoom -- pg. 48
    Silver Streak -- pg. 51
    Maple V Release 3 -- pg. 52
    Atlantic Technologies SlimWriter -- pg. 54
    After Effects 2.0; Video Graffiti -- pg. 56
    Prince of Persia 2 -- pg. 63
    Specular TextureScape -- pg. 63
    SuperMac Spigot II Tape -- pg. 63
    CameraMan 2.0 -- pg. 64
    Type Twister for Macintosh -- pg. 64
    VideoDrome -- pg. 64
    LogoVista E to J -- pg. 67
    Microsoft Fine Artist; Microsoft Creative Writer -- pg. 69
    Scanners -- pg. 82
      (too many to list)


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