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NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 4, issue 3, June 30, 1992)


..continued, The Grady Report: 3rd Party NeXT Shipping
                       applications - July 1992


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



______________________________________________________________

VIII.  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]
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.
International telephone [phone]  (Australia)



** Diab Data, Inc. **
D-F77 - FORTRAN 77 compiler - high-performance optimizing
native compiler.

NeXT-hosted FORTRAN Cross Compilers available.

D-CC - C CompilerPhigh-performance optimizing native NeXT
compiler.
NeXT-hosted C CrossCompilers available.
Phone: [phone]



** 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]
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 Fortran fully 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]
Email address: [e-mail]



** ONyX Systems, Inc.  **
BugByte 2.1 - graphical debugging tool
Phone: [phone]
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, RDa
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.
Phone: [phone]



** Scheiber Consulting **
HexEditorPview, 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/nextPPascal; inexpensive site license for educational
institutions.
Email [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]



** 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
Email: [e-mail]



** Young Minds, Inc. **
CD Studio - complete desktop write-once disk system (plug
and play).
Phone: [phone]









______________________________________________________________

IX. UTILITIES

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



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



** Aurora Software **
Filestart - 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]
Email: [e-mail]



** The CuillaMartin Company **
CuillaMartin Calculator Set - Basic, scientific and conversion
calculators.
Phone: [phone]
Email: vpnet.chi.il.us!cuilla!chris
or 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



** Garfinkel and Associates **
Sbook - electonic phone book that dials phones, addresses
email, prints labels and lists.
Phone: [phone]



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

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



** Information Technology Solutions, Inc. **
WorldClock - multiple clocks set to multiple times, alarms
(incl email), timers, time stamps via Services.
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]
Email: [e-mail]



** Taranis Design   **
WYSIcalc - 7 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]








______________________________________________________________

X.    PERIPHERALS

      A.  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]
Email: [e-mail]



             B.   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 96/24 X - 9600 baud fax and 2400 baud data modem
bundled with OCR Servant.
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]






                C.  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]



** Electronics for Imaging **
Fiery Color Laser Controller - Drives the CLC 1, CLC 300,
CLC 500 up to their full resolution.
Phone: [phone],  415 737 5008.




** 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 2400 dpi.

Scan-X Color - true 24 bit color scanner supporting up to
600 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 4 240 4 8 bits deep (monochrome).
Phone: [phone]



** RGB Spectrum **
RGB/Videolink 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]
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 .002 of an inch over 24 inches.
Phone: [phone]








                     D. Storage

** Box Hill Systems  **
Various storage products - a variety of SCSI storage devices
Phone: [phone]



**  CORE International, Inc.  **
Various storage products - multiple 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 lets 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 lets 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 lets 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]







                            E.  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]



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





________________________________________________________
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