jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (Joel West) (01/19/86)
Just a few things I saw, in no particular order:
Blackhole Technology, Inc.
A full 9-track, 1600 bpi tape drive subsystem, fed
at up to 19.2 kbaud across RS-232.
MacShuttle: cartridge tape, for AppleTalk
Hayes InterBridge $800
A network bridge. Requires 2, plus 2 2400 baud modems,
to link two AppleTalk nets over a phone line.
(One bridge sends dial codes to its modem when
powered-on) The demo showed laser-printing across
the two bridges.
A few months off.
Tangent Technogies PC MacBridge
An expansion card for IBM PC to support Appletalk.
Mail compatible with Videx mailer.
Supports a variety of word processors (Wordstar,
MS-Word, DisplayWrite 3) and prints 1-2-3 graphs directly.
3COM 3Server
a file/print server. Takes Laserwriter as slave
Supports two simultaneous nets:
Appletalk
PC Ethernet (XNS-based) using 3COM cards
Files can be stored on the server by either net, and
each can ask that a file be imported/exported so
it can be read by the other.
Shipping in 4 months.
My favorite product of the show, but how could I afford
$8k 36mb disk
$9k 80mb disk
Levco 68020/68881
I didn't find out much, except that it's several grand.
They were mobbed. I'll wait for the standard one from
Apple, myself.
Affinity Microsystems Tempo $100
a macro recorder for the Mac
What Mac Tracks was supposed to be.
Ann Arbor Full Paint $100
Since MacPaint is no longer free, this claims to be
slightly better. 1.0 "2 weeks" away. (they were
selling 0.9 Supports multiple documents,
MacPaint file format.
Silicon Beach SuperPaint
"6 months" off, but an object-oriented rival to Full Paint.
Includes full MacPaint, multiple docs. Reads/writes MacPaint,
Startup Screens, or MacDraw "PICT" format.
Sort of like a cross between MacPaint and MacDraw.
Silicon Beach Silicon Press $80
1.0 "2 weeks" away, selling pre-release 0.99
Mainly for labels, (with a MS-Word like mail merge, only
for graphics), can be used as a substitute for Draw
when dealing only with TEXT, or pictures from the clipboard
Prints 7 colors on IW II, or uses laserwriter
Amber Mac $100 (plus installation)
A CRT-swap to make the Mac black-on-amber.
Much more readable. Very pleasant to look at (although
a bit unnerving).
They did not sell at show, because they're out of stock.
"I want to reserve one at the special show price of $99"
to Association of Apple 32 Users, POB 634 Santa Clara, 95052
408 730-5217 (no credit cards)
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Joel West CACI, Inc. - Federal (c/o UC San Diego)
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