Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: Other news from NCC Message-ID: <1209@uw-beaver> Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 12:14:02 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beaver>.1209 Posted: Fri Jul 13 12:14:02 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Jul-84 02:40:09 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 44 From: Ed Pattermann Some other useful software products at NCC (check out the 7/9 WSJ or USA Today for the big Apple Ad) ; FILEVISION - A rather impressive graphics/object oriented database program from TELOS software. Could really be a big hit. Check your local dealer. It's worth a peek. DAVONG HARD DISK - Imagine opening a disk icon, and seeing '8290K available'! Can't wait. MAC-DAISYWHEEL Connection - from Assimilation Process, allows the MACintosh to print with any popular daisy wheel letter quality printer. Also, EPSON had a program (printer driver) there that allowed the EPSON FX and MX printers to be used on the MAC. KOALA Video Interface - with software by Bill Atkinson, this device adds a desktop accessory on the MAC which allows you to read in from any composite video source (VCR, B/W Camera) into the Clipboard. You can then paste into MACWRITE (or anywhere else), and edit at will. KOALA Hardware and software will sell for approx. $300. You can buy a B/W camera for about $300 as well. This should be a big hit. LOTUS MAC Product - Lotus should us a '75% complete' version of their unnamed MAC product, essentially a MAC version of SYMPHONY. They didn't show much, so I could get too impressed. I was definitely not impressed with what they showed. I thought their choice of menus and dialog boxes was rather poor. LISA 7/7 - Apple has done a smart thing with their LISA software packages. They upgraded all the packages (Lisa Calc,Draw,Graph,List,Project,Terminal, and Write) and packaged them together into one package called Lisa 7/7. It is a complete integrated package for $695. Needs a Lisa 2, with 1MB memory, and a hard disk. SARGON III - looks neat on the MAC! MACPascal and MACterminal are supposedly available now. A new disk based MACwrite is coming, but not from Apple. This is all I know on these things, so please don't ask me anything further. Check your local dealer for more info. -- Ed -------