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If you can digitize sound and pictures on a Macintosh.

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There's no telling what you can do with a computer.

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This is Hyper Animator, yet one more fascinating hyper card application,

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here at Boston's Macworld Expo.

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Today we take you on a guided tour of the biggest ever Macworld Expo,

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on this edition of the Computer Chronicles.

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The Computer Chronicles is made possible in part by McGraw-Hill,

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publishers of Byte Magazine, and Bix, the Byte Information Exchange.

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In print and online, Byte and Bix serve computer professionals worldwide

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with detailed information on new hardware, software, and technologies.

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Welcome to the Computer Chronicles.

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I'm Stuart Shafae, and with me this week at the Macworld Expo here in Boston

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is the editor-in-chief of Macworld Magazine, Jerry Burrell.

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Jerry, the Americans and the Russians are making progress toward peace.

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Warring factions all over the world seem to be settling their differences.

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It seems the major war left is between PC users and Mac users.

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How's that war going?

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One has the impression that the Macworld, if I can borrow that phrase,

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has been gaining a lot of ground over the past year.

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Well, it's all over the show floor.

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We've got hundreds of products, developers from the PC side,

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well-known names of all.

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The Mac 2 paid off.

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Apple gambled properly, and they've allowed developers to come in

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and to expand their market for them.

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The opening up of the Mac with the Mac 2 in particular.

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Exactly. It's been very successful, and we see it here.

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The second thing is that while we're making the transition on the PC side

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from Windows over into OS 2, PS 2, there are simply no products there,

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and they're coming very slowly.

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So these new Mac 2 products are taking advantage of the fact

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that the IBM market is in somewhat of a disarray.

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Jerry, today we'll take a look at all those new Macintosh products

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you were talking about as we take you on a guided tour

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of this biggest ever Macworld Expo.

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Now, as usual at a Macintosh show, one of the big subjects is graphics,

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so we'll start out by taking a look at a whole new generation

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of graphics software for the Macintosh.

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If there were any lingering doubt about the appeal of splashy graphics,

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it was not apparent at this year's Boston Macworld Expo.

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In almost every aisle of the World Trade Center,

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paint, video, and architectural CAD programs were highly promoted and prominent.

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Among these, there were a few brand-new packages and a lot of 2.0s.

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ABBA software introduced Graphist Paint 2,

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a paint package with a hidden stencil layer beneath the work layer.

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An artist can etch away sections of the top image

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to reveal portions of the underlying image.

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Finished images can be rotated, skewed, and distorted or inscribed on a sphere.

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Graphist Paint 2 needs at least 2 megabytes of RAM and retails for $495.

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Cricut software unveiled Cricut Paint,

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a monochrome program with a feature called Fresh Paint.

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A bit-mapped drawing can become an object for moving and manipulating.

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Deselecting the object turns it back into a bit-mapped image.

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Drawing tools can be customized to suit the user's preferences.

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Cricut Paint sells for $295.

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Well, while everybody else is focusing on the color painting world,

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what they've forgotten is there's about a million and a half black-and-white paint users,

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and a lot of the materials that are produced in desktop publishing packages

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are still being produced on black-and-white devices, such as Postgres.

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Deneba software brought out its latest 2.0 version of Canvas,

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a color paint package offering an unlimited number of layers.

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Images can be viewed either as objects or bitmaps in up to 16 million colors.

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Canvas 2.0 also offers gray levels in 1% increments

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and drawing precision up to 1 64,000th of an inch.

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The release price is $299.

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Micro Illusions offered what it called third-generation graphics

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in a new paint program called Photon Paint.

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With Photon Paint, an artist can tilt, rotate, resize, and map an image onto a 3-D object.

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You can also blend colors together smoothly through a process called dithering

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onto either transparent or opaque backgrounds.

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Photon Paint retails for about $300.

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At the Silicon Beach booth, Super Paint 2.0 was on display,

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a budget-priced black-and-white image processor

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offering new poster, edge, and auto-trace functions.

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We've added some strong features to the paint part of the program,

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in particular the plug-in modules where somebody can make a custom tool

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and add it to a slot in the program and it appears in the tool palette.

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The airbrush is really terrific on the paint side.

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On the draw side, we've got Bezier curves, the auto-trace,

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where it will automatically trace a bitmap image, put it in the draw layer

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with object-oriented, including Bezier curves.

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And pre-rotation of objects and text, those are the main things.

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Silicon Beach also officially released Digital Darkroom,

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a program with a set of so-called intelligent tools

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for automating most cut-and-paste, select, and fill operations.

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Super Paint sells for $199, while Digital Darkroom retails for $395.

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AbVent took the wraps off Jonathan Draw,

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a two-dimensional drawing program that reads and prints

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to the best resolution of your output device,

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independently of the screen resolution you are using.

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Jonathan Draw also features SnapTools for jumping between different views.

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The program will sell for $495.

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Apple's software spin-off company, Claris, unveiled the two-dimensional Clariscad,

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offering mouse or keyboard entry, automatic dimensioning,

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and an adjustable workspace.

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The user can adapt or design new fill patterns, pens, dashed lines,

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and dimensioning parameters.

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Clariscad is expected to ship in December and will retail for $799.

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For architectural designers concerned with the insides of a building,

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Kump Servco demonstrated Mac Interiors,

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a $295 3D interior design tool.

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With Mac Interiors, a user can create a room outline,

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including doors and windows, create a library of objects

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with up to 64 sides each, and then place the objects in the room.

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The room and its contents can be viewed from any angle

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to any user-defined scale.

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Mac Interiors can send output to a laser printer, image writer,

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or large-scale plotter.

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In the high-end CAD category, Dynaware premiered its Mac 2 version

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of Dyna Perspective, a 3D CAD animation package

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featuring up to 120 colors, floating point coordinates,

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and five different grid units.

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To create an animated walkthrough of your drawing,

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just select a few views, specify the number of frames in between,

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and Dyna Perspective will generate the intervening frames.

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The program requires a minimum of 2 megabytes of RAM

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and sells for $1,495.

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Mac Architryon, a 2D and 3D package for architects from Jimeor,

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made its debut at the show, promising an interface

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that mimics traditional architectural tools.

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Jimeor is marketing the program to professional users

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who need to design in real volumetric 3D from start to finish.

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A designer can visualize and animate a project in 3D

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and create two-dimensional drawings from the same data.

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Mac Architryon is priced at around $1,500.

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To physically help visualize the increasingly complex graphics on the Mac 2,

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eMachines unveiled a new display called the Big Picture Z21.

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The 21-inch monochrome monitor can display at four different

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viewing resolutions from 30 to 80 dots per inch.

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Small format publications can be viewed full size on the screen.

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Larger formats, the Z21, offers hardware level panning and zooming.

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Maximum resolution is 1280 by 960,

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and a grayscale model will display 256 levels of gray.

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Prices start at around $2,500.

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For users not satisfied with drawing from scratch,

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Pixelogic brought out the ProViz Video Digitizer,

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a standalone peripheral that connects through the Mac's SCSI port.

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The ProViz digitizes images from any video source

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and will send the digitized output to a monitor, printer, or a videotape recorder.

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The digitizer is available in a monochrome version for $10.95

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and a color version for $16.95.

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The Macintosh has always been known for its good graphics,

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its friendly user interface, things like desktop publishing,

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but the real growth for the Mac in the last year

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has been the explosion of mainstream business applications.

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Just as desktop publishing was the software star a few years ago,

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desktop presentation software seemed to be the must-have business application this year,

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with a number of familiar names throwing their hats into the ring.

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Aldis, better known for originating desktop publishing,

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demonstrated a pre-release version of Persuasion,

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a presentation package that combines an idea outliner with pre-designed visual templates.

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The user enters text into the outliner,

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picks one of the auto-templates,

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and the program formats the text into a visual presentation.

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Persuasion comes with drawing and charting tools,

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and the templates can be customized to contain corporate logos and colors.

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Persuasion will be available in early 1989 for around $500.

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Basically, the differences are this product has a full set of tools in one package,

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where most of the other products are missing a major component,

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such as charting and graphing or outline processing.

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It's a complete set of tools, and the major difference is the auto-template technology,

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which is the underlying capability that automatically lays out slides from outline text.

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Lectraset stood out with its version of presentation software called Standout,

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an integrated package including word processor,

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an online design and creation system, and integrated charts and graphs.

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Standout comes with a library of templates, or a user can create and save custom designs.

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The program offers three levels of viewing magnification

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and a group of master frames for placing repeated elements.

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The price stands at $295.

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Microsoft used the show to introduce several new Mac 2 products.

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PowerPoint 2.0 for desktop presentations in living color,

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Works 2.0, and Excel version 1.5.

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The update to Excel features new macro functions, custom menus and dialog boxes,

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and of course color support for the Mac 2.

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For users who can't wait, Excel supports Apple's Multifinder multitasking operating system.

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Microsoft Works sells for $295, while PowerPoint 2.0 and Excel 1.5 both retail for $395.

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Ashton Tate announced shipment of a presentation-oriented spreadsheet called Full Impact.

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The package has an integrated text processor, pull-down menus,

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and allows up to eight spreadsheets to be opened at once.

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Full Impact also features a worksheet to assemble spreadsheet data,

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text and charts into a final presentation package.

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The suggested retail price is around $400.

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What we've done is taken the core spreadsheet functionality,

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all the features you'd expect to find in a sophisticated spreadsheet,

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and added around that presentation capabilities that you'd associate with desktop publishing,

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including some drawing capabilities, text processing capabilities,

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and graphics which are incorporated within the spreadsheet and not separate.

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Desktop publishing continues to attract an audience at computer shows, and Macworld Expo is no exception.

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Springboard Software unveiled Springboard Publisher,

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a $200 package that fits in somewhere between Desktop Publisher and Word Processor.

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Springboard Publisher integrates page layout, word processor, and graphics

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with optional newsletter templates, clip art, and laser fonts.

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Expected release date for the Mac 2 version is December.

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In the database category, ProView Development introduced Panorama,

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a database with a spreadsheet-like structure.

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Drawing tools allow the user to create and modify forms and reports,

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and to import graphics from other applications.

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A feature called Flash Art allows the user to paste artwork into database records

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simply by typing the name of a pre-stored image.

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For years, Macintosh users have had to put up with a lot of snide remarks from PC users

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when the subject turned to color.

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Well, not anymore.

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With the advent of the Mac 2, there are all kinds of software applications here at Macworld Expo

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that take advantage of the new color capability of the Macintosh.

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Like the laser printer that paved the way to desktop publishing,

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the Color Macintosh has attracted a vast range of color software and hardware.

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EGES development showed the first module of its future animation workshop

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called Showcase FX for color title generation and special effects.

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The program can embellish text with three-dimensional effects,

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adding border outlines, neon, embossing, an offset edge, and horizontal or vertical spread.

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Showcase features a WYSIWYG, or what you see is what you get, display,

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and metamorphic fonts that can be stretched, dragged, and skewed to create unique shapes.

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The user can animate titles and playback linked sequences.

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Showcase FX sells for $395 and needs 2 megabytes of RAM.

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Macromind unveiled VideoWorks Professional, a $695 real-time color animation program.

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The new version of VideoWorks comes with animation tools to create airbrush speckles,

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gradients, cycling, smearing, smudging, and tinting, and can pick up, rotate, and slide images.

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Drawings can also be auto-animated.

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At some booths, it was difficult to tell if one was looking at a computer monitor or a television screen.

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The merging of computer graphics with video images made the video capture board a common, if expensive, peripheral.

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TruVizion demonstrated its video capture board called NuVista,

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which can display video images in high spatial and high resolution color.

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NuVista offers multiple-bit depths, programmable capture, and comes with a 32-bit coprocessor.

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Prices start at $4,250 with 2 megabytes of onboard memory.

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Mass Microsystems brought out the ColorSpace2 video board, featuring graphics overlay and auto genlock to video signals.

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The board can output RGB and American Standard NTSC video simultaneously,

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and is also compatible with European PAL television.

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Among new paint programs, Electronic Arts premiered Studio 8,

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a $495 color paint package with 4 levels of magnification and 9 tool modifiers.

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Studio 8 has a special tool to allow any portion of the image to be picked up and used as a paintbrush to create custom effects.

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A magnified window can be opened anywhere on the screen, and all tools are usable at both regular and magnified levels.

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SuperMac presented Pixel Paint Professional, a $595 program featuring Pantone colors for pre-press preparation.

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Users can scan through colors interactively as if thumbing through a book of samples.

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Pixel Paint Professional comes with a full set of masking tools, a built-in color separator, and spot color separation keyed to Pantone colors.

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I think in 84, people were going ahead and saying the Mac is wonderful because it's got icons and windows.

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We're beginning to see those on other machines, and the strength that we're seeing now is the ability to support true color and advanced imaging.

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I think that's really going to be the thing that sets it apart.

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To help non-artists save time with their paint programs, Image Club unveiled a new clip art library on CD-ROM called Art Room.

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For $1,000, you get 70 megabytes of ready-to-print images, including 1,000 encapsulated PostScript images, 100 typefaces, publishing templates, a font juggler, and an image retriever.

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Kodak and Photomac were jointly demonstrating a color slide scanning, processing, and printing system.

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The Kodak desktop scanner takes about three minutes to scan a color transparency at 2,800 dots per inch and 12 bits per pixel color.

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Photomac software retouches and color corrects images, which can then be printed on a Kodak Color Thermal Printer.

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The Iconics scanner sells for $8,900. The software is around $700, and the printer costs under $5,000.

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For those lacking something to scan, Presentation Technologies was offering the Montage FR-1, a high-resolution film recorder.

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The Montage can produce slides for more than 16 million colors, has full bitmap capabilities, and 4,000 lines of resolution.

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Montage sells for around $6,000.

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A scanner of a different color was Apple's contribution to the show, a flatbed optical image scanner complete with AppleScan and HyperScan software.

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The monochrome Apple scanner can process line art, halftones, and grayscale images at up to 300 dots per inch, grayscale at 4 bits or 16 levels per pixel.

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The Apple scanner retails for around $1,800.

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Also available at the Apple booth was Senior Vice President Jean-Louis Gasset, who offered some thoughts on the status of the OpenMac.

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Again, it's a product that the marketplace took over and did things, because we cannot think of everything.

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And the charm of a flexible, open, modular product is that if it's flexible, and if you can put the pieces together with enough ease of implementation,

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and if you have enough power in the combination, then the people who know something that you don't know will take care of it.

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That's what they do in the marketplace.

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For a while, the battle was, does Macintosh have software? Certainly that's not a question anymore.

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Now you can just pick the finest of the finest, and that's a much better position to be in.

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Sharp Electronics introduced a new color scanner, the JX450, a $7,000 desktop machine with 300 dots per inch resolution and 64 shade gradations for each RGB element.

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A single charged couple device reads the RGB data and converts it into 8-bit digital data.

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The scanner has a color tone capacity of over 260,000 shades.

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Almost as rare as color scanners are color printers, but Haltech had one called Pixel Master.

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Definitely not for the desktop, the towering Pixel Master boasts an advanced thermal ink process called Thermojet.

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The printer has an unusual vertical printhead that squirts liquefied plastic inks onto the paper, which solidify instantly upon contact.

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Up to 250,000 different shades are available at 240 dots per inch.

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Pixel Master is priced at under $6,000.

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Some striking color graphics and animation were on display at the Invention software booth, produced with a package called Professional Programmer's Extender.

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The sample application included animated cross-sections of three-dimensional medical data.

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Despite the product exclusivity of Macworld Expo, connectivity to the rest of the computer world was offered by a number of vendors.

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3Com announced Macintosh support for its multi-vendor 3-plus open architecture, LAN Manager.

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Well, in our networks, which are generally on the high end of networks, we sell a series of dedicated network servers.

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And in the last six months, we've observed that now more than a third of those servers, which you can connect to IBM PCs and other devices,

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more than a third are going out with Macintosh capabilities.

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So we now make the Mac software a standard and just put it in all our servers.

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One of the most unusual output devices of the show had to be the Poem, a personal and original embroidery machine from Enzen Hoshigumi Company.

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Poem is the first of a new group of products for what the company calls desktop embroidery.

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From an original sketch or a library of clip art, Poem will embroider a matching design on its tiny sewing machine, one color at a time.

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The complete kit sells for under $1,000.

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Finally, BrightStar technology showed yet another offbeat application of Apple's HyperCard called HyperAnimator.

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BrightStar's animation program records faces and lip movements and recreates them phonetically on screen to create the impression of synchronized speech.

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It will convert typed text into a phonetic stream of vaguely human-sounding speech.

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HyperCard phonetics can get a copy for $150.

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Jerry, as you said at the very beginning of this program, there really are a lot of new Macintosh products here at Macworld Expo.

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How would you sort of sum up the show for us? What were the highlights here for you?

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Well, by subject area, desktop publishing, color for the Macintosh, graphics, computer-aided design,

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and an extension of vertical applications into the business marketplace.

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Not just the word processors and spreadsheets and databases, but things like accounting, a lot of new products.

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Okay, let me put you on the line now. Specifically, what were the really hot products at this show?

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Well, my pick of the show probably should start with Excel 1.5 for color.

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Color spreadsheets make life a lot more pleasant.

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We've got Iconics and Kodak that have a slide capture, 35mm digitization package and software for display.

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Dynoware, an interesting new company from Japan that are showing an architectural CAD, color rendering of computer-aided design.

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Aldus' Persuasion had to be the hottest business presentation package on the show floor out here.

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Studio 8, an electronics arts package, which is a color paint package for the Macintosh. A lot of fun for that.

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The TruVizion cart, 32-bit color, true color for the Macintosh and video. We hope it's NTSC.

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Montage, for the first time now we can produce 35mm slides. They're showing it on the floor and it's shipping.

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And finally, Avalon prepress software for the publishing industry that allow us to touch up with color.

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Jerry, thanks for being here. That's our special show on the Macworld Expo here in Boston.

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Hope we'll see you again here next week on the Computer Chronicles.

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In the random access file this week, the NeXT Computer finally made its debut in San Francisco last week,

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introduced by NeXT president Steve Jobs. Jobs said the NeXT Computer has mainframe power and will sell for $6,500,

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far less than half the price of similar current generation products. Jobs said the machine will be shipped to selected universities

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before the end of this year and will generally be available in the second quarter of next year.

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The NeXT Computer features a high-resolution 17-inch megapixel display in black and white.

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The computer itself is a one-foot black magnesium cube with 8 megabytes of main memory.

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The NeXT Computer has built-in transparent networking and multitasking.

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The machine comes bundled with a new Unix user interface and other software.

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The whole computer is on one board with two main processing chips, including the Motorola 68030 running at 25 MHz.

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And as rumored, it features CD-quality sound from a 10 MIPS sound chip and a 256-megabyte internal optical disk drive

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with full read, write and erase capabilities. NeXT also unveiled a laser printer with 400 dots per inch resolution

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and a price tag under $2,000.

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Digital Equipment Corporation is returning to the PC marketplace with a deal to sell Tandy PCs.

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DEC will also service Tandy computers owned by DEC customers, and there was a technology trade agreement between the two companies,

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which means Tandy will be able to access DEC's networking technology called DECnet.

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Digital says it won't sell the Tandy 5000, which uses microchannel architecture.

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The Japanese showed off a whole string of new laptops last week.

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Toshiba beefed up the high end of its portable line with a new 386 portable called the T5200.

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It features a VGA-compatible gas plasma display and a 40-megabyte hard drive. It runs only on AC.

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But Toshiba did introduce a new 12-megahertz 286 laptop that does run on batteries.

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It comes with a 20-megabyte hard drive, weighs 11 pounds and is priced under $5,000.

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NEC was also rolling out laptops this week.

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The smallest was a four-pounder called the Ultralight that features 640K and internal 2400-watt modem,

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a backlit display and a 2-megabyte RAM drive.

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And Sharp has introduced a new 8-ounce handheld computer called the Wizard.

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It interfaces with a PC and features the usual personal organizer functions.

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Ziff Communications is now shipping its new CD-ROM-based computer reference library.

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It features full-text articles from the last year's worth of 10 major computer publications,

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plus abstracts of computer-related articles from 120 other technology periodicals.

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Finally, the East Coast beat the West Coast in the first-ever Computer Bowl held in Boston last week.

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The West Coast team captain, David Bunnell, said it was only because the East Coast team studied.

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In the West, he said, we were too busy being successful and making money.

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That's it for this week's Chronicles. We'll see you next time.

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