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Last week was Macworld Expo Boston, and everyone who writes at all
   regularly for TidBITS attended the show. This issue brings you
   Mark's Expo Superlatives, Adam's Expo thoughts, and Tonya's
   favorite shipping Expo product - surprisingly, a CD about Thai
   food and culture. This issue also covers an upcoming version of
   FirstClass that will support TCP/IP connections and the issues
   surrounding Iomega's recent licensing of SyQuest cartridge
   technology.

This issue of TidBITS sponsored in part by:
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Topics:
    MailBITS/08-Aug-94
    Macworld Expo Thoughts
    Macworld Superlatives
    Two Sides to Every Cartridge
    A Taste of Thai
    SoftArc Shows TCP/IP FirstClass

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MailBITS/08-Aug-94
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  Our sincere apologies for missing the netters' dinner last week in
  Boston. I was stricken with the Martian Death Flu on Thursday, and
  decided that a three-hour nap in the middle of the day was the
  better part of valor (and dinner). The alternative was to fall
  asleep on the floor of the Apple Pavilion and be trod on by the
  multitudes wending their way through to the eWorld demo. And that
  wouldn't be much fun... . Tonya opted out of navigating the wilds
  of Boston at night alone, especially since her throat was feeling
  a bit ragged and she didn't want to get sick too. [ACE]


**Apple's new PowerBook 150** doesn't work properly with most
  internal modems, according to Global Village, makers of the
  PowerPort modems. Apparently Apple's original 2400 bps fax/data
  PowerBook modem works, but that's about it, even though Apple
  intended for all modems designed for 100-series PowerBooks to
  work. The problem seems to be related to the power supplied to the
  modem through the internal port. Global Village has been working
  with Apple to solve the problem, and expects a software fix will
  be available soon. [MHA]


**IBM is contacting Mac consultants**, asking them to work on the
  Mac OS personality module team in Austin, according to Pythaeus.
  What a radical thought, asking people who know the Mac well to
  help out. Maybe IBM is finally getting the right idea. [ACE]


Macworld Expo Thoughts
----------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  It was a rough show. As usual, Boston obliged with heat and
  humidity so thick you had to wonder if the wetness on your skin
  was sweat or condensed essence of city. I wasn't the only one
  suffering from the Martian Death Flu, to judge from some of the
  complaints from the vendors, and people looked run down even
  before the end of the week.

  Here's where I wish I could segue into a bit about how it was all
  worthwhile because I found the show itself exciting and
  innovative, and how crowds of people just mobbed all the booths.
  Unfortunately, I can't say that, because overall, it was a
  mediocre show.

  Some booths were mobbed, such as WordPerfect's (part of the Novell
  Applications Group, if you want to NAG me about accuracy), but
  aside from the clever things that they've done with WordPerfect
  3.1, it was clear that most people watched the demo for the free
  umbrella, the M&Ms, and a chance to rest their feet. Other booths
  fared worse, and although the crowds were present, they weren't on
  the whole excited crowds. Almost everyone I asked had similar
  opinions about the show, and the one person who said that he'd
  seen something super-cool wouldn't tell me what he'd seen. It
  couldn't have been all that obvious.

  A number of companies that normally grace the aisles of Macworld
  declined to attend this year, most notably utility maker Now
  Software. Other companies that failed to appear included Farallon,
  GCC, DeltaPoint, and Kensington. All I can assume is that they
  decided the exposure simply wasn't worth the expense or trouble of
  attending such a general purpose show. The variety of products led
  to another quibble. It was downright difficult to find many
  specific companies at the show, and it seemed that you were always
  walking by something completely uninteresting. It would
  undoubtedly never happen due to marketing reasons, but it would be
  nice if the booths were roughly organized so that it was easier to
  find and compare products within a certain category.

  Part of the problem was that no theme or amazing product carried
  the show. Last year in Boston was the Year of the Newton, and in
  San Francisco this year RAM Doubler wowed everyone. Probably the
  most interesting product of the show was Connectix's QuickCam, but
  since we covered that a few issues back (see TidBITS-235_), it
  wasn't exactly news.

  This isn't to say that there weren't good upgrades to existing
  programs, or some neat new products from small companies. There
  were supposedly several Doom clones (a popular and bloody arcade-
  style game for the PC), a number of companies showed Power Mac-
  native versions of their programs, and products such as Keep It
  Simple Software's solar panel for the PowerBook and Live Oak
  Multimedia's 4 Paws of Crab CD caught our eyes. We'll have more on
  these and other products. Mark Anbinder has assembled his usual
  Macworld Superlatives article below, but if you saw something that
  you found truly neat at the show and want to write about it, send
  me email to make sure we're not already planning an article.


Macworld Superlatives
---------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>

  At a trade show with thousands of products, it's impossible to see
  everything, or even all the important things. If you missed some
  of these products, or if you missed Macworld Boston entirely,
  please contact the companies mentioned below and tell them you
  read about their products in TidBITS. Some of these products may
  receive more in-depth coverage later on, but we wanted to get some
  of the juicy details to you right away.


Sensible Color Output
  If you want to spend many thousands of dollars, buy one of the
  fancy Tektronix or SuperMac dye sublimation printers that takes
  forever to spit out a photo-realistic page. If all you need photo
  realism, however, consider Nikon's new CoolPrint. It's a $1,995
  small-format dye sublimation printer that's perfect for printing
  photos and color proofs. Nikon -- 516/547-4200 -- 516/547-0305
  (fax)


Lamest Booth Staff
  When you can wander around a booth looking interested in the
  products, then talk out loud about competing products while two
  salespeople chatter away to each other, something's wrong. Asante
  Technologies needs train its sales staff before the next trade
  show to learn how to strike up conversations with potential
  customers. Asante -- 800/662-9686 -- 408/752-8388


Growth Property
  A brand-new, small company called VST received our "Best Battery"
  award at last August's Macworld Expo, so we're pleased to see they
  have grown enormously since then. Their large booth showcased a
  wide variety of laptop batteries, chargers, and related products.
  Good for them. VST -- 508/287-4600 -- 508/287-4068 (fax)


Cable Marathon
  Do you wish SCSI cable chains weren't so limited in length? Add
  ATTO Technology's Silicon Express 4D NuBus card to your Mac and
  you can string your devices up to 81 feet away from the computer.
  Sounds great for secure installations or rooms where you'd rather
  not have loud devices. [We have a friend who pursues quiet by
  keeping his Macintosh IIfx on one side of a wall and his monitors,
  mouse, floppy drive, and keyboard on the other. -Tonya] ATTO --
  716/ 688-4259


Mixed Feelings
  CE Software's new QuickMail 3.0 looks good, and we want to be
  impressed, but evidence suggests the MailManager feature (see
  TidBITS-237_) won't be as useful for real-life use. For
  MailManager to process incoming messages, your computer must stay
  on, and your connection to QuickMail must stay active. Such
  features would be best implemented at the server. CE -- 800/523-
  7638 -- 515/224-1995


Best Connectivity
  One reason ISDN hasn't caught on as strongly as it could have is
  the variety of non-compatible hardware on the market. 4-Sight L.C.
  (previously CommFORCE) offers ISDN management software that
  bridges the gap not only among different ISDN services and cards,
  but between ISDN and such otherwise-incompatible services as
  Switched 56. 4-Sight -- [e-mail] -- 515/221-2100 --
  800/448-3299 (fax) -- [phone] (UK) -- +44 (0) 202
  761666 (UK fax)


Biggest Shame
  Dayna Communications was among the vendors showing wireless
  network solutions, including a PCMCIA LocalTalk card. Pity the
  card won't work on a Newton MessagePad! According to Dayna, the
  MessagePad can't supply enough power to PCMCIA devices, even when
  the devices don't try to draw more than the PCMCIA design allows
  for. Meanwhile, a wireless PCMCIA LocalTalk card could come in
  handy for 500-series PowerBook users. Dayna -- 800/531-0600 --
  801/531-0600


Best Paging Software
  As has been customary the last few years, many vendors
  demonstrated software designed to send text messages to electronic
  pagers. Congrats to Desktop Paging Software for its NeuroPage
  product, which automates a schedule of messages for dozens of
  individual recipients. Originally designed to remind patients to
  take their medicines, the software could also work wonders for
  disorganized executives. Desktop Paging Software -- 716/634-9010
  -- 716/634-9003 (fax) -- [e-mail]


Bundle of Joy
  Ex Machina is understandably pleased; their paging MSAM (a
  personal gateway extension for Apple's PowerTalk messaging
  software) has been licensed by Apple to be included in all CD-ROM
  copies of System 7.5 retail packages. Anyone with System 7.5 will
  be able to send pages to electronic paging service subscribers
  with no further software. (A modem is required.) Diskette packages
  of 7.5 won't include this, or the variety of other tools included
  on the CD. Ex Machina -- 718/965-0309


PostScript Big & Fast
  Xante Corporation made a name for itself by offering accelerated,
  high-resolution PostScript-compatible printer controllers to
  replace the aging logic boards in Apple's and Hewlett-Packard's
  older printer models. More recently, the company started selling
  its own complete printers. This year, they took advantage of the
  lower price of real Adobe PostScript Level 2 and built it into
  their latest printer, the Accel-a-Writer 8200. It's an 11 x 17
  inch 1,200 dot per inch printer that can even print 11 x 25 at
  lower resolutions. Xante -- 205/476-8189 -- 205/476-9421 (fax)


Cutest Feature Name
  Fractal Design Painter 3.0 is impressive for so very many reasons,
  but it gets this award for its "image hose" feature. Just create a
  variety of images of a type of object (for example, nineteen
  discreet images of clover) then use the image hose to paint with
  that object; it randomly scatters the different versions. Instant
  clover field! No more laborious cutting and pasting to get the
  desired montage effect. Fractal Design -- 408/688-8800


Happy Anniversary!
  Hewlett-Packard had its usual array of printers on display at
  Macworld, but what's most noteworthy is that they're celebrating
  ten years in the printer market, going back to the original
  LaserJet (and five years to the first DeskWriter, a major
  breakthrough in the low-end Macintosh printing arena). Other
  players in the field have been selling printers longer (Apple and
  Epson are two easy examples) but HP has come a long way, offering
  great laser, inkjet, and color solutions at both low- and high-end
  prices. HP -- 800/752-0900 -- 301/670-4300


If You Can't Beat 'Em
  Bravo to Iomega Corp. for snapping up Nomai's SyQuest-compatible
  44 and 88 MB cartridges and getting past the legal red tape to
  bring them to market. The company claims they're much more
  reliable than SyQuest's own product, but either way the product
  alternative will be good for the market and good for the end
  user's wallet. Iomega -- 800/947-0928 -- 801/778-3000 -- 801/778-
  3748 (fax)


Best Drive for Video
  Doing a lot of video processing? Want to show high-resolution
  video presentations at their best? Don't get a general-purpose
  hard drive. The latest 2 and 4 GB AV-model drives from Micropolis
  seem to far outstrip the competition when it comes to sustained
  data transfer rate, which is critical for continuous video
  display. Micropolis -- 818/709-3300


Why Didn't I Think of That?
  If you live in the area from Boston north to Concord, NH, and from
  Route 495 to the Atlantic, you needn't ever worry about your laser
  printers again if you subscribe to the Page After Page service.
  Subscribers simply call the service when their low-toner lights
  become worrisome. Within an hour or so, a technician will arrive,
  remove your old cartridge, thoroughly clean the printer, and
  insert a new cartridge, all for a bit less than you're paying for
  your toner cartridges now. Saves time and eliminates the need to
  keep cartridges on hand. How do they do it? The New Hampshire-
  based company imports toner "by the ton, literally" and makes its
  own cartridges. Since each remanufactured cartridge has a brand-
  new drum, we're not as concerned as we are with most rebuilt and
  refilled cartridges. Page After Page -- 800/441-0539 -- 603/595-
  2522 -- 603/598-4277 (fax)


Can I Play?
  Parsoft and ThrustMaster get the award for most compelling game
  setup, complete with a fighter plane's ejector seat set in front
  of three large-screen monitors in a row. The wide-angle flight
  simulator display (created simply by dragging the window to cover
  all three monitors) was stupendous. Add to that ThrustMaster's
  foot-pedal rudder game controller, its joystick controller, and
  weapons pod, and you've got a serious looking game machine.
  ThrustMaster -- 503/639-3200 -- 503/620-8094 (fax)


Get It There Now
  When you copying files, you want them copied now. That's the idea
  behind such copy accelerators as CopyDoubler. RAD Unlimited
  Networking (RUN) Inc. takes super-fast copying a step further by
  accelerating file copies over a network (and opening/saving of
  three specific file formats over a network). The company's
  upcoming RunShare product watches your network and lobs extra
  packets into spaces in the data stream, which is rarely close to
  full. (Apple's protocols are too polite when it comes to point-to-
  point traffic.) RUN -- 408/353-8423 -- 408/353-8984 (fax)


Nifty Storage Product
  SyQuest makes up for its sour-grapes attitude towards Iomega with
  an upcoming PCMCIA storage product. The device, a type III PCMCIA
  card (which will work in stacked type II slots), is a complete
  removable-cartridge drive. It uses SyQuest's 1.8 inch 80 MB
  cartridges, which look just like the company's 5.25 inch
  cartridges - except much, much smaller. The PCMCIA card won't work
  on a MessagePad (which has just one type II slot), but we see
  tremendous potential for 500-series PowerBooks and DOS-compatible
  laptops. Imagine mailing a few hundred megabytes in a business-
  sized envelope. SyQuest -- 510/226-4000 -- 510/226-4102 (fax)


Best Text Tool
  Word processors keep getting bigger and bigger, but some people
  just need to write and edit ordinary text. For those folks, BBEdit
  from Bare Bones Software, is right up on top. In the words of one
  user, the new version 3.0 "still doesn't suck." Among the ways it
  doesn't suck are good support for such System 7.5 features as
  AppleScript and PowerTalk, PowerPC native code in many time-
  consuming components, and quite a bit of extensibility, which make
  it great for programmers or managers of World-Wide Web sites. Bare
  Bones -- 508/651-3561 -- 508/651-7584 (fax) --
  [e-mail]


Most Exciting Revival
  Only long-time Mac fanatics are likely to remember Dark Castle and
  Beyond Dark Castle. Delta Tao Software, Inc., the company that
  brought us Color MacCheese and Spaceward Ho! among other nifty
  programs, has just acquired these games from Aldus and is working
  on color versions that'll run on Macs of the '90s. Delta Tao
  showed Dark Castle '95 at the Expo, and it looked great! Delta Tao
  -- 800/827-9316 -- 408/730-9336 -- [e-mail]


Two Sides to Every Cartridge
----------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>

  A few weeks ago, Iomega Corporation began advertising its new
  SyQuest compatible cartridges, for use in removable cartridge
  drives using 44 MB and 88 MB SyQuest mechanisms. Licensed by
  SyQuest, the advertisements said, the cartridges were actually
  "more reliable" and "more affordable." A poster at SyQuest's booth
  at last week's Macworld Expo, however, told a different story.
  "Just because they have a license doesn't mean they know how to
  drive," it said.

  According to SyQuest, they have indeed signed a licensing
  agreement permitting Iomega to sell SyQuest-compatible cartridges.
  SyQuest does not, however, approve them for use in SyQuest-
  manufactured cartridge drives; in theory, use of these cartridges
  voids your warranty. The company says it is unwilling to approve
  the cartridges because Iomega declined SyQuest's offer of
  assistance in developing quality control procedures.

  We understand SyQuest's interest in maintaining a certain level of
  quality control in cartridges, but we don't understand their
  approach. Perhaps insisting on spot-checking the quality of the
  end product or the manufacturing process would have made sense
  before signing a license agreement, but it hardly seems
  appropriate now.

  If SyQuest indeed refuses to honor drive warranties for users who
  have used Iomega's compatible cartridges in their drives, all is
  not lost. Iomega has pledged to replace any SyQuest mechanism
  adversely affected by one of its cartridges.

  Meanwhile, Iomega continues to tout the advanced technology
  incorporated into the cartridges it sells. Reverse-engineered by a
  European company (see TidBITS-169_) from earlier SyQuest
  cartridges, the Iomega cartridges are reinforced with a "diamond-
  like" coating that Iomega says provides greater resistance to head
  crash or shock. (The 44 and 88 MB cartridges work in 200 MB
  SyQuest mechanisms, but there is no 200 MB cartridge available
  from Iomega.)

  SyQuest may well have agreed to license its technology because it
  saw licensing as simpler than leaping into protracted legal
  battles. Whether or not that was the intent, SyQuest's money
  remains available for research and development, rather than for
  legal firms' coffers, and the end user can only benefit. If
  cartridges become less expensive as a result as well, so much the
  better.

    Iomega Corporation -- 800/947-0928 -- 801/778-3000


A Taste of Thai
---------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  When Adam and I moved to Seattle from upstate New York, we
  discovered the delights of Thai food. After some experimentation
  with fish sauce, lime leaves, and curry pastes we learned how to
  make a few dishes at home, but our cultural background makes it
  difficult to locate and prepare the correct ingredients. As a
  result, I was excited to find Live Oak Multimedia's 4 Paws of Crab
  CD in the list of products shown at Macworld Expo.

  4 Paws of Crab presents 45 Thai recipes along with a great deal of
  cultural and practical information. What makes the CD more
  interesting than just a collection of cultural comparisons and
  culinary tips is the way in which the presentation does not
  overwhelm the informational content, as is common when developers
  realize all the fun things they can do with sound and video. For
  example, sound clips provide the correct pronunciation of the
  names of Thai ingredients, and pictures show recipes in various
  stages of preparation.

  4 Paws of Crab has, as the more alert of you might have expected,
  four sections for exploration: _Mirrors_ uses graphics, links,
  text, and so on to share the experiences of an American visiting
  Thailand and a Thai visiting America; _Time_Romp_ offers a
  comparative history of America and Thailand, set up so you can
  find out what happened in the two areas at the same historical
  time; _Happy_Market_ looks a bit more like a book and has
  illustrations and text describing Thai ingredients; and finally,
  _Recipes_ shows recipes can be printed or used directly from the
  screen. The recipes have links that tie the Thai ingredients into
  the Happy Market section.

  At $50 you won't spring for the CD unless you have an interest in
  Thai food or Thai culture in relation to the American culture, but
  given the quality and contents of information and experience
  shared, if the topic does interest you, 4 Paws of Crab is worth
  checking out.

    Live Oak Multimedia -- 510/654-7480 -- 510/654-4637 (fax)
      [e-mail]


SoftArc Shows TCP/IP FirstClass
-------------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>

  SoftArc Inc., the Ontario-based developer of the FirstClass mail
  and conferencing software, announced earlier this month that an
  upcoming version of FirstClass will add TCP/IP to its suite of
  internally supported communications methods, which currently
  include asynchronous modem and other serial connections,
  AppleTalk, Communications Toolbox (CTB), and IPX links. The
  addition of TCP/IP support means that anyone using the Internet
  via a Macintosh or a computer running Windows with a TCP/IP
  connection will be able to access FirstClass boards hooked to the
  Internet, making for just one more in a series of ever-increasing
  explosions of information sources on the net.

  FirstClass servers will also be able to exchange server-to-server
  mail and conference messages through TCP/IP links. Currently, CTB
  support within FirstClass permits jury-rigged IP-based connections
  using freeware or commercial CTB connection tools, but such links
  have been reported to be unreliable in many cases.

  To take advantage of TCP/IP connectivity, FirstClass client users
  must run Apple's MacTCP control panel on Macintosh computers, or
  must configure Windows systems with a WinSock-compliant TCP/IP
  protocol stack. MacTCP is available individually, or at fairly
  good site license rates, from Apple (and is rumored to be slated
  for inclusion at no extra charge in System 7.5), or is included
  free with copies of Adam's Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh.
  Adam's Internet Starter Kit for Windows includes a WinSock stack
  with Chameleon Sampler, and there are shareware WinSock stacks
  available on the nets - look at:

ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/tiskwin/

  SoftArc says TCP/IP support has already been implemented at some
  of its corporate customer sites and plans to begin general
  shipment of TCP/IP-enabled versions of its server and client
  software by October. The protocol module that provides TCP/IP
  connectivity on a given FirstClass server will list for $995. The
  IPX protocol module, previously required for any network client-
  to-server connections for clients running Microsoft Windows, has a
  list price of $495, and the Windows interface option costs $295.
  The company may offer a discounted price to its hobbyist BBS
  customers; public-access bulletin boards already receive
  considerable discounts on the FirstClass server software.

  According to SoftArc, the company elected to pursue this "a la
  carte" approach to supplying multiple network protocols and user
  interfaces so as not to force all customers to pay for unneeded
  features. Companies using FirstClass on a solely Mac-based
  network, for example, have no need for either a Windows user
  interface or IPX connectivity, and won't want to pay for
  development of these capabilities. The FirstClass server software
  itself costs only $95; user licenses (mailboxes) and connectivity
  options are sold separately by SoftArc and a worldwide network of
  "SoftArc Certified Consultants.". Server and client software
  upgrades are always free. (Registered users may download updates,
  as well as foreign-language versions of the client software, from
  SoftArc Online, the company's support BBS, found at the number
  below. The company moved earlier this month, so check the number
  before you dial.)

  Steve Hall, a long-time FirstClass user and, since earlier this
  year, FirstClass administrator at Wellfleet Corporation in
  Massachusetts, says the TCP/IP implementation "works very well"
  and is "very reliable." His primary complaint at the moment is
  that the version Wellfleet currently uses does not support DNS
  (directory name services) lookups. As a result, his users must,
  for now, enter numeric IP addresses rather than domain-style names
  such as "ftp.tidbits.com." A surprise during Wellfleet's testing
  was that Windows client access via TCP/IP is "much faster" than
  Macintosh client access via AppleTalk, so Steve's main FirstClass
  client platform is now a Windows machine.

  Hall adds that FirstClass works quite well over SLIP or PPP dialup
  TCP/IP connections, using both Macintosh and Windows client
  software. His Windows users work with Chameleon or Distinct to
  provide TCP/IP services. Because Wellfleet's Windows users already
  dial in for FTP, terminal sessions, and database access using SLIP
  or PPP, it's convenient for them to now use FirstClass through the
  same connection.

  SoftArc's TCP/IP project is likely to result in more and more
  FirstClass servers popping up on the Internet. Many will be
  private mail and conferencing systems run by companies for their
  employees' use, such as the systems at Wellfleet, but quite a few
  are likely to be support bulletin boards run by hardware and
  software companies, or even public bulletin boards.

  Ironically, these servers might have trouble exchanging messages
  with non-FirstClass systems on the Internet. Currently, there is
  no SMTP mail gateway available for FirstClass servers. SoftArc has
  yet to specify a release date for the gateway it has had under
  development for a while, and the sole third-party SMTP gateway for
  FirstClass is no longer available. SoftArc does offer a UUCP
  gateway, and Information Access Technologies has a FirstClass
  version of its HoloGate software, but neither offers the full-
  time, direct-access benefits of SMTP.

  Some would say it's just as well; FirstClass servers have been
  targeted as being particularly poorly behaved participants on the
  Internet in general and in Usenet discussions in particular. Most
  of the difficulties can be attributed to gateway problems (such as
  the recent barrage of unwanted article duplicates in
  comp.sys.mac.comm) but some are merely due to the fact that
  FirstClass itself is not an Internet mail program or a Usenet news
  program; the gateways must convert between FirstClass and Internet
  concepts, and there isn't always a direct translation.

  We hope that SoftArc will begin by fixing the more cosmetic
  problems their current gateway causes (mostly easy fixes) and use
  the resulting momentum and good feelings to tackle the tougher
  problems of cleanly incorporating FirstClass into a worldwide
  network where following conventions and adhering to standards
  means everything.

    SoftArc -- 905/415-7000 -- 905/415-7151 (fax)
      905/415-7070 (BBS) -- <[e-mail]>
    Information Access Technologies -- 510/704-0160
      510/704-8019 (fax) -- 510/704-1058 (BBS) -- <[e-mail]>

  Information from:
    SoftArc propaganda
    Steve Hall, Wellfleet Corp.


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