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- Contact: Wendy Keough
- Farallon Computing, Inc.
- 2000 Powell Street, Suite 600
- Emeryville, CA 94608
- (415) 596-9303
- AppleLink: KEOUGH
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- Farallon Shows ISDN Application Technology At Apple Developer Conference
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- San Jose, CA-—May 8, 1990—-At the 1990 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference,
- Farallon Computing, Inc. demonstrated integrated voice/data applications for
- Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), featuring a future version of
- Farallon's Timbuktu/Remote™ software along with Farallon’s MediaTracks™
- product. The current Timbuktu/Remote screen sharing and file transfer software
- works over ISDN today for voice/data teleconferencing -- a user can conduct a
- simultaneous voice and screen conference with a remote user over a single ISDN
- telephone line.
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- At Apple Computer, Inc.'s ISDN introduction for developers, Farallon showed a
- development version of Timbuktu/Remote specially modified to support Apple's
- new ISDN NB Basic Rate Interface (BRI) card for ISDN. The demonstration
- version of Timbuktu/Remote added voice call support to its existing dial-up
- screen-sharing capability. Both voice and data telephone calls were initiated
- from a single user interface and a single directory. The ISDN NB card allowed
- both the voice and the data calls between two Macintosh computers to run over a
- single ISDN telephone line. (Currently, the shipping version of
- Timbuktu/Remote works over ISDN out of the box for data only, using special
- ISDN phones available from AT&T, Northern Telecom and other vendors.)
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- Farallon showed two applications for integrated voice and data in their
- demonstration:
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- Voice/Data Teleconferencing -- The first application was voice/data
- teleconferencing. The demonstration version of Timbuktu/Remote was used to
- establish a simultaneous voice and screen-sharing conference between two
- Macintosh users. They were able to collaborate on a document on the screen
- while simultaneously talking on the telephone. When they had finished they were
- able to transfer the file directly from one machine to the other. A single
- Timbuktu/Remote interface managed both connections, using a common directory.
-
- Remote Automated Training --- The second application was a remote training
- server featuring MediaTracks, Farallon's multimedia training product slated for
- June 1990 release. MediaTracks allows Macintosh users to create training
- "tapes" which combine recorded screen animation with sound, graphics and
- control buttons. In the demonstration, Timbuktu/Remote was again used to
- establish a simultaneous voice and data connection. A Macintosh user was able
- to play MediaTracks tapes remotely, with both the screen information and the
- sound coming over a single ISDN telephone line.
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- Availability
- Version 1.01 of Timbuktu/Remote is available for $195. MediaTracks is scheduled
- to ship in June for $295. No timing or pricing information is available for
- the voice/data prototype of Timbuktu/Remote.
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