---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Announcements SunFLASH Vol 43 #9 July 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNIX-Based IsoFax Improves Electronic Fax Security Parallax Graphics (24-bit and video) Application Developers Program PSI Enhances PSILink Service, Adds Support for Wireless Data Networks SRS Imaging 1200L XP 900 DPI SCSI-Based Laser Printer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: UNIX-Based IsoFax Improves Electronic Fax Security From: Douglas Cooper Larkspur, Calif., June, 1992 -- The Bristol Group, Ltd., a privately held developer of software solutions for electronic faxing for UNIX-based workstations including Sun, HP 9000, and IBM RS/6000, has introduced an advanced version of its popular IsoFax software-based fax package which includes support for standard Direct Inward Dialing (DID) phone service. A dynamic tool for electronic faxing that runs on Sun workstations, IsoFax's new DID capability allows fax documents to be automatically routed to a particular directory on an individual networked UNIX-based workstation. The price of IsoFax software starts at less than $2,000. The Bristol Group's IsoFax software provides UNIX users with the ability to electronically fax any type of document to other workstations, or to any of ten million fax machine found throughout the world. It offers document management capabilities such as archival and retrieval of fax documents and a useful address book so that faxes can be sent to more than one person at a time. According to Pete Harris, president of the Bristol Group, DID helps provide the best-possible fax security. He says, "At the moment faxes can be viewed almost at will by almost anyone who passes by the office fax machine. And it's even worse with electronic fax servers." Bristol designed IsoFax's DID for offices that require an extra level of privacy. Just as switchboards in large offices support direct dial numbers, IsoFax can provide each networked Sun user with an individual fax number, up to 10,000 private numbers. Faxed messages are automatically routed to a specific terminal where access is further controlled by use of a confidential user ID code. Harris says, "It's as if each user had his own private fax line and fax machine." IsoFax provides a scalable migration path so that users who started small can expand their system's capacity. The package can be started with just one IsoFax line, and can grow to accomodate up to 16 total lines. IsoFax allows users to create documents using industry-leading applications, including InterLeaf, FrameMaker, Island Draw/Paint/ Write, Lotus 1-2-3, AutoCAD, and Oracle. For more information about The Bristol Group and its products and services, contact The Bristol Group, Ltd., 100 Larkspur Landing Circle, Suite 200, Larkspur, CA 94939; (415) 925-9250; fax (415) 925-9278. Tom Carroll, Doug Cooper Cooper/Iverson Marketing (619) 292-7400 Pete Harris, President The Bristol Group (415) 925-9250 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Parallax Graphics (24-bit and video) Application Developers Program From: Douglas Cooper PARALLAX GRAPHICS ANNOUNCES NEW PROGRAM FOR INDEPENDENT APPLICATION DEVELOPERS Santa Clara, CA (June 15, 1992) -- Parallax Graphics is introducing a new program for Independent Application Developers (IADs). The program will provide financial and technical support for ISDs who incorporate Parallax Graphics' XVideo videographic controller into their software and systems. XVideo is an SBus card that offers photo-realistic 24-bit imaging, realtime video digitizing, and hardware image compression. Users can display two live, full-size video inputs simultaneously in separate XWindows on compatible Sun-based workstations. John Ricketson, vice president of sales and marketing with Parallax, says that XVideo permits generation and display of JPEG-compressed images up to the full size of the frame buffer. This compression allows high-quality, full-motion video to be introduced from a shared network or hard disk, and lets professionals design their own programs without the need for cumbersome editing tools or hard-to-control peripherals. According to John Ricketson, companies that enlist in their program are provided with: % low-cost access to Parallax's XVideo controller technology; % assistance in the design and/or porting of software from the Parallax platform; and % promotion of the developer's software, to include: directory listings, sharing of booth space at industry trade shows, demonstrations at Parallax customer sites, application story write ups, and access to Parallax's customer database for mailings. Candidates for the program include developers of multimedia authoring tools, office automation products, image databases, artificial intelligence, real-time monitoring, and computer-based training. Charter members include: - Apunix Computer Services, Animation control software Apunix Animator - Clarity Software, Inc., Business and communication software Rapport - EnerAnalytics, Multimedia & video device control software MediaEA - Gain Technology, Inc., Multimedia authoring software, Demonstration development software GainMomentum, GainExposure - Image Concepts, Inc., Imaging database software C-Quest ESP - Paradise Software, Inc., Multimedia authoring, JPEG movie software MediaWrite - Paragon Imaging, Inc., Image enhancement & analysis software ELT/2 - Rockwell Int'l - CMC, Networked video hardware Rockwell FDDI Netork Adaptor - Stanford University, Distributed multimedia authoring software MAEstro - Tiger Media, Inc., Interactive multimedia authoring & computer- based training software CATS MEOW - Univ. of Mass. at Lowell, Multimedia peripherals controller software, Multimedia authoring software, Workgroup productivity software DCMS, MediaVisualizer, Multimedia Document Annotator - V.I. Corporation, Graphical user interface development software DataView For more information, contact Parallax Graphics, Inc., 2500 Condensa Street, Santa Clara, CA 95051; (408) 737-2220. Tom Carroll, Doug Cooper Cooper/Iverson Marketing (619) 292-7400 John Ricketson, Alice Munz Parallax Graphics (408) 727-2220 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: PSI Enhances PSILink Service, Adds Support for Wireless Data Networks From: brown@psi.com (Kimberly Brown) Newsgroups: comp.newprod Organization: Performance Systems International, Inc. Reston Virginia. PSI ENHANCES PC PERSONAL INTERNETWORK SERVICE, ADDS SUPPORT FOR WIRELESS DATA NETWORKS Reston, VA - May 4, 1992 - Performance Systems International, Inc. (PSI) today announced the release of an enhanced version of PSILink, the company's turnkey Internet service package. PSILink is a seamless service that gives users global access to electronic resources, including 250 million electronic mail users on the worldwide Internet. "PSILink gives end-users a single point of access to a whole world of e-mail users," said Martin L. Schoffstall, vice president and chief technical officer of PSI. "The new version of PSILink adds more services and support for more mail networks, including wireless data networks." The improved PSILink service includes Internet file transfer, USENET/News, and message attachments. It delivers electronic mail to subscribers of the Internet, MCIMail, ATTMail, CompuServe, AppleLink, SprintMail and others. The new version of PSILink also supports wireless mobile data networks operated nationwide by RAM Mobile Data, a business venture between RAM Broadcasting and BellSouth. RAM Mobile Data networks provide fast, efficient and economical data communications for the mobile environment, using the standard Mobitex architecture for packet switched message exchange between portable and mobile terminals and their host computers. The system is optimized for short, interactive data messages and offers greater capacity and faster throughput than cellular, switched systems. "By adding support for RAM, PSI is giving laptop users wireless access to the e-mail boxes of the world," said Martin Levetin, RAM vice president and general manager of wireless messaging. "We're very pleased that PSI shares our vision of wireless connectivity." Using a DOS-based laptop computer and a portable radio modem such as Ericsson GE's Mobidem, PSILink subscribers can exchange messages over the Internet from anywhere within RAM's radio coverage area -- including airports, offices and vehicles. Ericsson GE's Mobidem M1090 Portable Wireless Modem provides wireless data communications connectivity for palmtop, notebook and laptop computers. It weighs less than one pound and carries a suggested retail price of $1,795. "With support for RAM mobile data networks, PSILink connects wireless and wired network environments worldwide," Bill Frezza, director of marketing and business development at Ericsson GE Mobile Communications, Wireless Computing Division. "No other internetworking service provider gives users one software package and a single point of contact for both wired and wireless networks." Low speed (1200 and 2400 baud) and high speed (9600 baud) local dialup PSILink service is available through PSINet in major U.S. cities including: Ann Arbor, MI Corning, NY Newark, NJ Santa Clara, CA Albany, NY Dallas, TX New York, NY Seattle, WA Atlanta, GA Hartford, CT Philadelphia, PA Stamford, CT Austin, TX Houston, TX Portland, OR Syracuse, NY Binghamton, NY Islip, NY Potsdam, NY Trenton, NJ Boston, MA Ithaca, NY Reston, VA Utica, NY Buffalo, NY Los Angeles, CA Rochester, NY Washington, DC Chicago, IL Mtn. View, CA San Francisco, CA White Plains, NY Pricing for the PSILink service starts as low as $19 per month for unlimited dialup electronic mail usage. PSILink 3.0 software is available at no cost to subscribers, and features a graphical user interface with windows and pull-down menus. Wireless prices will be available in June. Also in June, PSI will announce fifty international dialup access points in Europe and the Pacific Basin. PSI, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, is a value-added internetworking services provider with a wide spectrum of services for the individual and corporate user of electronic information. Services range from electronic mail products to turnkey integration of local area networks into the PSINet wide area network system and the Internet. RAM Mobile Data operates packet switched radio-based data networks in the U.S. and the United Kingdom with network construction planned for Australia later this year. Ericsson GE Mobile Communications, Inc., based in Paramus, New Jersey, is owned 60 percent by Ericsson and 40 percent by GE. Ericsson GE designs, manufactures, and markets cellular telephones, land mobile radio products and systems, and Mobitex wireless data communications products and systems for global markets. Ericsson also markets cellular systems in North America. ### All brands, products and service names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Contact: Martin L. Schoffstall Vice President & CTO Performance Systems International, Inc. 11800 Sunrise Valley Drive Suite 1100 Reston, VA 22091 Voice: 1 800.82PSI82 +1 703.620.6651 Fax: +1 703.620.4586 E-Mail: info@psi.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SRS Imaging 1200L XP 900 DPI SCSI-Based Laser Printer From: Douglas Cooper SRS IMAGING CONFIRMS PRICING AND AVAILABILITY OF NEW IMAGER 1200L XP* 900 DPI SCSI-BASED LASER PRINTER Irvine, Calif., June 17, 1992 -- SRS Imaging today confirmed that its new new Imager 1200L XP*, a true 900 dpi, 12 ppm, 11" x 17" laser printer designed for use with SPARC-based networks, will be available in third quarter, most likely September, 1992, and that its suggested retail price would be $19,995. SRS Imaging is the only laser printer manufacturer to offer high resolution printing solutions exclusively for the workstation market. The company's Imager 1200L XP will be the first high-resolution laser printer to support this new, high-performance network publishing software from the SunPics, a Sun Microsystems subsidiary. SunPics' NeWSprint XP provides high-quality, banded PostScript- compatible imaging. It provides an opportunity for new classes of printers to work in distributed computing networks without limitations in output size or resolution, and without extensive system memory requirements. SRS's Imager 1200L XP brings a wide range of paper sizes to Sun UNIX workstations for pre-press publishing and engineering design, including 11" x 17" and 8.5" x 11". The Imager 1200L XP will produce high quality, true 900 dpi PostScript language output, and enable offset printers and publishers to produce high-quality paper plate masters consisting of text, CAD/CAE, graphics or imaging. SRS Imager 1200L XP benefits from NeWSprint XP's unique ability to harness the processing power of the SPARC workstation where it resides. The need to occupy the printer for extended periods of time is eliminated because all rasterizing is performed on the host workstation or server. The printer benefits directly from any and all workstation upgrades, helping it deliver maximum utility across its service life; no added costs to the printer are required to enhance performance. Using SRS' proprietary FLASH (Fast Linked Architecture for SCSI Hosts) Technology*, and the workstation's high-speed SCSI interface, rasterized pages in the form of bands can be transferred to this SCSI- based printer at up to five Mb per second (equivalent to one and one-half pages per second), without the usual data transfer bottlenecks. This allows the printer to easily maintain its rated speed of 12 pages per minute. 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