Accelerated color

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Five accelerated 24-bit color boards are compared: ColorCard/24, Macintosh Display Card 8*24GC, Radius DirectColor/24, RasterOps 24L Display Board, and Spectrum/24 Series III. The Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC has a built-in accelerator. List price is $1,999 from Apple Computer. The ColorCard/24 features an optional $399 accelerator that plugs onto the color board. ColorCard/24 lists for $799 from SuperMac Technology. The Radius DirectColor/24 ($3,595) works with a separate accelerator board, the Radius QuickColor Graphics Engine, which is priced at $595. The RasterOps 24L Display Board, $3,995 from RasterOps, works with the $495 RasterOps Accelerator board. SuperMac Tech also offers the Spectrum/24 Series III for $3,999; Spectrum/24 Series III features a built-in accelerator. The RasterOps Accelerator works with any Macintosh II-compatible color board. The fastest board tested was the Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC (three tests out four on a 13-inch display).

Semiconductors and related devices, CPUs (Central processing units), AAPL, Design and construction, Radius Inc., Color, Upgrading (Computers), Display adapters, Apple Inc., Specifications, SuperMac Technology Inc., Graphics Accelerator/Display Board, RasterOps Corp., Radius DirectColor/24 (Graphics board), Apple Macintosh Display Card 8/24GC (Graphics accelerator/display board), Microprocessor Upgrade, SuperMac Technology ColorCard/24 (Graphics board), RasterOps 24L (Graphics board), SuperMac Technology Spectrum/24 III (Graphics board)

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Images in the palm of your hand

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Ten hand-held scanners - eight for the PC and two for the Macintosh - are reviewed and rated according to their capabilities. One scanner - the Abaton Transimage 1000 for the PC - includes software for optical character recognition (OCR), but it can only read text, not images. Skyworld Technology's Skyscan and Diamond Flower International's Handy Scanner 3000 can scan a color photo, with adequate results. At $349, the Skyscan is the best performer on the microcomputer for any line art or photographic image. It has eight file formats, three more than its closest rival. Thunderware's Lightning Scan for the Macintosh is a 16-gray-level scanner and creates the highest quality images. Lightning Scan sells for $549.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Evaluation, Product/Service Evaluation, I/O devices, Scanning, I/O Device, Everex Systems Inc. Abaton Div., Thunderware Inc., Complete PC Inc., Logitech Inc., Skyworld Technology USA Ltd., Diamond Flower International Inc., Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc., NISCA Inc., Packard Bell NEC Inc., Skyworld Technology SkySCAN D-120 (Scanning device), Diamond Flower Int'l Handy Scanner 3000 (Scanning device), Abaton Technology Transimage OCR 1000 (Scanning device), Logitech ScanMan (Hand-held gray-scale scanner), Mitsubishi Scankit MS-200Kit (Scanning device), Packard Bell Pocket Scanner (Scanning device), Thunderware LightningScan (Scanning device), The Complete PC Complete Half-Page Scanner (Scanning device), Nisca Niscan (Scanning device)

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