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NEWS & VIEWS<br />
SPECIAL C.E.S. EDITION<br />
The next most interesting set of products<br />
were the video digitizers. Tuio systems were<br />
being shoun: one by CARDCO, and the other by<br />
DIGITAL VISION. Of the two, DIGITAL VISION'S<br />
COPPUTEREYES is available immediately (in<br />
fact, we have been using one for about 2<br />
months at INF0=64 and all the digitized<br />
photos in this issue mere produced uith<br />
COPPUTEREYES in conjunction uith FLEXIDRAW<br />
light pen software from INKbELL SYSTEPE).<br />
Both systems are around $300 with a hi-res<br />
black and white camera included (shave off<br />
about $150 if you have your own camera), both<br />
produce multiple grey-level images, and<br />
interface the C-64 thru the cartridge<br />
COPPUTEREYES has software for use with<br />
popular graphics software including<br />
both<br />
port.<br />
most<br />
KOALA<br />
PAIWTER, DOODLE, & FLEXIDRAW. Thus images<br />
captured uith the video camera may be<br />
manipulated extensively with your favorite<br />
graphics package (the background of my<br />
portrait here doesn t exist- it is a pattern<br />
fill from FLEXIDRAW 5.0). The CARDCO package<br />
is quite a bit faster at grabbing images,<br />
which can be important if you have a human<br />
subject sitting before you in real-time!<br />
Look for a side-by-side revieu of these tuo<br />
products in a future issue.<br />
[ For more INFO, contact:<br />
CARDCO / 300 S. TOPEKA / WICHITA, KS 67202 /<br />
(316) 267-6525<br />
DIGITAL VISION / 14 OAK STREET - SUITE 2 /<br />
NEEDHAM, MA 02192 / (617)444-9040<br />
Several new productivity packages were on display.<br />
Integrated packages were popular; like TRIO from<br />
Softsync, Inc. (word processing, spreadsheet, & file<br />
manager) & HDPEPAK from Batteries Included (word<br />
processing, file manager, terminal software). Cardco<br />
was showing CALC-NOU, an under $40 spreadsheet with<br />
some hi-priced features. Perhaps the most interesting<br />
from both a product and human interest angle uas<br />
VISASTAR, an integrated spreadsheet and database<br />
manager. VISASTAR is a nice package with some unusual<br />
features which we will be reviewing soon in detail (see<br />
photo left), but perhaps as interesting as the product,<br />
is the person behind it. If the name 'Jay<br />
Balakrishnan' doesn't ring a bell, maybe the name<br />
'Human Engineered Software (HES) does. Jay is the<br />
former key man behind the now defunct software giant of<br />
1984, he is now the President of Solid State Software:<br />
VIZASTAR is his first fand so far as I know, only)<br />
product. At last year s CES, you couldn't get in to<br />
see Jay unless you were a I/.I.P.- this year Jay was<br />
working from a card-table in an 8' X 81 booth with a<br />
stack of 2-color brochures. How times change.<br />
[Solid State Software / 1253 Corsica Lane / Foster<br />
City, CA / (415) 341-5606]
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