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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).
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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.
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Apple will be releasing 32-bit Quickdraw in 1989, a breakthrough product that will boost the Mac's system software by giving the user the potential of seeing 16.8 million colors, only limited by the number of pixels on the screen. Six companies have already announced plans of releasing 24- and 32-bit video cards when Apple's product is ready, to take advantage of the new Quickdraw. Rastertops's Colorboard 232 and Micron Technology's Macrocolor Boar both offer 32-bits, but 8 of these bits are reserved for application program uses. Some of the other boards offered are: Radius's Direct Color-24, Personal Computer Peripherals's PCPC 11-24, Supermac Technology's Spectrum-24 and Truevision's Nuvista 1M.
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