NEWSBYTES INDEX/Week of September 12, 1989/Issue #324 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1989 SEP 12 (NB) -- In this week's issue...

APPLE WORLD

CANADA'S MAC PORTABLE LAUNCH TO COINCIDE WITH U.S.

MARKHAM, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1989 SEP 8 (NB) -- Canadians can expect the long-awaited portable Macintosh to be announced here simultaneously with its unveiling in the United States

NANAO INTROS PHOTO QUALITY MAC MONITORS

TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1989 SEP 5 (NB) -- Two monitors designed to handle applications that require extra-large screens and photographic-quality resolutions such as CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and manufacturing), photo retouching, three dimensional modeling, desktop publishing and presentation graphics, have been introduced by Nanao USA.

APPLE GAINS MCDONNELL D CONTRACT FOR MACS

NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1989 SEP 7 (NB) -- Southwest Operations of Apple Computer has been awarded a contract to supply McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company (SSC) with 1,000 Mac IIcx computers for use in it's new Space Station Freedom Building.

APPLE RESTRUCTURES EUROPEAN DEALER NETWORK

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, 1989 SEPT 09 (NB) -- Apple has announced a new strategy for its European distribution network in order to streamline operations

BARCO WINS $10 MILLION COLOUR MONITOR DEAL

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, 1989 SEP 09 (NB) -- Barco, the monitor and graphics systems specialist, has secured a major contract with Rasterops, the Californian colour graphics board systems specialists

QMS INTROS COLOURSCRIPT 100 MODEL 10

PARIS, FRANCE, 1989 SEP 9 (NB) -- QMS exhibited the latest addition to its ColorScript family at the Apple Expo in Paris last week.

IBM WORLD

NEW HIGH-END TOSHIBA LAPTOP SOON

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1989 SEP 7 (NB) -- Toshiba expects to have a new high-end laptop on sale by the end of September.

BORLAND CHALLENGES LOTUS WITH QUATTRO PLUS

SCOTTS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1989 SEP 6 (NB) -- Claiming it can fulfill all the undelivered promises made by Lotus in its 1-2-3 version 3.0, Borland International has introduced Quattro Pro

WORLD'S CHEAPEST FAX CARD

FREMONT, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1989 SEP 8 (NB) -- What may be the ultimate breakthrough in rock-bottom pricing on a fax board has come from a recent start-up company near Silicon Valley

MORE RIDE ON HP'S NEW WAVE

PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1989 SEP 9 (NB) -- Hewlett-Packard says the HP NewWave environment, $195, is now being shipped to users and three more firms have released products to support it.