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4 total messages Started by RSANDLE Wed, 04 Nov 1992 03:15

#24

Author: RSANDLE
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 03:15

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I am interested in a real-time shared space for four to seven users in a Macint
osh environment. MS Mail just doesn't do it. We would like to be able to
communicate via a common window on each users machine. We have servers &
network in place.

AM I DREAMING?
all responses or alternate ideas are welcome.

Re: Groupware for Macintosh

#28

Author: Greg Chwelos
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 14:13

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<RSANDLE@auvm.american.edu> writes:

>I am interested in a real-time shared space for four to seven users in a Macint
>osh environment. MS Mail just doesn't do it. We would like to be able to
>communicate via a common window on each users machine. We have servers &
>network in place.

>AM I DREAMING?
>all responses or alternate ideas are welcome.

It depends on what you mean by communicating.  CSCW'92 is in it's final
day today and through the conference we have seen numerous examples of
grouptools: editors, paint, and drawing tools.  Most of these are research
prototypes.  However, here's the name of two commercial products:
	Aspects
	Group Technologies
	1408 North Fillmore Street, Suite 10
	Arlington, VA 22201
	800-476-8781
	review in Patricia Seybold's Office Computing Report, Dec. 1990
As you can see, Aspects has been around for a while.  It is a robust product
supporting up to 16 users with text, drawing, and paint tools.  Group
Technologies was also demoing a new video-conferencing tool for the Mac.

	MultiPoint
	IIS Technologies
Sorry, I don't have their address as I didn't make it to their demo.
Description includes "real-time multimedia, multipoint, visual conferencing
...supports shared views of docs, viewgraphs, photos, images with shared
gestures and annotations"

If by communicating you mean video (desktop video-conferencing), then I 
don't believe there are any
commercial systems available, though numerous research prototypes exist,
Including CAVECAT here at U of Toronto, and Cruiser at Bellcore.
Check out the CSCW/groupware/HCI literature.

greg

Re: Groupware for Macintosh

#326

Author: Andre Schappo
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 12:03

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In article <1992Nov4.091344.27127@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>,
chwelos@csri.toronto.edu (Greg Chwelos) wrote:
> 
> If by communicating you mean video (desktop video-conferencing), then I 
> don't believe there are any
> commercial systems available, though numerous research prototypes exist,
> Including CAVECAT here at U of Toronto, and Cruiser at Bellcore.
> Check out the CSCW/groupware/HCI literature.
> 
> greg

There is a commercial desktop video conferencing for the Macintosh now
available. It is called ES*F2F. I saw a demo of it and it is very good. The
distributor for it here in the UK is Frontline Distribution from whom you
can get more details, email: uk0013@applelink.apple.com

Andre Schappo: Dept. Computer Studies, University of Technology,
               Loughborough, Leics, UK, LE11 3TU.
        email: A.Schappo@lut.ac.uk

Re: Groupware for Macintosh

#327

Author: Charles Sederholm
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 15:19

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   In article <1992Nov4.091344.27127@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>,
   chwelos@csri.toronto.edu (Greg Chwelos) wrote:
   > 
   > If by communicating you mean video (desktop video-conferencing), then I 
   > don't believe there are any
   > commercial systems available, though numerous research prototypes exist,

If by commercial desktop video-conferencing you mean somethiong to
develop just that =8^) then there is a product from a company called Vista
Communication Instruments, Inc., who have implemented the H.261
videocompression standard on two ISA-bus (PC AT-bus) cards.

Call +358-0-460099 and ask to talk to Mr. Rolf Vainio 
or fax to +358-0-460610

If you want to communicate just locally in an Ethernet you could use a
similar product of a company called Bitfield Inc. who have H.261
compression and decompression on one ISA-bus card for LAN use...

Call +358-0-70018663 or fax +358-0-4552240

Both companies are in Helsinki, Finland... and offer their cards to OEM
producers who want to build their own desktop or other kind of
video-conferencing system... 

bye,
charles

--

Charles Sederholm
cts@cs.hut.fi       Phone (nat): 90-1390012      Fax (nat): 90-4513293
                          (int): +358-0-1390012      (int): +358-0-4513293
                    Institute of Industrial Automation; Room Y228
                    Helsinki University of Technology
                    Otakaari 1; SF-02150 Espoo; Finland

--

Charles Sederholm
cts@cs.hut.fi       Phone (nat): 90-1390012      Fax (nat): 90-4513293
                          (int): +358-0-1390012      (int): +358-0-4513293
                    Institute of Industrial Automation; Room Y228
                    Helsinki University of Technology
                    Otakaari 1; SF-02150 Espoo; Finland

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