Monthly Archives: July 1999
Iomega – Clik! PC Card Drive
Iomega’s new Clik! disk system is, it has to be said, pretty darned impressive. 40MB of storage space on a removable disk which isn’t much bigger than an old 50 pence piece is a good deal whichever way you look at it. The Clik! PC Card drive impresses us further still – it’s essentially a…
Xircom – CompactCard Ethernet 10
Some people just won’t go along with the crowd. Take Xircom for example. The rest of the PC industry looked at the CompactFlash slots on handheld computers and said “We could fit some extra memory in there”. Not the fellows at Xircom, though. Instead, they looked at the CF slots and said to themselves “We…
Pine – D’music
In case you’ve been held hostage in somebody’s basement for the past year, there’s a new music format that’s taking the Internet by storm, called MP3. This format lets you compress CD quality music into a relatively small amount of memory or disk space, from where it can then be played back using a piece…
Microsoft – Links Extreme
Microsoft has rightly realised that there’s a limit to how many near-identical golf games the market will support, particularly as existing ones are more than good enough. So the company has given its long-running Links franchise a bit of a face-lift. The result is Links Extreme, which has to be one of the strangest and…
Calluna – Callunacard 260MB
In these difficult days of over-complicated software and hard-to-configure hardware, a piece of kit which does exactly what it is supposed to is a rare and precious thing. So when the cynical old hacks here at IT Reviews came across this Type II PC Card hard drive which starts working as soon as it’s plugged…
Lexmark – Color Jetprinter Z51
If size meant quality, the new Lexmark Z51 ought to be pretty good. Lexmark’s new top of the range colour ink-jet is almost twice the size of its slimline predecessor, the 5700. With the Z51, Lexmark has introduced a new colour ink cartridge which can deliver the smallest ink droplets yet – just 7 pico-litres…
Pace – ISDN Professional
Responding to an expanding hole in the market, modem manufacturer PMC Consumer Electronics has given its ISDN terminal adapter a make-over by adding fax and voice messaging capabilities to its specification. The result is the Pace ISDN Professional. Virtually all dial-up modems are voice and fax-capable these days, but hardly any ISDN terminal adapters are….
Aureal – Vortex2 SuperQuad Digital PCI Sound Card
While the quest for the perfect 3D graphics card goes on, there’s just as much activity in the 3D sound card market, driven by gamers who want the ultimate in immersive gaming experiences. This latest card from Aureal is based on the company’s own Vortex2 3D positioning chip and comes with support for the A3D…
Infogrames – Outcast
Outcast starts uniquely, and continues that way. After being greeted by a face that bears a frightening resemblance to Michael Portillo, you make any necessary configuration changes and begin the game proper. At which point your jaw drops to the floor. Outcast is gorgeous. But not ‘gorgeous’ as in 1600 x 1200 resolution with full…