PC/Computing Names Most Valuable Products of 1990; Awards Presented at Ceremony with Boston Computer Society
CAMBRIDGE, Mass — November 1, 1990 — PC/Computing today announced the winners of its Most Valuable Product Awards for 1990.
The 19 new PC products will be honored this evening at an awards ceremony co-sponsored by PC/Computing and the Boston Computer Society's IBM-PC users group.
Mike Edelhart, PC/Computing's editor-in-chief, said, ''At the motion picture industry's Academy Awards, attention focuses on opening the envelope. But when Most Valuable Product Awards time rolls around at PC/Computing, we're more interested in selecting products that push the envelope.''
Added John Dickinson, PC/Computing's editor, ''We honor MVPs because great products are the engine that powers the unending expansion of PCs in our businesses and lives. Innovative and powerful new products push the envelope of what microcomputers — and those who master them — can achieve.''
Each year, PC/Computing's editors select the products they think represent the best that microcomputing had to offer over the past 12 months. The magazine's Most Valuable Products of 1990 are:
— TravelMate 3000, a 5.7-pound notebook PC from Texas Instruments Inc.;
— The Typist, a combination of optical character recognition software and a hand scanner from Caere Corp.;
— Windows 3.0, a multitasking, graphical environment for the PC from Microsoft Corp.;
— Targa Plus, a video card for the PC from Truevision;
— LaserJet III, a laser printer from Hewlett-Packard Co.;
— Wingz for Windows, a spreadsheet from Informix Software;
— Ultra 96, a high-speed intelligent modem from Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc.;
— BJ-10e, a Bubble Jet printer from Canon USA Inc.;
— ScanMan 256, a hand-scanner, image-editing package from Logitech;
— Adobe Type Manager (Windows Version), a font-management utility from Adobe Systems Inc.;
— ALR BusinessVEISA, a desktop PC with swappable CPUs from Advanced Logic Research;
— SatfisFaxtion, a fax board for the PC from Intel Personal Computer Enhancement Operation;
— Notes, group communications software from Lotus Development Corp.;
— Ensemble, a multitasking graphical operating environment from GeoWorks;
— GRiDPad, a handheld, pen-based computer from GRiD Systems Corp.;
— QMS-PS 410, a PostScript printer from QMS;
— QEMM 5.1, a memory management program, and Desqview 2.3, a multitasking environment for DOS applications, both from Quarterdeck Office Systems; and
— OmniKey/Ultra, a keyboard from Northgate Computer Systems Inc.
The second annual MVP award ceremony will be held at the Mass Bay Community College, 50 Oakland Street, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Product demonstrations begin at 6:30 p.m. and the awards presentation begins at 8 p.m. PC/Computing is the one of the two largest computer publications in the world. The other is PC Magazine, which is also a Ziff-Davis publication. The MVP products will be profiled in the cover story of the December issue of PC/Computing, which goes on sale in two weeks.
CONTACT:
PC/Computing, Cambridge
Greg Jarboe, 617/497-2430