APL Product Guide
Vector 1:1, page 25
Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed. Read it in the PDF of the issue, page 25
Here is the first release of our exclusive new APL Product Guide, which we hope will provide VECTOR readers with useful information about sources of APL hardware and software. We shall be updating this with each issue of VECTOR and we depend on the alacrity of suppliers to keep us informed of their products.
We reserve the right to edit material supplied for reasons of space or to ensure a fair market coverage.
The listings are not restricted to UK companies and international suppliers are welcome to take advantage of these pages. Where no UK distributor has yet been appointed, the vendor should indicate whether this is imminent or whether approaches for representation by existing companies are welcomed.
For convenience to VECTOR readers, the product list has been divided into the following groups:
- Complete APL Systems (Hardware & software)
- APL Interpreters
- APL Visual Display Units
- APL character set printers
- APL-based packages
- APL consultancy
- Other services
- Vendor addresses
Every effort has been made to avoid errors in these listings but no responsibility can be taken by the VECTOR working group for mistakes or omissions.
Note: 'poa' indicates 'price on application'
COMPLETE APL SYSTEMS¶
| Company | Product | Prices £ | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Pearman | IBM PC & XT | 1995– 4425 |
Authorised IBM PC dealer supplying complete systems including peripherals based on IBM PC. |
| Cocking/Drury | MicroAPL SPECTRUM SAGE II SAGE IV |
6000– 35000 |
Supplied as part of a turnkey system. For product details see MicroAPL entry. |
| Inner Product | IBM PC | 2000– 5000 |
All IBM PC compatible software available. |
| MicroAPL | SPECTRUM | 11000– 15000 |
Expandable multi-user APL computer using Motorola 68000. Standard configuration 1 Mb RAM, 12/36 Mb disc, 12 ports. |
| SAGE IV | 8500 | Multi-user APL computer, 1 Mb RAM, 12/18 Mb disc. |
APL INTERPRETERS¶
| Company | Product | Prices £ | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Pearman | APL*PLUS/PC | 420– 600 |
See APL*PLUS entry |
| APL*PLUS | APL*PLUS/PC | 600 | Full feature interpreter for IBM PC and PC/XT. Also for compatibles CORONA, COMPAQ and COLUMBIA. |
| APL*PLUS/1000 | 27000– 47000 |
Enhancements to IBM's VSAPL. Runs under VM/CMS or MVS/TSO. | |
| Burroughs | APL/700 | 3150 | Runs on Burroughs B5000, B6000, B7000 and A9 mainframes. |
| Cocking/Drury | APL*PLUS/PC | 600 | Discount on multiple orders. |
| Dyadic | Dyalog APL | 1000– 8000 |
2nd generation portable APL for UNIX systems eg. VAX, HP9000, Fortune, MC68000, Zilog, Perkin-Elmer, Perq etc. |
| Inner Product | VIZ::APL | 255– 360 |
8-bit Zilog Z-80 CP/M |
| APL*PLUS/PC | 600 | See APL*PLUS entry | |
| I.P. Sharp | Sharp APL | poa | For IBM mainframes |
| Sharp APL/PC | poa | For IBM PC | |
| MicroAPL | APL.68000 | 1000+ | Full implementation with component files, error trapping etc. for SPECTRUM and SAGE machines or other popular MC68000-based computers. |
APL VISUAL DISPLAY UNITS¶
| Company | Product | Prices £ | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farnell | Tandberg TDV2221 | 1498 | Ergonomic design APL terminal, 50-19200 baud, 15" anti reflex screen, low profile keyboard. |
| Tandberg TDV2271 | 1685 | Combined APL/ANSI ergonomic terminal as above. | |
| Lynwood | Alpha | 1995 | Full APL character set, 16-bit microprocessor with pixel addressable monochrome graphics. |
| Alpha Colour | 2985 | As above but 8 colour graphics. | |
| MicroAPL | Insight VDT-1 | 795 | Inexpensive APL VDU |
| Insight GDT-1 | 1450 | With monochrome graphics | |
| Tektronix 4105 | 2995 | High resolution colour graphics supporting APL character set on MicroAPL hardware. | |
| Shandell | Concept AVT/APL+ | 896– 1195 |
Conforms to ANSI 3.64 standard; 80/132 columns, 4/8 pages of memory, windowing, two comms. ports, low profile keyboard. |
| Concept GVT/APL+ | 1370– 1825 |
As above with vector graphics. |
APL PRINTERS¶
| Company | Product | Prices £ | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Pearman | Epson FX series | Printer prices range from 289 to 1995 over all models. | |
| NEC Spinwriter | |||
| PRISM 80 PRISM 132 |
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| Datatrade | Datasouth DS180 | 1395 | 180 cps matrix printer with 2000 byte buffer, 9x7 dot matrix and APL option. |
| Inner Product | Epson FX80 | 500 | Soft char. set, 160 cps, 80 col. |
| Anadex 9620 | 1150 | 200 cps., 132 col., tractor feed | |
| Siemens PT88 | 620 | 180 cps., 80 col., silent | |
| TGC Starwriter | 1180 | 40 cps., letter quality | |
| MicroAPL | Datasouth DS180 | 1545 | See Datatrade entry |
| Philips GP300 | 2251 | Matrix printer with letter and draft quality and APL. |
APL PACKAGES¶
| Company | Product | Prices £ | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| APL*PLUS | Info Centre | 12000– 20000 |
Tools for full-screen entry, display and analysis. Interfaces to other proprietary IC products |
| CMCS | 30000– 100000 |
Complete Materials Management, Factory Planning & Forecasting package. | |
| Finance/Statistics | poa | Comprehensive package for IBM PC and compatibles. | |
| Cocking/Drury | ARMS 2 | 3000– 15000 |
Applications Generator |
| AFM | 10000 | High performance shared file system. | |
| CALL/AP | 3000 | Non-APL program execution. | |
| FORMAT | 2250 | Enhanced report formatting | |
| WSAIDS | 795 | Workspace documentation and development aids. | |
| Holtech | CASH | 3500– 10000 |
Accounting package and hotel management system implemented on MicroAPL SPECTRUM & SAGE CPUs. |
| Inner Product | Viewcom | 150 | Control Viewdata from APL |
| APL/DBASE II | 150 | Interace APL with dBase II | |
| APL/WORDSTAR | 150 | Interface APL with Wordstar | |
| APL/MULTIPLAN | 150 | Interface APL with spreadsheet | |
| I.P. Sharp | ACT | poa | Actuarial system |
| APS | poa | Financial modelling | |
| BOXJENKINS | poa | Forecasting technique | |
| CONSOL | poa | Financial Consolidation | |
| COURSE | poa | APL Instruction | |
| EASY | poa | Econometric Modelling | |
| FASTNET | poa | Project Management | |
| GLOBAL LIMITS | poa | Exposure management for banks | |
| MABRA | poa | record maintenance/reporting | |
| MAGIC | poa | Time series analysis/reporting | |
| MAGICSTONE | poa | N-dimensional database system | |
| MAILBOX | poa | Electronic Mail | |
| MICROCOM | poa | Mainframe to micro link | |
| SAGA | poa | General graphics, most devices | |
| SIFT | poa | Forecasting system | |
| SNAP | poa | Project management | |
| SUPERPLOT | poa | Business graphics | |
| VIEWPOINT | poa | 4GL — Info centre product | |
| XTABS | poa | Survey Analysis | |
| MicroAPL | MicroTASK | 250 | Project development aids |
| MicroFILE | 250 | File utilities and database | |
| MicroPLOT | 250 | Graphics for HP plotters etc. | |
| MicroLINK | 250 | General device communications | |
| MicroEDIT | 250 | Full screen APL editor | |
| MicroFORM | 250 | Full screen forms design | |
| MicroSPAN | 500 | Comprehensive APL tutor | |
| MicroGRID | poa | Ethernet & other networking | |
| APLCALC | 400 | APL spreadsheet system | |
| MicroPLOT/PC | 250 | For APL*PLUS/PC product |
APL CONSULTANCY¶
(prices quoted are per day unless otherwise marked)
| Company | Product | Prices £ | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Pearman | Consultancy & Courses | 25 | Per hour, onsite and offsite |
| APL People | Consultancy | poa | All levels, most APL systems |
| Employment Agency | poa | Permanent employees placed at all levels. Contractors supplied for short or long term projects, supervised. | |
| Cocking/Drury | Consultancy | 120-150 140-200 185-300 275-400 |
Junior consultant Consultant Senior consultant Managing consultant |
| Delphi | Consultancy | poa | Specialising in management reporting systems and APL on microcomputers. |
| Dyadic | Consultancy | poa | APL system design, consultancy, programming and training for Dyalog APL, VSAPL, APL*PLUS, IPSA APL etc. |
| Inner Product | Consultancy | 200 | Communications a speciality |
| I.P. Sharp | Consultancy | poa | Consultancy and support service world-wide. |
| MicroAPL | Consultancy | 150–250 | Technical & applications consultancy. |
OTHER PRODUCTS¶
| Company | Product | Prices £ | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| I.P. Sharp | Productivity Tools | poa | System utilities, operations utilities, system administration utilities, analyst utilities, auxiliary processors, comms. software, int. comms. network. |
| Databases | poa | Financial, aviation, energy and socioeconomic. |
VENDOR ADDRESSES¶
| Company | Contact | Address & Telephone |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Pearman Ltd. | Alan Pearman Maria Pearman |
96-98 Chester Road, Huntington, Chester CH3 6BT. 0244-46024 |
| APL People | Valerie Lusmore | 3 Cross Lane Close, Orwell, Royston, Herts SG8 5QW. 0223-207530 |
| APL*PLUS Ltd. | Barrie Webster John Ward |
Aston Science Park, Love Lane, Birmingham B7 4BJ, W. Midlands. 021-359 5096 |
| Burroughs Machines Ltd. | M.J. Fennell | Heathrow House, Bath Road, Hounslow, Middlesex TW5 9QL 01-750 1400 |
| Cocking & Drury Ltd. | Romilly Cocking | 16 Berkeley Street, London W1X 5AE. 01-493 6172 |
| Datatrade Ltd. | Tony Checksfield | 38 Billing Road, Northampton, NN1 5DQ. 0604-22289 |
| Delphi Consultation Ltd. | David Crossley | [address and telephone number omitted] |
| Dyadic Systems Ltd. | Peter Donnelly | 30 Camp Road, Farnborough, Hants. GU14 6EW. 0252-547222 |
| Farnell International Instruments Ltd. | Paul Ferguson | Jubilee House, Sandbeck Way, Wetherby, W. Yorks. 0937-61961 |
| or Roger Attard | Davenport House, Bowers Way, Harpenden, Herts. 05827-69071 | |
| Holtech Ltd. | Jan Bateman | 44 Conduit Street, London W1R 9FB. 01-734 7618 |
| Inner Product Ltd. | James Manning | Eagle House, 73 Clapham Common Southside, London SW4 9DG. 01-673 3354 |
| I.P. Sharp Associates Ltd. | David Weatherby | 132 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9SA. 01-730 4567 |
| Lynwood Scientific Developments Ltd. | Gareth Wokes | Park House, The High Street, Alton, Hants GU34 1EN. 0420-87024 |
| MicroAPL Ltd. | Richard Nabavi | Unit 1F, Nine Elms Industrial Estate, 87 Kirtling Street, London SW8 5BP. 01-622 0395 |
| Shandell Systems Ltd. | Maurice Shanahan | 12 High Street; Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP8 4QA. 02407-2027 |