re tempest and cyclone info needed if anyone has any information about the upcoming new computers cyclone and tempest i am in need of some info anything would be greatly appreciated shawn breedsa wkuvx bitnet according to macweek of the cyclone will come in the same metal minitower case as the quadra while the tempest will share the low slung case of the centris apple will offer a miniature video camera that can be mounted above the user s monitor or moved about on the end of its cable to take pictures of objects or documents taking advantage of the bit digital signal processor dsp built into the systems logic boards the camera will be able to put an image measuring by pixels with gray levels on the screen users will be able to install supplementary lenses that can record detail as fine as the wire bonds on an integrated circuit the camera is expected to cost between and the systems will ship with all the software needed to put apple s casper voice recognition technology to work users apparently will have to purchase an operational high fidelity microphone the two models will talk as well as listen a new system facility called the speech manager will convert text strings sent by applications to phonemes and then pass them to a speech synthesizer the cyclone will include a mhz three nubus slots and support for up to mb of ram the tempest will use a mhz lc lacking an fpu and hold up to mb of ram it will have a single slot that will require a nubus adapter and have room for only inch nubus cards users will be able to update the tempest s process but not the cyclone s for more get the issue of macweek
