PRODUCT: Zebra Graphics Tablet
PRICE : $89.95
PRODUCT: Tech-Draw
PRICE : $19.95
AVAILABLE FROM: Zebra Systems, Inc.
78-06 Jamaica Avenue
Woodhaven, NY 11421
There have been many great enhancements developed for the TS line of computers since their inception. Memory expansions, joystick adapters (both for the 1000/1500), printer interfaces, microdrives, and more.
And one of the main companies in the forefront of this product development has been Zebra Systems. Zebra has believed in T/S from the start and continually develops more great products to further the cause.
Zebra’s latest products are definitely some of their finest. The Zebra Graphics Tablet allows anyone to become a “weekend Picasso”, and have some great fun with their 2068.
ZebraPainter is a great piece of software. It meets all the features of its counterpart for the C64. I have experience with both, and I find ZebraPainter to be the superior program. Finished pictures can be sent to a 2040 Thermal Printer, and if you happen to be left handed (like me!), you can reverse the software to make it easier to use!
I feel that the Zebra Graphics Tablet will be the Product of the Year in the 2nd Annual T-S HORIZONS Awards Issue.
Making that statement, I will also make my prediction of the Program of the Year: Tech-Draw, also from Zebra.
TECH-DRAW is a High-Resolution graphics program that was inspired by the capabilities of Apple Computer’s MacIntosh and its “MacPaint” program. TECH-DRAW features “pop-down” menus for selection of the brushes (16) and shading patterns (35). You also have a selection of three text fonts in three sizes!
(Samples of actual printouts are shown in Figure 1.)
TECH-DRAW not only allows you to print out to the 2040 Thermal Printer, but to a number of Full-Size printers. The Olivetti Ink-Jet, Gorilla Banana, and Memotech DMX-80 (that’s mine!) are among the many printers that TECH-DRAW supports.
Zebra is constantly working to make their products usable for many people, and this support of a number of printers proves it.
I highly commend Zebra Systems for ANOTHER job well done, and hope they continue making more great product for the T/S line of computers!