Based in San Jose, California, Avatar Corp and Mitem Corp announce MitemView support for Avatar’s MacMainFrame Series of Macintosh-to-mainframe communications products: using Mitemview, developers can create intelligent HyperCard front-ends to IBM mainframe applications, which simplify access and retrieval from host-based applications; Mitem and Avatar plan to release MacMainFrame Workstation and Gateway coax support for general availability in May 1990, and to release Token-Ring and SDLC network support in June; the MitemView developer’s toolkit is $1,000 while the personality module required by MitemView to drive MacMainFrame sells for $500.
