HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eric@telebit.com (Eric Smith)
Subject: Re: 68050
Followup-To: comp.arch
X-Disclaimer: Everything I write is false.
Organization: Telebit Corporation
Date: 1 Oct 92 18:08:26

>>On Tue, 29 Sep 92 20:10:41 GMT, hees@cubic.com (Phil Hees) said:
> No, the name P5 really is a temporary project name - it won't be called
> the P5 when it's officially announced.  Intel has been using P(n) code
> names since at least the 386SX (which was called the P2).

And they reuse the numbers.  There was an earlier chip that was a P5 while
it was being developed, but once it gets a real part number, the P designation
is apparently free for reuse.

In 1986, they used the designation P7 for the processor that was being
designed for use in the BiiN workstations.  This was the first chip in the
i960 family, and may be what is now called the i960MX.

This all has nothing to do with 68Ks, though.
From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: PB100 screen collapses into a white horizontal line?!? (problem)
Date: 30 Sep 1992 17:55:47 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu


	I have a (new) PowerBook 100 (though old by time spent in
	a warehouse, I suspect ;-) and a couple of days ago it
	"scared me" when the screen collapsed into a quarter-cm (yes,
	I am metric! :-) wide HORIZONTAL(!! not vertical, as the old
	Plus power-supply problem does manifest itself!) line across
	the center of the screen (and a second one was like a ghost
	image across the top of the screen).  After a few simple
	attempts proved me a failure at doing anything about it, I
	turned it off, thought about it for a while, and turned it
	back on.  Whatever it was, it hasn't happened again, but I
	am curious (and concerned) enough to want to "look ahead"
	at what kind of troubles this might mean for me, sooner or
	later.

	Has anyone heard or seen similar things happen?  I am, as I
	write this, on hold with Apple's 1-800-SOS-APPLE line ....
	..ok, conversation done:  "boot with DiskTools" floppy (he said),
	"zap PRAM, reset ControlPanel settings" ... why (of course, I ask! :-)
	"well, because it could be a software problem."  have you heard
	of this before?  "yes, someone else called in reporting this problem
	just recently."  so, what software problem could that be?
	"well, you see the Monitor CDEV settings are kept in PRAM and
	they could be a problem; and besides, the screen image is kept
	in memory, and this could be screwed up by software."
	isn't it more likely to be a hardware problem? "well, if it
	happens again and zapping the PRAM won't fix it, you'll have
	to send it in for hardware repair."  what kind of repair?
	but if it isn't a persistant problem, how can it be repaired?
	(well, I refrained from asking those questions; I figured that
	the phone-person wasn't likely to have been trained in hardware
	(and thus not likely to be able to discuss those details...)

	hmmm.... sounds like the standard "run DiskFirstAid and zap PRAM
	(and call me in the morning)" snake-oil to me ....  Anyway, should
	it happens to me again, I will, of course, try it; maybe if I reboot
	immediately (and not wait awhile,  and move the machine around some)
	the problem will persists through the reboot ...

	still, hard to believe it could be a software problem...

	does anyone know if/how I can tell if that cable-fix (a lot of PBs
	get recalled/sentint to have a cable that links the screen to the
	main body - through the hinges, apparently - replaced, or a plastic
	sleeve or similar is put around it, to protect it) has been done?

	was that a serial-number keyed recall, or just a common problem
	(for which no recall was done)?  I wished the information available
	to Service Techs was available for FTP on APPLE.COM ... :-(

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From: jstarr@prism.gatech.EDU (Starr, Julie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac/ SUN RAM Question
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:06:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology



	I'm not too familiar with the RAM that can go
in Macs, so I was wondering if anyone had any insight
into my little question.
	I have a 5/80 IIci and someone else in my office
said that they could take some extra RAM out of a SUN
(4 meg/ 80ns) and ,if possible, put it into my mac. 
	So my question is, is this possible? Are there
just Mac RAM's and SUN RAM's, or are they interchangeable?

	Please send any info via email.  Don't know if I
can keep up w/ the volume on this group.

Thanks.

-- 


Julie Marion Starr  julie.starr@oit.gatech.edu   Network Services/ IT/ Ga. Tech
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: GV Powerort Gold in Duo?
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:12:10 GMT
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Distribution: na
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello) writes:

>   Any guesses on whether you can put a global village powerport gold
>modem in a Duo 230 or 210?

    The general concensus is that Powerbooks would be useless without an
internal modem slot. I can't see Apple not including this in the next
generation dockable powerbooks.

--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
   "You know Television has gone to hell when, with every commercial,
	 you find yourself hoping to see the Energizer Bunny."
From: sl3k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Phillip Lerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: ISDN for the Macintosh
Date: 27 Sep 92 19:18:03 GMT
Organization: Masters student, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Yes, ISDN cards are available for the macintosh.  We have two of them
hooked up at the Information Networking Institute (INI) at
Carnegie-Mellon Univ.  Unfortunately, I don't know who manufactures
them.  I recently read that Apple would be releasing theirs in the very
near future, but I doubt that the cards that we are using are Apple's
since we have been using them for at least a year and a half.  I will
post on Monday after I speak to our system administrators.

Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: andrijn@comm.mot.com (Andrij Neczwid)
Subject: 3 button mouse for Mac
Organization: Motorola-LMPS
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:02:56 GMT
Summary: Which 3 button Mac mouse is the best?
Keywords: 3 three button mouse

I'm running ObjectWorks for the Mac, and the "nicest"
way to use it is to have a 3 button mouse that has
its three buttons programmed to:

   Click    <Option>-Click   <Command>-Click

So, I bought a LOGiTECH Mouse-Man for the Mac with
"... fully programmable 3 button mouse functionality..."
and found, to my dismay (and confirmed by their technical
support) that I can't programm the middle and right
mouse buttons the way I want (though in some "future"
release I should be able to, due to the volume of
requests for this particular setup).

I then found from a friend that Advanced Gravis has
a mouse with a separate programmable board that allows
it to do "anything" (heard that one before...).  Anyone
know anything about THIS guy?  I've been given phone
numbers for the company and they're all wrong, I've
got no literature, etc., etc., etc...  HELP!

I'd heard that there was a thread in this newsgroup a
while ago about the "best" 3 button mice for the Mac.  What
were the results of the discussion?  Was it archived?
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From: mtmatt@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Montana)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Dealer's Costs for New Macs
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:13:31
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
	<D88-JWA.92Sep27212031@dront.nada.kth.se>
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In-reply-to: jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu's message of 28 Sep 92 04:06:41 GMT

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From: csc_hector@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Mactoes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Wanted: appletalk printer setup help
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:01:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: uhdvx3.29SEP199209011637
Organization: University of Houston-Downtown
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41A
X-Lunar-Date: 1 day, 1 hour, 29 minutes since the new moon

In article <9209260600.AA22720@sacam>, gsgathin@sacam (golando s gathings) writes...
> 
> 
>	I have some simms, but I dont know whether they are 
>1Mx9 .. etc .  They are the nine chips to a simm, each chip numbered
>as follows:  
> 
>	TI
>	TMS4C1024DJ
> 
>Any help would be welcome..
> 
>Golando  
> 
> 
Sorry, 1X9's don't work in most Mac's
	TI
        ^^
        texas instruments
	TMS4C1024DJ
             ^^^^
             1 meg 
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:18388 comp.sys.mac.wanted:9174
From: bryanh@stout.gvg.tek.com (Bryan Hilterbrand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Wanted: PB100 retail locations...
Date: 6 Oct 92 01:33:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: gold.5383
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: usa
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA

I have a friend here at work that REALLY wants a PB100.  He was able to
find a place in Los Angeles that would sell him a 2/20 for $799 (no
external floppy) which isn't too bad, but he would have to travel to LA
to get it.

Before he does that, I was hoping someone could let us know of a retail
outlet in the Bay/Sacramento/Chico/Reno area that has PB100's (hopefully
less than $799, but he'll take what he can get).

PLEEEEASE respond if you know of someplace!

Thanks in advance,
Bryan (and Bruce)


Bryan Hilterbrand      bryanh@stout.GVG.TEK.COM  |     /\  /\
Grass Valley Group, Production Systems Division  |  __/ G\/G \__
From: nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Mac Price Cuts
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:12:38 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1a7t3nINNhn6@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> shu@uicadh.csl.uiuc.edu (Tzi-Hsiung Shu) writes:
>This surely is a good news for a student like me in the
>market for a MAC. :)
>
>Anyone care to comment how long it will take for the price cut
>to be reflected in the asking prices of Apple dealers?
>

   If you're asking about academic prices, I think it already happened.
Our school cut the cost on the Quad's and ci's by $700 a few weeks ago.

                          -- Nick


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From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Performa monitors do not meet ELF emissions standards
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:22:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.ibhan.718298547

IO92668@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes:

>Our campus will not be carrying the Performa monitors because they
>do not meet the ELF Swedish emission standards.

>Basically, the campus reseller said that they did not want to encounter
>a law suit down the road...

>Do you think they will mention this fact when you check out the
>Macs at Sears?  Hmmm....

That's first of all not true.  The Performa Monitor Plus does meet the
Swedish standards, I believe.  And I'm pretty sure the original Apple 13"
doesn't, so that's a load from your campus reseller.

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From: tron@corona.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Sony 1304s vs Apple HiRes
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:57:45 GMT
Organization: MSI- University of Oregon

Does anybody know if there is a significant difference between the Sony CPD
1304s and the Apple HiRes 13" monitor? I can get the Apple HiRes from our
school computer center for $568. Any suggestion/s on which one I should
get? Thanks.

ron
ps E-mail replies are
ok
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: grasso@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GRASSO CHRISTOPHER A)
Subject: Output of animation to NTSC video
Keywords: NTSC video animation tape
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:13:02 GMT

I need to output a sequence of AutoCad images to video tape for presentation
at a conference. The images constitute an assembly animation. What hardware
and software exist for outputing a portion of the Mac display as a standard
NTSC video image?

	-Chris Grasso
         CU Boulder
From: MATT.HARROP@argentic.gts.org (Matt Harrop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SCSI-2 Hard drive
Date: 5 Oct 92 01:55:33 GMT
Organization: Argentic BBS [Toronto, Ontario, Canada]

Don't buy a HP drive for a Q700.  I'm a tech in a large Mac shop, and we
have had 4 Q700 come in with HP drives that are messed up.  HP and Quadras 
700 don't seem to get alogn


Matt Harrop <MATT.HARROP@argentic.gts.org> OR <MATT.HARROP@argentic.uucp>
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: powerbook 100 RAM and modem q's
Date: 6 Oct 1992 01:26:03 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: drstupid.css.itd.umich.edu
Keywords: ram modem powerbook 100

two questions on the pb 100:

1)  I'd thought this machine could take an internal modem.   A  
coworker swears I'm wrong.  Am I?  
 Assuming I'm not, is there anywhere I can get just a plain old  
2400bps internal non-fax data modem (presumably cheaper than a fax  
modem)?  I've looked in lots of ads and seen none.

2)  I've noticed that a lot of the vendors who sell powerbook RAM  
have different prices (higher of course) for the 100 than for the  
140/145/170.  Is there really something different about powerbook 100  
ram?  
 If anyone has a particular vendor they were pleased with or got a  
particularly good price (for a 6M upgrade) i'd like to hear about it.  
--
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dan.pritts@umich.edu      um itd/css unix support group 
313/998-6265
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jscoggin@netcom.com (Jerry Scoggins)
Subject: Re: Do you think a Color Pivot/LE will work with a PB 160?
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 05:58:14 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

stine@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Blaine Stine) sayz:
>Well the subject about says it. I know that nobody has their 
>hands on a PB 160 yet but it seems like it would be a great
>match if it works!
>
>Blaine Stine
>stine@jeeves.ucsd.edu

We have had a PB 160 for a while for testing at Radius.  I haven't seen the 
results of the compatibility testing yet.  I suspect it worked.  I'll ask 
my friend doing the testing.  If I forget to followup, please re-post.

++jerry(); // jscoggin@netcom.netcom.com
----------------------------------------
Disclaimer:  I work for Radius, I don't speak for them.
From: ar017@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Nolan Whitaker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Powerbook 100 vs 14
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:20:15 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I have a question concerning differences between Apple's
Powerbook 100 and 140.

Specifically, I am aware that the 100 has a 68000 cpu and the
140 has a 68030, and that the 100 does not support virtual
memory.  But what specifically does this mean to me (no-mac
user thinking of upgrading)?

Does either difference interfere with multitasking? or
pose software problems making some applications incompatible
with the 100?  or is this simply a question of speed and RAM?

Are there any apps that will run on the PB 140 that wont run on
the PB 100?

Thanks in advance,
Nolan
From: Jim_Cress@bmug.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: (Q) PC LocalTalk Solution?
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:28:18 GMT
Organization: BMUG, Inc.

I have 2 Farralon boards for sale new $160 each
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Apgar@Apple.com (Gar)
Subject: Re: Quadra Localtalk problem
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 00:29:55 GMT
Organization: Apple
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.comm

In article <1992Oct2.205120.9678@oswego.Oswego.EDU>,
vermilye@oswego.Oswego.edu wrote:
> 
> 
>  
> We are experiencing a problem with a Quadra 900 on a localtalk 
> network.  The Quadra is running 7.01 with Tuner 1.1.1, & Apple Share 
> 7.0.  
> 
>   ...
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?  


Get the Network Software Installer 1.2.3. It's at ftp.apple.com.

Apgar@Apple.com                   I said it, NOT Apple.
From: tsirbasc@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Tsirbas Christos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: II LC sound problem ?
Date: 28 Sep 92 01:28:40 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

I do not know if the LCII sound problem is correctable, but as concerns the
IIsi, there is a system patch available through anonymous ftp through various
sites.  I think that I picked up the utility either at sumex or wuarchive for
the IIsi, but I have not seen one yet for the LC or LCII.  I have to warn some
users out there, however, that this problem will crash a IIsi if it occurs
while playing the shareware version of Glider.


Chris Tsirbas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Dantowitz)
Subject: Re: SE fan replacement
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 01:37:46 GMT


I think the more correct explanation of the SE fan "problem" is
that the earlier SE's have a design flaw in the video board.  This
causes the screen to wobble and shift a small amount (examine the
top of your screen).  If you have this problem, they will swap out
the video logic board, which also has the squirrel cage fan attached.

Enjoy,

   David

(p.s. not all dealers know about this extended warranty, but have
them look up your serial number under the video board extended
warranty...)


-- 
David Dantowitz
david@cs.ucla.edu

Singing Barbershop when I'm not doing parallel simulation
From: segall@blaze.rutgers.edu (Ed Segall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: experience with trackballs?
Date: 27 Sep 92 14:06:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: blaze.Sep.27.10.06.16.1992.1671
Distribution: comp
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <12519@optilink.UUCP> teplitz@optilink.UUCP (Ron Teplitz) writes:

>I have a TurboMouse that I acquired used. The CDEV that comes with it allows a
> lot of control over ball (or mouse) acceleration vs cursor movement. The 
> device itself is not all that great. For accuracy in small movements I always
> have to go back to the mouse. In short, the more I use the TurboMouse, the
> more I like my Apple ADB mouse. It's the older kind with the heavy ball. 
> The ones with the light ball are not as good. 
> -- 
> Ron Teplitz - Tech Writer/Cellist


Have you tried adjusting the low end of the acceleration profile to be
very slow?  Thaty, you can move the trackball a lot for each pixel on
the screen, if you move it slowly.  But if you move it at normal
speed, then the cursor moves faster.  It works fine that way for me.

--Ed
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From: cgn@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Portable Macintosh Printers?
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:09:15 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Does anyone have experience of portable printers for a PowerBook?
I've presently got a DeskWriter, and think it's great, it's just a nuisance
since I bought a computer that could be easily moved away from the printer!

I'd prefer batteries, so the StyleWriter doesn't quite qualify, and I really
want at least 300 dpi, so the Kodak Diconix is ruled out.  I like the look of
the Canon BJ-10e, but that requires a Mac-parallel converter, as I've only seen
a PC model.  Is there a Mac model?  What other Mac portable printers are there?
Should I wait till the technology matures a bit?

Any comments welcomed!

craig

cgn@waikato.ac.nz	Craig Nevill-Manning, University of Waikato,
			New Zealand.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: earl@cognet.ucla.edu (Earl Williams)
Subject: Can Mini-Transmitters Harm Floppies??
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Program
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:36:33 GMT

Hello netters,

Is there any reason to believe that small radio transmitters (such as those
used to arm/disarm car alarms) can harm nearby floppy disks if their
buttons
are accidentally pressed (e.g. in the back pocket of my backpack, where I
also carry my box of floppies)?

Thanks for any info/comments.

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Earl M. Williams               "No matter where you go, there you are"
earl@cognet.ucla.edu           -Buckaroo Banzai (among others)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Jim Pirie <jdp@epx.cis.umn.edu>
Subject: Asante Ethernet cards and SE30's
Organization: University of Minnesota
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:14:52 GMT

I am having problems connecting SE30's to ethernet, and would appreciate
any help.  We have 24 Macs (20 SE30's, 4 IIsi's) in our computer lab
connected to our ethernet via UTP and HP hubs.  All run 6.0.7 and have
MacCon3 cards from Asante.  All 4 IIsi's and 5 of the SE30's work fine. 
The rest of the SE30's bomb when connected to the network, even with no
programs running.  Some of them are more prone than others:  some crash
every 5 minutes or so, others every 30 minutes, others every few hours,
some once or twice a day.  The error messages vary:  Address error; bus
error; math coprocessor not installed; illegal instruction; and sometimes
they just freeze without messages.  To get a handle on this, I have
worked with one of the SE30's that crashes easily (call it A) and one
that works fine (B).  With these two, I have tried switching controller
cards, cables, and locations, in addition to reinstalling the operating
systems and ethernet software.  No matter what, A keeps crashing and B
still works fine.  The only thing I have found to make a difference is to
switch mother boards on the SE30's.  Then B starts crashing and A works
fine.  The person I talked to at Asante says he never heard of this
problem.  Does anyone have any ideas.  Thanks for any help.

Jim Pirie
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Minnesota
jdp@epx.cis.umn.edu
612 625 2388
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware