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From: Patrick.Stadelmann@info.unine.ch (Patrick Stadelmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Sony 1320 and 1304 14" Monitor
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:32:45 GMT
Organization: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland


 Hi
 
 What's the difference between the 1320 and 1304 (Sony 14" monitor) ? The second
 is much more expensive than the first, which is advertised "for LC". Is the
 price difference due to the fact that the 1304 can also be used with other
 macs ?
 
           Thanks a lot

                Patrick Stadelmann  
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                 Patrick Stadelmann, Neuchatel, Switzerland                   
  e-mail : Patrick.Stadelmann@info.unine.ch                                   
   X-400 : C=CH;ADMD=ARCOM;PRMD=SWITCH;O=unine;OU=info;S=Stadelmann;G=Patrick
From: joseph@joebloe.maple-shade.nj.us (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Looking for Plus Graphics Tablet
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 12:49:47 EDT
Organization: 5 Sigma Software
Reply-To: joseph@joebloe.maple-shade.nj.us
Distribution: na
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v5


This is similar to a request I posted on comp.sys.mac.wanted a while
ago, but to which I've received no useful replies.  Sorry for wasting
bandwidth, but I tried.  Replies by email only, please!

I'm looking for a graphics tablet, 8-1/2 x 11 or thereabouts, for
use with a Mac Plus.  A 4-year-old piece of used hardware in good
working condition would be OK, as would a brand new piece of hardware.
High performance and/or resolution are not necessary.  It will be
used for doodling more than anything else.

A pointer to a company that might still have this sort of item in
inventory, or a pointer to an individual with one to sell, will
be appreciated.

I'm not likely (actually, not me, it's for a friend) to spend more
than $400.  Somewhat less would be nice!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: pjharris@gallua.gallaudet.edu
Subject: Re: Sound Tools V2 by Dididesign, Inc
Organization: Gallaudet University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:14:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.183134.6019@alw.nih.gov>, peter@une.nimh.nih.gov (Peter Henning) writes:
> Does anyone know where to buy the Sound Tools?
> I can not find a store which sells the stuff.
> We want to run it on a Quadra 700.
> Any system requirements?
> Thanx
Contact Digidesign directly, 415-688-0600, or call Steve Borne, Northeast
Regional Product Specialist at 212-289-6933, Fax 201-659-2184.  I doubt
if you're going to find it in a store, so you should call one of the offices.

Patrick
pjharris@galluj.gallaudet.edu
From: lucy@beaufort.sfu.ca (Lucy Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: .. W A I T ... Don't toss those 256K S I M M S !!!
Keywords: 256K simms can be used
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:46:03 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

david@sherpa.uucp (Dave Quarles) writes:

>tWe here at St. Petersburg Junior College have 2 meg SE's for the faculty
>that have 2 slots empty that could use 2-256K SIMMS to add enough ram
>for them to use Multifinder.  Believe it or not .5 meg makes a difference !!

>Please send me your unwanted 256K simms if you would like to donate
>them to a good cause (we have no budget for additional ram for the 
>faculty.

Why don't you go to your campus computer repair shop (if you have one) or
to a local Macintosh repair shop and see if they have any spare 256K SIMMs
around? I'm friends with our campus technician and, when I asked for some
SIMMs so that I can use them in various crafts (mainly geeky jewelry), he
pulled out a box full of them and told me to help myself.

Lucy_Chan@sfu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: UC572722@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Matt Skipton)
Subject: Re: PowerBook 145 2/80
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 10:11:25 CDT

In my orginal post on Powerbook 145 2/80?  My intention for getting a 2/80 was
so I could go straight to 8 meg.  I will summarise what I have found out.
 
The first response I got was mailed to me from someone on the net.  It included
a part # that he had at his school for a 145 2/80.  I took the # to my dealer
and he ran it through Apple Link and said that it was an invalid number.
 
According to some posts and another local dealer, Apple is nolonger releasing
machines with less than 4 meg.  I completely agree with this only if all 4 meg
is on the motherboard.  Well after a couple of questions, my local Apple tech
said that it was possible that all 4 could be on the motherboard on the 145 :)
If this is the case then I can go to 8 meg for about $200 less than before!!!
 
I decided that I wasn't going to find out in the time that I needed (I need the
145 by 9/1/92).  So I went ahead and ordered a 145 4/80.  As soon as it gets
here I'll go to my friend that is a tech and take it apart.  Then I'll let
everyone know what is acutaly in there.  I should have it as soon as Monday
or as late as 1 week from monday.
 
Matt
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: hardesty@meiko.com (Robert Hardesty)
Subject: Serial ports on SE/30 sick
Organization: Meiko Scientific Corp.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:38:43 GMT


It looks like both my serial ports on my SE/30 are sick.  I can
not seem  to get either my modem or printer to work.  I have tried
swapping the ports around and changing settings and nothing seems to
work.  This seemed to have happened after a bad storm where we ended
up loosing power several times.  I was wondering if anybody had some
software that could test the ports so that I could make sure. Does anybody
know what chips make up the serial circuit and where they are located
on the board? Where could I buy new ones?  I have access to a surface
mount soldering station and could change them myself If  I knew which
ones they were.  Does anybody else have an idea on what the problem
might be?



Thanks,

Robert Hardesty
-- 
Robert R. Hardesty			hardesty@meiko.com
Customer Support Engineer		Tele: (617) 890-7676
Meiko Scientific Corporation		Fax: (617) 890-5042
1601 Trapelo Rd.  			Waltham, MA 02154
From: tnele@helios.br6.chevron.com (Nathan Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Q700 vs. 950
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:07:08 GMT
Organization: Chevron, California

What are the main differences between the Quadra 700 and the 950?

I realize the 950 has a 33MHz CPU while the 700 only has a 25.
Is it noticably faster?
And obviously, the 950 has much more room for expansion.

What about the on-board video capabilities of both?
Does the 950 have SCSI 2 whereas the 700 does not?

We really don't want the BIG 950 if the only main 
difference is the 33% faster CPU and the expansion slots.

Any info or personal experience would be very much 
appreciated.

Please reply to tnele1@cpvma.ion.chevron.com
              or tnele@rrc.chevron.com

Thanks!
-- 
===============================================================================
		Thanks!  Nathan Leon, Chevron, San Ramon, CA

		Please reply to: tnele1@cpvma.ion.chevron.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Robert Rumpf <rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: 2 HD's in Mac II Answer
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 13:39:02 GMT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

I've gotten lots of email on this topic, mostly people wanting to know what I 
find out.  One person I talked to actually did this, and it sounds fairly 
straightforward if you have any experience in dealing with SCSI wiring and 
opening up your Mac.  Basically all it involves is getting a Y-adapter for the 
hard drive power source (so instead of going from your MacII power socket 
directly to the internal HD, it goes to BOTH internal HD's) and making a 
daisy-chain SCSI which is usually just a matter of adding one of the plastic 
socket plugs on to the existing SCSI cable and routing it to the new drive (if 
you can't follow me, it's probably my fault and a schematic would be helpful, 
but I can't do one in text).  The physical part of putting the drive in the 
MacII is easy; bracket kits can be purchased (see the back of MacWeek or any 
Mac Magazine) and then mount this in the second drive slot.  In other words, 
you need to be mechanically competent and unafraid of playing around inside 
your Mac.  Alternately go to a dealer and pay a lot for them to do it, if they 
will...

Bob
From: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Asante driver 2.0 now available for anonymous FTP from RASCAL
Date: 14 Aug 1992 13:34:33 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Reply-To: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 10:31:59 MDT
From: dave@nakiska.ucs.ualberta.ca (David Ross)
To: werner@cs.utexas.edu
Subject: Asante driver 2.0

You may have this already, but here it comes again...
Okay - I hope this isn't too big.  This is the entire Install  
disk/folder.  If it doesn't make it, let me know and I'll send just  
the Extension (I think its the only important part).
---
David A. Ross, Programmer Analyst  | dave@nakiska.ucs.ualberta.ca
Computing and Network Services     |  (NeXTmail is fine)
352 Gen Serv Bldg, Univ of Alberta | Phone: (403) 492-9339
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada  T6G 2H1 | Fax:   (403) 492-1729

[ the file is NOW available for anonymous FTP on RASCAL.ICS.UTEXAS.EDU,
  in directory mac/support-of-products, filename is Asante_EN_SC_2.0.sit.bin,
  size is 320k and you MUST use binary FTP-transfer or the file you obtain
  will be unusable (check your FTP-help or with one of your local gurus,
  or read some of the help-files in the FTP-directories on RASCAL; please
  only ask me for help as "very last resort".  thanks. ]

  werner@cs.utexas.edu |  ..!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!werner | werner@UTXVM.bitnet

	my hat is off to Henry Gonzales, Democratic Congressman
		from San Antonio, Texas.....
From: j2l@ecl.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: help!!! problem with hard drive
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:00:09 EDT
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University

Help!!!!
I turned on my Mac and got a ? disk symbol from my hard drive.  When I booted
up a system disk, it didn't even recognize my hard drive.  What do I do?  How
much will it cost?

Please send all helpful tidbits to:
  j2l@ecl.psu.edu

I don't read this group very often so I won't know if you post....

Thanks in advance folks,

John Lee
j2l@ecl.psu.edu
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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Speed of IIsi with color vs. B&W displays
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:31:12 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York


	I'm thinking of buying a IIsi.  I've been playing with some IIsi's
here at work and they seem sort of slow to me.  All the ones I've been
playing with have 8-bit color displays.  Is it reasonable to assume that
the machine will be faster with something like the Apple Portrait Display
or the Radius monochrome Pivot (my current favorite displays) because it
won't have to move so much display memory around?  Any rational way to
guess how much faster?
-- 
roy@wombat.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
"This never happened to Bart Simpson."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,athena.forsale
From: cam@athena.mit.edu (Daniel Cameron Daly)
Subject: powerbook carrying case
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:49:43 GMT

Due to a recent misunderstanding with my grandparents, who were looking to
get a really cool birthday present for me, I now have two carrying cases for
my PB 100.  If anyone is intersted, I am selling:

MacLuggage's deluxe case for notebook computer
black cordura nylon, comes with handle and shoulder strap,
pockets for disks and pens, velcro strapings to hold the
Book down and a lower compartment which is just right for
AC adapters, floppy drives, boxes of disks or other
devices, with velcro dividers that you can reposition as
needed.  Total size, 11" x 12" x 5".  Fits great
into backpacks, looks really nice and sturdy.
I paid $75 for it, so I would be happy if someone would
offer $65 or so, as it has never been used (I am of
course selling the one I purchased, because my grandparents
would be hurt if I sold their gift...)
Thanks.  Please respond via email.

Cam Daly
cam@athena.mit.edu



--
"Cam Daly"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: yz@broca.acc.virginia.edu 
Subject: Hard drive problem. UniDisk
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:18:06 GMT

I purchased a PowerDrive 30 meg hard drive from HDI in 1989. It has a Seagate  
mechanism. Now its really screwed. I can start it up and boot my MacPlus with  
it. But after about 15 minutes or so, the Mac will give me an ID 2 system error  
and hoplessly crash. Then if I try to start up the Mac from the hard drive  
again, the drive gives me a repeating chirpping sound. Then the screen goes  
black and display a sad mac with the message "0F0002". If anyone can help about  
things like estimated price for repairs or whether it can be repaired at all,  
please post a message on the net since I don't have E-Mail set up. Thanks for  
your help.
P.S: Can a Apple UniDisk 3.5" be used with the Mac?
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:15554 comp.sys.mac.system:11126 comp.sys.mac.misc:15106
From: macman+@pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Problem:  SE formats HD floppy as DD, but LC rejects it...why?
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:29:20 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <p59mj6j.bskendig@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.200351.2274@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> darylb@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
>>I know that the behavior described is indeed the way the Mac
>>does things, but it seems kind of silly.  DOS machines routinely
>>"adapt" to the format of the floppy inserted into the drive,
>>provided the drive is capable of writing the format the disk is
>>using.  My 1.4 MB drive has no problem at all recognizing and properly
>>using 720K diskettes without being told which it is.

A few comments on both of these cited articles...

First, a DOS machine will "routinely adapt" to a *correctly formatted*
disk... i.e. it knows 720k from 1.44m, but it does this "check" by
way of the hole in the disk.  A DOS machine will *not* routinely adapt
to a 720k disk incorrectly formatted 1.4m, nor the opposite case.

Second, some DOS machines are not quite as smart as they look... 
(possibly all, but I only have extensive knowledge of our (ugh!) Zeniths).
What I mean is that the drive will "automatically" format 1.44m (unless
you add the /n:9/t:80 parameters to the FORMAT).  The machine will then 
cough up an error message when the 720k disk is "unformattable".

>Huh?  I use a PS/2 tower machine, and no matter what kind of disk I
>put in the drive, when I enter the 'format' command, it _always_ tries
>to format the disk as high density.  Then I always have to go fishing
>for the DOS manual so I can remember the command-line option to make
>the machine format the disk at the correct density.

This is a quirk of PS-2's.  We have them in one lab here at Pitt (they're
moving to *my* lab within a few weeks...) and they frankly don't give
a damn how they format any disk.  (720 as 1.44m & vice-versa).  This 
causes all kinds of hell for us, we send users back to that lab to
get it fixed (720 as 1.44 format most common.... if 1.44 as 720 format
we can cover the hole w/tape and fix it ourselves.)

I think IBM made a big boo-boo a few years back, they should fix it
sometime!
-Den

-- 
===============================================================================
Dennis Lippert   -   macman+@pitt.edu or macman@vm2.cis.pitt.edu
The "Mac Maniac" operator at the Hillman Research Lab - Univ. of Pittsburgh
"All comments are mine, you'd look like a fool if *you* used them"
From: dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Do not buy the Asante SCSI ethernet adapter
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:56:05 GMT
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA

>I had the same freeze-up problems with my box - it would flood the  
>ethernet and pound on the destination site.  I only had it occur while  
>using MacTCP applications.
>In any case the version 2.0 drivers fixed my problems as well (SE/30,  
>Sys7.0.1, TuneUp 1.1.1).  BTW, the actual version of the EN/SC Extension  
>is still 1.0, but the modification date has changed to July/92.
>
>I would also be willing to distribute this by email if anybody would like  
>it that way.  Only the EN/SC Extension has changed I think (right  
>everyone?)   I have confirmed this with Asante - the software is freely  
>distributable.

The 2.0 EN/SC drivers/extension did not fix the problem I've been seeing
here.  On my boss's IIci, the EN/SC drivers seem to leave the boot-time
environment in an unclean state.  If the EN/SC is selected at boot time
(using EtherTalk Phase II), several INITs don't run properly.  DiskLock
reports that it has been corrupted by a bug or virus;  QuicKeys II
crashes.

These crashes occur whether or not the EN/SC INIT is present at boot
time.  They do not occur if the machine is booted with LocalTalk
networking selected, and EtherTalk Phase II is selected thereafter.

This is the second set of problems I've had with the EN/SC.  The first
problem is that it's incompatible with certain third-party disk driver
programs... specifically, with older versions of Apollyonics' SCSI
Director (which is OEMed by APS as "Alliance Power Tools").  If the
Apollyonics driver is present on any of the powered-up hard disks at
boot time, then the Mac hangs at a very early stage of the boot process,
and the yellow "power" light on the EN/SC goes off and stays off.

Apollyonics has fixed this incompatibility in the latest version of
their software.

My impression is that the SCSI implementation in the Asante EN/SC is
deficient in a number of ways.  It doesn't respond to an INQUIRY command
(bad manners!) and the EN/SC INIT must be using some other sort of
technique to locate the device.  The drivers (even the current ones)
still seem to be distinctly buggy.

I told my boss to cancel the follow-on order for two more EN/SCs.  We'll
use the NuBus cards instead.  I'd been hoping to save a slot per IIci by
using the EN/SC, but they're just too buggy.

As the man said, "This is not a wine for drinking.  This is a wine for
laying down and avoiding."

-- 
Dave Platt                                                VOICE: (415) 813-8917
              Domain: dplatt@ntg.com      UUCP: ...netcomsv!ntg!dplatt
 USNAIL: New Technologies Group Inc. 2468 Embarcardero Way, Palo Alto CA 94303
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: gyoungs@nyx.cs.du.edu (Greg Youngs)
Subject: Radius Color Pivot/LE on SE/30
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 21:05:05 GMT


With MacZone now selling the Radius Color Pivot/LE with video card
for less than $900... is there anything I should be aware of?

Intended use: word processing, reading news, etc. so it seems a 
bit like overkill and frivolous (but I AM bored with 9" screen!)

Turn off color because it takes a hit on performance?
This is 8-bit color. Does it provide multiple resolutions?
I would like to have 72 dpi for most of the time if possible.
Can I see a full page of text in Word? 

Extension conflicts etc to be aware of?
Radius reputation?

Or would I be better off talking direct with Radius about
all of this? Seeing how I am planning on making myself poor
over this purchase, I am hesitant to squander funds.

Thanks!
Gregory
From: cerovse@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Corey Cerovsek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Acclerating a Mac II
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:10:36 GMT
Organization: Indiana University

Just wondering whether anyone can share experiences about accelerating
a Mac II. Of course there's the II->IIfx upgrade but my understanding
is that for that cost one can just as well buy a new Mac, or a Rocket
or the like. I'm thinking of getting a Daystar PowerCache and
optionally an external floppy to read HD disks. (Such things are
advertised as not requiring a SWIM chip upgrade.) Any comments?

Also, can anyone tell me the difference between DayStar PowerCaches
and PowerCards?  There is an ad in MacWorld for a sale on the latter,
40MHz '030 for the price of the PCache 33MHz '030, so I'm wondering
what the cache here is... Also, are there other brands of reasonably
cheap but effective accelerators out there for my II I should know of?

Thanks!

--Corey
From: newton@cs.utexas.edu (Peter Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Quadra ethernet adapter
Date: 19 Aug 1992 16:26:16 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: burr.cs.utexas.edu

We are getting a Quadra 700 and need to hook it up to thick ethernet.
I have been told that we need an adapter in order to do this, and that
it costs over a hundred dollars, which is ridiculous since we can buy
entire ethernet cards (due to a special deal with Asante) for not much
more.  Does anyone know where we can get the adapter at a reasonable
price?

Thanks,
-- 
 ----
Peter Newton (newton@cs.utexas.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac
From: bell@teal.csn.org (Bell Scott)
Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:23:21 GMT

In article <2A9311B8.29957@orion.oac.uci.edu> eafu039@orion.oac.uci.edu (Wayne Chen) writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.132220.21305@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@Dartmouth.Edu writes:
>>eafu039@orion.oac.uci.edu (Wayne Chen) writes:
>>
>>>Keep one more thing in mind, the IIsi and the IIci can run System 6.x
>>>(the si can only run 6.07 and later) while the new machine will only be
>>>able to run system 7 and later.  This may be a disadvantage for some
>>>people.
>>
>>    While I agree that this could be useful information to keep in mind,
>>how in the world could this be "a disadvantage for some people"?
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info
>>		   "A clear case of curare poisoning
>>	       of one of her Majesty's Cold-Cream Guards"
>>						   -- Durlock Holmes
>
>	Because not everyone has updated their softwares to system 7 yet, and that some may prefer system 6 over system 7.  Please don't turn this into a flaming debate, I'm merely pointing this out so that people can use the info as a consideration to buy a machine that's best fit for them.
>
>Wayne
> 

	Also, System 7.0.x is STILL buggy!

Scott R. Bell
bell@teal.csn.org

~~~~
~~~~
^Bad attempt at flames ;)

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:15583 comp.sys.mac.misc:15118
From: Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Modem on Powerbook 100
Organization: The University of Western Australia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:35:13 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.131715.29477@ldp.com> Rolfe Tessem, rolfe@ldp.com
writes:
>I'm aware that the Powerbook 100 does not have a modem port, but that
there  
>are internal modems available.  What physical connections do these
modems use  
>-- the back of that case is already pretty crowded :-).

Standard phone jack (RJ-11 I think).  There's a little panel to the right
of the printer port.

Quinn "The Eskimo!"      <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>     "Support HAVOC!"
Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
  -- Still waiting for *Austel* approved PowerBook 9600 data modems )-: