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From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Need Net Printer Control
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:24:05 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture

Does anyone out there know of a good solution for controlling access to
networked printers? 

Specificly, In the School of Architecture and Allied Arts we have a student
lab with a Tektronix Phaser III PXi color wax-jet printer, a LaserWriter
Plus and a LaserWriter IIg printer, all on localtalk, that we need better
control over. The Phaser III is especially a problem, as it is much more
expensive to print on and is also much slower than the LW Plus and LW II
series printers. The lab we need to control is rather small, about 15 Mac
II's. All Macs are on System 7.0.  Each Mac on the net in our labs has its
own hard disk drive, and is connected to the net by LocalTalk or EtherNet.
We have an extensive localtalk/Ethernet internet on campus with many zones
already established, on which there are many more networked printers at our
site and at other sites around the campus. Our site is not using any file
servers at this time other than System 7.0's file sharing. We do have the
AppleShare Server 3.0 software, but have not implemented it yet. Physical
access to the lab is restricted by an always-locked lab door with a
combination lock on a key box, but we have no way of preventing network
access.

Students are allowed to use the Phaser for color output that is related to
class work, but they are not supposed to do massive amounts of printing on
it. They are supposed to use the LW IIg or LW Plus for the rest of their
work, including all B&W output. The problem we are having is with students
who are printing plain text, black & white documents such as term papers.
The LaserWriters get jammed, or have a backlog of printing, and the
students route their term paper to the Phaser III color printer instead of
waiting. Talk about a waste of resources! They also occasionally route
printing to other laser printers in staff or faculty offices, where they
are not supposed to be printing at all.

The key points we are seeking in a solution are as follows:
--- Restricting access to faculty/staff printers so the employees can print
on them, but the students can't. Faculty/staff must retain printer and
server access from their offices, or from the labs, over the net.
--- Accounting for printing done on the Phaser III, so that we can identify
who is exceeding a reasonable amount of class-related printing and bill
that individual (or class) accordingly for excessive materials used. Normal
amounts of printing for class-related work is done at no charge.

Please respond via e-mail at the address below. I will post a summary to
this board later with the best suggestions that I receive.

Thank you for your time and assistance,

Jay Brandt, Computer Support Specialist
University of Oregon, School of Architecture and Allied Arts
Eugene, Oregon, USA
INTERNET: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU
From: eauu011@orion.oac.uci.edu (Gizmo)
Subject: Re: What to do with 256K SIMMS?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 13 Aug 92 06:05:21 GMT

>>They make great-looking keychains.
>>
>I'll second that.  And it always draws attention, people think
>you're some real smart techno wizard.
>
>-- 

Or some nerd from Silicon Valley. :-)
From: king@acpub.duke.edu (King Rhoton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Help.12" monitor flicker/shimmy problem
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:24:02 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.


From king Thu Aug 20 13:23:58 1992
To: /afs/acpub/users5/king/.article

This might not be your monitor's fault.  Have you moved close to a source of
E/M flux?  Like a fan or other electric motor?  These can definately cause
this effect.
King
From: barnhill@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: NewLife Accelerators?
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:50:05 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

NEWLIFE accelerators -- any opinions, good bad or indifferent?
Inquiring minds...

db
From: v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Modem recommendations?
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:20:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>Greetings.  I've just purchased a Mac, and I'm looking for a
>good modem for it.  The local Fry's carries an external
>model by Viva, which claims to do 14.4Kbaud, support V.32bis,
>V.42 and V.42bis, as well as the MNP error-correction and 
>compression protocols (I forget the numbers), and fax send/receive.

Check out the most recent issue of MacWorld . They do an extensive
treatise on the subject of modems, and what all the alphabet soup means.
______________________________________________________________________________
Jason Osborne | Disclaimer: Who'd listen to me anyway?
______________________________________________________________________________
For information on the Underground Phont Archive, drop me a note via email
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Arne.Venstad@delab.sintef.no
Subject: Strange HD behaviour
Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Trondheim, Norway.
Date: 17 Aug 92 10:57:10

First a question which might have general interest:
I have hooked up several different external hard drives to my Mac si and 
observed that some of the drives prevent the Mac from booting unless
they are powered up. Other drives can be connected to the SCSI bus, but not
powered up and the Mac will boot happily. In all cases there is only one SCSI
device connected in addition to the internal drive in the si.
Is this a termination problem? (The drives that prevent booting when unpowered, 
do not show the same effect when connected to Plus'es or Mac II's).

My second problem is for the specially interested:
Our SUN lab recently trashed an external 600 MB CDC drive because it was "rotten".
I took the drive home, re-plugged it, and hooked it to my Mac si 17/105. After a
couple of failures I was able to format the drive using both Disk Manager Mac and
Alliance Power Tools. I then ran the test suite in Alliance Power Tools. It worked
ok until it came to the SCSI Verify test and Hardware exercise test. Then it reported
bad sectors (sense code conditions). Perhaps not surprising since the drive was
already classified as "rotten".
However, what interested me was that when the trouble started, the drive seemed to
spin irregularly and even halt completely. This happened several times during testing,
but not always at the same place. The trouble seemed to be intiated by some of the
special SCSI commands of the test suite.
I have also copied lots of program and data to the drive, run several applications
off the drive for several hours, copied over hundred MB of data to and from it
without any trouble and without a single corrupted byte.

I now wonder if somebody from the above description get any idea of what is wrong
with this drive? 

The following information is an extract from the test suite report:

	Device reported Vendor ID:  'CDC'
	Device reported Product ID: '94181-15'
	Device reported Firmware:   '5860'

	SCSI id: 1	Reported size: 573 MB

        ... 

        Average Sequential Seek Time:	2.05 ms
	Average Butterfly Seek Time:   17.43 ms
	Average Pattern Seek Time:      9.15 ms
	Outer To Inner Rings Seek Time (not performed)

        There were 41 defects reported by the devices' P-list. This is most certainly normal.
	There were 0 defects reported by the devices' G-list. This is most certain normal.
        The SCSI Verify test discovered 42 bad sectors (sense code conditions)
	The Media Analysis test reported 0 sense code conditions.
	<<In another test run problems were reported also here!>>
  	The Hardware Exercise test reported 59 sense code conditions and concluded
	that the device has problems reading the media.

        ...

Thank you for any information!

Arne Venstad	E-mail: Arne.Venstad@delab.sintef.no
SINTEF DELAB
N-7034 Trondheim,
Norway.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu (Brent)
Subject: Re: Problem:  SE formats HD floppy as DD, but LC rejects it...why?
Organization: Texas A&M Univ., Inc.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:32:23 GMT

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. 

"Adapt?"  Hmm, how about reading the format each time it has to
access whatever disk is in drive A:. 

I think it's crazy in the first place to format a HD disk as
DD and furthermore, the mac does the right thing -- assuming that HD
disks will be formatted HD.  

|My 1.4 MB drive has no problem at all recognizing and properly
|using 720K diskettes without being told which it is.

Neither does the mac.  You put in an 800k disk into the HD drive, and it
reads it.  The mac just takes it a step farther: if you insert an incorrectly
formatted HD disk, it spits it out. (Incorrect = HD disk formatted as DD).

Personally, I think the mac does the right thing.  Anyway, if you do have
DD formatted HD disks, you can just put tape over the hole anyway.

-Brent
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: fna@cbnewse.cb.att.com (frederick.n.anderson)
Subject: Please recommend hard drives
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:38:17 GMT
Keywords: harddisk drives disk


I'm looking for a recommendation of a harddrive to use with my Classic II.

I'm open to any size from 80 -> 240 megabyte, but would prefer a
drive that would fit under the Classic II, and that could be used
with other MACs that I may purchase in the future. I'm looking to
spend less than $1000.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Fred Anderson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dagraham@unix1.tcd.ie (David Graham)
Subject: Re: What to do with 256K SIMMS?
Organization: Just enough to get by
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:01:57 GMT

In <1992Aug13.131247.7154@lut.ac.uk> k.a.cooper@lut.ac.uk (Keith Cooper) writes:

>In article <par-110892162810@mac124.ugadm.nwu.edu> par@nwu.edu (Pete Rodriguez)
>writes:
>>Are 256K SIMMS good for anything?  I've got 10 of these things just
>>collecting dust in a closet.  Can anyone think of anything to do with these
>>things?

>I asked this a while ago and received a few replies

>There seems to be no real use for them anymore although someone did suggest
>that a "stacking" socket was available, so that four of them could fit into one
>1MB simm socket. Unfortunately I've not been able to track down anything here
>in the UK.

There's a product called 'Jackie' which will take four of any size (low
profile) SIMM onto a little card which in turn plugs into another single
SIMM socket; thus you can turn 4 256k SIMMs into the equivelant of one
1Mb SIMM, or, for that matter, 4 4Mb SIMMs into one 16Mb SIMM. It's only
available so far as I know to suit the IIcx and _maybe_ the IIci, since
it needs the full height of the case on these machines to squeeze in
four SIMMS. There is another version for the Mac II/IIx, which is a
board with about 20 SIMM sockets on it that plugs into your existing
SIMM sockets. Jackie is manufactured by Glanmire Electronics here in
sunny Ireland; try calling +353-1-286 0148 or fax +353-1-286 1669.

Oh yes, I think it's expensive...

Disclaimer: I don't have anything to do with Glanmire, I just
happen to know about Jackie.

David
--
   \--- David Graham ------- Internet: dagraham@unix1.tcd.ie ---\
    \---- C.24 Dept of Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin 2 ----\
    /----- +353-1-286 8571 (home)   +353-1-702 2048 (work) ------/
   /---------- "On a clear disc you can seek forever" ----------/
From: krazykid@csa.bu.edu (Ernest Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 12 MB memory for the IIci
Date: 22 Aug 92 15:56:53 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department

Does anyone know if you are allowed to have 4 MB of RAM in one bank
and 8MB of RAM in the other making a total of 12 MB of RAM??  I was
discussing the purchase of 2MB SIMMs with a friend of mine and he said
that this configuration may not be possible.  If anyone knows any
information on it, I would greatly appreciate it.

Ernie
krazykid@csa.bu.edu
krazykid@asc.bu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: peter@une.nimh.nih.gov (Peter Henning)
Subject: Sound Tools V2 by Dididesign, Inc
Organization: National Institutes of Health
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:31:34 GMT

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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Subject: Re: Q700 vs. 950
Originator: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:49:55 GMT

> tnele@helios.br6.chevron.com (Nathan Leon) writes:

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

Some. Speaker volume, for instance (the 950 has a 2W booster and
a 4" speaker...)

   I realize the 950 has a 33MHz CPU while the 700 only has a 25.
   Is it noticably faster?

Yes.

   And obviously, the 950 has much more room for expansion.

Yes, definately. Goes to 64 MB instead of 20 MB. If you use
(unsupported) 16 MB SIMMs, it goes to 256 MB instead of 68 MB.
Has more slots. (I would be out of slots had I had a 700)

   What about the on-board video capabilities of both?

The 950 does 16-bit graphics on a 21" color monitor, the 700
only does 8-bit. Else they're about the same. The 700 comes
with 512 kB VRAM, the 950 comes with 1 MB.

   Does the 950 have SCSI 2 whereas the 700 does not?

Both have "fast" SCSI interfaces; none are "true" SCSI II.
HOWEVER: the Q950 has TWO physical SCSI busses, the 700 only
has one. The internal port in the 950 is faster than the
external; which is all the 700 has got.

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

Having 2 hard disks, and a backup tape drive, and the cards
and memory in one case, using one (keyboard controlled) power
supply is important to me. Might not be to you.

-- 
- I have decided that it is not boxes but my lack of skill that's the problem.
- Traitor! This kind of attitude will get you nowhere around here. If you must
  know, it's not your boxes that are the problem, it's your lack of a
  sufficient number of boxes. Go out and buy something.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: 11437294@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (NATHAN WHEAT)
Subject: Re: HELP about modem for MAC and PC
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:42:05 GMT

>
>    Is it  possible to use same modem for Maciontosh and PC. I have check
>    some places.  They  all have diiffrent modem for PC and MAC. I did not really
>    understand why. I would be happy If anyone give some information why 
>    two differebt  product in the market. As my understanding I should be
>    abble to use some modem for different computers. 
>
Yes, it sure is.  I do it regularly, the only difference between the two 
computers is the cable.

Nathan W.
From: crispy@space.mit.edu (Chris Pak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PB HD Warning
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:46:56 GMT
Reply-To: crispy@space.mit.edu (Chris Pak)
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research


In article <1992Aug18.042022.5409@talon.ucs.orst.edu>, hinr@hobo.ECE.ORST.EDU (Robert Hinz) writes:
> In article <l8l9dnINNnrc@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu> werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes:
> >
> >	the manual states to shut it down (but it does not enumerate or
> >	warn about the exact concerns and dangers);
> >

> An interesting twist...on the PB 100 booting the machine requires that you
> press a key. Un-Sleeping the machine is accomplished in the same manner. 
> When you boot the machine the HD spins up. When you 'wake' the machine up
> the HD does not spin up. If the heads are parked when sleeping, is it 
> safer to transport a sleeping PB 100 than a Shut Down one? Probably the best
> way is to Shut Down and turn off the battery switch. I'm sure you all will
> do that every time! ;-). Another issue regarding the PB 100. The PB 100 does
> not loose the RAM disk when Shut Down. This means that power is maintained
> to the RAM in the Shut Down state. Why then would Sleep be any worse for
> battery drain. Just some food for thought!
> 
> Rob Hinz
> Electrical and Computer Engineering
> Oregon State University
> hinr@ece.orst.edu

I agree. I had accidentally left the PB100 on (sleep mode of course!) for about 2 days and the battery is still about 80% good. I was surprised to find it still functioning. I believe that the sleep mode is slightly more battery draining than an actual shutdown. Also during that 2 day period, I was driving from Baltimore, MD to Boston (about 450 miles). The PB was in my trunk taking all the vibration from my Ford Taurus...  I think I am very lucky or the Harddisk must have been parked during the sleep mode
From: kelton@ocf.berkeley.edu (Allen Kelton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: MacRecorder Specs
Date: 17 Aug 1992 06:08:28 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

	I'm looking for protocol information/source code for MacRecorder.
I'm looking to use it with an Apple IIGS since the serial connections are
the same, so ready-made programs aren't going to do me any good.  Is there a
standard protocol for Mac digitizers, Apple Technical Note (if so, which one?),
or some source code I can get from an FTP site?  I don't routinely use Macs
(although I can program them), so E-mail responses would be preferable.

kelton@ocf.berkeley.edu			Allen Kelton
From: Patrick.Stadelmann@info.unine.ch (Patrick Stadelmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: LC II, PowerCache, IIsi (need infos)
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:28:07 GMT
Organization: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland


Anyone out there has ever used a LC or LC II with a Daystar PowerCache ?
I have some questions about such a configuration :

1) How much does a 33 or 40 Mhz card with FPU improve the speed on a LC/LC II ?
   I have only found info when the card is used on a ci or si.
   
2) Is there a risk of "problems" with some hard/software (incompatibilty due to
   the speed) ?
   
3) Are 80ns SIMMs fast enough for the card ?

4) You can get a LC II with a 40 Mhz card for the price of a si, and I expect it
   to be faster than the si. The LC II also has VRAM. The only advantages I can
   think of for the si are its PDS that can be used as a Nubus slot, and the si
   must be able to address more RAM than the LC II. Am I missing something, or
   is the si overpriced ?
   
   If someone request it, I'll post a summary.
   
          Thank you very much
		          
		       Patrick Stadelmann
-- 

                 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

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: wieser@acs.ucalgary.ca (Bernie Wieser)
Subject: conner jumpers
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 01:04:03 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta


I have a conner 330m hard drive and I need (badly) to know
the jumper settings to make it SCSI 0.

It looks like so:
'|||| ||

Thanks in great gobs.

(please e-mail)


-- 
Bernie Wieser
wieser@acs.ucalgary.ca
HYPROTECH.BW@applelink.apple.com
From: Ladd.Morse@p804.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ladd Morse)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Best driver for APS Quantum 105?
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 10:16:27 -0500

 
  WM> Ok, I just got my external LP105 drive from APS and now I'm left
  WM> wondering: what would be a better driver for the drive? SilverLining
  WM> or the Alliance Power Tools that came with the drive?

I have no firsthand experience with the formatter that APS supplies, but a
number of the folks on my local BBS do and talk is that it's quite compentent.
 
Ladd

 
 
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From: eafu039@orion.oac.uci.edu (Wayne Chen)
Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 16 Aug 92 05:27:02 GMT

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.

Wayne

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: larkins@broccoli.cis.ohio-state.edu (darrell brian larkins)
Subject: MacProducts V.32bis modem.
Summary: Comments about it?
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:12:31 GMT


I am shopping for a 14.4kbps modem for my mac and was wondering if anyone had

bought/heard of the MacProducts-Magic V.32bis 14.4 modem. Price is a really 

major factor in my choice, but I want a good modem. The MacProducts is only

$259 for 14.4 with V.32bis/V.42bis/MNP5 and $289 with the fax. Does anybody

have any info on these modems? If they stink I can squeeze out enough for a

Supra but would rather not if I could help it.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

larkins@cis.ohio-state.edu

Brian Larkins.
From: Lou_R_Ordorica@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SUN CDROM driver
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 21:25:11 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world


A while back I saw a posting on where to find the Mac driver for the
Sony CDROM mechanism used in a SUN CD drive.

Could the original poster (or anyone else who knows) please send me this 
information?

Thanks!

lou_r_ordorica@portal.com
From: davidl@ssd.intel.com (David Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Truth in Advertising (can the PowerBook talk?)
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:35:29 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division, Intel Corp.

The other day I saw one of those PowerBook ads that said (paraphrase):

	It lets you run Macintosh software.
	It lets you run PC software.
	It lets you run away.

	It can talk to networks.
	It can talk to mainframes.
	It can talk.

I've seen this ad dozens of times before, but this time I suddenly
wondered about that last line.  I've heard that Macintalk doesn't work
under System 7, and the PowerBooks only run System 7 (officially).
Therefore Macintalk doesn't work on the PowerBook, and I'm not aware of
any commercially-available (actually released, not just vaporware)
speech software other than Macintalk.

Can the PowerBook really talk, or is Apple talking through its hat?

- David D. Levine, Intel Supercomputer Systems Division == davidl@ssd.intel.com
  "Dr. Langley taught me to sing a song.  Would you like to hear it?"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kmarko@hpbs654.boi.hp.com (Kurt Marko)
Subject: Re: Sony 1304S monitor--less than $600?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:10:18 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho

In article <John_Shepardson.esh-210892103817@moose.slac.stanford.edu> John_Shepardson.esh@qmail.slac.stanford.edu (John Shepardson) writes:
>I found something really cool about my Sony 1304 monitor last week.  I
>plugged it into a 16" card, and the monitor synched to the 16" mode! 

I've been using a 1304 off of the Quadra's internal video set to 16"
(832x608, or whatever it is) for quite a while now...works like a
champ.  You do need the `magic cable' to fake the Quadra into high-res
mode however (does anyone else hate this...I mean, why couldn't they
have put a switch on the back of the machine next to the video out
port?). 

Kurt Marko