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From: harit@kripalu.com
Subject: Re: NeXT may not be doomed yet, but I sure have a lot of goose-bumps.
Reply-To: harit@kripalu.com
Organization: Kripalu Center
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 12:37:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.211623.15279@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> wag1@cbnewsl.cb.att.com  
(d.wagley) writes:
> In article <C0E0Lx.2C7@cs.mcgill.ca>, samurai@cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)  
writes:
> > Well, it's just that Steve uses the old "Silent Snap Count on 2". We
> > wouldn't mind hearing "RISC  31, RISC 31, Set, HUT!!!" ;-) At least we'd
> > know that they were going to play the ball... 8-].
> 
> Anybody see this? Comments?
> 
> Open Systems Today 1/4/93, Page 3, "RISC Ports planned for NextStep":
> 
> "Next Computer will be porting NextStep to several RISC platforms, company
> officials have confirmed."
> 
> The article doesn't name specific platforms, but lists leading candidates
> as: SPARC, PA-RISC, Alpha AXP and PowerPC.
> 
> It goes on to state that NeXT has already settled on a RISC platform for
> it's own systems. Of course they won't reveal which.
> 

My area manager was quite direct about their future plans when I asked about  
planning for this year's budget.  Their risc is duw out near the end of the  
year and I thought he said PA-RISC but it could have been PowerPC.  It was far  
enough out that I could not get it approved on this year's budget.

> 					Doug
> 
-- 
Michael Allen Latta
Kripalu Center
harit@kripalu.com
(413)448-3288
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Boston Computer Society NeXT Usergroup Meeting - January 5, 1993
Date: 4 Jan 93 22:39:14 GMT
Reply-To: user_groups@next.com

Announcing Boston Computer Society NeXT Usergroup Meeting
Tuesday January 5, 7 PM
MIT Room 1-190, Boston

Hot Technologies Introduces:

Component Technology for Automatic Data Collection and Identification

Robert La Ferla of Hot Technologies will present their comprehensive
product line of component software and hardware for bar coding and
serial communications.  Highlights of the presentation include the
BarCodeKit and SerialPortKit object libraries and the BarCodeBox
peripheral.

Hot Technologies develops, markets and supports component software
and hardware that allows customers to construct automated solutions
for increased productivity.

*** Win a free copy of the SerialPortKit at the meeting ***

Group discussion, Q&A, Rumor of the Month, and more!
Note: Pencom is unable to meet with us in January.

Directions: Enter MIT via main entrance on Massachusetts Avenue.
Immediately turn right following large corridor through several
buildings to building 1. 1-190 is at the very end adjacent to
Memorial Drive.


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From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities)
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP development opportunities
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Student Mail Machine
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 05:31:04 GMT

In article <1iflqpINNkms@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
>
>
>From "Open Systems People in Demand" in the 4 Jan 93 issue of Open Systems
>Today reproduced without permission:
>
>"NextStep [sic] experts, however, can go just about anywhere.  [Pencom's
>Executive VP Ed] Taylor says that NextStep 486 has fueled interest in the
>NextStep environment from organizations that had operated proprietary shops.
>He predicts communications, finance, medical, retail, and related industries
>will embrace NextStep.  The demand for experts in Objective C [sic], DB Kit,
>NextStep tools and interface building will be ``staggering,'' says Taylor, who
>expects contract programmers will command rates up to $100 an hour.  ``NextStep
>and DCE are among the two greatest areas of opportunity,'' he says."
>
>So get out there and get the Garfinkle-Mahoney NeXTSTEP programming book, get
>access to a NeXT machine, and do anything to get experience.  Your future
>should be bright, especially if you're flexible about location.  At $100/hour,
>you can fly home on the weekends and still have money to burn :-)
>-- 
>
>Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
>NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
>NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                             Voice: (408)335-1154
>USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515


As a person out on the front line, moving boxes for my VAR, I can attest
that most of the hundreds of people I've called have 1) heard of NeXT
technology 2) have PCs upgradable to NS '486-capable performance 3) want
the technology but simply aren't willing to buy the black hardware.

I'm sticking my neck out: there is tons of pent-up demand for NeXTSTEP or
a NeXTSTEP-like product. When this product hits the streets, I can name
fifty companies and government agencies in a radius of thirty miles from
my cubicle who will buy NeXTSTEP for their programmers and users. I think
I'll clean up in the springtime.

Kris Magnusson
(using my wife's account)
NeXT at home: kris%magnusson@uunet.uu.net
Alpine Computing/MicroAge
NeXTguy


-- 
Yan Fang-Magnusson
Ph.D. candidate, philosophy, University of Utah
yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu
yanfang@cc.utah.edu (NeXTmail)
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From: jcorallo@ccsi.com (P. John Corallo)
Subject: Re: NeXT should improve, not eliminate, its hardware line
Reply-To: John@ccsi.com
Organization: Crystal Computer Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:25:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.022203.28736@cs.yale.edu>  
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
> In article <1993Jan7.193139.897@ccsi.com> jcorallo@ccsi.com (P. John  
Corallo)  
> writes:
> > I believe the hardware line could become a viable machine with only a  
few  
> > changes:
> > 	- Use a Serial Chip Set that can do 64K or 128K synchronous 
> > 	- Put in a real SCSI-2 chip set, not just a connector
> > 	- Switch to a 32-Bit Ethernet Chip Set
> > These changes would help alleviate some of the bottlenecks we run into  
on  
> > the NeXT.  List Price the machine for $3,500 and $4,000 for Mono and  
Color  
> > respectively.
> 
> I've long been a loud voice calling for NeXT to move it's prices  
downward over
> shorter time periods, say six months, and to narrow the gap of the  
pricing
> between mono/2-bit machines and color machines. However, it's important  
to
> have realistic pricing, and the difference between the cost of 17" mono  
and
> color displays is more than the $500 spread suggested by P. John  
Corallo. If a
> 15" Sony color display (no more cheap displays!) was offered the price  
could
> indeed drop to that $500 spread - or less.
> 
> Let's also not forget that even now the NeXT 68040 box is competitive  
with the
> price of Apple 68040 boxes with the same CPU/RAM/HD. 
> 
Apple has announced a new 68040 line coming out in June with a base model  
68040 25mhz, 8mb RAM, DSP, CD-ROM, 400mb Hard Drive, and 16" Sony .16 dpi  
Color Monitor starting at $2,500.  The prices for other configurations  
range from $2,500 to $5,500.  See InfoWorld January 11, 1993.
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From: waldvoge@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel)
Subject: Re: When Will NeXTSTep Become Drag and Drop
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:33:27 GMT

In article <`u#@byu.edu> yackd@virginia.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman) writes:
>As to printing that way, there's an app on sonata (the name escapes
>me, something like DockPrint) that let's you print out files.  As
>I recall, it did ascii and rtf.  A more general solution from NeXT
>for this would be nice...for example, set up a consistent API to
>apps with printable documents and then when a doc is dropped on a
>"printer" app (kind of like the recycler) the doc is loaded into
>the proper app and the print panel comes up...

There is a standard Speaker message (msgPrint:ok:) which is used by
"open -p file" to print a file using a specific application. But only
very few applications react to this method. As you said, NeXT put in
many hooks, but the developers must implement them!

-Marcel
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From: gary@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Gary Ritchie)
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP development opportunities
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:46:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.150845.4857@ccsi.com> jcorallo@ccsi.com (P. John  
Corallo) writes:
> we have just decided to go strictly with NeXT and Phibro just dropped  
> their NeXT development team.

Is that true?  As in they have dropped MC^2?  Man, I'm glad I didn't  
accept a job with Phibro and move across the continent (and to a different  
country)!

----
Gary Ritchie
From: lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Lily Liou )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Printing Envelopes
Keywords: print, envelope, NeXT printer
Date: 11 Jan 93 00:31:25 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1993Jan10.204128.19469@speedy.aero.org> davisj@wimpy.aero.org (john davis) writes:
>I'm trying to print standard size envelopes using my Next printer, but I'm  
>having problems with the envelopes only feeding halfway and then stalling.  
>Is there a way to print envelopes through the paper try or is the only way  
>to do it is by manual feed?  Any suggestions or tips would be welcomed. 
>
>Thanks John C Davis
>davisj@wimpy.aero.org (NeXT Mail ok)

John, I've printed envelopes of all sizes, shapes, and thicknesses
using my NeXT printer,and in all cases, I've found the method of
greatest reliability is to use the manual feed.  Some envelopes, 
particularly the thicker ones, need a bit of a push to get them
in past what feels like a curve in the track, but once the feeder
gets a good grip after that point, there's no problem.
I don't mind handfeeding them, because I find that the heat often
causes the envelope glues to be activated, so they usually need
to be opened as soon as they've dropped out the other side of
the printer, otherwise they get glued permanently shut in several
spots.

-Lily Liou
lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
.


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From: mflafeer@athena.mit.edu (Mohamed F. Lafeer)
Subject: My NeXT won't start
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:30:47 GMT

My roommate has a NeXTstation mono 20/210.

When we turn it on it gets through the system checks, it recognizes the RAM,
but then it dies with "Exception #3"

If we type bsd, then it dies with "Exception #2"

If we type bsd again, it dies with "Exception #2" again.

Any more bsd's keep getting Exception 2.

The same result when we try and boot off the floppy.

The Quantum 210 drive has (had?) 3.0 installed.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

M.Firoze Lafeer
mflafeer@athena.mit.edu
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Subject: Re: Micropolis 1.2GB drive model 1598-15
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:11:33 GMT
Reply-To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik

In article <43277@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>  writes:
> Hello, everyone,
> 
>   Does anyone have any experience with using the Micropolis 1.2GB
> hard disk (Model #1598-15) with their NeXT?  I'm looking to get
> a fairly large and not-too-expensive second drive since I've filled
> up my first one (well, I guess I filled it up a long time ago, but
> I'm getting ready to make the $1500 plunge into another drive
> only now...:-)).  The Micropolis is a SCSI2 device (capable of SCSI1
> I'm told by the salesperson) that's made for PC type machines.
> Would I need any special software or information to set it up for a
> NeXT (probably, right?) or would it be plug and play (it's worth
> hoping...my nice new RAM chips were plug and play!)?  Any help or
> leads to where I can find more information would be greatly
> appreciated.  I'll summarize and post any general or particular info
> I receive.  
>   Thanks very much in advance!
> 
> -Lily Liou
> lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
> 

It's plug-and-play! Had no problems with a test drive. Currently I have a DEC  
drive (1G formatted) in my slab. No problems at all.

--
Robert Frank                         tel. + (061) 321 99 67                 
Institut fuer Informatik             fax  + (061) 321 99 15                 
University of Basel, Switzerland                                            
Mittlere Strasse 142      rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted)  
CH-4056 Basel          X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
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From: tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu
Subject: Re: Sony digital output and NeXT DSP
Reply-To: tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu
Distribution: USA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:46:22 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.074202.17403@news.acns.nwu.edu> jland@nwu.edu (John  
Landwehr) writes:
 
> I remember a schematic that showed connections to a chip inside a sony  
> discplayer, but I would prefer not to have to open a minidisk player, and  
> just use the digital input/output connections.
> 

If anyone has said schematic, could you mail it to me, or else point me to where I might find it? I recently tried  hooking my cube to my Sony 5 disk changer, but I couldn't find the right pins.

Thanks

--
Jonathan Hendry  Anderson Financial Systems
jon@afs.com  (Nextmail Welcome!) or hendryjw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu
sk player, and  
> just use the digital input/output connections.
> 

If anyone has said schematic, could you mail it to me, or else point me to where I might find it? I recently tried  hooking my cube to my Sony 5 disk changer, b
From: lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Lily Liou )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: The Clock on the NeXT
Date: 13 Jan 93 04:07:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1993Jan12.170329.493@athena.mit.edu> jgshir@athena.mit.edu (John G Shirlaw) writes:
>I've just got back for several weeks away to find that my NeXT had lost about 5
>minutes, mesurements since sugest its loosing about 10 to 15 seconds a day, is
>this normal...do other people have this problem?  Does anyone know what the
>accuracy of the clock is suppost to be?
>
>For information I'm running a NeXT colour Turbo under NS 2.1.

I find that my machine has this problem also.  Although I have not
made a precise measurement, since I can't be sure that my other
time peices are not variable on a per day basis, I have noticed
that every 2 or 3 weeks or so, I am late to a meeting if I rely on
my NeXT clock.  I then reset it about 5 minutes, also.

Perhaps this problem is why someone has developed software that
keeps an eye on the clock by using your modem to essentially
dial a time standard every now and then. (I think I read about this
recently in comp.sys.next.misc).

Anyone know what causes this problem and is the clock slow for all
machines with clock error?

I am running a NeXTstation Turbo (33MHz, NS2.2).

-Lily Liou
lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
NeXTmail welcome :-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Subject: Re: >>>HELP<<< PLEASE: Fujitsu hard disk problems
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 22:56:07 EST
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Reply-To: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu
Distribution: usa

In article <C0Hp12.1BM@newsflash.concordia.ca> kgnome@cs.concordia.ca  
(MATIS stephane) writes:
>Wassim M. Jabi (wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu) wrote:
>: Hi:
>: I've been experiencing some trouble with my Fujitsu 520MB
>: external.  It happens once or twice a week. I would hear the disk
>: go "click, click" and then the console window will have these messages
>: scrolling by. Many times an alert window would come up telling me
>: to save documents before logging out. Any idea what is going on?
>: 
>: Messages:
>: ------ cut here -----------------------------
>: Target 0: HARDWARE ERROR; block 0H retry 1
>: Target 0: NOT READY; retry 1
>: Target 0: NOT READY; retry 2
>:              .
>:              .
>:              .
>: Target 0: NOT READY; retry 19
>: sd0 (0,0): sense key:0x2  additional sense code: 0x4
>:     SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
>: IO error on pagein: error = 5.
>: Dec 30 15:00:18 Workspace: Controller exited.
>: ------ cut here -----------------------------
>: HELP!!!!!!
>
>	Well, as I can testify... that's not good news. My
>	HD was DOA. It was a M2624F rev 0304 and it was just going
>	click click ... no stop.
>
>	Nothing worked! Fujistu techie said that it was the drive
>	was unable to read it's own specification area! Yikes!
>
>	Now I have another one, a rev 0404 that arrive a week ago.
>	This one requires absulutelly no jumper modifications, as
>	it talks lingua franca SCSI either way. Nice improovment.
>
>	Personally, I'm looking for the sense on a 1024 Byte
>	formated one... anybody ?
>
>+---------------------------------+   ___     ___       ___
>| Stephane I. Matis               |  /   \_BATLLETECH  /\__\ Viva NeXT! 
>| E-Mail : kgnome@cs.concordia.ca |  \___/   \___/     \/__/ NeXTSTEP  
3.0!
>| "It Just Works..." - Steve Jobs |      \___/   
>+---------------------------------+       Wolfnet Operative & NeXThead 

Well, I called Fujitsu Technical Service and relayed the error messages.
They said one thing: "The disk is dying, I suggest you replace it."
I got an (RA) number from MacDirect and packed it up and sent it on
its way to Hard Disk Heaven :-) I'm expecting another one Friday or  
Monday. Their policy is to replace it with a factory refurbished one that  
carries the remainder of the warranty. Meanwhile, I'm back to using my  
internal 200MB with my user directory mounted remotely.  I shouldn't  
complain: My work was interrupted for less than half a day. I LOVE system  
administration on NeXTs!!
--
Wassim M. Jabi                            (313) 936-0229
Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard  Ann Arbor  Michigan 48105-2313
wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu             NeXTMail-friendly
From: t89djo@tdb.uu.se (David Jonsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Next and Macpartitions on same HD?
Date: 4 Jan 93 15:14:47 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


Hello,
Does anyone have experience in having both MacHFS and NeXTSTEP paritions
on the same drive. I guess the NeXT can read the HFS?
I intend to boot the external disk from from a Mac or a Next depending on
where I am. Do I have to change HD drivers on the drive when I change 
computer?

David
-- 
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P.O Box 353          Postal giro 499 40 54-7
S-751 06  UPPSALA    Internet E-mail t89djo@tdb.uu.se
SWEDEN
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From: wave@waits.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson)
Subject: Re: Seeking information on Wacom tablet
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:30:37 GMT

T. Govindaraj writes
> I recently acquired a copy of Virtuoso. Since it can support the Wacom
> tablet, I would like to determine if it is worth getting one. I have no
> idea of how much it costs and what other applications can use the Wacom
> tablet. Any comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> 

Create 3.0 (which isn't shipping yet, but probably will be soon) has Wacom  
support.  Wacom's generally cost several hundred dollars, pick up any Mac  
magazine.  The 6x9 pad is very compact and nice, I think it's under $500.  The  
larger tablets (I have the 12x12 electrostatic) are very nice but definitely  
take up space (the power supply is under the tablet, as opposed to running  
through a wire to the tablet).  Let me check...  Hmm.  I can't find a Mac  
magazine quickly to check, but I remember that the last time I recommended a  
Wacom purchase, I found the cheapest price to be one of those 900 number Mac  
vendors (I think it was in TX).  I believe the electrostatic 12x12 was about  
$700.

If you're a programmer, the interface to using the pressure info is very nice  
(thanks Peter!).  There's a good demo in  
/NextDeveloper/Examples/AppKit/UnderPressure.  

I find the Wacom to be a wonderful device to use, and wish more software  
supported it (i.e. Appsoft Image).  Hopefully more will this year.

--

-->  Michael B. Johnson
-->  MIT Media Lab      --  Computer Graphics & Animation Group
-->  (617) 253-0663     --  wave@media-lab.media.mit.edu
-->  NeXT Mail accepted at  wave@nordine.media.mit.edu
From: "richard rodriguez" <richard.rodriguez@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: dtc scsi port card
Date: 4 Jan 93 15:01:02 EST
Reply-To: "richard rodriguez" <richard.rodriguez@execnet.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Executive Networks Information

Does anyone know how to disable the DTC card's automatic SCSI port
  2: scanning after each boot?
--
Executive Network Information System  (914) 667-4567
International ILink Host
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From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Re: Instructions on modifying CPU board for multi-CPU NeXTcube
Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:14:07 GMT

Brian Willoughby writes
| Brian Willoughby writes
| | 
| | 	Does anyone have a copy of this posting that they could e-mail to me?   
| 
| Got it, thanks!

Well, so many other folks (at least eleven) e-mailed me who also wanted these  
instructions that I decided to submit Felix A. Lugo's articles to the Archives.

If anyone else is thinking of asking me to e-mail them a copy of the multi-CPU  
back-plane modification, take a look on Sonata.cc.Purdue.EDU and cs.OrSt.EDU in  
the pub/next/submissions directory for the file Dual_CPU_Back-plane.Z
-- 
Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
NeXTmail welcome
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