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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #294
Date: 12 Dec 92 00:53:49 GMT
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Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 11 Dec 92       Volume 10 : Issue 294

Today's Topics:

      [*] Pan & scan vs. letterbox transfers QT movie
      (Q) Modem Woes
      128K w/Mac Plus Mouse
      15 Minute PB100 Battery (A)
      256k simms
      A Round of Applause Please!
      Attn users of PowerLaunch, File Fanatic, & Bongo Bob
      be careful about serial number panel on your Mac
      British clip-art
      DEClaser 1152 (Q)
      Disk replicates itself!! (R)
      Disk Replicates Itself (A)
      Finding parent of a folder window
      Franklin Systems
      Generating HPGL from a Mac Application (A)
      Harpoon Bug (A)
      How did the Macintosh get i (2 msgs)
      How did the Macintosh get its name (A)
      How did the Macintosh get its name? (A) (Trivia)
      How the Mac got its name (C)
      HP 4M Laser Printer (A)
      HP LaserJet Driver (Q)
      Info-Mac CD-ROM
      JPEG in Photoshop questions
      LaserWrtier problem
      LISP on Macintosh (A)
      Lisp on the mac (A)
      login request rejected?
      Macintosh quality (C) and keyboard question (Q)
      Mail for Macintosh new mail notifications
      Missing Omega SANE Patch
      Missing Omega SANE Patch (R) (2 msgs)
      My thanks! (128K Software)
      NEC CDROM driver in rascal.ics.utexas.edu
      NeXT SIMMs/locking files/tape drives/sound-data
      Outbound lays off 50 workers, ceases production.
      PB 160 as SCSI drive (A)
      PD UUCP client (Q)
      Processing charge cards with a Mac
      Request of information
      Retrospect Question Revised
      SCSI propblem
      SE/30's PDS
      Self-rejoining segmented files
      Startup sound app
      Syquest cartridge compatibility (R)
      System 7.1 Label's Bug
      TDD Programs for Mac
      Telnet 2.4/PowerBook 100 problems solved
      The fifteen minute battery (R)
      The Spanish Inquisition
      Turbo-Grafx CD-ROM drive
      Tweety Extension Coolness
      Umatic 3/4" Video Tape and the Mac
      UNIX filer server for Mac/P
      VX Video (A) + Thanks
      What's up at mac.archive.umich

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:17:07 -0500
From: jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov
Subject: [*] Pan & scan vs. letterbox transfers QT movie

A comparison of pan & scan and letterbox transfers of a scene from the
movie Cape Fear.  It consists of two 11 second QuickTime 1.5 movies of the
same scene (one from the pan&scan laserdisc, one from the letterbox
laserdisc) and a short illustrated document (MacWrite format) giving
additional information on video transfers and notes on the comparison.  I
recommend reading this document first.

Please note that the audio on these clips is at a very low volume -- see
the About document for information.  This does not affect the comparison.

Steve

[Archived as /info-mac/art/qt/video-transfer-comparison.hqx; 4400K]

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Date: 10 Dec 1992 20:29:39 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joshua Hart -- A Forensic Chemist (to be) At Large!!!"
<STUHART%EKU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: (Q) Modem Woes

Netters,
     I recently Bought a 9600 baud modem from "Midwest Micro", a company based
out in Ohio. The modem seems to work fine. I am working on a Macintosh SE,
running system 7.1 4 megs of ram, 20 meg internal Hard drive, and a 40 meg
external Hard drive. I connect to a Vax 6610 at 9600 baud V.32, no extra
compression rates, or neat things like that. I am testing out Z-term as my
downloading program, using Zmodem as the downloading option.
	When downloading anything of appreciable size, I get a few data-crc
errors, but zmodem does a retry and then gets everything fine. However 4
minutes into a file transfer I start to get errors every second. After 43 or
so
tries, Z-modem gives up and stops it's downloading.
	My question comes in as this: Am i experiencing some major ammounts of
line noise? If so, why did I never get the noise when downloading with a 2400
baud modem using the same computer/setup? Is there any way to improve the
quality of the connection? Something the phone company can do perhaps? I feel
like I'm grasping at straws. Helllp!

				   Thanks in Advance,
					 Joshua
					 <stuhart@eku.bitnet>
					 <fuug!eku.bitnet!STUHART@uunet.uu.net>

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 18:19:01 MST
From: svspire@somnet.sandia.gov (Shannon V Spires)
Subject: 128K w/Mac Plus Mouse

In V10-290, Tony Wong <TWONG@SCUACC.SCU.EDU> writes:

> A partial answer to your question, the mouse for Mac Plus doesn't work
> for Mac 128K....

Yes it does. In fact, you can even use a Lisa mouse if you can find one.

> Finally, networking is even out of the question. ( Correct me if I'm wrong )
> Appletalk was develop sometime after the original Mac was launched, and
> I don't think the Mac 128K can take it.

Appletalk has been there from Day 1. It is one of the reasons, together with
the original Laserwriter and Pagemaker, that the Mac is the "real" computer
it is today, rather than just an historical curiosity.

Actually _using_ it on a 128K Mac, however, may be rather frustrating :-)

-Shannon
svspire@sandia.gov

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 23:31:46 EST
From: "Kirke B. Lawton" <LAWK%UORVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: 15 Minute PB100 Battery (A)

If your PB100 battery last only 15 minutes, call Apple (1-800-SOS-APPL)
and they will get you fixed up in no time (well, 2 or 3 business days).
I had this same problem (actually, my battery lasted a full 45 minutes).
Apple sent Airboarn Express to pick up my PowerBook and got it back to
me in a couple of days.  And as a bonus I now have a compact shipping
box with plenty of form-fitting foam.

I should admit everything didn't go perfectly.  When I got my Mac back,
the new battery would only hold a charge for 15 seconds.  Not much
improvement there!  They picked up my PB again, replaced the motherboard,
sent it back along with a bonus battery!  Too bad they replaced the
motherboard instead of replacing the defective battery.  What do I mean?
Well the battery in the Mac still only held a charge for 15 seconds, but the
"bonus" battery works fine.  (Anyone want a defective lead acid battery?)

Kirke B. Lawton
lawk@vm.cc.rochester.edu

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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 13:25:00 CST
From: amdahl!amdahl!homebru!wheaton!sga!dougs@apple.com
Subject: 256k simms

> I have 4 256k simms I no longer need (80ns I think).  Anyone interested?

I just gave a bunch of them to our 16 year old babysitter.  She was
thrilled!  Her and some friends had been wondering where to get some
to make jewelry.

-- Doug Smith * Wheaton, IL * dougs@sga.uucp                   --
-- AppleLink: G0231 * AOL: DougLSmith * CompuServe: 72727,3532 --

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 12:28:25 -0800
From: Jon Pugh <jpugh@apple.com>
Subject: A Round of Applause Please!

I'm very glad to see the new drive up at Sumex.  I'm glad my $20 helped.
Thanks to Jeff Needleman for allowing credit card contributions.  I would
be curious to know what percentage of the money went through Jeff.  >50
I bet.

I would really like to thank Bill Lipa though.  Under his moderation, the
Info-Mac group has gained in stature, respect and stability.  Bill has
easily done the best job of all the moderators that ever lived.  ;)  I took
over the job late in 85 from Dwayne V. (I can't quite remember his last name
but it was Vishanti or something like that - correct me fellow old timers)
and I was only able to do a marginal job even though I split the duties
with Lance Nakata (I haven't heard from you in a long time Lance!) who was
doing the file archives.  Nevertheless, I feel that we kept the archive
and digest going at a crucial time.  Bill came in though and gave the whole
thing a new breath of life.  He made it timely and drummed up assistence.
I commend him for his efforts.  With the addition of the new drive, Info-Mac
is once again the premiere on-line source for Macintosh shareable software
and information.  I can resume using Sumex as my backup fr PD software, which
I used to do but couldn't anymore because of the turnover.

So, a big virtual round of applause for Bill Lipa.  May he never be run over
by a bus because he is irreplaceable.

We should also give ourselves a big round applause for financing this drive.
It was miraculous in my eyes.

In closing, I would like to authorize someone with more time and bandwidth
than me to mirror my files from ftp.apple.com in /pub/pugh to sumex.  A lot
of the files will need to be binhexed, particularly the movies and pictures,
but a lot are already binhexed too.

Jon

PS

I don't see how the Aliens movie counts as copyright infringment any more than
any of the other movies we are doing.  They consist only of trailer clips and
do not masquerade as the real movie.  They do not remove value from the
movie.  A lot of this copyright worry is simply an exercise in paranoia.  I
vote for a bit less paranoid deletions, particularly in the realm of movie
clips.  We haven't been worried about posting clips of songs, why should we
be worried about clips of movies?

How about if we all promise to go rent Aliens again?  ;)

[Thanks, Jon! Was it Dwayne Virnau? It's a real memory test.

 As far as copyright is concerned, it is pretty much a question of judgement,
 though a paranoid one as you point out. I guess the longer a clip it is, the
 worse I feel about it. A minute and a half seems pretty long.

 There are enough pictures and QT movies around to fill up the new disk in
 an instant. I'm still going to exercise a heavy hand in deleting such non-
 vital things if the space they are taking up becomes a problem. Please hold
 off on submitting more than a megabyte per person per week, as it is really
 a pain to deal with larger files. I'm hoping to set up an incoming directory
 soon for such things. -Bill]

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 13:21:03 -0500
From: Roby Sherman <rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Subject: Attn users of PowerLaunch, File Fanatic, & Bongo Bob