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From: mcodogno@nyx.cs.du.edu (Maurizio Codogno)
Subject: problems with a Qwik30 card
Followup-To:  poster
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 10:29:28 GMT

Hi people...
I just purchased a Quik30 Accelerator in the version 68030+68882 at 25 MHz
for the Mac SE (HDFD) of my girlfriend. I put into it 16 Meg RAM and plugged
the card. 
Since the beginning I had problems with the software included with the card,
but I thought it was init conflict and did not worry too much, letting my
girlfriend found the right combination (it's she who uses the Mac, not me :-) )

Well, after a couple of days she told me she had played with the software, with
the following results:

- Mac bombed (error 11);
- she had to get the finder from backup, as it was grown up to 3.5 Meg;
- now the companion disk doesn't boot anymore (it was a system 6, while she
uses System 7.0.0 in Italian);
- the computer believes to have a 68020 (yes, neither a 68000 nor a 68030)
without rcognizing the coprocessor.
- the system sees 4 Meg RAM, while the motherboard has just 2, so that the card
is seen (of course, without a 68030 I cannot use utilities to see all RAM as
system)

Any clues? please answer directly to me, as I don't read this newsgroup (my
background is unix-oriented).


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: twosheds@ferris.cray.com (Jay Vollmer)
Subject: Re: Mac & IBM Info (added Info)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 27 Dec 92 12:56:39 CST

In article <1992Dec07.163457.67248@fourd.com> Mark_E._Hanson@fourd.com writes:
>correction the portable runs a 68000 16 MHz, and the Power Book 100 is also
>68000 MHz
WOW!!!   That's fast!!!!!!!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jmacphai@cue.bc.ca (James MacPhail)
Subject: Re: My IIci runs at 30MHz
Keywords: tuneup, soldering, MHz
Organization: Computer Using Educators of B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 01:28:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.233538.19199@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> cwolf@iiic.ethz.ch (Christoph Wolf) writes:

>Yes, I have my ci running at 30Mhz instead of 25MHz.

>But then I tested all the other things...

>But here are the severe problems: None of my terminal emulator
>applications could connect to my modem, a Supra V32bis fax.
>And printing was gone: Every application I tried reported 
>"Personal LaserWriter not responding..." when I attempted to
>print something. The serial port circuitry probably gets its
>clock off the same oscillator as the CPU.

There are lots of other clock sources in there for clocking the SCC
(serial chip), so I don't think the CPU osc would be used.

My si is running connected to the 57 MHz video osc, and is functioning
as a server to a variety of machines, and prints to a Personal LW NT
and a LW II NTX just fine.

It might be a good time to check that your cables were plugged back in
to the right places... although I expect you've triple checked already.

Did your serial port work with the 50 MHz osc?

James MacPhail  jmacphai@cue.bc.ca  james@mirg2.phy.queensu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Dip Switch Settings for an Imagewriter II???
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:39:54 -0600
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: usa
Organization: Winona State Academic Computing

In article <1992Dec22.045902.11749@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>,
spear@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SPEAR WILLIAM AARON) wrote:
> 
> 
> I recently purchased a used Mac SE and a used Imagewriter.  A cable was
> not included.  When I hooked up the printer to the computer, and I could
> not get the printer to to work.  Anyway I was wondering what the dip
> switches under the front panel of the printer do?

  They do a lot of really weird and bizzare stuff.  I would not recommend
changing them if you don't have the manual for the printer.  If you do the
darn thing may never work again.  
  If you don't have a manual for the printer (you said you got it used)
call Apple.  They list in their new "consumer catalog" that you can call
them and order manuals for older (and new) machines.

- Greg Talmo  (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
                                  |The opinions expressed above are my own,
"A censor is a man who knows more |and do not necessarily reflect the
than he thinks you ought to."     |opinions, tastes, or policies of Winona
                - Granville Hicks |State University, its faculty, staff or
                                  |students.
From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Printer Footprints
Date: 22 Dec 1992 21:27:27 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <1992Dec21.132420.3115@schbbs.mot.com> RHTR70@waccvm.corp.mot.com
(Mark Swenson) writes:
>They suggested I could get the HP Deskwriter instead; better performance
>for $60 more.  In my case I don't *need* the better performance but its
>OK; but what's also important to me is the machine "footprint".  (How
>much space it occupies on the shelf or desk top.)  I live in Japan and
>houses are smaller . . .  :(

Various sources (meaning I don't remember where I heard it) say that the
StyleWriter II will be twice as fast as the current model, which means it
should be about the same speed as a DeskWriter. It'll be slightly larger. The
price will be about the same as the current StyleWriter.

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
From: kim@unix.cc.emory.edu (Kim Wallen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Video Delay Help needed
Date: 23 Dec 1992 16:27:45 GMT
Organization: Department of Psychology
Distribution: na
Reply-To: kim@unix.cc.emory.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: wallen.psy.emory.edu
Keywords: Video in, Video out, time delay

A colleague of mine would like help with the following;

He wants to take a live video signal and introduce a variable
time delay so that the signal projected to a monitor is delayed
from real-time by something like 0.1-2.0secs.  

He asks:  Is there a set of boards and software that would take
a video signal into a Quadra 700, digitize it and then spit the
bits back out after some time delay to a video monitor (not
the computer screen, since everything he has seen is too small)?

He has found a board that ouputs video (and has a video in), but
he doesn't know if that meets his needs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Please reply by e-mail.
Thanks
Kim
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| Department of psychology          Bitnet: kim@emoryu1             
| Emory University                                                  
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From: white@angmar.llnl.gov (Greg White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Request for your thoughts on HP Laserjet 4m ...
Date: 19 Dec 92 00:57:24 GMT
Organization: UC LLNL

I am thinking of buying my next laserprinter (for home) and I
am almost sure I want a HP Laserjet 4m.

For those who have already taken the plunge:

1) Any regrets?
2) Any problems?

Or is it THE printer to buy (like every review I see says).

Thanks in advance,
Greg White
white@angmar.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Lester_Weiss@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:09:04 PST
Subject: Re: Speeding up a IIcx???

All this encouragement is great (towards speeding up a cx), but just how does
one go about doing it?  What is  needed (tools, supplies, etc.) where can they
be purchased, if rare? What is the procedure?  Or where can we read about it?

**** From Planet BMUG, the FirstClass BBS of BMUG.  The message contained in
**** this posting does not in any way reflect BMUG's official views.
From: bkottmann@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil (Brett Kottmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Apple's first file server coming
Date: 17 Dec 92 12:51:32 EST
Organization: Logicon Technical Services, Inc.

	Apple will release a file server based on the Quadra in May.  Pundits
expect to see a 950-style machine jammed with RAM, a co-processor for file
serving and running Apple's flavor of UNIX.

Brett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Motorola details on the 68060
From: harry@hjwmac.DIALix.oz.au
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 19:57:34 
X-Mailer: rnMac Buggy, I mean Beta, Test Version


I was reading an English electronics magazine and an article mentioned that 
Motorola
had released details of it's 68060 processor. If someone from Motorola or 
elsewhere has
details of this processor could they reply to this message with the 
details. I'm sure
others would be very interested.

Regards,
Harry WERKMAN
harry@hjwmac.DIALix.oz.au
From: keithl@klic.rain.com (Keith Lofstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Speeding up system clocks
Date: 31 Dec 92 17:25:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: klic.1992Dec31.172505.18294
Organization: KLIC

Some of you folks are talking about putting faster clock oscillators into
your systems.  You should be aware that:

1)  Chip speeds go down with temperature; about 0.5% per degree C.

2)  Chip speeds can become worse with time, due to various wear-out mechanisms.

Reputable manufacturers of chips and systems will leave some extra margin
during speed testing, so expected degradations won't kill the system early.
If you want to do this kind of experimentation, you should probably test the
system at the maximum temperature it will ever reach, perhaps with a
hair-dryer on it to stress things a bit (keep in mind, though, that hot dry
air can generate static).  Once you have determined how fast things can
go in the worst case, back off the speed at least 10 percent.  Or cook it
20C hotter!

In the PC world, there are programs such as Check-It and QA Plus that do
processor and memory tests.  Are there similar programs for the Mac?  A
good test program will exercise all the worst case paths in the hardware.
Running an application may not do this reliably.

Personally, I need reliability more than I need a few percent extra speed.
I find it disturbing that the IIci speedups mentioned by others resulted in
such small improvements - this is a sign that things are close to the edge
already!

Keith
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KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Power ICs
From: HF.PEC@forsythe.stanford.edu (Doug Peckler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Is there a comprehensive list comparing mac features/price?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 09:44:27 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

In article <1992Dec22.122211.8789@gagme.chi.il.us>,
wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer) writes:
>
>Does anyone know of, or willing to construct, a comprehensive
>chart-style listing of all macintosh models which will compare
>the miriad of features of each Macintosh model?
>
Bill, there's a new MacUser Buying guide that covers all the
Macintoshes, as well as peripherals and software.  It has some
charts on the Macintoshes.  $2.95.  Not sure why, but  it's called
MacUser 1500.
cheers, Doug
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: Apple 14" monitor emissions?
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:08:18 GMT

Brodie Lockard (brod@jessica.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: Does Apple sell more than one 14" color monitor?  Do they all meet
: Swedish radiation emissions standards?

In Sweden we can get both, but I'm not sure if Apple is making a low
emission monitor or if they are modified in Sweden.

/Mats
-- 
Mats Bredell                                   Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)     Ph:  +46 18 187817
Department of medical systems                  Fax: +46 18 187825
Sweden                                         Think straight - be gay!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: haase@meediv.lanl.gov (Peter Haase)
Subject: Re: Dangerous RJ-11 Problem
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:17:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.212613.168610@bmug.org>, David_A._Schurr@bmug.org
wrote:
> 
> A friend recently blew away his powerbook 170 modem. He connected the modem to
> an innocent looking RJ-11 connector in his hotel not knowing it was a PBX
> phone system (or some system feeding voltage to the RJ-11 wires) and therein
> lies a question.
> 
> Since most hotel employees don't know PBX from MTV, how might one guard against this with some "simple" check? Voltmeter? Idiot light?
> 

The fact that it is a PBX should not matter....the voltages should be the
same as a single line in your house....I think though that the "Message
Light" that some hotels have could be a potential problem. I had a user
that actually saw smoke coming from the RJ-11 and he immediately unplugged
same and it did not do any damage.....He did notice that the Message Light
was on......I am going to investigate and find out what exactly is
happening
when the message light is lit. I know for a fact that the light is
triggered
on the same wires as the dial-tone......Can anyone else shed some light on
this??????Thanks....Pete Haase

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From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple 14" monitor emissions?
Date: 31 Dec 92 16:46:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc.ibhan.725820414

brod@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Brodie Lockard) writes:

>Does Apple sell more than one 14" color monitor?  Do they all meet
>Swedish radiation emissions standards?

Depends on how you look at it.  Really, the original AppleColor HiRes RGB
13" monitor is the same size as the 14".  It did not meet the guidelines,
but I believe it's no longer made.  Avoid that one and you're left with:

Performa Display - This is really a piece of crap.  The screen quality is
terrible.  It does not meet the guidlines.  But, hey, it's cheap.

Performa Plus Display - Never seen it myself, so I can't comment on the
quality.  According to those I've talked to, it's better than the Performa
display, but not quite as good as the original "13 inch" monitor.  It
meets the Swedish standards.

Mac Color Display - This is what most people mean when they talk about the
new 14 inch display.  It meets the Swedish standards.  I have both the
original Apple 13" and the new 14"er in this room, and I have to say the
14"er looks a hell of a lot better under certain applications.
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                                     - - - 
           "The sky and the impossible explode..." -The Cure
From: todd@crayola (Todd Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: *QUIET* hard-drive for PowerBook (internal)
Date: 28 Dec 92 19:01:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

I bought a Quantum Go drive from LaCie and I think it is quite a bit  
louded than the 20 meg. Conner mechanism that came with the PB100. A  
company in Independence, Mo. (I think it's A__ (three initials) -- they  
advertise heavily in Mac magazines.) sells the same drive for less money.  
They also sell an external housing for the drives for $79 which I also  
bought. That works OK if there are no other external SCSI peripherals  
connected to you Mac (I tried to hook it up to a Mac II).

-- tk


In article <1hmcluINNdbo@cae.cad.gatech.edu> vincent@cad.gatech.edu  
(Vincent Fox) writes:
> Anyone have any recommendations on a quiet drive? I need to replace this
> 20 megger in my PB100 with something bigger. In the process, I'd like
> to find something that doesn't whine and rattle so loudly. Lower power
> consumption would obviously be desirable as well :-) 
> 
> Price on the drives from LaCie looks reasonable, comments?
> 
> Background: I bought the PB100 on a lark when MicroCenter was dumping
> the 2/20 configurations. Now I find I've bought myself a PowerPort Gold
> 14.4k modem, and a 6 meg upgrade, and find myself using it both at
> work and at home as my main computer. Only thing left about it that's
> weak is the hard drive (and the puny lead-acid battery life). 
> 
> This 16 Mhz 68000 seems to run plenty fast enough for all the kinds of
> things I would want to do on a mono machine. If someone made a battery
> powered ram disk to replace the hard drive (30-40 meg range) and a  
better
> battery it'd be great. Ah well, maybe the next generation of Duo's will
> be better than the current ones.
> 
> A PB100 junkie....
From: leavens@mizar.usc.edu (Justin Leavens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Internal 20 Meg HD Problems
Date: 29 Dec 1992 12:48:23 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu

  I've got an internal 20 meg HD that came with my SE when it was purchased
in 1988 that seems to have died. The drive light flashes three times fast,
three times slow, pauses, and then repeats continuously. Trying to initialize
it gets a "Drive Not Ready" and "SCSI Error #5" from Norton trying to fix it.

  Is it completely dead? Should I just unplug the power to the drive, or should
I disconnect the internal SCSI cable as well?

  Please respond by e-mail, as I don't have the time to keep up with this
newsgroup right now...

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Microcomputer Specialist             | leavens@mizar.usc.edu
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From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: IIsi on it's side?
Date: 21 Dec 92 09:22:51 GMT
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Ken Field (kfield@bbn.com) wrote:
: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell) writes:
: >Jack Moxness (moxness@acs.ucalgary.ca) wrote:
: >: 	If anyone out there owns a IIsi model (or knows this answer) can
: >: you please advise me as to whether a Mac IIsi may be operated tipped up on
: >: one of it's sides? If this is possible is it advisable to reformat the
: >: hard drive after placing it in this position? Thank-you.
: 
: >The official Apple policy is that if you can put the computer on the side, the
: >manual will say so. When I look into my Mac IIsi hardware manual they don't
: >mention anything about this, so I guess you should avoid tipping it up on
: >the side.
: 
: 
: I've had mine on its side for the past year or so.  I've had no
: problems (yet).

Well, it's your Mac so you're free to do whatever you want with it. What
happens to the warranty if your disk should crash? Apple hasn't explicitly
said you're not allowed to put it on its side ...

/Mats
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Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)     Ph:  +46 18 187817
Department of medical systems                  Fax: +46 18 187825
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Subject: Re: good full-page display for SE-30?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:41:38 GMT

In article <owen-241292121557@rowen.astro.washington.edu> owen@astro.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes:
>It'd be best if the system didn't require software (e.g. inits or
>cdevs)--as that reduces long-term dependence on the company.

One thing to keep in mind is that all video options require 
a driver.  Some cards install the driver via init, and some
by firmware (ie, ROM).  Neither option protects the user from 
the possibility of incompatibility with future system software
or peripherals.  

In the case of an init, at least the user has the possibility 
of a cheap upgrade if and when the driver "breaks".  If the fix 
requires a new ROM, you may wait anywhere from months to forever.
-- 
-- Bill Johnston (johnston@me.udel.edu)
-- 38 Chambers Street; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
From: ficara@remus.rutgers.edu (ken ficara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: ImageWriter II LocalTalk Option
Date: 30 Dec 92 20:05:22 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

jsolof@athena.mit.edu (Jeffrey R. Solof) writes:


>>        What exactly is the ImageWriter II LocalTalk Option anyway? Is it 

>It's an add-on board, user-installable, which goes inside the
>ImageWriter II, enabling it to sit on an AppleTalk network just like a
>LaserWriter.  There's a different extension (chooser icon) which lets
>you select _which_ AT-IW on the net to print to; it's (optionally)
>installed as part of the system software installation process.

Two questions: (1) is there an easy way to tell if the option has
been installed or not? (2) does having the LocalTalk option
installed allow one to use PrintMontor with an ImageWriter?

Thanks.


Ken Ficara                                        ficara@remus.rutgers.edu
GEnie: K.FICARA / Compuserve: 71311,1461 / AOL: KENFICARA / Prodigy: (Ha!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com (Greg Ferguson)
Subject: Re: leaving macs running for extended periods
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Motorola
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:49:56 GMT

In article <C04tGK.12s@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu>,
ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley) wrote:
> 
> What's the current wisdom regarding leaving a mac running 100% o' the
> time?  That's how I treat my Sun at work, to no ill effect.  However,
> we have a script on the Sun which reboots the machine (ala cron) once
> a week to clean up the file system, etc.  If there is no problem with
> leaving the mac up, is there a way to have it automatically reboot now
> and again, or is that even necessary?  

At work, it's our standard policy to leave the equipment on always. (That
way we can work on them remotely after hours.)

Chris Johnson (the author of GateKeeper) has a program called cron which
acts much like the UNIX cron. It can reboot your Mac for you.

Also, do a "ls shut*" the util directory at SUMEX-AIM. I think there's some
programs that'll do what you want there.

Greg Ferguson
Programmer/Engineer
Desktop Networking System
SPS, World Marketing
Motorola, Inc.