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From: rounsley@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Steve Rounsley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Tape backup drives for under $500
Date: 3 Sep 92 05:42:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


Does anybody have any opinions or information on tape backup
drives for the Mac which are not too expensive.  We have a 80Meg
hard drive which needs to be completely backed up once a week.
For this we really don't need a removable hard drive like
Syquest - access time is not really a factor.   Any opinions
anybody?
	Thanks
		Steve
From: covert@cactus.org (Richard Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: WangDAT Woes
Keywords: WangDAT
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:26:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: cactus.1992Aug25.232641.6825
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx


My WANGDAT tape drive refuses to eject my DAT tape.
I use RetroSpect 1.3C and it won't eject the tape.
I can't eject the tape manually either. I have even
disconnected the WangDAT tape drive form my system and power
cycled it to no avail.

A friend says that the WangDAT has ahistory of this problem.
does anyone out there know how to manual release the tape? When I
try to pry the tape out it is held down TIGHT and won't come out.

Any idea on how to get the tape out?

BTW, I can still read/write from/to the tape drive using
Retrospect. when i do a Retrospect EJECT on the WangDAT
tape drive the drive goes to "NO MEDIA" which implies that
the tape drive is responding to the eject command.

help!!

-- 
Richard E. Covert                 covert@cactus.org
CACTUS                  ..!cs.utexas.edu!cactus.org!covert
From: bng@tropel.gca.com (Baldwin Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: ##### WANTED INFO: Monitors for Macintoshes #####
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:17:47 GMT

Hello Mac Users!

I am asking for some info about monitors for Macs.  Can they be used
as a TV?  I know regular monitors from Apple probably cannot.
Any suggestion as to which brand/model I should get.  I wanna be
able to hook up the monitor to my Mac when I need to use computer.
Other times, use it as a TV!

Please reply to:        ng@moe.optics.rochester.edu

Thanks,
Baldwin Ng

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg)
Subject: Re: Powerbook 180.....???????
Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 15:43:08 EDT

In article <1992Sep1.153447.16865@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> rhrs_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Rob Harris) writes:
>Ok....
>	I am interested in any information on this machine (the 180),
>its configurations etc.  However, I am NOT interested in the MacWeek
>info that apple has already graciously given us.

Heh, if you can find better info than what is in MacWeek, please tell
us, but first tell MacWeek and get a mug!

Honestly, MacWeek is the best place to get early information.  If you
want "Correct" information wait for the "Official Stuff"--and
according to the official sources there is no such thing as a 180.
Period.  So you can just sit there content with the 170 as the
top-of-the-line.

Sure, MacWeek is often way off base, but if you can read with a
critical eye and can stand being wrong sometimes, MacWeek is not only
the best you can get, it is pretty good.

And believe me, "Apple" didn't intentionally give this out, but
someone certainly got a mug!

--
Kent Borg            kent@camex.com or (when it is *working*) kentborg@aol.com
                                            H:(617) 776-6899  W:(617) 426-3577
As always, things look better when some costs are left out.
						      -Economist 3-28-92 p. 94
From: scole@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Scott Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: ##### HDs CHEAP!!! #####
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:26:21 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino

Hi,


I have two Rodine 21Mb, internal, 3.5", half height, 17ms, SCSI HDs

W/ cables and instillation software.

I need 50$ for one or 95$ for both.

Buyer pays S&H COD UPS ground.

Interested? E-mail me today!!


Thanks for your time,

Scott Cole
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kemper@millelac.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Michael Kemper [Informatik])
Subject: Re: Lapis Color Server & Sony Monitor?
Reply-To: kemper@millelac.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Michael Kemper [Informatik])
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:54:29 GMT

In article <14468@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, flemmon@lemmon.auspex.com
(Frank Lemmon) writes:
|>Does anyone have experience with a Lapis Color Server 2-17 NuBus card?
|>I am considering buying one to connect a Mac IIci to a Sony 1302
|>Multisync monitor.  Currently, the Sony is connected to the IIci
|>internal video port and consequently one inch of the monitor is
|>unusable (since the monitor displays 1024x780 while the internal video
|>port only does 640x480).  I have heard that the Lapis card will solve
|>this problem.
|>
|>Frank Lemmon
|>flemmon@auspex.com

I have a similar configuration: ColorServer PDS/30-17 (for SE/30, 17"
monitors) and the Sony 1404S (which is called 1304S in the USA, I
think). I usually use 832x624 and I am very satisfied with it. The Sony
has a sharp picture, colors are ok. The VGA cable of the Sony plugs
directly into the VGA adapter of the Lapis card, no additional adapter
required.
BUT...
You need the ColorServer 2-19 to display 1024x768 since the 2-17s
maximal resolution is 832x624. I don't know if it is good to look at
1024x768 on a 13" display for a long time, I think 832x624 is small enough.

Hope this helps...

|\/|ichael |<emper              +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
University of Kaiserslautern    + Must I say this?                            +
Germany	                        + This is my own personal opinion...          +
kemper@rhrk.uni-kl.de           +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kpw105@phys.anu.edu.au (Ken Wessen)
Subject: New notebooks
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Theoretical Physics, Australian National University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 01:35:15 GMT

Could someone please forward me the article that was written recently
giving details of the (supposed) new powerbooks and dockables?
Thanks
Ken
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: emt@leland.Stanford.EDU (Eric Michael Taleff)
Subject: FOR SALE: Four 1meg simms, $50, Bay Area
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 20:30:02 GMT

FOR SALE: Four 1meg 1x8 100ns low profile simms. These simms fit many
(most?)  macintosh computers. I have just upgraded the memory in my
computer with four new simms, and have no more use for these old 1meg
simms.  

MAKER: Samsung 
AGE: Used for about 1.5 years.
PRICE: asking US$50

I know that these chips are good, as they were working perfectly in my
computer earlier today.

I prefer to have someone in the bay area respond, as I don't want to
deal with mailing or COD.

CONTACT: Eric by email at "et@uhcs.stanford.edu" or phone at
(415)723-2536 and leave a message.
From: benkei@cs.utexas.edu (William Kent Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: How to read fast (9600baud) on the printer port
Date: 26 Aug 1992 14:43:26 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: puma.cs.utexas.edu

In article <1992Aug20.132511.10864@unifr.ch> dietler@cfruni51 (giovanni dietler) writes:

>for writing fast to a printer only. Inside Macintosh tells that
>the printer port is good to use at 300 baud in the reading mode, but
>we would like to use it at faster rate. On a MacSE we can read up to 
  [ stuff deleted ]

My understanding of the problem is that the printer port has
lower interrupt priority than the modem port, so you might lose
incoming data due to higher-prio interrupts (which would
supercede the printer port input but not the modem port input).
If this is the case, you can read as much as you like, but
you can't do anything about loss of data coming in at faster
than 300 baud.  You may lose some, you may not.  It depends
on what other things are happening.  Just a guess is that
disk interrupt is equal to modem port, therefor greater
than printer input.  If this is true, then if the mac has to
service the disk, it will run off and leave the printer input
unattended, thus allowing overwrite of data.

Maybe reducing the need to read from disk (increase app cache,
increase ram, load app/files to ram disk, etc) will help.
(again assuming that the disk is the problem.  There are
probably other "devices" that won't interrupt modem but
will interrupt printer)

Actually, another solution is to get the LabNB board to input through
your slot (isn't there a NuBus alternative for the LC?.  If not, maybe
Nat'l Instruments has a device that will plug into the LC).
-- 

Kent Richards                         "Practice random acts of kindness
benkei@cs.utexas.edu                   and senseless beauty"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: rjc@monet.ccs.itd.umich.edu (Robert John Churchill)
Subject: Asante 2.0/4.1 enet drivers
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: University of Michigan
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:59:20 GMT

Asante has provided me with the 4.1 version of their ethernet drivers
and have allowed them to be provided for ftp access.  If you need 4.1,
ftp into  monet.ccs.itd.umich.edu  and look inside of  /pub
 
I'll try to get these added into  mac.archive.umich.edu  soon, where
they will be available from them on.
 
-- Robert
From: WXT106@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: What does Quadra 256K VRAM do?
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:39:54 GMT
rganization: Penn State University

Hi, everyone, I have a Quadra 700 and a 19" inch radius Pivot display, currentl
y, the monitor only shows 16 colors.  I want to upgrade the machine so that I c
an get 256 colors.  Someone told me you have to get the VRAM, I am not sure whe
ther to buy the 256K or 512K. In some mail order places, they advertised someth
ing like "Quadra 256K VRAM", is that the kind I need? Help will be greatly appr
eciated.

      Thanks!


Weid Tang
From: habs@panix.com (Harry Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Rastor Ops ProColor board (References, experiances?)
Date: 29 Aug 92 19:47:41 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

I am looking for information from anyone who has/is using the
RasterOps ProColor board.

send replies to: habs@panix.com
-- 
Harry Shapiro  				      habs@panix.com
List Administrator of the Extropy Institute Mailing List
Private Communication for the Extropian Community since 1991
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dowling@hubcap.clemson.edu (william a dowling)
Subject: Re: PowerBook 145 Add on options?
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:15:35 GMT

danny@utkux1.utk.edu (Danny W. McCampbell) writes:

>Hi net.  I am considering buying a PowerBook 145 really soon.
>Our Campus Bookstore is running a sale on them and I really
>want a PowerBook.  The only problem is I would really like
>to be able to hook an external Monitor up to it.  What are
>my options with the PowerBook 145 and does it come with an
>FPU?  The book store person I talked too could not tell me.
>Thanks.


No FPU,  there are currently only two devices to drive a color monitor or 
external for that matter.  They are the Raidus PowerView and the Envision
Display Adaptors.  The Raidus is a external box that uses the PB's SCSI
port.  The Envision is acually a card that fits into a memory slot. It also
has options of 'on card' ram, 2, 4, 6 I think.  There has been some 
discussion about the relibility of the envision cards though. I _DO NOT_ 
have first hand experiance with either of these. I am reluctant to give
list prices out on the net.

>PS  Also could I put a bigger hard drive in it?
You can get an 80 with the 145 (from apple).  I've yet to hear of third party
internal drives for the PB.  You can always use the SCSI to hook up external
drives.
-- 
My submissions are not necessarily those of my employer, but the ought to be.
Drew Dowling                        CLEMSON UNIVERSITY 
dowling@hubcap.clemson.edu                  SC                                69
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From: daven@notable.com (Dave Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: STUFFIT SKIPPING Alternate Files in Script Execution!!!
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 22:21:25 PST
Organization: Notable Technologies, Inc.
Reply-To: daven@notable.com
Distribution: usa
X-Mailer: uAccess LITE - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <1992Aug25.150814.24089@news.columbia.edu> (comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc), ia4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imran Anwar) writes:
| Hi.  I have had a Stuffit script running fine for several months.  It
| looks in a folder, creates a new .sit file and stuffs all files which
| have names begining with 1,   eg 1000, 1001, etc. and deleting files it
| stuffs
| 
| Today it has gone bonkers!
| 
| It is stuffing only every alternate file, eg
| 
| 1000,1002,1004....or 1001,1003,1005...depending on whether the top file
| is even or odd numbered!
| 
| Any ideas what is happening?

This is a problem I reported to Aladdin regarding StuffIt 2.0 scripts. I'm
assuming you're running StuffIt 2.0 and not the latest version, 3.0. I wasn't
able to find a work around then, except to manually delete (in the Finder)
after running the StuffIt script.

As to what is happening. It's works like this. StuffIt queries the directory
for how many files it has, and the directory answers, say 10. Next StuffIt
uses a file system call that allows it to access the files in the directory
by an index, i.e. file #0, file #1, etc. StuffIt then stuffs the first file,
(file #0) and then deletes it. StuffIt then stuffs the second file (file
#1) and the deletes it. And so on.

However, the instance you delete a file, the directory then renumbers the
files! Thus if you delete file #0, then file #1 now becomes file #0.
StuffIt 2.0 does not compensate for this and deletes file #1, which was
formerly file #2. The end result is that files #1, #3, #5, etc. are never
deleted. (You noted that sometimes only even numbered files are deleted,
I believe this is because the file system orders the files a bit differently
than Finder does in it's displays.)

The solution for this given example, as strange as it may seem, is to always
delete file #0 until you have deleted it 10 times.

--Dave

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.editors
From: grabenst@umbc4.umbc.edu (Mr. Michael Grabenstein; ACS (GUEST))
Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:44:38 GMT

k

	A good vi editor is NOT a contradiction. Thos of you who
have not had the encouragment to fully explore vi never like it.
It is an amazing editor.
	E-mail me if you want a list of some of the outstanding things
vi can do that no other editor I have seen can do.

Later,
	Mike
	ZMEG@AACC.bitnet
	or grabenst@umbc3.umbc.edu
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From: pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.editors
Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:24:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: cucbs.1992Sep4.192444.24921
Organization: Center for Biomolecular Simulation

In article <lawton.715610572@armand> lawton@armand.RADC.AF.MIL (James Lawton) writes:
>>I want a good vi . . . for the mac.
>
>Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-)

No it isn't, you hopeless dweebs.  There are a lot of things that are much
easier to do in a good mainframe editor, like vi and especially emacs, than
in a standard Mac 'word processor'.

To answer the question, the only Mac version of vi that I've heard of is
called 'stevie' (originally written for the Atari ST).  Unfortunately, it
doesn't support vi keyboard macros, which makes it pointless, as far as I'm
concerned.  I think that regular expression search and replace was functional,
however, but it's been a while since I've tried it.

If you're just looking for a good editor that you can use directly on text
files, I would strongly suggest you look at the excellent shareware editor,
Alpha (now in version 5.0).  It is quite powerful, extensible, and flexible.
You can redefine the key bindings, for instance, and write much more 
interesting macros than in vi.

Tom

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From: wyle@synopsys.com (Mitch Wyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.editors
Subject: good vi editor for the mac
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:32:34 GMT
Organization: Synopsys Inc.

This subject comes up twice a year or so...

I want a good vi (with macros, pipes, ex commands, etc.) for the mac.

I'm willing to drop some bucks if there is a commercial app.

I know about mac-stevie.  I want mac-elvis.  I just bought a C compiler
to do the elvis1.7 port myself if no one is already doing it.

I would appreciate a reply from Steve Kirkendal (Mr. elvis) and anyone
who has done coding on mac-stevie.

Thanks,  -Mitch

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From: gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: LAYO resource equivalent under System 7?
Date: 4 Sep 1992 18:31:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.cchem.berkeley.edu

Under system 6, I was able to tailor my finder layout using ResEdit to
edit the LAYO resource of the Finder.  That resource has now
disappeared under System 7, and I would like to know how to tailor the
layout (i.e. horizontal and vertical spacing) of the icons.  

  Thanks for any help you can give me,
        --Dan
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From: kotaro@galle.ee.sophia.ac.jp (Kato Kotaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: reading Filemaker Pro / 4D files with Hyper Card
Date: 26 Aug 92 10:16:20 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Electrical Electronic Engineering Dept., Sophia Univ., Tokyo,
	Japan

I am thinking of reading Filemaker Pro files with Hyper Card.
Is it possible? If it is possible, how do I do it? 

Or if there is a way to read 4D files with Hyper Card,
that will be fine, too.

The thing is that I want to teach English to Japanese children 
using the Mac. I am thinking of making a database full of 
questions and answers. The children use Hyper Card to look at
the question and answer it. Then I correct their answers. 

I wonder if it was right to post this to comp.sys.mac.databases.
Was it better to post to comp.sys.mac.hypercard.

Thankyou for your attention.

			Kotaro Kato
			Deiters Laboratory
			Electrical & Electronic Engineering Dept.
			Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
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From: shawn@cars.com (Shawn Connelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Good 4D external ftp site
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:05:04 GMT
Reply-To: shawn@cars.com
Organization: Connelly Automation Research and Services

Can someone steer me to a good ftp site for 4D externals? We have a
projects that use 4D in conjunction with Oracle and HyperCard, and
would like to see what's out there to help us out.

Thanks.

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From: pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Font creation util needed
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:40:47 GMT
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.

I've been putting together a 4D database and I need to do barcoding
(USPS regulation barcodes), my problem is the only fonts that I've 
found do not meet the post offices regulations for barcodes.  So that
brings me to my question, does anybody know of a good Font creation
utility for the Mac.  I would like to find a Public Domain or Shareware,
but if neither is available I would like to hear comments on commercial
apps.

Thanks in advance for any help
--Carl

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