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From: avery@cmn7.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang)
Subject: Powerbook Battery life -- best case?
Reply-To: avery@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 01:07:36 GMT

Hi-

Does anyone know how long the charge lasts on a powerbook?  I'm especially  
interested in the absolute best case, with the screen light turned off,  
CPU power management on, and disk spun down?  I am thinking of the case  
where I would be travelling and typing notes into something like  
WordPerfect with lots of pauses between paragraphs.  

The time given for the Powerbook Duo 230 was 2.5-4 hours, but is the 4  
hour time with or without the screen on?

Thanks,
-Avery Wang
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From: c60a-bw@danube.Berkeley.EDU (James Wang)
Subject: Re: Do you REALLY need a coprocessor? was(Duo opinions wanted)
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:34:31 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.190244.5814@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@Dartmouth.Edu writes:
>David_A._Schnider@bmug.org writes:
>
>>I don't have a coprocessor in my LC, and if I buy a PB160 it won't be able to
>>hold one.  The only thing I truly want it for is the Satori AD module.
>
>    You want to use Satori on a 4-bit Grayscale LCD display? WHY?!
>
>--
>-Brian V. Hughes
>	"Young children should not to try this kind of thing at home.
>	    		Use a friend's home."

maybe he's saving the external monitor.  you can always put the computer
with the 4-bit grayscale lcd display to sleep.
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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: Direct Data Transfers PB170 to IIci -- CORRECTION
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 23:55:19 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <BxtKws.Bzq@world.std.com> kenh@world.std.com (Ken Hancock) writes:
>
>Oh, don't be wimpy.  Hit the programmer's switch on the PB170 and drop
>into the monitor debugger.  Connect up the PB170 through the SCSI bus to
>the Mac you want to transfer files to and power up.  Just make sure you
>have different SCSI IDs and proper termination (PowerBook counts as a drive).

Heh heh.  I've suggested this sort of thing to people, but always with
the caveat that I never had either the nerve or enough spare macs to
try it myself.  I'm glad to hear that it works.

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From: gap@astro.ocis.temple.edu (George Piotrowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: collecting results of IIsi->25MHz upgrade
Date: 20 Nov 92 04:30:45 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Also, would people list what speed their ram simms are and also
the speed on the 1meg that is soldered to the motherboard.

Thought this might be useful in finding out why failures might 
be occuring.

Later,

George A. Piotrowski
Temple University
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From: jwa@vipunen.hut.fi (Jyrki J Wahlstedt)
Subject: Re: Se/30 32-bit clean?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 21 Nov 92 01:34:50

In article <1992Nov19.195338.27468@u.washington.edu> calypso@stein.u.washington.edu (Kent Shih) writes:


>I heard that the IIci and the like are 32-bit clean... I wonder if
>SE/30 is also the same... :)

  No, but it can be made so by a small program called mode32. It's
  available from several ftp sites, e.g. ftp.apple.com (don't remember
  the exact location). (It goes into your Control Panel folder.)
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From: Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:59:49 EST
Subject: Re: Does a ci have a different interleave factor than a II?

The interleave ratio for a Mac ][ci is 1:1.  I'm not sure what the interleave
ratio would have been for your old drive.  Good luck,  Joe C.
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From: model03@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (John Deke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:30:22 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Recently I have noted that several people in the Apple ][ world are
anticipating with considerable glee the arrival of the Power Macs because they
believe that Apple will abandon the Macintosh in the same way that they
abandoned the Apple ][ and that all of those who purchased Macs will finally
get what they deserve. Personally, I owned and used an Apple //e for about 8
years before purchasing my Mac IIsi. I felt none of the betrayal and bitterness
that so many in the Apple II arena have apparently felt. Indeed, it seemed only
logical to me for Apple to move to the Mac, althogh I admit the transition
could have been smoother. Eventually, the Mac will be replaced by the new RISC
based machines. Some Apple II people I know seem to think this will drive alot
of Mac users over to PCs because we will feel rejected by Apple. I personally
look with much anticipation and excitement to the day when I can use a computer
even better than my Mac. However, I am very interested in knowing what other
Mac people think. 
	Do you think the Mac will be phased out?
	If so, how? Like the Apple II?
	Is this good or not?
	Any other comments?

This is not posted with any intentions of flaming anyone or starting some sort
of flame war. I am posting it in this newsgroup instead of Mac advocacy because
I hope to hear the opinions of Mac users, not roaming hordes of Mac bashers.

-- 
"We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus"-- Mr. Burns

John Deke
jdeke@oread.cc.ukans.edu
From: meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: * Sony VDeck <--> Mac for single frame recording?
Date: 19 Nov 92 14:09:36 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

Has anyone successfully connected the Sony Hi-8 VDeck to their Mac for
single frame recording? Specifically, I'm looking to record movies I
create in Adobe Premiere. If so, does the VDeck require a special
controller or can it be controlled with software (like Premiere)? I'm
also interested in how well the audio track is recorded also. Thanx.

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From: Neal_Pitts@uu0570.foggybottom.com
Organization: Foggy Bottom / Washington, D.C.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:56:07 EST
Subject: Re(2): Farewell to the Mac? (

The Apple II went through a few more iterations after the II+...  Let's
see - the IIe, IIc, IIGS, IIc+.  The IIGS is now the more up to date
one, running a 16-bit operating system using the Apple interface
(Finder, Teach, etc.).  I've had a IIe and a IIGS and find them well
suited to my tasks.  I don't rule out ever buying a Mac, but until the
usefulness of my machines runs out, I'm OK.

It's also not easy to move to another platform after spending thousands
of dollars on the one you have now and not being able to take much of
anything with you (SCSI devices, modems, ADB devices, and some disk
drives barred).  When Apple dumped on the Apple II line by cutting
support and encouraging developers to move to the Mac, it bothered the
users because not only was the favorite machine being dumped on, but
they were told to move to a foreign platform that cost more to support
and couldn't work with their current stuff.  Before anyone brings up the
Apple IIe card for the LC/LC II, allow me to say it will only run Apple
IIe software (not GS) and it limits you to the Mac LC/LC II, meaning
it's really the best choice for educators.

Anyway, the point is that many have said that the Power PC machines will
be Macs (Power Macs is one name I've heard) and will emulate the CISC
680x0 machines and be running System 7.x initially.  Also, as someone
else pointed out, there will be third-party upgrade boards to Power PC
for NuBus Macs.  Last, I remember seeing some where that some high level
Apple person (Chris Espinosa?) said "We will not do to the Mac what we
did to the Apple II" or something like that.  I don't think the thing
about constant hardware upgrades is a big deal until the software you
want to run requires 5 megs of RAM and you have a SE, or something like
that.  QuickTime is beginning to do something like that to older
machines.  When the software gets to big to run on your machine, then
there is a big reason to cry.  I can easily understand the thing about
constant hardware upgrades being annoying (like the people who bought an
SE a few days before the Classic came out and got flyers telling them to
buy Classics), but it's really not as bad as not being able to use the
next generation of software.

Whew! :)

NCP

:) :) :)

Foggy Bottom - your FirstClass Mac connection in Washington, DC
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Weird monitor question
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:06:17 GMT
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Okay. I have some VRAM, and it supports my 14" Mac LC color monitor
at 8-bit. With me so far? Now - Let's say I have a QuickTime movie,
which is 120 X 160 pixels. If, for the sake of the discussion, there
was such a thing as a monitor that was only 120 X 160, wouldn't the
VRAM I have be able to support that at 24-bit? Why not? If so, then
wouldn't there be a way to block out part of my current monitor and
use the remaining part at a higher pixel depth? I keep thinking about
those little hand-held game systems that have 16-bit graphics. The 
reason they don't look too great is because they have a low resolution.
So what's wrong with a tiny monitor with a better resolution on a mac
being supported at 24-bit? Is it possible? I know nobody would ever
do such a thing, but wouldn't it work? TIA.

-Scott J. Kleper
"Sgt. KLeper"
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From: David_A._Schnider@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:44:21 PST
Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)

I too used an Apple IIe as my first computer.  While I do still have that
machine, I never use it.  I fell no bitterness and happily moved to a
Macintosh.  Let's face it, Apples were old technology.  There are some people
who would like each new advancement to accomodate the older machines. This
type of thinking has restrained the development of 486 specific software and
is the same sentiment that holds back some Mac development.  There is a point
at which old technology must be forgotten.  One day, maybe soon, it will
happen to the Mac.  I  plan on buying a Powerbook in February.  I figure that
that will be current for approximately 6 months.  Within a year there will be
a machine at the same cost that well outperforms mine.  Perhaps the Power PC
will begin to replace the Macs or even the RISC chips.  I do not suppose that
my Mac will become obsolete for another couple of years after that.  It will
take time for developers to fully integrate to the new technology.  After a
year or two of being obsolete I will begin to look for a new computer with new
technology.  If I cannot afford one, I will suffer.  That is life.  When Apple
moved to the Mac line they may have moved too abruptly, but I do not see any
reason they should have held back.  The Apples couldn't support the Mac
software so they had to be abandoned.  It was altogether appropriate, and will
be so when they move beyond the Macintosh.

-David
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From: Frank.Mclaughlin@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Frank Mclaughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 512K SIMMs
Date: 22 Nov 92 00:07:39 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

Hey, does anybody know if 512K SIMMs can be used in any Mac other than the
IIsi?  My mom works at the U of M Flint, and deals with a lot of Macs.  One of 
the labs just got a bunch of memory upgrades for the IIsi's, and she now has a 
bumch of 512K SIMMs lying around.  I'd like to replace two of the 256K Simms
in my Mac Plus with 512K SIMMs, and make myself the first person arouns with 3 
megs of memory.  (I also have a Performa 600 I'd like to put 512K SIMMs into.) 
 Does anybody know if this is at all possible?

Frank McLaughlin

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From: ssartori@iat.holonet.net (Steven Sartorius)
Subject: Re: New 14" Monitor and Xceed 8-bit
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:23:22 GMT

nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello) writes:
: >I talked to the guy at Xceed, which is now a separate company from Micron,
: >based in Michigan. They have an 800 number but I have lost it. He said that
: >they had NOT tested the Xceed30 8-bit with the new Apple 14, but it 
: >should work :). It does not work with the SONY 1320 VGA, but does with the 
: >1304S. He also said the NEC multisynch and Macsynch were fine. I guess that the
: >new apple would uses the same scan frequencies as the 13" Apple, for which the
: >card was designed. Better try to contact them to be sure. If anyone has the 
: >number for Xceed, could you please post it ?
: 
: Jim:
: 
:   Micron's number is  800-642-7661 or 208-368-3850
: 
:    8455 Westpark Street
:    Boise, ID 83704-8366
: 
:                             Hope it helps,
: 
:                                 -- Nick
 I spoke to Xceed on Tuesday and was told that the new Apple 14" and the
8-bit color card are indeed compatible.  Now I can spring for that new
monitor!

steve

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From: mfw@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Michael John FEARN-WANNAN)
Subject: E-Mail address for Digi Design
Summary: Looking for an E-Mail address for DigiDesign
Keywords: DigiDesign Sound Card
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:29:12 GMT

If anyone out there knows the E-Mail address of DigiDesign I would 
appreciate them passing it on to me.

I need some technical information about Sound Designer and my
accelerator card.

Michael Fearn-Wannan
Dept. of Psychology
University of Melbourne

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From: summeral@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SUMMERALL  ELMINA LANIER)
Subject: Does a ci have a different interleave factor than a II?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:10:46 GMT

Hi.  I just traded my dead Mac II (and mucho $$) for a IIci.  I kept my old
hard drive, and I'm wondering if it needs to be reformatted with a different
interleave in order to gain optimum performance with the ci.

Is that true?  What is the proper ci interleave?  (The drive is a Quantum 105)

Thanks,

Thomas Summerall
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From: Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:47:51 EST
Subject: ][ci video

Can anyone recomend a high quality inexpensive video board for a Mac ][ci?  I
have a Mitsubishi Diamond Scan (model AUM-1391a) VGA monitor that I would like
to use with it.  Thanx in advance, Joe C.
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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: DPI on the fly
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 19:25:16 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
Summary: Some control codes for the Q700
Keywords: Random info

Just a little information I found messing around with _Control and
_Status codes.  If you have a multisync monitor but no software to
change the resolution, this might come in handy.

To make the Q700 built-in video come up with the monitor in the mode
you desire, make a _Control call, cscode=9,  csParam = &shortvar, with
shortvar = to something from this little table:

C325:  12" monitor (512*384)
C925:  13" monitor (640*480)
C725:  16" monitor
CB25:  640*480 VGA
EB25:  800*600 SVGA

There are other values for all the other supported resolutions.  The
way the hardware seems to work is it checks the sense lines.  If the sense
lines are the same as last time, it comes up in the mode it was set
to.  If they have changed, it comes up in the default mode for the new
sense lines.  This means that no matter what the sense lines say, you
can set the video mode to something else.
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From: unique@mcl.ucsb.edu (The One And Only)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Duo opinions wanted
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:24:29 GMT

In <Conrad_Nobili-171192105057@nobili.harvard.edu> Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) writes:

>In article <of287PW00WBNA_1GNc@andrew.cmu.edu>, ra00+@andrew.cmu.edu
>(Robert Agustin) wrote:

>>  - Does the MiniDock come with an FPU?

>No.  The Duos themselves should have included one on the motherboard.  I
>and several other people I know will get Duo 230s the day we hear that we
>can either get an FPU *inside* the Duo or get some sort of "mini" dock that
>includes one.

>Please anyone post any rumors they know of "mini" docks (i.e. not
>abominations like the Duo Dock) being developed....

>Conrad C. Nobili  N1LPM  Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU  Harvard University OIT

Well, I called SuperMac the other day about the two docks they are coming out
with, and they said they had heard UNCONFIRMED rumors about a company coming
out with a minidock with a math-co. I can't wait.

unique@mcl.ucsb.edu

P.S. The stuff herein is my own personal opinion, and is in no way connected
to Apple, SuperMac, or the UCSB campus.

P.P.S. I am currently telnetting this message from my Duo 230. Excellent
piece of machinery.

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:22184 ba.market.computers:5652 misc.forsale.computers:41164 comp.sys.mac.wanted:10892
From: asarti@bellini.berkeley.edu (Augusto Sarti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,ba.market.computers,misc.forsale.computers,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: looking for an old but working standard ADB keyboard for my mac
Summary: I don't care about the look and the mechanics
Keywords: ADB standard keyboard
Date: 22 Nov 92 21:47:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL

The standard keyboard of my mac is dead. Since it's just a
matter of circuitry (the look is still perfect and all keys
are functional) I'd like to buy an old standard keyboard
whose circuitry is still good (I don't care about the
mechanics and the look) in order to fix mine.

Does anybody has a keyboard like that for cheap?
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From: Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:53:09 EST
Subject: Mac ][vx MIDI/digital recording

I talked to Digidesign today.  As of this date they will not be supporting the
Mac ][vx.  The reason was in regards to MIDI intensive applications, and
anything that required syncing (hard drive playback to a sequencer).  They
have no plans to make any software fixes etc. they said it was "due to a
hardware problem in the ][vx.  At a future date we may start testing on the
][vx if Apple fixes the problem".  Joe C.  (keep in mind I am the messenger,
it's not my fault).
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From: pmontan@nswc-wo.navy.mil (Paul Montanaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: (Q) Xceed 24 bit SE30/IIsi cards any good?
Date: 16 Nov 92 21:27:40 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: NSWC

In article <1992Nov14.203056.26986@mail.cornell.edu>, rmb1@cornell.edu (Ron
Beloin) wrote:
> 
> I just installed the Xceed Macrocolor 24 bit card (Macconnection, $489)
> into an si,
> along with a 64K cache card. It was a tight fit, but mostly due to the
> cache card,
> not the color board. It works, Speedometer says its faster than ci color,
> and 8 bit
> is even faster than 4 bit. It comes with a paint program, a "vitual
> desktop" util,
> (haven't played with that) and a 5 year warrantee. So I'm happy.
> 
> R.Beloin@cornell.edu

I'm interested in finding out how much this upgade (combination of the 
cache card and 24 bit color card) speeds up the IIsi. 
Could you please post Speedometer 3.1 results so that I can compare them 
to my IIsi.
From: jacquet@ligiahp.univ-lyon1.fr (Yvan JACQUET             )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Connecting an EPSON LX800 printer to a MAC ?
Date: 16 Nov 1992 12:09:06 GMT
Organization: INSA Informatique (Grasp), Lyon, France
Distribution: world
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Keywords: Epson printer, Macintosh


Ok, I have a Mac IIsi and an Epson LX800 printer...
Can someone help on connecting these two together ?

I mean, I look for the description of the serial cable
and what pins to connect, and where I could find
a driver for that kind of printer...

Any help/info would be greatly appreciated !

Thanks a lot...
-yvan-

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