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From: dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca (Derek K. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,ubc.macintosh
Subject: Making an internal drive external?
Date: 8 Jan 1993 02:15:38 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

I'm in the process of searching out a newhard drive for my IIcx, and have
just come across an old Quantum 40MB internal drive in my organization's
storage bins. I currently have a Sony 40MB internal.

Now, I have a few questions:

Can I connect more than one internal drive to the IIcx in any way? Could
I have both the Sony and the Quantum inside my IIcx?

The Sony is a small machine: about 4x6x1.5". The Quantum is much larger:
5.5x8.5x2" (I think it was from an old Mac II). The housing in the IIcx
will not fit the Quantum drive as it sits now; in fact, the cables are
so short that the drive sticks out an an awkward angle when I plug it in.
Is there a way to enlarge the space to fit the Quantum drive (the housing
is removable, I'm sure, but what would I mount the Quantum to?). I may
wish to replace the Sony with the Quantum, since the Sony has stiction
problems.

As another option, can I convert the Quantum internal into a SCSI external
drive with relative ease and/or minimal expense? It currently has
sockets for the standard plus which also work with the Sony; can these be
adapted to work with SCSI?

These are only 40MB drives, and I'll probably be getting an external 100MB
or so anyway, but it would be nice to use at least one of these (paid for)
drives in addition.

Any suggestions?

      :=:=> Derek K. Miller                 dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca
      Researcher, Alma Mater Society        thegrodd@tz.ucs.sfu.ca
      University of British Columbia, Canada

P.S. I tested out the Quantum and it works very well; I have formatted
and checked it with MacTools, and everything's a-OK from a medium point of
view.
From: Ganyard, Jeff@msgate.corp.apple.com (Ganyard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Sticky Mouse Revisited
Date: 5 Jan 93 19:56:56 GMT
Organization: Apple

Subject: Sticky Mouse Revisited
From: Chuck Grissom, crg@rocky.raleigh.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:57:00 GMT
In article <1992Dec21.155700.18494@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> Chuck
Grissom, crg@rocky.raleigh.ibm.com writes:
>I know this has been discussed from time to time, but I don't recall
anyone
>really solving the problem.



You should all try using a different mouse for awhile.
This problem shows up so many times and in so many configurations that
the only common item is the mouse.
If it continues, try another on...
______________________________________________________
                              [Apple did NOT say this, I did!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley)
Subject: Re: Info on the New Macs coming Feg 10th
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: FAA / Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:40:39 GMT

>>>>> On Tue, 12 Jan 93 02:27:34 GMT, jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz) said:
In article <1993Jan12.022734.22681@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz) writes:

Jonathan> Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware

Jonathan> Since a LOT of people have been asking me for this info,
Jonathan> here are some specs from MacWeek.  Please remember I didn't
Jonathan> come up with these, and if I've typed them in incorrectly,
Jonathan> sorry!

     <stuff deleted>

Jonathan> Centris 610:
Jonathan> 20-MHz 68LC040
Jonathan> 1 Nubus Slot (7 inch max)
Jonathan> Ethernet as an option
Jonathan> Memory expandable to 68 Mbytes
--> 4/80 retail $1,900

Jonathan> All of the above can come with a CD-ROM, will have the
Jonathan> Quadra 950's fast SCSI controller, and can display eight-bit
Jonathan> color on monitors up to 21 inches.

Assuming that the CD-ROM adds ~$500, the Centris 610 with CD-ROM would
cost roughly $2400.  Question: Should I be feeling really STUPID right
now for plunking down $2400 for a Performa 600 CD just prior to
Christmas?  I would have gladly given up the free software (Claris
Works) for the 68LC040 and the ability to support a larger monitor :-(
Admittedly, I have more slots and a bigger hard drive, but still...
Sigh.  I was happy with my purchase 'till I read this.  Ah well.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Modem cable myths
From: scasterg@waltham.columbus.oh.us
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 22:25:52 -0500
X-Mailer: rnMac Buggy, I mean Beta, Test Version

The standard line given whenever anyone mentions hooking a high speed modem up 
to their mac is "you have to get a hardware handshaking cable."

In my experience, this simply is not true. Granted, you will probably get faster 
throughput using hardware handshaking. BUT if you cannot get hold of a hardware 
handshaking cable right away, there is no reason you should not be able to use a 
standard Mac modem cable and software (XON/XOFF) handshaking.

I am in a special situation where even though I have access to hardware 
handshaking cables, I am forced to use software handshaking on my 14.4k modem. 
This is because I use the modem to run my uupc node and my software, uupc 3.0, 
only works with a standard modem cable, it will not work with hardware 
handshaking cables because that disables uupc's control of the DTR line, which 
it needs to hang up the modem.

My throughput at 9600 using software handshaking is just fine. (I don't have 
anybody to call at 14.4 to check that out -- I'm ahead of the Joneses). I have 
found the improvement when using hardware handshaking to be very minimal. At 
higher speeds than 9600, the handshaking difference might become more noticable, 
but there is definitely no reason why you cannot use a standard Mac modem cable 
if you need to.

This is important to know if you are using a Mac Plus, Classic and a couple 
other models (LC?) which will simply not support hardware handshaking due to 
braindead design.

One problem you might encounter -- if the modem's factory defaults are set for 
hardware handshaking, you may not be able to get your Mac to talk to the modem 
until you find a way to change the handshaking setting (borrow a friend's 80x86 
machine and use it to change the settings). Fortunately, the modem I got (a 
Quickcomm Spirit II 14.4/FAX) did not come that way.

Finally, a reliable source for hardware handshaking cables:

Mac Dataflow (410) 569-7636

Just ask for "cable ID 3 from the Hermes docs." Mac Dataflow is not connected 
with the author of Hermes, but I gather they get some regular business from 
Hermes folks, since the Hermes docs mention their company, among others. The 
cables are very high in quality, professional work. Reasonable prices (about $15 
US if I remember right).

I am not affiliated with Mac Dataflow, just a satisfied customer.

Stu Castergine
scasterg@waltham.columbus.oh.us
From: mathew@unixg.ubc.ca (Mathew Englander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,ubc.macintosh
Subject: PowerBook data/fax modem
Date: 9 Jan 1993 23:31:00 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

When Apple announced its "Express Modem" in October, it said it would
only work on the new models: PB160 and PB180 (maybe the Duos too). However,
Two dealers have told me that the new modem will be compatible with my
PB140. Is this true? and if so, why would Apple have announced the contrary?

Mathew Englander

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp)
Subject: HP Deskwriter 550C?  Any suggestions? 
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:20:32 GMT


Hello All,
	
	I have decided upon the purchase of a Deskwriter 550C, but I would like
to pay as little money as possible.  Anybody know of a place that sells
them for a really good price?

Sean Harp
University of Tennessee
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: Re: Pixel line on 14" Color Monitor on Purpose? Help!
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:39:04 GMT


This faint line is the price you pay for the excellent resolution. The 
grid of wires that creates the "mask" for .26 mm resolution run vertically
and this is the supporting "crossbar" that keeps them from a-janglin.

A few companies have eliminated this minor annoyance by incorporating a 
new material called "Invar" into the traditional shadow mask apperature
grill used on all the lower resolution monitors (NEC, ect.). Although
this new material achieves a finer grid, and thereby a comparable dot-pitch
to the Trinitron, monitors which use it still use three seperate color
beams. Three beams are more difficult to focus on a particular point, 
requiring a greater screen curvature. Perhaps this is partially responsible
for a frequently reported "grainier" appearence.

If you consider the alternatives ($, less focus, ect.), you may be less 
annoyed.

Sorry if I  made any technical errors, but hey, what am I, the
kid from the Encyclopedia commercial ?

Cheers,

Jim
J. Graham
Biology and Chemistry
Indiana University -Bloomington
From: mmjjmm@post.its.mcw.edu (Michael Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: New Apple CD-ROM
Date: 8 Jan 1993 14:11:46 -0600
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin  (Milwaukee, WI)
NNTP-Posting-Host: post.its.mcw.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Does anyone know when the new fast access Apple CD-ROM drives are due to
be out and what they will cost. I'm putting off getting a CD until I get a
look at them. Were they shown at MacWorld. If so, any impressions.

-- 
Michael J. Malloy
Medical College of Wisconsin           Truth is a Virus
mmjjmm@post.its.mcw.edu
From: pug@apple.com (Russ Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Duos and monitors
Date: 7 Jan 93 02:04:09 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <8myrsc-@lynx.unm.edu> Sherman Wilcox, wilcox@triton.unm.edu writes:
>A simple question that I hope someone can answer for me (since I need
>to buy a Duo as soon as possible): can the Duos, when docked, drive a
>portrait display?

Yes, Apple's Macintosh Portrait Display is supported to 4 bits by the
external video option on the Powerbook 160, 180, and the Duos
MiniDock.  The Duo Dock also supports 4 bits, or if you've purchased 
the video ram upgrade, 8 bits.

Russ
pug@apple.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jimy@cae.wisc.edu (Jim Yu)
Subject: Re: Which is faster:  IIsi with Daystar 33 or IIci?
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Distribution: na
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:42:57 CST

In article <1993Jan4.184636.28009@ncsu.edu> smisra@eos.ncsu.edu (SAURABH MISRA) writes:
>Which will be a faster machine?
>
>a IIsi with a Daystar 33 (around $545) 
>
>or 
>
>a IIci with the Apple installed cache card?
>
>Thanks
>
>Saurabh
>
The price you gave is for the PowerCard w/o FPU.
Some math intensive application may still run faster on the IIci.
The comparison would be easier if you used a PowerCache with FPU
In case you don't know, Daystar announced a 20-38% price cut in
all of its accelerator products. It won't be long till street
prices also fall proportionally. Then, you may just get the FPU
version for under $500.

Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: rrk@iris3.chem.fsu.edu (Randal R. Ketchem)
Subject: Good Imagewriter II price?
Organization: Florida State University -- Structural Biology Program
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 02:06:18 GMT

I have an Imagewriter II that is in great shape that I would like to sell
locally. How much should I ask for it? I bought it for ~$400.00, but I know
the StyleWriter is going for ~$330.00.

Please reply via email as I do not read this newsgroup.
rrk@sb.fsu.edu
From: lederman@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Magnetized Monitor = Junk ?
Date: 5 Jan 93 12:07:05 EST
Organization: United States Coast Guard

> My adventurous daughter wanted to see if our beautiful 13" Trinitron monitor
> was magnetic- she touched a moderately powerful magnet to the screen and it now
> has 4 large, ugly blotches on it.

    Most monitors have a degaussing coil in them.  Each time the
 monitor starts it clears out any magnetic field in the shadow
 mask.  With a very strong magnetic field in the mask (from an
 outside magnet) it may take a while to clear.

    To clear it faster, look to see if your monitor has a
 degaussing switch.  Some monitors do, some don't.  If yours does,
 press it (or do what the manual says to do with it).

    To clear it even faster, someone who does TV repair could wave
 an external degaussing coil in front of the monitor to wipe out
 the magnetic field (don't get this close to floppies, headphones,
 speakers with unshielded magnets, casette tapes, etc.).

    Or if you have a bulk tape eraser which runs off of line AC
 power, it will work just as well as a degaussing coil (I know,
 I've used both).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jlcrowle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jan Crowley)
Subject: Quadra Video
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:19:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Illinois State University
From: mitch@novavax.UUCP (Mitch Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Brightness and Classic II
Keywords: brightness, classic II, PRAM
Date: 6 Jan 93 00:02:44 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Here's the prob: I have a Mac Classic II, 4 MB of RAM, 40 MB
internal hard drive (Apple standard), and a SyQuest 88 MB
external cartridge drive.  I have a lot of INITS, including
FWB's excellent HDT Prober(tm) version 1.2.  I'm running
System 7.0.1 (the earliest systm that will boot a Classic II),
with TuneUp 1.1.1.

Problem: my brightness gets reset every time I shut down, to
about 50%.  I usually keep it turned down to about 20% (of
the slider in the Brightness CDEV--I haven't measured this!  8-})
so I find this a bit annoying.  Any suggestions?

I've *not* tried disabling the INITs, simply because 1) I've got
a lot of 'em, and 2)I didn't think INITs wrote to PRAM with
any frequency...

Let me know what you think--news or email, whichever.  Note the
"domainist" reply-to address in my .sig--this version of nn is
old and brain-damaged, and besides, I have my mail .forwarded.

Thanks in advance,

Mitchell L. Silverman              | As Voltaire never said, "I
Student, New College of            | disagree with what you say,
the University of South Florida    | but will defend to the death
Reply-to: mitch@cfraix.cfr.usf.edu | your right to say it."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dan@camel.scubed.com (Dan Peterka)
Subject: Quadra Cache Problems - possibly memory
Organization: S-CUBED, A Division of Maxwell Labs; San Diego CA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:19:11 GMT


I recently purchased a Quadra 700 and have been experiencing numerous
problems with launching programs. I suspect my RAM upgrade is
"marginal" and is the cause of my problems, but I'd like to know if
I'm on the right track there.

I'm running System 7.0.1, Tuned up. I've got many applications that
will hang the machine when launched. When programs do launch, I'll get
the system hung quite frequently in the process of doing my work. When
I disable the caches, most - not all - of these launching problems go
away (SimCity 1.3c still fails). The machine is noticeably faster with
the caches turned on, so I'd like to run with them if I can.

Would marginally speedy SIMMS cause problems like this or would the
machine just not work properly at all? The memory was scavanged from
another machine and I'm not sure how fast the SIMMS are, but the
machine seems to work fine as long as caches are off - for the most
part.

The same programs on a similarly equipped 950 work just fine - even
with the caches enabled, so I beleive I have cache compatible
applications. 

Any ideas?


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From: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Duo HD problems: HELP (Apple: say something!)
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:16:42 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <daniels-070193111218@175.175.10.2> daniels@xstor.com (Daniel A. Segel) writes:
>In article <43129@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ewa@cs.ucsd.edu (Eric Anderson) wrote:
>> 
>(comments about extra wasted space on Apple hard drives deleted)
>> 
>> 1. There must be some good reason for all that extra space, riiiight?

>Apple buys drives from several vendors, and in order to have the formatted
>capacity uniform, they partition the drives into the lowest common size
>available on all the mechanisms they may use.
>
>That way, any two 120MB hard drives from apple will be the same size, and
>if your neighbor's is from Sony while yours is a Quantum you won't go
>screaming to apple 


Well, while the idea hereis correct, I thinkthe motivation is
a bit off.

It's not apple is concerned about users complaining about 
differences in drive size. Rather, they are concerned with
being able to repair the drives.

Suppose you had an "80 meg drive" that failed. You send it back to
apple (or your local service agent) and they find the drive is shot, and
just go ahead and replace it. Now you go to restore your backup (you are
afterall a wise user who keeps backups) only to find that the
backed'up contents of your old drive are too big to fit
on the new drive.

This is why apple formats all drives in a given range to the
lowest -common-denominator size for the range.


Josh Hodas


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From: chrisd@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Christian Delay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: IIsi Oscillator Upgrade info?
Date: 10 Jan 1993 00:29:21 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: darkwing.uoregon.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Christian Delay (chrisd@darkwing.uoregon.edu) wrote:
: I've heard mention of a way to increase the speed of a Mac IIsi by
: tweaking some component(s) on the motherboard...  Can anyone send me
: information on how to (safely) do this?

: Thanks!

: --
: cdelay@darkwing.uoregon.edu
  ^^^^^^

Yikes.  Wrong username.  Please send all replies to:

chrisd@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: oueichek@gram2 (Ibaa Oueichek)
Subject: Re: YES THE IIVXcd WILL DRIVE THE 16" MONITOR?
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:35:47 GMT

jim bailey (jbailey@world.std.com) wrote:
: <IO92668@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
: 
: >While visiting Columbus, Ohio for Christmas break I stopped at
: >a local mac retail MicroCenter.  While I was there they hooked up
: >the 16" Apple monitor to the internal video support port on their
: >IIVXcd and it ran beautifully (even 16bit color).  They had
: 
: This doesn't make sense.  Are you sure that the 16" monitor was running
: 832x624 and that it wasn't connected to a video card instead?  Everything
: I have read says that the ][vx can't run a 16" monitor in WYSIWYG mode.
: Does anyone know if this has changed?

  The IIvx CAN'T drive the 16" monitor in ANY mode. The 16" monitro recognizes
  signals for 832x624 mode ONLY (not a multisync). The IIvx internal video 
  produces 640x480 signals ONLY. It's IMPOSSIBLE to hook the 16" monitor on
  the internal IIvx. I think that what you saw was :
  - either the 16" Apple monitor running on a video card inside the IIvx.
  - Or a multisync (like the Sony 16") connected to the internal IIvx video but
  running at 640x480 resolution, but it won't run "beautifully" (maybe that's
  what you've seen given that you said 16bit color and there's no enough VRAM
  in the IIvx internal video for 832x624 at 16bit color).

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Jonathan_Rochkind@laison.w8hd.org
Organization: L'AISON - Local Area Information Server Open Network
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:25:22 EDT
Subject: Duo in stereo?

Does anyone know if either of the duos support stereo sound in and/or out (when
in a duo dock, of course. I know there are no sound jacks on the straight
duo)?

I read something here which said they did not, and no third party device could
make them do it, because the duo itself lacked all ability to support stereo
sound. But then I saw an ad i MacUser (have to find the ad again to see what
product specifically) for a third party duo dock designed for presentations,
which, according to the add, included stereo in and out jacks.  Does anyone
who has a duo know for sure?

* The views expressed in this posting are those of the author!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Ben_D._Weiss@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:43:27 PST
Subject: Re: How long does a fully charged PB170 battery last?

*My* powerbook 170 battery (singular, unfortunately) lasts around an hour and a
half or so per charge.

**** 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: mmjjmm@post.its.mcw.edu (Michael Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Is Now the Time to Buy a PowerBook?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 20:20:37 -0600
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin  (Milwaukee, WI)
NNTP-Posting-Host: post.its.mcw.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Jolyon Silversmith (silvers3@husc8.harvard.edu) wrote:
: The subject line basically says it. I want to buy a new Mac in the next six
: months, and at the moment am looking at a PowerBook 160 because of its
: combination of price and external video support. Is there any point in waiting
: for a new PowerBook (I'm not interested in the Duos, however) or a machine
: such as the LC III that would be cheap and yet powerful enough to justify buying
: a desktop machine?
: 
: -- 
: Jolyon A. Silversmith __________________________________________________________
: Mather House 100             Director: Civil Liberties     These opinions aren't
: Cambridge, MA 02138          Union of Harvard  College     necessarily  those of
: silvers3@husc.harvard.edu ________________________________ CLUH.  But who knows?

If you think you might want a color display MacWeek recently atated that
new powerbooks will be out this summer with both passive and active matrix
color display. Of course they will be more expensive. The question you
have to answer is what do you need right now. You will always be behind
the latest technology.
-- 
Michael J. Malloy
Medical College of Wisconsin           Truth is a Virus
mmjjmm@post.its.mcw.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: scott@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu (Scott Smith)
Subject: Re: Powerbook Duo 210 - New Observations
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:34:03 GMT

There is now a "rev. B" keyboard for powerbook duos, supposedly should
fix the problems with keys being too hard to type.  I'm not sure when
they switched to rev. B, but early duos were not rev. B.  If you are
having problems with key response (spacebar in particular), you want
the rev. B keyboard, get your dealer to order one or mail it in to
Apple.

As soon as I can spare my computer for awhile I will be getting one of
these new keyboards.

Scott

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