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From: jimh@laison.w8hd.org (Jim Hebert)
Organization: L'AISON - Local Area Information Server Open Network
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 12:33:24 EDT
Subject: Re: Magnetized Monitor = Junk ?

Martin Lilly,LILMARA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu, whose daughter magnetized his color
monitor, wonders:
  > Is my $600 investment shot?                   

Probably not. 

As other suggested, the internal degaussing coil may remove the residual
magnetism. However, these coils are not designed to be too strong or for
continuous operation. Their duty cycle is typically about one operation per
day, so don't hit the degaussing button 50 times in three minutes; you may burn
the coil out.

If you can not restore the screen using the internal de-gaussing coil, try
using a more powerful, external coil. Your friendly, neighborhood,
TV-repairman will likely have one with enough power to do the job. Worse case;
Radio Shack should have one.
 
Be sure to remove other magnetic materials, like disks, etc., from the field
of the coil.
 
If it is really badly magnetised, I have had good luck using a powerful audio
tape bulk eraser to zap things back to normal. These typically have much
higher fields than the de-gaussing coil.
 
Good luck!

Jim Hebert
Technical Director
WDIV/TV-4
Detroit, Michigan


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Subject: Re: Fan makes noise in Quadra 700!
Keywords: quadra
Reply-To: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:33:11 GMT

In article <C0L4J1.5qz@lysator.liu.se> mll@lysator.liu.se (Thomas Danielson) writes:
>Anybody know if there is a way to make the fan in a Quadra 700 not
>so noisy?  My machine is turned on for 24h/day and I have no 
>accessory cards installed.  Is there a temperature regulated fan out
>there somewhere that I could use?

Noise is relative. Compared to my old Mac II, the Quadra I have doesn't
sound noisy. You can even hear the hard disk working in there!

The 68040 generates a lot of heat and needs to be cooled in order to work.
I seem to remember that the Quadra 900 would overheat if used with the
case open for more than 30 minutes. I don't think that changing the fan
would be wise.


-- 
  Juri Munkki					       Windsurf: fast sailing
 jmunkki@hut.fi					      Macintosh: fast software
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: pato@apollo.HP.COM (Joe Pato)
Subject: Re: MAC IIvx and Performa 600
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:52:18 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA

I too found that I couldn't justify the additional price of
the VX over the Performa 600.  I got the Performa for $1700
(1999 list with a 15% lechmere store-wide discount just
before the holidays).
-- 
                    -- Joe Pato
                       Distributed Computing Program / East
                       Hewlett-Packard Company
                       pato@apollo.hp.com
From: lederman@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Looking for good read/write optical drive
Date: 7 Jan 93 10:15:04 EST
Organization: United States Coast Guard

>> I'm looking to purchase an economical mass storage device for my Mac.  It
>> seems that optical drives provide the lowest cost per megabyte for removable
>> media.  Anyone out there had any good/bad experiences with them?

    In August I bought the older model 5.25 inch Ricoh drive from
 RELAX, for about $1,500.  For about the same price as a 128 MB
 drive you get a 300 MB (per side, 600 MB total per cartridge)
 drive.  This model isn't as fast as the newer drives, and you
 have to format the cartridges yourself (45 minutes per side, but
 you only have to do it once), but you get more storage on-line,
 and more storage per dollar, than a 3.5 inch drive which would
 cost about the same.

    The drive has been working fine for me, and even saved me a
 lot of trouble when my hard drive failed.  I just booted from the
 MO and kept going.

    The place where I work has been using Maxoptics Tahiti drives
 for at least 4 years and has been happy with them, but they cost
 a lot more.

 Bart Z. Lederman  System Resources Corp.
From: rhi@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Jaeyoung Rhi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: HELP: HD(?) problem
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:17:20 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci
Originator: rhi@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU


I am writing this for my friend who is not accessable to the net.
MY MAC SE30 HAD a serious problem as follows;
From the beginning, I cannot copy files from hard disk to floppy disk
saying that disk error has occurred, meanwhile I can copy files from 
floppy disk to hard disk. After a couples of days later, my computer
screen shows "this disk is unreadable, do you want to initialize it?"
Whenever I am doing any Job, that sign comes up all the time. I tried virus 
check and abolished 7.0 system and reinstalled 6.8system. when I did virus
check, there was no Problem at all. Finally, I brought it dealer, repairman says
that my Mac has "logic board Problem" which I have to change the logic board.
I am a pure novice to handle this kind problem, so I ask expert like you to help me out. the estimation price is almost $500 which I can not afford to.
I wish I have your reply very soon.
Thank you.

Jun Ki
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: phil@sonia.math.ucla.edu (Phil Goodman)
Subject: Old PB RAM in news PBs
Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 23:03:05 GMT

Last year, I upgraded my old pb170 to 8MBs of RAM. This left me with an
unused 2MB PB RAM card. Is this RAM card compatible with the new PB 160 and
PB 180? I know it's not compatible with the Duos. It's Apple brand -- not
a third party.


Thanks,

--Phil


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kevin@mpls911.uucp (Kevin Herrboldt)
Subject: Re: Running games on a Powerbook
Organization: City of Minneapolis Emergency Communications
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:22:32 GMT

sarachan@wsqtbf.crd.ge.com (B. D. Sarachan) writes:
> Is there any problem running games that involve animation (i.e. flight simulators,
> etc.) on the Powerbook?  Is the animation too blurry on supertwist displays, or
> is the effect tolerable?

On the active matrix display (PB170 and PB180), there is absolutely no problem.
I run all kinds of animation (flight simulators, QuickTime, etc) with zero
problems on my PB180.  If the PowerBook is your only Mac, it's hard to imagine living
with an LCD display.

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Minneapolis Emergency Communications Center         ...!mishima!mpls911!kevin
City Hall Room B-911, Mpls, MN  55415
(612) 348-7216
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose)
Subject: new 252mb Maxtor disk for Powerbooks
Followup-To: poster
Organization: The Evil Fascist IRC Admins From Hell, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:00:21 GMT

has anyone gotten one of these? what's it like? I called Maxtor and they
gave me the numbers of two dealers I'd never heard of. I called both of
them and one of them said they didn't carry *any* 2.5" drives! 

I had called APS first. They said that they weren't carrying the drive
and hadn't decided if they were going to yet.

If anyone has gotten one, please email me letting me know where you got
it from, if you've had any problems, etc.  I'm going to be installing
one in a Powerbook Duo 230. 

Thanks!

--Helen
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From: scott@fido.cs.jhu.edu (Scott Smith)
Subject: Re: Third Party Duo Modems Available?
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:19:25 GMT

robert@hccw.com writes:

>  I have a Duo 230 and want to put a high speed modem in it.  Are the 
>third party modems available yet?  So far I've only been able to find
>one modem (Apple's 2400) for the Duo.

My understanding is the only internal modem Apple will be putting out
for the Duo is the Powerbook Express modem, a 14.4 data modem.  It has
yet to appear (any sightings out there?).  So, I'm not sure what 2400
baud modem you are talking about.

I have not heard of any third party modems on the market yet; Global
Village (maker of the powerport modems) plans on putting one out in
the next quarter.

Right now, I'm just lugging around an external modem with my Duo...


Scott

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From: spare@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Joshua Spare)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Imagewriter
Date: 5 Jan 93 01:18:51 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University

I have a question about my imagewriter II.  When I print out something in BEST quality mode the printer moves the lines in about one character for no apparent reason.  It is as if I set the margin in one space.  Then, after a random number of lines it will push the margin back out one character again.  I have tried everything I can think of.
Here are my specs:

LC II
System 7.0.1 tuned up
not using true-type fonts, I deleted them all.
Imagewriter II with no options.

If anyone could help me with this problem I would greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.

Josh

spare@gandalf.rutgers.edu


-- 
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witty, so it be eloquent and full of invention.  Taunt him with the license
of ink.						Twelfth Night (III.ii.42-45)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Eric.G.Sack.1@nd.edu (Eric G. Sack)
Subject: Re: Info on the New Macs coming Feg 10th
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: CEGS, University of Notre Dame
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:55:38 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.022734.22681@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>,
jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz) wrote:
> Quadra 800:
>    33-MHz 68040
>    3 Nubus Slots
>    one PDS
>    8 Mbytes of RAM expandable to 136
>    built in Ethernet
>    --> 8/230 retail $4,700

I've been wanting to ask this for a while, and I can't wait any longer.
What case is the Q800 going to have? Is it the IIcx/IIci/Q700 case? (I
doubt it since Apple will surely want poeple putting CD 300i in 'em.)
That leaves either the IIvi/IIvx/P600 case OR a mini tower. Something
like a chopped Q900/Q950 case. Personally I'ld like to see the mini
tower. Does anyone know for sure? Did I miss a possibility?

Couple other questions about the Q800. How much VRAM is standard? How
much is it capable of holding (my GUESS is 1MB standard/2 MB MAX). Does
it have the fast NUBUS like the Q950 (NUBUS90 I think its called)?

Eric
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From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 14" Monitor and DuoDock
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:25:19 GMT

I have the Apple 14" Mac Color Display and a DuoDock with a Duo 230.  I've
noticed that when docked, the Duo seems to have a built in screen saver. 
Just as the undocked Duo turns off its backlighting after a period of
disuse, the DuoDock's montor goes blank after a while.  The only thing I'm
worried about is that it's not really blank.  There is a sort of glow that
remains in the central horizontal band of the monitor (the top and bottom
extremes are uneffected) that's greyish.  It also flickers just a little. 
There are also so horizontal line patterns.  IT doesn't seem as if this is
related to what is on the screen (it's not as if it's just not dim
enough).  Is this problem, or is it merely some weird reflecting going on
inside the monitor?
-- 
               -  Ishir Bhan -  ibhan@husc.harvard.edu  - 
                                     - - - 
           "The sky and the impossible explode..." -The Cure
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ck10858@medtronic.COM (Catherine Kriegler)
Subject: duo dock with NuBus slots
Organization: Medtronic, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:29:41 GMT

I am interested in a portable Macintosh system which allows
expansion Nubus cards to be used (i.e. A/D and DSP cards).
I was considering purchasing a Duo, however with the docking
station, you now have NuBus slots, but you have to use an
external monitor and the system is no longer portable.

My question is, are there any third party vendors who are
developing an "docking" station which allows nubus cards
to be used, while using the LCD monitor on the DUO?

If not, does anyone know of another portable with this 
capability. (All of my data acquisition software is on a
Macintosh platform and I would prefer not to switch.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Cathy



Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: kmarko@hpbs654.boi.hp.com (Kurt Marko)
Subject: Re: Rocket in a Duo Dock?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:13:11 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho

Actually, better yet, how about using Rocket Share in a Duo Dock?
Then you would still have use of the Duo's 030 for more 'mundane'
tasks like downloading, and could use the Rocket simultaneously for
other apps.

Kurt Marko

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: Advantages of dual (2) monitors ?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:38:19 GMT


It sure seems like a good idea considering the increase in screen real
estate to use two monitors. How do people with this option rate its
value ? 

My dilema involves adding a large screen next to my SE/30 vs. putting
a small amount of money into a new CPU and monitor. I'm not really 
impressed by faster clock speeds or caches, as disk access seems to
be the real limiting factor in speed. I would however gain a one
year warantee at the expense of losing a second 9" monitor.

Is it worth it or not ? Please send me your impressions.

thanks much,

Jim
J. Graham
Biology and Chemistry Departments
Indiana University -Bloomington
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:25761 comp.sys.mac.misc:21639
From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: MaxAppleZoom vs Apple's New 14" Monitor?
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:10:56 GMT
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
Originator: ostroff@cloy.oswego.edu

Has anybody tried using the MaxAppleZoom init with Apple's new 14"
color monitor?  I have been using MAZ very happily for some time now
on a 12" monochrome monitor (with a IIcx and an 8-bit video card) but
am now thinking about upgrading to a color screen.  Before I order
the new Apple screen it would be nice to know that MAZ will still work -
I've gotten so used to the extra pixels that I don't think I'd want to
give them up.....

.............................................................................
....Boyd Ostroff / Technical Director / SUNY Oswego Department of Theatre....
...............Voice: (315) 341-2987 /  Fax: (315) 341-3394..................
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From: Alec Plumb <aplumb@ucsd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: High Capacity DATs
Date: 11 Jan 1993 16:25:23 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego - IGPP
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: igpp-mac181.ucsd.edu
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16
X-XXDate: Mon, 11 Jan 93 16:17:59 GMT

Hello,
We are looking to moving from our current backup system (Two DAT drives
each using two 60M tapes per backup session) to a single drive, single
tape system.  Are Compression DAT's all that they are cracked up to be?
Is 5GB a realistic archive size, or is it just the best that is theore-
tically possible?  How much can you get on a 60M tape? (We have a lot of
those lying around:)

Has anybody had any experience with PLI or Micronet, either in general
or specifically with Compression DATs.  If not, who is your preffered
manufacturer for Compression DAT.

Please reply by e-mail,
Thanks in advance.
Alec Plumb       \\                 \\  <<Nifty Quote Here>>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: cary@jove.colorado.edu (John R. Cary)
Subject: Mac IIvx with 16" apple monitor?
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:25:26 GMT


We have really been getting the runaround on what monitors will work with the
built in video of a Mac IIvx.  Our University Price sheet indicates that the 
Mac 16" color display works with the builtin video of the IIvx, but an
experiment indicates otherwise.

One dealer says that increasing the vram from 512k to 1M will allow us to
drive the monitor.  Another disagrees and says we need a card.

Does anyone know what exactly is needed to make this monitor work on
the IIvx?

-- 
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Department of Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0391
ph. (303) 492-1489                                   fax (303) 492-0642
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Duane Murphy <damurphy@wc.novell.com>
Subject: ESDI=>SCSI Follow Up
X-Xxdate: Tue, 5 Jan 93 17:15:01 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:08:25 GMT

Thank you to everyone who was able to help me with this situation.  
Indeed many of you were correct in saying that I had an MD-21 adapter 
board.  I checked out many of the things that you had recommended 
unfortunatelly to no avail.

I did (re)discover one thing.  The SCSI bus was being "dragged down" even 
when the unit was NOT powered.  My conclusion at this point is that the 
board is fried.  I kind of dont doubt it; I really have been manhandling 
the poor thing while I was trying to fashion a case for it.  I should 
know better (for shame :-( )

I am trying to replace the board at this time.  If any one has an adapter 
they would like to part with (at a reasonable price) I would be 
interested.  If anyone has a recomendation for how to rejuvinate this 
one, that would be even better.

Thanks again for all the help.
...Duane

  +------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
  | Duane Murphy           | My opinions are mine, mine, and only mine; |
  | damurphy@wc.novell.com |      Except when they are also yours.      |
  | Macintosh Software QA  |                                            |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: warn@newton.uvm.edu (Patrick D Warn)
Subject: Re: Info on the New Macs coming Feg 10th
Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Distribution: default
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:10:46 GMT

You forgot the PowerBook 165c! It is a 180 with a 9" passive matrix color 
screen. Kind of a letdown. . . I wish they would have a talk with IBM and start 
buying the 10.4" color screen and the keyboard from the ThinkPads for use in 
the PowerBook line.
--
                     Wondering what it all means,
                                 Pat
From: james.williams@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (James Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SWITCHING NETWORK TO ETHE
Date: 9 Jan 93 20:54:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: hal9k.3931.75.uupcb
Reply-To: james.williams@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (James Williams)
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, W-NET HQ, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

I  have the same problem with 6.0.8 on a mac+
Must be bug in 6.0.8
                                                             
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: bbs@theporch.raider.net (Waffle BBS login)
Subject: Re: Powerswitch on IIvx, was Re: Power switch on IIx
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:50:35 GMT
Organization: MacInteresteds, Nashville's Macintosh User Group

Thomas.Tornblom@nexus.comm.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes:


>My wife got a IIvx just before christmas and she brought it home and I
>helped her copy all data from her old SE/30 to it. When she brought it
>to work the machine refused to start by using the start button on the
>keyboard. She had to use the switch on the back. She tried several
>times to no avail.

>Has anyone experienced anything like this? The machine is brand new,
>so I don't think the battery is dead. Isn't the battery needed also
>for the button on the back?

>The machine is a IIvx with CD, 5M ram, 230 Mdisk, extended keyboard
>(data communication keyboard), 14" color monitor.

I have a IIvx and have had NO PROBLEM powering up with the keyboard switch. 
There is another switch in the back of the computer which has to be set in
the proper position.  I believe, if I remember right, that it has to be
locked in the IN position, not the OUT position.  This switch is used to
keep the computer on all the time if it is a file server.  The keyboard
switch doesn't work properly if that switch is set wrong.  If that doesn't
fix your problem, then you have a faulty keyboard, bad battery, etc.

-David Anderson
Nashville TN
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: Pixel line on 14" Color Monitor on Purpose? Help!
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 01:35:24 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware

In article <1993Jan6.041640.24612@reed.edu> wrowe@reed.edu ( ) writes:

>But this seems like a really stupid design flaw, what is the justification for
>it? I know I will probably cease to notice it soon, but why have it at all?
>Not all monitors have this problem, especially the VGA for IBM's. In short--
>what's so damn great about Sony Trinitron's that justifies the line(s)?

Tap the side of your monitor.  Notice the distortion that results?
Not much, right?   That's because that wire is keeping things in
place.

Put a Trinitron side by side with just about any other monitor, and
you'll notice the difference.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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Just say NO to police searches and seizures.  Make them use force.
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Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:55:41 -0500 
From: "Daniel P. Reed" <dr3w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Upcoming Computers

I am intersted in the new Centris computers that are to be arriving in
February.  Awhile ago a post told of the specifics from MacWeek.  Can
someone repost this please.

                                                        thanks.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware