HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: PowerBook 160: availability, price, etc.
Date: 8 Sep 92 11:58:27 GMT
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
> In article <mZokqB9w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
>    The best advice I've seen was printed in Mac User magazine.  They said don
>    buy any equipment from Apple.
> 
> Well, at least not from Apple UK. PowerBook 100 for $2000? Nein danke.
> 
> Nick. (Whose PowerBook 100 is currently being UPS'd from Chicago.)

Well, good luck.  I hope you don't suffer from the hard disk problem... it
seems a number of PowerBooks had dodgy hard drive mechanisms fitted. 
Symptoms include periodic whining and buzzing noises whenever the drive is
spinning (even if it's not doing anything).  My PB100's hard drive had to be
replaced.  The engineer said they'd had several in with the same problem.


mathew
From: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: IIvx IIvi Pricing- it may be lower than you thik!
Date: 9 Sep 1992 00:24:04 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


 I think we're going to be plesantly suprised by the pricing structure on
the new Macs, in particular the IIvx and IIvi models due for release
in October. I think you'll find the IIvx to sell in the lower $2000 range-
probably around $2499 for a 4/80 (or whatever RAM config they choose)
model. I'd suspect the IIvi will be even lower, probably $1799 or so
for a similar configuration.

Of course, I could always dream that we'll see VXs for $1599- yea right!
-- 
         Travis Grundke- Contributing Editor, MacGames Digest
                      an780@cleveland.freenet.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    MacGames Digest: The first magazine dedicated to Macintosh Gaming.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: mufti@kazoo.cis.ohio-state.edu (saad mufti)
Subject: Redirecting MS WORD 4.0's output to a postscript file
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 18:16:16 GMT


I'm new to the Mac world and would like some help on this.

Is there a way to redirect MS WORD 4.0's printer output to a postscript file?
If so, I would appreciate some pointers. I'm using System 6.xx .

Please send e-mail. Thanks.

----
Saad Mufti
mufti@cis.ohio-state.edu
From: nasadk@aix.rpi.edu (Kristopher Martin Nasadowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Poll on Educational Discount
Date: 12 Sep 92 21:00:59 GMT

jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz) writes:


>I would like to take a poll of all the people who have purchased computers
>through Apple's Educational Discount program.

>Quite simply, how long did it take for you to get your computer?

It averages about two weeks from the Computer store here on campus.
But it all depends on what type of computer you want. Usually, they don't   
stock many computers, but instead wait for an order before submitting it.
Even then, the wait is highly variable. I know people who waited 2 months
for a Mac Classic, but then again, this was about a month after the computers
were available for purchase. If the model youy want is in high demand, then
it will take more time. At least here, they will notify you of how long
a wait is, call you when it is in, and if the price drops while on order,
they'll charge you the lower price.

Your milage may vary.

Nazman
<nasadk@rpi.edu>
From: chen@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Printers cost too much!
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:12:21 GMT
Organization: E.C.E. Drexel University
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X-Xxdate: Tue, 8 Sep 92 15:15:43 GMT
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In article <BARNETT.92Sep8091905@grymoire.crd.ge.com> Bruce Barnett,
barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com writes:
>
BTW, Apple LaserWriter LS is not a SCSI-Link Printer. It connects to Mac
via serial 
port.
From: leue@crd.ge.com (Bill Leue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Date: 9 Sep 92 12:20:55 GMT
Reply-To: leue@crd.ge.com
Organization: General Electric Research & Development

Now that comp.sys.mac.advocacy has been OK'd in the recent voting, perhaps
we can transfer this tired thread over into that newsgroup.  C'mon,  guys,
let's give it a rest!

-Bill Leue
leue@crd.ge.com
Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:23:56 -0400 
From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799... WHO CARES! Just try to emulate it.
	<1992Sep14.221813.16247@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>

alexr@capella.EETECH.McGill.CA (Alex Rousseau) writes:
> One thing our little friend here forgets to mention is that DOS stinks,
> looks ugly, does not multitask and that it belongs to the 80s. Until the
> PowerPC comes along, there is nothing in the world that will make me
> touch those ugly big fat ...things..., unless I need Quicken. Ah!

try os/2
or if you're really into living on the edge:  mach 3.0
From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: RE: Hermes 2.0, Hardware Handshaking, and a Mac Classic -- HELP!!!!
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 19:00:21 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

dburr@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (Donald Burr) writes:

DB> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp
s-
DB> ys.mac.apps

cross posters like this should be strung up by their thumbs.

A couple of groups, I can see sometimes.  But why did we go through all the
bother of splitting comp.sys.mac into several parts, when dweebs like this
treat it as all one entity?

It's enough to make the author of my newsreader build in some sort of
filtering capability for stuff like this...

--Adam--
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac IIci vs. IIvi and IIvx
From: marc@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU (Marc Matteo)
Date: 7 Sep 92 22:21:41 PDT
Organization: California State University, Fresno

I'd consider a vi of a vx ONLY if the price is well within what you want to 
spend.  I'd love a vi or vx but I don't think I could sell my ci and get enough
cash.  The vi/vx will have some nice-to-have improvements internally but I
imagine you'll have to pay for them.

Marc.
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From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799... WHO CARES! Just try to emulate it.
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:34:33 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

mmoore@epx.cis.umn.edu ("None of ya Bizness") writes:

>In article <1992Sep3.040702.4617@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young) writes:
>>
>>Falcon has 16 mhz 68030, 32 mhz 56001 DSP, SCSI2, 8 channel 16 bit stereo
>	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>What?!!!  That's _all_?  Man if it's only 16Mhz then forget it!! You
>can't do anything on a 16Mhz computer these days.

I don't mean to respond to this posting... but this is very ridiculus.  
What do you mean you cant do anything on a 16Mhz computer these days?  
What have you been running?  MS-Window 3.0? 

Besides, most Atari ST people are using an 8Mhz machine, so 16Mhz shouldn't
be that bad.  Furthermore, if Atari is really gonna sell this machine
for $799, 16Mhz still sounds a very good deal.

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: First Taligent Won't Run Existing Apps
Keywords: 
 
>: Oh, very clever.  That convinces me *completely*.
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:44:49 GMT

>
>Well, I'm glad it does. Unix seems to work pretty well on
>single-processors
>too.

I'm not going to take sides in this- there are lotsa neat things about
pre-emptive multi-tasking. There are also some fairly high power computers
types (Wirth and maybe Knuth) who feel that there are serious advantages to
co-operative. I will take issue with your claim that UNIX works well for
this sort of thing. Any painting or drawing program is a nightmare on UNIX-
you just don't get the smooth flow and feel of a Mac. I don't know how well
OS/2 handles this- anyone want to pipe up. It has also been my experience
that on our RS/6000s (souped up 530s or higher with 100s of MB or RAM) one
often has applications that just hang- everything stops for about 30
seconds. I'v seen the same thing on SPARCs. Now this is certainly some
complicated interaction of X, virtual memory and the scheduler. But the sum
total of all code and data in the system is less than the real RAM, so the
virtual memory failture is not really acceptable. And my Mac (also running
virtual memory) never does this. 

Generally, although the mac is (often substantially) slower, response times
are consistent, and psychologically this seems a lot more satisfying than
the variation of UNIX. I think the simple scheduling algorithms developed
for multi-user terminal type machines don't work well when one's major
applications are photoshop, canvas and videoworks. Not to say that a decent
algorithm couldn't be found, just that it's not simply a matter of taking
the UNIX (or VMS or CMS or whatever) algorithm and just adding it to the
Mac OS. 

A parallel might be in ICC. People wanted it for the mac, but the fact is
that UNIX stream based ICC doesn't work well in the Mac environment of
pictures, sounds, spreadsheets and such. Apple have given us a arther more
complex model that took some time to develop, will take some more time in
real use to iron the problems out, but which is better suited to the Mac
way of computing.

Maynard Handley
From: Jay.Lozada@mail.trincoll.edu (Jay Lozada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Hierarchal Chooser?
Date: 11 Sep 92 05:06:27 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1


Is there any piece of software that lets the Chooser act hierarchal while
in the Apple Menu?  I'm looking for something shareware or public domain
because I already know of NOW Utilities' version but I don't have the
ducks to buy it.

Thanks in advance.

Jay Lozada
From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 19:00:18 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

ajross@husc.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross) writes:

AR> There are catch phrases and buzzwords aplenty, (ease of use! 
AR> Fast SCSI drives! Consistant interface! Fully integrated hardware!) 
AR> but none of them boil down into a "You can do this on a mac 
AR> but not on a pc" sentence. Precious few of them even boil 
AR> down to "You can do this on a mac better than on a pc." 

No flames.  I agree with you entirely.  But as a Mac user who uses a PC at
work for publishing duties, let me point out one of those precious few
instances where you can do it better on a Mac than a PC (but not because of
any inherent limitations on the part of the PC).

Generally we limit our PC PageMaker 4.0 output to our LaserWriter IINT, but
sometimes we send stuff off to the local service bureau.  Unfortunately, high
characters--em dashes, bullets, etc.--don't translate from the PC to the Mac
properly.  Em dashes come out as ellipses when opening PC PM4 file from Mac PM
 for example.  And no matter how much I try to tell this service bureau, they
won't pay attention and make sure that such characters come out properly.

I only mention this because I was burned yet again yesterday.  This service
bureau, despite being outfitted with PCs and PM4 for them, for some reason
won't open .PM4 files on their PCs.  (I told you it had nothing to do with any
inherent limitations of the PC--it's just some sort of bigotry on the part of
the service bureau.)  They insist on opening PM files on the Mac, and no
matter how well I've circled what I know are the problem characters (_always_
send a proof with your jobs), sometimes they still goof it up.  In instances
like these, it's just plain better to use a Mac if at all possible.  Using a
PC for publishing jobs that are ultimately going to a service bureau is just
asking for trouble.  Geez, they can't unzip my .zip files, they can't get my
PostScript files to download, blah, blah, blah....

(As for why we're doing publishing work on a PC and not a Mac, that's another
story entirely; the short story is that IBM's FUD factor runs very high with
my boss, especially after he got severly burned by Digital with a Decmate II. 
After that, even Apple Macintosh computers he considered to be too "non
standard."  sheesh.  you can't tell a lawyer anything.)

--Adam--

PS:  I'm looking for people qualified and willing to speak to service bureau
customers on the topic of how properly to deal with/how to get the most for
your money out of your service bureau.  Call me at 800-633-0055 if you're
interested in discussing this.
 
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From: haynes@equinox.unr.edu (Kenneth Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Power Book Hard disk Icons....
Date: 9 Sep 92 01:35:10 GMT
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno


Howdy!

I have a weird problem....

On desktop macs under system 7 you are able to "cut" and "paste"
new icons for hard disks.  We've all done that.

Why doesn't this work on my powerbook?  I can change any other icon
BUT the Hard disk icon.  

Has anybody else seen this happen?  Is their a fix for it?  
Why, why, why???????


-----ken

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: rsvanc00@mik.uky.edu (Randolph S. Vance)
Subject: Ularn or Larn for a Macintosh.
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:41:05 GMT

That's my question. Does anyone know if such a Mac application
/game exists? :)

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From: Eric.Choi@p5.f57.n7000.z8.ieee.org (Eric Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: HELP! What is a "*.cpt" file ?
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:55:25 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 8:7000/57.5 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

The .cpt files were created by Compactor Pro, a shareware. You can also use
the recently released Stuffit Lite 3.01 to unpack it. I believe the new
Stuffit
Deluxe 3.02 will also do the job.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: michel@cst02.segin.com (Michel Pollet)
Subject: Re: SpeedyFinder7 1.5.2 errors
Reply-To: michel%cst02.segin.com@relay.prime.com (Michel Pollet)
Organization: Segin, Groupe Axime
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:44:32 GMT

justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan) writes:
>Ray Zimmerman <Ray-Zimmerman@cornell.edu> writes
>> In article <1992Sep8.160322.7779@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Robert Rumpf,
>> rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu writes:
>> >I have had problems getting SpeedyFinder7 1.5.2 to work properly on my 
>> >PowerBook.  I get lots of "The Application Unknown has quite
>> unexpectedly" 
>> >messages on bootup, which is when Shadowriter Backgrounder starts up.  I
>> didn't
>> >have this problem with SpeedyFinder7 1.5.  Is the author online
>> somewhere?
>> 
>> Me too.  Although with different applications.

>Why do I get the feeling this is going to happen to me when I get home  
>tonight? :)
>Has anyone informed the author of these bugs? I know (since he stated it  
>explicitly all over 1.5.2) that 1.5.3 is on the threshold of release anyway..  
>Maybe we can get some fixes in this one, no? :)

SpeedyFinder just DON'T WORK on my French System.. Even as the CDEV is
configured ON, I don't see any of the 'features' involved..

Michel
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From: jseboldt@pnet51.orb.mn.org (John Seboldt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Uncompressing .hqx, and related questions!
Date: 13 Sep 92 20:25:01 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
>In article <79467@ut-emx.uucp>, ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes:
>> A note about Compact Pro:
>> 
>> Sometimes Compact Pro cannot un BinHqx (BinHex4) a file.  If that
>> happens, usually StuffIt Lite, or StuffIt Deluxe 3.x (preferable)
>> can extract the file for you.

You can also un-binhex with Stuffit Classic v. 1.6, the shareware version of
Stuffit.  Works fine for me.  I wondered what the heck Binhex was useful for,
until hooking up to this wonderful worldwide bunch.  Now I can't do without
it!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: william.zwicky@cray.com (Bill Zwicky)
Subject: Mac in a Unix World
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Cray Research
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:12:11 CDT

I've got a Mac connected to a TCP/IP network with a number of other Unix
workstations on the same network.  I'm looking for some Mac software that
will enable me to "export" Mac files so that they can be "mounted" by Unix
workstations on the network.  Does "NFS" exist for the Mac platform?  Also,
I'd like to be able to print from a Unix workstation to the LaserWriter
connected to my Mac.  Does an lp daemon exist for the Mac that will
"listen" for print requests from.

I know MachTen and A/UX can do these things, but I don't need all the other
bells and whistles.  Just one bell (NFS), and one whistle (lpd)!

Thanks,
Bill Zwicky

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep
 to gain what he cannot lose"   --- Jim Elliot
From: jseboldt@pnet51.orb.mn.org (John Seboldt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: INIT for picking system?? Wanted!!
Date: 13 Sep 92 20:25:01 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.


It's not an INIT, but BLESSER is an application that will pick which system
folder will be used on your NEXT startup.  Kinko's uses it locally on their
Macs, and I use it to pick a "lite" version of my 6.0.5 folder for finicky
software that doesn't like some of my INITs.

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From: ronw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (ronald.g.wolenty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Poll on Educational Discount
Summary: 4 weeks, 3 days and counting!
Date: 12 Sep 92 22:19:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Sep12.182537.29164@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>, jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz) writes:
> 
> I would like to take a poll of all the people who have purchased computers
> through Apple's Educational Discount program.
> 
> Quite simply, how long did it take for you to get your computer?
> 
> 

IIsi ordered 8/12 - still waiting!

Ron Wolenty
inuxy!wolenty
From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 discontinued (Apple UK Sillyness)
Date: 10 Sep 1992 18:28:31 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: concertina

In article <1992Sep9.225328.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> mullignj@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
>> 
>> Stranger still, I just got a letter from Apple UK (they have a new glossy 
>> called "The Edge") which said - "you can now buy a PB100 4/40 from your
>> dealer for \pounds 995 (ish)..." so I went and our dealer told me that 
>> they had a message from Apple saying "please don't sell any more PB100s".
>> 
>> What I'm wondering is why the hasty withdrawral? Margins too low? Sony 
>> going to sue? 
>
>
>HUH?  What's Sony got to do with it?

Sony makes the PB100, that's what.










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From: andersm@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Mark Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Hierarchal Font Menus?
Date: 5 Sep 92 19:46:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Sep05.194625.29048
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.

OK, here's my question.  I have about 130 or so TrueType fonts installed on
my Mac SE.  When I want to use on of those fonts that is at the bottom of the
listing is takes an annoying amount of time to get there.  What I was wondering
is whether or not an INIT exists that will display the font menu in all
applications as a hierarchal menu with 26 choices (1 for each letter of the
alphabet?)  Then under each letter would be all the fonts that started with
that particular letter.  It seems to me that this would be possible because
I'm pretty sure that Adobe Type Reunion modifies the font menu to be hierarchal
but of a different form than I desire.  If someone knows of an INIT that does
this, please e-mail me or if you are interested in writing one and my
description is somewhat vague, please let me know.
 
						  - Thanks
    					            Mark J. Anderson