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From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Which hard drive: Quantum or Maxtor??
Date: 28 Jan 93 20:04:18 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <Jan.28.12.39.30.1993.28486@gandalf.rutgers.edu>, gnelson@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Gregory J. Nelson) writes...
>I'm looking to buy an external hard drive for my LC in the 200Mb range. 

 I'm in the same boat, and in fact asked a very similar question a few days
 ago. Check out the March 1993 MacWorld for a very informative disk review. It
 seems (from that) the Quantum 240 is significantly faster than the Maxtor
 213, and is about $100 more. 

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From: mlaurenc@world.std.com (Matt Laurence)
Subject: Damaged drive catalog - help?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:47:24 GMT

The Damaged Drive catalog strikes again!

The other day, I tried to load a font through Suitcase, and in the
folder menu for my fonts folder on my external drive, Suitcase
claimed that all the fonts after Corona on my drive had been renamed 
Corona. It claimed that I had everything up to C, and then everything 
after that was just copies of Corona. Well, I KNEW that wasn't the
case, so I quit and looked in the font folder. Well, the fonts ended at
C, even though I knew that all the fonts up to Z must STILL be in there.
So I tried to run MacTools, and lo and behold, the catalog file "contains
an invalid backward link from one node to another." Well, that's fine
and good, but MacTools can't repair it! I tried rebuilding the desktop and
doing it again - no luck. When I run Disinfectant on it, it claims that 
many of the font files and a good number of others have damaged resource
forks, though this was not the case two days ago. 

Does anyone have ANY help they could give me? It isn't going away this
time, and I need my fonts and that drive to be functional. I will owe you 
a very big one.

ADVthanksANCE,

Matt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: smclane@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Sterling McLane)
Subject: Help!!!! Mac IIsi Memory Manager
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Loral WDL Systems Engineering Lab
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:12:04 GMT

My son has a Mac IIsi which aborts when an application finds it has used up
its allotted memory space and needs a little more - for instance MS Word
5.0 with a longish document will blow up when saving or printing although
it was perfectly happy when the file was opened.  He has been able to get
around this by giving the applications more memory through the Get Info
dialog, but it continues to catch him on occassion and he loses data he has
entered. I never have had this problem on our old Mac 128, or SE at home or
my IIfx at work.  Is there something flaky with the IIsi ROMs?  If so, is
there an INIT or something that can get around it? The machine is
configured with 5MB of memory, the NuBus extender/Math Coprocessor option,
System 7.0.1 with System 7 Tuner 1.1.1.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:27190 comp.sys.mac.programmer:22352
From: eric@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Eric Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Need pinout for Mac serial port/RS-422
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:18:34 GMT
Organization: Center for Clinical Computing, Boston, MA.

Can someone please email me or post a pinout of the Macintosh's serial port?
It's an RS-422, and I basically just ned to know the labels for each pin/
I am already aware that the 8-pin DIN to 25-pin RS-232 connects pins 2,3,7
and 20 of the RS-232 standard.  This is for use with Insignia Solutions
SoftPC (which is causing me great grief!)

Thanks -
Eric Hansen

eric@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
Subject: Re: New 150 meg Bernoulli Questions...
Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:51:03 GMT

seth@physc1.byu.edu writes ...
>I have been told that Iomega has released a new, 150 meg version of their
>Bernoulli removeable hard-drive. My bookstore does not have any details yet,
>and I am possibly in the market for a new hard drive in the somewhat near
>future. Has anyone heard anything about this drive, such as how much it ought
>to retail for? Educational price? Also, were they able to make this drive 
>faster than their 90 meg drive?

I saw $220 per cartridge and bought a 128MB magneto optical drive
instead (with <$40 cartridges).  I believe the drive is somewhere
around $700-$800.

-- 
Ray Fischer                   "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
ray@netcom.com                 than lies."  -- Friedrich Nietszsche
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: trocklin@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Tom Rocklin)
Subject: Re: Getting the 300i External Drive
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:24:25 GMT

an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) writes:


>For those who want to actually buy the external version, you'll have o wait
>awhile. Word on the street has it that the drives are in short supply, and
>almost every one Apple gets is going into the IIvx and Performa 600CD.
>Can't wait until the February Macs whom some say will have CDs as well will
>affect the shipments! :-)
> 
Our campus has the external listed at $491 plus cables.  They have no idea 
when they'll be able to deliver.

when you note that our price list shows only about a $200 difference between a
vx with and without the drive, it seems clear that Apple would like to direct
the short supply to internal uses.

I want an external, but I'll wait for the supply to improve.  Seems like the
price could easily drop $150 or so.
-- 
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319/335-5570                               The University of Iowa
319/335-5386 (fax)                            Iowa City, IA 52242

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: cjones@physci.ucla.edu (Chad Jones)
Subject: Problem w/MegaGraphics 19" B/W Monitor
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1
Organization: University of California Los Angeles
Date: 25 Jan 93 08:47:10 PST

We're having a problem with a MegaGraphics 19" Monochrome Monitor.  It
has, on several occasions, shrunken the screen to a .5" high band in the
middle on the screen.  Usually it returns to its former self after a few
seconds.  A few minutes ago, it stayed as the band until I turned it off
(several times) for about 30 seconds each time.  Then I turned it back
on, and the screen returned.

Any ideas about what the problem is, who to fix it, what the part might
be, or if MegaGraphics is still in business?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac
X-Xxdate: Fri, 22 Jan 93 05: 43:01 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:46:17 GMT

In article <D2150056.o6gh64@erics.infoserv.com> Eric S. Smith,
erics@infoserv.com writes:
>The 68000 contains no MMU, nor is it possible to implement virtual memory
>with the 68000 - there are some instructions that could not be restarted
>following a page fault.

The Lisa had an 68000 and implemented virtual memory but only for 
code segments.  Therefore I assume you can always manage to restart
instruction fetches on the 68000.  I guess that putting data in
code segments was frowned upon (and didn't work).

Quinn "The Eskimo!"      <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>     "Support HAVOC!"
Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
  -- Oh dear I am being nitpicky this week.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: a-kraus@uiuc.edu (Albert L. Kraus)
Subject: 2m vram = faster 16 bit display ?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: PES
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:24:12 GMT

I have 1m vram and Iwould like to know if my diplay faster in 16 bit mode
if I upgrade to 2meg vram ?

Thanks!
Have a nice day!
From: dan@cafws2.eng.uci.edu (Dan Harkless)
Subject: Re: Apple CD300 and audio disks and non-Macintosh machines?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:11:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.181706.13668@leland.Stanford.EDU> avery@ccrma.stanford.edu  (Avery Wang) writes:
>Hi-
>Maybe you know better, but I have a technical specification sheet that says:
>"Formats supported
>* Multi-session Kodak Photo CD
>* ISO 9660/High Sierra
>* Macintosh HFS
>* CD-ROM XA
>* CD+G
>* CD+MIDI
>* Standard audio CDs
>* CD digital audio data via SCSI bus"
>
>So, in particular, do you know what they mean with that last line?  Are these  
>normal audio CDs or some special format?
>
>I just ordered one of these beasts and was hoping to use it for reading out  
>sound tracks.

	It's most likely they mean sample CD-ROMs.  Maybe they set up the 300
so you can dump the Redbook info over SCSI, but I doubt it.  Way cool if they
did, though.

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From: pino@gammow.berkeley.edu.CosmicSuns (Jose L. Pino,,,)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Quadra VRAM vs graphics card
Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:43:58 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: pino@gammow.berkeley.edu.CosmicSuns
NNTP-Posting-Host: gammow.berkeley.edu
Keywords: DuoDock Video

How does the performance of the built in video on the DuoDock compare
to that of the Quadra.  I already know that it will only support
up to 16" screens (vs. 21 for the quadra).  But in terms of speed?

Thanks,
Jose

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: lamont@catfish16.rtsg.mot.com (Bradley Lamont)
Subject: Re: 21M Flopticals?
Organization: Motorola, Inc.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:49:14 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.235135.18521@trentu.ca>, dpease@TrentU.CA writes:
|> 
|> Greetings,
|> 
|> I am a student and Mac SE owner who is looking to squeeze every last bit of
|> use out of my machine.  I can not afford to upgrade to a new hardware set-
|> up and that means no new mac for a long time :'(
|> The problem is that I need a SuperDrive or other HD drive so I can start
|> a meaningful DTP business.  The AE Plus drive is an outragous $300 so I am
|> investigating the 21M Flopticals, which seem to offer an ideal solution.
|> 
|> My question is: Has anyone used these drives and will they really work
|>     with 800k and 1.4M floppies?
|> I have heard that the PLI drive is not very reliable, how about the Mass
|> Microsystems drive (mail order ads)?
|> Are there any alternatives?
|> 
|> By the way, I need this drive for backups and for reading DOS floppies.
|> 
|> Please e-mail me the responses, I will summarize for the group.
|> 
|> Thanks a lot.
|> 
|> Andrew

This is sort of a response to your question (in a roundabout sorta way).  Why
not look into getting a Syquest drive?  The price is very similiar ($399) for 
the 44 MB version.  Cartriges do cost more (~$60) but you are getting a
larger cartridge.

And teh Syquest are much faster.  They are on par with hard drive for seek &
transfer rates whereas flopticals are on par with floppies.  So why are
people even considering flopticals?

For you Andrew, if you need the drive more for backups than for reading
dos disks, maybe you should consider the Syquest.

If anyone has any info about this please let me know.

Just curious,
Brad
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
Subject: Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac
Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:56:49 GMT

hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson) writes ...
>Quinn (quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au) wrote:
>
>} 
>} But when are we going to switch to 64 bit addressing on Macintoshes?
>} Are we going to have 64 bit clean problems!  Hmmm.  That's still a few
>} years down the track (but not that many that we shouldn't be thinking
>} about it).
>
>Are you planning on using more than a gig of RAM any time soon? Or am I
>missing the point...?

You (both) may be missing the point.  Having a 64-bit address space
means that you can have multiple CPUs (like on a network) all share
the same address space.  That leads to some interesting possibilities
regarding the sharing of CPU resources.

-- 
Ray Fischer                   "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
ray@netcom.com                 than lies."  -- Friedrich Nietszsche
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: Full Page Displays : Bang for Buck ?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:09:40 GMT

Netlanders,

Which of the full page displays delivers the clearest text for long hours of 
reading at the terminal ?

I have heard that black and white is more focused than color screens, but 
does this apply to greyscale as well ? Don't all the monochrome monitors
have the ability to represent greyscale ? Is than an advantage to a 
black and white display over a greyscale or color display in 1-bit mode ?

The Apple portrait fared poorly in a recent review in MacWorld, but 
was the best in an even older rating by MacUser. Should I really 
pay $700+ for an Apple ? 

I already have a Mac Color Display and am adding a Full Page for a dual
monitor arrangement. I don't need greyscale, but do any of the b &w 
displays measure up ?

Thanks much,

Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: oueichek@gram (Ibaa Oueichek)
Subject: Re: LC card-FPU or PMMU?
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:51:47 GMT

Sgt. Kleper (sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu) wrote:
: I've had a //e emulation card in my LC for a while, and have gotten
: used to life without an Apple //. So now what do I get after I sell
: the //e card? (anybody want it?) Would an FPU speed up normal processes?
: A PMMU would allow virtual memory, right?? Is there such a thing as a
: card with both? I don't want to invest in a card that gives me two
: slots. It looks like a PMMU or FPU would be under $100, but I don't
: know which is more important. Right now it seems like I can't live 
: without either. Thanks for any info. Post or e-mail; whichever is 
: convenient! Thanks very much.
: 
  DasStar has a card that holds both. It's called the LC equalizer. I think it
  will cost about $240. For the same amount of money you can expand your LC
  to 10 Meg RAM. Which is a much better investment IMHO. I don't think you'll
  need more than that on a machine like the LC (i run MPW on my LC and i never
  run out of memory with 10 Meg). And the FPU will be useful only if you do
  massive Math calculations. It won't speed your DTP programs, neither the 
  compilers. It'll accelerate Excel a little bit, but for the typical classe of
  applications for an LC the fpu is rarely used.
  My advise : get 2 4MB SIMMs for the money and forget about the PMMU. At least
  you can take the SIMMs to another machine when you upgrade, the PMMU is  an
  obsolete solution for an obsolete processor (68020). You may need more than
  10MB's if you are running Photoshop, but hey, Photoshop on an LC ?. The FPU
  may worth the money if your applications does some number crunching, it's up
  to you to decide.
: -Scott J. Kleper
: "Sgt. Kleper"

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From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PB 180 video mirroring
Date: 28 Jan 93 21:22:49 GMT
Reply-To: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Organization: Organization?  We don't need no steenking organization!
Discliamer: Upon my being captured or killed, my professors will
            disavow any knowledge of me, my statements, and/or
            my mission.


In article <C1Ky18.5t4@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
Citizen thomasb@ucs.indiana.edu (Barry Thomas) writes :
>Our 180 finally arrived today.  The first thing I did was try the video
>out.  To my disappointment, the presentation mode (mirroring mode)
>reduced the size of display on the external monitor to the size of the PB
>screen.  Not what I had hoped for at all.  
>
>I looked in the manual but no info, other than how to enable  this mode. 
>It this as good as it gets?  Have I missed something?  A trick?

  Er, the external monitor mirrored the built-in screen on your PB.  What
were you looking for?

  Were you expecting to be able to use all of the real estate of a monitor
larger than the built-in screen?  If this was allowed, it wouldn`t be video
mirroring, now would it?  :)

  I will admit that it looked funny when I saw a PB160 driving a 16" monitor
in video mirroring mode.  And I thought my IIsi left alot of wasted black
margins on my 13"!  Of course, seeing how much real estate was watsed, I
simply switched to dual display and rebooted.  I'd much rather have 2 screens
than one, even if one is usuable.  (ie, from folding up the PB and using an
ADB mouse and keyboard, as I plan to do at home...)

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From: Gene Naftulyev <chairman@staff.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Sampo Color Monitors???
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78B6D8E16046520@dialup-slip-1-32.gw.umn.edu>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 26 Jan 93 04:37:02 GMT
Organization: U of M
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:36:57 GMT

In article <1k46koINN462@hamal.usc.edu> Dick Mead, mead@hamal.usc.edu
writes:
>Has anyone used one of the Sampo 20 inch color monitors, as advertised
>in MacWeek ads? Mac Direct has an 8-bit system for about $1300.00 and
>I am curious as to the quality. I wonder if it supports multiple
>resolution modes with another video card, or is it a single fixed
>freq monitor?

The monitor is NOT multisinc...It ONLY does 1024x786...I have not seen
the 20 in, but the 14in on SUX bigtime, were talking Goldstar quality
here, so for that price I would expect the 20 to be pretty bad as
well....still if you want a big screen and don't care about sharpness (us
the computer for less than 2 hr. per day) then this may be a good
solution...it's $1050 w/o the card from MacDirect...
From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Quadra 800 rumor(!)
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:37:36 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.2.12

peterc@cubetech.com (Peter Creath) writes:

>I heard (from an anonymous source) that the Quadra 800 benchmarks
>Apple has been showing developers ran are BETTER(!!!) than those
>of the 950!

>Any comments, verifications, etc.?

Well, since the 700 was faster than the 900 (indeed to the extent
that the 950 is not as much faster than the 700 as you would expect --
according to Motorola's benchmarks) it isn't surprising. Apparently
all the slots carry an overhead.

Of course, this latter is just pseudo technical second hand claptrap.

Tonio

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From: Stormbringer <mateyg@rpi.edu>
Subject: SyQuest/Bernoulli Comparison NEEDED!!!
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A788466587025538@stormbringer.stu.rpi.edu>
X-Xxdate: Sun, 24 Jan 93 13:13:09 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:13:14 GMT

I need to buy a removable media product at the end of the week and I 
have narrowed it down to two products:  the SyQuest 88 or the Bernoulli
MacTransportable 90 PRO.  I have found that both cost ~$500, but 
cartridges for SyQuest cost ~$100+ while those for Bernouli cost ~$150+.
That along with the fact that SyQest is a very popular format, as 
evidenced by the fact that almost EVERYBODY sells there own brand 
SyQuest, while Bernoulli tends to be a bit scarce, would make me lean
towards to SyQuest.  However, a while back on the net I followed a
similar dicussion and found that SyQuest was taking a beating among the
John Q Public critics.  I would like two sorts of responses for this 
post: 

1)  You have used both a SyQuest (44 or 88) and a Bernoulli (90, but 
     any model) drive.  Please give me a comparison of the drives, 
     listing your idea of pros and cons and any trouble with 
     either/both of them.  Please be specific.
     
2)  You have had trouble with either of the drives and would not 
     purchase another.(I ask for problems because I believe you learn 
     more about a product that way)  Please include the specific 
     trouble you had in your post

NOTE:  PLEASE give the name of the MANUFACTURER of the drives (Spin, 
APS, Club Mac, etc...) if you can.  This way the mechanism won't be
given a bad rap by a bad manufacturer (especially if the problem was 
not the mechanism:  power supply, SCSI termination, cheap case, etc...)

Please post as soon as possible as I have to buy one or the other 
during the first week of February.  Thank you for your indulgence and 
hopefully your help!  :)
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From: shadagop@remus.rutgers.edu (Narayanan Shadagopan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Recovering files from bad internal drive
Keywords: corrupted hard drive
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:39:04 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I am posting this for someone else. I have no clue about Macs - so
please bear with me. 

The hard drive in a Mac SE seems to be corrupted. How do you go about
recovering the files in the hard drive? Is there a Norton-type utility
that I can use to recover them? It would help to know exactly what steps
one ought to follow in recovering the files and reformatting the drive. 
I appreciate the help. Since I don't read this group frequently
(translation: not at all), please forward replies to my e-mail address
as well.

-Nary
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