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From: benkei@cs.utexas.edu (William Kent Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Powerbook 145
Date: 28 Aug 1992 17:15:50 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: nada.cs.utexas.edu

In article <27AUG199223194194@vax2.concordia.ca> wes@vax2.concordia.ca (Wes Schyngera) writes:
>Does anyone know if the new Powerbook 145 will have a
>monitor interface pre-installed?

You sure you're talking about the 145?  They're already out.  They're
the same as the 140 except 25 MHz vs. 16 (for the 140) and they come
-- 

Kent Richards                         "Practice random acts of kindness
benkei@cs.utexas.edu                   and senseless beauty"
From: ams@Auspex.COM (Allan Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: What's a Mac 512 good for these days?
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:02:20 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

In article <BLP3PB2w164w@fangio.wa.com> raoul@fangio.wa.com (Jeff Benedict) writes:
>
>Dollar wise, I wouldn't spend more than $200 if the owner gives you all the 
>goodies- 2nd drive, OS, *and* a shoebox full of old software that runs on 
>it.
>
>Buying it "nude" as it were, I'd give $100 'cause you are going to have to 
>root around for the OS and software.
>

Let me tell you about my summer project.  I have been finding and
refurbishing Mac512s for a "computer-lab" at my child's school.  This
will be part of an "Experiment in Inovation", for the kindergarten/
first grade level.  I have gotton four machines running.  I would like
to get another four working.

Since this is a "personally funded" project, I have been offering only
$150 for a Mac512ke, and $100 for a Mac512 -- without software and
without a 2nd drive.  If anyone has a 512 they would like to see
recycled and reused in this fashion, please contact me (ams@auspex.com).

I was just at the school this morning, for the opening day, and it is quite
rewarding seeing the bright-eyed 6-years playing with and getting
excited with these 8-year old machines.  They were playing with
MacPaint, KidPix, KidsMath, KidsTime, ReaderRabbit, Frogger, Sargon,
etc.  (We have had a lot of software donated by myself and other
parents).  I believe that some of Steve Jobs' vision of the Macintosh
being the computer for the "people", and computers can be used by
anyone (even pre-readers), became a reality in that 1st grade classroom
this morning.

If you have a Mac512 gathering dust, consider giving it a second life.
If not my project, I'm sure you can find many equally worthy projects
across the country.  The kids won't care that "its just a 68000", or
its only a nine inch screen, or it has a pitifully small amount of
ram.  It will be happily in use from 9 to 3 everyday.

		-allan

-- 
Allan M. Schwartz              +1 408 492-0900                 ams@auspex.com
From: kenw@ssd.kodak.com (Ken Wieschhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Here's: Diagnostic Sound Sampler/Mac II
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:57:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Aug28.165709.2551
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company
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Kenneth H. Wieschhoff, Jr.	| "If you want to f*** with 
(716)426-3317(w)			| the Eagles, you gotta learn
kenw@ssd.kodak.com			| to fly"  -->Heathers
From: pine@maui.nsc.com (Bill Needles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: HELP! Apple wont give back disks.
Date: 4 Sep 92 00:14:52 GMT
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation

My wife teachs kindergarten and uses a donated mac (old 512k model) with her
students. The floppy drives, both internal and the external unit, fail to
eject the disk when dragging the icon to the trash can. They both make an
attempt, as demonstrated by the mechanical sounds, but the disk simply
resettles in the drive.

As many of you know CA does not fund schools well, so taking it down to
the local mac shop is out. Anybody familiar with this kind of problem and
better yet, does anyone have suggested repairs. We can handle the work.

Thanks in advance,

Bill Needles
pine@maui.nsc.com
Organization: Freshman, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:36:10 -0400 
From: John Hamilton Slye <jsbr+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Anti-glare


I just went to the campus computer store and asked about an anti-glare
screen for my 13" monitor. The guy there said that there were 2 kinds:

1) mesh for ~$20
2) glass for ~$50

Does anyone know the differences between these?




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The opinions stated above do not necessarily reflect those of the author!

"Oooohhhh no! Forget that stuff!"  -  Ren Hoek, "The Ren & Stimpy Show"
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: wjm@utrcv1 (Bill)
Subject: Lines on screen
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: United Technologies Research Center
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:47:00 GMT

I'm not sure whether I saw the article posted on this group or somewhere 
else, but there was an article about the 1 or 2 very thin horizontal lines that
appear on some hi resolution color monitors.  I believe it was Sony 
monitors, and had something to do with wires that hold the shadow mask to 
the inside face of the CRT.

I have looked through the current non-expired articles and couldn't find 
it.  If your site still has a copy, or if you have any info on this 
subject, please re-post or E-mail.

Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: K_LEPA@unhh.unh.edu (Kristen   Lepa)
Subject: Re: Hot Horror Stories....
Organization: University of New Hampshire
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:50:09 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.12

In <1992Aug25.193210.19421@athena.mit.edu> cstudly@athena.mit.edu writes:

> 	I am a chemistry graduate student at MIT.  Our lab and two others
> have a Mac cluster of about 10 machines in a poorly ventilated room.  The
> average temperature is between 82-87 F.  I am trying to convince my advisor
> that it would be worthwhile to purchase an air conditioning system for
> the room.  I do not have any hard numbers or even good stories about 
> how heat affects Macs.  For example, how much is the lifetime of the 
> computer affected by high temperature??  What components are most affected?? 
> Please send any information directly to me at:
> 
> cstudly@athena.mit.edu
> 
> thanks,
> 
> todd anderson
>  


I wrote to me boss and asked; this is what he wrote back:
(he is Network Administrator for Computing and Information Services at UNH)

From: Stephen J Kenny <sjk@kepler.unh.edu>
Message-Id: <199208261717.AA21325@kepler.unh.edu>
Subject: Temp
To: k_lepa@unhh.unh.edu
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 13:17:09 EDT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

>   
>   The average temp in a room has never been shown to decrease
>   the lifetimes of MicroComputers, as they were built for
>   home use and as such had to operate in all kinds of conditions.
>   Of course, prolonged exposure to HUMIDITY is a different 
>   story......
 
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        	- Autosexual | s_kenny@unhh.unh.edu      
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From: death@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Gregory A. Mulhollan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Thicknet to Thinnet Adaptor
Date: 29 Aug 92 14:56:18 GMT
Distribution: USA
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
Subject: Re: NewLife Accelerators?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 05:37:51 GMT

Great! Someone did what I wanted to do.  SE with two page monitor.  Would
you care to elaborate on the problems that required NewLife to 'come over'?
Was there any problem with the chassis interfering with card placement?
What is your opinion on the speed of screen refreshing with Word and its
notorious CELLS being drawn so slowly at normal SE speeds?

Dale
parkyn@sfu.ca
From: srogers%g20hp835@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Steve Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: ROM SIMM on IIsi
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:33:30 GMT
Reply-To: srogers%g20hp835@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Steve Rogers)
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA

>>On my IIsi, between the expansion slot and the RAM SIMM slots
>>there is an empty slot labelled ROM SIMM on the logic board.
>>Does anyone use this slot for anything, and if so, for what?

bassman@iastate.edu (Jeremy J. Dearduff) replied:

>I took my machine in to the shop to get some work done.  They ended up
>replacing the motherboard.  With the new motherboard there was a SIMM
>in the ROM slot where there was not before.

>I think it includes minor changes to the ROM that is hardwired to the m/b.

Is this ROM upgrade something Apple provides at no charge, and does anyone
know what bugs it is intended to fix? 

Steve Rogers, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: John Austin <jea1@Cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: How do you add sound input to IIci?
X-Xxdate: Thu, 3 Sep 92 21: 32:41 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jea1@cornell.edu
Organization: BTI
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:26:31 GMT

How do you add sound input to IIci?

I use Macromind MacRecorder Sound system 2.0.5, which MacConnection had for
174 bucks.  Pretty nice, especially if you use your own microphone plugged
into it instead of the cheesy built-in mic.  Also has a line in for tunes. 
SoundEdit does some nice stuff for sound software, tho an upgrade to SoundEdit
Pro made sense here.  
 
One caveat:  the MacRecorder Init is *not* compatable with System7 virtual
memory.  It uses it's own virtual memory scheme, so you are limitted to the
ram you've got.  Otherwise, no complaints.



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From: peter@sysnext.library.upenn.edu (Peter C. Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: EtherTalk box for LocalTalk DeskWriters?
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:03:03 GMT

Hello -

Does anyone know of a box that will let me connect *non-PostScript*  
LocalTalk printers to an EtherTalk net?  I've seen lots for laser printers  
but nothing so far for, e.g., DeskWriters.  Due to wiring/space/security  
constraints I cannot put a hardware router or print server next to the  
printers - they need to be alone in a place with only ethernet wiring.   
Any ideas?  Thanks for your help.



--
Peter Gorman
University of Pennsylvania
Library Systems Office
peter@sysnext.library.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: cam@athena.mit.edu (Daniel Cameron Daly)
Subject: dvorak keyboard for PowerBook 100
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:35:33 GMT

I have heard from various places that it is possible to type faster and
with less wear on the hands if a Dvorak keyboard is used.  With this
in mind, I was wondering if anyone has the appropriate files to put into
the system for dvorak keyboard usage.  I used ResEdit to modify stuff in the
past when I corrected the escape and tilde key, but that would be a real
pain for an entire keyboard.  Has anyone tried this, with a powerbook
or any mac in general?  Any help would be appreciated.

Cam Daly
cam@athena.mit.edu

--
"Cam Daly"
From: eaeu137@orion.oac.uci.edu (Andrew Theodore Laurence)
Subject: Re: Source for quieter SE fan?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 28 Aug 92 04:19:42 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Aug27.174730.19621@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> darylb@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
>My SE's loud cooling fan is really starting to annoy me.  Does anyone
>have any experiences with the various replacement fans for the SE?
>
>It would also be nice to know what prices and sources for these
>fans are.
>
>Email is preferred, since this is probably a common problem.
>
>Daryl
>
>--
>Daryl Biberdorf                 |  Compaq Computer Corporation | standard
>darylb@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com |  20555 SH 249  M/S 060701    | disclaimer
>dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu         |  Houston, TX 77070           | applies
>

This is the first of what will probably be MANY "me too" messages 
posted/emailed to Daryl. 
 
ME TOO!!!!

--Andrew

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hardware:16202 comp.sys.mac.misc:15703
From: malis@star-trek.bbn.com (Andy Malis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: 1024x768 video board for use with Sony CPD-1304S?
Date: 31 Aug 1992 11:19:37 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: archive.bbn.com


I'm using a Sony CPD-1304S 14" monitor with the built-in video on
a Mac IIci.  I would like to be able to use the full 1024x768
resolution that the monitor supports.  Can anyone recommend an
8-bit video board that does the trick?  Please mail replies.

Thanks much for any help.

+--------------------+-------------------------+
| Andrew G. Malis    | Internet:malis@bbn.com  |
| BBN Communications | UUCP: harvard!bbn!malis |
| Cambridge, MA  USA | +1 617 873 3419         |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Gann Matsuda)
Subject: Re: Chip Merchant
Date: 3 Sep 92 00:28:01 PDT

In article <1992Sep2.155904.4395@oakhill.sps.mot.com>, on 2 Sep 1992 15:59:04 GMT,
lagana@smeagol.sps.mot.com (Antonio A. Lagana) writes:

>
>I've heard that the Chip Merchant typically has very competitive SIMM prices.  Could
>someone post their phone number? Also, is this a reputable place to buy SIMMs from?  Has anybody had any problems dealing with them?
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Antonio A. Lagana
>
>High-End MPU Design
>Microprocess & Memory Technologies Group
>Motorola Inc.
>
>

The Chip Merchant is where I buy SIMMs for personal use and for my
department.  Excellent service and support and competitive prices.
Lifetime warranty on their SIMMs, 4-layer boards.  I recommend
them highly, as do many others on GEnie, AOL...

Gann
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: thor@vivaldi.psu.edu (Thomas Moertel)
Subject: Need info on Radius Rocket SCSI daughterboard
Organization: Pennylvania State University
Distribution: comp
Date: 27 Aug 92 00:39:53

If anybody has the scoop on the SCSI duaghterboard Radius announced
for its Rocket accelerators, I would appreciate it if you could mail
me the info.

Thanks!

--

Tom Moertel                 Pennsylvania State University
thor@vivaldi.psu.edu        "Them bats is smart. They use radar!"  ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: lasleyse@wam.umd.edu (Scott E. Lasley)
Subject: VRAM for NEC MacFG 8x video board
Keywords: VRAM, NEC, video
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: um
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:52:17 GMT

I read in some posts a while back that video memory can be
added to the NEC MacFG 8x video board to enable 16 or 24 bit
color.  Could somebody tell me what type of VRAM is needed?
Will VRAM for the Quadras work in the NEC board?

thanks,
scott    lasleyse@wam.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: sefhelp@tamuts.tamu.edu (Steve Fuller)
Subject: Re: Keeping Syquest cartridge in drive...
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 05:49:43 GMT

In article <oebt=ay00Uh7A1dWYf@andrew.cmu.edu> jsbr+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Hamilton Slye) writes:
>
>>Just have my shiny new 88MB Syquest drive and it works beautifully. However
>>the info that comes with it mentions that you shouldn't leave the cartridge
>>in the drive when you witch it off. My plan was to treat the thing pretty
>>much like an extra HD and leave the same cartridge in there all the time,
>>except for backups and stuff I rarely access. Is this business about not
>>leaving the cartridge in the drive serious, or just scare talk. I don't
>>plan to even move the drive when it's powered off, but still has a
>>cartridge in it, let alone drop it or such.
>> 
>>Maynard Handley 
>
>Here's my guess:
>
>If you leave the cartridge in there it will remain open with the heads
>inside. The chance for actually getting dust inside the cartridge is
>probably greater.
>I believe that the drive actually creates a vaccuum inside the
>cartridge, the integrity (sp?) of which might be compromised when the
>power is turned off.
>
I feel sure that the drive does not generate a vacuum. The carts are not 
tightly sealed and a vacuum would just pull dirt in.

Here is my recommendation:

Leave the cart in, but unmount it.

Unmount from the finder. Push the eject button. Let it spin down. Listen for
the 'kachunk'. Power off.  Press the lever to the LEFT. (don't eject the cart).

I believe the 'kachunk' sound is the heads retracting and the door closing.
( can anyone verify this? )

The cart will be all setup to go when you power on again.

I have done this for nine months without any problems in a dusty environment.

Steve Fuller
sef3179@tamsun.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches)
Subject: Re: PB100: Just Say NO?
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 04:53:34 GMT

In article <17mi00INNcie@agate.berkeley.edu> luigi@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Luigi Semenzato) writes:
>I need a laptop for four things:
>
>	1. take around and do basic text editing;
>	2. send and receive fax;
>	3. use as a terminal at home, with a 9600 baud modem;
>	4. run MIDI software.
>
>The PB100 would be just perfect, but what is this I hear about
>problems with the serial port?  Does it mean I can't use it for
>2, 3, and 4?  How could Apple bungle so badly?   Thanks  --Luigi

Most of the problems are fixed by the PowerBook Tuner, a small
extension currently only shipped with Global Village modems.

Some of the MIDI problems are fixed by the Tuner, the rest can be
addressed by the MIDI software package vendor.

This is my own understanding compiled from various sources.

Regards,
Tom Karches
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: danny@utkux1.utk.edu (Danny W. McCampbell)
Subject: PowerBooks...Are they reliable?
Organization: University of Tennessee
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:24:04 GMT

Hi!  I just talked with a friend of mine who is a Certified
Macintosh Technician or something along those lines.  Well
he told me that the PowerBooks are junk.  He said that they
are constantly doing work on them.  He said that the screens
or displays are really having problems.  

This discouraged me a great deal as I am getting ready to 
buy a PowerBook.  Can anyone out there give me some good news
on PowerBooks.  I plan to buy a 180 when they come out.  I do
not have a personal Mac right now and I was planning on the 
180 to be my Mac for everything.  I was going to buy and 
external Monitor and put on it for home use.  I have a CI at
work right now and really like it but I need portablity.

Any good news or ideas?

Danny McCampbell
danny@utkux1.utk.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: cam@athena.mit.edu (Daniel Cameron Daly)
Subject: powerbook as keyboard
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:59:18 GMT

I am getting ready to switch over to the dvorak keyboard, as an experiment,
but I was concerned about being able to modify other keyboards as I go.
I don't know much about the Apple ADB port, but would it be possible to
simply connect the powerbook's ADB port directly to a desktop Mac and use
it as a keyboard?  I would probably have to change the keyboard to a dvorak
type on the desk Mac, but other than that, should this work?



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From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: upgrade prices for PowerBooks; prices of Third Wave in Austin
Date: 3 Sep 1992 17:35:35 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu



as I am in the market for a PB100-2/20 with the intent to upgrade immediately,
I called Third Wave (down the road from me) to find out their prices:

I am going to list prices for quantity one/five/ten of each:

4meg RAM	$189/169/159
6meg RAm	$269/249/239
80meg hard disk	$449/415/390

Third Wave, 1-800-ask-the-operator or call (512) 832-8282 from overseas.
If they give you trouble with shipping abroad, contact me and I'll see
if I can help somehow.

-- 
  werner@cs.utexas.edu |  ..!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!werner | werner@UTXVM.bitnet

              "Free Advice and Opinions -- Refunds Available"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Subject: RE: How to read fast (9600baud) on the printer port
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:09:55 GMT

I can help a little with this question.  First, remember that there are a lot
of 68000 cpu-based Macs out there operating as BBS's with high-speed modems on 
both ports.  I have 14,400 baud modems on my Mac Plus, and beleive me, they
really do go that fast!

The problem with port read/write speeds is related to the software drivers you 
use.  I understand that if you really want to go fast, you should avoid the
COmmunications Tool Box (which I assume your software is relying on) and use
custom-written code specifically for the task.

I hope this helps a little.


--  
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