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From: iris@Hawaii.Edu (Iris Takamiya)
Subject: PB/Envisio/Powerport conflicts 
Organization: University of Hawaii
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:37:41 GMT

Is anyone else having problems installing an Envisio display adapter
and Powerport/V.32 modem into a powerbook 170?  We've had three sets
done.  One is fine, the second has already required sending for two
replacement envisio adapters, and the third has does strange things
when the envisio extension is installed.  I've called both Envisio
and Global Village about this problem but was just told that the 
Envisio extension should load first.  I am running version 1.04 of
the Envisio extension and 2.06 of the Powerport.  The powerbooks are
running 7.0.1 with tuneup.  Please respond directly to me via email. 


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From: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Crippled IIvx ?? Not really.
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:10:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.4f_LEx_00Vp=IUNzFn
	<gurman.724026868@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman) writes:
> Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> >towards a less expensive, though lower quality machine ( by which i do
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >not that the machine is less reliable, but that the machine is not
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >using the most advanced, etc. parts) with a similar performance range.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>     In other words, the IIci for the rest of us? :-)

Actually, yes, that's it exactly.


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Distribution: world
From: David_A._Schnider@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:00:31 PST
Subject: Re: *help* Accelerating the LC

I have had a great deal of experience researching speeding up my LC in the very
same configuration.  What it comes down to is a few options.  You can throw in
a card to equalize it with the LCII (add an 030), you can go to a high speed
030 accellerator, or you can throw in a really high speed 030 accellerator. 
The first option is provided by three companies that I know of.  Extreme
Systems, Total Systems and Daystar Digital.  The prices were all competitive so
I'd try calling them all (their numbers should be in MacWorld), but they cost
around $150 or $200 with math coprocessor.  If you're going higher the next
step is a 32 or 33 Mhz 030.  These are around $500-$650 (also option for math
chip).  Each company offers a version of this.  As far as I know, above that
is limited to Daystar Digital.  They sell a 40Mhz and 50Mhz 030.  These can go
as high as $1100.  I owuld suggest that you also consider selling your LC. 
It's worth around $800-$950.  Where I am, University of California at
Berkeley, they're selling SI's for under $1000.  Look into your options.

-David

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From: merolajs@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu (JOSEPH S. MEROLA DEPT OF CHEMISTRY VPI&SU)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 16" monitor and DoubleColor Card
Date: 17 Dec 92 19:07:00 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


Through the university, there is a promotional bundle of a Mac 16" color
display with a DoubleColor(TM) SX graphics card for $1249.  I would
appreciate any comments about the monitor and about the card.  I
haven't had a chance to keep up with the volume in this group over
the last few weeks, so forgive me if these pieces of hardware have
been discussed before.

Thanks.

Joseph S. Merola
Department of Chemistry
Virginia Tech (aka VPII&SU)
From: nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Duo Printer?
Keywords: is it possible?
Date: 17 Dec 92 05:32:48 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <42586@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> mlobbia@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Kaneda) writes:
>How possible is it to design a printer that connects to the large expansion
>port on the back of a Duo?  Does anyone out there know enough technically to
>say if this is possible?  I posted this on a FirstClass gateway and got no
>responses at all.
>

  Can't say anything about the viability of it, but why would you need
to?  There's a DIN-8 printer port on the Duo 230, same as a ci or
Classic.  Why not just print through that?

                                -- Nick

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From: martin@DMI.USherb.CA (Jean-francois Martin)
Subject: Syquest drives... INFO PLEASE
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:44:42 GMT

Hi,
I'm planning to buy a 45 SyQuest drive but I have some questions:    

* Why is there a difference of nearly 200$ between manifacturers (they all
include same things: 1 cartridge, cables, etc.)
* What is the best buy (Mirror, ETC, etc...)?
* Is there anybody who heard about the new SyQuest 105 megs or 42 megs mentionned in a recent MacWorld magazine?

Thanks for all your comments.

JF Martin

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From: Eric.Choi@zeus.ieee.org (Eric Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Need Handheld Scanner Advice
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:05:11 GMT
Organization: IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ

There is no good dim sum in Michigan! 
 
  mu> Two scanners I saw advertised in Macwarehouse which fit these
  mu> descriptions are: Typist Plus Graphics $339
  mu> 
  mu> Lightning Scan 400 with READ-IT! $359
  mu> 
  mu> I have the following questions and would appreciate answers to them:
  mu> 
  mu> 1.  Has anyone tried either one of these scanners, both to scan text
  mu> and to scan graphics?  Were there any difficulties?
  mu> 
  
The biggest challenge of a handheld scanner is steadiness of your hand. You
can buy a guide to help you out in scanning but it does not solve all the
problems. If the graphics is small, you can scan it in before your hand moves.
The larger graphics gave me the biggest headache. Typist Plus has the OCR
software built-in while LightningScan has the software bundled. You can
upgrade Read-It to their latest Pro 4.0, which is more versatile. The OCR part
requires a lot of memory and CPU speed helps.

  mu> 2.  Is it possible to scan a document containing both text and
  mu> graphics so that the text is scanned as text and the graphics as
  mu> graphics? Or does such a document need to be scanned as all graphics?
  
I know Read-It! does not scan a picture and text on the same page and convert
them accordingly. Actually the text is scanned as a TIFF file and read by the
OCR software anyway.

  mu> 3.  Do these scanners come with software, or does one need to buy it
  mu> separately? Which software is best for these type of scanners? If the
  mu> scanners come with software, which one of the two comes with the
  mu> better software?

LightningScan 400 is bundled with ThunderWare (scanning software) and
Read-It!. I think the Pro version also has a grayscale or B/W touch up
software bundled. I don't know about Tyypist Plus.
 
  mu> 4.  Where is the best place to purchase these scanners? Has anyone
  mu> seen them advertised for less than the Macwarehouse prices?
  
MacConnection.

  mu> 5.  Should prices of the scanners continue to go down in the near
  mu> future? Is it worth buying now if I don't have any immediate need for
  mu> one?

True, but it's a lot of fun and uses for it.
 
  mu> 6.  Are there any other scanners in the same price range which are
  mu> better than the two mentioned above?
  
Well, ScanMan from Logitech is less expensive until I look at their SCSI box.
It's more difficult to set the SCSI address and a SCSI terminator is not
included. Easier with LightningScan and the terminator is included.
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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LC incompatible with FX and GWorlds in some way?
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:26:06 +1300
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1h1447INNova@mirror.digex.com>, hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
> Hmmmmm.... I've run into a wierd one.  I have a graphics program that
> uses GWorlds to buffer the screen and then CopyBits to send it
> to the display.  The usual stuff.  The app works like a charm on a Mac
> IIfx with 20 meg of memory and a Mac IIcx with 8 meg RAM.  When I
> try to run it on a local Univeristy Mac LC under 7.0, however, it locks
> up as soon as it tries to write to the windows from the GWorlds.

What's your current GDevice set to when you're CopyBitsing to the screen?

Lawrence
Longtime LC owner/hacker
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From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
Followup-To: alt.religion.computers
Date: 17 Dec 1992 09:00:36 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: decel.ecel.uwa.edu.au

ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:

>In article <1g4dqfINN1v0@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division) writes:

>>Waiting for the Alpha II and PowerPC II to blow the P6 out of the water
>                 ^^^^^^^ Beta 9-)
>>more than the current crop blow away the P5.

>Funny.. NT will run on the Alpha, R4000, etc.

Funny.. Neither of those are Intel Processors are they?  That means that
one of "The Enemy" are gone.  All I have to do then is work out a cunning
plan to Engineer the downfall of Microsoft and I will be a happy man.
Especially as it is looking extremely like Microsoft (another of "The
Enemy") are trying their hardest to slay poor Intel.  Now why is it that
Intel is selling ethercards?  Could it be they still need to sell
something once the the 8088 based processors can no longer compete with the
new generation processors.

The P5 may be dual issue, but the rumours I heard said that the
instructions could only execute simultaneously if they didn't modify the
flags.  Also it has 4 registers and they still aren't general purpose.  Now
I defy you to come up with a set of wholly useful instructions that will
work with these restrictions in parallel.  I think you can count them on
one hand.  Now this of course means that when they build the 32 instruction
at once version, it will still only actually manage to get about 1-2
instructions per cycle on average.

I dislike Intel and Microsoft.  My previous post was an anti Intel Post and
has nothing to do with Microsoft.  I abuse them enough and I figured it was
time to gloat about the fact that the PC clone is finally coming to the end
of its days.

If you think windoze and a pc are better than a mac then I am very happy
for you because you can save a lot of money.  But please don't try to
convert the rest of us, because we are very happy buying horribly
overpriced computers from a monopolistic company.  I come in to day,
brimming with excitement at the prospect of using my macintosh all day.  I
like seeing the sickly sweet smiley face when I turn it on.  I like the way
you get to sit around for ages while compiling your programs because my
SE/30 isn't as fast as a 486DX2-66 which I could buy for the same price.  I
DON'T CARE so please take this conversation to alt.religion.computers where
it belongs.  Followups directed there.

Craig
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac
From: cheung@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Bryan Cheung)
Subject: Bargain?? or Rip Off??
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Summary: Anyone seen a SERIAL trackball before??
Organization: DuPont Central Research & Development
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:17:24 GMT

Hello all,
   I just purchased a Kensington "ExpertMouse" for $15 from a local
computer store that is going out of business. It is a trackball that
had evidently been part of a demo, as it has no cabling, box, documentation,
etc. Having used the Kensington trackballs before, I figured that I'd
just gotten a great deal (new Kensington trackballs go for $100+).
And then I got home and discovered that THIS trackball has mini din-8
serial connectors on each side instead of ADB ports. So I have a few 
questions:
   Has anyone seen this beast before?? 
   What software is required to use it?? 
   Can it be made to work as an IBM/DOS serial mouse device??
   Does anyone know how to get ahold of Kensington???
   Should I have bought a couple of six-packs of Guiness Stout instead??

Please respond via email at the address below.

                     Thanks in advance,
                           -- Bryan Cheung
                                   cheung@eplrx7.es.duPont.com
                                   cheungbl@csoc.dnet.duPont.com
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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Video Card like MAZ
Date: 16 Dec 92 03:13:36 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <14DEC199213575130@donald.uoregon.edu> dpuckett@donald.uoregon.edu (David Puckett) writes:
>Does anyone make an 8-bit video card for a IIci that will fill in the unused
>borders of a 14 inch Apple color monitor a la MaxAppleZoom?

I don't know about "make", but Apple made one called the Apple 8-bit
High Resolution Display card, a.k.a the Toby Frame Buffer card.  You
might be able to get one used.

It DOES require some extra software--- MaxAppleZoom.
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From: changw@nmt.edu (Willie*)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Need help! Adaptor info for LC's video port
Date: 12 Dec 92 21:47:56 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Tech

Hi,

I need to know how to connect a GoldStar SVGA monitor to the old LC's
built-in video port.  The monitor can work with IIsi and IIci with
the adaptor cable that came with the monitor but not with LC.

I measured the adaptor came with it and only R,G,B,R return,G return,
and B return are connected between.  Shouldn't there be some other
pin assignment connection need be made?

Do you know that LC's video port is different from si and ci?

Thanks,
willie*
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
From: Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:53:02 EST
Subject: Re: Best Server machine???

If your having problems with speed on your SE-30 the last thing to do would be
to move the server over to the LC][ seeing as it has a 16 bit data path. 
Overall the SE-30 is about twice as fast as the LC][.  Joe
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: vng@iscs.nus.sg
Subject: New ADB mouse
Reply-To: VNG@NUSDISCS.BITNET
Organization: Dept. of Information Systems and Computer Science, National University of Singapore
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:05:26 GMT

Heard a burp about Apple releasing a new ADB mouse in January. Anyone
else heard something similar

vince
From: jbaughmn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jim Baughman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Accelerated PowerBooks!!
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:19:03 GMT
Organization: University of Texas, Austin
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X-XXDate: Fri, 18 Dec 92 10:22:33 GMT

Accelerated PowerBooks!!

You know, I've heard of people doing the old "oscillator swap" with 
PowerBook 170s, specifically 25 MHz -> 33 MHz.  

Has anyone else heard this?  
Has anyone tried it with anything besides a IIsi?

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From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MAC WIZARDS UNITE!!!
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:16:54 GMT
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

afry@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry) writes:

>In article <1992Dec18.002935.27341@rchland.ibm.com> you write:

>Go external.  That way you still get 2 floppies, and if you upgrade from the
>SE, you just unplug the external HD and plug it in to your new machine.  I
>would say don't get anything less than 200MB.

    Especially since the Quatum and Maxtor 200Mb drives are so cheap
these days. I recommend cheking out APS, you can find them in the back
of your favorite Mac mag.

>>3.  I want to accelerate this machine with a 68020 or 030.
>>What boards are the best and cheapest?

>I think the best are the Daystar Powercache family of accelerators.  One of
>the big advantages is that if you decide to upgrade from your SE, you just
>buy a different adapter card for your Powercache, and you can use it in your
>new machine.  They run from about $500 to $1300 depending on the speed and
>FPU.  There are cheaper accelerators for the SE; I've seen 25MHz for about
>$300 (look in the back of MacWorld/MacUser).

    I agree here that Daystar makes the best accelerator cards, IMHO.
The only problem is the fac that they have yet to produce the SE
adaptor. When they do, you will be able to add SIMMs to the adaptor that
the accelerator uses as system RAM. You can add up to 16MB, the RAM on
the motherboard can then be used as a RAM disk, or possibly pseudo
virtual memory.

>You have to get a motherboard upgrade if you go internal.  I think there are
>external FDHD's that don't require an upgrade.  You'd have to look into it.

    There are a couple of external FDHD drive on the market...

>>6. What other options can I add to make this machine HOT?

>You could get an external portrait monitor.  You would be surprised what the
>extra screen space will do for you.

    It is possible to get the Daystar adaptor with a video out port on
it for your favorite color monitor. It costs a little extra, but is
probably worth it.

>You might also consider upgrading to an SE/30 motherboard.  You get color
>capability (with a card), 8 simm slots, stereo sound, FDHD ability, virtual
>memory ability, and a considerably faster machine.  Then add a video card
>and 13" (at least) color monitor.

    This would be THE thing to do to an SE, however the SE/30
motherboard upgrade is no longer offered by Apple. They removed it from
their price lists back in Sept. - Oct.

--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: gadget@engin.umich.edu (Timothy David Sharpe)
Subject:  What about future memory prices? 
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:23:10 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

Is there a future drop in memory prices expected?

Is this going to affect the price of the 160 memory upgrades?

Any info would be appreciated.

Tim

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: sire@csc.albany.edu (Daniel T. Smith)
Subject: IIci, 7.0 seems to be eating icons...
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Distribution: comp
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:45:08

I've been having a problem with my mac for about a week now.  Many of
the custom icons which are attached to apps are not comming up.
Instead I get the generic hand icon.  I've reinstalled a system folder
that I had backed up (from long before this started happening), but
nothing seems to be working.  I thought virus, but I've cleaned the
drive so many times it squeaks. The other day I "watched" another icon
go to nla0 when I rebooted.  It was there, then when it came back up
it was gone...

HELP!!!
Thanks a bunch for any information anyone can suggest.

Dan Smith